Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1900, Page 4

1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, et e et e e et e e . AL OF THE VINE IS the anthracite ¢ B. RUSEWATER, Editor I to be fair ar % " | {ng with the mit PUBLISHED LVERY MORNING T Nl ¢ il o sttied ¥iEhN : TERMS OF KUGSCHIPT Xt fes Tie convention ok Lally Bee (without Sunday), One Year wre adopted o resolution in favor of baily Hew and Kinday, Oie’ Veat veeopting the 10 per cont advanee o SUnURy e, Ui A fered by the operators, the only « 1 | Weokly ‘Bes, One Tekt s, 21 | tions helng that payent of the advane OFIICES shull continie until April 1 of nest year SinANnG e s BUllAING, iding, Twen. | and that the sliding scale in the Lehigh -RETh and N Stre | and Schuyikil regions shull he abolished Counetl 1slufts | Street | Chicago: 1840 Unit Nt I was nlso recommended that i the x\‘\',:n}.l‘,"hw;l'}"4"‘“ (T CA— event of this not being acceptable (o Bloux City: 611 Park Strect CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed toFial_matter Ahould be nddressed: Omaha | of arbitrati the operators all questions at issue b submitted to a falr and mpartial bhoard Bee, Editorlal Department In this action the miners have shown BUSINESS LETTERS | g 4 4 Busitiess letters and remittances should [ reasonable and concilintory spirit be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- | which is most commendable and which puny, Umaha. REMITTANCES, [ places them in a position that cannot Remit by draft, express or postal order, | fail to command general public respect Ty 2ot At e InSpuyment of | Aud sympathy, When thelr convention ‘mnu‘.m.;'nu Personal checks, -x'ri“""}‘ [ met 1t was apprehended that not only dJmaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted 1A or xchunges, o would they refuse the advance proposed THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION 8tate of Nebvraska, Douglas Courty, =8.; | Georga B, Tzschiick, secretary of The fee = [ by the operators, which President Mitehell stated in his address to the con- | vention was not satisfactory, but it was | B oDy, e Y e and | thouglt they would insist upon having gompleta copien’ of" The "Datlv. MOTUK, | ouier gricvances remedied. Manifesdy, | tvening and Sunday Bee, the month of September, 1900, printed during was as fol- the conservative element 27,485 | 10 control of the convention and this however, was ST ) 18... v 1 20,625 1 .. 37,000 | fact should have much influence with ' 27,180 18 “:"vi'.;:' the operators, A majority of the miners, ; 4 vegrots| it 18 evident, wish to return to [ Ploiiieriens AT0060 | work and It may be that many of then, i Bcscveenns s BTBEY | ws wits sald by President Mitchell, are » . » L g7,230 | considerate of the public interest. At all 10,000 L27,010 ..27,470 events they have acted reasonably and n. 27,150 27,800 | ¢ (e operators mean to act in good 1 27,200 27,243 13 Tar.ano q0 | faith an early settlement is assured BN 1 20,080 27,490 | The public, which is very greatly cou 6. 170 26,805 | corned fn the matter, would most heart- | » 10 result. | 2z [ Total . sivanes Less ungold and returned cop ily welcome such WHAT OMAHA MUST WORK FOR Great strides have been made during | Net total nales Net daily a TZSCHUCK eserce and sworn 10 Subseribed n my p Yafore e this LR day of Beptember. A 1. | the pust fow years toward building up L MOBHUNGATE, | Omaha Industeially and commercially (Seal) Notary Public, | E————————— | 8110 extending thé territory tributavy | Bryan is a'good deal better at asking | to its business interests, The work of | Juestions than he is at answering them, | strengthening the position of the city, e both with its own people and with! Nebraska 1s raising a erop must continue and will puign weathersnot excelled in quality 1 by its crop of yellow corn ears continue if our business men co-operate in the accomplishment of this purpose, | While Omaba's raflrond facilities have | been vastly improved by the entrance wabject? We panse | f, 1OV ronds and the development of | 01d ones, it is sure to move further for- | ward as a transportation center as the | Dall season | EADS {0 the lines converging here are | | filled. The next great railroad link | | tor which Omala should strive is that | | | of cam- | those outslde | ey I the negro of North Carolina has been disfranchised by trickery for reply who democratic citizen ol How fortunate the extends over th foot electlon, the chrysanthemum-haired e otherwise legian | might at any time not have the field to | Beeded to give a direct route fnto the himkelf, | central paxt of South Dakota, which is| ——— e territory properly belonging to Omaha's | The shal of Persla threatens to in- | trade. | flict his subjects with a book embracing | The internal lines of the deve spment | the narrative of his travels, If this does | of Omaha are falrly well mapped out. | not fustify revolt and insurreetfon noth. | The erection of au auditorium would | Ing will, enable us to compete with other citi for great national gatherings and to en tertain properly the varlous state or- | ganizations hLolding periodle lere. Omala has been adding a nnmber of | wholesale establishments to its jobbing interests and more are on the way In the line of manufacturing fnstl tutlons the most pressing need fs for sugar