Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY THE OMAHA DALY BEE E : = | VERY MORNING. | B ROSEWATER, Editor R e e PUBLISHED E TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION {ly Bee (without Sundey), One Year Iy Bee and Bunday. Une Year.. Uantrated B e, One ¥ .0 by ! car THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST DIETRICH. The campaign waged agalost Clar I Dietrich, republican candida governor, hag degenerated fpto a cam paign of slander and defamation. Under the statutes of Nebraska there’ ls o punigshment for men and women wh clrenlate slanders and lbels by word of N | “ In the comp! it made » fulfillment of the plh the future, —_— ) NAFE ADYVICE. president. Jur years ago American work- ingmen should find ample assnrance for Dou't bet that Bryan will be elected has an equity in the western heml sphere to the extent of a veto on the | i® the latest to disavow | desire to acquire title to any portion | of it. Instead of weakening the tradi- | tional stand of the United States against forelgn entanglements the position of Germany wholesale dismemberment of China. | § To the Voters 0' Nebraska: n| i ! ! more than a quarter of a centu of United States senators by direct vote of the people. secure this right for the people by amendment of the constitution of the United States, however, have falled up to this time. 1 Liave advocated the election All efforty to The nearest ap- PERSON OTES, The monumental stone W, Field to Major Andre non-payment of taxes Thirteen Plttsburg tailors have come into bequests of $1,061 each under the will of their late employer, and no man need tell them now that thirteen is an unlucky number, erected by has been sold for Cyrus Bunday Bee, Onc Year mouth and cowardly defamers take Doun't bet that Bryan will carry New | this country in the Orient has strength- proach to popular selection of United States senators has been made In The late Willlam L. \\nm: had a death OFFIC { hoods from house to house, leaving yon' hel at Nebras! w givy s 3 tion to instruct their representatives in the legislatu 3y . oy ofiee, ot 1 TRE Be LW, I (he . 290 B s uitding, Twen- | thelr victim no thance defense. | Bryan 5,000 or more majority. "1 "I’ l“"-' R e CORHS CRNLEA lon of preference at the ballot box. Shie foom and in (A6 Sume Bed, a8 they y-Afth and N Btreets [ This infamons method of fabrleating| Don't bet that Douglas county will|traded his title for a wife with a for- In proof of my sincerity as an advocate of thie direct populat election Wore buried trom th. bamy enasel. Chlcago e vty Banging, [and spreading broadeast stories slan- | elect the fusion legislative ticket or any | t4ne only to be hampered in the end by (3 (¢ (oiators T have appealed for an expression of public sentiment Mr. Putnam has done away with the cus- e T""“"}; Nirteenth Street | derers dare not priut has been carrled on | part of it. a trustee who will allow lim to spend under the constitutional provision by having my name placed on the tom of allowing responsible persons to take ious Ciiy: 6if Park Bir | for weeks by the supporters of Governor | Don't bet that William A, Poynter ::: lmlf:]r!' Khunh:hlq; ‘.l«.on:),():m frnmls an- ofticial ballot at the coming election. While standing upon the declara- | bocks trom tho Congressionay Hibrary b CORRESPOND will be elected governor., al income which the fortune produces, | s and ed! Communications relating to news and edi’ torial matter should be addre Hee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTE Business lettors and remittances shot addressed: The liee Publishing Cor vany, Umaha, REMITTANCE Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps accent=d in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not ac 1 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Dougas County, & George B. Taschuck, secretary of The Hee | Publishing Company, belng duly sworr says that tha actual num full_an eompleta coples of The Mornins Tvening and Sunday Bee quring tie month of October, 1000, was as foliows: 1. 87,220 17 .27 ,450 2. 27,010 18 27,300 3 24,330 27,470 4o ..27,010 0. [ .. 28,600 [} 27,000 7 27,110 29,700 8. 20,000 | 9 30,000 | 10... 1 12 13 1" 20,730 15. 27,160 18.... 27,470 Totul Less unsold and returned copies Net total sales Net dally everage . eNONZ | GEORGE B. TZACHUCK Subscribed fn my presence and sworn to before me this first day of N D, 190, HUNGAT (Beal.) Notary Public. —_— ember, A MB Reglster Saturday If not yet reglstered. Edgar Howard has come to the con- cluslon hat his pen speaks far more eloguent than his vol o, Only one more chance to register and that i Saturday. Do not neglect this tmportant duty if you wish to vote at the election. towa will hold an election next wee but the people across the river do not appear to be particularly excited. Tt is only a question of the size of the repub- lican majority in Towa. A vote for nuk Ransom is a vote in favor of compromising the Bartley bond indebtedness and imposing upon the tax- payers of Douglas county an extra tax assessment of not less than §$80,000. It is real mean for the World-Herald to turn on the Lincoln Journal after working hand and glove with it right along. The separation, however, is not to