Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DAy B EE. I ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN THRMS OF Fee (with Jatly Hee and Burds $undav | £ T A1 B RIPTION Year.$5.00 .00 mduy) e yoar y Cenit Varme LIVERED RY ithout Dail Yenr AR | we i per week n week 10¢ por 13¢ gularities fn delivery City Clrculation De- ve Bindas Sver ing Sunda Complaints of should be addre partment OFFICES Omaha- The Hee Bulding South Omuha - City Hall Fwentv-neil M Street Counell Biuf 10 Pear) 8treet Chicago— 1610 Unity Bullding Temple Court 4 Fourteenth Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations news and edi toFinl mntter sy Need: Omaha Tee, Kdltor Bullding, relating to il be irtment LETTIERS 11 remittances should be Hee Publishing Company, 1288 1 addre Umahi MITTANCES, Remit by draft, oxpress or postal order, avablo 10 The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cont wtag accepted In payment of mall aceounts, Tors J checks, except on Omaha or enstern exclianges, not accoptad. THE BE) PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT O Btate of Nebraska, orge it Publishing Baye that Somplete « 1T the month 1. 5 CIRCULATIO! Douglas County, & Tzechuck, secretary of The Bee Company, being_duly sworn the wctual number of full and Jles of The Dally, Morning, 1 Sunday Hea printed during f Octob 1901, wus us follows 20,100 1, 28,000 L mone | R L 2m08n 19 20060 20,200 2Ny ‘ 20, 28,450 42,720 24,770 30,710 10, 170 SN0 N800 N T0 LNNBO 20,020 20,0 28, 22,460 ..30.780 30,010 33,650 017,840 ples... 9,863 1. 1 A Total Less unsold and returned ¢ Not Net AVErage........ui. GEORGE B, 1 Subscribed n my presence before me thly 3lst day of The annual retivement of the free rail- % should bhe shortly announced mgain Ak-Sar-Ben could not homeless very long. He has been too good a host 1o be withont a host for himself. Say what you will, the Omaha fire de- partnent was never In better shape as an effective fire fighting force than it is today. Tf the price of apples keeps on rising the forbidden fruit will come ax high this winter as it did in the Garden of Eden, o The Towa bank robber got along swimmingly until be ran up against the embattled farmer and then the trouble begau. Astronoi are not keno players or they would have sald something differ- ent when they saw three planets in-a row Sunday night. — Did you compare The Sunday Bee with the other Sunday papers published hereabouts? The Bee stands so far su perior in every respect that it is above comparison. Those Bulgarian brigands are doubt less consulting their own safety by keep- Ing (hefr months shut. but what an op- portunity for letter writing they are overlooking. If the county board wants to show good fuith with the taxpayers it will abolish some of the courthouse sine cures before new taxeaters become ose tablished them at the turn of the term, If the grand jury persists in throwing bouguets at the ety jail, the danger will be that that institution may become altogether too popular as a hostelry for boboes and vags when the cold weather sots o, The state school fund belongs to the clfldren of Nebraska. The people will not countenance any wmanipulation of thix sacred trust fund for private gain at the expense of the patrimony of the schools, And now a rebellion is sald to be brewing in the British northwest among the Klondike miners, With fever in South Afvica and chills in the Klondike, John Bull is certainly having a hard time of it Tt is casy 1o pass along rumors, but it 18 not 1o substantiate them. This probably explains why those ven- dors of “welldefined rumors” are not over-running the grand jury room to tell what they know S0 caxy T4 Hung Chang's title is to be con forred as a tribute to his memory as a hereditary Lonor through twenty-thr generations, The rights of the twenty fourth generation seem o have been ruthlessly disregarded Nebraska's new senators complain of being inundated with correspondence re Inting to confliciing claims for recogni tlon in federal appointments. Reconeil- ing one office to ten ofice seekers is part of the senator business, Omaha has just dedicated a new free hospital for the care of the sipk and amicted Every day gives additional contradiction to the slanderous state ments about Omaha being backward in philanthropy and true charity, Rural mail delivery was started as an experiment. But the postmaster gen- eoral is so well satistied with its success that he will ask congress to appropriste $6,000,000 to waintain and extend it And no congressmnan will move to amend by abolishing the whole system. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, - TRE 10WA SENATORSHI The Towa logislature which will con vene in January will be ealled upon to choose two senators to represent the | | state in the upper bouse of congress, | one to suceeed Senator William B. Al likon at the expiration of hix term and the other to BI ont the unexpired term | fof th ney left by the death of | Senator Gear, to which Senator J. P, Dolliver was appointed by Governor Shaw. While the unusual demand upon one and the same legislature to fill two sena torships at the samd time creates a pro- Iitic opportunity for contention betwe & multiplicity of candidates, the p pects are that the lowa legislature will be permitted to re-elect the present sen. ators without any outside competition for the places. The most formidable candidate two years ago for the seat then occupled by Senator Gesr was Hon. A. B. Cummins, now governor-elect for the state. Mr. Comming, o oan interview only the other day, said cmphaticully that he would not be a caundidate nor would | queathing the problem unsolved to I slow great welght in detormining the direc: | m of congressional action It gross will meet the stead of fn former is cortainly to be cone hoped that » fnstances, nptly SUCCOSSOTS. Those paving contractors will have hurey if they hope to complete most their eontracts this year, But in f the delay in the work ally due the property owners who lave been in starting the necessary prelimi naries in spite of repeaied admonition It seems as it Omaba people will never | learn from the experien this matter, ax year after year we saf- | fer from streets remaining torn up and | tmpassable through the winter becanse | the repaving contracts have not entered until late fn the fall The only way the consolidation of city and county can be brought about is | through changes in the constitutional | and stututory provisions under which | clty and county are organized. 1t these I lesson of been he allow his name to be used in con- nection with the senatorship the com- Ing year. “At present,” Mr. Cummins 18 reported to have said, “there are no candidates for United States senator in the fleld. Two will be elected at the next session of the legiglature and there Is every indication that Benators Alll- son and Dolliver will be thelr own su I'he last republican state convention in its platform declaration endorsed with- out equivoeation the course pursucd by Senators Allison and Dolliver as the representative lowa in national af- fairs in terms that were tantamount to a pledge of their re-eloction. Mr. Cum mins unquestionably still cherishes sen- atorial ambitions, but with his eleva tion to the governorship is doubtless prepared to hold them in abeyance until a more promising opening presents, Unless, therefore, some new and unes- | pected turn is taken in the situation the coming senatorial election will con- slst simply in a ratiicat™n of the ap pointment of Senator Dolliver and the extension for another six years of the commission so long and so Lonorably held by Senator Allison. E— THE FUTURK OF F The letters printed by The Bee from prominent fusion leaders in Nebraska, expressing their views on the future of fusion in this state, will furnish food for thought for men of all parties, As was naturally to bave been ex pected, the party leaders of the two branches of the alliance differ among one another as to the exact situation as well as to the prospective results of the ection Jusc completed. Those who favor the continuance of fusion are prolitic with reasons to explain the de- feat of the fusion ticket outside of fusion Itself, while those who lay the blame to fusion argue against ing further along the lines of the old combination. Most suggestive of all ts the forecast made by M. F. Harrington of the issues ou which the future campaigus are to be fought. Without hesitation this well known populist expresses the belief that a sociallstic program will be adopted by the forces hitherto combined in fusion which will include government ownership of railroads, public utilities, gold wines, iron mines and copper mines. It is signiticant that in this enumeration Mr. Harrington owits to mention silver mives and all reference to silver as a factor in polities. Silver as a cohesive clement seems to have been discarded by all the contributors to this sym- posiu One political battle con- cluded before the lines begin to form for the next. The question “To fuse or not to fuse?” will be debated steadfastly and seriously in Nebraska for some time to come and into fhe next year's conventious, SI0N. i scarce IRRIGATION IN THE COMING CONGRRSS. The subject of irrigation promises to take up the attention of the legislators in the coming congress much more than it has the attentlon of previous ses- sions. Remewmbering the fact that the last river and barbor bill was killed by Scuator Carter because of the refusal of congress to glve recognition to the cluims of the friends of frrigation, the irrigation bills presented to the next congress may be expected to be ac- corded at least courteous treatment. Just what form the irrigation leglsla- tlon will ultimately tuke it would be ditlicult to foretell at this thoe. Sev eral plens have been proposed, between which congress will be asked to choose. On the one side we have those who, be leve that the hest way to promote ir rigatlon projects 1s to cede the semi arid lauds still remaining fn the public domain to the se 1 states and to rely upon the states to wake provision for the construction of frrigation works. On the other side are those who believe that no good results can come from re Iying ou the individual states to take such action as they may see it and that the only true solution is to secure congresslonal appropriations to defray the expense of building the irrigating ditehes und reservolrs, leaving the gen eral government to secure its return by the sale of the lands to