Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1884, Page 4

OMAPA DALY BEE--THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1884 e THE OMAHA BEE. Omana Offce, No. 016 Farnam St OounciljBlufts OfMoco,No, 7 Pearl St Street, Noar Broadway.f Now York;Office, Iloom 65 Tribnne Ballding. The exoept Bunday! ouly Mond AANS B AT ..§10.00 | Taree Month. .. 5,00 | One Month For Wook, 2 Cents. One_Year #ix Mouena TIW WRIKLY RRN, PUPLISITAD RVERY WHDNRSDAT. TRRM POSTPAID, Threo Months (] Ono Month ... 20 lef,Agente, Nowadesl G Yoar €1x Months CORRRSPONDRNCE, A Communieations relating o Nows and Rdltorla mattors should bo addressed to the Eroa or Tun @ Bux BURINNSS LEYTARS, All Basloosa Totters and Romittanoes shonldfh addressed to T PORISHING COMPAXY, QWATIA Drafts, Chooks and Postoffico or lers to be made pay Able to the order of the company. YHE BEE PUBLISHING CO., PROPS' E. ROSEWATER, ditor. A. 10, Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, P, 0.Box 483 omaha, Neb, rara Crvroat, Countrra, | b., August 11th, 1884, railway in this state will sel Sckets to the delegates elocted to the republican wtato convention 0 be held at Omaha, August 27th, %84, for faro for the round trip, and to the district conventions o bo held at Beatrico, Hastings and Columbns, August 20th, '84, for one and one fourth fare. The delogatos will prosent their credentials to Tocal agents who are authorized to seil ticktes upon such presentation. Gro. W. E. Donsry Chairman, HDQ'TR'S RRFTALICA FIRRMONT, The different lines NepraskA has never had a more pros- perous year in the way of crops. £ ICLEvELAND is & good provider. He takes care of the widowa and the father- Tess, ‘We are surprised that a wood-cut of Maria Halpin has not appeared in “‘the pictorial press.” AL is quiet on the Stinking Water, but there are active preparations for war around Hastings, Huxary politicians are beginning to inquire if it is not time to open up the campaiga barrol, Tue coming;Nebraska State fair promi- ses to be the most successful exposition ever held in the state, ¥ the republicans of this congression- al district don’t mind their p’s and q's they will give the domocrats a walk- away. is still GRrovER CLEVELAND in the woods, while an anxious public and Ben. Butler are waiting for his letter of ac- ceptance, Tue bankers’ convention was opened with prayer. This was eminently proper. The bankers cortainly need praying for as much as the political conventions. GENERAL ‘'WesT is very indignagt that slurs have been thrown out respecting his candidacy. He positively asserts that he has not withdrawn from Ben. Butler’s ticket. He now fills a long felt want. DouarLas county never does anything by halves. There will be three candi- dates for state superintendent of public instruction from this county, George B. Lane, J, J. Points and J. B, Bruner. They are all *professors,” New Yorkens are beginning to sus- peot ,that the recent earthquake was caused by Dynamite O'Rossa while ex- perimenting in order to ascertain how big a dynamite cartridge must be made to entirely annihilate England. GeN, LocaN and ex-Gov. Hendricks met in the bar-room of the Filth avenue hotel, New York, and cordially ex- _changed greetings, This is just liko lawyers. They can ‘‘chow” each other up before the bar of justice, and then adjourn arm in arm to the bar of juices and take a social drink together. —— Beecser's recent flip-flops hane caused the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to remark that the Brooklyn preacher is for Ben Butler on Sundays, for Cleveland on Mondays, Woednesdays and Fridays, and for Blaine on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. According to this programme St, John is left out in the cold. Tueke has boen a great deal of sym- pathy expressed for Mr, Guthrie, and we were inclined to join others in asking that the further prosecution be dorpped. But we imagine that no more sympathy will be wasted on him after the public reads the letter from his real wife, now living at Taunton, Massachusetts, Pos- #ibly Mrs, Guthrie No, 2, at Omaha, is an innocent person. —_— Ex-SeNxator SmanoN, of Nevada, shook the dust of San Francisco courts from his boots long enough to organize a company to build another railway across the Isthmus of Panama, with a steam. ship line as a side issue, The capital Is generously placed at $12,000,000. With the De Lesseps canal, the Eads ship rail- way and the Sharon short line, the neck of the continent will not be much of & barrier to commerce in & fow years. — Tz Bothwell syndicate have completed an examinationof theroute of the proposed Cheyenne, Black Hille & Montanarailroad in Wyoming., They are reported as being enthusiastic over the possibilities of the country, but the prospects of the early construction of the road are not as bright #s could be wished, The demoralization in railroad properties has intimidated capital {0 such an extent that it is