TIIE OMAHA DAILY REEt FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1908.
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1. ......... 86,760
86,740
I 86,710
4 80,100
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86400
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saao
t 38,0
10 as, 400
11 scioo
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1 36,180
17 S4V400
It 30,880
.000
JO...; 36,400
1 6S,60
ti 86400
II 86,780
Jt 36,800
II 38.860
f 33,650
17 36,880
it 36,960
S 86480
0 36.780
SI 86,150
A UWM ...........A..........
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WHEif oct or towit.
Sabaarlher leaving; th ltr
aerartly ahoald hav Tk Be
mailed. t then. Address will b
chaaejed a afta aa raeted.
Philadelphia has started a war on
crooks of the unofficial character.
Pittsburg . is . boasting of a baby
worth $40,000,000. ' Every baby Is
worth that much.
Has anyone thought to ask General
Miles about his favorite candidate In
the present campaign T ' " -
Speaking of names again, the demo
crats have picked a Cowherd as their
candidate lor governor of Missouri. .
George Gould now understands what
the "cost of maintenance" means when
applied to brothers-in-law and rail
roads. . ." ' - '
"Let us forget all about the past,"
says Tom Watson. That's what Bryan
would like to do it Tom Watson would
only let him. "
Texas '. republicans have endorsed
John W. Gates for congress. It will
be safe to bet a million that he will
not be elected.
Jim Big Thunder and Mollte Cloud,
two Indian citlsens of Oklahoma, have
been united in marriage. Look out for
squalls later on.
The WorTdHerald insists that it is
"offensive and presumptuous" to quote
Mr. Bryan's sermon on "Thou Shalt
not steal" on himself.
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Suspicion grows that the new
Turkish constitution, if closely In
spected, will be found to have the
'Made. Itt Germany" label.
When the democratic contribution
box Is passed under. your nose be care
ful pot to otter mor than $10,000,
unless you want your gift rejected.
Up to date the sultan of Turkey has
nol received many acceptances of his
invitations to his enemies to return for
"Old Home" week at Constantlople.
One might know that another elec
tion la coming on without looking at
the calendar. Our do-nothing Water
board is trying another gallery play.
England has passed the old age pen
sion law and has nothing to worry
about now except how to raise the
$30,000,000 a year needed to pay the
bills.
Prosperity is certainly returning. A
dispatch from New York brings the
cheering Information that Mr. John
D. Rockefeller is having his barn
painted.
A Lincoln correspondent says the
Bryan home is full of framed mottoes
The place of honor should be given to
Mr. Bryan's favorite motto: "Any
thing to Win."
'Mr. Bryan could stand on the Inde
pendence platform with both feet,"
says Candidate. Hlsgen, and Mr. Bryan
promptly Jumped on the independence
platform with both feet.
Mayor Jim, at any rate, has the
courage of his convictions. He Is the
only democrat seeking the guberna
torial nomination who has not under
taken t disguise himself In populist
clothing.. -
The Cuban election Is said to have
resulted in a protest against American
intervention. The United States will
be tickled if Cuba demonstrates Its
hllity to get along without American
rventlou.
RrOJk.TaTtD.
The public may not yet realise it,
but It Is nonetheless a fact,, that Gov
ernor Sheldon and all his associate
state officers who are filling out their
first terms, with the exception of the
railway commissioner, are at this mo
ment to all practical Intents and pur
poses renominated as candidates on
the republican ticket to succeed them
selves. Under the Nebraska primary law an
unopposed nomination filing is equiv
alent to a nomination and in the case
of the governor and his associates. Just
mentioned. It baa been so generally
conceded that, they are entitled on
their records each to a second term
that no one within their own party has
felt warranted In seeking the nomina
tion een to lay the foundation for
future claims.
Bo far as the state ticket Is con
cerned In Nebraska, the Issue Is al
ready made up Irrespective who may
be nominated by the opposing parties
to make the race. The Issue Is
whether the administration of state
affairs by Governor Sheldon and his
associates In the state house and the
thorough redemption of platform
promises by the last republican legis
lature shall or shall not be endorsed.
If the people of Nebraska appreciate
honesty and economical state govern
ment and straightforward fulfillment
of party obligations they will continue
the republicans in control, only n
they want to deny efficient service the
reward that Is due it' and to set no
higher premium upon faithful per
formance of duty and scrupulous re
demptlon of promises than they put
upon faithlessness, extravagance ana
repudiation of sacred pledges, will they
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wilfully retire uuturuui uucuv...
his republican associates who, have
been renominated.
