Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1902, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or tal “ble %5 The Bee Publishing Com E’ ‘i-cent stamps accepted in pa uccunu Fersonal cmcn -x Baans TS B e T e SN STATEMENT OF CKICULATXON. m ot Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. ck, secretary of £ 'che Bee ’Ilbul n. c@fl being duly sworn, o uu aumber Of full an The Dally, Morning, lvonlnl sod Boo prlnM during the month Jnly was as foll o'l Less unsold and returned copl Net total sales. Wet dally averag: GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3ist day of July, A. L, 1002 (Beal.) M NGATE ‘Notary Pubiic. E————————— To the summer resort men—We may have an Indian summer yet. As a destructive engine of peace as well as war, the antomobile stands in a €lass of its own. fl ur Mclntosh should learn not to pro- such embarrassiug questions to flvnflwr Savage. | ‘Makers of quick exposure cameras can score a hit by photographing growing Nebraska corn In action. It is quite apparent that our old com- patriot, Walter Raleigh Vaughn, has not forgotten how to blow his own horn. It excursion trains are conducive to ’ rallway accidents, the rallway trainmen will be thankful when the summer ex- cursion season sees its finish. Smm—— ‘With & national convention of plumb- ers in session right among us, there should be no new leaks sprung on ©Omabha for a few days at least. TEpe————— The newly negotiated treaty between the United States and China may be taken as the signal that the open door 1s almost ready to swing on its hinges. | It is good to know that Nebraska is coming to the front a timber-growing state. No state should be without tall timber for the benefit of its candidates for office. The Union Pacific strike situation seems to grow worse Instead of better. This is unfortunate for Omaha. The strikers and the raflroad managers should try to get together. — o President Roosevelt wants to be let off ‘with as little speechmaking as possible during his western tours. What he does’ say, however, will be worth hear- ing and will set the auditors a-thinking. | epm—— Jim Hill's reduction of grain rates is ultogether outside of the community-of- lnterest agreement. The otheroads show no disposition to meet the cut, and do not have to, since it in nogway af- fects competitive business. e ————— 1 Bank Wrecker Andrews of Detroit, who bas just been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, doubtless wishes his term were to be served in Nebraska, where the chances of an early pardon ‘would be much more promising. 3 EEr—— The way all the democrats with avowed congressional aspirations were shoved off the track by the local demo- cratic bosses shows that when it comes to operating a well-greased machine the democrats hereabouts are no slouches themselves. 3 e “If ‘I was mayor of Omaha,” says W. 8, SBummers, “I would enforce the law,” but W. 8. Summers Is United States . attorney. Why don’'t ke en- force the law against the land specu- lators who are conspiring to rob the In- dians In the purchdse and leasing of reservation lands? - King Edward knows what be is dolng in extending a glad hand to the brave Boer gellerals, who kept his armies busy with bearly three years' fighting in Bouth Africa, Cordial treatment of their § 1s lkely to do more toward the Boers with their condi- tion @s British subjects than any other thing; ephlse—— From the stories brought home by the Elks, Salt Lake' City will not be in it as a competitor for national conventions untfl #s peopls learn to treat thels guests better. Omaba's reputation for m(y in entertaining visitors with- out holding them up is worth more to it than all the money that might be gath- ered lu during & convention week. RA ILRUAD ASSESSMENT--[UWA AND NEBRASNKA, And now it turns out that the rallroad attorneys and rallroad tax agents who appeared before the Iowa State Board of Equalization have not been as success- ful in keeping down the railroad assess- ment as have been the raflroad attor- neys and tax agents of Nebraska. Two weeks ago the announcement was made that the raflroad assessment of Iowa had been increased by $4,000,000 over the assessment of 1001. This was dis- tinctly a setback to the bombastic John N. Baldwin and his Towa assoclates, but now it turns out even worse. Instead of raising the rallroad assessment by $4,000,000, a computation made by the secretary of the executive council places the increase at $4,818,726, or a fraction over 9 per cent on the railroad assess- ment of 1901, which aggregated $47,- 328,911, while the assessment of rail- road property in Iowa for 1902 aggre- gates $51,387,084. Computed in dollars and cents, the in- crease in the taxes levied on Iowa rail- roads for the year 1902 over the year 1901 is, in round figures, $172,000. But this is by no means excessive. On the A " contrary, an impartial assessment of Towa rallroads, apportioned to the actual value computed on their bond and stock