THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1908.
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' WHEN OCT OF TOWN.
Babserlbsra leavlaa; tfc city tern
porarlly ataowld have Tha Bee
tailed . t tkent. , Addreaa will be
changed at often mm rqot4.
Judge Parker continues to make a
noise like a 1912 possibility.
Anyway, William Randolph Hearst
Is a cure for political apathy.
Evidently the weather man is no
friend of the umbrella makers.
Chicago proposes to make war on
smells. Society had better reform.
Chicago financiers are all in a stew
over the failure of the Oyster trust.
"Auto-suggestion" is the latest fad.
It is probably an Invention of the go
devil. Creditors are' causing trouble by in
sisting -that the) Oyster trust should
shell out.
i '
. Mr. Bryan is spending more time on
the rear platform than on the Denver
platform.
Philadelphia demands faster street
cars. For the accommodation of
transients?
Democrats might forgive Mr. Hearst
tf he hadn't caught so many of them
With the goods.
Ak-Sar-Deu starts off with splendid
promise and even the weather man
agrees to help out.
"Umbrellas were introduced In
1772," says an exchange. Yes, and
disappeared in the fall of 1908.
I
Emma Goldman is going on a six
months' lecture tour of Australia and
we haven't a thing against Australia, at
that.
"Good bye. Bill, take keer o' yer
Belf," win go on the morning of No
vember 4, regardless of the results at
the polls.
According to Mr. Hearst and s'ome
turt records. Governor Haskell, treas
urer of the democratic national com
mittee, is oil rlfiht.
The government might save a little
money by buying round-trip tickets for
the American soldiers who are to come
home from Cuba In January.
The Standard OH company Insists
that it is nonpartisan. Looks like
It
was trying to be bi-partisan, with prej
udlce In favor of the democrats.
The national debt of Japan is $200,
000,000 larger than that of the United
States, and that's another reason for
postponing the war between the two
nations.
A caller at Oyster Bay tooy away
Mr. President Roosevelt's hat by mis
take. Mr. Bryan might drop in at
Oyster Bay In his effort to get into Mr
Roosevelt's shoes.
On account of the advance In price
this year's corn crop will be worth
about $676,000,000 more than the
crop of 1907. The cornfields refuse
to go democratic.
Mr. Bryan was too tired to reply to
President Roosevelt's letter on Has
kell. The Peerless Leader will prob
ably be even more fatigued before the
Incident Is closed.
"Anybody else to notify?" asks the
Richmond Tlnies-Dlspatch. Sure! Mr
Bryan Is to receive the notification
that usually comes to Mm n the
tuernlug after election.
the rRrswr.yr rn b. rryas.
Mr. Bryan's demand upon President
Roosevelt for information connecting
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, chair
man of Mr. Bryan's resolutions com
mittee at Denver and Mr. Bryan's per
sonal selecflon as treasurer of the dem
ocratic national committee, has been
compiled with. Mr. Bryan wanted cer
tain Information. He has received it,
long with a lot of vastly interesting
Information whirh he did not want. In
the course of his letter to the presi
dent, Mr. Bryan said:
I agree with you that If Oovernor Has
kell la guilty as charged he Is unfit to be
connected with the democratic national
committee, and I am sure you will agree
with me that If he Is Innocent he deserves
to be exonerated from so damning an ac
cusation:
In the light of the record cited by
President Roosevelt, it will be difficult
for Mr. Bryan to convince himself that
Governor Haskell is fit to remain Ju
his high official poRltion in the demo
cratic councils.
The original charges implicating
Governor Haskell with an attempt to
bribe the then attorney general of
Ohio, F. 8. Monnett, In the Interests
of the Standard Oil trust were made
by W. R. Hearst. The charges were
somewhat indefinite, but Governor
Haskell denied them simply by plead
ing a case of mistaken ldenlty. On
the basis of this denial, Mr.' Bryan be
came highly indignant and demanded
proofs. The president's reply is over
whelmingly convincing. He quotes
records instead of rumors, and he
passes up the Ohio case to cite one in
Oklahoma, a case that came into the
courts no later than July of this year,
at the very hour when Governor Has
kell was in Denver framing Mr.
Bryan's antl-corporatlon platform. . .
