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Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
Ahead of the Game.

The democratic bosses guiding the
reins on the legislative majority at
Lincoln are trying to put through a
congressional redistricting measure
planned specially for the purpose of
helping the democrats hold the dis
tricts they have and capture one or
two now represented at Washington
by republicans.
Why should the boundaries of Ne
braska's congressional districts be re-
drawn at this time? Congress has as
yet made no reappOrtionment on the
new census. Reapportionment, when
it comes, may reduce Nebraska's
quota of six tn five, in which event
the work of redistricting would have
TO be done all over again by the next
Legislature.
The real reason why the democratic
bosses want the Job done right away
is that they are in control at present
and decidedly uncertain whether they
will be in control two years hence
They would redistrict now in order "a
edge up on the congressional election
next year, and chance having one
branch of the legislature, or the gov.
ernOr, to block any changes not to
their liking later.
Our advice TO republicans in the leg
islature is not to let the democrats gel
ahead Of the game. Let us keep con
gressional districts I'm Nebraska JUS
as they are until congress makes the
new spportionment, when redistrietinl
can be done intelligently and once fol
all until the next succeeding census.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

ing Of uncertainty in achieving it, they
have, it is understood, listened to diff
ferent counsel.
Under the seniority rule La Toilette,
Cummins, Clapp, Bourne, Bristow and
others OF their group will come in for
desirable committee places. Il may
mean a stronger hold for them on leg
islation than would be possible we're
the old rule, that formerly denied
choice places to these aspiring young
senators, effaced.
Mr.. Bryan is out with a plea to
progressive democrats in the senate
to unite with progressive republicans
to secure committees not merely to
pay personal compliments, but to
carry out the peoples will" Per-
haps, however, even that can be done
to the satisfaction of the progressive
republicans without disturbing this
heretofore offensive rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
A Credit Mark for the Governor

The taxpayers of Douglas county
owe Governor Aldrich a credit mark
for interposing his veto to stop the
salary grab that was to give four dep
uty county attorneys not less than
$4,000 apiece for devOting a portion
Of their time to public service.
The Bee expressed it's opinion Wig
orously of this bill at the time it was
log-rolled through the legislature,
urging the same reasons against it
that are embodied in the governor s
veto message. With the possible ex-
ception of the chief deputy none of the
deputy county attorneys have any
good reason to complain of being
either underpaid or overworked, and
this bill would never have gotten
started except for the fact that one OF
the deputies is the law partner of one
of our state senators.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
A nemonratin Dilemma

A plague Of place hunters has al
ready appeared on the horizon of
democratic hopes at Washington, fore
boding more trouble than the wheel
horses of the party like to think
about The hungry horde of office
seekers has already pitched its tent
in Washington, ready to march against
the keepers OF the pie counter as soon
as congress convenes next week in ex-
ira session.
Fairly reliable observers count at
least three men for every job and as
the positions number 500, that means
1 500 applicants. How are the other
900 to be appeased? All, that is the
question that Just now haunts so many
of these majority members Of the
house, under whose reorganization the
distribution is to be made.
Wise and seasoned politicians have
not deceived themselves as to the dan
/ ger that turks in the wake Of a dis
appointed office-seeker Champ Clark,
as speaker, may change front on every
vital issue that comes before the house
and ALLEVIATE half his democratic
brethren in the house, but Champ
Clark would rather~a dozen times do
that than to offend these long-suffer-
ing hangers-on for a government job.
Distribution of chairmanships and
committeeships and the reorganiza-
ton Of the house all are minor mat
tiers as compared with this task of
parceling out 500 plums to $500
mouths. The democrat who can sue
cessfully solve that problem is the
democrat the party needs just now az
it's Moses to lead it out of the wilder
ness
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
A Murder and It's Lesson.

