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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Long or Short Ballot.

The main feature of the proposed
commission plan of city government
about to be voted on in Omaha which
should appeal strongest to thinking
people is the substitution of the short
ballot for the long ballot. At our
last city election our voters we're called
upon to fill by choice at the polls
twenty-five separate and distinct cleo
tive offices. Besides the mayor and
administrative officials, six in number,
there were twelve city councilmen and
four police commissioners. If the
commission plan is adopted, the next
city election will impose on the voters
the duty of filling only seven elective
offices, and it goes without saying that
the work of selection can be much
more carefully performed.
In protesting against the steady in
crease of the number of elective city
offices, The Bees record will be found
consistent. When we elected merely
mayor, clerk, treasurer and council
men the confusion of the long ballot
was largely avoided. When the build
ing inspectors position was made cleo
tive The Bee urged that there was no
more reason why a building inspector
should be so chosen than a plumbing
inspector or a health commissioner.
When the city attorneys office was
made elective it was VIGOROUSLY a
spite-work move against a particular
incumbent, and when the city en-
gineer's office was made elective It
was equally VIGOROUSLY a move of the
same kind on the part of public works
contractors who wanted to get control.
The Bee likewise opposed making the
police commission elective, foreseeing
that such a contest would force the
saloons into politics even more than
they had previously been.
BY adopting the commission plan
the mistake of frightening the list of
elective offices can be undone, and at
tention focused on the choice of seven
commissioners to be held responsible
for efficient and economical manage
ment of all departments of the NUM-
cipal government. 1t will give us a
short ballot with only seven places to
fill instead of the present long ballot
with twenty-five places to fill.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
|EOokinS Backward
(lhisDSSy ln0maha,
r COMPILED FROM BEE FILES {
SEPT. 4.

Thirty Years Ago
The republican state committee has
called the state nominating convention to
meet in Lincoln on October g. At the COM
mittee meeting Messrs. Thurston and Yost
represented the Omaha district, and also
had proxies for two other districts, while
Pat o. Halves OF Omaha was another
proxy holder. James w. Dawes, later
governor. was at that time chairman of
the state committee. The Bee protested
vigorously against the proxy business.
conference was held between COM
mittees representing the Merchants and
Manufacturers union and the temperance
alliance in the United States court room.
Julius Trietschke, Ed Leeder, Henry
Hornberger, Charles Kaufman and william
sievers represented the liquor dealers
Before they got down to business they in
vited the reporters to make themselves
scarce
When Rev. E B. Grahm, pastor Of the
United Presbyterian church, and wife
were out riding with J. II. MCCULLOUGH,
who accompanied to show them the beau
, ties Of Omaha, the buggy upset at Twen-
tieth and California streets and all three
were thrown out, hut fortunately the
worst damage was done to the buggy.
Rev. G. L. Sterling Of Dayton, o., has
written his acceptance of the call to the
pastorate of the Lutheran church. Until
their new edifice at Sixteenth and Harvey
Is completed the congregation will prob
ably worship in Boyd's opera house.
officer Buckley was suddenly taken Ill
with bilious fever while on his beat.
City Marshal Angel and lady have re-
turned home from their eastern trip.
A Mr. Bedell, employed at a pile driver
by the Union Pacific, was Frustrated by
the heat, lying unconscious for three hours.
He later recovered sufficiently to be moved
to his home, at the corner of Sixteenth
and Burt streets.
Paxton & Gallagher have purchased
lot 1872 feet square on the site of the
Slavin house, near the railroad track.
Their intention is to erect a fine three
story wholesale house. When the building
is completed the present structure at Fiji
teenth and Farnam will be vacated. The
strictly wholesale houses drifting
rapidly south of Farnam, and that street
will soon be left practically a retail thor
oughfare.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Who Punctured the Publicity LAVE

Who Punctured the Publicity Law?
1t is declared that fatal loophole has
been found in the campaign publicity
law, to which Champ Clark so loudly
pointed with pride" at Quincy. II
the speaker knew of the defect, he
surely did not know it would be so
quickly exposed. The very next day
after he had lauded the act as one of
the great popular achievements of the
democratic house majority, Senators
Martin and Swanson of Virginia filed
their expense accounts, at the same
time announcing that the new law did
not actually require the publicity of
such accounts for candidates for the
house or senate.
Who punctured the law? Who
slipped the joker in the deck? The
law before amendment sought to re-
quire such publicity. 1t was not drastic
enough for the democrats. To make it
so they amended 1t, with this result.
A candidate may or may not publish
his expense account, but cannot be
compelled to. The law is a watchdog
with teeth extracted.
Speaker Clark told the country in
his Quincy speech, attacking the ad-
ministration, that this publicity law
would be one of the pillars on which
the democrats would lean for chief
support in 1912. Next time he points
with pride" will he not veer the finger
Just a bit when he comes to this law?
1t will be interesting to know to what
account the democrats will charge this
item of expense-to duplicity or stu
pidity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Helpless Mt Midnight.

