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Subscribed In my presence nnd sworn to
before mo this Mth day of September. A. D.
M. U. IIUNOATE,
(Scnl) Notary Public.
Tho cnmpnlKii of 1000 Is now en
tering the homo streteli.
Tho next and Inst registration day Is
Saturday, November 3. Mark It down.
Wo nro Htlll wilting for that ambi
tious philanthropist who wantH to im
mortalize his name over tho door of
Omaha's projected auditorium.
Kdgnr Howard's voice Is still In bad
condition, but It Is n paragon of reso
nance to what It will bo when the re
turns are In from this congressional
district.
If you will read tho popocratlc news
papers you will discover that popocratlc
candidates always receive "ovations,"
whllo their opponents never get any
thing warmer than "chilly receptions."
Nebraska's great trust-smasher Is now
folng to crush tho American Biscuit
company Into cracker dust. Ho evi
dently wants to add to ills collection of
titles that of "crackerjack octopus ex
terminator." Omaha Is not nlouo In promising a
largely increased vote at tho coming
election. Every groat city in tho coun
try has n much larger registration than
In any previous year, so Omaha Is not
an exception.
Political statisticians have Ogured
out that each election In tho state
of Nebraska costs the taxpayers 50
cents, approximately, for each vote
polled. Of course, this Is entirely ex
clusive of what It costs tho candidates.
When republicans get circulars advis
ing them to bolt their party candidates,
purporting to bo Issued by a committee
whose members nro afraid to sign their
names, they will not have to guess
tuoro than twlco to hit upon the authors.
Tho local Hryan organ would not be
maintaining its record If it did not
uprlng ut least one new fake each day,
but as the election approaches Its fabri
cations get wilder and wilder. How
fortunato for it that scarco ten dnys
moro remain for tho campaign.
A registration of moro thnn 21,000
voters in Omaha and South Omaha in
two days indicates ns much Interest In
the present campaign as In any previous
campaigns. The voters are not making
so much noise, but they are prepurlug
to cast their ballots on election day.
Tho latest perlUllous republican plot
unearthed by tho vigilant Hryanltcs is
a scheme to bribe the fuslonlsts not to
vote. What a venul class these fusion
ists must be If they nro open, ns
charged, to nil sorts of corrupt propo
eltlons. Tho ridiculousness of tho fake
is so apparent that people must only
wonder at the audacity of tho fakirs.
John W. Parish, tho republican can
dldato for county attorney, Is a young
lawyer of most excellent standing
among his associates and his reputation
for integrity and lldellty is unassailable
Ho has tho endorsement of the leading
and most respected members of tho bar.
Tho contrast between him nnd his
fusion opponent Is all In favor of Mr,
Parish.
Tho fusion managers will try ngalu
to extract somo comfort from tho regis
tration returns by persuading them
selves that many who have registered
as republicans huve dono so through
prcssuro or compulsion and will per
Jure themselves by voting for demo
cratle candidates. Wo do not bellev
many voters are to bo found in that
category.
Tho desperate straits Into which tho
candidacy of Governor Poynter has
fallen is illustrated by the frantic ef
forts of his political organs to black
wash tho clmructcr of tho republican
gubernatorial candidate. When a man
occupying tho position of chief execu
tlvo of a great state like Nebraska has
to go into tbo mud-slinging business his
t Jiofcea must be, sadjj; battered,
nn VAX's Tiwsv HKMf.ntt.a.
A little Intelligent attention to the
remedies for trust proposed by Mr.
Hryan will show that they are without
merit. Mr. Abraui S. Hewitt, formerly
distinguished. In the councils of the
democratic party, has pointed out very
clearly the weakness of the Hryan prop
ositions which he characterizes as
quack remedies.
In regard to repealing tariff duties on
any article produced and sold by corpo
rations called trusts, Mr. Hewitt re
marks that Hryan docs not seem to
know that this remedy would affect
hundreds of Individual producers who
are entirely free from any connection
with trusts or with monopolies of any
kind. In other words, ho would ruin
hundreds of Innocent persons for the
sake of punishing a slnglu offending
corporation. In doing this the labor
employed by these Individual producers
would necessarily suffer, for of course
under such circumstances It could not
llnd work with tho trusts. Thousands
of people would thus bo thrown out of
employment. As to the plan of pro
viding by law that beforo any corpora
tion organized In any state shall do
business outsldo of that state It shall
bo grunted a llcenso by tho federul
government, Mr. Hewitt says that un
der the constitution as It stands tin;
federal government cannot grant such
licenses. This proposition, therefore,
requires an amendment to the constitu
tion, such ns was proposed by the re
publicans of the house at tho last ses
sion, and It Is doubtful If an amend
ment could be secured that would trans
fer to the federal government the power
over corporations now exercised by the
states. As to this thu Philadelphia
Hecord says: "Tho states would not
favor even nn appearance of federal in
terference with their control of corpora
tions which do business within their
limits. Every state now possesses the
power to control foreign as well as do
mestic corporations which operate
within lis territory and hence there In
no necessity for tho intervention of
congress even If no mischiefs nnd dan
gers should bo Involved thcrelu. Tho
most radical enemies of the trusts
might well shrink from so dras
tic nn exercise of power ns to
take away the license of a cor
poration, and with the license the
corporation's Interstate business, the
moment an 'attempt' should be made
to monopollzo any branch' of trade.
