Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. Dally (Morning Edition) ineluding Sunday BER, One Year . » ‘or Six Mon' Three Months . . p 20 The Omaha Ennday TiF toany ad- dress, Oue Year, B 2 00 OMANA OFFICE, NOSUTEAND 010 FARNAN STRERT, NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS W AXD 1b TRIDU UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO 63 'OURTEENTA STRERT. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR e, OF THE BEE: e N RS 1ETTRRS, ATl business latters and remittances should bo addressed to Tihe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATIA. Drafts, checks and postofice ordoers to De made payable to the order of the company. Tiig Beo Publishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Bty of Dokian, {58 “ounty of > Geo. l{ Taschuck, secrotary of The Bas Pub- Mehing c: y, A0es solemily swear that the actual circulatioh of the Daily Hee for the week ending June lollows: £10 00 500 1588, was as Btate of Nebraska, ls.s County of Douglas, oo George B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that hie is secretary of The Bee Publishing_company, that the actual average daily_circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of June, 1857 for July, 187, 1408 copies; 1887, 14,151 coplesi for 14,340 coples; for October, 1857, 14,3 Gvember, 1857, 15,22 copies; for December, I¥7, 16,041 coples; for January, 1888, 15,208 coj fem;’ for February, 1888, 15,%2 coples: for March, 3"){"‘“‘1’ mp{..]; for April, 1664, 18,744 copies, for May, 1888, 18,181 coples. . o G0, B, TZSCHUCK. fworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of June, A, D, 1888, N. P. FEIL Notary Public. Raturdey, June 0, Bunday, June 10, Mondiy, June 11. Tuesd esday, June 12 Wednese Average. Fworn to before me and subscrib presence this 16th day of June, A. N. P. FEIL, Nof AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 18,175 Total for the Week - - - 127,225 ———— e WHILE Omuha is only talking about the proposed Temple of Ceres, Sioux _City has industriously gone to work and preparod for a grand celebration this fall. Comment isunnecessary. JUDGE THURMAN addressed an Ohio orphan asylum the other day. The democratic candidate for second place must not forget that next November he will divide the honor with Mr. Cleve- land of being the only two orphans in the people’s asylum, THE peace of Europe indeed hangs on a slender thread. Armed to the teeth and suspicious, the great powers cat-like are watching each other’s movements. The accession of the young German emperor increases the suspense. It needs but a single word or an overt act on his part to kindle the warlike tinder which shall set all Europe ablaze. | NEW YORK’S democratic governor vetoed the electoral reform bill which was intended to protect the ballot-box from the frauds of politiciaus in that state. It is very evident that Governor Hill believes in keeping up the Jack- sonian rule, that ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils.” He will have no new- _fangled reform in his, if you please. A7 the republican convention of 1880 there was present at the deliberations Prince Leopold of England. This year the Chicago convention will entertain as its guest Prince Bonaparte. Itis to be hoped that Napoleon’s nephew will prove as great a ‘‘mascot” to the repub- lican party at the November election as the English scion of nobility proved to be eight years ago. It isn’t every prince that has that chance. ——————— THE moment a meusure becomes law relieving the people from the oppres- sion of a monopoly ring, the cry is raised that vested interests are injured and business is ruined. A bill has just received the governor’s signature in New York limiting the charges for cle- vating, rveceiving, weighing and dis- charging grain from elevators. The Dbill was introduced, and its passago urged by the canal boatmen, who have been all along vietimized by the eleva- tor ring. The New York produce ex- change thereupon declares that the grain trade at the New York port is paralyzed, and the trade will go to other cities. —_— THERE ave fears that a civil war is mminent in the Chickasaw nation of the Indian territory. A law was passed by the council taxing all cattle grazing on Indian lands. But the cattlemen, many of whom are citizens of the na- tion, resisted the collection of this tax and drove the collector and deputies off with violence. The cattlomen showing fight, the governor has ordered out the national militia of Indians and in con- junction with United States troops will quell the rebellion. There is, however, a feeling in some sections of the terr tory that the cattlemen have many sympathizors and that the struggle will ‘involve the whole nation. In that event serious complications may arise and Uncle Sam’s troops may have their hands full for some time. Se— OMAHA is offering strong induce- ments to the Knights of Pythiasto hold their next conclave in this city, St. Louis appears to be the only rival, As betweon these cities there can be very little doubt as to which one will be