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TDK OMAHA DAILY DEE: TITISDAY. OCTOHETi 1.", 1007. The Omaha Daily BEfe FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATEIt. VICTOR nOSEWATF.R, ED1TOIJ. Kntrd at Omaha Postofflce as second flans matter. TliflMS OF PCHSCRIPTION. Pally Bee (without Sunday), one year. .14 no Pally Bm mil bunriay, out year ' Buridjy Be. one year II 5" Baturday (,.., one ye,r i.&o DELIVKRED BY CARRIER. Pally pee (Including; Sunday), per week. .16c Pally ! (wlllmiil Sunday), prr wwli. 10O livening Hoe (without Sunday), per week o Kvenlna; Hee (with Hundav, per week. ..UK) Address oil complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Pouth Omaha City Hall Building. Council BlufTs-15 Scott Street. Chicago 1M0 Cnlty Building. New York 16u8 Home Life Insurance Hldg. Vt ashlngton 501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft. express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing- Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, sa: Charlre C. Kosewater. general manager of Tha Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number pi full and complete copies of The Pally Morning. Evening and Sunday Pee printed daring the month of September, 19u7, was a follows: 1 38, TOO I 36,650 2 36,640 17 36,690 1 36,300 IS 36,680 4 38,980 It 36,600 i 38.350 20 36,290 6 36,340 21 36,070 7 36,840' 21. 38,330 8 38,600 2. .......... 37,360 9 30,140 24.......... 36380 10 36,630 25 38,380 11 36,470 it .... 36,930 12 36,370 27 36,600 12 36,030 2(.. 38,600 14 36,810 29 38,680 It.... 33,400 SO 36,890 Total 1,093,470 Less unsold and returned coplea. 9,887 Net total 1,083,883 Daily average 30.US CHARLES C ROSEWATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my pretence and aworn to before me this 80th aay of Septem ber, 1907. (Seal) M. B. IIUNGATE, Notary Public W1IBN OCT OF TOWN. Subscriber learls the city tera poraurilr ahtaald aa , Tho Bee mailed to than. Address will be caaatel aut oftea aa requested. "Shut the Door" signs are ripe. And now the Junior Yellow has gone back on itg Water board pets. Et tu, Brute. The frost la on the. pumpkin and most of the pumpkin pies offered ehow signs of It The Pittsburg Times has an article on "The Knox Boom In a Nut Shell." That's about the size of lt If peace Is aa dull and stupid as the deliberations at The plague confer ence, somt people Will prefer war; Congress and the Thaw trial aro both scheduled for December. 2. True enough that troubles never come singly. Statistics ehow that there are 6,429,814 Methodists' in the United States, not . counting ex-Governor Mickey. The president is being received with true southern hospitality by every body except Governor Vardaman and tha Louisiana bears. The "Japanese Sarah Bernhardt" has arrived In this country for a dra matic season, but she Is not booked for appearance at San Francisco. One of our amiable contemporaries has been smoked out on the question of consolidating Omaha and South Omaha. Now let the other one speak up. Mrs. Carrie Nation has decided to go on the stage. She hopes to have better success In elevating the drama than she did In suppressing the dram' nier. According to testimony in a New York trial, somebody borrowed $20,- 000,000 from the Standard Oil com pany and forgot to pay it back! Not guilty, - Having gotten all of ths free a.dver Using out of It, John O. Yeiser will call In his candidacy for a place on the dis trict bench and lay in wait for the next chance. If the striking telegraphers had not announced that they were determined to continue their strike, the public might have been In Imminent danger of forgetting It. Omaha's building activity shows no signs of let-up, although the season for outdoor work Is approaching Us end. The year 1907 will be a record maker In this 'respect. That Omaha preacher who declares that ho saw 60 women In Chicago drinking from noon until midnight, :omes perilously near confessing that be has been In bad company. Attorney Oeneral Bonaparte has decided that It la Just as unlawful for louthern states to Import their labor from other foreign countries as It used jo be tor them to Import them from afrlca. According to the testimony of the urchaslng agent of the Standard Oil tompaay. John D. Archbold fixes the uric of oil weekly. Let the country scngratulate Itself on the fact that Ircbbold does not need any more uoney than he does. MB. TAFTH TALK TO (HIS A Secretary Taft's courage in talking direct to people in different local ities on topics that naturally would be avoided by the timid Statesman, has again been demonstrated by his ad dress at Shanghai. He went to Ken tucky to discuss In a very frank man ner the South's treatment of the negro as a Bfx lal and Mlltlcal factor, and at Tokio he pointed out to the Japanese some of their national faults that were crying for remedy, at the same time emphasizing the strong features of the Nippon character and government. Along the same line, he talked with exceeding frankness, amounting to