Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. == ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIQN Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.§8.00 Duily Boe and Sunday, Oilo Year (%4 Tllusteated Boe, Ono Year 3w Bunday Bes, One Year.. Baty jay Bes, One Year. Weekly Beo, One Year OFFICES Omaha: The Hee Bullding H Bouth Omaha; City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and N Strests "Gounell Biufts. 10 Pear! Sirest, < 1640 Unity Bullding. our! ton: 801 Fourteenth Street. Sloux City: 611 Park Street. ORRESPONDENCE. Vel Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. lettern and remittances shou pany, Omaha. REMIT Remit by draft, exy ayable to The ee P Only 2-cent stamps mall accounts. Persona Omaha or Eestern exchar THE BEK PUBL TMORA ANCES, s or postal order, ubllshing Company. sted in payment of checks, '-xvl-plutm ot accepted. o COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ate of Nebraska, Doiglas County, 8. b Company, beln sworr, complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed duting the mgnth of September, 190, was as follows: 27,210 16 27,486 27,100 ..87,140 20,070 ..87,015 27,050 .. 27,800 ..20,740 ..97,200 27,180 L.27,100 27, 27 27, .27 27,1450 26,080 27,170 Total Leas unsold and returned coples ales average . GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK ny presence sworn to 1900 NG, th day of Sep A D, (Heal) tary Publie. B ] N —p—————— Reglster today if you are not already Net total Net dally Bubscribed | before me this registered. em— Delay Is dangerous. Today Is regis- tration day. Do not neglect this fm- portant du — 1¢ there is any cawpalgn oratorv in this vielnity yet uncorked the ‘orators are reminded that but little time re- malins to pull the stopper. Four years ago the dinner pail was empty and made its share of the nolse when Bryan struck it. This year it is full and Bryan is forced to make all the noise himself. The democratic campaign fakirs who have started the cry of false registration too early are met with the demand that they show up or shut up, which strikes them amidships. No one who wants the public schools administered by competent men in a businesslike manner need hesitate a moment to vote for the ;n!lr» repub- lican school board ticket. Bryan started out in the campaign with the declaration that he would ap- pear on the stump but little. He has been on the stump ever since and will be talking until the very day of election. Bryan condoled with his fellow farm- ers while in Delaware. In that little state the presidential candidate can pose as a farmer, but out where twenty-five acres is no more than a garden patch it will not work. Epee— Between the allles, the Boxers and the reformers who are now in revolt, the Chinese army 18 about the busiest body in the world. It may not be doing much fighting, but it is greatly worrled to know which way to run, How would the people of Nebraska like to have the same methods of finan- clering put in practice In the state treasury which the fusion candidate adopted in the case of the Atkinson bank while receiver of that institution? The city of Dawson offers as proof that it has become clvilized and is no longer & rough mining camp the fact that & man can wear a white shirt there without belng in danger of get ting shot. The evidence is all-suf- ficient. People who have insisted that south- erners are not progressive and keen In & business way must revise their judg- ment, A southern postmaster has been arrested for sending a dog through the wails in order to increase the sale of stamps at his office, It Is feared in some quarters in Cuba that the delegates to. the constitutional convention will purposely delay the work of organizing a government for the sake of the salary they obtain as delegates. It might not be a bad idea to follow the Nebraska idea and shut off the salary after the convention has been in session a specified number of days. Ee—— The full figures for Nebraska's census may be expected very shortly. What- ever may have been credited to its two principal cities, we may be sure the population of tha state will show up creditably, although it will not give as great an increase as some of its nelgh- bors which have escaped Nebraska's experience with drouths, crop failures and fusion. The present democratic county attor- ney has proved a misfit from the day he entered upon the dutles of the office, He has been the most costly luxury in the shape of a county attorney ever inflicted upon Douglas county tax- payers. He proved such a fallure that his own party tried to shelve him after one year of trial under pretense of pro- woting hlw to the district bench. It 1s high time to relieve him permanently [ tor T expect INFAMOUS CAMPAIGNING When I entered the preseut campaign ns candid for United States sena- 1 that my political enemies and competitors would resort to the most desperate means to encompass my defeat At the outset I announced wy will Ingness to submit to the ordeal of popu lar approval or disapproval through the | ballot box and invited candidates of all | parties to avall themselges of the priv- ilege granted by the comstitution of Ne braska, which allows voters to express a preference for United States senator. While the platforms of the three parties | represented in the fusion ticket declare for and pledge their candidates to the direct popular election