November 8, 1900
THE mSBRASKSTxTBEFENDENT
HP UK IDE
One Term Enough For
the Chief Executive.
'THEREAFTER INELIGIBLE
Period of Office to Be Length
ened to Six Years.
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Fraar ifcaald Tim fcr D I reet
Vaa 4 Latter Ha a Tkrt Tear
Tm Bai rralirrt af I'ra-aeat
lrma feallar fealar (
f K-"at CaBalsa-.Raavr It'a
4 Fary ftMlii Coa-raat-
- Jaaa krrai'i Carr.
VlUlia I. WIImi'i Fa as.
It to i- tLt ! f.ttn r '
eesica b s5it certain changes or ! WM th f Y'
, . IcaJ caper except that he caused a good
rU la cnr liuel Tlm. n anj IU,T)Ubnran Btatesmen to take to
lWfit ocgtt to I el-cted for six hiTd ing aDa furnished, consldera
years sd nad forvrvr laH'gfl.le for ble ammunition for Democrats.
tlrcli u. rrpresnitativMi In fcgres ! Carl Sehurx. Senator Wellington,
o-wiht to ! e!-rteI for a terra of three Governor lloutwell. General John B.
years, abator f tt Urltf-d States :
fc-Kjrlst tf t J l-y r':rt rote of
tii I5e, tlie -Sertlon titt to t
l-id life It of Otoir, and n-prenent-tlr-
sUcntUS b-jt!a tt!r htt1y on the
lt uf N'en.tr. eegTt- ctn renlng
Cf3 that iir. Is thia ay we would
L'? a -iraI WtV'ti cr.n la three
year. tt;re ! n dM that the ,
Tate J 'o o rero-wiel tbelr con-
titatli aid -ketorl system m as to
tt In fh tie r"aersl San. A presi
de:.! f.c -;M Late a t'x y-ar terra and
C3- r.sreter Ineligible, beci, as
Mark T-ia y. Luu-n nature la
vry rrong. ai-1 we fcae a great deal
I U ha u rre i-lenu t-eirig only nu-
xcait, are sm excrf .ekn to tb rule. The I
kv ef jowr U tL rsater pa!on cf
tl fcuiia ta!vl. K'tery preSdfnt ex
cept Vhrjrtrn mad Haje baa spnt
a lsr; rS"ri f t'. first term triring
tj -cvrr a eHud. Vah!rgton. I
tblsk. d! dire a k"Coid term, and
Ilejea knew b wUa't get a second
tern. All ll-e ret t-t:t tLeir merries
t arrr toarter a to ! re-elect-
d. Jut a rati .tl cr-ture is not
rafUf e! wWa r!-t;on tf the high
est cfS-f la tL- wcrkl doth not appear.
Vrt l.e f-t rert.alr: a tatr.l iTf. I
rwJ-l take away from presidents the
tecptatljea W ply istics for their
w8 arrrar.i&rmnt and tLtia guaran
tee. t, l ;. ;! tlat tu whifb tbey are
etititird Ibe tt aii tt ldalre
r-rt tLeir h: f nsasr'nrate to
ecve th-r-i f r tbe ji!.! -ml,
A to t! lr?Vn .f -fiai.r of the
t"n!f-d Stzi r f.jclar rot1, the brn
e of that fr'aa o-r the preset yr-
t"ia er re--t tiiat it im
f t:H.- w etm fat' tbeni.
a wte f
rmaf Svatea !r.
TLe rt r1i.i-!."U f-atcr of our
j-r-e r.t rt-r ! ti;at repree2tatlres
arr rltl S3 c r.il. !ft re tbey real
ly 1.3 tL!r s?-rvW-f t;:.l- tLere is
13 eitra rlca .f nEgrt-. In this
eirtrie rsm !-e rr ay rltr.fr and ;
11! y 3TT-e1t
Jo -hartre radially
TJ.it ha;';K-r.xi ecly re-
ees'iy. 1 1 eur z--'. r.nl ana presi
dential e' tkt f lKrJ binr-d entirely
ca 1h tr.r'T itteti';. Tbat was the
ccly im e d!c-aad that year. Nerer
t !.-! i r r !f..re tt.- c-:r- !-eled
in l.-2 t gnr. :: laV.r tb- iu hlft-e-I
to ir.itf. sr. 1 t!,e rr-at Ih c.rvratlc
rr.a ,ii?y m UikJ irt. two warring ;
fankj
t3re-s wr'.
