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9 Publiihed Kvery Thursday br Jhs Herald Publishing Company. LLOYD C THOMAS. IIuhIiicm Mrt JOHN W THOMAS J. U. KNIKST . . . . . . . . f'ditor Associate Editor Entered at the poitnllice at Alliance, NebranVa. for transmission through the malls, as necond-claM rantter. GaLxription, $1.50 per year In advance THIS F PER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICCB NEW YORK AND CHICAC. BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES Thursday; September v), 1910. Taylor's Speech at Bridgeport W. J. Taylor, democratic nnd populist nominee for congress, delivered a speech at Bridge port latft Saturday afternoon that made a great hit and a stir that is attracting more than local at tention. The following report of the speech appeared In yes terday's World-Herald: Taylor's fame as a rough-and-tumble debater of quick wit and caustic logic had preceded him, but tho old-timers say that "nevor in their born days" have they seen one man so completely demolish another as Taylor de molished Senator Burkett. Burkott had spoken hero the night before. Ho had made "Conservation" his topic. "With his usual magniloquence he had boasted that it was the republi can party that had conserved "the great territorial empire from which litvve been carved HON. V. J. TAYLOR, OiHKictJtlc iimI Populist Camliditt for Conirm forty-six magnificent states;" that it was the republican party that "conserved our great do main for man, and not for capi tal;" that it was the republican party that enacted the free homestead law and put down the ' ellion. AUtheso things, he hired, the democratic party I opposed, "just as it opposes ay the-coiiservation of timber and cial and other natural re sources of the republic". Taylor made mincemeat of tho senator in short order. He was merciless In the directness with which lie contrasted Hurkett's speech with tho facts of recent history. "Tho senator prates with his accustomed gilbness," said Tay lor, "about his party conserving coal lands for the people. He has the gall to do it in the face of tho universal knowledge that the department of the interior, under Ballinger, was in notori ous collusion with tho Guggenheim-Morgan syndicate which was on the point of grabbing, for a song, an immense tract of valuable coal land in Alaska. "He had the gall to stand be fore an intelligent people, with the Ballinger scandal fresh In their mind, with Ballinger still holding his place in the cabinet where ho is protected by u re publican president and by re publican senators, a n d t a 1 k about the 'faithful trusteeship' of the republican party and the unfaithfulness of the wicked democrats! "With thoughtless irony he does all this In the very pros . once of Congressman ICinkaid! The same Congressman Kinkaid, tho same republican champion of republican conservation "who has admitted that, had the fraud not been discoved, not on ly would all tho Cunningham L5jQpUT:1ftHl ffiKMutflnH flHHBi -femHki My " " " lipPHr missm ljm gmta K:mu Mn ppiiiiimii' tHitaiaH i--." '.-r.--j"-" if nrjvMunr mvi ayv -in..-: , -tbi --'it wr r 'r rv' - ITBllinffl rfTr ' ' Wgub2u2UUUEiiUll HoKmi HHRBH -JSaSsrasssai ' News Snapshot:; Of (he Week Moro than 10,000 G. A. It. veterans met at Atlantic City for their annual reunion. The people of Atlanta plnn to purchase the home of the late Joel Chandler Harris nnd dedlcnto It ns a memorial to tho author. St. Patrick's cathedral In New York city will be consecrated during a week's celebration. claims have gone to patent, but liu himself would have been own er In fee simple of one those thirty-three claims, proved to be worth from $100,000 to $2r0t000 each, for tho nominal outlay of S2.H00. Senator Burkett neglects to tell how streunous were his and Mr. ICinkald's efforts in resist ance to the attempted stenU He neglects to tell liow earnestly they botli fought to uncover the fraud, to defeat the Morgan Guggenheim combine, and to di vorce this unholy combination from its alliance with the gov ernment. . He neglects to tell where he and Kinknid were in the fight made in congress to protect the national domain from Ballinger and h i s syndicate cronies. He neglects