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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT October 4,1900 ELOP CAtCAKETf e mil tla4 W tkaaa a if srsuf Msarf mi M(M, 1 tae vfta aria far m menno f.,iaoset to laaa 4M4 at iMt lvao f tt as Cear-a suae tjkJL;c Ura. af & M awes a4 acf tula wymrff b! I fee mmrt. tvir te every . Jaa. uiXit - SaiX a. LstueJ. Tm. (wt, m. u. w tr.io, Re, fcev CURE CONSTIPATION. H 0 Tfl fl If M ar a e alt eraar so thoroughly that the republican par ty ceull cot Ignore thexa. Bryaa dl2at Lae to go very far la rder to s4 a truat which woald fur lta ilia a text. Unlike Hanna te U lookls out for the Interests of the people. Is Nebraska he kicked up the tares treat aad showed all ti.e dev ljua xnethods by which trvust organi zation ta-J tea tSected aad tte con sumer robbed. It is cot dlfSosJt to fad trusts. Quit a Etatwr of tie republican lead er have been unable to overlook their existence aad lacking If anna's effront ery fcave beea trying to excuse thera. Kooevfrlt aad McKlnley have both adopted the apologetic air about thera. Governor Mount of Indiana does not Lesftate to admit that trusts exist and ttai the trust question is a most Important !sue ta tte campaign. M. A. Hanaa & Co. Is oae of the principal firms composing the Besse mer Ore Prodccwrs trust This trust os tuot acre pie to rob the cons a seer. OsJy this year It advaared the price of re to $5X0 a tea. $2.60 rer the price la Tte actual cost of lay- tea; down a toa of Beraer ore la Cleveland Is not core than a dollar a toa. It Is eatisated that tons of re are produced annually, so tee Bessemer trust fie-ec? the people to tae taae of t0.000.000 a year. Aad Mark llaara gets his share of this. OX ao. yo-or Cade Mark doea&l know of a trust la the United State. Not sassy people would bare heard of Mark Ifaaaa la politic if his trust proitis had oot put hies la position to toccta tie xaansger of the reputllcaa party at tae time wha cotamerelalism aad tot stains tsaashi? txrape the doaslaaat aestlE5est. Thea tbrre is the Araericaa Steel aad Wire trust, which saaks all the sails aad wire facic used la the coma try- Its capital is $i.OCK,CKi0. of which at least $id.0y0.KK Is water. Wka this trust was fonad la April. ilSl. wire calls were selUa for $1.47 a k& By Derwaber, IiJ, tLe price tad risen to XiJA a keic. la the same time the prire of barfeed wire feocia eat from $UtS pr 100 potiada to $1. The proSJa of this trtist for the -first mix aaoaths were $1500.000. Fire' plaata were elo s-d dsrlc this time aad thottsaads of workna tarowa oat of employmect la order to swell trust proita. The surplus productloa of wire aad calls was sold la Europ at 25 pr eeat Im taaa the Amerieaa firmer was charged. If Mark ILaaaa doesa't kaow of a lti trust, the farmers could tell him aiut this oae. Tae (vpatlleaaa ar1 afairtM lth a tarca eamtier of orators who would help the cause of taetr party If they were to stay off the stump. The callow Mr. Beeertd broke loose the otaer day with a whoop aad aaaomaaed that Cuba ought aot to be free. He declared that erery great ULtion developed a coloalal policy aad that McXlaUr's imperial policy was oaly aa iadicatlca of aatloaal derel optaect. He overlooked the fart that we are p'eded to git Cuba ladepeadeace. A aatloa's pledge of honor is a matter of evo eoaaeaeaee to a polltlcaa of the Betertyjpe type. Bereridse is the eeaator who weat to the Philippines to see for himself tow matters stood- Whea he first came back he was opposed to Imper ialism. After he had heea takea to the White aocse aad fettered a little he eoascated to withhold his views 7cSy candy 1 I SV CATHARTIC EiamK. Pills oir TPale People Ab txsfaillEjj pecic for all diseases arising from im jmrt r irapovwalsejd blood or from weakened nervous jtesa. Most remarkable cures have been made in ease where physicians have failed and hope of recov ery was abandoned. ' at !t ercr1t dlrees fim IV. WUlIans ki4c. Co-. aefeaeet4y. K.T MMtpid oa tecipl t irsxtm, km. ft box ; sis box, VJA aad not embarrass the administration. After more Cattery he came out as a defeader of the admlaistratloa's policy la the Phlllpplaes. Beverldge, however, lacks the ac complishment of using words to con teal thought. He put the commercial aspect of the transaction right to the front. A quarter of a million copies of his speech were printed and then burned by the repuolican campaign committee because it wbs feared that their distribution would make demo cratic rotes. Chauncey M. Depew made a speech fa New York the other evening in which be tried to explain away the sinister omen of the miners' strike. He said that all the men who were ft rl kins now wanted increases of