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jftfh rtB.fli MMjwwiAliT.i9! - v:apn9ito 1 ' I.i.-T. JV iUANCEfeID Published Every Thursday by The Hnrid Publishing Company. T. J. O'KEEFE Editor J. B. KNIEST , . , . . Associate Editor WHY V(E PUBLISH FRIDAY. Tim Herald is Jicltl for publication this week awaiting 'the nomination at tjjp democratic national convention. It occurred at 3:05 this (Friday) morning. Aa in tho case of the republican nation al convention, when The Herald was first to furnish tho news here of Wm. Taft's nomination, so wo desire to herald the information of V. J. Bryan's selection. The common people have spoken. Go tell your troubles to John Rockafcller, Brother Guffey. D. They surely tamed tho T&mmany tiger into a docile, loving kitten. Even Alice Roosevelt-Long worth hurrahed for Bryan at tho convention. Temporary Chairman Bell had tho truo democratic ring in his speech at tho Denver convention. The Box Butte delegation to tho con vention at Denver gained a world-wide reputation in the Bryan boost. Mrs. Sarah Decker of Dcnyer haB announced her candidacy for congress from Colorado, Now wo'll see who'll do tho talking. Now that the convention has spoken and Mr. Bryan, s the choice of the pttoplo, wo want -no more "Guff-ey" from Pennsylvania, Guffoy says he will mako campaign fodder but of the way he and his hench men wcro thrown out of the convention. Go your best, .Guffey, A delegate fr6m tho Btato of New York announced his refusal to attend tho Denver convention. That delegate missed the time of his life. -- -1 c,--, r" 1 ' They say the Bryan hay drop at his Fairview front por,c.h shows indication of a very short , crop., Well, it will have four years' time to recuperate after March 4th next. It is said that a prospect is on foot to raise elephants in tho wilds of Ari zona for use in the American army. No doubt the G. O. P. will hail this news with delight after the coming election. Press reports from Paris state that Count Boni recently lost his meal ticket and as a result this has led to complica tions that will mean a scandal in the Prince Helie 'de Sagau-Gould families. Count Bouie should not feel so offended over a little matter like this. We know of a prominent young society man hav ing the same bad luck not many months ago and he never opened his mouth about it. Cheer up, dear Boni. THE GREAT CONVENTION. Well, the democratic na tional convention has con cluded its work so far as reso lutions and presidential nomi nation go and Mr. Bryan is the man. Now that the smoke of battle has cleared, it ;nust be be admitted Mr. Bryan has been nominated in ohe of 'the great est conventions the nation has ever known. It was different jUYmahy respects to the re publican convention held in ; Chicago last month. In the latter the delegates were given a candidate in the person of Wm. Taft whom the people do not want. He is the rep resentative! qi monopolies and combinations. His govern ment by. injunction action was still nauseating to them and they accepted their standard bearer ' with apathy and in difference, ,; In the. Denver convention the storm of.applause whenever '.,, the name of Bcyan was men tioned indicated that he was undoubtedly - and enthusiasti- callNMttie leader of ,tjic , people and" as such received the nom ination as the greatest desire of the masses and not the classes. The platform as constructed may readily be imagined by all who are acquainted with the great leader's past record. We feci that we could repeat it, plank for plank', though as yet it has not been published officially to the world. The democratic platform is undoubtedly a Bryan platform and that platform voices the wishes of the American people. CAMPAIGN KEYNOTES Bryan Needs No One to Voice His Principles. KNOWN TO ALL THE PEOPLE. Senotor Burrows' Wasted Effort at Chicago Sdoctlon of Campaign Gcneralo Skillful Leaders A-plenty In the Democratic Ranks Collapse of Mr. Hearst's Mayoralty Recount. By WILLIS J. ABDOT. The preliminary forecasts of political conventions nro apt to bo" unprofitable. As n rule, they aro based upon tho per sona! prejudices, nmbltlons or hopes of those who give them out. For example, hero In Chicago three weeks ago If you read the nowspaper foreensts you would think that Taft was certainly doomed to defeat and that the trium phant allies, cither by n Roosevelt stnmpcdo or somo mysterious or darkly suggested coup, would crush him into tho dust The wholo world knows tho result. Tho allies, Impotent to stay tho course of tho convention, were mndo ri diculous by tho comploto collapso of nil their predictions and pretensions. Tho samo situation