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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
DRIFT.

Senator Allison has been asked to de-
sign the platform for the republican con-
~vention.
Lieutenant Governor Lee Of Missouri gave
up his Job, though the sacrifice was great.
He needed the money, too.
Major Bittinger Of ST. Joseph, Mo-, who
didn't like the Montreal hotels and came
home to make a place for our old friend
Major Edwards, is going to run for mayor
Of his home town by way of vindication,
and so forth.
A lively municipal contest is predicted
In Baltimore, where Congressman Frank
c. Wachter has been nominated for mayor
BY the republicans. Robert NJ. McLane,
states attorney, is the democratic nominee.
The election will take place on May 8.
District Attorney Jerome Of New York
may be expected to have something to say
about Rev. DR.. Parkhurst ere long. The
preacher was asked II he thought Mr.. Jer-
ONE could be induced to run for mayor.
Would he rum" said the reverend gentle
man. why, he would not hesitate to run
for car of all the Russias II such a thing
were possible"
In the presidential contest OF 1904 there
will be 476 electors, the number OF senators
(ninety) added to the number Of represen-
%tatives, 1856. In the two previous presi-
Dental elections, 1896 and 1900, the number
Of electors was 447. In 1892 it was 444,
the addition being made by the admission
Of Utah as a state. In 1884 and 1888 there
were 401 electors. In 1876 and 1880 there
were 1863.
The socialists OF Cincinnati made extern
slve efforts before this years municipal
election to poll a vote SO large as to COM
pei their recognition as an important fac
tor in the politics Of the city in the future.
They made a protracted canvass, and the
outcome Of the election was that they
polled for their mayoralty candidate S,77t
votes, an unimportant total in an election
at which the successful candidate had 16, 00C
majority.
While on his way to st. Louis ex-Presi.
dent Grover Cleveland was greeted by O
bunch of Hoosier democrats at Vincennes
Ind. A veracious chronicler OF the scene
says: "Ex-Prosecuting Attorney John 7
Goodman was the spokesman OF the party
Mr.. Cleveland was closely questioned about
the presidential contest next year, but HI
was far from confidential. He earnestly in.
quired about the natural resources OF tn,
country about Vincennes, and asked 1
natural gas or oil had been discovered here
Mr.. Goodman replied in the negative anC
said oil and coal had been discovered, bu
that gas, artificial as we'll as natural, wa
found further west-Nebraska for instance
At this sally Cleveland laughed hilariousl,
and patted Mr.. Goodman on the back. :
declare that's a good one, isn't it2' he said.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

There is great rejoicing in the demo-
cratic camp over the decision Of the
supreme court that confirms the title Of
the Broatch police commission. The
democratic platform declares for home
rule. The decision Of the ~popocratlc
supreme court destroys home rule. Why
this jubilation? Manifestly because
democrats are banking on the police
board being able to bulldoze and dragon
the liquor dealers into line for Howell,
Wright and the rest of the democratic
ticket
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
4 POLITICAL QUESTION.