be consldered permanent, but only for temporary effect. —— Douglas county farmers have already tax burdens ugh without being loanded down with an extra levy of $80,- 000 to make good the loss to the state by defalcation and embezzlemént to re- lleve the bondsmen. The window and door screen combina- tion has been dissolved. Assurance is glven furthermore that the dissolution 18 genuine and that the announcement 18 not made for the purpose of influene- Ing the mosquito vote of New Jersey. Mr. Bryan has finally 1ssued another letter of acceptance, this time making acknowledgment to the Indianapolls convention of anti-imperfalists, If there are any more nominations which have not yet been accepted by Mr. Bryan they are likely to be lost in the shuffle of the election. The Union Pacific hospital fund has finally been adjusted and turned over by the recelvers for distribution among the smployes whose claims have been proved up. This means that it will soon all be returned to the people to whom it be- longs, a great many of whom reside right here in Omala. The popocratic national ticket started out with two tails, but so far as can be judged by the attention devoted to it the ticket is drifting along without any tail at all. At last reports a man named Stevenson, whose home is in 111§ nols, was supposed to be running for vice president with Bryan, The best evidence that there is no ap proach to imperialism in this countr the fact that many of the fusion ora tors and editors are not in jail. In no other country in the world would such consclousless lying and abuse of the chief executive of the nation as they are indulging be allowed to go unpun- ished. The popocratic organ sprung some of Its fakes too early In the game, thus lowing time for the parties misquoted or quoted, when they have sald nothing at all, to contradict the stories. It is a difficult matter, however, to get in denlals of all the fakes sprung within a few days of clection, which have bee busily incubating during the entire cam- paign, Reports from South Dakota indicate mighty little sincerity in the protesta tions of Senator Pettigrew of loyalty to Bryan. From every sectlon of the stte comes word thut the fusion man- agers have abandoned the fight for the natlonal ticket and turned all their en- ergies to the leglslature. As Pettigrew Is running the campalgn machine the friends of Bryan are not in the best of humor. Senator Pettigrew is evidently one of the kind who would cheerfully sacrifice his wife's relations, but al ‘efforts were directed to the | than ¢ | pose to better this situation Poynter under the plea that the tender hearted slanderers wanted to spare the | teelings of Mr. Dictrich’s family. Another mode of attack has been the sending out from the state house offficers of the Anti-Saloon league. These letters represent Mr, Dietrich as the pet of the rum sellers and intimate that he is intemperate and even absolutely dis sipated In his habits and low In ussoclations. only officer of the Anti-Saloon league whose name is used is that of a notor ous prohibitionist who is laboring in Poynter, It Is tr t Mr. Diet opponent of the prohibition ew ten years ago, but the charge remedy for the evils of intemperan and that view bas been contirmed by perfence in Maine, lown, Kansus and other where much more manly for the Anti league to have made the issue dir instead of carrying on a guerrills fare, which gives a candidate no possi- ble opportunity of meeting the charges made by his oppouents. While these covert enemfes of Mr. Dietrich, who glve preference to Governor Poynter, tly to being a probibitionlst than Mr. Diet- rupled to make deals with the brewers and distillers in order to get their sup- port. He has on his staff Walter Moise, one of the best known whisky sellers in Nebraska. overnor Poynter bLas been, more- over, personally supported by the Omunhe brewers and has appealed to them for liberal contributions for the fusion cam- paign fund. Fifteen hundred dollars of “blood money,” as the prohibitionists are wont to style it, went into the fusion campaign fund in Douglas county last year and we have not yet heard that such contributions have been refused by the democratic campalgn managers this year. g «When it comes to purifying politics cratic machine will always distill more that can be named. Mr. support of workingmen. It Is pertinent to Inquire whether the democratic ca didate has ever done anything for wor port. gress and duriug that time down of the policy under which American labor established. He political principle that has ever c this country.” He own. ment and wages reduced, enemy of American labor. Four labor, What Inducement is the den they produce. to fmprove their condition?’ nothing He finds labor every employed at relatively er before. where wel What does he pro whatever. With all the spe and sophistry of which he Is eapable Mr. Bryan endeavors to foster discon labor, w but Le holds out to the wage ers no plan for thelr betterment men know this, and would not hesitate, had he vestige of protection and open the grea suffering upon American labor as it ha never known. ple would be swept away, hund; widespread destitution would ensue. Ameniean labor has nothing to hop for from. the prineiples aid the Bryanite party. Tley ave hostile t every interest of labor. The republica party, on the other hand, is now, a and mise ways look out for himself, ersressesesssrsrsssssssesl Brorsronrmnrnn .