Briefly summarized, the Oklahoma
case is as follows: The Oklahoma
constitution, alleged to have been
framed largely by Mr. Bryan, ' con
tained a clause prohibiting foreign cor
porations from doing business in the
new state except on compliance with
certain anti-trust provisions of the
constitution. While Mr. Haskell was
in Denver the Prairie Oil and Gas com
pany sought a permit to do business
In the new state. This was refused
and the attorney general of the state,
with the counsel and consent of thp
acting governor, obtained an injunction
in the courts restraining the foreign
gas and oil company from operating
in Oklahoma until it complied with
the provisions of the 'constitution ap
plicable to such corporations. Gov
ernor Haskell, hurrying home from
Denver, appealed to a higher court for
a dissolution of the injunction, alleging
In his petition that he was the sole
authority to determine such matters
and that the action of the attorney
general was "an encroachment by the
Judiciary" upon the prerogatives of
the executive. The governor carried
his point and the Prairie Oil and Gas
company is doing business in Okla
homa, as the nttorney general of the
state puts it, "without the color of
law." ,
Governor Haskell. and his friends
have offered neither defense nor ex
planation of his conduct in that case,
except to assert that the permit was
given to the Prairie Oil and Gas com
pany and not the Standard Oil com
pany. The testimony offered in a case
against the Oil trust In St. Louis less
than a year ago bUowh that the Stand
ard owns all but $500 of the $10,000,-
000 stock of the Prairie Oil and Gas
company.
Whether Governor Haskell had any
connection with the attempt of the
Standard Oil company to bribe the at
torney general of Ohio has nothing to
do with the present case. That ho
acted in the interests of the Standard
Oil company in the Oklahoma case in
July, 1908, using his power as gov
ernor of the state to prevent the at
torney general from doing what he
thought was his sworn duty to do, sup
porting the laws and the constitution
of the state, is proven beyond quibble
or question. It Is a matter of official
record, supplied by the courts and
competent officials, that Governor Has
kell, whatever he may or may not have
done in his checkered career in Ohio,
has been openly seeking to fasten the
fangs of the Standard upon Oklahoma,
going so far as to oppose his attorney
general, who was making an effort to
enforce the state law against the Oil
trust. President Roosevelt has made
it impossible for Mr. Bryan to appeal
to the American people on a moral
issue when his chosen political asso
ciates and advisers are of the Haskell
stripe.
SKUATOR "FiyOY" COKKfBS.
W. J. Conners of Buffalo, who by
one of those strange mutations of poli
tics, all too common in the United
States, has obtained the leadership of
the up-state fortes of New York
democracy, has announced, or rather
served notice, that In the event of a
victory for the democrats in New York,
giving them control of the legislature
on Joint ballot, he will demand as his
measure of reward that he be sent as
successor to Thomas Collier Piatt in
the United States senate.
There is refreshing directness about
"Flngy's" methods. The desires of the
sovereign people cut as little figure In
the consideration as his own qualifica
tions, and on the latter score ho has
no worry. He admits that he may be
a little short on visible biain supply
but he declares that ho does not need
anything in that line, as, using hi
words. "I'm not bothered about brains.
I can buy all I want of 'em for $2 5 -a
week." Neither is "Flngy' bothered
about reasons for his new aspiration
It is Just a whimsical notion that has
popped into his head and he has never
considered the duties and responsibili
ties of the position, nor does he care
about them.
Still, the ambl'lon of ' Fiugj" is BVi
unreasonable, in view of the demo
cratic situation In New York. David
B. Hill has declined endorsement for
the senatorshlp. Judge Parker Is not
available. Bourke Cockran Is out of
the question, owing to factional fights,
and Nornan E. Mack Is neither of
proper ctfllber nor able to secure an
endorsement, while "Flngy" keeps his
grip on the state organization.
"Flngy" would fit Into the situation
nicely. He knows nothing of tariff,
finance, railroad regulation or any of
the Issues before the people. Once in
the senate he would send a page out
and buy him brains on such subjects.
The triumphs of corruption and politi
cal indecency have been so frequent in
New York that the elevation of
"Flngy" Conners to the United States
senate, in ca6e of democratic victory
in November, seems not only logical
but fitting.
NEBRASKA A SD THE RATION'.
For at least twelve years Nebraska
has had a prominent place in national
politics, and the attitude of the par
ties In this state has been of real im
portance in the affairs of the nation.
