V I gttMjlBm Publiihed Every Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. P, A. PlRltfiOK. 1'P n. l.l-OTD V.. TllOMAK, 80C John W. Thomas. Mitr. JOHN W. THOMAS ..... . Editor J. D. KNIEST Associate Editor Entered at the rwtofflce at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through the malls, as second-class matter. Subscription, $1.50 per year In advance. THURSDAY, NOV. 4, Joog. Forget it tho unkind things said In tho heat of political excitement. , Now 'they say limburgcr cheese Is a cure, for leprosy. What a tantalizing choice between two evils! Too bad nil the candidates could not have been elected, then thoro would havo been no disappointments- Undo loo Cannon damned tho Mis sissippi soveral times on tho downward trip, but the damns weren't tho right kind. 5-- - Tho chief symptom of tho hookworm discaBO is execasivo laziness. There nro somo people in this community who must hnvo hookworms. There's no "I told you so" about it in saying that tho county election camo out just as wo expected, except that tho vote polled was lighter than wo thought it would be. This papor has no crowing to do ovor defeated candidates in Box Butte county. It ia hard enough to lose out in n contest ot that kind without being taunted afterwards nbout tho defeat. Wo still reserve tho right to speak in n complimentary way of our repub lican friends, oven at the risk of hav ing our stand-pat contemporary up the street insinuate that our democracy is not simon pure- "You wore mistaken," said John Pilkiuglon pleasantly, as ho "stepped Into Tho Herald office Wednesday morning- "You said Fred Mollring would havo a walk-away, but it was a hop-skip-and-jump-away. Tho caglo-oyed editor of Tho Times thinks ho discovered that The Herald handed a package to one of tho demo cratic candidates by making a compli mentary mention of his republican op ponent. If that was a package, what was it tho Times handed tho "Catho lics and Union Labor men" in its last issue? There was a landslide at Sheridan, Wyo. Tuesday, political, wo mean A mayor and four aldermen weio elect ed,, tho winning candidates all being democrats although that city is con sidered n republican stronghold. The mayor's majority was 439, and that of the aldcrmanic candidates ranged from three to 153. In Adams county, Nebr., of which Hastings is" the county scat, there was n hard political fight, resulting in the election of republican candidates for coroner, county surveyor and judge, and tho democratic candidates for county clerk, treasurer, superintend ent, sheriff ond recorder. A peculiar feature of tho result was that nil the successful candidates wero re-elected to offices which they now hold. Tho seven Georgia congressmen who, when the scent of the pork bar rel wppwafjnd ttheir nostrils, bolted party aud principle"aud became servile followers of Speaker Cannon, are now reaping as they sowed- Every one of the seven bolters has a hard fight on his bauds for reelection and the pres ent indications are that the coming congressional campaign will be one of the hottest in the history of the state. If they meet their just dues, the un faithful seven will bo consigned to the political ash heap. King Alfouso has wisely deposed Maura, the reactionary premier. Fer rer lost his life; and Maura lost his political head. In Maura's displace ment auaichism has in a measure had the wind taken out of its sails. Spain now has an opportunity to tako a place in enlightened civilization. Alfonso should henceforth serve the interests of the people. Ho is very young; but he has lived long enough to have learned that tyranny bleeds anarchism. Wherever the masses are treated fairly anarchists have no vocation. For cen turies Spain has been dominated by a cold-blooded aristocracy. And what is she today? Cooped up in her penin- nnlnr hrpninllliTS. 