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rkasgtil sve often aa reqawlti.
Live stock receipts are light.
; senger recelpta are heavy.
Pua-
Thla hot wave coming down on us
from the direction of Denver Is easily
explained.
Those new motor car works cannot
start up for business any too soon to
suit Omaha. .
The revised version of that story
reads: "Kern Kern Who In
Denver Is Kern?"
"Will you kindly walk into my par
lor,',' says Mr. Bryan to Mr. Hearst,
but Mr. I learnt declines with thanks. -
The Dee off erg the suggestion that
on their return to Omaha the "Jims"
establish a proscribed district for the
"Jacks."
Tammany "JJosb" Murphy declares
that he Is entirely satisfied with the
work of tho convention. That ought
to settle It.
Carrie Nation has been visiting
South Omaha again, but without her
hatchet. Has South Omaha reformed,
or is it Carrie?
This campaign publicity business
works both ways. Some people may
be counted on to contribute Just to
get the advertising.
According to reliable authority,
Adlal Stevenson was waiting on the
front stoop and half way down the
steps, but they forgot to come for him.
I President Roosevelt refers to the so
cialists as "doctrinaire advocates of
deadening socialism." In a word, the
real way to raco suicide is by the adop
ou of socialism.
ho next appeal to the galleries by
Candidate Bryan may be looked for In
the shape of the Indignant return of
loruo proffered campaign contribution
on tho ground that the money is
tainted.
According to the official record, Mr.
'Bryan was nominated at Denver at
,8:40 Friday morning. Our local dem
ocratic organ, however, nominated him
!forty minutes- earlier In OTder not to
.delay its presses.
The next on the boards is the pro
hibition party's nominating convention
which meets tula week at Columbus,
Ohio. This is one convention In which
the presidential nomination is not
foreclosed iu advance.
Members of the resolutions commit
tee, supposed to have framed the plat
form at Denver, are now debating as
to what its various planks mean. They
should appeal to the court of last
reeort at Fairview for an authoritative
interpretation.
The Union Pacific will doubtless be
very glad to stop paying grain eleva
;lon charges and keep the money in
.ts own pocket. It will, therefore. In
ill probability cheerfully obey the
' aandate of the Interstate Commerce
commission in the grain elevation
' iases.
1 The cutting down of the republican
tanner stretched across the street In
Lincoln has at last aroused the parti
tan fire among tho militant republ
icans of the Capital city. If the
3ryan admirer who did the Job
bought be was helping Bryan be will
Ind that he was badly fooled
"DOtTMSa THE VOSStS "
After Colonel Bryan's explosive as
sault upon "Boss" Ouffey, it is amaz
ing to find him, boasting as he dors of
his consistency, scampering down to
tho railway station at Lincoln to ex
tend the hand of fellowship to "Boss'
Murphy of the Tammany wigwam.
The Tammany crowd were traveling
by special train which could easily
have been stopped long enough in
Lincoln to let them go to Fairview to
pay their respects to the democratic
standard bearer. When in response
to Mr. Bryan'8 cordial invitation
"Boss" Murphy wired the insulting
response that if Mr. Bryan wanted to
see him he could come down to the
station and watch the train go
through, a proper sense of self-respect
would have prompted Mr. Bryan, if
not to give the Tammany Vboss" the
same sort of a salute that he gave
"Boss" Guffey, to Ignore him with
silent contempt.
This episode simply illustrates Mr.
Bryan's keen discrimination between
"bosses." "Boss" Guffey, for whom it
Is not within the range of possi
bility to deliver any electoral voys
from Pennsylvania, is unceremoniously
bumped and ejected through the tran
som In flagrant disregard of the ac
cepted code of political ethics. But
"Bobs" Murphy is supposed to be a
factor In New York for which Mr.
Bryan has not entirely given up hope.
So while "Boss" Guffey is conceded
no rights which Mr. Bryan is bound
to respect, "Boss" Murphy is coddled
and told that he may name the vice
president, if he wants to, and when
he declines to become responsible for
the makeup of the ticket, Mr. Bryan
chases himself all the way from Fair-
view to the train shed at Lincoln to
greet him and to be photographed
with the Tammany "boBs."
Mr. Bryan is for "downing tho
bosses." All "bosses" are bad, but
some "bosses" whose help may be use
ful are better than others.
VICt HIKMVESTIAL OFFERS.
The best that the democrats return
ing from Dcver have to say for their
choice of John W. Kern of Indiana
for second place on the ticket with
Bryan is that he Is inoffensive and
will not alienate any vote. The strong
est argument put up for Candidate
Kern, sponsored by the notorious
"Tom" Taggart, is that he has always
been a stickler for party regularity,
and that although he started out with
the bolting gold democrats in 1896,
he became quickly reconciled to Bryan
and free silver and always stayed In
line for the ticket. Outside of this,
his place in public life has been in
conspicuous, never having risen be
yond service as Mayor Taggart's city
attorney and membership In the In
diana legislature. Twice rejected 'for
governor of the state. Candidate Kern
has nothing whatever to show in the
way of executive experience, of legis
lative achievement or of intimate, ac
quaintance with the big questions Of
national affairs.
