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OCTOBER CIRCULATION
53,818 Daily Sunday 50,252
Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The, Bee
Pablltklng company, being duly sworn, laya that the
trerage circulation for the month of October, Ifle,
was ,' daily, and 10,2(2 Sunday.
. . D WIGHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager.
Subicrihed In my presence and sworn to before me
Jill 4th day of November, UK. ,
C. W. CARLSON. Notary Publle.
Subscribers leaving the city temporarily
abouUI have The Be nailed to thorn. Ad
el real will be) changed as often as required.
Make it a republican clean sweep. Nothing
if as comes up to the opportunity. '. ,
The real melancholy days for some of the
population begin the morning of the day after.
V. Soaring prices of living necessities reveal to
consumer the hollownesa of democratic pros
perity. -. - y,
Devotee! of the gat wagon are not worrying.
'Autointoxication defies the reach of the dry
amendment
Safety first : Vote as you please for "wet" or
"dry," but bev sure to put your cross-mark in the
republican party circle. .
No matter who are the favorites in. other
propositions, Captain Paul Koenig tops the score
board as a submarine sport;
- British motorists on pleasure bent are now
allowed half a gallon of fuel daily. As a means
of checking speed mania the restricted supply of
gas approaches perfection.
. Not only are Senator Hitchcock's editors and
reporters', allowed to refer to him as a "states
man," but he admits it .himself in his advertis
ing and In his own newspaper. ' :
' Earnings of 124 railroads for September show
an increase of $40,000,000 oyer September last
year.' The time is propitious for a strike by
Uockholders for an advance In dividends,
" i The time limit of building a superdreadnought
jn .private yards is thirty-six months. We are
Quick with appropriation, but alow in production',
Here is t chance for the Navy league to show Its
worth m speeding up shipbuilders.
For some unknown reason the Turkish war
bulletin editor suspended publication of victories
for weeks past Rival publishers supply the de
mand to some extent, but thy lack the dreamy
. versatility formerly piped at Constantinople,
Still It must be absolutely impossible for any
fraudulently registered name to stay on the reg
istration book if our pure elections commissioner
does his duty.: It is up to him to detect and stop
false registrations and prosecute the culprits.
' Typhoid ia no respecter of persons. Prince
and pauper alike fall under its' blighting sway.
The Roumanian prince, a victim of the disease,
lends a personal touch to the tragedies and per
plexities of war surrounding the royal household.
' ' If you want the finances of Douglas county,
of the city, school district and water district of
Omaha, honestly and ably administered during
the. next two years, you will vote for Emmet G.
Solomon for county treasurer, which office makes
the incumbent treasurer ex-officlo of all these
other subdivisions a well.
- The Germans have this adage describing the
fellow who talks big, but does nothing: "He rolls
his fist in his pocket." Senator Hitchcock boasted
loudly about introducing his munitions embargo
bill and pressing it to a vote "just to tickle the
Germans," and then laid down and let his won
derful bill die of inanition.
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Mission of the Sunday Newspaper.
The Sunday newspaper is again an object of
attack, this time the ammunition being afforded
by the Federal Trade commission, which is of
the opinion that the white paper shortage would
be materially relieved if not so much were used
in printing supplements to the big city dailies on
Sunday. On this simple suggestion tome of the
persistent opponents of the Sunday 1 newspaper,
mostly publishers of weekly reviews, hang a con
siderable fabric of objection. Carefully scrutin
ized, these mainly resolve themselves into the
; conclusion that if the dailies were to give over
their efforts in the field, the reviews would be
(he gainer, as they would then supply a demand
how filled by a rival whose competition they can
not meet. ; ' l:f
V While sweeping criticism and denunciation ia
; used unsparingly to establish the unworthiness
Of the. supplements complained of, they all fall
short of the mark. The Sunday newspaper has
a place in the life of the people; it does not cater
U a special clientele, but in some way furnishes
: attraction and service for all. Those who do not
care for its editorial discussions may find in the
sport section or the fashion section -material for
their use; elsewhere in its makeup-it deals with
, music, drama, literature and kindred topic; it
provide information of various sorts, generally
as accurate and dependable aa that purveyed by
more pretentious publications, quite as reliable
when allowance is made for conditions, and in
addition, it gives in its news columns a review of
the world in all its moods and interests. No re
view, however carefully It be edited, meets the
needs of all the people suite as well as does the
big Sunday paper, and while the demand con
tinues, the supply will be forthcoming.
