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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Primary Election Etinnette.

Just because a primary election Is
impending 1t does not follow that
every newspaper must make Itself a
packhorse to inflict the public with
the outpourings of every candidate de-
luded with the idea that he is respond
ing to an irresistible popular clamor.
Symptoms of the disease known as de-
mentia politica have been manifested
by certain candidates hurting interro-
CATION marks, challenges and defies at
their competitors in the hope of at
tracing public attention. They would
hire a hall, engage brass band, send
out circular letters, put UP banners
and even subsidize town criers, but
pay a newspaper for the space their
literary productions occupy - perish
the thought.
The most naive exhibit in this d.
rection which has yet come to notice
is the announcement of local candi-
date who sends us a neatly typewrit-
ten statement for publication in Which
he declares:
1 shall post no pictures nor pass any
cards. shall not electioneer OF permit
the same to be done at the polls on cleo
ton day. I regard most of the modern
advertising and wire-pulling Of candidates
as an insult to the intelligence Of my fell
low-electors.
In other words, it would be an in.
suit to the voters for this candidate tC
pay for his advertising, but it would bt
perfectly proper for him to advertise
If he could get the advertising fol
nothing.
We admire the frankness of this
particular candidate. Others try tc
put the same theory in practice, but
have not the nerve to preach it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Grain Prospects Improve.

According to reliable reports, the
grain crop is turning out much better
in the west and northwest than was
earlier indicated. A compilation OF
crop statistics by Bradstreet's leaves
little room for doubt about it on the
whole. OF course, in some states and
localities there are sure to be slumps,
but the general average will come
very near being maintained.
Corn, according to the latest esti-
mates, has been So much benefited by
recent showers as to be up to normal
for this time of year, and this ought
to lend tremendous encouragement
for there we're signs for awhile that
the corn crop would be decidedly off
OF course, there is time yet for losses
but it would seem that the most trying
test Is passed.
When it comes to winter wheat, the
information is more certain for Il
goes to actual harvests and not esti
mates. Winter wheat, taking the sec
ton over, is yielding far better thar
was anticipated at the beginning o.
the harvest, which is now well-nigl
ended. This yield, however, is irreg
ular. California, Oklahoma and Texas
are turning out heavy crops, while IL
other states the yield ranges from
light to good. Nebraska thus far re
ports three-quarter crop.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
PERSONAL NOTES.

An American doctor In Nicaragua as his
fee for treating a debllitated army otnoer'
demanded the freedom OF fellow coun-
tryman then under sentence OF death as
military prisoner. The doctor, was
shrewd enough to collect in advance
Mrs. Richard Aldrich, wealthy resident
OF Riverside drive has converted her home
on New York's most exclusive boulevard,
into a summer hospital for the sick babies
OF the poor and has installed her own
physician as adviser in chief A guild OF
deaconesses is in charge OF the work.
James Beth, veteran of the civil war,
an ex-prisoner of war and for over thirty
years continuously master-at-arms in the
United States navy, during which he visited
every part OF the world, died at his home in
Darby, Pa, after an illness OF over three
years. He was 81 years old, For seven
years Mr.. Beth was secretary Of the Darby
Board of Health.
The greatest legal fees ever paid are
classified thus: John b. Stanchfield, the
largest ever received In a criminal case,
for defending f. A. Heinze, SSOO,0OO Samuel
Untermyer in the Boston and Utah copper
merger, 900 part stock; James b. Dill,
settling affairs OF the Carnegie Steel com
pany, 81 100000; William Nelson Cromwell,
Panama canal sale, 100000.
Sunday base ball with paid admissions
being forbidden in New York, a smart
manager conceived the idea of giving a
concert warranted sacred and charging a
fee. The ball game, to follow while the
auditors we're recovering from the music,
was to be free. The plan was spoiled by
sheriff, who usurped the umpire's place,
construed the rules to suit himself and
declared everybody out.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Talks for people who sell things

