Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1900, Page 4

4 l‘m-: (NAHA DA]LY BEB E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING RIPTION. Year $5.00 <0 200 2.00 L1 6% TERMS OF 8UB3 (without Sunday), ¢ and Funday, One 'Y One r Year e Year Year Buturday e, ( Weekly Bee, On maha: The Bee H‘IIIHIII uth Omaha: Clty Hail Buildi th and N Sireets | Bluffs: 10 l"lrl‘BIrrll. o0 W Iwhhg\nn Bloux City: 611 Park Strect CORRESPONDENC Communications r ng to torlal matter should be n'dressed: Bee, Editortal T and edi- Umaha “Iness letters and remittances <hould | be addressed: The Bee Publlshing vom- pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The ¢ Publishing Company. Ouily Z-cent stam pted in payment (¢ mall account checks X Omnha or k 8, NGt Ace ! d! THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA . STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. e B ing Compa bes g suys that the actual number of full and of The Dally, Morning, Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, {00, was as follows 27,220 1 27,450 18... 2T, 890 9. 27,470 20. 47,670 2, 2N, A0 2N, THO 24,790 19,000 B0,080 auly sworn, . 97,820 L. 27,480 .. 27,520 .. 27,870 L 27,420 26,720 27,400 47,870 2 2 o % 26, 27, 2 29 20 an NN TIN 11,841 NTONTH an.owz Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total salos Net dally average GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK Subscribed In my presence and sworn to ro me this first day of November. A. 1900, M. B. HUNGATE, Seal.) Notary Publle. The outgoing governor can relfeve himself by telling how it happened in his valedictory message to the legisla- ture. Colorado sticks to other obsolete prac- tices discarded by the most advanced civilization besides the free colnage of sllver at 16 to 1. Of this much we may be sure: When Dr. Parkhurst picke his ideal news- paper It will have no resemblance to the Omaha Bryanite Fakery. Lincoln missed the chance of a life- time by not postponing its census enu- meration until the week for inaugu- rating the new republican state officers. Although the subscription list to the Auditorium project makes a formidable showing a continued policy of expan- | slon will be favored by the promoters in charge. That Cuban constitutional convention 1s toking care that it 18 not over- worked. Two hours' session a day is all the constitutions of the constitution framers can stand. If the popocratic newspaper fakirs cannot reconstruct McKinley's cabinet for him they propose to keep his cabinet officers busy just the same denylng stories about intended resignations. A college student was killed In a cane rush at Boston last week and he was neither a would-be tooth extractor nor an incipient sawbones. The Omaha student rioters are not the worst In the land. The fuslon campaign committee s sald to be hopelessly in debt, with no visible means of replenishing its ex- hausted finances. Application for a Judgment in bankruptcy might come in handy. President Kruger has landed In France, but will not reach Parls until Friduy. He managed to move faster when he was on the jump to keep his capltal out of the clutch of the British invaders. The proposed bluff tract park has now gotten to a point where it Is simply a financial problem. The only question is whether it Is worth the price asked, and the city authorities are the only people able to give a conclusive answi Sheriff Po uties pressed into service by him at the recent election were chosen for him by the democratic them without expense to himself or the county. What more flagrant peryersion of the sherifi’s ofiice could be cited? The woman who shied an ax at Em peror William has been pronounced in sane by the experts who have exam- ined her. This sort of Insanity, ever, must not be made an excuse for other outbreaks of murderous character. | Insanity of that straint. order requires re- South Omaha reports anew a dearth | of business buildings and dwellings which bas sent the rentals sky high. The same condition exists in greater or less degree in all parts of Omaha. In- vestors who want returns on money will not overlook these oppor tunities, The bitterness of the fusion popu- Usts against the mid-roaders Is not jus- tified by the election figures. 1t 18 not the votes polled by the mid-road candi- dates, however, that exasperates the defeated fusionists, but the fact that the mid-ronders warned them in ad- vance what was to be expected if they truckled to the democrats, Although a reader of the popocratic press would never guess It, it Is never- theless true that Nebraska's United States senators will be chosen hy the republican majority of the legislature Just elected Instead of being named by the popocratic editors who are so lavish with free advice to the legislators they were doing all they could to defeat less than two weeks ago. | tean v admits that all the dep- | machine and paid by | how- | thelr | BRITISH ALARM. manufacturing and commer interests are unquestionably | alarmed at the rapid growth of Amer competition, which 1s mot only (invading markets hitherto practically monopolized by the British, but is se curing trade in their home market It is stated that Americans who are doing business or who are trylng to get business in Great Britain or on | the continent, write home urging their assoclates he; to the utmost secrecy, saying that they are very sore in Great Britain and in Germany, partie- ularly in the former, British einl this to be the case. | especially have at the contracts The trade papers exprossed