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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY.. JULY 18. 1008.
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' '. STATEMENT OF" CmCULATTON:
6tat ot Nebraska. Douglas County, as.:
Oenrajs B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The
Bee p ubllshlng company, being duly sworn,
ays that the actual number of full nd
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Beo printed during
the month of June, 1906, was as follows:
38,890 IS 38,480
... M,TM 18 ....38,490
38,080 17 35,880
4 30,800 18 39,110
38,760 19..., 38,460
38 ,830 80 88,890
T 3800 tl 83,780
8 35,960 83 36,480
38,910 83 36,099
35,978 84 ,..88,340
IX 36,350 85 38.600
13 86,080 98 36,070
1 t... 35,890 B8 38330
1 36,050 89 36,500
l '. 36,060 so 36,390
Total , 1,089,090
Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,677
' Net total 1,079,313
Dalley Average 35,977
Q GORGE B. TZBCHTJCK,
Treasurer.
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before ma this 1st day of July. 1908.
M. P. WALKER.
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"I
Oystef Bay is apparently taking the
absent treatment.
Mr. Wanhope has been nominated
at the socialist candidate for governor
of New York. i
Having got out of the prize ring,
John L. Sullivan is trying to get out of
the wedding ring.
kater on it wlll be proved again
that no man can deliver the labor vote
to any one candidate.
The weather man is not considering
the feelings of folks who are not inter
ested in the corn crop. - .
Getting away from politics for a
minute, Addison Walz has been elected
leader of an orchestra nt.M&nitou. ,
If "Grandpa" Gassaway had only
xhnown of that $11), 000 limit he might
have bought chips for the game him
self. Castro is in position to sympathize
with the fellow who found himself the
off ox on a Jury with eleven stubborn
men.
It is suspected that Candidate
Kern's influence in Indiana has been
overestimated. He has 'never written
a book.
Captain Hobson Is la a hopeless mi
nority. Word comes from Toklo that
even the mikado refuses to take him
seriously.
Mrs. Francis Dewey Park, author of
"How to Keep a Husband," is suing
for a divorce. Her book should have
been a short story.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion has decided that a servant is "a
member of the family." Comes nearer
being the bead of '.he family.
The Inventor Of a noiseless motor
cycle will have good claims to the
Nobel prize for scientific discovery
roost beneficial to human kind.
Mr. Bryan estimates that he has
spoken 18,000,000 words since he be
gan his campaign for the presidency.
Mr. Bryan is too modest in his esti
mate. While the country is hearing lees
about frenzied finance. It may expect
to hear more and more frenzied elo
quence from now until tha ides of No
vember. Democrats who are expecting Mr.
Kern to carry Indiana for Mr. Bryan
should remember that Mr. Kern has
sever been able to carry the state for
himself.
Colonel Guffey is reported to be
quite 111 at his home in Pennsylvania.
The colonel swallowed a number of
things at Denver that did nc(t agree
with him.
'A traveler in Africa says that a na
tive killed and ate a man who dunned
him for a bill. In this country the
disposition is only to kill the collector
and not to eat hlni. Americans are
not cannibals.
Of course, Mr. Bryan will head the
list of campaigu fund subscribers with
the full amount of $10,000. Mr.
Bryan is one democrat who expects to
get his money's worth aud doea not
object to the publicity. ,
fO.VOR ABE EAST.
In declaring his Intention to sup
port Mr. Bryan in the coming cam
paign, Judge Parker Is following a
precedent Sft by Mr. Bryan after the
St. Louts convention in 1904 and he
la following the precedent almost too
closely to furnish much comfort for
the head of the ticket. During the
fight at St. Louis Colone'. Bryan said
of Judge Parker:
1 denounce this candidacy. . . . He
(Judge Parker) Is a weak candidal If
ha must deal doubly with the people,
weak If he la foisted on them by fraud.
If elected he would be a disappointment
to the Afnerlcan people. We've had one
of that kind (Mr. Cleveland), and Qod
forbid that we should have another!
Later he larded his speeches with
expressions of support of Judge
Parker, at the same time insisting that
the Kew Yorker'a nomination had
nullified every declaration for reform
embodied in the platform. In his
public statement, issued at Lincoln
July 13, Mr. Bryan served notice that
he expected the party under Parker's
leadership to go to defeat and that
he would then begin the work of re
organization. In his statement Mr.
