Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1884, Page 4

—— r 1 L @ THE OMAHA BEE Omaha OfMoe, No, 910 Farnam S, Council Bluffs Oftice, No 7 Pearl St Btreet, Near Broadway. | Now York Office, Room 65 Tribune Ballding. . | Pabllshed every wrornin @nly Monday morning daily. sxcopt Sunday' The RN Y MATL #10.00 | Three 00 1 Fer Wee One Year ®ix Mon by U8 WRIKLY DAH, FURWSHED NYNRY, WADNRADAY, TRRYS POSTPAID, ++..£2.00 | Throe Montha. .. 1.0 | One Month ... apany, Sole Agonte, Newsdeal- Ope Year.... Six Months. American Nows ( @t1 1n the Unlted S CORRNSPONDANCE, A Communications relating to Nows and Editorial ors should bo nddressed 4o the Korrom ov Trm BUSINRSS LTTRRS, All Businoss Tetters fand Remittances should be addrossed to T Ban PURLISHING COMPANY, QMAA. Drafts, Ohooks and Postoffice orders to be made pay- #blo to the order of the company. YHE BEE PUBLISHING CO., PROPS’ B. ROSEWATER, Editor. A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, P. 0. Box, 488 Omaha, Neb. Eveny citizen of Omaha ought to visit the Nebraska stato fair. Itisan expo- gition that is well worth secing. WHEN an American visits Canads now the first question askea him is **What ‘bank did you rob, and how much did you get away with?” S0 ¥k ns ageis concerned Mra. Belva Lockwood is eligible to the presidency. THE SCHOOL LAND FRAUDS. The testimony of several witnesses has been taken in the matter of the Keith county school 1and leases, and some in toreating developments are made. Mr. Stolle, of North Platte, gives rome im portant evidence. According to his state- ment Mr. Dorn, of Omaha, came to North Platte on the 20th of May to slose a contract in regard to school land leases in Lincoln county, for which he offered §4,000. dickering, Dorn backed out and wouldn’t come to He then asked Stolle After conslderable terms. about the Keith county lands, and was told that they had not been appraised as no agree- ment had been reached the price. Stolle was of the appraisers and Dorn asked him if he couldn’t fill out the on one appraisoment in two or three days so he could take the appraisement down with him. Stolle, in answer to the inquiry, said the appraisement would run from fifty conts to €4 por acre, and Dorn remarked that there was no money in an appraisoment like that, Dorn told Stolle and Beach that they would not have a shadow of ashow of getting an inch of that school land as long as Kendall was in office as land commissioner. He then offered to give 2,000 if Stolle would fin- ish tho appraissment, so that he could take it down to when the commissioners met, at from 25 to 00 cents an acre. Stolle testifies that he (Stolle) did not want any money, and that he never would appraise the land at any such prices, that it was impossible to make out the appraisement in threo days, Lincoln By hor accoptance of the nomination of |and that there would be no time left to the woman's equal rights party, sho acknowledges that she is over 35, which is a frank admission for a woman. TaE voice of Senator Van Wyck has beén heard throughout the land, His recent Burt county speech, in which he denounced the state board of public lands on account of the school land frauds, is beginning to have its effect in every section of the state. Tar Nebraska piciously. The displays in every depart- ment have never boen excelled for qual- ity or quantity. The attendance yester- day was very large, and with fair weath- er during the rest of the week the expo- sition promises to be a big financial suc- cos. Ivlooks rather odd for an insurance company, which makes pretensions to be- ing first-class, to appear on the state fair ground and exhibit itself by means of a tent, It reminds one very much of a circus, while the check of the thing is equalled only by that of a lightning rod peddler. The Iowa and Nebraska insur- ance company’s agents ought to give the farmers of Nebraska a rest for one week at loast. How it must vex the soul of John C. Now to have the country newspapers (as the Omaha Republicanis doing) confound his paper, the Journal, with the Indlan- apolis Sentinel on the attack on Blaine! —Chicago Neus, Not at alll John C, New is not vexed by a country paper that circulates less than 800 copies in the city of Omaha, and scarcely ever heard of outside. Tue street-sprinkling as now carried on does little or no good. Farnam and Douglas streets, for instance, are sprink- led, but the cross streets are left un- touched, probably because there are not enough persons on these streets who are willing to pay for the sprinkling. The consequence is that a south or north wind scoops up clouds of dust from the smooth pavementandsetsitflyingall overthe city. The dust is even worse than it was be- fore the streets were paved. We have effectually got rid of the mud in the busi. uess center of the city, and now we ought to get rid of the dust, which is really a worse nuisance than the mud. The sprinkling should be extended to the cross streots, and if the persons doing ‘busiuess on those thoroughfares are not willing to pay the expense, somo other