Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30

Joe cannon, ~. ID. hartman, Bellamy
Storer and wife, Shonts, Wallace and
divers other Republican bigwigs.
Even Maine Is Waking Up.
At every election since the Republic
an party was organized Maine has cast
her electoral votes for the Republican
candidates, and only once or twice in
all that time have the Democrats man.
aged to elect a governor or any other
state officer. Therefore many good
folks who do not closely note the signs
Of the times will be surprised to learn
that there are indications that all is
not well with the G. o. P. in the Pine
Tree State. Nevertheless and notwith-
standing, it seems that the leaven of
tariff revision which has been working
for two or three years in Massachu-
sets is beginning to work in Maine.
The Bath Anvil is a stanch Repub-
lican paper, but it recently contained
a vigorous editorial entitled "The Tar
if Injuries Maine." Shades of Nelson
Dingley, Thomas Bracket Reed and
James G. Blaine! But that must jar
the stand patters from away back and
will Senators William P. Frye
and Eugene Hale to sit up and take
notice. What will that pre-eminent
stand patter, Charles e. Littleield. say
to that? Among other things, the An
vii says:
Maine without question is. suffering q
great deal from the high tariff schedules,
/ and her infl1anPa in fhn Dnp,,1,1So1, a@,,,
ellis ought to be exerted in favor of revi-
sion. Unless the party grants revision
his tariff issue is extremely likely to
complete the work of purely state ques-
tons and throw Maine into the Demo-
cratic column.
The Anvil follows that pregnant par
agraph up with the statement that, so
far as the Republicans are concerned,
the six electoral votes of Maine "are
in greater danger than they have been
since the civil war" That must cause
Republicans to have a creepy feeling
in the region Of the spine when they
remember how ear they came to los
ing those electoral votes in 1880, when
the Democrats carried Maine at the
state election in September of that
year and when nothing but the hercu.
lean labors of James Gillespie Blaine
saved it to Garfield in November
What a fine thing it would be to see a
Democratic delegation in congress from
Maine!
Pessimist?
Is my good personal friend ex-Secre.
tary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw
becoming a pessimist? 1t really looks
that way, though hitherto he has been
cheerful as Mark Tapley. Now he
warns the country that hard times are
in sight and that before long there will
be a rousing big war on the Pacific fol
the possession of the Pacific and that
we will be strictly in it as q combat
ant. He failed to say, however, that if
we had sense enough to give the Phil
ippines away there would be no neces.
sity of our mixing in a war on the Pa.
cifc. The only reason why we cling
on to those pestiferous islands is pride
We said the horse was seventeen fee1
high, and we propose to stick to it
That's our situation in the orient. Sec
rotary Shaw Is one of the brightest
men in America and could render his
name immortal if he would devote al
his great mental energies to persuad
ing the jingoes to swallow their pride
and give the Philippines away or tt
permit the Filipinos to set up for them
selves.
By the way, it is said that Brother
Shaw has made the eyes of New Yorl
fnanciers pop open like morning glo
ries by arriving at his banking house
by 8 a. m. every day and remaining
till 5 p! M, but he learned that habi
out in Iowa, and it abides with him tt
this day. 1t is absolutely safe to say
that there is not a more genial, thought
full, enjoyable fnancier in Greater
Gotham than Leslie M. Shaw or a MAJ
more determined in purpose. The way
he jollied the conceit out Of the Pitts
burg bigwigs on a celebrated occasion
was more amusing to plain people thar
Mark Twain's Jumping Frog of Cal
averas County," When he directed
those plutocrats to meet him at his of
flee in the treasury building at 6:3l
a. M, the country Jakes laughed til
their sides We're sore for a week. I
taught the P%ittsburg high fiers q les
son which they are not likely to forge
as long as they live, and it demonstrat
ed Secretary Shaw's capacity for get
ting
Missouri In the Primary Column.
Missouri is the newest state to joil
her sisters that have enacted laws pro
viding that all candidates for electiv,
Office be chosen at a general state pr
mary, held on the same day by all par
ties, at the expense Of the state. 4
number Of the southern states, such a
South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Virgin
ia and Mississippi, have already en-
acted such laws.