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The Commoner.
ISSUED WEEKLY.
William J, Uktan uharlxu w. Uktan
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
dforous.8"0"00 r GC01'gC Cortolyou ls reay vo:
AnimnitlIs.nn,i,min iS NV ,n th0 Ancient 'Orflor of
go to SaitiiS? l'ftilltldS l0 qUlt XphiIuI and
. ' iri the meanwhile Uv, Oortelyou is savin
nothing, una putting nothing back. y fc
tiJhll ??,!? 1f ,n IasTbuTlir. Roosevelt Is tak
ing his time to nmko careful enumeration.
"Count tlio day lost whoso sun with dyinir flro
sees none big stlckod or called a blooming fia"!''
When Oklahoma is admitted to statehood it
wline to take her place among the tenTeSest
That $5,000,000 opposition fund seems to hnvo
Sers.Vl'CaPltftUzea t0 Ul entS o7abiut "six
vTho two telegraph companies seem to havo
micoumbed simultaneously to the 8nfftoIJSite
"San Francisco needs to be cleaned up sav
cioaS'ouf a'"at W"la b0 SS SI
iK?tia7.r'00),,s T'nnntlon mnclilno reaulrcq
The three "R's Rondlii' nifi mtA,
Root, Ryan, Rooseve ? Recriminatinn ?Jfit ,lc'
nation, Reprehonaibility. KOCllmiuatio. Rntiocln-
think of writing tho letter; P re you ?VGn
flsh has been found in jugs - S' r than
Iho prosidont admits that he didn't ii,i,,v .f
soiKluc vo to success to have Mr Sn?rL nk lfc
too often at tho While House nrriman seen
Secretary Taft has ofllciallv rlonirinri !,
mother-in-law is not a rniinber ot 'U 2 IS Ta
this is a bid for the henpecked vote? y' Is
Several gentlemen prominently In tho public
eye will liavo to hustle if they remain there. The
umpire Is almost duo to call "play ball!"
So much carrying of tho big stick seems to
have caused the president to forget that other part
referring to the matter of speaking softly.
It seems that the general national Idea about
maintaining peace is to build battleships so big
that everybody will be afraid to start a iigbt.
It is reported Hint an Omaha bank teller broke
his wrist while counting silver dollars. Must
huyo dropped one through a crack in the floor.
Doesn't it seem that President Roosevelt is
peculiarly unfortunate in having selected so many
pernicious prevaricators as his personar'friends.
Twelve hundred San Francisco laundry work
ers are on strike, and just when San Francisco
wants to wasli a lot of dirty political linen," too!
"Wliy do men wear suspenders?" queries a
magazine writer. Cannot answer for tho rest of
them, but here's one who knows why he wears
'em.
Mr. Harriman says he would rather be in tho
penitentiary than the poor house. It isn't the
wolf, but the sheriff, that bothers Mr. Harriman
just now.
Congressman McCall of Massachusetts Is out
for Speaker Cannon for president on a tariff re
vision platform. It sounds as if Mark Twain, put
him up to it.
"Rough sports make brave men," declares
President Roosevelt. Do bravo men pass the lie,
knowing that they are amply protected by their
oilicial position?
One trouble with Mr. Harriman Ms that when
ho was on the witness stand his actions and his
admissions discounted any revelations he "mfctiL
make afterwards. . , -
w 11 . TholG fc,ruth 1je known!" exclaims the
Wall Street Journal. Well, that means that Oor
telyou and Bliss will have to reveal some verv
well preserved secrets.
A number of daily newspapers are trying to
locate the "most beautiful woman in America"
They will fall. She Is so numerous that she can
not be definitely located.
It scorns to bo about time for Mr. Cortelyo:u
to bo sprinting down the homestretch of his 'first
lap around the cabinet circle. It lias been several
weeks since ho moved up.
Senator Penrose denies that he is tho "big man
in political affairs" who is raising a five million
dollar fund to defeat the president. The do hi"
seems to be based upon the evidence.
