Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 2, 1886, Page 4

1 e e e THE DAILY BEE pL HED EVERY MORNING P S g—p— Dajly (Moeniaw Eaition) including Sund 1A O N ‘ ¥ ¥ o G | connr o OF Tt All hueine ; I, . to'bo mindo pasable 1o t'tho conpat THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA E. ROSEWATER, Emiro THE DAILY BEF tord Sworn 8ta culation. State of Nebraska, County of Donglas, ( %5 Geo. B, Tzschck tary of the liee Pub 1ishing company, dovs sowemniy swear that the actual cireilation of tlie Dailv Bee for the week ending Sept. 2th, 155, was as Tollows: teme Saturday, 18th “ “ Sunday, 10th 20th Monday Tuesan Wednesq Thursday Friday, Hth..... Average ST Gro. B, Tzs Subeeribed and sworn to before me this 9l day of Sept., 156, N. 1 Frin, [SEALLI Notary Publie Geo. B, 'Tzsehuck, being firstduly sworn,do poscs and eays thut lie is secretary of tie Bee Publishing company, that the actual averace daily cireulation of the Daily Bes for the month of . 13, was 10,378 copies: 1or Feh % 10,505 copies; for March, 1890, 11,057 coples: ‘for April, 1856, 12,101 < for June, 2514 copies; copies: for May, 1880, 12,450 copie 1856, 12,208 copies: for July, 156, 1 for August, 1886, 12,464 copics, Gro. B. Tzscnuvex Subscribed and sworn to before me, thi 1th day of Sept., A. D, 1585, N, P, FEm, [8EAT. | Notary Publie UBLICAN STAT 1CK For Governor—JOUN M. THAYEL For Lieut. Governor—11. H. SHEDD, ForSeeretary of State—G. W. LAWS. For Treasurer—C. 11. WILLARD, For Auditor—IL A, BABCOCK, For Attorney General—WILLIAM LEEST For Com. Publie Lands—JOSEPIL SCOTT. For Supt. Public Instruetion —GEO. B, LAN k. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICK For Senators: ). W. LININGER, UNO TZSCHUCK. For Representative WHITMORE, F. B HIBBARD, GLO. HEIMROD, R. S. HALL, JOHN MATTHIESON, JAMES R. YOUNG, W. BLACKBURN, M. O. RICKETTS, G 1 w. For County Attorney: EDWARD W. SIMERALL. ‘or County Commissioner: AAC N, PIERCE. I Tue war cloud iz still loating over the east. America can afford to be indifierent about the outcome serer NEEDLESS taxation is public robbery. The treasury surplus last month was large enough to admit of $11,000,000 re- duction in the publie debt. irst “‘killing” frost has put in its ppea It failed to kill off a dozen score of candidates. The public will verform thatservice & month later. Axup all the turmoil and noise the fact remains that the Douglas county repub. lican legislative and county ticket will be # hard one to match. {t will be a harder one to beat A —— Gexnerar, THAYER will sceure some thing more than an election. He will be given such a rousing majority at the polls that his opponent will scarcely know that he was running. Ty Tur opencd. railroad attorneys after proxies, and it will end with the killing off of a large number of railrond candidates for the legislature. Every railvoad attorney in the district is working tooth and nas Chureh Howe's election. On that sub- Jeot the railroads have pooled all issues and will endeavor to maintain the price of votes at the tarifl rate. political has gunning & It began with the hunt of the 1son By an orror which we are glad to cor- reet, My, Kuony was listed as one of the represontatives in the last legislature who voted for the railroad commissi bill. Mr. Kuony is recorded as u ste and consistent opponent of the me ure. Boring for Omaha enterprise, backed up by ample ample capital. If a company will organ- ize to “pipe” the unuatural smells in the vieinity of the slaughter houses, heav, stock subscriptions can be at once se cured from the residents of the soutl and southwestern portions of the city. —_— Oxe of the supposed duties of {he worthless railrond commission is to in veshigate accidents on the railways operated within the state, At the rate at which collisions have been oceurring of late, the commission could have been Kkept busy at this part of their job, if they were not created and organized to deo nothing, and earn their pay by doing it RepPUBLIC nhave nothing to gain and everything to lose by committing them selyes 1n favor of the submission of a prohibitory amendment. Qur present excellent high license law already gives prohubition to every county where public sentiment demands 1t and where it can be cnforced. The legislature has no right to foree fice liquor, which is what no license means, upon communi ties. Legislative nomineces will very properly refuse to be bound by the de elaration of the state platform on this question. They will be elected on county platforms which voiee tee sentiments of the communities sending them to the leg: fslature, In Douglas county the republi ean party has declared in favor of a rigid coforcement of the existing luw, Which is the best practical restrietion W 0! its elass w the United States. n natural gas is the latest | and b Do the People Rule ? | o the )y h was p sed favor of the « m, 1 1 of to transfer their right of ralroad regula lord them relief, the railroad bosses set deliberately at work to nulli lar will. They besicged the with a corrnption 1 y, | bulldozed its members, and at the last hour of the session logrolled turough n bill to crente 0 railrowd commission made up of the clorks of state officers. ‘The frandulent commission thus created in brazen violation of thi nearly eighteen months. 