Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1900, Page 4

THE OMmAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without 8unday), One Year Dailly and Sund One Year 1llustrated Year Bunday B Baturday W 6.0 Omaha: The Bee Bullding South Omaha: City Hall Building 5 Afth and N Streets Council Bluffs: 10 Fearl Street, Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding ow York: Temple Court Washington: 1 Fourteenth Street Bloux City: ‘611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edl torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Company Omaha. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order ayable to The Bee Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btato of Nebraska, Douglag County, ss George B. Tzschiick, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn #ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee, printed during the month of August, 190, was as follows ....27,630 27,580 27,500 27,500 oY 27,200 27,510 27 420 27,320 27,650 27,870 ..27,358 27,120 27,000 27,240 27,080 27,130 26,850 27,000 27,120 27 040 27110 27,220 20,680 26,900 27,270 27,400 10 1 12 13 " 15 16 27,46 Total Less unsold and 845,220 returned coples Net total sales Net dafly average GEORGE R, TZSCHUCK Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to hefore me this dlst day of August, A. D, 100, M. B. HUNGATE, tary Publfe. ———— e his is Lahor Day, so dedicated in hovor of manual labor. And no calling i« more honorable than that of manual labor. — One of the local democratic clubs has had a water excursion. But the novel cxperience will not be emulated by en- T1ous democrats, The difference between Labor Day of 1900 and the same day four years ago talks londer and more forcibly than all the Labor Day speeche; — Chicago is promised vigorous gas war with cut rates and other inci dentals. The gas consumers will pay for It just the same in the long run —— It is to be hoped the prize fighters will now subside for a little while—at least until they find a new fistic Eldo rado by grace of sportive legislators, The local Bryanite paper persists in seeing spooks all over the republican field, but republicans eannot see them except by the use of democratic eye glasses, Omaha is honored by the selection of one of its residents as head of the Pythian sisterhood at their national convention at Detroit. Omaha bows its acknowledgments, Great men are frequently most appre- clated the further away they get from home, which may account for the sparse erowds greeting Mr. Bryan in Omaha compared with his receptious in Indiana, 1t isauing proclamations and addresses to the public insured success at the polls the prolific output of the fusion populist national committee should take the re- sult out of the doubtful columu at once, The democrats in the Kentucky legis lature propose to revise the Goebel law by toning déwn its harsh provisions, but retalning all the features designed to insure democratic ascendancy I tive of the votes that may be the polls, spec- L oat Complaints from Paris indicate that all expositions are troubled with damage suits and suffer from leaks in the man It will take the Paris show ably longer to wind up its busi- ness than it did the Transwmississippi exposition, Is it not about time for. the Br, organ to begin printing its array of evi dence to prove that the United States has a sceret alliance with Russia, The proof is certainly just as conclusive as the alleged evidence of a secret alliance with Great Britain. emt———— The steamer State of Nebraska is one of the vessels held in quarantine against the invasion of bubonic plague in the port of New York. There should be no suspicion attaching to a ship bear ing that name, because its namesake is enjoying the best of health, And now the substitution of Adlai Btevenson in place of Towne by the populist national committee is held up by the vice chairman, who is reputéd to have been opposed to the substitution, as “a sublime example of the renunciation of partisanship.” This is a new name for selling out a party under the pri tense of fusion for the sake of reform. ————— Colonel Bryan has passed through Omaha again on his way east for an- sther speech-making tour, but the thou- sands of enthusiastic admirers failed to turn up at the station to speed on their hero. On the contrary, only a handful of Bryanites took the trouble to pay their respects to the candidate, '"T'was Qifferent in 1806, The latest campalgn roorback is a rarn to the effect that Secretary Hay Is to retire from the cabinet because of alleged disagreement with the president as to the policy to be pursued in China, The story is explicitly denied by those who would be sure to know if there were any disagreement, but that will not prevent the Bryanite press from spread INSULTING The frenzy POPULAR fnto which the Bryanite spokesmen are working themselves would really be pitiful if it were merely feigned, Here is a sample from the official populist organ published at the Nebraska capital, taken from the | editorial page, where it appears under| the caption of “High Treason | That a portion of the leaders of the re publican party are engaged in the most damnable conspiracy that ever disgraced a nation can no longer be doubted. They are plotting treason and nothing but treason No utterances that Vallandigham ever made during the civil war were as treason- | ¢ able as some of the editorfals in the re publican papers or utterances by some of their campalgn orators. As proof of thie statement read other parts of this edition of the Independent