Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1902, Page 4

THE ©OMAHA DAYy BEE B ROBEWATER, EDITOR. (PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Sunday), One Ye ally Bee and Sunday, One Year lliustrated Bee, Une Yea: Bunday Bee, One Yei Baturday Bee, One Year Twentieth Century Farme! s DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dafly Bee (without Sunday), per cop; Butly Bee (without Bund f, Bes uneluding sun Bunday Bee, per cop. Evening Bes twithout Sunday), per w Eyening Bee (ncluding Sunday), Tomplaints ot 'irregularitio should e addressed: 1o City Circulation Department orrxcu Olnln-—Thz Bee Bulldfs, Boutly Omaha—City Hal B\llld|nl< Twen- l’-filtll and M Streets. Counell Bluffs— 10 Pearl Street. <l 1640 Unity Bullding. ork—Temple Court. ington—60l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to ne lorl-l matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. i Remit by drl(l express or postal order, ayable to e Bee Publishing Company. i ted in payment of ool ‘ch necks, excopt on (rn exchanges, not accepts PUBL[BMIVQ COMPANY. STATEMENT OF ClRCUMTlON Btate of Nebrun uglas County, Geor Tasc) tary of he Bee Publllfi.nl Camplny. being duly sworn, says that the netusi number Of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening an !und%flc. printed during the month of July, as follows: i 233 s F35¥y ss er puc BERENERPEBRESES Net total sules Net dally avera GE . T2 Subscribed in my presence and awors, to before me this 31st day of July, . 1 (Seal.) M. B NGATE ‘Notary Pubile. — e Presidents who keep close to the peo- ple cannot go, far astray. There's music in the air in Omaha, ‘And more kinds of music than one. fse— General Colby's battlecry is “Let loose the coyotes of war, On to Fort Riley.” — For President Roosevelt New England 18 not in any sense the enemy's country. The tree-planting season has passed and gone and the sign-plantihg season is apout to begin. e ———— Golf is on the wane and tennis on the up grade—at least that is the thermo- metric reading in Omaba. e According fo inslaé information the shah of Persia makes his British hosts tired. Perhaps it is mutual. Plumbers and gas fitters must refrain from putting on a militia uniform, ex- cepting for a masquerade ball. Now that the dog pound fund has run out, canines with barks on may run at large in Omaha without let or hindrance, Senator Mason of Illinols is falling into the habit of writing open letters. That looks as if he were convinced his candidacy for re-election was still alive, A French actress has managed to dle leaving an accomulation of debts aggre- gating over $100,000. American actresses would like to know how their French slster did it. Oom Paul Kruger finds it as hard to reconcile himself to the innocuous desue- tude that envelopes ' ex-presidents as those In this country who have moved into. the White House and out of it again. em— The vessel on which Mr. Schwabds traveling to Europe cannot be equipped ‘with apparatus for wireless telegraphy, else we would be having hourly bulletins keeping us Informed of tho state of his health. i .— Having been interviewed by the Em- peror of Germany and other royal dig- nitaries of the old world, no wonder J. 18 close-mouthed when y ordinary American news- m A contract has been let for paving an- other street: it the heart of Omaha that bas never before béen paved. Slowly but surely the gaps in our system of street pavement are belng closed up. Bt the good work go on. Omaha has expénded several thousand dollars for, street signs, but there is scarcely & trace of the signs or the money anyWwhere. That does not pre- went us, However, from repeating the ex- periment so long as we have money to burn. ¢ EEm——— Colonel ‘Bryan will spend the entire month of October on the hustings in Nebraska, Ample notice is given so that the population can be agaln moved up to the rallroad crossings and water- spouts, where thousands of eager audi- %ors always congregate on the open prairie whenever Mr. Bryan and his offi- clal reporter pass. of the t campajgn in Nebraska are out again with appeals for popular contributions of campaign funds. The poverty dedge s a grest trick, but it can-be played too often. When the populists Syere on top and holding out a regular percentage of the ‘whole state payroll as assessments on all at the erib, the same plea of pov- erty was gut forwards LAWLESS AND REVOLUTIONARY. The question confronting the repub- lieans of Douglas county s whether they will tamely submit to the lawless and revolutionary proceedings by which Da- vid H. Mercer is trying to force a sixth term nomination upon this district in the face of inevitable defeat. The function of state, congressional and judicial committees has under time- honored usage been limited to the call- ing of conventions to which each county in the state or district, as the case may be, Is invited to elect delegates in pro- portion to the number of votes cast for a designated party candidate at the pre- ceding election. The sumber of delegates to which each township, ‘precinct or city ward in any county is entitled in the representation of that county has always been ‘left by all parties entirfly to the respective county committees, who pro- vide for primary elegtions and ‘conven- tions to select delegafes under proper