Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-11-17

1d1eu lEO1u SEdCe. 1dClu T0NlSlOulStS
hailed 1t with delight as the easiest
and most expeditions method of reduc-
ing tariff rates. The large number of
Republicans who Endorsed 1t raised a
suspicion as to the value Of the plan
MS tariff reducer. Govern6c Cummins
and the rest who really believed in it
as cure will all have to pinch them
selves to discover If they are awake or
have been only dreaming when they
learn that Senator Aldrich Of Rhode
Island, the arch stand patter, favors
the maximum and minimum scheme
But he goes further than the conven-
ton went. He boldly announces his
minimum, and it is the Dingley bill!
His maximum is out of sight, high
above the Dingley bill, in the boundless
realms Of space. Now, If Aldrich can
work his scheme Of maximum and min
imum the last condition Of the revision
lists will be worse than the first. Re-
publican revtsion1sts will wake up aft
er awhile to the realization Of the fact
that they have no place in the Repub-
llcan party.
Correct.
Mr.. Secretary Taft rather increased
than diminished his chances Of secur-
ing the Republican presidential nomi-
nation by declaring that he doesn't in
tend to resign from the cabinet or to
inaugurate a campaign in his own be-
half. His is the correct and dignified
attitude in the matter. All sensible
men for nearly a century have thor
oughly Endorsed the utterance of that
great South Carolinisp, William ].
Lowndes, to the eject that the presi-
dency is neither to be sought nor de-
clinod. No man in his senses believes
that Governor Taft would decline
presidential nomination at the hands of
his party. He is q man Of splendid
parts. in the flower of his years, and,
like all his fellow citizens, no doubt re-
CARDS the presidency Of this puissant
republic as the highest political honor
that can be conferred upon any Of the
teeming sons of Adam, 30 If any Of
the eager chasers after the nomination
are laying the fattering JUNCTION to
their ambitious souls that the secretary
has put himself out of the running they
are very much mistaken.
1t is an open secret that there
are three if not more presidential
possibilities-indeed, probabilities--in
President Roosevelts cabinet, Taft,
Root and Shaw. Taft's habitat Is
better than those Of the other two.
Ohio is most centrally located. Then
she has the presidential habit. Just
why nobody seems to know, but she
has 1t all the same. In fact, the Buck
eyes have the ofaceholding habit in
general more largely developed than
have the people Of any other state.
More than once she has lost the presi-
dental nomination by having sur
plusage Of aspirants.
In 1876 Allen G. Thurman had q rat
Ting good chance to win the prize, but
his political Ohio enemies In his own
party set up his uncle, "Rise Up VIII
liam Allen" popularity yclept "Old
BILL" as rival. and 1.-THE grand old
Romans" cake was all dough. Per.
haps George Il. Pendleton might have
been nominated for president some
time had not Henry B. Payne and
William 8. Groesbeck become ambi-
tious to reside In the White House.
Ohio rivalry and Ohio treachery kept
John Sherman from being president,
though for one am most heartily glad
of it.
Democrat, Republican or Pop7
The public mind seems to be greatly
befogged in an effort to ascertain or
fix the political status of President
Roosevelt. OF course the Republicans
claim him. With the aid of million
Democrats who stayed at home by
reason Of the Parker telegram they
elected him. Sporadic Democrats claim
him as Democrat. In fact. one. Sem
ator Braxton Of Virginia, has gone SO
far in his enthusiasm as to declare
that 1t will be race in 1908 betwixt
the Republicans and Democrats as to
which will nominate him first for q
third term. Now comes a Kansas Pop
and asserts that the president is q
jam up, double back acting, dyed In
the wool Populist. His letter to the
Washington Post is 30 delicious that
here quote 1t in full:
Editor Positive Popufists resent the
claim put forward by Democrats in the
south that our great President Roosevelt
Is a convert to Democracy. The president
ls less of a Democrat today than ever.
He is full fedged Populist. and every
disciple OF that righteous creed will &C
claim him as such. The president is to-
DAY advocating the same righteous doc
erines and principles that those immortal
Populists, Pfeffer. Weaver, Mrs. Lease
Redstone and other great Populists. advo.
Gated and fought for in the early days OF
Populism. The president, like the peer.
less and immortal Bryan. has succeeded
In steering his party away from the moor.
lngs of old and has plotted It straight into
the Populistic harbor. He Is today our
greatest statesman. and history win &C.
cord him q very high place In its an.
nails for having brought about those ideals
10 long fought for by immortal leaders oil
the Populist party.
! The Populist party long ago realized
that the only salvation for the country
lay in a strong centralized government
md II the country 10 to be saved from the
creed of wealth the government mus
take charge of the railroads. Insurance
companies and other quasi public corpora
tons. It is more than gratifying to Popu
lists that our great president has come L
the same righteous conclusion and !.
striving with ali his might and main t
transfer the rights of states to the fed
eral government in order that he may
| take RAILROADS. and trusts by the throa
and dangle them over the legal gridiror
until they Promise to be decent.
The President, like all good Populists
realizes that the states are impotent, ant
the only weeg to strangle greed is to place
| practically sall power In the federal gov
eminent 80 the president can do his VIII
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