Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1900, Page 4

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State of Nebraska, Dougias County, ss George i, Tzschuck, secretary of The Hee Publishing Company, being duly sworn rays that the actual number or full ani complote coples of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee nrinted during the month of October, 1%0, was as foliows: ..27,220 M 27,010 24,130 ... 47,010 28,7500 27 060 27,110 ¥ A%0 ..27,800 27,470 27,670 Lm0 .28, 730 .28, 700 8 : 20,050 10, 1 12 13 1" 15 15, @ a 27,470 Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net dally average SORGE Subscribed in my presence and sworn to fore. n day of November, A. M. B, _HUNGATE Notary Pu’ e < come————e e — Tomorrow te the tale, “Great 1s Tammany and Croker is its prophet.”—Willlam J. Bryan. ———— Mr. Bryan honors Omaba again by winding up his kecond campaign for a twice lost cause in this city. S ————— Two years ago Hitchcock was even more certain that he had Dave Mercer beaten than he is this year that Edgar Howard has him beaten. But it did not pan out. —e Even the World-Herald gives it up on the registration returns by admitting that they indicate a republican majority of nearly 00 in Omaha and South Omaha. Get into, the band wagon. When you sce an eleventh hour cam- paign roorback do not believe It, espe- clally If it comes from the popoeratic fakirs, who have been sowing falsehood thick and fast from the beginning of the eampaign. —— Omaha, South Omaha and Douglas county will this year cast the biggest vote ever recorded for them. That alone will be one big signboard of the frults of McKinley prosperity reflected by our increased population. Beware of fake sample ballots put out under confusing labels for the purpose of misleading unwary voters. Ballots of this character will be distributed in the city in the Interests of fusionists headed “Republican Sample Ballot,” but marked for fusion legislative candidates. Don't be fooled. been Issued withdraw from in favor of W. asking the J. has to race An appeal Eugene Debs presidential Bryan. withdraw in favor of Eugene Bryan had one chance and lost it, al- though Debs was supporting bim, Why not give Debs a free field? the fusionists in Cold comfort Omaha's registration returns which give the affillations of the voters as recorded by their voluntary answers to the ques- No wonder the fusion crowd are eager to repeal the primary election law | to how these first voters will under whose provisions the party affilla- tion. tions are noted by the registrars. Remember that e to record his preforence for under the provisions of the law. If you belleye In the direct cholce of senators by voting your cholce as an instruction to by the people show your faith the legislative members, ¥ The campaign waged against Chacles IL Dietrich for governor by the fusion Ists of Nebraska would disgrace a Hot tentot soclety. No more Qisreputable tacties could be pursued than have resorted to in the interest of G Poynter. The campaign of defamation and filth waged in his be half should alone condemn Poyuter to decisive defeat. Remember that one cross mark in the eircle opposite the names of the can didates for presidential electors will vote the entire set of electors, but that i will not vote for any other offices. Every voter must make his cross mark opposite the nawe of the candidate for each office on the ticket for whom he wishes ta register his choice. marking In the circle for the electors, Why not ask W. J. Bryan to Debs? 'ry voter has a right United States senator on the official ballot und lis vote will be counted and canvassed been vernor slander, Governor Let no one Imagine he is voting a straight ticket by simply NAME OLD STORY. The only refuge of the World-Herald from the irrefutable evidence of the registration returns, which it Is pelled admit indicate a republican majority in Omaha and South Omaha of not less than 2,000, 18 the same old story of padded registration and col onization used by the Fakery in every recent elec tion, but when confronted with a d mand for the proof it has always fluked This year it is In worse plight than evs because every evidence points to the registration in Omaha and South Omaha covering simply the normal vote and no more Comparing the registered vote of 1806 with that for 1000 we have an increase from 19903 to 21,741, which Is a gain of only 1,814, On a population basis of five to each voter this represents a growth of D070 in the last four years, | Who would venture to assert that Omaha's population has not inereased more than 10,000 since 1806, when every. thing was at low ebb? A census of | vacant houses made by The Bee in th spring of that year disclosed 1,967 un- occupled dwellings and 164 vacant store bulldings. Al of these dwellings and stores, as well as many hundreds of new ones erccted since 1896, are occu pied toda The Increased registration in the two cities of Omaha and South Omaha over 1806 represents a population Increase of about 18,000, which is under, rather than above, the actual facts, Here are a few figures on this year's veglstration exhibits of some other citles