Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1886, Page 1

The Omaha Sunday Bee is the popular paper. Circulation, 13,000 SINTEENTH YEAR, I BERALS DESTROYED | ne Drives a Fatal Wedge Th the Heart of His Party. THAT 1S A COMMONER'S OPINION 8alisbury Will Make No Compromise With the Nationalist Party. THE SCHEMES HE WILL WORK. A Local Self-Government Measure to Be Introduced by the Tories. CAUSES OF THE BELF AST RIOTS. Orangemen See the Writing on the Wall in Sexton's Election. JUSTIN M'CARTHY EXPLAINS. Home Rule Is an English as Well as an Irish Question. A GREAT SOCIALIST DISPLAY. Viewing Brusscls Before the Great Talks With the Lead- ers of the Movement—The Ob- Ject in View. Process From a Member of Parliament. Loxpox, August 14.—[New yok Herald Cable—Special to the BEE.)—In the return of so many ministers without opposition a T. Ritchie's increased the St. George's division of the Tower hamlets, and in the radical collapse of Birmingham, all the radical world may gee clear and undeniable evidences of what nhome rile has done for the libe Its effects become more visible every day. The simple truth is that home rule has for the present destroyed the great party which has governed the eountry, with short intervals, ever since 1832 It has no leaders, its forces are divided, despair hangs over if ranks. Liberal members acknowledee this freely, but if the elections weze to be fought again the slaughter of the Gladstonians would be greater than before. The moro Enulish people look at the famous scheme the more they dislike it. It is folly to deny that Gladstone has driven a wedge through the very heart of his party. Al attempts to win back the unionists have conspicuously failed. Chamberlain implacable; his power at Birmingham remains unbroken; he is not to be caught by his old chief’s artifices, Hart- ington stands finm and does not much ad- mire the new covernment, but plants his foot on the solid ground of union before party. GLADSTONE M Leading liberals say privately that their party can never reconcile its differences again until Gladstone is out of the way. “The old man,” they say, ‘‘has dealt us a fatal blow, although we may not yet see it. The only reparation he can make is to re- tire.” 1 have heard thorough Gladstonians avow this, and - not a dozen liberals in the house would repudiate the view. Two facts arise from these cireu stances; first, that it is not even distantly probable that Salisbury will take a leaf from Gladstone's book. will make no over- tures to the nation; nd offer no compro- mise. The ministry believes its strength consists in resolutely opposing any scheme involving an independent Irish parliament. Jam inclined to think, from the best infor- mation at my command, that there will be produced next year a plan EXTENDING LOCAL GOVERNMENT, pure and siniple, 1o all parts of the country like. If Treland accepts this,well and good. 1f not, nothing more can be done. In the mean- time, there will be an endeavor to carry on the government by the ordinary law—not re- sorting to such coercion bills as Harcourt’s, in 182, which many conservatives would oppose. If the law fails there will be an appeal to parliament $o strengthen it without adopting Harcourt’s Cromwellian measures. Such is the present intention. It is evident that the nation gen- erally approves it ‘The second fact is that the November ses- sion will be given up, The nationalists see mnothing at present of breaking the combina- tion against thewm, Therefore they are not eager for parliament to meet again. The liberal main body is profoundly dis- couraged, It wants a breathing term. The conservatives are decidedly against an extra sion. 1t will be nard work w getthem to attend next Thursday. The Wwhigs are fat their wits ends, and their circu- lars and letters are flying all over the coun- try with little or no response, If we sit till about the middle of September the cry will be: *“Hold,enough!” The opposition m: object to vote the supplies, but must break down. The debate on the address will be spun out, but this cannot accomplish any practical result. PEACE AND FREEDOM WANTED. ‘This country asks for peace and freedom from political agitation. In Lancashire and throughout the great manufacturing districts intense bitterness toward Gladstone still ex- ists for forcing the recent eleetion. The workingmen are indignant at having been made to suffer for his want of foresight, They say: “What we want is to be shown how to get back our old customers, or how to find new ones, in order to provide bread for Qur children. What is to besome of us if the prevailing depression continues? Why did not our case receive atwention from parlia- ment as well as the case of Ireland?” This voice has not yet made itself heard at Westminster, but it will be heard there be- fore very lonz, und it will silence every Qther. When four or five millions of opera- Uves find the means of life going from them @ force will arise which wust be reckoned with, The question now is, WHAT WILL GLADSTONE DO? It will be useless to flog that dead horse-—- bowe rule. The uationalists cannot again give him the pass key to power, He must look in some other direction, Ishould not be surprised if he played the last card in his band, long known to be there, namely, dis- establishment. He has long believed that this would carry all before it, and rally under ST GO, bis fag once more he great body of liberals aud aissenters, Is he right? It is more than doubtful. His opinions are founded on the situation of twenty years ago. Since then the church bas dono uch 10 re- §aln it Lold upon the people. 