of United States | senators, all thelr avowed candidates decline to give proof of thelr confidence in the people by placing thelr names on the official ballot, but seem to bank for success on defamation, falsehood and maliclous misrepresentation. Thelr trump card is now played in the charge made by the World-Herald, in the iuterest of G. M. Hitcheock, that during the legislative session of 1808 1 bad signed a written pledge to the fusionists that If elected senator by thelr votes I would oppose a policy of fmperialisin, oppose the acquisition of the Philippines, oppose any luncrease in the standing army, oppose the retire- ment of the greenbacks and all legls- lation favorable to national bauks, and, finally, In the event of Bryan's election to the presidency, would refrain from voting against a free colnage bill, pro- vided my vote was necessary to defeat the measure, I am always willing and ready to face my record on all questions of public concern. No pledge that would com- promise my republicanism or reflect upon my honor has ever been made, In November, 1808, within ten days after the election, Secretury of State W. I, Porter called at my office to ask whether I would be willing to accept the solid support of the fusion members of the legislature for United States senator. 1 positively declined the offer and Informed him that I could enter into no such arrangement, although uo conditions were attached. I told him 1 belleved the republicans would hold a caucus and nominate a South Platte wan for senator before the day for bal- loting. Soon thereafter I left for Washington and New York and did not return until December, The proposition made in November was renewed on my return and I again declined. 1 did not go down to Lin-| coln until ten days after the balloting had been going on. There appeared no prospect of a caucus or agreement among republicans on any candidate, while all the republican candidates had emissaries out to get populist votes when they should b away from Senator Allen, | At that juncture I was invited to de- fine my position on national issues and complied with the following letter, which is the only statement I made: OMAHA, Jan. 24, 1899.~Hon. T. F. Mem- minger—My Dear Sir: Your request for an expression of my views on issues deemed | of vital moment to the American people, and especlally the people of Nebraska, is cheer- tully complied with. My past record as legislator and editor has been constantly in accord with the following principles: I am a republican believing in the cardi- pal principles of that party s enunclated by Abrabam Lincoln, and intend to con- tinue on these lines as long as I live. I am opposed to corporate monopolies and trusts and favor national legislation for the control of the former and restric tion and suppression of the latter. 1 favor the regulation of rallroads and all public carriers by national and state legis- lation, 1 tavor the postal telegraph and the pos- tal savings bank and am opposed to the re- tirement of greenbacks, I am opposed to the annexation of the Philippine islands. Yours very truly, E. ROSEWATER. Is there anything in this letter that supports the charges made, barring alone my opposition to Philippine an- nexatlon, which at that time had not yet been consummated, inasmuch as the peace treaty was not yet ratiffied? On the contrary, 1 positively declined at all times and to all comers to change my position on the money standard or make any pledge that would interfere with my loyalty to the republican party. Not only that, but later a verbal offer of fusion votes was made if 1 would agree to help to re-elect Willlam V. Allen fn 1900. I emphatically declared that under no conditions would I prom- 1se, either by myself or through The Bee, to waver In my support of re- publican candidates and principles in the impending national campaign. These facts are known to all men who were associated with me and to prom- inent republicans to whom I communi- cated them at the tiwe. It 1s hardly necessary to repeat that all stories about an alleged alliance with D, E. Thompson now or at any time are absolutely untrue and fabricated solely for the purpose of creating prejudice and discord In republican ranks, E. ROSEWATER, APPEALING TO THE NEGRO, In West Virginia and in Maryland Mr. Bryan made an appeal to the negro voters. In the former state he asked the negroes to consider this question: “If a brown maun in the Philippine islands has no right to a volce in his govern ment, what about the black man?' In one of his speeches in Maryland he sald: “Before the black men of this country vote the republican ticket they had better look into the matter and find out what the chance of the black man is to be when we draw a race line and say that because a man in the Philippine islands is brown and not of our race we will send a carpetbag gov- ernment over there and hold that gov- ernment by force from him with a standing army." We do not suppose that any ordinarily intelligent colored man could be made a democrat by talk of this kind from the leader of the party that is dis- by putting him on the retired list, » franchising the negro In the south and | paign now golng on in the states, THE OMATIIA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1900. consent, The colored man would rea- sonably ask why it is that Bryan and lis party are co deeply concerned about the