where those editorials and utterances are printed verbatim, just as they were written or spoken. Very many of the old founders of the republican party firmly believe that a conspiracy has been entered into to overthrow this government and establish a monarchy in its place. These are the men who helped to elect Lincoln and stood by him all the time when he was making his fight for the Declaration of In- dependence. These republican leaders are traitors. They are conspirators. They are committing high treason every day of their lives. They are in collusion with the heredi- tary enemy of this country and the enemy of all republics. They have made a secret | ! alliance by which the upholders of monarchy in the old world shall assist the belicvers In that form of government in this country Spooks and bugbears! A treasonable mspiracy to overthrow the republic and build up a monarchy over a world wide empire, enslaving fts subjects and extinguishing the last spark of liberty The persons who utter these ravings cannot belleve them themselves, much less can they expect sane people to glve | | redence to such wild nightmares of the imagination, For more than thirty years the tional government has been under trol of the republican party and the re public has not suffered. It was carried by republicans through the erucial test of secession and rebellion and the union preserved by the patriotic response of the loyal citizens to the call for volun teers, with whom Willlam McKinley | fought In the front ranks. The republic | has prospercd under republican rule as| it never prospered before and individual | liberty is more widely enjoyed and bet- | ter sifeguarded under the presidency of | ' William MeKinley than under any of his | predecessors. The only instances where the guaranties of the constitution have | ! been taken away from American citizen are to be found in the southern states, where the democrats have sought to rivet party supremacy by dis tranchisement in detiance and violation of the constitution, The denunciation of President MckKin ley and his advisers as traitors by My, Bryan's organs for upholding the flag and suppressing insurrection is an insult | to the intelligence of the American pe 1 1 not t | i t w K t | 8 | a It " negr NSION IN THE There ave a’great many democrats in the south in favor of expansion and | doubtless most of them will vote Mr. Bryan some are outspoken against him. Colonel Sabin of Ken- tucky, at one time secretary of the Sil ver Knights of America and an active supporter of Bryan four years ago, is now supporting McKinley, He stated in | an interview that he cannot accept the | anti-expansion doctrines of the demo cratic prexidential candidate and char- | acterized as most unpatriotic the charge of “imperialism” made by the demo cratic party leaders against the vepub lican adwministration. Another prom inent Kentucky democrat, Colonel Gen try, who is a member of Governor Beck- | ham's staff, is reported as saying that | Bryan's “paramount issue” is not very acceptable even to the straight-out dem ocrats of that state and the gold demo crats will genevally support the repub lican national ticket. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal is one of the leading democratic papers of the south and it recently said that (1 is no such thing as “imperialism” con templated by any party. “Legitimate and necessary expunsion,” said that pa per, “is an accomplished fact; talk of | imperlalism is arrant nonsense and non- sense cannot be made a pavamount issue any more than an elephant can be made an eel by writing on ffs trunk, “This s an eel’ " Expressions in a similar vein come from numerous papers in the south, some of them the most influential in that section, showing a widespread sentiment in favor of expansion. The southern states that gave Mr Bryan their electoral votes four years ago will undoubtedly do so again this year, but it will not be hecause of his position regarding so-called “imperial- | ism.” Tt is not improbable that on this | question a majority of the intelligent voters of the south are opposed to him. o §) OUTH ol ri « sl 1 « I t ¥ 1 [ i [ i MISSTATING THE FACTS. i In his speecy at South Bend, Indiana Mr. Bryan repeated the misstatement he made in his notification speech regarding the standing army. He did not go quite as far in misrepresentation as in the first instance, but he implied that the standing army consists of 100,000 men, or four times the number of the regu lar force in 1805 Now, as a matter of fact, the increase of the standing army was not to 100,000, nor was it permunent. Congress au thorized the increase of the regular army to 65,000 and the enlistment of 35,000 voluntee The president was given power to maintain this army until July 1, 1901, and it is understood that at that date next year the army becomes again | | about 27,000 men, the volunteers being mustered out. It must that Mr. Bryan is familiar with this and if not he eould easily obtain the information by communicating with the War de ment. We do not doubt, howeve he knows the facts and u « be It | ¢ . that | ¢ deliberately party is seeking to establish “‘mili tarlsm,” as If that were possible with an army of less than one soldier to 1,000 of the population. In connection with that statement My Bryan sald that “if we arve to have im perlalism we will never have a smaller army than we have ngw.” Can he give any assurance that we should have a ing the statement. smaller army if his poilcy of Philippine interfs we should find it necessary to | tably gravest