Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1887, Page 4

3 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVS OF SURSCRIPTION ! fly (Morniag Fdition) including Sunda; kr, One Yoar A Sw address, One Year. %, NO. 014 AND FARNAM STRERET. R e A i Tt ASHINGTON OFFICS, NO. 513 FOUNTRENTH STREET. CORRESPONDRNCE: All communiontions relating to news and ed- torial matter should be addressed o the Kvi- Ton OF THE B BUSINESS LETTERS! ATl buriness lotters and romittances should be dressod to TH PUBLISRING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, ohocks and postofe orders %0 bo made payable to the order of the company, TR DEE PUBLISHIIG CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpITOR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. of Nehraski } a8 cm'm{xd Douglas. eo. B. ‘I'zschuck, secrel of The Bee Publishing com pror, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending May 20, 1557, was as ollows: Saturday, May 14..... .- Bunday, May 15 uosda; ay 17, wmne:d May May 1 Average.... . ..14.203 GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 215t day of May, 1857, N. P. FeIr, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 186, 12,439 copies; for June, }MAI&MM?&;&&%M. 1680, 13514 copies or A ugust coples; for Septem- Bor, A0 copiass for Octaber. 1uuty 12,040 coples; for November, 1886, ' 13,343 coples; for December, 1596, 13,337 coples; ‘for January, 1887, 10,007 ook}m; for February. 1857, 14,108 coples; for March, 1557, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies, 0, B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Tth dl&fl( May, A. D., 1887, ISEALS N. P. Frir, Notary Public. e Tuk National Opera company has re- turned from San Francisco after a suc- cessful season in that city. ‘The company 18 how in Kansas City. e—— Tus Omaha real estate boom has ex- tended to Washington City. When real estate takes “'a rise” in Washington and Georgetown, 'tis indeed a poor town that has no desirable corner lots. —— THE weekly conference of Methodist ministers in Philadelphia decided to ap- point a committee to consider the ques- tion of excluding reporters of the press from the privileges of the floor. And thus the reporters last hove for future happiness has been banished. E——— 81. Louis will adopt the Saturday half- holiday. Several banks there have ‘al- ready decided to close at 1 o'clock. Thé haif-holiday will never be & success un- til the employer allows the employe’s time to go on. A poor man cannot aflord to lose a half day in each week of the year. e — Tug imports at the port of New York 1ast week were unusually large, amount- ing to nearly $11,500,000, and were more than double the exports. Yet it is said that the exports of the 50,000 people who take their beer and go to New Jersey on Bundays, here of late, exceed all other business of the great metropolis. ememmee—— THERE 18 yet wanted an answer to the question propounded many months ago by the long deluded, “What are we here for?” At S8henandoah, Pa., where the salary of the postoffice is $1,700 per annum, the republican postmaster re- signed a month ago, and up to this date the president has been unable to find a man who will accept the appointment. And 30 it would appear that in Sam Ran- dall’s state the mad chase after party spoils exists only orally. SEE———— ‘THE republican state committce has been called to meet on June 8, ostensibly for the purpose of electing a new chair- man in place of the late Judge Weaver. ‘Why the committee should be convened 8t this day, when there is no general campaign 1mpending, has not transpired. The prime mover of the premature cail issaid to be Cuptain Humperey, the Pawnee blatherskite. The Pawnee war- rior is & oandidate for the chairmanship. He waunts the position not merely for glory; but to punish Governor Thayer for declining to appoint him judgeof the First district. It remains to be seen whether the committes will demean itself 90 far, as to place the doughty’captain in a position to avenge his own fancied 'wrongs at the expense of its party. erm—— Trsrs wore few men who made hon- orable records as soldiers in the war of the rebellion bettor deserviug a monu- ment than General James B, Steedman, of Ohio, to whom one has just been un- veiled at Toledo. A plain, bluut man, al- ‘ways an ardent and active democrat in politics, there was no more unswerving patriot in the north than Steedman when the union was assailed, and among the earliest to enter the conflict he was also among the last to come out. His gallan- try at Chickamauga won him the undis- puted title of the hero of that memorable engagement, and he was justly proud ot it. General Steedman was essentially an Awerican soldier, and there never lived a braver or one more loyal to the union ‘Tue liquor men of Pennsylvania have callod astato convention for July, at which time they will plan an attack 8n the recant high license bill. They might as well accept the situation. . Nebras- ka's high license bill is more strict than the law recently enacted in the Keystoue state, yot any liquor man will say to-day, that the provisions of the law are good. A high license law means suppression of the doggeries and lower dives. It also Kuarantees protection to the more re- speotable saloon men who meet its ro- quirements. Undor a low license sys- tem 1t 15 possible for jug saloons, low dives and disreputable