TIIFi OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1D0?.""
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STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss:
Charles C. Rosewater, general manager
of Tha Be Publishing company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed
during tha month of Octour. waa as
followai
1 8M70 IT M.710
I 86,890 II M.B80
t 86,600 1 06,140
4 6660 10 40,600
1 38,660 ll 36,650
88,600 21 86,940
T 88,440 ' ft 87J
1 86,660 (4 36,800
I ae.TOO S 86,760
10 88,860 t 36,790
11 36,490 zt 38,680
IX 86,630 SI 87,0i0
II 36,300 86,J0
14.... 86,630 . 10. 38,6 0
II 38,890 II 37,330
II 86,980
Total ..1,139,400
Leas unsold and returned copies. 9,883
Net total 1,109,508
Dally average 36.4J7
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
General Manaxer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day of November. 1907.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHEN OUT Of TOWN.
Subscribers lTlnar the city tta,
porarlly ekvoald have Tha Be
walled to Ihero. .Address will be)
chaaged aa aftea requested.
Still, a mottoless coin will go further
than a colnless motto.
A new French gun scatters tremen
dously. It must be a democratic
pattern.
Mrs. Leslie Carter Is In financial
troubles. Must be the result of her
recklessness In taking a husband to
support
New York society, for capital rea
sons, is not planning anything elabo
rate In the way of functions for the
winter season.
Having had a look-in at the bank
resources In 'New York, the comptrol
ler of the currency reports that the
outlook is very encouraging.
Oklahoma is acting a little obstrep
erous just now, but It will soon quiet
down and eventually live up to the
first two letters of Its name.
Omaha banks put the responsibility
for speedy specie resumption up to
Chicago and Chicago bankers put It up
to New York. That's easy.' .
A detailed account of Secretary Cor
telyou's experience the other day In
having a tooth filled furnishes proof
that bfa does open his mouth occasion
ally. The quarrel between Chemist Wiley
and the distillers as to "What is
whisky?" will ba carried to the su
preme court. What a rum time they
are having!
"Insane commercialism has re
ceived a check," says Oorernor Comer
of Alabama in his Thanksgiving
proclamation. Clearing house or just
a cashier's?
Kansas City haa been suffering from
a shortage Of natural gas. That may
explain why the city Is making such a
determined effort to secure all the
national conventions.
There are some real advantages In
being president. Henry - Voss of
Rhode Island sends a fat turkey to
the White House every Thanksgiving
with his compliments.
It U all right to figure out the value
of Nebraskaa 1907 crops, but with
rices wavering a sufficient margin of
discount should be left by those who
want to be on the safe side.
, Members of congress are now re
ceiving $7,600 a year, Instead of the
1 5,000 formerly paid. It is too early
to determine if the country will bene
fit by the Increase In pay.
Pedestrian Weston Is sa.id to be
snowing signs or weakness ana ner
vousness as he nears Chicago." Per
fectly natural. Nearlng Chicago af
fects most people that way.
- Score one for the new child labor
law. An under-age child billed to ap
pear In a theatrical performance at
one of the Omaha theaters la to have
an enforced vacation for two or three
nlghU.
The official plurality of Judge Reese
as the republican candidate for su
preme judge In the last taction is
14,106, out of a total vote cast of
203. 75Z. of which namber H,02
tailed to register any choice at all on
supreme judge. Judge Reese, there
fore, had a clear majority of 16,000,
la round figures, over all competitors.
CHECKISO OVKRCAPlTALlZATloy.
Advocates of the plan for giving the
government control and supervision of
corporations doing an interstate com
merce business have been supplied by
the recently organized public utilities
commission of New York with a strik
ing illustration of the. benefits of a
law prohibiting overcapitalization and
stock watering. The New York public
utilities bill gives tins commission
about stich powers over corporation
stock issues, as has been proposed for
the national Incorporation law.
The commission's first exercise of
its power in such matters was applied
to a proposition to ' consolidate two
electric light and power companies at
Lockport. The combined capital of
the two competing companies was
1700,000 and a new company was
formed to take over bothjO the old
organizations. It was proposed to is
sue capital stock and bonds amounting
to $1,200,000, an Increase of some 70
per cent over the combined Capital of
the old companies. Under the law,
this Increase of capital stock could
not be effected without the approval of
the Public Utilities commission, which,
however, after a thorough investiga
tion, refused its permission and held
that the consolidated company must
limit its capital stock to the amount
equal to the capital stock of the two
companies It had absorbed.
