Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1900. _—m——_— e THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. Bditor. RY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBACRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year ally Bee and Funday, One Year liustrated oo, Ope Year. Bunday Bee, Ohe Year Baturday Bee, One Year. Weekly Bee, One Year & OFFICES maha: The Bee Bullding, Bouth Omaha: City Hall Building, Twen- 1-‘"!”1 and N Street Council Bluffs: 19 Pearl 8t Chicago: 164 Unity Buildin New York: Temple Court. wnnmfmh 51 Fourteenth Street. Bloux City: 611 Park Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcations relating to news and cdi- 3;"'"' matter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. ‘Iness lotters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing com- pany, Omah REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company iy 2-cent stamps accepted in payment (£ mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Fastern exchanges, not ac . THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. T WTATEMI Btate of Nebs ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EV Houglas County, ss.: George B, . secretarv of The Bee Publishing Company, bewng duly sworn, #avs that the actual’ number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 190, was as follows: ..27,010 ..28,590 ..27.060 L.27,110 27,430 27,520 27 AN0 27,520 2N 9,060 Bomuanemem Total . ikieiaiie Less unsold and returned coples. Net totas sales. Net daily avera GEORS Bubscribed in my presnce before me this first da s of November, . 1900, M. B, HUNGATE, (8eal.) Notary Publie. —_— e The Nebraska out as one of the attractions at the Buffalo exposition. A few discarded sod-house statesmen can also be sup- plied. A. sod house 18 blossoming A famous FEuropean mountain climber Bhas come to this country to scale the hitherto unconguered helghts of the United States, The bigeest thing of the kind he will find MeKinley's ma- Jority. The anti-vice fever s spreading. Chieago and Denver are the latest places to eateh it. If enough of the eurative properties are used to purify these two cities is there not likely to be a short- age clsewhere? If the popocrats imagined that the republicans, now that they are coming into pewer In this state, were going to shed tears over the demise of the State Board of Transportation, they have met a disappointment. An enthusiastic boomer of the advan- tages of Nicaragua as a fleld for in- vestment poluts out there has not been a revolution in that country for two years. This is certalnly a new record for Central America, The Washington newspaper corre- spondents are now writing President MeKinley's message for him. At any rate they are sure they know more about what is to be in the message tin the president himself. The city tax commissioner reports an unusually small number of complaints #o far this year on tax assessments. The people are too busy to quibble about halrbreadth differences as to the valuntion of their property. Senator Teller still insists that free colnage of silver Is a “paramount” issue, If the senator has arrived at the point where it is impossible to learn a new song he may find himself without an engagement In the near future, Omaha merchants this year offer thelr patrons a cholce of wares which in qual- ity and variety equal these to be found In the largest cities. There is no ex- cuse for Omaha people going away from home to make their purchases, — By settling in advance of the inaugu- ration the question of who are to fill the principal appointive offices in his adnmiunistration Governor Dietrich is at lenst saving himself the avnoyance of & prolonged session of wrestling with officeseckers. Both the Jacksonian club and the County Democracy have been unusually quiet since the election compared witn their customary vociferous contentions, Is it not about time for them to begin sounding the tomtom over their an- mual rivalry which takes the form of & mid-winter feed? Our amiable popocratic contemporary comes to the vindication of Addicks of Delaware by insisting that he has bought and paid for his seat In the senate and all precedents demand that be be allowed to have It without mo- lestation. This Is probavly the theory on which the fusionists propose to re- elect Senator Clark from Montana, ——————— The park board is In a falr way to ac- quire the Bluff tract in addition to the other park property of the city, but it has not yet devised any way of unload- ing the farm lands on the hands of the city under the name of parks. If the acquisition of the Bluff tract could be made by way of exchange for some of these Inaccessible parks it would sult the taxpayers better. Before electlon democrats resented the assertion that the principal motive which Induced leading eastern democrats to get in line for Bryan was the desire to be “regular” and be in a position to have a say in naming the candidate four years hence. Now come two of the most prominent papers in the east and admit that such is the case by saying that they supported Bryan and the plat- form under protest. ). SUPREME COURT RELIEF. The incoming legislature will be bom: barded with several projects for the relief of the supreme court, most of which contemplate not only the relief of the supreme court but the relief of from six to fifteen lawyers who are anxlous to connect with the public pay roll in one capacity or another. The plan which