safeguards. This has been the method pursued in every congressional district in Nebraska this year. This also has been the method pursued in the selection of delegates to the Second district congressional con- ventioa in Washington and SBarpy coun- tles. Having ratified and legitimized the action taken In those countles, the Mercer committee has neither the legal nor moral right to impose unheard of conditions upon the republicans of Doug- las county not imposed on the repub- cans of the other counties in this dis- trict or in any other district in this state. Whoever heard of such a thing as a congressman levying a head tax upon his competitors as an entrance fee to the congressional racetrack? Yet that 1s precisely what Mercer js trying to do in requiring every aspirant for his place to pay $50 to his campaign manager for the privilege of being considered a can- didate, and then $14 for every ward del- egation and $6 for every precinct dele- gation whose names he wants placed on the official ballot. In other words, every candidate in Douglas county must con- tribute $50 to Mercer's campaign fund before he is allowed to compete, while candidates in Washington or Sarpy coun- tles can come In free. What right bas the Mercer committee to exact any pay- ment from pledged or unpledged dele- gates in Douglas county so long as the expense of conducting the primary elec- tion is borne by the county committee out of the filing fees for delegates to the county nominating convention? Under the direct pressure of Mercer this revolutionary proceeding has been supplemented by a lawless attempt to impose a test oath on registered repub- lican voters who have complied with the statutory requirement of registering thelr political affiliation. A still more flagrant violation of the law is the at- tempt to allow a select committee of five to locate the voting places and appoint the election officers in the various pre- cincts and wards in the face of the ex- press_provision In the law that these functicas must be performed by the ‘whole county committee. It is almost a foregone conclusion that a nomination secured by such law- less and revolutionary methods would be pronounced invalid by the supreme court and the name of the candldate would be ruled off the ticket as a reg- ular party nominee. Mr, Mercer in his desperation may be willing fo take these risks. But can the republicans of this district afford to run the chanee even If they were willing to submit to the outrage perpetrated by the Mercer committee? . TRE PRESIDENT ON TRUSTS. President Rooseyelt adneres to the views expressed in his first message 10 congress In regard to the . industrial combinations engaged in interstate com- merce. In his speech at Providence Sat- urday he said the.great corporations are the creatures of the:state, and it is the right and duty of the state to control theim. There is need of supervision and regulation, declared the president, and he expressed the bellef-that the power of control by legislation must be as- sumed by the nation. If it shall become evident that the constitution does not permit needed legislation then the con- stitution should be amended. The trusts, in the opinion of -Mr. Roosevelt, must be placed under the con- trol of some sovereign “to which, as its creature, the trust shall owe allegiance, and in whose courts the soverelgn's or- ders may with certainty be enforced.” The great corporations as now organized not being responsible to or controlled by any legislature, nor wholly subject to the jurisdiction of any one court, “some governmental soverelgn must be given full power over these artifitial corporate beings.” That soverelgn must be the national’ government, and when it has been given full power “then this full power can be used to control any evil influence, exactly as the government is now using the power conférred upon it under the Sherman anti-trgst law.” The president still regards publicity as highly essential, He urges that the first exercise of the power of the government should be the securing of publicity" among all great corporations doing an interstate business, and the publicity, “though non-inquisitorial, should be real and thorough as to all important facts with which the public has concern.” The president admonishes against ignorant and reckless meddling with the delicate and complicated mechanism of modern business, and adviges moderation and self-restraint—counsel which “will cer- tafnly be approvéed “by all who have a practical knowledge of the situation. No one who reads this latest utterance of President Roosevelt ‘can have any doubt of his earnebt desire for legisla- tion by congress looking to the super- vision and regulation of the great com- binations. No one hils urged this with more evident sincerity. It is plain that the president is most dgeply impressed with the importance of this problem and of the'lmperative duty. of seeking & so- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: lution. He recognizes the difficulties, due to the peculiar division of govern- mental power, but he thinks & good be- ginning can be made in solving the prob- lem if the subject be approached with honesty and common sense. The atti- tude of the president being clearly de- fined and there being no question that it 18 approved