bluntness at times, to the Chinese, calling their attention to the cause of anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States and pointing the way to the successful cultivation of better social and commercial relations. The secretary of war told the Chi nese, as he had already told the Jap anese, that this country has uo thought of selling the Philippines or trans ferring them to any other nationality as a source of future complications in the orient. He told the representa tives of the forty-five guilds so re cently conducting a trade war against the United States that this country wants better commercial relations with China, will Insist upon the open door proposition and, Incidentally, will not to go out of Its way to bettor social conditions for the Chinese in this coun try ao long as China insists upon dis criminating . against American mer chants. Perhaps the secretary had some other nations in mind, too, when he expressed the hope that the prom ised awakening of China would be realized and that the empire would, by development of its resources, "gain sufficient strength to resist foreign ag gression in the seeking of undue and exclusive proprietary privileges." The expressed hope Is significant, in view of the fact that every foreign power has been Dlannlng to share the loot, should the disruption and partition of the empire ever materialize. It ia not a far-fetched conclusion that Secretary Taft undoubtedly Im pressed the Shanghai officials that the United States would extend lta active aid to the rehabilitation of China and at the same time push American in terests energetically. It is Bafe to as sert that China can not look for such encouragement from any other power, as most of them prefer to Bee China disintegrate rather than to catch step with the march of modern civilization and progress. OEItMAXY 4D THE UNITED STATES. After having allowed the diplo matic circles at Washington to "view with much concern" for a week, the authorities at Berlin have announced officially that there is no truth In the report that Germany contemplates sending a fleet of battleships to the United States, to show ' Germany's friendship for this country, while the Atlantic fleet is in Pacific waters. They also announce that an alliance between Germany and the United States, as hinted at in the original report, has never been thought of by the German officials. It is a little astonishing how anx- loua some foreign powers have become In the last eight years to demonstrate their friendship for the United States. The very fact that such la the case is the best reason in the world why this country should fight shy of "entang ling foreign alliances." Treaties and alliances, declared or secret, may be essential to the successful manage ment of the relations between Euro pean powers, but the United States has no reason for any auch agreements. The nation has become something of a world power since the Incident in Manila bay, and has taken part In the AlEfcclras conference, In representation at The Hague, In the settlement of the Boxer troubles In China, and In the ac complishment of the peace of Ports mouth, but nothing has developed to make it necessary for the United States to have an "entente cordlale with Germany or any other foreign nation. The friendliest possible rela tions are desired with Germany, but not to the exclusion of France and other powers that are not on any too cordial terms with the kaiser and his people. In most of the world affairs, the United States can and should occupy the enviable position of Interested by stander', friendly to all, but showing favoritism to none. CJSH F8- SAFETY. The traveling public will not be par ticularly delighted to learn that the recent widespread agitation for the use of better rails by the railways of the country has thus far resulted only In an apparent deadlock between the rail road companies and the Steel truBt over the financial feature of the sit uation. The railroads, appreciating the additional cost of rails made ac- cordlL? to the specifications they have agreed upon, have expressed willing ness to py an Increased price of 10 per cent fc the rails of the Improved pattern. Ti a Steel trust, on the other hand, Is standing out for an advance of 25 per cent. In the meantime, nothing Is being done to lessen the risk assumed by the traveling public on account of the use of acknowledged defective material In railway roadbeds Without getting into technical de tails, the railroad men demand a rail high la carbon and low in phosphorus while the railmakers Insist that this can not be produced by the Bessemer process, now In general use In rail manufacture, and that the open hearth system will have to be Installed before the new rails can be made. Again, according to the report of the special committee of railroad men that has been Investigating the conditions, there is a tendency among manufac turers to use too much of tho original ingot iu rolling the rails. It Is neces sary to trim