existed with ref erence to tho preliminaries of the Den ver convention. It happened that the subcommittee having In charge tho ar rangements for that convention wns mado up of men most of whom arc at jicart hostllo to Mr. Bryan. It "wad drawn from a national commltteo which was chosen to elect Judge Par ker and Lad for Its chairman Roger Sul livan of Illinois, whoso personal antag onlsm to Bryan Is' a matter" of general notoriety. Being on tho field, tho .mem bers of this cqmmlttc,o, wcrp.jabjo to In fluence newspaper correspondents to. tno extent tnat most ridiculous, state ments woro circulated throughout the entlro country. In their endeavors to accomplish this end tho membors of tho commltteo wcro ably seconded by Governor Johnson's press bureau. Much stress was laid upon the selec tion of a temporary chairman, who is supposed to sound "tho keynote" of tho campaign. Personally I am In clined to regard this Is as a trivial matter. With an unknown candidate nn Introduction of this sort might bo n matter of somo Importance. Rut most Democrats will tulnk that Bryun Is his own keynote. For more than twelve years ho has been going up and down tho land preuchlng those things In which ho believes, and the notion that nn obscuro Inwyer from central Illi nois was to bo selected to explain In ad vance what will be the meaning of n Democratic campaign In which Mr. Bryan Is the candidate verges some what upon the ridiculous. A struggle or u test of strength over an Issue of this sort might be entertaining as a contest between rival political factions, but Its bearing upon the cnmpalgn would be about as weighty as tho tly upon tho locomotive wheel. Consider, for example, tho Burrows keynote speech at Chicago. When the Michigan senator was. chosen to deliver this oration wild cries of treachery and treason went up from tho Taft forces, but nobody, evon nmong the few who heard. Burrows, remembers what ho had to say. The only lingering' recollecUon of tho Bur rows outbreak was tho skill with which be invited a Roosevelt stam pedo at a time when stampeding was obviously Impossible. The Contests at Denver, There were only two really serious contests before tho national commlt teo and the convention at Denver. No- tlco of contest was given from tho District of Columbia, Involving six votes. This Is a time honored prec edent, for.not In the last sixteen years havo the doughty Democrats of that District, who havo uo electoral votes, failed to send contesting delegations to Democratic conventions. As one of them remarked to me when I expostu lated on their seeming dissensions: "Well, wo can't vote for president, for congressmen, for governors, for may ors or for aldermen, All wo cau vote for is delegates, so we voto for as many different kinds of delegates ns possible nnd get our political excite ment out of that" Tho contest from Cook county, 111., which Is practically tho city of Chica go, was more serious. Tho story of this contest Is an Interesting one as show ing some of the desperate endeavors of n faction which, prdfesslujj lip service to Bryan, is .distinctively nnU-Bryqi and anti-Democratic to control the Denver Ue'gation. Theprlaiarylawof IUIuols distinctly specifies, the tliuet, which primaries shall be ifeld In cer tain pountles. including Cook, The' re- noulitnble Sullivan, fearing the effect of delay, culled tho Cook county prima ries at an lllozal time. As n mult tlx state convention which was to ndml nnte stato ofllccra and elect delegates wns shown to bo Illegal, nnd Its man ngsre prudently postponed the ee!octo:t of tho Mnt officials. They proceeded, however, to elect the delegates, which woro thoroforp tainted with Illegality. Th opposition to the SnlllTan force proceeded ontlrcly outside of tlw km to select delegates of their own. to that two admittedly Illegal delegations con tested for seats at Denver. Committees on cxodontlals nro not over given to considering nlco Questions of law or Justice when It In necessary to ?t tho steam roller In motion. The P.epnb llcnn committee undor the guldanco of Mr. Hitchcock taught ns timid Demo crats n few things along that lln, nnd If n committee on credentials should act in n wny displeasing to ths bod of a convention In which Is on over whelming and coherent majority Intent on one purpowj tho road roller Is apt to roll over tho committee. The Campaign Generals. I cannot remember in sixteen years of political observation a tlmo when tho campaign had progressed na far as 't did this year without either party hav ing centered upon n chairman of Its na tional committee. To an observer from tho outsldo it wonld seem that tho work done