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Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
DESERVE WELL OF THE PARTY.
Emcient Management of the Repub-
ltcRn Campaign in Nebraska.
Lincoln Star

We want to commend, as all thinking
republicans will feel like commencing, the
good sense and efficiency with which the
republican campaign in this state has been
managed. Chairman Warner and his ad-
visers deserve well of the party. They have
made a wise, careful, effective fight, and
and they have made 1t broadly for the
interest OF the whole party.
1t has not been a snowy. spectacular
canvass, The excellence OF the work of the
state organization rests largely upon this
fact. There has been no obtrusive rushing
to and fro, no foaming at the mouth, no
aimless striking in the air, no playing TO
the Notwithstanding but Just good
sense and hard work, work with a pur-
pose and expenditure of energy on definite
points that really counted. The plan Of
campaign was conceived on an intelligent
knowledge Of the conditions which actually
existed.
Chairman Warner from the first has
bent every energy to perfect a genuine party
organization, which should reach out and
join hands not only with the various
county and other local organizations. but
also with veritable party workers in every
school and road district within the boun-
daries OF Nebraska, to the end that the
fiuenoed TO go to the polls. How eficiently
the plan was conceived and executed is
shown by the election returns. II is re-
markable that such a large portion of the
party strength, and so evenly in the voting
precincts should have been polled under
the conditions of over-conhdence, Of lack
OF general interest spd OF preoccupation
with business, which have prevailed. II is
good work, good politics, long-headed man
agemenL
But this is not ALL The campaign closes
with the party organization brought up 20
date and in a state Of efficiency. so as 10
be basis for the big contest Of next year
involving full state ticket, the legislature
which chooses a United States senator,
county tickets and the congressman in all
the districts, a contest OF prelimlnaries of
which will be on almost as soon as the
count OF Tuesdays election is of. Chair
man Warmers work IL an important asset
for the party in the coming contest
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
WHERE REFORM EFFoRTs FAnEp


San Francisco is said to be the most
politically corrupt and socially immoral
city in the country. For several years
the municipal administration has been
I'm the control of men who are alleged
to have been utterly INSCRIPTIONS and
guilty of the most fragrant disregard of
the public interests and morals. Ac-
cording to some of the newspapers of
that city there has been systematic
graft under the present officials and
social iniquity and decentralization have
steadily increased. The mayor has been
charged with violations Of law and other
delinqueucies of the gravest character.
A fusion of republicans and demo
Gratis was effected for the purpose of
reforming municipal affairs, but it was
utterly routed by the forces in control
of the city administration, the mayor
being reelected by a large majority.
II all that has been said regarding the
bad conditions in San Francisco is true,
this renewed endorsement OF the men
responsible for the state of affairs may
be expected TO result in increased POI
litical and social decentralization. II is
situation which seems to bOde no
good for the metropolis of the Pacific.
1t cannot be expected that the city will
attract capital and population with such
conditions as are said 10 exist there.
San Francisco ought 10 be one OF the
most progressive cities in the land, but
IL cannot advance as il should unless it
has good government and this is not
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
ECHOES OF THE FRAY.

Minneapolis Journals Above the roar OF
partisan triumph and the screams Of par
usan defeat you may notice that the gov
eminent at Washington stll stands
Kansas City Star: The most hopeful sign
in the political life of the nation is that
the people are not only thinking for them
selves. but that they also have the courage
to act as they think, regardless OF party
preference.
Indianapolis News: Having learned that
Mr. German had "staked his political flu
ture" on the success Of his constitutional
amendment, the Maryland voters naturally
proceeded to defeat the amendment forth
with.
Chicago Tribune: Mayor Mcclellan has
been reelected and Mr.. Hearst defeated.
In one sense the victor is the loser and
the defeated candidate is the one who has
occasion TO congratulate himself. The
presidential possibilities OF Mayor McClel-
Ian have melted into thin air The man
who can barely carry his own city with
the solid support Of Tammany against an
impromptu candidate, the leader OF motley
and unorganised forces, is not the man
whom national party will select as It's
standard bearer.
Chicago News: Popular resentment
against the infamous Pennsylvania repub-
lican ring accomplished splendid results in
Philadelphia. The reform movement
headed by Mayor Weaver administered a
crushing defeat to the gang heretofore
ruling that city. Not only that, but the
state republican machine has been over
whelmed by a tidal wave of popular senti-
ment which converted a normal republican
majority of 100000 or more into a demo-
cratic plurality of 5000 for the head OF the
state ticket The defeat of the heretofore
invulnerable Penrose ring, coupled with
the uprising of independent voters in New
York, can scarcely fail to have mo-
mentous effect upon the future of American
politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
HAS THE RIGHT RING.
FreSidents Proclamation "Fuu of
Live Ideas and FeIicitous Phrases,
ChicaRo Tribune