8110 IIR8 8IUUIIK IUIUO lowest rank of nationalities. Her record for 400 years has been one of infamy. Her nobles have lived on robbery all this time. Sbe bas at last lost all lior outside possessions. Hav ing held at 0110 time about hnlf of tho globe, she has finally lot slip through her fingers every foot of foreign terri tory She may recover a decent stand ing among the nations. But before this can be accomplished bIio must dis solve her aristocracy. During the campaign just closed The Herald endeavored to give every can didate a square deal, those we wero not supporting as well as those whom we supported. If thcro is any reader of this paper who thinks wo failed in this and will show us, wo will mako amends so far as possible1. Thcro was absolutely no "mud slinging" on the part of The Herald, and whilo wo gave, ns wo bolievo, n consistent support to our preferences for tho various offices, we do not believe that the other candi dates and their friends have sufficient reason for feeling grouchy towards this paper and not many of them do- Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern railway, in an address before tho Dry Fanning Congress last Wednesday night, characterized the government opening of tho Flathead Indian reservation as a "huge fake," enticing pcoplo from all over the United States to draw land, whilo only three per cent, got farms- The aspir ants for farms, according to Mr. Hill's estimate, spent $12,000,000 in railroad fares, and whilo the Great Northern got its sharo tho money was not wanted half as much as settlers arc. Thcro is doubtless much truth in Mr. Hill's criticism of the government's land lot tery scheme. It is not probable that the actual value of tho land thrown open to settlers is anywhere near the $12,000,000 spent in railroad faro by disappointed farm seekers- A new plan for future land distributions is ur gently needed- Grateful for Kindness Shown. I ttike this opportunity to tlmiik my friends who showed their kindness in easting their votes for me lust Tuesday and hope I may continue to retain their coniidenco and friendship in future. Sincerely,. J. B. Kniest. The Fruits of Protection It came out in the trial of a customs house swindler in New York city tho other day that four government em ployes, who are known to havo con spired with importers for the defraud ing of tho goverment and who uublush iugly admit their guilt, are kept on tho government pay rolls, with promise of continued employment, in return for their testimony against their former partncrB-in-crime, the importers. Col lector of Customs Loeb naively explains that it is better to continue four self confessed thieves iiMhe government ser vice than to bo able to make no con victions for fraud. On the other hand, importers and merchants complain that they have for years been at tho mercy of the grafting customs house inspectors and weighers and that many importers who would much prefer to be honest with the gov ernment have been forced to join with the official grafters in fraudulent con spiracies in order to get their shipments handled by the petty officers of the cus toms house. Altogether it appears that the New York customs house is rotten from tho bottom up n veritable nest of thieves. All of which is the logical outcome of a thieving commercial and political policy the beautiful system of "protection," whereby one set of men arc permitted by law to put their hands into tho pock ets of a defenseless public aud help themselves. Daily Trains on North Platte Branch of U. p. The Oshkosh Herald of last Friday had the following in regard to train service on the Union Pacific's new branch up the North Platte valley: Agent Maryott informs us just be fore going to press that he has been officially notified that daily service with two trains a day, one east aud one west, will be put on the North Platte valley line the first of next week. And that operators will bo placed in the depots at Lisco, Broadwater and Northport at that time. Mail service will soon be put on thus giving us our mail a day earlier than bv way of Chappell. Each month briugs this line nearer to the time when it will car ry the Overland Limited and other trans-continental trains. VICTOR IN NEW YORK Democrat Winner by 70,000Plurality. HEARST IS POOR RUNNER Fusionists Claim to Control Board of Estimates, WHITMAN DEFEATS BATTLE, Successor to District Attorney Jerome is a ELECTION RESULTS New York City. For mayor William J. Gaynor, Dem ocrat (Tammany), 70,000 plurality. Massachusetts. For governor Governor Ebon S. Draper, Republican, 10,000 plurality. Virginia. For governor W. H. Mann, Demo crat, usual plurality. Rhode Icland. For govornor Governor A. J. Poth