Nebraska Newspapers

    VOL. XII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 5, 1900.
NO. 8.
BRYAN UNANIMOUS " MICE
Platform Declares for Free Coinage at 16 to J Without the
Consent cf Any Other Nation
THE VICE PRESIDENCY IS STILL A QUESTION
Unparalldd Enthusiasm and
Honor cf the
The Platform
Itwa.!a Tarity evenicg
when
th LAtivcai
xd vm ;.n i
reached Us x3;iXitimi
for j-reid-ct. 'Vho Serge.sz;t at ana
Marti: arixjuoord:
"TL r,xt baise-. be
re tL conven-
rrirA r,f tL IVirj al TLe !
rr-tJtry will cU the roJ of states."
"Alatc-a. U. jecreUry tlo tiiouu-d ( ,
the ca'I of the r
"The .v of A11:sji." Kaid
the j
airsaacf the fr lotion cf tLt state.
"jk-lis t Nebra-ka th r riri!ecf cara-
iri .e text inr-isieEt of the Utile J
is tit
I! - a. T. D. fiiLta, j rt-xst deputy
attweey i.-rki. Lad rnivu-'y been se
Jti"i by the Nebraska deU-Mun to
Bryan in r.ocit.ti-n, A he
cs.2se
ir tkl he vu r-ceived with
2 t.did ecthc.!tam ar.d hi magnificent
addr waIiaced to with the doe-t at
tention. The i:h wa a beautiful trib-
ut to the grral leader. Le ar-pr-arLed
the -lo of LU ad -lr-4 Le raii-ol both
Lsd LiL oter LU Lad and poke with
an energy that cauei Li voice to pene
trate u.'Jj every c-rcrr c-f the LalL
Ar.d - that man i William Jen
tir c Bryac."Le concluded, bringing
XLftn lowf r and lrwer with each word nu
ll! the Ia.t worf i Lai ben utte-rd, wLen
Le troiht J.fa up ith a eep, but
juirkr tiio LI Cijn wa the aa
nwerit,? :Le-r ttat ewej.1 acron the
cor.rer.tiou. It u a ;mu!taneou
rwr frota all jn of t hal?. Up
wect the dct up.n their chair,
ovrr tlif-ir LiMi wect ti. C and
s'txTe them ail orrd and rang the
cher f-r Brjan. Tn laci perfurmed
it hare. but the rcL of it creation
wa but a dt p in tL trrett. The cen
from th tl of Nebraska Cucg up a
Urge batr.fr bearltg the iiJtfruess of Mr.
Brvac
Iucd the hall started the Nebraska
tien with their h.uz lianrser, and cateh
izz tip tLer Ute etubm the other
dej-:t;. j tojk up the suarch. waving
Itt-Z" &d hat ac4 cLeerir.jr at the Up
of their without 'e-atke. ave
f jr tha tret.lii t-etce-ary Vj a irmh out
burst. "D d-cjot.trai'n exrrllrd any
thing in t-S Liktry of tLe United State.
Ttere were tr.hnj -r-cE.ditg .perhes.
r. Perkiii c-f Teta. ex Senator Whit
of Calif-ircia. Jufge I'hoEpn of Ilii-
! ft
f
5?'l
rx !. at.4 vba tLe uM ca!l reached
"CVrf-.irjrat" that tat jiidel its time
to Iatd B. Il.lh The 5roenti& wa
rild with eft'
Lu-lara at the acnounr-
iMrtt. 1 ed ard the deieate
rue atd cl-ttd with th audience.
The e lo New York weanrt the Tro-
tsacy itigm were the rjy delegate
Loke;t thei' wat. Whn
anri,T.ct eat-i he u-?a
aiowly," bat cleariy, and u.
the vat '
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y
Magnificent Demonstration in
Chosen Leader "
in Full
given him was remarkable.