For this reason the course of the re
publican convention at Lincoln on
Tuesday was watched with much in
terest outside of Nebraska. That it
adopted a platform which Is squarely
in line with the principles enunciated
at Chicago, and which pledges the
party to a continuation of the forward
work that has marked it always is a
source of continued gratification. It
would have been a mistake beyond
measurement for. the republicans of
Nebraska1 to have undertaken to go
beyond the national platform, or the
issues as outlined by the Roosevelt
policies.
At present, no crying evil exists
within Nebraska and no wrong of se
rious importance demands rectifying.
The party is pledged to such cor
rective or remedial legislation as ex
perience shows Is necessary to make
the reform laws passed by the last
legislature more effective and satis
factory in operation. The general
proposition that Nebraska republicans
will, always support the general cause
of social and business advancement is
sufficient for the present needs. This
will include, naturally, close scrutiny
of the banking laws of the state, and
If a measure 1b brought forward that
will secure a better administration of
the fiduciary institutions under state
control, it will be enacted into
law. But what Is true of this la true
in all other records, but the repub
licans of Nebraska do not propose to
allow the democrats of the state to
write their platform nor to dlctato
their policies. Nebraska is following
Roosevelt and Taft and not Bryan.
DR. BRYAN'S LA TEST NOSTRUM.
Far from being discouraged by the
argument of Governor Hughes, show
ing that the Bryan plan for regulating
the trusts would not hold water in any
court in the land, Mr. Bryan has
turned prpmptly from that proposition
and has offered another prescription.
He has a repertory of cures, and If one
does not work he Is ever ready to give
another. In one of his recent ad
dresses, ho proposed an absolutely new
and novel remedy for tho cure of the
trust evil. He said:
No party can consistently claim to be op
posed to the trusts which will allow the
malls of the United States to he used by
the trusts as an agency for the extermina
tion of competition. Congress lias already
exercised this power to exterminate lot
teries. Why not exercise It to make pri
vate monopolies Impossible?
Mr. Bryan does not explain where
he found that prescription, but he
must have gotten It in the course of
his travels abroad, as it sounds sus
piciously like remedies used in Russia,
where' the sanctity of the mails is un
known and private and personal rights
arc ignored by the authorities. The
suggestion is too serious to be dis
missed with a laugh, particularly when
it comes from a man who hopes to be
president of the United States and
whose heart bleeds for the rights of
the people.
There can be no parallel with the
lottery law, cited by Mr. Bryan, be
cause all lotteries were outlawed, as to
the mails, and excluded from the post-
offices, while no such position can be
taken by the government with reference
to the manufacture of iron, matches,
tobacco, oil or any other product. It is
not within the province of. the Post
office department to decide whether a
business concern is too large, or Just
large enough, or whether a corpora
tion is exercising Its legitimate and
natural rights. The federal law pro
hibits the use of the malls for fraudu
lent purposes, but the question of
fraud must be shown and proved and
cannot be left to the discretion of
postal officials. The American people
are not yet ready for the establish
ment of a press censorship or a censor
ship of the mails. The whole sugges
tion is as hopeless as the other Bryan
dreams and fancies which have drifted
off into the mists of the past.
Notice Is hereby served on the peo
pie of Nebraska that the demand of
the democratic platform that Omah
and South Omaha be segregated from
the state does not represent the sentl
nient of these communities. The peo
pie of the metropolitan district of Ne
braska are law-abiding and decline t
be misrepresented by a lot of political
malcontents who are merely throwln
out bait to catch tho thoughtles
voter.
The Omaha double-ender la shout
ing itself hoarse in an effort to de
ceive the people aa to the real issues
of the present campaign. Nebraskans
are not nearly so much interested in
.Mr. Bryan this year as they are i
securing a continuation of a state ad-
I .iiiuistrbtion tliat hue uroved wise, ef
flclent and economical. Governor
Sheldon and his associates at the state
house have handled, the affairs of the
state so ably that they are easily en
titled to the endorsement they are
certain to receive from the voters.
The New York Press declares that
"Mr. Taft was nursed by an old negro
'mammy,' who Is very fond of ash
cake, ham gravy, lye hominy and corn
pone." That's pretty tough on Mr.
