Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PURLISHED Y MORN = TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTIC Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year Tllustrated Bee, One Yoar Bunday Ree, One Year Baturday Bee Year Weekly Bee Year OFFICES Omaha: The Ree hullding Bouth Omaha: ity Hall Butldin ty-Nfth and N Strects Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl’ Streot Chicago: 160 Unity Bullding, New Vork: Templs Court Washington: Wl Fourteenth Bloux City’ 611 Park Street CORRESPONDIENCE Communi reluting editorial should Omaha Bee, Editoriai De BUSINESS LI Business lotters and be addrexsed: The Be pany, Omaha REMITTANCES, Remit hy draft, express or post payable to The fee Publishing Only 2-cont stamps accepted Iy mall accounts. Personnl checks Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not THE BEE PUBLISHING COMI e fons matter e artm I mittance Publishir STATEMENT OF CIRCULAT State of Nebraska, Douglas Count George B. Tzschiick, secretary of Publshing company, being duly ® that the actuai_number of mplete coples of The Dally. Evening and Sunday Hee, the month of July, 1%, was as 27 Kb 17 27510 18, 27,1 20, 27,300 27 560 27 480 26,700 L 2T 300 27,520 27 6o 2T 27,650 27,520 0,715 . 27 320 Total oo Less unsold and returned co ples. Not total sales.... Net dally average............ 0. B. T78C Subscribed and sworn to before sst day of July, 1000 B. HUNG M Notary O ——————————————————— EAVING FOR SU PARTIES Parties leaving the oty the summer may have The went (o them regularl notifying The Hee B office, in person or by m an often as destred. ———————————————— — Omaha’s census prophets have to go out of husiness, Sp———— Sleeping ear thiev W hecause they never pass the bi man from this state, Lincoln popocrats might try duce the Lincoln city couneil an ordinance prohibiting people clty from voting for MeKinley. The late Senator Ingalls of has earned another credit mark will he has left, which for hre perspeculty is a model of legal [y 1f Mr. Bryan is still in doubt he has been nominated for president he nation by can secure the desired inf consulting the fi of the new — Nebraska extends its congratulations to Senat has been selected to r boring state, low senate. romplim v Dolli resent i . In the Unite If Mr. Bryan is only given opy to make enough notification e may be able to get through t list of planks in the various pl on which he is running —_— Tom Johnson's onversion t I8 advertised under the legend, millionaire for the date” all the sid democratic What about Bryan' millionaires w i »on t Bryan saved out the free s for the populist patient. H mount issue switches with the nel of his andience and is buil plans and specifications of the coon trap. Attorney General Smyth has whole nest of octopi down York. The attorney general s careful lest some of them tentacles wrapped around him prive Nebraska of its only prof —_— General W) romust give belt as the champion climber army. The general is wll It comes to trees, but goes “over the garden wall” of nese fmperial garden and pla Glory among the shrubbery, Musici — Nothing short of the final ca pletured in Revelations can measure of chaos and desols dicted by Bryan in case he fail tlon to the presiden If it w Thanksgiving time the vision ascribed to an lose of — In the midst of the wreek an democratie leglons Chalrman sures the country that his namesake and Teller nre still It is only the part of charity ove m enough friends to act as mourn pallbearers at the November. party fu The democrats of the Fifth slonal district have demonstra A& stiff bluf® will accomplish in of securing recognition from t lists, The First district demog Iaid down a full hand, will p a little sore to see their part in the other end of the state ral chips with a pair of dences Popocrats found it necessa something to square themsel the fraternal insurance compan the baghbreak of Auditor Co urally they vesorted to a fake, ruse iy so teansparent th forced 4o try again. time oM een now and election to Investigate yarns of this thew to be effective, Year $ 0 Street news .27 600 1. The address will be changed must be posted regarding the prosperity of Neb; get their ING N Adressed t should Com. 8 Al order mpan yment ¢ xeept o aceepted PANY TON. Y. 88 The Bee worn full and Morning during 27,670 27,11 27,570 27,500 27 480 27,010 27 810 27,500 HUCK me this ATE Public. MER, for Bee by ness il now ka | rth of a | and in- to pass of that Kansas for the vity and art, whether 8P e ents and ver, who ts neigh 1 States wortunity speech he entire latforms o Bryan Ohlo candi as? that he other ilve is ¢ person t on the darke found a in New hould be and de tector, up the ©of the ht when an Titus the Chi ants Old tastrophe fill the tion pre- s of eloc P near might be ince pie. d ruin of Jones as Nevada faithful 1o leave and neral in congres ted what the way e popi ts, who hably he friends ke in the ry ves to do with nfes after nell. Nat . but the will T There is too much | h| in wh class for BRYAN T0 THE POPULISTS, Mr. Bryan's speech accepting the nom ination of the fusion populists is on a | lower plane than his address accepting the democratic nomination. It very familiar tone, especinlly the tion in which Mr. Bryan endeavors to the farmers that have ¢ rived litHe benefit from prosperity, He did not have the temerity to deny that the country but by argument to ar that in this pros ¥ mer had little share. Yot of fact the condition of the producers of the United is better than ever hefor many of I within the t three years gotten ont of debt, oth rs have greatly reduced