which prove how ridiculous s the World-Herald's colonization howl: Citles, Reglstration. Population Omaha 21,741 102,655 Albany 94,101 Dayton Columbus Toledo . Loulsville Minneapolls Detroft ...... § 80,704 The fakes about false registration and illegal voting may be a good enoughy morgan to warm the despairing fusion- | ists overwhelmed with thelr wretched showing, but they should decelve no-| | body. 1t is simply the sawe old toreh | to lead up to wholesale fntimidation of | voters and interference with the election by fusion wardheelers commissioned as | deputies by the fusion sl com to 60 131,822 | 04,731 | 18 THE FIFT Southern democrats are to a wan in| favor of repealing the fifteenth awend- | ment to the constitution of the United States, which gives colored citizens the | suffrage. On February 14 last Mr. Un- derwood, who represents the Ninth con- gressional district of Alabama and who 18 known on the floor of the house of rep- resentatives as the “democratic whip,” introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution pro- viding for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment. The resolution wuas re- ferred to the committee on the judi- clary. The sentiment in the south in favor of the repeal of the fifteentn amend- | ment, which stands jn the way of the | complete disfranchisement of the negro, would undoubtedly prevail with a demo- cratlie administration and congress. The wmatter is one in which colored citizens especially should take a deep interest. It Is ditficult to understand how any colored man can support the party which, while applyiug the principle of consent of the governed to the Iili pinos, disfranchises colored American citizens and demands that the constitu- tional amendment shich gives such citizens the right to vote shall be re- pealed. There Is no reason to believe that 3r. Bryan is not in sympathy with the democrats of the south in this mat- ter, for he has sald nothing in disap- proval of what they have done. 1HE YOUNG MAN'S VOTE, It is estimated that nearly four million young men will cast thetr first vote for president of the United States next Tuesday. The new element in the con- test this year amounting, it may be as- sumed, to 8,500,000 votes, is an impot- tant factor. Therefore the question as rang themselves politically is one of surpass- ing Interest, In an appeal to the young men of New | York the Democratic Honest Money | League of Amcrica says: “Every man, particularly every young man, who has a pride In hig country and a lofty pur- pose iu life, must be interested in presenting to the world a high character for intelligence, Integrity, commercial and financial bonor and stability, con- ditions absolutely necessary with a peo- ple as with Individuals to insure suc. cess. No promising, awmbitious young man can afford to begin lite on a faise foundatlon. Integrity of purpose and plan of Hfe laid on highly honoerable and moral grounds alone will iusure honorable success.”” This I8 of generul application. It appeals to young meu everywhere, Those of Amerlcan birth who will cast thelr first presidentiul vote this year have grown to manhood while the principles and policies for which the re- publican party stands have been in operation. They have seen pride the progress of their country In wealth and power and in the respect of the world, They have learned that what makes the name American hon- ored in every civilized land is the fuct that this government has always becn faithrul to its obligations and met every Just demand upon it fully and fairly. With this before them, with the ov t ) This wornout yarn has been | | THE CcANDIDACY | tion to thelr already heavy taxes? | bulldoze fellow members and trade his | | | with just| | these of this country, more men employed and at better wages than ever before, better markets, greater demand nd steadier good prices than ever before the largest forelgn and domestic trade in our history. We have ten times more places, commanding good salaries, open | to the young man than any other coun- try on the face of the earth. Every in- télligent young man must appreciate fortunate conditions and desire thelr continuance. They mean for him larger opportunities, a broader field for the exercize of his ability, energy and industry. The young men of today have high aspirations. They take pride Jin the progress of their country and do ot wish to see it checked. They are not contractionists. Having a patriotic pride in the strength and glory of their country, they are opposed to any policy that would weaken the one or tarnish the other. For these reasons we do not doubt that a very large majority of the first voters on next Tuesday will allgn them. selves with the republican party, OF FRANK RANSOM, It is a matter of general notorlety thay Frank Ransom was nominated for the stute senate by the fusionists through the Influence of the men who are on the bond of Jue Bartley. It *is a matter of notoriety also that desperate efforts are being made by these men to elect Rausom for the pur- pose of compromising, through the leg- islature, their obligation to the state. It is likewise a watter of notoriety that Ransom