Suppose The Bee should say to its
subscribers: I'VE will gather the
news, publish this paper and deliver IL
to you eight or ten months in the year,
but. as soon as it gets warm we will
discontinue because some of our sub
scribers go out of town, or, you don't
read, anyway, during the summer, or,
If you do read you are not interested"
Suppose The Bee did that and then
asked those same people to remember
1t during those Ave or six months of
silence and be ready to renew their
subscriptions when we were ready to
print the paper.
That would be the folly of follies,
would it not?
Yet you who stop your advertising
because it's summer say practically the
same thing Of your customers. You
say, I won't publish my store news be-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
"what n Fall, My Countrymen.''


Boston Transcript (rep.).
Mr.. Bryan has now been before the peo-
pie OF the United States for fourteen years
as a national celebrity. In that time he
has thrice been candidate of the democratic
party for president. Twice he has imposed
himself upon conventions in which the
majority of the delegates felt that his
nomination was equivalent to defeat. His
prominence has been his capital, and 1t has
been emphasized by the surrender of a
reluctant party to his dictation. His posi-
ton is unique historically. and we'll does
Mr.. Bryan know how to make the most of
it. 1t is worth a great deal to him as a
lecturer, If 1t does not prove of any value
to him as a politician. At present he APP
parently has no intention Of appearing
otherwise than as the holder of a mortgage
on the democratic nomination. He may
have no mortgage, but he plays the role of
one assured OF having such a document In
safe deposit vault, and II he does not aspire
to control the convention of 1912, appear
ances and the precedents of his former
methods count for nothing. Months ago he
all but allied himself with the prohibit
tionists, nevertheless he made reserya+
ton expressed in his advocacy of county
option. Today II would not be inconsistent
with the text of his declaration II he &C
cepted the defeat Of county option as the
settlement of a local issue, or rejoiced in
it's victory as matter apart from the
broad field Of natural politics.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
A Shattered Idol.
BROOKLYN Eagle dem. }


What has recently happened In Nebraska
Ia of interest to the country, principally be-
cause of the effects it may have two years
hence. a singing defeat for Mr.. Bryan
in his own state being somewhat difficult
to whistle down the wind. Not that It
will dlsconcert the defeated. He will per-
sist as complacently as though nothing had
happened or as though the result had been
reversed. thanks to e temperament Pc
culiarly his own.
1t is not long since an effort to read
Harmon out of the party, in the event
of certain contingencies, was made by Mr..
Bryan, who notified the governor 10 Ohio
to prepare to stand aside That display OF
authority was ludicrous when looked at in
the light of what followed. The orders
issued were ignored, the governor was re-
nominated and his party standing is now
such that there is frequent mention OF his
name in connection with the presidency.
Next came a notification, couched in
equally peremptory terms and served upon
the governor of Nebraska, the mayor OF
Omaha and Congressman Hitchcock, for
all Of whom Mr.. Bryan outlined a program.
AS they did not see fit to comply with 1t,
an ultimatum came. They were ordered
to project county options as the paramount
issue, and as wonders will never cease,
they proceeded to line up against 1t. With
what result? Mr.. Bryan's ultimatum was
ratified by a single county.
A convention will follow. Presumably,
Mr.. Bryan will attend It in person, more
particularly as he has a candidate-one of
his partners In business-for the United
States senate. A further reason for his
presence 10 the fact that he has prepared
a speech, addressed not so much to Ne
braska, as to all commemorative. Mean
while, from Omaha comes the announce
ment that the convention program will be
formulated by the winners. 1t may limit
speeches to five minutes.
For the conditions thus confronting the
"idor OF his party no parallel can be found.
There is no record OF a reputation any
thing like so overwhelming. At the best
he can have no more than half dozen
sympathizers In tho convention. For
whatever hearing he may succeed in Sc
curing he will have 10 depend upon the
courtesy OF his foes. He will find himself
compelled to accept as a favor what he
has always been in q position hitherto to
assert as q right. He has come down
with more than the customary thud. lie
is In fragments.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
picking Losing Issues.