off part of the ingot to rid it of the soft material that gathers there In the casting. Railroad men demand that at least 25 per cent of the Ingot bo trimmed before rolling, while manufacturers refuse ,to trim n;ore than 10 per cent. The public Is not particularly con cerned with the dispute between the railroad managers and the Steel trust, but it has a vital concern In the qual ity of the roadbed of the railroads upon which it pays for the privilege of traveling. The lives of passengers are not to be needlessly imperljed on ac count of any difference between rail roads and railmakers as to the price of rails. Public safety demands the most reliable equipment that can be produced and if the railroads and the steelmakers can not agree upon terms and methods, the public authorities will have to take a hand in the matter and establish standards that will re duce the dangers from broken rails and give every possible guaranty of safety. FIRST S10SS OF AtrAKEKlSO. The majority of the Water board seem at last to be showing first signs of awakening from the spell that has been cast over them by the great water-logged statesman. After listening to the advice of In terested taxpayers and disinterested business men of Omaha, they have de cided not to press the proposition for a $4,000,000 bond Issue to duplicate the existing water works system, at least until after the court shall decide whether the city is or is not bound to purchase under the appraisement al ready made or under a new appraise ment. The majority of the board have with equal wiBdom decided to pass up the scheme to invest $500,000 In a reser voir as an initial step In constructing a new system piecemeal to keep an ad ditional tfater supply In reserve for emergencies. What good such a reser voir would be under the present con ditions Is not very clear. Offuers of the water company say that the reser voirs at Florence hold water to supply our consumption for a week and that the machinery there has a capacity to pump tljree times as much water as we are now using. What is really needed is a second main from the source of supply at Florence to the center of the distribu ting system in Omaha to avoid dangers in the breakage of the main now de pended upon, such as was experienced last year. If some arrangement could be made with the water company to have this second main laid without further delay it would be of advantage to the city, but up to date the Water board has fought aby of this problem and completely Ignored all suggestions Intended to solve it. . With the water works litigation scheduled for early hearing, the peo ple of Omaha may live In hopes of eventually getting out of the woods, providing the Water board does not In the Interval do any more foolish things. The awakened members of the Water board may even reach the point where they will consider the whole situation as a business proposi tion instead of In a spirit of revenge or retaliation. The money spent on expert engineers to draw plans for a new water system may be charged oft to profit and loss. All the officeholders In South Omaha whose salaries would be cut off by ter mination of a separate municipal gov ernment are naturally against annex ation. This puts up to the taxpayers of South Omaha the question whether they maintain their city government solely for the benefit of the officehold ers or whether the officeholders are simply incidental to the promotion of the public welfare. n.hlman not onlv wnrshlns Wil liam J. "Bryan, but he Is a warm personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Much of the ridicule heaped upon the mayor of Omaha Hea from hla trying to Imitate the pres ident's spectacular atunta. Creighton Lib eral. This is putting the cart before the horse. Mayor "Jim" imitate anybody! Guess not. It Is President Roosevelt who Is Imitating Mayor "Jlm'a" spec tacular stunts. If the big and little democratic or rana (and organettes have any more mean things to say about Editor Sprecher now is the time. Editor Sprecher is a warm admirer of Colonel Bryan and ahould he support the dem ocratic nominee tor president next year he will again become great and good. A nonpartisan membership of the supreme court is the demand of the fusion combination. Suppose two su preme judges were to be elected in Ne braska this year instead of one. Can you picture the fusion spokesmen in sisting that one of the places be con ceded to the republicans? According to the Junior Yellow the Water board and all its members "are proving faithless to the duties tor which they are balng paid." How came about this eleventh hour discov ery? There must be a leak some where. Dr. G. Stanley Hall says be Is en gaged in solving the greateat riddle of the ages. "What is a child?" ' Dr. Hall is mistaken. The greatest riddle Of the sges Is that propounded by the New York World. "What is a democrat!" "The interstate commerce law has no particular effect," says Commis sioner Cockrell. The commissioner will have difficulty in