Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1900, Page 6

a — THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROBEWATER, Editor — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION atly Bee (without Bund flustrated 1 unday Bee Baturday ¥ Weekly Bee, One Year One Year OFFICES Omaha: The Bes Bullding Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen ty-fifth and N Btreets Counctl Blufh Pearl Chicago: 100 Unity Bull | New Vork: Temple Court Washington: 1 Fourteenth Bioux Clty: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE. u relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LET ERS letters remittances dressed: The tahing Omaha REMITTANCES gujavle to The iee Pu nly 2-cont stamps ac matl acc Omana THE Street 1ng. Street. Communi Business be o pany and #hoild b Com- | or postal order {shing Compar ed In payment of Ens Persona exchan BLISHING BE COMPANY BTAT ®iato of MEN i ng 210 26,520 27,180 27,14 27, 27,400 27,1 28,070 27,015 EElf emeans 27,490 20,505 15,0 A SO0 4,618 20,820 | ek | AT A R i —————— Oue 18¢ by i hrough vision of the dark days from | 0 1896 should be all that is necded | peopl | that Omaha who went T'he public $0.122.045 debt show the thnt n dec past this is 1w during month —an other evidenee dmi not a demo- | cratie istration Roosevelt ¢ to talk talk In tween rtainly has as much right | Bryan to i in Roosevelt's state them will be Bryan's state as %0 lonors s Now watch the typewriter supply ngencles scramble for the privilege of installing thelr muchines into the High school commercial department. The prohibition train 1s headin Wonder If it Bryun's title the solid south. special campaign for the southern states. expects to break the electoral Into to vote of The whites In Hawall are fearful that the nutives will the approaching democ control everything at election. Southern could show them a way out of their difficulty German papers attribute the less hos tile attitude of the Chinese to the in flueuce of the arrival of Count von Wal dersee. Perhaps they fear he will use his bath tub on them Omaha's school cnroliment shows an fncrease of uearly a thousand over the enrollment of a year ago. This not look as If there were any shrinkage in the city fon. does 'S popu A record of nearly 75,000 admissions to the musical festival during the period of a month is pretty good evi dence that Omaba has a colony of musie lovers of no wean proportions. figures for Angeles city 102479 inhabitants. This 18 closer even to Omaha's 10: than St. Joseph's 102,070, Three citles eould hardly be more closely bunched. The census give that Los Like their Chinese prototypes, the Col orado Boxers who assaulted Roosevelt are trying to shift responsibility their acts upon someone else. unext effort will probably be dire proving that Roosevelt assaulted pelf. for Thetr ted to him Congressin to joiu 1} w little tour. Uunless things fmprove a consul tation of wll the democratic political doctors will have to be summioned Boon. an Sulzer Las been drafted Bryan party in the hope that ginger may be injected into the de very Hin Dest Iox-Senator Bryan. The Drh'sl‘lll indors delty ition four yeurs ago. In that speech be made an unanswerable arraignment all the wild doctrines which Bryan represeuts The tall of the republican ticket creating interest and drawing | larger crowds than the head of the pop peratic aggregation I8 able to muster, even with the incentive of state pride. Nothing could better exemplify the de ce of popocratic sentiment iu the hus come for Hill's speech he out antidote for went the 1in the Chicago conve Is more —ee e Bryan bas the finest collection of par Rmount Issues of any man wlo ever ruu for the presidency. He has one for each state in which he speaks and, as no no tice has been posted that the factory has closed down, several new ounes can reasonably be expected before the end pf the campalgn. e Governor Roosevelt should be pretty well acquainted with the topography of Nebraska wheu he flnishes his cam palgning In this state. He will spoken in every cougressional district and traversed the greater part of the rallroad wileage of the state, with stops have | now | NOT COUNTING ON BRYAN Boston Transcript it apparent that farmers of the west and northwest who are hop ing for dollar wheat are not looking to the election of Bryan. T The is plainly remarks that the u upretting | of business conditions which would fol low,” says that paper, which results from a change of political leaders when business conditlons have been satisfactor; hope of dollar wheat the farmers of the along the cause of dollar wheat them to in with {nterests, the « perity the nncertainty The sure way for help is for their porthwest to vote accordance own perpetuating i tions of general business pr I'here telligent farmers of the fully 1s no doubt that most of the in west and north- | this prosp they part of their have mdi woest had tion understand of whieh They years s« during have all gr a large paid obligations ind Many of the inereased y n who were (0 Such farmers t debase froc disastrous to have do not want the t bank