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Smyrna times., 1908-12-23

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put tOg. ther and
until the last few years supposed to be in
nounced it a local disease aud prescribed local
remedies and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment. pronounced it ncurable. S ience
and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured bv I. j..
Cheney Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only cOnstitu-
tional Cure onHhe market. It is Ia en- internally
in doses from 10 drops to teaspOOnful. 1t acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case il fails to cure. eend Tor circulars and
testimonials.
Address, F J. CHENEY Il CO, Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills iOr cOnstiT alton.
Smyrna times., 1908-12-23

Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that
may develop into pneumonia over
night are quickly cured by Foley's
Honey and Tar, as it soothes inflamed
membranes, heals the lungs, and ex-
pels the cold from the system Sold
by W. R. Keys & Co., Clayton; and
all druggists Smyrna.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

In the face Of the splendid record Ct
reform legislation put IN our statute
books by the last Nebraska legislature
oyer the signature Of Governor Shell
don the democrats are asking the
voters Of Nebraska to urn Governor
Sheldon out and put into office a dem
ocratic governor and Legislature.
II there is any good reason for turn
ing the republicans out It must be that
their work is bad and should be UNI
done, or that they cannot be trusted to
maintain and perfect it.
What part of the republican legis-
lative record in Nebraska would our
democratic friends undo?
Would they repeal the anti-pass
law?
Would they repeal the rate reduction
laws?
Would they repeal the terminal tax
law?
Would they repeal the direct pri-
mary law?
Would they repeal the law abolish
ing the $1,000 death damage limit?
Would they repeal the employers
liability law?
Would they repeal the child labor
law?
Would they repeal the pure food
law?
They do not promise to repeal a sin
gle republican law enacted by the last
legislature and they dare not specify
one Of these laws as slated for repeal
The only piece of republican legis
lation the democrats propose specif
ically to undo is the creation of the
county assessor system, but we appre'
bend hat few. If any, Nebraska tax
payers want to go back to the old com
petitive and progressive ~undervalua
ton of the precinct assessor plan.
Why, then, should any intelligent
voter think for a moment of transfer
ring the work of making Nebraska'
laws from the republicans, who hav'
delivered the goods, to the democrats
who never played square even whel
they had the chance?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

Philippines he made a record of d.
plomacy and patriotism that is not ex-
celled in world history. considering the
delicacy and intrlcacy of the problems
involved. He refused TO resign a cabi-
net position to accept appointment to
the supreme bench because he thought
his duty to the Filipinos could best be
discharged by him as a member of the
cabinet. He has done more to hasten
the completion of the Panama canal
than any other a He has done
mere than any other nan to bring
about order and stable government in
Cuba. He has settled troublesome
questions with Porto Rico. Colombo
and the republic of Panama. He has
been the chief aid of President Roose-
Welt in every movement that tended
national advancement and uplift. He
possesses tireless. energy and trained
ability and is pledged to a continuance
Of the progressive policies of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The records of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.,
Taft are open. The voter has his
choice between them.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
GENUINE TARIFF REVISION

The sentiment of the country I'M
qu~estionably is in favor of a revision
of the tariff. Both parties are pledged
to it and, whatever the result of the
election on November 3, the tariff will
be the subject for consideration by a
special session of congress to be called
next March. Which party promises
the quickest and speediest results in
dealing with the question? In a re-
cent address Mr.. Taft said:
The party is pledged TO a genuine re-
vision, and as the temporary head of that
party. and president of the United States,
II It be successful in November. l expect
to use all the influence that I have by
calling Immediately a special session, and
by recommendation to congress to secure
a genuine and honest revision Of the tariff,
i'm accordance with the principles of pro
lection laid down In the platform, based
upon the examination of appropriate evil
dence. and impartial as between the con
sumner and the manufacturer.
II Mr.. Taft is elected he will have
the support of a congress pledged with
him to revise the tariff in a manner
fair to the person who buys and the
person who makes American goods. II
will be a genuine revision, not a pre-
tended revision like the Wilson Cor.
man tariff passed by the last demo
cratic congress which enriched certain
interests and pauperized others. In
der a republican administration the
work of revising the tariff will be &C,
complished within a few months.
II Mr.. Bryan is elected a republican
senate will veto any free-trade laws
he may seek to have passed. With
Bryan as president there is no hope o.
any revision Of the tariff for foul
years. The choice is up to the friends
of tariff revision. regardless of theil
political preferences.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
ovERLooKED Br Mr.. GoMPERs.