Contrasted with the democratic vice
presidential nominee, the republican
candidate, James S. Sherman, has been
long in tho forefront of congressional
activity. He has a strong personality
and has bocn a potent factor in con
gressional lawmaking. He is a na
tional figure admittedly or a more
positive type than Mr. Kern and far
better equipped from all points of
view for leadership in the national
arena.
The vice presidency, as every one
knows, is usually regarded as a shelf
for some one tostand on waiting for
something that Beldom happens. Oc
casionally, bowovcr, something does
happen to mako the vice president In
fact the chief executive of trie nation.
If the American people had to wait
for such a contingency by a choice De
tween James S. Sherman and John W.
Kern, disregarding politics and guided
solely by considerations of ability, ex
perience and reliability, no one at all
conversant with their respective ca
reers and qualifications would doubt
that the cholco would fall to j antes a.
Sherman, who huppens to be the re
publican nominee for vice president,
rather than to John W. Kern, who Is
hitched to the democratic kite.
SVMMKR Sl'OBTS.
This is the season when tho "call
of the wild" stirs more than commonly
active In the blood of the civilized
man. aud lures him to out-of-door
scenes and doings. He may be seden
tary in his habits, and even indolont
in his ways, but somehow or other the
summer heat gets into his sluggish
blood and sets it moving at a more
rapid pace. Other seasons of the year
have their peculiar sports, which are
indulged in by men prone to that par
ticular form of dlvertlsement favored
by the weather or climatic conditions.
But In the summer time all men, and
women, too. feel the out-of-door Itu-
r.,i..i The Inclination to get out is
irresistible, and under the sun In the
cpen nature Is revived and energy re
nnl The hot weather makes work
Intolerable at times, but it gives a
,rt tn .lav that Is Indefinably potent.
Golf links and tennis courts, boat
clubs and swimming beacnes, me uau
,,rm.n,ie and the raco courses, are an
parts of the great plan for getting
h..man balnea Into tne open, auu in
ducing them to take the exercise that
Is bound to result in better neaun
nd Bweeter sleep. This does not
mean that every one is to become an
athlete, or tf strive to excel at a par
ticular game. It means simply that
every one Is to move about in the sun
shine, to absorb something of the re
vivifying influence of the greatest
tonic ever compounded, bright day
light and fresh air.
Nebraska offers this tonic as no
other spot on arth tan. Here the sun
shines brightly, but rarely at an ex
cessive temperature, while the effect
of his rays is always tempered by the
sweetest of breezes that stir an atmos
phere as pure as was ever inhaled by
lungs of man. The air, charged with
ozone, aod unsullied by the Impurities
that collect in lower altitudes, nor
stripped of its qualities as in the
higher regions, is a stimulant Itself.
All around us are the homes of
clubs whose activity is In the line of
outdoor sports in the summer, and
on our streets, in the offices and
stores. In the homes and the work
shops are seen the vigorous and
healthy folks who owe their physical
well being to the combination of air
and light and exercise they indulge In
so freely. Outdoor sports are always
to bo commended, but nowhere do
they have a better effect than right
here in Nebraska.
WAS HE TWICE GOLD-BRICK ED
Boosting for Mayor Jim for chair
man of the democratic national com
mittee, an unnamed member of the
Nebraska delegation Is plausibly
quoted as saying:
You are, ICs this way: Twice Mr. Bryan
has adopted the wishes of members of the
committee as to the chairman and twice
he got a gold brick. It la essential to the
success of his candidacy that he not only
have a chairman who la loyal to htm, but
that he also have a man who Is enthusias
tic with him personally, a believer In his
leadership and In the probable success of
his cause.
If Mr. Bryan was twice gold-bricked
in his national chairman, he went up
against the game with his eyes open
and cannot throw the blame on his
committee. In 1S96 Senator Jamos
K. Jones of Arkansas was Bryan's per
sonal choice for campalsn manager
and did everything strictly according
to Bryan's direction, when Bryan did
not insist on doing it all himself.
Throwing a bouquet to the tripartite
committees lu charge of the three po
litical parties that flew the Bryan ban
ner in 1896, Mr. Bryan, himself, writes
in his "First Battle," as follows:
After a campaign la over It Is sometimes
possiblo to point to mistakes In manage
ment which affected the result. But I do
not belluve that anyone will be able to
point out a serious mistake made by either
of the committees, nor can anyone point to
an I nut unco In which either committee
failed to Improve an opportunity presented.
