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Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
SCARLNG TIE SULTAN.

Young Turkey" as the organization
of reformers in the sultan's empire is
called, has forced Abdul Hamid to
make overtures for the safety of his
throne and his person by promising
to establish a constitutional form of
government, with a parliament to be
elected by the people, with power to
act as a check on the ruler. The
Young Turkey" movement has been
in progress for many years, but has
been resisted and defed by the sultan
until it recently gained a strong foot
hold in the army. Conspiracies near
the throne were discovered, the grand
vizier was dismissed and the sultan
awoke to find his army ready to revolt
and join in the movement for his over
throw. This was followed by his
promise to establish a semblance of
constitutional government.
1t is doubtful If Young Turkey"
will be deceived by this overture from
the throne. For t~hirty-two years Abdul
Hamid has been the greatest despot in
Europe. His sway has been tyrannical,
arbitrary and absolute. He has ruled
his own country with the sword and
has been the cause of most of the
diplomatic differences that have dis
turbed Asia and Europe in the last
quarter of a century. He has prom
Used reforms in Macedonia and Ar
menia, only to throw his troops in
the field, as soon as the powers had
been pacifed, and encouraged them to
slaughter and rapine. England and
Russia recently reached an agreement
for the protection of Macedonia and
since that time the sultan's power has
been waning. His promise of a con-
stitutional government will probably
be found, when the facts are de-
veloped, to be coupled by conditions
which will enable the sultan, when
internal peace is secured and his hold
again fastened on the army, to re-
establish the despotism. Approaching
the possibilities of this, the reformers
have not accepted the sultan's promise
of a constitution, but are pressing for
his abdication.
Whatever the immediate outcome,
the days Of despotism in Turkey are
apparently numbered. With Portugal
and Persia clamoring for written con-
stitutions, with Belgium seeking to
limit the powers of old Leopold, with
Norway demanding a republic to sue
ceed it's one-year old monarchy, and
with despotism doomed in Turkey, the
friends of constitutional government
are making greater progress than at
any recent time in the worlds history.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
THE BOSTON DESPERADOES,

Western people who have been plan
ming to spend a portion of their vaca-
tions up Massachusetts way should not
become unduly alarmed over the re-
ports of the crime ave sweeping over
Boston in the last few weeks. Assur-
ances are offered by the Boston papers
that the situation has been more or
less exaggerated and that, as a matter
of fact, a man is in not much more
danger in Boston than he would be In
Cheyenne, Yubadam, Goldfeld, Grip
pie Creek or any of the more staid and
sober communities of the west.
Boston has not been shot up for
about a week, and while the last en-
tertainment of that sort was luridly
sensational and spectacular, as we'll as
disastrous to a dozen persons killed or
wounded, the authorities are taking
pains to emphasize the fact that the
affair was unusual and hat ordinarily
not more than one or two persons are
killed in these Bostonian matinees. 1t
appears that two parties who were
planning to shoot up the town got
their dates mixed and a double-header
was pulled off. The police and some
of the minute men took a hand and the
coroner is still on the job.
It would be unfair to criticise the
authorities at Boston for allowing in
diligence in this shooting-up habit.
The west should remember when
train-robbers, cowboys and bad men
used to shoot-up some of the smaller
settlements in this part of the coun-
try. 1t was years ago, of course, but
some of the old-timers will recall the
fact and 1t should serve to mitigate
the impaticnce naturally felt over Bos-
tons delay in getting upon the high
plane of law and order that obtains
in the west. 1t should not be forgotten
that the people of the west adapt
themselves TO changed conditions more
rapidly thar do the Bostonians, and
while the west has placed the ban on
the bad man and the expert with the
six-gun, the B~ostonians cling to theil
old habits.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
BRYAN AGAINST PUBLICITY.
An Obligation of Secrecy When $780,
D was Involved.
Leslie's Weekly.

