Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. VATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI U BECRIPTION. B Ona Year.88.00 one' Year LR00 0 1% TERMS OF B&Ili Bee (withou! ally Boo and Sunda Tilustrated i3 s Bunday Bee, ( Haturday | Weekly Bes, OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Building . Bouth Omaha; City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fth and N Streets Counell Blufta. 10 Pearl Street, Chie 1640 Unity Imlln'!lnl New York. Temple Cour Washington: 1 Fourteenth Street. Bloux City: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and "'"" torinl matter whould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Fditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com: vany, Omaha RE Remit by dra payabla io The nly 2-cent wtampn mail accounts. Forson eckn, eX Omatia or Eastarn exchanges, not ac T ek PUBTIRHTNG COMPANY CIRCULATION yunty, . f The Peo iy SWorn, MITTANCES press or postal order, Publishing Company. accepted In payment of sonal checks, except on STATE Btate of Neb rll;-”r;n Teachuck, M"l lyi-Hn ublishing Company, belng ways that the attual numper of full and complote copies of The I aily, Morning, J2vening and Bunday Hee printed during the menth of September, 1900, was as follows: 16... 27,486 17 18, 1 2 or Douglas ¢ ..27,050 ..27,860 ..20,740 27,280 27,200 27,380 26,080 27,170 Total Lens unsold and returned coples.... Net total sales...... Net daily avernge 8 20, GEORG B, TZSCHUCK ) Bybseribed 1n_my presence and sworn to baforo me thia th diy of September, A. . 1500, M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Public st ——————_ When the battle Is over the credulous Aupes of the Omaha Fakery who bet on Bryan's clection will do some tall swearing. With the return of the coal miners to work at increased wages another popo cratle “paramount” issue has been rele gated to oblivion, How can a pauper living on the county poor farm claim the place as a perma- nent home when he is llable to eviction any day or houl The republican party has waged a dig- nified campalgn In Nebraska, but the opposition as usual iy trying to win out by use of the smut machine. —ee e Thanksgiving comes late in the month this year. This will enable democrats to return from the Salt river trip in time to participate in the feast. Mr. Towne 18 generous in hls forecast of the result of the election. With great thoughtfulness he does not claini Pennsylvanla and Iowa for Bryau. Emmm— Can Frank Ransom be trusted? Yes— he can be trusted to introduce hold-up bills for the purpose of having some one put up to have them killed off. Although the dispatches are sllent on the subject, it 18 a safé guess that Boss Croker did not accompany Bryan to church Sunday to hear Rev. Parkhurst. —_— The next thing County Attorney Shields will do will be to instruct the sheriff to register all the jailbirds who are willing to help vote him another term In office, e The war waged on John W. Parish by a local afternoon sheet is entirely un- warranted and unsupported by any- thing except the imagination of polit- Ical opponents. The democrats In these parts must be very desperate judging from their effort to have paupers and Insane Inmates of the poor farm registered to vote at the coming election. One more week and then the popo- veady to tell the truth about politics unless the distortion habit has become too firmly cratic papers may possibly b fixed to be broken off. The only opposition to the republican legislative ticket within republican lines comes from persons who have elther failed to get an office or been exposed In some job or dishonest deal. According to the World-Herald Bry- But a few peoplo In this section are willing to wager that he Is no nearer to the White an's election Is absolutely sure. House than he was four years ago. emep—— When Bryan is looking for a quota. tlon to justify his present position he always selects one from the writings ing of some man who Is dead. He 1s thus relleved of the embarrassment of or an objection from the author. NEBRASKA'S BUMPER CKOP. The Bee's annual summary of Ne braska's crops for 1000, which is pnb. lighed In this lssoe, Is a most satisfac tory exhibit. It points out in detailed figures what the Nebraska farmer has to show for his past year of labor. As usual corn I8 king in this state, |the harvest garnered representing nearly 242,000,000 bushels of the yellow on while the wheat crop Is close to 40,000,000 bushels, The oats crop Is nearly 49,000,000 bushels and smaller grain of minor crops reaches into mil lions of bushels, This exhibit is satisfactory not only in the quantity and quality of these products, but in the average prices com- manded, Never belore in the history of the state has a crop of such propor- tlons found a market at such high pric In an agricultural state like Nebraska this promise of continued prosperity for the farmer means like wise continued prosperity for every othe line of Indust in which the farmer forms the principal link in the chain While much of this grain will be shipped out of the state in Its raw form, a great part of it will be trans- formed into meat, milled into flour and worked up fnto more finished prodacts, glving additional employment to home labor, which fn turn will have an en- larged capacity for consuming the pro- ducts of the farm and factory, As Governor Roosevelt has ably sald, while the republican party is willing to give providence due acknowledgment for producing crops, republican policies are entitled to credit for bullding up the market here and abroad that has brought good prices and steady demand. 