Straw Vote of Some Significance.
The Literary Digest has just published its
own analysis of a poll of its subscribers in what it
considers the pivotal states in the presidential
election. The editor of the Digest asked 50,000
subscribers, living in New York, Ohio, New Jer
sey, Indiana and Illinois, to fill out a card show
ing how they voted in 1912 and how they propose
to vote in 1916. -Thirty thousand of these cards
were filled out and returned, and have been care
fully tabulated. The result shows first the total
vote, a follows:
Hughes. Wilson.
New York 4,335 2,085
New Jersey 3,315 1,761
Ohio 3.653- 2,893
Indiana .'. 2,572 1,615
Illinois ..; 4,062 2,290
Total - 17,937 10,644
More significant even than these totals is the
result obtained by comparison of the changes
noted from the way the individuals voted in 1912.
Only the cards properly filled out were consid
ered in the compilation, and the switches from
one candidate to another were fully set out in
the tabulation. The total accessions by reason
of the changes are to Hughes 4,094, and to Wil
son, 3,980. ' This indicates the balance is evenly
held so far aa change of opinion is concerned,
while the total vote is conclusive in support of
the claim that the republicans and progressives
in these five important states are united, and that
the democratic assertions that Wilson will re
ceive any considerable part of the Roosevelt vote
of 1912 are ridiculous.
With the republicans and progressives solidly
arrayed behind Hughes, the outcome in the five
states covered by the Literary Digest is not even
remotely in doubt.
Ford's Frivolous Reasons. . , .
Henry Ford's $100,000 donation to the Wil
son campaign fund takes the form of buying
newspaper publicity for the "reasons" Mr. Ford
think should govern hi and other people' vote.
Thi is the same Henry Ford who, a year ago,
chartered' a special ship to carry him to Europe
to take all the soldier out of the trenche be
fore last Christmas and some of hi reasons are
of the same warp and woof.
Mr. Ford ays, for example: "I know posi
tively Mr. Wilson does understand and is oppos
ing that invisible government, that unseen hand
which caused this war," notwithstanding the fact
that Mr. Wilson, himself, right here in Omaha,
declared neither he nor anyone else understood
what caused the war in Europe. Mr. Ford adds,
"I believe those same selfish force that caused
the war are opposing the president's re-election,"
which gives us this absurdity; that no on know
ing who caused the European war, the same un
known are opposing Mr. Wilson' re-election.
. The only "reason" Mr. Ford has discovered,
not enumerated in the regular campaign hand
books, is his "belief and hope" that the Adam
son law ia "the first step toward government
ownership operation of railroads" and this rea
son another distinguished democrat discovered
first, although It proved disastrous to his own
White House dream. 1 -
f The Ford assertion, that "Wall street in
fluences" rooted out "by Mr. Wilson are working
hard against him to get back" is completely con
tradicted by perusal of the democratic campaign
contribution list, with its many princely handouts
from well known Wall street deniiens. ;
'"'The Worst buncs feature of' Henry Ford's
appeal, .however, is hi pretense of being for Wil
son "although nominally a republican all my
life Mr. Ford permitted hit name to go on the
primary ballot in Michigan and in Nebraska as
candidate for the republican nomination for presi
dent and permitted voters to be recorded for
him In the republican national convention and if,
by chance, he had had a sufficient number of dele
gates to nominate him, he would not have been
for Wilson, but would have been opposing him
as the nominee of the republican party. Suppose
Burton, or Root, or' Cummins, failing of nomi
nation without any charge of fraud or unfair
ness, had nevertheless come out against Hughes
with excuses as flimsey as Ford's, what would
people think of them? Suppose four years ago
Underwood, or Clark, or Harmon, unsuccessful
in the Baltimore convention, had then come out
against Wilson, what would have been thought
of them? But here ia Henry Ford, professing
high ideals and altruistic motives, placing him
self in that discreditable position, position which
all the "reasons" he can Invent will not justify
to fair-minded people who want the same square
deal in politics that they demand jn every other
relation of life. -
' Some Difference in Ideals.
