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THE OMAHA DAILY BEEi MONDAY, 'AUGUST 3, 1903. Tie Omaiia Daily. BeI FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ' Enterad at Omaha pot toff Ice aa oon4 elan matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION! Dally Be (wllhnat flundaf), on year $4 Ot) Dally Hm and Sunday, od year 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. tall B -.Including Sunday), par week. .11 .ally Ba (without Sunday), per week. ..10 Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday ). par w'k o Evening Baa (with 8undat, par weefc.lOo Sunday Be, ona year. ............. . 149 Saturday Baa. ona year. . . . . 110 Addreaa all complaint of Irrgular1tle In dsllrery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Baa Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff 11 Scott Street. Chicago 1141 Marquatta Building. New Torn Rooma 1101-1101, NO. II West Thirty-third Street. Washington Tit Fourteenth S treat, N. W. CORRESPONDENCa Commualrationa relating to new and editorial matter ahould be addreeed: Omaha Bee, Editorial 1 apartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or powtal Ordef payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-eent a tarn pa received Tn payment of mall account. Peraonal check, exoept on Omaha or eaatern exchange, not ac cepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, a.: Oeorga B. Tsschurk, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly ewora, aaya that the actual number of full and compete eoplea of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during Uionaontb pt inly, 1008, waa a follow; 1 3A.7SO 17 aeoo I S3.740 IS Se.OM a ;.. SS.TIO lf... M.OOO 4 84,100 10.......... 88,400 1 35,800 21 SB.SBO t 88,400 11... MOO T 86,890 28..... 88,780 1 80,030 ti. ......... 8&300 38,060 . 25 88,880 10 88,400 It 85,660 11 88,100 2T 86,880 1 86,100 28. 86,660 It 86,080 2t 36.880 14 88,330 10.......... 88,780 II 86,360 II. 36,160 It 80,180 Total 1,118,460 Lea unsold and returned cople. 8.048 Net total 1,108,418 Daily average.; 85,788 GEORGE B. TZ9CHVCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this let day of August, 1H0S. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WHEPT OUT OF TOWN. Subscriber leaving til tty tool porarlly auoaln nave . Tk Boo nailed to them. Addreaa will fee ohanged a often rueted. "Sunny Jim"- Sherman hat not had the news broken to him yet. . The sultan la pardoning everybody but nobody seems anxious to pardon the sultan. Mr. Taft declares for postal savings banks. Mr; Bryan wants to try some thing else first. Minister Wu declares that walking is the best exercise in the world. It Is for the other fellow. Omaha's prosperity as Indicated by the bank clearings still shows satis factory commercial aetlvlty. Mr. Bryan does not believe that rail road regulation wnT W effective,' but he favors It ' Anything to win. 1 ' The reduction In the price of straw hats is the first hint of the near ap proach of the time for your Christmas shopplhg. James tfazen Hyde has returned to New Tork from a nine months' tour of the continent. Some folks still re member b,lm. "What will Cincinnati do with all that bunting?" asks the Chicago News. Keep it to celebrate Mr. Taft's victory in November. . Secretary Root would not object to having Holland spank Castro except for the fact that the Monroe doctrine never takes a vacation. ' While, the Qoulds have been losing their wives, their affairs are taking a ' really serious turn., only now they are in danger of losing their railroads. The iateat fad is a paraluna, a small umbrella intended to shade the bearer from the rays of the moon. It is said to be very popular with the paraluna tic. It Is sajd that Mr. Bryan's speeches on the phonograph have a harsh, metal llo sound,' This is not Mr. Bryan's year to talk In a bimetallic ton of vole. ." 'English editors say they cannot un derstand how the Americans came to win so many of the contests in the Olympian games. Just a case of brawn plus brains. It may encourage Tom His gen to think that it elected he will b the first president of the United State chosen from Massachusetts slnoe the days of John Quincy Adams. ' The. cadets who were expelled from West Point have been reinstated on their promise that they will not make any more "plebes" catch and count black sots. Maybe they will insist on using red ants the next time. ' John Temple Graves is writing edi torial for Mr. Hearst's papers and is also running for vlco president on Mr. Hearst's ticket He wtll alienat the labor vote unless he can show that he 1 getting pay for both jobs. Suppose the- Quffey democrats of Pennsylvania would undertake to turn that organisation over to Taft Would that be any' different from the effort Tibbie U making to turn the Ne braska populists over to Bryan? Mr. Bryan told the farmers In 1896 that if they voted the republican ticket they -would Sll be headed for the bankruptcy courts. Now he is asking thorn to help hi at in his fight against the party ' ttat.Mfl.ured ferosperltr for the fanner. . ' ........... tnt jtcaotB-MVOGgH. In 1904 Watson and Tibbies, as presidential candidates of the peoples' Independent