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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. J an. 28. 1697. Nebraska 3nbcpcndtnt TVS WBALTH MAKRKS mud LINCOLN tNDB.rgNDB.NT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IndEpEijdsrjt PublUhirjg Go. At 1180 M Strot, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE B38. $1.00 per Year in Advance. Addraaa All communication to, and mak all tralta, monv orders. to.. payable to INDEPENDENT TUB, CO.. Linools. Nib. The German Saving Moines, In., has failed. bank of Dob A theater has been built in New York with two auditoriums; that is people look onto the stage from both sides. An order of forclosure against the U. r. railroad ban been handed down b.v Judge Sanborn of the United States court. It is said that Senator Wolcott is not entirely satisfied with his visit to En gland in the interest of international bimetallism. The Silver Knight recounts 58 failures for the last week. The "Advance Agent's" show has evidently been stranded on the road. The Fullerton Post of January 15 has a very handsome souvenir edition. It has a notice of both the living and the dead, as it contains a sketch of George D. Meiklejohn. In another column we reproduce an article from the Chicago Dispatch con cerning Senator Allen and his expose of the frauds used in. electing McKinley. The Dispatch, which is the leading free silver paper outside of the New York Journal, pronounces Allen the leader of the free silver forces in the United States senate. The Independent acknowledges re ceipt of a copy of the proceedings of the thirtieth session of the National Grange, held at Washington, D. C, in November of last year. The grange is absolutely a "non-partisan organization, but it never theless has done a great work in educat ing the people along political lines. Lyman J. Gage, president of the First National bank of Chicago is said to be slated for secretary of the treasury, fie is thoroughly identified with the banks, having been president of their national association; and is a gold bug through and through. With Sherman and Gage at the head of the cabinet, there can be no question about the attitude of the McKinley administration on the money question. 1 Col. W. A. Harris, who succeeds Sena tor Peffer of Kansas.is oueof the solidest and best men in that state. He is a farmer, a cultured gentleman, a forcible speaker, a man of absolute houesty and as immovable as a rock. TheI.nEiEN- dent has never had any stones to throw at Senator Peffer. It believes him im measureably above the men who have tried to belittle him; but it also believes that Harris will be able to do more ef fectual work than Peffer ever could do. A VALUABLE REPORT. "The Fifth Biennial Report of the Bu reau of Labor and Industrial Statistics of Nebraska" has just been received. It is unquestionably the most valuable re port ever published by this department in the history of the state. Perhaps the most important feature of the work is a township ' description of each county. This is evidently intended to be an unbiased statement of the value of every portion of Nebraska from an agricultural standpoint. This feature is especially valuable to prospective set tiers and real estate dealers. The articles on irrigation, the beet sugar industry, alfalfa, the dairy, co-op eration, etc, are also valuable. A number of tables are given showing the wages, and conditions of the variou kinds of laborers in the state, the aver age yield per acre and condition of crops. reports of mortgage indebtedness, re ports of manufactures, etc. , Two chapters are devoted to the con dition of laborers in the United States and labor unions. ' , One of the most interesting sections of the book is the chapter on the relation of the governments of the world , to th railroads; showing by actual statistics that a great majority of governments own all, or a part, of their railroads. A number of amendmeutsare proposed to the law creating the bureau, the most important of which are, first, to make the bureau an agency to gather accurate crop statistics and statistics on the val ue of yearly productions of all kinds. Second, to make the bureau a free em ployir.ent office for the entire state. These two additions could be made with no additional cost and would greatly enlarge the Bureau's field of usefulness. Rlpans Tabules cure Indigestion. WHAT OFTHEFUTt'KEf The popolists of the United States who favored a union of reform forces and who advocated making the fight on the silver issue in the last campaign, con tended that silver would prcWe'an enter ing wedge for all the reforms of the peo ples party and that while acting con jointly with the other silver forces, we would graduelly impregnate them with our own ideas and principles. Time has proven the wisdom of these predictions. Today the reform senti ment of the country is turning to the peoples party platform in its entirety. Ti.e attitude of the railway corporation in the late campaign has opened the eyes of the free silver men to the desir ability of government ownership of rail roads; the frffort of the banks to retire the greenbacks has shown the necessity of direct legislation. The manly attitude of the