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Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
D. GLEN DEAvERS ADDRESS.


The publication of the Harrington let
ters has naturally attracted wide atten-
tion and aroused intense resentment
among populists who are sincerely de-
voted TO the principles for which their
party was organized. The declaration of
Mr.. Harrington, that after one more
year there will be but two par.
ties and those the republican and demo,
cratic parties, is rightly taken as yoicing
the views of Colonel Bryan and his con-
fidential advisers.
Against the proposed swallowing pro,
cess by which the democratic lion is pre-
pairing to lie down with the populist
lamb inside of 1t after 1900, an emphatic
protest is now entered by ID. Glen
Deaver, one of the national committee
men for Nebraska of the populist party.
Mr.. beavers arraignmeut of the democ.
racy expresses in a mild form the senti-
ment of populists who left the old par
ties In the hope Of accomplishing vital
political reforms which have been made
impossible by fusion with the democrats
and can never he hoped for from the
democratic party should it ever get into
power.
The rank and file of the populsts of
Nebraska who have the courage of their
convictions and are not willing to barter
them away for a mess of pottage will
thank Mr.. Deaver for his fearless eX-
posure of the blighting effect of fusion
upon the populist organization and
pointing out the danger that confronts
them through the conspiracy of their
faithless leaders to surrender uncondl-
tionally to the democrats and wipe out
of existence what there Is left of the
populist party.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

lippant in discussing the question, but
he has not suggested single practicable
remedy for the evil. Going about the
country declaiming against trusts may
be useful to the party as a vote-catching
eXpedient, but n leader whose infatu-
ated followers regard as peerless
statesman" should be able TO offer Il So
luton of so important a problem that
will commend itself to the serious con.
sideration of intelligent men. Neither
Colonel Bryan nor any other democratic
leader has yet proposed such solution,
The republican party has a record Of
hostility TO trusts and combinations
which warrants it In asking the conf
dence of the people in it's assurance that
1t will deal with this commanding prob.
lem in a way that will best conserve the
public interests without destroying any
lawful business or endangering any
legitimate enterprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND TRUSTS.
In one of his speeches in Ohio Colonel
Bryan ridiculed the proposition that the
republican party could and would take
care of the trusts. OF course, yet the
popocratic leader must admit that the
republican is the only party that has
made any effort through federal legsla-
ton to deal with the problem. The
record has been repeatedly cited and
should be familiar to everybody. 1t may
be worth while to again refer to it.
The republican national platform of
1883 unqualifiedly condemned all combi-
nations for the restraint of trade or to
control prices and production and de.
manded legislation against them. Two
years later a republican congress ell.
acted an antitrust law, after most care
full deliberation, which it was believed
would prove an entirely effective re-
pressve measure. The republican ma.
tiOnal convention of 1892 reaffirmed the
antitrust plank of the preceding plat
form, commended the legislation in ac-
cord Herewith and recommended addi-
tional legislation if required for the sup
preston of the combinations. The act of
1890 has not accomplished all that was
expected of 1t, but it has not been
wholly ineffective. 1t has been found
adequate against railroad combinations
to regulate rates and in this respect at
least has served an important public
service.
In the national election of 1892 the
democratic party was successful. 1t did
nothing for the suppression of the trusts
The administration of President Cleve'
land, instead of making an effort to en-
force the law enacted by republican
congress, sought to discredit it, The
democratic house of representatives OF
which Colonel Bryan was member
made no effort to deal with the trusts
beyond putting into the tariff act which
| 1t passed provision of very limited
| scope, really intended to reach only the
| sugar refining trust, and which the dem
ocratic administration made no effort tC
enforce. 1t should be said that this pro
vision originated in the senate, having
been presented as an amendment to th'
tariff bill by Senator Morgan of Ala
bama, so that Colonel Bryan and III
other democrats of the house at tina
time seem to have taken no interes
whatever in the trust question.
Such is the record and surely If In
value of party assurances for the futur
may be judged from what it has done
there is abundant reason for confidenc
in the promise of the republican part.
TO deal with the trust problem wisel
and effectively. In the meantime II /
pertinent 10 ask what Colonel Bryan
party proposes to do with the trusts. III
has been voluble in denunciati tion of III
combinations and characteristicall
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
What the Presidents Journey Proves.
Indianapolis News.