party polled 20,618 votes in Nebraska. In 1904 the democrats and populists had separate electoral tickets on the Official ballot in Nebraska. In J 904 William Jennings Bryan canvassed this state from one end to the other, beseeching bis friends to vote for Parker and Davis and the democratic presidential electors. In spito of Mr. Bryan's appeals, in spite of his reiterated assurances that Judge Parker was the beet man In the field, in spite of his personal testimony that Judge Parker's election would bring about the reforms for which he had bean battling 20,618 populists re fused to vote for Parker and persisted In voting for Tom Watson. It Is quite possible and very prob able that Mr. Bryan could have per suaded many of these populists, who refused to follow his advice in 1904, to have voted the democratic ticket, had he, himself, been the nominee, but it Is certain that a large number of them Are so steadfastly devoted to principle and so loyal to their own party name that they would not have gone back on Watson even to vote for Bryan. This explains the present hugger mugger over electoral tickets In Ne braska. Mr. Bryan wants those 20,618 populist votes. He wants them any way he can get them. He wants them by hook or by crook. He wants them so badly that to capture the votes of populists who are wedded to their own principles and candidates, he Is seek ing to smuggle cleverly disguised democrats upon the populist electoral ticket and there to lure the dyed-ln-the-wool populists into voting for democrats. This explains the lengths to which the Bryanltes are going in their flimsy; pretense that the populists of Ne braska constitute a party all to them selves, entirely divorced from their, na tional party. If you would believe these Bryanlte thlmble-rlggers, the Ne braska populists were part of the na tional organisation in 1904 but not part of it in 1908. Had they succeeded In their plan of capturing for Mr. Bryan the populist nomination at St. Louis, the Nebraska populists would still have been part of the national or ganization, but having failed in this, they suddenly regained a separate status. Now you see it and. now you don't. Any way to win. RAILROAD ACCIDKKTS. The number of persons killed in railroad accidents in the flrBt three months of the present year, according to "Accident Bulletin No. 27," Just Is sued by the Interstate Commerce com mission, was smaller than for any simi lar period since 1901. Gratifying as the decrease may be, the commission elves the railroads no credit for the showing, but attributes : It to the de creased, number Of trains operated and the shorter hours of the working men, occasioned by the depression in busi ness. The report shows that for the three months, 728 persons were killed and 15.441 injured in railway accidents. The report deals only with accidents to passengers and to employes on duty. Of the killed, sixty-seven were passen gers, 194 were trainmen engaged in the opratlon of trains-and sixty-five were trainmen who were killed in the yards. While many of the leading railroads have installed the block system and other safety devices, there were 1,190 collisions during the three months, all of which would have been avoided by the general use of the block signal system. In these collisions sixty-two persons were killed and 1.337 injured. In the same period there were 1,442 derailments of which 981 were directly traoeable to defects of roadway or eaulnment. How much of this was due to recent retrenchment policy can not, of course, be determined, but it must have been considerable. The main tenance of the roadbed and equipment is the surest guaranty of safety in railway travel and their neglect the most prolific source of accidents. The neglect of operators, signalmen and trainmen caused seventy-three acci dents In which three persons were killed and sixty-three injured. The Interstate Commerce commis sion holds out no promise that the re sumption of business and the pressing Into service of idle cars and unem ployed trainmen will not be followed by a corresponding Increase In the number of casualties that have long stood at a standing disgrace to Ameri can railroading. It is not creditable to us that so little progress is shown from year to year In the matter of pre ventlng accident on American rail roads. COBBICTIXO THE FIOCRIS. Th State Board of Equalization has just announced its corrections made on the figures returned by the county assessors, which show that the state officials are earnestly endeavoring to perform the functions of an equalizing board. In'thls condition is something of comfort, when past experience is brought to mind. It would . be little short of miraculous it the several county assessors of the state should reach anything like an exact basis for the taxation of all the lands In the state. That discrepancies exist in their figures la but natural, and that corrections must be made by the state board follows equally, but the comfort comes from the fact that the state board has approached this great task with patience and deliberation and. has finally wrought out a basis on which th burden of taxation will rest evenly on ail