factory, cereal mills and factorvies | }m work up still further the by-products | of the great meat packing industries ot | s | Mr. Bryan's Omaha organ warns the Bryanites not to take it for grunted that Bryan wiil carry Nebraska. ‘Luis 18 Just what the republicans have heen telling them all the time. sessions The British Parliamentary ele are nearly over. Great Britaln more elections to choose a new Parlia- ment than we to select a new congress, yet we seem to consume more time in the process. Ex-Candidate Towne 1s sald to be much worn with his tour through the west. The sta fons has South Omaha. While Omaha cannot expect to ac-| complish all these things in a day or a | year, it has something definite to work for, and with a Lelping hana all around is sure to carry out its prograwm in the | ear future and accompl much more | besides. o8 he has been covering are those in which the greatest revul- lon from Bryan to McKinley is found, and no wonder Towne s tived The campaign phonograph loaded by Bryan with sawples of bis oratory, i 1 rsed with songs and recltutions, has reached Towa. Towa iy so safely republican that the democrats do not | care to campaign that state except by phonograph prox The campalgn of Mr. Dletrich, the ve publican candidate for governor of Ne braska, has been interrupted by (he | I controversy, Ex-Senator Gorwan of | death of his father at his old home in | Maryland in a recent letter said: “The | Hlinois, hut his absence from the state | attempt by the republicans to make the will not prevent his friends from eam. | eurrency question predominant will fail. paigning for him | That question was, four years ago, the _— logleul production of conditions which Omaha's bank clearings, as shown by | no longer exist. ‘The phenomenal ad the last weekly cleaving house exhiblt, | dition made to the volume of gold since are nearly twice those of St. Joseph. | 1806 an amount equal to if not greater We mention this simply for the benetit | than all the cofn in circulation on (he of the spectacles | fiest of January of that year—removes enabled him to see more people in St the question from the domain of con Joseph than in Omaha. AN ISSUE THAT WILL NOT DOWN. Mr. Bryan is not discussing free sil ver, though he continues to declare, when pressed for an expression, that he and his party stand where they did four years ago. Bastern Bryanite leaders are | | making every effort to keep this issue in the background, some of them going so far as to assert that it is no longer sy census wan, whose troversy.” The financial and business interests of the country, the prosperous farmers and | contented i this view. It the democratic the dec idential candidate The board business If customers can only be drumwed up to the International bargain connter, As | an nfant industry Hagne will permanent arbitration xoon be open for wage-earners, do not econcu 1s not in accord with national platform ations of the democratic pres The platform says and however, the board canuot expect to be rushed with orders for some little tin to come “We reaftirm and indorse the principles | Talking about political machines! | ©F the national —democratie platform | No machine was ever + | adopted at Chicago fn 1896 and we re worked so hard fu this vielnity as (e fusion couny | 1O e demand of that platform for machine, which i% hammering dqown | A0 American financial system made by | fuslon connty offclals and theje qp. | the Amerlcan people themselyes which | polntees for a slice of theie apgg) | BP0 restore and maintain a bimetallic | [ pri lII\!' inmmediate restora level, aud as part of such sy stem L of the fre i has just redeenied | and unlimited coinage of xilver and gold suluries for campaign purposes only — The city of On A bond issue originally floated in 1872 | at the present legal ratio of 16 1o 1 AL 10 per cent interest and later re- | Without walting for the consent of any funded at T per cent interest Its | other nation.” s are now sold at slightly above 4 per cent. This does not L gold standard s deare This was iusisted upon by Mr | and he unqual Bryan | dly endorsed it fn his | ceeptance, in this language: The platform relterates the demand contained in the Chicago platform for ars ago Mr. Bryan declaved | an Ame publicly that he did not want the votes | the of Cleveland, Carlisle, Olney #ud Morton | The purpose of such a system is 10 and thelr friends. This year, store and maintain w bimetallic ley he s fishing as havd as he can to get | prices and o order that there may bo | the support of the men he denounced | 1o uncertainty as to the method of 1 At that time. But they dé not change | storing bimetallism, the speeific declara thelr minds as casily as he dooes tlon fu favor of free and unlimited coin- | axe at the ratio of 16 to 1, independent | Kk as If the constantly | letter of 1o money Four an finaneial system made by Ameriean people for themselyes however Popocratic laudations of Nebraska's | of the action of other nations, Is ve- present populist state treasurer assert | peated. Whether the senate, now hos that “every cent coming nto his hands | tile to bimetalli an be changed dur I8 accounted for But every inquiry as | ing this campaign or the campaign of to the whereabouts of the school fund | 1502 can only be determined after