Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1887, Page 4

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B, T2s0nvek, Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 2ud day of October, A. D. 1865, ©C (SE. Notary Public Bx'uu- of “ount 20 1, e first duly &worn, de- « secretary of The Beo Geo, 1.1 ses and sa; that the actual average ublishing compa Qaily 4, : : for April, 18, 14,510 coples: 'for June, 18 i, 14,06 coples; for for September, 1 TuE handful of bulldozers who have been hounding James Walsh since his nomination as county commissioner, are singing low and seeking sholter. GOULD has given out that he sails for Europe on the 20th, He has shown him- self such a genius in doing what people lenst expect that it is quite possible he may really go. 5 ACCORDING to the roustabout organ, Wakely, Groff and Doane are vank pro- hibitionists, and the Germans are ur- gently called upon to vote against them and rally round Ballou. Tne officcholders of Baltimore are said to have contributed $100,000 to the democratic campaign fund for the re- cent municipal elections. This is civil gervice reform as Senator Gorman un- derstands t fated press announces that al Victor Vifquain, late editor of the Lincoln Democerat, has been ap- pointed consul at Colon, in Central Amerin. This is a chestnut of the vint- oge of 1886, General Vifquain has been consul at Colon for more than a year. .SOME republican contemporaries in the country are already cluiming that the trend of party sentiment is toward a renomination of Mr. Blaine. The paper that can tell all about a trend before it has an existence is usually the one which can give the longest explanation why it did not trend as expected. THERE isa great naval warfare on the Atlantic const. Two torpedo at- tacks have recently been made by the North Atlantic squadron on the Dolphin, Great victories ave reported for the lat- ter. As a spectacle this is almost as good as n painted naval battle between painted ships upon a painted ocean. s low price of wheat and the com- paratively high price of flour has cre- sted a greater activity in the milling Misiness than has been known for sev- ewal years. Flour is now largely shipped to foreign markets. Why is #here not more persistence in the at- €ampt to build up such an industry in Guaha? Z71EN Prince Battenberg’s first baby wiis born the queen promoted the proud father to a licutenant coloneley in the navy. The other day baby No. 2 ap- peared and now he has been made a full colonel. As Mr. Battenberg is still a oung man, the prospeet is that he will be lord high admiral long before he reaches middle age. THERE is commotion among the rail- rond magnates in Chicago. A freight rate war of considerable dimensions seems to be imminent and frantic tempts ave being made to avert it. When an appalling disaster occurs we hear very little from ilrond officials, except in the way of defendants for dam- ages, but let a cut in the rates take place and a hubbub ensues that ve- echoes throughout the whole country. A GRAND rally for Ballou and Estelle and the straight roustabout ticket, is to be held in the Sixth ward, with Sena- tor Manderson and James M. Thurston as chief orators. his will be an in- opiring effort. We know that Muander- son and Thurston are anxious to prac- tice law before such eminent jurists as Ballou, Estelle and Hancock If the judi- cial ticket had been headed by Pat Hawes, Frank Walters and David Van Etten, these senatorial aspirants would have been just as enthusiastic. MR, CADET TAYLOR, as might have been expected, denies that one of his attorneys had tried to bulldoze Judge Groff last summer when the city print- ing was before the courts, and he asks the BEE to give the name of its inform- ant. We respectfully decline to do so, but will incidentally state that it was not Judge Groff. As there wero only wo lawyers employed by Rounds and or, it is an easy matter for Cadet to ascortain which one of them made that friendly call on the judge, und gently Merit Preferred to Partisanship. The republicans of New York have set an example in placing ‘merit above partisanship which deserves general at- tention and unqualified commendation. At their convention last Tuesday they nominated for district attorney Mr. De Lancey Nicoll, n democrat, and en- dorsed for judge of the new court of general sessions Randolph B. Martine, also a democrat, who a few days before bad been nominated by the democratic convention. A resolution declaring that the nomination or endorsement of any democrat for a local office would be to the disadvantage of the state ticket was overwhelmingly defeated. Among those who supported the action of the convention was Elihu Root, one of the strongest and ablest among the republican leaders in New York, who justified his course on the high ground of the .public welfare, which demands that the men who have hunted down and brought to justice the thieves and boodlers who for years have plundered the people of New York shall be enabled to continue their most valuable labors. Mr. Martine is the present district attorney and Mr. Nicoll is his assistant. They have proved themselves to bo officinls not only of superior ability, but of uncommon zcal and honesty. Wher- ever the district attorney could put his hand on a public rogue he has not fyiled to grasp him with a firm clutch which no influence could