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WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
"Eatml u Mcaad-clau matter F.brumry 3. 1911.
k. paataffica t Lincoln. N.bruka, nd.r th. Act of
Match 3, 1S7S."
ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR
Now who was it that greased the
. Roosevelt rails T
And the next holiday is Easter.
Boil your eggs!
The LaFollette boom seems to have
merely been recuperating.
' Yes, there'll be overflows, but bet
ter have 'era in March than in May.
My, but didn't the "string fiends"
Wax fat on that penitentiary murder
and chase !
Now that the thief chase is ended
a lot of us know how it might have
been better conducted. .
Let's see, wouldn't it be a good idea
to insist that the man who is elected
governor of Nebraska and attend to
the state's business t
We'd be afraid to print what Theo
dore Roosevelt thinks of North Dako
ta today. Our rights to the mails are
worth something to us.
Let's see, North Dakota, where Ted
dy lost out, is the same North Dakota
where Teddy performed so many of
those broncho busting feats, is it not?
Sixty million bushels of wheat and
225,000,000 bushels of corn! That's
the mark we have set for Nebraska
this year. Now watch her go to it.
The candidates have all filed, but
there is yet more necessity for testing
your seed corn than for throwing po
litical fits in the interest of any candi
date. The same fellow who was whining
this time last year because we didn't
have sufficient moisture is the same
fellow who is hollering his head off
now because we have too much.
Nebraska republicans would be hav
ing a lot of fun with the democrats
over the Harmon-Wilson-Clark scrap
were it not for the Roosevelt-La
Pollette-Taft scrap among republicans.
Senator Gore explains how the re
publicans reduced the tariff on sugar
by saying that every time President
Taft eats his weight in sugar he saves
the price of a shave under the Aldrich
law.
New Mexico came into the Union as
a "reactionary state." Already legis
lators have been arrested for bribery
in connection with the senatorial elec
tion. Arizona came in as a "progres
sive," and elected a senator without
a ripple upon the surface.
Of course the Panama canal exposi
tion at San Francisco will be a big
thing, but if you want to see the real
thing in expositions you'll have to
wait until 1917 and attend Nebraska's
semi-centennial exposition. This is
fficial.
THE QUICKER THE BETTER.
Mayor Armstrong's recommendation
that we proceed immediately to build
a decent city jail should be acted upon
without delay. And we don't want
any long-winded oratory from city
euncilmen about it, either. Hot air
wen't build a city jail. If it would
we'd be able soon to erect the "biggest
and best in the country, using the
cwoncilmanic supply. The present city
jail has been a burning and bugful
disgrace to Lincoln for more than
twenty years. Mayor Armstrong used
momt pretty warm language in describ
ing the conditions at the present jail,
but he might have used warmer had
he not been somewhat hampered by the
law appertaining to and touching up
on the use of profane language.
THE BRYAN BANQUET.
Mr. Bryan has every reason to be
proud of each recurring celebration of
his birthday. It is given to few men
to live to hear such splendid tributes
as those paid to Mr. Bryan and
mighty few men have ever deserved
them more. The Bryan birthday ban
quet last Tuesday evening was in many
respects the best of them all. Only
once in a generation are people privi
leged to listen to such an array of
talent as appeared upon the toast list
then. There was big, bluff, eloquent
OUie James of Kentucky. There was
polished and positive George Fred Wil
liams of Massachusetts. There was the
eloquent and forceful blind senator,
Gore of Oklahoma. There was Con
gressman Robert Lee Henry of Texas,
who chased the money trust into a
corner. There was Frederick Town
send Martin, multi-millionaire who is
devoting his life to the service of his
fellows. There was senator Pettigrew
of South Dakota who severed every po
litical tie to stand forth for honest
conviction. And last and best of all,
there was Bryan himself, earnest, hon
est, convincing and eloquent the ac
knowledged leader of progressive
thought and the greatest force in civic
righteousness the world has known in
a century.