the or the identity of the persons drawing votes are counted, but neither the pres {nterest on it has falled of answer. Why | ent nor the future political complexion | up his caliber about right, | be more fit | surgeon general from all the army m [ouly 188 cases among a total of 105,546 | tion to these figures as being a smaller pe | dent, although the | dent was.ever so decidedly the cholce of | Amerien to obtain machinery u mecnent of the pa L et i i s e 300 THEY WANT A SCAPEGOAT? With these explicit and positive enun- | § lemoera before them ennncia S would rather lose ¢ 1 « e in the tions which the candidate of that purty | § state than permit 1. Rosewater to be 1< fully and firmly believes in today as | § eloeted Unfred States senator Be did when they were made no intel- | ¢ The Nebraska national committer Uligent man and particularly no mun en. | § nan is now frantic in is efforts to Lin practical affairs can be induced | § make even a regpectable showing in 10 believe that the currency Guestion | ¢ Nebraska, He has at last found a lins been removed from the domain of | § scapegont in Mr. Rosewater. Whin controversy, 1ve friend of sound § Bryan's 25,000 majority is counted money Kiows that such € not the ease | $ 0ut the night of election then all thed wid all men who desive the continuance | ¢ en with - Rosewaterphobia willy of the conditions which make for finan- | § laim The Bee editor was the eause} clal security and business prosperity | $ of it ! feel that the curreney question Is not | @eeeeesssssssss cessscey only an issue in the campaign, but by A Race Worth Watching, far the most important and vitel of all | \timore American the issues. Mr. Bryan insisted on again| China has promised to punish the guilt mandaring. Some time ago the sultan of 5 Turkey promised to pay an indemnity. 1t will not down, however anxious | will be interesting to watch the mad race he or his adherents may now be to ig-| between the two toward the goal of ful it. fillment NEWS FROM AWAY FROM HOME | There 15 a saying that one has to go away T'lis is cortainly the case with the following information confidentially “Purely thrusting it upon the American people | and it Visible Effect of Bry Globe-Democrat. Ex-President Harrison repeats Bryan's election “would throw govern mental and business affairs into confusion The currents of business are already slowed Up Lo BOme extent because new enterpris | are postponed until after the election nixm. that from home to hear the news, fmparted as | rrsonal” in the last fssue of the Fourth Estate published fn New | York: | No Doubt of Sucee Gilbert M. Hitcheock, publisher of the Springfield (Mass.) ¥ licanh (Ing Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, whose pl Betting on the election in Wall stree has moved back a peg in favor of McKin ture appears on the front page of this issue is the democratic candidate for state sena- | 10¥—the cdds of 215 to 1 of a few days ago tor from his district. As he is popular with | F18INE Bow to § (o 1, with few takers at his party and has many republican feiends | 1¢ smaller cud. In that part of the coun who will vote for him he has a fair chance | (¥ there is no more doubt of republican ot lnhig Buccess than there 1s of the sun's rising on This is the first anyoue In these parts | the morning of November 7 knew that Gilbert M. Hitehicock was | Views of n War Veteran, “the democratic candidate for state sen-| Bl Paul Plopeer: Fros ator from this district,” but the Fourth | Jeqerel Drags the gallant war veteran L : . g who has for many years been the foremost Estate evidently fecls sure it has sized | joader of the democratic party in Wis- If he were 1 consin, made a speech Thursday at only aspiring to be state senator his | Waukee in which he sounded w trumpet “meny sepublican friends” might oot | ESE O waraiug te patriotke demoorsts thelé votes for Sim. but Mey against following the dangerous and revo- 0 b, bul ey CANNOL | jutionary leadership of W Bryan. [His vote for Lim this thme, unless his name | voic appears on the official ballot. will go far in Wisconsin to rall telligent and cor in rvative democrats to the If Mr. Hitcheock could rely on his|uppert of McKinley and Roosevelt popularity and believed he ad “a fuir Midpaoote 1 1N chance of wiuning” the proper way for | Brooklyn Easl lim to fnvite popular endorsement would | The ado about corr be to file his nawe under the coustity- | ton funds and about ion, about false counts is made coreup tional provision for the expression of | ¥ those who are silent agaiust riots, an. : . | archy, assaults on speakers, repudiation and preference for United States senators | (ho schome to break down courts of luw directly by the voters, by those who favor clipt coin and Filipino By the way, it takes only 5,000 sig- | murderors. The ado probably conceals des perate schemes of thelr own—or thelr own natures to make up a petition to have i States senator placed on the official bal- | dooile as the stuft on which fools are fod lot. The time for fillng such petitions | — e does not expire for another week, Rousing Class Hatreds, Wil Me. Hitehcock submit his candl s = et Ml ! - subr ; | There is a certain tone about the recent dacy to popular vote? Will he? | speeches of Mr. Bryan that do uot betoken | —— confidence