Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 28, 1881, Page 4

# “i'he Omabha Bew, Pablished every morning, except f3unday, The only Monday moimning daily, LERMS BY MATL:— | Thre Months €.00 Orpo od8 Y v ar. Months publiched ev- ST PATD:— §2.00 | Three Moy 1.00 | One One Year.. Bix Months mha. . 50 20 CORRES NCE—AN Cd ni oations relatiag to News and Editorial mat ters «shonld be aldressed to the Eprron o¥ Tie Bir. BUSINESS LETTERS—AN Busives Lotte es shonld be ad dressed o 1srire Cone paNy, Omama. Drafts, Checks and Post office Crders to le made paynble to the order of the Comw| OMAHA FUBLISHING CO., Prop'rs B, ROSEWATER, Editor. | ZEdwin Davis, Manager of Cl(;'i Cavenlition: % in Charee of ¢h CDALLY B phn I aree Ciren (tion THF ©all for Ropublion t Mail | itate Conven= cotors of the § Jincoln, LAty And to tran may propetly cor e resentat ¢ State conve: npon the vote cact for G s for Presidential elector, i 3 delegate at large for cach organized coun- | | gnn\fi-, Vta. Del | Counties. Vs, Del | 1447 11 | Johnson .. 1068 .51 b Kearney .. 5% 8| Keith. . | | Knox 8| Lancaster 7| Lin Madizon Donglass .32 Filluoro .. e Hitchicook. . Holt ¥ Howand Jefierson It is recommended—Dirst, proxies bo admitted to the convention ex- oept such as ure held by persons vesiding in the counties from which the proxies are That no delegato shall repre- given, Second. #=w= Sgent an absent member of his delegation unless he be clothed with authority from the county convention or is in possession of proxies from regularly clected delegates reof. By order of the Répablican State Cen- ral Coinmitt S W. DAWES, Chm'n, JA ¥, J. Hexpersuor, Sec'y. pro tem, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 31, 1851. ‘WhHo is your preferred candidate? ‘Wuex doctors disagree who is to decide? Tue lust stato fair was a state affair, not much of Tug pledgos of oftice seekers are thicker than autumn leaves and wither nearly as rapidly. Bvex a great national calamity ean- not throw a pall over the aspirations of candidates for office, Our merchants are quietly talking up an Omsha exposition and the ball onco started will keep on rolling, Tuge worship of thé rising sun has commenced all over the country now one has that sorrow over the sett lulled. ug Ir Governor Kirkwood comes back from Washington to contest the Towa he may give Jim Wilson some trouble, Sivce the late train robbery near Little Rock, Missourt 1s reading Ar- kansas a lesson upon bandits, Pots ahouldn’t call kettles black, Tuexe are 240,000 commercial tray- elers in the United Btates and it is es- dimated that it would require 24,000 ten ton cars to transport their wunks and baggage, Ir maiters very little whether Gui- tean is tried in Washington or in New Jersey. There are ropes in either placo strong enough to suspend his * miserable carcass, Here is oo opening for seme patriot, General John A, Hulder- (wmman, consul general at Bangkok, Biaw, is about to return and retive to the shades of private life. e Goverxor Pruussury, of Minneso- ta, declines to bo a candidate for re. [ ¢ i 1 I 2 election and declures that he' is deter- amined to retire from political life at the end of his official term. Nebraska [and the best finished mind in Massa- a few Governor Fillsburys |chusetts and to bo in every way quali- awmonyg its oftice holders, summed uy i the farmer, merchant nominated by puety e as the siroam never sonrce these candidates are, citing, non-residen [ peaters are sent from ward to ward, and gravel traing ca ection hauds from prec abuses and frands was mado lust year, but tho political managers of the Union Pacific brought all their power broke it up by main force. was made last winter to s pas primary elections, but it was dofeatod by corporation cappers in the legisla- ture, in 'HE REPUBLICAN PRIMA. RIES. Next Fridagafternoon primary clec- tions are to be held by the republicans of this county for the purpose of select- five deleoates to the coun- T re ing seventy- ty convention that is to be held in this cit The purpose of this conventiol ty ticket, consisting of sheriff, treas.