their indebt edness and not a few of them have comfortable bank accounts It is manifestly untrue the farmer has not had the prosperity of the last the evi 1o the contrary I that extent due to republican policy unquestionable, &inee under the operation of that policy the home de mand for the products of the farm vory greatly The last dem ocratic tariff, which Mr, Bryan assisted in framing, hundreds of mills and factories and crepted an army of idle labor. Netossarily the consumption of agricultural products was lessened The republican tariff reopened the mills and ereated a demand for labor, with the result of largely increased con sumption. The farmer depends for pros perity upon the home market and the | effect of republican policy is to build up | the home market. Mr, Br, to that policy While making no specitic declaration | for the free coinage of silver, Mr. Bryan | makes it sufficiently plain that he still dev to that policy What says in this connection is commended to the thoughtful attention of those who profess to believe that if clected Mr, Bryan would make no attempt to contravene or to defeat the purpose of the gold standard law. Tt Is admitted that some of the obligations of the gov ernment ean be paid in silver and no one who really believes in the honesty and sincerity of Mr. Bryan ought to doubt that he would pay out silver as far as possible. What Mr. Bryan says in regard to the volume of mo shows that he has yet much to learn, He take no acconnt whatever of the lnw of sup ply and demand in respect to commod ities, The ation of Mr. Bryan that “the republican party cannot be relied upon to extinguish the trusts so long as it draws its campaign contributions from their overflowing vaults,” is a characteristic bit of demagogy that will exert no influence with intelligent and fair-minded men. 'he democratic party has done nothing against the trusts and it has shown itself incompe- tent to devige an intelligent and practi ble plan for dealing with them. The election of Mr. Bryan would not affect the trust situation in the slightest gree and those who faney that it would | are deluding themselves, There is no question hefore the country in r to which Mr. Bryan has shown a less | intelligent comprehension than that of the trusts, As to the “paramount issue” Mr. Bryan added nothing in his Tope h to what he said at Indianapolis. Th are farmers—it is to this class that Mr. Bryan chiefly addressed his remarks—who may be frightened 1 the spectre of “militarism,” but we have too much confidence in the sound com- mon sense of farmers generally to be lleve that most of them will in a stunding army of less than one man to every 1000 of the population any danger to the republic or any mennce to the interests or rights of any por tion of our peop! has a show they is prosperons, spe make it the f as A matt agricnltur, ates, clous sought app r 1 N n ns whole | \ I now ¥ them have | v that share fow to his of years, | being ov whelming, this ix to a consid erable Increased, closed an is opposed see PHILIPPINE CONDITIONS. On September 1 the Taft mmission will the government of the Philippines, for which it has heen pre- paving since its arvival at Manila in May. A report from Judge Taft, the 1 of the commission, to the sec 'y of war, expresses the confident be- f that little difficnlty will be met in fnaugurating the new government. Most of the prominent Filipinos, it is siald, have acknowledged that the islands have to hope for under Ameriean rule than they could have had in the success of the insurrection. Many of the active Insurgent leader availed themselves of the offer of am ken the onth of allegiance and gone about their private Probably not over a score active hostility, to our forces, says a Washington dispateh to the Philadel phin Ledger, tl being the officers of the insurgent army who obeyed Agui naldo’s order to resort to guerrilla war fave. 1t ix said that some of these would quickly take the oath under the amnesty proclamation if it were not for the fact that they believe the wmunesty not apply to guerrillas and f would ge shot as bandits if they came in. It Is understood that this is the motive that ke Aguinaldo in hiding In North Luzon and Judge Taft urges such offers to the insurgent chief and the gnerrilla s will indu them to abandon hostilities and ace the new regime, The ninety days in which the insur gent Toaders may comply with the proc lamation of amnesty expires September 1. but the Ledger corresnondent states that the period will he extended and the terms moditied, afford Agui naldo and the officers with him a chance to come in. A number of captured in surgent officers, among them the ablest of the Filinino commanders, | cently been set free on parole after tak ing the oath of amnesty. 