settlers after it has been brought within the cultivation area. All that the federal government has done so far has been to make a small appropriation for purposes of iu vestigntion and experim Whatever course may be adopted, some systematic plan be pursued and a consistent policy agreed on, so that all that will be needed of future congresses will be to take the succeeding steps and make the necessary appropriations without open 1ng up anew the whole question at each session, Presldent Roosevelt, according to the best reports, has been giving the irrigation problem careful study and his personal famillarity with the sit- finally should hanges could be had through an extr sesslon of the legislature several years | would be saved In putting them into force and with each year a correspond- ing saving to the taxpayers In the ex pense of government. An extra session of the legislature would save its cost several times over to the taxpayers of Omaba in a stugle . The incorporation fee for the new Northern Securities company that is to be the active factor in the comuuit of-interest deal was only $80,000, little item like that doesn't patrons and shippers along the belonging to the railway combine will bave to make good all such expens A The roads unt., Queen Lil still labors under the hallu cination that Uncle Sum ner money for damages commitied by the utionary government that relieved her of her crown. Queen Lil evidently does not appreciate the beauties of the | free government that las been extended | over her former domair owes The British government is shipping range bronchos to Africa for use i the cavalry, Unless thy y ucross sult water tames the spirit of the animals there are lkely to be sowe lively times when the boots and saddles call sounds for the first time. No custodian of public funds who is faithfully executing the trust reposed | in bim peed hesitate a moment to take | the people into his confidence by keep ing them informe the amounts and whereabouts of the public moneys in his care. as to Local jobbers report active trade o all lines of goods. This means that the small retailers in the cities and towns of the territory tributary to Omaba see brisk business ahead of them. The area of prosperity shows no signs of con- traction, Several places are vacant in the reve- n service in the wooushine district in the south. Auyoue who is in a bhurry to secure life insurance money for his helrs can have the position by applying to the government at Washington, Charleston is putting on its best bib and tucker iu preparation of the kxposi tion to be opened in that city December 1. No southern winter tour will be aplete this year without Charleston on the itinerary. AW 1d With Her Baltimore News. What will this world do when all its pet heroes are bauished by superabundance of testimony? William Tell long ago went the way of the unrelfable. Then the icono- clasts doubted whether Phil Sheridan rode to Winchester on an eventful day Now they are questioning whether General Isracl Putnam really galloped down a flight of stone steps on a gallant charger. Poor George Washington! 1L will be his turn next. Vain New York Tribu The shoemakers of Vienna will gain noth- g by carrying out their threat to smash the windows of all shops in which Amer can shoes are sold. That is no way to n competition in trade. They should rather see if they cannot make as good shoes as those imported from America, and at as low | & price. If they can, they need not fear American competition. It they cannot, there | i8 no use in their trylng to smash with puving stones the law of the survival of the fittest. Peace ity of Bravery, ew York Muil and ¥ Peace has its tests of a sailor's or & wol- dier's bravery no less sovere than those of war, though they may be less glorious. Few elvilians would fancy the duty which bas | been assigned to several naval oficers of | sealing themselves up in the new sub- marine torpedo boat Fulton, of sinking | ther below the surface of the water and of | remaining there from twolve fo fifteen hours. The officers and men who are to undergo this experience will breathe bottled air, so to speak, the necessary supply of | atmospheric fluid being contatned in com- pressed air fask: Strides of vestock Industry. Minneapolls Thmes 1t requires a goodly number of animals to furnish meat for this country and | foreign customers. For the uvine months ending September 30 last receipts at the five chief livestock markets were 6,236, 36 cattle, 13413,660 hogs and 0,331,1 sheep, or a grand total of 951,180 head of livestock purchased for_conversion into food In three-fourths of a year. The re- ceipts were more than 1,600,000 head in excess of those last year, the cor- responding period. ach of the five great livestock markets reports largely increased receipts, as comp with last Congresstonnl Hoodoos, Springfield Republiean The mistortunes of that party of con- gressmen in getting back home from the Philippines are rather oxtraordinary Three army transports in succession have broken down under them or run aground in carrying them no further thai Japan, They must now be in danger of never being abic to get back home, for sallors have thelr superstitions, and this reputation attained by the party for