Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1916, Page 24

. o 8-B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITgRA‘_i THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier By Mail per year Daily and Sundsy . -o.48.00 Daily without Sur e Evening and Sunday " Evening witho! e 8¢ : und_ Sundey Bee, three years in advance, $10. 0. a‘ulIlu"u of change of address or irregularity in fivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. draft, r postal order. Only 2-cent stamps Tiven, 13 Dayment of small sccounts. Personal checks, except on ha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street. Couneil Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lineoln—336 Little Building. 0— People’s Gas Building. New York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—725 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. d nlcations relating to news and editorial atier"to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. f OCTOBER CIRCULATION i 53,818 Daily—Sunday 50,252 Dwight Williams, b:‘l;culztlfn m.“.‘".:: m g;: ishis o sworn, § r:vbrl-::":m“ull:'m:’ for llfit nm,onth of October, 1916, i 53,818 daily, and 50,252 Sunday. 3 e O DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. thurflng'h)l‘ my ::uc‘n;fo-nd sworn to before me i3 dth da; v T, A e : X ._cl W. CARLSON, Notary Public. HEPTANEAT A 5o mis aupeiri Wisiee A sl 5 Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. —_———— e Make it & republican clean sweep. Nothing fegs comes up to the opportunity. | The real melancholy days for some of the population begin the morning of the day after. | Soaring prices of living necessities reveal to consumers the hollowness of democratic pros- perity. Devotees of the gas wagon are not worrying. * * Auto-intoxication defies the reach of the dry amendment. — Safety first: Vote as you please for “wet” or “dry,” but be, sure to put your cross-mark in the ‘epublican party circle, - No matter who are the favorites in. other propositions, Captain Paul Koenig tops the score- board as a submarine sport, | — British motorists on pleasure bent are now { half a gallon of fuel daily. As a means of checking speed mania the restricted supply of increase of $40,000,000 over September last ar. The time is propitious for a strike by s for an advance in dividends, S——— x fimit of building a superdreadnought s s thirty-six months, We are jation, but slow in production, leagiie to show its F unknown reason the Turkish war in editor suspended publication of victories t. Rival publishers supply the de- lfi extent, but they lack the dreamy ty formerly piped at Constantinople. EE—— § i ,k_\mm be absolutely impossible for any julently registered name to stay on the reg- book if our pure elections commissioner jes his duty.. It is up to him to detect and stop Ise registrations and prosecute the culprits. 1 S—— Jis no respecter of persons. Prince alike fall under lll‘ blighting sway. g ian prince, a victim of the disease, @ personal touch to the tragedies and per- s of war surrounding the royal household. — _If you want the finances of Douglas county, ".of the city, school district and water district of ¥ honestly and ably administered during ‘niext two years, you will vote for Emmet G. for county treasurer, which office makes incumbent treasurer ex-officio of all these ‘subdivisions as well. emm—ee——— The Germans have this adage describing the 'h:‘hlh big, but does nothing: “He rolls fist in his pocket.” Senator Hitchcock boasted ly about introducing his munitions embargo and pressing it to a vote “just to tickle the ians,” and then laid down and let his won- bill die of inanition i fm— Mission of the Sunday Newspaper. The Sunday newspaper is again an object of ack, this time the ammunition being afforded the Federal Trade commission, which is of ‘opinion that the white paper shortage would materially relieved if not so much were used in printing supplements to the big city dailies on & élndl) On this simple suggestion some of the persistent oppdnents of the Sunday newspaper, 3%““’ publishers of weekly reviews, hang a con- : erable fabric of objection. Carefully scrutin- , these mainly resolve themselves into the conclusion that if the dailies were to give over efforts in the field, the reviews would be gainer, as they would then supply a demand filled by a rival whose competition they can While sweeping criticism and denunciation is d unsparingly to establish the unworthiness of the. supplements complained of, they all fall short of the mark. The Sunday newspaper has in the life of the people; it does not cater | special clientele, but in some way furnishes faction and