is belng pushed most actively by members of the legal pro- fession, who hope to be its beneficiaries, provides for the appointment of a num- ber of supreme court commissioners to serve a8 nssistants to the supreme court Judges In the hearing and determining of cases, subject to the endorsement of the full court, the only substantial point of difference being the source of the appointing power. The Bee still belleves that the most feasible method of relieving the su- preme court is that suggested by it some months ago, by which the court should summon to its ald from time to time such district judges as might not be required for work on the district bench. It is conceded on all hands that Nebraska has more district judges than are needed to transact the business of the district courts. As a result these Judges are I1dle from three to six mouths in the year, although thelr salaries go right along out of the state treasury. As they are prohibited under the constitu- tion from practicing outside or engaging in any other busiuess, most of these Judges would be glad to spend part of their unoccupled time sitting as supreme court commissioners, They are, more- over, all men of judiclal experience and fully competent to perform the duties. It might require legislation to make good to them expenses of traveling to and residence in the gtate capital when called there to assist the supreme court, but beyond this no other legislation 1s absolutely needed. The judges of the supreme court can put the plan into effect at any time and accomplish the desired result without contention or additional expense to the taxpayers, This plan would be popular with the people, although it would hardly appeal to the place-hunting law- yers. PROBLEMS OF IRRIGATION. The irrigation congress, which re- cently held its sessions in Chicago, has done a good work in its tield. It is for such gatherings, composed as they are of men versed in both the practical and theoretical knowledge of the subject, to ereate the interest and disseminate the fuformation necessary to secure action on this important subject. All academic discussions of the sub- Jeet, however, only scrateh the surface of the problems. With fucreased popu- lation in this country and other portions of the world it is necessary to increase the world's food supply. This can be done only by increasing the productive- ness of land already under’ cultivation or bringing new sections under the plow. The first remedy will provide relief, but it requires no prophetic vision to see the time will eventually come when every portion of the country capable of production will be under the care of the husbandman. The vast reaches of arld aud semi-arid land of the west can only be redeemed by assisting nature in providing the water, The character of most of the semi- arld country is such that the ordinary terprise are inadequate for the pur pose. To begin with, the streams which must be depended upon for the supply the very seasons when irrigation is needed. Vast enterprises are necessary to store the surplus water from winter snows and spring rains that they may be used when needed, instead of creating havoe by being suddenly turned into the channels of streams, Iorests must be preserved to retain the snow and check the annual freshets. Such enter- prises pot only require means greater than private enterprise can command, but the exercise of powers which might be dangerous in the hands of private companies. The same is true of the construction of the necessary ditches to distribute the water. Western men see these things clearly and the representatives of this section in congress are willing and ready to vote the money to make at least a be- ginning on the work. Representatives of eastern constituencles look at the matter in a different light, They have enterprises of their own clamoring for the appropriation of public funds, The east has the greater population, the greater representation in congress and these representatives are averse to pro- moting irrigation work uutil their own demands are satisfled. They urge that it 1s unfalr for the larger population of the east to be taxed for expenditures of large amounts which benefit only a small number of people in the thinly settled west. Such reasoning has its foundation in cance of the benefits to be derived. The east has already passed the point where it can raise all its food supply and already calls largely upon the west to make up the deficit. As the deficit grows larger with the industrial devel- opment of the east the food production of the west cannot keep pace without the opening up of new sources of pro- duction and the east must pay the pen- alty in the shape of increased price for its food. The west can prosper under delay better than the east; it has Its food supply assured for many years to come and the western agriculturist has no complaint to make of Increased prices for the products of the farm. Even those who admit the necessity of undertaking the proposed irrigation works say there i no oceasion for hurry, that the food supply problem Is years in the future. So it Is, but such glgantic projects require years to mature, even when undertaken. More Important than all of the reasons for urgency is the fact that present government ownership of the lands involved affords the gov- ernment an opportunity to recovp it self for the outlay., It further assures the retention of the valuable water rights