A RIAL FR1EXD OF LABOR-
John Mitchell, the former president
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, has become the chairman of the
trade agreement department of the
National Civic Federation, thereby
entering upon a work which promises
to produce the greatest good results
for his associates in organized labor,
Mr. Mitchell has passed through the
flres of many trying experiences in his
relations to disputes between employ
ers and employes and his appointment
to his present position Is proof that he
has secured and hetd the confidence of
both parties to the controversies
When asked If he would take an active
part In the coming presidential cam
palgn, Mr. Mitchell replied:
I have no Intention of doing eo, notwltlv
tanHina- all renorta to the oontrary.'- In all
probability theae reports arose because I
waa talked of aa a candidate for governor
of Illinois and for vice " president. The
holding of or being a candidate for pollt
leal offices never appealed to me and I will
devote my tlm to the dutle of my new
position. I am not talking polltlci,
will not give any opinions aa tq wno is
likely to be elected - and want to avoid
being put; into a: position where It might
he uiumnl I waa frttog to take part in
the campaign, which I am not.
Mr. Mitchell has already proved
himself a friend to labor and he will
do his former associates a still greater
service by adhering to' his determine
tlon to take no part in the political
controversies. He has not been one
part labor leader and three parts poli
tician, but has pursued a singleness of
purpose in working for the interests
of labor, on labor's merits and not
through any political influence or
power. He has wanted labor to re
ceive what was legitimately coming to
it and his appeala to that end have
commanded the attention and favor
fthin consideration of employers. He
Insists that trade agreements are bind
ing obligations on both sides and in
every controversy where these obllga
tlons were respected the differences
have been solved without friction. It
Is the plan of the Civic Federation to
extend this work and Mr. Mitchell is
unquestionably the proper man for the
undertaking.
Labor statistics of former years show
an unusually large number of men out
of omnlovment during the busiest
times, due largely to strikes and lock
outs. It Is Mr. Mltcholl's plan to pre.
vent this economic waste, hurtful allk
to employer and employed, by a sys
tem of trade agreements, extending
over a' period of years. "The collec
tive bargain," says Mr. Mitchell, "is a
recognition of the Interdependence of
labor and capital. It gives to the
worklngman an interest in the success
ful conduct of business and guarantees
to employers and employes alike long
periods of industrial peace." The
prompt acceptance by employers of
this plan of conciliation is in itself a
victory for labor and holds a promise
of lasting peace in the industrial
world. Mr. Mitchell has placed him
self In position to do much more for
the cause of industrial peace than he
could have possibly accomplished by
mixing politics with his efforts on be
half of labor.
JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL REFORM.
Americans doing business in Ja?an
have long complained of the lack of
commercial morals among the mika
do's subjects. They have heretofore
refused to pay any attention to Amer
ican trade mark and copyright laws,
but have promptly appropriated to
their own use any Invention or Im
provement from other countries that
chanced to suit their needs or fancy.
Some years ago thousands of Amer
ican sewing machines were exported
to Japan and the transaction was her
alded as the beginning of a lucrative
trade In that line, but there was no
business in sewing machines after the
flrst year. Inquiry showed the Japs
had simply adopted the American
models and were making sewing ma
chines on their own account and were
even couipetlug in other Asiatic coun -
tries with the products of the Amer
ican sewing machine factories. Man
ufacturers of other lines have had
similar experiences.
The authorities at Washington have
ust received notice of a measure
passed by the Japanese Parliament
recognising the trade mark and copy
right laws of the United States. The
mikado has also prepared a treaty by
the terms of which American produc
tions will be properly protected by the
Japanese : authorities. This determi
nation of the Japanese authorities to
enact laws in the Interests of a higher
commercial morality will be welcomed
by other nations and will be certain,
In the end, to prove of lasting benefit
to the Japanese.
"SHALL THE PEOFLK RULtt"
In announcing his speaking program
Mr. Bryan has decided to make the
question, "Shall the people rule?" the
paramount Issue in the campaign of
1908. He will contend that "Predatory
Wealth" and th?"Vested Interests"and
other more or less intangible windmills
with which democratic Don Quixotes
conjure have the country by the throat
and are slowly strangling It to death.
Convinced of the existence of this dire
ful situation, Mr. Bryau appoints him
self champion of the people and pro
poses to have them restored to their
rights as active and star participants
in the affairs of government.
Fortunately for the people, their
right to rule Is guaranteed to them by
the framers of the constitution. They
can rule in but one way and that la
by the exercise of their right of suf
frage. The ballot, whose freedom Is
vouchsafed by the constitution, is the
instrument used by the people to en
force the character of rulership they
want. The country's history shows
that the people have used this means
of self-rulo everywhere except In the
south, the section from which Mr
Bryan draws his chief and almost sole
support. The people do not rule in
the south. Proof of this Is found In
the census reports of population and
in the election returne. The follow
lng figures, taken from the official re
ports, show the number of white citi
zens of voting age, the number of
negroes of voting age and the vote
cast at the polls in the presidential
election in 1900:
. Votes
State.