| Saturday. is to nominate a full coun- urer, clerk, county judge, surveyor The in also to select twenty-three delegate and commissioner, onventic represent Douglas county in th bo held To the ention to ber Bth. publican stat o at Lincoln on Oc THE OAMA}IA DAILY BEE: THE MASSACHUSETTS PLAT- FORM, The Mansachusetts republicans met Iast week in convention and renomi- nated Governor Long and their entire state tic They also adopted a ot platform which, if open {5 the chargo of being extreme m some of its utterances, is still a model for fence-riding politicians, in that it dodges 1o issne and plainly ox| the meaning of thoto who drew it up. In the first plank the government urged to exert all to elfectually the right of every citizen « ia gnard tled to powers more vote, to the free excreise and just ef- their | WEDN preesations against the danger. Many hoases, barns and stored crops have beeg sweptaway, often life itself is lost, because a few days of labor had not been expended in ploughiug a Larrow fire guard around the homestead. No form of insurance is so cheap and so satisfactory. JA¥ Gounp has again been heard from; this timo as having obtained control of the Ohio & Mississippi rail- | rcad which has for years been oper- ated in conjunction with the Balti- & Ohio system. Tt's a cold | month when Gould does not gobble a moro railrond and apply his patent. water in- people of this city and county, and especinlly the taxpayors, theso |fect of his suffzage. This sentiment | jector to its stock. coming primaries are of vital|%0 emphatically endorsed by General - importance. From the t yers | Garfield in his inaugural should be Srerrrany Winnoy may be retired standpoiat there is more involved in|voiced by every republieau in U.r!(r,u.nhu cabinet, but he is liable to the i rement of county affuirs | conntry. Tt is an issue which can|Joom up as a formidable candidate for than in a presidential election. The me dead by its complote vin- | the presidency in 1881, His pro- national revenues aro lovied by indi- | dice The second and third | nonnced anti-monopoly views will rect taxation. Few feel the burden | planks cannot Do endorsed and will | nake him availablo whon the irrepros- imposed on them by the tax on whis- | not ho endorsed by the mass of the re- [ sible conflict comen between the mon- ky, tobaceo, matches § The tases imp cines, and personal property for the support , bear down | of our eount governme with as much weight upon the poor | entire wealth s | bt of & iture, a3 they do upon | working man, whoss ia 1d hand fuy and manufa turer, stem of solection of cwnaidates! | oflice by delegate conventions, s very littlo chanco for indiv Noice. Usually the vaters havo only | 3 and | a choice left among the candidates rises above its) sxcoptions, ‘no botter " than the ge delegato in the nominating cor ventions. And how ara th gates chosen? Pre )| representative men ! known edher L po ]ll" 1 thiei s putable character, | Aw & watter of fac are mndo | up the 1 disroputable | political » hoa few decont| men gand in The primary elections, n Omaha, are usuaily pacl strilcers eal bummers and ato monog Men of olitieal opinion and no polit upt vings, on are allowed to vote prom nd when thecontost is closo and ex t to pre An Lonegt attempt to reform tlese ek, ind influenco to bear against it and An effort ccure the ago of alaw to prohibit frauds at 8o the primarics this fall will ba ran the old way and unless respestable republicans turn outen masse the outcome will be the same as it was last spring, when Has- call: was nominated mayor and the party was forced to repudiate the choice of its convention. The mgn who are most fashioned nterested in giving the coming primary a sem- blance of respectability and decency are the candidates for covnty cflices, They have everything at stake in conducting the primaries in accord- ance with strict party usnge and pre- venting repeating ballot box stufling and other fraudulent practices, Iy will afford us pleasure to give n hoarty and vigorous support to the republi- can county ticket this fall but wo can pledge such support only on con- dition that the primaries are Lonestly and fuirly oonducted and the candi- dates are competent men, whose in- tegrity cannot justly be catled in ques- tion, Presioeye Awrnor will be called upon without delay to appoint o suc- cessor for Justico Clifford the supremo bench of the United Siates. 