populists in their unswerving and magnificent sup port of Mr. Bryan, wnile in giving it they were going outside of their own party and laying aside their dearest principles, this act of unselfish patriot ism has endeared them to the eutire free silver army, has brought their men and ideas into favor and will certainly make them the leaders in the great bat tle of 1.000. Now for the proofs. They are all from sources outside the peoples party and therefore without special bins in our di rection. The first is from the Philadelphia niencan, a tree silver repuoiican paper that up to last fall would hear to noth- ng but free silver and protection. That change has come o'er the spirit of its reams may be seen from the following extracts from a recent editorial: 'We must not content ourselves with striving to combat the upbuilding of,a moneyed oligarchy by working for free ilver coinage alone. We must not per mit that oligarchy to fasten its grasp pon our people through gaining a mo nopoly of the issue of our pa per currency, or a monopoly of our railroads, or of our telegraphs. The surrender by the government to the banks of the sover eign power to issue and control the vol- me of our paper currency is urged upon us with greater or lesser vehemence, the control of our railroads and telegraph nes in the interest of speculative cliques is becoming more and more marked. The banks on the one hand and the rail roads on the other, are being turned in to eugine of speculation. This tendency must be combatted. The banks and the railroads must be run for the purposes for which they were created, namely to facilitate the distribution of wealth and lessen the cost of distribution, not to enable those who control the banks and railroads to levy a tribute on such dis tribution." The American, to sum up, announces its platform as follows: "1st. Free coinage of silver. 2d. The issue of paper money, and the regulation of the volume thereof by the national government. Jd. Government ownership of rail roads and telegraphs." So much for the leading silver repub lican paper of America. The other two quotations are from democratic sources. Hon. David Overraeyer, of Kansas, is second to Mr. Dry an, probably the lead ing free silver democrat west of the Mis souri river. The following sentences are taken from a recent letter of Mr. Over- meyers: Why not boldly and openly announce the well settled and familiar legal doc trine that railroads are public highways and why longer shrink from applying to them the logical rule which obtains in all such cases, viz:, That so long as they remain public highways the title to their roadbeds and rights of way should be in the public, with such degree of control in all other respects as the law making power may deem expedient? "In fine, why not have society control property instead of having property rule society. These great issues are up on us. We canuot escape them. The man who falters is lost. The party that temporizes will perish. The conditions are present. The hour has come." inetniru quotation is not quite so outspoken, but it points in the same di rection. It is from the Cliicairo Dispatch. the leading free silver democratic paper of the west. The quotation occurs at the end of an editorial defense of socialism. The l)is patch does not openly espouse socialism but merely answers some of the lies of the goldbug press. It then adds the fol lowing significant paragraph: The Dispatch is democratic. It be lieves that all government rests in the consent of the governed, and that the voice of the people is the voice of God It rejects nothing of worth because it is new, and it clings to no faith simply be cause it is old. It believes in the peopl of today and that they are capable of solving and will solve the problem ttovernment. It is all very well to re spect the fathers, but they were human and if we cannot improve on their work after jnpre than a hundred years, we are decadents. If we are not progressive we will be reactionary. Inertia is impos- sible." THE NEW SENATE. Indications now are that the next sen ate will be for silver. At least forty-sev en votes may be safely counted against any farther legislation in favor of the gold standard. It is thought thatevt a larger number will oppose the retire ment of the greenbacks. The personnel of the new senate will be considerably changed. The machine boss and president of the United States Ex press company, Thomas C. Piatt, suc- ceeds David B. Hill of New York. In Pennsylvania the eminent bimetalliet and statesman, Cameron, is succeeded by an unknown Philadelphia lawyer dic tated by boss Quay. In Ohio the cor poration demoerat, Brice, is succeeded by Ex-Governor Foraker. When Sher man goes into the cabinet Mark Hanna will probably slip into the place thus left vacant in the senate. In Indiana the eloquent Vorhees will be succeeded by the corporation lawyer, Fairbanks, who was temporary chairman of the last republi can national convention. In Illinois the prince of the gold-bug democrats, John M. Palmer, will be succeeded by Ex-Congressman Wm. E Mason, a Chicago law yer. ' In Wisconsin another gold bug democrat is replaced by a republican Ex-Senator John C. Spooner. It