Considered merely as a piece of writing
the presidents Thanksgiving day proclama-
tlon Is pleasant change from the dry stvle
that usually obtains in such announcements
Mr.. Roosevelt has again found an oppor
tunlty to cut away from the old order of
thlnSs Instead OF a mere conventional an
houncement, his proclamation is a clear.
concise piece OF English, full of live ideas
ana tellticious phrases. It is more than
this. The president has put some of his
own personality into it. The nature of
the message did not kill the effectiveness
Of his ideas or the maner in which he ex
pressed them.
One example that cannot fail to strike
even the casual reader as evidence of the
presidents grasp of national situations is
that in which, after abiding to the fact
that usage has made national and hallowed
the Thanksgiving day OF our early settlers.
he says! I'VE live in easier and more plen-
tiful times than our forefathers-and vet
the dangers of national life are quite
as great now as at any previous time I'm
our history. 1t is eminently fitting that
once year our people should set aside
day for praise and thanksgivlng-man-
fully acknowledge their shortcomings and
pledge themselves solemnly and in good
faith to strive to overcome them" Tho
nature of these dangers TO national life"
are described bluntly and with effect. THE
foes from whom we should pray to be de-
livered are our own passions, appetites
and follies; and against these there is al
way need that we should war;
The presidents words here are not mere
platitudes. They tell of a vital fact and
urge a vital war. A countrys ruin may
come from the inside. as we'll as from for
egn foes. 1t is high time to give ear to and
heed such words as the president uses in his
plea that the people in rendering thanks
for the manifold Blessing of the last year
oonsecrate themselves to life of eleanli-
ness, honor and wisdom, so that this nation
may do its allotted work on the earth in a
manner worthy OF those who founded it and
those who preserved it,"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
JEROME'S VICTORY.

The victory of District Attorney
Jerome of New York, who made an in.
dependent campaign for reelection, is
a striking illustration of what may be
accomplished by a public official OF
proved integrity, fidelity and courage
in the performance of his duty. Re.
Jected for denomination by the party
with which he had always been affili,
ated, for the reason that he had been
faithful to his trust, Mr.. Jerome ap-
pealed to the people TO endorse him on
the ground that he had been true to
their interests and had earnestly and
honestly endeavored to enforce the laws
There rallied to his support republicans
democrats and Independents and for
four years more the office of district
attorney of New York will be filed by a
man having the ability and the courage
to do his duty, regardless of persons OF
political influence
The reelection OF Jerome is a crafty.
ing circumstance in the encouragement
it should give to men occupying public
positions to honestly and faithfully per.
form the duties devolved upon them.
The people can very generally be relied
upon TO recognize the worth and re-
ward such public servants. The re-
election of Jerome is no less a tribute
to the good sense OF the people who
voted for him than 1t is to his own
merits.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
TREES ARE HIS MONUMENT.
Murmur of the Leaves "A Perpetual
Requiem for Morton.
Portland Oregonian