bringing either the railroads or the former pass hold ers to his way of thinking. The savings bank branch of the British 'postofflce haR on deposit $760, 000,000, belonging to 10.000,000 de positors. Postmaster General Meyer's plan for a postal savings bank has an example In its favor. Governor Warflcld of Maryland wants-to go to the United States sen ate, but says he will not buy his way In. The governor has made quite a record for suggesting Innovations in Maryland politics. This year's corn crop will average thirty bushels for every man, woman and child in the United States. Statis ticians have not figured out what Ken tucky's share will amount to, In liquid measurement. A Gotham woman who complains that her rival took her husband and her jewels is not going into court over the affair, but Is willing to offer a reasonable reward for the return of the Jewels. A St. Louis woman who achieved some publicity a few weeks ago by getting married by telephone,' Is now seeking a divorce. Evidently she has discovered that she got the wrong number. Explorer Lefflngwell tells how It took him thirty-five days to mall a letter in the Arctic regions. Some men are longer than that in maiflng letters, even In the temperate zone. Whst a Spectacle. New York Sun. Mr. Bryan whimpering about "centraliza tion." Mr. Roosevelt's centralization Is about as luipresBlve as a child who, hla face smeared with currant Jelly, warns later comers to the pantry to keep away from' preserves. Where Bear Are Plentiful. Wall Street Journal. President Roosevelt has had no success In hunting beara In Louisiana. His policy Is said to have started a lot of bears to roaming in Wall street. He might try his luck there. , Marvelous Bookkeeping. Pittsburg; Dispatch. We may not be reasonable to blame the Standard Oil officials. Very few of us cart remember lending anyone else the sum of J32.761.WO during the last few years. But It seems Important to make an effort and re call the transaction; since, when these loans are called in, the Standard will be able to pay that fine. Dea't Need the Money. Springfield Republican. Borne $,600,0i.l0 of the 4 per cent govern, ment bonds maturing on July 1 last are still outstanding, yielding no return to the holders, while the redemption money could easily and safely be Invested to return 5 to 7 per cent. There la always some delay In passing in bonds under redemption, but thla pretty nearly beats the record. Under the circumstances Is quite remarkable. PASSING OP THE BAD MAX. Traditions of at Weaters Character Rudely Shattered. Cleveland Plain-Dealer. It Is generally conceded that the pic turesque bad man of an oarllcr day Is slowly passing from the wc-i-a of his former' activity. 'The respect with which his presence was at one time greeted n-mii to have departed. Even the most ex posed frontier community refuse to lake him seriously. "If a bad insiu comes in here," aald the keen eyed propru-to- of a Ooldfleld roulette wheel, "we take his jjun away from him and chuck him Into the street. This town won't stand for any melodramatic foolishness." No doubt It Is the spirit of contempt that takes all the romance out of the bad min i iradKlonul Incursions. To pose before a lot of sneer ing onlookers ia bad enough, but to Di robbed of your weapon anl flung into the dust of the wayside. Is absolutely heartenlng. It la almost refreshing, there fore, to note that Tennessee has an example of the genua bad man whose modesty does not prevent him from alluding in a care less way to a record of which any bad man might be proud. According to the story this active cltixen has admitted In court that he has killed at least fourteen men during the last ten years. Most of his victims were shot down In Kentucky feuds, but he has dropped them as far away as Chicago. Later on he added that as he had a poor memory for tlmea and places it was quite possible hla mortuary record could be lengthened out to twenty-live. Aa far as known thla remarkable person failed to enter Into any sanguinary particulars, and the exact manner ln which the long roll of personal testimonials to his marks manship was obtained Is left to the lively Imagination of the hearers. A man with a bad memory for names and placea can acarcely be able to recall these trifling details. It Is possible that this bad man's memory Is at fault in other directions, and he may not be nearly aa bad a man aa he ia said to paint himself. Hat just at present ho seems to be a shining example of a species that Is rapidly and happily be coming extinct. Would you give baby alco hol ? So-called preparations of O cod liver don't con O tain the oil do Q O contain drugs and O O wine (alcohol). O Scott's 3 O Emulsion f & contains no drugs O 0 and- no alcohol O Sonly pure cod liver C oil (which makes fat) O Q and pure hypophos- O O phites (which build Q O bone and nerves). O AUiraaaifrtM Wc aa4 11.00. ) The Way of the .lolin ('. Sprecher. In When John t'. Spr. clier of the Schuyler Free Lnm-f was a prominent rualonlst