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6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APU1L 3. lHOfi. ) i: i (I f The Omaha Daily Bee i i . . B. ' ROSEWATBR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily "Bee, (without Snnday), one year.. 14 00 Dally Be end Sunday, on year tort Illustrated Bee, ono year.A t W Sunday Bee. one jrftr !M Saturday Bt, on year 1.M DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Ba (Including Hunlay), per week.lfc Pally He (without Sunday, per Week.. 12c Kvenlng Be (without Sunday), per week (k) Kvenlng Hen (with Sunday), per week.JOc ( Sunday Rea, per copy to Addreaa complaints of Irregularities In C Uvery to City Circulation Department. OFriCFS. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Blnffa 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1M0 1'nlty Building. New Vork WH Home Ufa Ina. Building. Washington n. Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ihnuld ha addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expresn or postal order payable to Th Beo Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps received aa payment of nail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not arcepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa.: C C. Roaewater. general manager of Tha Bee Publishing- Company, being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning., Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during tha month Of March. I!, was aa follows: i at.s4o 17 a.n.iao 2 Sl.SIVO ..... 81M 4 ;,j.,jw,ftoo B. a,4aa314JlO . 81,4TO 7 81,M 8 H1,3U II mjtoo 19 81.40O ..31,H a 31,1 ao 22.' Sl,fi20 a 8S.R30 24 aa.iao 26 S9.160 as ai.sto 27 81,050 28. 3.. sumo ft) 8 1 , sa,iao 81.8TO 10 aa,ow 11 m,ioo u .f..aijio , 12 S2.0TO 14 Sl.olO IS S1.1RO 1 81,43 Total 987.4BO Lets unsold ooplea 10.T41 Net total sales io,T Dally averase 81.151 C. O. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before ma thla 31st day. of March, 180. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. WHEN OIT OF TOWJt. Sabsertboro lenTlaar tle eity teaa ornrlly akonla hare Tha Be aalWn to thena. Address will Olty primaries for til parties today. Oitjr Clerk Elbourn'g official record Is good, and on that alono be la entitled to a vote of confidence. V, Ernest Johnson will make a city comptroller for whom republicans will not hare to apologiie. . Now that "Apostle" Dowie has been formally deposed, Zlon. will have to run Its business on second hand revelations. Over 100 American teacher will be gin work in the Philippines In June. Education will ' beat army tactica In pacifying" the ImIhihIh. t'-;. i 4 " Omaha 1m i .i its debut as an automobile show town. - Omaha Is bound not to fall behind Its rival cities in the twentieth eentury procession. It Is well for republicans to remem ber that after the ticket la nominated it has to be elected, and that a primary election and a regular election are two different things. Election b in Odessa are marked by the arrest of the candidates. Thla may, after all, be an improvement on Amer ican methods, where the voters are more usually arrested.' " Wonder If Governor Folk's denuncia tion of -the pans aa a bribe before the assembled Iowa democrats succeeded In causing any conscience-stricken visitors to pay jheir fares' back home? A. ILilennlngs has turned back to the taxpayers more than $30,000 Interest on deposits of public funds In bis cus tedy aa city treasurer. No other city treasurer before him ever did that.- Porto Ricans clamoring for full Amer ian clrlienshJp might save trouble by waiting until the present citizenship has solved some of the perplexing economic problems now nnder consideration there, That Kansas City minister who as serts that all polygamlats are not follow ers of Biigham Young has discovered nothing new', but he probably stands closer to a church trial than he imagines, ltemarks of the president of the Na tional Association of State Hallway Commissioners Indicate that all thewe officials do not hold office through the courtesy of the railroads. Au anarchist plot has been discovered In Spain, but until the censorship Is re moved It will be hard to say whether It was caused by the impending marriage of the king or by resentment of some of the poems the event has Inspired. Governor Folk promises personally to watch the polls In Kansas City today. This would indicate a lack of confidence hi bis board of fire and police commis sioners, In spite Of the fact that none of them la a candidate for mayor. The United States supreme court hav ing refused to' relieve the railroads of Michigan from paying taxes the same as other property owner, It will be In or der for railway bureaucrats to declare socialism" and "anarchy" to be tar ulMhing the robes of the highest court of the land. ' -Tuskegee institute baa celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. . The history of this Institution shows that It did not take the southern people long to realise the necessity for educating the uegroea after they had been freed, despite the contrary. Impreaaion. conveyed- by fire , eaters of the Dixon, brand.. , . - THK BKriBUCAS miMARlKS. Itepubllcana of Omaha will, at the primary election today, choose the candidates for city offices to make the race agalust the democratic