- o of confidential circulars over the names of his | As a wmatter of fact, the directly for the election of Bryan and ch was an endment that he {s Intemperate Is a cruel sland His opposition to prolibition was because e did not consider it effective as a " | been more flagrant than 1n this, Bryan's every state prohibition | reports or whether it is to mask a re- luws have been enacted. treut of the sham reformers no one It seems to us it would bave been|can surmise. The reaction Is sure to oon | war- | ¢ concede that the governor comes nearer rich, it is notorious that he has never from the distillery influence the demo- reform out of it than any other party Bryan Is closing his campaign with speclously framed appeals for the Ingmen to give him a claim to their sup- Mr. Bryan was four years in con- all his breaking the vast Industrlal system of this country was built up and a great market for de- nounced protection as “the most vicious rsed was in part re- sponsible for a tariff law which was wel- comed as a great boon by British manu- facturers and the effect of which was to greatly stimulate some British in- dustries to the serlous detriment of aur Under the operation of that law our home industries were crippled, their development halted, hundreds of thou- sands of people thrown out of employ- Mr. Bryan then proved himself the rears ago in the midst of the depression and disaster, which he had helped to bring about, Mr. Bryan appealed to working- men to support a monetary policy that would have cut wages in half aund cre- increased the already vast army of idle eratic candidate now offering working- men to support him? He tells them they are not getting their share of what What does he offer them Absolutely higher wages Nothing lousness tent and dissatisfaction In the ranks of Mr. Bryan's brief record in public life s all agalnst his pretense of being the friend of labor and intelligent working- They also know tlat he is now as strongly devoted to the prin- ciple of free trade as he has ever been the power, to remove from the tariff every basement, would bring such disaster and The sayings of the peo- ods of thousands would lose thelr homes and lit has always been, the friend of labor. Don't bet that the fusionists will con- trol the next Nebraska legislature, A DAY RETRIBUTION. The democratic leaders and demo- cratic papers know that Bryan has no possible chance of being elected presi- dent, and yet they continue to deceive | and mislead thelr followers by constant boasting and exaggeration. These tac- tics are causing thousands of credulous * | people to stake their money on Bryan's - | election, Such a course is simply infamous and there is no excuse for it. The victims of this deliberate deception will have just grounds for cursing the unscrupulous leaders and newspapers for fabricating and circulating false reports and hold- ing out false progpects in a hopeless cause. Nowhere has this disreputable course oF own state. Whether the object is to hold fuslonists in line by these false come next week, when campaign fakirs and liars will take to the woods and yelone cellars in order to escape from thelr exasperated dupes, E Weeks ago we expressed the opinion 'ADING THE QUESTIONS. that Mr. Bryan would ignore or evade the questions which had been presented to him regarding the payment of coin obligations of the government in sllver and the disfranchisement of colored citizens In the south. That opinion has been verified. When Bryan was in Princeton, N, J., these quesilons w been applied dodger.” In regard to him of the had no way of knowing what law r by March 4. question. uo one, Mr, Bryan knows what the ex- isting law Is. He understands fully, it | must be assumed, that it was intended to fix the gold standard and to secure the payment of the obligations of the government in gold. What he was asked to do was to define his position in respect to this law and this he has not done. An honest man, running for president of the United States, wounld have given a straightforward, esplicit answer. Mr. Bryan, thinking only of political consequences, chose to dodge. His most ardent supporters will hardly approve of this. As to the other question, the disfran- chisement of the negroes in North Car- olina, Mr. Bryan's answer s equally evasive and disingenuous, Ile sald: You should hold the president re- sponsible for what he has done in Porto Rico and not hold me responsible for what has been done in North Carolina,” adding that “there is littie difference be- tween the race law in North Carolina and Porto Rico.” Nobody has thought of holding Mr. Bryan responsible for negro disfranchisement, but he is the leader of the party gullty of that wrong and Its candidate for the highest office in the gift of the Amerlcan people and the effort to ascertain his oninlon re- garding it was perfectly legitimate. Moreover, Mr. Bryan is posing as the particular champion of the coustitution and the consent of the governed prin- ciple, which he demands