service for all. Those who do not re for its editorial discussions may find in the -section or the fashion section material for use; elsewhere in its makeup it deals with drama, literature and kindred topics; it B ions, quite as reliable ce is made for conditions, and in ives in its news columns a review of n all its moods and interests. No re- carefully it be edited, meets the people guite as well as does the r, and while the demand con- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: Straw Vote of Some Significance. The Literary Digest has just published its own analysis of a poll of its subscribers in what it considers the pivotal states in the presidential election. The editor of the Digest asked 50,000 subscribers, living in New York, Ohio, New Jer- sey, Indiana and Illinois, to fill out a card show- ing how they voted in 1912 and how they propose to vote in 1916, Thirty thousand of these cards were filled out and returned, and have been care- fully tabulated. The result shows first the total vote, as follows: Hughes. Wilson. New York .. 4335 2,085 New Jersey . 3,315 1,761 hio 3,653 2893 Indiana 2572 1615 Illinois 4,062 2,290 FORE i s oA s e 17,937 10,644 . More significant even than these totals is the result obtained by comparison of the changes noted from the way the individuals voted in 1912, Only the cards properly filled out were consid- appeal,-however, is his.pretense of being for Wil- ered in the compilation, and the switches from one candidate to another were fully set out in the tabulation. The total accessions by reason of the changes are to Hughes 4,094, and to Wil- son, 3,980. 'This indicates the balance is evenly held so far as change of opinion is concerned, while the total vote is conclusive in support of the claim that the republicans and progressives in these five important states are united, and that the democratic assertions that Wilson will re- ceive any considerable part of the Roosevelt vote of 1912 are ridiculous. f With the republicans and progressives solidly arrayed behind Hughes, the outcome in the five states covered by the Literary Digest is not even remotely in’ doubt. Ford's Frivolous Reasons. ' Henry Ford's $100,000 donation to the Wil- son campaign fund takes the form of buying newspaper publicity for the “reasons” Mr, Ford thinks should govern his and other people's votes. This is the same Henry Ford who, a year ago, chartered a special ship to carry him to Europe to take all the soldiers out of the trenches be- fore last Christmas and some of his reasons are of the same warp and woof. Mr. Ford says, for example: “I know posi- tively Mr. Wilson does understand and is oppos- ing that invisible government, that unseen hand which caused this war,” notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Wilson, himself, right here in Omaha, declared neither” he nor anyone else understood what caused the war in Europe. Mr. Ford adds, “I believe those same selfish forces that caused the war are opposing the president's re-election,” which gives us this absurdity; that no one know- ing who caused the European war, the same un- knowns are opposing Mr, Wilson's re-election. The only “reason” Mr. Ford has discovered, not enumerated in the regular campaign hand- ' books, is his “belief and hope” that the Adam- son law is “the first step toward government ownership operation of railroads” and this rea- son another distinguished democrat discovered first, although it proved disastrous to his own White House dream. i The Ford assertion that “Wall street in- fluences” rooted out “by Mr, Wilson are working hard against him to get back” is completely con- tradicted by perusal of the democratic campaign contribution list with its many princely handouts from well known Wall street denizens. ', The worst bunco feature of Henty Ford's son “although nominally a republican all my life.” Mr. Ford permitted his name to go on the primary ballot in Michigan and in Nebraska a candidate for the republican nomination for presi- dent and permitted voters to be recorded for him in the republican national convention and if, by chance, he had had a sufficient number of dele- gates to nominate him, he would not have been for Wilson, but would have been opposing him as the nominee of the republican party. Suppose Burton, or Root, or’ Cummins, failing of nomi- nation without any charge of fraud or unfair- ness, had nevertheless come out against Hughes with excuses as flimsey as Ford's, what would people think of them? Suppose four years ago Underwood, or Clark, or Harmon, unsuccessful in the Baltimore convention, had then come out against Wilson, what would have been