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What has become of Tom Darnell?
la the defeat of Pollard, Nebraska
looaei the ablest representative in the
lower branch of congress.
Thomas & Schlitz, Games & Krug,
Batde & Gond are the names of some
of the political firms that assisted in
defeating George L. Sheldon.
In Lancaster county the issue on
election day was county option, and
that issue won out about the only
place it did. When the Republican
party adopts a side line issue it usually
gets the worst of it
Here are some of the measures the
Democrats of Nebraska stand pledged
to enact: A bank guarantee law; an
act providing for the election of town
ship assessors and an act locating a
state agricultural college in the west
ern part of the state.
The State Journal wants the next
legislature to appropriate money to
purchase land in Lincoln and erect
homes thereon for instructors in the
state university. When it comes to
desaanding something for Lincoln, the
Journal is not at all modest
There is a growing suspicion among
county optionistB that they have been
"worked" by Thomas, BattieA Carnes.
The adoption of a county option law
would have thrown thuv bunch of
"reformers out of a job' and cut off
contributions for the support of the
Anti-Saloon League.
That extra session of the legislature
the Governor threatened to convene
after the election returns commenced
coming in will probably never be
called. There is no demand for it
The people have already passed upon
the question of county option and
elected a legislature and governor
opposed to it
The banner Republican county of
the United States is not in the north
but in a section of the country where
one would least expect to find it
Down in southern Texas bordering on
the banks of the Rio Grande is the
county of Zapta, where 424 votes were
polled on election day for Taft and
the other candidates on the Republi
can ticket Every vote cast in the
county was for the Republican candi
dates. There isn't a Democrat in
Zapta county.
The Nebraska Capital, started by
Frank Harrison with the evident in
tention of assisting grafting politicians
in both parties, and boosting county
option and guar?te3 of bank deposits,
accomplished its object in Lancaster
county. The county option ticket was
elected and Sheldon slaughtered where
he should have received a majority of
3,000. Harrison is the smoothest and
dirtiest politicians in Lancaster coun
ty. The training he received while
acting as lobbyist and pass distributor
lor the Union Pacific has made him a
past master in the art of manipulating
ptljtifi
There is a disposition on the part of
soate of the county option papers to
place upon "Victor Rosewater respon
sibility for the defeat of Governor
8hsldon. Inspiration for this charge
is taken from the editorial columns of
the State Journal and Frank Harri
s's Nebraska Capital, which insisted
king local option the issue in the
ipaign and throwing ice at every
candidate for the legislature who re
fused to publicly endorse the option
hQL Fair-minded Republicans recog
nise the splendid work done for the
stats and national ticket by the Bee
and the attempt to shift the respond
hOity for the defeat of Sheldon onto
Sosvwatar is so transparent that it
will mot deceive the true friends of
ihsGo
BIS BWBittiiw Mf t
WHO DEFEATED SHELDON?
Fusion of the county optionists and
breweries defeated Governor Sheldon.
Without the votes of the optionists
the breweries would have been on the
losing side and Sheldon would have
been elected. The railways did not
cut much of a figure in the contest as
railway men usually vote their senti
ments regardless of-what the officials
of the company desire.
When the Republican convention
met at Lincoln a platform was adopted.
On that platform the candidates went
before the people and asked for re
election. The platform was silent on
the question of county option. It
was not considered a party issue. But
the absence of a county option plank
in the platform left some extremely
sore spots in different parts of the state,
and the radical press that regarded
county option as of more importance
than the election of Taft and the Re
publican state ticket opened a cam
paign against candidates for the legis
lature who would not pledge them
selves to obey the demands of Elmer
Thomas, the Rev. Carnes and other
members and agitators of the Anti-
Saloon League. The Albion News,
Osceola Record and Columbus Tri
bune were the most radical of the
prohibition press in demanding county
option and insisting that it was the
issue of the campaign in Nebraska.