hoodooing a sbip is he- coming widespread. The broken-down press. year uation in the western states, where most of the semi-arid land s located, should enable him to make recom- mendations of & practical character, Whatever the president says will have transports have also carried the reports from the American authorities in the islands, on which the president and his ad visers were relying to make up their ane Bual statements to congress of the situation there, | | eredit | the | And NOVEMBER 19, 1901, The Railroad Octopus. An 014 Story, Bal Ameri s the old story of the a hundred dollars and then borrowed The i who bor man y rowed to $100 steet b back ha money was a limit to and the final 1 man too process, of cour tered th good placed on them is all the ble. The will have to meet it and no on can predict how edit the cred v roads th m when great burden © reprehens will the b come oy even promoters n the collapse, Fhe Coming Iasne Chicugo Tribune An fssue of tremendous consequence | thus being brought to the whole country It is & matter for conjecture if these road financial manipulators bend what this issue Tho full and effective government which the roads h far succeeded breaking down means government owner ship, nothing lese than that. And toward Just that conclusion the combinations are forcing the country. It will be a great mistake to suppose that the present patience of the people with the growlng domination of monopoly 1s a test of what the public temper will always prove to be. The Wrath to Come, New York World. All these rallroads are burdensd with stocks and bonds to many times the value of tho actual property they purport to repe sent. Fully as dangerous to this Rigan- tic creation as to the public will be any failure justly to apportion earnings, any policy tending to favor one city or section or set of produccrs at the expense of ane other. Long before public wrath had gath- ered the wrath of injured bond and stock holders would be beating fi reely against the foundations which Messrs Morgun, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Harriman have lald, rails compre- failure of regulation n Fat and Lean Vea Philadelphi; of the last two or three years there Is a profit on this vast capital, Will thos last? No man can tell Taking the experience of the past, the odds aro against it Taking the hopes of the present, the odds are for ft 'he slow growth of population In the arid belt i against a profit Not even consolldation can maintain profits through lean vears on these long lines running through the thinly settled plais of that elevated interior pla- teau far west of the Mississippi. Inberent Weakness of United 8 It Is possible that the prosperity of this country in the future is going to exceed that of the past in a ratio never before Areamed of, and it is, of course, possible that Messrs. Morgan and Hill have divined that fact in advance of all the rest of us, and that time will®show that the growth of the nation will fully take care of all the Inflation they have lately been trying to inject into the raflroad capitalization of ths United States. But those of us who have long memories know how easy it is for even the greatest bankers und rallroad managers in the world to overdo things at times. The so-called “constructive imagination,” which both Mr, Morgan and Mr. Hill appear to possess in extraordinary measure, is a noble faculty, but it has got the world futo Press On the business nfiation. ates Investe of Pretaht Rates lon ABS 1O many men, that imption b al enforceme the direct supervision c (o the fixing of rates when u falrness cannot otherwise be long as the law thwart agrecments late community of tion {8 possibly but ndoubs present law, in the as continue it to 1 hij unavoidabla i hastened with no compen will age prevention of d Harriman's Smooth Work eld (Mas bl 11 It has paid an e Burlington —amouut an 8§ per cent rental--and will not be | to enjoy the exclusive bencfits of | the acquisition. It has had to puy the | Unlon Pacific for the costs fncurred by the latter fn buying fato Northern Pacific trol. And while holding control of the now company to own the two northern roads, it cannot use that control in relation to the Burlington to fnjure the Union Pacific, and it must still bear the body of the burden invelved in the Burlington acquisition at a very high rental T Union ¥ ifie, in | other words, will help mana the Burling- ton and have some he control of its two rival transcontinental lines to the | north, while the latter will manage the Burlington, even though be the brunt losses growing out | of that acquisition, and will have no ve | In Unfon Pacific affaire. The victory is | obviously with the Union Pacific, spring And get out of it all Kant price for what does the 1-Morgan in lowed to voice in exclusively v ing of any o The End of Rate War, Now ¥ rk place in by the Sun, What has iron and steel treaty just ratified, occurred in the north western ruilroad world and very probably through the entire west. The radical i culty in the western railroad situation has been rate cutting. This is usually spol of as a money loss solely affecting the rail- roads themselves and their stockholders But the worst evil about it was its dam- 4ge to the