places to exist: tho business can never resemble respect- ability, and those dealers who are de- cent are obliged to share equally the odium attached to the dirtiest and filthiest of dives. High license purges & city of the fourth class bar room and receives the protection of the law. Pre regu- llflonolmumuummomndhy the saloon men as any others. The Slo- cumb law of Nebraska meets the require- ment. . Let Him Vindicate Himself. A paper published n the town of Wayne isin high dudgeon over what it calls the discourteous treatment which the Hon. Mr. Slater received at the hands of the Bee during his recent visit to Omaha. Our indignant contemporary asserts that as a representative of Wayne to the railrond conference at Omaha, *‘Mr. Sla- ter was entitled to respectful treatment and the malicious attack upon him by the BEE was unjustifiable and entirely uncalled for inasmuch as the Ber failed to make good its accusation against Slater and other members of the judi- cary committee before the legislature.” Mr. Slater is therefore called upon to vindicate himself by bringing Rosewater before the bar of justice in an action for criminal libel under the new libel law. Now we hope Mr. Slater will not wait until tho new libel law goes into effect in July. He ought to proceed to repair his damaged reputation without delay. He can do so by bringing a civil damage libel suit at Omaha, or he can bring Rosewater before the bar of justice in a Douglas county court by filing & com- plaint against him for criminal libel. We promise him in advance that we shall interpose no objection to a speady trial and a fair hearing. 1t will certainly af- ford the BEE great pleasure to exone- rate Mr. Slater, if we fail to prove by a preponderance of testimony that heis one of the most brazen rogues that cver misrepresented a constituency in the leg- islature. It is true the judiciary boodlers were not convicted before the legislature. It would have been next to impo ssible to convict them betore the committee which the conspirators had packed to prevent a proper and thorough investigation. They would have been whito: washed even 1f the committee had been divided 1n its report. That was the opinion of Speaker Harlan and Mr, Dempster. chairman ot the com- mittee appointed by the speaker. It was bacause Slater, Russell, Bowman & Co, had packed the committee and fore- stalled an impartial investigation that tho charges were not pressed. Church Howe who knows a thing or two about legisiativa. boodlers and white- wash, declared openly whon the commit- tee was increased by the addition of the men picked and named by the conspira- tors —““that does settle it.” But it did not settle it in the minds of any honest man who has read the statomont that was sworn to and filed by the editor of the Bee with the first committee appointed to make the investigation. So much on that score. Aund now let us ask why any notorious boodler should be treated with courtesy and respect by the Bre or any other paper? The tact that he was a representative of the citizens ot Wayne to a railroad conference, made him no more respectable than when he was a reprosentative of Wayne county in the legislature. Omaha was the last place that Slater should have becn sent asa spokesman and representative. Omaha has not forgotten his infamous perform- ances in mutilating her charter, leaving her without registration, and imposing upon her citizens fifteen new justices of the peace and other damaging changes. The idea that the representative of any locality on a railroad conference becomes vested with the dignities of a plempoten- tiary, whose person and reputation are sacred, is too absurd for anything. In faot, diplomatic usage justifies the dis- courteous reception of any representa- tive known to have been unfriendly or disreputable. It was an insult to Omaha to send this man Slater as & representa- tive, and by rights the board ot trade should have politely shown him the dvor when he made his appearance. If the citizens of northern Nebraska, who desire to co-operate with Omaha in the extension of railroads, want court- eous treatment for thelr representatives from the leading daily of this city, they should keep their boodlers at home. CE——— Some Plain Talk. Congressman John A, McShane is the proprietor of the Herald, and as such he is personally responsible for the policy of that sheet. This responsibility he can- not shirk by pleading inability to give the paper his personal supervision. He is not expected to personally write the editorials or to prescribo their exact wording, but he 1s in position to say what courso the paper shall pursue. He canngt evade responsibility for the vicious, malignant and slanderous as- saults on public men by the ir- responsible and unprincipled roustabont whom he retains as chiet editor. When he permits this insolent sdventucer to give himsell the airs “of s politios diotator and allows him to wage vindiotive and cow- ardly warfare upon Governor Thayer beeause the governor declined to become his too!, Mr. McShane must not expect people to hold him blameless. But the conduotof MoShane's paper also bears upon its face the stamp of base ingrati- tude. Mr. MoShane knows, as everybody in Nebrasks knows, that the BEx was the chief factor 1n his elovation to congress. Couid McShane have carried a district 7,000 republican even against a more