Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 13, 1900, Page 6

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Porsona cliecks, except on Stern exchanges, not accepted PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION { Nebraska, Douglas County, s g6 B Trechick, wecretary of The § Publishing ¥ belrg duly sworn saya that the actual number of full anc coples of The Dally, Morning and Sunday Bee printed during th f October, 1900, was as follows 27220 1 27,450 27010 i 27,1400 10 170 27,010 2R,500 27,000 27,110 27,480 27,520 27,480 i 12, 8. T 1 16 27,420 20,720 27,460 27,870 Total Less unsold and returncd coples Net total sales Net datly NTONTS 28,002 TZSCHUCK averag MG B presence g ot Nov HUN Subscribed in my before me this first day D, 16, M. B (Seal ) Boss Croker need not worry over that cabinet position. her TE A Ex-Candidute Urless should easy slide down the democ boggan. The message to Garela will have to take second place this year to the mes- sage from Nebraska. The elect will now have their troubles in the sie of office seekers eager secure appointive positions. This Is one of the penalties of victory. That Indlan supply depot materialize for Omaha The Indlans may get blanket allotments do Omaba label on them. ought to right soon. cold if their not have the There is a suspicion abroad that the official figures which Secretary Jewell alleges hie has to prove the election of Poynter are some stofk carried over from the campaign of two years ago. Before going to trouble and ex- pense to reorganize the democratic party it might be well to take an luvoice an discover 1f there Is enough of it left to make salvage operations profitable, General Buller is back in London and hopes to eat his Christmas dinner in that city this year. His advance on the British capital was move peaceful and successful than the pursuit of his last year's feast, “Wait until 1904" is the only conso lation that our Bryanite contemporary can hold out to its deluded readers. The year 1904 Is a long way off, espe- clally when it gives no better promise than did 1900. Bryan is bound to attend an inaugura tion. “As he was not favored with a front seat at the Washington show in March he will go to Florida and witness the Inauguration of his cousin as gov- ernor of that state. e If the f Poynter's election in the hope that some opportunity may offer to peat the ballot frauds practiced in the supreme court amendment recount it might as well hang its harp on the willow The game will not work this time. I8 It true that the Nebraska populists refused to vote for the Bryan electors to put their stamp of disapproval on fusion and that the democrats refused to vote for Governor Poynter and the state ticket to show resentment to popu lists hogging all the places? 1s it true? Campaign speakers from abroad port that Nebraska audiences were uni- formly attentive and respectful. No dis orderly conduct or riotous interruptions marred the meetings in this state, friend and foe being treated with equal coue- tesy. It Is gratifying to have such re- ports glven out, 'he auditorium committee will have its hardest nut to crack when it comes to the question of location. The public, which is expected to furnish the funds for the construction, will not stand for anything that looks like a real estate job and it will be well that the auditorium promoters keep this in wind. Owmaha's challenge for a population comparison with St, Joseph on the basis of the vote cast has not been accepted. Of course there is good reason for Nt Joseph's reluctance. Taklng the elec- tion figures as a test the city down the river Is at least of what Omaha can prove up. ——————— People must expect the popocratic office holders to keep on claiming the election of Governor Poynter until their last hope is taken away by the officla) promulgation of the figures. It is hard om the fusion taxeaters to separate themselves from salaries, and no vol untary self-decapitation is to be hoped for, W sworn 1o | jon gang Is still claiming | 15,000 people shy | WHAT OF FUSION? A little more than a year ago a prom!