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VATIONS. 8
OBSERVATIONS
Book-Binding.
Western publishers issue neatly
printed, effectively covered books,
books just as comely as any issued by
eastern publishers. But they do not
open wide without straining their
backs. After a while the reviewer,
and reviewers are always cranky
and hard to please, gets tired of hold
ing open .the book, he is trying to get
the sense out of, and he breaks its
back. A book might as well be asolid
block of wood if it will not open. It
is like a door to which the key has
been lost, As a door it is dead and is
only a part of the wall. A novel or
book of short stories is read In the
evening when the time for muscular
exertion Is past. The reading is con
sidered a recreation and as a reward
for manfully bearing the heat and
burden of the day. The small stub
born resistance of glue, of linen thread
and of leaves too tightly pressed to
gether is irritating. After the leaves
of the book have been pressed as close
together as water or electricity can
get them, they are submitted" to an
other machine whose purpose is to
sew the leaves together tight enough
so that only the most persistent
reader can read the outer part of the
secrets on the pages. Breaking the
back of such a book as this, after an
hour's mercy on it, Is as satisfactory
as killing an annoying fly. A book
thus stiflly and tightly bound
will not last long if it have
many readers. Like the dead Indian,
it Is only good when its back is
broken, and then dissolution is at
hand. Silk thread is elastic and the
difference in the cost of each book
would be but a few cents. The differ
ence in the length of the life of a book
thus bound is incomparable. But
most Chicago publishers believe that
a book is made to shut and not to
open, for their books are sewed and
glued so tightly that they open with a
squeak. It is fortunate, that the
Bible opens with the least protest
and remains open. It is not for the
secular pen to speculate, upon what
the ministers who consider a text for
half an hour would say if the Bible
were bound or locked at the back
after the Chicago fashion. The dis
cipline of the service has doubtless
trained them to suffer in silence
much greater trials.
Defeat or Dishonor.
The republicans of Lancaster county
are at this time confronted with con
ditions which demand serious consid
eration. At the legislative session
of 1899 Mr. D. E. Thompson went into
the republican caucus and there for
nearly sixty days, by all the arts of
politicians of his calibre, sought to
become the party's candidate for
United States senator. His ambition
was not gratified, and immediately
upon the action of the caucus being
made public, he united with the
fusion leaders, political enemies of
the republican party in an attempt
to defeat the election of the caucus
nominee, Honorable M. L. Hayward.
Shortly after that attempt proved
abortive, it was publicly charged that
Thompson was a party to it. The
Journal of March 10, 1899, said: "Sev
eral men were seen yesterday who
claimed to have held in their hands
the proposition offered by D. E.
Thompson to the fusionists if they
would made him senator. They claim
that he agreed to practically every
thing in their platform, with the ex
ception of sixteen to one. and besides
promised to keep out of republican
caucuses, to make Benton MareL his
secretary, and to do all in his power
to turn over the city of Lincoln and
the county of Lancaster to the fusion
party." Under that, charge Thomp
son remained silent. What man who
placed any value upon his honor would
remain silent under such a charge if
it was false? Never since the affida
vits of fourteen reputable men were
published last June to the effect that
Thompson did eDter into an agree
ment with the fusionists. having for
its object the defeat of Judge Hay
ward, in which he pledged his solemn
word of honor that if he was made
senator by the vote of the fusionists
he would oppose measures ad located
by republicans and remain out of re
publican caucuses, has he published a
word in explanation or denial. And
now he is again a candidate for sen
ator. Richard O'Neill, John J. Trom
pen, A. W. Lane, John H. Mockett.
Jr., C. R. Tefft, E. J. Shellhorn and
Charles J. Warner, legislative candi
dates from this county, are each and
all pledged to vote for him. Resting
upon such a pledge ought they to be
elected? If, after his defeat, Thomp
son had exhibited loyalty, acquiesced
in the action of the caucus to which
he submitted his candidacy, and again
become a candidate for senator, could
he have asked mere from the legisla
tive delegation from this county than
iis united support? Having been a
willing party to a perfidious attempt
.to defeat the party's choiccas ex-,
pressed by its regularly-constituted
organization, is he now entitled to
the same reward from republicans
that he might have asked had he sup
ported the republican nominee?
