Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-03
BY AlEAD PUBLISHING CO
Official Paper Of City and County.
Do Right.

caClng pOIClcal AWAKENING. IdItiSda
spirit is dead. The drawing card at
this hour to all thinking men is the
policies advocated and principles pro-
posed to be enacted into law. 1t is the
duty of the citizen to support propo-
sition irrespective of the organization
that promulgates it, and be governed
alone by the thought of its efficiency.
The last decade has witnessed such
an awakening of interest concerning
public questions as never before known
in the history of this country. The
republican party has before it the
proposition. whether or not it will adj
vance or retrograde. Progressiveness
has become aligned with square deal
ing. Standpatism has taken as its
nartner the past and is unwilling to
mite with those who wish progress to
take The place of do nothing. 1t is not
a question of men. If it was, then in
deed principle is thing of the past.
The progressive spirit in the republican
party must move onward or that or
ganization will be consigned to oblivion
as was the Wing and Free Soil parties.
The contest in Iowa is one of inn
portance. The News is an independent
paper a ID therefore it speaks in the
interests and for that class of citizen
ship who place principle above party.
Rooseveltlsm has taken a firm root
in American soil and it will not be side
tracked by the lip service of those who
proclaim to be loyal, yet in their hearts
wish to destroy the effectiveness of
the Roosevelt crusade.
There are two men prominent today
in the United States around whom
clusters the hope of those who believe
in progressive spirit. Their names
are Roosevelt and Bryan. Each may
die but their spirit will live and ulti-
mately have firm foothold in Ameri-
can politics. The policies they advo-
cate will not be turned back. The poll
cies of Bryan are today as familiar to
the people of this country as those of
Roosevelt. The nomination of Bryan
means no sidestepping or backward
policy. He will not be required to ex-
plain his views His life and utter
ances are more enduring than all the
platforms ever written. Our republic
can friends in Iowa may as well realize
first as last, that if the reactionaries in
that party control the platform at Chi
cago in June and the democratic party
dominates Bryan, there certainly will
be a change of administration after
March A, 1909. The independent
thought will rule. 1t will not be ham
pered or held back by policies that are
worn out and are hindrances to the
progress of the nation.
Parties ought to carry out the will
of it's members, and when it fails to
be in harmony with the prevailing SEN
timent Of the state, it deserves to be
defeated.
Let not our republican friends be
carried away by the majorities they
have heretofore received. 1t will not
hllSWeT tIlS NuCSClOll III JIG JSoA Aooo'
The American people will not stand for
tariff on lumber and coal and iron
and steel, and all parties may as well
realize this. The people will ask re-
publicans why they are unwilling to
place these articles on the free list.
This question will not be answered
bv the ability to obtain appropriation
for public buildings or large navy.
The consumers of Iowa are interested
in obtaining free lumber as much as
they are in large navy, and congress
men will not be excused in preferring
the latter to the former. The hour is
fraught with obstacles to the man who
prefers success of party to the necessi-
ties of the people. -Des MONIES News.