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S 28,770
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The Baldwin political locomotive
rnshlng to a head-on collision.
is
Corn worth 50 cenis a bushel may yet
Xrove a cheaper fuel than hard coal.
Is It not about time to make it a crim
inal offense to escape from blood
bounds? It is easy enough to see why the rail
roads wanted to own the Omaha police
board through the Baldwin-Mercer al
liance. Trades nnlon working-men of Omaha
should keep off the grass on Jefferson
square at the peril of being injuncted
and incarcerated.
It may be necessary yet to require pul
pit orators to submit their manuscript
when they are to speak with a president
la the audience.
It can be said for Colonel Bryan that
If he does throw brickbats at the Iowa
democrats, he keeps out of the state
.when throwing them.
How many members of the school
board would run their own private bust
Bess the same way they are running the
business of the public schools?
Government by nonresidents seems to
be the new order o the day. Our revo
lutionary forefathers bit the first vital
blow at nonresident government
French naval critics eay that Ameri
Jean warships are too large. Spanish
naval critics are on record as holding
that American gunnery Is too accurate,
The requisition of the Anheuser-Busch
Brewing company in support of Our
Dave has been received, but the amount
of the contribution la only known to
Mercer's Pooh-Bah.
And every member of the Baldwin
Mercer police board subscribed to i
solemn oath that he would not be influ
enced by political considerations in the
discharge of official duty.
It Is extremely dangerous, under the
Injunction of Judge McPherson, to in
sinuate that the lockout of the Union
Pacific shopmen, which is ordinarily
called a strike or combine, could and
should have been settled long ago by
arbitration.
Judge John M. Craig, in accepting the
democratic nomination for congress in
the First Iowa district, declares that he
Is right on all the great issues. Per
haps he means to say that he would
rather. In the democratic sense, be right
than be congressman.
Tosslbly ex-Governor Boies may ask
the democratic nomination for president
on the ground that he is now trying to
undo some of the monetary mischief
that he advocated when an aspirant for
that honor In 1890. At any rate, that
would be the strongest plea be could
possibly make for himself.
If you want to keep out of Jail, do not
mention It above a whisper that Mr.
Burt's piecework mandate to the Union
Pacific shopmen la a lockout to force
the worklngmen either to forswear their
allegiance to the unlou or to
qu
it
work and expose themselves to all
the
hardships and privation Incident
It Is gratifying to note In the census
returns that among all the states of the
union Nebraska continues to head fbe
list for small per cent of Illiteracy. ;Of
Its population between the ages of 10
and 14 yearg IW.06 per cent are returned
aa able to read and write. Iowa comes
next with 10.03 per cent The lowest
la Louisiana, with 07.12 per cent
THE STATES AltD THE TRVSTS.
There Is nowhere a disposition to de
prive the states of whatever authority
they possess to deal with the trusts.
The democratic assumption that th!s Is
the purpose of the republican party Is
bsolutely unwarranted. In his refer
ences to the trust problem President
Roosevelt has never stiRgested or Inti
mated any desire to restrict the author
ity of the states. 'No leading republican
has done so. The president In his first
message to congress, said there is utter
ack of uniformity in the state laws
about the large corporations, and, as no
state has any exclusive Interest in or
power over the acts of the corporations,
It has in practice proved Impossible to
get adequate regulation through state
action. This is a . fact with which
everybody is familiar who has given the
matter any consideration.
The president said that therefore, In
the interest of the whole people, the
nation should, "without Interfering with
the power of the states In the matter it
self, also assume power of supervision
and regulation over all corporations do
ing an Interstate business." lie urged
that thla la especially trae where the
corporation derives a portion of 1U
wealth from the existence of some mo
nopolistic element or tendency In Its
business. Referring to conditions at
the time the national constitution was
adopted President Roosevelt said: "At
that time It waa accepted aa a matter
of course that the several states were
the proper authorities to regulate,' so far
as was then necessary, the compara
tively insignificant and strictly local
ized bodies of the day. The conditions
are now wholly different and wholly
different action is called for. I believe
that a law can be framed which will
enable the national government to ex
ercise control along the lines above in
dicated, profiting by the experience
gained through the passage and ad
ministration of the Interstate commerce
act If, however, the judgment of the
congress la that it lacks the constitu
tional power to pass such an act, then
constitutional amendment should be
submitted to confer the power."
There is nothing In this that suggests
depriving the states of any of the power
now belonging to them for the regula
tion of the great Industrial combina
tions. Nor has the republican party
ever contemplated, aa charged by the
democrats, any abridgment of the
powers of the states in this direction.