break and no tempta- tion could induce him to relinquish. In all this work he has been ably and carnestly assisted by Mr. Nicoll, and the reward of their efforts has been in a high degree satisfactory and gratifying to lonest people every- where. Men who had reveled in their ill-gotten gains, managed politics, and corrupted and debauched public ser- vants right and left, are doing the stato gervice at Sing Sing, while other: fled the count Never was there a worse nest of corruption than these men have destroyed, and never did men work more diligently, zealously and faithfully to that end. The democratic convention could not discard both of these men, though the pressure brought upon it to do so was great. It nominated Martine for the judgeship, but disregarded the popular demand for Nicoll. Some concession had to be made to the undiscovered ras- cals who are in constant apprehension of the honest and yvigilant assistant dis- trict attorney, and he was rejected for another whose past associations and present obligations render him less to be ‘feared. But the public de- nand was not to be thus silenced. The repudiation of integrity and fidelity rather made it more vigorous. The re- publicans responded fo it, and if the people of New York are not blind and thless to their interests and to the cause of public honesty they will elect Mr. Nicoll by a majority that will fit- tingly rebuke the party that rejected him. The application of this example of the vepublicans of New York to officials overywhere charged with the adminis- tration of j ,who have proved their ability » integrity and their fidel- ity, is obvipus. It has made no differ- ence to Martine and Nicoll that the men who had plundered the people were democrats, generous to the party and valued in its councils. Having a duty to perform they did it fearlessly and honestly. A wise public policy requires that such men shall have the reward of popular ap- proval, It is just to them, and itis necessary to the encouragement of the highest standard of integrity in the ad- ministration of justice. The School Board Propositons. The board of education has submitted to the voters of this city a proposition to authorize the board to expend two hun- dred and seventy.five thousand dollars during the coming year for school sites and for school buildings. Of this sum seventy-five thousand dollars ave to bo raised by the sale of school houses and sites which the board has decided to abandon, and two hundred thousand dollars are to bo raised by an issue of bouds. Two distinct propositions are sub- mitted to the voters. The first asks for authority to issue two hundred thousand dollars in bonds to bo expended as fol- Jow: For eight school sites, $37,500. or five school houses, $162,500. This will fnake the average cost of each school site, [#4,687.50 and each school building, §52,500. The second proposi- tioi involves the right of the board to sell off seventy-five thousand dollars’ worth of abandoned school wvroperty and expend §50,000 in the enlargement of the high school building and $25,000 for n new school house on Boulevard strect, near Twenty-fivst. It strikes us that the board has em- barked in @ very extensive scheme of school construetion. The sum to be ex- pended would almost duplicate all the present school buildings in Omaha, omit- ting the High school. The BER al- ways has favored a liberal policy to- ward public improvements, and espe- cially publie schools, but we are not yet convinced of the propriety of e the projected wholesale purchase of sites and construction of what seems to us very costly school buildings, We do not understand why the board proposes to invest in eight sites and erect only five school buildings on them. We doubt very mush whether it is wise to invest from thirty to forty thousand dollurs in each school house rather than to build more houses at a loss cost, say from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. We already have a number of very large school buildings, and we should nowaim to increase the number of school houses rathor than the dimensions, 5o that there will bea more even distribution of school facilities over the large area of the city. Instead of expending $257,500 for seven buildings, we prefer to see filtlcen new buildings for tho same money. The } building is large cnough for all high school purposes. The lower grade pu- pils who live in the district cov by the high school should be gh school intimated that a refusal to onjoin the council from re-letting the official ad- vertising would expose him to the risk of losing his political head, or words that had uboat the same meaning. furnished accommodations in now school | buildings at a moderate ¢ hin rea- ! sonable distance from their homes, We hope the board will modify its proposition in regard to the numbor and cost of school houses. Unless it does so we doubt very much whether its propo- sition will carry. i — SENATOR ALLISON has gone to New York to take part in the campaign in that state. This would indicate that the republicans of Iowa feel so secure that they can spare the senator, and it is certainly to be hoped they have good reason to feel thus. We believe Mr. Allison is very well thought of in New York, and we have no doubt he hasgone there prepared to strengthen the good impression of him. He may very easily make a mistake, however, owing