Not only was Mr. Bryan completely
satisfied with the way In which he
was gold-bricked the first time, but he
liked it so well that ho kept Senator
Jones at the head of his campaign in
1900.
A man who is gold-bricked once
may plcid Ignorance and Innocence,
but a man cannot expect sympathy
if he Is gold-brlcked twice by the same
bunco eteerers. If Senator Jones were
still alive it is qulto possiblo that he
would complain that he was gold
bricked twice by being made campaign
manager for a foredoomed candidate.
The sudden death of a supreme
court Judge In Iowa has waked the
politicians there up to the fact that
there is no law In that state provid
ing a way to nominate a candidate for
an office which becomes vacant after
the legally fixed date for the primary
election. If that is the case the law
will have to be patched up, but In the
interval a good lively scramble Is sure
to be started by candidates willing to
run by petition. A seat on the su
preme bench of Iowa is not going to be
left without bidders for it.
The Commoner carefully prints in
full the address of Temporary Chair
man Bell and the nominating speeches
of Ig. Dunn, Governor Glenn and
Augustus Thomas, but carefully omits
the address of Permanent Chairman
Clayton, who declared that as presi
dent Mr. Taft would be a second
Roosevelt. That speech of Clayton's
must havo been designed for conven
tion consumption only.
Stuyvesant Fish, who used to be
president of the Illinois Central, pre
dicts a bumper crop that will tax the
resources of the railroads to their ca
pacity. With this notice tho railroads
will not be able to shift responsibility
if they come to a car famine about
crop moving time.
It is indeed unfortunate that the
protracted hearing of the hydrant ren
tal case should have compelled the at
torneys In the water works litigation
to twice postpone that annual trip to
Europe which has been presented to
them with the compliments of Omaha
taxpayers.
President Kipley of the Santa Fe in
sists that the railroads must be al
lowed to raise rates or to reduce em
ployes' wages. President Ripley made
some similar predictions of dire conse
quences from objectionable legislation
two years ago, which did not come
true.
Two hundred and thirty-four auto
mobiles are listed with the county as
sessor for taxation in this city and
county. A lot of orders for new ma
chines must have been delayed until
after June 1, when tho assessor's re
turns were to have been all made.
If Judge Parker and his friends
support the ticket this year with the
tame vigor as accorded by Mr. Bryan
and his friends to the ticket four years
ago, the outcome need not be consid
ered in doubt.
R nonius Mate for Carrie.
Minneapolis Journal.
Colonel Hobson's declarations of war on
the orient are getting as frequent aa the
times when Mrs. Nation consigns her op
ponents to the warm place.
Whither M e Are Drifting.
Springfield Republican.
It was a wonderful holler. Yes, of
course. It beats the Roosevelt yell at Chi
cago by J9 minutes, say the experts. But
wait until Then there'll be some
cheering. By lfcSO our national conveo
tlons will ficg with rrsyer and then cheer I
steadily for a wr-ek. I
One Failure Overlooked.
New York Evening Tost.
Among the things which Chairman Hell
forgot to accuse tho republican party of
having failed to do. is finding the north
pole.
Reciprocal Support.
St. Ixuils Globe-lVmocrat.
Mr. Parker says he will support Mr.
Bryan, Just as Mr. Bryan said he would
support Mr. Parker. If tho returns are of
the same kind, honors will be easy.
Abasement of I'arkrr,
New York Sun.
Judge Parker's magnanimity having led
Mm to forgive, and abase himself before
Mr. Bryan, why shouldn't he do as much
for Mr. Roosevelt? Let bygones be by
gones. The way to fight Is to yield.
Lends Interest to the Campaign.
New York World.
In assuring the Omaha democrats who
cheered that he was for the nomination
of Mr. Bryan "quite as much aa you are,"
Representative Longwurth dutifully ex
pressed loyalty to one of my policies.
Supremacy of the III Noise.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
To Mr. Bryan's personal record aa a
sound producer is now added an un
rivaled record as a sound evoker. Eighty
eight minutes of cheers may, however,
be annulled In eight seconds in tha voting
booth.
Sober People I nalarmrd,
New York Tribune.
Tho stockholders of the Illinois Central
railroad have just subscribed to all of
the JH.000,000 of additional stock Issued by
the company. In most cases the stock was
paid for In full, although only a 60 per
Cent Installmont was requested. The Den
ver convention isn't worrying anybody.
Talk About Imperialism.
Kansas City Star (Ind.).
The democratic party was never com
pletely Bryanlzed until now. The Fair
view "farmer" has been nominated on his
own terms. The party, so far aa convention
proceedings are concerned, stands for noth.
Ing that does not come from Ilncoln, Neb.
At last Mr. Bryan has demonstrated to
the country , what Is meant by "Imperial
ism." An Unwelcome Kerralt.
Philadelphia Kecord (deni.).
