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THE - I'.EK: OMAHA, FIJI DAY, FKDKUAKV 17. 1011. Tin; omaha Daily uek FurNDKD BY tCDW A flL Fl'ISF.WATf It. VICTUR ROSKWATtR. El'ITOH. V.ntfred at Omaha poetnfflce e eecond- ciaea mailer. TKRMS Of Sfn.TRffTION: Pundac P", one yar.. I? V aturdav ntif trnr tl SD Pally He (withoni F.intlavt. one vir-M flly llee and Sunday, on year $1.00 iEUVKRi;r) t.y I'ARiurn. Kvenlng Ree fwlthout Hitndayl. per week o E enlnrr Bee (with 8um.avi. per week . . .in? Dallv Be. :inclnrlm Kunday). per wrik..l Daliv P.ee (without n undm i. per wcrk...loc Addrs all cnmplslms of trrc gulsrtfirs In d-llvery to flty I'lreuhiiton Department. HFFHTH. i miaha The Bee Building. Ho'jth Omaha-? N. Twr ntv-fnurlh Si. Council lltiffeIK rntt P1ret lnroln M Utile Building Chicago 1M Marquette. Building. Kansas City Reliance Rtillillng. N'W York : Wet T!:lrt v-thlrd Ptrert Washington T2 Fourteenth Ktroet. N. W. CORRKSI'OMiEXCK. 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One of the difficult things to decide Is whether to take next summer's vaca tion trip this winter. The "city beautiful" and hideous billboards disfiguring the principal streets ao not go together.' The University of Nebraska will Im port Its foot ball coach from Yale. No patronize home industry rule governs on the foot ball field. From the way quick action was had on the reciprocity bill tha new rules of the house seem to be just aa expedi tious as the old rulea. Champ Clark ought to explain, every time he begins to make a speech, whether he wants what he says to be taken seriously or not. Conceding that the tireless cooker may be all right, still the tireless furnace Is an exasperating annoyance at this season of the year. If she does , not show up soon Dorothy Arnold will be in the Willie Whltla class by being discovered In every city on the continent. The Mexican revolution may be written down a failure ao far because It has not given ua a single war corre spondent of the ft rat magnitude. It la to be hoped George- Gould's retirement from the Missouri Pacific presidency will not affect the Inter national matrimonial market Injuri ously. Our old friend "Jim" Hill la out publicly for Canadian reciprocity. The agreement ought to be ratified If only to make Mr. Hill take a more roseate view of the future. The National Piano Manufacturers' Association of America Is In session In Chicago with more than 1,000 mem bers and camp followers In attendance. Harmony or discord? King George might help pay ex penses tor bis coming coronation from a new and untouched source of revenue by aubletting aviation privileges over the route of the royal procession. With so many statesmen eager to throw the constitution Into the discard It ta not strange that a play for notor iety should be made by calling the Declaration of Independence "historic garbage." preparations for the banquet to cele brate Mr. Bryan's birthday are going forward. We would wager that we could name at least ten distinguished democrats of national reputation who will not be Invited. That Danville grand jury seams to be able to get along just as well with out the aid of a prosecutor. Which goes to show that under certain condi tions the helpful prosecutor 1a a hin drance to the finding Of true bills. Omaha has furnlahed presidents for a number of big railroads, and all of them have made good. A requisition on Omaha from the Missouri Pacinc for a suitable successor to Prealdent George Gould could be easily honored. The railway mll service unrest baa been allayed by adjustment of the complaints of the men by the postal authorities. This will be sad news to political agitators' trying to keep the controversy stirred up to make polit ical capital out of it. The rtal puxsle ta to devise an In itiative and referendum scheme that will enable the people to get good laws lu defiance of the "special Inter ests'' without enabling the "special Interests," to obstruct or defeat laws objectionable to them. Reciprocity in the Senate. The fate of the agreement for reci procity with Canada now turn upon the action of the senate on the blli, ' which has passed tho house by such h decisive nia'orlty. The overwhelming. i preponderance In favor of the measure ! recorded In the house cannot fail to .exercise a powerful Influence upon the ! senate, and yet It la well known that i !the reposition to reciprocity is much more strongly entrenched In the upper j branch of congress, and, furthermore. , enjoys there