to the danger there is of traversing the lines marked out by some of the republican leaders of that state on one or more of the chief issues of the time. It is un- fortunately the fact that tho views of these leaders are not in harmony, for example, on the surplus question. Mr. Evarts does not think it a serious mat- ter at all, while Mr. Hiscock takes quite the opposite view, and neither is clear as to what ought to be done about it, but ex-Senator Miller, as might be expected, would solve the problem by increasing the tariff to the prohibitory point. Mr. Allison is known to have pretty well-defined views on this sub- ject, and lest they may clash with those of any one of the New York re- publican leaders, and thereby increase the confusion of ideas on the subject, it might be well before he starts on his campaigning to have a consultation and an understanding as to what sort of poliey he shall advocate. The question cannot be ignored, and it is obviously desirabie both in the interest of Mr. Allison and the republicans of New Yorlk that he shall begin rvight on itand proceed consistently. Other Lands, Than Ours. While the English people are kept thoroughly aroused by the appeals of the leaders of the several parties, the world at large is not permitted to lose sight of the fact that a great issue is being fought out and that the govern- ment isstill engaged in the rclentless enforcement of a stern policy against Treland. Almost every day universal attention is called to some new act in pursuance of this policy which demon- strates at once its unjnst character and the blind and reckless folly of those charged with its execution. The latest of these wus the arrest and imprison- ment of Sir Wilfred Blunt for making an address in Galway to a home rule meet- ing. It would appear that this the greatest of the blunders that have been made under the administration of the narrow and reckless Balfour. 1t seems that the meeting which was broken up by the police. and at which Sir Wilfred Blunt was arrested, did not come within the prohibition of any act of parlia- ment. It was a meeting called, not by the proclaimed National league but b the English Home Rule union. In dis- turbing it the police were simply acting the part of rioters, without any color of legal authority, for the meeting was not in the least disorderly. There are signs that the English public has be- come vory weary of the Irish policy of the tory government, especially as ad- ministered by Mr. Balfour. YetBalfour himself seems to be well pleased with his enforcement thus far of that policy. The older and wiser mem- bers of the ministry, however, must be seriously troubled by the results, The morea foreible suppres- sion of the league is attempted the plainer it is that the league is for all political purposes the Irish people, and thav it can be suppressed only by the use of force enough to keep them all in subjection. Evidently this is not prac- ticable, nor can the present condition of affairs in Ireland be accepted by any- body as a settlement. The policy of the government merely postpones a settle- ment and increases its difficul- ties. The English people are beginning to sce this, and the obsti of the government and the folly of Mr. Balfour tend to make them see it more plainly. * *w The labor demonstrs don, which are 1 repeated at any time, suggest that elsewhere in Europe the sit- uation of the working class is such tha an eruption is possible at any time. Lvery European country whichis devel- oping great manufacturing industries is exposing itself in a greater or less de- gree to the samo risks. Belgium is pass- ing through aworsec than England. She is carrying on to-day a good many industries which pay little or no profit, and simply give a wretched support to the labor The great coal strike in France, which only came toan end a few months ago after lasting nearly two years, was made against & corporation which had for years made no profits. The worst of it is that the agitator: when things come to pass like this, per- suade thoe laborers either that if they owned the mines or the mills themselves they would make a good living out of them, or that there is a fund somewhere in the possession of the capitalists which the government ought to let them get at. The only remedy seems to be the extension of co- operation, so as to spread among the laboring ¢! greater knowledge of the conditions of successful business man- agement. At present a large propor- tion of them talk and feel nbout capital as small children talk and feel about their father’s money; that is, as if his purse were inexhaustible or easily re- plenished. tions cly in Lon- to ~be " A very important proceeding was con- summated when the convention regard- ing the Suez canal was signed by the leading powers of Europe. It was the outcome of prolonged diplomatic nego- tiations, principally between Britain and France. The convention provides that the canal shall be kept open in time of 3 that no act of hostility shall be permitied at either of its approaches or on its banks within a zone to be determined by an interna- tional commission; that belligerent pow- B hall neither embark nor disembark troops or warw in the ports of access, and that if Egypt proves unable to compel respect for the treaty, she shall appeal to Turkey, who, in concert with the signatory powers, will take the necessary measures to eu- force obedicnce. . The agreement may Great | terial on the canal or | be considered a victory for France for which her Néw Hebrides concessions are no aqulv-l‘n Not succeeding in regaining hen ‘fprmer . control of the canal, it is, hot er, taken out of the hands of Gre#t |Britain and placed in those of Europe. 