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saanse in the address, aabecribera should be anre
to sto their old aa well aa their new address.
Nebraska corn is in the progressive
class.
Columbus people are very well sat
isfied with Judge Boyd's record.
Knocking against Sherman gives
encouragement to our friends, the
enemy.
When it comes to discussing the
liquor question, Mr. Bryan knows how
to hedge.
The waving field of wheat means
prosperity for the Nebraska farmer,
regardless of who is elected governor.
The World-Herald has defeated
Taft. The W.-H. is noted for defeat
ing Republican candidates before
election.
Ex-President Cleveland was one of
the very great men of the country.
His death is a distinct loss to the
American people.
Tom Taggart has arrived in Denver,
and announced that he is for Bryan.
During Taggart's absence in Denver
his hired men will continue to operate
his bucket shops and gambling dens
in Indiana.
The man who would favor issuing
government bonds to the amount of
thirteen billion dollars, for the purpose
of buying the railways of the country,
is a dangerous man to elect to the
highest office in the land.
In comparison with the population
the world is an immense thing after
all. Some fellow with plenty of time
on his hands has figured that the
world's population could be crowded
into the state of Delaware, at the rate
of 1200 people to the acre.
The Democrats of Vermont view
with alarm the fortunes that have been
amassed under Republican rule, and
then the convention tabled a resolu
tion endorsing Bryan, presumably for
the reason that the Nebraskan is one
of the men who has amassed a fortune
living under Republican adminis
tratfoae. The late Grover Cleveland was not
v,
a dodger. He did not trim his sails to
catch every political breeze that swept
over the land. When he was advised
by a friend not to send a letter to the
big anti-free silver meeting in New
York city, he said: "I am going to
write a letter to be read at that meet
ing and the presidency can go to
hell."
I cannot refrain from declaring to
you that my experience in the great
office of President of the United States
has so impressed me with the solem
nity of the trust and its awful respon
sibilities, that I cannot bring myself
to regard a candidacy for the place as
something to be won by personal strife
and active self-assertion. I have an
idea that the Presidency is pre-eminently
the people's office. Grover
Cleveland.
The anti saloon league politely de
clined to act with the third party pro
hibitionists in an effort to suppress the
liquor traffic The plan of the former,
as announced, is to dictate to the two
old parties as to what candidates shall
be endorsed, and if the nominees re
fuse to endorse the bill on local option
prepared by Tom Darnell, then, and
in that case, the members of the anti
saloon league will vote for the pro
hibition candidates.
Ross Hammond is making a little
hay in the goldshine reflected from the
coin in Jim Latta's barrel. Dan V.
Stephens is Hammond's business part
ner, and the plant owned by the firm
is turning oat Latta campaign mate
rial by the ton, much to the chagrin
of Democratic editors who own print
eries folly equipped to perform the
work. As a business proposition, no
oae-blames Hammond. for butting in
aad taking a dip in the barrel.
OMvaar, by aaUl. poataci
DECLARATION OF INDEPEND
ENCE. One hundred and thirty-two years
ago today the Colonial Congress enter
ed upon direct consideration of the
question of independence by voting to
resolve itself into a committee of tne
arimio TKa action was taken on a
resolution introduced by Richard
Henry Lee of Virginia "to refer the
draft of this declaration to the com
mittee." Benjamin Harrison, a name
since familiar in American history,
was called to the chair. At the clos
ing hours of the day the resolution was
carried, but final action was not taken
until the following day, July 2, on
which date the resolution was adopted.
No record is in existence of the precise
hour of the day of the Declaration of
Independence was adopted.
It was not until after the adoption
of the Declaration of Independence on
July 2, that the form of announcing
the action of congress to the world was
adopted. The. debate on the form of
the draft lasted two days, July 3d and
4th, and on the evening of the last day
the form of the declaration, as written
by Jefferson, was adopted. On the
l'9th of July the draft was ordered
engrossed, and on the 2nd of August
the engrossed copy was signed by fifty
members, and it was not until some
time in September that all the mem
bers affixed their signatures to the
document The general understand
ing has been that all the members
signed the Declaration on the evening
of July 4th, but the journal shows
that only John Hancock, President of
Congress, and Mr. Thomson signed.