ex- tremely doubtful whether the necessary means can be secured to begin active work on the road this v ar, e e IHE PRINTING CONTRACT. In the debate over the city printing contract Councilman Anderson declared that the city could not recede from the award made two weeks ago, and the parties to whom it was then awarded could s for breach of contract. The city of Omaha and the magor and coun roc This is prepc r da erous, is & corporat cil as its mar rs have the same right to enter into contracts or refuse to enter into them, as the managers of any other cor- poration, or for that matter any individ- ual. When the bids are invited by the council for any work or for any material the right is always reserved to reject any or all bids. The award of a contract to any bidder is not binding as a incurred mater- contract, and no obligation thereby. No contract for labor, ials or property is valid uutil it is ap- proved by the mayor and council and signed by both parties to tho contract. The rejection of a contract after it has been awarded is perfectly legitimate. The mayor and council need give no reasons why they refuse to enter into a contract. They may refuse becauso the bond is not sufficient, and they may also refuse because the award of the contract was obtained under false pretenses, or because upon further investigation it was deemed contrary to the intorosts of the city to enter into such a contract. In this caso tho contract was awarded to a paper on a_fictitious and unstablo circulation, The concern to whom it was awarded has no element of perman- oncy, and oven if its bond was good and suflicient, it would have been an outrage upon the tax-payers to make it the offici- cal paper of a ity of 50,000 inhabitants, Suppose the Union Pacifio railroad should advertise for bids on certain materials, and the party, to whom preference was given, was notified to have a contract prepared for signature, would the com- pany be liable if its cflicers refused to sign the contract when it was presented? Suppose Mr. Anderson should advertise for bids for the erection of a dwelling house, and when the bids were opened, he should declare that a certain builder should have the contract. Suppose furthermore that Mr. Anderson had dis- covered that the contractor was noted to be shiftless, and his materials were infer- ior to those genmerally used. COould the contractor, whose bid was accepted, compel him to sign the con- tract even if he presented the very best bond? Would there be any binding con- tract before it was entered into by both parties? Only the other day the city council of Lincoln accopted the bid of the Holly waterworks company for acon- tract to build waterworks, but when the contract was drawn up and brought be- fore the city council it was rejected, and the council thereupon awarded the con- tract to the A. L. Strang company, of Omaha, The Holly company will hardly attempt to recover damages from the clty of Lincoln, and if it did it would simply have a bill of expenses for their trouble, THE FIRST DISTRICT, The republicans of the first congres- sional district will moet in convention at Beatrice next Wednesday to nominate a successor to Judge Weaver. It is within their power to make a choice that will be ratified by the people. If the success of the republican party is nearer to their hearts than any attachment or personal preference they will choose with their heads and not with their hearts. That this is a very close district was shown by the last congressional election. Out of 93,421 votes cast, Congressman Weaver received only 17,022, The only effort made in this district against Weaver two years ago was a per- sonal canvass by John I. Redick, who was not very popular and had no idea of success, Had the opposition been united on a popular candidate there is no doubt that Mr. Weaver would lave been de- feated. Judge Weaver is notas strong to-day as he was two years ago. Wis congressional career is comparatively a blank, and while ho may have lacked opportunity to distinguish himself or meet the expectation of his constituents, the fact remains that his renomination would invite disaster to the party, No element or nationality in the district antagonizing him two years ago would support him now, and wo know whereof we speak when we say that out of the 3,000 working men who will cast thelr votes in Omaha this fall he will not get ten per cent, There is a disposition among the party leaders, who haveaspirations forcongressional honors to concede a second term to Mr, Wesver, on account of established|precedent, and if there was a fair prospect of his eloction, this would be eminently proper, but we do not consider it necessary for the sake of precedent to jeopardize success in the campaign, 1t Is our sinoere desire to support and elect a republican to congress from the first district, and with this view only we would urge the convention to place in nomination a man