John Cowper Powys lines up with the visiting
cognoscenti in criticism of Omaha, although he
it kind. enough to include ut with Americana in
general, and but mildly refer to our peculiar com
munal shortcomings. For the gentleness with
which Mr. Powys administers his castigation,
sone thanks, and for the hope he expresses for
our future, great gratitude. Only, we fear, when
Mr. Powys lives long enough in America he will
find many things besides the sex question on
which his ideals and our national beliefs do not
run parallel. Moreover, and- sad it the reflec
tion, when one considers the situation of the
critic come to spread light and uplift, amongst
us, he is like to find American somewhat "sot
in their ways," not a little inclined to be bump
tious, and some actually convinced of the correct
nest of their 'own attitude towards life. To be
sure, just as dropping water wears away the gran
ite, the constant application of kindly suggestions
from these migratory highbrows may in time
induce Some quality of repose among ut and
give scope and breadth to our estheticism; but,
uniorunately, the sheep will still be slaughtered
somewhere, for even a poet must eat.
THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign just coming
-a- to a close has presented many exceptional
features sure to make it historic, and the contest
in its different stages has marked the transforma
tion of our political methods in this country. lon
trusted with local contests everv presidential cam
paign is a battle royal in the political arena. It
comes but once in four years, but even then is not
always a real fight, such as this one is, for often
conditions are such as to pre-ordain the result
beyond question. A one-sided political cam
oaisn is as uninteresting: as a one-sided match
on the base ball diamond or in the foot ball field
or on a race track. An exciting campaign is the
one in which the forces are fairly evenly bal
anced and an interest sustained by possibilities
that might change the result.
, My memory goes back rather indistinctly to
the 1880 campaign that ended in the election of
Garfield and Arthur.. Ut course, 1 was a mere
boy, but I recall the yells and slogans for the
republican candidates and counter yells for Han
cock and English. It was not, however, until
four vears later that I was drawn into the po
litical vortex. That was the famous fight waged
between Blaine and Logan for the republicans
and Cleveland and Hendricks for the democrats,
and there was much oratory, parades and red
fire. Up at the High school, where 1 was a pupil,
the boys under the leadership of Wallace
Broatch, formed a Blaine and Logan club, and
we all marched proudly m the procession, carry'
ing kerosene torches that-dripped all over our
clothes and left us with the odor for a week
thereafter. I recall that there was one flambeau
club equipped with fire-spitting mechanisms
which were our awe and amazement. We all
yelled ourselves hoarse for Blaine and Logan on
election night and the next day joined in putting
on political mourning to signify our sad disap
pointment at defeat. , -
When the 1888 presidential campaign came
on I was in Baltimore attending Johns Hopkins
university, and, being enveloped in a thick dem
ocratic atmosphere, watched merely as an on
looker, and this was true in a lesser degree of
the 1892 contest, which found me in New York
City pursuing my studies at Columbia uni
versity. 1 1 did then, however, attend quite a few
of the big political meetings heard Chauncey
Depew, for example, then ti his best and
watched the returns come in down at Tammany
Hall, on Fourteenth itreet, whose big, bright red
campaign banner, bearing the names of all the
democratic candidates, seemed' to become still
redder as democratic victory was bulletined.
By the time the 1896 campaign was opened I
was here in Omaha on the job with already a lit
tle apprenticeship in politics and I went in with
full energy. Never before was such a campaign
witnessed and never since for the idle people
then had nothing else to do but fight it out all
day long on street corners and wherever a group
of people gathered. Farnam street and Fifteenth
and the whole business center of Omaha was one
succession of curbstone political meetings from
morning to night a rati it was not a question of
starting an argument, but of avoiding one. There
were also big talkfests and torchlight processions
and all sorts of demonstrations. There were gold
badges, and silver badges, full dinner pails and
the hole in the doughnut. Nebraska went over
whelmingly democratic for Bryan, but he was
beaten badly in the other states and retired to
immortalize his "first battle" in a book. .
Making Over the Hay-Chamber!!n Bill.
