Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-11
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In print. 'It was the contributions of
these corporations to the Mckinley cam
paign fund" That reads like the answer
Of an irreverent Bryanite, but it is not.
Il is the confession of a Republican news
paper organ. Nor Is this confession a
mere self indulgence. 1t Is preliminary to
q very serious warming, for the Chronicle
proceeds: ~
eff the Republican party now insanely
Furnishes those for contributing to CAM
paign funds who have the most at stake
In elections and whose contributions have
the past, it can confidently reckon on
some Kind Of disaster in the future"
When one reads that excerpt from
the Chronicle the old saying, IAN open
confession is good for the SOUL" comes
to mind. The Chronicle speaks no
doubt from inside information when 1t
says that the contributions from the
big financial corporations elected Nc
Kinley. That's what. Democrats have
always claimed. There is not well in
formed, level headed man in America
who does not believe that Bryan would
hare been elected hands down had the
Republicans been restricted to the
same amount Of money which Demo
crats had to spend IN that heated and
famous contest. In fact, the Demo
Gratis would have easily won If. they
had had one-half, one-third or one
fourth the sinews Of war possessed by
the Republicans. AS matter of fact,
they did not have one-tenth. They had
not half enough to pay the ordinary
expenses of the campaign, the legiti-
mate expenses, the necessary expenses,
such ais expenses for literature, halls
to speak in, hotel bills, ETC., for speak
ers. On the other hand, the Republican
campaign committee rolled in wealth
and dispensed the doodle lavishly wher.
ever it appeared that Doodle would
help them. When it was all over-the
corruptest campaign ever waged in
this country-it was currently reported
that there was balance in the Repub.
lican national campaign committees
strong box of over $1,00O,00O. The
Chronicle renders the country belated
but valuable service by confessing that
the enormous sums contributed to the
Republican campaign fund carried the
country.
Carl schurz.
Hon. Carl Schurz is affording his
army of readers a rare treat by pub
fishing his "reminiscences. Few mer
have led so varied q career as General
Schurz. He speaks and writes our
vernacular in Its purity. He has held
high military and civil positions. He
was minister to Spain, major general
In the civil war, senator of the United
States and secretary of the interior
No blot or spot can be found in his
long and conspicuous life. He is q
man of rare accomplishments. and,
though passed the psalmist's allotment
Of threescore years and ten, he is still
vigorous, and let US hope that he will
long remain with us.
The fact that he Ia writing his recol-
lections is fortunate. It is q matter fol-
congratulation that our public men are
falling more and more into the habit
Of writing their recoitectIons Of the
great events which they Witnessed and
part Of which they were.
Colonel Thomas Hart Benton was
the pioneer in this laudable work. His
'.Thirty Years. View" is indispensable
to students Of our institutions. The
style is not always pleasant. He has
been charged with too much egotism,
but no wise American would consent
to see Benton's great and useful book
blotted out. No statesman for sew
eral years after the appearance Of Ben.
toms book followed his example, but
lately the number who do 80 is con-
stantly Increasing. Their books are Of
great value, as l ln9 the very nature Of
events have better opportunity to know
the why and wherefore and to under
stand the motives of men and their re-
lations toward each other than those
who are mere lockers on In Vienna.