aceounts, war jange. They do 1 free il wonld and they do not I he rlket. They i% to thelr own interest and they are thie the curren want ade, whicl their home 1 Know not in least alarmed | of “militarism.” Ted northwest wrinlism” and bt tl prosperous no one at t armers of will look out for their own welfare on clection ¢ ALL ABOUT THE GREAT CONSPIRACY the chief burden of Mr Bryan's speeches was the the Four years ag <plra As depicted this consp i 1 v power Iurid 1 bl g ! ¥ hable monster alicrnati < abode 1 and m- | bard st tween Wall street of, devastating the and object of the Juntry consuming the e great conspiracy M| and | | Bryan, was to h was opposal to the fre that might | and deprived interest rate + money power of sitver | inerensed th it becuuse | money supply of som: its unearned protits fhe s noof events since 1896 | s the absolute baselessness of | this fi prove tion abont the conspir: money power. Instead of making | money scarce, has become 1 Tustead money we | plentitul of forcing interest | ites up Interest rates have gone stead it money power Wit there was a conspiracy of as certainly proved [ nost ignominious failure | No wondel then, that Mr. Bryan's tmagination, olled to turn to othe conspiracy of the How A conspiracy and the republic another the conspira hiat v flelds woney of the a con in been conn to i ot it power spirncy to overthry up un emperor conspirators have their fields of operation and wultiplied their movements, of course with th sime dire object of crushiug down th The imaginary conspirator time all the time and th plots they plan out keep Mr. dryan on the jump lust 1s power trust on one side, and | on The simply extended W people. work ov pernicious the watchful night and What would Mr. Bryan conspiracies all around him on which to puild up his political fortune? —— CING THE not being a r that Mr. Bryan, If elected, would do all that sesible to displace the gold standard, to which he has declared un alteruble hostility, yet there are some who think he would be powerless to en force his ideas and are willing to take | the risk while admitting that if th wonetary policy of the Bryanite party should be enforced It would be trous to the country, Secretary Gage and other competent authorities have clearly shown how a Bryan administration could practieally nullify the gold standard law and the by produce finanefal disorder and incal culable Injury to the industries and bus Ilness of the country. The Financial Chronicle, a very high authority on a question of this character, polnts out that even If Mr. Bryan were unable to carry out the purpose to which he is pledged during the first two years of hi officlal career, that would not end the risk. He would continue to push Lis Ideas and n if, after all, says that journal, “he should be defeated in his chiet purpose, how shall the public face the continuing feature of his tireless spirit, nlways seeking to change standard of values. Irom the day of | his election to the day when he lald | down his ofice he would be plotting planping and scheming to advance his jdeas. Business could not flourish, en- | terprise must be at a standstiil, while | this revolutionary, unsettling influence existed and prevailed.” The currency standard being the part | of our industrial organization the sta bility of which Is most keenly seusitive to the slightest susplclon of weakuess, let only & doubt on that polut take pos <ession of the public mind and a drain du do without DISP] There GOLD STANDARD. asonable doubt disas ey | our | of business paralysis would be an fmme diate result. Tl would be a sudden | contraction In trade bank exchunges would drop to a mini wum, The revenues of the governwent would necessarily decline w™ the re duced activity of business, since the productiveness of taxes depends upon the degree of prosperity the country en Joys. WIith a deficit in government rev enue the gold standard would be at the merey of whoever happened to be sec retary of the treasury. An admluistra tion that desired to waintain the gold reserve could do o, but one bent on sil : payments could find Just enough dis tion under the law to permit the change to silver be apparently natural and not a forced event. Such a course would be at once followed by drawing out the gold from the treas ury and as the loss of surplus revenue v 1o every one of the large cities, transactions and | af ing of soon ¢ bonds. An a culty in tainly b 1 interest, In gold do pal an Bryan would probably THE OMAHA D/ ; i would | selling the gold the there for reserve ome necessity to free dim would cer dministration comwitted have They de payable, prinet and would this? Would Ko ling bonds. 