nominees r.t the election next month. Ily Judi cious choice a ticket can be selected that will win out at the election with comparative ease, or, by bull headed blindness to the situation, it can be loaded down so as to make It an easy mark for the democrats or an extra hazardous rink for the republicans. This Is especially true with reference to the triangular contest for mayor. Of the three candidates, Benson represents the extreme of puritanical law enforce ment, Broatch the extreme of wide- open license and licentiousness, and Hennlnga the middle ground of common sense enforcement of the law. The great body of our citizens do not want to go to extremes. In the final elec tion contest the democrats will appeal for the support of the radicals at the other end should either of the repub lican extremists win out. Should the republicans, however, head their ticket with Hennlnga, the candidate occupy ing middle ground, the followers of both the other mayoralty candidates will have no excuse for going over to the democratic opponent. The Bee repeats Its advice to repub licans who participate In the municipal primaries to "keep In the middle of the road." J.V SOUTH OMAHA. The people of South Omaha are ubout to choose their municipal officers for another two years and they have a choice between two tickets, presented by the republicans and democrats, re spectively. South Omaha has had a re publican mayor for the last six years and has proepKred under republican ad ministration. It has ceased to be the wild and wooly town of border ruffian proclivities which once characterized It and reached the position where it de mands careful Bnd conservative city government. As between the two tickets to be voted on there Is no question but that the republican ticket, on the whole. Is far superior to the democratic ticket and that the republican candidates, es pecially for the principal offices, are men of ability aud reliability, who can eafely be trusted to manage South Omaha's munclpal affairs. No good reason exists why any republican In South Omaha should refuse to support the republican nominees as against their democratic opponents, and there are many reasons why the better class of democrats should prefer the republicans to their own party candidates. South Omaha has practically become, in late years, a republican city, although the margin la very close, and it ought to remain In the republican column this time with an increased lead. UNPRECEDENTED JVMIQBATIOX. The official record showing that for eign immigration during the first quar ter of the current year considerably ex ceeds that of the corespondlng quarter of last year, which broke all previous records, merely emphasizes the abound ing prosperity of this country. Except In Russia, there is nowhere extraordi nary religious and political persecution, one of the historic causes of great emi gration movements. Nor In any of the countries from which the emigrants mainly come is there special Industrial stress or famine or war. ' The great majority of the newcomers are shown to be of the working class and many of them common laborers. They come hither for the work and wages which our. unparalleled Industrial prosperity affords. . More and more as ocean transit Improves and cheapens, long since having come within reach of the poor working classes of European countries, does the record of foreign im migration stand as an Index to our in dustrial conditions, rising with pros perity and falling in hard times. The suggestion of alarm In the bul letin of the New York labor department announcing the Immigration Increase la therefore unwarranted. It may be as re ported that one-fourth of the new ar rivals over fourteen years of age can neither read nor write, but many of them and all their children will learn. These latest Immigrant workers,' who have the Intelligence and enterprise to come all the way here for better op portunlty to work will find it for their own good and the ultimate good of the country, as all their predecessors have done. OHIO AS AN EXAMPLE.. The aesslou of the Ohio legislature just adjourned hag been at -once a fortunate one for that state and an Inspiration to the people of other states, signally illus trating bow much good can be accom plished by such a body when It Is coin posed of earnest men devoted to public Interest and not to corporation servi tude. This legislature was chosen lu the midst of the moral awakening which has swept over the whole country. It not only resulted In Ohio in bringing out and electing as legislators men of different type from that which has been so balefully influential In many sessions, but also after election eucouraged them and held them to strict accountability, The natural result is a splendid record of substantial reform. The session would be' memorable If It had accom plished nothing but the legislation for controlling railroad, corporations by which Ohio has been advanced from Its old place of notorious subaervieucy to railroad and other corporations to a place among the states that are shaking themselves free from such Influence. The 2-cent passenger fare law, the law against free passes to public officers, the law regulating local fivlght rat and providing a commission to enforce it constitute a system