lor, Republican, 5,000 plurality. Cleveland. For mayor Baehr, Republican, de feated Tom Johnson by 4,000. Indianapolis. For mayor S. L. Shank, Republican (dry), 5,000 plurality. Philadelphia. For district nttornoy S. P. Rotnn, Republican, 30,000 plurality. Elections woro hold Tuesday In many states und cities throughout tho country, with varying results thero be ing no national issue Involved to bring about concerted party action. In Massachusetts, Govornor Ebon S. Draner (Ron.) was re-elected over James II. Vahey (Dem.) by a greatly reduced' majority, estimated nt 10, 000. Governor Draper's majority last year was 00,000. ' . In Rhode Island Governor Pothlor (Rop.) was ro-olected over Olnoy Ar nold (Dem.) by a small majority. In Virginia tho Democratic ticket, headed by Judge Mann, for govornot1, was elected by about tho usual ma jority, In Now York, which has been the storm center of tho state, Tammany Hall scored a decisive triumph In tho mayoralty election, Judge William WILLIAM J. GAYNOR. Gaynor, tho Democratic nominee, supported by Tammany, rolling up a plurality or upward or 70,000 ovor Otto Bannard (Rep.), who In turn led William It. Hearst by approximately 25,000. Tho Republican-Fusion forcoa will control tho board or estimates. Thoy also elected Charles S. Whit man district attorney. In Philadelphia, another battlo ground on reform Issues, Samuel P. Rotan (Rep.) was olectod district at torney over D. Claronco Gibbonoy, representing tho Law and Order soci ety and the reform element. Rotau'e majority exceeded that In a previous reform campaign, bejng upward or 30,- 000. Tho returns from San Francisco, where reform lssuos aro uppermost, indicate tho defoat of Francis J. Ito ney for district attorney. Tho Pennsylvania state elections foi treasurer, auditor general and judgo oi tho supromo court resulted In the usual Republican majority. In Maryland tho constitutional amendment disfranchising the negrc is still in doubt, tho Baltimore vote bolng strong against tho amendment, whilo returns from tho Interior indl rato Increasing strength for the amend ment. .v.ayor Tom Johnson, the picturesque mayor of Cleveland, has been dofe&tod ).,. , i'ilv majority by Herman Baohr (Rep.). .sw.Uiis.v U In doubt, with botb sides ulnlmhiE a itarUal victory. In Imlinrmpgll. whoro ht temper ' mpr innTi j'-- puhqyi sotton-ho ftnes Issue has figured, Lewis Shank (Rop.) Is olectod over Charles A. Gauss (Dem ). Tammany Elects Gaynor. Now York, Nov. 3. Tammany elect ed another mayor of Greater New York, but lost 41s grip on tho city's finances, William J. Gaynor of Brooklyn Bwopt tho flvo boroughs to victory as mayor by at least 70,000 plurality, de feating Otto T. Bannard (Rop.-fu.) and William Randolph Hearst (Ind.), who ran a weak third. Judgo Gaynor fallod, however, to carry his ticket with him and tho Republican-Fusion forces will control ab solutely tho board of estimates 'and apportionments, whjch will disburse approximately a billion dollars during tho administration. This Is moro than half a defeat for Tammany, for tho control of the board of estimates was one of tho principal issues of tho cam paign. In addition, tho Republican-Fusion- Ists oloctcd Charles 8. Whitman dls trlct attorney of New York county, who defeated Georgo Gordon Battle, tho Democratic nominee, by nt leaBt 13,000 plurality, and John S. Shea for sheriff over C. D. Sullivan (Dom.) by approximately 10,000 plurality. Tho election throughout the state for members of tho assembly resulted In tho choice of a lower branch of tho legislature having a Republican ma jority of about thirty-eight, as com pared with a Republican majority of forty-eight In tho last assembly. Gotham Election Scenes. Tho features of the election wero the general absence of disorder and tho rapidity with which tho voto was cast, notwithstanding tho unwieldy and' complicated ballots. Although many arrests wero made for violation of the election laws, tho grenter part of these wero found to bo duo to clerical errors or misunder standings. Tho professional repeater nnd tho guerrilla woro chiefly notable by their absence. Credit for this satis factory state of affajrB Was given largely to tho new slgnaturo law, put Into practlco for tho first tlmo In a Now York municipal