s the paid attorney for these bondsmen and has in vain sought to get them released from their responsibility through ehe court The court rccords show that the awount embezzled by Bartley exceeded $600,000 and that with the Interest at 5 per cent It now exceeds three-fourths of a million. It Is not known how wmuch Ransom Is to get for engineering, | through the legislature, a release of this | obligation that it has been found impos- sible to secure through the courts. Sutfice | it to say that if Rausom Is elected and succceds In bis purpose the proportion of the loss which would fall upon Doug las county taxpayers would be about | $50,000. | Are the taxpayers of this county, and | particularly the workingmen who own modest homes, willing to be saddled DAILY BEE: r— — own candidates, e caster county are here MONDAY ¥ warned not to | out by their county clerk, {sure of voting for if they have to take a du on the ballot but to make congressman off to find it The fusion hue and ery about repeat ers and colonized voters is nothing more tracks of popocratic conspirators who have been planting bogus voters in South Omaha and registering paupers and insane people out of the county poor farm. The howl about alleged election frauds is also designed to serve as an excuse for calling out spectal dep- uty sheriffs named by the popocratic county committee with Instructions to overawe and bulldoze voters at the polls when there is not the remotest excuse or warrant for their interference. Every party is represented in the election board and no frauds can be perpetrated without thelr connivanc —e I'rank Ransom went down to the leg- {slature four years ago under a pledge to work for a liberal state appropria- tlon to the Transmississippi Exposition. He afterwards declared on the floor of the senate that though he had spoken and voted for the exposition bill he had done so under compulsion and regretted that it had not been voted down by his fellow senators. In a word, he did,all he could to stab the exposition bill in the dark, although elected on that very fssue. Does Omaha want its interests Jeopardized again by such a man? A vote for som is a vote to saddle on the taxpayers of the state the entlre shortage of the Bartley defal- cation collectible from the bondsmen for whom Ransom 18 the pald attorney. Douglas county pays more than one elghth of all the state taxes. Do Doug- lus county taxpayers want to contribute to the bondsuien $80,000, which would e thelr shave of the burden? If 8o they will send Attorney Ransom to the state | senate to pull the bondsmen's chestnuts out of the firs The contest in Douglas couunty over the legislative delegation, so far as choice of United ates senator is con cerned, is for the election of men fa vorable to the candidacy of Edward | with such a tremendous burden fn addi- | In | view of the efforts to compromise with | Bartley's bondsmen through the legisla- | ture, would it be sufe or even prudent | to place the attorney of these bondswmen | on the floor of the senute, where he can vote for all kinds of jobs and schemes? Of all men who have ever served in the Nebraska legislature Ruusom 1s the slickest and most nervy manipulator and the most crafty and unscrupulous trader in votes. He Is, withal, a man who cov ers his tracks so well that he is actually | able to pose as the champlon of public rights and publie Interests, when, In fact, he 18 the most dangerous man ever sent to the legislature from Douglas county. He is an adept in introducing bold-up bills, getting them passed | through the body of which he is a mem ber and then making combinations with members of the other house to have them pigeonholed or killed. Then he polnts to his own elean record and ap- peals for the renewal of confidence to the people whose Interest he has trayed, GERMANY AND CHINA. The attitude of Germany toward China continues to be somewhat enig- matical. While the German govern- ment has entered into an agreement with other powers looking to the main tenance of the “open door” and the preservation of the integrity of Chinese territory, the course being pursued by Germany has an aggravating tendency which may produce serlous results. There Is a military aggressiveness belng shown which apparently the circum- stances do not warrant und the effect of whiel,, it continued, may be to defeat the policy of pacification which it is the understundivg all the powers desire to carry out. Germuny has a large force in China and it would seem to be her purpose to give them employment. According to u Berlin dispatch the opinion there is that the military operations are by no weans over. It is suggested that the Chiuese are organizing for a winter campaign. This is of course possible, but the guestion Is whether the course of the Germans is not couduelng to this. It has been felt ail along that Count von Waldersee would like to add to his military fame by some signal operations aguinst the Chinese and the admonitions of Ewperor William to his departing troops are well remembered. These things suggest that Germauny will not Ily satisfied unless the expedition to Chino shall accomplish something that will make