The.
silent.
vast
His
with
i-il was almost perfectly
j iwfiuo ii tuccm iuu ivuru lie niu,
Bryan "will have the support of the
united party" the convention went
wild. IIU integrity has never been
audience yelled "That's to" His ex-
j placation of bis position on tbe plat-
Xorm and nts acnuiesence witn Uxe will
the majority called forth heartier
tban bad been evident be
fore.
"Thl nomination will meet tho ap-
jt,m4 hi auditors. In closing he
said:
Xew York expects to join with you
with her thirty-six electoral votes,"
and then aa he stepped down from the
platform the contention became a bed
lam again. ' . -
Other seconding Fpeeches were made
by Tecnet Lorn a r of Alabama, W. li.
Moore of North Carolina, Senator Daniel
of Virginia, John At wood of Kansas, H.
L. Fuua of Louisiana, Blair Lee of
Maryland, T. E. Bark worth of Michigan,
W. C. liaker of Ohio, Ex-Got ernor Pat-li-oo
of Pennsylvania. Governor McMil
lin of Tennessee, F. W. Alalcney of Ver
iteont. Lb G. Dohmrich of Wisconsin,
ChaA Slater, District of Columbia, and
John II. Wise for Hawaii.
The secretary then proceeded to call
the roll of states. On the ballot for the
preridcctial Domination the shouts of
approval over the unanimity of the vote
bad neemed to increase until the con
vention fairly palpitated wiJi enthusiasm-
Chairman liichardson announced
that Mr. Bryan had received the unani
mous vote of the convention for the
'nomination for president of , the United
State and another demonstration fol
iowrd. -' - - "r-"-
Chairman Richardson then announced
that the convention adjourned until
lO-JJ tomorrow (r riday) morning.
Kansas City, July 5. (Editorial Cor
rpon3e3ceL Last evening: was a time
cf prad and enthusiasm run wild
The btreeie were so full of people that
there waa hardly room for tbe marching
clubs, but they waded through, and most
prominent among them ail was the Lan
coin outfit of traveling men and Bryan
Home Guards. They managed With dif
fieulty, for their were scores of clubs, to
pufeh then way through and up some
where near the convention hall which
was surrounded by thousands of people.
The convention met persuant to
journ men t, with Richardson of Tennes
see in tne cnair. - in bis opening re
marks he pronounced the name of
Bryan. Then as if a charge of electric
ity Lad been snot tnrougii every one
composing that immense audience, men
and women sprang to their feet and for
more than half an hour there was a
cne to which there has been no paral
lel in tht history of conventions, with
frhap; the exception of that memorable
time at Omaha in 1392 when the popu-
lit plati rm was adopted.
After waiting a long time an effort
was made to get quiet restored but the
effort was futile. In spite of the efforts
or tne cnairman aided oy a large corps
of feergeants-at-arms the people cheered
on, and at last the chairman declared
the convention adjourned. After a while
when the people had become completely
exhausted they slowly departed, the
lights were turned out and the great hal
was talent and empty once more.
ThU scene was in such vivid contrast to
that which occurred at Philadelphia.
when to eet up a cheer for McKinley
Mark Hanna was forced to come forward
and wave a plume of Pampis grass, that
no one could help commenting on it.
bTAMPEOLNG FOU II ill.
T1m Crker-I!ill risht. the Men Behind It
attd IIaw,ThottRh VI1 Planned, It
UMntWork.
Kansaa City, July 4. (Editorial Cor.
That there was an organized more
meet, premeditated and veil planned
to stampede the convention for Hill, and
by that mean influence tha framing o
tLe platform, no man who has attended
conventions and watched the wiley ways
of politicians ran doubt. - The first cf
fort was made before the convention was
organized, but while it gaiaed some lit
tie headway it was hissed down. Then
the Hill rooters laid low and waited for
a while. Hill's entrance into the con
vention was planned to aid the work
After the preliminary work was done.
the declaration read, the star spangled
banner sung and the proper proceeding
wa to appoint committees and adjourn
the thing was tried again. The yells for
Hill began in the north gallery and then
fpread around to the west gallery. V
(Continued on page 6.)
