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Much discnioa Las followed the
.nnoaEceme&t of the election returns.
A rrrat deil Is InSuIed la without
lsawSedse of tie fads upon which
eoscicaicus are based. The facta that
coa to hard from the cards re
turn el to the at&ta committee are
thing that zsoat b taken Into consid
eration, la the first place there are
49fiQQ democrats la this state who
wted at the election asd a little more
thaa thzt EBSber cf popullsta. Taking
th Dietrich and Pojater vote, la
rooad taEtn, the republicans have
a oS i0. aad fusion: fts 30,000.
That d the republican somewhere
t,ear tea thousand plurality. Although
the oSclal vote cf all thu counties has
fct beta received at thh. writing; those
Sire istaiantiaily the facts.
It shows ta the Cm place that the
republicans do xsot bare a majority of
the vote la this state. There is at
least a majority of 10.000 rsea la this
at&ts who will not vote the republican
ticket if they all voted.
The cuertloa the a ari, what Is to
t- dcae to ret the citizens of Nebraska
to caat their tallctsT There are some
saea la the state, ho many It Is Im
po!hl to ttE. who believe that if
th popdit party should refuse to j
fu with the democrats and ma a
atralght ticket that the state could be
carried. But if the 43,000 democratic
wotea re to t eliminated, caa any
an man believe that 40,000 republi
can who fcaTe steadily, voted for that
party for years could be Induced to
leave it aad vote the populist ticket?
Sa a ea of that kind the republicans
rmld have a plurality of 0,000 or
0.O0O tzttead cf the tea thousand that
fieyrow have. The only objection that
these rsea urge against fusion is that
It haa failed to carry the state. . -.Would
tiot the failure be tea times greater if
the popn!ists should rua a straight
ticket? Their argument la that fasioa
la a iallare. Have they any plan that
fsreuld rat remit la a greater failure?
Kll this applies only to the state. But
wha. cf the cation?
There are fifteen state that will be
dsocratlo uaer any circumstances.
?Co party caa be organized that can
carry the United States against the re
pnhlicara that iora cot get the votes
of ths democratic states. It Is folly
to dreara that It could. The Inaugura
tion cf popn'ist principles depends up
on centre' la? the general govern
taent for it is more concerned with the
tsosey question, the public ownership
cf railroads, telegraphs, telephones
asd thlsgs cf that sort thaa with any
thing The popu'ifct party by Itself
Suui sever jet been able to capture a
f isgl rtat or control the electoral
vote of ca. It has never e.ected a
Vnited States eenator and In only a
few instances a congressman. All the
aaccess that It has er gained baa
beea la co-operatloa with Bryaa demo
crat. No one would hale a straight
2epulirt inoTcmert with more enthus
latra thaa the editor cf The Indepea
dent If there were a bare possibility
cf success ia even one state la the
tiiioa. Bnt ia eTery state where such
a movement has beea made it haa end
ed ia the raia of the party. All that
there it cf the people" party la la the
tales that hare adopted ration. "It
til! has a strong orgaalzatloa la Ne
truka. Sotsth DaLata. Kansas. Colo
rado and Oregon. Ia other states there
1 tot enough left cf It to wad a gan.
These westera states hare always fol-l-i-d
the policy of fasioa with the
lirraa detsotrata. If Bryaa caa hold
the drcKxrratic states up to the high
Irrel reached la the Kansas City plat
torsa. a very larg majority la fact
nearly all of theta are willing to coa
tisae the co-operatioa. Bat If the
CUreUnd-Hii; crowd get control of
the cut vatioaal democratic coarea
tloa. pop'ilita cf this state would no
. r-ore fae. with them than they would
with the f epiihlicajis. '
That is the wy the matter looks to
tie editor of The Independent. Per
mz&r, ail Wi. Lilrs tie pper or
any oae else, he believes that if fu
sion with the Bryan democrats is to be
abandoned, the authorities of the pop
ulist party had better , be called to
gether and the formal disorganization
announced. As for himself, he would
not waste his time or his money In
the fruitless attempt to uphold an or
ganization that could not elect a con
stable In any county in this state, save
one. '
The thing to do is to renew our old
methods of work. Go Into the school
houses, pat our papers In the homes of
the people, fight as we have always
fought and continue the policy that
haa brought us the victories of the
past.
