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JOB FOR GOOD CITIZENS.
The appeal to voters to cast their ballots against
the Sorensen amendment is bearing fruit. Interest
has been awakened in this most insidious attempt to
destroy, as far as Nebraska is concerned, the sys
tem under which our government has existed from
its foundation. Good citizens, irrespective of party
affiliations, have united in an effort to so arouse the
people to the danger that is contained in the initia
ted amendment to the constitution of the state and
indications are it will be decisively rejected. The
names signed to the published appeal and warning
are those of men and women of influence and stand
ing, whose character is attested, and who have only
the good of the state at heart.
The sinister character of the attempt to destroy
the party system of government in Nebraska is dis
closed by a slight examination. It is an emanation
from the now nearly defunct Nonpartisan league.
That organization, professedly neutral as between
the parties, gained whatever of power it attained
by “boring from within.” Secretly* selecting its
nominees, it secured for them the label of a party
through which election might be secured. In North
Dakota the league seized and wrecked the republican
party. In Nebraska a similar attempt was made,
but did not meet the success attained where Town
ley established his autocratic rule. If the Sorensen
amendment should be adopted, it will revive the Non
partisan league, giving to it the power that it can
not obtain by coming openly before the people.
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The party system has existed in the United States
from the first. It has had the approval of the wisest
and best of American statesmen. Under it the of
ficers of the government, from top to bottom, are
chosen. In party councils, called conventions,
policies are determined upon and principles enun
ciated for the approach to the people. All this is
done openly with ample freedom of discussion. On
this rests the security of American institutions.
Whenever the government falls into the hands of
little groups that meet in secret, lay their plans and
make their bargains behind closed doors, and never
submit their program for public examination, the
end of liberty, as we understand it, has been reached.
And that will come when it is made possible by
the abolishment of effective party organization as we
knew it now. In secrecy leaders of oath-bound
groups will be able to consolidate their forces behind
slates picked by themselves, and through the only
possible form of organized and concerted action at
the polls, concentrate enough votes to win in any
election.
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The one certain way to defeat this proposal and
to avert the danger it contains is to vote “NO” on
the Sorensen amendment. The pretext'that it is in
tended to protect the direct primary is absurd. The
direct primary does'not need such protection. It is
in no danger, for no attack is being made upon it.
The rhief object sought by the promoters of the
amendment is to do away with all legitimate forms
of political organization in Nebraska, and to clear
the. way for cabals, cliques and factions, working in
secret to secure ends concerning which they fear to
approach the voters directly. In order to accomplish
this the amendment proposes to forbid the use of
any party circle, name or designation on the ballot.
Just the name of the man under that of the office
he seeks.
Only confusion will rome from such a law. We
urge on all voters of whatever party to carefully
mark the ballot against the amendment. Do not
neglect this important duty.
ZINOVIEFF SPILLS THE BEANS.
Several times during the campaign in the United
States the Third Internationale has been referred
to. Each time a chorus of indignant denial has gone
up from the leaders of the third pnrty movement.
They have no connection with the Russian reds. And
the Russian reds have no connection with the Rus
sian government. And, finally, the Russian govern
ment has no purpose or intent to interfere with
any other on earth.
England was getting on much as usual with a
general election with not much out of the ordinary,
as the English view elections, to ex'-ite cormpent.
Then came an extraordinary lettr-r from Zinovieff,
calling on the communists to rise for the revolution,
at once. Naturally, the British resent this, and the
Moscow authorities were quick to deny the author
ihip of the call to arms. Ramsay MacDonald looks
upon the letter as genuine, and is at a loss only to
account for its getting to the public before it got
to him. Weight is given to the British episode by
the appearance of communist advertisements in Ger
man papers, also calling loudly for the revolution.
In Englund Zinevieff alienated mnny voters from
MacDonald. Whatever the final result, it is certain
that many refrained from voting for the laborite or
lihdral candidates because of the soviet propaganda.
