Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1888, Page 1

- EIGHTEENTH YEAR " OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, TMBER 90 Buch Is General Harrison's Letter of Acceptance. HIS TREATMENT OF THE TARIFF. The American Workingmen Warned Against the Deceptive Promises and Forecasts of Theoriz ing Reformers. Harrison's Letter of Acceptance. “The following is re- INpiANAPOLIS, Sept. 11. General Harrison's letter pting the publican presidential nomination : IxDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Sept, 11.- M. M. Estee o '8, committee men: When ) rommittee visited me on the 4th of July 1 presented the oflic aunouncement nomination for the presidency of the United States by the re- publi national convention, I promised as 800n a8 practicable to communicate to you a more formal acceptance of the nomination Since that time the work of viving and addressing, almost daily, large d tions of my fellow citizens has fully occu- pied all of my time, but in some measure rendere it unne essary to use this letter as @ medium of communicating to the public my views upon the questions involved in the eampaign. 1 appreciate very highly the confidence and respect manifested by the convention, and accept the nomination with a fecling of gratitude and a full sense of the responsibilities which accompany it. Itisa matter of congratulation that the declarations of the Chicago convention upon the questions that now attract the interest of our people are 8o clear and emphatic. There is a further cause of congratulation in the act that the convention utterances of the democratic party, if in any degroe uncertain or contradictory, can unow be judged and in- terpreted by executive acts and messages, and by definite propositions in legislation. This is especially true of what is popuiarly known as the tariff question, The issue ¢ not now be obscured. It is @ contest between schedules, but between wide apart principles. The foreign compet tors of our market have, with quick instinct, Been how one issue of this contest may bring them advantage, and our own people are not 80 dull as to miss or neglect the grave inter- ests that are involved for them. The assault upon our protective system is open and de- flant. Protection s assailed as unconstitu tional in the law or as vicious in prinei and those who hold such views sin y cannot stop short of an absolute elimination from our tariff laws of the principle of protection. The Mills bill is only a sten, but 18 toward an object that th s of de cratic thought and legislation have elear) mind. The important question is not so much the length of the step as the dire of 1t. Judged by tho exeeutive message of December last, by the Mills bill, by the debutes 1 congress aud by the St. Louis platform, the demoeratic party will, if supported by the country, place the tariff laws upon a ourcly revenue basis. s this practical free rade, free trade in the English sense! The Jegend upon the banner may not be “Free trade.” 1t may be the more obscure motto, SPariff reform,” but neither the banuer nor the inscription is conclusive, or, indeed, very important. Those who teach that the im- port duty on foreign goods sold in onr mar- ket is paid by the consumer, and that the price of the domestic competing article 1s enhanced to the amount of the duty on im- ported articles; that every million of dollars collected for custom dutiés represents many millions more which do not reach the treas- ury, but are paid by our citizens as the in- creased cost of domestic productions resulting from the tariff laws, may not intend to aiscredit in the minds of others our system of levying dutics on competing foreign pro- ducts: but it is clearly already discredited in their own. We cannot doubt, without im- pugning their integrity, that if free to act upon their convictions they would so revise our laws as to lay the burdens of the customs revenue upon articles that are not produced in this country, and to place upon the free list all competing foreign products. I do not stop to refute this theory as to the effect of our tariff duties, Those who advance it are students of maxims and not of the markets. "They may be safely allowed to call their pro- ject “taritt reform? if the people understand that. In the end the argument compels free trade in all competing products. This end may not be reachied abruptly, and its ap- proach may be accompanied with some ex- pressions of sympathy for our protected in- dustries and our working people, but it will certainly come if these early steps do not arouse the people to effective resistance. The repudlican party holds that o pre- tective tariff is constitutional, wholesome and necessary. We do not offer a fixed chedule but a prineiple, We will revise the schedule, modify rates, but always with an intelhigent provision as to the effect upon domestic production and the wages of our working people, We believe it to be one of the worthy objects of tariff legislation to reserve the American markets for Amer- can producers, and to maintain adequate discrimating dutics upon _foreign compet- ing products. The effect of lower rates and larger importations upon the public revenue is contingent and