Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 8, 1900, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:‘ E. RUSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED TERMS OF BUBSCRI Daily Bee (without bunaay), Daily bee ana sunu liustrute One MORNING VERY TION me Year..$8.00 Yoar A ar Year Dl | | Weekly Bee, One OF Omaha: The B Bouth Omana ty-nin and Chicago: ICES: Buiuing, Uity sl sullding, Twen N Streets Liuns . w rearl 1640 Unity buil New Yoik: ‘Temple Court. Washington: wi routieenth Sloux City: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- toriai_matter should ve addressed: Omaha Bee, Lditorial Department BUBINes 1wt TERS Business letters and remittances should be adaressed: ‘the Bee Publishing Com- Lany, Umaha, REMITTAN Romit by draft, express or postal ord 10 The kee Publishing Company Nt Wlamps accepled 1o payment ccounts. Personal checks, except on 4 n exchanges, not wccepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEME OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Douglas County, % Georga B, Tzochick, secreiary of ihe te Pubiisiing pany, being duly says that ctual’ number of full complete ¢ of The Dally. Mor Evening and Sunday Isee, printed du ke month of Beptember, 194, wah a8 fo. Tows Streot. 10 17 18 27,183 27,100 27,040 26,070 27,015 27,060 27,200 27,170 ..20,766 27,110 27,150 27,470 27,590 27,245 29,540 Wiy Total Less s wold and returned coples Adyssd | t total Net dally sle: uverag sius GEORGE B, 12801 iy presence and Wi duy of Se ber, A L 10, kU MUNG \T:\,. (Beal) Notary Publie, —— e, Governor Roosevelt propounded several uncomfortable questions for Carl Schurz to answ S—————— While in the explaining business Gov ernor Ioynter wmight include another explanation of his veto of the resolu tion of thanks to th First Nebraska. - | ] S04,6.08 20,820 | UCK. | woin to | Bubscribed n before me thi . South Owaba's Commercial elub will liold a banquet in celebration of the census returns that thriving burg, Omnia's census bangiet has been post voned until 1910, The ballot, at least in Douglas couuty, | I8 undergoing a process of expansion, | With thiee tickets vequired to rvpn-m-uli the populists aloug no voter can com plain of beiug limited iu his cholee, Nebraska has failed to cast its elec- | toral vote for the republican candidate for president just once #ince it was ad mitted into the unlon. Now is the time to make good the one slip by getting back to the republican column. A seat in the British Parllament car- ries no salary with it, hut the cowpetl tion for the title of M. I'. seems to he Just as brisk as that for the title of M. € In this country, notwithstanding the lat 5,000 a year and per quisites. mileage The French and English jockeys ar sald to be trying to devise some scheme to shut out the American riders who are making such inroads upon them. They might try a new Chinese wall If they did not fear the American jockeys would jump that too. It was noted four years ago that as the campaign proceeded Colonel Bryun became wilder and wilder fu his public utterances. The same performaunce s being repeated again this year. It is fortunate for Bryan that the campaign has ounly another month to run, 1t philunthropic . millionaire could be persunded to immortalize his name on Omaba’s new auditorivm in a way similar to that pursued by An- drew Carnegie with respect to the Car- negie Music ball in New York the audi torium fund would take an immediate Jump. some Senator Allen s letting no grass grow under his feet in Lis effort to retain the place to which he was appointed, although at the time of the appoint- ment be guve it out that he would not turn & haud to go back to Washington, Of course the senator has a right to change his wind. While taking up the story of the sub- scripton fund that brought the First Nebraska home from San Francisco why don’t our popocratic contemporaries re- print the list of contributors? 1s it be cause the names would show that nine tenths of the wouney from republicans’ The coroner's jury has exouerated the | express messenger who shot the teaiu | robber uear Council Blufts. Of course | uo other verdict could ha been ex- pected and the finding s to be coustrued | us & resolution of thanks to which every one who travels on the railroads in this community will cordially subscribe, advanced eawe | ‘s two legislative houses are at outs over the proposed substitute for the Goebel law and the chances arve that | uo new leglslation will be efected cov ering the Kentucky elections, It Is just possible the talk put up by the demo- crats about repealing the Goebel law was nothing but a bluff from the start. } “Our editorial space was erowded out this week by an iufux of advertising," exclaims a democratic weekly printed in | a neighboring Nebraska county, and adds: “However, on the inside pages will be found some good democratic doc- trine.” The good democratic doctrine pooh-poohs the idea that it can be real MeKinley prosperity that has crowded the editorial space with business an | the democratic | this wembers of the |t | democratic success, days arter the election. L OMAIA HOPE OF THE In his ch at Chicago Roosevelt sald that the chief hope of Fit FILIPINOS Governor democratic defection of 1506, while those that have gone: back have had their influence so far as help | Ing Bryan Is concerned materially weak newspaper K ino Insurgents is in the telumph ened because party, and in evidence of referred to the