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In rT iihc:v:i circle "t!i? nun
with the rton.h" N received witli
more cotiMilcutum than "the nun
with tlie muck rake."
, Tin: names mentioned for gover
nor on the democratic ticket are
ShallenharKcr, Sullivan, Dr. Hall
and George V. Merge All good
men, and a mistake could not be
made in the nomination of either.
Tine Kearney Democrat nomi
nates Jim Dahlmnn for governor.
Well, if the new mayor of the
metropolis can make as good a run
for governor as he did for mayor
he would get there with loth feet.
Tin: republicans of Illinois are
all broke up over the passage of a
primary election bill passed by the
legislature. Lieutenant Governor
Sherman says the passage of this
measure means defeat and disaster
to the republican party in that
.state.
TitK "kissing bug" will be an
issue in the Kansas gubernatorial
fight. Governor Hoch is now in
the Hobson class as a kisser, but is
not on the same footing with the
Alabaiuian. Hobson kissed people
w ho wanted to be kissed, but Hoch
kissed people who didn't want to
le kissed.
rKi:sii)i:.NT U(iosi:vi:i.T evidently
thinks the democrats will elect a
majority of the next congress, for
he is said to have decided to call a
pecial session after the 4th of
March, for the purpose of revising
the tariff. He knows as well as
any one that if the republicans
should have a majority of congress
it would be useless to call a special
session, for the standpatters would
be in control.
Tin: annual appropriations by
congress have grown nearly 50 per
cent in the last ten or twelve years,
and we now have a billion-and-a-half
congress instead of the"billion
dollar congress," which excited
unpleasant remark when it first ap
peared. Out of all this money
550.000.0(H) is not more than the
west has a fair right to claim for
annual betterment of navigation in
its 1J.OO0 miles of navigable stream.
It is certainly time for the male
citizens of a city to face the public
improvement proposition with an
energetic spirit when the ladies
take hold of the matter and push it
to a successful issue like the ladies
of riattsmouth are doing. They
are evidently waking up some of
the mossbacks of this city to their
duty. All good citizens should en
courage the movement inaugurated
by the noble and enterprising
ladies of riattsmouth.
So SKXSATIOXAM.V absorbing
have leen the consequences of Mr.
Roosevelt's betrayal of the demo
crats whom he had solicited in aid
of a limited review rate measure
that the original and striking fact
of his surrender to the Aldrich
clique has leen temporarily obs
enred. It must come to pass, how
ever, after the resultant question of
veracity and issue of good faith
shall have leen disused of, that
the immense significance of the
president's abject capitulation to
the enemy in his own party will
transcend other matters and Wome
the great fact in the public mind.
Consideration of the incidents and
circumstances will give place to the
central question, Why did Mr.
Roosevelt surrender to the Aldrich
crowd, whom, up to the very day
of surrender, lie had Ivcn fighting
bitterly and with every force at
his command? What was his
motive? for motive he must have
had. A trivial motive will not
explain so weighty a transaction.
To surrender was a grave, vital,
history-making matter.
Tin- !eith ot" Senator (iornia:i
vi!! rerun e a j roiv.ivev.t from
'I'ti'oc lite, an.l a leader of the
' ('.(.Ki'.'cr.itic i'.i:ty i:'t only in his
own v. i'.e f Marla:-..!, 1 i:t the
1 r..iti!i at l.ire.
Vn T has 1 econie of all thie
"I'.ti'-ter" bvi)vn b'i:.in.t-J Has
the "M'ft sn.i;." bureau ceased to
cxit. or has the sudden appearance
of l'.dward Kosewater upon the
political platform chilled the Ilrown
hot-air boom'
Wmi.K Nebraska City is arrang
ing for the Woodman Iog Rolling
in July, and have a proposition for
a street carnival before them,
riattsmouth does not appear to
have even life enough to start a
Fourth of July !oom.
Who will start the Fourth of
July ball to rolling? riattsmouth
ought to have a celebration this
year by all means. I.et's find out
how bad our business men want a
celebration. It can easily be told
by the amount they will donate.
Sknatdk li.ui.KV, of Texas, is
the one man who conies out of the
freight-rates fight with large gains
of personal reputation. His part
in the debates on the Hepburn bill
lifted him in a few weeks to a
recognized place among the ablest
leaders the senate has known.