- | nent democrat of Nebraska district, after a confidental interview | | with Willlam J. Bryan, wrote an in spired letter which achieved no little | . in which he declared that the | year 1000 would the last year of | fuston | Wil this declaration prove true? Has vesult of what J. Sterling Morton party miscogenation” in the recent election tanght the lesson that spolls combiuations eannot appeal suc the Sixth notor the disastro calls <tully for popular support? Already the various elements to the | | fusion alliance aking charges of | bad faith upon one another, eriminati and recrimination that at tended the tripartite conventions which came near to shipwreck on the rock of dividing the nominations. The crats are asserting that the populists failed, fn resentment of the repudiation | of Towne, to cust thelr solid vote for the | Bryan electors, and the populists are omplaining that the defeat of their | candidates on the state ticket Is ascrib |able to democratic disaffection. More |over, in the four cong esslonal. distriets { which ave still claimed for fusion, the | | democrats, Ly sharp practice and | manipulation, have taken two | of the 1 although the popu- | | lists furnish almost the entire bulk of the votes necessary for their election | A to the so-called silver republican | party, the farce which it played from | the beginning has been ended by its | complete disappearance. 1t Is safe to the last so-called silver republican | convention has been held in Nebraska | and its pretended party organization has | ady vanished (nto thin air. It never | 1y ground for aspiring to an equal | with any other party and fts| further recoguition is ont of the ques. | tion, Whether the crats and populists can be maintained 1%, therefore, a question to which pres. | ent conditions seem to reflect a negativ The basis of fusion as it has| been mplished in Nebraska in the | | pust is destroyed and It is doubtful, to | y the least, if any new bond of union | can be improvised to tuke its place, | are n n shrewd minees, say \ | had | volce fusion between demo- 1swer. HANNA AS CAMPAIGN MANAGER. When the republican convention at Philadelphia put in nomination Presi-| dent McKinley and Governor Roosevelt to be the national standard-bearers | { there were, it must be admitted, mis | givings in many quarters as to the ad visability of continuing Senator Huuna as chafrman of the national committee and manager of the national campaign. These misgivings arose not from doubt s to Mr. Hanna's qualifications | for the position or his abllity to per- form the duties, but rather from the fear that his personality, which had alrendy drawn so much fire from the opposition, might prove an obstacle to an uggressive contest. The progress of the campalgn, and more especlally its unexampled results, have proved that Senator Hanua was the right man in the right place. As an organizer and far-seelng and shrewd political, pilot he has vindieated the | reputation he had achleved In 1896, While, doubtless, Senator Hanna him- selt would not muke the fight again |in precisely the sume manner if heg had it to do over and would concede that mistakes of more or less serious | character were made, yet they were few when compared with the oppor. tunity for missteps, and his manage- ! ment has proved successtul even | { beyond expeciation. The campalgn of 1900 developed a new side of Senator Hanna's versatile char- | acter In the speeches delivered by hing at various meetings in Chicago, New York and, later, on his tours of South Dakota and Nebraska. While in no sense a master of polished oratory he showed himself capable of presenting solid truths in a forcible and convine- ing manner that not ouly held his hear ers, but carried them with him. These speech-making tours of Senator Hauna | acccomplished wonders in the way of | dissipating the prejudice which had | been created against him by partisan misrepresentation and pictoral lam- pooning. All in all Senator Hanna as a cam- palgn manager stands out unapproached by any of the multiplied beads of the | popocratic aggregation and has earned a place alongside of the great masters | in political generalship produced by our peculiarly competitive party system. v DEMOCRATIC REORGANIZATION Will the democratic party reorganize? | That is a question that Is filling the minds of old-line democrats with a great deal of solicitude and elleiting from them no little expression of opinion. For the most part this opinion runs in | the direction of a complete repudiation | of what is called by the old-line demo- crats Bryanism, and in their judg ment & complete renunciation of the principles of true demoeracy repre sented by the great leaders of the party from Jefferson to Tilden, There is not today a leading dewmo | crat in the natlon who Is a supporter of the Bryanite democrats as a whole, There are a few wmen who opposed Bryan four yeurs and supported | him in the late campaign, but who were not in full accord with the prin- ciples of the Chicago-Kansas City plat form, hey gave thelr adhesion to the eandidate and the platform in order to be “regular,” and those wen are to day as