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THE OMAHA DAILY nEK: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. IOCS. The Omaha Daily Bel POIXDKD BV KDWARD ROSKWATKR. VICTOR ROSKWATKR. EDITOR. Kntered t Omaha pcstofflce class trailer. second- TERM3 OF SIBBCRIPTION: 1i1v Pee (without Sunday), me year..! Pally Urn mid Sunday, one year DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Daily Pee (Including Sunday), per week.. IS? Iailv Bee (without Sunday!, r"r week...l Kvenlng Ree (without Sunday , per week He r.venlng Bee twtlh Sunday), per week. ..1r. R inriay Be. one year IS" esiurriay JW, one year 1 M Address all complaint of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE8: Omaha The Bee Building. houth Omaha Cltv Hall Building. Council Bluff 16 Scott Street. Chicago 4&4S Marquette Hiillrilng. New York-Rooms 1101-1102. -No. 31 Weat Thirty-third Street. VVaahinrton 7 Fourteenth Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and fditorlal matter should be sddressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Onlv J-cent stamps received In payment of mail accnunta. Personal checks, except rn Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. a : (Jeorge R. Tzschurk, treasurer of Tlx Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn. ..ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, 1908, was as follows 1 3,130 1? 38,480 2. .., 36,930 18 36,110 3. . 3O 890 1 iS,070 4 , 35,940 2 II 38,990 S 39,790 21 35,360 35,790 22 36,070 7 36,900 23 35,400 8 36,470 24 36,960 9 35,700 25 36,940 lfl .... 36,630 38,140 11 36,410 27 36,010 13 36,010 28 36,6ao 13 38,930 29 36,460 14 36,070 30 38,600 1$ 35,870 tl 36,180 IK 38,600 Totals ..1,117,000 Less unsold and returned copies. 11,646 Net total 1,103,464 Dally average 36,669 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. i Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to oerore me tnia 1st day or September, 1JU8. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER Notary Public. WHEit out or Town. hacrl ers leavlasr the) elty tesa erarlly ahaald have Thai Be aaalled te tkeaa. Address will he ehaaced as aftea aa reajaeated. "Why la Mr. Sherman called 'Sunny Jim?'" asks a reader. Because of his forceful qualities. City jail prisoners understand that a day or two before the primary la the proper time to beg the mayor'a pardon. T. It. Bevertdge la the name of the new son of Senator and Mra. Bever ldze. Wonder what "T. R." stands forT Tim Woodruff declines to discuss the political situation. lie Is always doing something to increase his popu larity. Mr.' Hearst haa been officially in formed that he la not a democrat, thua confirming one of hlu own growing sua plcions. Help make Omaha day at the State fair a big success and show our Lincoln friends that Omaha Is big In more ways than one. "Why sbouldn t Pennsylvania go democratic in 1908?" aska the Pitta burg Chronicle. Because the repub licans won't let it. The democratic campaign managers are discovering that the laboring men ot the country have lost their taste for embalmed buncombe. . William Shakespeare, a New York la bor leader, has taken laaue with Samuel Uompera, thua adding a dramatic ele ment to the campaign. Mr. Bryan haa a keen sense of humor. He has promised to help John son in his candidacy for re-election aa governor of Minnesota. The independent party will place a complete state ticket in the field in New York, but It nfeed look for no sup port from the Commoner. Six men committed suicide in St Louis to escape the heat. They must have had supreme faith aa to where they were to 6pend their eternity. The New York World is writing edl- torials about "The New Bryan," buttber countries declare that the new the World's old "Map of Bryanlsm" still describes the candidate's situation One ot our candidates for primary nomination has been advertising him self as "not endorsed by any club." We will now find out whether these club endorsements are worth having. Mr. Wattersou says he can not un derstand why democratic editors should refuse to support Mr. Bryan. They are merely following the example set by Mr. Wattersou In 1896 and in 1900. Mabel Oilman Corey Is going to build theater is New York and appear as ft star under her own management. Is that a hint that she is no longer under the management of Mr. Mabel Gilman Corey? The authorities at Chicago are hav ing difficulty tu proving that their prisoner stole $173,000 from the fed eral subtreasury, but they will prob ably punish him anyway, as they have proved that be dealt In cold storage . The suit to compel the Water board to promulgate a flat rate instead of a sliding scale of charges to water con sumers lifts the curtain on another class of troubles in stora for that body But every new law suit makes more fees for the high-priced lawyers. And tha taxpayers foot all the bills ' BEjRST'S chmplwekts to nr.woc HACT. The Iroquois club, a democratic or ganization of San Frsneisto, evidently woke up the wrong passenger when It undertook to read William Randolph Heaist of New York, Boston, Chicago and Pan Francisco out of the demo cratic party. The California tlub sent Mr. Hearst a