means should be devised for defraying the cost. I every person would pay his just proportion, the expense for each one would bo but a mere trifle, but when more thau ono-half refuse to pay, the tax becomes & buraen on the other half, as well as an injustice, and we cannot blame them for refusing to pay. WHO ARE TuEY? The songressional convention has beon held, and the work of the 142 delegates accomplished In what that convention did the (/azctte.Journal takes pride. ‘While there were other good, worthy and patriotic men presented for nomination, the convention was wise in selecting Hon, James Laird to make the race, and we believe there is no possibility of de- feating him. It is our opinion that the voters will see that it is to their advan- tage to give him their votes. He will certainly receive the support of a great many democrats and anti-monopolists, as well as the whole of the republican strength, This he surely desorves,— Hastings Gazette Journal, Who are the democrats that will vote for James Laird! Are they the men that were in partnership with Laird in the Stinking Water frauds? Are they the men who have been favored with passes over the B, & M.1 Are they the section hands who obey the dictates of the rail- road boeses! Who are the anti-monopolists that will vote for James Laird? Are they the ho- gus anti-monopolisis who arehired by the rallroads to go to conventions to create disturbances! 1s not the Hastings (fazelle-Journal slightly exaggerating when it says that all the republicans of the district propose publish the land for sale. Dorn, how- ever, assured him that ‘Kendall would take the risk of leasing the land without it being offered for sale.” Stolle would not agree to anything of that kind, and was then told by Dorn, that he had no show of any land in Keith county, and that he had better take a sure thing. When Stolle replied that if there was any such scheme as that in view, Kendall would never re- ceive the appraisement, as it wouldn't be sent in until a new commissioner was elected, Dorn, who seems to have had a perfect understanding with Kendall, said that he would get duplicate descriptions of the school land and get other appraisers ap- pointed, It seems from the evidence that Dorn, after making several tempting of- fors to Stolle, failed to accomplish his ob- ject, and proceeded to carryouthis threat and in this he finally succeeded. He procured & duplicate list of the lands, and soon aftorwards secured the appointment of new appraisers, who immediately ap- praised the land and sent in tho ap- praisoment to Lincoln, all this boing done before Stolle found it out. No notice or advertisement of the land was published. The evidence of Stolle is corroborated by other witnesses, and it is shown throughout that Kendall was in collusion with partles who wanted to the Keith county lands at an appraisement of from 25 to 50 cents an acre, when in fact they are worth from threo to five dollars an acre. Mr. Ken- dall knew well enough the real value of the lands, yet he allowed the state to be robbed bya nominal appraisement, which was made in an underhanded and irregu- lar manner, and so secretly that no one except thosein thoring had anyshow what- ever to socure any of the land. That the leases have been recalled does not exon- erate Mr, Kendall or the board of public lands, of which Governor Dawes and Secretary Roggen are members, It is ovident that Mr, Dorn knew what ho was talking about when he was dickering with Stolle, He had evidently arranged mattors satiefactorily with Kendall, for whom no excuse whatever can be offered, The conduct of Kendall in the Keith county achool land leasos is only & sam- ple of what he has donein other countics throughout the state. e has stood in with the land-grabbing rings everywhere, and there is no telling to what extent he has feathered his nest. Yot it is main- tained by some that the ether members of the boardof public lands were no* re- sponsible for these frauds because they did not know what was going on 18 it not the business of the governor and socrotary ofstate to know what is going on in the board of public works, of which they are members?! Over two yoars ago the operations of Kendall was fully ex- posed by Tue Bek, and his conduct be- came a matter of notoriety and comment, Wby did not Governor Dawes orSecretary Roggan take some action a8 they wero in duvy bound to do? They can make no plausible defense for their long continued silence on the frauds that have robbed the people of this state of over 1,000,000 acres of land for a period of twonty-five years, and yet the repub- lican stato convention by * renomiuating them endorses their conduct and asks the republicans to vote for them, Can the honest republicans of Nebraska af- ford todo it? Can they swallow this insult to their manhood and intelligence / We think not. —— “TA STRANGE EXECUTION. When it was first made known that Private Henry, of the Greely expedition, was killed by a military execution as s punishment for his continued theft of provisions, the statement was