property In the state. The) complaints mad by the railroad tax agents against the figures returned by local assessors wero more or less captious and were not given gpdue consideration by the state board. The result Is due to systematic an. 4 con scientious effort to adjust values be tween the several sections of the state, and it Is believed now tha,t this ,has ben more nearly achieved than over before in the history of Nebraska. The revenue law l not yet perfect either In its requirements or Its operation, but the State Board of Equalisation is doing much to give the law It satis factory interpretation and application. WAHTBD-MORK RKCORDS. Mr. Bryan has never been accused of a lack of thrift but has apparently overlooked a splendid opportunity to add largely to his personal bank ac count and to Increase his party's cam paign funds. Much prominence has been given to Mr. Bryan's self-sacrifice In talking Into phonograph ma chines at $100 per minute and in turning the proceeds over to his cam paign managers. By this method a few measly thousands might have been secured had Mr. Bryan improved his opportunities and it Is not yet too late to do so the committee might have been rolling In wealth and the appeal to the farmers for contributions ranging from $1 to $9,999.99 made un necessary. According to the official reports, Mr. Bryan delivered ten one-minute speeches into the phonograph and got $100 for each effort. This was un doubtedly a very liberal return on the Investment, but It is less than carfare compared with wftat Mr. Bryan could have demanded for talks on other sub jects. He recited his prepared and oft delivered address for instance, on "Election of Senators by Popular Vote," "The Prince of Peace," "The Dollar Above the Man," "Story of Ruth," "The Botherhood of Man" and other like topics from his repertoire, but, like other great artists, he with held his confidence from the phono graph, and through it from the public, on the very topics In which the public has its most keen and hungry interest. While he received $100 a minute for his talks, he could have undoubtedly collected thousands for a few one minute talks on other subjects. The makers of phonograph records would be working overtime, with day and night shifts, if they could adver tise a one-minute talk by Mr. Bryan on "What I Think of Negro Disfran chisement in the South." The colored voters are lovers of amusement and they are also eager to hear from Mr. Bryan on that subject Th3lr patron age alone would return a rich profit on any Investment a phonograph company might make In a phonograph record from Mr. Bryan on that subject. Then there is the uncertainty as to where Mr. Bryan really stands on the question of railroad regulation and government ownership. His expres sions, on the subject are : at conflict and people, regardless of politics, would doubtless pay in large numbers to hear a one-minute talk from Mr. Bryan on "Why I Favor Railway Regu lation When I Know That it Will Fail and' That Government Ownership Is the Only Remedy." Mr. Bryan has been on all sides of a good many questions in the last twelve years and there must be some considerable curiosity In the public mind to know Just where he stands this year. He could, with great profit, add to his phonograph repertoire a number of select one-minute talks on such subjects as: "Why I Hated Roger Sullivan In 1904 and Love Him in 1908." "How I Made My Peace With Murphy and 'Flngy' Conners." "Why Quffey Got the Hook." "When Hearst and I Fell Out" "Why Tom Watson Does Not Love Me Any More." "What Became of Tom Ryan's $20,000." The public will not be satisfied until Mr. Bryan furnishes some more phono graphic records. In his speech as temporary chair man of the national Independence party convention at Chicago, Mr. Hearst said: No prudent cltlxen will upport a combi nation to which Taggart aupplles a candi date, and Parker a platform; for whlc.'i Ryan will pay the freight and the people will pay the penalty. A few more remarks like that will give Mr. Bryan the impression that Mr. Hearst does not like him any more. A statistical sharp says that If the corn crop of this country were planted In a strip a mile wide it would girdle the globe six times. Perhaps, and if it were planted in a single row, what does Mr. Bryan think of th West Virginia democratic platform tBat de mands the . disfranchisement of the negro? The railroad patrons may. be par doned for refusing to rejoice over the announcement that Harrlman . and Gould are going to work in harmony until assured that the Gould roads are to be brought up to the Harrlman standard rather than the Harrlman lines brought down to the Gould con dition of disrepair. s The sad accident at the State Guard target range near Ashland is proof that our young soldiers should be taught how to save life as well as how to take It Every boy and every girl should be taught how to swim and then such deplorable affairs would be Impossible. Mr. Bryan expresses great solicitude for the democrats who may be deluded into voting tor the candidate of the Independence league, and ' solemnly warns them against betnr diverted 1 from their plain duty by the promises