It was not until after the campaign
for county option had opened that the
breweries entered the contest and de
cided to throw their influence to Shal
lenberger. Previous to this there was
a rumor that Governor Sheldon had
promised that he would sign a county
option bill, although it is said he
never made a public statement to that
effect, as he did not consider the ques
tion an issue in the campaign. The
action of the Governor in refusing to
be coerced aroused the ire of the
Thomas and Carnes clique in the Anti
Saloon League and a circular endors
ing Shallenberger was sent out from
Omaha, and the county optionists
obeyed the demands of the chief agita
tors and went to the polls and slaugh
tered the best Governor the state ever
had.
In Boone county, which is usually
Republican, Shallenberger received a
majority of 121 over Sheldon, but the
county option candidate for the legis
lature received a majority of 404 votes
over his opponent
In Polk county, where the county
option candidate for State Senator on
the Republican ticket received a
majority of 383, Shallenberger, with
the assistance of the optionists, had a
majority of 159 over Sheldon.
In York county, another stronghold
of the county optionists, Sheldon was
slaughtered by prohibition votes.
The prohibitionists have always
been the foe of the Republican party.
Wherever the Republican party has
taken up and endorsed or fought for
the radical ideas of those opposed to
the liquor traffic the party has got the
worst of it After adopting a prohi
bition law in Kansas, the prohibition
ists assisted the Democrats in electing
Glick governor of the state. In Iowa,
the prohibitionists drove Cummins
into temporary obscurity' twenty-four
years ago and prevailed upon the Re
publican party to endorse a prohibi
tion law. At the next state election
Iowa elected Boise, a Democrat gov
ernor, and re-elected him two years
later. In 1888, in North and South
Dakota, the Republicans endorsed
prohibition, and later the administra
tion in both states changed and the
Democrats came into power. At the
late election the endorsement of radi
cal ideas by the republicans of Indiana
and.Ohio, resulted in the election of a
Democratic governor and legislature
in the former state, and the defeat of
the Republican candidate for gover
nor in the latter state.
If Republicans hope to be success
ful two years hence they must get
together pull together and work
together. If the party allows the rad
ical element to control and dictate its
policies and platforms it cannot hope
to succeed.
Convert to New Creed.
At a dianer recently given in honor
of Augustus Thomas, the playwright
Mr. Thomas discussed his recent ef
forts at writing plays about telepathy,
the occult etc., and said
1 am compelled to admit that the
occult la becoming popular. Only the
other day a chorus girl was entering
the lobby of a theater when she met
the manager.
" "Well, I declare, Mr. Brown,' she
exclaimed, if this isn't odd. Here I
was Just thinking of you this minute.
and now you turn up. I always did be
lieve in osteopathy.' " Rehoboth Sun.
day Herald.
Finished Him.
Tee." prattled the artless damsel,
1 have eight brothers and four sisters.
There were IS In mother's family, and
14 m her mother's. It's funny about
oar family. Now, my oldest sister"
"Maude!" gasped the young man,
"yon mustn't taka what I've been say
tag to you seriously. I hope you er
understand that it was only a flirta
tion, and that when I asked you to se-
my wife, I er well, yon nader-
ton't
WHAT WE HAVE DONE
WITH OUR PRESIDENTS
Mr. Roosevelt Will Find Distinguished Precedent for Either Retiring to
Private Life or Returning to Public Service in Some Capacity Less in
Rank Than That of the Presidency John Quincy Adams and Andrew
Johnson Went to Congress After They Retired From the White House.
Some one once said that America
was getting tobe a nation of unwritten
laws. It was before the day of emo
tional murders and the term referred
entirely to the number of recognized,
but baseless customs growing up
among a supposedly democratic people.
Nothing in the ordinary course of na
tional events will more readily illus
trate what is meant than the discussion
centering about the mission of a Presi
dent after his term has expired. Theo
dore Roosevelt is about to retire from
his office and it is already rumored
that he may, if he should so desire,
succeed the ancient Thomas Collier
Piatt as senator from New York.