Joseph J. Tumulty writes to a perturbed demo
crat in West Virginia, answering his query a to
whether conscription is possible and permissible
under the Hay-Chmberlin military taw by say
ing the language of the law is so vague and In
volved that the president doesn't feel at alt cer
tain as to its meaning. However, Private Secre
tary Tumulty assures his timorous correspondent
that it Is the intention of the president to give
some attention to this law, which has been hailed
as perfection during the campaign, and see what
can be doue to make it clear.. It is pretty cer
tain no sort of tinkering can make it worse, nor
increase its ambiguity. This and other indications J
justifies the conclusion that the closing week of
Mr. Wilson's term of office will be pretty busy if
lie tries to straighten out all the legislative blund
ers he Jus ted or -driven congress into commit
ting ' ' : '
The 1900 presidential campaign was a fierce
conflict here in' Nebraska, although a tame one
for the country at large. There never was any
question about McKinley's re-election, but in
spite of adverse odds we were eager to put Ne
braska on the map again by bringing it back into
the republican column;- It seemed hopeless- al
most up to the last minute, but unremitting arid
undaunted seal succeeded in achieving the object
Besides the presidential electors and the gover
nor and state ticket, two United States senator
ships were at stake and the republicans swept the
whole platter, although the governor waa pulled
across by less than 900 plurality. To resort to
the vernacular, that was "some campaign I"
. The 1904 contest was again a republican walk
away. In this s'tate it was a triangular perform
ance, the populists still cutting a figure with their
votes for Watson and Tibbies and affording a
convenient get-away for Bryan democrats who
wanted to knife Parker. That explains the co
lossal plurality chalked up for Roosevelt and
Fairbanks and the election of the whole republi
can ticket in Nebraska from top to bottom.
For the 1908 presidential campaign my ac
tivities were transferred to the national field as
one of the party managers attached to the Chi
cago headquarters. I he work was carefully plan
ned and systematically prosecuted and while there
were one or two "scares," the election of Taft
and Sherman over Bryan and Kern was hardly in
doubt at any time. Nebraska slipped back into
the democratic fold, ostensibly out of loyalty of
his home state-to Bryan, but actually for other
reasons, as insiders know. Mr. Bryan himself
is said to have been convinced he was to win,
but no one else shared his belief and even Mis
souri came over and joined the republican pro
cession, more than making up for the loss of Ne
braska, Needless to say the campaign of 1912 could
hardly be called a fight after the republican party
had been split in two. It was this division that
permitted the democrats, with Wilson and Mar
shall, to march into power. The republicans sup
porting Taft waged but a perfunctory campaign.
The progressives, backing Roosevelt, put on quite
a head of steam chiefly to make a showing. If
the democrats could not have gathered in the
prize under these conditions it would have been
in order for them to disband.
The present 1916 campaign had its lines de
termined by what led up to it. On the republi
can side it is, in fact, two campaigns in one tie
regulars and the progressives merged, it is true,
yet requiring double machinery. Keep this in
mind when making comparisons. For the first
time since the fight against Cleveland's re-election
the republicans have had to stand as an oppo
sition party and batter down the entrenchments
of the party' in power. It is this that explains
the .methods of attack. Then again, never before
was the political battle line so extended. The
advent of the direct primary in the interval, how
ever, has done away with the old spectacularism
the red fire and tue excitement has been want
ing on both sides. It has been, for the most part,
sober appeal to reason, a real campaign of edu
cation.. And the effective reasons which are all
on the side of Hughes are plainly telling.
I have written out a thought or two sug
gested by the death of my old friend, Max Meyer,
but from crowded space must hold till next week.
People and Events'
Philadelphia's issue of $10,000,0O(f fifty-year
bonds drawing 4 per cent were marketed last
week at a premium of 3.885 per cent or $210,000
for the lot. A syndicate of bankers bought
them in. ,
' Louis Nehring of Prairie du Chien, III, is on
the shady side of 70 and is still acquiring ex
pensive experience. A few moons ago he honey-,
mooned with a merry widow of 60 and when he
came out of the trance the bride had fled with
Nehring's roll of $5,000.
A Philadelphia 'youngster, "pinched" for the
theft of a pair of shoes laid his troubles to the
Underwood tariff. The present stage of public
temper in Pennsylvania tent force to the plea.
The judge put it under his hat and paroled the
IOHAV1
Thought Nugget for the Day.
There Is no good In arguing with
the Inevitable. The only argument
available with an east wind la to put
on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell.
One Year Ago Today to the War. -
British submarine E-20 sunk by
Turks In the Dardanelles.
Bulgarians occupied Nlah.
Lord Kitchener left England on
mission to near east.
Desperate battle with violent artil
lery action continued In East Galicla.
Germans captured parts of the
French first line trench at Hill 19 In
Champagne.
Russians pressed Germans back
near Riga and czar s warships shelled
invaders at Shlok. ' -
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Letter Carrier Green, who some
time ago resigned his position in the
mail service, has re-entered the busi
ness not long since and has been giv
en a route where he can drive a horse
in delivering.
