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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Mr. Quay, the Pennsylvania con vontlonpacker,
nominated Mr. Pennypacker.
As a harmony ticket how would ."Cleveland
and Watterson" do?
Dofending, the honor of the army does not con
sist in- protecting the men who disgrace it.
We presume that the steel trust will cheerful
ly furnish tho shackles for the other trusts.
Great Britain's Boer war deht is so big that.
tho British taxpayers will not forget for a long;
time;
General Lord Roberts should rejoice. The
money ho received for ending the Boor war will
Btay put. . i .. . . ..
Are you assisting in the distribution of demo
cratic literature by taking advantage of the "Lots,
of Five" offer?
There are two republics less in the world, and
this great republic must bear a share of the re
sponsibility for tho decrease.
With unparalleled kindness and generosity
Mr. Quay will let the republicans of Pennsylvania
vote for Judgo Pennypacker.
Tho persecution of General Miles results only
in showing the greatness of Miles and the petty
emallnesa of his persecutors.
Lot's see, what was tho name of the "special
representative of tho United States" at the in
auguration of President Palma?
Tho injunction shackles upon tho limbs of tho
trusts do not seem to prevent the trusts from mak
ing ping-pong balls of tho people.
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The only thing lacking at the Tilden club
banquet was a motto. "Remember 1S94" would
have given a finish to tho occasion.
Miss Taylor did not receive a reprimand for
talking too much. She received a discharge for
writing- a little.
Senator Mason is now sufforlng tho penalty for
voting as ho thought right. Ho has learned that
ho has no right to think contrary to the bosses,
In view of what has leaked out of the war de
partment no one can blame Secretary Root for
growing angry when a war office secret leaks out.
A republican organ assorts that tho president's
special message is a "bit of pretty sentiment," but
insists that sentiment has no place in republican
councils now. Occasionally a republican organ
stumbles into telling the truth.
Not an objection is raised to tho recommen
dation that Captain Charles Clark be promoted to
tho grade of rear admiral on tho active list. The
only objection that has beon -heard concerning tho
Clark promotion was that it was not sooner accomplished.
The Pennsylvania republicans who thought
that Mr. Quay was an extinct volcano are nursing
their blisters and rubbing the ashes out of their
yes.
Now that Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill have
boon harmonized again, why not get up a ban
quet and harmonize Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Watterson.
Mr. Cleveland says that tho democratic party
Is lndestructable. He is egotistical enough to be
lieve that, as it survived his attacks upon It, noth
ing can kill it.
"Coin" Harvey has established an attractive
pleasure resort at Monte No, near Rogors, Ark.,
but ho still finds Ills greatest pleasure in tho ad
vocacy of economic reforms.
Judas went out and hanged himself and Ar
nold moved to England. In this connection It may
be mentioned as a matter of news that Cleveland
attended the Tilden club banquet.
J. J. Hill says that tho chief objection to tho
trusts lies in the method of their formation. Mr.
Hill is wrong again. The chief objection to them is
tho carrying out of their methods.
Tho Fowler bill and the ship subsidy bill are
not dead. Neither are they asleep. They are both
pooping through tho committee room keyholes and
waiting for the signal to come forth.
After proclaiming peace in South Africa the
British proclaimed a mining tax of 10 por cent.
The Outlanders stirred up the trouble because the
Boers levied a mining tax of 5 per cent.
Of course Senor Buencamino is a great and
good man. Ho accepted a salary from the admin
istration and endeavors to earn it by saying what
the administration would have him say.
Mr. Cleveland has opened the doors of his
church and members will be received either on
profession of faith in him or by letter from any
other orthodox branch of the republican party.
Th,e Joplin (Mo.) Daily Globe is a democratic
newspaper wLoso editorial utterances -do not ro-
ceive the 'flattering indorsement of republican or
gans. This indicates tho Globe's fidelity to demo
cratic principles.
, Having waited until congress appropriated
about all the money in sight Mr. Cannon thought it
time to call a halt. This subsequent economy is
hard on the people. They want a little more eco
nomy of the previous brand.
Mr. Hill played second fiddle at tho Tilden
club banquet, and why not? If the democracy
sinned in repudiating Cleveland it ought to atono
by reinstating him, not by honoring such a per
sonal enemy as David B. Hill.
Mr. Watterson's paper publishes a strong edi
torial in denunciation of Mr. Cleveland and his
recent speech. This is too bad. Mr. Watterson
was one of the chief supporters of Mr. Cleveland's
Palmer and Buckner plan of campaign in 1896
and it is painful to see so small a party divided.
