Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14

~ Su1CuSO ure Fostering their QeaQS
to discover the cause of the unprec-
edentedly low temperature in the Unit
ed States during this summer and fall
Failing of any explanation that ordi-
nary mortals can understand, they
have finally given out the somewhat
puzzling statement that it is due to
some unknown and weird form of en-
ergy." What is the use of that sort of
mystification when ready explana-
don is at hand? The cold weather Is
undoubtedly caused by the campaign
Of Vice Presidential Candidate Fair
banks.
The Missouri Republican leaders,
who have been trying to seduce the
national Republican compaign commit
tee into furnishing them with bounti-
full supply of the sinews of war with
the old, dulcet song that they can car
~ the state this year, are in the dumps
because neither Senator Charles War
rem Fairbanks nor Governor Leslie NJ
Shaw, President Roosevelt's secretary
Of the treasury, exploited the Hon. Cy-
rus P. Walbridge's gubernatorial can
didacy while making speeches in Mis-
souri,. 1t is claimed that neither Of
them mentioned him in their ad-
dresses Consequently the state lead
ers aforesaid are in terror lest their
siren song should fail to secure the
sinews aforementioned.
The words of West Virginia Repub-
licans do not correspond with their ac-
lions. They 60 about vociferating that
they will carry the state by $4,000 ma
jority, but they are rushing all the Re-
publican big guns into the state-Fair-
banks, Shaw, Cannon, ct al. Query:
If they are certain that they will carry
! the state, why are they cutting such
capers as that? The plain, unvarnished
truth is that they are scared within an
inch Of their lives.
Hon. Thomas Watson Of Georgia,
lawyer, author and Populist candidate
for the presidency, knocked out col
ored man and brother recently at
Houston, Tex. 1t is not so long since
he gave the Democrats tongue lash
ing for Juggling the negro into politics
and asserted that the fear Of negro
domination in the south is sham, but
1t appears that he does not propose to
be dominated by the negro himself.
Much depends on whose OK is gored.
80 it is authoritattvely stated in Web
ster's old blue backed speller.
| Washington dispatches inform us
that Hon. William 81. Taft, ex-govern-
or general of the Philippines, now sec.
rotary of war, has returned to his desk
Good news, truly. But Governor Les
lie M. Shaw and Mr.. Secretary Of Agri.
culture James Wilson are still "on
their travels" as Charles II. described
his wanderings. Mr.. Secretary Shaw
ought to be at his desk, endeavoring to
stop the deficit in the treasury.
The way in which New York Demo.
Gratis are going to the bench of the SUI
| preme court for their candidates for
high political positions demonstrates
! that they are determined to put the
best foot foremost, and 1t is rather sur
prtstng, in view Of the fact that fire.
quently the New York Democrats and
Republicans agree on the same men
for high judicial positions. With Judge
Parker nominated for president and
Judge Herrick for governor the wool
/ sack seems to be in it this year.
! Some time ago, when Hon. ]. w.
Babcock, chairman Of the Republican
congressional campaign committee,
stated in an interview that while, in
his judgment, Roosevelt is certain to
be elected the Democrats might carry
the house, suggested to my readers
that Brother Babcock was simply try
/, ing to fry the fat out of the trust mag
/. mates and to force Mr.. Chairman Cor
telyou to divide the sinews of war with
him. He appears to have succeeded in
both undertakings, for he now fatty
denies the former interview.
! No doubt when Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge learned that his arch Re-
publican enemy, Hon. Eugene N. Foss,
the head and front of the advocates of
Canadian reciprocity, had been nom
mated for congress he felt that a hole
was torn in his senatorial toga.
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