political rights of the brown men in arms against the government, while denying to black men who are loyal Ameriean citizens the political rights given them by the constitution. The colored man knows that the republican party bas done all that has been done to give him a volce in his own govern- ment and that the democratic purty has always opposed the republican policy in this respect. He knows that his race hins been justly treated by the re- publican party and he has no reason to doubt that that party will be just to the Filipinos, Mr. Bryan's appeal to negro voters will do him no good. His party is toe heavily handicapped by its record of injustice to the colored race, A CANDIDATE OF PROMISES, Mr. Bryan s prolific in promises. He has promised to do a number of things, if elected, some of which are not within the rauge of exccutive authority. One of Bryan's promises s that If Le be- comes president “within a year there will not be a private mouopoly in the United States.” Now this sort of talk may win votes among the ignorant, but no fairly intelligent man will be in- fluenced by it. What could Bryan do? He could direct his attorney general to have suits Instituted against such of the trusts as may be amenable to exist ing law, and having done this his au- thority would be exhausted. He would have no power over the courts and the suits instituted might, and very likely would, drag along for years. There are hundreds of combinations desig- nated by Mr. Bryan as “private monop- oly," all of which are able to make a olonged legal contest apd it is need- less to say would do so. It is there fore manifestly absurd for the demo- cratic candidate to talk about wiping out all these combinations within a year. It 18 more likely that he would not be able to destroy any of them during his presidential term. The followers of Mr. Bryan, how- ever, with a fanatical faith in every- thing he says, accept such stuff unques- tioningly and Mr. Bryan goes on playing upon their bliud confidence and de- luding them with impossible or fmprac ticable promises. E Becretary of War Root is careful as to his utterances. He makes no state- ment that he cannot substantiate. When, therefore, he said that the Fili- pluo insurgents are maintaining a show of resistance in the hope of Mr. Bryan's election and referred to General Mac- Arthur and others as having thus re- ported to the government, the state- ment must be accepted as entively trust- worthy, There is abundant testimony to sup- port it. The secretary to Prof. Moses of the Taft commission, In a letter from Manila, says: “Much interest exists here with regard to the cam- This war would hsve been ended long ago were it not for Bryan. He Is more the leader of these people now than Aguinaldo and every American soldier that is killed during these months can be laid directly to his door. They are making extra efforts now, simply to make a showing to be used in the states, If Bryan is defeated the whole thing will erumble.” Captain Bookmiller of the Ninth regiment returned to his home in New Haven, Conn, a few days ago, having been a year in the Philippines. In an interview he said: “The present attacks on the American troops by the Filipinos are undoubtedly Inspired by Americans whom the Filipinos call their friends at home. I am thoroughly con- vinced that as soon as the election of William McKinley is learned by the Fllipinos the concerted attacks on the Amerlcan troops will cease. They firmly believe that if Bryan is elected the American troops will be with- drawn. The best citizens and & ma- Jority of the Filipinos don't want the troops withdrawn, They want law and order. No one who desires to know the truth about conditious in the Philippines, or more properly in the Island of Luzon, will digregard this testimony, corrob- orated as It is by much more to the same effect. Fhere is not a shadow of doubt that Agulnaldo and other Filipino leaders are well informed in regard to opinion in this country relative to the Philippines, They have read the Kan- sas City platform. They know of Mr. Bryan's promise to give them independ- euce. They ave famillar with the atti- tude of the “anti-imperialists.” The relatively few follow of Aguinaldo are thus belng encouraged to maintain # show of resistance to Awmecrican au- thority, in the hope of democratic suc- cess. Should that hope be disappointed, as there is every reason to think it will be, we confidently believe that resist- ance will cease and all the Fillpinos will accept American sovereignty, as most of them are now willing to do. The democratic party and its “anti- fmperialist” allies are responsible for the maintenance of Insurgent activity in the Philippines, They are guilty of having encouraged the Filipinos to keep up war against this government. But for thelr course there is every reason to believe that months ago the insurrec- tion would have ended. If they are defeated on November 6 it is a safe prediction that a cessation of hostilities in the Philippines will soon follow, Taken all together, there has been less litigation than usyal this year over the makeup of the official ballot. Succes- slve court declsions have gradually de- tined the lines which have been in dis- pute. The only polnt where the ballot is likely to vary from county to county is in the order of the nominations by the respective parties. The law clearly gives the first