Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1884, Page 4

e c— [ OMAT THE OMAHA BEE Omaha Office, No. 916 Farnam 8t Ceuncil|Blufs Office, No 7 Pearl St, Btrect, Near Broadway, New York[jOfice, Room 65 Tribune Building. v Pablished overs morning, exoopt Bundagt only Monday mornlog daily. © s Y MATL 10,00 | Throe Month, 5,00 | One Month Week, 25 Conts. IR WRNKLY RER, PUBLISIND NVARY, WRDNRADAT. The One_Year Bix Monens. . TRRMS POSTPAID, Three Months, (] Uine Voar, Bix Montha. . Amorioan News Company, Solo Agonte, Newsdeal o1 In the United States. CORRRSPONDRNOR, A Oommunioations relating to News and Editorial mattors should be addressed o0 the Korron or Tim BURINRAS LATTRRA, All Business Lottors ‘and Rowmlttances should bo $ddromed to Tin Bin PURLARITKG OONPANY, QUATA Dratts, Chooks and Postoffice orders to be lo pay- bl £ the order of the company. PIE BEE PUBLISHING [0, PROPY' E. ROSEWATE,R Editor. A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, P. 0. Box, 488 Omaba, Neb, Tuar “man of straw” should be laid on the shelf. I the case of Dawes precedent would be better in the breach than in the ob- servance. ~ CIVIL SERVICE IN NEW YORK, The legislature of New York at its last sossion passed a law conferring upon the mayors of cities the power to establish civil service examinations for applicants for positions in city employment, and Mayor Edison, of New York, has just promulgated his rules and regulations governing the civilservice of that city, to take effect on August 20th, They apply to all positions in the service of the city, except officers elected by the people and thelr subordinates for whose errors or violations of duty they are fin- ancially responsible. The ser- vico is divided into seven classes. Schedule A includes all deputies of of- ficers and commissioners duly authorized to act for their principals and all pers necessarily occupying & strictly con dential position; schedule B, all clerks, copyists, recorders, hookkeepers, and others rendering clerical services; sched- ule C, all policemen, both municipal and park, and the uniformed force in the fire department; schedule D, all persons whoso dutios require special expert knowledge not included in schedule E; schedule E, all physicians, chemists, nurses, orderlies and attendants in the city hospitals and asylums; schedule F, all persons not included in the foregoing Tux still small voice of little Sarpy may yet chant the funeral dirge of that man of straw. Do TaE republicans of Nebraska pro- pose to nominate for governor an Indian- in-front-of-a-tobacco-store? I7 will be a difficult thing to heave a brick into the republican state conven- tion without hitting a candidate for land commissioner. Nepraska should have a governor who knows enough to know that an appralse- ment of school land at twenty-fiva cents an acre is a barefaced swindle. G1vE us a lieutenant-governor who can preside over the senate with dignity and does not propose to act as a mere stool pigeon for corporations and jobbers. FxANK Janmes has at last started out to make an honest living. He is advertised as the chief attraction at the Moberly, Missouri, fair,and the people are assured that he will exhibit his celebrated horses and “attend them the same as any other gentleman.” Col. James will probably attend all the fairs in Missouri and will prove a drawing card. He is certainly one of the most noted products of Mis. souri. A rLEET of 33 steam vessels owned by the China navigation company, and do- ing business on the Chinese coast and rivers, has been sold to a New York firm of China merchants, This has been done to prevent interruption in the large trade, which the fleet is engaged in, by the impending war betwoeen France and China. Under che transfer the vesse!s have been given the protection of the Amercian flag. We shouldnot be surprised to see this salefollowed by numercus other similar transfors, and while the war lasts tho Stars and Stripes will float protty numerously in Chinese waters, and play schedules, except laborors and day work- men; schedule G, all persons employed a8 laborers and day workmen. The applicants are to bo examined as totheirqualifications character and physica condition, and the examinations, if car- ried out according to programme, will ro- sult in placing upon the *“‘eligible list” the naes of competent and honest persons for the various positions, which will be assigned upon the merits of the appli- cants alone. When employes ae needed in any department application must be made by the head of that department to the secrotary of the advisory board, who shall cortify back to such head of the de- partment the names of the three persons® having the highest general standing in the class where the vacancy exists, hon- orably discharged soldiers and sailors having the preferonce. “The