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Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
TEST OF PARTY AFEIL1Ar1oN.

At the primary next Tuesday each
voter on applying for a ballot will have
to state under oath what political party
he afiliates with. This is the basic
feature Of the close primary designed
to make sure that the candidates on
each party ticket are nominated by the
members of that party and 20 prevent
members Of other political parties from
choosing the candidates on the oppos-
ing ticket. To use plain language, II
Is intended to prevent democrats from
making nominations for the repub-
licans and to prevent republicans from
making nominations for the democrats,
1t is a sound and u~nassailable rule, alb
solutely imperative for the integrity of
political organization.
To enforce this rule there must be
some test OF party a~f1liation. In cities
where registration prevails this test is
provided by law by confining partici-
patton to those who at the last regis
with their respective political parties.
Outside of registration cities 1t de-
wolves upon the primary election off,
GERS to prevent fraudulent voting by
political masqueraders. If a known
and noisy democrat should ask for a
republican ballot he should be refused.
He should likewise be refused If he
asks for a populist ballot
The chances for controversy will be
greatest in connection with the popu-
list, primary in which a lot of Bryan
democrats. pretending still to be popu-
lists, will undoubtedly try 10 vote in
pursuance of the fusion conspiracy.
The primary law, it seems TO us, sup
plies the test of party a~hiliation for
this case. For guidance in disputes as
to party name, it declares in Section
43:
The action of the preceding national con-
%vention of such party. regularly called,
shall determine the action of the secretary
Of state or the court in its decision.
II this is the test of party afilia-
ton for the secretary of state
and the courts, 1t must likewise
be the test for the election on
GERS. BY the action of the last popu-
list national convention Tom Watson
was nominated for president and the
test of aflliation with the ropnlist
party is support of Watson for presi-
dent. A pretended populist who avows
or admits that he is for Bryan has no
right to vote in tbs populist primaries
under the law of Nebraska, and the
judges and clerks of the coming pri-
mary election should govern them
selves accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
IN TIE skcoNp pIsrRIcr.

The republicans of this district are
confronted with a condition and not a
theory. This is the only congressional
district in Nebraska now represented
in congress by democrat. The prob
lem here is to redeem the district and
recover the place in congress for a re-
publican who will be in accord With
the controlling majority and thus in a
position to do something for his con-
%stituents.
On the democratic side the situation
is fully developed. The present demo-
cratic congressman has his renomina-
ton without contest. He has run for
congress four times and has been twice
defeated and twice elected. The re-
publicans have. therefore, learned by
experience what is the strength and
what the weakness of the opposition
they will have to meet again this year.
On the republican side are three
competing aspirants for the nomina-
ton. each presenting his claims for
preferment and insisting that he Is
best qualified to go on to the election
with success. AS all three of these
candidates before the primary have in
the past been affiliated most Of the
time. II not all of the time, with the
so-called "anti-machine" wing Of the
party, there is no consideration of fac
tionalism entering into the primary
contest for this nomination, and 1t is
up to the republican voters to decide
which of the three is really best fitted
to take the field against the democratic
incumbent and put the congressman
from this district on the republican
side of the house, where he rightfully
belongs. In deciding on this question
all the essential factors should be
taken into consideration-tried ability,
personal popularity. past party service,
qualification for a speaking campaign,
organizing strength. trustworthiness
and general standing in the public con-
fdenee-in fact everything that an
swers the requirements of this partic-
ular case.
The primary contest Is supposed to
gauge the competing candidates indi-
viduality and award the nomination to
the strongest man. If the republicans
will take up a good, strong candidate
and keep free from back-hrlng they
will elect the next congressman from
this district.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
Means what He Says.

