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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
THE CONSERVATIVE BRYAN.

1t is extremely difficult to under
stand how men of the stamp of Rich
ard Olney, Edward F. Shepard, Alton
B. Parker, Colonel Henry Watterson
and others who have stood for the prin-
ciples Of the older democracy can be
sincere in their ~pretensions that the
William ]. Bryan of 1908 is not the
same William ]. Bryan that they joined
in cheerfu1ly and enthusiastically de-
feating for the presidency in 1896 and
again in 1900. These men surely do
not accept Mr.. Bryan's assurance that
he has turned conservative, particu-
larly when he follows that assertion up
with another insisting that he has not
changed in any manner.
Fairness to Mr.. Bryan compels the
statement that he has given no real
cause for this change of feeling toward
him. He has given no reason for any
one to believe that he has changed
ground on any of his old follies. Less
than six months ago, in a speech at
DdhNlllSs H., liz Sdlus
There is not a plank laid down In the
platform at Chicago i'm 1886 that is not
stronger now, and there is,not a plank in
the republican platform of \that year that
is not weaker.
1t is true that Mr.. Bryan is not now
making speeches in favor of a 5O-cent
dollar, but he has never recanted any
thing he said in their favor in 1896
and In 1900. IF protection has slain
its thousands" said Mr.. Bryan in his
speech at the Chicago convention in
1896, the gold standard has slain its
tens of thousands" While Mr.. Bryan's
friends claim he has turned conserva.
tive, he has given no hint that he is
ready to let that awful slaughter &c
unavenged.
From the day of his return from Eu.
rope in 1906 until a few days before
the Denver convention, Mr.. Bryan ia.
vored and urged the government own,
ership Of railroads. Within the year he
has written for publication letters in
which he declared his belief that rail
road regulation must fail and 'relieI
from extortionate railroad rates will
not come until the railroads are the
property of the governmentAand oper,
ated by the government in The inter,
ests of the people" He has hever re
pudiated that folly. He squirnAs wheI
questioned on the subject and REPLIES
that he will not discuss it, because 1
is not mentioned in the Denver plat
form. Certainly Mr.. Bryan hast no
grown conservative on the Questidh 0
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
Personal NOTES.

Ethel McAllister, aged s years, travelled
safely alone from Melbourne, Australia, to
New York, a distance of $500 miles.
If September keeps it up to the finish il
will end its career, like Alexander, signing
for the lack of opportunity to better Its
own unparalleled record.
A Connecticut woman has put up a 81, 200
monument to her dog, although doubtless
the ]neighbors thought that in life a brick
bat was what the creature needed.
A club of first voters for Taft, just
started in Cincinnati, already has 73S mem
bers. These young men propose to begin
their business careers under favorable
auspices and not a frost.
e. II. Hartman has accepted an invita-
ton to address the nineteenth annual ses-
sion of the Transmississippi Commercial
congress, which meets in San Francisco
on October 6 to 10. Invitations have also
been extended to each member of the In
t~erstate Commerce commission to attend
the gathering.
To the many honors already accorded
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia, neu-
rologist, poet, essayist and novelist, has
just been added that of a foreign fellow
ship in the Royal Society of England. The
tltClAOll 10 Olit VI Nl1 VIZ
to which a scientist can aspire, and it has
fallen to the lot of only three other Amer
leans now hving-Alexander Agassiz, nat
uralist and George w Hill and Simon New
comb, astronomers.
Willard ID. Straight. consul general OF the
United States at Mukden, returned TO New
York on the steamer Philadelphia from
Southampton. He comes from his post
in Manchuria under instructions from the
State department to report on developments
In his territory during the last year. He
has travelled in the Japanese and Russian
sections of Manchuria and along the AmuT
river, investigating Russian and japanese
progress and business and political condi-
tions.
Two months ago Mr.. Herman Ridder was
so convinced that Mr.. Bryan could not be
elected that ne went to Lincoln to urge
the Nebraskan leader to put aside ambi-
ton and let Governor Johnson or Judge
Gray be nominated. The sorrowful pleader
of July is the radiant prophet OF Septem-
Der. He has already carried the west for
Bryan and thinks Of throwing in New
York, New Jersey and New England for
good measure. Fortunately for his fame
as a political prophet, James X. Jones
passed away before the Ridder eclipse.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
ut you know that it excludes everything