1-ef r
;m In.
thf T j re-r;tS-H7r'.-i:tatiTes
ar
IriM tf r'n tt'.r errW wltbtn !f)
ts cf t-r-.r -5t
The :r"t dam-
gtar part of cur pr
t plan ! that
!-u f.f n ;-,rtiti s utterly e-
t ":.'.$.'' l y ti. jt-f-ple in 'r .r
lat till tjp t?x-,jirc !arth in wLkb
t I--ji la'e. r; ! a Tft d-al t t bad leg-
Uistk n :.,y le I fre.-.uritly 1 fas-
lesed
sed cpi.n t:. n&nctry by a repudiated j
ijrri- iti tl.-at Irnxth f t?n;e. j
A fvraltar C a as I aa. 1
The r-eftt nmi-mign "rfe ecul!ar In
t rrs ! m 1 :
J"irt.-Ir: ll rter..-'i of mfsd
r stilTrl hr t!e vter. It really
tcok a tLe rUej:Xtr tf liktiejmnt or
a;;aret.t Ind1 erencr to ucb au extent
tLat tt ratt d ti-e lefcdera of i--ib par- '
ties to et u; a lcty and warning ,
boat -f "jpsthT. t'rb in tL? end .;
Ltd n:jrn to dw with g-ttisg out tha j
vote.
d. A r f-t ber utii;"al feature of
tie ratrpa!jm was t!e ra'-t tLit very
few i&ea cf cattacal jr..p.rtIocf mate-
r-fel!y trcTeaed their reputation either
a tatrf-sirn or orate r. The number
who arhieted aldrd distinction was
Cttua2y r s,il. (f cours It wa im-
fK!i4e attrrly motor either Mr. Me-
Ivlsley tr Mr. Bryan to giln coco cevr
f aoe. fe thIr tce were familiar aa
too-held wfrfda before the raicpa!ga
twgaa. Henry Ward Berber repre
sented o-r-e of his characters aa never
looilrg c44er fcr tbe all ancient rea
arj that abe had alwaya looked aa old
as t he coJ kk. By oioetfc!rg cf the ? other In 1100. Of course Mr. McKlnley
asellc Bryan can never tTK-reaae his has been constantly In ttu public eye
reputation aa an orator, tor since his ! ever since by reason of the high posl
b.o?at r-rfunr.atice In that line In ! t!on which he holds, and Mr. Bryan
feetEtlrattsg h!ise!f at Chicago la 1H5 ta kept himself constantly In the pub
fc. taa been recognized a the greatest He by reason of his splendid genius.
llrlrg orator, perhap the greatest that
ever lived. Even The Globe-Democrat,
which ssder fta present management
taa degenerated Into mere orran
grinder, net kmg ego conceded to Bry
an the Srt piece ioa; tbe campaign
crater this year.
From a cririct? ftasdpofct Mr. Mc
Klnley ha never hec-s regarded aa aa
rat&r. He it m strong. clar and Inter
tting speaker. No amoent of speecb
making this year would hare placed
him In tbe rack of grreat orators, do
matter what sycophantic editors and
Umpired reporter, might hare ald
about It. but be preserved the tradi
tions of bis high office by rem airing off
the stump. 1 don't see why an occu
pant of the White House who Is a can
didate for re-election should be com pel
fed to remain silent, but those who are
up In presidential etiquetSa have de
rided that a president shall remain
dumb as an oyster while reeking a sec
ond term. I am sure that Mr. McKln
ley would bare received a hearty wel
come, even from Democrats, In any
portion of the republic, fcr there is no
rancor against him' personally any
where. . .
Haana. thm Rldicnloas.
Bourke Cockran added absolutely
nothing to bis fame either In 1896 or
Unless all signs are deceptive he
reached his high water mark as an ora
tor and in popularity In 1392 at Chica
go when In the wee sma hours of the
morning be exuoriated G rover Cleve
land. Mark Hanna's egotistical effort to
break into the ranks of the spellbind
ers exc!td only ridicule from Maine to
Texas and from Marthas Vineyard to
fcu n!ty to Ws words In print.