waes. He apparently had not heard of the CO. 000 employes of the Iron and Steel trust who have just gone back to work and accepted a reduction after a two months' strike. Depew also said that when a strike was ended now it meant Immediate re-employmeat for the men. He thought it meant something else in H. He ought to attend an industrial kindergarten. He evidently thinks that the unemployed organized strikes In S?S, If he thinks that men are al ways re-employed after a strike he had better consult the private black list roll of the New York Central and then call to mind tha fact that nearly every railroad in" the country main tains a Eimllar roll. Really Roosevelt Is comparatively quiet and sensible these days when compared with Hanna. Depew and Beverldge. They are all making dem ocratic votes, because they all assume that the people can be fooled by the absurd statements that they make in lieu of frank discussion. EVA M 'DONALD VALESH. Quits Republican Party Ewing. Neb.. Sept. 19. 1900 Hon. John Trommerhousser has announced his lateatioa of votlag for Bryan. He was a republican candidate for the legislature in 1894 and 1S96. and al though defeated in a strong populist district he ran away ahead of his ticket. Mr. Trommerhousser la a lawyer aad the owner of a valuable cattle ranch. He Is a life long repub lican. havlDg never voted any other ticket since his birth. He quits the republican party on the questions of imperialism and because he is op posed to the sec re understanding be tween the McKlnley administration and the British government, and be cause Is opposed to the attitude of the administration during the Boer war. He says that his father left Germany to get rid of paying taxes to support a big standing army and to come to a country where his children would be free from military service and from he enormous taxes which must be paid in any country that adopts a coloalal policy and which must, there fore, be at all times armed to the teeth, teady to defend a distant colony. Hi." attitude on the Boer question may be summed up in one sentence In which he said: "The British minis ter is received at the state department In the White house with open arms, but whatever courtesy waa shown the Boer delegates to this country was shown oa the back porcn of the White house." On the question of a British alliance he says that be makes no claim that there Is a written treaty between this country and England, but that the attitude of the administra tion oa the Boer war and the Alaskan boundary and its permitting England to open the mall of a United States officer and. in following a colonial pol :cy like England backed up by the fact that Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary, publicly de clared la a political address In Great Britain that the alliance does exist all convinces him that the McKlnley administration has a secret under standing with the government of Queen Victoria by which this govern raeat is tied up to that monarchy and Is la effect subservient to it. That the conversion of Mr. Trommerhousser Is a body blow to Hannaism Is well recognized by the republican leaders la Holt county. He has been recog nized as the most prominent and ac tive republican in southeastern Holt county aad oae of the most prominent in the Fifteenth Judicial district. He never sought an offlce and when he did run he was drafted. He Is a gen tleman whose personal character is above reproach and ho has an im- SIM NO HONEY A If Ton li ve within 700 miles of Chicago (if further send $1.00), out this ad. out ana sena to us, ana we wm send you this BIG HEATINQ STOVEby freight C.O.D., sub ject to examination. Toaeaa aaiiii it t jonr freight pt, aa If foBadperfcctly satisfactory, uactlyaa rrprrtratrd, ef tae haaduaimt fctatlas stove jom r saw sad jsai to Staters that retail at !. pay 1 1. vu pay S9.85 JAKGES. the freight agent our Soerlal Offer Frice a:i freight ch. and charges If sl.oo is gent witn oraer. ins swjvo weighs 175 lbs. and the freight will average 50 to 75 ceats for each 600 miles. OUR $9.85 ACME OAK HEATER wood, hard sosl. soft eoal, coke or eobat rrestlT laoi-ovcd for this asms, istest styls lor 00. A BIS HBATER,Sfeet8 Inch es high. 2Xx2X'lnchefl on bottom; 16-inch fire pot, -incn pipe, mounted with 18-gatige smooth steel draw; heavy cast iron fire pot, has shaking and dumplngeenter grata for coaL double circular wood grate, constructed so the fire can be kept nuder complete control ; large ash pan, large feed doors; ash pit doors swing on double hinge, check drafts in collar and feed doors. Beautifully 6a Ished, fancy nickel mountings and ornamentations, highly southed and heavily nickel plated foot rails, nickel