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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
Poor oulnIon of the Groom.

Ehlladelpnla Ledger
 A Lond Island man consented to the marriage of his daughter to an ignorant Chinese, saying he regarded the ori- ential as his own social and intellectual equal. which was rough on the bride- groom.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
FIorIdn DeIerntIon,

New York. Aug. 27-Former Gov ernor w. S. Jennings of Florida report ed to the Bryan reception committee today that he had arrived with thirty of his fellow citizens. Others to come will swell the Florida delegation to one hundred.
 D. U. Fletcher of Jacksonville Chair man of the Florida Democratic State Central Committee, is with the delega-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
The Flour Was Tough.

Philadelphia Ledger.
 T want to complain of the flour you sent me the other day." said Mrs. Newliwed, severely.
 What was the matter with it, maam?" asked the grocer.
 Tt was tough. My husband simply -0uldn't eat the biscuits l made with if
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
CnssIhy In Good LucIk.

Philadelphia Press.
 Yes, said Cassidy I was born in 1864 an twas good thing for me that I was"
 why SO? asked Casey.
 "Bekase, man, Feb 29 is me birthday, so If 1884 hadn't been a leap year, shure I wouldn't a been born at all
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
A,r.h,n. pereect EJivht

Des Moines, Ia., Aug. N.-Charles K. Hamilton made a successful flight of about six miles in an air ship this morning. The journey was made with out mishap and the ship was under per- feet control.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
Az Iaa. Resource.

Atchison, Kan. Globe
 An Atchison man who is bald has tried all the hair restoratives without re- suit and eaten a lot of poultry food in the hope of causing feathers to grow on his head. Now he will try alfalfa 1t grows everywhere else.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28

Tambon. Aug PA policeman. two gendarmes and conductor, were killed or a train by a band of seven revolu- tionists near here yesterday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28

Riga, Aug. 27.-The police today cap- tured a depot of revolutionary stores, including twenty-four bombs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-28
Erneat TnnksIey ReIensed.

Bedford, Ind, Aug. 27-Ernest Tanks Fley. who was arrested at Evansville a few dAys ago and brought here and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
Personal NOTES.

polo player at s5 is P. F. Collier. owner
OF Golfers Weekly, a man of wealth.
Mr.. Collier is the most ardent Of horse
men and has been playing polo for twenty
FIVE years.
The inventory Of Russell Sases estate
lie said to be disclosing unlooked-for bun
dies of high grade securities, and there is
talk now that the fortune may prove to
be far In excess of &loO,0o0,OoO
A New York hotel being erected for the
use OF single women will bar those who
are over So. Many such hotels have
failed by reason Of fool rules, and yet had
none so thoroughly foolish as this.
Few living rulers can claim the same
distinction as the king Of Roumania, who
lie a sovereign without having been born
to sovereignty. A member OF the Hohen-
zollern family, he was serving as captain
Of the First regiment Of Dragon Guards
when on his 9th birthday he was offered
and accepted the crown of Roumania.
Rev. Dr. w. H. S. Demarest, the new
president of Rutgers college, is a remarka-
bic example Of the transmission of heredi-
tary traits. He is the nth OF his name
who has been Identified with the govern
ment Of the college. his father, his grand
father, his great-grandfather and his great
great-grandfather all having been trustees
Of the institution.
A man OF an experimental turn OF mind
who recently travelled by stages from New
York to Nebraska is convinced that western
people are more honest than eastern. He
had $50 pounds OF excess baggage. A
quarter and wink carried II from New
York to Washington. Thlrty-ive cents
and another wink took 1t from Washing
ton to a town in Iowa. At the town In
Iowa small change and winks were not cur
rent and to get the extra 100 pounds from
Iowa TO Lincoln cost $3.50, the regular
rate.
Owing TO the fact that the only Presi-
dents he ever had AN opportunity OF vot-
ing for met with tragic deaths, Major j.
n. Morgan, a retired officer Of the United
States army. and at present military
supervisor at the Western Military acad-
envy, has decided that he will cast no
more votes for president for fear the fate
OF the three he did vote for might over
take the fourth. He voted for Lincoln,
Garfield and Mckinley, his duties in the
army preventing him voting for other presi-
dents.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
THE rRAYsMfssrssrppI ooSeB Ess.

