Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1888, Page 4

g _THE DAILY BEE. “ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, nclnding Sunday, 0 00 5 00 260 2 Tiee, maiied to any ad- Qress, One Year. ... y [ OMARA OFFICE, NO!.?I&AKD\’II&I’A IA'"" s New YORK OFFI0E, ROONS 5 NE BuriLpina. WARHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FovnTEENTH BTRE] CORRES 4 odl communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addrossed 10 the BDITOR Bre. Or THE BER g1 ss LETTERS, Al bustness letiers and remittances should be addressed to THE DER PUBLISHIXG COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, chocks and postoflice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors B. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, }. ¥ Douglas, g * oes olemn ::II:::IKCT:(“I‘I ";Zn'n( the Dall, {loe for the week endin| follows: A tul 18255 Fworn to and subsci Bth day of May, A. D, 1 otary Public. State of Nebraska, }, 8. County of Douglas, i George B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, ses and says that lie is secretary of The Bes Publishing eompany, that the actnal averago - Qatly circiiaion of {ie Daily Beo for the month of May, was 14227 coples; for June, 157, © 14147 co) 1 it F57, 14,161 coples: coples; for October, 1 Novembor, 1897, 15220 copie SR, 5,001 copies: for Jamuary, 1488, 15206 cop: (l%\‘ngnhmllr)’.gw. lfi.“fllcfl |?:r ‘ffl M;\rv l ), 680 ¢ es; for April, , 18,744 coples, opess 08 ARty TSCHUCK. Bworn ;g[ hl“;n;l\ mf")]nnd A“‘I‘)’“?;’\L”d in my presence 24 an; ay, A, D. , 820 AN . FRIL. Notary Public. Ty FEIL, ihed in ':Ez?fience e BY going slow in awarding contracts for new school buildings the board of education saved several thousand dol- lars to the city. —— FOURTEEN or more inspectors of pub- lic works have been appointed. But the best inspectors after all are the eyes of taxpayers and property holders. Tue walk-away of Jim Laird in the Second district may materialize—and it may not. The thoughtful voters of the Second district are casting about for a dark horse. e e e Our democratic contemporary has suddenly awakened to the horrors of the Arlington tragedy of last Friday. In lying in wait for a scoop upon the com- ing of the millenium this important matter seems to have been overlooked by them, Tk latest information from the Sec- ond district is to the effect that. several western counties are uninstructed con- cerning the congressional ticket. Had Mr. Harlan serewed his courage to the sticking point, he undoubtedly would bhave had a walk-nway. TaE chances for Mr. Charles Greene do not seem to grow with these gentle April showers. The majority of the Douglas county delegation may die with + its boots on for the auburn-haired states- man of the North Platte country, hut then it is easy for a corpse to dic. Now that Private Joe Tifer is the Illinois candidate for governor, the democrats ave looking about for avail- able timber. Ex-Land Commissioner Sparks is strongly spoken of as a pos ble candidate of the democrats. But it is more than likely that Sparks’ aspira- tions as governor of Illinois will simply be a flash in the pan. —— Two quarreling congressmen were brought to a sense of decorum in the house by the inquiry of Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois: *Is this the senate of the United States?” The sally called out peals of laughter from congressmen who could not bear to be put on an equality with the senate in the exchange of bil- lingsgate and abusive epithets. —— A COMMENDABLE act to signalize Gov- ernor Hill’s record as governor of New York was his veto of the bill propos- ing to repeal the Saturday half-holiday. The bill was lobbied through the as- sembly in spite of the earnest protests f thousands of workingmen who peti- %loned through their various labor or- Zanizations that the half-holiday should mot be abridged. — Tue sclection of the high school grounds by the committee of the grand army as the place for holding the ex- ercises of Memorial day is commenda- ble. It will allow many thousands of our citizeng to participate in the ob- servances who otherwise would not be able to take purt. It was a thoughtful act for the committee to extend a gen- eral invitation to the school children to be present. Their attendance will add tothe impressiveness of the ceremon- 1es, and their hearts will be filled with patriotic feelings at the solemnity of the day. SE——— THeE mayor and council have the power to provide for the planting and protection of shade and ornamental trees in this city, Noovdinance to the effect of regulating the numher and uniformity of trees has been passed, Tree planting on the vesident streets might be made compulsory and con- ducted in conformity with some definite system. Owing to the numerous changes of grade, widening and nav- rowing of streets, sad havoc has been made on our once beautiful shade trees that linod the streets everywhere, THE total bond purchases for week ending May 5, were $6,528, though Saturday’s bond redemption amounted to only $38,300. For the two weeks in which the treasury has gone into the market as a purchaser, over $10,000,000 bouds have been cancelled. It would be interesting s well as curi- pus to learn into what chanuncls of trade this large amount of money will b surned: Waithout a doubt & large share of this fund will find its way into th west, absorbed in the purchase of state snd municipal securities, which are the most attractive and safe. invesimeats the , al- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY Everything Running Smoothly. 