TWEKTT-FIVE CE'T WEEKLIES
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden, while he is making his raid
upon the reform papers; would do well
to psy some attention to the great re
publican weeklies that are sent out
free or at half the cost of the white
Taper. He has declared that "ideas"
are as much merchandise as soap, and
that" a -paper filled with them Is sub
ject to the rule that exclude journals
devoted almost exclusively to adver
tising. The great republican weeklies
that are sent out for 25 cents a year
or for nothing, are not remarkable for
a variety of ideas; but they fill up with
one idea turned over and over and
that is that everything outside of re
publican doctrine Is anarchy. These
papers besides this one idea are filled
with "advertising and come under the
rule by which he has suppressed other
papers.
They come under another rule which
he has promulgated and that is the
subscription price is too small to pay
the cost of publication and therefore
they are issued for other purposes than
that which he has defined to be neces
sary to entitle them admission at
pound rates. But his rules were made
for the suppression of reform papers
and ther never will be applied to those
advocating republicanism and plutoc
racy.
In there great metropolitan weeklies,
issued by the dailies and subsidized
la the Interest of capitalism, the re
form press haa been attacked In a new
way. The object of this raid la to kill
erery ieform weekly. It 13 costing the
capitalist some millions to do It, but
in the reform weekly they see their
greatest foe. All other avenues of get
ting information to the people they
have firmly closed.- The Associated
press is more closely censored than the
cablegrams from Manila. There is only
one way left to get to the people aad
that Is by the reform weeklies. The
intention is to ruin them by sending
papers Into their territory at less than
half the cost of the white paper on
which they are printed. Plutocracy
p-iys the bilL When the reform week
lies are all dead, they will get it back
with big rates of interest from the
people who took the 25-ceut weekly
instead of a paper that would tell them
the truth.
Grosveaor says that the election In
Ohio stops all tariff reform. - The peo
ple have voted to let the tariff alone
and It will not be lowered on trust ar
ticles that are sold to foreigners for
much teas than the same articles are
sold to Americana. ' Gro.rrenor's repu
tation as prophet has had some hard
knocks la the past, but this time The
ladepeadent thinks he ia right.
Fifty years ago this country was
far in advance of all" the Europea
governments, but then It stopped stock
still aad democracy took up Its for
ward march in the monarchies of the
old world. There' it has obtained to
large extent the public ownership
railroads, the municipal ownership
street . cars, gas, and lighting plants
and , everywhere the telegraphs and
telephones are 'part of the postofflce
system. When plutocracy got contro
In the United States a halt was called
upon all adTanxcoect. ' i . .
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1- v OMAHA. HOBOKS ; " '
The Bee' takes great umbrage" at an
article printed in The Independent j
ast week about a helpless old couple
who were about to be sent to the poor
house and separated. It says:
"The alleged brutality toward a
helpless old couple is a pure invention.
After painstaking inquiry The Bee
has been unable to find a trace of any
such incident. Neither the regular
police, the depot police nor the "" em
ployes at : the ' railway stations 1 had
ever heard of it and the reporters of
the, various papers disclaim all knowl
edge of lt.V - - - J
All that may . be true for the ac
count was reprinted from . the special
correspondence of the - State Journal.
The Independent never reprints 'any
thing concerning government or-official,
or political matters it knows its
character too - well rbut the editor's
attention was brought.- to this matter
by a lady who handed him the art-
cle . -. . -
However the Independent has noth
ing to take back concerning what it
said about the character of the muni
cipal government of the city. Itis
about as wide open a town for vice
and gambling as ever did business.