indignation wade with American manufacturers for locomotives, brid ete, in Lgypt and elsewhere within the Dritlsh domain indignation of tl compel the pro-American Egypt to abandon the Ing contracts with | Yet the American tinue to do business with British officials, the post commissioners at Calcutta having just accepted the bid of a Pittsburg company for nine loco- motives to be used in Indin. The suc- cess of Amerlcan compeition in thls case was due to the fact that the Eng. lish manufacturers were underbid and besides required a longer time in which to furnish the locomotives than the American company. Another consider- tion was that the officlals preferred the American model. British manufacturers cannot expect hold their own against American competition without radically changing thelr methods of business and Improv- ing thelr facilities. This they ar gluning to see and will probubly accordingly, Lnglish people would officials in policy of mak- American bidders. manufacturer con- to be- act THE RESULT IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. Douglas county has awarded certificates of election to eight republican tive candidates and four fusionists. It Las also recorded a majority for the fusion candidate for county attorney. Under the law governing the canvass of the vote the board {s compelled lu take the face of the returns as u-rllll('d by the election officers for the various precinets regardless of fraud in the bal- lot or in the original count. Under the faw the ballot boxes must remain sealed until a contest Is Instituted by candi dates who have rightful claims to elec- tion. The Bee makes bold to assert that every candidate on the republican legls- lative and county ticket was elected by declsive majorities and those who have failed to recelve certificates have been deprived of thelr right by colossal frauds perpetrated chlefly at South Oumaha, where hundreds of fraudulent votes were polled and' where many of the election officers were in coliusion with the couspirators who padded the registration lists and worked repeaters and non-residents Into the voting booths. It was the fear of the exposure of these frauds, so flagrant and noforfous, that made the fusion candidates rush into court to emjoin the canvassing board from golug into an Inquiry into the South Omaha returns even where evidence of fraud might be apparent. The hue and cry also raised before elec- tion by the fusion campaign managers about lmaginary registration frauds and colonization of voters in was a mere trick designed to draw at- tention away from their field of opera- tlons In South Omaha and cover up thelr own tracks. If the true state of facts Is ever dis closed by contest in court or before the legislature, the fusion candidates who have received certificates to which they ave not entitled will have to glve way to the men who lhave been honestly elected. REAPPORTIONMENT QUESTION. It 1s understood that in his annual message President MceKinley will ree- ommend legislation by the present con- gress for a reapportionment of rep resentatives under the new census, but he will make no suggestions, leaving the matter entirely with congress, At a recent cabinet meeting the disfran chisement of colored citizens In the south was discussed and the decision reached that this 1s a subject to be | dealt with exclusively by the leglsla tive department of the government. It | 1s stated that members of the adminis | tratlon deprecate anything that will tend to make the race issue more prominent and that the influence of the president will be exerted against | any proposition to reduce the repre | sentation from those southern states which have disfranchised colored efti | zens. The question of the enforcement of the fourteenth awendment to the con stitution in the southern states nat urally comes up with the duty of re apportionment and undoubtedly there | will be proposed legislation providing for their enforcement, We are inclined | to believe that the adwministration will )mu be found in opposition to this, It may do nothing to promote such legls lation, but there Is no good reason why it shounid It and it is hardly concelvable that a republican admin istration would assume such an atti- tude, Negro disfranchisement, while not an fssue in the presidentinl eam paign, still commanded the interest of many people who understood the in Justice involved not only to the col- ored race, but to the voters of the north also, As the Philadelphin Press points out, in Louisiuna, Mississippi and South Carvolina every Bryan voter was able to exert tw much in flue in electing a president on No- vember 6 as any McKinley yoter In the north. Negro distranchisement in effect a nullification of the constitn tion. Shall the north take no notice of this? There are now forty representatives in congress and forty electoral votes oppose as l The tone of the British press shows | declaring that the | The officlal canvass of the election in | 5,000 or more maj leglsla- | | the fusion legislative ticket. | endorsed quite lican state press, Omaha | ’T‘HF ()\IAHA DAILY llh]‘ based upon the colored pnpuh\l\ml. which 18 about 10,000,000, If the num- ber necessary for each representative be increased to 200,000, there will be | fifty representatives based upon the black citizens, Says Senator Chandler: “Shall we deliberately, by new and ex- | press law of .congress, assign to the south these fifty representatives and | also fifty presidential electors and keep on trying to win national elections