18 ave to be | administration it not rather find in such a situation its would put aside all| opportunity to displace the gold stand ard and basis? ent to of thes of the H duce ¢ interest: LA Promi ofr | organized a sound mor whic the tre adinin bership law pa Hoadly Wheel Bartlett principl repudin { he ver tegrity ary she pr power « or - coer privite the gov should tions that i it are ent enson is essential (o the pern eiticient urd of The decided ¥ of the | probably that with ex it with contider tives of licans o th tour ye tory by all nd the ) it ) the L the mistake be done almost of hun wh We alre When for the nis opp ihnself W& up for re-clection he also en t charge that he ug on the coustitution and that slection wennt the death of the . But the republic still lives — make I coln wa wter trampli uts republic re- While are ren of their why ov | sehool fund is allowed to e idle and th people kept In fgnorance of the banks in which an ncceo 1f Any the method clent ballot Legisl did not worth wan in will de the ch fnterest went head o of the | The ¢ ing been au [y on the treasury gold would begin and | oooe ginee the a wide The with pr Gover! his end than th No Cowar speaker |are de cggs ar clently tact That would prevent any automatic replenish Bourke | private that v club) Bryanism The new High school building should building buildings. whom the woney belongs, Is entitled to Hon. Johu bhan with denunciation and good graces of Kentucky democrac cratic t! inations, have added that the nominations av e success of the auditorium project another year's work under wost promis same with clubs and epithets { 1 put a silver | At all events, 1t must be appar- | 111 practical men that the menace @ things in th sryanite party cannot fall to pro damaging to all| the country on involved success | nditlons most WYERS AGAINST BRYANISM York cy campalgn club, etary of Cleveland | 1'lic nent luwyers of New hase asury hn G Carlisle, s i ond tration, includes such pro Francis L. Stet n who wi on, dand of I'ranklin rtuer of Mr. Cle G formerly govern Ohio i These 1 Peckham u still 1 belleve in the es of true democracy, they te Bryanism wlopted the club s free coinage of sil the Chicago plattorm esolutions th wn by not only hi declaring s doetrin w do, the lutionary, involving, as they osper Wl weltare of that the honor and purity of phe judict be the should md ty o They declare in and be uld waintained su the | lnfluence | urt remain )€ politieal intriguers and that individual citiz contracts, be hat 14 ernment tl 1 the best pubii juviolable and and weet their just debts and ol of money thie lent t Rtutes | the duty the prosi laws United I Me: of that, in our Bryan the oreed, opinion, cat of s Btev | ai nent | an maiutenance of the 1u this country will undoubtedly exert influence New York beyond state. The e Carlisle Is identitied cannot fall to carry weight democrats everywhere gold stund alue in and that fact etary gold \e has a stronger elaim to their With suchi able true democracy ar in the empire nay contidently ere no less signal than that of we. representa | ayed ngaiust | v state repub hope for a vid ars 1go. fireprool strueture + school bourd made & mistake agreed to cheapen the character Juilding rather than erect one of expensive wings first. 1 th o can yet be corrected It should without fall, because it would be criminal to endanger the lives areds school children In liable to destruction by fire cudy have enough firetrap school means be a " Juckson Le W despot Andrew WAS running by presidency was assailed onents as trying emperor, and when Liu ed e wus the stute officials dering an account to the stewardship they might explain $200000 of the permanent popocratic voters er it is deposited. The public, to punting. thing more were needed to plaes i. Carlisle completely under Kentucky democrats his of democratic lectlon s in that state would be sufti The democrat who favors a free a falr count is not in the m——— lative ecandidates on the popo tcket assert under vath that they spend a cent to secure the now They wmight conscientiously uot ne 51 il to wurrant any prudent nding woney to secure then a measury n who pend in a greut the upon aricte can b ed in taking the active manage With first-class ability at the f the undertukiog the contidence yublic can be held from the start of ymaha Womun's club has begun las | The for Woman's club the good of Omuha its organization and with | broad wanagement will find fleld of usefuln before it spices. factor A Cel Push, Chicugo Chronicle oot ball fatality season has opened, ospects of an average yield cad of rooklyn E: nor Roosevelt made more votes by | durance of contumely In Colorado | he rioters can ever hope to make | i Arguments, &bt 11 en the Cavers Washington Post assaults upon the oppositl but injure the caus \gned to assist. People who throw 0 however, are not suff equipped with brains (o realize this | dly % cannot n hoy stones, horny-handed son of toll, the Hon Cockran, who travels in his own | ar and requires as much attention | ILY |a law | wnd public | electoral | which BEE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1900, as a prima donna, fe oart in this campaign that {mperialism and threaten to th iigmen 1s impelled to take & bis fear wealth because of lestroy this republic of Adiat's Pipe New York Adlal sees mense standing militarism. Tribune viston ermy, (b at is to posed to give & nation of 7. of 100,000 soldler to zens, What a hideous oppre be, to be sure of dread say, it he arm is an army eitt will awtu im