1t has proved an exvensive farce. Made up at the i tate of the railroad manageis ha proved what every intelligent man must have forescen, a delusion and a snare, uscful only to the corporations and less to the people. It has wrung six thousand dollars a year out of the tax payers for standing in with the vailroad and delaying justice in its proper cours: It a v of conld the next ¢ the railrond commission would he by n hundred votes one. In the face of the known sentiment among all elasses on this barvefaced im position upon taxpayers and valroad pa {rons, the republican state conyention, by a majority of 34, had gone on the record against a resolution demanding its aboli be had at out of existence o tion of the commission, Three hundred and two delegates out of the 562 that made up the convention said in so many words that they would rather be lackeys of the railronds than to voice the people's will. The deplorable truth is that the railronds of Nebraska are not out of poli tics yet. When the resolution demanding the abolition of the commission was brought up by Scnator Van Wyck a brass colored delegate moved that it he tabled. Lvery railroad attorney, lobby ist and shyster in the pay of rail roads at once fell into line. They wante to rebuke Van Wyek, bat in fact the have only strengthened him with (he people. Instead of sitting down on Van Wyek they have given the party ab eye in advertising it as a vicious and dan- | gerous combination organized in collu ston with corporate monopoly to press the popular will. ek sup- | The Right Spirit. ‘T'he republican candidate for governor of Caiifornia, Hon. John F. Swift, : pears to be a man who deserves well the hands of the intelligent and minded voters of that state. There is an element in the state. not very large | but affecting o superior respec ility, which in polities assumes an attitude of hostility to Roman Catholics and foreign- born citizens. This element presumptu eusly calls itself ** American,” although the prineiples it representsand the policy it contends for are to the very last « un-Ameriean, and it they had pre riled generally in the earlicr years of the re public this great country would not be an independent nation. Could they even now secure the support of a ma jority of the people and be putinto prac tice—erystallized into laws and be cessfully exccuted—nothing is more cor tam than that the nation would enter at onee upon a of morally, socially, politically and mater 1ally, and in less time than it to build it up to the present mighty vower and proportions it would be found far down the road toward disintegration and decay, This element, of which the editor of n weekly publication in San having some local reputation, secms to be the head, got ther and announced what it ealled an “American™ ticket, hending it with the name of Mr Swift, the republican nominee. There had been no consultation with the gentle man. His feeling and sentiments regard- ing the doctrines of these alleged “Ame icans’ were not known to them, and they took no trouble to inform themsely The thought that the use of his nawme in such a connection might do violence to his views and be a source alike ot great _personal annoyanee and possibly more or less serious political embarrassment, seems never to have entered their narrow ted minds, or if it did it did not course retrogression has taken ancisco, tog remain long enough to aketroot. In the arvogance of their self-conscious impor tance they assumed that of necessity Mr. Swift must decm himself peculiarly honored in being thus accorded the un- solicited preference of this exclusive co terie of choice spirits, and doubtless ¢on gratulated themselves upon having done A most proper thing that would carry unbounded gratification to the recipicnt of their high consideration But My, Smith utter!y fuilod to take this view of it. On the contrary the moment e saw the ananouncewent he addressed a letter to the individuals who had with most unwarrantable presumption thus made use of his name, telling them that he did not desire to be identified with such political company, and that he bad no sympathy with their views and no re- spect for their principles. It was a very frank