but you know that it excludes everything
else.
ANY Legitimate business may pluck
up spirit. Mr.. Bryan won't hurt It. What
is a Legitimate business? Apparently
one that doesn't control more than % per
cent Of production in its line, To great
businesses and to small ones if their pros
perity happens to depend upon the duty
on an article which is the subject of a
trust, MIR. Bryan threatens disaster. The
small can be injured by means Of the free
list: the large by federal deliberations So
much for Industrial corporations. What
hope Of better wages and better dividends
comes to the railroad business from Mr..
RrVan2
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
srRAppLE ron sBALtENBEReER-

STRADDLE FOR SHALIENBERGER
Ashton C.. Shallenberger Of Alma,
Neb.. is now before the public in a
double dual role. He is running for
governor as a democrat in democratic
districts and as a populist wherever
there may be found a populist voter.
This dual role would seem to be
enough to occupy the attention of an
ordinarily ambitious politician, but It
does not satisfy the versatile. Shallen-
berger. He is o content with play
ing the roles of Marks the lawyer and
Phineas the Quaker, but he is also
bent on being Simon Legree and Little
Eva, as we'll. In Douglas county he
will be a rampant advocate of per
sonal liberty" and a foe to prohibition.
Outside of Douglas county he will take
his stand firmly on the populist plat
form, which declares unequivocally
for county option as a step toward
statewide prohibition.
This double duplex attitude of Br'er
Shallenberger ought to commend him
highly to the voters of Douglas county.
The personal liberty men will find
much pleasure in supporting him as a
friend of the liquor interests, while the
prohibitionists will take equal comfort
in voting for him as a champion of
their cause. Mr.. Shallenberger's plat
forms have the old darkey's coon trap
outdone in every regard.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
The scandal of BIIIbOards.

Chicago HeCOTu-fftTdIu.
The example of Europe would compel us
to Insist on a change for very shame, even
IL we had no other motive. But. aside
from that, the condition is resented by
thousands of citizens who are striving zeal
ously for municipal improvements. They
feel hat it is out, OF keeping with the OBJ
jects that they have in view. Furthermore,
the sense of injury and the desire for re-
strictions are steadily increasing. 1t is a
very common thing now to hear indignant
protests against the billboards from peo-
pie who nave had no part in organized
movements for their suppression or regu-
lation. The active reformers have the best
possible encouragement in an approving
public sentiment.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
A suggestion and a warning.
New York Financial World.

NVW IUIh IIHuI'E'"' '"I"
As the agitation for a separation of the
railroads from their collieries will only
grow. why should the railroads not take
the matter into their own hands and sep
arate themselves from their coal mines
through the same methods the Great North
ern railroad divorced itself from its ex-
tensive iron ore properties? Public opinion
considers the ownership of coal mines by
railroads, as far as these mines are not
needed for the production OF coal for their
own use, as contrary I. its welfare, and
ii will keep on demanding legislation until
it succeeds in getting 1t by one way or an
other. -r.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
ON PRESIDENTIAL r1nINe LINE.
Democratic Eos Horns Sounding All
Sorts of DiscOrdH.