thought of them? But here is Henry Ford, professing high ideals and altruistic motives, placing-him- self in that discreditable position, a position which all the “reasons” he can invent will not justify to fair-minded people who want the same square deal in politics that they demand jn every other relation of life. Some Difference in Ideals. John Cowper Powys lines up with the visiting cognoscenti in criticism of Omaha, although'he is kind.enough to include us with Americans in general, and but mildly refers to our peculiar com- munal shortcomings, For the gentleness with which Mr. Powys administers his castigation, some thanks, and for the hope he expresses for our future, great gratitude, Only, we fear, when Mr. Powys lives long enough in America he will find many things besides the sex question on which his ideals and our national beliefs do not run parallel. Moreover, and- sad is the reflec- tion, when one considers the situation of the critic come to spread light and uplift amongst us, he is like to find Americans somewhat “‘sot in their ways," not a little inclined to be bump- tious, and some actually convinced of the correct~ ness of their own attitude towards life, To be sure, just as dropping water wears away the gran- ite, the constant application of kindly suggestions from these migratory highbrows may in time induce some quality of repose among us and give scope and breadth to our estheticism; but, unfiorunately, the sheep will still be slaughtered somewhere, for even a poet must eat. Making Over the Hay-Chamberlin Bill, Joseph J. Tumulty writes to a perturbed demo- crat in West Virginia, answering his query as to whether conscription is possible and permissible under the Hay-Chamberlin military law by say- ing the language of the law is so vague and in- volved that the president doesn’t feel at all cer- tain as to its meaning, However, Private Secre- tary Tumulty assures his timorous correspondent that it is the intention of the president to give some attention to this law, which has been hailed as perfection during the campaign, and see what can be done to make it clear. It is pretty cer- tain no sort of tinkering can make it worse, nor justifies the conclusion that the closing weeks of Mr. Wilson’s term of office will be pretty busy if he tries to straighten out all the legislative blund- | ers he has led or driven congress into commite ting increase its ambiguity. This and other indications, HE PRESIDENTIAL campaign just coming to a close has presented many exceptional features sure to make it Historic, and the contest in its different stages has marked the transforma- tion of our political methods in this country. Con- trasted with local contests every presidential cam- paign is a battle royal in the political arena. It comes but once in four years, but even then is not always a real fight, such as this one is, for often conditions are such as to pre-ordain the result beyond question. A one-sided political cam- paign is as uninteresting as a one-sided match on the base ball diamond -or in the foot ball field or on a race track. An’exciting campaign is the one in which the forces are fairly evenly bal- anced and an interest sustained by possibilities that might change the result. My memory goes back rather indistinctly to the 1880 campaign that ended in the election of Garfield and Arthur.. Of course, I was a miere boy, but I recall the yells and slogans for the republican candidates and counter yells for Han- cock and English. It was not, however, until four years later that I was drawn into the po- litical vortex. That was the famous fight waged between Blaine and Logan for the republicans and Cleveland and Hendricks for the democrats, and there was much oratory, parades and red fire. Up at the High School, where I was a pupil, the boys under the leadership of Wallace Broatch, formed a Blaine and Logan club, and we all marched proudly in the procession, carry- ing kerosene torches that.dripped all over our clothes and left us with the odor for a week thereafter, I recall that there was one flambeau club equipped with fire-spitting mechanisms which were our awe and amazement. We all yelled ourselves hoarse for Blaine and Logan on election night and the next day joined in putting on political mourning to signify our sad disap- pointnfent at defeat. e When the 1888 presidential campaign came on I was in Baltimore attending Johns Hopkins university, and, being enveloped in a thick dem- ocratic atmosphere, watched merely as an on looker, and this was true in a lesser degree of the 1892 contest, which found me in New York City pursuing my studies at Columbia uni- versity. I