Former United States Senator Burton of
Kansas Is said to have cast his lot with the
democratic party for this campaign. The
democracy will welcome all who have hon
est cause for dissatisfaction with repub
lican maladministration; but it will hardly
extend the glad hand to any whose chief
grievance is that the Roosevelt administra
tion has exposed and punished them as
grafters.
COKN AND PROSPERITY.
Promise of an Enormous Yield of
the Ulnar of Cereal.
Chicago Tribune.
The government crop report for July pro
claims tho probability of another enormous
yield of corn. The data for estimate are
furnished by correspondents In tvery part
of tha corn sone. It Is now believed that
the total for 1907 will be surpassed, al
though that of 190J, the banner year, will
not be reached.
The collected figures show almost 101,000,
000 acres devoted to corn. This acreage ex
ceeds by more than 4,000,000 that of 19u. In
that year, when the yield was finally
counted. It was found to bo 2,27.41tt,OjO
bushels. The crop of VM Is estimated as
likely to come wUhln SCO.000.00O bushels
of the bumper record for ,lJtf. While the
Ideal conditions of that season have not
been realized tills year, the situation is so
favorable everywhere that the farmers are
happy over the outlook.
Linked with the prospects on the farm Is
the Improvement of railroad conditions. The
crop must be hauled to market. That
moans an Increased demand for cars, more
locomotives in use, more opportunity for
work for the army of men who follow rail
roading as a business. The money paid for
the corn will liven up business generally.
It is an encouraging word which oomes
from tho fields.
The high price of meat is largely due, so
the meat men declare, to tho cost of feed
ing cattle resultant from the high prices
of corn which have prevailed. The market
ing of two arid three-quarters billion bushels
of this commodity cannot fall to have an
effect In the opposite direction, so that the
meat eater away from the farm will share
In another way the prosperity of the
farmer.
Tha crops are tho great factors In na
tional prosperity. Bounteous harvests have
often como to the relief of the country at
times when the manufacturing and com
mercial interests were under an eclipse.
With good crops this year the early clos
ing of the present period of Industrial de
pression will be assured.
INCREASING BUSINESS ACTIVITY
Stills, Factories and Shops llesnmilaK
ttperat Ions.
Washington Post.
""The resumption of operations by many
mills, factories and railroad shops In the
east and west, together with the slump in
immigration, has done much to settle the
problem of dealing with the unemployed.
Yesterday's news told of ttye reopening of
mills and shops at Pittsburg, Johnstown,
Tarcntum, Chicago, Sacramento, Hunts-
vllle, Heading and elsewhere, giving em
ployment to over 10,000 men. The number
of Immigrants arriving during the first half
of the year was only one-half as great as
the number of emigrants, a loss of about
180.000 laborers, t'ntll business gets Into full
swing again it is not probable that the in
flux of immigrants will add appreciably to
the number of the unemployed.
Conditions throughout rho country are
very encouraging, both lu agriculture and
Industry. Compared with conditions at
the same time last year, It la found that
there is almost as much activity in trad
ing now as then. The midsummer slack
ening of business Is not to be charged
up to this year alone. It occurs every
year, and the fact that business shows
a steady gain at this dull season is the
best proof that the effect of the Octo
ber panic has disappeared in the face
of prospects of huge crops. A heavy
fall business Is in sight, and It is in
preparation for it that mill and shops
are now reopening. There are fewer Idle
freight cars now than at any time since
last April, when the depression reached
Its limit. From that time on the trend
has been toward better times, as con
clusively thown by the demand for freight
cars.
The west Is most optimistic over the
business situation. In the crop-raising
regions bank clearings are now normal.
Money Is piling up In New York, where
speculation Is at a standstill. There is
do longer ths slightest danger of a short
age at crop-moving time, and assurance
Is made doubly sure In the knowledge
that $500,000,000 of emergency currency
can be made available at a moment's no
tice.
The opinions of Industrial leaders to tha
effect that the approaching fall and win
ter will be busy and prosperous are am
ply borne out by the Increasing activities
of business this month, when dullness la
the rule, even la must proefwous years.
ON PRESIDENT! L FIRINO LINE.
Same Views aid Comments an (he
tolnsjs at Denver.
Denver Post (rep.).
The nomination of Mr. Pryan Is a phe
nomenon that seems almost beyond com
ment. The east will have nothing of hlra.
Tho practical leaders of the party did not
want Mm. Ills standing as a presidential
possibility has not Increased since his lost
defeat. And his third campaign on his new
democratic platform seems to foreshadow
the disintegration of a once great party. An
organisation that continues to draw Its po
litical Inspiration from the old south and
lis economics from the eighteenth century
lacks sanction of essential facts In dealing
with the problems of today; and tho pro
fession of faith announced In tho new plat
form Is the adoration of a fallen Idol. The
demand of tariff reform, with an eventual
tariff for revenuo only. Is not an alluring
possibility for a manufacturing nation that
pays the highest wages In the world; while
the "anli-lnjunctlon" plank Is only moro
unctuous, and not half as sincere or attain
able as that of tho republican platform.
