Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1901, Page 6

§ s BEE. TuE OMAHA DALY WATER, BDITOR. ¢ MORNIN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: A WANTON ASSAULT ON OMAHA That Omaba politios is dominated by a gambling trust which colne money out of gambling dens that are run wide open advertised and publicly patronized, every body knows. The degeiferacy of the city however, is not confined to its politics, Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Yvar but pervades every portion’ of society TR iratod Do UNVILAaT: They ean't support a charit-organization Sy Boe, Onte Ycar society and the result fs that one part of dirany Bee, Une year o the citizenship i§ breeding paupers by in- L VA RULY MY tASCHL i S5y discriminate givigg to every bwm and hobo Dally B iy, Def. sopy,s.. 30| VO *AUpIIes for "SI WRIIY 'V deserviliy A8y aws; without A DO WeCh poor are left toysuffer indescribable hor- waby B, i per wee vors. There was a sceme in an Omuha Sliay e N L Mg L v it e Chmpiaints #houia ve audr partment K. Lot OFFICK Bee Bullding. " City Ll Building, Twenty Omaha; south Om i anu s Leunch r I'he 1 Pearl Street, ity Bunding h Street. ONDENC Communications reluur toriml MALCE $nould be o Luitotial Department DUSINESS LETFEF iressed: i=hig Compaiy count Casteri VRl Lo 1L 8BS nKes, aU Lo IRCULATION, nty, 88.: STATEMENT ka, OF Douglas ¢ aelivery o news and edi- umana m.taices should be depot the other day that is a disgrace to— we were ahout torsay—the city, but noth ing can further disgrace it. An old and teeble couple who had dwelt in happy married lifo for more than fifty years had come to the city to live with a daughter, - | who was #0 poor and whose dwelling was %o small that the old people could not crowd in. They were informed’ that they would have to go to the poorhouse and be separated. There they sat in ‘the depot, with great tears running down their faces The woman said: ““We are willing to go to the poorhouse If we can be together, but It we are to be separated you had bet ter kill us. We have lived together for more than ffty yéars and have mever been separated. It will kIH us both. We had rather dle together. In that degenerate city there ,were none to pity. No charity organization was ready to Investigate and take charge of these feeblo old people, who had worked hard all their lives and raised a family of children But what of the civillzation that permits Gelike b | zechick, secretaty of Ahe Bee | #uch things? Wha of the hoasted pros- Vubisuing’ Lompuny,” being duly sWerlh p;-my in whl'ch l-mm '\hlnr‘ n&.—,u;.* wm’: o (o BOtURS U e, » of the organization of soclety where suc! e M. Vtinied during | Inhumanity s possible? If such a thing month €6 Octoer, 1901, was as fol- | had occurred® fn Lincoln the charity or- ; ganization would have bees ready to act o immediately. An emergency fund is al- 1 ways at hand. An investigation would have been made and the old couple would have been allowed to live in each other's so- ciety until they were called awn In AT *az.7g0 | Omaha things are different.—Ldncoln Inde- S 28,8 2n,770 | Pendent . g LNNOO ao,710 | This malicious sereed will he taken for 2NTHO 28,850 Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total gales datly SORGE B Subscribed 1n my présence TZSCHUCK 1 sworn A L unaTe gospel truth by thoukands of Nebraskn populists been It is printed at the head of the editorial page of their of ficial organ. There is not a scintilla of truth in the harrowing fiction that serves s the test for this wanton as sault upon Omaha. The alleged brutality towarvd a help less old couple is a pure invention. After painstaking inquiry The Bee has to | been unable to find a trace of any such JREre IV TR T D inetdent. - Neither the regular police, the Senl.) N depot police nor the employes at the railway stations bad ever heard of it T m o one in seratehed ticket favorite in me Nebraska this year. ames——pg— weeks more and President will enjoy ‘the novel experi ence of having congress on his hands, ms 1o Three Roosevelt A good many willing to loeate in On Ways If any turkey has been missed in the distribution of Thanksgiving proclama tions hie should register his grievanc forthwith with the proper authorities. Omaha stil glon. Its clearings exhibit fc week shows ‘n gratifyihg Inerease ove the correspouding week of the preced- ing year. have ounties than manufacturing con- . al- Keeps up with the proces- the last | hospitals thut would be a credit to any and the reporters of the various papers diselaim all knowledge of it The denunciatiog of Owaha as a com- Munity of dep (1 morals and blunted consclence is gratuitous, 1ts inspiration emunates from the same source that has | recently sought to blacken Omaha's | 5l | mountebanks and hypocrites, More mou is disbursed for charities in Omabha in every week in the year than is disbursed for charities at Lin- coln, outside of the state institutions, in a year. And that is by no means a v | flection upon the philanthropy of the Cav- [ital eity. Besides its public charity in | stitutions supported by taxation, Omaha maintains by y te chavity half a dozen r| city. Omaha also maintains out of vol- untary contributions seyeral orphan homes, homes for' the children of de- pendent women, rescue homes for fallen That wholesale prison delivery at' the [ women, a home for unemployed women, F Lefivenworth penitentiary is sim- | hesides homes for aged and fntirm men, ply o veminder t an‘oceasional