Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1903, Page 12

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Taschuck, secretary of eBu Publisl ln( (_ompln beln, uly Huys that the wotusl numper of full and complete coples of The Dally Morning, Bvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 193, was as follows: ‘\ hanges, not accepted. PU Bh SHING COMPANY. SERRNRRREENSS Net average sales GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 4th of.October, A. D., 1908, Y B. HUNGATE. _— Chairman Webber: ‘of the populist state committee’ seems to be the only popullst in evidence in Nebraska just now, The Lincoln Star has set the mark at 25,000 majority for Roosevelt in Ne- braska in 1004, That ' certainly is modest, ¢ ‘With those who are already booming Benator Hanna for the presidency it is not that they love Hanna more, but that they fove Roosevelt less. e — ] The Missourl legislative boodlers are each trying to put the culpabllity for thelr crooked work upon the other. That is always what happens whm the boodlet 1s corneved. P VAL — The republican plurality in Pennsyl- nia is a little less than 800,000, If this could only be properly distributed it would turn half the solid south into the republican column. ——— The sum and substance of the river fmprgvement meeting may be con- densed into a sentence—if congress makes any appropriation for nrq- bank work, we want a share of it. Lewls Nixon's testimony in the Ship- bullding trust case is a confession’ that he got into very bad company, People have to be very careful nowadays when they assoclate wl(.h.mul'.lfmulh,mltrel. { The Russian czar tni German emperor have met once more and wished each other peace, If they do not repeat this performance at reasonable intervals, the portents of warlike conflict are sure ta | be read in the stars, emmm——— With the weather man favoring us 8 ho is, a little extra pressure on the itreet repairing gang might eradicate the worst holes still left in our pave- ments before the snow covers the mmnd, Hurry it ] S ‘What distresses the democrats here- bouts most s not’ the loss of the pfices, but the horrible thought that they will not know where to turn for rampaign contributions next year, when Lee Herdman is a private citizen, President Stickney should be backed Bp vigorously by our Omaba shippers in pis refusal to rescind the grain rates he has made for traffic from Omaha to }he east. As long as Mr. Stickney pands by Omaha, Omaha should stand Wy him, E— %‘t schools just opened by or e school board are starting mt wlm an unusually large attendance. Ambition for an education should be couraged, especlally in the people ¥hose early opportunities have been mrtailed. The fuslonists in this state showed heir wisdom in insisting that Judge Bullivan make the race again for su- preme judge, although be knew in ad- ranee that he could not win out. Any sther candidate would have been mowed under by 20,000 plurality, ey The United States Steel corporation promises to dispense with some of its high-priced ornamental officials. These men evidently failed to turn enough of thelr money back into the trust treasury when the generous offer was made to sell them steel stock at several thaes fts real value E— The World-Heruld now admits ,that iwo of the candidates nominated by the Semocrats on its pretended nonpartisan ticket were thoroughly partisan repub- Heans, It will probably admit also that THRE WEST WORTH OULTIVATING. The ‘Bee reproduces from the New York Bum a timely article reviewing the erop situation in the west and calls attention to the fact that our unsym- pathetic farmers are so busy adding up long columns of figures representing the ylelds of their fertile acres that the doleful cries from Wall street go utterly unheard. What is particularly gratifying in the Sun's review is its concession to Ne- braska of the first' place in the list of prosperous agricultural states for this year. “The lead,” it says, “seems to be held, safely enough by Nebraska with its 45,000,000 bushels of wheat, which should yield $33,215,000; 222,420,000 bushels of corn, ylelding $100,000,000, and“ 53,000,000 bushéls of oats, worth probably $18,681,000; a total of nearly $162,000,000” Ana it adds: “This is money enough to give every resident of that fortunate state $142." Is it any wonder that, with these con- ditions at home, Nebraska should be comparatively unconcerned at reports of shakiness in the eastern money mar- kets? | The foundation of a nation's prosperity rests upon its food producers Jand if the great grain and wheat belt of which Nebraska is near the center is sound to the core, the dangers of st exchange speculation cannot go far be- neath the surface. With the farmers of this section so strongly fortified be- hind crops which can be readily coined at’ the amints into hundred-cent dollars the importance of these western states in the world's