1t is now nearly three months since the strike was inaugurated on the Bur- lington road. During all this time the public has been repeatedly assured by the managers of this great railway that “evergthing was all right,” while the continued inerease of wrecks and colli- gions goes to show that everything is all wrong. As Tur BEE previously stated, the public was willing to give the Burling- ton a chance to man its engines, but it was not disposed either to exact or de- mand impossibilities. The people were in sympathy with the striking engi- neers, yet they conceded to the com- pany the right to reject their services —at the same time demanding compe- tent men for their places. While mashed and broken engines are being hauled to the shops in great numbers, and freight and passenger cars are splintered and strown along the line of the B. & M., newspapers, whose favora- ble editorinl opinions have been se- cured, are filled with laming advertise ments announcing that “‘the service is again perfect, as though nothing had happened.” Tie BER only recently called the at- tention of the public to the fact that the railway officials are deceiving the public through false pretenses and will- ful exaggerations regarvding the com- petency of their new engineers and the general condition of their road. For thirty days after the strike there were .more accidents in Towa and Nebraska on the Burlington lines than had oc- curred during the twenty years of that company’s existence. The accounts published recently reta- tive to the stupid and blundering em- ployes of the Burlington road show that the decrease in accidents is not notice- able, while an increa is perceptible. As we have before stated, some of the accidents are not of a serious nature, re- sulting only in loss of rolling stock and locomotives, but others cited from time 1o time have been calamitous, involving loss of life and destruction of public and private property. Yet it is all of pub- lic concern. The duties and responsibilities of the Burlington rond to the public are plain. It need not be assumed that the people will alwa, tolerate as- surances that the rona is safe, when to ride over it is an extra hazardous risk. If their only.excuse for the mul- tiplicity of accidents is the fact that their wretched facilities necessitate them, then the sooner they admit the fact of general incompetency, the better for all concerned. If the Burlington company had not had ample time to perfect its service, it should acknowledge it. The people be- lieve that its present woeful condition will remain unchanged and continue and intensify until competent and skilled men supplant the “scabs” now attempting to man their engines. Democratic Confidence. The demoeratic managers are making bold professions of confidence in the party’s suceess next November. Feel- ing entirely sure of the one hundred and fifty-three votes of the solid south, they claim to have no doubt of their ability to secure the other forty-eight necessary to the election of their candi- dantes. Nordo they stop at this. In their sanguine anticipations they per- mit themselves to believe that there is an equal chance of the democracy carry ing states which are reckoned as cer tainly republican—such, for examples. as Michigan and 1llinois. It isan open secret that Postmaster General D i son has been for some time past sowing in his state the seed that is expected to bring forth a democratic harvest in November that will fully justify his appointment to the cabinet, and his designation as perhaps the chiel lieutenant of the president in conduct- ing the administration’s work in the campaign. The nomination of Mr. Fuller for chief justice is now believed to have had reference to stimulating democratic energy and confidence in Illinois, and it seems to have had that effect. Numerous leaders are manifest- ing an eager anxiety to bear aloft the gubernatorial standard, as if they scented victory in the air. There are one or two other states steadily counted as surely republican which the democratic managers are disposed to class as doubtful, It is a part of the business of political managers not 7 be diflident about assuming possibi S, It may do some good, and is neyer likely to work any harm. But what is there to warrant democratic confidence in carrying any northern state, presuming always that the national republican con- vention will act wisely in the choice of its candidates? The party is not hav- monious in New York, and there is ex- cellent reason to believe that there are thousands of democrats in that stale who will not vote for Mr. Cleveland. It is true that the Hill influence 15 no longera matter to be feared by the president so far as the nomination is concerned, but it hy no means follows that it will not be felt in the election. But it this be left entirely out of consideration there are other reasons why it is not probable that Mr. Cleveland can command the full democratic support of the Ewpire state. These reasons should be equally operative in New Jersey, and as to Connecticut there can be no doubt that with the right man at the head of the republican ticket the plurality of less than thirteen hundred which Mv. Cleve- land had can easily be overcome. In- diana, in view of the deplorable record made by the democrats of that state in the last two years, as well as by reason of the existing factional antagonisms there, ought to go republican in No- vember by at least as large a plurality as was given to Garfield in 1880, These are the states now reokoned doubtful, and forty-eight of their sixty-six | electoral votes are necessary to demo- cratic success. With the condi- tions so little favorable to the | democracy in these states it is obviously | unnecessavy to discuss the chances of | the party in any other northern state, | and in view of this situation the ground | of democratic confidence apy coedingly inadeguste aud u There is indeed not much of it beyond the solid south and My, Cleveland’s Tuck, and the latter may prove to be ¢x- hausted. But a8 we have said, a great’ denl depends upon the wisdom shown by the national republican con- vention in the selection of its candidates. Not every one of those named as a possible candidate can carry the doubtful states necessary to republican success. Some one of them, there is every reason to believe, can. It will be the great duty of the national couvention to select this one. —_—— Mr. Fuller's Chances, The expectation that Mr. Fuller would be promptly confirmed as chief justice of the supreme court seems likely to be disappointed. Washington dispatches state that there will proba- bly be no action taken on his nomina- tion at the present session of the senate. It has been discovered that Mr. Fuller has a considerable political record, and that it is not free from circumstances which, to the minds of the republican members of the senate judiciary com- mittee, render an investigation proper and desirable. The matter has there- fore been referred to a sub-committee, which is allowed to take its own time to report. Doubtless Mr. Fuller will find it unnecessary to hasten the closing up of his business affairs in Illinois, prepara- tory to taking up his permanent resi- dence at the national capital. The matters to be investigated are al- leged to have occurred when Mr, Fuller was a member of the Illinois legisla- ture in 1863—the ‘‘copperhead” legisla~ ture which was dispersed by Governor Yates, and which was succeeded in the following year by a republican general assembly. It appears trom the record that Mr. Fuller was a prominent advo- cate and supported by his vote numer- ous resolutions hostile to the govern- ment and condemnatory of the policy then being pursued by the national au- thorities. He is chagged with having enunciated at that time very strong state mghts views, and with hav- ing said ana done other things which cgused him to be then re- gavded asa pronounced*‘copperhead. "It is also alleged that he was mixed up with some schemes before the legisla- ture in a way not creditable to his in- tegrity. All these allegations have been laid before the senate judiciary committee, and the sub-committee will investigate them. Although the legislative carcer of Mr. Fuller was brief, it occurred a quarter of a century ago, and it is there- fore likely to take some time to get at all the facts and verify such of the chavges as are true. It is undoubtedly the duty of the committee having charge of the nomination to do this. No good citizen can desire that a man shall be elevated to the highest judicial position in the country whose record is not above reproach. Mr. Fuller himself must desire that the allegations shall be fully investigated, if he is a man possessed of those superior quali- ties that have been claimed for Him. The charges of implied corruption he should certainly desive an opportunity to disprove, if he can do so, while as to his political conduct he will very likely not be unwilling to defend it, if defense be required. It would seem that this is the only matter which the senate can legitimately investigate, and 1t is a question how much weight should be given to the utterances of an obscure democratic member of a legislature, made in the exciting peviod of twenty- five years ago, and which it seems had no ill-consequences. It is to be remem- bered that there were men at that period not democrats who favored a policy that would bring peace and who doubted the constitution- ality of the emancipation proclamation, while as to the doctrine of state rights it has ceased to be a political bugbear. A republican supreme court has done more in behalf of that doctrine than was accomplished in all the years be- fore its time. Nothing in the history of the supreme court since the war, and particularly within the past few years, has been more conspicuous than its as- sertion of state rights, and it has cov- cred the ground so thoroughly that there would seem to be little danger of these rights being hereafter imperilled. What is to be hoped for in this mat- ter is that there will be no obstacles put in the way of the confirmation of Mr, Fuller that shall appear to have merely a partisan motive. It is proper that his political record he investigated, but not in a captious spirit. The case is wholly different from that of Lamar, who put forth his best efforts for the destruction of the government. Of one thing we may be certain, while we must have democrats nominated to the supreme bench it will be almost im- possible to find one who was politically active twenty-five years ago that did not hold views hostile to the govern- ment. Tt was because they held such views that they were enabled to be po- litically active at that time. I requives no small amount of so- phistry to enable the mugwumps to cover up to their own satisfaction the shortcomings of Mr, Cleveland in rela- tion to civil service reform, but they do not hesitate to freely employ it. No one of them is more thoroughly at home in this than Mr, George William Cur- tis, as was again shown in his last ad- dress before the civil service reform association, of which he is president, The effort to make a parallel between the experiences of Grant and Cleve- land in enforcing civil service reform, in orderto excuse the latter, may be ingenious, but it is not convincing. With Grant the reform was a new thing, yet it made progress, and it steadily advanced under subsequent re- publican presidents, operating equally everywhere that it was required to be applied. But underCleveland, whowent into