The proposed amendment to the con
stitution, submitted by the judiciary
committee of the house in the Fifty
sixth congress, giving congress power
to define, regulate, control, prohibit or
dissolve trusts, monopolies or combina
tion, whether existing in the form of
corporations or otherwise, there was a
clause that "the several states may con
tinue to exercise this power In any man
ner not In conflict with the laws of the
United States." The allegation of the
democrats, that the republican proposi
tion to amend the constitution of the
United States so as to give congress
greater power to deal with the trusts,
contemplates an Invasion or Infringe
ment of the rlghta and powers of the
state. Is wholly without warrant or Justi
fication.
THE tVREST FIRES.
The forest fires in Oregon, Washing
ton, Wyoming and Colorado, which have
already destroyed a great deal of prop
erty and many Uvea and threaten to
be yet more disastrous, again call at
tention to the question whether ade
quate precautions are taken to prevent
these fearfully destructive visitations.
From present indications the fires now
raging promise to be the most disastrous
in many years. The losses in Oregou
thus far are estimated to exceed a mil
lion dollars, and the destruction in tho
other states Is not less than that amount,
but the graver fact Is the loss of life,
while hundreds of people have been
made homeless. The regions where
these fires prevail have for the past sea
son, or indeed for the last two seasons,
been remarkably dry, so that there Is
more than the usual amount of com
bustible matter for the conflagration,
which in some localities Is beyond con
trol. The Washington authorities are tak
ing active Interest In the matter and
have made such provision as they can
to stay the devastation, but it does not
appear from the latest advices that
much can be done, at least beyond bet
ter protecting the timber on the gov
ernment reservations.
PROTECTING QOVEttyMlC&'T EMPLOfES.
The civil service commission baa taken
steps to protect employes of the gov
ernment against persecution and intimi
dation, as well as from political assess
ments. It appears that the commission
has received a great many complaints
of violation of the civil service rules
and it proposes, very properly, to put an
end to thla sort of thing, particularly so
far as politics Is concerned. The law
and the regulations are very specific
and clear and all that the commission
Intends to do Is to see that they are ob
served. It has therefore notified the
heads of departments that the civil
service rules must be strictly complied
with, especially with reference to as
sessments and the active participation
of federal officials in political affairs
outside the plain limitations of the rules.
The right of government employes to
Interest themselves In political affairs is
not denied, but there 1b a restriction
upon such participation, as, for instance,
they may not take an active part in po
litical conventions er in tUe direction of
other parts of political machinery. The
commission has requested the heads of
departments to have notices posted In
all the offices throughout the country
under their control setting forth the re
quirements of the law.
The propriety qf this course will not
be questioned. The' civil service law Is
bated upon sound principle. It Is not
designed to prevent federal employes
from taking a proier part In political
affairs, but It excludes them from "per
nicious activity," while protecting them
against Intimidation or forced assess
ments. The law should be faithfully ob
served and the civil service commission
Is to be commended for taking steps to
have this done.
A PULITILAL EMERGEXCT.
The Mercer-Broatch police commission
has resolved to appoint thirty additional
policemen to serve temporarily, begin
ning next Saturday, until the crisis
has been passed. This action Is taken
under the pretext that an extraordinary
emergency has arisen demanding an im
mediate increase in the police force for
the maintenance of law and order. In
reality, the proposed Increase of the
police force Is a bold and brazen at
tempt to purchase several hundred
gullible political-workers with promises
of $70-per-month positions, which at
best they could hold only for a very
brief time.
If a real emergency exists, the thirty
additional police appointments should
have been made at once, but Broatch,
Mercer & Co. could only bunco thirty
men by pinning stars to their coats In
stead of four or five hundred men whom
they expect to rope In. Therefore the
prizes In the police appointment lottery
are not to be distributed until the day
after the republican primary. That In
Itself Is a dead giveaway and shows
that no such emergency exists as 1b pre
tended by the nonpartisan, nonpolltlcal
police commission.
The prospect of keeping the thirty new
appointees on the pay roll for any length
of time is decidedly slim. The police
force as it now exists is very nearly up
to Its full quota: The police funds are
scarcely more than sufficient to pay the
men now on the pay roll. Consequently,
the additional police appointments will
create an overlap in the police fund or
thirty of the old policemen will have to
be dropped and the new men will take
their places.
Such work Is not only scandalous, but
tends to demoralize the whole police
force and make It worthless. But that
old political desperado, William J.
Broatch, will stop at nothing. When
he was mayor he enrolled 400 political
street sweepers to capture the primaries
and paid them out of the city treasury.