1t is presumed that these men will exert their influence | with their fellow countrymen for a ces sation of hostilities and the acceptan. of Amer rul Indeed, of them have already done so, but with | what effect is not reported it is id, regards the as ene aging and is of the opinion that (he problems involved in assume nesty, business, a remain in th s nt %0 us fo have re some ) N | mission | can be convinced that they have been | and much Tar have | THE OMAHA DAILY likely to give far less trouble than has n antieipated. When the commis ion shall have assumed the govern it of the islands its first aim will to establish good courts and schools me v as possible there will instituted Jocal civil government. | the army of occenpation will | doing police duty and this | ossary for some time 'fl‘ fict appears to be fully es nd that fs that the opposition rule mtined to 1y of the Filipios and that | majority of the people are the guerrilla bands, which ol and plunder and are still numerons good deal of trouble wixts In carrying on a | | | while as rapidly he or continue may be ne come. One tablished to Ameriean small min the large terrorized hy I now " | enogh to ennse It Aguinaldo | guerrilla warfare the police work of the American soldiers may have to he kept up for months, but with the inaugura tion of government under the com it is possible that even Agni naldo may be induced to follow the | example other lenders and acceept nnesty OMAHA'S CENSUS POPULATION. The announcement of the consus office placing Omaha's population for 1900 at 102, will be distinet disappoint. ment to every person in the elty, In spite I the alarms that have been given every one conversant with the situation expected a better exhibit than this and it is doubtful it our people done justice in these figur Irrespective of t leged inflation of the 1800 census returns f Omul which rated the population at 140452, it cannot 1 sfully gainsaid that Omuha has a larger population today than at any time in its previons history r than terr years ago. This is proved by tangible nvldl'll«'l-l side. The school enumeration and school a substantial gain during the last ten years, The fig ures of the voting population reglstered at the ballot hox are equally conclugive, Omaba has many more houses and dwellings than in 1890 and all habitable dwellings are occupled by prosperous people, The eirculation of The Bee, which is one of the most reliable barom eters of the population movement, indi cates a constant increase which can be founded only upon an increased popu- lation, It must be remembered, too, that Omuha and Seuth Omaha really form | one city, although organized into two wunicipal corporations. The two eitic in 1800 were credited with a pobulation of 148,000 and will have by tife present nsus 128000, a falling off of 20,000, uth Omaba's’ growth from 8,000 to 000 is as much Omaha's growth as if it were an integral part of this city. Under these eircumstances the census enumeration declaring that Omaha's population hias decreased 26.98 per cent in the last ten years must be radleally wrong somewhere, Just where the | trouble lies will be the subject of con- | siderable discussion, | Nebrask great trust-smashing at- torney general is disporting himself | among the nabobs of New York, brand- ishing his patent trust exterminator and threatening to uproot the trust mag nates in their very homes. As the attol ney general is the only living, self-act ing, sure-working, trust extinguisher N braska possesses it is sineer to be hoped that he will escape unharmed | from the danger of contamination and | be returned to this state with all his pristine purity on every snsus show Our friends, the enemy, are now pro testing that Grand Army reunions arve | no place for politics. What is troubling them is that the men who fought to pre- | serve the union are naturally opposed to the assuults being made upon the party which carried that war to a suc cosstul conclusion and have no sym- pathy with the pretenses of the Bryan | ites in the present campaign. It i sible to bar politics from the reunlons only so far us to exclude political speechies, Pos: Mr. Bryan sa with him four years ago for 16 to 1 free silver with an understanding of the money question can be against him this year. What about Senator Stewart of Nevada? Stewart bus been the liyving embodiment of the silver side of the money question for twenty-five years and more, yet says that he las had enough of Bryan. Intimuting that he does not understand the silver lssue is adding insult to injur; ut rains, which have ren dered cortain the corn crop of Nebraska, have stimulated the market for feeder ttle, Financial confidence, which has followed the advent of the: republican party into power, 1 the farmer who raises the corn to goet mon rate for feed ing purposes and thus Inereases the value of his Nebraska farmers will think twice | vote for a change. o reasonable crop. A letter written by Mr. Bryan a fow years ago 15 being quoted fn a populist | paper, in which, referring to the popu list congresswan from the Fifth Ne beaska disteiet at that time, ho says that he should be retained in congress it least until a demoerat could sueceed himi. This inay throw some Hght on the turning down of Sutherland, the list candidate for of u democrat without gy copt his democra clulms ox taxpayers will lave $2,800 10 support of the inty fale this year simply conrt holds that the law hoard no power to 1 the county fai I that Is the law it should before the taxpaye pay for another show of Douglas o pay so-called ¢ [ the gives the county fuse the omot ching led on this kind e ise demands of « Chafrman Butler of tional commitiee gevidently the populist nu took one il anatomy and decided it would not be prudent for him to go to Topeka and meet the presidential candidate, 1f ator the government of the Islands seem be will only come 1o Omaba bhe will find | surrounded by an army of 30,000 men, in | Kitchener, | Smith-Dorrian having charge of co-opera- | direct 110,000 men with them, s that nobody who was | wkes it possible for | rnomination, In favor | a popocrat who can give him a useful preseription for healing the stings of in gratitude Away with Him, Tndianapolis Journal No matter how large an army he has had, General Apathy never won a victory Trinmphs of (ne Japs. Buffalo Express The Japanese seem not only to have horne the brunt of the