un- popular and disrepatable candidate than Church Howe in opposition to this paper? Now why does he retain as editor of the Herald a man who boasts in its columns that his sole and supreme ambition is to defeat every measuro however worthy, which the BEE may ad- vocate and destroy the influence of its editor by heaping upon his head the vilest of slanders. and giving counte- nance to the most dastardly plots tocarry out this object. Is this Mr. MoShane's way of exhibit* ing his sense of obligation? Is this the way he expects to retain the confidence of the people of Nebraska? While the BEE and its editor have no favors to ask at the hands of Nr. MoShane or his sheet it will exact decent treatment and a due regard for public interests. e Struck the Wrong Fassenger. Governor Thayer noeds nc vindication alour hands from the libels and slurs cast upon him by the impertinent black- guard whom Congressman McShane has the indecency to leave in absolute con- trol of his paper. We do, however, pro- pose to brand as untrue and malicious the statoment of McShane's sheet that Rosewater gave his approval and sup- port to an act which sold out the work- ingmen to the penitentiary contractor. ‘We defy MoShane’s paper to mame a single member of the legislature whom Rosewater ever advised to support that bill. On the other hand Hon. C. J. Smyth who made the most vigorous fight against the bill in the house, will testify that Rosewater furnished him most of the facts and figures which he quoted in the house against the bill and also gave himthe name of parties who claimed that they were willing to take the con- vict labor contract at much lower figures than were allowed in the bill. Senator Duras, of Saline, who offered half a dozen amendments to the bill after it reached the senate and opposed tho bill at every stage will certify that Rose- water urged him to offer these amend- ments and posted him fully as to the vulnerable points of the bill. Senator Keckley, of York, and Speaker Harlan will both certify that they were repeatedly urged by the editor of the Beeto oppose this bill, and Senator Lininger, who is on record against it, will also join with them, The Omaha boodle editors who were in the combine against the Omaha charter bill tried to make oapital against Rose- water out of the passage of the convict labor bill, by charging him with selling out the workingmen as they did by charg- ing that he sold out the taxpayers of Omaha to the railroads. Their infamous fabrications on that point have fallen to the ground long ago, and their story about selling out the workingmen to the contractor of the penitentiary is equally baseless. ‘WE do not propose to discuss the rela- tive merits of separate wagon bridges and combination railway and wagon bridges. The most simple minded will concede that a separate wagon bridge is more available for passengers and ve- hicles than a railroad bridge with a car- riage way. It is true that such bridges exist at Atchison, Davenport and St. Louis. The Iatter bridge is a double- decker and very costly for that reason. The St. Louis bridge is reputed to have been built at a cost of over six millions. A similar bridge at Omaha would cost fully half that sum, while a scperate wagon bridge can be built for half a mil- lion or less. As a matter of public con- venience a seprrate wagon bridge is vreferable to any combination bridge, no matter how construoted. At Minneapolis there are three. wagon bridges across the Mississippi,and an- other has been projected, THE republican city central, opmmit- tee has called a convention to Hominate members of the school board. The pri- mary elections are called for next week (Friday), and the convention”for Satur- day- This will leave just' one day, be- tween the nominution of candidates and the election, which tukes place.the fol- lowing Monday. This is 1n keeping with the whole proceeding begotten by a few ward politicians whose only interest in our public schools is to desl out the janitorships and play into tne hands of schemers who want to control the board for selfish ends. — Tur complete returns of forty-eight roads for the month of March show gross earnings of $32,502,058, an increase of #5,727,782, or 20 per cent over 1886, and net earnings of $12,176,647, an 1ncrease of $3.209,445, or 86 per cent, This shows that the inter-state law has being warped and fashioned to the officials’ fancy. The rates are being increased, and the at- tempt to make the law odious seems to be partly successful. A fow amendments; by the next congress will, however, set- tle the question, EE—— A cALL for public meetings to take preliminary steps for the nomination of a non-partizan board of education ap- pears elsewhere in thisissue. It is to be hoped that the meeting will be attended by all who desire to keep our school management out ol politics. — Tue St. Louis Globe-Democrat insists that John Sherman is the coming man. The sturdy Ohio senator is willin’, CEEp——— Other Lands Than Ours. The British house of commons has taken a recess, aftor having spent two- thirds of the session on some sixty lines of the crimes bill, which has tweaty clauses. The events preceding the ad- journment for the recess clearly disclogéd the spirit of the tories, and carried the sssurance that when the house resumes 1ts sitting the gag law wiil be appointed and the infamous measure pushed through