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

] ’n-n: UMAHA DAIIY Bn. ot B RUBI:.\\A1LH, l'llmv — PUBLISH NG. GVERY MOR? EUBSCRIPTION One Year.$8.0 ar . TERMS OF Bee (without Sunduy), ly Beo and Sunday, One ¥ liustrated 5o, Une Yoar nday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year. Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICE Omaha: The Bee Buildin, Bouth Omaha- City Ha ty-Afth wnd N Strees Counctl Blufts, 10 Pear] Street, Chicago: 1610 Unity Bullding. New York mple Conrt Washington: 1 Fourteenth Street. Sloux City: 611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications IEIIIHIVK to ne torial matter shou dressed: Bee, Editorial L BUSINESS LETTERS, Business letters and remittances should addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- bany, Umaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order ?lylbla to T Dee Publishing Compant, Jnly 2-cent st m‘n accepted In payment o acconnts. Tersonal checks, excent oh Storn exch anges, ne UBLISHING 'COM STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Doug.as County, s1 Geory B. Teschuck, secretary of The Tice Publishing Company, being duly says that the actual_number oy [llll anl complete coples of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sunday Be sted dur month of Octobar, 1900, s follows: L 2T AN .87,300 27,470 ..27.670 f1ding, Twen- es and edi Omaha sworn ..27,010 28,500 27,960 ...27.110 27,430 27,480 B 9 L30,080 .. 27.870 — «82,719 nmsn Not total sales RTORTS Net dally avera 28002 GEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK Subseribed n my presence and sworn to before me this firat day of November, A. D., 1900, ¥ HUNG (Beal.) Notary pts S After told you s0.” Total ... Less unsold and returned coples today you can say “MeKinley and Prosperity” slogan, Ed Howell's election fraud stmply the cry of “stop thief. —_— Vote early to avold being crowded ont in the closing hours of the polls, st eall for dinner.” Do you want free soup or a full dinner pail? It looks as If the weather man were also on the side of McKinley and pros- perity. howl is The sum of all Bryan's paramount Issues Is that he wants to be elected president, Ransom's ranting against Rosewater does not cover up Ransom’s raseality in the legislature, The campaign manager thelr say about majoritic voters will do the talking. had the have Today The managers of the demoeratic cam paign profexs to be full of hope and confidence. The reaction when the re turns come in is liable to cause a o gestive chill. It is a loug l»ullot lv\n no voter should stop marking it until he has gone down Loth columns and expressed his cholce on every offi Do not vote a half- digested ballot. —— Watch for The Bee's election returns, The Bee, as usual, will have the only re liable, prompt and complete election news servi If you want the news correct, read The Bee. If a man cheat you once you are not to blame, but if he cheat you a second time It is your own fault. Do not let I'rank Ransom go to the state senate to scll out the people again, We do not belleve the reputable est mass of voters will endorse the paign of brazen falsehood, slander and defamation waged in Nebraska in be- half of the fusion candidate: 1f it is worth $2,500 to kill one bill in the legislature, how much will it be worth to compromise a claim of $750,000 against the state? Candidate Ransom will please answer that conundrum, In the language of the turf, Bryan €hot his bolt in the first few furlongs of the race and, rounding into the streteh, dropped back into the ruck. The best his backeis can expect is to save bis distanc When the supporters of the present state administration say it has saved the state $500,000 they mean they might have squandered §500,000 wore of the state’s money than they bave by work- ing full time at the job, Evidence 1s accumulating that the Cubans are progressing. In a game of base ball at Santlage a nine of na- tives gave ap American nine, in which there were three ex-Natlonal league players, a hard run for a victory, fbemm——— When it comes to concocting roor- backs the popocratlc imagination is without a peer. Some of the wild and weird storles which they bhave cirgu- lated during the closing days of the campalgn could have originated no- where else outside of the insane asylum. \ ‘What the vepublican tariff is worth to the wool grower can be figured out by reference to a telegram from one of the great wopl-producing countries of South America. It says the warehouses are filled with wool for which there is no demand, much of it the clip of the previous season, With a protective tariff, insuring a hote market for all the wool produced in the United States, American wool brings good prices, [ § tie | MAKING FF Exs Advices recelved ait Washington from Minister Conger state that satisfactory progress {s being made by the | a1 corps In the work of arranging o | basig for negotiations with the Chines Several fmportant have been upon, among them that of punishments. 