Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAIL Y BEE: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31, 1900 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE‘ ROUBEWATE (T Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. S, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Boe (without Bunday), One Year.$8. Dally Bso and Sunday, One’ Year Tllustrated Bee, One Year....... Bunday Bee, One Year....... Baturaay Bee, Ong Year.. Weekly Bee, One Year.... OFFICES. Omaha: Tha Bee Bullding. P Bouth Omanai City Hail Bullding, Twen- ty-0fth and N Rtreet Councll Blufts. 10 Pearl Street, Chicago:. 1640 Unity Bullding W Temple Court. Washington: §0) Fourteenth Street. Bloux City: 811 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. e Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Kditorial Department. BURINESS LETTERS ” Business lettern and remittances should be addressed: The HBee Publishing Com: vany, Omaha REMITTANCES. o Remit by draft, express or postal order, payabie to T e "Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stampn accepted in payment mail accounta, Fersonal checks, eXcenl o Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not acc THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, #8.. = George 1. huick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn, says that the actual numper of full an complete coples of The 1 aily, Morning Fvening and Sunday Mee printed auring the ent ember, 1900, was 1 menth of Beptember, 5 0 i ......... 816,030 . 11,822 Net total sales ...804,60% Net daily average .. ... | 20820 GEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. Bubscribed |n"n\r:' pr”"“l‘]" ?nd hl'ul’Au |\;| oo this %th day of September, ) fiagyre me this Mth dag oL RUNGALE: Notary Public. Total Lens unsold and returned coples. Register Saturday. Last chance, e— 1t will all be over In & week except the shouting. It Bryan does not stop “setting New York on fire" the great Empire state 18 likely to be entirely consumed. The time bas arrived in the campaign when Bryan should take a duy off and Investigate the toboggan to see if any nails are in it If the talk of a full dinner pail is an insult to the workingman, most of them prefer to be insulted with a full pall than with an empty one. It the powers continue to demand the execution of Prince Tuan that worthy will begin to Inquire every morning whether his head is on straight. 12 Dr. Bryan falled so signally four years ago to diagnose the politi- cal case what assurance have the people that he Is any nearer correct in 10007 E— Nebraska farmers will not have to burn corn for fuel this year. McKinley prosperity bas opened the market for every bushel of the bumper corn crop at prices seldom before equaled. A difference of $52,253,605.84 in the value of Nebraska's four leading ce- reals between prosperity and demo- cratic prices is an indication that the tarmer Is getting something out of it. Every republican candidate for the leglslature stands pledged to favor fra- ternal Insurance soclieties. All reports to the contrary are untrue and gotten up In the interest of the fusion legisla- tive ticke 4 European pations seem to view the coming of President Kruger much like the call of a poor relation. They do uot desire to snub him, but would much prefer he would not Insist upon sitting In the parlor. WESeere—— A man in Kentucky has been killed by & companion for taking a drink out of a bottle of whisky and filling it up again with water. The dead man must have been either a stranger in Kentucky or extremely reckless, When popocrats tell the farmer that he {8 not getting his share outof the present prosperity just show them that Nebraska's corn crop of 1000 alone s worth $38,700,684.32 more than the same number of bushels were worth n 1896, The president's Tnanksgiving procla- matlon is out, recounting the many blessings of the past year for which our people have cause to be thankful. They will have one more reason added next week In the re-election of Presi- dent McKinley himself. The man who neglects to register dis- franchises himself. Vnder the law no one Is entitled to vote unless his name cppears on the reglstration books or he can prove he was unable to appear be- fore the registrars because of sickness or absence from the city. 18 1t that is being paid for emissarles of the self-styled “Re- publican League” to distribute libelous circulars throughout Douglas county? No republican in Omaba s willing to admit that he is in any way connected with this. league, which has no exist- ence outside of a little coterie of politi- bushwhackers who lack conrage to tight In the open. Edgar Howard sized Ransom up right when he last worked his way into the legislature under pretense of being a so-called silver republican, campaign. Howard calls him a traitor, utterly faithless to the pledges made by and for him in the [ sumers of If he proved a traltor in STILL IN MARKED CONTRAST. During the last national campaign we pointed out the marked contrast be tween the utterances of the democratic and republican presidential candidates We then sald: “On the one hand is a man seeking the bLighest office In the gift of t Awerican people fostering sectional feeling and class prejudice, { appealing to the baser instincts of men | and Ingting ene element of the people to hostility againkt another element | man who panders to popular discon- | tent and to unreasoning passion. On the other hand 1s a presidential candi | date who is proud of his country and zealous of Its honor, who has faith in the intelligenc and integrity of his countrymen and who knows no section alism and recognizes no class distine tlons.” The contrast is no less striking now than it was then. At Alllance, O., thete was a repub- lican mass meeting Monday, incidental to which was the dedication of a great manufacturing bullding. President McKinley, in response to an invitation to attend the weetlng, sent a letter, n the course of which he said: “Amer1- can labor and capital working hand In hand are of mutugl advantage and triendly co-operation will secure indus- trial trlumphs as yet unknowu. [ have no sympathy with those teachings which incite envy and hatred amoug our people and would divide them iuto hostile eamps.” This I8 the utterance of an American citizen who owes lis political success to an earnest and con- stant devotion to the Interests and wel fare of the whole people. There fs in the public record of William McKinley not a single instance of an appeal to clase feeling or an effort to incite envy and hatred among the people. In dis cussing principles and policies he hag uniformly appealed to the reason and patriotism of his countrymen. A union soldier, no man has done more to ef- face sectionalism, A leading champion of the pollcy of protection, no one has done more to develop American indus- tries and benefit American labor. To- day his faith in the Intelligence, In- tegrity and patriotism of the people is as strong as It ever was, while his so- licitude for the honor and glory of his country is undiminished William J. Bryan, on the other hand, has wade his political capital by ap- pealing to class prejudice and inciting envy and hatred among the people. His speeches In congress upon the tariff question were filled with denunciations of men of means and managers of capi- tal. The poor were constantly con- trasted with the rich, the debtor with the creditor. In the last national campaign the class appeal was heard in nearly every one of the hundreds of &fecches of the democratic candidate. He Is doing the same thing in the present cam- paign. He seeks to array workmen against employers, and to Impress labor with the belief thht there is a consplracy against its rights. In some respects his teaching is more incen- diary than It was four years ago. Such are the characters of the demo- cratic and republican presidential candidates. One an agitator who can see nothing in his country of today that is good. The other a statesman who is proud of his country's greatness and glory. Who can doubt which 18 the better man to be entrusted with the administration of the affalrg of this great nation? Democrats may in theory favor free speech, but In practice they are the only ones who have denied it during the present campaign. Democratic orators have gone the length und breadth of the land preaching the gos- pel of "discontent undisturbed, but re- publican speakers have been insulted and interfered with In several In stances. Sueh actlons are but the legitimate sequence of the doctrines preached by Bryan in his effort to ar- ray class against class. 1THE CANADIAN CAMPAIGN. While American fnterest is wholly centered in our own national campaign, there is a political contest going on in Canada, which will be decided next ‘week, the result of which will not be entirely without Iuterest to our people, due to the fact that the tariff 1s the mala issue in the campaign. The lib- eral par in control of the govern- ment for the last four years, made ma- terial alterations in the tariff, with a view to reducing it to a revenue basis. At the same time the liberal govern- ment, as an evidence of its desire to stimulate jnter-imperial trade, made a provision that Great Britain aud her colonies should obtain a preference un- der this tariff, which now allows Brit- 1sh {mports a discount of 33 1-3 per cent from the tarlff chaiges levied on imports from all other countries. The forelgn trade of Canada has increased rapidly during the last four years and the liberals claim that by placing on the free list wany raw materials formerly dutiable they have brought within the margin of profitable trade much that before could not have been attempted. The conservative party favor the policy of a return to the higher protec- tion of the previous administration and in addition the adoption of a recip- rocal poliey with Great Britain by which the home country is to put an import duty on all foodstuffs but those of her colonles. If this policy should win and be put into effect, which seems wholly improbable, the foodstuffs of Canada would have a preference over those of the Uaited States, in the matter of tarlff in the British market, while higher duting would be levied upon our manufactured products imported into Canada. Thus, it is assumed, both the Canadian farmer and manufacturer would be benefited, though obviously the British manufacturers and the con- foodstuffs In the United Kingdom would derive no advantage 1807 there Is every reason to believe [ from such au arrangement. he would prove just a the legislature of 1901, 3 treacherous in Apparently American trade interests wculd be best conserved by the suc- s of the liberal party, for although that party has given British manufac- turers so great a preference in its tariff it appears not to have wate rially affected our trade with Cavada and %o long as tariff rates ave not in creased we shall probably maintain that trade, which has attained to large proportions. The fact that Canada has been prosperous under the existing fis- cal system and that the liberal gov rnment Las on the whole wade a creditable record--mukes it probable that the liberal party will win the election, but should the conservatives be successtul it 1s hardly possible that the tariff policy they advocate could be carried out. ——— PROSPERITY OF FRATERNALS. While Bryanite candidates ave making a pretense of solicitude for the welfare of the fraternal insurance socleties, in order to curry favor with their member- ship, it 18 well for every person having an Interest in fraternals to remember that the prosperity of these organiza- tlons I8 due almost exclusively to the beneficent republican policles put in force by President McKinley. Four years ago the fraternal insur- ance socleties were suffering, along with all other business institutions, with threatened decrease in membership and inabllity of members to pay thelr dues, They went through the storm and stress period which only the more sub- stantial were able to weather success- fully and their recovery was stimulated only by the restoration of confidence and financial stabllity to the entire country. So far as local state legislation is con- cerned, the fraternals bave always had the favor and support of the republican legislators. Republican laws have not only encouraged their growth, but safe- guarded the members and established standards for the protection of sound fraternal institutions against wildeat insurance schemes masking under the fraternal name. What every friend of fraternal insur- ance wants in the way of legislation Is such enactments as will strengthen pub- lic confidence in these organizations by enforcing reasonable protection for policy holders against mismanagement and possible fraud. . Above all things, the fraternal insur- ance socleties can only prosper when the country Is prosperous and people are employed. Four more years of re- publican prosperity would mean so much to these organizations that every member of a fraternal insurance so- clety would cousult his own personal interest by not alone veting but exert- ing his active Influence for the repub- lican candidates for every office on the ticket. Just imagine what & howl would have been raised by the popocratic Fakery had a republican county attorney vol- unteered the opinion written by Mr. Shields that ail the inmates of the county hospital and poor farm were eligible to be voted by the superintend- ent and his attendants, How they would shriek about the fraud and de- claim against coerciol When insane people and paupers are voted by the fusionists, however, it is perfectly proper and legitimate in the eyes of the Bryanite organ. Later reports from the explosion in New York City prove that the victims were more scared than hurt. This does not, however, lessen the value of the incldent as a warning against the storing of large quantities of explosives in the midst of populous city neighbor- hoods. By the way, Omaha's explosive inspection ordinance might be revived with good results before Omaha is af- flicted with another catastrophe of this character. — Every one admits that the republican legislative ticket Is committed to the candidacy of Edward Rosewater for United States senator; it 1s also equally conceded that the candidates on the fusion legislative ticket are committed to the candidacy of G. M. Hitchcock for United States senator. The cholce Is between a Rosewater delegation and a Hitcheock delegation, with no middle ground. —— ‘While on the subject of treaties Gov- ernor Poynter might take a little time to explain the treaty of Beatrice and the clause under which he consented that a man whom he had pronounced unfit for the place should remair until a certain time and then have claims allowed for money which had been ex- pended without authority of law. The Bee's suggestion of a “close of the century ball,” on the order of that projected in Kansas City, 1s to be taken up as a means of adding to the auditorfum fund. A great many people would contribute to the auditorium through this channel who could not be reached by any other means, General Fitz Hugh Lee is to be the new commander of the Department of the Missourl, with headquarters at Omaha. He may be sure in advance of a cordial welcome by all the people of this city, who admire his patriotie response to the call to duty In the late Spanish war. Ewployes of the Beatrice asylum will please be considerate und not make any fuss when the new superintendent cuts off their political heads. Resist- ance will only serve to wake a scenc, but will not affect the result, to Talk Amain ashington Post There is $4561,477,404 In yellow boys piled up in the United States treasury. No wonder Mr. Bryan doesn't talk silver New York Tribune. The anti-expansionists make a great ado against keeping the Philippines, on the ground that to do sa will cost more than it will ever pay. And then, when It is shown that the islands will be valuable and highly profitable, they roll up their eyes in ere reprobation of the |n|'u|(y of tak- ing the islands for the sake of unhallowed gain. As Sam Weller would say, “Wot a perwerse creetur it is!" A Proaperity Sign. Philadelphia Times Considering the great number of wagers being made, to say the nation is becoming no better In this respect depends on how it 1s looked at Prosperity in the South. Savannah News With one of two more 10-cent cotton years we will be In a position to lend Russia, Austria and Germany all the cash they need 10 carry out their expensive policies. How- ever, when they come for it they must be ture their collateral is gilt-edged They'll Hand Him One. New York Mafl and Express What are the American people likely to do with a presidential candidate who re- peatedly declares that thelr government is a disbonest one, that their flag represents an army of oppressors and that they are holding .territory that doesn't belong to them? —— Frowning on Rag Tim Brooklyn Eagle. New orders to the army require that shall be no more playing of “Bowery by regimental bands. What are Bow- ery airs? Is “A Hot Time" one of them? It wo, reverse the order, quick. Because that stirs more enthusiasm in camp than Handel's Largo or the allegretto from the Seventh symphony Absurdity of Coerclon Cries. Kansas Clty Star. It a Bryan man asserts that he marches in a republican parade to hold his job the fact that he displays a Bryan banner and shouts through a megaphone that he is forced to march proves that he did not turn out to hold his job. If he would be dlscharged for refusing to march surely to march and tell everybody that he is coerced i¢ worse by far than refusing to fall in line. The obvious fact Is that the man who ehouts that he has to march or lose his Job does so for the purpose of buefiting his own party. Certalnly no em- ployer of labor who is interested in (he success of the republican ticket would want to bring men into a parade shouting that they are Bryan men who have been forced to march An Affectionate v J. Sterling Morton's Conservative. During the great parade in New York Clty, when Tammany gave its boisterous and resplendent reception to Colonel Bryan, the picture of Croker and the colonel sit- ting hand In hand side by side, during the long, triumphant march through the streets of the great metropolls, was pathetic and touching 10 the utmost degree. Colonel Bryan did not forget in his speech to com- pliment Croker and his Christian custom as to raising revenues from the vices of New York, when he said: “Great is Tammany and Croker fs its prophet.”” This merited tribute from one reformer to another re- former ought to be embalmed in the mem- orles of all goody-goody people who love Mr. Bryan because of his utter horror and in- tense repugnance to everything like vice or criminality. Honors Well De d. Philadelphia Record. Secretary Hay's investiture with the de- gree of a doctor of law and letters by the Unlversity of Princeton, was more than a perfunctory ceremony. Secretary Hay (or should one rather say Doctor Hay?) has earned the distinction by right of excellence in literature as well as in the most diM- cult branch of jurisprudence—the practical application to the affairs of a great govern- ment of the law ‘of nations. Becretary Hay's early poetic Musions in dialect are trifies, though popular; but the ‘“‘Life of Lincoln,” written in conjunction with nico- lay is & monumental and enduring work. The University of Tilnceton has as mdch reason to feel honored by the enrollment of Becretary Hay among its learned doctors as has that official in being made the re- ciplent of its favor. —_— Uncle Sam an un Assimilator, New York Tribune. Ten years' immigration, according to the census returns, counts up nearly 4,000,000, almost 1,000,000 more than the entire popu- lation of the nation at its birth, a cen tury and a quarter ago. The increment is absorbed in the mass of our immense popu- Iation, mow numbering 76,000,000, and in normal industrial times there is nothing oppressive or burdensome in the inflow. The most useful classes come from all lands—thoso with the most work in them— and they help to enrich the country which glves them bread and refuge. Their chil- dren are born with privileges of citizenship and drink in patriotism with their natal alr. On the whole the Immigrant keeps his end up very well and does little to make his incoming unwelcome, profuse as the census tables make It out to be. UNIQUE CAMPAIGN METHODS, Features More Practical Th taresque in ence. Chicago Record It is refreshing to read that the repub- licahs of Indiana held a grand barbecue at Logansport one day last week, at which twenty-eight beeves were fed to the hungry multitude. The barbecue is not yet extinct in Indiana and Kentucky, where the con- sumption of “burgoo” still lends poetry to the campalgn. The picturesque side of po- ltical campalgning has been changing rap- 1dly of late years. InnoVatlons are creep- ing {a and the -pectacular features of a few years ago have well nigh vanished. Even the joint debate between opposing candidates, which reached the height of its importance In the historical Lincoln- Douglas series and was for years of fun- damental consequence In its political value, has almost completely lapsed from service. 80 little Is it considered that the challenge of Senatof Pettigrew to Senator Hanna that they should meei on the same platform in South Dakota and the ignoring of it by the challenged party attracted little at- tention. Not many years ago such indif- ference would have been taken as a con- tesalon of weakness and would have worked definite Injury to the party involved It is not far to look back to the days of “wideawakes” and the torchiight proces- slons in every town and city. Thousands of men were marching night after night when the campalgns were warm, wearing shoulder straps and soldier caps of gor- geous oflcloth, Intended to shed the drip- pings of the kerosene from the rough and leaky tin torches. The same energy was devoted to careful drill of these compa- nies that military organizations demand In order to assure symmetry in the lines of light and the maneuvers through which the torchbearers went. Crack marching clubs went from city to city to share in great night parades. The rail eplitting, 10g cabin, bard eider campaigns are part of the national history marked by pecu- Marly picturesque qualities, but they are out of the memory of the younger voters The most nuteworthy coutribution of re- cent campalgus to picturesque methods of electioneering is the “rear platform can- vass." The special train tour of the ener- getlc candidate, bringing him into touch with hundreds of thousands of voters, Is justly named as & saccessor to some of he abandoned practices. To it may be added the vaudeville shows circulating in the west in the interest of some of the candidates and the use of lantern slides moving plctures, megaphones, phono- graphs, kites, multitudinous badges and the “full dinner pail” emblem before the lst {s exhausted. It is now the practical, however, rather than the pictuiesque that rules. OMAHA, Oct. 30.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 have been requested by some of my republican friends to give expression to my views as to the duty of republicans in the coming election with reference to our leglslative ticket It seems to me there can only be ono unswer to the question, viz., that it is the duty of every republican to vote for the twelve republican nominees. 1 fully appreciate the fact that there was considerdble feellug in the late | primaries and conventjon. I supported the | ticket that wis defeated and had I been in | the convention 1 weould have voted for the defeated candidates, but now that the con- vention is over and my friends have been defeated I shall as earnestly support the gentlemen who were nominated as I should have expected them to support my candi- dates If they had been successful. It has been sald in this campalgn that even If Mr. Bryan should be elected presi- dent no harm could befall the money ques- tion, for the reason that the senate would remain republican. Let us see whether or not that is true. There are now ffty-two sound money uenators in the senate. Kighteen of these &0 out of office March 4, 1901, Ten of the eighteen are {rom atates which Mr. Bryan will surely carry it he carries the country, which would reduce the sound money sena- tors to forty-two, giving the sil¥®r men forty-six. Thus the political complexion of the semate would be changed. If, how- ever, we stand solidly together and elect a republican legislature in Nebraska and thus secure the two senators from this state these, together with our certainty of carrylog Wyoming, would still give us the control of the United States senate. If Ne- braska be lost, under the circumstances above indicated, it must be clear to anyone who will give the matter serious considera- tion that Mr. Bryan would have the United States senate with him to ald In carrying out his determination to abolish the gold standard and adopt his 16 to 1 fallacy. Two years ago the republicans had & majority of eleven in joint session in the Nebraska legislature, which was after- ward increased to thirteen. Of this num- ber Schaible of Richardson county was elected by a majority of 2, Hastings of The Real As the days go by and as Mr. Bryan con- tinues to make his talks to the people he Is revealing more and more his lsner selt. It is clear that he has never in his lite learned any discipline. It s safe to say that as he telegraphed that unless 16 to 1 was put in the Kansas Chy platform he would not be a candidate; so In his child- hood he was wont to threaten his mother that unless he could have a section from the ple that she had saved for company he would eat no breakfast. He won the 16 to 1 trick by his insist- ence, just as he got the pie. He went out into the world with a belief that he could win anything else that he coveted by a like insistence. Hence he has never been thorough. He studied law, but he never comprehended the sclence. The thought that perfect governmeat is but the crystal- lization ol the exact rules of justice on which the science of the law was founded never once entered his mind. Rather, his thought was that law in its daily applica- tion was but a game to be won by the most adroit player. . ‘The great underiving principles which, as applied by the masters, give vitality and scope and majesty to the constitution of the United States, prescribing the preroga- tives and limitations of executive and lggislative power, he never once obtained a mental glimpse of, and now when he mouths the constitution he does it as did the false oracles of old when from the flight of eagles or the direction of the wind they essayed to dictate to mortals the will Fawcett to Republicans trench ourselves in & position which be- fore many years will make us the domi nating power in the finances, commerce and industry of the world These things Mr. Bryan may decry, argu- ing in opposition to them on the basia that they emanate from sordid motives which seek to elevate the dollar at the expenss of the man. They do nothing of the sort, and In opposing them Mr. Bryan opposes the interest of the nation whoss affairs he aspires to administer. Happiness is the alm of humen existence and that people is happlest which commands the opportunity and the means to secure in greatest quantfties those (hings which most conduce to happiness. Wealth, prop- erly employed and distributed, is essential and when capital seeks profit by extend- ing the scope of Its influence beneficent re sults must accrue to all classes. 1t the development of Manchuria and the es- tablishment of our commanding position In commerce and industry employment fs afforded to hundreds and thousands there will be no elevation of the dollar. Man will be the direct beneficiary. 1t, therefore, behooves all men who desire to better these conditions to vote to continue the present administration in Dodge county by a majority of 8 Hol- brook of the Tenth senatorial district by a majority of 4, Representative Smithber- ger of Wayne and Stanton by a majority of 24, Arends of the Third senatorial dis trict by a majority of 27, Semator Gifiert of the Seventh district by a majority of 46, Representative Evans of Adams by a wajority of 45, Representative Smith of Sa. line by & majority of 7 and five or six others by majorities ranging from 50 to 100. It will thus be s that eight of the senators and representatives were elected to the legislature by majorities of less than fifty votes. It the republicans of Douglas county had not succeeded in send- ing ten representatives to tke legislature at that time the fusionists would have had & clear majority on joint ballot. 1 have studied this matter very carefully and it seems to be absolutely necessary that the republicans of Douglas county sbould elect their legislative ticket in its entirety if they desire to control the elec- tion of the two United States senators next Salt Lake Tribune (sil. ‘winter, abllity give them control of the legisla ture and insure the election of two fusion. 18ts United States senators, of the dootrine of 16 to 1. In the light of these facts all personal feeling should be lost sight of for the good The gentlemen named by the republican convention, so of the common cause. far I know them personally, are all ca- pable and honorable gentlemen and after careful Investigation I am convinced that those on the ticket with whom I am mot personally acquainted are also competent and worthy. This boing true, the fact that they may prefer some man for United Btates senator other than the man of my cholce Is no justification for my opposing the ticket. I therefore assure you that everything I can honorably do for the elec- tion of the republican legislative ticket on the 6th of mext month will be done. Sin- cerely hoping that the republicans of old Douglas county may all get together and £nin & sweeping victory in the coming elec- tion, T am sincerely yours, J. FAWCETT Mr. Bryan rep.) of the immortal gods. He has never been a real student. No flashes of the sclences or classics ever {lluminate his speeches. He was a fallure as a lawyer; he then yed journallsm, with the bellet that his fund of language would meet all its requirements, and found within & month that he had no reserved forces to draw upon and was of course a failure. He tried and falled as a soldier. We do not mean that he failed on the battlefield, for he never had the opportunity to be tested n that crucible; we mean that his command lacked the discipline which he never had learned and that he so bore himself among the strong men and bril- liant officers who surrounded him that after a month no one, officer or private. ever for an instant thought that under any possible opportunities could he actually earn promotion. Tn the campalgn of 1896 he clung to a great principle as though he had the ex- clusive patent upon it and carrlied himself honorably to the end. This year he started in believing that he could work upon the sensibilities of the tender and appeal to the baser instincts of the depraved and dissatisfied and keep it up until he would in the old way get the ple, but the campaign has been too long and the certainty that the people are dis- counting him has its effect. Who thinks that any word he {8 now saying will be re- membered six months hence) fle went up Itke a rocket in a blaze of stars; he Is coming down llke a stick. A CAMPAIGN WITH A MORAL. Fellcitations on the Lack of Politiceul Excltement. Kansas City Star. The country has much cause (o felicitate itselt on the composure which it has en- Joyed during the presidential which is now nearly ended. There nothing like It in the history of the re- publie, though it is belleved that the vote will show that the interest in the issue involved is as great as it bas been in more excitable and spectacular contests, The chief cause for gratitude in connec- tion with the canvass has been its unusual freedom from vituperation. It may well be belleved that this has ceased, per- manently, from being a feature of national campaignp. The American people have passed beyond the stage where a successful appeal can be made to passion and prefudice. It is now futile to hold up as & rascal or a conspirator any man who can obtain from a party representing nearly half of the people the nomination for chief ex- ecutive of the government The advance of intelligence in the nation has exploded another fallacy which was formerly used with much effect fu political campaigos, and that is, that either party desires the destruction of republican in- stitutions or Is intent on establishing vicious rule in the land. The quietude of the country since the parties took the fleld to contend for the presidency means simply the attainment of the popular belief and surance that the people are fully equal to the government of tiemselves, that no party has the power or Inclination to subvert the constitution, and that no president would dream of using his authority to condemn himself to eternal gnominy by being falth- less to his high office So, as indicating the advancement of the American people, it has come to pass that the country has about completed & presi- dentlal canvass without the slightest dis- (urbance to its business interests and with more serenity than is often found in a rural community on the occasion of an election of Justice of the peace. o A MEN OF TODAY. They He Regarded as Much Greater n Cemtury Hencef Cleveland Leader. Edward Everett Hale calls attention to the fact that five of the first thirty names chosen for the Hall of Fame were those of former students of the old Boston Latin school, of which he was once a teacher Benjamin Franklin, Samuel V. B. Morse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher and Willlam M. Hunt. “One in six,” says the beloved old teacher, “ought to satisty even Latin school pride; and {his in o it which can afford (o leave out John Hancock, Henry Knox, Lathrop Motley, Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner.” The ola Latin school itself is clearly entitled to & hall of fame of its own, and not the least conspicuous wmong | its emblazoned names should be that of the venerable but ever youthful patriot who wrate “The Man Without & Country.’ In contemplation of this galaxy of uames, the immortals of one small school, the ques- tion: ome unbidden Are the schools and colleges of today turning out such men? and | \Why have we no Daniel Websters, Henry | Clays, Peter Coopers, and John Marshalls in {hese days? The colleges and achools are tugning out men fully s good, and the country today has as able leaders in all lines of action as it e Contrasts win are usually necessary to a realization of and some contrastd“are not fully A apparent until they are viewed from a dis- tance. In the days when the immortals of the Latin school were struggling with Virgil and Greek roots, Boston was practically the only center of learning In the country, and colleges were few. Only the boys of ex- ceptional promise were sent to them as students. Men with fluished educations were comparatively few, and their careers were made more brilllant by the contras The eountry was In its formative perio and great opportunitie The nation was smaller than it is now, and the men who arose to meet those opportumities shone the more conspicuously. Great crises develop great men. There were many crises between the time of Washirgton and the time of Lincoln, and many great men. The greater the time since they have passed away, the greater they seem. The patriots of the early days have assumed Homeric size, the great men of the civil war period seem merely great, while today the leaders are merely men. It was always so and always will be. A few hundred years hence history will shed an equal luster upon all. Today there iy a public school at almost every crossroad, a high school In almost every village, and colleges within reach of everybody. He is a highly endowed man, Indeed, who can shine among the army of finely educated men of today and win the admiration of the modernly educated people. The common requirements have become great. The country is In the midst of its material development, and in this task nearly all the force and intelll- gence of the nation are enlisted. Let the opportunity come, and there are a hundred men ready for it now where there was one fifty years ago. Let the emergemcy arise, and there will be men fit to meet it. RE OF AMERICAN FINANC Baltimore American, Vaster enterprises for the employment of American finance hinge upon the re- election of President McKinley than have ever before been presented for the con- sideration of American financiers. This is proved by a writer in the Philadelphia Press, who, while pledged to refrain from giving full details, is able to speak au- thoritatively in regard to stupendous schemes now contemplated. The announce- wents made in this city of great trai actions conditional upon McKinley's re- election, involving many millions of dol- lars are but mere shadows of what i actually in progress. Almost at one bound America leaped fnto commanding position as banker for the world; that position she will retain if our financlal system is not endangered and the re- sources of our finamciers are not destroyed. SufMcient Is known to make possible the assertion that after election Russia will it American finanelers are not In opposi- tion to it, ofter America the opportunity to finance the commercial and industrial development of all that part of Man- churla which 18 coutrolled by Russia. This means rallroads, public works. vast in- dustrial enteprises, limitless commer- cinl powsibilities snd inestimable profit to (he American capitalist and the labor- ers, upon whom capital must rely to con- summate the work it proposes to under- take. During the winter Germany, Rus- sla, Sweden and Japan are expected to come to the United States to borrow addi- tional millions and the guaranty s glven by conditions which are rapldly shaping 1f the fusionists should elect their ticket in this county it would in all prob- both of whom would unquestionably be advocates power. If Bryan is elected and the hands of our investors ure tled the common people will be the first to suffer, since it 18 impossible to change the laws which gov- ern the independence of capital and labor and since Iabor is the first to feel the effect of capital's reverse. Neither our liberties nor our republic are in d The people still rule and imperialism and militariem cannot mepace the forms and institution they control. The re-election of President-McKinley will equip invest- ors for reaching out and gathering in the profits they must share with the masses of the people. The opportunity fs un exampled and with' confidence in our fn- stitutions and a hope for individual and national betterment the masses of the people should rot hesitate in 8o voting that it may be lmproved to the uttermost PERSONAL POINTERS. Urited States Senator Jonathan Ross has been chosen president of the Vermont Bar ascociation. Candidate Woolley is not getting the show in the dispatches that the expense of a epecial train justifies. In some quarters the suspicion obtains that he has no show at all. W. T. Stead, the well known journalist, is of the opinion that nobody so burns the candle at both ends as the American bu ness man. “‘He ev hurries his sleep, says Mr. Stead Our old friend and admirer, Gener Weyler, of Cuba fame, appears to be popular fn Madrid as he was in Cuba. But public sentiment does not shorten his reach for office. Vermont continues to be a rural state. Judging from the census returns so far published it is the only state in the morth that does not contain a city with a popu- lation of 25,000 or more. Senator Frye of Maine and Benator Chandler of New Hampshire are both total abstainers, and Senator Chandler has been one of the chief movers in the application of his state's liquor laws. Winston Churchill, the novelist, began writing as soon as he graduated at Ao napolis in 1894, He then went on the staff of the Army and Navy Journal. His first story was published in the Century. Admiral Sampson's retirement in Febru ary will not break his family's connection with the navy, for he has three sons-in-law ~—Lleutenants Juckson and Roy Smith and Enpsign Cluverius—in the service, and his pon will probably enter the Naval academy next year. William P. Dillingham, the new United States senator from Vermont, has a cleanly cut face, with the rather sharp features characteristic of New England, a keen, firm expression and wears glasses. His mus- tache 1s drooping and gray and his hair is dark, with dashes of gray on the top ef his head and at the temples. Several life insurance companies are watching with great interest for daily news of John Wanamaker's condition. The ex- postmaster general has over a million on bis life, and is probably the most heavily insured person in the country. He has just undergone a surgical operation for the removal of a carbuncle and has not quite recovered, notwithstanding which he 1s making campaign speeches against Sen tor Quay. Hence the solicitude of imsur- ance companies POINTED REMARKS, Indlanapolis Press: Tommy-—Say, paw, what fs lese majeste? Mr. Impersonating & policeman. Chicago News: “Have you heard what college boyn call their best clothea?” "No; what do they call them?" Glad rage. " cDsuot Journal “hina's goose jecond Chrisl merely parbolled? Chicago Post: "I \no automobile coat." 1 don’t need one.” A y_not? “Oh, T really hi 1sn’t necessary f« Firat Christian Power ooked ! Power—Is it cooked or notice yhu have ve an automobile. so it me to put up & biuft" Philadelphia Pres « pay envelope)—Fait t's the stinglest man 1 ever worked for. Pat—Phwat's the matther wid ye; didn't ye git as much as ye ixpicted? Mlke—Yis, but 1 was countin’ on gittin more than I ixpicted. Ike (opening hix it Detroit ¥ree Press: A pointer,” an- nounced the vigter, bringing the morning's mgil. “from Salisbury ! *Diog of an infidel!" cried the court jester “Pointer, you know! Dog' Bee? Ha. Hn “Ha, ha laughed the sultan, and thoukht no more about it. What are vofl doing s owner of the g on tl noene rrying & huge Chicago Tribune: n my house?' demanded remises, suddenly appear! n his night shirt and c revolver. 'am taking active steps to get out of ft!" replied the burglar, vanishing through a window without taking the trouble ‘to open it Detroit Journal: The Yellow Peril wus jent MRt s to be done?” we shrieked, 1n Concern MRl sliggost whitewash!” obmervad 14 T1ang Chang. who had imbibed coplous!s of weatern ideas Bt was the tint of the perll precisely tha essence of the fearsomeness, after all? Philadelphin Press: ‘“lsn't 1t a nuisanes to button one's gl remarked the fair young girl, whose engagement had recently een announced I always let my husband do it for me, satd her married friend. “He buttons them in & Jifty. Why don't you let your youns man buiton yours?" “T did the other e nearly half an e——— NEBRASKA IN DANGER, ing and 1t took him New York Prem. . Plat old Nebraska's a-quiver and a-quake kind of ache Not & fence In on fis legs tey, B! Hey: Plant out P Cut stick DO! every Pop In Teddy was & strenaous, double-barreled ock. Ho 00 head on the west ke & kex of Lintof®s in the doldrums, everything bam. maop, B Wy ‘thkl' A leg' Fire up! COME Think abont the old farm. What & frigit- ful gng 7o o Te%0 for Mack, Bill, and ‘wake up from the fag! The blessed 0! ick Wow, Bill! s Get @ move ‘scarecrow i feeling mighty themselves in our favor that we will In- VemaRtin 4