The News and Courier reporters several
times risked their lives in venturing out
upon the street to attempt to learn some Of
these things, but their efforts were all In
vain. With telegraph service, electric light
service, street cars, telephones and even
carriage service cut off, the people Of
Charleston were last night as helpless in
communicating with each other as IL they
had been living in the most primitive ages
When this was written the velocity of the
wind was eighty miles an hour, but the
barometer was. falling steadily and 1t Is
possible that the wind may yet go to 100
miles an hour.
The water front presented a stormy scene
at II o'clock last night. At that hour the
wind was blowing at the rate Of seventy
four miles an hour and the rain was falling
heavily. The waves broke over South and
East Battery, and these sections we're
flooded with water. The boats moored
along the Cooper river tossed and tugged
at their moorings, while the big Clyde liner
Mohawk rolled ct the dock as the wind
broke in gusts about It. The lighthouse
tender Cypress at the government docks,
threw It's searchlight in all directions. and
the long CLEANS, which in the distance
seemed to be swallowed by the darkness,
were the only lights visible along the water
front. The sounding of the great waves as
they raced in, whitecapped from the sea,
caused an ominous roar, which gave an
undertone to the multiplied noises which
increased with the battle OF the elements.
The Midnight Roar
Shortly after II o'clock the barometer
began falling again and Immediately the
wind velocity increased till by midnight the
velocity was eighty miles an hour. Few
people ventured forth after o'clock and
the few who did, carried their lives in their
hands. At II o'clock a man going down
East Bay could scarcely keep his footing.
The noise OF falling slate and of tin from
roofs and glass and shutters from windows
was almost deafening. Many doors to bust
ness houses were blown open and great loss
will be suffered from rain beating in and
flooding the stocks of goods.
The night was a creepy one. The wind
roaring over the city, the ceaseless rattle
of states and tins wrenched from roofs the
crash of chimneys falling into the streets
or alleys, the inky blackness the awe-in-
spring thunder of the waves In the harbor
as they dashed furiously against the
wharves and the sea walls, and, worst OF
all, the uncertainty OF II all, were enough
to make the stoutest heart quail.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
vehicle. Out of Business.

There was scarcely a hack, carriage or
vehicle of any kind to be had at any price
One man, who wished to go only COM
paratively short distance, visited several
large transfer stables, but was informed
that no rigs" were being sent out and
that several had returned to the stable In
dilapidated condition, while a few had not
been heard from at all.
Many people were so anxious to leave
the city before the storm reached its
| height that they walked all the distance
to the Union station. AT the hotels the
people were divided beween fear and
amusement. While one could hardly stand
still on the streets at night, one could by
| holding onto some support on the street
have observed a most wonderful sight.
| Late in the afternoon, at nearly Z o'clock
reporter stood in the doorway of the
Peoples office building and watched the
storm take it's course around the corner
of the skyscraper.
A sight which would have deded the
| brush of any artist met the eye. Sheets
of rain rushed along Broad street, swept
by the tremendous wind The force of the
storm increased as IT raced past the
rounded corner Of the big building and the
wind sounded like a hundred fog whistles
set off at one time.
The hour was too early for any real de-
struction of property to be seen, but even
then pieces OF tin were hanging from the
roofs of old-fashioned offices on Broad
street and signs were Tapping in the wind.
| A strange feature of the storm at that
point and hour was that one scarcely got
his feet wet when he ventured out into
the rain. The wind blew the rain so
much from the ground that it did not settle
anywhere, with the result that ones shoes
were only damp, while the clothing on the
upper part of ones body became drenched
Immediately.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Ten Years Ago

With Dusty Coons pitching and Johnny
Gonding catching Omaha beat Des Moines
in an exciting game at Vinton street park
10 to 3.
Rev. A C. Hirst preached at First Meth
odist church on Paul on Mars HILL"
DR.. w. P. Haney was pronounced on the
road to recovery after a serious illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyers of Dubuque were
visiting at the home of E. w. Nash.
D. E. Burley of Salt Lake City, general
passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line
A. L. Craig of Portland general passenger
agent of the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Co., and B. Campbell, traffic manager
spent the day in Omaha
Gateman ]. H. Gates of the Union station
left for Glenwood Springs, Colo.
Thomas ]. Kelly returned from an ex-
tended visit in Chicago and Milwaukee and
his "understudy," as musical critic of The
Bee, left town.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

least as much lay-off as nature. itself.
calls for. He cannot afford to be
supernatural at both ends Of the line.
II he attempts It, he must expect to
burn out his little candle Of life much
sooner than he otherwise would. The
matter OF vacation resolves itself down
simply to a matter Of common sense.
It can be made as bad as a man
chooses to make It, or as good.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Rumor has it that there is a Joker
in the campaign publicity law enacted
by congress at the late extra session.
We hope not. We would hate to see
the federal campaign publicity law fall
into the same innocuous desuetude as
the Nebraska campaign publicity law.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