An amendment to the federal constitu
tion must have the ratification of three-
fourths of tho states. 1b It probable
that that number of states would sur
render their control over corporations?
It is quite natural that as a free
trader Mr. Hryan should be disposed
to strike at the protective policy, but
ho appears to have forgotteu what he
said u few years ago, that lie did not
agree with the suggestion that to put
everything on tho free list that trusts
make would destroy trusts. The rea
son he gave was that "If nn article
in be produced in this country ns
hcaply as It can bo produced abroad
the trust could exist without tho aid of
any tariff," nnd it was a sound reason.
The entire democratic plan, evolved
by Mr. Hryan, for dealing with tho
til Bts, If put into effect would do a
'list amount of harm and no good. It
would remedy none of tho evils Incident
to the trusts and would produce other
evils disastrous to Industries nnd to
labor.
W11E11E THE DELEGATIOX STAXDS.
There lias never been nny attempt on
tho part of tho republican candidates
for tho legislature to deny that they
were individually pledged to support
Edward Hosewater for United States
senator. Tho preference of tho repub
licans for United States senator was
tho only Issue In tho republican pri
maries and the will and wish of tho
rank nnd tile wero emphntlcally ex
pressed In every contested ward and
precinct. Tho names of tho competing
aspirants were upon every sample ballot
and nobody can claim that any decep
tion or evasion was practiced on either
side. Tho primaries were as orderly as
any ever held In this county; nobody
was allowed to vote who had not been
registered or sworn in ns n republican;
both sides were represented by chal
lengers and watchers during the polling
und nt tho count. When the conven
tion assembled not a single seat was
contested nnd tho regulnrlty of the
proceedings and nominations cannot be
called In question.
Tho convention carried out tho will of
tho great majority of tho party, as ex
pressed through tho ballot box, by
naming a legislative ticket known to
bo favorable to tho caudldato for United
States Bcnator who had won out in tho
primaries. Had John I. Webster won
out, only bucIi candidates would have
been named as were pledged to support
him. Taking It for granted that Mr.
Webster would have procured tho nom
ination of as clean and unassailable a
set of candidates as are now before the
republicans of tho county, ho would
have hud a right to appeal for the un
divided support of tho party for a Web
ster delesatlon.
All attempts to discredit either the
legitimacy of tho republican primary
election or tho nominating convention
have emanated from the camp of the
fusion enemy und their bushwhacking
allies, who prefer to light in tho dork
rather than to come out in tho open.
It goes without saying that tho attacks
made on tho delegation by tho popo
cratle organ and tho brazen falsehoods
fabricated by the Hitchcock Kakery
have but ono end In view, and that is
tho election of tho fusion candidates
for the legislature.
It must also be apparent by this time
to all reputable republicans that the
coterlo of pretended republicans who
arc finding fault with the delegation
because it Is pledged to a candidate for
Uultcd States senator whom they per
sonally do not favor aro trying simply
to find an excuso for disloyalty at a
tlrao when tho test of republicanism
must be tho support of tho national
ticket, Including president, congress
man and the legislature that Is to elect
two rutted State senators. This ex
cuse they will hardly get by pretending
to believe the rank fakes circulated by
the organ of the fuslonlst candidate.
It Is hardly necessary to repeat that
no candidate for the legislature on the
republican ticket in this county has
ever given or been asked to give any
pledge that would prevent him from en
tering a republican caucus.
AX EVIL THAT WILL SC1SVIVE.
The Philadelphia Ledger says it Is
much to be feared that, though Mr.
Hryan shall be relegated to political ob
livion In November, some of the worst
evils of Hrynnlstn will survive and
continue to bear fruit of their kind.
"The worst of them all Is unquestion
ably Mr. Bryan's determined purpose
to create nnd foster class prejttdlco and
enmity. This Is nn offense ngulnst
public morals, public safety and public
policy which our shrewd, patriotic
worklngmcn should bo the most enrnest
to condemn nt tho polls. As sovereign
citizens of tho great republic they
should be the llrst to rebuke the dema
goguo who stigmatizes them as the
slaves of capital."
Nothing Is moro certain than that tho
evil Influence of Mr. Bryan's appeals
to class feeling will long continue, but
if ho shall bo overwhelmingly defeated
the effect of his teaching will not bu
manifested In n serious form. Ills
election, however, would be very likely
to Intensify tho class feeling and to
cause nu aggressive assertion of It that
might become dangerous to the public
safety. Bryan's election would be fol
lowed, in tho Judgment of most prac
tical nieu, by an industrial nnd business
convulsion. A great many people now
employed would bo thrown out of
work. There would bo reduction In
wages. Strikes and lockouts would be
numerous. With such a condition of
affairs grave conlllcts would be very
likely to arise, Inspired by the teaching
of Mr. Bryan. No doubt most Intel
ligent worklngmcn do condemn tho ap
peal to class prejudice and enmity, but
there are many in the larger cities who
are in heurty sympathy with it. There
Is u danger lu It which It is to be
feared most people do not fully appre
ciate. 1ZTEHEST OF THE HOME OWXElt.