basis and pro rata with all other classes of property In Iowa, which 18 25 per cent of actual value, would have Increased the assess- ment of Iowa railroads to $00,- 000,000 instead of $51,300,000. But even small favors should be thankfully re- celved, and the people of Iowa have reason to feel gratified over the relief afforded to the general taxpayer. As compared with the action of the Nebraska board, the Iowa board Is cer- tainly to be complimented. Instead of increasing the assessed valuation, the Nebraska board has actually decreased it. Instead of paying more taxes under the assessment of 1902, Nebraska rail- roads will pay much less than they paid in 1901, unless the board is ordered by the supreme court to reconvene to revise its action and assess the railroad cor- porations according to the valuation of thelr property and in proportion to the assessment levied upon all other classes of property in the state as returned by the assessors but not as computed by the rallroad tax bureau. e———— WILL MARE HO COMPROMISE. The president of one of the anthracite coal companies gave out & statement a few days ago that there will be no com- promise or settlement of the strike through political or other influence. He sald the presidents of the anthracite companies have the absolute and un- qualified support of their respective boards of directors and stockholders in the position they have taken *‘that these great properties shall be controlled and operated by thelr owners and not by outsiders.” He declared that this Is the only real issue in the controversy and that it “will be fought to a finish in the lines already drawn, no matter how long it takes.” This disposes of the mm that a set- tlement was expected to be reached by September 1 and that there would be a compromise. The above declaration undoubtedly represents the position of all the anthracite companies and its meaning is plain. The resumption of mining will not take place until the miners yleld. The companles are not glving any conslderation to the interests of the public. They are heedless of ap- peals to avert the threatened coal fam- ine. They are deaf to the suggestion that it is the duty of the companies to mine coal. Their unalterable purpose is to starve out the miners and break up their organization, regardless of the conse- quences to the public. There appears to. be an equally earnest determination on the part of the miners. They show no sign of weakenifig and President Mitchell says that it all de- pends on the action of the operators when the strike will terminate. He states that the financlal assistance the strikers are receiving is satistactory and expressés the bellet that they will win. As the situation now stands, therefore, an anthracite coal famine seems inevi- table and how serious'a matter that would be most people can umderstand. The price of anthracite has reached un- precedented figures in the eastern mar- kets and even should mining be re- sumed shortly the price would doubtless remain so hl;h that many would be un- able to use this coal. Sy LABOR AND THE ' PARTIES. Intelligent workingmen know that the republican party has been the friend of labor. All that has been dome in the way of national legislation in the in- terest of labor was done by the repub- lican party. Most of the laber legisla- tion of the states is also to be:credited to that party. It has ever sought to improve conditions for labor by every practicable means and it has never failed to give conslderation to every reasonable request of those who labor. While the democratic party bas been profuse in promises the republican party has acted. ‘The fict that the wage earners of the United States are better off than those of any other country is largely due to republican policy. It has protected the industries and the labor of the country, enabling the American workingman to obtain higher wages than are paid in any other land and thus to accumulate. Before the organization of the repube lican party little attention was given to the interests of labor. The meu of toll were little thought of by those in public life prior to the birth of the republican party and labor was not respected as it is at present. There has been a vast improvewent, a great advance, in the last thirty-five years in the condition of labor and for this the republican party is entitled to nearly all the credit. Oonsequently thaf party bas the strongest possible elalm to the support of workingmen. It has the right to ex- pect from them & proper recognition of what the party has done iy behalf of labor and of its always earnest fesire to THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, promote the welfare of the working classes. To one who serlously thinks of the obligation that labor owes to the republican party it is not easy to credit the statement that many of the labor unions of Chicago have pledged them- selves to the support of the democratic party. It seems a reflection