appointing officer shall select one of the three per- sons and notify the secretary of the hoard of the appointment. ~ The whole plan seems to be fair and practical, and is a big step in the direction of civil ser- vice reform. The system it a direct blow at favoritism and corruption, and an in- centive to honesty, indevendenco and fidelity. The appointments are to be compotitive and non-partisan, and the main object of the system is to give the people an honest equivalent for their money. Furthermore it leaves the ap- pointees free to exercise their political rights without undue influence on the part of their superiors or ward politicians. If all this can be accomplished, the citizens of New York are cortainly to bo congratulated, for a revolution for the better will surely be the resultin muni- cipal affairs, The example set by New York is worthy of imitation by other states and cities, and no doubt will in due time be followed by all cities desir- ing to have inits employ honest and capable men. FRANCE AND CHINA. The French, in their war upon China, aro cortainly proceeding in a high-handed an important part as a protector of Chi- nese commerce, Tue New York Zribunc estimates that the probable vote for the presidency in November next will be very close to 10,- 600,000. The vote in 1880, using round figures, was 9,220,000 in a total popula- tion of 49,371,000, and in a male popula- tion of the voting age reported at round- 1y 12,571,000 for the thirty-eight states. ‘The population of the states will be in November next above 56,000,000, in the eight territories and the District of Col- umbia very nearly 1,000,000, making for thh whole country a grand total of 57,- 000. Now, if a population of 49,371,000 in the states includes a voting population of 12,671,000, a population ef 50,000,000 contains a voting population of nearly 14,280,000, or that number of men pos- alng the legal age for voting, —— Tar location of the new Iowa insane asylum at Clarinda has stirred up consid- erable ill feeling among other towns that were striving to secure that institution. The city of Atlantic, particularly, had great hopes of obtaining the prize, and her citizens are making a strong effort to re-open the question of the location. Red Oak, also, had high hopes in the matter, and her citizens also are anxiovs to have the location reconsidered, Dele- gations from these towns recently went to Des Moines to make a formal protest, but they failed to secure an audience with Governor Sherman, who purposely gave them the slip, and kept out of the way, They finally returned home with- out a hearing and very much disappoint- ed, as well as surprised at the treatment they had received at the hands of the governor, Hon, Lafayette Young, of Atlantic, had intended at this conference w0 lay before the governor what he claims;is positive and documentary evi- dence that members of the locating com- mission had made efforts to secure bribes for the location of the asylum, Senator Young says that the offer was made to him personally to take $5,000 and secure the asylum for Atlantic. He assorts that he is able to trace back the antecedents of the party who made the ofer to one or more of the commissioners, Mr, Young makes a serious charge and it certainly shou'd be thor- oughly investigated, Why the Governor ovaded the proposed conference is a wystery to the citizens of Atlantic, Red Oak and other interested towns, It is not likely, however, that they will suc- :ud in reopening the location of the asy- uw, manner. 1t would seem that the dashing Frenchmen consider the Chinese as a horde of barbarians, to be plucked and plundered at will, and that they think that they have found a conntry rich in spoils to bo acquired by an easy war of conquest, which can bo waged without any regard to justice or fear of interven- tion on the part of other nations. France, however, will soon discover that she has made a serious mistake in not submitting her claims to arbitration. In the first place the Chinese are far from being barbarians, and in the second place the commorce of China is too extensive and valuable to other na- tions to be interfered with or destroyed by the Fronch, There is not a civilized nation that is not interested in preserving the trade und commerce of China. It is not likely that England, whose interests in China are more extensive than that of any other country, will stand idly by and see Franco by a destructive warfare upon Chinese ports ruthlessly enforce the pay- ment of an exorbitant demand for inju- ries that are more imaginary than real. It would not surprise us in the least to seo England take & bold stand at an eaaly day, and declare that the French must cease their warfare and submit to arbitration, or suf- for the consequences. Should France not heed the