The Interest of the homo owner In
defeating Bryuulsm und nil that It
stands for was thoroughly discussed
In the campaign four years ago, but
his interest should be Just us strong
this year as it was then.
A largo number of people, especially
those of moderate means, huve become
owners through the agency of building
und loan ussoclntlons, the existence of
which would be seriously Jeopnrdlzed
by tiny leglslutiou tending to cheapen
the money standard.
Four years ago the United States
League of Building and Loan associa
tions, by Its delegates in convention at
Philadelphia, adopted resolutions de
claring: 1. That It la tho senso of this meeting
that tho Interests of nil shareholders of
building and loan associations of the United
States demund that tho present standard of
values, upon which our monetary system
bus been based since tho resumption of
spcclo payment In 1879, shall remain un
changed and inviolate,
2. That wo believe tho Interests of every
class of thu community and especially
thoso of tho great wage-earning class, Im
peratively demand that every dollar In
circulation, whether coin or paper, shall
bo equal In purchasing power and therefore
logal In valuo to every other.
.1. That patriotism demands that every
dollor bearing the mint mark of the United
States shall bo tho equal of the dollar of
tho most advanced nations and entitled to
full faith and credit nil over tho wholo
world; nnd to that end It must be main
lulncd free from nil suspicion of debase
tnent nr rpmnllntlnn.
Tho reassertlon of the free Bllver fal
lacy by the Incorporation of a 10 to 1
colnago plank In tho Kansas City
platform Is taken ns notice that the
election of Bryan ut this time will be
fraught with the same dangers to homo
owners und members of savings Instltu
tlons as threatened when ho ran the
llrst time.
While the democratic campaign man
agers are whistling to keep up their
courago their every movement gives
evidence of lack of coufldeuco lu the
outcomo of tho contest. Writing for
tho current Independent on tho demo
crutic outlook, Congressman J. D. Rich
ardsou of Tennessee, who is tho ml
nority leader in tho House ana was
permanent chairman of the Kansas City
convention, feels justllied in suylng
nothing stronger thau this: "Our ad
vices from tho middle west and from
those eastern Btatcs where wo aro mak
ing our light warrant tho most flattering
hopes." And ho concludes: "Tho pros
pect of victory Is exceedingly good."
Mr. Illchardsou might ns well have ad
mtttcd that tho democratic national
ticket Is in a bad way and its defeat
assured. It is plain tha ho is afraid
to injure his reputation for souud Judg
ment by making any emphatic declara
tlon expressing coufldeuco thut Brynu
will bo elected.
In 1890 Bryan was so anxious to curry
favor with the plain people that ho
declined an Invitation of New York
friends to n banquet, but Instead ac
copied an invltntion to a dollar dinner,
giving ns tho renson that ho wanted
tho entertainment to bo within tho
reach of tho poorest. This year he
has forgotten all about tho plain peoplo
and Is hobnobbing with Croker and
other plutocrats und millionaires nnd
eating elaborate suppers tho bill .for
which would shock it man of ordinary
poeketbook. Tho plain peoplo are not
In It this year.
Nearly every letter from soldiers lu
the Philippines expresses tho opinion
prevailing there that the insurrection
Ik Btlmulated chiefly by tho expectation
of tho Insurgents of concessions from
tho American government in case Hryan
should bo elected to tho presidency
They insist that were it not for this
hope held out by the Bryanltca In this
country the rebellious Filipinos would
have long ago submitted to American
authority. That being the case, It be
comes the duty of every patriotic
American to put nn end to the lire In
the rear by giving President McKlnley
a clear title to a second term ns an in
dorsement of his efforts to enforce the
nuthorlty of the nation over the terri
tory ceded by tho pence treaty with
Spain.
The official oriran of tho state house
populists has an article entitled "The
Non-Producers," which holds up nil the
doctors and lawyers ns do-nothing
members of society. The unearned In
crement of some of these non-producing
classes, It asserts, Is enormous nnd in
timates that a general crop failure for
two or three years all over tho land
would be welcomed ns the only effec-
tunl mans of stopping the Income of
nil these chaps. Tills must bo interest-
lnir readlni: to tho doctors and lawyers
who nro being appealed to every day
to come to the support of tho fusion
candidates with their voices nnd votes.
All Mr. Bryan can say, commenting
on tho settlement of the coal miners'
strike, is that It points to the necessity
for a system of arbitration. Ho should
have added that tho only substantial
moves In tho direction of arbitration
of labor difficulties have been made by
republicans. Mr. Bryan himself was
in congress four years, but he was more
Intent upou reducing tho wages of la
bor by opening the doors to competi
tion with tho poorer paid laborers of
Jurope, through free trade proposals,
than nny fenslblo plan of wage schedule
arbitration.
Do tho citizens of Nebraska with
children or relatives In state institu
tions want to have them at the mercy
of Incompetent political spoils grab
bers for another two years? If not,
let them exert themselves to supplant
tho present fusion state government,
which Is responsible for tho mismanage
ment of these Institutions, by electing
the candidates on the republican state
ticket.
