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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
A Nebraskan for the Bench

The action OF the State Bar associa-
tion endorsing Myron L. Learned for
favorable consideration by the presi-
dent for the place on the bench OF the
United States circuit court Of appeals
left vacant by the promotion OF Judge
Vandevanter 70 be associate justice
Of the supreme court should challenge
attention TO the strong claims OF Ne
brasks to recognition and center the
influences exerted to that end in behalf
OF Mr.. Learned. While the members
OF the bar association we're not, as
was naturally to be expected, unani-
nous in their preferences, none would
question Mr.. LeaTned's eminent quail
ihcations and fitness for the position
and the overwhelming preponderance
Of the vote given him by his associates
Of the bar Is a tribute that must weigh
heavily in his favor.
The Eighth judicial circuit COM
prises ten states. Of which Nebraska is
but one, yet Nebraska has better argu-
ments to present than the others. Ne
braska has never been permitted to
furnish a judge to the federal bench
ranking higher than the district judges
that belong to Il as judicial district,
while it's neighbors have had circuit
judges. supreme judges and court of
commerce judges. The Endorsement
Of the State Bar association points the
man for the place II only the president
can be brought to look to Nebraska
for the circuit Judge about to be
named.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
Muzzles for Hatnins.

The ordinance compelling women to
muzzle their hatpins or subject them
selves to the liability Of fines from 81
to $500, passed by the Kansas City
city council, may fall into the class Of
freak legislation, but it is not entirely
freakish. 1t has a good deal of COM
mon sense and common justice in It.
The hat, the hatpin and the idea of
wearing 1t are all far more freakish
than any construction that could posi-
bly, be placed upon the law. Many d
man has felt this in away that came
far from making him laugh So long
as women will insist on wearing hats
with brims a foot or more wide and
great daggers projecting several
inches beyond the boundary of the
sombrero brims, they must expect de-
fenseless man to protest and do all he
can toward protecting himself from
bodily harm.
II is worth as much as mans eye
sight or hearing sometimes for him to
venture in a crowded street car filled
with a wilderness of these massive
hats. "all horrent with projected
spear" Nor does the muzzle promise
complete protection. 1t still leaves
woman an excellent chance of jabbing
man in the eye, nose, ear or mouth
with the butt end of the pin, or smack
ing him square in the face with it's
broadside.
OF course, the obvious intent of the
ordinance is to intimidate woman into
revising the whole SYSTEM of her head
wear 1t would seem that she could
effect some restriction without impair
ing either her rights or the symmetry
of her attire. Man in his simple
mindedness about the mysteries of wo-
mans styles has never quite been able
to figure out why Dame Fashion should
be so parsimonious in making the
skirts and so riotously prodigal in
building the hats. Yet II may be for
the same reason that some young men
wear low-quartered shoes and high
strung trousers and great fur collar
neck to their overcoats.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