in the public Instead of with private individuals or corporations which 1 are often themselves short of water at | a failure to appreciate the true signifi- | might in the future throw many ob- stacles in the way and make the people pay dearly for the delay. e welfare of large sections of the country I8 too vitally Involved to allow these valuable rights to fall into private hands, which will be the inevitable result of un- necessary delay. ————e OPPUSITION TO REDU The question of enforcing the penalty clause of the fourteenth amendment by reducing the representation In congress of the southern states where negro voters have been disfranchised is being dis- cussed quite generally In the press of the country. That the plan will be proposed in con- gress in connection with the apportion- ment bill is definitely settled and a number of prominent leaders have al- ready expressed themselves in its favor, That it offers the most feasible way of putting a check upon the disfranchising process and of equalizing the conditions between north and south s conceded, but 1t is urged in opposition that no tangible basis can be found to serve as a test for reducing representation. The vote In gouthern states, we are told, is no index to the number deprived of the ballot, because it is impossible to discover how many negroes do not vote because they are not allowed to do so and how many because they do not care to trouble themselves in the mat- ter, The inevitable consequence of reduc- ing southern representation in congress fa to cut down in similar proportion their representation in the electoral col- lege and likewise in the nominating conventions of the great political par- ties. It is pointed out that a resolu- tlon was prepared, tending to the sae end, for presentation at the last repub- lican national convention, providing for the apportionment of delegates in the future according to the republican vote cast by the respective states rather than by their representation 1n congress, but that this resolution was suppressed by the influence of the party managers, who feared it might reuct to the detri- ment of the ticket. The same Influ- ences that impelled this course are theretfore expected to operate upon the proposition when reasserted in connec- tion with the apportionment bill. ‘While all this sounds plausible, when It comes down to a question of right and justice there are uo two sides to the question. No good reasons exist why a southern state casting less votes than « single northern congressional dis- trict should be given five or six con- gressien as a premivin for negro dis- | frauchisement. As long as this prize is | held up the incentive to disfranchise | the negro is increased because it in- creases the power of the southern dem- ocrats not only in national legislation and in the electoral college, but also in the party nominating conventions, The beginning of tlhe new century would be an opportune time for reform and reorganization all along the line, The report of the «dings under the natfonal law dis- some things which will be a revelation to most people, The most | prominent point is that by far the larg- | est number of people who have availed | themselves of the provisions of the law | are those who are working on a sulary, bankruptey pro- d closs | The inference from this 18 not that peo- methods at the command of private en-| ple who work on salary become hope- lessly involved in debt, but that finan clal misfortunes have forced those who were at one time in business to work for salary. Whatever may be the im- perfections of the present law, it seems to be enabling those who have been unfortunate to get out from under the {ncubus of debts which they could never pay and start anew in life, The telegraph brings the story of an unfortunate woman in search of a de- serting husband In New York, who tells the police there that her father is “a ranch owner outside of Omaha.” This sounds very much like the inquiry occasionally propounded to the Awmeri- can visitors in Europe in reference to acquaintance with friends in the United States located 500 or 1,000 miles away from the city or town from which they hail. It might take a day's journey to find the ‘“ranch owner outside of Omaha,” yet the New York police are said to be on the point of sending their charge to this city as if this were Ler home, One cannot help noticing the constant development of the culture side of Omaha, The number of lectures and concert courses and literary clubs is constantly Increasing. Not only that, but the attendance upon these instruct- ive entertalnments is better than ever before. The people are gradually fall- ing in line more and more with the east in this matter and realizing that busi- ness and recreation are only a part of a desirable program of life. Chicago reformers threaten to follow in the wake of New York in an anti- vice erusade. The movement may be- come 8o popular that no city of preten- sion will be able to hold its own with- out going into the business. That was the case some years ago when the Parkhurst epidemic spread over the country and few towns were too small to boast a local Parkhurst. Are we ou the eve of a resurrection of all these clerical reformers? Reports from Pekin are to the effect that the foreign ministers have agreed upon the terms to be proffered China. It will be another thing to secure their acceptance by China and a still more difficult task to Induce