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Vol. a; N. 40;
TOM JOHNSON ANt THE
DISORGANIZERS ae
I Whether Common or Hot
LOUIS P. POST
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THE PUBLIC.
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A Prayer.
IIolp mo, dear Father, that I jmay
Walk upright, in Thy sight;
Koop Thou myTfeot within Thy way
And guard mo with Thy might.
Bind mo toTheo in love's strong,
bands ,
Thy woridrdus lovo so mild
I trust myself within Thy hands,
Even as a child.
Bo THojli my stay unto the end,
My cbmfort and my guide;
Thy lovo upon my ways attend
When dangers dread hotido.
O, tender Shepherd of tho shoop;
Bo with mo in tho wild,
That I at last may sink to sleep,
Even as a child.
Sure Plan.
"I saw an advertisement in the pa
per tho other day,. It offered to tell for
$2 how' a fellow' could savo one-half
of his coal bill this winter."
"Did you, send for it?" -t
"Yes, sent 'om ?2 and got tho in
formation. It was correct, all right.
I know how to save half my coal bills
now."
"How nro you going to do it?"
"I'll tell you for half what It-cost
me."
"All right, here's your dollar."
"They told me to burn wood."
minutes to accomplish tho task."
Tom Knowit "What, Jack Brown?
That's ono of his little games. "Why,
Brown got'his start in life presiding
at tho glovo counter in tho biggest de
partment store in Chicago."
A Puzzle for Pap.
"Papa, may I ask you a question?"
"Yes, my son. I'm always glad to
impart information."
"Well, papa, when a snako wriggles
its tail whore does the wriggle begin?"
"Well urn er. Look hero, young
man, don't you lot mo hear another
word out of you till bed time."
What's the Conundrum?
One pipes his lays and the other lays
his, pipes.
did
Experienced.
C. D. Dude "Mr. Wheatshock,
you -over buy a gold brick?"
Farmer Wheatshock '!No, I never
bought no gold bricks, but I used to
think I could tax myself rich and voted
t.iat way quite a spoil. But I never
bought no gold bricks." -"?
In commenting in The Commoner
upon the attitude of Mayor Johnson!
of Cleveland toward tLo silver ques
tion, as disclosed by Mr. Johnson in
his speech as chairman of the Ohio
convention, Mr. Bryan has very clev
erly and completely laid bare the real
motives of tho "reorganizers" in their
unqualified hostility to, tho Kansas
City platform."
"While it is to bo regretted," ho
writes, "that Mr. Jonnson is not pre
pared to defend every part of the finan
cil plank of the Kansas City plat
form, his frank acknowledgement of
difference on the ratio will answer ono
good purpose. It will convince tho
public that tho men who have made
such a fuss abot 16 to 1 are not sin
cere, for they will oppose Mr. John
son as heartily as they would have
done had he given 'emphatic indorse
ment to every word in the platform.
Many have taken refuge behind the
ratio, when their real objection was
to some other plank in the platform."
Mr. Bryan adds that "these will be
unmasked by Mr. Johnson's position."
'. The Poet'a Lament.
Of "Brown October" I might write;
Of "Sere and yellow leaves;"
Or eke somo throbbing lines indict -
On' "Autumn's spirit grieves.'
Of subjects there is not a dearth,
They surge within my soUl - 4
But tell mo, good sir, what on earth
To do to got somo coal!
Why write of "Indian summer haze?"
Of "Meadows brown and sere?"
Why write of "Melancholy days,"
The "saddest of the year?"
Tis vain to seek fo- glory's crown
That lies at poesy's goal,
For folk in- hamlet, village, town,
Can think of naught but coal.
What, then, is left for me to do?
All "Autumn verso" is barred.
My hands aro numb, my nose is blue,
My toes are frozen hard. t
Pray pity my condition tough,
You bog I'm in, a hole,
, And sond a, check that's big enough.
To buy a ton of coal.
Tfie Secret.
"Say, I've gotone of the best medi
cine's in tho world, and it ought to sell
in Immense quantities."
"The worth of your medicine cuts
no figure. The question is, Have you
got money enough to advertise it?"
That's Different.
- "No, I cannot undertake to inter
fere in this matter' said Senator
Graball. "It is a business Inatter con
cerning only' the parties involved and
I must decline to interfere." -
"But," we said, "the present state
of affairs is likely to injure our party's
chance for success."
"In that case," exclaimed Senator
Graball, "it becomes my ofilcial duty
to use my utmost efforts to secure a
speedy settlement of tho difficulty."
Futile.
Tho burglar cowered into the corner
when confronted by a pistol in the
hands of the irate householder.
"There seems jto be somo mistake,"
exclaimed tho burglar. "I am merely
endeavoring to' see that your rights
and interests are guarded, not by "
But tho householder never lot tho
-muzzle 6f tho pistol wobble ah inch
until the patrol wagon arrived.
Smooth Mr. Brown.
Miss Gotrox "I felt really sorry for
Mr. Brown this evening. I asked him
to button my gloves and ho was so
awkward that it took him fully ton
Brain Leaks
All the world laughs at a lover.
Advice is the only thing Borne people
give away.
Usually the boy is bent as the father
is inclined.
Many a man's bad temper. may be
duo to bad bread.
- A man need not be a politician to do
his duty as a citizen.
I Will wears diamonds when I Wish
is beggHg at tho back door.
Spine people never learn the differ
ence between religion and Christianity.
Time spent in regretting yesterday is
time lost from the work of preparing
for tomorrow.
"Providence" is a convenient excuse
seized upon by most men who profit
by selfishness.