Saturday an ex-president of the United
States journey half way across the conti-
nent to do honor to his dead friend. The
dispatches tell Of Mr.. Cleveland's remarks
at the unwilling of the monument to his
cabinet officer at Arbor Lodge, near Ne
braska City, in the state Mr. Morton loved
so well and for which he did so much.
j. Sterling Morton was one of a band of
young men who settled in Nebraska fifty
years ago. Others were d.. George L. Mil
Ter. veteran editor of the Omaha Herald;
A. J. Poppleton, for years general counsel
OF the Union Pacific, and ]. NJ. woolworth.
at one time president of the American Bar
association. 1t has been said of these four
that they nodded the young prairie state
into lines of greatness and usefulness. This
is true; but the work OF lasting effect was
Mr.. Morton's.
There is no doubt the ambition of the
young Michigan immigrant was to repre-
sent his adopted state in the United States
senate, but the fates willed otherwise The
prairie state looked too good to the thou
sands of veterans OF the civil war who
enjoyed the BENEFITS of the homestead law
TO let a democrat I'LL the Office, and Mr..
Morton turned to better things
Arbor day was his conception, and PLANT
a tree his motto. II was uphill work at
first, but he strove with cheerful peril
nacity, in season and out OF season. until
the day was recognized by law and OBJ
served even by the least of school children.
One is never out Of sight OF a school
house in Nebraska; and by the same token.
one is never out of sight of the work of
MI Morton.
]. Sterling Morton needs no monument.
They are swaying in the breezes from sum
mer round till spring on the pFairies from
Red Willow north to the L'eau Qui Court,
from the Papillion to beyond the Dismal.
In the winter they break the blasts that
would chill the marrow; in the summer
they temper the fiery draughts that would
burn the substance. And no rounded
periods Of ponderosity are more eloquent
than the murmur OF the leaves.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
Personal NOTES.

! A young lady who got into the Carnegie
heroism class objects to the notoriety: but
to endure this, too, is one Of the trials OF
courage
Congressman Littleheld of Maine, has
dissolved his Jaw partnership with his
brother, and It is said he will shortly move
to New York City to practice law.
The Erie railroad company has raised a
monument on the spot, at Deposit, n. Y,
where 20 years ago ground was first broken
for the construction of the road, and It
will be dedicated next Friday with elaborate
ceremonies.
School authorities everywhere should
follow the example OF New Haven, where
a tobacco dealer. whose shop is located near
| a public school, has been arrested for SELL
! ing to minors. Cigarettes, 1t has been
found, make small boys stupid.
James Stillman the New York banker.
has established a new record as patron OF
opera having obtained for the coming
season two parterre boxes for a total OF
1O1 performances which, at the rate OF
800 a performance, makes a total output
on the part OF the banker Of $1,000 for the
pleasure of witnessing grand opera from
the diamond horseshoe"
Oscar Hunt, one OF the Carlisle football
team, is an Indian millionaire. He is from
Oklahoma and has been at Carlisle for
some months. When the government
bought land from the Indians the Hunt
family had a great deal TO sell and Oscar
found himself owner of seven figures. His
teammates call him Heap Big Money Chief,
head of the spondulix." He is. studiously
inclined and off the gridiron wears glasses.
When Elihu Root. new secretary of state,
was nj cIa taa hal
against their German professor and with
drew in a body. They remained out for
two months, during which time Root went
on with his studies. When they returned.
convinced that they. had been in error.
they gave young Elihu the nickname OF
Square Root" which stuck to him for
many a day The refusal to desert work
has been one Of his distinguishing char
acteristics all through life.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10