In the success of his party. An ANOTHER FAKE despair. moderation in a PLODED. abatement of campaign of the popocratic fakes which | leader 18 not a hopeful omen for his cause. In his late efforts on the stump Mr. Bryan has beew spread broadeast over the | municests a disposition to excite cluss prej- country is to the effect that the sol diere in the Philippines have driven insane by the hundreds, with the futimation that If kept there much | longer they would all have to be re-! turned to their friends and re this country bereft of reason. The . wopt facts in the case prove the authors to | “"‘"'"‘l'.m,:,'_‘}:f}:;f A subjects for an extension of the | udice among his hearcrs The general in been | fluence of this style of campaigning is looked upon with distavor by thoughtful people, and it tends to animate the opposition of the conservative element. 1ts general effect is mischievous, but it is usually most harm tves in | ful to the politicians who practice it evement. Record free insane | The dellvery of asylum than the men serving in the |mails to populous rural districts in which Philipplnes. the service promised to be distinctly ad From ofticial reports recelved Dy tho | VABLAKCOUS and feasible has boen the most notable achievement of the Postofice de partment. Over 2,000 routes have been es tablished, and nearly 1,500,000 familles are served with a daily mail at their dours The success of the experiment has be 0 lwmediate and popular, and so unex pectedly inexpensive, that congress will no doubt appropriate whatever amount of money may be asked for to extend its oper- atlon. Free delivery makes practicable the abolltion of many small postoMces, with resultant gaving, and at the same time leads to a larger use of the mails for the found in | quick dispatch of parcels as well as of Further: |l»-(lvr~' and newspaper 1 ical officers the showing is made that only elghty-four cases of iusanity de veloped during the last year among the troops in the Pacific islands, For th including stationed in this country and Cuba, there wer n entire army, those wmen. The surgeon general Is atten- much reentage than will be any city of that population, balf of the cases me rported were | Bryan as a “Hired Moo ouly a temporary result of mental de-| J. Sterling Morton's Conservative pression and nervous anxiety caused | Colonel Bryan's confidence in his quuli s 4 | fications for the presidency and ability to chiefly homesickness, from which | acquit himself properly in that position s due, as suggested by the Rochester Demo Most of those who have |erat, to his mistaken notion about the ¢ dorguge- | duties of the office. He has frequently said |, | that the president is only @ “hired man” *|and he deems himself capable and compe- tent for this sort of a job. Some kind friend should inform Mr. Bryan of the re- sponsibilities attaching to the position of chief executive of this great republic and ipduce him to apply elsewhere if he is looking for a “hired man’s job." Farmers the patient fully recovered when he reached home, suffered from such tem) ment have rejoined their regimen while the number of cases attributed to intemperance is very small indeed. The and cry over insunity in the army, therefore, by which the popo cratie yellow journals have been trying to manufacture political capital, mMust |y need of a “hired man" might avail full flat when an investigation fs made | themselves of this opportunity to secur of the act akes are help. The Conscrvative cheer perpetrated to influence the unthinking mmends Mr. Bryan for such em- and those who permit their minds to competent | fully rec ployment tacts. i These MY ABROAD, swayed without investigation of { AMERICAN MACHIN terrible tales, Service in the army 5| '\ martng e Ak liasu not a pleasure faunt, to he sure, but the | Abrond in Four Vears lot of the soldier has been made as!| rtland Orezoniar | The growth within the last four year ntortable and saf winistration as it by the present ad could in our shipments of manufactures to foreign possibly - he This is especlally countries i8 amaiing under the cireumstanees. true in regard to American machin the S which in the last year were It is already apparent that the Bryan- | enormous, and the demand for which | 1y increasiug triumph in inventive and workers in This represents finance; 1t 18 a mechanical tron and estioned. When s, with a natural own land and its Ul rap more than a tribute to the itos are preparing to coter their defeat again by howling about republ money buying the That 18| skil of American what they did four years ago, some of | steel that cannot skilled English eng preference for thel products, and when g acturers of the Old | [ exports of | election, them even having the assurance to deny | that McKinley was ever elected presi Know that no presi- | | manu World come to that cannot elsewhere, but one conclusion is possible. Not only England, but France, Germany and Russip share in the admira American ingenulty and skill thus and buy of us as a matter of the majority of the Amg free from Influence and untrammeled in | oxpression than was Willi an voters | be gotten m \h-mm.;.