opposed to the general principles | of Bryanism as they ever were in their lives. The idea that Oluey, for in stance, and others that assumed a po sitlon in support of Bryan accepted | the principles that le represents Is perfectly preposterous, because they are absolutely antagonistic to every position that these men had held before Mr. Olney, for example, while agreeing with Bryan in his hostility to so-called tmperialism, was opposed to him ou every other question, and the same was true of nearly every other democrat of ago | of political conditions, | thing | ing | designed to approve their methods and | eredit | indorserent [1e THE OMAHA They distinetly declared ists with enunci 1t o the | him we sts of the At ild not help him ite party that while they were anti-imp so-called, they had no sympathy the other doctrines or principle ated by the platform. was this fact Kansas City that had a wditing Mr The men on g 1 principles involved the vital inte can people at home « with to the thousands of miles Ko far the r democratic party A matter of such p great deal do with disc country Sryan in who opposed in which respec inte wi rganization of is concerned, that stound concern to command the serious attention ssts of people the as | of | @uities are essentlal in o a republican | government to the proper arrangement We need po litel parties fn a repubife for the just | equilibeinm and adjustment of the | politieal machinery and no citizen who | understands the proper relations of par- | ties to government will regard the re-| organization of the democratic party, on | proper and patriotic basis, any- | but desirable. There are many | distinguished men who are known democrats ‘Who should be able to re habilitate theiv party and frecing it of the polson of Bryanism give it again a character that would command the respect and contiden: the Ametean people. THE PARAMOUNT MISTAKE While the campaign waged by and | for Bryvan full of glaring from the beginning, tag mistake stands forth in striking promi ne paramount above all others, That the allfance with | Tammany hall and the glorification of | Croker | When My, Bryan accepted thw hospi tality of the Tamwmany boss and him wuition chief of cnm palgn iu the east he disgusted beyond | mensure all sincere followers who had | been persuaded to believe that Bryan | typitied reform and reform forces, The | eulogy of Tammany in the words “Great is Tammany and Croker s its prophet reiterated and emphasized by Bryuu, showed that he, in his weakness, ferred to stick to the mistnke than (o acknowledge it and to rectify it. Tammany and Croker are so nauseat to all bellevers in honest ment that mere contact wis of errors very one e as wistake was res as his « pre rather tempt " govern with them, | countenance their practic upon the sincerity cratie eandidate, which from ders could wipe out. When the history of the disastrous defeat of democracy in the year 1900 comes o be written this paramount mistake will overshadow all others. 8, threw dis { the demo- no amount of rvespectable party When it comes to Impeaching county officers do not overlook the fusion sheriff who locked himself up in jall to avoid service of an order of court whose man- dates it Is his sworn duty to enforce and obey. Do not overlook the fusion county attorney who hus kept constantly as his chiet deputy a man who, when placed on the witness stand as a witness in a gambling trial, refused’ to testity cause he would incriminate himself, not ove he- | Do Kk the fusion county treasur who has loaned out county mone local banks without turning any interest | over to the county treasury, in spite of the express provisions of law. When it comes to impenching county officers the fusionists will have thelr hands full, Spain is making an effort o secure the trade of the Spanish-speaking coun ries of South and Central America, which was lost to that country when they threw off the Msh yoke, Th have a common lang to assist them and the feeling of animosity growing out of former struggles has doubtless largely died out. As the United States | is also cultivating the same territory, it remains to be seen whether Spain will be any better able to compete in the commercial field than it was in arms, The tield is a rich one, and Awmerican push, aided by reciprocity treaties, should enable the manutacturers of this country to win over the comme of | that section, reorganization of announced that In the the British | army it special a tention is 5 be pald to improving the marksmanship of the soldiers and that | an increase is to be made in the allow ance of ammunition for target