The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
could be polled by any other Democrat
candidate in the state"
The Usefulness Of Politics.

I crane was chosen for the post of min
. lister to China there was great lauda
!, ton of the President on the part Of
certain mugwump newspapers in Chi
cago, and the so-called uplifters of thai
city who profess desire to change
present systems altogether and estab
llsh what tley consider millennium
government sans politicians, san pc
lltlcal organizations and sans all the
people except themselves.
In the appointment of Charles r.
Crane they protested to see a streak
of the milleniums dawn in what they
profess to be the murky atmosphere
OF existing governmental policies, al
ways excepting. of course. those that
meet with their approval. No one
questioned that Mr.. Crane was nice
man, personally clean 1t was an.
nounced, with salvos of praise that he
was not a politician, and that he had
always been too busy amassing mil
mons TO run for an office. Beside
thls, he had the proper uplift idea,
according to the notions of the most
eminent of the Chicago cult of uplift-
ers. and was most beautiful tleorist.
1t was true that Senator Cullom,
able chairman of the foreign relations
committee, had suggested to the Pres
ldent his fear that Mr.. Crane would
pc unable acceptably to fill a diplo-
matte post, where mighty issues were
TO be handled delicately, and where a
mlsstep might involve the most far
reaching consequences. All the more
did the mugwump element of Chi
cago, led by its mugwump newspapers
rejoice over Mr.. Cranes appointment
had not the suggestions of a politi-
clan-one of the foremost in the ma
ton, and one who had given his lifes
1 work and study to the art of advance
ment OF ais state and country at
nome, and even in world politics
been passed aside by the President?
/ Wasn't it simply glorious?
But Mr.. Cullom was right and the
President subsequently was right in
accepting Mr.. Cranes resignation, af-
ter 1t had been asked by Secretary
Knox because of Mr.. Cranes garrul-
BUSINESS touching state secrets, which
almost upset the great plans being
pursued for Americas interest in the
Orient. Mr.. Cranes very lack of pol
| ltlcs almost caused the Open Door to
be slammed in the face of this gov
eminent, as was SHOWN in Japan's
hasty notification to China that the
former must be consulted regarding
any contemplated building of rail
roads in Manchuria. And in such
projects American capital is inter-
ested.
The trouble with tae so-called Chi
cago uplifters is that many of the
people they oppose are good politi-
clans, and many they support, for
reasons best known to themselves,
are bad politicians, or no politicians
at all.
From the inception of the republic
its affairs have been successfully man
aged by politicians, including those
who signed the Declaration of hide
pendence. In times of peace they
have shaped its craftsmanship, and in
times of war they have shaped the
policies by which the autonomy of
the union has been preserved and
have taken the field to cement 1t VITA
their blood and lives. The history
of the nation is rich with the lives of
soldier-politicians.
We have little patience with the
demagogy wlich seeks to decry an
opponent simply because he is poll
tician, or which applies the term, as il
it were an epithet of opprobrium to
all opponents. The discontinue of
Crane points a lesson beside the one
that thoughtless loquacity often ends
in humiliation.
The nation needs more real politi-
clans, tae type that studies political
affairs, who do earnest political work
for the principles they believe best,
who know how to manage the bust
ness in which they are skilled,
wao are competent to meet on equal
terms the greatest diplomats of other
nations, and able to meet national
or state crisis face to face and con-
quer it. Such men are not the in
competents in statecraft that we
might naturally expect to find among
those gentlemen who profess to de-
spise politics, who disdain to touch
elbows, with citizens generally, WAC
cannot get in touch with public senti-
ment because of their aloofness, who
have never done anything worthy of
note in public life, and who even con-
suit the weather bureau as whether or
not to go to the polls.
Complete House Built in One Day.
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