fighting at the last, but to have beaten even the Americans in getting the news back to civilization " Another Capltal on (h Ve ‘hicago Chronicle behind the times, her imperial majesty Tsi An has likewise established a peripatetic capital. Some day her majesty | will foregather with Mr. Kruger and Senor Aguinaldo and they can swap reminiscences of transacting state business with the dastard foe a short length to the rear ¥ Not to be i onors Evenly Distributed. New York Herald, Awards have heen made in such abundance at the Paris exposition as to detract seriously from their value as indications of actual merit, but that will not hurt them for ad- vertising purposes. Every exhibitor can | point with pride to the medals or other re- wards that he recelved, and it is not in- cumbent upon him to mention that his com- petitors fared quite as well as he did. Making Africa a Solitade, Philadelphia Record It is the design of the British com- mander in South Africa to “make a soli- tude and call it peace.” No other inter- pretation can be placed on Lord Roberts’ recently fissued order, which cancels all previous arrangements for oaths of neu- trality and for passes, holds all burghers who may hereafter surrender as prisoners of war, and directs that houses in which armed Boers may be sheltered shall be destroyed and that farmers shall be mulcted heavily in flnes for damages to railroads in the vicinity of their farms This edict practically provides for Boer extermination or for deportation accord- ing as the beaten men shall fight or sur- render. With their property confiscated, their homesteads destroyed and their purses beggared by fines the submissive burghers will be no better off than thase who shall fight to the bitter end. The treatment of these brave people, whose only crime is a passionate longing for the right to govern themselves, can be ex- plained only on the hypothesis that the British desire an entirely new brood of colonists in South Africa DE WET WORRIE: BRITAIN, Skillful Lender of the Hoers Ont- &enerals the Enemy, Baltimore American. General De Wet's escape from the Brit- Ish army in South Africa is one of the most remarkable military achievements of the day. According to British reports, he was command of four distinguished generals, Methuen, lan Hamilton and tive branches, while Broadwood's cavalry brigade did the scouting. They penned De Wet up precisely as General Roberts had ed, and were 80 certain of his sur- render that they anticipated it in the re- ports. When De Wet had pluyed with them and doubled on them until it was in- judicious further to risk his command he marched away to join Delarey in the Rust- enberg fleld of operations, The English credit De Wet with 7,000 men. 1f_ this is true the assertion that they are guerrillas will scarcely hold water. Delarey has several thousand men under him, and Kruger and Botha have This is a formidable force, and after De Wet's splendid general- ship the Boer forces will be largely in- creased. This is not his first brilliant achievement. In his long march from Bethlehem to the Vaal he was penned up several times by the British and eluded them at the last moment In the same way. Such a general is certain to Inspire new life in the Boers and encourage them to de- fend their country, while tt will corre- spondingly dishearten the British. It has already had that effect in England, especi- | ally among the government's supporters. The English have grown heartily tired of the war. They scent danger in other directions which may demand all of their resources, and they do not relish the pros- pect of having what remains of an army of 230,000 men tied down beyond release in South Africa. The expunse account fis worrying them. It is far greater than has bee admitted and in the next budget provision must be made for extra taxation, The Boers are now in a country with which | they are perfectly familiar, and they are not likely to suffer for food for many mounths, even if their supplies by way of Delagon bay are cut off. The ter- ritory over which operations must be con- ducted is so rugged and mountainous as to give the finest opportunities for De Wet's generalship. Delarey is also an able sol dier, and the two together promise to make | it lively for the British SH W ORATORICAL TRICKS, Sample of the Kind the Fusion Can- didate dalges | New York Tribune The people of Lincoln, Neb., are said to be generally disinclined to have their city | made the scene of non-partisan demonstra | tions in honor of the democratic candidate during the campaign. Instead, therefore, |of creating a rhetorical storm center at his own home, Mr. Bryan will journey to other places, where his presence may be desired and whence his speeches can be disseminated as easily and effectively as if | they were delivered at Lincoln Explana- | tions of this somewhat unexpected devel opment differ, but it is not wholly un- reasonable to conjecture that his more in- [telligent fellow citizens, including possibly some who may feel constrained to vote | for him, shrink from attempting to coun |vvr{ml an appearance of interest and re- | spect while listening to such a declaration as this from Mr. Bryan's lips he re- publican party, which was unwilling that a black man should he sold for $1,000, now claims that a Filipino can be bought fa $ ‘The principle is exactly the same. It has been curious to note on the part of who formerly despised the shallow | intellect and oratorical tricks of Mr | Bryan, but who have now attained to |such a “deep-seated prejudice’” against President MeKinley that they opealy