by Mr. Hitchcock In tho prelimi nary campaign would Justify his ap pointment to lend U10 real campaign. But perhaps tho very effectiveness of his work, nnd particularly the hard hand with which ho carried through his purposes, has bred so raauy an tagonisms within tho party as to af fect his usefulness nt the head of the nntlonnl committee. Senator Murray Crane, ono of tho Republican party's most astute politicians, would not ac cept tho position because, It Is report ed, he thought that tho real campnlgn manager would bo a person with prom inent teeth residing nt Oyster Bay. On tho Democratic side there is no chance of tho re-election of Thomas Taggart nor any purpose on his part to seek ro-electlou. There never wns any chance for tho cholco of Roger Sullivan, and his name was men tioned only for tho purpose of 'em bnrrasslng Mr. Bryan. Former Seua tor R. F. Pettlgrew would mako. nn Ideal chairman, but ho himself has said to mo that ho did not desire the place and would not accept It. 'He will be national committeeman from his stnte and hopes to be a member of tho executive committee. Ther,e Is serious consideration of Hou.-D' R. Francis of St. Louis. A member' of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. In 1800 Gov ernor Francis' bolted tho ticket with loud outcries. He came back Awo years later, expressing regret arid" re pentance and not seeking party elect oral honors, and has declared nitiro than once-in tho last four years thatlhei would llko to take hold ns a. wojr and prove his sincerity In the; cause. GoVcrnor "Frn'hctt Is 'a man or fd'fce. Indomitable Industry, wealth and asso ciation with men of wealth .who might bo useful In ;tbo financing of the cam paign. Finally on the list Is Tom L. Johnson, the hnrd fighting mayor, ,of Cleveland, who needs no introduction1 to the American people. Out of this list it should bo easy to pick n man who would lend the Democratic co horts to victory. Whllo of course the national committee formally selects the chnlrmnn, it has been the practice to give the candidate practically a deciding vote. The Eclipse of Hearst Democrats iu the middle west, par ticularly in Illinois and Indlnna. are Inclined to chuckle over tho complete collnpsc of tho Hearst mayoralty re count Hero in Chicago Hearst has been something of a menace to the Democratic party, especially whllo that party has been In Its present di vided condition. Former Mayor Dunne, ono of tho cleanest and most well meaning executives Chicago ever had, but probably tho worst politician that over sat In tho city hall, practically turned his administration over to Hearst without preliminary Inquiry ns to whether tho lnfluenco thus built up was to bo exorcised for tho g6od of tho Democratic party or to advance Hearst's own personally conducted. In dependence league, As might havo been expected. It was used for tho lat ter purpose, and Dunno retired from office, chagrined and broken In politi cal strength, leaving a broken organ ization behind him. 'Hearst agents have been worfcing persistently in Chi cago, where he has two newspapers, building up an organization. But tho collapso of his mayoralty pretensions In Now York has been n serious blow to bis pretensions here. Tho fatal thing for nn aspiring politician Is to put himself In a position to be laughed at For nearly four years Hearst has been crying from tho mountain tops that ho was elected mayor of New York and that a Judicial recouut of the ballots would provo It Ho has heaped opprobrium upon his opponent, Mnyor McClellan, calling him "fraudmayor" and declaring that his acts were Ille gal. Now comes tho count completed, and tho Hoarst sains nro immaterial. Apparently tho chief political asset of tho Hearst movement is this clamorous cry charging corruption on the part of his adversaries and claiming complete Integrity for his own forces. "Say," said a local Democratic poli tician In Chicago who has flirted some what with the Hearst forces, "If it took nearst $75,000 and four years to prove that he wasn't elected mayor after all, what would happen If those Independence guys nominated him for president? Would wo find out who was elected an.v tlmo this century?" It Is the passing gibe of the man on the street of thl3 kind that) Is liuely to put the Hearst mojeuient out. of business beforo It become? a meriaco '.nationally. , . Chicago. Success In Business Depends Upon Individual System. By the Rev. Dr. MADISON C PETERS ot New York. jrj; man without Bystom jg liko a vtflxnt a rodder, C tossed nnd blown about on an unknown bog, drifting hero and there, missing tho' right port and finally stranding on tho shoro of a mjaspent existence. All business to bo successful must havo A DEFI- -:.