to tell the name of tho congressmen from Nebraska who forced the investi gation that lias advertised the fraud to the whole world and that lias awakened the people to the necessity or protecting their own property before it is all stolen from them, "I wonder if the reason for this seeming neglect is that it was Congressman Hitchcock, a democrat, whose resolution brought on the investigation, and that this same Hitchcock is now a candidate against Burk ett for senator? "And yet lie prattles about conservation! And yet lie boasts about the republican party being j the friend of conservation and the democratic partv being its enemy! Does it with Hallinger HON (ilMlMtr M HITCHCOCK, . Democratic ard Populist Candidate (or U. S Senator still in the cabinet! Does it while Hitchcock, a real friend and brave champion of conservation, is holding up tho democratic banner in Nebraska!" Little Sarpy county, which is in the Second congressional dist rict, lias always been a Gilbert M. Hitchcock stronghold when lie has been a candidate for con gress, and now, that lie is a, can didate for the U. S. senate, the indications are that he will re ceive the largest majority in that county this year that it has ever given him. It is reported tliat many prominent Sarpy coun ty republicans have expressed their intention of .voting for bun this year. Evidently the foreman of the Lincoln Daily Star looked at his calendar wrong last night. Tills morning's issue of that paper is dated October 0. New York suite's politicnl conventions nrc attracting mticli attention Just now, tho Republicans witnessing thu battle for temporary chnlrninn between Vice PreHldent Sherman, aided by Wlllintn Barnes, Jr., nnd Timothy Woodruff, on one side nud Colonel Hoosevclt on tho other at Saratoga nnd the Democrats holding forth ut Albany with Mayor Gaynor of Greater New York as tho moat likely candidate. The national Irrigation congress, which meets at Pueblo, Colo., promises to be Important lORMERJNQUIRY Senatorial Investigating Commit tee Begins Hearing at Ghicago. CHARLES C. WHITE ON STAND. Legislator Tells of Proposition Made Him by Browne Counsel for Sena, tor Object to Any Testimony About Alleged "Jackpot" First Clasn of Attorney in Bribery Case. Chicago, Spt, 27. Statu Hcnre Boutntlve Chailes C. White of O'Fal Ion, 111., was thu first witness to take the uttuid in the Investigation into the election of United States Senator Lor- liner by tho senatorial sub-committee on elections nnd privileges. Six of tho seven members of the committee wt'ie present when his examination by Attorney" Austrian, representing the Chicago Tribune, which, in printing White's story, brought on the ln esti mation, began. White Identified letters he said had been sent him by Ia'o O'NelL Browne, asking White's help to establish Browne's position us mtnorlty leader in tho lower house. White, on direct examination by At torney Austrian, declured ho had been asked by Minority leader Browne to ote for Lorlmer nnd that Browne told him ho would receive $1,000 for his vote. The first severe clush of the hear ing cume when Attorney Austrian asked what money was promised Wlilto. Ho replied: "1 nsked Browne how much I would get 'from other sources' and ho re plied, 'Oh, ubout us much more.' " Lorlmer's Attorney Objects. Senator Lorruer's attorney objected to this answer, arguing that tho 'other soutceB" were entirely outside the cuw. "This brings up," ho said, "what has been referred to as the 'Jack pot.' By the words of tho witness 'other Hourcs' It is shown that It has no connection with tho election of Sena tor lorlmer." To which Attorney Austrian replied: "We claim this line of testimony Is revelant because we will show that t!i Democratic state senators nnd representatives who voted for Senator Iorlmtr voted for ,-hn ns a part of a system in which their votes on other measures and their vote for Senntor l.orlmer were corelated. We nre try- lug to show there was n general htate of corruption In that legislature and men there wore trying to bribe others," The committee retired Into execu tive session to consider admissibility of this line of evidence. The committee1 considered the ad rob-hlhlMty of the Jack