Efforts are being put forth to make
the seventeenth annual session of the
Transmississippi Commercial congress
at Kansas City a revival OF that or
ganization. which of late had fallen
somewhat into decrepitude. Secre-
make an address that will certify the
importance OF the occasion and con-
tribute to its interest.
Every year now marks an enormous
growth of the commercial concerns of
this region, comprehending the con-
solidated empires of the Louisiana
purchase and the great cession from
Mexico, as well as the territory
secured under the Oregon settlement.
The sum of its commercial industries,
represented by more than one-half OF
the total railroad mileage OF the
United States. has grown now, espe-
cially after the great industrial uplift
OF the last decade. to be an interest
which more than ever calls for the
united consideration of its people. The
program for discussion. including
among many others such subjects as
river improvement, reclamation of arid
land by irrigation. live stock and pub
lie highways, suggests at once the va
riety Of the interests that require at
| tention.
While the influence OF this congress
has been waning. 1t could become a
potential factor under proper reorgan-
ization. AS an agency for promoting
among the people Of the Transmissis-
sippi region. the sense OF their COM
mon interest and more harmonious &C
ton along common lines. It could Sc
cure a hearing. The government has
notoriously given attention and favor
disproportionately to eastern interests,
and while the Kansas City congress
will be wholly nonDartisan in char
acter. It can emphasize the identity OF
western commercial and business in
terests, which must press more and
more for representation in the gov
ernment.
At this juneture of a notable awak-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
HEaRSTS STRATEG Y

The struggle of the New York de-
mocracy to escape from capture by
William r. Hearst. a result which is
regarded so important from a national
point Of view. is almost pitiable and
has been confined mainly to mere de-
nunciation of the man in the mug
wump press, which usually inclines to
the democratic party. OF organized
movement against Hearst there has
been little. The party workers over
the state have scant encouragement
because they lack leadership. The
leaders who should make front against
him evidently view his position as for
midable.
The strategy of Hearst, If the state.
nents of his most conspicuous news
paper opponents are to be accepted, Is
to get into position either to force the
democratic convention to nominate
him for governor or to go to defeat II
1t refuses to nominate him. The explicit
declaration of Mr.. Bryan that he will
take no part for or against in the
Hearst contest has under the circum
stances played into Hearst's hands
and even If he should be nominated
and beaten it will still leave him IL
control of the party organization o.
the Empire state and a potent factor
in the preliminaries to the nationa
convention In 1908. --....
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
POPULAR CHOICE or SENATOR IN
ILLINOIS

The drift of public sentiment toward
popular choice Of United States sena-
tors is again exemplihed by the direct
primary Just held in Illinois. which in
sures the nomination and reelection
Of Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom.
The issue OF the primary. so far as
republicans we're concerned. was the
contest between Senator Cullom and
Ex-Governor Yates for the senatorial
endorsement, and the decisive express
sion of the rank and file in favor Of
Senator Cullom has already called
forth complete acquiescence in the re-
suit on the part of Governor Yates,
notwithstanding the very creditable
showing which he made at the polls.
This popular expression may not be
legally binding upon the legislature,
but it constitutes a moral obligation
which without doubt will be recog-
nlzed and carried out. Republican can
didates for the legislature will go be-
fore the people giving full notice that
their election means the return of
Senator Cullom for another six years,
and the people of Illinois may be conf
IDENTIFY counted on to ratify the repub-
lican choice.
One incident of the canvass in ILL
nois is worth mentioning in passing,
and that is the avowed and cordial
support given Ex-Governor Yates by
Governor Deneen, by whom the state s
administrative influence was thrown in
his favor. The espousal of the candi-
dacy of Yates by Deneen is explained
as a return of favors because in the
last state convention Yates threw his
strength to the present governor and
made possible Governor Deneen's oc-
cupancy of the executive Office. This
is a shining example of conscientious
payment of a, political debt that is
seldom found in the world Of politics.
The significance of the Illinois pri-
mary for Nebraska at the present time
lies in the plain response 1t makes to
the demand of the people for a voice
| in the selection of their United States
senators. Here again the plea that
the nomination of candidate for SEN
ator would weaken the party in APP
pealing for votes in the legislative dis
tricts has been rejected and the party
leaders have wisely concluded that
more is to be gained by taking the
people into their confidence than by
trying to keep them in the dark and
attempting to elect the senator by
legislative manipulation. The forth
coming nomination of a candidate fol
senator in Nebraska has, therefore, an.
other good precedent in the action Of
| the Illinois republicans.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
Regulation of Rates.
sprinRield Republican.

