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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
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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,
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