The presidents journey has proved that
no craven spirit or unsound conception is
part of the American character. 1t has de-
veloped sturdiness and determination, which
grow with opposition, to have no settle
ment but right settlement. In the hurry
of events, the bright significance of this
development should not be overlooked. The
head of the nation travelling from the far
east to the far west, meeting and mingling
with the people, has revealed to the world
that Americans are of one mind and of one
heart; that their vision is clear; that they
are not to be deceived by appearances; that
they mean to stand fast and go forward.
We are one for the honor and glory of this
country and its mission of liberty, and we
are going forward on our mission.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
This Years Wheat Crop


The most recent estimate of the total
wheat crop for 1899 is that of the Ameri-
can Agriculturist, which was published Sat-
urday, the 14th inst. 1t places the crop
at 565, 900 bushels grown on 1921 900
acres, as compared with a production last
year which, in the light of the season s
movement cannot have been less than u.s.
900, 900 bushels. The average yield per acre
is placed at 1875 bushels. The winter wheat
crop is estimated at 297 900, 900 bushels, with
an average yield Of II IS bushels per acre,
while the spring wheat crop aggregated
269 100000 bushels, with an average yield OF
1871 bushels. The average rate of yield of
oats is returned at 30.4 bushels per acre, 2.5
bushels above that of last year and an
average higher than was ever before re-
ported for the whole breadth. The crop
is estimated at s69OOO,OO bushels, against
1893 900 bushels in 1898 and S14,OOO,OO0
bushels in 1897. The quality of the present
crop is reported as unusually good.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
NUTS FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO CRACK


The answer set up in the district court
by the defunct Globe bank that the bond
given to secure payment Of the creditors
through the turning back of the assets
to the banks officers is null and void
because never fulfilled in it's conditions
form attorney general intervene on be.
half of the state for the protection of
the taxpayers and private creditors OF
that institution?
When this bank closed it's doors it had
some $4,000 of state money on deposit.
The repayment of this money Is secured
by the same bond which the signers are
now endeavoring to repudiate. Although
the term stipulated within which the
state deposit was to have been made
good expired months ago, our vigilant
attorney general has not taken a single
step so far as the public is aware to
prosecute the states claim by enforcing
redemption of the guaranty.
To the taxpayers of Nebraska whose
money has been eaten up in the Bubble
bank, this inaction on the part of the
reform attorney general must appear in
eXplicable. Why should he discriminate
in favor of this concern while devoting
time paid for by the state to grandstand
plays designed solely to manufacture
political capital for the fusion combina-
ton? Has our attorney general grown
so great chasing the trust anaconda
that he cannot stoop to the defense of
the states interests menaced by the re.
pudiation of obligations involving thou
sands of dollars of state funds to say
nothing of the lifetime savings of wage
workers, widows and orphans absorbed
by this swindle mill? ..
incidentally it may be pertinent to
ask, Why in the recent bombastic ar
raignment by the local popocratic organ
of the receivers of the various failed
banks of Omaha was no word Of refer
ence made to the Globe bank whose
wreckers seem to be enjoying the favor
of the popocratic authorities?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Ex-senator Sawyer of Wisconsin has
given $4,000 for the building of home for
friendless persons in Oshkosh.
One more German editor, DR.. Klapper of
the Deutsche Agrar Korrespondenz, has
been sentenced to Imprisonment in for
tress for six months on charge of lese
majeste for criticising the emperor.
1t is curious indeed that Senator Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew's explanation of the delay
or at least the absence OF haste-in the
opening of the Vanderbilt will had not
been thought of before. The senator said
when asked about 1t that there was no
hurry because no one concerned was in
need of money.
Many Spaniards who are unable to find
work in Spain are being assisted by the
government to emigrate to Cuba. During
the past two months the number of these
arrivals is said to have been 1000. The
Spanish government is giving assistance in
these cases to no women, and only to men
of more than 6S years of age.
Three young women have been arrested in
New York, one charged with being the pro-
prietress and tho ether two employees of a
"ladies' pool room" on Lexington avenue. A
large number of women, presumably patrons,
were in the rooms at the time of the police
raid, but were not arrested. Some OF these
women were fashionably dressed and wore
costly jewels.
The annual report of the Yale operative
! store shows prosperity. The Coop is
managed entirely by undergraduates and for
| undergraduates, and is strictly college de-
partment store. The cash sales for the first
six days OF the present term were about
| So, 900 and net profits for the year $4,000
The total membership of the Coop" Is
| 750 The cash business for the year was
S45,123.
! Detective Foster of the secret service
who was President McKinley's bodyguarc
during the recent Chicago postoffice cele'
bration, stepped unlimited into a carriage
when the president arrived al the depot
THAT seat is for member Of the recep
tion committee" said Chairman Gordon
"The gentleman has exchanged seats witt
me-" said the big man. "Iie will sit in th'
next carriage" But / was going TO 81
there" said committeeman. 30, yes. haC
forgotten. You are the gentleman who vii
take my seat in the next carriage. The mex
carriage to the president always has a sea
for me- and he told the driver to go on.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
APPEAL FROM BRYAN TO BRYAN.
His Prophecies in 1896 Compared
with Conditions Today.
New York Mail and Express.