These episodes discredit the efforts made in this
country to convince people that the Russian reds
had changed their nature, and no longer seek to de
stroy all governments hut their own.
fn Omaha anti-re(fV0Pai?anda haR bepn discour
aged, because, we are told, there is no cause to fear
the radicals in the United States. Each time the
law-abiding forces of the nation look away, the law
defying groups steal a little ground. Only one way
is know to oppose them. By publicity, keeping the
radicals in the open, and by meeting their unreason
with reason. Not by saying they are not active, for
they are.
JUDGE STAUFFER'S CANDIDACY.
Burt and Washington counties are linked with
Douglas county in one judicial district. Naturally
Douglas, with its predominating population, over
shadows the other two counties, but that is no rea
son why Douglas county should demand the right to
select all of the district judges. Of the seventeen
judicial candidates in the district Judge Carroll O.
Stauffer of Burt county is the only one residing
outside of Omaha.
Judge Stauffer’s record is alone sufficient reason
for his re-election. If any further reason is needed
it may be found in the fact that the northern end
of the district is entitled to representation upon the
bench. With a candidate of Judge Stauffer’s admit
ted ability and splendid record it would be unwise
to nullify the splenid relations that have always ex
isted between Omaha and the rest of the judicial
district by centralizing all the judges in one county,
and especially unwise to centralize them all in one
city. Judge Stauffer’s residence in Burt county is
merely an added reason why he should be re-elected.
The chief reason is his judicial record and his ad
mitted ability and fairness.
MAKING IT SNAPPY "OVER THERE.’’
England is just winding up a short-order cam
paign that will preclude anyone from that side ever
again raising eyebrows at American crudity. A lot
of rough stuff has been pulled at one time or an
other in the way of political stunts in this land of
youth and beauty, but the worst we have ever been
guilty of is harmless as skim milk compared to what
has gone on over there. From one end of the land
to another sneakers have been mobbed, riots have
occurred, meetings have been broken up. Men and
women have been severely handled, some seriously
•hurt, all in the name of liberty. The intelligent
British voter must vent his feelings in violence, it
seems, or the election is not a success.
It would be well to note just what exists in Eng
land, for thfey are under the form of government
some eminent gentlemen on this side would like to
adopt instead of what we have. Parliamentary gov
ernment, in place of our constitutional form with its
system of checks and balances. Three parties in
parliament, neither with a majority. Any govern
ment is dependent upen a working agreement be
tween two minority groups. No policy can be
adopted, no plans carried out, only routine business
can be transacted. Twice this year an election has
been called. Neither time have the people given
any clear authority to any party to govern.
What would happen here if such a system pre
vailed? England, where stability is required just
now more than anywhere else, is drifting to destruc
tion because of the levity of the people. They make
their elections snappy, hold them often and settle
nothing, while their national affairs go to ruin. We
can have the same sort of thing over here by adopt
ing the parliamentary form of government, which
the socialists, the “progressives” and other pseudo
reformers would have us do.
ONE OF THE REASONS.
“I’ll guarantee that every man awaiting death
in Sing Sing is there because he was without a good
lawyer.”
In those words Clarence Darrow gave the best
explanation of why so many people have lost faith
in the courts, and why so many openly sneer at the
law and lawyers, and too, by the way, have lost
faith in Mr. Darrow. If any considerable number
of people declare that justice is bought and sold, or
that laws are made by lawyers for the purpose of
being set at nought by technicalities, it is because
some lawyers have prostituted their high calling for
money.
When a majority of the people are of the same
opinion as the one expressed by Clarence Darrow,
there will be an explosion that will blow skyward
our present judicial system. And a few more law
yers of Darrow’s prominence making the same sneer
ing assertions will provide the majority.
Thomas Riley Marshall said a mouthful when he
told the world that vice presidents must speak or
starve. But William Jennings Bryan made this
plain when he was secretary of state, and left his
office to go on a Chautauqua lecture tour.
A Chicago woman asks $5,000 damages because
a marcel waver caused a bald spot as big as a dime
on her head. At that rate we know some Omaha
men who could ask $7,000,000 damages.
Frank Harrison raises his voice in righteous pro
test against the corrupt use of money in the Ne
braska election. Frank, you know, is in politics
merely because it gives him the opportunity to do
somebody good.