escape | mission schools, and nearly eveéry church of convicts ix likely to best regulated prison. When Pat - Crowe oceur in to Jim Callaban, with the compliment of the Jury, he will to greet his old friends, Judge Sedgwick's plu be elose to that hy-which Net aarried for Bryan in 1 T pendulum has swung f republicanism the whole ren aska wa the 8 that the freedom of the city “has been éxtended return to Omaha proves to 2 politieal | peen for y sm populism o is organized for charitable work to re lieve the sick and impoverished. A score of fraternal organizations are con- stantly miuistering to © the rellef of needy members and their fawmilies. £1No worthy man, woman or child need remain bungry, /without shelter in Omaha. The taunt about political degradation is equally a slander, There is no open gambling in Owaha and there has not ars. In proportion to popu- lation there 18 as much gambling and as much tolerated vice in Lincoln as iu Omaha. Yet no Omabu paper has be- unelad or 8 The foot ball craze does not appear| g Lincoln for Its degradation and to have subsided to any appreeiable | o Gore ity deg Neither does the game appear 7 ARl SR T DN YR to have lost any of its prestige as a con tributor to the annual list of killed and wounded, At its coming session the Iowa legisla- ture will have the privilege of electing It is to be two United States senators, Loped it will escape the deadlock babis that bas taken such a tirm hold on re- 't Ne aska legislative bodies, e Nebraska should participate in the xposition, but the Louisiana Purchase « legislature should say what form it participation should take and to what extent the state treasur; deawn on for the bill of expenses. The sugar trust alarmed over the beet sugar industry. reason could the trust must possibilities of the For be no othel of consumers in the beet sugnr area. The day after election The Bee gave It as a conse r vative estimate that th papers wer go over 3,000. Full returns show tha it 1s close to 13,000, The demand for perlodic publicity by custodians of public funds of th amounts and whereabouts of publi moneys in thelr safekeeping is just. a much in the interest of strict account abIHty of public oficers after clection a it was before election, And now it braska willer tour of inspe transpires that a ing to investigate the wickedness | lowa before he came over to Omaha, — In 1900 the Nebraska fusion circus | declined at the: time to disclose. had three rings. In 1901 it had bee should be be extremely induced to pose as a philanthropist for the benefit | ¢ publican majority in Nebraska would not be less than 7,000, while opposition e insisting that it would net Ne- rossed the Missouri on a tion and managed to lose $300 in a gambling house at Council Bluffs, which goes to show that Hobe Flynt lost the chance of his life by fall FUTURE ECONOMIC POLICY. Two interesting. and ifmportant utter- ances bearing upon the future economic policy of the counfry have been made witliin the last few days. One of these Is the declaration of Representative Gros- venor of Ohio that there will be no tarlff revision measure passed by the coming congress and further that theré will be no reciprocity treaty ratified that will affect protection. Mr. Gros- venor regards the result of the late elec- g| tons as a popular verdict not only ¢ | agninst any revision of the tariff, but aguiust any reciprocity that will affect the principle of a protective systen This view, it will doubtless be found, fs fn accord with the opinion of most and perhips all the republican leaders. ¢ | Sueh of them as bave already an nounced thelr position ave, with few ex- ptions, dpposed to any revision of the tariff, chlefly for the reason that it would have the effect to disturb busi ness and thus give a check to prosperity. e | Representative Babeock, who goes no farther than to urge that certain duties should be reduced or removed alto gether, appears to be almost alone t | among republicans in congress. The other utterance is that of Senator Lodge, who in an address at the dinner of the Middlesex club in Boston Sat- o | urday is reported to have strongly urged e | reciprocity with other countries_along 8| the lines mentloned in the = Buffalo speech of the late President McKinley. % | The Massachusetts senator Is a recent convert to reciprocity, having opposed ratification of the treaties . negotiated ‘under the McKinley administration, and the importancé of his present position may be measured by the fact that he enjoys the wost coutidential relations with President Roosevelt and will prob- ably be the chief répresentative of the n | administration In the senate. Mr. Lodge a short time ago had a conference with the president, the paturé of which he It is n | now obvious that the president, who t reduced to a two-ring show by the dis- | bad previously declared in favor of reci- appearance of the so-called silver re- | procity, Induced Mr. Lodge to support publicans. fashioned one-ring performance Will ft get down to an old- next | that his adbesion to it whi that policy and it I8 needless to say have a year and if so, which ring will be re- ‘zn’ntvm-nl of ' Influence in ‘the senate tained? That is the perplexing question [ and upon publle sentiment. that is puzzling several fusion leaders i Nebraska. The Indications point 10 a sharp divi: | reputation to make capital for political | | | si7 Emoug the republicans in congress n regard to our future cconomic policy and particularly to reciproci No con fident predictionscan now be made as to the result, but while the probability Is strongly against tariff revision, we think 1t safe to say that the reciprocity policy will prevail. In that case pro tection will necessarily be somewhat af fected, though not to an extent, un the limitations of the reciprocity | vistons of the tariff law, to matefially impair the advantages which y fon gives to our Industries, Mr. McKinley sald: “If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our idustries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?’ He believed that we could afford to surrender something of pres ent protection in order to retain and enlarge our foreign tradg. This is the question of first and most urgent importance with which the com ing congress has to deal and upon its wise determination largely depends the continuance of our commereinl progress and prosperity and the waintenance of our finaucial strength. —_— SEEKING STATEHOUD. Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma are preparing to make an earnest ef- fort to obtain statehood from the Fifty- seventh congress, Next Thursday a convention of delegates from Oklahoma and the Indian territory will meet at Muscogee, 1. T, to outline a plan of action with which to go before congress, The Indieations are that the meeting will be more harmonious and effective than other similar meetings held during the past two years, at some of which there has boen manifested a spirit of rivalry, not to say jealousy, that has made the result of little value. Several plans are contemplated, one being th union of Oklahoma and the Indian ter ritory in one state, 1t is said the most popular plan is to hive two states ad mitted at the same time aud under the same conditions, Oklaboma is well pre pared for statehood and the desire of its people should receive proper consid eration. New Mexleo is also organizing a move ment, The tervitorial legislature has prepared a wemorial to congress in which it is urged that in more than twelve cong the fitness of the peo ple of New Mexico for a state govern wment has been fully investigated, that bill after LIl for the admission of the territory has failed by one mishap or another, and in a somewhat lmperative way demanding admission. Arizona will vigorously urge its claims to state hood. At a convention held a short time ago in Phoenix plutions wer adopted setting forth the claims of the territor of representative citizens was chosen to lay these claims before e A constitution frawed ten years ago was cadopted. The ques tories to statelr with fon of admitting these terri ( should be considered erence to their ability to maintain & state government. No politfeal considerations should have any {ufluence in the mat I{ is quite pos- sible that all of them will be admitted by the coming congress, as weste senators and rep utatives generally | u believed to be in favor of giving | them statehoo ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE TIP. Eighteen months ago the World-Her ald made the “exclusive’ thut the supreme court reverse itself on its five and police com- mission decision, and notice was served on the ehief of police and the police captains to get ready to vacate. On the rength of this exclusive information Former Chief Gallagher burnished up hix brass buttons and brushed the cob webs off his official raiment, while Captains Mostyn and Haze invested in brand pew uniforms In might be able to present an imposing appearance at the head of the reorgan- ized coppers. But in spite of the exclusive disclo- sures of the World-Herald the supreme court declined to perform the acrobatic feat, apd the Poynter commission, se- lected exclusively for the purpose of fomenting discord and anarchy in the police department of Omaha, failed to nnect with the city pay roll. Their exclusive experience emphasizes the old adage that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip. Whether the exclusive tip from the supreme court rooms, foreshadowing the Installation of a governor-appointed police commission, will materialize, re wains to be seen. For the time being it affords exclusive amusement and eation for the exclusive demo-rep terie that loves to masquerade In the garb of reform under the exclusive patent right title of municipal leaguers, o St. Louls has decided to abandon the repairs of asphalt pavement with its city plant and return to the contract | system, The ¥ asphalt plant has been in operation for a period of ten years and was generally presumed to have been a profitable investment. The city has carried on the repair work on asphalt paved streets with its own force of men, under the direction of its board of public works, with apparently satis- factory results. The excuse given by the: members of the council who voted for a ten-year contract with the asphalt trust 18 that it is impossible for the city to purchase asphaltum with which to carry on the work because the com panies which lave & monopoly of that material decline to sell it to the elty, 1t also transpires that the supply needed has always been purchased for the city by an outside party and the man who has been buying the asphalt for the city has recently been frozen out. The asphalt paving companies make no secret of It that the reason they have refused to sell it to the city is because they want to secure the repatr work themselves. Way down deep the fact oozes out that the 8t. Louis authori ties have