business affairs must be correspondingly enhanced. The home market is always regarded as the best market for American manufacturers and the best part of the home market for this year will be found in Nebraska and the surrounding states, The western farmer constitutes the most effective present demand for all the standard products of mill and factory, to say nothing of having the money to pay their bills as soon as they become due, and as a consequence the west should be worth cultivating just now by the business interests of the entire country. SIGHTING PULITICAL DANGER. An eastern organ of financial and commercial interests and promiuent among the advocates of currency re- form sees danger for the republican party if it shall neglect, at the coming scesion of congress, the currency question and fail to provide legis- lation for increasing the suppiy of bank notes. That paper says that rightly or wrongly President Roosevelt is not a favorite with large financlal interests, that there is disaffection with the administration in New York and that “if this is not to spread to other states and to create a tidal wave in favor of a conseryative democrat next year, then it behooves the republican patty to consider well whether it de- gires to drive away the votes of inde- pendent and thinking men.” Tt adds that there are several members of Mr. Cleveland’s cabinets who have sup- ported: the republican candidates' or have "been silent during the last eight years, “who are likely to come to the support of a conservative democrat if the republican party deliberately ig- nores its solemn pledges in regard to our monetary system.” It would be interesting to know how numerous ‘are the independent and thinking men who believe there is any present necessity for ecurrency legisia- tion of the kind which this organ of the reformers advocates. How many such men are there who ‘favor, for ex- ample, an asset currency, which is a leading feature in the reform program? It is safe to say that the. number of such is not large and that most of them belong to the speculating and promoting classes. Sp far as the bankers of the eountry are concerned they are not urg- ing any radical' measures of currency reform and generally they do not favor an asset currency. The report of the committee of the American Bankers' assoclation recommended reform of the sub-treasury system, so that the reve- nues of the government from all sources shall be deposited in the banks and thus made available for use in the com- munity; the repeal of the present limita- tions ot $3,000,000 per month upon the withdrawal of circulation, and an emer- gency circulation within' careful limita- tions, “upon the actual deposit with the Treasury department of securities ac- ceptable to the secretary of the treas- ury.” In regard to asset currency the committee said it could not recommend “any step that will tend toward a re- turn to the miscellaneous circulation which prevailed in the country before the war, or any step which will disre- gard the history of finance among the commereial nations of the world, nor can it recommend that any note should be issued without the certainty of its redemption in .standard coin of the United States.” This was unqualifiedly endorsed by the assoclation, as it un- doubtedly is by a very large majority of the bankers.and substantial business men throughout the country. The spee- ulators, and promoters in Wall street and elsewhere will of course not ap- prove it and it is this element which is disatected with the national adminis- tration. There is no danger for the republican party In refusing to heed the demand of those currency reformers who would Lave the country return to the miscella- neous circulation before the war. The duty of the party is to give attention solely to the requirements of the legiti- nmiate business interests and these are being at present adequately cared for and consequently are not urging cur- rency reform. It may be interesting for Omaha people to know that the newspapers at Lincoln, Fremont and other surrounding towns, which never lose an opportunity to knock Omaba enterprises, are al- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: RATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1903. patriots seem to be unable to get it Into their heads that anything that would build up Nebraska will redound to their Jenefit, and that the ereation of a new grain market at Omaha cannot fail to prove of advantage to the producers in the entire surrounding territoty. Pros- perous farmers make prosperous towns and prosperous merchants. Prosperity for Omaha is impossible without pros- perity for all Nebraska. THE RECUGNITION UF PANAMA. Pavama is already a state de facto, made so by Colombia’s abandonment of that portion of its territory, therefore the recognition of the provisional gov- ernment, which undoubtedly will soon be made