pre- ferrod. St. Louis is not suitable for Qolding conventions. The oppressive heat and poor accommodations there made the democratie convention any- thing but agreeable, a fact that will be long remembered. Omaha has already become famous as & couvention city, The close rum it made for the _mational republican conveution immes diately called attention to its merits, In consequence Omaha has become the ‘choice of the Mcthodists and other de- nominations for holding representutive gatherings. Moreover Omaha is an enthusiastic centre of the order, and the Kuights of Pythias cannot fail to rec- ognize that it is to their benefit to en- courage this sentiment. With the lib- eral guaruntoe of $100,000 for the enter- tainment of the delegates, the grand lodge cannot fail to give Omaha the Mreference. Falling Into Line. It transpires that Mr. Edward Cooper of New York, who went to St. Louis to sce that the platform was wot mnade too offensive to the protection element in the party and failed to have a line of the document as it came from Washing- ton altered, will nevertheless vote for Mr. Cleveland. He does not hesitate to confess that he is dissatisfied with por- tions of the platform, and very likely his views not intended for the public ear would he anything but commenda- tory of that document, but Mr. Cooper is not without political ambition, and on the ground of duty to the party he will support the ticket. Well, perhaps Hewitt and all the rest of the disgrun- tled crowd will do the same, though it is still questionable whether they will be found exerting their wonted zeal in the cause. In the case of Hewitt there is some personal feeling as woll as the question of material igterests. He has not been treated well by Mr. Cleveland, and he isa man in whom the spirit of resentment is strong. But still he may be won over, and even be- come a leader in the chorus that will sing the praises of Grover. Hill has jumped into the arena with as voluble a flow of gushing laudation of the presi- dent as if he had never desperately labored to bring him into disregard with the party and push himself to the front for the presidential nomination. He will be entirely satisfied now if he isable to secure a renomination for governor, and it would be a just rebuke of his duplicity and his demagogy to deny him this. But the suggestion for republicans 18 not to count too largely on democratic defection. That party is going to be skillfully and vigorously managed, and no effort will be wanting to keep in the fold those who may have a tendency to stray from it. The ‘“co- hesive power of public plunder” will be utilized as it never has been before. The democracy will be defeated only by presenting in opposition candidates who can command the full republican strength, divide the independent vote, and draw to it a majovity of the million voters who will cast their first ballot in a national election next November. It is possible to name such a ticketat Chicago. False Claims. The impudent vpresumption with which the democratic platform claims for the present administration the faith- ful and efficient performance of every exccutive duty, is only equalled by its preposterous pretense thatthe democrat- ic party has shown fidelityand devotion toits pledges. In both cases the record is clearly and indisputably against these claims. Consider, for example, the condition to which the postal service of the coun- try was brought under Vilas. Does any one remember when there was so much complaint at any other time during the past twenty years as has been heard in every part of the country during the last two years regarding the mail service? The west has suffered most seriously from the incompetence and’ the fine political work of Vilas, but the service everywhere hus greatly de- teriorated in efficiency. This has been virtually admitted by the present post- master general, who is manifesting a desire to remedy the defects which be- came widespread under his predecessor, but finds the task no easy one with a great amount of incapacity that has found its way into the postal service. It was the professed intention of the administration to reform the entire sys- tem upon which the business of the government had been con- ducted under republican admin- istrations, yet an investigation of the departments by a senate committee with a democratic senator at its head developed the fact that in some of them the most unbusi- ness-like methods prevail—some of long-stunding and others which were intended to be in the line of reform. It is probably true as to one or two of the burcaus that some improvement has taken place in the methods of doing business, but on the whole the execu- tive functions of the government have been carried on more bunglingly under the present administration than almost ever before, The anxiety to “‘turn the rascals out” has foisted upon important branches of the public service a great number of men who had no other or better recommendation than the polit- ical services they had rendered or could render, and it may safely be