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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDN ESDAY OCTOBER 24 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROBEWATER, Edito turday ‘eekly Bee, One Year.. OFFICES. The Bee Bujldin aha; City Hall Bullding, Twen- ( 0 Pear] Street, 168 Uity Bullding. ork. Temple Court. : 601 Fourteenth Street. Bloux City: 611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business lstters and remitt be addressed: The Bee Publis vany, Omaha, REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, Bayanle to The flee Publishing Company. 2-cent -mmpn accepted In payment of mall accounts. Bersonal checks, except on Omaa or F‘!uqlrru exchanges, not accepted. K_PUBLISHING COMPANY TBTATEMENT OF (‘lm‘ULA‘I‘IO\' State of Nebraska, Douglas County, Gergn 1. Tanchisch, seeretary of The Bes Publishing Company, being auly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning. Evening and Bunday Bee nrlme« durln‘ the menth of September, 190, was as follows: 16 17. 18, should ng Com- 19, Lens unsold and returried coples Net total sales Net dally av GEORGE B. TZECHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to bfllurt me this 2th dufl of Eegl.pbnr A. D, GATE ) Notary Public. Have you registered? If not, you will have another chance next Friday, Oc- tober 26, Mark it down on your cal endar. Bourke Cockran pretends to see great changes for Bryan. Mr. Cockran has simply been looking Into a multiplex mirror reflecting his own somersault. The auditorlum project 1n Omaha has reached the Incorporation stage. That 1s one of the very necessary preliminary steps that makes it look more like busi- ness, Carl Schurz offered to resign as presi- dent of the Civil Service Reform league. As there s no money in the office, how- ever, and no aspirants for the place, the resignation was not accepted. The sample ballot will be out in a short time. Every voter should study it In advance of the election to make sure that he marks his ballot so as to express his real choice between the vari- ous candidates. e Mr. Bryan shifts handily from the black to the brown man, but cannot find any place in his well rounded periods where a denunclation of the disfranchisement of the black men in the south will fit, E—— The women are coming to the front In the support of the auditorium. We take it for granted that their contribu- tions are entirely separate and distinct from any subscriptions that may come out of their husbands' pocketbooks, It 1s a chilly day in which the demo- cratic national committee does not carry some state which has been considered safely anchored In the McKinley column, When election day rolls around it will be found that the anchor still holds. SEEp——— ‘The next thing we know Police Judge Gordon will be claiming that he is neither a city officer, a county officer nor a state officer, but that he 1s a federal officer holding a life tenure the same as the judges of the United States supreme court. S— Chairman Jones is issulng a daily bul- letin to the effect that he is confident of Bryan's election. Should he by chance let any day go past without a proclamation he would be subjecting himself to the grave charge of having had his confidence shaken. The fact that the World-Herald's Washington correspondent also acts in the same capacity for other papers does not in any way impair his deliberately formed and. publicly expressed judg- ment that McKinley's election is sured. That he also represents other papers is simply so much to his credit. It the record of Governor Poynter is “above reproach,” as clalmed by his newspaper organ, with all the state In- stitution scandals, questionable pardons and railroad subserviency, what praise would be due to a governor who really stood up for the people and gave the state an bonest and economical admin- lstration? e——— England baa always been cited as a shining example of what free trade could do toward making a great manu- facturing country. Just at present the government of that country is forced to adopt the most offensive method of pro- tection to avold the letting of contracts for government work to American manufacturers—slmply ignoring the dit- ference In cost betw2en the home and the American product. If democratic orators really sym- pathize with the striking miners In Pennsylvania ‘they should cease ob- structing the settioment of the dificulty by intemperate language and poor ad- vice. Even the operators concede the men are entitled to more wages and they will get it and in addition speedily return to work, unless demagogues, for the sake of an apparent political ad- L"'.