or Iy “hope for his defeat, a growing | erness to convince themselves that the democratic candidate has acquired a pow erful mind and a sober judgment during the last four years, has heen imbued with | deep sense of responsibility and become exponent of great truths. Doubtless their cherished hostility to the president has made the task easier than it would have been, but yet the | strain their nerves must have been corsiderable already and they have good r to shudder at the prospect before them when they find in a speech delivered by their apostle under the inspiring circumstances of his return to Lin oln from the notification trip, so melaoshol |an example of ignorance or deceitfulness | as that which we have quoted. How is it | [nny~H)lt‘ to talk gravelysof the mental and ‘mnr.n] growth of a man who is capable of making such a statement with every ap peara of confidence and satisfaction? men a an expressive | otherwise upon Ason new utterances of this sort should be heard and applauded elsewhere rather than at Lincoln there is no occasion to reproach them with a lack of hoswltality and local pride, | | palace grounds and extracting as much com- | artitle New York Imperialism implies friends who are so since and Iaborfougly alarmed about imperialism an fmpending evil in the United States will admit that. As yet they may not have projected their fancy far enough the object of their fmmediate excitement to grasp the fact, but if their attention fe called to the point they will doubtless pause in their predicitions for a moment and take note of the obvious conclusion that im perialism without an emperor or his equivalent would be unthinkable. We ean not call up intelligible image Caesarism without a Caesar or of the im perfallsm of France without either the First or the Third Napoleon. Even in the Celestial which {8 the most splcuous Instance In modern times of what our friends think that we are coming to, though there s a very fecble emperor, his tunctions are effectually performed by the dowager empress, without whose stern will and despotic temper nothing at all satisfy Ing to the anti-imperialist imagination would exist Who is the emperor, the thought of whom and.) an emperor, Time our an of empire con makes every individual hair on the gray | heads of the anti-imperialists stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine? Logically it should be Major William Mc Kinley. He it is who has been at the head of the government duriag the brief period in which the threatening cloud bf im- perialism has been gathering swiftly on our horizon. It is he who has imposed his will on the representatives of the people verted the constitutional powers of his office, wielded the military and naval forces of the nation as an of usurpation and conquest, defled the opinion of the people and woven the threads of the con piracy in which our rights and libertie being strangled. (If some of metaphors seem a little tangled, it be remembered that the gentlemen from whose utterances they collated affect the perfervid style and seek emphasis rather than accuracy or lucidity.) It is his re election that the anti-imperialists are oppos- ing as the worst of evils. Presumably it is within the second term, of which they seek to deprive him, that imperialiem in its ar ™ must beyond | per- concrete form will arrive, 1t he Is elected nd shall refrain from having himself owned on the steps of the capitol by Chiet Fuiler with the blessing of Bishop it will be. they probably assume, hecanse, having the substance, he will indiffer: the insignia of the im- rank it anything wonld check the terror | from which the anti-imperialists suffer long enongh to enable them to get a cool | and clear perception of the thing that ter | rifies them. we should say that it would he | the thought of what =ort of a figure Major William MeKinley would present as an emperor Up to the time of the negotiat- ink of the Spanish treaty even the anti- imperialists never found in:his career a single fact, important or petty, that does not show him utterly and almost ridicul- ously unfitted for the role or anything | remotely resembling it. As a politician he | has unquestionably been very successful, [and in a sense a leader, but it has been in the way that Wendell Phillips bitterly said that Seward led the anti-slavery senti- | ment as the foamcrest leads the wave"” | As president he has own the utmost | anxiety to ascertain and follow the will of | | the people. This has not been, in our | opinton, because of a willingness to sacri- | fice his own convictions in order to secure popular support; it has rather been be cause his mind does not readily form con | victions different from those of the average | of his fellow-citizens, and because he has a modest and deep-seated confidence in the | general soundness of the popular mind | when it i made up. Doubtless he has made mistakes in some of his interpreta- | tions, and there have been occasions when | his countrymen would have rejoiced ex- | ceedingly to see him show a bolder leader- ahip would have followed him with ecager fidelity. But these are not the mis- takes of a man ambitious to be a dictator. | |11 is not by the temper of a McKinley that the current of national life can be changed or free institutions undermined and over- thrown. A great people will not be en slaved by a president who is constantly and anxiously listening for the first trust- worthy expression of their wish. Justice otter only nt to ROUND PEKIN'S HOARY WAL ™ Chinese Affairs, Smashing the gates or walls of the For- bidden City, the quarters