Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-11

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recently In the house on the
watch trust was like bomb
yhell among the stand pat brethren and
created a great commotion among
them. They laid their heads together
and concluded that something must be
done, and done at the earliest oppor-
tunity. What they did was to send to
the front Colonel William Peters Hep
burn Of Iowa, their strongest debater;
Hon. Henry Sherman, Boutell of H.
Nnois, their most classical orator, and
Hon. Francis w. Cushman Of Wash
ington, their most entertaining humor-
ist, who, by reason of his personal ap-
pearance and his wealth II humor, has
been dubbed 1.-THE Abraham Lincoln Of
the Pacific SLOPE" This inustrious trio
Jumped on Rainey with both feet, or,
more properly speaking, with six feet;
but when they were through Rainey
was serene and smiling and his speech
intact. They had not refuted even one
Of his statements. They had delivered
entertaining speeches that and
Aothing more. In fact, the Washing
ton papers declare that Messrs. Rainey,
Williams and Hardwick drove Colonel
Hepburn to cover-a notable achieve
ment, most assuredly.
In rssponse2to Messrs. Hepburn and
BoutelA, Hon. John, sharp Williams of
Mississippi, the minority leader, deliv-
cred four hours, speech which did not
leave the stand patters a leg to stand
on. He rammed 1t chock full of facts,
stubborn facts, official facts, facts put
into print by Republican oficeholders.
facts which no man In his senses or
with any self respect will dispute,
facts whioh prove beyond all contro-
versy that the Dingley tariff law en-
ables American manufacturers per-
sistently and constantly to sell Amer
lean products in foreign Countries
cheaper than they sell similar articles
to Americans here at home.
The American people may like that
sort of scheme, but 1t is thing In
credible. They may indorse 1t, but the
signs of the times indicate that they
will not do so. It may possibly be
that Ephraim will at last be divorced
from his idols. 1t will be a great day
for America when Americans compre-
bend how they have been despoiled.
Then the Dingley bill Will go. Gwen
this shall! pass away"
The Handwriting on the Wall.
It Is coming! What is coming? Tar
IL revision, sure as gun is made of
iron. It is coming at the hands of the
Republicans or at the hands Of Demo
Gratis, but it is coming-that's the one
thing certain. There are queer and
startling condolences in this world.
For example, Just at the time when
Colonel William Peters Hepburn, the
dean Of the Iowa house Republicans.
was laundering outa redhot and new
Or say die" stand pat argument to his
fellow members, the congressional con-
yention in the Tenth Iowa district met
to repominate Representative Conner
which they did. That 10 the Shaw-Dol-
liver district, the home Of the genial
senator and Of the stand pat secretary
Of the treasury. The convention In,
dorsed Conner and Dolliver, declared
for tariff revision, Endorsed Governor
A. B. Cummins, the Republican bette
peir Of stand patters, for a third term
in the gubernatorial chair and refused
to indorse Secretary Shawl What is
this old world coming to anyway, when
such things can happen In the rock
ribbed Republican Hawkeye state7 It
is simply awful-from stand pat view
point. It's the handwriting on the
wall. The stand patters appear no
more able to interpret it than were the
king and his retainers, but it will be
easily interpreted by others. Tariff re-
vision coming? OF course It Is, and all
the stand patters with all their subsi-
died organs cannot stop 1t any more
than they can stop the Cow of the
Mississippi.
Now, If the action Of that convention
ID to be taken as foreshadowing Of
coming events, It logically makes Gov
srnor Cummins, not Secretary Shaw,
the Iowa Republican candidate for
presid too, on tariff revision
Platform. Secretary shaw's close
friends ray that the fact that the plat
form committee tabled the Shaw reso.
iution by the decisive vote Of 9 to &
signifies nothing excspt that some over.
enthusiastic Shawite introduced the
resolution out Of time and place, but
nevertheless the further facts that the
convention Endorsed Governor Cum.
mins and tariff revision stand as incon.
trovertible. Surely II the stand pat
element is in the majority In the dis.
trict 1t would not have permitted such
action as that. No matter how 1t hap.
pened, the moral effect is In the nature
Of body blow to the stand patters.
Query; II Cummins sweeps the state
and dictates q tariff revision platform
on which to make his third race for
governor, what viii Colonel William
Peters Hepburn, Major John F. Lacey,
Colonel Jehn T. A. Hull and the rest of
the stand pat candidates for congress
do, poor things? It villa be one of the
most bewildering mixups in current
politics to see those gentlemen whoop-
ing 1t mp for Cummins and tariff re-
vision in order to save their congress
sional bacon. Still things Just as
strange have happened.
It will be remembered that had
much trouble not long ago in forcing
Major Lacey to admit on the floor of
the house that Governor Cummins is
o Republican. II looks as though the
major will have to yell for Gnmmins.
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