‘n keep up thelr meddling. . WHICH PARTY CAN YO In a speech at Concord ago Senator Hoar, referring to the Phil ippine question, sald: “Which party can you trust in this matter—the party that has done everything that has been accomplished for liberty In the past, or the party which has resisted everything that bas been accomplished for liberty; the party that sustained slavery, or the party that abolished it; the party that made war upon the union, or the party that put down the rebellion; the party that adopted the three great amend- ments which made every slave a free- man and every citizen a voter, or the party that filibustered for days and nights against the adoption of the thirteenth amendwment, which was car- rled by a single vote?” These are questions which every American citizen should ask himself at this time. The republican party was called Into life by the volce of liberty and every hour of its life has been de- voted to the malntenance and the ad- vancement of liberty. To say that this party, which freed the slave and made him a eitizen, is now capable of doing injustice to any people Is to utter a gratuitous slander. To say that the democratic party, with its policy of negro disfranchisement wherever it is able to put that policy into effect, is worthy to be trusted to promote the cause of liberty anywhere, is to make a claim for it for which there is no warrant in its history. The republican party can be trusted to deal justly and honorably with the Fllipinos and to give them such measure of self-government as they are capable of. Nothing in the record of the dem- ocratic party entitles it to such conti- dence, S ——— DELICATE TASK IN CUBA. General Fitzhugh Lee had a confer- ence with President McKinley a few days ago, at which it Is understood the coming meeting of the constitutional convention at Havana was discussed and also the general situation in Cuba. It 1s said General Lee informed the president that there s a great deal of hostility in the island to the United States, a majoiiiy of the delegates elected to the constitutional convention being enemies of this country. These men, when they come together to frame a constitution for an independent gov- ernment, are expected to demand the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Cuba and the abandonment of all authority exercised there by this government. The constitutional convention meets the first week in November and if it shall be controlled hy the men opposed to the United States a delicate and diffi- cult state of affairs may result. If the Immediate evacuation of the Island by our troops and the surrender of their offices by all the civil officers shall be demanded, it will become a serlous Question as to the duly of our govern- ment. A strict compllance with the resolution of congress pledging inde- pendence to Cuba as soon as pacification was accomplished would require our withdrawal from the island, but could this be done with safety to the people there before a government has been es- tablished? It would seem to be the duty of our government to consider this and unless it can be fully assured that all the people will be secure, in the event of our withdrawal, then to con- tinue the occupation until a government is firmly established. One report from Washington states that the American troops will not retire at the behest of the junta that may obtaln possession of the government, but will remain un- til the new Cuban republic has shown itself fitted for self-government. That, however, I8 a matter which congress may determine, rather than the execu- tive department of the government. e WILL HE RENOUNCE IT ALTOGETHER? Mr. Bryan ignored silver in his New York speeches. In his letter accepting the sllver republican nomination he re- ferred only in an incidental way to the sllver question. The chairman of the New York democratic state executive committee, James K. McGuire, said 'in an Interview a few days ago that Bryan's refusal to discuss the silver question was because silver has been eliminated from the campalgn as an lssue. A correspondent of the New York Sun notes a conversation between 4 henchman of Croker and a sound money democrat, in which the former declared that Mr. Bryan had told the Tammany leader that as president he would not disturb the gold standard. It Is said that this 1s belng extensively circulated by Croker emissaries. Is Mr. Bryan preparing to renounce the silver question altogether before the close of the campalgn? It is pos- sible. He has absolute faith in the un- alterable allegiance of his free silver, populist and southern democratic ad- herents, He believes they would re- main loyal to him no matter what he might say. He 1s sure of eleven south- ern states. He counts with equal cer- talnty upon several in the west. But these caunot elect him. To win he must have states in the east and middle sec- tlon. The fear of a serlous financial and business disturbance in the event of Bryauw's election Is telling against him In those states, He cannot carry any of them under existing conditions. It 1s possible that some of them would g0 for him if he should renounce sil- ver. Such a course might considerably increase his support in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Indiana and Illinois. Is Mr. Bryan capable of thus stultity- ing himself? His free silver adherents will stoutly assert that he is not. They will insist that he is too honest and slncere a man