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VOLUME 10, NUMBER I
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dinner itt Lincoln on February H. Dr. ..
U Hull, national committeeman, presided. I no
ipoakora and Ihelr subjects wero as followa.
Payno-Aldrich 1)111; who for it? Who against it?
W. II. Thompson, CJrand Island. Self reliance,
Mimes C. Dahlman, Omaha. Original insurgents,
aichard L. Motcalfo, Lincoln. Nebraska democ
racy, Governor Asliton C. Shallenl)orger. Cen
tralization, James A. Heed, Kansas City. Mvo
hundred democrats from all sections of the slate
pvoro present.
A QUAIL STORY is told In a Hunter's Hot
, Springs, Mont., dispatch carried by the As
joelatod Press In this way: "Fifteen little
mountain quail are being brought up by hand
by Mr. and Mrs. Clark Ireland of Ttnclno, Wis.,
rfho are spending tho spring months here. The
aiothor of tho brood was killed accidentally by
Mrs. Ireland when she went to tho clonics press
n her room to get out her 'merry wiuow uiu.
IMin vnnnir rmxi 11 Minn WfifO discovered. TllC
mother bird had found her way into tho room
from tho hotel veranda and made her nest In tho
hat. A quantity of canary bird seed on a nearby
jholf had kept tho mother and hor youngsters
illvo up to tho time of their discovery, and tho
baby quail now aro so well grown that they eat
ill sorts of food and aro becoming tame."
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AT CIUDADELA, Balearic Islands, sp.eaklng
to a correspondent of tho Chicago Record
Ilcrald, Marcel Rodol, the solo survivor of tho
itcamor General Chanzy, which was wrecked on
i reof off tho island of Minorca, told a thrilling
narrativo, prior to his departure for France, of
ho torrlblo experiences of tho stoamor. Ho said:
"At G o'clock I was awakened by a splitting
crash and Hod to tho dock. Darkness added terror
to tho frightful scene. Enormous seas wero
breaking over tho stoamor. Ono sea ripped off
a railing to which a score of women and children
woro clinging. Doing an excellent swimmer, I
allowod myself to bo carried off by tho next
wave. Tho noxt moment tho air was rent by a
violent oxploslon, tho wreckage shooting over
my head." Rodol toolc rofugo In a grotto at the
Imso of a high cliff, whoro ho passed a day and a
night.
fashion. White-Man-Runs-T-lim, with a dozen
other Indians from the Montana reservation,
called to pay their respects to the Great White
Father. In the party were Curley, another Cus
ter scout, Held-the-Enemy and Sees-With-His-Eara.
The braves desired to greet the president
and show their esteem for the Great White
Father by presenting him with a Crow war shirt,
thus making him a chief of their tribe. White-Man-Runs-Him,
as the leader of the delegation,
was entrusted with tho buckskin garment and
given instructions as to presenting it. In the
White House he misplaced his native courage
and when tho Indians entered the president's
sanctum White-Man-Runs-Him was appalled at
the greatness of tho Great White Father. He
hastily concealed the war shirt beneath the coat
and Hod. The rest of the delegation proceeded
to upbraid White-Man-Runs-Him and after much
discussion it was decided that the shirt will be
sent to tho president when the Indians reach a
safe distance from the terrors of official
etiquette."
APATHETIC scene in the house of commons
is described in a London cablegram carried
by tho Associated Press in this way: "For the
iirst time since he was stricken with paralysis
years ago, Joseph Chamberlain appeared in the
house of commons today and took the oath as
a member of the new parliament. The advent
of the tariff reformer afforded a dramatic sur
prise for the officials and members who were
being sworn in. Mr. Chamberlain moved to the
speaker's chair and shook hands with Mr.
Lowther, after which he made his way slowly
from the chamhor within which so many stirring
episodes of his life have occurred. The whole
scene was painful to those who recalled the vigor
exhibited by the statesman on his last previous
appearance in the house. Today his frame was
shrunken and his features ashen. He was un
able to move without assistance and but halt
ingly whispered the words of the oath after his
son had spoken them in his ear. It was evident
to those who witnessed the every evidence of
extrome weakness that all hope of a recovery
from physical infirmities must be abandoned.
Thoro was perfect silence throughout tho trying
ordeal."
THE DR1DERY revelations at Albany show
that tho Now York republican machine is
rotton to tho core. Every day some now expose
Is made. Tho Lincoln (Nob.) Journal, a repub
lican papor, says: "Tho political situation in
Now York has been turned squarely around in
tho twinkling of an oyo by tho graft disclosures.
Tho republican machine has been caught with
sonio of tho goods, and this adds to the con
fusion causod by the disclosures of systematic
bribery. Up to this timo Governor Hughes has
boon opposed sullenly and defiantly in all
of his roform measures by the organiza
tion. Now overwhelming defeat stares the
party in tho faco unless tho governor's plans
are carriod out and unless Governor Hughes be
comes a candidato for re-election or induces some
Strong man representing his ideas to make tho
raco. Tho immediate effect of the investigation
ought and doubtless will be tho abandonment
of tho machino opposition to tho governor's pro
gram. He is asking for diroct nominations, an
enlargement of the scope of tho public service
commission to cover telegraphs and telephones
tho conservation of water power, and some other
measures along these lines. If the party does
not follow Governor Hughes now it will almost
certainly be wiped off the slate at the next
election."