voice of England, we may look for an English-French war of no small dimensions both on land and water, The situation is being seriously discussed by London merchants, who no doubt will urge immediate action on the part of the British government. How Franco can bombard two Chinese ports and cap- ture a whole fleet, and still main- tiin that this does not create a state of war, but Is simpiy a means of furthering the French negotiations with China, is something that puzzles the most astute statesmen of other countries, It is semi- officially stated from Paris that inasmuch as France has not formally declared war, neutral vessels going to China are not subjoect to the restrictions which would be imposed in a state of mctusl war, It would seem then that France intends to g0 on bombarding port after port, with- out declaring war, T course, how- ever, will not be tolerated by other nations, and France will soon have to declare her intentions in plain and un- mistakable terms, as it rumored now that China herself, becoming indignant at the treatment of the Krench, has declared war and proposes to repel the invaders, GeNeral THAYER is not begging for the governorship, but during the war and since the war he has done enough for Nebraska to entitle him to the highest position within her ift. 1« RAVERESPONSIBILITY, The republican state convention which is about to convene In this city to for the various state offices has & grave responsibility to dis- charge. For seventeen years the peo- ple of Nebraska have confided the man agement of their state affairs to the groat nom- inate candidates party which saved the union and made the United States a republic in fact as well as in name. It was but natural that an uninterrupted continuance in power for such a long period would tend to a slackness in ad- ministration that connives with or winks at glaring abuses. The corrupting and harassing interfor- ence in our political affairs by the rail- ronds, whose aim seems to have been to degrade Nebraska to a mere province ruled over by Wall street speculators, has seriously gimpaired the strength of the republican party and imperilled its success, Two years ago 16,000 votes, five-sixths of which were republican, were cast in opposition to the party can- didates, some of whom wers defeated while others were elected by a bare plurality. The problem now confronts the republican convention whether it is prudent or safe to nomi- nato any man on the state ticket whoso candidacy would place the party on the dofensive. The procedent has been to give state officers a second term as an en- dorsement of their conduct. Can the ropublicans of Nebraska afford to go into the campaign as endorsers of any candi- date whose conduct has been open to grave consure, either on ac- count of incompetency and imbecility or collusion with dishonest subordinates and rings? It has been our desiro to oo a ticket nominated by the convention which every republican could conscientiously support. To prevent blunders and disasters the Bex has spoken fearlossly and without reserve concerning (Giovernor Dawes and other state officers 1n connection with the sohool land frauda and other questionablo transactions. 1t 1s for the conventiun to decide whether the party can recklessly ignore indofensible charges. Our duty has been done, and if the convention does its duty rogardloss of precedent or person:1 friendship, the party will march on to victory this fall. If the convention goes headlong into the acclamation business, its candidates will find themselves out in the cold after the election TaE STATE FALR, The state fair this year promises to be the best exposition that Nebraska has ever witnessed. The state has been blessed with the most abundant crops ever known in its history, and the farm- ers, consequently, aro feeling very jubi- lant. No state in the unionis in better circumstances than Nebraska,and there is o reason why the display of our agri- cultural products and live stock should not be something wonderful this year, if our farmers and stock raisers make proper effort, and we have no reason to doubt that they will do their duty. The citi- zens of Omaha, however, should not neglect to contribute to the variety of the exposition, so that it will be made doubly attractive tn the visitors. Last year many, of our merchants neglected to make displays of their wares, and con- sequently this feature of the fair was somewhat deficient in its attractions, It is hoped that the merchants and manu- facturors will this year make exhiblts that will reflect credit upon themselves and the city, and elicit the admiration of everybody. While perhaps it may cost them a little money, it s nevertheless their duty to exert them- solves in this matter. The exponse will be a mere trifle compared to the benefits that they