The decision Of the supreme court of
the United States in the Alabama case,
involving the Acknowledgement Of
negroes under the new constitution of
that state, is of very great Importance.
In the opinion Of the court the question
raised, that of the right Of a colored
citizen to register as a voter, is entirely
political and therefore not within the
Jurisdiction of the judicial department
of the government, but one to be dealt
with only by the political branch-that
is by congress. The meaning or prac-
teal effect of this decision is, as the
New York Evening Post points out, to
~extinguish the hope OF colored men In
the south that their electoral wrongs
might be righted by the supreme court
Of the United States, exercising its
powers of equity. No such relief can
be granted, says the majority Of the
court. The remedy for such wrongs
must be political, declares the court.
''That points the way to the next STEP"
says the Post. Congress must act. 1t
has full legal power to enforce a po-
litical remedy. Under the fourteenth
amendment 1t can reduce the repre-
sentation of those states which dis
franchise large classes of their citizens"
Then there Is the constitutional pro-
vision which makes each house the judge
Of the election, returns and qualifications
of its members. SIN any case and In all
ways" declares the Post, 'the south
must be given to understand that there
is a national conscience which will moi
sleep in the presence of injustice to the
negro. He is entitled to the full and
equal protection Of the laws. The
suffrage can not be taken away from
him unfairly" e.
How great this injustice is in Ala.
bama a few facts will show. The reg
istered vote of that state is about 1S1,
600. out of a population of the voting
age of 413, 765. Thus Alabama citizen;
Of voting age have to the number Of
232, 765 been illegally and unjustly de
prived of suffrage. OF registered Negro
voters there are not 5000. yet there arr
fully 1000 negro male teachers engaged
in the public and private schools of tn,
state, while the number Of colored citi
zens in various businesses is not les
than 5000. These and the many thou
sand negro owners Of their own farm
homes should have come up to the re
quirements of good citizenship and O
character, at least. under which ties
no white citizen was excluded by tn,
board of registrars in 1902.
The supreme court decision seems t.
make the outlook for the colored citizen
Of the south, so far as the suffrage /
concerned, hopeless, but the representa-
ton in congress and in the e~lectora
college Of the states which ~disfranchis
those citizens is yet to be settled an,
that II win constitute an issue Ina on
politics at no distant time can be con
hdently predicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
THE PUBLIC TAKES HOLD.
MOnOpOlies and Mergers Brought
Within the Scope OF Law.
United States Investor.


Whatever may been the method en-
ployed the principle underlying a vast num-
Der of railroad and Industrial amalgama-
lions of the last few years is the same as
that back of the Northern Securities COM
pany, and all these projects fall construc-
lively under the ban of the court 1t does
not follow that legal proceedings will be
instituted against all or any of them; but
at the same time there is no certainty that
they will not, as a class, sooner or later,
find themselves under the same pressure as
the Northern Securities company. The out
come very likely will depend on how these
various enterprises conduct themselves; II
their methods are characterized by moder-
alton, they may never find themselves an
~tagonized by the public, who are likely to
wink at their infringement Of the law so
long as they work no actual hardship.
There is no gainsaying the fact. however,
hat every trust and railroad combine has
been put on its good behavior even II It
has not incurred the likelihood Of drastic
treatment at the hands OF the law. In
short, the consolidation movement engen-
dered by the events of the last few years
has been given q tinging blow ia the face;
the trust, the eommunity-in-interest pro-
ject, has been driven out Of court with
scourges; 1t exists now only on suffrance;
1t is a pariah ESQ to speak,. The prestige
Of every such scheme, including the United
States Steel Corporation, is, by reason Of
the ruling of the court in the Northern
Securities case, impaired in the stock mar
ket, and IT seems safe to assert that none
OF them will regain their former position
in speculation. To be sure the state Of the
money market would be likely to prevent
that for a long time to come, but even
after general financial conditions have be-
come normal, trusts and community of-in-
tcrest projeets-being diseredited at law
can hardly expect to regain their former
position in the estimation Of the speculative
public.
The chief Importance of the Northern Sc
%eurities decision has. however, still to b.
noted. II is found in the fact that the
people are still IN control OF this republic
that they still have the power to moult
the AFFAIRS OF the nation in accordance will
their wishes. The power Of the great hnan
ciers in controlling administrations. Il
shaping the treasury policy OF the Unitet
States, in indicating the character OF tn,
laws enacted by congress. has been 81
marked in the past, that many had begul
to. predict the extinction Of real democratic
government among the American people
The GENERALIZATION Of capital and the ris
Of the Industrial trust In recent years hav
done much to aecentuate these fears. Nov
however. a high court Of Justice waive
aside all technicalties and legal bubble
raised by the monopolists In pursuance o
their schemes, and summarily brings thes
enemies OF the public, peace and prosperit
within the scope OF a broad law. unde
which the people Of the United States as
ssrt their right to regulate commercial in
ltarnnuF1A.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
TAXING SPECIAL FRANCHISES.

