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OBSERVATIONS
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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
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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,'
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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
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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
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