Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1900, Page 6

6 THE ©MAHA DALY BEE. R, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBRCRI g{nm‘ Bee (without Sunday), On TION. Yoar $5.0 ally Bee and Sunday, One Yed 0 lustrated e Ope Year Bunday Bee, Ohe Year turday Hee, One Year Weekly Bee, One Year. EERRRTTT . OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Bullding. | Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- 'l'|.| and N Streets, Councll Bluffs: 19 Pearl treot, Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding Kew York: Temple Court ashington: 601 Fourteenth Street. Bloux Clty: 11 Park Street "ORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torlal matter shouid be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS "Iness letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- puny, Omal L2 1o (9 REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The fee Publishing Company, | iy 2-cent stamps ucceptad i payment of mall uccounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern oxehanges, not aceep THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s8.: Goorge 13 hiick, secretary of The Bee | Publishing Company, bevig duly sworn, #ava that the actual number of fuil and plete coples of The Dally, Morning, entng and funday Bee printed’ during the month of October, 160, was us follow ..47,220 17 27,510 18 .28, 19 LLBTH10 20 48,600 27,400 L 2T 800 L.4T,470 48,700 10,770 27,400 50,080 27,870 - 2,7 11,841 Total Less ungold and returned coples. ... Net total sales Jersbisriny Net dafly average ; 28,002 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Subscribed fn my presence and sworn to befora me this first day of November, A. D. 1w0 M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Pubilc When doctors disagree about the czar's allment every one can decide for himself, NTONTS The inauguration of Governor Dietrich will be a historie event marking the re- demption of Nebraska worth taking a day off to see, Every report turned o by the de partment heads giving an account of the | year's work for the information of con gress is a chapter in the story of pros perity. —_— the state has arrived at the point where it realizes it | has been struck with a brick, but has not recovered sutticiently from the of fects to locate the direction from whick 1t came, The popocratic press ¢ The fusionists will try to cover up election frauds perpetrated by them in South Omuha, but they cannot succeed. The evidence is too conclusive and the methods employed too brazen orge I'. Washburn and George Ired Willlams would make a good team to start the roll for Massuchusetts of the proposed new reform party that s to stick to Bryan through thigk and thin, The first snow of the season worthy of the name has made its advent. A liberal snowfall throughout the winter will not be objectionable because it insures the soll conditions necessary to good crops. Alvord must now take u back seat as the champion bank thief. The Ken- tucky man who stole all the capltal stock, surplus and profits, together with most of the money of depositors, is easily the champlon. American brides with money are still in demand by titled Europeans whose patrimony has dwindled to the point where work Iy staring them in the face. The duke of Manchester is the latest fortunate soldler of fortune, Kentuckiaus have reduced polities to a8 near a scieuce as any In the world, No political Napoleon ever thought out a brighter idea than to get colored voters 1nto a crap game and keep them busy until after the polls had closed. Wholesome athletics will always find popular favor in Omaba, but Omaha does not want to achleve a reputation as & prize-fighting center. It s time for the authorities to shut down on the fistic gentry who are trylng so hard to get a lodgment in this city. Not only have the good qualities of the American soldiers in China been praised by the foreign commanders, but the Amerlcan mule came in for his share of commendation. The Awerican mule, when piloted by an army “mule skinner,” Is without a peer in lls realm. The report of the commissioner of navigation makes a sorry showlng for the Amerlean merchant marine, Only 9 per cent of the foreign trade of this country I8 curried in American ships The bullding up of this great industry is a problem which demands the best thought of the statesmen and business elemient of the country e Pittsburg firms last week contracted for the delivery of over 200,000 tons of finished steel product, This is the best week's business since the early months of the year., Before elect popoeratie papers suld the stories that buyers were holding off until they learned the result of the election were imaginative, Re- sults show that they were true, —— Mr. Bryan advises democratic con- gressmen to support democratie prinet ples and oppose republican policies. They will have difficulty, however, in weeding out from the Kansas City plat- form the democratie from the populist propaganda, If they had someone in authority to define just what demo- cratie principles are they wmight follow | structive statistics, | This THE O MAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, N OVEMBER 1900, 20, THE MERCHANT MARINE. The anbual report of the ¢ of navigation will revi subject of the n report abounds mmissioner ¢ interest in the rehant marine. The interesting and