This rumor alone will form the pre
mise for a lot of speculation.
It is a little remarkable, but quite a
truth, that the president of the "world's
greatest free government" is bound
about by numerous more or less staid
and archaic usages, the disobedience of
which is shunned with all sedulity.
That no man shall hold the highest
office more than two terms, though
probably a desirable rule, is yet one of
those traditional usages, and it has lent
its force to many minor offices as well.
That the President shall not leave
the bounds of the United States under
any considerations while in office is
another of this unwritten but firmly
established laws, albeit the present
Chief Magistrate rudely disturbed it
on his Panama trip. There are many
who contend that Panama is a part of
the United States and that, therefore,
no rule was broken, yet this argument
is easily set aside.
In Mr. Cleveland's administration,
many may remember, the President
was taken to task for going into Cana
dian waters while fishing among the
the Thousand Islands and a fuss was
raised about it, though Cleveland had
his headquarters on an American is
land. Again, in his administration,
Cleveland went more than three miles
to sea on a steamer trip from the Caro
lina to Washington. The authority
of a government reaches only three
miles to sea, so that Cleveland did
leave the United States on that trip.
President Roosevelt went much further
to sea than Cleveland.
Harrison once walked out on a
bridge across the Rio Grande where
it forms the boundry between the
States and Mexico. In mid-stream a
line painted across the bridge marked
the precise border, and across it Har
rison would not pass. McKinley saw
the same bridge, but did not approach
it
All this is, perhaps, irrelevant, and
has to do with the way these traditions
are kept, rather than with what they
are.
Mr. Roosevelt will have one of these
customs to disregard should he decide
to accept a senatorship at the hands of
his state. It has always been a more
or less vaguely defined, but well es
tablished custom that ex-Presidents
shall retire from politics or aggressive
interest in government The rule
probably was established when Wash
ington the western Cincinnatus they
called him for it having come from
his farm to the Revolution and the
Presidency, went back to it at the
conclusion of his second term in office,
to die in retirement three years later.
Monroe, whose general polish and
breeding gave the Presidency more
conventions than one, added to the
strength of this custom when he declar
ed that no ex-President should be a
party leader and refused to take part
in politics.
But, for that matter, the rule had
been broken before Monroe really es
tablished it, not by the actual holding
of office, but by the public interest
m John Adams manifested after his dis
appointment and retirement
It may be interesting to know just
what the Presidents did after their re
tirement from office, how many of them
aided in the hallowing of the rule and
how many chose other paths. At the
outset it may be said, as applicable tc
President Roosevelt's possible case
that only two men really held federal
office subsequent to having been Presi
dent John Quincy Adams and And
rew Johnson.
But many others were active politi
cally or otherwise, thus failing to ad
here to the sacred theory that a Presi
dent ought not later occupy a less ex
alted place fa affairs, thereby possibly
demeaning himself. ,
Washington, as has been said, re
tired and died at Mount Vernon in
1799.
John Adams, disheartened by his
defeat at the hands of Jefieraon, whom
he hated with an unforgiving choler
for a time, retired to his home in
Quincy, Maw., and lived quietly for
some years. . So bitter was he that he
that he, drove away from the capital at
6 o'clock on the morning of March 4,
a few hours before the time was set for
Jefferson's arrival, leaving the author
of the Declaration of Independence to
go through with that simple formality
as best he might But Adams lived a
long quarter century after his retire
ment His anger and mortification
wore away in time and he came into
especial note again in 1820, when he
was a delegate to the Massachusetts
constitutional convention. Adams
threw the final years of his life into a
worthy effort to secure religious and
political equality in Massachusetts for
others than Puritans and Christians.
He lived to see the culmination of his
work.
Adams died July 3, 1820, a few
hours after Jefferson breathed his life
away, with a final exclamination which
showed how completely time had heal
ed the old wound:
"Thank God, Jefferson still lives."