China to en- force them If they are as stringent as Germany and some of the more radical powers are inclined to demand. Contusion Worse Con 8t. Paul Ploncer Press. The thing most plainly evident in the Chinese situation is the impossibility of forming any intelligent idea about it. trarin Baltimore American. Human nature is a queer thing. wore than llkely that in the sections of bis enlightened country where they ve beem burning pegroes at the stake It is | preserved the springs and streams will go the horror amd indignation at the atrocities In China are quite as great as in the most law-abiding and humane por- | tions to be found Nothing Left to Work On. Philadelphia Press. Chairman Jones of the democratic na- tional committee says that talk of reorganiz- | ing the democratic party |8 nonsense. Certainly it is; there is nothing left to reorganize, —_— Don't § y Reform. Loufsville Courler-Journal, And now somebody jumps up with a proposition that in future all election officers must be able to read and write Gently, gently! Let us all cool down fromn the heat of the conflict before we attempt to work necessary reforms for the future. We might do something rash. Preserve the Source. Minneapolis Times. Forestry and irrigation go hand in hand. Unless the forests on the watersheds are dry and without the springs and streams there can be no reservoirs for the supply of irrigation canals. A sclentific beginning in the conservation of forests and water courses cannot be made too soon. More Effective Than Fines. New York Herald. In these days of 5 and $10 fines for ali sorts of serious offenses it is refreshing to read that a judge in this city has Im- posed a sentenco of fourteen years' im- prisonment on a man convicted of keeping & low dive. A few more such convictions and sentences would make much easter the task of those who are trying to close up the wide-open dens of vice now flourishing in this city. —— Mark Tw. » & Kicker. Chicago Ne It is to be feared Mark Twaln during h's long residence abroad lost tho characteris- ties of an American citizen. A cabman charged him an exorbitant fare the other day and Mark, after vigorously protesting, is taking measures to have the cabman's license revoked. One of the unfailing signs of genuine Americanism s to submit to extortion simply because, as @ general thing, it has been demonstrated that it is useless to protest. They All Do It. Chicago Chronicle, There has been a vast deal of hullabaloo over the alleged theft of the plans of the French fleld gun by one of our military at- taches at Paris. The truth is, of course, that stealing, buying or begging just such information Is the business of military taches everywhere. Every government knows that every other government is after its military secrets—and usually gets them. It is the flimsiest hypocrisy to express either surprise or indignation over the French incident Smoothn of Abdul D, © Philadelphia North American, The sultan of Turkey entertained Com- cul Griscom at dinner and charged him to trapsmit to President McKinley the warmest congratulations upon his re- election, adding that the result of the elec- tion had given his majesty the greatest pleasure, because it assured the contin- uance of the present exceedingly friendly relations between Turkey and the United States. Very nice of the sultan, but that little bill has mot been paid yet, and Uncle Sam does not run his business with Stand, Size of Fortune. Springfleld Republican, Stock of the Standard Oll trust was Fri- day quoted at $741 a share—representing an advance of some $200 a share sluce the election. Popular rumor credits John D. Rockefeller with the possession of some 800,000 shares in this company, of a par value of $30,000,000, but which probably cost him a much smalier sum than that. Assuming this to represent his Standard ol holdings, the market value of so much of his property has been Increased $60,- 000,000 within less than three weeks and now stands at $222,300,000. The American billionaire is evidently to make his appear- | ance ere long. WORLD'S GREATEST ELECTORATE, 1 Expressed at the P art Nutions. w York Tribune. An impressive phase of the greatness of | the United States Is suggested by the Daily | Telegraph of London, when it speaks of Mr, McKinley's victory “upon the unparalleled | plebiscito of 15,000,000 votes.” The exact returns of the popular vote in the late elec- | tlon have mot yet been made. Four years | 8go, however, about 13,920,000 ballots were | cast, and it Is quite possiblo that this yea: poll exceeded rather than fell short of the imposing round numbers mentioned by the Telegraph. In that case, and indeed even on the basis of four years ago, this was by far the greatest pleblscite ever taken In any nation, and the voters of the United States compose the most numerous electorate in the world, The word “plebiscite” recalls the various popular votes of France in the days of Louls Napoleon. Those were at the time the largest that had been cast. That of 1848, by which Napoleon was first chosen president, comprised more than 7,600,000 votes, or less than half the number cast here this month. That of 1851, by which he was made pres- 1dent for ten years, comprised nearly 8,115, 000 votes. The first so-called plebiscite, by which popular sanction was ostensibly ob- tained to his assumption of the imperial dig- nity, In 1852, brought out more than 8,140, 000 votes, and the second and last, in 