in It shows a large in crease in American shipping during the last fiscal year, which promises to be equaled or exceeded in the present year. Increase, however, was almost wholly in the coastwise and lake trade. In the ocenn-carrying trade we are still as dependent as ever upon foreign ship owners, The report states that the ex port trade of the United States requires about 20 per cent of the world's golng tonnage in foreign trade, fneludin the largest, fastest and most expensive steamships, This fact suggests what an normous industry would be built up it we had an Americaun merchant marine equal to the demands of this great com ree, In regard to the proposed legislation for creating such a merchant marine, Commissioner Chawmberlain polnts out that it would not cost the government, in the form of subsidies, any such sum as the opponents of such legislation al- lege. It would be several years before 4he annual would be $9,000,000, when a reduction of subsidy rates would be In the meantime the would be a great growth of the ship- building industry, glving employment to a vast amount of capltal und labor. Those who object to subsidy scem not to consider what advantages and bene- fits would come from having a shipping interest equal to the requircments of our forelgn trade. The fact that Amer- fean producers and manufacturers an nually pay nearly £200,000,000 to British and other foreign shipowners appears to bave no weight with them. Neither do they seem to be impressed by the cer- tainty that such a policy would ultl mately make the United States the greatest shipbuildiug country in the world. Still « apparently, do they consider the fmportance to our foreign trade of helug independent of the ship ping of other nations. All these considerations must be taken into account in order to get a proper un- derstunding of the proposed subsidy legislation. Besides, this does not con- template an out-and-out gift from the natlonal treasury. It Is proposed that the government shall have a return. The commissioner of navigation holds, and lie Is probably correct, that the sub- sidies proposed American steaw ships simflar to those of foreign nations are not mwore than adequate to secure American mail services to the great coutinents equivalent to those of reat Britain, Germany and Franc It is believed that if the proposed leg- Islation is enucted there will be an enor- mous Investwent of capital in ship- yards and shipbuilding, both upon th Atlautic and upon the Pacitic coast. There is no doubt that some of the con- tracts that are now in process of ex- ceution, perbaps most of thew, are belng entered into because the fecliug is that this congress, or If not this one cor- taiuly the next, will adopt a shipping Dill such as Is now before congress, Meunwhile it Is gratifying to know that the shipbuilding industry of the United States is prosperous und growing. sea- cost necessar for ocenn REGARDING TAX REDUCTION. The question of tax reduction will doubtless recelve attention at the com- ing session of congress, but it is by no means certain that anything will be done. The treasury estimate for the next fiscal year, beginuing July 1, 1901, though not yet made publie, is said to show a marked inerease in expenditures, “The surplus for the last fiscal year, end- ing with June, was in round numbers $80,000,000. For the current year it s estimated by Secretary Guge that the surplus will be about $50,000,000 and for the year following about $£30,000,000, a decrease of ahout $50,000,000 compared with last year, It is difficult to estimate expenditures for the next fiseal year, owing to un- certainty @s to the demands that may be wade upon the treasury during that year, but Secretary Gage is quoted as saying that the revenues are not likely to exceed the aggregate of approprin- tions to be made by more than $30,000,- 000, 1t Is therefore cousidered doubtiul whether the can any reduction made by legislation in the present reve- nues, It is pointed out that aside from the large expenditures that will be re- auired for the army and navy, leglsla- tion is proposed at the coming session that will add many miliions to the ex- penditures of the civil departments, The Nicaragua canal, ‘itie cable and other projects that will, If authorized, require large suws of woney, would make a large cut in the estimated surplus for the fiscal yeur ending in 1902, possibly entively absorbing It. ~ Such being the situation, It is apparent that congress cannot now safely make any material reduction in taxation. Phere will undoubtedly be more or less pressure for legislution to this end, but the demands of no special interest should be considéred. Whatever reduc- tion, If any, shall be made, should be in the general interest, as, for example, the vepeal of the stamp tax, which reaches all classes, Of course the tarift will not be touched by this congress. There s not time cnough in the short session for a thorough revision and besides there is no present necessity for it, That must be left for the next congress, it it shall then be deemed expedient to make general changes o the tartf, It is the opinion of some friendly to 'the policy of protection that the existing tavief way be moditied without impairing that priuciple or working any disadvantage to American labor, Tt is argued that our wanufacturers, having demonstrated thelr ability to