Bryan said:
As soon as the election Is over I will,
with th"rielp of those Who believe as I
do, undertake to organize for the cam
paign of DOS. the object being to roar
thai the friends of popular government
within the democrats party to the sup
port of a radical and progressive policy
to make the democratic party an efficient
means in the' hands of the people for se
curing relief from the plutocratic ele
ment that controls the republican party
and. fo the time being, controls the demo
cratic party. The contest for economic
and' political reform will begin again as
soon as the polls close and be continued
until success Is achieved.
The conditions are now reversed.
Mr. Bryan carried out his promise or
his threat and wrested control of the
party from the forces that dominated
the St. Louis convention, and It is now
Judge Parker's turn to be as mag
nanimous as Mr. Bryan was at St.
Louis. In hla statement promising
support of the Denver titjtet, Judge
Parker insists that he wants no mis
apprehension of the facts. He pro
fesses no admiration for Bryan and
finds only that he can support the
ticket because 6t the party's platform
attitude on state's rights. 1ft closing
his statement Judge Pnrker says:
It Is with the party whose traditions
are for the constitutional defense of the
states against federal encroachment. We
not only support the ticket, but our only
hope of preserving the status quo on
these doctrines Is to elect the ticket.
Those who feel as I do will understand
that a republican senate will never con
sent to turn over to a democratic presl
dent any further extension of power. And
thus the present situation will be con-
t'-"d until we shall have another op-
nlly to fight another battle within
j . y 'es.
Judgt Parker's proposition is plain.
He will support the democratic ticket
because of his confidence that, in case
of Bryan's election, the republican sen
ate would save tho country from the
evils of Bryanism. If Bryan is de
feated, 'Judge Parker wants "another
opportunity to fight another battle
within party lines." In other words,
he proposes to do Juat what. Mr. Bryan
proposed to do In 1904, to begin, im
mediately after the November defeat,,
plans Tdr a reorganization of the party.
Honors are easy between the two
eminent democrats.
REFORMIXQ THE HWSE.
Democratic leaders have not Im
proved their reputation for statesman
ship by the adoption of a plank In their
platform denouncing the existing con
dition of affairs by which the speaker
of the house of representatives exer
cises arbitrary power and by demand
ing that "the house of representatives
shall again become a deliberative body,
controlled by a majority of the peo
ple's representatives and not by the
speaker."
No argument will be offered in sup
port ot the existing condition, because
the domination of the house by the
speaker and a select committee on
rules Is as obnoxious to republicans
as it is to democrats, in fact, the op
position to the present ayetem has be
come so pronounced that some change
is certain to come at an early date, no
matter what party controls the house.
The Denver platform, however, offers
no remedy for the evil. It leaves the
problem up in the air, without at
tempting to tell what can be done to
make the house more responsive to the
membership and less subservient to
the speaker. It offers no suggestion
of the methods to be employed, in case
of democratic success, to remove an
evil against which both parties are
complaining.
Yet democratic denunciation of the
existing order comes in bad grace, in
view of the democratic record in- the
house. The democrats arj lesponsible
directly for the present rules. Under
the minority leadership of Randall
they began the practice ot the filibus
ter and the resort to dilatory tactics
which made legislation practically Im
possible. It was the rule of the minor
ity, rather than of the majority, for
the minority succeeded in blocking
action by methods that have since been
in vogue, wherever rules would permit.
The first transfer of power from an
obstructing minority to a hard-heeded
speaker came when Thomaa B. Reed
ruled that a quorum could be counted
by enumerating the members present,
even though they refused to answer
to the roll call. Later he added to this
by forcing through a rule which al
lowed the speaker to refuse to recog
nize a member for tho purpose of
making a purely dilatory motion.
These rules won Mr. Reed the title
"czar," and probably contributed
much to the defeat of the republicans
In the next election. This gave the
democrats the opportunity for which
they clamored and for which they are
now clamoring. The democratic house
abolished the Reed rules and restored
the Randall-Carlisle rules, but the re
sult was chaos, and within two months
Speaker Crisp, a big democrat, ordered
the readoption of the Reed rules. The
democrats did not succeed then in
making the house a deliberative body,
and there Is no more promise that they
would succeed If given another chance.
