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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1906)
The Commoner. VOLTJME C, NTJMD2R CURRGNT ijlp3IS8XDBXmtStiBmmm ORG r"" itt.j,,. wm 'w. j" yyti 1 1 i ?-v m J i 4-7Hf i m- S.JT C r !? Li 1 a THE RECENT DEATH of Mrs. Jefferson Davis recalls to mind the fact that her daughter, Mrs. Hays, of Colorado, furnished a room at the Union Printers' Home in Colorado Springs, and it is known as the "Jefferson Davis Room." It contains several interesting relics of Mr. Davis, and a splendid portrait of him adorns the wall. The well furnished room is one of the attractions of the home. SENATOR CULLOM, of Illinois, says that un less the republican party speedily and effec tively revises the tariff, the people are likely to entrust the democratic party with that work. The senator advises that President Roosevelt call congress in extra session immediately after March 4, 1907, for the purpose of taking up this work. Ho adds: "The result of the elections, to my mind, means that the people are determined that there shall be revision, and I believe the president will heed the warning." TN ITS ISSUE of November 10, the Baltimore X News printed a remarkable interview with Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, in which lntoir view Mr. Bonaparte suggested the creation of a "legalized boss" for each political party in every state and city, the "boss" to be empowered to se lect candidates for the various elective offices, thereby doing away with nominating conventions' Mr. Bonaparte said: "It is 'hard, indeed, very hard, often impossible, to get the men wlio are fit for public office to become, candidates. Unfit candidates can be secured by the bushel, but public "life in this country involves such- grave sacrifices; of both inclination and interest for men of -characterabillty and High standing in the coni ?U?ltthat ?ey avo.to be driven into it by a sort of compulsion, through appeals to their sense of public duty, in some cases of party loyalty. Now, by a 'legalized boss' I mean an Individual authorized on behalf of one of our parties to choose all candidates of that party for elective offices within a designated territory to do intelli gently, deliberately and carefully the work which is' supposed to be done by nominating conventions or 'Crawford county' primaries, but which is done usually, in fact, by the local 'boss or ring in secret. Of course, every facility should be offered SK8!?1 lndP'endeut' nominations, whether ffiSi, ?1Pnized parties r without, so that all citizens who may be dissatisfied for whatever reason with the 'regular' nominations may be ab!e to vote effectively according to their convictions.- MR'.n?n0NAPRTB WlS aSked hW he WOUld wlJf, eTrhe Proposed "legalized boss." bv ttPJied; He ought t0 be elected annual y Sdw'Sfthfnn?, WB Paty' at a primary 5 unaer all the sanctions of law ami if whiit ' flnVhr T fflce' or ther piti?n, stouTd Se filled. Each voter would, have only to sa7 whom X?B d?ed the best man ' the party To be a?i iitUHed a noaInating convention of one to? all elective offices within the state, city orcltv politics would havJ hniJn. something about mary. Perhaps tt m &1!lec.tod at SUch a Prt the 'nominator or Ueml? T'1?0 ? ?rVide tnat gested should bo MmS e bi?fS l have SUS lic office, but of thin LdlalIfied,,t0 llold P tary was then mSES L,n.ot,sure-' The secre- up an agitation in favor of SJfSfii608 to set bosses." He replied in thIS?1!?11115 "Realized that, if somebody with ha?f wf ttV' but added times his leisure wTuid ES fi ye??s and four iously, he might 2m ll GS(l ldeas up ser" benefit to the public Ut sometllInS of republican candidate liSS thl successful without the votes i of S,a aVG been elected Denver, PuebTo Crinnle S8 ?J, Tlon men Springs an other cities wh'n VI Colorado is strong. Yet at tho nnT, ero;orgaLzed labor oration of Labof a ?eso?ut on J thee Fed adopted calling on organ dnftrUnaimouslJr one man to vote in ifff ty'S organized labor voted anywhere near unanimously in favor of Governor Adams he would have been elected, and certainly Governor Adams has at all times shown himself to be a true and tried friend of organized labor. If organized labor expects to profit by cutting any particular figure in politics, it will have to quit spending so much time In drafting resolutions, and spend a great deal more time in studying up on how to best conserve its own interests at the polls. BEING THE RELATIVE, either .by' blood or marriage, of a prominent character has its disadvantages, as Representative. Nicholas -Lone-lo ?, dIsTcoverinS. For obvious reasons Rep lesentatiye Longworth was much in demand as a campaign spellbinder, but since the election a man who has a mania for such things has been investigating. Representative Longworth spoke in .C?ngreSSifal districts during the recent iSe SDVan1in each one o the five the repub- L fn5lvetn? th ,a .Sharp reverae- He sPoke in the Sixth Oho district, and Hildebrand, the re- S ? fi!dI?,a Was Seated. Then he spoke LlbG NI?Ah disrict and McClelland, the repub lican candidate, was defeated.