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J-fy w Wi pw',"J ; i 'M , -r WH : JH TITTTf' f6 : IO -,'".? -!.UM I The Commoner.- ..?V ,f ,U'' 'V issued Weekly. ma md i. m i, i i i mm 4 ' ,WlI.t.IAM J. IJllVAN Olf AllMCS W, 3J11YAN Editor and Proprietor. Publisher. JMchaiw L. Mhtoai.i'k ' Editorial nooms and Business Associate Editor. Ontco 324-330 South 12th Street, The Commoner. v7 ! medals hd wore when lio headed tho 'Roosevelt clclogation from California to the laat republican national convention. The Waohington Herald is worrying over the pronunciation of the word "paragraphcr." Lot's see; what was it Undo Henry Watterson called it Jf'7ltf Enteral ot Uio rbstoftlco at Lincoln, Neb.,' iw second-class mottor One Year - 1.0O Six Months - - .80 In Clubs of Five or moro, Per Year - - .75 So Throe Months Slnglo Ooiy Sofnplo Copies Prco. Foreign Postnfjo 02 ContB Extra. The theory that defective rails are respon sible for the multiplicity of railroad accidents is open to question. How about defective management? SWJIHCKII'TIONS con bo pout direct to TukCommonjcti. Thoy mn also bo ncnt through newspapcre which hnve ndvcrtlscd a club blntr rate, or tliroiiRli local nitonUs, where sut-OBCijtfl hovo boon appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postonico money onlor, express ordor, or by bank drfcfl on Now York or Chlcatro. So not Komi Individual checks, stamps or monoy. DISCONTlfWANCKS.-Jtls found that a laruo majority of our subscribers prefer not to lmvo their subscriptions Interrupted isud their flics broken in enso thoy fall to remit boforo expiration. It fjflthoroforo assumed that eoiitlnuonco is desired unless sibscrlbora order discontinuance, elthor when subscribing or at any timo during Uho year, Pjikskntation Coi'iks: Many persons subscribo for friends, Intending that tho paper shall stop nt tho end ofUio year. If instructions are given to that uffect Uioy will rccclvo nttoutlon at ho"propor time. 111SN15WAI.S. Tho dato on your wrnppor shows tho timo to rhich your subscription Is paid. Thus January 81, '03, means that payment has been received to and Including tho last lssuo of Jan. dory, 100S. Two weeks oro required after monoy has been rccolvod cforo tho dato on wrapper can bo changed. CHANGE OF ADDItKSS.-Subscrlbors requesting n chnngo cf address must givoOLl) as well as tho NEW address. ' ADVJSItTIHING.-ttatcs ftirnlBhcd upon application. Address all communications to ' THE COMMONER, L'ncoln, Neb. i . , Mr. Watterson's geography is all right but tls gift of nomenclature seems limited. Tho "also mentioned" list of presidential candidates is growing larger with each passing day. Tho Ananias club has not yet sprung its candidate. "Pete," the White House bulldog, has been whipped to' a frazzle by a mongrel dog named "Rollo." Even the patient canine mollycoddle has his day. Tho democratic platform will be fully as crisp and brief as the four column editorial Mr. Wattorson wrote demanding a brief and crisp democratic platform. Tho cleaning up process In San. Francisco has had results calculated to convince us that it is yet possible to clean up Philadelphia, Pitts burg and Harrisburg, Pa. ) Dr. Belfleld of Chicago has wasted a lot of time writing an article to prove that women are of a higher type than men. We knew it all the time. The trouble is that so many men are not "type high." Senator-elect Stephenson of Wisconsin says ho is fn favor of "prompt and thorough revision of all tariff schedules, reducing duties wherever possible without reducing wages of labor." Ho should amend by leaving off the last seven words. Tho Chicago thief who recently stole fifteen hubarb pies must have burglarized a pie plant. After "being thdrouKlily cleaned out San Francisco sebmB determined to bo cleaned up. If those new submarines can stay at the lottom long enough no foreign foe can over sink tern. "What are the functions of an express com pany?" asks tho New York Press. One is to keep a senator or two, in congress, and, another is to, enable the railroad companies to hide a portion of the dividends made possible by ex cessive rates. Having been blown up tho president of ruatamala is in a position to sympathize with Joseph Benson ForakT. Senator Foraker seems to be ud acainst tho tact that he has dug up entirely too much proof in tnat Brownsville case. American Sunday papers are not now al lowed to be sold in Canada on Sunday. When we think of the comic supplements the papers contain wo can not refrain from expressing ad miration for the good sense displayed by our Canadian neighbors. f The "green bug.' is not the' Insect that. toisted the price of wheat. The "speculation mg" is largely responsible. Says tho Manchester, N. H., Union.: . "Bar ring an insignificant abrasion of the knuckles the president appears to have come out victor unscathed from his opening round with the trusts." Perhaps; but did he inflict any abra sions on the trusts? A Now York banker is raising a row be cause he lost $50,000 in a fake minimr deal. Tt. happened to be his own money. ThO Close Of tllfi "RroWTlRvnift nffnlr nnrl o. iononintr .of tho Panama orinnl Room rlaaHrmil - uccur simultaneously, or thereabouts. PoRfilhlv Rnnntnr Tfrtrnlrof YwniynanA Vio linK. loriy plan in Ohio .lust in timo to keen from )eing classified among the "undesirables." The seven hundred Japanese sailors on shore leave in New York unanimously decided to visit Grant's tomb rather than take in the sights of Coney island. Yet there are those who claim that the Japanese are rapidly approaching the American standard of civilization. It seems that the people of Oklahoma made mistake in not hitchine an enabling act to a I6ig stick and calling it a constitution. A British