doubtful, but not so the effect upon American production and Amer- fcan wages. Less work and lower wages must be accepted as the inevitable re- sult of the increased offeriug of for- eign goods in our market. By way of recompense for this reduction in his wages, ana the loss of the American market, it is suggested that the diminished wages of the workingmun will have an undiminished pur- chasing power, and that he will be able to make up for the loss of the home market by an enlarged foreign market, Our workingmen have the settlement of the question in their own Y now obtain higher wages and | more comfort- ably than those of any other country. They will make a choice between the substantial advantages they have in hand and the de- ceptive promises and forecusts of those theo- rizing reformers. ‘They will decide for them- selves and for the country whether the pro- tective system shuall be continued or de- stroyed. The fact of a treasury surplus, the amount of which is variously stated, bas directed public atteution to ‘a consideration of the methods by which the national income may best be reduced to the level of a wise and necessury expenditure. This condition has been seized upon by those who are hos tile to protective custom dutics as an ad- vantageous base of attack upon our tarift laws. They have magnifiel and nursed the surplus which they affect to deprecate, seem- ingly for the purpose of exaggerating the evil in order to reconcile the people to the extremo remedy thoy propose. A proper r duction of the revenue does not necessitate, and shou'd not suggest the abandonment or impairmeut of the ovrotective system. The methods suggested by our convention will not need to be exthausted in order to effoct the necessary reduction. We are not likely 10 be called upon, 1 think, to make a presont choice between the surrender of our protec- tive system and the eutire repeal of the in- ternal taxes.: Such a contingency, in view of the present relation of expenditures to reve- nues, is remote. The inspection and regulation of the manu- facture and sale of oleomargarine is impor- tant, and the revenue derived from it is not so ceat that the repeal of the law uneed enter fito any plan of revenue reduction. The sur- plus now in the treasury should be used in tho purchase of bonds. The law authorizes this use of it, and if it is not needed for cur- rent or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the banks in which it has been de- sited, should have the advautage of its use ¥ stopping intorest upon the public debt, At least those who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the fear of & monetary stringency, thus produced, to coerce public sentiment upon other questious. Closely conuected w?th the subject of the taiif is that of the importation of foreigu la- borers under contracts of service to be per- formed here. The law now in force probib- iting such contracts received my cordial sup- port in the senate, and such amendments us may be found necessary effectively to de- liver our workingmen and women frow this Wost iuequitable form of cowpotition will not hibiting the importa cont 8hops must comy withoul favorin cheap foreign labor the effect will be differ- ent, it at all, only che W and w not need an of laborers have no the employer no them, public age common, —labor was sc the day of the immigrs by. 1o proper need to the shot der a duty to defend our c cluding alien racy lation with our neople is neither possible nor distinctiv gend qualific This common interest very early su : my sincere advocacy. Legislation pro- ion of laborers under s to serve here will, however, afford the system of protective dut en down. If the products of Ame; in the American market duties with the products of in a_degree, whether the b laborer is across the street or over the Such competition will sonn reduce here to the level of those abroad, 1 that condition is reached we will laws forbidding the importation under contract—they will inducement to come _and inducement to send for arlier years of our history 1es to promote immigration were The pioncer wanted a_ neichbor with more friendly. instincts than the Indian id fully empioyed. But ureru has gono While our doors will continue opened migration, Wi do mnov 1ssue special invitations to inhabitants of other countrics to age: n the me to our shores or to share our citizenship. d, the necessity of some inspection itation 18 obvious, We t foreign and crim- un- v ex- whose ultimate assimi- to po inals to our port desirable. The family has been the nucleus of our best immigration, and the home the most potent assimilating force in our civili- zation. he objections to Chinese immigration are ud conclusive, and are now so ally accepted as such that the ques has passed entirely around the stage o wuments, The laws relating to this subjc would, if T should be charged with their en- forcement, be faithfully executed. Such t amendments or further legislation as may be ne the Taws gration would also mect my approva expression of the convention upon_this sub- ject is in entir sssury and proper to prevent evasions of nd to stop further Chinese immi- 1. The harmony with my view: Our civil compact is a government