1 hind in its work and the hopeless sick- ness of Justice Hunt, who refuses to resivu until a year from next Decem- ber, when he will be clegiblo to a pen- ion, makes practically another vacan- oy, As Justice Clifford was an cast- ern man, it seems probable tha wuccossor will i Lngland, Geographical boundaries have always been elosely observed in the appointment of suprome court justices and thero are no good reasons to doubt that President Arthur will follow precedent in this caso. The numes of Senator Edmunds of Ver- mont, and Judges Devens, G on Tho court is already threo yon bis come from ¢ an Hoar of Mussachussetts, aro promi- nently mentioned in convection with the coming appointment. It is ru. mored that Senator Edmunds prefers to retain his seat in the senate for the present, whero he greatly neoded, The objections to Senator Hoar, is that his name, was sent in by General Grant for a Jike position, and rejected by tho senate, Chief Justico Gray, of tho Massachu- sotts suprome bengh is admitted to be a strong eandidute for the position. Ho is said to possess the most judicial is fied for the office, | intri | ure of | eongtity publican party. the coinage of the o stopped and that logal tender t o repealed No finkering with Our e should be tolerated by condi resent m is iroulating todium 1 fulfiils its 1 Ions tts convention this q ssiu pion pander to oni prpularity conviction thio On the question eivi furm the form does does not to equal tremes, 1 I t Senator Davis subject ane Bk of th o preaid 1ia 80l on his sole auch nomi from excent dictation.” Havi me as far this, it condemn tical ssmeunt an rst appointments ¢ nd and more 10! tarifl lawa bring them witl more the nts of t to permit the question of a revived tarifl to becono w y issue, and ¢ Massuchusetis ¢ ention has done well in 1 aderaand chowill be heard ia still louder terms before the next presidentinl clection "The Massachusctts the first political gathiering which conver was n asgembled sinee the accession of Pres ident Arthur, This to reg: the new president an especial we The resolution was as follows: To Gen, Chester A Arthur, elected by the republican national eonvention a8 the associnte of Gon, Garfield on the republican tic d chosen by the people to b his edsor in the mstance gave its resolutions ) SUG presidency in such o o s has avisen, tho republicans of Massachusetts, in full * appre- seulinr embarrasments of his assumption of office, and in full expectation of his faithfulmess to the principles of the party and just aitici- pations of the people” of the eonntry, pledge their eordial, considerate and united support, ption of the In exprossing their confidence in and sympathy with the new president the refloct the sentiment of the entire na- Massachus tion, who are woro than disposed to give to the new excec 0 a support will be ind; party lines or seetiona! and consideration whic pendent of bounduiics, Tue oo, Lionel Sackvillo West the new Br I minister to Washing. ton wha is expected to land in York Thomas the thied 1 descondant of rd of nexy week is Deolaware whoso umne was g Lord Dol of Virginin. "The London Telegrayi on to one o states, YUTE WAS governor commenting upon this appointment says: Mr. Sackvillo West haa the unique vocommendation, shared by noue of his diplomatic fore-runners, of havin in his veios the samoe blood warmed the heat of st foady known in American history un angestor v more than sea during his third westward voyagoe across the Atlantie, in order to ro- sumeo the rvins of government which illness had compollod him for awhile to lay aside.” which Tag du of the se of* tho vice-prosident. president pro tem of the senate sitply the presiding offlcer of that body and has not the easting voto in o of a tie, tho roll with the other membors, and he answers to it without official title, A number of thues during the inenm- beney of tha chair by the prosident pro tem, o tie voto has been lost, the chair being unablo to cast the deciding vote, This occurred several times during the administration of Aundrow Johnson, 4 of the president pro tem ato ure not analogous to The is those iy namo is called on —— Tur annual list of prairie fires be- gin to roll upin the interior coun- ties of the state. Our farmers cannot be urged too strongly to adopt proper republicans onlyd opolies and the people, Tire: Boono county ruilrond striker under the lead of that experienced 1 1 o3 in calling tho pri- ssful in vo tried pper, Loran Clarke, hich were s0 1 c last Boone