The unprovoked murder by high
waymen of a prominent and respected
business man like Herman B. Conn
has shocked the whole community rro-
foundry. When man who has shown
himself, as Mr.. Cohn has, to be enter
prising and progressive; who has at
tended strictly to his own business
and has thus earned and held the es-
TEEN of all who knew him, is shot
down without warning it naturally
suggests the question, Who may be
the next victim of such a crime?
Under the circumstances people are
bound to speculate on what has not
been done to give us better police pro-
lection, and where the fault lies.
Omaha unQuestionably has a smaller
police department than it ought to
have. In fact, we have been spend
ing half again as much money on our
fire department as on our police de-
partment. Another serious blundel
was made by the last democratic leg
islature, which increased the pay OF
policemen all around without increas-
ing the police fund, and thus made il
necessary actually to reduce the mum
Der OF policemen available for active
duty just at the time when the de
mand for police protection was stead
lily increasing. We are convinced that
Omaha has enjoyed remarkably eff
cient police service from the small
force maintained, but that offers nc
excuse for not. having a metropolitan
police department. adequate to the
needs of a city of $4,000 people scat
tered over twenty-five square-miles.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
BRYAN AND ross IN 1912.
FeRtherIess Chantecler and His Pros
pective Growing Mate.

pecttve Growing Mate.
Hartford Comm Times (demO.
In 1896 It was Bryan and Sewall, in 1890
It was Bryan and Davis, in 1908 1t was
Bryan and Kern. Few people carry In
their memories the names of ali the run,
ming mates of the Nebraska man in his
various presidential campaigns. AS prep
arations are now making for the selection
of a fourth vice presidential candidate on
a Bryan ticket 1t becomes worth while to
call Of the roll"
Mr.. Bryan has been in Boston lately, has
delivered his lecture. has met his friends
and admirers in that section and is re-
ported to be in q well-pleased state of mind
as a result OF this visit.
Mr.. organs special happiness is that ne
has discovered through his friend, G F.,
Williams, an available man for the second
place on the ticket in 1912 Eugene Noble
Foss is his name" Bryan and Foss' is to
/ be the ticket. Mr.. Foss has been In the
democratic party just long enough "a little
| over a year,, and is loaded to just exactly
| the right degree with democratic ''prin.
ciples" to make him an ideal associate Of
the Nebraska leader.
It is true that the thrice defeated can
| didate makes the announcement every
where he goes that he Is not presidential
| candidate. That Is merely a part of the
/ game-merey the harmless, permissible
dissulation OF the man who loves his
country and his people too well to go back
on them when they come again to demand
the quadrennial sacrifice. once he did
keep his promise not to be a candidate.
That was in 1904 and how melancholy the
result! He means to save us such another
catastrophe by letting the burden of de-
feat fall once more on his own broad
shoulders.
Should anything happen to disarrange
this-program Mr.. Bryan stands ready TO
name the man who shall be nominated In
his place. He may consent, II necessary,
to the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, al
though not TO that OF JudsOn Harmon. His
real preference, however, is to take the
domination himself, and in that event he
regards the Massachusetts, governor as the
most available man to nominate for vice
president. The perpetual candidate regards
plutocrats with deep distrust at all times
except when they are associated with him
in a presidential campaign. At such times
he can endure any amount of intimacy
with them. Whether he will be in the sans
mood toward Mr. Foss 1.-THE latter runs
for the governorshlp again this year and Ii
beaten at the polls is a matter not neces-
sary to be considered at present
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
People Talked About

In one of his merry moods Bill Nye pped
off the situation thusly:
Spring, spring, you giddy young thing d"
The twelve passengers carried by that
French aeroplane weighed Isis pounds, or
an average OF about 1O9h pounds, thus
showing that they we're small and select
parties.
Mrs. W. c. Brown, wife Of the presi-
dent Of the New York Central, says she
is prepared to do the milking on her hus-
bands 7OO-acre Iowa farm, "and 1t would
not be the first time. either" she adds.
Mrs. Emma NJ. Nakulna Is a water rights
commissioner under the territorial govern
ment in Hawaii Mrs. Nakulna is an Amer
lean woman, granddaughter Of Captain
Metcalf OF the Eleanor. She lives in Kalihi.
A six months residence and absence from
the state when desired during that term,
brings the Reno divorce mill down to such
simple requirements that not a murmur OF
dissatisfaction Is heard from old or pros
pective customers.
Seats are selling as low as from SIG "a
s6S each on one OF the grandstsnds that
will overlook the coronation parade. Amer
leans who care nothing for royalty and
consider IL all nonsense, viii not ind the
cost OF living too high TO prevent them
from contributing TO the English enter
prise
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
silensinp the LIMOGES.