The Spectacle Of a Boiler Denounc-
ina Bolters.
II

The Spectacle Of Boiler Denounc-
ina Boilers.
New York Tribune.
Mr. Bryan has already adapted himself
to the democratic situation The fact
] that the democratic state ticket In Ne
braska was defeated last month in part
( through his efforts has eliminated him as
candidate for the presidential nomina-
I ton.
After denouncinE boilers numerically
for the last fourteen years he suddenly
joined the ranks Of those who separate
themselves from their party for the party
good. lie openly opposed the democratic
candidate Cor governor. Mayor J. c. Dahl
man OF Omaha, the same man who ap-
poared in this city with q cowboys out
fit In 1905. when Mr. Bryan was returning
from a trip around the world. prepared to
use lasso in order to keep the Peerless
Leader out Of the clutches Of false east
ern friends. Mr.. Bryan may claim some
justification for his opposition TO Dahlman
ON the ground that moral issue like
the restriction Of the liquor traffic was in
volved. But there arc hundreds of thou
sands OF democrats who will be ready to
remind him that he would not excuse
them for boiling in 1895 on the more i'm
nations credit and maintaining it's good
faith
The Nebraska statesman recognizes that
he will have to play the part Of a critic
rather than that Of a dictator in the ap-
preaching Campaign for the democratic
presidential nomination. In the last issue
of THE Commoner" he mentions the
names Of four democrats who will be re-
ceptlve, II not active, candidates in the
next national convention. They are ex-
Governor Folk of Missouri, Mayor Gay
nor, Governor Harmon OF Ohio and Gov
ernor-elect Wilson of New Jersey. II the
prize is to go to one Of them he wants
to be at least a factor in disposing Of II.
From what he says about the four as
pirants 1t is apparent that he is ready to
dangle his support before them all and to
throw his strength with the democracy Of
the west to the one whom he may consider
in the end to be the most in harmony with
his own purposes OF Mayor Gaynor he
speaks almost enthusiastically as true
friend Of the Chicago platform and it's
trainers and Ex-Governor Folk receives an
! equally cordial commendation as an active
supporter OF Bryan and Sewall in 1896 and
consistent radical ever since. But Mr.
Bryan is not to be tied down absolutely
by considerations OF party regularity. He
admits that Mr. Wilson voted for Palmer
| and Buckner in 1898 and that Mr.. Harmon
failed to vote at ALL Yet he sees promise
in both of them, and will undoubtedly be
able to overlook their recreancy sixteen
years ago II their present party activities
fit in with his own plans for regulating
and administering the democratic party
Mr.. Bryan as a candid and impartial critic
may be expected to enliven the presidential
campaign. He will now be able to appre-
| ciate the satisfaction OF the politician who
! looks on and does the talking while others
bear the responsibility and do the work.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
Again Which Platform Z

It's funny, really funny, this ad-
Duration that the democrats and popu-
lists in the impending legislature are
in duty bound to organize both houses
in order to carry out the contract en-
tered into with those who voted for
them to enact into law the pledges of
the platform on which they were
standing.
The question here again is, which
platform? Quite a number, probably
most of the democratic and populist
members, we're elected under the
double party label by which they de-
liberately misbranded themselves in
order to procure either populist or
democratic votes which they could not
get sailing under their own true colors.
If a candidate running as a democrat
is bound by the democratic platform
pledges, then a candidate running as
popullst is bound by the populist
platform pledges and a candidate pre-
tending to be both populist and demo-
crat should be equally bound by both.
Yet here is the trouble that the popu-
list platform expressly pledged those
running as populists to county option,
while the democratic platform is silent
on the subject.
Which platform is to control?
Does a democrat make a contract with
the populists to redeem pOpulist prom
Uses when he accepts nomination on
the populist ticket? Is a state plat
form binding on party candidates for
the legislature representing constitu-
encies opposed to It's declarations?
A duty call on high moral grounds
sounds fine when the duty is plain,
but in this case, which duty is para
mount-the duty to deliver the goods
publicly promised by the populists or
the duty to deliver the goods privately
sold by the democrats?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
watterson Pleads with Party.

Colonel Watterson pleads with the
democrats not to go TO extremes in
curtailing the powers OF the speaker,
making him merely a judicial officer
like the British speaker in Parliament.
He is irrevocably against the PROPOSE
ton to take from him the power to
appoint committees arguing that this
will tend to destroy authority which
for the good of the country and the
expeditions transaction of business,
should rest right where il does today,
in the speaker. He says It would
abolish "all responsibility, not alone
that of the speaker, but OF individual
membership as we'll. and send the
house to sea in an open boat without
ruddeF or compass or pilot, manned
by God knows whom, unless, indeed,
the speaker has a slate that goes
through, in which event there would
be more or less of stencil without
any diminution of personal dissension
and chagrin." r..
And then the veteran editor of the
Courier-Journal offers this sound ad-
vice to Champ Clark:
| Champ Clark will need as speaker OF
1 the coming house to make no more con-
| cessions TO the bunoo-steerers Of reform
/ in the undertaking magazines and the
| yellow press than the law requires The
people at large know little and care less
] a he nf IL
I They are concerned to have the business
Of the country go right along in congress
and a certain autonomy in the presiding
| officer is as requisite TO this as the free
/ dom of the whole house on occasion to
enforce its will.
/ Colonel Watterson also pleads with
his party not TO make mistakes, for il
cannot AFFORD to, but desparingly con-
I cludes;
! do not expect these Views TO he
needed but. on the threshold, enter the
warning protest by way OF record, and
/ have no hesitation in predicting that Ill
/ how much nobody can ssy--will come OF
/ the proceeding
Colonel Watterson belongs to the
old school naturally expected TO incline
toward conservatism. but, just the
same. he is giving his party some
sound advice. The fact is that Champ
Clark and other democrats loudest ir
denouncing this "autocratic" power oil
( the speaker last session would like
very much. il they could, 20 recall
their words and leave things as theJ
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
Law and Common Sense

