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Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
MERCERITE SHARP PRACTICE.

Three weeks ago the republican COM
mittee of Washington county issued a
call for a delegate convention to nomi-
nate elective candidates on the county
ticket and appoint delegates to the
state, judicial and senatorial conven-
lions. The convention met at Blair
Saturday, but instead Of combining its
action strictly within the limits Of the
call, the partisans of David H. Mercer
took snap judgment on the republicans
of Washington county by selecting If
teen delegates to the Second congress
sional district convention.
For this action there is absolutely no
warrant in law. No call has yet been
issued by the congressional committee,
no apportionment Of delegates has yet
been made and nobody knows whether
the nomination is to be made by direct
primary or by the old-time delegate con-
~vention. The delegates to the Wash
ington county convention had therefore
no right to anticipate that call.
The selection of these delegates was
uOI Ohly lllCBdA ohdip pldCllSCa DuI n
downright imposition upon the rank and
file Of republicans Of Washington
county, who had not even the suspicion
that the convention would attempt to
take action on the choice of congress
man. 1t is an open question also
whether a candidate nominated by the
votes of the Washington county dele
gates could have his name legally in
serted on the official ballot as the regu-
lar republican nominee.
The most essential requirement Of the
law is publicity. All primary elections
and caucuses must be called at least
twenty days before the convention, and
the call must specifically designate the
offices for which nominations are to be
made, either by direct vote at the pri-
mary or in convention. This attempt
Of the Mercerites to capture a delegation
by underhanded trickery forcibly illus
trates the desperation of the non-resi-
dent congressman and his followers,
They know we'll that the great majority
Of republicans in the district do not
favor MERGERS denomination for a sixth
term. but they propose to force his nom
ination against the popular will and ex'
pose the party TO the risk Of defeat on
election day.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
RAILROADS LACK ONE THING.
The Courage to Deal Fairly and
squareIy with the People.

Chicago Chronicle.
The most Of what James ]. Hill has to
say In praise OF the American railroad sys-
TEN and It's achievements is true.
1t is true that we have the best system
In the world in many respects. For prompt
ness and certainty OF service and for cheap
ness Of transportation, distance for dis
lance, It far surpasses any other system In
the world.
There is no denying that. There Is good
reason to believe also that in respect both
Of general excellence Of service and In the
moderation OF average rates our system is
far better than 1t would have been under
government ownership and far better than
It soon would be If the government should
acquire ownership now.
While all this is true. another thing
which Mr.. Hill does not dwell upon is not
less true. That is, that in the matter OF
discriminating rates the railroad companies
VIGOROUSLY and habitually violate provis-
ions Of law which they are bound to obey,
and which they themselves admit are not
only Just, but actually conducive to their
own interests II obeyed to the letter.
The public is willing to give the railroad
managers Of the country all the credit
which is justly their due. In fact, the
public is proud Of them as compared with
the managers of roads in other parts Of the
world. and especially as compared with
managers OF government roads.
But not the less is the public disposed to
insist that they shall obey the laws made
to prevent them from doing wrong. It Is
80 disposed all the more strongly In view
Of the fact that there is not a shadow Of a
doubt that those law are Just and whole
some.
This is the point which now demands at
~tention. and more especially the attention
Of the railroad people, and it is the point
which Mr.. Hill found 1t convenient to over
look in his address before the Manufacture
ers' association.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
Mr.. Harriman's Plan
Phfladelphla Press Crep.N