upon the intelligence and judgment of the men in the unions that one hésitates to accept. Have these workingmen forgotten what the democratic party did when it came Into control of the government in 18937 Have they forgotten the dis- astrous consequences to labor of the pol- icy of that party—a policy to which it is still committed? The republican party has a claim to the allegiance .and support of working- men that is founded upon faithful care for their interests and welfare. The democratic party has no such claim. THE TREATY WITH CHINA. The tariff treaty with China will prob- ably have no Immediate effect upon trade with that country, but it marks a departure in Chinese policy that must ultimately be of great benefit to the em- pire and to all the countries doing busi- ness with it. In future there will be no discrimination by Ohina against any country in the matter of trade. Her great market will be open to all on equal terms and the abolition of the likin tax must have the effect of ma- terlally increasing trade with foreign lands. That tax has operated to restrict trade with the interior and it has ylelded little revenue to the government, though it has been a good thing for the officials of the provinces. These have of course strenuously opposed the abolition of the tax, which means the loss to them of a large revenue, but the Chinese govern- ment could do nothing else but submit to the requirements of the powers in the matter., A very energetic competition for the Chinese trade is now to be expected and undoubtedly American manufacturers will not be behind those of other coun- tries In working for that trade. It is possible, of course, to get an exaggerated idea of the extent of this commerce, but a country of 400,000,000 people cer- tainly presents| what appears to be a most promising fleld for commercial ex- ploitation. W. R. Vaughan, the nineteenth cen- tury mayor of Council Bluffs, who has located his headquarters under the dome of the national capitol, which is sur- mounted by the statue of liberty, has organized . the first Twentieth Century Liberty party, consisting of W. R Vaughan and his gold-headed ecane. The new party proposes to swing around the liberty pole like & merry-go-round and will exert all its psychic influence upon every congressional district in the United States of America, including Alaska and the Hawaiian islands. ‘When the merry-go-round crosses the Unlon Pacific bridge it may be expected to proclaim David H. Mercer, formerly of Omaha and more recently of the Dis- trict of Columbla, as its preferred choice, always providing Mr. Mercer does not forget to transmit a respectable draft to the new liberty party as a campalgn contribution. 5 In 1898 Willlam F. Gurley Instructed his tenant, Johnny Wright, who keeps a popular sporting resort for colored men, to take his instructions from Frank Ransom as to whom he was to support for congress, and Ransom designated Hitchcock as his preferred candidate. It Mercer should be nominated again this year what will Gurley -do? Wil be instruct Johnny Wright to go the way Ransom wants him- to, or will he desert his bosom friend, Hitchcock, for the man to whom he is Indebted for thousands of dollars worth of federal patronage as attorney for winding up broken national banks? Here is a di- lemma almost as exasperating as would have been Gurley's position if his Jart- ner, Ransom, had been nominated by the popocrats. e It is gratifying to note that the state press Is realizing what the repudiation of the principle of municipal home rule in the Omaha police commission decision means. Other cities and towns can see that if the management of our fire and police departments can be handed over to a board ap- pointed by and responsible to the governor, there is nothing to stop the lawmakers from taking from them the management of all their local affairs and imposing upon them municipal offi- cers in whose selectim they have no volce. Such a viclous doctrine, uproot- ing the very foundations of self-govern- ment, cannot fail to grate on every lib- erty-loving citizen. ———— Contractors are sald to be getting busy already to connect with the work of building the isthmian canal, which is billed as the biggest engineering un- dertaking in sight on the international boards. It goes without saying that American contractors should be in po- sition to bid for this work successfully as against those of any other country both by reason of belug nearer to the scene of actlon, but also because of su- perior mechanical resources and machin- ery devices. If the United States Is to put up the money to build the canal, American labor and American industrial concerns should have first opportunity to earn it for Poets. Great Open! St. Louls Republic. The! nothing surprising in the wide- spread competition of poets for the Skinker Road prize. The winner in that tuneful tournament will at once attaln international remown as the World's fair poet laureate. Another