and explicit lotter which Mr. Sw wrote, and some of its obscrvations make good reading outside of Californis tolling thesc *Americans” that never expressed or entertained any sc ments in common with them nationality or religion, Mr. Swift wrot 1 believe that the poliey adopted 1 the early days of the republie, exiending the he rogusding right of citizenship to all 1 s in order to encourage their o hither, was a wise policy, and I wuld not change it if I had the power. And | thiuk further, that even if the policy as an original question was of doubiful vantage, it is i wy opnion in the est degree unjust, and unwise becs ubjuss, to sgitate the wmatter over again [ use to judge whether my course toward him was justiticd before man and God Epwarn Rosewarin, GeseEraL NEwTox, the new commnis: sioner of public works, is aterror to the contractors, Omaha contractors | ask an introduction to the ehairman of the board of public works when they want to see him Havive planted himseli squarely for prohibition, it will now be in order for Chureh Howe to begin eireulating the usunl subserintion s and distillersto Kill the jc ALEXANDE fuctor has disappeared from Bulgar As Alexander ha disappeared with a eool $1,000,600 to so Lice his declining years, honors scem to be easy in the Balkans, “The worst sidewalks in any wes city, lining the best pavements,” wa remark of a visitor to Omala o few days head It it the nail square on the GeNeran Mines” famous “campai, aainst Geronimo could have been con densed into one sentence: “*Come in and all will be forgiven.” I'ne candidate who has done the most and br. d the least, is in mine easc out of ten the man for the oilice. Other Lands Than Ou The situation of atlairs in southeastern Europe duri week has threatening. neral Kaulbars, the Russian agent, has sent o threatening note to Bul, san ultima tum in returnfor Russ stection, that demandir an p the Bulgarian winistry shall at once re lease the kidnappers of Alexander, refuse him I his family per- mission to re-enter the country, raise the state of siege, and postpone for two months the election of s vrinee to the throne. In reply, the Bulgurian mimistry on Thursduy dectined to releas the actual leaders of the abituction plot, and offered to postpone the eloct tionuntil October 16th, General Kaolbars in reply haughtily declined to make any nd threatened to depart un i's demands were agieed coneessions less Rus full. Thes tude lies in her evident determination to assert her independent nationahity, The short-lived reygn of Alexander, if it complished nothing else, awakened a new feeling of the importance of Bulga- ria as an independent state, able to with- stand her enemices, and powerful as long he was able to keep herself from being the football for forcign intrigue. Hold g the key the Balkans, Bulgaria through the past two years’ evidence of Russia’s ambition to control her govern- ment for selfish ends has lost much of her aflinity to Russian interests. In opposing the latest attempt of the czar to dictate and control her policy Bulgaria will receive strong support from the speceh of Prime Minister Tisza, of Austria Thursday in the Austro-Hungaran parlinment, in whieh Austria announced her firm resolve to permit no other power to control the destinies of Bulgaria oin ti gniticance of Bu to delivered on Candidates for the vacant throne of Prince Alexander ave multiplying with sueh rapidity that by the timo the grand sobranje mects itmay find a choico em The ¢ wididates were 0, who strongly and Prince barrassin g arlier the Prinee of _ represents Russian interes ntend Waldemar, of Denmark, brother of the czaring, who couid doubtless be relied upon to reign as conservatively us his brother, King George, of Greees A\t come the candidacies of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, who is in the Russian cay ruler are also manifest . Although varhawent hus been pro- rogued the Irish question continues of ers among brewers | THE OMAHA_DAILY the 1ri WS 1 fusal mites tory of which ties ny The w tve ¢ liheral influen g eracy The (een yo with ( seher | over Frem t boats the 1¢ Para | sevent and more York f been o stic of tra [ fow vil Repression tered by men who like that water and railway of South Uceayali, a mighty stream il cont BEE: but every with th ish peasantry by Lord 11 to do ov rtington ainytiing but wdjourn. He and thus the co. Vot has the tories. on- new in means b be sort of will has Ircland will ad higs will puss over to the unp, there to i, varty will come more the cor rem; il Witk v broader o radical wing, the in Great Britain will be Peruvian scheme of provic tl Americn, which was b g0, i hili, is e Andes to Porto wo, tributaty of th here navigation is casy yart of the way and for