Whites.
238.294
226,597
77.963
227.4W!
177.878
150,530
298,263
.... .130.155
801,875
.....233.129
Negroes.
181,471
. 87.157
61.417
233.07
147,34
197.MM
127,114
162,860
146.123
14,776
Cast.
Alabama
Arkansas
169.683
Florida
SS.0K1
Georgia
132,716
Iiouislana
Mississippi
t7,KM
u.vn
North Carolina
21)2.659
South Carolina'
50,811
Virginia
West Virginia
261.095
220,870
Democratic Alabama, with a popula
tion nearly double that of republican
Nebraska, casta less than halt, the
number of votes polled In Nebraska
Democratic Virginia, with a population
about 50 per cent greater than that
of republican Nebraska, cast about the
same vote as Nebraska. Democratic
Georgia, with a population of Just
about double that of republican Ne
braska, cast only one-half as many
votes for president In 1900 aa were
cast In Nebraska. The same propor
tlon obtains" in practically all the
southern states, where from one-third
to one-half of the voters have been
disfranchised by democratic legisla
tures. In republican states the peo
ple ule democratic strongholds are
democratic only because the people
there are not allowed to rule,
The democratic organs try to make
much ado over the right of the Bryan
lte populists to vote for the democratic
candidate for president- What is to
stop them from voting for democratic
electors under the rightful democratic
heading? If they have a right to vote
for democratic electors, why should
they not concede the populists who do
not want to vote for Bryan the same
right to vote for their own party can
didate under their own party deslgna
tion?
The Commercial club Is making an
other effort to recruit Its membership
up over the 1,000 mark. A city of
Omaha's size and large Business inter-
tests ought easily to furnish a Com
merclal club membership of 1,500
And with 1,500 active business men
all pulling on the same rope at the
same time, in the same direction, there
would be no question about pulling
over the line any enterprise they might
take hold of.
The democrats complain that the
apportionment of ballots for the com
lDg primary In Omaha, based on party
affiliation as recorded In the reglstra
tlon books, is "farcical" because
gives the republicans more than two
to one. The democrats are between
two fires they must ejther admit the
preponderance of republicans or accuse
their own party of sheltering by far
the largest proportion of liars.
The democratic Fremont Herald ex
plains Its preference In the Third dis
trict congressional mlxup by saying
that "it is useless for it to reiterate It
reasons for standing up for Senator
Latta for congress." Of course, it Is
useless. Senator Latta is the candi
date with the barrel, while his oppo
nent, Edgar Howard, Is only a poor
newspaper man.
Our amiable democratic contem
porary, the World-Herald, has discov
ered that the Lincoln News "speaks
for the better clasa of republicans."
As defined by the World-Herald dic
tionary, a apokesman for the better
class of republicans Is one that lends
aid and comfort to the democrats.
The charter revision board declines
to admit representation from political
1 clubs because It wants to bar out poll-
tics. Our previous experience has
been that the final revisers regard par
ticipation In politics at one of the pre
requisites to a voice In the charter
making.
David R. Francis of Missouri has
been placed at the head of the demo
cratic advisory committee. Mr. Fran-
Is made a record In 1898 and 1900 in
giving the democratic party a lot of
advice that it rejected.
The Boston A Maine railroad has
placed an order for 6,000 tons of steel
rails and the Baltimore A Ohio has
asked for 14,600 tons for early deliv
ery Western prosperity must have
reached the east.
Mr. Harrlman may be taken at his
word that his trip to the coast Is solely
for purposes of Inspection and recrea
tion. There are no more railroads out
there worth having that he does not
already control.
If It it true that President Roose
velt will receive $2 a word for his
stories of game hunting In Africa it
will simply furnish another proof that
the pen Is mightier than the sword.
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All Right, Jaat th Same.
Washington Post
Kenesaw Mountain Land Is may have been
wrong In sticking that big fine on the
Standard, but he can rely on getting an
occasion' pat on the back from th na
tional administration just the same.
Who Will Make the SacrlSeef
Baltimore American.
It Is In a carping, critical spirit that a
New Tork paper Inquires: "How many of
those western women entuuslasts would
remain loyat to Mr. Bryan If they were
aaked to contribute their trading stamp?"
Without desiring to make a political Issue
out of th question, we might counter-
question: How many men would remain
loyal to anybody If asked to eonitrlbut
their tobacco money?
. Plaektiia; the Goldea Gome.
Philadelphia Record.