as- serted that the average of intelligence in the public service of thistime is lower than ever before in the history of the countr The Price of Turpitude. The last campaign and election in Louisiana had several features of inter- attracted the attention of the In the first place there was the bitter fight betweon the Nicholls and McEnery factions, which promised at the outsct to give the state to the republicans on a full vote and fair count, which McEnery gave his solemn pledge should not be prevented by any of the devices which the democracy had before employed., Then after a time of hot warfare cume the evidences of a truve, which was brought about, it was supposed, by the interposition of the national administration. Finally the election developed a democratic majority about as large as the entire vote of the state in the last pre- vious election, a fact which it is proposed in the United States senate to inquire into, and which would cer- tainly seemn to warrant an investigation. How the truce wag brought about be- tween the hostile democratic factions, and McEnery’s resentment tranisformed into a zeal for Nicholls in the cagerness of which he torgot all about his pledges to see that there was a free vote and a fair count, was, however, a somewhat perplexing question. Naturally it was ascribed to influence from Washington. The sufficient explanation comes at last in the appointment of McEnecry by Nicholls to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the state. The evi- dence of a bargain is obvious, and pur- suant to it both of these political free- booters are provided for. Hud McEnery as governor carried out his promise that there should be a free election and fuir coumt, it is questionable whether : THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1888 sholls would now. be the governor of Louisiana. But he accepted the pr of a position on the supreme bench to stultify himself, the old democratic election methods in the state were allowed full play, and the result challenges wonder atthe amazing in- crease in two years of the voting popula- tion of Louisiann, A fine man this to hold the scales of justice in the highest tribunal of the state, but even worse is he who appointed him to this position. Surely the people of Louisiana are to be commiserated as having unscrupulous politicians in positions of power where the public interests and the rights of sons are largely at their mercy. DEMOCRATS profess to believe that the candidacy of Thurman will make Ohio a doubtful state. No idea could be more foolish than this, and no one will entertaln it who knows anything about Ohio democracy and the relations in which Thurman has stood to the party in his state for several years. There is a vory large and influential faction of the Ohio democracy—the fac- tion, indeed, which has the boodle— that has no love for the ‘“old Roman,” and which was wholly responsible for the political retirement from which he has just been called. It successfully obstructed the way to his nomination for the presidency when his chances seemed better than those of any other democrat in the country; it de- feated him for the senate when he had every right to expect a re-election to that body; it effectively exerted its influence to keep him out of the cabi- net and to prevent his receiving any recognition from the administration. Perhaps in the present exigency this faction will not manifest the same im- placable hostility to Thurman that it has hitherto done, but that it will give him a hearty support cannot reasonably be supposed. Possibly Mr. Thurman may be able to increase the' democratic vote of Ohio somewhat over that of last year, but there is not the slightest danger that Ohio will farl to go repub- lican next November. As a talisman the red bandana long since lost much of its force in Ohio. IT will not be many a day before an all-water route between Chicago and London will be an established fact. As yet it is in the nature of an experiment. Nevertheless, tho first steamship con- signed direct from England to Chicago arrived at Montreal and is' now on its way to Chicago. The Rosedale was built especially for the service, and brings over as her first cargo a thou- sand tons of Portland cement. On her return trip she will probably carry back to England flour and packing house products. It is necessary, how- ever, that the St. Lawrence canals should be deepened before vessels of fourteen feet draught can passithrough them with safety. The Dominion government is taking active steps in that direction, and in a few years the lake-ocean trade will he firmly established. To the west such a water communication with Europe is of great importance. It is not at all unlikely that a number of commercial ports will be develoned on the shores of Lake Superior as well as Lake Michigan. In that event the large grain shipments of the west to Europe will no louger go via the sea- board but be sent through the lakes di- rectly to the foreign ports. —_— 5 THE de fiance of the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, in