And Jefferson, though he is gener
ally cited as one of the men who re
tired into dignified obscurity after the
lapse of his last term, is, in fact, a
better example of the other school.
It is true, he did go back to his loved
Monticello and live for a number of
years in the humblest circumstances.
The embargo on tobacco had reduced
him to such penury that his creditors
made his departure from the capital
uncomfortable. The acquisecense of
Jefferson in the very measure which
ruined him stands even still as one of
the most unselfish acts of the Presi
dents. But, in the declining years of
his life, Jefferson came into vast pro-
a a a -
minence again when he began the
agitation for free public schools in
Virginia and the entire nation. Pos
sibly of all the acts of Jefferson least is
known of this last and crowning work
of his life, a work whose final import
ance and bearing on the destiny of the
nation can be accounted second not
even to the purchase of the Louisana
territory.
Jefferson died before the common
school portion of his great plan had
been realized but he did manage to
found the University of Virginia, as
you many read on his monument
Madison went back to the day and
ideal of Washington. He spent the
remaing twenty years of his life with
his books and his dreams ot Montpe
lier, his Virgina estate.
Monroe lived only seven years after
his retirement and he spent all of that
time at home. It was when asked to
become an elector that he declined
with the famous declaration that an ex
President should never become a party
leader.
The next President is without doubt
the most widely recognized example of
chief magistrate who later held a low
er office in the government Two years
after his retirement in 1829, John
Quincy Adams was offered a. seat in
the lower branch of Congress and read
ily accepted. Then, for seventeen
consecutive years, he served his coun
try as brilliantly and well as ever he
might have in the White house. Few
of the official acts of the second Adams
while in the Presidential seat have
withstood the mutation of time in the
popular knowledge of American his
tory, but at least one of his acts in Con
gress will always be unforgettable.
Toward the end of Adams' service in
the House, the slave question became
a decidedly livid issue in Congress, and
as attempt was made by the slave sym
pathizers, then in powerful majority,
to abolish the reading of the petitions
for the abolition of slavery in the na
tion generally, but in the District of
Columbia in particular. Adams vig
orously opposed this arbitrary disre
gard of the right of petition and for
the first time in American history, the
gag rule was employed against him.
Almost alone, lampooned, reviled
and threatened, Adams carried on his
fight for these two cardinal principles
of popular liberty and free government
He was threatened with expulsion from
the House and actually faced down re
solutions captiously accusing him of all
sorts of crimes.
It was in this long battle, lasting
several sessions, that Adams won his
title "old man eloquent" In the mid
st of one of the wildest scenes the house
ever has known, with the galleries in
constant uproar, Adams talked the
resolutions against him to death. For
eleven days he- occupied the floor
reading petitions, speaking, ridiculing
his enemies; amidst wild cheers from
the disorderly galleries, and he lived
to see his enemies completely routed,
thereby firmly establishing the right
to petition and be heard.
Adams fell dead of heart disease on
the floor of the House, where his voice
so 'often had rung. A bronze tablet
marks the spot where he died.
Andrew Jackson took a decidedly
active part in politics after his last
term elapsed. His letters ou public
questions were famous and one of them
ruined his friend and partisan Martin
Van Buren, losing the control of the
Democracy to the slavery wing. But
Jackson, even so, lived to see his ene
mies humbled.
Martin Van Buren was one of the
two Presidents who sought office un
successfully after their defeat for se
cond terms. Some years after his re
tirement Van Buren became the Pre
sidential candidate of the Free Soil
party, but received no electoral votes.
He later came to the front (in 1843)
with clear-cut views in favor of the
"tariff for revenue only" idea of which
he has been called the father. Van
Buren was the first President to go
soroaa aner nis retirement irora omce,
establishing a precendent followed by
Polk, Fillmore, Pierce and Grant and
about to be followed by Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison was the
first President to die in office. He
was succeeded by John Tyler, who af
ter retirement, took a feverishly active
interest in the affairs leading up to the
Civil war and was elected a member of
the permanent Congress, but died in
1862 just before it was convened by
Lincoln. Had he lived he would have
been another holder of lower office.