Truly, the jingoes who preach var
with Japan have fallen upon hard
times Events OF the last few weeks
have combined to discredit them en-
.tirely. The new treaty effected at
Washington was severe blow to
them, but not final Even though it
went through with the avowed en-
dorsement Of the Pacific coast states,
It did not silence the agitators. They
came back with that scare story of an
Interior alliance between Mexico and
japan as the real reason for the pres
ident sending troops to the Texas
border
The president considered this ca
nard serious enough TO demand HIS
personal attention, so he sent for the
japanese minister and to him declared
that It was without foundation in fact
and expressed the wish that this
word be transmitted to the emperor of
Japan. The emperor's reply is an ex-
preston of implicit faith in the friend
ship OF our government and a reaffirm-
ing of good will toward US. Neither
government has suspected the other
of sinister motives or movements, the
most complete friendship exists be-
tween the two nations and under the
provisions of the new treaty they
ought TO come into even closer rela-
lions.
All this series of events ought 70
suffice to allay the most sensitive feel.
ings and convince our people that this
persistent agitation of trouble between
the United States and Japan is the
irrational utterance of irresponsible
persons. Even on the Pacific coast
the majority sentiment is against it
Seattle refused to take seriously the
! last big anti-JapRnese demonstration
and the California legislature has de-
feated the alien land law bill, designed
to discriminate against the oriental'
in the right of owning realty. All thes,
things must have their influence anC
do. They ought to put an end to thii
pernicious jingoism for the best in
terests of the two countries cannot bu
suffer indirectly by it's continuation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
The Law and Fatal Fires.

New York authorities are making a
determined effort to fix the blame for
the terrible fire which cost so lives.
Grand jury Investigations have been
conducted with that end in view AS
near as has been established this
holocaust was due to some form of
criminal negligence. II so it ought to
be possible to fix the blame, and that
done, the penalty OF the law should
follow automatically.
In such matters we are accustomed
to be all too lenient in this country.
We have gone into paroxysms of grief
when hundreds of lives were snurfed
out by fire, or mine damp, but not yet
has a wholesome example been made
1t has not been due to the impossible
ity of ascertaining that someone was
to blame, nor, in fact, always of find
ing who that someone was. 1t has
been due more often to a maudlin mis-
conception, which allows overwrought
sympathy to outweigh Justice
When the law plainly specifies that
doors to such places as that destroyed
in New York and to great theaters,
such as the one in whose destruction
600 lives were lost in Chicago, shall
swing outward and because OF neglect
they fail to swing that way, as a re-
suit of which human lives are sacri-
feed, the law should be allowed to
operate irrespective of persons. Good
fellowship, political pull or personal
standing is not a safe influence to
yield indulgences and dispensstions to
the culprits. Possibly If the penalty
were more often applied those re-
sponslble would be more cautious and
fewer such disasters would ensue.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

OMAHA, March 2S.-To the Editor of The
Bee: l believe the Cohn murder was commit
ted not by seasoned footpad or highway
man, but by novice. believe many similar
crimes in this city of recent years have
been committed by youths, whose expert
ence in crime has been brief As we have
found out in many instances, some Of these
youths are actuated by no criminal instinct
other than to get hold of little money.
Many OF them are boys in the habit OF
playing pool and want this money for that
purpose. They go out to get It by lawless
methods, not intending to commit muir
der, but are unable to control either q
hRir-trigger pistol OF a weak human i'm.
pulse. OF course, 1t makes no difference
so far as the blackness OF the crime Is
concerned. These boys who infest poo
rooms have no great amount Of money Of
resources so when the gambling spirit
has complete hold on them, they cut loose
and the first thing they know they hav,
perhaps stained their hands with the blooC
of an innocent victim. 1t IL an appalling
situation when such men as Mr.. Cohn are
shot down in cold blood What is the rem
edy? IL the fault, or any part Of f. lies
in these pool rooms, which are multiplying
with amazing rapidly, isn't the remedy
believe they are the most vicious Influence
in the city, because they entice and en-
srare the young We should do some
thing to curb them and that at once.
A LAW-ABIDlNG CITIZEN.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
sONNETS OF A CAR CONDUCTOR