This is a decided innovation and a
marked departure from the old
method of corporation juggling in
New York and elsewhere. Under the
old system, the consolidation of two
companies capitalised at 1700,000 as
In the Lockport caee, would have been
sufficient warrant for the issue of at
least $3,000,000 of stock and bonds
in the new company and, the public
would be expected and required to
pay rates that would yield a dividend
upon water. The old system has been
In vogue so long in New York that
most of the public service corporations
are capitalised for many times their
yalue. New York is not alone, al
though the leader, in this system of
stock watering and overcapitalization.
In most states the laws leave capitaliz
ation to the modesty or discretion of
the Incorporators. The Lockport case
shows what may be expected to follow
laws, state or national, providing' for
scrutiny and regulation of the opera
tions of quasi-public corporations to
put an end to unwarranted, stock, and
bond Issues.
CO.iX, OCXXT AhD CVXSCMPTION.
Official figures just Issued by the
government on the production of coal
In 1906 furnish apparent justification
of the alarms already sounded to the
effect that the final exhaustion of the
fael supply of the country la in sight
and that something must be done look
ing to the conservation of our coal
resources. The statistics show that
the production of coal In 1906 totalled
over 414,000,000 tona, of which 78,-
000,000 tons were anthracite, nearly
all of which camo from Pennsylvania
and West Virginia. The significance
of the figures appear when compared
with the production of 1880, when the
total output of coal was 72,000,000
tons, of which 29,000,000 tons was an
thracite. In other words, the con
sumption of coal in 1880 was about
one and one-half tons per capita, while
In 1906 It reached four and one-half
tons per capita.
The increase In coal consumption la
due mostly to the remarkable increase
In the manufacturing Industries of the
nation, which have more than quad
rupled in the twenty-six years covered
by the comparison. At the same time,
the exhaustion of the timber supply in
the different sections of the country,
or the Increase in Its value, has in
creased the demand for coal for fuel
to a marked degree. The farmers of
the west, where timber Is scarce, are
burning coal, where in former years
they resorted to all kinds of expedients
for a fuel supply. These combined de
mands are producing a drain on the
coal supply that cannot be long with
stood. With the progress toward ex
haustion of the coal supply must come
new Inventions designed to. stimulate
the use of gasoline, water power and
other forms of motive power for the
manufacturing industries and likewise
better methods for conserving the
sources of heat, light and power that
now go to waste through Imperfect
methods in their employment.
hho would ruor tub billi
The proposed government guaranty
of national bank deposits is naturally
creating much discussion and inciden
tally eliciting new suggestions. In an
interview published in the Kearney
Democrat Mayor Frank W. Brown,
Lincoln's democratic chief executive,
who had doubtless previously been
consulted by Colonel Bryan, is quoted
as follows:
I ara In favor of taxing aH national
banks one-tenth of 1 per eeftfipon all of
their depoalts, this tax te be paid to the
government, and It to create a fund with
which the government shall Indemnify all
depositors In any national bank that shall
become insolvent,, thereby making the de
positor absolutely secure and assured the
return of every oent that he has deposited
with the bank.
The newspaper interviewer then
goes on to say:
Mr. Brown added that tha amount of tax
upon the bank's deposit would be so small
that in caae the bask cared to do ao, it
might, without working any hardship upon
the borrower, add the one-tenth of 1 per
cent to their rate of Interest. But the sys
tem, he added, would recompense the de-
poaltor who now has no government pro
tection whatever when ha plaoea his money
In a bank.
This puts a different light on the
whole subject. The banks have here
tofore repelled every idea of volan
tary coniDinauon to nrovue a guar
anty fund for denjeliora b:cus; the
strong banks have refused' to carry
the weak banks. Making contribution
to a guaranty fund compulsory on all
banks might possibly leave the bank
ers In a better position by enabling
them to shift the burden on to the
borrowers, as suggested by Mayor
Brow n, by adding the tax to the- dis
count rate. But in this case Instead
of having government guaranty of de
posits, we would have a borrowers'
guaranty of deposits and, Inasmuch
as borrowers are for the most part the
going business concerns of the coun
try, it would be simply an additional
tax upon active enterprise In favor of
depositors who are made up from the
class that, refuses to take the risks of
trade and Industry. This may be
what the country demands, but, if eo,
It is well to know just what It means
In advance.