'y person ownlng a foot of land in Nebraska or having an Interest In the prosperity of the state should not only make a study of this exhibit for tmself, but send coples of the paper containing it to friends in the east to prove to them the substantial basis for Nebraska's promising future, S, CONTINGENT ON LECTION. We noted a few days ago the state- meunt of the head of a large financial institution in Baltimore that a project :h)uhlng an expenditure of $11,000,- swalted the result of the election, the agreement providing that if Me- Kinley is re-elected the project will b imwediately carried out. Mr. John K. Cowen, president of the Baltimore & Ohlo railroad, made a statement a few days ago that the executive comuittce of that company had authorizel the purchase of 9,000 cars, but Le said t the order would be cauceled in the event of Bryan's election, Other projects of the compan, involving a heavy ex- penditure, are also contingent upon the result of the election. These may be exceptional cases, but it s unquestionable that new enter- prises are belng delayed by apprehen- slon of the possibility of Bryan's ele tlon, which prudent capitalists and con- seryative anvestors fear wou'l bave a disastrous effect upon bus'ness. A cor- poration like the Baltimore & Ohio must borrow mouney to carry its proj- ects and it cannot do this advantage ously when there is distrust in flnancial circles, when capital is apprehensive of the future. In all departments of busi- ness caution is the rule pending the election and orders are placed and cou- tracts made with the proviso that th will not stand if the democratic party 1s successiul. — A BRYAN ADMINISTRATION. Senator Hoar has pointed out with his characteristic vigor what would be the forces and Influences behind a Bryan administration. In a recent speech he sald: “There will be behind that ad- ministration a solld south, Intent on disfranchising the negro, In earnest and meaning business. There will be be- hind it the free silver men of the' west, In earnest and meaning Dbugness. There will be behind it the anarchists and soclalists of the great cltles, in earnest and meaning business. There will be behind it Rich- ard Croker and Tammany hall, intent on spolls and jobs and patronage, in earnest and meaning busines All these must be listened to and will be.” It 1s idle for the supporters of Mr. Bryan to say that as president he would disregard these forces, which he 18 now so assiduously cultivating. He would listen to the Tillmans of the south and forget the promise he made to the negro that if he becomes president the rights of a citizen, regardless of color, creed or condition, will be pro- tected as far as the executive has power to protect them.. Mr. Bryan will not express an opluion now in regard to the wrong which s being done the colored citizen in some of the southern states and If elected he would make no effort to correct that wrong or to pre- vent its extenslon in the south. Need- ing the support for his policles of the democratic senators and representatives from that section, he would not venture to oppose their views respecting the rights of the negro. It s no less cer- tain that he would not ignore Croker The heavy registration all over the country indicates that while voters are 100 busy to stand around the streets talking politics as they did four years ago they think the preservation of the present prosperity is valuable enough to induce them to take time to vote. — One York county man has just threshed his wheat and finds that at present prices his crop is worth §20 per acre, When Bryan gets through rain- bow chasing he should go out and learn from this York county farmer how to make furming pay in Nebraska. Em— By perusing the columns of The Bee this morning It will be observed that Nebraska farmers have done consider- able toward providing foodstuff for the world In the season just past. The total 18 large and might even have been Inrger had Brysn devoted less time to politics and wore to bis farm, ~ \ a under the strongest obligations. would hardly dare to disregard the first state in the union, In wealth and popu- lation, in making up his cabivet, and there is not a doubt that Tammany would dictate the representative New York in the national