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Republican Editors Clash.

Republican Editors Clash.
Behold how good and how pleasant
1t is for brethren to dwell together in
unity" is declaration of King David,
the psalmist, "the sweet singer of Is
rael." 1t may be supposed that his ut
terance applies to Republican editors
as well as to other folks. Now comes
the st. Louis Globe-D emocrat, the lar
gest Republican paper west of the
Mississippi, and denominates the Chi
cago Tribune as "a halfway Demo-
cratic paper If there is anything the
Tribune prides itself ON 1t is being
Republican paper. What sin has the
Tribune committed to have its Repub-
lican orthodoxy questioned by the
CD? 1t has advised Missouri Repub-
licans to vote for Joseph Wingate Folk
for governor of Missouri, which is by
long shot the most sensible thing they
could do. If the CD. is going to read
all the great metropolitan Republican
papers out of the G. O. P. which are
advising Missouri Republicans to vote
for Folk it has undertaken big con-
tract.
The Wyoming Democrats have done
a wise thing in nominating as their
candidate for governor this year ex-
Governor and ex-Congressman John q.
Osborne. Governor Osborne is
young man, able. honest and forceful,
who has distinguished himself in sew
eral fields of human endeavor.
Evidently the Washington Post, in
dependent, carries its nerve with 1t.
Not long since it accused the Hon.
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Junior Unit
ed States senator from New York, of
lodging That is simply awful.
Chauncey is one of the most amiable
and effervescent Of American publ
cists, and all papers and persons should
beware of saying disparaging things
concerning him.
Clearly Marse Henry Watterson is
not greatly enamored of Colonel Roose-
welt. In his New York speech on 1.-THE
Issue and the Outlook" the brilliant
Kentuckian spoke his mind freely as
to the president, his deeds, words, am
billions, etc. The number Of uncompli-
mentary things which Marse Henry
managed to say filed several columns
In the newspapers and stirred things
up generally. He stopped faying Colo
mel Roosevelt long enough to pay his
compliments to Tom Watson, whom he
characterized as "the coming Robes
pierre"
1t seems that Uncle Joe Cannon has
created ructfon among Republican
statesmen in Indiana who are banker
Ing after a senatorial toga by too much
praise Of Mr.. Hemenway, who is chair
man of the house appropriations COM
mittee. The green eyed monster is dis
turbing the souls Of Congressman
Crumpacker, Overstreet and Charles B..
Lands to such M extent that they are
losing both sleep and flesh, for they are
all three striving to succeed Senator
Charles Warren Fairbanks in the some
what improbable event Of his election
to the vice presidency. So while the
Hemenwayites are delighted with I'm
Gle Joe's eulogies on their favorite the
followers Of the others are doing a
great deal Of cussIng. IT'S human ma
ture.
The Republicans Of Colorado are un-
doubleday tempting fate this year by
nominating Governor Peabody for a
second term. He has cut more un-
American capers than any other man
ever clothed with the powers Of an
American governor. He is more law
less than any of the men against whom
he Is warning. Granting for the sake
Of argument that they are all crimi-
nals-which some Of them most assur-
edly are not-still the fact remains that
Peabody, as governor, by destroying
the law of whole state has done more
harm to organized society than any in
dividual lawbreaker can do. He has
struck at the very root Of American
liberty by suspending or ignoring the
right to the writ of habeas corpus, by
denying the right of trial by jury and
by forcibly deporting citizens Of Colo
RADIO who gre not lawfully charged
with any infraction Of the law whatso-
ever.
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