year, | ; mers made the will refuse to be apaw for scher iciars, has al cull for re- publican primarics in Douglas county, Avrnoven The favoréd with the o | wo venture to state that tho county of s'ordered an election comaittee delegates next Friday afternoon and a county convenlion Saturday, Washing the Arthur Tur: latest reports fr afford no er +d as A Chnsm of Parkne; m of our con- jard to the election and yie W in our hist out of its defects, and th weticular woakues } [ to notice was the vuthore itution fatied to proyide how and by whem the elecloral vote should Sunted and disputes concerning it | decided. Notwithstanding this warn- |ing, congress las failed thus far to provide any safeguard against the re- currence of this Jdanger. On the question of presidential inability and the duty of the vice y leat in the present crisis of affurs both law- yors apd laymen have written arvedly and lengthily during {1 two mouths, and we are 13 far as ever froma con- in our nutional constitution in rolation to the presi- dentinl succession is only less remark- uble than the failure of congress to provide a remedy, as experience mani- fested its dunger. All history shows that tho transfer of authority irom one ruler to another is an extremely criti- cul period and a most frequent oc sion of civil disturbance. To make the royal succession certain and be- | yond dispute has uniformly been the anxions care of premiers and par ments, Thas the presidential suce sion should be sarrounded with eq safeguards is no less necessary to the peace and safety of a republic While many will searcely permit us to queston the all-sufticient wisdom with which the constitution i framed, having regard to atl its other proyisions, we believe there is 1o one who is disposed to laud the prescience ot the fathers inreference to this one | feature of our fundaniental Ly ave defect | In the striking phrase of Senator Morgan of Alabima, this dofect is *a chasm of appalling darkness in our " In a contribution to the October number of The Noith | American Roview enti ‘Some | Daugerous Questions;” Mor- | constitution, enator | gan points out the perils we | stantly ueurring in thus allowir chasii to lie unguarded and wib ackoss our path, The constituti | prov this subject are not mory defective than ar some of Wi of congress pussed i pursuanco therewith, Wo have | herctofore pointed out the apparent wisdom m making the president | bro temp. of the sevato and the speaker of the house suceced in order (0 the temporary exercise of the presi- dentand vice presidentshould both be come removed or disabled, They veither of them pebmanent ofticers; e the seut time botlr are non- existent, and in the nature of things must often be so. They may bo held by men of a different political faith than the president aud vice president, and, as they are the creatures of con- gress, it gives tho legislature a strong wotive when the vica presidency is vacant fo eob the president out of tho way. Tho presi- dent pro temporo of the senato and speaker of the house ave chosen on account of their ability as _presiding officers over deliberative bodies, with usually not the slightest regard to their suitablencss for the presidency of the United States, Congress made them next in order after the vice | idont in the ling of the presidential succession for the single reason that the offices were mentioned in the con- stitution, but as they are not mention- tioned in that conneetion the reasun becomes unreason, Senator Morgan shows that this law is 10 less & chasm of darkness than is the coustitutional provision it was in- tended to supplement, Suppose that the president pro tempore succeeds to the presidency upon the coutingency indicated. Senator Morgan maintains that as ho holds the office by virtue SDAY county | not been | ,‘LI] of being pre senator in order to bo president. He thus has to occupy three offices at the same time the duties of which are in many respects wholly repugnant, 1f, however, he mnst continue to be dent pro tempore of the senate, in his absence the senate wou'd be oblived to elect another pr t pro tempore, who would in turn oust him from the presidency of the United Sates. We uime th if Senator Wade hal succeed o Andrew Johin- son's place his relations with the s ate would have ceaced or *been sus pended, a8 any other courss