IBiTlSO TH1 AKTJ-BtBATK CAW.
While the supreme court makes no
announcepient of its plans for the final
disposition of cases before it, the as
surance cornea from Washington that
decisions may be expected some time
this winter on all the rebate cases ap
pealed from the fedeal courts in dif
ferent parts of ne country. There are
a dozen or so of these cases, Including
the Standard Oil fine of $29,240,000,
and the Santa Fe and the Southern
Pacific cases. The rate law passed by
the last congress provided for expedit
ing the hearings upon such cases after
they had been appealed to the higher
courts. Both the federal attorneys
and the defendants in the cases that
have been tried in .the lower courts
have shown every disposition to hasten
the final hearing and the supreme
court will take them up in a bunch, as
dearly all raise the same questions. It
Is expected that the cases will be pre
sented to the court soon after ine
Christmas holidays and that a decision
may be had before the spring recess
of the court.
The chief question raised In al) the
pending cases Is whether the Elklns
anti-rebate law was repealed by the
Hepburn act, aa the new rate law Is
called, which went Into effect In June,
1906. Most of the rebate suits hive
been brought under the Elklns aot,
because Uie offenses complained of
were committed prior to the passage
of the Hepburn law. The defendant
railroads and Standard Oil company
claim; that the Elklns law was repealed
by the Hepburn law. This was the
contention made in the case brought
against the Qreat Northern, the attor
neys for that road pleading that the
Elklns act had been repealed, as both
the crime and the punishment defined
in it were changed in the new law.
Judge Morris, of the federal court,
at that time decided against the road
and his decision was sustained by the
United States circuit court of appeals.
That court, however, asked that the
question be reviewed by the supreme
court, which has taken the case on
a writ of certiorari. By this act. the
United States supreme court takes the
case summarily from the circuit court
of appeals and will fCeclde the case
finally, without sending It back for a
rehearing. The Importance of the de
cision lies in the fact that it will apply
to practically all the pending rebating
cases.
It the court decides that the Elklns
act has been repealed the cases against
the Standard OH company and all the
cases brought under the old law will
fall. Such a decision, too, would
change the course of prosecution in
future cases. Under the Elklns act all
rebating offenses are punished by fine
alone. The Hepburn bill provides that
rebating "done knowingly" shall be
punished by fine or imprisonment or
both. In other words, under the Hep
burn Maw the intent must be shown
whereas under the Elklns law the fine
followed the act, whether the offense
was committed knowingly or not.
A movement Is on foot In San Fran
cisco to annex Oakland, Berkeley, Ala
meda and all the bay cities, so as to
make one Greater San Francisco,
"which In the census figures as well
as In tact Would be fourth of the great
cities of the United States." So far
as disclosed' no serious opposition has
been encountered anywhere and the
work devolving on the general com
mittee which has been chosen to
promote the project consists only of
finding ways and means. This fol
lows closely on the heels of the final
supreme court decision completing
the absorption of Allegheny into a
Greater Pittsburg. The consolidation
idea will be largely in evidence be
tween now and the next census in a
great many cities which are In posi
tion to annex suburbs, and it is bound
also to come up again in Omaha.
The request of the Nebraska Tele
phone company to be allowed to ghe
a discount of 16 per cent on long dis
tance telephone coupons when pur
chased In amounts of $100 has been
refused by the state authorities on the
ground that It savors too much of a
rebate. The telephone coupon Is ap
parently based on the same theory aa
was formerly the mileage book, when
the railroads said that anyone buying
a 2,000-mile book and paying for it in
advance could have it for i nta per
mile, or 33 per cent less than the lo
cal rate collectible on the train. The
rejection of the telephone coupon book
would indicate that a resumption of
the mileage book sold at lees than the
legal maximum would likewise be re
jected. "Mr. Bryan will get the votes of
many men who did not vote for him
in 1S96 and 1900," says a democratic
paper. Oh yes. Some who were not
eld tnou.a to vote In tbwte elections
wltl probably vote the democratic
ticket neft yeaf,' jnst to show their
Independence of the majority.