of royalty In Pekin, must have been as great a shock to the plebelan natives as to Queen An, Prince Tuan, and others of the royal houschold The Forbidden, or Sacred, or Purple City is a city within a city, enclosed by two miles of wall faced with red tiles. In this en- closure are the palaces of the imperfal fam- \ly, government buildings, five temples on Prospect hill, the bell tower, drum tower; the Lamasery, containing a huge gllt statuc of Buddha and accommodating 1,000 or more Mongol and Thibetan monks; the temple of Confucius and also the Examination hall, tho arsenal and the residences of various high dignitaries. Prior to 1894 even the foreign ministers were not permitted to “‘desecrate” the sa- cred grounds of Chinese royalty. In that year, for the first time, representatives of forelgn governments were received at the palace itself. Now the dispatches indicate the “foreign devils” are camping on the Men and | fort as possible out of the situation. It takes something stronger than a tiled wal: to block the march when civilization goes a-gunning. Minister Conger's experience in Pekin though pretty warm, was not the hottest corner he has been in. He had smelt powder before and was familiar with the whirr of bullets and shrick of shells from better directed guns. “A braver man than Eddie Conger never lived,” said Charles Grascup of St. Joseph, Mo., to a reporter. “He is of that daring type of the American soldier to which Lawton, Logan and others be. longed. 1 don’t believe the man ever felt danger, for he never showed it. 1 used to think he was careless and exposed himself when it wasn't necessary. 1 recall one oc- casion vividly. It was one of the engage- ments during the 120-day siege at At- lanta. Companies D and I were sent out on the skirmish line. We routed the en- | emy In force and drove them into their | breastworks. Our work as skirmishers was then accomplished and the boys naturally began to fall back under cover to allow the to form and move on the intrench The rebels had opened a heavy v and musketry fire upon us. | went over and stood behind a big tree to get out of their line of fire. It seemed to be raining lead and men were falling all around “Captain Conger stood out in the open, lines ments. RODIGAL'S RETUR Cincinnati Tribune: Senator Stewart Is a friend of silver, but he is also a friend | | ot America Indianapolls News | thinks that Mr. Bryan has abandoned the | | sncred cause of sflver. 1t this is really so, | the cause is indeed lost, for Bryan has been its most insistent and faithful champion. Minneapolis Journal: Senator Stewart of | Nevada has public announ his | allegiance to the republican natlonal plat- | | form and confirmed the statements which | he made privately to his friends in Wash- | ington last winter. In Nevada free silver is dead, while expansion is very much alive and in favor, which explains Senator Stewart's action. He is trying to represent | the prevailing sentiment in Nevada in this change of frout and his announcement 18 important because it shows how strong a hold expansion has in the very heart of the country which was so wild and unreason- ing in its support of Bryan in 1896 Globe-Democrat: Senator Stewart's re- turn to his old place in the republican party is part of a movement which is under way all over the west. It was noticed at the re- publican state convention which was held in Colorado a few months ago that about three-fourths of the dolegates to that body were men who supported Bryan in 1596, In every state of the west there are scores and scores of prominent silver republicans ot four vears ago who are back in the re- publican ranks this year. About the only prominent men among the Teller seceders of 1895 who will be left on the Bryan side by November is Teller himself, and it is noticed that he is saying nothing in favor of Bryan this year. Senator Stewart SNAPSH It is a trifie late for Hon. Willlam A. Peffer to become alarmed over the honor of the nation However, he may have a little fun in com- bating some of his old speeches. Cleveland Lead The people of the | United States have several times made the mistake of voting themselves out of work as they did in 1802, They are not Ilikely to repeat that mistake this year, Indianapolis Journal: Is there a demo crat in the land who believes that Mr. Bryan would not urge the repeal of the gold standard law if he were etected presi- dent? If there is let him speak up. Chicago Tribune: In the absence of other national calamities the able demo- cratic orators should be able to make Washington Post saber in hand, calmly looking at the enemy’s position “‘For heaven's sake come out of sight and protect yourself, Can't you see your men droppiniz all around you?' I said to him “There was a faint smile on his lips. He turned suddenly aud sald to me: ‘Don’t stand there, Charlie. Come out here and fight ‘em. We bave got to take those bat- teries.’ ust then the lines came up and 1 took my place in the advance with the rest. The companies were mixed up somewhat in the charge, but the regiment was together and we took the position. “It was a hand-to-hand encounter. Eddis i | | | effective use of the stoppage of that rail- way train by an army of grasshoppers near Kalamazoo the other day. New York Tribune Mr. Bryan made a peculiar explanation of the platform of his party when speaking upon the issues on Thursday last. In the course of his remarks he said: ‘I believe that we here are trying an experiment,” etc. That fs what intelligent voters believe the Bryan policy to be and they will have none of it Portland Oregonian: “You can't secure title to a'people by force or purchase,” suys Statesman Bryan. No, but you can secure title to the country they live in and if they don't like It they can sell out and leave; just as the men of the Hudson's Conger, with his saber drawn, was among | the first to silence the masked batteries.” | China's crack regiment is known as the iger Guards.” 