against a solid south armed with these | fifty representatives and electors al lotted to the newly subjugated race?" Rixteen years ago, after the election of 1884, Mr. Blaine raised his volce against the infustice of permitting the south to have its full quota of repre sentation in the house and the electoral | college so long as ut least hatf of the vote In those st was suppressed, | Tn a speceh delivered at Augusta, Me. n November 18 of that year, Mr | Blaine reviewed the conditions in the | south and suid: I submit, my friends, {that such a condition of affairs is ex rding unjust and de ory to the wanhood of the vorth. Even those who are vindictively opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that if presiden- tial elections are assigned to the south by reason of the negro population, that population ought to be permitted free suftrage in the election. To deny that clear proposition is to afiirm that a southern man in the Gulf states is en titled to double the political power of | & worthern white mun in the luke stutes.” The condition of affalrs in the south is worse today than sixteen years ago, so that what Mr. Blaine then suid is applicable now. 8 TIMELY ADMONITIONS. A week before the recent election The Bee offered its readers some sug- gestions under the caption of “Safe Advic which read as follows: Don't bet that Bryan will be elected president. Don't bet York. Don't bet that Nebraska will give Bryan that Bryan will carry New Dow't bet that Douglas county will elect Den't bet that William A. Poynter be elected governor. Don't bet that the fusionists will con- trol the mext Nebraska legislature. It may be worth while to recollect | the fact that people who took these admonitions to heart have lost no money on the result. will NO DEAD WEIGHTS WAD K. The Bee Is glad to note that its cau- tion to the newly-clected republican state officers against loading the party up again with the old dead wood in appointive offices fs received with ap- proval by republicans everywhere and generally by the repub- The popocratic organs are trying to make out that the warning against barnacles 1s an insult to the wen who were serving in official places when control passed out to their fusion suc cessors. But, pray, who is insulted? Self-preservation Is the ficst law of na- ture for political parties as well as for individuals and the only preserva- tion for the republican party in its new ascendancy In Nebraska s to deal fairly with the people and with itself. Its prestige can be wmaintained only by honoring men who deserve to be honored and rewarding party worke who will build up the paety rather than welght it down. Clean records and undoubted com- petency must be taken into account as well as party service. It s far better to turn n claimants who caunot come up to these tests than to Jjeopurdize the party's future for the suke of satisfying demands that have no substantial foundation. The Incoming republican state offi- cers will be on trial before the people aud they cannot fill the public’s meas ure unless they surround themselves with appolntive associates of the same trustworthy and contidence-inspiring character as themselves, A preacher has Just been convicted by the federal court at Kansas City of perjury and subjected to a severe sen- tence, including both Imppisonment and fine. A few examples of this kind in this vicinity would put a stop to a practice which s altogether too preva- lent because the culprits are not called to account. In certain classes of cases perjury 1s common because -instigated Ly unscrupulous attorneys., When the witnesses are called to account for perjury the attorneys who fixed up the jobs should also be called in, The tax collector In Council Bluffs assigned to the duty of collecting taxes from property which has evaded all regular assessiment reports a rich find in the claims filed with the recelvers of a defunct bank. In Switzerland they have a system by which a searching inquiry 1s made on all property that passes through probate for tax evasion, with severe penalties in cases of detee- tion, 1f we put Into force the same stringent rules of tax gathering pur- sued elsewhere some astonishing results would follow. | The Bee has been urging for years the establishment of tanueries and fac tories to work up the hides of the an- | tmals slaughtered at South Omaba into | leather products. These enterprises | have not materialized heretofore prob- | ably because capital is timid in enter- iug upon new territory, With a promise of continued prosperity and restored confidence in the stability of the condi tions in this and surrounding states the prospect should be good for the early development of this inviting fleld, Governor Dietrich will have no trouble in finding suitable material for every appoiutive office within his gift and he will p his foresight and Jjudgment by avolding mistakes such us scandalized the administration of Governor Poynter. No more square pegs In round holes. Governor Poynter has conferred the | the next biennjum aggregating nea | earnest for the pu | while Constantine | was more than doubted ilr ing $32,000,000, {cotton-ratser is | the army canteen. | not see \[()\DA Y. retary in n-l'ngumnn of the unremit ting labor ' performed by him during the campaign. As the nearest approach to the investment with an honorary title that is permitted under our sys tem of government this is the most harmless diversion in which the gov ernor could indulge his official pre rogative for the benefit of his