letter recently | tion they took against ran for the first tiwe captured on an insurgent general from a member of the Filipino junta at Hong | It is idle to expect any one political Kong to & former official of Aguinaldo’s | party to have a monopoly of the news cabinet. In this letter it is declared that the country th the downfall of McKinley o expect it mo for the ascendancy of the Filipino fls the orators or stump speak and that it MekKinle [ the Insurgents must give up hop There 18 other evidence to the effect, wuch of it coming from American soldiers. Lieutenant Hale of the Tuirty- | third regiment, who recently returned to] lils home at San Antonio, Texaus, on sick leave, suld In an interview: “Ihere is no | organized force in opposition to the | United States anthority in the island, | but the soldiers are being harassed by the protounced e f posi he e when papers it would I any mor to bave a n 1€ necessary | nopoly It | however in th before of will take u long newspaper the Bryan and i re-clected the democratic time yot world demoeratie free sflver in THE GERMAN VOTr Not thie least ridiculous of the claims ors party back wis to get whore it revolt agninst to “ame ¢ Chairman Johuson of the dem ational executive committee I8 in regard to the German vote. In his “forecast” of the presidential election sent out o few days ago he says: “Every ki that the German vote was Imost unanimously agninst Mr. Bryan four years ago. We have reliable infor. mation that 80 per cent of that vote will be cast for Mr. Bryan this in sev eral of the pivotal states,” Now it 1s undoubtedly a fact that neither the democratic*nor the repub- lican national committee ix so well In formed in regard to the German vote as to be able to make an approximately acceurate estimate of how It will be dl vided. It may admitted that Mr. Bryan will receive a larger proportion of it than he got four years ago, but the democratic claim of 80 per cent of the German vote Is manifestly absurd, It is reasonable to assume that most of our German citizens are quite as much in- terested in sound money as they were four years ago and that they are very well satistied with the financial and bus- iness conditions that have prevailed since the national republican adwinistra- tion camwe In, It must be supposed, also, that as an inteiligent, fodustrious and thrifty people, they desire a continuance of these conditions. Why, then, should any considerable number of them reject the republican party, whose policies have achleved so much for the country aud for the weltare of all the people, and give their support to the party that stunds for the same finuncial and other heresies now as four years ugo? We cannot believe that any large number ot Germuns are alarmed by the fulse and empty ery of “imperialism” and “mili taris,” because as sensible, sober- minded citizens they must know there is no such danger. We contidently believe that a majority of German voters will be with the publican party this year, because they desire a continuance of prosperity and do not want to see our mouey systews disturbed. We do not think that they will generally be fnduced to vote for the party of paule by the baseless charge that the republican party stands for im- perialism and militarism. buuds of bushwhackers who waglay our men in unexpected pla Even this show of resistance would not obtain were It not for the utterances and policy | of the democracy on this The Tagalogs now in Insurreetion are under | the impression that if Bryan is elected | the Ameriean foree will be withdrawn from the islands und leave them in un- | disputed possession. 1f the election were leld tomorrow and McKinley chosen | they would surrender without a mur mur.” The numerous letters from sol diers In the Phillppines buve expressed a similar opinion. The report of the Taft comuission on one W side, year be the sltuation some weeks ago stated that| the policy of lenicucy culminating in | wmnesty b a marked effect to induce Al the defining of political issues in the United States, reported in full in the Philippines, gave hope to In surgent officers still in arms of changed | policy and stayed surrenders to awalit the result of the electon. The report said that disturbances in parts of Luzon, kept up and avowed by insurgent| proclawation and orders to influence the election, did not show an uniriendly at utude on the part of a wajority of the people of the proviuces where they | oceur, but ouly activity of small in- surgent bodics fn mountain fastnesses. ‘The report stated that uncertainty as to » future policy of the United States und defeuselessness of people without arws largely prevent them aiding Amer- jeaus 10 suppressing outruages. 