with CONDITIONS TOday.
New York Mail and Express.
To the undeniably large body of Amer
lean voters who have come to regard Mr..
William Jennings Bryan as an infallible
exponent of economy and finance it may
seem unkind to point out certain alarm
ing LESSONS in the dogmatic teachings OF
that pervasive politician. But truth,
crushed to earth, will rise again, even when
the crushing has been done in Nebraska,
and Mr.. Bryan himself will hardly spare
the time to resist the inevitable revival.
Three weeks before the presidential cleo
tion OF 1896 he declared in fervid free
silver speech in Minneapolis:
II repeat that we are on a declining
scale; that we are going down, and that
under the gold standard gold will be dearer
still demand for gold and every new de-
mand will increase the purchasing power
of gold and depress prices"
That declaration wasn't merely an opin-
ion. 1t was a definite announcement to the
people that the country would go straight
to smash II they voted for sound money.
There were no ifs, ands or butts about It.
Mr. Bryan had appointed himself an advance
agent OF fate and he meant just what he
said, speaking by the book as he understood
1t. But for reasons best known to them
selves the people disobeyed his orders and
voted the other way. And what are the
consequences? Gold is cheaper than ever
before Tho Nebraska farmer has more
OF it than he ever had Prices, instead OF
going down, are soaring skyward, The
value of wheat and the value OF silver are
getting further and further apart, in spite
OF Mr.. Bryan's allegation that they were
inseparable-and the wheat grower isn't
saying a word. And what is still more inn
pressive, even the selling rate of Mr.. Bry-
ans one-strlng speech, instead OF being
depressed by the sound money victory, is
mounting higher and higher, keeping pace
with the cost OF other luxures.
| Going back a little further, 1t is found
! that Mr.. Bryan, during Mr. Cleveland's sec
ond maladministration, served notice on
mankind that the world could not count on
an addition of more than 10000, 900 a year
! years. That meant a total OF sl3S. 900 OOC
/ for the three year period, whereas, the
! figures show that the actual addition to the
/ worlds supply Of coined gold during those
/ three years amounted to 1864 ,7O4 300 How
ever, he came within $72G. 900 900 of guess
( ing the actual result, and that isn't bad
for financier who devotes his entire at
tention to the big, beautiful, pale-faced
Accent silver dollar.
The appeal from Bryan to Bryan is per
fectly proper and allowable. 1t will moi
for a moment embarrass the Bryan OF to-
day TO confront him with the false prophe,
years ago. The Jewel OF consistency hai
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
DAKOTA.
Hamlin Garland in the Indepo