shall be ap- plied to the Filipinos. Why should he object to being asked whether or not e approves of a policy toward Amerl- can citizens, who are loyal to the gov- ernwent, which nullifies an amendment to the constitution and violates the prineiple for which he professes o much solieltude? Admit that it is not an fs- sue, still it is a question of very great fmportance, not only as affecting the political future of the colored race, but || also In 1ts bearing upon the question of representation and the possible effect upon our political system. As to Mr, Bryan's reference to Porto Rico, it is sufficlent to say that it has no relevancy whatever. Mr. Bryan has not improved his claim to honesty or to public confidence by this latest evidence of his capacity for shiftiness and evasion, It is au open secret that William Jen- nings Bryan has given his pledge to G. M. Hitcheock that he would not be a candidate for United States senator be fore the next legislature, If the voters of Douglas county desire to be rep- resented in the senate by a man who in herited $300,000 of money obtained of Jay Gould and allied corporate monop- ated a panic which would have greatly t stock yards candidate for state senator, has been denounced by Edgar Howard in the Papillion Times as a tool of the corporations and a traitor to the inter- ests of the people. Edgar Howard be- longs to the same party of whigh Ran- sow I8 @ member and therefore he can- not be charged with partisan rancor. He knew his man and made no mistake in denouncing him. s " licies of 0 n N European nations are beginning to ree- ATURDAY. Saturday 1s the last registration day and every voter not yet registered, ex- pecting to cast a ballot at the election on November 6, should see that his name is properly enrolled on the regis- tration books, The registrars will sit in their respec- tive wards and precinets from 8 a. m. until 9 p. m. Saturday. In order to register each voter must appear per- sonally before the registrars and an- swer the questions relating to his resi- dence and qualifications prescribed by the law. No previous registration good this year. meane gelf-disfranchisement. will hold Fallure to register One of the questions which will be is wish to afliliate President McKinley “The republican party. should ked by the registrars, under the law, “With what political party do you To this question every person who expects to support answer: This answer is necessary to qualify the voter to Be sure to register chance, tend Gly Washington Post & Mis Snap Away. particip te in the republican primaries, Saturday—Iast Can't Get Around It Indianapolls News. Frosperity s the most stubborn fact with which the democrats bave to con- Mr. Bryan's admission that we can live AP Baitimore American. mount Question. under any kind of a money standard is in the nature of a confession that the “crown of thorns and cross of gold” are not nec- essarily fatal, re sent to him by the University Republican club and his re- ply fully justities the term that has to “artful yment of coin obliga- tions in silver he said he would enforce the law as he found it, but as the ex ecutive and coungress are republican he garding the matter would be in effect This does not meet the It is a reply that will satisfy Hawaii wants to send a prince as dele- gate. Then would arise a question for which there s no precedence—whether he would be addressed as “Your Highness," or just “the gentleman from Honolulu." Dodging the Vital Question, Springfield (Mass.) Republican, That North Carolina question was again put to Mr. Bryan yesterday, and again he evaded it. He should answer it. He Is, indeed, not responsible for what is being dona In that state, us he says, but he ought to have an opinion on the question whether the black man in the United States should be_equal with the white before the law. are wild-eyed, days, us the odds have gone up to 5 to many of them hoped that coveries in Alaska. duced less than $300,000. ever, that the Seattle office recognizes the boundary line claimed by Canada, put ho oguize the fact that the United States ] L Wieugas v e . Democ! Bluffers ¢ New York Tribune. ught. Speculative' democrats who bet on Bryan when the odds were 3 to 1 against him weary and 1. No doubt wan in t hese the figures would change In such a way before election day able to ‘‘hedge' that into the their adversarie No New York's Declalon Detrolt Kree Press (ind, dem ) they would be thelr wagers, sible chance of that now. pos- They have fallen pit which they have digged for and they can't climb out, Made Up, o According to all the testimony at hand the republican managers need only to get out the vote in order to carry the state by a decisive vote. 6; the majority of 1 might have been reversed cratic national This they are attend- ing to with extraordinary zeal. New York's rendered its convictions and allowed Bryan's managers to persuade it’ that he fepublican majority may be less than half but it is safe to pre- dict that the electoral ticket will have 70,- 000 or 75,000 votes to spare, a majority that it the demo- convention had not sur- Mr, would be able to fool all of the people some of the time. America’s Industrinl Primary. Philudelphia