name plate, top ring, hinge pins and knobs ; beavy nickel bands and mountings, fsjicy nickel plated and orna mented top urn. lry stiiT ewred by a BIXDINU SL AK aSTEE, sad r deilry gaaraateed. Kade from the best aualitrof heavy sheet steel, pig iron and nickel, post. ,It Uts baadaomeat. bent burning, bt hralinff, nost eao leal aad durable BIO PAiiLOK HEATEB BADE. If you don't find this stove the equal of those sold at doubla the price, return it to us at our expenseand we will re turn any money sent . OH D ER T ODAY. M'rlte lor FREE STOVE CATALOCrE. Addresa, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO. mense influence with nil republicans who know him and wil! brinjr to the standard of Bryan, at a conservative estimate, from thirty to fifty votes. in the magnitude of their capitaliza tion the trusts organized under the McKinley administration exceed all others formed since the beginning of the government. The number of in corporated trusts organized under Mc Kinley's administration is 175 with an estimated capital of $2,m,000.-00. The number of unincorporated trusts or ganized under present administration is seventy with estimated capital stock of $952,399,566. The number of fran chised monopolies organized during same period was sixty-six with an es timated capital of $80?,024,13i, mak ing the grand total organized under the McKinley administration of 311 with an estimated capital stock of $3,932,423,710. The total assessed val uation of real and personal property of Nebraska amounts to $171,77,592.75 This is about one-seventh of its actual value, thus the actual value of all the property of the state of Nebraska, both real and personal, is $1,202,233, 149 25. From a comparison of the .bove it will be observed that th capital stock of the trusts organized under the Mc Kinley administration amounts to three times as much as the total val uation of Nebraska. Or, in other words, it would rake more than the actual value of all the personal and real property of three states like Ne braska to equal the value of the trusts organized under the McKinley admin istration. A Few More Pointers About the Gregg Shorthand Institute, 15th and 0 Sts., Lincoln, Nebr! Pointer No. 1 Gregg Shorthand In stitute has only a few more desks left, so great has been the enrollment. Ad ditional room is available when need ed. A new class will be organized Monday morning, October 8. It will pay you to join this new and up-to-date school. Pointer No. 2 Take noticedThe Gregg Shorthand Institute was the first to introduce Gregg Shorthand in Lincoln. Students should enter classes under the tuition of teachers who have specially prepared themselves to teach Gregg Shorthand. They should attend a school which makes a specialty of Gregg Shorthand. Pointer No. 3 The Gregg Shorthand Institute has received the latest edi tion of the Gregg Shorthand Text book. This Institution is the author ized agent of the Gregg system. Its teachers are furnished with the latest publications containing the newest and best helps for students. It will pay you to join a school which re ceives the support of the author of the system taught. Pointer No. 4 Take notice A blind key-board on a typewriter does not produce touch operators. Touch type writing properly taught is in no way helped or hindered by the letters on the keys. The managers of the Gregg Shorthand Institute used the blind keyboard eight years ago and discard ed that method of teaching touch type writing five years ago to use what is a decided improvement on it. The Mosher system of touch typewriting makes the blind keyboard as a system a relic of the past. Investigate the Mosher system of touch, typewriting as it is taught at this Institution. Pointer No. 5 Do not forget that our Night School is in session four nights of each week. You can acquire a sufficient speed in a few evening to be of great help to you in any line of business. Call and investigate, or send for circulars. Telephone 665. According to United States senate document No. 45J, Fifty-sixth con gress, first session, the number of new offices created In one session is 2,749 with salaries attached amounting to i6,368,193.36. Tlun doe:: not include Ahe numberless commissions appointed by tho president with salaries at tached. The worst of it is this money is mostly paid to political pluggers and mountebanks who were unable to earn a living at home and God pity the poor Filipinos and Porto Ricans if all the men sent over there are like the majority of those sent from Nebraska. First There is L. A. Dorrington, who is now drawing $125 a month for shooting Christianity into the Fili pinos. Before he was appointed he lived at Chadron, or