Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-23
Clarke
Power Of he Speaker Of the House.
Maryland Republicans and Mr. Bona
parte = Fairbanks After the Farm
Vos-Ths Japs and the Philippine.

ing the VheeY that q man can get rich
BY bsiag ta1ed to death and can lift
himself over The fence by tugging at
his own boot straps. while the bread
| and butter brigade are trying to in.
l duce Colonel Roosevelt to run for pres
| ident again, not for his good, but their
own, Mr.. Fairbanks will be quietly but
busily making presidential hay while
| the sun shines on his Hoosler farm
The first thing his competitors know
pictures of him in overalls and cotton
shirt blowing corn or shocking wheat
or rounding up calves will begin to ap.
pear numerously, and the Republican
agricultural mind will naturally turn
to Fairbanks Truth to tell, he is grow
ing as candidate, and he is well up to
the front In the running. The anarch-
list incident up in Michigan will help
him. for people will reason that IL he
in the vice presidency is a parsonage
OF sufficient Importance to attract the
attention Of the enemies of all govern
ment he must be of presidential stat
ure.
The vice president seems to be happy
In being able to express the well ac-
cepted Republican articles Of faith
without offense to any Of his brethren.
he ventures on no new wrinkles. He
follows beaten and familiar paths. His
forte Is moderation in linguistics. If he
is stand patter, the revisionists don't
seem to know it. If he is reyisionist,
the stand patters haven't found it out.
Mr. Secretary Taft injured his pros
poets by his buy where you can buy
the cheapest" proposition. he was too
sudden. He Jared the stand patters.
OF course they needed Earring, but it
was like punching bald hornets nest.
Mr. Secretary Shaw, thinking that Taft
had killed himself, which he had not
done, jumped into the breach and be-
gan to yell stand patism so vociferous-
ly that all the revislonists lined up in
stanter against him, and they will fight
him yiciously to the last ditch. While
all this was happening the vice presi-
dent was making pleasant Republican
speeches constantly, avoiding Charybdis
and scylla, offending nobody and gain
ing ground NIL the time. No Republican
can ind fault with his political ortho-
doxy. Now he comes in the balmy
month Of June, while the multtudinous
voice Of the graduate is heard in the
land, and says sweetly, II like farm
ing" speech in one sentence which
will cause his stock to jump several
points. Personally the vice president Is
all right. Only his politics is bad
awfully bad.
Becoming Sane.
One notable effect Of the great Rus
sian naval defeat is the returning
sanity Of Washington bigwigs. Ever
since the war began they have been
giving all the aid possible by word Of
mouth and By written expression Of
opinion to the Japs, Notwithstanding
the fact that during the civil war Rus
STA was the only old world power
friendly to the United States Now
the Washington bigwigs appear to be
waking up to the realization Of fact
which humber folk have heretofore
modestly suggested, which is this: II
the Japs finally lick the Russians, they
will be 80 puffed up that they will be
going around with a chip on their
shoulders shouting for fight with any
body and everybody. AS we are among
the nearest neighbors by idiotically
holding on to the Philippines, just as
apt as not we will be the first nation
they will tackle, and we will be in
pretty pickle lighting 1000 miles from
base for thing we never ought to
have had, which has been positive
curse to US eyer since we got It and
which we ought to get rid Of at the
earliest possible moment. These ideas
are beginning to percolate through the
fuddled brain Of the Washington big
wigs. The dispatches from that de-
lectable city state two facts Of inl-
portance on this subject: ~ That the
bigwigs are not pleased at the d.
mansions Of the Jap naval victory.
They wanted the Japs to win, but not
SO overwhelmingly; (2) That the big
wigs are hurrying battleships, torpedo
boats and munitions Of war to the Phil
ippines.
When was boy knew an old
chap named Jake Stein In the Chapline
river hills in Kentucky who owned q
fine flly which was too skittish to suit
him. He wanted to tame her. So he
told his son to hide behind tree and
when he rode by on the flly to jump
out and yell .'Boop' The Junior obeyed
orders with such enthusiasm that the
Ally ran away with Jake, threw him
of and nearly broke his neck. When
he revived sufficiently to take notice he
said, II told you to say 'Boov but that
was too big boo for the FLY" Young
Stein had overdone his part in the play.
So did the Japs. Consequently the
Washington .bigwigs are surprised and
displeased, poor things. Both they and |
old Jake Stein ought to have had more
sense. Congressman Hull of Iowa did
some weeks ago venture to make GER
tain warning predictions along this
line, whereupon the American Jap
sympathizers jumped him so numerous
" that he turned like craven and fed,
leaving the reporter who had inter-
Viewed him in the lurch. II Hull had |
had nerve enough to stand up to his in
terview he might have had some stand
Ing as a prophet, but he funked.
6oodIins and Graft.
That there has been great upheayal
tn these latter days on the subject Of
boodling and graft goes without say
Ing. Many good but timorous souls find
In that an infallible sign that the world
Is growing worse that we are rnshino