The hardest nut for the government-
by-conseut shouters to meet is the Dis
trict of Columbia, whoso people have
not n single vote or voice lu nny pnrt
of their government. Brynn himself
helped govern tho district when lie was
n congress without consulting the
wishes of tho governed and to impose
tnxes on people who have no represen
tation In congress nt all.
The chairman of the populist state
committee has Issued his final apeal to
the "reform forces of Nebraska," asking
them to contribute to tho causo of re
form by joining Bryan In the chorus,
'Great Is Tammany and Croker is its
Prophet." It must havo made Edmls
teu laugh up his sleeve when ho wrote
the word "reform."
Whr Sonj Men Cheer.
Now York Trlbuna.
Tho man who proposed throo cheers for
Bryan becauso he -sgavo poor peoplo lco
last summer must bo n cousin of tho man
who didn't want a railroad through his
farm for fear It would causo hog cholera.
I.nrtce Truth lu Few I.lnea.
Indianapolis Journal.
Tho Omaha Beo Is publishing the reasons
of votors In Nebraska who havo changed
from Bryan to McKlnley. The reason one
of theso men gives la too much falsi
prophecy in 1S96 and too much prosperity
In 190O.
Wake Up unit lluntle.
Chicago Post.
If the British firms who have been
beaten on contracts by American enter
prise now stop to rail at their hard luck
they will merely still further demonstrate
that they ought to bo beaten. Tbora is
only ono thing to do In thoBo clrcum
stances, and that Is to get up and hustle.
Modern I'uckliiff Methods.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Tho excellence of modern packing meth
ods are Illustrated by tho fact that ono of
tho largest cargoes of canned goods ever
floated was last week shipped from San
Francisco on a sailing vessel bound for
New York. Such a frelghtago through such
extremes cf climate as aro experienced In
tho trip around tho Born would a few years
ago havo boen deemed impossible.
Our firentmt Industry.
New York World.
According to tho annual report of tho
United States commissioner of education,
nearly 17,000,000 pupils are regularly at
tending public or prlvato schools. Add to
this the itreat urmy of men and women
employed In teaching them nnd It Is seen
that over one-fourth of tho entire popula
tion of tho country Is cither instructing
or being instructed. Education is mani
festly tho leading Industry of tho Ameri
can people a fact of cheerful significance,
Croker'n Lute Investment.
J. Sterling Morton's Conservative,
In his speech nt Hlnton, W. Va., Bryan
thus expressed his felicity that ho was
opposed by tho business men of tbo coun
try:
"I am glad that I havo not behind mo
the trust magnates, for I do not want thon
to tell mo how thoy elected mo and there
fore claim that they own mo."
Mr. Bryan Is of tho opinion that a presi
dent must feel that ho Is "owned" by the
Influences that contribute to his success.
How, thon, do tho American peoplo like
tho prospect of a president owned by tbo
Tammany "Boss?"
Didn't I.onaon 1 1 1m Grip.
Chicago Chronicle,
Ouco moro the statement Is telegraphed
from Constantinople that his Imperial
majesty Abdul Hamld is In mortal terror
over tho aproach of an American squad
ron, fearing lest its mission may bo to
enforce the payment of that small matter
of $100,000, long slnco due and payable.
It Is to bo noted, however, that his majes
ty's trepidation has not impelled him to
pay any part of tho sum nor oven to av
range for its liquidation in monthly In
stallments. It will evidently ha necessary
to send tho bill collector to the sultan In
order to sccuro a sottlcmont.
Champion I'lilltlial Twister.
Indianapolis Journal.
Mr. Bryan's maiden speech In congress
was In favor of free trado and when h'l
come to have It printed In pamphlet form
ho headed It with a quotation from thu
Bible. Ho had been told that free trade
would destroy tho American rata of wages,
so ho prefaced hU speech with tbo, proverb
"Better Is little with righteousness thau
great revenues without right." Observe
tho argument: Free trade Is right and pro
tectlon is wrong, thereforo, bcttir freo
trade and low wages than protection and
high wages. The attempt to twist a prov
erb of Solomon Into an indorsement of
fret trade was chmctcrlitlc,
Compare the Two
Buffalo
The record of tho republican party In anti
trust legislation during tho last scission of
congress Is:
A constitutional amendment giving con
gress full power over trusts, supported by
nil except two republican members of tho
houso of representatives present nnd voting.
,V bill mnklug trusts criminal, forbidding
them the use of tho malls and forbidding to
trust products tho uso of Interstate com
mon carriers, passed by the houso of repre
sentatives with tho support of every re
publican except one, and now pending be
foro the senate.
Tho record of the democratic party in
anti-trust legislation Is:
Tho casting of 129 votes against tho pro
posed constitutional amendment to 5 in Its
favor, thereby defeating It.
Tho pledges of tho republican party on
tho trust question are:
Wo condemn nil conspiracies and combi
nations Intended to restrict business, to crc
ato monopolies, to limit production or to
control prices, and wo favor such legislation
as will effectively restrain nnd prevent all
such abuses, protect and promote competi
tion and secure tho rights of producers, la
borers and nil who aro engaged In Industry
and commerce." Republlcnn Platform.