ofice with stroug protestations of devotion to the policy, the reform has deteriorated, while it has been applied, the New York Post some time ago said, on the “*local option” plan. Whe ever the party would tolervate it the r form was allowed full way, but wheve it was offensive to the party, asin Mary- land and Indiana, it was given very lit- tle show, Had Cleveland beén required t0 inaugurate this reform; as Grant was, and under sumnilar political conditions, it may be said with euntive fidence as | ve attempted -to do the zéal and sin- the institution of nd that the effort that he would n 80 with anythin cerity which m the policy by Giin to establish the would long ago Have been an utfer failure. But They Lose Their Lives. Springfst Repubtican. One trouble in Mississippi is that men who draw pistols on slight sccasion do not loso social caste, - His Chestnut Bell. 8t. Louis (lpbe-Democrat, The attempt of Dan Voorhees to ring the chestnut bell on his pwf record has not been crowned with succ P — Accounted For. Minneapolis Tribune, The fact that there are a great many American democrats in Montreal accounts for the news that the Canadian treasury books show a deflcit of 10,000, it A Straight Hit. Boston Advertiser, In circles friendly to Mr. Blaine's nomin tion for president we find that a feeling ex- ists that betore the convention meets, he will, In uneqnivocal terms, decline the nomi- nation. That is the general understanding in this vicinity among the best informed republicans, —— A Mad Copperhead. Philadelphia Record, Senator Voorhees made a mistake, and it wasa bad mistake, too—~bad for his party and for himself. Abuse is not oratory and vituperation is not eloquence. Tho senator was distempered and let his passion get the better of his judgment, and no doubt he is now sorry for it. it Too Much Hurrahing. Chicago Tribune, The conventional habit of applauding and hurrahing every timo the name of a popular man is mentioned by a political speaker caused the republican convention at Spring- field to do a most ridiculous thing. Chair- man Payson, in his inaugural specch, said: “It was about fourteen months ago that we laid to vest General Logan—" and forthwith came a tornado of applause, hurrahs, hat- throwings, and other evidences of the bound- less joy the delegates seemed to feel that the senator had been laid to rest. It was worse than ridiculous; it was almost idiotic. i Sty Daniel Rides Behind. Washington_ Critic. “Daniel,” remarked the president,as the fragrance of the flowers was wafted n through the wide windows on the silver floods of sunlight, and the sweet May air brought the rose flush of youth to his cheeks and the glad sparkle to his eyes— “Daniel " ““Yes, sire,” responded Daniel, cheerily. you order out one of my good “With aside saddle, sire? “Witn'a side-saddle, Daniel?” exclaimed the president,merrily gazing down upon him- self. “Dol look like a° side-saddle fairy, Daniel L o0 “Is the steed for yourself, sive?” and Dan- iel was all in a tremble. “Yes, Daniel.” L “But, sire, you aré unaccustomed to the exercise,” expostulated Daniel. “You have not ridden for years.? “Go to, Daniel. Go to.' You forget that T have been riding the. democratic party since 1884, and Daniel, there's not a rougher, more unruly steed that ever clanged an iron hoof upon the bosom of the tender earth than that. I want to rest a little-ero the cummer circuit. Go fetch the steed, Daniel, and see the mas- ter ride.” “True, sire,’, said Daniel, “I had quite for- got, and when you ride the steed, may I getup behind as I have been behind be- fore?” “Ay, Daniel, ay,"” and Danief hurried forth and brought the steed P In Memoriam. Chicago News, Gather up the little fragments, Of each picture-frame and chair; .Of the tables, brackets, mirrors— He has climbed the golden stair. Bring the children from the neighbors, Call the dog and chickens home; They can come in perfect safety, For our precious one is gone. Far above, his soul has risen— To his friends this message send— These, the last, sad, words of his'n: “Indianapolis—still tail-end.” “Then he died.” The woodbine twineth, Where he rests from mortal gaz Place these simple words above him: “Victim of the base ball craze.” e After the Battle. IN TIE SENATE CHAMBER. Critic. How sweetly quiet is the place, How peacefully serene; No_vestige of the strife that was Upon that carpet green. It is as if the angels slept Within that sacred room, Nor hate could ever rall away The stone before the tomb. Rest, peacetul Senate Chamber, rest, And may there never come The wordy blasts, which so disturb Your equilibrium. e STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska. The Curtis Courier has begun on Volume 4. Church Howe says he still lives in Nemaha county. J. Sterling Morton, of Arbor Lodge, has filled his lake with boats. The Ponca Democrat has been sold out under chattel mortgage. It is claimed that the division of Custer county purely a political move. The Ponca council at the me evening fixed the saloon licen: The York Times, a republican does not think that Jim elected. The Stuart Press complains in regard to parties stealing material from farms owned by non-residents. With fears of losing its corn palace the Sioux City Journal says the corn planting in northern Nebraska is not yet over, The whole number 0T iys of school age in Wayne county is 9i7. The number of girls 751, Total of s¢ hool age inthe county, 1,758, Tho young bankers gf Lincoln are endeav- oring io complete arringements for the re- turn game of base ball with the young men of Beatrice. The premium list for the Nebraska state faiv for this year is being distributed. It will be at Lincoln from the 7th to the 1dth of September, and