to take such a course, that his devotion to principle Is so strong that he would not remounce a position he has taken even for the pres- ldency. But Mr. Bryan iguored silver in New York, at the bidding of Croker, and If the chairman of the democratic executive committee of that state is good authority there was an understand. ing that silver should be eliminated from the campaign. It Is a very short step from this to renouncing sllver alto- gether and we do not doubt that if Bryan could be persuaded that such a course would assure him New York he would take it. His desire to be presi- dent amounts to a mania. No other man ever manifested so inordinate an ambition to reach that great office. Mr. Bryan has shown himself capable of being all things to all men. While posing as the friend of the plain people he makes an alliance with Croker and the most corrupt political organization on earth. While abusing wealth he consorts with the beneficlaries of the most extortionate combination ever or- ganized. In Michigan he declared that he stood now on the currency question where he did four years ago, but he entirely ignored that question in New York. In view of the shifty course of W. J. Bryan throughout the campaign, it would not be at all surprising If he should yet, as a political expedient, re- nounce silver altogether. OMAHA'S MATERIAL INTEREST. Whatever differences of oplnlon may exist on other subjects it will be con- ceded by every fair-minded person that Omaha has enjoyed more substantial prosperity since President McKinley was elected than ever before during the same perfod, Four years ago the city had not yet emerged from the slough of financial depression and commercial stagnation; hundreds of Its houses were empty and scores of store buildings unoccupled; its factories and shops were running with half force on half time, if not closed altogether, Self-respecting men unable to obtain employment were forced to accept public assistance in order to keep themselves and their families from ac- tual suffering. Rellef funds were started to which contributions were in- vited to purchase coal und clothing for the needy, while doubt as to the future produced an exodus of population, the disastrous effects of which are still re- flected in our census. Since the advent of McKinley and the inauguration, of republican policles Owmaba bas been steadily on the up- grade. It carried through to successful completion an exposition which was the marvel of mankind and which from a financial standpoint was an unprece- dented success. It has added many new industrial and mercantlle establishments to its still growing list of business en- terprises, chief among them an immense packing plant at South Omaha, while its revived commerclal activity has at- tracted to the city a new trunk line to Chicago, to say nothing of the exten- sions and improvements of raflway fa- cilities already converging at this point. Notwithstanding the erection of hun- dreds of new dwellings and store bulld- ings desirable accommodations fall far below the demand and empty buildings of any kind are a scarcity In this city. The public treasuries, county and city, formerly dragging under a load of de- linquent taxes, show the effects of the change which has 'put money into the pockets of the people and enabled them to pay their private and public obliga- tions, ‘We venture to say that in no city in the cofintry is the contrast so sharp as it is in Omaha nor the forward strides in a short four years so striking. The question which every citizen of Omaha must ask himself, in performing his duty at the impending election, is: Will a change be good or bad for Omaha? Will Omaha gain or lose from a continu- ance of the conditions which have brought about its present prosperity? Do the people of Omaha want to take the risk of going back to the days of 18967 ———— It looks as if the controversy over the school board ticket were simply a squab- ble as to whether the school board treas- ury or the country treasury should pay for the printing of the school board bal- lot. The school board election has al- ways been conducted In the past by the board and there is no reason why a change should be instituted at the pres- ent time. If the coming election were a special election for the choice of school board members only, the entire election machinery would be in the hands of the school authorities. The fact that the school election is held coincident with the general election and by the same election officers cannot make it any less distinct as a municipal election. The udm!nlstrntlun 1s bending all its energles toward peace In every part of the world where this country has in- terests, In the Philippines this is re- tarded by the position of the democratic party and in China tbe same party has hampered the negotiations'by its covert critielsm, though it could find no peg on which to hang active opposition, —_— There are two sides to the question of assaulting the soldlers who are In the Philippines. Tha fathers, brothers and