of a false god. At the same time he gives his tacit consent to the under hand scheme of Brother-ln-Law Tom to deprive Nebraska populists of the privilege of voting for' their national candidate. Consistency never was among the democratic crown Jewel. The money for Levi Carter park Is ready and waiting, but the attitude of some of the property owners la such that it means that the appraisement will have to run the gamut of the courts before the public can enjoy the use of this munificent gift This does not affect public appreciation of Mrs. Carter's great generosity. Mayor Jim is simply using the speech he made ip Omaha two years ago when running for mayor, substi tuting governor for mayor. Otherwise It is the same old talk and nobody knows better than the citizens of Omaha how empty Mayor Jim's prom ises are. The wolf scalp Industry has received a serious cjieck tn Buffalo county, where nine bounpr grabbers have been Indicted for perjury In connection with their claims. A few such applications of the law as this will render the wolf bounty lobby at Lincoln a negligible quantity. Data Not Need a. Band. Louisville Courier-Journal. The sheath gown doth oft proclaim the woman. Seeing Straight. Philadelphia Record. Although Oyater Bay la not to be the republican headquarters. It constitute an Important point of observation for the re publican campaign. Contempt of Court. Cleveland Plalndealer. The Omaha woman who waa enjoined from talking over the back fence, presum ably ran show her contempt of court by making face between the pickets. Looking for Trouble. Minneapolis' Journal. Castro, after getting down hi atlas and looking up the country, ha thrown out the minister of The Netherlands. ' Castro for gets that the Roosevelt family I of Dutch extraction. Where the Diamonds Go. fit. Lout Republic. If George Gould lose any more diamond from hi railroad crown he may find the pawn ticket for them In possession of the diamond fanciers who began accumulating collateral of this kind last October. f , -Con We Tolerate the "Valiant" New Tork Tribune. When Governor Johnson was seeking the democratic nomination for the presidency Mr. Bryan attacked him a a representative of Wall street and the trust. How can uch a villain now serve the pure cause of the people on the-etutnp? A SaggeatlTO Sob. ' Chicago Record-Herald. Perhaps It la a mere coincidence that the number of the Commoner In which Mr. Bryan announces that he ha turned it over to be run by other during the cam paign contain a poem entitled "Lonely," which begins thus:' but It' dull and lonesome, and the house la strangely- still." Race Suicide , by Automobile, Now Yotk Tribune. . The dally accident roll auggesta that Americana are committing race suicide by the automobile route. Twenty death a day, with the chauffeur aa executioner, seem to bo tha current record. Here I a hint for those who are seeking a substitute for the Marathon race. In any Olympic game Americana could win first, second and third place at an automobile suicide contest. Tom Watson "a Big Job. Washington Post. v Mr. Watson say he Intends to "smoke Mr. Bryan out." We are led to Infer that? In the opinion of the Georgia popu list, the Nebraskan has, coon like, drawn himself into a hole and pulled the hole In after him. Though well versed In the habits of the coon, having probably known all the delights and the arts of coon hunting In his youth, Mr. Watson haa so far employed all hi skill and science In vain In his efforts to take his quarry from its refuge, but he will per sist; there Is method in his madness and persistence In his make-up, and we trem ble for the hide of the unfortunate "coon" he think he ha treed, this time, if he succeds in getting It out into the open. FRUITS OF THE SQUARE DEAL. President Roosevelt 'a Pollele and Their Continuance. Kama City Star. In the seven years of the Roosevelt ad ministration tha people learned more of the illegalities and robberies of trust like the Standard OH than they had ever dreamed of In all the year that went be fore. Tet the Iniquities of rebating and restraints of trade and competition had gone on so long and so securely that they had become established conventions at the time of the prosecutions. They did not become recognised, punishable crime un til the Roosevolt administration enforced its doctrines of publicity and of actual, Inatead of nominal, equality under th law. The chief fight of 1904 waa around Rooaevelt'a stand against the principle of tha democratic candidate that there ' was already plenty of authority and of method of procedure in the common law for en forcing tha square deal. The president knew better and had the great bulk of the people w-th him, and while he baa still had lama laws to back up hla efforts it Is through him and the men allied with him In the people's service that the coun try la entered upon that vigorous enforce ment of law and equity which marks the fin beginning of the twentieth century in the great republic. The facta of this late hlatory attain tre mendous Importance from the candidacy of Secretary Taft. For Taft is tha em bodiment now before th country of these great patrtotlo policies which