Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-12
that he has been rorcea out OF the

that he has been forced out OF the
running. He gives as his reason for
retiring that prolongation Of his can
didacy would irnperil Republican SUI
premacy, in the state, which will en-
courage Kansas Democrats to make
the fight Of their lives. Carry the news
to General Charles Henry Grosvenor.
the prophet maXimus of tic Hooking
valley, who in his prognostications fol-
lows the command Of Blaine to 'claim
everything" With Senator j. Ralph
Burton under Indictment in federal
court and Governor Bailey sull1ing in
his tent la Achilles. the prospects of
Republicanism in the SunHower Statc
have lately taken cutie a tumble In
the earlier days Kansas was consider
cd more reliably Republican than Mas
sachusetts or Vermont. bat ut last,
along in the eighties. Kansas began to
p. Finally she kicked clear out of the
traces and sent to congress delega-
ton which contained only one Repub-
lican senator and one Republican rep
resentativc. Since 1896 she has been
again in the Republican column. but
the Republican leaders wiil any sense
know that sic cannot Ec relied upon
as in tie early times. Hence Bailcy's
withdrawal.
Republican Ecorcmy.
II has percolatei through the brains
of Republican leaders that American
taxpayers ere growing weary of the
riotous totals Of appropriation bills.
MIR. Hcmenway, chairman of the house
committee OH appropriations, has
sounded the alarm: consequently the
managers of the Republican machine
have issued ukase to the effect that
appropriations must be reduced-for
the purposes Of the campaisn-hut they
do not Inform the public honestly that
after the election the deficiency bills
Will assume such proportions as to
make people stare. President Roose-
Welt has decrecl that appropriations
must be cut to the bone. So the Re
publicans are talking much economy in
public and laughing much in their
sleeves in private. But how do they
propose to economize? BY failing to
make appropriations for necessary
public buildings and for necessary ex-
penditures for river end harbor i'm
rrovements. There's where the cut is
to be made. They fail to cut on the
Philippine expenses, On the pay of SUI
pernumerary clerks II the various de-
Hartments, OH the selseless moving of
soldiers from one place to another and
on various unnecessary squanderings
of the public money. In other words,
the cuts are to be male where they
ought not to be made and not made
where they ought to be made. For in
per cent Of al the clerks in all the de-
partments in Washington are incapac-
ttated for doing any valuable work.
Why should they be continued on the
payrolls? Yet the Republicans, who
are in control of house, senate, presi-
dent and the supreme court, have not
the nerve. common sense or patriotism
to relieve the taxpayers of the lind OF
this huge incubus. II they are honest
about ecoromizing, why do they not
begin there? Why, also, do they not
lop of the millions spent for hauling
the soldiers about the world by land
and sea? Enough money has been
spent on our army posts to make them
comfortable dweliino- nlonAs e--.-- a..sr1rsr1t
-.au1frs.fun; consequently the soldiers
might get along for at least year
without travelling.
Some queer things happen in these
latter days. Ex-Representative briggs,
Democrat of New York, and Senator
Dietrich, Republican from Nebraska.
infracted the federal statutes in nearly
exactly the same way. In each turis.
diction the United States district attor-
ney Is a Republican. Nevertheless
briggs was indicted under a section
which made conviction certain, and
Dietrich was indicted under section
where conviction was impossible! Curl
GUS and inquisitive persons would like
to know the reason why of such per-
Torrance.
King Peter Of Servia perhaps compre-
bends better than any other living man
the old saying, Uneasy rests the head
That wears crown" He hasn't much
OF crown-certainly one not at all
calculated to cause him to contract a
case OF swell head-but he has man
aged to keep his head on his shoulders
and his crown, such as it is, on his
head, such as it is, almost eight months,
about seven months longer than most
persons supposed he could.