The tactics adopted by the new reform
board are in keeping with this record
and only show the more the necessity of
home rule. When the people are
allowed to select their own police
commissions and hold them responsible
for the abuse of power and usurpation
of authority the looting of the city treas
ury for political ends will cease.
As a matter of fact the charter makes
the mayor the conservator of the peace,
and he Is Justly held responsible for the
maintenance of Jrw and ordr. If en
emergency for additional police appoint
ments really does exist the commission
should have notified the mayor and re
quested him to appoint the necessary
number of special policemen. But that
would not serve the purpose of Mercer
and Broatch in the present political
emergency. . ' ...
TO DISPOSE OF SENATOR TELLER.
The growing prospect of republican
success in Colorado carries with It the
prospect of the compulsory retirement
of Senator Teller. It is true that he
has been endorsed by both the demo
cratic and the populist conventions sep
arately, but those parties fell apart for
general fusion purposes after haviug
been united for six years. They now
have rival state tickets in the field and
their antagonism reaches out into and
necessarily affects politics in the legis
lative districts. Thousands of Colo
rado republicans who allowed them
selves to be swept away by the free
silver excitement have long ago returned
to their old allegiance, satisfied as prac
tical men with prosperity and existing
business conditions, and many of them
now thoroughly convinced of the mone
tary error on which they left their
party.
Senator Teller had been a republican
on bis own statement since 18T(3, and
In office as such since Colorado became
a state. He had been In the senate or
cabinet since 1870. His spectacular
withdrawal from the party In 1800 was
based on the sole ground of lQ-to-1
sllverlsm. lie therefore now puts him
self In direct antagonism to the multi
tudes of republicans already returned
or returning to the old party who six
years ago followed him out of It, espe
cially when he declares himself finally
and formally to be a democrat He
makes this public declaration, too, in
the face of a strong possibility, if not
Indeed a probability, that the demo
cratic party at iU next national con
vention will recede from the monetary
position taken in 1800 and 1900.
It is a significant fact that the silver
republican party even in Colorado has
dissolved, the more radical elements of
It having been absorbed by the demo
cratic and populist parties. With the
sliver issue fading away, and with the
evil record the fuslonlsts made in the
administration of tho state government,
the way is hopefully opening up for the
republicans this year to dispose of Sen
ator Teller, the most obstinate and rad
ical champion of a once dangerous finan
cial heresy, and for Colorado to realign,
itself where it , naturally belongs aa a
republican state.
The Union Pacific railroad paid $16.98
In taxes for the year 1002 on the west
half of Its bridge, which is assessed at
$1,500. Forty-six dollars and ninety
eight cents will pay for the services of
about three-fifths of one policeman for
the period of one month, and yet At
torney John N. Baldwin Insists that the
Union Pacific pays its full share of taxes
for police and fire protection.
The Iowa equal suffragists are about
to bold a state convention and to start
u new crusade for a constitutional
amendment. This has happened regu
larly for over twenty yearn. In Iowa
a constitutional atucudinent, before it
goes to popular vote, has to be passed
by both houses of two successive leg
islatures. There la nearly always suf-
flclcnt gallantry to pnss a woman suf
frxge amendment through one or both
houses of one legislature, but It I a dif
ferent matter when it comes to action
In the succeeding legislature. The Iowa
equal suffragists, perennially hopeful,
but ever baffled, are likely to have a
strenuous campaign ahead of them.
Wanted: Five hundred political ward
workers to scour the city at next Friday's
republican primaries. Each worker
will be clven ' a guaranty of appoint
ment on the police force when the thirty
places for temporary policemen are
nilea by W. J. Broatch & Company.
For further Particulars annlv to David
II. Mercer, Millard hotel, or Tom Black
burn, Paxton block.
The amount of subsidiary coin taken
from the sub-treasurj" In New York for
use in the west for several months has
bet-n 20 per cent greater than during the
corresponding period of last year. This
ls not alone for use in crop movements,
but reflects the growth of general busi
ness and activity In the retail trade
throughout the Interior.
If the democratic campaign book Is
to be believed, the return of prosperity
has really been a calamity to working
men and wage-earners. Thla seems to
be the central Idea of the elaborate
tables complied to persuade them bow
evil Is their Improved condition and, In
cidentally, to get them to vote for dem
ocratic candidates.
Dave Mercer's palatial residence, for
which bids were taken from Omaha con
tractors two years ago, Is still on the
stocks, owing to the advance in wares
of carpenters, bricklayers, painters and
plumbers, but the plans for this Im
aginary structure are open for inspec
tion at Architect Kimball's office In the
McCague building.