complications, that his plan of the Philippines is full of actual, enormous, It is no answer to this to say that doctrine has caused ns no serfous trouble in this hemisphere, for | perpetual danger. westel it Is entirely 1 doctrine v of these favors, far form of government poorly framed that th contends MeKinley swaller ample, which had 8,000 people in 1800, is expected to show up in the neighborhood an increase of more than 200 per cent. INTELLIGENCE. | independence under the protection of the When | sta nited States should be adopted? ve should have given the Filipinos e government and 1 the ponsibility of safe nd all assum; un circumstances ‘ngainst rence, is ft not quite poss have e e hat purpose? e military force ava There hat rony they would - ney with forelgn 1i into but or gt countries, ine policy of Mr. Br lead the United would fnto an 8 xtending the Monroe doctrine to I reason that the conditions idely diffe o he Monroe doctrine & ecognition in Asia. to And pportunity gaiust it “ni vigorously in the event of ope In arms against us Mr. Bryan's effort to create a abont militarism will have no influen upon rational, sober-minded people, but t Is not ereditable to him that I by misstatements to mislead the people. OMAHA AS Compared with the vs pr HOST. two wmmer months. should y dir nd Ak-Sar-Ben carnival, he revival of activity in ey Neptember is b hake off whatever languor may nveloped it during the hot days, hey can give the autumn of 1900 ord in the city's annals to vith the characteristic enterprise yrogress of the community, The object of the attractions prepar ™ [ with 8o much eare and labor by the loeal organizations of business men, it must not he forgotten, is to draw to the city visitors from neighboring towns whose good will and social and business inter ourse Omaba desires to cultivate, 1 | less the ont-of-town guests ave cordially cceived and prog entertained t whole purpose of the autumn festival | will not be fully achieved. man, woman and child in this city can contribute by co-operating with the o to which have been assigned v omuitt pecial departments of the work. Omaha has a reputation as a hospita- ble host and it reputation Is maintained and strength- must see to it that ned. Shaw of Tlowa has t about office. Governor ight ldea e in He acts on t theory that the wishes of the people | psulted in the distribution hould be As an ave the appointment to example. the mptly follow v 4 cor mission to the his title in November, better than to the is ind st endorsed by This put Colonel Bryan is still trying to square iis part in procuring the he ines under the sovereignty ‘nited States and his present gainst holding the itication of t o8 onte 15 established the republic with excuses, howeve menacing sm. His are neonsistency. in If Bryan was right as forcing treaty The Nebraska state falv promises be more successful this year than for Should this prom cquise, claim the credit, because of its location at the capital city, when, as a matter DAY Seasons pust se hold out Lincoln will, of of fact, a Uberal patronage would due chiefly to the improved times and about ‘nt Lincoln's good fortune lies in the reopening of the fair there just at the time tiesPeople bave money to n e prosperity administration hrought of Preside . The census bureau has finished lose of secondary lmportance, ables come in it is ot ine South Omaha, cities, for M 26,000, or Few cities will be ab make as good a showin, Representatives of w in sessic ither lation, transcontinental passenger Western passenger assoclatic | in the past seem to have had hard Inck, misrepresents in order to impress the | most of them falling apart on the rock people with the idea that the republican | of suspicion that e member | th will n L living up to the terms of went. Whether & new one better s an unsolved proble of The superintendent the washing report over the signature the governor framed as his incumbency of the position which he is just retiring. sonvenir e ling it under any | sutside | ble that for | may be some who have such profound faith in the wisdom | and prudence of the Filipinos as to think any ¢ that the number of such at least among reflecting men | Our own judgment is that the Philip inevi the are ent and, moreover, while the pean powers have tacitly accepted applicable to the n hemisphere it is most improba ble that they would give it the slightest On the contrary, sonable to suppose that some or all of them would find an early protest the States attempting to enforce the there we should have all E seeks exposition ling Omaha has been com | paratively without diversions during the ‘The advent of Septem ber, however, with its musical festival mark ‘tion »and Omaha should have if our | people will only wake up to the occasion | orrespond | and | To this end its appointments to va- | we ancy op the district bench across the river, in which the nomination by the v convention has heen pr ublican | nominee to fill | in the period nntil after he shall have | ballots cortainly some personal favorite on the bench for a few weeks simply to invest him with the right to wear the sign of judge the remainder of his day: *avis treaty incorporating the Philip- | ands until a stable imperial ¢ do not hide the ratitication he is wrong now in denouncing the re sults of the treaty and evading respon- sibility for what he himself did, an nouncing the population figures for all the large cities and is now working on As the n that the rate se is, as usual, larger for the ex sstern rullroads, at Glenwood Springs, have | taken steps