Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-06-04
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Especial Washington Letter.

r the Democrats won because
Mayor Wells during his six
years incumbency in Office has given
the people clean, economical and pro-
gressive administration, n vast inn
provement over the Republican adj
ministration which preceded him. Up
to and including the morning of April
the Globe-Democrat whooped it up in
great shape for the Republican ticket.
On the 4th, however, it contained two
editorial paragraphs which furnish
much food for reflection. First the
CD. said:
| Politicians who think they can win with
| an inferior ticket have often missed their
calculation and given their party black
| eye.
Now, thing or person is inferior"
when compared with something or
somebody that is superior" There
fore the foregoing paragraph must
mean that the Republican candidates
were inferior" to the Democratic cam
didates; but, nevertheless and notwith-
standing, the CD. whooped it up for
the inferior" ones Query-Did it
know prior to April that the Repub-
leans were inferior" to the Demo-
Gratis, or did it make that discovery be-
twixt the time when its issue of April
2 went to press and when its issue of
April went to press?
The G.-D.'s second editorial para
graph on this subject in its issue of
April is as follows:
i Tba pap,,hl;oo, ,,or+,, O. r .,,;z
not successfully carry a collection Of
discredited politicians A class of this
kind can accomplish nothing for them
selves, though they are certain to injure
the party as far as it is identified with
them and their unsatisfactory records.
An incubus Of this variety Is a boon to
the opposition and handicap to what he
calls his own side. Politicians with an
lunsavory reputation may seek to be vim
dlcated. but they put a party that in
ldulges them at n disadvantage. 1t is es-
lsential for the Republicans of st. Louis
who have just lost an election on account
lof an element of this nature, To send it to
the rear. unless the experience of Tues.
lday is to be repeated, in spite of having
the most votes and the best prospects.
That paragraph will repay careful
perusal, especially in light of the fact
that the Republicans claim the G. o.
P. is the party of sweetness, purity,
light, patriotism and every good quail
ity possible. Certainly to that para
graph is applicable the old saying that
IAN open confession is good for the
SOUL" But suppose case. Suppose
the CD. had published that paragraph
two days before the election instead
of two days after the election. Then
what? Why, if it has one 1.-THE the in
fiuence it Is credited with, Just as sure
as grass grows or water runs, the Dem
ocratic majority would have been in
creased by 1000 or 5000.
In this editorial the CD. Jumps the
candidates whom it supported off as
ga collection of discredited politicians"
which would probably furnish grounds
for Islander suit unless its descrip-
!, ito personarum is correct. 1t evidently
does not mean that they We're discred-
tied by the defeat on April 2, for in the
next sentenced refers to their "unsat-
isfactory records" clearly meaning
!, records which they had made prior
:. thereto. The CD. rubs it in on those
whom 1t supported still more by char
acterizing them as an "incubus," an
other actionable word unless the CD
can prove 1t. Still further along it de-
dominates its late candidates as "poli-
!, ticians with an unsavory reputation
, which, unless justified, would consti-
, tute third count in petition for dam
ages.
The G.-D.'s performance appears to
be clear case Of "hindsight is better
: than foresight"