permanent, by the United States is entirely legitimate and pkoper. The eminent authority on international law, Prof. Woolsey, says that while old states cannot aid insurrectionists without thereby engaging in war with the parent state, “if the new community has so far become independent that the parent state gives up endeavors to bring it back into subjection—if, in short, the new state is without question a state de facto—-they cannot, with any reason or propriety, refuse to cencede to the com- munity thus born a place among the parties to international law.” This is applicable to the Panama situ- ation. The Colombian government sent troops there, but they offered no oppo- sition to the revolutionists lll(‘ after ne- gotiations withdrew, leaving the revo- lutionary element In undisputed con- trol. It was necessary that the repre- sentatives of our government should be able to transact current business and there being no Colomblan officlals in Panama there was nothing to do but recognize the new government. The ef- fect of this is to give Panama the posi- tion of gn independent state having the power, when fully organized, to enter into international agreements and as- sume the rights and obligations of such a state. The provisional government has announced that the republic of Patama assumes all the former treaty and legal obligations of Colombia, so that in regard to theése there will be no issue or controversy between the new state and any other country respecting any treaty or obligation of Colombia. Of course, our government will now deal entirely with Panama in the canal matter and since the revolution was due to the rejection of the Hay-Herran treaty by the Colomblan congress it is safe to say that there will be no diffi- culty or delay in coming to terms. It is probable that our government will make the propositions, at least in re- gard to indemnity, to Panama that are contained in the treaty negotiated with Colombia, while as to sovereignty over the canal territory this will doubtless be conceded to the United States. At all events the construction of the Pan- ama canal by this country is now as- sured. It is quite natural that there shodld be a beilef that the revolution was in- spired by the United States, but it must be remembered that the people of Panama long ago threatened to secede if the canal treaty were not ratified. It 1% evident thaf for months they were preparing for the tevolt. Having been successful it is not to be doubted that they can rely upon the protection of this country., E—— RELIEF FCR OUR LAWMAKERS. Nebraska lawmakers, past, present and prospective, will heave a sigh of relief at the news that the state su- premé c¢ourt has afirmed the validity of the constitutional amendment adopted in 1887 after a recount of the ballots by a legislative committee, by which the pay of members of the legislature was increased from $3 to $5 a day and the remunerative part of the session extended from forty days to sixty days. No one familiar with the circumstances for a moment conceived the idea that any part of the excess stipend paid out of the state treasury for these inter- vening years would find its way back into the state house vaults even if the decision had gone the other way, but until a new amendment should have been adopted”ratifying the salary in- crease the strain on outside interests represented in the legisiative lobby might have expected to bear a corre- spondingly increased weight. As a matter of fact, no taxpayer of Nebraska will begrudge the salary paid to members of the legislature as fixed by the amended provision of the consti- tution, providing the service is honestly and consclentiously rendered and the money earned by standing up for the people as a whole rather than for the special interests which are constantly seeking favors and privileges at the ex- pense “of the public. The decision of the court does not change the constitu- tion materially as to the urgency of im- mediate constitutional revision with reference to the much-needed enlarge- ment of the supreme court, the invest- ment of the school trust funds and the strait-jacket limitations on executive officers. These defects ought to be remedied at the earliest possible mo- ment by the-submission of constitu- tional amendments at the election next year instead of deferment for a con- stitutional convention, which 1is gques- tionable at best and whose werk could not be ratified and put into operation for another two years. e The highest competitor of the lowest republican candidate on the judicial ticket in this district is more than 1,400 votes behind, while fhe low man on the republican ticket, upon whom such a terrific onslaught was made by the democratic organ, is only 227 behind the next republican candidate, against whom no personal fight was made. These figures tell the story how the public questioned the good faith of the