Washington Post dndD.
There was one argument made to Aba
ham Lincoln in the famous debate with
stephen A. Douglas Just fifty years ago,
that attracted universal attention At the
time, and did much to make its author
president Of the United States. II was
from the text, "A house divided against
itself cannot stand and IT was a powerful
ples-the only one Of that Titanic debate
that Is now recalled by the ordinarily in
formed man.
Is the democratic house in accord this
year? Here is the New York World de-
handing that Mr.. Bryan assail President
Roosevelt, but Mr.. Bryan has given cordial
Endorsement to Mr.. Roosevelt's policies.
Then comes the intrepid Colonel Henry
watterson. head Of the Bryan press
bureau. who sails into Roosevelt, shifting
hip and thigh. and declaring that he had
made an absolutism at Washington.
But Mr.. Bryan says that Rooseveltism
has come to him by descent. and that Mr..
Taft shall not have the core-for that mat
ter, there is to he no core-and that It Is
his intention to amplify. to augment, to
magnify Rooseveltism. Indeed, Mr.. Bryan
offers this as the paramount, 81 am a
better Roosevelt man than Taft
Some of the democratic orators, notably
tho Hon. Ollie James. assail the rule of
the republican party IN terms the most
savage. denouncing II for all sorts of
sins Of commission and all sorts of sins Of
omission; but then the average democratic
orator is hunting up the grand jury to in
dict the g. o. p. for petit larceny. in that
It stole its policies from Mr.. Bryan.
Some OF our good democratic brethren
~critlcise MIR. Bryan for not dwelling more
on the panic of last year and laying It on
Roosevelt but everybody recalls that when
the panic came Mr.. Bryan laid 1t on Wall
street, and unqualifiedly exonerated the
Roosevelt administration from all blame.
There was no election possible to Mr..
Bryan. He has commended Roosevelt's
policies in copious and fervid periods, and
It was not possible for him so brazenly
to stultify himself in that behalf.
But we insist that Mr.. Bryan should call
a conventicle of his leading supporters to
devise a line OF coherent and consistent
argument for the remainder of the cam
paign.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
freddy" on the spot.

Kansas CITY SlaI.
It appears needless to say that the preSi-
dent is a lnquist. Is there anything that
the president is not? When the leader OF
the saengerbund that sang at the presi-
dents neighborhood picnic this week apol-
ogized because he made a speech in Ger
man and proposed to have it translated for
the president, what did TEDDY" do but get
up and tell the people himself what the
speech in German was all about? No in
terpreter for the president, II you please
not even when he goes to Africa to kill big
game and mingle with its savage tribes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
IN COUNTY.

The republicans throughout Ne
braska may rest assured that Douglas
county is not going to break away
from the party lineup. The wild as
sertions made by the democrats as to
the number of thousands of majorities
to be given Bryan and Shallenberger
in Omaha are absurd OF their face.
The mere fact that Omaha happens to
be temporarily in the hands of the
democrats must not be taken as an in
dication of the purpose of@the voters
at the coming election. The last fall
election is a much better evidence of
the temper of the people, and at that
election the democrats were annihi-
lated, republican majorities on county
officers ranging from 1900 to $500.
Omaha is normally republican and
Douglas county is normally republican.
In the present election republicans
have only democrats to fight. No fac
tional division exists in the party, the
rank and file are united behind the
ticket. A fighting organization has
been effected and it is the purpose of
the republicans at the coming election
to roll up a majority for their party
ticket so decisive as to forever lay at
rest any hopes democratic candidates
of any stripe of belief may have of
securing an endorsement in the metro
politan district.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The platform adopted by the repub-
licans at Lincoln is in line with the
policy of the party. 1t is square-toed
on every important proposition. 1t
advocates no fallacious notions and 1t
lodges no issue. 1t is a frank, open
declaration of a party hat realizes
what responsibility of government
means, that has redeemed it's promises
in the past and expects to make good
in the future. 1t certainly ought to
appeal strongly to the voters who
think.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
THE BASE BALL REPORTER.