The official canvass of the recent
primary in Douglas county shows that
the populists cast just twelve votes
and the prohibitionists eight votes
This is far short of the 2 per cent Of
the total prescribed by law to entitle
political party to a place on the
ticket as such.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Night in Hurricane
Local Pen Picture OF
Charleston In the Roar of
the storm sunday NtEht.
A city of Hurricanes.

City of Hurricanes.
Charleston, S. c.. has hurricane recond
extending as far back as 17O9, intermixed
with tornadoes, cyclones and earthquakes
Local authorities award the palm for fury,
destructiveness and duration to the hur-
ricane of 1898, just eighteen years and q
day before the terrifying gale Of last Sun
day night. The record hurricane began on
Saturday morning and continued until
Monday noon, the greatest force of the
wind, 100 miles an hour. being felt at mid
night Sunday. II is a singular coincidence
that last Sundays hurricane also reached
its maximum force of ninety miles an
hour at midnight. Some of the scenes wit
messed and experiences had in the city
plunged in darkness by the storm, the In
rushing sea in mountainous waves, the
roar OF the wind and the crash OF windows
signs and roofs are thus sketched by the
Charleston News and Courier on the morn
ing of the 18th.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

If the firemen and soldiers at Fort
Omaha would only announce in ad-
vance just when they are to pull off
the next sham battle they could turn
it into a profitable enterprise by put
ting a ticket-taker at the gate.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

The Cleveland Leader says that when
Editor Bailey of the Houston Post was
in New York this summer he saw a
man drink mint julep with a spoon
That would almost be as bad down
south as to plug a watermelon to see
whether it is ripe or not.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

President Taft evidently looks upon
Omaha as a nice, quiet place in which to
spend Sunday .-Lncoln Star.
Mr. Taft doubtless knows that since
Omaha is a Sunday school by COM
parison.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Nebraska's new pistol toting law,
which makes the offense of carrying
concealed weapons punishable by law
as felony, is having its first test
If the law holds good a few object
lessons will do the business,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Perish the thought, though, that
any of our highly esteemed young
chorus girls marry rich admirers with
the idea of getting money enough to
retire and buy a country home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Right Principle for Postal Rates.
Cr.nir.nrfInIa Ionn,,,Ihionn

oPIHIbIIIIu INepUIUICuII'
The principle on which postal rates
should be based is cost of service, and to
this standard, as Postmaster General
Hitchcock maintains, charges for each
class of mail matter should be adjusted
Government in this. its own service, as it
is requiring Of the railroad service, should
act in harmony with it's rule of the equal
ity of all under the law, and under any
public or semi-public service which may
be established
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
FINE ARTS FROM THE GARDEN.

merry morning glory,
That puppies with the morn,
And folds in silken silence
Before the suns high scorn.
Reveals in form and fabric.
In symmetry and line,
A thousand fairy fancies
OF fashioning divine.
Here colors are and tintings
A painter we'll may prize,
AS artist hues and hintings,
OF old-time Tyrian dyes.
Within the fair corolla
There stands a tower, tall
sculptured alabaster,
With cryptic capital.
What architect such palace
Could fit TO HUNDREDS needs;
or carve such careful chalice
AS servitor for seeds?
Why can the lyric language
OF this bright blossom tell
or hear the mystic music
OF it's frail flower bell?
A son, a sPsalm, a story
Is in this fragile flower
The merry morning glory,
That blossoms but an hour.
RBBECCA FARSON M KAY.
'The initials OF the fine arts-painting
sculpture architecture, literature, musit
spell out the word Psalm"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

A Chicago street car conductor is
said to have taken in an old coin worth
$4,000. Street car conductors in
Omaha and elsewhere will now pro-
coed to invest in coin catalogues.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

The New York World observes that
''it is congress, not the president, that
frames tariffs" Yes, but It is the
president who sometimes keeps what
congress frames from becoming law.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

The Real Estate exchange is getting
busy to follow up The Bees commits
sion plan petitions at the coming cleo
ton. It's up to the Commercial club
to follow suit.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
Perhaps The Law Needs Bracing.