would have produced endless complications, The law, however, and the conatitu- tional provision on which it is based, o8 itsolf in the possibilities of confusion which they involve, and we aro glad that such an influentid mem- ber of the senate as Senator Morgan lis convineed of the 1 t {of the eatly overhauliog of the whol 8 1bjcet, o sity The River Convention. Chieago Tribune, There is, of ccurse, to be conyention held somewhere west this fall to coneid about the *importance of improving the navigat At rivers of the west, j whose i xaguorated, inclnde Lligh for It tion of the great nature wte embraces | tho util provided by uerce of the vast inent. It the water the con within the waters of the of M {all tributary the in the flow into the Rio | Grando in Texas, The existing evil | ation of these natural which can bo removed, « rapted at th s when | tion 15 the most d by alax afficic wator. | is, that | highways obstacles 1d alsc | EUOSC able ir wn by s of T PTEMBER. 28, 1881 dent pro tempore of | being made available for tho trans- the Senate he must continue to be) portation of goods at all times, the rates of transpol will be sure to those of ull the the iraftic, will sume by water or by r and govern the wouid be of g permanently 8o, at all times and down the: navizabili b Live ¢ river citl convention national til they eha vays f1om to the pe Harlan county » comparatively aterways' 1 if properly 1 the with a of ring township Det D nd the Roeky e that will not hav nuni ion n of leost which in round | placed at three tiows « fransportation by water would cost if | available, In other words the diiti cultics of navigation on the rive ucers of the to a cost for transportation | which consumes so much of the produce annually as to deprive them of a great portion of their earning and reduces their anmual profits often to the minimum, he singular fact remains asa na- tional reproach that 15,000 miles of river navigation, capable of transport- ing all the merchandise carried by the 00,000 mules of railway, and at one- { il the cost, remains year after y neglected and almost abandoned with- cut an effort to make it available, even to the peaple who live on the very banks of theso rivers. Cities which a ( eneration ago, from their location a$ the mouth or the junctions of these great sireams, had most i 3% reat as fhe onable expectations of being cen- adl of the t and commerce of the teeming have already passed the climax of their greatness, and ex- xhibit in their neglected levees and eneral stagoation the story of the abandonment of the river who cranow flow undisturbed under | aiant bridges crowded with railway | trains bearing off the products of the | land. Tnstead of being great depo handsome, grow- | cities and towns | e now hut way d by bridges, on the ureat | by 1by loco- wotive and thq 1 n W ver towns to their D trade the once flouri and cities now have | Quors, 1ot by way of the rivers, | by the railway tram The River Convention is called mee « nationnl son improvements ¢ rivers as will to| ones more, to endeavor to ar favor of cat W dec pent in the th abandonment of the river commoree, | and incidentally of the rviver towns| and | v and cities, vel, in an a Te followin wd the The Indinnapolis Senti- | e on this subject, gives | list of vivers which de. immedia ttention of th m them vovernment to e: Total miles. ... In addition to these there aro va- rious other rivers which are of great importance, n long list of which may bhe found in the annual bor bills passed Ly con 110,570 The people of the whol ) the Mississippi, as well as tho pe in the eastern states, are deeply rned in the objects of this Transportation will alway, airection where its cost is the The valuc of all westorn pro- is regulated by the cost of irans- ion to the place where it is med, From the prioe at which it i sold at the place of consumption do- | duct the cost of transportation and that of handling, and the remainder is the price which the producer re- ceives. Tt will boscen that overy cent added to the cost of transje tation is taken from the price receiy- ed by the producer, Chicago, through not on any of the groat rivers, has a deep mterest in having the western rivers improved, It would rejoice to see all these rivers made navigable at | all seasons of the year, tion, that least. Jof b county, was