Mr.. E. H. Hartman, the head OF two
great transcontinental systems, has ex-
pressed in a public interview the opinion
Of a large number Of able railroad men,
that the railroads are more competent to
manage the country han the country Is to
manage the railroads. Mr.. Hartman does
not say this in terms. but that is what he
means. His frank declaration is as fol-
lows:
The legislation OF the future must be
pro-railroad instead Of anti railroad, and 1t
must develop condolences between the pub
lie and the transportation companies.
Give the railroads the opportunity to de-
velop their resources, to show what they
can do, and legislation is always a remedy
which can be resorted to. l believe In
combinations of lines, whereby the products
can be transported on the lines that can do
1t most economically. In other words, ~
you can transport over comparatively
straight or level raods, as against crooked
and mountainous roads, you can do It
cheaper. There must be SOM way given
to compensate those high-grade lines.
. l believe commissions are things OF
the past. 1 do not think transportation
companies should have 70 submit to dicta-
ton or control by bodies who do not know
anything about transportation. I think
now is the time for all of us to speak out
what we think. Meet the thing face to
face. Bodies formed for the purpose Of
controlling transportation should have In
them representatives Of the companies
whose business is to be controlled"
Practically, this is a scheme that the
railroads should have the privilege both Of
combination and of making rates. This is
today the issue in railroad affairs. Men
like Mr.. Hartman wish to have state and
federal commissions abolished, no power
vested In the interstate federal commission
to make rates, and, through the power Of
combination, r~ate-makipg vested in the
railroads. Wiser men, like Mr.. A. ]. Cas-
satt of the Pennsylvania railroad, with a
broader view, see that this power can never
be granted. Such men are willing to see
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
TO FORGIVE.

s. W. Gillian IN Los Angeles Herald.
You say: Such ardent friendship IL mis-
taken; II you knew"
There! Close your lips and listen: When
the sky is clear and blue.
When sun and birds and dewdrops mako
the big world glad and bright,
Would all be half so precious had there
been no clouds or nightr
Would flowers seem so beautiful II sent
from caven above
Does not their earthly origin add sympathy
to owe
So friendships must be human II on earth
they'd thrive and live
For what does friendship feed on when
there's nothing TO forgiven
How could my heart be gentle to'ard q
heart that knew no pain2
Could friendship go on living II It's prof
fered help were vain?
Could /, we're / not certain you were only
human, feel
The tender. sweet compassion that my
words 10 you FeYeal3
Oh say not, 'If you only know tho
Father knows ] know;
He left His blessed impress on each human
My loved one must be human while upon
this earth / live
For earthly love grows stronger when
there's something TO forgive
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
PRESIDENT ANp STRIKE.

While President Roosevelt has no legal
authority to axe any action in connec.
ton with the anthracite coal strike, he
Is very properly manifesting a great
deal of interest in the contest and is dis
posed to do whatever he can to bring
about an amicable settlement OF the
unfortunate controversy. AS the dis
patches have already noted the presi-
dent has been in conference with the
commissioner of labor with a view to
ascertaining what can be done and there
is a reasonable probability that some
thing Of a practical nature will result
from this.
1t appears that in the law creating
the department Of labor the commits
sioner is specially charged with author
ity to investigate the causes of and facts
relating to all controversies and dis
putes between employers and employees
as they may occur and which may
tend to interfere with the welfare of the
people of the different states. The gen.
eral purpose of this clause was to pro-
cure, for the use of congress at stated
intervals, reports on vents which have
passed, but the language is so broad
as to authorize an inquiry by the COM
missioner while a controversy is still in
progress. 1t is under this law that the
president has conferred with the COM
missioner of labor, but all that either
can do in the premises, so far as
appears, is to investigate the facts and
to report the same to congress. There
was formerly a law under which the
president might have interfered in the
anthracite coal strike, but this was re-
pealed some years ago and at present
the president has no power to interpose.
However, there is no reason why the
commissioner of labor may not investi-
gate conditions in the anthracite region
and report the same to the president,
who can communicate the facts to con-
gress, and probably this will be done.
What effect such action would have is
altogether problematical, but 1t would
at least %acquaint the public with an
official statement Of the true character
Of the questions in controversy and thus
enable the people to judge fairly as to
the justice of the claims Of the respec-
tive parties to the controversy. That 1t
is desirable this. should be done We
think will be universally admitted and
therefore the interest which President
Roosevelt is manifesting In the matter
must meet with general appreciation.
1t ought to be safe to assume that both
parties to the controversy will be glad
to accept the efforts of the president of
the United States to bring about a salts
factory settlement.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
NOTES.