However, the democracy has chosen Its
candidate and Its platform, and If they do
not seem to fit each other very well the
democracy must do the best It can with
them. What tho nation will do with them
is another matter.
The Cleveland Resolutions.
Brooklyn Englo (Ind. dem.).
The clumsy and unknown nerson from
Nebraska who offered the resolutions Is
said to have received them from William J.
IJryan. The first sentence is: "As it has
pleased the Ruler of the Universe to remove
rrom our midst Grover Cleveland, late pres
ident of the United States, who was thre
times the candidate of the democratic party.
be It resolved.
It neither pleased nor displeased the Rnlxr
of the Universe, to remove Grover Cleve
land. He did not remove him. Mr. Cleve
land's life was doubtless commendahla tn
the Almighty, but lie died on account of
natural causes. He acquired a disease
which finally ended his life. The ending nf
that life was due to laws which affect liv
ing and dying, which the Ruler of the Uni
verse established, but with the course nf
which He does not Interfere.
The operation of thoso laws removed
Grover Cleveland. They did not remnv
him " from our midst." "Our midst" Is
our stomach. It Is nothing else and It Is
nowhero else. Tho expression Is often mis
applied to obituary resolutions, but the mis
application is always due to Ignorance of
grammar and to Ignorance of anatomy.
eouiu tne authorship of the resolution.
be shown to be the act of Mr. Cryan. the
proof which that would furnish of his Ig
norance of grammar and of his ignorance
or anatomy, with his Intrenld nA,iit r.
both, would Justify voting against him and
wouia do a sufficient reason for hi.
feat. There are many other reasons for his
defeat, but this one alone should suffice.
Western Democracy In Saddle.
Springfield (Mass) Republican (Ind ).
The democratic party of today has no
representation In congress worth consider
ing outside of the south, although It pell
an enormous popular vote In the northern
states. Whnt has happened at Denver, In
effect, Is that the southern congressional
leadership is embodied In men like Culber
son, Williams. Uucon and n.a
cart aside, and In Its place appears a leader
ship and a control which, crudo ami 111
disciplined as It may seem, has Its sources
in the masses of the democratic party In
the north and west.
Sneaking more specifically, the democ
racy of the west ts In the saddle, the de
mocracy of the east and south merely ac
cepting a domination which could not be
csst off. And the western democracy Is at
least democratic in tho truer and more
Ideal sense that It signifies popular aspira
tions and popular rule. It is a progressive
democracy, dangerously radical some will
say, but It stands for something vital and
It embodies much of the spirit of tho com
ing generation In American politics, what
ever fortune It may have In tho present
struggle for control of the government.
A Mighty Talkfest.
S. J. Blythe in Chicago Examiner.
Once more the democracy has proved It
Is the greatest conversational party on
earth. It loves the sound of the human
voice. I.ed by the celebrated word-Vesuvius
of Lincoln and tailed by that cloudburst of
language, Alfalfa Bill of Oklahoma, so
called because he grows three crops of
whiskers on the same soil, everything be
tween Is vocal.
Thus far the democratic national conven
tion has been a wordfest, and so It will
continue to tho end. We have had oratory
In all the known styles, from that of the
late John J. Demosthenes to that of Jimmy
Oliver of Paradlso Park, New York. The
English language has been burned at the
stake, has been taught to do double flip
flaps through the air, has been macerated,
lacerated and chased screaming In agony
from pillar to post.
Nolse-Maklna- Overdone.
Indiunupolls News (rep.).
The tllly custom of turning a national
convention Into a nolsc-fest nt the first
mention of a favorite candidate's name
has about gone the limit when the sense
less clamor has been kept up for an hour
and a half. Every convention has felt that
It must outdo every other convention that
has preceded It; and so the demonstration
Is prolonged and renewed till It becomes
only a test of endurance. It means noth
ing, after a reasonable continuance, as to
to the popularity of the person whose
name evoked the outburst. Every one knew
that Mr. Roosevelt was popular before the
Chicago convention shouted Itself hoarse
through three-quarters of en hour of wild
vociferation; tjio greater hoarseness Invited
by tho democratic enthusiasts yesterday in
the much longer uproar at Denver does not
testify to the greater popularity of Mr.
Bryan. All It shows Is that the democratic
noise-makers -'ere determined to show that
they could keep up the racket twice as long
as the republican nolsc-makers did.
The I'erpetual Candidate.
Now York Times (Ind).
"Enough for any . one man" was Mr.