a lasting impression upon the empire. There {8 reason to think that the spirit of revenge which has been shown in the utterances of the kalser has by no means died out. It Is stated that Germany does not {ntend to send any more troops to China unless unforeseen circumstances arise. Deference to the other powers requires an attitude of this kind, but the danger 1s that Germany's course In China may produce the circumstances that would furnish her an excuse for sending more troops there, At any rate her actlon Is peculiar and does not appear to be in | the interest of peace, Rosewater for United States senator on the one side and favorable to the can didacy of G. M. Hitcheock ou the other. That is the issue squarely joined. No man who does pot want to support Hitehcock should vote for the fusion legislative candidates. Willilam R. Hearst, proprietor of the great New York yellow journal and the recognized organ of Tammany, bLus issued a proclamation offering heav. rewards for the arrest of perpetrator of election frauds. This is decidedly }vuul. even in the shadow of Croker's ice trust. Now G. M. Hitcheock's little yel- low Journal follows suit with a bom- bastle pronunciamento to the same tenor, but smaller rewards. County Attorney Shields keeps as his chief deputy a man who when placed on | the witness stand at an arraignment of gamblers a year ago refused to testify because he would incriminate himself. Notwithstanding this Shields has re tained this deputy on his staff and will doubtless reappoint him If re-elected Do the people of this county want self- confessed law-breukers in such respon- sible positions vested with law enfor ment? The loeal fusion wachine is making great deal of noise about alleged el tion frauds, but when simmered down nothing will materialize. It is the same old story revamped every su election for the purpose of frightening timid voters and diverting attention from the crooked work of the fusion gang. Let no one be deceived by this rayed or Stolen. Jourier-Jouraal, What has become of Wharton Barker? Has he been pocketed or hasn't the cam- paign caught up with him yet? A Few of Uns Left, Baltimore American. ‘We are 76,000,000, And as our quality Is quite equal to our quantity we may feel that we are fairly entitled to shake hands with ourselves and congratulate the world on our being its foremost nation. It does ot do for real greatness to be too mod- est. B Pipe Dreams of Democrats, Washington Fost The gentleman at the head of the press bureau of the democratic national commit- tee has analyzed the confidence in the sucs cess of President McKinley and ascertained that it all tends to show a landslide for Bryan. The Jones system of seelng things appears to be contaglous &t democratic headquarters, Wild Mouthing Provekes Smile, Philadelphia Ledger. This Is a free country and the best proot of the fact is that Croker s permitted to counsel mob violence at the polls without any interference beyond the protest of good citizens. In any other country the govern- ment would put a summa stop to NI(-}‘ incendlary talk, especlally from & leader with 8o much influence as Croker wields. Weyl & the Hoer: Philadelphia North Amerlcan. The reconcentrado policy of Weyler has been adopted by the Britlsh in South Africa. All Boers over 14 years of age Mving outside of a radius of ten miles from Bloemfontein are belng taken to that place and good progress is reported in the work of deporting Boer women from Jagersfontein to Bloemfonteln, where they are imprisoncd a few mwiles outside the city. - The British method of advancing NOVEMBER ublicans of l’,nl\‘qj obis | be caught by the form of the ballot put | $ even | nor less than a scheme to cover the | 1900. 54 . ‘ For more than a quarter of a secure this right for the people by tion to instruct thelr repre under the constitutional provision tions of the republican party in its terest of the American people and depression. postal facllities to the people. regulated and controlled by slon of corporations, 1 am by no property, either by presc extortion and discrimination self accessible to every citizen of ; ; z ; ; of United States senators by direct vote of the people, United States, however, have failed up to this time. pronch to popular selection of United & this state, where the people have ntatives in the legislature by an expres: slon of preference at the ballot box. In proof of my sincerity us an ady of senators 1 have appealed for an expression official ballot at the coming election. 