Overlooked BIZ MR.. GOMFbhS'
In his appeals to the workingmen of
the nation TO support Mr.. Bryan In
this campaign, Mr.. Gompers, the head
of one of the greatest labor organiza-
tions in the world, has evidently over
looked the work of the republican
party in the interests of the working
All of the labor legislation on the
federal statute books is republican
legislation.
The eight-hour law is a republican
law.
The employers liability act was
passed by a republican congress.
All Of the federal laws requiring the
use of safety appliances on interstate
railroads we're passed by a republican
congress.
The law limiting the working hours
Of t~elegraphers, signal men and block
operators on railroads was passed by
a republican congress. a,, r.
The child labor law for the District
OF Columbia and the territories, the
model for state enactments, was passed
by a republican congress.
The law providing for the com
~pensation of persons injured in the
employ of the government was passed
by a republican congress.
The states that have refused to pass
laws regulating or prohibiting the EN-.
ployment of child labor are demo
cratic states.
Peonage exists only in democratic
states. ~
The laboring man who appreciates
favors received or expects Legislation
for his protection in the future cal
quote no record to show anything tina
the democratic party has done for hin
in the nation or in the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
The Man Who Can Be Trusted

Ond. dem.).
the. south to resume its old commanding
position in the councils Of the nation, and
il IT, certain that he will help the south to
do 50, ...t %
Judge Taft has been attacked because Of
certain orders and decisions he made while
on the federal bench. He replies yes, he
made those decisions because. he had to
obey the law and the decisions were right
lie has been accused Of rendering decisions
which were hostile TO labor, Of issuing Ger
tain injunctions. He replies he did issue the
injunctions. and IL he had not done so in
the cases where he did, II should not de-
serve your suffrages as president Of the
United States" In the Arthur case. where
the decision had been criticised, he showed
that he had sustained the correlative rights
OF trade unions and the rights of their en-
ployers, and that under 1t the trade unions
have flourished well.
In all the discussion Of the campaign
Judge Taft has never refused to meet an
issue as it arose, fairly and squarely. Not
once in the campaign has ne. to use the ex-
pressive slang of the day, 'side-stepped'
or uuibbled. Not once has he advocated a
policy solely because he expected to make
votes by It or because it was popular. The
principles and policies he has sustained are
what he believes to be right and for the
best interests of the country. With Judge
Taft as the executive the land will have
rest. There will be business and Industrial
peace and progress. The laws will be fear
lessly and fairly enforced. not as a public
spectacle, but because he will have sworn
to enforce them. There will be no excited
talk to alarm business. Every public utter
ance will be calm and we'll considered.
There will be poise and dignity, and ques-
lions and policies will be decided, not for
partisan advantage, nor 20 gain popular
ity, nor for spectacular purposes, but with
the patriotic desire to promote peace and
prosperity, and that all things may be set
tied upon the best and surest foundations.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
NOTES.

Tennessee night-riders have taken to muir.
dering lawyers. They already had MUIR
dered the law.
The New York courts have decided that
it is not necessary for a crazy man to go
to Pittsburg to tell how he lost his money.
They know there already.
II the Turks and the Bulgarians will curb
their Impotence and hold their war until
the moving picture man gets set. they will
be able to pay a large part OF the expenses
with their share of the royalties.
Vladimar Poulsen, the Danish inventor,
who is only 50 years old, is the son of a
judge of the high criminal court OF Copen-
hagen. He has succeeded In making wire
less telephone connection between Lingby
and Weisensee, a distance of $50 miles.
Mrs. William Howard Taft is said to be
a very expert needlewoman. and she does
not confine her work to darning and mend
ing, as was shown by the fact that she has
made a beautiful lace handkerchief and
sent 1t to an Indiana town to be sold for
charity.
People who make a business of betting
on elections show shocking disrespect for
democratic claims. Last Saturday Taft
was a 5 to l favorlte in Chicago. 4 TO I in
d. LOUIS : 10 i III new 1OIh ClIy, ana s
to 1 in Philadelphia. Even at these odds,
very little democratic money was placed.
Mrs. Russell Sage gave 10000 for the ed
ucation OF the children of Sag Harbor, and
| she will further show her interest In the
place by erecting a $500 station there. Mrs.
Sage talked to the children at a meeting
the other day, and as usual is going about
seeing what good she may do in the world.
NJ a. $780, 80 90
to liberia, has informed the State depart
ment that the government of Liberia will
confer upon DIR. Booker r. Washington,
the colored educator of Tuskogee, the
Order of African Redemption, in consider
alton of his services in e~nlisting the sym
pathy of this government against European
encroachment in Liberia.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