1870, by which popular approval of the revised constitution was secured, Increased the number to more than 9,000,000. That was the highwater mark of the French elec- torate, for while at the present time there are about 10,600,000 inscribed electors, only about 7,600.000 are brought out at & general election. The French electorate fs, then half the size of ours, which is proper, see- ing that tho population of France Is searcely more than half that of the United States. It from France we turn to the United where almost universal suffrage we find a still more marked in- ferlority to the American electorate. There were in 1898 only a few more than 6,600,000 reglstered electors. The number voting this year on that registry i3 not yet precicely known, but it cannot be much, if any, larger than that in 1895, when fewer than 3,859,000 votes were cast. In 1898 the total popula- tion of the United Kingdom was a trifie more than 40,000,000, Only about ome-sixth of the population, therefore, were qualified voters, and scarcely more than ono-temh actually voted; while in the United States the number of actual voters is ahout one- Afth of the whole population. In Germany. also, universal suffrage prevails, and the population of the empire is much nearer to that of the United States than is that of the United Kingdom or of France. In 1890, when the total population was 49,600,000, the number of Inscribed electors was more than 10,628,000, or a Iittle more than 21 per cent of the whole, and at the elections of 1862 the number of actual voters was more than 7,702,000, or more than 15 per cent of the whole, The United States has, then, an elec- torate four times as numerous as that of the United Kingdom and, of course, two or three times as large as that of the entire self-governing British empire throughout the world. It is also about as large as the electorates of France and Germany put to- gether. Its suffrage may well be called an “unparalleled plebiscite,” and the United States may still easily rank as by far the greatest example of popular government the world contalns or ever has contaloed, The figures In the accompanylng table present an instructive comparison of the vote cast November 6 in the citles named and their population as shown by the cen- sus of 1900. Figures on registration and vote cast for president were obtained from The Bee's exchanges, and are in the main official. In twenty-one of the twenty-eight cities the vote cast is shown. In the re- mainder the registered vote only is given, the yote cast in the cities being totaled with that of their respectlve counties and not €usily separable. The ratio of population to each vote cast presents some Interesting features. The average for the twenty-one clties 1s 5.24 per- sons for each voter. But the ratio varles greatly, ranging from 3.71 in Indianapolis, where votes were In great demand, to 7.88 at 8t. Joseph, Mo. The later figures expose the Inflated character of the census of the Missourl town. While the census gives St. Joseph a_population of 102,979, or 424 more than Omaha, there were only 13,058 votes cast in that city for McKinley and Bryan, whereas 21,474 votes were cast for president in the city of Omaha. The ratlo of pop- ulation to vote in Omaha s 4.87 in St Joseph, 7.88; Des Moines, credited with a population of 62,180, cast 14,489 votes, or 1,431 more than St. Joseph. In Los Angeles, Cal, which ranks next to Omaha in population, 20,072 votes were cast, a ratio of 5.10. Another pecullarity of the figures is that Council Biufts cast a larger vote by 667 than South Omabha, al though the packing town is credited by the census with 199 more people. A comparison of the vote and the popula- tion ot St. Paul and Minneapolis shows that the latter town votes more frequently than tts saiutly rivel. The ratlo of population to vote in Minneapolis is 5.07, while in St Paul it jumps to 6.10, third highest in the llst. Chicago, £t. Louis, Baltimore, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Omaha, Des Moines and Sloux City show a ratio under & 150 330, CITIES. 061 SnsuI) — u o pendog -ON Greate Bhitadelpt *hiladelphia Bt. Louls Boston Raltimore Cleveland ! Ruffelo Cinelnnat) v 8an Francisco Minneapolis Louisville . Detroft Milwaukee Kansas Clty Indianapolls Columbus, O Toledo, O..... Bt. Joseph, Mo Omaha o Los Angeles Albany, N. ¥ &t Paul Des Moines. Lincoln 20 Bouth Omaha.. Counell Bluffs.... Bloux City. New York 48402 30,010 * McKinley and Bryan vote. omitted. Seattering KRUGER IN FRANCE, New York World. The best service Mr. Kruger could render his people now would be to throw his great influence fnto the scale for an honorable peice. Chicago Chronicle: If Mr. Kruger is a wise man—and no one has ever deemed him a fool—he will not make any mistake about the character of the enthusiasm which he is encountering in France. The French are making much of him not becauee they care a rap for the Boers, but because they earnestly hate prefidious Alblon. They will stop short of rendering any real ald to the Afrikanders, Philadelpbia Record: “Oom Paul” missed the greatest opportunity of his lite when he abandoned his decision to quletly await the coming of the British, smoking his pipe on thé veranda of his home in Pretoria. No event in history would have exceeded such action in solemn dignity since the senators of Rome, sitting in the porches of thelr houses, silently awaited the entrance of the barbarian when the Gauls