‘ lize that The Bryanites v vepetition | dis of the defeat of 1806 awaits them and | bighest self-interest | There is no sentiment 1 all this It i ke the dittle bog are making a noise Thers I8 no ssutiment iy ! like the little box are making a nofse in | | U000 o inoss proponition. Thess for advance to lessen the pain | oigners who are buying shiploads of m R | chinery from us would not come hither “Phe demand for houses and the purchasers it they could do &8 well or vental price for them still increases,” is | nearly as well at home. The truth is that the information brought from South | Americans ead i all Inbor-saving and Omaha by the local Bryanite organ. | chiyery, and it is this that enables them | whose editorial page persists in deny- | (o attract 0ld World buy and underbid [ ing that we have substantial prosperity | on contracts foreign competitors who have with us. ‘The people of South Omaha, | the Initial advantage of low wages. The { e el tion | American manufacturer pays the highest however, can explain it on no other |y, ey given by any employer in the world ground than that of prosperity but he gets more out of his men because E———————— | of their readiness to lay hold on mechanical General Miles' report as A.uunnml.-r‘ means for reducing the cost of productig of the army will recommend n regular| These are among the glorfous victories militars force of 80,000 men, This is one | ©f Peace——victories many of them made | 3 of the i e 1. | possible, however, by war and ity ever [ to 1,000 of the population, the ratio ad- FRECC", PETTERG T LT Raduets of our | voeated by General Miles for years past, | gkinl, industry and enterprise in demand | but it will doubtless exeit popocratic protests as a heard-of conspliracy to in the same | everywhere, added to the fact that we are | tast becoming the great creditor nation of the world, surely there is mot much ‘o desire n the way of change in our na- novel and un ase the slze aot account for the sehool fund interest! | of congress has prevented or should pre of the standing army, * ttonal policy. OCTOBER 1 t inventors and | . 1900, VOO OF T STATE PRESS e | P o e e | Waning of Bryanism | be Kind enough to his audience | frow whetlbr he on o p road far paid out of th i 'l ) skeled thom the smployes of th With the passing of Bryan will pass eat carnestness folt by the majority of k Brya ) even howill be a hew v i, The me of k . complistied on the ¢ nest affalrs, o W Andustrial and foanciol Mokt Ahing el will e orded 1 enterprise fully allve to the neces tut in of 1 : s ‘ da ¢ hing out Bryanism by defea s Wi arEde bstanding th fdentl Jlared ing Bryan t they do not do so th e UL flotiots of thy democratic manngerd prosperit © business, will be impaire and organ ha Mr Bryan would for 1t b bl ruine The were then el elected by a1 majority than that have « for their determination to d Wahoo Wasp: In Decen 1908, he| given to Mr. McKinley in 1806, the Ledger I its clou bauk deposits in Saunders county's banks |\ 0T . M t wavered in Ats y to his hearers in th amounted to $505,631, while the statements, |, ;ior 1nyt po would be again dofented, Sate froo siiver . th ’: st published, show them to contaln de. { o "\ i o ee would be o {o et b that free s got the posits amounting to 0. Study and| ., ve that an overwhelming majority of paramount fssus of the den g >4 compute these fige o foroeful | ¢y Ameriean’ people fwok not only that in this campaian, though elscwhero be ex. fact is that the greater part thil SOt intelligence which 1s better known as com ploits A8 the cornerstone of i ‘. mo | mous fncrease of bank deposits belongs 10 0" yerise, but mlso that political good cra faith. It i 1 those he farmers of Saunders county ’\UH i o which th have always cxhib whom Mr. Bryan h 1 i " North Platte Tribune: The state fuston [ o Hnr occasion ; With the belief 1 but & commitice has di hed o man to Chi Mr., Bryaf, in his recent address at ondary que L 4 cago to ralse a 00-dollar cAMPALEN | gq 1oy, 111, strongly indicated that, as the his countrymen on the 16 f Septer fund in order to make a more VIEOFOUS | 4. i nt elaction draws nearer, he is much 1 s t v Te the sub | fight to save Nebraska to Bryan. Edmisten | 5000 1o share with the Ledger its b of tl " He t cluims the state for Bryan by 20,000, but{yoe 'y, pic goteat. In that speech he It the ’ hhd N the sending of this emissary to ChICaRO | joarog 16 go out of his way to prepa Habh ool ; 5 shows Just how dexjerate 1s the true condt- |70 G e niiiont MeKinley's Tk Aot i ek, tion of the fusionists in Nebraska success and to lessen the sting of his cawt his vote for me ; Beatrice Bxpres Mr. Stark, the fusion | owp fajlure. What he said was th n it will mot b yl\ [ " nominee for congress from the Fourth dis It the clection were held today there tomiger: than T aim wbig #id of | trict, has lived in Nebraska about twen- i u5 doubt we would have a majority in That i Poi ot | ty-six years. Sixteen years of this time he | {ho oluctoral college and on the popula ; 4 it iy [ has held office and fed at the publte erih. | yoia® Ryt the republican managcrs at mpaign, not this year in prosent During the greater part of the other ten|po’ collecting from the monopolies a bbb bl B ’ vears he was most diligently employed in |y ot LU e T il b 1 r But Mr. Brya nld trying to get an office, either meeting de- | sire voia'that can be bought. They will - ear, ot ""l‘»”wl esville | feat in the nominating conventlon OF At} . .r.o avery vote that can be coerced T by SANY Bik - | the ponl They will Intimidiite every Iaboring man a4id in 1308 on the mones auestl | Fairfield News-Herald: Captain T Al o can 1 itimidated. They will br n Bryan party the .,’,, 8 . Taylor orms us that he will vote for | evory election judge who can be bribed. 