Combinations of capital which control
tho market In commodities necessary to tho
general uso of the people, by suppressing
natural and ordinary competition, thus en-
Bryan and
W. E. Guthrie of Omaha has received
the following letter from n personal friend
serving In tho American army In tho Phil
ippines:
TAYUO, Luzon, Philippine Islands, Au
gust 29, 1900. My Dear Mr. Guthrie: You
nro pcrhnps not awuro that I havo boon
over hero since last January and have been
nt this place, which Is nearly In tho center
of tho Island, slnco February.
Although tho lnsurrccto army had dis
banded or broken up tho country has been
run over by Binnll bands, robbing and kill
ing at ever opportunity, and wa have been
pretty busily engaged In running them
down, until on the 12th Inst. I received
tho surrender of a. lieutenant colonel, a
major nnd six captains, the last of the
force operating In this section, and as a
consequenco mutters are very pcaccahlo
nround this vicinity.
Thcro will doubtless continue to bo
troublo In various points, however, until
Agulunldo and thoso with him, who are
still holding out against us In the hope
that tho result at tho coming election In
tho United Stntes may In somo way favor
them, llnd out their mistake.
Thero It no doubt In my mind, nor In
fact In that of any ono out hero, that the
actions and utterances of certain peoplo
la tho United States havo prolonged this
bloody business and have cost many Amor-
CKXTF.n. SHOTS AT FIISIOXISTS.
tCinrnnv- Tlnmnrrnf- Thn eYnnlirf nf hnw
murderer Kcarns, sentenced for llfo In the
Nebraska penitentiary, secured his pardon
will rnat Mr. Pnvntor 10 00(1 vntns. nnrl It
should cost him .tho vote of every honest
rann in isccrasna.
P.rnlrtprt l,-rnrn! finvprnnr Pnvntpr's
nnrrlnn nf thn InfntnnilR milrilfrer. .John llfln-
well Kearns, Is having about tho samo effect
that Altgclds pardon of tno nnarcnists am
In TlllnnU PftHft rntintv tfi ftirlmifl over the
pardon of tho cold-blooded and brutal mur
derer of Farmer Akrson, and tho indigna
tion of tho Cass county people win bo mauo
manifest November next.
Tlnnlrlrn T-rnrpua! Thn DlTinha World-
Horald displays moro enterprise than Judg
ment In collecting statistics concerning
traveling men who will support Bryan.
When It makes traveling men out of Bea
trice citizens who haven't been away from
thn fnwn In vpara It Is certainly time to
draw tho line. Nearly all the traveling men
residing in Beatrice will voto for McKiniey
and good times, and what Is truo of Bea
trice Is truo of other towns.
nrninl island Indencndcnt: Governor
Poynter's principal weakness lies In tho
fnt that hn hns tried to bo a political
boss, In which ho has Ignomlnlously fnlled,
rather than tho executive or a great state,
in whlr-h hn hns failed In even a creator
degree. Instead of trying to load, In a
political way, by pandering to tno wisnes
of political patronago seekers, ho allowed
himnnir tn lm led bv them. This caused
confusion and mismanagement in tho state
institutions, and, In Instances, severe scan
dals. Tho Beatrlco affair, tho Norfolk af
fair, tho Investigation of Thyslclan Swlg-
rt and the comedy at Kearney nro oniy
samplos. Kven his own party eritlclscB
hltn. Tho Papllllon Times, fusion, siu
if tho Kearney affair: "His action In
hnnnlnrr n ff thfl nnlltlcnl head of ono Hoxle
and then gluing it on ngaln makes us
oubtful. It Is with rcgrot that we notice
tenrinnr-v nf thn eovernor's EDlnal column
to curve and fall down beforo ..the brag-
o-irta nnrl thn tnnla In his tiolltlcal (llrClO.
Wo had hoped wo still hopo for better
things." As to the remaining nope, a goon
way to realize it would bo to voto for
Dietrich and a business administration.
vnUa rutv Journal: Tho disgraceful man
ner in which the Bryan hoodluraB conducted
thomnnivna diirlntr Mark Haniia's stay hero
was enough to disgust any sensible demo
crat who bellovcs in nccorains mo opposi
tion the samo treatment ho would expect for
himself. Tho disturbance was so well or
ganized as to show that it was a prear
ranged plan, and was well known to tho fu
nVii from tho nnrt that somo
of tho prominent party leaders took In it it
leaves no room to dount dui mm. mcy cio
cognizant of what was to tako place. Such
conduct on their part does them no good
and every good citizen who believes in law
and order nnd who Is willing to accord all
nurtlaa ft flnrpn t hearing should cast his
voto against every man on tho fusion ticket.
..... IV t.
This Is tho kind Of lOUOWing jur. uryuu uun
all over tho country, as uaa neen snowa ny
the assaults they havo mado upon Governor
Hoosovolt. It would seem that thoso charged
with maintaining order In the city wore
,n, in thrir dntv when thev did not
quiet tho disturbance. Tho very fact that
thero was no attempt oy mo icauiug ueuiu
crats to quiet their shouters Is evidence suf
ficient that it was a plot to break up the
meeting.