western railroad man is quoted as say
ing that II is little less than farcial 20
give over the business Of regulating the
railroads 20 others instead OF TO expert
railroad men. But It is the president OF
western railroad. A. r. suckney, who
says that the best and most effective ca Sc
OF rate regulation we have IN the country
was the work OF body Of small-salaried
men, who were not railroad eXperts-the
Iowa commission which several years ago
framed and put in force a system Of rate
charging which has remained In force ever
since and which Is generally satisfactory.
II is quite often the case that those who
are less acquainted with the details OF a
business are better able 10 work out the
general PRINCIPLES which should govern II.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
EASTERN VIEWS OF IOWA IDEA.

Springfield (Mass.). Republican: The cor
rect answer to the question, What Is IN,
Iowa idea anyway" is simply Cummins
He's 1t.
New York Sun: Handsome Albert, "
the foes of Mar. Cummns used to call him.
He doesn't look very handsome as he
stands on that platform.
Philadelphia Record: Shaw refused to
appoint Cummns to the United States
senate when the young man had good
right to claim the succession to John H.
Gear, and now Cummins switches the Shaw
presidential boom upon a sidetrack that
leads to the junk heap.
Washington Post: No charge can be
made that Cummins is a free trader and
democrat" but the fact is that the
revisionsts, however polite they became
in platform planks and in convention
speeches, have captured the nominations
and control the republican party Of Iowa.
Minneapolis Journal: The most signih-
cant development OF the Iowa republican
convention was the crushing of the Shaw
presidential boom. Never before probably
has "favorite son" received such a snub
in his own state. The secretary of the
treasury was literally overwhelmed with
humiliation the climax Of which was
capped when he was publicly Missed in a
convention of his own party.
Philadelphia Press: The success Of Gov
ernor Cummins in Iowa is a personal
triumph. Contrary to all precedent he
wins a third nomination. He beats the
old and long established leadership. He
brings new and younger and more ag-
gressive element into the sscendency.
Heretofore he has been tolerated by the
cid regime. Now he is the master force,
and 1t is a question how far he will toler-
ate the tolerators.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
Reform in Campaign Methods.

The republican congressional committee
has asked the people to contribute the
money it needs. 1t appeals for small
sums from many voters One dollar is
suggested as the proper gift for the legiti-
mote uses of the coming campaign
That looks like a genuine effort to &c,
away from all possible subserviency to
rich and powerful interests which have
been in the habit of making liberal cam
paign contributions. 1t has the appear
ance, at least Of strong desire to popI-
larize campaign work and go straight TO
the people for support and success.
In so far as such appearances are gen.
uine the change speaks well for the prog
ress of reform in the nature as well as
the outward seeming of politics.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
QUESTION OF TARIFF REVISION