place on the ballot to the republicans, as the party casting the highest vote at the last election, be- | ineists upon governing him without his ause that claim cannot be made by [} The be any one of the fusion parties. fusion county clerks, however, may expected to shut their eyes to this pro- vision of the law iIn order to take an advantage which not belong to them, does The railroads a aid to be again cousidering the plan of abolishing the feeding-in-transit rate on live stock The roads took such action last but the pressure was so strong that they were practically forced to go back to the system. No single rate is of so great volume to the live stock industry as this and the roads cannot well abol- ish it, becanse by so doing they would strike the prosperity of the people, upon whom they depend to make their lines profitable. The report of the bureau of education shows that a little over one-fifth of the entire population of the country Is act- ually in attendance in either public or private schools and fifteen-sixteenths of these are In the public schools, Those who pretend to see visions of empire can rest easy regarding any people los- ing their liberties among whom educa- tion s as universal as this and in which patriotism has always been so conspicu- ous. —_— As a sample of financlering by the fusion candidate for state treasurer his recelvership for a falled baunk in his home town of O'Nelll hardly commends him to the taxpayers as a safe man to entrust with the conduct of the state treas What the people of this state want is conservative and honest man- agement of the state funds. They a only sure to get this by electing the ve- publican candidate. The sultan of Turkey had a over the report that an Awerican squad- | ron was headed toward Turkey. No squadron was enroute, but if the sultan desires to sleep in profound peace with out being disturbed by such dreams it would be well for him to puy that Nttle bill now past due to Uncle scare The last time Douglas county sent a fusion delegation to the legislature every business interest here was in hot water under threats of disturbing legis- lation. The business men of Omaha enunot afford to experiment again with fusion would-be lnwmakers, REGISTER TODAY. Today s registration day and every voter expecting to cast a ballot at the | election on November 6 should see that Lis name s properly envolled on the registration books. The registrars will sit in their re- spective wards aud precinets from 8 a m. untii 9 p. m. today. In order to register each voter must appear personally before the régistrars and an- swer the questions relating to his resi- dence and qualifications prescribed by the law. No previous registration good this year., Failure means self-disfrauchisement. "One of the questions which will be asked by the registrars, under the law; Is: “With what political party do you wish to atfiliate?” To this question every person who expects to support President McKinley should answer: “The republican part This answer 18 necessary to qualify the voter to participate in the republican primaries. | Be sure to regly v will hold 1o register Chieago News, Russia and the United States occupy identical positions on the Chinese ques- tion. With England and Germany also paired there is nothing for France to do but to throw her influence in favor of one or the other of these combinations. It will be rather hard for French editors who have been smilin e n a superior way at American diplomacy to come in under the Russlan-American umbrella, but that sfems to be thelr only chance. ——eeee Perll of the Sobering Process. Detroit Free Press (ind. dem.) We have no doubt that great responsi- bilities would sober Mr. Bryan, but by/ the time Mr. Bryan was sobered the wheels of industrial progress might have been turned back half a decade und the coun- try would be in the midst of another period of industrial and financial depres- slon. Is it worth this sacrifice on the part of tho Americun people to have Mr, Bryan sobered? The Free Press cannot believe it, however desirable, from certain points of view, a sober Mr. Bryan might be. PERSONAL NOTES, The action of the late Spanish cabinet indicates that our old friend, Weyler, is about as popular with the decent people in Spain as he was in Cuba. Sir Henry Blake, governor of Hong Kong, says In a letter to a London friend: “Since this trouble began I haven't had an hour of real leisure and yet the excitement is rather enjoyed by nearly all of us.” Dennison Wheelock, a full-blooded Onelda Indian, has joined the staff of a Green Bay (Wis.) paper as a reporter. He is'a gradu- ate of Carlisle Indlan school and while studying there was leader of the famous Carlisle band Joseph Jefferson, addressing the students of the American Conservatory at Chicago last Friday, sald of acting: “There Is in no other profession so great a chance for mediocrity. Al parts, great and small, should call for equal care. The H. S. Stone publishing house of Chi- cago turned down the manuscript of *“David when it came to them, and the Appletons, with some misgivings, took it in. The sales have just reached 005,000 coples and now the Stone partners take turns kicking one another. James Bryce, the distinguished English statesman and author, is in Paris for his first genuine visit to the French capital. He says that whenever he has been there before he was simply passing