with all possible rapadity. Dur- ing the last day of the scsslon there was a wholesale application of the closure, and the votes showed that the govern- ment has its forces well in hand. It 1s very probable that the remaining eigh- teen clauses of the bill will be pushed through in less time than has been oonsumed in discussing the two clauses that have pnssed. There 18 hardly a parallel to the course of the tories in the present house of commons in suppressing debate. * " France continues without a cabinet, the president having cast about in vain to find a statesman equal to the task of forming one, or who is willing to impril his political reputation and fortunes by doing so. The latest information is"that Grevy has appealed to Rouvier to form a cabinet, and that he will endeavor to do 80. Several members of the Goblot gov- ernment are to be asked to rotaln their porttolios, but Boulanger is not among them. Just here, as we pointed out a week ago, is where the gaeat dith- culty is encountered, Grevy will not tol- erate a ministry with Boulanger in it, and to form one without him will offend a powerful element, if not indeed the wmajority, of the French people. It is very evident that Boulanger, conscious of the commanding position he occupies, is not disposed to make a single conces- sion to his enemies. Thai he is easily the most powerful man in France at this time does not admit of a question, and he seems to know, as well as the shrewdest of them, how to take care of himself. He makes no demonstration to invite criticism, but leaves his cause in the hands of .his friends, the number of whom would seem to be steadily increas- ing. The indications now are that if a ministry is formed without Boulanger it will be short-lived, and in that ovent a more serious crisis might ensue. ... The labor troubles in Belgium are as- suming a most threatening aspect when the atrikers talk of inaugurating a oivil war. An attack on the troops shows the extent to which the strikers have become exasperated. The troubles are the natural and inevitable consequence of the competition with which Belgian industry has to contend in every market. Some of the late cosl strikes were directod aguinst companies which have not paid SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1887 a dividend 1o§ elght or ten years, But behind tHe labor problem there is grave political discontent with the smallness of the voting population, or of the ‘legal cotintry,’” as it is called. The property qualitication for the exer- cise of the franchise is so high that not over 3 per cent of the population can voto. The liberal associations have taken this up ag thé great question of the day, and are preparing for a congress, in which an effort iill be made to bring about some sort of agreement with re- gard to it between the moderates and the radicals, The latter demand universal suffrage, which the'former oppose on the ground that the ignorance of the masses is still so great as to make 1t dangerous, and suggest as the first step towards an extension of the suffrage, the introduc- tion ot an educational qualification, in addition to, or rather in licu of, the property qualification, where this is wantiong. 3. e The porte is before the powers again with a brace of fresh requests, one being for permission to issue a loan of $25,000,- 000 on the Egypt and Cyprus tributes, and the other that the powers will nomi~ nate some candidate for the Bulgarinn throne who will be acceptable to the so- branje. Both requests are in the lino of chronie helplessness which has long been associated with Turkey. The puzzle in her finances is how she constantly man- ages, when apparently beyond the bot- tom of her cash and quite at the bot- tom of her credit, to hunt up some new article of value to pawn or some old one on which additional mortgage is possible. With a billion dollars or se of débt, on which only fractional interest is paid, she was able not long ago to pledge some of her railways for money with which to buy guns and ammunition. Now comes another device, and the wonder is where ‘it will end. Perhaps she will begin soon to sell out some of her islands or outlying provinces if,the powers will allow each other to buy them. » Y . The financial conaition of France is cited as ono reason why it is so difficult to find any one willing to form a minis- try. The debt is estimated to be at loast $5,000,000,000, and the vast expenditures for war preparations, have nccessitated taxation almost beyond the limits of en- durance. And the taxes have been laid on the protection plan, to propitiate the agricultural classes especially, and the taxes on food are specially oppressive. The tax on imported wheat has been re- peatedly raised, uatil it is now equal to about twenty-tive;-per cent. It was olaimed that the price of bread would not rise in consequence, but it has risen, and some of the Manipulators have res- urrccted an anciant law authorizing them to fix a maxymum price for bread. This is making tcqyble among the bak- ers. The statesmen-economists did not venture to put a fak on imported bread. and so the Belgian | bakers are doing a thriving business by sending bread 1nto France free of duty, while wheat is taxed twenty-five per cens. This, of course, in- oreases tho irritation among the French bakers. And so ththgs are going from bad v worse. No wonder is it that