Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-29

many Han July 4 to file an indictment
against the Republican party, charging
1t with high treason to the principles
set forth in the Declaration of indie
pendence. From the same platform
spoke ex-senator Charles A. Towne,
once Republican, and Webster Davis,
who i'll 1897 was appointed assistant
secretary Of the interior by Mckinley
and who represented the president in
an oratorical capacity at many big
functions from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciflc. There is much truth in the old
saw that politics makes strange bed
fellows. The danger to our free insti-
tutions is bringing many of diverse
faith under the same blanket.
Republican Doctors Disagree.
When doctors disagree laymen are
puzzled. And the Republican doctors
are at loggerheads about reciprocity.
For instance, that eminent Pennsylva-
MIA Republican physician from Pitts
burg, DIR. John Dalzell, declares that
there must be no reciprocity except in
noncompeting articles, whereupon that
other eminent Pennsylvania Republican
physician, Hon. Charles Emory Smith,
ex-postmaster general, declares for the
reciprocity of Blaine and Mckinley,
which included hundreds of competing
articles, for proof of which see reci-
procity treaties negotiated with France
and other countries. In his Philadel-
phia Press Mr. Smith remarks:
The Republican party must not have
equivocal or evaslve or hesitant counsels
at this hour. It must have q mind and
must know It, It is no time for uncer-
tainty or for retrogression.
| The party stands squarely and unre-
servedly for the protective principle It
! will say SO in distinct and emphatic terms
| That does not mean that 1t will maintain
all the existing rates for an indefinite
!, time and will stand against any revision
under any circumstances. 1t has revised
/ the tariff before and will revise 1t again
! when conditions render 1t necessary or ex-
pedient.
That is Its position. and 1t ought to say
! 30. 1t cannot shut Its eyes or close Its
| ears like the Iowa platform.
The party believes In the reciprocity of
| Mckinley and Blaine. It does not believe
for free trade. But because it is opposed
\ to perverted reciprocity Is no reason
why 1t should not declare itself for SEN
sible reciprocity. The new Iowa platform
! is silent There Is neither justification nor
wisdom in silence. The party knows that
ident Mckinley declared at Buffalo is
right, and its fight for protection will be
all the stronger for saying so.
The national policy defined In the ma
tional declaration should be clear, and 1t
should not be as reactionary as Iowa or
as insufficient as Ohio.
We have long accustomed ourselves
to believe that all progress originates
within our own glorious country, but 1t
is not wholly true. Occasionally new
idea comes out Of effete Europe. For
instance, we owe the successful work.
ing Of the underground trolley to Buda.
pest. Lately in Vienna there has been
established a school for cabmen. Now
If they would rig up scheme to pre-
vent bicyclists and Automobiles from
running down pedestrians we would
take off our hats to Austro- Hungary.
It is rapidly becoming very grave
question as to whether Colorado has 9
republican form of government such as
is guaranteed to each state by the con
stitution of the United States. Govern
or Peabody and his agents act as
though they were fetched in the
head" to use the language Of the Great
Smoky mountains. The Colorado au-
thorities undoubtedly have the right
to try and convict any man guilty Of
crime, but they have no authority what.
ever to deport them. Deportation us q
punishment is utterly unknown to our
system Of law.
| That the Republicans are badly
scared is demonstrated by the lamenta
BILE fact that Republican orators have
4 pulled the bloody shirt from its place
of burial and are waving 1t vigorously
in the faces Of the people in order t.
hold their voters in line This summer
have debated with Colonel William
P. Hepburn Of Iowa, General Charles
n. Grosvenor Of Ohio and Hon. Charlie,
B. Lands Of Indiana, and they all dit
it. They are on the run.
Hoosier Republican statesmen ar
hotfoot after the senatorial toga of Mr.
Fairbanks in the improbable event O
his election to the vice presidency. Gov
ernor Durbin Is laying wires. 81
are Representatives Hemenway, Over
street, Crumpacker, Charles B. Lands
and perhaps others. A multimillion
aire manufacturer, whose name do no
know, also proposes to bid on 1t. Blu
Fairbanks will need 1t himself and will
keep it.
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