mainder- the month The entire distanes 1 the mouth ' of the 17 to Lima is 4,200 an will be of th at o cost L for Lout to be vived, from Wiy N larize to An miles, railvond proposed of building forty her with a wagon road of it les it ¥y n b $10,00 i length to Porto Nuevo, irm. When the projeet shal secuted there will ient and civilization ope vast o ents of wealth M The Swiss military authorities hav e, The autumn manouyre bout Laasanue, whe reconstruction of under of after millions of good mien and excellent | supreme amd abso weted m it This h road and | of the Tand leage wis wo=which is tr | neea of prompt a ' not dwarted and wary veiled t s of the 1 y | row prejudic und higotry, and the i the intelligence and fairness to jud 1 f o Further Smith declared his belief | En ) n 1t l that the religio: s antagonized 1 ! 1 ne \ thes 1fstyled Am 3 loy sa | of mu to republican ins ) {0t 1 f a 1 oa peril which it ! t to v pre- |t 18] 1 LY He e fornia cabal has its partan et 1 1 in erica to do t s, though they lack n | our nation, and « e the sufferings 1o not make any attempt at distinet | of t victim social wat In politiea tion. But wherever they have | sending mosal material rehef two themsclves that there is no mission for | “You will encourage the weak to resis them, and that in the poliey and prin aind bear oppression, and you will also ciples they misrepresent the sentiment of | lessen amd alloviate those feclings of reat majority of their intelhgent ‘\!upumvh minds of the evicted which TR e so e hish have so often and <o unhappily stimu s+ e Iated these victims to reco to the A Retenction Demanded, wild spirit of revenge, It will be an as | Owaia, October 1, 1886.—Mr. G. M. | sistance in “preserving for onr move Hitcheoek, Bditor World: Sme—In last | ment that peaceable character which has evening's issue of your paper vou charge | enabled it to win its most recent and me with honnding your late fatner into | almost evowning trinmph.” ‘This appeal his grave beeanse [ “could not bleed | reveals the e anxiety that is felt by him N vy D demand an ample and | Mr. Parnell regavding the immediate uneqnivoenl retraction of that eharge or | future in Treland, as w as his cart you must produce the proofs to sustain | wish to prevent, 1if possible, any outhreak L. Ldefy vou or any other man to show | of violence that will afford the govern e instance where Lever diveetly ov in- | m etext for reviving the coercion direetly asked for any por or political | act with its terrible oppressions. Its favor or tried to procus Wseription | earnesiness is signiticant of the serious | &iftor loan noyour ness of the erisis, | after his termin the Unit | Much 1 should re g your One of the surprises of the session of father's conduet into w public controversy, | the British parlinment which has just I shall, should you decline, feel in honor | closed has been the unbending attitude bound to publish tie trath and the whole | of Lord IHartington toward the Irish trutl regarding my relations with P, W, | Many of the conservatives were disposed Hiteheoek and Teave an impartial publie | to reconstruet the Parnell tand bill in way to tide over the present distress of ertre nore proved alition we to | hasevery show of “cohesive power, by par tened minis thing. 1ServaL W the the Vhese demo wwed, ling n winent e fif wnd suspended by the war I'he Lin m the Amazon for smull that from on, in d only About Iway 00,000, miles ninety at the head of navigation, hasbeen let to a New 1 have ned to ind al most unknown tropieal region, abound ing in availabie el v of dealing with the interests oS ane now in full play and the landlords of a s some regiments were to be quartered, held a meeting and resolved that 1t was their | duty to their trade to get a more than | v ble protit out of the thirst of the troops. They all agre to raise the priec of wine during the quartering of the men { in their neighborhood. The command | antof the battalion heard of this meas | ure and determined to eheckmate the greed of the unpatriotic Bonifaces. He telegraphed to Sion for an immediate supply of 4,000 litres of sound V. wine, which conld be sold to the men at a fair price. The disappointed landlords, ch profit ¢ Itis to the sutisfig pletely glish o aots dix natura Englis] sion to| dacks. Coal $3.75 to does not wish to tind mines worked, and ifoady coined by of the villagers. Perhaps the 1 for the French all very w Malagassy government is re. ctory, The islanders are evi from the advantages whic apital can offer as the tre The device of a Malagassy 1 the agreoment resented in is, Franc customs colls lly h corporation. " The treaty v the occupatiop of Diego S - Best quality lowa Coutant & Squires, 213 5. ty Nut who had Iaid in a great stock