scientist declares that wa do not. Ilaugh enough. This, too, when we have been busy giving tho standpatters the merry ha-ha. It Is reported that Mr. J. Piorpont Morgan las changed his religious faith, but what we are lost interested in Is a change of practice on lis part, It is said that Mr. Corey handed his bride million dollars wortn of bridal presents. Mr. Oorey would take a great deal less than a mil lion dollars for what the people handed him on that occasion. A Wilkesbarre, Pa., man has been sent to jail for stealing a half-dozen steel rails. If he had stolen six or eight hundred miles of steel rails he might have been hailed, as a Napoleon of Finance and called to the White House for consultation about next campaign contribution time. A lot of republican papers are pointing to Schmitz of San Francisco as proof that union labor men should not be elevated to office. But what does tho election of men like Pennypacker and various , mayors of Philadelphia prove against the. republican party? The Kansas City man who has been asleen for forty days luckily miBsed a little moro than month of speculation about that proposed tnion depot. Life is full of compensations if 'e look for them. Now that Boss Reuf. has confessed he ought send back all those "standpat" and Roosevelt Tho Butto Inter-Mountain quotes Mr. Bryan as saying that "the American legal class as a class is dishonest," and then proceeds to criticise Mr. Bryan to tho extent of a third of a column. The Inter-Mountain's criticism would be in point were it not for just one thing. Mr. Bryan never made any such assertion. Governor Frantz of Oklahoma gays ho would turn down the Oklah'oma constitution If he were president. Mr. Frantz is governor of Oklahoma by appointment. Ap soon as tho con stitution is ratified by v the people and signed by the prosldeht, Governor Frantz will be out of a job. This may explain his hostility to the constitution. .VOLUME 7, NUMBER '2$ 1 Paragraphic Punches" ? ' Mark Twain has received-a doctors degree from one of the big colleges. The honor was fairly won by careful nursing of old jokeL St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I Tho republican executive committee of. the ' Fifth district of Alabama has nominated Roose- velt for a third term. Tuskegee has 'spoken. .Birmingnam Age-Herald, . i- . A football player who joined the Honduras, army has returned home in disgust. A Central American revolution is not serious 'enough for football tactics. Atlanta Journal. A New York woman is making a specialty of teaching etiquette to dogs. Presumably it is. not always possible for dogs to learn anything like that from theiij, masters. Washington Post. The Pennsylvania capitpl contractors sold die air between the legs of tables as mahogany. They should have been able to dispose of cast iron us something better than "pure bronze." New York Evening Post. " C, Wisconsin is going to build a $4,000,000 capi tol building. The bidding will be open to nil con tractors who had no part in building that .$0,000, 000 capitol in Pennsylvania at a cost of $13,000, 000. Omaha Bee. Attorney General Bonaparte denies with scorn that he is neglecting the work in his office. His subordinates, he explains, are very efficient and industrious. What more could we ask. Minneapolis Journal. f'.rj A Michigan woman broke her arm spanking '"$ a hoy. We used to be afraid of that and won- -. dered how in the world it was possible for a -.?? woman to strike so hard without breaking hery,- arm. Springfield News. . .; ;J:i . . . Still, we should be a little careful how. we jeer at Colonel Bryan for taking up the populist doc-, trine of initiative and referendum. Some repub lican, president may be'preaching that stuff before long. iansas uity journal. A man has just died in Cuba, aged 150 years. His faculties are declared to have been unim paired to the end, but it Is not claimed that Ve was able to recollect all the revolutions during his experience. Washington Times. J. Pierpont Morgan says that the United States is suffering merely from growing pains. " Hasn't J. P. got things mixed? So far, the suffering-seems to have been due to the industrial cap-' tains getting pinched Milwaukee News. I ll-l I IMM I How these presidential secretaries do get on! ' Lamont was Cleveland's, became a railroad mag-, nate and died a millionaire; Cortelyou was Me Kinley's, and he is now secrgtary of the treasury; Loeb is Roosevelt's, and is to feather out in finance as a troliey administrator. Philadelphia Telegraph. , f The pastor who, performed the marriage ceremony for W. E. Corey and Mabelle Gilman has sent back his fee and apologized to his con- v gregation. These are concessions but, unfortu nately, the preacher can not rescind the mar riage, so the other things don't count for much Salt Lake Herald. E. H. Harriman was "unable to appear in the New York police court yesterday to prosecute the , stenographer who is accused of the theft of M -famous letter to Sidney Webster. It is feared '-' Mr. Harriman hos almost as scant regard for -i " police court as he has for the interstate commeroW v commission. Kansas Gily Times. ;' "Senator Bevorldge Ib not a constitutional'" lawyer nor a constitutional statesman " qnvn . Harper's Weekly. Tush, tush! a ih,.f &:&? Beyeridge, of Indiana, is the constitution Ibelf Likewise ho Is the Pilgrim Fathers, the Spirit at '76, the Declaration of Independence, the Ordi nance of 1787, the Emancipation Proclamation the general welfare and tho blessings of llbertv to ourselves and our posterity. Harper's Weeklv need a little federal regulation.i-New York World. Ul . fj &v& TaTK ft '.htittiwW- r -j'im.' 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