sacked their city. Louisvillo Courier-Journal: Hard-headed and iron-hearted as Paul Kruger is, the wonder 1s he does not bid his people to cease | their bootless struggles, as he has ceased his own fighting. The death of General Schalk- enburger is a grim object lesson, for Mr. Kruger is personally responsible for every life that has been lost in the war, and he will be doubly #o for the lives that remain to fall. A word from him would save this useloss flow of blood more than all the entreaties he will address to deaf ears on the continent. Springfield Republican: Strange it is that the average Englishman cannot or will not see that his government is now repeating, in a somewhat milder form, the errors of the Spanish Alva! For history has a curious | bhablit of repeating itself. The Boers of the South African republics, while not wholly of Dutch blood, are showing the came deter- mination to achleve or die that fnspired their Dutch ancestors in Holland when they were struggling to free themselves from the | mastry of Philip ot Spain. Salt Lake Tribune: What a race are the French! They do not care a penny for Oom Paul or his cause; their chief desire is to insult England. Kruger comes to | them a fugitive after deserting his people | and robbing them, and France receives him as a hero. It would not matter, except that the only result will be bis people may | bo induced to keep up the unequal fght and more of them will be Killed. Great Britain would swamp ber empire rather than give up the former free states to the Boers, and Frqnce kmows that fact. Hence her present performances are most toolish. Detroit Free Press: For a people that bave a blood feud of their own with the English, the French people seem to have bebaved remarkably well. The temptation to make his welcome &n overwhelming demonstration against the common enemy was by no means slight, and that the French did not yield to it, is evidence of & sclf-control with which they are rarely credited, But perhaps the lomg-looked for nenifestation of hostility will take place when President Kruger visits Parls. Un- less the French do something during Kruger's visit to justify the predictions that have been made and greatly displease the English, the English will be more dis- pleased with the French than ever. PERSONAL NOT! When the current presidential term closes on November 30 General Porfirio Diaz will bave controlled the affairs of the Mexican republic for a period of twenty-four years. From the statement of the bureau of high- ways it appears that at this time Phila- delphia has 1,066 miles of paved streets— about 260 miles of asphalt, 125 miles of vitrified brick, 360 miles of block, 210 miles of macadam, etc, A eulogist of St. Louis calls attention to the fact that the people of that city eat at 311 restaurants and drink at 1,927 saloons; they have thelr watches regulated by 174 jewelers; they are shaved by §46 barbers, are‘attended by 1,672 physiclans and burled by fifty-six undertakers. The population of New York, according to the new census, is 7,268,012, an incre; 1,270,169 since 1890, This is the only that gained more than a million in the decade. 11linois, with a population of 4,821,560, galned 995,100, but this is 26 per cent, against 21.1 in New York. Don Luts Terrazas, son of the ex-governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, visited El Paso, Tex., recently and in one night lost $26,000 at the roulette wheel. The father of Don Luls 18 | enormously rich, owning almost the entire state of Chihuahua. He lives In & palace and has 10,000 workmen in his mines and on cattly ranches. President H. 8. Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Techuology, in speaking of the belief that politics were all impure, recently sald: “No man can bs brought into contact with the actual machinery of our government, can mingle with the men who make our laws, who interpret them and who execute them, with- out galning not only a wholesome respect for the service of the state, but also a reasonable hopefulness for the tuture of our institutions.” Henry M. Powell, an ardent Kansas popu- list, thus aire a grievance quite common among the fusionists of Nebraska: “I've king seven democratic and popullst and they had me way up In the told me everything was all right, and that all 1 had to do election night was to get ready to holler, but when I came to town I found the other tellows doing the hollering. I'm disgusted. I'm going right home and write every mother's son of an editor that's been flling me up with lles what my unadulterated oplnion of him s | Certain saloon people who interviewed him | ficattons and not TIMELY WORDS OF CAUTI Wahoo Wasp: Governor-elect Dietrich has n chance of rendering his party an ex- cellent service by the character of the ap- pointments he is about to make. It is our beltef that he will select honest and capable wmen for the various positions. Kearney Hub: The old ship s not leak- ing now. She is caulked good and tight, has o new captain and a new crew, is under sailing orders and will set out In January for a two years' cruise. The weather I8 fair, the winds are favorable and there is every indication of a safe and prosperous voyage. Possibly it Is not necessary to warn Captain Dietrich to beware of the barn cles and to see that the hull is scraped per- fectly clean before the voyagoe is commenced The only danger that threatens the ship is the barnacle. Beware! Tekamah