did then, howexgr, attend quite a few of the big political meetings—heard Chauncey Depew, for example, then 4t his best—and watched the returns come in down at Tammany Hall, on Fourteenth street, whose big, bright red campaign banner, bearing the names of all the democratic candidates, seemed' to become still redder as democratic victory was bulletined. By the time the 1896 campaign was opened I was here in Omaha on the job with already a lit- tle apprenticeship in polit{'@s and I went in with full energy. Never before was such a campaign witnessed and never since for the idle people then had nothing else to do but fight it out all day lonf on street corners and wherever a grou, of‘reop e gathered. Farnam street and Fifteent and the whole business center of Omaha was one succession of curbstone political meetings from morning to night antl it was not a question of n;rtinf an argument, but of avoiding one. There were also big talkfests and torchlight processions and all sorts of demonstrations, There were gold bad%el, and silver badges, full dinner pails and the hole in the doughnut. Nebraska went over- whelmingly democratic for Bryan, but he was beaten badly in the other states and retired to immortalize his “first battle” in a book. The 1900 presidential campaign was a fierce conflict here in Nebraska, nltfmugh a tame one for the country at large. There never was any question about McKinley's re-election, but in spite of adverse odds we were eager to put Ne- | braska on the map again by bringing it back into the republican columm. It seemed h most up to the last minute, but unremitting and undaunted zeal succeedeg in achieving the object. Besides the presidential electors and the gover- .nor and state ticket, two United States senator- ships were at stake and the republicans swept the whole platter, nl!houg(})lothe governor was pulled across by less than plurality. To resort to the vernacular, that was “some campaign!” .. The 1904 contest was again a republican walk- away. In this state it was a triangular perform- ance, the pwuhsts still cutting a figure with their votes for Watson and Tibbles and affording a convenient get-away for Bryan democrats who wanted to knife Parker. That explains the co- lassal plurality chalked up for Roosevelt and Fairbanks and the election of the whole republi- can ticket in Nebraska from top to bottom. For the 1908 presidential campaign my ac- tivities were transferred to the national field as one of the party managers attached to the Chi- cago headquarters. The work was carefully plan- ned and systematically prosecuted and while there were one or two “scares,” the election of Taft and Sherman over Bryan and Kern was hardly in doubt at any time. ebraska slipped back into ‘the democratic fold, ostensibly out of loyalty of his home state.to Bryan, but actually for other reasons, as insiders know. Mr. Bryan himself is said to have been convinced he was to win, but no one else shared his belief and even Mis- souri came oyer and joined the republican pro- cbessi:n, more than making up for the loss of Ne- raska. Needless to say the campaign of 1912 could hardly be called a fight after the republican party: had been split in two. It was this division that permitted the democrats, with Wilson and Mar- shall, to march into power. The republicans sup- porting Taft waged but a perfunctory campaign. The progressives, backing Rbosevelt, put on quite a head of steam chiefly to make a showing. If the democrats could not have gathered in the prize under these conditions it would have been in order for them to disband. The rrescm 1916 campaign had its lines de- termined by what led up to it. On the republi- can side it is, in fact, two campaigns in one—the regulars and the progressives—merged, it is true, yet requiring double machintry. Keep this in mind when making comparisons. For the first time since the fight against Cleveland's re-elec- tion the republicans have had to stand as an oppo- sition party and batter down the entrenchments of the party' in power. It is this that explains the methods of attack. Then again, never before was the political battle line so extended. The advent of the direct primary in the interval, how- ever, has done away with the old spectacularism ~—the red fire and the excitement has been want- ing on both stdes. It has been, for the most part, 1 sober appeal to reason, a real campaign of edu- cation.. And the effective reasons which are all on the side of Hughes are plainly telling. I have written out a thought or two sug- gested by the death of my old friend, Max Meyer, but from crowded space must hold till next week. | People and