KANSAS CITY CROWDS
Two Hundred Thousand Strangers in the
City. Bands and Marching Clubs Eve
rywhere. Program Prepared.
Kansas City, July 3. (Editorial Cor
respondence.) The city to night is a
sea of surging masses of men - and wo
men. In front of the Coates House for
blocks both ways there is no standing
room left. Down on Main street and in
other directions there are just as many.
Bands are playing in every direction and
everywhere unbounded enthusiasm pre
vails. . It is not a boisterous kind such
as is made by crowds which have no
very serious object on hand; there is an
intensity about it that makes one believe
that all these men are terribly in earnest
about something.
The greatest sensation of the day was
the arrival and parade of the Bryan
Home Guard club of Lincoln. They
marched through the streets in their
continentals and white suits and drum
corps, creating great enthusiasm. Every
where they were greeted with cheers.
The Towne prospects are brighter than
ever. Mr. Towne made a speech that
aroused round after round of applause,
to the monetary league, and the league
resolved to leg for Towne from that time
on. -x
The delegation from Pennsylvania and
other eastern states have all returned
roni Lincoln and reported that Bryan is
as firm as the rock of ages in regard to
the position he has taken on the plat
orm question. Ssome of them are very
much dissatislied and say that the demo
cracy has simply become the tail of the
populist kite, nevertheless they all seem
to have thrown up tne sponge and quit.
The populist national committee held
a session today and appointed a commit
tee of fifteen to confer with the silver
republicans and democrats. They are
resolved to root for lowne.
The proeram for the convention was
given out this afternoon.
HOW THE DELEGATES LOOK
A Few 3Illlionalres But For the Most Tart
They are Farmers and Business Men
They Stick to Their Work
Kansas City, July 2. (Editorial Cor
respondence.) Many an old farmer who
reads these descriptions of the great con
vention will never have thi opportunity
of attending one and therefore to them
and their wives and children, a few words
are said that would not generally appear
in the conventional reports. The men
who are delegates are for the most part
just ordinary looking farmers and busi
ness men. They resemble, a great deal
more, the appearance of delegates to a
populist convention than any set of men
who ever made up the body of delegates
to a national democratic convention in
the history of the party in the last forty
rears. There are a few "big bugs and
they stay in their rooms, which are
thronged with curiosity seekers. Men
flock to the rooms of Dave Hill and
Croker. simply out of curiosity. Hill
seems to take it as a compliment to him
self and his policies in which he is sadly
mistaken. Croker seems to understand
the situation better, lie nas made up
his mind .that the great mass of the
democratic party, not only in the west,
but also in the east are for Bryan and
free silver and he is therefore for the
same things.
There are a very few millionaires here
and no one flock to their rooms. They
are simply of the common herd and no
more respect or consideration is given to
them than to the ordinary farmer dele
gates. 1 n the make up of the convention
and the worship of wealth, this conven
tion is the very opposite of the assemblage
at Philadelphia.
There are constant meetings of the
delegates from the various states and
notwithstanding the fearful torture they
must endure while shut up in unven
tilated rooms, for the most part they at
tend strictly to the business that brought
them here and by no means leave every
thing to the management of a few leaders
That is another variation from the re
publican way and the way the democratic
party managed things before Bryan in
fused new life into it. There is no dele
gate nere wno does not ieei that he is a
real factor in the work of the convention.
Most of the delegates eat their meals
at restaurants and have rooms as cheap
as they could get them. That shows
again the sort of men who are here.
The delegates from the eastern states
can be told at a glance. While there are
farmers and working men among them,
they are more largely composed of mem
bers of congress . and politicians. Some
of them wear broadcloth Prince Albert
coats, or they dowhen they arrive. Not
long afterward they , are seen carrying
them on their arms.