pot testimony for some tlmo In executive session nnd upon returning to the hearing room Chairman Burrows and other senators questioned the witness con cernlng his understanding of tho prom lse of money from other sources. Questions by Senators. White said he had heard rumors ot what was known as a "Jack pot" to he divided among legislators for "strang ling or passing bills." In response to n finest Ion from Chnlrninn Burrows, White said: "I consldored It all a part of the nireement the 'i.noo and my share of tho 'Jack pot ' " Senator Oomhl eked: "Wns the monov Pom other sources part of your proml - vote for Sena tor l.orlmer. or d'-' It have an Influ ence on vonr voto? "I think It had an Influence," ro pllni White. "Would you hnve voted for Senator lo-lmer for that $1,000?" asked Mr Burrows. "Yes. I think I would," said White. Chairman Burrows announced tho committee would give Its ruling Inter on tho formal motion of Attorney Hnnocy to exclude nil testimony relnt lntlne to tho "Jack pot " With the admissibility of the testi mony relntlng to the so called Jack pot still In abeyance. White wns nshod to relate his later dcallncs with Browne. The witness testified ho was paid $150 by Browne in Springfield nnd early In June In the Brlgg's houso ho was given $S50. 444r4 ' CONDENSED NEWS The sultan of Sulu, pensioner of the United States, reached Now York on a' tour of the country. Four Jo yrlders were drowned when a big touring car plunged Into tlia canal at Now Orleans. Tho seventh annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors con gress will be held In Washington, Deo. 7 to 9. Anne Buffali), an Indian woman, shot and killed her sweetheart, Jacob Moore, a white man. at Uartlesvlllo, Okla. Jealousy was the cause. It Is unlikely that there will be any shortngo of money this fall anywhere In the United States, according to tho view of the treasury department. Henry V. Alvey, an American, who has a sister living In Portland, Ore., committed suicide In Mexico City by opening tho radial artery of his wrist. Professor II. L. Overstreet of the University of California has accepted an appointment to the full professor ship of philosophy In the College of the City of New York. Oenornl Charles It. Brnyton. the blind leader of the Rhode Island Re publicans nnd the Rhode Island mein her of the national Republican com mittee, died nt Providence. Eighteen persons lost their lives and .oloven others" suffered Injuries In Hue wreck, two miles east of Clayton, Kan., of Rock Island passenger trnln No. 27, which plunged Into a washout. Announcements of the meeting nC tho Trnusmlssisslppi Commercial con gresB nre being scattered broadcu& through tho countiy. It will be he i in Snn Antonio. Tex., Nov. 22 to 25. Captain V. K. Hart, supervisiiu 'quartermaster at Fort D.4A. Htusell will be retired nt once on nccotint nf disability., and' wilt be appointed In Btructorbf.fthe Wyoming national guard. Jens Anderson, proprietor of a tes taurant at Bryant, S. P., Is in a serlou . condition as the result of being acci dentally shot by Oscar Wilson, u friend, while they were examining a revolver. There has been a rupture between Colombia and Venezuela, The Vene zuelan government telegrapheJ the members of the Venezuelan legation to leave Bogota and await instruc tions ut Panama. The death rate in the United States In 1900 was fifteen In each 1,000, ac cording to a bulletin about to he Is sued by the census bureau, and thl3 Is the lowest averago ever recorded for this country. Albert J. Perkins, who was one of tho oldest Yale graduates and later served ns instructor of chemistry at that university, died in the county almshouse at Ralston, N. Y. He wj e'ght foir years old. Dur'ng tnrget practice of the At lantlc fleet off the Virginia capes, one or the big 12-!nch guns of the bathe ship (leorg'.a hurst on the first rang", phot. The muzzle Jacket was blown off. The ciew esrnp?d Injury. While a decree was being filed In tho clerk of the couit's olllco at Butte, Mont., granting her a divorce from ber husband, Frank Baker, Helen Baker "was at the marriage license desk with Frank A. Golsert getting a license to marry again. Colonel William M. Black and lieu tenant