whose election, if nom- inated, is a foregone conclusion. That man is General John C, Cowin, We know from his lips that he is not a candidate in any sense of the term. He has absolutely refused to allow his friends to use his name in this canvas, But we have faith enough in his patriot- ism and loyalty to the party to believe that he will not refuse to lead the party to victory this fall, if asked to do so by the republicans of this district, With General Cowin as the nominee of the party, the republicans of all factions can fall into line and make an earnest and succeasful fight; and Tue Bre not only pledges its own support but can safety pledge from 3,000 to 5,000 majorityin the district, With Judge Weaver as the nominee, the party will enter the cam- afford to support him unless the opposi- sition puts up an objectionable man. Cowmwissioner Groree B, Lonisa, of the land office, has appointed J. H. San- ders, of Chieago, editor of the Breeders' (tazette, John H, Payne of Kansas City, and I, M, Taylor of Texas, commissioners to carry out the provisions of the “‘animal industry bill,” passed by congress. Tho appointment of a Texas man on the commission has caused much Houston, adverse comment among the stockmen of the west. In fact, the composition of the commission is distasteful to the ators and principal supporters the law. The middlemen Chicago and the Texas cattlemen members of congress opposed the meas- ure, yet the men who are to carry into effect the provisions of the law have been chosen from both elements, Wyoming and Colorado stockmen are particularly indignant and will send a vigorous pro- teat against Mr. Taylor to Secretary Teller. The duties of the commissioner aropuroly clerical. Hohas simply togather statistics and information concerning the number of cattle bred and fed for the market, and the breed most in use; the extent of territory devoted to pasturago; the number of cattle devoted to the dai- ry; the most acceptable dairy breeds; tho annual increase of cattle; the annual consumption of cattlo; the breeds best adapted to beef production; the age at which they are sent to market; the meth . ods of sending them to the centres of trade, such as Chicago and St. Louis in the west; the cost per head of transport- origin- of of and ing them to those centres, and the cost of feeding until fit for beef; the condition of cat- tle on the farms and ranches at various seasons of the year, and the mode of sheltering and protecting them, and the percentage of loss in different localities from want of shelter; the present mode of transporting snd any improvement th&t can be suggested; the various dis- eases, contagious and otherwise, to which cattle are liable in the western and northwestern states and territories, and the annual loss from each of these dis- oases; the estimated value of the cattle trade; the number of Texas cattle driven to ranches and the market from that state, and the extent of disease created by them and the best methods of protec- tion, Tur attempt to blacken tho private character of James (i, Blaine, in retalia- tion for the exposure of Grover Clove- land’s indiscretions, falls flat and will have no weight in the campaign what- ever. The two-column scandal published by the Chicago Z%mes is a very thin pro- duction, not only in construction but in alleged “‘facts.” Itis the history of a scandal that is said to have occurred when Blaine was not yet twenty years old, and while he was teaching school in Kentucky. The publication of this scandal, whether true or false, is gener- ally condemned, and all decent demo- crats denounce it asan outrage. The Chicago Flerald, a prominent democrat- ic paper, says: “The attack which democratic organs are making upon Mr, Blalne's private character cannot be defended in any manner. Mr, Blaine is a married man, with a family of grown up children. In private life he has long had the admira- tion and esteem of thousands of people, without reference to their political incli- nations, His home has been a happy one, and hs domestic relations, so far as the public could judge, have always been singularly pleasant. No man has taken greator pleasure in his family, and people who have known him in the home circle bear testimony without exception to the confidence and contentment which prevail beneath his roof. The revival of old scandals of a social nature with which his name has been connected cannot injure him in the esti- mation of the public, butthey will cause much pain to those closely related to him whose feelings it will do no political partyany good to wound. It is a shamo that” after twenty years of public lifo a man whose domestic relations have been wholly ploasant should be confronted with idlo scandals circulated during his youth, and which, whether true or false, can have no possible bearing on his char- acter to-day,” —— Or courso the railroads are out of poli- tics, but Captain Phillips, of