1n point of interna- tional law the canal, by the treaty, is made a pieco of ocean, controlled by none, open to all,only if the treaty is violated Turkey steps in ns the agent of the powers. Tor the interests of the commerce of the world this conclusion of a long contest is a fortunate one. It may not be so for the peace of the world. With the Egyptian trouble off her hands France may now be more eager for business in other quarters. » " It will unquestionably be to the ad- vantage of all concerned if the reported agreement between France and Great Britain for the withdrawal of the French troops from the New Hebrides shall be carried out. It was impossible for the British government to consent to France obtaining any foothold in the islands adjacent to Australia for the purpose of making penal coloniesof them. Not only would such a policy have been strenuously resisted by the British colon- ies, but, had it been carried out, these colonies would inevitably have managed promptly to involve the home government in hostilities over the matter. The French penal* colon- ies, through a curious confu- sion of mind in the French government as to what can be done with them, have become literally breeding places of vice and of vicious men and women. The evidence is incontestable that, with the mistaken purpose of helping reform criminals by the introduction of family ties, the French have stocked portions of their penal establishment with men and women, who are allowed to repro- duce their kind with the practical cer- tainty that theiroffspring will be trained in vice. The English colonists could not be expected to tolerate any exten- sion of such a system near their shores, and they have made it perfectly plain to the English government that they would not do so. Ttisto be hoped that the French government has been con- vinced of the same fact. **e In 1890 Japan is to witness the estab- lishment of a comtitutional govern- ment, with a popularly elected parlia- ment, responsible ministers and the em- peror no more absolute than is Queen Victoria. ich a revolution in a coun- try which for centuries has been the st of absolutism, and brought about with no bloodshed or disturbance, isone of the wonders of the time. The pre vess of Japan in the past twenty is hardly intelligible. In that year the tycoon, who had for centuries divided the executive power with the mikado, was overthrown, and the an- cient central government was estab- lished in full power. The impetus was felt immediate Schools, universities, printing presses, roads and all the de- velopments of modern civilization were welcomed, and instructor all branches were cagerly sought. Japan became a vast mission field not only for religious but scientific and industrial missiona- ries. The empire teemed withintellec- tual and physical vigor, and the Japa- nese with wonderful speed adopted the manners of foreigners. Tt is but thirty- five years ago that Commodore Perry first visited Japan, up to that time for two cemturies hermetically sealed against Ruropeans save the Dutch trad- ers, who were allowed a few places for exchange along the coast. Tt is less than thirty years since our first am- bassador managed to reach the ancient capital of Yeddo to conclude a treaty. The year before our civil war began a Jupanese embassy visited this country, but the home feeling against “the bar- barians” was so strong that in 1863 the government attompted to drive all Europeans from the country, and was only prevented by the hostile attacks of the men of war of this country, England, Trance and the Netherlands, and it was not until 1867, after asevere internccine contest that the progressive party finally came to the front and began the work which now seems in so fair a way to fulfillment. yea . The invitation of the Madrid govern- ment to the powers, including the United States, for a conference on Morocco is an important step in inter- national diplomacy, The proposal originated with the British govern- ment and the object is to guarantee the independence of Morocco if Movocco can be thereby thrown open to trade. Germany gives the scheme cordial ap- proval, for, like Ttaly, she recogni the step s a bar to French aggrandize- ment. It is not known here how France regards this invitation, which is in- tended to deprive her of a great prize for which she has long been hankering. Sho might satisfy Spain to allow her to round off her colonial corners, but neither Ttaly nor E and would con- sent to any further French acquisitions on the Mediterrancan, The French action toward England in regard to Egypt is cortainly beurving fruit, now that French aspirations are becoming directed toward Morocco. P The French chambers having reas- sembled, it is expected that the fate of the Rouvier ministry will soon be d cided. The issue of the Count of Par manifesto has led many republicans to distrust those monarchists who support M. Rouvier, and M. Rouvier will be at- tacked for this monarchist allianc Rouvier's opponents not only d downfall, but also