of railroad control seldom matched at a single legislative seMlnn, and the work has been thor oughly and rationAlly planned and exe cuted. The same spirit Inspired the leirlMlatnre to cut out the fee system lu public office, root and branch, and to aKlih several other notable public 'vlls. , The record, while It Is of Inestimable value to Ohio Itself, should be of still greater advantage to the eople of other states who have thla year to choose legislature, for It demonstrates the spirit by which alone the public Interest can be protected against the abuses which have afflicted It. SENATOR TILLMAN'S OBJECTION. Senator Tillman's promptly expressed dissatisfaction with the judicial review amendment, said to be Indorsed by President Roosevelt, raises the very im portant question of the attitude of the majority of democratic senators who have declared themselves favorable to the general purpose of the president's railroad control policy. There seems to be no doubt that If they will Join the re publican supporters of the amendment It would be adopted by a large majority. How far the South Carolina senator's objections are entertained by other democratic senators remains, of course, to be seen, but If far enough to defeat the amendment then there is vsome danger that the rate bill in the form In which It was passed by the house may lose some republican votes, although their number can hardly be large, no matter what constitutional scruples are entertained. The objection raised by Senator Till man that the amendment does not go fur enough, not interdicting suspension of a commlsslon-flxed rate pending Judi cial review, may be removed on fuller consideration of the extremely limited review allowed by the amendment. It does not authorize the circuit court to review the question of reasonableness of a commission rate or of compensation on the basis of fictitious capitalization, but solely the question whether the rate would tend to confiscate carrier property within the meaning of the constitution, so that the Injunction power of the cir cuit court would be correspondingly limited, and It may be questioned whether the injunction power could be limited beyond that point. This limitation arises out of the nature of the amendment, but the whole field is open for specific additional amendment as to Interlocutory orders pending re view, and It is authentically stated that In point of fact this very subject Is cov ered by additional amendments which the friends of the bill have prepared with the president's approval, but which have not yet been Introduced in the senate because It was deemed advan tageous first to narrow the Issue as to judicial review. The opportunity of the friends of the bill on both sides of'the senate thus to agree on the one phase of the matter ought and probably will be sufficient to enable them to unite on the other phase. The real peril to the rate bill In the senate hits from the first arisen, not so much from disagreement as to general purpose as from the difficulties. In the face of a iwwerfnl aud skilful opposi tion, to. agree as to methods of accom plishing that purpose, and Senator Till man's objections to the proposed amend ment Is only one ajnong many Illustra tions of this peril. City Attorney Breen's annual report tells about the work of the city law de partment, but neglects to tell that the work has been mostly performed by his democratic asslslant, who has appeared for the city In all its supreme court liti gation. If Judge Fawcett were to suc ceed Mr. Breen as city attorney he would not need to have his assistant go to the front nor to draw on the demo crats for all his office force. Judge Fawcett's ability as a lawyer aud legal adviser has been proved by long and successful practice lu the courts and satisfactory service on the bench. Filibusters who have designs on Ven ezuela because President Castro will not open up the country to "captains of in dustry" may find that the Monroe doc trine means, more than the collection of debts from South American republics. In spite of all the stories from Caracas some American citizens find much to ad mire In the character of the bellicose president of Venezuela struggling against the International money chang ers. The way to squelch the notorious But ler Is to center your votes on M. T. Murphy for building Inspector, who Is his leading opponent. If the opposition to Butler Is scattered among all the other candldatea for the office he might slip through to a nomination, although he would be foredoomed to defeat at the election. Our local democratic contemporary Is very much excited over the political press bureau said to be in operation down in Lincoln In fact, considerably more excited than it ever Mas over the railroad publicity bureaus conducted at both Liucoln and Omaha. The only press bureau that finds favor In Its eyes Is the democratic press bureau It con ducts, for Itself. When It comes to councllmanic nomi nations, there are good aud bud men to selec from. Some of the good men, however, have no jtosslble show to win out, ao tliofee who do not waut to shoot In the air will choose the best of those who are really in the race and have a chance of winning. It Is easy to charge a candidate with being the choice of the corporations, but