personal followers, The outgolng state officlals make up estimates of thelr respective offices for 1y $2,000,000. Their cagerness to force their successors to spend more money than they have used, to form the foun- dation for future charges of extrava palpable. The legislature, @ the estimate eve of his de- . declares that Tam- ake up the nght in ification of the eity and proposes to carry it to a successful issue, It is noticeable that whenever Tammany takes up a fight “in_earnest” Croker runs away. The direct pipe line between the Lin- coln Journal and the Omaha World- Herald by which the slush from the columns of the one is promptly emptied into the columins of the other is aguin in active operation. v on the e for Buro Hall will purtur many Future 1 Philadelphia 1 The Bryan party, it is announced, will keep up the fight until 1604. What the democratic party will do is still undecided (‘ Gru Washington Star The democracy can no longer close its eyes to the fact that “(he solid south” is rapidly crumbling around the edges ervernity Chicago ribune, As the remote precincts In Nebraska are heard from it becomes more and more evi- dent that Mr. Bryan will not take anybody's senatorial job away from him this time. Treason in the Cam Washington Post. Hon. George Graham Vest makes so bold as to believe that the democratic party can survive the elimination of Mr. Bryan as a leader and candidate, If Mr. Vest fs not more careful in his utterances, he will discover that he is in the pay of the trusts and Mark Hanna on, Exonerated. Ruffalo Express. The Navy department’s investigation has acquitted the officers of the cruiser Churleston of having been drunk at the time the vessel was wrecked. The charge never seems to have had any other basis than the suspicions of one of those unfor- tunate persons who are always ready to attribute any misfortune in the navy to the use of Inwoxicants by officers. Storehoune of the World, Phi'adelphia Ledger. It American coal will burn in other ves- sels there is no reason for wonder that it will do the same in French warships and the only occasion for surprise at the dis- covery of the French navy that it will do 50 s the fact that the experiment has been tried. It shows rhat France, like other European countri¢s, is feeling the neces- sity of comiug to the United States for fuel and the process s fast putting thie country In the préition of the great inter- national arbitratcr on the basis of ti coal supply. A Schoo! of Prophecy, J. Sterling Morton's Conservative, The rumor floats through the air that instead of becoming a Presbyterian preacher to expound the doctrine of fore- ordination and election, or transmitting himself into an editor of a yellow journal at Denver, Colonel Bryan may establish a School of Prophecy at Lincoln. This being accomplished he will himself take the chair of economic and financial predictions J. Smyth, James Dahl- man, General Vifqualn and other past grand forecasters of election returns will lecture upon the “Theorles and Practice of Prophecy.” For terms of tultion a dress Gilbert Monell Hitcheock, World- Herald office, Omaha Work of the Blair Pllot. This i the first vear in six that the re- publican press of Nebraska has had good grounds for rejolcing. If they holler too loud they should be excused. They stood behind the guns and from the time the cam- palgn opened till it closed they mever quit With vigor they tore to pleces the vagaries of Bryanism and defended the prineiples of the republican party that, put into force four years ago, has made the country pros- perous beyond expectations. The power of the press was never before so fully recog- nized as it is today and in the humble opinion of the writer there fs nothing too good for the newspaper boys. on's Last St. Louls Grip Shattered. Globe-Democrat. Nebraska's Bryanites die hard, but they die, nevertheless. They have at last conceded that their state has been car- rled by the republicans. This is the last thing which Bryan and the rest of his tellow couspirators uud their dupes ex- pected. Nebraska, too, Is the enemy's country for Bryan. If the democrats should put up Bryan in 1904 and some of his bosses are threatening to do it, even Nevada will turn against him. If the Bryanite folly should be at the front four years hence the majority of the republican candidate of that year will be greater than any othor presidential nominee has had since Mon- roe In 1820 got all the votes in the electoral college except one. Proaperity In the South. New k Journal of Commerce. No part of the country 18 in the enjoy- ment of a greater share of the commercial recovery than the south. While the bread- stuffs and provisions exported iu October were of less value than those exported In October, 1889, the value of cotton exports the ineres alone A good part of this w due to the increase in price. The farmer is lvpl to experience high prices only when he has little to sell and to see the markets break under his heavy crops, but the now enjoying the double advantage of good crops and good prices Southern people will outgrow the habit of speaking of themselves as if they were up to their cars in debt, No Cantee the Kansas Star. N0 liquor is permitted In the navy, why then, in the arm the opponents of These good people do u to understand that the army can- teen {s designed to prevent what happen: in the navy, that is to say, the moment the men get on shore they o on a howling spree; Many sailors on men-o’-war do not get shore leave in a year. They are nit