of Ilc 'holder nothing wu too menu for the republican papers to uv of lilm. hut now that 4'.o has lrn piled I me and Is en Be,l in heaping nhue upon' hla former political utiles, he hna hern converted Inlo a saint In the estimation of these same republican papers. As long us Pprei-hrr conlil hold office fiinion was a mighty nlee thing in his mind, but now It Is sour grapes and is nil wrong. He In now engaged In vilifying and slandering the very people who once helped to eloct lilm to office and In this respect Is like several other rene gades who have soured on fusion because they have been tinned down. And. of course, the republicans now pat him en the back and call him 11 good fellow. Probably he Is playing his cards for an ap. point ment from President Roosevelt who delights in rewarding political renegades and traitors like p. clem Deaver ami Judge Prltchard. Sprecher Is not satisfied unless he has the mud butteries of his dirty sheet trained upon some one and has re cently been found guilty of libel against a t'olfax county eltlxen. His word la not reliable and he In tho only one out of doiens of fuslonlsts who served In the leg. Islaturn with Judge Loomls who ran lie found to say u word ng.-ilnst him. The others all speak highly 'of the Judge. Cer tain republican pap. rs. whose chief char acteristic Is dirty politics and which have not the decency to be fair, delight In pub lishing what this renegade says and re fuse to publish what, decent people say to tho contrary. (Irand Island Democrat. Tho above article Is a sample of what the democratic editors are publishing about the Free Lance editor since he sees fit to support Judg' Reese for supreme Judge and oppose George I,. Loomls. Thin edi torial from the Democrat Is used simply ns a S'niiple und as one that Is going the rounds hy being copied in the various dem ocratic papers. The democratic press not being ablo to refute or meet the charges We mako against Loomls, resort to simply personal abuse and malicious falsehoods, but an to that we can ptand It. We oppoji; Loomls becuuse he Is a railroad lawyer who was one of six fusion members of the legislature in the session of IH01, who went back on the party railroad rato bill and who vnted to Indefinitely post pone It without even a consideration. The bill was the party measure, In hir mony with the democratic and popullstlc platforms and campaign pledges, drafted by Attorney General Smyth to meet the views of leading members of the fuaion pnrtles. If the democratic editors of the itaio were sincere In their "reform" talk, espe cially on the corporation question, they would take the official records and learn for themeselven that the charges mada by the Free Lance were true and then they woufd say that Mr. Loomls had proven a traitor' to the cause nnd vus not the proper man for a place on the su preme bench. But they don't, an they are a lot Of narrow partisans who aro Insincere In their professed "reform" Ideas and, not being able to meet tho Issue, resort to personal abuse, dodging the Issue as to Loomls' record. We oppose Loomls because as a mem ber of that session of 1001 he voted to Indorse graft and indorsed the pocketing of enormous fees by the clerk of the su preme court which rightfully belongel in the state treasury. We consider that a man who will stand on that public question aa Loomls stood Is not proper timber for the supreme bench. The democratic editors do not look up the public records to see that the Free Lance charges on this matter are cor rect, or, If they do, are careful not to dis cuss It 88 to Its merits or demerits, but renort to personal abuse of Sprecher as an argument. I We oppose Mr. Loomls because lid Is not supreme court timber, as he has been a Fremont attorney with a local practice only; has never had any bench experience, while on the other hand Judgo Reese has been district Judge, supremo Judge and dean of the law department of the state university. Judge Reese has proven himself to be a man of the people and was retired to private life once by the corporations controlling the republi can state convention and defeated him. But the democratic editors are not dis cussing these facts simply resort to per sonal abuse of Sprecher. The article quoted above la from the Grand Island Democrat, a miserable sheet that can well lay claim to being the sickliest-looking article In all Nebraska news paperdom. Anybody who has nerve enough to put that aheet out and lay claim to being its editor has certainly gall without measure. Who the editor la. we know not. As to his article, Spreeiier never was a PERSONAL. NOTES. Edmund Clarence Stedman was T4 years old on Tuesday, and spent the biggest part of the day In writing of his "Remin iscences." He says: "Most men write the story of their lives at about 40 or W, but I have waited a good, long time." G. B. Maynadier of the United States j Department of Agriculture has received a flattering offer to enter the service of the Brltlah government In the Transvaal, to superintend proposed experiments In South Africa in the cultivation of tobacoo. Stuart II. Calkins of Baltimore' has re ceived 116,000 for a vitrified ceramic mosaic picture, which contains 23,000 pieces of mosaic and 2,000 varl-colored tints. It re quired seven years to do the work, and it Is the first ceramic-mosaic specimen of art ever attempted in America. For a wager of 130,000 Viscount and Vis countess Raoul de Gruard have been mak ing a honeymoon tour of the world on foot. They left Paris on May 17. 