1t is cted that when the winisters hay an understanding there will be no s rious objection on the pat of the Chi government, which in no po sition to resist the united demands of the powers. Indeed, it has been ap | purent all along that the imperial | government points agreed ex) | nese is | authorities arc willing to accept any | thing that way proposed short of their own abdication or the dismenbor ment of the empire, Tl are ready to pay any woncy Indemnity that may be demanded, on whatever practicabl terms the powers shall decide upo. and also to make whatever conces<ions may be required of them for the curity of peace, It will be expedient for the powers, { When they have settled upon & basis for | negettations, to firmly adhece to it, but | thelr demands should not be so extray agant as to practically amount to the spoliation of China. At the best it is #n enormous obligation which that country must assume—one which will heavily tax its financlal resources for many years—but it would not be wise to make the burden so great o halt the development of the empire and lessen the ability of the people to trade with the outside world, To would be damaging to the interests of the powers in the long run. China should mude to A subs! indemnity —one that she will remember for generations—but it should not Iw 80 extortionate as to be ruinous. \h' must also be required to give ample be | se ns be went of ber internsddonal obligations, but it ought to be possible to secure such guarantees without distur reigniug dynasty, ened, or requiring of would it as has been threat degrade for the overthrow of the dy 1y, It s not apparent that the civiliz world would gain anything from the success of the elemients hostile to fmperial authorities, therefore there uo reason why the powers should aught to promote the wishes or plans of those clements, There is probably no foundation for the report of & move ment to drive from power the dowager empress, for although there s little is for the antl-forcign eve uprising there y indication that at present no one Is more anxious than she to meet the demands of the powers for indemnity and guarantees, China should be dealt with irmly but at the e time fairly and justly, It 18 in the interest of the rest of the world that her punishment shall not be so severe as to be destructive, HE NAVY. The progrum of naval increase, agreed upon by the construction board, contemplates the building of thirty-two vessels of 151,600 tons, or more than double that laid down in any preceding year. Congress Is to be asked to authorize the following: hiree 15,000 ton battleships, two 15,000-ton armored cruisers, six 2,000-ton gunboats, six 600- ton gunboats, ten 200-ton gunboats, three 15,000-ton colliers, one 7,000- ton repair ship, one 000-ton marine trans| The board of con- struction decided to omit the torpedo bouts, both surface and submarine, recommended by the policy board, of which Admiral Dewey is chalrman, but the program in all other particulars con- forms closely to the initial project, to which reference has been made in Washington dispatches. The program divides itself naturally into three parts, according to the uses for which the navy is today regarded as most In need of augmented strength, the era of building general utility ships of large size and devold of pro- tection, intended solely for round the world cruising to display the [ fug, having passed so far as the Uunited States is concerned, that class of which the Baltimore and Chicago are types belng already looked upon as sufliclently numerous, There the program makers have contined their project to ships of offense, for police and for naval auxillary purposes re quired by the new conditions imposed !upon the navy by the Increasing im portance of Awerican interests in the far east. The five fighting ships pro posed ave move formidable than auy of the same category yet designed. With the seventeen now building or author- fzed, and with the six battleships and two armored cruisers already iu com- mission, they will give an offensive force of thirty ships. The elght now in active service average 10,000 tons, the six bullding average 12,000 tons, those Just designed aud to be contracted for next month—the Pennsylvania, the New Jersey, the Geovgla, the Virginla, the Rhode Island, the West Virginia, the Nebraska, the Californla, the Maryland, the Colorado and the South Dakota-— as ‘sly s will form a new 15,000-ton class. It is stated that naval officers ex pect aittle opposition to the adoption of this program at the next session of congress, as every vessel asked for is urgently needed, they say, if American interests in the Pacific ocean are not to be abandoned. It is highly probable, however, that the program will be sowewhat reduced by congress. While the naval power of the United States is not yet at a point where it would be safe to halt, it may fairly be questioned whether there is the urgent demand that the naval authorities appear to belleve there is for the addition to the navy which