One hundred dollars has been de
posited with Ed Rothery as a forfeit
In the right which the friends of Han-
ley wish to have him make with Clow.
Hanley says he Is willing to meet Clow
at any time and place that may be
selected.
As Major Condon, manager of Pat
sey Fallon's Cottonwood Villa, was
driving past the fair grounds a piece
of paper blown by the wind started
his fleet stallion to one side, over
turning the buggy and slightly injur
ing the major, who was left lying In
the road while his swift courser hied
him home, dragging the broken buggy
after him.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Pokorney of
701 South Thirteenth celebrated the
tenth anniversary of their wedding.
Among the guests present were:
Messrs. and Mesdames Bartos, V. L.
Vodicka, F. Vodlcka, Buresh, John
Roslcky, F. W. Bandhauer, Splcka, J.
Kotyza, Kolbe, John Mack, V. Flala,
Nagle and Prof. Dvorzak.
Messrs. Frank Bandle and George
Kay have returned from Leaven
worth, Kan., whither they were called
by a meeting of the representatives of
the Western league. ,r.
This Day in History. '
1768 By treaty at Fort Stanwlx
(Tjtlca, N. Y.) the pi Nationas ceded
the country north and east of the
Tennessee. v
1796 Isaac Toucey, secretary of
the navy under President Buchanan,
born at Newton, Conn.; died at Hart
ford July 30, 1869.
1814 Americans under General
Izard abandoned Fort Erie after blow
ing It up.
1818 General B.enjamln F. Butler,
governor of Massachusetts and civil
war commander, born at Deerfleld, N.
H.; died In Washington, D. C, Janu
ary 11, 189S.
1854 Russians deieated Dy sritisn
and French in battle of Inkerman.
18S8 Funeral car of Napoleon I
presented to France, b,y Queen Victoria.,,-.
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Susan 6.. Anthony voted at
the presidential election at Rochester,
N. Y.i convicted and fined $100.
1891 Poles In Galicia formed a se
cret organization to keep alive the
remembrances of the Polish struggle
for freedom. - , .
1900 Cuban constitutional conven
tion opened at Havana.
1901 French fleet seized three
Turkish ports, whlch-'were held until
the- ports Settled the Frencn claims.
The Day We- Celebrate. '
William B. Weekes, president of the
Weekes Grain and Live Stock com
pany, Is (7. He was born in Metrop
olis, 111., ana started in the grain
business at Sootia, Neb., thirty-one
years ago. He was once county treas
urer of Greeley county for two terms
John D. ware is ceieorating nis
fifty-fifth birthday. He is a native
of Durant, Ia., and graduated in law
from the Iowa State university in
1888. He has been practicing his pro
fession hers in Omaha continuously
since 1890.
Alexander C. Reed of Reed Bros.,
real estate and abstracts, was born
November 6, 1871, in Darlen, Wis..
His first employment was as clerk for
the Milwaukee: railroad at cnicago in
1891.
George A. Relener, noted Egyptolo
gist, whose latest discoveries relative
to Ethiopia are being heralded, born
at Indianapolis forty-nine years ago
today. i
Rt. Rev. John s. Foley, Disnop or
the Catholic diocese of Detroit, born
In Baltimore eighty-three years ago
today. .
Kt Rev. J. j. Harty, catnono arcn-
blshop of Manila, soon to be Installed
as bishop of Omaha, born at St Louis
sixty-three years ago today.
Nicholas Longworth, Ohio con
gressman and son-in-law of Colonel
Roosevelt horn in Cincinnati lorty-
seven years ago today. '
Ida M. Tarhell, noted editor, jour
nalist and lecturer, born in Erie 1
county, Pennsylvania, fifty-nine years
ago today.
Eugene v. Dens, three times social
ist candidate for president and now a
candidate for congress, born at Terre
Haute, Ind sixty-one years ago today.
Hasty Legislation That Harts Labor.
