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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1908)
r m frwmpim Published Every Thursday by The HeraW PabHshmi Cewpany. T. J. O'KEBFE Editor J. B. KNIEST Associate Editor Subscription, 11.50 per year in advance. Entered at the postoflice at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. DemocraticNationalTicket FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT JOHN W. KERN OK INDIANA Politics is something women know little of, for it is out of their ordinary duties. The nomination of Taft was to be the signnl for immediate business re vival, still prosperity seems to lag. The Tin Plate Trust has cut wages five per cent, but still contiuues to be piotcctcd by the forty-five per cent tariff which was expressly devised to protect the working men. The young man who starts out with a resolution to make his character his capital, and to pledge his manhood for every obligation he may enter into, will never be a failure though he win neith er fame nor fortune. Whatever good can be said for Mr. Taft, am' doubtless he has many es timable qualities, should be his due, yet the fact remains that bis nomina tion was brought about by the use of official power for partisan ends. No substitute has ever been discov ered for honesty. Multitudes of peo ple have gone to the wall trying to find one, and our prisons are full of people who have attempted to substitute some thing else for it. Life is too short to go about with a sour countenance peddling pessimism and discontent. Each day there is a new road to be gone over and encour agement, smiles and good cheer should be the order, for no one can afford to leave stumbling blocks to binder dailv progress. Love of money works half the evil in the world. Thirst for riches is a di sease of the times which has always existed, but is daily growing more in tense and has kept many a one from reaching a better life; to be rich is the sole ambition of hosts of people. An engine just put into service on one of the railroads in England is of the Pacific type, and unlike locomotives in this country tho body, tcudcr and wheels are painted green and the bump ers red. Its name "Great Hear" is over the center driving wheels in gilt letters. The tender has a capacity of thirty-five thousand gallous of water and six tons of coal. ' The democrats will have ono advan tage in this campaign that never oc curred before. There will be $ 100,000 cash in the hands of the treasurer, less the expense of holding the Denver con vention, which should not exceed ?io, 000 if ordinary prudence has been ob served by the managers. Ninety thous and dollars 13 a pretty goo'd nest egg to begin the campaign upon aud not from a tainted source either. When the group of American battle ships approached the Golden Gate at San Francisco they were gieeted by an electric sign simply tho largest ever iu , existence. The huge frame work stood ' on the top of Telegraph hill and the word "welcome" in letters fifty feet high and thirty-eight feet wide; the total length of the sign was four hun dred feet, and eighteen thousand feet of one-half inch galvanized wire was required to properly brace it. Over twenty thousand electric light bulbs were usedin forming the letters, which when illuminated were visible thirty miles out at sea. Lumber used iu the construction of this ideal illuminator was more than forty-eight thousand feet. The great convention is over, the issues of the campaign have been join ed, and the candidates have been named. It may be interesting to con trast the two conventions. Both were dominated by one man, but by differ ent'methods. One was dominated by the force of federal patronage and was tnailo up of fodcral officeholders. O tie was dominated bv the fealty of millions ! of loyal democrats who are willing to 1 Co to the limit in their support of a I man who heads a righteous cause with the zeal of the old crusader. One was dominated by a man who had given much: the other by a man who had nothing to give. One was purely me chanical; the other was spontaneous. The Denver convention was a won derful gathering- the greatest political convention this country has ever seen. Right here it may be well to say that never was a convention handled so well by its officers, nor uever a city that equalled Denver's record for hos pitality and thorough preparation. The auditorium was adequate in every re spect. The decorations of the city were superb, and the stranger who lacked for food or bed was himself to blame. The world wondered when the Chicago convention broke all records for entbusiam at the mention of a name when it cheered forty-five min utes for Taft. Or, it was said to have cheered that long for Taft. The truth is that the first fifteen minutes of that demonstration was for LaFollettc. and ' then the Taft managers got busy and appropriated it, But on Wednesday j of convention week at Denver, Senator I Gore touched a match to the magazine . and for an hour and twenty-seven tnin-1 utes the iiftceu thousand people in the 1 convention hall milled like a lot ol ' stampeded steers, shouting and march ing and singing for Brjan. Everybody thought that meant only a small dem onstration when the nomination was really made. But at n o'clock on Thursday night, wheu Ignatius J. Dunn of Omahu had finished his elo quent nominating speech the conven tion broke loose again and kept it up for an hour and twelve minutes. All this made the Chicago convention dem onstration look like a republican prom ise to revise the tariff after election. Indianapoils and Lincoln. When John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States, returns to his home in Indianapolis he will be given a recep tion by Republicans and Democrats of his home city and the address of wel come will be delivered by Charles W. Fairbanks, the Republican Vice Presi dent now serving. Four years ago, when Fairbanks was welcomed home from the Chicago con vention, the address was made by John W. Kern, Democrat. The Kern demonstration soon to be held will, it is expected, be participated in by the entire city of Indianapolis without regard to party affiliations. They're rather glad to haye in In dianapolis a man big enough to be a candidate even for Vice President. In all of which the capital city of In diana differs somewhat from a few only a few of the people of the capi tal city of Nebraska, where a candi date for the Presidency does not re ceive courteous treatment at the hands of all. Lincoln Star, Republican. It Takes Money to Enact Amendments The following shows how the repub lican administration of Nebraska is using the tax pavers' money: Secretary of State Junkin has se-, lected the republican papers iu which ' will be published the proposed cousti- j tutional amendments. The law re-1 quires the proposed amendments shall 1 be published ii at least one newspaper tn every county in the state thirteen weeks before the election. The pro posed amendments will be voted upon at the state primary and if either party casts a majority of its votes for the j amendments, a straight party vote of tnat party cast at the general election will be counted as a vote for the( amendment. It will cost the state1 $14,490 forpublishing the amendments, The short amendment providing that the permanent school funds may be in-' vested iu school district bouds and I other securities will cost $63 for each I paper and the long one referring to the increase in the number of supreme judges and the increase in salaries will cost $98 for each paper. "NOTHING BUT PEOPLE." Followiug is an extract from Walter Wellmau's dispatch four days prior to the Denver convention, which dispatch was printed in the Chicago Record Herald: "There remains nothing for the men from Wall street and from the 'inter ests' to do but make as graceful a sur- renUer as Possible. And during the - next (ew da'3 much of the new9 wil1 ! pertam to tho manner and method of this inevitable bowing of the knee by plutocracy to the plowboy of the Platte. Here are the heroics, here is the drama of the hour. A man has conquered Mammon. A man, with nothing but the people behind him. No American j should be ashamed tbat.it is so. American Flag Dishonored by Graft and Civic Indifference. SisTBP By Rev. Or. CHARLES r. AKEO In lilt Clotintf Sermon of the Summer it the fifth Avenue Biotlit Church. New York. HE jxao IS z CORRUPT POLITICIAN of tho city or nation who debauches our institutions for graft aud plunder THAN IT WOULD BE IF A FOREIGN FOE TRAMPLED IT BENEATH HIS FEET. When you prefer your own selfish caso and com hM- fort to discharging ydur political duties YOU CONFESS YOUR SELF A CREATURE OF AN INFERIOR CIVILIZATION and unworthy of tho blood from which you sprang. TILE MEN BEST EQUIPPED TO DO GREAT WORK LN THE WORLD TODAY ARE NOT DOING IT. Is there to bo a breakdown of democracy? Whilo ono of our most prominent men is writing about "triumphant democracy" others equally prominent are writing about tho shame of the city. Whilo the star spangled banner continues to wave a common incident of our daily lifo is tho fcnowledgo that our cities are run by thieves. WHAT IS IT TO BE, "TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY" OR "THE SHAME OF THE CITY," "THE LAND OF 'THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE" OR PLUNDER? Ours is a democracy such a3 has never been seen under tho sun before, and there is a tremendous meaning in it. What force is to inspire the incoming millions from lands that are neither free nor brave, from lands of darkness and oppression ? It will not be sufficient to say that we can Tely on