Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-05-12
Issued on Friday of Each Week
Gov. Meredith Predicted

Gov. Meredith Predicted
Iowa citizens are becoming acquaint
ed with the splendid qualifications pos
sessed by Hon. E. T. Meredith for gov
ernor, not particularly through the
medium of the Democratic press but
by such representative Republican pa
pers as the Des Moines Register-Lead'
er which seldom has any commentator
for anything or anybody on our side OF
the political fence. We give its cor
dial tribute below and invite our Re-
publican friends to rememberits merit
orious words.
THE Democratic party is especially
fortunate in havingits choice for gov
ernor acknowledged, irrespective OF par
ty, as one who would be a credit to
Iowa should he be given the highest
place which it is within the power OF
the voters to bestow.
The Register cannot too strongly
commend the Democratic leaders OF
the state on the ticket and on the plat
form they have presented, and will
ratify at the June primaries.
MIR. Meredith is one of the most ag-
gressive champions of bigger and
better Iowa, and the men who are to
be associated with him are all men of
standing. To use Mr.. Mereditb's own
expression the ticket "adds up 100 per
cent.
Mr.. Meredith has youth, energy,
ambition, ability. He is genial. Ev-
erybody will like him and warm up to
him. He is looking forward. He will
inspire confidence. He will make a
memorable campaign. The Register
can hardly exaggerate his strong points
as a candidate at this time.
If the man the Republicans pit
against him does not appeal to the best
sentiment of the state, if the Repub-
lican program is not progressive and
agpressiv if there is the least falter-
ing on the great moral issues, if there
is the least backward look in the plat
form, if there is anything to suggest
that Republicanism in Iowa is not up
to form, and up to the best form, there
will be q successor to Horace Boies in
the governors chair, and anybody who
does not recognize that fact will be in
the way of a great surprise on election
day.
In the present political upset, when
10 man knows what . day may bring
forth, mere political designations are
not going to weigh much as against
the personal character and known ca
pacity of men. Merely being Repub-
lican or Democratic will signify less in
November than it has since the Civil
war. In particular it will signify less
msthe great administrative offices of
the state. Mr.. Meredith's sagacity is
shown in nothing more than in the en-
phasis he has himself put on the plat
form on which he is to stand and on the
men with whom he is to run. For the
character of the men and the policies
for which they are to stand will deter
mine enough votes this year to turn
the state one way or the other.
The Register is not committing itself
to Mr.. Meredith's candidacy. But we
are saying as strongly as we can find
words to say it, that Mr.. Meredith is
the best man the Democrats could
name, and we are putting it up to the
Republican leaders as strongly as we
can find words to put it up, that unless
they get together on the most progress
sive man they can name, on the
most progressive platform they
can write. they will not elect Governor
Clark s successor.