adwinistra- tion, pointed out, that corrupt and unscrupu- lous political organlzation would have and Tammany hall, to whom he is He of Thus, as we have heretofore volce in national affalrs, It would uot only control the patronage of the Empire state, but it would have sonie- thing to say, and probably a great deal, at Bryan owes much politically, could not be lgnored. place in the cabinet he would be in the councils of the administration. Washington. Altgerd, to whom If he should not have a suredly Mr. Bryan, it elected, will be con- stralned to select his advisers from among the men who are fighting Rhis campaign. have in his admluistration any democrat He could not and would not THE OMAHA DAILY BE OCTOBER 30, 1900. | who i now opposing him, or who, ur | supporting him, is not In sympathy with | all his policies. He would have no man near him who favors the gold standard, or who thipks the Independence of the | Judiciary should be maintained, or who | dissents from any of the principles em- | bodied in Bryanism. It is not difficult to understand, therefore, what the char- acter of a Bryan administration would be and the conservative and patriotic citizen should give this matter earnest consideration. NUW FOR THE STATE ISSUES. The national Issues of the present campalgn have been fully discussed on all sides. Nearly every intelligent voter | who reads a newspaper must by this time have reached a conclusion regard- ing the candidates on the respective na- tloual tickets and if he has not ample opportunity will be given him between uow and election day to reflect and de cide what he belleves to be best for the welfare of the country. Nebraska voters are confronted with stute Issues that wust not be overshad- owed or ignored in the contest for the presidency. For four years the state bus been governed by the self-styled “allled reform forces,”- The question thut presents itself to every citizen of Nebraska ls, Have we bad any re- forms In the administration of state affairs? Have the fusion reformers kept faith with the people? Have they lived up to thelr pledges or even tried to llve up to them? sverybody knows that the fuslonists came into power by reason of disconteut among the masses on account of cor- porate domination and the popular im- pression that the burden of taxation had been distributed unequally and the ex- actions of public carriers excessive, It was therefore expected that the offen- sive and odlous methods against which the people revolted would be discarded and Lonest and efficient service ren- dered In every department of the state government. These expectations have been lament- ably disappointed. The fusion clamor against King Caucus and machine meth- ods and the denunciation of railroad ex- tortion and subserviency to pass dis- tributors so prominent before election in the campuigns of 1806 and 1898 were forgotten after election. The bogus reformers have organized a more despotic machine than ever ex- Isted before in Nebraska. King Caucus ruled every move of thelr lawmakers and the tripartite bosses ruled the cau- cus with the same fron hand as they did the governor and every state official in the distribution of patronage. Iustead of abolishing sinecure Jobs and relieving the taxpayers from inex- cusable impositions, new useless offices have been created and taxeaters planted at every possible point. Instead of im- proving the condition of the state insti tutions, political hacks totally incompe- tent aud unfit have been foisted into respousible positions und the helpless wards of the state, including the deaf and dumb, the feeble-minded, the insane and the invalid veterans of the war, have been maltreated and misused and | left the playball of political spoilsmen. | Hardly a state institution has not had its scandal under the “reformer Most scandalous of all, however, has been the retention of the do-nothing rail- | road commission, whose members have been drawing $6,000 a year while devot- ing most of thelr time to political schem- ing. While prating about reform and denouncing republican abuses, the whole state house has been turned Into a cam- palgn headquarters, with clerks pald out of the state treasury coerced luto performing the political work of the fusion machine, and on top of all com- pelled to put up 3 per cent of their wages for paying the expenses of the campalgn of reform. Quite apart from the abuses connected with the state institutions the state has been scandalized by the impositions of bold-up insurance examiners, question- able pardons of convicted criminals, farming out of school funds and sham equalization of corporate tax assess- ments. It would take volumes to poiut out all the abuses of power and patronage in detail. Suffice it to say that the re- formers have utterly falled to meet the demands of the people and for that rea- son, if for none other, the people should put thelr seal of disapproval upon the fusion