Record, Comparisons by treasury experts of ex- ports of manufactures for nine months of 1900 with similar exports for the cor- responding period of last year discloses a noteworthy advance—over $61,000,000 as compared with an advance of $50,000,000 in 1899 over the previous year. At the me time' the Imports of materials to be used in the various forms of production in American factories have largely expanded. We are bringing In more and more raw waterial and sending out more and still more manufactured goods torlan of American industrial iucan manufactured products. The future his- expansion will point to the closing years of the cen- tury as the period of creation and devel- opment of international primacy for Amer- The Inflow of Gol Philadelphla Ledger The cold figures of the Seattle office tell with precision how much value ssay there is In the reports of great gold dis- tradictory reports about the ri the Nome fleld by showing th ylelded during the present year $2,7 while other points ting the Atlin and Klondike ichness hat it 10,42 in Alaska have pro- It is to be noted, They settle- the con- of hi districts, which, together, yvielded nearly $17,000, |jn tno election of next Tuesday. To sup- 000, on the British side of the line. The total yield of the new gold territory, there- fore, is mearly §20,000,000 for the year, and us its development is progressing steadily it will probably give larger returns next | And as practically all of its gold year. comwes to the United States, it does not so much matter, perhaps, under which flag the metal is mined. cmepe— Business Confldence in the Result, Philadelphia Record (ind. dem.) Although for five months past a hot politi- has been in cal campaign Progress the tions of the republican party in its terest of the American people. and depression. postal facilities to the people. | time am opposed to any legislation Here are the reasons for opposing the re-election of Governor Poynter glven over his signature by a former fusion editor, who legls- | served as a fusion member of the lature of 189 SILVER CREEK, Neb, Oct Editor of the Noupareil: 1 am opposed to | W. A. Poynter as governor | 1. Because he has been false to the car- dinal doctrines of the populist party ot which he is a dishonored member, par- ticularly in using his official power to force his renomination on an unwilling con- stituency, he himself and scores of his ap- polntees and other officcholders sitting in the convention which renominated him. | 2 Because, in opposition to what he must have known to be the almost uuani- mous sent{luent of his party, he recom- mended the payment of beot sugar bounties 3. Because in recommending the payment of bounties under the defunct beet sugar law, and in the assessment of rallroad property, he has shown that he is the ser- vant of the corporations. 4. Because he released from .the state prison John Benwell Kearns, who was Mr. Justice Freedman in the supreme court yesterday handed down a decision refusing a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the registration of Frank Juarbe, a Porto Rican. The application for a writ wiw opposed by Corporation Counsel Whalen, who maintained that Juarbe had no right to vote, as the question of the political status of Porto Ricans had been left by the treaty with Spain to con- grees, which had not yet admitted him to citizenship. Justice Freedman upheld that view. Thus is the doctrine of the Kansas City platform that the “Constitution follows the flag,” that it extends ex proprio vigore to new territory and automatically confers on them the rights of American citizens, repudiated by a democratic corporation counsel and a democratic justice of the supreme court. The Interpretation of the constitution by lawyer or judge s in- evitably affected by his political theories. The men trained in the state rights school of John Randolph and John C. Calhoun when they were placed on the bench of the United States supreme court naturally gave a turn to its decisions differing de- cidedly from those of Chief Justice Mar- shall and thelr federalist predecessors. Therefore it might have been expected that when the registry officers asked the oficial advice of Corporation Counsel Whalen about registering a Porto Rican he would have told them that the man was & citi- zen of the United States under the con- stitution and entitled to vote, it he him- self as a lawyer thought the constitutional law of the Kansas City platform sound. Certainly in that case, even if he did not feel like advising the officers to register the man without warranty from a court, he would have followed his convictions in presenting the question to the judge and have done his best to give the Porto Rican his rights as a free man, of which the democratic platform complains the re- publicans are secking to deprive him in violation of the constitution. Justice Freedman also would most as- suredly have refused to sanction so gross a violation of the constitution when it was in his power to prevent it, if he really be- lieved the constitution was being violated. He and the corporation counsel are both feithful democrats. Mr. Whalen 18 sup- porting Mr, Bryan and we suppose Justice also to certain reforms