friends of those in the army and those who have died fighting against the in- surgents do not take kindly to having them called murderers and supporters through the force of bayonets of an unholy cause, Unless they are reminded from bead- quarters, fusion orators are likely to forget who their candidate for governor 1s. Whenever the name of Poyuter 18 mentioned to any of them they look like a person who thinks he has heard it before but is not exactly able to re- member where. ———— Jokn Sherman, who has just dled, was probably the most maligned of public men in all the history of this country. The most vindictive abuse heaped upon him was that poured forth by the Bry- anites in the campalgn of 1806, That It was all undeserved goes without saying. e—— Tesses Dignity to the Winds, Chicago Times-Herald. In one of bis recent speeches Mr. Bryan A wise man gets an.idea fato his head. A foollsh man it in the ne But Mr. Bryan never seem to consider dignity a necossary part of @ presidential candidate’s equipment. That Twelve-Dollar Fill, Chlcago Tribune. ‘When I look at the tollers in this large and attentive crowd before me, fellow countrymen, my heart aches to think how few of you ever sat down to a $12-a-plate banquet with Boss Croke: W. J. B England is angry um South Afrjea shi be buying steel rails from the United Stai 1t England will make as good rails for less money, she can have the market. She pays less to the men who make them thap we China’s greatest danger arises from the cir- cumstances that each of the offended powers protest that it Is opposed to any annexation of Chinese territory—unless the action of some other power should render it neces- Once more the United St pre- sented its demand for the payment of an indemnity for the murder of an American citizen In Morocco in such terms, it is re- ported, as to admit of no reply save pay- ment. Only $9,000 is involved. In the, of Turkey ten times that sum !s at e, but American ultimatums have falled to touch the sultan's heart or pocket. In China the United States does not know yet how much, or how, it wants to be in- demnified. the 1 table. urler-Journal 1t is said that the ironmasters of Englad cans of contracts for the extensive rull-y and bridge conmstruction proposed in South Afriea. It Is even reported that organized pressure is to be brought to bear upon the government to induce it to favor English manufacturers, though the Americans should underbid them. But what would this amount to? Even it the government could be led to make such a radical depart- ure from British policy, it could not dictate to the private corporations which are to build these South African roads and bridges. They will buy their supplies where they can get them cheapest, and pleas of the baby act will have no force with them. Senator Lindsay Scores Bryanism. New York Sun. That life-long democrat, Senator Lind- say of Kentucky, in declaring himself for McKinley and for Yerkes at Loulsville on Friday made this terrific arraignment of Bryan. “It the people of the country have come to regard the courts of Kentucky as more or less governed by political considera- tions in the administration of the law we are as much indebted to Mr. Bryan for that unfortunate fact as to any other mwan. Ken- tucky ought to repudiate both Beckham and Bryan and with a fair and free election and an honest count will repudiate both.” The enemy of the honest doilar, the enemy of the nation's honor, the enemy of the impartial court of justice! Bryan’s Fitness an Issne. Baltimore American. The predominant, the controlling, the absorbing issue is the fitness of Bryan for the presidency, the safety of the natlon under such administration as ho would afford it. Everything else yields to that. Intelligent observers of public aftairs saw that it must be so when the democratic national convention was held. The democrats were warned against noml- nating Bryan, They would have it so. They are now reaping the consequences of their action, They find the result of the presidential contest settled, 80 as to be ap- parent even to thé most obtuse observers, weeks and months before the election is held, and with the prospect that is not only to elect McKinley, but to carry him into office again on a landslide of votes in his favor. Yellow Jack's Power Curbed, Philadelphia Record. . Now that yellow fever has become fairly epldemic at Hayana, finding lodgment in streets and localities whero sanitary pre- cautions have been most sedulously ob- served, the doctors thereabouts, @s reportcd by General Fitzhugh Lee, are beginning to say that there is nothing in sanitation, after all. What the medical experts really mean, in all probability, is that no city without sewerage can hope to be free from epidemic disease, no matter how carefully the outside of the cup and platter may be cleaned. Santiago de Cuba had been a pest hole of yeliow fever for three centuries; but General ‘Wood drained the town and established and enforced modern sanitary regulations, and the pestilence disappeared. In