Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-10-04
POLITICAL
President Back In Harness.

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President Back In Harness.
President Roosevelt returned to the
executive mansion in Washington
from his summer home at Oyster Bay
on Sept. %, accompanied by his fam.
lily. His Oyster Bay neighbors gave
him the customary friendly sendoff.
He went to work on routine business
preparatory to his speechmaking trip
down the Mississippi which is to be
followed by bear hunt and camping
out excursion in the Louisiana cane
brakes.
oompers Will Oppose Taft.
In leading editorial for the current
Federationist President Gompers Of
the American Federation Of Labor de-
scribes Secretary Taft as 'the injunc
ton standard bearer" and takes the
position that no one can compel ln-
boring man to buy where he does not
want to buy. He says that Tafts con-
tention in regard to the boycott would
lead to the dispersion and forcible
breaking up by court orders of every
assemblagc of workingmen, however
innocent or lawful their purpose, and
/ to the notification of all their agree
ments.
/ Murphy Holds Tammany Fort.
The contest between the Mcclellan
and Murphy factions for the control
Of the Taminany organization In New
York city resulted in a decisive victory
for Murphy, the present Tammany
4 leader, in the primaries. Only two Nc
1 Clellan men carried their districts.
! Lands Not Candidate.
Judge X. NJ. Lands when told that
there was movement on foot to Sc
cure for him the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination said: ITO assume that
I would accept political preferment as
! a reward for anything l might do on
the bench is to simpeach my integrity
as man and my honor as judge.
No, sir, / won't dignity the rumor by
discussing it."
Regulation of CIRCULATION"
Before the American Bankers asso-
citation at Atlantic City Charles Emory
Smith, former postmaster general, COM
mended the efforts of President Roose-
welt to put the big combinations of
capital under control of the laws, but
said that some of the so called awaken.
ing of the public and the anticorpora.
ton agitation was "a wild and hys-
terical crusade against ali colossal en-
teTprises and all corporate activity
He thought there was call for sober
Judgment and that it was senseleSs to
decry all combinations. He concluded
that regulation itself might need to be
regulated and that the craze for fan.
tastic interference in some states
would in due time run its course. The
captains of industry must administer
their great trusts in obedience to law,
in the spirit of justice, in the interest
of the stockholders and of the public if
they would preserve prosperity and
!, put check on the present agitation
ard cutlery. which, unless retarded by
proper means, would result in ''lawless
socialism"
Root Off to Meet Disz.
Secretary of State Root, accompanied
by his family and suit, left Washing
!: ton Sept. % on his long expected trip
to Mexico, where he is to be the guest
Of President Diaz and prepare for the
coming conference Of the Central
American republics at Washington
This visit is expected to supplement
the work Of pan-Americanism begun
by Secretary Roots South American
journey. Never before has an Ameri-
can secretary of state been the person
al guest Of all the principal countries
Of the western hemisphere.
jamestown Policy DepIored.
Chancellor MacCracken in opening the
New York university for the year Sc.
attitude toward the jamestown exposi
ton, which he described as "a national
exposition with the nation conspicu.
ously absent" He argued that this
should have been sentimental dem.
onstration with only some fitting pro.
vision for receiving and entertaining
bodies of pilgrims to the historic spot
Out "Il1Iout tIi Lie III euS
display of merchandise and military
ornaments.
4 Nebraska Endorses Taft.
The Republican state convention al
Lincoln. Neb., formally recognized in
4 Secretary Taft the logical candidate
to perpetuate the policies of President
Roosevelt. On the same day the Demo
cratic state convention Endorsed Bryan
for president and johnson for vice
president
Oklahoma May Come In.
President Roosevelt has put an enc
to the talk about keeping OlSlahom,
!, out of the Union by making it known
that he would adopt the constitution
adopted by the new state, although HI
disapproves of many of its features.