The One Thins; Needed.
Washington Post.
It Is said that President Pal ma may
bring on a revolution if he vetoes the bill
providing for a 835,000,000 loan. Well, a
revolution at this particular time might
simplify matters wonderfully.
Approved at the Ballot Box.
Springfield Republican.
The truth is that the president's trust
speeches actually helped the republicans of
Maine, and one nice' little demonstration of
the fact is that the greatest down east trust
regulator, Mr. Llttlefleld, ran better than
any other republican candidate for congress.
Things that Might Be Avoided.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Despite many apparent drawbacks In the
way of labor troubles, the commercial agen
cies report a general increase in industrial
activity. The railroads find it difficult to
handle the business offered them. This is
another reason for rnUia llmi. there
should be any drawbacks, and especially
any that might be avoided.
The Show of Playing- War.
Philadelphia North American.
Kaiser Wllhelm's charge at the head of
his cavalry was magnificent, but it was not
war. If It had been ,war the kaiser would
aot have been at fie bead of his troops;
neither would the artillery forces he routed
have been Bring theoretical shots. But, as
General Corbln remarked with unconscious
humor, It was a fine military spectacle.
Shortenlaa; Distance to the Coast.
Boston Transcript.
The plan to bore a' tunnel seven miles
long through the Sierra Nevada mountains
at a cost of $14,000,000, in order to shorten
by twelve hours the trip over the Central
Pacific, Is an Illustration of the Immense
resources of our great corporations and
the wonderful wealth of our country as a
whole. Were it a task proposed by the
national government all sorts of complica
tions would follow the Introduction of the
proposal Into the realm of political dis
cussion, but a board of directors Intrusted
with power by thousands of stockholders
can order it done, and the work is at once
under way. Modern Inventions make the
task less formidable than was the five
mile cut through the Hooeac tunnel a gen
eration ago, and the loss from accident
should also be much lighter. The advan
tages gained by the railroad should be tre
mendous. Not the least important will be
the abolition of its forty-two miles of snow
sheds In the mountains.
Those Fnnny Fusion Uta.
Ashland Gazette.
One of the funniest things In the present
campaign Is the attempt of the fusion bosses
to make capital out of railroad assess
ments. It occurs to us that we have heard
the same sort of a tale before. Did not
the wlndsmlths tell us several years ago
that If their party was only put in power
they would see that the railroads paid their
share of the tax? Did not the populist ora
tor wax eloquent in assuring the dear people
that they would do this very thing? Well,
the populists got control of the state in all
its branches, legislative, executive and Ju
dicial. What did they do? They lowered
the railroad tax. This is a plain matter
of history. When the republicans came into
power again what did they do? Tbey raised
the railroad assessment. This, too, is a
matter of history. Now the fuslonlsts
come forward bjandly in face of their
broken pledges and have the audacity to
pose in their old attitude. Now, for sure,
they will make the railroads pay their
share of the tax. How do we know they
will? Do they take the people for Ignor
amuses and fools?
A TRI E CHILD OF SATIRE.
Buffalo BUI Tells How It Feels to Be
Ilrally Faraoas.
' Philadelphia North American.
Age cannot wither nor custom stale the
frank simplicity of that picturesque son of
the primitive west,, Buffalo Bill. Civiliza
tion has put no veneer of hypocrisy upon
that frank nature.' Colonel Cody Is a fine,
upstanding man, a picture of masculine
pulchritude, the most grandiose figure on
horseback that the world can show, and he
candidly admits it He la famous beyond
all other men who walk or ride the earth
and he acorns to pretend that be does not
know it. False modesty was left out when
nature compounded the elements of Buffalo
Bill's Incomparable personality.
Chatting with an Interviewer the other
day, the last of the great scouts said:
I am more sought after than any othr
man in the country. 1 attract more notice
than the president of the United States
and one thing certain Is that the people
are more anxious to talk to me than they
would be to Mr. Rooeevelt. All thla In
creases my work, of course, but I have
grown accustomed to being addressed by
practically everybody In every town.
Germany's war lord Is not much given to
self-depreciation, but be never has suc
ceeded in divesting himself so completely
of the self-consciousness which manifests
itself In a mock humility Intended to draw
forth flattering contradiction.
Buffalo Bill Is the only natural, unaffected
denizen of the Temple of Fame. May his
days be long in the land, for we ae'er shall
see bis like again.