will reap from theexhib- ition. There will be more people in at- tendance at this fair than were ever presout at any two fairs held in Ne- braska, and we want everybody to bo well ploasod with Omaha and the efforts of her cltizens. During tho past year many thousands of new people have come into the state, and they will visit Omaha and the exposition for the first time. The newcomers no doubt will be surprisod at the attractive appearance of the city, its size, and the extent of its business. The older settlers of the state who attended last year's fair will bo equally surprised at the growth of Oma. ha and the public improvements that she has made in the last year. They will find many new and handsome buildings on the leading thoroughfares, and insteaa of unpaved streets they will see our entire business center paved with stone and as- phalt, there being over seven miles of pavement, In factthey will see ihe best part paved city for its size in the United States. They will see notable improve. ments either completed or in progress in every part of the city, and on every hand they will be confronted with a rush of business and evidences of prosperity and a go-a-headativeness that will convince them that Omaha is a growing and enter- rising city. The people of Nebraska will certainly have reason to feel proud of the metropolis of the state and they will rejoice in her prosperity, as her growth is indicative of the growth of the whole state with which she is keeping pace. Nowmvats an attorney-general who will recover the school lands fraudulently leased by the land sharks. WESTERN NEWS, DAKOTA, New discoveries of tin ore have been mad fu the Black Hills, o Caruey is getting up a coal company with & ital stock of §25,000, « The Missouri 1s washing rapidly, opposits Pierre, having eaten into the banks 300 feet in a fow weoke, The new directory of Fargo contains Iation of 11, The corn is ripening very ‘fast in Hanson | county, and the crop will be the largest in the history of the courity, The corn erop of Morton county this year promises to be an astonishing one. It will outrank that of any cannty in North Dakota It will average from fifty to sixty bushels per acre ad han made a reduction in which, on wheat alone, 000 this fall to the counties of Forks, Nelson, Ramsay, Walsh and Pembina, Plankinton will go into winter quarters with a pretty good record having built up to date a 15,000 flouring mill, 215,000 court house, & .000 ail, & Congregational church, a Meth- st church, & flax mill and many residences and business buildings, A cave has been discovered about twenty miles from Stanton, Mercer county, in which was found a hideous looking idol carved out of cedar, four skeletons, copper spear heads, a awsmall cutlass, implements of copper, and a stonn mill for grinding, such as were used in ancient Egypt and parts of Asia, What is termed the “bad lands” of Dakota wost of the Missouri river, is turning out to be an Eldorado for stock raising, There is now 40,000 head of stock in that country val ved at a million dollars, Tho country fur nishes ample sheltsr, and not above two per cont of the stock has been lost from all causes. Hughes county has quite a_number of in- dians who have proved up on land under the homestead Iaw and some of them hav fairly cultivated farme, bota majonity profer the lazy, vagabond ' life they have been ac customed to, and refuse to till the soil wi the excoption of a small corn and “‘truck” patch, It was expected that the total valuation of Dakota would reach nearly $100,000,000 this year. Tt will be somsthing over 250,000 000, All but three or four counties have reported to the auditor and the figures are now 0. Property throughout the territory was asecssed upon a much lower valuation this year than last. 1t it had been the same the tigures would have heen considerably over 100,000 000. The astonishirg development of Dakota as shown Dy these tiguras: In 1882 the total valuation was but $47,101,479, and in 1883, 869, It has nearly doubled in wealth in twe WYOMING, teports are circulating that the Northern Pacific will buil pranch down into the ter- ritory, . Aslick burglar raided the store of Valen- tine Baker in Cheyenne and made away with 0 in cash. /. Baxter, a prominent stock. or, has purchased 3,000 acres of lan from the Un Pacific. The land is quite close to Cheyen: A religious crank who sailed under the name of “Brother Henricus,” and hored the people of the territory with lectures, turns outto be a harmless fanatic who e ed from a convent down east. He has been sent home, W The territorial fish commission have de- cided to locate the hatehing he r the pro pagation of tish. provided for by the last jeg islature, at the springs on the Fort Sanders wilitary reservation, near Laramie City, o pormit from the war department