Bryan is for publicity and against accept
ing more than $40, 900 for his campaign fund
from AIRY individual, but Bryan was not
for publicity when he. with Mrs. Bryan's
assistance, as his typewriter, drew the will
of the late p, 8. Bennett, Incorporating in
it a secret letter by which $50. 900 was given
in trust to Mrs. Bennett to be paid TO Mr..
Bryan or his heirs. This secret letter CON
tanned the statement, II have sent a du-
plicate Of this letter to Mr.. Bryan, and 1t
is my desire that no one, excepting you and
Mr.. Bryan himself, shall know of this
letter and bequest. l Will place this letter
IN a sealed envelope, and direct that II
shall only be opened by you, and read by
you alone This gift of $4,000 by Mr..
Bennett to Mr., Bryan, who was rot a rela-
tive, and hardly more than an acquaint-
ance, was provided for by a secret letter
which Mr.. Bryan knew all about. and
which only came to light when Widow
Bennett went to court TO contest the pay
meEt Of a large part OF her husbands es,
tate to a comparative stranger. Mr.. Bryan
has not always been so eager for publicity.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
A PROMISING FUTURE.

r. A. DAILY in Catholic Standard and Timca
Signor, l now weell speaka true
som theengs dat Son' surprisa you
Baycause you have not ondrastood
Italian people vera good.
All you weell see wat eet hall be
Eef you Well Lessen now to me.
Fen all dees fina bigga land,
Where eVratheeng eet ces sO grand
An all men eesa s'pOse' to be
Wan lika mother, equal free,
Dere ees wan mOsta noble race
Dat should be put cen highest place,
Baycause dey play sOoch higga part
Zen ezra beez'ness, ezra art,
For max SO younga a land like does
To be da greata theeng eet ees.
Bayfield,! da grand Italian raCel
Com, see wat pride ees cen my face.
vera nanny, nanny year
We been sooch leetla peopla here,
But now all dat ecs gen be change.
You theenk dat wat / soy oes strange?
All! yes, but true. Eth? how know?
Big? visa man he tai me so.
You laugh, I s'pose you theenk dat In
Dat tai all deesa news TO ne
Ees like nysal', Italian.
Not So he ecSa 'MeriCaD.
An he ces vera recch an swali
! weesh Cat you could hear heem tai
Wat granda theengs ees COMA be
For poor Italians like me,
Dat Well be wise an boost da game
BY helpin' NIecstcr W'at's-Hees Name
You know-dat bigga fatta gent
OATS gon' be 'lecta president.
An vera NANNY, nanny year
We been sooch leetla peopla here,
But now, we look you in da face
Bayfield, da grand Italian race!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
The "Sunering Farmers"

new YORK Times Cnd.).
Mr.. Bryan tells the farmers something
of which it is important that others than
farmers should take note. Mr.. Bryan ap-
peals to the agriculturists to support his
campaign because they in particular have
suffered from control of politics by the
great predatory corporations" The manner
IN which the farmers have suffered is not
specified, nor are the predatory corpora
lions named. The railways must fall in
that class, and certainly they have been
the special object of attack by the granger
legislatures. Yet the record shows that
the railways nave reduced their rates on
wheat, for example, from Chicago to New
York from 46.1 to 11,S cents. Last year the
farmers received for their wheat s7.4 cents
for 554, 437 900 bushels, instead of 72.6 cents
for 3l0,60 $50 bushels In 1896. And other
crops afford like comparisons.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
Personal NOTES.

Frank @. Carpenters son, who won the
100 meter race at London, comes naturally
by ii. His father is a pretty rapid traveller.
Visitors have looted the state house at
Boston OF $1,000 worth Of metal. The mora
status Of tho deed Cannot be fixed unit
the police ascertain whether the stuff was
taken as souvenirs or as junk.
Peary telegraphs from the coast of Green
land: THE weather is good He needn't
crow over the rest OF humanity just be-
cause he is able to get away from Old Sol
and his chum, General Humidity.
Brooklyn demands thai some decorative
Cupids in a public place be duly draped.
Cupid is a shameless little creature, any
how, and his conduct reprehensible enough
without any boost from the artist. Besides,
it is a comfort to realize that Brooklyn
Is so very good.
Attorney General Wade Hampton Ellis
Of Ohio. is taking the rest cure in Gin
cinnatL He il secluded there from all in
truslons and sees only Mrs. Ellis and his
brother. Mr.. Ellis is not believed by his
friends to be in danger of a collapse, but
is recuperating because Of tired nerves.
Lieutenant Russell J. Hazard, L. s. A.,
one Of the party which accompanied Gen
eral Funston on the famous expedition
which resulted in the capture OF Aguinaldo,
the Filipino leader, has left San francisco
for Washington to appear before the retir-
ing board seeking to be relieved from duty.
For the purpose Of studying again the
choosing OF a president and the methods
employed to win votes in a national cam
paign. Moses 1. O~strogorski, the distin-
guished Russian savant and author Of
Democracy and the Organization OF 90
litical Parties" has come to the United
States and will remain in the eaDatEH until
next November'S election.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
Is MISSISSIPPI BRYANs IDEAL'