- He spoke in the Eleventh Indiana district and- Laldisf the repub Mean who was up for re-election, was defeated ?2 retiUrGd t0 0hi0 and sPlJe in tte HlSftti" a ive LT tSL r?publican candidate, Represent ative Cole, suffered a loss of 5,000 in his plurality LonS wor?rir.di"trlCt' First RepreLnS Longworth drew enormous audiences, but on elec- downOO S Wf7 , - years Wo vas cut down 10,000. This doubtless would not have been rth'isi' DOt ?Gf n presenttlve Long worth is the son-in-law of President Roosevelt, qCHETARY , METCALP went to San Fran O Cisco at the president's request to investi gate the Japanese trouble in that town. The San Francisco board of education made an order that all Japanese. students be debarred from the KS SC h. 3 and receved only at a separate school maintained for the Orientals. The Japa nese counsel at San Francisco protested and the Japanese ambassador at Washington appealed to Secretary Root, saying that the course of the San Francisco authorities was a violation of Japan's treaty rights. Japanesl cablegrams say th?nn.Sfc TindisnatIon has been SSffeBted throughout Japan and that there is a growing hostility toward America. Secretary MeteaTr? ports hat the board of education has no authority to make such an order, inasmuch as it is in col trayention of Japan's treaty rights; and it fs malnta ned that the state authorities mst be- controlled in whatever action they may take by the terms of the treaty entered into between this government and foreign nations. DetWeen tm! I T tS? tonSS,F088lble for the administra ail Sounds Z Qr US a-nXLety to do away with 2 LSf i S Japanese hostility. Newspaper it ini? S7ay,tbl the PhmPPine Islands make flUn?f Sab frr tne UnIted states to have' any difficulty with Japan. While the authorities at Washington are greatly disturbed, the newspapers at San Francisco seem to think that it is a casl rn?10 ab?t notbing' The San Francisco Chronicle presents the San Francisco view in nrJN A dISPatCh rePresents the Japanese press and people as exceedingly angry at the anti-Japanese feeling on this coast, and especially at our exclusion of all children of Oriental parentage-from the schools of this city, except the specia schools designed for their accommodation " Very likely there is much talk. Japan has its irresponsible sensational press as well m thl? EST- T10 reJ?ort tbat the JaPanese govern, ment is taking the matter up, however mav h dismissed as all rot. It would be forSniS i? would take it up, for it would probablv? 1 rational discussion of the enH? !!n ead a by cool; level-headed men oTtVcountrles6?? bUfy uyerir nesye govSm? pertlctly nd SSi XfT' oion mm rSS be distasteful to our oXlfrll fact that we have not in this city sufficient i,iii ings to accommodate our own nunilq ti, t 1(1' Tho Japanese governmont also knows Ont in fn nH.T.h0S0 'resene Hero is certain to ro,t 5" P3"- t0T exeludo the classes who llvo exclutfe imSl ,Pan is at ertect "borty to des re tn ?nn f " Iaborers from that country. Wo both fo? !Snn Me,ndly thtms wlt" n Them t. ?f"tlmental ana commercial reasons, inere is but one way to do It una tw i. S tkryP STwn8! Jnannal laborers ouTofhe ou' a7 "r worldngmen will never bother Janan thich nfu ?SfoZ0UCiVliZali0n for Gof Japan! Sites we w I HbG freeadmsion of Japanese the UnltS l d lt' and the Japanese and makeus do V &overnnrents combined can not AMaRT NBWSPAPERS 'print conspicuously be? 14 fn cableam uner date of Novem resnondPnf nf T:-n ccordInff the Tokio cor the ? h.fM6 ?,aiI:f Teleaph, the Satsuma, be laSort battleTshiP in e world, which is to Vssons S L t faPan ay' embodies all the reduced ?n fl? War Jhe wodwork has been fire ZJr ,ilm,Um; She ,B fitted with elaborate clean of tnnL a"d ber upper works are kept as the mafn fnil mPr as Possible. Her details in DreadiSS? T tbSe f tho BrItish battleship is evtv rnncf. 6d; iTIJe corespondent says there KvmSFJa ? lnJ believe tnat thQ Japanese and nyiouq ?o IS"68 fxchanged Plans and ideas SrSfJin6 "ction of this warship. As exclus?vPr hi38! been.,buiIt by Japanese labor n irf I .hGf launching will be regarded as a great historical event and the emperor and the crown prince of Japan will be present'' TH,7?T0RY SCOrod ln Pennsylvania y the 11cfl machine seems to have encouraged the state out fhf fntSi t0 believe that they can brazen out the investigation of the rottenness in con- qiWlth ? of the new state house. crat, nmiTnT Ber was elected by demo- can niwii dfen5ent VOters' was the first to call attention to the enormous steals. Now At- rTenSesof1 t80 ,,B maldng iuirlesand shows B?hS fH Br? Wh0 aro beinS questioned Eraers a rLterS bave talcen the defeat of attoiSkJ norn?nlns 0f theIr crImes' But the the mXpf ?f ?l BY? a disposition to probe whoeems to S6 bottom' JoIm H. Sanderson, hTs been 8pHnnT thIng about this affair, ho halseen flt t.ned the Forney general, but vagne when tw "" rGplies that aro extremely bS sS?? iS2L ar n Imnudent. One of thS mg graft items was in the furniture line. . . TThXtPBLIA Publ,c Leder waa X I he facts, which do not appear to be de. nied show that the schedule on which bids to furniture were invited contained many items dl tbInS partIcula articles of furnitre ad on these there were competitive bids. Item 22 how ever included. 'designed furniture, fittings, fuT whhingMnd decraons' of any' material, on which bids were as.ked 'per foot No ono but Sanderson knew what 'per foot' meant in such connection, and Sanderson was awarded the en tire contract on this item. Thus it came about, in the Instances presented by Mr. Berry, that twwwtj rsrt-! IiW - T'i ifo i i' "!", '..sawfe. iW ti0Lb: S2 -