education. WHAT FORCES ARE AT WORK FOR RESTRAINT ON ONE HAND AND INSPIRATION ON THE OTHER? THE CHURCH O" THE LIV ING GOD, OF GOD INCARNATE, SPEAKING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE EVERLASTING LAWS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE CHURCH MUST SEE TO IT THAT WARD POLITICS ARE RESCUED FROM THE DEGRADATION INTO WHICH THEY HAVE FALLEN AND MUST LIFT POLITICAL AMBITIONS OUT OF THE OOZE AND SLIME AND PETTY CHICANERY AND MAKE OF POLITICAL EFFORT SOME THING MORE THAN WIRE PULLING, LOG ROLLING AND GRAFT. American Business Manners Are Capable of Improvement. By WILLIAM ARCHER. London Critic. AM constrained to own that, on tho whole, I find tho Ameri can young man whom ono meets in the way of business pain fully lacking in tho ordinary amenities of human intercourse. 1 He is apt to be curt, careless, supercilious, determined not to move a hair's breadth'out of his allotted track in order to bo service able to you. Tho hotel clerk is perhaps tho type of this class of young man, but thero aro in his caso extenuating circumstances. Ho is doubtless apt to be very much worried and pestered, so that the only way to keep his nerves from becoming uncontrollably jumpy is TO GET INTO A MECHANICAL ROUTINE AND ACT AS THOUGH HYPNOTIZED. So, too, with tho ticket clerks and shopmen and shopgirls at tho smaller stores. For the large department stores I cannot answer. One of tho MOST ELEMENTARY AND MOST OBVIOUS PRINCIPLES OF MANNERS, I tako it, is that when you have to rcfuso a request you should SOFTEN THE REFUSAL as much as possible BY A DECENT SHOW OF REGRETFULNESS at your inability to comply. Twice recently it has happened to mo to present a check at an American bank and to bo refused payment. It appears that the rules here aro very strict in demanding personal iden tification, and I dare say the refusal was in each caso strictly justified. But nothing could justify the manner of tho two officials in cities, I may mention, a thousand miles apart. If I had been begging for charity instead of approaching them on tho ordinary business footing their refusal coiUd not have been more curt and repellent. Navies By Reir Admiral F. E. CtlADWICK. U. S. N.. Retired. Cj HE navy ha3 no apologies either for its existence SINGLE FORCE IN ORDER today in tho world is tho navy. In speaking thus I include other navies as well as our own. Thero is no uso crying "Peace!" whero thero is no peace. The world moves from plane to plane chiefly by convulsions. Wo aro NOW RAPIDLY APPROACHING ANOTHER CONVULSIVE PERIOD. Thero is certain before long to bo a new readjustment. Shall this bo bloody or peaceful? The army and navy aro tho great arms of conservatism. When you can arrange revolutions by aca demic discussion you may perhaps do without. them, but as yet I seo signs of such an outcome. Why, Oh, Why Can't We Have Good Coffee and Better Bread? By President WOODFORD of the HE person who invents tune. WHY CAN'T Thero has been a great research and intellectual study in the last ten or twenty years save in coffee making. Recently I rodo from Washington to Pittsburg and was served in the buffet car with tho same brand of coffeo I got thirty years ago at Fort Worth, Tex. Why, oh, why can't we have better coffeo ? Thoro is also a fortutio for each of you young men who can intro duce BREAD to the common people THAT TASTES LESS LIKE COTTON BATTING than does tho stuff now being sold for bread. " DISHONORED MORE BY TIIE as Supporters Of Law and Order. to make to a certain class of minds or its duties. The GREATEST TIIE SUPPORT OF LAW AND Carnegie Institution it Washington. good coffee can make his or her for WE HAVE GOOD COEFEE? advance in every fiold of scientific COLORADO BRYAN He Will Also Receive Nebraska's Electoral Vote. ENTHUSIASM FOR THE TICKET Proipects Good For a Democratic Vic tory In Iowa and Wisconsin Merlti of Various Men Mentioned For Na tional Chairman The Waning ol Hearst Republicans Torn by Dis sensions. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. When the Democratic national con ventlon met In Denver two-thirds of Its work was already done. There was no reason to anticipate the nomi nation of any mnu for the first place except Mr. Bryan. There was no pos sibility of any platform save the one which Bryan approved. Never was there a convention more thoroughly In accord with the principles of the mass of the Democratic voters than this one. Of course there wus a certnlu amount of contention In the committee on resolutions and on the floor, but In the end It was a Bryan convention, standing for his nomination and for the principles In which he believes, Moreover, It was a convention ani mated by the purpose of making a winning tight next November. So much for the convention. The people In Denver and in states neigh boring to Colorado believe that the Democratic ticket has a fair chance of election. 