French statesmen who care anythin g for their political future hesitate under such ciroumstances to:attempt the task of forming a ministry. O.I The annoancement that the Emperor William does not intend going to Gastein this year, and that consequently the tra- ditional interview of the Emperor of Aus- tria with the German emperor is not to take place this summer, has cast a cer- tain gloom upon Vienna circles, and has even had an unfavorable effect upon the Boerse. Nevertheless, it is a fact that this matter has nothing whatever to do with politics, but is exclusively connected with the physical condition of the Ger- man emperor. Lastyear the Berlin phy- sioians hesitated to send the amperor to Gastein because they feared the fatigues of the journey, and also considered that the high, mountainous situation of the place would be prejudicial to the em- peror’s health, Bnt he himself at that time felt.an irresistible longing to go to Gastein, so that the physicians gave way. This year, however, they decline to as- sume the responsibility, and the emperor will have to renounce kis accustomed visit to his favorite watering place. But, though the meeting of the two emperors is not likely to take place this vear, one may count with all the more certainty on an interview of the leading ministers of Germany and Austria, Prince von Bis- marck and Count Kalnoky. B % Fresh trouble for ))e Losseps is an- nounced from Panama. A dispatch says that water has been struck in one of the Iargest, longest and deepest cuts, far above the line of the canal work, and has washed from the side of the mountains into the cuts and tilled them vp. This ac- cident, which 18 a serious and costly one on its face, will not be an unmixea disas- ter if it convinces De Lesseps that he cannot cut an ocean-level canal, and that a surface-lock canal, instead of a sea-level canal, in long, deep and narrow cuts, 13 the only practical way of getting across the isthmus. Just sych accidents as the one described in the dispatch have been predicted by all American engineers. The only practical thing to do now is to let the cut 61l np and; then lock in and lock out, and change De Leaseps methods of canal building. /g ' * 03 The order of Jesuits is expanding all through the Dominion of Canada. It has over 300 members,of whom 100 are priests, and is acqifking property and colomizing lands inthe far west and in the northern wilds ofCanada. 1t is, fact, destined to be:an important factor 1 the futute as in ‘é past history of the Dominion, Many persons fear its influ- ence, but the fathers' themselves assert most positively tha¥'they have no influ- ence, nor do they any, other than 18 necessary for the advancement of re- ligion and education, leaving politics and all other questions to be dealt with by others. D’O The thugs of Indis, long since exter- minated, have been replaced by profes- sional poisoners. These people make use of a poison extracted from the seed of the ahatura, mixed with opium, and travel from place to place, now poison- ing a travelling companion for his money, @ luborer for his oxen, or a host for the valuables in his house. They are distin- guished trom the thugs in that they will kill women, children and pilgrims, which the thugs would not do. The road pois- ‘onors are organized secretly, and great efforts have boen made to exterminate them, but thus far without success. * " There may soon occur in Germany, po- litieal changes brought about neither by the will of the people nor by the ambi- tion of their rulers. Independent of the advanced age of the emperor, all ac- counts show that the health of the crown prince is seriously affected; and it is dif- ficult to predict what may happen in caso of his death. Of course, the intluence of Bismarck*will be felt during his own life, but after his death the old order may change, give place to the new, and cause a revolution that will atter the complex- ion of Central Europe PROMINENT PERSONS, Chauncey M. Depew Is entirely satisfied with the inter-state commerce law—it does not affect his pass in the least. Louis Lorlllard has taken possession of the splendid Newport villa bequeathed to him by the late Miss Catharine Wolfe. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphis, is to erect an immense structure in which the un- married men of his employ may find homes. Willlam O'Brien has a very peculiar dellv- ery when speaking in public. He emits each word between his teetu as though bit- ing it Ralph Disraell, nephew of the late Lord Beaconstield, will soon be graduated at Cam- bridge, Eneland. The queen, it is said, will push himat onee into public life. James Speed, who was Lincoln’s attorney general, Is eighity years of age, but he stiil practices law in Loulsville, Ky. He isa veteran, possessing the true old-fashioned republican grit. Governor Bodwell, of Maine, has no inten- tion of going to Europe with Mr. Blaine. He says that Mr. Blaine is now in good health, and anticipates great pleasure from his ocean voyage. Miss Cleveland’s proclivities for inde- pendent support do not find favor at the white house, and Mr. and Mrs, Cleveland are sald to look with much disfavor upon her re- sumption of teaching. Robert H Eddy, a Boston patent solicitor who dled last week, left $30,000 toward the erection of an equestrian statue of General Fitz John Porter in Portsmouth, N. H. Mean- while the