f, THE OMAHA DAILY REE: WEDNESDAY, A PHIL 8, 1908. .' The Omaha Daily Dee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROPEWATER. VICTOR KOSEWATER, KDITOH. Entered at Omaha Postofftce aa second, class matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: ; Dally e (without Sunday), ana sar..KW Dally Ba and Sunday, ona year 00 ' Kunday Bh, ona year f Saturday b, ona year. DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Bh (Including Sunday), per week.lnc Dally Hes (without Sunday), par week.lOo F.venlng Raa (without Smiday), per weak Jo Evening Bee (with Sunday), per waak.100 Address all complaints of Irrsgulantlet In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Bea Building. South Omaha City ttali Building. Council Fluffs 1 Scott Street. Chlcag o 1M0 Unlvaralty Bulldlnr -. New York-RoomB HOl-lloa, No. U West Thirty-third Street. . " Waahlnrtnn 725 Fourteenth Straat N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating- to newe and sdl torlal matter ahould ba addressed. Omaha Bte, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. ' Remit by draft, express tr postal arder payable to The Bea Publishing company. Only g.rent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal check", except on Omaha or esatern exchanges, not accepted. 6TATEMF.NT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dopglss- County, ta.: Oeorae B, Tsschurk, treasurer of The Be Publishing . company,, belnir duly worn, Bay that the actual number of fu;l and complete roptee of The Iially. Morning. Evening n3 Sunday Bea printed during tha month of March, 10I. was a follows:; . ... 1 3.fBO . 11 87,880 .J 99.90 II SS.830 t.....;i.. aa,so it. ...j oo 4... 88,430 28. .......... 29,t80 g . ... . 39,870 t 38.880 t...M.,. M4M S3 86,400 7 ......... . 80,110 3 J0.800 I. 36,800 .24 86,780 .....,.,. 86,480 it 86.6B0 J... .1..... 86,800 ' Js - 80.840 U 86.6T0 27 86,700 V1J 8S.S00 JI..... 36,870 It 86,130 J 9 86,300 14 38,870 10 36,880 IS 86,380 II.... 36,830 1 36,660 - . Total if..v 1,138,880 Lets untold and returned ceplss. . 6,188 Net total 1,183,098 Dally average.. 30,328 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my pretence and ewonf to before ma thl 1st day of April, 1108. (Seal) - ROBERT HUNriK, cv l nun i Notary Public WHE.1 OUT or TOWK. .. gabscrlaers leaving tka cltr ' porarily aaaala Tka Baa walled fm tka a. A da res will ba chaacd tllca 'mm t-auaeeta. Th 'Independence leaguo Is Inde pendent of everybody except W. R. Hearbt. Mr. Bryan will accept no Invitations to dinners where he Is assigned only to eat and listen. April has the reputation of being a wet month, but the prohibitionists are trying to make it dry. The per capita circulation In the country on April 1 was 135.15, more or leas unevenly distributed.. My! How that Nebraska G. O. P. elephant has' grown! It Is too big now to stay In one small pocket: v ; . It-was not only Taft day, but a big day commensurate with the. towering proportions Of the guest One or two governors have Already Issued their Arbor day proclamations. It U up to Governor Sheldon. Congressman Watson, Just nomi nated by the republicans for governor of Indiana, was born at RushvlUe, Dispatches tell about a Peoria man being smothered In mud without stating for what office he was running. What has become of the old-fashioned gentleman who parted his hair behind and brushed It around over his tars! ' If you are not convinced that Doug las county! needs a new court house, Just serve on a 1ur.y once for thre weeks. A grand Jury ones In a while Is all right, but the county attorney ought to b given a chance to earn his money. - Colonel Bryan must realise that he cannot hit at his prospective repub lican opponent without getting a few pokes in return. i Governor Johrmon is willing.-Jud son Harmon has hopes. Judge Gray Is in a receptive mood and Bryan is get ting the delegates. Eastern democrats are not angry bocause Mr. .Bryan failed to get the populist nomination. They are angry tecause he wanted it. v A Chicago paper used the picture of Mark Twalo and labeled it as Prince de Bagan. The Joke Is on either Mark or the prince. A Chicago lawyer says the Ten Commandments should be amended. So far as Chicago is concerned most of them have been repealed by implica tion. ' Editor Harvey of Harper's Weekly predicts that the republican ticket will be Taft and Hughea. He has been predicting long enough to get right ont.; The kaiser insists that he will be delighted td receive Dr. David Jayne Hill as American ambassador to Ber lin. , Still, it would be Interesting to know what the kaiser thinks about It in German. , "Nebraska