1t is the popu- larity of its services that sent out an active clergy and done its ity Detter. The dises- tablishment ery was partially raised in the elections last year and T WAS SUBPRISED At the depth of feeling which was called The New York Herald Cable- grams are wired direct to the Omaha Bee. many not assur Wt my own ng constituency. cons i would have ters nave b besides ed within its w them unwill- t of the tree. The rich and have endowme k favor on the dang ying violent hands s prope Therefore this las if taken, will most probably fail, ti must cause immense excitement and may olve another appeal to the people. Gladstone's taith is not shared by his fol- lowers, who are rather inclined to stake their hopes on Churchill running the con- servative shipon the rocks. As for the dif- ferences within the conserative family eircle. if not healed, they have at least been voverel the conservative motto being FASH YOUR DINTY LINEN AT HOM 1 know members who are boiling over with indignation, but who will not play into the enemy’s hands. An utterly ridiculous ap- pointment, like that of Stanley to the board of trade, was too glaring to escape notice, The public is inclined to make a generous al- lowance for the premier’s difficulties, and the ministry will iave a fairchance. The man who has the most difficult gamé to playis Parnell. Any rash or premature step would wreck his party, while too long inaction might do him harm elsewhere. Practically, his work must be begun all over agan. The nationalists e naturally unwilling to admit this, but time will show you that it is true. A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. THE BELFAST RIOTS. An Able Opinion on the Causes of the Trouble. No. 20 CuryNe GARDENS, THAMES Ex BANKMENT, CHELSEA, LONDON, August 14, —[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bek.]--*What is the meaning of the riots in Belfast?” “‘What will be the effect of the riots on the political question?” Such s the substance of an inquiry made of me by an American friend, “Riots in Cork and Tip- perary,” he writes, “the average Awmerican would have it understood as the result, per laps, of disappointment. but in Belfast- where the great majority consider they have won, it seems strange they should themselves begin the disturbances.” “1 am glad he asked the question, should like to make the amswer, &0 far as an avswer from me s worth anything to Amencan readers. The fact is, Cork and Tipperary are not disappointed but well satisiied, I almost might sy, triumphant. On the other hand, in Belfast, the ORANGE PARTY I8 NOT SATISFIED and not triumphant. 1tis very much disap- pointed and infuriated. What they think of is mot so much that they have carried so many seats in Belfast, but that they have lost West Belfast to a leading member or the Irish na- tional party. Whoever else may underrate the meaning of Scxton’s victory, the Orange- men of Belfast do not underrate it. They look to the neighboring city of Derry, so long the stronghold of Orangemen, and sce how the Orange majority has dwindled of late—only & twenty-nine mpjority last winter,only a majority of three this sum- mer. The ureat chances are that the major- ity will be converted into a minority as the result of an eleetion petititon, and in any case after next registration, the city of Derry will have goue over to the nationalists party forever. Represented by a distinctand a considerable majority of nationalists as they are, the ORANGEMEN'S ASCENDANCY 1S DOOMED to death. Thereupon, their lower classes, roughs and corner-boys, are furious, and break into savagery when they come within sight of a group of Catholic nationalists, Cork and Tipperary are quiet and content because they see the triumph of the cause is quite near. They sce that they bave now behind them the whole of the great English radical party. The rad- ical associations everywhere declare that home rule is the question of the day, the question of the radical party, and that home rule must be settled before anything else is begun. Cork and Tipperary look at this as & trinmph already won. It would be very 0dd if it did not. For years and years the home rule movement has been almost exclusively an Irish movewent, with the whole English publies ot B ALL PARTIES DEAD AGAINST IT. Only a few of the advanced radicals in the house of commons, such as Cowen, Labou. chere, Story, Wilfred Lawson and Jacob Bright, were noted for it, or took the slight- est interest in it. Now it is an English question as well as an Irish one. 1t is G stone’s question, Lord Spencer’s questi Morley’s question, the radical party's ques- tion, the question on which ministries must rise and fall. Remember that among the se- cessionists the great majority voted, not against home rule, but against Gladstone's particular scheme of home rule, All this is in the minds of the Irish people, and they cannot but regard the struggle of the last election as an evidence of the splendid and surprising progress made by the cause of home rule. They know that every great movement con- ducted by the radical party in England has won its way in the end. They are well assured that it wilibe the same until it is settled, What effect will the Belfast riots have on the political question? They will at least have the effect of showing what sort of a minority that is which the English tories and secesslonists have been glorifying. We say to them ths is the work of your loyal and peacefvl winority; these are the wmen for whose satisfaction you would deny the demand of a whole people; these are the men, THESE MURDEROUS RUFFIANS, in the slums of Belfast, for whose sake Irish people are to be denied their national rights and kept in perpetual emnity with England. Of course, I don't say that there are not num- bers of intelligent and respectable Orange- men in Belfast who conlemn and de test these riotous goings on. Still the general effect is the same. What the ceol Englishman soes, is that nationalist Ireland is perfectly orderly and quiet, while loyal and pious Bel- fast furnishes rowdies and ruffians, who wreck houses, murder women and_fire revol- vers ou the police and soldiers. The house of commons meets for business next Thurs day and, no doubt, we shall have this subject of the Belfast riots made the occasion fora long debate, Sexton, as ajmember for West Belfast, will, 1 presume, put the anti-Orange case. No man could do it better. 