Charles M. Kittle has rises from the position of
water boy for a railroad construction gang to that
of president of tho world's largest mail order house.
It Is quite likely that this Kittle did not waste any
time calling others of his kind black.
Montana farmers are apparently not afraid of a
democratic victory. They have just contracted to
raise 8,000 acres of sugar beets for a new mill.
The linot.vpist who set it up Chaos W. Bryan
should be switched from the machine to the “In
formation for Readers” department.
The chief howl about slush funds usually comes
from parties who failed to collect or participate.
Good roads men do not seem to be worried over
a democratic victory.
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—By Omaha’* Own Poet—
R abort Worthington Dnvio
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IIIS IIAIIIIY WANTED IIIM.
Ills daddy wanted him! Ami when the others came
To take hltn hence, and let him keep his lonely daddy's
name—
Their wishes were denied. “He's mine!'1 the father
said,
“I'll went him ever near me through the venri that
He abend:”
' I'll need mv boy to keep me ever tolling for his good
1 ran pot let you take him at the edge of Babyhood
I ran not now forsake him as your taking him would
he.
Because I must abide by what his ninlher said to in*
‘"Twill he a lltlle difficult at first, as others say,
But l will manage somehow and mv lltlle hoy must
slay.
He'll smooth t he rougher places, and togelher \i e will
grow
Just as his mother hoped, we would, and 1 am sure
she'll know.’'
Sunny sue up
Hake Comfort.nor forget.
QhatSunrise re\Jerfailed us yey
CeLta €jriajte*m
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"TAKE MY HAND."
When the toil of the day is at last laid away,
And at eve to my home I draw near.
I hear down the street the sound of small feet
That lightens my heart with Its cheer.
A shrill boyish 'oice bids my soul to rejoice,
I'm the happiest, man in the land.
When ho rushes to me and shouts in his glee:
"Plqase, father; take hold of my hand!"
Dear lad, may I hold as a treasure untold
That trust till the end of the road.
May our hands be entwined till at last I shall And
The place where I lay down my load.
And when at the last o'er the river I've passed
j To yonder Delectable Land,
May I reach out and say, as my boy does today:
"Please, Father; take hold of my hand!”
We rare not what others may do, but we are going to vote
for the library bonds. As a general proposition we have been
agin bonds of late years, but extending the opportunities of
our people to acquire useful information and become acquainted
with good literature should not be allowed to pass by.
Perhaps you have noticed the absence of tag days and
special drives during the year now closing. Hasn’t It been a
wonderful relief? You could start down In the morning with a
couple of dollars In your pocket and be assured that you
wouldn’t he jlpped for a quarter on one corner, a dollar on an
other corner, a half on another corner, and the last quarter at
the office door, thus making the lunrheon hour a dismal waste
of time. That’s what, the Community Chest Idea has accom
plished. to say nothing of its greater efficiency in handling
matters of charity. Our contribution thereto will, perforce, be
small, but it is going to be made joyfully.
If any of our friends expect to play bridge whist all day
Instead of going to the polls, we hope the bridge collapses and
lets ’em all drop Into hopeless debts.
"What has become of the old-fashioned political candidate
who kissed all the babies?" queries J. Hyde Sweet of the Ne
braska City Press. It may be, J. Hyde, that he Is kissing the
babies' mothers. If that is the case, running for office these
days ought to be less Irksome than In the Good Old Days.
It may truthfully he said of Laura Jean Libby’s novels
that they were not crammed with sex etuff, and her heroines
acted like modest and self-respecting women. "Soft stuff," per
haps, but at least free from the taint of immorality. t
Nebraska Limerick.
There is a young lady in Nellgh
Whose voire Is highly pitched and quits squeally.
In her lover's embrace
She will lift, up her face
And ecstatically shout, "O, really!"
Speaking of "( Inches.” we know of one. It !s s cinch that
we shall vote against the adoption of the Sorensen amendment.
And If we know It we shall vote against any candidate for office
who Is in favor of its adoption. The more we see of "reform"
the greater our need for an enlarged vocabulary of words ex
pressing denunciation.