announces that it has the poorest man In tha United -Statee sen te," says Ihe New York World. Noth lag.of the klndv Nebraska knows that Nt'W York has two of the poorest men U IU Waited States senate. if R. TA ft VN nTAM$t. William Jennings Bryan haS re ceived a reply to his demand, made and Telterated in recent speeches, to know where Mr. Taft stands or the question of railroad control, tariff re vision and, other governmental re forms urged by tho people.,, Mr. Bryan has worked himself into, something of a frentr over Mr. Taft's Philippine policy and has concluded a series of inquiries as to the war secretary's posi tion on other public questions by In quiring "What doe. Secrete ry Taft denounce as wrong?" In his speech before the McKinley club of Omaha Mr. Taft has answered these Interrogatories, effectively and Impressively, even If the answers may not suit the Nebraska statesman. Mr. Taft mikes It plain that his good na ture la even sufficiently developed to permit him to discuss an autopsy with Mr. Bryan and he delivers a telling thrust by declaring that, in order-- to discuss questions with Mr. Bryan, it is necessary to consider, not what the democratic party as it used to be thinks on any Issue, "but what N Mr. Bryan thinks on every Issue. In other words, the contest Is not between the republicans and the democrats, but be tween the republicans and Bryan, who seems to have the power of leading the democratic party against Its will. ' Mr. Bryan has denounced the Philip pine policy of the administration aa a departure from the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Taft quotes the history that proves that the treaty of Paris could not have been ratified without the support of Mr. Bryan and that he la more re sponsible than any other one man for the agreement which placed the re sponsibility for the government of the Philippines upon the American people. Mr. Bryan Is now condemning the ad ministration with unstinted abuse for assuming the burdens which he helped to put on us. . , Mr. Bryan's claim that he In a re former and that Mr. Taft is not pne furnishes the secretary with ''a further opportunity toN demonstrate how much depends upon the viewpoint. The sec retary makes It plain that he is not a reformer if reform means free and unlimited cbtnafi of ' silver,; the gov ernment ownership f railroads, a scuttle policy in the Philippines, a re duction of the army and navy to .the danger point, federal Intermeddling with state affairs and the getting upon each and all sides of every big ques tion as Mr. Bryan has done. In tone and spirit, in general and In detail, nothing could be more forceful than Mr. Taft'a answers to the Bryan list of denunciations. They furnish striking illustration of the difference between the characters of the two men who will probably be op ponents in the coming presidential contest; They show the difference be tween genuine appreciation of public questions and heated and indiscrim inate opposition. , FERCAFITA AKDPASICS. The old contention that industrial and commercial panics are caused by 8 lack of a sufficient volume of money has received a rather effective refuta tion. It is calculated by the Treasury department that the country's mon etary circulation on April 1 was 135.35 per capita, being the highest record everreacbed in this country. It is about $14 per capita greater than In 1896. whan the democratic cam paign was made on the' issue that the panic of 1893 and the hard timea that followed were all due to the lack of a sufficient volume of money. The present circulation' is "nearly $2 per capita larger than a year ago, when Industrial and commercial ' conditions were more favorable than ever before in the nation's history. It is true that in 1873 and again in 1893 there had been a contraction of the per capita circulation. If the panics in those years were caused by the contraction of the volume of money, soma) other cause will have to be assigned for the industrial and financial depression of 1907. An other contrasting condition is found in the fact that prices of commodities have not declined this year to tha ex tent they did in previous periods of Industrial depression This1 may be traceable to the fact that the volume of money of final account is not con trading. in relation to prmal business needs. That commodity prices have not yet fallen to the degree expected Is the most promising assurance of a speedy recovery of business energy. TH7 DE.VlCRTfC FILIBL'STEB. The minority in the house at Wash ington is furnishing another object lesson in democratic incapacity for statesmanship. Under