for the ne- casion, will be obliged to sell their wine ly for a whole year to come, to the ry will revenge themseives by joming the Peace society. press to talk of blockading the ports of Mada gasear again if the ultimatum presented jected, but this would be & poor outcome of ne gotintions once heratdea as completely dently not disposed to cut themselyves off so com h En ex- appen however, which cetea, an provi- narics bay was put in lunguagedhat implicd the of an y ad wble to ospect establishient of a Freneh station indefinite extent on the territor jucent. It can byrdly be agree: find new coereive measures m pr for obtaining the banetis of conecssions supposed to be freelyajzrecd Lo, some Things Even the President Can't alry service, and of the Prince of Olden Hay burg, whom the Russian consulates in 5 Bostan Joupial T e P T S LR PR T Daniel,” said Grovfr (e other day, after inx buneb come King Charlos, of Hou. | they returned to- the White house, *1 notice A 4 D h some innovations have been made durlng mania, “some one of the Orleans | gur absence, ’ Princes,” Alcko Pasha and General Very greatly improved,” replied Daniel Tgnaticl The Alcke Pashu thus men- | “Whité paint and putty will accomplish won | tioned is the rhish statesman of Bul- | ders.” | goro-Greek stock who was made governor | “Daniel, had you oceasion 1o be out very or Eastern Roumclia when Bulgavia | 1ate last night? | chiose tho prince of Battenberg for her | "N sit: 1 was tired out and retived early. vuler. ‘Llius there is 10 luck now of can. | But Why do you ask? SIS M A MO 8 Lwas merely going to hint that a casual glance at the front door indieates that the | ing, Lowever, If the choice shouid fall | Jugel lock has been removed.” 1 on Ignatiefl, while the objections in some | Dan cast a glance ata photograph of a quarters to bringing Rouman Bulgaria, | beautiful laly standing on Grover's table, and Eastern Roumelis under the sume | and continued to paste in seraps from the the newspapers about the trip to the Adiron- Cosl L st ATURDAY, | Conmor pr B1L916 a8 against a vote of . 1 n Tha records of Chureh Howe wa contain the indelib onable conspiracy own pen and democr: In 1876 Strickland Nebra Amins sident OCTOBER Keep It Before Republicans. stand against evidenes Briefly toli, the b plan to hand over the « W« f 9 -y 1886. of the First d & W or oA n hreh | Vi upon the vomember proofs of 1 il o den | hed i tory of this Tilden furn untry to I the Tilden and Hendricks ¢ the clection it was discoy canvass of this vote could not take under the then exist v bhef legislature convened. T) t had o be canvassed in - December at the Iatest, and the veguiar ses sion of the legislature did not besin until January, In order to make a legal canvass of the clectoral returns Governor Garber called a special sossion of the legislature to convene on the 3th of December, '36, at Lineoln, for the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vote of the state I'he democratic effort to cap ture repablican electoral votes is historic Tilden’s friends, notably Dr. Miller, had been plotting for the capture of one of the elecetors from Nebraska, and it 1s also Ifistorie that a large bribe was offered to one of the electors The eall of the legi When thele tal,Church Howe ff be found on b, braska House Journal of 1877 that in special session that this body foillowing groumis: First. This locis ini heen clect old constitution, | prei the new Iaving beer The sccor mgthy., 'l this precious document are s n “For the fe against any canva of the state by th that this, my protest, be entered upon the journal.”™ (& member of the le; Howe 1o spare was a by the Howe h champion of un p eleetoral vote in spite of it. When the legistature convened in Jan uary, 1877, the presidential contest was at ats height i Washington. Church Howe had changed plices from the house to the senate. Barly in the session, a T Baird, Blanchard Carns, Chapman, Colby, ayes, Kennard, Popoon, Powers, Thummel, Van Wyck, Wilcox field, Gilham, I Walton anc Those voting Aten, Brow Holt, Church How in ture, Church recorde Thomu South [pages 198 and 208 Senate Journal. ] ¢ Chureh Howe profe this tin vepubliean natonul issues and o temperance gr on local issues. Wo simply ask what right man with suc u record has to thie support of any republican Octobe Susan Hartley, October comes Her trailing “The erickets in the stubl Lanterns fiash out at millying time; The daisy’s lost her rufifes The wisps the honeyed ) bl @ river muflls, A lilm s over th A spell t N bird song the A blight 15 on t Bt filled with fair con: As if 0o frost could ev T'o dim her brown And much she k That dance beneath the spreadin With twinkling mirth and blust She listens when the dusky eyes Step softly on