candidates. Remember that no man ean vote at the coming election unless his name fis reg- {stered or unless he can prove by two freeholders residing in his ward that he was prevented from registering by sick- ness or absence from the city. Remem- ber also that the only remaining oppor- tunity to reglster will be next Saturday, November 3. The redoubtable Jim Dahlman has been making speeches down in New York while Mr. Bryan was busy getting his meals. The new speech is longer than Dahlman's usual Nebraska cam- palgn speech, which consists of only four words, to which his hearers re- spond “yes" and then wipe off their mouths, The fake mills, although now running night and day, are unable to supply the demands made upon them by the popocratic campalgn managers. Legiti- mate campaign arguments are so scarce with them that almost anything which can be pressed into service finds a ready market, v An Omaha man is getting into all sorts of trouble because he has taken to himself » new face. This is ordinarily the trouble with men who can't change theirs, sas Clty Star. It fs not to be supposed that the Ameri- can people have grown apathetlc regard- ing the character of thelr government. The tremendous registration everywhere dis- credits that idea. The people have read as much as usual during the present canvass. They have turned out to hear the apeeches, l What McKinley Said 8an Day after day for weeks past the papers of the country, in fulfillment of their duty as newsgatherers for the people, have pub- lished the iteration and reiterationr of Bryan's harangues. They will have to con- tinup to do o for some days to come. In the meantime McKinley keeps the silence which the dignity of his high office imposes upon him. His words are not spread before the couniry every day and it Is therefore right and fitting that something of what he has eald upon i{ssues Bryan is talking about every day should be recalled to the public mind, Bryan bas been loud in denouncing the army, jolning it in the general condemna- tion which he pronounces upon “‘militarism” and “imperialism.” Hera are some of the things McKinley has said about the army: “What a magnificent army was mustered fn less than sixty days! More than 200,000 #oldlers responded to the call of country, coming from the homes of our fellow citizens everywhers, the bravest and the beat, willing to go into foreign territory to fight for the honor of our flag and’ for oppressed humanity. There was no break in our column. Thers was no division in any part of the country. North and south and east and west alike cheerfully sponded.”—Speech at Decatur, 111, October 15, 1508, oThe heroes of Manila gnd Santia Porto Rico have made mortal tory. They are worthy successors and descend- ants of Washington and Greene, of Paul Jones, Decatur and Hull, and of Grant, Sherldan, sherman and Logan; of Farragut Porter and, Cushing; of Iee, Jackson an Longstreet."—Address at the Transmissis- Exposition at Omaha, October 12, At Bunker HIII libert, Gettysburg the unlon was the lssue; before Manila and Bantiago our armies fought, not for gain or revenge, but for human rights They contended for the freedom of the oppressed, for whese welfare the United States has never falled to lend & helping hand to establish and uphold, and, 1 be- lleve, never will."~Speech at’Auditorium, Atlanta, Ga., December 15, 1868, Bryan has been making daily appeals to class antagonisms and sectional prejudices, but McKinley has addressed himself with patriotic gladness to the task of directing attention to the harmony of the country. As an offset to Bryan note these words “We have had such a revival of patriot- tsm In this country as we have never had since the earliest days in our history. For the first time for more than half ‘a ¢ ury mnorth and south are united in holy alllance, with one arm, with one pur- uoae and with one determination—to stand the government of the United States. That 1s what the war has done for the Réople of the United, States.”—Speech at plon, Tnd., October 21, 1568, “My countrymen, not ‘since the beginning 0 and was at stake; at Francisco Call the question ur‘M\:\\‘r!“‘p; has there bes h a common bond name and purpose, such genuine affection, such a_unity of the sections, suc h oblitera- ton of party and geographical divisions. Nat pride has b again enthron national patriotism hi been restored; th national unfon cemented closer stronger; the love for the old flag #hrined In all hearts. North and south have mingled their besat blood in & common caise and today rejoice in a common victory. Happily for the nation today, they Yollow the same glorious banner, together fighting and dying under its macred folds for American honor and for the '\llmlfllll(’ of the race.”’