succumbed to the pressure which the asphalt trust is able to exert in promoting its own interests Colonel Test has figured out from the recent election veturns that Omaha's population exceeds by wore than THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: tor statehood and a committee | by de announcement | had decided to ler that they | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 1901 the census figures of 1900, This con clusion I8 reachod by doubling the num Dber of votes cast in this city and multi plying the result by five. Why Mr. Te Philosophy of the Returns. should stop slort of quadrupling the o % i o Chicago Recor total vote cast and multiplying it by Ad & sesdlt of Tuesday's elvctions the ten is Inconcelvable. One method 18| gemocrats will gain one United States sen Jjust as relinble as the other. The truth |ator from Kentucky and probably another fa Mr. Test's ypagearehes among the | from Maryland, but they have no cause for heavenly bodies have expanded his per coptions to such an extent that mathematical bump is enlarged by sev efal degrees of longitude and altitude —_— The smaller counties in nsually complete their official canvass of the vote before the canvass in Doug las county is.even bhegun. making their returns as those in back woods precincts county ought to be able to have the official electlon figures complete within seventy-two hours after the closing of the polls, without. waiting for the in troduction of the yoting machine, —_— London papers are mustering up cour: age enough to denounce the governmen for the horrors of the detention camps It might be well for Great Britain to heed the warning. 1t Inrgely in Routh Africa was such conditions which caused the Intervention of the United States in Cuba and European nations to side which are finclined, naturally, with the Boers might take up this pre text with good cause. An Indiana lephone company pro poses to furnish compulsory elocution rators to improve ultivating We lessons lessons free to its ope its long-distance service by in them a more distinet enunclation, should imagine the elocution would come in to more purpose {f foreed on the patrons rather than employes, “A five minutes' talk” ought to be a drawing free elocution lesson with evel card, Our British friends are aghast at the discovery that the order for 6,000 briar wood pipes to be presented by Queen Alexandra to the troops In South Afrles was given to a French Kkeep the expense down. If her royal highness had only bethought herself she more of her could have saved still money by investing in 6,000 Missour! neobs of the good old approved pat teru. The coroner's inquest over the fusion corpse has brought to the front a great Populist medicine men insist that the fatal dose many political pathologists, was administered by the democrats while the demoeratie doctors are cqually positive that deceased eame to his deatl petions fed to the patient out of populist bottles, — hings Came His Way. Baltimore American. Dewey is an exceptionally He is to get prize money and he has no yet been put on trial for winning the battle of Manila. oy Soothing Effect of Fi San Francisco Call Grover Cleveland has made a «peech to the public and stated a convic tion that there are too many people in this think only of getting rich, country who Frobably he beligyes it would be better I more men would go fishing and stay at i longer when they start e Worthy of Emulation, Philadelphia Record. Probably no man in the contry had more important or more urgent business on his President last traveled than hundreds of Tuesday but he hands on Roosevelt; miles cast his vote gard for his civie duty. e et Jlis Journal Indiana President Roosevelt's Thankegiving proc- lamation makes very fitting allusion to the McKinley and “We tragic death of President contains this characteristic sentence: can best prove our thankfulness to the Al mighty by the way in which on this earth and at this time each of us does his duty the Roose- to his fellow-men." That is veltian idea of practical religion 'What soever thy hand findeth to do” in the way of present duty “do {t with thy might.” it The Gerdon Dynasty. Hub. Kearney Men may. come and men may go, but the whose name 18 He has been impeached for malconduct and voted out police judge of Omaha Gordon, goes on forever. of office, but still he hangs on by the eyve Iids. man that the same. y ¢ that makes him :':“h:m;\':,‘f‘,."",::,,' ]",,‘m“am. though king. | boomerang. Judge Sedgwick in republican s B and not a prohibitionist. It 1s true, and Aorms, sbould’ riae. and' falli and-iputore (88 R0t prouibitubet 4 Fill AEC dynasties be committed to the sacred dust Gordon and his ghost will run until the last trumpet sounds, there'll be and preme Judge on the resurrection d FADING LIGHTS OF BRYANISM well. The voters In Nebraska have done e i exceedingly well in keeping the siate in . i the republican column, where they put it A e m'-\“:r:r:‘x“ of "hoine | 1ast year under the splendid leadership of L g et eri President McKintey. The upposition to the apninat Lugies, : republican party left no stwne unturned to Kansas City Journal: Evidently Mr. | 1oPbIIAE PAEY jC 1% 0f “the republican Bryan's speech fs not as effective in Ne- Lraska a3 it once was. Some day Mr. Bryan should prepare a new speech Indianapolis Journal: Mr. Bryan has mo word to say relative to Mr feat. Still people remember his words “Great is Tammany and Richard Croker i: its prophet.’’ Buffalo Express only in which the campaign was fought on the lssues of Bryanism, They were Ne- braska and New Jersey. And both gave good republican majoritics sition, There has heen absolutely no criti- §t. Louls Republi Nebraska 1s the | clsms, either public or private. On the greatost democratic disappointment. It | other hand it is not out of place to #ay, now seems that we must learn there, as wa | the electlon Is over, that Conral Hollenbeck bave learned in Kaneas and the Dakotas, that the populist republicans are repub- licans still, with whom alllance offers no rewards in practical polith Portland Oregonian The sliver having passed the states of Kansas braska, | Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, | high esteem In which Judge Sedgwick ia Jaaho, Nevada and Washington will fake-— | held got him the republican vote, and not indeed, most of them already have taken— | very many more. Here at home the popu thelr places in the republican column |lists and democrats were very gefierous agsin, and they will keep it. The craze | with votes and compliments, and thie ta wis one of the strangest, if not positively | highly appreciated, ~ After the absurdly the most extraordinary. alike his Nebraska ws | former democratic state, There & no good reason why election officers in a great city should not be as prompt in ‘The people of this pipemaker to lucky man. little from Washingion to Oyster Bay—to He could not have done any- thing more impressive to show his high re- A successor was elected at the elec- tion in Omaha last Tuesday, Judge Gordon being defeated by Judge Berka, but brave he is, Judge Gordon announces that he will continue to be police judge just We believe that he claims to the office | Strictly then a hot dispute with Gabriel be- fore he turns over the hooks to the Su- Croker's de- There were two states craze ever witnessed in a8 a national refoicing. If the south has swung back with some appearance of remewed loyalty the more significant returns from the north are most discouraging. The great republican pluralities of lowa, Ohio and Massachusetts, the republican gain in Ne- braska, the persistence with which that New Jersey, now adheres to the republican column prove that demogratic strengih is still wanting where it is most needed The continued prosperity of the country under a rapublican administration explains the situation in part, and probably the dem ocrats lost much more than they won last .| vear by thetr paramount fssue of imperial ism because the people are always disposed to back the government in a forelgn war or in a war for the retention of territory legiti mately acquired. But the first great handi cap was the Chicago platform of 1506 its rulnous Influence may every campaign since 1 If the stars in their courses are not fighting against the party the treasury sin- tisties are, and they are more efficacious than any purely political agency. The vivid oratory of an army of stump epeakers, the rhetorical pleas of partisan newspapers and be discovered in REPUBLICANS' TURN TO REJOICE, Emerson Enterprise: Nebraska is in the republican column to stay. This is evident by the decisive vote cast. Poneca Journal: ter, Lut all these things you know be with every famous victory Alblon News: Disintegration has set in | with a vengeance with the pops, and next | year Nebraska will go republican by 50,000, | 1| Fairbury Enterprise: There is no ques tion but what Nebraska is again safely in the republican column. It s there, too, (o remain for several years. Stanton Pickett: Judge Sedgwick has been elected to a place on the supreme bench. This may not exactly suit one Judge Hollenbeck of Fremont, but the people are vleased. Ashland Gazette: The inevitable has A | happened. The party with no bond of union but a thirst for the spolls has fallen to | | pleces. Fusion in Saunders county is for- ever dead O'Neill Frontier: Those 10,000 voters {| that the fusionists have been claiming were brought back to Nebraska by the re- publicans last year to vate, must have be- come permanent residents Broken Bow Republican: Notify Bryan that the republicans are &till In favor of expansion. Last Tuesday they took the entire territory of Custer county. George | W. Dewey was ahoard the ship. ,| Beatrice Express: The supreme court | will have to struggle along for a time with- | 1| out the able assistance of Judge Hollenbeck, ¢ | who has tmportant engagements elsewhere. 1t can be said to the credit of the distin- guished Judge that he puts up a very en- ergetic and commendable fight. Callaway Courfer: The old hulk of popu- lism is not only leaking, but it is scuttled hy a gang of fusion pirates which has infested t|it for years, and another November gale like the one of last Tuesday will send the last vestige of it careening to the bottom of the sea to repose in the slime of ob- livion, too rotten for food for even the fabled octopus. Pender Republican: The election of Tues- day in Nebraska was a most decisive vic- tory all over the state for the republicans. ¢ | Many Nebraska counties, heretofore domi- ¢ | nated by the fusionists, have chosen re- publican officers. In fact the results have been uniformly in favor of the republicans This 18 & most gratifying result and shows that the people are waking up to the fact that republican supremacy 1s the bulwark of ‘prosperity and plenty. Friend Telegraph: The republican state f | ticket is elected by a majority of not less than 13,000. This places the state