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If President U evelt will take as
liiix li pains in explaining certain ad
ministration ('oings as he has in elti--i
latino Judge Taft's religious views
evcrjciii- would feel nun h easier.
Property dodge; and business in
terest scheme, proving to be the most
.scheuc, having proved to be the most
potent arguments to win votes in na
tional lections, ever adopted by po
lithal jugglers. It will fool the sue k--rs
all tin; time. Just think of the
4 gotisni of a lot of pie eaters, to put
forward the claim that all property
is due to their pie eating capacity.
The :;th is Thanksgiving. One
thing to be thankful for is, that while
Te ldy has endorsed the; issue of bonds
to replenish the treasury in times
of peace the resources of this great
country are boun Hess and by hard
knot ks the American people will be
:ibl' to pay them. iSut there must be
no kicking, because the people have
-sail by their ballots that they want
t'o-.:r years more of my "policies
st ly :;s t hey a re.
Caudidatcs are still looming up
l'c r speaker of the house of represen
tatives ami chief clerk. Probably
each and everyone1 of them is quali
fied, but they should bear in mind
the responsibilities that devolve upon
each of these; positions. We are per
scnally asiiuainted with two for
speaker we know that are well fitted
for the place, and we know of about
the same number for chief clerk that
an' well adapted in every way to per
fcrm the duties. They should be well
t-atisfed in their own minds that they
are the proper men for these respon
sible positions.
Is Socialism n Dream.
Nothing is easier than to imagine
be."iatcr Deliver toying with social
ism, rsing it as the foil of his wit
and sharpening the appetite cf his
hearers for more of Doliver, whether
rr not they agreed with him in his
conclusion that socialism is a dream
i-ays the St. Louis Republic:
It is not necessary to admit that
socialism is a matter to cause alarm
or that it is likely to assume propor
tions alarming in extent. Politically
this country is merely a manifesta
tion cf discontent with the existing
crder of things. The discontent, al
ways with the existing order of things
the socialists assure us, is likely to
be numerically stronger. If the two
great parties nominate men .whose
persons or views are likely to antag
onize many, and weaker if the two
candidates have merit. The figures
seem to indicate that the rush to
socialism in the recourse of the dis
satisfied as well as the affirmation
of those who believe in its princi
ples. However, socialism has principles
and, fundamentally, they are well
defined. That they do not represent
a dream is told in the successes of
the socialists politically in Germany,
France and other countries of Conti
nental Europe, and of socialism in
England. But it is not less astonish
ing than true that socialism grows
conservative with success. . The bare
possibility of applying any of its prin
ciples causes a halt and it divides and
subdivides over the detailed ques
tions. In Germany, for instance, the
socialists never fail to inveigh against
milltaryism and yet the leaders ad
mit that if they should practically in
sist on party neutrality in time of
danger their 3,000,000 adherents
would melt away.
In France M. Jaures, under pres
sure of duty as a member of the
chamber of deputies dare not in
dorse the views of Herve that it is
the duty of socialists to make war im
possible, and dare not oppose them, j
But the German and English social
ists assail Herveism and at the con
gress at Stuttgart last year compre
hensiveness rather than rigid ortho-!
doxy was sounded as the keynote of
the policy "that hopes to conquer j
the world as primative Christianity
did."
Questions of this kind may be
taken lightly aa marking the efficient-of
socialism to define Itself. Hut
,it cannot be doubted that socialism is
'making an earnest effort to accommo
date itself to circumstances and pro
I vide remedies with the fuudanien-
iJ as jf )roI,erty and the denom
ination of the stale ever the individ
ual. To those who thoughtfully an 1 ser
iously turn to socialism is it a practi
cal and formative program, not to be
abandoned because it wins no physi
cal victory, and a thing separate from
the doctrines of discontent. Practi
cally at this time socialism has a
place in our scheme of politics, for it
marks the radicalism of dissatisfac
tion. No one may say that, whether
it is regarded as a grim specter in
the background or a beacon of hope
in the heavens, it has operated as a
wholesome check on extravagant ten
dencies. AM NOW !
The following editorial written by
Henry Watterson appears in the
Liouisyille Courier-.! or rnal :
"I do net know," sai l K !mund
IJvrke, "the metho 1 of drawing up
an i:uMctn ent against a whole peo-
.)!e." Neither dees the Courier Jour
sal. The result of Tuesday's electioi
shows conclusively that a great ma
jority of the pec pie of the control
ing section cf the union are well con
tent with things as they are. That
it is better to endure tne conceded
shortcoming of the- party in power
that embark upon an unknown
sea of continuous agitation; that
Bryan meant this whilst Taft meant
rest; in short that a dollar, though
tainted, in hand is worth a bush full
of patriotic abstractions.
The idiasyncrasy of the time is
commerce. As in the last century
it was liberty reaching out after in
stitutional freedom and measura
bly attaining it. It is now material
ism reaching out after markets. The
average voter of better education and
intelligence takes no thought of the
hereafter, and is even more indif
ferent to the heretofore. He is com
pletely engrossed by the present
That which Bacon calls "the wisdom
of our ancestors," makes as little ap
peal to his reason or reverence, as
that which Burns call "the light of
Heaven" makes to his imagination
He would not exchange the current
reports, with a rising price list, for
all the books that were ever written
upon political economy. He either
carries the fool of the vicinage with
him, or else raises enough dust to
blind his eyes and disarm his suf
frage.