will be seen that fourgold bug demo cratic senators are retired Hill, Palmer, Brice and Vilas. To these may be added Vorhees, who, while claiming to be a silver man, betrayed the people in the repeal of the Sherman silver law. The retirement of these men will almost eliminate the gold democrats from the body. Among the free silver democrats there will be few changes. Three new men, one from South Carolina, another from Georgia and another from Alabama, have been elected. They are all ardent silver men. Jones of Arkansas and Vest of Missouri succeed themselves. There will be a gain among the popu lists and independent silver men. Of the populists Allen, Butler and Stewart hold over. Peffer of Kansas is succeeded by Ex-Congressman W. A. Harris, one of the ablest and best informed ineu in the party. Jones of Nevada succeeds himself. Kyle of South Dakota will either succeed himself or be succeeded by another populist. In Idaho the fight is between Dubois, independent silver, and a populist. In Washington it will be either an inde pendent silver man or a populist. In Oregon it will be either Mitchell, silver republican, or a populist. In Utah a democrat will succeed Brown, rep. In Colorado Senator Teller was reflected by a vote of 92 out of 98, all parties ex- ept McKinley republicans voting for im. The total democratic vote in the sen ate will be 32. Of these at least 27 can be counted for silver. Of the populists and Independent silver men there will be 13; and there are at least eight men ho still class themselves as republicans who will vote for free silver. The probability is that the silver trength of the next Benate will be near 49 or 50, and it is quite certain that it will not fall below 47. I8PINGKEE A POPULIST. Governor Pingree, of Michigan, has been talking again. This time he had something to say of the prosperity which was to follow its "Advance Agent," Mr. McKinley. This interview sounds a ttle strange, coming from a republican governor. Here is wnat ne saia: "Prosperity? Fiddlesticks! There . I. . i.L. can be no prosperity so long as me country is at the mercy of the money- enders. The social system is out of joint. We need a law against great for tunes. Men form combinations and put their hands into the pockets of the poor. They never take from those who have, but steal from those who have not. We need men willing to stand for equnl rights, and we want men who brawl for qual rights to take a hand at practic ing equal rights. The public is being milked for the sake of the few, and the thing has got to stop before there can be any relief. "Gold standard talk has had its day. There will never be another republican convention which will write that name in its platform. There will next time be a strong bimetallic platform, and this is what the people want. They will have learned by that time that prosperity does not necessarily come by the election of any one man to the presidency, and tha t prosperity cannot come until the aws are radically changed. Michigan would have gone lor tree silver, but the gold men Beared the people to death with their calamity howling and the promises of prosperity whose sunshine is that of "Paradise Alley." AN OPEN LETTER TO WM. MCKINLEY. Three months have now elapsed, O McKinley, since you were elected presi dent ot tue United States; and we are still in the soup. We have ?yearned for the good times you promised us, even as a tom-cat yearneth for his mate; and they came not. You said we would open the milts rather than the mints,) Mc Kinley; but up to the present writing we have not succeeded in opening either in fact we could not open much of any thing not even a jack-pot. We have longed for the business reviral, 0 Mc Kinley, but it hasn't come our way not yet. It has not run over auy of our ac quaintances either, except the pawn broker; although trade for bank receiv ers and asignees has seemed to pick up a little. We have looked long and earnestly at the "Advance Agent of Prosperity," 0, McKinley, but where in thunder is his show? We have waited for the 'return of con fidence,' 0 McKinley, but when so many Illinois and Minnesota bauks busted, be seemed to get shy. He never came back. How long, 0 how long, McKinley, must we continue to live on soup and prom ises? ' Another "wave of prosperity," O Mc I Kinley, and we will indeed be submerged It is all we can do to hold ocr head above water now. The good times are too much for us, O McKinley. The banks and factories collapse at sight of them, for very joy. Those who prophesied to us in tby name, U McKinley, lied to us most shamefully. They worked us. They buncoed us. They run a con game on us. They played us low-down. We feel like we had been taken in 0, McKinley; like we had been swiped on a green goods deal; like we bad been angled for as a sucker. Aud now you have named John Sher man, tbat assassin of silver, for secre tary of state to make room for Hanna u the senate; and have appointed the president of a national bank for secre tary of the treasury. But still the good times come not. Your promises were very rosy, O Mc Kinley, but their fulfillment is as dead sea fruit.tbat turns toashes'in the grasp. The people were in nee.I, 