1+ was fn 1808 and {6 fe standine . McKinley and Roosevelt this fall. He 18 | They will corrupt every court that can f iy e o no democrat; he cannot endorse Steven- | yo corrupted S ikl i Lol on, for he remembers his record too well | it (T i 1L the Bevatt SRALY. tis daisor luring the war of the rebellion. He says | wio"le wicured of vietory e e men par WS i RN R R ST : he can vote for a man that fought for what | gyt om0 O TR DO S R AR b it A i he thought was right, but he cannot vote | vy (he man who is looking defet W3 LTk AR 60 | for a man that stayed at home and wtabbed |ty 4" (ryiug o soften hix antl 1 g him in the back fall. Mr. Bryan is not withou e, e P York Times: The populists have a nox!- | shrewdners, nor 1s he unobserving, & in ¢ Pre ¢ MaKine ous hablt of settling their domestic quar- | it w ke that, going up and down the | e .ot ! W that Bryanism rels by paying everybody all he wants out | country as he has been doing during the spells ruin to the prosperity of the peoy of the state treasury. Two Insurance | campaign, he has oy Hat Mr. Bryan perceives that the drifi and bourds received full pay for several months ot public sentiment is unfavorable reo of popular ser I in and two claimants for the same position have frequently reconciled by pay ing the salary to each As the salary 1is all the average populist is after the system | been | !m,n, admirably | | | North Platte Tribune: It is generally believed that Congressman Neville was re- | sponsible for the nomination of H. G Stewart for congress by the m and that it was, of course, program that Ste after a lapse of a few weeks, should decline the nomination The idea of this was to shut out some m road nominee who would ccept the nom ination end stay on the ticket, ronders | part of the Grand Island Independent Phillip An- | | dres, manager of the German press com | m e of the democratic state central com { mittee, has neatly demonstrated the small- | ness of his caliber. In the Anzelger-Her old and presumably fn other German democratic papers, he has a letter pleal- ing with the Germans not to take any re- publican literature out of the postofiice. It 18 an {osult to German voters and at the same time an eshibition of smallbore | | potitics. | | Creston Statesman: While the States- | man is & nonpartisan paper we believe the | | office ghould «vok the man rather than the | man seek 1 ¢ and that voters should | ook to the of the candidate rather | than the u the party that chooses Iy ni he best wuthority we can ob- tain the respective ability and fitness of the candidates for congress from this dis trict lead us to take a pronounced stand tor John R. Hays. Mr. Hays 1s a poor man | | (an incidentally a triend of the poor man), his public and private life Is without a blemish, his ability beyond question and ‘f be 1 elected to congress will be an honor to his district. A sirong effort by pro- | fessional politicians will be made to ¢ feat Mr. Hays, but we feel sure the vots of this vicinity will throw partisanship | aside ana give John R. Hays a good ma jority, which he go justly deserves art Ledger: If there Is a single citl zen of Stuart who doubts that prosperity with a great big P, has located upon our fruitful prairies, let him get up early in the morning and look at the long string of| farm wagons loaded with lumber, some from long distances (we saw one Monday | from forty-five miles away), and go back [ loadea with lumber for {mprovements on the | farms. Besides these thero are many from | | less distant points which do not stop over | [ night that come and go siugly without at- | | tracting attention. Aud bere {s another pointer for the big P. There {s not an idle workman in this town who s fdle for lack of a chance to work. A man engaged | in teaming scoured the town all over one day last week looking for a helper, but 4d | not find an idle man. He inquired of visi- | tors and offered topnotch wag but he | didn’t even hear of a man out of work | The “paramount” issue is like a bass drum | there’s nothing in it except noise [ | O'eill Frontier: Republicans have arisen (o remark that the sample of the ballot that is to be used at the coming election Is | to his ambition to be presiden he dircction of Mr, M Salem The clectfon cannot be held today, a8 speech from wileh we b 108 & Mr. Bryan knows. The time for holding virtual aclrowle ent Itois it ig more than thres weeks distant, but It not a cry of confidence, b tr, 1t it were held today Mr. Bryan would not s, fndeed. the strongest assurance which be given a majority In the electoral col- has vet been given of Mr. Brvan's defeat lege nor by the popular vote. ‘There is no and of the flnal passing of Bryanism a great excitement shown by the electors in (hing whil ha turbed the whole coun the result of the election, but there is very (ry and ttered the democrati party Thrown Out of Court Perhaps the most pathetic and melan- and subdivision of the world. What 1t did choly spectacle developed