of pro on every sion that Gravity [ of the fss Adiat's Suprer New York The “supreme gravity which Uncle Adlai writes is supreme gravity 1t in hix popullst he is not frightened in th seen golng a If he were not trylng to use an ing tssue” ws an umt 10 about not equal to the writes about letter of A Yet least and may be te as chipper as overshudow- with which he ay ut the st Deeds Versas Wind, Globe rat In referring Goveruor Roosevelt hurt; deeds nite." a republican leg taxt in sourl In York Missourt democratl Dem the In the lature i New York passed ¥ franchises a democratic legls teteated @ similar there is republican wind to regulation of trusts Words do not samo year that ature reasure actio M i in | unusual | practical Al tinnous Performance Indlanapolis Journal Iu his speech at Grand Forks D., Bryau sald 1 & young man, nd the cour nature 1 shall be here everal this for the benefit those papers which pitch into | me as thought this was their last chance American people not accustowed (o heering that kind talk trom a candidate for president Mr in for am o of 1 say republ it they The are of Hard Lines of Gold H rtiand The sufferings of Cape. Nome have ithin th h might have been foreseen, but the in tent city an posed beach were powerless to protect them- | selves. since the government, fn the St humanity undertaken to bring this destitute, shivering ¥ bs hoped ped pleted w needle Oregonian the stranded miners greatly inct the effect of storms which at been ased auinst which dwellers the on ex name nas out it k wili ve com- | lay | | ny. | that the Philadelphia Rato Koo Comp d (Ind the Treasu Jobn elected pre ot of the Money Campaign club of ed of leading mem bers of the bar of bades political opinion. This organization has adopted rong resolutions condemning the attacks the Kansa platform on the singl standard the he supreme de lefeat of Br o the permanent dem.) Ex G Carlisle ers’ York re bus Sound been id Lawy New in I indepen laring .0 and Stevenson and standard Mr. Carlis that “‘the essontial malntenance this court, and efficient of value In it will be observed politically where he stood four years and & noble company of true democrats | pirited citizens stand with him the gol ountry and; WILL NOT 6B STAMPEDED | Demoeratic Anw Tnsults | German-A Portland Cregonfan. democratic campalgn managers to have deemed the German-American voter fair game. They ted he neulting assumption that American itizen of German anteced less in telligence and more superstition than any body cise, and is therefcre afraid cf ghosts he hobgoblin of militarism has been | Jauced before the eyes of th man- | Ao and the Bryanites h fancied | that they have seen large numbers of them of panic into the democratic amp. They have caught the Germau, they hink, or they say they think, playing the old threadbere Jack-o'-lautern trick at the window of his Problem: 1t an army American soldiers 15 unable « subjugate 100,000, more or untrained and poorly armed F.lipino how long will it take an imperial American \rmy of 100,000 soldiers to conquer j00 American citizens who kn rights, and knowing, dare maintain The German-American is snse and sobriety hawk from That Is the s back on the d for sound money will be able to reach his own wbout “fraperialisn When among his neighbors, he is not his fingers on eny one who will ho 18 an imperialist his friends and acquaintances are not lying when they declare that they do not pro pose that the republic shall be transformed | into an empire. Who tmperialist? | Where can one be found? Who can smoke out anybody of whom a reasomable plcion may be entertained that he prefers (he despised purple of kings to the glorious red, white and blue of the land of the frea? | So we find that the voter 18 not golng to be stampedcd. He | understands the truth as to militarism and | imperialism anda more important knows about Bryan and Bryanism The soern proce on s has ricans, ve flee in a state by fears of 60,000 scas nd less, ignor ebels 50,000, the th cltize silver handsaw urned 1 w r re n ie nperialistic 1806 b party and vo Kknows n is reason that in emocratlc By the same token conclusions be inquires | able 10 lay admit tha Knows th and he is an CULLE Democrats with more nerve than political Across one district The ba and critlcism Three days beside the amount of discretion swung a Bryan banne of the streets of the Wall New York created much and aroused ago another first one, or surprise and evoking significant cheers, The second banuer contains no portiraits, but explains the principles the first stands for. It reads “If there is any one who belleves the gold standard ping, or that it must be main warn Lim not to cast bis for me » 1 promise him it will be maintained in this country 'longer 1 am able to get rid of it."