the B. & M., takes such a deep interest in the welfare of Nebraska that he telegraphed instructions to the railroad bosses in Saline county to fall into line and help Governor Dawes in the primaries, Oxe thing has heen proved in this campalgn, and that is that it is a wise son that knows his own father, The Prospect Clearing Up, St Paul Pioneer Press, The stars in their course fight for Blaine. Every week since his nomina. tion increases the probability of his elec- tion, A great many honest republicans, bersonal friends as well as factional ene- mies of the republican candidate, doub- ted the wisdom of his nominatlon, and trembled for republican success after the Chicago convention took the decisive step of making it. The nomination of Cleveland by the democrats, in obedience to the demand of the independent repub- licans opposed to Blaine, added to the republican uncertainties, while it intro- duced pew and unforeseen complications on the democratic side. For two or three weoks after the democratic conven. tion it was nul{nody'- race. The pros- poot was full of “chaotic uncertainties, 'he candidates on elther side had bitter and implacable opposition, and each was confronted with a bolting minority of uncertain numbers. Party lines were broken and party forces scattered on either side. In the drift and counter- drift of complex tendencies, any novel result was « possible, and the lirewdut observers contented themselves with vaguely Jooking for the unexpected, More recently this chaos is resolving it- solf with unforeseen colerity and the nobulous uncertaintios are crystalliz- ing into definite and intelligible probabil- ities. Timo, the effective solvent of wost puzzles, has been at work upon this, and the moderately keen-sighted obseryer may paign ageinst odds, and the Bre cannot already read the answer. Blain lec- tion kas grown mere definitely probable | from day to day., The events of the last week raise the probability to the level of & moral certainty, The uncertainties of the canvasa are all solving themselves in his favor. The independent bolt, sincere in motive, respectable in the character of its partizans, and energetic if not skillful in action, proves itself more and more in- significant in numbers, and impotent in effective capacity as the campaign goes on. The independent movement nover was able to rally against Blaine more than a rospectable minority of the people who opposed both him and Arthur befors the convention, The majority of the Ed- munds men in the convention, including all the younger, active, working mem- bers, like Roosevelt and Cabot Lodge, after a brief season of excusable sulks, have come out distinctly, if not fervontly, for the repub. lican candidate, The republican bolters have gradually been reduced to the doc- trinairei of the Curtis and Shurtz school, reinforced by a group of New Kugland college professors—very worthy gentle- men, but not skillful in the organization of political effort nor potent in the com- mand of votes, We do not hear of the Independent organization and canvass, which was to have been made after the nomination of Uleveland in New York and New England. It has been para- lyzed by the dofection of the really ef- foctive workers in the independent ranks, or abandoned in the faceof un- mistakable tendencies on the democratic side which made it an useless mockery. At the worst the Independent defection cannot do more than offset a fraction of the Tammany defection from Cleveland in New York or the Butler defection in Massachusetta On the other hand, the democratic difliculties increase as the republican diminish. The Tammany bolt is of a very different character from that led by George William Curtis. It is organized, practical, efficient. 1t knows definitely what it wants, and has the moat complete command of its means. The 45,000 votes which Kelly threw into the scale against Robinson four years ago are as fully at his disposal now as then, and the latest developments leave no doubt of his dis- position to use them against Cleveland. Butler's definitely announced purpose to be a candidate, after his consultation with Kelly in New York, insures Massachu- setts to Blaine, in spite of the Harvard rofessors and the Beacon strect bolters. hese epecific influences would secure to the republicans the two great states threatened by the independent defec- tion without the larger, though less pal- pable influences which are at work for the republicans and against the dem- ocrats over the country. There are three of these, each of which is worth thousands of votes to Blaine and Logan, though all are more sentimental than rational. There is no -longer any room for doubt that Blaine is going to get a very large Irish-American vote. Thisis one of tho curiosities of the canvas, Just why an_Irish-American should suppose the clection of Blaine will improve the condition of his countrymen in the United States or Great