having been received to use the sprivgs for the purpose, COLORADG, The Denver exposition opens next Monday, Texas fever has appeared in Southern Colo- rado, A new National bank has been organized at Boulder, The ranchmen of North Fork are catting lurgo quantities of hay for winter fecding. The Presbyterian and Congregational churches of Boulder propose consolidating. T'he leader of a gang of cattle thieves was run down by Sheriff Sweeny at Fort Collins. A lato strike in the Gladiator wine is said to be the richest in Hillsdale county, The ore assays $4,161.40 to the ton, The ninth annual session of the Colorado grand lodgo of Knights of Pythias will convene at Leadville, September 16, Tourists to Cheyenne Canyon, one of the wonders of the state, ars now compelled to pay liberally for the pleasure, the owners of u‘(lgnmul land baving built fences and estab- lished toll-gates, Cattle owners of Chlorado appear to enter- tain no fear of the dreaded pleuro-pneumonia getting into the herds of the west for some yot, if atall, So far the disease appears to confine itself to Jerseys, a breod which is but little known in the west. It is creditably reportd that a band of about sixty Uncompahgre Utes is on the war- path i 1 Southwestern Colorado. The cattle- men down there are complaintng bitterly of the action of the agentsin allowing ths In- dians to leave their reservations, and even giving them passcs permitting them to do so, MONTANA, ary 1to August 1, 165 quartz locations were ‘made in_Silver Bow county. During the same period 172 locations were made in Deer Lodge county In Miles City, a few d. dian named Prairie Chicken attempted to es. cape from joil and was shot dead after a #evere struggle with the jailer and the sheriff, Gold has been discovered four miles cast of Missoula, e iy great excitement and the town is deserted, Claims are beiog rap idly located, Color is found everywhere for two miles around. From Ja s ago, a Crow In CALIFORNIA, Tho Central Pacific has disposed of all its lands. For fiftecn consecutive days in August the thermometer registerad 100 % in the shade at Cuico. Less than a mile and a quarter of rack now remaius to bo const ucted on the 1ol Kiver & I ilroad to reach Springville. A large amount of freight has accunulated in this valley awaiting shipient. Tho new peat beds uncovered near Comp. ton, Los A county, are proving a veri- teble hoowners, Under the croscope the peat pr mass fibor stuff, mi- ots the spectaclo of a i peat buras twico as as well as coal, can now bo madeYwith_toler A otal pack of the Colum- anneries for this season, 1t is e jevad 00 cases may bo safely considered correct, will be ho pack of the northern canneries Detween 70,000 and 100,000 cases, The citizens of Oaklund ure taking steps to build a boulevard around Lake Merrill, at an astimated cost of £186,000. The plan provides for a sidewalk next to the shore 15 feet wide, nextw roadway for carriages, etc., next o spoeding track 100 feat wide, then a lawn with troes, 35 fest wide; and on the extreme inner side a way for pedestrians, _ A lurgo oak tre threp miles from Itedding, Shasta cougty, was struck by lightening ro- cently and Ajtit into two parts, one side mwmfirnuml whil other remainc st #‘ A skeleton was found in the por- tion which remained standing, the skull . which was broken in several places, and thres bullet-holes were in the forehead The mys: tery in likely to rewain forever unsolved, The overland Jline from SanFrancisco to Portland will be in operation in the early part of next month, the hardest part of the stage route haviog beon traversed by rail leaving the gap which will remain betwe the end of the track running north and h comea south from Portland to Fusion Fossibilities, St, Paul Pioneer Press, It is evident enough, even at this dis- tance, that the cheering hopes indulged in by the Domocracy at the beginnivg of the campaign of carrying New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have beea largely dissipated, For every gain they have found "a loss to match, and their prospects at the east are now as unillu- [ginia aud other southern’ states, minated by hope as they wore at this season four years ago. ground or fancied security failing be neath them, they have turned to an Groat hopes are now entertained by the party of success through fusion with the greenbackers in Michigan, Wisconsin, Towa, and perhaps othor statos, and with] the anti-prohibitionists of Kansss, If they can invade these re- publican strongholds, they flatter themselves that the game may yet be not wholly lost. They have been largely aided in this project, and ver- haps partially forced to it, by the adv'ce of Butler to his followers. The plan he urges, of forming an ailiance in every state with the minority party, is one which weuld help the democratic party in the weat. Probably the geneal public is not advised as to the extent to which such fusion, if carried out to the full limit of uniting the votes of the several factions opposed to the republicans, would affect the final result. From the following tables, giving the laet presi- dential vote, and also that of the last of the last state election held since 1880, the situation may be perceived at & glance. MICHIGHN, 1850, 1882, 1888, Supreme President. Governor, Republican. . 