they propose. program for 1001 would, it would seem, be sufticlent to order at present, and it ‘ls very likely this will be the View of minister- | | do that ntial | satisfuctory guarantees for the mmu- ing the | it sacrifices that | in popular opinion. | There are futivences In China working | but | d | the | doubt that she is largely r«-y:[mnnihiv‘ rage 14,000 tons, while the 1001 de- | Half the number of gunboats called for In the 'I Hlu We gth of for this led over OMAHA I)A congress, the stre asing but expendi be ex %0 as shall go on iner the navy, purpose should a considerable time, as little burdensome as possible BANSUM IN THE SENATE Omalin lost $£85.000 by the compromise with the bondsmien of a defaulting city treasure That loss placed a burden upon the shoulders of already over | burdened tagpayers and deprived hun dreds of workingmen who wmight have been employed on publie fmprovements an opportunity to earn an honest liv ing. | 1t 18 a matter | braska lost over $600,000 through the | embezzlement of ex-State Treasurer ¢, which amount, with interest, | has grown to over 000, 1t Is an | open seerct that the surcties of Bartley propose to have that claim compromised through the legislature at from 10 to | | 80 cents on the dollar. With this end | view they foisted Frank Ransom, | their ehfef attorney, on the fusion | ticket, | The 1 | tures to be of notort that Ne. question which confrouts the | taxpa of Douglas county is whether | they will willingly saddle upon them- | selves the pro rata of this county, which | would Dbe a state tax of $75,000 or | $80,000. Wil they deliberately vote to put Frank Raunsom in pocition to earn a §50,000 fee? Suppose the Bartley | bondsmen should compromise for £100,- | 1LY BEE: TUESDAY, ..o...o.....-..... \O\W\iHLR 6, 1900. teses sssssssssssssssessssssssens To the Voters of Nebraska: For mgre than a quarter of a of United States senators by secure this right for the peoy United States, however, have f: o by dire led up to this time, advocated the election people. Al efforts to constitution of the The nearest ap 1 ha of the centur, vot amendwent of the proach to popular selectlon of United States senators has been made I this state, whore the people have tlon to instruct their representative the state constitu by an esp under legisluture right in the sion of preference at the ballot box In proof of my sincerity as an of senators 1 have appealed for an under the constitutional provision oflicial ballot at the coming election, tlons of the republican party in its ivocate of the dire xpression i public sentiment aving my name placed on the While standiug upon the declara- national platform, i am committed t popular elect! by also to certain reforms which fn my judgment are demanded in the in- terest of the American people 1 am o favor of the establishment of postal savings which the carnings of the people and depression. I am in favor of the postal telegraph and the postal facilities to the people. I believe that corporations are regulated and controlled by sion pf corporations, 1 am by propeity, either by p i other words, 1 favor such 1 extortion no the state. z ruinous rates or exc fon as will prot discrimination by corporate monopolics, but ut the eame bavks In will be safely guarded through panie widest extension of creatures of the state and should be While T fayor public supersi- aver of contlsenting their ve taxation. 1In the people against means In time am opposed to any legislation that would prevent them from earn- ing fair inte My i a sutl shull 1 areer In Nebraska, which nt guaranty that If el hor with all abllity and energy t on honest investment, covers a period of (hirty-ceven years, ed to the Upited States senate 1 to promote the welfare and material prosperity of 1 state and natlon and shall always hold my- sell’ accessible to every citizen of 000; to accomplish that result (lw-_vl could well afford to pay Ransom | $30,000 and beat the state out of $600,- | That enorm sum wouid pay | | the running expenses of the state gov- | | ernment, including all the state institu- | tions, for nearly nine months, 8ix hun- | dred thousand dollurs would erect twelve 50,000 buildings for the state | fustitutions it they were needed; $600 000 would almost pay the entire debt of the state, | In view of these facts will the tax payers of this county vote to put Frauk | | Rungom in the state senate? us THE VERY LATEST DODGER. The latest and most contemptible dodger issued by the political bush whackers is one that seeks to impress Jupon the opponents of departiment | sjores the idea that the republican can- | | didates on the legislative ticket are | mumitted to the department stores, by | citing from the Hitchcock-Rosewater debate, b In this debate Mr. Rosewater cited de partment stores as a class of large con- 18 that partake of the nature of | trust and yet are not within the reach lof the law which punishes combina- tions entered into for the purpose of raising prices or cornering some par- tleular