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should appear. . lie is an elderly man
who looks like an old sea captain, one
who nas spent his life battling with
the storms and riding them out; get
ting into port, safely voyage after
voyage by reason of seamanship, cour
age and a good ship. He may not
have been on the ocean much, but his
face has the likeness of those who
ride the salt waves. Old, determined,
American, he was one of the Spanish
commission, who accomplished the
treaty which Mr. Bryan resigned from
the service to induce his fellow
democrats to ratify and has since
attacked from the stump. Sen
ator Frye related some of the diffi
culties of making that treaty
and explained the American reasons
for the cession of Porto Rico, the
withdrawal of the Spanish from Cuba
and the cession to the United States
of the Filipino Islands. His recital
was so interesting, his style so graphic
and positive, that lie accomplished
the really difficult feat of satisfying
an audience which had come to see
one man, with quite another one.
Men and women are but o!d children
and a story told by a gifted sailor,
who lias actually been a principal in
lights on sea and land is as breathless
ly listened to by four thousand as by
four little children around a hearth,
at bedtime when the lights are low.
But Senator Frye was simply doing
his duty, for when the face of Senator
Hanna began to shine in the southern
doorway the dear old salt instantly
withdrew carrying a large store of
alTection and appreciation with him.
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Cleanliness.
The City Improvement Society met
on Thursday in the parlors of the
Union-Commercial club. Although
neither the membership nor the at
tendance of this society is as large as
it should be, the meetings are always
interesting and lively. The protests
against the condition of the sidewalks
is repeated fortnightly. When wo
men can vote it is certain that there
will be cleaner walks. An occasional
Mr. Catt may have lonesome spells,
get discouraged and let the lire go
out, but what of it, if men and women
can walk on clean pavements? It has
frequently been claimed by country
politicians that the moral tone in
Lincoln is lower than in any other
place in the state excepting Omaha.
It is certain that physical surround
ings have an effect upon manners and
morals. The walks of Lincoln would
disgrace a frontier mining settlement.
The young boys of the high school are
set an abominable example and it
is the frequent complaint of parents
that Lincoln is a discouraging place
in which to bring up a boy. Around
the First National Bank a crowd of
loafers is allowed to stand from sun
up to sun-down. Some of them are
respectably dressed and all of them
arc orators and tobacco chewers who
use saliva to emphasize their periods.
They are frequently joined by a police
man who has not courage enough to
ask the loafers to move on. The con
stant sight, of these idle dirty men Is
demoralizing to youth who easily get
:v- idea that life is one long loaf, and
chew. The expectorating crowd is
smaller on the Eleventh and O corner
but it is not less addicted to chewing
and spitting. Women are large tax
payers in Lincoln and there is a great
injustice in allowing a few hundred
men to make the walks impassable for
them. Women of. Lincoln who pay
their taxes, and have for thirty years,
are obliged to go to banks grocery
stores, dry-goods stores, the postoffice
tcetera through filth, that if men
wore skirts, would be cleaned off the
walks and stay cleaned off. This is a
beautiful city. The sky is blue as
Italian skie.a ever were and the sun
shines three hundred and fifty days
in the year, but the walks arc nearer
than the skies and the eyes must
guide the feet through sights which
sicken the soul and smells that
wrench the stomach.
The council has been repeatedly im
portuned to pass an expectoration or
dinance but without effect. Such an
ordinance lias been passed and is Gf
fectlve in New York city, which is
controlled byCroker, who cannot be
accused of ultra-fastidiousness.
It is not the street commissioner's
fault that the epidemic of diptheria
in Lincoln is not wider spread. The
microbe-infested and soaked wooden
blocks have been used to fill up holes
in Sixteenth street near the Q street
school and other streets. Three cases
of diptheria are reported from one
room in theQ street school. It is not
the fault of the street management
that the youngest born in every house
is not gasping for breath. The street
commissioner's plan and purpose was
doubtless not murderous but economi
cal. Its effect however would be as
fatal as Herod's edict if it were not
for the dry healthy climate and the
obstinate health of the blessed little
children of Nebraska.
each and all pledged to vote for D E.