Only those who havo suffered, know
the comfort that may be imparted in
a warm handclasp.
A great many people are so bent on
looking after big things that they
stumble over the little things.
The man who will make a jest of
sacred things is quite likely to make
ajest of trusts reposed in him.
There is a vast difference between
patriotism and partisanship, but some
men never become able to see it
A good husband will not leave his
company manners at the door when
he enters his homo in tho evening.
A man who expects to reach
heaven on his wife's goodness will
find tho semaphore set against him.
Wo know somo fellows who aro al
ways wishing they wore boys again
who have never really become men.
We can't help thinking that some
thing is wrong with tho minister when
a church has to give a concert every
Sunday morning in order to draw a
crowd.
The man who is always complain
ing because women are crowding men
out of tho business world generally is
the man who has been unable to hold
a place in the business world.
Will M. Maupin.
Sure en6ugh! Mr. Bryan was right.
His prediction was verified even be
fore the public had seen it in print
The Boston Journal, a democratic "re
organizer" of republican affiliations,
promptly declared that Johnson
"would bo almost as obnoxious to the
conservative forces of the country as
Mr. Bryan himself." Some of the dem
ocratic "reorganizing" papers, of dem
ocratic pretensions, found him even
more obnoxious than Bryan; while
the New York Times, which may be
regarded as the journalistic leader of
the plutocratic movement within the
democratic party, has lost no time in
declaring the same war against John
son that it has maintained against B.ry
an. "Between the reorganizers of the
democratic party," it belligerently an
nounces, "and 'the reactionary Bryan-
ites, with Johnson now at their head,
there will bo", there must be, open
war."
Let it be observed that this war,
which the "reorganizing" and "har
monizing" Times transfer's from Bry
anism to Johnsonism, is not a war
against "16 to 1." It cannot be, for
not only has Johnson never accepted
that doctrine, but he expressly de
clares his opposition to it. In mak
ing this hostile pronunciamento,
therefore, the Times, as spokesman for
the "reorganizers," exposes the very
insincerity with which Bryan charges
them and which he predicted they
would themselves expose. It is not the
"16 to 1" clause of the Kansas City
platform that thoy have been fighting
all this time, under the absurd pre
tense that that doctrine is tho root
of all tho political and economic evil.
What in their hearts they have been
arrayed against Is the democraticchar
acter of the Kansas City platform in
general. In some instances holding
briefs for the plutocratic interests of
the 'country, and in others deluded by
those who do hold such briefs, the
"reorganizers" in the democratic par
ty, while professing that what they
want is "harmony," aro ready at tho
drop of the hat to fight anybody and
everybody who does, not fall meekly
into the plutocratic procession. And
of this they now stand self-convictod.
No compromise would satisfy them
Which did not allow them to formulate
tho platform and namo the candi
dates. As Johnson truly said in his
convention Speech, wha tho pluto
cratic loaders in both parties have
feared is "not free silver, but free
men." '
Ho would bo a poor observer of af
fairs political who did not realize that
tho chief concern of . tho democratic
"reorganizers is to prevent the nomin
ation of a democrat as the democratic
candidate for president They want
a "conservative" democracy; one that
can divide -with the republican party
the campaign contributions of tho
trusts; oho that will contest with tho
republican party for the plutocratic
job in which that party has been
profitably engaged; one that would bo
an assistant republican 'party when
out of power and an acceptable sub
stitute for that party when in power.
With this object in view they aro
looking hopefully forward to the elec
tion of Mr. Pattison as governor of
Pennsylvania. Should he Carry his
own rock-ribbed republican state, Pat
tison would be an ideal candidate, in
many respects, for tho "reorganizers."
But Johnson is casting a bigger sha
dow than Pattison. He is not nearly
so congenial to the plutocratic ele
ments, but ho is ever so much moro
acceptable to those that are genuinely
democratic. Hence the bitterness to
ward, him. Even Mark Hanna would
not be so delighted-were Ohio to poll
her old-time republican majority this
fall as would that plutocratic coterie
of democrats which, is composed of
Grover Cleveland's intimates and to
whoso harmoniously belligerent senti
'inents the New York Times gives ut
These malcontents might possess
themselves with patience. Johnson
is not a candidatefor tho presidency,
in the sense of pulling and pushing
for the nomination. He is attending
strictly to the particular-public busi
ness that has been entrusted to him.
When asked by a newspaper corre
spondent last week whether he was a
candidate for governor of Ohio and
then for president, this was his reply:
"I am not a candidate for anything
except for' mayor next spring. It is
my belief that my field of usefulness
lies very close to the city of Cleve
land." It, is chiefly because he is
,mayor of Cleveland that Mr. Johnson
is campaigning the qtato of Ohio for
Herbert S. Bigelow as tho democratic
candidate for secretary of state, and
the remainder of the democratic ticket
The interests of Cleveland have been
thrown into' state politics by "ripper"
litieatlon which has divested that city
of its model charter, and the action of
the Hanna governor and the Hanna
majority in the legislature, which
threaten to burden Cleveland, in com
mon with all the other cities of tho
state, with board and bo'ss govern
ment, and to perpetuate street car mo
nopolies in tho Interest of Senator
Hanna's personal "savings bank." It
is necessary to secure, if possible, a
popular condemnation of this policy
at tho polls this fall; and that can' bo
done only in the way in which John
son is trying to do it by going out
among tho "people of the state and
telling them the truth.
A great many men who make it a
practice to flash a big. bill when mak
ing a small purchase always manage
to have plenty of small change when
the church contribution basket comes
around.
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