Because he happened to be intro
duced by John Sharp Williams for the
brief speech delivered to friends who
came to greet him at the station while
passing through Omaha last week,
Mr.. Bryan thought II incumbent upon
him to hold up Mississippi as al ideal
democratic state. He dwelt upon the
extreme pleasure it gave him to be
presented by the distin guished gentle
man from Mississippi-who, by the
way, was openly opposed TO Mr..
Bryan's nomination until it was as
sured-and said that II all the states
would do as we'll by him as Mississippi
the victory this fall was as good as
won. Mississippi, according to Mr.,
Bryan, is the banner democratic state,
because when he ran before he not
only carried it overwhelmingly. but he
carried every county and every pre-
cinct in its confines.
But Mr.. Bryan vas careful not 10
tell why Mississippi Is so strongly dem
~ocratic- He carefully covered up the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28


The new chairman of the democratic
national committee would do a good
stroke to get some Of the leading ad-
vocates Of Bryan and Organism to-
gether for a little more team work.
1t has been some years since any
considerable number Of leading editors
and public men have undertaken TO
support a democratic ticket and some
of their awkward efforts are likely to
result in embarrassment to the sage
of Fairview.
Colonel Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, who is sup
porting Mr.. Bryan this year, after
having bitterly opposed him in his two
former campaigns, argues hat Mr..
Bryan's election could not work any
harm to the country because it would
be impossible to change the political
complexion of the senate during
Bryan's term and that the republican
senator's would see to IT that no gov
eminent ownership or free silver or
other undesirable legislation pledged
by Mr.. Bryan would be finally enacted
into law. Colonel Watterson has to
have some excuse for supporting Mr..
Bryan.
The Philadelphia Record is having
even more trouble than the Louisville
Courier-Journal in getting into line
for Bryan. The Record opposed Bryan
in 1896 and in 1900 and has beer
against him all along, particularly on
account of his radical attitude toward
the courts. The Record has decided to
support Bryan this year, largely on
account Of the democratic attitude
toward tariff revision, but it finds 1t
very difficult to swallow the Denver
anti-injunction plank. 1t finally sue
ceeds, however, by explaining that the
supreme court of the United States
may be relied upon to see that "all
of this ant%i-injunction clamor is
brought to naught."
President NJ. E. ingalls, of the Big
Four railroad is also for Bryan. He
NAhhAS NA"b 10 wig iOhh u WI
Taft, whom he considers "a wise man
and a great man of judicial tempera-
ment," but as a democrat he will vote
against Mr.. Taft because he would, If
elected, pursue the Roosevelt poll
cies." Mr.. ingalls, is getting his wires
crossed there, as the set purpose of
the Bryan people seems to be to make
the country believe that Mr.. Taft is
really not a Roosevelt man and would
not keep to the Roosevelt policies. Mr..
Ingalls, also treasures himself by say
ing, 81 believe that the moment Bryan
entered the white house he would be-
come a sober and conservative states
man."
Such a situation calls for prompt
action by Chairman Mack. 1t is not
complimentary to the candidate and
cannot materially improve his stand
ing with the public to have his cleo
ton urged on the ground that he
would not be able to do any harm.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
Breaking Into the Campaign.

The shippers Of Cincinnati have addressed
a direct appeal to the president asking him
to enforce the issue against railroads that
threaten to increase rates by having the
attorney general bring contempt proceed
ings against certain roads for ignoring the
mandate of the courts. 1t does seem as If
the corporations are bound to break into
this campaign, at whatever price, The is
sue at least has the merit of general
acquaintance. Standard OIL and railroad
rates are familiar subjects. Let the pro-
ceedings proceed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
Seeking the signs in vain.
Phlladelphla Press.