Bryan's own expression after ho hud twice
led his party to defeat. After the result of
tho election of l'.0 was known, tho per
petual candidate sent this mournful dis
patch to his friend J. P. Merlll of Kansas
City:
"Thunk you for your telegram of con
dolence. The defeat was a severe one; you
all did nobly. I cannot conscientiously ask
the party to consider me uain for the pres
idency. I led them to defeat four years
ago, und that ought to be enough for any
one man."
More than enough for any one man, for
any one party, for any one country Is Mr.
Bryan's third hopeless candidacy.
Liberty and License.
Baltimore American.
A frenchman visiting America complains
of the "lack of personal liberty" In this
country, and contrasts It according to
his viewpoint, unfavorably with the lib
erty to be found in France. But there Is
everything In a viewpoint from the Ameri
can viewpoint liberty In France is often
license, and statistics call attention to the
fact that Franc leads In the number of
certain crimes that are directly tha result
of this so-called liberty. From the
American viewpoint, this Is a pretty well
governed country In fact tha best la the
world.
HOLDING VP THE HUNGRY.
Heaver Faod Fonadrlea Do the Job la
a Rsit Kaahlon.
Staff Correspondent Chicago Itecord-llerskl.
vThe most genuine amusement of the en
tire convention Is being obtained by tne
IVnver restaurant keepers. These Denver
Ites have entered Into the dcfenslvo and
offensive, but chiefly offensive, for the pur
pose of practicing the art of extortion on
the visitors.
The "holdups" are practically raw and
the work of tho restaurant keepers Is so
coarse that It would never be tolerated for
a moment If It were not for the fact that
most of the visitors have thus far been so
busy and so occupied that they have no
opportunity to "go on the mat" with the
proprietors of the restaurants.
But the visitors are now shrieking for re
venge. The only revengo In sight, how
ever. Is the decision, voiced on every hand,
that never again will a democratic conven
tion come to Denver. If this proves to bo
the caso Denver will have Its cafe man
agers to thank. Meanwhile tho managers
Jingle tho Incoming coin and smile.
The extortion mentioned does not refer
to th cheaper Denver restaurants, but to
the best dlnlr places In the city. Every
where tho very least amount of food of the
very worst quality and cooked In the very
worst possiblo form Is being dished up to
visitors In sny old fashion.
Prices are the only things which are main
tained at a high level. The service Is as
bad as tho food, and It takes anywhere
from thirty minutes to seventy to get any
thing cerved which requires cooking. No
one connected with the cafe management
ver restaurants during this convention.
After a pilgrimage of the various alleged
first-class cafes and hotel dining rooms a
party of Chlcagoans has drawn up a set of
rules to be observed while eating In Den
ver restaurants during thl sconventlon.
Here are the rules urged upon the
visitors:
Bring a microscope so that you will be
able to see the food.
Bring a hatchet so that tho meat may be
broken up.
bring a neat pat of butter In your hat so
that you won't have to eat bulterlne or
butter of the Napoleonic era.
Bring an assortment of fresh eggs In your
fxicket If you happen to want eggs of a
ater date than the former democratic con
vention. Bring a chair that you can rest on whllo
tho food Is coming.
Wear a mackintosh, so your clothes won't
be made by the waiter a receptaclo for
milk, coffee or soup.
When about to order what would be
enough for a meal In any other city don't.
Order six portions of everything Instead.
When the bill is carried lm by two men,
pay it and escape, thankful you still have
a return ticket which will take you out of
Denver.
The situation was summed up by a
waiter In a well-known cafe, who. In an
swer to roars of protest against paying $1.75
for a tenderloin steak about the size of a
watch, said:
"That's a pretty small steak for tho rrlcp,
but It ain't my fault. Since the convention
Is on wo waiters have got to take what
they give us In the kitchen, and then it's
up to us to try to keep the customers quiet.
I never worked so hard in my life as I,
have this week because I've had to do so
much thinking up of excuses." '
STRAIGHT PHOM THIS SHOULDER
Nab of tho Deatrnotlom of tho Taft
Ilanner at Lincoln.
Kearney Hub.
Some people at the state capital take it
as an indignity that the republican state
central committee should hung out a big
Taft banner, "Nebraska for Taft," because
W. J. Bryan Is a resident of Lincoln.
The Commercial olub of the el'y has
protested.
The Lincoln Star, speaking from a com
mercial standpoint of tho probable visit of.
democratic hosts to Lincoln to seo Bryan
dn'd notify him officially of his nomina
tion, says:
"Think of It we are getting without cost,
almost as good a thing out of the demo
cratic conclave as Denver Is getting and
Denver pays $100,000 for It!"
And In another paragraph the Star refers
to "getting an Immense profit out of the
shouting democratic hosts."
Thus it Is announced officially what has
been apparent for some time, that tho
business interests of Lincoln, thinking only
of their money-getting are hoarding Mr.
Bryan as a profitable commercial asset.