election. Under this law ovory voter after receiving his ballot is compelled to wrlto his name and havo It compared with the signature which' ho mado at tho time of registration. . If ever a Now York election was well watched, It was yesterday's. Ev ery polling place had Its full quota of wntchors, Including nearly 2,000 col lege students from Columbia, Yale and Princeton, nnd other nearby Institu tions, who wero distributed through out the greater city. Tho entire police force of 10,100 men was on duty be fore daylight, the majority of them at the polling pl-ces, with squnds of "plain clothes" scouts and detectives ready for any eniergency. Robert A. Tnft, tho president's son, was stationed early In tho day at a Third avenue polling place. His pres ence, however, proved' bucIi an attrac tion to tho east sldo crowd that tho po lice wero called upon to disperse the spectators and young Taft was trans ferred to work as, a Republican "bcoiU." For the remainder of the day ho spent his tlmo hurrying by automobile from voting place to vot ing place, Investigating reports oi trouble nnd witnessing tho playing of tho political game Jn 100 different cor ners or tho greater city. Elihu Root, Jr., also studied tho election system of tho city as a scout watcher. The weather was all that could be desired. Otto T. Bannard, the Republican nominee for tho mayoralty, voted ear ly. A long lino of his supporters kept up a continual cheering during the mlnuto or two which it took him to receive his bnllot, mark It and place It in the hands of tho officials. Both Hearst and Justice Gaynor were more tardy in getting their ballots in. Mr. Hearst voted in an up town garago shortly after noon, and Justico Gaynor appeared at a little Brooklyn tnllor shop where ho cast his ballot only an hour before the Ume assigned for tho polls to close. Both woro pretty thoroughly llashllghted and snapshotted while they wero pro paring tho vote. Tho betting odd's, which had made Justice Gaynor a 1 to 2 favorite, ad vanced BtiU moro in his favor during tho day. By tho time tho polls closed Gaynor went bogging nt 1 to 3. There was far less confidence among the bet tors, however, as to tho remainder oi tho Democratic ticket, and the Gaynoi men demanded slight odds on the entire city ticket. With Gaynor quoted at 1 to 3, Bannard money asked 4 to 1 and Hearst dropped to 8 to 1. Herbert Parsons, tho Republican county chairman, said that the elec tion had boon tho hardest fought mu nicipal contest ever hold In New York. "It Is true that this has been a quiet election," he said, "but there has been much crookedness, and I think we shall hear more of this later. Oui watchers reported all day long that ballots hnd beenfound nlready marked with a cross Jn tho Democratic column before bolng hnnded to the voter. Thoro were other peculiar things go ing on, too how generally I cannot say at this time." Govornor Hughes cast his vote just before noon. Ho was In tho booth sevoral mlnutos, and declined to make any comment on the election. New Jersey Assembly. Tronton, N. J., Nov. 3. Republicans will retain control or both branches of the loK'slature. In Jersey City. Mayor Wlttptnn (Dem.) has boon re elocted by a large majority. The Dem ccat3 have elected a mayor in Bay onno for the first time In thirteen years. Tho Democrats carried' Tremor, by a large majority, re-electing Mayoi Walter Madden. ONE KILLED IN BREATHITT WAR Republican Precinct Worker Slain by Two Democrats, MORE RAIDS ON BALLOTS. One Bundle Is Stolen and Another Burned When House Containing Tlckct3 for Election Is Fired by Partisans State Troops Were on Guard at All Polling Places In Fa mous Kentucky Feud County. Jackson, Ky Nov. 3. News reached hero that Tllden Blanton and Ashford Josophs, Democrats, nau killed Demosthenes Noble, a Repub lican, at the Spring Fork voting pre clnct in Breathitt county. Reports from Crockettsvillo and Se bastian's Branch were that two at tempts, one successful, had been mado to steal ballots near Crocketts villo precinct, at tho mouth of Long's creok. Tho homo of Mary Dealln, who hold ballots for that precinct, was de stroyed by fire, nnd tho ballots were burned with tho house. At Sebastian's Branch precinct tho Democrats are re ported to havo seized" tho