1t is not yet settled what course the radicals and home rulers will take with re-* gard to the address generally and the policy of the government. In fact we do uot yot know whether the government will anneunce its intention to prepare any Irish policy or will boldly say THEY HAVE NO POLICY, or what they will do. No oue talks much on account of Lord Salisbury’s declaration agalnst home rule In his speech the other uight, Salisbury is in the habit of saying one thing and dolng another. With all his s render m ywn no lent of rous on m is and MORNIN eat he sort « af & has often ot exh Captain Downright W t dile I the time bastinaao him, ns up ddenly B na over to keep the veace d cannot, therefore right efore parliament 4 will, perhaps, have been bound over to th 1 will not undertake to b nado Gladstone or Parnell Lord Randolph Churchill s ally would rather like a pre t now he does not care ments, and would nand in the house es, until Christmas. , if Salisbury is not bound over to keep the peace Churchiil may perhiaps have this desire gratified. JUSTIN McCARTHY, “BUCKSHOT" BELFAST. The Word That Maddens the Police —Rather a Quiet Saturday. BELFAST, August 14.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bek.|—Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon the city has been perfectly orderly, Rioting was expected when the Island men marched over Queen’s Bridge to their homes, on the Shark Hill and Old Lodge roads, but beyond a few bolts being thrown near Carrick Hill there was no dis- turbance. The crowd of men this afternoon was less compact than usual. The mob was composed mainly ofboys and young men. ‘The older men began tosee the ridiculous side of this demonstration, hence they went home alone and quietly, along some other route. The streets along the march were lined as usual with troops, while all the cross streets were blocked witn double lines of troops. The crowds were more inclined to be good natured than the one the previous evening. ‘The tew police allowed to be along the line of march were less cadavered with cries of “Buckshot.” TAKE IT OFF, BUCKSHOT.” After the crowd had passed up Peter's Hill intothe Shark Hill road an incident occurred showing that little was needed to starta riot. Several boys saw & party of policemen walk- ing up North Boundary street towards the commer of the Shank Hill road, where McKenna's wrecked saloon stands. Imme- diately a cry of “Buckshot” was raised and it brought a crowd of men together, who chased the police down North Boundary street to the extreme limit of the Protestant quarter, near the Falls road. Fortunately no stones could be quickly obtained, so the nolice es- caped with a slight drubbing. The Catholics at once gathered at the corner of the Falls road, but before the stone-throwing really began ws neets, Salisbury e person- tting of has no country for country rather remain in commons, he COLUMNS OF TROOPS marched from both ends of North Boundary street and formed a line acro:s, between the Protestant and Catholic quarters. A number of boys began stone-throwing from the corner of Duffy’s court on Dover street, at the po- lice. A few big c2bblestones cawe over the tops of the houses, lighting on the street with & whack, which made the police anxiously feel the tops of their heads, A quick-witted ofticer, however, sent a devloy of troops by & back way to Dover street. They came upon the boys behind and arrested one, Samuel Hamill. They had him marched before the men could GATHER TO RESCUE HIM. I bave just returned from a trip over the whole disturbed district. 1 found the Pro- testants gathered in considerable numbers along the Shark Hill road, which is tne backbone ot the Protestant quarters. The Catholics were in even greater numbers along Castle street. The debatable ground, lying between the Shank Hilland Fallsroad, where most of the severe rioting occurred, was nearly deserted. In many places the window shutters were up and other prepar- ations had been made for rioting. At pres- ent the outlook 1s encouragingly peace’ul, but the decision in the matter re: largely with the gangs of irresponsible boys on both sides, who RATHER ENJOY TIE TUMULT. The troops and police are stationed in such large masses all over the town that probably any attempts at rioting will be suppressed before the men take a hand in it. If, how- ever, rival gangs of boys are able to get well started, or & drunken man of either party wanders over the line of his district and is beaten by the other side, then, to-night there will be a repetition of what happened last Saturday, when rioting and shooting went on at a dozen places at the same time. All the public houses were closed to-day and willbe to-morrow, This will aid, perhaps, in keeping thetown quiet, but on the other hand people are drinking just the same. They & 10 place to gather, except in the streets, where they are ready to take a hand io a row as soon as it is started. THE SOCIALIST PROCESSION. Walks and Talks in Brussels Before The Great Event. BRUSSELS, August 14. York Herald Cable—S I to the Beg.)—To-morrow, if we inay pelieve the alarmists, we shall see a revolution in the streets of Brussels.” To- morrow, it the optimists can be trusted, we shall view nothing but a grand procession, a great deal of revelry and some drunkenness, all 10 honor of the revolution, Which will itbe? 1 reached Brussels last night, expecting to find the {city panic-stricken, Everything, however, seemed to be going on much as usual. Old wowen were crying their wares in the niarket, dogs still dragged their milk cans about, hotel keepers were busily fleceing foreigners, and King Leopold, unruffied by the prospeet of dethronement, was resting in the garden of his palace, next door tomy hotel. The calm, however, is only on the surface. Wherever I went 1 found people TALKING OF SUNDAY'S DEMONSTRATIONS, At thecafe andin the Place Royal the bourgeoise were anxiously discussing the ad- visability of closing their shops in case of trouble to-morrow. Business is almost at a stand-still and all the so-called vespectable part of Brussels is abusing M. Buus, the bur- eomaster, for not forbidding the threatened socialist procession. Among the dreaded so- clalists 1_found much less excitement. At theofice” of Le Peuple, the organ of the workingiuen’s party, nothing could be heard but the scratch of the editor's pen as I knocked at the