Britain is a mys- tery, but it is a substantial fact, which will tell tremendously when the votes are counted. It is equally true, thouch scarcely #o inexplicable, that the organ- ized labor interest of the country is hos- tile to Cleveland, and gwill divert thous- ands of votes from the fdemocrats in the large cities. Somo of his wisest and mostfjudicious acts as governor rise in judgment against him hefore the ignorant rabble, who blindly follow the demagogues of the political labor societies, while the really mischiev- ous steps he took in obedience to the democrstic mackine which elevated him to the executive and nominated him to the presidency are lost sight of except by a fow of the more enlightened and far- seeing independents. Finally, the mud thrown at his private character, mainly, Stock-Watering Statistics, Chicago Tril The figures of Poer’s Railroad Manual with regard to the extent to which ficti- tious stock has been issued by the railrond companies of this country, are sharply eriticised by the Railway Age of this city. The main fault charged against the figures of the manual is, that Mr. Poor has en- tirely ignored the fact that large additions of cabital stock have been mado by lead- ing railway companies to provide for im provements, increased equipment, and the like, and represents property actually in existence. The Pennsylvania compa- ny for instance, within three yea added soma £30,000,000 to itsc al stock with a very small addition to mile- age. The Chicago & Northwestern re- cently issued some $12,000,000 ot new stock with which to purchase other roads, and many similar cases could be cited. This now capital, in the opinion of the Railway Age,stands for tangible preperty and in no sense can be called ‘‘water.” It thinks it was an egregiousand palpable mistake on the part of the editor of Poor’s Manual to charge the entire increase of capital stock and debt to a new mileage, and guessing at the cost of the road to agsume that the difference betweon the amount of the ‘‘chromos” and the cost 80 guessed at, is “‘water.” From the statistical point of view this is fair criticism. The editor of Poor’s Manual has not made the allowance that should have been made for the stock properly issued on account of the im- provements, puschases of new lines, and similar investments. So far as such stock _has been legitimately put out it should not be added to the amount of stock to be charged up against new mile- age, nor to bo used to exaggerate the sufliciently swollen amount or *‘water” in railroad securities. But after all the millions have been conceded to the Rail- way Age for the correction on which it insists, the essential facts remain un- changed. Poor may be wrong as to the exact number of millions of dollars of fic- titious atock, and that error is a serious thing for his reputation as a statistician, but he Is right as to the real point cov- ered by his figures. As a general propo- sition, the railroads of this country have not cost more than their mortgaged bonds, and many of them not so much as that. The rest of the paper issued against them is ‘‘water,” or ‘'sugar,” ine, has or “‘chromos,” or ‘‘bonus,” or whatever you choose to call it. Who can show a reeeipt for a dollar paid for Union Pacific stock when issued, or for Erie, or for Denver, or for Louis- ville & Nashville stock, or for Wabash, or for the New York elevated roads,or for Central Pacific, or for the original Northwestern or St. Paul stock, or for that of the coal roads? Who can point to a single railroad in the United States whose stock represents money actually paid in, unless it be the 1 Ohio? If there is any such an ex- ception. If there are instances of full- paid stock in Massachusetts and one or two other states in which the law has been changed so as to probibit the issue of stock unless paid for in full, they only prove the rule, for there, in order to evade this law, the stock is paid for and the bonds are given as a bonus, To such a rediculous extent do Ameri- can railroad financiers carry their pas- sion for issueing stock without paying for it that many of them when they buy new cars or locomotives, or build new depots or bridges, think they must print and market in Wall street some new stock. What would we think of a man who, whenever he puta patch on his old boots or threw away a ragged pair of trousers for new ones, added the cost to his capital acconnt? But that is the method in which the stock of wany of our American roads is swelled. A large part of the ‘“‘improvements on which the Railway Age lays such stress for the credit of republicans, by demo- cratic opponents, has certainly smirched him in the eyes of many voters, who would not have been influenced by the other considerations. All things consid- ered, Blaine has more than a reasonable probability of success in every state which has been considered doubtful, ex- cept Indiana, of which little has been heard