violating the inter-state commerce law by cutting through rates at the same time main- taining its local tariff, has been imitated by the Wisconsin Central. Unless the inter-state commission immediately puts a stop to the breaking of the law, all tne other roads leading to the north- west out of self-protection will be obliged to follow their peruicious e ample. But it is not at all probable that the commissioners will permit these railroads to take the law into their own hands, By the fool- hardy policy of keeping up high local rates and making low rates on through traffic these railroads have aroused a feeling of bitterness on the part of mer- chants at intermediate points between Chicago and St. Paul. They will un- doubtedly file complaints with the inter- state commissioners, and bring suit against the railroads for violation of the law. On the whole it looks serious for these law-defying corporations. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FELLOWS, of New York, instead of attending to his duties in prosecuting important cases which are awaiting his immediate at- tention, has gone on a junketing tour to the northwest. Meanwhile the special grand jury ordered to consider alleged irregularities in the hoard of aldermen complained to Judge Barrett, of the New York bench, that they were left without counsel to consult with, Colonel Fellows has most shamefully abused the office to which he was etected through the influence of the president. He has proven himself wholly incompetent and latterly he has shown himself grossly negligent. Judge Barrett has become s0 indignant at his indifterence to the public business that the judge threatens to impeach him. And yet thisisthe district attorney wham Grover Cleve- land publicly championed &s a candi- date, THIRTY-TWO years ago, Feb, 22, 1856, the first republican national convention was held at Pittsburg, in which twenty- four states, sixteen free and eight slave, were represented. Tuesday, June 19, 1888, delegates from every state and tervitory in the Union will meet in a republican pational convention at Chicago. Though a lapse of over a quarter of a century has passed since the memorable oceasion which called forth the first gath ng of the party, there will be men present at Chicago who sat in the Pittsburg convention, and the great principles which found utterance thirty-two years ago will be reiterated as the corner stone of the republican party — Tue Union Pacilic has again given practical notice that its policy of re- trenchment will be strictly adhered io. This time the exteunsion takes place in Utah. By a vote of the directors of the ! has ma g 34 NIRRT o 30 9 M G g N WV i SR T SO 5 sy 4 S 0 s G 3o 2 Utah Central, a branch of the Union Pacific, it will be extended eighty-five miles westwardg to the Nevada line. Now that Colorad and Utah have heen heard from, it wntwt in order before work is begun in @regon for President Adams torepeat ghat “itis not proposed to enter upon fhe construction of new lines or extensioh upon the existing system until a settlement is effected with the government.” In the mean- time Nebraska will plense support tho Outhwaite bill,and pay for the pleasure. Hands Off. Denver Republican. Nebraska like Colorado is regarded by the railway corporations as a fitting field for the exercise of the arts by which they are often enabled to defeat the'will and defy the wishes of the peo- ple in politics. In both states the re- publican party is in the majority and in both the corporations are striving to use the party machinery for the accom- plishment of their designs. This is an old trick of the railroad politicians. Jay Gould once said on the witness stand when being questioned regarding his interference in politics while engaged in robbing the Erie railway: “In a republican district, 1 was a republican; in a democratic dis- trict, I was a democrat: but at all times I was an Erie man,” But like_the peo- ple of Colorado, the people of Nebraska are growiug very restive under railroad rule, and unless the better element of the republican party has the sense and the cour: to drive the corporation ool out of power, a revolution i3 imminent that mue' work disaster to the pa well as the railronds. The sen: thing for the honest and intelligent re- publicans of both states to do is to band together for the purpose of securing the nomination and election of officials who will be faithful servitorsof the people rather than subservient tools of the corporations. They have tho {)m rand it is their duty to do this. t will cost some effort but the gain will far outweigh the cost. The railroads are useful as means of traffic, but they have no right to meddle in politics and their candidates should be defeted Dby the people in self-defense. There isno disposition in this country to do any injustice to the corporations or to take from them any- thing which rightfully belongs to them. But they have no right to attempt to control the government and they must not be permitted to do it. Their tools cannot be trusted to serve the people faithfully either in congress orin the state legislature or in any other official position, and they should be over- whelmingly defeated whenever they appear as candidates for office. R STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska. The Bohemian oat swindlers are still at large. i Lumber thieves ‘are gathering in the lucre at Nebraska City. ' The Crete assenibly will be the event of the year in Nebraska, The festive chlqli:[\ bug is gathering a won- derful harvest in Thayer county. 