Tilden Citizen: It would seem from that
great and reliable Bryanlto paper, the
Omaha World-Herald, that Pat Stanton has
boen, until qulto recently, living a son
of double political life. His intlmato ac
quaintances havo supposed, erroneously It
now appears, that ho had always beou a
rock-rlbbod democrat who doubted If any
body could bo qulto certain of eternal sal
vation unless ho voted tho democratic
ticket. Tho contrary must be truo, how
ever, for tho World-Horatd says so in tho
following, taken from Us Issue of October
12: "Obliged to bo a Democrat. Pat Stan
ton Leaves tho Republican Party. Known
About tbo Miners. Pat Stanton, ono of the
leading citizens of Tilden, was in town
last evening to hear Bourko Cockran. Mr.
Stanton says ho has been a republican nil
his life, but tho tlmo bus come for a part
ing of the ways. Ho was reared In the
Pennsylvania coal fields and knows the
conditions of the miners. He Is convinced
that Hryan Is tho only hope for the labor
ing roan. The wholo Stanton family Is In
tbo same fix." The republicans of Jefferson
precinct acknowledge toe right of l't to
Exprt'ps, 1
hanclug prices to the geueral consumer, arc
obnoxious to tho common law nud the pub
lic welfare. Thoy nro dangerous conspira
cies against tho public good nnd should be
mado tho subject of prohibitory or penal leg
islation. Publicity will be a helpful Influ
ence to check this evil. Uniformity of leg
islation In tho different stntes should bo se
cured. Discrimination between what Is In
jurious nnd what Is useful and necessary In
business operations Is essential to tho wise
nnd effectlvo treatment of this subject. Hon
est co-operation of capital is necessary to
meet new business conditions and extend our
rapidly increasing foreign trade, but con
spiracies nnd combinations intended to re
strict business, create monopolies and con
trol prices should be effectively restrained."
McKlnley's Letter of Acceptance.
Tho pledges of tho democratic party on
the trust question, ns embodied In tho dem
ocratic platform nnd Mr. Bryan's speeches at
Buffalo and elsewhere, arc:
To put all trust products on tho free list.
To require corporations engaging In Inter
stuto business to tnko out federal licenses.
Tho republican party asks nothing more of
tho voters thnu a fair comparison of theje
performances and promises. But a fair com
parison of performances and promises Is
what Mr. Bryan dees not invite. Ho would
provent tlm voters from making such com
parisons It he could.
Insurrection
lean lives and will cost many moro beforo
"Aggy" awakes to his truo situation.
While I am not particularly anxious to
sec our country engaging lu tho expansion
business, especially so far from homo, I
do not seo how our cotirso In tho premises
could havo well been other than It has
been, for certainly theso peoplo nro not
now capable of governing thomselvus, If
It wns only themselves It would not much
matter, but thero nro thousands of white
people here to whom It would mattor nnd,
having thrust out the Spaniards, It wculd
seem that duty and Interest now cotnhltib
to force us to maintain our hold rather
than to give It up to ncrmnny or somn
other commercially, at least hostllo
pow or.
Commerce is both war and the life of a
nation In these days and those who would
extend nnd defend them must have a foot
hold In the countries where they ale car
ried nn. But I aid not Intend to sny any
thing about this. It is none of my busi
ness. A soldier has no concern with poll
tics, his duty being to obey orders from
tho regularly constituted authorities, no
matter which party they may represent.
Still, wo cannot help thinking of such
things and being Interested In them and
when ono sits down to talk with an old
friend like yourself the talk naturally drifts
that way. Very truly yours,
IL B. FREEMAN.
change his political faith, but it is doubt
ful if ever they will bo clinrltablo enough
to forgive him for having habitually voted
for all thn democratic nominees In tho dis
trict for tvveuty-ouo years past when he
was all thu tlmo a true-blue republican.
After all, though, It may he possible that
the World-Herald lies like hades.
PBIlSO..L I'OIXTKIIS.
Oom Paul Is not likely to run against a
search warrant on his trip to Holland.
His watch Is not gold.
President l'ntton of Trlncoton li a Brit
ish subject nnd therefore Is not pestered
about his political preferences.
Governor General Wood docs not agreo
with Horace. Greeley's advice. At least
ho urges young men to go to Cuba and
ralso sugar cano and lots of it.
A New York spellbinder hns named
Woolley, tho prohibition candidate, "the
cash register." Tho answer 1b, "because
ho Is tho bartender's worst enemy."