The decision of the New York court
Of appeals, sustaining the special fran
chise tax law of that state, is one Of
very great Importance to that common
wealth and is likely to have a consid-
cradle influence elsewhere. The law
taxes the franchises Of corporations en-
joying special privileges in the high
ways. such as those which are pos
sessed by the street railways, the tele-
phone companies, the telegraph lines,
the gas companies, etc. The New York
Times says that pending the litigation
which has resulted in this decision,
more than $751; 600 Of taxes have been
kept in the suspense account. In New
York City the taxes levied for the last
three years now payable under the de-
clsion amount to nearly SIS, 000,0 900.
Every municipality in the state will be
materially benefited by the decision, the
soundness and Justice of which is not
questioned by any n outside the cor
poratlons that are affected. 1t is re-
marked that the law will enable the
people of New York to recover from the
franchise grabbers and stock waterers
a part, at least, Of the rental for public
utilities which ought to have been ex.
acted in the first place and at the time
the privileges were granted. That the
decision will exert an influence beyond
the limits Of the Empire state is very
probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Fear Checked by Dissipation.
Philadelphia Press.

Pnllauelpnla Press.
Surgeon General o'Reilly says that the
prevalence Of alcoholism in the army is
much greater in the United States than In
the Philippine Islands. The difference is
greater at present owing to the cholera in
the islands than at other times, but there
always has been a difference in favor of
the Philippines. TIL comparative immunity
of the troops in the Philippines from the
cholera, DR.. o'Reilly says, is due to the
greater care they take of themselves. A
decided deterrent effect has probably been
produced by the prevalence of the cholera.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The ~well-meaning people who have
been roped into the Bensonlan follow
ing are beginning to realize that there
is absolutely no prospect of Benson's
election and that they must decide for
themselves whether they prefer Howell
to Moores-in other words, whether they
prefer to turn over the city government
to the allied corporations unchecked or
whether they will prefer to have a mayor
who has the nerve to stand up and veto
jobs and schemes to plumber the tax
payers, ever If by so doing he incurs
the enmity Of the corporations.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Shallow Reasoning Of the Magnates

San Francisco Chronicle.
The railroad magnates who have a tend
ency to talkativeness have recently been
reminded that their present attitude to-
ward pooling seriously impairs the force
Of their contention that the individual
system, through competition, must neces-
sarily result in a more rapid improvement
Of facilities than could possibly occur
under government ownership. Inquisitive
advocates Of the latter method are now
asking what virtues will be left to claim
for individualism If the policy of combin-
ing remains unassailed, for in tina event
there will be no competition.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Philadelphia North American.

Philadelphia North American.
The coal trust succeeded In keeping the
question OF freight rates out of the strike
hearing, although It was the key to the
whole subject of the inquiry, and now the
power of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion and the courts to compel disclosure of
the terms of the conspiracy to strangle
competition and plumber the public will
be resisted and defed to the very limit.
Unfortunately the case against the coal
trust is being heard by a body lacking
the power to enforce its orders by sum-
mary commitment for contempt.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Corporation republicans of wise

Corporation republicans of Wisconsin
who wear the label of "Stalwarts," are
said to nave formed a plan to turn the
state over to the democrats at the next
general election in order to Dust Cover
nor Lafollette, who is a very offensive
partisan in the eyes Of the railroad cor
porations and other community of in
terest combines. That is precisely the
course corporation republicans have pur-
sued in Nebraska and are now pursuing
in the Omaha municipal campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Unlike its local contemporaries, The
Bee does not sound the alarm against
campaign lies a day or two before cleo
ton. The campaign waged by the OPP
pOnents Of Mayor Moores and the re-
publican ticket has been not only a
tissue OF falsehoods repeated from day
TO day, but a campaign Of deception and
defamation from the outset and a per
feet avalanche OF prevarication, for
which the yellow journal is noted.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Although the government transports
are feeding the marines with timed
meats and other canned d~elicacies, $50
men who had enlisted in the marine
service deserted in a body as soon as
they struck the Pacific coast. Callfor-
mia strawberries and cream had alto
gether too much attraction.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

