Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-23
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Especial Washington Lettcr.1
~ENTRAL AMERICA seems to
be in a state of eruption with
actual war betwixt Honduras
and Nicaragua and threatened
war between Mexico and Guatemala.
It's a great pity that all the small re-
Dublics from the Rio Grande to the
isthmus cannot be united under the
rule Of General Diaz, who is a really
great man and who has wrought Won
ders for his own country and deserves
a place in the front rank Of modern
statesmen. Indeed, he and Bismarck
are the two great constructive states
men of the last half century. The Ger
man emperor, more properly speak
ing, united Germany-is the Iron Chan
cellor's monument, while the Mexican
republic, pacific Mexico, is the O
ment to Diaz. Mexico now has approx
imately 100000 people, while all
the other Central American states COM
bined have not more than 100000 or
100000. If they were all united,
there would be a great republic with
over 100000 inhabitants. Not one
Of the republics except Mexico could
maintain it's independence for six
months but for the Monroe doctrine,
and had it not been for opportune
assertion of that doctrine the Emperor
Macmillan instead of President Diaz
would be residing in the halls Of the
Montezumas this day. So we may be
said to have created the Mexican re-
public. We wish all the republics we'll
and would be glad to see them all unit
ed. Their peoples are Of the same
blood, Spanish and Portuguese. Their
interests are Identical. They are mar
velously rich in natural resources,
which are not being developed as rap
idly as they should be because Of the
weaknesses and jealousies Of the gov
ernments. OF course this last sentence
does not apply to Mexico, which is
prospecting greatly and growing rapid
~. The more she grows and the more
she prospers the better we will be sat
isfed, as we take an elder sisters in
terest in her welfare.
Glass Houses and Stone Throwing.
The signs Of the times indicate that
the Republican bigwigs are forming a
base conspiracy to keep Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory out Of the Union
until after the next presidential cleo
ton by picking flaws here and there
in what Colonel William Jennings
Bryan pronounces the best state con
stitution in the Union. 1t will be a
great outrage committed in the vain
hope Of foisting another Republican
president on the country. The two
territories contain more than a million
citizens, among the very best betwixt
the two oceans-the adventurous, the
Industrious, the ambitious home max
ers of the land.
The st. Louis Globe democrat, a
%rancorous Republican paper, jumps on
the Oklahoma constitution with both
feet in a bitter and elaborate editorial.
What angers the CD. and the rest Of
the Republican bigwigs is the fact,
now perfectly apparent, that the state
of Oklahoma will be overwhelmingly
Democratic, which is proof positive Of
the wisdom and patriotism Of her peo-
pie. So there is much weeping, wall
ing, gnashing Of teeth and cussing in
the CD. Office and wherever Repub-
licans congregate. Inter ALA the CD.
says:
|. Probably Missouri has the worst exist
ing ~gerrymander, but it is not i%ntrenched
in the constitution, and any legislature
can amend 1t. The gross injustice it
works is clear enough. Missouri's total
congressional vote last fall was nearly
100000, Of which the Democrats had a
plurality of only 1000, yet the state is so
gerrymandered that the Democrats OBJ
tanned thirteen congressman and the Re-
publicans only three.
Most assuredly that paragraph will
astound every citizen of Missouri be-
yond measure and will cause Major
Alexander Mcdowell, clerk of tile
house Of representatives, to sit up and
take notice. 1t ought to cause every
decent Republican in the state to hide
his head in shame. In order to boil
ster up it's argument the CD. in that
paragraph says that thirteen Demo-
Gratis and three Republicans were elect
ed to congress from Missouri in 1906.
AS a matter of fact, twelve Demo-
Gratis and -four Republicans were elect
ed, and everybody in the state with
two ideas knows it. If the CD.
knows so little about the state, what
is its opinion worth? If it knew the
truth and willfully misstated the facts.
of what value is any of it's opinions?
1t car take either horn Of the dilem-
ma it chooses. Major Mcdowell, clerk
of the house Of representatives, is
charged with the duty Of making up
the roll of the members. On it he has
no doubt placed the names Of four
Missouri Observation-Disclosures Caul-
field, Godfrey and Ellis. If the CD.
is correct in declaring that only three
Missouri Republicans we're elected,
Major Mcdowell ought to leave one
Of the four off the rolls and put a
Democrat in his place. If there are
,eally four, then which one is so OBJ
scure as to have been forgotten by the
CD? Surely ii co1nld NOT he Dr Rich