Reform of the house will come when
democrats and republicans unite upon
some plan for giving the members 8
larger voice In the proceedings and
for making the speaker more of a pre
siding officer and less of a legislative
boss. It is- not a partisan question
and nothing will be gained by an ef
fort to make It a campaign Issue.
THE AMkR ICA y MARRSMEK
The Olympic rifle contests have
closed, leaving the Americans undis
puted champions of the world, their
victory over other contestants being
so decisive that no room remains for
argument. The English were the only
entries that came within contesting
distance of the American team. The
Olympic victory, coming so closely
after tho American capture of the
Palma trophy In Canada last year,
clinches the tltlo of world's cham
pions and seta a record for marksmen
of other natlpns.
American marksmen have always
been rated as the best In the world
and the reason is not. difficult to find.
From the landing of the first colonists
to the settlement of the last new terri
tory on the Pacific, the rifle was the
pioneer's best and trustiest friend. It
supplied him with food ant1 a defense
against human and . anlmai enemies
and served as his ablest ally in wrest
ing a nation from a wilderness. In
the revolutionary war the American
colonists developed the world's first
corps of sharpshooters. ' The back
woodsmen at New Orleans, armed with
rifles of their own selection, fighting
along individual lines, routed the tried
veterans of . Packenham, who had
served under Wellington In the wars
against Napoleon and inflicted the
most complete and overwhelming de
feat ,that any English army of like
numbers ever" sustained. Since that
day the American has been the world's
best marksman.
The team that participated In the
Olympic games was a picked one, but
the country is rich in material from
which such teams are chosen. Every
encampment of National guards de
velops a new list of expert marksmen
whose records are unequalled by the
citizen soldiery of any other nation.
The distinction gained by the riflemen
has been sustained also by Americans
on the sea, the records of the Ameri
can fleet at target practice being a
marvel of naval efficiency. The result
Is highly creditable, not only to the
American marksmen, but also to the
makers of American guns and ammu
nition, now recognized as the best in
use. The record In significant largely
as showing that in the National guard
and in the citizenry of the country
the United States has -a second line
of defense against possible enemies
that makes unnecessary the mainte
nance of a great standing army, such
as is maintained by nearly every other
nation.
"JIM" WILL SHUfV 71IEM.
You often have to go away from
home to hear the news. That explains
why we have to go to Denver to find
out what Mayor Jim is incubating, and
that is what lends Interest to an an
nouncement in the Denver Post that
our own Mayor Jim of Omaha is going
to start "a cowboy crusade" to storm
again the citadels of the political in
fldel In the east and return with the
trophies of victory dragging behind
his broncho at the end of the lariat.
This is the way the Denver paper dtS'
closes the dark secret:
Dahlman is the first democratic mayor
Omaha has had In seventeen years. He
will most likely be nominated on the dem
ocratlc ticket for governor of Nebraska
this summer. He won his mayoralty fight
without the aid of the bosses. He expects
to Jump Into New York and do a big part
toward winning that state for Bryan by
adopting the same unique methods that
proved so successful during his mayoralty
fight In Omaha.
Isn't that rich, rare and racy?
Mayor Jim boasts that he won his
mayoralty fight "without the aid of
bosses," when the democratic herd in
Omaba has the "boss" brand on every
steer. While Bryan professes to be
endeavoring to protect his virtue from
contamination with corporations and
tainted money, Mayor Jim is to win
New York for Bryan by adopting "the
same unique methods" that proved so
successful in Omaha. Those methods
consisted In shaking down the corpor
ations, brewers, liquor dealers and
every other promising lead for a cam
paign fund of unprecedented propor
tions and promising everybody every
thing demanded.
Just wait until Mayor Jim starts his
"cowbov crusade" on Wall street. If
he does not make the Belmont-Ryan
Parker gang shell out more than
115,000 this time it won't be his fault.
The Russian Duma has adjourned
until October 28, closing the session
with cheers for the czar. Members of
the Duma appreciate the danger of
BDending a vacation in the country
without cheering for the czar, however
much they may be opposed to him and
bis policies. The Duma has accom
nlished little in the way of reform
owlne to the determination of the czar
to put every possible obstacle in the
way of progress toward a more dem
ocratic form of government.