the fact Is the corporations In Omaha are badly divided in their preferences. The corporations are supporting Fonta- nelle candidates and Equal Rights can didates and, candidates on still other slates, and no candidate is refusing sup port from Whatever quarter. The cor porations know no factional or party lines. The ouestion for the voters. therefore. Is to back up the man who can be relied unon to deal falrlv and give everybody a square deaf. New York City may have another Idea as to the desirability of retaining the name of New York for the cruiser with a history In preference to giving It to the proposed monster fighting machine. As a rule Gotham cares less for senti ment than for novelty. Broatch's political versatility surely cannot bo called In question. The last time he was elected mayor he ran as the A. P. A. candidate, but this time he Is appealing to Roman Catholics for support. He must think the Cntholics have short memories. , Chinese soldiers threateu trouble for Russia In Manchuria. Liberals at St. Petersburg might do worse than to fan the spark of war, as the hope of reform In the land of the czar seems still to be through foreign entanglements. A Baalneaa Politer. Washington Post. Patent medicine manufacturers object to the propoaed law requiring them to print on their labels the per cent of alcohol con tained In their remedies. Still, It might help their business a good deal In Maine and Kansaa. Iaaoeeaoe Olvea Tla Slga. Philadelphia Press. Judging by his air of absolute unconcern, It is very evident that Senator Tillman failed to catch Judge Alton B. Parker' remark about the need of a good southern man as candidate for the democratic party for president next time. Perfection of Krleadahlp. Chicago News. "My friendship for Mayor McClellan," says Judge Parker, "would not permit me to auggest him for the presidency." No dcubt to a man of Parker's experience naming a man for the presidency seems anything but a friendly act. Too Mack Legal Rabber. Indianapolis News. To be sure, Mr. Knox, the railroads are entitled to their day In court. The general objection is to the skill they show In stretching their day out Into a decade or so without In the least Interfering with their actions which are In dispute. Cranky Notion Dlaeredlted. New York Tribune. The discussion on euthanasia, started In this country by Dr. Osier's Ill-considered Joke and taken up by cranks Incapable of appreciating that grave kind of humor, has traveled across the Atlantic and has given Dr. von Bergmann, the celebrated Berlin surgeon, an opportunity to express his opinion in this neat form: "One can give a prince the right to pardon, but not a doctor tha right to kill." Waste in rablle Printing. Philadelphia Record. Some idea of the scandalous overproduc tion in the government printing office In Washington. of worthless publications which cannot be forocd lnU circulation or given away may be fernied from the statement of an Investigating committee that there are 400 carloads of, this dead documentary matter now on hand and that the govern ment is renting three buildings at a cost of 113,9.10 a year for the sole purpose of storing the stuff. There Is money waste enough In the yearly printing outlay to build a battleship every four years. But who caresT This Is a billion-dollar coun try. . Let her rip! v MLI. HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF t What Happened to Prealdente Whom - Senators Konarlit. Leslie's Weekly. When Conkllng and a few other repub licans abandoned and abused President Hayes In the early part of his term, they aided In turning the senate against their party in the second half of the term and In Increasing the democratic lead In the house. His action at that time turned many republicans against Conkllng and helped to overthrow him In the Oarfleld Robertsoa fight of 1S81. When Blaine, !n attempting to humiliate President Arthur, secretly aided the foes of Arthur and Charles J. Folger, In the governorship can vass of In New York, he prepared the way for his own and the republican party's defeat In the presidential canvass of 1884. Nemesis has hit Aldrlch and his coterie of republican opponents of the president, as she did Conkllng and Blaine. She has not hit them quite so dramatically or ao dis astrously, but she has hit them more quickly. Their trick strengthened railway rate regulation and has made hundreds of thousands of new friends for Roosevelt among the people. Benjamin F. ' Wade 'and Henry Winter Davis attacked President Lincoln fiercely In the early part, of the presidential cam paign of IPei In a letter in the New York Tribune, because he killed their reconstruc tion bill by his pocket veto. He had a state restoration policy of lila own, which we now know would have done the work Immeasurably better than It could have been accompUf-hed under the bill which ha vetoed, and far better than It was done under the bill passed by congress after his assassination. His republican enemies made loud threats aguinst him during the can vass, thinking they could thus humiliate him and weaken Mm with the country, but the people re-elected him by a tremendous majority. Not many persons except stu dents cf history remember Wade or Davla today, while Uncoln's name la written across the sky. Do