Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-01-09

certain or re-elect1On rs the sun Is to
rise tomorrow Missourians would not
stay at home If 1t could be done over.
They could not be chained at home If
they had chance to undo the evil eff.
fects Of that one days forgetfulness.
But whats writ Is writ" and for six
years some obscure Missouri Republic.
an will rattle around in the senatorial
chair to be vacated ut high noon March
4 by as brave, as honest, as pure, as
patriotic n man as God ever made-3
curule chair made famous forever by
being occupied for thirty years each by
Colonel Thomas Hart Benton and Gen
eral Francis Marion Cockrell.
Governor Alva Adams.
For the next two years no state In
the Union will have better governor
than COlorado-a governor who did not
want to be governOr-Alva Adams. Ee
had filled that great office twice before
several years ago and wanted no more
or it. but man proposes and God dis.
poses. When Governor Peabody, by
his un-American antics, had outraged
the rights Of the people of the Centen.
NAL State until they made up their
minds resolutely to get rid of him.
their minds and hearts turned instinc.
lively to Alva Adams, who had been
tried in the highest executive position
they had to bestow and whom they
knew could be trusted to discharge its
duties inteligently. courageously and
patriotically. Though not desiring the
office, splendid citizen that he is, he yield
ed to the wishes of his fellow citizens,
accepted the nomination and led the
friends Of justice and of liberty to vic
tory. No man in America has more
difficult position than has this modest,
capable, resolute, clear headed, clean
handed governor of Colorado. Pea.
body's reign of terror cannot be
thought of without a shudder. lie has
reduced the affairs of the state to
chaos, and it will be a tremendous
labor Of Governor Adams to restore
order to the supremacy Of the law. In
his arduous undertaking all good citi-
zens of the republic will wish him
hearty godspeed. If he succeeds, they
will say, Come up higher"
Uneasy lies the head that wears q
crown" Ditto the head Of the Indiana
Republican whom the state machine
has slated to step into Mr.. Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks senatorial shoes-to
wit, Hon. James A. Hemenway. rep.
reSentative in congress from the Evans
vile district and chairman Of the great
committee OH appropriations. Hoosier
statesmen not slated by the machine
to succeed Fairbanks are after Hemen-
way with blood In their eyes and po-
litical murder in their hearts. Crum-
packer-he Of the Crumpacker bill
Charles 3. Lands, Governor Durbin,
protector of Bill Taylor; Overstreet and
nameless multimilionaire are hot
foot after the Fairbanks succession,
and the air is full Of charges and coun-
tercharges. 1t Is too bad that some
good Democrat can't beat them all.
When Hon. j. w. Babcock, chair
man of the Republican congressional
campaign committee. thinks of his plu-
rality Of over 1900 in 1902 and of his
plurality OF less than 800 i'll 1904 he
must be in frame OF mind to eX-
claim, Small favors thankfully re-
ceivedw He may console himself with
the old saw that "a miss Is as good as
a mile"
There is talk Of a special session of
congress in the spring to revise the tar
it, What has become of the stand
patters that such things should come
to pass? What will the American
Economist say now, poor thing? Ac-
cording to its sordid philosophy before
the election, it was leze majesty at
least. if not high treason. to talk about
revising the blessed Dingley rates.
Now Republicans are talking of doing
be that what is Il crime in Democrats
is virtue in Republicans. The Econ
omist owes it to it's own record for
consistency to discipline severely ev
cry Republican that dares to pirate OF
tariff revision. Can 1t be that the vic
tory of Governor William l.. Douglas
of Massachusetts has caused the scales
to fall from the eyes Of the stand pat
ters?
Those two redoubtable stand patters
General Charles Henry Grosvenor of
Ohio and Colonel William Peters Hep
burn of Iowa should sue out an iujunc-
ton against those Republicans who are
chattering about tariff revision. for
does not the latter regard the tariff as
the fount Of every blessing, and did not
the former declare that the Republican
victory in Ohio In 1901 meant that there
was no more danger Of tariff tinlering
than there was Of amending the Ten
Commandments?
Republican statesmen who have fixed
covetous eyes on the Republican presi-
dental nomination for 1908 should not
be lulled to sleep by President Roose
velt's declaration that he will never
again be candidate. They should re-
member that promises, like pie crusts
are made to be observation-disclosures.
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