The . Interstate Commerce commis
sion credits the reduction of the num
ber of casualties to passengers and em
ployes for the first three months of this
year to the decrease in the volume of
business on practically all of the rail
roads ot the country. Why not give
a little credit to more careful handling
of trains by the railroad men? There"
Is no question but what the agitation
against the needles slaughter on the
railroads has made some impression.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner has finally
given space to the speech delivered by
Permanent Chairman Clayton at Den
ver as a sort of postscript to Its con
vention reports and to offset the sus
picion that It had been omitted be
cause of the attacks made by Mr. Clay
ton on President Roosevelt. It may
be put down, therefore, that the Clay
ton assault on the president had the
approval of Mr. Bryan both before and
aft r the fact.
We presume that the democratic
World-Herald will take back all of the
nasty things it said about Mr. Fair
banks, now that the vice president has
showed himself neighborly enough to
Join in extending a nonpartisan home
coming welcome to Candidate Kern.
Mr. Kern made ihe principal speech
in welcoming Mr. Fairbanks home
when he was nominated for the vice
presidency four years ago. Mr. Fair
banks has reciprocated In a neighborly
way and that's all the political sig
nificance there is in the case.
According to one of our democratic
city councllmen, "rf any of our ordi
nances will not hold water we will pass
others that will." It is not conceiva
ble that a majority of our democratic
city council really wants anything to
hold water.
The date for the dedication of the
new Levi Carter park should not be
set until all the litigation over acquir
ing clear title to the tract In the name
of the city shall have been concluded.
The report' is being circulated that
Hoke Smith of Georgia was fired from
President Cleveland's cabinet. The
report is a slander. Hoke quit be
cause his pay was stopped.
By offering to share the White
House with Mr. Kern., in case ot their
election, Mr. Bryan has invited the op
position of the owners of the Wash
ington apartment houses.
Judge Parker is spending hla vaca
tion in the Yellowstone park. The
geysers and spouters there will appear
mild to him after his visit to the con
vention at Denver.
It is proposed to call Mr. Taft "Big
Bill" and Mr. Bryan VLlttle Willie,"
in order to distinguish them. In that
event Mr. Bryan is slated to catch the
mollycoddle vqte.
One plank of the prohibition plat
form demands "equal graduated in
. . . . . , , t, .
come and inheritance taxes. now
can a tax be equal If it is graduated?
Where Are the Pops Newl
Pittsburg pisratch.
In J892 the vote for the candidates of the
porullst party was 1.041,KS. In 1904 It was
117.000. It may amuse some of the school
Children who have reached the condition
of vulgar fractions to calculate where the
roulist party will be this year at that rate
of backward progtesslun.
Kicking- Off the I. Id.
Bostcn Transcript.
Tom Watson refuses to take a cup of
icindnAs for davs o' laiig syne. He calls
his former political yoke-fellow "a truckler
to power, a recreant from pledge ana prom
loo rnlculat nf. selfishly ambitious poli
tician who would betray any friend or
principle to win the prize.'
Boosting? Good Honds.
Minneapolis Journal.
The postmaster general has ruled that
rural free delivery will be discontinued
or roads that are not kept In condition to
be traveled wtth facility and safety at all
seasons of the year. The habit of plowing
up a section of prairie or woods and call
ing it a road will have to be changed.
Possible Doom of Warships.
Philadelphia Pref-s.
One Ironclad, constructed less than half
a century ago, during our civil war made
all the wooden going navies of the world
useless in a single day. If the German
kaiser attains the airship which he now
hopes for he may at a stroke put out
of the business of the steel men-of-war.
Parity of Whiskers.
Philadelphia Press.
In tha matter of whiskers, the national
candidates offer a delightful variety. Taft
has a mustache, Sherman weara "English
sides," Kern sports the full be-ard of the
fathers, while Bryan, actor-like, presents
a clean-shaven face. When It conies to
getting the barber vote there is but small
difference In the offerings of these rival
tickets. The algebraic sum of hirsute at
tractions possessed by the republican can
didates Just about equals that of the demo
cratic pair.
Seur tra:.
New York Sun.
F'nall Mr. Brytin he to'd in L'ncoln or
New Tork that he l as 1 een no;rina'ed for
president? Ills inlln-ate frlt-nd, ltep:eent
atlve Hitchcock cf Nebiaska. says of this
momentous quest on:
"The. notlfcallon will umloubt illy taUe
place In Lincoln. We need that nolilica
tion out wfft for its Influence cn thu west
ern vote. There is little or no chance of
the notification taking p'l.ce In N'rw York
or the east."
