Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-31
POLITICAL
Iowa Endorses Taft.

Iowa Endorses Taft.
The Iowa Republican convention at
Des Moines chose delegates at large
for Taft and Endorsed Allison for the
senate again.
Bryan Called Them Gamblers.
In speech on the floor of the Chica-
go board of trade William ]. Bryan
denounced gambling in stocks and urg-
ed that members doing legitimate
business drive out the gamblers from
the pit.
New York Democrats UnpIedsed.
With only one voice heard for Bryan,
the New York state Democratic COM
mittee voted on March 10 in favor of
leaving the delegates to the national
convention uninstructed as to candi-
dates.
Referendum Plan For Ohio.
A resolution providing for popular
vote on the question Of establishing the
initiative and referendum in Ohio by
constitutional amendment has now
passed both houses of the legislature
and is expected to receive the gov
ernor's approval. 1t does not, however,
contain the full programme of the ad-
vocates Of initiative and referendum,
for it merely submits to the people
laws repealed or enacted by the legis-
lature or vetoed by the governor. For
vote on a new law per cent of the
voters must petition, and for repealed
In ct
In both cases the petition must be
signed In majority Of the congress
districts
Tainted AIdrich Bill News.
Golfers Weekly publishes the text
of letters being sent out to newspaper
men Offering $40 for each interview
with prominent men In given local
ity. favorable to the Aldrich currency
bill now before congress.
| Alienist AssaiIs the President.
One of the most startling attacks yet
made upon President Roosevelt which
hitherto was merely rumor and talk to
| the effect that DR.. Allan McLane Ham
ilton, the noted alienist, had said that
| the mind Of the president was failing
| as result of his activities, has now
been given color by DR.. Hamilton's ar
| ticle in the North American Review on
"'Psychopathic Rulers" While he does
| not mention the president by name, all
| the well known characteristics of him
are gathered together as the signs of
| incipient paranoia. Friends Of the
president say that the doctor has a
| grievance in the refusal Of the presi-
dent to pardon Hamilton's son. who
was court martialed in the Philippines.
Grover cleveland's Remedy.
Former President Cleveland has just
passed his seventy-first birthday and
| given to the papers an interview in
| which he says that return to the old
Democratic creed is what the people
need to give them rest and peace "after
| a period Of terrific hysteria." He plties
the poor and wants a great clearing
house Of charity to be established.
Socialist Convention May 10.
The national secretary of the Social
list party has announced the apportion-
ment of delegates to the national con-
yention called to meet at Chicago on
May 10, each state being entitled to one
delegate and one additional for every
200 members of the party. The total
thus allotted is 21s delegates. An as
sessment of 35 cents per capita has
been levied to pay the railway fares
of the delegates. The executive COM
1hittee has voted down the proposition
of the Socialist-Labor party for reunion
with the main party, but the matter
may be brought up at the convention.