toward the formution of an N8R0 not ngpee fave | Beatrice state institution might have that white from That docu- 1LY BEE ment makes o responsible have ment of the fusion for whatever uncovered in the institution governor « frregularities the been manage HArd One to Answer Portland Oregonta This, indeed, s a hard question: How can the alleged alliance with England be a secret one it Webster Davis and Bryan know all about it? a Fine Brand of Expn Indianapolis Journa The manufactures of the United States sold abroad last year amounted to about $326,000,000, of which at least $150,000,000 was paid to American labor. That is ex pansion. “A Miserable Shife” Philadelphia Record (dem.) Mr. Bryan was dead right when vored the Paris treaty with Spain a pity that he should reduced miserable shift of declaring that influenced to his right dolog by motives! he fa be to the he was wrong -Democrat It is estimated that at the present the United States prdduces 25 per of the world's wheat, 60 per cent cotton and 75 per cent of its corn comparatively speaking, the country Just getting started time cent of its And, is Bryan's Financial Premier, Minneapolls Journal When John P. Altgeld was inducted into office of governor of Illinols he found in the state treasury a surplus of $1,008 At the expiration of his term there was a deficit of $2,050 Mr. Altgeld is often mentioned as Mr. Bryan's choice for secre- tary of the treasury - Where Heform is Neede, Cleveland Plain Dealer No doubt the bench is largely responsible for the growing disregard for law. Whether it be the spectacle of distin- gulshed judges wrangling over a techni- cality in the Neely case or of minor jur- Ists assessing merely nominal fines in the cases of convicted gamblers and law- breaking liquor sellers, the effect cal culated to diminish respect the law and its servants in for both Russia comes roaring to the front with the claim of having first entered Pekin a contention which several military lead- ers, General Chaffee among th: pass upon before it is admitted. em It must is of which gate first ylelded to the allied ar- tillery, but because he is big the Northern Bear must not be allowed to paw over and muss up the facts of history o Striking Pla of Conl Baron ed icago Chronicle. coal region is not pleasant. Aside from the certainty that it will furnish the trust with an excuse to raise prices there is every voal barons deem it necessary few miners “to encourag country is nauscated at the record of blood and starvation in the Pennsylvania coal flelds and will view the present outlook with distress and indignation. to shoot » the others.” a o he Gasoline Worse Than War. Philadelphla Ledger. P It is probable that, if the statistics were gathered and compared, it would be found that the gasoline stove is more deadly to the women of this country than the cam- paign in the Philippines is to the men in the army. Scarcely a day passes without a record of the burning, seriously and offen fatally. of one or more women in this city alonesand there is no reason to belleve that Philadelphia has a monopoly of kuch casualties. In most cases the | woman is the vietim of her own imprudence. as she tries to fill the stove while the fire is lighted or tries some experiment with it which results in an explosion: but this circumstance only shows the dangerous character of the fluid. It does not to be safe for any but an expert careful one at that, to handle. he he and a TOO MUCH ed | Manderson's Protést Agzainst exnive Lnwmaking. Chicago Tribune Of the many important papers read fore the American Bar association perhaps the most timely is the protest overlegislation which was made by Charles F. Manderson of Nebraska. The former sonator, who has had long experience in lawmaking, voices a frequent subject of complaint. He stated that in 1899 there were enacted 4,834 general and 9 local special or private laws, making a total of 14,139 laws fn the states alone. This overlegislation, he says truthfully, “brings in its train the ills of paternalism and dead-letter statutes, with disregard and even contempt for law.”" Apparently there is no remedy for the condition and Mr. Manderson does not suggest one. Law- making Is a passion with the frequently changed legislators who make the laws The fault is with the public. Sometimes it is brought as a veproach against a con- gressman that no gemeral law on the statate books was originated by him, and, on the contrary, as evidence of the states- manship of a congressman, It is asserted that he is the author of many laws. The public believes that if a man is paid to make laws he ought to make them. They fail to realize that the man who prevents the enactment of unnecessary rmful legislation is even more useful than the man who brings about the enactment of good laws. Perhaps some day public opiniom, will realize this, and then fewer laws will be made, but the time scems far distant General [l of as 80 he | to be OCTOPUSTERS FROM NEBRASKA, Brooklyn Nebraska has an anti-trust law similar to that in Ohlo and several western states which forbids: foreign corporations doing business in-the state except by complying with its anti-monopoly provisions. The law has slumberad for some time, but there is an election ahead and the attorney general of the state has come here to compel John D. Rockefeller to testify as to the business of the Standard Oil company, as a basis for proceedings to drive that corporation out of Nebraska. The proceeding is similar to that instituted by Attorney General Monnett n Ohio, which resulted in the removal of the offices of some part of that corporation from Cleveland here. Monnett was a repub- lican offictal, but he did not get a renom- | ination and now he is out for Brvan. But | Te [ u the Standard Oil is still doing business, If not literally at the old stand, still in pre- cisely the old way, just as if Mr. Monnett had no existence. The possibility that this Nebraska rosecution will affect the plans or operations of the company o slight | as to need a microscope for its discovery N8| Meanwhile, the attorney general has not got hold of Mr. Rockefeller. 