There is another thing noticeable. The
l r
large nunioer oj men who have come
here who are not delegates but who take
an active part in all the deliberations
and discussions In other days the dele
gates went off by themselves and fixed
things up. After that it was given to
those on the outside and the outsiders
invariably went to whooping it up. for
the policy agreed upon. That program
don't go here. These men have come
here by the hundred to see to it that the
men who have been elected delegates do
what they were told to do before they
left home. .Taking it altogether the old
democratic party has been making some
progress.
THE CONVENTION HALL
One of the Largest Audience Rooms in the
World. . The Distances are too Great
for any Ordinary Voice.
Kansas City, July 4. (Editorial cor
respondence.) Precisely at 12 m. Sena
tor Jones, chairman of the democratic
national committee called the convention
to order. The hall is of immense pro-
portions and the inside is almost in cir
cular form, slightly oblontr. The stand
for the presiding officer and speakers is
almost in the. center. There is no echo,
but the distances are so great that no
ordinary voice can be heard by one-half
the audience when the hall is full.
Governor Thomas of Colorado was
chosen chairman immediately after the
speech of welcome delivered by the
mayor of Kansas Uity. The governor
delivered a rather long address, or per
haps it only seemed long because but
few could hear what he was saying, the
few who could hear broke out in fre
quent cheers.
At the close of the address of the tem-
porary cnairman, .tne mil rooters wno
occupied the galleries on tne north and
west sides beean calling "Hill. Hill,
Hill." They kept it up for some time
and finally they were greeted by hisses
ana men iney suosiueu.
A resolution was offered to read the
declaration of independence and the
delegates and the whole audience rose
to their feet and cheered for five min
utes. A bust of Thomas Jefferson was
set upon the platform and unveiled. The
audience went wild again.
A gentleman recited - the declaration
and he had voice enough to be heard by
nearly all the audience. When he re
peated those passages that were printed
in red in last week's Independent the
audience, delegates and all raised a yell
that made the iron girders tremble.
A lady from xvew I ork sang the "Land
of the Free and the Home of the Brave."
Then the convention rose to their feet
and at the close of each verse sent up a
roar of patriotism. The whole, lot of
fifteen thousand people joined in the
last refrain, and it is safe to say that
such a volume of melody was never
heard on this continent before.
The convention was now ready for
business, but the Hill rooters in the gal
leries undertook to stampede it How
that game turned out will be told in an
other article. ... .
The Press Representation
Kansas City, July 4. (Editorial Cor
respondence.) The press is perhaps
more largely represented ' here than at
any other national convention ever held.
Over seven hundred, dailies have each
from one to fivo men here, besides two or
three thousand weeklies. One of the
telegraphers at the main office who was
sent here to help handle the matter and
who was at Philadelphia, told me that
much more matter wai going out than
there was at the republican convention.
This makes the miserable arrangements
for .the distribution;: 6f press tickets so
much the more to be regretted. Last
night there were lined up in. a hot hall
way five or six hundred members of .the
press waiting for tickets. It was just at
the time when the men ought to have
been getting their stuff off, but there
they were and had to stay. It was close
to 11 p. m. before they were all served.
Of course that made a very bitter feeling
among the menwho spoke to the people
all over the United States concerning
what had happened during the day.
However enthusiastic a Bryan man the
writer might be, when after standing in
that steaming mass from1 one to two
hours, nearly fainting on his feet, he
went to send off his report, it wonld not
be so well written as if an office had
been established where he could have
gone any time during the day and re
ceived his passport into the convention.
As for this writer he came near falling
out of that line from sheer exhaustion
and heat. Some of the press men who
were overburdened with flesh could not
endure the torture of heat and bad air.
They fell out and hired stronger men to
take their places and go in and get their
tickets for them. All of them were in
dignant beynd expression and without
doubt the reports sent out were very
much colored by the ordeal. It was un
fortunate in every way. ' . .
Rooting For Towne.
The free silver head quarters are in
the Ucats House. luesday morning
there was a meeting and committees
were appointed to go out and interview
the members of every delegation. The
committees were composed of . three
members and given each three states.