Omaha lumber dealers want to get
together for a lumber exchange or a
traffic bureau. Recollection of recent
litigation should make them careful
to exclude all questions of price
making from their co-operative agree
ment. Mr. 'Bryan, in his Commoner, re
fuses to assume the responsibility of
naming the democratic candidate for
the presidency. He is satisfied to
pick the candidate and leave to the
convention the responsibility of nam
ing him.
Omahans will be surprised, if not
pained, to learn that In the democratic
conference at French Lick Springs
Mayor "Jim" "figured only as "among
those present." . That's what a cow
boy gets for going away from home
without his rope.
General Porter says it will take
time for the people to learn of the
good accomplished at The Hague peace
conference. Evidently so, as the pres
ident is about to sisk congress for the
construction of four new battleships
of the latest pattern.
.A new ordinance to regulate the
collection and removal of refuse and
ashes is being prepared by the city
health department. Just now there
seems to be no systematic collection
of refuse whatever In Omaha and,
therefore, nothing to regulate.
Aurel Batonyl threatens to "expose
all the startling secrets of high society
of New York and Newport." Nothing
to it. The public will refuse to be
startled by anything it may learn
along that line.
Attorney General Bonaparte Bays
the press should be always instructing
the government. If the attorney gen
eral reads the output of the Washing
ton correspondents he will learn that
his advice Is superfluous.
Having failed to secure a recount of
the votes in the mayoralty campaign
In New York, Mr. Hearst will have to
be satisfied with the kind of advertis
ing that comes from his arrest on a
charge of criminal libel.
The failure of Mayor "Jim" to re
turn from French Lick Springs as
early as anticipated would Indicate
that the .entertainment provided by
"Tom" Taggart proved to be of a kind
quite to the mayor's liking.
Hitting the Strenuous Pace.
New York World.
Seven days' In the Union, Oklahoma haa
already a presidential boomlet for her first
governor. A fine example of a hurry-up
state in a quick-lunch teritury.
, Riant on the Spot. ,
Portland Gregonlun.
Since the Westlnghouse , company' wont
Into a receiver's hands, $2,000,000 worth of
orders has poured Into it from concerns
west of Chicago,; In emergencies depend
on the west x
Superflaons Warning.
Baltimore American.
A New York, physician has come for
ward to deny Ue claim that money trans
mits disease, stating that there is little or
no danger from the bacteria which clings
to our currency. This seems almost super
fluous labor on the doctor's part, as few
of us have felt nervous about taking all
tha money, germs and all, that we can
ge:.
Mlsrlity Word from Moses.
New Tork Sun.
Colonel Moses Clnclnnatua Wetmore, that
very noble St. Louis hunter of trusts and
jack rabbits, speaks a mighty word for
his fellow of the chase,' Colonel Bryan:
"Everybody for him but the corporation
agents."
The corporation agent,s sulk because the
Lincoln Bparaton will take no contributions
from their felon hands.'
Democracy and Paternalism.
Philadelphia Record.
"The issue of free silver coinage being
dead, or sleeping, and that of government
ownership having been still-born, Mr.
Bryan tests public sentlmtmt by offering
the lesue of the government guarantee of
bank desposits. Why should the govern
ment guarantee the debts of retail mer
chants to the jobbers or the debts of con
sumers to the retailers? When waa It dem
ocratic doctrine that a paternal, govern
ment should conduct private business and
guarantee a confiding creditor against loasT
PKHsOAI.NOTKS.
Nineteen hundred years ago a Roman
waa governor of Judea. Now a Jew Is to
be mayor of Rome. Turn about Is fair
play.
Clarence V. Tiers, a Pittsburg banker,
has written to Governor Hughes of New
Tork. urging him at least temporarily, to
close the New Tork Stock exchange, on the
ground that it Is a gambling institution
and' a menace to the public welfare.
From teamster to generaf manager of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad
now seems assured to D. C. Moon, who It
Is believed will be the successor of E. A.