STOP IhE COUNIf JAIL GHdFIt
For the last eight years sheriffs of
Douglas county have been drawing 45
cents per day for serving two meals TO
each prisoner confined in the county
Jail, while the city pays only 10 cents
per day for two meals served to each
prisoner confined in the police station.
Against this fiagrant abuse The Bee has
time and again demonstrated, but for
some reason the county commissioners
have turned a deaf ear to the complaint
and the sheriff graft has been kept up
with great regularity, whether we had
republican sheriff or a democratic
sheriff, a democratic board or a repub-
lican board.
There is absolutely no excuse for con-
tinuing this graft There is no reason
why the county should pay nearly three
times as much for feeding prisoners as
the city is paying and, although the
maximum rate for feeding county pris-
oners is 45 cents per day, there is moth
ing in the statute to prevent the county
board from reducing the rate or from
letting the feeding of prisoners by con-
tract from year to year just as the city
has been doing.
The law fixes the salary of sheriff at
$500 a year, and that is presumed to
be his entire income for services rem
dered, His income from feeding pris-
oners is more than double the salary
allowance, but unlike the fees for serv-
ing papers in civil suits, which are
charged up to the Htigants, the cost of
feeding prisoners is charged up to the
taxpayers.
So long as the Board of County Com
missioners was composed of four demo
Gratis and one republican and the sheriff
was also democratic the abolition of the
county Jail graft was out of the ques-
ton. After the political complexion of
the board had been revised at the begin
ming of the present year it was pre-
sumed the abuse would be stopped. The
argument against breaking up the sys-
tenn was, however, that 1t would not be
practicable or polite to inaugurate the
reform in the middle of the year. While
we have never been able to see the logic
of this plea, the approaching end of the
year and the impending change of ad.
ministration in the sheriff's office pre-
sents the opportune time for a change
Of policy.
With an unknowable floating debt, es-
timated at 100000, hanging over the
county, it is the manifest duty of the
county board to abolish sinecures and
to introduce reforms that will place the
affairs of the county on a business basis.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
An UnprOmising Outlook.


Major General Ainsworth in his annual
report says that assertions from the army
will continue ito be excessive until there
Shall have been a radical change of senti-
ment toward the army and until the de-
serter shall come to be regarded as the
criminal that he is, to be ostracized and
hunted down as relentlessly as any other
transgressor of the laws" The outlook
is not promising for the reform that Cen
erai Ainsworth wants. The average Amer
lean loves the soldier in time of war and
would probably Join in a chase for him IL
he should desert in the face of an enemy,
but he rather feels sorry for the soldier in
time of peace and is inclined to congratu-
late him when he gets out OF the army,
whatever methods he employs in so doing.
1t is wrong, Of course, for the public to
take that view of the soldiers obligations
to his country in time of peace, but the
fact that such view is commonly held may
rs well be accepted by General Ainsworth
and other army officials
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
RUMBLEs OF COMING BATTLE.
The Square. Deal Lining Up AEains
Special Privilege.
Kansas City Star


Reliable information from Washington
promises that the rate issue will be
squarely presented to congress soon after
the converting of that body. The square
deal members Of the senate committee on
Interstate commerce will prepare a bill en-
bodying the presidents views, and this bill
be reported as a minority measure even IL
the majority should be in favor of a bill
dictated by the railroads. In either event
the presidents policy will go before the
senate early in the session.
1t is especially interesting to note that
the president does not presume to dictate
the phr4seology of the bill, nor even its
exact terms; but he hopes, through his
recommendation in his annual MESSAGE and
through those members of the interstate
commerce committee who are in accord
with him, to have his ideas of rate ad-
justment satisfactorily embodied in a bill.
He understands that all legislation is to
some extent a compromise. There are diff
ferences OF opinion, on minor points, among
those who are heartily supporting the
presidents general proposition.
But the line will be clearly drawn be-
tween the peoples policy and the policy OF
the railroads There will be no confusion
on this point 1t will be the square deal
against special privilege. and the country
will note with extraordinary interest the
alignment OF its senators.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
Progressive Education.

Baltimore American.
western university is using the daily
newspapers as text books and requiring
students to study them as such. II Is
quite an encouraging sign of progressive
education when contemporary history. the
great issues Of the day and the political
changes which are making and unmaking
nations, are regarded as worthy OF as Sc.
rious study as the eonquests Of Alexander
or the doings of ancient Rome. Our own
times may be too near to us to seem heroic
as one of our poets says, but they ought
not TO be too near to be interesting. espe-
cially as history is making now which is
going TO influence the destinles of the world
for generations to come.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
Popular Demand for Rate Regulation
Must he Needed.