Messrs. Aldrlch and his corporal's guard of republican Implacables remem ber what became of their cogeners of Old Hickory's day? "It will kill him, sir; kill him dead. . He will never kick, sir; never kick." These were the words of Calhoun, the leading spirit among a few demo cratic senators, who, for one reason and another, hated Jackson, . and intended to defeat the confirmation of Van Buren, his nominee for minister to London. By the aid of the whiga, who were deaervedly condemmtd by all fair-minded men for lending themselves to this democratic con spiracy against a democratic president and his worthy nominee, the democratic Ald rlches of, three-quartera of a century ago rejected Van Buren. This was a few months before the democratic national con vention of 1S32. Retribution Instantly strut k the plotters. Instead of degrading Jackson la the eyes of the people and ul ending Van Buren a career. It sent a wave ef indignation over the country. Jackson was renominated and Van Buren was put In the second place on the ticket. "You have broken a minister and made a vice - president," said Kenton to tba democratic oonspiratora. They also made a president. The ticket of 1S32 was over whelmingly vic torious, and Van Buren himself waa mad piasidenl In lUi ARMY GOSSIP H WAHIGTOV Cnrrent F.-renta ('leaaen from the Army a ad Savy Realater. It appears there Is more than a mere chance of the enactment of the leetslaUon which would make major generals of nine brigadiers who hve served for two years or more as brigadiers and who have c1-ll war service to their credit. Those directly affected by the legislation would be Brlas dlr Generals F. D. Baldwin, T. J. Wlnt. W. 8. McCaskey and Constant Williams, Judge Advocate General O. B. Davis, Quar termaster General Humphrey, Paymaster General Dodge and Brigadier General Mackensle, chief of engineers. This will make quite a change In the active list of senior officers of the army and at present there Is no objection to the proposition. There Is, Indeed, some evidence of the favor of congress In the direction Indicated and, unless there are unforeseen hindrances Introduced at the last moment, the amend ment, for which Senator Alger Is respon sible, stands a very good chance of being added to the army act In the senate and kept there through tha adjustment of the conference. It does not seem likely, from what In formation Is now obtainable by the quar termaster general, that anything will come of the experiments whlrh have been con ducted with Venetian blinds as s substitute for window curtains for quarters and bar racks at army posts. The Quartermaster general's office has had under considera tion for some time the advisability of adopting these blinds as an Inside covering of windows of army buildinas. and the subject has been very carefully gone over ny a comparison of material composing such articles and by obtaining bids for the manufacture of the blinds proposed for Issue. This Inquiry has been followed bv a practical experiment with tli blinds f t two army posts, but the renorts ao far received are not entirely convincing as to tne wisdom of adopting the Venetian blind. They are found to lack strenath and to be less durable ard, of course, more expen sive than tho ordinary curtain, to say nothing of the fact that bv the construc tion of the Venetian blind there Is a chance of gathering dual. The army signal office expecta shortly to receive the sample telescopes which have been made In accordance with new speci fications and which provide for a teleacono combining the qualities of simplicity, effi ciency and durability. It Is believed that tnese elements have been obtained In the new telescope, which In that respect fol lows closely the lines In the Improved army type of field glasses. Of course In the case of the field glasses and the telescope spe cial attention must be alven to the hard usage to which such articles are apt to do subjected In the service. This condition prevents the adoption of Instruments of great delicacy, which under ordinary cir cumstances might very safely -"bo adopted. it is naturally quite a problem to obtain a thoroughly efficient Instrument which shall also survive the shocks and Jars encoun tered in the uses of the field glass or tele scope by those in the military service. In the tests of both instruments full cnnsld. cratlon is given to this feature. Orders have been issued at the War d. partment retiring Brigadier General Henry 8. Turrill, formerly a lieutenant of the medical department. At the same time me commission of Crosby P. Miller, as a brigadier general was sent to the president for signature. The Hn..i of General Turrill promotes Major John jn. Banister, medical department, on rttitw at Fort Riley, Kan., and Captain Alexander n.. piarK, medical department, on duty in the Philippines, to the next higher grades, respectively. OWNERSHIP OF COAL. Government Control n Relief Intolerable Situation. from Kansas City Star. There would probably be a protest from the "Conservatives" against the proposi tion that the government should take over the coal Interests now controlled by private corporations; but that should scarcely af fect the argument that the government ought, by every Instinct of self-preservation, to hold on to the coal which