L jorities, and the law loses its sanction and the mavistrate our respect when this com- pact is broken. I'he evil results of election frands do not expend themselves upon the voters who aro robbed of their ghtful influence in public affairs, The individual, a community, or party, that practices or connives at election frauds, has suffered irreparable injury, and will sooner or later realize that to exchange the Amer can system of majority rule for minority control is not only unlawful and unatriotic, but very unsafe for those who promote it. The disfranchisement of a single elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. The riht of every elector to cast one free ballot and have it honestly counted must not be ques- tioned., Ewvi constitutional power should be used to make this right secure and punish frauds upon the ballot. Our colored people do not ask special legislation in thew inter- est, but only to be seeure in_the com- mon rights of American citizenship, They will, however, naturally mistrust the sin- cerity of those party leaders who appeal to their race for support only in those localitics where the suffrage is free and election re- sults doubtful, and compass their disfran- chisement where their votes would be con- trolling and their choice cannot be coerced. The nation, not less than the states, is de- pendent for prosperity and security upon the intelligence and morality of the people, ested ABw- ional aid in the establishment and e ment of schools and colleges in the new states. There 1s, I believe, a present ex- igency that calls for stili more liberal and direct appropriations in aid of common school edu ion in the states The territorial form of governmentisa temporary expedicut, not a permanent civil condition, It is adoptedfto the exigency that suggested it, but becomes inadequate and even oppressive when applied to fixed and populous communities. Several territories are well able to bear the burdens and discharge the duties of free commonwealths in the American union, To exclude them is to deny the just rights of their people, and may well excite their in- dignant protest. No question of the politi- cal preference of the people of a territory should close against them the hospitable door which hus been opened to two-thirds of the existing states. But aduission should be resolutely refused to any territory, a ma- jority of whose people chorish institutions that are repugnant to our civilization or are inconsistent with a republican form of gov- ernment. The declaration of the convention against “all combinations of capital organized in trusts or otherwise to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens,” is in harmony with the views entertained and publiciy expressed by me long before the as- sembling of the convention. Ordinarily, capital shares the losses of idleness with labor, but under the operation of the trust in some of its forms the wage worker alone suffers loss, while idle capital receives its dividends from a trust fund. Pro- ducers who refuse to join the combination are destroyed, and competition as an element of prices is eliminated. It cannot be doubted that the legislative authority should and will find & method of dealing fairly and effect- ively with these and other abuses connected with this subject. It can hardly be nccessary for me to say that I am hearti'y in sympathy with the declaration of the convention upon the sub- ject of pensions to our soldiers and sailors, What they gave and what they suffered I had some opportunity to observe and, in & small measure, to experience. ‘They gave ungrudgingly; it was not a trade, but an of- fering. The measure was heaped up, ruu- ning over. What they achieved only a dis- tant generation can adequately tell. Without attempung to discuss particular propositions, 1 may add that measures in behalf of the sur- viving veterans of the warand of the families of their dead comrades should be conceived and executed 1n a spirit of justice and of the most greatful liverality, and that, in the com- petition for civil appointment, honorable military service should have appropriate recognition. OThe law regulating appointments to to the classitled ¢ service received my support in the seuate, in the belief that it opened the way to a much needed reform, I still think 80, and therefore cordially approve the clear and forcible expression of the couvention upon this subject, The law should have the ald of a friendly interpretation, and bo Taithe fully and vigorously enforced. All appoint- wments under it should be absolutely free from partisan considerations and influence. Some extensions of the classified list are practicable and desirable, and further leg- islation extending the reform to other branches of the service to which it is applicable would receive my approval. In appointments to every grade and depart- ment, fitness, and not. party service should be the essential and discriminating test, and fidelity and efficiency the only sure teaure of oftice. Only the interest of the public service should suggest removals from office. I know the practical dificulties attending the attempt to apply the spicit of the civil service rules to all appointments and removals. 