Roosevelt established. Taft I that rare candidate for tbe highest pubHo service whose acts have even run, ahead of his professions of faith and hla known sympathies. The unprece dented advance of the aquar deal which today glvea a new tonlo of firm and atable popular rule to the industrial and political Institution of America I the reault of work that Mr. Taft ha had an Immense part In and which ha la th bast qualified man In the United State . to carry to Ita further glorious purposes. ' No cltiaen who berleve tn the square deal and who la not blinded by adherence to opposing party rule, to the benefits of theae past seven yeara can vote against William Howard Tatt In this eipeoachlcg momentous election. THIS PRKfllDBXTIAt, Omtlt, How th Two Lmalaa; Candidate View tta Reapouaibllltloa, The Outlook. New Tork. Both Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan hare given In the pages of Collier' Weekly their oon ceptlmn of th presidency. Both papera are brief; the contrast between them I sig nificant, not only of the difference between the men, but also of the difference between the parties. Mr. Taft Is Impreaaed with the responsibilities and burden of the presi dency. Ho accept the principle of hi party, but only because he believe that they are for the best Interest of the nation The office la to be administered. In accord ance with th party principles, but wholly for the popular welfare. The president' duties are clearly outlined by the constitu tion, but they are very much greater than they were conceived to be by the framers of the constitution, for those dutlea "have grown broader In thrlr Interpretation with the growth of the country." He is the rep resentative, not of any district or section, but of all the people; and from all the peo ple, "In the sober thought of the majority, he will get his best counsel." "He should be always near the peopje in thought and as near them in person aa his position will permit." Once convinced he I carrying out their real wish, he must be neither elatpfl by applause nor diverted by censure from the accomplishment of the popular will. From three president he may learn wisdom, from Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt; from the last because ha ha proved "how the people will respond to a strong and true leaderahlp when the hour haa come for great reforms. The policies which he Inaugurated must be continued and developed. They are right, and they are tha policies of the people." While Mr. Taft' first sentence emphasise the re sponsibilities and th burden of the presi dency, Mr. Bryan' first sentence em phasises lta limitations: "The president's power for good or for harm I often over estimated." "Our government Is a govern ment of checks and balances." In the mak ing of lawa the president joins with con gress; in the enforcement of law "he is hedged about with reatrlctlone." "In the making of Important appointments, too, he must consult the senate." Mr. Bryan, with Mr. Taft, laya stress upon the fact that the prealdent represent the whole people, and that "hi sympathy shall be with the whole people rather than with any fraction of the population," and that "he must possess the moral courage to stand against the Influences that are brought to bear In favor of special Interests." Thus, while In some respects the two paper are analogous and embody the same conception, a in the emphasis which they lay upon the duly of the president to act for general and not for special Interest, It may fairly be said that the word "largeness" .repre sent Mr. Taft's conception, and the word "limitation" represents Mr. Bryan'. We do not think that we do either Injustice tf we say that the one believes In a strong government, made a power for good by the moral qualities of thos who administer It, and the other believes In a restricted government, kept from being a power for evil by a system of check and balances. One striking Incident illustrated the differ ence between tbe two men, for we do not think th Incident Is either accidental or Insignificant. Both Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan refer to the advisers of the presi dent Mr. Taft does not refer to his Cabi net. His conception of presidential adviser Is expressed In the following sentence: He should look not only to those In office but to those out of office In all branches of private activity for Information and opinion. In order that be may arrive at the truth when he la surrounded by the conflict of Interests which come to him with the talr words of the special pleader. Mr. Bryan regards the president as "com mitted by his platform to certain policies, and ' the platform binding. But there is a wide cone In whloh he must act upon hi own Judgment, and her he ought to have the aid of Intelligent, conscientious, and faithful advlaers. The law provide these, to a certain extent, tn giving him a cabi net, and the vice-president ought to ba made a member of the cabinet, ex officio." If this difference is not accidental, Mr. Taft will look to representatives of all the people within and without his party for In formation and counael; Mr. Bryan to rep resentative of hla party who