generally nccepted as true, It was believed ho ro- ceived a military trial, that ho was duly convicted, that sentenco was formally pronounced upon him, and that he was shot, according to the usual custom, to give their votes toJames Laird! When the (fuzctte.Journal says it ls *to their advaatage” to vote for him, it reminds us of the stercotyped advertisement: *'By calling at this office you will learn some- thing to pour advantage,” by appointed executioners. Now comes Bergeant Fredericks, and gives what is probably the correct version of ’the alfair, Fredericks, who was one of the men who killed Henry, says that illenry had been warned several time 00d, but he repeated the ted an or- offense, der for 1 loaded with blank and finally Greeley is Three guns two with ball and cartridge, and Brainerd were detailed They found Henry s execution. were were one Long to earry out the order. in the very act of stealing sealskins, and approaching within twenty yards of him, they fired and Henry dropped dead, hav- ing been shot in the back, the two balls having both taken effect. We are told in the dispatches that they were com- pelled to do this because Henry was strong andactive, and had he suspected their intentions he could ecasily have killed them. So It seems after all that Honry had no trial but was simply shoi down without warning, and that the back. Notwithatanding all the ex- treme circumstances of the case, it was certainly a most singular proceeding. Whethor Henry was caten by his com- panions has not yet positively been ascer- tained, as his remains have not yet been examined, owing to the fact that the county authorities in New York, whero he is burled, refuselto defray the expenses of his exhumation, although his sister has expressed her wish for an invostigation. 1t is quite likely that every obstacle possible will be thrown in the way of an investigation, for obvious reasons, by interested parties. Tho probabillty is that Henry was in good, healthy condition, and if anybody was to be killed for the purpose of keeping alive the rest of the party his body would furnish more food than that of any other member of the ex- pedition. Cannibalism was no doubt the last resort, and the conduct of Henry furnished an excuse for his death. Greely quietly issued an order for his ex- ecution, and it was as quietly carried out. This Is probably the true story of Henry’s death. Whether, under the circumstances, he was fairly dealt with, is an open question. The only excuse for the manner of the execution is that necessity knows mno law. Some people will call his execution a cold blooded assassination, and will natur- ally inquire why he was not tried and given some opportunity to prepare for death and to send some last word to his sister, and other relatives, if he had any. He could easily have been captured un- der cover of guns, and had he resisted arrost, then he could have heen justifi- ably shot down and no question what- ever could have been raised, too in NO DIVERSION. The attempt of the Republican to creato a great hubbub about the failure of the asphalt company to lay granite blocks on the outer cdges of the Sixteenth street railway, is merely done for the purposeof diverting public attention from the ras- cally methods that are being pursued by the agents of Colorado sandstone to force that. inferior paving material upon this community. Granting that what has been charged concerning the Barber asphalt company is true, there is really nothing very serious to make such a hue and cry about. 1t is notorious that the Sixteenth street pavement was laid just before the last state fair in a great hurry, in response to the pressing demands of the business men of that thoroughfare, who wanted it completed before the fair began. Had the asphalt men put in the granite blocks they could not possibly have finished their work before the fair. Besides the street cars were running on the tracks, and this, too, would have in- erfored with the work somewhat. In. asmuch as the asphalt company has de- posited $5,000 as a guarantee that they will complote the work according to contract t hero can be no loss to the city The street is now certainly in splendtd conditlon, and will be kept so, as the as- phalt company is compelled to keep it in repair for five years, and before the ex- piration of that period it will doubtless finish the job according to contract. It certainly cannot do so now without clos- ing the street, and the property owners and business men of that thoroughfare are not disposed to have themselves fonc- ed in when they can just as well get along without it, especially in the busy season of tho year. But, us we have said before, the main object ot this assault on the Barber as. phalt company is to create a diversion for the impostors who are procuring signa- tures, under falss pretenses, to petitions for paving our strects with Colorado sandstone, The chief agent of the sand- stone, Councilman Woodworth, reprosentod to - various among them being Mrs, Clarkson, that there is a difference of #1.30 in