letter suggesting that as he was opposing the democratic candi date for president he could hardly re gard himself aa a democrat and out of due respect to the proprletiea should withdraw hla name from the club mem bership. Mr. Hearst's reply was prompt, plain and somewhat torrid. Admitting that he Is hardly classing himself aa a democrat, Mr. Hearst re minds the Iroquois club members that he worked hard for the democratic party at one time, cheerfully contrib uted many thoueanda of dollars to party advancement and aa cheerfully suffered much abuse and much Injury because he then believed in the demo cratic party, but does not so believe now. His letter then contlnuea: You Imply, furthermore, that you are democrats, and I cannot help wondering what kind of democrats you think you are. Are you insi democrats, or 1S9 democrats, or 19no democrats, or 1904 democrats, 'or 19H8 democrats? Are you Cleveland demo crats, believing in the tariff reform that we didn't got, and the military suppression of labor unions that we did get? Are you Parker democrats supporting the trusts If they contribute and opposing them If they don't? Are you Bryan democrats, believ ing In free silver sometimes and In gov ernment ownership aometlmea, and In the Initiative and the referendum sometimes? And If you are Bryan democrats and be lieve In these things, do you also believe In a Bryan platform that contains none of these things? Dear friends and brothers of the Iro quois club, you all remember how the de mocracy of free sliver was taught you and how you got Intensely excited over It, and cheered for it and marched for it, and then were Informed that free silver was not true democracy after all, but that public owner ship was. Then you remember how you threw your hats in the air over public ownership an'd worked up an almost hys terical enthusiasm for it, and then were In formed that this wasn't true democracy either, but that the Initiative and referen dum were. Then you' cattie nobly to the front again and affirmed cmdylng devotion to the everlasting principles' of the Initia tive and referendum: but now you have a platform in which there is no free silver. In which there is no public ownership, in which there Is no initiative or referendum, and still you are Informed by the old Dr. Gringle of democracy that only that plat form with the owner's trade-mark pasted on the front and the owner's name blown in the bottle is genuine democracy and that if you don't subscribe to that you will be read out of the democratic party. Only a few yeara ago Mr. Hearst was Mr. Bryan's strongest ally. They were working together, Mr. Bryan for gov ernment ownership and Mr. Hearst for municipal ownership, with an apparent plan of uniting forces after Mr. Hearst had captured the city and Mr. Bryan had caught the rural districts. Mr. Hearst haa at least kept true to his original plan and insists that he still stands squarely upon the principles of the founder of the democratic party and the framer of the Declaration of Independence, while as he says, "the democratic donkey has gone galloping over the political prairie until it is lost to the sight of Its original inherents," and, he adda, "I am not in the race to catch that donkey." This letter would appear to burn the last bridge between Hearst and Bryan, making impossible a union of their forces, without which neither can have any hope of winning a victory in the campaign. B RITA IHS NEW P ATM XT LAW. , Under a new law just effective in Great Britain, foreign patents in that country may be revoked unless the pat ented article is manufactured or the patented process operated in the United Kingdom to an adequate extent. The first effect of the law has been to start new factories in the United Kingdom to manufacture goods heretofore man ufactured elsewhere and sold in Great Britain. English financiers estimate that the operation of the new law will compel the investment of at least $135,000,000 in Great Britain by for eign manufacturers of patented articles who want to protect their rights. It is estimated that no lees than 8,000 pat ents granted to foreigners will be af fected by the new law. The British position on the subject of patents threatens something of a revolution in the manufacturing busl- te"- Holders of patenta taken out in law Is an unjust discrimination and was framed for the selfish promotion of industrial enterprises in Great Brit ain and is in violation of every prin ciple of the international patent laws and agreements. United States Com missioner of Patents Moore predicts that a majority of the countries be longing to the International Patent union will enter a protest against the British law and recommend to the of ficial congress to be held next year In Washington a retaliatory combination, whereby Great Britain must either be come a party to their agreement or be excluded from Its benefits. AO CHISESK J LLJaSCE. Mr. Taft's assertion that there could be no alliance of the offensive and de fensive sort betwaen the United States and China has been strengthened by a statement from President Roosevelt, sfter a conference at Oyster Bay with the president