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By the way, what is Adlai
doing for Bryanism? Is he only
to play a thinking part?
The Bryanite yowling shows
that Senator Hanna has been
landing his blows on sore spots.
V anted : Another paramount
issue. In haste. Apply to
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J. Bryan, Lincoln, Nebraska
If Lieutenant Hobson has a
true friend he-should send him
a two word telegram Don't
talk.
By the way, where did
Croker get the $20,000 he bet
on Bryan? Was it from the ice
trust?
' Well, anyhow, one knows al
ways where Mr. Bryan is to be
found on every question. He
i always opposed to "things."
Aguinaldo has been sufficient
ly bamboozled by Mr. Bryan's
promises to come out of hiding
and again personally direct the
insurgents.
It . seems that Col. Bryan
didn't make more money from
his oat crop than he paid for
the land. He only made half
as much.
Democratic oratory at present
zigzags amongst the issues to
such an extent that it can only
be described as rag-time elo
quence. Senator Wellington says that
he is a Bryan republican. We
have heard of Popocrats and
other parlous beasts but Bryan
republicans are new ones to us.
Practical prosperity is shown
by the fact that all the colleg
es, universities, and technical
schools of the country haye the
largest attendance in their
history.
Of course the Philippines are
remote, but they are not more
so than was San Francisco or
even St. Louis, fifty years ago.
Steam has annihilated distance.
Probably, as Mr. Bryan only
wants one term as President,
he believes that he can wipe
out the octopuses and the gold
standard together in four short
years.
The Kansas bank which
went out of business because
there were not enough bor-
rowers, to make it profitable
furnished ; an extraordinary
object lesson on prosperity.
Congressman Fowler, of
N. J. says MfcKinley and
Roosevelt will caiiry the State
by from 40,000 to 50,000 majori
ty. "Yet ' that is one of the
States the Bryanites are claim
ing. If the claim of the democratic
National Committee, that it
has no money, is true, it is
buncoeing a lot of men into
furnishing it large quantities
of campaign literature for noth
ing, r
Gongressman Hitt, of 111.,
Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs,
made a bull's eye when he said :
"The flag of the U. S. fertilizes
every foot of land over which it
waves.
The fact that there are plenty
of men willing to run for Gover
nor of Kentucky shows that
the bravery of that common
wealth has not declined, what
ever may have happened to its
civilization.
Colonel Bryan says that he
will not ask for a second term
in the white House. If the
voters of the country do their
duty, he will never be in a po
sition to ask for a second one.
Mr. O. F. Williams, , who was
U.S. Consul-General at Manila
when the Philippines belonged
to Spain, is doing effective
stumping for McK-inley and
oosevelt. He calls Mr. Bryan
pessimism.
Instead of putting forth a lot
of epigrams and glittering gen
eralities in order to bewilder
the reader, the President, in
his letter of acceptance, states
all the facts at issue clearly and
distinctly. It is a case of solid
sense against sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
The democrats are now re
joicing over their recent victory
in Luzon. Oom Paul probably
feels hurt because he got too
much sympathy from the
United States to permit time
for advice when to drop out of
the game.
There is little doubt that
Croker has been promised
control of New York federal
patronage if Bryan shall win.
This, of itself, is enough to
damn the Colonel. No can
didate heretofpre has ever gone
so far as tomakesueh a bargain
with such a man.
The President has practically
given a specific ple'dge that the
stamp taxes shall be' reduced at
the next session of Congress.
Heretofore, it .would have been
"if
decidedly risky to cut these
down, for , no one could tell
what might happen in the dis
turbed state , of - affairs abroad.
Talk ' about Imperialism !
What is Croker's control of
Tammany from - his country
seat in Great Britain except Im
perialism? No absentee em
peror could have exercised a
more despotic sway than did
the great boss during his two
and a half years of . absence
from the United States.
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Judge Powers, of Utah, is to
be congratulated if t be true
that he has refused to accept
the tricky appointment of the
acting governor to the Senate.
In any event, his credentials
will stand on the same basis as
those of Mr. Quay, whose claim
was rejected in accordance with
a long line of precedents.