Edward B. Lyman in New York Sun.
I know they say Bill Shakespeare was a
bird
At handing out the language rich ana
fine
And spieling off the stuff in plays and
things
That set you up like drinking tony wine;
But when 1t comes to really truly zip
That thrills your solar plexus till you're
lame.
Why, BiIIia,m isn't in II for the fraction Of
with the man who dopes the story of the
game.
c. Dickens. too. could sling the English
His moving picture scenes of life arc
And when it comes to pulling laugh or tear
He put it always right across the plate:
But when YOU talk of, stuff that's got the
And thrills your solar plexus till you're
Why, Dickens isn't in it for the fraction of
n minute
a ar FamessL7Az aus g5l7jv- lsotl.
Our Emerson was something with the quill;
Subsisting on the brainy Boston beans
His thinkery produced some mighty
Though few can tell exactly what It
But when you brag of stuff that's got the
And thrills your solar plexus till your
lame,
Ralph Waldo isn't in it for the fraction OF
a minute
with the man who dopes the story Of the
game.
Old Chauccr, Milton, Pope and Molliere,
Old Sophocies and Edgar Allan Poe
Could score a run most any time they
tried
Though they would surely starve along
Park row:
But when 1t comes to really truly zip
That thrills your solar pleXus till you're
lame,
These spielers are not in 1t for the fraction
of a minute
with the man who dopes the story Of the
game.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The colored people of Omaha have
just celebrated the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation and this
celebration should remind them that
it was a republican president who
signed that proclamation, and hat it
has been under republican administra-
tions that all laws to secure them the
rights of citizenship have been enacted.
When they remember this they will
not be deluded by democratic bait.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Governor Haskell of Oklahoma says
he is not that Haskell charged by Mr..
Hearst with being a Standard Oil tool.
The other Haskell says he is not that
Haskell, but that that Haskell is some
other Haskell, and Governor Haskell
gets red in the face declaring that he
is not that other Haskell. This ex-
PLANTATION removes any doubt the peo-
pie held about the identity of Mr.
Haskell.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
sons 20 Business.

New NOTh sun ITtp,l,
In the east Mr. Bryan has to be emoilient
and %lenitiye, conservative. II is hard work
for him and he doesn't make a very good
job OF II. Take, for example, his elaborate
effort TO stop the nervousness Of business
and show that the democratic party, which
is and has been for twelve years himself,
is no distuTber Of business:
There is nothing in the democratic plat
form that need alarm any legitimate busi-
ness. The democratic platform differs from
the republican platform In that our parry
distinctly declares what Il favOTs. When
YOU read the democratic platform you
know exactly what 10 expect, for the can
didates are pledged 10 that platform. You
not only know what the platform includes,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
Another shift.

Wall Street JOuTnaI UnuI.
Only a few months ago, speaking In Car
negie hall before the Forum, William ],
Bryan denounced the Stock exchange as
a 'Fagan's den OF thieves and described
Wall street as "a gambling hell' in COM
psrison with which Monte Carlo was insig-
nificant.
Yet Friday night, in the same hall, in a
political campaign in which he is anxious
to get the votes of the conservative bust
ness element of the cast, Just as in his
speeches in the west he appeals to the
radicalism of that section, Mr.. Bryan said
I'VE are not even opposed to the tx
change or the stock market"
When does Mr.. Bryan speak his true
mind?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Minneapolis has a milk shortage
and is getting 1000 gallons of it a day
from Milwaukee. The country may
be surprised to learn that Milwaukee
is famous for its milk.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Councilman Alma Jackson has an
other reform measure on the skids. If
ever democratic ineompeteney for gov
eminent needed demonstration the rec
ord of the present city council fur
nishes ample proof.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

What a nan wants to believe is
very easy TO believe" says Mr.. Bryan,
who has admitted that he wants to be-
lieve in the government ownership of
railways, the free coinage of silver, the
wrecking of the Philippines and a few
wild notions of that type.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

among the local republicans has for
one of it's objects the retirement Of the
congressman editor from public life,
for which reason he is unusually ener-
getic in his efforts to stir up factional
but he will fail this time.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Mr.. Bryan has criticised Mr.. Taft's
connection with the Benguet railroad
in the Philippines. The matter might
be significant if it were not for the fact
that there is no Benguet railroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

II the breweries ana distilleries are
only permitted to run unmolested until
twelve months after Chain is elected
president their owners will probably
make no complaint.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
Exploded Smnrtness.
Kansas City Times.

Kansas lily lines
One would naturally suppose that a man
OF John d. Archbold's experience in affairs
would know better than to write such let
ters. The notion about the Standard Oil
crowd being so smart is all exploded, any
Uay.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
An Exception Noted.