permitted to leave the ship because they would get drunk. Pepned up In this way the desire of the men for a spree becomes madness and the result is that everywhere United States sallors go ashore they are a terror, and riots and bloodshed follow in the wake of enforced total abstaining from liquor. The United States man-'o-warsmen, degree of colomel upon his private sec- kept from liquor, are the terror of all the ports in the world, NOVEMBER 19, L T e R T LTI P LT ORI (oL AR R CAL AFTERMATH. Some Minor Features of the Upheaval of General Interest. The increased use of voting machines by various citles fn New York state and thelr success in every instance attracts widcspread favorable comment. Several varicties of machines were tested as never before, with an unusually large list of can- didates, national, state and municipal offt cers, and all worked remarkably well. Two great advantages were shown by thelr use— rapldity of voting and prompt return of the vote cast. In Buffalo, where machines were used for the first timo, the Courler says: “The speed and ease with which the voting was conducted and the me- chanlcal accuracy of the count were favor- ably commented upon by all. Not in a single district was there any question raised as to the correctness of the count and the returns were brought to the center of the city and tabulated ‘n a very short tme.” In Rochester, where the machines were used for the second time, the total vote of the city was footed and turned in within twenty minutes after the polls closed The experiment of machine voting at Woonsocket, R. I, the first instance in the pocket state, was closcely watched by elty officials. Barring a slight d'sarrangement of the mechanism at the outset and the delays caused by the Inexperience of the vours, the machine worked satisfactorily Its merits are thus summed up by the mayor and aldermen: “Without doubt the voting machines were subjected to a se- vere test, there being two classes of voters, a large number of candidates to be voted for and a strong prejudice on the part of the voters against machine voting. Our Jjudgment ts that the machine is admirably adapted to accurately record the votes cast at an election and that after the voters are acquainted with (he manner of votlug no elector will fail to have his vote properly and accurately recorded, unless ke be very negligent. “We are satisfied that the votes can be counted on the night of the election accu- rately and In at least one-quarter of the time needed to count the same number of ballots under the Australlan system of voting." THE POL Holland, the New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, reporta that at the luncheon given In New York City last Tucsday by the governor to the governor- elect, “Mr. Roosevelt was informed that John B, F of Omaha had written to triends in New York Clty stating that it as due In great measure to the campaign that Roosevelt's speeches were so Inform- Ing, aprealed so strongly to the Intelligence of the great throngs that heard him throughout Nebraska, and that the power- tul influence that Bryan has maintained (here for six years was for the first time impaired “Furay was for many years the ablest of the postoffice Inspectors. It was in Gresh- am's administration as postmaster gen- eral that his serv as postoflice in- spector ended. Since then he has lived in Nobraska and has a wide and Intimate ac- quaintance throughout the state.” Many queer characiers were carrled into offe in Montana by W. A. Clark's vaude ville camipaign. A correspondent of the St. Louls Globe-Democrat sketches several of | the fortunate political freaks chosen chiefly for their subserviency to the boss of Butto and thelr experience in crooked work. Cald- well Edwards, who was elected on Mr. Clark's ticket to represent the state in congress, s a populist of the decidedly in- teresting type. Before his nomination he was employed as a bartender in the town made famous by the “‘Bucklug Bull of Bel- grade,” and all last winter he was similarly employed In a saloon in Logan, where he worked for his board. In Bilver Bow county (Butte), Clark's home, William Clancy was re-elected to the most important district judgeship In the state. Clency is & popullst and has won a wide reputation through the frequent and severe criticisms passcd upon him by the supreme court in reversing him and be- cause of his oddities on the bench. For district attorney Clark elected Peter Breen, & miner, who was admitted to prac- tice only a few months ago. Breen was implicated In the Cocur d'Alene ocutrages soveral years ago, and was arrested, but was released through the intervention of Marcus Daly, whom he has been fighting politically ever since. Breen belleves in the power of dynamite as a social and political factor and prides himself on the fact. In numerous public speeches he has declared that there is more virtue in a stick of dynamite then in all the prayers, petitions and reasoning in the world. He applauded the act of the Coeur d'Alene miners who twice blew up mills and mining property in that district. “Besides Clark,” says the correspondent, “the legislature will probably elect Joseph K. Toole to the scnate, to succeed Senater Carter. Mr. Toole is the governor-elect on the Clark fusion ticket. With the promo- tlon of Governor Toole, the lieutenant gov- crnor, Frank Higgins, will become gov- ernor. Mr, Higgins' clalm to distinction @ the fact that he has a good streak ot Indian blood in his velns, which has had considerable influence in