Outburst of Confidence. Philadelphia Prese. Colonel Bryan has agaln taken an In- ventory of his inper thoughts and iast week's 1ssue of his Dewspaper vificiaiiy announced the result. He will not be & candidate for the nomination in the Bext campaign, but he won't permit any one to be nominated who would not be a8 thoroughly beaten as he would be it on the ticket. It is comceded that Colonel Bryan owes his country. this much to himself and Stk to the “One-Hoss Shay.” Indlanapolis Journal. Great wealth enables its possessors to indulge In expensive pleasures, but these may carry the penalty of danger. The poor man who is content to cover four or five miles an hour In & “one-hoss shay” behind a jog-trot pony may have more contentment than the millionaire in his automobilo, and he certainly incurs much less risk. Tremendous Bx Chicago Inter-Ocean. To be specific, the excess of exports over imports in the 108 years from 1790 to March 4, 1897, was $383,028,487, while the excess in the five years from March 4, 1897, to March 4, 1902, was $2,707,993,10 the excess of exports in each year since 1897 being greater than that of the entire 108 years prior to the Inauguration of President McKinley. The Cruelist Cut of All Springfield Republican. After epending $1,000,000,000 in conquer- ing the Boer republics it is a little hard on John Bull that he is unable to hold the South African market. All advices indi- cate that the Germans and particularly the Americans are gathering in the trade and the contracts, while the latest British trade commission solemnly reports that this s a most serious matter. It cer- tainly is. Hinting at Strange Things. Minneapolls Journal. ‘The voluntary reduction of grain rates by northwestern railways is a striking and profitable {llustration of the change that is coming over rallway managements. They have at last learned that it does not pay to “buck” the people and state governments. The rallway managements are at last coming to take a view of their business that the people, the leg- islatures and the courts have now taken for some years—namely, that the roads have no right to charge more than will yield a fair rate of profit on fair capital- fzation of their properties. It saves an- noying litigation and saves time and pre- vents a dangerous public irritability for the railways to reduce rates from time to time In accordance with the rule, as traf- fic grows. —_— Era of Busy Times,, Indianapolis News. Never, perhaps, was the country so busy. Men are more likely to be asked to work overtfme than to find difficulty In getting work. Another thing is that these are great times for the producer of food. About 90 per cent of the increased cost of subsistence 'goes to the farmers and market gardeners. (And did anybody ever hear of “bard times” when the farmers were prosperous? But the chief explana- tion 1s perhaps in the universality of op- portunity for work. The thing that makes the “pinch” of hard times is not a small margin, but no work. Who listens to the complaint of a man who has work that ha Anex not gat enough for it? He fs in a way regarded as the anclents re- garded ome who was ungrateful to the gods. On the other hand when men at every corner are.out of, work, the good margin of those that have work 1s lost sight of, and there s only patent the sad- dest of all sights—an honest man will- ing to work who can get mo work to do. —_— THERE NEED BE NO DOUBT. A ow Views of the Néw Ausociate Justice on Natlonal Politics. ,Brooklyn Eagle. Referring to -the new member of the United States supreme court Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Eagle editorially sald: I “His views are; accurately known on all the subjects covered by the late declelons of. the United States court in cases affect- ing Porto Rico and the Philippines. He belfeves that the constitution extends to the colonies only to the degree to which the songress of the United States carrles it there by legislation. As the court was lately of that opinion only by a majority of one,'the fact that Judge Holmes shares that opinion gives to his appointment an unmistakable fmportance.” That statement was made advisedly. It was made on knowledge. It was made on purpose. It was made with the object of meeting the natural curiosity of our read- ers concerning Judge Holmes' views on ex- paneion, and for.the purpose of assuring them that his views were whbat, with knowledge, the Eagle set them forth to be. We may add that If they had not been the views of Judge Holmes he would not have been appointed, and another mam, with those views, would have been se- lected for the place. SILLY SEASON ON THE MIDWAY. Chicago Record- B-nm. It 1s reported fhat Chancellor B. Benja- min Andrews gave the students on the Mid- way a plain talk concerning the socl He said that youpg clubmen were 1oo their morals, and that it was a shame that they should wish or expect that the young women who were to become thelr wives ghould be more pure