a little farther up in the republican column and offers a striking rebuke to the Liquor Dealers’ association for attempting to de- feat a good man for the head of the ticket. Nebraska may be said to have none of the free silver or anti-imperialism sticking to its garments at this time, but has climbed a little farther up the ladder among ro- publican states, Hebron Champion: The result of Tues- day's election simply confirms a previous suspicion of the editor that the populist party has gone to pleces. We do not be- lieve it will ever be an important factor in an election again. Many popullsts failed to vote last Tuesday, becausa of the feeling that they were “not in it.” To bo sure, a large portion of the popullsts are and wera perfectly willing to 1dentify them- selves with the democratic party. But you may be equally sure that another large proportion of them never will. Where the last mentioned contingent will go 18 now an interesting problem. ete Vidette: The circulars gotten out on the eve of election by the Liquor Deal- ers’ assoclation, urging the members to “plug” It to Sedgwick because he was a pro- hibitionist and to vote for Hollenbeck be- cause he had great capacity for lager heer and would be “thelr judge,” proved a It was a terrible slaugh- | must temperate man. These senseless cireulars opened the eyes of hundreds of temperance populists and they switched to Sedgwick at the last moment. Good | enough. It served ‘em right Hastings Tribune: All is well that ends ticket, one of the best ever put hefore the people. Even some unusual and not very honorable means were used to foist Hollen- 0 | beck on the hench. The good sensge of the voters overcame all these unscrupulous methods. The state s in line with the best political thought of the age. York Times: Judge Sedgwick has a safe majority. He was elected hecause Nebraska is republican. There never was a candidate on the republican ticket in Nebraska who was 0 universally commended for the po .| is not considered at all it for so high and important a position by anyane who knows | him. He posed as a German, but {s no more German than Judge Sedgwick is. Still that was a harmless deception. Very fe mans voted for him on that account The false circulars of Mr. Fields to the liquor | in Saunders county rd-Herald (rep.) have not u tithe of the eloquence of the fignres which utterly discredit the free sil- ver propaganda. Instead of that cruel finan ¢lal stringency which was predicted we have today an unprecedented supply of meney, the largest per capita eireulation on record A restors of confidence in democratie leadership is impossible under the eircum stances. People who have an antipathy for the republican party and who cannot sup- port it with any enthusiasm are driven to it by the incontrovertible monetary facts, The democracy will never reclaim them un 11 1t has reclaimed itself and repudiated | the once powerful faction which has made | it ridiculous by prophecies that were re- futed by events almost as «oon as they wers uttered The fnjury 18 80 deep that it could not he healed immediately even by a complete avolution fn the control of the party, but some such radical change is indispensable | to begin with. It is unquestionably a safer policy to defy defection and a third ticket than to attempt a compromise might be certain in ither case, but com- promise would leave tha erganization wrecked again, while the escape from past herasies under a leadership that had al- ways denounced them would at least justity hopes for the future pliments from the opposition, but very few votes. Fusion {8 fairly and squarely beaten in Nebraska for the second time, and by an increased majority. Valentine Renublican: Wherever an elec- tion was held Tuesday republicans were the victors and in nearly every instanc: made increased gains over last vear. Re- publicans of Nebraska have triumphantly carried the state by a decisive majority and therefore remains firmly anchored in the republican column, where it resumed it former position a year ago. In spite of the personal appeals of the late candidate of the fusionists for the presidency, the state ticket has heen carried by increased ma- joritles. Many counties that have not heen carried by republicans in the last ten or twelve years have elected republican off cers this year, Indicating a large gain for the permanent voting strength of the party In the future. There is no doubt now that Nebraska will continue to roll up republican majorities so long as gov- ernment of the state 18 properly conducted. Tecumseh Chfeftain: The majority in the state is much larger than was antic- ipated. Judge Sedgwick made a magnifi- cent race and the latest returns indicate that his majority will be 12,000. The liquor dealers’ circular which was clreulated broadcast over the state in favor of the tusion candidate really operated against mm and only served to increase Judge Sedgwick's vote, Mesers, Ernst and Cal- kine, the candidates for regents of the university, were also elected by handsome majorities. The days of Bryanism and fu- slon control in Nebraska are apparently gone forever. Many countles which the fusionists have carried for a number of years went republican this year by good majorities. The voters of Nebraska and of the entire north have reached the conclu- 8ion that republicanism {s the only safe brand of politics to tle to. Randolph Times: The contest of Tues- day was of greater importance in Ne- braska