It will be aa well, however, fur those
people to remember that Lincoln Is the
capital of Nebraska of the whole state
and that It Is a great deal more than the
home of W. J. Bryan.
The offending banner need not give of
fense to any person. It does not attack
Bryan. It docs not slur him. It need not
give offense to any deocrats, any more
than a Bryan demonstration on the streets
need offend republican residents of the
city.
If Lincoln peoplo Insist on commercializ
ing tho Bryan candidacy they will have to
figure loss and gain, later, with the whole
state.
If commercial considerations count, they
may well remember that republican hosts
have year after year gathered at the
capital and spent their money there.
Republican stato headquarters have been
maintained In Lincoln nine-tenths of tho
tlmo, but of course they can be accommo
dated elsewhere.
The state capital haa been down In the
southeast corner of the state a long time,
but if Lincoln people do not realize what
Lincoln owes to the whole state, and If
they desire to put the capital on wheels,
doubtless a location can be found where
tho business men are something more than
shop-keeping mercenaries.
ONE SPECIAL PRIVILEGE LEFT.
Democratic Delegates Permitted to
Do the Endorsing:.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Richard L. Metcalfe, associate editor of
the Commoner, says the American people
havo at last had their eyes ojHiud, one
consequence of which Is that they are now
arouxc-d to tho importance of the r stora
tion of equal rights to all. The rest, ho
is copfldent. will tuko care of Itself, "not
through any visionary scheme, but through
tUe destruction of special privilege by tho
application of our own system of govern
ment. Just as tho fati.eis had it."
Nothing toulj l;o finer. Nothing could
make it clearer that plutocrary U doomed.
All that is neefssary for a finishing touch
la to nominate und elect Mr. Brynn, after
which tiiere will bo no trouble. There ate,
however, reasons for believing that one
apeclul privilege v.-Ill not. be Interfered wlih.
Mr. Bryan will exercise It bef-jre ut.y nomi
nations are In order. lie will r.aine him
self, his running malo and w:lte tl.o p at
form. The privilege of Indorsing his pro
gram remains for tho dek-gutes to appre
ciate. Spared Campaign. Kxrrrlse.
Bostou Transcript.
In nominating for president a man serv
Ing a twenty-five-year term for murder the
social laborltes sre not so Inconsistent as
them seem. They will not need him before
his term expires.
Fallrrtoo'e thautaoqaa.
FULLKRTON. Neb.. July 12.-Bpeclal)-August
T the Fullerton Chautauqua assem
bly will open its ninth annual session. It
promises to be as successful as the preced
ing years. Excellent talent haa been se
cured by the management and the grounds
are being prepared for the tenters. Con
cessions are being granted and aa excellent
dining ball wlUbe conducted.
(iiiowixo tun notn tif.s.
Aa Eastern llsllrond Looks Ahea
and Aria.
Philadelphia Itecoid.
In pursuance of Its policy to maintain Its
support of Umber for railroad ties tho
Pennsylvania railroad has Just complete,!
the planting, of S.'S.fOtl grilling trees. Tho
company has set out since it took up re
forestation and timber culture a cotiplo of
years niro a totnl of I.tW.ft'O trees. During
the present year M.X seedllnps were Im
ported by the company from Europe and,
ITS pounds of hardwood seeds, besides a
large qunntity of conifers, were planted In
Its own nurseries. Besides reforesting de
nuded land, the field operations this yesr
Included the restocking of areas that hail
been logged In 1!7. While the objects la
view are chiefly utilitarian, the propogatlon
of ornamental trees for the beatitlflcatloni
of Its properties has not been neglected bjf
the company. The example set by It IS
conservative lumbering and the care of Its
wood lots should bo an Incentive to Intel
llgent forest development on the part cf far
seeing agriculturists. It will pay others
to grow timber as well as It pays the com
Pny.
PERSONAL NOTES.
- i
James Whit comb Riley snys ha woulj
rather be a poet than a politician. In In
diana that can easily be understood.
Edison says that four hours of sleep Is
enough. Immediately preceded by a hup of
three or four hours it really will do very
well.
Woodrow Wilson now sees where lie fell
down as a presidential possibfllty. He had
no steam roller. Ho has not even a llwn
mower. '
Australia has sent word that the Amerloar)
fleet can't go there too soon. It ought, at
least, to give the sailors a chance to get
their digestions back Into such shape that
the sight of pate dc fels gras wouldn't
make them scream for the doctor.
A Cambridge, Mass., Judge htm sentenced
a prominent man of that state to six
months In the House of Correction and 5,0ut)
fine for having accepted a bribe to seruro
another person a position as Inspector in th
water department. The sentence carries
with It permanent disqualification for
further holding of office.