Hecdersoo. Henry M, Johnson of Indi
ana. ex-Senator Peffer, Colonel Camp
UH of Illlnoia. Senator Stewart, Web
ster Davis and other conplcuous men
who changed paities in the contest se
cured new audiences, but It may be se
riously doubted whether they In any
way enhanced their reputation or Influ
ence by their radical change of base.
novelt' Fnry,
Perhaps the Republican who reaped
the mont notoriety If not fame during
the campaign Is Governor Theodore
IUoMTelt, who was constantly on the
go. He talked a great deal. Most of
what be said was well said. A great
deal of it was arrant nonsense mere
sound and
stae of It
fury, signifying nothing,
was an insult to and libel
upon millions of bis fellow citizens, but
as a rule rrom a rnetoncai ana gram-
' in at leal point of view his Jabber- was
ali right. Nevertheless, with all his
going to and fro. wandering up and
; down and Jawm!thery. when he comes
t to take stock of himself and his doings
: he will be seriously puzzled to deter
' mine whether be was a greater public
I figure the day of the election than he
was the day of his nomination. The
chances are that his rantankerousness
and bumptiousness have caused many
; of his more sensible admirers to cease
to regard him as a presidential possl
I bllity, but If he did not make a sub
stantial growth In reputation no Re
( publican In this campaign did.
! Among Democrats Hon. James D.
Richardson of Tennessee played In
great luck from the beginning and
; came out of the campaign a much
greater figure than when he went In.
Richardson Is tact personified, which
Henry Ward Bcechor ranked above
talents. The slim Tcnnesseean Is the
I most amiable of mortals, and very few
? people will envy him his new laurels.
; He takes things by the smooth handle
? and makes no enemies. He got off on
the right foot every time during the en-
! tire eampalgn. Either a groat many
j opportunities came to him or he made
' a good many for himself, 1 don't know
which.
Cm na palavaa Contracted.
Third. The most talked of feature of
the campaign was Its utter unllkeuess
to the campaign of 1KDG. The enthusi
asm. w!M and universal, of that phe-
uorn-nal year was not observable any
where. In a general sense It may be
tared that in lhtXJ everybody argued
politics vehemently and In a most un
seendy manner and that in 1000 nobody
argued poHt'cs at ail except candidates
In esse or iu posse. Indeed the enthu
siasm of 1SG took on largely the char
acter of hysteria on both sides. It was
a supreme effort of Ioth Republicans
end Democrats In fact, of the whole
American people,
was over, lnterei
When the contest
Interest In politics for the
average citizen was completely ex
hausted. He had not recuperated In
11 He may never entirely recuper
ate, though the chances are that be
will, but my prediction Is that for
rsany years to come all campaigns
when compared with that of 1806 will
appear Cat and stale. If not unprofita
ble. We will jog along mare leisurely
If not more comfortably.
The difference between the cam
pafgna of 10 and 1000 Is worthy of
the profound consideration of the
statesmen, politicians and philosophers.
T for campaigns in a constitutional gov
ernment are matters of highest mo
ment, of most serious Import to all
classes and conditions of people. In
my judgment the principal reason for
'. the comparative tameness of the cam-
paign this year lies In the fact that it
was recognized as merely the sequence
to and continuation of the great cam
paign of 1SS From the close of that
campaign It was clearly understood
that If Messrs. McKlnley and Bryan
lived they would be pitted against each
tsnequaled oratorical ability and con
atant speaking and traveling over the
country. People were ured to McKln
ley and Bryan. They made up their
minds how they were going to vote,
and they did not care very much about
talk, brass bands and parades.
Fourth. An Important lesson of this
campaign la to demonstrate over again
how few, comparatively "peaking, of
the rank and file follow prominent po
litical leaders when they flop. It has
always been true, but the fact was
never so patent as it was this year, be
cause the eonsptcuoua Hoppers were
never bo numerous before.,- A lightning
calculator In good running order has
been needed since the Porto RIcan de
bate began In the house to keep tab on
statesmen and statesmen by brevet
who flopped from McKlnley to Bryan
or from Bryan to McKlnley. In no
case did any . one of them carry any
great multitude of voters with him,
which indicates that the American sov
ereign does a good deal of-lndependent
thinking, wears no man''collarpins
bis faith entirely to no leader, doe as
he pleases and chooses his own party
affiliations as - fate or fancy carries,
which on the whole, while not flatter
ing to the leaders, la a healthy indica
tion for the republic. . .. ....
John Sherman.