the molding of his character and disposition.” Otto Carmichael, Washington correspond- ent of the Minneapolis Times, gives un explanation of the astonishing slump In the demacratic vote In Utah, by which the 50,000 majority for Bryan four years ago was converted Into a McKinley plurality this year. “Republican leaders, early in the campalgn,” says the correspondent, “aesured influential Mormon leaders that there would not be urged any constitu- tlonal amendments or any federal law agalnst polygamy during the next session of congress. When the Mormon elders were glven this assurance they promiscd to use their influence for the republican ticket. That this was done with telling effect is plainly shown in the result. The ouly cities the democrats carried are the ones where ths Gentile population excecds the Mormons. Wherever (here was a pre- ponderance of Mormons the republican ticket received large pluralities.’ “We could not have been more sur- pris sald a Utah democrat quoted by Carmichacl, “When our bocks were gone over they showed the usual democpatic strength. We were a little suspicious dbout the Mormon vote and were very careful, Those who had been democrats replied that they were stlll democrats. There was no growling or disposition to avold our ques- tloners. They answered frankly and ap- porently truthfully. And as a matter of fact they will still say that they are demo- crats. I presume they are. But they did not vote for Bryan. It the biggest wholesale confidence game 1 ever saw We were decelved by the auswers of thou- sands. We had no suspicion of what was oming. Of course the republicans thought that it we knew what was being prepared that we would hustle and bea them. In short, they gave us chloroform nd then did the trick. It was very boauti- ful. T understand that Perry Heath worked the game. He wes out there and I assume that he made the deal with the leaders, 1 am reasonably certain,” concludes the correspondent, “that this I8 a correct ex- planation of why Utah went republican.’ The Chlecago Congldering that Eng! estimates her war expenses ‘In the South Afriean cam- paign of more "oa year at $500,000,000 the rumor thot tho allies are to demand $000,000,000 indernity from China indicates that they have done some liberal fguring 48 10 the damages they have sustained. | republican precinct of the state, B FEARLESS AND HONEST. l H | 4 . ¢ Springfield (Mass) Republican The republicans of Nebrask ought to send Edward Rosewate The Omaha Bee, to the He is an independent, fear Had his counsel followed there s corruption in editor of senate, less, honest maun. in the past been would have been | the republican government of Ne braska and far less for populism to feed upon. Mr. Rosewater is n ¢ regular party man and has been an $ avowed candidate for the senate tesessssccosssssssossccces . RASKA REDEEYW Pawnee Republican: The democrats are cussing the midroaders because they didn't fuse, and cussing themsclves because they Qid fuse; hence, fusion Is pretty generally cussed Kimball Observer: Powers precinct, Deuel county, holds the belt as the banner having cast forty votes at the recent election, all of which were for McKinley. Ord Quiz: The slanderers of Dietrich succeeded fn two things, They cut his vote a little and made mush of their own good names. It anyone needs to be ashamed of themselves it fs the fellows who attacked the character of Dietrich. Stanton Picket: The results in Nebraska are not such as to allay the.suspicion and fesentment of dewmocrats and populists against each other or to change the plans of the real workers of elther party to here- after “go-lt-alone.” Plalnly the country has seen the last of fusion. Superior Jourpal: If all the hope the fusionists have of getting a majority in the leglslature centers on the trick of steal- (ng & foew In Douglas county, they had bet- ter glve up. Douglas county republicans are not of the stuff to let any good things get away from them, elther in a convention, at the polls or in a count. Albion News: The Argus did a lot of Jubllating last week that was simiiar to what it terms “a common republican er- ror'” of “laughing before they know what they are laughing about.” That panegyric on “Our Brother the Honest Popullst Gov- ernor Endorsed,” etc., was entirely too premature, as the complete returns show that he was repudiated by tho people. Kearney Hub: The completion of the count in Douglas county removes any shadow of doubt as to the political com- plexion of the next leglslature and makes it certain that there will be not only a republican majority on joint ballot, but a, working majority in both house and senate. This is as it should be and is a high commentary on the judgment of the people of Nebraska. Pouca Journal: It would be a good recog- nition of this part of the state and a fue tribute to the ability and natural leadership of J. J. McCarthy to elect him epeaker of the house of representatives at the coming sesslon, but the probabllities are strongly in | favor of his belng the natural choice of the lower house for speaker and in the event of his being chosen we belleve subsequent events will prove the wisdom of the selec- tion. Wahoo Wasp: The election of Hon. C. H Dietrich, governor of this state, s one of the most gratifying results of the late elec- tion. Villainous reports were concocted Just prior to the election and were given out 50 late that there was not time to counter- act the bad effect. But, thanks to the good sense of a majority of the voters of this