since the democratic convention, He should have a fighting chance there, too, though there is a tradition that Hendricks cannot bg beaten in his own state. In tho light of the present outlook, it is impossible to look for democratic success anywhere in the north, except possibly in Indiana and New Jersey, and it is impossible not to anticipate Blaine’s election by a larger majority than Garfield’s. Itisin the air, as Halstead said of his nomination, Blaine may not be the most acceptable candidate to thoughtful voters, nor likely to make an ideal chief executive of the nation,but he is the distinct choice of a majority ot the people of the country, as he was the choice of a majority of the Chicago con- vention, He is going to be the next president of the United States. Tho sooner people who don’t like him learn to accept this inevitable fact, the less disap- polntment there will be after election. e ——— Brains or Beef, Toledo Blade, So far as the two most prominent can- didates for the presidency are concerned the question is apparently one of brains or beef, Senator Vorhees of Indiana recently said regarding Cleveland that *'it is rather providential that we have nominated a young, vigorous man weigh- ing 260 pounds, with a neck as big as my thigh and a head like a bull.” Mr, Vor- hees went on to explain this startling statement by saying, ‘‘In case he is olocted he will be able to stand up against the horde of office-seckers and live. The pressure would have kllled Hendricks or Thurman in ninety days; and, as for Tilden, he would have been snutfed out instantly,” Mr. Vorhees says nothing about the mental qualifications of his candidate. Probably no speclal ones are needed. The ability to stand the strain ot distrib- uting offices is all that is required, Statesmanship is superfluous; national policy is nothing; all questions of princi- plo aro relegated to the background to consider plans for a rapid distribution of the spoils. Nothing could better show the diffor- ence between the two partles, The re- publicans have put in nomination one of the greatest statesmen that Amerioa has over produced—a *‘man of %," famil- iar v{hh weighty mattors of state, with quesitons of national policy and Interna- tional law; a man known and respected, not only in our own wide land, but in every foreign country with which we have dealings; in short, the foremost states- man of his time, He is emphatically ‘“‘brainy” man. Heisa gentleman of commanding presence and fine physique, but there is nothing about him that sug- 0sts a horned quadruped, His neck and ead do not recall those of a bull, Strength of intellect is stamped on every feature, but there is nothing to suggest Taurus. Mr, Blaine is mental, not ani- mal, in temperament and appearance. He will make his mark for braius, nct becf, aa president, as legitimate objects for the issue of new stock are such as putting on new cars to replace worn out ones, or steel rails to replace iron rails. These expenses should be met out of current earnings, and not out of the proceeds of new stock. Any one who thinks this method of financiering unobjectionable may find the lateu&illustmtion of the way it works in the pfojected issue of bonds by the Now York Central to_the amount of ten or fifteen millions of dollars. The New York Central has been straining itself to pay the dividends on its watered stock, and letting its tracks and equipment run down info an almost dangerons condi- tion. Now, to obtain the money for the improvements which will make it safe for the public to travel on the road, it finds it necessary to burden the prop- erty with an additional charge of the in- torest on this amount of bonds. One improper issue of chromon thus leads to another, and the larger the amount of the fictitious capitai thus created the more agonizod are the efforts of the own- ers of the roads by pool conspiracies and other means to keep up extortionate rates on travel and traflic to enable them to pay interst and dividends. Bt The Problem of the Age, Salt Lake Tribune, In the wrankling of parties and in the changing conditions of the world, one fact is beceming more and more pro- nounced, and that is that it is every year growing more difficult for the poor man to make bread for himself and those de- pendfng upon him, It is so in our more & | g cities, and no outlet is provided for them, property in the cities will not be worth owning. And the several states should not hesitate any longer to pass compulso- ry education bills, and to enforce them. And the echools should be enlarged so that they would hold a closor connec tion with the hand to hand struggle which the poor have with want. For thirty years, yes, for a much longer time it haa been a fashion with a certain class to 10 that work in a profession is more honorable n work at an anvil or behind a plow. The first of duties is to impress upon the young, that labor is honorable just in_proportion