practice The experle in the Transvaal has| taught the British that one man who | knows how to shoot and hit what he | shoots at Is worth more than several | who shoot Into the air. The Spanish learned the same thing when they came into contact with the American navy, and results have demonstrated that the officers of the United States army and | navy were wise when they encouraged | target practice in all arms of the sery- | ice. The only way for a democrat to get office in lowa is explained in a dispatch to our amiable popocratic contemporary under date of Sioux City. This dis pateh says that just before he was| elected to the office of county super- visor Felix Jauron of Salix, Ia, had a twelve-pound sou born to bim, and that three years ago, a few days prior to his election to the same office, he had be come the father of twin girls, He is the | only democrat elected to any office in Woodbury county at the last tion. If lowa democ 5 do not take the hint they will deserve to remain out of of tice forever, What became of all those warrants which, according to the poperatic organ, were sworh out just before elee tion and placed in the hands of the sherlff to be served upon men who had perpetrated fraudulent registration? We have not heard of a single arrest. Let the fusion brigade own up that all the talk about republican registration frauds prominence who supported the Bryan- and all the fake warrants agaiust DAII | of some people | Pacific | great democrats as pre | was | publi BEE: TUESDAY alleged illogal voters were pure bluff and bluster designed to cover up the crooked work which the fusion machin was engineering down in South Om —_— Just as the sultan of Turke soling himself that the powers were Ym\‘ busy in China to bother him the Rus. sian sends in a dun for the long over| due war indemnity, with the intimation | that expenses in the Orient render it impossible to extend further credit. Tt is that the sultan eannot be allowed to drown palace favorites who | ve fallen from grace and indulge in a few massac over In Asia Minor | without disturbed by these un was con shaw " being vecalling the gvery citizen who realizes the fact that | pleasant veminders on the first of each month, Would-he Senator Clark s not expected to shed any tears over the death of his | political enemy, Mareus Daly. The death of the copper king ends one of the most remarkable political feuds in the his tory of the country and, while personal | enmity was the moving cause of the fight on Clark, his rival did the country a in exposing the rotten political wethods in vogue In Montana, which would have been considered a disgrace in Nevada in the palmiest days of sen atorlal seat sales sorvie Touching a Ten Baltimore American The appeal to the stomach is not only the shortest route to the voter's heart, but to his brains as well. nehe, Loutsville Courfer-Journal, Is it never going to stop? Here now & Chairman Jones' own county in Arkansas gene into the republican camp Specta for the Indlanapolis News. The Hon. Don M. Dickinson would make an admiratle | er in the recrganization of the democratic party, galloping In the forefront with his whiskers given to the winds! n. neat Strenuosity. Boston Globe Thus early in the school scason two young students have died from injuri received in hazing. Had they died in prize- fights great would have been the disgust —_— Looking Out for Number One, Chicago Chronicle, Whatever may be the feeling of the east pecting imperialism, so-called, there can no doubt as to the sentiment of the coast. The vote of Californla, Or gon and Washington is beyond a doubt an expression of the desire in that section for the retention of the Philippines and any | olLer Orfental territory that we can get The sentiment is no doubt inspired by com- mercial interest, but it is strong and not likely to be changed Must and Wil Be. Philadelphia Record (dem ) There 1s a general desiro that the demo- cratic party shail be recrganized and there s no doubt that it will be reorganized. No better basis of reorganization could be pro- posed than the statement of foundation principles made by President Jefferson in his inaugural address in 1501. These prin- ciples are as applicable now as they were than; and no man who accepts them should be denied the fellowship of the democratic party, and no man who denles them should be admitted to the eamp. A Few Kind Word: Baltimore Sun. It has been and still is the fashion of bitter partisans to denounce Mr. Bryan as a demagogue, us an extremist, as showy, but without depth or breadth of intellect In every position which he assumed in this campaign and in every policy he advocated h n give Jefferson, Jackson and other cdents. 