185,341 1 Jemocrat. .. 181,597 Fusion. 15 not be particularly desirable for party managers to keep a keen eye upon the field with reference to the possibil- ities that the fusion plan has brought prominently to the front. Political Treatment, Svenska Wickobladet A few weeks ago Bro, Gardner in The Detroit Free Press said something like this to the members of the Lime Kiln club: The least time you equander on politics the hetter you are off, for it will be in the future as it has been in the past; you do the voting, and the white people hold the offices. Looking over the political history of this state, Bro. (iardner’s words can apply to tho condi. tion of the Scandinavian people versus the Americans and Germans in this com- monwealth, We have certainly done the voting—and we have done it all the time with the ropublican party—while the above named nationalities have held the offices. It has happened a fow times that the Scandinavians have brough¢ out men who they thought fit to represent the people in some official capacity, but with the exception of a few insignificant offices much as cors:able, justice of the peace and such like, we have always met with opposition in and by the conven- Scandinavian 13,050 [ tions. And while our cayacity to fill the WISOONSIN. place has not been questioned still our 1880. 1881, |desires have almost always been unheeded President. Governor. |and we have as a rule been left in the :1‘:\911)2 !{cold. Reasoning thus it is natural for us k... 7,980 Prohibition . GV i 10Wa, Republican. . Democrat Greenback . .. 1882: Lieutenant Governor, Gov 75,158 1882, President Republican Democrat ... 50,8 Greenback. ., 19,851 In Michigan, had fusion been com- plete at the date of the last election of president, the combined democratic and greenback vote would have fallen 20,000 short of that cast for General Garfield, Since that time, however, the people have hecome accustomed to the idea of such an alliance, and twice the fusionists have carried that state. Each time the majority was less than the vote given to the prohibitionist candidates. This year it is not likely either that the prohibi- tionists, only 942 of whom voted for their candidate in '80,will waste their atrength by supporting St. John, or that fusion as complete as in a mere state contest can ba attained. There is no probability whatever that the carrying out of the programme now adoted in Michigan will endanger republican succese. From Wisconsin there are uncertain re- ports. It is claimed that the prohibition- lats aro steadfast, the greonbackers in- crensing in number, and the German republicans inclined to disaffection. On the basis of the last state election, sup- posing the prohibitionists to hold their own, & democratic-greenback alliance would just about equal the republican vote. 'There still lingers in the minds of old politicians the memory of a fusion by which the state was swept ten years ago, and this is suggestive of possibilities not likely to turn into facts. With anything like the vote that was cast four years ago no efforts and no alliances could take the state from the republican column. 1t is instructive to note that the most positive signs of danger appear in the two states which once ~ontended for the honor of being called the ‘‘banner state” of the union, with regard to the size of the republican majority. In both the republican party has surrendered to the prohibition craze, and seems likely to pay for it by having to flght for a narrow victory. In Iowa, particularly, the whole body of German republicans has been driven from its ranks, together with a multitude of others who hold to the principles of personal liberty, and who are disgusted with the arrogant and tyr- ranical regime of the prohibition fanat- ics. Kansas, which gave Garfield over sixty thousand majority, electod a demo- cratic governor two years ago. That the defeat of St. John ‘was owing chiefly to personal unpopularity is shown by tho fact that a republican was elected lieu- tenant governor at the same time by over 26,000 majority. Nobody can tell how many votes St. John will hold here, be- cause the prohibitionists have not existed a3 a distinct party since the ropublicans consented to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. But, when his vote, certainly reaching the thousands, is