suceessfully compete in the markets of the world, no longer need so high a degree of protection as they now get, thut if they can sell their products at a profit in the foreign market they would be in no danger from foreign competition in the home market should tarift duties be low LA be this advice. A" RSN [ ' prowivent republican official is quuu-dl { this city, as eaying: “The tarifl should be vised by its friends. The duties which, by reason of the development of our ndustries, have become superfluous, should be removed or reduced and thus eliminated from controversy befo enter another campaign.” The question is one for the determination of the nest congress and meanwhile there will be ample time for an expression of public oplufon regarding it re- 0 we ORGANIZED CHARITY., From Cleveland comes information that the Chamber of Commerce has un- dertaken to investigate the work of all charitable societies fn that city and to certify to those that prove worthy of public support. In every great charitably inclined people are solicited day o and day out for varlous benevo- lences which they have not the thue nor the means to subject to the test that would demanded by business wethods, This is particularly true in Omaha, where we have a multiplicity of charitable assoclations engaged fre- quently in the sume field yet working independently of one another, When the charity organization cleties were orlginally instituted it was supposed that they would take upon themselves the tusk of co-ordinating the different charities of the city and s ing that they did not lap over one an- other's territory or duplicate one an- other's work. In Omsha, however, the chasity organization society has neve ‘upled this position, It has reserved for itself only the investigation of un- known mendicants who may be re- ferred to them by individuals to whom they have applied for assistance, While the good work accomplisl our various charitabie societies is readily appreciated, there is no question but that better results wonld be obtained if the were some systematic direction and central supervision, Competition between charitable work: 18 In no way desirable, because it breeds waste of effort and substauce, whereus co-ope tion all along the line upon some mut ally agreed plan would prevent impos ture and insure relief for those who are actually needy and deserying. Oune example alone may be eited In the number of hospitals maintained in Omaha has not too many hoge pitals, but all of them are engaged along the same general work In- stead of specializing for different classes of patients, The original fdea of the founders of one hospital was to coufine its accommodations to children, but the line has never been drawn. Surgical s are treated in every hosnital in the while we have no hospital particu- larly devoted to women s diseases, In other cities these divisions recog- nized and observed, ‘Whether a commerclal club or chaw- ber of commerce is the proper body to tuake Lold of this matter may be open to question. But some central organiza- tion, in which all the various charities are represented, would certainly work improvement in the haphazard plan now pursued by Omaha benevolent institu- tions and societies, be €0~ a by e ave Indications multiply that the German Reichstag is determined 1o foree a tarift war with the United States. 1t would be foolish to assert that such a course would not injure this country, hut Ger- many and its people would suffer from such measures. The adoption of such a course would injure the commercial interests of both countries und in the end Germany would be the loser, Other markets can be found for all the goods and products that couutry takes from the United States, but Germany would look in vain for another market to ab- sorb its surplus articles. Whatever opinlons may he held re- garding the burning of the negro by Colorado citizens, eriticism of the act comes with poor grace rrom Governor Thomus of that state. Had Governor Thomas done his duty there would have been no lynching. He was asked to provide protection for the prisoncr, and cither refused or neglected to do se he stain rests more on the officials who will- fully failed to do their auty than upon the people who committed the act under the influence of powerful passions, Omaha wholesale houses and manu- facturers have in the past years built up their business in spite of adverse rallroad discrimination. The roads of late have shown a disposition to assist in building up the city by conceding fairer rates, and another year of as good progress as has been made in the closing one will remove the handicaps. If the past success has been achieved under discouraging conditions the eity should take a great bound forward under iwproved conditions The first results of the Tammany cru- sade against vice in New York are the arrest of two singers st the Grand opera house for rendering “sacred” music on Sunday. This Is as near to a genuine crusade against vice as Tammany offi- clals could be expected to approach, Such arrests are made only to worry people who are respectable, 1If not church-goers, in order to make the move ment unpopular, while genuine vice stalks abroad unchecked and unpun- ished, backbone of th in congress comes from the xouth,” remarks a popocratic contem- porary. That is nothing new. The dem- ocratic party bas been a sectional