The window glass manufacturer have
contributed tholr share to the boom of
prosperity by agreeing to raise the price
of single glass 0) and double glass 83H
per cent before starting up their fires for
the fall season. They are looking for a
building boom, and, It was lately an
nounced that production had been cur
tailed to such an extent that there Wfii
only 700,000 boxes .of glass , Instead of
the usual 2,000,000 In stock. Th work
men claim that under th sliding scale
of wages the Increase In prices will en
title them to 40 and 66H per cent more
wages. Th Increase of prices In antici
pation of a great Increase In. building
operations appears to be rather prema
tura.
Three Systems e)f Daat Laying.
Retton Tranrcrlpt. '
Sixteen miles ' of Boston streets are
under oil, sixteen miles under calcium
chloride, while one mil of Blue Hill avenue
Is under tarvla, ' a preparation which
has long been made familiar to the public
by Commonwealth avenue In Newton and
Other pieces of 'Suburban highways. Opin
ions differ as tri the relative advantage of
thes three systems of dusjt laying. Th
oil, by appealmg 'to the ,y. In contrast
with .the catolurn chloride,' makes the users
of the highway considerably- more aware
of th warfare against duat than they
would otherwise be. and suggestion goes
far toward the mitigation Of air ilia of
which this is no exception. The watering
cart is apparently becoming "a, back num
ber." The amount of labor Involved Ir.
sprinkling water, with the short time which
It aerves Its purpose, has made that a
highly expensive form of dust laying for a
modem urban community, and the proba
bilities sre that before many years It will
be entirely superseded.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Th annual "world's spelling match" at
Warsaw, Ind., has resulted In the capture
of the championship by Mrs. Douglas Gil
bert of Pana, 111., who is 73 years old. She
won out on "concatenation."
Mrs. Jennie Barrett of Alexandria, La.,
has Just been elected clerk of the new
police Jury at Rapides parish. The club
women of the state hope that Mrs. Bar
rett will not arouse the enmity of the poli
ticians and bring on herself the fate that
befell Miss Jean Gordon, Louisiana's only
woman factory Inspector.
Th Elks, It will be remembered, visited
Dallas, Tex., recently, and the Times
Herald of that town saya: "Dallas had
red-headed widow on parade, merry
widow, brunette widow, ' blonde widows,
prim widows, prudish widows, aou'ful
widows, soulless widows, widows of all
ages, shapes, sixes and varieties."
Justice Goff of New York has declined to
Incorporate a union of actors under the
proposed name, "Th Frogs," saying that
while the objects of the union a described
are lofty, the name selected Is Incongruous,
and he I unwilling "to cement the con
nection between the sublime and the gro
tesque." Brek-ke-ke-kex! Co-ax! Co-ax!
By th will of General George Sherman
Batcheller, Judge of th International court
at Alexandria, Egypt, who died In Paris
early In July, his aummer home in Sara
toga, N. Y., erected at a cost of I100.0X),
will at his daughter's death become a free
publto library. Th bequest also carries
with It th late Jurist books, furniture and
pictures.
BREAKING KBWI TO SHERMAX.
Peat l'p Vtiem Promisee to Pall OS
"A Hot Tlut."
Chicago Post.
They notify best who notify last. Mr.
Taft's surprise party was given In set
ting of which Cincinnati citizens were
Justly proud, but the fern of the Jubilation
and of it concomitants fades before the
splendor of the promise of L'tlca.
In the words of the l'tlca Dally Press,
"There will be something doing from early
morn to dwy ve," on th day when Mr.
Sherman learns that high .honor came to
him at Chicago. From the Mohawk river
the Steel's hill and from the Masonic home
to the lunatic asylum there will be four
square mile of Sherman acclaim which the
Deerfleld hills will catch up and send on
to th Adirondack.
But this Is the least of It. Msyor "Tom'
Wheeler will make a speech; there will be
a grand balloon ascension and a thrilling
parachute drop; a base ball gam between
L'tlca and 8c-ranton will b played with
th vie presidential candidal th secre
tary of state, Tim Woodruff, and a host
of other notable looking on from th
grandstand; the Oneida county singing so
cieties will compete for prise; there will
be daylight fireworks In Bagg'a Bquar
and a band concert at th "Busy Corner."
Incidentally Benator Burrows, chairman
of the notification committee, will be given
an opportunity to break th tiding tq
Candidate Sherman, who, collecting him'
aelf, wUl respond Impromptu. It will be a
glad day In th land of th Bis Nations.
Indianapolis must took to Its iBtircJa.
ROVKn ABOI T WEW TORK. '
Rlaplra the (arrent t Life la h
Metropolis.