commodity. He said the depart- ment stores did not raise prices, but the opposition to them is based upon the fact that they can reduce prices and are en- abled to undersell small dealers, be cause they buy for cash in enormous quantities and also sell for cash and | thus avold the loxs of the credit sys- tem, The scurvy part of tying to make capital on these lines is that Mr. Hitch- cock himself s the instigator of the de- | partment store dodger and he knew as well as anybody that the newspapers would be better off if they bad to deal with 100 small merchants instead of with two or three large ones, who, in a measure, control advertising rates, This was shown two years sngo in Denver, when they withdrew their patronage in a body aund wade a big hole in the ad- vertising pages of the newspapers, whereas the stoppage of one or two or even half a dozen small concerns would | not affect the newspaper, Mr. more Bryan must quote something reliable than Labor Commis- sioner Kent's figures to convince the Nebraska farwers that they are not prosperous. 'When uny one asserts that Nebraska farmers have gone Into debt instead of getting out of debt in the past four years he Is simply asserting that they are Improvident, lacking In business capacity or dishonest and un- willing to pay. None of these three propogitions is true. The farmers of Nebraska bhave had good crops which have brought good prices. . They have taken the money like prudent and hon- est business mwen to pay their debts and stop the drain of interest. The records show it and all of Kent's and Bryau's squirming will not controvert what every man In Nebraska knows to be true. It is only falr to Judge Fawcett of | the district court for The Bee to say that the address printed over his name to the republicans was not signed by him in his official capacity and was not | printed in The Bee with the intention of making it appear that he had signed it as judge of the district court. As printed originally it was without any distinguishing mark to Indicate the posi- tion of the author, becanse the heading | written for the printer, reading, “Judge Fawcett to the Republicans,” was, by | reason of its length, cut down by the typesetter by omitting the word “judge.” The explanatory line was therefore added in the last edition of the paper to show that Mr. Fawcett Is Judge of the district court, The circular gotten up by officers of the Omaha Medical soclety requesting thelr wembers to work against Fred M, Youugs for the legislature Is an outrage perpetrated without cause. Mr. Youngs is not a faith curist, although a member of his family may be, but it is not his province to order them to subject them- selves to treatment by medical practi- tloners. Mr. Youngs may be depended upon to deal fairly with every interest, including the medical fraternity, when he is elected to the legislature, That anti-Rosewater Jekyll and Hyde dodger, which was so industriously cir- culated a few days ago, was gotten up by a brace of patriots of whom George W. Covell and Dr, Saville are the head and tail, Covell is the brother-in-law | challenging « | ugainst | ference with the services or time, Nebraska who has a clalm upon my no watter how humble or poor. ROSEWATER. D e R D S DT DR of Frank Ransom, aud that explains th, milk in the nut, I'rank is the Jekyll in the play and Covell the Hyde. or It the nawes of these two eminent statesmen had been appended nobody would have been puzzled as (o | the whys and wherefores. —_— The plan decided on by the desperate fusionlsts for today's election is obstruet the voting in many districts b, y voter, with or with out cause, These tacties are the tactics of the bulldozer and raftan and will not work., T law provides penalties people who obstruct the elec- and members of ¥ election should to it that no inter performance of their tions hoard ove see duties Is tolerated, There Are Others, Washington Post war has been raging republic for over a Clvil lomblan in the year. stand the art of holding out Lesson of Hoxer Rebe Buflalo Express. It is said the amount of indemnity which the United States will demand from China is $60,000,000. The only real China can make, however, will ba to re- form her government in such a manner as to make the lives of forcigners sate here- after, ton, Hoston Herald, A vermont legi¢lator has introduced a | bill prohibitiag railrouds from furnishing free transportation to judges. The bill uot only forbids the granting of passes to Judges, but prescribes a fine of from $100 500 for any corporation or officer offer- ing such transportation. What's “agley with the judges of the green mountain state? Putting Up, for Mob Rule. Boston Globe. 