the fal As if for i Aud it must Mr. Harry J Ind., was cired of St. Jacobs Vil sislature convened at the capi 's 6, Tand 8 Zovernor his power to ¢ for auy suel purpose, or has any anthority to declare the result of such ture Lunder what is known as the constitut 1 foree sing Land third clauses de technical objecetions and are somewhat concluding rtest on its record olution was introduced expressin, conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler haying reccived a majority of the electoral votes were en titled to their sents, This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lnsted two days. Church Howe askea to be excused from voting when it first | came up and was 5o excused. On - the final passage of theresolution the record [page 336, Senate Journal 1877,] shows the following resait: Yeas—Ambrose, , Covell, and North -8, During the same gession of the legisla Howe States senator for the first three bullots is having by All sed to be a independent, republican on L ross the hill, Like some lizht ghost she is so still, Thongh her sweet cheeks And through the loating t; brier tangl Gleams ke & erimson posy. olden rod fade spider’s gazy veil is spun Athwart the drcopiug sedies ; 1uts drop softly from their burr silence stirs I sag that she eyoud November grim and drear, The feet of Cliristinas nearing - Miller, Iudiauapolis, | eneral Strickland ure i Church Howe da protest which may of the N The fol lowingextract makes interesting roadi L Chureh Howe, a member of the legisla | ture of Nebraska, now convened by procl mation of his excellency, Governor Silas { Garber, for the purpose of eanvassine and declaring the resalt of the vote cast braska for clectors for president and vice president of the United States, hereby enter my solemn protest against such act, denying | 11 s Do hvass methe voten now convened hay 00 power to wet in the n of the November, 1575 I with sentences of s follows reasons [ protest of the electoral yote body, and demand 1) Church Howe, respond to th I'he protest en- Iilden. The and canvassed the the Calkins, Gar- pp, Bryant, Dawes, K 20, the negative were guson, Hinman, s vote on United st for E. W democrat, Carolina anger Nicholas for Gclo Ie 1osy sthe down { gown e chime; pippins try; in the sun ws ot 1 n leaves, cheering can hear broke intothe | plan of the plotters, and they found a will ing and reckless tool ure of Nebraska, | The democrats did not eall of the governor and there was bavely w quornm in the senate, while there were in the honse of which member tered by Howe was doubtless prepared Vilden lawyers in Omaba and I the glory of being the sole legisha- | ture ignored Chureh Howe, spread his | congress B U | THE CONVENTION REVIEWED. | ot verime fom et coms o | | ' od that the refor THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. | "¢ RSB BLERLi \ Appliance of the Gag tule - The fro- | f 1. The galloric Hibition Hesolution- A Long v i | and Heated Dise Iy L ) convet Cnsston | N A ¢ L | O ( { L ! d 3 \ « PR | 1 ! 1 \ \ (2 | o 1 ( « 1 nte, but v v |1 1 FIN 1 on the grou t xeith ! ( neidents rema Wis wo Ltod ve both 1 LLER was sl prohibiton qu 1 and woul I No nomade up |1 o Ao that the conventic N | wneh 1ess in so sh favor of the oxist law, wh t Never has Nebras [ ibitory “wherever the people smvention made up of men of | posed to enforee it Minenc t W eloguence with Gere, of Lancaster, followed in the 10 iy ame strain, Thurston made o point | | There wa ol deal of the dramatic | ca it 1 bald-headed snave, boly v well ast tic in the great <show at | neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. Finally this the opera house Wednesday night. To | resolution was laid on the table.” The cinte and comprehend the work of | prohibitionsts however, were not this convention you have to go behind f downed in the figint, but introduced the the curtain, and hecome fumiliae with | resolution to submit the question of pro the stage setting | hibition. A running and bitter debate 1 ore the curtain arose there | followed, in which Laird, Tate, Hart alof the play at the Capital | man, Russell, of * Colfax, and ' half a potel The leading characters had been | dozen others” took part pro and con ealonsly watching each other and pre- | Finally the roll was called” with tho fol paving Tor the geeat drama of intrigne [ lowing result and diplomacy I'he rwlroad bosses = 5 | were there i full foree to prevent any s 2 mistake and keep Van Wyck down, As 3 usial v bl their scrikers posted con R Counties, | v y for proper effect. Some of the ; | tve workers in the hotel cort s were demoerats, who had been de- | < g - dternoon everything was at fever-heat. | o i1 Koith, ) Fie - railvonders “ad™ decided — to | Boone £ Revwranalf g ‘ 'I ¢ full