the idda 13 for a grand suc- cess. ' The Dakota City Argus is now eight years old and Father Martin writes a very cheer- ing card upon the annjyersary. He regards the discontinuance of his story as ill-timed and suicidal. The jury investigating the Alma wreck found that the said Burlington & Missouri River railroad company is guilty of criminal negligence and failed to_exercise proper care and caution in runuing its trains over said bridge. Tu the history of Greud Island there has never been a time when so little interest was taken in the republican primarics. as was taken last Saturday, there being not the least strife or opposition in any ward, says the Independent, which shows complete har- mony. Articles of incorporation of the Blue Val- ley Land company, located in Hastings, with 8 capital stock of #30,000, have been filed'in the recorder's oftice. Wm. Kerr, G. F. Work and Henry Shedd are the incorporators, and the business of the company will be buying and selling of real cstate in Nebraska, Here is u sample of what will be doue iu ) paper, Laird can be re- MAY 9, 1888 the way osvmnnmngwud land into fertile farms in Wayne ocounty this vear. In one locality, near Winside, W. M. Wright will broak out 450 acres, K. R. Chace 150 ncres, a Mr, Haas 200 acres, and . T. Bressler 160 acres, The Plattemouth Journal says: '‘The Aima wreck on the B. & M. appears to have been more serious than at first reported. Nino persons are said to be missing, and the body of one man was found in the creek a mile below, badly mangled up, Tho wreck is sup- posed to have resulted from the engincer’s rm‘mmu at a thirty mile rate on & four mile order." Tho Stromsburg Headlight reveals this in- teresting fact: On the homestead of Dr. L, Micheal wus found ten feet under ground some brass while sinking a well, and with the brass was found a human bone of a larger size than of a person of our day. The brass was hard and showed signs of having been used for a knife and would mark iron or cut like a steel blade. This sad case of fright is told by the Silver Creek Tim A little son of Mr. Hosmer went with his little sister to get some sand. While the boy was digging they saw a man, with a gun, approaching, The boy becamo frightened and started to run and his sister tried to call him back, and failing, run after him, but he secreted himself in' the under brush and he could not be found. Search has been made, but like the shadow, he 1s seen only in imagination, The following circular, by the Brother- hoods of Locomotive Engineers and Fire- men, Issued Friday, has been received: “‘We have learned that the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy cémpany has given you to un- derstand that they have made a settlement with their old reliable engineers who quit their service on the 27th of February, on ac- count of low wages; that everything is run- ning smoothly on the Burlington, and they soliciting your shipments of stock and mer- chandise as in the past. We beg leave to in- form you that the statoment of a settlement is false, We do not tend to go to work again until they sign ourschedule. You who have been shipping over the Burlington for years know full well that it is impossible for you to get your stock to market with incom- Fulent engineers handling the trains. The 0ss to you in a fluctuating market and shrinkage in stock while being in transit so long would be enormous. When this strike is settled and the old engineers ave at work you can depend on good runs being made with your stock and merchandise trains.” The Pacific Coast. Elko, Nev., is prospecting for a boom. Lavermore, Cal,, is now lighted by elec- tricity. Baker City, Ore., is to have its own wa- terworks. The state treasurer of Nevada has on hand §1605,248.45 in coin. Tos Angeles is infested with pickpockets, who do a thriving business, A new armory is in course of building at Seattle, Wash, ich will cost 818,000, The prohibitionists of Washington Terri- tory will hold a convention early in May. The steamer Ancon brought 10,000 seal- skins from Alaska on her last trip to Seattle. There is said to be a great searcity of deep- water sailors both at British Columbia and Sound ports. Last Saturday was the busiest day for trade in Weston, Ore., that has occurred for five years. Work was begun last Friday on the new smelting works at San Diego. The capital stock is $50,000. _The platform of the republicans of Utah protests against the admission of the terri- tory as a state. There is a fight at Santa Ana, Cal, be- tween rival companies fora franchise for a street railway. The rain of Thursday was general through- our northern and central California, and the grain-growers rejoice, The citizens of Spokane Falls have sub- scribed $175,000 for stock in the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railway. The trial of Jesse Graham, at Santa Cruz, Cal., for a murder committed tuirty-eight years ago has been set for June 11. The Oregon Statesman says: Hon, F. X, Matthicu, of Butteville, on May 1 next, will have been in this country fifty years. Charles Cox shot James Ralph at Norwall, Los Angeles_county, Cal, on Wednesday morning, and the wound will probably prove fatal. ‘A number of claims on the mud flats in the harbor of Seattle, Wash., have been staked off and a test is about to be made in trans- planting oysters. There is great excitement in Newhall over a big strike made by the Pacitic Coast Oil company in the oil ficld of the Pico Canyon, Reports say that the hole 1s a spouter, The contract for grading the first sixty miles of the Seattle & e Shore railway, from Spokane Falls, Wash., westward to the Big Bend, has been awarded to Burns & Chapman of that place. The Fresno Milling