Bryan, but he is tongue-tied on the
subject, as the Denver platform falls
to say anything about negro "mam
mies." ash cake, ham gravy or corn
pone.
Henry Gassaway Davis declares that
the democrats cannot carry West Vir
ginia this year. Mr. Davis will be re
membered as the wealthy West Vir
ginian who failed to help Judge
Parker carry that state in 1904, and
Parker Is stronger than Bryan in that
section of the country.
President Roosevelt has lost none
of his ability as a letter writer. It
may be that even the Peerless dodger
will admit this. It seems hardly pos
sible that even one so elusive as the
Peerless could escape all the points
made by the president.
The increase of deposits In state
banks in Nebraska is not an Indica
tion that the prosperous people of the
state are worried excessively over the
safety oftheir funds. The demand
for a state guaranty law Is much more
apparent than real.
"Flngy" Conners wants to succeed
Mr. T. C. Piatt as United States sena
tor from New York. This spoils the
Impression that once prevailed that
any change in senators from New York
would be for the better.
Senator Foraker says that part of
that Standard Oil money was sent to
him for legal services. This may sug
gest to Mr. Bryan an explanation of
that $20,000 sent to Nebraska In 1904
by T. Fortune Ryan.
Mr. Bryan slept peacefully In hla
berth when his special train went
through Washington the other night.
Mr. Bryan's ticket in presidential years
Is always punched for some station
near Washington. .
Not In a great many years has a
democrat been elected to office in
Omaha or Douglas county without re
publican votes. No reason can be
given this year for republicans voting
for a democrat.
A New Jersey policeman who found
a package containing $2,000,000 worth
of Wall street securities returned it
to its owner and, got $1 in real money.
Wall street securities must be increas
ing In value.
In the meantime, Mayor "Jim" is
jumping from fttump to stump through
Illinois, while his faithful followers
at home are secretly sharpening
knives for his good friend Shallenber
ger. Mr. Harrlman says he does not care
who is elected president. In other
words, he is willing to have the cam
paign committees of both parties look
upon him as an undesirable citizen.
Hint ta the Smirched.
St. Louis Times.
Foraker and Haskell will waste time if
(hey attempt to explain. All the people
want from them Is alienee or absolute proof
of Innocence.
A Mission that Failed.
Kansas City Star.
Aa for the Hon. Joe Sibley of Pennsyl
vania he Is able to prove that even If he
did Intercede ta urge the president to stop
the Standard Oil prosecutions, his Inter
cession waa absolutely barren of result.
Overworking- the t hief Recorder.
Washington Post.
If it ever becomes necessary for every
would-be candidate to state how much ho
Is worth and how he got It, the recording
angel will find It n&ccaaury to Increase hla
staff of perjury experts in the shorthand
division.
Idle Money In roMofllees.
Kansas City Star.
Lying In the postofflco In Kansas City
Is the sum of 130O.OM paid In by purchasers
of money orders made payable to the pur
chasers, the payment accompanied by the
customary fees.
If there was a postal savings bank, such
as Is advocated by the republican national
platform and by Mr. Taft, this money, and
doubtless a great deal more, would toe
safely deposited more safely than under
any bank guarantee system and the de
positors would not only be getting a rate of
Interest on their money, but the money
would be kept In circulation.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Partisans President Castro have In re
cent speeches initiated a movement to pro
claim C'aMro president of Venezuela for
life.
The largest onion fry on record was the
burning of that ToO-aore crop at Warsaw,
Ind.. Saturday night. A sight to make one
weep! Mike Donovan, physical trainer, gives out
the reassuring statement that President
Roosevelt was never In better physical con
dition and weighs only 20 pound stripped.
An Arkansas woman somewhat actively
engaged In a feud was wounded fourteen
times before she would quit killing people,
and even then relinquished the task with
regret.
GergB Palmer and wife walked from
Ashcroft, British Columbia, north 350 mile
In a wild country to take up land for
farming purposes, wheeling all the way In
a go-cart their 1-year-old eon.
Mile. Blanche Aroulay, who Is the first
woman to be admitted to practice law In
Algiers, ha Just taken the oath in the
court of appeala. To commemorate the
occasion, the counsel of the bar of Algiers
organised an elaborate ceremony. The
barristers were all present, and tha leader
of the bar made a speech welcoming Mile.