tried to live there, by sponging off of every one he could; he never paid his board bills, wash bills, etc., and his own wife was forced to giv3 music lessons tc- keep herself and her child. Second There is Captain Wilson, who is now drawing a big salary to shoot gun powder gospel into the Filipinos. He lived or existed at Oma ha. Ills bills also went unpaid. Fourth Tom Cooke cf Lincoln Is drawing big pay to hein civilize the Porto Ricans. Talk of Tom Cooke to any respectable citizen of Lincoln and they will hold their nose. Ha Is the man who fraudulently padded the Ne J ' B) J braska census of 3 890. Fifth Charles Magoon of Lincoln, who is now defining tiie law for the administration, Is chlefiy noted for having paid some bills for the assis tant secretary of war. Sixth Ed Sizer is drawing a big salary. Before tho colonial policy he was unable to pay his legitimate bills and was generallr known as a ward plugger for D. E. Thompson. Seventh Malor Mapes of Nebraska City is now drawing a largj salary. Before the colonial policy he was un able to make a living fov himself and family. , In fact Meiklejohn himself, who i3 responsible largely for all of these appointments, Is not much bet ter about paying bills than they are, as it has been frequently charged that when a member cf the legislature of Nebraska he failec1. to pay his hotel b'ill for his board during the session. These are the kind of men that the in dustrious, hard-working, good citi zens of Nebraska are paying big sal aries to for the purpose of shooting down people who simply ask in. the language of their leader "A constitu tion and government that faithfully Interprets the aspirations of the Fili pinos, a people making superhuman efforts to revindicate their sovereignty and their nationality bofore tbe civil ized powers." Can the liberty-loving people of Ne braska Indorse such conduct on the part of the present administration? During the debate in the annate of the United States on the bill passed 'jy the republicans known as the gold standard national bank anti-greenback financial bill, Senator Chandler, a leading republican senator, in oppos ing the bill, among other things said: "Why undertake by the first ten lines of this bill to strike one more blow at remonetizitfon and falsify all the pledges which the republican party and Its leiders have been making in all these past years? If these ten lines without adequate qualification become the law of the land, senators will be sufficiently reminded of their pledges before the next presidential canvass. Thousands of votes went to the republican candidates in 1896 on their promise to do everything possi ble to bring about bi-metalllsm by in ternational agreement. The falsity of that pretense was demonstrated early in the present administration Let us repel this charge as unjust and un true by reaffirming the oft-proclaimed principles of our party and the ever present desire of our people that both gold and silver jhall be the standard money of the nation." The ten lines referred to by Senator Chandler became the law of the land and we belieye with him that the re publicans will be sufficiently reminded of their pledges before this campaign is over. Dr. Louis N. Wente, dentist, 137 South 11th street Brownell block. Kill and Make It Pay We long to hack and mangle living men And strew their corpses over field and fen - - To feed the vulture and the beast of prey; Oh, let us kill and let us make it pay! The harvest now is waiting for the bold; There's land to seizf. and riches yet untold Thou shalt not kill, etcept for land or gold; Then let us gloat in slaughter every day; Oh, let us kill and let us make it pay! We like the sport of hunting human game, What keen delight to shoot and kill and maim The human herd that files like fright ened sheep Up, up through bloody gulches high and steep! The game of war is earnest, thrilling play! Oh, let us kill and let us make it pay! If Filipinos yet resist the yoke, Then let them see their homes go up in smoke; And let us take religion for a cloak, Proclaim ourselves disciples of the Lord And spread the bleared Gospel with the sword; Nor stop nor stay the hand that's raised to slay; Oh, let us kill and let us make it pay! It ought to be and is our soldiers' will That all should go to heaven whom we kill; But still no heathen rebel shall be spared; The fault is his if he is unprepared, When we see fit to set his spirit free And waft his soul into eternity. Then carve his corpse his humble house of clay We mean to kill and mean to make It pay! The king that rules the world today is might; There is no myth more shadowy than right; The race of man was only made to fight, Then let us hear no more of right or wrong; Let spoils enrich and glory crown the strong. We are the Rome, the Rome of modern birth Let our almighty armies shake the earth, And as the weaker nations pass away, They leave their land, they give us greater &way Then let us kill and let us make it pay. When writing to our advertisers al ways tell them that you saw their ad. In The Independent. Is Sillf la aflvsaar sskei frssi isslsf at this aaaer. EiMt HAIR SWITCHES. riasst Oaattty of Haawa Hatr steal Oa4blrd rdiaary ariose. S as. K iaetiaa, tO-90 I t ox. M Inch OS, 9x3S Soaagineboa. 