wanton attack in the local hyphenated. The promise Nebraska in the Lead New York Sun. The unsympathetic farmers of the west and sbuth are so busy adding up long columns of figures—a task which employs them far into the night these days—that the doleful cries from Wall street go utierly unheeded, They are trying to puzzle out Just how much of the $2,600,000,000 that the enormous crops promise to yleld is going into their individual pockets. They have got so far along In their cal- oulations that their wives and daughters are already negotiaflng with the plano agent, the sewing machine vender and the plano lamp man. Steam heat and electric lights will probably follow the last addi- tion. The estimates show that it is reasonable to expect a corn crop worth on the farm $1,035,000,000, & cotton crop worth $575,000,000, a wheat crop worth $462,000,000 and an oat crop worth $275,500,00. ‘These total $2,377,- 600,000, and no account is taken of the various other products. The crop records of some of the individ- ual states for this year are amazing. The lead meems to be held safély enough by Nebraska, with its 4500000 bushels of wheat, which shouid yleld $33,215,000; 222,- 420,000 bushels of corn, yielding' $100,000,000, and 63,000,000 bushels of oats, worth prob- ably $18,551,00; a total of nearly $152,000,00. This {s money enough to give every resi- dent of that fortunate state $142. Kansas Is a close second in the running. Its crops are great enough to give each man, woman and child within its borders $115. The $2.500,000,000 which these crops of corn, cotton, wheat and oats promise to yleld is sufficlent to give each citizen In the United states about $3% up and be counted. The populists in this state have been working with ‘watered stock so long that they have not the slightest idea what an inventory of thelr political assets would sum up. President Roosevelt's message to the extra session of congress will be short and deal with only one subject. The regular session will begin three weeks later and the president will then have another chance and doubtless go into greater detall upon a variety of needed national legislation. The French governent is said to look without displeasure upon the develop- ments of the Panama revolution. Any move that will improve the prospect of the stockholders in the French canal company to get some of their money back- will be looked on with favor in Baltimore American. ,China wants the United States to turn Russia out of Manchuria for it. In the matter of help in any direction the rest of the world seems to look on Uncle Sam as a sort of ambulance, commissary and dis- trict telegraph messenger service all in one. COranks Looking for Trouble, Indianapolis News. Another crank has been arrested at the ‘White House. This season's varjety of cranks, 8o far as the returns show, are not looking for trouble so much as they are fleeing from it. Maybe the president's rep- utation for being a good fellow is what makes 80 many of them turn to him. Minneapolis Journal. A New York promoter who had incor- porated a company with a capital of $500,- 000,000 was arrested because he couldn't pay his board bill. Still there is not such a great difference between him and some other promoters we have heard of.. In his case the landlord suffered; in the case of others the public Brace Up and Look Pleasant. Cincinnati Enquirer. This is the time when the reflective citl- zen of the defeated party finds consolation in the fact that the other fellows not 80 bad, after all. There will be buying and selling as usual, and the government will g0 right on. In time the men who are fol- lowing torches and wheezy brass bands may be on the sidewalks and upper win- dows, mournfully looking on, but trying to “look pleasant." —_—— Rallrond Management Deficient. Chicago Chronicle. The loss of lite and s.jury to limb on the rallways of the United States proportion- ally exceeds that on the rallways of any other country in the old or new world. We boast the most competent mechanics and the most enterprising capital, and railroad Progress in the United States owes most to thelr combination, but, American rallway management is fundamentally deficient in a sense of the value of personal safety among both employes and passengers. Mysterious Force of Nature. Philadelphia Record. All that is known about sun spots is that their appearance fs due to terrific dls- turbances in the solar photosphere and that they are coincident with magnetic storms in the terrestrial atmosphere. To say that ‘the latter are caused by the former 18 a very loose way of stating the case. The two phenomenas are evidently connected, and both are probably caused by an identical and still undiscovered force of nature. P c—— Keeping Out of Tro Pittsburg Dispatch. ¥ It is sald that in A war with any haval power of equal strength this country would find the Insular possessions a very