1 cunnot a reasouable doubt that the attitude of the “anti-imperial- aud the promise held out to the Filipino lnsurgents by Mr. Bryan bave influenced them to keep up thelr guer- rilla wartare, in the bhope and expecia- tion thut If the Bryauite party shall be successful the Awmerican forces will be withdrawn frow the Philippines and Aguinaldo and his adhercuts be left to set up an independent governwent, un- der sowe sort of prowise of protection by the United States. The insurgent leaders are well informed ‘s to the po- litical situation Lere, 80 far as It allects them, and they are eagerly Loping tor in the meanwhile fmproving opportunity to kil American soldiers. Should their hopes uot be realized it may be confidently predicted tuat all resistance to Awer- ican authority would cease within sixty swerenders ul re be ists INSULTING THE VOTERS. The annual popocratic alarm about Hanna's slush fund Inundating Ne- braska for which The Bee has several times admonished its readers to be on the lookout has already made Its appear- ance, emerging In bold relief on the edi- torlal page of the official populist organ published at Lincoln as follows: LOOK OUT! Information has come to the office of the Independent that the republican managers have convinced Mark Hanna that there s a chance for them to carry the state for McKinley and elect two gold bug, imperlal- ist senatcrs. The result is that this state is to be ficoded with momey and speakers during the last two weeks of the campalga. It 1s also learned that a large number of wileuge Looks on the rallroads have beem distributed in different parts of the state The Independent asks its readers to keep W watch for them and report immediately to headquarters. The Bee cheerfully gives publicity to this outery which Is apparently made on the “Stop thief" plan for the purpose of diverting attention from the crooked work of the Bryanite wmanagers. A pertinent answer to this regularly re- curriug fake is found in the current Hurper's Weekly, commenting as fol- lows on a similar fiction about a $23,- 000,000 republican corruption fund in- vented by the imagination of eastern Bryanites: The astute gentlemen who are running Mr. Bryan's campaign have unearthed the startiing fact that the republicans are in possession of @ corruption fund of $25,000- 100, with which they propose to purchase votes which otherwlse would be cast for Willlam Jennings Bryan. In a few days we shall expeet to see an itemlzed state- ment of the sources of this vast sum, s well as a list of the advantages (o be de- rived by subscribers from having con- tributed so llberally to the cause of the party ‘n power. Meanwhile we cannot but be impressea with the curious fact that the chief solicitude of the democratic man- agers scems to be the purchasable quality of their followers. We had supposed the unboly alliance, which but for the repub- lican party would by this time have w up @ coruer In parties—a sort of po | trust—was made up of Incorruptibles, ® » * To discover at this late hour of the cam- palgn that by means of moncy the wicked oretics who question Bryanism and who ubject its teachings to the higher crit- iclsm may convert the truc bellevers to the causo of heresy and schism is a revela- tion too awful to contemplato. Is it po ible that gold is, after all, so tempting 1o the silverite that he will barter his con- science to get it? evel MOVEMENTS OF THE NEWSPAPERS. The Bryan organs are taking the an- nouncement that the Philadelphia Times will support Bryan as a text| for unwarranted boasting over al- leged newspaper galns. So far as the Philadelphia Times itself s concerned it has always posed as an independent paper with democratic leanings, und, with the exception of 1806, has for years supported dewocratic tickets. Its former editor, Colonel A, K. McClure, was one of the most ardent follow of P'resident Cleveland, whose praises Le sounded In person and Iu bis paper 1u all (hree of the campaigns i which Cleveland was o candidate, Colonel McClure himselt has practically re- tired from the control of the paper and it 1y not certain that the conversion of the Times to Bryan means also the conversion of Colonel McClure to Bryan- fsm. In his book, recently published, re- presidentinl campuigns, Colonel McClure Las this to say about the newspapers in the campaign of 1806: This campaign gave a illustration of the true indep.nuence of Awerican journalism, A npuwber of th leading newspapers of the country wh.ch bad supported Cleveland in his three con tosts repudiated the Chicago p.atform aud its candidate, and they stood in the fore- front of American journallsm, embracing such journals as the Boston Herald aad Globe, the Hartford Times, the New Yoik World, Sup, Herald, Times aund Eveulng Post, the Philadeiphla Tiwes and Recoid, the Baltimore Sun, the Louisvilie Courier- Jourual and others. These journals wer: all strongly owned and entirely Independ ent in their political action, Not one of them ever had conference or communica tion with the McKinley leaders, or re- celved or proposed auy terms for thelr rupport, or ever sought, accepicd «r des red favors from the Mciinley admiais rati n. me of them suffered pecunlary sacr.fice, but they performed a herole duly, and it was the inspiration they gave to the con servative democratic sentiment of the| country that mede McKinley pres.dent by suck an overwhelming majority. It is noteworthy that of the influen- | ¢ tlal papers here weutioned by nuwe as| CVerybody knows that It re repudiating the democratie ticket in | Sreat deal of money to defray the legitl- in| 1896 only four have gone back far [ '““l“' expenses of 8 presidentin] pa enough wow to be outspoken in their | wlvocncy of Mr. Bryan, These four | {hreatened purchase of the Bryan votes are the Philadelpbla Times, New York | With republican money fs an Insult to World, Bultimore Sun and the Louis.