1.9ft I lattHuuk. X.SS S)t as. S3 ineh., 1.40 os. 2S Inches, 4.W Komlt bvo osnts for postal. AU switches ars short (torn. Send saaplo lock of haircut Boar tho roots. Weeaaasatoh Borfaetly aay hair, all orders Ailed promptly. Money refandod if mnsatisf aetory. Olnctrat. od CaUlofae of Switches, Wira, Carls, Bangs, Feaipadoats, Waves, ate., fro. Wo aaad switches by nail ea approval te those who SMBtioa this sapor, to be paid for when ro cetaad, if satisfactory. Otbarwiao te be re tuned te as by mail, fa 01 doi lagy write as te tab afleet. Tea raa ao rlak. Wo take ail tae Tab otter saay aot so auaeagala. Ui Dearborn fit. (Beys M4 CXICiOO. 111 G. O. P. Marked For a Tre mendous Trouncing. MARK OAN'T GET THE BOODLE Prominent Republicans Desert ing McKinley. TEDDY AEOITSES HO ENTHUSIASM. Several Repwhlicatt CoBrrenmeB la Iowa In Danger oC DrfVat Slsma Indicate That Haana la to Be Made the Seapearoatt of McKinley De featDemocratic Outlook In Indi ana Zacn. Chandler's Scheme Re vived A Republican. Editor' Con feaslon Bryaa's Reply to Hasu'i Challen&re. tSpecial Washington Letter.l Surely the G. O. P. is headed for the deuce and marked for the most as tounding trouncing any party ever re ceived at the hands of a long suffering and outraged people. Mark can't get his usual amount of boodle! Teddy can't arouse any enthusiasm! And the chairman of the Iowa Republican state committee sends out a Macedonian cry to the postmasters and other federal papsnckers declaring that several Re publican congressmen in Iowa are In great danger of defeat! There has been no such mournful set as the Re publicans are since the children of Is rael hung their harps on the willows and sat down by the waters of Babylon and wept. Amazing Republican losses In Vermont! Surprising Republican losses in Maine! Desertions of promi nent Republicans everywhere is the sickening message which Mark is com pelled to send to his disheartened fol lowers. "Pity the Borrows of a poor old man, appears to be Mark's appeal to the plu tocrats. Calamities are crowding upon him so thick that one might sympa thize with him if McHannaism were not the bane of our free government. It Is written, "If thy right hand offend thee, cut It off." -So It Is Infinitely better thet Mark should go in humiliation to his politi cal grave than that the republic should perish. Ha Tina- Funs With Hanna. They are playing cruel pranks with Mark these days. Some scientist out In Indiana, without the fear of Hanna before his eyes, but animated by a waggish, perhaps patriotic, spirit, got hold of one of Mark's paid spellbind ers, hypnotized him and caused him to deliver a rousing Democratic speech! Since Mark has unexpectedly blossom ed out as an orator he had better steer clear of that artist, or first thing he knows he will himself be whooping It up for Bryan, 16 to 1 and all. How all this must pester Mark, and yet nobody appears to be shedding any tears over his troubles. Even Republicans are beginning to complain of him and to despitefully use him. My lecture mate one of them Hon. Charles B. Landls of Delphi. Ind.. thought It a winning card to Induce Mark to orate in his town. Guess Charles did that with an eye to persuading Mark to give him some of the sinews of war. Mark in vaded Delphi, orated, and now comes Governor Mount, who says that bring ing Mark Into Hoosierdom was a blun der which a famous Frenchman on a momentous occasion declared to be worse than a crime. Governor Mount' declaration Is the "most unklndest" cut of all and must hav caused the Iron to enter Mark's soul. Signs are accumu lating that Mark is to be made the scapegoat for McKInley's impending defeat. He will share the lamentable fate of one Jay Hubbell Garfield's "Dear Hubbell" who sandbagged and held up the government officials and who was then thrown away like a sucked orange disgraced, execrated, loathed. When McKinley is beaten, as he will be, all of the sins of all the Re publicans will be loaded on to Mark's back, and he will be hated more enthu siastically and more universally than any other man In America. A Job's Comforter. Even