door. 1 asked for M, Jean Volders, the redacteur deleque. M. Volders was absent, but M. Bertrand, the business manager of the paper, was there. M. Ber- trand is a short, square set man of about thirty-five, with closec-ropped hair, His wan- ner 1o me was cool yet courteous, “What are you soclalists aiwing at?” 1 asked. “What is the cause of all these pro- cessions and manifestations?” OBJECT OF THE PHOCESSION. “Our chief objeect,” replied M. Bertrana, *Yis the amelloration of the iot of the work- ing classes. The wovement orzanized by the people is both econemic and political, The cause is the misery we seeall around, The misery in Belgium s terrible. Work— ingmen are carniug but starvation wages. I do not speak of tue glass-blowers—they are doing well enough-but what do you think of what sowe otlhers are earning? For ex- awple, the - cigarwakers . ewn 12 fight Down- | | gians in Chi | | but the pour AUGU G, 15 franes A week, over in Chicago the same would be making 80 ffaes, you willfsay f living is higher there. It is not. ever, so very much higher, 1 hear trom Bel go that they can live fairly {rangsa weel, WE WANT UNTVERSAL SUFFRAGE, At present thete are only a hundred and twenty thousand electors in Belgium, ‘Loget themto vote each as to pay a tax of 43 francs and 82 centimes, which virtually excludes all eoise.t1{ we had universal suf- frage, as the Awericans have, our electors would muster 16,000,000 strong. We might then have a chance of reforming our laws and getting the workingmen protection. Shall we make headway? We have now succeeded in grouping the socialists, demo- crats and workingmen tozether in what we call the parti ouvrler (the labor party). We began operations ouly six months ago. The movenent has already spread amazingly. We have little money, All we expect of memmbers is the nominal sum of 10 centimes yearly. You can't do much without mouey t 'essentiel.” INTERVIEWING THE EDITOR. Later in the day I found M. Volders at the office of Le Peuple. He was tete-a-tete with abottle of beer. He passes for bemg the chief organizer of the labor movement Though young—he is barely twen eight—he has acquired great influence. He began life in his father's shop as & cooper and joiner. Then he became a banker's clerk. Finally he took to preaching socialism, Phy- sically he was a strapping fellow, with a smooth shaven face and a good forehead. Ihs eyes are full but quiet in expression. There is an appearance of energy about him, and bis jaw seems to betoken resolution. “M. Volders is the LUTHER OF THE LABOR PART).” said a journalist to me to-day. When M. Volders began to speak, however, I found he had not Luther’s eloguence. “Qur immediate object, said he, “is to get universal suffrage. While the power remains in the hands of the clique which now holds it we can hope for no reform. We shall trust to peaceful means of action. Why should we abandon them for violence? We have not even taken the idea of riot into our cal- culations in plauning to-morrow’s procession, 1f we are Interfered with—well, we shall quietly continue the propoganda. movement is the revival of a very important labor agitation which was stamped out about twenty years ago. We count on seeing forty thousand wmen march through Brussels to-morrow.: Over one hundred and fifty thousand workingmen have joined our party, Once we have universal suffrage we shall nes or men the 10w+ th AGITATE TOR REFORM in the regulation of labor. We want the working day NimRted to eight or ten hours. We want the waces regulated by the state. Especially we aim at the crea- tion of labor syndicates. Yes: several im- portant workingmen’s associations are asso- ciated with your Knights of Labor. More will be soon.” All the intelligent working- men of Brussells sympathize with us. 1don’t mind telling you thut 1 believe a political economic crisis isnear'which will overthrow the government.” 1f Velders is the Laithér of the socialist ~D<”y. _whose name: is doubtless familidr t25Mr, Powderly, 1s Its Melancthon. lmagihe a short, bald, HeGtic: looking man, with adird-like but intelligent face and with red whilskers. There you have Depalp. e was 1N BED WHEN I CALLED, but, recciving my card, got up and kindly snswered my questions, He modestly protested he had no claim to be regarded as a socialist leader, but no one Is more respected by the Belgian socialists, and no man has closer studied the labor question “I might refer you foran impartial expla- nation of the present disturbances,” said he, ‘to the reports of the government inquiry now being made in Belgium. But if you vish, 1 will give you my versonal views. “I'hese disorders are not peculiar to Belgium, Thare have heen riots lately, I believe, in France, in Germauy, in Holland and even in Amen The Chi- cagh riots were not merely provoked by the incitations of Herr Most and a few an archists. They were, like ours, local symp- toms of an unfortunate state of things just now universal, THE CATSES ARE: First, they are due to agricultural distress, sulting from the ruinous competition of American Indian grain, The ex- porters, who, thanks to thei¥ superior organization and their experiment of machinery, ete, are able to raise grain cheaply, undersell us in Europe, Here, as in France, the peasantry torms the mass of con- sumers. As the peasants suffer from the competition, they eannot afford to consumne so much. Thus the misfortune reacts on trade generally. “The second catse is industrisl. Industry a8 af present organized, is monopolized by individual capitalists,like the Rothschlidsand Jay Gould, or by associations of capitalists, working on a large scale, with costly wachinery and with a selfish eve 10 personal proiit only No room is left for small employers with per- haps three or four hands. Besides havingto keep their costly plant going to cover their expenses, capltalists overproduce and glut the warkets, They are finally obliged to send away their workmen, who are reduced to misery. THE REMEDIES PROPOSED “What remedies do 1 propose?”’ continued Dr. Depalp, with & smi L am a doctor. If you come to me suffering from a danger- ous disease [ might adopt various treatments, and if the case were desperate aud your eon- stitution allowed #t,, 1 might take radical measures. On el other hand, 1if your strength were mot great enourh should be obliged {0 try palliatives. The Belgian socialists aré of the real German school—1 mean not the French one. We ac- cept, like the soglulifts i the reicstag, all means which give Bope'of partially remedying the misfortunes of workinzmen, while at the same time we alwhys work in the direction of our ultimate afm, the radical solution of which will be the siubstitution of the state and the communes for private capitalists. We—and by we, I mean the whole labor party —regard fradés co-operation, the gradual association of workingmen and sim- ilar measures as 4 mgdns to ouwr ends. Qur remedies presupppse 8 democratic state of society, 1do potsay that society and the Belgium of 1896 isgeady for them. THE OBJECY OF ALL INDUSTRY, is'the general goail. If the Rothschilds and Jay Goulds make abusive use of their power, and become oppressive to the nation, even sometimes ruinous to themselves, why should the state not interfere in the general interest and take' over the machinery and manage national fndustries for the nationa good, carefully™ regulating the sup- ply and prices in accordanee with the universal 'demands? The state menages telegraphs, posts, and rail- ways already in some countries, and well enough, too. You have only to extend the priuciple of confiseation. You say, why con- fiscation? Pleuty of factories are ready enough to makeover thélr plant on fair teriws. 15, | while We admit the idea of state eompensation in | exchange for expropriation. All workingmen have more or less clea | them ideas of co-operation and ex-cc ism, gradually and logica | grade associat he natiof system the | s and J after all, can’t help bein, would become state pensic TAIN lectiy in a y Goulds, who, what they are. ers, We hope to RENDS PEACEFULLY We have 10 love fo 1t is not the people who make the rey s, but their governme If England had governed the American colonies wisely, they would now be a part of the British empire. Incidentally we demand universal suffrage. We are not sure the burgeoisewill ever consent to the reforms we advocate. If they don't confiscation may become necessary, 'They certainly will not consent to the slightest re form until we hiave nad a good many demon- strations like Sunday's will be, and until we nave obtained universal sufirage. Inciden- tally we desire the suffrage of the monarchy, but'this is a secondary matter. Outside of Brussels, Belgium hardly knows King Leo- pold. He is nothing to them.” BUZZING THE BURGOMASTER. Burgomaster Buls, who plays such a prom- inent part in the drama now being acted in Belgium, received me at the Hotel de Ville to-day. Pushing my way through the siren flower girlsin the Grande Place, and with dificulty dodging the wedding processions, which kept streaming in and out of the building, I passed beneath the lofty graceful spires, which crown the municipal palace, 1 was ushered intoa handsome room on the first floor, hung with sombre draper and adorned with portraits w. ! landscape b the old Flemish masters, Here, serenely seated at a desk unfolding a pile of letters, 1 saw the man to whom the government has intrusted the duty of keeping orderin the streets to-morrow. M. Buls about fifty vears old. He is slight but sturdy, with iron gray hair, beard and wmoustache. He hasa Castilian cast of features. There is an air of QUICK RESOLUTION abont him which convinces you at once that he is equal to the emergency. *What can I do to oblige you?” asked the burgomaster, “Tell me what you fear or don’t fear for to-morrow?* 1 “1 fear nothing,” replied the bold burgo- master. “This is not such a seri- ous affair as the threatened manifestation of June 13, We don't expect to see over fifteen or twenty thousand men in the pro- cession to-morrow, and we have ten thousand troops and civie guards to keep order.” “How do you account for these disturb- ances?” There's as much distress among the work- ing classes here,as elsewhere,” said the burgo- master. “The socialist agitators, both Bel- gian and French, have taken advantage of this fact.” “Who are the leaders of the movement?” I asked, Jean Svolders, Bertrand, Anscele, of Gand, and others,” replied M. Buls. *“You have yourself tried a remedy for the industrial distress?” “Yes,” replied the burgomaster. “1 try to improve the workingmen by education. I have endeavored to fonnd a labor exchange where he could find work and be brought into harmony winh his employers. The workingmen responded to my efforts warmly enopgh, -the employers less warmly.” “‘Aze you personally in favor of universal ‘saffrage?®* 1 asked. No,” replied M. Buls. “I prefer giving the suffrage only to those educationally qualified to enjoy it. When alljean read and write there should be universal suffrage.” “Does King Leopold hold the same viey “The king has no views, or if he has, he probably keeps them to himself.” “Where will you be to-morrow?” said I, rising to go. “Here, sir, at my post,” replied the bold burgomaster. e THE 1RISH SITUATION, Michael Davitt Talks on Past and Present Affairs. CHICAGO, August 14.. very large con- course of home rule sympathizers attended the meeting at Ogden’s Grove Saturday atter- noon. Join F, inerty ched and Michael Da , Patrick Egan and Matthew P,Brady,were the prin pal speakers. Davitt, in the course of his re- aid that the defeat of Gladstone's measure had placed the reins of the govern- in the hands of the bitterest eneiiiies of the Irish national sentiment. Further on Mr. Davitt said he was aware there was a credulent feeling among Irish people in America that the defeat of the Gladstone home rule proposition was not an unmixed evil. A similar sentiment obtained among nationalists at home. In many respects the constitution provided by the bill was undemo- cratic. The safegaurds provided for the in- terests of the British emvire were ridiculonsly unnecessary. ‘These blots in the bill being undeniable; many persons in America charged us 'with weakness in_consenting to accept such a solution of