Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-07

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will at once become the laughingstock
for men and angels, considering what
they have said about G. G. and his i'll
starred performances. They seem to
be doomed-a delightful prospect for
honest men.
Senator Warner.
have no disposition to gush over
Major William Warner, the newly
elected United States senator from
Missouri. / leave that to those who
desire federal offices and to those who
think that any man elected to high
position becomes ipso facto great
parsonage. But it is sober truth to
say that he is to be congratulated, and
1nasmuch as fate had for some inscru-
table reason decreed that the state
should have a Republican senator for
six years Missouri is to be congratu-
lated that Republican of such re-
spectacle talents as Major Warner
should be elected. There were so many
chances that an obscure nincompoop OF
a mere moneybags would be selected
that 1t is pleasure to know that the
Missouri Republican senator will meas
ure up very well intellectually with the
other eighty-nine senators, for from the
beginning Missouri has sent to Wash
ington senators above the average. OF
the twenty three men whom she has
commissioned to represent her in the
less numerous branch Of the national
legislature some We're great; most were
credit to her; only two or three fell
below the intellectual level desired.
Major Warner has had much expert
ence in public affairs. He is said to
have been a good soldier. He ranked
as an able representative in congress.
He has been city attorney and mayor
Of Kansas City, circuit attorney and
United States district attorney. He
was once nominee for governor. Con-
sequently he is no tyro Personally
he is an amiable gentleman, and he is
an interesting and forcible public
speaker. Everybody wishes him well
In his new position, the securing Of
which is the realization Of a life dream.
All this does not change the fact
that he is the child Of luck. He twice
represented Democratic district in
congress by reason Of Democratic
Kilkenny cat fight. Now he goes up
higher by reason of another Democrat
ic fuke.
Together with all other good Demo
Gratis, ] mourn the defeat Of General
Francis Marion Cockrell, Missouri's
grand old man, who carries with him
the love and respect Of all Missourians
whose love and respect is worth hay
ing The Democrats in the Missouri
legislature are to be congratulated on
staying with him to the end and for
withstanding the Vaccinations Of
lot Of aspiring mountebanks who
sought to humiliate him by taking him
out of the race and substituting some
one else in his stead. He was the most
useful senator in Washington, and Ma
Tor Warner will have q hard task to
I'LL his place.
In Hot Water.
The other day Governor ]. A. T. Hull,
who represents the Des Moines Qa.)
district in congress- had lucid inter-
val and expressed an idea which have
been exploiting by tongue and pen for
some time. Coming from a Democrat
it created no excitement but when
Governor Hull repeated 1t he stirred up
q large sized hornets nest, and he has
been explaining ever since. He gave
out an interview in which he suggest
ed that If Japan whales Russia and we
keep the Philippines we will soon have
q war on our hands with the Japanese
about the Philippines, fact which has
been as plain to me for some time as
the nose on mans face. The governor
also suggested that we would be at
greater disadvantage fighting Japan
than the Russians are, another fact
plain as pikestaff. All the lingo pa
pers jumped on him because they con-
slider it misprision of treason or leze
majesty for the Republican chairman
Of the house committee on military af
fairs to be talking that way. Perhaps
It Is, but 1t is hard sense anyway, and
by that interview Governor Hull has
probably done more good than by his
long service in congressional is, If he
has succeeded in waking the people Of
the United States up to our peril. His
alternative propositions are that we
must sell the Philippines to Japan or
light her. We would subserve our own
interests by Immediately letting them
have their independence, which we
ought to have done in the beginning
They have been nothing buta milestone
about our necks and never will be any
thing else. But to do Governor Hull
Justice his latest interview with Des
Moines date line Is here quoted In full:
In the first place, 1t did not occur to me
that was saying anything that would be
new to people. It has been the common
est gossip at Washington and in diplo-
matte circles of other capitals. as know
very well. for months. Moreover 1t is the
most reasonable thing in the world. am
simply stating few facts.
With Japan ruler OF Manchuria, Russia
driven back from the Pacific and Tokyo
the dominating influence at Picking, 1t is
easy enough to f1esee that Japan COM
mercial expansion will aim to control as
Tar as possible the development of the
new order of things in the east. There
Will be conflicts of interest between Japan
and western nations. The United States.
owning the Philippines. win have by far
the greatest interests in Asia OF any ma
ton except Britain Our islands have
long been viewed with cupidtty by Japan,
which needs their lands. their labor, their
wealth. their business opportunity. In
Formosa they have. achieved wonderful
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