Asoulay to their ranks. Th president. of
the court alao made a apeech of welcome.
Mile. Relder. a prosecuting barrister, was
present by invitation from th bar. She
had just carried off th first prlz at the
general examination of the atudeut In the
low M-lmol of Algieis.
ROIXD A BOl'T SEW TOR K.
Rlpplea on the Current of Lit In h
Metro poll.
Clergymen of Manhattan and surround
ing suburbs have received circulars from
a syndicate of sermon mnkers offering to
supply them with up-to-date sermons for
X cents a week, or $10 a year. The offer
came from the "homlletlc department" of
a New York publishing house, which gives
assurances that tta mechanical equipment
Is equal to any demand for variety, versa
tility, dialect or straight goods. "No
patron," sas the circular, "need fear an
accusation of plagiarism. We sell the
clergyman our work, and he ha a right
to use what he purchased as seems best
to him. The sermons are mailed in New
York every Friday morning In plain sealed
envelopes. They are evange-tcal in tone.
They enable the clergyman to get alung
with fewer homlletlc books and magaa'nos,
and the terms put this unique service
within the reach of the poorest ministers.
We shall not furnish our service to more
than one minister In any given city or
town."
The circular states that the sermons are
prepared by a pastor In active service,
"who understands the grind of the averaKe
pastorate In the direction of sermon mak
ing and who has special ability as a writer
of good sermon material."
Foreclosure sale of the Hotel Gotham on
a third mortgage Judgment for $465,0no se
cured by the Knickerbocker Trust com
pany haa been set for October 13, by or
der of the supreme court. The new man
agement, which took hold of the twenty-one-story
hotel on August 7, will not bj
disturbed by the foreclosure, as the per
manency of Its tenure waa provided for.
The foreclosure Is subject to two prior
liens aggregating $1,950,000, held by the Met
ropolitan LJfe Insurance company. The
fifty-first street company Is the owner of
the property.
The Ootham never has been a auccess in
the three years of Its existence. It was
built by Thomas F. Ryan. James J. Hill,
Thomas C. Platt, Henry I. Goodwin and
the estate of Mark Hanna at the sugges
tion Of the late Frank V. Bennett, Its first
manager. As the Fifth Avenue Presby
terian church was on the northwest corner
of Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth Btreet,
within the statutory limitation of 300 feet,
no liquor license for the hotel could bo
procured and it lost money.
The happiest man In New York Is Adam
Brede, chef in a lunch room. Over twenty
years ago Brede deposited $T0 In the 8 a
mans Bnk for Savings. With a friend
he attended a festival that night, and
when he left the hall he found that both
his friend and his bank book had disap
peared. Last Friday night he encountered
Ms friend, who greeted him effusively and
said:
"Here Is that bank book, Adam. It has
hurt my conscience for twenty years, but
It waa the means of saving my life. After
leaving New York I went to Albany. From
(there I drifted out to San Francisco,
where I started a fruit business. I pros
pered and at the end of eighteen year
was worth about $60,000. I arrived here
last Sunday and have been looking for
you ever since.
He then- handed over the bank book
and $1,000 for Interest.
Gossip by well meaning, but thoughtless,
neighbors and friends is said to have
hastened the death of Mrs. May Rose
Howe and her husband, James Howe, who
died within four day of each other from
heart disease at Corona, Long Island.
For some lime Mr. Howe had been
troubled with heart disease and well tn
tentioned neighbors called on Mrs. Howe
and caused her anxiety by dwelling on
her husband'a malady, notwithstanding!
the physician reported that Mr. f Howe,
who wa 68 years old, waa on the road to
recovery.
Mrs. Howe was In excellent health, but
the gossip of the neighbors wore upon her
to auch an extent that she waa suddenly
stricken with heart disease and died.
The news of his wife's death was kept
from Mr. Howe for several days, when it
was believed he was strong enough ta
stand the ahock. But within a fw min
utes after hearing the news he expired.
On a Broadway car, the other afternoon,
a mite of a gamin struggled aboard the
rear platform with a heavy suitcase. Be
hind him, all smiles, was a Btout woman,
whose atature and rugged build auggeated
her ability to lift a trunk, had ahe been
so minded. As the boy deposited his bur
den on the platform, the woman opened her
purse and took thurefrom not the 5-cent
piece which might have been expected, but
a penny paper of chewing gum, which she
handed to the urchin with much unction.