Additional evidence of the truth of
the Independent's assertion, that they
can't . support a. charity organization
society and the result, is that one part
of the citizenship is breeding paupers
by indiscriminate giving to every bum
and hobo who applies for aid, while
the deserving poor are left to suffer
Indiscribable horrors. The Bee says:
''More money is disbursed, for char
ities in Omaha in every week in the
year than is disbursed for charities
at Lincoln, outside of the state instil
tut Ions, in one year."
Omaha has long been a; hobo, pau
per breeding ground to the curse not
only of the city itself but every town
in the state. The indiscriminate giv
ing of such large sums as the Bee
says is distributed in Omaha every
week is just what The Independent
complained of. Several efforts have
been made to establish a scientific
charity organization there and every
one of them has failed. What sense
is there in pouring out money like
that in these prosperous times? "The
public mendicant, has only ; to apply,
get, enough to live in idleness and
soak himself with beer, while the de
serving, the old, the homeless children,
the sick and temporarily unfortunate,
who do not go on the streets and beg,
have no one to look into their cases
and supply the needed assistance. Was
that story of the half frozen boys in
Judge Baker's court a fake also?
A while ago there was a place in
Omaha where, men co aid go and get
a night's lodging and a bath when
ever they wanted to without any in
vestigation at all, and only a little in
investigation showed Chat it was a
pauper breeedmg establishment a
curse to the state and everjp town in
it for these hoboes -when the spring
came started out on their raids to
the small towns and among the farms.
The populist doctrine Is: If a man
will not work neither shall he eat,
and they think they have high author
ity for the adoption of the principle.
, The most astonishing statement in
the Bee's article is this:
"There is no open gambling in Oma
ha and there has not been for years."
In answer to that The Independent
can only say that It Is constantly
charged by almost every writer in
the state and all of the republican pa
pers except the Bee that gambling is
carried on all over Omaha ; in multi
tudinous form. The Omaha corres
pondent of the State Journal said in
his article yesterday morning:
"Tom Dennison may be seen daily
sunning . himself on his old familiar
corners. His policy game goes merrily
on and its industrious solicitors- may
be seen hourly scurrying, along the
public thoroughfare and darting into
dark alleys to garner, the harvest. of
nickles and dimes that go to make
up Dennison's $100 a day profit. The
poker games in the rear of some
thirty or forty cigar stores on leading
streets are running right .along, the
players sitting, in many t instances,
plainly in sight of people passing
along the streets.". .
. BA.LLROAD CORRUPTION
The railroad managers ln thia state
are not satisfied with corrupting courts
and juries,' bribing' legislators and
muzzling the press, but they go 1 into
our1 educational institutions and cor
nipt the youth there engaged in their
studies. For years therailroada have
sent a representative to" Lincoln every
year to corrupt the students of the
state university "by bribing them with
passes to go "home and vote the repub
lican ticket. This year this corruption
was more flagrant than .ever. An agent
was stationed,, at the -Capitol hotel
whose ;.business ; was. .to-.look up and
furnish every student. who could b6 in
duced to accept it a pass to go home
and vote the republican ticket. It is
bad enough to invade our legislative
bodies, corrupt municipal councils and
pack juries, but when it comes to cor
rupting the youth of the land the thing
Is beyond endurance. A pass to a
young man to o home, and vote is an
introductionrto polities that Is sure to
demoralize : the generation to oine.
X There is no place jtoojsacred for: these
bribers to "enter 'and defile , and de
strOy. : What the future of a state will f
be where its youth are corrupted is an
easy matter to .tell. :; ' ' "
The corruption of railroad corpora
tions enters into every section of so
ciety. Bribes in the way of passes are
scattered all over the state. In fact,
the legislation of the state has for the
last thirty years, except for the short
time : that the republican party has
been out of power, has been for the
most part the fesult of bribery on the
part of the railroads. With their in--siduous
agencies they enter- the home,
the church, the school, the legislature;
the city council and the courts Dur
ing the last few months it has been
more flagrant and more effective than
ever before. The prospect Is -that it
will continue - v
Why' the republican press gives so
much encouragement to socialists and
middle of the road parties is seen In
the election returns. Wherever either
of them have any footing, there are
the largest republican majorities.