18&6, snd have arrived at Turin, after traveling 41,50 miles on foot. They walked through England. Norway, Swltierland, Siberia, Turkey, the United States, Spain and Italy. Luther Wright Mott of Oswego, New York's new state superintendent of banks by Governor Hughes' appointment, is not only a practical banker himself, but the son and grandson of bankers. He has been president of the Oswego chamber of com merce ever since Its birth. He aucceeda Charles llallum Keep, now a public service commissioner. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who has Juat made tho most successful aerial voy age ever achieved In a dirigible balloon, has spent many years studying the ques tion of aerial navigation and in bis day bus constructed many flying machines. He Is a memU r of an old Wurtemberg family, and In his first aerial endeavors was greatly aided by the king of Wurtemberg, both with advice and funds. Count von Zeppelin la tiU years old. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Weyerhaeuser of St. I'aul celebrated their golden wedding in Rock Island. 111., on Friday. They took the Journey to the Illinois city as a mat ter of sentiment, for it was there they were married fifty years ago. Mr. Weyer haeubf r is a timber king and la considered to b the rlchetS. man ia America, bis wealth even surpa.sliig that of John D. IU Wtfelb r, and It I estimated that ha I oi Ui something like l,vn,r,'.'r Democratic Press Schuyler Free Lance, prominent fusionlst ofTlce ladder nnd dur ing tho time ho held u fw minor positions as a populist the republican prrs. did not say any mean things of him. probably for Ihe very good reason that he was of too little conseqiie-H-o. Sprecher never on ald.Tcd "fusion a mighty nice ihiaR" as he foresaw the end of the populist move ment hy It, but like many other populita accepted of It because there seemed to be nothing else to do lit that time. The little part he did take In politics and the official experience he had well told bin. that the no-called reform movement in Nebraska was a fake and It was a com bination of spoils. The fusion forces were controlled by a lot of corporation tools and gratters and were ever upheld In their fake reform by the fusion press. The fu sion crowd came to a well merited defeat and such party lickspittles as this demo crat editor Is responsible for It. as he even endorsed every act and stood ready to abuse any man In the forces who tried to be sincere and denounce the trimmers and grafters. The subservient democratic press of Ne brasku Is the most responsible for the downfall of the "reform" movement. Had Hint press stood out square by the people and denounced every man In the ranks who did not prove true to his trust, the people would not have lost confidence as they did In the fake reform, but a mis erable, weakly, cringing, subservient press simply encouraged even the betrayal of the people and the weakening of tho cause. The statement that Sprecher Is "now engaged In vilifying and slandering" is a lie. Nothing of the kind is done. Mr Loomls was spoken of as a eltlien and man In the best of terms and only bin public record wan reviewed and criticised, which certainly Is proper newspaper work. The charge of being a renegade Is an other lie, and the classing with D. Clem Deaver and Prltchard and the reference to appointment under Roosevelt Is simply democratic rot, which is so plentiful with the average democratic editor. It cornea easy for that Grand Island editorial politi cal lickspittle, whose chief aim In life In to mislead the people through the columns of the democratic press. Reference to the Free Lance as a "dirty sheet" and such statements an "mud batteries" cut little figure, as with the average democrat all not In line with bis subservient words is always classed that way. He refers to that one Omaha libel suit, but he In careful not to tell the truth and aay that out of a half dozen cases tried, all covering- the same matter, the Free Lance editor won with hands down, and that this one adverse case was carried to Omaha, where a Judge Instructed the Jury and It was on technical points then, nnd only after witnesses bud died or moved away, court racords were Htc.len and per jury practiced in a wholesale manner. The statement the word oj Sprecher in not good ia simply another lie. No man of any character in the state hut who knows better than that, and right here at home among local democrats tl-o word of this editor is never questioned. The