company has secured the contr for supplying the government with flour for the department of Arizona, New Mexico and southern California. This is the fourth time it has secured the con- tract. el LABOR MEN IN POLITIOS. They Wilt Hold a Meeting to ‘‘Scab” Charley Greene, Charley Greene worked two days and nights to secure a delegation to the Ashland convention that will howl all the time for him as the congressional delegate to the re- publican convention at Chicago. He thinks he sclected stalwarts and men that will stand firm for him tothe end. A rumor reached him yesterday that his forty- eignt hours of toil may be all in vain as the great orgamized labor element of the oty is going to meet to start a movement to t him in the convention, This movement is headed by Willinm Morrow, chairman of the Plasterers’ union, 1t is a grand combine that is surrounding Mr. Morrow in his efforts to dethrone the great “scab” road attorney. Mr. Morrow could not be found yesterday 80 that the real object” of to- night's meeting could not be learned. One man stated that the workingmen did not want a man in the Chicago convention who would gwork for or reccive money from a rond that will employ scab ecn- gineors, and that the ""f""l of to-morrow night's meeting is to defeat Greene on that ground. The men who are at the head of the movement do not know how they will accomplish the task but they will send a delegation to the convention for that purpose just the same, The meeting will be held in Exposition hall, The members of the Bricklayers' union have not been consulted on the méeting nor asked to jomn it. They have a clause in th by- laws that forbids them from entering any po- litical contest as a body. Some of the men will take a hand in the game as private indi viduals, Vice President Parker of the bricklayers said he did not know anything about the pro- posed meeting only what he had seen in the papers, and he was very sure that as it did icern bim he would pay no attention 1o it. Recording Secretary Shrum of the same order said he didn't think any of the labor organizations had any right to go into politics in this way, and he was not in fayor of them stepping outside of their own field of useful ness to enter into this controversy. The same feeling existed generally among the men who had heard of the proposed meejing. A num- ber of men of the other organizations were seen and they were all in ignorance of the great purpose of the meeting, They all say they have no time or use for Charley Greene and if they had their say in the mat ter he would not go,to the Chicapo conven tion. Greene and the Grangers. A prominent member of the county dele- gates to the recent republican convention at which Charley Greene's delegates were se- lected, said to a Bee reporter yesterday: “I have always been a a friend of Charley Greene and every farmer was solid for him until now. He treated us mean uwtil this last meeting. When our dele- gations were coming in he met us all at the depot and said to each oue that he wauted hia to suppory him and in return he would have him on the delegate list to Ashland. The list comes out aud there isnot @ farmer on it. He com- pletely ignored us and filled his entire de! gation with city men. We like a little show, even although it is Charley Greene.” W, H. Gordon, of San Francisco, su- preie waster workman of the A. O. U W., will make a tour of the eastern cities early o May. KNOCKED OUT IN SAUNDERS. Charley Greene Fails to Connect at the County Convention. CHEYENNE COUNTY FOR DORSEY Hon C. H. Van Wyck Heads the Otoe Delegation to the State Convens tion—Third District Politi« cal Preparations. Greene is Sat DownsUpon. Wanoo, Neb., May 8.—[Special Telegram to the Brr.)—The republicans of Saunders county held their county convention this afternoon and elected delegates to the state and district conventions. The following are the delogates to the district convention at Ashland: B. R. Weber, R. J. Railsback, Honry Johnson, H. O. Beatty, W, E. Dech, Peters Anderson, John Scott, W. J. Harnian, Peter Wolf, . J, Hall, H. H. Shedd, and E. E. Good. The delogates to the state convention are as follows: B. I Kirokbaum, A. Laverty, M. Golliglee, R. H. Knapp, J. M. Hedge, Charles Perky, John Steen, R. K. Johnson, 1. L. Adams, H. H. Brainard and S, P, Docker, The delegates to the district convention will support Hon. F. A, Scoville of Valpar- aiso as one of the delegatos to the national convention. The Charley Greene crowd wero knocked out. The delegates to the state convention are uninstructed, Cheyenne County for Dorsey. Sipxey,Neb.,May 8.—|Special Telogram to the Bee.]—The Cheyenne county republican convention convened here today. The following gentlemen were elected delegates to the state and congressional conventions: Stato—BEddy O. Lee, N.H. Tobin, B, A. Jones, B. A. Wood, Andy Burg, Charles Trognitz, W. P. Mills, Fred Sudman, George H. Laing, George Moyer, Reuben Lisco. Congressional-—Judd C. Bush, Julius Neu- bauer, Judge Robert Shuman, L. B. Cary, F\. P. Morgan, George McBride, John A. Carly, Henry St. Rayner, Adam ' Ickes, Frank Smith, August Thompson. Resolutions endorsing George E. Dorsey were carried unanimously. The delegation instructed to support George W. Heist delegate to the mnational convention. Much harmony prevailed Otoe Braves. Syracuse, Nob., May S8.—[Special Tole- gram to Tne Bee.|—The republican county convention, which met here to-day, elected the following delegates to the state ana dis- trict conventions: State—Hon. C. H. Van Wycek, Paul Schminke, J. C. Watson, A. H. Jasen, O. M. Young, C. Marshall, F. Dur- man, C. W. Seymour, W. Schafer, Frank Ranson, Dr, Lotta, J. C. Boyd. District—J. O. Moore, C. E. Withens, W. T. Pratt, H. H. Bartling, L. Dunn, George Donaldson, E. Overton, A. Wait, H. P. Farnsworth, 1. Keiber, J. Farley, P. Van Antwerp. The delegates to the districo convention were in- structed to support Hon. nk Ransom as delegate to the Chicago convention, Third District Preparations. NorroLk, Neb.,, May 8.