As a general thing candidates for
office are cowards. They hesitate to
take a stand. But when such a resolu
tion as that presented by E. O. Garrett
to the meeting Tuesday afternoon is
adopted it merely shows what a set of
damphools can sometimes do while
sensible men are not looking. Gar
rett's resolution was that every candi
date for state office be compelled to de
clare who he is for for president a
fool resolution that would have been
voted down if men had taken a second
thought. What difference does it make
who Morehead or Metcalfe is for for
president! What difference does it'
make whether Maupin and Harman are
for Wilson or for Clark T If candi
dates are to be bound by the grand
-stand resolution introduced by Gar
rett, then we insist that " each candi
date must tell what church he affiliates
with, whether he has corns, bunions,
or ingrowing toe-nails; piles, fistula
or ringworm; whether he ever had a
relative hung for horse stealing, or
whether he ever beats his wife.
The charge oft repeated that the
Harmon supporters are behind the
Clark movement may be true in part,
but only in part. There are a few of
us Clark men who never were for Har
mon, but who have been Clark men for
years. ' It tickled us amazin' to sit and
listen to Carroll S. Montgomery of
Omaha telling us "progressive demo
crats" what we should do. He was
talking to a lot of Clark men who
were fighting under Bryan's banner
when Montgomery was managing
Bourke Cockran meetings and acting
as Nebraska agent for the Palmer &
Buckner outfit. Yet of such is made,
in part, the element that is charging
the Clark men with playing double.
It makes some of us laugh and some
of us use strong words.
It was rather amusing, by the way,
to watch a lot of good democrats try
ing to evade the primary law and get
around the initiative and referendum.
Perhaps the solution of the problem
that was finally adopted was best.
The fact remains that with the Wilson
and Clark forces divided the Harmon
ites would su-ely win and they may
anyhow. Mr. Harmon's campaign is
in the hands of a past master of po
litical organizing, while Mr. Wilson's
campaign is being managed by writers
of open letters. We believe that there
are more Wilson men than Harmon
men in Nebraska, and that Clark is
the second choice of more democrats
than there are Harmon and Wilson
men combined.
But we regret that all the fuss and
wrangling should have taken place on
an occasion when men were gathered
to do honor to democracy's great lead
er. It was calculated to put Mr. Bry
an in an awkward position. And many
men, lacking Mr. Bryan's diplomacy,
would have been embarrassed to a
great degree.
Of one thing you may be sure
enough "blackwash" was mixed at
the Lincoln hotel meeting to keep the
republicans supplied during the whole
campaign. Were it not for the fact
that the republicans are also shot all
to pieces the Lincoln hotel meeting
would have pretty nearly cinched the
defeat of democracy in this state.
Will Maupin 's Weekly has held for
some time to the opinion that Mr.
Bryan will be the nominee of the Bal
timore convention. If it isn't Champ
Clark it will be Bryan a propositipn
that we are prepared to make a wager
upon, say a four-dollar dog against a
couple of two-dollar cats.
Mr. Bryan has been very careful
not to indicate any choice from among
the presidential aspirants in his own
party, but' last Tuesday night he came
about as near to it as a man could
without actually committing himself.
And when he mentioned the name of
Ollie M. James of Kentucky he men
tioned the name of a man who is the
peer of any of them. But one . argu
ment could be advanced against James,
and that is his geographical location
an argument that should have no
weight with thoughtful men.
One of the best things Mr. Bryan
ever uttered was his , remark to the
effect that if men thought he had made
a good fight in three campaigns when
he was a candidate, let them nominate
a progressive candidate whom he could
fight without the suspicion of personal
interest, and then see how he really
could fight.
Br. Bryan was fifty-two years young
last Tuesday. You'll search history a
long time before you'll find another
man who has exerted such an influence
upon the thought of the world in the
same length of time. The editor of
this newspaper worked with and for
Mr. Bryan many years, knows some
thing about the great commoner. And
his love and admiration for Bryan has
only grown stronger with the passing
years of association. Measured by any
standard William Jennings Bryan is
the biggest man in the world today,
and one of the biggest men this coun
try, or any other country ever pro-"
duced. Whether or not he is ever
president of the United States mat
ters not. Perhaps it is best for Bryan
that he was defeated. But this fact
remains, the name and fame of Bryan,
private citizen and thrice-defeated can
didate for the presidency, will be re
membered ages after some men who
have held the presidential office have
'been utterly forgotten. Here's hop
ing that Bryan may be spared to us
for many years to come. , The world
needs such great leaders as he.