The first celebration of the event
was held in Philadelphia, August 8th,
1776, when the Declaration of Inde
pendence was read to a large gather
ing of people, and later copies were
distributed throughout the colonies.
There are two men, John Adams
and Benjamin Franklin, who have
never been given the credit they de
serve for the part they took as mem
bers of the committee that drafted the
Declaration of Independence. Adams
had been for years in favor of the col
onies separating from the mother
country, and for more than a year,
those who had hoDed to have the
wrongs inflicted upon the colonies
righted without resorting to rebellion,
were not on friendly terms with Adams.
A year previous to the adoption of the
Declaration of Independence, Adams
was hissed on the streets of Philadel
phia for his alleged radical views on
independence and his well known hos
tile attitude toward the ministry of
Lord North. But throughout the
period when Adams was looked upon
as a dangerous public character, Ben
jamin Franklin, who, more than , any
other man in America, knew more
about the English court and the senti
ment that prevailed in official circles
against America, was Adams' stead
fast friend and adviser.
When the committee appointed to
draft a declaration, consisting of John
Adams, Dr. Franklin, Roger Sherman,
Robert R. Livingstone and Thomas
Jefferson met, James Partlow, the his
torian, relates that the suggestion was
made that Adams write the declara
tion, but as Jefferson was the better
penman the other members of the com
mittee, at the suggestion of Mr. Adams,
assigned the work to the Sage of Mon
ticello. The Declaration, as penned
by Jefferson, contained the views of
Adams and Franklin, although the
former has been given credit for the
entire work.
Today the Declaration of Independ
ence rests in a steel cabinet with the
original signed copy of the Constitu
tion, where it is locked and sealed, and
is no longer on public exhibition. The
document shows the wear of age, and
some of the names of the signers have
almost faded away.
STEVENS' DUPLICITY.
In the campaign of 1906, when
Judge Boyd and Judge Graves were
the opposing candidates, it will be
remembered that Dan V. Stephens,
chairman of the Democratic commit
tee, on the eve of election, sent out
circulars stating that Chairman Ward
of the Republican committee, had been
caught riding on a pass. Stephens
even went so far as to give the num
ber of the imiginary pass. All the
Democratic papers published the cir
cular and assisted in giving publicity
to Stephens' Eleventh Hour Lie, and
roundly abused Judge Boyd and
Chairman Ward, charging them with
being the tools of railways and said
other uncomplimentary things about
them calculated to bring them into
disrepute, and influence voters to cast
their ballots for Judge Graves.
It was a dirty piece of political
trickery on the part of Stephens and
the Democratic editors of Platte and
other counties in the district- For
thus attempting to deceive the people
by knowingly misrepresenting the Re
publican chairman and Judge Boyd,
Stephens was alluded to as a shrewd
fellow just the man for theplace, etc.
Now some of the same editors that
defended Stephens' questionable trans-
TAFT THE MAN FOB THE JOB.
He Knows' the Country and the Country also
Knows Him. Sure to he Elected.
Kansas City Times: The republi
can "party, in nominating Secretary
Taft for the presidency, has taken the
least possible risk, political or national,
that could have been incurred by the
action of its convention. Mr. Taft is
the strongest candidate that could have
been named; he is the best equipped
executive available for the office.
Never before has" any party in this
country named for the presidency a
man more admirably prepared for the
office by training and experience or
more strongly backed by-accomplishments
than is Secretary Taft. He is
a great judge. He is a great diplo
mat4 He is a great executive. He
understands business and business con
ditions. He has done great things,
and he has done them easily, expedi
tiously and without friction. What is
more, Mr. Taft knows the whole coun
try and the whole country knows him.