the leadership of Mr. Williams of Mississippi th democratic members -are adopting fill bustertng tactics to defeat all con structlve legislation proposed by the republicans. The plan can work on iy delay at a time when congress and th public are anxious that every moment be devoted to the consideration of au b- Jects In which the people are vitally 1 teregted. Most of the proceedings of the house are informal In character, the purpose being to save the time re quired for roll calls. T bis Is the key to tha democratic filibuster plan. A members moves that the house reaol ve Itself into a commhtee of the whole to discuss, for Instance, the agricultu appropriation bill!4 Leader Willia ra) ams calls for a division. Tha speaker calls for the ayes and noes and announces that the ayes have it. Wllli&ma promptly 'calls for' tf Hers and the members file down tbVcepter aisle of the avhamber and are oounu-d.- When this result Is announced the minority leader demands a roll rail. This re quires at least a half hour and the mo tion finally prevails. With tactics repeated at every possible opportunity the result la that the greater part of the time of the house is taken up with answers to roll calls on the most trivial questions. The filibuster is purely political. Leader Williams admits that he is try ing to make campaign material out of his fight, but It is difficult to imagine what he can accomplish in that line except to shoulder the blame that will follow the' failure of congressional action upon many matters of keen public concern. The filibuster may pre vent an early adjournment of congress, desired by the republican leaders, but the republicans are responsible for the record to be made by congress and they must consequently do the busi ness, whatever time Is needed to keep their grip on the situation. THE OVATION TO MR. TAFT The magnificent ovation tendered to Mr. Taft as the guest of the Mc Kinley club reflects untold credit upon Omaha and Nebraska thus turned out by the thousand's to pay tribute to the big war secretary. ' In the vast throng that greeted him with unbounded enthusiasm were rep resentative republicans from nearly every county in the state, whose ap plause but echoed the admiration felt for the man by all the people who are familiar with his record of achieve ment and the part ha has played in helping to make the administration of President Roosevelt; the unqualified success that U Is. If anyoneat any time harbored any doubt as to whether the republicans of Nebraska were for Taft as the suc cessor to President Roosevet, this ovation ahould make it clear that he is their preferred choice to head the republican national ticket ib the com ing campaign. ' The inspiration of Mr. Taft'B visit ought also to strengthen the repub licans In their determination to keep Nebraska in the republican column no matter whether the democrats se lect their standard bearer from this state or not. and to spur them on to exert additional energy to make sure of that result. The splendid reception accorded to Mf. Taft proves that he stands close to the hearts of all Nebraska and also indicates that Nebraska is close to the heart of Mr. Taft. On the eve of municipal election our amiable .democratic contemporary has discovered that he editor of The Bee was running for mayor and city attor ney in South Omaha. Another demo cratic oracle, Edgar Howard, In his paper discovered a little while ago that the editor of The Bee was run ning for .councilman,, out. in his" town of Columbus. To read these same papers it transpires that the editor of The Bee Is also cutting all sorts of political capers here,, there and every where at one and the same time. The editor of The Bee musf look like the multiplication table when viewed through democratic glasses. The only democratic congressman from Nebraska wants the Department of Commerce and Labor to tell him something about the conditions of the meat-packing Industry. Up to this time our democratic congressman has always been telling something to the government without for a moment im agining that the government could tell blni anything. The Brooklyn Eagle looks upon the refusal of Massachusetts republicans to send Instructed delegates to the Chicago convention as "a set-back for the Taft boom." As a majority of the delegates from Massachusetts are openly in favor of Mr. Taft, while it was predicted that they would be in structed for Governor Hughes, the set-back" looks like a boost. Congress has refused to continue the appropriation to enable Dr. Wiley to continue feeding his "poison squad" and testing th dangers or