doubt- ful advantage—a truth that has been re- peatedly expressed since the acquisition of the islands. The present excitement indi- cates that the jingo element has just dis- covered that while it is all right to have naval bases these isloated outposts have to be defended, & somwhat belated discov- ery. As a matter of fact and common sense there is no earthly reason why this country should be involved In any war between Russia and Japan or any other powers in the Orient. '~ Bo long as we at- tend to our own business no one will molest us. Orooks Must Pay the Penalty. Chicago Tribune. It will be inexpedient to approach the president with suggestions that it will be politically inexpedient to prosecute some man who has party friends who will take offense if he is called to an account for his misdeeds. “Let no guilty man escape” is the motto of President Roosevelt, as it was of President Grant. Whether the offender against the government is republican or democrat, poor or rich, prominent or ob- scure, with or without friends, the course of impartial justice will not be stayed. That is the highest expedlency. No policy can strengthen more the administration and the party than that which the presideat is pur- suing, of unearthing and punishing Influen- tial offenders who have belonged to his party. Napeleons of Finance, Engineering Magasine. “The fiippant term ‘Napoleon of Finance’ embodies & fundamental truth. The same restiessness of congclous power, the same hungering for empire, the same craving for the intoxication of victory, now find in the field of industry the outlet that once was to be found only in the fleld of battle. And the same glumor of ln-dhuLum- dazzles the people and throngs them about the victor, delirious in the glory of the present, careless of the stability of the fu- ture. But the same law underlies all na- SOME BRYAN REMINISCENCES. People Whose Purses Opened While Under the Spell. New York Commerclal Advertiser. The attempt of the widow of Philo 8. Bennett and her attorney to show that Colonel Wifllam Jennings Bryan had a mesmeric influence over the late New York tea merchant brings to mind that the erst- while democratic candidate for president is “no slouch” In that respect. Count John A. Crelghton, a rich national bank presi- dent of Omaha, was such a worshiper of Bryan that it is a well known fact that on the evening of the day Bryan was nominated at Chicago in 159 he presented him with a check for $5,000 with which to pay the expenses of himself and wife in the campalgn. Mr. Creighton, with %is brother, bullt the overland telegraph, which was the basis of the comfortable fortune that he amassed. It was he who put up the cash to enable Bryan to run for congress in the old Omaha-Lincoln district, which then had a republican majority of upward of 10,000; and Bryan really had no more idea of being clected than that he could fly. But that was in 18%, and a big democratic landslide sent him to Washington. Two years later he ran again in the same district and pulled through by the slim plurality of 140. He would have been badly defeated in the second race but for Crelghton's money. Another millionaire whom Bryan is sald to have mesmerized in 1896 was Charles D Lane of California, the owner of profit- able gold mines in Californla, Arizona, Alaska and British Columbla. On the way to Lincoln, just after the national silver convention in St, Louls, which met there the same week that the crazy populists assembled, Mr. Lane told the writer that he had never met Bryan, but that from what he had heard of him he expected to take a great fancy to him. I never sa¥ anyone more infatuated than was the gold digger. He had been prominent in the sil- ver gathering at St. Louls that indorsed Bryan's candidacy. Lane clalmed that he never owned any stock in silver mines, except in an old worthless one in Mexico, and he supported Bryan because he be- lieved in a double-money standard. That year, In order to induce other millionaires to subseribe heavily to the democratic cam- palgn fund, it was announced In several of the party organs that_one man had given his check for a cool $100,000. People got to guessing. Some said it was W. A. Clark, at present United States senator from Mon- tana. Others thought it came from the pile of John R. McLean, owner of the Cin- cinnati Enquirer; but they were all wrong. It was Charles D. Lane, the fact having leaked -out after the election. Had Bryan been successful In that contest Lane would undoubtedly have been a member of his vabinet. Mr. Lane, while en route to Lincoln, also informed the writer that he had never even heard of Bryan before his nomina- tion at Chicago. ‘““While the convention was In sesslon,” sald he, “I was inspecting some of my mining property in Arizona miles from a raflway station. An employe was sent for the mall and I instructed him to inquire there If a nomination