Philadelphia Press.
No combination Of recorded election
figures can be made to sustain Mr.. Bryan's
hope Of success. In order to estimate for
him a bare majority in the electoral coll
lege, we must suppose a political revolu-
ton. a complete change in the views and
desires Of the people of the United States
iD a large and widely separated area. As
yet there is no sign Of this revolution, ex-
cept in Mr.. Bryan's radiant and hopeful
vision.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
Humiliation of Old FitE.
New York Sun

What fate makes a prizefighter, active
or retired, so easily vanquished by a lesser
man? We remember when the god of Bos-
ton was hammered grievously with a beer
glass by a hop o. my thumb tailor OF Eliot
street. At Spokane Saturday the Cornish
giant Fitzsimmons, Old Fitz, as Tennyson
called him, was incised viciously by a
wretched infants nursing bottle in the
hands of a theater manager. A blackjack.
an axe, an a~nvil-these were fitting wea-
pons for a hero's fall. But a nursing bot
tie! Fate is always bilious and often bitter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
MERRY JINGLES.

"Ah gottuh git a chicken foh man
Wiz, It's nearly Midnight, Nose; aren't
"Yassuh. Al spec so; did yo,all wanter
buy sumfin' ?'-Houston Post.
conductor in Louisiana, unless you're
sick"
That's the law, is it?' asked the pas
se .nr{gr with the bottle.
We'll, such a law is enough to make
Accordingly he treated the illness IN
seemed to him wise.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Mrs. Dewtell-I do think Mr.. Hankin-
son Is the meanest man l ever heard
Mrs. Jenkins-Why, what's he been
Mrs. Dewtell-sued a man FOR aliena-
ton of his wife's affections and set thu
damages at only S10-Judge,
Your rival has got ahead of you jerks.
her small nephews with a big hillygoat."
would find a way to butt HnSHBaltimors
American.
While a punurious grocer was telling his
new boy how careful he must be, a fly
settled on a bag of sugar. The grocer
oaught i and threw it away. TIE boy then
said: IF you want me to be careful yon
are setting me a lad example why,
asked the grocer. Because" said tile
boy, YOU have thrown that fly away with
out brushing the sugar off its feet. 'Cleve-
land Leader.
Hyker-I wonder why Muggsby is AlwayB
borrowing trouble?
Piker-Probably because that Is the only
thing he can borrow without putting up
Coltaterai.-Chicago News @HGyg-l =
T~eaeher-Johnny, where is the Isle OF
Man?
Johnny-Tn the mems furnishin' depar-
ment.-JGdge.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

BY comparison with other cities of
its class Omaha is about the worst at
dicted with the billboard nuisance.
While other cities have been repress-
ing the billboard and reducing bill
board offenses, in Omaha the evils
seem to have been growing practically
unchecked. Omaha has improved mar
velously in metropolitan appearance
in all but this one respect, and with
fewer ~billboards would be improved
much more
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

IF we can get the negro vote of
Massachusetts, which amounts TO
about 10, 900, organized for Bryan and
Kern we will carry that state, too, with
the help Of the labor vote" says
George Fred Williams. Yes, and II
Mr.. Williams can organize the white
vote of Massachusetts, for Bryan and
Kern he can carry the state without
he help of the negro vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

According to the school census Chi
cago has lost zoo, 900 in population in
the last year. OF course, the census
will be taken over again. II n set
of enumerators cannot find and locate
that 100000 people, the city will find
enumerators who will.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The local democratic organ is
aghast at the alleged discovery that
republican campaign literature is go
ing through the mails under govern
ment frank. 1t supposed that its own
publisher, who happens to be "the
only democratic congressman from
Nebraska" had a monopoly on using
the mails free for circulation of cam
paign documents.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

According to the Geological Surveys
report the coal supply of the country
will last until the year 2O55. The in
formation comes at a time when the
country is wondering whether there
will ever again be need of lighting
the furnace.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
johnny Kern's bad Break.


Here is Candidate Kern participating in
the exercises which mark the opening of
business in the steel trusts Town OF Gary,
Ind. The steel trust is a tariff-protected
trust, and it is building the city of Gary
from the surplus profits Of its "monopolistic
position behind the tariff. Is the Bryan
ticket also cultivating the wall street vote?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Pastors Of nine churches in Mem
phis gave up their pulpits on Sunday
morning to physicians who talked to
the congregations on the causes, dan
gers and treatment of tuberculosis.
No better plan could be devised for
spreading a good work.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The British would have been more
polite, OF course, If the American con-
testants in the Olympic games had not
been quite so selfish in the taking OF
prizes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

All the blast furnaces in southern
Illinois are to be r%eopened on August
s, giving employment L 10000 men
Blasts of that kind are fatal to demo-
cratic hopes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Switzerland has prohibited the wear
ing OF hats more than eighteen inches
in diameter. They have to keep them
small TO prevent thea looping over
into another country.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
A Gnt-Edge Investment.
Baltimore American.