than the mere election of the state republican ticket. It amounted to a trial of the strength of any lingering tendencies of the people to uphold the principles and theorfes of Bryanism. It was the hope of the republicans of the state that the teach- ings of Bryan would be repudiated com- pletely by a declsive victory at the polls this year. Thelr hopes have been realized. Republicans have carried the state by about 10000 plurality. The gain s not in sec- tlons, but is general In almost every county in Nebraska. The teaching of Tuesday's ballot is plain. In effect the people have declared their preference for the doctrines and principles of the republican party and their satfsfaction for the administration of state and pational affalra under republican officials. The result fs not due to the great popularity of {ndividual candidates nor to lack of harmony or work om the part of fusionists, but can be traced di- rectly to the change of political views by the people. North Platte Tribune: The result of the elaction in Nebraska is particularly grati- fylng . to republicans, the ticket being elected by a majority greater than one year ago, This in the face of the fact that it is an “oft year"” and the further fact that the now passe Mr. Bryan took an active in terest n the campaign by deMvering a num ber of speeches. It s now quite certain that in the future Nebraska will be as re- liably republican as is lowa. By this vie- tery fusion has met its doom, the prophetic words of our M. C. Harrington have come true. and the name of “peopl independ- ent’ has for the last time appeared on the ballot. Henceforth the lines will be drawn as republican and democrat. Robbed of a political home by the machinations of the democratic party, a large majority of the popullsts will naturally return to the re- publican fold. To those who return the glad hand will be extended, and part of the fatted calf—in the shape of continued pros- perity under triumphant republican prin- ciples—will be thelrs. Wahoo Wasp: . The result of Tuesday's election 15 most gratitying to republicans Saunders county has been giving from 600 to 500 fusion majorfty for a number of years; this year the fusion candidate for supreme judge recelved less than 100 ma- Jority. We can see no hetter indication of the passing away of fusion than is pre- sented by the rasult of Tuesday's election The fustonists made an aggressive campalgn in this county. Mr. Bryan was here and everything possible was done by the fusion committees, hut the good time that s prevaillng through- out the country, and especially in Saunders county, together with the excellent ticket nominated by the republicans, all con- gpired to bring about these excellent re- sults. The fina majority given Mr. Slama for county judge, Mr. Mauck for register of deeds and Mr. Webater for sheriff is cer- talnly a personal compliment to these men. The Wasp I8 very sorry that the entire ticket. was not elected, and it would have been had the republicans throughout the county heedod the advice of this paper and supported all their candidates. We do mot fesl like: crowing over the republican vie- tory teo vocifetously, fully gppreciating as we do the source from whence the re- publicans recelved substantial aid, and can arsure the peoplé of the county that every republican ' will merit the confidence reposed in him —— Caban Annesation tem, Indlanapolis News. Cuban annexatjonists declare that their policy would be the hest thing for the fu- ture of the island, in that it would give Cuba absolute free trade with this country. But how do they know? Cuba under the decision of the supreme court would bo “appurienant territory” and would have to accept the tariffs that congress saw fit 1o impose. Hut do the annexationlsts ‘mean 10 go further and bring the island in as a Jeague was made public a number of popu- our polities. It was strange monumental economic fallacy and a curious | liats and cven some third party prohibition- ological phantasy. It was certain |ists voted for him as a proteat againat that psy to spend jtself, but then might bave bees supposed. the end came sooumer Kind of work, but outside of York county Judge Sedgwick received a good many coum- HOW T cople Materinlly, y. y Inter Ocean Chica The Treasury Ilished a long and dull-looking table of department recently ures which proved to contain a wore w derful story than any romancer of poe ever imagined, It is the true story of th growth of the American pecplo in the last thirty years. We are offen told that growing richér and the phar Those who' say this admit that wealth has greatly (increased, but deny that it is so evenly Metributed as it used to be. Yet in thp last thirty years, while we have |n ased In numbers only 08 per cent, our savings bank ftors tave increased nearly 400 per cent and their deposits 430 per cent For every soul added to our population four of our people have been able to take that step toward material independence which a sav- Ings bank mccount represents Hut there are those who, while admitting our abounding material prosperity, contend “the rich ar rrowing poorer. our total depos- that this has n accompanied by moral and intellectual decadence. No direct in- ventory of our moral and mental posses- fons as a nation fs possible. Vet when we reflect what happens to the individual wha declines mentally and morally and then compare his state with that of the nat as shown by the treasury’s figures, wo get much Mght