Handy, who died in Chicago several days
ago. Moon began life as a gravel pit team
ster pa an eastern railroad.
Leopold MarkbrU-t, who has Just been
elected mayor of Cincinnati, Is a soldier,
a lawyer and a newspaper editor. He was
law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes when
tha civil war broke out, in which he re
ceived wounds that paralysed his legs.
Now ha wUl have to be carried from his
k carriage Into the mayor's office.
Next Friday President and Mrs. Roosevelt
wilt give a dinner at the White House,
wlich will be one of the last official func-
tlona before the departure on December (
Of tha Vtjantlc battleship fleet to the
Pactnc. Cabinet officers and diplomats are
to Join . with the president In entertaining
Rear Admiral Evans at the dinner In Ms
honor.
General Joslah Pickett, who led tha fa
mous charge at Cold Harbor during the
civil war, and ona of the last of the great
officers of that war, la dying at his home
in Worcester, Mass. Ha enjoys tha unique
distinction of being under military errvst
since just before tha battle, in which he
fought with such marked bravery, that he
waa recommended for promotion to his
prem-nt rank by Uie officer who ordered
him arrest. .
norjtD ABorT new tork.
tale-plea on the Carrent or Life' tm th4
Metropolis. '
A striking demonstration of tha elteot of
the financial stringency in tha upper cir
cles of New York society was given at tha
annual horse show at Madison Square,
which closed last Saturday. For tha first
time In the history of the show tha re
ceipts did not equal tha expenses and It
will be necessary to draw on the reserve
fund to meet tha deficiency. "Tha poor
attendance," says the Times, "haa led to
tha report that this important annual so
cial function is On the decline and haa lost
much of its popularity. In support of this
argument it Is pointed out that whereas
tha sale of boxes for tha exhibition In
1892 netted r-2,000, the total sum realised
this year waa but $6,800.
"That there haa been a big falling off
in the attendance Is frankly admitted by
the officials of the association, but they
deny that, this fact reflects public opinion.
In this their views are shared by the big
exhibitors and owners of tha most Im
portant stables. The discouraging report
of the week's business Is ascribed to three
causes the unfavorable banking situation,
the conflict with the opening of tha grand
opera season and the Inclement weather,
which has resulted in fewer persona at
tending the show than In any previous
year. From an entry standpoint tha show
was tha most successful aver held."
Five veterans of the Mexican war, two
so feeble that they had to be assisted, last
Friday entered the chapel of St. Cornelius
the Centurion, on Orover's Island, each
bearing a flag that had been carried In
the struggle of 1847. These men followed
General Scott through tha campaign that
began with the siege of Vara Crua and
ended In the capitulation of tha City of
Mexico. They are First Sergeant Jacob
Richard Riley, Sergeant Charles H. Farrell
and Private John Dive of tha First New
York volunteers, Private John Butterflold
of the Third United Statea Infantry and
Musician John Peter Eckweller of tha
First United States artillery. The occa
sion was the Installation In the ohapel of
the five flags carried by the First New
York regiment In tha Mexican campaign.
The flags, are now little more than shreds.
They were transferred to the keeping of
the regular army aa a result of a resolu
tion adopted by the board of aldermen on
October 1.
The life of the bubble driver of tha rich
of this burg Is Indeed a downy one. Many
tt his calling lead Uvea ot ease and luxury
In the palatial hotels of New Tork, sleep
In gilt beds, walk on plush and dine with
many menials at their beck and call. No
tably'at the newest and largest-hotel here
there are a dozen chauffeur guests. The
majority of them may be called tha pam
pered servants of the fabulously rich, for
whom nothing la too good so long as they
can drive their devil cars with skill and
care. Men of millions can well afford to
quarter their maids, valets and chauffeurs
in the same hotel In which they have their
splendid suites, and the majority of them
have done so. Just why they need their
buhblo drivers so near at hand la not en
tirely clear, unless It Is that they want
them perpetually within call. The fad has
been started, however, and It will soon
spread, until the life of tha chauffeur be
comes one of cane.
There are several places In New York
where cockroach racing Is a popular sport.
Much money changes hands on tha results,
and the general hilarity is about equal to
that engendered by a horse race., In one
well patronized resort there ara six run
ways aide by aide, forty feet lav-length.