The Globe-Democrat, thick and thin Republican organ grinder, hap become a1 sort of Job's comforter for Mark and. speaking of West Virginia, says, "The outlook is not so hopeful as the campaign Republican managers had hoped It would be." Again, The Globe-Democrat says, "Tbe party lieu tenants In the field say that hard work will be necessary for the salvation of the state." Again, The Globe-Democrat continues dolefully, "The result of the reports from West Virginia will be the Immediate bracing no of the Republic an campnlgn In that state." Which means, I take it, that Senator Stephen B. Elklns will import a few more car loads of the colored man and brother Into the state and colonize them for fraudulent election purposes. Again, The Globe-Democrat remarks, "Litera ture and speakers will be supplied, and the voters throughout the state will be awakened to a sense "of the danger which seems to confront the partv." No doubt The Globe-Democrat has made a correct diagnosis of the disease afflicting the G. O. P. in West Virginia, but it has prescribed the wrong reme dy. What those sleepy or recalcitrant West Virginia Republicans need to re suscitate them Is not literature and speakers, but some of Mark's boodle. All this would make Mark's hair stand on end like Quills upon the fretful por cupine If he had any hair, which he has not And the papers report that the very Old Harry Is to pay in the gas belt in Indiana, where Mark expended his gas. The trusts have been getting la their work In that region, shutting down factories, throwing people out of employment and causing untold mis ery. And the simple Hoosiers are so unreasonable as to conclude that 2 and 2 make 4 and are beginning to talk of holding the Republican party responsi ble for the calamities which the trusts have brought upon them. The pros pects are that those benighted Hoosiers who are opposed to being robbed in broad daylight will turn the state over to Bryan. Mark got his comb cut In another tray and from an unexpected quarter. In his Delphi speech, In his swagger ing, offensive, truculent way, he said that he was ready to debate Imperial ism with Bryan or any other Demo crat. That sounded very brave In Mark, and no doubt his defiance was received by the Indiana Republicans with applause. But now comes Bryan, who declines to debate with Mark, but goes after higher game, proposing to debate with McKlnley, a thing greatly desired by all good Democrats. Trouble In Iovrau Some weeks ago in one of these let ters I stated that In my judgment the Democrats of Iowa would redeem two congressional districts this fall. At once sundry Republican papers-Jumped on me and said I was talking through my hat It would appear aft er all that I had some reason for that declaration and that the aforesaid Re publican editors were engaged in speaking through their tiles when they were bullyragging me. Hon. H. O. Weaver, chairman of the Iowa Repub lican 6tate committee, Is sending out to all Republican postmasters a letter which he marks "very Important" and which runs as follows: 1 forward t you today package of literature which is the first installment of campaign docu ments that vrtU be sent you from now until ths day of election. I trust you will place them in hands of parties where they will do tbe most g-ood. I also desire to call your attention to the mat ter of your YOluntarr contribution to the cam paign fund, as 1 observe from the records that you have not as yet responded to my request for aid In the work being done. Tou can see from the documents that pass through your office the char acter of the work being done and which can be completed only by increased work, energy and ex pense. Tbe Democrats are flooding the state with literature and speakers and have raised a cam paign fund much larger than we can nope for. They are mapping out a campaign In Iowa which has alarmed our congressional nominees in the districts which they deemed comparatively safe. Upon you and your associates rests the serious personal responsibility of insuring your congres sional nominee a re-election. Don't throw this aside, but answer at once. Claiming: Everything:. Republican leaders are following Zach Chandler's plan when he was fix ing to steal the presidency for Hayes L e., they are claiming everything. They are even idlcts enough to claim Missouri. They have about as much chance to carry Missouri as Democrats have to carry Pennsylvania. I have frequently referred to the Washington Tost as the most ably edited Independ ent paper in America. Here is its de liberate judgment on the situation: tf the Republicans read the signs of the times aright, if they fully appreciate the importance