of an American college in China, to the effect that the matter has never been considered by the ad ministration. Presideat Richards of the American college at Wu-chang, China, is reported to have declared that "there la absolutely no sentiment in China Id favor of it." This authoritative and direct state ment from the president and the next president should be sufficient to end the agitation started by a New York paper tor an alliauce with China for mutual protection against Japanese ag gression In the Pacific. There is abso lutely no general sentiment In the L'nlted States for such an alliance with China or any other foreign country. Even If there were danger of a war between this country and Japan, which there is not, no one has undertaken to explain how an alliance with China would help the United States. The pro posed alliance would simply add new duties to this country In Asia without proving of any help nearer home. The attitude of the. United States In China is plain. We are 'in a way pledged to maintain the integrity of the Chinese empire and prevent its ex ploitation by those who have been hov ering like vultures near the empire for generations. This part of our duty in Asia can be discharged without enter ing Into partnership with China or any other power. America's prestige abroad Is largely due to the result of dealing with all without discrimination and avoiding "entangling alliances.". No benefits offered by an alliance with China would pay for the loss of this prestige. "iMl DEAR PjIBRl," "My Dear Parry" Ms the beginning of a letter written by Vice Presidential Candidate Kern and just given out to the public prints in connection with its anawer. The letter to "My Dear Parry" relates to alleged intimidation of employee by employera and the an awer sldestepa to the question of tariff revision, but that la neither here nor there. "My Dear Parry" shows the chummy relations existing between Mr. Bryan'8 running mate and the former head of the Manufacturers' as sociation, who was placarded in every trades union in the country aa the most open and odious enemy of organ ized labor. "My Dear Parry" is supposed to be a republican, but even so, he is so close to Kern that he is willing to ad mit that "as for Mr. Kern's possible election being a menace to business it is positively absurd." And so long aa Kern la hooked up with Bryan with a chance to become president in case of a ml8hap to hi8 chief, "My Dear Parry" la not even afraid of Bryan's occupancy of the White House and is confident that Mr. Parry will at least be closer to the throne than Mr. Gom- pera. The ' My Dear Parry" letter ought to open the eyea of the real friends of union labor to the bunco game that the democrats are trying to play in order to lure the labor vote to Bryan and Kern. It Is not out of any sincere be lief in the Injunction planks that they were inserted in the Denver platform, but simply as a bait for votes and the familiarity with which Mr. Kern ad dresses "My Dear Parry" proves that the democratic candidates are eager to. keep in close touch with the very men who have been fighting the labor unions the hardest. It is votes that Mr. Kern wants for himself and Bryan and he thinks he can fool the Parry ites and the unionists nt the same time. The democrats are noisily demand ing direct popular election of United States senators, but when the repub licans of Iowa prepare to let the voters express their preference to fill the Alli son vacancy our local democratic organ enters lemonstrance becauae the pro posed plan docs not permit the demo crats to cross over into the republican column. It is hard to please the over zealous democratic partisan. The school district of Omaha has just had bonds to the amount ot $250, 000 registered with the state auditor. The next time the school district has a bond Issue to dispose of it ought to be able to find a market with the state school fund, and will in case the pend ing constitutional amendment permit ting such investments on the part of the state should be ratified at the No vember election. And now we are told by our demo cratlc contemporary that the editor of The Bee "has been card Indexed and catalogued." That's something that could not be done with the congress man-editor of the World-Herald, who has never been found in the same place twice in succession. In an address at Danville, 111., last January Mr. Bryan said: Tl ere is not a plank laid down at Chicago In 1696 that la not stronger now, and there is not a plank In the republican platform of that year th.it la not weaker. According to that 16 to 1 is still the paramount issue with Mr. Bryan It Mayor Jim falls down in his race for the governorship he will know what to charge it up to. It will be due to his unprofessional conduct in exchang ing hir broncho for a red devil wagon. No real cowboy would be guilty of a thing like that. "Colonel Guffey has always been a true democrat," says Chairman Nor man E. Muck. It is too bad Mr. Mack did not tell Mr. Bryan that before the Denver convention put the brand of shame on the Pennsylvania colonel. "The democrats ought to have a fighting chance in Illinois," says