Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-15
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Especial Washington letter.
~ ON. PAUL MORTON'S up
pointment as secretary of the
navy is making old time Re
publicans cuss. Paul had been
q Republican for about two weeks only
when the naval portfolio was rendered
him, but then Paul was vice president
of the Santa Fe Railroad company and
once boosted that he could control every
state politically through which his
road runs and by that threat terrified
Mr.. Secretary of War Elihu Root into
dividing the soldier transportation
business with the Santa Fe. Paul
Morton's conversion was almost us
sudden, II not 80 miraculous, as that
of st. Paul as he journeyed from Jeru-
salem down to Damascus. The old
Paul-formerly Saul of Tarsus-achiev-
ed undying fame and martyrs death
by his conversion. Paul Of Chicago
formerly of Nebraska-receives soft
berth with salary Of $4,000 per an
mum for his conversion. Query: Did
he receive that position and that salary
as brides offered in advance of his con-
version in order to convert him, or was
the president unaware Of his inten-
tons, and was he 30 surprised and
pleased by Paul's sudden flop that he
forced upon him a cabinet place with
its emcluments as a mark of his pro-
found consideration? 1t looks sus-
picious for Mr.. Morton, especially
when it is remembered that his father
deserted the Democracy in 1896. But
why do Republican veterans cuss Nor
ton and President Roosevelt by reason
Of this transaction? Why is a she bear
angry when deprived of her young?
The Republicans cuss because the
president has given to nine days old
Republican good fat office which Of
right belongs to those Republican vet
Grams who were bearing aloft the Re-
publican banner and fighting valiantly
for it while President Roosevelt was
wearing dresses and while Mr.. Secre-
tary Of the Navy Paul Morton was
whooping 1t up for Democracy; hence
the superfuous quantity Of sulphur in
the language used by gray bearded
Republicans whenever the names Of
Colonel Roosevelt and Mr.. Secretary
Morton are mentioned.
Nor is the profanity confined to hoary
headed Republicans. The young ones
cuss vigorously and unanimously also.
They are hungry for the loayes and
fshes-ravenously hungry-and they
are crashing their teeth because Paul
Morton has gobbled good fat place
which they would be delighted to have
and to which they think they are en-
titled. OF course they have no idea Of
being Republicans because 1t is right.
They are Republicans for the loaves
and fishes, and they are full of indigna-
ton to see this great slice of pie go
to a young man who only few days
ago claimed to be a Democrat. And
who shall say that these Republicans,
old and young, are wrong when we
consider their viewpoint-the loaves
and fishes aforesaid? What right has
Colonel Roosevelt to deprive such hun
cry patriots as Hon. Cyrus P. Walbridge
and Colonel Richard G. Kerens of Mis-
souri, Of such luscious plum and be-
stow 1t upon this new convert who has
not tarried at Jericho for his beard to
grow?
The fact that Mckinley appointed
Lyman ]. Gage, who had just rallied
to the Republicans, secretary of the
treasury and that Roosevelt has just
appointed Paul Morton secretary of
the navy proves what? Two things
ably-that in the Republican view
to change ones political principles is
q virtue, and that there are not enough
intelligent men in the Republican party
to hold the nine cabinet positions. The
Morton appointment shows another
thing-the great anxiety of the admin
istratton to curry favor with the big
corporations. That that anxiety has
been intensified lately is beyond all
cavl. The arrangement by which At
torney General Knox became senator
Of the United States demonstrates that
beyond all question. The performance
of the government in the Northern Sc
curtties case was Of such menacing
character that the administration has
been compelled to bring forth fruits
mete for repentance-suchf fruit as will
satisfy the trusts that the repentance
= sincere; hence the appointment of
Knox to the senate and Of Morton and
Metcalf to the cabinet. Query: Can
the American people be deceived by
such sletght Of hand performance as
the administrators prosecution (D Of
the trusts? Surely not. There must
be some acumen and power of discern
ment In the public mind, and never
aimee the morning stars first sang to-
gether has there been such q roaring
and stupendous farce as the admins.
tation's war on the trusts. Phineas
7. Barnum said that the people like to
be humbugged, and r. T. was correct.
aoodhy, Perry.
Exit Perry 8. Heath, ersawhile first
assistant postmaster general Of the
United States, secretary of the Repub-
hcan national committee, editor of
great newspapers and. trusted lieuten-
ant OF the late Senator Marcus A. Han
ma, Senator Kearns of Utah has de-
posed Perry 8. from the editorship of
Ihe Salt Lake Tribune and Salt Lake
Telegram, and Pc, ry 8. has gone to
Nov1a Scotia for an indefinite time.