|¢VerY citizen intelligent enough to vote, ville Courler-Journal. Others, It viewing our most impressiv cam- | Is true, have taken back as best they could | what they said four years ago in de After all the mismanagement of the State Institution ut Beatrice it Is not sur g | prising that a bond approved for one of | ing with cloued syan e oro aWalloW: | tho contractors turns out to be worth- el st B R P 1ogs because not signed by the prineipal, I ped at Kitusas Clty, 1o | pyg people of Nebraska are ready to be- |or der to be In liue with the party when leve almost any story of official incom- later 1ejuvenated an 20 s ‘l-’ i mm“‘““‘ ‘l“'h ”""I""“:' I"‘” | peteney or neglect that has to do with e best democratic papers Jolted | pay hat bolted | 4,0 Beatrice Institution, Bryan in 1896 are still opposed to him, ! — | The galus made by Bryan this year| The indications point to negotiations in newspaper support, while largely off- | petween the striking miners and mine set by losses on the other side, by 0o | operators coming to n head this week nouncements at advertising rates, {weans wake good the upprecedented | It has already been demonstrated that \ DAILY e w gu, but this constant how! about the | BE} MONDAY the miners will gain part if not all of | | the they reasonably | manded. This will mean that the | 8 bedule which has remained unchanged | for thirty years will be inereased for the first time result of the the entire country ‘Kinley's administration wage as a prosperity brought under Prestdent over M Omaha's coensus when prac tically completed, and made up | will fully uphold the standing of the| community for progress and prosperity. | (dy growth of our s been o st I entorprises by constant addi the factories and | mercantile establishments. The growth | of the business interests which support | the great body of our working cluasses is | the best evidence that the population is | growing tions to number of ernor Poyuter has come to the | tront with his annual election procia- | | mation, a careful reading of which | | conveys the information that an election | | will be bield in the state of Nebraska on | | Tuesday, November 6, for the puipose | loosing a long list of public officers, not for srnor Poynter's reminder many people would doubtless remain in fgnorance of the fact that an election 18 about to take plac The popocratic state machine is pre- paring to manipplate the officiul ballot again with partisan design. Manipula tion of the ballot, so far as past experi ence goes, seldom pays, because the politicians who try to impose upon the voters by trickery shake the confidence of the people in the honesty of (he party that s trying to gain an unfair advan- tage. Go A Prophecy that Failed. Buffulo Express The south is getting higher prices for her cotton than she has received for years, The Bryan prophecies have failed in every part of the country Gain and Indlanapo.ls News. The convention of democratic clubs can- not be sald to be an entire failure. The glory of Hon. J. Ham Lew| whiskers covers a multitude of absentees. How It Works In Globe-Democrat. The theory of tho consent of the gov- erned 18 80 rapturously adhered to in Georgia that the repullicans are excused from placing a state ticket in the field Facile in Tune shifting. Portland Oregonfan Four years ago Bryan made his cam- paign on the issue that men were poor and there was nothing in the dinner pail. Now, when it is shown that the dinner pail 18 full, he affects a lofty scorn of so sordid, mercenary and materialistic an ar- gument. Keep Your Powder Dry. Philadeiphia North American, The viceroy of Chi-li says he is killing oft the Boxers with great diligence under orders from the throne and he asks the allies to refrain from assisting him in the task. Much of the same sort has been heard befors and anybody who choor to do so may believe it, but it behooves the allies to keep a good cupply of cart- ridges close at hand Elognence of Silence, Philadeiphia Ledger. Perhaps the severest condemnation Bry- an’'s candldacy receives is from the con- tinued stlence of ex-President Cleveland. As the leader of the old line sound money democracy Mr. Cleveland can have no sym- pathy with the unsound financial theories represented by Mr. Bryan, and, as his politi- cal principles will not permit him to amli- ate with the republicans, he maintalps & strict silence, which, to those who believe as he does, ls quite as eloquent as words. Croker as a Campaign Figure. Chicago Record, Not the least of the anomalles of the campaign {8 the fortuity that lately has made such a man as Richard Croker one of the four principal figures in the cam- palgn. Partly because of the importance attaching this year to tho vote of New York, partly because of the fact that he is making lmmense expenditures of both effort and money and partly because of his own fervid and picturesque personality, Mr. Croker looms large on the horizon. With the honors of the campalgning dis- tributed in a fashion so at varlance with precedents the uprising of Mr. Croker adds « finishing touch to the novelty of the cam- patgn Value of Farm Products. St. Paul Ploneer Fress. According to the Department of Agricul- ture, the increase in the value of the princi- pal farm crops and farm animals in 1390, as compared with 1896, amounted to the vast total of $536,640,200. This increase is dis- tributed us follows Farm animals (not swine . Corn Cotton Oats Hay .. Potatoe Wheat Barley Rye Buckwheat Total e $526,640, 20 Add the greater value procured by farm- ers for their dairy products, flax, tobacco, ete., and the total increase would largely exceed a billlon dollars. Yet Mr. Bryan tells the farmers not to be deceived by the prosperity arguments of the republicans including S0l 444 