One of the republican dailies In com
menting on the election, after saying
that the gold democrats have gained
control of the party," gravely announces
that "they have made a better show
ing in Massachusetts than for several
years." ; As the Massachusetts demo
cratic state conyention indorsed the
Kansas City platform and then went
far m advance of it by demanding pub
lic ownership and the referendum, one
can imagine how much truth there is
in that sort of editorial writing. -
The editor of The Independent is
exceedingly, happy.. All his life he had
been in the minority except the. years
that" Lincoln was president, but five
or six years ago he got into the ranks
of the majority in this state and he
had four years of misery. Now he is
back in the minority and feels like
he was at home again. The old pro
verb says that the Intelligent are al
ways in the minority and ignorance in
the majority. That is what made him
feel so unhappy when he got on the
big side.
The Associated press is a great in
stitution. It kept, feeding the people
on dispatches before the election to the
effect that the democrats had a good
chance to carry Ohio. John R. Mc-
Lain . wts a pet of that institution be-
caus a &'3 was instrumental in getting
the Ohio democratic state convention
to repudiate Bryan and the Kansas
City platform, so ib kept up the fight
for McLean.v It wanted McLain to poll
a bife vote so as to give the reorganiz-
ers a cnance. r
Attention -is called to the advertise
ment in another column whereby a
subscriber can get & life of McKinley
written by Murat Halsted v for fifty
cents. The book is being sold every
where for $2.50. It is a book for re
publicans, written by a republican,
from the republican standpoint. As
your republican neighbor can get this
book and The. Independent for one
dollar less than he can buy it for from
a book agent or a book store, it will
be worth while to call his attention
to it. - '
The reorganizers should carefully
examine the results in Ohio, Colorado.
Kentucky and. Massachusetts. In Ohio
the leaders went back on the Kansas
City platform and Bryan, and they got
licked out of their boots. In Colorado
and Kentucky they stood by both and
swept the. platter clean, while in
Massachusetts with a populist platform
they made enormous gains and carried
the city of Boston. After cogitaUug
on these facts for a while, the Cleveland-Hill
crowd may conclude that
they had better close up their republi
can side show and go out of business.
Kitchener reports 219 additional
casualties In the fight where two Eng
lish colonels, thirteen other officers
and over . 200 men were killed and
wounded. Whether he has them all
counted'yet is not known His object
in sending the first dispatch was to let
the people of England know by de
grees the tremendous loss that he had
suffered. ... If the, first report had told
how he had lost oyer 500 men in one
fight. Its effect on, the English people
would have been stunning."
Mr.: Asquith in.-a speech in Edin
burgh; claimed that It was not American-push
and competition that was
threatening the prosperity of .England,
but it was whisky; He said that the
people ' of Great t Britain yj consumed
twice as. much; alcohol per: head an
nually as the-people of the United
ouiieB. t - men! -wBfB i,uvu: iuut ht
censed public houses to which they re
sorted, and thair. drink bill every year
was - $500,000,000, j-a sum v that would
more than pay for the biggest wheat
crop ever produced In the United
States.
It is amusing to note the vigor with
which some republican dailies are ad
vocating reciprocity. It is an old trick
of the plutocratic dailies to write In
thet interests of the, people just after
an" election, tmtia, few weeks before
the next one they; line up all rlght for
liilE
standing. We have callers every little
while to inquire as to what Peruna has
done for us.. I say: 'Look at us. That
is proof enough."
I send you a picture of my reeidenco.
I helped build a house in Iowa City on
the first of last June, and worked eighty
two days, only losing one-quarter of a
day during ' the whole time. How is
that for an old man 77. years old ? I came
home in September and have built
another house , out in the country this
fall and am well and hearty to-day.
