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The Commoner APKIL, 1915 31 SENATOR THORNTON'S RETIRE MENT "With the close of the Sixty-third congress Thursday, Senator John it. Thornton completes a public service at Washington which has reflected in finite credit alike upon this state and himself. He will take with him into his retirement the respect of the whole body of the chamber in which he has served and the hearty good wishes of the people of his state. "Senator Thornton went to the senate originally by appointment to fill what was expected to be a com paratively brief tenure. But subse quently elected to the office by the general assembly, his service has arched almost a complete term. "We have not always sympathized with his policy; but along with the great majority of Louisianians, The States feels that Senator .Thornton has represented his state with the dignity, the ability and the courage which ought always to he associated with the high office he has filled. "He has been indefatigable and un swerving in hi" efforts to further what he deemed to be the best inter ests of his people and on all the great questions of national concern with which the senate has had to deal dur ing his term, his course has been marked by a broad patriotism arid a sincere devotion to principle. "His rugged integrity, his con tempt for political expediency and his high moral courage have been dis tinguishing characteristics of his senatorial service; and of no other senator contemporary with him can it be more truly said that every posi tion he assumed or vote he cast was inspired by a profound conviction of its righteousness. "In the case of the removal of the duty from sugar he differed with the president; but, except in that in stance, he has been one of the most stalwart upholders of the administra tion and his retirement from the sen ate is in consequence a distinct loss to the democracy. It is made even more so by the fact that he is to be succeeded by a senator wholly out of touch with the democracy of the na tion and of this state, and who, even in advance of his assuming the dig nity of the office, has left the people no reason to doubt that his course is to be one of persistent hostility to the party leader now representing dem ocracy in the White house." New Orleans States. WHAT DEMOCRACY MUST DO The democratic party can not af ford to take the side of the saloon in politics. Neither can it afford to op nose universal suflraKe for women. It must, then, go on record in favor of both reforms, both of which will be adopted in a very few years. The results of the last election and the action taken by many legislatures foreshadow the coming of these great events. The day is fast coming when the man who would rather mingle with a saloon keeper than a woman at the polls will have no voice in democratic councils. The last election eliminated the an archists from democratc leadership in Colorado. This newsnaner believes the sphere of elimination should be widened to include those whose business destroys the homo and strikes at the founda tons of society. South Denver (Colo.) Eye and Bulletin. NEBRASKA'S INSURGENT SEN ATOR Out of a practically continuous ses sion of congress has come nothing so remarkable as its failure to develop a political issue. The nearest ap proach to a party issue has been JmK' . aH i ' ' ' ' " ' "" " Ill POPULAR WAY OF RUNNING FOR OFFICE- Sioux City (Iowa) Journal. made in connection with the shipping bill. On this the republicans were substantially united, but they had the assistance of seven bolting democrats. Nebraska is promised"The humorous experience next year of having a dem ocratic candidate for the United States senate running for re-election on the republican platform. Or pos sibly Senator Hitchcock will become an avowed republican before that time. Ho has worked and voted against the administration more con sistently than any republican in tno senate unless it be Penroso and Gal llnger. Lincoln Journal (Rep.). FOR SALE An Improved farm of 200 acres, under irrigation, three miles from Mission, Texas. This farm is in the Rio Grande Valley. I have not time to look after it It has a house costing $2,500.00, with barns and outbuildings to match; is fenced and in cultivation. I am willing to sell for less than the price at which unim proved land in that section is selling. I will sell the entire 200 acres for $20,000, with a liberal discount for cash. Small tracts, not including the one upon which the house stands,. may be purchased as follows: 10 acre tracts, $125 per acre; 20 acre tracts, $122.50 per acre; 40 acre tracts, $120 per acre; 80 acre tracts $115 per acre. Address A. J. BRYAN, LilMOOL-IM, NEB. T '. Urr-i 17 i ; ii . -J 't.- .' ' i ,: r ? 'j.'a-v' jtf4tMM3"ifriJnsfiTftwftV! tU4 ?$