Jacob II. Sleeper, the secretary of tha
American legation at Venevula, who was
summoned home by the American govern
ment because of dissatisfaction with the ac
tions of President Castro, has visited tha
State department where he talked over
with Acting Secretary Bacon the incidental
connected with his departure. His narra
tion of events contained nothing that has
not already been published In the news
papers.
Sir William MacGregor, governor of New
foundland thirty years ago, while holding
the post of medical officer In FIJI per
formed a remarkable fcasnf heroism. A
shlpful of Indian coolies had been wrecked,
about twelve hours' steaming from tho
capital, and Dr. MacGregor a man of vast
physical strength who headed the relief
party, clambered along a broken mast
which gave access to the vessel and re
turned again and again with a man or
woman on his back, and sometimes a child
gripped by Its clothes In his teeth.
Henry Estabrook of Omaha and New
York delivered the principal address at tha
unveiling of the Roebllng statue at Tren
ton, N. J., July 1. Mr. EslabrooKTs eulogy
of the great engineer, designer and builder
of the Brooklyn bridge, wus a "masterful
oration." "He was the orator of the day."
reports tho State Gasette of Trenton, and
when lie had completed his address every
person who had heard him was his friend,
and. all hands held the Iloebllngs in even
greater regard than before because of tho
frank manner In which he had told of John
A. Roebllng'a humble beginning find his pe
culiarities. It was an interesting story re
lated by a scholar of great oratorical power
In a manner so pleasing that hardly one,
person In the thousands who stood In thu
hot sun before the speaker's stand moved
away until the speech was ended."
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
"Are you taking much interest In the
conipulgu?'
"ISot et," answered Farmer Corntossel.
"I'm waltln' till they get though with tho
preliminary contest to find out which feller
lakes tlio best photograph." Washlngleii
Blur.
"In sptto of his wife's being both
beauty and a flirt, Viilcun can't pUBh him
self into celrsil.il society," gossiped Hebe,
"because utter ull he Is nothing but a black
smith." "1 don't know," said Diana, with aomo
acerbity "look at Mercury, how high ho is,
and he's only a climber." BalUmoro
Amerlcun.
"And so this," said tho prisoner, looking
about him, "is the 'sweatUox.' "
They told him his surmise was correct.
"If you gentlemen don't mind," he went
on, "I would rather be transferred to the
Icebox." Philadelphia lt-daci-.
"Say, Mike," queried Tlodldn-g Pete, who
was looking at the piece of a Sunday school
paper that had come with a handout. "Wot
does it mean 'bout belu' between de devil -an'
de deep sea?"
"It's de same as beln' told t' take yer
choice between goln' t' work an' takin' a
bath,' explained Meandering Mike. Chi
cago News.
Officer Excuse me. madam, there goes
eipht bells; It's my watch on deck.
Mrs. Landsman Well, I don't blamo
you for keeping your wuteh on deck if it
strikes as loudly aa that. Harper's Weekly.
"Hubby, won't you go shopping with ma
today 7"
"Nix, nlxey, and again nix."
"There Is going to be u demonstration of
this new sheath Bkirt, and "
"Sure I'll go." Houston Post.
City Cousin Let's see. uncle, didn't Bella,
graduate from the normal school this yearf
Undo John Yep; but from the way she's
been aetin' since she got home t' the farm
I reckon It ought to be called the abnormal
school. Puck.
Manauer Did you say that our leading
mu'i was overcome by the heat of last,
night?
old Man No. I didn't,' I said he col
lapsed ut this morning's roast. Baltimore
Ainericun.
Wife I've Invited one of my old beaux
to dinner. Do you mind?
Husband Mind! Heavens, no! I always
love to ussociate with lucky people. Life.
A N Ell It ASK A. ECHO. '
N. J. Tamplln In New .York World,
Does llrj-an fear to tri-ud the puth
Wiiieh lie himself has picked
And meet the regnant (1. O. P.
To lick or to be ll k. d?
Echo be Hiked.
Why do-.-s he hang on like a leech
And work his well worn bluff?
Tno times a loser In Hie race,
la not that qulrf f-MoUi;!i?
E ho enough.
Observe the smile upon I is face.
Put there to meet the scoff
Ainl Scorn cf peruint- donie-rats
The smile that won't eui.ie off.
Echo come off.
He says that h- alone has strength
To pull the partv thronyh, j
And at vonii oi poxlng hliu j
To party is not true. '11
Echo not true. " '
Oh. hi ar Mm speak upon the stump
His Hie. nts rising high;
"Behold In rre the people's own;
I am Vox 1'opull."
Erl.o-uli.
"I want to run; I ouql.t to run.
Because, dear Mi-nils, you see,
It's nothing mom thm rlieiit and Wha4
The delegates owe tne."
Echu ah, me.
With Brysn at the front once more.
The Matchless lsler. brave
Bay, will the party follow hlin
To glory or the gravet
. . Echo the fcve. ,