Grant monument lingers. Mme. Patti has diamonds enough to adorn half a dozen Eumpean sovereigns, but the jewelry she wears with most delight and naver parts from are two Inexpensive bancle bracelets, from which depend small golden disks with Hebrew words engraved there- upon. Ex-Governor Andrew J. Curtin, of Penn- sylvania, though seventy years of age, Is tall, lithe, active, and quick moving, with a countenance having the flush of a baby’s chubby face, a snow-white mustache and a pair of elear blue eyes. lle has been secre- tary of Pennsylvania, its governor in the stormy days of the war, minister to Russia, and member of congress for eight years, tain ., ‘The attacks of the Omaha Republican on Governor Thayer are in bad taste. The governor {3 too good & man, t00 strong an ofticer, and too staunch a republican to be in- jured in any way by the vaporing of a man whom he failed to appoint volice commis- sioner. It don’t hurt the old warriora partl- cle, but it annoys his friends, because it is all uncalled for and silly. ——.—— Decidedly Out of Place. Kearney Nonpareil, Ever since Governor Thayer appointed the Omaha fire and police commission the Re- publican has been making petty flings at him. 1t bases them on the fact that the governor wrote a “silly” letter to the appointees, when the fact 18 that he was only urging them to do their duty and make Omaha a city where life and property will be safe all of the twenty-four hours of the day. The governor was one of the founders of Omaha, knows the city pretty well now, and the Republi- oan’s dirty flings are decidedly out of place. 1t developes, however, that the editor of the Republican wanted a job on the commission himself and Is piqued at his failure to secure it. If such isthe case his conduct is far from manly, and he must quit that sort of racket if he is golng to edit the leading paper of Nebraska. The people know the governor too well for such a course to have tho intended effect. i R ‘The Governor Still Lives, Nance County Journal. Editor Rothacker, whose birth into Ne- braska eltizenship is of such recent date as to make ita matter of question whether he is yet thoroughly dry behind the ears, was a proniinent candidate this spring for the oftice of police commissioner. 1lnstead of mod- estly hinting to the governor that he would not refuse to accept the commission if ten- dered him, he simply demanded the place as a recognition of his valuable services to the varty, and the governor In partic- ular, during the campaign last fall. But: Governor Thayer wisely concluded that & common street thug was Dot the proper person to monkey with police matters and gently but firmly refused to so- cede to his egotistical demands, and now the irats Rothacker has opened war on his excel lency with *‘words studied as to their sever- ity.” He misses no opportunity tv hesp con- tumely and vituperation upon the executive head, but to no purpose. 1n the face of it ali the office to which he aspired is filled by an- other man, and the government at Lincoln still survives. - Mr. Rothacker, although & very astute young man and & sharp. news- paper writer withal, has still many, many, ‘wholesome trutbs to learn, and none more prominent than the fact that he is as yet an unimportant factor in the political make-up of the state and should be content, for a time at least, to occupy the calf pasture be- fore he s turned in with the full grown steers. B Friends Old and New. Make new friends but keep the old— Those are silver, these are gold; New-made friendships, like the wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test— Time and change—are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows dms. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. gnl nl'dltrlfldl.u:‘ln‘lhl Inn die, - ew_friends i oir placo supply, Cherish friendship in your Ivrlut. New is gold, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old— Those are silver, these are gold. Pl L STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Tekamah 18 promised a creamery for a smal! bonus. The Odd Fellows of Red Cloud pro| to build a hall, Rropese West Point is pressing closely on the commercial heels of Fremont. Red Cloud school bonds to the amount of $6,000 recuntly sold for a premium of $233. This is strong evidence of gilt edge credit. ‘The commissioners of Valley county snhllaly announce that they can safely ispose of $25,500 during the ensuing year, and not half try, Burglars struck a_neat layout in the residence of P. C. Batehford in Grand Island Tuesday night—$65 in cash and twenty choice cigars. Ed Brusa, a Saline county youngster, tickled the heels of the hm!ly horse al coutracted & broken skull. As » come- tory promoter a spavined nag's heels rank next to the tamily shotgun. Coal finds are multiplying rapidly. Benkleman recently tapped one, aninch and a half thick, and surrounded with “good indications.” No town of conse- quence can afford to be without one, Isaac Hightower, a Crete kid, con- tracted a dose of motherly sympathy and a doctor’s bill by shooting a hole through his foot. The saddest part of the deed 18 wrapped In the fact that he is laid up in the height of the base ball season, A large force of able-bodied tramps are camped on the outskirts of Blair. They toil not but they spin doleful yarns at the back doors of residences, A handy wood pile and a dull axe, or a hungry