of recent political developments, they must begin to recognise the fact that the coming presidential election will be no one sided affair and that Mr. McKinley's triumph in November is anything but a foregone conclusion. There is a warning to the party in the Republican lossee and Democratic gains in Vermont. A similar increase in the Democratic vote throughout tbe country will give several doubtful atates to Mr. Bryan. But more significant than tbe election in Vermont is the' re turn to the Democratic party of such men as ex. Secretary of State Olney and ex-Postmaster Gen eral Wilson, two of the ablest and most conspicu ous members of Mr. Cleveland's lest cabinet, who now openly espouse Mr. Bryan. With such exam ple as , these in high quarters ths Republicans may as well prepare to lose the Cleveland vote which waa so largely recorded for sound money in 1696. Prominent exceptions are to be found, of course, but.it is nevertheless sn obvious truth that the great majority of gold Democrats influ ential men who supported Palmer and Buckner or voted for Mr. McKinley four years ago are now in line with their party. Possibly they are taking this step chiefly because of a desire to see their party rehabilitated for 1904 and without any con fidence in immediate success, but whatever the motives that prompt them, whatever their hopes and ambitions, their defection will count heavilv in November against the party in power. The campaign, though not fairly under way, has already demonstrated that our Philippine policy is to be a bi if not the overshadowing issue of this campaign. The Republicans must meet it unevasively. They cannot dodge it if they would. Moreover, the labor situation promises to make tbe vote of the workingman much more uncertain and less easily controlled thsn it was in 1896. Eight years ago. at this stage of the presidential campaign, the outlook for Republican success was every bit aa auspicious as it is today, but Mr. Harrison, whose administration was a model In all respects and who was and is one of the great est .Americans of his day, went down to defeat ths worst beaten Republican candidate of modern times. The Republican managers cannot afford to over look this lemon of history at the opening of the present fight. Favors a Monarchy. While moft of the lmoerialists beat about the bush and haven't the cour age to draw the inevitable conclusion ! deduclble from their premises. It is re- ! freshing to find one of the piratical i gang who has the courage of his con- j victions and who honestly declares In favor of a monarchy. Mr. K. Chavan- ness, editor of the Des Moines Globe, a most ardent supporter of McKlnley and Roosevelt, was recently Interview ed by a staff correspondent of th Omaha World-Herald with this as tounding result: "Do you really favor a constitutional mon archy as the government for this country. Mr. Chavannessr" "J most s ami re dly do. Why, wHrt is the differ ence between constitutional monarchy and the kind of a government we have nowf Who is pay ing any attention to tbe constitution f We are governing Porto Rico outside of the constitution, governing the Philippines outside of the "onstlta tion, and what'a the msttet with governing the whole thing the same way that is, outside of the written constitution t" "Do you think tbe tendency of the administra tion's policy is in the direction of the government you advocate V "To be sure it is. Government, my dear air, ia founded oa property and commerce. We can boest of civil rights and all that, but govern sicnt after all la founded upon property. Men acquire prop erty ane then demand a" government that will protect them la their property right a A consti tutional monarchy does this and at the same time enables men to acquire property without sesti SMatal interference." Do you advocate the election of McKinley and Roosevelt T" : , "I do earnestly and honestly." "Do you advocate their election became you believe that their success la a atp ia the direction ef achieving- what you believe to be tbe proper thing la government T' "I do. Why should Republicans be afraid to admit itf They may deceive themselves, hurt they deceive no one else when they pooh-pooh at im perialism. I am a Republican, and The Globe ia a Republican newspaper." An open confession being good for the soul, I suppose this Des Moines Republican feels much better for hav lng declared himself openly. It will be remembered by 4 those In terested in politics that four years ago the Republicans were suspected and accused of desiring the single gold standard. They declared It to be a false and monstrous charge, maintain ing that they . were blmetallista the only true blmetallists