favor of the Colorado stono as compared with Sioux Falls granite. This is a deliberate falsehood as there is hardly any differenee. Other property owners have been inveigled into signing his petitions by the statement that they would be compelled topay for paving and guttering at once if they chose Sioux Falls granite or asphalt, but if they se- lected Colarado sandstone they would have five years in which o pay their taxes for curbing and guttering. Now tholaw is very clear on this point. Under the law curbing and guttering are tobe paid for separately, no matter what material is used for paving, and the property owners must pay when the tax is lovied, and the work is comploted and accopted, has pers ons We shall not wince matters any lon- ger. Councilman Woolworth s suilty of wisdemeanor every day of the year as long as he acts as agent for Colorado sandstone and a8 coutractor for furnishing eand to oth- er contractors. The law is very plain on this matter. It says that no councilman can be directly or indirectly interested in auy contract with the city, When a councliman can vote himself a contract from which he derives an income and Y REE---TUESDAY. Fredericks, | profit he may as well take a bribe di rectly Councilman Woodworth must resign | from the council or go out of business as agent and contractor. if he does not re sign, steps will be taken to enforce the law in his case, T latest bank failure has developed |some unusually msensational features. The New Brunswick, New Jersey, na- tional bank failed on Saturday, the do- ficiency being reported at from to £250,000. Mr, Hill, the cash had been speculating with the money, promptly committed suicide instead of ranning away to Canada. And now comes the startling intelligence that President Runyon has followed the ex- ample of the cashier. This is a protty quick way of settling their accounts. There are a host of other dishonest and speculating bank offisials who ought to do the same thing. 1In their death Run- yon aud Hill exhibited a manly remorse at least for their breach of trust, They showed that they proferred death toa living disgrace, and doubt they never intended to steal a cent, but hav- ing boen tempted into the whirlpool of speculation they continued to lose, hop- ing each day to retrive their losses, and replace the funds they had appropriated to their own use, It is the same old story., They were unexpectedly caught short, the crisis came, and they were ruined, To them perhaps, their own disgrace and ruin were not so much as the ruin and distress they had brought upon confiding patrons and friends. VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Lincoln Slate, West Point Republican, The recent Omaha convention was con- trolled by a ‘‘slate” coffibination,offensive and defensive, with the couunty of Lan- caster as the center, and the city of Lin- coln, with its state administration, as dictator! So strong was this organization and 80 arbitrary was its action that with one—possibly two—exceptions the repub- lican ticket of Nebraska was practically named and nominated by the slate of Lincoln. ~ The nominations were made with a reckless disregard of merit and just claims, of nationality, and the rights of localities. While, it is true, some of the candidates named are worthy and well quaslified, yet the nominations as a whole were unfairly distributed, and in some instances were bestowed upon those who wero not entitled to the recognition given by the dominant party of Nebraska. There is no doubt but that the unwise and ungenerous action of the combination will have a tendency to weaken the ticket, and while it will undoubtedly be elected —with one possible exception—seeds of dissension have been more recklessly sown this year than over before, and, if per- sisted in during years to follow, it Is not improbablo that tares will spring up in the fields where golden grain has long been grown and garnered. It is time for leadinug republicansin Lancaster and other South Platte counties to pause, reflect, and carefully consider whither they are drifting. Generosity is a cardinal virtuo; avarice und selfishnesw is a hateful vice, $28,000 in Eight Months, Crete Vidette. A posted party, speaking from personal knowledge, declared in Nebraska City quite recently that Mr. John Latham, of incoln, had cleared and cleaned up $28,- 000 cash as his profits in the Lincoln land ring deals, on school land leases, for the last elght months. The school fund lost and Latham made $28,000 under the pure and vigilant administration of Dawes and Kendall. The people of Nebraska have been swindled out of millions of school money. Let us open the records,—[Ne- braska City News. There is not a man among John Lath- am’s acquaintance big enough fool to be- lieve ho would lot an_opportunity slip past without making $28,000.