M. Grev ment; so that the door may be opened for a Clemenceau-Boulanger min- istry. Among the primuary objects of the present outery against M. Wilson is to cover his father-in-law with discredit and induce him to resign the presidency in disgust. This is in- tended as punishment for his refusal to accept a Clemencesu administration. at present, and it ¢ a circumstance of very great significance that on the question of urgency in the Caffarel-Wilson scan- dal the prime minister, who opposed granting urgency, wus defeated by a large majority. e 1t is now decided that next sunmer there shall be held in London a great : SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1887, Catholie cangress of lay and clerical delegates from all English speaking communities in the world, Prelimi- nary meetings were rocently held, at which three main subjects for discus- sion were suggested, namely, the atti- tude of the Catholic church toward education in general; whether it is pos- sible to arrange for greater co-opera- tion of the laity in the work of the church, and to consider what steps should be taken for the diffusion of Catholic literature among tho massos. Cardinal Newman, Cardinal Manning and a majority of the Catholic hier- archy in England approved the pro- posal, which is to be submitted to a full meeting of the principal and most in- fluential Catholics. This scheme has been afoot for two years and now seems likely to be realized. » ' The fact that France has cutdown her estimates $5,600,000, taking $1,500,000 ot the amount from her army estimates, should be regarded as aslight token favorable to peace. If they wero re- duced & hundred millions altogother and some sublime revelation could enter into the heads of these impassioned French and Germans to the effect that the world islarge enough for both peoplo and that they might with some effort manage to live without cutting each other’s throats, it would be a blessing. Somehow it would seem to be such an easy matter. But nations become in- sane as well as men, and we presume they will go on hammering their prun- ing hooks into spears until the alarm is sounded. % The future emproess of China has been selected for the emperor, by the em- press dowager, from the family of a Mantchu nobleman, Duke Chao. The Emperor Kuang Hsu, whose name in Ing is ‘“‘Succession of Glory,” is now in his seventeenth year. Itisnot in accordance with Chineso etiquette that he should have any choice of his own in this trifling incidentof his life. He will know on his wedding day whether the match made for him is to his liking. If he does not like the lady, however, it appers that there ave others among whom he may seck consolation for disappointment. The governors- general of the two central provinces, the governor of Kiang-Si and a membor of the board of revenue, all of Mantchu blood, are each to contribute one of their daughters to the emperor’s harem. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. to started in Texas, A £50,000 silk mill is to be built at St. 1 During September 40,000 struck, Car wheel works a ul. wage-worlkers A stained g Lynchbury ss factory is being started at The farwest coal deposits are being worked very profitably. The postofiice employes of the United States number 04,700, Electric lighting of mills and factories is becoming quite general. The builders of elevators have amount of work on hand. Jute manufacturing will now be carried on extensively in Allentown, Pa, Some shoe manufacturers have taken to lining their slippers with plush. One of the finest plate-mills in the country will soon start at Ferndale, Pa. There will be +a general movement next spring for shorter hours of labor. Three hundred men will be employed at a new plate-mill at Wheatland, Pa. A Brockton co-operative factory has dou- bled its production within six months, Tho Russian government is making cfforts to encourage the cultivation of cotton. Manufacturing is active all through the New England states, especially in textile mills. A £100,000 company will be able to pipe gas fuel from Illinois to St. Louis next spring. Three immense cable driving engines arc being constructed for the Brooklyn bridge. English workmen are arriving in larger numbers, seeking shop and factory employ- ment. Employers are combining quictly for their Dbetter protection in several of the leading in- dustries. Compulsory education in New England has considerably increased the school at- tendance, a large The southern manufacturing mills ‘are working night and day, with orders running months ahead. The newer makes of engines are in de- mand because they are more cconomical in the use of coal. Emigration of labor from the eastern to the westorn states will probably soon set in. There are growing demands in the far west and south. chiefly for unskilled labor., The stove manufacturces anticipate an ex- ceptionally busy winter and spring. The stocks are going down rapidly, and the west- orn and southern markets are expanding. Over 5,000,000 feet of lumber will go into a new Chicago elevator, and in a short time four more will be started, increasing the ele- vator capacity 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 bushels, Fifty master painters of Pittsburg havo organ| oclation to buy glass and lead at wholesalo somewhere elso than in Pittsburg,because of the high prices charged. House-building