Tho report that Secretary Taft entered a
bucket and was lowered into one of the nits of
the Gntun dam is evidence that they live e?
cavated quite a bit of dirt down there.
A lot of men are horror stricken at tho n,J
of a $5,000,000 fund to defe'at Mr. RooseveU. Thev
are the same gentlemen who rejoiced at hi
thought of a very large sum to elect him?
Minnesota has built a magnificent state hou
without a suspicion of graft. But Minnesota has
had a democratic governor for some time without
any press muzzling laws on the statute books.
New York Central officials have been indicts
for a sad wreck on that road. But to toe el
of such men there is many a slip twlVt tife?nSS?
ment and the conviction, if oTwero accused
of stealing a loaf of bread It might be dfffSSt
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that Mr TTnt.
man never expected to live to see io day whS h e
iib; nrSSS
Mr. Depew, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Piatt Mr rn
rose, Mr. Dick and several 'other grave and v"
erend senators cannot understand why tl em
should be so much surprise at the thought tha?
nL SrInnn onteliIned senatorial ambitions
One railroad representative more or losJ in )t
United States senate would noTcount for much?'
Paragraphic Punches
Mr. Harriman announces he is going to "clvn
more attention to the public." Hands on pocket
Atlanta Constitution. iw.
Dispatches from Samar report '-tho" "natives
Just about subdued." The gmves-mustbo fairlv
close together. Detroit Journal. y
Messrs. Haywood and Moyei resent beln
classed with Harriman for fear of. prejudice to
their case. Minneapolis Journal.
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However, the railroads are worth just as much
today as they were before the flurry. It was only
the stock that slumped. Detroit News.
MvP?nnVaf?S Aat i;rovokos Mr. Foraker is that
Mi. lafts Ohio advance agent was so all-fired
sure of things. Chicago Evening Post. ' !
Bight congressmen are going to lecture on tli
Panama canal, and all the time more people aro
needed to shovel dirt Philadelphia Press.
And so it seems that telegraph rates are simply
being readjusted. Nevertheless this euphemism
Herald barge aDy "Ghter.-TJoston
Wisconsin is going to build a new capitol. Wo
hope that too Wisconsin authorities will nit nc
Expressy nia.-Rocheste Post
As the Cleveland Leader views it, Mr. Foraker
is merely maneuvering himself-into a good pbsi
Sentinei.a le diCker Witb Mr Taft-MHwaSkee
Sanalr!1111 Str0US -ounpittB
If peace can be arranged 'tills summer botwiln '
the public and the railways, it will e a gS? '
achievement -than the treaty between Russi aid '
Japan. Washington Star. ubsia ana
The spectacle of Secretary Taft l)eing lowered" '
in a bucket Into one of the deep test holes of i
Gatun dain on the isthmus would have delighted
Senator Foraker. Boston Herald. "kur.eu
oJSw f'T'000 Pjot ? feat Roosevelt sounds
JtcIlng t0 bose wh do not know that the biff
business interests do not go around with tliTif
secrets on their Rleeves. Chicago News
That protracted deadlock in toe Rhode IRlnn?i
legislature must sadden Senator Aldrich witif
thought of how headstrong toe presummi
youngsters are becoming noooBSSSSSg
. "My spear knows no brother ' mnv i;- -Courier-Journal.
... necessaiy. Louisville?
Baclc to the bin for the rolling r,tn a
confined in a York state 1n? ndiS- ?i A womai?
Sr may 2gZ5tfA
tbem taraecl nL v'hSnUZf!:0nlne11, n clt
to ilie councIL-Howto Ipfst a"4 Set 0lectea
Andrew Cnrnegle, -n-ho is flic most caimv at
Scotsmen, announces to tho wontelnS M
tlmt tliero are more wavi to ir 2J; s wowa
by flealing In raiU-oa7ibaJesS Wbv taZ.
a Men tariff scliedule on steel nL iron niTi
monopoly in armorplatc, witness happy TCSUlti-
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