1f, in the causo he maintained in this campaign, he was a demagogue, then Jefferson was a demagogue. If, in his opposition to the money power, he is arraigning class against | class, what shall be sald of Jackson and Tavey in their campaigns against the barks? aports of Manufnctures. Sprifgfield Republican, The detailed report of forelgn commerce for September shows that manufactures continue to form a large and increasing fraction of total exports. Notwithstand- ing the great increase in cotton shipments during that month, the outgo of manufac- tured products was large enough to form | 209 per cent of the whole volume of ex- | ports, against 28.9 per cent in the same month last year. And this is during the helght of the export season for all staple products as well as cotton. It was Dot| very long ago that manufactures formed | only trom 20 to 25 per cent of the total exports. SOME URA Stgnificant Feat of the Vot the East and West, Buffalo Express It now looks as if McKinley's popular ma- Jority would prove to be even larger than in 1896. This surpasses the expectations of the most confident of the campaign mana- gers, They were counting on a consider- able increase In his electoral vote, but it thought this would be obtained by smaller pluralities In the various states. It 18 one of the Interesting facts of the cam- paign that the only states In which McKin- ley's plurality has declined materlally are the New England states (except Vermont), New York, New Jersey and Illinols. These show the following losses FIGURES, 1596, 5.0 | 00 o | Malne st New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island mnectleut. . New York New Jersey Lliinots 10000 142,60 It will be noticed that the largest per- centage of loss is in Massachusetts, while New York, Maine and Connecticut fall only a Mttle behind. Th are the states In which the importance of sound money was appreciated earller and probably better than anywhere else. #1or this reason their comparative lukewarmness toward the re- a ticket 18 the more singular and may suggest a variety of explanations. But while McKinley lost in the east where he was strongest four years ago, he gained heavily in the west, where he was then weakest. The most important figures are 1900 1508 | Ohlo 71,000 Indiana | M Ic 0,000 0,000 80,000 26,000 000 1000} 15,040 0000 5,040 3000 8,000 2,000 Dem ) Dem 183 Dem i A Kansas Nebraska South Dakota Oregon California | Utah 100) Dem Washington 12,000 Dem In the few western states not carried by | McKinley the democratic pluralities were greatly cut down. Hence It appears that whereas the victory of four years ago was | a markedly eastern triumph, that this | year is a more markedly western success. | The difference is only one of pluralities, | however. The east and west have united | thelr political interests once more, and more firmly than ever. The effort to at- tach the west to the south has failed and probably will never be tried again till there 1s really a nes south. of NOVE l r ! | wiping out of the 13,576 plurality given to | broken | fashioned democrats in the east |ties are frowned upon, and instead of in- | wants the truth. | elther side on this issue | raise BER 13, 1900 | The Result in Nebraska. The yet genesis, & statement of the conduct and a compendium of the results of this gi gantic undertaking, one 8 forced to admit that it represents Aap extraordinary effort ntelligent and well-directed in dustry As a matter of fact, the docu ment contains a compact and accu presentation of the moral, soclal tional and industrial conditions pre valling in Cuba—a presentation so lucid and so convincing that the question is at once removed from the domain of con. troversy, There remains no longer the material for argument. We see Cuba and the Cuban people as they really are—theis present status, their opportunities of ef fort and advancement, their soclal pre. dicament and their moral possibilities. It |18 not, as we see it, a particularly encour aglng plcture, but at least Colonel San ger's work has been complete, searching. vigilant and impartial This census has been, under the guldance and Instruction of our own experts, com- | piled by intelligent Cubans. It amounts, in fact, to a complete and detailed eription of Cuba by the Cubans themselves. besides all this, it is a consplcuously en tertaining and iostructive publication Large sums of money have been expended in the islands for various and more or less sonal admiration for the democratic-popu | RELEY EUrpOSSS) DL 16 18 S8TY 68 Lt listic ecandidate for president Good the money spent in completing this census |bas been more wisely and profitably in barvests and good prices had cured them, (U4% ! i It there is @ colossal, though somewhat ‘:;:""‘m""r'l:‘m'“;';‘l"h"’ e serfoun, joke connected with the presi. | " - QeEtAT campaten ot 1300 1t relates to the | conterns the island of Cuba result in Nebraska, Kansas of which Mr political City Star Bryan ha career was state on Tuesday ert & scrious effect pelitician. Whether peaple are to attach much eance to ding of a in is own community. It is not an can notion that a prophet is not Lonor save in his own country. 