The late Charles Dudley Warner was tho
ono honorary vlco president of tho Egypt
exploration fund, whoso American branch
hnB Its office In Boston, with Rev. Wil
liam C. Wlnslow ns vlco president nnd
honorary secretary. Mr. Warner took too
much practical Interest In tho explorations,
Librarian Putnam has nbollshed tho cus
tom of permitting persons of well known
cbnracter and unquestioned position occa
sionally to tako books from tho congres
sional library after making a deposit ns a
precaution against accident. Mr. Putnam
Bays that thcro havo been no abuses of tho
custom, but ho thinks the absence of all
risk tho safer plan,
When tho late General Pnlnier was a
member of tho Springfield (111.) Board of
Education somo years ago ho brought about
the abolition of scparuto schools for white
and colored children. By way of answer
to tho storm of bitter opposition and criti
cism to which that action gave rise tho
general withdrew his own daughters from
tho prlvato school which they had been
attending and sent them to a public school
In which tho larger number of tho pupils
In attendance were negroes.
Colonel George P. McLean, whose death
In Philadelphia Is announced, entered the
army at tho outbreak of tho civil war as
major in tho Twenty-second Pennsylvania
volunteers and soon afterward became colo
nel of tho Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania vol
unteers. Ho Berved as military governor
of Alexandria, Va., and after active service
on the Potomac, the Rappahannock and nt
Cedar mountain ho was mustered out. Ho
then organized tho Ono Hundred nnd
Eighty-third regiment, Pennsylvania vol
unteers, and fought with this command
through the Wilderness campaign and was
mustered out finally In 18C5, slnco which
time he had held office under tho Phila
delphia collector of customs and other fed
eral appointments, until falling health
forced his retirement.
MYTHICAL SILHXT VOTE.
t us Mysterloun u I'nllllt'iil I'nrKir
a Some Melleve,
Boston Herald,
Farty adherents somotlmes leavo their
party, and Independents roako cholco of
ono party or another in our elections, but
it is a mlBtake to suppose their action 1b
out of tho popular vision any moro than
Is that of tho bulk of party followers.
Their action Is a part of the presidential
canvass; its effect is ns much estimated
in It as aro Its other foatures. It was woll
known in advance that Independents were
to voto for Cleveland In 188; It was well
known in advance that Independents were
to vote for McKlnloy in 1898; wo may add
that It Is well known thnt independents
aro to vote for McKiniey this year. Somo
of them uro to vote for Bryan also. But
tho Inteutlons of neither aro conconled to
an oxtent that should mislead the ob
server as to what are likely to bo tho
proportions In the case. Tho truth of the
I political situation as It Is apparent Is that
the republican party Is better united In
tho support of McKlnley than the demo
cratic party is In support of Bryan, and
' that tho republican party is, In the nature
party. It is that which is carrying the
election tor McKlnley, and no sagacious
political observer can fail to rocognlze
that such is the condition of affairs. There
la nnthtner llnlrnna-n nr mvutArlnlls In thn
'political world that Is at all likely to re
I verse that apparent decision in tbo repub
' llcan favor.
COMMU.M'M OX THU JOIXT DUflAT!'..
Hastings Tribune- Edward llosewntcr ha
proven In his delates with Hitchcock that he
Is a good sound thinker and perfectly
cnpablo of holding his own with the very
best of thorn.
Wayne Herald: In tho Joint debate be
tween Edward Hosewater of The lice and G.
M. Hitchcock of tho World-Herald, at
Omaha and Lincoln, Mr. Rosovvater seems to.
hnve had decidedly the best end of it.
McCook Trlbuno: In his debate with Edi
tor Hitchcock Editor Hosewater has proven
himself to bo a master of logic, reasoning
nnd facts nnd short on tbo tricks nnd ef
fervescence of oratory. His appeals have
been to reason nnd not to pusslon or
prejudice.
Juniata Herald! The great debate between
E. Rosovv liter of Tho Omaha Hoc and Gilbert
M. Hitchcock of tho Omaha World-Herald
Is creating considerable Interest. Both
speakers are going Into It exhaustively, but
bo far Mr. Rosovvater seems to bo ahead, as
ho largely has tho advantage In having tho
best arguments to advocate.
Friend Telegraph: In tho debate between
Hon. Edward Hosewater and (3. M. Hitch
cock Mr. Hosewater has shown himself tho
clearest debater nnd from the start ho has
taken tho lend. Unquestionably Mr. llose-
vvaler hns had the best of the argument
from r.tart to finish and It Is evident that as
a thinker and who expresses his Ideas
clearly Mr. Hosewater has no peer In this
state.
Chadron Journal: E. Hosewater, editor of
Tho Omaha Bop, In his series of debutes
with Gilbert Hitchcock of the World-Herald
had by far the best of It all the way through.
Mr. ItOBcvvater's ready fund of knowledge
concerning men and things nnd his long ex
pel Icnco lu politics give him nil tho mate
rial he needs to answer questions or pro
pound others to hlfl opponent unanswerable
and confounding.
Wlsner Freo Press: A perusal of tho re
port of tho Hoscwntcr-illtchcock debate
evinces that Mr. Hotewater ably sustained
the republican side. Unlike his opponent hn
evaded nothing nnd upheld the position of
the republican party In a masterly manner.
He mnde It plain that the rant, the walling
and tho crocodile tears over the Filipino
Is only to mnsk free silver, free trade anil
the other Iniquities of the Chlrago-Knnsas
City platform. His nrgumtfnt wns plain ami
convincing.