—{ Lincoln News. No one can particularly blame Mr. Latham for taking advantage of a law by which he could make a fortune. The governor of Nebraska should have vetoed the law. He did not. Then it was his plain duty to have ordered the attorney general to stop the swindle and save the land to the state. But hedidnot, Fur- thermore, Mr. W, W. Gibson, chairman of the Sallne county farmers’ alliance, stated publicly last Monday that he was informed on good authority that one man had taken nearly all the school lands of Cusler county, and that he had been fur- nished the wherewith by none others than Gov. Dawes and I, 1. Foss, By all means *‘let usopen the records” and ““turn the rascals out.” no Weaver's Endorsers, Guge Co, Paper, Allen Field, of the B, & M. railroad, nominated Weaver in the congressional convention. Church Howe, of the Missouri Paciflc seconded the nomination and John M. Thurston, of the Union Pacitic added tho second of that corpor- ation to the monopoly candidate. The Picture of Lee, Furnas County Mirror, This from Tir Omana Ber applies to Furnas county so well that we reproduce it: *“‘Before any member of the last leg- islature is re-elected, his record should be thoroughly scanned. There were sev- oral members of the last legislature who fought very bravely over the dead issues of the rebellion, but who voted with the railraads and against the people every time. There aro others who are very rampant about the monopolists, but were always ready to vote for jobs and steals, and way down deep they were playing shuttle-cock and battle-dore on anti- monopoly bills,” Turn the Rascals Out, Plattsmouth Journal, By means of collusion with the com- wissioners of school lands one C. L, Baum of Lincolu got & 20-year leage on sixty-four sections of school lands for a song, and now advertises them for sale, 1J. C, Bounell also got ten sections ata low price and recently disposed of his lease through a citizen of Plattsmouth at w very handsome advance. Thus favor- ites of the riug are permitted to enrich themselves at the expense of the child- ren's patrimony, Turn the rascals out! Basswood Posts and Railroad Spikes, Blue Springs Motor, When we elect a representative lot !hiw represent us. If we elect a bas wood post and send it up to represent us, that necessitates two or three lobbyists to take care of it. This is rather too ex- pensive. I we elects railroad spike it SEPTEMBER 9, 1884, will be governe ntirely by such head. lizhts as Howe, Thurston, Phillips and others, Now a spike represents a rail- ir,.ml corporation and not the people. We have no particular objection to the railroads electing them but we do abom- | inate his stealing the cloak of republican- ism to serve the devil in. If they choose to have a railroad not the agricultural districts elect it. Gage county is strictly an agrica ltural county, and, wo believe, they owe railroad corpora- tions nothing. They have no claim on |the people of this county. All the favors they show usisto charge from a third to a_ half of our producs to ship the rest to market. So much for favors received. We do not believe in showing too much enmity against the ratlroads, and we do not believe in the roads dis- criminating in favor of any one, or ex- torting the hard earned dollars ,from the people. Now it takes a man with a head on his shoulders to know which end he stands on when many of the important bills come up for consideration. It is not every man who is good looking, or popular with this or that creed or nation- ality, that can sift all the important bills that are presented and separate the chaff from'the wheat. Here- tofore our legislature has never failed to pass unconstitutional bills, especially when they effected large corporations. Wo have become tired of paying men to do this. In point of intelligence, Gage county ranks A prime. Now let us have no one but sensible men represent us. Down with the spikes ana bass-wood posts. Let them go west and grow up with the country. We do not want an ignoramus to represent our intelligence; nor do we want a man who will sell his soul and body to corporations, to mierep- resent the fair name of our county. Be careful, voters, whom you will choose to represent us in the next legislature. When the Wicked Rule, Nebraska Signal, It is pretty clear that the nomination of Lieese for attorney-general was accom- plished by the same methods as was the nomination of Loran Clark, * The question now is, how many lessons will the leaders who manipulate republi- can conventions and caucuses in Nebraska require in order to be brought within the pale of common decency? How long will the honest masses of the party of our commonwealth submit to the dictation of political bummers and shysters. We pre- dicted just this result should honest re- publicans suflicient in number, refuse to attend the caucuses. ‘‘When the wicked rule, the people mourn.” This cendition of things will continue until the better elements of the party comoe to the front and drive to the rear the demagogues who barter away the most sacred rights of the people at every opportunity. The day is fast passing away when a republican nom- inatlon in Nebraska is equivalent to an election, Power in the hands of an unscru- pulous politician is as dangerous to the people of the state as