paj-tkipat with him In th administration. It i also a curious and perhaps not in significant fact that Mr. Bryan ha fallen Into the error of supposing that the presi dent's cabinet 1 provided for by law. In fact, we' quote Mr. Bryce's "American Commonwealth," "th so-called cabinet 1 unknown to the statute as well aa to the constitution of the United States." The constitution and the law provide for head of department, but not for a cabi net. The presidents, from the earliest time, have been accustomed to make these heada of department their counselors, but there Is nothing In either the constitution or th lawa requiring them ao to do, and Mr. Bryan Is at perfect liberty to call In the vice president of the United States, the speaker of the bouse, or any private cltlxen aa a counselor and add him to the cabinet. It la characteristic of the two men that Mr. Taft ahould recognise the fact that the prealdent may get hla counselor wherever he likes, and that Mr. Bryan should Imag ine that hla counselor are determined for him by the constitution and tha laws of th United States. We should like to see both th great parties print these two papers, entitled "My conception to the Presidency," and distribute them throughout the United State In a common effort to let th people of th nation have the Information these papers would give to them respecting the personalities and the principles of the two candldatea between whom tbey are to make their selection. ACTIVITIES OF TUB WEST. Bnalnesa on tho I'p-Crart and Fall Proanecta (excellent. St. Louis Dispatch to New York Times. Surveys of financial, industrial, mercan tile and agricultural condition which th Republic haa received from point In Mis souri, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Okla homa, Arkanaaa, Louisiana, Texaa, Ala bama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky show that there la not only a resumption of activity throughout theae state and th west, but that the prospects for the rest of this year are excellent. All the twelve statea, except Kansaa. report a pronounced Improvement In conditions, with the volume of business rapidly approaching th normal and employe returning to work. The expectation ia that the trade of tha last three month of th year will break all record. In all part of th south and west at th present time the volume of business I about th same as tn 1ft. That year was one of th very best th country ever enjoyed. The trade of August and September will b practically a large aa for the aame month In 1S0S, and It I probable that the volume of business for the last six months of this year will es tablish a new record. Missouri la In line with other southern and weatern states. Its crop were large and good, and they will bring high price. From all parts of tha atat the very beat reports are received a to th agricultural situation. At mining and manufacturing center Mia employe . are rstumVng to work dally and business 1 galng In mo mentum, tn the St Louis district alone about 17.000 employe of manufacturing and commercial establishments bsv been recalled to work. MR. TAFT ACCKPTACB. ' Fit to Load. Chicago Tribune, (rep.) Mr. Taft ha begun th great contro versy like a statesman fit to lead. An Abl Paver. Baltimore AmeMcan. (rep.) In all report the mai will be re garded as on of tha ablest paper of Its kind that haa ever born prepared. Straight forsrngu. Washington Herald, (ind.) It Is the work of a candid, outspoken candidate, who would have tha country know precisely where he stands. Itra-arded as Conservative. Springfield, Mass., Republican. (Ind.) The speech, on the whole, must be re gfirded as conservative, and it should be acceptable to th legitimate basinets Inter ests of the country. Opinion and Reason. Philadelphia Public Ledger. (Ind.) He does not merely express opinions; he gives the reasons for them and th logical process by which they are reached. A Judicial Review. Cleveland Plain Dealer. (Ind. deny) All through the exhaustive address Mr. Taft speaks like a judge discussing issue before a court; seldom a candidal for popular support , ' M i i I i . Convincing; Proof. Chicago News. (Ind.) If anything was needed to prove that Mr. Taft possesses a great and orderly mtnJ his speech should be accepted aa affording the desired proof. . I lit, Blot n Sldeatepper, St. Lout Time, (ind.) ' Judge Taft ha shown. In hi support of the Roosevelt policies, a bravery that will come In for general applatfse. He haa proved that ha la no sldeatepper. Big Task Well' Executed. ' ' Washington Post. (Ind.) Mr. Taft goes at th questions of th day aa a strong man might tackle a cord of wood. He saw away at a steady gait, and pay no attention- to knots. The soft and the hard are treated alike, with patience and thoroughness, and the result i a work manlike execution of a big task. Republican Achievement. St Paul Pioneer-Press (rep.). No one reading Mr. Taft's conolso pre sentation of what has been achieved under rocent republican administrations will fail to be atruck by th capability, wisdom and thoroughness with which tha party ha olved every one of the tremendou prob lem which have confronted the country. Meeting; Popular