0, McKinley, and you promised them bread; but you ave given them a stone. You were a false prophet, 0, McKinley; and you are condemned in the eyes of the people even now; for they love truth; and you pledged that you could not perform. THOSE REMARKABLE ELECTION - FIGURES. ' The returns of the late election grow n interest every day. They are peculiar. They indicate that in some states more people voted than, all the males of vot- ng age, and this without takiug into account the large number of ballots thrown out and the unnaturalized for- igners. Evidently, dead men aud mules voted in Ohio. It is usually counted that there is one voter for every five persons, but in Ohio, by these remark able returns, there is one voter to less than four persons. Nearly as large a voting percentage is shown in a number of other states. We below give the states and number of persons to each voter. This is excluding the states in which there is woman suffrage: California... 4.16 Illinois 4.13 Iowa 3.84 Kansas 4.01 Ohio 3.92 Oregon 4.12 South Dakota.... ,....3.88 These states were hot battle grounds and Hauna made his best efforts to arry all of them. He succeeded in all except South Dakota and Kansas. Taking all the country, in the states earried for McKinley there is one voter for every 4.85 persons; while in those carried by Bryan there is one voter for every 7.73 persons. Evidently no pad ding in the latter states, at least. But the remarkable part of this is the exceedingly heavy gain in some states over the vote of 1892. There is Ohio for instance; one would not suppose there had been a very great increase in the population in Ohio in the past four years of hard times; but the vote has in creased 167,012, indicating an increase of population of at least three-quarters of a million. Then take Illinois increase in the vote of over 100,000; Indiana, increase of 83,000; Iowa, increase of 78,000; Ken tucky, increase of over 100,000; Mich igan, increase of 84,000; Minnesota, in crease of 74,000; Missouri, increase of 130.000; etc., etc. These are all states where there were hot contests. These gains came generally just wnere tney were needed. . Another interesting feature of the re sult is that Bryan, though defeated, re ceived 960,000, more votes than Cleve- latd in 1892, who was elected by a land slide. Cleveland carried Illinois in 1892 by 26,ya. Uryan received 6'zi2 more votes than Cleveland, and yet McKin ley's plurality was 143,607. Cleveland carried Indiana by 7,125. Bryan leceived 43,001 more votes than Cleveland, and yet McKinley carried In diana by 17,978. Harrison carried Ohio by 1,072. Bry an received 70,708 more votes than Har rison, and yet McKinley carried Ohio by 51,950. Harrison carried Minnesota by 21,903 Bryan received 16,912 more votes than Harrison, and yet McKinley carried Min nesota by 53,768 Cleveland carried Kentucky by 40,020. Bryan received 42,429 more votes than Cleveland, and vet McKinley carried Kentucky by 281. Cleveland carried California by 144. Bryan received 26,473 more votes than Cleveland, and vet McKinley carried California by 1,822. It is a remarkable fact that in some of the states named in the foregoing the number of voters in 1896 exceeded the total number of males of voting age re turned by the census of 1890, while in other states the number of voters very nearly equaled the number of males of voting age as returned by the census. Males of Total vote. Ohio 1,017,341 voting age 1,016.464 Indiana..... 637,255 595,066 Illinois 1,090,177 Iowa 521,550 West Virginia 301,928 Wisconsin 447,190 Minnesota 341,695 Michigan 544,325 Kentucky 445,856 Missouri 674,022 These are amazing figures. 1,072 663 520,55.-$ ' 181,400 461.722 376,036 617,445 450,792 705,718 It must be remembered that the "males of voting age" in the census returns include un naturalized parsons. A vote of nch 1 magnitude in ratio to males of voting aee was never before seen in this country. There is a suspicion that in some pre cincts boys of from 18 years up were permitted to vote. Increase in popula tion since 1890 is not sufficient to ac count for the increase of vote. The total vote figures given above do not include a large number of defective ballots thrown out by the election boards. The following figures show the number of votes in 1896 and the number of males of voting age, according to the census of 1890, respectively in states where there was no , special demand for votes: Maine, votes, 118,364; males, 201.241; Massachusetts, votes, 401,548; males, C65.009; Connecticut, votes, 174, 383; males, 224,092; New York, votes, 1,424,221; males, 1,769,649; Pennsyl. vania, votes, 1,194,278; males, 1,461, 869. Another interesting feature of the late returns is the evideut part played in them by the foreign vote. Mr. Walter Wilhnan, the well-known correspondent, after a thorough investigation of this matter, makes the following state ment: "The enormous gains made by the republicans in the cities, where the for eign population is largely, centered, shows conclusively that the plurality for McKinley was due wholly to the foreign vote. Upon painstaking analvpis of all the conditions I haveconcluded that the 13, 940,000 voters of last November were divided as follows: Native white American 7,500,000 Native colored American 450,000 Foreign American 5,990,000 Total vote 13,940,000 Analyzing the personal results from personal investigation of the trend of the foreign vote made during the cam paign, I conclude that Me.Kinley's total vote was made up as follows: F'k n born or of f'g'n family 3,610,000 Negroes 425,000 Native white American 3,075,000 Total 7,110,000 And that Bryan s vote was made up ns follows: F'g'n born or of f'g'n family.. 