Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-08-17

W. A. Harris. the. next governor Of
Kansas. are first cousins. conpratu-
late both General Murray and the
county on his promotion.
News dispatches inform us that at a
sciree given by Hon. James b. Wat
son recently in honor Of Mr.. Speaker
Cannon Uncle Joe seemed to be partic-
ularly impressed by certain dad fash.
ipned hymns which We're SUNG fpr hts
MpsfE Aftep the, Democrats carry
the election this fall the hymns which
will be most in consonance with Uncle
Joe's feelings will be "Ocme, Humble
Sinner In Whose Breast" and "Hark
From the Tombs; Doleful Sound"
The signs Of the times Indicate that
he has Watson in training for the
speakershlp should the Republicans
continue to bold the house most I'm
probable event-and should Uncle. Joe
be promoted to the presidency. Wat
son Is q most amiable man and would
do as we'll In the speakers chair as
any other Republican.
Fame Is vapor," said Horace
Greeley. When my brilliant and anna
BILE friend Hon. James e. Watson Of
Indiana, the Republican whip, reads
the Missouri papers, he will most
probably agree with the sage of Chap
paqua, for after travelling hundreds
Of miles to give the Missouri Repub-
Leans a .'thriller' the papers speak
Of the entertaining Hoosier as Mr..
Warner" of Indiana. Notwithstand-
ing the fair Juliet propounded the
far resounding query, whats In
name?" and answered it by saying,
THAT which we call a rose by any
ottter name would smell as sweet"
statesmen Like Brother Watson who
are chasing the bubble reputation by
making speeches this hot weather
would rather be called by. their right
names.
One by one the roses fall. One by
one prominent Republicans are quit
ting. the stand pat gang even as rats
leave sinking ship. The latest OF
them to turn reforlner is Hon. Elmer
Dover, secretary of. the Republican
national committee. He pronounces a
stand pat campaign to be idiocy., On
Saturday, July %, the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. Republican organ grinder,
In an elaborate editorial announced
| with much gpsto and great flourish
Of frumpets That the late conference of
Roosevelt, Cannon, Sherman & Co.
had defied the Democrats by announc-
ing stand pat campaign, but the next
day, the 10Th Of July, it showed, for
the CD. was compelled to announce
that Mr.. Secretary Dover had declared
in favor Of tariff revision. Poor old
CD!
The Philippines have been paci-
fed once more, this time by killing
100 Pulajanes. Pacifying the Philip
pines is q continuous performance.
peace reigns In Warsaw" is a SEN
tence Of sinister meaning, calculated
to chill the blood, when one remembers
how that peace was obtained, and that
| is the only peace that will ever reign
N the Philippines peace Of death.
In the meantime the st. Louis Globe
Democrat insists that our army Of 49,
900 in the archipelago is too small and
wants it increased. As 1t costs $1,000
is easy to figure oft that our Philip
Ipine whistle comes high. When will
the American people have sense enough
4 to give them away?
! Those pal.,itating admirers of the
japanese who went about during the
Russo-J japanese war declaring that
when. the Japs gobbled AIanchuria and
other portions of China we would en-
joy an open door privilege should care
fully consider the evidence as to their
own asininity. The Japs are doing
what every sensible person knew they
would do-endeavoring to monopolize
the trade of the conquered provinces,
and we, after making idiots of our
selves by helping them all we could
/ against a power that had always been
i WI AAASnu, LIZ ouiSSifes Ao!O1AS tue
bag.
Missouri is taking the Lead In all
matters pertaining to live stock. The
finest saddle horse ever In America
was foaled and raised in Audratn
county in my congressional district
The horse referred to was sold to Ken
lucky, a performance which reminds
one Of carrying Goals to Newcastle,
but he has been brought back to Mis-
so,ftf again. Recently man in Jack
son county, Mo-, sold pig for $1,000,
and so on to the end Of the chapter.
H.. ( M,