which in my judgment are demanded in the in- 1 am in favor of the establishment of postal savings which the earnings of the people will be safely guarded through paaic I am in favor of the postal telegraph and the widest extension of 1 believe that corporations are creatures of the state and should be regulated and controlled by the state. sion of corporations, 1 am by no means in favor of contiscating thelr property, either by prescribing ruinous rates or excessive taxation. other words, 1 favor such legislation as will protect the people agalnst extortion and discrimination by corporate monopolies, but at the same ing falr interest on honest Investment. My career in Nebraska, which covers a perlod of thirty-seven years, is a sufficient guaranty that if elected to the United States senate I shall labor with all my ability and energy to promote the welfare and material prosperity of the state and nation and shall always hold my- self accessible to every citizen of Nebraska who has a claim upon my services or time, no matter how humble or poor. national platform, 1 am committed banks in While I favor public supervi- In that would prevent them from earn- E. ROSEWATER. serving a life sentence for one of the most atrocious, cold-blooded murders ever com- mitted in the history of the state. Because he approved the present elec- tion law, which, in some of ths registra- tion provisions of it, is an outrage to the secrecy of the ballot. 6. Because of his numerous appointments to office of men notoriously unflt, thereby making the public service stench in the nostrils of decent men. Particularly amorg them there is included that of one Reess a8 steward of tho asylum at Norfolk, who, 1 am informed, is generally believed by the people of that locality, and as I believe, to have paid $150 or $200 for his appointment; and further, because I belleve Poynter knew when he made the appointment that it was being paid for. Because his adminlstration has been weak, vacillating, dishonest and discredit- able fn almost every act of it up to the pres ent time, 8. Because I claim to have some little selt-respect and do not propose to eacrifice it by voting for much a political abortion. CHARLES WOOSTER. Constitution and Flag New York Tribune, Oct. 80, Freedman will also vote the democratic ticket, But evidently their political afiliations have not involved their ac- ceptance of the democratic platform. Im- perialism and the outcry over ‘“rule of dependencies outside the constitution” {3 clearly regarded by them as mere cam- paign buncombe. Political speakers may shout that ‘“the constitution follows the flag” and proclaim the “rights of our Porto Rican fellow citizens,;’ but as law- yer and judge these good democrats are not to be fooled by any such claptrap. They know well enough that Porto Rico in territory of the United States to be dealt with by congress in its discretion, un- bampered by the specific provisions of the constitution. It was in the power of Jus- tice Freedman to have sald that the Porto Rican became a citizen on the ratification of the Treaty of Parls and entitled to the rights and privileges of every other citl- zen under the constitution and therefore must be registered. He would have done it it he had belleved in the Calhoun-Bryan theory of the anti-imperialists. Such a decision would not have settled the question finally. The supreme court of the United States will detne the constitu- tional status of new territory and its view will control. Meanwhile judges can only follow their own convictions. We believe some fuferior courts in the south have not unnaturally accepted the constitutional law procluimed by their party and allowed the names of Porto Ricans to be put on the voting list. But the democratic plat. form is not regarded as good law by demo- cratic officials here. Its valldity was squarely before Justice Freedman and he refused to hold that the comstitution fol- lowed the flag and gave the Porto Rican rights of American citizenship. If he Is correct and the discretion rests with con- gress to give or withhold civil and politts cal rights, then the legislation for Porto Rico was not unconstitutional, the re. publican party has acted toward new ters ritories as it had a right to do in refus- ing to incorporate them into the United States and the whole democratic conten- tion falls to the ground. Thus does the common sense of a democratic judge se- rlously administering the law puncture the inflated balloon of democratic bluster for political effect. FAC HIS OWN PROPHECIES, Leading Mis Forlorn Hope dicapped by Calamity. Washington Post For the last three days of this week Mr. Bryan will campalgn in Chicago, pre- sumably with the hope ot carrying Illinois Bryan " poso that the managers of the democratic campaign or the candidate himself would be making &o immense an effort as they are putting forth in the great city of the middle west if they were not buoyed up by hope of victory would be to discredit their in- tellegtual capacity. Mr. Bryan canvassed Chicago during the week before the election of 1896, 1t was clalmed Just before the veting began that his speeches fn that city had won 30,000 yotes. But when the votes were counted it was found that Chicago, Cook county and the state had gone for McKinley in something like that profane country over trade and commerce and in- | co 0k Maine went for Edward Kent dustrial production have pursued an even |y, jgq It was on the 27th day of October course, with heavy demands from consumers | ¢y .