7 The York brass'band is practicing, much to the annoyance of many citizens. The Chadron base ball club has challenged the earth to meet 1t on the diamond. Fillmore county proposes to furnish all the corn necessary for Omaha’s grain palace. The assessor’s report shows the total amount of taxable property in Hay Springs precinct to be $53,362. The Lincoln Democrat is raising money by subscription to build a Y. M. C. A. building in Lincoln, John Clarke subscribing $10,000, The state apportionment of the school fund received by Otoe county is §5,238.50 as it has 7,202 pupils residing within het borders, The Norfolk Weekly Herald is to_make its apvearance on Wedncsday, June 20, under the editorial and business 'management of I, M. Claftin. The races to be given by the iGage County Driving asscciation at Beatrice on July 3 and 4, bids fair to be among the most interesting trotting expositions of tho west. The Blair people now claim that they did not ask for §5(,000 in bonds- at first, and that it was the county supervisors who worked for that amount in order to defeat the meas- ure at the polls, Governor Thayer has appointed Charles E. Root, of the State Journal editorial staff, delegate from Nebraska to the mecting of the national prison association and prison con- gress, which convenes in Boston July 14. The national anniversary will be celebrated gencrally throughout Jefferson county this joar, Ieynolds, Stecle City, Diller, Daykin, Pairbury “and other poinis will 'vie ‘with +each other in keeping alive the memories of that day. South Sioux City may be a little siow at times but like the wingless insect immortal- ized in song, “She gets there just the same.” Not until Thursday evening was any definito action taken in the matter of a Fourth of of July colebration, but everybody went en- thusiastically to work and $300 was sub- geribed in an hour, Mrs. McKee, of Tecumseh, last week took to the home of the friendless an unfortunate fourteen-year-old girl who has been wander- ing from place to place. She has no home and does not know where her father is. Her name, she s, is Cora Prator, and thinks her father is in Missouri, may be in Grundy county. Should any one seeing this article know of such a man, please inform Mrs, Me- Ke cumseh, Neb, The Mead Aavocate furnishes this society item: “Had the wildest Sioux that ever gave the war-whoop dropped into Mead on lust Saturday night he would have shed tears of ret and exclaimed that *as a barbarian he @ faillure!” When men lose respect for themselves it is bad; when they lose re- spect for tneir fellows it is criminal. When men imitate the fiend by howling and yelling through the streets, frightening women and children; filling the air with oaths agd ob- scene language, it is time for the law to as- sert its majesty. Under such circumstances, no wonder law-abiding citizens exclaim: ‘Where is the marshal?’ ‘Where is the cala- boose " Towa, Jefferson rejoices in a building boom, The saloon Wwen BE WLANIMOUS NOW in curs- ing Council Bluffs, # A Knights of Bythias lodge was instituted at Paullina last wibk. Sunday base babkiaying will be no louger allowed at Cherokge, The Cedar Rapi first-class one Jul Ida Grove Mefh@dists expect to build a $7,000 church this Summer, It is said that there have been more ban- anas sold in Sluuxb“&m spring than ever bo- fore. ostofice will be made a At their June sBsion the supervisors of Sac county orderfgl, fourteed new bridges built. Crandall's lodge at the head of Spint lake is the rendezvous of Estherville lishermen at present. The demand for flax seed at Hstherville has fairly exhausted the supply and contin- ues unabated. The Calhoun county court house is to be fenced with an iron fence costing one-third as much as the court house, W. 8. Sickmon, a Des Moines attorney, has been disbarred for two years by Judge Given for dishonest practices, ‘The capital stock of the Rock Valley Dis- trict Fair association has been placed at §2.500, or 250 shares of §10 cach. he Roman Catholic Mutual Benevolence sociely of lowa wil! meet at Waterioo next week Wednesday and Thursday. Johi. 0. Mason, a resi township, Scott counly, siuce 15 Tuesday. He was in his nineticth A prominent memoer of the Mu; cat tle mnn‘\uu) says that the rocent rise.s stock de thut company §24,000 richa, last of Winfield | FRED DOUGLAS' PRETTY HOME. A Visit to the Foremost Negro of the Land. POWERFUL COAST DEFENSES. Lieutenant Graydon's System of Firing Dynamite—Thurman’s Nomination — Correspons dents Boomed Him, A Prince Among His People. 1x@10N, June 16.