bulldog, will spoil their apetite on short order. Miss Rena Shaffer, the York girl who shot herself two weeks ago, died of her injuries Wednesday. It appears that Rena toyed with the center-pin of the re- volyer and seut a bullet througn her left lung. It was purely accidental, but it serves us a text for a brief sermon to girls: Stick to the safety pin. A Milwaukee railroad surveying corps is browsing in the vicinity of West Point. This fact, coupled with the prospective Omaha & Yankton railroad, has induced the Elkhorn Valley road to lay out a few dollars in town as a message of good will to the residents. A new depot is planned. “One of the rising men in the manage- ment_of the Union Pacific,” says the Wood River Gazette, *‘is Mr. William A. Dougl, late of Grand Island, and ex-sher- sit of Hall county. Erom the position of freight conductor, Mr. Dewel has risen to that of assistant supcrintendent, with headquarters at Omaha. and still his star seems to be in the ascendant.” Mr, Scully, the Dublin land shark, who has tightened his claws on several thou- sund acres of land in Nuckolls county, has heard of the doings of the Nebraska legislature, and the invitation it gave him to move off. Mr. Scully has been in- formed that the law is a good one and he must bow to “Hail Columbia’ as the only queen on earth worthy of homage. Ta, ta, Mr. Scully. Wyoming. Laraniie has received positive assuran- cos that a branch of the Deriver, Utah & Pacific will be built to that city. The attempt to establish a branch of the Young Men's Christian association in Laramie has been abandoned, Thetown has noi yet emerged from the freedom of border life and rejects the chokin, picadilly and white tie. 1t is not safe to carry the banner in that town, The rush of settlers into the territory at Douglas and further south mous, Settlers have takon up cli the big divide betweon Lusk a: Creek, which has always been considered of but little yalue except as a summer range for cattle, water being so very scarce on it, Cheyenne cattlemen, according to the Sun, are not plensed with the govern- ment's determination to tear down the fences. ‘‘Most of the parties were given until June 1 to complete the work and can perform the task by that date. As the civil authorities have taken no steps to enforce the order it smacksa good deal of the autocratic style of the czar of all Russias to fire in a mob of coon cavalry to do work that would have been better done without them.” 7 —— The Two Assemblies. Denver Tribune. The Presbyterian general assembly, which has been in session for several days in Omaha, has made overtures to the southern assembly of the same church, which has been in session in St. Louws, looking to a union of the two bodies. These assemblies were soparated during the war, the dificulty between them having grown out of the slavery question. 1t is exceedingly unfortunate that a divi- sion arose, and it is all the more unfortu- nate because the prospect for a union at an early date is mot very bright. The war 18 dead and slavery is desd, but the memories of the war still hive. It is probable that the Missour: ministers who sympathized with the south were not fuirly treated, The war feeling was strong there, because Missouri was upon the border. Out of the differences in politics grew an ill-feeling which ren- dered it impossible for the members of the opposing factions to affiliate. But that day is so far gone thatits momories would probably not have much effect toward keeping the two assemblies apart. The Missourl synod, whether of the northern or the southern church, constitutes a unmpnrnlivelg speaking small part of the whole. The real difli- culty in the way of union, it spgm\n, lies in the fact that the old assombly made certain deliverances on the subject of slayery, declaring, in substance, that the owning of slaves was a sin. This the southern part of the church could not ondorse. ~ The southern members had owned slaves all their lives; and, instead of conulderlng slavery a sin, limy ap- pealed to the bible as authority justify- ing it. They had previously organized a mrnl assembly known as the General mbly of the Presbyterian Church in the Coufoderate States of America. After the close ot the war they substituted the word ‘‘united’’ for ‘‘confederate’’ in their name, but, owing to the deliverances of the northern assembly on the subject of slavery, they refused to unite with them. ‘This |s the way the matter now stands. The northern assembly will not retract what it said, and the southsrm assembly will not consent to a union so- long as the old deliverances on the subject of slavery are not recalled. The southern members think that to unite under these circumstances would be to surrendor everything and confess that they were sinners in lending their approval to slavery in the old days before the war. It would seem that W way in which to get around ts difficulty would be for the southern assembly to declare its position on the slavery question definitely and then to consent to a union. If the northern assemblv would consent to & union under these conditions, the sit- uation presented would ba-{mptlg' that, upon the question of slavery, the two assemblies nad agreed to disagree. 