Journal: Probably no man was ever elected to the office of governor of Nebraska with fewer obligations on his hands than C. H. Dietrich. Men who have tried to get something out of him during the campaign are sure that this is the case. and tried to exact & promise that he would | favor & repeal of parts of the Slocumb law were wholly unsuccessful. After that they | sent the word around and gave Mr. Dietrich | the thing technically known as the “double cross.” They did their best to defeat him and Mr. Dietrich knows it, and it will be a chilly day when they go to the executive office asking for favors in the way of legisla- tion to help out the liquor dealers. They won't have the face to do it. Ashland Gazette: One of the first duties which will devolve upon Governor Diet- rich will be to turn the rascals out. There will be many wrecks to be repaired as the result of the lebgth of time it has re- quired to pry them loose from their jobs. Although the bramd of politics would be far better than that which our state in- stitutions have been run to promote for the last several years, yet it would be decidedly unwise to run them as adjuncts of any political party. The present man- agers of the State Insane asylum, the Home for the Feeble-miuded, the School for Deaf Mutes, the Soldlers’ homes at jrand Island and Milford and the state fisherfes ought to be made to walk the plank without ceremony for the good of those ipstitutions. Those who follow them should be chosen for their business quali- because of their sup- posed pull as vote-getters, Plattsmouth Post: Not only Nebraska but the whole country is expecting a great deal from the republican party in this state next year. With the accession of & re- publican gevernor and legislature and the depopulating of the state house of the sham reformers who have wade the name of Ne- braska a laughimg stock should come the calm, wise aud conscientious leglslation which the citizens of every state have a right to expect from the men they choose to represent them. The people of Nebraska have demonstrated by their ballots that they want a different state of affairs from that of the last few years. The republican officlals recently elected are allve to this fact and ere mindful of the responsibility which rests upon them. A sensible, busi- nesslike, open-and-above-board adminis- tration 1s what must be given the state by the republican party, since by sv doing Its honor will be upheld and the rights of the people vindicated. } Blalr Pilot: Nebraska is in the hands of the republican party and it that party s true to its trust it will remain there for the next quarter of a century. Fusion mis- rule and greed for office and political spolls has not only caused disruption in the party, but has been u potemt factor in placing cheap timber in responsible places. Thus far we have done well, but the battle Is not entirely won. The legislature, which is republican by a narrow majority, must choose two men to 81l Nebraska's quota in the United States senate. Nebraska has splendid material and the legislators should exercise superior judgment and select the best. The Pilot does not propose at this time to pass its judgment. Its first and deepest desire is that two good men shall bte chosen—two of the best and ablest. It the legislature performs its duty as well this winter as the voters did the 6th of this month then the victory will be com- plete and the republicans will have double cause for rejoict Bloomington Echo: The republican party in this state and especially Governor-elect Dietrich has one serlous breaker ahead of it that will require the utmost care in passing. The one great cause of the down- fall of the party in the state years ago was the hungry horde of officeseekers who had forced themselves into all the posi- tions of trust and many of them bad long outlived their usefulness and they were of no benefit to the state or their party. This same old gang of officescekers are clamoring for positions in the different state institutions. The newly-elected of- cers must remember that during the last six years that we have been out of control of the affairs of the state a large number of young republicans have grown up who have very materlally contributed to the success of the ticket during the last cam- palgn and there 18 no good reason why they should not recelve a just reward for their services. The old chronic office- holders, who have fattened oft the state, should stand back and give others a chance. We trust that Governor Dietrich will not listen to the smooth talk of poli- ticlans In his appointments, but use the same good judgment in making them that he would and does use in his private business. Be sure you are right, then go ahead, and the loyal republicans of the state will say amen. Plerce Call: The Bee of last week cautions the newly-elected republican state officers ugainst loading the party up again and stop my paper. It ain't right to r s man's hopes mp that way and then let him fall like & basket of bricks sad I'm agln it." with the old d wood in appointive offices, and the warning 18 being received with ap- proval by republicans everywhere and en- | peo state press. The ee says the popocratic organs are trylng (o make out that the warning agaloet barnacles fs an insult to | the men who were serving in official places when control passed out to their fusion | successors, But, pray, who 1s insulted’ | Self-preservation {8 the