DIOOhAgh EaBlG NlHus uGHl.ls
Mr.. Taft is an honest advocate OF the
policy of tariff revision. Hts views on
the subject were announced as long age "A
September. 1906, when he spoke at Bath,
Me-, in a way that Jared the confidence
of some of his eminent colleagues In tho
republican party. The position assumed
by him then was Te-declared by him last
week At Hot Springs. II elected president,
he will convene congress In special session
as soon as possible after his Inaugural
ton, to consider the whole question OF
tariff revision. In so doing. he would be
carrying out the pledge Of the republican
platform.
MIR. Taft means precisely what he says
and nothing more, He does not promise
TO make revision an effective policy. Con-
gress alone can do that, and Il Is, I'M
fortunately, not possible for a president
TO confine congress IN special session
to the object for which the special session
was convened. Il ought 10 be possible
to do so. but Il Is not. and nothing Is
surer than that the opponents OF tariff
revision In congress will seek to defeat
that issue by raising others In no way
geFmane 20 II. With this ~eontingeney,
however. Mr.. Taft has nothing to do. His
only obligation is to vitalize the pledge
OF the Chicago platform and put the
a special session, In a presidential mes
sage. A result IN sympathy with his
views can then be best assured through
the steady pressure OF public sentiment
working upon c9pgresS -
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
On the Lawn at Lincoln.

EHipoIid NhdLJ GaAette '(rep).
w come on the same old Grand" the
spokesman remarked, and sighed; mo
wonder you tear your hair and make sure
that the dogs united. Full oft in the years
departed, we've stood on your peerless
lawn; no wonder you're broken-hearted,
and wish that we were gone. Our words In.
your ears are humming, that we spoke in
former years; you guess when you see US
coming, what nonsense has brought US here.
Oh, Billy, the years slip by you, and when
we are dead and gone, our children will
notify you, and stand on your peerless
lawn; when they in turn are planted, deep
down in the mold and grit. their children
will be enchanted. to tell you that you are
1t. And so with a gaze prophetic. our eyes
pierce the futures veil. and Gabriel comes,
%ecstatic, and blows on the trump a wall,
disturbing some tired committee. out here
by Your peerless barn, that came to the
western city, to tell you the same old
yarn"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31

Two decisions by the United States
circuit court of appeals at st. Louis
promise to have a decided effect in
forcing the railroads TO comply with
the federal law requiring equipment
with all proved safety appliances. The
decisions are particularly important,
as they reverse rulings made by the
lower courts In different states holding
the law unconstitutional.
The law passed by congress some
years ago requiring the railroads to
equip their Ears with airbrakes and
safety coupling devices has been OPP
posed by some of the leading roads
and compliance with 1t repeatedly de-
ferred. Some Of the railroads Ques-
toned the federal Jurisdiction owe
that subject, while others made show
ings to the effect that compliance
would entail an enormous expense and
asked that the law be applied only to
new rolling stock. On this showing
the Interstate Commerce commission,
by authority of congress, postponed the
date for final enforcement while the
cause was being tested in the courts.
The decisions at St. Louis are sweep
ing in affirming the power of congress
to prescribe specific precautions, ever
to the kind of couplings and airbrakes
to be used.
The circuit court of appeals is the
judicial authority next highest to the
United States supreme court, and the
unanimous finding in the eases just
tried would ordinarily indicate the
final UNFOLDING of the law. The de-
cisions will greatly strengthen the eff
forts Of the government authorities to
enforce the use of reliable safety APP
~plianees. An additional incentive for
railway companies to observe the law
10 found IN the new employers liability
act, which increases the responsibility
for the safety of their employees.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
NOTES.


Richard Croker receives the freedom Of
the city Of Dublin an honor once bestowed
upon Ulysses S. Grant.
The charge that dead men voted at the
Kansas City primaries supports the claim
that you can't Keep q Missourisn down.
Almost every day there Is a report that
some poor person has Inherited a fortune.
but none ever seems 10 get the fortune.
Governor Msgoon OF Cuba, accompanied
BY Captain J. 4. Ryan Of the Fifteenth
cavalry, will leave Havana today for New
York to visit President Roosevelt for a
discussion Of Cuban affairs.
A New York Judge has ruled that there
is no law to prevent a policeman from sc-
cepting a tip. People with a mania for tell
Ing their troubles to a policeman will now
find the cost of living higher than ever.
The modern aviator may enjoy the priv
hege Of looking down on the rest Of man
kind, but he misses the greater privilege
Of gazing on the wilderness OF billboards
which soothes the vision OF those sticking
Nose to nature.
Two versions OF The Devir' are being
played in New York and people are paving
real money to see representations while
the real article can be seen without cost.
birthstone canned and handsomely labeled
does not jar the knickerbocker nerve.
Although New York's state treasury
scooped In S,e00Ooo from the stock trans
fer tax for the ten months ending July 81.
there is more than a suspicion that the
notation OF the tickers are not properly
ornamented with stamp stickers. some
brokers dodge everything but a commits
sion.
Slowly, surely and in Increasing spots the
effect OF judicial and judicious studies of
domestic science are becoming apparent.
S~upplementing the Rochester court dictum
approving a wife's search of her husbands
pockets Is the decision of a Los Angeles
judge declaring that a wife need not scrub
floors while her husband can work. The
world moves and the eourts catch on.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31