by the people, the repub- licans in congress should realige the duty and the expediency of giving this ques- tion the consideration which its com- manding importance demands. To dis- regard the distinct call to this work of the leader of the party would be a very 'serious political mistake. THE MURE SENSIBLE VIEW, Those Ouban “patriots” who bave hoped to get a large slice of the pro-} posed loan of $35,000,000 will not think | better of President Palma and his cab inet for opposing the loan, but no doubt their position will be approved by the substantial interests upon which would fall the burden of paying the debt. The sensible view of President Palma is that Cuba shotld not try to float a large loan until the administration can establish the fact that it can run the government economically and end up its first year's experience with a surplus. Pre-ldcuc. Palma realizes that the new republic has not yet established any credit and therefore cannot borrow money advan- tageously. A moderate loan to help out the sugar producers could perhaps be obtained, and it i{s probably advisable to contract a small government debt for this purpose, but to load upon the coun- try, under existing conditions, such & debt as was proposed in the congress, most of it to go to the payment of war claims, would be a very grave blundér. It has been demonstrated, however, that Coba cannot now float a loan of $35,000,000, unless it should be approved by the government of the United States, and of course this could not be ob- tained.. The Cuban revenues at present are not sufficient to phgvide for the pay- ment of so large a loan, and therefore our government would not approve and probably would not permit the loan. Doubtless President Palma and his cab- inet are fully aware of this, though there has been no official utterance here in regard to the matter. The temptation to borrow Is undoubtedly strong with many Cubans. The clamor for pay of the men who served in the revolutionary army has a great influence upon some of the politicians. The more intelligent and conservative Cubans, however, see the danger to their domestic Interests A8 well as to their n volved In borrowing befon.- credit ll e tablished, and these will support Presi- dent Palma, . e MERCER OF NEBRASKA. “No one blames the people of Washing- ton for exhibiting anxisty to have Mercer kept in congress perpetually. He lives in Washington and has all of his interests there. He represents the people of the na- tional gapital as if he were elected by them. But why should the District of Co- lumbia diotate to the Second Nebraska dis- trict whom it should select its rep- resentative in the lower house of con- &ress?’—Omaha Bee. The fact that a man serv ot Columbia well in congr reason for unpopularity home. He is t here not merely as the member from & certain district in a certain state, to leg- islate exclusively for that distriet or that but as a member of the national con- [ to legislate for the whole country and incidentally to se as a member of the body which is given, by the constitu- tion, “exclusive juriediction” over the ten miles square chosen by the government as a capital. ® ® ¢ Mr, Mercer's iuterest in the District is even more broadly na- tional than that of some others of his col- leagues in district legislation. He is aa. well chalrman of the committee on public bulidings, & body Which has to do with the business of providing the government with & proper outfit. Naturally there is no other single clty where this work centers so largely as Washington. And quite as nat- urally Mr. Mercer, being a diligent worker, attentlve to detalls and eager for results, exerts himself to the utmost to secure ap- propriations for the capital, where they gre needed so badly. He is serving the whole people, however, when he alds process of bringing the public equipment more nearly up to dats braska benefits with other states whenever & new public bullding is erected in any city, and especlally when one of the great gaps In the government's garb here at Washing- ton is filled. The District has made no moves which savor of a dictation of Mr. Mercer's return. It bas naturally expressed its appreciation of his seryices. It would be more than pleased to see him return. It will benefit more largely, and the country with it, from the services of experienced man than from those'of a newcomer, who must ace quire the true perspective which only sev. eral years of service can give to the legls- lator.—Washington Star. S Mercer's unpopularity at home is not because he has made himself popular with the property-owning citizens at Washingtort who are vitally concerned in big appropriations for public lmprove- ments in the national capital, but be- cause he no longer identifies himself with the people of this district. In other words, it is because.for years he has been only an occasional visitor to the district he represents, during campalgns in which he is seeking re-election and furthermore because he has syStematic. ally shirked his political obligations and, has never extended a helping hapd to any candidate for ofice, while inafitiig that every republican in the distriet must help him. Incidentally Mr. Mercer has managed to make himself unpopular with his constituents by an alliance with An unpopular governor and a