The plan of the leaders of the re-
publican congressional campaign to
keep the question of tariff revision in
the background as far rs possible is
made more definite by later informa-
ton than could be gathered from the
original announcement following the
Oyster Bay conference. Reports that
are accepted as authentic represent the
president as disposed to acquiesce in
the Judgment of Speaker Cannon and
his associates that the party should
not promise a general revision OF the
tariff until after the next presidential
election.
There is no question but that the
president shares in the widespread be-
lief that the present tariff could be
materially improved by a reduction in
certain schedules, and If he has agreed
to let the tariff matter rest. it can be
only because he is convinced that more
important work is at hand and that
the tariff revision could be delayed
with less menace to public interests
than could be the unfinished features
of his campaign to repress the lawless
trusts and regulate the relations of in
terstate corporations and the pub
lie. The president appreciates. as
few others do. the immense magni-
tude and difficult character of the
work remaining to be done both to
hold the gains already made and to
tighten the restraint of public au-
thority upon corporate aggression.
Z 1t is plausibly argued that the pres
ident regards It as peculiarly his duty
to pursue steadfastly the path he has
been following up to the end of his
term, which can be none too long for
his purpose, and that to complicate it
with tariff revision would be of doubt
full wisdom even If all conditions were
otherwise apparent The just enacted
rate law is yet to be put into effect
and practically applied in all its pro-
visions, while the prosecutions to re-
duce the great trade combinations to
their proper sphere, which have taken
such arduous effort to bring to the
present stage, will require persistent
exertion of the executive for compile
I ton. The trusts and corporations con-
fronted with this prospect would
doubtless welcome Gnything that
would distract the presidents atten-
ton and halt him in his determination
and this consideration probably has
great weight with him.
At the same time there is no deny
ing the growing feeling. especially in
the west, that the tariff schedules are
excessive In many respects and that
the postponement Of revision is merely
temporary makeshift. The repub-
licans have heretofore successfully
appealed to the country to support the
protective principle, urging that the
revision when made should be made
by the friends of protection rather
than its enemies. The effort to keeI
the tariff issue out of this congress
sional campaign may succeed gener
ally, but 1t is bound to crop out here
and there wherever the opposition
may force 1t and the party will have
to be ready to meet 1t with a fairl!
definite program that will satisfy the
people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
AUGUST.
James Mhilcomh Riley.


A day of torpor in the sullen heat
OF summers passion: In the sluggish
The painting cattle lave their lazy feet.
With drowsy eyes, and dream.
Long since the winds have died. and in
the sky
There lives no cloud to hint of Natures
grief
The sun glares ever like an evil eye.
And withers flower and leaf.
Upon the cleaning harvest field remote
The thresher lies deserted. like some old
Dismantled galleon that hangs ahoat
Upon a sea Of gold.
The ,yearnins cry Of some bewildered
Above an empty nest. and truant boys
Along the rivers shady margin heard
harmony Of noise
A melody Of wrangIing voices blent
With liquid laughter, and with ripping
OF piping lips and trihlns echoes sent
To mimic waterfalls.
And through the hazy veil the atmosphere
Has draped about the cleaning face Of
The sified glances Of the sun appear
In splinterings of spray.
Tho dusty highways, like a cloud Of dawn.
trails DER the hillside, and the passer-
A tired ghost in misty ahroud. tolls on
His journey TO the sky.
And down across the valleys dropping
sweep.
WITHDRAWN to farthest limit of the
glade,
The forest stands in silence, drinking
deep
It's purple wine OF shade.
The gossamer floats up on phantom
wing:
The sailer-vision voyages the skies
And carries into chaos everything
That freights the weary eyes;
TIL, throbbing on and on. the pulse OF
heat
Increases-reaches-pa fever's height,
And day sinks into slumber. cool ana
sweet
Within the arms of night
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock is again dis
tressing himself because Douglas
county is paying rent to The Bee build
ing for the suites of rooms occupied
by the three equity courts. He is not
distressed a bit over the rent which
the county is paying to the New York
Life building for the rooms occupied
by the county attorney, but it grieves
his heart sorely to see the judges and
lawyers riding up The Bee building
elevators, when 1t would gladden. him
so much more to see them climbing
breathlessly the steep court house
steps. He does not claim that the
county is paying any more for the
rooms 1t occupies in the fireproof Bee
building than other tenants do, nor
that the county is not getting its
moneys worth in every respect. If. an
attempt was made to evict the courts
from The Bee building without notice
before the year were up, Mr.. Hitch.
cock would denounce It as a great out.
rage. but he coolly demands that the
county repudiate it's agreement for the
use of the rooms in the middle Of the
term of the contract, and without no
tice. Mr.. Hitchcock's paper has a rep.
utation for advocating reputation and
perhaps only wants the county to helT
him out by becoming a repudiator, too
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