would be a reckless and viclous engineer to the passengers on his train. That because the national republican party 15 engaged in a presi- dential contest, it must necessarily follow that political tricksters can by unfairness and for unfair purposes put up unworthy candidates and necessarily pull them through for the reason that it is a presidential campaign may prove to be a mistake. While the war was going on and the country was in imminent peril, every good republican was carcful to attend the caucuses and see that none but the worthy be put on guard, and just as long as the better element in the party participated in the nomination anc. election of our law makers, just that long the party was a unit and invincible, but no sooner was the war ended and recon- struction effected than many members of the party became indifferent, stayed away from the caucuses, and these in nearly every case were men of the better element, The selfish and designing are always found present, for they have axes to grind and thus this class gets control of the party and the former loses it. So it is to-day in Nebraska, and we repeat that unless these frauds and vultures are driven back and good men take the lead in the republican party in Nebraska,the days of its usefulness and success will only be found recorded in the history of years ago. Too Previous, Sutton Register. Mr. Laird is nominated, but he will be much more certain of a seat in the next congress after he is elected. G, W. I, Dorsey, Nance County Journal, The nomination of G, W. E Dorsey for congress in this district meets with the hearty approval of republicans from all quarters. Mr. Dorsey is a man of sterling integrity, of fine abilities and of excellent business qualifications, He camo to Nebraska soventeen years ago, and set- tled in Fremont, then but a small town. For ten years he followed the profession of an atforney, and has since been en- goged in the banking and real estate busi- ness, in which he has amassed a consider- able fortune, Mr, Dorcoy has always taken a lively interest in'all matiers of public concern connected with the up- building of his town and the develop- ment of tha North Platte country. He has paid out liberal sums for advertising the interests of the state, and has sub- scribed generously to church socicties at home and abroad. In his private life he is a man of temperate habits, of flne so- cial traits, and a kind and benevolent neighbor, The enthusiasm shown by the people of Fremont, without regard to party, over his nomination, is the strongest recommendation of his worth, He is & man against whom even the sar- donic Rosewater has nothing to say. Nance county will give Mr. Dorsey & m-jull!f' of 250, and the rest of the dis- trict will swell the same to 8,000, The Farmer's Candidate, State Line Register. 1n speaking of the nomination of Capt. J. H, Stickel, the Hasting Gazette- Journal says in reply to our article favor- ing his nomination for congress by the anti monops and democrats ,or this con- gressional district, “‘that from what we can learn he cannot carry his own county,” We are surprised to hear this from Wig- ton, who prides himseif as a truthful Presbyterian, Wigton and his asso- ciates has nevar failed to improve every opportunity to make a dirty flings at | Stickel, Capt, Stickel 1s the ]mppy‘ vossessor of a clear conscience and a freo soul, and we could not help but con- | gratulate Mr, Wigton if he can say the same. We repeat it-—if the anti-monops and democrats§uominate Stickel, he will carry this congressional district like a whirlwiud, Laird's doom is sealed. He sees the writing on the wall, and can | discern its true import. i If Capt, Stickel is nominated it wil! be legislature, lot | | We can assure the Gazotte-Journal that Stickel, if nominated, can carry | Thayer county by a handsome majority. He is the farmers’ candidate instead of a railroad candidate. A Timely Exit. ine. O'Neil Trit | Poor Val was downed. game of possum and got caught. And thus from the field of public life there strides & man whose exit will not be missed or known outside the boundary of his own town, Let the People Rule, Croighton Pioneer, | Thera is a determined effort all over | the state of Nebraska this year to deter- mine whether this state shall begoverned by the people and for the people, or whether it shall be governed by o fow | political demagogues in the future as it has been tn the past. There is war to the knife in nearly every county to defeat the rings and political bosses, and the fight will never end until the bosses are buried in their political graves, as the people are de- termined and with a free vote and a fair count the ringg will be buried. The nomination of¥r. Dorsey, in the third congressional ‘dlstrict by the antl- ring, and the friends of Senator Van Wyck, is a direct “‘slap in the face” of a fow political hummers who wanted the credit of nominating him, soas to control him in his appointments against the | wishes of the people. It was not a fight against Mr, Dorsey but a fight against ring rule