ballots and hidden them. According to their political beliefs, Jackson and Breathitt county men stigmatize tho firing of tho Dealln homo as incendiary or accidental. The most reliable report from tho place which is twenty-two miles away, la that Mrs. Dealln was feeding tho Lex ington soldiers under Captain Sams when tho flro occurred. Tho ballots wero reported destroyed nnd fresh ,ones woro furnished' from Jackson. These aro tho ballots which an armed crowd of men threatened to take from a Jackson bank and which woro finally given to Mary Dealln by Judgo Adams for safo keeping. Crockettsvillo, the home of Ed Calla han, the noted feudist, and gathering place of the warlike Breathitt county clans, was the chief point of Interest In tho political war. The Callahans and their friends are angry becauso Clrcu.it Judgo Adams candidate for re-election, refused tc give tho command of tho troops tc Sheriff Crawford, a Redwlno partisan. The telephone wires between Jack son and Crockettsvillo wero cut. Cap tain Sams and his detail of mllltlameu nro supposed to be In that vicinity. Killing at Jelllco, Tenn. Knoxvllle, Tenn., Nov. 3. A special from Jelllco, Tenn., says: James Ayres, former marshal of Jelllco, was killed and sevoral wounded during an election riot. SHANK IN INDIANAPOLIS Republicans Elect Mayor by Slight Majority. Indianapolis, Nov. 3. In the mu nicipal elections held In Indiana the Republicans scored several victories the most vital of which was In In dianapolis. Samuel Lewis Shank, the Republican candidate for mayor, and the entire Republican ticket were elected by majorities ranging from 1, 000 to 1,500. The Republicans also defeated the Democrats at Evansvllle, whore Charles F. Hellman was elected may or over John J. Nolan, tho presunt miryor. At Fort Wayne, Jes3o Grice tho Republican candidate, and all the othor candidates on his ticket were elected' by small majorities, Furthet victories wero won by the Republicans at Richmond, Crawfordsvlllo and other smaller cities. Georgo T. Harpci (Rep.) was elected at Madison. Tho Democrats carried South Bend, Miincie, Lafayette and probably Terre Haute and somo smaller cities. Republicans declared that tho de feat of tho Democrats In Indianapolis was a defeat of tho liquor .Interests oi tho state, which had contributed large ly to the fund used In the effort to elect Gauss mayor. In soveral other cities the question of law enforcement was the principal Issue and the victor ies were divided botween the fac uons. At livansvme the supporter of J. J. Nolan, the present mayor, mado their fight on the declaration that Nolan stood for the strict en forcement of tho saloon laws and that tho olectlon of the Republican candi date, Hellman, for mayor, would mean that the city would be "opened up Hellman won. RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN Pothler's Plurality Over Arnold Five Thousand. I: Providence, Nov. 3. The vote foi the first sixty districts In tho Rhodt Island election Indicated a marked Re publican gain all over tho state, esne daily for governor. The districts showed a net gain for Governor Poth ler (Rep,) over Arnold (Dem.) of S40 and Indicated Pothler's election over Arnold by at least 5,000. Bliss (Rop.) was running far ahead of Carroll (Dem.) for lieutenant governor. The outlook foi a Republican majority In the nstembly Is favorable. Virginia Democratic. Richmond, Va., Nov. 3. Returns from all over tho state Indicate that the Democratic ticket, headed by Juds Maun for governor, has been elected by nbout the usual majority. American Ticket Wins. Salt Luke, Nov. 3. Complete re turns from twenty-eight out of fifty. two districts givet unumiuru v"ier lean) for mayor, 6,794; Wallace (fu.), 3,309, Murdock (Rep.), 3,259. Tho American (anti-church) pnrty claims eight out of ton councllmen to bo elected. Buffalo Adopts Des Moines Plan. Buffalo. N. Y., Nov. 2. Tho city votod in favor of asking tho legislature for a new charter on the Des Moines plan. Tho vote stood three to ono in favor of tho proposition. Whltlock Re-elected. Toledo, O., Nov. 3. Republican headquarters concedes Mayor Whit lock's re-election by probably 2,600 plurality. - Jacksonville Dry. Jacksonville, 111., Nov. 3. In tho local option olectlon Jacksonville went "dry" by