even on that question When a man decays morally or mentally he spends more of his fncome for physical and less for moral and mental needs and pleasures. Wa see this around us every day with the man who falls into bad habits and vice. How do our expendtur LY nation for our mental and mworal needs compare with those of fhirty years ago? Upon two points of such expenditure the evidence fs conclusive While our numbers have not quite doubled since 1870, we send nearly nina times as many telograms, we spend five times as much in postage and we pay our school teachers three and one-half times as much as we did then. Our expenditures for charity and religlon cannot, for various reasons, be given with such exactness, but that they have grown much faster than our population is well known. While s0 many of us proportionately may not now go fa church regularly, we have provided room for more of us in our churches when wo do go, and we pay our religlous teachers much better now than then. The mentally and morally decayed man also deciines in efficiency as a workman, whatever his work may be. That is notor< fous and we see it around us every day. Have we declined as & mation {n productiva efficiency? Do we as a people do our world less well than we did it thirty years ago? While our population has mnot quila doubled we produce nearly twice as much corn, two and ope-fourth times as much wheat, thres and three-quarters times aa much cotton aud two and onoe-third times as much of all agricultural products, Wa also produce 143 times as much steel and five and one-half times as much of all man- ufactures In the light of thess facts thero seema rot the slightest ground for believing, for an inetant that the American people as a whole, whatever thelr individual faults, have in any way declined in aught thag makes for power and progress. In fact they have greatly grown, materfally, men=< tally and morally in the last thirtysyears. . PERSONAL NOTES. The sultan cannot borrow from his triends to pay the French claims-—first, be- cause he has no credit, and, second, be- cause he has no friends. San Francieco’s new mayor is & fiddler by trade and answers to the mame of Schmitz. His admirers declare he is an artist with a long bow. The kalser's warlike predecessors would scarcely feel complimented by his boast, that the exploits of his troops in China “added fresh laurels to the anclent glory of the German arms.” Another maval contractor convicted .of bribery and sentenced to prison in New York has been granted a stay of execution pending appeal. A maen never knows whether he is guilty or innocent afteronly one trial over there. Mra. George Cornwallls West's discon< tinuance of tho publication of the Anglo- Saxon Review, which has been described by a wit as “a wonderful sixpenny worth for a guinea,” is intimated by some of the English papers to be due to her desire ta devote her entire time to matrimony. —— LIVELY AND LIGHT, f.' Philadelphia Pres gloomy this morning, ton 1 sparrows look remarked the tree hy shouldn't sparrows in chorus, dew." we?" replied tha poor our bills are all over Pittaburg Chronielo: “*Ah! good mornipg,™ cheerily cried the good-natured man. "L hope I see you well." “If you don't,” snapped better consult an occulist.’” Detrolt Free Press DIid the prisener indulge in objurgations?’ asked the young Krusty, “you'd attorney of the witness sir,” replled the latter. YT never K him 'to take anything hut whisky.” Washington Star: “You know Georga Washington sald he could not tell an e truth.” “Nonsense," anawered the practieal neli- tiefan: “that was probably a campalgn wlander, inventéd to make his: party muarn agers think he,was a hard man to handle. Philadelphia Bulletin: “¥esi they eull 1t a ‘rural play: but {t seems to me theré’s something lacking “Why, 8o thare 18 there/s no Mortguge on the farm.' v Catholle Btandard: Finniek«If, vou 1no- tice, the poets Invariably rofer € the earii as “mhes’ Why should the earth stdered feminine, 1'd ke to Know?” Sinnlck- Why fiot? Nobody Kuows Jjust how old the earth is ! THE CTIOTITY l.u}ill‘l!. ‘ Josh Wink in Baltimore Amierlean. An editor named Bryan sat weeping by his ross: The reading iV ictory," o con- headline, to hin distress; His sclusors lay beside him, with edges duil and worn; His hieart with'sad emotion was turbulefitly orn I sald this was my the victors' dine. “1 sald it was my last one, and they have pushed me in. “Alas! was pled, Jast ditch—he heard he muttered, feebly, #Hwhigt profits L eth it me ¥ To write my gemn of windon it praige of horty ! \ What gain hiy Fn pleading in ringing siiver tones Jcowla 1ot ko cownsel of Misen yiones Why dia | shun the, oll wells that athers . sought \n hasie? \ Now I'm cortdemned to wraste with gols s0r8, pen und pastel raska; 1/ played rily pumpking, kigsed every Why Ne cach the hard and horny hunds of the 8 of tol adl Joads yf haysecd to show the soll; A : honest voter ‘exactly I told the which I sald 11 was the in the diteh! what wam windup- they pushed me His head howed low in sorrow, his came forth in sighs; d seattercd the hreath toardrops siate or several states? The prospect of having six or elght United States sugar senators from Cuba is not pleastng at the present time. Let the annexationists pro- ceed slowly or they may defeal thelr owm purpose. ed his pen and paper—he siyle And ®oon Wik fi wrote in wits wearing the amile ha seribbled, A hribe ' he wdded, sama “wa bowe Now Is the 2 the ‘the hest time l’.