in fact, they were the real thing and we the baso Imitation. Then they passed a law placing us upon the single gold stand ard. Now, In this matter of suspected monarchial bee buzzing In the bonnet of William the Uncertain, we, In the language of Patrick Henry, have "no light by which our feet are guided save by the lamp of experience." But in this matter of the kingly aspirations of our own "Imperial Bill" the majority of Republicans deny the soft impeach ment in but a half hearted way, while some, like this Des Moines editor, de clare openly for the kingdom. Think of it! If they would pass a gold standard bill after all tbe vehe ment denials and the tall lying of IBM, they will give ns "a king by dlvina right" In six months after another vic tory at the polls. A Brainy Democrat. Democrats everywhere will be glad to know that tbe Democrats of tbe Austin district of Texas have renomi nated Hon. T. S. Burleson for congress. He is a most excellent and promising young Democrat, with brains in his head and reliable as Ceesar's Tenth le gion. I serve on the same committee with Burleson the great committee on foreign affairs and know that he is as faithful to his principles and his people as Is the needle to the pole. The Aus tin district acts with jreat good sense. It win have none but a first class man and Democrat to represent It For years that stalwart statesman Joseph D. Sayres. now governor of Texas, rep resented the capital district of the Lone Star State. When he quit volun tarily, Burleson succeeded him, . and Burleson maintains the prestige of the district Surely the Philippine war Is being conducted on a most peculiar plan. We are offering $30 apiece for every gun surrendered, but nevertheless Cap tain D. II. Allen reports that In all the province of Batangas, containing 200, 000 people, not a gun, old or new, good, bad or Indifferent, Jias been voluntarily given up. Bryan's Brightest. Of all the good things that Bryan has said and they are for multitude as the stars of the heavens or the sand upon the seashore his reply to Mark Ilan na's challerge for a debate Is one of the very brightest ne said: "I am un willing to debate with any one whoso responsibilities are not so great as my own. If I am elected, I will be presi dent Now. If tbe Republican commit tee will certify that In the event of Mr. XfrRlnlev'ta plectlnn Senator TTnnna ia to be president I will cheerfully de bate with him." Now, this Is not only terse, straight from the shoulder and full of wisdom but It also contains a great deal of hw mor, a quality in which Bryan has been supposed to be rather deflclert A home thrust was made at Mark and Mack in such a neat and polite manner that no one can take exceptions to It not even the victims themselves though every one understands per fectly well what he meant It would be worth a good deal to know exactly what Mark thought of that when he read It and whether he didn't wish that he hadn't issued his defiance to Bryan. Mark's predicament reminds me of what one of my newspaper constitu ents, Harry C. Turner, once said: "I never attempt to say anything smart to the other fellow without firRt pausing and asking myself what he might say by way of retort" This mot by Mr. Turner I regard as very fine and philosophic, and while I am not Mark's spiritual, political or legal adviser I cheerfully commend It to his consideration. Stcne Is No Come On. A recent issue of the Washington Post contained this editorial squib: We sincerely hope that no unfeeling artist: will unload a batch of green goods upon the Hon. Bill Joel Stone while he is in New York trying to watch the Piatt machine. Evidently the gentleman who wrote .that squib has no intimate personal acquaintance with tbe Hon. William Joel Stone and has only regarded him at long rane. I violate no confidence whatever when I state that the Hon. William Joel Is like Major Joe Bag stock "sly, sir, devilish sly" and If any New York artist undertakes to un load green goods on William Joel Mis sourians without regard to race, condi tion or previous condition are willing to bet their sesterces upon the proposi tion that the green goods artist will get the worst of it. We don't like to hav3 our .great Missouri Democrat sneered at In any such manner by the Wash inrton Post or any one else and resent It as an Insult to the Democracy of Missouri. Governor Stoue is engaged In the great work of harmonizing the New York Democrats, who appear to have been crossed with the Kilkenny cats at an early day. The job that he has undertaken Is on a par with the twelve labors of Hercules. . If William Joel succeeds in this monumental taw ., he will deserve well of his country. v: