Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 1, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ROBEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY - MORD SRIPTIO ay) Year TERMS OF SUBS Dally Bes (without Dally Bee and Sur illastrated B, O Bunday Hoe, O Baturday Bee, One ¥ Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICE Omaha: The Bee Bujldir Bouth Omaha: City Hal ty-fifth and N Streets Councll Blufte. 10 Pearl Street, Chicago: 161 Unity Building. New York. Temple Court. Washington: 1 Fourteenth Stroet Bioux City: 611 Park Street CORRESPOND Communications reiating to news and edi torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Departs BUSINESS LETTERS, Business lettc remittances should be addressed Dee Pubiishing Com- pany, Omaha, R 3 Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to Th Publishing Company only Z-cent stamps a mail accounts. Porsonal checks, € cepted In puyment Omaha or Enstern exchanges, not accepls THE BEF PUBLISHING COMPANY Miding, Twen- The ITTANC MENT OF CIRCULATIO of Nebraska, Doiglas County, 8. 6 B. Tzachiick, secretary of The Hee Publishing Company, belng auly sworn, ®ays (hat the actual numper of full an omplete coples of The 1 aily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee printed during t menth of September, 19%, was as follow L BT210 16, 27,485 20,525 17 .. 27,180 & 20,070 ...27,018 27,050 27,560 é 20,740 20,765 47,110 26.9%0 27,170 Total Less unsold and returned coples.... Net total sale Net dally « : RO p Subrcribed fn my pr efore me this )R duy fiagere m A8 HUNGATE, (8eal) Notary Bl RO R Lrsaoe Ay i S e and sworn to September, A. D, B Pnsis guessers can now fell one an other “I told you so.” Jim Dablman is another of the fusion Infected gentry who has taken to wear- ing multipl gl o8, Omaha will gladly challenge St. Joseph to a test of population on the hasis of the election returns next week. Popocrats are considerably worried be- cause their shouts fail to stampede the foreign-born voters. Noise may attract attentlon for a moment, but scarecrows are played out. The last week of the campalgn is al- ways so full of nightmares for the fu- sion managers and editors that they ap- proach the hour of retiring for sleep with fear and trembling. Those who fear the recent rains bave dampened the red fire so the windop of the campafgn will be tame should not be alarmed. The red fire is all in the dry and will be touched off as usual. — Bryan disclaims against talking to the pocketbook. His managers do that | when they go around in advance and | demand several hundred dollars in re- turn for the stopping of the Bryan train in towns through which it passes, Candidate Bryan informs the people of the east that the Omaha ice trust has been broken up by a democratic attor- ney general. All the lee ever broken by the Nebraska attorney general was cracked for the cooling of beverages. The republican legislative ticket is made up of clean men whose character and regord cannot be assailed. Each of the candidates is identified with the wel- fare of the city and county and pledged to labor for the interest of the people. The republicafis have presented a school board ticket this year composed exclusively of representative and trust- worthy citizens. Vote for all of the re- publican candidates and make sure the management of the schools is In safe hands. A new set of assessors 18 to be chosen at the coming election who will fix the next tax valuation of the county. For this important duty it Is imperative that good and rellable men be selected. No mistake will be made if all the repub- lican candidates for assessor are elected. Croker's advice to his followers to start a “rough house” in case the re- sult of the election does not suit him 1s strictly In line with democratic teacl Ings. But the Kentucky plan of count- ing minorities into majorities will not work in the north even at the bidding .'s Boss Croker. The bogus interview in which ex- President Cleveland was said to have predicted the success of Bryan had none of the earmarks of the former president, The denial of the genuineness of the in terview bad a different ring. Cleve- land's utterances ave generally to the point so that they need no explanations. While the national, state and legisla tive tickets are the paramount issue with Douglah county republicas, they should not overlook the importance of the election of a republican county com- missioner fu the First commissioner dis trict. A, C. Harte, who is a candidate for a second term, has served the county falthfully and efficiently and is entitled to re-election. While a certain elewent in this country pretends to fear it will be given over to militarism, farseeing Buropeaus are alarmed at another development. They are not worried lest this country should ralse a great army and start in on a campaigy of physical subjugation half 80 much as that the industrial energy of the United States will force Europe to take 4 back seat in the world's com- wercey [ speech 15 as appii 4 MR, CLEVELAND'S POSITION It Is to be presumed that no one fa miliar with the eharacter of ex-Presi dent Cleveland i, to gave credence | be a landslide for Br The state- ment upon its nee being a “fake” of the rawest kind | 1t gave opportunity for Mr. Clev to remove all doubt as to his po in this campalgn and in that was useful. The countr, that he is not for Mr. Bryan. Iand is distinguished for firm and consistent adlierence to principle. e believes In sound money and in main taining the financial eredit and honor of the nation, and he evidently thinks that | the danger to our domestic interests in- | volved in Bryanism Is greater than any | other. Mr, Cleveland also regards as dangerous the Bryanite appeals to class | prejudice and to popular passion, the evil effect of which has been shiown in the several outbreaks of violence df rected agaiinst Governor Roosevelt For these rensows and in his to true democratic prineiples, M land will bave nothing to do with| Bryanism. With him stands every liv- ing member of his cabinet except two— Mr. Olney and Judge Harmon—and these do not endorse all the principles | of the Chicago-Kansae City platform, but in order to he “regular” are pas- supporting Bryan on the “antl- imperialism™ fssue. Every true demo- | erat should read the published speech | of Mr. Cleveland, delivered in 1807, It is a vigorous arraignment of Bryanism and makes a stroug appeal to those dem ocrats who lhonor the traditions of their party The conclusion of the able now thre years ago. It is as follows: Let true democrats meet the passion and bitterness of their foumer associates who have assumed the leadership of anti-demo- cratic wanderings with firm expostulation, reminding them that democratic convictions and democratic consclence cannot be forced to follow false lights, bowever held aloft and let us at the same time entreat them i the name of honorable political com- radeship and in the memory of glorlous victories won by a united democracy, to turn fro© the way that leads to party de- feat and destruction. n bore nce evic of t nd tion respect now knows M Clove | otion | Cleve as A QUESTION FOR TAXE An fmportant question that will come before the next legislature i3 the propo sition to compromise with the bouds men of ex-Treasurer Bartley. This proposition was submitted to the last legislature in the last week of the sosslon by Governor Poynter in a | special message o Ingenfously worded as to scarcely attract public attention. The amount involved, including princi- pal and interest, exceeds three-fourths of a million of dollars, It will be remembered that the bonds- men exhausted all the devices allowed law to escape their responsibility They employed’ able lawyers to fight every fuch of the ground, but so far have failed to secure a discharge from lability through the courts. There is no doubt whatever that Governor ¥ ter's eleventh-our message to the legis- Iature was inspired, it not written, by the lawyers of the Bartley bondsmen, chief of whom was Frank Ransom, who 18 now trying to wedge his way into the state senate in order to be in_posi- tlon to complete the job by a com- promise that will throw upon the tax- payers almost the entire loss incurred by the defaulting treasurer, for which his clients are bound to make good. In other words, if Poynter, Ransom & Co. are clected and the compromise scheme 18 carried through the property owners of Nebraska will have to stand a levy of additional state taxes aggre- gating from $300,000 upward. It remains to be n, however, whether the taxpaying citizens of Doug- las county, who would have to shoulder | over $80,000 of this loss, will feel dis- posed to send Ransom to the legisla- ture and give him an opportunity to earn an enormous retainer or bonus while he s presumed to be representing the interests of his constituents. s STILL DENYING PROSPERITY. Mr. Bryan continues to deny that there is prosperity. He has traveled over nearly the entire country and found prosperous conditions everywhere, yet he says there 18 no such thing. The statis- tics that establish the fact of prosperits he either dees not read or does not be- lleve, He wmust know that the people of his own state have prospered greatly during the past four years, but he will not admit it. Is a man who denies what s shown by indisputable facts and is patent to every intelligent honest? Let us note some of these facts. Tuk- ing the bank clearings as a guide, we find that last year this country did ,000,000,000 more business than in 1895, National wealth has grown in the same proportion. In 1800 it was | $65,000,000,000. It {5 now estimated at $100,000,000,000 and of this additlon the larger part has come in the past five years. This vast sum has been shaved by the many. Accordiug to the report of the comptroller of the eurrency, the total number of bank depositors in 184 was 5,045,807 and in 1509 the number was 7,000,414, an Increase of 2,100,547, The total deposits i the earlier year was $2,874,580,406 and in the latter year §4,008,000,005, an increase of $1,738,506, o599, The ordinary mind can hardly grasp these figures, which in large part represent the savings of the people. In this vast augmentation of wealth the west has shared In almost as great measure, relative to population, as . the cast The production of our manufacturing industries last year was not less than 50 per cent greater tlhun In 1806 and the exports of manufactures in 1809 were nearly double in value t of 1806, Great as has been the in observer, | | last four year: mestic commerc been very much larger, as shown hy the statistics of rallroud and lake traic. The American market continues to be the best market in the world. THE OMAHA DAII least 2,000,000 more persons were em- ployed in 1809 than in 1805 and wages | According to a bub | also were higher. letin recently fssued by Commissionér of | the report that he had said there would | Labor Carroll D, Wright, showimg rela- | tment addressed to tive wages durlng the last ten years they are higher now than ever before Labor has also been more fully em ployed during the last thre ars than during the preceding three The: facts Mr. Pryan ignores endeavors to break thelr force by such demagogle talk as that he made Tu « “You want to keep conditions just as they are,” e said to his audience, | “Why, conditions are such that the men who produce wealth are getting each year a less pe they produce, while the speculator is get- ting a larger and larger share of the country’s wealth,” The ignorant and the unthinking may be mfluenced by such a declaration as this, but intelligent and reasoning people, with whom facts have meaning and value, certainly can- not be, —_— THE AMERICAN KESPUNSE. The answer of the United States gov- ernment to the British note regarding the Anglo-German agreement as to China s, as was expected, a concur- rence’in the proposals to maintain the open door aud to preserve the territo- rlal integrity of China. These principles or policies our government had already committed itsclf to, as being not only of the highest importance to its own general peac It was, ther foregone conclusfon that these features of the ugreement between Great Britain and Germany would be accepted without reservation by the United States, As to the clause of the agrecment pro- viding that in the event of any otber power demanding territory in China srmuny and Great Britain would re serve the right to determine what their action would be, our goverument de- clined to express an opinion. The pro- priety of this is obvious, since concur- rence in this clause would be in effect an alliance. As it is probable all the powers will accept the other principles fore, {of the agreement, the third can be dis- pensed with and this will doubtless be don The great importance of agreement is apparent. this OUTDOING ALL THE FAKIRS In the present campaign the Omaha World-Herald has become the yellowest of yellow journals. No Tuke I8 too e travagant and absurd to get promin in Its columns. More reckless disre- gard for the truth was never shown by any paper and more audacious distor- tion of facts has never been practiced Ly any campalgn organ. The other day the readers of the World-Herald were startled by the an- nouncement, credited to the New York Herald, that Bryan was sure of New York. The dispatch printed under these headlines gid not in the remotest degree bear out this Interpretation; it was simply & report of the places where Roosevelt and Bryan would speak in the state of New York, but not a word as to the probable outcome of the elec- tion in the Empire state. On Tuesday morning the World-Herald blazed forth in big black type that Grover Cleveland had declaved for Bryan and this brazem fake was given out with all the particulars of an inter- view that never took place. The con- tradiction came forth and a new black headline appeared on the front page, “Bryan Will Carry New York.” Bryan himself, however, gives the lie to this assertion on the kame page in a speech in which he says: “If the reports which come from the various counties where | polls have been made can be taken as representing the general sentiment throughout the state, the democrats have more than an eveu chance of car- rying New York.” That does not indi- cate that Mr. Bryan entectalns any very great hopes of securing New York's elec- toral vote. Quite the contrary, the best informed ‘men of all parties agree that New York is as sure for McKinley as Ohlo. The same recklessness and utter dis- regard of journalistic decency of the World-Herald is exhibited in its treat- ment of local issues. Nearly a week ago it published a pretended pledge al- leged to have been made by Edward Rosewater to fusion members of the legislature of 1800, That fabrication was contradicted the same day by the publication of a letter flatly disproving the vital points on which the charge | hinged and which was the only declara- tion made by Mr, Rosewater. In the face of this conclusive contradiction, the original fake is republished in the Weekly World-Herald and dished up to its readers in back truth. There is one consolation, that tie peo- ple who have been duped this time will not forget it when the truth dawns upon thew. countiex as gospel Secretary Hay shies a little bit at be- coming & party to the German-Euglish agreemeat regarding China. Our gov- ernment cheerfully accepts the doctrine of the open doot becoming a party to a ment which might bind it to act in con- with Europe on a question of u division of China it prefers to be in position to act independently, words, even though the object sought this country, it does not propose enter into a European alliance, thut the republi natlons were du! | the time required by law. an school hoard nomi- the voters by sharp practice, ple should rebuke the tricksters snowing under the fusion by As to labor, it is estimated that at means, { ! . LY entage of the wealth Interests, but also as essential to the | u but when it comes to written agree- 1 other may be in harmony with the desires of to The court has decided that the ity clerk prints the sthool board ticket and wade and tiled within This is the erease i our forelgn trude during the | position taken by The Bee all the time the growth of our do- |on this controversy, which was simply w popocratic ruse lutended to confuse The peo- candidates who sought advantage by such unfair BE HURSDAY LICAN OF NEBRA Three ago 1 received by mail from Chairman Lindsay of the repub. lican state commitee a typewritten doc The voters of Ne | braska,” purporting to bear the signa- [ tures of elghty odd republican candi- | dates for the legislature. Considering mpliance with the request embodied 70 days |In this document as tmpractical and its | 1| publication as tmpolitic and relying on "nw assurance that wo further action | would be taken in the matter, T dis- | missed the subject from my mind. To my amazement, 1 find that the state committee has caused the document to be published in the Lincoln Journal with comment that compels me to meet the Issue raised promiptly and squarely. The legislative candidates who signed | this extraordinary appeal declare, that, We, the undersigned, respectfully join In a request that all candidates for the United States senate withdraw from the race until after the leglalature shall have been elected and that they publicly and un- | qualifiedly announce to the voters that the absolutely and unreservedly releaso all leglslative candidates from any and ail pledges and instructions regarding the United States’ senatorship; and that all petitions asking for the printing of names of senatorial aspirants on the official ballot bo withdrawn. These demands are, to use a mild phrase, unwarranted and inexcusably stuptd. 1 could not comply with them | even If digposed to do so. “Whoever in- spired this brilllant idea of retiring all senatorial candidates before election and bringing them out again after| election evidently fmagined that they | are raceliorses that can be blank eted and put back again in the stable, to be trotted out at the will of the jockey. No man who has any respect for the public would.allow him self to become a mere puppet in the hands of polit trainers. The an- nouncement that I had consented to go through the proposed farce would have been received with “contempt and dis gust by my friends and scornful jeers by my enemies, who would justly ques- tlon my sincerity. The only and natural vesult would be the withdrawal of con: fidence in myself and in republican can- | didates generally, As to withdrawing the petition Ly which my name bas been placed on the | official ballot for an expression of popu- lar preference, that conld not at this date be legally done, and if it could, it | would have produced the same results The truth is that the whole with- drawal scheme veas fll-advised and de- signed to cripple certain candidates for the United States senate without help- ing any republican eandidate for the legislature, It Is due to the men whose names are appended that It be known that the so-called petition Was formulated in re- publican state headquarters and to my knowledge does not represent the un- trammeled wish of the individual candi- dates whose signatures for the most part were secured under high pressure and with the Iden that a refusal would diminish their ' prospect of securing actlve support from the eampaign managers. 1o may as well be stated also that the active and potential spirits at the state Leadquarters seem to be far more con- cerned in scheming to defeat particular | candidates for the United States senate | than in electing the republican ticket. While they have clamored for a pledge from the Douglas and Lancaster county | candidates to enter a republican caucus, no such assurances have been demanded elsewhere. On the contrary, I am re- llably informed that the candidates in Dodge county have been pledged not to vote for me under any circumstances, In other words, these men have been made to pledge thai they will bolt the republican caucus in case T happen to be its clhoice, That the intention 6f the demand for my withdrawal aud its publication bas for its main and sole end the creation of prejudice against my candidacy is plainly manifest in the comment with which it Is supplemented in the Journal by the pakl correspondent of the state committee, who say: 1t would seem that the sigpers of this paper have simply volced the sentiment of their constituents and that the only re- eult of a refusal to obey the request would be the =olld organization of the people of the rural countles mext winter in favor ot candidates who have a thorough re- spect for public sentiment aund who put party success above personal ambition. In view of the fact that I have placed my name on the officlal ballot to invite an expression of public sentiment, the threatened boycott or lockout to subvert the will of the people indicates what the parties bebind this move are almiug at and outlines thelr plan of campaign for next winter, It is barvdly necessary for me to say that no honorable wan would expect me to turn my back upon my enemles at this stage and I feel sure the men who have been persuaded to sign these doc- nments will respect me more for re- maining firm n spite of threats and | backfive. ROSEWATER, When a candidate publicly pledg himself to live up to his oath of ofti nobody bas a right to impugn Lis mo tives or question his sincerity unless he | has been notoriously dishonest or un-| reliable. The charge that he intends to be false to bis oath without any proof | except suspiclon, or, worse than that, | made to belp elect a man who has noto- | riously failed to live up to his oath, is an outra; That is precisely the char- | acter of the campalgn waged against Mr. Parish, the republican candidate for county attorn He has declared over | his own, nume that he intends faithfully and impartially to execute the laws if elected. What more could he say and | what more has anybody a right 1o ex pect of him? On the other hand, the | fusion candidate, George Shields, has been a wonumental fallure as a prose- | | cuting attorns Assuming even that he | las had an intention of living up to his oath of oftice, he has allowed criminals to escupe justice and has cost the county | thousands of dollars because neither he nor his deputies are competeut to per- | torm the dutles devolying upon them, | perity. | swell democrats OVEMBER 1, 1900 OMESTRE | _New York World (dem.) | that can be said Is that the vote will cast Washington Star very unusual must ley is to be defeated far, has been well managed matter of overcoming -the apathy that at | the outset existed, and in that of keeping | up the interest after arousing it, the repub- | lieans have shown good judgment have worked hard and their returns | some quarters have appeared to be slow. be the largest (ind. happen rep.) it Mr. McKin- ing on to the end to the advantages gained. Detroit Free Press (ind. dem.): the final struggle for all there in them. In the minds of the best judges of talent head of the national ticket. He hLas grown the finish approached. The apparent in- | difference to the outcome as recognized at the start has given way to old-time en- thusiasm. Bryan handicapped himselt with tree silver and all signs fafl it he be not hopelessly distanced Philadelphia Press (rep.): It is these causes which have produced in the last week of the campalgn of 1900 signs of the result 80 unmistakable that no intelligent, fair- minded man can be misled. This condition of public opinion has not, however, le ened the interest in the election. It has, on the contrary, made it more lntense and profound. It has strengthened and ener- glzed the desire to make the verdict against Bryan and Bryanism so emphatic and final as to compel demagogues and bankrupt politicians to acknowledge that they cannot cloud the sturdy common sense of the Amer- fcan people by pecious appeals to thelr tears and prejudices. Indlanapolis News (ind. rep.): For our- selves we seo no reason to change the opin- fon that we have so often expressed in re- cent weeks, namely, that McKinley's elec- tion seems to be assured and that Indiana’s electoral vote will go to him. If the re- sult, declared tomorrow week, turns out to be different it will simply show that in this perplexing campaign multitudes of voters have decided in a way of which no indica- tion was given beforehand. But as we see the situation all slgns point to much the same condition as four years ago, namel that it is necessary to postpoue other ques- tions in order to settle the menace to pros- This seems to us to be a fair reflex of the general situation. Erastus A. Barnard, a Chicago million- aire, has given his city a tract of land valued at $200,000, (o be used as a public park. Here is somethiug new n American poll- ties: On the eve of a presidential election workmen are being discharged from the Brooklyn navy yard. An itemized statement by John Sealy, chairman of the Galveston finance com- shows that the total amount re- ceived for the Galveston sufferers, from September 15 to October 12 inclusive, was 95, The people of Swarthmore, Pa., have de- clded to erect a suitable monument to the memory of Benjumin West, the celebratcd painter, who was born in the town 162 years ago. Nothfng has ever been done in America to honor his memory. English jurists have started a movement to set up a statue of the late Lord Chief Justice Russell in the High Court of Jus- tice. Chief Justice Fuller, James C. Carter and Ambassador Choate are the Americans who have been asked to aid the movement. Several followers of Count Tolstol, headed by Paul Biroukoff, have settled at Geneva, Switzerland, to propagate the teachings of the great Russian, which are forbidden in his own country. The colony {s issulng a periodical and several of Tolstol's writings which ure under the ban of the Russian government The late Charles Dudley Warner only took an active interest in the plorations in Egypt, but he was the honorary vice president of the Egypt Ex- ploration Fund both in Englund anl America. He was nominated for the office by Rev. Dr. W. C. Winslow of Boston, who bhad previously nominated George Willlam Curtds to succeed James Russell Lowell in that office. e Mobs and dex. Kansas Cl More persons were injured in London 1n celebrating the return of the City Imperial volunteers than in the average battle in South Africa. Indeed, the turmoil and confusion in London raise the question of modern cities have mot attained such an enormous population that causing the whole city to crowd into certain streets is a dan- gerous thing which should be avoided. The vastuess of the multitude causes an exclte- ment which o slight incident may convert into desperate panic. The only remedy now suggesting itself is that of ample and heavy torces of police to keep the line of march open when pagdants pass through the streets, The New York police has this ldea well in mind and does better in managing the multitude than the London authorities. P ———— New Specific for Trusts. Loutsville Courfer-Journal A genius has come forward with a solu- tion of the trust problem, his suggestion being the enactment of laws providing that the purchaser of goods from trusts shall not be obliged to pay for them unless he chooses to do so. This might exterminate the trusts, but it would convert the great majority of the people into enthusistic ad- vocates of trusts. P Never Repests Itaelf, Sterling Morton's Conservative Miny admirers of the peerless Bryan brag loudly that he fs chockfull of platitudinous versatility that he never re- peats himselt. This is particularly true as to his prophecies of 1896, The Conservative has looked In vain for an opportunity to catch the colonel repeating even one fore- cast of the finances of the United States made in 1896, The mistakes of Bryan must make the mistakes of Moses inconsequential, not ex- one J Chicago Times-Herald. Just for the sake of illustration let us the reglar army of the United States from 65,000 to 80,000, Then let us take the estimate of our population as 80,000,000, This would give us the ratio of 1,000 citizens 1o 1 soldier. And this is the militarism which terrifies William Jen- nings Bryan into stage fever and ague. e, The Path of Duty, Chicago Post. Hx-I'resident Cleveland has condemned and Yepudiated Bryanism as undemocratic revolutionary, dangerous and destructive, He has polnted the path of duty and prin- ciple’ to all enlightened and consistent Tuke No Chancens. Indlanapolis News. Mr. Bryan will not say whether he would pay the government's obligations fn silver or mot, so It s best not to take any chances Calm Amid the St Washington Post President McKinley appears to be about the only prominent man who declines to become excited over the situation The only thing with absolute confidence | ever Something His campaign, %0 Beth in the | They in | But everything is well in hand today and it seeme to be merely a question of hold- This is the last working week before the election and all those in the race, from would-be | presidents to would-be coroners, will make and form McKinley is the winner at the stronger as the contest progressed and his acquisition of strength has been greater as ANOTHER MUSTER-OUT Withdrawing the Troops from the Philippin. New York Sur Within a few days the War department will begin to withdraw the ‘‘volunteer’ orgauizations from the Philippines, r placing them, as far as possible, with reg- ular teeops of our army. The law re- Quires these volunteers to be mustered out before the 1st duy of July of next year; at that date, too, the regular army is to be reduced to 27,000 men from Its present strength of about 65,000, The volunteer regiments, orgauized espe- clally for service in the Philippines, are the Eleventh cavalry and twenty-four infantry regiments, numbered from nty-sixth to Forty-nlnth, inclusive. Of these the Forty-oighth and the Forty-ninth are com- posed of negroes, with negro company offi- cers and white field officers. At present, however, at least one of the field officers 1s @ negro.. Promotion in these volunteer regiments is wholly regimental, so when the Forty-ninth lost one of its majors the senlor captain, Robert Gage, was promoted to be major, and he now holds that rank. | ments would be withdrawn in the same order as they reached the Islands. Thi: I8 hardly probable, for some late-comers accessible and more easlly to be vacated than earlier comers, and will be withdrawn before the regiments whose services are needed more urgently. At the rate which the withdrawal is expected to take place, however, rather more than 4,000 men & month, every organization will be back in this country some weeks before the time at which the law requires fts disbandment. The Eleventh cavalry and the Thirty- #ixth and Thirty-seventh infantry wero or- ganized in the islands largely from men of the state regiments which served thero so effectively during the Spanish war. The Thirty-sixth infantry completed its organ- tzatlon on July 30, 1599, the Eleventh cay alry on August 10 and the Thirty-seventh on October 6. The Thirty-fourth was the first regiment raised In this country to reach the Philippines; it arrived on the 11th and 14th of October and therefore has been there a little more than a year. The sixth on October 24, while October two regiments complete their debarkation, the Twenty-seventh and the Thirty-third In the first week of November last year the Twenty-ninth and the Thirty-second reached the fslands; November 6 saw the Thirty-fifth present for duty. Two weeks later, on November 23, the Twenty-elghth reported, the Thirty-ninth came on De cember 7, the Forty-sixth on the 14th of that month; then came, before the end of the war, the Forty-fourth, the Forty-fifth the Forty-seventh, the Thirty-first, Fortleth. the Thirty-eighth, the Forty-sec- ond and the Forty-third in the order glven. The Forty-ninth was the first regiment to report during the present year 7 osaw followed speedily by the Forty-first and then by the Forty-eighth. January saw the last named rogiment at Manila. Besides these regiments there s in our volunteer service in the Philippines a squadron of mative cavalry, raised in ac- cordance with the same act that author- jzed the white volunteers, and, like the latter, to be mustered out in June next Under its commander, Major Batson, this squadron has done good work and gives rise to the suggestion that when so many of the white volunteers are withdrawn the Filipinos may make excellent police to keep other Filipinos in order. The d'sposition of the returning troops will require considerable thought. It has been suggested that they may ba mustered out as they reach San Francisco, so that the sively by each reg'ment. As, however, the country will be stripped of every #vailable regular soldler to supply the vacancies made by withdrawing the voluns teers from tho Philippines, 1t Is possible that the returned troops will be held for some time to serve as garrisons at various places in the United States. At all events, it seems. likely that they will be held to- gether untll congress shall have taken actlon on the question of army reorganiza- tion. —— “DRUMMERS"” IN THB CAMPAIGN. ounter n Wither- ing Frost. Washington Suar. Nothing has been more surprising in this campalgn than the development of what is called the “drummer” vote. At the outset the drummers were represented as support- ers to a man of Mr. Bryan. Many thou- sands, 1t was stated, had lost their places through trusts and other business combina- tions, and they and their friends, it was usserted, would make themselves felt at the polls. Clubs were to bo formed and a sys- tematic movement inaugurated u. Mr. Bryan's bebaif. Although the tulk was so very confident, somehow it was mot convinein, Those familiar wi'h the business world had re- marked no wholesale disappearance of drummers. It seemed to them that the geutlemen of the road were still quite numerous and that all were busy. And why not? Admitting the many combinations ot capital, 1t was still true that such combina- tions must provide for the selling of their products. They had not risen superior to the services of the drummers, but needed them the same as the ordinary business firms which were still commanding them. After awhile the truth began to appear, The time came when this innumerable host of discharged drummers must show itself. It must parade for effect. There was a call, but nobody answered. The drummers were elther deaf or indifferent to their own woes, or else hud gone back to work again. Then little by little it developed that there had never been an army of discharged drum- mers, but that the great majority of travel- Bryanite Clal | It has becn said that the volunteer regl- | among the regiments hold positions more | Thirtieth came on October 21, the Twenty- | the | it reached the islands on January 2, to be | camp at the Presidio may be used succes- | were nev Moreover, r busier or mo pr straw’ polls whowed that, as rule, they were for McKinley and mot f | Bryan. They expressed themselves pleased with the good times, and as anxlous they should continue. So that, fnstead ‘ot Bryan clubs of unemployed drummers we have uumerous McKinley clubs of em | ployed drummers, whose order books are full of busiuess, and who will help again swell the vote for sound money prosperity This campaign side and enide 1 and done for indecd, now that all the issues have been expose appeals with unusual streng! to both the wage-earners and the salar | earners. Business is business, and busines we have in larger volume than ever befors and with the prospect of a steady ineroase if the administration fs endorsed at the polic and present policies are continued MIRTHFUL REMARKS, | Detroit Journal: “What's the cause 80, many deaths in your suburb recently “Well, you see, our drugglst has hired new clerk, who'{s able to make out ti | blindest handwriting. " Chicago Post: “Why do you say he {s o man_of patlence, and end ne | “Because he has endured his own so Al these years.' Philadelphin Press Cassidy friend, you? “Falth, it 15 ko," repliad Caesdv. great seriousness. “I haven 't Hivin® soul for nearly a month.” “Good morning, M sald the undertaker's humorous “1 wuppose business is dead with wit burfed Washington 8tar: ‘No, sir,” exclaimed Meandering Mike, “I'm clean out'n sym pat'y wit dis talk ‘about a full dinner pafl "1t scems kind o' cheerful,” sald Plod ding Pete. ot to my ear. When 1 see a tin bucke filled up wid nothin' but food Instid o' beer it strikes me as a positive waste o' gpace | — | Indtanapolis Press acquired wealth, and he loved her for it Ah!" he cried passionately, ‘you are ne woman in the th nd.” ‘Yes," she replied with a far-away look “but not for you. Ah! if you could but make me one in the 400" Tr His soclal standing, She had sudden! alas, was ' | know t d the author appen to fall into vou ever “Then how did yor the way of writing it h, 1 did that while learning to use tha 4 Tra D 1 ript Ha you ¥ Roads—1 sa 1 ‘when that dog y Waggles—I felt fattered that even he wis glad to see me, but I endeavored to hide my feclings as much 4 [ could Detroit Jour: clergyman of pened Presumably proceedings '’ s Quatorze humor. 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