Little or no rhanc, because electoral
votes In the east 'are sour grapes. Mr.
Bryan's Crenels cannot speak about the
campaign, but they reflect lis resolution
to wage It west of the Ohio river.
Graceful and Appropriate.
Indianapolis News.
It is a graceful and appropriate action
on the part of President Roosevelt to
change the name of Ban Jacinto reserva
tlon in southern California to the Cleveland
National rorest.A In his letter to Mrs. Cleve
land be reminds the country , that eleven
eats agoTresklent Cleveland proclaimed
this rest rvatlon and that he was one of
the first to recosnize the need of such
reservations, a total cf nearly 2ti.0uu,(kj0
actes being cne of the results of his fore
sight. The president .goes on to say that
the meeting of the governors last spring at
Washington to conslJer the preservation of
our natural resources, wss In part the fruit
of the seed sown years ago by Mr. Cleve
land, whose name will always be promi
nently Identified with the movement to pro
tect the forests of the country. Thus the
good that men do lives after them, and It
is Inspiring that it bs recognised
OTHER LANDS THAW Ol RS.
When the. pretender Mulal. Hafld. cap
tured the royal palace at Fes. the Moorish
capital, and dislocated Sultan Abdul
Asia's connection with the ancient throne,
the paraphernalia of modern civilisation re
ceived a serious set-back. The receding
sultan provided himself with automobiles,
pianolas, cameras; steam launches, stare
coaches, glass bedsteads, stove pipe hats,
hammocks, a printing press.' bird cages and
stuffed birds, besides mechanical devices of
various kinds. These were his rlgns of
progress. The newcomer gathered the
signs together and smashed what he could
not burn, to prove he "stood pat" fjr
Morocco with the mass on. If Interna
tional commercial agents have sny tears
In stock, Abdul Is entitled to a shower.
He was an Ideal buyer In his day.
The reigning house of China Is up against
a bunch of trouble more annoying than the
activity of the Japs In Manchuria. Dalx.1
Lama, thirteenth ruler of the Buddhist
church, self exiled from Tibet, is moving
on Peking with a retinue of l.OnO faithful
servitors, determlnd to lay before Queen
Ana protest against the desecration of
the Holy City of Lhasa by the feet of In
fidels. Suggestions to send his protest by
mail or a picture post card and save foot
wear pass unheeded. The Palnl Insists on
a personal call, and aa he Is only 32 and
needs the exercise. It Is likely he will cover
tho Journey of S,00 miles In due time. It
costs about $5,000 to entertain him and his
followers for a single day, and as the
Chinese treasury la not opulent, the trou
bles of the administration take on the
gloom an unwelcome vlaitor scatters on the
premises.
The events In Teheran which resulted In a
temporay check to constitutional govern
ment, are symptomatic of the growing
unrest In the far cast, which is bound to
produce some degree of liberty and relief
from monarchical tyranny, Russia, much
stronger than Tc rsla, was forced to yield
and grant a Parliament. It was a step
forward. The recession In Persia is as
certain to produce a larger decree of popu
lar government there as that ."revolutions
never go backward."
'Made in Germany" Is a commercial
sign rivaling that of the United States In
the conquest of the world. Next to the
quality of goods, made to suit all taates
and purses, the empire haa millions of
Teutonic trade boosters living In other
countries. The number of Germans or
German speaking people outside of Oer
many Is as follows: Austria, 9,200,000;
Hungary, 2,100.000; Swltieriand, 1300,000;
Russia, 1,171,3S7; rest of Europe, 9.564,894;
Asia, 131,227; Africa, 624,000; Australia, 124. -000;
America, North and Bouth, 11,063,000,
making the total German population ot the
world nearly 100,000,000 strong.
Some consolation may be derived by vic
tims of high living from the fact that
gout is shown to be a royal as well as a
venerable affliction. Recent examinations
of the foot of an Egyptian mummy re
sulted In definite evidence of the antiquity
of the disease, and of its existence in the
days ot rharoah. The Information' will
not ease the refined tortures of modern
victims of gout, but there Is some comfort
in possessing an aristocratic twinge Instead
of the plebeian rheumatism.