did not constitute a separate offenae. And
his decision that the o~ftenses we're com
mitted only when settlements" were made
for shipments II met with The answer that
under such a construction Of the law free
shipments. which would be the extreme vio-
lation OF the law. could be made with i'm
punity. for no conviction could be secured
because there would be no settlements"
And thus through p number of con-
t%entions laid down by the court Of appeals,
the attorney general exposed error or fab
lacy In one Of the most striking and cons
vincing briefs ever issued from the Depart
ment OF Justice. The intelligent layman II
left in a maze Of doubt. to say the least,
and he instinctlvely applauds the daring
comment made on this reversal by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The array Of errors here
charged against a high court Is all the
more startling since all Of the errors were
made in favor Of a gigantic trust, none Of
them In favor OF the proseoutor. the United
states government. .l.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
ON PRESIDENTIAL rIRISG LINE.
~ConcerninE the Democratic Appeal 90
American Farmers.
Sacramento CCai) Union (rep.).

American FarmeEAs
Sacramento CCaf) Union (rep).
DOesnt this violent appeal which the
democrats, in their effort to raise campaign
funds, are making to the farmers OF the
country smack somewhat OF bare-fseed ef-
~frontery9
They are not only asking the men who
TN the soil and who are the backbone Of
America for their moral support. but the
democrats in their frenzy would have the
sgriculturists believe that II is incumbent
on them to support Bryan financially as
well.
Why? what has the democratic party
ever done for the farmers of the United
States that they should be appealed to and
almost told that it is their duty to swell
the funds of the Bourbons2
Why the farmers should be made to pay
tribute to the democrats party is not plain
unless II be on the principle OF licking the
hand that smote them. There is not a sin
gle instance in the history OF this country
where agriculture has been benefited by
democratic rule. but there r. plenty Of evt
dence TO show that the farmers have often
been ruined through the maladministration
Of that party.
The last time the farmers came near go
ing to the demnition bow-bows was under
democratic rule. We need not so back far
TO show that nearly every farm in the
United States was mortgaged and every
farmer on the verge Of bankruptcy. The
raets can be had for the asking. II there is
anyone 10 dispute the statement.
This Is not the specious pleading of a
campaign orator or OF some one trying to
delude the unwary. The assertion here
made can be backed by the records found
IN the archives Of the Agricultural depart
ment at Washington.
The best friend the farmer In this country
ever had in power is the republican party.
mere are a thousand reasons why the ag-
Hculturtsts should support the republican
nominees but not one for their lending
ei'her moral or financial support to the
democratic
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
RICH n RARE.

The warning Of the world-Herald
TO democrats to Beware of Smith, -
who has filed az a candidate for the
democratic nomination for e~lector-at-
large. is certainly rich and rare. II not
racy. NO democrat should vote for
Smith at the primaries exclaims the
VIII. because he is not for Bryan
and is not a Bryan candidate for
elector."
Why should the democrats beware
Of Smith" for any such fimsy reason
as this? Did not the hired attorneys
of the Bryan co~nspirators appear be-
fore the secretary Of state In the pro-
test cases and insist that everyone has
a right to file for presidential elector
on any ticket he pleases and. II sue
eessful at the polls, to vote for any
candidate for president he pleases?
That is the theory On which the Bryan
democrats, disguised as peoples indie
pendents. have smuggled their way
onto the populist primary ballot.
So long as the populists have a pres
idential candidate in Tom Watson, why
should not the World-Herald warn
~populists to beware of the Bryanites
who have fled for presidential electors
on the populist ticket? We know moth
ing about Smith. He may not be the
kind of a democrat that conforms to
the Bryan definition. We do not even
agree with the democratic position as
to the liberty and license to be ac-
corded deceptive candidates for presi-
Dental electors, but Smith has Just as
good and better right TO seek votes
on the democratic ticket than Bryanite
masqueraders have to seek votes on
the populist ticket.
1t is q poor rule that does not work
both ways. When the democrats put
up their scheme to defraud the popu-
lists of their opportunity to vote for
Watson they began playing with fire.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31