Havana, too the prevalling type of yellow fever is far less virulent than it was under the old Span- ish regime. “ANOTHER TRUST OUTRAGE." New York Mall and Express. While William Jennings Bryan is going up and down the country telling the peo- ple how he would annihilate the trusts it he Were president there is in progress in the city of Pittsburg a development of the trust idea which deserves his thoughtful attention. The American Window Glass company is known as a trust. It controls & large majority of the window glass plants in the United States and its employes, num- bering many thousands of men, receive higher wages than those engaged in sim- flar industries anywhere else in the world. These employes have a labor union of their own. It 1s called the American Win- dow @Gl ‘Workers' association, through which a few days ago they submitted to their employers a scale of wages for the ensulng year. Can Bryan guess how it was recelved? Why, it was not only promtly accepted, but the workers were invited to designate one of thelr number to serve & member of the board of di rectors of the American Window Gla company! In other words, this trust which, accord- ing to Calamity Bryan, in common with the others, 18 oppressing the workingman, is voluntarily taking ono of its empioyes into its directorate, where he can have a band and voice in controlling the vast aftairs of the eatire comcern! He wlill know how much buisness it is doing, how much prefit it is making and whether it is paying fair rate of wages to its m One of the factories controlled by the win- dow glass trust was bullt partly with $60,000 loaned to the owner from the treas- ury of the Window Glass Workers' asso- clation, That loan established the prin- ciple of co-operation between employer and employe in that factory. The man who founded that establishment is now pres dent of the window glass trust and the prineiple which he introduced when be was an Individual manufacturer bas simply been still further extended by taking an employe into the bourd of directors of the trust o 1zation, This step is explained by an ofcer of the trust me am effort to give practical effect to the co-operative principle. It Is heartily approved by the trust managers, as well as by the glass workers themsel and it is about as broad a recognitio the commoa {nterests of employer and em- ploye as anybody could ask. The whole proceeding, however, s an- other trust outrage. But on whom? We thivk 1t is on Bryan. ‘ Bryanism Revealed New York Tribune Earlier in the campaign those former op- ents of Brya who have “a deep- ed prejudice’” against the republican party and administration and were anxious to find some plausible excuse for supporting the democratic candidate were pretty well agreed among themselves, at least for pub- lication, that Mr. Bryan had undergone a remarkable change. They sald that four years ago he was undoubtedly a crude, ignorant, demagogic sort of man, whom it was Impossible to trust, but that study, travel and reflection had enlarged his vie: sobered his temper, refined his judgm and converted him into an enlighte patriot and statesman. Some of thess credulous apologists have done themselyes credit by ackvowlelging their mistake, but others still cling to the convenlent assump« tion with which they hope to mask a coming act of perfidy. ‘We have already invited special attentlon to varlous extracts from the spesches which Mr. Bryan made in this city last week as characteristic specimens of the sophistry which flows so easily from his lips. Here are others which reveal a different and a more distasteful, if not, perhaps, so danger- ous, a quality in a man aspiring to be presi- dent of the United States: ““The republican party assumes that the laboring man is llke & hog that squeals when it {s hungry and sleeps when it is ful L “‘Solomon bas given us a proverb: ‘The wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth him- self, but the foolish pass on and are pun- ished." This proverb condensed reads like this: The wise man gets the idea Into his the foolish man gets it in the neck."” epublicans say: Hooray for a president who doesn't let a little thing like a code of morality stand in the way of progress.” “What would you think of a God who would create the Filipinos and then leave them for thousands of years helpless until Mr. Hanna found them and threw his pro- tecting arms around them?" “The Filipinos can't sing ‘The Star Epangled Banner’ What can they sing? ‘There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.' " “I have seem republicans going up and down the land ielling what God wanted, what God's plans were, when those who knew the republicans knew that God would never h let the republicans know His plans in advance for fear that they would €0 out and forestall the markets and try to defeat them.” When Mr. Bryan said: “Great Is Tam- many and Croker is its prophet,” he made & degrading proclamation of gratitude and devotion. When he pitied the farmers be- cause their share of the nation's wealth