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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
VICE PRESIDENTIAL OFFERS.

The best that the democrats return
ing from Beaver have to say for their
choice of John w. Kern of Indiana
for second place on the ticket with
Bryan is that he is inoffenstve n
will not ALLEVIATE any vote. The strong
est argument put up for Candidate
Kern, sponsored by the notorious
tom" Taggart, is that he has always
been a stickler for party regularity,
and that although he started out with
the boiling gold democrats in 1896,
he became quickly reconciled to Bryan
and free silver and always stayed in
line for the ticket. Outside OF this,
his place in public life has been in
conspicuous, never having risen be-
yond service as Mayor Taggart's city
attorney and membership in the In
diana legislature. Twice rejected for
governor of the state, Candidate Kern
has nothing whatever TO show In the
way of executive experience, of legis-
lative achievement or of intimate &C
ouaintance with the big questions of
national affairs.
Contrasted with the democratic vice
presidential nominee, the republican
candidate, James S. Sherman, has been
long in the forefront of congressional
activity. He has a strong personality
and has been a potent factor in con-
gressional lawmaking. He is a ma
tionaI figure admittedly of a more
positive type than Mr.. Kern and far
better equipped from all points OF
view for Leadership in the national
arena.
The vice presidency, as every one
knows, is usually regarded as a shelf
for some one to stand on waiting for
something that seldom happens. Oc-
casionally, however, something does
happen to make the vice president In
fact the chief executive of the nation
II the American people had to walt
for such a contingency by a choice be-
tween James S. Sherman and John w
Kern, d%isregarding politics n guided
solely by considerations of ability ex-
perience and reliability, no one at all
conyersant with their respective ca
reers and qualifications would douD'
that the choice would fall to james 3
Sherman, who happens to be the re-
publican nominee for vice president
rather than to John w. Kern, who is
hitched to the democratic kite.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
Nub OF the Destruction of the Taft
tanner mt Lincoln.
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Some people at the state capital take It
as an ~indignity that the republican state
central mmitt should hang out q big
Taft banner, Nebraska for Taft because
w. ]. Bryan is a resident OF Lincoln.
The Commercial club Of the city has
protested.
The Lincoln Star, speaking from a com
mercial standpoint OF the probable visit Of
democratic hosts to Lincoln to see Bryan
ind notify him officially OF his nomina-
ton, says:
Think of tive are getting without cost,
almost as good a thing out of the demo-
cratic conclave as Denver is getting and
Denver pays 500, 900 for it,
And in another paragraph the Star refers
to getting an immense profit out OF the
shouting democratic hosts"
Thus it is announced officially what has
been apparent for some time, tina the
business interests of Lincoln, thinking only
Of their m-oney-getting are boarding Mr..
Bryan as a profitable commercial asset.
1t will be as well. however. for those
people to remember that Lincoln Is the
capital of Nebraska-of the whole state
and that 1t is a great deal more than the
home of w. ]. Bryan.
The offending banner need not give Of
Tense to any person. 1t does not attack
Bryan. 1t does not slur him. 1t need not
give offense to any deocrats, any more
than q Bryan demonstration on the streets
need offend republican residents of the
city.
II Lincoln people insist on commercially
ing the Bryan candidacy they will have to
figure loss and gain, later, with the whole
state.
II commercial considerations count, they
may well remember that republican hosts
have year after year gathered at the
capital and spent their money there.
Republican state headquarters have been
maintained in Lincoln nine-tenths of the
time. but Of course they can be accommo-
dated elsewhere.
The state capital has been down in the
southeast corner of the state a long time,
but II Lincoln people do not realize what
Lincoln owes to the whole state, and IL
they desire to put the capital on wheels.
doubtless a location can be found where
tho business men are something more than
shop-keeping mercCnaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
apoKNtNG TIE RoSsEsn