Tainted
Indianapolis
The Omaha Baptist association has raised
an old question by resolutions (unani
mously adopted) demanding the repeal
of the present law of Nebraska, by which
money received from certain licenses goes
Into the school fund. The sources are
saloon licenses, as well as tines in the
criminal courts and licenses from thea
ters, pawnbrokers, circuses, peddlers, bill
posters, dog owners. The purpose of the
resolution Is, of course, opposition to hav
ing money furnished by licensing the
drink traffic applied to educating the chil
dren. The proposition is not new; but it
is Just as mistaken aa it ever was.
It this particular money were applied
to other uses, money from other sources
would be applied to education, which would
amount merely to a shift of bookkeeping
that would be simply foolish, while if the
licenses were abolished general taxation
would have to be Just so much the heavier,
and this, too, would be rather foolish as
well as unjust. As a matter of sentiment,
the suggestion puts the emphasis in the
wrong place. It "considers too curiously,"
as Horatio said to Hamlet when Hamlet
asked:
"Why may not Imagination trace the
noble dust of Alexander till he finds It stop
ping a bung hole; thus: Alexander died,
Alexander was burled, Alexander returneth
to dust; the dust to earth: of earth ws
make loam; and why of that loam, whereto
he was converted, might they not stop
a beer barrel V
It seems to be the Pharasaloal order of
mind that sees things as clean and un
clean. The Master did not ask where the
BITS OF WASHISGTO LIFE.
National Boarding House Where R
pertinent Will Be Condncted.
Strong, robust clerks In the Agricultural
department, who have been spotted for a
patriotic experiment, vigorously put aside
the ' suggestion by Dr. Wiley to betake
themselves to the national boarding house,
which the department is fitting up, and
submit their interior departments to a
series of tests to determine the effect on
the human stomach of various adulterated
foods. There will be no charge for the
board, as congress has already provided for
that, and the landlady promises to be all
smiles at all times. Boarders will have
nothing to do but eat and sleep, and divert
themselves in decorous fashion between
times. Salaries will go on Just the same.
But these tempting Inducements have not
yet aroused their latent patriotism and they
are disposed to give the boarding house and
the doctored food a killing frost.
A correspondent of the Boston Transcript
who has Inquired Into the project treats the
boarding house experiment as one of the
most Important undertakings by the gov
ernment under sanction of congress. "Ever
since civilization advanced so that people
had some choice as to what they should
eat," says the writer," the controversy has
been fierce over the healthfulness of various
articles of every-day diet. It has been said
that eMllent meiHrnl authority muld he
found for excluding every article on the
dinner table as a sure pathway to the grave.
Especially acrimonious becomes the con
troversy when, beyond the domain of natu
ral products, one begins to deal with the
devices of the chemical laboratory for the
preservation of food, and Its "adornment."
Dr. Wiley purposes to find out the rela
tive hamfulness of various articles as a part
of the movement toward pure food legls
)atton Borax has become on International
question. The German government has pro
fessedto believe that our meats treated
with It are harmful, although its own best
medical authorities take the opposite view.
Dr. Wiley has always thought that the
small quantity of boric acid used In curing
meat was not harmful; In fact, decidedly
leBs so than would be the quantity of salt
necessary to Uke Its place. "I believe this,"
said Dr. Wiley. I do not know It. The
object of this table Is to test-such a belief
in the most practical way."
"Every boarder will be weighed upon ris
ing from bed In the morning. The clinical
thermometer will three times measure his
temperature for a record. A careful ac
count of the quantity of water consumed
will be kept, as well as of the food itself.
The boarders themselves will have no
knowledge of when different things are
being "tried on them;" for at least naif
the time they will be eating a diet which
Is thoroughly pure a relaxation diet. The
object of this will be not only to prevent
the- system from real Injury, but also to
tell how far Into a period of normal condi
tions the effects of former harmful ones
may persist. At the table at each meal
some men will be eating doctored food
and some pure food, but they will not
know which Is which. The quantities of
adulterants employed will nowhere be per
ceptible to the senses, although when it
comes to coloring matters this rule may
not be so easily maintained. No room
will be allowed for the lepetltion of the
experience that a sojourner at a boarding
house here last winter gave of his break
fast to a fellow sufferer, when he said:
'My piece of meat might have been a good
one had not the chap who treated it with
his preservatives been such a bungler; he
put on so much more of the acid than was
necessary that I lost all the flavor of the
meat.'
"The persons who will apply the preser
vative for these experimental tables will
be experts, and the quantity employed In
each instance will be measured to a nicety.