Colmnson M. Patrick, members of the army engineer board charged with the task of raising the old battle ship Mnlim, will be required to take the prescribed physical test beforo proceeding to Havana. A headon collision between a pass enger nnd u freight cur on the Indiana Traction company's lines near Tipton resulted nl the death of six persons. Tho collision was similar to the Fort Wayne disaster last week, In which forty persons" were killed. For tho first time In tho history of railway union, members and delogates representing 308,000 men of tho four great railway divisions of tho east voted uunnlmously nt u meotmg in New York to take concerted option In national and state politics. Boy Dying of Lockjaw. Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 2G. Lau rence Vandall. the young grandson of Mr, and Mrs. Vandall, well knowu WSBSEBg&m residents of Charles Mix county, re ceived a fatal Injury In a peculiar manner. He was standing with a rifle resting on his foot, muzzle down ward, when the weuj.-un was dis charged, the bullet passing through his foot. A physician was summoned nt once, who made the discovery that UIC lliuuruiuun.- ijuj nun luthjan Hope of his recovery doncd. has been abari' Shoots Former Wife. Chicago, Sept. 2G. Police of the Twenty-second street station conduct ed a city-wide search for Frank Goe ble, a rancher from South Dakota who is accused of having shot hi former wife, Rose Goeble, at 33G West Twenty-fourth street, here. The wom an Is at Wesley hospital suffering from a bullet wn-in'i 'n t!" nbdomen and nn other In the right leg. Taft's Gift Cow Not Lost. Marinette, Wis., Sept. 23.--A repor? from Washington that "Paulina Wayne," the cow given by Senator Stephenson to President Taft, had been l03t 13 incorrect. Pauline Is In the senator's barn at Kenosha, where she has been kept the last three months Tho cow will be expressed to Washington early in October. Governor Haskell on Trial. McAlester. Okla., Sept. 27.--Tht trial of Charles N. Haskell, governor o; Oklahoma, In what are known as the Muskogee town lot cases, wu. callod here before Federal Judge John A. Marshall. District Attorney Will lam J. Gregg, who is assisted by Attoi ney S. It. Rush of Omaha and I). T Hniner of Tulsa, Okla., announced thnt the government was ready to proceed and urged that the work of selecting a jury begin at once. In the Indictment returned by u federal grand jury Governor Haskell and five business men of Muskogee nre charged with "conspiracy to do fraud the government In the disposal of about GOO town sites. The town rites were sold by the government In 1902 c n behalf or Hie Creek Indians. French Aviators-Abandon Trip. Paris. Sept. 27 Both Mahieu and Loridan, the aeronauts who started from Paris, each with a passenger, on an attempt to fly In biplanes to Brus nels for the Auto club's prize of $30, 000 and the prize of $n,000 offered by tho municipality of Paris, were com pelled to withdraw from the compe tltiou after a series or mishaps. No ono was Injured. American borax oneap to r-oreignuui. Mr. Joseph Fels. the well known mil llonuirc soap manufacturer of Phila delphia and London, related a very Interesting bit of tariff experience at the recent free trade congress at Ant werp. It happens that Mr. Fels has to use borax very largely In his busi ness. He said It was cheaper for him to buy American borax In Liverpool and export It to bis works In Phila delphia than to buy It in America, where It was mined. lu one Instance he bought fifty tons of American borax In Kngland nt '.I cents a pound when the price quoted to him lu America was 7 cents a pound. Since making this statement the agent of the borax trust explained to Mr. Fels that South American borax was what be bought Anyhow the fact remains that the In teruatioiial borax trust sells bonis more tluiu twice as cheap lu England as In America. Standing Pat. New World V 2 . -3-. A ' '-" "'-.Sv" t CROW IN ANY EVENT. Th Farmer From Wayback Who Wouldn't Be Fooled. A farmer from Waybnck. Pa., carried bis wheat to London and sold It at tho free trada market, which sots the price for the world. Taking the price of 100 bushels, he went to Cheapslde to buy 100 yards or Kii-jllsh clot.i. A Pennsylvania" woolen manufacturer who was at the market said to him: "Why not be patriotic'; Buy of me at rarllTvllle. 