After Colonel Bryan's explosive as
sault upon Boss" Guffey, it is amaz-
ing to find him, Boosting as he does Of
his consistency, scampering down to
the railway station at Lincoln to ex-
tend the hand of fellowship to Boss
Murphy of the Tammany wigwam.
The Tammany crowd we're travelling
by special train which could easily
have been stopped long enough in
Lincoln to let them go to Fairview to
pay their respects to the democratic
standard bearer. When in response
to Mr.. Bryan's cordial invitation
Boss Murphy wired the insulting
response that If Mr.. Bryan wanted to
see him he could come down to the
station and watch the train go
through, a proper sense of self-respect
would have prompted Mr.. Bryan, If
not to give the Tammany "boss" the
same sort of a salute that he gave
Boss Guffey, to ignore him with
silent contempt.
This episode simply illustrates Mr..
Bryan's keen discrimination between
bosses" Boss Guffey, for whom it
is not within the range of posi-
bility to deliver any electoral votes
from Pennsylvania, is unceremoniously
bumped and elected through the tran
som In fragrant disregard of the &C
cepted code of political ethics. But
Boss Murphy is supposed to be a
factor. in New York for which Mr..
Bryan has not entirely given up hope.
So while Boss Guffey is conceded
no rights which Mr.. Bryan is bound
to respect, Boss" Murphy is coddled
and told that he may name the vice
president, If he wants to, and when
he declines to become responsible for
the makeup of the ticket, Mr.. Bryan
chases himself all the way from Fair
view to the train shed at Lincoln to
greet him and to be photographed
with the Tammany "boss."
Mr.. Bryan is for downing the
bosses" All "bosses" are bad, but
some "bosses" whose help may be use
full are better than others.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
The Cleveland Resolutions.
Brooklyn Eagle 0nd. dem.l.

bIOoklyu Eagle Nlnu. uem.).
The clumsy and unknown person from
Nebraska who offered the resolutions is
said to have received them from William j..
Bryan. The first sentence is: "As It has
pleased the Ruler of the Universe to remove
from our midst Grover Cleveland, late pres
ident of the United States, who was three
times the candidate of the democratic party.
be it resolved"
1t neither pleased nor displeased the Ruler
Of the Universe to remove Grover Cleve-
land. He did not remove him. Mr.. Cleve-
lands life was doubtless commendable to
the Almighty, but he died on account OF
natural causes. He acquired a disease
which finally ended his life. The ending Of
that life was due to laws which affect liv-
Ing and dying, which the Ruler of the Uni
verse established. but with the course OF
which He does not interfere.
The operation of those laws removed
Grover Cleveland. They did not remove
him Z" from our midst" "Our midst is
our stomach. 1t is nothing else and It is
nowhere else. The expression is often mis-
applied to obituary resolutions, but the mis-
application is always due to ignorance Of
grammar and to ignorance OF anatomy.
Could the authorship of the resolutions
be shown to be the act Of Mr.. Bryan, the
PROOF which that would furnish of his ig-
norance Of grammar and of his ignorance
or anatomy, with his intrepid assault on
poth, would justify voting against him and
would be a sufficient reason for his de-
teat. There are many other reasons for his
aeteat. but this one alone should suffice.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13

some Views and Comments on the
DOinEs Mt Denver.

Denver iost Orep.).
The nomination OF Mr.. Bryan Is a phe-
nomenon that seems almost beyond COM
mcnt. The east will have nothing OF him.
The practical leaders Of the party did not
want him. His standing as a presidential
possibility has not increased since his last
defeat. And his third campaign on his new
democratic platform seems to foreshadow
the d"isintegration of a once great party. An
organization that continues to draw its po-
litical inspiration from the old south and
It's economies from the eighteenth century
lacks sanction of essential facts in dealing
with the problems OF today: and the pro-
fession Of faith announced in the new plat
form is the alteration OF a fallen idol. The
demand OF tariff reform. with an eventual
tariff for revenue only, Is not an alluring
possibility for a manufacturing nation that
pays the highest wages in the world: while
the 'anti-injunction' plank is only more
unctuous, and not half as sincere or attain
able as that Of the republican platform.
However, the democracy has chosen its
candidate and its platform, and IL they do
not seem TO fit each other very well the
democracy must do the best It can with
them. What the nation will do with them
is another matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
Personal NOTES.