Baltimore SUI
As his campaign has progressed toward
the election Judge Taft has gained mere
and more in the estimation Of the American
people. They knew him before the cam
paign began as a just and able judge, as
the first civil governor and paclficator OF
the Philippine islands, as a diplomat and
provisional governor OF Cuba, and as secre-
tary of war. They knew that he had ad-
mlnistered all these high offices and TO the
honor and advantage Of the country. They
knew that when unusual tact, discriminate
ing judgment and enduring patience were
needed to settle troubles and adjust diff
culties iu Cuba, in Panama, in Porto Rico
and in the Philippines, Judge Taft was
selected as the agent and that he always
justified his selection. In all these various
and difficult positions he had acquitted
himself in a mastery manner, and i'm all
of them he manifested those peculiar quail
ties which are required for the administra-
ton Of the high office of chief executive.
But as the campaign has progressed and
Judge Taft has come more and more into
the light, has stood upon the most con-
spicuous elevation In the land with the gaze
OF millions of his fellow citizens centered
upon him. he has more and moro proved
himself to be a big, sturdy, honest, sincere
and courageous man. In a. his campaign
he has not made one demagogic appeal for
votes. In all his speeches he has not made
one apology for any official action for
which he has been attacked. Nor has he
promised anything when he. does not be-
lieve there is a reasonable prospect OF
achievement. Coming from his native home
on the Ohio river. he was raised on the
borderland between the north and the
south, and in his sympathies he embraces
all sections Of his country. He tells the
southern people that IL he is elected,
whether they vote for him or not-and he
says frankly that he is not building upon
any expectation OF their electoral vote-he
will be their president as much as the
president of the other sections. He begs
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
THE MEN AND THEIR RECORDS.

linz hbN avn IhbIIt hbIOTtOCs
Laying aside for the moment the
issues of the campaign, as numerous
and important as they are, IL is worth
while to briefly consider the personality
whom will be chosen president of the
United States on November g..
Mr.. Bryan was elected to congress
in 1890 aS a democrat, and vas re-
populist candidate for president in
1892, and while in congress voted for
a high tariff on sugar and no tariff on
the raw product, both measures of the
Sugar trust. He went to Chicago in
1896 hoping to be the vice presidential
nominee on the silver republican ticket
and zane away with the presidential
nomination on the democratic ticket.
He made silver his paramount and
was defeated. In 1900, again renomi-
mated, he made anti-imperialism and
silver twin paramounts and was again
defeated. In the meantime he had be-
sun INC uhiiAuiASu COthdB6 VI us VOICE
and pen and has amassed a fortune
from his newspaper and the lecture
platform. He has displayed a wonder
full agility of conviction and a wealth
of promise that passeth understanding.
He has favored government ownership
of railways, the Acknowledgement OF
tho negro and a host of other issues
that have been made paramount with
him for a day, He has received money
from all kinds of sources-excepting
Wills he has drawn in his W favor
and In the present campaign had q
rich find as his treasurer until Mr.. Has.
kell walked into a Standard Oil ex
plosion. Haskell was fired, but hil
contribution has not been sent back
Mr.. Bryan. while preaching moral re
form, has allied his political fortunes
with Ryan, Belmont, Guiey, Haskell
Conner. Tom Taggart. Roger Sullivan
and the Tammany clique hat stands
for all that is corrupt and undesirable,
In American politics.
Mr.. Taft has been doing things 70
many years. AS an assistant city at
%tOrney in Cincinnati, when a younl
man. he made a brilliant record 70
official energy and honesty. His opin
ions as a federal Judge rank with thos
of any man on the bench. In tn.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
PettIcOat
New York Tribune.