firet law of nature { tor political parties as well as for indi viduals and the only preservation for the republican party in its new ascendancy in Nebraska is to deal fairly with the people and with itself. Its prestige can be main talned only by honoring men who deserve to be honored and rewarding party workers who will bulld up the party rather thas weight It down. Clean records and un doubted cempotency must be taken into consideration ax well as party service. It | 1% far better to turn down claimants who cannot ccme up to these testa than to jeopardize the party's future for the sake of satistylng demands that lLuve mo sub stantial foundation. The incoming repub- lican state officers will be on trial before | the people and they cannot ill the publie's measure unless they surround themselves with appointive associates of the same trustworthy and confidence-inapiring character as themselvon D 1 ¢ NONE MORE CAPABLE. ! capable person than Edward Rose % water. His ability is unquestioned. § As editor of the zreatest nowmz paper in the Missoui| valley, and in § fact one of the strong and rellable newspapers of the country, he § stands out prominently among the candidates. Moreover, The Bee was a powerful factor In winning the republican victory In Nebraska that restored the state to the repub- lean column., e has strong friends and enduring enemies and the latter will doubtless not leave a stone unturned to thwart him in his senatorial ambition. But, be that as it may, the republican members of the legislature cannot do otherwise than treat his candi- dacy with perfect fairness and M without regard to enmitles, old ¢ grudges or personal revenges, In $ fact, in the disposition of the sena- § torlal question and the selection of § two senators to represent the state, § this spirit should actuate every re- ¢ publican when the time comes to § Kearney Hub, wmake the selection. i There {8 not In the state a more @evccsccccocccns POINTED REMARKS, Chicago Tribune: man {8 not neces- sarily popular,” a Uncle Allen Sparks, “Lecause he close to the Take, the pick- ‘stand for instance, bocket. Detrolt Free Press that fellow,” humorist, What has he done?" “I told him to depict my family tree and he made it a chestnut. 1l get even with exclaimed Snickers, the Philadelphia Record: “‘What did you get on_your gunning trip “Oh, 1 got some ducks." “Huh! “I'll_bet vou didn't shoot them; bought ‘em, most likel “1'did both. Unfortunately, just as T was putting them in my bag, the farmer who owned them came along." Chicago Record this John Smith?" * “Oh, he's the kind that thinks he can hold on to his urpbreila by having his name cr wraved on the handle.” Philadelphia Press: “Now, John, sea here!” she began, with set jaw. *1 must have $20 today. 4o AL TIEht"baid John, promptly, “here t in. “Goodness, John!" she exclaimed, paling visibly, “What's the ‘matter? Aren't you well? What kind of a man is Detroit Journal: We cordlally congratu- late Sclence upon having made people less superstitious, “'Bless you, ro!" exclaimed Sclence, dep recatingly. “Why, | haven't done a'thing on_earth but chiange the styles in super- stitions! Simply repla ghosts with microbes, don't you know! Chicago News: his newspaper says it 't possible for a well dressed woman to 0 many rings.' 0t course not; the impossibility s for a well dressed woman to get as many rings as she wants.” Indianapolis _Journal: ‘“So won't lat you smoke, ch?"’ sald Browne as he applled a match’ to his weed. “‘orry for you, old man. 1 can't imagine any reater pleasure than a good clgar after inner."" “8o?" replied Towne, sniffing. “Then why do you deny yourstlf that pleasure? the doctor Philadelphia Pres: T wonder why that big gobbler i3 always hanging around the Kitchen door,” remarked the farm dog. “You know that fat boarder who was here last summer?" replied the house cat. “Well, he left half a bottle of anti-fat on the kitchen shelf and that foxy old gobbler is trying to get it.” B LAND OF THE MAKE BELIEVE. Boston Globe, ates of Dawn, how gladly the grayteards all go back, the little children, To the Woul And, amon For a while forget the rack' How their purblind eves would brighten, How their hearts with joy would heave, Could they once again be dwellers In the sand of Make Belleve! Oh, what treasures that a Croesus Has amassed can equal thoso That before the gazo of chlidhood, As by magie, once arose? Al %are Fleh it put they will be. All _possess what they perceive— To life's largess there's no limit In the Land of Make Belleve! What a land it 18 to live in, Where a palace {s as cheip Ag a hovel—wiiere the HtUcat May with glant strides o'erleap Highast helghts! Tho' brinking knowledge. ow the fi)llll .‘nll:)‘ 'i(]'ll’vuvs Us of all our happy dwellings Tntne'Laa of Make Hellevet $till 8o curtous is the human, F'en in childhgod—oft he goes Far outside Joy's sphere, a-weeping O'er imaginary woea; For the one that's born a poet, Tho' he knows not why, must grieve O'er the tears that fall outside of The bright Land of Make Belleve! A Snap Shot at the winter's Camera trade, Mon. and Tues,, Nov. 26-7 Only PREMO AND POCO Cameras 50 Per Cent Discount Regular Special Price. Price. 600 300 we 488 800 200 600 The e 260 300 Lamps Tiesine i Btanley Plates, 5x7. Stanley Plates, 3%x3%. gastman Plates, bx7. Eastman Plates, 8x4i Cramer Crown, 34xdl4. e J. C. Huteson & Co. Photo Supplles, 1520 Douglas Stree 850 o 4bo. dorsed quite erally by the republican