it still possesses. The government doesn't sell Its rivers and water supplies, for which heaven be thanked. It would not, probably, even If It had the power to do so, sell concessions to private Interests for the use of the at mosphere. Now, coal was stored In the earth by a bountiful creator, for tho use of the people and not for the benefit of corporations. As a necessity It ranka next to air and water. The government has no moral right to sell It. and It should be restrained by law, from doing so. Through the private ownership of the an thracite coal supply In Pennsylvania the nation la placed, at frequent Intervals, on the ragged edge of suspense by the differ ences between the operators and the miners. It is at this moment on the eve of an embarrassing and costly strike. And It Is proposed by way of repudiat ing the logic of this Intolerable situation, to turn over to the railroads tho vast de posits of coal In the Indian Territory. This must not be done. The kind providence who made the air, and the -tter and the coal, needs no more vice regents of the style of President Baer of the Reading rail way and coal company. PERSONAL NOTES. Maxim Gorky, the author, will shortly start for America. He Is at present In Switzerland. Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell will' assume the duties of chief of staff of the army on April 9. Twenty-three out of forty-two New York state senators have put themselves on rec ord as wanting to ride on free railroad passes. . William 11. Mat-Donald, the famous tenor and one of the founders of the well known Bostonians, Is dead. He was a native of Bteubf nville. O., and made his debut In "II Trovatore" In Italy. John Alexander Dowle, who la In Mexico City, says that he has secured an option to purchase i.000.000 acres of land in north ern Mexico, upon which he Intends to lo cate his new Zlon City. California Is urged by some of its news papers to give the new armored cruiser that bears Its name a gold table service, thus getting ahed of the other states that have given only silver recognition to similar compliments. Congressman P. P. Campbell of Kansas Is irgurded as one of the best dressed men in Washington. His correct sartorial taste led one of tils friends to describe him -is "tha only member of the Kauxas delegation who does not look like a Kauaan." Senator Tillman of South Carolina la en gaged In writing "A Defense of the Hen ate' for publication. Discussing the tank he haa assumed, he admits .that his views of the senate have been tempered some what by his thirteen years of service In that body. Prof. Frederick Blur, the famous an thropologist of the I'niversity of Chicago, who sailed for Africa on September 3 last, and about whose sefety there was much anxiety, has at last been heard from fivm the town of t'dombe, lu King Leopold's African possessions. Mill A Cream of 'Tartar Foivdcs fJada From Grapao Ho Alum TIPS FOR STATK COMMITTEE. Loup City Northwestern: Chairman Warner has called the republican state cen tral committee to meet at Lincoln on April I. Besides fixing the date of the next state republican convention, questions of great weight will bo determined, among which will be some sort of primary election and very likely a decision In favor of the con vention naming the next United States senator. Iet the latter be done by all means. Schuyler Free Lence: If the democrats In state convention this year fall to nomi nate a candidate for United Slates senator. Just as they would do were a senator elected by direct vote of the people, that party will suiter. One difficulty with the democratic party now is Its record as to talking long and loud as to some Idea when out of power and falling to muke good when In power. We shall see what democratic talk means as to senatorial elections. Bloomfleld Journal: The republican pattj is now In the most dangerous position a party can occupy. The last campaign showed that It had toi much strenrth. A party sometimes gctt I such a position. This Is not due so mu h to merit as It is to circumstances. We say the ruling party Is too strong, which means that It has be come top heavy and is in danger of top pling over. The result of a party victory never reaches the expectations of all the members. The extremists naturally gain the control, and, decttved by the strength which they appear to have developed, go further than they should. The conserva tive members of the party, deceived In their expectations, revolt at the extremes to which they are led and turn to the minority in tha hop of reaching a medium. That is what may be called the topple. It is the present condition of the republican party. Columbus Telegram (dem.): The democ racy of Nebraska cannot afford to hedge. For years we have proclaimed -that-senators ought to be elected by popular vote. We have insisted that the people on elec tion day had a right to have something to say about choosing our representatives In that great legislative body at Washington, and that It was wrong to leave the choosing to the corporations which usually have so much Influence with the legislature. We cannot vote direct for senators. The law does not permit, but we can get close to that mode of doing things. Our state con vention can tell the people of the state tho name of