than they. He raised his velce against hasty marri and pecially against elopements, which, sald, were often followed by a resort to the divorce courts. He ‘told the co-eds that “they had better talk with mamma before running away.” Then he digressed to praise bachelors. “There is still room,” he declared, the bachelor among us. The unmar; dividual 18 of great importance.” He may fall in love with his work instead of with woman, and though his life is not the ideal one “‘history forces us to admit that some of the greatest men that the world has ever known were bachelors.” ample, asserted the doctor, were Jesus Christ and Paul. “Were they not successful men, and did they not work out great good to the world and their fellow men?" The thought seemed to raise doubts in the speaker's mind about marriage. While-he advised his hearers to be very careful about saying anything agalnst marriage he warmed to the new theme and asserted again that history would not per- mit us to overlook the greatness of the bachelors. He declared also that “the in- dividual and not the family is the unit of authority.” Then he checked himself, re- ferred to marriage as the ideal state, and closed with other saving and qualifying clauses. Now, all that Dr. Andrews sald may be true, some of it, in fact, was so obvious that it was hardly worth saying, but It suggests this inquiry: What are the peo- ple who listened to it at the university for? Have they gone there for hard work, for mental training, for exact knowledge of exact selences, for the serious study of his- tory and politics, for inspiration in art and literature? If so the time that they spend in listening to puerile gabble which is about on a par with village gossip sadiy wasted. They iwighi betier away from the university and eave thelr money. Such lectures or talks as those of Dr. Andrews are only calculated to bring ridi- cule upon the University of Chicago and s sensation akin to seasickness to its friends. AUGUST 19, 1902. FOR THE FARMERS BENEFIT. Chioago News: As the nahe of the new trust is the International Harvester com- pany, its evident Intention is to have the people of Russfa, Bgypt and India do busi- ness with it before they harvest their wheat. St. Louls Republic: The harvester com- bine organized under the New Jersey laws with a capital of $120,000,000 for the avowed purpose of preventing an advance in the prices of harvesting machinery is elther the champion bunco bluff of the century or a herald of the miliennium. Minneapolis Journal: - This trust will see that the simple, unsuspecting farmer is mot made to pay more than he ought for his harvesters. The manufacturers are belng forced against their will to make the farmer pay more, but by an act of supreme unsel- fishness they have rallled, asserted their benevolent strength, hurled the demon of high prices Into the corner, have spat upon him and are now holding him down with $120,000,000 capitalization and a little water cure on the side. Have hope, oh ye of little faith; the trusts will yet save us all from the demnition bow-wows of high prices. Minneapolls Times: Tt may be unkind, however, to intimate that this combine has been effected for other than benevolent purposes, for one of the directors has given the following reason for its organization: “It 18 well known that the prices of raw materials used in the manufacture of har- vesting machinery have advanced steadily during the last few years, and, although the manufacturers hitherto have avolded an advance in the pricos of their products, it has become apparent from the existing con- ditions that higher prices would soon be- come a necessity unless the methods of manufacture and business could be ma- terfally improved and large economles ac- complished.” Therefore, for the sake of the farmer, these manufacturers have banded themselves together to keep prices down. Such consideration for the welfare of others 1s rare in this commercially mel- fsh age. — CHANCELLOR ANDREWS' TA Boston Globe: Dr. Benjamin Andrews has 8ot one convert already, it would seem. At all events, a bachelor, aged 81, in Baltimore, 1a to wed a widow aged 79. Milwaukee Sentinel: The more Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews talks the more the pub- lic 18 convinced that he would appear to better advantage if he sald nothing. Chicago Inter Ocean: It seems to be Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews' idea that the way to teach a summer clags is to tell it how to do a lot of things which he believes should not be done. Boston Transcript: It 1s all very well for Dr. Andrews to assert that bachelors are moral degenerates and that the unmarried individual of marriageable age has no place in soclety nor in the scheme of the uni- verse; but with the prices of Mfe's necessi- tles ever soaring upward the bachelor throng is likely to increase rather than diminish. With coal at $9 a ton and beef- steak at 40 cents a pound, it Is a brave young man, or