—William Bryan, Kuoxvlile, Tenn., street City, & week ako v astonlshment zeal appoared equal republica banner ating an 1s & good ned, 1 not than jeuniugs 1856, The party stands where it did in 1506 on the money Willilam Jennings Bryan, Zanesvil September 4, 1900, becau question 0., made a paign who bus finds the Heo a politically. The stato 15 desperately uncertain. Both parties bluMng and guessing, but at this time have little definite s for their Doubtful voters and those who about going to the polis controlling factors, and for \lana this year they are un Correspondent Pepper political tour of Indiana outlook decldedly “Indlana is o Vs la at claims aro yet undetermiued at all are the 2 state.like 1 numero “I have heard plenty democratic drift and the but in traveling around 1 b neither drift nor tide. The whol palgn which 18 to determine Kinley or Bryan will ahead not the usually t the tide, found cam r M ntre period 18 ault of the cam side that the un certainty Is r#o great The large in dependent and Indifferent class of voters refuses to be hurried into making known its intentions is the cause of the contusion “Both parties are now taking what they talk republican whet the The have n vot rt, and palgn man it gers on either |all 1 | of | | York German-American | st hpl THEODORE Hon. J Roosevel hn i Theodore esting persou ¢ He re th one o ter t ou turesque figure s lay and g nera tion, o bet 18 a p and was hat even it he had never puny child, whose he grew (o be a stalwart Within him was & vital spark that red into perfect physical vigor ristl force But with this are right motives, r speech, franknes deals of publl fee. It could agh rider uniform and 1d be re and wo th A despaired of atklete xisted worn m wi t has fla hara This s the central an hon directness and and sery han t adiness and courage and private duty be otherwise s and not such & man should not only fill the popular Ihe [ Iy eye, but command the popular fave people ke & bold man, & square strong man, and they know Instinciiv that he is all these. But this is not all. A these qualitios and yet test of actual performance has been legislator the great city of New York, eivil service commissioner. retary of the navy went in battle and g In all positions variety of service and capacity and ability he has made his mark his life and career s man fail under But United Assistant commander of vernor soc a regl state. these covering of thelr holder Then too over a | kreat variety of the phases of our national classes of and and the people. well-to-do tdentity ) He was born of a good family of Dutch stock in New he was & student at Harvard; with all Philad The Pennsylvania State Banking ment reports that in May, 1900 doposits in tie state banks and trust companies In November 4. The depart- u saving Institu- were $3: 1896, they were deposits in the principally the in November, 1896, were $77 When the menace of Bryanism the deposits began to increase 1900, they had reached $10: tions 427.97 664, 4 ban ings ot labor 129,347.87 passed away until in May. 410,862 Turning convineing § vings rn of e to New York evidence of our workers. In July banks' deposlts in that were $716,082, On July 1, 1900, they bad increased to 0SLA9. This s the largest savings deposit on record In New York. The in New York City was $101,917,7 jncrease iu the number of separate ac 4. The heaviest increase in in the German bank, a well known depository for wage-earn The building fons, the insurance com panies and other financial institutions which reflect in their business the wage-earning capacity and thrift of their patrons also make p exhibits, All these depositors are directly in- terested fn the financlal policies of the country and in the preservation of the gold dard. Tho enormous totals of deposits in the savings banks were made in gold, or in money equivalent purchasing power. By the ice of the gold standard this purchasiug pover of the money in the hands of the people in their savings banks will be preserye t. Mr. Bryan has re- peatedly imself to be the in- destruction of the gold we find st the 1806, 1l more prosperity of the saving state 3 bank Incres The counts was 140 deposits was assocla malnte pledged strument for the retary of the health His t mind, of high might have the Roosevelt police commissioner of of the Empire an testing the he Iphta the aggregate ROOSEVELT tlook far west; Navy n A in the O Ived « wich in the politics: he has consorted with the refine ments of the city and taken the rough and tumble of the frontier him. Every college boy cowboy tles to him. and sailor counts him a friend men who served under him Just to their deseris as he was re thelr faults. The citizen good government and honest es on him for both. It may and overzealous swears by him Every The police know that lentless to prays for polities r that former the republican lay & nesttull ¢ the year now then some re party because golden eggs has been unable to forgive him, because he will not desert {t; but this very bitterness is the highest tribute his fdeals and performance it does every day not really Ho therefore comes to the candidacy for well-equipped the vice presidency tor high place, but add strength to the ticket. It it was universally cognized would be the effect that his n, While the which his active tendencles w parily incline him, there scems to be at this time no other in the candidacy for whigh he can render 8o m: republican par Young