business intorests of the coun- try. No merchant could ship goods or pay for thelr shipment to him with the { certainty that he w paying more for the samo service than w his neighbor. Some merchants en- abled to make large fortunes, others w ruined and the mercantile community as a | whole had just cause for complaint againet the rallroads for what was going on. No one supposes that in future rate cutting in the west will bo totally abolished, but thers will be far less of it in the future than | there ever was in the past. Freight tariffs will be the same to one man as to another The injustice and positive criminality of the old system disappears and the modera tion and fair play of & more enlightened | mavagement takes its plac This 15 the meaning of the settlement of the Northern Pacific coutroversy. he world of | has 1 great railr or gt est degree c as not were SBRASKA ST LoUls, Norfolk News: If Nebraska must be represented at the St. Louis World's fair the News {s here to suggest that the people relieve the state of the burden of making such an exhibit and that the funds be raised by popular subscription. That the exhibit then be something original and of benefit to the state, nd Telograph whether the men who « commissioners to the St without pay and to raise for with a hope that afterward reimburse them, do not run a great deal of risk. It is questionable whether these expositions pay per- centage of the money expended or whether the people of this desire to pour any more money into expositions and the time is fast coming when they will be entirely discontinued either as a financial venture or as a good means of advertising the products of one country among another. Lincoln Post: A number of western states are already beginning preparations for an exhibit at the world’s fair in 1903, and in this they are acting wisely. It is not too soon, either, for the great commonwealth o Nebraska to begin drafting plans and speci- fications for a meritorious display of he marvelous resources. No other state can present greater achiovements fn the same number of vears than Nebraska has ma and this being true one of the first points 0 emphasize fn making an exhibit is the let span of years in which her remark- development has been wrought. The ofits to be reccived from a creditable showing at the St. Louis fair are manifold, but the chief aim should be to attract the people of other states to the advantages still open to those who seek a home within her borders. Let every citizen invest ull enthusiasm he can muster in advertising the state in a practical way, and, in doing this the Post suggests that advertising should not consist of delightfully furnished drawing roowms alone, but that a sufficient sum be approp to make our state buildings resplendent with a true repre- sentation of the state's industry. It 1s a question cept positions as Louis exposition the funds there- the legislature will state CHARACY KV National Appl Parsued Whe Brooklyn Fugle President Roosevelt fs clearly following the policy which he adopted when he was governor. He is willing to appoint to office the men suggested by the purty organiza- tlons in the various staies, but he insists that these men must be fi. And if fit men are not proposed within u reasonable tin ho is taking the matter in his own hands. And the beauty of the whole situation les in the fact that the president’s demands are so reasonable that th whom he turns down cannot object They have got to that they more for the proper conduct of governmental busi ness than for the distribution of patronage. And the president is only insistiug on that he honest and stralghtforwar about it that they are disarmed when they teel 1ike fighting. How | e will able to keep the spoilsmen dowi remains to be seen. But we inclined to think that it will not be long before the men who care only for the spolls will b snarling at his while the rest of the country, regardless of party, will be con- gratulating him on the wisdom and patriot ism, to say mothing of the business sense of his poliey. Snd News for Gumshoe il 8t. Louls Gl Senutor Vest's health ha fall and he has gained fifteen pouuds. 11 i5 disinclued to accept another term in the senats, but w the clarion sounds what can an old soldier do but respond? men in public care is 50 ure very mproved PERSONAL NOTES, Casper Sabo of Jerseyville, 111, s a Hun garian and served under Louis Kossuth and | fought for bis country's Iberty | Minister Wu dislikes for varlous reasons the publicity given to his duughter. One of the reasons is that he has no daugh- 355 An agent of the pure food commission has corralled an entire carloud of a glucose mixture consigned to a Chicago firm under the guise of “‘pure clover honey." No sooner was the ele in New, York boxes for the | horsa show e the amount of $30,000, or $5,000 more thun last year. Paul Du Chaillu antomobile than to exhibition were sold the famous adventurer. is in St. Petersburg, where he is studylng | the Russian language and making progress with his coming work on Russia. President Roosovelt sets an example many professional men ia the orderly ar- rangement of things in his office desk. He has to do no rough riding over misplaced | papers to find what he wants Captain Bernlex