I'i.attsmi )t'TH merchantscan and
should sell goods as cheaply as any
of the surrounding towns, and can
and should pay as much for pro
duce. And the way to draw trade
is to make prices and let the people
know what they are. That is the
way merchants of other towns are
drawing the trade and much of it
that rightfully belongs here.
j SiMi: everybody is supposed to
know the law and nobody is ex-
cused for ignorant violations, it
might be well to order another
j edition of the Supreme Court's re-
jcent decision on divorce. There
areevideiitly more divorced persons
in the I'nited States than there
were copies in the first edition, and
they all want to know where they
are at.
Ik Tin; freight-rates law to be
passed by the republican congress
doesn't satisfy the constituents of
Senators Cullom, Dolliver and
others from the west, it will not be
through ignorance on the part of
the republicans. Democratic sena
tors labored prayerfully to show
the republicans how to make a law
that would please the constituents
of western republican senators.
Scarcely does the republican ad
ministration get one scandal check
ed when another conies to the
front. Now there is one connect
ed with the insane asvlum at Nor
folk which indicates that that insti
tution is primarily under the man
agement of incompetents with em
ployes and attendants more brute
than human. At least two patients
have died as the direct cause of
brutal treatment of attendants.
Governor Mickey has filed charges
against the superintendent and
assistant, to le tried by the state
board. If such things happen
under their . noses, it is self evident
that they are unfit to have charge
of the hundreds of poor unfortu
nates committed to their charge.
Says the Beatrice Sun: The
announcement that President Roose
velt and Postmaster General Cor
telyou have decided that hereafter
postmasters of the presidential class
will only le removed for cause, has
created consternation with a certain
class of congressmen. Heretofore
the postmasterships of their dis
tricts have Ix-en used as a nucleus
for a political machine, to keep
them in congress, and to this end
the position of postmaster of the va
rious towns of importance, has
been trading stock. The result is
that frequently appointments are
made of men whose chief recom
mendation is their pliancy to the
hand of the congressman making
the recommendation, rather than of
some more competent and generally
desired candidate of the entire com
munity interested. By the new or
der of thing this will be done away
with and it is time.
R a o ; e i e 1 1 ' s C::?'e'e Surrender.
Mr. Rooicve'.t surrendered a!!
the vitalities of the rate-regulation
bill and deserted the democratic
senators who-c co- ; eral'.on he had
invited and who-vj attitude agreed,
with his r-wu.
The evid.er.ee seems to be clear.
The point was whether the courts
should be left to "broadly" assume
control of a rate dispute in other
words, whether rate regulation
should remain where it is. Mr.
Roosevelt professed to desire effec
tive regulation. For that reason
he took a position of sharp dis
agreement with the Aldrich senator
ial machine. He summoned the
democrats to hi aid. Then he
abandoned them and accepted the
Aldrich dictation.
He wears today the yoke of the
Aldrich machine.
If there were no disclosure by
Senator Tillman and no corrobora
tive statement by ex-Senator Wil
liam K. Chandler, the history of
the bill would demonstrate con
clusively these three facts: First,
that the president professed to hold
firmlyagainst "broad" court review
second, that he asked and received
the aid of democratic senators, when
it was ' apparent that there was
agreement between him and them:
third, that he surrendered his
position unconditionally, went
over to Aldrich and supported un
limited court review and suspension
of rates fixed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The statements of Tillman and
Chandler are hardly necessary.
Controversy about personal verac
ity is outside the main issue; or
rather the question of personal con
sistency, if not that of veracity, is
settled beyond doubt in the obvious
sequences of the main issue.
President Roosevelt is a Hough
Rider who rides as hard in retreat
asin advance.
Bryan's First Race.
A special from Washington cred
its Senator Millard with telling the
following story of the days when
Nebraska had just half as many
congressmen as it has today, and
when Omaha and Lincoln, its two
chief cities, each of which now dom
inates a congressional district, were
in the same district, together with
Cass and several other rural coun
ties: "We had a lawyer in Omaha
named Council, ' ' he said, "who was
a mighty good talker and a bright
politician. He got the notion of
going to congress, and went out
and surrounded a republican nom
ination. The democrats didn't
have any chance in the district and
a nomination was as good as an
election."
"Connell came around to my of
fice one day and wanted ine to go
to a meeting that evening. The
democrats, it seemed, had nomin
ated a chap down in the country
that I didn't rememler to have
heard of, and he actually had chal
lenged Council to a debate.