party ever since it was forced to give up slavery. It would not have cven the power it now exercises i the south if it were not accorded rvepresentation in congress for ull the negroes who ave not allowed to vote, or it they do vote whose votes are not counted. “ho party democratie Clief Redell is again calling attention {0 the risk of fire loss run by Omaha when its fire companies respond to calls from suburbs outside of the city limits, The assistance offered Is purely a matter of courtesy, as the chief polnts out, while a tive iu the distriet of the ab- sent comwpany might prove particularly disastrous, On extraordinary occasions Omaha is glad to go to the rescue of suburban property endangered by fire, but it should not be expected to furnish regular tire protection except within city limits where the residents contrib ute in taxes to the fire fund. lem has not caused much trouble as yet, but might at « time and there. fore deserves cureful conslderation and the adoption of some definite line of policy. Gotham In Great Brooklyn Eagle, With Croker turned monk and Platt re- former the future of the city seems bright indeed. Reform in Little Rhody, Loulsville Courler-Journal Rhode Island will no longer have two capitals. The “summer capital” at New- port was abolished at the recent election. One capital would really seem sufficient for a small state like Rhode Island. Provi- dence has a gorgeous new state house, and the legislators wiil got $10 a day. Work of the Life Sav Philadelphia Ledger. The cost of maintainicg the life saving service during the last year was $1,585,030 The amount of property it saved was, in round figures, $7,500,000, in addition to 2,607 lives. Such a record as that would seem to justify better pay and better care for the men engaged in such difficult and dangerous work. Service, What Might Have Be Chicago Chronicle. Rising in defense of his Cuban career Don Valeriano Weyler y Nlcolau, marquis of Teneriffe, declares that, bad as he may have been, ho never committed in Cuba such inhumanities as tho British have been guilty of in the Transvaal. The trouble with this plea Is that it doesn't excuse. It 1s no d fenso of Don Valerlano to say that he fsn't such a brute as Buller or Methuen. “Oth people are as Lad as I am' is a mere plea ot contession and avoidance and deserves no consideration whatever. Coming to Our Schools. New York Tribune, When James Russell Lowell wrote his delighttul essay, ““On a Certain Condescen- slon in Foreiguers,” he little thought that before the end of the century foreiguers would be flocking to the United States to study Amerlcan manufactures, American machinery and American improved methods in many departments of industry. Our most recent visitor coming here to get in- formation of especial value is the port warden of Glasgow, who intends to investi- gate the systems employed in handling ores and grain fn the principal shipping centers, Weyler Wa s His Chin, Philade'phin Record. The notorious Weyler, formerly captain geueral of Cuba, has emerged from his ob scurity to assert, among other things, that lLe could have whipped our troops and driven them into the sea and saved the Gem of the Antilles to Spain. 1f the 200,- 000 conscripted striplings whom the Spau- ish government sent to Cuba to die from neglect and tropical diseases had been seasoned veterans and if Spain had hal Napoleon to command them perhaps the course of events might have been different after our little army of regulars had been used up at Santiago and in the fever camps in Cuba. Decadence in the Sacred City. Kansas Clty Star, Nothing has miore clearly fllustrated the character of the Chinese government than the condition of the sacred innmer city of Pekin, contalniug the household and throne of the dynusty. The allled commanders marched through the sacred city to show the Chinese populace that they were really conquerors and then closed it to their troops to prevent the destruction of the treasures of art and the burning of the beautiful buildings. The pa inclosure was found to be quite as interesting, archi- tecturally, as was expected, but the court vards, lald with ponderous flags of stone, were disfigured by the undisturbed growth of weeds through the interstices. The stream spanned by the five marble bridges, was stagnant and covered with green scum. Tho roof of the great throne hall leaked and the thronoe itself was falling to dust, a most impressive example of decadence, amid the eat gilded pillars of the ma- Jestic hall. If the very palace and throne room and houschold surroundings of the emperor of China have thus fallen into decay, under the eyes of hundreds of court officials—who, indeed, were numergus in tho place, dressed in the most gorgeous costumes, and tremblingly waited upon the foreign troops with tea and sweetmeats— this of itsglf would explain the strange conduct and helplessness of the Manchu dypasty. INCREASED RAILROAD CASUALTIES, Unfavorable Showing, Notwithatand- fng Improved A lances, Kansas City Star. Tho number of rallroad casualties fin America has been increasing rapldly with the revival of trafc during the last three years. For the twelve months ending June 30, 1899, 7,128 persons were killed and 44,620 injured. This is an increase over the pro- cedlng year of 264 killed and 3,738 Injured. The figures for 1898 showed 422 more killed and 4,151 moro