New York Tribune,
The theater at Cannonsburg, Pa, In
which twenty-six persons were killed the
other evening is said to have been planned
and constructed in strict compliance with
the law, The question now is whether
the law is drafted in strict compliance with
common sense and the public welfare.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Some of Jezebel's letters have been
unearthed in Egypt. They ought to
compare favorably with some OF those
submitted in our modern divorce
courts.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
JULY CIRCULATION.
47,93l

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 July, 1911 was
G931. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this I'd day of August, 1911.
(Seal) ROBERT HUNTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Insurgent republicans can have all
the space they want in democratic
newspapers TO stir up trouble for
President Taft and his administration,
But this leave-to-print privilege would
not last twenty-four hours il demo-
cratic president should accidentally
find his way into the White House.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Aviation, we are told, is to be the
keynote for feminine headwear this
winter, Likewise, striking intimacy
between aviation and the prices of
these millinery connections.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Perhaps that suit attacking the con-
stitutionality of the appropriation for
the university medical department
might be compromised by locating the
building at Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrnriIy should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Perhaps If the railroads would let
Mr.. Brandeis show them how to save
a million a day, the strike situation
might be simplified
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

This is a raw deal" remarked the
speeding motorist, as he was conducted to
the inner circles of the inferno
Never mind" said the demon, sooth-
ingly who was escorting him. Wen put
you where you can soon be scorching. ~
baltimore American,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Tom-what style Of women do you like
best?
Jack-A slender girl with an obese pocket
book-Boston Transcript
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Colonel Aston and Miss Force have
signed the ARTICLES of agreement"
STIMULATING the division of the pro-
ceeds. Referee: Time"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Mr., Atwood says flying is not all
pleasure. Still, he ought to get lot
Of fun out of that coast-to-coast flight
II he wins it with it's $4,000 prize.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

William Allen White says there are
Just twelve really capable editors in
this country Gee, 1t must have taken
him long time to count them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Somebody in st. Louis sends out
word that this is to be corsetless win
ter. That is not very neat figure Of
speech.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

But Mr.. Bryan has never been frank
enough. to admit that his nomination
would be a genuine calamity"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Perhaps that bookkeeper who stole
$4,000 to give to charity got all he
needed, himself, beforehand.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Train wrecks may be fewer when
live men and not dead men are held
responsible for them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Magazine Editor--I really can't see any
thing in this manuscript of yours,
Young Authorship why not print i'll
Your readers may have more Intelligence
Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Why Mike" Harrington should be
silent so long is another growing ques-
ton. .-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Mona Lisa is not the first woman to
be held for ransom.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

st. Louis is talking of getting a dix
dix for its Forest park geological
gardens. Careful, now, no nature
taking.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

What's in a name? Nothing, when
Buzzards bay continues to attract sum-
mer resorters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

America is not deficient in patriotism
nor in love of art" said the CHEEKY citizen
mo" replied Miss Cayenne. But, just
$40 bills is not due entirely to the fact
that George washington's picture Ia on
them. "-washington Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Up to last accounts General lie
Conte was still president of Haiti.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Friend--You took your son into your
establishment a few months ago to teach
him the business, 1 understand. How did
he turn out7
Business Man (wearily)-Great success.
He's teaching me the business now
Toledo Blade,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Commission Flnn ana WorktnHm EN-.
OMAHA, Aug. S1.-To the Editor of The
Bee: 1 understand the Central Labor
Union has by resolution taken a stand
against the commission plan CT city govern
ment as rejecting the sentiment Of or
ganized labor. 1 do not believe that is the
position Of the intelligent working man. As
understand It, the commission plan means
simply to run the affairs Of the city by an
executive comHittee and that is exactly
the way we run the affairs of cur unions
II It is good for our unions, II ought to be
good for the city. UNION MAN
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

That fellow is very successful"
Yes; he is enthusiastic and persistent.
Goes in for business just like some people
go in for base ball."-WRshington Herald.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
TheBctsLetGBorz
U-$Es.--UJ

hat Keeps Them from Church.
BUItNETT Aug. SOTO the Editor Of
The Bee; You don't have to wait for the
president to tell you men why men don't go
to church. will tell you. 1t is tobacco and
the Sunday newspapers. Men would rather
stay at home, smoke and chew tobacco and
read the Sunday newspapers than to go to
church with their clothes soaked with
tobacco smoke l know, for I used toDacco
for over twenty years. from 1861 TO 1851,
and then quit II because thought II a sin.
am glad 1 quit. ! will be 70 years old
Sunday September g. q. b. SMITH
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01
PASSING PLEAsANTRIEs.

Oats de most patient mule ebbsr drew
breff"
He don look it,
well, he Is. I've known dat mule TO
wait as much as 'leven hours fob a chance
to place one of his fancy kicks."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-01

Uncle Amos-Mandy you've never MIXED
COW. Like to try your hand on old
Brindle7
City Niece-I don't mind doing It. Uncls-
Anne, IL you'll keep her from brushing me
with-with her swatter.--Chicago Tribune