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TKe Commcmer
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THE COMMONEF. Lincoln. Neb
' "Ryan must go!" declares the New York
Press. What, just after performing such hercu
lean labor in the campaign for Mr. Hughes?
' ;-' The lone bandit who held -up a Pullman
sleeper full of people near Kansas City and only
realized $65 must have overlooked the porter.
The Pullman stockholders might get rid of
a portion of that embarrassing surplus by helping
tho public pay the wages of the Pullman porters.
Senator Dry den will postpone the pleasant
task of having fun with Senator LaFollette until
he attends to a little matter of business down in
Trenton.
Lieutenant Peary gained the "furthest north,"
but he did not really suffer from the cold until
he was asked to tell Vice President Fairbanks
about it.
If the battle of 1908 is to be won by the
iorces of democracy, the work of preparation
rnugt begin now, and must not be allowed to lag
an instant.
The Topeka Herald is wondering if the Japa
nese want the Philippines. ' Some one must have
been telling the Herald, that tho Japanese were
growing flighty. ,.
Senators Foraker and Dick carried Ohio
without reserve," and if-President Roosevelt can
.n comfort in that fact he is entitled to
it "without reserve." -
Do you know what sleep is?" queries the
San Antonio Gazette. To be sure. It is the thing,
wo would enjoy if we didn't have to get up so
early in the morning.
Senator Smoot still holds on, but Senator,
2S?imU8t g0 The Momou vote seems coh
slderably more of a political factor than the
... v. .,. u. uppusuion. ' .. .
"Their own greed will drive the trusts to
destruction," shouts the New York. Evening. Jour
nal. Perhaps, but what is to become of the
people in the meantime?
Mr. Edison has kindly given us another six
months in which to get rid of our horses. We
are looking for a man to insure us 'the use of one
for the next six months;
Senator Dolliver told the people of Iowa that
there is no lumber trust, but the people of Major
Lacey's district seem to have taken the statement
with copious sprinklings of salt.
Dr. Forbes Winslpw, the famous English alien
ist, asks: "Is the" world going crazy?" The
Pennsylvania election returns doubtless brought
tho query to Dr. Winslow's mind.
A Washington paper speaks about the pres
ence of many strangers- on , the streets of the
national capital. Perhaps they are cabinet offi
cers returning from, their campaign travels.
A lionddn banker declares that Uncle Sam's
financial system is imperfect. Gracious; we're
marrying our millionaire girls to British titles
about as fast as any one could rightfully expect.
Those eminent Pennsylvania gentlemen who
made a profit of. $9,000,000 in building a $4,500,00jp
state house have every reason to point to the
result in Pennsylvania as a vindication of their
graft.
The -workingnien of Colorado who divided
their strength at the polls again experience tho
doubtful pleasure of seeing the offices filled by
capitalistic interests that never fail to act as a
whole.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island are now
the only states that elect a governor every year.
Rhodo Island has just demonstrated that the
yearly election is occasionally a good thing for
the state.
Mayor Tom Johnson has triumphed over
twenty-three injunctions and finally secured a
three-cent street car fare in Cleveland. With
twenty-three decisions in his favor it was "skidoo"
for his opponents. .
Representative Lacey's home county gave the.
head of the republican ticket nearly 500 majority?
but Mr. Lacey lost it by 34. Representative Lacey
will soon have leisure in which to revise his
"standpat" doctrines.
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The Cedar Rapids Gazette is demanding that
the pure food inspectors take cognizance 'of the
railroad eating house sandwich. The Gazette is
paving the way for ah accusation of being the ad
vocate of "paternalism."
By the way, speaking of the little matter
teaching -people the-art of good self-government,
what's the. mattor with, bringing a lot, of the
teachers homo from, the Philippines and locating
them in Pennsylvania? . .
The popular idea that the governorship of
New York is a stepping-stone to the presidency
will be rudely shattered when it is recallfid that
jji thirty years only one New York governor has
removed from Albany to the' White House, anil
his name was Groves Cleveland. Mr. Roosevelt
left the state house at Albany to become vice
president, not to become president. .
President Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Pat Mc
Carren made a combination that Mr. Hearst could
not beat. It remains to be seen what effect the
combination will have on a couple of eminent
gontlemen connected with it.
I'm off for the ditch," remarked President
Roosevelt as he boarded the vessel that was to
convey, him to Panama, What the president
meant was that he was off to view the hole where
so much American money has been sunk.
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(The Cedar Rapids, la., Gazette of No-
vember 17 contains the following interest-
irig dispatch. "McPherson, Kan., Nov. &
17. 'Secretary Root will not do for a
presidential candidate. He sits in the $
inner councils of the trusts, is Thomas P.
Ryan's right-hand man, and for several
years has been chief counsel in every ne-
faHbus scheme that has been foisted on
the American people.' This, sentiment j8
was expressed here yesterday by Senator $
Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa. It was oc-
casioned by a citizen remarking that
Root was his personal choice for the
presidency.")
gave your party power?
'Twas Elihu,
a-aching you?
Good gracious, Mr. Dolliver, pray will you
plainly stato
Just who your party could put up if you
eliminate
All men who, like friend Elihu, within
your nartv ranka
Have been the right-hand counsel for Jt
tne scheming trusts and banks?
Say, don't you think, friend Jonathan,
you've made the limit small-
So small, in fact, you'll find it hard to $
nominate at all? $
And then, again, friend Jonathan, in this $
temnestuous hour
How can you thus speak of the men who J
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Who was it went to Utica?
of course:
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& And rent the ambient atmosphere until
, nis tnroat was hoarse.
Who furnished all the party funds? Why,
Ryan and his crew;
And talk like that seems hardly fair from
such an one as you.
Who greased the ways with practiced
hands until the g. o. p.
Slid into power, Dolliver? I pray you
answer me.
And now to hear you loud declare that
liillhii wnn'f An .
& ' Good gracious, Mr. Dolliver, now what's
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The: man who took the frozen snake and
gently thawed it out
And then succumbed to poison fangs
5 ' you've heard the tale no doubt.
j Well, that poor man a victim- was of mis
c$t -Bqt what about tho treachery you'd have $
your crowd commence? &
Sink deep its fangs into the hands that &
warmed it back to life? &
Inject the poison into those who. saved &
it in the strife? ; &
O, Dolliver, we -didn't think your party &
once so irrand ', . .
&, .Would sink its fangs so awfUlvdeep into &
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