Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-07-03
Bay State Democrats,

Bay State Democrats.
Even in staid old Massachusetts the
Democrats are preparing to give the
Republicans the fight of their lives.
They have under discussion as their
gubernatorial standard bearer ex-Goy-
ernor w. L. Douglas, the great shoe
manufacturer; Hon. Henry NJ. Whit
ney, who made such a brilliant race
for lieutenant governor last year, and
Hon. John B. Moran, circuit attorney
for Boston. There is also good deal
OF talk of Moran for attorney general.
II all three were put on the ticket
there Is little doubt that it would
sweep the old Bay State, consumma-
ton devoutly to be wished. One thing
that helps the Democrats is the grow
Ing revolt among Republicans against
the high handed methods Of Boss Hen
~ Cabot Lodge. OF course the term
'boss" as applied to Senator Lodge will
crate harshly upon the delicate tym-
panums Of the aesthetic bean eaters
but so long as he pursues the usual
methods Of bossism he is a boss. no
matter how much his friends suuirm
when he Is SO called.
The amazing news comes from the
mountains Of east Tennessee that Hon.
Walter p. Brownlow is to be endorsed
BE has for years been the car of the
Tennessee Republicans, and SO long as
Colonel II. Clay Evans, his bette noir,
was in foreign parts enjoying the fat
pickings of the London consul general
ship there was none Brownlow's right
to dispute from North Carolina to the
Mississippi. But Evans is now at
home, anxious to be governor of the
Old Volunteer State, and as counter
irritant to Brownlow it is proposed to
have Hon. A. G. Taylor, brother to
Senator Bob, run as Republican can
didate with a nomination conferred
upon him by the boiling Evansites.
With Brownlow and Taylor both run
ming and both claiming Republican reg
ularity, Democrat ought to be elected
from that district-the first since Bob
Taylor represented it in 1880.
or course nobody commissioned me
to be selecting Republican candidates
Tor the presidency and vice presidency,
but see what see and hear what
hear. My guess is that If the Repub-
Leans do not go to Illinois for their
nominee in the person of
Mr. Speaker Cannon they are apt to
go there for their vice presidential can
didate in the person Of Major ves-
pasian Warner, the present commits
sioner of pensions. He is handsome.
splendid man in the flower of his years,
has had much experience as a soldier
and as representative in congress
and has conducted the affairs of the
pension Office with economy, honesty,
and dispatch. AS the boys
ray, "he is on to his job" to which he
was appointed at the request of both
and Democrats.
With Alfonso Of Spain choosing
healthy, robust English girl for his
wife, and the stork lowering over the
royal palace at The Hague, one might
say that the king business is doing
fairly well were it not for the "woeful
plight" to borrow Clevelandesque
expression, in which Nicholas of Rus
sia finds himself. We can but wonder
L we are to have repetition of the
French revolution in Muscovy, only on
far larger scale. There appears to
be a superabundance Of explosive ma
terial, and If there is any one to APP
ply the match the bloody scenes on the
Seine of little more than century
ago may be considered mild beside
hose on the Neva.