He knows the new possessions as no
other man knows them: He has trav
eled, has made profitable observations
and has been in turn observed by the
world. Every civilized country un
derstands who and what the man is
the republican party presents to the
TTnited States as its choice for chief
magistrate.
Chicago Evening Post: Taft is ad
mirabl fitted to follow Roosevelt.
His administrative policies will be the
administrative policies of the path
tinder. They were his policies as soon
as they were Roosevelt's, and the pres
ident has said so. There is too much
mental substance to the secretary of
war to be any man's thought shadow.
He will take the measures which the
people have approved and will give
them a place in the law. He will
initiate measures of his own, and if the
country sanctions them he will work
with a Roosevelt energy to carry them
into effect Taft is broad, progressive
and safe. The legislation Urged by
the president, but which was received
sullenly by congress, will have in Taft
a forceful advocate. He will see that
it is fitted to the needs of the people
and to the limitations of ihe consti
tution. New York Globe: The problem of
the hour is to get back to peace to
reconcile due progression with due
conservation. Taft is supremely the
man for the job. He is the 'type of
man that is instinctively trusted. His
head and his heart are in admirable
equipoise. A big man physically and
mentally, every ounce of his 300
pounds suggests benignant wholesome
ness. His principles firm and inflexi
ble in adherence to his ideals, he has
no antipathy to tact A hustler, yet a
actions in 1906, appear to be horrified
at his duplicity today. Two years ago
Stephens was using dirt to fight Re
publicans; today he is employing the
same means to defeat a Democrat who
aspires to lead his party in the con
gressional fight
When the Democratic press, that
two years ago put the stamp of appro
val upon Stephens' method of con
ducting a campaign, apologize for the
assistance they then rendered him, the
votors will have a trifle more sympathy
for the fellows who are now squealing
so loud over Stephens' action in dis
tributing the coin from Jim Latta's
barrel.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
In the death of Ex-President Cleve
land the country loses a great man,
and the Democratic party the ablest
representative and exponent of its
principles since the days of Andrew
Jackson.
Grover Cleveland never became in
oculated with the many isms which the
present day Democracy advocate. He
was a vigorous defender of true De
mocracy as he understood it, and for
that reason was denounced by men
claiming to represent the Democratic
party as unfit to represent it in any
capacity.
It was during the second adminis
tration of Mr. Cleveland, when he
called congress together for the pur
pose of repealing the silver purchasing
act known as the Sherman law, that
he proved himself a great man. With
two-thirds of his party demanding the
free coinage of silver, he had the pat
riotism and good sense to place himself
in opposition to the demands of the
silver barons and their dupes and fight
for what he believed to be for the best
interests of his country. He lived to
see his course endorsed by his country
men, and the predictions he made
fully verified and sustained.
Those who abused him in 1894 for
opposing the evident will of his party
leaders, have since acknowledged their
error, and in 1904 endorsed at St
Louis the stand taken by the ex-presi
calm one; a prodigious worker, yet not
an advertiser of his strenuousness,
during his administration the policies
pursued may be similar to those of the
present administration, yet there will
be a not unwelcome difference in de
tail. The election of Taft means
peace and prosperity.
St. Paul Pioneer Press: No presi
dent has ever had a broader expe
rience to fit him for the duties of his
office than has Taft. None has been
gifted with an intellect better endowed.
None has combined with such keen
practical judgment and such strength
of character and energy and geniality
and companionableness that makes
friends even of those who are sent
away empty handed. With all his
responsibilities and in spite of all the
burdens that have been laid on his
shoulders Secretary Taft's good nature
and his interest in the. ordinary things
of life have never flagged. He is a
giant among the statesmen who have
been in the service of the country and
he will be recognized before he has
long been president as one of the
greatest of the succession.