1 £0 far is that of George Ricegqof Ohio, & tock witness in opposition whenever the affairs of the Standard Oil are under inves- tigation The Nebraska pumping outfit #topped temporarily in Chicago and sum | moned some of the officers of the Standard company. They paid no attention. The at- torney general sayé that it Mr. Rockefeller ignores his summong he will subpoena him just like & witness who wasn't a milllonaire Mr. Rockefeller, so far, says nothing saws wood. The name of the atiorney gen- eral s not Wood, but that is werely incident. of of an no great consequence who got in ahead or | the leading farmers who resides a few miles The prospect of a strike in the anthracite | probability of another Latimer affair if the The seem | be- | aryiust | s testimony | but | What | | | PTEMBER PROSPERITY for LABOR. Chicago Inter Ocean labor organizations of the country furnished the fa upon which the following short and simple table is based The have s It shows the advance in wages since Cleveland left the White House Grover increas and stonemasons....2 per cen Hollermakers 25 per cont Carpenters 15 per cent Blectrical 2 per cen Machinists nt Tinters t Railroad laborers nt Woodworkers 16 per cent President Gompers of the American Fed of Labor his “That terrible period for the wage country ended Wage Brickl yers 2 workers eration sald in report for 1897 earners of this which began 1893, practically with the dawn 1867. In other words, the “terrible period for the wage‘earners,” which began when Grover Cleveland entered the White House, in of | ended four years afterward when he left it | | | | | calamity | cause Mr. Gompers at. When put these facts on record he was oot thinking of furnishing the republican party With campalgn materlal. He was simply reporting the results of his observations as the head of the American Federation of Labor. They are a suffclent answer to the declarations of Bryan and clates that prosperity has not reached the working classes. If they were 18 a democ he on his asso ever, the following facts might be used to reinforce them ¢ saving Clevelund's bank deposite first admi frh $ 86 Inerease during 14 tministration s second administra- Thres years of McKinley 16 And if all these things should fail to convince the popocratic doubter that pros- perity has been general there would still be available the statistics compiled by the nonpartisan boards of trade of the coun try and the nonpartisan Bureau of Agri- culture, These figures show that the total value of horses, sheep and cattle in United States fn January, 4896, was $1,641.- 206,339, fn January, 1900, $2,042840,813, an increase under McKinley of $501444,474, or nearly 23 1-3 per cent At the samie time the value of the wheat crop was In round numbers $225,000,000 in 1894 and $862,000 000 in 1898, The value of a crop depends not alone on its size and quality, but also the demand for it at home and abroad the official tables show that in 1894 the wheat retained for domestic cone sumption was nearly 3.41 bushels per capita, while in 1898 the amount retained for domestic consumption was 4.21 bushels per capita These figures, taken at Random, indicate how prosperity has spread over all classos of American citizens in the last three vears and will show Mr. Bryan uext November why the plain people of the United States do not care for & change. and STATE PRESS COMMENT, Crete Vidette: Calling Mr. Dietrich a “lager beer, wooden shoe Dutchman' may be considered good argument by fusion pa- pers and it may make lots of votes for Poynter, but we doubt it very much. Clay Center Sun: The deposits in the banks of Clay county have multiplied two and a half times In four years. Taking the entire state, the increase in deposits has been slightly less. This was shown by r ports early in the year, and the good work still goes on Blair Pilot: The Omaha Bee 18 carrying on a magnificent fight for the republican party in Nebraska and the work it is doing is making inroads into the fusion camp Its prosperity articles and interviews from men of wide representation is more than can stand up under Wayne Herald: George Barnes, one of west of Wayne and who has heen a life-long democrat, in an interview with the writer Friday denounced the fusion regime and declares he will not vote for Bryan, bat will support McKinley and prosperity. He furthermore said that we could quote him none too strongly in his opposition to Bryan, a man whom he believes to be in, sincere and advocates the cheap dollar. Mr. Barnes is a gold democrat Seward Reporter:~ Republicans braska should be on the alert in regard to the legislative campalgn this fall.