A Venerable Wisconsin Lady Ro
7, stored to Health by Peruna
- After Twenty five Years9
Suffering. . U
Special news from Evansvllle, Wis. J
,- EVANSVI LL E, " WIS. A woman
. cured of catarrh of, twenty-five years
standing was the occasion of Peruna be
ing introduced to the inhabitants Of
Evansville, Wis. Prom that time to this
there has been a .great demand for Pe
runa in this vicinity and hundreds of
cases have been cured...-
It is in - this manner, that Peruna
spreads from town, to town and from
state to state. No sort of advertising
' could have given Peruna the reputation
it has. The secret of its success is-that
' it makes genres.' It Cures old cases of
catarrh where other-: remedies, .have
failed. This ought to make any remedy
popular. : -
Mr. C. It. Harden, of Evansville, Wis.,
writes the following letter :
Dear Doctor Hartman I wish to
write to certify what Peruna haa done
for me. I read of Peruna in the papers,
of what it would do for catarrh, and
sent for a bottle. This was the first bot
tle of Peruna that ever came to Evans-
ville; from my using it all three of the
druggists now keep it. -
'it cared my wife of catarrh with
which she had been troubled tor more
than twenty-fire years, and 1 bad been
troubled with it for fifteen years. We
are now both all fright.
J "My youngest son had la grippe four
years ago,' and as he had supposed had
got well, or solar recovered that he went
to work. ' He took a relapse and 4the
pneumonia set in. He had hemorrhages,
and though we tried- everything , we
could think of it was to no purpose until
we gave him Peruna. The hemorrhages
stopped, and he soon got up and is well
and hard at work. We think there is
nothing like Peruna."
In a recent letter Mr. Harden writes :
44 We keep Peruna always in the house,
M I hope to live twenty years yet, and
if Peruna helps me in the future as it
has in the past, I don't know why I
can't. The druggists say Peruna is one
of the best selling medicines they have
in stock." C. R. HARDEN.
; Peruna . caa be relied upon to cure
slight, colds and coughs and other ca
tarrhal ailments with a promptness that
is unequaled by any other remedy. -
If cold has settled in any portion of
the body and produced catarrh, it is gen
erally thought, by people that they must
suffer on year after 'year J without any
hope of cute. This is not true, however,
Peruna cures such cases. Thousands of
testimonials that can never be used
attest this fact. ,t. , j.
Any one wishing free literature on
this subject should address Dr. Hartman,
Columbus, Ohio.
as it cured ua both of catarrh of long
Startling Statements from Kentucky, Illinois ; and New Hampshire ' of ; Other
Remarkable Jcoveries--
ELGIN, ILL. In a very recent com-1 . . MANCHESTER, N. n. According to
munication , from this place comes the j late advices, Miss Blanche L. Rundlett
news that Mr. Arthur Ernest Kidd, a
well-known architect of : that city, nas
made complete recovery from catarrh of
the head from which he had suffered for
nearly a quarter of a century. He writes
the following from 18 Hamilton ave. :
am . 42 years .of age, and have had
catarrh of the head for over half of my
life. ; "' ' . -.-.r
WILLARD, KT. The news of the
recovery of Mrs. Elizabeth. Prater is a
very striking instance of the wonderful
curative powers of Peruna. This esti
mable lady had been an invalid from
catarrh of the stomach, and bowels for
twenty years. No wonder her many
friends are enthusiastio over her recov
ery. She" writes: "It is through the
mercies of God and your medicine that I
am permitted to write you this letter. I
have been a constant sufferer from
bowel and stomach trouble for about
twenty-five years, and could never find
relief until I began the use of Peruna. I
think it is a God-send to poor suffering
humanity." Mrs. Elizabeth Prater.
"I read of Peruna, and finally decided
to try it. two months ago. I hare now
taken seven bottles, and weigh 172
pounds. Never felt happier or merrier.
Feel tip top." A. E. Kidd.
haa made a complete recovery from ca-.
iarrh of the - head cwhich. had caused a
chronic running from the,- ears. Her
own ; statement of. the case is as follows:.,-.
vt . ,.
."I have suffered for several years
with catarrh , of the head.'c It' finally
reached ' my v ear, and caused a running
ear. Having rread of Dr;1 Hartman 's
remedies I immediately wrote, and he
advised me. To-day-I am in better
health than I have been for some time.