New York Evening Post Qnd).
Mr.. Bryan's gift for picking out the
winning issue is VIGOROUSLY not an over
developing talent. When the fanatical strain
in the man joins in to accentuate his want
of insight and foresight, we get some such
disastrous result as the overwhelming de-
feat Of Mr.. Bryan's county-option scheme
in Nebraska Out of twenty-one county
conventions, one only, and that one his
own, will stand by the peerless leader
Yet this setback, hailed by Mr.. Bryan's
opponents as marking the end Of his
ascendency in the democratic party of Ne
braska, may easily be exaggerated In the
first place, William ]. Bryan has SO long
been the prophet and leader Of defeat that
one reverse more or less does not greatly
matter. That undeniable hold which he
exercises over large section of the demo-
cratic masses is by this time proof against
the encouragement attendant upon single
defeat. Or, rather 1t is a loyalty which
thrives upon defeat, and cites it's leader S
unsuccess as proof OF his disinterestedness,
of his unwillingness to compromise Of his
instinct for the right issue as against the
winning issue. On the specific subject of
prohibition it may very we'll be that Mr..
Bryan has miscalculated its political poten-
tialities,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Barbed Wire Diplomacy,

Mexico has chosen to make a diplo-
matte issue out of the simple incident
OF a ranger cutting a hole in a narbed
wire fence that happens to define the
boundary line between the United
States and the Diaz republic, and seri-
Gus consequences, we are told, may
ehsue.
Trouble may be avoided If Mexico
will release the ranger whom 1t has
arrested and make him go and patch
up the fence and let it alone in the
future. That really is the quickest
way out, and IL Mexico is the wise lit
tie republic it is reputed to be 1t will
take that way. Boundary line dis
putes are not new in the history OF
the United States and there Is nc
record to show that our safety or Sc
curity has ever been impaled on q
barbed wire fence.
This ranger. it appears, wanted to
take out enough of the fence to make
a gate, presumably to. let his cattle
through to Craze. II was out there In
the weird, worn prairies of the sage
brush and cactus kingdom where not
enough fresh vegetation grows to feed
grasshoppers on and a man willing to
while away his life in such a place
ought certainly 10 have the right OF
cutting hole in a barbed wire fence
But II that is against the law OF the
great republic of Mexico. why he can
patch II up again and make 1t as good
as new. and the thing is ended.
But why should Mexico object 20 9
gateway through the fence If used fol
lawful purposes? Does 1t not believe
in the open door? Is it not as friendly
TO this country as China and Japan
and Russia, here at our very thresh.
holdl And suppose Mexico had never
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Our Birthday Book
July "a. 1910.


Ulysses s. Grant, jr., son Of the great gen.
eral and practicing lawyer in San Diego
Cal. was born July %, 1882 at Bethel, o.
He was a visitor In Omaha last year look
ing after a lawsuit which was tried IN
our federal court.
Joseph L. Bristow. United States sena-
tor from Kansas. is forty-nine He Is a
native OF Kentucky and a newspaper man,
and was fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral under President Mckinley, and is one
OF the insurgent crowd.
Charles Beindorff, ono OF omahas pho.
neers, celebrates his Slst birthday today,
He was born In Germany, and is one OF the
early colony who settled hero
z. ]. McVann, manager OF the Traffic
bureau. OF the Commercial club, was born
July a. 1863. at Medina, New York He
was educated at Creighton University go
ing into the railroad business with success
full promotions, and has been with the
Grain exchange and Commercial club IN
Omaha for six years
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
In Oregon.