1f the demand of the United States for $5,000 indemnity for the murder of an Americen citizen 1 Morocco is mot promptly met, a war ship will be seut to enforce it. The United States has set #0 good an example in paying promptly for Europeans wha are lynched by Loufsiana mobs that it can consistently insist on similiar treatment for itself. amity Record. land Plain Dealer. New York's three great horrors of the decade, the Windsor hotel fire, the Hobo- ken docks fire and the recent Tarrant ex- plosion and fire, were all disasters of an unusual character, and the emergencies they presented were so unexpected and so terrible that they falrly seemed to baffle human courage und ingenuity. In short, you never know what to expect when these great calamities are due, —_— The Tie that Hiuds Minneapolis Times. An lowa man addicted to the morphine hebit deliberately received stolen goods in order to be gent to the penitentiary, where he hoped to be cured of the vice. When ho was sentenced to @ term of only elghteen months, he begged the judge to make it two years. The gentleman has been in prison before, but not long enough at any time to effect a curo. Iis motive seems to be all right, but his method may prove expensive to people who own portable preperty. —e Consumers Pay the Piper. Philadelphia Ledger. The comsumers, being t the mercy of the coal companies, must pay the cgst of the strike, and something over. The labor cost of a ton of coal has been Increased about 10 cents by the 10 per cent advance to the miners, but the companles, it 1s an- nounced, bave advanced the price 50 cents per ton beyoud July prices. A part of this advance is normal to the season of the year, but it is safe to say the companies will collect 25 cents per ton from the publie tor every 10 cents advance they give the miners, It 1s sald that the operators hope in this way to recover their lost profits, but it is quite probable they have already wade themselves whole by the fancy prices charged while the strike lasted for the coal they had on hand. At all events, the co sumer 18 made to pay for the strike, and is apparently the only suffercr therefrom. s Samples of Clvilization In China, Springfcld (Mass) Repubiican. Some pleasant Christian reading dribbles in from “the front” in China day by day. Sald a dispatch from Pao Ting Fu, October 26: “The preparations are complete for | destroying the most venerated temple in fsn't it, It is to the city on October Civilized, to destroy a temple of worship? China what the destruction of Trinity church in Boston by an oriental invader would be to us. Thew there are other epi- sodes. A Beriin paper describes this scens near Pekin: “Sixty-elght captives, some of them not yet adults, were tied together by thelr pig-tails, beaten by the Germans, com- pelled to dig thelr own graves, and then shot enmasse.” The burning of whole Chinese villages seems to be a steady occu. pation by the forelgn troops. It might be lfldad that the occupation of Pekin is be- coming steady. The international force en- tered it early in August and in the first week of November the great prwers are still reassuring each other, on their honors that not oue of them would think of taking territory from China, to| The | | | Boers are not tho only ones that under- | atonement | | ON THL HOWE STRETCH, | Washing I the presidential etake home stretch. Mr. McKinl | the Jead, and he ought to f 8ta contestants for swung into the ¢ 18 clearly in h first, with | plenty of daylight showing botween him and | Mr. Bryan. But until a race fs won—until {the wire has actually been reached—it is | never gafe to shout. The favorlte may fall | and break a leg within twenty feet of the ol and his rival go past to victory. Not | until the record hus been made and the | time card hung out do experienced obsery cra indulge in a lomg breath and lower | thetr glasses, w York Herald: It is needless to dis- cyss Mr. Bryan's other idiosycrasies in the presence of the overshadowing importance of this one disastrous proposition, which, as @ result of the cducatlonal campaign four years ago, is thoroughly understood by the masses and should alone fusure his de- fcat. The people feel that granted the re- |election of Mr. McKinley it will be possible by force of public opinion to comi- pel a withdrawal from the dangerous paths of militarism and imperialism, but that with Mr. Bryan clected there would be no way of averting the destruction of con- fidence home and abroad, with result- |ing industrial and business depression, it not ctual panic. In other words, as the Herald remarked at (he time the two plat- forms were made up, when confronted with Bryan, backed by populism, the country Iternative but to vote for McKin- d by Roosevelt. Philadelphia Ledger: The safest guide (o probable resuits is an fmypartial study of the returns of the preceding eicction, sup- piemented by & consideration of the party changes made manifest by tha press of the country and the letters snd speeches of public men. Such studics of the present situation, made by impartial observers, lead all of them to the conclusion that President McKinley is to be re-elected by an electoral vote at least as large as that which he received in 1596, Whatever losses he may sustain in the east are likely [to be offset by gains in the far west. New York is the