We need take no account here of
the agencies of organization and cor
ruption, though both may been seen
clearly enough. They show so plain
ly in the nomination and election of
the successful candidate as to make
it apparent that whole segments of
the people are no longer appalled
by anything, however immoral and
wrong, that does not touch their
pockets. Even those who preach
the simple life in the magazines in
the east are "deaf to" the dftfm5 taps
of conscience. Nay, he that seeks
righteousness from the highest "places
is found often practicing fraud in
the lowest; so that the language of
the religion of literature and jour
nalism and commerce, is cant.
It is the part neither of common
sense, nor of upright manhood, in
the vanquished to kick against the
pricks. Let us hope and believe that,
despite its pharasaism and defile
ment, politics is not war, nor party
lines yet lines of battle. The elect
orate has declared for a high pro
tective tariff it has declared for an
invincible armament; embracing a
navy unsurpassed upon the seas,
along with a corresponding military
establishment upon a fixed war foot
ing on the land; it has recorded a
vote of confidence in the chieftains
of the two branches of the legisla
ture, as they are known to be con
stituted and controlled, and has given
them carte blanche to make billion
dollar congresses the rule and not
the exception.
The country is rich. It is in the
aggregate growing richer. It is
quite rich enough to stand it
How-
ever unequaled its distribution of
wealth, the system, which is able to
keep up a lobby in both of the houses
at Washington, will have no reason
to fear that its orders will not be ex- '
ecuted as well in the matter of im
post duties laid to protest their vast
accretions of capital as in the matter
of government contracts made o fat
ten tlie party workers. Are we not
a world power, and are not these out
lays essential to our dignity?
Yet each mishap has its compens
ation. The personality of the elect
ed president the people may be said
to be in possession of an anchor to
windward. Judge Taft owes his elec
tion to his own character. In this
there can be no manner of doubt.
From first to last he was greviously
handicapped by the president. It was
the belief that he is not as Roose
velt that though his platform faced
two ways, he could be relied upon
to face but one way, and that way
the reverse of the spectacular per
formances and agitations barren of
result, to which the president has
accustomed us that weighed with
the commercial instincts of the mid
dle classes of society as well as the
overpowering interests of massed
wealth, the honest yielding them
selves to the dishonest, an 1 making
a common cause against a c hange of
parties in spite of all arguments in
its favor.
That the republican party cannot
compose the irrepressible conflict be
tween capital and labcr is as ceiU"i:i
as that the old, historic democratic
party could not compose that between
freedom and slavery. But licit her
the chiefs of the system, nor the vic
torious party leaflet's need trouble
themselves about that just yet. With
such men the rule is "sufficient unto
he day," and "cat, drink a a. I b'i
nerry, though tomorrow you die."
Just as fifty years ago a little more
3i moderation and a lift!-? less cf
part spirit might have averted our
sectional war, ought it to yi plain to
thinking men that the course of over-
confidence on which we are launched
must inevitably lead to conditions
equally baffling to the statesman
ship of the future. Pray heaven that
they be not so ruinous and tragical;
but that, under God, it shall be the
destiny of the republic to vary the
experience of human kind and to
work out without bloodshed the prob
lems of popular government to same
hitherto unknown and benign con
clusion.
Looking "back over the circumstan
ces of the campaign now ended, the
Courier Journal has nothing to ru
gret, or retract. We have given ex
pression to our true beliefs.' accept
ing alternatives, not of our own male
ing. with good grace and putting
forth our uttermost in the cause of
the right as we are able to see it
We had great confidence in the elec
tion of the democratic ticket. In no
political battle that we recall has it
seemed to us that so much to con
demn appeared upon a single side, or
was so plainly visible. We believed
that there was virtue and intelligence
enough in the voters to see this,
and to resent it at the ballot box.
though only as a rebuke to ovcr
lordism and partyism, quite lost to
the sense of good citizenship and fi
delity to the state.
The result shows that we over
sized the spiritual and undersized the
material in the hearts and minds of
the people. They were deaf alike to
precedents, to reason and to elo
quence; for nothing could, as noth
ing has ever equaled, the personal
canvass of Mr. Bryan; its wonder
ous lucidity and power of statement;
its splendid intellectual an 1 physical
endurance; its unanswerable argu
ment. Nor did Ignatius of Loyola
sweep through a world of incarnate
evil bearing the cross of Jesus to
triumph with greater force of inspir
ation and truth than did the heroic
son of Nebraska traverse a land gap
ping with curiosity, but too busy over
its work and play to consider any
danger to the immortal soul of its
constitutional fabric.