It was to be their duty to root for Towne
all day and all night and until the con
vention meets tomorrow These are not
the only ones who are working for
Towne. W. H. Thompson of Nebraska
puts in most of his time at it and as he
is a member of . the national committee,
his work is very effective. Edminsten,
Edgerton and many other populists are
engaged in the same way. They are
making the life of the eastern democrats
miserable. . They don't give them any
rest at all.
TAMING THE TIBER
That Rancorous Beast is as Mild as a Suck
ling Dove Croker says that Tam
many will do Anything that
Bryan Asks.
Kansas City, July 1. (Editorial cor
respondence.) The day opened with the
assembling of a mob at the depot to
greet Roosevelt as he passed on his way
to Oklahoma to attend the meeting of
the rough riders. The republicans are
making a great hoodoo about it, but ' the
simple truth about the matter is' that
two or three thousand people tried to
crowd into the narrow space surrounded
by freight cars, passenger cars and
steaming locomotives at the depot. The
space there is very confined and is these
days very crowded when the ordinary or
special trains come in. It was announc
ed days in advance that Roosevelt would
make a slop here and every effort was
made to get a crowd. Hundreds of dem
-ii... 1! .1
ocrais attenuing me convention were
anxious to see Roosevelt and went down
there. These, added to those from in-
coming trains would more than have fill
ed the contracted . space . without any
more. The result was that there came
very near being a great disaster. Men
and women were pushed onto the train
as it was still moving, some women
fainted, many persons lost some of their
clothing and there was one of the worst
jams ever seen on the continent. It
seems a miracle that no one was killed.
But the republicans are making a
shout over tha enthusiastic reception
given to Roosevelt in a town where the
democratic national convention was be
ing held. Any one who saw that crowd
knows that there were not 500 republi
cans in it. Two thousand people could
not get into tha space, half that were
there were women, more than half of the
remainder were democrats, populists and
free silver republicans.
As the day advanced, every few min
utes, either regular or special trains ar
rived loaded to the guards with enthus
iastic crowds. The streets began to get
so thick with people that it was hard to
get along with them. , The lobbies of the
big hotels were simply steaming ovens,
where excited men talked, gesticulated
and wiped the sweat from their stream
ing brows.
The first thing that developed was the
interviews given out by Croker to several
different newspaper men in which he
said that he and Tammany would sup
port Mr. Bryan on whatever kind of a
platform that Mr. Bryan wanted.
r or the hrst few hours of the day the
time was given up to a discussion of the
vice presidency.- Towne seemed to be
the leading man. About noon it began
to develop that the whole gold bug out
fit were here "and they were working
might and main. The dailies here are
all in sympthy with goldbugery and they
were being used to create a stampede by
false reports and interviews that were
forgeries from beginning to end. One of
those interviews was published in the
Star with Dr. Hall, chairman of the Ne
braska state committee. Dr. Hall de
nounced it in the most vigorous way.
The Star also printed what purported to
be a canvass of the delegations and said
that 600 of them were in favor of leaving
a statement of 16 to 1 out of the plat
form. All this was an effort of the gold
bugs to create a sentiment that did not
exist.
It was not long until the free silver
men got onto this scheme and to say hot
words followed is not to exaggerate in the
least. It seems that a lot of men who
voted for Palmer and Buckner or Mc
Kinley have been sent here as delegates.
They have behind them all the papers
and all the men who fought Bryan in
l&Hi They are shrewd politicians.
They have been at work for months, but
they will run up against a stone wall
when they try tor get Bryan s to run jen
such a platform as they desire. 'JLhey
don't know the man they are fooling
with.
There will be a still hotter time to
morrow. The tree silver men are not
only hot in their bodies but they are ten
times hotter m their minds. ssome ot
them say thev will not submit to this
sort of prevarication. If the gold bugs
get a majority they will walk out ot the
convention the same as Teller walked
out of the republican con veh tion.. When
they are told by these eastern democrats
that this is the onlv way to win. they
say as Bryan has often said, that they
would rather be beaten than win on
such a platform. Uut they are all sure
that they could not win without a dec
Iaration of 16 to 1.