The boy alighted from the car so dazed
that he could hardly speak, and as the
car rolled away he still stood by the track
gating at it.
"Well, what do you think of that?" said
a male paasenger audibly. And the woman
beamed on hiin with great complacence.
One of the oueer businesses that Interest
visitors to Manhattan Is the "Worm trust"
in West street. You can alway find a
crowd around the little old man who has
been selling fishing worms for 1V4 cents
apiece at the same stand for niteen years
at least. White worms and sandworms,
caught over In Jersey or up In Westchester
maybe, are shipped to him as careiuuy as
if they were the most fragile of Jeweler's
trinket. They are kept in big platters of
wet grasses and taken out to be put In
small pasteboard boxes for customers. Sat
urday afternoon provides a crush at tho
old man'a stand Invariably, the fishermen
being anxious to get bait for their Sunday
fun.
Sleeping quarters entirely out of doors are
not confined to invalids, mcuntain camps,
or hospitals. There are many of them on
top of private houses In New York City.
One such may be seen from Riverside
drive, not far north of One Hundredth
street. It looks like a shed built on the
roof, with side walls only about four feet
high. That Is quite enough to shut off the
view of passersby, but If one should take
a balloon ride over the house he would
see. Inside the breexe-swept enclosure, a
comfortable bed, close to which is a door
leading Into a warmed and thoroughly en
closed dressing room.
The eye of thousands turn daily to look
for the time where they used to get It
from the Fifth Avenue hotel clock In Madi
son Square, and many are the specula
tions as to whether, when the new build
ing Is finished on the old hotel site, the
clock will be replaced.
After Tiffany moved up town from
Union aquare the business firm that moved
into the building found It advantageous to
put out a clock with the firm's own sign
on It to replace the one so long familiar
to travelers when the Jewelers occupied the
building. Many hundreds, if not thousands,
of persons thus were practically fuiced
to read the name of the newer occupant
of the building.
t oarage that Pay.
Kansas City Times.
Judge Taft had no way of knowing what
developments were coming when h re
fused to make any kind of terma with
Senator Foraker. but the result show that
it paya a candidate to have the courage of
hla convictions, even at a seeming sacrifice
of what th -uollticlans tall "hurmnnv."
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Columbus Tribune: Sheldon for Governor,
sounds pretty good.
Btanton Picket: When Mr. Hitchcock,
democratlo candidate for congress in the
second district, gets the returns next No
vember he will probably find himself a
good many votes shy. It doesn't ulways
pay to knife a home candidate, as some
other people may yet find out.
Hlldreth Telescope: Our democratic and
populist friends will find but little encour
agement In returns of the recent primary
elertloq so far as Interest In the campaign
Is shown. With three candidates for gover
nor they polled a much smaller percentage
of their vote than did the republicans with
no contest for governor and a majority of
the other offices on the state ticket.
McCook Tribune: The progressive legisla
tion of recent republican legislatures in
Nebraska should at all hazards be pro
tected and preserved. No backward move
ment should be allowed In the face of the
opposition's ftr. It will be well In thl con
nection for the friends and advocates of
the primary election system to be fore
armed as they have been forewarned.
Beaver City Times Tribune: The reduction
of the Nebraska state dpbt from over
$2,C0O,OOO In 10o5 to less than $50,0flO on July
SI, 1908. Is Indeed "going some" and the
voters will not forget that good manage
ment, economy and business ability of re
publican state officers made this flattering
result possible without making the liquida
tion of tho debt 3 heavy burden to the
taxpayer.
Ord Journal: The Omaha Bee calls. at.
tentlon to the fact that Valley county
democrats have the distinction of being
alone in their opposition to the amend
ment providing for raising the salaries of
the supreme and district court Judges. Not
another county in the state returned a
majority against the Increased cost of the
courts It Is a distinction of which the
Journal Is quite proud. Do other demo
cratic papers approve the amendment or
have they not given the mutter their atten
tion? Alma Record: The democrat editors of
this congressional district have all received
nicely printed Invitations asking them to
attend a political meeting and banquet at
the Hampton hotel In Holdrege, railroad
fare and all expenses paid. The big love
feaat will bo pulled off Saturday and
Candidates Ashton, Roth and several wire
manipulators will be present. This spread
will cost lots of money, however, It Is In
timated by thoso high in authority that
the ensh, supply Is unlimited. Perhaps some
concern has guaranteed a deponit of cam
paign funds, but will the voters be Informed
as to who Is putting up the money? They
should be, as there is a publicity plank In
the platform.