Nellgh Leader: Hon. E. Hosewater of
Omaha hns received many complimentary
notices from republicans for the logical
chnraeter of his arguments In tho Joint de
bato which hns been in progress between
him nnd Mr. Hitchcock, the editor of the
World-Herald. Mr. Hosewater is gaining In
tho estimation of republicans nnd should
Douglas count?, under his management of
the cumpalgn, roll up a substantial majority
for the .ticket there will bo nothing too good
for him nt the hands of tho pnrty. not even
n United Stntes senntorshlp for a Christmas
gift.
Oiand Island Independent: In thn nose-wnter-Hltehcock
debate Saturday Mr.
Hosewater Bcored a telling point when Mr.
Hitchcock defined the policy of tho demo
crats to protect Agulnaldo and hls-to-be
government with the army ami navy In lieu
of "governing them without their consent."
nnd when subsequently Hosewnter de
manded to know, grunting for the moment
that Agulnnldo and his bandits represented
tho Filipinos, when nnd where tho democ
racy had secured Agulnnldo's consent to
the protectorate, without which consent
democracy could, according to its own
policy, not proceed.
Norfolk News: The first Hosowater
Hllehcoek debnte was hold beforo a large
audience In Omaha Saturdny night and each
speaker received liberal npplauso from
thoso assembled. Viewed In nn impnrtlal
manner Mr. Hosewater bnd tho best of. It
In logic nnd good, sound, sensible argu
ment, Mr. Hitchcock's strength lies In his
oratorical ability nnd his talk might prove
morn pleasing to the audience nt tho time,
but would scarcely bear the light of thought
and Investigation that Mr. Rosevvntcr's
would. Mr. Hitchcock Is not so much to
blame, howover, ns the Ibsucb of his pnrty
contuln llttlo logic, but nre appeals to the
prejudices and pnsslons of the people. One
dtscusilon will stick while tho other will
melt awny In a mist of glittering generali
ties. LAuruiixc; i.ixrcs.
fhlcngo Rerord: "I must be getting old."
"Whnt makes you think en?"
"Younger men have begun complimenting
mo on being spry.''
Detroit Journal: The Goddess Athena I
sprang full panoplied from the hend of
Zeus!
The Goddess Hern Full panoplied! 'Why,
rhlld, every stitch you hod on could ho put
In one small trunk!
Detroit Free I'ress: The Recording Angel
nsked for n asblstnnt,
"What Is tho mutter now?" demanded St,
IVter.
"Well, th campaign liars have got Into
action, you know.1'
Whereupon St. l'oter gave him two.
Detroit Journal: "Shall I order up a col
limn of troops?" naked the mnndnrln.
"A stickful Is amply sufficient," gibbered
the Emperor Kwung Su.
Being of wenk mind Ills majesty deemed
this Jest sufficient not only to manifest hie
contempt of the foe, but likewise to bolster
up tho Krotesqup pretense that tho Chinese
originated tho art of printing.
Philadelphia I'ross: "It's scandalous tin
way tho bearded lady Is drinking now
adays," said the Wild Man From Borneo.
"I should think he'd be afraid of delirium
tremens."
"Oh, no! he considers himself Hafe." re
plied the Living Skeleton. "IIo'h married
to the Snuke Charmer, you know."
Chicago Post: "I am a great stickler for
my rights," he said. "I always InHlst upon
having nnd keeping what In mine.
The burlesque actress who wns making
her third matrimonial venture looked
doubtful. . . . i.t,-
"In some cases." she suggested, thnt
would be less difficult If there were no
dlvorco courts."
Philadelphia Press: "I understand old
Delahunty's favorite grandson, to whom ho
loft all Ills money, has erected a line monu
ment to the old lwm'H memory.
"Yes and the Inscription on It reads:
Erected to the memory of Patrick Jeremy
Dolahanty, by IiIb grandson ami i namesake,
1. Jerome Do La JInntny, Lsq.'
Detroit Journal: "Oh, how beautiful she
is'" cried Marie. ....
"But very likely she Is n wicked adven
turess," urged Knthryn. "and then, who
knows but she Is padded!"
Mnrle looked up. wistfully.
"How I wish I hod your faculty for look
Ing nlwnyn on the bright side of things:
slio exclaimed, heaving a great sigh.
Washington Star: "I nn afraid our Fili
pino citizens uro n little dlsuppolnted In
civilization." , ,
"I shouldn't be surprised," said the man
who hns lived In the west. "Maybe they
got tho Idea from our noble red men that
the principal features of civilization are
firewater and rations,"
noonn.tcic ix actiow.
I
The Campaign Roorback, '
With a big ,
Annually before election
I rush forth
Upon the unwary.
I frighten
Tho "timid voter,"
And the man .,., ,..
Who "wnntfl to be on the winning sias
la my chosen prey.
I predict
That there will be
A landslide
And all those
Who do not vote
As I wish them to
Will be caught therein.
The democratic candidate
Will be elected by acclamation,
And the republicans
Are colonizing voters
And nro buying votes.
Llberty.lH dethroned.
Ilownre!
HKWAIIEI! , . ,
DBWAItBMI RQ0R baCKK,
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