state, Mr. Dietrich was elected all the same. Hurrah for Governor Dietrich and the state ticket! Hastings Tribune: The ecampaign fin- augurated by the fusionists and pushed agalnst Governor-elect Dietrich was the dirtlest, meanest and most contemptible of its kind ever known In the history of the state. It was eo vile that immediately after electlon some of the fusion campalgn man- agers came around and offered & half-way apology by saylng they had had no hand in that part of the campaign whatever and de- nounced those who had. We sincerely hope that the fusionists will profit to a degree by thelr late and sad experience, g0 that next time they jump into the political arena the people will not have to put clothespins on their noses. Bradshaw Republican (pop.): The elec tion of Charles H. Dietrich is a timely and decisive rebuke to the manifold mis- managements and bungling blunders that constitute Poynterism. His election means economy in the various departments of the state government. It means a busi- nesslike administration of the institutions of the state. It means that corporate wealth shall not be permitted to escape its just share in the matter of taxation. It means the restoration of Nebraska to the sister- hood of dignified and prosperous common- wealths, from which she was so rudely torn by Bryanism and Poynterism. It means that business men and not political pets will have charge of the state after January 1, 1901 York Times: It was very thoughtful of Mr. Bryan, two days after election and when It was certain that the republicans had the legislature, to declare he would not be a candidate for United States sena- tor. All during the campaign it was openly asserted that he would be and In many places the fusion ticket was damaged by it, yet he never found time to say he would not be a candidate until after the returns showed there was no possible chance of an election. Some citizens of York county sald they would like to vote for this or that legislative candidate on the populist tickst but they could not do it for fear it might assist in electing Bryan to the senate. He could easily have remedied all that had he chosen to do 8o, Blair Courter: Prof. Fowler goes to Lin- coln with the landslide and we heartily con- gratulate both him and the state. Blair loses the best superintendent it has ever had und we predict blg things for the schools of the state under his excellent gen- eralship. Prof. Fowler is particularly fit- ted for this position, be!ng a natural born organizer, and the only consoling thought for Blair is that he has brought our schools up to such a standard that they must rank high 1o whosoever hands they fall. He will have had but four monihs in the hand somest and best constructed High scheol bullding In the state and he regrets this greatly, but he has made a step upward and none will wish him to return. Mr. Fowle has the abllity to succeed, he has succeede and he will continue to succeed fn the fu- ture, Niobrara Ploneer: Victory for the re- publican party in Nebraska nearly takes one's breath away. It means practically a complete reuovation of the state house and every institution In the state. But as much as the Ploneer belleves in the doctrine that “to the victors belong the spolls” It never- theless believes that this should be accom- plished with caution. Too ofien these places are filled by wardheclers—by men who would not be entrusted with the private business of any careful man-—and the party is thus Injured that much by it It 18 claimed that the salaries are too small to pay & man of active business pursuits 10 accept many of these positions. That may be true. In Knox county the cditor of the Ploneer made several attemp's to bave Chairman Nelson appoint vice chair men in various parts of the county. The plea was that “they would not accept Finally it was put to him flat-footed that ‘they must sccept and that there should be no such word as ‘0o’ 1a & campalgn of this kind." The result is partially due te this told policy. The same argument should be made by the state officials who have in thelr hands the future destiny of the re- publican party. It busy men are asked to take part in the affairs of state it should be their duty to mccept because they are busy. A record must be made for republican ad- vancement {n Nebraska and because of suc- cess this year a careless fulfiliment of past demands by the people may agaln react it the officials are derelict. Ashland Gazette: The apparent influence Wwhich the unscrupulous and murderous at- | tacks upon (o reputation of Governor- elect Dietrich had upon the vote is one of the slight thiags to regret in reviewing the after-election situation. It will prob- ably encourage that sort of vandallsm for the future when, for the moral effect on the state and for the purification of meth- ods of conducting political campalgns, the lesson ought to have beem such as to discourage those so vold of consclence to make as- #assination of a man's reputation a means of political warfare. That it had some effect fs apparent from the fact that Mr. Dietrich ran slightly behind the other can- didates on the ticket. That it failed of accomplishing its alm 1s a matter for con- gratulation to all who believe in decency in politics. Osceola Record: The friends of Gov- ernor-elect Diotrich kept a close tab on the saloons of the state during the cam- palgn and they found that they were al- most unanimously agalust him. In Polk county there are three saloons and at least two of them were for Poynter. The other