1t | spmed that a man sccking public favor ought to be strong where he is best known blow his own ably as A or not, the signifn public Amer with the Judge tha however tad Kovernor In 1899, greatest suffered the | of his It must, inevit on his future rightfully ate, the fusion candidate for supreme received about the same plurality was given to Bryan in 1806, In 1898, the revulsion against Bryanism in, and the fusion candidate for kot In by a bare plurality of 2,721 the fusion candidate for preme court judge was successful by a ‘plurality of 15,107, In the election of Tues- lay the republicans made a clean sweep on everything except congressmen, electing the McKinley electors and the entire state ticket from governor down to state super intendent of instruction Chicago Times-Herald: In the burial of — Bryanism the state of Nebraska has taken an honorable and consplcuous part. She has driven in the last nails. While the election of Tuesday resulted in many sur prising transformations in all parts of the union, popular interest doubtless centers in the returns from Nebraska, which indicate a complete rout of the forces of fusion und Bryanism in the home state of the demo cratlc nominee, Nothing could be more significant of the popular revulsion against the calamity doctrines of populism than the el now however public Chronicle (dem.): The demo- | time servers, the incompetent and | stupid national democratic managers, im-| agined that to secure the eight electoral | votes of Nebraska it wou'd be wise pol risk chances of success in the great castern states having almost one-half of the na- tional electoral vote. The sacrifice was in vain The populistic-democratic politieal | trust” lost Nebraska. The judgment of | the people of that state was just. They | were not moved by state pride nor by per- Chicago cratic Bryan in 1896 with 8,000 plurality for the McKinley electors, the election of a ree publican governor and a republican legls- lature. In the next state election follow- Ing the presidential contest, in which Mr. Bryan again made a complete canvass of BALM FOR THE DLEEDING, Indianapolis aus campnign “Don't you belleve it. ['ve g that it wfll take two months to the strenu PERSONAL NOTES, beta out ollect Kruger prudentiy omits to mention the probable duration of his “holiday.” Luckily for Mr. Croker his election bets are all payable in money and not in freak performances Ex-Governor Roger Wolcott of Massa chugetis returned from a six months' trip to Burope just in time to vote in Boston Judge Robert Grant of Boston, the novel ist, is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard for 1901. Besides belng a 1 A., be 18 a doctor of philosophy At the centennial celetration of the Dis- trict of Columbia next month the speakers will be Senators Daniel and McComas and | Congressmen Payne and Richardson Providence gave Presi- | The emperor of Japan devotes most of 5000 majority and | bis leisure to literature. He Is one of the soayor by 1,10 pis | Mot Widely read men in the east and has, w6 SHIT & old. |morcover, to depend very little upon trans- | 1ations. W. . Todd of Atkinscn, N. H., has offered | 5,000 to the New Hampshire Hisorical so clety on condition it raised $5,000 more by the end of this month. The whole sum is to go toward the enlargement of the | soclety's present building at Concord The Orleans city council bas re- | jected a proposed ordinance providing for separate strcet cars for negroes, in spite | of great pressure brought to secure \is passage. A similar movement failed In the | | state legislature at the recent session The German Emperor Willlam has given 50,000 marks toward the new bu!lding which the Lette soclety proposes to erect in a Berlin suburb as a model house ‘or 2,000 | | young girls, who will be instructed there in bookkeeping, photography, housekeep- ing, ete. The Soclety of Arts of awarded a silver medal to Prof. R. W. Wood of the physics departmient of the University of Wisconsin in recognition of his work on