New York Globe Cind. rep(.
Mr.. Taft's answer to Mr.. Bryan's ram
bling tariff speech is simple ard direct.
On March 4 rext, " elected president. he
VIII call congress in extra session. and when
Il assemblies will submit a message strongly
Urging a revision of the tariff along lines
advocated by him two years ago In his
Bath speech.
That is to say, he will urge not only re.
vision, but revision downward as far as II
can be carried without e~ndanserfnR the
principle OF protection and akin away en-
ployment from American w~Orkinsmen. He
is opposed TO all tariff levies that are
higher than needed to equalize labor cost
al home and abroad and give the American
manufactures a chance to continue In bust
ness There 10 small doubt that Mr.. Taft
expressed what is practically now the over
whelming public view with respect to the
tariff. The country wants revision, and II
wants the revision to be made along pro-
teetiontst lines. This he and his party will
give at the earliest practicable day.
And what of revision II Mr.. Bryan should
be elected? There will be no revision at
all; at least there is small chance Of il.
AFTER March 4 next, no matter what the
result OF the presidential election and no
matter which party controls the house of
representatives, the senate will be republi-
can for at least two years. 1t is impossible
TO get a tariff bill passed when the two
houses of congress are not In political har-
mony. The subject becomes a foot bali OF
politics and nothing is done. The only hope
OF revision is in the election Of Taft ana
a republican house OF representatives. In
so far as Mr.. Bryan is able TO persuade tha
country that tariff revision is demanded
he Is making an irrefutable argument for
the election of his opponent.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
PRICE MARKS FOR PATRONAeE

PRICE MARKS FOR PATRONAGE.
The esteemed Houston Post, the
owner of which is the democratic ma
tional committeeman from Texas and
a member Of the democratic finance
committee, offers the significant sug-
gestion that If Mr.. Bryan is elected
president the contributors to the cam
paign fund will be remembered when
II m to the distribution of federal
patronage. The Post suggests that =
contribution of 800 should at least
entitle the donor To a preference when.
II comes to passing around p~ostofnee
appointments, ~.-s,-,
The suggestion Is one which will
naturally appeal to the members of
that party who have been so long with
out a share of the offices. 1t is not
stated that Mr.. Bryan and his advisors
had the thought in mind when they
planned to appeal for popular sub
scriptions, but the plan and scope of
that appeal fits most nicely into the
Texas editors program. Possibilities
OF the scheme have been simpliaed
some by the schedules arranged for
contributions, and no room has been
left for miscalculations or disputes
when the award of prizes is due. Each
donor of cash to the fund has his
name properly recorded and his rating
in the reward column properly fixed.
1t would be a comparatively easy
matter to classify the Offices to be
Allied and adjust them to the eontribu-
tions. The $4,000 men. for instance,
would naturally have first claim to
cabinet positions and high-priced
diplomatic posts. There are more posi-
lions in that field that pay from $4,000
to $17,5O0 a year. the number being
as large, probably. as will be the num-
Der Of contributors of the maximum
amount allowed. Then would come
the contributors of $4,000 each, and
the list of places available for them is
exceptionally large. They would nat
urally expect to become federal dis
trict attorneys, collectors of Internal
revenue, customs ofneials. United
States marshals and eonsuls through
out the world. whose salaries average
better than $1,000, Some p~ostoRees
in the larger cities might also com
under this list. From $4,000 down
the Offices may be more readily ad-
tasted TO AZ the figure Of the con-
tributOr. There are land onlce ap-
p~Ointments. inspectors of the many
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
what Good win rya Dol,

fttsourg Gazette-Tfmes (rep.).
We hear the w~orkingmen saying that this
time they intend to vote for Mr.. Bryan,
because for the last ten months we have
had hard times. But what good will that
do? How Is a tariff for revenue. ignoring
the protection idea altogether. going to
open the shops and mills? How will the
election OF senators by direct vote start
the wheels of Industry? Or the publication
OF campaign co~ntributions7 Or the further
harassment of the railroads? Or the re-
organization OF the house. 50 that the
speaker may be powerless? Why open
this country now to the markets of the
world when we have not sufficient demand
to consume what we ourselves manufRc-
ture? Under republican rule we have Just
had. ten years of u%nequaled prosperity.
Under democratic administration we have
never had prosperity for any period. long
or short.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
CIaim Everything.
Brooklyn Eagle dndO.