Thompson for United States eenator, is
not a vote for these men an endorse
ment of tne action of Thompson in bolt
ing the caucus and attempting to de
feat its nominee!
D. E. THOMPSON'S SENATORIAL
CANDIDACY
And the Legislative Ticket.
Shall Perfidy be Made Profitable?
D. E. Thompson was a candidate for
United States Eenator in 1S09. and for
weeks sought the nomination in a re
publican caucus. As Eoon as he was
defeated in the caucus and Judge Hay
ward was nominated, Thompson en
tered into a scheme with the fusion ists
for the purpose of defeating Hayward
in the legislature. The agreement
which he made with democrats and
populists under the name of fusionists
has been repeatedly published. Mr.
Thompson is again a candidate for sena
tor, and in view of his candidacy here
are a few
Pertinent Questions to Republicans:
When D. E. Thompson, as a republi
can, went into a republican caucus dur
ing the legislative session of 1399, and
there Bought to become the party's
caudidate for U. S. senator, did be nut
become in honor bound to abide by the
result of the action of that caucus,
whether that action was favorable or
unfavorable to his candidacy?
After that caucus made Hon. M. L.
Hayward its nominee, did D. E. Thomp
son, in seeking by a combination with
fusionists, political enemies of the re
publican party, to defeat the will of the
caucus and prevent the election of its
nominee, act the part of a high-minded,
steadfast, and faithful republican, or
the part of a perfidious, unfaithful, and
unworthy candidate for office, who, to
gratify his ambition, would voluntarily
place upon himself and willingly bear
the brand of treachery to the party
whoce representatives had supported
him for the office to which he aspired?
Is a man whose political action is thus
blackened by 6uch an act of party dis
loyalty, unredeemed by a single virtue,
entitled to the support of decent, self
respecting republicans for a high and
honorable position, the acquisition of
which must in effect operate as an en
dorsement of his unworthy conduct in
the attempted betrayal of the republi
can party?
If one who proved recreant to the
republican party and offered to betray
it into the hands of the enemy shall be
allowed to receive the support of the
legislative delegation from Lancaster
county, elected by republicans, will not
treason to the party be encouraged
rather than condemned?
So long as the above named candi
dates are pledged to vote for D. E.
Thompson for United States senator is
it not the duty of evety republican to
refuse to support them for the purpose
of showing that the action of Thomp
son in attempting by collusion with
fusionists to defeat the nominee of the
party is nor endorsed, and that his
treachery is execrated?
Does the fact that recently these can
didates have published a card in which
they state that they are republicans,
and will go into a caucus upon the ques
tion uf senator and stand by the result
of the caucus, warrant republicans in
voting for them? Who. aside from him
self, pretends that D. E.Thompson is a
republican? Do not his actions speak
louder than bis words? Did he not
take his senatorial candidacy into a
republican caucus two years ago and
keep it there for nearly sixty days, and
when rejected did he not attempt to
defeat the caucus nominee? When
these men stand pledged to vote for
Thompson is it not evident that they
are far from condemning his action?
Are men who have no higher concep
tion of party fealty worthy of the sup
port of republicans? (Circular.)
Inasmuch as John J. Trompen, Rich
ard O'Neill. Arthur W. Lane, John H.
Mockett, Jr , Clifford R. Teff t, E. J.
Shellhorn, and Charles J. Warner are
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These Federation notes by an Omaha
woman in the Woman's Weekly are re
printed because many views of one
occasion are always interesting, because
I like Mies Fairbrother's crisp style,
because in my own report I forgot even
to mention the inspired little address
delivered by Mrs. Sawyer, and because
criticism is good for us and may assist
the program committee of the next fed
eration and the speakers too to avoid
this year's mistaken:
The women do not like the informal
ballot. They must have a committee.