Detailed effects toward which the Inquiry
will be directed will concern 'various
organs of the body and known constitu
tional tendencies toward certain diseases.
Salicylic acid, for example, will be taken
up and put through all the tests which. In
the commercial movement of food. It Is
ever likely to make on the physical sys
tems of American consumers. Then the
tabulated results will throw light upon the
degrees of danger and of ths limits of
safety, If any, in the use of this acid.
And so will It be down through the list
of the many inventions which man has
sought out of articles of diet.
"An attempt will be made to keep the
boarders at ths same weight during their
entire stay at the table, as any fluctua
tions la this respect might add a confusion
element to the results. When It Is dis
covered from the dally weighing that a
man Is gaining a little, his ration will be
so adjusted in Its fat-producing elements
that this tendency will be corrected, and
the food will at all times be so generally
wholesome and appetizing that no one in
ordinary health need expect to loss
weight."
Front Poverty to Afllaeaee.
Indianapolis Journal.
It was only a few years ago that Mr.
Cleveland cam very near taking ths half
of the Central Pacific Railway company's
debt due the United States as a settlement
for the whole, so discouraging were the
prospects of the ' corporation. When Mr.
McKinley became president conditions rap
idly Improved and the whole obligation was
paid. Now the same company is reported
to be preparing to construct a tunnel seven
miles through a mountain to save a con
siderable distance and heavy grades at a
cost of $14,000,000.
Money
News (Ind.)
widow obtained her mite nor where the
tribute money came from. He blessed
the impulse that lay bark of the gift, and
cut clear to the heart of true political
economy by recognizing Caesar's money
as due to Caesar's government. To oppose
the licensing of the liquor traffic on moral
grounds is consistent, but to attempt to
trace a moral quality In money raised by
thla means as making It unclean for cer
tain uses of the state is surely to "con
sider too curiously'" and to become entan
gled In the maze where Jewish civiliza
tion was when the Master came to set men
free.
Do we realize the freedom that Jesus
Christ meant to give to men? It was not
merely freedom from sin In the sense that
we have come to look at almost exclu
sively, but freedom from all of the foolish
things that the seal of the time had led
men Into, so that It was stopping progress
and nullifying usefulness. Men could not
do this, and had to do the other, until a
state of suspense was created like unto
that which prevails In India and China
today. Literalism bad so run to seed that
man was regarded as created for the Sab
bath and for an endless lot of other Insti
tutions until the whole Jewish economy
had become paralyzed.
Those that, like the Master, go around
doing good and trying to make this world
better In His name, should atudy His mind.
"We have the Ulnd of Christ," says the
apostle. If we have, we may surely see
things as He did, and render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesar's, and not mix
them up with the things that are Ood's,
RKPVBI.IOAX STATE TICKET.
Callaway Queen: Ths fuslonlsts appear
to take great delight In calling J. H.
Mickey a Methodist and a teetotaler. As
long as they don't call him a fusionist Mr.
Mickey does not care.
Fairfield Herald: It Is a poor argument to
bring against John H. Mickey that he Is a
temperance man. That is Just the kind of
a man that Is wanted, as governor. In any
responsible position such a man is preferred
and why not as executive.
Table Rock Argus: Everywhere J. H.
Mickey, the republican candidate for gov
ernor, goes he makes friends. Indeed, as
the campaign develops. It becomes more
and more apparent that Nebraska will roll
up Its old-Uma republican majority this
fall.
Pierce Call: Thus far the fuslonlsts
have proved only three things against J.
H. Mickey, the republican candidate for
governor. They are that he is a banker,
a Methodist and a good man. Are any of
these good reasons' why he should not be
elected to that office?
Beemer Times: William K. Fowler, re
publican nominee for state superintendent
of public- instruction, will be re-elected
by a good majority. Ha has made the best
officer that department has ever known.
He is a practical teacher of wide experi
ence and fine ability, and voters, regard
less of politics, will vote to retain him In
the office he so well fills.
Kearney Hub: The fact that the Omaha
World-Herald has found a few republicans
in Polk county who have no use tor John M.
Mickey and say mean things about him Is
not at all surprising. ' Any man with the
qualities and character that fit him for a
governor will have a few enemies among his
neighbors, some of them In his own party.
In the case of Mickey, however, the few
who say mean things about him are In such
a pitiful minority that they are quite lost
in the campaign shuffle.
Albion News: The only fight worth men
tioning that is being made against Mr.
Mickey for governor is that he is a tem
perance man. Of course, la certain lo
calities and among certain classes this Is
an effective argument. While we don't be
lieve it la true, these anti-temperance pa
pers are conveying the Idea that Mr.
