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f t &k r :- - r L v & 1 963 K rr vr . s. VOL. XV., NO. XLV ESTABLISHED IN 1S86 PRICE FIVE CENT "l 5 i ft! '. s LINCOLN. NEBR., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1900. THE COURIER, bmisni the rosTomci at Lincoln as SECOND CLASS MATTSB. PUBM8HEDEVEBY 8ATOBDAY HE COiRlER PRINTING AND PHBLISIIK CO Office 1132 N street, Up Stain. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARMS. Editor Subscription Kates Id Advance. Per annum 9100 Six months 75 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 The Couxm will not be responsible for toI utary communications unless accompanied by return postage. Communications, to receire attention, must be stoned by tne full name of the writer, not merely as a guarantee of good faith, bat for publication if adrisable. r OBSERVATIONS. 1 a Malcontents. Mr. S. T Cochrane, chairman of the Lancaster county republican cen tral committee, in an officially signed communication published in the State Journal of the 4th inst. in writing of the then approaching election, said: "On the legislative ticket there will be no appreciable falling off, despite the frantic efforts of the handful of malcontents who have sought by all the underhanded means at their com mand to induce republicans to be rec reant to their duty." When D. E. Thompson, alter his defeat in the republicacan senatorial caucus, offered to support principles advocated by fusionists and combat ted as wrong by republicans, he by that act of shame laid' the foundation of opposition to his senatorial candi dacy within the party which he of fered to betraj. If the legislature which assembles in January next shall be controlled by fusion forces, as now seems possible, that condition will be the direct result.of the same act of the same Thompson. There can be no doubt that Mr. Cochrane is convinced that Thompson would have defeated Judge Hayward after he be came the caucus nominee had be been able to do so, yet he never denounced Thompson as a "malcontent" for that attempt. In the opinion of the chair man of the committee Thompson is not to be criticised for that act of per fidy, but if republicans refuse to sup port his senatorial candidacy or to advocate the election of legislative candidates who will vote in support of that candidacy, they are "malcon tents."' The fact that republicans express thair contempt for the can didacy of one who sought by betrayal to injure the party authorizes Mr. Cochrane in his otllcial capacity as chairman to condemn not the man who offered to desert and enter the service of the enemy but the men who denounced the tendered act of deser tion. The reason of Mr. Cochrane's frantic support of Mr. Thompson's senatorial candidacy may be easily discovered. For about fifteen years Mr. Cochrane has been the incumbent of a public office and he enjoys feed ingat the public crib. He is now a candidate for the district be'nch whenever a judge is chosen. In his opinion Mr.Thompson has the power to secure for him the nomination and the election to that otlice. It is well known that if Mr. Thompson has the power to name the man who is to wear the judicial ermine that man must be one who will determine all cases as he .may direct. In other words, he must be the judge in fact while the one who takes the oath of office and .bears the title must be his willing instrument to register his de crees and execute his will. It is pos sible that in Mr. Cochrane Mr. Thompson has found the man who by reason of his subserviency and suple ness of knee will become his preferred candidate for judge. If such shall be the event there may be found a hand ful of 'malcontents" who are neither holders of nor aspirants for office who will to such .an extent impress their views as to the fitness of a candidate for office as to make the preferred candidate, whoever he may be, anx ious if not uneasy. o J "Hanna.tt William Allen White was once cele brated as the author of "The Court of Boyville." He is more widely cele brated now as the author of the sketch of the life and character of Hannaandof Bryan printed in Mc Clure's magazine. Mr. White is known for his habit of telling the truth, of recognizing what everyone knows without words and from the assortment of English words, select ing just the ones that express the underlying inarticulate judgment of the masses. "The Court of Boyville" is perhaps Mr. White's most durable hold on posterity, but the sketches of these two men are his strongest claims on present interest. One of the last paragraphs in this essay cailed "Hanna" is particularly apposite: "No better evidence may be found to day ihat the Unites States has a repre sentative government, than is found in the dominance of Hanna in the ma jority political party in the nation. Hanna is a representative American. He is the American average. Thomas B. Reed, with his faculty for epigram, with his cultured conscience, and with his moral and intellectual cour age, stands as far above the American average as Boss Tweed lay below it. Reed is an American ideal Tweed a horrible example. Mr. Bryan, emo tional, fanatic, raw, represents Amer ican moments when mob spirit rages; hut Hanna, with his apparent faults, which he does not deny, nor his friends try to conceal, and with his undeniable virtues thrift, industry, practical