Several eminent local statesmen Of 81.
Louis have taken French leave of the town
and scooted for shelter in other chimes.
Prof. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia uni
versity, inventor Of the ocean telephone,
began his career in America as an attend
ant in a Turkish bath parlor in Brook
Ign.
Carl Faber Of Munich, son of the famous
pencil manufacturer. has given $3.50. 900 to
the Germanic museum at Nuremberg and
to the Bavarian National museum al
Munich.
Senator Lodge Is q connoisseur on shirt
designs. The other day he appeared in
Washington with a shirt and vest of the
same material. a delicate purple, which was
woven especially for him.
Prof. virchow. the German Psychologist,
celebrated his eightieth birthday recently
by taking a double dose of borax to prove
that its taking was a benefit to the health
He has taken a dose Of borax daily fol
years past.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts
of the railroads to furnish quick and
luxurious transit out Of the city, nifty dis
quieted C~hicagoans took their departure
via the suicide route during the month of
May. 1t is mighty hard to please some
people.
In the autobiography which he furnished
for the congressional directory Representa-
tive Robert w. Davis Of Florida tells Of
his early struggles and subsequent achieve
ments, adding this touch of gallantry.
Before reaching his majority he was mar
ried to Miss Mercer, and to her influence
is due whatever Of success he has attained. .
HrL. r-,YSkh NJ U1-N- - -. a.
camp up the Hudson near Peekskill. has
among its lieutenants Cornelius Vanderbilt
and Henry Rogers Winthrop, who are
worth. respectively. 1880. 900 and So. OOO. 900.
The two young millionaires sleep on cots
in tents. drink their coffee out Of their tin
cups In the morning and eat on tin plates
and declare they enjoy It to the limit.
Ellen NJ. Stone. the missionary. who was
90 long the unwilling guest OF Bulgarian
~brigands, is about TO be put into a meIo-
drama on account OF her adventures in the
Balkans. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian
b%alloonist; the white squadron OF the Ameri-
can navy, American and British sailors
mountain robbers, Turkish soldiers and
other picturesque features are introduced,
the dramatist evidently having determined
TO have at least several thrills In each act
The tablet which is to mark the birth
place of George Peabody. the banker and
philanthropist. will be unveiled by the
Peabody (Mass.) Historical society on jun
l6. The tablet is OF brass and has the fol-
lowing inscription In raised letters: Birth.
place OF George Peabody. February IS. 1876
Placed by the Peabody Historical Society
June l6. 1902" This tablet will be boltet
to a rough stone post nve feet out OF the
ground. to be set two feet inside the fence
directly in front Of the old part OF the
| house In which Mr.. Peabody was born
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
"GO WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN.

Minneapolis Times: Mr.. Bryan has heard
from Indiana by this time and 1t Is fair
to presume that Indiana will hear from
Mr.. Bryan very soon.
Brooklyn Eagle: Patrick Henry McCar-
rem made the hit at the Harmony con-
ference In Albany, Monday. Bryan should
be asked to go way back and sit down.
in case he seeks to say who shall or shall
not be at the front. There was no rhetoric
In that. There was some slang. Said a
learned professor ono to his pupils
Slang, young gentlemen, is sometimes the
straightest avenue to the human heart"
Louisville Courier-Journal 1t is like old
times to read of the Indiana democratic
convention-the old times when every In
diana democrat stood shoulder to shoulder
in party line and battle line, and every
foot of Indiana ground was battle-ground;
the old times when every democratic face
throughout the country turned intently to
Indiana. watching the progress and await
ing the result Of the struggle there with
an interest born of the knowledge that
the result In Indiana indicated and In large
measure shaped the result In the nation.
Surely there is nothing In portents IL the
good old times have not come again for
the Indiana democracy-if 1t is not again
to take it's place in the forefront Of the
column and is not again to help win and
to lead the way to victory.
Indianapolis News: The platform adopted
yesterday by the democrats OF Indiana and
the speech Of Mr.. Kern, chairman of the
convention, are notable chiefly for their
practical reputation Of the Bryan leader
ship and their silence on the Bryan theory
Of finance. Mr.. Kern, II is true, mentioned
the name Of the Nebraskan as one of the
democratic leaders, but that is all. The
platform does not even do that. He is
entirely ignored. Nor is there any de-
mand for the free, unlimited and inde-
pendent coinage Of silver at the ratio OF
16 to 1 without the aid or consent Of any
other nation on earth" When 1t is re,
membered that only a few years ago even
city conventions found 1t necessary to re-
affirm the free coinage doctrine, and when
men were discharged from positions in the
city government because they did not be-
lieve in that doctrine, 1t will be realized
that great progress has been made.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
A GREAT LIGHT APPEARS,
Indiana Democrats Turn from Dark
ness to the Dawn.
Detroit Free Press (dem.)

