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stand in the way of the bill's becoming
a law, and the president signed the
measure.
General Thayer has been called im
provident and unsuccessful Honest men
are often eo described. Honesty maybe
the best policy, but it doesn't always
accumulate afchnk account. Ge'neral
Tnajer since 1853 spent the greater
portion of his lime in the public ser
vice. The go'vernmenr, state and
national, had the benefit of the best
years of his life. Very little of his
time was spent in business for himself.
As United States senator, governor of
Wyoming and governor of Nebraska
he had many jpportunities to enrich
himself after the manner 60 common
in American politics. That he never
haJ an income greater than his salary
and that he is today without means
is the highest commentary on his integ
rity. General Thayer has had his share
or abuse; rat no one ever seriously as
cased him of being in any sense of the
word corrupt. He has earned through a
half century of public life the right to
the title of Honest Man, a rank the dec
oration of which is not yet common.
Samuel J. Randall, the great democrat,
after twenty years" service in congress,
died with a mortgage on his house and
without msaas. Other men with fewer
opportunities than Randall and Thayer
amassed fortunes in politics, and won
the more common title, Successful Man.
Lives such as Randall's and Thayer's
re at variance with Secretary Morton's
declaration.
The success with which the projected
Trass-Mississippi exposition has been
brought to the attention of the country,
the recognition which has been secured
from congress, reflects credit upon the
business men of Omaha. There can no
longer be any doubt that the exposition
will be all that its projectors have
claimed it will bo, and it is time that the
people of Nebraska were taking a more
than passive interest in the great en-.
terprke TheTnuA Mississippi exposi
tion may easily become the greatest
effort of this sort, with the exception of
the World's fair, since the Centennial.
It will be greater than New Orleans;
greater than Atlanta.
Twenty-four states and territories are
interested in this exposition, twenty
four of the richest, most productive -most
enterprising states in the union,
and when these states take up in earnest
such a project it is bound to have a
most successful conclusion. Certaiuly
every Nebraskan should do all in his
power to push the exposition along.
Testimony in in the Bolln investi
gation is Omaha goes Jo show that Lin
coln does Bot have a monopoly of the
peculiar kind of public financiering
that k much in vogue here.
Frequently the resort reaches Lin
eels that Mother is allowed the free
demef the city of Sioux Falls. There
are citizens who assert that they have .
sea him oa the streets of the peaiteu
tHtry. tewr, UBatteBded. Just the other
day a report reached The Courier that
ajesidsatof Couucil Bluffs, formerly
ef.LiucslB, was in Sioux Falls recently
wad met the faUea Napoleon saunter
iag leisurely aJoag the public highway.
Mosher informed the visitor, according
to report, that he had come into the
town to get the mail, and was
waiting to be driven back to the pen.
That portion of the public that is dis
posed to extern! its sympathies to "poor
Mr. Mosher" would do well to acquaint
itself with the actual conditions of
Mosher 's imprisonment before becoming
too sympathetic
It seems thst Major McKinleyand
Tom Reed and old Mr. Morton and den
ator Allison and Governor Bradley and
Matthew Stack-em-up Quay and J. Gold
Carlisle and Mr. Bland and William
Jennings Bryan and a dozen other men
who have their ambition centered on
the presidency are only wasting their
time at least so far as the im
mediate succession to G rover Cleve
land is concernad. Senator Dun
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, the son
of his father, is going to be the next
president ot the United States. He says
fo himself, and that ought to settle it.
A Benatoiial colleague of Simon Came
ron's son said the other day:
"Cameron k in earnest. I was dining
with Cameron one evening two years
ago when he eaid: 'I am going to be
the next president of the Unitau States.
J will not be elected as a republican, nor
as a d. mocra'; I will be nominated and
elected as a silver advocate, and a pro
tectionist of moderation. My admink
tratlon will not be partisan, but will be
one of individuality. My cabinet will
not be geographical, but national. It
will not be selected because of former
political affiliations, but because of the
character and individuality of the men
to be chosen. It will be the administra
tion which will mark the beginning of a
new political era in this country.' "
This determination of the silver
senator from the Keystoue state
W especially hard on our own William
Jennings. And we had begun to feel
enthused in thk state over William Jen
nings prospects!
Mr. Annin, the Washington corres
pondent of the morning paper, k anable
man. He is able to change hk mind
and shift hk position with ease and
agility. But a little while ago he was
.making merry at Senator Thurston's
expense. Now that what seemes to be
the ascending star of the senator attracts
hk attention, he promptly jumps to the
nearest ink pot and reels off forty inches
of unqualified tribute. Mr. Annin k al
ways interesting
auiUBing
Sometimes he k
Mr. Bryan in the recent free silver
county convention condemned the prac
tice of giving candidates the right to
trade delegations, and the convention
endorsed his views. When this practice
k discontinued purity in politics will be
somethitig more than an iridescent
dream.
It k reported that a certain well
known railroad company is taking up a
number of annual passes held by politi
cians, as a result of the action of the
republican stato convention in O.naba
last week. Investigation would prob
ably show that the politicians are not
being seriously disturbed. The Pass is
one of the things that makes the Politi
cian. It would be a good thin?, there
fore, it the former were dispensed with.
Railway, companies in Nebraska will
realize some day that they have bred an
altogether too large crop of poli ticians.
While the people were still marveling
at the surprising and wholly unexpected
tentatve venture of the morning paper
into the field of reform, that paper
dropped swiftly back into the rut, and
now things are going along in their ac
customed way in that newspaper's sanc
tum, and the people who started in to
read the editorials in tbt hope that they
might find something more recent than
Egypt and the Middle Ages have been
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