ons wo are not sure about. This is in- terestiug in view of the fact that the tem- perance cloment made a bitter fight against the republican nominee. They sald he owned a saloon and was a stockholder in a brewery, both of which are false. There e two other men in the state by that ame, one of whom owns a saloon, the other Is a stockholder fn u brewery, but neither are even related to the governor- elect. This unprincipled and falve fight made by the Anti-Saloon league made many votes-for Poynter, which, coupled with the saloon support, came pretty nearly elect- ing. The man who managed Poynter's campalgn 1s certainly a Napoleon in poli- tics, but November 6, 1900, was his Water- loo, If it was by a close margin. as PERSONAL NOTES, It is up to Buffalo now to beat the Paris exposition. Mark Twaln usually breakfasts about 10 o'clock. He says that the early breakfast is one of the American customs he admires most when abroad. Prof. Skeat thinks he has discovered the origin of the word ‘“dude in a German dialect word ‘“duden-kopf,” a blockhead, vhich found its way into English through “dawdle” and “‘doddy It was thought that all the varleties of fools in the country had been discovered and classified, but the man who stole coun- terfelt notes from the Secret Service bu- reau needs @ niche to himaelf. Colonel Arthur Lynch, who commanded the Second Irish brigade in the Transvaal army, now lecturing in this country, is a native of Australia, a graduate of Mel- bourne university and a speclal student at Berlin, also an author of several volumes of poetry, fiction and criticism. William C. Whituey 1s, continually spend- ing some of his vast fortune in bullding or tearing down. He will give instructions for the erection of a stable, for instance, after having carefully considered plans therefor. It Is a safe bet that before the bullding is completed he will order it to be entirely remodeled. Tom Willlams, president of the California Jockey club, Is the winner of a unique elec- tion bet. He will distribute among the varlous orphan asylums of San Francisco a carload of sweet potatoes, which Will L. Ashe lost to him on a wager that his brother, R. Porter Ashe, would defeat Julius Kabn in the race for congress. To Charles F. Binns, the director of the New York State School of Clay Working and Ceramics, has been awarded a silver medal for the collection of the economic clays of the United States which was made tor the Paris exposition. The exhibit con- sists of over 100 examples of useful cluys, each specimen being showa in three con- ditions, crude, prepared and fired. The department of mines has applied to have this collection form part of its exhibit at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo. BREEZY CHAFF. Detroit Journal: You are foolish to pry into your nelghbor's affairs when a little finesse will discover the combination and let you In without prying. Pittsburg Chronicle: “I think the mur- derer Wil esc sald one detective to er. L'd Itke to know why?" ““There are Ko many clues that it 18 ut- terly impossible to follow them all."" Cleveland Plain Dealer: upon the vigorous manner in which she fights her battles T see that Marie Corelll 16 credited with saying, ‘I prefer a shriek to a snuffle.’\" “Then it will never do for Marle to get mad when she has a bad cold in her head.” Philadelphia Press: ““There's vour old stove up,” he hissed betwoen closed teeth, after completing the job, “I hope you're sutisfied.’ “Yes, ‘dear.” she sald dublously, con- templating The dint he had made, “T sup- pose T must be. since you are so thor- oughly sooted with 't." “In commenting Detroit Free Press: Jinklets—Say, Tom, why don't you propose to that girl and be done with 1t? Wiklets—He done with it, nothing. That's Just the beginning of 1t Chicago Tribune: “Do vou think," one of the rude Athenian boys, make n honest by u\rnlng lantern?"" “I'may he able to exert one candle power in that Alrection; replled Dijgses, In a de- apairing voice, for he had not yet succesded in finding the man of whom h was In search, jeered ‘ivou can that old Philadelphia Pres the story of the Fall? altogether. 1 don't belleve thers ¢ serpent, although Fve may have y thought wo It was probably only an apple worm which her fear magnified.” ‘80 you don't belleve Chicago Post asked unxiously wh trial song. You mptly h, I'm #o glad!" she exclaimed “If 'you hadn't,' he went on thought- you couldn't ask that question. It talking voice, I should judge; that s all.” But, then, as she afterward sald, man agers are K0 heartless. Have T a volee?' she 1 she had finished her have,” the manager replied Teon, m, Detroit Journal Up rose Barbara Freitchle, then, Bowed by her three-score years and ten. ““There’'s no such person as me, 1 &' But what's the odds?" qioth ‘she. Boes! e, “Hore Stonewall Jackson was nof In town, But she cut right "loose and callea him own. In the lights of the facts, as known to us, The story has to run something thus. AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, “omerville Journal. Ye mountains, solemn, proud, majestic, grand, = Bymhola Rising known helghts on every hand Wain would I climb thee, did I have more breath! of Time outlasting Tife Fain would I stand upon each mountain peuts A And Yiew the landscape fair outspres Jeforc My ravished gaze, If climbing did not make The musclen of my legs and back %o §0re. Hore in the val'ey I must stay, content 9 m cold, gray iedges cit :‘n'-'-lfl. For cloud-nwent summits, it {s eviden Would scoff at one so old and fat as