perhaps a very thoughtless one, who enters matrimony, unless he ia very much better fixed than the average young man. New York Sun: After all, the single continue to be exceptional, and the work of marrying and giving in marriage and buying wedding presents goes on in tre- mendous volume. Surely the marrled can afford to pity and not molest the unmar- ried. The latter have the impudence to do a little pitylng on their own hook some- times. Don’t worry them. Some of them are enjoying themselves and all are useful as a foll. Would Dr. Andrews driye well- to-do bachelor uncles and spinster aunts out of the busin There are few morp en- gaging figures. No well-regulated family should be without a specimen, and there can’t be enough of them. — PERSONAL NOTES, A statue to the memory of Fitz John Porter will be erected by the citizens of Portsmouth, N. H. According to her pictures in the {llustrated press, Miss Gladys Deacon is plump, lithe, petite, Junoesque, blonde, brunette, tall and short, Senator W. A. Clark of Montana has pur- chased the Helena Independent and that paper will hereafter be known as his per- sonal organ. Minister Wu Ting Fang has accepted an invitation to speak in Binghamton, N. Y., on Labor day, before a labor mass meeting, This will be the firet address ever made by a Chinaman to lsboring men. All the negroes who have ever been con- nected as servants with the Warfield family of Maryland were given a dinner by Edwin Warfleld, president of the Fidelity and ‘Trust company of Maryland, the other day. Thomas Lewls, a 25-year-old Liberlan negro, is studying medicine and surgery at Emergency hospital at Detroft, Mich. He went there from Philadelphia and says that his father s chief of a tribe in Africa. A Chicago experimenter has discovered that mosquitoes are fond of dark reds and blue. Hang your room with white, orange or yellow if you would discourage the mosquito; those are colors he does not take to. Willlam C. McMillan, son of the recently deceased ator from Mich! is urged by many politiclans as his father's sue- cessor and it is contended that if he enters the race there will be little opposition to his election, provided the next legls- lature is republican, of which there seems to be no questl The friends of Frank Holme, the news- paper and magazime illustrator, who is stricken with consumption, have adopted a novel way of “financing” Arizona him as an institution. They have incor- corporate name 1s “The and the corporators are Kirke La Shelle, Geprge Ade, Finley Peter Dunne and Augustus Thomas. The capital stock is subscribed at §25 a share, and 18 to pay 6 per cent If the inc porated Holme survives and retains his earning capacity in Arizona. STAGGERING HUMANITY, High Priced Coal Provokes a Roar Down East. New York World. To the family man who “keep house’ there s nothing bumorous in the anmoun ment that hard coal has “gone up” another dollar and is now only to be had in do- mestic sizes for §9 a ton. The thrifty householder’s habit is to stock his coal bin some time before September 1 with enough coal to feed his cellar furnace, bis kitchen range and his open grates for all winter. His August order to the retail coal dealer is for from ten to twenty-five tons, varying with the size of his house, fifteen tons belng an average winter's con- sumption in & house of ten or twelve rooms. The time has come to fill the coal bin, but heads of families shrink from giving n order that means the addition of §76 or $100 to thelr yearly living bills. The coai problem must soon become ay acute ome to all the people who ‘“keep house” on mode, incomes. It wil be- come still mare acute a couple of months later to the poorer people who buy thelr cosl by the basket. For them indeed, if current prophesy is fulfilled and 39 a ton remains the price for & long time after the strike is ended, it will be “the price that staggers humanity.” REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET, Dakota Cfty Eagle: J. H. Mickey, repub- lican nominee for governor, made his monsy on the farm. W. H. Thompson, the fusion nomines, no doubt made his charging the farmers good, fat fees. Nebraska Oty Press: This will be an excellent year for a democrat to change his politics and come over In the republican fold. There will be so many coming that they can't track you. North Platte Telegraph: Uncle John Mickey is having & regular plenic running for governor of Nebraska. His majority will probably be his only trouble. It will take so long to count it. Kearney Hub: Chairman Lindsay gives it out that the republican speaking cam- palgn in Nebraska will commence Septem- ber 1, and that during the following sixty days he will bring some of the most promi- nent_ speakers in the country Into the state. Mullen Tribume: A vote cast for J. H. Mickey for governor will aid in placing an executive at the head of our state af- falrs, who is an able scholar, an honorable and successful business man and one who, 1t elected, will