—Speech in the Coliseum, st present or to Louis, Mo., October 14, 1598, Calamity and disaster, re all that Bryan finds to talk about. Com- of the agitation come, McKinley has noted other thin paro these words with Bryan's: ““We have grown from a little more than three millions of people to seventy-five millions. We have become the greatost agricultural_and manufacturing nation of the world. We have been making progress at rapld strides in all the arts of peace. We have a nation from whose history we We can study it with can look back with- n and forward with Speech at Clinton, pride and profit. out regret or humiliat! hope and confidenc 1L, October 15, 1598, Y “\We are a most fortunate people. We not only have a revival of atriotism among the people, but we have @ return of prosperity to the country. Our business conditions are good at home and our trade f8 good abroad. The producer has mora and better consumers than he had a few years ago. That {8 bscause the b of the country has been restored. tories and the shops and the great pro- s are again at work, 80 that you have consumers at home as well as abroad. We sold lust vear to_urope more than we bought of Burope. Wae sent mora American products to the old world, Produced and made in the United States by our own lubor, than we ever sent ouat of the country in ‘any year In all our histos and ‘more than three-fourths of our ex- portations came from the fields and farms of the United States'—Speech at Arcola, 11L., October 15, 1898, Why should any considerable number of American people give heed to the office- secking demagogue who is trying to excite disconitent and dissatisfaction when every intelligent man knows that the patriotic words of McKinley have in no way exag- gerated the loyalty of the army, the pa- tridtism of the great masses of the people and the abounding prosperity of all? We have a great country and a great president anfl why should we listen with patience to a man who tells us we will be robbed ot our property, deprived of our liberty and reduced by militarlsm and plutocracy to abject serfdom it we do not vote for him? disturbed, a condition which ought to be| the ultimate result of a system of govern- | ment which promotes a high average of| popular intelligence. Two Grades of alts. Washington Post. Mr. Bryan continues to claim that the republican party insults the laboring man when 1t talks of the full dinner pail. Yet it is hardly as Insulting as the free soup house, Shooting Power of Clvillzatlo Philadelphie North American. { Reports of hostilities in China bear re- markable resemblance to some of the Span- | ish accounts of battles In Cuba. In a recent| “battle” with Boxers a detachment of German marines killed 200 of the enmemy, and not a German was killed or wounded. Some fofernal work is going on in China. Some Muddled Answers, Fortland Oregonian. “How can you buy the right to govern people or Becure title to them by force?” is one of Bryan’s Wilmington questlons. Transter of sovercignty, then, by conquest or purchase, is inyalld, and we bave no title to two-thirds of the United Statep. What becomes, moreover, of Mr. Bryan's support of the treaty of Paris? Battalions Interested, w York Tribune, Bryan's campaign oratory is more inter- esting to the Filipinos than to his country- men. They think that if he is elected the American troops will be withdrawn the next day, and the islands handed over to the | tslanders, to do what they like with, free from any outside interfereuce. That Is the promise which they find in his speeches, having yet to discover that they are but wind floating the chaff of all sorts of absurd doctrines and proclamations, to be shut off presently and silenced, it may be hoped, for good and all. AR nctis Tell the Story. St. Paul Ploneer Press 'here has been a vast expenditure of argument about the respective merits of protection and free trade. But experience is the best test. We have tried both in the United States. Protective tariffs have been in”operation in fifty-two of the 110 years since the adoption of the constitution, and during those Afty-two years exports ex- ceeded imports by more than $2,600,000,000, while during the fifty-eight years in which low tariffs were in operation imports ex- ceeded exports by $500,000,000. These facts tell the whole story. _— Famine Worse Than War. Philadelphia Ledger. According to the figures given by the viceroy of India, & rough estimate of the cost of the famine in that country would not fall short of $500,000,000. And this s only the first cost, for 2,000,000 people are still receiving relief, and milllons more must be helped to restock thelr farms and be fed until they can reap their new crops, The famine has been equal to devastating but such & war would mean peace in the contending countries for at least a generation, whereas there Is no security that tire famine will not occur again in a year or two. In fact, history teaches us to expect it in less than a decade, though, per- haps, not in 80 severe a form. nw the Historlo Wreeok. Philadelphia Ledger, Governor General Wood has been au- thorized to ralse the wreck of the