1 will give you 0 yards for your money." "Pshaw:' said the homy handed one. "I can get 100 yards here!" "True." replied the tarllT beneficiary, "but you can't pass our statue of Liber ty info the land of the free unless you cough up 100 per ceut of Its value. It will work out ns though you had bought 'J!00 yards here and they had cut off 100 yards at New York and let you through with 100 yards." "Holy smoke!" said the Waybucker. "Why. that would be robbery!" "Nonsense." said the woolen man. "Don't be disrespectful to the law. That Is our policy of protection to American Industry. We protect you from getting 100 yards here In order that you may get fifty yards at home. Thus America will become prosper ous." "1 don't understand," said the Way back man. . . "Aldrlch understands it." said tho woolen man. "and we manufacturers understand it, but the subject Is so ab struse and scientific that few men seo through it. Kven Mr. Roosevelt will uot any longer discuss the tariff, though he understands everything else under the sun. It Is not necessary or. Indeed, desirable that the worlnng classes understand the tariff; it would only make trouble. All they need to do Is to shout for it and vote for it. We do the understanding for them." The Wayback mnn scratched bis head. "It is not entirely clear to me." said he, "where 1 come in. 1 could get 100 ynrds here for my money, but you protect me from getting more thuu fif ty ynrds. In order to get 100 yards to Wayback I must give what would buji 200 yards here say, the price of 200 bushels. Where Is the protection to my American industry? It looks like turkey for you nud crow for me." "No," said the woolen man: "It Is not nlways turkey for me (he was a tariff expert), for if ymi carry English cloth to New York the tax of 100 per cent goes to Washington-Hint's tariff for revenue. It is only when you buy at Tarlffvllle that you are taxed for my benefit that's protection. Why uot be neighborly? Buy your cloth from mo at a good stiff price and 1 shall be able to buy some potatoes from you." "But." said the farmer man. "any way you put It spells crow for me." And that's exactly what It does, and he Is not the only farmer who has found this out. That Leaning Tower. "She's in bad shape, an I guess she'll crumble .soon!" Baltimore Sun. TARIFF A MORAL ISSUE. More Important on This Ground Than as an Economic Essential. Strangely enough, tills little group of iuiii very small in number-has ar rogated to Itself the leadership of Hie progressives, and Its members prate about the treatment of the tariff as a moral questlou.-Senator Aldrlch, Yet the formal si.tH'iiient made by Senator Aldrlch in answer to Senator Bristow and lu which this sneer at the insurgents is found acknowledged by his own act In making- this state ment that the tariff Is a moral Issue. For the- Bristow assault on Aldrlch wns on moral grounds on the spec tacle of a beneficiary of the tariff, sur rounded by other beneficiaries and In fluenced by them, deliberately manipu lating the schedules for the enrich ment of himself, his son and his finan cial associate. There was n time when that spectacle would not have outraged the public sense of decency, for pro tection bus been developed from n rev enue and Industrial device to a graft ing sys'Pin by this very means of manipulation by the direct beneficia ries. But the country Is wiser now. nnd its conscience Is more sensitive The awakening Is due fundumeutnlly to the Roosevelt doctrine of the square deal. That doctrine cannot If- lived up to by a people or a government that permits a few favored Interests to prey on tho masses through the medium of pro tective duties nairid by the beneficia ries themselves The country now de mands that the tnriff. whether protec tive or for revenue only, shall be de termined bv disinterested experts, not by interested trusts. The tnriff is an economic Irrup. but Iik Importance as a moral Issup is still greaJer, more fundamental, more es sfiitl.il to the spirit of a republic Kansas Cltv Star gen W3i; - t. E: !liullr'4BP,a2"!''252"S! A