—[Special to Tnr BeE,]—Preparations are in progress for the congressional convention to be held here. Committees were appointed last evening on entertainment, reception, music, decoration, finance, ete. The members of the reception committee are: J. S. McClary, C. F. Eiseley, EAlfich\vcuk, D. A. Holmes and N. A. Rain- olt, - About Half-and-Half. Broxey Bow, Neb., May 8.—[Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee.]—The county convention was held to-day. Darnall and Dorsey are Dboth here. The delegation is about equally divided between them. MUGWUMP CURTIS. He Talks About Cleveland and Civil Service R 3 New Yonr, May 8.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bep.]—In his remarks at the annual mecting of the ervice Reform assocta- tion last night, George William Curtis said: “There is one thing to be borne in mind in ascertaining the comparative position of President Cleveland toward civil-service re form, and that is a_contrast of men. Grant and Mr. Cleveland showed this distinction— that Grantlefta plam line of retreat from civil's reform, if he chose to abaudon it, while Mr. Cleveland has made no mention of such a possibility. General Grant, in 1871, declared that unless congress inter- fercd, the rules he had made regarding civil service would remain in force, At the opening of congress in 1874 only three years later, he said, in pursuance of this policy, that if congress. should :fiiqge to mal ti appropria- tions he would take it as an indication that congress did not approve of civil service rulvs and he would abandon them. Congress did re- fuse to make appropriations and Generul Grant did abandon his civil service reform policy. Mr. Cloveland has laid no obvious ine of retroat. Both of these presidents have yielded to the pressure of their parties, Both of them failed to estimate the pressure to be brought upon them. Both may huve honestly believed in principles of civil service reform and have earnestly desired to sce them put in practice, and yet both failed to receive the supportof their parties.” Granite State Republicans. Coxconn, N. H., May 9.—The republican state convention to clect delegates to tho national convention met to-day. Henry E. Burnham, of Manchester, was chosen presi- dent. He made a speech in which he condemued the pension vetoes of the president; vhe failure of the American government to pro- teot its citizens in foreign countries and its native fishermen, and the action of the dem ocratic members of congress on the direct tax bill. The speaker denounced Cleveland's letter on the tariff, “The platform_denounces the administra- tion for its taviff policy; its pension po its fisheries policy, and for its “‘pretence of civil servico reforin. The platform is par ticularly severe upon the wool ciause in Mills’ tanuff bill. It denounces the demo- cratic party for identifying itself with the interests of liquor deale The following delegates the convention adjourn, Jucob H. Gallingor, Hiram Alfrod 7. Bateheldd Dolaware Democracy. WiLsmixoioy, Del, May 9.—The demo- cratic convention assemble at Dover to-day and selected tho following delegates to the ational convention: L. C. Vandegrift, B. B, Cochran, L. A. C. Hardcastle, C. J. Harring- ton, W. F. Cousey and W. H. Stevens. The platform renews the pledges of the demo- crats of Deleware to the principles of the party; endorses the administration and the courséof Bayard as sccretary of state; en- dorses President Cleveland’s views on the tariffl and his opposition to monopolistic trusts; favors his renomination and closes with an endorsement and ploa in favor of the passage of the Mills tariff bill. B e, Michigan District Delegates, Guaxp Rapips, Mich., May 9.—District ates to the republican national conven- tion were choseu by five districts here to-day as follows: Fifth—A. B. Watson, Cyril P. Brown. Sixth—William McPherson, William MoCreery. enth —Edgar Weeks, Harrison € 0. Shaw, George W. Crawford, . M. Stevenson, Perry Han: were elected and Pierson Cheney, A. Tuttle and B. For Alger. Graxp Rarins, Mich,, May 5.—-The repub- lican state convention to elect delegates to the national convention was called to order shortly after noon to-day. After the appoint- ment of committees a recess was taken until 2730 o'clock. When the convention reassembled the temporary oficors were made permanent. Governor Luce was called for and spoke briefly. A - resolu- tion afirming the priaciples of protection of the republican and endorsing Russel A. Alger for m“ns, was un-nlmm:al! adopted. Following are the delogates-ats largo to the Ohicago_oconvention: Rober§ B. Frazer, J. K. Bois, W, Q. Atwood, cole] ored, N. K. B. Dunstén, | Rowoell Renominated, Cn1caao, May 8.—Captain J, H. Rowell, of Bloomington, was renommated for by acclamation in the Faurteenth Illinois districy republican convention at Deoatur toe d-{. B. F, Funk, of McLean, and Jamod Milliken, of Macon, were olocted delegates to the national convention, They &re unine structed, but lean to Gresham, For Gresham. Cimorao, May 8.—At Nowton, TiL, the rov publican Sixteenth distriot ochose as delegates to the national convention: Thomas W. Seott, of Wayne, and R. 8. Gordon, of Wa bash county. They were instructed fox Gresham. Congressman Petérs Renominated. Ewsroria, Kan,, May 8. —Congressman Pe« ters was unanimonsly renomiuated by th( republicans of the Fourth district this after noon. W. W, Scott and A. V. Sheldon wore nominated as delegates to Chiocago, Arizona Democratio Delegates. Progxix, Ariz, May 8.