usefulness of cold storage eggs and embalmed beef. The depressing feature of the case Is that a lot of government clerks who have been getting free feed at Dr. Wiley's boarding house will have to buy their meal tickets elsewhere. The democratic organ's account of the big Taft banquet, describing the hall, says that the fern-covered "stage proper was a Jungle of germs." Now, we submit that this is overstepping the amenities of political propriety. William Allen White refers to Speaker Cannon as "a vain; stupid, arrogant . old moesback." Tough, of course, but the speaker has already abandoned hope of getting any votes from the Kansas delegation. From the schedule of rstes given out by the Denver hotels, delegates to the democratic national convention wlll'find the cost of living while there anything but democratic. A Baltimore minister declares that a man who kisses a single woman should be shot. Still, it seems unfair that married women should have a monop oly In the kiss line. Dr. David J. Hill Is going to Berlin as ambassador, but it is understood that he has been already supplied with a properly punched transfer ticket to Paris. , - The toltlng Nebraska populists lay the bUuie on Mr. Hearst for the re fusal of the St Louis convention to let them run things la the interest of Bryan. Who would have supposed It alter that fulsome banquet which Mr. Bryan threw at Mr. Hearst In St. Louis only fotfr yeara ago? "MirVUaJ, My Marylaad." Baltimore American. Maryland will give Taft alxteen votes In tha republican convention and elsht more In the electoral collrge, and It wlehea it could give more. Old Tarda Oatrlaurd. Waahiagton post. To ba perfectly frank, the democrats my have to admit that at the game of "view ing with alarm" the popullets have them looking like a bunch of optimists. Atria final Strlaajer. v Chicago Tribune. Tom Watson, perpetual populist candi date for the presidency, has completed his arrangements for adding another to his long and glorious string of defeats. Home Kathaalaam Preferable. St. Ixuls Republic. Berlin's promise to greet Ambassador Hill warmly Is satisfactory. Diplomatic warmth Is all the dignity of the United States de mands. If an American ambassador Is ex pected to spend 180,600 a year in tips in a foreign capital to promote enthusiasm for American institutions wa can fall back on tha homemade article of enthusiasm for home consumption. Hastening for tha Band Wagan. Philadelphia Record. Favorite sons are somewhat csst down by th preference of Massachusetts re publicans for tha presidential heir. Mas sachusetts has no favorite son, but Taft has a dangerous lead and they were hope ful that tha Bay state would give Its support to Hughes and avert the danger of Taft's nomination on the first ballot. If Hughes were only sure of all the New York delegates the whole group of favor ite sons would cheer up, but New York republicans hate to be on the losing side and Taft looks very much like a winner. Poor, Discredited Jen. , Arkansas Qaiette. Hasn't Jeff Davis learned his . logson yet? Doesn't he know by this time that the people are sick of his continual abuse, nauseated with his billingsgate, weary with his buncombe and bladerdash, con temptuous of hla insufferable vanity, and revolted at the presumption that they must elect the candidates who represent his views, and no man can hold office whose candidacy "Jeff" Davis hss vetoed, and that the state must he put In the hollow of his hand, a hand that la soiled and besmirched by the abuse of the power that the trusting people of this state have confided In it, but yet Insatiably grasps for mora power? Who Will Start the Fireworks f Washington Star. Who are to set off the fireworks at the conventions? Tj texts of both Chicago and Denver will be Inspiring. There Is not a candidate on the. republican list whose name and achievements should not carry a fine panegyric. Taft, Fairbanks, Cannon, Hughes, Knox, are somebody; and have dona things; and as for. Mr. Bryan, ha calls for the best nominating apeech his party has In the shop. What Ingersoll did for Mr. Blaine thirty-two years ago somebody should do for Mr, Bryan now. The peerless leader Is entitled to , the peerless nomina tion. So far, Mr. Beverldge Is the only orator of national reputation scheduled for this exceptionally interesting service. He Is one of Indiana's hlf four, and may be erpected to rise to'tnti occasion when the booms at Chicago Sri required to show down. . , ', ' . KNCOlRAGlG ANARCHY Yellow Joarnallani Itwlsg Seeds of Hatred and Eavy. Baltimore Sun. We believe no Injustice or exaggeration la Involved in the