as brain is mixed withit, The man that shovels dirt is entitled to only alittle more credit than the mule that hauls the dirt away. In increased atrength the mule makes up more than the difference in the superior mental organization of the man. But when a man invents a machine which digs as much dirt as twonty men could with spades, then the wmajesty of man is multiplied twenty When again & man 80 trains his eyes and his hands that out of an almost worthless rough material he can produce a gem of art which the world will covet; then he leaves machinery be- hind and reaches a point where his com- petitors can only be with brains as sub- tlo as his own. How to lift the great surging masses of the people upon this plane, is the coming question; the ques- tion for the statesmen, the teachers, the thoughtful man in every walk of lifo, Peter Cooper struggled with it, Cornell struggled with it; it is a something for which higher rewards should be offered than were over given for any discovery in science. Unless it shall be discovered, in less than a contury moro civilization will be denounced as a failure. as a mere device to load intolerable burdens upon the backs of _the poor. of fold. gn Promised, A Picturesque Ca New York Sun, General Butler will run. Ho will stand by the nomination of the greenbackers and the anti-monopolists as his formal introduction to the people at large, and address to himself on the subject of as lively, picturesque and interesting a can- vags as ever was seen in these parts. He writes that he is only waiting until he shall have seen Governor Cleveland’s let- ter of acceptance to declare his own senti- ments. This he will do with a degree of animation and piquancy that will in- terest everybody, for he is a most viger- ons statesman, full of brains and ideas, and a master hand in contemporary poli- tice, and a dealer in issues of the most vital description. No empty sentimen- talities for him, but the solidist and most practical facts that concern a people. — “Let the Butler Brigade March,” d Republican. What will be the result of his [Butlar's] expedition in search of revenge and profit by way of an underground_al- liance with the republicans! We shail sce. Thisisa year when parties are shifting, and the onemies of political organizations are they of their own households, The band will play and the THE MERCHANT! National Bank OF ODXAXEIA. - $1,000,0060 - 77'100,000 Authorized Cn{)itul, j 70,000 Paid-up Capital Surplus Fund, = =« - BANKING OFFIOE | N.W. Cor, Farnam ana 12th Sto FFICFRS) FrAXK Muresy, Prosidons, | SAWLE. 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WLt Hamruron, noisy brass be lifted up, but will the spectators gether only o tip over Butler’s cart as they did in front of the Palmer houso at Chicago? At all events, Blaine is happy. So is Chandler. Lot the Butler brigade march. ——e— The Voice of the People, The people, as a whole, seldom make mistakes, and the unanimous voice in praise which comes from those who have used Hood’s Sarsaparilla fully justified the claims of the proprietors of this great medicine. Indeed, these very claims aro based entirely on what the people say Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done. Send to C. L. Hood & Co., Lowell,Mass., for book containing statements of many cures. ——— STATE JOTTINGS, The burnt district of Ogalalla is being ro- built. The Nebraska State Sundayschool Assem- bly will hold its second annual session at Crte, August 18th to 26th. The firat crop on the Otoe reservation lands is said to be immense. Wheat will average 20 bushels to the acre and corn will ¢o 75. "Tho voters of Cheyenne county will decido at the next election whether or not tl shall issue bonds to the amount of build a court house. The counties of Fillmore, Clay, Thaycr and Saline, peerless quartetté, have united and propose to hold a_district fair at Fairmont, Oct. 7 to 10, About $2,000 have already been subscribed to make it a success, The Oxford Rogister is opposed to Judge Gaslin being promoted to congross on the ground, that his services on the boneh have been of incaleulablo benefit to the peoplo in stamping out crime of all kinds, and ho should bo ratainad thero, causes much interest in the neighborhood, Alleged oil_experts assert that tho strike is genuine and the article of excellent quality. Specimens of the oil have been sent east for examination, A stunning drummer from Chi struck Hastings one day lust week, but his stay was costly, and the orders he reccived will never be filled by the firm he represented. His name is L. R. Lillis, With his vest pocket filled with perfumed pasteboards and_an im- maculate necktie under his chin, he sallicd out to make a mash. M respectable young lady ho swiled an int ion, handed her Lis card, and inyited her to call at his room in the Lepin house, _The young lady’s father next appearcd upon the scene with & constable and a warrant, Lillis