Autos cut up many queer capers these
daya, usually with fatal results. Perhaps
the queerest on record, with a happy end
ing, was pulled off on a mountain road near
Liberty, N. V., a few daya ago. A couple on
their honeymoon tour with two companions
In an auto speeding over a narrow moun
tain road, lost control of the machine.
which plunged ocer a precipice, turned
three somersaults and larded in a tree.
fifty feet bolow the brink. There It hung
upside down, pinning the occupants to Ihe
branches. None was seriously Injured.
though bruised and frightened. Most ma
chines are geared .to Climb trees. This
on preferred the more dignified mode or.
landing on top.
A group of his friend were discussing
William Wlnslow Sherman, the old New
York banker who died not lon ago. "He
had the coolest nerve of any man I know,"
said one. "Three or four years ago when
Sherman was an old man and partially
crippled by reason of a fall from a horse,
he entered his bedroom late at night to find
a masked burglar ransacking It. The thief
had a big gun trained on Sherman In a
minute. The banker Just waved It aside
with a tired hand. 'Put that away,' he
ald Irritably. 'Let us discuss this maf.r
like gentlemen,' The burglar was so sur.
prised he laughed. 'Now. you oould hurt
me It you wanted to. and might get away
with some littl-j knlcknacks.' sail Sherman
'But you might be caught, and there's a
light probability that you could dispose
or my toilet articles profitably. What
would you consider a fair cash proposition
to go awayT' They talked It over in all
peace. The burglar thought he ought to
hav 110, but Sherman, after Inquiring Into
the man's habits, said J8 was enough. 'You
see," he said, 'you're a known thief. If
this were your first offense I'd pay you
your price, but now the police have your
picture you ought to be glad to accept
any fair compromise and run no risk.' The
burglar finally agreed to take 8. Sherman
pulled out a 10 bill. -Give me 82 change,'
said he. And he got It. before he paid."
The champagne dinner Is an old davlce
of the stock talesman In the west, but It
seems to have been somewhat overlooked
hereabouts, reports a New York, letter. At
any rate, one dinner given In one of the
exclusive clubs uptown has made so much
stir In brokerage circles that you'd think
the same thing had never been worked
before.
The host of the occasion, a well known
promotor, Issued Invitation to about sixty
of hi friends "to celebrate his recent good
fortune." They were permitted to under
stand that the promotor had recently made
a barrel of money and wasn't avers to
loosening a few hoops. The principal din
ing room of the club was engaged for the
occasion, and the chef was given carte
blanch to get up the best dinner he knew
hoW to cook. And champagne! Champagne
didn't flow; It came in a cloudburst. The
host made a brief speech, telling how the
mining Industry of the west was flourish'
ing, and hinting delicately at his own tre
mendous success. Then other speakers got
up and talked along the same line, closing
by brief congratulations to th host upon
his fortune. When everyon was fairly
wall pickled, the host rose again and made
a spread eagle speech. Finally, as though
overcome by th good fellowship of th oc
casion, he declared that he couldn't so
so many of the proper sort outside th
breastworks. "I'm going to take you boys
In, every one of you, right on the ground
floor," he shouted. "You shall hav what
hares you want at the figure they cost
me, and before a single shire is offered to
th public" He had previously told of th
surpassing richness of his mine. The sub
scription list waa passed and practically
everyone present subscribed. Thousands of
shares, in the aggregate, were disposed of.
The proposition ' certainly did look good,
and even yet the subscribing guests are
well pleased with the situation, but It Is an
old fact that not one of them can tell any
thing coherent of the mine. And ysu an
r'
noy any of them frightfully in
IncTscreet
queries.
'Hello," called a voice on the telephone,
when the lieutenant on desk duty In the
Ralph avenue station, Brooklyn,, picked
up the receiver, "Is this the One Hundred
and Fifty-fourth precinct? Well, please
send a man to 1890 Broadway aa soon as
possible," It went on calmly. "Some boys
are stealing a. two-story brick house at
that address. I'm the"
The lieutenant gasped for breath, wiped
his brow, and was about to tell the party
calling for police assistance his opinion of
practical Jokers when the party In ques
tion managed to get In his explanation. It
appeared that the house has been un
tenanted for several months, t.rce a hoe
maker moved out, and the owner had
paid little attention to it. believing it
would get along as well as any other
vacant house In Brooklyn. He was not
deeply Interested In reletting It at one
and ao did not pay It a visit or have a
sign put In the window, i
When he did visit the property, he
found nothing but a wreck of what had
been his house, with a great part of the
roof removed, lead pipe stolen, walla
torn down, windows removed from their
casings and stolen, and soma of the planks
and logs which made up the floors gone.
The remains of the second and third floors
wer supported only by thin planks, which
th thieves had evidently not considered
of enough value to remove.
Vneonsclous from a fractural skull
Joseph Murphy, 30 years old, of Midland.