—[Special to Tae —1I made a very pleasant little visit the other evening at the residence of the venerable Fred Douglas, the greatest living representative negro. Since Mr, Douglas dropped out of official life—he left the offico of recorder of deeds for the District of Col- umbia upon the introduction of President Cleveland—he has almost dropped out of public view. For quite a year after Mr. Douglas retired from public life few, even of his plosest friends, knew where he was. A short time afterward he took the forum, and has since been locturing. He has just returned from a trip to Europe, and looks as hale and hearty as he did a score of years ago, although ho is now running up into the seventies. Mr. Dougla®s residence 18 situ- ated on the top of a hill which rises a hun- dred feet above the Potomac, and is located in the southeastern suburbs of Anacostia, a little village about five miles southeast of the white house. The cottage 1s an old- fashioned one, of medium size, two stories, and made of wood. Its interior arrange- ment and furnishings are very similar to the old plantation houses in the south, The furniture is antiquated, the pictures on the walls represent tho taste and character of its occupants, and the general atmosphere of the surroundings is that of a well-to-do old citizen, Surrounding the north front of the building is aspacious piazza, on which I found ship chairs, & rustic settee, and other com- fortablo seats, The view from the front of Mr. Douglas's house is one of the most magnificent to be found around Washington, Seven or eight miles to the north and west, down across the castern branch of the Po- tomac, over the capitol building, over Wash- ington, out past Howard university, the eye perceives the soldiers’ home, situated on an elevation quite as high as tho home of the colored patriot. Turning the eye westward in the far distance the top of Oak View, the summer residence of the president, can be dimly seen beyond Georgetown. Directly west you look up the Potomac along the wharves of Washington and Georgetown, and a lttle farther south Arlington, Fort Myer and the hilly country beyond meets the eye. Going around the house one gets a full view of the Potomac river thirty or forty miles, or as far as the eye can penetrate, and Alexandria and Mt. Vernon comes into view. Mr. Douglas’ homo shows culture, refine- ment and gentility. The old-fashioned fire- places are filled with statues of the Greek Slave, the Angel of Night, Venus, the Amer- ican Slave, while on the mantel-picces are busts of Lincoln and other American patriots. On a wall in one of the parlors is a life-sized painting of Mr. Douglas, while, hanging about in profusion and artistic taste, are steel engravings of sacred subjects. There is a large book-case in Mr. Douglas’ private office, and in it are works of lustory, poetry, literature, religion, ete, Mr. Douglas’ three or four daughters and as many sons are all married. With his _recently acquired wife, who is said to be of pure white blood, he lives a life of quietude and ease. He has many callers, and he entertains them splendidly. On the hill where his residence is located is a beautiful garden and a quantity of fruit trees, where the old gentleman spends the hours he has from his leetures and studies. About half of the residents of Anacostia are colored and there is almost a constant stream of negroes going to or returning from Mr. Douglas’ house during the hours for calling, He gives advice freely and wisely to the colored people in distress, and isa missionary in several ways. Mr. Douglas is especially enthusiastic on the subject of poli- tics, and says he intends to devoto most of his time after the opening of the campaign in behalf of his party., He thinks the colored voters should be grateful to the party that rescued them from slavery, and says that is with great. difticulty that he can restrain himself from talking politics in his non-parti- san lectures. Mr. Douglas has an ample competence, which he saved from his office and which he has accumulated by lecturing. Heisina position to do much good in the elevation of nhis race and says that is now the ambition of his life. Heis well educated, well read, and is oue of the most kindly and cultured gentlemen one meets in a life time. ) There appears to be every indication that within the next five years enormous strides will be made by the United States towards sceuring adequate protection against foreign invasion, This protection will not be accom- plished, in all probability. solete system of fortific: 5 sufficient for other days and ge the early part of the present century. stead of them, the Unmted States will prob- ably be armed’ with weapons of defensive warfare so powerful in their destructive ca- pacity as to convince the would-be invader that his" armida muy be blown out of the water and totally annihilated before he can fire his first gun, no matter how thickly pluted with armour nis vessel may be, A great deal has been he: within the past few months of the Zalmski gun, and appropriation