I will gladly recommend Peruna for all
catarrhal diseases." Miss Blanche. L.
Rundlett. '-.
protection, trusts and railroad domina
tion. They are all of the same opin
ion as Grosvenor, to-wit, that there
is no more danger of the republican
party disturbing the Dingley tariff .
than of attempting "to- amend the ten
commandments. s
" If the republicans ' had gained a
United States senator in the recent .
fight the "Associated J press would have,
had a column about it sent to every
daily in the United States to be set up
under a big slug head. When the
democrats gained two senators, not a
line was sent except the meagre re
turns from the states showing that
they had gone against the republicans.
Think how the editorial pages of the
great dailies would have bloomed and
blossomed with articles upon the great
victory and what a high old jinks of a
time they would all have indulged in.
But a gain of two democrats is not
even mentioned.
' It turns out that Babcock, who was
going to make a raid on the tariff pro
tection .to .trusts, was only running a
big bluff. He was put on the ways and
means committee -as the representative
of the brewing Interests and what he
was after was to get the tax taken off
beer. He proposed to rally the west
against the east and scoop the. whole
thing. It did not take him long to
bring Aldrich, Payne and the rest of
them to time and now it is announced
that the first thing that congress will
do is to reduce the tax on beer. At the
same time all the Washington .corre
spondents unite in saying that no tin
kering wilFbe allowed with the tariff.
The more the immensity of, the oil
discoveries at Beaumont is "becoming
known; the more wonderful It seems.
It is doubtful if any, mineral discov
ery in, the. past century offers the
chances to make money that are now
off erd in Texas oil stocks caref ully
selected. There seems to be no specu
lative features about the Iowa-Nebraska-Beaumont
Oil Company,, of Des
Moines Iowa. whose representative
here i3 Willard Kimball.
reason that the total number of votes
cast for supreme judge that year is,
not materially different from the num
ber cast this year-j Owing to the fact'
that the figures on the vote in 18
the counties ' is given differently by
different authorities, we shall make
comparisons on the vote of 72 coun
ties on which there is no difference 'itv
reports. 'The, counties not entering in
to the. following Calculations are:
Boone, Burt, Cass: Cherry .Cuming,
Dawes, Dixon, Frontier, Greeley, Holt.
Hitchcock,, Johnson, ; McPherson, "Red;
Willow, 'Richardson; Sheridan, ' Sloui
ind : Valley In " 1899 these counties
gave" - i
Holcomb f. . ,V '. 18,902
Reese 16,558
Holcomb's majority 2,341
The 72 counties on, which compari
son will be mader in 1899 gave:
Holcomb . . .. .V 90,418
Reese . . ; . 77,655
..'Holcomb's. majority. . . ...... .12,763
This year these 72 counties gave the
following vote: .. .
HoUenbeck ...,. 71 ,375
Sedgwick ......81,904
AFTER ELECTION NOTES
1k Republican Were Snecessfui in ?f
71 brMk oi Account f Stay-t-IIome
Popullsta
Members of the medical profession
gain ,in knowledge of anatomy by
taking postmortem examinations.
Members of political parties some
times gain a little knowledge by sim
ilar practices. Accordingly our read
ers will bear with us while we try to
dissect the vote of 1901 and see where-;
in we met with such, serious, loss.