Maine, a will, doubtless, lose no time in setting about the work, as the vessel ls settling in the mud, and the task of recovering it is becoming more difficult on this account. General Wood was quoted the other day as saying that it would probably be found im- possible to raise the wreck as a whole, and in that case it must be removed piecemeal There will bo Jess sentiment in this tba there would be in the recovery of the de- stroyed vessel in a shape that would admit of its preservation, but its fragments will still be avallable for relics. Besides, the main object now is not sentiment, but business; the wreck must be removed be- cause it is an obstruction in the path of commerce. Musterlng Out the Volangeers. Indianapolis Journ From military headquarters at San Fran- cisco comes the announcement that the first installment of returning volunteers from the Philippines will leave Manila November 1 and from that time until next June they will return at the rate of from 4,000 to 5,000 a month to the aggregate number of about 25,000. On their arrival at San Francisco they will be mustered out. Of course this movement takes place by order of the pres- fdent, In compliance with the law, which limits the term of enlistment of the volun- teers to July 1, 1901, It is a very effective answer to the silly talk about imperialism. By the first of next July all of the volun- teers now in the Phillppines will have been mustered gut, the only troops retained there being regulars, and the regular army will revert to its old number. This is American but they bave refused to bvcvuTu heated or | militarism, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Come to think of it, Hobson’s mouth got Lim into trouble before. Conger will now proceed to talk straight United States to Li Hung Chang. In a few days more hot-air socteties will glve way to lobster club functions, Political jokes in Montana, if given a coppery tint, command $1,000 each. 8o the envious opposition assar i The Baltimore American announces with- out qualification, “This republic is safe.” There 18 a prophecy to bank on. Although the coal strike is practically come. ‘Wi Hwa, second son of the king of Korea, 1s tions. military academy, democratic ticket in Massachusetts. haps he does not live up to his name. tion. saved 494 lives In eight months, diminish- ing to that extent cheap; mits suicide. Since the allled army in- cépt under pressure. Bishop McLaren of Chicago si recent interview: | or cease to be a first-class power. A na- never become & victim of power."” In recognition of the eminent services he has rendered to the cause of sclentific exploration the British government pre- of the Challenger Reports. He cost running up to several hundred pounds. Owing to some friction between street rallway people and the coroner of Allegheny City, Pa., the far-seeing city council orders that trolley cars be equipped with jackscrews for use in lifting the trucks from the bodles of people. This humane measure facilitates the work of the coroner. 18 CAMPAIGNING OVERDONE? Some Reflections on the Special-Train Style of Stumping. New York Mall and Express. In some future age of the republi¢, more enlightened, and, let us hope, more digni- fled than our own, the student of historical curiosities will read with amazement and compassion of the physical ordeals to which American citizens subjected the can- Qidates for thelr favor, When he learns from credible accounts how wearied and husky-voiced men with mortal nerves and throats were hurried from place to place, with no more comsideration than it they were traveling marionette shows; how with littlo sleep and inadequate rest they were forced by a barbarous tradition to make innumerable speeches every day and week after week, meanwhile submitting their bauling of curlous mobs until they re- quired the mssiduous sttention of phys! cians and nurses, he will conclude, with & distinguished e generatlon were “'a violent people.” Is this modern parlor-car style of cam- gning worth the whileY Probably not, ve us & frce exhibition, The American public in the closing weeks of the presi- dential campaign, &8 in the closing weeks of preceding cAmpalgns, 18 watching the tours of its candidates with the same ap- palled, tascinated and breathbated interest with which it would watch a pugllistic ex- hibition or a six-day bicycle race. It realizes that, aside from the showman's ability at rough and ready repartee, the ziGet conspieuous feature of this dissoly- ing spectacle is the physical endurance of the rival orators. That the strain under which they are laboring has in it a real danger, and that it might concelvably dis quality them from ever flling the ofices for which they have been designated, adds a certain savage zest to the performance. 1t glves plquancy to the gauntlet-running tbat Mr, Stevenson is breaking in health, that Governor Roosevelt is in the hands of his physician, and that a tralned nurse massages Mr, Bryau and anoints him with alcohol after every extended vocal effort. Popular enthusiasm needs only the ap- pointment of bottle-holders to become un- controllabl The whole institution has to much the ~ sl of & clrcus, George B. McClellan w over, the coal barons will continue strik- ing the consumers for several months to in this country to study our institu- He is a graduate of a Japanese Politics makes strange bedfellows: There is a Colonel Drinkwater spouting for the Per- The talkative person who controls the cable at Shanghal might hire a special train and by flying over the country re- store his prestige and regain public atten- Chicago computes that its drainage canal the grip of typhoid. This is a remarkable and gratifying show- ing for a city where life is considered very It is said that when a Chinaman desires to wreak vengeance upon an enemy he com- vaded the Flowery Kingdom very few of the natives have lived up to the rule—ex- fn a “If 1 judge this coun- try by other countries, it must either grow tion capable of legitimate expansion can illegltimate sented Dr. Nunsen with a fifty-volume set is the first single indlvidual to receive them, their the limbs at every station to the pulling wnd resident, that we of this 10WA CONGRESSMEN, Inflnenee of the State at Washington and the Reason for It. Chicago Tribune. Towa 18 ono of those states whose voters have long appreciated the unwisdom of rotation in office as regards senators and representatives. To its reluctance to mak changes in the men it sends to Washington lowa owes its great influence In the sen- | ate, where Senator Allison has sat for thirty-seven years, and in the house, more because of the risk they took, and that we have not the right to exerciss the option which they calculated on? | Now, as it would be inevitable that sil ver dollars would go down (o their com mercial value if our mints were opened to | their free and unlimited coiuage at the ratio of 18 to 1, Brvan would at once charge that this unavoidable effect of eco. nomic law was the result of a conspiracy | on the part of our forelgn and domestic of | Creditors, and then would pay the interest which Speaker Henderson has been a mem- | 814 principal of our coin bonds in thess ber since 1882, The lowa republicans, Jong-continued custom, taithful to their have renominated depreciated silver dollars. He denies in ad vance that that would be repudiation, just the greenbackers denfed that it would eight of the eleven representatives whom | P repudiation to pay our bonds n green they elected in 1898, They would also have renominated Mr. Dolliver, had he not been promoted to the senate, a deserved recognition of his abilities, and Mr. Me- Pherson in the Ninth district, it he had not resigned (o accept a seat on the federal bench. Of the eight men who are candidates for re-election there are some who have been in public life so long and have ac- quitted themselves so well there that a fallure to return them to the house, of | which, happily, there is no fear, would be a misfortune for that body and the state they have served. the next houso it the republicans are in the majority; Colonel Hepburn, chairman of the committee on foreign and inter- state commerce, who has served In seven congresses; Mr. Hull, who entered the house in 1891, and is chalrman of the com- mittes on military affair Mr. Lacey, chairman of the committee on public lands, who has served In five congresses, and Mr. Cousins, who took his seat in 1803 and soon won a high reputation as a de- bater and orator. Mr. Hedge in the First district, Mr. Haugen in the Fourth and Mr. Thomas in the Eleventh were elected in 1898 for the first time. They have not had so much experience as their colleagues, but their records In the present congress have been 50 satls! it has been decided to keep them where they are. In the Tenth district, which Senator Dol- liver used to represent, J. P. Connor has been nominated. He is a lawyer of ability Wwho was circuit judge for some years. In the Ninth district Walter L. Smith, who has been circuit judge for ten years, has been chosen to succeed Mr. McPherson. The Second district is the one which the democrats pretend they‘are going to carry. TWwo years ago it gave a republican plural- ity of 1,262. It should give in this presi- dn'ntlll year a larger plurality. Mr. J. N W. Rample, the republican candidate, who has lived in the district nearly all his lite and who hag served repeatedly in the state leglslature, 1s & popular man and will make & good representative, The indications are that the Iowa dele- gation will be unanimously republican. It certainly will be one of the strongest dele- gations in the house. —— POLITICAL PESSIMISM. Samples of the Stam Heated Popocrat Washington Post, years ago, when General the democratic presidential candidate {n opposition to Abra- bam Lincoln for a second term, August Bel- mont chalrman of the