give the people of Nebgaska a clean, honest and successful admini- stration. Emerson Enterprise: The report that W. H. Thompson 18 & railroad attorney is now denled, and it {8 said it originated from the fact that he rides on a pass. It might be pertinent to inquire why a lawyer who fs not & railroad attorney should be favored with & pass. Friend Telegraph: Fusion papers will have 1t that J. H. Mickey is a banker. ‘Well, let the voters of this state take thelr chofoe as between a banker and a lawyer it they so choose. Then there is another comparison which they might make as between Thompeon as a raliroad attorney and Mr. Mickey as a farmer. Beatrice Bxpress: J. H. Mickey has done more real farming than all the fusion can- didates put togeth: 80 it is rather bad taste for the newspapers in charge of the enemy to insist that he never was a farmer because he is not now actively engaged in fall plowing. He was born on a farm and worked at farming unt{l his prudence and economy enabled him, after years of ardu- ous toll, to take life a little easier. Kimball Observer: The fusionists are insisting that J. H. Mickey al farmer and that seems to be the most seri- ous ‘charge they can bring against him. Out here In western Nebraska nearly every banker is also engaged in the stock busi- ness, and most of them spend three days directing the affasrs of the ranch and looking after the bank, and to accuse these men of not being real stockmen would' be the sheerest nonsense. Waterloo Gasette: This year the com- plaint is made by some fusionists that the republican candidate is not in the habit of imbibing very freely of the cup that in- ebriates, and they are being reminded that last year they kicked because Dietrich drank beer with his German friends. From which it would seem that the charge that it 18 pretty hard to please some of our fu- sion brethren perhaps contains a little more truth than paetry. Wa wendar how thia fa, anyway. Falls City Journal: If you believe that the head of the Nebraska state government should be & man, who having well defined convietions, has the courage of those con- victions, then vote for J. H. Mickey. It you belieye that a man can be a Christian gentleman and still make a good governor— vote for Mickey. If you belleve that a man against whom honor and integrity mot a word has been spoken, would be a good man to have as our chief executive, vote for Mickey. Ord Quiz: ‘Two years ago the lon press set up the wall that Dietrich was a saloon man, and for that reason should be turned down. Today these same papers are harping right along the same old line only they mow wail because Mickey is for tem- perance. Just as their tactics avalled them when Dietrich was a candidate just so will they avall them now. J. H. Mickey has always been successful, and he will con- tinue to be as candidate for governor on the republiesn ticket tI fall. Hildreth Telescope: While scoring Mickey, the republican nominee for governor, be- cause he 18 connected with a bank, the Min- den Courler should remember that Con- gressman Shallenberger, who wa to be re-elected on the fusion ticket, has been for many years and is now a banker. If it is @ bad thing to be a banker and run for of- fice on the republican ticket it s a bad thing to be a banker and run for office on the fusion ticket. However, Brother Rich- mond 1s not expected to be consistent. North Platte Telegraph: Had ex-Senator Allen have sald that W, H. Thompson, the fusion candidate, was better than his party he would have been nearer the truth, and it would not have been much to say either. But when he sald J. H. Mickey was better than his party, it was saying a great deal more than the wiley ex-senator intended. Republicans accepted the assertion as a great compliment, as we regard the suc- cess of the principles of greater moment than that of any man. But when you come to look upon Mickey as an old soldier, a ploneer homesteader, farmer, successful business man and Christian gentleman we are not surprised that his political oppon- ents are compelled to acknowledge his su- perlority to them. Tecumseh Chieftain: It hurts our demo- cratic friends to think that the republicans have nominated a farmer candidate for gov- ernor. They don't want the republicans to have anything to do with farmers. The idea with them seems to be that farmers and “pops” mean one and the same thing, and they eclaim a mortgage on the pops to the exclusion of all republicans. But the facts are that Mr. Mickey is & farmer, as well a banker. He lives on a farm adjacent to Osceola, directs the manage- ment of the farm himself and has been a tarmer ever siuce he came to the state— over thirty years ago. It is a hard dose for the democrats, but Mr. Mickey is & tarmer. Benkelman News: Our adversaries are wonderfully inconsistent in the blennial charges they make inst our candidate for governor. Two y: ago Dietrich was charged with being & saloon man, & gam- bler and a whisky sot; all