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 guurdes 1 am in favor of the postal telegraph and the widest extension of 1 believe that corporations are creatures of the state and should be the state Jing ruinous rates or excessive taxatlon, other words, I favor such legislation as will protect the people against corporate monopolies, but at the same time am opposed to any legislation that would prevent them from earn ing fair interest on honest investment. My career in Nebraska, which covers a period of thirty-seven years, 1s o sufficlent guaranty that if clected fo the United States senate [ shall labor with all my ability and energy to promote the welfare and material prosperity of the state and nation und shall always hold my- services or thme, no matter how humble or poor. ,oooo»o.;oomoouooo“ D R radadhnd To the Voters of Nebraska: century 1 have advocated the election All efforts to amendment of the coustitution of the The pearest ap been made I state constit 08 senato) a right under the cate of the divect popular election of public sentiment by having my name placed on the While standing upon the declara national platform, 1 am committed banks in through panic While 1 favor public supervi means in favor of confiseating their n Nebraska who has a clalm upon my . ROSEWATER S, S O e e, “YOU'RE ANOTHER, Bryan's Appeal to the B Subjected to u Roast New York Times (ind.) K Man found a more ludicrous use than in the mouth of Mr. Bryan in his appeals to the negro voters of West Virginta. Mr. Bryan apparently been somewhat annoyed at the inconsistency of his pas- conkent of the governed” in the Philippines with the suppression by his party of the right of the negroes to any voice in thelr local and state governments as well as In the national government. To meet the em- barrassment thus caused he asks the negroes to consider this question: “If a brown man in the Philippive islands has no right to a voice in his government, what about the black man?' The natural answer of the black man to that question is that the re- publican party has done all that has been done to secure him a voice in his own gov- erument, and that the democratic party has resisted it in every way that it could legally, {llegally, peaceably, by fraud, or violently Mr. Bryan is correct and that the re- publicans intend to bar the Filipinos from a share in the government—which is the precise opposite of the truth—the black man knows that as to himself the policy of the republican party is benevolent and just, while that of Mr. Bryan's party is openly hostile and oppressive. This is one of the things that *‘Punch’” classifies under the head of “better left unsaid.” ANOTHER EXAMPLE, Bryan's “Trost Remedy” Applied the Standard 011, Buffalo Express Standard Ol stock reached $505 in Wall street on Thursday. The advance was due to rumors that the last quarterly dividend tor the year would be $12 a share, which would make & total of $50,000,000 paid_ in dividends this year. The capital stock of the company is $100,000,000. This Is all common stock. There is $10,000,000 of pre- ferred stock authorized but unissued, so practically the profits of the company this year have been 50 per cent of its capital These certainly are enormous profits. It seems to the Express a self-evident prop- osition that there is a public danger in- volved In permitting a single corporation thus to pile,up wealth by means of monopoly. But let us see how Mr. Bryan's trust remedy would apply here. He would put trust products on the free list. That would not affect the Standard at all, for its prod- ucts already are on the free list. He would require the trust to take out a federal license which should not be issued till it was able to declare there was no water in its stock. It Is likely that none of the $100,000,000 stock of this corporation rep- resents what could justly be called water. In that case the Standard would merely pay the federal license fee and thereby re- celve federal authorization, which would render its position more secure than ever. Supposiug, for the sake of argument, how. ever, that halt of the $100,000,000 of stock could be declared water. What then? Tho company would merely have to reduce its stack from $100,000,006 to $50,000,000, the value of shares would advance from $600 to $1,200 and the dividends would be 100 per cent instead of 50. Bqueezing the water out of this stock, if it contains water, and granting it a federal license would not disturb its monopoly in the least or affect its actual profits. It would merely compel a change in bookkeeping. And this s what Bryan calls destroying the trusts! PERSONA to NOTES. Dr. Matthew J. Grier, whose denth fn Phil- adelphia is announced, was widely known as a specialist on nervous diseases The plate glass insurance companies lost more than the fire underwriters by the big oxplosion, in New York recently The stoutest of European monarchs is the king of Portugal, who 1s only five feet six inches tall and weighs 308 pounds. If China must pay that littie bill of $200,- 000,000, she must, and Lt Hung Chang will guarantee that she shall at least promise 1o do so. 1t is sald that President Kruger will travel incog Auring bis visit to France. He can do it by removing his Galways, wearing a derby hat and smoking clgars. Oom Paul quotes the bible fiuently, but, in what construction he puts on the passage, “Thou shalt tread upon the llon." A Chicago alderman I3 sald to have made $1.400 out of a love ditty he fabricated. The perplexities and cares of municipal office occasionally stimulate & poetic soul Russell Sage attended a political meeting in New York City the othgr evening and surprised most of those who heard him by recalling that many years ago he was a po- The “you're another” argument has ur-\n'ri slonate attachment to the doctrine