James whitcomb Riley says he would
rather be a poet than n politician. In In
diana that can easily be understood.
Edison says that four hours Of sleep Is
enough. Immediately preceded by a nap OF
three or four hours 1t really will do very
well.
Woodrow Wilson now secs where he fell
down as a presidential possibility. He has
no steam roller. He has not even a lawn
mower.
Australia has sent word that the American
fleet can't go there too soon. It ought, at
least. to give the sailors a chance to get
their dlgestions back into such shape that
the sight of pate de fois gras wouldn't
make them scream for the doctor.
A Cambridge, Mass, judge has sentenced
a prominent man OF that state TO six
months in the House Of Correction and 5000
fine for having accepted a bride to secure
another person a position as Inspector In tho
water department. The sentence carries
with II permanent disqualification for
further holding OF office.
Jacob II. Sleeper, the secretary of the
American legation at Venevula. who was
ummone home by the American govern
ment because Of dissatisfaction with the ac-
lions OF President Castro, has visited the
State department where he talked over
with Acting Secretary Bacon the Incidents
connected with his departure. His nara
ton of events contained nothing that has
not already been published In the news
papers.
Sir William MacGregor, governor of New
foundland thirty years ago. while holding
the post Of medical officer in FIJI per-
formed a remarkable feat/of heroism. A
shipful OF Indian coolies had been wrecked
about twelve hours steaming from tho
capital, and DIR. MacGregor-a man of vast
physical strength-who headed the relief
party. cIambered along a broken mast
which gave access to the vessel and re-
turned again and again with a man or
woman on his back, and sometimes a child
grlpped by its clothes In his teeth.
Henry Estabrook Of Omaha and New
York delivered the principal address at the
unwilling of the Roebling statue at Tren-
ton, N. j., July l. Mr.. EstaprooEs eulogy
of the great engineer, designer and builder
of the Brooklyn bridge. was a "masterfuI
oration.' HE was the orator of the day."
reports the State Gazette of Trenton, and
when he had completed his address every
person who had heard him was his friend,
and all hands held the Roeblings In even
greater regard than before because of the
frank manner in which he had told of John
A. Roebling's humble beginning and his Pc
culiarities. 1t was an interesting story re-
lated by a scholar of great oratorical power
in a manner SO pleasing that hardly one
person in the thousands who stood I'm the
hot sun before the speakers stand moved
away until the speech was ended"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
CORN AND PROSPERITY.
Promise of an Enormous Yield of
the King OF Cereals.
Chicago Tribune.

NNN AAAAs VI NSNNuANs
Chicago Tribune.
The government crop report for July pro-
claims the probability of another enormous
yield of corn. The data for stimat are
furnished by correspondents in every part
Of the corn zone. It is now believed that
the total for 1907 will be surpassed, al
though that of 1906. the banner year, will
not be reached.
The collected figures show almost 101 .OOO.-
900 acres devoted to corn. This acreage ex-
eeeds by more than 1900, 600 that of 1906. In
that year. when the yield was finally
counted, 1t was found to be 1921, $1,000
bushels. The crop of 1908 is estimated as
likely to come within 800, O0O,O 900 bushels
of the bumper record for 1906. While the
Ideal conditions Of that season have not
been realized this year, the situation is so
favorable everywhere that the farmers are
happy over the outlook.
Linked with the prospects on the farm is
the improvement of railroad conditions. The
crop must be hauled to market. That
means an increased demand for cars. more
locomotives in use, more opportunity for
work for the army of men who follow rail-
reading as a business. The money paid for
the corn will liven up business generally.
1t is an encouraging word which comes
from the fields.
The high price of meat is largely due, so
the meat men declare, to the cost of feed
ing cattle resultant from the high prices
Of corn which have prevailed. The market
ing of two and three-quarters billion bushels
Of this commodity cannot fail to have an
effect in the opposite direction, so thai the
meat eater away from the farm will share
in another way the prosperity of the
farmer.
The crops are the great factors in ma
tional prosperity. Bounteous harvests have
often come to the relief of the country at
times when the manufacturing and COM
mercial interests were under an eclipse.
With good crops this year the early clos
ing of the present period OF Industrial de-
preston will be assured.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
HOLDING UP TIE HUNGRY.
Denver Food Foundries DO the Job in
a Raw Fashion.