Not long ago The Bee called atten-
ton to Oregon's experience with the
initiative and referendum, drawing the
materials from the speech delivered by
Senator Jonathan Bourne, jr., boasting
that Oregon is the only state in the
union which enjoys true popular gov
eminent. We showed that in Oregon
the initiative and referendum, al
though operative in only three cleo
lions, had resulted in submitting to
popular vote thirty-two different meas
ures, of which two were submitted in
1904, eleven in 1905 and nineteen in
1908. We asked whether this multi
plicity of legislation did not tend to
make it absolutely impossible for the
voters to pass on 1t intelligently. The
only reply drawn out at the time was
that the initiative and referendum
might at first be taken advantage of
too freely and thus abused while a
novelty, but that when once estab-
lished the number of measures sub
mitted would grow steadily smaller
and popular attention would be TO-
cused upon them with beneficial re-
suits.
We did not at that time have the
information, for Senator Bourne seems
to have carefully suppressed it in his
speech, as to how many and what
measures were to be voted on in Ore
gon under the initiative and referen-
dunn at the coming election. 1t turns
out that this year, the fourth cleo
ton since the system was inaugu-
rated, the people of Oregon are to
vote, not upon fewer measures, but
upon more. To be exact, they will
vote this year upon thirty-two separate
and distinct propositions, which is pre-
cisely the same number as the com
bined list of all three elections here
tofOre.
Some of these measures may be
meritorious, but the great majority OF
them are plainly freak schemes backed
by some small body of overzealous en-
thusissts persisting in their agitation
from year to year and accepting no de-
cision as final. Oregon is this year
to pass on the local option question fol
the fourth time, is pass on woman
suffrage for the third time, is to pass
on single tax for the second time, tC
say nothing of other consequential ant
inconseQuential subjects. According tt
the Portland OTegonian not more thar
three or four Of the thirty-two meas
ures submitted to popular vote woulC
warrant the legislature in devotinl
time to them, and not one of them re
spending to really popular demand
that could not be met through tn,
regular course of legislative procedur,
without the initiative and referendum
The people may rule in Oregon, bu
we reiterate that they do not rule an!
better or more effectively in Oregon
than the people rule in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22

cause some of my customers leave
town, sometimes. or, you won't read
it; or. If you do read it you won't bug
my goods, because, for some reason OF
other people do not need clothing OF
food, or shoes, or any other merchan-
disc in the summer time, But ] OK
pect you to remember me and respond
to my advertising when get ready to
start up again.
There is business for every day In
the year, summer and winter, and the
man who goes after it will get 1t. The
advertising columns OF The Bee are
open to you every day-they Will carry
your message to 100, 900 readers every
day and they will respond to everyday
advertising. fm
Try 1t and you will save the time,
trouble and expense of starting the
fire all over again next autumn.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22

discovered this transgression OF its
territorial rights-this infringement
upon its boundary line, what then?
Would the injury to national pride
the destruction of diplomatic rights
have been the same? Or suppose a
hurricane had come along and blown
the whole fence down? A dozen things
might have happened to this interna-
tional fence that would not have
aroused the national ire of our sensl-
tive neighbor. What has happened
ought not to arouse anybody and Mex.
leo will display a finer line of diplo-
macy and hard sense by forgetting
all about II.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
SAME OLD sU7EMERTIME.

Ada Stewart Shelton In Life.
The same old summer time is here,
The same old scene Is set
OF dancing waters, shining sands,
And rocks where high tides fret
The same old golden moon comes UP s"
To make the scene complete,
Along the shore I walk with her
The same old tale repeat.
The same old mountains stand to guard
The little lake so blue; -...
We paddle mid the lily pads
The same old bark canoe;
The same old pine trees whisper low
AS dreamily we float,
And from the same old poets then
In thrilling tones I quote. wa"
The same old band invites to dance,
And at once make haste
To place this same old arm OF mine
Around her slender waist.
The same old "Blue Danube" sets the pac,
And in the giddy whirl t,
thank my stars this same old time
Brings always a new grill
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Cut 1T Quit