Comparisons will be made with the
Holcomb-Reese vote of 1899, for the
: Sedgwick's majority .10,523
Comparison of the total number of
votes cast for the two principal can
didates for. supreme judge is as,. tot
lows: Holcombv Reese, 3899 :. . . 168,073
HoUenbeck; Sedgwick, 1901. . . .153,280
Loss in votes 14,793
. Comparing Hollenbeck's vote in the
72 counties with that of Holcomb:-
Holcomb . . . . . . .'. .90.41S
Hollenbeck 71,736
Hollenbeck's loss 19,042
Comparing Sedgwick's vote with
Reese 77,655
Sedgwick's gain" .............. 4,249
Sedgwkt's gain ...... ......4,249
On the face of the returns It appears
that the net republican gain in these
72 counties ts 23,291. ' This is proven
In a number of ways.' For example:
Holcomb's tma jority ..i.. ........ 12,763
Sedgwick's majority . ... ....... . .10,528
Republican "gain . . .'. I . ." ... . .23,291
-'Or: "' i-'-r-Hollenbeck's
loss . .19,042
Sedgwick's gain Z 4.249
Republican gain . . . . .... . ':. ",. . 123,291
It is not the purpose of this article I
to , do . more than, to . attempt to show
what an analysis of the figures reveal3.
The causes ' which operated to produce
the result may be discussed, later and
no doubt with profit: but at present
the question is, what do the figures
show? On the surface, as was said
before, the net republican gain in
these 72 counties is 23,291. But how
was this gain made?
In ten counties. Blaine, Brown,
Cheyenne, Dodge, Hooker, "Loup.Platt 3,
Scott's Bluff, . Thomas and Wheeler,
Hollenbeck runs ' all told 197 votes
sohiDodge, Douglas, Furnas, Gase.
Gosper Grants Ilall, , Hamilton, Lan
caster, Lincoln, "Merrick, end Platte,"
Sedgwick4' runs' behind -Reese 1,672
votes- In" the- Other 58 counties, he
runs 'ahead of 'Reese 5,921 votes.
rln these 72 -counties t the . net loss
in total, vote",. as before stated, is 14,
793 Apparently all this loss fell upon
Hollenbeck. Yet in the face Of the re
duced : Vote the , republican gain was
4.249 in these counties.. Accordingly,
this may be said: In 1899. Holcomb had
19,042 supporters 'wbo did toot this
yearsupport " Judge - Hollenbeck ; ap
parently 4,249- of rthem voted the re
publican ticket; and .14,793 of them did
not go to the polls. . "..
". Whether this ' 4,249 represents the
number of republican voters who vot
ed L.r Judge Holcomb in ,1899,v or
whether; it represents that many fu
slonists who deserted the ranks Is a
matter not capable Of being demon
strated by figures alone. And it is
not possible to tell what per centage
Of the-14,793 8tay-athomes this year Is
fusion voters. $t is not unreasonable to
say, however, that a great majority of
them ' are populists and democrats.
TAnd it -may- be safely asumed that
if the populists ' and -. democrats hal
succeeded . in getting to the polls ua
great a per cent .of .their voters as djd
the republicans, the result would have
been different. It-cannot be shown
that any alarming number of popullsta
and democrats have. deserted the ranks
in . fact,' the number of disaffectel
republicans ought to about balance
such a loss. But the figures do show
that for apathy and stay-at-home qual
ities the populists and democrats have
no equal, especially in an oft' year. O?
course the republicans are better
equipped to get out. their vote, having
ample funds to perfect their working
organization. .
The full returns will doubtless show
that Judge Sedgwick runs slightly
ahead of Judge Reese; but that Jud.e
Hollenbeck was defeated , because of
an, abnormally large stay. . at homo
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j JThe entire, police force of Catanag;
province of .Tayabas, numbering elev
en, : have ? been - carried . off . by insur
gents, armed only, with Jbolos. Pre
sumably the police made no resistance,
though, they were well armed with
carbines and revolvers. New York
Tribune."- - '
- Recent advices - , . f rom Beaumont
slates that there are not half a dozen
remaining lots , to be purchased on
Spindle Top Heights, and they are
held on a basis of. 1150,000 to $200,000
per acre. - -
Ran Amuck.
". Felix Belanger, aged fifty-five, resid
ing , near Winona, Mich., killed his
wife aud seven-year-old child with an
ax. . .lie men went into tne cellar ana
ahead of Holcomb. In the other 62 J cut his throat with a butcher knife,
counties, he .runs, behind Holcomb. The bodies of the wife and . child were
119,239 votes. . " horribly mangled. Belanger is sup-
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