The latest statistics just published in the
French Journal Offlclcl indicate that the
continued decrease in population Is almost
entirely due to a progressive diminution ot
the birth rate. In seven years the total
number of births per annum haa diminished
by one-eighth of a million. The birth rate
has dropped from 230 to 207 per 10,000 of the
population. This Is accompanied by an in
crease In the number of marriages. It Is
stated that never before unless It was In
the days of the revolution were so many
marriages registered. The number of
divorces, too, has Increased last year 11,000
were decreed but this Is not thought Seri
ously to affect the population.
The French minister of justice has started
and is now enforcing a reform that many
Americana would be pleased to have un
dertaken In their own country. He has
changed legal phraseology. An eminent
lawyer himself, he was well aware of ths
absurdities of legal lore, but did not under
take to accomplish the reform until he
had carried through a sort of unofficial
referendum. Eight hundred and elahtv.
five lawyers 'throughout the republic ex
pressed a preference on the question sub
mitted and of this number 727 were favor
able. A commission prepared the sub
stitutes for the antiquated verbiage that
had come down from past ages and Min
ister Brland has directed the court of jip
pcals to make and enforce them.
It la easy to understand why the Black
sea fleet of Russia made such a spectacle
of Itself In the last days of the Japanese
war and afterward. The maneuvers of the
fleet In the last week of June produced
three collisions, one boiler explosion, one
gun explosion, and two mutinies on account
of bad food; and a drunken captain was
hurt by falling from the bridge, while the
target practice was disgracefully poor.
No navy Is free from accidents; but tha
occurrence of so many In a single fleet In
the course of a single set of maneuvers In
dicate Incompetence and demoralisation.
COWIIOV MAYOR WARNED.
vssBaaaasBBBB
Proposed Invasion of East with a Big;
Tent Show.
New York Sun.
The Hon. Jim Dhlman, mayor of Omaha,
will Invade the east this fall In behshr of
Colonel William Jennings Bryan. It Is
Mayor Hahlman s plan "to make the east
erners sit up and take notice." and'
"Mr. Dahlman will be accompanied by his
quartets of singers. He also will , take with
htin tho famous rope with which he noosed
Mr. Bryan when the Commoner landed in
America from his trip abroad. He will
be dresFed after the fashion of the range
rider, and hu will be prepared to brand
all the political mavericks In the big atatea
on the Atlantic coast."
A free wild west show will attract large
and enthusiastic audiences on the Atlan
tic coast, but the actors engaged In It
should be warned of one danger before
they begin their performances. At ths
season In which they intend to descend
on the communities along the Atlantic
coast many roving bands of dealers
In patent medicines, warranted raaors,
handkerchiefs and pinchbeck Jewelry are
to be found In these parts. They carry
theatrical performers who give alleged
musical entertainments. exhibitions of
Ufci on the plains, Indian customs, and
the like. Familiar with thte. Ignorant
and stupid persons are quite likely to put
Mr. Palilinan's campaigning outfit In the
same category and resent .Its failure to
offer for sale a toothache cure or a hair
ri storer.
1'no.uesttnnahly Mr. Dahlman would be
hurt and chagrined to be mistaken for a
perlpstetlc v.nrier of quack remedies. He
must be careful to explain his mlrslon
clearly to each audience.
Glvo Mala People a show.
Chicago News.
No one wl o givs less than tl to lh
democratic campaign fund Is to have hla
mmi uMlfhed. Why discriminate against
ths tarn, st patriot who has but a Quarter
to g.v after psying (or ths baby shoes?
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Civ them a (air trial and you will fiad that B. V. D. will
grre yon 100 more comfort than any Summer Underwear
you hare ever worn. They am cool, because ihey allow per
led freedom ol motioc, and permit refreshing air to reach the
porest They're well atade, aool Look lot the B. V. D. Red
Wovea Label which guararteetyou a correctly cut, well made
perfect fitting incUi garment. Don't accept a substltuta,
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POLITICAL DRIFT.
The Philadelphia North American spills
Its happiness over two p&gca dally. It has
a political libel suit on Its hands.
Colonel Kern Is confident Indiana will
go his way. Indiana' is a great state for
flctionlstt. poets and rainbow chaser.