class which has suffered Is that which
owes It's rank to the numerous deposed and
fugitive sovereigns OF the Bourbon family
whose titles are now legally extinct. 1t
seems mat the king of the Two sicilies,
the grand duke Of Tuscany. the four SOW
ereign dukes Of Parma, Modena. Calabria
and Este, the prince Of Benevento and
others have thought that they could at
least create mobiles. Henceforth II will be
all the more necessary to examine care
fully the titles Of our distinguished italian
visitors.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The bunco game which the corpora
ton magnates have been playing upon
Bepson and the sincere Bensonians is
rapidly coming to a head. The cor
poration democrats headed by William
A. Paxton have commenced Topping
from Benson to Howell, but they want
the credulous republicans to die with
Benson and elect Howell.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The city democratic central committee
warns all democrats that opponents OF
Howell are preparing a number Of cam
paign lies to be published a day or two
before election, when it will he too late
for them to be answered. This is
supremely ridiculous. The truth about
Howell is bad enough.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The franchised corporations of New
York have been hit very hard by the
decision OF the court of appeals which
has recently sustained the constitu-
~tionality OF the statute taxing the fran
chises OF the street railways, gas and
electric light companies and other cor
pOrations operating public utilities. The
value Of the taxable franchises Is es-
timated at more than $1,000, 900, eco and
New York real estate owners are con-
graduating themselves on the prospec-
tive reduction OF their taxeA
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

A reduction in grain rates from Chi
cago and points on the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers to the Atlantic seaboard
will be agreeable to the farmers this
side of the river, providing always that
the reduction on the east of the river
is not followed by an equal or larger
raise west of the river.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Colonel William Jennings Bryan
wants 1t distinctly understood that the
reports connecting him with several
senators In Wyoming oil land specula-
tons are pure fabrications. Mr.. Bryan
will continue to sink his money in the
Nebraska newspaper field.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The supreme court decision on the
police board will have one good effect.
1t will put an end to the lawlessness
Of William ]. Broatch and his usurpa-
ton Of the functions of the mayor just
because he was elected In the absence
OF Mayor Moores as temporary chair
man OF the police board.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Chicago is still sticking pins into st.
Louis. A Chicago newspaper declares
that St Louis has discovered that cots
will not do. 1t needs either a lot Of
new hotels Or new stories on the old
hotels.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
working the Claim Department.
Kansas CITY Stnr.

Kansas City Star.
Statistics prepared by the Interstate Com
merce commission show that during the
last year 93s persons were killed in rail-
road wrecks in the United States, and 1873
were injured. The claim department is be-
coming one Of the most important features
Of the railway service.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Relief in Public Ownership.
Chicago Post.

chicago POST.
President Baer may be a long-headed
business man, but he is certainly short
sighted II he fails to see the logical out
conn of his present position. 1t is such
statements as he is making that are swell
ing the tide of public ownership and man
agement.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
CLEAN of Hope in sight.
San Francisco Call.

bdH IIdWITsIU NdIIs
The worlds production Of gold during the
last ten years is estimated to have a weight
Of over 1900 tons and a value Of more than
50, 291, 900, 900, and If improvement in min
ing methods progresses at the same rate
as in recent years we may in future have
gold enough and cheap enough to please an
old-time %populist.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The democratic platform pledges in
favor of municipal ownership a reduc-
ton of telephone tolls and greater
economy in municipal government are
on q par with the democratic pledge for
home rule and remind us forcibly of
the girl that lost her "karacter" over
hoard.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

The Michigan apple crop has been
nipped by the blizzard but the New Jer-
sey peach orchards are still full of
promise unless the fruit dealers i'm
provise a cold blast in order to bull the
market.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Room in the West.
Philadelphia Record.

THIIdutIphIa HeCUTu.
With stout handed immigrants pouring
into the country in unprecedented number
there is yet cutlery for more workers on
the western farms. Too many of the new
Corners loiter in the cities or hang about
the mines and the mills.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Sunday.