parliamentary advantages jfor obstructive tactics which do not prevail In the low er house. It is known, too, that while the democrats In the house were unanimous in carry ing out their caucus decree for reci procity no such unanimity or party discipline, exists among democratic members of the senate, and the demo cratic side on the final vote may be expected to be as badly divided as the republican aide. In one respect, at all event, the prealdent has made a tactical stroke In so arranging' the reciprocity agree ment that It may be put Into effect ; by the enactment of legislation rather than making It in the form of a treaty which would have to be ratified by the senate. Treaty ratification requires a two-thlrda majority of the senate, while an ordinary leglalatlve majority j In each house may enact the measure to put the agreement into effort. If a two-thlrda vote of the eenate were needed in thta case it would be an al most hopeless task to secure It, but It may be possible. If a vote on the proposition can be forced, to prevail on a majority of the senators, quite irrespective of party , line, to record themselves in its favor. Until the time for a vote Is agreed on the danger will remain of postponement and filibuster ing over the 4th of March, when con gress expires by limitation. Fortu nately, the friends of reciprocity in the senate Include as good tacticians and as experienced parliamentarians as are to be found among Its opponents, and they should be able to force a show down which alone will gauge the strength of the reciprocity proposal. Expensive Vanity. One of the most menacing faults of the day is the tendency to live beyond one's Income. It cuts a much larger figure In the mooted matter of "cost of living" than the average person thinks. As a people we have got Into the habit of living well, and that is right, for our supremacy as a race re quires that we live well. But there are numerous vague and wholly fallacious Ideas of what living well really means. It ahould not moan living beyond one's Income. When It does it means trouble for the person who does It. Young-people starting out in life find the expense of maintaining a household very heavy and sometimes let. the. discouragement of it weigh them down Into serious error. They complain that their Income is not large enough for their outlay and doubtless they are right, but when they cannot Increase the Income the only thing to do Is to diminish the outgo. Too often nabtta are Indulged for which there la no legitimate ex cuse. Expensive habits that are not essential are the ones to cut off. By applying the pruning knife intensively and extensively most any couple, with out regard to age, might effect a satis factory equilibrium between revenue and expenditure. And that la generally the only way they can do It. Nothing la more pitiable, not to say ridiculous, than the spectacle of a proud young pair striving against In superable odds to keep up with associ ates of unlimited means. Such mis guided people have no right to com plain of the times or the cost of living. There never were times that would enable an impecunious man to keep up with the pace set by a man of un limited means. Problem of City Government. With' all the proposed and accepted reforma in atate and national govern ment the one common demand of the present la for a better system of muni cipal control, a system more responsive to the real needs of the community. This la the meaning of the embrace by ao many cities of the commission form of government. This particular form Is aa yet experimental and has aa strong opponents as It has advocates. The first city In the country to adopt It has, after about fifteen years, re jected It. But that may or may not conatitute an argument against the system. The central fact ia that other cltlea are willing to take It up In the hope, more than the asaurance, that lt will offer the solution of the prob lem. ' But in the meanwhile the demand for larger local self-government goes on and must go on until it has been reaaonably supplied. In several statea now legislatures are grappling with thia matter. Legislaturea aeetn to have a natural averaion to enlarging muni cipal self-control, evidently in the fear thatJt will detract from their authority over the separate municipalities. The problem is an old one in Nebrabka. Omaha baa long aought relief from leglalatlve charter tinkering and it would undoubtedly be better off from every standpoint if it could get the