* Two years ago the republican party obtained con- trol of both houses of the legislature, al though the fusion state ticket was elected This year there is a greater prize to fight for, death having robbed the republicans of the fruits of their victory, and a greater Activity is consequently necessary. The strongest efforts of the combined opposition are being directed toward the legislature. Mr. Bryan, while striving for the presidenc remembers his fate in 1866, and would be very willing, it the great prize proves out of his reach, to accept as a consolation prize a seat In the senate of the United States. It is even suspected in some quarters that he has no hope of anything else and will bend all his energy on the legislature. The necessity 1s therefore apparent for repub- licans to make no mistakes in their legisla- tive campaign. All factional feeling should be laid aside, the very best men should be nominated in every district and every effort should b made for their success. Never was there so great a reason for republican success in Nebraska as this year, when fuccess means two United States senators, as well ax the opportunity to glve the state some needed legislation. Nothing should any republican to feel Jukewarm toward his party ticket in this great presi- dential year. of Ne- RSONAL POINTERS, The voice of the coal dealer will soon be heard in the land Senator Tillman has discovered that pitchfork is of little use in a snowstorm In Mr. Croker's opinion a department gtore (rust would be the worst incubus of them all When the czar wishes a supreme test of France's love for Russia he asks her for a new loan North Carolina is a state which expects to elect Mr. Bryan without the consent of the voters Dewey sting at Narragansett Pler and realizing how much better it is to sit almly on a shady porch than to go up and down the land making campaign speeches, Tawkiao s the namie of a native king in New Zealand who edits a little eight-page paper, with three columni to a page, printed in both the English and tho native tongue, and called the Plelades of Seven Stars . Bmmett Bundock of Honolulu and his father, John Bundock of Sacramento, Cal., re on the way ‘to England to claim an in- heritance of $1.700,000 which they have been advised is awalting them there. The fortune conslsts of a landed near London and personal property, being the Diester family estate, originally consisting of the farms. President Kruger, whose headquarters are now in a railway train, to which he takes kindly, in his carly life was a stren- 1cus advocate of the Boer notion that rail ways were introduced by the Evil One When first Oom Paul was persuaded to travel by rail, while on a visit to Cape Town, he sat, Bible in hand, and prayed throughout the journey that he would not be snfashed to pieces for thus having reck- lessly tempted Providence Captain Smedley D. Butler, U who was wounded in the battle Tsin, was 19 years old on June 3 has taken part in three wars. He was a second lieutenant of marines in the war against Spain; was made a first lieutenant in the service April 8, 1899, and commanded the marines on board the Newark. He dis- tinguished himself fighting the guerillas in the Philippines. He was sent with other marines against the Chinese at Tien Tsin and fell there with a wound In his thigh. He was promoted to a captainey a few days after he was wounded The democrats of Wisconsin been regardless of the claims minor towns in their nominations this year. Their for gavernor, Louis Bohmrich nt of Kenosha, & town of less than 10,000 inhabitants, noted for its ctorte of wire mattres he candidate for lieutenant governor is from Waushara, the candidate for state treasurer from Fail Creek, the candldate for railrond commis sioner from Antigo, a lumber noted for the manufacture of barrel heops, and the candidete for superintendent of educa tion from Bea Dam. the present state officers In Wisconsin republicans. bination. is estate M.0, at Tien but he 8 have not of andida is a resl town All All-Star Co Raltimore American One trouble about the concert qf Eu rope i that nobody wants to play second #ddle in the orchestri BITS OF POPOCRATIC POLITICS, Columbus Times: The corn crop is fast maturing. There will be no “calamity” song in Nebraska this year—and no “‘calam- ¥ party to sing it after thig year Superior Journal: R. D, Sutherland still wears a large smile and a Shallenberger badge, but there is nevertheless a horrible suspicion in democratic circles that he has a sting of ingratitude concealed some- where about his person Stanton Picket: The popocratic boast of Governor Poynter's supreme honesty It they are right then “his excellency” must have been dreadfully taken in by ona Dr. Lang when a certain certificate of vin- dication and good character was {ssued Hastings Tribune: One of the things tie fusionists cry out against is national bunks and bankers. This cry comes in advance of the nomination, When they meet in convention to nominate a candidate for congress they select a national banker. Oxford Standard: If A. C. Shallenber- ger's reception speech here last Thursday evening was a fair sample of his campaign talks he will only add to the large pile of earth on his own political grave. It was rank, out of place and ill-advised. It was a disappointment to even thinking popu- lists Bancroft Blade: Governor Poynter's ex- pert declares that the ex-superintendent of the Beatrice asylum is short $4,000 in his accbunts. This is only one of many instances where the governor has ap- pointed disreputable hangers-on to im- portant offices to the detriment of state. Kearney Hub: The World-Herald's Kear- noy correspondent had a chill Saturday, caused by the mid-road populist convention, and at once concluded that the affair was a “frost.” The truth, howev is that the mid-roaders made a pretty good start and | have got several hundred more of the same | kind scattered over the prairles