political futerloper from an adjoining state who has nothing in common with the people of this district, but has used Congress- man Mercer and Governor Savage as catspaws to pull Union Pacific chestnuts out of the political oven. The assurance that the District of Co- lumbia has manifested no other interest in Mr. Mercer than it does in other mem- bers of congress who have served long terms 1s not borne out by the facts. ‘Why have all the Washington papers— demoeratic, independent and republiean allke—taken such an active Interest ln Mercer while they appear absolutely in- different about men who rank much higher on the national chessboard! Why the District is no good MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1902. do Washington papers publish Mercer eulogies and Mercer cartoons and Mercer editorials while they ignore or oppose congressmen of the highest type and standard like David B. Henderson, Jo- seph G. Cannon, Sereno Payne, General Grosvenor or James 8. Sherman? Why aid District of Columbia people present Mr. Mercer with a sllver service and why did they single Mercer out as the only congressman to aet with the Wash- ington local Grand Army reunion com- mittee? Is it because Mercer owns his residence in Washington and lives there and is more directly interested In the upbuilding of the city of Washington than other members of congress who have invested their money in their own districts? To be sure, Mr. Mercer, in his Jollylng | o mood, has just intimated in a public speech that he would If re-elected bring the national capitol to Omaha, but such palaver is taken for what it is worth by intelligent voters of this district. The people of Omaha and the Second Ne- braska district are willing to let the District of Columbia keep the national capitol and are preparing also to let the District of Columbia keep Mr. Mercer and enroll him among its permanent population. 8o far as the chalrianship of the com- mittee on public buildings is concerned, our amiable Washington contemporary need give itself no fears that the coun- try in general and the city of Washing- ton n particular will suffer because it will be filled by a tenderfoot. It is fore- ordained by the unwritten law of con- gress that Mr. Mercer's successor as chairman of the committee will be an experienced member who has served sev- ¢ral terms on the committee and is en- titled to promotion by his senlority of rank. Ssm——heniesig The Board of Education 18 noted for impulsive henevolence. Having re- elected Superintendent Pearse for three years when he would have been only too happy to get an extension of twelve months, the board in Its exuberant spirit has inserted High School Cadet Drillmaster Pearse into the High school faculty. If SBuperintendent Pearse has any other surviving relatives, male or female, anywhere, he should not be too modest to make the fact known to the board with a request to have their names Inserted on the school board pay- roll with at least four figures. With $9,000 more in sight than was originally figured among the available assets by the finance committee, the board is in the right humor to fling money at any- body by the name-of Pearse, and Mr. Pearse should, by all means, make sun while the hay shines. —— The triple alliance between Bombastes Baldwin, Dave Mercer and Governor Savage has projected the three non-resi- dents who want to dotuinate Omaha pol- itics through the police force further to the front of the stage than was origi- nally . designed by" the playwright. Omaha audiences de not take kindly to the heayy villain in the melodrama. SSETTm——p— Democratic organs and orators may be relled on to take issue with nearly every- thing President Roosevelt says in his speeches that can be given a political tinge. But it would have been the same with McKinley if he were allve. Noth- ing a republican administration does ever satisfies the democrats. ——— ‘Waste of Good Money. ‘Washington Post. Between Canadian justice and Cuban leniency, the man who steals mak jeri- ous mistake In lmldln‘ the money with American lawyers. A I S— A Name that Fits. North Flatte Tribune. The Omaha Bee refers to the head of the legal department of the Union Pacific as Bombastes Furiosa Baldwin. Judging from Baldwin's actions while in this city the early part of the week, the name is p-rucu- larly applicable. 4 Putting Chicago Record-Herald. Président Baer of the Philadelphia & Reading company says God put the mines fnto the hands of the presemt operators. Mr. Baer doesn’t go so far, however, as to Secretary Shaw is eccentric In some things. One of his mew rules is that let- ters to his department shall be answered promptly. Heretofore answers to letters written to government bureaus have af- forded considerable entertaiument to the heirs of the writers. Baldwin the Great at North Platte, Grend lsland Independent. ‘The peopls of North Platte resent the imputation t its citizens have lost con- trol and that lawlessness veigns. And it apppérs that during the visit of John N. Baldwin a controversy arose between a news reporter and the Union Pacific attorney— ome that became so heated that the re- porter has bad a t sworn out agalnst Baldwin 6n the charge of provoking an mssault. We just knew, when the colonel told e about those stfawberries, that there was & man who would go te jail some day. — PERSONAL NOTES. Schwab departs for Burope just as Morgan arrives in this country, so the hemispherie balance i likely to be maintained. U1t 18’ sald ‘that wibre babjes have been named after President Roosevelt than after any other executive of the nation save ‘Washington and Jefferson. The earl of Dudley, the new lord leuten- ant of Ireland, is the youngest man who ever represented the British government at Dublin castie. He has just passed his 85th year. The estate of the late Plerre Lorillard, Iike that of most other reported multi-mil- llonaires, does mot inventory as well as expected. The final report of his executors places its value at $1,797,925. Muzzafar-ed-Din, shah of Persia, re- quested that the train which took him from Dover to London be rua no faster tha twenty miles an hout. He prefers to see the country rather fhan give his widows the benefit of his litd insurance. The only wound ewr sustained by Lord Kitchener during his long term of m!litary service was received In the Soudan, where & bullet from an Ara)'s gun struck him ia the cheek. The bullgt, after remaining in the flesh for some time, fell futo his plate at & London restauret. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Blair Pliot: It's & good year to plan on A few days' outing. Mammoth crops, good prices and good times generally. Take an outing; republican prosperity will continue yet a while. Mickey is good for 20,000 majority. Blue Springs News- Htr‘ld John H. Mickey has been successful in everything that he ever undertook. W. H. Thompson has been a colossal failure at the thing for which he has struggled all his life and that thing s to project himself into office. Norfolk News: J. H. Mickey, the repub- lican nominee for governor is receiving e thusiastic welcomes at the assembll chautauquas and public op Ir meetings he vieits. He is a man who may be depended upon to make friends wher- ever he appears. Hastings Tribune: J. H. Mickey, Ne- ext governor, was in the city Tuesday. Wherever he goes he Impresses the voters favorable. They learn that what others have sald of him a fine man, is true, and belleve he is just the man to vote for. Norfolk News: Mickey Is evidently mot an ideal from the fusion standpoint. He s causing them too much worry to be really satisfactory as an opponent of Mr. Thomp- son of Grand Island. If they had been al- lowed to choose they would have plcked out & much weaker man. Tekamah Journal: The Blair Republican s devoting volumns of editorial space trying to prove that Governor Mickey is not a farmer. If the Republican expects Thompson to be in the e at all it will need all the space to tell why a lawyer and sport should be elected instead of Mr. Mickey. Minden G te: It Is all wrong for the republicans to nominate a man who is In- terested In a bank for governor, but it Is the right thing to do to nominate a banker for congress, This is the populist fdea. If that is the argument against Mickey why fsn't it just as good ngainst Shallenberger? O'Nelll Frontier: Our future governor, J. H. Mickey of Polk county, may not:be as windy as the candidate of the fusfonists, but Me is a substantial man in every way and in- ch as wind 1s not a neceseary qualifi- cation for the office of governor there is no reason why he should be considered handi- capped because of being short of wind. O’Nelll Frontier: These fusionists ‘e funny people. Yes, very funny. Two years ago they insisted that Dietrich was friendly to the saloon men and therefore should be annihilated, as it were. Now, because Mickey don’t get riproaring drunk and dance the cancan in good old democratic style, they #ay he is unfit to be governor. Poor, poor fusionists! . Aurora Republican: Mickey seems to be a hard proposition for the fusionlsts. Some of thelr papers remark that he 1s better than his party and we only hope that the party isn't very far behind him. If Ne- braska had a few more candidates like the gentleman from Polk, politicts would be a great deal cleaner and offices would be more successfully filled. Weeping Water Republican: Candidate for governor, J. H. Mickey, was shaking bhands with a number of our citizens here Baturd while on his way to address the old settlers at Union. Mr. Mickey very pleasant gentleman to meet and belleve impresses all with whom he comes in contact, with his abllity to,govern the affairs of the state in a just and business- like manner. Alllance Tim Two years ago the fu- slonists were howling against C, H. DI rich,the republican candidate for governor, because he would go into saloons and take a glass of beer or two. At present they are howling against John H. Mickey just as ‘u-llly because he does not drink beer and all him a temperance man and & prohi- bitionist. Well, you cannot please the silly little pinheads anyway, so we are going to quit trying. Stromsburg Journal: Polk county is one among the very few plague spots on the political escutcheon of our fair state and by the way, it is one of the worst, too. We hope, however, to see a change in its com- plexion this fall, and by next fall the en- tire eradication of the plague. As Hon. John Mickey is a resident of the county, sectional pride should actuste every voter in casting his ballot for him. Stand up for Polk county and let u¥ give the