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-V. . i , r M' K " r 9 A J vc .-aVm NO. XXVIII ESTABLISHED IN 1886 PRICB FIVE CENTS LINCOLN. NEBR., SATURDAY. JULY U 1000. THE COURIER, Official Organ of the Nebraska State Federation of Women's Gubs. Emtkbesin the postoftice AT LINCOLN SECOND CLASS MATTES. PUBLISHED EVERY SATUBDAY bi IBE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS. Editor Subscription Kates In Advance. Per annum 1100 Six months 75 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 The Courier -will not be responsible for vol nntary communications unless accompanied by return postage. Communications, to receive attention, must be sienod by too full name of the writer, not merely as a guarantee of good faith, but for publication if advisable. r o c t vfA&, l OBSERVATIONS. 8 00'' c Platform English. Most American citizens, disfran chised or otherwise, conscientiously read and endeavor to understand the two platforms quadrennially issued by the republican and democratic parties in this country Some sections or paragraphs in the democratic plat form built in Lincoln, carried to Kansas City and put together again there, are unusually hard to translate. For instance this one in regard to monopolies.by wljich a large number of prominent democrats make their liv ing and are profoundly and touch ingly shocked by, in public. We pledge the Democratic party to an unceasing warfare in nation, State and city against private monopoly in every form. Existing laws against trusts must be enforced, and more stringent ones must be enacted pro viding for publicity as to the affairs of corporations engaged in interstate commerce and requiring all corpora tions to show, before doing business outside of the State of their origin, that they have no water in their stock, and that they have not at tempted, and are not attempting, to monopolize any branch of business or the production of any articles of merchandise, and the whole constitu tional power of Congress over inter state commerce, the mails and all modes of interstate communication shall be exercised by the enactment it. "More stringent laws must be enacted, providing for publicity" etc, (mure stringent laws must be enacted) requiring all corporations to show before doing business outside of the State of their origin, that they have no water in their stock," (more string ent laws must be enacted) "that they have not attempted and are not at tempting to monopolize any branch of business or the production of any articles of merchandise," Here the sentence properly ends but soue one who lfas a horror of periods and the momentary pauses they indicate, made this platform, for it goes on after a comma in spite of the dislea tion "and the who'e constitutional power of Congress over interstate commerce, the mails, and all modes of interstate communication shall be exercised oy the enactment of com prehensive laws upon the subject of trusts." The last sentence of the para graph is happily intelligible. How ever if all products handled by trusts were put on the free list, such action would notefTect the ice trust which is causing more suffering to the people of tha largest city in this country than any other combination. Ice and liquid ice, for which the platform ex presses such a truly democratic re pugnance, have always been on the free list. The meaning of part of the fore going is that a corporation must be suppressed when a board or commis sion decides that it is "attempting' to establish a monopoly or has at tempted to establish one. Every business man in Lincoln republican, populist or democratic. Is ing" to drive his competitors business. The advertisers of clothing, drygoods, drugs, furniture, groceries and all other commodities in the market are apparently right eously confirmed in their intention to monopolise a given market. And it is such determined faith that wins, that builds up a community and un consciously disseminates the blessings of prosperity. troops from what was Spanish ter ritory. Moreover it is the powder belonging to the state that the popu lists are using to express their joy. J J Lawlessness. The Courier has no excuses to make for a reckless mob of university stu dents, but what denunciation and arrests would follow their tiring of the state house cannon fifteen times at one o'clock A. M ? The enthusiasts who secured the powder from the state capitol poured in a pound to a load. The fifteen detonations shook the windows in the neighborhood of the capitol. They wakened the s:ck and made them fretful for the rest of the night. Moreover it was a curious J j Webster Davis. A traitor in the camp Is more dan gerous than a thousand brave ene mies, for the one Inside can show the enemy how to pass the sentries, he can divulge the plan of the campaign and report the amount of ammuni tion on hand. It is well for the re publicans, therefore and a portentous threat to the democratic cause that Webster Davis lias left the former at the opening of the second battle. So far, bad faith has characterized Mr. Davi' history. He Las a persuasive tongue and an ingratiating manner. He used both while he was a republi can to secure various otlices for him self. Ollice was to him a salary and an opportunity, or a vantage point from which to attack the administra tion