is relatively smaller than it once was, before commerce and manufactures flourished, he revealed either bhis ignorance or his duplicity. When he said he belleved that one of the reasons why republicans wanted & larger standing army was that they might build a fort in this city and crush by force the discontent that ought to be cured by legielation he showed himself a full blown demagogue. The qualfly which he disclosed in the foregoing extracts is vulgarity. No intelligent, serious, right-minded citizen who justly appreciates the dignity of the presi- dent’s office can read them without realiz- ing that their author has only a feeble and distorted perception of what Is due to him- d to the people from a man in his place and in the place he hopes to occupy. It he does not see that these expressions are low and offensive, so much the worse for him and for the nation, should it make him its chlef magistratc. We do net, indeed, suppose that Mr. Bryan intended te debase himselt for applause. On the contrary, he knew that while he was in New York, “the enemy's country,” he would be closely watched, and doubtless he meant to be as cautious in all respects as he was with regard to the fluanclal question. It would seem to have been instinct that prompted the sayings we have quoted, and therein lles their chief significance. PROSPEROUS BANK ACCOUNT. & Before Voting hange. 8an Francisco Chronicle, In the days before the populist party brought on Indigestion by swallowing the democrats a favorite enemy of popullst orators was the “bank agalpst whom some of thelr most vigorous and vaguest oratorical bombardments e directed, but there was certainly never ome among them who could have objected to their owing the people money, especlally when, as now, they are abundantly able to pay it ou demand, The report of the controller of the currency just made public shows that on the 5th day of last month the pational banks of the country owed the people of the country the tremendous sum of $2,607,248,507, and that It was ready whenever the owners should ask for fit. This was $49,156,799 more than the de- posits only two months and six days previous and indicates the rate at which the people of the United States are getting rich under the fiscal policies of the re- publican administration. It any one imagines that this money all belongs to “rich men” and that while the rich are getting richer the poor are getting poorer, he will be confronted by (he statement that on June 30, 1900, the “poor’’ people of the country had on de- posit In the mutual savings banks t sum of $2,184,471,130, an Increase of $17: 262,999 over the amount on deposit in those banks In 1899. There was also an Increase in the number of depositors from 6,075,742 to 5,370,109, and an increase in the average amount to the credit of each depositor from the modest sum of $385.99 to the modest sum of $397.47. The num- ber of depositors in savings banks and the average amount to their credit do not increase at that rate when the country ls mot in a most prosperous condition. ‘When we are in a condition of prosperity and some one proposes that we change; it 18 wise to stop and think what it is proposed ‘to change to. We must not for- get what one unfortunate sald of himself. It was this: “I was well; would be better; took to physic; and here I am.” And these words were chiseled on the stone which stood over his grave. CORN IN BEUROPE. Great Cereal Monarch Taking Root Rou: n. Loulsville Coul -Journal. According to a report of the British secretary of legation in Roumania “the produce of the country is maize, which Is sown in large quantities and used as the staple food of the peasants, the residue belng employed In manufacture of spirits ‘This will be news who have been under the Impression that Burope knows little or nothing of corn except what our misslonaries have taught them. It explains the observations of Mr, CI t Wisconsin, who says: ways through hundreds of miles of grow- ing maize, single flelds often exceeding in area anything I have ever seen in Iilinols and one who goes by the Danublan steamer from Vienna to Buda Pest in the summer or early autumn will p: countless Hun- garlan flelds of the same staple. In the native restaurants in Buda Pest one of the most popular dishes is a polento of corn- meal liberally sauced with melted butter, topped with poached eggs and grated che I can not speak with chemical accuracy of its food value, but can testify that it is exceedingly palatable and much called for. Furthermore, on every sumn- mer day at noontime the strects are full of gypsies and peasant women bearing on their heads wooden trenches filled with steaming ears of bolled corn, sold at 2 and 3 bani aplece (about one-half a cent of our money), and which, while not equcl to our sugar corn are not at all bad eat- ing even for & city which has at least two as good hotels as cam be found in eastern Europe.” It seems that there is at least oue covn- try in Burope, to say nothing of the corn districts on I Mediterranean, which