Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-18

narcn nor TO 90 as delegate Mt large
to the Chicago convention ana that the
Express will have to recant its opinion
that Governor Cummins ought to be
hanged, even metaphorically = for it
would never do to thus maltreat an
Iowa delegate at large-for it appears
that while Governor Cummins is badly
battered he is too strong to be turned
down or set aside entirely and will be
one Of the Hawkeye "big four" The
Dispatch here alluded to is fine illus
tration OF the Kilkenny brand of har-
mony now prevailing among Repub-
leans and runs in this wise:
Des Moines, Ia, March 5.-The star of
j. w. Blythe. who is mentioned in con-
nection with the management Of the Re-
publican national campaign, is in the
Minis on the decline. If the action of the
Polk county Republican convention this
afternoon is any criterion
Congressman Hull made a feeble effort
to stay his more radical followers and
carry out his quasi pledge to interfere In
no way with Cummins ambition but
there was no stemming the tide Lafe
Young, Roosevelt's personal friend and
Cummins' worst enemy, was the directing
hand, and as a consequence the conven-
ton laid the Iowa idea" on the shelf
and Inundated the governor by depriving
him of the expected and customary privi-
lege of naming the Polk county delegates
to the next convention.
The convention went further and adopt
ed resolutions denouncing tariff reform
and reciprocity and instructing this coun-
ty delegation to vote for J. w. Blythe as
one of the delegates at large. Senator
Allison. Senator Dolliver and Governor
Cummins are named as the other three
delegates at large, but the action of the
convention in instructing for Blythe in
stead of for A. B. Fund was a bitter dis
appointment to Cummins.
The convention was led by Young,
chairman OF the resolution committed in
to doing all it could to discipline Cum
minis for having showed his preference
for Prouty in the congressional contest
between him and Hull
Cummins was grievously disappointed,
but when he found on the test vote that
he was hopelessly in the minority he of
Tered no protest to the programme. The
resolutions perfunctorily indorse his ac-
| ton and his personal candidacy for one
Of the delegates at large. but this much
u.
Blythe, who heads the opposition or
stand pat" element in this state
A feature Of the convention was the
| throwing out of sixteen Prouty- Cummins
delegates upon remarkable revelations Of
| election frauds. Numerous arrests have
been made on the latter score, and pros
ecutions will be rigidly enforced
More Republican Harmony.
| In each Of the Kansas districts two
Republicans have been nominated for
congress, and the following dispatch
from Elmira shows how harmonious
the New York Republicans are:
Two Republican congressional commit
tees for the Thirty-third district met at
Corning today. The committee controlled
/! by former State Senator j. Sloan Fassett
Issued call for nominating convention
to be held in this city April 6, and the fac
ton favorable to Congressman Gillet
Issued call for similar convention at
Corning on the same day.
Each side has declared that 1t will
not give in to the other and the chances
now are that there will be two Repub-
lican nominations for congress In the
Thirty-third district.
No doubt General Charles Dick now
fully appreciates the philosophy of the
old saying, at is better to be born
lucky than rich" Five years ago he
had no chance apparently of serving
In either branch of congress. He lives
In the Giddings- Garfield district, where
the rule is perpetual reelection Of q
| representative in congress. Mr.. North
way, man Of fair capacity, was the
representative and seemed destined
for long life, but lie died suddenly,
md Dick succeeded him. Then Sena.
tor Hanna died, and Dick succeeded
him. Nothing in luck, Ell:
1t is just barely possible that the
next time Mr.. Scott of Kansas rushes
Into debate on the subject Of negroes
dining at the White House he will
ponder prayerfully these words of wis
bonn from Davy Crockett, who is i'm
Ilortalized by his heroic performance
1t the Alamo:
Remember this when am dead:
Be sure you're right then go ahead.
William Randolph Hearst bagged til.
first brace Of delegates to ST. Louis
He caught them in the western reserv,
Of Ohio. Hearst is a worker. Hi
plan of campaign recalls Longfellow'
lines:
The heights by great men reached ant
kept
Were not attained by sudden fight;
But they. while their companions slept.
Were toiling upward in the night.
M1luh MIL