relief. It la a peculiar fact that in Wlscousln two bills for a broader measure of home rule have recently been defeated by the legislature. In Connecticut a aimllar bill is pending. While, of courae, it la desirable that the atfte exercise a restraining in fluence over the smaller units of popu lation, it nevertheless true that greater freedom of action by cities, la necessary to insure their normal growth and development. The city ia in the end responaible for Ita progresa and its Inhabitant understand their needs better than outsiders possibly can. Boon for Winter Wheat. One by one Ihe winter wheat atatea seem to he winning out in their con- i teat with the weather man. Oklahoma j la the latest victor. Ita farmers, w ho i had begun to lose hope entirely, are now jubilant over the prospect of a ennd crnn roi.ntlnir nn favnrahlfl ,. . .. , j weather hereafter. The prolonged) drouth, dating since last August, has Just been broken by a heavy rain. Teople have a rlgl)t to become dubious under auch conditions aa prevailed in that state Unfortunately, or fortu nately, aa the case may be, Oklahoma is not favored w-lth any great amount of snow, so that It must depend on Ita iralna entirely. It Is different with Ne braska and other more northern statea that product? a great deal of winter wheat. Our farmers had begun to get uneasy ten daya ago because their ground was getting very dry aftd the late snow and sleet came just In time to do 'a vast amount of good. Then nature became doubly bountiful and added a good rain to the other ele ments, giving us a precipitation that will do much to counteract the effect of the dry period. We may now look forward with much more complacence to the remainder of the winter and spring. Oklahoma had very little time of grace left, however, for a drouth of six months' duration Is a very serious thing and the farmer there has a right to rejoice at Its termination. Initiative and Referendum. It would be amusing, were it not so pathetic, to see the patron saints of the initiative and referendum, who were so loudly"- proclaiming Its virtues in the last Nebraska campaign, now hedging and running to cover on the plan which has been formulated In the legislature for submission to the peo ple. Two great democratic legal luminaries, Attorney General For-a-Llttle-Whlle Arthur F. Mullen and Vice Chairman Chris Gruenther of the democratic state committee, ably sup ported by the local democratic organ, are frantically endeavoring to con vince, the law-makers that they are over-stepping 'their pledge to let the people rule. The real difficulty they encounter is to square their present protests against unconditional Initia tive and referendum with their former pen and word pictures of its beauties. The particular points now made are, first, that the initiative should not in clude the right to Initiate constitu tional amendments, and second, that the referendum should not be availa ble on a low percentage petition Invit ing "special interests'-' to bold up leg islation enacted lor the public good. . But what is the initiative and refer endum which the people of Nebraska were promised in the late party plat forms? Is it not the same plan by which, we were told, Oregon had achieved Ideal popular government? The Oregon Initiative and referendum ia thus described In the famous speech of Senator Jonathan Bourne, jr., claiming for his state "the best system of popular government in the world today": Oregon's Initiative and referendum amendment provides that the people re serve to themselves the power to propose, laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of tha legislative assembly, and also reserve power to approve or reject at tha polls any act of tha legislature. An initiative petition must be signed by I per cent of the legal voters as shown by the vote for supreme Judge at the last preeed InK election, and filed with the secretary of state not leas than four months before the day of election. A referendum petition need be signed by only t per cent of the voters and filed with the secretary of state within ninety days after final adjournment of the legislature which passed1 the bill on which referendum la demanded. The legis lature may Itself refer to ths people any act passed by It. The veto power of ths governor does not extend to any measure referred to tha people. ' If any advance has been made In the perfection of the initiative and referendum since Oregon's departure It la probably to be found in the