Zachary Taylor was the second Presi
dent to die in office. Millard Fillmore,
his successor, was the only President
besides Van Buren to become an unsuc
cessful candidate after his original re
tirement He tried to succeed him
self, but could not command the ne
cessary twenty votes from the Free
states. Later he became the nominee
of the short-lived America party and
obtained the vote of Maryland, but
that was all. He went abroad later.
Franklin Pierce traveled abroad for
three years and then retired to his
home.
James Buchanan, one of the least
active of the Presidents, retired to his
home in Pennsylvania in 1861 and
lived there until his death in 1868. He
was lost in the stress of the great Civil
war and forgotten until his death stir
red the recollection of his disaffected
and ungrateful countrymen.
The passing of Buchanan brings the
narrative to Lincoln and the Presidents
of the new era, whose careers are too
widely remembered to need much dis
cussion. Lincoln, dying by the hand
of an assassin, left the office to Andrew
Johnson. After all the calumnies he
endured in office and his narrow es
cape from impeachment, Johnson was'
sent to the Senate from Tennessee in
1875. Two weeks after he took his
seat he committed the final indiscretion
of his life when he delivered a most
bitter and ill-timed attack on President
Grant Disheartened bv the effect it
produced, Johnson retired to his home
in Tennessee and lived only a few mon
ths. Thus the only man except the
younger Adams who ever held a second
federal office, died a crushed and broken-hearted
man, to an extent at least,
the victim of the time and its spirit
General Grant made his widely
known trip; returned to the ruins of his
toppled fortune and wrote his memoirs
while he lay patiently awaiting death.
Rutherford B. Hayes went back to
Ohio and spent the last twelve years of
his life in quiet retirement
Chester A. Arthur was defeated for
renominationand retired to his home in
New York, a virtual political recluse.
He died less than two years later.
Cleveland and Harrison lived in at
least comparative retirement after the
expiration of their terms, and McKin
ley was slain when entering on his se
cond term.
Thus Mr. Roosevelt may find distin
guished precedent either way. Kan
sas City Star.
BELIEVES IN WOMEN'S CLUBS.
Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe Thinks
a Power for Good.
Them
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, now almost
a nonagenarian, is still moved by
living enthusiasm for the cause she
has so long supported. To a young
southern writer who was Introduced
to her In Boston last year Mrs. Howe,
after due .exchange of conversation,
said: "And now, my dear, go home
and start a little club for women; any
kind of a little club, but make them
meet and read and talk. That is what I
did. I can't tell you how many little
clubs Tve started in my day." One
can easily realize what a godsend to
dull and shut-in lives Mrs. Howe's
clubs may hare been a half century
ago, when the outlets to women's
lives were fewer than they are now.
Clubs nowadays, however, are accused
of drawing women away from more
serious and worthy pursuits than 'they
can furnish them.
It Is.
"How are you getting on In
endeavor to win the hand of
your
Miss
Skadar
"Fine"
"Why, I heard that the entire family
wis down on you, all but she?"
"-Wen, isn't that doing finer Hous
ton Post
TheUBCandXYlof :
ADVERTISING
A SERIES OF TEN TALKS ON
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The advertising science is anything but exact.
It is an easy matter to diagnose symptoms. But in
advertising, as in medicine, very different causes
produce very similar disturbances; eye strain, a
wabbly steamer deck, or green watermelon; each
means an upset stomach.
But there are some broad general principles
which are as permanent as the eternal hills.
Mouth to mouth talk is the great secret of popular
advertising success. As a general rule people are
short on talk. They are always running out. The
hopper must be fed. The shrewd advertiser scores
every time he produces a new topic of conversation.
If he fails to make people talk about his goods he
makes them talk about himself. They wash with his
soap or drink his tea or rub on his axle grease just
to get in touch with him. iu.