Judge Tibbets and Dr. Hall have just
been having a round with some of these
chaps within ten feet of where 1 am
writing and they gave it to them straight
from the shoulder every time. Judge
Tibbets says that he is going to stand by
the allies who have so long fought side
by side with the democrats in Nebraska
and Dr. Hall says that we could not
carry .Nebraska on such a piatiorm.
Others around told that they could not
carry half a dozen states in the west and
and northwest that they were counting
upon and so they had it.
Mainstreet and other streets are beau
tif ully decorated with colored lights and
the town is hung with bunting.
Towne has his headquarters - here at
the Coats House. The editor of the In
dependent was offered everything in the
shop at the .Nebraska delegation s head
quarters in the Coats House, and as that
is the best place to get news he set up
inbusiness there.
POPULISTS SPEAK OUT.
Their Influence on the Convention
is as
Forceful as it Has Been in
, National Politics.
Kansas City, July 3. (Editorial
Cor
responence.) xne populists are in evi
dence on every hand here. So far I have
met Senators Harris, and Hatfield,
Bray of Oklahoma,' and have shaken
hands with a score of others with whom
there has been no time to talk. Ed mis-
ten and most of the populist state com
mittee ot iNe orasua are here. i ne pop
. m -'v a . . v mi
ulist influence here, as it has been in na
tional politics since the Chicago conven
tion is a force; that has to be reckoned
with. If it were not for it and the free
silver republicans, there is no telling
what the eastern democrats might be
able to do in this convention. The pop
ulist party has made the career of Bryan
possible. Without them as a strong ally,
he could have never tamed the Tammany
tiger. Now ho leads it around as he would
a pet lamb with a pink ribbon.
Among the men here of national repu
tation who are taking the same stand as
the populist party, are Geo. Fred Wil
liams, of Mass., Alexander Del Mar, the
great econoin ist an d author of "Gold and
Bimetallism," Flavius J. Van Vorhis of
Indiana, and manyother writers whom 1
have not mit but whose arrival has been
announced.
This Tuesday morning, shows the
street filled with people before 8 o'clock.
There are jams of people, street cars and
vehicles at several of the street crossings.
If things get on this way for another day,
it looks as ihough it would b a severe
task to take care of the crowds. One
thing is a mystery, and that is: "Where
uiu ail tiio irj an piuiurca cuius uuuii
They are displayed everywhere literally
by the thousands. .
Enthusiasm! In all the national con
ventions of different parties that I have
attended in the last thirty years I have
never seen any thing like it- At JUark
Hanna's round up in Philadelphia, all the
reporters constantly drew attention . to I
the fact that there was no enthusiasm, i
Here, thirtv-six hours before the conven
tion meets, bands are marching through
the streets in every direction, the crowds
are cheering and every man is shaking
hands with the man next to him whether
he ever saw him before or not.
This morning the different delegations
will have formal meetings nd by night
a report of the prospects can more accu
rately be made.
' Convention Rotes
The Bryan hat is being sold as a badge.
The fellow who got it out evidently
thought that would run well as a rival
to the Roosevelt cowboy head covering.
Benton Ma ret is here whooping it up
for Danforth for vice president.
By Tuesday afternoon badges began
to get pretty thick in the hotel lobbies
and on the streets, lhey were got out
by the vice presidential boomers. They
bore the names of Bryan and lowne,
Bryan and Sulzer and Bryan and any
other man who had "also' been men
tioned.'
The Kansas City street cars are for
the most part of the cablevariety. They,
like the Irishman's toad, go steady by
jerks. There are also horse cars and
electric cars.
The Arizona delegates who are here
give it up and say that the valley of
death nor any other locality in their beau
tif ul country can compare in heat with
this city of hills.