form Incorporated Into the new constitution of Arlxona, to advocate which William J. Bryan traveled all that distance to make speeches In its favor. The Arizona initiative and referendum pro vides that under the Initiative 10 per cent of the qualified electora may pro pose any legislative measure, and 16 per cent -may propose any constitu tional amendment. Under the refer endum either the legislature or 6 per cent of the qualified electors "may order the submission to the people at the polls any measure, or item, or sec tion, or part of any measure, enacted by the legislature, except laws Imme diately necesKary for the preaervation of the public peace, health or safety, or for the aupport and maintenance of the departments of state government and state Inatltutlous." If the Arlxona constitution embodying the initiative and referendum In thia form could command the unqualified endorsement of William J. Bryan, naturally the bill put forward at Lincoln to redeem the democratic platform pledge in Ne braska should command the endorse ment of ex-Attorney General Mullen, Vice Chairman Gruenther and Senator-elect Hitchcock's newspaper. The democratic World-Herald and the pauedo republican Lincoln Star are pillorying Congressman Norria for being the only member of the Ne braska delegation in the house to record himself against ' Canadian reciprocity. We disagree with Con gressman Norris on a great many sub jects, Including his opposition to reciprocity, but we admire a man who shows the courage of his convictions even though to do ao be has to vote on the aame aide with "Joe" Cannon, Daliell and other high tariff prleats. Congressman Norria at least answers to roil call without running away to Europe and lets people know where he is at. Nobody would propose rrtaklnc up, an election board by shaking namea ! out of a wheel for a rural voting dla-i trict because tha main safeguard of honest elections consists in personal acquaintance of the election officers j with the voter " . . v.,.. t holds ood In city elections where eniiciB in tue f ifviiua uuuiu nuuiu be even more exposed to being fooled and Impoaed upon. The requirement that every election officer must have realded at leaat one year In the voting district In which he aerves is a salu tary one. The problem of providing proper election machinery to facilitate voting and prevent fraud In thickly popu lated citloa Is not exclusive to Omaha, but Is present in every large city. It has been tackled, and In a large measure solved, by legislatures of other atates. The election lawa of Illinois. Missouri and Minnesota will doubtless furnish all the necessary raw material to frame a satisfactory law for Nebraska. The Omaha Ad club thinks the com mission form of government would be a good ad for Omaha. So It would If It gave ua men to manage our city gov ernment of real business ability and Integrity. It would be a bad ad if it simply changed the official titles and Increased the pay of Incompetents or time-servers, who now hold down too many aoft berths in the city hall. President Taft has vetoed the resolu tion to reinstate the West Point cadets dismissed for hazing. The president's service as secretary of war evidently failed to predispose him toward clem ency for such culprits. It Is a safe guess, however, that the punishment will be more far-reaching by reason of the Inability of the expelled cadets to crawl back under the tent. According to Cardinal Gibbons, "Wizard" Edison's mind la maimed. He refers, of course, to Edison's mental attitude toward religion, although a few more "maimed" minds able to apply science successfully to the prac tical problems of life might be toler ated. Candidates for the mayoralty nomi nation In Chicago are using up columns of space apiece to tell why they want the Job. If they would only say they need the money the other reasons might be foregone. That Iowa will try the Oregon plan of electing United Statea senators next time carries with It no guaranty of Improved caliber of senators, but it' is warranted not to produce deadlocks. How the Game Works. , New York Tribune. And so the penetrative power of our ordi nance Is greater than the defensive power of our armor plate. This means simply that the conditions will be reversed In a little while, and so on. ad Infinitum. Record Breaker In Proepect, Cleveland Plain Dealer. What the governor of North Carolina aald to the governor of South Carolina may not be a circumstance to what the governor of Ohio may one