had been made at Chicago. On his return he told me that ‘Bryant’ had been nominated. He did not ascertain where ‘Bryant,’ as he called him, resided, and I thought the fel- low was a fool; but later, when the St. Louls and Chicago newspapers were re- celved, I found he was almost right. I wadl for Bland of Missourl and hoped he would be nominated, as I am a native of Missouri and had known ‘Stiver Dick’ since my yout! \ ARTISTIC GOLD BRICKS, Those Handed Investors by the Mor- wnns and Schwal Detroit Free Press. In describing the organization of the United States Shipbullding company as an “artistic swindle,” Mr. James Smith, jr., the receiver of the corporation, uses lan- guage that seems sufficiently qualified and moderate. ,The methods by which these properties were “financed” are now gener- ally understood, and if there is a difference between this form of swindling and the gold brick form, it is a matter of size rather than kind. Mr. Smith asserts that the value of the plants, their earnings and the working capital, given in the reports of expert accountants, vary so much from the cor- rect figures as “to fmpel the belief that the figures were wilfully mis-stated.” He expresses doubt that these reports were submitted at the organization of the com- pany. The corporation was organized by “dummy” stockholders, officers and direct- tors. The statements made in~the pros- pectus of June 14, 1903, were incorrect. For property worth $12,441516 the company paid in stock and bonds $7.967,000-more than five to one. The directors in acquiring these properties thus gave away millions in the stock and bonds of the trust, “whole- sale plunder,” the receiver calls it. 8o far as the Bethlehem Steel company is con- cerned, Mr. Smith says its earnings were withheld “In a deliberate attempt to wreck the United States Shipbullding company.” When one esteemed citizen sells another esteemed citizen a brass brick that mas- querades as gold, the courts and the Police reporters have a very harsh expression with which they describe the transaction. When & person obtains money under false pretenses in the more commonplace ways he is frequently punished. In the wild and untutored west they sometimes lynched the enterprising individual who “salted” a mine, and men have gained a bad reputa- tion by selling property to which they had no title. None of these offenses was com- mitted by the promoters of the Shipbuild- ing trust. While their methods seem somewhat f{rregular, they were probably not ceriminal. In fact the cerporation laws of New Jersey have been so adroitly drawn as to make practically everything legal which does not involve the actual sand- bagging of the prospective stockholder or the picking of his pockets on a public thoroughfare. 'We may assume, therefore, that the active participants in the organ- ization of the Shipbuilding trust have noth- ing to fear from the law. They are finan- ciers, and financiers are privileged per- sons. They may be subjec’ed to criticism in the public prints,.but hard words break Aluolulv Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE NEW YORK/S INCREDIPLE VANITY. Rooted Bellef that the Big Town is the Whole Cheese, Chicago Journal. ‘We have recelved a characteristic com- munication from one of New York's newspapers. We are informed therein that the eyes of the nation are fixed upon Greater New York's forthcoming muhicl- pal election, and that ng event of such universal interest is scheduled for the im- mediate future. We are given to” under- stand that, all over the country, the people Will be unable to go to sleep on the night of November 3 unless they have first heard whether fusion or Tammany has triumphed, and that we will be missing one of the great journalistic opportunities of the age it we fail to subscribe for an elaborate serles of special bulletins and a liberal allowance of general descriptive matter which our contemporary purposes to send out on the occaslon in question. The whole tone of the letter is amus- ingly {llustrative of the New York view- point. Your true New Yorker has not a suspicion that there is anything of the slightest Interest or importance oufside of his own town. He labors under the im- pression that all those condemned to live Veyond its borders consumé their time in longing to be there and that their atten- tion is chiefly occupied with fits affairs. Bo far as the western hemisphere is con- cerned, his geography extends no further eastward than Sandy Hook and no fur- ther westward than Hoboken. A broad- brimmed hat would cover his horizon, and his idea is that the United States, of which he sometimes hears, is a series of truck gardens In Jersey, where food Is raised for the residents of Manhattan Island. The reason he believes that all eéyes are turned upon his election is that he cannot understand how It - could be otherwise. It would astonish and bewilder him to discover how little the 75,000,000 or 80,000, 000 persons who constitute the remainder of the nation worry themselves about the metropolis. He would not be able to credit his senses if he discovered the fact that not one in twenty of them is aware that he s about to vote for a mayor and coun- cllmen. In short, he thinks his narrow dwelling is the whole plant, when, as a mafter of fact, it is merely the recelving room and cashier's office. But his pa- rochial outlook is so funny that we have to forgive his incredible vanity. T —— AS THE OKE CLEARS AWAY. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (rep.): In the light of what Ohlo has done the demo- cratic flurry in New York is of comparative insignificance. Atlanta Constitution (dem.): Altogether it was not a bad day for the democrats— even if Tom Johnson is somewhere under & glacier in Ohio. Indianapolis News (ind.): Messrs. Grout and Fornes of New York, however, are fedling very comfortable-today, thank you. Nothing gives & man such & chestiness as to make a lucky guess. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat (rep.): In his first senatorial fight Mr. Hanna had a struggle for & single vote in the legisla- ture. In the second there ‘will be scarcely enough democrats left to oppose & motion to make it unanimous. Chicago Chronicle (dem.): The day after the election your Uncle Thomas Platt had no hesitation In saying that Mayor-elect McClellan is an uncommonly fine young man. Thomi is still basking under the blissful beams of the honeymoon and even a victorious democrat looks well to him. Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.): “Golden Rule” Jones, after glancing over the elec- tion returns, expressed the conviction that the democratic party would never again elect a president. While there may be someé ground for this bellef, yet we are in- clined to regard it as foolishly optimistic. New York World (dem.): It was Mayor Low's misfortune to stand for re-elec'ion, a republican In & city democratic by more Are you prepared for colder days? heavy Overcoat will be in order presently. than 120,00 majority, at a time when party spirit could be successfully invoked. But ' he will retire at the end of his term bearing with him the respect and the gratitude of all good citizens. New York Sun (rep.): Mr. George Brin. | ton McClellan has been elected mayor of New York. We pledge to Mr. McClellar our earnest and hearty support of every t of his administration of which we shal) approve, and in respect to such acts as we may elect to condemn—may the lord have mercy on Mr. McClellan's soul! New York Tribune (rep): It would be too much to say that New York is unfit for self-government. But it 18 the truki! that there is no visible evidence of its fit-1' ness to govern itself In the triumph whicb Tammany Hall won Tuesday. The verdiof! | is the more unsatisfactory because it was calmly and deliberately reached by the great jury of voters. POLITICAL DRIFT. Too much Johnson. Ohfo stands pat. Can’t help it ©Oahu went republican. 8o did Wahoo ' Blg Bill Devery and Big Tom Johnson are too much for an ordinary tureen. Still, | they're In it. | 1t should be remembered that Bryan made no speeches in New York. He conversed two or three times in Ohlo. Some time In the future, perhaps, histo t will record the fact that there was once democratic party in Pennsylvania. New York newspapers were evidently sin« cere in their support of Seth Low. Bdi- torially they exhibit several sore spots. General Danlel E. 8ickles is one of the newly elected aldermen In New York. There will be something doing in that board when Dan gets riled. He carries “a big stick." ! The blackmail and extortion stories from Pittsburg, indicating that the city council Is attempting to hold up the rallroads, is very shocking—almost as shocking as the fact that the corporations themselves are largely responsible for the corruption of city legislatures. A Johnsonian orator in Cincinnati tried to smash the fecord of Nebraska's cham- plon long distance orator by talking elght hours and a quarter without pausing for drink or grub, The blast of hot air seems to have blistered the Johnsonlan vote. Cin- cinnati went heavily republican, Sylvanus Merriman Stebbins of Riverside, Mass., who was born April 4, 1817, has the proud record of having voted for every dem- ocratic candidate for president since he cast his first vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840, In 1860, when there were two demo- cratic candidates for president, Mr., Steb- bins cast his vote for the “little glant,™ Stephen A. Douglas. stationers Accept no A We can show you the most complete stock of Overcoats that you ever looked at. ’ All sorts of good materials and in almost any color. All the prevailing styles—the Chester field, Bwagger, Paddock and Paletots. $10 to $45. No Clothing Fits Like Ours, owning: King -§- C DT ot T L s o ~