Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-08-24

overthrown. 1t has stood IN the way of
all kinds of progress We have had the
scholar in politics long enough. Let US
Try few business men,
The idea! Massachusetts without at
least one senator in congress who can
talk Greek! The thing is not only un-
apeakable, but it Is unthinkabIe. Shades
Of Sumner and of Hoar forbid! Theodore
Parker was spared this at least.
Mr.. Foss goes on to say that Mr.. Lodge
has the slate made up twelve years
ahead. Can it be possible? Whore did
Mr.. Lodge learn the trick! Not from
Dean Richmond and Peter Cagger. Their
text was, Sufficient unto the day is the
spoil thereof Not from Matt Quay, who
never shook the plum tree for posterity.
Not from Dick Croker, whom the present
kept too busy to allow him a thought of
the future. Not from Caleb Gushing and
Ben Butler, for the machine they made
when Frank Pierce was president was
designed to discourage rather than to
stimulate the anticipations of future
''sptles."
The offices apportioned out until 1913!
Mr.. Lodge must have been reading 'Gil
Bias in the original and got his idea of
"spiles" from the Duke Of Lerma, or,
peradventure Mr.. Lodge has been read
ing up on Wentworth and his policy of
Thorough" There is nothing in the
story Of Tammany like this twelve years
business, nothing in the political machin-
cry of Pennsylvania or Chicago or Prov
idence. RI.
Mr.. Lodge is Harvard man, q Har-
ward professor, and was one Of the tutors
Of Theodore Roosevelt. He is not only a
maker OF history and Of statecraft. but
he Is also q writer of history, much OF It
astonishing and romantic.
However. we never suspected that Mr..
Lodge would beat Matt Quay twelve
years in the art of boss-ship.
Most persons will feel like congratu-
lating Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany on
becoming grandfather. Even people
who do not believe in the monarchical
system admire an emperor or king who
really earns his living, and of all the
potentates In Europe the princes Of
the house Of Hohenzollern work the
hardest The kaiser Is one Of the most
Industrious men living and takes in
tense interest in everything looking to
the advancement Of the fatherland.
For several years after his accession
to the throne divers persons tried to
make it appear that he was simply
crowned and sceptered crank, but that
Idea has been long since exploded. He
Is now universally recognized as
statesman Of great force. If he keeps
on in the conservative line in which he
Is now travelling he will rank In history
with the great elector and with Fred
srfck the Great, the most remarkable
soldier of his age. Frederick's skill,
courage, fortitude and success in the
Seven Years war will forever remain
one Of the most astounding chapters in
the martial annals Of the world
1 The more or less startling and dis
quieting news comes from Newport
that the swagger set there prefer Brit
lsh naval officers to American naval
officers. Our aristocrats are getting to
be ambitious. Most Of them are trying
to marry off their daughters to scions
Of the effete aristocracy of Europe.
Just so foreigner has title he
seems to have a peculiar fascination
Tor the -Four Hundred. Some of them
would do well to ponder the sad out
come Of the marriage Of Anna Gould
and her little count and Of the mar
Rage of Vice President Morton's
daughter to a titled nobody. The en-
tire -Four Hundred ought to be CON-
PEELED to go to see the "Texas Steer"
svery night for week and then some
My two interesting friends, Mr.. Sec
rotary Of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw
of Iowa, having been routed in his own
state, and General Charles Henry
Grosvenor Of Ohio, having failed Of
denomination to congress In his own
district, are preparing to invade Mis-
souri, to show the Republicans the trick
1t is done with. They are able men
and most rampantest stand patters,
but they would be nonplused If some
lnquisttiye person were to ask how
Governor Cummins happened to be re-
nominated in Iowa and how Ohio
CHANGED to elect Democratic governor
last year.
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of
Ohio appears to have been lost in the
shuttle somehow. While Mr.. Vice Pres
1dent Fairbanks is jogging around, at
tending religious conclaves in the
south, with an eye on the southern del
egates to the Republican national con-
vention of 1908; while Mr. Secretary
Of State Root hopes to lift himself into
the White House by making speeches
In South America, and while Mr. Sec
rotary Taft is spreading himself all
over the Union, Foraker seems to be in
deep seclusion. Wherefore?
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