storm center and, although it is mot mecessarily the pivotal state, vet the party which shall carry New York vill bave the best chance of winaing. What are the prospects in New York? The most reliable data upon which to form a judgment are to be found in the returns of the electton of 1846, 1f Bryan should | hold his vote of that year and gain Atteen McKinley voters out of every hundred he would fail to carry the state. If he should galn twenty out of every hundred he would |win by a bare plurality. Any one who | chocees 1o do so 1s at liberty to believe that one-fifth of the republican party of New York will go over to the populist candidate, who threatens to put the coun- try on a silver basis after four years of unexampled prosperity, which have dis- proved all his arguments of 1896, Such a political revolution as this implies seems to bo mext to impossible, and yet without such a revolution Mr. Bryan cannot carry ow York and cannot be elected. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, John W, Breidenthal, the fuslon candi- date for governor in Kansas, was promi- nently identified with the Topolobampo soclalistic scheme a few years ago. The alumni of Washington and Lee uni- versity and other fricnds of the late Wil- liam L. Wilkon propose to raise by subscrip- tlon @ fund of at least $100,000 with which to endow @ professorship in the university. George Dolby, the private secretary of Charles Dickens, died in a London infirm- ary a few days ago, penniless, dirty, emaclated, unkempt and almost a tramp. In his latcr years he had been supported by charity. Prof. Haeckel has been invited to become president of the German Assocfation of Free Thinkers, in place of Prof. Dodel, who resigned, but has declined the offer as being inconsistent with his present place as a professor at Jena. According to the census, Cleveland fs larger than Cincinnati by 06,000, yet the registration of Clncinuati shows 308 more voters than Clevcland. Either Cleveland took too much water in its census or Cin- cinnati registered & slice of Kentucky. The late Charles Dudley Warner, while sitting on the balcony of a club fu New York three years ago made a prediction about something ten years from then and quickly continued with these words: *“Hold on! No, I shan't, for I shall be dead.” As a result of & political argument two residents of Muskegon, Mich, mado & wager of $35 on the result of the election one day lass week. One of the parties to the bet owed a coal bill of §21. Tho coal dealers heard of the wager, garnisheed the stakeholder and recovered the amount of thelr claim. Sam Duncan, democrat, Lyons, republican of Arcols, Iil, have bet the clothes on their backs on thefr re- spective party candidates for governor, and the winning man is to tuke the loser to a promineat street corner and tear the clothes futo ribbons while & band dis- courses hot melody. A marvelous season of prosperity is ripening for the fool killer, Frederico Degetan of San Juan, chosen o2 the first delegate from Porte Rtico to the United States, 15 a lawyer, having studied in the University of Madrid, He {s a mem. ber of several scientific and philanthropic socleties and was ono of the founders of the Soclete Francaise pour L'Arbitrage entre Nations. Mr. Degetau bas written soveral books. He was one of the four commissioners sent to Spain in 1896 to ask for autenomy, and Thomas VIOLENCE IN THE asion Manitests Ttaelf Points. Brooklys dem Mr. Roosevelt was \h\!"l’\'lv assailed with missiles and bad language at Elmira o Monday snd Senator Depew, the most courteous and good-natured of our public speakers, was silenced by rufflanly roaring at Cobleskill, in Schoharie county, on the samo day. In both places the peculiar form of intolerance, ferocity, discontent and animal manners in politics, known as Bryaunlem, is strong. In most the percentage of civilization and sanity in as much of the historical democracy as supports Hryaniem, without liking It, holds the organization to civiiity and peace upon public occasion Nut (n such towns as Victor, in Colorado, and Elmira aud Coble skill, in Dryan citles in this state, percentage of decency in democracy s small «nd the outbreak of intending mur- der and rampant hoodlumism i such cir- cumstances Is not a surprise. Considering the fury, uareasonablencs and mistaught character of the Bryan fac- tion, the whole country over, consideri the depth of degradation to which the Bryan campaign, as an invoker of class hatred, leveling discontent, agrarian re- venge and sans culotte appeal has de sconded, in its later stages, the wouder | not that here and there a small degree o | violenco and barbarism prevalls, but that a larger degree fn many other places has not prevailed. The country can congratu |1ato itself on the uniform and general orderliness of its politics this year. As a rul acked questions of public speakers have been civilly answered. No charge of in- clvility attaches to Mr. Bryan's treatment of any questions addressed to him, al- though