suggestion that If an archy and "militant socialism" succeed in gaining a foothold on American soil their success will be due largely to the aid which they receive from a certain class of jour nals In this country.' Meetings of the "un employed" are of not uncommon occur rence In London. The English are certainly aa lawabldlng aa the New' Yorkers and de test slottng and turbulence as Intensely as the most conservative New Yorkers. The London police force Is aa aigilant, as quick to suppress disorder, aa the New York policempn. Yet demonstrations In London parks of tha unemployed or of any of the discontented classes meet with little Interference. "Orators'1 speak their minds freely without molestation. The police at tend, but only to prevent violence. The English theory la that It Is better to al low an open demonstration Of dissatisfac tion with the existing order than, by se vere repressive measures, to intensify g lev- ancea and to encourage aecret meetings of the discontented. London newspapers exer cise commendable discretion in reporting such demonstrations. They do not publish the names of prominent Englishmen who have succeeded In politics or In business and the professions, and Intimate that Utelr methods extenuate, If they do not Justify, the murderous activities of anarchists. English journalism may be dull, according to our notions, but It certainly cannot be accused of any lack of regard for the wel fare of the English people. PA1.! AND LEAN ME". Why Cartooalata Overdo Their Plc- taree of Taft. Minneapolis Journal. Cartoonists the world over are warned that If they lay In a stock of Tafta with forward overhang, they are putting up un salable stock. "Mine. Jacques." the famous corset-maker, has agreed to give the sec retary a sylph-like figure, which will be at once tha pride of the cabinet and the despair of the opposing candidates. A great deal of attention aeema to have been riveted on Secretary Taft's embon point. Why it Is so, it Is difficult to say. Probably because the cartoonists having a suggestive feature, aelze upon this as the only physical eccentricity of the secretary of war. It Is somewhat unfair to him however, as Secretary Taft does not give the Impression of a fat man, but rather of a big and atrong man. If he was never pictured any fatter thsn he Is, the cartoons would aoon cease to attract attention. Somebody has ( raised the question whether a candidate for office la helped or hurt by cartoons. Probably neither. The fat man, especially Is Immune from ill ef fects even from unfriendly cartoons. Some hqw or other, 6 man is easier forgiven for being too ' stout thsn for being too thin. A great majority of ua are looking for mure flesh rather than less. This is evidenced by the fact' tha weighing machinea popular- Ixa themselves by weighing a man a pound iT Ivn heavier' t han he la. The fat man la looked upon usually -si one who can ba trusted. Caesar wanted such men about him, and Shakespeare for ever put the quietus on the thin Individual by giving a line to Julius Caesar which In d tea ted tha unreliability of men who lack In aleeknesa. Wllkle Collins tried the anti dot by giving ua Count Koeco, the round purring,- soft pedal fellow who waa a rs- moraeless villain. But neither Bhakee- peare nor ColLU atabll(hedv tha fact that ehrrtrr dn"" on fle. ftOlD AllOt T KRW YOStlC nipple oa the f arreat at 1.1 fe la tha Metropolis. Although New York has l.frtt seers and aeeresses, prophets, palmlats and similar lures for people with room to let upstairs, there IS always abundant space for one more. ' Particularly timely la the coming of a wooer of ftpare wealth, possessed of a new thought which will be passed over to those who are shy on thoughts And moder erately long on lucre. Tha new thought is aesthetic physical culture, a system of mental exercise which absolutely forbids physical exertion. All you are required to do Is to think beautiful thoughts, Simple Isn't It? Beautiful thoughts are sorely needed In all sections of the big city, psr tlcularly In the financial district, where men are tarrying all kinds of luck charms in their pockets und neglecting aesthetic culture of the head. The proomter of tha cult needs only a ripe press agent to ac cumulate a bunch of honest dollars. A parrot Is to be the star witness for the plaintiff In the divorce suit of Esther Owynne Carley aga'nst Benjamin, travel ing talesman for a big commission house. According to the complaint, Mrs. Carley and the children and servants went to Lakewood last winter and Carley went out to visit them once a week. "Polly," said Mrs. Carley's lawyer, "re