Chicago Tribune: When President
McKinley had to select a man to solve
the great problem of initial govern
ment in the Philippines, he and lead
ers of the party, after considering all
the strong men within the command
of the party and the nation, picked
William Howard Taft. For it was
recognized that in him were combined
courage, initiative, fairness and diplo
macy in the highest degree. In the
Philippines he achieved the unachiev
able. In the Philippines he found
chaos and produced orderly govern
ment and made out of a group of sav
age tribes a nation. He has made him
self a place in history as one of the
great proconsuls the greatest colonial
administrator in the last quarter cen
tury. It was Taft who "sat on the lid"
when the president could not be in
Washington. He was not only secre
tary of war. He was almost another
president Yet of this difficult service
the country knew little or nothing
until he had served in that capacity
for a year or more. It was Taft who
organized the machinery which is
building the Panama canal, who elimi
nated from the Panama commission
the incompetents and who there rec
onciled the quarreling factions. It
was Taft who prevented bloodshed in
Cuba. It was Taft who readjusted
the relations between the United States
and Japan. It was Taft who carried
the message of peace around the world,
so that with the exception of Presi
dent Roosevelt he is the best known
man in public life the world over.
dent during his second administration.
Truly, the Democratic party has
lost the ablest man that has represent
ed its principles since "Old Hickory
passed away.
THE PROHIBITION RECORD.
The crest of the prohibition wave in
the south seems to have passed. The
evidence of Louisiana is added to that
of Georgia. Although the issue in
Georgia was complicated with other
matters anti-prohibition votes defeated
Hoke Smith for governor in the re
cent primary campaign. Gov. Smith,
not originally a prohibitionist, thought
he was appealing to dominant senti
ment when he declared he would veto
any amendment of the statewide pro
hibitory law. His opponent, orginal-
ly a prohibitionist, met the issue by
declaring he would sign any law the
legislature might pass on the subject.
There was considerable dissatisfaction
with the working of the prohibitory
law as far as it had got Gov. Smith s
opponent got the solid vote of the anti-
prohibition and modification elements,
and it elected him governor. His
election does not indicate that the
Georgia prohibitory law will be either
repealed or modified right away. But
it does indicate that the prohibition
tide is not at flood height when the
issue'furnishes explanation for the de
feat of a gubernatorial candidate.
The Georgia result was the first
check the prohibition cohorts received
in the remarkably successful onslaught
on the south. The disappointment
caused by it was made more intense
last week when the Louisiana assem
bly voted to indefinitely postpone a bill
submitting statewide prohibition to a
vote of the people. That was an out
and out defeat in territory previously
believed to be favorable. It will have
a discouraging effect upon the prohi
bitionists who are moving for state
wide prohibition in other southern
states. Itwill correspondingly encour
age the opposition, which had appar
ently come to feel there was no use in
attempting' to check the prohibition
wave when it attacked any southern
state.
Notwithstanding the check in Geor
gia, and the defeat in Louisiana, the
prohibitionists at their national con
vention next month will be able to
point with pride to the record of suc
cess during the past two years. Prior
to 1907 Maine, Kansas and North
Dakota comprised the list of prohibi
tion states, a number of other north
ern states having tried the policy and
abandoned it' Within the last two
years Alaluma, Georgia, Mississippi,
North Carolina and Oklahoma have
been added to the "dry" list. No new
northern states have been won over,
nor is there much anticipation in that
direction. But great progress has been
made in a number of northern states
with the policy of county option. Un
der a new county option law many
counties in Illinois went "dry" this
spring. At the late Oregon election
county after county voted itself into
"dry" ranks. In other local option
states less notable progress was made.