Shall Roscwater and Thompson re
serve to themselves the right to bolt
party nominations whenever they
choose and insist upon fealty when
ever it suits them to become candi
dates for office? Are the hewers of
wood and the drawers of water in the
republican party, its rank and tile, to
be denied the right to denounce, to
execrate, to punish by their votes;
men whose personal ambition is their
license for any and every act of
treachery to the repuolican party;
who never felt an impulse of party
fidelity; who have no taste for the re
ality or an image or representation of
political virtue? The time has come,
as it may never come again, to confer
upon such apostates, who care no
more for the party than does a dog
for the bone it gnaws, whose purpose
is to ruin when and where they can
not rule, their iitting reward. No
self respecting republican who prizes
fidelity above perfidy will vote for one
of the legislative candidates whose
purpose is to vote for D. E. Thompson
for United States senator. To punish
treason to the party now means more
to the republican party of this county
than the election of ten United States
senators.
Mrs. Decker, of Denver.
Delegates and visitors to the Feder
ation who so lately heard Mrs. Decker
speak will be interested to know that
she is a candidate this fall for the
state senate of Colorado. Mrs. Deck
er's distinguishing characteristics are
good-sense and good taste. With
rare appreciation she fits her words
and conduct to the "ccasioti. No one
of dull intuitions or sympathies ever
has this gift of spech and silence.
Mrs. Decker as a legislator would be
incorruptible and unselfish. Her de
sire for an election to the state
has &ome admirable raison d itre and
I hope she will secure it. She is very
popular, no man or woman more so in
Colorado. The good sense which in
forms her words and deeds will be of
great service to Colorado and to her
as a legislator. That very sort of
sense, which Mrs. Decker possesses is
rarer than genius and more servicable
to her fellow men. By its light she
sees the world as it is and what can
be done to make it better. As a state
senator she might endeavor to have
some pure food laws passed, or help
the industrial legislation of Colorado
There are many departments that
men have neglected or have failed.to
see the necessity of legislation for.
1 do'not believe there arc roaify Wur
men fitted to be useful in a state or
national legislative body. Some of
the suffragists and members of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union have looked at one qucsUotV
and one sido of that so long that they
arc not-fitted to legislate t for a nils'
cellaneous body of citizens of a!)
faiths and coming fmni all nations to
this republic. Mrs. Deckers catholic
temperament will prevent her froat
ever becoming an extremist. If shf
wins in Colorado she will be a credit
to woman and refute scoffing the
world over.
To Reward Tn
Mr. Thompson's inability to fulfil)
the requirements of a representative
position. have been conspicuously illus
trated on two occasions-and-bis cow
ardice in one case was disastrous to
the fortunes of several hundred resi
dents of this city and county. When
he betrayed the caucus by whose de
cision he bad promised to abide, he
hurt himself, but his plot and its Inv
minent success caused Senator Hay
ward's heart lesion and his final death.
To select Mr. Thompson for United
States senator after these two public
demonstrations of bis lack of fidelity
to constituents and to a cause, would
be fatuous. The rank and file of the
party in this county are busy about
their own affairs on the farm or in
the shop, but when it comes to voting
they will reflect upon the wisdom of
rewarding treason with office. If the
continentals had bestowed an Import
ant position upon Benedict Arnold,
after his treason at West Point, his
tory would not have recorded the later
victories of the ragged men in Nasrw
ington's army.
Along These Lines.
Ministers as well as spasmodic
speeebmakers use these three words
inteuipcrately. They serve as a
emergency clause when the speaker Is
embarrassed or while be is arranging
another period and must keepun talk
ing. If we could exclude such trite
meaningless phrases from our vocabu
lary the effort would be worth whtte..
One lady at the Federation who maoV
a five minute speech used the phrase
twenty-five times. An audience i
always restless if the -exercises )'
more than two hours and that is
liberal estimaieof patience. Nearly;
every speaker at the Federation, ex-
cept Miss French, Mrs. Decker and
Chancellor Andrews used this phrase
repeatedly. And think of the time
consumed in repeating it. If it were
otherwise unobjectionable, and really
meant somethiog its constant repeti
tion would cause its rejection by
fastidious speaker. It is a curious
fact that the moment a man or wo-
man begins to talk grandiloquently or
vaguely about the elevation of-Use;:
race be drops into ''along these lines, ":
as- inevitably as Silas Wegg dropped
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