II a layman had said that law does
not bear the slightest resemblance to
common sense" lawyers and judges
might have good ground for remon-
STRANGE, but what can they say when
the structure is passed by so eminent
a member of their profession as Fred
erick II. Lehman, former president of
the American Bar association, and
now solicitor general of the United
States? 1t really is a more severe
criticism than many laymen, who feel
that the law does not command SUM-
cient respect, would venture to make,
and yet it is of a kind with many com
ments coming from other distin-
guished members of the bar
Mr.. Lehman had been considering
why some people wonder at the lack
Of respect for the law, and this was
his answer. He, like many others,
takes the position that, in criminal
law especially, too much attention is
paid to technical rules and not enough
to the simple processes or determining
guilt or innocence of the accused
This is precisely the position of James
w. Garner of the chair of political
science in the University of Illinois in
an article discussing criminal proce-
dure in America in the North Amer
lean Review. The burden OF this
whole criticism is that no SUFFICIENT
number Of criminals are convicted to
make the law and its penalties a de-
terrent to the commission Of crime.
So when courts are quick TO resent
criticism of their conduct Of a trial
because Of the latitude they may give
to lawyers sparring over technicaiities
they should heed the warning OF some
of these, their distinguished fellow
lawyers. Unless more scrupulous care
/ is taken TO enforce the law on its
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

are without publicly stultifying them
selves. They do not seem to see half
the evil now in allowing the speaker
to name the committees, since they
are sure of the next speaker. as they
did when they we're laying their cam
paign plans and merely playing poll
tics by attacking the republicans.
Colonel Watterson refers to the pro-
posed plan Of committee appointments
as "quasi-revolutionary," and no doubt
Champ Clark would like to call II
that, though the definition seems
somewhat overdrswn. Some changes
in the house rules are inevitable, but
no reform would be lasting that de-
stroyed the workableness of the organ
ization essential to law-making by a
legislative body of unwieldy size.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
International Railway Board.

The proposal for an international
railway commission to adjust rates
and other details Of service between
the United States and Canada for lines
that traverse parts of both countries
has plenty to commend IL. In fact, it
is dificult to see how the steadily in
.creasing international railroad traffic
is to be properly handled by the gov
ernments without such a commission.
Under present conditions before issues
may be settled a most tedious and con-
fusing process of red tape must be
gone through with. since there is no
central body or authority to which
matters can be taken. With a COM
mission composed of representatives
of both governments and clothed with
sufficient power to act, business could
be transacted directly with It,
Now that Canada and the United
States are coming nearer to the time
Of adopting reciprocal tariff relations
their interchange of commerce is GO
ing to take on a new impetus and It is
already extensive. This, in turn, will
call for better and larger railroad IA
cilities and consequently the task Of
their regulation will be greater
Where one line has terminals in both
countries. of course, there is difficulty
in making any sort of satisfactory reg
ulating conditions. but under an inter
national commission such an obstacle,
If not entirely removed. would at least
be materially lessened.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

merits we shall find ourselves in a
much more serious predicament with
relation to crime than we are now.
Mr.. Lehman is right in asserting that
There is no better corrective Of the
morals Of a people or a government
than in putting them on exhibition"
England convicts a much larger per-
centage Of its criminals than we in this
country, and England's criminal trials
last nowhere near as long as ours, for
the simple reason that technicalities
are not resorted to. Our system Of
drawing juries, while ideal in theory,
has fallen into disrepute in the judg-
ment Of many great lawyers. Another
object Of attack is the cumbersome
form of indictment, potential of end
less confusion and error.
One great trouble in America is
that, as has been said the practice Of
law has descended very largely to a
mare commercial business. Until,
therefore, 1t is lifted back up to its
original level It will be difficult to cor
rect these faults which some of it's
eminent opponents are so frankly
pointing out.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
CaIifornians Refuse TO scare.