Events | Philadelphia’s issue of $10,000,000 fifty-year bonds drawing 4 per cent were marketed last week at a premium of 3.885 per cent, or $210,000 for the lot. A syndicate of bankers bought them in, Louis Nehring of Prairie du Chien, Ill,, is on the shady side of 70 and is still acquiring ex- pensive experience. A few moons ago he honey-. mooned with a merry widow of 60 and when he came out of the trance the bride had fled with Nehring’s roll of $5,000. A Philadelphia youngster. “pinched” for the theft of a pair of shoes laid his troubles to the Underwood tariff. The present stage of public temper .in Pennsylvania lent force to the plea. Rl‘e judge put it under his hat and paroled the 3 eless al- |- NOVEMBER 5, 1916. LIODAY Thought Nugget for the Day. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. —James Russell Lowell. One Year Ago Today in the War. British submarine E-20 sunk by Turks in the Dardanelles. Bulgarians occupied Nish. Lord Kitchener left England on mission to near east. Desperate battle with violent artil- lery action continued in East Galicia. Germans captured parts of the French first line trench at Hill 189 in Champagne. Russians pressed Germans back near Riga and czar's warships shelled invaders at Shlok. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Letter Carrier Green, who some time ago resigned his position in the mail service, has re-entered the busi- ness not long since and has been giv- en a route where he can drive a horse in delivering. One hundred dollars has been de- posited with Ed Rothery as a forfeit in the fight which the friends of Han- ley wish to have him make with Clow. Hanley says he is willing to meet Clow at any time and place that may be selected. As Major Condon, manager of Pat- sey Fallon's Cottonwood Villa, was driving past the fair grounds a piece of paper blown by the wind started his fleet stallion to one side, over- turning the buggy and slightly injur- ing the major, who was left lying in the road while his swift courser hied him home, dragging the broken buggy after him. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Pokorney of 701 South Thirteenth celebrated the tenth anniversary of their wedding. Among the guests present were: Messrs. and Mesdames Bartos, V. L. Vodicka, F. Vodicka, Buresh, John Rosicky, F. W. Bandhauer, Spicka, J. Kotyza, Kolbe, John Mack, V. Fiala, Nagle and Prof. Dvorzak. Messrs. Frank Bandle and George Kay have returned from Leaven- worth, Kan., whither they were called by a meeting of the representatives of the Western league. This Day in History. 1768—By treaty at Fort Stanwix (Utiea, N. Y.) the fix Nationas ceded the country north and east of the Tennessee. / 1796—Isaac Toucey, secretary of the navy under President Buchanan, born at Newton, Conn.; died at Hart- ford July 30, 1869. 1814 — Americang under General Izard abandoned Fort Erie after blow- ing it up. ' 1818—General Benjamin F. Butler, governor of Massachusetts and civil war commander, born at Deerfleld, N. H.; dled in Washington, D. C,, Janu- ary 11, 1893, 1854—Russians defeated by British and French in battle of Inkerman. 1858—Funeral car of Napoleon I ,‘p;elanud to France Ry Queen Vic- .1873—Susan B. Antheny. voted at the presidential election at Rochester, N. Y.; convicted and fined $100. 1891—Poles in Galicia formed a se- cret organization to keep alive the remembrances of the Polish struggle for freedom. . 1900—Cuban constitutional conven- tion opened at Havana. 1901—French fleet seized three Turkish ports, which”were held until the porte settled the French claims. The Day We Celebrate. William B. Weekes, president of the Weekes Grain and Live Stock com- pany, is 57. He was born in Metrop- olus, Ill, antl started in the grain business at Sootia, Neb. thirty-one years ago. He was once county treas- urer of Greeley county for two terms. John D. Ware is celebrating his fitty-fifth birthday, He is a native of Durant, Ia, and graduated in law from the Towa State university in 1888. He has been practicing his pro- fession here in Omaha continuously since 1890, Alexander C. Reed of Reed Bros, real estate and abstracts, was born November 5, 1871, in Darien, Wis. His first employment was as clerk for l}ée Milwaukee railroad at Chicago in 1891, George A. Relsner, noted Egyptolo- glst, whose latest discoveries relative to Ethiopia are being heralded, born at Indianapolis forty-nine years ago today. Rt. Rev. John 8. Foley, bishop of the Catholic dlocese of Detroit, born in Baltimore eighty-three years ago today. Rt. Rev. J. J. Harty, Catholic arch- bishop of Manila, soon to be installed as bishop of Omaha, born at St. Louls sixty-three