1ts members are supposed (o be very tigers when turned loose in war Then, too, they are dressed in yellow, the imperial color, with stripes of black, in imitation of a tiger's skin. The cap is made of split bamboo and has cars to it A bamhoo shield with a monster's h painted on it completes the fantastic uni form. A “tiger” officer in full uniform, as he appears on occasions of review or parade. is & matter of no small interest and wonder to the stranger. A highly polished helmet terminating in a crest of gold and a tuft of colored hair on a rod eight fnches aboy the cap: a robe of purple or blue silk, richly adorned with gilt buttons and reaching to the feet, which are encased in black satin boots, constitute a costume of picturesque ness and inconvenience His implements of war are in keeping | with the uniform. All of them glitter with gems and pre metals. What sort of fighters the gers’” make remains to be ous seen The general belief is that they not superior to other bLranches of the Chinese army except when theroughly impregnated with the spirit of fanaticism. Their reputa tion is largely based upon past glories and they appear to think of their acornments than of the seriou warfare They are carefully proportions, and enjoy numerous privileges On whose side they are fighting now largely a matter of conjecture are now more selected men, of good Now the Bills Come In, Baltimore American By the time that China has settled with more look at the sore spot on his &en- | 1f Mr. Bryan's feliow townsmen prefer um‘nm eleven nations which will demand in demnity she will feel that the Boxers are a costly luxury murdering aries and attacking legation that, alon and mission amusements triumph however fascinating, are best 1-~r|j Bay company skurried out of Oregon after the treaty of 1546 secured the country to the United States. Philadelphia Ledger: Without doubt the most convinelng reason presented for the public apathy of which the campaign man- agers complain is that inteiligent vol have long belicved that the result of the contest of 1500 between Mr. McKinley and Mr. Bryan would end as did that of 1846 viz, in the defeat of the latter. The only difference in the result is commonly thought to be that Mr. Bryan's defeat, and Mr. McKinley's victory, will be greater in 1900 than they respectively were in 1506, A sense of confidence in the certain of the republican party appears to pervade the entire country, and there i5 little or no doubt felt by an overwhelm- ing body of of the re-election of President McKinley by a largely increased majority in the electoral college WEEPING LAWYER, voters T That Have Tears to Shed” May Shed Them Legally Now. Washington Post The capacity to weep in a fetching manner is an item of no small value in the assets o lawyer whose sons accused of Ye specialty is defense of per- | murder or any other in famous ctime. The possession of that asset in large measure has the fame and fortune of many a shining light of the bar use has averted the hemp from doserving neck and restored to + man have state some years of sorvice within | Add 1o gracetul delivery and fine rhetorical finish the tact to know when and how to weep and the ability to produce the tears and regulate the output to blend with and supplement vocal and you have an attor who is equably equipped to serve so by defending the innocent or to be curse 1o his fellow-men b of Justice made its artistic many a rope societly would the penitentiary walls any who el [ | and manual effect ney ciety a | staying the arm from the earth—who really felt the heart- rending agony their tears indicated. Like the most eminent tragedians of the past they identified themselves with thelr client and felt tha grief that rent the souls of his wife and children, his mother and sister Again there have heen those—and this kind may still bo extant—who possessed a genius tor crocodile tears. While believing their client to bo “guilty as indlcted” and feeling that the ends of justice could be answered only by his conviction, they could, for a sufficient consideration, do the weeping act 80 well that the jury and the bar, the spec- tators and sometimes even the court would Join in the lachrymal exhibition. Both of these varicties of the weeping attorney are far less dangerous now than they wero some years ago. Changes in the mode of criminal practice in numerous states bave detracted from the commercial value of tears, whether genuine or stimulated, and have. also, strengthened the safeguards of society. Formerly it was the widely preva- lent custom to give the defense the closing speech, the last chance for an appeal to the jury. But frequent miscarriages of jus tice, 4o to tear-conked appeals to the twelve good and true men on whose word the fate of the prisoner rested, caused legislatures to reverse that rule and put the public pros- ecutor down behind the defendant's counsel The effect has been salutary. Still there is cash value in lawyors' tears and it is interesting to know that their right to shed them has recently been vin dicated by a decision of the supreme court of Tennessce. An attempt had been made to have a verdict set aside and a new trial ordered on the ground of undue influence