The feelings of the democrats
towards Grover Cleveland are
mixed, nowadays. They- don't
like him a little bit, but then if
he is coming back to Bryan,
why, things will be different.
Meanwhile, the average demo
crat is waiting to make up his
mind whether to whoop for or
at Mr.' Cleveland.
Now Webster Davis is cir
cumstantially charged with
having received fees from the
Transvaal government not on
ly since but before he left the
government service and even
before he went to South Africa.
In fact, the latest revelations
put Mr. Davis in a rather ugly
light, and explanations from
lim are certainly in order. .
:
VWhy didn't the administra
tion put its corp of hypnotists to
work during the past summer
to make people think that they
were cool? The democrats say
that these have made the coun
try think itself prosperous
when it is not, and surely it
would be a little thing to alter
a mere detail of thermometer
by the same means.
It is a curous incident of the
two or three most important
flops to the democrats that all
of the flopfcers feel called upon
to apologize for their flopping.
They do not triumph in their
act ; in fact, they are evidently
distinctly ashamed of it. On
the other hand; the democrats
who have flopped to republican
ism are all happy in their acts
This fairly represents the
difference between the two
parties.
The democrats charge that
the report of the Taft Com
mission is a republican cam
paign document. It is the mis
fortune of the democrats that
all news of prosperity, of Ameri
can triumphs at home and
abroad, and of the return of
peace and the growth of com
merce, are republican campaign
documents. It is most singular
that the Bryanites will not
only admit this; b&it attempt to
base a charge against the r epiib-
licans on it. 4
WHO IS MARK HANNA?
Who is this Marcus Hanna, pa - -
That people call him great? . -. r : ;
Is he the man who holds the helm
Which guides the ship of state?
Is he like old Goliath tall
Like some steeple in the sky, " :
Or, is he that awful wicked man
Who winks the other eye?
Tut, tut, my son, he's just a man
Like good old Ruben Blue,
Who has his way of doing things,
And "knows a thing or two!"
But why does Br-an hate him so, -
And Popocrats berate? v
Is it because he's old and slow, .-
And isn't up to date?
Oh, no, 3T son, you bet your life
He's not so very slow,
For when his shoulder's to the wheel
The cart is bound to go. x
The reason why the Popocrats
Now tremble at his name,
Is 'cause h'e did it to 'em onCe
An's goin' to do the same
Again this fall, and bury deep
Bill Brvan and his host
In some dark place where T agal clan-
Forever more will roast, '
Where boiling oil, bolos and spears
And Aguinaldos dwell -
A place, my son, so hot and bad, .
Its name I must not tell. S. L. G
Col. Bryan has had the
nerve to state that there- would
have been no rebellion if the
Bacon resolution promising the
same terms to the Filipinos
that the United 'States had
promised to the Cubans, had
been adopted. Surely Mr.
Bryan knows that the rebellion
began' before the treaty -was
ratified and before the Bacon
resolution was even voted on.
Men whose earning- capacity .
has been largely increased are 4
not likely to kick because their
needs cost more ; they know
that the price of labor cannot .
be increased without a corres
ponding increase in the pro
ducts of labor. Many things
were cheap four years ago, but
labor was the cheapest of all,
and even at the low prices
paid work was hard to find.
Now. work is hunting for labor
everywhere.
To prove that a: portion of
the democratic party is retro- .
grading into a gang of buzzards,
polecats and serpents one only
has to read the report of the
manner, in which a herd of
.'.
rowdy scoundrels treated Gover
nor Roosevelt at Victor, Col.,
last Wednesday. The Gover
nor attempted to make a speech
there on the great issue of the
day, but was forced to leave the
platform by a shower of rotten
eggs stones andj sticks from
those cussed wretches who were
yelling Bryan, Bryan like some
escaped fiends from hades. It
seems that there is no rank of ,
republicans that is exempt from .
these dirty damnable assaults.
We hope to see the time when
sucli 4 rowdyism will get just
what it deserves. We have al
ways contended for the prin
ciple of fair play. Give every
man and all parties a fair hear
ing. Men who don't favor i air
play, dob't ''deserve to live a
mong j ackals , much less r civi
lized men.