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- The Commoner. VOLUME 8, NUMBER 22 , 6 iLi. The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. WILLIAM J. HUVAK OIIAW.!- W. Edllornml Proprietor. ' J "J AftaclntcKdltor. Offlco 824-330 South 12th Street Filtered at tlie I'oMofflco nt Llnc61n, Kcb., im ecconcVclaw matter Oho Vciir 9L0O Tlireo Moiiflia - - - - So Six MoiUIib - - - - .0 ' WW B InOlubflofFJvoorniorc Bamplo Copies Free. J'erVear Foreign l'ostngQ C2 Cents Extra, ffUllSCMl'TIONS can bo sent direct to Tho Com moner. Thoy can also bo sent through nwpaj""5 which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, whpro sub-agents "avo been appoint ed. All remittances should bo sent by postofllco monoy order, express order, or by bank drart on Now York or Chicago. Do not Bond individual checks, stamps or monoy. DISCONTINUANCES -It Is found that a largo majority of our subscribers profor not to navo their subscriptions interrupted and their nics broken In caso they fall to remit beforo oxpiration. It is therefore assumed that continuanco is desired unless subscribers ordor discontinuance, oitner whon subscribing or at any timo during tho year. Presentation Copies: Many persons subscribe, ror friends, Intending that tho papor shall stop 'at tno end of tho year. If instructions arc givpn to tnat effect they will reccivo attention at tho proper time. RENEWALS Tho dato on your wrapppr shows tho tlmo to which your subscription is paid. Thus January 31, 08, means that payment has boon ro coived td and Including tho last issuo of January, 1908. Two wcokB aro required after monoy has been received beforo tho dato on wrapper can do changed. CHANGE OP ADDRESS Subscribers requesting a chango of address must glvo OLD as well as NEW addresB. ADVERTISING Rates furnished upon applica tion. , ., ,l Address all communications to ',' THE COMMONER, Lincoln, b. The latest drink is called the "big stick." It is said to knock. "The republican party has been faithful to c:ltIitr'uBti,, 'shrieks an administration-organ. Use &fib7o 'plural; please. ' " ' ' . Speaker Cannon fills several pages in a cur rent magazine with an article on "How 'a' bill becomes a law." He could have boiled it down to this: "O. K.-J. G. C." Among other republican congressmen who are awfully outraged because of election frauds in the south are those who represent districts in tho city of Philadelphia. Senator Piatt has announced that he will not attend the Chicago convention. The an nouncement is a Bad blow to the Chicago men who deal in chloride of lime. A lot of republican papers that exuded col umns of shrieks because of a "democratic deficit" are now perspiring pages of panegyrics on the virtues of a republican deficit. Congressmen increased their salaries about $1, 250, 000 a year, and about .all they can show in return is the fact that they passed a bill re storing the motto to the gold coins. The New York Sun ought to pay some at tention to its mechanical department. The "make-up" man is getting a lot of snake stories into tho political editorial department. The Birmingham Age-Herald says "Con gress only monument whon it adjourns will be tho bills loft over and piled high." Not so: tho monument will bo tho hole in the treasury. Having postponed tariff revision the g. o. p majority has every right to expect that the in terests will respond promptly and liberally when the' gentleman with the frylngpan heaves in sight. Mr. Crumpacker, who represents the only party that over stole tho presidency and after wards admitted it is very much outraged be cause of alleged discrimination in southern elections. JAMES K. JONES Death has again invaded tho circle of Mr. Bryan's intimate personal and political friends this time cfalmlng Ex-Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, the chairman of the democratic national committee of 1896 and 1900. Ho was tho official head of tho bimetallic committee that led the fight which resulted in the adoption of the Chicago platform. He was also chairman of the resolutions committee that year and selected Mr. Bryan to close the debate, thus affording him an opportunity to de liver the Chicago convention speech. Senator Jones was at the head of the party organization when it polled its larg est vote and his wide experience enabled him to make the best use of the party's scanty resources. He was a most lovable man and the multitude of democrats who became attached to him share the sorrow of tho bereaved wife who was his help mate and sympathetic companion during his long and conspicuous career. In the death of Senator Jones the party has lost ono of its ablest generals and tho country a high-minded, conscientious statesman. WASHINGTON LETTER Washington, D. C, Juno 8. It may be a littloearly to speculate upon tho next congress. The Sixtieth congress has yet one session to ful fill. But beforo the short session of this Sixtieth congress, this extravagant, incompetent and do nothing republican congress shall end the elec tions for the Sixty-first congress will have been held. Everybody in politics about the capitol at Washington knows well that the republicans themselves feel that the next congress will be democratic. Even Speaker Cannon has admitted that in personal conversation. There are inoro than thirty-five congressional seats which can 1 e turned to the, democrats by a change of from a thousand to eighteen hundred votes. And this time there is going to bo a fight made for these' seats.' James T. Lloyd of Missouri, the chair man of the democratic congressional committee, opened his headquarters in Washington in the Union Trust company building three days be fore congress adjourned. Mr. Lloyd is making a real fight to control the next congress and de serves the support of every democrat in- the struggle he is making. Senator Crane is spoken of as chairman of the republican committee. Well why not W. Murray Crane? For this campaign no better leader could be imagined. Mr. Crane, who is a modest, pleasant, retiring man, is a very keen politician, but what makes him more useful than that is the fact that ho is enormously wealthy and that his money has been made out of a trust. He is eminently the man of all men to be put at the head of a re publican national committee. The only abler or more representative man to be given, that place would bo Nelson A. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the representative in tho senate of the Standard Oil company and of all trusts and monopolies. Senator Crane represents only his own monopoly, that of paper. In his case it is pot print paper which is involved, but writing paper, book paper, ledger and every kind of paper except tho ordinary white print used in newspapers. Yet when tho paper investigation was on Crane flocked with the other birds and saw that nothing was done for the benefit of the newspaper publishers of the United, States. Will riot the newspaper publishers who havo made so hard and so futile a fight to secure tho destruction of the paper trust or the reduction of the tariff on wood pulp and print paper look upon Mr. Crane, the paper trust man, as a some what sinister figure at the head of the coming republican campaign? Setting aside his inclination to always stand for any trust, or for any monopoly, Senator Crane is a man of political acumen and of per sonal popularity. But when a national fight is involved the popularity of tho person should not be considered! The story comes that Harry Now is to be vice chairman. He too, is a man liked among men. He is not affiliated as Crane is, directly with the trusts, but his newspaper has never failed to stand by the plutocracy. If, as seems apparent, Crane and New shall be the managers of the republican campaign, attacks will be made not merely upon the candidates, but upon the forces behind those candidates. If, as some are urging, Frank Hitchcock shall be made assistant chairman attack will be made upon the use of him while he was still upon the federal payroll to organize the federal officehold ers of the south into a solid phalanx for Taft. The republican organization today stands in bad shape. WILLIS J. ABBOT. About thirty-five per cent of the delegates elected to the Chicago convention are federal officeholders. This recalls tho make-up of the Minneapolis convention and the result 'of the election. .,...: j; .-. THE "MILLION ARMY" The. Commoner will b .sent to. any. one ap plying for it, from now until the close of the 1908 campaign, for 35 cents. It is hoped that through i'le million army plan, The Commoner may be placed in every precinct in every state in the union. 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