Tho papers report that Mr. Bryan was invited
to the Tilden club banquet, but did not reply. Tho
fact is that he was not invited; had he been he
would have responded explaining why he would
not attend a political banquet given in honor of
one who twice opposed the democratic ticket and
has never since announced his intention to return
to the party.
. Hon. Thomas Taggart, who was recently In
dorsed by his state convention for chairman of
tho . democratic national committee, was at the
Tilden club banquet swinging Incense before the
unrepentant apostate from New Jersey. It is well
that the democrats of tho nation learn thus early
of tho kind of politics to be expected when Ind
iana's favorite son takes the helm.
Lieutenant Preston Brown was tried by court
martial on tho charge of killing a Filipino, con
victed and sentenced to dismissal and a term of
imprisonment Tho sentence was commuted and
General Miles recommended that the sentence be
carried out. Lieutenant Brown's name was sent to
the senate with a recommendation that he be pro
moted to a captaincy. Why these disloyal attacks
on the head of tho army?
The Chicago man who stole a $2 pair of shoes
and received a sentence of ono year In tho peni
tentiary will know better next time. He will steal
eeveral hundrd thousand doliars and escape by;
threatening to pull down the pillars of the repub-'
llcan temple.
Congressman Cannon, republican, declares that
tho revenue for the coming fiscal year will be about
$639,000,000, while tho appropriations thus Tar
made by the republican congress reach $700,000,
000. A "surplus problem" has no terrors for a re-i
publican congress in these days.
On another page will be found a dispatch from
London stating that, as first arranged, Whitelaw
Reid was to ride backwards in the coronation
procession. Ollie James insists that the arrange
ment is entirely appropriate since our nation 13
going backward when it sends envoys to a coronation.
The republican platform makers of Pennsyl
vania "deprecate any suggestion under existing cir
cumstances of a general revision of the tariff."
Of course they do. "By this craft we have our
wealth!" exclaimed Demetrius, the silversmith,
when Paul attacked the worship of Diana. Demet
rius founded a large family, many of whom live in
Pennsylvania.
The Associated Press, speaking of the New
York Tilden club.banquet, said: "A collation was
served in the banquet hall to the distinguished
guests of the evening and a buffet supper was
served in the basement for the rank and file."
That was entirely appropriate. The rank and file
always eat in the basement when Cleveland oc
cupies the chief place at the banquet table.
The editor of Tho Commoner recently pub
lished an editorial calling President Roosevelt's
attention to the criminal clause of tho Sherman
anti-tmst law. The Now York Tribune prints an
extract from the editorial and heads it, "Bryan At
tacks Roosevelt." In tho opinion of a republican
editor it is attacking a republican officeholder to
call his attention to the law.
Tho Minneapolis Journal says everybody In,
Wall street is wondering what would happen if J.
Pierpont Morgan should die. Does the Journal
have reference to Wall street or to Morgan. If to
the latter it may learn something by. reading the
24th verso of the 19th chapter of Mathew. Inci
dentally it. may be remarked that the Journal
could learn a great deal by reading other verses
and chapters.
A
Rousing"
Celebration.
The dispatches from Manila announce that
the Americans aro planning to have "a rousing
jvoarth of July celebration and
the Filipinos are co-operating
with them." The dispatches do
not say whether the reading of
tne Declaration of Independence
will be barred on this occasion, but it is dollars
to doughnuts that this "rousing" celebration will
proceed without the aid of the inspiring sentences
of the charter of American liberty. A celebration
of the Fourth of July with the Declaration of Inde
pendence barred may be very "rousing," but there
aro many American citizens who will not be able
to understand how such a thing could be possible.
The laboring man is interested in every ques-
tion which concerns the industrial, social and po
litical life of tho nation, but
there are some questions which,
touch him first and to which ho
feels that he is immediately re
lated. Among the general ques
tions aro those which effect the education of his
children, the taxation of his property and the pro
tection of his rights. Ho needs arbitration for the
adjustment of his difficulties with corporate em
ployers because he cannot afford to enter into a
protracted struggle with capital. Ho is interested
in tho abolition of the new tyranny known as gov
ernment by injunction which denies him a trial
by jury if any one sees fit to charge him with tho
violation of a law or with resistance to an order
which makes criminal some act which was betore
innocent. He also finds it necessary to protest
against a black-list law, which is intended to take
from him the opportunity of employment If he as
serts his right to differ from his employers about
matters which concern himself and family. No one
is more Interested in good government than the
laboring man, and no one has more reason than
he to be an advocate of tho doctrine that gov-
ernmonts derive their just powers from the con
sent of the governed.
The
American
Worklngman.
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