Evening times-Republican., 1909-07-13
DIGGING UP A RUSTY YA1cHeT.

The Sioux City Journal is again on
the rampage, off the reservation thirst
ing for gore and burning outhouses in
imitation of actual Indian warfare
Ostensibly it is on the trail of reform.
Actually it is attempting to induce
such other political apaches as it may
to seek again the scalp progressives, Of
Senator Cummins, Congressman Hub
bard especially. Among other things it
says:
It is understood that the way to
get to congress from Iowa is to be good
so good that no quarrel is made with
orders. For popular Information the
movement is called Reform. In point
of fact there is nothing back of it more
substantial than personal politics. The
performance at the house end has been
started up again. The salary looks
good to a bunch of them, strung on
wires. which the junior senator-with
ambition within him TO be senior sem
ator-plays upon with as much deli
cacy as is witnessed in other circus pa
rades on the part of the artist in
charge of the calliope. The people only
thing they rule. They fancy the in
surgents are brave and self sacri-
ficing. The insurgents have desire to
be great, and in pursuit of this de-
sire they are noisy, or at least obtru-
eive, tho some of them figure mainly
at the heels; but above all they are in
tense in desire to hold on to the SAL
aries and enaoluments incident to their
station in Washington, which same
give the washington monument the
aspect of being second class.
Nothing less than TINS outbreak was
to be expected. The Journal has never
smoked the calumet in the council
lodge of a reunited party in Iowa.
When Taft came on his trip of candi-
dacy bringing the beads of personal
attention and invitation to ride on the
fire wagons and accompany him here
and there the Journal stalked out of
its tepee and said how with a pleased
smile. 1t was anxious for new
chief and had WINGED under the reign
of Roosevelt. So it came out to say
"how." But it went back to sit and
glover while the rest of the tribe feast
ed, TO hold little scalp dances all by
It's lonesome and feel sorrow for itself
feelings had overcome it it was to be
expected that it would waltz out into
the open, painted and with hatchet and
scalping knife.
1t is incidental like the outbreaks of
Sitting Bull and Geronimo, incidental
F, and natural. 1t sees territory where
once the chiefs it followed ruled with
the iron hand given over to the hoi
polloi, the plain people and used for
the general good instead of remaining
a tabooed ground where none but cor
poration chiefs might walk. To the
Journal no doubt reform seems all that
it says it seems. 1t is hard to change
the teachings and impressions of early
youth and the Journal was caught
young.
None are deceived. The people of
Iowa know reform when they see it.
1t is useless to inform the republicans
of the state that they are bunch Of
deceived, cozened and cheated easy
marks. They all know better. The vas,
majority of them aresbolndvto look or
such ebullitions as the above quoted
from the journal with regret and sor-
row more -4s,an with resentment. Iows
- sstisned with the new regime. She
believes it tan honest one. She approves
Of Curnmins. Of DoIliver OF Jim Coco
and Hubbard and the rest of the So
called insurgents. The Journal knows