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THE COMMONER Lincoln. Neb
At the first intimation of trouble in Cuba the
Missouri mule pricked up his ears and took no
tice. The Missouri mule has had a deciding hoof
in most of the recent wars.
. As soon as Mr. Loob can get around to it
he will give some attention to Senator . Beverldge
and proceed to do a little vicarious denying for
the administration. .
A Pittsburg minister declares that George
"Washington founded that city. A lot of gay
millionaires are doing their best to go George
one better by foundering it.
Mr. Rockefeller's declaration that he is op-,
posed to federal supervision of trusts did not
create, a bit more surprise than an arbitrary ad
vance in the price of refined oil.
Mr. Hughes has made the .astonishing dis
covery that Mr. Hearst has actually incorporated
his newspapers. As a discoverer Mr. Hughes is
giving C. Columbus a close race.
The keynote of victory is organization.
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-'.' "MK Magoon is lighting on his feet with, con
siderable eclat these days. - v . ! ;
Mr. Rockefeller says we are "too young a
.-nation to begin tearing down." But .not too young
;, to remove the. handicap placed upon the 'people
by-men of the Rockefeller stripe. '
The republican campaign, in Kansas, has
,; .?",. ( , .5 ;;; again reached the 1861-65 epoch.
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Kariaasfr rcpubUcanT "officeholders are .now,
deeding for the party," not for the1 state. 'm
.-- . &u mueyeuuem m politics is not a man wno
, The unanimous declaration of republican or
gans and orators that Mr. Gompers' opposition
.will' really help Mn Cannon sounds very-much
" like' the familiar graveyard whistle
,;.! .too goqd to take an active Interest in politics.
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fr; .'.-?- c 6f course Secretary Cortelyou is very active.
!$&:'" ta bis support of Mr. Hughes.-" He; owes it' to
.It is reported that Pennsylvanians are sur
prised at a graft of nine million dollars in the
building of a four million dollar state house. Did
they expect it to be much larger?
r Thirty thousand pounds of condemned chick
ens were destroyed in Chicago the -other day.
The government inspectors refuged to let it be
kept on hand until another war broke out.
The Shaw retirement rumor will be discount
ed until the big bank presidency awaiting him is
revealed, ....
Mr. Taf t Is doing nobly in his efforts to render
it unnecessary for Mr. Loeb to write a disclaimer.
Dowie has had a vision and says he was
- instructed to go out and raise $1,000,000. His
first move toward that end should be to get -a,
' proper tariff schedule and then "stand pat."
The Chicago packers warmly . welcomed the
baseball excitement in that city. It gave them a
little rest. ,.
Developments concerning the building of
Pennsylvania's new state house Indicates that the -Pennsylvania
temple is sadly in need of a visit
from some one bearing a whip of knotted cords.
Pennsylvania took a day off recently and ded
$13 000 0a00$4'000'000 P"01 building that cost
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It is only by slipping dates that the republican
from b?1 mfnages to keep Its Prosperity machine
tH Si!Mro,!Wo those automobile
X?En? JEii lnno?ent bystander Is usually
the one who first loses interest.
The rennrf tbnf Tnmno t ttmi t .
. T , v. ... -""' v. "in uus secured a
foothold In California may portend a loosening
of the Southern Pacific's kandhold.
ThoSfi PfinnRtrltrarilo n.n4.vn tt ,..
to the fact that President Roosevelt's dedicatory
speech contained nothing denunciatory of graft.
The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette gives utter
ance tO a CTTAnt trnfVi v.,t.n H .?. A. . ..
great many "standpatters' are 'for revenue only.' "
Secretary Root says the republican party
is m no danger, but a lot of republican congres
sional candidates are wildly wlg-wagglng for
Mr. Hughes is now asserting that the calam
ity criers are a menace to the nation. Would
M, Hughes have us again trust things Into the
hands of the "valiant defenders of national
honor?"
" "Uncle Joe" Cannon says that wages have
advanced more rapidly than the cost of living.
His proof is the republican campaign textbook.
He dare not attempt to prove it by the wago
earners.
In the light of recent developments it would
seem that the Cubans got along about as well
in their efforts at running a republic as the re
publicans of Pennsylvania have in trying to run
that state.
The republican organs are now apologizing
for Mr. Hughes' failure to put Messrs. Bliss and
Cortelyou on the stand. They forget that such
action might have arrayed the republican machine
against Mr. Hughes.
Senator Hopkins declares that annexation is
the only solution of the Cuban problem. It has
been quite a while since Senator' Hopkins was
accused of using his utmost endeavor to repre
sent the people in the senate.
Secretary Shaw says the democrats have lost
all hope of winning congress since Mr. Bryant
New York speech. Before Mr. Bryan made the
New York speech of Secretary Shaw said the do
cratshad no hope of winning congress. The ceu.
tleman from Iowa is only a "standpatter" whoa
the tariff is under consideration.
The czar is on his way back from the arctic
regions because of the cold. He is assured of a
warm season in St. Petersburg at any time of
the year.
It has been gently hinted from .the inner
circles that the officeholders under the admin
istration must not make the mistake of thinking
that a response to the call for "dollar subscrip
tions" is the full extent of their responsibility.
Judge Palmer of Denver announces that he
will not issue naturalization papers to any social
ist, or to any one who has the slightest sympathy
with socialism. Judge Palmer's political arid bus
iness affiliations would not be difficult to guess.
"Is the democratic party dying,?" plaintively
queries the New York World in the same issue
wherein it booms Grover Cleveland for senator
from New Jersey. The World seems awfully
anxious to furnish the affirmative answer to its
query.
.Secretary Shaw says the banks he lends gov
ernment money to must not lend it for speculative
purposes. If Secretary Shaw Imagines for a mo
ment that the banks will discontinue the prac
tice after this notice he is a candidate for Bloom-ingdale.
Nebraska has 300,000,000 bushels of corn to
be husked and cribbed. This notice is given to
the starving thousands in the congested districts
of the east. The problem of getting the needy
men to the scene of action is left for the pros
perity shouters to solve.
.. Mr. ..Cannon is paying no -attention to the
attacks of the "labqr agitators," so he says. But
every republican organ from Maine to California
is striving to explain that tho "labor agitators"
should be ashamed of themselves for attacking
such a benevolent and friendly old gentleman.
"Massachusetts' action on the tariff Is signifi
cant," ijays the Globe-Democrat, referring to the
republican platform of that state. Quite true.
It signifies that the same old gang of tariff barons
have resumed control of the g. o. p. affairs in
the Old Bay State and intend to run things for
their personal profit, as of yore.
There may be some wTio can not, exactly place
the Albert J. Beverldge who is now touring the
country and declaiming so vigorously and with
such oratorical effort that we must annex Cuba,
submitting as his chief argument that it is Destiny
with a big "D," In order that he may be located
with exactness it is here stated that he is the
same Albert J. Beverldge who was writing pro
found articles for the press a few years ago to
prove that Russia was going, to gobble up Man
churia and "Russianize" the Orient. The Cuban
foresight now exhibited by Mr. Beveridge should
be compared with the Russian-Manchurian hind
sight of the same individual. .
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by some one not familiar with the details of the
primary pledge plan, It is necessary to say that
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crat is asked to pledge himself to attend all of
the primaries of his party to bo held between
now and the next democratic national convention,
unless unavoidably prevented, and to secure a
clear, honest and straight-forward declaration of
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Commoner approving the object of the organiza
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the roll, or they can fill ouj: and mail the blank
pledge, which is printed on page 15.-
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