Thompson Is just the opposite that Is,
a man who drinks red liquor in abundance
and who Is in favor of more liberal laws
regulating the traffic. If this Is to be the
supreme test In Nebraska, Is there any
question as to the result? We should hate
to believe there Is.
Falls City Tribune: What a triumph It
will be for the better element of Nebraska
citizenship when J. H. Mickey is elected
governor.- His opponents have Insisted
upon throwing political Issues to the winds
and waging their fight upon Mr. Mickey
solely upon the grounds that he Is an hon
orable, sober and upright man. They want
a sport In the gubernatorial chair. They
want a man who must take his morning
dram to quiet his nerves before he can
attend to the affairs of state. Tbey want
a man who knows the , relative value of
two pair and three of a kind. Virtue, hon
esty and sobriety don't go with them.
Again we say, what a proud day It will
be for ths better element when they re
pudiate all these things in the high places
by making J. H. Mickey governor of Ne
braska. , ,.,
Columbus Edict r Under the guise of giv
ing Candidate Mickey credit for being a
fearless man in daring to father a measure
tending to prohibit the manufacture or sals
of liquors in the state, the Telegram seeks
to play upon public prejudice. The article
concerning Mickey was palpably flimsy as an
argument to carry out the expressed Inten
tion of Its author. It was not intended to
Increase the November majority for the re
publican candidate by showing htm to be s
sober, conscientious, courageous man, but to
flaunt the red flag of prohibition In the face
of the antl-prohibltlontsts of Platte county
In particular and the state In general. "Per
haps a majority would like to see In the
chief chair of state a governor who would
sign a prohibition bill." And perhaps a ma
jority would like to see In the chief chair
of stste a man who Is said to wear the ear
marks of a sport. People are curiously In
clined, and there Is no Judging what their
will may be until there is some visible show
of It. Nebraska had sooner have a temper
ate man In the governor's chair than one
whose breath Is perfumed with liquor, for
Editor Howard virtually proclaims W. H.
Thompson an Intemperate man when he con
demns the rigorous sobriety of aiickey. Will
It help Thompson to have it beraiaed far and
wide that he enjoys .convivial comrades
around the flowing cup? It may among the
convivial class. But if the Intimations of
the Telegram concerning Thompson are
wrong, then he has suffered at the bands of
a party organ a greater insult than an en
emy ever offered.
Nebraska City Tribune: John H. Mickey,
republican nominee for governor, Is in no
sense a narrow man. No clique or faction
need expect special favors at his hands;
neither la be on earth for the purpose of
accomplishing the downfall of any man or
set of men. He means to be governor of
Nebraska and all In Nebraska. In tht
tremendous struggle to bring something
out of bis past that would prejudice his
future, the opposition has resorted to some
p-Mty small politics, but has signally
failed to make any of Its allegations stand.
Mr. Mickey 1b a man who has the greatest
respect for the opinions of others, and ths
attempt to depict him as a narrow-mlnde j
rider of a pet hobby falls flat. There are,
however, many crimes of which Mr. Mickey
stands convicted. In the first place, be his
been proven to be a successful man, which
tells against him fearfully. Among otbwr
horrible disclosures la one that as owns
some bank stork, and another that his
farm Is near town, and he Is quits point
edly accused of wearing a boiled shirt ami
riding In a surrey. All this Is very flat
tering to the farmers of Nebrsska. II will
no doubt please them to know that there
la a great political power that considers
the farmer who has saved and labored
unfit to enjoy the fruits of his Industry
and frugality like other successful men.
The farmer Is being shoved back into bis
place and taught that the easy, cushioned
rent of a comfortable carriage is. not for
him, and that It is the height of Imperti
nence for him to aspire to any of the com
forts enjoyed by hie brother In town. There
are other prosperous farmers la Ne
braska, and It will no doubt be a pleasure
for them to learn the fuslonlsts' esttmato
of Mr. Mickey and themselves.
PERSONAL SfOTKS.
A Philadelphia chauffeur recently wrecked
his automobile to avoid killing a boy. All
papers please copy.
A replica of the heroic equestrian statue
of Washington, designed by Daniel C.
French, Boston sculptor, snd erected In
Paris by the Daughters of the Revolution,
will be set up In Washington park, Chicago.
Marconi is coming across the ocean tn an
Italian war ship, the Carlos Alberto, the use
of which has been offered to him for a
thorough transatlantic test of his system
of wireless telegraphy. He Will go first
to Cape Breton and then will visit his sta
tion on Cape Cod.