all over the district, and the rings feel very much grieved at not being able to control the convention. The on- slaught of the Omaha Rcpublican, on Dr. Abbott,of Fremont, and Tur Oyana Bee fully shows the expression of the bosses all over the district. Not that they were fighting Mr. Dorsey, but that they wanted to control the nomination and subsequently to control Mr. Dorsoy, when he is elected. * % * What the people want Is an honest government; a free vote and fair count; rotation in office; dishonest officials re- moved, and ask that no man be allowed to hold an oftice for life or until they may become independently rich, A Sikly Sop. Neligh Advocate, The republican state convention flung one little sickly office to North Nebraska much in the manner that one throws a bone to a hungry prowling dog. Every offico except that of auditor was gobbled up by the South Platt counties as vora- ciously as a hungry hog goes forits rations. The Advocate would like to ask the republicans of North Nebraska if it isn’t about time to recognize for mutual protection and support, and to demand their share of the offices from future state conventions? Beyond Recognition, Arapahoe Mirror. Jim Laird managed, by his well-known corrupt practices and railroad backing, to control the congressional convention, but it remains to be seen whether the people can be controlled in a like manner at the polls. When an opponent like Capt. Stickles, Mr. Laird will find it up-hill work to pull through, even with the aid of a presidential campaign, as the pres- ent indications are that he will be scratched beyond recognition, Platform Platitudes, Plattsmouth Herald. The platform adopted by the republi- can convention, is in the main, a fair statement of republican doctrines and beliefs, yet, when one reads It, it be- comes evident as is the case with a majority of party platforms, that a large portion of the material worked into it, to give it a formidable appearance, might have been left at home with advantage. Especially do we believe that the eighth plank or paragraph of this plat- form could have been safely omitted. There is a very large majority of the votere who make up the rank and file of the republican party in Nebraska who entertain very decided convictions upon the question of the regulation of our Nebraska raiiways, and who are natur- ally very suspicious of any party reso- lution upen the subject, which is capa- ble of doubtful, or double construction. Just what view the honest republican ot anti-monopolist tendencies may take of this paragraph in the declaration of principles laid down by the Omaha con- convention 18 hard to surmise, That our common enemy will enquiro what we mean when we say: We recognize as a prime necessity for the ratification of our party in Nobraska prosperity of the state, a statute regula- ting our railroads according to a fixed principle of justice which shall make all capital equal before the law, anyone can easily conjecture, and just bow “all capital is to bo made equal be- fore the law” when the American rail- way, &5 a common carrier, is compiled to treat its patrons fairly, isa problem worthy of Widow Butler and her party. The Herald is of the opinion that a plain declaration in favor of direct legis- lation, compelling the railroads of the state, to give to the producer and trades- man, fair treatment; or in favor of the creation, by law, of a strong, well guarded railroad commission in the interests of the producer and shipper, would have been received with much greater favor by the people of the state. However, it doubtless was the intention of the states- man who postulated paragraph eight, of this platform, to hand down to posterity tely andfimposing declaration, that in after days will be looked upon as an ornament among the republican literature of the state. TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER. % and MALARIA! From those sources irlse three-fourths of the discascs of tho human rs i s indi onc 255 0f X Bick Hleads ty ling o duty, Dizziness, iver, AsaLiverme have no cqual. T 15kin i3 ald0 pr avities throigh of the system mpt; ro o L as ho is not secking the nomination, Con this be said of Laird/ without any effert on the part of mmnelf.‘ No! ¥ 41 21urry 5 GEAY Halk Or WHISK' RS olanged stantly to n GLOSSY BLACK by o plication of this Dyk, 8 or sent b Lifico, 44 Murriy Stroct, New ) orl. i FUIT'S MANUAL OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FRLE, and for the conservation of the peace and | W —_— UNITED STATER National Ak OF OMAHA, S, W, Cor, Farnam and 12th Sts, OCapital, - - $100,000.00 C. W.HAMILTON, Pros’t. 8. 8. CALDWELL, V. Pres't. M. T. BARLOW, Ceshlow DIRECTORS : 8, B, Oawowery, B. F, Swmrrs, 0. W. Hamrurox, M. T. Barwow, 0. Wit HaMiuron, Accounts sclicitor and kept sub Joct to sight cheeck. Cortificates of Doposit Issued pay ablein 3 6 and 12 months, bearing Interest, or on domand without In«- torest. Advances made to customers on npproved securltios at market rate of Interest. 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