Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-18
Especial Washington letter.
- n DHEN was boy, the chill
AAI dren used to sing song
two lines Of which were:
Beauty Is but SKIN deep,
Ugly to the bone.

Ugly to the bone.
That is a perfect description of the
Republican condition today. Repub-
Ncan harmony, which they spell with
big, big H, is only on the surface, while
Republican dissension pervades the G..
o. p through and through. They may
be able by hook and by crook to get
together for this election, but that there
will be sloughing off of the party
which will amount to split in the near
future is indicated by all the signs Of
the times. That Colonel Roosevelt will
be nominated appears to be certainty,
but hundreds Of thousands of Repub-
hcans will support him under protest.
The stand patters' will make the
platform, but large minority will re-
ceive 1t sullenly. In fact, the reading
cut process Of the tariff reform Repub-
Means has already begun, as is evidenc-
"a by the following editorial from the
Noravians Falls IN. C.) Yellow Jacket:
OF oil the funny two legged animals
that chew tobacco and walk on the fork
take the lead. BY demanding tariff re-
! form they actually take the position that
, Il is necessary to destroy part of our
| prosperity to prevent the Democrats from
destroying 1t all. Reader, do you belong
70 that class of monstrosities? If you do.
! the proper place for you to trot 10 right
over into the Democratic camp. All you
lack OF being good Democrat" is tag
and tin rooster in your hat.
Very much Of that sort of rancorous
! jabber will land hundreds of thousands
Of the most intelligent and patriotic
Republicans in the Democratic camp.
Perhaps they will come to us this year.
The Race War In Ohio.
/ once asserted in these letters that
the only reason why more negroes are
lynched down south than up north is
because there are more of them to
lynch in the southern states. The
events of the last two or three years
lead me to believe that more negroes
are roughly handled north of the Ohio
river, in proportion to their total num-
bers residing in that region, than south
Of it.
/: The most serious anti Ethiopian riots
that ever occurred in this country
have been in Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. The latest outburst was in
/ Springfield, o., where mob Of $500
white men assaulted the Jail, shot a
negro, Richard Dixon, to death, and
! then proceeded against the Africans in
their local habitat, burning them out
Of their homes. Curiously enough, it
10 among the people Of the north, who
show SO much pious horror when a
negro is lynched down south, that the
most bitter racial hatred crops out,
! and generally with less provocation
than in that class Of cases for which
lynching is the customary punishment
In the south. True, the killing of a
policeman in Ohio is dastardly crime
but how many white men have been
lynched in the north for 1t? And IL
It were the crime and the individual
criminal against whom this assault
was levied, why should the mob as
sanlt the entire local representation Of
the negro race7 This is not custom
airy in the south, It is the crime rather
than the color, for the negroes of the
south frequently Join their white
, neighbors in the punishment of the
guilty one. Altogether, it seems to me
that there is more racial hatred In the
|. north for the black man than in the
south.