2,325,000 Native white American 4,035,000 Total 6,360.000 While these figures are in the nature of things only approximate estimates, they are believed to be reasonable accurate. They show that 60 per cent of the for eign vote went to McKinley and 54 per cent of the native white American vote to Bryan." SCISSORS DEPARTMENT. "Thank God!" said the plutocrat. 'Bryan sunk into oblivion." He sat down end wrote to his newspa per to open a tirade upon the man from Nebraska Twentieth Century. Paul VanDervoort seems to be trying to bring discord into the ranks of the populist and Democratic parties, lie seems to tninK now mat ne must run both parties, or else sever them in twain. He starts out by calling the next annual meeting of the association at Memphis, Tenn., as far from the populist states as he could get it. Public Journal (Hast ings.) The Norfolk" Journal gives a list of thirty-three states, including most of the wealthy eastern and central states, each of which had more business failures in 1896 in proportion to the number en gaged in business than Nebraska. Pretty good for a state that had just passed through theordealof a drouth.-Antelope Tribune. Paul VanDervoort.president of the Na tional Reform Press association, recently issued a call for a meeting of the asso ciation, to be held at Memphis, Tenn., February 22nd. The authority to call a meeting of the association is vested in the executive committee, but Mr. Van Dervoort has proceeded on his own au thority to call the meeting, ana his pur pose appears to be to reorganize the populist party at this meeting accord ing to his own views. The intention of the association, as we understand it, is to discuss the interests of the reform press and better service to secure reform news, etc., nut vanuervoort s intention appears to 00 to aisregara me true od jVct of the organization and to use it as a macnine to reorganize me peoples party. The association should proceed at once to sit down on him, and sit down on him hard, as the populist party of Nebraska has done. He is not only a disgrace to the reform movement, but is a diBitrace to any political association with which he affiliates. York Demo- crat. "Middle of the road" used to be an honorable appellation of populists.which signified singleness of purpose, not to be led astray by the blandishments of the other two parties. It was a meusure of selfprotection during the formative per iod, because the make up of the populis tic ranks came from the otlier two parties, and had not as yet been welded together in a wen oiscipuneu organize tion. But during the late struggle the eold bug imps stole the livery of the saints to serve the devil with. Not all of the "middle of the road" populists were so from mercenary purpose, they were honest, well meaning, but imsunid ed men, but there were other "middle of the road fellows that nad Deen seen bv Mark Hanna's agents, and done his bid ding, and had not- the mass of populist voters seen through the thin gauzy cloaking of these "middle of the rondere" great damage would have been effected to the cause by creating a divis ion among the reform forces, exactly what the Hanacrats schemed. Even now the political atmosphere is so po luted with a uew batch of "middle of the road" bushwhackers who have been hatched by the heat of disappointment at the hands of the present administra tion or legislature, and in many in stances fromtheirown personal unfitness and character. To appoint an appli- cant, even though it be merely en em- ployee of the legislature, of notoriously bad habits, with even the most brilliant talents, wouiu uriun uinrnwujuu ing appointing power. Roastings from such sources, impelled by such unworthy mo tives are sweet incense 10 me tikus thinking voters of Nebraska, and repub lican organs who fill their columns with such vile screed only make themselves ridiculous. Wahoo New Era. With a keen interest and relish we have watched every movement and action of T. E, Watson of Georgia since his advent into the reform party, and the result is we admire and respect him as a gentle man, a scholar and a politician. But why, oh, why, he places so much confi dence in Paul VanDerrvoort is beyond our imagination to conceive, Minden Courier. The populist mayor of Portland, Ore gon, sent the following cautic, but truthful reply to H. H. Hanna of In dianapolis, who urged him to send dele gates to the monetary convention: "No body able to attend but bankers, and they are unsafe counsellors. Congress is the proper monetary convention," Pueblo Reform Press. Paul VanDervoort, president of the National Heform Press association, has issued a call for a meeting of the asso ciation, at Memphis. Tenn., February 22, 