apologized in the most abject mann , but ho was hustled to court Tho obdurate father country and in every other civilized country of the earth. The workingmen of the United States have doubled in numbers during the past twenuy-five years, when the truth is that no more men are actually needed than were need- ed then, The reason is that labor-saving machines have made it possible for 1,000 men to do as much work now as 2,000 could perform & generation ago. Of course & vent for all the sur- lus labor has so far been found in Euildlng railroads, opening new mines, and culti: g new acres, but there isto be a limit somewhere. By and by the pressure will begin to be felt, and in such a way that society will totter upon its base, unless a way can be pointed out of the difficulty, No states- manship has reached up to the point of suggesting a remedy as yet. The prob- lem is onewhich the finest brain recoils before, because it 18 evident at a glance that the occupations which the mere ignorant toiler can fill are limited, while encroaching upon these, in almost every department appears a machine of iron which when set in motion can with me- chanical exactness, perform the work of from one toa thousand men. What is the ordinary man golng to do in compe- tition with these tremendous working forces! As for our nation, it should as- ss itself to drive new roads through Mexico and Central America and down both flanks of the Andes; and organizing emigration societies try to se- cure to every poor man a patch of land which will mlLe him a home while yet there is time, We do not mean that the government should do this, but that in self-protection the men of means should do it, for so sure as the world, if ever the swelling tides of pauper-poor in their cromded Lives, bigin L0 swwii in our and fined $25 and c insisted on further ame to beg the young lady’s but before he could gro man of pugilistic tendencies appeared and pro- posed to tan the hide of the commercial scalas wag, The police sravanmll this, and furnished him a body-guard until he could pack his grip and skip on the first train, The toul-mouthed rascal escaped with a whole hide and will give Hastings the go by in the future, PILLS TORPID BOWELS,. | DISORDERELD LIVER: RIA From tlicse sources arise threo-foirths of the discases of the human rac 50 Lin the dust a you te, stive, Teads fullness after eating, aversion to n of body or mind, Eructation of food, Lrritability of tempers Low having neglected 3 uttering at the (1 ored Urine, €O mand the use of a on PI Kidney all {npur engers of tite, sonnd digestion, refu skin and & vigorous body. / i Cause no nausch OF gHiDINg Nor interfers with dally work and are a cot ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA, e e e Lt Boldeverywhere, 230, Offico, 41 Murray Y TUTT'S HAIR DY GrAY Mk or WHISKERS chin LA stautly plicatlon of 1 o sent by express on re s o, 44 Mireny Sire Y m . Ifl""l MANUAL UF USEFUL HEGEIPTS 7. The reported oil strike in Holt county M Accounts sollcltes and kept oub Joct to sight check. Certificatos of Doposlt Issued pav ablein 3 6 and {2months, bearing interest, or on demand without Inv terest. Advances made to tustomers on approved socuritles at markot rate of Interest. The Interests of Customers are c'osely guarded and every facllity compatible with principles of sound banking froely extended. Draw sight drafts on England,ire. land, Scotland, and all parts of Eu« vope. 8e1l European Passa e Tickets, COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE, United States Depository Firs! Hational Bauk Cor. 18th and Farnam Sis. The Oldest Banking Establishment m Omoha, SUOCRISORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHEES, Orgaaized in 1868, Organized az a National Bank in OAPITAY: « : = . = . =« $200,000 SURPLUS AND PROFITS . gififl.flfl{’ OFFICRRS DIRICTORY. Hxayan Kovxrax, President. JomN A. CaméTos, Vico Prectdent. & eystus Koustan, 2d Vico Prosident, 473 vomuror, ". H. DAvis, Cnsha W L Maoquras, Assistant Cashlor, 1 ek Transacts & genoral banking businces. Iseu réificatos bearing Interest. ~ Draw d aaclaco aud princlpal clties I ho Unlyeq o Lond on, Dublin, Edinburgh and th, ¥t this continentand ¢ . » 2Pt OMAHA SAVINGS BANK ! Cor. 13th and Douglas Sts. Japital Stock, - - - 8150,000 Liability of Stockholders, 300,000 Fuve Per Cont Interest Paid on Depesits LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTAIE Officors & Dirvectors ..Pro uy (HARLES RIEWE, UNDERTAKER, AND DEALER IN Moteli Cases. Coffns, Casket, Shronds, 1000 Farnam St,, - OMAHA, NEB Telographio orders promptly attended to. Telophone No. 8211 H, K, BURKET FUNERA.. DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER 111 North 16h Street Umana McOARTHY & BURKE, UNDERTAKERSI 218 14TH STREET, BET. FARNAM AND DOUGLAS DREXEL & MAUL, (SUCCESSORS 10 JOHN G. JACOBS) UNDERTAKERS | & the old stand 1417 karnam etreet. 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