Detroit Free Press (dem.)
The democrats Of Indiana have gone I'D
towards Damascus and seen a great light.
The state convention which met at Indian
apolis Wednesday, rejected both the divin-
ity OF free silver and the heaven-bornness
OF the heaven-born ratio, in a financial
plank that reads as follows:
w recognize as an economic fact the
increase of standard money arising from
the vast increased production of gold from
our own and foreign mines, and the pro-
digious influx Of foreign gold in his country
as a result of an exceptional demand for
our products arising from foreign wars and
other causes, and we point to the result
consequent upon this increase of the cir
c~ulating medium as a demonstration Of the
truth Of the quantitive theory Of money"
When the Indiana democrats have finally
learned that money is only a measure OF
value, and that the government provides
only a small amount Of the money actually
In circulation, they will have finished the
remainder Of their financial education and
will place the qualitative theory Of money
alongside Of their cumulative theory. Pos
sibly they have already reached that stage.
No political party likes to admit that II
has been burning incense at the shrine of
ldise BouS, anu ~ Is tne way OF man 10 let
himself down as easily as possible after he
has seen the error Of his ways. This
is all the Indiana democrats have done.
Mr.. Bryan will unquestionably scold
them. He may bring out his bell and
his book and his candle and pronounce
a formal anathema; but they will sur
vive 1T. They can point to excellent
presidents. The Presbyterians have re-
vised the Westminster confession and OBJ
liberated infant damnation. Even Mr.. Bryan
cannot claim that the Chicago platform
was a more perfect piece of work thar
the Westminster confession, and II he IL
determined not to ~af1liate with the demo-
Gratis that prefer live issues to dead ones,
no power will seek to separate him from
his dead. The rest OF the mourners, how
ever, are going to trot back to tow with
the hearse and the gentleman from Indiana.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10

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the power OF making rates vested In a
commission, II the power OF combining and
pooling is left With the railroads.
II Mr.. Hartman or anyone else thinks
that control over the profits Of all the In
dustries OF the country will be left in the
hands Of any body of railroad men or any
railroad corporation he is making a mistake
quite as great, IL on a bloodless field. as did
H.. 1. NJ. George Ill.
The power TO make rates Is the power
TO tax every profit Of every industry in
the United States. AS long as this power
is modified and controlled by competition
the public is safe. II competition is to
cease by consolidation the public Of in
dustry. trade and retail distribution is not
safe IL the combined railroads have the
power to make the rates. II the railroads
are permitted to exercise both these
powers they will manage the country. This
may suit Mr.. Hartman. He is perfectly
ready to be a benevolent railroad despot.
All Of them are. But this country is not
organized In order to give despots, railroad
or otherwise, a chance to show their
benevolence. 1t wac made to be a govern
ment of laws and not Of men or OF rail-
roads and II will remain such a govern
ment In spite Of the benevolent desire
which Mr.. Hartman and other railroad
presidents show to manage its affairs.
Railroad interests themselves are safer
with men like President A.. J. Cassatt, who
see clearly that In the long run the rail-
roads will gain, by a fair recognition Of the
right Of the state to require railroad rates
to be reasonable through methods more
efficient than those OF courts, in short by a
commission. A bill providing this is before
the senate. 1t should pass. The supreme
court in it's decision on the Chicago termi-
nal charges has again decided against in
terstate commission rates. The decision
now is on a detail. but 1t is just as effective
as II 1t were on the main issue. Congress
ought not to leave the commission power
less even II Mr.. Hartman and some other
railroad presidents think they can do bet
ter In making rates than the commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
KING COAL.
Possible Substitute OmcialIY An-
in France.