Omaha, Nov. 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: President Wilson insisted on
the passage of the Adamson bill to get
the labor vote of the country. ' This
so-called bill for the good of the labor
ing masses is nothing but a sop. The
four railroad brotherhoods have al
ways Ignored the American Federa
tion of Labor and during strikes have
never been known to refuse to haul
strikebreakers by the carload. They
did so in the street car strike in our
city and also in the strike of the ma
chinists and bollermakera of the Har
riman system. The president truckled
to the aristocratic and selfish four and
the rest can never benefit by the new
and as yet untried law. Candidate
Hughes Is right in all he says about
V. .. .... lavl.la,An " TTTfilT UHl"
Deplorable Condition of the Navy.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 8. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: I spent the summer in
Washington and also went on the ci
vilian volunteer cruise. The longer
time I spent in direct connection with
the policies of Wilson, the more dis
gusted I became with, his vacillating
Dollcy. especially In the navy.
. I am enclosing an article of mine
that appeared in another paper quite
a while ago. I might add that the
men in the navy say-that conditions
have been steadily getting worse since
Daniels waa appointed, although they
say as a man he is very obliging
(which is part of the cause of his
troubles; he tries to please everybody.)
LEONARD W. TRESTER.
One Tote Changed by the Debate.
Omaha, Nov. z. To the Editor of
The Bee: As I heard the debate De
tween Rev. Lowe and Mr. Meeker, I
have read and studied the amendment
and I must confess I was for prohibi
tion until then, but I can see now more
plainly and I think Rev. Lowe and
any one else could see that it will not
prohibit at all, but just change it
from regulation to bootlegging, which
I regret very much. And I see where
a lot of us real prohimtionists are go
ing to be led into a trap under the
guise of prohibition which we will be
sorry lor arterwaras. ,
Now, I alwaya have had lots of re
spect for Dr. Lowe and regarded him
as a big man, but if Dr. Lowe sees his
mistake as I do and I think every one
else who studies it will, it is Dr. Lowe's
duty to the public, as well as Ills own
parishioners, to show to the people
that he Is one man not ashamed to
own up to making a mistake and I
am sure he will be thought very much
more of in the eyes of God and man
for only doing his real calling and
when the time comes for a vote on
national prohibition I will work shoul
der to shoulder with Dr. Lowe and
every one else for It. -i
JOHN H. ROOT,
. 921 North Twenty-sixth Street.
' Wants Back Platforms Enclosed.
Omaha, Nov. S.--To the Editor of
The Bee: I ask space to suggest that
you get behind a movement to com
pel the street railway company to
close the back end of their cars for
the comfort and health of the con
ductors who have to stand exposed in
all kinds of inclement weather.
The men refuse to organize to force
this Just demand and notwithstanding
that let ua agitate for this necessary
improvement for their comfort and
the safety of the public.
; JESSE T. BKILUiAKT.
' Rein la (or Beckman.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: In connection with
my withdrawal from the ballot as the
candidate (if (he progressive party tor
commissioner of public lands and
buildings for the state of Nebraska, I
desire to say that my decision to leave
the contest was influenced to a very
large extent by the conviction that the
best possible man for that office is the
present Incumbent Mr. , Fred Beck-man.
To those who have come in eon-
tact with Mr. Beckman officially, his
conduct of the affairs of the commis
sioner's office needs no defense. His
reoord for an honest thorough and ef
ficient administration is established.
There are, however, a large number
of voters who have never had any
business with the commissioner's of
fice and who are therefore without
any first hand information as to how
that office is being managed oy Mr.
Beckman. To these voters, I would
say that for an efficient and business
like administration or public attain,
permanency and continuity In purely
administrative offices is an essential. As
we have progressed in the arts of gov
ernment we have learned that judges,
clerks of court and other officials who
do not make our laws, -but enforce
them, should be continued in office as
long as possible, and in the state of
Nebraska we find an ever growing
number of these faithful and efficient
servants of the people continually re
committed to their posts. ,
In this class of worthy public ser
vants belongs Mr. Beckman. In order
to determine his fitness for the office
for which he seeks re-election, it is
not necessary to discover his political
beliefs and his party affiliation. His
office Is essentially non-partisan. Be
cause persuaded that the Interests of
good government demand a continua
tion of Mr. Beckman in his present
public employment, I am appealing to
progressive voters In all parties to give
Mr. Beckman alLthe encouragement
and support they can. C. L. REIN.
WORK OF THE JOKESMITHS.
MubIo Teacher Tour son la Improrlns. but
when he seta to the ecalee 1 have to watch
him very cloaely.
Mamma That's Juit like hie father. He
made hie money In the grocery business.
New Tork Sun.
"So you want to be a base ball umpired
eh?" aald the masnate. "Are yon prepared?
to slve up all your frtenda?"