After an unusually long and success
ful career In his latter days John Sher
man became a pathetic figure. He may
not Inaptly be denominated the Repub
lican Lear. The old king lost his crown
through Ingratitude. Sherman was
kept out of the. presidency, for which
he panted even as the hart panteth for
the water brook, by ingratitude. We
weep over the sorrows of Lear; It Is
difficult to ' shed tears over the disap
pointments 6f Sherman, but neverthe
less he was better equipped for the
presidency than any Republican since
Lincoln. The trouble with him was his
coldness. Republicans freely admitted
his fitness for tbe chief magistracy of
the republic, but they threw up their
hats for Blaine and bestowed their love
and their votes upon "the man from
Maine." In a burst of affection, elo
quence and enthusiasm Bob Ingersoll
dubbed Blaine "the Plumed Knight,"
and wherever he led millions of Repub
licans were glad to follow. They ad
mired Sherman In a chilly sort of way.
They needed him in their business and
were willing for him to have any office
short of the presidency, btit that they
bestowed on men much inferior to him
In brains and public service.
The greatest Republican that Ohio
ever produced, he was doomed to see
three other Ohloans seize the coveted
prize Hayes, Garfield and McKlnley.
He always had the respect of Ohio Re
publicans, but their hearts never. Per
haps In his long candidacy for the pres
idency there never was a day when he
could have secured a delegation from
Ohio which was really for him.- The
Buckeye . delegation betrayed him in
favor of Garfield. Its lukewarm sup
port caused him to lose to Harrison.
He was set aside almost contemptuous
ly for McKlnley, who was a schoolboy
when he was a national character. ,
As a secretary of the treasury he will
rank with Hamilton, Gallatin and
Chase. He belongs to the very small
? group of American statesmen who nev-
I t hApnma nreaiionf Vmf ttrhrt will nov.
er be forgotten. His fame will rest up
on his successful execution of the re
sumption act! 'His part ah "evil part.
In surreptitiously demonetizing silver
In 1873 will also keep him in human
memory. In the days to come he will
be lauded by some as a great states
man and an enlightened patriot. By
others he will be denounced till the end
of time as the betrayer of his country
and the enemy of the American people,
but his will never be a name to conjure
with. Posterity will Judge him as did
his contemporaries, as a man of large
capacity for public affairs and of low
ering ambitions cold, crafty, calculat
ing, resolute, avaricious of money and
of power and wanting in the qualities
which win the human heart He was
not a popular favorite in life; he will
not be a popular favorite in history.
William L.. Wilson.
William L. Wilson was the well be-
' loved -Indeed the best beloved man In
the Fifty-third congress. If he had an
enemy on the whole face of the earth,
. I have, never heard of it. I don't see
I how he could have. Brave as a lion,
j he was gentle as a woman. In his
1 youth a gallant soldier of the Confed
I eracy. he never alluded to that bloody
and unhappy chapter in our annals.
I lie was a knight sans peur et sans re
! proche, and he quit fighting at Appo-
! niattox. Most emphatically be did not
belong to that large aggregation of
men invisible In war and Invincible in
peace.
With fame worldwide, he was as un
assuming as the plainest citizen of the
remotest backwoods. With opportuni
ties for growing rich beyond the
dreams of avarice by prostituting his
high position to personal gain, he died
poor. As an orator he had few equals.
His closing speech on the Wilson tariff
bill was a marvel of eloquence and
aroused his Democratic associates to
the highest pitch of enthusiasm. One
of the most dramatic scenes ever wit
nessed in the house was at Its close,
when Harry St. George Tucker, the
young Virginia Hotspur, and William
J. Bryan, the great Nebraskan. placed
the brilliant West Virginian upon their
shoulders, much against his will, and
carried him In triumph to the cloak
room amid the shouts of members and
the wild applause of the galleries.
Considering the fact that a large por
tion of his life was devoted to law and
politics, Mr.' Wilson had. a remarkable
career In the scholastic world. He en-
Joyed the unusual distinction of having
been a graduate from the University of
Virginia, a professor in Columbia col
lege, president of the University of
West Virginia, president of Washing
ton-Lee university and of having de
clined tbe presidency of the University
of Missouri. To few men who devoted
their whole lives to letters have so
many collegiate honors come, and few
er still have deserved such high and
multifarious honors. , : :
The Study of English.