has received a stimulous in the west, and there is an urgent demund on builders and investors for houses. They arc wanted in small manufacturing towns, and rent and sell readily. A machine has been invented by which ten colors can be printed at once, Instead of engraved rollers, ns m_ordinary calico printing, the designs arve “built up” in u case in solid colors specially prepared. The window glass workers have control of the shops in Great Britain and Belgium, and no interference with that control seems pos- sible. They have appropriated §50,000 to en- force the pauper immigration law. The students of the various scientific schools are able to obtain employment at z00d wages. Theso schools have been stead ily increasing in membership, and promise to supply many practical requirements Tho leading architects are now at work on building operations to be begun in the early spring. From their standpoint the prospects are a very heavy year's work., Office-build- ing will be pushied in all large citics. Dl aad A Workingmen's Ticket. Omaha Truth, Truth expressing the sentiment of the work- ingmen of Omaha declares in favor of Judge Maxwell for judge of the supreme court; Judges Wakeley, Groff, Hopewell and Doane for judges of the district court. We are convinced that the workingmen of the city agree with the sentiment expressed at the mass meeting of Tuesday night, which wus @ representative asscmbly, that the judges should be elected without regard to party lines. We have no sympathy with the political tricks, the baiter, the private malice T which led the repubiican Judiclalconvention | A NON-PARTISAN ll}l)_lcln: 0 to refuse a nomination to Judge Groff. We are not to be bought off by un- scrupulous - politicians who place slight valuo on the vote of a workingman, we oaro not for salo, but propose to vote for the best man regardless of party, and no one can read over tho names of those nominated for judges on the two tickets without at a glance concluding that in ability, honesty and high character the non-partisan ticket is far ahead of the republican ticket. The workingmen® of Omaha are by no means the slaves which some narrow-minded politicians suppose, they are froo men with minds capable of judging botweon the merits of different candidates, and they will not follow blindly tho dictations of sclf-constituted party lead- ders. Next November the labor vote of Omaha will elect Wakely, Groff, Hopewell and Doane for judges of the district, and will contribute largely to the re-clection of Judge Maxwell, who for so many years has faith- fully eerved the people of Nebraska, o~k Still Another October Poem. The pumpkin ple is yellow, The buckwheat cake is brown, The farmer's gray neck whiskers Are full of thistle down. The loaves are crisp and russot, The sumac’s blazing red, The butternut descending 1Is cracked upon your head, The rabbit is cavorting Along the gloomy slope, Tho shotgun of tho sportsman Eliminates his lope. The butterfly's departed, ikewise the belted beo, The small boy in the orchard 1s up the apple treo, is blooming, ircus is no more, And on the polished brass dogs We make the hickory roar, The trees wear lovely colors In beautiful excess; All nature scems to rustle Just like a new silk dress, age soon will ripen, he popeorn goon will pop, And Christmas things enliven The window of the shop. Sing hi! for merry autimn, Sing ho! for the autu nay. Whoso pretty potpie squirrels Among the branches play. For now no merry bluebird Upon the rose tree toots, And autums, golden autumn, Serencly ups and scoots. —~—— Frank James and the Sheriff. San Irancisco Examiner: “Frank James is working in Mintenhall’s dry goods house, Dallas,” said Dr. Beau- mont, of Beaumont, Texas, to a reporter at the Russ yesterday. ‘‘He gets $100 a month, and pursues his way as quietly and unostentatiously as the most unas- suming person in town. His family is in Dallas, too, and his children are going right along to the public school. Tt ain’t true that Frank James mado o Dig lotof money and retirved to enjoy it. Ho is poor and” only has enougl, and from his v+ to get along on. “I knew the James boys well Joe before T went to Texds, and Frank James was down to Dallas first and a reward of $10.000 was offered for hLim, althoughlots of people knew it and knew he was there, they wouldn’t give itaway. Say what people will about the James boys.they were fearfully used —that is, that family was—in the early border difficulties. Their two sisters were captured as political prisoners and incarcerated with a lot of other women prisoners i an old brick house that had already been condemned as dangerous. It fell down and killed them. Then bombs or hand grenades were thrown into the residence of their mother, Mrs. Dr. Samuels, and one of her arms blown off, and she was otherwis matmed. So you see if the Jumes boys did not go on the warpath, they had not lacked some sort of a stimulant, ““As for the famous Blue Cut robbery, though, I know for a fact that Frank James was not in that. Ife was in Gor- don county, Tex., helping the sheriff to arrest a noted eriminal, and he did i, 100. *The sherifl had asked a friend of mine to get him a good man to help, so my friend went over and got Frank James, The sheriff was very particular in telling Frank all about how careful he must be, or else the border murderer they were after would kill