state of Nebraska the best governor it ever had. Valentine Republican: When Senator Dietrich was candidate for governor two years ago the fusion element of this state condemned and denounced him (falsely to be sure) as belug a member of the associa- tion of liquor dealers. Now they have turped tails and g J: H. Mickey, the republican candidate for governor this yeoar, on the ground (equally as false) that he is & prohibitionist. Mr. Mickey is a good, honest, upright, moral and temper- ate man, the very essentlal qualifications that a frable governor of this state should possess. David City Banner: The statement made by this paper some time ago, to the effect that W. H. Thompson, the fusion nominee for governor, was & raliroad attorney and its prompt retraction after Thompson went in public print over his signature, deny- Ing the charge, and at the same time ask- ing the fusion editors to retract from some of their falee statements has caused some of the fusion editors of the state much mental worry. They -glve the Ban- ner credit for being honest {n the matter, but say they can't. In other words they appear to belleve a false statement once told should be stuck to, at Jeast to the clpse of the campaign. Beatrice Express: An esteemed contempo- rary asks where W. ‘Thompson got his title, “‘the Hittle glant,” and wants to know what he has done to deserve it. He prob- ably bestowed the title upon himself, as a reward of merit; he has never done any- thing to deserve it, save to deliver a few moderately able political speeches and to keep & tight grip on the coat tails of the peerless leader. He is a county lawyer, with a fair practice, but such reputation #s he has made was not won at the bar; in fact, he is ltke his idol, Mr. Bryan; although & lawyer by profession, nobody ever heard of any distingulshed work in the courts by him. His real profession is pol- itics. Superior Journal: Mr. pose as & “little giant,” a middle welght or & hdavy welght giant. There nothing spectaculay or theatrical about the man. He is & plain, every-day business man, with plain, every-day common sense, and he will apply his faculties and experience falthtully and consclentiously to the business of the state when elected. His idacy for gov- ernor appeals strongly to those business men and farmers who are tired of the spell- binder element in politics, and who wish the state run a&s a business institution. The republican party has lately furnished the state with a good busin governor in the person of Mr. Dietrich. It now offers other in Mr. Micker. Crete Vidette-Herald: It is said that the “little glant” indignsntly denles that he is &0 attorney for the Grand Island & West- ern rallroad. Now that he has got his hand in the explanation business will he please rxplain to an interested public how it is that for the last twenty years he has traveled over both the B. & M. and Unlon Pacific on apnual passes? If he has not been in the employ of the roads why have they so ten- derly carried him from pillar to post with out cost? Is it because they love him, or Mickey does mot tion? Had he been an attorney for the roads he would himve been entitled to these pasteboards, but fiow it is up to the “little glant” to tell us how and why these things are thus. York Republiean: The fusionists are fimply compelled to charge that the re- publican s nominees are “corporation creatures.” They can't say anything else against them, and that is false. J. H. Mickey was nominated for governor only because the republicans of the state wouldn't allow tha corporations to nominate thelr own oandidate. The corporations bound the fusion y hand and foot, bought it with pa and put it on thelr capacious fobs within three months after 1t elected its first set of state officers. Fu- slonists know this well. And everybody else knows it. That the republicans of Nebraska worked a political revolution and cast oft fhe corporation political yoke in the last state and congressional conventions, 18 also well known, It could do no harm for the discarded fusion tools of corpora. tlon political managers to go back and sit down for awhile, and give their jaws a chance to cool off. Columbus Journal: W. H. Thompson, the democratic nominee for governor, made an address last week before the League as- sembly being held at Fullerton. His sub- Ject was “Good Cltizenship.” While his ad- dress occupled less than twenty minutes he ‘went back to Washington's time, then men- tloned Monroe, Jefterson, Jackson and Lin- coln, and although he could not have ended his remarks with a better man than Honest 01d Abe, yet many who listened to his short speech wondered why, knowing our late lamented and martyred McKinley to have been & good and true Methodist, could not have had & few words. Is it possible that from a demooratie standpoint a man who has been a statesman or good olt worthy of mention until he least hope that as the years roll by, the men of the MoKinley- standard will largely increase, for we know that the world will be the better for it, because it is sald of him, he was quiet, modest, dignified and considerate of others, and an ideal husband. Nebraska City Daily: How silly people do get In a campaign! Mr, Mickey, the re- publican candidate, having saved momey on his farm and in his bank, loaned a sum to a Polk