Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-10-04
official Paper Of the City and the County
Issued on Friday of Each Week
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r.... IL SUc NeROODSO0S WIZ 49,
Suppose the Republicans SHOULD
win in the fall elections and send y
Republican Congress to Washington to
.'help'' President Wilson. Suppose the
G. o. p. should win the House and con-
troll the Senate, what then? g.
Remember the Old Guard, crushed in
1912 because it stood in the way of pro-
Kressive and democratic principles. In
the short six years that have elapsed.
the country has travelled further in the
direction of decent and scientific polit-
ical development than it travelled in the
preceding sixty years. Bear this prog
ress in mind. do not forget that it was
democratic administration and dem
scratic Congress that made it possible.
and then look ahead to possible
Republican victory this fall.
James r. Mann, Of Illinois, minority
leader, would become majority leader
q Speaker of the House Of Represent.
atives. He voted AGAINST three
revenue bills, the Shipping Board bill.
the Espionage Act, against tabling the
McLemore resolution. His attitude
toward President Wilson's foreign
policy was criticised even by repub-
lican newspapers in 1917. Joseph w.
Fordney. Of Michigan, who voted
against the Shipping Board bill, against
tabling the McLemore resolution, and
against two Of the last three revenue
bills, would head the Ways and Means
committee. Frederick H., Gillett, Of
Massachusetts, would head the Appro-
priations COMMITTEES. He opposed the
Shipping Board and Food Survey acts,
and merely voted present on the last
great revenue bill.
= Henry Allen Cooper, Of Wisconsin.
who would have headed the Foreign
Affairs committee. lost in the primaries
because be voted against the war reso-
luton against tabling the McLsmors
resolution. and tried to nullify the
Armed Neutrality Act. Stephen G.
Porter. Of Pennsylvania, now il line
FOR chairman in . Republican Congress.
aidsd Coopsr's fight on Armed Neutral
IL. John J. Each, another Wisconsin
Republican. votsd with Cooper on the
tArss measures named above. He
would becons IeAairman Of the Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce 1com-
nittsss. Gilbert N. Haugsn. Of Iowa.
another WHO yotsd against IL war
resolution, against The Food survey
aad Espionage acts, and against
tabling the McLsmore resolution.
would head the Agriculture committee.
Philip P. Campbell. Of KansaS, who
voted with Cooper against Armed
Neutrality. and against the Espionage
and Food Survey acts, would hsad the
Rules committee. Everis A. Hayes,
Of California, another anti-war Repub-
lican, would head the Banking and
Currency committee.
II that outfit Of anti-war, standpat
Republicans ct the helm in the House
could not ''help'' President Wilson
suniciently perhaps this cotsrie in the
Senate could be Of some assistance. :"
Boies Penrose. Of Pennsylvania,
would become chairman Of the Finance,
Postoaices and Post Roads, or Naval
Affairs committee. taking his choice.
Think of Boies Penrose, reactionsry
and arch-standpatter that he 10, help
ing . Democratic, administration, or
any progressive administration, through
these three powerful committees.
''The President thinks he is Presi-
dent of the whole world" according to
Senator Francis f. Warren, Of
Wyoming. who would help" the
Administration % chairman of the
Appropriation or Military Affairs COM
nittees. He has helped" in the past
BY votes against the Federal Reserve
act, the eight-hour law. the Shipping
Board bill. Armor Plate BILL etc. But
it appears that Warren will Be defeated
which case Reed Smooe, Of Utah, would
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. Repuhliean Senate, with John w.
Weeks, Of Massachusetts,, st the head
Of Military Affairs. -.
Weeksis the man who said, on the
door Of the Senate:
Everybody knows that the sale Of
tie Liberty Bonds has boen Q great
failure, and who conducted the fill
buster that delayed the chip bill one
-. "a sSrs,l6 sshAlnp AvI0 sva,po a
charm On Of . powerful committee.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Of AAssschus-
etts, would bead . Republican Senate
committee on Foreign Rslaticna which.
in war. times, must work eloos)y, and
cont1entially with The President
How coedfally be could 'hslp'' The.
President might be infss3sd from
Lags's personal attaek q President
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