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own In population, while Missouri
gained enough in population to entitlez
her to an additional congressman, who,
thank heaven, will be Democrat.
While grand old Missouri under Dem
ocratic auspices is rapidly advancing
to the first place in the rare and radi-
ant sisterhood Of states comes Senator
Burton and advises her to become Re-
publican, which is the same thing as
advising her to stand stock still while
the procession sweeps by. WHY she
follow his evil advice7 Well, hardly
not till people have lost their memory.
At one point In his speech a strange
thing happened. The Globe-D Democrat
says:
A cup Of water was handed to the
speaker: but, with the tragic air of a
Kentuckian when offered water to drink,
he spurned 1t, saying his machine was
run by wind, not by water, and his state
uses only wind and not water.
Yea. verify; Burton's machine is run
by wind. he did right to say SO. An
open confession is good for the soul.
1t remained for Senator Burton to
claim that the appropriation made by
, congress for the st. Louis worlds fair
was made for political effect by a Re-
publican congress to induce Missouri to
go Requirement. least that is what
the Globe Democrat reports him as say
ing. If he said anything of the sort,
/ he stated what was absolutely false.
II the Republicans in congress voted to
give $GOOO,00O of the public money in
order to induce Missouri to 60 Repub-
lican, they were badly hoodwinked by
somebody and will be sorely disap-
pointed when the election returns come
/, in. Perhaps they will repeal the bill
I, making the. appropriation for the
worlds fair! That is evidently what
1 Burton would advise. Perhaps there
1 has been at some time, somewhere, a
| viler statement made by some monde
script and irresponsible Republican pol
itician, but Senator Burton of Kan
sas is certainly the first person holding
!, so high position to intimate that the
congress of the United States would
! pass such an important law MS the
worlds fair bill for the purpose of In
ducing state to quit one political
party and join another. What other
Republicans in congress will think of
Burton's bad break remains to be seen.
A Rising KentuckIan.
The Hon. James NJ. Kehoe of the
! Ninth kentucky district has been
unanimously renominated, an honor
worthily bestowed. Kehoe is one Of
the brightest young men in the house,
IN indefatigable worker, a most ex-
cellent public speaker and Democrat
without guile. Kehoe redeemed the
! district in 1900. which for several
terms had been misrepresented by a
| Republican. In fact the Republicans
have elected more representatives from
! that district since the war than the
/ Democrats.
Kehoe carried it by the skin Of his
teeth in 1900. He ought to be re-elect-
ed by large majority. for n more
faithful representative never Eat In the
| house in Washington. He looks after
the interests of his constituents, Demo-
Gratis and Republicans too. He attends
! faithfully to his duties In the house
itself and looks after the wants of his
constituents in the departments.
A Brilliant Young Nebraskan.
One Of the most promising young
| men in the house Of representatives is
the Hon. A. G. Shallenberger In addi-
ton to being very able man, he is a
! very handsome man, in the flower of
/ 1lfc to e,f1 <,f al =
) the modulation of his voice remind
! one somewhat Of the Hon. William
| ]. Bryan. Shallenberger has a great
career before him IL he stays In con-
gross long enough. There never was a
more systematic or successful fight
made In the congress Of the United
States than that made by the advo-
Gates of the great irrigation scheme,
and no one among the advocates of
that great enterprise conducted him
self to better advantage than did Shall
lenberger. He had evidently studied
the subject from every conceivable
standpoint and took the house by storm.
In discussing the proposition that irri-
eating the west would be detrimental
to the eastern farmers, he delivered
himself Of the following passage, which
is well worth reading for many rea-
| sons: 49,,
| Let me illustrates: remember that when
started eastward for this capital watt
| ed with great interest the hour when I
| should enter the historical confines of the
| great state of Pennsylvania, because my
| people had settled there amid her noun
| ta1nS almost WM haI
| often heard my father tell of the riches
and glories of that grand old common
wealth. had been told by a gentleman
In whom had great confidence that in
the southwest corner of that state were
centralized more productive capacity and
material wealth than in any other spot
on earth, that there was built up that
colossal fortune that has spread libraries
all over these United States and has made
tts pwnsf almost despair, that In spite OF
his utmost endeavors he win yet be dis
graced by dying rich and which has final
~ eliminated In the most stupendous Inv
dustrtal combination ever known to man.
the United States Steel corporation.
But when looked out Of the car win
dow ON a-areary November morning and
caught my first glimpse of Pennsylvania
| soil ana saw her bleak and barren hills.
her rocky valleys. her stony farms and
her rivers red from the wash of her clay
and sand, said to myself no wonder my
father left this cheerlcss region MS soon
as he was able to travel alone and sought
the fruitful and fertile BOIL OF Illinois, and
the thought came to me thatsif were to
bring steer from the green pastures of
beautiful Nebraska and turn him out to
fatten upon these mountains l would
never dare to look a steer in the face
again. But that was only my provincial
ism asserting itself