Free Lance editor never was a democrat Rnd does not expect to be. He was a populist until he became disgusted with the fake, outfit of leaders and quit, not taking any part In any political party for six years now. . The Free Lance has been published five yearn and has with a few exceptions supported democratic candi dates. This year the entire local ticket is supported as It Was last year and the two years before. In five years only two can didates on the democratic county ticket but whom were supported and those were for reasons, and support by the Free Lance in this counry counts. Thla year the demo, cratlc dlBtrict Judicial ticket Is supported. Kach year the entlie atate ticket has been supported except as to Sheldon for governor last year and Reese for supreme Judge this year and all the thanka we get for it is to have the democratic mud batteries turned loose If one of their candldatea Is not sup ported for good and sufficient reasons. That's all tho credit or thanks we get for our support, but what can you expect from tho outfit? Last year when we were for Sheldon we got a worse lot of lies and abuse from the democratic press, which published that the Free Lance was started by republicans and supported by them and that the editor was simply a hireling for them. But we repeat It, what can you ex pect from unprincipled fakirs? Not being able to meet our charges agalnat Loomls, because they are truo and the legislative records prove It, tlie inconsistent and dirty democratic presn has to get away from the real issue and try( to divert attention from Loomls by attacking Sprecher. If the whole demo cratic bunch of fake reformers In Ne braska turn loose on Sprecher and pub lish a lot of rot, it won't change any of or particular tear oi poor results, or ot Harming tne fabrics, if yon use the genuine . . . , aiaac lor 2 CHILDREN'S DAY s BBSS UK BOYS' AND CHILDREN S CLOTH Browning, King & Co R. S. WILCOX, Manager. YOU OUGHT TO 1. i McKibbin Gloves 1 : $J50 j HAVE A HAND IN THIS ! Dealer everywhere the charges ngalnM Loomls. wlr.i h i i e to he met and met right, and no v . i !lrty, lov-llcd personal nttok a Sprecher. h'i is not running for oil,. And Just one mote thing we unni ii nay to tills democratic brigade of It "n and dirt throwers, nnd that Is t Sprecher was never turned down l.i . - j aspirations for ofth-c, bccuu.se be nan n--- t had the political itch. The little oflli ' 1 preferment he has had came to him un solicited, ami It came several tlm. a when it was declined with thanks. And no democrat ever gave anything offblal p.ir wua tie asked to or given a clmncc I i, There are some (lean and straight demo crat f In Nebiaeka, but t lie average on. Including the average democratic editor, In a political prostitute, who hwIurs cd-dly from ISryanlwm to 1'arkensni and is ready to hurrah for anything, so It bea.s the brand. FLASH KM OF FI N. "I gave my husband a surprise pnrty on hln birthday." "And wus In- really surprised?" "Not as much an the guests were. H came home full as a goat." Cleveland Leader. Auldsport Why no ' gloomy, old chap? Last night you were having the linest time 1 ever saw a man have. dayman Well, doesn't that explain It, i you chump? Chicago Tribune. The Manager I've got a new Idcu for a melodrama that ought to make a hit. The Writer What In It? The Manager The Idea Is to Introduce a cyclone in the flrsl act that will kill all tite actors.- Ilai per s Weekly. "My dealer did an odd tiling when t went to lilm to get the particular volume I wanted." What did he do?" "Flrt he booked my tinier; then lie or dered my book." Ualtlmore American. "Of course," said the analytical ques tioner, "there Is u great (leal to be said on both sides of the question. " "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "Too many of us aro geuing the idea that all a public question is tit for nowadays in to serve as the topic for a good talk." Wash Ington Star. First Chauffeur Do you look to see whom you run over? Second Chauffeur Ven. I make a point of seeing tho morning papers. New York Sun. "you were married I before ' the wajs ing did start a ( W weren t you ? "Well. yes. the flahtin weeks after the ceremony." Smart Set. WHAT'S COMIXti TO YOl-, Nashville American. What's the use to worry Or to vex your soul Lent the merry dealer Raise the price of coal? Wetter be complacent Just because you may Know he will for certain Do it anyway. What'a the use to borrow Trouble in advance, k'niwlns it will hit you When it gotn a chance .' Walt Its grand arrlvul To get truly glum: Simple logic tells you It is bound to come. Nothing gained by fretting Or by feeling blue: Only makes you thinner If reports are truo. Walt until misfortune Hands it to you straight. You with such a prospect Can afford to wait, Mlftht an well be Joyful Anil to sing a tune, Knowing there Is trouble Coming pretty soon. You can always llgur You will sure bo hit And from every quarter Get the worst of It. 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