ening Of public conscience and Of tran
sition and adjustment Of government
to new commercial standards and
methods, such a gathering will afford
opportunity for untrammeled express
sion Of western convictions and aims,
and It depends only whether true rep
resentatives of western progress will
utilize that opportunity or leave the
arena to the same old spokesmen of
special interests who have monopo-
lized the congress in the past.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
Senator MlllardIs private secretary

Senator Millard's private secretary
vouches for the fact that mo western
senator stands higher with President
Roosevelt than does Senator Willard"
Surely Senator Willard has been most
grievously wronged by those who sus-
pected that he was in active sympathy
and cooperation with the railroad sen
ators who exerted themselves to the ut
most last winter TO block President
Roosevelt's plan for rate regulation
legislation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Perhaps the difference between the
100000 subscribed by the Standard
Oil company for San Francisco relief
and the $40, 900 received by the chair
man of the relief committee may be
found in the rebate" fund.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

If the adoption of the earthquake
clause" means anything Californians
should secure lower insurance rates
but the companies will probably con-
tend that the clause means anything
but that. ....
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Son-in-law's democratic newspaper
seems still to be laboring under the de-
fusion that If it can only blackwash all
the other candidates sufficiently father
in-law may yet be resurrected as re-
publican candidate for United States
senator.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

The attention of the Nebraska State
Board Of Assessment is respectfully
called 10 the new railroad assessment
just made in Iowa, by which the vslua-
ton of Iowa railroads has been raised
for taxation by more than 100000
Notwithstanding the fact that the tax
bureauerats there put up the same pow
Mtg plea that they did in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Now is the time for the Real Estate
exchange and for the heavy property
owners committee to get busy, with a
view to keeping the tax rate down. In
creased assessments Of property will
not produce desired results unless &C
companied by decreased tax levies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Democrats and republicans of one
Missouri county have entered into an
agreement to bar money. liquor and
cigars as campaign material in the
pending contest. The independent
voter" will probably find himself
really Independent.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

1t transpires that Mayor Dahlman
did not know Just what he was biting
OF when he volunteered to hand down
the decision in the sparring match be-
tween the agents of those rival auto
matte registering weighing machines.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

OF course, it would be altogether err
roneous to assume that Mr.. Hitchcock
had fixed the date for his democratic
congressional convention for August
so on purpose to give him an excuse
to stay away from the Bryan home
coming reception at New York.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

The populist candidate for the dem
ocratic gubernatorial nomination has
gained unlooked-for Roadway. Those
democratic spiders did not realize what
they we're doing when they invited the
populist fly into their web-woven par
lOr
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

The wreck of that Italian ship of
the coast of Spain is reminder that
man is still far from controlling the
elements. A wide field remains for
the inventor and scientist.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07
white WinEs A-pIenty.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

One OF the Omaha packing hrms an
nounces that beginning this week every
one OF it's 1900 workmen will be clothed
in white duck, at the expense OF the rirm.
Laundries have been installed, and every
employe will have a clean, fresh suit
each morning This hrm ought to pro-
vide a special brand OF scented chewing
tobacco.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Secretary Root, after his return
from Brazil. may be able to explain
how the United States consumes each
year ten times as much real Mocha
and Java coffee as is produced.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

Mexico charges that the recent anti
American agitation there was TO-
mented by American railroads that
want to distract immigration from
that country. The Mexicans evidently
think the shoulders of the railroads
are broad enough to bear all their ills.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-07

American contestants at the Cowes'
yacht races will have the satisfaction
OF racing in the sight of two kings,
even though they secure no prizes-a
valuable consideration for advertising
purposes.