his answers have been evasive, cunning, uncandid and in not a single in- stance logically responsive. Still he has been good-tempered and ingenious, though Desperation | replied to every inquiry made in good faith, vicious and impudent questiomers, whose purpose has been to start disturbances that might culminate in violence or fa riots, at tho mectings which he has ad dressed. His efliclency in routing ruffian has been as marked as his patience in on- lightening slncere interrogators of his mind or views. The campaign i3 so near its close, its remaining incidents or occasions are so fow, the arrangements to guard them from disturbance are so well taken that we may look for few instances of outbreak or | politeness in the time that remains assaults on Mr. Roosevelt, this state, that upon Mr. kil on Monday, Mr. Shephard at the Bryan meeting in Madison Square Garden, where the ad- herents of Mr. Bryan refused to listen to him, with other Iike instances, happily few im- The out west and {n Depew at Cobles not to be mistaken and of large educi- tional value. As the campaign of 1884 was the lust one to be contested on grounds of defamation let us hope that the result of that of 1900 will so thoroughly rebuke the Bryantic soclalistic discontent as to make it the last one to be contested on such vile grounds in American history. NATIONAL HO! STAKE. Proposed Repudintion of Our Obliga- tions at HHome und Abro Bultimore Amerlcan, Whatever its enemies may say about the administration of Precident McKinley, 1t has never been charged with dishonoring ’lhe nation. The name of the United States has been distinctly advanced among the nations of the carth during the last four years. Not only has It become more distinguished in a military sense, but its £00d faith and honor have been recognized #s mever before. The United States has be- come a financlal as well as a commerclal power among the great nations of the earth. Thero are few who will deny that this fs a gratifying situation; in fact, so fur as known, there {s but one public man in this country who would prefer the reverse, and that man s Mr. Bryun. He appears to regard it as a great national misfortune that this nation should be on equal terme, financially and commpercially, with the great powers of the earth, He would have the country excluded, as far as possible, from Intercourse with other great nations. He would have what intercourse it was fm- possible to avold occur under conditions distinctly unfavorable to the United States ~in short, be would make this country subservient to every great power on earth and he would do it by a dellberate act of perfidy and dishonor, The proposals to pay the obligations of the United States in silver, to be followed, as soon as leglslation can be had, by free sllver at 16 to 1, would be a palpably dis- honest repudiation of our ebligations abroad and at home. It would be such an offense agalnst forelgn powers as has provoked them to dispatch thetr fleets before today to states for the purpose of demanding retribu- tlon, No power would make such a demand in behalf of its citizens on the United States, but the American people would not be elated to feel that only their strength as a nation saved them from the just deserts of their government's dishonesty. Under Mr. Bryan's policy the country would promptly loke the prestige gained by more than a century of honest and honorable administra- tion, A DIAGRAM WANTED. Ome of Rryan's Anawers 11 the Artful Dodger. Philadelphia Press, Mr. Bryan dodges again on silver. He has dodged so long that we doubt If he can speak straight any longer. Where I8 the valorous champlon of four years ago? This is his Wilmington dodge in answer to one of Mr. Neild's questions: “Will he pay the obligations of this coun- try in silver or gold If elected president?” “Now, my friends, I want the republicans who want that questioned answered to first find out what the law requires, and then I want them to know that, it elected presi- dent, I will enforce that law.” But which law? The act of March 18, 1569, makes our bonds payable “in coln.” The act of July 14, 1870, specifies coin of the welght and fineness then authorized by law, which s Incontestably either gold or silver coin. Of the existing bonded debt of the United States $606,248,660 is lssued under that law. By the act of March 14, 1900, gold wus made “the standard unit of value" and all bonds issued eince then— now $336,260,600—are clearly payable only in gold But tes how about the other bonds? Are they payablé in gold because it 13 the “ytandard unit of value)' or does the clause in the new curremcy act, that noth- tug tn it “shall be construed to affect the legal tender quality as mow provided by law of the silver dollar,” leave these carly bonds still payable in silver, at the option of the Treasury? This fs the vital issue. It s the root of the silver questios. On these bonds hangs the credit of the United States. Its credit 1s the measure of all credits. Today, un- der a republican adwinistration, the holder of the bond is given bis optiom. 