washington FQSt.
There is no mistaking the paramount
issue that will be presented 10 the Fifty
ninth congress. 1t is the presidents policy
OF regulating the freight rates OF rail-
roads engaged in interstate commerce. The
people are with the president IN the fight
OF that there is very small room for doubt,
and the people are a power in this country
Of ours.
When congress gets down to business
an administration" bill will be fetched
into the house of representatives, and that
body will pass II with its usual expedition
though 1t will not be damned through as IL
was last session. The bill will go TO the
senate, and then the tug OF war will come.
The president will have but one anxiety
how much can l get out OF the senate? The
senate will have but one cause TO walk the
fioor-what is the least the president will
put up with?
There will be long debate and the case
will be presented from every possible point
Of view-its constitutionality. its utility, its
necessity and so on; but the people are
supporting the president. and in the last
analysis the people iegisiate in our coun-
try.
The president has been reinforced by
Philander c. Knox. lately attorney general
and now senator from Pennsylvania. Mr..
Knox conducted for the government the
famous merger" litigation, and got the
judgment II is true that It was a rather
small mouse the mountain brought forth
then, but there was a mouse and that was
the important thing.
II the president is going to get no more
out OF this rate proposition than the Octo-
pus lost in the merger case" the game is
not worth the candle. He is Just now
the most popular man In the world, and
he should have struck for his policy sooner.
There is no evidence that his popularity Is
waning. but the honeymoon Is about past,
by lapse OF time.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
HENRY's FAULT.
Montreal Star.

Montreal Star.
Your Henry's fractured, mother dear.
Upon the gridiron sporty;
His feet betwiXt the goal posts near.
At fourteen yards he left an ear,
A collarbone at forty,
A doctor now, with loving care
His cartilage IS lacking;
They say he will not miss his hair
And nearly all his ribs are there
Though several bones are lacking.
He holds his thorax with a groan,
And says IL hurts a little
His coaches say, in awestruck tone
They'd not have done II had they known
That Henry was so brittle.
They say that Henry didn't lack
The talent and the training;
AT half he was a crackajack--
(You couldn't make a quarterback
OF what there is remaining)
Alas he had the proper stun,
Though rather tall and slender;
And though his fate Is somewhat rouEf
It's not because the games too tough
But Henry Is too tender.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
PRIrArE CAR LINE REGULATION.

Eht'A 1h IAN LINE hEHD LA1ION'
The private car lines have definitely
declared that they are not subject to
the control OF the Interstate Commerce
commission and consequently are out
| side the operation Of existing statutes
relating to interstate commerce regula-
/ ton. They asserted this before the
commission begun its investigation of
the relations between the private car
lines and the railroads, and they have
now made it an issue by the refusal of
! officials of the private car lines to answer
questions put to them on the ground
that the commission had no authority
to make the inquiries because the pri-
vate car lines are not engaged in inter
state commerce
1t is possible that the courts would,
on technical grounds, sustain this con-
tention. AS the private car lines pre-
sent the matter they apparently are
not directly engaged in interstate com
merce. While they own cars which
are employed in transportation between
the states, these are leased to the rail-
road companies, a mileage rate being
charged for their use Apart from this
the private car companies charge ship
pers for the use Of the cars and in
regard to this they are entirely indie
pendent enjoying a complete monopoly
which enables them to exact whatever
charge they please for the service rem
dered-which means. of course, all that
the traffic will bear Such being the
case, it is obvious that there may be
unreasonable rates, rebates, discrimina-
ton and other abuses, due to the private
car lines rather than to the railroads.
This is the troublesome and some
what perplexing feature Of the situa-
ton with which congress win have to
deal. The contention which the private
car lines now make may have some
justification. Perhaps being only in
directly engaged IN interstate commerce
their claim is that they are not now
engaged in II at all-they may not be
subject to the law as it stands. That
is a question for judicial determination.
But there can be no reasonable doubt
that it is within the power Of congress
to say that these private car lines shall
be, regarded as engaged in interstate
commerce and thus subjected to the
statutes regulating such commerce. 1t
cannot be admitted that private COM
panics may be organized to carry on a
regular system of transportation be-
tween the states, establishing what rates
they please for the service and prac-
ticing determinations contrary to law,
without being subject to any restraints
or control or regulation. To concede
that would be to give warrant for mo-
nopoly with the privilege of unre-
stricted abuses. The private car lines
are unquestionably engaged in inter
state commerce. The cars of these lines
transport products between the states
and the fact that they are leased to the
railroads does not affect the character
Of their service. They should be sub
ject to national regulations and there is
reason to believe that congress will do
this