"1 never had any," replied the applicant.
"For years I've worked In the weather
bureau." Judse.
. "My dear fellow, Juet sire me a few
minutes of your time, I want you to lend
me " , .
"Sorry, but haven't a aecond to apare.
Good day."
"1 waa only solng to ask yon to lend ma
your attention, as 1 wished to pay you that
twenty X borrowed last week, but as you're
In euch a hurry I won't detain you. So
Ions." Baltimore American. -
That one of the professors at Princeton
has had his domestic trials was recently
evidenced when a youna; woman of rather
serious turn endeavored to Involve him hi a
theolosical discussion.
"Professor," she aaked, "do you or do you
not believe In infant damnation?"
"I believe In It," aald the professor, "only
at nlalu." New Tork Times.
I ONCE oUlt A CBtlAlU WB-
ah"ou souMi ifomcm
NOW tMIH UWE WM HSk
fc YOU THINK SH WU. WW
ME R THAT 5TATtWfr? '
, 10UI& ALTER
HOY ADOQETHfS- SHE VllU.
NEVER FWSNE VOU IOfV
CALUKft HEROU
Grimy Orlgg A nwapapr ray offered
m a dollar it I'd let him take my picture.
' Ragyed Roiera And yer refused ?
Grimy Qrlgga Tee; yer eee a photoffraoh'a
got ter go through a bath. Boi ton Tran
script 1
"I hear your daushter la tolnm to marrv
a baron, Mr. Caehly. What baron la he 7"
-wen, rrom what I can see of the advan
tage he la going to be to the family, r
should say he is a barren waste." Balti
more American. . . .
CHARITY
Open your purse
to tne needy, give aid
Tour good deeds on earth
in ins wanes win oe welgnea; -"Do
unto others"
There's a place to be found , .
Ana at an times, a way
' 'Haiti saw hears) Ira riwHaltai '
Open your purse,
To the nurses give aid '
Who minister to all -
In palnt end sickness, have laid.
They're angels of mercy, s
And everywhere go
Bringing comfort and sunshine
v iu iwur una me low
Open your purse
All ve wha rn
If only a "mite1! -
will always keep plain.
"Lay not treausres up on earth. M
For that, ilnnrl HaaI. -.Ill -.11
That the "Greatest of AH" ' '
Is "Sweet Charity" , :
"Somewhere In Omaha."
Omaha. "BHUeVIHW.
At the Four 'I
Rexall Drug Stores
Our exceptionally complete
" stocks Include everything in
.1' the drug line, which a thor
A: oughly progressive drug store
should carry. We watch our
- stocks carefully and replenish
them as often as Is necessary
to keep each assortment un
:, broken. Trading hero you have
the satisfaction of always get
ting precisely what you desire.
We buy our elgara in largo
quantities from the manufac
turers or distributors and make
the lowest possible price by
box or pocketful.
SHERMAN ft MeCONNELL
DRUG COMPANY
Four Good Drug Stores. .
Some Election Oddities.
Florida bars "duelists and their
abettors" from vol inf.
Mors than a dosen states bar de
linquent taxpayers from voting;,
Michigan ana several otner states
bar Indians with tribal relations.
MlssiaslDDl bars from the voting
privilege, all Indians who are not
taxed.
Ability to read the stats constitu
tion is a necessary qualification In
Wyoming. -
Vermonters cannot vote ir tney lacx
the approbation, of the local board of
civil authority.
Vagrants are not voters In Alabama,
nor are embezzlers of publlo funds,
It there are any such, in California.
Idiots, the Insane and persons con
victed of felonies are barred from
the voting privilege in nearly all the
states.
Delaware, New Jersey, south Caro
lina, Virginia and moat of the New
England states penalise pauperism by
taking away the voting privilege.
Mississippi puts up the bars against
bigamists and New York specially dis
qualifies from voting any person who
has been convicted of bribery.
Ohio refuses to let United States
soldiers, sailors or marines vote,, as do
Virginia, Utah, Texas, South Dakota,
Oregon. New Jersey, Montana, Mis
souri, Indiana and Arizona.
As practically every state bars con
victs from the voting privilege, and
there are more thanN 100,000 convicts
in the prisons of the country, election
day will mean nothing to a whole
armv of them.
It Isn't Too Late
to Register
; ' FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE
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"TOMORROW MAY BE"
Phone Douglas 1117
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