fnjured than in 1847, During the year ending with June, 1805, there were nearly 1,000 fewer people killed and 10,57: fewer injured than for the same period fn 1868 and 1869 The Interstate Commerce commission, which givos these figures, makes the deduc- tion that “llability to accident increases as the density of employes and of traMc in- creases.”” It points out that there was a marked decrease in the number of accldents during the falling off of traffic after the panic of 1893, Since its revival the in- crease in casuaities has been relative as well as absol The Increage in the num- ber of employes to the wmile of road, from 1898 to 1899, was 4.43 per cent. accompanied by an Increase of 12,87 per cent in the number of killed and of nearly 10 per cent in the number of injured. Pas- senger trafe gained 9 per cont, whilo .14 por cent more were killod and 16.87 per cont more were injured than during the previous year. The commisston reports that throughout the United States one employe out of every 420 was killed and onc of every twenty soven was Injured. One passenger of 2.189,- 023 was killed and one of 152,000 was injured In certain sections of the country the labil- ity to accident is much less than in others Thus, fn New Hngland, 125,200,000 passen- gers are carried one mile before one Is | killed, while in the southwest four of the same number would be killed. This i3 not surprising in view of the greater wemlth of the emstern roads and their ability to use | two and even four-track systems and to | avail themselves of the services of a larger proportion of employes. Nevertheless the public has @ right to demand that railroads provide better safeguards for the lives of passengers and employes. The largest pro- portion of casualties among the employes has been from coupling and uncoupling cars. With the general employment of the auto- matle coupler, as provided by law, this source of accident should largely disappear. Passengers are injured and killed chiefly In collisions and derallments. A more rigid system of nspection and other precaution- ary measures are needed for their protec- | tioa, ~ The prob- | This was | | Peaver City Tribune: The present plight [of the Omaha World-Herald would be con | vulsingly amusing it it not so pa- thetically sad, Wauneta Breeze: 1f you bank too much on the World-Herald for forecasts or how it 18 on election returns you are likely to be disappolnted. Neligh Leader: It took the World-Herald and the popullst state central committee more than a week (o ungraciously admit Dietrich’s election, a fact that was patent to any unprejudiced observer within forty- eight hours after the polls closed Beatrice Democrat: It is not legitimate newspaper enterprise to keep the people in doubt as to election returns long after tesults are known. Tho man who takes a paper 15 entitled to the best information and best judgment that the editor has. While it Is customary for all party papers to claim everything immediately after elec- tlons, when the returns are in it is rank injustice to decelve readers. Somo papers of metropolitan pretenses do this very thing. Valentine Republican: The dishonekt and disgraceful course of the World-Herald in the recent campalgn has 80 fojured its standing among decent people that its owner has become alarmed and Is casting about for a scapegoat on which to unload his own sins. It Is reported that Richard L. Metcalfe, chief editorial writer, will have to look for a mew job. We advise him to try the Police Gazette. His experience with the World-Herald emiunently fits him were Central Clty Noupariel: The gross mis. the Omaha World-Herald cost its readers thousands of dollars the last week. When all the returns fndicated that McKinley had carried the state by a good plurality and that the republican state ticket was elected the fakery continued to solemnly affirm that Bryau bad a safe lead in Nebraska and that Poyntor was surely elected. Many of its trusting readers backed up these assertions with their coin and are now poorer in purse, but richer in experience. York Republican: The Omaha “Whirled"- Herald has more stops out of order just at present than were ever beforo found in one organ at one time. It was w body blow to the head of the dancing dervishes of Bryanism in Nebraska. The ‘“boys’ would no doubt forgive It but for the fatal fact that on its wild claims and predic- tions they fed their courage to the betting poilnt and lost thelr money. It has had more influence in Nebraska than it should have had, because of its incendlary char- lacter—more influence than it will have |for the future, because of the character of the land that “slid.”” Stantoa Picket: True to that paper's cotablished reputation as a fake organ tho Omaha World-Herald continues to claim tho tion of Poynter and the legislature for the fusion!sts long after every honest man ai all familiar with the facts has conceded the success of the republican candidutes. Perbaps the World-Herald wanted to afford its friends an opportunity to lose more woney on the clection result, but more probably it was coguizant of a scheme to Kentuckyize the returns and was withhold ing the facts for a corrupt purpose. Added to that paper's reputation as a fakist is the turther fact that the politicians it repre- scnts will bear watching. Lelgh World: The World-Herald was wrong agein this vear on election