SultdkO heCOIu-Ihtidlu'
Hartman says a better feeling exists
toward the railroads. 1t is evident that he
has not been consulting the people who
used to ride on passes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Colonel Watterson says that Mr..
Bryan, II elected, could do no harm,
The voters will decide to elect a man
who does not want to do any harm,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The Omaha double-ender is getting
very little comfort out of the present
conditions in Douglas county. The
harmony of purpose that now exists
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

John d.. Archbold has been credited
with being the brains of the Standard
Oil company" and still he doesn't
know enough to burn letters.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Brother-in-Law Tom experienced no
dificulty in succeeding himself. Tom"
has a way with him that Nebraska
democrats cannot resist.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Maryland is in the balance" says
Colonel Bryan. Yes, on the same side
OF the scale with nearly all of the
northern states.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Mr.. Bryan is a great student, but he
has always had a poor rating in the
electoral college.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
TrinIng with Iowa's Jim.

MIUItdpOIIS JUUTHdIs
One of the mean jokes of the campaign
was the attempt to Jimmy old man Wilson
out of the abinet to stand between the
Cummlns and a~nti-Cummins folks In
tIowy."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
sitting wheat from char.

Fortunately the American workingman
has been sufficiently educated to know how
much faith to pin to the stuff seven poll
teal parties are handing him this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Judge Parker says he will W.
again be a candidate for Office. He is
a wise politician who knows when he
has had enough.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The theory of aerial navigation has
been solved. The practice of it is an
other proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The Electric trust has been shocked
by the news that the president has or
dered an investigation IF its methods.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Mr.. Hearst calls Mr.. Bryan "a trim
mer.' Mr.. Hearst is mistaken. Mr..
Bryan is the trimmed"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Why not guaranty the Investments
of a person who buys stocks or bonds,
or shares In any legitimate business?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Mr.. Bryan may not be posted on
aviation, but he has paid a great deal
Of attention to heirships.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Tom Tibbles must see another
5000 fee in sight. He has no news
paper to sell this time, however.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Mr.. Bryan may have observed that
the American people are not in favor
of voting to set the clock back.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
SUNNY GEMS.

Mani saw poor dear Lii Garlinshorn's
young man the other day, He looks as II
she had picked him up at a bargain counter
Fan-Yes, and she got only a remnant, az
that.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The suspicion is growing that Mr..
Taft and Mr.. Bryan do not think much
of each other as statesmen.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
srArrMENr 1,F CANCELLATION.

STATEMENT OF CALCULATION.
State Of Nebraska, Douglas County. IS;
George b. Tzschuck. treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn. .ays that the actual number OF
full and complete copies OF The Daily,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month Of August. 1908. was as
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
subscribeEs leaving the city tenn
porariIy shOuld have The Bee
mailed 20 them. Address viii be
changed as often ms requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Old General. Apathy may as well
surrender.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Governor Haskell's explanatory has
slipped a cog.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Mr.. Bryan has got accustomed t.
losing legacy suits.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

There is too much animal In us all, "
says a preacher. On the contrary,
some of us are vegetarians.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

st. Louis Times.
OF course. we're saving coal-but there's
the iceman stin hanging round the back
door.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

This next congress will have to APP
point a waterways and means COM
mittee.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Indiana has a man who always walks
backwards. Yes, he's a democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The setting hen also wears a sheath
skirt.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Stella-The word is that hips must go.
Bella-Dear me, Nv already parted from
my appendix and given my hand away
New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Father, | want some money
You're always wanting money, What
for?"
Il need a couple OF new bows for my
VIOLIN
"Oh, Observation-Disclosures American
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

GEORGE B. TZSCHUCk,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this list day of September. 1908.
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

The Sauce Pan-I wonder what makes the
kettle so happy? 1t hasn't stopped singing
all day.
The Coffee Pot-why, didn't you notice
its new ltd?-Puck.
ID you expect to make people believe
all you say I'm our speeches?'
"Of course not" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. IAN auditor never wants to be en-
lightened by any new facts. What he wants
to hear is something he already believed,
so that he can say 'Them's my senti-
ments!' Washington Star.
After a soiourn of two or three days in
the country the professor had returned
home and was cleaning up his badly Uttered
lawn.
Leaves of absence!' he commented
rakishly.-Chieago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

VICTOR RosEwArER. EDITOR
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
TERMS OF suRscRLPrIoN.

Entered at Omaha postofnce as second
class matter. .
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24

Carnivaled yet?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-24
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