During the turmoil of the Denver con
vention last week Thursday Oovernor John
A. Johnson was umpiring a base ball game
at Lady City, Minn.
"Young mn," exclaim Roger Sullivan of
Chicago, "keep out of politics. It doesn't
pay." Thereupon Roger wlhked and scrut
inized a picture of the sage of Falrvlew.
Limiting democratic campaign contribu
tions to $10,000 In Individual checks Is
further humiliating for generous Colonel
Guffey. Possibly he could play the limit
twice by using his wife's maiden name.
The socialist labor party Is confronted by
sn embarrassing situation. Its candidate
for president, the Hon. Martin R. Preston,
temporarily of Nevada, has declined the
honor of leading the party, as he feels that
the convention "was making capital out of
his position." "His position" is that of a
man behind the bar serving sentence for
murder.
"The people of this country are a unit,"
say the Baltimore American. "There Is
not a stroke of labor but that I In response
to a constructive Idea; there Is not a mill
that runs that does not run by dollars as
well as by labor. The worklngman of to
day is, like Mr. Bryan, the moneyed man
of tomorrow. Mr. Bryan has found a com
fortable place In the ranks of the well-fed
and well-provided. Why, then, does he seek
to generate a feeling that would give to
labor a solidarity that would rob work
lngman of easy passage over the line Into
the condition of comfort In which he snugly
find himself?"
WHAT A HAPPY FAMILY.
Featnrea of the Divisional Appropria
tion of tho White House.
Chicago Examiner.
In naming John W. Kern for vice pres
ident the democrats selected tha personal
counsel, the personal friend and the per
sonal choice of Tom Taggart, who dictated
hi nomination.
In the light of this choice Mr. Bryan'
offer to divide the white house with Kern
should he be elected present Interesting
possibilities.
Once In possession of a wing of the
White House Mr. Kern may want to di
vide It with Mr. Taggart, whose natural
instinct would prompt him to turn his
half of the wing Into a gambling house.
Mr. Bryan, still being In possession of
more room than he needed for his personal
use, might then be disposed to divide his
wing with Thomas F. Ryan.
Surely anybody good enough to deliver
tho vote ot Indiana, and anybody good
enough to provide a campaign fund, are
good enough to live In the White Houae.
Kern has worn the Taggart tag tinea he
has been In politics. Tsggart made him
city attorney of Indianapolis. Taggart had
him twice nominated for governor, and In
1901 aaw him defeated by mora than &3.000
vote.
Kern corralled the delegate for Tag
gart at the St. Louis convention four year
ago and, at Taggart's dictation, mud a
speech extolling Parker.
Serving on tho state commute on reso
lutions and on the subcommittee on cre
dentials, he made a platform that suited
Eelmont and threw from the convention
hall hundreds of legally elected delegates.
Subsequently he visited Judge Parker and
Bought and got Taggart's appointment as
national chairman, the most scandalous
appointment made In any party for many
years.
At Taggart' trial for running a com
mon gambling house st French Lick
Bprlngs Kern was the lawyer for the de
fense. As Mr. Bryan knew of Kern's sub
serviency to Taggart when he permuted
Kern to be his vice presidential candidate,
he probably would see no objection to
Taggart's residence In Kern's half of the
Whit House.
With Kern and Tsggart In one wing
and Bryan and Ryan In the other, acceler
ation of the national currency might be
taken care of without much help from the
secretary of the treasury or the national
banks.
COMPARATIVE HARDSHIPS.
Looaa Talk by Representative of tho
Ultra Rich.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mr. Stuyvessnt Fish Is one of tha most
creditable of the corporate class. Yet his
assertion that It la more difficult for people
who have been living cn an Income of
1250,000 a year to scale their expenditures
down to a reduced income of 50,m)0 than
for those who have been living on $15 a
week to come down to $li Indicates the
unfortunate lendoncy of that class either
to say things which are offensive to the
mass or at least to say things which msy
be well (mentioned with Such loosentss
that they can be misconstrued or distorted
into offenslveness.
He who has to reduce hfs expenditures
from $J60,C to $30,000 does so by cutting
off luxuries of ths luvlsh variety. He who
reduces his living from the $15 to the $10
order must do so by cutting off what by
the stsndard of American living are neces
sities. They are not absolute necessities
in the sense that life cannot be sustained
without them, since there are millions who
live within the $10 scale. But they sro
necessities In the sense of decent clothing,
lodging or meals, and urgent In compari
son to the steam yacht or picture gallery
of which tha retrenching millionaire must
deny himself.