474 135,203, 14 i1.221.168 THE COMING JOINT DEBATE, Lincoln Post Editor Rosewater has ac- cepted the challenge of Editor Hitcheock and the debate will soon begin We may not love the creator of The Bee for his goodness, but we admire bim for his nerve in accepting a challenge when all the rest of his party bas taken to the woods York Times: Messrs. Rosewater and Hitcheock, the two great editors of the two great Omaha papers, both of whom are can didates for the Unlted States senate, will have a joint discussion of the troubles that are agitating the people at this time. They are t golng to be viclous or venomous if they can help it and the people will be en- tertatued and enlightened Kearney Hub: The doughty Mr. Hitcheock has found & foeman worthy of bis steel. He wanted & political joint debate with Mr. Rosewater. He has ges it. What he will do with It Is quite another question, for he had™no more business in joint debate with Rosewater than Edmisten bas with Mark Hapna, Such rashuess hints strongly of the uecessity for appolntment of a guardian Grand Island Independent Mr. Hitchcock bas challenged Mr. Rosewater to a debate on the political issues and Mr. Rosewater has accepted with the alacrity for which Mr. Rosewater 15 notel. And when the talking has been done, and Bertie takes an ln- ventory, he will find himself in such frag- ments that a sting of ingratitude will not be in it with the other unpleasant sensa- tions be will feel, here and there. Mr. Rosewater is not ouly a pretty sharp man at debate, but just look at the other odds Ber- tie is going up against with his varlegated, | trazzled and ripped-up ‘paramount’’ Lssues. OCTOBER | Here 8, 1900 imperialism in 1863-64 | talk about im- his pet scarecrow isue, i won Itke the talk of the democr: in 1 when Lincoln was a can- for re-elecfion and the democrati~ and organs abused him far more than they mow abuse McKinley a few quotations from demo- papers thirty-six years ago Bryan's perialism, lerfully papers Hdute wrators viclously wild alarmist atie are cratic Fditorial in October 10, 1884 the Cincinnati Enquirer The latter (our govern- ment) cannot endure another four years' relgn of Abraham Lincoln. He bas al ady destroyed the substance of liberty and long before 1868 would cease to have the form of free institutious, It he is triumphant we may bid a long farewell o the Awmerican republic we Caption to an editorial in the Clncinnati Bnquirer, October 6, 1564: The two imper- falists, Napoleon and Lincoln Bditorial in Cincinnatl ber 5, 1864 There will o the most cor- dial relations between France and the United States should Lincoln be re-elected. The two imperfalists will harmonize ad mirably Enquirer, Octo Editorial in Cincinpati Enquirer, July 6, 1564: Lincoln is fast assuming all the state of a crowned monarch, while he ex erciges powers that mot a despot fa Bu- rope would dare to resort to. Crawford County Forum, September 25, 1863: The present crisis demands of every faithful and patriotic cftizen his hest ex- ertions in the cause of civil liberty and constitutional rights. The fssues at stake in this campaign are momentous. Shall the republic live and the constitution be sustained? The administration is pulling down the pillars of the republic Edtorial In Cincinnati Enquirer, July 4, 1864: How many fine and glowing periods have we rounded off In favor of the doc- trine of the Declaration of Independence- that all just governments derived their power from the consent of the governed In view of the fact that we are employing willions of men and billlons of treasure In the most sanguinary war of modern times to force a government upon an un- willing people. Editorial in Ohio Statesman, November 1864: Under the administration of Ab- | rabam Lincoln the American government has lost most of the features which distin gulshed ft from the despotisms of the old world Editorial {n Cincinnati Enquirer tember 16, 1864 There is a time the re belllon {8 always on its last legs. T just before an election. The Lincoln pers that it and they do 5o for twenty years to come. Note the tion about the 1 pa would swoar is 8o continuance of the Filipin insurrection tcday—an insurrection would now be over had it not been for anti-expansion encouraged from demo crats in this country. in Ohlo the impudence of a tyrant, who feeis himself alrcady master of the country, he thus th.ows in the faces of the whole people the iruu issue—Abraham Lincoln against the peo ple; despotism against the republic ditorial 1864 With Statesman and July 7 insolence Editorial in Ohio Statesman, July 7 1864: Mr. Garfield is but a sampie of the muny followers of the present administia tion who ought to have been born under monarchy He s one of the weak-minde shallow-brained exquisites who would light In debasing himselt before royalty Crawford County Forum, October §, 1563 Our revolutionary fathers siated their principlos fn the Declaration of Independ- ence and to maintain them pledged their lives, their fortunes and thelr saicied honor. years of prosperity and given to the country. Qur lberiy, our lives, our happiness, our prosperity are ogain assalled; our country on the verge of everlasting ruin. The gleries of tae rast, the terrors of the present and,the hopes of the future all appeal to us to save this country from ruin and ourselves from despotism. happiness were The following is the opening paragraph of an editorial In the Ciucinnati Enquirer, September 23, 1864, under