Each is three Inches wide and four inches
deep. Fine sand is sprinkled on the bot
tom, and the top Is covered with glass to
prevent the roach from flying from the
track, so to speak that Is, to curb his
egresslve ardor. Some of these black
armed clocks (the largest of roaches) are
nearly three Inches In length when fully
extended, and they can run aa fast as a
turkey. The handicapping la accomplished
by increasing the depth of sand in the bot
tom of the runway. It Is harder to run
In deep sand than In shallow.
f0 . ,1 1 . 1 - ,
roach racing. One element of thievery Is
eliminated, however, in the prohibition of
jockeys. But there Is the trainer to be
reckoned with. If he wants to lose a race
he rah overfeed his roach, or give him a
little milk. Or ha can grease his feet, or
put roslh'on his feet. When a man goes
In for a gamble he can always find a way
to cheat. You can bet to lose as well as
bet to win.
J. I. Llvermore, a millionaire thrice over,
after three months' operation In Wall
street,- says he has left the stock market
for good. He advises young men to keep
away from it. Mr. Llvermore Is only M
years old, but his hair Is almost white,
showing the strenuous times he passed
through 'in acquiring his $2 030,000. He
started as a "marker" In a broker's office
In Boston, and after saving aeveral thou
sand dollars came- to New York. "I am
going to hold on to my money," ha saya.
"I might lose It if I went back on tha
street." He waa on the bear aide, and his
for'une was principally made In watching
the manipulations In Copper, Smelters,
I'nlon faclflo and Reading. "Don't gamble;
keep out of Wall etreet," Is his parting ad
vice as he goes off to enjoy his millions.
Apparently the push cart men of New
York are ambitious. There ara about 7,000
of these pedlera, and In a body they have
concluded that tha city may or should
provide them with market placos having
stationary booths for which tha tananta
will pay the city a rental of $100 per year.
Tha market places as planned are to be
three stories high, topped with roof gar
dens on which tha children of tha mer
chants may play and amuae themselves
while their parenta are engaged In busi
ness down below. A bill looking to tha
providing of these buildings has been pre
pared by tha puah cart men and will be
presented at the next legislature. It Is
probably the hope of these perlpatetio
salesmen that cltlsens wl)o object to tha
presence of tha push cart In tha streets
on the score of ugliness and those who
have a nervous fear of being run down by
one will plead in favor of tha bill.
It remained for an Italian director of
funerals to Introduce the automobile hearea
to New York, and ha la so pleased with
the venture that he has given an order for
two exclusive and elaborate motor hearses,
which will have beneath the body a vault
for carrying tha dead, but the upper part
of the hearse will be fitted" up for passen
gers, carrying from sixteen to twenty peo
ple. De-.ertlona from the Army.
New York Tribune.
Published reoords for desertions from the
United Statea army In the last year would
seem to show that the cavalry arm la re
sponsible fur most of thvm. Tha coast ar
tillery corps and tha infantry ara next in
order, with tha field artillery showing a
smaller proportion. The engineer corps re
ports a few Isolated cases of "French
leave," and the signal corps happily la al
most free from the evil. Of course the men
In the last two named branchea of tha ser
vice are not ao numerous aa In the three
principal arms, but proportionately they
stand as above. The number of desertions
from the four negro regiments In the army
Is less than that from the whit, regiment.
Cream
Used in Millions of HnmL
50 Years the Standard. A
Pure, Cream of Tartar Pow
der. Makes finest . cake
and pastry. light, flaky- bis-
cuit. delicious griddle cakes,
palatable and wholesome.
Won. . AYOid baking powders made from
alum. They look like pure powderi, and may
raise the cake, but no one can eat food
mixed with alum without risk to health.
roiNTKflS ON STATES POLITICS.
Oakland Independent: Up In Thurston
county a prohibitionist voted his ticket
straight and whan It came to county offi
cers, where his party hsd no nominees,
voted for sheriff only, who Is a saloon
keeper. Tha saloon man conducted a square
and dry campaign, and if elected would
hava gone out of the business and then
the town where ha runs tha saloon would
hava refused to let In anyone else. So the
prohibition brother was consistent, after
all, though It would not appear so on the
surface.