san FTanCIsCO NHIUIItIt
Army officers declare that the Philippines
are at the mercy OF the japanese. So far
as that is concerned, there are a dozen OF
more cities on the Atlantic seaboard, OF
vastly more consequence to this country
than the Philippines, at the mercy OF the
British fleets, but that is giving nobody
any concern. Yet there is just as much
probability that England may descend on
our coasts as that the japanese will de-
liberately make war on the United States.
The whole Of the talk is "tommy-rot" and
is inspired solely by the disreputable idea
which has possession Of some army ana
navy officers that il is the duty OF the
American people to provide plenty Of bill
lets for aspiring men.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
Our Birthday Book.
December 30, 1910.

Simon Guggenheim, United states sena-
tor from Colorado. was born December
go 1867, in Philadelphia. lie is one Of the
Guggenheim brothers who have made a
fortune in mining and smelling, and owns
the plant In Omaha.
Benjamin H. BarroWs surveyor of Gus
toms and collector OF the port OF Omaha,
is g. He was born at Davenport, Ia. and
was for several years city editor OF the
old Omaha Republican. lie was general
advertising agent OF the Union Pacific
from 1883 10 1885. then librarian OF the
Omaha public library. He was twice ap-
pointed surveyor OF customs through his
brother-in law, Senator Willard.
Henry e. Maxwell. attorney-at law. l..
A years old TODAY. lie was born IN Cass
county and is son OF samuel Maxwell
for many years on the state supreme
bench. He has been IN practice here in
Omaha Tor twenty years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

Telephone girls IN spokane are r.uu.stod
to give bond not To- mart, Within Xix
months OF receiving position, This meas
ure has been forced as a necessity uu pc-
count OF the havoc vrourht hy matr.mrny
In the hello" business.
An unusual honor has iust been he.
slowed upon Brooklyn wun g,v
Dr r. jacobson. pa. D.. pastor ur tho
swedish Lutheran Bethlehem church lie
has been decorated with the corridor VI
the North star by his majesty Gustav
v. king Of sweden.
sam YOUNG. who OWNS siNty-a,rc or
chard near Atchson. KAN. ig making SO
sheet iron stoves which VIII be placed In
this orchard next spring Mr.. Young has
twice saved his orchard from frost 10y the
use Of smudse fires and believes the
stoves win be more effective.
Miss Almlra Cox. a Upton. Ind. stcuos
rapher who bet on Senator Roycrldge. has
paid a belated election bet to oscar Van
Ness She went 20 his home. escorted him
to dinner. paid for a., took him to a pc.
ture show and concert and then home in a
taxicab hired and paid Tor hy herself
Edwin Lefevere. the author, has sailed
for spain as the accredited minister ~
the republic Of Panama. Ills official title
IL "Su ENcellencia Edwino Lefevere.
minlstro extraordnarlo enHado plenl-
potentaro de la republic de Panama
what the country lacks In size It makes
up in name
Doctor 60 sick municipalities is the name
given to Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane the
first municipal expert OF America II il an
unusual, an amazing title for a woman
When YOU add to this modern, efficient
minister, model housekeeper. wife Of a con-
tented husband, you have combination
Of virtues hard to beat in one woman.
Mrs. Walter Judkins, OF Portland. Me. is
woman to whom the lure Of the Maine
woods is strong She has just returned
from her twenty-third season in the au-
tumn forest with a record Of twenty-eiRht
deer to her credit. Mrs. Judkins shot her
first deer when girl OF rs while in the
woods in search OF partridge in her home
town of Gilead
Judged by the masculine standard that a
man is as old az he feels. william Clark.
Columbus (oJ courthouse attache. is a
very young man, Every day. as a third set
of teeth which he is growing como nearer
being nutcracking realities. Clark grows
younger He h now &c. The teeth promise
to become terrors 20 tough pieces OF beef
steak.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
DAT STAR Po'TAH.
oden Granam.

