The herald., 1896-07-21
DODOS, DOTARDS. DUMMIES
All Are Discounted Over the
Nomination OF Bryan
THE PERIOD OF USEFULNESS
For the Nebraska Man Is Not Ye,
Past
And This Hurts Many People. Sageiy Says
Hutch.son-He Then Speaks OF Over
Ripe Cats and Digs

| The nomination of Bryan has resulted
in the total discontinue of the dodos,
dotards and other dummies who have
always insisted that man should not
occupy a high office till he had gotten
beyond the period of usefulness and was
known to be securely intrenched in his
dotage and senility.
| A man who has reached the age of
80 or 40 years without showing some
sign of ability, capacity or information
of the brain should be locked up where
he will do the least harm to people who
are not luratics, or criminals, or both.
If Mr.. Bryan's eXtemporaneous an
swer to Senator Hiils great speech is not
! evidence of great ability, some of the
ancient yawpers about Mr.. Bryan's ten
der years will please write something
better for the enlightenment Of the bal
arce of the world.
| Nobody wishes to insult the aged
merely because they are old; neither
should the young or middle-aged be
| insulted because they have not wilted or
! withered up faster than nature intend
! ed they should.
| remember a frosty headed man with
whom | used to argue on political mat
ters when | was newspaper -devouring
lad of a dozen years.
When my ancient friend had the best
of the argument he was. willing to argue
| with me before the whole village for half
| the night; but when l happened to get
| him closely cornered he always remind
| ed me that | was too young" to talk
n him n tef nd "a .pt,.
| to go and talk to boys.
There are such things as political
! roues and political lbertnes and po-
litical false prophets and political cap
| pers; and some people think that the
major portion Of the American public
have been played as political suckers"
for the last thirty years.
A man of 36 is not apt to be a political
roue, or political ''capper."
At any rate, this country has been
baking in the oven of the pessimistic
dotards or frying in the skillet of the
oleaginous ancients or roasting on the
turnspit of cor nten1ptible tricksters or
boiling in the political pot of pestiferous
pothouse politicians until it is time to
call a halt, see the halter, raise it to
some convenient limb, call in the antis
and suspend" judgment upon all the
political gamblers in Christendom.
In discoursng of politics one is occa-
sionally reminded of the fact that Amer
lean municipalities are the most ex-
pensive and altogether unsatisfactory
of all the luxuries under the sun. Our
public buildings cost half a dozen times
as much as others of similar specifica-
tions.
In private contracts the specifications
are to be followed; in public buildings
the specifications are to be lodged and
evaded and ignored.
| Concerning local fiascos-will some
one please explain why the govern
ment's shanty on Main street and the
city hall. and the county court house
and the normal school building are such
shameful examples to illustrate this
subject?
The county court house is not the
best building in the country, but it is
worth more than all the other public
buildings named.
All those buildings need many i'm
provements. Good elevators are needed
in every one of them. 1t is nothing less
than shameful to compel vast crowds
of girls to walk up the hill to the normal
school, then climb the almost intermin-
able stairs to the assembly room. 1t is
said that In one day recently no less
than eight girls were made sick by hur-
riedly climbing those stairs. This would
in such matters.
The pestiferous odors of antiquated
and extinct cats and the aroma of dogs
that have suddenly died in the midst of
their uselessness are still permitted to
saturate the air of many quarters of
this city that are not specially repre-
sented at the city hall.
To be explicit, dead cat has neutral
lied the ozone near the corner of Vignes
and Commercial streets time out of pa
thence; a dead chicken has bred disease
on Macy street near Date for week or
two: various specimens of earthly de-
cay have ornamented a vacant lot on
North Main street near Macy for an
1nsufferable age. And thousands of
people know of other tolerated and
death-breeding nuisances.
By its course in ignoring the league
of local trades unions the city mer-
chants league is not improving it's op..
portunity to purify the city government.
The merchants would do we'll to remem-
Der that there are more workingmen
than merchants; that the workingmen
pay all the taxes at last; that without
the aid of the workingmen nobody can
be elected anywhere; that the working
men organized for the local political
movement long before the merchants
began such work. and that as no one
questions their earnestness, common
courtesy and sound policy would have
led the merchants to aid the trades un-
ions rather than start a new, similar and
independent organization to endanger
the influence of both organizations.
Rogues nearly always act together; if
honest men will not do the same they
must go to the wall.
The greatest political campaign in the
history of the world has commenced
and America will be shaken from GEN.
ter to circumference" Yours truly,
EDWARD l.. HUTCHINSON.
PERSONA