of Quebec is planning an expedition to the north pole. He will | take with him large kites fitted with came ras. These will enable him, even if he fails 1o get to the pole, to take photo graphs of many points which he cannot | reach Camille Flammarion, the asironomer, at a recent meeting of the French Astronom- | leal soclety spoke on the extreme longevity attained by members of the soclet 'l"h-)‘ doyen of the society s Francols Michau who was 19 years old about the time of the battle of Waterloo, Miss Harriet Maxwell Converse and Prof. Frederick Starr of the Unive of | cago are making investigatious among the | Iroquois Indians in ret to thelr folk songs, including medicine, witch, death and all of the ceremonial chants which have | hitherto been unpublished While in Pittsburg the other day Andrew | Carnegie was forced to leave the house in | which he was staying by a rear door and drive off In a carringe to escape a crowd of | peoplo begging money for charitable ob- | Jects—many of them for libraries. Mr. Car- | Degle receives more than 300 bogging lete ters a day. Peter Devilla has arrived in after two years' travel in was in the Moon country, between the Por- | cupine and Mackenzie riv and asserts | that he found there a race of white p !ple who, he thinks, are Sir John Frank- ln's descendants. Deville tried them with French, Russlan, Spanish and English, but they could not understand any of them The warked down Ja ley of Samc might b fraction of the estimated ¢ $25,000, if the Navy department would adopt the Ne plan. In that state, some years ago, @ pro- | bibitionist who fractured his pledge ap pealed to the legislature to reinstate him.n the good graces of his tribe, and the w makers gallant! ponded this form ‘Resolved, by the leglslatu of the state of Nevada, the governor concurring, That the drink of whisky taken by Johoson Sides in the Magnolia saloon, July 11, 1 be and | 18 hereby annulled.” The esteemed Dick Croker rudely kicked out of Tamma s throne Members of the push, having lod off a bit, have come to conclusion that Rich | ard has been folted enough by the cnemy For frionds to jump on him whilo he fa down would constitute ruel and unusual punishment will probably stay ri here for & while until the sting of our lat | licking has lessened a little the Tndian id until he can g g on the face of it | was driven. Then he &0 abroad again and once abroad it may become lent that his health will not stand another cams patgn that e will decide pot to cowe back." 1o | enc an Fran- | | ciseo Alaska. Ha of Commander Til- posed of for not fo bhe He ot s ap a muy | you thi | the con been | | than Ba Makes delicious ING POWDER, hot biscuit, rolls, crusts, griddle cakes and muffins. A creamof tartar powder, absolutely pure. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. FUSION DOCTORS CONSULY Fullerton Poy (dem.) [ wiit t bappened,” o fires burning 80 that the outposts will have no trouble in secing the entrench me Those who have sirayed away will ba back in time and all be given & hearty welcome. Al we ask in the meantime is read and think," Oakland ele T Low to keep t ttempt to discover but will continue along the line Independent (pop): The late mot bring any cheering promices for the future to the fusion party of tho state, Judging by the face of the Knox county, herctofora fusion, iblican 175 majority. Saun nty, the strongest populist county Kave & majority less than 100 soveral of the county ufficers ted republicans. In these countie however, there was dissatisfaction in the of the fusion party and the result tnd the trus condition tion does r went le in the thi rns rey by vear and ele e rank may things O'Neill not « Independont K « » s a questlor led Wao are ed (pop.): “What do with the democrats that has been pro times since election wost pronounced. We ou In the last county previous conventions. An equitable fusion ht drive a few democrats into tho republican party; it might lose the populist a few narrow partl sans, but it would keep the true and sin- element of the reform forces together a combination of this kind would be tnvincible tn Holt county, St. Paul Phonograph (pop): But tho in general of the result 18 the scendency of the stomach cult. The float- ing element which determines national elec- tions and the elections fn close states, vote, not according to princple, but according to tlon of their bodily feelings. They aro concerued only about what they shall and drink; it they have plenty of that y are satisfied with the party in power; If they have uot they invariably vote for a chay Another weakening influence on the fusion side is the decadence of populist enthusiasm, which springs from causes al- ready pointed out in the Phonograph and which we shall more fully discuss in the futu Beatrice Democrat: The fact that the fusionists got everlastingly knocked out in the recent state election slmply shows that Nebraska is @ republican state and that the former successes have been of no per- munent advantage. 