The faking that the reporters have
done here is worse than usual. It is safe
to say that two-thirds of what appears
in the great dalies has no foundation in
fact at all. Fake interviews have been
especially numerous. If people relied
on them for guidance they would have
a sorry time of it. The mass of the peo
ple, and they live outside of the cities,
have not much use for the dalies. They
rely upon the weeklies.
Tuesday forenoon some one tried to
start a Hill boom. They got four or five
young men with flags in their hands to
run around in a circle in the lobby of
the Coates House and shout "Hill, Hill,
Hill! ' The delegates and other specta
tors looked at' them and laughed. The
boom did not realize one per cent on the
investment' - --. "-- - , : ..
The editorial in last week's Independ
ent entitled "Stand by Towne" is being
circulated in the rooms of the delegates-
It seems to have been reprinted by the
thousand. - ...
There are more rooters here from Ne
braska backing up the gold bug demands
of the east and talking for Hill or Dan
forth than from any 'other state except
New lork. How did they come - here?
The Independent will keep a . record of
these fellows. They will be asking the
populists to support them for office one
of these days. In Nebraska we have no
use for those chaps who fall into the
Wall street line as soon as some gold
bug democrat smiles upon them. .
MR. BRYAN'S HELPMEET,
The Esteem and Bespect In Which he
Is
Beginning to be held in the East.
In an article entitled "Mr. Bryan, the
Democratic leader in 1900" published in
that distinctly eastern and aristocratic
magazine, "The American Monthly Re
view of Reviews, is an indication of the
increasing repect and esteem the east
have for him as a typical American citi
zen. The Review says:
WThen he was first elected to Congress,
he said, he knew practically nothing
about the question; but as his Kepubli
can opponent believed in the free coin
age of silver, and his own sympathies
were with the farmers in their demand
for this measure, the issue was never re
ferred to during the campaign. When
he reached Washington, he said, he told
his wife that he believed the silver issue
was going to grow in importance; and
they two, who had been in college at the
same time, who both had studied law,
the wife that she might be with her
husband in his work, even though she
took no part in it, devoted their leisure
during the winter in Washington in
studying the silver question together.
In speaking of the books which had
most profoundly influenced them, he put
first and foremost De Laveleye s "Bi
metallism." This book, I happened to
know, had not been translated from the
French, and the chance remark showed
that his reading had not been confined
to thenglish works. . But the charm
of his story had no relation to the thor
oughness of the scholarship which it
evinced. It lay entirely in the relation
which it showed between himself and
his wile, iieine once remamed tnai a
German, even when married, continued
to live "a bachelor life of the intellect.1
Mr. Bryan seemed to me to illustrate
that in America, more and more, man
and wife share together the same intel
lectual life as well as the same social
life. In speaking to one of his colleag
ues who died during the session of Con
gress, Mr. Bryan said that "he found his
inspiration at his fireside." This seemed
to me to be equally true of Mr. Iryan
himself; and the purity of the moral at
mosphere about him, together with the
strength of his religious faith, both
seemed to me counterparts of that love
of wife and home which were the most
strongly marked features of his private
character.'.
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F03TO lilCO'S CROPS
Water Supply and Irrigation The Island
Too Small to Have Any Effect on
American . Markets
Althoug the island of Porto Rico haa
a.less area than the diminutive eastern
state of Connecticut, yet its different
sections are subject to as great a varia
tion in rainfall as are the extremes cf
the United States, ranging from practi
cal aridity to very heavy precipitation.
As mura as 140 inches of annual rain
fall i? reported in some parts of the
island while at places on the south coas t
three years have passed without rain.
And it is on the sea coast that opportun
ity is offered for irrigation; but the area
available is very small. Some of tbe
methods in use, however, are quite in
teresting. .
"The soil on this land" said Mr, Her
bert M. Wilson, the engineer of the Geo
logical Survey, who has recently visited
Porto Rico, "is in every case the betjt
kind of irrigation. It is fairly deep and
probably insures safety from the danger
of producing alkali. Much of it is al
ready under cultivation. !