of “the his recent allusion to Psalm xcl, we wonder VOICE OoF T ATE PRESS, Aurora Republican grown quite emaciated efforts for his constituency. the strain of hard labor fu his careworn | face, his slow p, his loose waisteoat and bis evident inability to make a good polit- fcal talk. Yes, the colonel is aging under the strain of political duties Kearney Hub: The desperate personal | fight that the fusionists are makiug against | Charles M. Dietrich, republican candidate | for governor, bus called for a protest from |the Hastings city counch and may be |taken as gopd and sufficient evidence that |1t is the last resort to save Governor | Poynter from deserved defeat and humili- | ation. Colonel Stark has in his tireless You can see tast Beatrice Express: General Fitzhugh Les | will hereafter be stationed at Omaha. A couple of years ago there were many en- thuslustic democrats who believed that he would s00n be stationed at the White House because of the record he had made in war and diplomacy. But a change has come | over the spirit of the democratic dreams Granting that the contention of |since then and a war record Is no longer considered a recommendation, Central City Noopareil: The administra- tion of Governor Poynter has been a signal fallure from start to finish, to put it most charitably. He has increased the state debt, disrupted and well nigh destroyed some of the state Institutions, pardoned murderers, vetoed resolutions thanking our soldlers and at every polnt shown the rankest incapacity it not downright dishonedty. Do you want to endorse such a mistake by voting for his re-election? Table Rock Argus: Mr. Berge Is mak- ine an attack upon Congressman Burkett becauss he 18 establishing rural mail routes. ‘The reasor of this attack is because Mr. Burkett is In favor of a rural free de- livery and of course therefore Berge s opposed to it. The people on these routes generally think that it adds $5 an mcre to the value of thelr farms and Congross- man Burkett intends to go right on estab- li:img rural mall routes and favors the extension of them in'o every county in the district. Berge's attack will only make more Burkett votes. Stanton Picket: The election of a fuston | legislature means the election of Gilbert M. Hitcheock as one of the United States sen: ators, Mr. Hitchcock is a born aristocrat | who has inherited no less than three for- unes and squandered most of the money | by unbusinesslike methods. His hands, a soft as a lady's, were never solled by labor, his face was never browned by the wind and sun of the flelds, his brow was never molst with sweat which labor brings. A laborer he never was. As a business man he is not a success. Do you want such a man to repre- sent your interests in the senatorial hall at Washington ? Ord Quiz: One of the best campalgn plc- tures of the season (and it was not intended for a campaign picture) s a full page fllus- tration on the front page of The Omaha Illustrated Bee entitled “Two Engineers. At the rear end of a traln stand Mark Hanna and a locomotive engineer, side by side and looking straight at you. Hanna's powerful body is in pleasing barmony and contrast with his clear, clean cut countenauce, and the engineer is & typical one of his profes- sion. In small type appears the followlog statement, credited to Mark Hanna: I am the engineer of the republican party; you are the engineer of this train. I run the party, you run me.” They hoth look like successful engineers. York Times: Our J. T. Smith, erstwhile a lioutenant in the Nebraska militia, who went with his regiment to Manila and then came home again, is creating some stir, he has a right to do it he can. Since he came to York he has behaved himself right well, which shows a good deal of self-control for a fusionist. The fact 1s, however, that Smith loft Manila for home January 12, 1809, hree weeks before the Tagals made their first attack on the American troops, and of course did not leave “because our govern- ment was engaged in an unholy war.”" Even it he conslderad the Spanish war ‘‘unholy" he could bardly make such a claim, as at the time he left the army there was truce with Spain and sweet peace with all the world, fncluding the Tagals Holdrege Citizen: Some are inclined to criticise Editor Rosewater of Omaha be- cause he had his name printed on the bal- lots s camdidate for United States sen- ator. This 18 a privilege that any citizen has a right to have done if he gets the necessary number of signatures to his pe- tition and we do not see why any one has a reason to kick about it. It shows at least that he is not afrald to let the people have their say what they think about his candldacy and we think that is something that a whole lot of those who are kicking about Mr. Rosewater would be afrald stand regarding themselves. that Mr. Rosewater personally and throu; his paper has done much for Nebraska and the cause of republicanism. He has made eececesessstssstsestststses sesesesetees seesetesettstttsssssosttete to 1t in rm-u.] who were not even of his own political faith from heavy property loss during those distressing times by advancing the money for those «armers the money