in the whole on a large and vulgar the democratie campalgn 1 that of the democratic organs organs did with moic or amor and hysterically approving territorial expen- irrational violemee. Aund now, with this slon and, at the same time, denounc astounding newspaper in the lead, they the party which makes exp st voeif They all admit—in the south especially that “expansion’ is necessary to any profit le exploitation of our foreign trade, o sion popsible. are indulging in the nasty abuse of “imperialism they mean by that term--and ul heay witness that our erous and whatever caliing berties and yet they all agree that the republican our most precious institutions are in peril party must be defeated and its prineiples of extinction on that account and policies rebuked, it we are to have & Altogether it is a sad albelt en- virtuous government i our midst tertaining to the cynic und scofter. It Surely the philosophic student of our political affairs must derive {mmeasurable is all very well to scarify the republican hypocrite who advocates the acquisition of amusement from this grotesque condition far-distant territories and the violent sub- of things. He has before Btm the astound- jection of their peoples on the ground that ing spectacle of a newspaper which two we thereby discharge a sacred duty im- years ago, and in fact for several months josed upon us by civilization and Chris before that, was the noisiest, the most tlanity. But what of the democratic hypo- uncompromising and the mosi irrespon- crite who, supporting that polley for the sible agitator for war with Spain. That sake of the mouey there 18 in it, has the newspaper spent thousauds of dollars mis- nerve tp vote against it on moral and al representing the situation in Cuba and trustic’ grounds? shamelcssly magnifying the importance of Undoubtedly there s much to criticise the iusurgents In order to precipitate the in the republican administration of our war. When hostilities had ceased that public affairs since March 4, 1897; but what ame newspaper screamed aloud for ex- claim of consistency can the democrats pansion, denounced the traftor “haul down the who would set up by way of establishing thefr titla American flag" in the 1o the country's respect and confidence Philippines, and proclaimed a poliey of s aud admiration? own that comprehended every hemisphere * INTEREST IN THE JOINT DEBATE, SOME ENCH JOKES, Grand Island Independent: There are| Detr urnal: When, having becom, % Sva siho. daslred to heat the Ronss | Liahibe the dreams of avarice, he came ANy hern who deslred.to- Dear the R bick i his bride und Ellze water-Hitchcock debate and they do not m thank the little glant for telling the World lien yoil remember me? ho cried, folil- o 1 o aid not want the | iDg her in his strong embrace Herald that Hall county did not want th SRR THLET 3 fubl L SR debate, [ member your middle initial, even! ton ket Editor Hitchcock may | Devotlon, this! not realize as much now, but before his | Caljne was stopped In the street by an series of joint debates with Editor Ros [ lookir M"IVVIIIHVIH \l\imllmkml h . hkca o % TR to-well, to Baxter stre water closes he will learn that he s up| oomall, <o Baxter agalnst the recl thing. Mr. Rosewater may o' your Haht. fihe ent not be capable of Infatuating an audience |man thanked bim, both rgsed” thelr ha s le nator Thurston wut | and , each on his rout Suddenly us completely as Benator ‘Thurston, - but | ¢y GUGEL “iraund and’ shouted: *Hay: stenographic reports of his addresses put | jryou are left-nanded, turn the other way! in cold type ulways make mightily Inter- | See!” esting reading } An Amerle speaking (o a memher of Springfield Monitor: A joint disc IlMN\flll‘1‘]\r“I -m" Agalnst the l\huu..l ot ;rv\h“ o hsor| politics questio) jg | declared that a Chicago millionatre, w on the all-ablorting political queation died recently, “used to mmoke three thou Editors Rosewater belug arranged between and Hitchcock of Omaha's leading dailies They agree to avold personalities, but |} whether this can bo doue or not when | sand hams o day With o look of horror | the reformer exclatmed: “It is no wonder » monster died!” Chicago Record: **DIA she get your 1410 | nothing short of an outrage. The arran they come together remains to be seen.| “Vesi'['dirccted {1 to her huxband and | ment 1s a unique scheme to catch the voter | The suffering public will be given a chance | marked it ‘personal who 18 {n & hurey aud dossn't take time to|to yesd’ whet they say. for it 1840 1he| rnatananclls Preas: '/it's bean four sears study his ballot. The uames of the fusion |agreement that both papers shall give | now i 'the Aakeried Tady, alnce he lufe | nominees appear first in every instance and | full report of both sfdes of the debate me and his :']”,",‘.