1t will, how- ever, bo my sincere purpose, if elected, to advance the reform, L notice with pleasure that the convention did not omit to express its solicitude for the promotion of virtue and temperane mong our people. The republican party has always been friendly to everything that tended to make the home life of our people free, pure and presperous, and will in the future be true to its history in this respect. Our relations with - foreign should be characterized by friendliness and respect. The right of our people and of our ships to hospitable treatment should be insisted upon witn muuitf{ and firmness, Our nation is tog great, both in material strength and in woral power, to indulge in bluster or to be suspected of timorousness. Vacilla- tion and inconsistency are as incompatible with successful diplomacy as they are with the national dignity. We should especially cultivate and extend our diplomatic and commercial relations with the Central and South American states. Our fisheries should be fostored and protected. The hardships and risks that are the necessary incidents of the business should not be increased by an inhospitable exclusion from the near-lying ports. The resources of a firm, dignified and cousistent diplomacy are undoubtedly equal W the prowpt and peaceful “solution of the powers difficulties that now exist. Our neighbors will surely not expect in_our ports a com- mercial hospitality they deny to us in theirs. I cannot extend this letter by a special reference to other subjects upon which the convention gave an expression. In respect to them, as well as to those I have iced, I am in entire agrcement with the ms of the convention. The resolu- tions relating to the coinage, to the rebuild- ing of the navy, to coast defenses and to public lands,” express conclusions to all of which I gave my support in the senate. Inviting a calin and thoughtful considera- tion of these public questions, we submit them to the people. Their iatelligent pa- triotism and the good providence that made and has kept us a nation will lead them to wise and safe conclusions. Very respec fully, your obedient sorvant, B AMIN HARRISON, P S A REPUBLICAN VICTORY. Later Returns From the Eiection In the Pine Tree State. PonrtraND, Me., Sept. 11.—Returns from yesterday's election show that the republi’; cans have gained one senator in Knox county and have certainly gained one in Waldo county and two in York county. This makes the senate unanimous, unless po: sibly one or both of the democratic nominees in Knox may have escaped a general slaughtor. These two nominees were Stephen J. Gushee of Appleton, mem- ber of the present senate, and Randall J. Condon, of Friendship, In the house the democrats gain one seat in Cumberland and another in Lincoln so far, and loose tw. is York county. If the gains and losses com - tinue to offset in this manner the house will divide us now, 122 republicans and 27 demo crats. The fourteen towns in Knox county give 104 republican plurality, The same towns in 183 wocratic plurality. The re- publicans elect senators, representatives and county ofticers except sheriff and register of probate, 1510N, Me., Sept. 11.—The Lewiston ling Journal has returns from three hun- dred towns which give a republican plurality of 17,000. The same towns last year gave a republican plu 3,000, I the remain- ing towns sho ame rates of gain, the republican plurality will be 20,000, Avarsta, Sept. 11L.—Twenty-five towns in Keunebro county give Burleigh a _probable vlurality of 2,600, and his majority in the state will probably § Canals, Sept. towns in Washington county give Burleigh 4,345, Pitman #,043, The entire county will give nearly thirteen hundred majority, agaiust 080 Ltwo years Republican Prospects on the Coast. Cittero, Sept 11.—[Special Telegram to cnator M. D, Foley, of city on his way to Wash- M. Foley is a banker and a repub- lican leader in his state, having served for years in the senate and also as a member of the national committee. He is fresh from San Francisco, and he spoke cheerfully of blican prospects on the coast. “The Chincse question will cut no sort of figure on the Pacific slope,” he remarked in the course of a pleasant eonversation. “The issue is clearly and squarely drawn on the tariff question, which will certainly be de- cided in favor’ of protection, the wool and fruit industries of the 'coast mnot yet being prepared to risk free trade. I do not think that Mr. Cleveland purpos free trade now, it is trie, but should he b clected 1 should expeet 10 see the protective tariff wiped out entirely by the end of his second term. Free trade is what the demo- crats want in the end and that_is what they are striving to get by the msidious attacks on the outposts 0f the protective system, I am entirely confident that Mr. Harrison will carry all the Pacific states, particularly in view of the exelusion bill just adopted by the senate by a practically’ unanimous vote. That bill, and the vote upon 1t, settles the Chinese question and removes it from the vale of current politics. “In regard to our state, I can say that Novada has no very kindly feeling toward Mr. Cleveland. His persistent hostility to silvor has chiecked tho mining industry in the state, many mines having been shut down entirely as the result of his policy, which has reduced silver from 110 to 90. At the figure silver can not be mined at a profit, and many camps have been abandoned 'and labor has been thrown out of employment throughout the state. This has resulted in depopulation, excopt'in the western valleys, ada, is in the ington. where there are fine agricultural lands, the finest in the world. There the population is growing, and it would grow more were the government to do its duty and establish a system of irrigation.” B Colorado Democrats. DRNVER, Sept. 11.