biH car) ) to be used in supplying military service of the United States with this gun, It is also understood that the naval bill will have a similar amount for like weapons for the mnavy. But thereis another method of flring dynamite which will also be adopted, in all probabili and which, owing to its simplicity, promises greater results than the Zalinski gun, Dur ing the Tonquin war, the Chinese govern- ment employed an officer of the Unitod States navy, Lieutenant Graydon, to blockade the Canton order that the progross of the t'reas t might be chec Lieu- tenant Graydon could not sccure an ex- tended teave of absenco for the purpose of conducting this work, and, in consequence, gned his position in the United States He was so successful in his work that he was offered something like $600,000 by the viceroy of Tonquin to blocade in & similar manner the Min r, but the viceroy of Canton, fearing a visit of the Freuch flect, declined to allow bim to leave, and the offer had to be declined, and the result was that Foo Chow was captured by the French. Lieutenant Graydon has devised @ system for firing dynamite from ordinary cunnons, which system has been testud at Sandy Hook with remarkable results, There was presented to the military committee of the house, one day this week, copies from letters from several of the fore- most military and naval oficers of the coun- try, in which they spoke in terms of the high- est praise of the Graydon method of explod- ing dynamite. Adwiral Jouett expresses the firm conviction that the use of dynamite with its wonderful power to annihilate will prove to be the most effective means of checking warfare. As soon s the nations the earth ascertain that the declaration of war ineans absolute de- struction for their fleets and thoeir soldiers, arbitration will be resurted to, instead of ap pealing to gun powder and the sabre. A large sum has been approprinted for testing this new weapon, and un experiment will probably be made under the direction of the officers of the army and nayy sowetime this summer as o its effectiveness agaiust one of the old monitors. Those who have scen Licutenant Graydon's work in the past are satisfied that with a @ftcen inch rifie cannon at a distance of four miles Le could blow from the face of the sea the most powerful armered vessel of any navy ia the weald. The republicans become niore and mwore ploased_every duy over the inatio Judge Thurman. Thoy say he is entirel decropit t take an geiive part in the cam desyilo the annoncemonts to the con fa 1% the ior the second place on the_tick active man the stamp. Mr. Mendrivks was an speaker and an untiring worker, Cleveland, it will bo rememberod, did make any speeci Mr, not Albany. icks on the stump and at public roc tions represented not only the second bu the first candidate. Now, republicans say, thero will be neithor the hoad nor the tml of the ticket on the forum, and there will be no direct statements made to the peoplo by the two demo 8 didates, They hold that Mr. Thurman can not take an activo part in tho campaien because he is too old and has not the physical strength; that if he should attend the big political moetings dind attempt to make speeches he would impair his health and risk his life, Hosides, his voice is 80 weak he could not be ficard a sufficient distance to make him an effective orator. President Cleveland, of course, will continue to refuse to go out through the country and take an active part in_the campaign. and so the democratic_can- vass will be made through lctters, inter- views and friends, so far as reaching the pub- lic is concerned. This morning T had a talk with General Kennedy of Ohio, a member of the house, who knows Judge Thurman thoroughly and personally and who has kept runof him closoly for many years. Speaking of Mr, Thurmaun's infirmitics General Koanedy said: “I have doubts that Mr. Thurman will attempt to take an activa part in the campaign. He may make. speeches indoors at some of the principal mectings in the country, and he may be placed on exhibition by hispaity, but so far as his taking the lmn of an active speaker and attempting, to ufluence votes by his oratory or argumont is concerned, it is preposterous to talk about it. Mr. Thurman is physically so weak that he can do little more than muster locomotion. He walks around the strocts of Columbus a little, but he participates in nothing that would tax his physical constitution, Will he strengthen tho ticket! No, not a bit. He will, in my mind, not even bring out the full democratic strength, Mr. Thurman has the reputation of being a very good man, and has many warm personal friends, but he doos not arouse entusiasm, and his name will not be the shibboleth that his party expected it to be. Of course there will be a long and loud gcll over the name of Thurman for awhile, ut it will soon die away, and then he will be to his party what he really is to his_country, a kind renmiembrance, a sort of tradition. It is foolish to talk about Thurman carrying Ohio. We will have ten or twenty thousand