through and that he is less acquaiuted with Paris thim any of the other great continental capital The Illinols Audubon society is about to checkmate the milliners by securing an amendment to the game laws that shall make it an offense, with penalties, for any one to possess any part of the wild birds now protected by the law. Some of the mil- liners have contended that a part of a bird Wwas not & bird. The fathcr of M, author of “L'Aiglon, combines versifying on social economy in French review He is also @ member of the institute. When the son was ralsed to the officership of the leglon of honor he implored the government to grant the same distinction to “Le Pere Edmond Rostand, the 13 also @ poet, who wil clever articles No Threat of Militarism Minneapolis Times (ind.) There has always been more or less militarism in this country, yet the army has never usurped the powers of the clvil authorities and most Americans are still disposed to “hike” back to their farms, their shops, their counters and their desks the minute their military service is ended. 1t is difficult to Induce a returning regiment to strut even for a brief hour before an admiring populace, so eager always are the boys o resume the vocations of peace. When Loulsiana was bought during Mr. Jefferson’'s second administration he was authorized to employ the army of the United States and the militia of the several states to the number of 80,000 men in maintaining our rights in that territory, It necessary. The population of the United States was about 6,000,000 at that time, so that an army of 80,000 men then would have been equivalent to a force of 1,000,000 now. At the close of our second war with England, when we had less than 9,000,000 people, our regular army consisted of 62,674 men, the largest number authorized until last year, when It was in round figures 65,000 strong. Our regular army at the close of the war of 1812 would represent more than half a milllon men at this date. From 1817 to 1840 the average strength of the regular army was 10,000 men and the mean population of the country 13,600,000, the ratio of soldiers to population being less than it I8 now. The Mexican war in- How They Hated Lincoln Democratic organs and orators now re gard President Lincoln, for campaign pur- poses, as a patriot ranking with Wash- ington, und quote his writings with unusual unction. This 1s something new in demo- cratic circles. They talked differently in 1864, and at the same time worked the crie of “imperialism” and “militariem” as em~ ergetically as they do today. Following are extracts from speeches and editorials show- ing democratic methods thirty-six years ago: Cincinnatl Enquirer, Sept 1864: 1t Lincoln is entitled to the gratitude of the blacks, ought he not to receive the eternal curses and maledictions of the white race?” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct. 13, 1864: “It Lincoln fs reelected will never again have peace or union In this land.” John McKeon to the democratic conven- tion, Sept, 4, 1564: “There is not a man here whose life, property and everything - whose wife, children and home will not be in danger should such a deplorable result follow as the election again of Abraham Lincoln.” Indianapolis Sentinel, Sept. 13, 1864: “The election of Lincoln means war, anarchy and disunion-—the success of Clellan will bring peace and the restoration of the union. These are the issues involved in the elections of October and November.'" Hon. J. B. Haskins to the democratic convention, Aug. 31, 1864: “The constitu- tion is indeed a most sacred Instrument. It is attacked by armed traitors in the south and by Insidious, double-dyed traitors in this administration—Mr. Lincoln at the head—at the north."” Colouel Gray of Detroit, Mich., Oct 1864: "By arrogating to himself powers not granted by the constitution and the laws, Mr. Lincoln has exercised, or at- tempted to exercise, a despotic power over the people such as only the emperor ot Austria can exercise. Ho has given him. self over to those who declare that the constitution is a league with death and a covenant with hell. New York World, Sept. 13, 1864: “The party of which Abraham Lincoln is the candidate and representative, though pro- fessing fealty to the union, is its most dans gerous foe. The facts of its history, the spirit of its policies, the tendency of its measures tally as completely with disunion creased it to 10,690 in 1846 and to 21,686 the next year. Since then it has never fallen below 10,000, 1In 1862 it reached 25,480 officers and men and in 1867 06815 In 1874 1t had been reduced to 30,620, From (hat time until the temporary increase au thorized because of the troubles in the Philippines it remained at about 25,000 Two years after the civil war we had one regular soldier to every 700 people now we have one to about 1,100 of popula- tion There has been uo apparent growth in “militarism” in this country. When Mr. Jefterson needed soldiers congress mccom- modated him. There seemed to be no lack of men to fight the Mexican war, and millions came forth from ttne north in the civil war. The regular army has always been insignificant in its proportions except when it reached high tide after the war of 1812, It 1s safe to say, after a glance at the proportions of our army, regular and volunteer, in times of stress and be- fore and after such periods, that when the people of