mained at home: and the reason Mr. Car ley never stayed longer than a day with his family waa because he had to feed tmj parrott." "I believe," adds the wife, "thla waa but a aubterfuge and that' my husband was prompted by a different motive In giving us so little of his compsny. "When we went to the country tha per rot had a limited vocabulary. I was famil iar with every word of it. But when we re turned honre the bird had acquired ex pressions which I had never heard it utter before and which could be accounted for on only one hypothesis." The lawyer says that the only conclusion Mrs. Carley could arrive at waa that Mr. Carley had been cntertalning someboity named Kittle. And so she packed up her things. Including the parrot, returned to her parents In Orlcan, N. Y and brought suit for divorce. The woes of the poor rich are detailud in some dry statistics given out last week by Appraiser George W. Wanmaker. During tha month of March the total value of automobiles Imported Into thla country through New York waa only $127,946.92, or a scant third of the value of automobile Importations In March of last year. The most remarkable falling oft Is that of precloua stones and lewelrv. Th intoi value for March was $.m5H.7, about 13,000,. J0 below the value of diamonds and pearls Imported In March, 1907. If the Americans have lost their appetite for luxuries they are finding consolation in tweets. During the month the Importa tion of sugar waa 50 per cent more than In tha some month last year. A .liberal allowance of chewing tobacco la likely to be Included In the dally rs tlons'of a new baboon recently arrived at the Bronx menagerie from South Africa, and Immediately christened by the keep ers "Handsome Harry." When Harry, who Is a rare Hamadryas baboon, reached tha soo ho Immediately begsn to make trouble. He dashed himself against the bars, and the best efforts of the keepers couldnt make him tubslde. Ha disdained offerings of sugar, peanuts and other dainties, and was growing more and mora violent when he suddenly paused, threw a huge paw around Frank Eberhardt, one of tha keep ers, who was trying to soothe him, and fishing from the keeper's pocket a bag or chewing tobacco, thrust It Into his mouth and retired to a corner of the 'cage. apparently In supreme content. Hereafter a ration of chewing tobacco will be served with all Harry's meals. "It Is highly Interesting," says the Sun, "that a Beecher and a Burchard should meet as opposing counsel in a bit of liti gation before one of our highest court. one a son of Henry Ward Beecher, the other a son of Rum-Romanlsm-and-Itebel- lion, Burchard. Mr. Burchard s name Is fwts Sayre, after the eminent surgeon who, by cutting off one yard and a half of Dr. Burchard's digestive tube, saved the life of the man who afterwards con founded the republican party and defeated Blaine. Beecher and Sayre were llonesque men, even down to the roars and growls, and Burchard was much admired by both.' A bill ha been introduced in the legis lature to tax the dowry of the New York girl who takes a foreigner with a title for better or worse usually for worse. Then there are other peopla agitating their thoughts aa to why rich American girls marry titles and how it can be atopped. "The fault with these International mar riages," says a man who la qualified to speak on the subject, "is not to much with the girls aa with tha American men whom they know. Rich American girls are limited In their acquaintances to a certain claas of American men. These men they meet at dances, at teas and at the opera. But what kind of men are they? Hardly one In a doxen could earn his own living. He knows no trado. - If he has a profession he neither knows how to practice it successfully nor haa he the habits to do so. The men In New York whose life Is purely social and who do no 'useful things to excuse their existence on this earth are not of a type to which any bright young woman would care to tie herself for life. The rich young woman does not meet socially the bright, active, hard working man who does the real work of the railroads and the trusts and the traction companies. These young men are too busy to be attending monkey dinners and hovering around teas or co tillions after midnight. Most of these rich girls who marry titled foreigners do not know the real American man, and have never had the opportunity la compare his good points wlttt. the shining qualities of their foreign suitors." PERSOXAI.. NOTES. Secretary Taft will deliver the Memorial Day oration at Grant's tomb, on the Hud son river. New York. The president may attend. If Prince