conty by | making Jim P 11 A Tinnanster o 8 di aird clirman, gobbling the com- | e il ol 3 | mittees, and biocking Van Wyek and | i 00 Logan ) bis followers at every step. They had | Cass M1 Loup | the advantage of position. With Yost as | {hoar HE “:W~<-Lu- chairman of the central committee 10 | Ghoyenne 43 1 Nanoo.. recognize men of own stripe they were | Cherry i § Nemuhn. | contident of ¢y he temporiry or- Gl | 473 2 Suckolis. | ganmization, 1 tug of war was ex- | (G B[ Paw o pectad, however, over the permanent Pioree., | ehaivmanship. Van Wyek and his PHIDS. ..o | fricnds iook offense at the proposal to Plutio. | make Laird permanent chaivman, and AR, Tehnrdson they began musteving for a hand to-hand Red Wiilow tight Saline.. AU this point Congressman Dovscy | Pundy Sarpy threw hiself i the Breech s o peace- | e Jlioundoia ] maker. Afteragreat deal of parley it | Frontior. H s was mutually grreed that Jim Laird (lll:rmn« ‘:v‘llhm | | snould be covierded the temporary chair- | Ghe FllL | manship, and Judge Weaver should be [ gkl 0| i made permanent chairman, under cerd [ Groely, o Valloy tan conditions Among ¢ waus the Hull | Washing stinnlation — that Gere BT IS (Lol i MO made chairman of A platform | yainilton, Bho .| | committee and nine other fence-riders | Harl 66 { and railroaders should be named by the | Hiteheock .| 4 = = i Van \Wyck faction, while the Van | el i [ “yek element was allowed five votes on =R | the plaform committee, provided that ‘There were absent or not voting: 1 1 either Rosewater or Van Wyek should be | from Franklin county: 1 from Howurd | Kept off the commnttee > county; 2 from Jeflereon 2 from Nuck- While this purleying wus going on [ olls: 2 from Otoe; 1 from Phelps; 8 from Tom Kennard was improvising et Red \\|I]1u|\\‘. 'n-‘;m Valley; 1 from Web ovation tor Church Howe. Alout four | ster, and rom York bundred hoodlums and wird bummers The result of this vote was a surpriso of the railroad stripe were mustered and | on all hands, The supporters of the pro- provided with admission tickets to the | hibition piank were as much surprised at levies and rear part of the hall. Their | the majority as were the opponents, who Special mission was to cheer, yell and | had no'iden that 1t would earr | “whoop™ every time Charch Howe rose The saddest, if not the sorest, men in to his feet, and o hoot, hiss and seream :lwt-n:x\-n.’nm{ were I('hnwh Illulm- and every tin ewanter should attempt to aspar B ost towe had made | address the convention \\Iwn, 1| desy e eflorts tomominate two or three | these dramatic situations had been state oflicers in the First district whom | rangzed, o curtain rose. The | he expeeted to utilize in pulling full to overflowing. | himsclf throagl He worked hard for | isnot aninch of standing room | Clarke, whose “barrel” he expected to | from pit to dome. The stage was occu- | tap in Douglas county, and he pulled pied by invited guests, o sprinkling of | with all his might for Iill, who was to honorable bilks, ind the press rally Gage county to his support. He In theright hand box were ex mor | nlso had arranged in advance for the re- Nunece, Senator Manderson, Governor | election of Yost as ehairman of the state Dawes and several other prominent | central committee in order to insure a Nebraskans. The box above was oc diversion of the committee’s funds for pied ehiefly by ladies, among whom was | his special benefit. But man proposes Mrs. Van Wyek., The hi'?“ on vlui op- | and ml.; Lord .|'.\ et :hlm.- sying sosite side were oceupied by state oflicers [ goes. Every candidate from the stdis- fndl thelr faniilios. ] trict was beaten, and of all the defeated Without much ado the convention | men, Yost was the worst Iaid out. On a went to work. The platform committee, | eall by counties, which Thurstonjinsisted selected and appointed by the chair, ac- cording to stipulation, was given thirty minutes to present the resolutions. Con trary to all precedent eandidates were voted for without nominating specches, and ull the oratory was conflned to the suceesstul eandidates. nside of the platform committee there was i zood deal of tormoil 1 liscord The Iate rail road COMMIissic presented his reudy made machine-polished platform with several planks thut were pecul One of these declared the provision of the state constitution which allows the people to vote their preference for United States senator to be o palpable violation of the federal constitution and the acts of This wus knocked out vory promptly, us was also a resolution indors ing the Cullom interstate commerce bill as arepublican measure, Prohibition was alsoa bone of conten tion. While the majority favored local option and high licetse, the minority in sisted on w probitory smendment: A modified plink fayoring the submissicn of any amendment to' the organic law, whieh was petitioned for by a respeetable minority of the people, was finally con ceded. Rosewater's resolution to demand the adoption of the railvond commis slon wis rejected A vote of 11 to 4 But the minority headed by Van Wyck decided to submit it to the convention. No sooner had this report been read by the see ry than the mo tion was made to table it. To this ap. pliance of the gag rule the defeat of th resolution is largely due. Had there been a free and full disenssion many wiho, under whip and spur of the railroad leaders voted to table it, would not have aone on the record as defying the popu I'he vo! 5 it stood yory significant, and the men who voted to tuble the resolution will have a good deal of trouble to explain to their con- sutuents. ar sentiment, vere rhoumatism by | The vote on the motion to table the resolution was as follow | 7 ] Z 3 e COUNTIES | COUNT | 1212 demterson T |7 7 Johnson . |10 10 1 11 ! Keatney | Keitn | 1 4 & KeynPaha Huililo M 2 o Butler | o 0 et g i Citss 1 0 8 Loenn Codiy § 4 . Lou Chise '3 1 Mu Cheyenne.....| 4 4 Morrick Cherry | 8 | 3 Nunco Cluy |9 ¢ Nemubu Cumin & T Cuntd 9 8 Dukota 5 Dawos 1 Dawson [} Dixon. 5 Dol Richiwdson Douglus 1ted Willow Dundy wline Fillmore Suarpy Franklin Suunidors Front iu Guge Gosy Gt | regloy i | o Tuayer Hull ¥ K Valloy Tioward 6 6 1 Washingtou Hayes 2l 2l Wavne Hrinit 100 8 1 Webster Hurlun G 1 2 Wheelor Hitcheock ." | 4|8 1 Yerk Holt |ul 8 8 - | ptal auzt B2 248, on, with the Yost's clect ceived by Y Weaver. I little or 1o p was no test of vV belief that it would insure ion, only 91 votes were re- stas agamst 468 for Judgo e senntorial issue played art in the convention. There 1 Wyek's strength, un- less the vote on the railrond com mission might be regarded as such. Van Wyek himselt appeared well satis fied with the onteome, and his friends were gratitied at the strength he had dis- played moa convention where the ma- chine was all working poli with the bra Rubinstein, ness for gume Miss IMIN against him and most of the tieinns on the foor trained s-collared brigad - NT PLISONS. the pianist, has a great weak- anc Alice Longfellow, eldest daughter of the poet, has gone to Paris, Mrs. Taylol is to | Youns Geor saying that Adelina Adeling Ko, Miss M anee with now inc Massachus and in Dr. Perry, a fo Nevins, who marr ne, Jr, was to have made her nnison, the the widow of Bayard Taylor, s tho winter in Boston, ¢ Gould is alr Wy quoted as narriage is a serions matter,”” h, the singer after whom i was named, died lately in 1James G, tlirst ap- Modjeska in October, inventor of the cony nt dispensable 1 died last week setts, Over 220,000,000 of his 5 are sold annually, hotel proprictor at Saratoga, says the expenses of his house during the season are about 5,000 per day, Judging from the bills rendered, some of tho guests were of opinion the expenses must e about £1,000,000 per dny. Ex-President Arthur's health does not how any improve snt, neither ean he be consiaered any worse than when he left New York. dieis certainly somewhat thin- ner and is contined to hisehr the greater Part of the tin not lead a s banger to think Liman sick man. 11 ever. T1e Bl appetite and he is brig Edward Kin able little giant yive feet in height e doe more t active, labor-political ve i Henry Georo e, but his appearance would stremely 5 skin is fresh and rosy as onger sutfers from insomoniag only oceasionully capricious, htand cheerful agitator, isa verit- very short, hardly well b and not entirely believe in the movement, wlthough he does He is alraid that 2, the labor He the new political party will be seized upon by demagoznes, than led by disinter- ested men, and bor will have little benetit from 1t By trade Mr. King Is » type polisher, w York Sun: *‘Roscoe Conkling,"” said o triend of that gentewan the other day, Comes e freguently and 1 bave noticed that on each oceasion he is differontly attived, e has different outer garments, a_dificrent pleat to his shirt, different overgaiters, and very often a ditferent style of wateh chaln, H o tells e he is not rich I am not at il surprised at that. However biga man's neome way he cannot save money and extravagantly as Mr. Conkling There is no reach this impudent light a hoax to i ke Tliere is only one thing 10 o, bayeott him, the silly ing, and let th ten by Luman I el gud of Wigging L0l which he propares for ady - oycott Wigeins, aul B oncer I'ress neans by whieh the law can Canadian, who makes ) suffering if he can clrculate ¢p his name botore the publie, id that §s to use o print e Wigeins be forzot tongues, He hasdone enough had enough free advertis' o, cott and Jet us hear no word Lot Uhe press 1 © DA »