the diffraction process of color photography. Prof. Wood visited England in February by special lnvitation of the soclety, presenting papers on this and other subjects before the principal sccleties In London. “Twenty-seven years ago, 3 Louls Post-Dispatch, “Charles M. Hays aged 19 years, was a clerk In the 'Frisco railroad offices in St. Louls, with a salury of $40 & month. Last week Mr. Hays, now 42 years of age and still retaining his home in St. Louls, became the president of the Southern Pacific railway, the second largest railway system in the world. Mis | salary will be $55,000 a year, making him | the highest salaricd railroad man in the | world and a better salarfed executive than the president of the United States.” Louisville Courler-Journal: Nobody seems in & hurry to organize an expedition to dig Goorge Fred Willlams out Washington Star: Any efforts of the older leaders of the democracy to appear heart e in most cases likely to be palpable fictions. Philadelphia Times: Those people who were wise to bet vary thelr patting themselves on the back by giving their pocket a gentle caress New York World Yonkers Statesman: He-Do you under- stand the language of fowers, dear” She—Oh, ves, a little “Do vou Know what those dozen roses [ [ menicyou last night meun. Tove™ “Why ] ves; about dear. Boston Transeript don’t mean to sy | enything in nature Artist—Well to be orlgln copylst, I'd The Connolseeur—Yau that there was ever ltke that landscape? xhould way not. 1 elaim I my work. I'm not a have you know Washington Star Money remarke| the idealist, “is a responsibiiity and not a personal luxury." “Well," answered Senator Sorghum, with a thoughtful glance at hiw check book, T must say that as the camoaign draws fo & close [ feel relfeved of great deal of sponsiblitty. " There is one very slgnificant word fn Mr. Bryan's telegram to Mr. McKinley: “It fs my ‘lot’ to congratu- late you upon a second victory." There s | lots of meaning In that “lot." Washington Pcst dent McKinley over elected a democratic indicates that there Boston Journal across th 't3 yer—Oh, that's Downing. omobile record ver—Automobile iver—Yes; ran one afternoon Myer—Who Is the man - way with the gold medal on his He holds the Philadelphia Record: Perhaps the thorn- | iest sting of defeat for Mr. Bryan is the | result of the voting in New York after he | bad submitted himself to the indignity of touching elbows with Richard Croker. Chicago Times-Herald: It is political if not poetical justice that the one office in Cook county which the democrats have saved out of the wreck should be that of coroner. They need him in their business. It would be rank partisanship to have a re- publican coroner sit on the long array of democratic corpses that strew the battle- fleld. Philadelphia Ledger: Senator Pettigrew's new party is to be made up of ‘‘persons discontented with the elements in politics” and will be organized as “'a protest against the existing conditions.”” There is a certain proportion of dissatisfied persons in every community and there has never been a time in the history of the country when there was not a large minority opposed to the policy of the party in power, but the senator cannot hope to combine all these elements of opposition into one body. They are too diverse for that, as the campaign just closed, with its dozen presidential tickets, plainly showed. Chicago News: General Wheeler says he felt and knew McKinley would be over- whelmingly re-elested and adds: ‘““There are two things the American people rever- ence—Afirst, their God, and, second, their flag. A word against elther will bring down their condemnation. There never was a president defeated for election who had conducted a successful war. Wars are popu- lar in this country and are growing more popular with the masses and any party that opposes a successful war president will meet defeat.” This is a different explanation of results from that ordinarily given and may help to explain how it all happened record over thirteen people In o Dliadelphia Record: “If that poet comes n tell him I've gone to 00, saly the editor. s e S Coyhats upe” asked the asslstant editor oh!'it's the compositor again.” said the wearily; “he made the poet say that o miss good as 4 male.’ New editor Washington Star: "I suppoke you regard untry s saved,” said the friend of cessful candidats at all" was the bland reply. “if untry were to be regarded s abs: lutely safe wo politiclans would have noth- ing left to talk about. Saving it is eur profeseion.” Philadelphia Press: A man can't he to1 careful about trifies In_this world.” re- marked the moralist. “You ga along with your mind Intent upon some big plan, and the first thing yvou know some little thing ets vou that vou never noticed.” That's right.” replied the other, say, there ought to be a law again; ing ‘banana skins on the pavement.' “JUMPING ON A FELLOW." 