does not need the services of cur ‘“corn kitchens." FIGURES ON THE COAL STRIKE, Price Pushed Up 81 While Miners Seek a Raise of 13 Cents & Ton. . New York World. The annual output of anthracite coal i in round numbers 50,000,000 tons. The miners employed In producing It numb about 140,000, The average yearly wa of these miners amount to less than $400 for some 200 days of work, A 10 per cent increase in wages would glve each miner an additional $40 a year, or 45,600,000 to the total wage payment. This would mean an advance of less than 12 cents a ton in the cost to the operator. It would not involve an increase of one cemt in any other element of the cost of coal. But— The price of coal to the consumer has been advanced a full dollar a ton, and it 1s sald to be the Intention of the operators to keep it there. The nvl scale of prices 1s here to stay. o+ This would mean an lnmuo of $50,000,000 lo the public. If the advance is only 50 cents It would mean an increase of $25,000,000 collected from the public by the coal trust at an expense of about $5,000,000. This may explain the continusnce of the strike, PUTS SILVER ASIDE. Striking Fea of Bryan's Last Let- ter of Acceptance. Philadelphia Record (ind. dem.) Mr. Bryan's letter of ltcrpll\ of the Lincoln silver republica nomination for the presidency shows that there is a limit to everything—even to the number of strings that can be worked by the most adept of political wirepullers. Having exhausted his topics, ‘he much- nominated candidate incorporates in his lettér to the Lincoln silver republicans coples of his Indianapolls speech io the democratic notification committee, his formal acceptance of the democratic nol- nation, his speech accepting the populist nomination and his speech of September 15 at St. Louls. A snippet from a speech de- livered by Lincoln in 1858 concludes the epistle, which is remarkable (for a letter addr d to a free silver party) in that it says nothing in f of silver. Indeed, the only original passage in the letter pvis the money question aside with the remark that in 1896 it “‘was” the issue of para- mount importance, but that now.the re- publican party by its advocacy of policles repugnant to the principles of selt-governe ment and by its fostering of monopolics has compelled all lovers of the Declaration of Independence and the constitution to rally to the defense of those sacred inheritances and forced the trust question to the froat. It seems hard on the republican silver- ites to have their supreme issue thus dep- recated; but what is a candidate to do who s embarrassed by the excess of “para- mount' questions which have been thrust upon him by his motiey political follow- ing? PERSONAL POINTERS. A California paper says that the men who live on the ranges are notable for their remarkably retentive memories. According to General Joe Wheeler's ex- planation, he 1s still a democrat, but not doing much at the business at present. Sir Thomas Lipton's mew boat will be the Shemrock 11 That leaves room for one more chance, the Shamrock being a trefoll. Mark Twala thinks London one of the best of citles in which one may write, be- cause there s there; he thinks, mothing pnew to distract one. G. W. Bell, United States consul at Syd- ney, N, 8. W., upon leaving that city the otlier day, was called to a farewell meeting at which 10,000 persons were present to pay him their respects. Ambassador Choate's reputation for scholarshlp appears (o be impressing Eng- land, where the newspapers report that he always goes about with a volume of some claskical author in his pocket. James P. McDonald, the New Yorker who planned the great raliroad across the An- des and who is now bullding the 300 miles of road from Guayaquil to Quito, is a southerner by birth and graduated from the University of Tennessee. The people of Halifax, N. 8., are prepar- ing to give the Canadlan soldiers returning from the South African war a tumultuous and joyful welcome. There are to be pa- rades, torchlight processions, ship illu- minations, and a big banquet, and the women will glve each soldler & gold maple- leat pin. The family of a government inspector of meats and live cattle in the Chicago stock yards, who died during the Spanish-Ameri- can war from disease contracted in the yards, are about to apply to the govern. ment for a pension of $100 a month, alleg- ing that he died through his zeal in pro- tecting American soldiers from the danger of eating meats unfit for consumption, Chicago Times-Herald Having taken a good portion of the Brit- ish war loan, much to the amazement of London financlers, and haviog supplied the provisions to keep Tommy Atkins from starving to death on the barren kopjes of South Africa, America m now be called upon to supply the material for rebuilding the rallways destroyed in the conflict with the Boes It will be remembered that when Lord Roberts w in command in India British manufacturers were thrown Into a fit of consternation by the news that Americans had captured many of the orders for