The story that a town in South Dakota
was saved from a prairie fire by a wo-
mans ingenuity ard energy in sacrificing
her skirt is good enough to be true. and
has an historic precedent. When Commo-
dore Decatur was blocksded at the mouth
OF a Connecticut river, the Thames, during
the war Of 1s12-l4. the rumor was clrcu-
lated on shore that he lacke flannel for
the manufacture OF cartridges for his
cannon. ThereupoE a patriotic resident of
the town OF Groton. Mother" Bailey,
gained access TO Decatur's ship, interviewed
the commodore and verified the report. Her
next act was a fine exhibition Of dexterity
as well as a surprise TO all who witnessed
it. She took off her flannel petticoat,
tossed II on the deck and cried: There!
Use that"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
Some Unpleasant Reflections on the
Land Gamble.
Philadelphia Ledger,

Philadelphia Ledger.
The lotteries In South America and in
those European countries which still permit
lotteries sink into lnsignificance compared
to the grand drawing held at Dallas,
8. d. All the names-they mentioned
114,O69 on Saturday-were placed In a great
wheel, and the prize winners each receive
right and title from the United States
government to a rich and valuable farm
of one-quarter section, or 100 acres.
To be exact, the tract Of public land con-
slsts Of sos, 600 acres. The private land
near the Rosebud reservation of like aual-
ity and richness now brings in the market
from 500 to $50 an acre. The total value If
the government prizes is, therefore, to be
estimated at from $4,000 0 to 324, $40 900.
Has there ever been so great a prize in
any lottery at one drawing since lottefles
were known to the human kinds?
The grand prizes number 5,lT5, each Of
10O acres, and worth 1890 to 1880. As
strange a mob as ever was collected is
encamped on the borders, registering and
awaiting the gamble" as a western paper
phrases IT. Adventurous men Of a specu-
lative turn have gone from the banks OF
the distant Mississippi In great touring au-
tomobiles; men who are dead broke are
on the ground; eager women swell the
numbers, and thousands OF western farmers
infected with the old uneasy pioneer spirit
which drives them ever TO move on, II
have sold their farms in other states and
will take their chances on Uncle Sans
tickle wheel OF fortune. One person in
twenty-three will receive a prize, and the
question now perplexing the people OF
South Dakota is, What will become OF the
vast horde Of the Disappointed"
The lottery method was deliberately au.
thorized by act of congress. and those
who repel criticism Of the drawing ash
helplessly how the distribution could have
been made without drawing lots. The
answer is an easy oneself the land to the
highest bidders.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

Analysis of the Deposit Guarantee
Proposition.

Chicago Tribune.
To the clerk or mechanic who has with
much self-denial put by 500, that small
sum is OF more consequence than half a
million is to a millionaire. 1t IS his all. 1t
is to be his mainstay when sick or out Of
work.
Naturally he is solicitous for its safety.
Usually the Chicago wage Garner puts his
money In a savings bank or a building and
loan association and, as a rule, has no
occasion to regret IL. But now and then
a bank or an association fails. Then the
nervous man gets frightened and asks
where he can put his small savings with
a certainty of getting them back when
wanted.
Mr.. Bryan has his ready answer He
says: Put me and my party In power
and we will enact a bank deposit guar
anty law. Then II your bank fails it's debts
will be paid out of a fund to which all the
banks have to contribute" II asked for
fuller information about his scheme he says
1T is so simple that anybody can under.
stand it." and begins talking about some.
thing else
1t is quite likely that several Chicago
men with small incomes have been i'm.
pressed by Mr.. Bryan's glib assurance OF
absolute security for their small savings.
But what would be lone in that direction
IL Mr.. Bryan were president and, congress
were democratic2 Why, a law would be
enacted requiring the national banks to
establish a guaranty fund for the prompt
payment of the creditors of any insolvent
national bank. That would be as far a.
congress could go. But Chicago wag,
workers are not despositors In nationa
banks. They are depositors in savings
banks, which are subject to state, not ma
tional, authority. Therefore the election
Of Mr.. Bryan, even II he had a democratic
congress behind him, would not bring Will
1t a guaranty of their deposits.
Now. what would be done in the event O.
republican success for the tlmid, unthink
ing men who are attracted by Mr.. Bryan
deposit guaranty proposition? Why, posta
savings banks would be established. Who
ever put his money in them would have
an absolute guaranty against loss unles!
the government itself should go to wreck
The farmer or the clerk and workman o.
the city who did not choose TO put hil
money in a savings bank could with perfec
confidence intrust 1t to the national gov
m
Mr., Bryan's bank deposit guaranty policy
would do nothing for any Chicago wag,
worker. The republican postal savings banl
policy would. II the man who seeks abso
lutte security for his earnings votes for Mr.
Bryan, he votes to deprive himself Of wha
he desires. He can get it by voting 70
Mr.. Taft.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