Talk can be created about the most common
place things ; baked beans or tooth powder or linen
collars. You need only to know what switch to turn
on.
Human nature has not differed for six thousand
years; but the point of view is constantly changing.
If the people remained the same; if business
conditions remained the same; if society and the
weather remained the same, then the advertising of
last year would apply this year. But it doesn't. The
point of view is different. We are in a continuous
turmoil of change. The successful advertiser must
live right up even with the clock. Advertise every
day to meet the conditions of today. An adver
tisement that made a big hit last year may fall flat and
dead this year. There is in everything a fullness of
time; a season when the fruit is ripe; periods 'when
all conditions seem to lend themselves to success.
The advertiser must have discernment sharp enough
and vision clear enough to know the year and the
month and the day of the month in which the people
are not only living, but in which they are thinking.
Make goods or entertainment or social position
hard to obtain or scarce in amount and then it is that
people fall over each other in the mad rush to see
somebody else get left. The moment you put up the
bars and say "Don't" then it is that people want to
climb. The sweetest apples in your neighbor's orchard
are those on the tree nearest the dog.
"oYuwivcstr
(Copyright. 1SJOS. by Trlbuie Company, Chicago.)
DODGE THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS.
Women Adopt Novel Means of Smug
gling Their Pet Dogs.
An equerry to the king of Saxony
was recently summoned for endeavor
ing to smuggle a pet dog ashore at
Dover, England. It was noticed that
his wife, the countess, looked bulky
round the waist when she landed, and
on examination it was found that she
had a dog in a bag hanging from her
waist and under her coat. This is
really the most fashionable smuggling
that is done at the present day.
Many women smuggle their tiny
pet dogs backward and forward, to
and from the continent, concealed in
a muff, or some other means. One of
the most ingenious tricks in this di
rection was told by a well-known vet
erinary surgeon, who, two or three
times a year, has to administer mor
phia to a couple of very small dogs.
Their owner is rather portly, and the
dogs pass the customs officers quite
safely, reposing one above each breast
of the lady.
FEELS THE LOSS OF HIS HOME.
Nature Student's Cruel Experiment
with the Hermit Crab.
"At the seashore it is an interesting
experiment to look for those little
shell-dwelling crabs called hermits,1
said a nature student.
"You find one, then you break his
shellhouse. His look of independence
at jonce leaves him. Houseless, he
EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
should be photographed at regular intervals. Phe photographs are a
pictorial history of their progress and growth.
" HAVE YOUR FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHED
here and too will secure the beat Dortraits it is
they are all with job. The dearest possession
some loved one who has gone away or bejoad.
Successor to Warn. Helwig.
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of
rusnes nere and
with a helpless,
ate air.
there, up and down,
terrified and desper-
"Then you find another shell of the
proper shape and size, and yo set
it In his way. He halts before It. He
takes Its measurement. As quickly
as possible he bustles in.
"Then his helpless and lost air van
ishes, and, a haughty and fearless
householder once more, he frowns out
at you from his window, as muck as
to say:
"'Go on about your business!"
Out of Usual
It is interesting to
something original In
Ruts.
come across
an epigram-
matte way once in a while in
a new
book. Miss Willcock's "A Man of
Genius" makes one pause over a para
graph long enough to read it twice,
every once In a while. "You've got a
temperature of 104, Tolstoi and I
can't operate. If you'd caught some
thing in HiB instead of Ism, I might,"
some one says, and again, "Thinking;
is like sugar good for the young, but
gouty for the old."
Like Exciting Stories.
At the annual meeting of the Amer
ican Library association at Lake Min
netonka C. L. Pearson declared that
boys love exciting stories, and that If
they are to be induced to read they
must have such stories. If they can
not get good ones of the kind they will
take bad ones, and it behooves tha
writers to remember these things in
connection with the tastes of a boy.
to
rodace. Do it now while
ia some
old is a picture taken of
DeHART STUDIO.
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