A LL WASHINGTON is interested just now
A in the story of how Mr. Taft lost a buckskin
shirt. An Associated Press dispatch tells the
story in this way: "The official pomp and cere
mony of the White House conquered Bah-Tse-IU
Coo-Roos (White-Man-Runs-Him) and VS
scout who fought with Custer, and thereford
President Taft did not receive a beautiful' bud
skin Crow shirt that the squaws of the CTrow
reservation in Montana had worked overtimo to
government tempts them away from saving.
Concerning the coming congressional election he
said: "If the other measures to which I have
referred are enacted into law and the party
pledges of the republican party are performed,
there would seem to be no good reason why the
party should not receive renewed approval by the
electors of the country in the coming congres
sional campaign."
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THAT THE president's speech on Lincoln day
was "not loftidr in tone than the petty
partisan cheapness of Cannon" is the opinion
expressed by the Philadelphia North American, a
republican paper. .The American adds: "The
extent of our regret may be measured by the
depth of tho descent of a national discussion of
republicanism to the sordid plane of Cannonism.
It was deplorable also that the president spoke
as he did to the whole people immediately after
having stooped to a conference with state bosses,
including the smirched Depew and Tim Wood
ruff, the patron of Allds, where the debate con
cerned the proper course to pursue in a bribery
case whether it would be 'better for the party'
to cqver up legislative scoundrelism or encour
age thorough and honest investigation and punishment."
AN "OLD republican" writes to the New York
World to say: "President Tact's views on
the Payne-Aldrich tariff, as expressed at the Lin
coln banquet of the Republican club, are a mass
of special pleading. The speech is even more
remarkable for w.hat it omitted than for what
it contained. Knowing that the income tax
amendment to the constitution is in great
danger, the president did not say a word to
help it along. Why does he not come forward
boldly and urge the ratification of the amend
ment? Is he, perhaps, held back by the influ
ence that induced him take the astounding and
unprecedented step of sending a personal cable
to the regent of China to compel that potentate
to borrow money from the J. Pierpont Morgan-Kuhn-Loeb
syndicate for railroad purposes, and
that induced him to send Robert Bacon, Mr.
Morgan's former partner, as ambassador to
Paris?"
MR. TAFT SPOKE before the New York
Republican club on Lincoln day and the
principal points made in his speech are given
by tho New York World in this way: "No one
responsible for a government like ours would
foolishly run amuck in business and destroy
values and confidence just for the pleasure of
doing so. It does rest with the national govern
ment to enforce the law, and if the enforcement
of the law is not consistent with the present
method of carrying on business, then it does not
speak well for the present metho.ds of conduct
ing business, and they must be changed to con
form to the law. During his Roosevelt's two
terms in office, by almost what may be compared
to a religious crusade, he aroused the people to
a point of protecting themselves and the public
interests against the aggressions of corporate
greed, and has left the public opinion in an apt
condition to bring about the reforms needed.
"Wo did revise tho tariff. It is impossible to
revlso the tariff without awakening the active
participation in the formation of schedules of
those producers whose business will be affected
by a change. Nothing was expressly said in the
platform about a revision downward. The im
plication was that it was to be generally down
ward. The change which this tariff effected was
a marked change downward in the rate of duties
and it was a recognition by the party that the
tlmo had come when, instead of Increasing
duties, they must be decreased." He approved
the vigorous enforcement by tho administration
of tho statute against rebates on the part of
railroads. He advocated that.the interstate com
merce law should be further amended so as to
give railroads the right to make public traffic
agreements subject to the approval of the com
mission. Tie declared that the great advantago
of a postal saylrigs bank is the encouragement
to thrift of .those whose fears of ;,tlie' solvency
of any depository except those controlled by the
THE HEYBURN incident in the United States
senate impressed the Washington (D. C.)
Herald as an opportunity for the senate to show
itself in its best light. The Herald says:'
"Neither the fate of empire nor the destiny of
man hung on the senate's decision as to whether
a few old veterans of the late confederacy should
be permitted the use of a number of army tents
and things during the progress of a forthcoming
reunion in Mobile. The proposition as submit
ted by Senator Bankhead meant little in itself
Unemphasized by Senator Heyburn's foolishly
bitter tirade against the late wearers of the gray
and their loved and chivalric leader, General
Robert E. Lee, the resolution would have passed
quietly and in order on Monday last, and noth
ing untoward would have come of it whatever.
The dead past has long ago been permitted to
bury its dead in the matter of secession, the
c vil war, and all that appertains to that fratri
cidal strife, and it is only here and there that a
Senator Heyburn comes upon the scene with bin
feeble effort to stir it up anew. The sLIte rose
superbly to the demands of the crisis thrust upon
it by Mr Heyburn's vociferous vehemence, how
ever, and voted to a man- saving and excentimr
Mr Heyburn himself to grant the poUtlon a!
Sn fo IY by Mfp-,Bhead; and that de
spite the Idaho senator's jarring solo of nroW
The quiet dignity of the entire proceeding that
marked the undoing of Mr. Heyburn was inspir
ing and could hardly have failed to arouse a
feeling of profound respect for the senate e?e
n the bosom of tho most hardened scoffer
'Aye!' said New York, and Washington ami
Kansas, and Wisconsin, and Indiana? and Min
nesota and Utah, and California, and Vermont
and Ohio and Michigan, and Maine, and on
throughout the entire union of course indmi
ng the south. Idaho's voice alone was raised
in. opposition and only half of thatindeed
since Senator Borah voted 'aye.' We think it
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