Mr Bryan. That's msking a concession to the republicans, as a few weeks ago Mr. Bryan declared the democrats were certain to carry Illinois. It was only two years ago that Mr Bryan declared in a speech at Madison Square Garden, New York. "I favor the government ownership of trunk lines and state ownership of the branch railroads." Mr. Bryan said that the demo cratic platform demand that trusts con trolling 25 per cent of any commodity be required to take out a license would not require "more than 1 per cent of the corporations to take out a license under this plan possibly not one-half Of 1 per cent." The trust monster ap pears to have suddenly shrtink Into comparative Insignificance. Urrmt Bodies Move Slowly. Philadelphia Tress. The rut In meat prices has raue,l con siderable exclsement in the west, but there, has been no reduction down this way to startle anyone. A latrhlna Idea. Boston Transcript. St. Joseph, Mo.. Portland. Ore.. Sioux Falls. S. D., and Omaha and Memphis are all heading toward government by com mission. It seems to be catching. When Mayor Jim Will Shine. Chicago Tribune. Omaha Is to have a corn carnival. Mayor Dahlman will contribute to the success of the affair by appearing dally In his great act of lassoing the tallest cornstalks that can be found In Nebraska. The Square Deal. Kansas City Star. Theodore Shonts pledges himself to the support of Taft, who, he says, stands for a square deal in the regulation of railroads. That la all that the people want, and It Is all that the railroads ought to want. Government regulation of railroads is the policy proposed by Roosevelt and Taft to forestall government operation of rail roads. Watching; for the Pieces. Springfield Republican. It is clear that all of the small parties wish to see the democratic party annihi lated so that they may snatch up as much of the wreckage as possible. This is the hope of Hearst; It Is the hope of the so cialists, and the prohibitionists .would ex prct to profit in the south especially. It the old democratic party is to die, now may be the fitting time, but who could foresee accurately the character of Its successor? Traits and Treat Boating. Philadelphia Ledger. Ill fortune has attended Mr. Jamel Kerr's laudable desire to liberate the democrats of Pennsylvania from corpora tion Influence and to lead them in the great battle against predatory wealth ever since the Bryan steam roller at Denver crushed out Colonel Guffey and put Mr. Kerr in his place. Guffoy's offense. In the Bryanlte mind, Was in his friendly rela tions with corporations and trusts, which disqualified him for the councils of a trust- breaking candidate. The Inopportune re ceivership for the Pennsylvania Coal and COke company draws painful attention tJ the fact that Mr. Kerr Is not merely as sociated with trusts, but is himself the head of a trust of particularly obnoxious character. If there Is any octopus more abhorrent than another it is a coal trust. It is in that form that Kerr Is now re vealed. Best Type of Lawyer. Chicago Tribune. Wads H. Ellis, the attorney general of Ohio, a vigilant and untiring public of ficial, has been removed to a broader field of usefulness. He has been appointed as sistant to the attorney general of the United States. Mr. Ellis is a type of the new, vigorous, sort of lawyer who Is de voting himself to the activities of public life and who prefers to gain eminence in his profession while serving the people rather than "serving individual clients. It s Indeed refreshing to observe the emer gence here and there of public-spirited lawyers of ihe kind the country used to have. Such 'men as ' Mr. Ellis, who de vote themselves to the enforcement of the aws, do not reap the rich pecuniary re wards enjoyed by those able members of the legal profession ' who Instruct their clients in the art of evading laws, but they will gain a more enduring fame. SITt'ATlOM IN THE WEST. Bapremary of the Policy of the are Deal. Cincinnati Enquirer (Ind. dem.). News from the west, from all the country west of the Ohio river, gives ample evi dence that in every state of that vast re gion the republican party has divorced Itself from the element In Its ranks that opposed or failed to heartily approve of the policies of President Roosevelt. What has been termed radicalism is now the orthodox faith In each of the slates of that section), and the national convention indorsement ot the administration and Its policies Is rapidly being ratified by the party In county, district and state prl maries. The anti-Roosevelt forces of the country today in no slate of the union have any political standing or hold upon the voters of the party. The bold utterances, the loud criticisms, the abuse and revllirogs by politicians and representatives of business interests, have suddenly ceased as against those policies, backed aa they now are by the party's candidate, the party indorsement, popular approval, magnificent crops and a renewal of prosperity. Western republicans have mot forgotten the pioneer's security from the sweeping flames of a prairie fire was to kindle an other that the wind might send K swirling ahead to clear