"The perennial flow of the streams of
this section is unusually abundant for a
land requiring irrigation. Moreover, the
flood discharges of these streams occur
at frequent intervals during the year,
but are especially well distributed
throughout the summer."
"Are there any opportunities for the
storage of water?"
These frequent floods afford an abun
dant surplus for storage and the shapes
of the smaller parting valleys and of the
lower canyons through which the rivers -emerge
from the mountains may le
found opportunities for the construc
tion of storage reservoirs at a relatively
small cosh
The Spaniards, who in the past have
been the principal landholders are thor
oughly familiar with the requirements
and processes of irrigation -as practiced
in Spain. Quick to appreciate the ad
vantages of the artificial application of
water, they have already constructed
numerous ditches of moderate sizes, and
much of the more valuable sugar land is
cultivated exclusively by the aid of irri
gation.
"Such work as 1 noticed, continued
Mr. Wilson, "corresponds in general type
to those seen in Mexico, but because of
the greater influence of European ideas
in this island, the construction is of a
more substantial character, and more
nearlv nrmmaches that prevalent in
Spain and Italy". . The vdi version works
are in every instance of the crudest kind,
simply wing dams of rock and boulders
thrown out into the beds of the ditches.
These are necessarily . carried away by
each flood, requiring to be immediately
replaced. On the other hand, the head
works, falls regulating gates, and other
dividers are constructed in the most
substantial manner of massive masonry.
ln strong contrast to this type of con
struction arft thft minor dist.rihiit.nriAd
observed in some of the cane fields.
These were built by owners who had
great grinding and boiling machinery
for the treatment of their cane, and were
imbued to a certain extent with Ameri
can methods, lhey out-Americanized
our western irrigators. Their distribu
taries consist of a series of . temporary
trestles and shallow wooden troughs or
gutters made of lumber brought from
America. These tap the hillside ditche
at such points as seem desirable, and
are roughly placed so as to carry tho
water to such portions of. the field as im
mediately require it. After irrigation in
such localities the trestles and troughs
are removed and utilized in irrigating
other portions of the same fields. This
practice is resorted to m order to reach '
the numerous little detached rolling
hills 10 to 20 feet in maximum height.
into which the surface of the sugar lands
is broken. In other localities, where
Sracticable, these lands are irrigated by
irect diversion from the main ditches
of laterals dug in the earth and rami
fying to every portion of the field to
which gravity will conduct the water."
"What effect might Porto Kican pro
duction or irrigation development in
the -island,' Mr. Wilson, have, upon the
American market?"
"Oh, none whatever. The island is
small and "while methods will be . im
proved, the total production cannot be
greatly increased. The increased sugar
production of the island would not be a
spot even on the Louisiana crop, to say
nothing of the immense consumption of
this country. Porto . Kico a irrigation
features are interesting but they cannot
in any way affect the United States."
General Jackson Was a Pop
The following extract from a message
to congress by General Jackson clearly
embodies the populistic principles of to
day. , V
"It is to be regretted that the rich and
powerful too often bend the act of gov
ernment to their selhsh purposes. Dis
tinctions in society will always exist un
der every just government. Equality of
talents, of education, or of wealth, can
not be produced by human institutions.
In the full enjoyments of the gifts of
Heaven and the fruits . of superior in
dustry, economy and virtue, every man
is equally-entitled to protection by law;
but when the law undertakes to add to
these natural and just advantages arti
ficial distinctions, to grant titles, gratui
ties and exclusive privileges, to make
the rich richer and the potent more
powerful, the humble members of so
ciety the farmers, mechanics and t la
borers who have neither the time nor
the means of securing like favors to
themselves, have a right to complain of
the injustice of their government. There
are no necessary evils in government.
Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it
would confine itself to equal protection,
and, as Heaven does its rain, showejr its
favors alike on the high and the low, the
rich and the poor, it would be an un
qualified blessing."
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