1¢ he wants gold he bas it. ould Mr. Bryan continue this option? Would bLe pay in silver or ia gold? Which law would tollow? He refuses to say. This s his evaslon: “But, my friends, it you ask me to con- strue a republican law T reply that I shall Bot comatrie & law,until it becomes uiy duty to enforce it But like all evasions this evades noth- localitfes | that | the persons who have honestly | not ingenuous. Mr. Rovsevelt has candidly | but has very roughly replied to insincere, | ¥ and the rudeness toward | In number, carry in them a power of reronl | recourse to class hatreds and {o | he | | ver nlnfnrm and silver declarations {n this campalgn, cvery voter kmows that Mr Bryan, if he got & chance, would pay silver the uational creditor. Iy refusal to say this alters no man's belief that he will. No man who heard him and no man who reads this evasive answer has the slightest doubt that unless Mr. Brvan intended (o pay im silver ho would plant himself on the casy and unassailable ground that ex- Isting luw sottled the issue ono way or the Lis evagion there is no excuse. A | © makes no decision 0 & mooted ques until a case brings it before him, Mr 10t running for the bench. He is running for residency. His dutfes are not Jud re exceutive, He is bound ts policy. His retusal 15 the mere L. 1t Is & patemt cam- | Palan artifice. No uun, candidate for the | prosidency, can sink it and maintale | publ pect for bis homer or Mis priacie | ple « or his candor | Tmperinitam in Londo: | Chicago Inter Ocean, Grant, in the of beaton euewy Appomattox tho cheers of his own wen. The London fucing ' humiliation 1 despalr of a brava poaple, ser wild erultatios. It was a pitilesa, ansous outburet ot popular sentimen withal the demoz- ffration was as efgnificant as any event et the Jast Mty years in London (0 anno presenca stilled Yet un of Prosperity, Buffalo Express, No batter {l'ustration of the general pros- perity of Americans could be found tham im the statement fssued by the comptroller of the currency, showlng the aggregate de- Dosits in wavines banks and number of de« positore. In comparison with 1896 there ure now 837.59" more depositors and an fn- crease of $4 486 In the savings bank accounts o ——— LALGIING GAS, lis Jonrna e mich diferen with thos Ko the any more “DIa o in you » poople nest won't that dis- friondly door?" et us o telephone sl Philadelphia Pross “What wear to the box party, Harry?"' She had on a spotted ik fro f pink velvet windmill white lace cascado | buck,” A Alice i K, o kind n her halr and w hanging down her Detroit Free Press: Parke ¥ou take out un acident policy never travel Lane—But my next door neighbor has just bought an wutomobile. What for did You Chicago Tribune: look now,” sald the feat i3 u' sure thing. killed himsolf wl and laimed s Croker a prop In which case,” suggested the protessor, he can charge it up to prophet and lose.* “Tibbs, 1 never fun of your wife om the way doetor, In n lie fr thing “Bryan's a my Minncapolis Journal i make any you see, sha belongs to s clubs that I do a good deal couKing myself. of the home Pittsburg ¢ “You may say what | you_ please,"” dred ut 1 for one don't like Rorsclens cartiages “What {8 your objection “Well, Clarence Lis cie, but when we ge | riding it requires all hix attention. He hasu’t even one arm frec asked Clara Detroit Journal police “I mee that the Paris have arrested u notorious brigand operating at the exposition “Yes, it mecms he was disgulsed as a hack driver.’ “1 wonder what gave him away?"' "Num(llnnfl in the way he swore at his horses, 1 belleve. Chicago Tribune: Mr. Oldbeau—That uickatep girl is getting a little too fli Eho told ‘mo the other day I was growin Mr. Gay sume stout. H'mp! T welgh 225 pounds. o would gay 1 wus growing Tndianapolis Press: “\What are you nos- ing around that Atlantic cable for?” eaid the lobster to the bluefish ald the latter, nonchalantly, erely pleking up a few ocean cul Philadeiphia Pross: She (angrily)— woman doesn't know the value of an oath, eh? Gracious! Do you mean to Bay & woman's word Is not as good as a man's? | " He—It may be better, from a moral point of view, bit it lan't &s satistylng. Any mMAN &8 angry as you ure now would | chioose & stronger word than “graclous.” MAN AHEAD OF THE SHOW. J. 1. Montague in Portland Oregonian. There are freckles as big as a dollar Bespangling his cardinal vest, And watch chains are laced In profusion On the frant of his proud, swelling chext Ho will pull up & chair close beside you, And on the q. t. let you know That an all-star attraction I8 coming, And he is ahead of the show. You may not have heard that the super, Who is “worked” at the back of the age In_the part of the coachman, the waiter, The butler, the coon and the page, Was shot in'a half dozen battle And was mixed up in all kinds of woe You may not know this till it's told you By the man who's ahead of the show. 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