Another for the Peerless One
Of Nebraska next November viii not stop
the lecture tour gate money receipts
Getting nominated for the presidency has
been and will continue to be q sltedEe
investment for Mr.. Bryan
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Mr.. Hearst is said to have picked a
man named Coon TO be his candidate
for governor of Indiana. The Coon
game is certain to cause a lot of trou-
BILE for the Indiana democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Mr.. Bryan has been talking his
speeches into phonograph records. He
could capture the coin II he would o n
hde to the photograph the instructions
he sent to Denver over the telephone
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

DR., Wiley says that one cause of
dyspepsia is that the strawberry jam
is full of hayseeds. Yes, and an
other is that the hayseeds are full of
strawberry Jam.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

NWIVHEU HFCVTU-TItTdIW
Owing to the success of the American
athletes, it is but fair to suppose that
are beginning to doubt the
wisdom of those who brought about a
of the Olympic games.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The next meeting of the Northwest
ern saengerfest is to be held in Omaha.
AS the next s~aengerfest does not come
until 1910, we will have plenty of time
10 get ready for 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Inasmuch as Mayor Jim has not yet
set the date for his cowboy invasion OF
Wall street, the bulls and bears there
seem to be disporting themselves as
usual.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

If the legislature will let each COM
munity deal with its local problems
Omaha will try to work out the solu-
ton OF those that belong here.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Representatives of the War depart
ment furnish the cheering information
that hazing at West Point has been
abolished again.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
The Record for words.

Boston Transcript.
If Taft's speech of acceptance takes
ninety minutes, Bryan will insist on at
least a hundred and twenty.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The winner of the 1,5OO-meter race
in the Olympic games was recently re-
jeoted by the police health examiners
OF New York on the ground that he
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The SIS ante to get into the political
game in Nebraska puts it within the
reach of everybody who may be dis
posed to draw cards.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Mr.. Bryan says he is not going to
worry about the negro vote. Mr..
Bryan is right; he will have enough
10 worry over the democratic vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
Perhaps they DO.

WH6HIIbIVT IVoN'
The Omaha Bee accuses the prohibit
tionists Of carrying water on both shout
ders. To be consistent they ought to
carry 1t In their tanks also.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Hearst and Bryan slept in the same
hotel in Chicago, but neither paid any
attention to the other. Twas not al
ways thus.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Old General Apathy is cutting his
usual prominent figure in democratic
politics in the east.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

~Stuyvesant Fish says it is difficult
for a rich man to live on $50, 900 a
year. Most men find it impossible to
live on that amount.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

had a weak heart. Chances are that
his heart beat stronger than his pull
with Tammany.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

How can Taft be eIectedp" asks
the Buffalo Times. By getting a ma
jority of the electoral votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The DeBeers diamond mines are to
be closed for an indefinite period.
That's n excuse for not wearing 'em
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

do ill-tempered women have black
or blue eyes?" asks the Louisville
Herald. They have.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
WHEN OFT OF TOWN.

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
oraril should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address win he
changed AZ often rs
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

None too mighty to pay homage to
Ak-Sar-Ben.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION:
State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, ssS
George b. Tzschuck. treasurer Of the
Bee Publishing company, being, ouly
sworn, says that the actual NUMBER OF
full and complete copies of The Daily,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of June, 1908, was as
fo1lou4.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

Germany is to follow the American
example and SEM its feet on a cruise
to all the nations colonies-except
Milwaukee.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

The weather man evidently knows
what King Corn wants.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28

1t is conceded that Mr.. Bryan will have
practically all the dem ocratic votes, the
support Of about all the populists who are
still unshaven and not enamored OF Tom
Watson. He is going to get a considerable
complimentary vote. perhaps more than
cver before. All this the republican con-
cedes cheerfully and then tells YOU thai
there viii be a majority of at least aOCOl
against Mr., Bryan in Nebraska. He doe
not seem to be worried about the situation.
and the better he knows It the less appre-
hension he manifests. His point Of view is
that in a republican state in which the
republican party is united the prosperity
is prodigious and the moral uprising not
visible. Neither Mr.. Bryan's Prince o.
Peace lecture nor his residence in Lincoln
will in his opinion suffice to carry the S ate