of these days feel like saying to the governor of New Jersey. A Model of Ita Class. Kanaaa City Times. In the interest of "economy" the legisla ture thinks seriously of abollshtns ths school of medicine at the University Of Kansas. This Is the same legislature that adopted a resolution urging congress to pass the Bulloway bill, whloh will add o0,- 000,000 a year to the pension rolls. Rock to Local Option. Springfield Republican. The return of the state of Alabama to the local option aystem is the logical out come of the failure of the antlsaloon forces to carry a prohibition constitutional amendment. It seems clesr that the antl saloon movement In the south and west, which waa so formidable a few years ago, has passed through the period of Its great est strength at least, for the present. A Reflection on the Nation. Philadelphia Record. In an opinion of Judge Lacombe, of the United Statea court In New Tork, on the Immigration lawa. he said that it wss a cause of regret that such Draconian pro visions could be found In the code of a Christian land. While the law la bad enough. Its administration by the bureau crat on Kllla Inland in arbitrarily separat ing Immigrant families Is more barbarous. Yet here are people who think a few more turns should be given to the screw of the Immigration lawa. People Talked About Directions that her body be cremated and the ashes strewn over the grave of her husband at Bergen. Norway, are con tained In the will of lira. Sara C. Bull, widow of Ole Bull, the violinist, which has Just been filed for probate In Bldde- ford, Me. During the year 1D10 S. W. Hogan, a farmer, living near Montlcello, la., shipped 221 carloads of hogs. In all there were U.123 animals, for which he was paid $300. $34.04. Thia does not Include two carloads that were shtppod on the last day of De cember, nor a great many hogs that were supplied to the local butchers during the year. Oeneral Alexsnder Stewart Webb, who died In New York tha other day. Is the last of the group of division commanders of the civil war. Grandson of an officer of the revolutionary war and a graduate of Wast Point, his record as a soldier was worthy of his forbears Hs participated In the battles of Bull Run. Yorktown, Seven Days, Mechanlcsvlile, Hanover, An ttelam, Shepardatown, Snlckera'a Gap and Chancellorsvllle and was awarded the congress medal of honor for bravery In the "Bloody Angle" at Gettysburg, when Pickett's charge was checked and de stroyed. After Gettysburg he fought In the battles of Brlatow Station, Robinson's Tav ern. Mine Run, Wilderness. Spottsy Ivsnla and Petersburg, being brcvetted as major general of the regulars after tha latter action. Around New York lppla tka C Trent ef Ufa M till In tfaa Uraat American Mtlreoolla from Car to Bay. Madtaon Cnuare Harden la again on the bantam counter. It hs hern off and on the market for over twenty yeaia wlth- mil tun... When completed and open In JKHS !h structure and , ((,r hu,nMi equipment hsd coat the ownera .000. It ran be bought todsy for 13 ,60ft.(iM. "Thus." aaya the New York Commercial, "the phenomenal apectacle is presented of a plot rontalntna thirty-two lots In the very heart of New York City and cov ered by an expenalve structure gaining only $.'.00,000 or ! per cent In value In twenty-two years. Had the plot never been built iion at all, these thirty-two i vacant city Iota would no doubt be worth themaelves around tl.0n0.ono today. It la the ateadlly losing venture through twenty-two years and the fact that whoever buys the property now must raie the gsrden and erect something else In Its place before the Investment can be made to pay that operate to keep the valuation down. In all probability Madison rVtuare Harden la doomed It must "go." As It stsnda, It la a monument to the public spirit of a few patriotic cltlsena who have been unwilling to aee New York City with out a public hall adequate for holding the largeat gathering of people and equipped for holding the moat pretentious amuse ment and social functions." ' "Whenever I get out of a train at the (rand Central or the new Pennsylvania atatlon I can't help miaalng the old loco motive." said a traveler quoted by the Sun. "Kver elnce I was a child one of the pleasures of a railroad Journey was to look over the locomotive which had been pulling my train, but somehow t don't get this pleasure out of the elec tric motor. "The trouble with the motor seems to be that It's too businesslike. It Is plain and prosaic beside the