Hamlin Garland in the Indencndent
/.
Land of a sea-ike drift of plain
Eager to grasp at her golden sand;
Seat of an empire broad and free
With nights where the buffalo range at
will,
And peopled praires where brave hearts
thrill
To the century's power and prophecy.
II
And looked far out on the misty sea
or midday grasses lying asleep,
AS silent as dim futurity.
No voice in all that wide carecn
OF soundless surf and upflung swell
OF hand of man-no shadow fell
Who sat like sentinel still AS stone:
Or sailing hawk whose shadows flight
Was not more silent than his own
Lay silver-white; while down from the
sky
That was blue as an eve and deem as tn.
sea
The blue-ioint waved and roses spread
Their tender bosoms to the west-yyind,,
lip; "''''
Shaken no more by the wild herds tread
Silent. majestic, lone as the he seas '''a'
Round the southern pole, the land un.
mete.
To laugh into plenty. beneath his feet.
III
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

j. Sterling Morton's Conservative.
There is reason to think that Croker will
be charmed with the fact that Bryan de-
clared so early in his political career 81 as
sure you 1t is the money that is in the office
and not the honor that attracts me-"
There is a Tammany taste to the grammar
and Tammany flavor to the avowa OF the
object of getting public position which ought
to give Tweedlike zest to the enthusiasm
of a certain class of Crokertes.
If Tammany does not support Colonel
Bryan after reading his frank avowal of the
reason he had for trying to become secre-
tary of the Board of Transportation for the
state of Nebraska, in 1885, it will not be
true to the Tweedish proverb that public
office is a private snap"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

Democratic papers which criticised
Governor Shaw of Iowa because they
said he could not spare time from his
political campaign TO go to San Francisco
To welcome the returning volunteers shot
little too soon. The governor will be
there to welcome them. Good points are
so scarce with the democrats now that
when they think they see one thsy do
not wait to see in which direction the
muzzle is pointed but pull the trigger.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
Jingo Airs Are Catching.

Taking up Campbel Bannerman' dec
laration that the British government has
been playing a game of bluff with the
Beers, Balfour says that bluff means a
person acting as though he held cards he
does not possess; but the country holds
the cards and means to play them" In
other words, We've got the ships, we've
got the men, and we've got the money,
too" There is no tune like the lingo air
with which to fire the popular heart, either
in Great Britain or anywhere else.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

The English government is disclosing
its hand rather early in the Transvaal
game by the announcement of plans for
the future government of South Africa,
which indicate its intention to absorb
the Boer states into the empire. The
declaration shows that II was not the
righting of wrongs of the outlanders, but
the subjugation of the Transyaal which
has been in the English mind from the
start
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

The rank stupidity of fusion managers
is everywhere in evidence. Despite the
fact that popocratic governor approved
the new law relating to the registration
of voters, they contemplate holding its
operation up by injunction proceedings
on the ground that to ask a voter to de.
clare his party preference is contrary to
the letter and spirit of the Australian
ballot law, which is designed to safe
guard the secrecy of the ballot. That
objection would doubtless hold good If
each voter was compelled to declare his
political views. AS n matter of fact the
law leaves each voter mt liberty to de-
cline to answer the question put to him
by the registrar, but in case he declines
he cannot vote at Il primary election in
which only such voters are allowed to
take part as are willing to admit open
and above board that they affiliate with
the respective party that appeals for an
expression of its members as to candi-
dates to be nominated.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

The business men Of Omaha who have
already suffered incalculable damage by
reason of the ineXcusable and intermina-
bic delay in the construction of the Six.
teenth street viaduct have no patience
with the periodic jangle over the needed
improvement. They want the viaduct
built as soon as possible. At the proper
time they will saddle the responsibility
for delay where it justly belongs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

That the speeches of Chaplain Mailley
must be telling with the voters is GER
tain, else why these desperate efforts to
discredit him with the people of the
state by the popocratic press? Chaplain
Mailley is not running for office and so
far as the public is concerned II has to
do only with the argument he advances
The attacks upon him are for the sole
purpose of kicking up the dust TO oh,
scure the real issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

voters into having themselves regis
tered for the coming election. This may
be great outrage on the popocrats who
are frightened out of their wits by the
figures on the registration boards, but
the republican county committee, de.
nounced as the machine will take the re.
sponsibility for all the horrible conse-
ouencps
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
4 New Version.
Boston Globe.