The Ay swatting season being about over, before you get.
out of practice take a good swat at the Sorensen amendment.
XVILL M. MAUPIM.
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Every Vote Counts.
Washington, D. C.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: In 1811 a Rhode
Island farmer dallied to release a pig
from a fence and arrived at the polls
too late to east his vote. The fed
eralists lost the precinct by one vote;
as a result, representative who fa
vored war with Great Britain was
elected to the legislature, which In turn
hy a majority of one elected a
United States senator who favored
war. Then the congress, by a ma
jority of one, declared war, generally
known as the War of 1812.
Our country In Its colonial dnys
fought a hard and hloody war to win
its independence and to establish gov
ernment hy majority. The principle
of government by majority is the
most valuable possession of the re
publican system, yet for many dec
ades there base been an Increasing
tendency among voters not to cast
their ballots In presidential elections.
Tills tendency has reached a grave
anil critical point where we ate very
close to a government by minority.
Do you want government by major
ity or minority? You answer quick
ly: "By majority!” The vote slacker
hy not voting expresses Indifference
as to what kind of government we
have, good or bad.
The ballot is I he foundation of pop
ular government. By wise use of the
ballot citizens can remodel our po
litical and economic Institutions; In
short, can have any kind of govern
ment they want.
I’ your vote Important among mil
Hons? Remember the Rhode Island
farmer whose failure to vote caused
a war, and you answer: "No, a thou
sand times, no!” Do you want better
government, a voice In making It
l oiter? Do you want to help keep
America a government hy majority?
Then he sure to cast your ballot this
fall. W. A. CALLANAN.
What I -a Fdlctte Means.
T.OS Angeles, Cal.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: Ponte time ago
the writer In a public letter gave some
of the reasons why ns a farmer he
was for Calvin Coolldgo for presi
dent to succeed himself. I now crave
the liberty of your columns in order
that I may convey to my fellow farm
ers some of the reasons (aside front
any consideration of the policies for
which he professes to stand), why I
am opposed to Robert M. l,a Follotle
for president. And I shall endeavor
to show further the litter uselessness,
not to say folly, of voting for him at
all. At the outlet, however, I want
to renounce any disposition to ques
tion the sincerity or rssall the mo
lives of any who may h,.ve It in mind
lo support Mr. Ba Follette by their
Vote.
I am against Bn Follette for the
reason that I believe he is not In
good faith a candidate for the presi
dency at all. I feel sure that as a
practical politician he realizes, and
has from the first, that he stands no
chance whatever for election. What
ami all he hopes to do Is to defeat the
elect ion hy the peoplo of any othet
candidate for the 'presidency Thus
ho would practically disfranchise (so
far as voting for president is con
cerned), every voter In the United
Stales, Including his professedly
much beloved farming and laboring
classes. What he aims at, and all
ho hopes to accomplish, Is lo throw
the election of president Into the
house of representatives, where he
' " illz.es he has no possible chines of
ele. Hon, but hopes to control sufllclenl
Of the votes of the state to ilefeat the
election of nny other candidate. This
means simply to defeat the popular
will, without nny possibility of being
elected himself.
t’nder the foregoing condition, the
duly would then devolve upon the
'■mite of i|„. fulled .Stales to make
choice from the two candldnles for
Vice president having the highest
number of electoral votes. It Is quite
as possible, If not altogether probable,
that no choice could he effected In llwi
senate more than in the house of rep
tesentaUves. The possible„«n<i even
probable outcome and result of sup.
port of Mr. ].a Kollette therefore
seems reasonably to portend entire
failure to elect a president at all if,
and provided Mr. La Kollette shall re
ceive any considerable support at the
hands of the voters. This Is a se
rious but altogether rational consid
eration of the situation.
But were there any possibility of
his election, personally I should most
strenuously oppose him, because In
the hour of peril to our country he
w.,s against our country. While our
boys were In the trenches shooting
from the front he was stabbing from
behind and shouting "sic 'em'’ to the
enemy. In support of this condemns
lion I cite the following facte, the
truth of which any voter can easily
demonstrate should he doubt, towit
lie was hung in effigy at Sheboygan,
Wls, a- at raitor during the war.