-—The tervitorid democratic convention elected Joha C. Hern don and George G. Berry delegates to St Lobuis. ———— A Protest. To the Editor of Tnie Brr: As Tan the state secretary for Nebraska of the Irish National league of America, I da« sire to place on record my earnest proc test against the attitude assumed to- wards the recent papal decree on the subject of the “Plan of campaign” by some prominent Irishmen and Irishe Americans, I protest against the expression, “Wa will not take our politics from Rome.” These words are foolish, They ex« press a disloyal spirit towards the pope. They are a dishonor to Ireland. The words are foolish because the vatican decree of 1870, olearly defines the teaching authority of the pope. He is infallible only when teaching, ex-ca- thedra, the universal church, in faith and morals. This decree does not call for assent in political matters therefore it is foolish for any men to say “they will not take their politics from Rome.” The words are an expression of a dis« loyal spirit because we cannot, even it we would, overlook the fact that the de« cree comes from the viear of God. ‘What does the decree contain? Simpiy a public rearflimation of what is required by the command of God “Thou shal’t not steal.” The decree manifestly has reference to a hypothetical case, is an answer to an abstract proposition, put by the British goverment. It does not apply to the real case in point. The natural law remains. As Car- dinal Manning has pointed out, in a re- cent paper, the natural law is divine and supreme and before it the positive command of God gives way. A very learned American writer has placed on record, ‘‘that all men have the natural right to defend their lives and the goods necessary for living, against an unjust aggressor, even by taking the life of the unjust aggressor, if that be th leceessary and the only means of saving them.” It is solely on the ground of the nat- ural law that the Irish hierarchy and priesthood have justified the ‘“‘plan of campaign.” On the same grounds I have justified the movement in spite of the social boycotting of my own Dublin castle re- latives. Now, the words T protest against are a dishonor to Ireland, because loyalty to the pope has been the principle for which Ircland suffered three centuries of persecution. England, Scotland and Ireland were peremptorily summoned by Henry VIIL to show their indepen- throwing off the mild yoke of the physically powerless pope, and by bending their necks to put on the yoke of the powerful Ien Ingland” and Scotland chose to say, “*We will show our independence and exercise our pri- vate judgment by going over totho de of the bigr batlalions, of wealth and shion. The answer of Ireland may be ex- pressed in these words: They spit in the ace of the world of wealth and fashion and said to Heanry “We will see you damned first.” For that principle Ireland has suf- fered. Let us not dishonor the mar- tyred dead. Now you see how they showed their independence. Let us do the same. I have learned from my mother and granamother the accounts given to them by their intimate friend, the great Daniel O'Connell, of the heroic sacrifices made by thousands of poor women in the famine of 1847, Daniel O'Connell told them hom pro- selytisers went around through the fields and wherever they met a poor woman who had lain down to die with her little bube in her arms they said to her “If you will renounce tho pope and ~ take . the Bible we will give you soup and bread to savo yourselves and your little onos. The poor Woman answ : “God forgive you.” That was not the ‘“‘dark ages.” I ve stated this because authentic, and beeause I learned it from the dear friends of Dan O’C' 211 His son was engaged to be n.a to my father’s sister, but she unhappily fell into con- sumption, and died in ome, where she is buried in the church yurd of the Basi- lica di San Lorenzo four delle Mura. In conclusion, I am prepared to draw the sword for Ireland, but I am not willing to snenk under the yoke of fash- jon and expross disrespect *towards tho vicar of God. MICHAEL CORCORAN, - Caught a Tavtar. New York Times: Two young men who make a precarious living as bunko steerers made a most unfortuuate mis- tuke yesterday, They were in Broad- way, n Vesey street, when they saw an Bnglishman” who looked as if he had just landed approaching. He wore a checker-bos cape overcoat and a brick-colored d.»r\,y hat of the most fashionable shape. ~On lus left hand ho wore a lliummull ring. Slipping up to him and holding out his right hand as if delighted to meet an old friend, one of the bunco steerers said: “This is Mr. Higgins, of Leeds, England, is it not?” “1t is not,” was the rather unexpected reply. *Iam MeCarthy from Hoboken.” Apologizing profusely, the bunko steerer withdrew to hold converse with his confederate. The latter, hearing that it was McCarthy, not Higgins,went down Broadway at a fast gait und drew up level with the man in the cape over- cont at Cortland street. “How are you, Mr, MeCarthy?” hein- quired tenderly of the mun in the cape. The latter replied with a blow straigh from the shoulder, which landed on the bunco man’s jaw, wd at once gaths ered, but before & policoman appeare: the bunco mun had disappeared. In res {)Iy 1o the policeman’s questions the man n the cape explained that he was George Cartwrignt, the English pedestrian,and that he had been in America long enough to know & bunco steerer when he saw one. e - During th t three wonths of this year 250 applications were received in the vario lodges of the Royal Arcanum in the state wad 150 persous initiated.