Ont., waa dangled from the roof of the
fast mall train of the New York Central
road for almost two miles through the
Park avenue tunnel by three companions.
who risked their lives In an attempt to
save him from Instant death. The four
had stolen a ride from Syracuse to New
York City on the roof of the car. Murphy
was strurk on the head by one of the
girders In the tunnel. His companions
were John Coonly, Buffalo; Michael
Mara, Cincinnati, and George McCormack
New York, all Ironworkers. Although
there was scarcely more than a foot of
pace between th arch of the tunnel and
the roof of the speeding train, to which
the men were clinging, they seised Murphy
when he was struck, and, regardless of
their own danger, clung to him until the
train had come to a atop. At the hoa
pital, where Murphy was taken, It la
said he will die.
A New York woman who had a telephone
In her apartment called up the telephone
company and asked that th service be
discontinued. Th man who took her mes
sage tried to be exceedingly polite.
"We are sorry to lose you," he said.
"Are you dissatisfied with anything?"
"I ani," said the woman, emphatically
"I am very sorry," said the man. "Per
hap we ran help you. What is It you do
pot like?"
"Single blessedness," aald th woman
"I am going to be married tomorrow."
Ah," aald th pollt clerk, "you ar
paat our aid. Good-by."
A Tall-lCaSer.
St. Louis Gob Democrat.
Mr. Bryan la aald to be 'aa dexterous as
an Athenian sophist In catching a point for
debate." and as unlucky as an Olympic
hoodoo la th final aoor.
NEBRASKA PBES COMMENT.
Beaver City Times-Tribune: Bryan might
carry Nebraska, perhaps. If It were not
for the World-Herald.
Table Rock Arris: The Lincoln papers
msy be republican In politics, but they
read more like paper whose editors were
out for the spender.
Hastings nepubllcsn: All towns and
cities in thS'stste should have a uniform
law to dispose of hoboes. If every town
would adopt the plan of sentencing them
to a certain number of days to work on
th streets and roads or rock pile, and
provide a whipping post for those who re
fuse to work. It would be an effective aa
well as profitable may to handle them.
Sterling Sun: The democrats prate loudly
about campaign publicity. Republican Ne
braska has a publicity law which the re
publican atate committee observes to the
letter, while the Bryan democracy, through
"Brother-ln-Law Tom" and "Cowboy
Jim," Ignores the law. Treasurer Sheldon
of the republican national committee de
clares that he will publish all campaign
contribution received by him, thus Comply
ing with the New York law. With the re
publicans campaign publicity is now a fact;
with the democrats It Is a promise sup
ported by failure to perform.
York Times: The "yell" business at na
tional conventions la tieing overworked.
When It was an outburst of honest en
thusiasm It was worth while and com
manded respect, but alnce It became simply
a test of endursnce and lung power It la
different. They are said to be systemat
ically arranged now In relays, each clique
leader having his cue when he Is to take
up the howl and keep It hot until relieved.
It atands to reason that no man could ell
bloody murder eighty minutes straight
without stopping for food or wster. Of
course a federal officer will yell a good
while before h will let go, but there Is a
limit even to his physical endurance.
Albion Argus (pop.): Every once In a
while we hear some saintly soul blurt out
with disgust: 'Dahlman! If Jim Dahlman
Is the kind of a man at the head of de
mocracy In Nebraska, then I want no more
to do with the party nor Bryan, who sanc
tions htm." Bryan, nor any other good
man, has power to cast out of the party
all the liars, libertines and hypocrite! If
this were done there would be a mighty
falling orr at the polls. What are such
saints going to do? In the' republican
party there are the Tom Cooks, D. Clem
Deavert. Bud Lindsays and a host of other
aa disreputable political skunks aa ever
lived. Every party has them even th
boasted prohibitionist has Its quota,. Bry
an's character la unassailable and his doc
trine can't be overthrown, and If Dahlman,
or the devil himself, sees fit to help Bryan
and his cause we ought to be thankful.'
Crelghton News: "One hundred persons,
200 case and ten barrels of beer, three tons
of Ice, two whole cheeses, ten gallons of
pickles and olives, and 150 loaves of rye
bread this Is the 'personnel' of th Dahl
man Democracy special train which pull.'d
out of Union station over the Union Pa-
ciflo at 10:28 Monday morning for Den
ver and the democratic convention."
The above new Item gives evidence that
the Omaha delegation to Denver did not
go thirsty during their stay. Jim Dahlman,
Omaha s mayor. Is tit hlg noln In Den
ver, and why a man of the standing of
W. J. Bryan should select Jim Dahlman a
his personal advisor Is more '.han we can
guess. Should Jim be the democratic nomi
nee for- governor any chance that Ne
braska ever had for getUng back Into the
democratic column ' Is lost Pender Repub
lic. Mayor Jim did not propose to be hung
up again with nothing but river water with
which to quench thirst, as at Sioux City.