New York World.
We have in this country various kings,
such as cotton, oil and steel, but we have
only one tyrant-coal. The industry, the
commerce., the home comfort of the whole
nation are at its mercy-because We must
have 1t or see everything brought to a
standstill.
There is only one escape from this peril
Gus d~ependence-a cheap and practicable
substitute. This the scientists and econo>
mists OF the world are seeking. During the
present year a special exposition was held
in Berlin to chow the technical uses of
alcohol. From abundant crops OF potatoes
vast quantities OF raw alcohol have been
produced. Last year Germany used over
80, 900, 900 gallons of 1t. 1t will run motors,
furnish lighting and heating and do cook
ing. France, making similar experiments,
talks of a navy run by alcohol-an oppor-
tunity for much testing, but a serious sug-
gestion withal.
Germany does not stop with the various
uses Of alcohol. but is perfecting a process
whereby peat may be pressed and converted
into briquettes which may take the place
Of coal. at is expected" says Electricity,
that the new process will not only serve
to greatly relieve the scarcity of fuel in
Germany, but eventually furnish a surplus
for export"
But the most interesting and promising
substitute is announced in recent consular
reports from France. Inventors there claim
to have succeeded in making petroleum
briquettes which, as oficially reported,
possess all the advantages OF coal and
petroleum without the Inconvenience OF
either" They weigh one-half as much as
coal and produce twice the heat. They
burn without smell or smoke, leave prac-
tically no residue. keep indefinitely. are
clean to handle and are perfectly safe. The
process of manufacture is so simple that a
10000 plant will turn out several hundred
tons a day. The claims for these briquettes
would seem incredible were they not made
on government authority. On boats. by
their lighter weight and superior COM
bustion, they would reduce the necessary
fuel cargo for a given voyage fully one
half. And our consul reports that they
can be used in domestic and Industrial
work without changing furnaces or ranges.
AS to cost, even in this early stage OF their
manufacture the petroleum briquettes can
be made for S14 per short ton. So. II our
consul is correct, we have here a substitute
which at the very least would keep the
price Of coal under 81. not to mention lite
other advantages.
There is substantial hope in these things
Mankind. SO quick to find substitutes fol
every other necessity in Its operations. has
depended too long on coal, and coal hAs
cost It dear. Every strike is paid for BY
the factories and the homes. Each strike
becomes more expensive and q greater
burden on industry and progress.
The world will be better and freer wher
good substitutes tOpple Old King Coal from
l his throne.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-10
TIE DISCUSSION oF R0urrs.

The argument made by Senator Hanna
on the isthmian canal question has I'M
doubtedly made a favorable impression
upon the country in behalf of the Pan
anna route. The facts presented by the
Ohio senator are of a most convincing
the danger from volcanic conditions
they have received very substantial sup
port from the latest disturbances in
Guatemala, which show beyond doubt
that the situation in that region is peril
Gus and that 1t would be a very grave
mistake on the part OF the government
to expend a vast sum Of money there
In the construction of a canal. The
argument presented by Senator Hanna
was wholly practical in character and as
such will appeal to the business judg.
ment Of the country, rather than to SEN
timental considerations.
1t is impossible to say with any de.
gree of certainty what the prevailing
opinion in the senate Is In regard to this
question, but there is pretty good au.
thority for the opinion that there is q
majority in favor of the Panama route,
According to recent advices based upon
careful inquiry 1t appears likely that the
result Of the discussion will be the adop-
ton OF the SpoOner substitute for the
pending bill, which provides for the Sc
lection by b president OF the Panams