+"\y “Bryan, in Chicago, £poke as fol- ABATIIL. WATEE: L0 Hi .l"llli;~t't'l""-"‘ olies, then they should vote for the Somps * products of cheap | pygion legislative ticket. at fair prices in almost all classes of com- | European labor. The carrying out of e modities. Merchants and manufacturers this policy, together with currency de-| Remember that Frank Rausom, the lowe: Now there is one safe principle to go on have been too busy, In fact, to devo'e much | wpen you are discussing what 1s going to time to mere spcc acu ar elecetionecring, ani | pappen, and that principle s that people the cauvass for the presidency in 1900 will | ure not golng to do anything injurious to pass into history as one of the most prosaic | (hejp interests it they know it and uneveutful sine the era of good feel- “I shall be in this city for a number of ing which ushered tn the administration of | gayg, and 1 am golng to talk to the people President Monroo, more than three-quarters | (homselves, not to their employers to bar. of & century ago. There 18, in truth, no | gain for the delivery of the votes of the werlous apprehensions In business circles of | people. 1 have been taught to belleve that impending mischief due to the choice of the | {he ballot was given to an individual for people in the forthcoming elections, Al the signs polnt to & continuance of the ex- isting political order of things, with which the people are entirely famillar, and with | firm or the president of @ railroad or the the partisan sponsors for which they will reckon at & future day when the political atmosphere shall have been cleared, | uis own use. Therefore in this campaign I want to address my arguments to the individual voter and mot to the head of a boss of & corporation “When our opponents are driven to the wall on the money question, vwhen they have failed in the attempt to defend them. selves before the American people, they attempt to turn the decision of this cam- paign off from the money question onto other matters, but I give them notice that for one week more they have got to march up to the money question.' Well, they did “march up to the money question” and contributed their full share to its settlement. They and the friends of sound currency in other states won the victory through which the republican party, in its national platform of 1900, was enablea to make the proud clalm that “the stability of our currency on a gold basis has been secured.,” Had the democratic party ac- cepted that settlement as final and gone into this campalgn with a conservative candidate on a conservative platform, it would have lost its populist allies, but it would have galned very largely through rerublican opposition to the administra- tion's Philippine policy and through the disaffection inevitably resulting from the dispensation of patronage. But Mr. Bryan's candidacy could not be shaken off, and, taking him, the democracy was compelled to take his platform. It remains to be seen whether his 1900 canvass of Chicago will be more success- ful than that of 1896. He must face every day his predictions of four years ago and the undeniable proot that all of them mis- carried. He is perhaps the only American of his time—or, Indeed, of any other time— capable of making splendid displays of oratorical ability; capable of proving him- self & consummate master of rhetorical eloquence; able to draw and to enthuse vast crowds while standing smid the utter wreck of his prophecies, theories, and ar- uments with which e won his unex- ampled vote of four years 0-—~a vote greater than any presidential candidate priorto that time had ever received. He says there have been no abuses of tha plan, but adds that he thinks It not a sate one. The late John Sherman thought it the duty of every public man to recelve, when- ever possible, all who wished to see him. Only a short while before his death he sald: “If people want to see me they shall do %0 as long as I have the strength to re celve them.” A Spanish paper asserts that two de- scendants of Columbus—Manuel and Maria Columbo, brother and sister—are at presenc Inmates of the asylum for the homeless in the city of Cadiz. It 18 said that docu- ments in their possession incontestshly prove their descent. Information that will surprise many per sons is that President Patton of Princeton university is not a citizen of the United States. He ‘was born in Bermuda and has retained his citizenship there to preveat forteiting a large preperty which was be- queathed him on condition that he remain a British subject. Francls Burton Harrison, who is now a post-graduate student of Yale In the English course, announces that he will write a history of the civil war from the confeder- ate standpoint. His father was private sec- retary to Jefferson Davis, The young man has inherited literary aspirations from his | talented mother, Mrs. Frances Burton Har- | rison, and these are encouraged