loancr | who were demanding the foreclosure of |loans, and securing continuances until t farmers could tide over the failure and b {In better shape to pay the indebtedness | Farmers of the Fifth district, need you t for one moment to decide which man ou ought to vote for? |, Hastings Tribune to A certain clique of the fusion forces in Nebraska has become 80 low, base and disreputable as to clrcu- late the meanest kind of lles about | Charlse H. Dietrich just because he s the republican eandidate for governor. The sneaking underhanded way the members of the clique go about their damnable work would shame the meanest kind of black- guard. They go from place to place and from person to person and tell the most damnable lies that were ever uttered by | human tongue. They are scandalous to | the extreme and there is not one grain of |truth in thew, ws those who best know Mr. Dietrich are uware. Mr. Dietrich has lnuul In Hastings twenty-two years {and the citizens of Hustings and Adams county, regardless of party politics, know him to be a man who has {always stood for houesty and has alwaya | fought agalnst anything that appeared to | be a dishonest movement that ever came up in municipal affairs, And Mr. Dietrich has always borne the very best of reputations in this community. Mr. Dietrich {s an honest, upright business man who will | Elve you a business-like administration and he deserves your hearty support | UNC SAM'S BIG FAMILY. Features of a Century's Growth in fopulation | Bpringficid (M epublican The popuiation o ited States on [ June 1, 1900, 18 placed at 76,2 federal census bureau. This is slightly in excess of what had come to be expected, | and compares with 63,060,758 in 1890—an Increaso of 13,220,464, or uearly 21 per cent. From the first enumeration in 1790 | the decennial results have been as follows: Per cent of n | | Xear. Increase. erease, 1700 180 10 1520 1530 180 | 1850 1860 | 1870 1880 | 150 1,479, 200 1031308 n-year lundmarks in the growth of the nation under the presemt constitutlon, While the absolute increase during the last decade 1s the largest recorded, as of course it should. be, the relative increase is the smallest, and this to an extent is also in harmony with reasonable expectation, for @5 the country's population reaches such figures as at present, the gains from im- migration produce small relative effects compared with what was the case years ugo. Nevertheless, the natural rate of in« crease Is evidently declining along with & decline in immigration as related to the total population Thus altogether @& much elower pace in the filliug up of the vast territory of the United States has beem reached But the decline in rate of increase since | 1880 is probably less abrupt than the table shows. It has been pretty well established that the count of 1870 was defective in the southern states, and that & larger popula tion actually exlsted in the country than was reported. Hence the increase from 1870 to 1880 was exaggerated, while the increase from 1860 to 1870 was made to ap- pear less than the actual. Making thess allowances or corrections, we should have tho rate of increase falling pretty steadily from the 35.58 per cent of the decade just before the war to the approximately 21 per cent now reached. 1t, however, the 1870-1880 increase is cepted as exaggerated, then of course the Tate of increase for the 1880-1890 decade was larger than the 20.76 per ceut given, «ad we would have a fall in the rate dur- ing the last ten years more extended even than {s indicated, and the indicated fall is rather sharp. The slackening of the pace bas been very abrupt in this short time. The larger immigration of the 1850-1890 decade over the last decade will only partly explain this sudden and sharp decline n the rate of increase. There must exist & marked tendency to decline in the natural rate of increase through the excess of births over deaths. SAUCY SELECTIONS. Indianapolls Journal: got_her hat tipped forward “Yesn; does she want to hide her comical little pug nose, or to call attention to 1t?" the fow that girl has Chicago Record: suppose now strike 18 ended coul will come down." “Oh, no; the dealers are not yet pacified.” Harper's Bazar: “Gracious, little bo You're not going to kil the dear little bir are you?" “No, dear lady: I'm merely goin' ter fire oft several salutis in dere honor. Dat's al D Lite: Justice—What were you “olonel Pullet’s chicken coop? ose—Fo' de Lawd, judge, 1 de census. doing In Uncle Jew' takin was Chicago Tribune: “Mamma," sald Johnny, “I don't belleve this is a health food.” “Why not, son?" “It tartes good." Chicago Tribune: Irene—1 yo1 are enzaged agaln and am to At you. Penelope—Mercy, no! My latest engnge- ment 1s with the dentist. understan 1 suppose Detroit Free Press muel, 1 think we will be more certain to get away without detection 1f we elope on a rallway train.” ‘Well, ask your father to get us a pass. Cleveland Platn, Dy ting more polite. e n't notlced ft." “Yes, nt breakfast this morning the pan- cakes on top of the pile were a lfttle burnt and when they were passed to Jimmle he wald, ‘Help George first.’ “Jimmie is get- Philadelphia Press: Do you think it will 7' awmked the fair young bud vacclnated. 11" replled the gallant doct £ 1t doesn't ‘take on such a pretty arm as that 1'll have no respect for vaccine hereafter.” Detrolt Journa The Current Conception of a Boc y Girl eried softly to herself. “Now that the automobile has done away with the coachman,” she was mouning, “whom am I to elope with?" Nuturally the future looked very dreary, holding ea it did nothing for her but re: spectable marria Chicago Post: “She's teaching me to dance,” he explained 4 “And how far have you progressed® 1 have learned where to put my arm. ow long has she been &iving you les- sons?" “Oh, a littls over six weeks. broad Missour! bolls, »ay by day the car-bullder tolls, Deliiea hyyl)m ‘glant voice of steam. ome of the rolling stock, Jie {ron horse have rest, N There 18 the | There may There, at th The king o Or) . midday and eve we hear, M & 1oud, the call of the Whops; g houna i winter, all the year, TR Nolse this voice o'ertops. civilization is by way of the military fail to Ceylon gnd St. Helena e ey “Greatnesy” Swells Expense. Philadelphia Record. Greater New York ls paying the penalty of greatness. The expenditure of the mu- nictpality to be provided for in 1901 will be nearly $100,000,000. This is very largely in excess of the cost of government before the comsolidation. It often happens that the economies which are expected to result from aggregation are not realized. The greatér city has not sought out greater men to manage its more complicated af- falrs. As a consequence there is a lack of eMclency and a recklessness of under- taking which in the end must seriously binder the city's growth and prosperity, Edgar Howard lowers himself in the estimation of the public when he tries to soften down the excoriation he gave that unotorious corporation capper, Frank Ran- som, when the latter nad sold out his constituents and betrayed his party the last time he corkscrewed his way luto the legislature. ‘Howard sized his man up right when he denounced his betrayal of trust and vothing he can say. now will change facts. It is rwally too bad that Edgar Floward should allow him- welf to be cajoled into even a half. hearted endorsement of a political holdup and legislative boodler, litical power himseif, having been mayor of Troy one term and two terms in congress At the celebration of the centennial of the District of Columbia in Washingtod in De- cember the speakers will be Senators Dantel and McCom and Cougressmen Payne and Richardson. Colonel T. A. Bingham will ex- plaln briefly the model of the new ‘White | House. Rear Admiral Schley has consented to go to Loulsyille next summer to attend the | twenty-elghth blenntal conclave of Knights Templar, but has declined*to ride a horse as one of the mouated staff, saying that he did not belleve it would be possible for him “to Keep the saddle on board one for ten min- utes, even It the animal was as gentle ue a | camel,” What is the matter with the repub licans in Lancaster county? Do they want to beat Congressman Burkett? No other conclusion ean be drawn from the Juggling of the official ballot which has | been perpetrated by the county clerk down there by placing the names of th congressional candidates at the ver bottom of the ticket. Republicans who have protested agalnst ballot juggling on the part of the fusion state and progress and prosperity. county officlals should not indulge in ‘We have the greatest degree of pros-|that practice themselves, especlally perity ever yet enjoyed by the people | when it threatens to n-m;t agalnst thelr mistakes, but he {s not the only one who has made them, McCook Tribune: There 1s one diference between Webster 8. Morlan, the repub- lican nominee for congress in this district, and A. C. Shallenberger, the fusion nomi- nee for that office, which cannot fail to endear Mr, Morlan to the hearts of those | farmers of the district who remember the | Makin distressing times of the fallure years The record of Mr. Shallenberger as & pur- chaser of notes from a quack doctor, se- cured from unsuspect!ng farmers down in Harlan county, it too well known to require | more than a mention at our hands. On the other hand, the writer knows of two or three instances in Red Willow county nd wweet does the muslo rise. . alone where Mr. Morlan saved furmers BERIAH COCHRAN, Hiek of a sleepleas clock, whelming evidence of the beneficent ¢ whistles outpours his blast, results of republican policy, can tlicse young men doubt for Instant whers duty calls them? It Would be to dis credit their intelligence, thelr integrity and their patriotism to think that @ very large majority of them will not be found with the party which proposes to uphold the national honor and to main- tain the monetary systewn under which this country has reallzed its greatest celling ard rolling in mellow chime, Swelllng, S hnls with steady flow, mus marks of time fi. city's people may know. Jiow it breaks through the dark of morn, Bold as the early chanticleer, Rousing us like the hunter's horn, Giving & thrill of lively cheer. Out of industry's life and health, Out of the breath of enterprise, union of work and wealth