Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
P POLITICAL
The Stampede TO raft.

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It is openly admitted that practically
all of the Republican leaders who at
first tried to organize movement
against the candidacy Of Secretary
Taft have now Joined In the Taft pro-
cession. Various motives are given, but
the fact is no longer questioned. Taft's
bureau started the week claiming
enough delegates to win on the first
ballot and 1913 delegates vet to be
elected. 1t was said that 458 had been
pledged, but that many In the unin-
structed delegations are known to be
for Taft. This virtual stampede Is ac-
companied with some renewal Of the
third term talk, since Utah and Texas
voiced the demand for Roosevelt first.
This appears to give color to the state
ment widely circulated that the con-
servatives have accepted Taft In order
to prevent the possibility of conyen-
ton stampede for the president.
Bryan Claiming Two.thirds.
at the same time the Bryan bureau
has put forth the claim to two-thirds
of the Democratic delegates so far
chosen, of whom 259 delegates are in.
structed for the Nebraskan.
Crusaders See Roosevelt.
A committee of the new Prosperity
league recently started at st. Louis by
prominent business men called on the
president May II and asked his aid in
furthering their plans. In formal
statement they say that all the signs
for revival of prosperity are good II
only experimental legislation may be
halted They point to the fact that
there Is promise Of bountifuI harvests,
that the unemployed are eager for
work and that the relations Of capital
and labor are not strained, while mon
ey is plentiful and ready for invest
ment. They asserted that business
had already suffered too much from
demagogic agitation and that they pro.
pose to proclaim, as the president has
proclaimed, that the bulk of business
men are honorable and upright. They
leprecate the arraying of class against
i class.
In reply the president said that he
was in hearty accord with the purposes
OF the association, but took pains to
point out that the stagnation WIS not
caused by reform legislation, bun sby
the revelation of shocking conditions In
some OF the corporations While agree
Ing that 1T was well to condemn un-
wise agitation, he insisted that "tha
apathetic acceptance of abuses IN oue
! governmental and business administra-
lions is more dangerous than the dem
agogic appeals of professional agitators
to class hatred" Because the nation
had "pilloried the real malefactors" he
warned against any one selling the,
moment to say that any considerable
number OF our business men are MALE.
factors.
| Some friends of the administration
| voiced the opinion that the work of
| the Prosperity league is really to pave
the way for the coming advance in
| railroad rates. circular issued by
| the league says that prosperity de
clined with the railroad adversely and
| that 1t could return only by renewal
| of good business for the railroads.
| Socialists Name Debs Again.
The outcome of the national conyen-
tion of the Socialist party, which met
at Chicago during the week. was the
nomination Of Eugene Y. Debs to head
| their presldential ticket, this being the
third time he has been the Socialist
candidate for president. Prior to- the