Perhaps Mr. Fish mrsns to say thst
the retrenchment of the very rich is ac
companied with more mental wrenching
than that of the working class, becsusc
the rich are not used to denying them
selves anything, while the poor are trained
by experience In that necessity. It Is tru
that one class may make more moaning
over the loss of a European trip than the
other does ever the giving up of beefsteak.
But if Mr. Fish mesnt that he should have
said It so plainly aa to Indicate tha ob
vious conclusion thst experience of that
ort for the ultra rich will do them fsr
more good than the trip to fturope, or
qulvaltnt luxury to bs surrendered
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MlRTHPt L REMARKS.
"How much axe these chickens?" skcA
the woman In thO market.
"I sell them at 25 cents a pound," ald
the Oermnn market man.
"Do you ralsn them yourself?"
"Oh. yah! They were 22 ont yesterday,
all ready." Yonkers Statesman.
The conductor This transfer ain't no
good. lady. You got It yesterday.
The Ladv (srcastlcnlly) Then I must
have boarded this car yesterday .-Cleveland
plain Dealer.
"The day has passed when the farmer Is
Jocosely represented as a man who sits on
a fence snd chews a wisp of hay!"
"I should say so!" answered Farmer
Corntossel. "I'd like to see any man's
folks allowing him to chew up anything so
valuable as hay Is getting to be!" Wash
ington Star.
Mrs. Dewtel I do think Mr. Hankinson
la the meanest man I ever heard of. with
out exception.
Mrs. Jenkins Why, what's he been do
ing? Mrs. Dewtel Pued a man for alienation
of his wife's affections and set the dam
ages at only $10. Judgn.
"I fear." said the observer of events,
"that public sentiment Is not with us as
strongly as It used to be."
"Never mind," answered Senator Sor
ghum, "you can let that matter wait until
after the campaign funds are collected.
Public sentiment is valuable In its place,
but It doesn't carry any check book."
Washington Star.
"Why can't I have eggs for supper?"
"You can't have eggs for supper," an
swered the landlord of the lninkvllle houae,
"becsuse an affinity gentleman Is going
to lecture on affinities at the town hall
tonight. You have some publlo spirit,
presoom?"
He had. St. Paul Pioneer Pres.
GHOST OF A CAMPAIGN JOKE.
Frank L. Stanton In Altanta Constitution
The ghost of the campaign loke' abroad
Abroad In the lonesome night.
And It's at the gate
Of the candidate.
And fills his dream with fright!
Oh, ft haunt the gatA
Of the candidate
With a look of death and doom;
When he lays his head
On his sleepless bed
It glares In tho midnight gloom!
And what doe the ghost in tha darkness
say
To the shivering candidate?
"You have dug my dust
From the crumbing crust
Of the ages out of date!
You have 'Woken the tombs of the deaS
of old.
Where the ancient gobllng Jump;
You have rattled my bones
Over the atones.
And likewise over the stumps!
"And now, In the name of a tortured soul
I cry to you: 'Cease! Surceasel
Nor pitch your fibs,
With skeleton ribs
Let the long dead rest in peace!
Thus salth, the ghost of the campaign Joke
When the night grow chill .and late.
To the man In bed.
With the campaign head
To the shivering candidate!
The Pessimist This is going soma.
The Optimist And then some more.
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
The more you go around
the more certain you . will
be of the absolute value
of the Browning, King &
Company Clothing.
You will see why it is
not in the class of the
Clothing that, according
to misleading advertising,
is all but given awa.
At one-fifth off regular
prices as at present it is
surely the best Clothing to
be had today.
Men's and Children's
Straw Hats one-third off.
All our $2.50, $3.00 and
$3.50 Negligee and Plaited
Shirts are now $2.25.
BrQwnineKine
Company
Fifteenth snd Douglse Su.
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R. S. WILCOX, Mgr.
OCULISTS OF THE .
OLD SCHOOL
still stick to the old fogy belltf that
It i necessary to poison with drops
the tmnVr delicate little muxcles of
the eye. I'nilcr no circumstance do
we use drops of any kind. Consult
' u about your eyes
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