the caption, “An Imperial Crown:" “Thers are many indi- cations that a couspiracy is on foot to make this the last election of president and convert our government into an im perlal monarchy; the whole course of Lin-| coln's government has been in that dir tion. He has entirely sot aside the cou- stitution and governs by bis own will and caprice. Indicting Our People Portland Oregonian. Either Bryan is wrong or else (be people are wll wrobg. It his coutentions are true the public and private lite of tho American people may as well be de- spaired of as hopeless. Never has 8o dem aging en indictment been framed aga nst a whole people in (he time of progress and excellence as Mr. Bryan's doctiines p.e- sent against the people of the Uaited States. In the first place, we are a craven lot. Such is our spirit that an army of 100,000 mon, scattered about the globe, one suldier to 760 persons, is about to trample upcm our liberties. The one man withdrawn from the people Is virlle, the 70 are eupine. In the second place, we are sycophants at the feet of the rich. The poor man bas no show in this couatry. The young man has no chance to rise. Of course, if the poor man has no show and if the young man has no chance to r.se, it is because the heart of the masses Js 8-t like fiint agalnst him. Nobody will give him a chance, nobody will lend him a helpiug hand, nobody will give him an encouraging word, In the third place, we are ncrveless. Seventy-five milions of people are bound hand and foot by the gold sandard, by {mperialism, by the trusts, by the standing army, and there is no hope for them, cx- cept possibly Bryan be elected president. Not only are we bound, but we &re too stupefled to realize it. This is the very extremity and abandon of helplessncss In the fourth place, we are blind. We dow't seem to realize that the goll standard is rulning the country; that im- perialism fs ruining the country; that the trusts are ruining the country; that the standing army is ruining the country. We don't see the pressing need of a bimetallie price-level, we don’t see our resolute pro scription of the poor man and the young man, we don't see the black pall of im- perialism, we don't see the havoe wrought by the elevation of the dollar above the man. In the midst of this paralysis of fear and ruin we go on buy.ng and seling, warrying and giviog in marriege, (asing pleasure in the work of our hands and building bright futures for our chiidren. | This is the very summit and crown of im- becility, In the fifth place, pressors. © are a nation of op- The people at large canuot throw the responsibility on the administia- | tlon, for its purposes of oppression and extermination were fully discloscd before the congressional elections in 1898, and in that year, if we except the solid s.u.h, | which renders no verdict on ques lous at issue, the country st 185 advocates of tyranny to the house of representatives and only fifty-nine opponents of tyranay. We look about the world for peoples to coslave. We worship the flag as an em- blem of injustico and oppression. We are only walting for some one to offur Willlam I a crown on Pennsylvania ave- nue and we shall bow down in reverent adoration, This Indictment cannot be thrown out ot court as frrelevant, for it is inescapably deducible from the Bryanite arralgument. You can't have imperialism without craven submisslon. You can't have a i peless and helpless pcor man or youmg man un- less he {3 the victim of a hostile public that will not give him a show. You can't have militarism without a cringing popu- lace. You can't have trusts in the saddle without a world of spiritiess viciims cheerfully adjusting their backs for the load. The offenders are not tho trusts or the army, but the people themselves, without whose participation none of these things could have any serious existence. APPEAL TO CLASS PREJUDICE. Same Bryam, Sons, of Feur s Ako Balttmore American As Bryan swings around the circle the plan of his campaign becomes daily more apparent and as we see we are made to believe that the man has not changed in a single respect from the Bryan the people repudlated four years ago. pursulng a dignified campaign, in which calm, logical discussion of the issues in- volyed should be the chief characteristics, the democratic candidate is doing the very thing for which he was excoriated in 1896. His every speech, almost his every sen- tence, i3 a carefully devised attempt to array the poor agalvst the rich, to incite class prejudices, and by playing upon the passious of men to Induce them to vote the democratic ticket. In all of his talk about trusts there is no other object sought for or obtained. It s one long, illogical and vehement denuncla- tion of corporations; in the eagerness with which he pursues the game of Inflaming public passions Mr sight of the fact that there is a plainly visible line of demarcation between the legitimate corporation and the hurtful trust. In his St. Louls speech he even went 80 far as to assert that there was uo such thing as a good corporation. This Is carrying the opposition to an evil almost to the limit of soclalism and communism. Mr. Bryan forge(s that but for corpora- tlons we would have no railroads, steam ship lines, great industrial enterprises, em- ploying millions of men, and all the other thousand and one accessories of our na tional great The corporation does the thing which one man, with his private means, I incapable of dolng and to the corporation we owe what we are today. There s, of course, the corporation of monopolistic intent amd purpose. It Is evil and should be exterminated, but Mr. Bryan might just as well argue that be- cause now and then a comvert falls by the wayside all religlon is a sham as to urge that because there are hurtful corpora- tlons all corperations are to be denounced and exterminated. 