Show I II I The Black Fla Flag of Political 1 I Piracy Lo Lowered in Nebraska ALIFORNIA still stands alono alone in her bad C C CALIFORNIA eminence The black flag of political piracy still floats over ocr the tho statehouse where Mr Roosevelt's running mate matt reigns supreme The band of burglars that sings Onward Christian Soldiers as us it bludgeons the victim and goes through his hig pockets held the fort in N Nebraska until yesterday when the supreme court intervened and the skull and cross-bones cross was struck to be replaced by the eagle of Americanism and und Republicanism The highest court of that commonwealth yesterday yesterday yes yes- I ordered that the names of the Taft Tuft electors appear on the official ballot as Republicans and this latter the Roosevelt electors as ns Progressives requirement being indisputable evidence that the court is not without a sense o of humor According to the dispatches Nebraska was the last state with the exception of that which Johnson and Heney Hency control in which the burglarious activities of the third party were being heing pursued There is a significance in the situation that ought not to escape the eyes of the voters Either through pressure of public sentiment or the honesty honesty honesty hon hon- esty of the courts the various carious brands of thievery from petty larceny to embezzlement that have been essayed b by the party part of personal al revenge ha have e been unsuccessful in ill all the states except California In that commonwealth so s firm finn is the grasp of the Johnson machine upon the Legislature and the governmental machinery that it t is impossible to loosen it in time to prevent the disfranchisement of thousands upon thousands of American citizens qualified electors an and taxpayers of the state who find themselves unable to register their will at the coming election unless the they support either Mr Jr Roose Roosevelt elt or Mr Wilson Those that fa favor or Mr fr Taft have ha no opportunity of voting toting for him although al although although al- al though he is the candidate of the party parts of which i these voters are members a situation that amounts to disfranchisement E Every ery citizen who still adheres to his intention to support the Roosevelt electors should consider carefully the position of Governor J The burglary which he le has so successfully committed in California was made possible through a law Jaw passed at a special session of the Legislature last spring When the loyal thousands who wish to support fr Taft awoke to their position some weeks ago ao the they found themselves powerless They appealed to the attorney general who made the amazing ruling that the presidential electors pledged to candidates engaged in endeavoring to wreck leck the Republican party should go upon the I official al ballot t as Republicans th Republican lican I emblem That these electors are not Republicans cans that they are fighting the Republican party and andI I that their o only ly possible object is its its destruction is is I well known to this officer charged with the duty of I 1 enforcing the rules of simple justice yet et his hie decision der de de- de- de r vision stands The Taft executive committee then appealed to the courts and the matter was taken to the highest highest high high- I est tribunal of California The chief justice in announcing the courts court's opinion declared that such I action is unjustifiable that it disfranchises a great proportion of the qualified electors of the state bt but t that he cannot prevent it since it is the law The terms in which the presiding judge denounced denounced denounced de de- de- de the statute were vere ero harsh and unmeasured yet ret they had no no effect upon Governor Johnson It should be remembered that the man responsible responsible responsible sible for this monstrous s theft is tra traveling eling over the United States on special trains engaged by the bar harvester ester and steel trusts preaching social justice ind industrial democracy political purity the tho conservation con conservation con con- n- n of human resources and all the other catch phrases which sound so well and mean so O little This is the man who has referred to the President of the United States as aa a disgrace to the American people and who when his words were quoted against him showed his bis entire harmony harmony harmony har har- mony and sweet communion with Mr Roosevelt by denouncing as a n liar those who quoted him hun Mr r. r J Johnson ho however e er is most careful to say nothing of the California situation Not Nots N ot since he I deserted the tIle office to which he was elected in California to advance his efforts to get a greater one has he defended his position in the California theft He does not explain it because he be cannot it admits of no explanation NY y man knows knOW whether Eyed Blue A Ay he is toll tall all or s short ort plump i Married Men or thin but l its it's s a fair shot that unless he is 16 more o of Face Jury an observer than the average Duty citizen he cannot tell the color of his eyes And though he is a 10 lover cr married or single single single sin sin- gle it is almost t safe Eafe odds that the tle hue of the eyes I i of wife who or sweetheart arc are as vague to him thought though t 1 he has often celebrated their beauty at one time or or r. r another It behooves him however to learn the color of lItis his own orbs The other doesn't matter except I I in a sentimental way But if a man looking in inthe inthe inthe the glass discovers that he has blue eyes then he helias has lias cause to be fearful And if in addition he lie heis heis lieis is large fat and married ho he can mark up his hia batting batting batting bat bat- ting avera average e of uneasiness to 1000 right awa away To bo be eyed black thin and marriage-free marriage will give him bim a far better chance to escape jury gury duty than the eyed blue-eyed fat husband if the court tactics of Lawyer McIntyre who has charge of f the defense in iii tho the ca case c of Becker tho the lieutenant of police in New York now standing trial for murder are arc adopted b by the bar in general In weeding out his tale talc of jurors jurors Mr M was very peremptory in challenging scrawny dark- dark eyed men wen who that they were ere bachelors Ho RE II e had ha a theory and if it proves prOtes successful every other lawyer in the tho land anxious for success no matter how bow it comes will adopt the McIntyre tac tac- tics McIntyre accepted without protest every man who had blue e eyes es and was fat and married He explained his llis choice in this way eyed Blue c men Ire are thinkers They can weigh an and analyze c evidence and so cannot bo be swayed b by the emotional and the immaterial Little men are arc cantankerous and grouchy grouch They nurse a grudge against the w world dd because lse of their stature and they I t S pay it off etel every chance they Scan can i get And finally Ire Iro prefers married men because their welded wedded life has taught them seriousness and Te responsibility so that they will feel the weight of their position I better than a bachelor 1 i p r vl roO H |