tract, The anti-treating Iy enforced in 1 county. The on the line of Lodies of it, The di adverti; school hou Thouwsands of for winter use. Theninth ann: will he held at ¥ and 6th of October, More 'r te yards th live of the B, 1 1 seintion ctober A ing O enty thous t rates by rail exc tatio cont I vd pass routes, and the rates by w main wlways the maximum, immaterial to the producer or the con- whether the transportation be 150 by the cheap water-routes regulate | ate At profit to Chica the navigation of the Mississippi wnd Missourt rivers was n: and al if & ton of merchandise tl y would be all the same. Railronds would have to choose be- nruaning empty trains or adopt forts to induce Congre rovement of the gie n on the rivers rol and govern mds, When the those by water to the water or will re- It is 1w as the rates It o if by all routes o perfect, and freo to be uscd 1 seasone, e never weit 1o effect of their country would reap | ° tof cheap trans- therefc ches every s in its 3 to make the L) it rivers of the policy, to be m‘ 1 aflord broad, free e of the countr 1 > ] HE T 2 1l T 1R yying protracted m u erop s excel: | Ever Offered g pupils in Doane | & ‘. VO | - S el | F LD S V/ IN, FH4S GCiTVYe law attle York conference 1 the Plat! tons of nson county mt k hus been shipped from the y ol ) will . il immigra the i3 tpo ; up with sheep | 5 per buskel ab lie county on the 4th, bth er plece along the ley Conere- be beld at Alma, ation pamph- & M. land depart- | B e MoneyAdvanced ——TO—— Acsist Purchasers in Building. We Now Offer For Sale 85 Splendid RESIDENGE LOTS, Located on 27th, 28th, 29th land 30th between ‘arnham, Donglasand the pro- Streets, .1 posed extension of Dodge St., 5 to 14 Elocks from {ouse and Post Office Court Al | PRICES ranging from $300 to $400 ("Neil which is about Two-Thirds of ts, fr | their Value, on Em~»il Monthly Payment of $5 to $10, | I conie of Payment for one or two ye: Ps mpr rt16s de ng to Build and ove Need Not Malke | county 0 remove their count ¢ Alma to Orlean -, but can use all their Meaus for It is stated that the Rephblican Valley | Improving, A will luy out twenty mile I, ) ich, A nov An Otoocount ¢ rojo mer by the B & M Al 1 to an early new 4 west of Lndiano’a, sbock tender. rg the terminns of the new 0| Topekn, which will be le and name’ Ca e 1 n one hund ed | Keven .1t v g ¢ mall, to near Pal- | ¢ S Wt & and one | 1 |t 1 the Rumning srely wounded by Vou Scoy | wver the cortifuty ud to sum- Lesun ne I y ¢ § ess onbroge wa Joon J, Ord wen, The Ic of their own, But not Fnoug plete their Buildir | MAIN BU Street, way of either Favuham, Dou | Dodg i Value, and purchasers may r Persons having $100 or azog o Build such a house @ ¥ want, can take a lot and we wvill Loan them These lots are Jocated bef N STREETS ity, within 12 winutes walk of the vod Sidewadlks ex Jusiness Centor. end the Eut Distance on Dodge chied by ) and the lots can be re hey lio in.a part of very Rapidly Tinprov- in Strects, le city that i and consequently Incre ope to Double their Moiey within a hort time, me of the most Sightly Locations ) the city may be selected from these ita, especially on 80th Street a Smal 0, and will build hovses o Payment of $1560 or We h The old settler's o , | gell house and lot on small monthly Thayer, Jefferson and Salin i [yt ] MecLanghlin's grove, in | Feymeniy lin pre » Thursday, October 15t Tt is expected that {hese lots will ba ThE body of & man, supposed to amp, was di lum’ Creek ward Stafford, o tr b The hody of Mrs, Re from her hiome in South Otoe county, on August makin, f north of Riverton, ove Echo, Deputy Sheriff Vance shot and fa boy at North Platte o; Underwood is the b wounded a co 14th, with others, had about town and res The rivers | undertook to arrest hi of « Precinet y the name of Bent igenents to ] Thompson creck, six 100 head of cattle all told, been ted im, Il': a | sl apidly sold on these liberal terms, pd persons wishing to _purcliwe hsuld call at our offico and secure |their lots at the earlicat moment. ho wandered | We ar ady to show these lots to all ranch precinct, | persons wishing to purchase. Ist, was found rribly, nan- put a miles He has 120 cows and Franklyn o' manue. He, shooting freely when the officer BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham Street, . Grand Central Eavel, JMAHA NEB,