Dakota City Eagle: Secretary Taft, on
tha progressiva side. Is the only republican
candidate for president spoken of who can
lay claim to a positive1, commanding posi
tion. Oovernor Hughes Is tha ona mart who
might, under possible clroumstancea, be
come a formidable rival to Taft. His rec
ord Is an Imperfect indication of what his
politics would be, henca his axperlonce In
publlo office Is limited. Mr. Hughes him
self haa cast covert reflections on th. pres
ident and his policies. It Is wholly Im
probable that those who are In sympathy
with the president and In favor of Secre
tary Taft could ba diverted to 'g' support
of Mr. Hughes. It Is hot conce.,able that
any circumstances could arise to bring
such a change under serious conditions.
Columbus Journal: In twenty counties
out of tha ninety In this state, the demo
crats and populists failed to put up any
county ticket of any kind at the last elec
tion. This Is largely due to the new rrl;
mary law, which compels every man that
wants to be a candidate or some of his
friends who want to' be'cand'flatcs, to mnko
a cash payment fnr the privilege, and if the
nominations in all human probability mean
defeat, people are Inclined to be backward
about coming forward In order to show
themselves as office seekers.. Under the old
convention system it was different. A nom
ination tendered, and sometimes forced upon
a man by friends arid neighbors, was an
honor that could not be easily refused, even
If the chances of election were hopeless.
Platte county republicans can sympathize
with three democratic friends In those
twenty counties.
Atkinson Graphic: The editor of tha Holt
County Independent la of tha opinion that
two papers of the sama political faith can
not survive In O'Neill and charges Editor
Eaves of tha Democrat with bad faith and
no regard for hla word by reason of his
launching another paper after agreeing not
to enter tha field agalnat the plant he sold.
Tha merits of this controversy ara up to
the two editors to settle between themselves
as they see fit, but the claim of tha Inde
pendent, aa being a democratic sheet with
out any side Issues, seams to be far-fetched
and a conversion at tha eleventh hour,
after tha Democrat had entered the field.
Holt county Is a large territory and Miles'
plea that ha should be monarch of all he
surveys seems to be founded on selfishness,
especially so when tha political complexion
of the county under hla claimed leadership
for the last four years has changed from a
600 democratic-populist majority to nearly
400 In favor of the republicans. In face of
the lata returns, it would look to us ss
though the democrats were Justified In sup
porting a neW organ and seeking another
Moses to lead them out of tha wilderness.
Fremont" Tribune: A state Roosevelt club
is to ba organized at Lincoln this week. It
would be a peculiar oontest to have Taft'a
friends and Roosevelt's friends struggling
for tha Nebraska delegation next year.
Taft Is tha. Roosevelt candidate and It
would be an unnatural and Illogical thing.
The truth Is it la an Impossible oondltlon.
If Roosevelt Is a possibility there can be
no Taft opposition to him. But the state
ran mora appropriately accept the Taft
candidacy without any effort In behalf of
Roosevelt until there ar. further develop
menta. It Is not possible to work up any
dangerous sentiment for another candi
date, and those who think Roosevelt can
be coerced and thoaa who think ba can not,
yet who favor him, should not ba arrayed
against each other. They should work In
perfect harmony, for there la no difference
between th.m as to real choloe. The safer
and wiser thing to do at tha present tlma
Is to oo-oparsta together for Taft. When
ever It appears prudent to ahlft to 'Roose
velt It can quickly be dona but that stage
haa not yet bean reached. Senator Brown
was president of tha old Nebraska Roose
velt club. It was chiefly through his earn
est effort aa a member of tha republican
state platform committee that a tentative
If we could take you through
our establishment and show you,
the vast care and cleanliness
which produce the old original
' est! and sugar coated Arbucldes
Ariosa Coffee, no one could!
ever tempt you to change to
any other coffee.
" .
endorsement of the Taft candidacy was em
bodied In tha platform. This Indicates how
utterly Inseparable tha' friends' ot Roose
velt and Taft are In this state.