Burt County Herald: We feel like re
joicing over tlie support that we gave the
terminal tax law. The Herald was the
only paper An Burt county that gave the
measure cordial support and we are pleased
with the result of the new law, which
Increased the railroad valuation in the
four towns In ttie county $119.1(10, divide
that amount by five for assessment pur
poses, makes $23,820 more property for
town taxes to be levied on. It Is appor
tioned as follows: Tekamah. $1,671: Crulg,
$3.2S7: Oakland, lit.SOU; Lyons, $6,156. The
two latter were Increased by the new rail
road. Blair has an Increase from $&.T16
to $16,1S, nearly double, for municipal
taxation. Omaha had an increase from
$34,610 to $1S6,"35. a net gain in Omaha of
$1,225. The contention was that the Increased
tax in towns would1 diminish the railroad
tax In the rural school districts, but this
Is not true. The country road and school
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districts have Just the same railroad tax
that they had before on the mileage
basis, but the towns levy municipal , tax
on all railroad property within the cor
porate limits.
Elgin Review: Tha republican party has
named Its candidate fur the. legislature In
every district of the state. A republican
legislature means a great deal more to
Nebraska than a great party victory. It
means progressive .legislation In the Inter
est of the whole people. It mean the per
manent clinching of all the reform meas
ures and the permanent establishment of
all the square deal policies enacted into
law by the last republican body. It means
that progress shall go on In Nebraska and
not be halted by incompetent and reac
tionary democratic control. If means the
people shall rule as the people did rule
in the last session, when every republican
platform promise was redeemed by being
enacted into law.
I. A I GHI.N'GI LINES.
"There's nothing which attract lead llk
a magnet does Iron, Is there, papa?"
"Nothing but an innocent bystander."
Houston Post. "
Rumor came from abroad that an Ameri
can woman had been secretly married to a
printTe.
"Catch a woman keeping such a secret
aa that!" sneered society, rejecting the
rumcr as a canard. -Philadelphia Ledger.
"How's de game, Chlmmle?"
"lie home team's got two men down."
"Say. dat's tough."
"O'wan. One of m is de guy dat made
de home run off us, and de udder one is
de umpire." Puck.
"Colonel," asked tb campaign manager,
"what are the proapects down In your
county?"
"Gosh!" answered the prominent citizen,
"If we don't have ruin pretty aoon ther"
won't be corn enough to keep the blamed
crows from starvln'." Chicago Tribune.
"I always hate to see the ataff poet g.
off on a vacation," said the managing
editor.
"You consider his work valuable to tho
paper?"
"Not at all. But his absence usually
fires all the other near-poets In town with
tho Idea that wo need assistance." Bir
mingham Age-Herald.
"I don't believe In kicking a man when
he is down."
"Of course you don't. It might stimu
late him to get up again." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Angry Customer These shirt aren't
mine. You've brought me some other man's
bundle, and I reckon he's got mine.
Laundryinan It's mighty lucky for ine
you've told me about It. The other man is
tlw one that would do the real klckln'
about It, you know. Chicago Tribune.
l'OOIl WOMAN.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Her husband still Is true to her, and
bravely kind;
A better man than he It would be hard to
find;
Ills reputation is unsmlrched; his neigh,
burs deem
Him worthy of their fullest trust and their
esteem.
Hr children shout with healthy glee, un
blemished, glad;
They play upon the wide, green lawn, but
she Is sad;
An ache Is deep within her heart; with
tear-dimmed eyes
She sits within her rich boudoir alone and
sighs.
Her parents live; her sisters and her broth
ers, too.
Retain their honor, while their cares ar
small and few;
Youth mil! Is hers, and she is possessed of
princely weulth. .
(
Yet saddened and alone she fcitrf a bitter
tear
Hangs on her lashes; all her world Is dark
and drear;
A thousand ugly fancies come to fill her
mind
Her newest gown refuses to. hang right
behind.
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