1 personally think that It Is sure of election. But It may bo well to qualify one's prophecies. Never have I much so much enthusiasm Iu n finvpntlon crowd as has been mai.'i. .ul iu this beautiful city at tho eastern edge of the Rockies. There was no talk In either the hotel lobbies or the convention hull hostile to Bry an. He controlled not merely the or ganization of the convention, but the impressions ot the people gathered In the convention city. Some months ago a. Denver man, member of the house of representatives, said to me that II we could enrry the state of Colorado he would concede the United States 1 hope he will remember this proposi tion, because 1 nm thoroughly con vineed after a careful Investigation ol what Is doing In the state of Coloratlc that we will carry this state for Bry an without dllliculty. The Democratic party will carry also Nebraska and will make n hard and, I believe, a suc cessful light for Iowa and Wisconsin. Selection of a Chairman. Much of the power and strength of a national committee depend upon Its chairman. Senator Jones of Arkansas was twice installed in this position. Thomas Tuggart of Indiana succeeded him. Today there Is no insistence ot determination upon the next candidate for this most important place. Proba bly the selection will not be made un til two or three weeks after the., con vention. There are several candidates Whose names are being discussed among politicians. This Is the list: Tom L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, O. Tom Johnson's chief tight Is being made for the reform of municipal gov ernment. He understands national af fairs and is a strong man In the Dem ocrutlc side of politics. But I nm In clined to believe that Johnson has his own tight to make In Clovelnnd. anil, having known hlui and worked with hi in lu politics for at least twelve years, I am confident that unless u really Macedonian cry was sent out he would not take the chairmanship ol the national committee. He Is dolug his work and doing It well In Ins own state anil his own city. And If we Democrats, can Unci some one else to manage the national campaign we will make no error In leaving Tom Johnson to attend to his own knitting. But who else Is there to be consider ed? 1 am not urging the candidacy of any oue man. 1 am taking advantage of this opportunity to suggest many men. Oue of the first of whom I would speak Is D. J. Campuu of Michigan. In 1800 Mr. Campau headed tho con testing delegation from Michigan which was seated In that memorable conven tion. Since that time lie lus been a member of the national committee and at all times has been a most loyal Democrat I might almost say Bryan Democrat that could be Imagined. It Is quite true that Iu 1001 Mr. Cam pan carried his state delegation for Judge Parker. He then believed that there was an opportunity for the elec tion of Parker. lie did not In the slightest degree desert Mr. Bryan, for he held then that the Parker nomina tion would put the Democracy once more In power and that out of the elec tion which he fondly hoped Mr. Bryan might come Into power later. Of course he was wroug. Ills error was one of the head and not of the heart, and those who remember what he did In the campaigns of 180U and 1000 hold no antagonisms toward him for what may have been done In 1004. Mr. Campau Is not a speaker, but he Is a worker, I have had some experience with men at the head of the national committee. If Mr. Campau suould be given this place the committee would be a working one. and there would be no frills about the work, it would be a careful, systematic organization of the Democratic workers In all the doubtful states. Loyal Democrats. And. again, consider a man from Wisconsin, Tim Ryan. Mr. Ryan has been a member of the national com mittee for eight years. He has been and still Is a representative of the type of Democracy which Is now dominant and in the saddle. He conies from n state which this year for the first time Is likely to be made debatable terri tory between tho two parties. When I . r ,-f . .1. ll...xii,t.1 .1 Iar..i.i1 A. .1. i.lOKlII, IUU UIUHMIS'HJ uwwtu- lted wiintor from Illinois. In reporting the platform to the lit publican na tional convention described the planks offered by Ia Follette's friends as so cialistic and demagogic, he opened tho way for the Democratic party to march Into Wisconsin aud to claim that statu for Its own. The selection of Mr. Ryan as chairman of the national com mittee would aid materially in carry ing that state. And the choice of him could be made with perfect confldeuco that In the future, as Iu the past, ho would be loyal to Democracy us It now stands, loyal to the great leader of the Democratic party, William J. Bryan. But It Is not necessary to look alto gether