sorts of such stories were circulated by the fusion press, all of which were found groundless and maliclously tabricated. Dietrich was elected. This year Mickey {5 assaulted by the fusionists as being a prohibitionist. He has voted the republican ticket all his life, however, he is an anti-whisky man, & man of temperate habits, a Christian gentlemian, who can be trusted to deal safely with the affairs of this commonwealth. Mickey also will be elected. Altlon News: The News considers it “poppycock” to designate our candidate for governor “Farmer Mickey.” It is on the same level of nonsense as it was when Bryan was photographed with overalls on and & pitchfork in his hands. They are both farmers, of course, the same as the writer is, and nearly every business man in town. But what does it signfy if Mic- key or Bryan is a farmer? A farmer is Just as good as or & lawyer is Just aa good as a farmer, provided al- was that be 1s. A man’s occupation dog't make him honest or competent. There are hofest as well as dishonest men in every walk of life. We suppose the idea is, that it will tickle the farmers thiat' gne. of ‘Shefr number, has been named urtll’ SMics. and they will all vote for him regardiess of anything else. This idea s necessarily accompanied by the turther idea that farmers are all chumps and idiots. This effort to form classes, and to set one against the other, is most contemptible. This ‘fs the greatest siu Billy Bryan will have to anewer for. He is continually harping about the ‘“‘coms mon people,” as though there was a class, of registered thoroughbreds who were dif- ferent from the rest of us. Why not be senaible even In polities. Beatrice Express: Some of the fusion newspapers persist in the statement that Mr. Mickey is a prohibitionist. There is a wide difference between a temperance man and a prohibitionist, but the terms are often purposely confused by designing ed- itors and politiclans, who desire to create a prejudice against some candidate. This old “‘wolf” cry has been raised so often in Ne- braska that it no longer causea alarm or influences vot ‘Whenever a decent, rep- utable man {s nominated for an office some= body {s pretty sure to cry that he is a pro- hibitionist, merely because he is not an old rounder. Mr. Mickey s temperate In all things—including his views touching the liquor question, and when he is elected it will be his duty at once to obey and en- force the laws, and this he may bs depended upon to do. The governor of a state does not enact sumptuary or other legislation. Fairfield Herald: If. Hon. J H. Mickey we at all the kind of a man to be easily puffed up he would naturally feel considerably elated or inflated, or both, over all the nice bouquets that are Just now being so freely handed him by the republican press of the state. It fa because Mr. Mickey is a good example of the enterprising Nebraska citizsen whose stirring and sterling qualities have brought him success that we are proud of him. In addition to being & man with a clean record and sound judgment our candidat has the backbone eseential to back It up and make a good governor. In this re- spect Mr. Mickey has long and abundantly proved his qualities of self-rellance and independence of judgement. We think that the verdict of Nebraska voters the 4th of mext November will be that Mickey's allright. York Times: It may not be any particu« lar credit to Mr. Mickey, but it is no dis- grace to him that he was born on & farm, has lived all his lite on one, and still lives on one of the best conducted farms in Ne- braska. It may not be any credit to him, but it is no disgrace, that he has made money and saved it, and has been elected president of a good, strong bank in the county seat of his county. A farmer may aspire to these honors as well as anyone, and the fact that he succeeds does not in the least impair the respect of sensible men for him nor their confidenve in him. Directors of banks do not usually elect a president to manage their important in- terests unless they have confidence in his integrity and ability. They are not look- ing for cheap guys nor swindlers for such positions. They put their mioney and busi- ness integrity at his disposal and he must be a business man and thoroughly rellable. Mr. Mickey is that kind of & man. FOINTED REMARKS. Philadalphta Prass: “Young man.'” sald list, ‘‘do you not wish to be replied yo! beginning to Petiont. Pittsburg Chronicle: *“The .fact that mol:gy has wings should suggest something o “I'm “What's ““The ad: ility of prlnlln‘ bank notes on fly paper.” Chlulo Tribune: “If I had my wiy about said the owner of the big coal ard, 'f belleve I could stop thll strike in _twenty-four hours.' ““Well, you merally do ha your weigh,” grunt bl customen... 3 Smart Set: She-Do you know that lady in_the far corner? He—In a way. I have a listening ac- quaintance with her. (She—L don’t ‘belleve ‘I understand you, sir. 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