only tally not qualified to that spontaneous. office fs oue tg uld not ord! with an honorable ambition, it fs pleasant to think that long years aro before in which he cannot fail with his etr character and ability to be a great part country. H Nest Eggs of Good Times Ledger standard when opportunity offers such a declaration In & publi this city four years ago. The which he in unequivocal terms which means the {m; ing power of savings recent lected covering He made address platform upou for silver iunflation airment of the purchas Notwithstanding the currency legislation, Mr. Bryan, | president, will be ingenious in dis the occaston to reduce his sllver heresy to practice. A senate and a house of representatives in sympathy with hiw on the silver question‘would make the ful descent to the bimetallic, really to the silver standard, as prompt as the formalities of legislation would permit. The follow ing views of the president of a Connecticut savings bank deserve attention Moneywise, the best thing for the aver age man to have and own is a savings bank book. It meaus something laid up ralny day. One year ago there were 5,657,000 of these books In the United States. They are scattered all over the unifon. New has the most of them-—1,865,286. Standing to the credit of the owners of the the enormous sum of 230,34 4 thing that would imperil In the slightest the safety or essentially lessen the pro ductive power of this prodiglous sum would be a calamity. ‘Now, 16 to 1 menaces the savings bank The 366,954 standing to the credit of more these states s money which when deposited was worth to book more thau any other known thing. than 5,500,000 ot people in those who deposited it 100 cents on the dollar. It cost the laboring man who put most of it there the work, steady, hard and long, that enabled him to make the slow and up-to-date investment.' PERSONAL NOTES, The Collis P. Huntington estate will en- rich New York's coffers with $200,000 In- heritance tax. Joseph Jefferson Galveston rel In Galveston The missionaries who recodtly traversed the desert of Gobi have failed (o report any slgns of the Mahatmas reside has given $1,000 to the f fund. He attended school when a mere boy supposed to Robert Hos, the manufacturer of printing presses, has had a medal designed to com memorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, Mainz fn 1400. Conrad, the new presi- tho lilinols State Board of Agricul of the best forestry experts in the country and had charge of the Ilinols cxhibit of forestry at the World's fair The trausport Burnside, Spanish prize ship Rita, which sailed from Brooklyn for Manfla this week, takes out 600 miles of telegraph cable for use in the ‘hilippines, which islands the government to girdle without “the consent of governed Years ago Evanston, 11, named one of its avenues after a prominent citizen, who at the time was foremost in all good works, a pillar of the church, and superintendent of a Sunday school. Unhappily, he swin- dled many people and committed forgery subsequently and is winding up his varied career in the penitentiary. Now the good people of the town are laboring to have the honor of giving his name to the avenue transferred to Prof. H. L. Boltwood who was born at Captain Martin formerly the intends th call their thirty-day poll. When the sixty- day poll was taken the reports of large num- bers of voters who could not be placed were almost universal. This ought to be heavily reduced In the present poll, and in ordinary years it would be This year is an ex- ception. “The sixty-day poll of the democrats, taken the first week in September, showed 43,000 voters whose politics could not be learned. The republican poll showed a ewhat similar number, yet the doubt ful element was & large one. It the present poll reflects the as I have found them In the parts of the state it will disclose tully 50,000 doubtful voters. With anything llke that percentage not huving made up their minds five weeks before election day, it 1s idle boasting on elther side to lay claim to Indiana. conditio varlous Colonel democratic an attorney City sion George mayor W. Warder, a former of Kansas City and now in that city, was in New York recently and anpounced his conver- to republican principles. Four years worked and ke for William J He was an cnihusiastie free silve and wrote a book on silver entitled Conflict Between Man and Mammon largely used by the democrats gn docum This vear Colonel McKinley man eches in Missouri called committe helped Bryan mon The whi a b was np r is an intends to in by as a ca nt He and for an enthus t It his servi ublican national A8 a It democrat t the baitle of d expansion convictions the the y and was pro am forced repudiate democratic reporter. “That that part of leaders are contending an empire and any other part are try to preserve the republic, I do not be lieve, and I deem it a slander on the pa- triotic masses of our free and united coun- try. 1 am compelled to regard It as the flat creation of a distorted funcy, the prod- uct of a political juggler converting warm air into political fireworks; & myth, & de- to i by the plat g ot m ocra record viterly in th to a, 8 1 y to form.”" he any such people sald 18sue n oxists, or any our or their JONBS CODDLES THE OCTOPUS, Democratic Chalrman & Trusty Fellow. Brooklyn Eagle. That report about the alleged indictment in Texas of Mr. Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee, on the charge of violating the anti-trust laws of the state is interesting. And as likely as not it 18 true. The situation which would fol | low such action by Texas authorities would be 80 good that the opportunity to bring it about ought not be lost. This Is a pretty serfous campalgn and something should be done to relieve the tension. We bave the jce trust in this part of the country, with some little leaders attached to it It the head of the national democratic | organization should get into trouble be- cause he is a trust stockholder the whole trust issue would be in a fair way to be laughed out of court. The republicans be- long to trusts and denounce them and the democrats denounce them and get rich out | of the stock which they hold in them, and | the economic laws keep on bringing some | to ruin and others to success, according as | the corporations are based on sound prin- ciples or not Mr. Jones Is now a rich man and it is generally belleved that he has made his money out of his interest In the cotton bail- ing company. Roger Q. Mills s making money out of his ofl wells and his friends have been trying to drive the Standard Ofl company out of Texas so that he might have a monopoly of the Texas market. One does not need to enumerate the democratic capitalists who own stock in big corpora- tions. Every one knows that but there are from the Field of POLITICS lusion and a lame and impotent couclusion, intended to mislead the ignorant and un thinking. It is intended to conceal an at- tack on modern progress and expansion and, if successful, would emasculate our nation and warp Ite future greatness.' Colonel Warder also makes the point that congress has no right to cede to any coun try the territory of the Philippines or to alienate It in any way from the United States now that it has been acquired by conquest and by treaty Chairman Mark Hanoa was pleasantly surprised at a New York meeting last Fri- day. While bowing his thauks for the up plause that greeted his appearance a young woman vocallst stepped the front and sang this campalgn song We have with us here a man you all kKnow. There's nothing the matter with Hanna. 11e's the man who is making this campaign &0 There's nothing the matter with Hanna AL St Louls he started our party out right, With McKinley and Hobart we won a great nght, And we'll'stand by him now, for we see the wame light Ot McKinley, to Protection and CHORUSB, Then sing the glad song as we're marching wlonig To 'victory we can't lose right With MéKinley Hanna, under that banner. this fight, for our cause it is Protection and Hanna. Now to Chalrman Mark Hanna we'll all say godspeed There's nothing the matter with Hanna Wi march with the army this brave man will lei re's nothing whip Billy to Stanchileld crew T Adl o there's Hanna Th Wi the ma { ter with Hanna. Bryan u A Boss Croker Altgeld and his Anarchist Then to Bryan we'll all say ¥ nothing the matter with Mr. Henoa wore & full-moon smile dur- Ing the singing, and when the song was finlshed grasped the singer's hand and ex- claimed: “I thank you very much for the kind sentiments.”” And the crowd cheered again, ho has run the courses of local, state and national Everybody knows Bvery soldier| Mr. Jones he I who whose #ole Idea of reform 18 to kill | in to | was because | his Jination was ch seryice to the irrepressible and | ng in the growth, beneficence and history of his appeals for votes today pronounces for a | What York e books was Any- Inm':n:d- of them. Indeed, we should not | be at all surprised to learn that in two or three My Bryan himselt There Al serlous but the majority o and that thin eort of talk 1eless denunciation of minal trusts and k ogal cor dividends, and the rule who gots large whose business s the organiza of the purpose of which do bubiness annot last very | enthusiasts whos | one tha as room | nouncing | the peop | 18 | treason. } everybody porations about as va Nobod favors « wat own s in whi 10 x er 1s William J al fees from jocularly said to corporations in Mis ing them to the in the state. A sham long earn big no exception to on PAYING TO HEAR BRYAN What (£ Wil Cont (0 See former in 111 Chicago Triby The democratic state comm ted that when Mr. the Star Pere in tee has de Bryan makes his tour of Illinols next week his #top only at towns which are pay roundly for the privilege of hearing and | seelng the democratic candidate. Th # business-like dectslon. It money trains and it 1s natural that ting the benefit of Mr. Bryan's eloquence should defray the cost of the cov eted article. It one town Is willing to pay the tax that is its own affair, and if an other prefers to go without a Bryan speech | rather than pay the stipulated price, that 18 also its owh business. ry o Galesburg paid $230.65 tor