1t looks hike folly for two boaies of in- telligent men and of professing chris- tians to stand aloof from each otier on any such issue as this. Slavery here is thoroughly dead, and it ought not to divide christian people in_this day. It 1s possible that the - southern assembly would find it difficult at this date to adopt a resolution approving of slavery, Surely a sentiment in.condemnation of slavery is growing in the south, and the day may come in which the mujl_m}.v of the southern members will be willing to say to their northern brethern that slavery was indeed asin. But before this ‘¢an be a generation born since slavery was abolished must come upon the scene. The Young Man in Politics, 8t. Louis Globe-Demoorat. When Chauncey M. Depew, at the ban- quet to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt in New York a few nights since, stated that the object of the gathering was to honor the “young man in- politics,” he furmshed an entirely adequate resson for the as- semblage. The young mian, in the aggre- gregate, is & potent element in politics. In cach presidential canvass during the pust decade and & half 1,000,000 men voted who were too young to cast a bal- lot at the national election immediately preceding it. The political organization which can most strongly attract young men to it is the organization which will win in any contest in whioh the privilege of voting is freely enjoyed by all classer of citizens. The student of American politios wil have no difliculty in pointtng out many instances in which young men wore the controlling element in presidential can. vassea, It undoubtedly was the vote of the men under twenty:five which elected Jackson, Harrison, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln and Grant. Jackson's record as & brave and successful soldier in battling against his country’s foes won bim hosts of aur- rnnuu among young men who would have voted for Adams if the democrats had selected any other man than the hero of New Orleans. Even in the can. vass of 1824, in which he was unsuocess- ful, he received more of the popular vote than was giyen for Adams and Clay com« bined. The fact that none of tho four candidates—Crawford being the other— obtained a majority of the eleotoral votes throw the clection into the house of rep- resentatives, in which Adams was chosen. In the two canvasses immediately suc- ceeding this one Jackson was successful. Military service was the dominant influ. ence which arrayed the young men of the country on the side of Har- rison and Taylor, whigs—the one in 1840 and the other in 1848—and eleoted thom, In the canvass of 1836, in which Harrison was dofeatod, the whig strength was divided between him, Web: ster and Mangum. Polk, democrat, was clected in 1841 because he was committed in favor of the annexation of Texas, & scheme which, at that time, had a great attraction for young men, even for those opposed to the extension of -lnver{ which the success of the project wou d mvolve. The most conspicuous illustration in American history of the potency of young men in politics was that furnished in 1860, The men of the middle and older period of life, for the most part, bound by party projm‘icvs. traditions and friendships,re- mained in the organizations with which they had been identitied during their pre- vious manhood. The young men, how- ever,knowing nothing of such influences, and consequently being more readily brought into -sympathy with any new movement which deserved support, quickly recognized the moral grandeur of the cause which the republican part| championed, and triumphantly elocte Abraham Lincoln. After the death of Lincoln the regard and affection of the young men centered on Grant, the next most illustrious and exalted figure of the eriod, and made him president. Grant, owever, wassuch a favorito that he Krobubly would have been chosen eveon if alf the young men had voted for his principal opponents in the canvasses in which he successively appeared. In the present division of sentiment throughout the country neither of the two great parties oan claim a preponder- ance of the ngf;ra ate vote. In the can- vass of 1884 Cloveland's plurality on the popular vote over Bluine was only 62,683, on a total of 4,848,834 flvnn to Blaine, while he had 228,000 fewer votes than Blaine, Butler and St. John combined. The result, indeed, hinges on the state of New York, in which commonwealth, if 600 of those who voted for Cleveland had oast their ballots for Blaine, instend, the republicans would have been telum- hant. The party which would make tself assured of success in the comlnf national canvass must nominate a candi: date and proclaim a policy which will win the support of the majority of the young men of the country. Ao gt IN dyspepsia and indigestion the use of Dr, J. H. McLenan's Strengthening Cor- dial and Blood Puritier strengthens the exhausted coats of the stomach, promotes a healthy flow of gastric juice, which is the solvent of the food and impels the organs which secreta it, to perform their functions vigorously and with regu- larity. ———— Mysterious Disappearance. D. Bonyman, a carpenter employed by J. D. Montgomery, contractor, left work on May 9, saying he was sick. He bas not been seen or heard of since. Mr. Montgomery has made diligent inquiry concerning his whereabouts, but has been unable to get a trace of him. Bony- man is thirty yearsold, and of Irish naf ity. He left a valuable chest of tools an other articles. 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