Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-02-18
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
The Democracy of C. W. Miller.

chairman OF the democfaJlc SCaIe CEN
trail committee, to which position he
was elected two years ago. He is a
representative in the legislature from
Breemer county, is the publisher of the
Waverly Democrat, and is an officer
in the Waverly Brewing Co. Mr.. Miller
is ambitious, forceful, energetic, and
strong in his likes and dislikes.
Mr.. Miller leaves the tin whistle to
the children and assemblies with the
band. He kicked off the obscuring
bushel long ago and substituted di-
rect current arc for his tallow candle,
with the result that his light has shone
with much intensity ever since. The
members of the last general assembly
noted that Mr.. Miller turned on the
current even in full day, when it was
superhuity, and many of them thought
it was from desire to make them look
toward the light, as anything incongru-
GUS challenges attention.
The quarrel is not with Mr.. Miller's
temperament, nor with his energy. The
one is part of him, and the other, after
the manner of virile men reacting
against the pressure of the world, he
has q right to apply in striving after
coveted ends. Personally, there is no
criticism of Mr.. Miller, and it were an
error to bring down principles to the
base level of personalities.
AS chairman of the state central
committee Mr.. Miller was in charge of
Mr.. Porter's campaign for governor.
Mr.. Porter was beaten by 20, 600 votes,
which was many thousand votes better
than his predecessor ran. Mr.. Miller
says for himself and Mr.. w. w. Marsh
of Waterloo who is Mr.. Miller's other
self, that the credit is theirs for Mr..
Porter's showing. Concerning that
there is disagreement. Mr.. Perkins in
the Sioux City Journal said that if the
Cummin's leadership continues there
will be no republican party. Mr.. Cole
in the Cedar Rapids Republican has
said that $4,000 republicans voted for
Mr.. Porter. There is unanimous agree
ment that Mr.. Coles estimate approx
imates the truth. Itmight vary 20, 900,
but hardly more than that.
With so many standpatters driven to
Porter by Cummins, Mr.. Porter ought
logically to have been elected. That
he was not elected was because of
democratic detection. Mr.. Porter
appeals throughout the campaign were
to republicans, and Messrs. Miller and
Marsh shaped his utterances to suit the
favor of the interests which put up the
campaign fund. From the point of
view Of driving votes away from Mr..
Porter, the Miller Marsh campaign
was eminently successful.
Now, what were the reasons for
democratic detection? Early N the
campaign Mr.. C. A. Walsh withdrew
as Iowa's member of the democratic
national committee, and Mr.. Marsh,
seeing the opportunity to crafty his
years old ambition, Immediately pro-
claimed himself a candidate. Mr..
Marsh bolted the ticket in 1896 and if
he was for it in 1900, he did not employ
the same megaphone he now uses in
proclaiming his loyalty. This news
paper did not think that the disloyal
Mr.. Marsh should be honored with the
8 highest place in the gift of the party
within the state to the exclusion of the
223, TAI democrats who were loyal in
1896. 1t said so. Furthermore it said
of him, and of Mr.. Miller, who assisted
in the Marsh campaign for cnmnaittee-
man, that they appeared of record as
delegates in the rump rate convention
organized by the railroads to defeat
effective rate regulation, and it said
that the men who had opposed rate re.
form were not fit to occupy places OF
leadership in the party, because they
gave the lie to party pretensions, con-
victed it Of bad faith, and forced it to
use up in apologizing and excusing
their course energy that ought to be
employed in combating the enemy and
convincing the Independent, conscience
vote that the democratic party is the
party of the people and not the party
of the special interests.
1t has been charged, and doubtless it
will again be charged that exposure of
these facts initiated against the
success of Mr.. Porter. That being
true, it is admitted that the party has
something to fear from the records of
Messrs. Marsh and Miller. 1t becomes,
then, a self-evident fact, that at peril
to itself the party will put them in
places of leadership. In way of reply
to the charge that this newspapers
exposures were disastrous, it may be
answered that temporary triumph with
untruth, will be disastrous in the end,
and that the party should be the party
of truth. Furthermore, the character
of Mr.. Porter's campaign speeches
might be dealt with, and embarrassing
inquiry into the source of the great
campaign fund made, things which it
is not desirable to touch upon.
Mr.. Bryan told Mr.. Marsh in Lincoln
that he believed it would serve che best
interests of the party for Mr.. Marsh
to withdraw from the contest for
national committeeman. If Mr.. Miller
had been the aspirant instead of Mr..
Marsh, he would have said the same
thing To Mr.. Miller hacauea hi, 81.