8t. Louls Republic (dem.) Great Caesar's ghost! Say, confidentially, between you and the gatepost. Did_you think there were that publicans in our midst? Or that they were going (o do us up ths way they dldst? uftering land! This tricl of eurprising ar the band! It's wrong, allowed- Lying low and thi with all Londcn ha ana me many re- says the enemy bea‘s it's sinful, it oughtn’t to he Jumping on a fellgw vour crowd! Lay on Macdift! Nobody on earth ever neard cry “Enough!” Come one, come all, was wont to sine. We may be a bit disfigured, but we're stiil in the ring! Just walt awhile, And yowil see us toe the mark with 11 gamest sort of o emile: And when four years roil ‘round and the fight s on anew Bay. republicans, we won't you! A demorrit 18 James Fitz-James MONEY WE IV Completion of the Work of Census Taking In Cuba, Washington Post The census of Cuba for 1899, compiled by crder of the War department, is not only | one of the most complete and comprenen- | |sive documents cver issued hy the United | Sates government. but it is also cspectally interesting to all who have the Cuban ques- tior at heart, whether as officlals or as | private citizens. We do not belleve that | any more unique volume has ever been | prepared by any administration. It goes far beyond the limits of the conventlonal census and glves us details—illustrated witl pec ‘ar ferce and happiness—which are invaluable to the student and the statesman This work was confided Alger carly in July, 1899, | Colonel Joseph P. Sanger, The intelligent American voter cannot be | €Fah U. 8. A. Colonel Sanger at once frightened or coerced or stampeded. He |Prevared a memorandum indicating the must be reasomed with and convinced. |1nes upon which he proposed to operate Manifest_exakgeration and bigoted perver- | This was approved and he enterprine was © passes over as p a ! : but as unworthy of serious attention. He ':‘I' the rr;l:":n-;t‘nn;: hz“x:”m o::- lemar He asks for the facts and |the cordla d effective co-operation o for & common-sense interpretation of them, | Pirector General Merriam and promptly Ho takes it for granted that neither party |De8an to realize the complicated and com- has a monopoly of patriotism and good in- ‘7‘:’“““‘“"'1:; "r‘"“’:‘“" "l’ h‘r" r‘:_"""l""“'"""“' tentions, but he knows that when two op- o Aore Was no proorastination, no posite policies are advocated one must he [2:"::’&",:’. ":“;:‘:‘fl“ 1"",”‘:"'“:‘;::;] l;:‘:\::: and the other wroi e demands B RIRARD- 8 e e st ot s (accomplished and experienced men in Mr. ) Merriam's bureau and the enterprise wa There 1s little in the campnign of 1900 of | 8¢t in motion as though by magic. which any thoughtful American has occasion | L0OKIng over the volume of nearly 800 to feel ashamed. It has been a real cam- | PABeS, Which contains a history of the paign of education. It was not necessary to reargue the question of gold versus silver and little that was new was advanced by The people had voted on and had decided the money ques- tion and it was only necessary to determine whether or not the parties had changed their respective positions with regard thereto. It was not difficult to prove that the gold standard would be endangered by democratic | success, notwithstanding the relegation of silver to the rear. But imperiallsm and | trusts were new fssues to the majority of | 5 the pecple, and who will deny that murh‘;/"/// 7 light has been shed upon them and that | %747, ' enriched by the discussion? | Much been sald against our quad- | rennial political struggles—orgles they have | been called. Business is disturbed, we have | been told. prejudices and passiops are irred, money s wasted and politics mad far more prominent in the nation's lite than | it deserves to be. But this is 'nll:llll)u*; view. Under a popular government—a gov- erument by discussion—presidential cam palgns are invaluable as school. lor the higher education of the electorate. The the standard of Intelligence they concentrate attention on great publle ques tions; they check unfortunate tenden EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS, do a thing to Featares of idential Contets ssessing Maoch Value, Chicago Post It is generally recognized that there has been a notable improvement in the char- acter of our presidential campaigns. 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