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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1896)
i E? -- C i 'V . .-3 ?- 'it , Uf -r . w -y .s-ifrf ,' $ vdtfiPxo.Mi1 u! i4 v. ii &s r -JSp-- JS., fas 4?tr i t &U6: ixTHxron omciitii AS IKOXIKL1U KATTBB J- ' PUBLISHED EYEBI BATUBDAT .mCNBIERPfillliK'UBPIiBLISliNei Office 1132 N street, Up Stain. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS Editor Bobseription Rates Is, Adraacs. .Faraaautn t2.06 Blx month 140 Thrss months M Oae month 10 Single copies f iiqjjitjcbmumi OBSERVATIONS miiiiiMBu Before the state convention The Courier warned the republican party that the nomination of a man like Jack MacColl would be disastrous. But the ring was too strong to be broken, and Jack was nominated. A man whoso salutation is generally followed by an invitation to take a drink and who ia the boon companion of Tom, Dick and Harry, is not the kind of man that the ' people of Nebraska wish to make a gov ernor of. Ho might have done in territor ial days, though even then there were men of character whose spotless linen was- a sign of the respect they had for themselves. A blue shirt is not a sign of a broad humanitarianism, nor of a high grade of political honesty, nor of any thing except eccentricity. The Toms and the Jacks have been defeated in Nebraska once and for all. The people want a man whose neighbors and towns men are accustomed to address as Mr. Somebody. The new state officers have the re - J It c .0! - " "--g!J i. Wl lss amwmmm i ... T" V- - .m""" . viiM5jw?y (y$e LmssmVBW. g iqi LINCOLN NEB., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER llrl89G, spect of the few who know them. Their reputation is that of honorable men. They have been elected with out the aid or consent of a ring. Tbero fore they will have no pledges to fulfill, nothing before them but their duty, and no particular record behind them. They will have a chanco to show their honesty and ability. Nebraska credit wili improve and the capitalist and populist will shako hands. An hon est and capable administration by the state officers of whatever party, will steady wavering credit. Governor Holcomb has leen the chief executive of the stato for two years. On no occasion has ho failed to perform the duties of his office. His election to a second term is a fitting recognition of his honesty and faithfulness as well as a rebuke to the gang between whom and the public treasury ho has stood. Those who havo had tho advantages (I use the word in Its educational sense) of hearing Senator Thurston in Phil lipic, eulogy and prophesy this summer say that he was magnificent. There is hardly an office or honor that tho re publican party has to bestow that will adequately reward him for his services. The only troublo is that if be gives up his senatorial seat to go and get his re ward Mr. Bryan will drop right into it. In spite ef which he really deserves something more than having his picturo published in the illustrated papers as chairman of the nominating convention at St. Louis. Something from the party, the pictures were only a natural consequence of distinction. In view of tho danger of finding his chair occupied by the form of W. J. Bryan if he leaves the senate chamber it may be necessary to give him something in solid silver with an inscription commemorating virtues which only posterity has not yet recognized and been grateful for. The outrages to the American flag .which, the newspapers say, were perpe trated by populists in the late cam paign show the propriety of removing that emblem from politics. It should be against the law to print upon the flag tho face of any candidate or candi dates. The union should be of first im portance to every American. When the flag of which it is thesymbol is stamped with the portrait of. a man, who repre sents a policy which a large minority of the people believe will impoverish the United States, they 'are apt to forget their reverence for the one in their de testation of the other. It is unpatri otic for one party to assume the flag as their distinctive badge. When their candidate is elected, if the other party or parties, shall have accepted their claim to the flag, theythe defeated party,' ESTABLISHED IN 1S86 i t-.