of Buffalo | county. | Wayne Republican: 1t will be very fn- | tlon of how he can make his speech in the United States senate, following the receipt of the news of the insurgent attack on our forces at Manila in February, 1899, track with the “‘paramount” of today as declared by the Kansas City platform and Bryan's construction of the same. Up fo date Allen has maintained a painful silence McCaok Tribune: Little by little the mask 1s being drawn aside and the democratic purpose In Nebraska to absorb the populist party in Nebraska is becoming more and more evident. One of the cleverest moves in this well-laid general plan was the cap ture of the populist congressional nomina- tion by the democratic banker of Alma. But the capture of the populist votes of the Fifth district will be another and more dificult proposition. Geneva Signal: It some Fillmore county farmer should have reason to appeal a case to the Nebraska supreme court it would be seven years before the case could be decided This situation is caused by Governor Poyn- ter's veto of the court commission bill passed by the legislature two years ago. The court commigslon had been in existence a number of years and by its help the supreme court was catching up with its work. The bill was simply to continue thé commission in ex- istence. Governor Poynter got funny and vetoed the bill. The result {s that it is now simply a defeat of justice to carry a case to the supreme court . Buffalo County Pilot (pop.): Congressman Sutherland was turned down by the pap- suckers of the Fifth district this week and A. C. Shallenberger of Alma nominated in his stead. The democrats of the Fifth con- gressional districk bave more than one crime to answer for in this world and we do not believe that the honest party men of the district will stand idly by and see such out- rages perpetrated without at least a protest. Mr. Sutherland has always proven himself 4 friend to the people he bas so ably repre- sented, has ever battled right loyally for the principles of his party and his {urning down by the convention can but insure Mr Shallenberger's defeat by about a thousand Red Cloud Argus: Why don't some® of the ‘“newsy' reform papers in the state tell thelr readers of the admirable (?) man- ner in which nearly all the state institu- tions under “reform’’ management are sav- ing money—especially the superintendents The latest exposure comes from the Bea- trice Inatitute for Fecble Minded; and now it appears that Dr. Lang would not step out and make room for Governor Poynter's new appointee because the latter would not take what cash Lavg might turn over and give a receipt in full fn re- turn. The new appointee is undoubtedly a lucky man. An expert accountant has made a thorough examipation of Lang's books and finds that he is indebted to the state in the sum of $8,970.78. A pew dic- tionary is needed in this state to define the word “‘reform.” Buffalo County Pilot (pop.): Fusion has been a death blow to every reform party in | the history of the nation and it is but | natural that such should be the result | When a weaker party gttempts to unite with | a stron party it invariably signs its own death warrant Therefore it is a relief to | see the determined stand the popullsts of the state are’taking for independence. We | irmly believe that had it not been that the pupsuckers of the state forced the nomina tion of W. J. Poynter onto the Lincoln con- vention there never would have been a Grand !lrlnllrl convention, but there are some things which even populists will not swallow, and this has been one of them. Repudiated by | his own party and abhorred by those engl | neering his campaign, W. A. Poynter, for his own inherent weakness and duplicity will have the sublime pleasure of again re }m»wmu bis acquaintance with mother na- | | ture, the babbling brook and waving flelds of corn. He has betrayed the trust bestowed |upon him by the farmers of Nebraska by |the most Magrant faveritism to the most | grasping corporation of the state; be has the | the | | structive to hear Senator Allen's explana- | repentedly repudiated the most solemn in junctions of his party: he bas gatbered un- der bis protecting wing A gang of the most unserupulous scoundrels that ever diegraced the fair name of a state. s It ask wonder then that the populists of the &iate | have repudiated him? Is it any that they have at begun to where they stand and bave at mined upon independent action” Neligh Leader: Most any old thing seem to ‘sult the populists of this section. Omit- ting the minor offices the populist ticket present stands follows: For pr |dent, A Democrat; for vice president Secession Democrat; for governor, An | Original Democrat; for representative In eongress, A Virginia Democrat; for dis | trict judge, An Uncompromising Demo crat. And this is the party that a few | years ago was denouncing fusion under any and every circumstance. The one whose final test for nomination was the | question, “Are you a popullst? The same | that theoretically and viclously kicked | Major Carr downstairs because he had the | manhood to refuse to deny his democracy | Times have changed, and wondertully, but in this respect not for the better Sidney Telegraph: Lucien Stebbins of North Platte has shied his castor into the congressional race of this district and asks for the nomination from the middle- of-the-road populists. The convention will be held at North Platte next Tuesday and it the mid-roaders nominaje Stebbins one | Willlam Neville, who has become some what of a chestnut in Nebraska