—The democratic state convention was called to order at 10:30 this morning. Martin Morris was chosen tempo- rary chairman. Committees on credentials, permanent organization and resolutions were appointed, after which a recess was taken until 2 o'clock. On re-assembling the reports of the com- mittees on cradentials and parmanent organ- ization were submitted. The latter recom- mended Dexter T. Sapp for permaunent cbalrman. Both l'A'HlDl'ls were adopted. The mainder of the day was taken up with speeches by Governor Adams, Rev. Myron W. Reed, Hon. Charles Thomas and others. Adjourned to 10 o'clock to-morrow. B Bryce Going to Chicago. Crucaco, Sept. 11.—Chairman Calvin S, Bryce, of the democratic national committee, will be in Chicago this week to confer with party leaders concerning the plan of oam- paign m the northwest. GOT THE DROP, Dakota Miners Quarrel and One Shoots the Othe Rarip Crry, Neb,, Sept. 11 egram to Tne Bee.] —This morning at Loo out Mine, Edward P, Purcell shot and killed o man named Lane, Both are mmers. Last night they quarrelled in a saloon at the camp and this morning Lane entered a boarding house and assaulted Pur with a Winches- ter rifle. The latter drew his six-shooter and killed his man. M. P. Day, the owner of the mine, who was there, at once started for Rapid City with Purcell, turning him over to Shernff Boyd this morning. Purcell is in jail and will have a preliminary hearing to- Both are new men here, the killer hailing from New Mexico. The impression is that the shooting was justifiable. e B oy Suicided in a Fit of Passion, Provipexce, R. I, Sept. 11.—Minnie Brown, fourteen years old, committed suicide b yshooting in her brother's room in their cottage. The only cause that can bo as- signed for the act was chafing over the re- straint imposed by her mother, who had for- bidden a ¢ ed visit to another town, as llwr daughter's services were required at home. Presidential Appointments, WasmiNGToy, Sept. 11.—The president has appointed Lambert Tree of Illinois, now minister to Belgium, euvoy extraordinary to St. Petersburg, vice Lathrop, resigned. Prof, George Davison of California has been appointed a member of the Mississippi river commission, el The Yellow Fever. JacksoxviriLe, Fla, Sept. 11.—The king of fevers had a royal feast to-day. It has been a dismal time for Jacksonville, dark, ramy and depressing. The official bulletin of Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of the board of health, for the twenty-four hours ended at 6 P, reportsi New cases, 43; deaths, 11, ———— Abandoned the Davk Secret. New York, Sept. 11.—The dory, Dark Se- eret, whicn started on its voyage from Bos- ton to Queenstown, some weeks ago, was abandoned at sea by Captain Anderson, who arrived here this morning ou the Norwegian bark Nora, . e THE LOCATION OF THE FORT, A Large Number of Bids For the Site Submitted. SENATOR BECK SERIOUSLY ILL. The Committee on Finance Has Ac- cordingly Postponed Action—Sham Civil Service Reform—A Queer Pension Report. Receiving Bids, N Bukeav Tie Osana Bee, } OURTEENTII STREET, Wasnixroy, D. €., Sept. 11, The war department expects by to-morrow to have a large number of bids offering land near Omaha for the purpose of establishing a garrison there for ten companies of regular soldiers under the law calling for proposals, which invites land holders within ten miles of the city to offer their land to the govern- ment for purchase. The provisions of the law do not authorize the secretary of war to accept the lowest bidder, This fact was made known by an official who incidentally remarked that the site to be selected might be referred to a board of army officers to re- port on. The appropriation of £200,000 for the new ks, one third of which is for asite, will not be sufficient to put the pro- posed garrison in working order and, it is thought, £500,000 will be really needed before the work 18 completed. As yet no plans have been drawn and none will be thought of until the site is selected and the transfer of the land 18 made good to the government. The proposals call for 520 acres and not more than (40 acres. The officers at the war department are much in- terested in the matter and as the policy is now to build fine quarters for the troops in or near cities it is proposed to have the best for the soldiers who will be stationed at Omaha. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF SENATOR BECK. The condition of Senator Beck, of Ken- tucky, who has left the senate until it con- venes in December next and gone to Fortress Monroe, is stated by his most intimate {riends to be considerably more serious than reported. Senator Beck is a very large, rug- ged looking and hearty man, but is sixty-six cars old. He is a native Scotchman, 1s very active and has lived an extremely busy life, He is by far the strongest man on the demo- cratie side on all questions of tariff, finance and the judiciar He has had entire charge of the tariff for the democratic side of theSenate and has been an extremelv havd worker during the last three or four months. It is stated that he hasan affection of the heart which is pronounced very serious and his friends beheve that his life is in dan, The committee on finance has deferred for at least ten days or two weeks action upon ti tariff bill, anl predictions are made tnat, owing to the absence of Senator Beck, th endorsement of the position of the republ cans on the tariff by the Maine election and and the fact that nothing can be done in the way of passing a bill before November, the measure may ot receive more than a report from the committee before congress con- venes in December next. PADDOCK ON THE MAINE ELECTION, Of the result of the elecyian in Maine Sen- ator Paddoclk said this “sftornoon: “It is wonderful. 1 had not .effected any such overwhelming “mmm(‘l" said yesterday that, everything cousidercd, we ought to be satisfied with 10,000 majority., The Maine eloction, cousidercd with those in Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, shows conclu- sively that the trend of Y\lb\ic opinions is in our favor, It 1s dd ively significant of re- publican success in November.” BOGUS CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. Those who have followed President Cleve- land's alleged civil service reform policy must be very much disgusted with the whole busi- ness by this time. It will be remembered that early in the administration he caused the precibitate removal of the United States district attorney for the western district of Peunsylvania, becanse that zentleman made a speech in which he very witldly talked pol- ities. The president thought federal officials had no right to enter into partisan action, and that they should be free from all politi- cal connections, It will be remembered how an interview was given out at the white house upon the removal of that officer, and various interviews were held by newspaper correspondents with the cfficers at the de- partment of justice, and the falsetto voice of the muzwump was shrilly sent throughout the country, and how George William Curtis and otherhybrid politiciaus praised the president for standing firmly to civil service reform. There were great pretenses made in every direction during the first year of tbis admin- istration in the matter of civil service re- form. I recollect that within six months after Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated quite a number of instances where men who were connected with newspapers were either re- fused uppointments because they were en- gaged i partisan_work, or they were com- pelled to sever their relations with the press before they were given positions under the federal government. I remember distinctly a gentleman who is at present, and whowas prior to that time for several years interested in a democratic daily newspaper in north- western Indiana, weo applied for the post- mastership in his city. The president and Postmaster General as said they would like to make the appointment, but that the editor would have to sell out his busines and get himself clear beyond the pale of conection with a partisan news- paper. The editor made a pretended trans- fer of his newspaper property, and he was appointed postmaster, When he inquired o the admmistration if he could secretly write editorials for his newspaper,he was informed that he conld not; that if it was discovered that he was writing for a partisan newspaper it would ruin the civil seryice reform reputa- tion of the administration. Within eight miles of the same city another editor sought an appointment to a special agency in the postofice department. He wus first told that he would have to sell his newspape that no one connected with the administra’ tion was permitted to run a newspaper, or to write for it, or make pelitical specches, The editor sold his oftice, or rather transfer- red it to a friend, Then he was compelled to pass an examimnation— a pretended examination—and was ap- ointed through the civil commission. Then 10 applied to the postmaster general to know if he could, on the quiet, write for his news- paper, and Wwas told that he could not. These men and incidents I am personally acquainted with, it will be remembered by all readers of current news that a number of federal of- ficers during the first twelve or fifteen months of this administration were severely chastised by the administration for uttering rue or pen political sentiment, and re were several removals of demo- eratic officeholders, ou the ground of *“‘offen- sive partisanship.”” Huudreds of invitations extended to federal officeholders to deliver plitical speeches in the campaign of 1886 re refused on the ground that it was in direct opposition of the administration to permit any one connected with it to partici- pate in politi A large numberof the clerks in the departments here were frightened with the pretended civil service reform policy of the administration that they did not dare go home in 1536 to yote. It will be re- membered how the president distingtly told Land Commissioner Stocksiager that he would not be permitted to retain his office and be a candidate for congress in Indiana, aud how that official refused the nomination, though he wanted to make the race very much, on the ground that “federal ofcials :\_re not perwitted to take active part in poli- ics.” So much for eivil service pretentions. There are on the pay roll of the depart- ments in Washington to-day not less than 100 names of men who are writing the most bitterly partisan letters and editorials for uewspapers that could possibly be peuned.. 