a refuge, leaving nothing for the approaching blaze to feed upon. They seem to have put this into political practice through the west. It is the same play of politics that saved the democratic organization In 18S, when the storm of popular antagonism to tha second Cleveland administration and swept In 1833, 1SS4 and 1896 nearly every state In the union In populism or republicanism. This may save the west now to the repub licans. The men run over by the partv machine will remain loyal to their party. They may be today as little Influences In party rule as the gold democrats iu lh In their parly, but, unlike the gold demo crats, they will organise no bolt, but in doubtful states and secure states will vote the Taft electoral ticket. With Briatow's interpretation of republi can doctrines in Kansas; Cummins starvdin for Roosevelt policies in Iuwa; LaFollette's teachings upheld as party faith in Wiscon sin; the Lincoln-Roosevelt league active in California; the personal staff of Mr. Taft standing solidly for the same policies and teaching of Ohio, there certainly eejns to be no reason for any radical republican to leave the party, and there is no sanctuary open for conservative republicans that of fers better protection than the reconstruc ted old home. It is difficult for an onlooker to aee how the democrats can gain republican voles in the west under these conditions. Theli chance waa there three months ago. but the republicans' new alignment surely Is now a barrier. Mr. Bryan can offer no greater Induce ments than are now offered upon the bar gain counter of the republican party In the west. Not an Important radical republican leader haa boiled bis party. Why should mT under such favorable conditions to radi cal ideas? Not an Important conservative republican leave, for all other doors are closed to him. It does not look so favorable to the demo crats In the west as it did one month ago, a. fortnight ago er a week ago. Tha past few days the western republicans lecm lo have corralled their vultia. MR. I.KWI AM MR. BRYAN. Helen In the atare of Card from the Former. Human Life for September. Two numbers back In this magasine, I apnke blographlially of Mr. Rryan. I said his earliest Washington appearance "was In November, 1W note Ihe date and that lie made his congressional debut when he entered the democratic caucus to assist In selecting the party's candidate fir speaker. There were Messrs. Mills and Crisp, and McMillan, and Hatch and Springer In the caucus lists. The battle began: Mr. Bryan votlr. for Mr. Springer. The war raged for ; hours, ballot on the hocks of ballot. Mr. Hatch withdrew in favor of Mr. Crisp. Mr. Crisp won in the last of It over Mr. Mills by two votes. I think. As related. Mr. Bryan voted In the be- I ginning for Mr. Springer. After Mr. Sprii,ger withdrew, he still voted for Mr Springer. That gentleman himself was out of the race, and on the' caucus floor, vot ing for Mr. Crisp. Yet to the final roll call which gave victory by a meagre brace of votes to Mr. Crisp. Mr. Bryan went wast ing his vote. Later, when asked why he thus threw himself away In a contest where the second office of government was at bay, Mr. Bryan gave as his reason Messrs. Mills and Crisp were ex-confederates, and that he, Mr. Bryan, didn't care for the record of having supported any gentleman thus dis tinguished. In short, Mr. Bryan, to dodge what he thought to be a danger, threw away his vote. 'The caucus rolls will show," I said. "If they be lost, then the files of that day's newspapers will show. Mr. Bryan's excuse was tha confederate past of Messrs. Mills and Crisp. If ho contradict the latter state ment, let him give the true reason,. Let him tell why he wssted his vote, in an hour pregnant of prealdenciea and party issue and many giant public things beside." That, in word and substance, was what I printed. Among others It seems to have excited, a certain gentleman, name un known because suppressed, in Greenville, S. C. This anonymous gentlemam, carefully fixing the caucus aa one held in 1894 when there was no caucus, and couldn t have been a caucus and avoiding "1891," the date had given, wrote Mr. Bryan asking If the talo were true, courteously saying at the same time that he "did not believe it" as if his belief could by any possibility have become Important. Thereupon, Mr. Bryan with fine strategy. put forward The Commoner, his paper, which writing through "J. R. Farrls. Supt.." spoke via the United States mails as follows: LINCOLN. Neb.. .Tulv fi. 1908. Dear Sir: Your kind favor of June 30. directed to Mr. W. .1. Rrvun. received. While It Is impos sible for him to make personal reply, owing to the press of work, I beg to say on nis behalf that the charge which you mention has been answered several times. Mr. Bryan voted fr Mr. Crisp three times once In the caucus and twice on roll call In the house. He voted for Congressman Springer In the house, but he did not refuse to vote for Mr. Crisp because ho was a confederate, he voted for Mr. Springer because he lived In his district and because no Knew nun Wl Onrlnmr vnlrd for Mr. Cl'IsO in the caucus and he became chairman of