Helle can get w.thln annexing distance of the Gould millions, he probably won't mind how many spitting' matches ba becomes Involved in aa a result. A double distinction belongs to Henry Dorman of Liberal, Mo., he being the oldest man in his state and tlte oldest survivor of the civil war. He has lived in three cen turies, for lately ha celebrated his 109th birthday. It Is not generaly known that King Ed ward and Queen, Alexandra, of England, though far from being the oldest of the royal couples, have been married for mora years than any other pair of crowned heads In Kurope. Cltixens of the Dominion of Canada have been put in a great atate of expectation by the announcement that the heir to the British throne will attend the celebration of the tercentenary of Quebec and tha na tlonallsatlon of battlefields during ' tha week of July 22. The prince of Wales will accompany tha North Atlantic and French squsdrons. Ten thousand troops will be mobilised In Quebec for the celebration. It Is "expected that French and American warships will be present." Absolutely Puro Tho on(y &t!z!zj poxvdsr ksssSo wltli Hoy si Grapa Orcsza ef TcHsr fta Aha, Ih Lb.a FhssphIa PLAY OF POllTICi. Chan ares Mated ia the Carreat of - Party Affairs. Washington Post (Ind.). A short three months ago there was great Joy In the democratic ramp over the divis ion In the ranks of the republicans. The latter party seemed split up Into several factions. Each of them threatened to fight the others to extermination, while democ racy was practically united upon the sup port of one man for the presidency, though the union, to be sure, was not In all cases a willing one. But democracy was delighted at the prospect of victory. 1'pon the assur ance of a united party against a conglomer ation of factions. Its cohorts shouted to gether like a band of college boys at a foot ball match, "Oh, fellows, now's the time to score!" But the three months have wrought a change, and those joyous shouts have de veloped a dubious ring. With the nomi nating conventions less thsn threo months away, the republican rsnks have shifted front and are dally growing more consoli dated. Reports tend to show the party la rallying steadily tq the support of Mr. Tart or. If not him, displays at least a willing ness to concentrate solidly behind tome one of Its asptrsnts for the White House chair. It Is gradually, but surely, rounding Into unity. Not so with the democrats. The assured solidarity is threatening to dissolve, Just as Mr. Brysn's opponents of his own party prophesied that it would. First, Out of the ranks of the disgruntled democrats Mr. Hearst has organized a new party, which is bound to have considerable strength, and he has assured the country that hla new party certainly will not sup port Mr. Bryan. Second, the friends of Governor Johnson have come out in the open and b- gun an organized campaign for him. Governor Johnson Is a strong man. and his candidacy Is bound to weaken tha oratorical Nebraskan In the very states where, outside of the south, he expected to find his stanchest support. Now . the populists have placed Tom Watson of Georgia st the bead of their, ticket, and a party following which had been aurely counted upon for Mr. Bryan has been alienated from him and thrown to the southerner. The last of these desertions from the leadership- of the "Peerless One" haa not yet been written but as much again may happen In another three months. All of which goes to show that what looks so fair In December may not always ba radiant with loveliness in July, and that It Is not well to fry one's fish until he haa caught them. The play of politics it never over until the final curtain Is rung down and all the lights put out. BR VANISH AND POPI I.I9M. St. l.aala Coaveatlaa Viewed by a Conservative Democrat. Philadelphia Record (dem.). The DODulists of Mr. Bryan's own state regard him aa one of themselves. Tills Is a very Interesting disclosure as the time for the democratic national convention ap proachea. The populists of Nebraska must be pretty well acquainted with Mr. Bryan. In 1S9I he was actively consorting with them In the calling of a convention. Ha dropped out of congress because he could not carry the democratic party into tne nnnullst ramn. He was a delegate to tha democratic national convention In 1896. be cause In Nebraska the demoerata and the popullsfs were hsrdly distinguishable. He hn h.en aunnnrted by a considerable part of the" populists In his presidential cam paigns. The populists of hit atate made a determined effort to prevent a nomina tion in Rt. Louia last week with the Idea that