1897. A. Ilozelle, secretary-treasurer, is after him with a scalping knife, and acenses him of trying" to side track the association. It is side-tracked already Brother Rozelle. That became evident when it passed into the control of men like Vandervoort, and Morgan. Success to the proposed new association to be formed at Kansas City on February 22. Peoples Champion, Gleams from the Twentieth Century. The new governor of New York, Frank S. Black, has received during the past few years something like $50,000 in fees from the Standard Oil Company. He made himself very valuable to that cor poration from the day of his admission to the New York bar. He has drafted many of its bills, and he has pushed them through the legislature in his ca pacity of lobbyist. When he went to congress he stood up for measures de sired by the oil trust. When he was a struggling young lawyer he sought the business of the Standard concern grad ually growing in favor. Now he has risen to be governor, and perhaps he will yet be named in connection with the presidency. If he had fought the great corporations and sought to abridge their privileges he would in ail probabil ity be a poorly paid lawyer today, eking out a subsistence in some decaying country town. His career is a proof of. Mr. Bryan's contention that in order to get along our young men are compelled to curry favor with some mighty trust or railway combine. It is not worth while to serve the people. The corpora tions very soon single out a patriotic public servant and crush him with the aid of colossal campaign funds. The great corporation of which Torn Piatt, the coming senator, is president, has for a week or two been waging war against the people of the small New Jer sey towns near New York We refer to to the United States Express Company. It has broken up the business of a few men who earned their living by acting as private express messengers. The cor poration, aided, of course, by railroad,, has forbidden passengers to carry bun dies on the train. The passengers re fused to obey the order, whereupon the corporations hired detectives and Pinker- tons who ciuoDed everybody with a bundle. The surprising part of the situ ation is the determination of the pas sengers to appeal to the law. The judge before whom the first case will be tried was formerly the paid attorney of the express company. The legislature that gave the railroad its privileges was elected at the expense of the corporations and has chosen the paid lobbyist of the railroad combine to the national senate. The president of the express company which hired de tectives to club the passengers is the owner of the legislature of this state- which will choose him to represent us in the senate. Consequently the notion of appealing to the law is about the most curious thing that has transpired since the outbreak of the trouble. During the reign of Lou s the XVI.. immediately preceding the outbreak oS the I' rench Revolution, the government of France was an absolute despotism- But discussion was free. Every man was able to issue a pamphlet or other printed matter to uive utterance to his views, and the attempt of the author ities at suppression was only laughed at. The result was the revolution. The des potism siinulv could not, enrfnr nf fer tile spread of ideas and the dissemina tion of sound doctrine regarding human liberty and the rights of men. The sit uation is parallel over here. We have a t corporate and industrial despotism, but there is no hindrance, and in the nature of things there can be no hindrance, to the freedom of discussion and the spread of ideas. No despotism can stand that. The power of the plutocracy and of the corporations is doomed as surely as the leaves that, flutter in autumn. Every man can do his part. Discussion and ideas are the weapons. - 1 Mr. Bryan is now supreme in the pol itics of Nebraska, much to the disgust of the paid attorney of the Pacific Rail road, John M. Thurston, now in the na tional senate. The legislature of Nebras ka is very eaer to show its allegiance to Bryan, for the feeling is universal throughout the west that he will be the ' victorious presidential candidate in 1900. There is a curious contrast in the condition of the victors and the van quished in the late struggle. The victors are depressed, perplexed, and, oddly enough, not free from dread of their en emy. The vanquished are hopeful, full of energy, united and eager for another fray. The triumph purchased by the magnates is not turning out to be a great prize. Mr. Bryan's position is, consequently, one of commanding im portance. His own Nebraska is behind him to a man. He is displaying rare ability in the management of his cause, while his magnetic personality and firm conviction of the truth he preuches seem to iusure him a maintainance of his leadership. It is well known that noth- (, ing has vexed Hanna more than Bryan'p triumph in his own state. The mag- V nates spent countless thousands in their effort to capture Nebraska for iMcKin- ley. iney were absolutely certain of carrvino- it. nnd their Hi..,,,,, n..:. fajure j VPry Kreat. They would have gjV(.n Dp Indiana or Illinois tor the sake . of Nebraska Rlpans Tabules: lor sour stomach.