resolu- Mr. Brvan not only voted for Mr. Crisp, but in 1193 he voted for an ex-confederate for postmaster; Mr. J. D. Calhoun was the man and he now lives at Tampa. Hi. He was willing to have an ex-confederate run with him In 1R9. and he has on num nrnalnnn stated that no question of a man s position In the war between the states will be raised at inn nine. uui. truly, The Commoner, Uy J. K. arris, ouperiuiriiurui. This stuff, by The Commoner through its well Informed "8upt." Mr. arris, is hu full of foollnh errors as to be hardly worth attention. Mr. Farrls. you observe, explains laboriously that Mr. Bryan voted for Mr. Springer "because be lived In his district" when one was from Nebraska and the other from Illinois providing the cheerful inference that one district at least possessed tho house advantage of two rep resentatives. He then adds the unusual piece of news that Mr. Springer was made chairman of resolutions, whatever that may mean. At a lime ana piace, ioo, wnen there were no resolutions and no committee thereon. The well Informed Mr. F continuing for The Commoner, then vouchsafes the in teresting Information that In 1893 Mr. llrvan "voted for an ex-confederate for postmaster," and so sets the world won dering when the office of postmaster be came elective. However, poking about in this rubbish of misstatement and misinformation, it Is clear that It may be taken to be the manner in which Mr. Bryan chooses to meet the charge I made. That much true, let me offer a plain statement In return. Mr. Crisp was speaker twice. He was selected as the caucus candidate, and sub sequently elected speaker of the house. In mi and M3. In the latter year, he had In caucua no opposition. He was selected by acclama tlon, and Mr. Bryan, under those less fear Inspiring circumstances, may have voted for him. I think this the more likely, since, the nomination being by acclama tion, there would be no roll-call and no record. But in the caucus ot 1891, the first cau cus that selected Mr. Crisp, Mr. Bryan did not vole for him. From first to last he wasted his vote on Mr. Springer, who In the latter half of the 'contest had with drawn, was not before the caucus as a can didate, and was himself on the caucus floor voting for Mr. Crisp. When 1 asked Mr. Bryan, perhaps two months later, why he thus threw away his chance, he said: "Did it ever occur to you that both Mr. Mills and Mr. Crisp were ex-confederates?'' "Wlrat of that?" I replied. "What differ ence should that make?" "It might make a good deal of differ ence," Mr. Bryan returned, "in the country I come from. 1 don't know as I care to go back, and face an old soldier element along the rialte. with the record of having voted for an ex-confederate." That was the, way he put it, spirit, sub stance and phrase. And now to you of Greenville or any where else1 who are Interested: Why don't you go about your Investigations in a half-wise way? Oft the caucus lolls, the rolls for ISM; not those for 1894 when there Wasn't any caucus. If you csn't get the caucus rolls. Imve the files of such nai.TS as l lie New York World, or the Washington Tost or Star examined. "When you find as you will that Mr. Bryan. In that caucus of 1891. wssted his vote on Mr. Bpringer wasted It to the final roll call wasted It when Mr. Springer was not a candidate auk lilin. If he says the ex-( .-onfedcrate pasts of Messrs. Mills and Crisp were not the reason of such waste to tell you the real reason. He must have had some reason for throwing away his vote, when a house gavel was being dis posed of by a majority of two. Folk don't throw away their votes for fun, or through mere caprice, or In a spirit of airy face tlousnes. Therefore, have Mr. Bryan tell you why lie crawled out on the Springer limb and remained there throughout that caucus fight of 1531. Mr. Bryan eays. or rather the very lucid Mr. Farrls saya for him, that he "voted for Mr. Crisp three times once in caucua and twice on roll call In the house." Of course he voted for Mr. Crisp In the house; every democrat did; the vote was a formality. Of course he voted for Mr. , Crity twice in the house once in 1891 and again In 19J. Of course he voted for Mr. Crisp In caucus: It waa that caucus which did the trk-g by acclamation, the caucus or Observe the veracious albeit muddled Mr. Farrls only speaks of "once In the caucus." And yet. If Mr. Bryan voted for Mr. Crisp twice or roll call In the house, there must have been two raucuaea; since It only take one roll call of the house to choose a Speaker, sfter the caucus has set tled upon the name. Wliat was Mr. Bryan a action In the other Crisp caucus? Mr. Farrls doesn't say. Let me say It for him, repeating what 1 wrote before: Mr. Bryan in the other Crisp caucus, the caucus of ISM, threw away his vote on one who waan t a candi date, refraining from supporting Mr. Crisp or Mr. Mills the only two In the fight on the grounds, as he himself gave out, that "he dldn t care to face an oin soldier element along the Platte, with the record of having voted for an ex-confeder ate." In conclusion let me add that, personally. I care very little about this matter. I wouldn't cross the