80, too, are the issues of lmpertalism and militarism, as employed by Mr. Bryan, dls- tinctively questions of class prejudice. Mr Bryan by them secks to play upon the credulity of the unthinking and timorous, 10 excite within them apprebension of some direful calamity to overtake the country, when he knows that the republic Is as safe today as it was wheu Washington, Jefter- son, Jackson, Lincoln or Grant was direct- ing its destinies. It would be a welcome relief to see Mr. Bryan abandon the sort of campalgn be s making and come down to a logical, dispassionate and unprejudiced dis- cussion of public questions. His open at- tempt to arouse the enmity of the poor against the rich, to array labor against capital and to foment trouble among all classes whose lot in life varies is repre- hensible and should be rebuked at tbe ballot bex in November, Instead of | Bryan eneirely loses | SHOTS AT THE FUSION TARGET, Beaver City Tribune: It seems that ths populists do not object to a banker for congress if that banker s a demcerat, Dem- |ocratic bankers are the stuff, | Beatrice Express: Governor Poynter llllkl to the voters a good deal when he |ought to be at Lincoln, but he always fails to glve any satisfactory reason why he hould be re-elected. His admin'stra:ion speaks leuder than anyth ng he can say and (hs administration has been a ser.es of blunders. Kearney Democrs Mr. Poynter has settled up the Lang business by al wing the doctor several thousand dollais waleh the experts declared Lang was short. Poynter permitted the account to be ad- [Justed by Lang filing & claim that he had expended the money for the good of the Beatrice Feeble Minded instiu.e Lang bas now filed & bill for salary from the time Poynter removed him last May and, uo doubt, that will be allowed, Hastings Tribune: Governor Poynter used very poor judgment in making his appoint- menis; in fact he made the worst botch and blunder any governor was ever known to have made. In nearly every instance his appointees have either been incompetent, fn- experienced or disqualified, which showed the indiscretion and stupidity of Poynter. This s what has caused the mismanage- ment, misrule and petticoat government In Nebraska during the last two years. Will the good people of Nebraska put up with two thore years of Poynter's mismanagement? Wo think not. Tekamah Journal: After reading the World-Herald's report of the Bryan re ception at Craig, which town was referred o as the home of the Rough Rider cap- taln who rosigned to become & member of @ democratic organization, we wondered It this was on & par with the other conyer- sicns to democracy wh ch (he World-iera'd tells us about. Captaln Smith's branding the charge as a fulsehood some weeks ago has had no effect upon the World-Herald but upon the occasion of Mr. Bryan's pas- sage through the town it Improved (he op portunity to incorporate the lie in its press report and herald It broadcast over the country Alma Jouroal: Since Mr. Shellenbarger has severed his connection with the bap of Alma and has becomo just a common vanchman, from the statements he s salo to have made upen the s ump, it 1oaves al) the bank officers, clerks snd dire tors f the bank republicans. The natural nfr pe from this would be that the ha'k s at ment would look beat 1o & republ can p. per, there being one published in Alma an . two others in the county, but evidently some one thinks that It looks best in o popocratic sheet and by the wuthorliy o somebody the Record will print it thy week Hooper Sentinel: After the adjournment of the last session of the legislature evory | populist and democratic paper in the state similarity of this to the asser- They succeeded, and neariy eighty | | denounced gh A een months la the oxtravagance. populist ract tate con th [ state | legislature 1 hat the la ficials §1,00 Inture fat ommittee, in orde on from e e that i denonn same uginess J leg populist state of the preceding logis increased app estin t lex at 81 pulist and yet n the mo places the deficier lature will be with this whick called uy Two years pointed with pride staced 1t, that the penitentia | taining, but when the was to rlate v the ne ever orator they was gelf-aus to th as lature met it asked 5 { nce of the prisovers. The | ture In its desire to be liberal with populist state officials allowed asked for notwithstanding t Governor Holcomb himself had announcel on the stump, only three months prior, that ich an appropriation was wholly unneces- And what 1s the result? This self istaining institution will bave used up the 0,000 long before the end of the blennium | And a deficit of several thousand dollars | ated. The people are soon to dec they want a stingy, niggardly fous to approp v a lavish, extravagant body nerously appropriate (he state quandered by reckless state ot 1s safo to assume that the tax ©s the former. The reform party |18 great on reform on the stump, but in ton it has proven the most expensive luxury this state has ever had 00 for the el the amount fact that m sary , o whethor parsimor the taxes