Mr. Bryan's oratory h at that time was probably a bargain coun co, for Mr. Bryan was in de mand in that campaign. This year the democratic managers recognized the fact that Bryan oratery is not worth quite so much per word they made Galesburg the specially low offer of one hour of Bryan for $400. Though this was considerably les than half price, us compared with tho mar ket value of 1896, the democrats of Gales burg refused to pay it. They plainly stated | that they the figure exorbitant )| That 15 & purely business matter for Gales burg to settle with the campalgn managers, but the outside world ¢hnnot help drawing cne of two Infere Ror the Gales burg people, having feasted their eyes an: I have concluded that once is enough hey belleve the real in much lower than mauagers are willing rain ca n b | willing to 1s , | Fun al the towns ge n ATS & minutes ¢ thought (| cars on n once, or els value of Bryan or the )| to admit 1| At speech booked candida ory even democratic ny rate from for o b the \ the Gulesburg will go without a Mr. dryan, while Abingdon 1s f minutes of the silver the rate of $10 a minute. Tho tween Galesburg and Abingdon one had its curlosity satis jther has not. By waiting four ngdon 18 now ablo to buy for $150 burg pald $239.95 to get. To be aure, the article It Is purchasing has grown somewhat shopworn, but if the Abingdon democrats think they want it at the price o| named they can have it. Galesburg evl dently belleves it has had enough of Bryan to last four years long; ha cars Al CHAFF TO CHBER. Somerville Jour mother fs even office. without a al worse waste Home than basket without a an editorfal Harper's . me!" “roared the stump words were n vaiy he was addroseing most entirely 1zar: Unnoticed-—“Listen to orator. But his Without knowlng ! an audience made up al of cable car conductors. Boston T into Billy? times every dav Robert—The doet a drink of whisky u water, ranser, Richard-What's got He goes in bathing half a dozen advised m him to take ming out of the Detrolt structive Forests, “Oh—-go ‘way; inetructive arth Coal Plles Free article ‘Here's an Preservation in what | want to see {s an > on “The Preservation of Philadelphin Press: “Yos, sir,” safd the politiclan, I've been tempted to write a etter that would expose the higgest politt cal jobber in this city. 1 could do it, too. “Indeed,” remarked the man who xnew him, “what Is the letter, ‘| Somerville | little Things on whom bestowed Journ mak triplets What a difference exclaimed the man had recently been Cleveland Plain Dealor: I saw an item the other day, in which it wan stated that Lieutenant flobson had shaved off his mustache.’ If that's true the girls who welcome him home will find that Kissing a hero fsn't such a ticklish operation after all “He suggestod arn to love hin,' Chicago Post sibly 1 might plnster. “Yes, that pos- " sald the of course” returned her dearest friend.” “Doubtless he reaiizes the truth of the saying that 'one Is never too old t» learn.' " Cleveland Plain Dealer “If 1 thougit that dear pa would cough up handsomtly Vg, el married, dont vou know? he marriage with you, dear boy, Is th pa’-amount issue!” Chicugo Tribune: Democratic teeman—Wao are making an effort, judge. to secure the nlu[\[?ll(l of the traln and a fow remarks from Colonel Brvan as he goes through oir town next week, and we thought—"" Democratic pockethnok uch of the forth Commit Capltalist (Arawing out his with reluctance)-Yes? How “effort” am 1 expected to put Maud os a Golfer. Detroft Journal Maud Muller, in the summer sun Golfed like sixty and called ft fun “Oh. Judge,” demurely faltered sh “Wilt you kindly make a tea for me But the Judge io with mannor b My dear Miss Muller, I haven't the san And Maud concealed her wounded hoart Taughed and sald, “You think you'ra smart!" TEDDY'S HAT, W. J Seat! What's that? ‘eddy’s hat? Oh, that's on straight, And {t's full of head Het mquare On the top end Of a backbone That sticks right up through it Like a tent pole And he's had that backbone with him, leks In peace han in war, And you can’ wages Your wad It Old Glory fere swung lgose from it the wport of the winc There {sn't a man From Madrid to Manila Who would attempt To haul down the Amerfean flag That's the kind of backbone Teddy's 18, And his hat 1s hung right up on 1t to stay. 1f anybody wants To point the fnger of corn At Teddy's hat Ha Iy perfectly ‘at iberty to do For this is a free country But it he doesn't hear from it P.od. a, 1t will be because Teddy Is busy with bigger game Nor does Teddy talk Through hix hat, either He doesn't keep a hat For that purpose, Notwithstanding, riends and fellow cltizens, There are others Who don't seem to know What else Thelr hats are for Teddy's no slouch, efthor, zven if his hat | And it is mighty near time Bo obviate the necessity Of putting up the sign DAk LOOK OUT FOR THE LOCOMOTIVE Teddy has his faults, A4 most of us have, But that hat Tan't one of them And as long as h Bome folks had b Themeselves Or the first thing They know They won't know Where they are at, Boel Lampton In Chicago Inter Ocean 18 under it tier stand from undes