them both in tho twinkling of an e “Irank James didn’t say a word, and the sheriff didn’t know who he was, so they rode away over the prairies to- rd the lonely cabin where the outlaw It rowing durk when. on ar- ing within two or three hundred yards of.the cabin, the sheriff’s com- ]mnion suddenly clapped spurs to his horse and rode toward it likea madman, Reaching it he sprang from his horse and ked the door down in an instant, and, with two Dbig revoly which he had whipped out, he captured the out- law before he or the sheriff knew what Wwas up. “The sheriff was considerably crest- fallen when he recollected the advice he had given the young man who was with him, and this grew into astonish- ment when he at length found that he was one of the James boys, - “PThe very day the sheriff and Frank rode over the prairies to make this ar- rest the Blue Cut robbery occurred, so 1 know he wasn’t in that. No, James has no money at all. He has to clerk every day in the store for what he gets, and he works as hard as you or 1 do.” Scribner’s Address to the People of Burt, Washe ! ington, Douglas and Sarpy Countie! OMAHA, Oct. 27, 1887.—~At o moetin of electors of the Third judiciat distrief held on the 2ith inst., and composed o‘ members of both political parties, the undersigned were charged with the | duty of preparing an address to the peo~ ble, setting forch the reasons which | Luvo induced them to support, at the | coming election, the judicial ticket on | which appear the names of Judges Wakeley, Groff, Hopewell and Doane. O lmpressed with the“danger of making I the judicial office a prize for tho most shrewd, the most active or the most ”m pular worker in party politics, and ully realizing the fact that to be both impartial and independent, a judge should be free from the entanglements arising out of partisan strife, the bar of the district mot at tho court house in Omahasome days prior to the period fixed for holding the judiclal nominating convention. At that meet- ing, which was absolutely non-partisan Judges Wakeley, Groff and Hopowell Sl.ho first named being underst to bo democratic in his views and the two others republican) were unanimously recommended for re-election, and a committee appointed to notify the nom- inating conventionsof this action. That committee met with a courteous recep- tion from the democratic convention, and their recommendation was adopted, Mr. W. A. Stow being selected for the fourth place on the ticket. In the republican convention, how- over, a motion to receive the bar coms mittoe was defoated, and a delegation from the democratic couvention sent to notify the ros.uhlimnu of its nominations met with no better fate. 1t is doubtful if any political convention in the coun- try was ever before guilty of such gross courtesy. The republican delegates nominated three gentlemen, who, whatever their qualifications may be, have had no ex- perienco on thé bench, and some of them but little at the bar. Of the fourth, as ho is on both tickets, it is un- necessary to spe Wo believe that all who have the wel- fare of this community at heart, who think that judges should bo above party obligations and party bias, and above all, should be above pressing their own claims in caucusses, nominating con- ventions and polifical campaign: will feel no hesitation in voting the cle: and independent ticket pre- sented by tho bar. Judge Wakeloy has been known to the voters of this dis- trict for thirty years. His caveer both at the bar and on the bench has been alike honorable to himself and of ben- efit to the community among whom he has dwelt. He took the office in the irst instance only at the unanimous re- quest of the lawyers of the district and by the appointnient of a republican gov- ernor. Four years ago he and Judge Neville, arepublican, were elected wi out contest by those whobelieved then as we helieve now, that judicial elections should be free fr iwrtisanship. No whisper of susy inst his ability has ever been bre Tudges Groff m thed. and Hopewell have srved since the last session of the logis- latur In that period they have be- come known throughout ihe district, have devoted themselves assiduously to their duties and have shown themselves clean, impartial and industrious officors; no fault being found with either of them unless by litigants who may happen to have been defeated in their courts. The lamented death of Hon., W. A, Stow rendered the selection of another candidate in bis place necessary; and in response toa very general exprossod wi.fix by lawyers and others the Hon. George W. Doane has been selected for the fourth place on the ticket. Mr, Doane’s entire professional life has been spent in this district, and his legal ex- serince of over thirty years,his probity is learning and industry aro, we feel confident, sufficient guarantees that his career on the bench will bo honorable to him and satisfactory to the district. It has been said that wero democrats in a large majority throughout the dis- trict they would nominate party men men and refuse to follow the.r action of a fow days ago. But wo suggest that the proper questiou for us to ask our- selves ismot what would our enemies or opponents do in a given case; but, what is right? what s tho best interests of the commonwealth? what would the purest and best men advise? 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