staff Correspondent Chicago Record-IIerad.
The most genuine amusement OF the en-
tire convention Is being obtained by the
Denver restaurant keepers. These Denver
ties have entered into the defensive ana
offensive, but chiefly offensive. for the pur-
pose Of practiclng the art OF extortion on
the visitors.
The "holdups'' are practically raw and
the work Of the restaurant keepers is so
coarse that 1t would never be tolerated for
a moment Il II we're not for the fact that
most Of the visitors have thus far been so
busy and so occupied that they a no
opportunity to Ego on the mat" with the
proprietors of the restaurants,
But the visitors are now shrieking for re-
venge. The only revenge in sight, how
ever, is the decision, voiced on every hand,
that never again will a democratic conven-
tiop come to Denver. II this proves to be
the case Denver will have its cafe man
ayers to thank. Meanwhile the managers
Jingle the incoming coin and smile.
The extortion mentioned does not refer
to the cheaper Denver restaurants. but to
the best dining places In the city. Every
where the very least amount Of food Of the
very worst quality and cooked in the very
worst possible form is being dished up to
visitors in any old fashion.
Prices are the only things which are main
tanned at a high level. The service is as
bad as the food. and II takes anywhere
from thirty minutes to seventy to get any
thirg served which requires cooking. No
one connected with the cafe management
yer restaurants during this convention.
After a pilgrimage Of the various alleged
first-class cafes and hotel dining rooms a
party of Chicagoans has drawn up q set of
rules to be observed while eating in Den
yer restaurants during thi sconvention.
Here are the rules urged upon the
visitors:
Bring a microscope so that you will be
Bring a Ratchet so that the meat may be
broken up.
Bring a neat pat of butter in your hat so
that you won't have to eat butterine or
butter Of the Napoleonic era.
Bring an assortment of fresh eggs in your
pocket IL you happen to want eggs of a
later date thar the former democratic con-
vention.
Bring a chair that you can rest on while
the food is coming.
Wear a macintosh, so your clothes won't
be made by the waiter q receptacle for
milk. coffee or soup.
When about to order what would be
enough for a meal in any other city-don't.
order six portions OF everything instead.
When the bill Is carried in by two men,
pay 1t and escape, thankful you still have
a return ticket which will take you out Of
Denver.
The situation was summed up by q
waiter in a w~ell-known cafe, who. in an
swer to roars Of protest against paying $l.75
for a tenderloin steak about the size Of a
watch, said:
That's a pretty small steak for the price,
but 1t amt my fault. Since the convention
is on we walters have got to take what
they give us in the kitchen. and then it's
up to us to try TO keep the customers quiet.
l never worked 30 hard in my life as 1.
this week because I've had TO do SO
much thinking up Of excuses"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
A Mighty TaIkfest.

S. J. Blythe in Chicago Examiner.
Once more the democracy has proved 1t
is the greatest conversational party on
earth. 1t loves the sound of the human
voice. Led by the celebrated word-Vesuvius
of Lincoln and tailed by that ~cloudburst Of
language, Alfalfa Bill of Oklahoma, so
called because he grows three crops OF
whiskers on the same soil. everything be.
tween is vocal.
Thus far the democratic national conven-
ton has been a wordfest, and so It will
continue to the end. We have had oratory
in all the known styles, from thai of the
late John ]. Demosthenes to that Of Jimmy
Oliver of Paradise Park, New York. The
English language has been burned at the
stake, has been taught to do double flip
flaps through the air, has been macerated,
lacerated and chased screaming In agony
from pillar to post.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
Western Democracy i'm Saddle.

springfield CMass) Republican Qnd).
The democratic party of today has no
representation in congress worth consider
ing outside of the south. although 1t polls
an enormous popular vote I'm the northern
states. What has happened at Denver, In
effect, is that the southern congressional
leadership is embodied In men like CuIber-
son. Williams, Bacon and Daniel has been
east aside, and in its place appears a leader
snip and a control which, crude and Jl
disciplined as it may seem. has It's sources
in the masses of the democratic party in
the north and west.
speaking more specifically, the democ-
racy of the west is In the saddle. the de-
mocracy of the east and south merely ac-
ceptlng a domination which could not be
cast off. And the western democracy Is at
least democratic in the truer and more
ideal sense that It signifies popular aspira-
lions and popular rule. 1t is a progressive
democracy, dangerously radical some will
say, but it stands for something vital and
1t embodies much of the spirit OF the COM
Ing generation In American politics, what
ever fortune 1t may nave in the present
struggle for control of the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
A ECHO.