he was serving. By reason, per haps of some visual defect Mr. Davis has never been able to see near objects distinctly and truthfully. Everything at a distance he sees in a rosy haze and can prove to himself, every time that his friend, the ene my, is all right, and that his friends, who may be suppressing an insur rection which if successful, means the murder of Innocent non-combatants, are all wrong. From now on he will see the republican camp from the democratic side and the democrats may depend upon it that its republi can proportions will be fairer and its atteirini- causo more Just t0 Webster Davis out of inaoiuaioiiiueaeiuucrduj wuu nvu -welcomed-ulm and actually seem to be trusting him. - The Kansas City Star, in a recent issue, contains a very plain statement of Mr. Davis' life and letters. It re publishes, a picture printed in 1896, endeavoring to show how he might have been shot through a hat on his head and not shot through the head. According to the picture, it might have been done by a man twelve feet high, by a man three feet high, by a man up a lamp post or a pole, by a man who leaned a ladder against Mr. Davis' shoulders, climbed three feet above him and was very careful how he shot, by Mr. Davis himself while holding the hat in his hand, or by a man in collusion with him who shot the hat while Mr. Davis held it high on a cane. Au the time, Mr. Davis came rushing out of a dark alley in Kansas City claiming he had been shot by an assassin, a short man. The relative position of the two holes in the hat and the absence of any abrasion of the sca'p of his head in- r. mens inaugural for a party whose head in nf c-omnrehensive laws UDon the sub- sists that he represents wronired Deo- dlcate that the shot must have been ject of trusts. Tariff laws should be pie and that his mission is to see to fired from within three feet of the amended by putting the products of R h fc AgujnaIdo shall be no longer ground, from 12 feet above it. or SSpSIJundffi pfca S chased by men with guns, that fhe by Mr. Davis himself. Dramatic 11 tion. Cubans, the Porto Ricans, and the cense, which Mr. Davis is so accustom In the case of the second Teutonic Tagals shall be presented with a bill ed to take, may excuse a man of his sentence a fondness for puzzles and of rights and surprised and delighted temperament for attempting to ex conundrums has induced me to study by the withdrawal of all American cite public sympathy. At that time he was in danger of being entirely forgotten and all his oratorical and dramatic nature rebelled against ob livion. And In the end he was will ing to shoot his own hat to escape what he considered premature burial. Mr. Davis' political history has been a succession of desertions. Major Warner the leader of the re publican party in Missouri in 1892 discovered what he thought was Davis and got him nominated for congress. Warner stumped the state with him. Davis was defeated but he attained what he wanted, the cen tre of the stage and advertisement. In 1894 he was nominated for mayor of Kansas City and elected, largely through the experience, help and in fluence of Major Warner. Davis said of Warner at this time: "He will forever be the brightest star in my firmament, for he first recognized my good qualities." Davis first act as mayor was to insult Warner and to inform him that all was over be tween them. In 1896 Davis was u candidate for the governorship of Missouri. At a meeting in Kansas City holding the printed declaration of the principles of the A. P. A. in his hand, he indorsed it paragraph by paragraph. The third section opposes the holding of office by any one be longing to the Catholic church. I maintain now as a young Ameri can, caring not one bauble for office in this nation, because God Almighty has given me a clear head and a strong arm, and I can make my living anywhere. I say now, first, last and all the time, 1 stand for America against any country on earth and I oppose any subjection, whether from England, Germany France or Rome itself. There is no poetry in that is there? Then the third section is all right. Walking across the stage to a group of newspapermen he said, lean ing over them: "I want to make the statement now that the newspapers are too cowardly to give American citizens their due. Then the hat episode. In the spring of 1896, Davis declared that the Journal of Kansas City, which would no longer support him, of fered him a bribe of $15,000 when he was mayor, if he would oust the chief of police. In a month he wrote an open letter denying his statement. In the autumn of 1:90 Davis was out of a job and wanted to be governor. The influence of Filley and the A. P. A. was insufficient at the state con vention and he was defeated. Then he deserted Filley and the A. P. A. and joined himself to Kerens who was national committeeman. Kerens in troduced the Hopper to members of the republican national committee and he went through Ohio spellbinding for Mr. McKinley, whom he contin ually spoke of as "God-like." Presi dent McKinley made him assistant secretary of the interior. He im mediately began pulling wires to un dermine his patron Kerens and get bis place as national committeeman. His attempts were proven by letters written to, received and shown Mr. Kerens by intluential country poli-