street to elect or defeat Mr. Bryan. As a newspaper man, I have been trained to remember events. As a politician. Mr. Bryan has been trained to forget them, and to hope that others will forget them. In every ease wherein they carry peril. Also, at the time Mr. Bryan for an ex- confederate reason behaved so cautiously, you are not to forget that the frontiers of his ambitions, and per Incident his hopes and fears, were the boundaries of that district "along the Tlatte." The presi dency was an after thought-long after. In 1891 he couldn't foresee whst would be his needs In 190. Wherefore, he did as he always has done. Is doing, and slways will do trimmed his sail to match the breeze of the moment, to the end that his craft be neither retarded nor eapslsed. ALFRED HKNRY LEWIS. CAST THEY LIVE IT TO IT Code of Ethlrs for Lawyers, hnt What's the I sef New York Evening rtst. The American Bar association, In session at Seattle, has adopted an elaborate code of ethics. If every practitioner lived up to it our lawyers would be stricter moralists than our clergy. That Is too much to ex pect, but If a serious effort were made by local bar associations to enforce the pro visions of the code the standing of the pro fession would be vastly Improved. Among laymen there is a strong Impression that lawyers form a sort of guild and. like the Roman augurs, wink when they meet each other. It Is a fact that few bar associ ations .ire zealous In the disagreeable task of pressing for the disbarment of shysters and of those who. however great their at tainments, are tricky end even down-right dishonest. In tl Is city, for example, tha evidence against a lawyer must be over whelming before his brother lawyers will move against him. We cannot forget that Justice Deuel is still an honored member of the confraternity. Lawyers will freely tell you In private conversation that every body knows Smith or Jones to be a thor ough rascal, but In general the grievance committee must be prodded long and vigor ously before they will net. One reason Is that some of the ablest, the most suc cessful, and the most Influential lawyers are themselves wholly unprincipled. It Is their chief business to tell wealthy clients how to keep the law in the letter and break It In the spirit. They may become such powers in finance and politics that to op pose them or bring them to book Is haz ardous business. But It Is well to have the principles which should guide a lawyer clearly formulated. PERSONAL NOTES, A professional swindler of lawyers in Pennsylvania has been caught and not a single one of the profession has volunteered to build him a case of crazlneBs. Rockefeller's autobiography Is to be pub lished In several languages, but for candid expressions concerning tho distinguished citizen English will remain the vehicle. "Marry a bright woman for success, a pretty one for pleasure, a cook for happi ness." writes a student of the problem. Brlgham Young had something like this In mind when he began business, but Brighsm Is dead. A Denver man engaged a detective to shadow" his wife while a suit for di vorce was pending. As a result of the suit, the man settled upon hla divorced wife a beautiful home and W0CO in cash. She then married the detective, and the couple are said to be very happy. The dean of the Massachusetts bar is Hon. Jonathan White of Brockton. He took his usual daily walk on h's 89th birth day In spite of the falling rain, and then talked to the repoiters. "Forty years ago," he said, "we dealt with the written rather than the unwritten law, and there was none ot this brainstorm business." At last an effective way to break up charivari partlea has been discovered. The millionaire Nevada mine owner, George Wlngfleld, Is the discoverer. All that Is necessary Is to scatter a few hundred silver dollars among the serenaders and watch them throw away their tomtoms and scrumble for the coin. Marrying couples in rural districts will take note. Sir Richard Bethel, afterward Lord Westbury, with a suavo voice and a stately manner, nevertheless had a way of bearing down the foe with almost savage wit. Once, In court, he had to follow a bar rister who had delivered his remarks In very loud tones. "Now that the noise in court has subsided," murmured Bethell, "i w 111 tell your honor in two sentences the gist of the case." PIMO WAR NOW ON A. Dospe's Price Lctting-Down Astonishes the Piano Purchaser Come Early and Get Best Selection For 10 days we expect to clean out fifty Pianos at less than competition offers. Don't buy until you have seen our immense let down figures. A few good ones herewith: $300 Upright Piano, mshogsny. 