The Wisconsin State Council of I>e
fense and 71 county defensp councils
1 ailed on him to resign from the
1'nlted States senate The Wlscon
sin legislature adopted resolutions
formally censuring him for his ills
loyal utterances. . . . Surely these
Incidents are all satisfying, and thej
were enacted hv his home state |>eo
pie. They were the outward expres
sion of righteous Indignation by an
outraged people In time of war. A
man disloyal to his country In the
hour of its peril Is not the mail to
trust at the helm of the ship of state
In time of peace.
As It appears to me, it would be
Idle to discuss the policies for which
Mr. I.a Kollette professes to stand,
since there Is no possibility, nor as I
believe, hope or expectancy on his
part of his being elected. Nor was
there ever. As It nppears to me, his
professed policies are but the smoke
screen from behind which he seeks
to conceal his real purpose. If he
succeeds at all In his real aims snd
purposes, the net result practically
will he that he will hnve nullified the
right of every voter of the country
to participate by his vote in the elec
tion of the president. Every voter
therefore who \otes for him prar
tleally votes to disfranchise himself
or herself. To defeat the popular
choice of a president at the polls will
be to precipitate a condition of po
litical and business i haos. tlie ills
astro us results of which, viewed from
a busings standpoint, would first
ruinously affect the farmer and la
borer (lasses throughout the country.
This is a matter for our most serious
consideration, In our own Interests
and from n business point of view.
.Tnd while wo still hnve our ballots
within our control.
F M BARNES.
Nobuddv kin kirk on th’ current
price o’ human Hfr. II takes one
ladies' tailor t’ break a man.
(Co|i.vrl|hi, lt:» )
J LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Press.
“Smash the Sorenson amendment.!”
exclaims Kditor Sutherland of the
Tekamah Herald. Sound advice, we
calls it.
“Why do people laugh at the
law?” asks the Grand Island Inde
pendent, and then proceeds to an
swer its own query by saying, "be
cause they can not heMi it; it's
funny.” You have one guess on
what law the Independent was talk
ing about. You guessed correctly.
Hew Shelley says Frank Harrison
just can't stand a ladylike campaign,
so went out and stirred up a row
inside his own outfit.
Fletch Merwln of the Beaver Cite
Tribune puts it neatly. He likens
every voter to a holder of common
stock ir. th5 govornmen*, and says
election day is when the stockholder
should walk up and vote hla atock.
There are no proxies.
The Beaver City Times Tribune in
timates that what a candidate stands
for isn't half so important as what
he falls for.
John Sweet of the Nebraska City
Press arises to inquire ths where
abouts of the old fashioned woman
who raised a row when asked to
pay more than 50 cents for a pair of
stockings. The chances are. John,
that she is raising a ruckus because
the barber didn't execute the bob to
suit her.
Fred Howard of the Clay Center
Sun >sayn the most disconcerting
thing political blatherskites have
collided with of late years is the
silence of Calvin Cooltdge.
The Kearney Dally Hub has en
tered upon Its 37th year, with Mentor
A. Brown still at the helm and steer
ing the good old ship on a straight
course. Kdltor Brown was a veteran
before he established the Daily Hub,
and he Is now the oldest editor in
point of continuous service in all Ne
braska. The Hub has been one of
the most potent factors In the de
velopment of Kearney and Cfntiul
Nebraska.
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The Seottsbluff Republican Indig
nantly denies that Frank Harrison
has wrecked the Ea Follette party
in Nebraska. Editor Westervelt
pays the blooming thing was wreck
ed by Coolldge votes at the spring
primaries.
The Eagle Beacon makes due noie
of the fact that Brother William
speaks about four good words for
l.a Follette to one for Davis, but
more for Brother Charley than Bob
and John put together.
The wife of a former Omaha rnan
sued for divorce and ho answered in
verse. Editor Carlson Insists that
the answer proves that .the wife
should he given « decree,____
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C including use of our chapel, if desired, may be any sum
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