& nite PLAN AND UNWAVERING PURPOSE. Our really successful men, tho merchant princes, tho manufacturers, tho bankers, tho captains of industry, havo gained their eminence by RIGIDLY ADHERING HARD TO A SPECIFIED SYSTEM and demanding that thoso in thoir employ obeervo it as well as them Bclves. Theso aro tho mon -who early learn tho golden rulo of a time and placo for everything and everything in its proper timo and place. Not only must thero bo system in management, but oIbo method in arrangement. "Much loss of goods and loss of timo aro entailed by carelessness in placing of merchandise. Articles aro thrown around hero, there and everywhere, jumbled together without any regard to their class or kind, nnd consequently something desired is not found when it is wanted most, and valuablo timo is spent in searching for it. THIS WANT OF ORDER IS PARTICULARLY OBSERVABLE IN SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS, WHICH, AS A CONSEQUENCE, RARELY GROW INTO MORE PRETENTIOUS ENTERPRISES. THE BIG STORES IN A GREAT DEGREE OWE THEIR RISE AND STANDING TO A COMPLETE SYSTEM, EVERY DEPARTMENT OF WHICH DOVETAILS INTO ANOTHER WITH PERFECT FIT. ONE IS MADE DEPENDENT ON ANOTHER, AND AT STOCK TAKING EACH MUST BEAR ITS OWN RESPONSIBILITY AND BE ACCOUNTABLE IF ANY DISCREPANCY ARISES. Individual carelessness may bo said to bo at tho root of all failures. THE MAN WHO NEGLECTS LITTLE THINGS will retrograde to neglect tho larger until ho is outside tho palo of reliability alto gether. Tho character of a man can bo well gauged by his system or his lack of it. Tho orderly man is scarcely ever taken at a. disadvantage. Ho can put his hand on just what ho wants at a moment's notice, but ho who is slovenly in his habits, who has no order in his arrangement, spends half his timo in looking for things which aro not lost and, as a result, can never accomplish much, and tho man who loses an hour in tho morning will bo all day hunting for it and at night will find that ho has not discovered it. GROWING INTO THE HABIT OF PUTTING THING8 DOWN ANY WHERE LEADS' THE INDIVIDUAL INTO A STATE OF SLAVERY TO HIS OWN CARELE8SNE8S. THE HABIT BECOMES STRONGER AND .STRONGER UNTIL IT J.8 A PERFECT TYRANT, FILLING HIS LIFE WITH CONFUSION AND .DISORDER,, AND IN THE END BRINGING FAILURE UPON ALL HIS .EFFORTS. On Electing Incapables Xo Offices of Importance. By GEORGE' R. PECK of Chicago, Former President Amerletn Btr Assoclttlon. IF a political party has no higher aim than tho personal inter ests of its members it is but a body of mercenaries. Thero was a day when parties had leaders. Far bo it from mo to say that they do not have them now. But in every party thero aro men who give their days and their nights to meditat ing ignoblo schemes for controlling the people's will. They rule the organization from within, erecting an imperium in imperio, fostering AN ARISTOCRACY OF SPOILS, A DESPOTISM OF DECEIT AND FRAUD. They sit in judgment of men and policies, RE PRESSING MERIT AND ADVANCING THE INCAPABLE AND THE UNWORTHY WHO DO THELR BIDDING. It is a vicious system, worso a thousandfold than that described by Kinglake, which, in tho Crimean war, decreed that royal favorites fresh from London drawing rooms should bo invested with high com mands, whilo Colin Campbell, with his wounds and forty years of service, should bo only a colonel. I believe tho majority of men who hold office in tho United States try in good conscience to bo faithful to their trusts ; but, as a few cow ards may demoralize a whole army of bravo men, so a handful of Bcoundrels in tho public service can frustrato the best efforts of their honest colleagues. With such questions as theso you will havo to grapple, for PATRIOTISM MEANS FIDELITY TO THE REP UTATION AS WELL AS TO THE POWER AND GREAT .1 Hi. NESS OF THE STATE. Lack of Individual Courage Is the Malady of the Age. By WOODROW WILSON. President of Princeton University. W OOK about you, with candid eye, and you will find that THE I MALADY OF THE AGE IS LACK OF INDIVIDUAL yf COURAGE, LACK OF INDIVIDUAL INTEGRITY, of thought and action. What is tho law of life in America now ? Is it that every man should form his own moral judgments and speak them fearlessly, that every 'man should seek to govern his own life an'd squnro it with his own independent moral judgments ? It has always been THE EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUAL HERE AND THERE who asserted his own rights of conscience and took command of his own conduct. Does America today show a largo or a small proportion of such men? That is our ultimato test