eounty farmer; and, as is usual in such cases, took a first and second mort- gage, the latter being for about $40, it being merely an interest mortgage. Of course, llke all other second mortgages it covers the same property as the first instrument, consequently it shows a whole slonal districts this fall & prominent repub- Mean #ald that Dave Mercer would be eleoted, as he had secured more “pork” for his dis trict than any other congressman. “Pork" means large appropriatione for public butld- ings and work. Now-that is a great argu- ment to advance for the election of & con- gressman. Ignore the fact that Omaba only retains Mercer as a resident because he gets office. Pass up the fact tmat in ten years Mercer has never made a spoech or advanced an idea to benefit the nation. Overlook the fact that he has never made a speoch de- fending republican principles that wi worthy of reproduction. ‘“‘Pork” seems to be the main thought In Mercer's success, but we are of the opinfon that the taxpay- ers of the Second distriet, want man of ability to assist in making good laws; en- ergy and talent to help make the nation man whose sole am- bition is to get the greatest slice of the tax- payers' money to bo used to help those who secure his election. R THE SAND OF TIME. Manifestation of Nature's Cha: the Great Salt Lake. New York Times, 1t the great Salt Lakeé of Utah is drying up—and this is certain to be its fate unless its waters shall be early replenished from some source—it will mark but ope of na- ture’s slow changes on tiib fice of a planet which to our casual viiv seems to be of permanent form. This body of salt water in the middle of a continent means as much to the geologlet as the moraine of & glacler or the abandoned bed of a great stream. They are all footprints in a development, the history of which extends through infinite ages. As far back as our written annals go the face of the eafth has been practically as it is at present, and the most marked transformations that we know anything about are. the eruptions of vol- canoes, fon of a melting ice mass or the disappearing of & lake. In no other way can we form so accurate an estimate of our own littleness as by standing off and contemplating the puny accomplishments of a generation. One man lives and dies, perhaps, at what we call “a ripe old age," and -yet nature in his time has not thought it worth its while to make any material alteration in the surface of the globe. He notes in remi- niscence vast changes that man has wrought, but the oceans, .rivers and lakes aro just where they used to be, the level of the land {s the same, temperatures and climates are practically unchanged and the lot of security for such a small loan. Now & soulless opposition describes that mort- gage In detall, using it to prove that Mr. Mickey is-a Shylock, a venal vampire, and all those other things that a candidate becomes in the eye of an opponent. The fact of the matter is that upon nearly every encumbered property, there is one of these seoond mortgages, which shows a ridiculously large amount of security. It is the usual business way of making a loan, but that does not hinder people from attempting to make political capital out of it. As a matter of faot, if the farmer in- tended to pay the loan (and they all pay nowadays) it would make no difference how much property was named in the in strument; that would not make a cent's difference to the debtor. The Dally ia pot in politics, wod it is nelther working for nor against Mr. Mickey, but such cheap methods of campaigning deserve censure, no matter who is gullty of employing them. OUR NON-RESIDENT CONGRESSMAN. ‘Wausa Gagzette: The way Rosewater is pouring broadsides into his friend Mercer s a caution. Watch for results later. Pawnee Republican: When Congressman Mercer sald the editor of The Omaha Bee had “bats in his belfry,” did he mean brick- bonnet.” Wonder if Mr. Mercer hears the buzsing of Tho Bee? Ord Jourmal: ' The Omaha Bee acts as If it would not support Dave Mercer. That paper acted just the same way about Tom Majors in 1894, Tom didn't get elected. Neligh Yeoman: < The fusionists of the Second district will run G. M. Hitcheock of the World-Herald for congress. In this case a nomination for Mercer will not prove quite the equivalent of an election. Grand Island Independent: Mr. Mercer thinks he would Ifke to be nominated just about &’ week before Roosevelt comes to Omaha. Perhaps his idea is that Rosewater would be good-for just & little while any- way. ‘Waterloo Gazette:, Bbould Mercer be nomi- nated by the republicans, Rosewater will be in the poeftion of the historic gentleman who was between the devil and the deep, deep sea. And will he throw himselt into the breach? Stanton Picket: Whether Dave Mercer wins out or losés in his attempt to secure a congressional renomination for the sixth torm, he is at present about the worst scared man beneath this clouded canopy, and scarcely a star in sight. Fremont Tribune: A three-cornered congressional contest in the Second district with Mercer, Roséwater and Hitchcock as the candidates would be interesting. So would the spectacle of Rosewater sup- porting Hitcheock to beat Mercer. Superfor Journal: The orchestra has tuned up down in Omaha, the democrats nominat- ing Gilbert, M. Hitchoock, editor