to the middle west or to the northwest for a chairman. Down where the Potomac river breaks through the Allegheny mountains, dowu whero the richest mineral de posits In all tlie east are to be fouud, lies the stnto or West Vlrgiuln. It Is a state which should be Democratic, but which for years has been Repub lican. It has been Republican be causo there was no fighting quality lu the blood of those who professed to be Democratic leaders there. To" day the Democrats of that state havo a new ambition and find new encour agement In the fact that they havo new leaders. Out of West Virginia may well come a chairman of tho Democratic nutlonul committee. Wil liam K Chilton of Charleston lias been a fighter for progressive Democ racy for many long years. He is an organizer and when need be an ora tor. He would be able to swing that little group of states that nestle about West Virginia Into the Democratic column If n proper ticket were pre sented. Nobody Is urging Chilton's appointment to this Important place, anil yet out of the uncertainty which now hangs about the cliulrmnnsblp It would not be remarkable if the ap pointment should be banded to him. The suggestion of Hon. D. R. Fran cis of St. Louis appeals very much to the practical politicians In tho Demo cratic party. Mr. Francis was not "right" lu 1800, but no man baa given clearer Indication of his desire to come back into the Democratic ranka and to fight for the cause of Demo cratic success than he. Frankly, I do not expect that Governor Francis will be chosen for this position, but it would not be an unwise thing for the Democratic party to give more atten tion to his qualifications for the place than today It appears to be willing to give. The Mystery of Hearst. This Is the first convention since 1800 at which Hearst and his political power have received practically no at tention whatsoever. Of course, men are usklug here and there what nearst Is going to do, but it is n mere mat ter of gossip. The usual answer to the questlou Is that nobody cares a continental what he Is going to do. The feellug among the politicians gathered at Denver Is that the erratic course of Hearst has utterly destroyed his political influence In the nation. 'This lsi 'Democratic convention, and' the Democrats here gathered are not Inclined to look with favor upon a man who, having received a Demo cratic nomination for governor of New York, continued his political activities the next year by fuslug with the Re publican party, dominated by Odell and K. H. Harrlmaii. There is a story' that he has wearied of paying nil the expenses of his personally con ducted party and that hi trip abroad was taken for the purpose of enabling him to gently, after the Hcirst man ner, evade the responsibilities which ho has Incurred. Charlie Walsh, who used to be secretary of the Democratic national committee and wtio now, to the regret of his friends. U a mere salaried henchman of llenr.-t. statel the other day that the convention called for July T would be Indefinite ly postpoued. Hearst's private secre tary told Hearst's political reporter al Denver to deny this aud say that the convention would meet and put a ticket lu the field. But It would seem, In view of the dissension among Hearst's own people, that the descrlp Hon of the Hearst movement by tho correspondent of a New York newspa per was fairly descriptive. He said that Hearst was the "on again, off again, gone again FInnegair" of Dem ocratic politics. And. indeed, that U the position whlcti Hearst occupies to day before this convention. Nobody knows where he Is, and few care. The general feeling Is that his Intluem even If because of personnl pique It shall be directed against Bryan, will be trivial. The Republican Organization. For nearly three weeks nfter the Republican national convention ad journed the Republican organization had uo head. No chairman had beeu selected nor any secretary. No head quarters had beeu choeu. no execu tive committee had been nppolnted. What Is the meaning of this? Does it Indicate that the Republican party Is so torn by dissension that It could not eveu provide for a proper organi zation to conduct the cnmpalgn upon which It is about to enter? Does It mean that there was nobody In tits old Republican organization that Sec retary Taft wus willing to trust? Of course we well know that It does not mean lack of money, for In the Re publican treasury there Is now nearly $200,000 left over from the last cam paign. All that It can Imply Is Re publican dissension. The Republican party will go Into this campaign torn with dissension, racked with personal jealousies. The Democratic party will go In ns a united force, marching Bhoulder to shoulder, with no thought except fo charge upon the common enemy and to sweep the foe into p lltical oblivion.. Denver. Colo, V