N. ]. Tamplin in New York World.
Does Bryan fear to tread the path
Which he himself has picked
And meet the regnant G. o. L.
To Hex or to be liCked2
Echo-be licked.
Why docs he hang on like a leech
And work his well-wOn bluff?
Two times a loser IN the race,
Is not that quite enough?
EchO-enOugh.
Observe the smile upon his face,
Put there TO meet the scott
And scOrn OF genuine democrats
The smile that won't come off.
EchO-comc off.
He says that he alone has strength
To pull the party through,
And anyOne opposing him
To party is not true. ~
EchO-not true.
Oh, near him speak upon the stump
His accents rising high;
Behold IN ne the peoples own;
/ am VoE POpuli."
EchO-uli.
Il want 20 run; ] ought 10 run,
Because, dear friends, you see,
It's nothing more than right and Whak
The delegates owe me-"
EchO-ah, me.
With Bryan at the front once more.
The Matchless Leader, brave
Say, will the party follow him
To glory or the gravel ,
Eeho-the grave
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
WAS he TWICE GOLD BRICKEDi

Boosting for Mayor Jim for chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee, an unnamed member of the
Nebraska delegation is plausibly
quoted as saying:
You see, it's this way: Twice Mr.. Bryan
has adopted the wishes of members Of the
committee as to the chairman and twice
he got a gold brick. 1t is essential to the
success Of his candidacy that he not only
have a chairman who is loyal to him, but
that he also have a man who is enthusiast
tic with him personally, a believer in his
leadership and in the probable success OF
his cause.
If Mr.. Bryan was twice gold-bricked
in his national chairman, he went up
against the game with his Eyes open
and cannot throw the blame OIL his
committee. In 1896 Senator James
K. Jones of Arkansas was Bryan's per-
sonal choice for campaign manager
and did everything strictly according
to Bryan's direction, when Bryan did
not insist on doing it all himself.
Throwing a bouquet to the tripartite
committees in charge of the three po-
litical parties that few the Bryan BAN
ner in 1896, Mr.. Bryan, himself, writes
in his First Battle" as follows:
After a campaign is over 1t is sometimes
possible to point to mistakes in manage
ment which affected the result. But ] do
not believe that anyone will be able to
point out a serious mistake made by either
of the committees, nor can anyone point to
an instance in which either committee
failed to improve an opportunity presented.
Not only was Mr.. Bryan completely
satisfied with the way in which he
was gold-bricked the first time, but he
liked it so well that he kept Senator
Jones at the head of his campaign in
1900.
A man who is gold-bricked once
may plead ignorance and innocence,
but a man cannot expect sympathy
If he is gold-bricked twice by the same
bunco steerers. If Senator Jones were
still alive it is quite possible that he
would complain that he was gold
bricked twice by being made campaign
manager for a foredoomed candidate.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13

The Commoner carefully prints in
full the address of Temporary Chair
man Bell and the nominating speeches
of Ig. Dunn, Governor Glenn and
Augustus Thomas, but carefully omits
the address of Permanent Chairman
Clayton, who declared that Is presi-
dent Mr.. Taft would be a second
Roosevelt. That speech of Clayton's
must have been designed for conven-
ton consumption only.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13

The sudden death of a supreme
court Judge in Iowa has walked the
politicians there up to the fact that
there is no law in that state provid-
ing a way to nominate a candidate for
an office which becomes vacant after
the legally fixed date for the primary
election. If that is the case the law
will have to be patched up, but in the
interval a good lively scramble is sure
to be started by candidates willing to
run by petition. A seat on the SUI
preme bench of Iowa is not going to be
left without bidders for it.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
The Perpetual Candidate.

Enough for any one man was Mr..
Bryan's own expression after he had twice
led his party to defeat. After the result Of
the election OF 1900 was known, tho per-
petual candidate sent this mournful dis
patch TO his friend J. r. Merrill Of Kansas
City:
Thank you for your telegram Of con-
dolence. The defeat was a severe one; you
all did nobly. ! cannot conscientlously ask
the party to consider me again for the pres
tdency. ! led them to defeat four years
ago. and that ought 70 be enough for any
one man"
More than enough for any one man, for
n one party, for any one country is Mr..
Bryan's third hopeless candidacy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
Liberty and License.
Baltimore American.

LuItIIIIUIV HIIItTituU.
A Frenchman visiting America complains
OF the lack OF personal liberty in this
country. and contrasts 1t according to
his viewpoint, unfavorablY with the lib
erty 20 be found in France. But there is
everything in a viewpoint-from the Ameri-
can viewpoint liberty In France is often
license, and statistics call attention to the
fact that France leads I'm the number Of
certain crimes that are directly the result
OF this so-called liberty. From the
American viewpoint. this is a pretty well
governed eountry-in fact the best In the
world.