returna as usual. Not only was it wrong, but it willfully Ited to the people who had always swore by its reports as correct. After the reports were in and it was definitely known that McKinley had cervied the state by a large majority and the entire state ticket was elected it still claimed the state for tusion and even went o far as to give out personal advice over the state by telephone, cousing many democrats and populists to wager money on it judgment. Many people who wera taken in by its falso reports and were influenced to part with their money are now condemning the fusion mouth- plece. Sull it fs only a repetition of what it bas dono before and parties who are willing to swear by such an unreliable sheet can learn only by the dear school of ex- perience, Hastings Tribune: The World-Herald made a monkey of itselt and many of its readers by Insisting that Poynter had been re-elected after the official returns and cverything else proved Mr. Dietrich's clec- tion. The fusionists in aud around Adams county lost hundreds of dollars through the ‘World-Herald's misrepresentations and have sinco denounced that organ as a yellow Journal. Nowadays the people want the truth as soon as they can get it, regardless of which way the wind blows. Norfolk Newe: The * World-Herald gradually coming to the same point atta by The Bee a day or so after election re- garding the results of the late coutest. It has admitted that Nebraska has gone for McKinley and that the entire republican stato ticket is probably elected. It now re- mains for it to concede that the leglslature 18 republican and to Increage the pluralitios roceived by the successful state officors sev- eral hundred votes, which it may be ex- pected to do in a week or ten days. Those ,who have read both papers for the last fow years are beginning to realize taat Tho Her for & high place on that disreputable .hp,,,.lm 18 uniformly reliable, while the World d 18 strictly partisan und inclined to- representations of tho election returns by~ vard the scusatlonal. Bloomington Kcho: Ever since ele tho World-Herald bas been claiming this state for the fusionists. Gradually thoy have been forced to admit that McKinley carried the state by a few votes. Then they were forced to admit that his majority was 8,000 and all this time they have strongly maintained that Poynt for governor, was safe. On the lust proposition they have gradually been forced to yield until in tae iesue of November 13 they admitted that Dietrich was elected by a scratch All of this tine its readers who were sportively inclined were betting on the reports of the paper and of course lost (heir money. It is “all over” now and we have the state and we have the legislature. Tilden Citizen: Anathemas in English Deutsche and Scandinavian were directed last Saturday in Tilden against Omaha's great journalistic abomination, the World- Herald, The curses came from men who had yet to learn that the newspaper in question habitually refrains from printing & political fact, unless by accident, and, relying upon the accuracy of its published election returns, had bet several hundred dollars on Bryan and Poynter. They de- serve no sympathy, perhaps, for their losses, but this does not change the fact that the World-Herald has fucilities for glving Its readers a rellable statement of such an {mportant event in less than a week after its occurrence, nor that its failure to do %o is strictly in conf- mity with its firmly established system of bunco steering in politic Geneva Signal: Many Nebraska newspa- pers are commenting on the utter unrell bility of the political news furnished b the World-Herald. Hundreds of its read- ers bet their money partly on Its state- ments and they nlmost Invariably lost. People ought to read newspapers for other reasons than to get betting information, but if betting men have to shun a news- paper for its utter unreliability other peo- ple may take warning from them. It took the Omaba World-Herald two days to ad- mit the evident fact that McKinley had carried Nebraska. 1t took it a wholo week to find out that the entire state ropublican ticket had been elected and that the legls- tion lature would by These are news that republican on joint ballot fair camples of the election paper contalned all fall. Ity readers had a good wany bets to pay be cause they believed the idiotie things they read in it Pender Republic proposition for the followers to admit neverthele 1t {s an extremely hard World-Herald and its defeat in Nebraska, s such is the case. A defeat, oo, that i« most complete and definite While the majorities are not large, they are amplo and indicate that & great many of heretofore fusionists left that party and dcetded (o let well enough alone by standing by the present administration. It was grand and substantial victory for the right and tho stato will be well tepaid for its change of heart Grand Island Independent: The Beo has complete returns ffom all of the counties in the state excepting McPherson. The re- turns for seveuty-elght of ninety countles are offieial. McPherson in 1508 gave Hay- ward a majority of one vote, out of & total of about 100 votos cust. These returns show a plurality for Dietrich of 1,021, The World-Herald says tho fusionists still have hopes that it may come thelr way, say they have figures which glve Dietrich but a slight lead and that