\,,.';)”' ] r\w’uv her it | the following arrangement has been used | Wood River Interests: A series of foint | The door holding it open til six Ales in naming the rtles; People's independ- | debates has been arranged between E. [in the hou ent, democrat and silver republican in full | Rosewater of The Omaba Bee and Gilbert| , o 0\ Sy on one line and immediately below the re- | Hitcheock of the World-Herald. One of the | habit of plaguing (he theatrieal publican in “silver republican’ is the word, | gebates will be held in Fremout. As both|of a certaln cafe with detalls “republica which is to designate the fof these gentiemen are avowed candidates | he ntended to write, My dray pop” maid | administration party. The same plan i [ for the United States senate, are able ora- | {ime for you (o pass from words (o a used the whole length of the ticket and | tors and skilled swordsmen in the art of | 3 | anybody in a hurry is liable to run down | sarcasm and repartes and {ncidentally hate A fragmont from the conversution of two the ticket and mark the cross opposite the [each other, this forensic combat will be & | our glorious prindiple o thi | wrong “‘republican” from which he In-|gcene fit for the gods and will doubtless | “But would that be re advantage | tended. 1t is a good dexign to catch voters, | draw the multitude from far and near [0 0 the Nl s it but comes a long ways from according WIth |~ oo News: Fditor Hiteheock of the | tagecss (o us, sico we A | the fize theorles of equal rights to ull and | o uigp, \World-Herald recently issued @ chal- | » parte nackman, halled by a countrym special privileges to none of the fuslon |y, gq 'y gditor Rosewater of The Omaba | who w e i i style well caleulated party, of which the persons who de- | 8¢ 0 er ot Jontdebates, both | 1o ke (e ity chapd ntigh, Shigged | igned: the baliots are bigh members gentlomen being candidates for the position | his ahoulders mnd wis apout tg drive on | e MAL HOTED [of United States senator from Nebraska. | Wit ‘you A take . although | ¢ il The challenge was-promptly accepted, Mr. [you are not engaged=' 00 L0 0 Rosewater imposing the condition that com- | A4 £ B B oor old hors The evidence in the successive trials In | jlate gtenographic reports should be pub - Kentucky goes (0 show that Gochel was shot | lighed fn both papers. Mr. Hitehcock has [ Two tramps on the binks of the Seine by a syndicate placed Mr. Rosewater in a position “tnln AN Gal, wa peen ”””y'” 4 ana | “Thomas Stduey Cooper, tho artist, is siill [he prides himself on being an adept and he | § 11 jump fn after you and take you out }(-.‘ummu at the age of 7. His eyes are In [ may be sorry he spoke before ihe contest s | 1o \l Il get the reward from the humane | good condition and he has never worn |over. | *%Godar Hore goe Ho jumpod into tha spectacle | water, and ufier floundoring abeyt for | Little Delaware still continues in popu- | A Full State Treas g vas getiing tred out. HiiFall o lag behind many cities of the t | class. Little Rhody has left Delaware very far behind | Jon Oluey of Chicago, whose death at | the age of 78 is anmounced, was the last Ilinois Lincoln elector and the oldest mem ber of the Chicago bar Wallace and Mrs. Wallace | have presented to the library of Wabash college the origl manuscript of “The Prince of India," of which there are over General Lew senator Platt of York, during the | first month in which he was a member of the senate, received and and even now he fr 250 a day Reed, belng himself o most man, llkes those about him to { be @s punctual in business matte The other day he reprimanded an office boy | for the tardiness of his arrival at the office. Well,” said the boy, “'you said there was New nswered 14,000 ntly gets as letters, | Ex-Speaker f | methodical s as he is. nothing like regularity, and as 1'd heen an | hour 1ate for the last two weeks I didn't | like to change my time today, method and come in on Chicaga Tplbune | b Wiy don't you come According to the annual report of the |in e maguiptt sl S S state treawurer, the finances of Connecti- | o VT o morgue cut are in a flourishing condition and the A . treasury is full and running over. It I« POTENCY OF THE PAIL. the best showing which has been mad o debt was a 1861, Tn 1862 the | You way sing of the heraldry haughtily ¥l 51,611, In 1866 1t had reached §5,462.288 Wi o 4 In 1807 it had fallen to $3,117 and dur Jhe” demagogue’s banner that ilouts ing the last three vears, under republican | o i Tuedals of glory which proudly ara dministration of affairs, it has been still Know ‘Y“l‘\"l'l;)u‘l reduced to $2,108,873. The bonded | 'MId splendors where heauty and bravery meet debt reached its highest point in 1868, when L qpapa’s an omhlem more potent than these, though obscure, there were $10,000,600 of bonds outstand-| P P ing: mow there are $3.140.000, aud there| The might ‘that It ca would be still less it the treasurer could | v o\l Falin taltsman, wondrous secure, find any more 1o retire. The receipts of | And ‘the world must respect ft—the tin [ revenue for 1900 are $2.876,536, of which dinner pail Iroads are the largest contributors, &0 ;rpa kill of no sclentist ever devised the expenses, $2,528614. The taxpayers A measure so nicely adjusted as this are rejoicing that the state has a surplus 1ort | Jheaith of & 1 ition s safely sur of over $400,000 in bank and that all the| fyam s ¢ te. The truth 1t wa bonds have been paid which can be found a'er known to miss Btudying the finances of “the land of steady And the ploiter may pia and the scholar habita" for the last three years under re- ar futo the night grow weary nnid publican management, it is not remarkable » y‘.“\nv i that it {s growing more republican every ‘("'“";.Y:'IM’“,L your I dinner pail {slon awalts, after all # attached to.the tin