Expectations. Kansas City Star (Ind.). The significance of his acceptance speech and the inspiration which It lend to con fidence and hop lie, not so much In the speech Itself, as In th habit of Mr. Taft for meeting popular expectation; for doing those thing that attest, always, the right sense of obligation within him, and for performing, invariably, the needed service at tha needed time. " " ' i . Clearness sad Honeatyw DenVer Post (rep.). Viewed aa an exposition of tho platform of th party thla speech Is notable for Ita clearness, its honesty and It lack of evasiveness; considered as a pledge of his ewn Intention, it carries the assurance that the national usefulness of William Howard Taft will be perhaps as great, if less spectacular, , than was that of Th sod ore Roosevelt. Strong Point Boo red. ' ' Boston Trancrlpt (rep.). Th candidate scores many exce.ye.nt point on the platform declaration of hi opponent, but none which 1 better than his discussion of their attack upon tha In crenao In the number of employes, which has characterised recent year of republi can rule. He name the services in which these officer have been employed. In meat Inspection, In arid land Irrigation, at Pan ama, eta, ugg-eting that since th demo crat specifically approve of most of these thing and condemn none of them it is hard to see th validity of their criticism. EXPANDING HARRIMAN LINES. Prospect I v Goald-Plated Addition to HI gyatem. Springfield Republican. George Oould come back from Europe with a welcome response to the report that a H. Harrlman I working his way Into th Oould railroad properties. Wall street la disposed to believe this report. Think, then, of Harrlman as thua further ex panded, Ha I now th dominating Influ ence In the Union Pacific system, 6,900 miles; in th Southern Pacific, ,G0 mile of railroad and 4,890 mile of steamahlp llnea; In the Illinois Central, 5.600 mile; in the Erie, 1,500 mile; and In tha Balti more Ohio through Union Pacific stock ownership, 4,400 mile. Her ar about tt.000 miles of distinctively Hani mart road, to say nothing of the 1,900 mils of Oeorgla Central, recently aoqulred In the Hanimaa or Illinois Central Interest, and other odds and ends of railroad thai may have been overlooked in the catalog ing. If he ahould go Into the Oould rail road properties, about 18,000 mile would be added to the Harrlman railroad sover eignty making nearly 60,000 mile In all, or not so far from one-fourth of tha entire rai'iroad mileage of tha United Statea. Verily thla man doth bestride th transportation map of America like a eoloasu. PERSONAL NOTES. Thomas L. Hlsgen Is th first presi dential nominee Massachusetts ha had stnee General Ben Butler. Tha list of things that must not be eaten haa now been extended to embrace every thing with the possible exception of fudge. Only sick person are now permitted to take a drink from a pocket flask on a railway train In Louisiana. From now on the train will aeem like traveling hos pitals In that at ate. For the fourth week of July and hot ones they have been the New York death rata has been t per cent lens than a year ago. In th case of children under 6 the reduction ha been even greater. Emperor Franola Joseph of Austria will b 78 yeara old on August It, but he la still an ardent hunter. Having settled down at Iachl for hla summer holiday, th emperor haa lost no time In beginning hi favorite sport of deer shooting. Colonel Frank L. Smith, wbo la a can didate for th republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Illinois, haa ad dressed a letter to every Smith tn the state, which reada: "Dear Smith: Thla I a time when I hop that tha Smith will stand together. Are you with meT" John W. Gataa haa contracted for th coneturctlon of tha finest golf links In tha world at his homo at Port Arthur, Teg. Work ha been commenced on th tract. embracing TW acre of land. Th new link will r9raent aa expenditure of nearly tl.000,000, Including th coat of th land. tLsAOOS. A clubhouse, costing about llon.fXJO, u to be erected. A PIT! ABL, IS 8Pr3CTACLB. Candidate Rrysa's Demand for IoK lara to Elect Himself, New Tork Sun. Can any one Imagine Jamea Buchanan or Stephen A. Dntigla or Jchn C. Brecken rldge or General McClellnn or Horatio Seymour or General Hancock, or any other democratic candidate for the presidency save and except William Jennings Bryan, demanding money from the farmrra of the United States In order to put him In the White House? Isn't it a pitiable spectacle? Not only does Mr. Bryan, with th con. currenr of his Indiana associate on the ticket, aollclt contributions from S upward, but he ha evidently made a careful com putation of tho number of farmer who ar able to "pay, pay, pay." Just listen to him: "There are hundreds of thousands of farmers who are abundantly able, to con tribute to the campaign fund. There are thousanda who could give flflO aplco with out feeling It. There are ten of thousand who could give $50 apiece without sacrific ing anything, and still more who could give $25, $10 or $5." Verily, all standards of dignity rn pub Ho life and politic have been thrown to the winds when we have com down ti this, "Who will be