While the north has not warmed up
to statewide prohibition it has been
affected in another way by the prohi
bition excitement down south. There
has been a general awakening of sen
timent against the lawless and crime
breeding saloon. In many cities there
has been activity to bring about the
strict enforcement of legal saloon
regulation and to tighten the regula
tion system where it was lax. Much
real temperance reform has been ac
complished along these lines. Not the
least gratifying feature of this move
ment was the appearance of the brew
ers, distillers, wholesalers and the
better element among the retailets in
the ranks of those demanding rational
regulation, strict enforcement of law
and the suppression of the low saloon
dive. This element has assumed this
attitude as a matter of business, con
sidering it the most effective way to
head off prohibition, but the practical
results in the interests of temperance
are not lessened on that account
The prohibitionists will-have a presi
dential ticket in the field as nsual this
year, and they predict a new high
water mark for the prohibition vote
throughout the country. Voting the
national prohibition ticket is not a
very practical way of advancing the
interests of temperance, and it may be
doubted whether many members of
the regular political parties will waste
their votes to build up the prohibition
total. Sioux City Journal.
Will the Denver platform declare
for the government ownership of rail
ways, the free coinage of silver, the
hauling down of the flag in the Phil
ippines and the disfranchisement of
the negro? All of these various "re
forms" have been advocated by Mr.
Bryan with the exception of the latter,
a question on which he is silent. If
the above planks are left out is it to be
construed that the enemies of Bryan
dictated the platform ?
Another "biggest engine in the
world" has recently been turned over
to the Erie railroad. The monster
weighs 287 tons and is capable of pull
ing a string of loaded wheat cars two
miles long at the rate of eight miles
per hour.
Tom Taggart has been mentioned as
a suitable candidate for Vice President
on the ticket with Bryan. Taggart
undoubtedly has the ability to preside
over a faro table; but presiding officer
of the United States Senate is not in
his class.
$150 for Best Article.
The Republican Congressional Com
mittee offers $150 for the best article not
exceeding 1,000 words on the subject:
-WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL NEXT
NOVEMBER."
The competition is open to all.
In judging the merits of contributions
consideration will be given not only to
style, arguments and facts presented,
bat to the convincing power, and it
should be borne in mind that Members
of Congress are to be elected as well as
President and Vice-President
No manuscripts will be returned, but
will be the property of the Committee.
The best article will be widely used
both in the newspapers of the country
and in pamphlet form.
The award will be made and check
sent to the successful contestant about
August 15th. Manuscripts most be
mailed not later than July 15th to
Literary Bubkau,
Republican Congressional Committee,
Metropolitan Bank Building,
Washington, D. C.
Ths Vesnsxa State Heliitat Camp
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The very heavy rains which overflowed
Epworth Lake Park and much of the
street car track leading to the ground
made a postponement of the camp meet
ing absolutely necessary. The camp
meeting has been postponed to July 9th
to 19th. There will be no change in the
place of the meeting, the program as
advertised in the folder and only a slight
change in the working force. The time
ia nawao abort lack all .who read this
notice to assist ia advertising the post
poned nesting. W. H. Bassoon, Secy.
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For Appearances' Sake.
"What would you say if your party
leaders were to come to you and saj
your country called you?"
"If I were sure they spoke with sin
cerity," replied Senator Sorghum, "J
should exhibit great reluctance."
"Even though they besought you?
"Certainly. It's only when they arc
beseeching you that it is safe to show
reluctance." Washington Star.
Marital Persiflage.
"I must confess," remarked Mrs.
Crabbe, "I don't believe there ever was
a really perfect man."
"Well," replied Mr. Crabbe, "I sup
pose that's because Eve wasn't made
first."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, if Eve had been made first
she would have bossed the job of mak.
lng Adam." Philadelphia Press.
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TICKET A6ERTS.
Terrible Appetite for Chicken.
Henry E. Dixey was sneering about
the squabble that went ou between two
brave young men over a Carnegie'
medal.
"It is not a very ennobling thing."
he said, "to see two heroes fighting
and jawing over a medal for heroism.
Mn Carnegie should have thought ot
this when he originated his hero fund
"The taste for medals, once formed,
is worse than the taste for chicken.
You know what Mrs. Washington
White said of her husband, don't you?
"'My Wash,' she said, 'is the wust
man for chicken you ever see. Why,
if he can't git a chicken no other way,
he'll go and buy one.' "
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