this republic need a big army they always get one and when they do not, the regular establishmeut is a small affalr as compared with the total popula tion. As we elect & congress every two years and a president every four years we are not likely to be oppressed with “‘militarism,’” in this country until the people themselves demand it designs as if they had been dictated by cold, subtle and calculating hostility to our national greatness Bx-Governor Wickliffe of Kentucky, at New York, September 9, 1864: “I cannot give you any better argument why you should change this administration than to sy that if you prefer liberty to slavery you will change it and change it quickly, for 1t Lincoln is elected, farewell to civil liberty in the United States.” Resolutions adopted at a democratic meet- ing, New York City, September 1, 1864 “Resolved, That the administration of Abrahum Lincoln, by its imbecility in the conduct of the warand its ruinous financial policy, has forfelted the confidence and re- spect of the loyal states. Missouri Republican (now St public), November 8 1864: “Friends of constitutional liberty, will vou this day arouse yourselves to the full appreciation of the danger that surrounds you? ' The frighttul strides which the present adminis- tration has already made toward usurpation | of powers unknown to the constitution, the | outrages upon Individual liberty, the usurpations of arbitrary authority in all | parts of the country without even the pre- text, in many instances, of military neces- sity, the corruptions of offc'al speculators, who, in the name of loyalty are sucking the very life blood of the natfon, without the rebuke, and often with the connivance, of the national administration, warn you that unless a change is made at this election of our public rulers, the fate of the re- public is sealed forever, and all your boasted liberties are laid prostrate at the feet of despotism. * * ¢ 1f, then, you would rebuke the rampant spirlt of fanaticlsm which is rapidly bring- ing the nation to a dishonored grave, it you would save the constitution from wreck and the institutions of your fathers from utter destruction, if you would save your individ- ual liberty from being crushed out by the heel of despotic power, it you would restore the union of your fathers by an honorable termination of a war whose victories under the policy of the present administration have turned to ashes on your lips, it you would secure to your bleeding country the blessings of an honorable and lasting peace, then give your vote to clevate to the presi- dentia) chair the tried soldier, the trusted patriot, George B. McClellan, and let noth- ing deter you from the discharge of your | duty. | Louis Re POPOCRATIC MAHDI. me Prophet of '06 Workiug Over- time This Yei New York Tribune. The fulse prophet of popocracy is trylng to play the Logie man. Having failed to entice voters to come over (o his side, he 18 trylog to scare them away from the re- publican side with warnings of the awful things that will surely come o pass if Presi- dent McKinley s re-elected. despotism threatens this country!” he cries. ““Are you willing that men by “intimidation shall rule this country? * ¢ * You will have a perpetual debt, and the peoplo wiil pay the interest. * * * One of the reason why they want a large army is to bulld a fort in this city (New York) and use the army to “suppress by force that dis- content that ought to be cured by legls- lation.” And so he goes on, holding up one straw bogle after another—trusts, militar- ism, Imperialism and what not—and tell- ing the American people that those evils will surely ba brought and forever fixed upon them unless he is elected president to be their savior and redeemer. Unhappily for this popocratic mahdi, the falsity of his prophecies has already been fully demonstrated in the sight of all the people. Four years ago Mr. Bryan sald “It McKinley and the republican party are successful and put in power for the next four years wages will be decreased, hard times will come upon us, mortgages upon our homes will be foreclosed by the money-lenders, shops and factorles will close. We will export no goods, and ws will fmport from foreign lands all the goods we use. Thus will ruln, want and misery be with us." That was Mr. Bryan's prophecy in 1895, Mr. McKinley and the republican party were put into power for four years, anw proceeded to carry out the policies they had promised and which Mr. Bryan de- clared would bring these dreadful things upon us. But instead of being decreases, wages have been incfeased, good times have prevailed, mortgages have been paid ofy, shops and factories have been opened ans enlarged, the country has exported more goods than ever before fn its history, ana prosperity and comfort have been the lot of the people. In brief, Mr. Bryan's woetul predictions have not been fulfilles, but exactly the opposite has happened in every detail. It the popocratic leader was so false prophet then, why should his present vaticinations be believed? What reason in there for supposing his calamity bowliny in 1900 is any more judicious or any bettes grounded than 1t was in 18967 Two Campaign Plctures. Chicago Post. The dignity and sense of propriety dis- played by President McKinley cannot fail to meet the approval of the American pegple. And, incidentally, it may be sug- sted that it Is difficult to picture