"I went around to the meeting.
That was K'fore I was in politics.
The place was full of people, and I
had been asked to sit on the plat
form, so I met the democratic can
didate. He was a funny appearing
young fellow, in a black eassimere
suit, with trousers that were too
tight and stuck to his legs and did
not come much more than half way
down from the knees to his shoes.
"Connell spoke first, and nude a
mighty good speech. It was tariff,
and hetold us alouttwo-penny nails
and the cost of tin buckets and all
that stuff, and the audience liked it.
"Then his opponent was intro
duced. He opened liis mouth and
began to get interested; and so did
the crowd. In ten minutes he was
down to business, and was making
fun of Connell and his arguments,
and the crowd was roaring with
laughter and applause. It was one
of the meetings that I always have
rcmcnilered.
"Connell was completely cleaned
out. Well, they went out into the
district and had a joint debate in
every county; and would you In.
lieve it, when election was over
Connell wasn't elected at all. The
other fellow was."
"Who was the chap with the fun
ny pants, senator?" asked a listener.
' Oh, didn't I tell you? It was
William Jennings Bryan. Fiver
hear of him?"
Thk democrats of Nebraska
were never in better shape united, 1
harmonious and eager to do battle.
Bickerings and dissensions should
nut be allowed to enter their delib
erations. Already some of the re
' publican papers, no doubt fearing
the great popularity of some of gen
tlemen mentioned for governor on
the democratic ticket, are endeav
oring to create a discord among the
friends of these gentlemen. Dem-
jocrats should pay no attention to
1 the sniveling criticisms of such
blatant republicans as Ross Ham
mond of the Fremont Tribune, who
seems all out of sorts since IMward
Rosewater butted into "Buster"
Brown'ssenatorialboomsohard.and
is the most loud-mouthed in this di
rection. His scheme is to get up
a fight for the nomination in con
vention, embitter the friends of
candidates against each other and
create a feeling that will be hard to
heal. They see the hand-writing
on the wall. Democratic victory is
in the air, and unless they can stay
the tide by engendering a bitter feel
ing between candidates and their
friends they know that republican
ism is doomed to defeat. Demo
crats must attend strictly to their
own knitting, and let republicans
do their own jarring.
Sk.natok La Fou.ettk is learn
ing who his friends are, and who
are his enemies. He offered two
very important amendments to the
Hepburn bill, and the republicans
promptly voted them down. The
democrats, however, stood by him.
How long will it take him, and
Cooper, and Lenroot, and the rest
of the decent republicans of Wis
consin to learn that they can hope
for nothing from the Roosevelt-Spooner-Aldrich
combine?
D:i you know how the adminis
tration is after the "drug trust?"
Having busted the oil trust, steel
trust, beef trust, lumber trust, they
are now going to bust the drug
trust, so that our medicine will be
cheaper. It is a wonder that this
was not thought of sooner. It's
cheaper medicine we need; not
cheaper food, clothing, shoes, build
ing material, implements, etc.
Sure! What trust busters!
That hoary old fraud, the free
seed distribution by congressmen,
is on deck again. The provision in
the annual appropriation bill was
knocked out once, but the majority
of the congressmen couldn't stand
it, and hastened to put it back.
And the government will continue
to distribute tons of "rare and val
uable seeds" to those who don't
want them to the tune of tens of
thousands of dollars every year.
Aktk.k all that Standard Oil has
done for the republican party, even
to raising the five millions of cor
ruption funds in 18, that saved
the day for Hanna and McKinley,
it seems rather ungrateful for the
g. o. p. politicians to sneak away,
instead of standing by it in its dis
tress. Kven Senator Aldrich ap
pears to have caved in on the alco
hol bill.
Thk republican leaders in con
gress are so rattled and politically
scared that they can't settle whether
the Panama Canal shall be built to
a sea level or of the locks type.
But Chairman Shonts says he can
not proceed with the digging until
the question is settled, so there will
soon 1 20,000 men idle through
the procrastination of a republican
congress.
Aktkr nearly six years of repu
ted trust busting, can anyone point
to a trust that the administration
has made away with, or that has
ceased to plunder the people? There
have leen lots of pyrotechnics, but
no dancing.
AxoTHKR republican scandal is
looming up at the national capital
through the investigation of the gov
ernment insane hospital, and it
makes one's flesh creep to read of
the cruelties practiced on some of
the unfortunate inmates.
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