by his bri who was Miss Mary Crocker, daughter of the California millionaire. General Hawley pays this tribute to the late Charles Dudley Warner: “He was completely a gentleman. He lived a re- Iigious life, but said little about it. He regularly attended his church, respecting and obeying its observances. I never heard from his lips an indelicate or coarse story or an unclean idea. He abhorred injustice, meanness and dishonor. It is a cheertul spirit and a true wit and a sweet humor that we find in all his works." KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE ISSUE. Now m Good Time to “Let Well Enoug Alone." Detrolt Free Press (ind. dem.) National elections from the viewpoint of the practical politiclan mean nothing more than a struggle for (he loaves and fishes and the demagogue exerts an influence far beyond his deserts. But men of affairs, no matter how small or great the aggregats of their substantial possessions, know that the outcome may mean disaster or abund- ant prosperity. This truth is recorded in their dally earnings, their bank accounts, their ability to cancel outstanding debts and in return from their fuvestments. In the contest now on they have the bene- fit of one of the sharpest contrasts fur- nished within the same time eince the or- ganization of the unfon. Since 1893 we have passed through a most distressing financial crisis and attained to the highest mark of national prosperity yet reached in our his tory. In this contrast of extremes, fur- nished within so brief a perlod, there fis dispassionate evidence to which the peoplo cannot but give due weight when they come to render a verdict a few days hence. That we are prosperous beyond precedeit is attested in results that canmot be mi:- taken. We not only have prosperity but the confidence and courage which it begets An era thus blessed follows closely upon the heels of depression, uncertainty, failure and that timidity which drives capital to retirement and paralyzes the activities upon which the masses rely for living and saving. Nobody in his senses would deliberately prefer or vote for adversity. Noboedy in his senses will vote for a chief apostle ot financial heresy, and thus invite adversiiy The citizens of this country certalnly do not 80 soon require another lesson in the school of afiction. They face the same paramount question upon which the elec- tion turned four years ago, and the right determination of which inaugurated pros- perity. Under the existing financial sys- tem we are doing better than ever befors, and it would be lunacy to adopt a policy or & man whose rejection at the polis brought about this vast improvement {n our weltare. BRIGHT AN D BREEZY. Yonkers Statesman: Mrs. name is not spelled rigit o Gotham—\What's Church—Youy n this lst. the matter’ wity Why, Lillle is spelled with only one 1." ‘Oh,” well, my husband wrote that fit's pothinig new for him to forget one of my otters. Philadelphia Pres: Barber--8have, sir? Crusty Customer—Yes, and I don't want any conversation with it Darber (good naturediy)—All right, You supply the chin and 1'll do the rest Baltimore Amerlcan: Askit—What fs a ccnvenient fall trip for me to make? Tellit—You might step on a_banana peel or try to balance on a cake of soap ut the head of the stairs. Pittsburg Chronicle: Mr. Pitt—Bryar ought _to know better than to try to carry New York on the anti-imperfalist {ssue Mr. Penn—Why should he know bett Mr. Penn—Because New York is the pire ‘state, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “What are we coming to? It this sort of thing keeps Ug every soclal barrier will be swept uway. " “What's the matter now?" “Why, somebody's mald here in the po. lice court uctually got up and insisted that she 18 a kleptomania Washington Star: “Always keep & proi fse,” wald Senator Sorghum. “Stand by & triend tll the very last and labor for the success of your party without thought of future reward." “‘Are those the things you alwave do?"’ “No,* was the answer, “'they are what ) want the other fellow (o do.” Chicago Tribune: “Irophetess,” sald (he ular youn man, --Kl(-mllur his im, nst read the futire? I would fain know at it has in store for me.'" “The page {u somewhat soiled, but stil legible, " the for r repiled, bending over {t. I am able to foresee, young man, that you will never die from an excessive use of soap and water.” LLECTION WAGERS, Washington Star, 'here's little to do but walt, just now o to fade from the troubled brows prow to muke more voom ful shade of election gloos dnd figurad tho best T il my cash like a littlp man. . when this election's o'er than he was before brand-new hat and a b d-new [ jgueswe And bet som Wil b With it And money to scatter free; While the ‘Incense floats from & fins cheroot; Oh, I wonder which "twill be! Oh, some may dance when the fiddlers play, And toll to make up the fiddlers' pay, And I'm waiting to see, with an anxious glance, If my t 8 coming to toll or dance. Wikl 1 in bliss without ailoy, Or try to smile at another's joy? “or 1t really I8 a comfort great To know that some one will feel fi With @ brand-new hat and a bra sult, And money to scatter free; While the Incense floats from “cheroot Oh, I wonder which “twill bel 4 , »