1400 Upright Plsno, oak, new f!7b Upright Plsno. wamut, new $750 Orsnd Piano, mahogany, slightly used $1,000 Player Piano, mshogsny, slightly used $360 Upright Piano, mahogany, new $00 Grand Square Piano, rosewood, used $400 Upright Piano, walnut, used $460 Upright Piano, walnut, used $$7$ Upright Plans, mahogany, t:std $10 SENDS" A PIANO HOME $10. $1.00 and up per month psys for It. Scores and scores of Vi9T ms-ntinnad hov are yon can't call, wnte or call a. hospe co;, mm- CURED ITCHING, i PAIHFUL HUMOEvS - a . t Which had Spread Over Face, Body j nd Arms -Swellings were as j Large as a Dollar When they . Broke, Sores woufd Not Heal , Suffered 3 Years L . p MADE SOUND AND WELL 1 BY 3 SETS OF CUTICURU "Mt trouble began about thre 7wV Ago with little black swellings sosttemxj, over my facw and neck. They wouM C disappear but they would leave little I Mac scars tnat would lien at time so I couldn't kep from scratching them. Larger swellings would appear In the same place and they were so painful I eonld hardly besr It snd rof clothes would stick to the sores. The first doctor I went to said the disease was scrofula, but tha trouble only got worse and spread. Bjr this time it waa all over my arms and the upper part of nif bod- In big swellings as large as a dollar. It waa so painful that I could not hear to lie on mr back at night. The second doctor pronounced my diseeae inflam mation of the lymphatic glands. Ha stopped the swellings, but when ther woufd break the places would not heal. He tried everything that he could but to no effect. He said I might be cured but it would take a long time. I bought a set of the Cut icura Remedies and used them according to directions and in less than a week some of the places were nearly well. 1 oontinued with the Cuti cura Remedies until 1 had used three sets, and now I am sound and well. The disease lasted three rears from the time it oommenoed until J was cured. Before Christmas something broke 011 on my seven year old brother's hand- In the form of large sore. I tried ever v C thing I could think of but to no effect I', i Until I happened to think of Cuticura' t ana one application curea him. as not long ago, tnr slater got a bad burn on her ankle. I hare been using Cuti cura on that and it gave her scarcely any trouble. O. L. Wilson, Puryear. Tenn., Feb. 8, 1908." Warm baths with Cuttoura Soap, gen tle anointings with Outicura Ointment snd mild doses of Cuticura Pills, afford Immediate relief and point to. a speedy cure of torturing, disfiguring humors of the skin, scalp and blood of infante, children and adults, when all else fails. Cttttenm Snap (ZSe.) to Caut the Skis. CntCrai Mwsnl frO.) tu RmI the Sim snd rullmrs RoolnBt Cooe.t. Cr tn th to nil at Chocolate Oostrd rills. ft Tlsl of SO) to Purlfr th Blood. Sold thfoqfWrf to world, Pettar Drug a CbMu. Corp, lots Prow.. Bntoii. mih. sarif sited fret, Caucus Beak oa Bala DUiiim I.Al'OHI.NG OAS, "What do you understand by 'reciprocal's lnsnity7 "Why. It'e one of the cases that Is rmtj quite complete unless the Jury goes crazy, too." Philadelphia Ledsor. "I think I'll" run for governor of Indiana.'' "Can you get the poet vote?" "I can." "Then the nomination Is yours." Louis ville Courier-Journal. Teas I think I'm entitled to a Crnrlr medal. I saved a life the other ever.ing. Jess The Idea! Whose? Tees Jack Manson's; he said he rnuldn'ij live without me. Philadelphia Press. Suitor Sir, I want to marry your daugh ter. Parent Can you support her In the sly' I to which she has been accustomed : Suitor If 1 couldn't do better than tin I'd be ashamed to ask her. HMlim r American. "He said he felt greatly rncouraned' cause you turned the gas down low wh. he waa calllnar on vou." "Well, he needn't feel encouraged. I takes a dark room to develop a ncgatlv) you know." Indianapolis News. Uncle Allen Sparks was returning glooniiiyf from the funeral of an acquaintance. "Well," he aald, hrlBhterjing vlslblv a fiery' a period of profound thought, "hls-to" a useful one. after all. He ones ' planted a i tree." Chicago Tribune. "80 you don't think much of those air ships?" y "No, air, answerer! r armer t. ornic "You see, I've got all my "rangeincnls 1 to run for sheriff. Chauffeurs Ik enough. I don't want folks to expec' to sit on the edge of a cloud to keep t tr.ru from vlolatin' the sneed ICEEclatio -Wmhlndon filar. V FATIIKH, DEAR FATIIUIt I f Judge. 1 Futher. dear father, come home wttli mi j now, I The clock on the dashboard strikes one: r D0.1t fuss with the car any longer, pupah.. You can't get the old tub to run'. The cylinder's cracked and the timer won't; work, And mother's been waiting since tea, So tether I lie car to a post, fullier near, 5 And come home on the trolley with nie! Come home, conic lmrai elc. Father, dear father, come home with me I now. Tl(e speed meter clock's striking two! The nltriit has grown colder, the Ivur tl'e's t flat And mamma may fret about you, The rani-shaft is twlxtcd, I hp pump's out J or gear; ,1 Fcrliapn before morning slrill d.uvn if i Ma may urow real angiy and waul a 0i f vorce ' 1 I Conw quickly, or she may h" gone! f Come home, come home etc. I Father, dear father, come homo wlih mi f now, f i'hc clock's striking three it's struck 1 out! n't fool any more with magnet) mid Tl Do lull. y The wires have grounded ro dxiiht' The child's plea was answered ihe answer $ was short, Which the night winds repeat as Ihcy v roam; The gas tank exploded some noise und fome smoke. And father and daughter blew home! We're home, we're homo: etc. new $165.00 $245.00 &145.00 t 490.00 525.0O $io.oo ?45.00 50.00 each bargains, besides readv for vnnr 5n - --- j in. Z 105 JLK 'i t i