- may not accept tho new president as their president and there will be various kinds of trouble. It is penal to mutilato a dollar, yet any one who likes may have anybody's picture printed on tho flag. Before the next presidential campaign a law should bo passed making it a penitentiary of fense to paste the flag on sidewalks or buildings whero it mav be defaced, or to print anything upon it that mayobscuro tho stars or stripes or cause any loyal American to waver in his allegiance to what that flag means. Tho party who appropriates tho flag and mak:s of it a party badge, especially if it succeed in making a party sign of it, ia doing a dangerous and foolish thing. The unattached foreigners who aro pouring into thie country have no tradi tional love for America. If they see the pictures of the candidates of the other party printed on a banner of red and white stripes and white stars there is nothing in its position to prevent them from tearing it down and stamping on it. What do they know about the union of forty-five states more or less, and the fact that when a man is elected presi dent of tho United States he is tho head of the nation of democrats, republicans, populists and prohibitionists? They need to be taught the oneness of this country, and they will learn it more quickly by the universal reverence for, and acceptance of the symbol of unity than in any other way. "I wish to say now, before I forget it, that tho most public-spirited citizen, the man of the most undaunted civic cour age, the bravest, wisest, most patriotic, most far sighted party leader, the stout, est defender of law and honesty and the rights of property, the statesman to whom the gratitude of tho inhabitants of New York is mo6t justly due and most warmly shown, the statesman to whom this victory of good faith and good order brings the bright est promiso .for a continuing career of usefulness, is not the little democratic politician in Wolfert's Roost who has been lying per dn in his cyclono cellar since the Chicago convention. Poor little Davey! Ho didn't know how the cat would jump, did he? His friends told him, but ho would not listen to them. Has he got any friends now? Poor little Davey! He was'ebeap in his beginning, cheap in tho middle, and cheapest of all in his inglorious end." The face of the Montana silver statue to be shown at Herpolsheimer's next week is a likeness of Ada Rehan but the form is that of Mrs. Caroline Beach. The model was selected from a vast number o applicants by Sculptor Park Mrs. Beach's figure was very beautiful sod as near to the proportions immort tPRICErFIVElCENTirf y . i r alized by Greek sculpturo as an artist could hopo to find on this eartb. In eizo she was almost heroic, for sho was five feet nine and a half inches high and weighed 170 pounds. Grace and strength were as happily combined in her as in tho Venus de Milo. Today sho is an inmate of the alcoholic ward of Bellcviow hospi tal. To destroy such beauty seems no or dinary sin, but that is what Caroline Louise Beach has dono. Today she lies distorted and hideous, with hardly a trace discernible of tho charms that attracted a nation. Her former beauty lends great interest to the sordid but tragic story of hor life. In tho begin ning she was a vain woman, who mar ried a good steady businessman in a small Illinois town. Sho developed a craving for notoriety. Sho moved to Chicago, and they drifted apart. She and ber husband wero not living to gether when sho becamo tho model for the Montana statue. After that he re nounced her.and she came to New York. When living pictures wore tho rage in New York, Caroline Beach posed as St. Gauden's Diana at Roster and Bials. She was only half an inch shorter than the Madison Square Diana and she weighad fifteen pounds more. Artists said that the lines of Mrs. Beach's figure wero more beautiful than St. Gauden's ideal. Her famo and success at that time, alas, led to her downward career. Tho cold bottle and tho hot bird proved an irresistible temptation. The lady con tinued to bo five feet nine and a half inches high, but sho lost many of tho proportions that attracted Sculptor Park back in the days before the World's Fair. Sho fled tho calcium and tho platform of living pictures, and took a whirl at the "legitimate." Sho tried a season with Lillian Lewis, and placd parts in "Only a Farmer's Daughter'' and "Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl." Last March sho reappeared in New York as a member of George C. Miln'a company. Mr. Miin is an unsuccessful Chicago preacher, with a Roman face and somo elocutionary force. He in tended to play at tho Broadway theatro for ten weeks. The engagement was cut in half. Two of the weeks'ho played in "JuliuB Caesar." Mrs. Beach attracted much attention. She played the part of Lucius, the boy page, who has a scene with Brutus in the tent after tho quarrel with Cassius and on the eve of the battle of Phillippi. When Mr. Miln's company reorgan ized Mrs. Beach was without an en gagement aad drifted into the inebriate ward of the hospital at Bellevue. She has lost her mind and raves. Some times she thinks she is back in Lincoln, 111, and that she is the Katie Larimore i I1 I t I ni