Chicago News.
Gee, this is tough! She promised me to
come
out TO a picture show tonight, and, ohl
| dunno where I'm goin' to raise the
dough, q
For love has put my bank book on the
bum.
My purse is now as empty as a drum,
Nary single red have ! to show;
But / must have a seed or two ana sd
It's up to me to look around for some
haven't got a pal that / can touch.
For any more than two bits at stroke,
And / will need a dozen times as much
Say, Gully, amt II hades to be broker
Well as I must dig up the change So
where's,
There's nothin' left but knockin
some fares
Last night I dreamed the darndest bunG
OF rot;
Love as a trolley car / seemed to see
Hittin Il up the pike for fair, and gee,
The crowd on board was such a mushy
lot
Cooln' away like ringdoves in cot!
And dinky little cupid seemed 10 be
The motorman. Meanwhile, his majesty
Old Harry was collectin' fares / thought.
And l was sittin holdin Mamies hand,
Swappin' a heap of lOvey -dovey guff,
Pnin' the soft soap on to beat the band
And handin out a raft of hothousa
stuff
When suddenly we hit an open switch
And landed, badly battered, in the dltcht
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
Mr.. Chaaek's Explanation.

OMAHA, March 2S.-To the Editor OF
The Bee; l feel that the account in The
Bee Of the meeting gotten up by the River
view imp ovement club has misrepresented
my position as to the protest made against
changing the name OF the Forest school
James Pros brought the petitions, which
had been PREPARED by Mr.. Zimmerman, TO
my place and asked permission TO have
them left there for signers. He told me
there was 10 be meeting Saturday night
when l carried the petitions over to them
across the street, but had nothing to say
and took no other part in the meeting, /
am a Bohemian myself, and could have
no objection whatever TO the naming OF
the school after Edward Rosewater, and
do not want to be charged with being the
cause of any protest. JOHN CHADHK.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
Seniority Rule in the Senate.


II reports from political seers at
Washington may be relied upon, Mr.
Bryan probably is appealing in vain
for a coalition of democratic and re-
publican progressive senators to set
aside the seniority rule in the reorgan-
iEation OF that body. According to
expert opinion the republican progress
slves, who will hold the balance Of
power in the senate, have decided not
to disturb this rule against which they
inveighed when they were a powerless
minority.
This would seem to be a most natu-
raj position for them to take, for in
the coming congress many OF them
will have ranking claims of which they
would deprive themselves II the SEN
iority rule we're abolished. For the
sake of consistency they may be
strongly tempted to help overturn the
rule, but as practical politicians their
better judgment will restrain such &C
ton. Il makes all the difference in
the world whose OK is gored" The
insurgent republicans have thought
that by ignoring the rule Of seniority
they could defeat Senator Penrose in
his succession OF Senator Aldrich as
head OF the finance committee, but
when they have figured up what such
victory would cost them, to say moth.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

This newspaper In the years that have
passed has not hesitated 20 take lite stand
In favor OF the brosdest tolerance, whether
IN medicine, religion, politics or what not
World Herald
Oh, come now. People hereabouts
have not forgotten how the World
Herald bolted it's own party nominees
TO espouse the cause OF the intoierant
A. p, A, bigots, who set out to draw
a religious line disqualifying for pub
iic once.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

President Woodbury. for the water
company insists that they are eager
and anxious to complete the sale Of
the water plant to the city, but that
they are not willing to turn over their
property in exchange for another law
suit. In other words, the water COM
pany seems to have stolen the Water
boards slogan Not next year, or next
month. but now"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Il is to be noted that in pleading
With Lineolnitss to continue 70 keep
their town dry Mr.. Bryan, who lives
at Fairview, went out of his way to
make inyidiOus comparisons with
Omaha as brewery-ridden city. stm,
Omaha will try to survive this assault
as we'll as Il can.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
A Tranic Rpisode.
Philadelphia Record.