P. H, Fkye.
The editors of the Scarlet and Cream
have asked me to contribute a few
observations on the value of the study
of English. At the time I .was not
quite sure whether the gentlemen who
proposed the question, did so as one
asks a riddle, which Is expected to
please by the Ingenuity of. the answer,
or whether they were curious to see
what kind of a case might be made
out for the subject. For I confess that
I have always, perhaps too partially,
taken the benefits of the study for
granted, like those of sunlight; and it
is enly in coming to consider the mat
ter that I find it one thing to believe
n. sunlight and quite another to ex
plain , its' advantages, particularly to
such as have never known it. -
Aside from the very evident and im
mediate advantage of helping one to
handle one's own language dexterous
ly as a means f communication, the
study of English is valuable, I think,
ror tne power it gives one over life.
In life the main thing naturally is to
live as largely as possible. Everything
else is impertinent or secondary. Suc
cess should be measured, not by irrel
evant standards, such as the posses
sion of wealth, but by the experience
acquired that is, the amount of liv
ing- actually done, including quality
much more than quantity. This truth
is recognized in the training of school
and college, where are onry grades in
an educational system, as extensive as
life itself; and to this and every study
contributes in one way or another, so
that to point out the particular value
of any one study, is merely to point
out the particular power that it gives
the student over life. -
Now what kind of power that formal
education, the education, I mean, of
school and college, aims to give, is
that of knowledge knowledge more
especially of the factors which com
pose life. To every youth, I fancy, life
is at first little better than a gigantic
phantasmagoria, as various and de
lightful to the careless as an imagina
tive revel, but often to the more re
sponsible bewildering and even hope
less. It is only when he begins to
learn to distinguish and separate and
order, . that the confusion begins to
clear up; though it is only to perfect
knowledge that confusion ever clears
up completely. We are most of us
content perforce to study and know
only that much of life which Imme
diately concerns us. I often think that
the desperation with which the serious
and sensitive young person is apt; to
look upon life at a certain age, is due
to nothing else than this; and that
such an one would be, saved an im
mense amount of care, and anxiety,
were he made early to understand that
confusion and helplessness are the re
sults of ignorance or half-knowledge,
while power and serenity come natur
ally with, the increase of knowledge
and experience. ; ; ..
As the factors of life are two, so the
knowledge that deals' with them, is of
two kinds. The one,, the more impor
tant from the Greek point of view, the
point of view of 'culture, perhaps, is
the knowledge of oneself; the other,
the more Important from the modern
point of view,-is the knowledge of the
outward world. ; But it is evident that
both sorts - are necessary for full and
complete living; since life consists
mainly, as Matthew Arnold says, in
conduct; that is, the relation of the
individual to the outside world. The
studies that aim to put us in posses
sion of the latter kind of knowledge,
are the scientific; they present us with
the facts of. the worlor, so systematized
that we can handle them for our own
purposes. The studies, on the other
hand, which aim to put us in posses
sion of the former kind of knowledge,
are. the linguistic; they bring us Into
direct connection with the human
spirit in all ages, of which universal
spirit each of our spirits is a part
and particularly among these studies
that of our own language, which en
ables us to interpret all these things
each of us for himself and so lets us
into communication with our own
spirits.
The power over life, then, which
the study of English should give us,
lies In the ability to translate the data
of life Into terms of our own con
sciousness.
The very simplest exercise In writ
ing requires two things; first, that the
writer have made an observation, and,
second, that he have digested this ob
servation sufficiently to formulate it.
In the process he has related it to him
self: it is no longer a bare fact, some
one's else opinion, a fragment of ster
ile arid useless information; but his
own, a portion of hts own experience,
a part of his personality. In this man
ner we are constantly working out in
expression our personal equations,
not in a technical way at all, but in
the simple, direct and sincere way in
which we are required to live.
It has been said that if one knows a
matter, he will bave no difficulty in
expressing It. But the remark Is pnly
half . true. Before one can express a
matter, either In speaxtng or writing,
he must know not only the matter it
self, but -himself too as far as he is
concerned in it; he must understand
his attitude toward it, what he thinks
about it, as we say. Then and only
then can he express it, because only
then does he really understand iti We
have all felt in reading or listening to
some statement of truth that we thor
oughly understood , it at the time, to
find later, when we were, asked to give
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all in but a vague intangible sort of
way, and that we came to comprehend
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