the Irish_question, Davitt_would not dispute the correctness of these impression entirely, but maintained that limits could not be arbitrarily set to the progress of the nation. The pro- gress of the Irish cause must thierefore be Judged by either an optimist or pessimist es- timate of Gladstone’s home rule sch Afterreviewing at considerable length ] progress of Irish national affairs under Par- pell’s supervision, Mr, Davitt said that Iar- | had the most just claim on the forebear- patience of ail who are interested in Ireland’s liberation. The situation in Ire- land at the present moment was stich as may draw laml‘f upon the patience and forbeat. ance of the [rish people in Amcrica. stone’s defeat had handed the zovernment of Ireland into the hands of the landlord garri- son. To unreflecting minds this might seem like a complete defeat of our policy. This was not the belief of the leaders at home. They were ncither disheartened or dismayed, It was apparent that the poliey which’the tories tried to carry out was one of terrorisny They will continue to play upon the politi {ears and_religious criticism of the English people, This would ena in the ruflianism which had already reduced o prosperous Irish city to the staie of terror and disorder in which it now is. He was confident that the kindred policy now about to be initiated by evictions and landlord terro vouid resalt in the eause of Ireland emerging from the coming ordeal with brighter hope and more universal sympathy than it has yet pos- sessed. y In the evening fully 20,000 people were in Ogden gro Alexans Sullivan presided and made & short speech, Mr, Davitt again spoke but briefly. In the course of bis speceh he said tne Irish people could tight their bat- tles without appeal to weapons, The destiny of Ireland could be worked out without the aid of dynamite, but he would not pass judg- ment on any Irishman. However, as those in the old country had to stand fhe conse- quences, they rescrved the rght to suggest the means of Ireland’s salvation. But they would mot rest until they lad an Irish parliament in College Circen, Sen.edlea were made by Patrick Egan and others, Mr. Finnerty made a_wotion that a Mr. Davitt, and assaze at arms” stinguished vis- violence. vote of thanks be tenderes in doing so referred to the between bimself and their ftor. Chairman Sutlivan, before putting the motion, explained that this “passaze at arims” was nothing buta slight love spat, nothing more. The motion was then eatrid smids cheers upon cheers from the assewbled thou- sands. —— Wrath of the Cloud-Burst. Reanine, Pa., August 14, —Reports coming from the country districts to-day show that Iast uight'’s cloud-burst and storni was unpre- cedented. Many thousand busheis of unripe fruit are now lylug ou the ground, 186 ~TWELVE PAGES. ADRIFT 0N THE OCEAN WIDE. |{ Wrecked Vessels and the Remarkable CGourse They Sometimes Pursue, HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE WORK Preparing For Extensive Improve- ments at the White House With Only a Little Money — Mrs Cleveland's Plotures—Gossip. Drifting With the Tide. WASHINGTON, August 14.—[Special Corre: spondence of the Bre.|—Very few people have any idea of the character of the work performed by the hydrographic office of the navy department. It is understood in a gen- eral manner that this office has something to dowith mapping the surface of the ocean in order that the depths of water, location of shoals, ete.. may be known to mariners. Each month this office issues a chart, which is known as the pilot chart for the month, giving the direction of the prevailing winds, the location of ice reported and such other dataas only seamen are interested in. This chary, although a very dry subject, frequently contains the material out of which a Mayne Reid. a Clark Russell or a Captain Marryat might weave a_very Interesting romance of the ocean. Among other things which this chart contains are the reports received from passing vessels each giving the location of Derelicts are vessels which have ed and abandoned, and are thenceforth, umil they sink, far more danger- ous to the sailor than the Flying Duthman,or the phantom schooner of Phillip Vander- duken. They are usually iumber laden ves sels which have become water-logred, and which drift from place to_place without sail or rudder, and which_form serious impedi- ments to the successful and safe_ navigation of the ocean. ~Last vear this chart_contained from month to month the course reported of hooner Maggie Rivers, which was ape Hatteras in January, and picked up. after traversing the ‘ocean in a most unaccotintable manner.half way across to Europe andback, off the coast of Bermu- das.Later, the 0." B. Stillman.® a lumber len vessel, was ofi the United ast, and, after starting in the Gulf the track of trans-Atlantic nged her course and also drifted ~ to the Bermudas, where she was towed in, her cargo removed and the fact demonstrated that her officers and crew scuttled her for the purpose of obtaining the insurance. The captain was recentiy tried in Baltimore “for the crime and the pilot chart was brought in in evidenc d as & valuable aid o justice in bringiny coundrel to jail. On he 24th of March, 1885, the schooner Twenty- abandoned about 300 miles east of She began drifiing in an almost straight line and in a northerly direc- tion and within thirty days had floated nearly athousand miles. All this time she was in_the Guif stream. Then, for some unac- countable reason, her course was more north- 1y and was directly in the line of vessels iling between nd and the United 8 S v passing vessels April 4, 14, and 23, May 16 and 22, June 3, nd 50, July 9, 18 and 81, August 8, 25 and September 13 and 29, October 12, and finally on December 4, after having made nearly twenty degrees' in latitude to the nortiiward, sie brought up off the coast of Spain, in the Bay. of Biscay, and only ten degrees morth in latitude of the paraliel on witich_she was first abandoned. She was taken into port by some Spanish sailors and her valuable cargo of lumber, although ereatly damaged, was saved by them. vilot chart just issued seems