Bchuyler Free Lance: After the repub
lican national convention one heard many
of our democratic friends talking about
'bosslsm" and "steam roller" and Roose
velt waa denounced and Taft was criticised
and th word "cut and dried" was heard
frequently. But since th democratic na
tional ccnventlon there la little said and no
wondor, .for there never was a national
convention so completely under one man's
control aa that waa under Bryan'a. He
named th temporary chairman and the
permanent chairman and wrote th plat
form, and he decreed that the "steam rol
ler" should run over Colonel Guffey and
that Kerr should be national committeeman
from Pennsylvania and that Tom Taggart
man Kern should be the vice presidential
nominee?. Fp.lm lnnor rilatnnr telenhon
feryan dictated any little detail not possi
ble for him to arrange In advance. But we
see nothing wrong In all of It except th
Pennsylvania part as to unseating dele
gates In order to oust Guffey. There Is
Just one other thing In connection with
any of It and that Is In Bryan denouncing
political bosslsm, when he is the worst
ever. , .
KING CORN'S BIG SHOW.
Honor and Trlhatea to th Cereal
Monarch Well Deserved.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The national corn exposition promises
to be the largest and best display of th
kind ever made In th United State. It
la scheduled for Omaha during th first
two weeks In December. The management
announces that there will be no less than
5,000 exhibits. The premium awards
amount to about $50,000. Floor space ap
proximating 100,004 square feet has been
secured for tie or- Evfy corn-produc
ing section of our country will be repre
sented in the numerous exhibits. It Is
proposed to show all the uses of the corn
plant and cereal for food and drink for
man and beast.
Corn is the great American cereal. It
has been the mem food plant for families
and their domestic animals ever since th
first discovery of our country. Its produc
tion has Increased year1 after year, and
the demand for It has extended to the ut
termost parts of the earth. The estimate
of the crop, as given by the bureau of
statistics of th Department of Agriculture,
I 1CO.9W.000 acre for the year !(. That
represents en Increase of l.PS.OuO seres
over the preceding yeai. It Is an indi
cation of the great volume of corn re
aulred to supply the demand of the
people for a season.
It is proper that the American people
do homag to the corn crop. No other
plant has the hold upon the people that
corn haa and alwaya will have. It can
be used for so msny purposes that few
housekeepers would know how to get
along without some of the numerous
forms of corn food In the home. It
has assisted in establishing thousands
of fsrms and building as msny home. It
furnishes th furds fof good bank ac
counts and makes the producers inde
pendent. Let the American people meet
together and honor King Corn for Ita
wonderful works In advancing civilisation
and establishing peace and prosperity.
While th Peacemaker la A boat.
Indianapolis News.
The election in Cuba seems to have been
a pretty well managed affair, too. As long
as Uncle' 84m stay around Havana peace,
contentment and prosperity appear to abide
In Cuba. But let him retire; and then what;
Sarar Old Settlers' Flea It.
PAPILLION, Neb.. Aug. 6. (Bpeclal.)
Th Old Settlers' society of Ssrpy county
will hold Its annual plcnlo at Springfield
on August. .30, Th Ashland band and dis
tinguished speakers hav been engaged.'
Th Missouri Paclflo will run a special train
from Omaha In the morning, leaving at 't
o'clock in th evening to return.
THE RICH AND THB POOR
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Attentats ta It raw Political (las
vlth th n-.llnr Mark.
Washington Post. i
There are seven political parties In t hi)
country and every one of them rlilme i"
be the special friend of the poor man.
whom It flatters for his vote and who
will be .told from a thousand stumps this
year that he Is a sorely bes-t and erully
oppressed hewer of wriod and drawer of
water.
But such was the wsy of th demagogue
before Clenn and Oodlus. The fact Is that
every poor boy m America b'raeed w th
gooq health, endowed with good sense
and the owner of a good character Is
certain to succeed as he is to live. Of
millions of prosperous Americans no
HvV
Ing most of them were poor hys. It Is
true of all classes an1 conditions It la as
true In politics as It is In agriculture, and
today most of our successful public men
were poor boys. It la true in law and li
medicine. No doubt s big majoilty of th
American clergy wer poor boys.
only a few days ago w saw a list or
prominent rallrosd president In the United y'
States and nineteen of them wer grad-'
uated from the . aohoola of poverty, self-'
denial, self-reliance and common srn-i
There la little doubt that a large majority
of the bank presidents of this country
began at th bottom. Of th millionaires
a big majority were barn to poverty aid
toll.