a majority of 304. LABOR CHIEFS HELD GUILTY Court of Appeals Affirms Verdict Against Them. Washington, Nov. 3. Tho district court of appeals affirmed tho decree of the supreme court of the District of Columbia adjudging President Samuel Gompers, Secretary Frank Morrison nnd Vlco President John Mitchell of the American Federation of Labor guilty of contempt of court in tho Bucks Stovo and Range case. Chief Justice Sheppard dissented from tho opinion of the court on con stitutional grounds. The court held that tho fundamental Issue was whether the constitutional agencies of tho government should be obeyed or defied. Tho mesa fact that tho defendants were the officers of or ganized labor In America, said the court, lent importance to tho case and' added to the gravity of tho situa tion, but it should not bo permitted to Influence the result. "If an organization of citizens, how over largo," tho court hold, "may dls obey the mandates of the court, the same reasoning would render them subject to individual defiance. Both nro subject to tho lnw and neither Is above it. "If a citizen, though ho may honest ly believe his rights have been invad ed, may elect when nnd to what ex tent he will obey the mandates of the court and' the requirements of tho law as Interpreted by the court, Instead of pursuing the orderly course of appeal, not only the courts, but government Itself, would become powerless and so ciety would be reduced to a state of anarchy." Tho action of tho supremo court 01 the District of Columbia in sentenc ing Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison to twelve, nine and six months' lmprls onment In jail, respectively, was the result of tho failure of these three de fendants to obey the order of the court directing them to desist from placing the Bucks Stovo and' Range company of St. Louis on their "unfair list" In the prosecution of their boycott against the corporation. MUST CATCH BOMB GANG Chicago Detectives to Run Down Crim inals or Quit Jobs. Chicago, Nov. 3. Following an or der from Chief of Police Loroy T, Stownrd that men responsible for the hurling of bombs In the war between gambling syndicates in Chicago must be found, Captain Stephen Wood, head of the cjty detective bureau, told tne members of his department that 11 they fall to get definite results In the Investigation they should get out ol tho bureau. Captain Wood, in addressing his de tectives concerning the latest bomb outrages of Sunday night, when two buildings wero wrecked, went further In his threat and declared that should his department fall to run down the perpetrators of tho prolonged series ol crimes he would resign as head of the d'otectlve bureau. Gambling paraphernalia In tho clue rooms where bombs wore thrown Sun day was destroyed by Assistant Chlel of Police Schuettler and detectives ol tho gambling squad. FIVE BURN TO DEATH IN HOME Mother Loses Life, but Succeeds in Saving One Child. Pittsburg, Nov. 3. Mrs. William Marlow and four children were burned to death when fire, caused by the up setlng of an oil lamp, destroyed their home In tho outskirts of this city. A fifth child was saved' by the mother before she met her death. Lylo, an eight year-old son, wns plnylng about tho kitchen when the lamp on tho table was overturned. Mrs. Marlow carried the boy to the yard and entered tho house again to aid the four othor children, who were asleep on the second floor. The five perished. VISITOR KILLED IN MINE Manager of Educational Paper la Knocked Off a Tramway. Load, S D., Nov. 3. A. J. Vooltz of Madison, business manager of the South Dakota Journal of Education, in attendance at the convention of the South Dakota Educational asstclatlon here, died as the result of Injuries re ceived when ho was knocked off a tramway Into an ore bin at tho Home stake mill. He fell sixty feet and lived but three-quarters of an hour after tho accident. He was knocked off tho track by an air motor hauling ore cars. His parents live at Desmet, this state. Flckert In Lead. San Francisco, Nov. 3. Partial re turns from sixty-two. scnttorlng pre cincts out of 301 give for mayor: Crocker (Rep.), 374; Leland (Dem.). 384; McCarthy (Union Labor"), 537. For district attorney: Flckert (Re;j.) 894; Ileney (Dem.), 4C0. f -Wf- Y i A Y