of vitality. The tendencies of our minds, tho tendencies of our ago, havo affected aliko our standards and our conduct. Wo havo grown very "practical." Our present cynicism will not last, is not lasting. Tho tendency to be- "practical" will not conquer tho tendency to bo moral. The great awakening wo have just had to tho moral aspects of so much of .modern business is only tho beginning of change. THE MORAL IST WILL DICTATE BOTH TO THE LAWYER AND TO THE MAN OF BUSINESS. i: LOOSE SCREWS BY THE JANITOR The full dinner pail's a fizzle, The doughnut gag's a miss, For we'll all shout for Bryan Andstickasclosetohimasthis. Many a man can plank a Whole party platform who can't plank down the price of a shave. Tlte Fourth of July game probably taught the Alliance ball team a morrill. We print this just to get rid of it. Chairman Bell tolled tho G. O. P. where it was at. You will see this in 4,000 other papers. THE FIRECRACKER. So loath to lose my gaudy hues, I vainly strived to linger. When Willie Crews blew on my fuse Why, I blew off his finger. The Dahlman train to Denver carried 200 cases and ten barrels ot beer, ice, cheese, et celery. Jim, we'd have made you governor for life if you would have taken that cargo through here. A Texas prophet predicts that the world will come to an end 117 years. That is, if the weather isn't too dis agreeable. Do you feel the gale of the G. O. P.'s wail As wo tie tho full (?) dinner pail to the ele phant's tail? The customer looked at his dinner suspiciously. We serve none but good republi cans here," said the waiter, noticing his action. I'm a republican alright, but what has that to do with it," answered the diner. "Well, if you're a good republican you'll look at the chicken and not the feathers." Billy Taft is playing golf, TeOdy soon will hunt for lion. The common people, well they Soon will be elcctin' Bryan. Dear Janitor: I have lose ze meal ticket. Sacrel What shall I do. Count Boni. Just keep quiet, Boni, maybe they'll give it back to you. The Denver Times says Mrs. Alice Longworth left the convention hall followed by a largo crowd consisting of Nick. Did Mrs. Ruth Leav itt? James Graham'ji Fourth of July float was comical, in fact, I never sausage a funny th)ngbefpre. r MAL NOTES Prof. Wtlson nave a bd!cv chanel talk Wednesday on his. fayorite subject, "Grammar." ( . : Chloe, Rice, wbohas been attending normal ha.droppedjjut, .of school to work' on the ranch. ' S. J.. Quantock,- who went to his home at Minatare last, week, has re turned and will be with us until the close ,of normal. , The Chicago glee club will be pres ent at chapel-, Thursday morning and sing for the benefit of the students, a favor which will be highly appreciated. Supt. Walton gave an interesting chapel talk Monday on history, a fav orite subject with him, and will con clude his remarks at chapel period later in the week. Many of the students went home Fri day evening or Saturday morning to spend the Fourth. Many, however, remained in Alliance to participate iu the celebration here. Interest on the part of the students is continuing unabated and these last two weeks will be busiest weeks of the session, both on the part of the stu dents as well as the faculty. New students enrolled since the last issue of the paper-are as follows: Ethel bnyiier, Cavalier, S. D.; Anna Un capher, Sidney: Ethel Royal, Glen wood, Iowa; Nora Spracklen, Chadron; W. H. Campbell, Hope; Ed Lane, Simila. Superintendents Ritchie and Phillips are making a strong effort to secure teachers for all their schools before September and are securing all the available teachers. Cheyenne county will need 120 teachers, 67 of which have already contracted for schools. Box Butte county will need 95 teachers and Supt. Phlliibs has secured 60 at this time. Robert James of Sidney, a brother of Linnie James of the normal, came up to visit his sister last Friday and remained until Tuesday of this week. The number of other girls' brothers who came to Alliance to spend the Fourth because of normalgirls who re mained here to celebrate, is too numer ous to mention. Superintendent Hayes and Walton went to Marsland Friday evening and spent the Fourth catching all the fish in tho river at that place. It is report ed that the junior normal students par took of fish Sunday, which fish were furnished by Messrs. Hayes and Wal ton and were presumably the fish they caught at Marsland. We hardly un derstand the absence of fish stories. Neither has told anything about mak iog any great catches. This silence is strange. Doesit indicate that the fish were bought, not caught, by the afore said gentlemen? JUNIdttR " uu 'f ,