1t fs true that Holcomb as governor exposed a whole lot of repub- lican rottenness and gave the tate a good udministration, but the republican vote was attracted to fusion support more by ghost s than by any desire in the direction of real reform. The deraocratic party would have boen much stronger today if it had never allled with the pops. But the gentle- men who were running the machine saw a profit to them in temporary success and will probably do the same thing over again though fusion will never again win in Nebraska. Auburn populists a fusion now t0 us man a fusionist for a fu on and all worl a m cause It the fusions democ independents who have been o nearly swept from the h had busted themselves with matters of nceded and practical reform and prace ticed rigid but righteous economy instead of bysylng themselves reciting th short« comlngs of the republicans and then aping their practices there would have small force of republicans te conte official honors in 1601, And now the proposition holds true. 1f the republicans will busy themselves with matters of needed and practical reform and practice rigid but righteous economy in- stead of busying themselves with reciting the shortcomings of thelr opponents and then aping practices thera will be but a diminutive force to meet them at the polls when electfon day shall roll around. Stanton Register (pop.): Nebraska is no more in the permanent republican column it was four years ag are too Intelligent to slavishly follow party name regardless of conditions. ere. fact that the fuslonists had two supremo judges was the cause of Sedgwick getting many vot The principal cause of wick's election was the 30,000 voters who Aid not go to the polls. It la useless for syouo to claim that the majority of the tors of Nebraska republicans re gardless of what may about Wao have just as good chance of carrying the state in 1902 we had in 1900, as f: as the state ticket is concerned, and we have A% many sure voters to count on in the be- ginuing of the campaign. What is wanted nger (pop.) ists, cussed but A st for same are come If they are what y The people | is the drafting of olir strongest yote get ters as candidates on the state ticket an to prevent combinations from befng mad in the conventions that give us weak men nd I«land Democrats The Damocrat es that any arguments pro and con concerning the question of future fusion [ the reform parties are decided|y prematura and but the reflex actton of de feat. Whethar or not there shall be fusion will be dotermined by the logie of events transpiring beforo the next campaign, and until that time it s well to bo forbearing und cousiderate, lest groater division be brought about among thoso who shonld be political friends. The paramount issus in this country today s not money, pot tariff | vot tmperialtem, not truste, but that | Rreater and overshadowing question as 1o | whether the or the shall | rule. To the democracy are committed tho o and keeping of the latter's int and upon this vital proposition the reform forces must get togother, better, perhas in one organization, but at least in & w that thero may be concert of action siugleness of purposs in righting wrongs of that larger body of citizens | the ewent of whose faces this republic has | achieved all her greatuess and the classe | a1l their amassed and uncounted million Study and talk 1t over among yoursel but never 1ose sight of the nacessity fo | harmony and the power of an unbroken | trontt tween claskes masses DREEZY REMARKS, Presst Tess--Oh, yes, she with @ highly~honored name, Jess ~What! T never considered a highly-honored name. Tess—Well, you should sea the way tt s honored ut the bank Hoston Transeript: Johnny—What fs an adage? Pu—An adage 15 an eplgrammatic sophis try manufuctured to prevent ona from {ng something he wants to do or to fuducs him to do something he doesn't. Philadelphia married & man cadds * Cloveland Plain Deal T never 1 realized how shamefully corrupt our mu nicipal elections are.’ “What's opened your eves?™ “Why, 1 worked all day for the reform ticket and better government and they never gave me a cent for it.” Baitimore Amerloan sald the neglizent messenger be deliver the message. You djd?" suorted the sarcastic em- ployer. “Well, “you take the first train to Washington. "They'll glve you the com mand of & vesscl in the navy, with. that record.” Chicago Record-Herald: * man!_ What's happened to you? n kicked in the face by a mule 0. Our cook's husband, from whom she got a divorce several months ago, hus been coming around, bot and last night sho uple whit reat | grief, Have yoi has that to do with your case “1 was an innocent bystanden'™ Washington Star: “Do you think vour constituents will lend their endorsement your course?”’ sald the friand I never thought about it," answered Senator Sorghum. “But If my’ constituen! will keep out debt and not ask me f endorsements T11 be willing to take chance on needing theirs.” hicago Post: “Well" remarked N thoughtfully, as he looked out over waste of water, “It will be pretty lone when we get ashore.” “Yes," answered Juphet; “there won't I enough of the nelghbors left to get up i court of inquiry and prove that we didn t know how to run the ship.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: “She's a_ver utious woman, especlally about goss women ever heard her retail any aal."” “But T am told that stories conflded to her in secrecy do get_out somehow.” “Yos, 1 know. 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