subtracted from the republican tally, a combination of democrats and greenbackers would at least push the enemy hard. Had fusion prevailed in Towa in 1880, Garfield would still have received 45,000 more votes than the combined opposition. Two yoars latter a fusion party would have cast within 2,000 of as mauy votes as wero given for Governor Sherman. Dis- gust with prohibition gave the democrats four Congressmen, and we know not how much this defection may have gone since then, with the passage and enforce- ment of a prohibitory law ~ The Green backers are numerous and persistent. Taey hold their own remarkably well even in a presidential year, Fusion has now been accomplished, and a combina!, tion electorial ticket is to bo placed in the field. Absurd as it would have secmed a fow years ago, lowa is not safe, and the republicans haye nobody but themselves to thauk for it. From the obscuro region of Missouri come reports of another character. The prohibition vote has never been recorded, but the sentiment is strong and growing. Its advocates are there mostly democrats, and there is a scheme on foot for an alli- ance between them and the republicans, Union democrats and greenbackers will also unite with them, it is said, to defeat the ex-rebel general, Marmaduke, candi- date for governor, and possibly may sue- ceed. The same seasons, however, will not enter into the support given to the electoral tickets. At no time since 1880 would the combined republican and greenback votes have reached 000 of the adherents of democra- cy. From this survey of a portion of the ficld, an idea may be gained of the confusion and uncertainty which are in- troduced into all calculations by the schemes of fusion, apparently sbout to be generally adopted. Of course, infer- ences drawn from state elections lose most of their force if applied to estimates for a presidential year, when larger con- siderations are sure to prevail. Yet it will not do to ignore either the changes 35,- which four years may have wrought or those which are visibly taking place, as in lowa, Unfortunately, the r¢publicans have for- feited the advantage they might have had from the moral eflect of this general tendency to union between democrats and groenbackers, by themsolves consentin, Feeling this | with thousands «f honest to savction a similar policy in West \'uef The practical argument will tell against them money demo- rats whom fusion would otherwise have riven to vote the repul of the agricultura! order of the oil syndicate to stop the flowing of the principal wells in the country for the avowed purpose of rai protected an product, it not only raises the prices of everything he has to buy, but also dis- courages and lessens the consumption, and consequently, the price of everything he has to sell, of the possibill to think that the only ground tor our re pulsion is our nationality and our well known love and preference for the repub- lican party and its principles, It seems as if tho party leaders should think that it makes no difference how we treat the Scandinavians, their support we are sure of under all circemstances, and 8o it is more profitable for us to hold the oflices and let them continue perpetually to do the votlng. But why isit that the Germans havo not been treated politi- cally in the same way, especially when we take into consideration the fact that as republicans the Scandinavians are the strongest of the two? Why is it that county and state conventions respect- fully listen to and even inquire into the demands ¢f our German fellow citizens when it is well known that they support tho republican ticket in part only and even then to a great extent for while the Scandinavian votes the repub- lican ticket from choice and en masse! I it necessary for us to be lukewarm in our support of the republican ticket in order to bo recognized among our party friends, or is it their intention to test our political patience and endurance, and to see how far they can ignore us before we will bolt? We shall prefer to think at least for the present that the slight we have received has been unintentional, but we can assure the republican party leaders that there is such a thing even among the Scandinavians when patience ceases to be a virtue. With what we have said concerning our fellow citizens of German birth we will not be understood as we were in any wise opposed to their political recog- nition, be that far from us; we have always supported their candidates when regularly nominated in our conventions, and we will continue to do so, but we used them to make comparison in the party treatment between them and our own nationality. Neither will we be so understood as if we should demand any- thing from the republican party simply because we are Scandinavians. Our behavior in this our adopted country has made it clear to all observers that we stanp second to none among all tho foreign born nationalities in adopting American principles and in embracing all opportun- ities to be not only naturalized but also Americanized. All whai we ask are to be treated equally fair with all other clti- zens and to be placed on the same foot- ing with them politically, and if we are that, then we can stand politicul defeat as gracefully as any one. Before our next issue comes out the state convention is over, and canditates for the different state offices are nom- inated, and we ask our country- men to carefully watch and take parii:ular notice of the proceedings of our next party assembly. 