MEN AND MATTERS.
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his signature to the act making Ne
braska a state. Of course we wrote
it "Andrew Johnson," but the intelli
gent compositor got it wrong, and the
dumbheaded proofreader, which is us,
didn't catch it. We think a whole lot
of Andy Jackson and we beg his par
don for getting - him mixed up with
Andy Johnson.
Senator Morehead is making a quiet
dignified yet energetic campaign for
the democratic nomination for gover
nor, and minding not a bit the silly
lies being circulated against .him by
overzealous supporters of some other
candidates. Senator Morehead has
wisely refrained from butting in on
the candidacy of presidential aspir
ants. His record as a fighting demo
crat makes it unnecessary for him to
go about explaining what a good demo
crat he is. He is a progressive demo
crat who was fighting for democratic
principles years before some of the
young squirts now criticising him
knew the difference between a diaper
pin and a tablespoon. The editor of
Will Maupin 's Weekly has known John
Morehead for more than twenty years,
and knows that there is not a demo
crat in Nebraska who has gone fur
ther or worked harder for the tri
umph of progressive democratic prin
ciples than he. It illy becomes men
professing to be democrats to charge
such a man with playing double mere
ly for the purpose of landing a nomi
nation for governor.
We opine that the Taft forces have
put one over on the Roosevelt forces
in Nebraska. It took Taft's friends a
long time to wake up, but just now
they are making up for a lot of lost
time. It seems to have dawned upon
a lot of would-be 'office-holders that
their scheme to ride Into office on a ,
wave of Roosevelt enthusiasm isn't
panning out worth a darn.
Not being, a member of the Modern
Woodmen it isn' any of our business
of course, but just the same we opine
that Toastmaster Meiers was guilty of
an exhibition of bad taste, as well as
bad judgment, when he injected the
Woodmen trouble into, the Bryan,! east.
There is time and place for everything,
but the Bryan banquet was neither the
time nor the place to inject such a sub
ject. We don't know a blooming thing
about the recent raise in rates by the
Woodmen, but we do know that the
men who are charging Head - Consul
Talbot, with nlaviner an unfair erame
are off their base. Talbot couldn't
play crooked if he tried. There is not
a man in all this .country who is Mr.
Talbot's superior in the matter of
squareness and honesty. - The Wood
men are up against the same proposi
tion that other and older fraternal or
ders have had to face. The Royal
Arcanum went through it a few years
ago. It is a cinch that the rates must
be raised if the order survives and tle
death claims paid. Let that fact be
admitted to start with, then let the
Woodmen get together, amicably and
in good faith, and ascertain just what
is necessary to be done.
AFTER KINKAID S SCALP.
Various efforts have been made to
lift Uncle Mose Kinkaid's political
scalp, but to date it remains intact.
Now comes James A. Donahoe of
u IN em, who thinks he is the democrat
cut out for the job. Mr. Donahoe has
ucucve tuat jl any uemucrai can put
the kibosh on Uncle Mose it is this
same James Donahoe, for Donahoe is
a mighty fine, upstanding young demo
crat who knows why he is a democrat
and is able to tell it. As a member of
the ; state senate three years ago he
demonstrated his ability as a debater
and as a leader of men. . It is an en
couraging sign when young men of
Donahoe 's caliber get into politics. It
means that the old guard, composed of
men seeking selfish ends, will have to
give way to men who seek the common
good. We don't know whether Don
ahoe can beat Uncle Mose or not, but
we do know that if Donahoe is sue-
ueHHi.ui Liie dixT.n win ne pnMiitiui
by a fine young man.