the first to resr-mdr' ask Mr. Bryan. It Is Ilk th voice of an auctioneer asking for bids. "Money talks," say the cynic. "Money Is needed to elect mo and Kern," say Mr. Bryan, th de nouncer of the money power In politic, "and I want th farmera of th country to furnish it." So anxious ar Messrs, Bryan and Kern to have money and to have It now that, pending th organisation of the national committee, "w will ask the Commoner to call for subscription to thl farmer' fund." Thor I a really comical touch In this. "Ask the Com moner" forsooth I Why, the Commoner is Mr. Bryan's newspaper. He ia Che Com. moner. Mr. Bryan I certainly a friend of the people In on sense. He want to get their money and ho evidently believe that they have lots of It left, notwithstanding the great predatory corporations he talks so much about. BAST MONEV OIT THB CIRCUIT, Chaalng- tho Cbautauo.uu Plenalng- nnl rrsStakl Summer Job, St tout Times, Johnson of Minnesota, Folk and Clark of Missouri, along with soorea of their brothers In official Ufa, are now chasing th Chautauqua bug over th fae of th summer earth. They are repenting old lecture, telling th Same okl stories, oolleo. ting the old, familiar coin. . These gentlemen of mushroom celebrity oAight to thank th newspapers.' It Is tha public press that nominate and elects the official of th day. It la tho newspaper that prints hi pictures, tells anecdotes about him, put in hi speech epigram and ojisp English generally beyond hla capa city, Into the spot light. Then, the beginning of a fame assured. the ohautauqua and winter lecture lures follow. Th money easily mad and the calcium sheds a pleasing glow. Tbe press agent follow Inevitably. How to break Into print become th question. The whilom statesman become a mere eotor doing one-night aland. Sometime be es capes and goes back to real work, but not often. Th Chautauqua bug has gaudy coloring and a fatal sting. SUNNY OEMS. "Why do poets wear long hair?" "Well, how many ooets do you know wh can afford a hair cut!" Chicago K coord-Herald. -1. . i "I heard your wife read tha other dsv. She knowa how to touch a man. doean't she?" H3h. yes: she can 'touch' a fellow all right.'' .Baltimore American. "But," said th Judga, "you provoked the fight." "No, I didn't." replied Cassldy, th pris oner. "But you struck tha first blow. Why did you do that?" "Bekase he said to me: 'If I'm wan, ye're another,' and so I soaked him."- Philadelphia Press. The youthful George Washington had Just confessed that 'he could not tell a lie. "But wait till I get a motor boat," he said to himself, "and let somebody ask ma how much It costs me a year to run It!" Prom which w learn that veracity la simply a matter cf opportunity and en vironment. Chicago Tribune. "A woman aJwAys says, 1 my hat on straight.' " "Not always." "No?" "No; sometimes she say Is my waist all buttoned In the back? Nashville American. "Why don't you select some flower as your party emblem?" asked the girl with the artistic Ideas. "We don't need any flowera." answered the New York politician. "If we have to adopt an emblem, my auggestlon would b th plu-plant." Indlanapolla Now. "Mr. Mlllyuns, I cannot live without your daughter." "Oh, yea, you can, Duke. I'll be pleased to get you a Job as motorman on one of my llnea." Louisville Courier-Journal. Vr.m ttAAw.n'a .Air " ,li ,ii tha mnth.p. "what Is th matter with Willie? He's Korying ao." "Willie is suirenng irom sonmroae, re plied the father, who had Juat finished spanking him. Detroit Free Press. . "The king of Denmark must lead a dog's life of It." "Why ao?" "Why not? Isn't he a Great Dans?" Baltimore American. "Tou know," said the lady novelist. "I like the exclamation point, and It gets ma out of lots of trouble." "How?" asked a sympathising listener. "Punctuating la not my strong point." re plied the lady novelist, "so I fall baok on the exclamation point. It Is my Old Point Comfort." Philadelphia Press. "Do you remember the motto In the copy book, Honesty Is th best policy?' ' "Yes," naswered Senator Sorghum. "And by one of these queer coincidences I cam to have dealings with the man who pub lished that copy book and people who wer on the school board that adopted It. Nona of them seemed to believe a word of that motto!" Washington Post. THA M 11 NO. Arthur Oulterman in Youth's Companion. His heart should sing from, dawn to sun set flare Wherever foot may tread hla path may He Hla pack must b too small to hold a care Who take for guide th gypay butter fly. At morn th thrush, at noon th tinkling brook, At eve the cricket choir ahail cheer hi Hi eyVihall find delight In very nocjt; The squirrels, marry gnome In red o gray. Th clover bent beneath th booming The woodchuck, sober monk In russet rlad. The dragon fly athwart the culverkey Shall wake hla Wvt of tilings and make him glad. Tls well to drink th cryatl draft that flow From asure deep where civtud-bullt gal leons sail; 'Tls well to feel th spirit busth and grow; Onoe more tls well to seek th golden trail. Again along a checkered road I swing ' Through friendly woods and field whsr dalslea nod. WhUs still bef or an drifts on vagrant wtng The butterfljl whose beauty praises God.