politics, will have more trouble. It is well known to the fusion leaders that Stebbine would draw a large number of votes from Ne- ville and therefore the statesmen of the popocratic party are very aunxious that the movement receive a quietus. There are many who are staying with the sinking fusion craft with but i1l grace and the fact is apparent to the fusion statesmen of sthe Big Sixth district. In the mean- time it is becoming more evident day by day that the upright and modest gentle man nominated by the republicans is so tar above the material offered by the fu slon party that the consclentious voter will run no risks, but cast his ballot for Judge M. P. Kinkald, HALL, KING we any wonder last d as A Monarch rone of Washington First, cotton was King; then the ma- Jestic fields of the northwest, tertile for a dozen feet below their surface, produced grain enough to feed the world, and wheat took its scepter heside cotton. Today we have a trinity of royalty. King Coal is the latest ascendant upon the throne of trade. | "As with cotton ana wheat, this new and great demand for coal benerits the United States. England’s supply shows signs of exhaustion, . while labor troubles affect materially the output of the already lim- ited supply, To the United States, there- fore, the coal consumers now twrn, and not in vain. Under the broad expanse of | our wonderful country there lie coal beds of such enormous extent that their deple |tion cannot be threatened for centuries. | The state of Pennsylvania alone has lit- erally coal to burn for a period which can- not be computed, and Pennsylvania is only one state in the union So far as coal is concerned, the surface of West Virginia has hardly been scratched. Vir- ginia, in its southwestern section, contains | inexhaustible veins of the finest steam-pro- ducing coal in the world. Ohlo is blessed with an enormous quantity of less valuable quality, while other states farther west have discovered the black diamonds awaiting the mere physical fact of mining. There is conl enough in the United States for the whole world. The American output is today being burned in almost every port, | and, it it is not being utilized in English furnaces, it is only because the demand has suddenly developed, and not for lack of supply. It will not be long before Amer!- can coal is heing hurried across the sea Wonderfully blessed is the United States with its cottou, wheat and coal. The bal ance of trade, already largely in our favor, will grow tremendously with the addition of this new factor of trade. It will seem strange, however, for American coal to be alding our English commercial rivals to manufacture the articles with which they compete with us in the foreign markets Thy Last to ING MATTER, napolis Journal: “How did the fore. &( man explain this unprecedented torrid ness?” He says those sun &pots are melting off the sun and are dropping on to the earth Philadelphia Press: Mrs. Subbub--There now! There's three sandwiches. 1 don't expect to see you here again, Hungry Higgine—-What's de matter, lady Goin' ter move? Cloveland Plain Dealer: “I notice that a bear took possession of a Canadian back voods brewery the other day.” What did ~the employes bruin?" y “No, they rallied and rushed the growler. Jabez—"Oh, no! everybady at Reuben fer buyin' the He wishes everybody was How s thad? Well, his wife ain't.” do—quit the Puck: Uncl ain't laughin green goods. Uncle Hiram Uncle Jabez Washington Star What kind of climate have you here” 3 “It's fine,” answered the resident. ““The only troubie is that the weather gets dis couraged and quits oo Koon. The summers are too short to produce bananas and pine apples and the winters aren't 1ong enough to raise polar bears. Detroit n abro; Brown—'Yos. Jones— 1 suppose you did the Paris ex position, of course PBrown (hasttating)—"Well, actly. It did me.’ ee Press: Jones—"So you have be no, not ex Chicago Tribune: She—"At least you will credit me, Mr. Sixcap, with having an eye for beauty. e (desifous of saying something liiehly complimentary)—Indeed 1 do, Miss Claire 1 don't wonder you spend #o much of your time in front of the looking gluss, Baltimore American: “Your Honor," said the lawyer, “my client acknowledges that she struck’ the bookagent with a piece of aspipe, but she pleads that it was a case of mistaken identity.” fow's that?"' asked the judge. “Well, she thought it was her husband.’ HOLD BRYAN A-BOO" ¥ When old Grover Cleveland aspired to the Chalr _They 8 sapping homes needs must be flogged to mubfection ad of this monster pervaded the land Till all were in doubt and dejection.- Twas then there arose in the midst of his might Nebruska's young scion The versatiie Bryan: And pared his broad breast to the fight Tade d us the monster Protection w the very life-blood of our An The But somehow Free tors worse Than those of the rule that preceded, And people were worried a% never hefore To find the relief that they needed. then this brave warrior—with prophetie Koul— ed, “Gold 18 miillons chief Nebraska's wise sclon The versatile Bryan ro jead them from famine and grief. only made mat- Twas ol the foe should be And bowed low and anolnted as Now fate lost, And under the Erasshoppe agent's desk And ate up ponder'd. then a peared, Imperialism!" he thundered And people came trooping all eager to hear Nebraska's brave eior The versatile Brvan Attack this great beast without fear ISAAC A, KILGORE. was unkind, and the battle was “viclous’ Gold Standard The sneaked 5 the loan- the “mortgage” and Twas new foe to his vislon ap- Leavitt,