Clarence H. Mack ay, erstwhile ths boa
vlvant and man of pleasure, who arrived
from Europe a few days ago. Is to give up
a life of eaee and don the harness of his
recently deceased father. One of the great
est undertakings which will occupy Mr.
Mackay's attention will be the laying of the
Pacific cable by the Commercial Cable com
pany. Great preparations are being made in
Dallas, Tex., for the reception of Rear Ad
miral Wlnfleld Scott Schley on Saturday.
October 18. One feature of the entertain
ment is to be a gathering of the school
children, every school, public and private.
In the state having been invited to Join the
schools of Dallas In making the day a nota
ble one.
The famous Norwegian poet, BJornntJerne
Bjornson, has caused a great sensation by
the severe strictures which he has recently
passed on the scandalous treatment of for
sign tourists by Norwegian peasants. The
steady increase of tourists, he soys, has
had the effect of demoralizing the popula
tion and stirring up feelings of speculation,
rapacity, mendacity and fraud.
When Mr. Labouchere was putting up for
his first election his uncle. Lord Taunton,
wrote and asked htm if he could do any
thing to aid him. The hopeful nephew wrote
his uncle back a letter which Is quite char
acteristic of the "Labby" whom we know
today: "If you could put on your "peer's
robes and coronet and walk arm In arm with
me down the high street of tho borough,"
he said, "it might do some good. Other
wise I do not think that your aid would be
of much avail."
HIUUHT AND BHEE1I,
Chicago Poet: "What did he do during
his vacation?"
"He sat out on the hack porch In the
sun and accumulated a tnn that rrm4e his
tlshtng lies seem plausible."'
New York Times: "I am told that Jones
Is a regular leech. Is that true?"
"No! I wouldn't hardly say that A.
leech, you know, never geta stuck on him
self." Philadelphia Press: "Th1s,', said the ama
teur photographer proudly displaying it,
"is a photograph I took of myBelf."
"It hasn't what you would call a pleasing
expression," replied Miss Quickstep, after
a brief inspection. "You shouldn't take
vnnrfielf tn iflrinimlv."
Indianapolis News: "And now, dear,"
said Mrs. Newwed, "what kind of flower
shall I bring home roses or carnations?
"M-m," grunted the practical npouse, "you
might try a cauliflower, this time."
Detroit Free Press: He You might at
least have given me Some warning that
you were going to throw me over."
She Well, haven't I been nice to you for
over a week?
Cincinnati Tribune: Von Miner Colntskl
hasn't bought an automobile yet, has he?
Van Major No, but he's trained his
horse en that he puffs nearly as loud as
one, every step he takes.
Chicago Post: "They say she isn't
happy, commented the neighbor, "but I
don't see why."
"Oh, some people never are satisfied."
"That's right, and It's her own fault If
she Isn't happy, because she's able to buy
clothes that will make all the other women
envious."
Puck: "You mean the clergyman with,
whom you exchanged' pulpits a few weeks
sgo? Oh, yes! Mamma liked him very
much."
"Yes? She enjoyed the sermon?"
"Oh, yes! She says It does her heart
good to listen to a preacher who has noth
ing to say against the bible."
OJB PAIR OF DEUCES.
New York Times.
There's a little game called poker, which
the same Is wicked quite.
And playing In that little game I know
Is never right.
Yet, in my sinful, sinful way, I've some
times held a hand,
A nA tH.d ts, hnM r. ( n rn 4111
look pleahed and bland;
I have met the race of bluffers and I know
their little ways; , .
I have tried to look serenely on an un
expected rale;
But at end I've always noticed. If the hand
was played with care.
That a little pair of deuces was better,
than no pair.
This life's a mighty poke game sometimes
I fancy still:
We take the cards the dealer deals and
play them at our will.
And some of ua are bluffers, with words
of cant and gush
We try to make the players think we hold
a royal fluuh; r
With nothing but a nine-spot high we puff
and swell and blow,
And think we're playing shrewdly, for It
seems to work, you know.
Till some thoughtful, watchful fellow says,
"I call you." World of care!
For his little pair of deucos is better than
no pair. . ,
The man who wears $1! hats on 17 pay;
His bluff will work all right enough until
it's called some day.
The politician, prating of "me own loved
native land,"
While his hands extended backward, some
day we'll see his hand.
The man who thinks effrontery is bound
to take the trick
Is sure to hear " call you," and the words
will make htm sick.
Somewhere, somehow, shall merit count,
though It may have naught to spare.
For a little pair of deuces la better than
no pair.
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