Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

about selecting their large delegations.
1t really seems that their activity in Sc
lecting delegates is in exact proportion
to their political incapacity.
Uncle Joe Cannon's real friends are
puzzling their brains to ascertain If,
like certain lady, it will be written
Of him that, swearing she would ne'er
consent, consented. In our uncles case
it is Of course the vice presidency
which we are considering.
1t is really too bad that most of our
Filipino fellow citizens who are COM
ing over to help us run the Louisiana
Purchase exposition have sore eyes.
OF course the doctors call it by some
long and learned scientific name, but
the plain people diagnose it as "sore
eyes," and it's against the law to let
sore eyed foreigners in. Are the Fill
pinos, with sore eyes or without, Amer
lean citizens? If so, they have a right
to go where they please, wherever our
flag flies, whatever the condition of
their optics, but If they are not Amer
lean citizens we can treat them just
as we please, because our later day
logic is that might makes right-the
old argument of kings. What is the
status of Filipino anyway? Like
Mohammed's coffin, he appears to be
suspended between heaven and earth.
When we need him in our business we
count him as an American; when we
don't need him we hold him to be
foreigner.
The frantic effort of G. G. to disrupt
the cerements of his political grave and
to secure another nomination are cal
culated to excite the risibles of a wood
en- Indian. Why doesn't some kind
flend tap him on top Of the head and
inform him gently as may be that he is
deyilish sight deader than the man
who lived before the flood?
Hon. Elihu Root is to preside over
the national Republican convention
temporarily. OF course it is in keeping
with the eternal fitness Of things that
an ex-secretary of war should preside
over the convention which is to NOM
mate q soldier.
These be great days for Mr.. Speaker
Cannon-unanimous and enthusiastic
Endorsement by his fellow representa-
uves, a vice presidential nomination
ready for him if he will accept, his
Danville Qll) friends fixing to give
him the time of his life when he reach
es home, and most any other good
thing he desires. Ira la!
The French savant who declared in
moment of inspiration that it is fire.
quently the unexpected which happens
must, when speaking, have had in his
minds eye the Colorado Republican
convention which nominated Hon.
John w. Springer of Denver for vice
president. If anything more entirely
unexpected than that has happened
on this mundane sphere since Adam
and Eve were driven from Eden with
flaming sword, the historian has failed
to jot 1t down.
General Jacob S. Coxey, who was
once peremptorily ordered to keep off
the grass with his characterization
army, seems to be fiourishing la the
bay tree planted by the rivers of wa
ter. He is now trading in half million
dollar blocks Of bonds. Surely the
general has played many parts. He
may have to go to breaking rock with
q hammer next in order to exc out
subsistence. There are great many
fake financiers these days.
Civil service reform as practiced by
this administration is a very peculiar
and mystifying thing. A. poor devil of
clerk or free delivery rural mail car
riers jeopardizes his head If he runs
for some petty Office, but such eminent
public functionaries as Secretaries
Shaw, Taft, Moody, ct al. can caper
about like goats on the mountains and
make all the stump speeches they
please. It's poor rule that does not
work both ways.
Senator William P. Frye Of Maine,
now and for long time president of
the senate, has had a pleasant political
career. He has served thirty-four
years in house and senate, and during
all that extended period he has never
been compelled to ask any man for his
vote or to electioneer in any manner
whatever-so he informed me recently
while riding to the capitol in street
car.
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