Friend Telegraph: ' If the campaign
against the trusts is to go on. If rebating
Is to be considered a CTlma an4 Is to ba
punished, If the government $ to ba for
and by the people, It the plans of punish
lng land squatting and defrauding tha gov
eminent out of Its publlo domain is to bo
punished beyond the present term of Thae
dore Roosevelt, then It Is highly Important
that Secretary Taft shall bo th. coming;
and favored candidate for president of theso
United States. It Is mainly on tha abava
accounts that Mr. Rooaavalt la anaiotia
that Mr. Taft should become his successor.
Every citizen who favors fair play and a
fair deal, and who looks upon tha gather
ing strength of trusts and rebates as detri
mental to the best Interests of our govern
ment, should favor the nomination and
afterwards the eleotlon of Mr. Taft.
LAUGHING GAS.
"Not mentioning any names," said Unci ,
Allen Sparks, "I've noticed that the only
.fleet an exalted position seems to have on
some men Is to make them light headed.
They can't stand the rarefied atmosphere."
Chicago Tribune.
Anxious Parent The baby's lungs seem
to be very fanlly affected, doctor.
Bored Doctor Yes, I have noticed that
ha howls vigorously If you only look at
linn. JJalllmuro American.
"The time, the place, and the girl! How
seldom we And them toa-ether."
"Pah! The combination that we snldom
find toa-ether Is the man, the shower, and
the umbrella." Washington Herald.
7 ' . I. 1 a.-! f! ' !T' f
"I know something you didn't know,"
said the facetious youth to the fair debu-
I, pi.
"What's that?" Innulred the mnlden.
"Your waist Is unbuttoned down tha
hack," replied the youth. Detroit Free
Press.
"Those neighbors of yours seemed glad
to sne their visitors from the city."
"Glad to see 'em!" echoed Farmer Corn
tossel. I should ssy so. They made ss
much fuss over 'em ns If they had hopea
of sellln' 'em land!" Washington Star.
The applicant for the shoes of the de
throned qvieen of the kitchen had asked
all the usual questions. Finally aho in
quired: "An what make of auttymoble hsva
you?"
"Ours Is a Centaur," replied the lady.
"I'm not familiar with that make- of
masheen," said the applicant; "an' ao of
course I would expect your husband to
take me out."
That was the last straw. Cleveland
Plain Draler.
'Our new maid put wine glass, on tho
breakfast table."
"Did your wife reprimand herT"
"No, we don't want to hurt her feelings,
so we have wine every morning for braaJt-
fast." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Old-Fashioned Mother (angrily) Why
don't you let these fads alone and teaoh
my daughter something about common
nouna?
New Style Teacher Ompr.sslv.ry-.
Madam, because common nouns are no
proper. Baltimore American.
I suppos. you will have something to
say when congress meets?"
"I don't know," answered Senator Sor
ghum. "So many of us statesmen are
chock full of things to say that I suspect
fan can make himself popular and Im
portant hv Consenting to serve as the aa
dleno.." Washington Star.
' 1
TWO MBRIVANA MKIf.
T. A. Daly In Phtla. Cathollo Standard,
Beeg Irish cop dat walk bees bast
By dees peanulta stau',
First two, t ree wrek w .n we are meet
Ees call me "Dagoman."
An' w'en he sea how mad I gat,
Wheech eesa please lieem. Too,
Wan day he say: "Wat's a matter dat.
Ain't 'Dago' name for you? 1
Wat's 'Merlcana name, you know
For man from Eetaly?
Eet ees no harm fur call you so,
Den why he mad we-th me?"
First time be talks d.esa way
1 am too mad fur siirak,
But nexta time I Justa say:
"All rlghta, Moesler Meeckl"
O! my I newa hear baytore
Boooh langwadg. like he sayt
An' h. don t look at m. no mora 1
For mebbe two, free day.
But pre tta soon a-n I s
Ders beeg poltri aman
Dut 00m' an smile aa' lay to anal
"Hello. Italian!
Now, mrbb. so you goln deny
Dat dat'a a name for you."
I emlle hurk an' mV replyt
"No' Irish, dat sa true."
"Hal Joe." he cry, "you theenk dat we)
Should call you "Metican?"
"Dat's gooda 'nough," I say, "for ma.
Eef dat a what you ara. Dan,'
80 now all tlmea we speaka so
Like gooda 'Merlran; r
He aay to me "Oood morn a, Joo,M
1 aay, "Oood morna, Dan. '
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