in tho Journal's and Bee's figures corrections must be made We are not familiar with the vote in other countles, but we know that the official count {n Hall showed 1,921 for Dietrich and 3 for Poynter, while the World-Herald's figures glve Poyuter 2,018 and Dietrich 1,921 104t 15 80 misguided as to other counties it is not to bo wondered at that the fusion journal still thinks there is hope for the hopeless. How 1t can mako the mistako #luco It has in its own columns printed tho correct figures, It 18 a bit dificult to see. Kearney Hub: The relations between the Omaha World-Herald and its fusion readers in Nebraska and the west will be somewhat strained for a considerable time to come Never did @ newspaper more thoroughiy and completely and apparently more inten tionally deceive its reading constituency than the World-Herald has done ever since 1t took up the cause of W. J. Bryan, aud there was probably not in the United States during the past campalgn a newspaper that was 80 utterly and absolutely and unde- niably unrelinble. Ity readers in this state were not only misled on the general propo sitions of the campalgn, but were willfully ducefved regarding the vote in the state and buncoed into the loss of thelr money on foolish campaign wagers when it was patent to any person with ofdinary eyvesight that tlhere was absolutely nothing at all to fts %, first on Bryan, then on Poynter and ticket, and finally on the legisle- or some time to come the World Herald will be harvesting the fruits of its folly St Paul Republican lierald has never been curacy or ness n political matters Whatever reputation it may have enjoyel on these lines was sacrificed by its position duriug the campaign and even sfter tho clection. Several ardent democrats in this vicinity who pinned their faith to the un- reliable sheet lost money because the World-Herald refused to concede Nebraska to the republicans long after the truth was known. The sacrilegious headline, “Not This Man but Barabbas,” used in announc iuz the defeat of Bryan the moruing after election, has incensed the church people even more seriously thau the fake claims of victory bave angered the gporling popula- tion. There aro many decent people lu the democratie party who will not countenance palpable Mes in politics any more than they will sanction a comparison betw Wil lam Jenuings Bryan and Christ, or Presi dent McKinley and a robber. Such peoplo aro stoppiug their subscriptions to the World-Herald in disgust. The Omaba World noted for its ac- MEN WHO ORGANI Kearney Hub: Rosewater and The Bee bave been potent factors in the late cam- paign and he is entitled to conmsiderable congideration in the bestowal of such hon- ors as the republican party may hand out. Humboldt Standard: As manager of the state cumpalgn Harry Lindsay has proved himself as good as the best. He has not {spent his time in making wild predictions, | but has quietly scen to it that the party organization was perfected in every county in Nebraska. Aurora Republican: H. €. Lindsay has won the eternal gratitude of the repub- | licans of Nebraska by his magnificent work |as chairman of the state committec. He | has directed and won a hard-fought battle | with the odds greatly against him and has | brought Nebraska from the hosts of con- | tusion back into the control of the grand |eld party. May Colonel Lindsay live long and prosper! Burwell Tribune: One of the most po- tent factors for success in the campaign just closed was the work done by the country press, with the assistance of the press bureau of the state committee. L. A. Williams, the chiet of the bureau, dealt the opposition sledge-hammer blows in every article sent out by the bureau. Too much credit cannot be glven the bureau and 1ts assistants, the republican country press. Blair Pilot: There i3 no use denying the fact. One of the most potent factors in redeoming Nebraska was The Omaha Bee. Bdward Rosewater's paper never let up for a moment, but kept up an incessant fire for republicauism. At the close of the compalgn, when other means of reaching the people had closed, The Bee opened its columps_ still wider and made a beautiful finish. Tho Bee Is entitled to a large chunk of credit for the victory. §t. Paul Republican: It was a glo- rious victory. But while republicans are congratulating each other upon the splen- did results of the election lot them not forget to glve eredit where It is duc. The work of organization began In 1899 by | Chairman Tefft of the state committee Was intelligently carried out this year by H. | €. Lindsay, as able a political gencral as ever gulded “the old ship” in Nebraska. He enjoyed the advantage of @ corps of as- | sistants who worked together harmo- I mlously, accomplishing more good In less time than Las been done before for years. | The press bureau was particularly effi- “ient under the management of L. A. Wil- lams. His suggestions were valuable in concentrating the fire of republican news- papers upon the most vulnerable points of the ememy's position and were, in the Republican’s opinlon, an important factor in carrying the state for McKinley and Dietrich, Hartington Herald: Now (hat the battle bas been fought and won the Herald desires to commend the splendid work of the re- publican state central committee and espe- clally that of Chairman Lindsay and L. A, Williams, editor of the Blair Pilot