majority with any man we may put on the ticket.”” . o Major John M. Carson, of the Philadelphia Ledger, was tho _chairman of the Washing- ton correspondents who visited St. Louis last week. He expresses the opinion that the . visit of the nowspaper men to St. Louis be- fore the delegations began to arrive in large numbers had a great deal to do with the se- lection of Judge Thurman for the second Dlace on the ticket. Major Carson says that when the Washington men arrived the only delegates present were those from the Pacific coust, Theso were all for Thurman, and uaturully the newspaper men circuliting among them heard a groat deal of Thurman talk, Tho result of it was that thoy tele- graphed out to their papers statements of the “Thurman strength among the men who had alrcady arrived. These dispatches came to the eyes of the incoming delogates and they were more impressed with the Thurman boom than they would otherwiso have been. Consequently as they arrived near the convention they supplicd themselves with bandana handkerchiefs in groat numbers, and did not allow their previous predilection to_drive away the enthusiasm which_every democrat has felt, at one time or another in his life, for the Old Roman, The natural sequence of all this was that therowas a great furore, and all her delogates desiring to be in the procession behind the band shouted Thurman so heartily and waved lis bandana to such good effect that the chances of each individual aspirant for the nomination grew “smaller by dogrees and beautifully less” as tho hour for the nomination arrived. M. Carson thinks that the real sentiment of the convention was decidedly for Gray, but that owing to the Thurman cxcitement Thurman men had things all their own way, and Gray’s supporters could not stem the tide. e e ‘Workmen and the Tariff. ‘WASHINGTON, June 16.—[Special to Tmx Bee.]—A promiment German-American who is here from New York to-duy, gives a very interesting account of the manner in which the subject of the tariff is agitating tho minds of the working men of the country to-day. Said this gentleman to your correspondent this afternoon: “Never, in my reeollection, has this im- portant question came home so closely to the minds of the people most dircctly interested as it has been brought within the past few months, Heretofore the theories of protec- tion and free trade have been looked upon in the abstract as ideas not directly affccting the bread and butter of the wage- workers,. He has gone on votug for his party without regard to the statements made by the opponents or the advocates of the present system, and while he has generally talked in~ favor of protec- tion, he does not seem to have realized the importance to himself of the retention of the existing policy. The Germans, the Poles, the Swedes and the Italians who have come to this country for the purpose of bettering their condition, have learned very quickly that wages are better and that all conditions of life are superior in this country to those that exist in the Fatherland. But they have not gone to the trouble of finding out why these conditions were more them here, and . them when they sccuring their naturalization papers, have voted for the democratic ticket, “In @ great muny instances these men read Little beyond the sensational news in their papers and the items relating to the condi- tion of affairs in the country which they have forever left behind, The’ financial and fiscal affuirs of the United States never trouble them to any great extent, and where you would find a crowd gathered' together it was seldom that the tariff entercd into the conversation. Now, bowever, there is @ great difference, It is almost impossible to find a_gathering of en in any of the beer halls or other ) in'or about New York City where the tariff is not the all absorbing topic of discussion. Ihave scen within the past two months gatherings of intelligent workingmen with their pockets loaded with tariff speeches, which they would pull ont and read to; theircompanions and discuss, seriatim, item by item. Some of the spoak: ers 1n congress would be surprised if they could hear the intellectual force of some of the arguments which are made pro and con when their speeciies are being dissected by the men who are most iuterested in tho policy which these speochos are designed to break down or to maintain, The result of all this wiil be in my opinion, that the tarift will enter far more into the campaign in U ) section of this country than ever b and that 1t will not be at the great party mass meetiugs that the most forcible arguments will be maintained, On the contrary, there is every reason to beliove that the workingmon of this country will take the brunt of the dis- cussion upon themselves, and that ti ings around tho tables Where working men congregate mghtly, will have far more effect on the campaign than auy of the gre out- door or indoor meetings, whero the best speakers of the couniry are gathered to Kether, An Absotute Oure. 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