if the democratic party nominated Mr. Bryan It would be needless to put populist ticket in the field. They were de feated, a majority of the convention pre ferring to put up a straight-out populist ticket; but their efforts an their purposes sre highly Instructive. They announced that If the democratic party should nominate Mr. Bryan the Nebraska populists would Piano Prices Withm Everyone's Reach Because Because Because UU illl V o Because Because Because We are factory distributers for Kranlch A Bat'b. Krakaucr, Kimball. Bush & Lanel, Hallet & Davis, Melville Clark, Cable-Nelson, Weser Bros., Victor, Conwsy, Whltuey, Mandfleld, Kensington, Cramer, etc., etc. t L 'HOSPE CO., 1513 Doufllas St. Branch lotuses: Council Bluff i, Iowa; Kearnej and Lincoln, Njb, P - A support him to a rnn That Mr. Bryan's views are those of the populists hardly ad mlts of question. The temporary chairman of this con vention or populists was Coxey still re membered aa the . leader of his' "army." The permanent chairman said In hla speech that tha country was rips for French revolution and It only needed tha "genius of a Robespierre and the eloquence of a Danton to set the country In a blase." Tha financial plsnk In the platform this convention adopted declared In favor of tha Issue of Irredeemable "fiat" money by the government "direct to the. people" and In quantities to suit. The opposition of a majority of tha convention to tha Ne braska delegation does not seem to have been based upon any difference of opinion with Mr. Bryan, but simply, to tha deter mination of tha middle-of-the-road popu lists to maintain their owft organisation and have a ticket of their own. All of thla Is highly Important to democrats who are going to Denver. l.HV GEMS. '. ; "Pon," remarked t'ncle Eben, - "don't worry about a few failures. Jes' look at de success wlf which de fruit crop keeps Star'"' round stx yr. "-Washington "And you call yourself honest? Huh!' 'Hlr, I keep the commandments. 'That must ho because you've got an Ides, that they belong to somebody else." Cleve land Leader. Fashion had dictated that amputation o the whisker. "Never," exclaimed tha populists, naatlh convening. "Once shsved, we couldn't b distinguished from Bryan democrata." Phlladelphla Ledger. .'.yi onu...rxoT.dlnIJr tona ' trains animal exhibitions." "Is that ao?" "Yes: he says he would go miles to . a good pony ballet." Baltimore American "Bridget," said Mrs. Orouchey, "t don't like the looke of that man who called to see you last night." "Well, well," replied Bridget, "ain't It fuhny, ma'am? He said the samo about you." Philadelphia Prem. "Doctor. said the patient, after psylnc his bill, "if thsre Is anything In the theory or tha transmigration of souls you'll ba a warriors after death.". "Reallyl" exrlalmrd Dr. ., Bilker," "that sounds rather flattering." ' ' "Yea; you're aueh a aplendid chargwr." Philadelphia Presa. "You can't always Judge a politician by his rsmpalgn text-book." "No." answered Senator Sorghum, "but you could often find out a lot that's In teresting aqd Important bv getting a look Into hit checkbook." Washington Star. "After all. Ma the wise man who can change his opinion." "But tha widest men simply can't do It." "Why not?" "Because they've been dead for years." -Catholic Standard and Times. The hobo was pleading for pity. "It's dls way, yer honor." he whined. "I don't git no chsnce. Everybody'! agin me dey'ro all conspirln' ter Jgrep me down." The Judged beamed benevolently. "Well, nobody ahull say that I joined In that con spiracy," he km Id. "Trying to keep you down, are they? Well, thev shant do It. I'll aend you up." Cleveland leader. SOLDIERS OF FORTlTIf B. . Succe.s Magazine. Today we have Journeyed far, My heart andf I; Chme home at dusk 'neath a star Hung keen and high. The morn was a Made of steel Scabbard of white Bonnie and brave to feel In the burnished light. i As we footed the open rosd We ssng tbe sun; Love was the debt we owed . The day begun. The hills were abrupt and blue Csatles of kings. ' ' To be won and wandered through For precious things. . Noon snd the long afternoon Gladness and hope And a shadow that walked too toon The westward alope. Sn Is the wild world won. By them who roam: But best of the day that It done The door of home. the Iloape atore. carries ths largest and most varied stock of high grade pianos In the west. s . the Oaa Fries, 78o Commlsstoa plan which It oilKliiated many veara ago, lias been maintained steadfastly al ways as protection against high prices and an assursnce of fairest treatment. 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