years ago today. Nicholas Longworth, Ohio con- gressman and son-in-law of Colonel Roosevelt, born in Cincinnati forty- seven years ago today. Ida M. Tarbell, noted editor, jour- nalist and lecturer, born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, fifty-nine years ago today. « Eugene V. Debs, three times social- ist capdidate for president and now a candidate for congress, born at Terre Haute, Ind, sixty-one years ago to- day. Some Election Oddities. Florida bars ‘“duelists and their abettors” from voting. More than a dozen states bar de- linquent taxpayers from voting. Michigan and several other states bar Indians with tribal relations. Mississippi bars from the voting privilege all Indians who are not xed. Ability to read the state conmstitu- tion is a necessary qualification in Wyoming. Vermonters cannot vote if they lack the approbation, of the local board of clvil authority. Vagrants are not voters in Alabama, nor are embezzlers of public funds, if there are any such, in California. Idiots, the insane and persons con- victed of felonies are barred from the voting privilege in nearly all the states. Delaware, New Jersey, South Caro- lina, Virginia and most of the New Bngland states penalize pauperism by taking away the voting privilege. Mississippi puts up the bars against bigamists and New York specially dis- qualifies from voting any person who has been convicted of bribery. Ohio refuses to let United States soldiers, sailors or marines vote, as do Virginla, Utah, Texas, SBouth Dakota, Oregon, New ‘Jersey, Montana, Mis- souri, Indiana and Arizona. As practically every state bars con- viets from the voting privilege, and there are more thar\ 100,000 convicts in the prisons of the country, election day will mean nothing to a whole armv of them. The Bses, Zetlor B Hasty Legislation That Hurts Labor. Omaha, Nov. 3,—To the Editor of The Bee: President Wilson insisted on the passage of the Adamson bill to get the Jabor vote of the country. This so-called bill for the good of the labor- ing masses is nothing but a sop. The four railroad brotherhoods have al- ways ignored the American Federa- tion of Labor and during strikes have never been known to refuse to haul strikebreakers by the carload. They did so In the street car strike in our city and also in the strike of the ma- chinists and boflermakers of the Har- riman system. The president truckled to the aristocratic and selfish four and the rest can never benefit by the new and as yet untried law. Candidjte Hughes is right in all he says about hasty legislation. “JUST ME.” Deplorable Condition of the Navy. Lincoln, Neb,, Nov. 3.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: I spent the summer in Washington and also went on the ci- vilian volunteer cruise. The longer time I spent in direct connection with the policies of Wilson, the more dis- gusted I became with his vacillating policy, especially in the navy. I am enclosing an article of mine that appeared in another paper quite a while ago. 1 might add that the men in the navy say.that conditions have been steadily getting worse since Danfels was appointed, although they say as a man he is very obliging (which is part of the cause of his troubles; he tries to please everybody.) LEONARD W. TRESTER. One Vote Changed by the Debate. Omaha, Nov. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: As I heard the debate be- tween Rev. Lowe and Mr. Meeker, I have read and studied the amendment and. I must confess I was for prohibi- |, tion until then, but I'can see now more plainly and I think Rev. Lowe and any one else could see that it will not prohibit at all, but just change it from regulation to bootlegging, which I regret very much. And I see where a lot of us real prohibitionists are go- ing to be led into a trap under the guise of prohibition which we will be sorry for afterwards. . Now, I always have had lots of re- spect for Dr. Lowe and regarded him as a big man, but if Dr. Lowe sees his mistake as I do and I think every one else who studies it will, it is Dr, Lowe's duty to the public, as well as his own parishioners, to show to the people that he is one man not ashamed to own up to making a mistake and I am sure he will be thought very much more of in the eyes of God and man for only doing his real calling and when the time comes for a vote on national prohibition I will work shoul- der to shoulder with Dr. ‘Lowe and every one else for it. JOHN H. ROOT, 92§ North Twenty-sixth Street. ‘Wants Back Platforms Enclosed. Omaha, Nov. 8.