to upset the prevailing theory as to the direction of thie Gulf ‘streaw current. The schooner Ida M. Francis, the bark Koland Hill and the brigantine ‘A. L. Palmer, which were aban doned respectively March 16, February 2 and March 11, have been reported from time to time, jumping around from one place to anotlier 'in the ocean in a most vu-ecount- able manner. One of them, the o ¥ 1 Hill, was abandoned on the parallel of New York, directly in the Guif streaw, and after drifting nearly 2,000 milesin a soutlicasterly direction has siiifted her course from time to time, an was last reported less than sixty miles east of the place where she was first abandoned and only about 200 miles south. The Atlantic is by this chart shown to be 1ull of wrecks. Somewhereabout twenty are drifting around in various parts of the ocean, endangering navigation and creatimg disturb- ances wherever found, ‘They are far more dangerous than ice bergs and there should some international agreement by which vould be removed. The hydrographic is now preparing a plan for the divi- sion of the ocean into scetions, each marivime nation to be chiarged with the care of a certain scction and to show up and destroy all wrecks reported within its own ferritory. 1f this proposed plan can be successfully carried out it will_provea Godsend to ocean mariners, and will undoubtedly prevent the loss of mauy vessels in the future, RENOVATING .THE WHITE HOUSE. Colonel Wilson, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, is very anxious the president to leave ‘on_ his “summer y tion. He wishes to zet to work repairin and refurnishing the exterior and interior of the white house. Sixteen thousand dollars were appropriated for ranning the executive mansion, Nine hundred dollars will haye to ve paid for painting the exterior, and the man who has taken the contract is ore than likely to lose monev on the job. ‘Ihe last time it was painted it cost the contractors §1,300. The house badly needs painting, and the work, it is estimated, will cost more than that stm now. This week an artist called at the white house and looked at the ceilings in the vestibule, The painting, which is in pan- els,representing Liberty and Unity,which are the embiematic symbols of the nation, is badly cracked and in places the plaster looks as if'it would fall. I he artistin looking over the work said it would cost at least $1,000 to make it look decent. Mrs. Cleveland s very anxious to have the vestibule present an_af- tractive appearance, because when she first came into it she was g eatly disappointed by its appearance, and persons visiting the white house are similarly impressed. In Hayes’ time the vestibule was tiled in hana- some tiling, but since that time it has be- come very damp, and often during the fall and winter, water actually stands on the tiles, 'The door keepers and’ the officials of the hiouse Lave complained about this, and even the president thinks it is unhealthy and he is very anxious to liave a larze rug or car- pet luid over the entire vestibule, This would cost ahout $1,50. Lieutenant Colonel Wil son does uot know whether the appropria tion which has to run the house the whole year can be crippled by the expenditure of this amount for a carpet. The red parlor, which is used by Mrs. Cleveland for a private reception roons, needs refurnishing, and the blue parlor. where the wedding took place, is dingy and the covering on_ the furnitire fadtd and almost worn out. . Colonel Wilson desires to brighten up these two rooms be- fore the president returns, but where the woney is to come from he does not know, be- cause the $7,500 given hin to run the white house has to pay all the expenses from kitehen to garret for tae whole year, AL, CLEVELAND'S PICTURES, Ihe photographer who has a monopoly on the sale of Mrs. Cleveland’s phiotographs is coiuing money. Ile has in the neighborhood of twenty beautiful nezatives angd has turned outsomwe of the most charining Wetures that he has ever produced by the photographic art, Orders are pouring” in on him singly and in dozens and by liundreds every day, and his facilities for producing the pictures are taxed to the utmost. This photographer has had sittings from nearly all the public men and fashionable ladies that have resided in Waskington during the last twenty years, and I s & us S8 10 sceuring a sitting from steaers, rs d 15 the crowning feat in his | pery successtul caiver w3 wloographer. Unlike the ordinary photograph of a lady in public life, Mrs, Cleveland's picture 18 put in dozens of different positions. Many people have tuken the whole set, and the artist has numerons orders tor thiree, r four, or five photographs from the same per: son who desires to see the beautiful womau in as wany different lights as poss ble. An this conueelion SOME surprisé s ex- 4 that Mrs, Cleveland did not of dividing thie profits of this venture the vhotographer, i the interest of some table institut Tlie man who now the poly of the bus will “un- tedly muke « great many thousands of | dollars and every cent of it will dro ket. 1 Mrs, Cloves ki adonted by the tur lnced on salg she might have exac alty of 20 or per cent on ture _sold, and have stipulated th t should lonated to some charit itlon, to be selected by herselt,and to which the owner of the ne ) monthly re- ports. By this means the sales would have been greatly stimulated and ¢ e would have had some knowledge of the number of counterfeit presentments this lady, in whow eversone has an interest, which may be sold. THE PRESIDENT AND THE DR ’ The president seems to have gotten hime self into a bad coruer. His letter to Keppler, of Puck, some montiis ago. followed by b more recent eftusions to the Florida edito in which he took oceasion to scare the news | paper press of the conntry and practically accuse every man of meidacity, seems to post. On Tuesday last the which looks upon itself as per n of the president, en avored to prove that the newspaper’ cors respondents here had been persistentl republishing five distinet lies, among whiel the one which said that Collector Hedden had resigned. The editorial in the Post