Brysn declining to take part In campalgn dem- onstrations in similar circumstances. Be- jng his own entire campaign he could not well keep off the stump under any condi- tions. Uncle Joe Stands from Under, "An industrial | lle man was older than the party of which |ot 18 |in Washington Post, 1t will be recalled that, while General Cyrano,” as M. Eugene Rostand Is play- tully called by bis friends. Jeo Wheeler denied he is a republican, he didn’'t throw up his bat for Bryi | LON CAREER, | PO CAL John Sherman ds the Record for Continuous Service, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The length and the importance of John Shermun's carecr can not be grasped by @ mere glahce at the 1ist of the posts | which he filled and at the dates which he | entered and left them, Sherman as a pub- I had been a leading spirit for more thun forty years. He was elected to the house of representatives in 1804, the year when, by the repeal of the Missourl compromise, the republican party was created, but the men who composed the party in its first preeidential canvass had not yet all united in calllng themselves republicans. At the time when he was first elected to congress most of fthem, including himself, were known vaguely as uti-Nebraska men. Ouly about half a dozen states adopted the neme republican in 1854, Sherman pre- slded over the first state convention of the republican party ever held in Ohio, that He also presided at the one held 1805, revealing a prominence lasting through forty years of the most stirring political life which the United States has seen. At the time when Sherman, carly in 1836, as & member of the congressional commit- tee which inquired into the Kansas dis- turbances, first became a national figure, none of the men who at the preseut time are in public life were known outside of the precinct in which they resided, except Grow of Pennsylvania, and his length of years in public station is not half as great as was Sherman's, though he entered pub- lic life four years earlier than Sherman. Corkling, Blaine, Hayes, Garflold, Reed, McKinley and all the other leaders of the republican party in recent years, save Jus- tin 8. Morrill, who entered public life at the same time as Sherman and who died two years ago, were newer men than Sher- man. Lincoln has been dead thirty-five years and he became known to the country forty-two years ago, at the time when he stumped Iilinols with Douglas in the con- test for United States senator. Lincoln received many votes in the Philadelphia convention of 1856 for vice president on the ticket with Fremont, yet Sherman may be sald to have been a national personage earlier than Lincoln, although Lincoln had previously served term in the house of representatives, Clay's public life, from beginning to end, covered the period trom Jefferson to Fili- more. Cass entered the public service as an army officer in the war of 1812, in Mad- ison's days as president, and was appointed United States marshal for the district of Obio several years earller than that time by President Jeflerson and he waus in Bu chanan's cabinet at the eve of the war of secession. Benton's days of public service covered the period from the adoption of the Missourl compromise to its repeal, ex- cept two years when he was in retirement Nathaniel Macon was In one or the other branch of congress from the first term of President Washington to near the end of Madison's service. Willlam Rufus King entered congress before the beginning of the war of 1812 and died as vice president in 1863, John Quincy Adams' career, com prisiog service at forelgn courts, In both branches of congr in the cabinet and f&herman pointment ‘as minister to the Netherlands by President Washington to his death in the house of representatives in the latter part of the torm of President Polk. Adams alone of all these celebrities had a longes actual service in public station than John From the beginning to the end of his career Sherman's service, except tor ad or two, was continuo while that of all the others who have been named was broken by years of retiroment. WORK TILL SET OF SUN, Certainty of Success no Relasing Effort Baltimore American The re-election of President McKinley seems to be assured beyond preadventure. With each passing day the certainty of this much desired consummation of the cam paign Increases, and the people everywhere are settling themselves to this outcome. But, while another republican triumph soems guaranteed, {he party managers and workers should not allow confidence fn the result to cause a lessening in thelr ac- tivity nor a decrease in thelr energy. From now until election day the work should go forward even more vigorously than it has up to this time. Public sentiment pro- nounces for McKinley, but there are still some doubtful voters to be won over, and particular attention should be paid to con- verting the wavering, in order that the anti-Bryan majority may be so large as to sound, for once and all, the deathknell over the perniclous theories he advocates And while this {s belng done there is another and an even more important work to which the party organization should address ftself. Public sentiment i the determining factor in all elections, but tha ballot is the medium through which this sentiment exerts itself. It s, therefore, essentinl that a majority of the ballots cord in their markings with