Yet It la sought to Srray the poor against
the ilch to separate capital and labor Into
two hostile camps. It would b positive
calamity If either capital or labor adhered
to a single political party and cast Ita
solid vote tor one political ticket, and It la
with the liveliest satisfaction that we dis
cover many very rich men In Mr. Bryan's
camp and Immense numbers of labor nf
men In Mr. Taft's camp.- Capital and la
bor, as such, should keep out of politic.
So should the farmer aa a class. Bo, too,
should the negro. Let every man lnfuim
himself as to things and men political and
choose according to his Judgment and hi
conscience. That was the fortunate polh'V
chang it. ?
Democratic Dodalag
mew i oik tsuii.
The democrats of th Twelfth Ohio dis
trict havs named their candidal for reprs
sentallve In congress and adopted a plat
form which favors "th enactment of laws
which shall accord to all men aocused of
wrongdoing, whether sollder or civilian,
a fair and Impartial trial and an oppor
tunity to be heard before . conviction or
punishment," This veiled reference to
Brownsville and sor to the colored
brother comes , at about the ssme time as
the cry of th . West Virginia democrats
tor a negro dlsenfranchlaement law and
Jim Crow cars. A democratic concordance
la nceded.-
LAUGH1NG GAS.
"I thought you told me you had a ligiu
role In the new piny.''
"So I have."
"Uet out! 'I saw the play last night, and
you're nothing but a 'supe. "
"Maybe, but don't I carry on the lamps?"
Baltimore American.
"O! yes. Dasher and hla brother fell out
out t
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th mher day. and now they don t speak.
"Well, well! Fell out ovsr politics
suppose. - -
"No, out of their automobile while going
at the rat of seventy miles an hour."
Philadelphia Press.
"What they call 'honor' la a mighty cur
ious thing," observed Unqle Jerry Peebles.
"1 know a man who would cheerful!
starve himself to pay a gamblln' debt, and
he atill owea the preacher that married
him twenty-seven years ago." Chicago
Tribune, . ( . . ,. , . .
"My little Willie may never 'be president,
but he'll be a candidate Some day.
"What makes you think thst?'r
"He runs over people with 'his go-csrt
so beautifully." Louisville Courier-Journal,
"I expect to swing for this," as the younn
lady remarked, whose best beau had Jtisl ,
brought her the most Inviting of ham-
mocks. Indianapolis News.
"Our forefathers who framed th con
stitution were men of mighty intelligence. '
"Yes," answered Senator Borghum. "1
am sometimes tempted to believe that they
knew as much about the constitution ai
some of the lawyers who have since Inter
preted It." Washington Star.
Mrs', de Rlcha (showing her home tolra
Windfall! What do vou think of my Venui
de Mllo? V
Mra. Windfall Ain't It a sham how care- I
less servants are! But couldn't you glus '
the arms on again? Puck.
Stella So you and Tom- ar engaged!
Are you sure you really and truly love him?
Mabel Love him! why I never took one
of his presents back to find out what K
cost! Chicago News.
"Pardon me," said the doctor, who waa !
tsklng a downtown luncheon with th pro
fessor; "but why are you cutting your
ateak In that slgzag fashion?"
"I am trying," answered the profesor,
"to follow along Its loin of least resistance.
Chicago Tribune.
THB SONG OP THIS OPTIMIST.
CTho' the weather's piping hot,
Sing and whistle;
Tho' you d 'a lief be dead a not,
Sing and whistle;
Tho' th landscape a one hot blur,
Tho' no welcome breeses stir.
Don't go snarling Ilk a cur,
8ing and whlsUe.
Tho' your shoe are gray with duat,
Sing and whistle;
Tho' your last clean collar's mussed.
Bing ana wnisiie:
Tho' the mosture beads your nose,
Tho' It saturates your clothes, ,
Do not cease to be Jocose,
Sing and whistle.
Tho' you-re wakened In your flat
Blng and whistle ,
By some pugilistic cat,
Blng and whistle;
Tho' the babies In the block
Trest you to sn hourly shock,
Don' turn pessimist and knock,
Blng and whistle.
What tho1 prlma-donna scream
Sing and whistle
Interrupting some sweet dream, .
Blng and whistle;
Tho' some girl st her plsno,
Or some Dago with his "Nino,"
Break upon your rhythmic plan Ob,
Slug and whistle.
Tho' your work seem well nigh wssted
Blng and whistle;
"Lemona" all the fruit you've tasted,
Blng and whistle;
Tho' the powers that re are blind
To the greatness of your mind.
Do not think a thought unkind,
Sing and whistle.
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Differing in
Every Respect '
, Flavoring Vanma
Extracts Si
differ' in every tespect from all
others. They are more uniform, k
more economical, a it require
but a ray quantity tompart thr
desired flavor They are true to
oatures they art made from th
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