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In the United
MONTANA OLAHK.
States senate on
April 27 , 1900 , the guileless Chandler ,
whose patriotic career is the pride of
Now Hampshire , announced "that on
next Wednesday he would ask the senate
to take up the case of Senator Olark of
Montana , adding that if no one should
desire to speak in opposition to the re
port of the committee he would have
nothing to say in support of it. "
This will prevent "a bull market , " for
seuatorships in several state legislatures
next winter. It is agreeable to observe
the friendship , pathetically implied , for
the O. O. D. Senator from Montana by
the death-certificated senator from Ne
braska. The tender consideration of
Olark , by Allen , "touches" the
"touohee" no doubt with the sweet
fidelity of the "toucher. "
"Allen expressed the hope that the
senate would not be asked to act upon
this cose until the senators could have
an opportunity to read the testimony.
In view of the fact that the committee
had taken two or three months to investi
gate the subject he did not consider it
fair that the senate should be asked to
dispose of the matter within two or
three days' notice. Such a request was
ridiculous in any tribunal. "
By a parity of reasoning , Judge Allen ,
when a jury remained out thirty-six
hours and found a man guilty of bribery ,
would take eight or ten hours to dis
cover whether he would sentence the
party or not.
If Olark could afford to pay $135-
000 cash for a six years' sojourn in the
senate , how much will he pay for each
day now ? He puts off his dismissal ,
through Allen of Nebraska , who wires
out instructions to republicans in behalf
of Thurston. Alien is a very sincere
populist.
CHARACTER.
Harrison has the
happy faculty of saying some very good
things. He never uttered a greater
truism than when , in speaking to the
school children at Indianapolis , he said :
"Intellectual attainment , the mastery
of sciences , is a very poor thing , not a
good thing at all , if along with this
increase of knowledge there has not
been the bettering and stiffening of
character , and of high moral aims. It
is not wealth or equipage or personal
attainments that make one differ from
another. It is character. "
SAVE EXPENSE.
expenses , profani
ties , tobacco , whisky , beer , wine , head
aches and bad tastes in the mouth , by
dispensing with both national conven
tions this year. Let MoKiuley and
Bryan each select running mates and
proceed to the campaign.
Possibly Bryan would take MoKinley
for vice-president and MoKinloy select
Bryan for the same place. This would
place the "principles of each" in the
proper condition for "benevolent assimi
lation" and "criminal
prevent aggres
sion" by outsiders seeking either the
presidency or vice-presidency.
SMYTH. Attorney-Gener.
al Smyth sings
fear-inspiring songs to the infant triplets ,
populism , Bryanarohy and silver re
publicanism.
He arouseth their fears with hymns
about the Standard Oil behemoth which
eats up a dozen or two human beings
before breakfast every day in Nebraska.
He kindleth their rage with chapters
from the plutocratic piracies of the rail
roads.
He showeth the plain people how ,
under the diabolism of the gold stand
ard , the wicked railroads aforesaid have
raised land values in Nebraska all along
their lines from five to twenty-five dollars
lars an acre.
Smyth , the protector ; Smyth , the
defender ; Smyth , the law expounder ;
Smyth , the psalmist of calamity , the
prophet of disaster , thy songs enchant
and move the mighty masses ( all but
the m ) .
In 1808 the Grand
TEMI'I AIt
TIIUKSTON. Lodge of the Inde
pendent Order of
Good Templars hold its session at Platts-
mouth. There was then no more zealous
temperance worker and absolutely un-
irrigated and intensely arid total
abstainer from vinous , malt and spirit
uous beverages than Troubadour John
Templar Thurstou. Ho was then a
candidate for "delegate from Nebraska
to the right worthy Grand Lodge of
North America. " He sighed to become ,
then , the representative of Nebraska's
temperance teetotalers. Ho declaimed ,
he importuned , he exhorted , he orated
and oven recited a cold water poem , but
in vain. He was not chosen. He has
never since been distinguished in anti-
imbibing circles. The poem ho recited
then was watered more than some of his
drinks have been subsequently. Whether
John still cherishes the "white purity
ribbon , " which he wore that day , is
unknown.
We sometimes
110SSISM. . . . , .
boast of the priv
ileges of self-government , as if the
people were really potent in the selec
tion of their public servants and the ad
ministration of their government. The
way conventions are manipulated in
New York is indicated by the following
dispatch which appeared in the Boston
Herald :
"There is to be a republican state con
vention in New York today. There had
been some speculation as to what would
be its action , principally in view of the
course taken toward Gov. Roosevelt , but
Platt has sent on word definitely from
Washington and all doubts have dis
appeared. Roosevelt will be kept where
he is , both as regards the governorship
and the vice-presidency , as far as the
action of the convention is concerned.
He will not be nominated for the vice-
presidenoy nor will anybody else be
thus giving him no opportunity to de
cline the office , and leaving the ground
open to propose him in the future if an
other effort in that direction is deemed
advisable. He will be approved as gov
ernor , but will not be presented for re
election. Thus decrees Platt , and Platt's
decrees are law to the men whom he
permits to be elected to conventions in
order that they may be formally carried
out. "
The same methods prevail in Nebraska
except that the name of the boss hap
pens to be Bryan instead of Platt ,