There is something yet better than
being president of the United States,
nd that Is the real sense of duty
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done. Tilden will live in history, me esteemed oiar pays me oum
when Hayes is forgotten. History nal quite a compliment in the above
will say of Bryan that in three great 'but it is evident that it has not been
popular movements, clouded some-
times by errors of judgment and ob-
structed always by corruption he
led sublimely; that he set before his j
countrymen the standards alike of
God and truth; and that he went
down beaten with clean hands and
high repute, carrying with him the
C. P. HALE, President
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homage of patriotic men.
In the national government the
oligarchism of privilege finds itself
stronger entrenched than ever be
fore. Its fortress is unassailable. It
can never be driven out short of its
own dissolution, or some dire cata
slysm, bringing ruin in its train. Yet
vanquished as the democratic party
is, has not been so one with itself in
many a day and it owes renewed
loyalty to the public service. This
should be maintained equally in de
feat and in victory. There must be
a systematic and enlightened opposi
tion. How this shall arrange itself
and who shall lead it, will appear in
good season.
Old time democrats will wait and
keep their powder dry. If they
should despair, if they should break
apart, the country would be exposed
to political anarchy leading through
radicalism and excesses of every sort
to practical irresponsibility on the
one hand, unregenerate debauchery
backed by resistless force on the
other hand. We may be a power for
good though beaten and in opposi
tion. Seven millions of votes are nev
er to be despised in case they hold to
gether. Many states remain to us.
The constitution of the United States
has not been abolished yet, nor in
stitutional freedom, nor wise and up
right administration, and these are
still worth fighting for.
So. amid the unneighborly and un
patriotic vociferation of the repub
licans, the jubilation and intoler
ance of the nondescripts flocking to
the winning side the blatant bully
ing of the leaders alike of predatory
wealth and of plundering politics
let us sit steady in the boat, sustained
by our own rectitude and holding to
the oars of what we conceive to be
good government in the nation an I
in the state.
Quite a Compliment.
The Plattsmouth Journal sur
rounds itself with gloom. It refuses
to see that times are better or that
a shade of hope has been left to man
kind. The Plattsmouth paper is real
ly unbearable in its cynicism. Other
wise ably edited, it might become a
power for good if it would adopt a
policy of optimism even in the face
of what it considers a political trag-
edy. Lincoln btar.
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a close reader of this paper or it
would see that the paper is quite
the reverse of the picture of gloom
which seems its idea. This paper is
optimistic in the extreme, it believes
that there is" still hope left even in
the face of triumph of debauchery
in pciitics. Eventually, it is the firm
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belief of the Journal, even debauch
ery at the polls will fail to blind the
people to the real facts of the situa-
tion and when that day comes they hence. In that p'.ith ular v e be
will throw off the yoke of monopoly lieve he is mistaken. The primary
which is holding them dow n and be-i vote in Lane aster c ounty shows that
come free and independent. he was not the favorite? candidate and
At the present time there is no
such good times as Vic Itosewater's
publicity bureau would have the Star
believe exists leastwise not in this
immediate vicinity. Vic may be able
to furnish prosperity literature pal
atable to the Star's taste but not for
this paper.
As for the political tragedy of
-which it speaks, the Journal has made
not so much of it as many of the
Star's own political contemporaries
are making over the defeat of Gov
Sheldon and the star's particular
friend, Congressman Pollard.
But the idea that the Journal is
pessimistic is erroneous. The demo
crats stood for the truth in the past
campaign and "Truth is mighty and
must prevail."
Don't Get Ciay.
From what the Herald can pick up
here and there it is safe to say there
are a number of new legislators com
ing to Lincoln this winter with the
idea of revolutionizing things and re
forming the earth of raising hades
and putting a chunk under it, ia oth
er words. It is a new order of things,
a change of party, and some of the
new" statesmen give evidence in ad
vance of showing the dear people how
things should be done.
Io such the Herald would say.
don't get gay. There have been other
legislatures before and there will
probably be others when you coun
try savers have turned up your toes
to the daiseys, so don't get gay. The
Herald and a number of its friends,
is going to stand guard with an elm
club and a meat axe and if you do
proceed to make spectacles of your
selves, your office and the people who
elected you, you are going to get it.
There are a few of us in Lincoln who
have labored diligently for years here
to break up the combines and ma
chine rule and now that we have
broken into them, we do not want
you gentlemen to come here and
make a mess of things. We are in
position to do something in future,
since so many hide bound partisans
have broken away from their old
moorings; not to do something for
party, especially but for the people and
the independent voter as against ma
chine politics, and we don't want a
good thing spoiled.
Therefore, the Herald would again
admonish you, don't get gay. Lin
coln Herald.
Congressman Pollard, who new
perfixes aa "ex" before his m!u, La;
R. BRUCE, Secretary
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recovered from the shock if 1h-j ltu'l
election, and announced his candl
drry for y!)oi'r whirl at it two y:-:r?
the same thing is true of the strong
republican counties of Johnson, Ne
maha, Pawnee? and Cass. When the
first congressional district was or
ganized Church Howe said that "all
h 1 couldn't beat a republican
there," but is seems that the repub
licans have quit voting a straight
ticket. The district is republican by
fully three thousand and to be de
feated in such a district Is truly hu
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