loco- motives, rallway supplies and steel bridges One of the reasons assigned for giving these valuable contracts to American manufac turers was the urgent need for quick de livery and the Britishers could not compete with Americans where the element of time was involved. “Americans were awarded the contracts because of their abllity to fill them in one-third the time that would have been required by English mills. But British Indignation over the con- tracts for rallway material in India and in ypt Is mild compared to the storm of anger that has been provoked by the report that Major Girouard, General Rob- erts’ director of South Africi rallways, ln- tends to give Americans ‘“‘the joeide trac over British manufacturers in the matter of supplying locomotives, rolling stock, bridg ateriuls and machinery necessary to reconstruct the raliroads destroyed in the Boer war. If s not forgotten by the British that Major Gireuard is the man who stirred up their ire by awarding to Americans the contract for the Atbara bridge in the Soudan. British apprehension also intensified by the news that the Cape Parliament is about to authorize the Cape government to expend 00,000 in reconstructing and ex- tending the rallways of the colony. It Is feared that American competition will also have to be met in supplying the material for this enterprise. It Americans capture any of these con- tracts it will not be due to any favoritism on the part of Major Glrouard, but be cause of the acknowledged kuperiority of the American over the British product and because of the ability of Americans to sup- ply them in a shorter time. LIGHT AND LIVELY. Detroit Journal; him a major poet.' “No, # genpral nulsance." “Ybu would hardly rank Brooklyn Life: Mrs. Goode—You are the sixth mun who has asked me for something to eat toda "o Trarp (sadly)—1 w'pose so. 1t do competition In dis lfle gets any wuss, some of us'll have to go to work, Indlanapolls Journal: “Jack, 3 to stralghten up your writing table. “Lemme Julla; 11 we straighten up this table’ I couldr thi on It until it got all mussed up Pittsburg Chronicle: *I suffer dreadfully trom Insomnia, doctor.’ watd the paticit “Ing réplied " the “physician; “we'll soon (‘orre(l tha! ARd e cia. fOF thin purticular physlclan was able to procure for his patient w sitiui- tion as night watchma Bomerville Journal: ilicks-I was held up and robbed once when I was in Chicago icks—Well, | never had that happen ‘where, but I paid a coal bill Chicago Tribun Qon't_you belleva,” asked the giFl i the pik shirt “that it makes a pathetic selection atill' more x-llhtllc to rm‘ll(- it in dialect?” 1 do, dear,” answered the girl in >ale blue. always makes me foel llke Cr: ing to hear 'you a0 anything at il In dialect.” Philadelphia I"‘ell the busy man. lI ¥ she, .u time to thinl d keep me walting too long, or 1 won ¢ have enough money lett to buy 1 o in an auto-cab, and they o minute, you know.” How d'y d 1d ou, murry me? {“N- 18 80 rudden; A COUNTRY ROAD. Mary M. McCarthy in Boston Trnnlcrlpl A bnrd rin| dusty, stony way, whot is thick’ with blackberr! 1 .nl‘bd Abrupt, bare hills on one side Ioa iny dowm And from the other you can see Follow lhu river's course through momwn Oelr whluh thick woods and marble ledges A little further, where the road descends, A htl"loolsl soft tinkle with some bird song (Gone !;‘um its edge the dear old dame's [ col Half hidden by quaint flowers); lusk berga- mo eot {ts banks, its depths the boys - wim. or watch the minnown from somge willow Jmi pon it bridge now often 1 have stood Watching the west, whose glcry seemed to flood ‘With tenderest light the poorhouse and the Ve turn to gold the brooklet's waves— il fro mthe hill, O deareat ai I saw my fi tarun I heard l He clm. with sturdy stride and swinxing M; Mlld in his, 1 told my day’s whole tal 8o oy, ine "moath b TEian et eeted wh"l iened was my every childish woe As hll sweet words fell on' my soul like Whllu wa walked homeward through the fragrant calm, t of ?ll ! Unchanged the scene (time sometimes spares old joys I view It now btl de two merry bowi Whn, :-"lh-y play, mark not the tears My ayfl as I gaze upward toward the hill ’l'h.l nfl my father cleared with sturdy (Faol)ll! hIl gait long, long before he dled). Beside the margin of this little stream The ‘Bllllh.d years to me one long day Th-»lr ]o\ll grow brighter and their griefs In this dear spot his mem'ry $401mp to bless. The acene is commonplace no doubt to you To me it is the great earth's sweetest view “20th Century Apparel” That is the title of a new illustrated cata. logue and price list that we have just pub- lished. Call and get a copy, or eend if you want one by mail. It describes and illustrates The Best Clothing Made. Look in today, if you like, and buy to- mMorrow. You'll be interested in the new shapes and the new fabrics. $10.00 to $25.00 For a suit or overcoat that is guaranteed to wear as well Fits Like Ours.” as it fits, and *“No Clothing Browning, King & Co., R. 8. 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