public gent ment. When confidence fn the result is so firm a8 it is now there {s & disposition on the part of some to remain away from the polls. Many of those who favor and woull voto for McKinley will say: “I don't need to voto; McKinley fs certain to be elected.” To overcome any such dispo sitlon on the part of the voters to remain at home should be the work of the re- publican organization between this time and election d A small majority will suffice, but there Is safety in numbers, and every man that favors the re-election of McKinley should be impressed with the importance of going to the polls aud voting. Every one that remains away gives half a vote to Bryan and thus makes confidence a boomerang, which rebounds only to injure I8 favorites. The closing days of the cam- paign should such effective work Iu this direction that on election day no sup- porter of McKinley and Roosevelt will think of staying at home —— Jon oN. cuse for see Tone and Glaringly Evasive, Detrolt Free Press (ind. dem.) Chalrman Jones of the democratic na- tional committes ignores or forgets the sage old advice never 1o get on the defen sive. He Is out in a statement that is posi- tively apologetic in its tone and glaringly evasive. He weakens bis case in the outset by declaring that “it has been the fashion for the republicans for some years to de- nounce democrats as anarchists, revolu- ticnists and the like.” There is an in- excusable blunder in thus confounding democrats aud Bryanites to the detriment of the former and only a certain well known contingent among them has been accused with any approach to the extreme terms used by the chairmaun. As to what Mr. Bryan if elected would do regarding the United States judiciary as a peselble agency in the carrying out of his executive plans is known 1o no one, unless himself, and this leaves the whole ques tlon to the interpretation that the individual veter may place upon the Kensas City plat- ferm. 1t Mr. Bryan be a democrat aignifi- cince attaches to this siatement from the chairman: ““The leading idea with demo- crats everywhere is to return to the prinei ples of the constitution and to faithfully administer the laws as written.' This, with the rest of the chairman's promulgation, is undoubteily Inspired, but if it means that Mr. Bryan would not at- tempt to pay outstanding obligations of the government in silver, why does he not say s0? Why does he not permit a close, hard-money friend like Bourke Cockran to say so0, or why does he require the head |of his national committee to put forth a doubtful intimation that is cunningly framed with an intent to please popullsts |on one hand and the upholders of a solid and honest financial system on the other? The people will not stand for thelr part in this game of shuttlecock. Thoughtful men intent upon continuing in the way of prosperity are not content with the a ment that the country’'s financlal system and financial credit are too strong for a hostile chief maglstrate to overthrow. They want in that capacity an nggressive friend, not an avowed enemy. They are not se blinded by partisanship or so prejudiced because of minor issues as not to realize that it Mr. Bryan is not for them he ia against them, Indianapolis Journal ¥ massage Vil cure baldness sene! 1 know men who got bald to learn how 1o pronounce mus- “Did_you have auny reign languages on the Chicago Rec with side?" We got along all right with Fr German, but we couldn't understs English." hoand d the Detroit Free Press: “Getling stoat doesn't seem to worry you at all “No, indeed; T've bought a mirror that makes me look tall and slim.” Chicago Post: of weighty Gi'roy—That m presues them = Wh do you med “f mippose they are too heavy to go by mall."” Bunting—Larkin 18 u man " st be the reason that hoe ex Washington Star: "I suppose you would rather play Hamlet than eat,”” duid (he ad miring young womun, who is given to colloguialisms Well,” unswered Mr, Stormington Barnes, “I never put it in’ just that way But your remark suggests the aiternative that “usually presents itself.” Chicago Tribune ness. What kind of fence Was (t? It was a spite fence. your honor." u}ahe fence? What kind 1s that, am " The kind that spitefal folk back yards, your honor, just to folks ‘from looking Into’ ihelr ki nswer the question, - (Translated from the Norwegian of Bjorn- stjerne Bjornson by A. B, Ronne.) Summer slumbered {n wintor's arms, Winter rose and he tucked her in; sald to the harbor's din, ks and farms; forests grim, ) Silent grew then the ight but the creaking Naught was heard Ilimb, All the good that gummer joy Winter” tenderly stored away} found after toil and 'fray, iy Mprout 80 coy 1110 1ike kern in hardened ‘nuts, Earth was crumbling around the Tuts, the illa that made summer ache, t-weed, sickness and hi hlight, Winter banished n frost and flgh Bualnioss, summer in peace dhall wi Laved In wnow and winter winds, Halled by quicken'd and healthy minds O'er the brow of the slecper falr Winter painted u wplendid dream, Btar-lit vivid In north-lght's stream; On it bore her to vislons rare, During the lengthy “winter 'night Then she open'd her eyes so bright Winter, scolded as harsh and drear, Lives for that which he must not see; We, though scolded for murder, he Guards and purges our land each r Al ¥ in the presidency, stretched from his Then he hides in untains wide THL it grows cold at eVentide. ’