of the World-Hersld, for dongress. The real show will conimsnes when Dave Mercer makes his try for remomination om the republican ticket. Blue Springs Sentin Congressman Mercer Insinuates that Bditor Rosewater of The Bee is getting “nutty” and is grow- ing & crop of bats. If those boys would realize the spectacls they were pregenting to the people of the state they would ewear off and quit. Beatrice Times: From present indlcations Mr. Mercer 15 a dead duck so far as being ® congressional candidate is concerned. It is very.evident that The Bee will fight him, and in so close a district no candidate can nd the opposition of a powerful paper within his own party. Alllance Herald: The glad tidings come from Omaha that Dave Mercer's star has set—that this servile tool of corporation greed is destined to nevet again take his seat in congress to misrepresent the people of the great commonwealth. The ever- lasting glory and credit for this certain- to-be-achleved result will belong to organ- ized labor. Geneva Signal: Bditor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee intimates that as between Dave Mercer and Editor Hitcheock of the World- Herald, his anclent enemy, he is likely to support Hitehcock for congress. Hitchcock was gived the fysion nomination in the Sec- ond district Saturday. If The Bee's alleg- lance is divided the interests of the state, congressional and county tickets may suf- fer. Springfield Monltor: Should Dave Mer- cer again be nomiuated for congress in this district, and such & proceeding would not be strange, could it be possible that Rosewster wouM carry out his alleged threat and support the democratic nominee, since Hitcheock of the World-Herald is the candidate selected? Under such cir- cumstances the editor of The Bee would Do doubt come out as an independent can- didate. Stanton. Register: In discussing the chances of success {o the differ scheme of the world, although full of evi- dences of evolution, is as it was 100, 1,000 or 5,000 years ago. No fact is better cal- culated to make a human belng lize what & mite he is after all, in spite of ail the pomp and circumstance with which for & few years he passes in and out among his fellow men. ‘There are sermons of many different kinds in stones. If they have any message for the tribes of men it is that they are older, that they came into the world thou- sands (or i1s it millions?) ot years before we did, and in the ordinary course of events will remaln long after the proud spirit of mortal has fled its earthly haunts. The lifotime of & n ie & minuts or two in a geological such an age s not long in the history of a planet. If we were oftener to pause and reflect e little upon the insensible impress which one life- time makes upon the eternities we should find it of chastening effect. It is well that we uld sometimes get a glimpse of nature's very deliberate operations in world building. LINES TO A uu,'au r o . Dctrn:‘tul‘{n lgdvmo ,uu\luv- to 0 your worl “PatL Walk, mum: Th’ doctor sld me automobile was ruinin’ me hesith: wir Washington Sta 1 shall sweep every- hi) l‘ i .t‘ll paign,” sald the rupulous politician. Y e nl‘:i his wife; “that. explains what "that ‘Fude Derson meant by saying you were out for the dust. Cleveland Plain Deal “Is this tamily tree? Well, well, what rooked limbs! There don't app T to be but two straight ones in the lot.” “Yes, noble patron. 1 stralghtened those {n honor of your revered grandmother, the ballet dancer. “‘Does my boy,” In- 2 haye & naturel do ail his wor Baltimore American: “¥ou ses, ma'sm.- began rofeasional beggar 1 got arm lcllflltr jel " d to lnv ¥ “‘Never mlnd # lnler pted gart. “You're only wasting your time ere."" \ “Not t g trouble 'to $how Chicago Trlhun Auomey—unv. then, sir, what I oul i nek". hnlen—Nulo- Palatsalaguagaro- atyopalisgullieranol 'he ogn (Interruj Fupti ‘That will do, llr, for' purposes of Identlfication, with the examination, Mr. Bharpe. ave other cases to try. Brooklyn Life: plxlun - Why Ggnt you get Dim el our lr’l insures 'm well the ‘I mhlb Fiook o e aark gialnl— you always did Chicago Tribune: He thought it an of- fective way to p pose. 'd be your c.ddy for e “Very well lied. ““Take my fan, stand 10 one i The gan a desperste firtation with hia "hated Fival, “1 FIGHTS MIT Grant P. Robinson. 1 met him again, he wis trudging slong, His knapsack with obiekers was He'd “Blenkered” dnintien, and thought it no wro From on esionis! wélling, “What regls cat's yours? and u | aontr” sald 1, touching his -lnwly around he smiling said, he thought made him_stronger and L l fights mit Sigel" r whose Do ynu ‘l'urnln For ¢ The ’neu time I saw him his knapsack was His*cup and canteen werd nu-lm Bhollr‘-hrupnel and_grape, swift Around him and o'er him u “How are you, my friend, an pore Bive n, ©for whet ead for whom ‘are you hting’ He ufi. as - shell from the eneray's gua Big arm-and his " Hahts mit Bl ’ And o&: more 1 saw hm and kneit by his His life-blood was rapidly flowin, 1 'lhllperad ot "Homos wite, childan and riend The ‘brikhi land to which he was golng: ° “And have you no word for the dear ones at hom The wee nm'. the fatl nr or er?” “Yaw! Yaw!' said he, it Rl Oh! tell ‘them 1 flghts— Poor ll-llow he thought of no other— “I fights mit Bigel. 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