1t is possible that a Scandinavian name will be presented to that convention for a place on the state ticket, and we should be sorry to have to chronicle his defeat, at ~least on the ground above indicated. We must confess, that we coneider it a well earned honor to be allowed at least one name on the ticket headed with the name of the great historian, statesman and American patriot, the next president of the United +. Blaine. States, James rmer, Chicago Nows. It looks as if every industrial interest inthe United States has just now turned upon the agricultural, in order to make that the *‘scapegoat” for its own short- comings or misfortunes, at the same time that prices of agricultural products have fallen to figures lower than hereto- fore known for a century. Thus, the New Yow Journal of Com- merco publishes a list of seventy-soven cotton mills which will shut down for two or more weeks. Their capacity is 2,706, 000 spindles and 66,000 looms, This stoppsge will secure a curtailment of 06,000 pieces per day, or 792,000 pieces in two weeks, mostly the common quali- ty of all brown and bleached goods, The tumber dealers proposo to restrict production to the amount of G0 per cent 1n order to put ap prices 25 per cent, Only seven of the sixteen steel rail mill aro running, the objectbeing to keep up prices. The mine-owners have raised the price of coal by stopping production, at the same time they nave largely reduced the price of labor, But the worst form which this curtail- ment of production against the interest its has assumed is the 10 the price of that necessary product, which nature give to man for the mere askng, Now, this conspirasy against the un- immense decline of bis 1t is a singular spectacle that the coun- try now presents in all parts thereof, Every protacted interest in the United States has tuined upon the unprotected and trusts to E cost of a glut. the result of over produc- tion, to be directly traced to our tariff legislation, make that pay the e — Aerial Navigation, The suceess of Capt. Renard's recent experiments with a navigablo. ballocs. ot Moridan has created the greatest inarost in all the military sirclos of Europe. . M. Hervo Kangon's paper on this. subject, ‘ } which was pressted o tho French Asad. 0 n ticket. The | emy of Scienc other quarter o seek reinforcement. | outlook is not 80 well definea that it will | speaks withso much hope s resultant from Capt, e P — Renard's invention that England, Ger- many, and Russia have already noted the fact that a great step forward has un- doubtedly been made in aerial naviga- tion. The British war office contemplates inangurating a series of experiments with navigable balloons of different kinds in the hope that they may be able to un- ravel the secret of the Frenchman's plans, Members of the engineer corps stationed at Chatham and Woolwich are holding daily conferences, and the curiosity and interest displayed have not been equaled since the launching of the fish submarine torpedo. The (ierman and Russian goy- ernments are also striving hard to_obtain some definite information concerning the working of Renard’s cigar-shaped ma- chine, which M. Mangon asserts is as easily directedin the air as a steam launch on the water. back proved conclusively that every room in the house was as brilliantly lighted as gas could light them. As we have never heard of the kind of spirits with which this country has been blessed presenting themselves under the bright rays of a chandelier, we deem the method adopted on Saturday evening a Aery poor one and are of the opinion that those who were inmates of that house that might know more about the ‘‘reign of terror” therein than they would be willing to admit. Should it be necessrry to satisfy the in- credulous, we are ready to appoint two, three, or five of our number who are will spend the night comfortably in that house without a light in it. and will guar- antee to loose no sleep on account of the ghost. Very truly yours, Josern P, MAILANDER, A.G. H L. Cun JonN Stroo! J.A Barm A e Compromisivg Documents, OnEssa, Aug. 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