old locomotive. Why, you can't even see the driving wheels, and might as well be looking at a huge sosp box for all the Interesting parts you can see. "From habit, I suppose, "4 always look to see what's been pulling me when I finish a railroad ride, but when I see one of these motors at the Pennsylvania sta tion I sigh for the old locomotive it has displaced. The motor doesn't make a sound after it gets In. Just as though It had been no exertion at all to pulf you under the river, but how different the locomotive! You alwaya find It panting away like some living being, getting Its breath, as It were. Then there's the en gineer leaning out of his cab window watching the traveler leave his train, the vltallzer of the whole thing. You don't feel so drawn to the motorman somehow, "Doubtless, the motor is the superior of the locomotive In many ways, but It never will be as interesting, and with Its Com ing seems to have gone some . of the romance of railroading for the traveler, a romance which centered In the engine. I guess there are others Just like myself who miss this feature when they arrive at New York." lartmcnt house'tenants and telephone users wilt be much Interested in the out- vume -vi me case or a New York business i man wno nas applied to a Justice of the supreme court for an Injunction restrain ing his landlord from Interfering with the Installation of a private telephone In his apartment There are two switchboard In the house with an operator on duty day and night, and the landlord first set up the plea that the tenant e connection with these waa quite sufficient In the way of service and forbade him to put a private telephone In his apartment; the tenant re plied that he seriously objected to having the awltchboard operator hear AH the de tails of his business and domestic affairs, and Insisted on the Installation nf an in. dependent telephone In hla apartment; the I .anaioro. ngurea It out that It costs on an average to maintain the service $1.60 a month for each tensnt. and so he charges hla privacy aeeking tenant $18 a year for the privilege of renting an Independent Instrument in his own apartment; the case hinges on the right of the landlord to exact this charge. The lease has no provision for or against the Installation of private tele phones, and In consequence the right of the tenant to do It would seem to be per fectly clear. It may be, however, that the fact that the apartment waa already pro vided with auch an Instrument will be a factor In the ault, and then would arise the question of a tenants right to prl-vacy-to protection against the posslbfllty of Injury from the wagging tonguee of eavesdropping awltchboard operators. As far as la known, this Is the first case of the kind to get Into the courts, and a most Important precedent may be estab lished by the decision of It. The little old blind man wa. .mi.. hla stool near Broadway and Forty-ninth street, playing his wheesy accordion. A newsboy came along. "Got any pennies, mister? '"he asked "look in the cup," replied the blind man The boy did so. There he saw seven pennies. "Kin I have change for a nickel" he asked. "Sure, take It," waa the blind man'a Tha hnv A rrTt,A . L. - ... . . . , ,,, ,laC, ,n. ,he cup -... aunie pennies. He thanked the man and moved away. Aw, Jlmmle," said another newsy only got four pennies." you "I know It." "What did you gib him de penny fer'" "Jlst done It fer luck." said Jlmmv den, dat old man don't hardly git enough l to eat. I seen where he lives, ylst'dsy De I lan lord was after him fer de rent den." j And Jimmy hurried away. "My hat la off to the trsfflc squars men " said a punctilious public official, who rather dislikes policemen. ' Sir Walter and his velvet cloak had nothing on the mounted man at Fifth aveoue and Forty second street. It waa the busiest hour on the avenue and the motor vehiclea were crowded behind him like logs In a river Jam. but h held them up for a good two minutes extra so that a rheumatic old fel low could get across without hurrying. The best Ihe old man could do was a tortoise shuffle, and he was quaking and glancing around In terror as he woiked across the street. When ha got to the mounted po liceman that Umb of tha law leaned over and spoke to hlra quietly. -Take your time air." he said. 