EmporIa (Kan.O Gazette

HAhpOild NhAdH'J Ndeelte'
Taft, with his experience, his training, in
all branches of the government, with his
advanced views and his efficient mind and
hand. as against Bryan without training.
without a record Of wise principles, with
out an effective temperament-however
honest and sincere he is-these two men
epitomize the situation. There are good
men in both parties and crooks in both
parties. But they are not the issues. The
issues are between the effective and the
ineffective leaders OF the two parties. II
this nation is to go forward it must not GO
with a spasm. 1t must go forward eau
tiously, sensibly and with sane, careful d.
rection. Such caution. sanity and direction
Bryan has not furnished to this country in
past campaigns, and Taft has.
That is the gist OF the issue in this cam
paign.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

Springfield (Mass) Republican Qnd.).
If Mr.. Taft does not make fifteen speeches
a day hereafter, his vote will not suffer in
the least. If Mr.. Bryan should now in
crease his oratorical output to fifty a day,
1t would not make a hairs difference with
the result. If there is any truth whatever
in the saying that battles in real war are
won before the first shot is fired, it is no
less true that elections are won before the
earliest stumper opens wide his mouth.
Presidential stamping has reached the
point of absurdity when a candidate be-
comes literally voiceless and speechless
from physical exhaustion. yet to that stage
has the present campaign come. Mr. 'Debs
In some OF his meetings has had to be
held erect by two men,. in order that he
could speak; and IL he loses his life as the
result of his efforts, no one need be sur
prised, Mr.. Debs, probably, is gladly sac
rificing his health and risking death itself
In order to employ his presidential candl-
dacy for purposes of agitation. for the So
cialist party is still in the propaganda state.
But for a man who is likely to be presl-
dent to incur serious hazards of this char
acter is no less q folly because our political
development has made the "whirlWind
tour" one of the chief features Of TWEEN.
tieth century campaigning.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

The New York World has accepted
Willard Green's story charging Mr..
Tart with trying to get control of the
Philippine railroads. Senator Culber-
o spent much time 4 couple of years
ago in investigating Green's story, for
the purpose of making a fight on the
administration, and finally dropped it
as unworthy of consideration. Even
Congressman Charles a Towna. who
was at n time in partnership with
Green, refused to champion his cause
in the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26

Mayor Jim threatens to close Omaha
tighter than a drum IL the democrats
do not get the vote he demands. Two
years ago when Mayor Jim was a
candidate he promised to open Omaha
as wide as the world. He found he
could not deliver the goods on his
promise, and the chances are he has
not the nerve to make good on his
threat. He showed this when he is
sued his order requiring that the
screens be removed from saloon win
dows. Mayor Jim is typical of his
party when on the stump-all bluff
and .bluster.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
The Straight OF IL.
Chicago TrIbune frep.l.

II Judge Taft will point out specifically
one untruth I have uttered against him i
will make due apology and a public retrac-
ton. II he cannot point out where I have
lied about him he owes me an apology and
a public observation-disclosures Gompers.
Judge Taft might very readily reply to
this that Mr.. Gompers' whole campaign
against him is founded upon two genera
accusations which may without violation
of the truth or violence to the English
language be called lies.
Mr., Gompers accuses Mr.. Taft of being
the father of lnjuncttons. He knows thai
to be false in spirit and legal fact.
Mr.. Gompers accuses Mr.. Taft Of beine
an enemy of labor. He knows that to be
false and disproved by the facts Of Mr.
Taft's public services.