/ met with Thomas Upton, and he took
me by the hand.
Said he, what are my chances, boy; how
do you think l stand?"
You're the most courageous sportsman
that ever we have seen,
You stand at bay in manly way for Erin
and the green.
But since the color you must wear is Eng.
lands well known red.
Columbias sons will not forget to push
their boat ahead:
For, Sir Thomas, you must know the Law
that here prevails.
The Shamrock is forbid by skill to win
'gainst Yankee sails.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
TIE CRY OF "STOP 1HlEFr,

II Is very COMMON DTuCllCe among
professional pickpockets to save them
selves from pursuit by raising the cry
of stop thiefr' These are also the tac-
tics which the organ of the political des
peradoes who have subsisted upon
blackmnll and contributions from the
criminal classes are pursuing in the
present campaign. In order to cover
their own nefarious schemes and plots
they raise false issues and cry "Stop
thief!' just as leather-lunged news
vendor on the street corners cries "All
about the robbery"
One day they pretend to have uncov-
cred a terrible mares nest in the re-
publican camp and the next day they
have discovered fearful conspiracy to
ravish the ballot box or a plot to de-
stroy the peace of hundreds of families.
Fortunately the community is becoming
fairly used to these bugbears and scare
crows, and even the politicians laugh in
their sleeves over the absurd stories fab
ricated by the Fakery and the incredible
audacity with which concern notorl
ously the unfailing refuge of crooks and
thieves, political and otherwise, gives
itself airs as a champion of purity and
political reform.
The amusing feature of these pick
pocket tactics is that when the stock of
fakes runs short or runs out the Cd fakes
are rehashed with the JUNCTION with
which u veteran liar relates his Mum
chausen fctions. Thus, for example, the
story of the alleged primary election
frauds perpetrated by the Moores Rose
water machine and the imaginary raids
of city employees upon the treasury for
political ends are rehashed with varia-
tions, including that very shocking story
about the Streets of Cairo dervishes who
voted at the Fifth ward primaries and
the criminal conspiracy by which the
present district clerk was mopped off the
slate to the great horror and lasting in
jury of the gang that expected to pull
his leg during the campaign.
While realizing that the drawing of the
veil from the Streets of Cairo before that
be an indiscretion on the part of The
Bee, it may soothe the lacerated feelings
of the political fakirs to learn that all
that portion of the male population of
the Streets of Cairo that We're presumed
to have come directly from the land Of
Egypt has for several years voted the
republican ticket in Omaha disguised in
American wearing apparel. These AS
syrians masquerading in Egyptian cos
| tune had as much right to vote at re-
publican primaries this year as they and
other people living on the exposition
| grounds had last year or any other year,
| provided they had declared their inten-
| tion to become American citizens and
had lived in the city the requisite time
| prescribed by law.
But the popocratic desperadoes will
continue to cry stop thief!' and no
| policeman can ever stop them, even If
| they are caught red-handed in the act.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

Fred White, running for governor on
the popocratic ticket in Iowa, says the
principal argument of the republicans Is
Maintain the honor of the flag" That
is not the only one by considerable but
it is a pretty good one for starter.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23
Spnin's Hnrd Luck.

tnllauelphia Ledger.
Things must be very bad in Spain, il we
are to believe the Havana report which says
that the government OF that country is aiding
the best of its citizens to emigrate to Cuba,
because they can get no work at home, II
that is true, the country is committing sui
eide. 1t is giving up the struggle for exist
ence, and must soon become moribund and
pass out of existence as a political entity.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

The squeal of the pigs in the South
Omaha slaughter pens is not circum-
stance compared to the awful squeal of
the Herdmanites caused by the publica-
ton of the comparative registration fig
ures. The poor little pigs don't know
which way to turn.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

When Sir Thomas Upton desires an
other outing the people of this country
will be pleased to have him visit them.
1t is asking too much, however, to expect
us to part with cherished family heir
loom like the Americas cup.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

The English are buying up Texas
mules and shipping them to the Trans
vaal. The English may think they know
what they are doing, but people in this
country are inclined to the opinion that
they have trouble enough over there now
without importing Texas mules.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-23

1t is the hit bird that futters. The
attempt of the confusionist organ to ex-
plain away the falling off in the registra-
ton Of the fusion forces is an open con-
fession that the bogus reformers are
badly frightened over the impending de-
feat of their tickets