democratic national committee. He was an effcient chairman and a man of strict integrity, but he blundered, as many & good man bad by fore and many other good men have since his time, in his opinion of present condi- tlons and their bearing on the future of this country of ours. Speaking to the people of New York In the heat of that one-sided campalgn, he said: “With you, under a benignant Proyldence, it rests to determine by your votes bn the 8th of November the death or life of the noblest republic ever established among men." The people defeated McClellan, elected Lincoln, and no democrat held the presiden- tial office in the twenty years following that campaign. But the republic lived right along. The war was not “a fallure.” O. H. P. Belmont, & son of August, and, like his father, a gentleman of high charac- ter and great wealth, is a democratic candi- date for congress in & New York City dis- trict. He said, In a speech delivered a few evenings ago: “I in no way exaggerate the situation when I say the very existence of this republic turns on this election.” Thirty-four years hence that dismal esti- mate of the virility of this republic will, In all probabllity, be as completely discredited by events as that of August Belmont in 1864 18 {n 1900, The United States has a hardy constitution. It also has a happy way of confounding political pessimists. H CAN'T SMOKE HIM OUT, he One Question Bryan Persistently Evades. 8t. Paul Ploneer Press. Mr. Bryan stewdfastly refuses to answer the question whether, it elected, ho would pay our coln bonds in silver dollars. But he had already answered it. Many a time during and after the campaign of 1896 he sald what he said in his campaign speech to the business men of Chicago, and which is embodied in his book, “The First Battle” This is what he said “And then I propose that we shall say to our forefgn creditors that we intend to pay our cofn obligations in either gold or silver. I propose that we shall say to them: ‘Gentlemen, if you conspire to make that silver dollar worth less than the gold dol lar, we shall pay you in that silver dolla You say that that is repudiation. I deny it, They bought our bonds only a short time ago and they made a difference between coln bonds and gold bonds, charging for the risk they took, and now let thém have the risk which they charged for. Do you by Thirty-six Among these are | Speaker Henderson, who will preside over | tory to their constituents that | | ghance ex me glttin®a job in' de legls: backs when they were worth 40 cents on the dollar. But here we have his answer to the question to which he now declines to glve response. He not only made that answer in a carefully prepared speech, but that there should be no doubt about the deliberate fixity of his purpose he put it in his book, and there it stands out on page 587 of his “First Battle a perpetual witness to the reckless dishonesty and financial imbectlity of the man who as- pires to the presidential office mainly for the purpose of carrylng out the pollcy of national dishonor. FUN WITHOUT FRILLS, Detroit Free Press: “What kind man is Duffer?” “Oh, he's the kind that other’ man wooden leg of a would ask ar ,how much he paid for his Chicago Tribune: 1ghbor—Your wite, | am told, has lost ‘a valuable plece of property through the rascality of an agent low does she bear 1t? Mr. Meeks—She bears it manfully Detrolt Journal eyes are not atro “In what way “Well, T believe sha can't pry with them as she used.” ‘8he complains that her 1§ any more.’ Pittsburg Chronlcle: They we o at a spelibinder's porirait, ) ore 10okIng “His mouth s quit Mr. Manchester " added Mr., Birmingham, his visible means of support.” prominent.” sald “that Is Chicago Record: “Can I get a word with can ge' a word easy enouglh, but vou'd better arrarge for somebody call you out when you want to get away Judge: City Nephew—What do you think of Dr. Plllsbury as a physician? Farmer Hayroob—Safest doctor anywhera in this part ‘of the county-—nearly always oft fishin’ when he's wanted. Atlanta Constitution: “Marse Tom." satd the colored constituen I8 dey anv dis term?" 1 don't know mo’, turs gits!" what do you expect?" ih, dan de yuther legisla- Chicago News: “If | was Loulse I'd be member t she has eye maple. of the Audubon elub her bedroom fitted out In Chicago Post: “Well, sir,’ sald the slangy "he made me look like thirty cents ™ ou ought not to complain about that it was an fmprove t." ‘What do you mean “Ordinarily you look like a nickel." Philadelphia Press: Miss Kidder-Thev say young Mrs. Prettyman is & qulet Iittle home-loving woman, but 1 happen t4 know that she enjoys herself most when her husband goes away on a business trip. Miss Gaussip—-Aha! T know it! 1 always did_suspect there was something wrong there. Miss Kidder—You'ro mistaken. Bhe goes away with him, that's all. PLAY F. Bay, “Teddy!" you're not playing fair! 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