An amendment was introduced doing
away with the informal ballot and mak
ing the presidents of all the clubs a
committee on nomination. If women
will not be sensible and cannot see that
the informal ballot is the only Amer
ican way, there is no doubt that the
large committee composed of all the
presidents will make a good substitute.
It will be a caucus pure and simple,
but the women won't know it. The
only difference between the committee
and a regular caucus is that in the first
instance the club elects a woman to be
president and she goes down to the
state federation and votes in a caucus.
By the other method the club would
elect a woman cr two according to the
numerical strength or the club, to go
into caucus and represent the club or
the delegation. It is a difference with
out a distinction, but it keeps the
dreadful word "caucus' out of the
meeting. These things are all humor,
ous, but the majority rules, and with
out a caucus an informal ballot is an
impossibility. It women could only
know that a caucus is the only thing
which stands .between tho voter and
monarchy in this country they would
have more respect for it; but the mo
ment the word caucus is spoken to an
ordinary woman she is expected to bo
very much surprised, and in fact, dis
gusted, bo thnt it must not bo men
tioned. But "a rose by any other name
will smell as sweet," so it does not mat
ter. A committee of all the presidents
will do, and after awhile, in four or five
centuries, things will get easy.
The Nebraska Federation of Wom
en's clubs took quite a stop upward and
onward this year, for it was udmitted
by all that tho most interesting and best
day was the day devoted to practical
subjH:ts domestic ecioncH, the schools
and industrial quostions. It was a long
day, too, beginning at nine o'clock in
the morning and lasting until ten in the
evening, with Mrs. Piatt Decker of
Denver, and Chancellor Androwq of tho
State University, as tho best of the
wine.
Mrs. Mary Moody Pugh of Omaha,
covered herself with glory by giving tho
women a bright, interesting program in
the forenoon with several Bhort papers
which were all inside tho time limit,
and in the afternoon one of tho bright
particular stars was Miss Whito of
Wayne, who made perhaps tho most
telling speech of tho whole federation.
The applause wus so great that her
time was extended by un.animous wish
and her brightness, wit and common
sense all combined to mako her u favor
ite, if not the favorite.
Tho city of Lincoln was in its best
bib and tucker and the weather man
smiled and kept bright days on band in
unlimited quantities every bit of tho
time. There was only one fault, and
we will mention it first in order to get
it out of the way. Tho church where
the meetings were held was so chilly
that every woman took cold, and all
suffered from lack of warmth every
forenoon. It was positively beastly on
the platform in the drafts and it was
an unanswerable conundrum on all
ides, "Why could tbore not bo u little
warmth, if only for a short time in the
morning?"
The place of meeting was inadequate
to the crowd but larger than tho wom
en's voices, so that could not be called u
fault. Why can't women learn to talk
out loud when they must talk? Of
course, a woman who stands before two
hundred of her sex is in danger, thero
is no doubt of it, and it is always a
miracle when she gets out alive, but the
danger is not lessened by making every
woman in tbe house either pity her or
hate her.
Miss French made a very dramatic
entrance into the Federation, just at
the right time, as Mrs. AppT&m said,
when we had a long, tiresome business
session and needed a change and some
thing pleasant to see and hear. Her
good stories, told as only a story-teller
may tell a story, made everjoae laugh
and laugh long and heartily, so that she
must have felt herself a real blessing.
The election of officers was as har
monious as Buch things usually are, in
fact, it was more bo. The women voted
to Bustain a decision which one of their
number pronounced unparliamentary
and then wished they had not done so.
They attempted to reconsider it and
failed to have anything like a two
thirds majority necessary for reconsid
eration, and then found fault with the
decision of the chair, that the motion
was lost. It was all very 'comic'" as
Teddy Rooeevelt would say, but it was
not very long.
Mrs. A. J. Sawyer was also on tie
program and had something practical
to say, as she always has. She urged
the women to remember how many they
number now, and to keep up their re
eponsib lity. She taid that it the club