'Taks It easy. No hurry The old man was mlghtly grsteful, if the taxi drivers did awear a ilttle." The coroner's office In New York Is In spiring a bill to be presented at Albany regulating the aale of firearms. The rhoot Ing of Msyor Usynor and David Graham Phillips by men nientaUy deranged has prompted tins proposition. Rigid accounta bility. It la piopoaed. la to be exacted of dealers in deadly weapons, the sale of which to Irreaponalble persons Is to be pro hibited. This may seem an iin,,r., ., Idea, but the coroner a chief clerk points out tnat since the paasage of a law safe guarding the ssle of ra.rbollc acid, aulcide by that medium has been very much reduced. JABS OF THE PAItAGRAPHERS. Boeton Transcript: "iKin't." aaya tha colonel to yoimi! men. ' attempt to rearh a biah station lv rllmblna up on other peo ple." The baika of the pewe will do f'hlcagn iin i rd-tlerald : MNs Margaret I'amm. an American at I r 1 who created a furore when ahe turn In Merlin, la cnnilna borne Hr a supreme effort we are aWe to refrain fiom msklng the obvious com ment. Philadelphia. Bulletin: tr Kllot of liar "til Is of the opinion that a normal faoillv should ronsIM of right children, although he ta ailent on the question of properly rearing Ihe eicht with fo'.d and clothes at top-mveh pi i,.Pr Cleveland plain Dealer: An apparatua for extermination Ihe housefly ha been Invented hy a Massachusetts college pio feasor. Hy snd by one microbe will kill another until there's nothing Wt but pro fersora. snl they'll be eisy to fix. Bsltiniore American: Colonel Itonaevelt has been advising young men not to climb up on others to success. This advice might be Interpreted in dirfertnt ways as to what climbing tp on others mc.ma. but the col onel lilmarlf Is a very striking Instance of the survival of the fittest. New York World: Governor Baldwin's Idea nf a newspaper as "proof, one-quantor of a column; probability, one column, possi bly a little more; and Ilea, the rest of the ahcet." ia ncarrtly eoHResilve of .Indicia.! calm and falrneaa or the wisdom ordinarily expected from the governor of a stnte. MK. HHH r-.vr IKUt, A Democratic i.n vt-u t Ion Wnntrf Be CoiMilr l 'Mihnnt Him, Washington Star. Victor Roaewater. republican national committeeman from Nebraska, expresaes the opinion thut Mr. Hryan will head the i delegation from that atate In the next ( democratic national convention and prao- iicaiiy upc. up me nciPKHtlon a course there The peerleaa lender has not been ss much Injured nt home by recent events as his opponents at a distance have been led to bellve. ill party friends are still proud of him, and still disposed to follow him. let us all hope that Mr. Rosewnter's Judgment may prove correct. The next democratic national convention would not be complete wtthout Mr. Hryan. It Is go ing to be an Interesting body, but his presence will add to the Interest. What he shall have to say both as to candidate and platform should be worth the atten tion of every delegate In the hall. There are those who will believe that Mr. Hryan will Journey thlthor with only purposes of "scrapping;" that he will pre sent himself as a trouble-maker, and that tf turned down, either as to the nominee or the platform, he will sulk or bolt. Hut there Is nothing: to warrant this. Mr. Hrysn was turned down at St. Ixuls In 1904 on every proposition, and yet sup ported the convention's action. He stumped a wide section of the country for Judge Parker, and said what he could for a ticket and a deliverance of which he did not approve. It is to be presumed that he would be regular again under similar circumstances. ' Mr. Bryan probably has some very pro nounced views as to what his party should do next year. De may be more anxious than In the months preceding the St. Louis meeting seven years ago. The situation now Is more promising for the democracy than then. And so he may be In even more aggressive form next year than when op posing the nomination of Judge Parker on a platform which he knew Wall street was dictating. But. even so, Mr. Bryan should be at next year's convention, and accorded a re spectful hearing.' It Is not believed that he desires the nomination for himself, though should he take the stage at a critical moment In a clash of aspirants he might, as at Chicago In 189ft, create a frenzy. He Is neither aa young nor as handsome aa then, but he still knows the art jtt playing upon an audience, and es pecially one torn with differences, a little weary from efforts to settle them, and In such a state, somewhat at the mercy of a atar performer. Mlxap In Political Beds. Philadelphia Record. Strange things happen. 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