and man- ager of the press bureau. Mr. Lindsay proved a great organizer and the magnifi- cent results of his thorough and syste- matic work are laurels of which to be proud. Mr. Willlams s president of the Nebraska ederation of Republican Newspapers, as well s manager of the state committee's press buresu, and much of the credit for DRY. {n supplylng the republican papers through- out the state with effective campaign matter In the form of plate and auxiliary service. Mr. Willlams being a country publisher him- self was thus in touch with the needs of the campalgn from tho country editor's stand- point. Mr. Williams is a fine fellow and richly deserves the success he achleved. il‘hc Herald hopes the press bureau will be | of the town hall, keeper of the lockup, town our big vietory 18 due to his excellent work | made a permanent feature, and no one Is better fitted for the position of manager than L. A. Willlams, Dakota City Eagle: Little did anyone think at the beginniog of the campalgn that Nebraska—the home of Willlam Jennings Bryan—would go for McKinley. An opin- fon of that kind would have been sneered at and well had they good reason, for Bryan's majority four years ago was over 13,000 and with the united effort put forth by him- sclf and his henchmen all pver the state it was expeeted that he would develop more strength than before. Never did the re- publican national committee do a wiser act than when It selected Edward Rosewater of Omaha as the Nebraska member of the ad- visory board, The general management of tho campalgn fn the respective states 1s usually placed in the hands of the member from that state. _From the result at the polls it shows that no mistake was made when Mr. Rosewater was chosen. He knew of every crook and turn that was to bo made during the long and tedious campalgn. Every move that was made on the political checker board in Nebraska in the interest of the national ticket was made under his dictation. His advice was closely followed all over the state and McKinley carried it by nearly 9,000. Bryan feels worse over the loss of Nebraska than he does of hls deteat, and well ho should. PERSONAL PO/ It is estimated that Andrew Carnegie's income fs $68,130.18 a day. Death and (axes are two things which can’t bo dodged. In New York they add a third—the cable car. Oliver H. P. Belmont {s said to have sunk $30,000 in his weekly paper, the Verdict, which has just suspended publication. Those who have suffered will best ap- preciate Mark Twain's statement that humor 1s out of place in the dictionary. He says it calls the carbuncle “a kind of jewel."” Captain A, T. Mahan, in spenking at the Episcopal church congress at Providence, R. 1, on Thursday, treated of war from the Christian viewpoint and declared that & righteous war was not an evil A Parls paper declares that the king of the Belglans, whose beard is of truly royal proportions, puts the vast hirsute adornment in a silk bag every night before retiring in order to keep it from losing curl Major General Chaffes won his reputation and his success as an Indian fighter by meeting the Indian with Lis own weapons. Ho Is deeply versed in the red man's life and customs and speaks several dialects fuently. Lleutenant L. B. Lawton, who received mentlon in the official dispatches from the battle of Tien Tsin, s only 28 years old. He is & native of Indiana, but was brought up at Auburn, N. Y., and had his first active service in the Chicago strike of 1804, Job Caslett of Edwardsville, Pa, 15 o/ busy man. Until recently he held six offices in the town. Ho was burgess, Janitor RS, clerk, driver of the horough team and street commissioner. The court thought he entirely too busy and removed him as burgess, but the other five positions he still ederick 1. Tappen, president of the Gallatin National bank of New York, has been in Wall street for fifty years und feels us young as he did in the days when he wis @ specie clerk. The other day, when Mr. Tappen was celebrating the rounding out of his half century “on the street”” Rus- sell Sage, who {8 in the same class as to age and speed, was guilty of what is be- lieved to be his first attempt at fun. He sent around his condolences to Mr. Tappen, sympathizing with the latter on his uge and the growing Infirmities incident thereto. THOUGHTS Cleveland time d Tomm: 18 Plain ou have Dealer: at Wot kind o' cake [N wali, Tribune: “Hello, become of that beard of yvours?"' w, Judkins. I lost it o the Chicago ' What has magnific 1 don't election Throgaine long, bluck, Philadelphia Recd Harduppe—1 always do my b before broakfust, What's that? ictting it Press: “Why ham an old s 80 slipper do_you eall t " asked Dicer, cxplained Trivy Star “DId your wife re- prove you for betting on the election?”" in- Gufred"the Intimate friend “I'm not sure,” answered Mr. Meekton “I can't quite make up my mind whether she scolded me for betting or for falling to bet on the winning side.'” Washington Detrolt Fres Press: Mr. Henpeck (sotto voce)—It can't be true, | musi have bee dreaming. talking Mrs. Henpeck—What I haven't heard you say a about? Mr. Henpeck word for half an hour. Annabel sighed trem- are you Detroit Journal: ulously “I wus a little goose when 1 consented to he vour wife!” «he protested, Then why did you tremole ltke a fawn?" wnded Tarold fiorcely. 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