-~To the Editor of The Bee: I ask space to suggest that you get behind a movement to com- pel the street raillway company to close the back end of their cars for the comfort and health of the con- ductors who haye to stand exposed in all kinds of inclement weather. The men refuse to organize to force this just demand and notwithstanding that let us agitate for this necessary improvement for their comfort and the safety of the public. JESSE T. BRILLHART. 4 Rein is for Beckman, Lincoln, Neb, Nov. 1.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: In connection with _my withdrawal from the ballot as the candidate of thé progressive party 1o commissioner of public lands an buildings for the state of Nebraska, I desire to say that my decision to leave the contest was influenced to a very large extent by the conviction that the best possible man for that office ia the present incumbent, Mr. Fred Beck- man, g To those who have come in con- tact with Mr. Beckman officially, his conduct of the affairs of the commi sioner’s office needs no defense. His record for an honest, thorough and ef- ficlent administration is establighed. There are, however, a large number of voters who have never had any business with the commissioner's of- fice and who are therefore without any first hand information as to how that office is being managed by Mr. Beckman. To these voters, I would say that for an efficient and business- like administration of public affairs, permanency and continuity in purely administrative offices is an essential. As we have progressed in the arts of gov- ernment we have learned that judges, them, should be continued in office as long as possible, and in the state of Nebraska we find an ever growing number of these faithful and efficient servants of the people continually re- committed to their posts. . In this class of worthy public ser- vants belongs Mr. Beckman. In order to determine his fitness for the office for which he seeks re-election, it is not necessary to discover his political beliefs and his party afiliation. His office is essentially non-partisan. Be- cause persuaded that the interests of good government demand a continua- tion of Mr. Beckman in his present public employment, I am appealing to progressive voters in all parties to give Mr. Beckman all.the encouragement and support they can. C. L. REIN. WORK OF THE JOKESMITHS. Mustc Teacher—Your son is improving, but when he gets to the scales I have to watch him very closely. Mamma—That's just like his father. H made his money In the grocery business. New York Sun. “8o you want to be & base ball umpire eh?" said the magnate. “Are you prepared to give up all your friends?" T never had any,” replied the applicant. “For years I've worked in the weather bureau.”—Judge. vMy dear fellow, just give me a fow minutes of your time, I want you to lend i ) ' “Sorry, but haven't a second 'to spare. Good day.” “I was only golng to ask you to lend me your attention, as I wished to pay you that twenty I borrowed last week, but as you're n s hurry I won't detain you, So long.""—Baltimore American. That one of the professors at Princetoh has had his domestic tris was recently evidenced when a young woman of rather serious turn endeavored to involve him in a theological discussion, “Professor,” she asked, “do you or do you not believe in infant damnation?"” “T believe In it sald the professor, “only at night."—New York Times. VEVER FORGNE YoU FoR, CALLING NEROLD" Grimy Griggs—A newspaper guy offered me a dollar if I'd let him take my picture. Ragged Rogers—And yer refused? Grimy Griggs—Yes; yer see a photograph's tot‘ .i“ €0 through a bath.—Boston Tran- seript. “I hear your daughter is going to marry a baron, Mr. Cashly, What baron is he?" ““Well, from what I can see'of the advan- tage he Is going to be to the should say he is a barren wast more American. CHARITY. Open your purse To the needy, give ald— Your good deeds on earth In the balance will be weighed; “Do unto othegs"— The Master's words obey, There's a place to be found And at all times, a way ‘“Somewhere in Omaha.” Open your purse, To the nurses give ald g Who minister to all In pain, and sickness, have laid. They're angels of mercy, And everywhere go Bringing comfort and sunshine To the poor and the low "Somewhere in_Omaha,” Open your purse All ye who can, It only a ‘“mite” clerks of court and other officials who do not make our laws, -but enforce It will always keep plain, “Lay not treausres up on eart For the Good Book will tell ye That the “Greatest of All" Is “Sweet Charity” “Somewhere in Omaha." 8 “BELLVIEW." Omaha. At the Four Rexall Drug Stores Our exceptionally complete stocks include everything in the .di 1i which a thor- sive drug store . 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