Erastus Benson prides himself on his
descent from Puritan stock, but he is
trying to palm himself of as a swede
just to catch the Swede vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

South Omaha is still patiently waiting
for the laying Of the cornerstone of
that magnificent Mercer bridge that was
10 span the Missouri and terminate at
Lake Manawa.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

to the taxpayers Of Omaha when 1t is
borne In mind that the provision by
which the railroads have been able to
beat their taxes was inserted In the
charter by Howell and kept in there
ever since by the corporation influence.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

According to skyseraper /. ]. Dunn,
Edward Howell is principally respon-
slble for the present city charter. This
will not be denied by anybody, but that
fact viii scarcely commend Mr.. Howell
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
sighting His Favoritc child.
Pittshnrr nisnatcl

Pittsburg Dispatch.
It is strange that Nicholas has not
thought Of submitting the Manohurian busi-
ness to the court he created for the set
Element Of Just such disputes. Has even
the author Of TIL Hague tribunal decided
to ignore t.?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Fifty Chicago laundries have been
tied up with the strike and boiled shirts
will command a high premium for next
Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Can Howell be trusted7 Can a man
who betrayed the people as councilman
and state senator be trusted as mayor?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

schwartzmann-vot fish dot planned
noise?'
MacGregor-Noise2 Hoot, mont Thot's
a ~bagpipe!
CAT which point they clinoh. )-Chicago
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Crawford-In what way does Newrich
show h has Travelled all over the country?
Crabshaw-He has named his daughters
after the Pullman cars he has ridden In
New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
OF FUN.

There must be a great deal Of admira.
ton for that author" said Miss Cayenne.
yes" answered the literary man. but
his books don't sell"
81 see. Admired, but not nvled."-wash.
ington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
srArTMBNT OF CIRCULATION.

state OF Nebraska, Douglas County, S.:
George d, Tzschuck, secretary Of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly. sworn,
says that the. actual number OF full and
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning
Evening amt Sunday Bee printed during the
month OF April, 1903, was as followsi
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Net total sales. .93O,037
Net average sales. ..,.,,......... 1891
GEORGE b. TZsCHUCK.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day of May, A. D.. 1903.
NJ. b. HUNGATD,
(5eaL) Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02

Mandy, whar's Innocence Jinkins2'
well she's been so good an sweet this
mornin', l give her lief to go out a while
an kill r~attlesnakes. "--Atlanta Constitu'
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-02
Shakespeare was reading the latest nev

Shakespeare was reading the latest news.
Here's a fellow getting 81 a world" he
exclaimed.
TOO badl" returned Johnson. Just think
Of what I'd have got at that rate"
Determined to have the last word any
way. he returned TO his dictionary.-Judge.
'I dare say" she remarked acridIy, sit
ting up IN bed, when he stumbled in at
$3.50 in the morning, that you have been
sitting up with a sick friend or attending
a lodge meeting?"
Neither one," he replied. Eve been
playing poker, and I sloughed off thirty
five good bones. Where's my nightshirt?'-
washington Post.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-01
BASKET BALL
LEAGUE OPENS

Before a crowd which filed the gal
lery and occupied almost every point OF
vantage about the gymnasium Of the
Y. M. c. A last evening, the series of
games of the Basket Ball league
opened. The first game was Of the IN
termediate class, and there the Blues
were too many for the Whites, annex
ing the first count by the close score OF
8 to z. The game was fast and hard,
the players showing some unfamiliar
ity with the rules, the fouls being
many. The game was full OF snap and
the outlook is for some hard play be-
fore the series is much older.
The second game was the hardest
possible, the men going into the play
with vim, and making the counts hard
to obtain The players were a little
rusty, perhaps, and there were frequent
scrimmages and too many free shots,
as a consequence. The passing was
fairly good, but the men displayed an
eagerneSs which made some OF the
plays for the basket short and alto
gether contributed to considerable
throwing.
Young and Fuller were perhaps the
stars OF the play, Brock and Middle
ditch playing fast games and adding
some fine exhibitions to their general
utility play. The final score was, Bus
ineSs Men, IA; Five O'Clock, IL.