N"NAtH
Norman L. Mack say he has found the
situation in this state to be most crafty.
ing. So il Is. Also, he has found that al
roads lead to success. SO they do.
Then comes Mr.. Corners. claiming a
plurality of anywhere from 1900 to 100000
The estimate is not exaggerated. Indeed,
the plurality will probably be larger.
Things have not yet begun to warm up.
II is not yet too soon to carry New York.
but IL Is a little early TO make a clean
sweep Of the commonwealth of Penn
sylvaniE.
There are signs, however. that this will
soon be done. Mr.. Mack saws all the
eastern states are falling into line and he
surely does not mean TO leave Pennsylvania
out IN the cold.
The safest way Is to omit nothing. to
place everything beyond the shadow OF a
deuht-until election day. After that. ex-
plantations And after that. talk OF the
coming cabinet. which VIII be reDubli-
can.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31

different executive departments. post
Offices running from the ~1lsse to the
metropolis. bank examiners aud the
long list Of federal positions cot under
civil service.
With proper care there might be
places enough for all who pay to get
a prize, and It will be necessary only
for the finance committee to avoid
trouble by seeing that the price marks
for patronage are properly aHlxed as
the donations come in. The hungry
democrat. under that plan, would have
only to select his Office and size his
contribution accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
IMPOSING ARRAY OF ERRORS.
Fallaeies of Deciston in Favor of
OIL Company.
Kansas Cttv Tfmas

EAAAaeteS OF Dectston In Favor OF
standard OIL Company.
Kansas City Times.
The answer OF Judge Francis +. Baker,
one of the members OF the appellate court
that reversed the Standard OIL case In
volving the fine OF S2S,OO0000 makes an In
adequate answer TO the critics OF that re-
versal. When the court OF appeals Set
aside this verdict the country was dunn
founded-discouraged as It had never been
before in its great effort to get the upper
hand of lawless monopolies. But when At
torney General Bonaparte flied his petition
for a rehearing, amusement and indignation
followed, for even to the lay mind It seemed
clear that the higher and not the lower
court had erred, and erred most seriously.
The statement of the case by Mr.. Bona
narte is so convincing as to max 1t seem
incredible that a rehearing should not be
granted on his showing.
The opinion written by Judge Grosscup,
which was signed by the other two mem
bers. is shown to have misquoted the evt
dence of the lower court. The charge in
this opinion hat a certain witness was not
permitted to testify Is shown to be false
by the records OF the case.
The principle laid down that ignorance
Of the law-or Of the existence Of prac-
tees in conflict with the law-slves I'M
munity to the offender lie so sweeping. so
revolutionary, as to be nothing less than
bewilderins in its possible consequences,
particularly as ignorance in this case was
claimed in spite Of the publicity of the
law and of the freight tariffs on which
charges Of violation were based.
Judge Grosscup himself-in a former
opinion-is quoted to controvert his con-
tention in this instance that each carload
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
Turkish TIP for Proofreader..
london Chronic

American and English newspapers have
a way Of mangling the name Of the sui,
tan of Turkey. Often he il called sim.
ply "Abdur'-nothing more. Sometimes n
is abdul the Artful,' Abdul the Wary
The proper way to write the name is ADD,
al-Hamid," or, as some would translate NJ
"Abd-l-Hamid." This means Servant (ol
slave) of the praised one" T. e., God, OF
Allah. The "ur' or - merely represents
the Arabic definite article. which in writ,
ing is always Joined TO the following word
"Abd" is a common first name with Ma,
hometans, as in Abd-ul-Kadir, Abdul.
Latif. Abd-ul-Aziz. Abdul with or with.
out the Hamid. makes nonsense, but nc
one seems to notice Il.