sense, a cash register con science, fidelity, love of truth with his efficiency and that covereth a multitude of sins with his sense of humor, that anchors him to sanity, Hanna is a walking breathing, living body of the American spirit." " '-It is McKinley, not Hanna, that controls. The masterful, self-willed, nimble-wittcd, impetuous, virile Hanna in the presence,of the placid, colorless, imperturbable, emotionless, diplomatic, stolid McKinley, becomes superficially deferential and consider ate of the Presidential dignity, almost to an unnecessary degree. It is known to all men at all familiar with McKinley's administration, that in the. differences which "have come up in the discussion of administrative affairs, when Hanna has been con sulted at all, he has almost invariably yielded his opinion to McKinley's. The friendship one might call it al most the infatuation of Hanna for McKinley is almost inexplicable on any other theory save that of the affinity of opposites. History has often paralleled, but she has never fully ex plained her parallels. The Treasure of the Museum. If a boat-load of men and women were cast on a desert island and the women contributed their share of tools, provisions or work it is toler ably certain that the modern woman would have something to say about the disposition of the clothing food or tools she herself had helped bring ashore to the general fund. If there were too many back-woodsy males, who objected to her having any share in the disposition or administration of the assets which she herself helped to secure these new-women cast-aways would take their stuff and their fac ulty for uaking even a temporary shack comfortable, and move them to another part of the island. Women will never submit again to a new start under old conditions. It is a mistake to take a man like Mr. Bixby too seriously. His acquaint ance with the modern co'lege woman is slight and his opinions- are rigid and incapable of revision. He be longs to a type rapidlv becoming val uable because it is so rare. The type was common enough in the days when Tom Jones was written. Such opt ions as Mr. Bixby reiterates in a daily paper are solely interesting be cause they are evidence of the tenac ity of prejudice. Every day 1 read, papers published in San Francisco, in Denver, in Chicago in New York, in ew Orleans and in Omaha. Not one of them contains woric of unques tionable archaic origin such as that displayed in the Journal. It really be longs in a museum in the department of ethnology The only other speci men of this sort of writing is some times found in college papers where the male undergraduate bleats in lame rhyme because he knows no other way to assert himself and a superiority be feels, but can not dem onstrate. Reading, j experience and the increasing efficiency of women to help in the work of the world prove to every one not blinded by sex-egotism that men and women are individuals, members of society and of the tody politic, inheriting and developing their brains without regard to sex. That man who is continually bleat ing about the superiority of the sex Ire belongs to, is inherently weak and bis consciousness of it. leads him to assert the strength of the society or sex responsible for him. No man with a creative intellect spends his time badgering the other sex or mak ing ribald jokes or writing ribald doggerel about women. Fart of 'the editorial pages of The Journal is an example in point. Mr. Gere's digni fied, apposite condensed discussions of the literature, economics, politics and institutionsof his time are worthy expressions of an original mind, and of a gentle spirit. Mr. Bixby' daily 'reiteration of woman's inferi ority, her ignorance, her place and her unworthy ambition to think her own thoughts and vote her own choice, is disgusting to the intelligent women of Nebraska. The Solitary Summer. Elizabeth, of the "German Garden' has written another book, whicli might have been called by the same name, so like is it. The style is so limpid, so free from all affectations literary or otherwise that one reading of the book is not enough. The char acter of the woman who wrote these two books is fascinating and her'style reveals it clearly. She lives at peace witli the world, remote from it, but Christianly loving and serving every body who enters her solitude. The anonymous author did not write her books as evangelists write, tracts,, with the purpose of helping a doubt ing or trembling soul to tire better life. Nevertheless they have a search ing.quality and mercilessly reveal a threadbare soul to itself. The nine teenth century was a period of organ ization. Shop-keepers who sold dry goods, became members of syndicates who sold everything from groceries to buggies. Owners of mines and oil wells in one part of the country be came members of a syndicate which controlled the coal and oil in several or in many states. A theatrical man ager of one opera-house or theater combined with other managers in other towns and they control the drama as it is played, north, south,, east and west. Women haveorganized clubs and large parties are more fre quently given by an organization than by an individual. The farms are de serted and-the populationis"grouped. Solitude and the invitation to the soul are dreaded and avoided. Eliza beth, like Pascal, teaches the richness-