AS truth it has become an axiom that
worry kills infinitely more people than hard
work, and there is nothing more useless in
this life than worry It is, after ALL only
mental attitude which any of us can
correct If we wins Faith is, perhaps, the
best corrective; faith in the ultimate de-
cency of things-that bounding and joyous
faith that lets man believe that so long
as he does well his part things are bound
to come out right at the end. Worry is a
sort Of atheism, that corrodes the soul and
hiLders US from doing our best, from Civ
ing the fullest expression Of ourselves in
our work ~ -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
Failed to "Come Bacls.n
washington Post (ind.).

washington GOSI Nuu.Js
Warned by the democratic managers to
desst from foistlng upon his party a pro-
gram repugnant to democratic policy,
Bryan declared that he personally owed
the people of Nebraska debt of gratitude
which he was about to pay. He spoke as
If still in the heyday Of leadership and in
fluence and had only to raise his hand in
order to secure obedience. He did not care
to be senator, so he selected the associate
editor of the Commoner for the place.
With this program to conjure with, includ-
ing his local option proposition, he has
carried at last accounts a single county in
the state. The effect is to unload Bryan.
bag and baggage, upon the prohibition
party. That is the last refuge Of the man
than whom no mountebank in American
politics ever got SO many rebuffs, whose
exaggerated ego was armored so effectually
to Withstand penetration. 1t remains to be
seen what the prohibition party will dc
with its incubus.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
HadleY a Good Choice.

President Taft's selection. of Presi-
dent Hadley of Yale to act as chair
man of the commission that is to in
vestigate railroad securities will meet
with general approval, for Prof. Had
ley devoted years to the study of rail-
road management and financing and is
as we'll, If not better, qualified than
any other man in the country to do
the work. President Taft has made
few appointments since entering the
White House as eminently suitable as
this one. 1t is to be hoped that Pres
ident Hadley will be able to accept the
place. for he doubtless will be inclined
to do so.
The strictly practical politician
would avoid such selections, but Mr.,
Taft is not playing politics in his ef-
forts to get at the downright justice
and propriety of controlling our rail.
roads and other great corporate inter
ests. The sentiment of the people and
the trend of the times are for fair
free and frank treatment of these
great subjects, and President Taft
more nearly represents the crystalliza
ton of this sentiment than any Other
man. 1t is highly betting, therefore
that in casting about for the man tc
head this commission, upon whose
work immense responsibilities hang
he should go to one whose scientific
research and practice have made hin
recognized authority on the subject
Prof. Hadley was studying the rail
road question when each president o.
line was doing things as seemed t
him best, and the government wal
standing aloof looking on, and he ha!
continued his study through the vary
ing stages of legislation and railroad
development, writing books on th'
subject, teaching 1t in college clas'
rooms and being consulted by the bes
thinkers of the day. With him al
chairman of this commission it is 1
foregone conclusion that the mos
searching and at the same time un
biased investigation would be made
and any report submitted to congress
by the commission with his name at
tached would certainly receive thu
highest consideration, carrying thu
most potent influence. Such a repor
would make possible successful solu
ton OF this great, perplexing problem
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-22
,Tmn. Ever Thus.
New York Morld dem

New York WOrId luemJ
on the local option Issue Mr. Bryan has
met his first decisive defeat in the demo-
cratic party in Nebraska. Except his home
county, not a single one of twenty-one
counties that held county conventions last
Saturday sided with him. He named his
own issue, went into the field to make
the fight and has been Overwhelmingly
beaten.
Since 1894 Mr., Bryan has controlled the
democratic party in his state and made
his own issues. For sixteen years he has
been its leader and dominated 1t abso-
lutely. According to his view, not to be
Bryan democrat was to be no democrat
at all. 1t remains to be seen what sort
Of democrat Mr.. Bryan will be, now that
he has lost control Of his party on the pro-
hibition issue