legislature ate that they pay that will g | tunds 1o ve ficals, 1t | payer pref. PERSONAL NOTES, From 1850, when he ascended the thronme, | the German emperor has delivered 700 pub- lic speeches | Minister Wu's salary has not been cut by |the Chinese troubles and the routine busi- ness of the legation has been running with perfect smooth Gustave Fritz (#on of Charles | has enlisted as United States navy Lieutenant General Miles s sald to tavor an increase in the number of officers at western posts At some of these there is now but one oficer, and that man’s lot is | naturally a rather solitary one. General Fitzhugh Leo had intended tak- |ing his family to Havana this month, but the prevalence of fever has changed his plans o that he will return to his post lone, while his family spend the winter at Richmond, Va Ornithologists say the crows are cawing more than usual, in anticipation, no doubt, of the banquet next month of the defeated candidates, whero crow forms the plece da | resistance, so called because it resists both carving and wssimilation. | Abrabam Marks, whose name Harriet B. Stowe Introduced Into “Uncle Tom's Cabin" an Marks, the lawyer, is {ll in St. Peter's | hospital, Brooklyn. He was a friend of Mrs. Stowe and his character bore no resemblance | whatever to the crafty, shifty lawyer of the | book. He 1s now 88 years old. When James Carey, the notorious “In- vinefble” informer, found, as a consequence of a shot from Patrick O'Donnell's revolver, | & grave {n South Africa, he left a son who, | under an assumed name, has been fighting with an Irish regiment against the Boers and who is now recovering in London from an attack of enteric fever. The medicine men of the Seminoles don't know what they are attempting when they undertake to get marriageable white men Into their tribe for husbands for the young squaws. A few comic papers that illustrate s0 forcibly the crying need of the summer resorts should be sent to these braves in order to show them how futile will be their ing. The grand jury of Philadelphia urges the establishment of whipping posts for the punishment of wife-beaters in that city. Whipping posts are revered institu- tlons In Delaware, and penologists admit that they are effective in reaching the spot. Wife-beating has reached such pro- portions in the Quaker city, the esteemed “city of homes,” that mothing less th « base ball bat would make an impression on the evil. Nave of St. Joseph, Mo., Nave, the multimillionaire, common saflor in the LIGHT AND BRIGHT. Brooklyn Life: Cleverton—I find nown- days that If & man wants to marry a girl he has to work till he gets her. Dashaway~But it it the right girl ho doesn't have to work afterward. Indlanapolis Journal: “Clytie, f{s this young man you'are engaged to well to do " “Oh, ¥a, he's rich; he's #o rich that he doesn’t have to care whether he pays his debts or not. Pittsburg Chronicle: “He gave you the laugh, didn't he?"" sald Dukane to Gaswall “If he 414" replied Gaswell, with hau- teur, “it was the only thing he ever did &lve anybody.” Chicago Tribune: “Blamed if T don't be. lleve Hargus is getting seady to make ther political flop!" “What 18 he saying now “He hasn't sald anything in particular, but he's begun to call greenbacks shin- plaster Detroit Free Press: Are Blanche Thorn- ed?" asked replied the girl in the are semi-attached. “They are not, pink shirtwalst. Chicago Post: e “What 18 the difference ween a statesman and & politician?” Well, a statesman frequently thinks without talking and a politiclan usuaily talks without thinking. Philadelphia Press: "You sent a collector to ses me this morning,’ sald the burly visitor. 5 “'Ab, yes. That little bill you owe' re- plied the installment man. *\Well? ““Well, you'd better send another one up to, my house," “What for?® - “To collect tha first one Tit for Tat. Boston Journal. Sald & young and tactless husband To his inexperienced wife “1f you shou'd give up leading Such a fashionable life, And devote more time to cooking— Flow to mix and when tc bake— hen perhaps you might make pastry Such as mother used to make. And the wife, resenting, answered {ior the worm will turn, you know): “If you would give up hories And a score of clubs or so, To devote more time to business— ‘When to buy and what to stake— Then perhaps you might make money Buch as father used to make. ON THE FENCE. WHY PA I . Kiser In the Times-Herald B didates are hungin’ he pletures of the can everywhere; They're gettin' up process! music in the air; The banners stretch uoross every block or 80} p The papers (hey are tellin' how the ‘lec- tlon's sure to go: Some of them say Mciinley's vote {s bound to be Immense, Some &ay that Bryan's got it sure—but pa he's on the fence! fons, and there's the streets most e holdin' meetin'a in the halls and erywhere around, And ‘mon are flockin' there in droves and ettin’ held spellbound: They talk about free silver and the dan it would bring, The grators_jump up and Ike anything; . The folks hre mad and shakin' fiat saye the strain's intense, : For ‘lection aln't #o far away—but pa he's on the fence, They" r 4 down and jaw Joneses they're republicans, the Hmiths are democral They used to run togethe like dogs and « They talk about pros pansion meant, They seold about the army and abuse the Philippines; But pa he Funs i grocery and he mys thera Win't no sense [n gettin' one side mad at you—0 he keeps on the fense, The , now they fight perity and what ex-