OueH 0IAnhm
Use a real star porter, and work don't
bar. rs Er.
Ksz now Use 'ployed on a s1eepin' k'yar,
And ebbery day sport fresh, clean collars
Kazuly new suit, when tipt wifi dollars.
] wonder, boys will dar come a Tins, when
All uder k'yars be built so. finer VIE
speed p -I'-
Luxury and safety, she has no equal
Kas the sleepin' cars are built for the
people.
Airships may fly, autos may speed in race
sit E-r
The pace Babies ana the rev'nd folks
surely
An. pleased while gliding fru de tropio
Land wifi de smooth and ease.
An tell you de truf bout all this dope
On a sleepin' kyar, faint no joke,
Ebry porter like a tub, on Its bottom,
VIII the goods, to build a reputation
Or back to de woods. ~
See the eager watchin folks, and that
COlored man; he am de private star.
Dey can understand bout the top berth
And bottom being alive with publicity
When IL comes TO handling human freight
VIII most simplicity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

Magnitude of the Vote SeIIinE In
EQUITY In Ohio Counties.

1QuiNy In OhtO COunttens
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The magnitude of the iniquity OF Adams
county is gradually becoming apparent
The first charges of vote selling did not
attract much attention but tho story has
grown and grown until now It seems al
most beyond belief. Wall-to-do business
men, pillars of the church." citizens in
every walk of life have been engaged In
the vote traffic. 1t has all been open and
above board, without any attempt at con-
cealment. 1t had become an institution
Of the county, an accepted custom that
has caused neither comment nor reproaoh.
1t is amazing and disconcerting to find
in Ohio a community wholly lacking in
conscience. Were the facts not made SO
indsputsbly clear the people OF northern
| Ohio would decline to accept the reports
as true. That a whole county has allowed
itself to be debauched Is bad enough, but
1t is worse to think that for years there
has not been one man brave enough and
honest enough to raise his voice against
the iniquty,
In an effort to prove that they are not in
habitants Of pre-eminently the worst
county in Ohio, the Adams county grafters
are now asserting that the business OF
vote buying has long been carried on in
the adjacent counties. Brown. Highland.
Scioto. Pike and Lawrence. Two of these
counties, Scioto and Lawrence, are OF con-
| siderable population, the others are, like
Adams, almost wholly "backwoods." II
there is any truth in the you're another"
charges made by Adams county these
other counties should be compelled by some
me ans to inaugurate a house cleaning as
thorough as that which is being conducted
by Judge Blair at West Union. The people
of Ohio should not rest content till every
suspicion OF crookedness has been re-
moved, even II two-thirds OF the voters in
all these counties are disfranchised
The work in Adams county has been
comparatively easy. The Judge and the
county officials as well as the members
Of the grand jury are perfectly familiar
with the practices of buying and selling
votes, and have, indeed been benefciaries
thereof There has been no possibility of
defense. The house cleaning could be con-
Quoted with as great facility in the other
suspected counties II they possess officials
with sufficient backbone.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
A Fitting Tribute.
ROatOn Trangcript

Chicago could not pay a more fitting
tribute TO the memory Of its dead firemen
than in the task It has set for itself to
raise quarter OF million dollars for
the benefit OF their families. That means
an average OF more than $4,000 to each, a
substantial barrier against the suffering
that the loss OF the breadwinner so fire.
quently entails.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30
PauI's EpistIe to His FavOrIteS.

Paul Morton's assertion, echoed by the
trust organs, that the trusts ARE the bat
tleships of commerce." evokes the reflec-
tion, probably not contemplated by the
utterer that there is a market similarity
in the fact that both classes cost the peo-
pie of the United States like thunder
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

Eastern democrats are wondering
what little game this is Mr.. Bryan has
sprung in his mention of Governor
Harmon as one of four democrats At
to be president Keep your eye on
the little rubber ball.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

30 Announcement is made that Column
bus people have struck it rich on a
mine in Montana. The last great
strike of this kind that hit Nebraska
was that Nevada gold mine that made
so many Omaha folks millionaires on
paper for a few minutes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

It has been developed by sworn tes-
timony that Governor Shallenberger
named one Of his appointed police
commissioners for Omaha at the per
sonal solicitation of a certain Omaha
brewer. That may help to explain a
few other things, too.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-30

If May Yohe carries out her plan Of
writing her autobiography she must
not fail to include the little incident
that happened in Denver the other
day, when she and her new hubby
were robbed and had to wire friends
in St. Louis for more honeymoon
funds