contained a paragraph in which the editor himself said that lie had been assured Ly the president that Hedden had not re- signed. The Post liad scarcely been on the street two hours when the apnointment of Hedden's successor was made publie. Onf Wednesday the Post, in referring to the bad break, lets’ the president undeistand that it feels very sore over the subs and ~ that if any more icks of that sort Jare played it. may be ex- pected to kick up his little inciden! is of very little account in itself, but taken in conncetion with the fuct that' Editor Dor- sheimer made a positive statement in the New York Star three or four weeks before the formal announcement of Cleveland's wedding upon the autliority of the nresident lumself that he had no intention of bein marrie also in counection with the fac that Speaker Carlisle was assured that the presigent would veto the river and hatboe bill three or four days before that gentleman ads people to wonder whether it nory or the effects of the wed= sire 1o mistead the public that «d the president to depart so far from the trutl, while condemning the press for far less grave offenses in this direction. S ANDERSON ADVANCES, A Convention That Sat Down Very Hard on Hepburn. SINEY, Tn, August 14.—[Special Telegram to the Br e republican county conven= tion met here to<day at 2 o'clock, and eyery township but one was represented. Upol the temporary organization the full strength of the Anderson and anti-Anderson factions was demonstrated. There being a contest in two townships, the committee on credentials returned a unanimous report sustaining the Anderson delegation, thouzh one was & Hepburn republican, and the revort of the committee was adopted by a vote of twenty-seven and one-half to sixty-six and one-half. A motion made to insiruct for Hepburn was laid on the table by the same vote and then a portion of this minori withdrew from the convention and went h the farce of or and electing s 10 the s ition on the promise from the reseiicy, which expects to all powerful in that body, to admit them, thouwh their claims be devoid of all right. The Anderson delegates . W, Gunni- son, J. J. Chandler, Mero Webster, C.. Lawrence, William Joiman, Q. Gs Se R. Kidd, Dr. W. L. Bogan The convention was couiposed of the best republicans and the leadmg * influen! men of the fownship, and the ones who iave controlled the party for the last twenty years, i Ans ot m rked feature was the fact that from townships almost solidly republ le his opposition came from fownships where the sentimentis al evenly ced, The convention instru for State Auditor Brown and Attorney Gen= eral Baker, and passed a resolution repudiste ing Hepburn as a monopolist, and endorsing the candidacy of A. R. Anderson, as an hon- est, able and courageous friend of the com= mon people, who has served his coun in | many ' postilons of * honor * an trust, bothi as a soldier and a citizen. This action is an unprecedented compliment to Mayor A. K. Anderzon, such as never shown any man in Towa politics, and shows the dis~ trict conciusively Mayor' Anderson's stand= ing at home and starts him more than even with his competitor, notwithstanding his alleged 2,00 majorit ' —— Cleyeland Ready to Start. WASHINGTON, Augu .—[Special ‘Tele~ gram 30 the Brr.|—The president is ex- pected to leave for the mountains to-morrow night or Monday morning, although it may be a few hours later before he can get away. desirous of goinz with as little pubs as possible, ‘and” for this reason tne hour of his departure will remain & s It was expected that he would ap- oint a public printer to-day and reports n the white house were eazerly waited but vone was disappointed. — The place vacated by Publi: Printer Rounds has notyet been filled, although his successor may be anunounced Monday morning, evem though the president should leave in the meantime, derson strength came e bl Wheat in South Amerl WASHINGTON, August 14.—[Special Tele- gram to the Brr|~From reports received from Argentine Republic it would seem that that country promises to bea formidable rival of the United States in the near future asa wheat producing region. E. L. Baker, United States consul general at Buenos Ayres, writes that a survey has just been completed wiich shows the area of the repub- licto be about one and a quarter willion square miles, Five million acres of this line is devoted to g and about one and three- quarter million acres is in wheat. The ares is inereasing from year to year, e Picked Up at Pender, PENDER, Neb,, August 14.—[Special Cor- respondence of the Bee.]—Thursday we were inundated by the outfit traveling under the name of “*Col. Spicer’s World's Fair and Con- @ress of Living Wonders,” The show was like all other circuses, and was accompanied by & gang of sharps and gamblers who worked thelr little games to fleece the verdant, Prominentamong them were the soapman and the *‘three shell” man, ain is coming in fast, und soon times will be better and merchants flush, Corn is up to 23 cents. ‘The Bancroft Journal waxes warm over the fact that Pender 1s to be nonored by a visit from Benator the 20th instead and abuses Mr. Pritchard preside the Pender Van Wyck ciub in round _terms, It is uot only useless but it is unjust_ior the Journal to indulze in such an attack, Mr, Pritchard has not done anything to deserve such rough handling, and we could show that he crred in being'too favorable to Ban- croft rather than to Pender, had we space 10 give a tull history of the affair. People Disappoluted. ., August 14.—[Spectal to the The citizens of Waloo and the sur- atly disappointed n account of ot hearing Hon. €, ck, s they hiad expected. Sen tor van Wyck was billed to speak here yes | terday and at Ashland in the evening, and | by some oversight the Lour of speaking was published 5 p. m, The senator supposed he Was 10 speak at 1 p, w., and as he had te leave at 3:10 p, ., in o 1 reach Ash- land, hie could not liere. ‘The teachers’ institute closed to-day. enrollinent was over {7 nost successful and interestin aunders county. Superintes ent Dooley is entitled 1o eredit | ever held in $ | G | evterainments furaisbed.