Captain Jack Philip is dead and now
the Texas, with which he distinguished
himself at Santiago, has been sacrificed to
gunnery practice by newer and very much
more powerful battleships. But the world
will never forget that in the hour Of vic
tory Philip checked the triumphant shouts
OF his men, calling out: Don't cheer boys;
the poor devils are dying"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

sioner to supervise and control the
road work done by the different coun-
ties so as to make it AZ together Ne
braska will be left far behind in the
good roads movement Il the present
legislature fails to do its duty in this
respect.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Our old friend, 'Bilr' Dech, rises TO
remark that he is duly thankful to dis
cover that he has a defender. Bill
does not seem to realize that the fell
low he is thanking was really defend
ing himself
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
National ECONOMY.

President Taft's economy commission
thinks that 5000 can be saved annually
in the preparation of the government S
photographic charts and Weather bureau
maps. There is at present no coordination
of the work done by two bureaus of two
departments, and the natural consequences
are friction and waste. The economy COM
mission will have its hands full roofing out
duplication and unnecessarily divided He-
sponsibility in the work Of the federal SER
vice
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Il seems rather unreasonable that
the judge who fined the Standard Oil
$4,000 should get a Black Hand let
ter. What do these BlRck-Handers
want, anyway
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Among other things that conduces
to the increase of crime is the leniency
of some Of our judges who have gotten
the habit of turning convicted offend
ers loose with suspended sentences to
go out and repeat their performances.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Those American youths on the
Texas border who are pining for few
hot times should contain themselves
till along about July or August, when
things should warm up enough to suit
fhem
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

The Hartford Times has nominated
the democratic ticket little ahead of
time, but we have no doubt it will be
acceptable in Nebraska-st least to
one Nebraskan. Its ticket is Bryan
and Foss.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Come to think of it, why should the
president pardon the bankers sent to
the federal prisons any more than he
should pardon smugglers or moon
sinners?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

The Bee has been urging from time
20 time more systematic work for the
improvement OF our public roads, and
the enactment Of legislation necessary
to this purpose The Bee was among
the frst to advocate the creation for
Nebraska OF a state highway commits
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
1BRUARY CIRCULAR
47,62l

STATE OF Nebraska, County OF Douglas, IS:
dwight Williams. circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily circu-
lation, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies. for the month OF February 1911, was
A. GIL. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn 10
before me this LIST day OF March, 1911.
lSeal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

How times change. Here is our
amiable democratic contemporary
burying an important announcement
from Mr., Bryan in an obscure place
on the third page, while giving Roose-
welt front page space.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Chicago Tribune.

Buffalo Bill might have a better chance
of going to the United States senate IL he
would agree to modify the wild western
character Of his goatee. It wouldn't har-
monize with a senatorial toga.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
ON win the Dame.

wall street journal
II every government official who played
the stock market were fired, It would be
necessary to use the capitol for poor
house and the congressional library for
q soup kitchen
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

1T should be understood that the
party is more to be considered than
the individual. Richard Croker
Still, Boss Murphy stands pat.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrarily should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will he
changed a. often a. requested,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
srrren the WhoIe nnce.
sprInefleld Repnhlican.


In writing to DR.. Booker T. Washington
that impressive note of personal esteem
and confidence, President Taft has per-
formed an invaluable service to the whole
negro race in America.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
An nrrentinn Noted.
washington Post

Mr.. Bryan says that the newspapers
shouldn't print stories Of crimes, but how
much advertising would he ever have re-
ceved II they hadn't played up that-one
If TAP
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

What are the advantages of COM
mission form of city government as
against our precious 0S,25O,O 10000
Water board?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

II want a pair of button shoes for my
wife"
This way sir what kind do you wish
sir?"
Doesn't matter-just so they don't but.
ton I'm the back"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

Those young Americans who have
been taken prisoners OF war in Mexico
probably would not do it again II they
had the chance.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29
An Airy UpIift.

A western railroad is going to put soda
fountains on its summer trains This win
without doubt, add TO its flzz-ical valua-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-29

No wonder Senior Reyes appeals to
President Diaz as a good man for war
secretary The senior once undertook
a little revoluting on his own hook.