the man for whom the democratic members of the legislature will vote. We have it In our power to get that close to popular vote. We ought to do It. If wo shall full to nominate a senatorial candi date In state convention the people could Justly charge us with, hiding our Inten tions In that regard. The Telegram be lieves the democracy of Nebraska should be true to its record in this matter. W cannot be true to that record unless we shall tell the people our choice for senator. The Telegram pleads with tho democrnts in every county to go to the state conven tion with a determination to nominate a candidate for senator. Beantlea of Inspired Law. New York Commercial. The supreme court of Nebraska has de cided that It Is legal. for a man to roll a cigarette and smoke It In that state, but Illegal for him to smoke one rolled by some other person. Such a law Is almost .is finely drawn as that one which permits a New Yorker to buy a drink on Sunday only when there Is upon the table with his glass an ancient bit of ham and a crust of bread. 6lv All the Family n Show. Philadelphia Record. The Iowa legislature pioposes to requirs railroads to sell mileage tickets good for every member of one family up to five, but the qualification la wholly unreasonable, Why discriminate against families of more than three children? We Trust Doctors If you are; suffering from impure blood, thin blood, debility, nervous ness, exhaustion, you should begin at once with Ayer's Sarsaparilla, '; the Sarsaparilla you haye known all your life. Your doctor knows it, too. Ask him all about it. Then do as he says. i r Z i . We have no secrets We publish m - ) the formulas of nLaHat! AtTtl'UlIBVIGOB-Foftkskalr. AlWttCtiaaM-T raCTOkAWatoaaghs. !W-MBSsBBBSBHsBlBBBBMBHHiHBBMBsaaaBn FRANK E, MOORES. Bellevue Gaxette: Mr. Moores, with all his faults, was admittedly a good mayor. SUnton Pickett: The news of tho death of Mayor Frank E. ' Moores was received by his friends throughout Nebraska with deep regret and sorrow. Crete Vldette-llerald: All now bear tribute to his honesty and admit that he could always be depended upon to stand up in defense of the rights of tha people. Papillion Republican: As a friend ha could be depended upon, and during his life he did much to advance Omaha to the proud place it now occupies among the cities of the land. Waterloo Gazette:,. He was a many-sided man, who aa chief executive of the metrop olis apparently believed in giving tho peo ple the kind of local government the ma jority seemed to want. Calloway Queen: "Deceased waa Just fin- I Ishlng his third term as mayor of Omaha, was very popular, always doing good for the poor and needy of his city, and en deared himself to his people to such an extent that ho will bo sadly missed by all. I.AIOHINU (JAB. Sweet Young Thing Mr. Throgson, da you believe In love at first sight? Mr. Throgson O, yes. I don t know any thing about it personally, of course but my wife, 1 believe, fell In love with me first time she ever saw me. Chicago Tribune. A Boston doctor was hesitating at a slip pery street crossing. An Impatient person behind him called out: "Doctor, go ahead!" - The doctor re:lied' "That's the very thing I don't wish to do, I want to go afoot." St. Louis Globe Demo crat. "How are you?" a "Feel like an empty shotgun." "Huh?" . . . "Joss fired me." "P'raps he didn't know you Were loaded." "That's the trouble he did." Cleveland LudiT. . . , ..... Former Resident (on a visit to the old home) I suppose old .Spolldrox had been found out and ostracised long ago. but 1 find he hasn't. He Is still In the swim. Native I don't know about his beln' in the swim, but I've heard he's been takln' these here immunity baths. Chicago Tri bune. - "What's the matter with that fellow over there?" asked tho first mosquito. Indicating another member of the tribe. . "Oh. he'a simply crasy," replied the second mosquito. "He's a vegutaiian.'V l'hlladelphia Ledger. Mr. I.Ipp Tell me the truth now do you hold your wife on jour lap as much as you used to during your honeymoon? Mr. Plpp Honestly, old limn, she sits on me a lot oftener than she did then. Cleve land Leader. , , THE TALK OF A CAT. (With the Usual Ending ) I wrote some pleasing couplets They sounded well to me I sent them to an editor. And awaited In high glee. i I wrote the lines at random, 'Bout our old Tabby cot; . I told about her silky fur, . . Her frolics and all that. The title was Just "Our Old Cat," So simrle and pathetic; I copied Wordsworth's style In that. But milie was more energetic. sent It to a maguslne. And saw niy reputation Ascend to star-lit summits, from This first feline creation. My ideas were legion, ' ' ' ' And ranged In endless strata; And I felt queer In the region Of my medulla oblongata. I hailed this as a token, A sicrnal past all doubting. That in the gray soil of my brain, The seeds of faina were sprouting So I heralded the fortune And the fame with great elation; Thus I built a Spanish oastle. With Tabby as foundation. J lived In wealth and luxury if glory had no lack- But the castle crashed about my ean r or irar uiu c at came hack. Omaha, Neb. BAYOL.U NH TRELB, kca&Si all our medicines. Mad Vjy th 9. C. Ajr Cm.. Lowell. Hm. Amm Mutaikitrr of i ATEH'g Patl-For coatiltiaa ' ItU I AGUlCUit-atliaiuaa4.