upon the jury through the tears of coun sel. The opinion of the court was deliv- ered by Justice Wilkes. “Tears have al- ways been considered logitimate arguments before the jury,” he said, “and we know of no power or jurlsdiction in the trial Judge to check them. Indeed, {f counsel his tears at command it may be seriously questioned whether it is not his profes sfonal duty to shed them whenever proper occaslon arises.” Since the trial judge has no authority to check tears it follows that the counsel may determine “when the proper occasion arises.” And we trust that the profes- sion, especially the younger members, whose habits are not fixed and in whom a latent capacity may yet be developed, will particularly note what the court says as to “professional duty.” To have “tears at commaud” and not to shed them when and where they will do the most good may yet come to be regarded as good cause for disbarment. 1In view of such a possi- hility may we not confidently expect that the faculties of law schools will find room in their curricula for a few lectures and perhaps a small toxt book on the subject on which Justice Wilkes discourses so con- vincingly? Such lectures, illustrated by object lessons, would be a novel and an at- tractive feature of either the undergrad- uate or postgraduate course, By all means let it be tried. PERSONAL POINTERS, the Germans in until Walder- It is now China keep see arrives Cuba took 140 prizes at the Paris exposi- ticn, not to speak of the golden opinions the teachers won in this country. Having captured a station or two on the Clinese bank of the Amur river, Russia now complacently announces that that stream is no longer a frontier boundary, but an in- land Russian river. Secretary Hay figures as a leading Ameri- can man of letters in a recently published London interview with the English poet, Swinburne, in which Mr. Swinburne speaks of Mr. Hay as having great originality in his verce and a distinctive American note. The shirt waist fdea seems to have struck one St. Louls man hard. Bernard Jennings, & resident of that place, has been arrested and fined because, according to the allega- tion of his wife, he gives her only $5 of his earnings and spends the rest on women's clothes, which he puts on as soon as he comes home at night. Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden of Colum- bus, 0., who was recently elected a member of the city council, has each month receiptod for his salary and has then turned it into the general expense fund, as well as $50 to which he is entitled as per diem. It also transpires that he expressed a desire to be informed whenever the council meets in the course of his vacation, which he spends n the east, as he wishes to be present ach trip would cost him about $70. incumbent on to on fighting LIGHT AND BRIGH Chicago Tribune: Goodman Gonrong— Wot's de matter wid Euy wot give ye de big silver plunk a minute ago? Saymold Storey—1 guess he's havin' a fit, 1 told 'fm | wanted de money to pay & laun- dry bill Detroft Journal: A doctor is truly emi- nent in his profession, we suppose, only after he has published a popular yet sclen- tific 1ist of hot weather “Don’ts” in eight- cen large quarto volumes. Roston Transeript: Hicks—The easy writ- ors haye a deal to say about “the dead of night.” When is thai, I wonder? Wicks—The dead of ‘night, I siuppose, i when everybody s buried in slumber. Ad that toga are “Itis 8 Cleveland Plain Dealer all the handsome women at of heroic size.” 'hat must be a golden opportunity for the pluin little women who are just & lov- able size. Philadelphia Press: McJigger—Never met Mme. Capilla, eh? Ah' there's a woman of whom it may truly be said “her face is her fortune. “Thingumbob—Professinal beauty, eh? McJigger—No, she's a bearded lady. Washington Star: “Do vou think an hon- est man is out of place in politics?” “Certainly not,”' answered Senator Sor- ghum. “We want more of ‘em. Those are the people that are willln' 1o walk right up to the polls and vote and not charge you a cent.’ “1 don't sec how you can KUCCOS A8 A Star in emo- 1d the theatrical manager man with dramatic as- she asked 0w do vou expect to get the nec- vertising?’ he demanded. “You you are actually living with your Chicago Post expect to be tional driama to the sociely pirutions Why “Why esBATY tell me husband not? b Detroit Journal: Her conduct the extremely wdvanced woman “She does these things under of the zeftgelst!” we observed, satisfaction She heard us and smiled sadly paryo:” whe mad, "I do them (o' amuse the Oh, what could he more humiliating, more positively disheartening, than this, y hetokened the impulse with much L ABY OF THE NIGH) Josh Wink When the day world Goes wearlly t There's a crooning sonk, in a whisper soft, abames dreamily from the west; And 1t brings us peace and a restful calm, LU sikhs i the Gading Hght R Tis the “evening hymn to the world. lullaby of the in Baltimore 1s done, and American the tired old its rest wornout The night “Come to my breast, 1 will give you rest As round you my conl arms eree The cares of day P Are tar awiy Oh, § tired world, B0 sloep.” the night breathes low come, And trotibles fly awa While dreamy peace filis With the twilight cool And the tired, tired smile smile of a calm delig phyrs bring in Hillaby of the s the shadows the heart at last, and gra world wears a sleepy The As th he ( “oothing volce ight Bleep, 1o m Neath the silent There have been lawyers of great repute and possibly their kind bas not perished While my drowsy stars And forget the day, For it's fur away Oh, poor, tired world, go