1 recall the chief of a division in the office who writes every weck t an Indiana mnewspaper a letter, over his own full correct name, which cov- ers almost the entire front page of that newspaper, and the letters are leaded and given great sensational headlines. The subjects this official writes upon ure of the most extreme partisan character. He de- nouncos republicans and the action of re- publicans in congress, and praises the presi- dent and the administration. He compare the work of the presentadministration with that of President Arthur, Garfield, Hayes, and other republicans, Four or five partisan newspaper correspondents have been taken out of the press galleries in congress and placed in positions in the dcepartments, and they continue to do their newspaper work and draw salaries from Uncle Sam. They never miss an opportunity, however, to the administration. This is beyond any question of doubt the secret of their in- fluence in securing positions and retaining them, There is no doubt, whatever, about their appointments being made on account of their ability to bolster up the administration before the country. Secretary Vilas opened the campaign in Wisconsin at Milwaukee the other day with a long partis Postmaster-General Dickinson intends going into Michigan to de liver the key-note. Secretary Whitney, dur. ing the las ear, has paid almost weekly visits to New York, and he remained in that state nearly six w auring the campaign last fall, giving it his personal direction, con- tributing his money by ten and twenty thous- and dollars at a time,” including the “checks of the president and members of the cabinet, and he is at present devoting nearly all of his time to the New York campaign. Sceretary of War Edincott has spent nearly all of his time for six weeks campaigning, and it is stated at the department that he will _be away almost continnally until after the No- vember elections. He is looking after the campaign in New England. It is no secret in Washington that Attorney-General Gar- land has charge of the southern wing of the administration’s campaign. There are in Washington republican and democratic clubs which are organized by members of the two partics from various states. These have weekly meetings at this stage of the national campaign. Seldom a night ses now but that one or more of these clubs are addressed by a number of men conneeted with the departments, They deliver the most bitter political harangues. They are as intensely partisan and as ‘“‘of- fensively partisan,” as men could be. I could write the names of dozens of men who hold the positions of chiefs and heads of burcaus who have aceepted invitations to go into close states next month and deliver par- tisun speeches. So much of the administration that does not pretend to be in favor of civil service re- form. Just how mugwumps, or that class of neu- tral or independent or business citizgns, who do not care especially for national politics, or vho claim 1ot to care much, but who want a sident for the good of the country, and who left the republican party or 1éft the of independence in 1554 to support Mr. and, support Cleveland in 1555 is in- deed a mystery. s not now the slightest pretense of civil service reform by Mvr, Cleveland or any of his inferior officers, If there is it is base hypocrisy, 1 it should disgust every intelligent voter in the coun- There never was greator activity under ackson or uny other man who as- politics with a high hand and with the bit in its mouth than at present. There is just one objoet in view here now, and that is to re-elect President Cleveland. The whole machinery of the government is turned in that direction. The contribution of $10,000 by President Cleveland and the contributions of equal sums by certain mem- bers of the cabinet, with the exception of Secretary Whitney, whose friends boast that he gave 100,000, is only # straw in the direction of the anxiety of the admMistra- tion to succeed itself, MUST HAVE HAD A “PULL." There is a peculiar feature about the con- tract. for the Brooklyn federal building which has just beeh awarded, which, under any other administration than the present, would probably cause a congressional inves- tigation and, perhaps, some scandal. Some two months ago bids were opened for supply- ing the labor and material necessary to-con- struct the the public building n Brooklyn, Among the bidders were E. F. Gobel, of Chicago, and Bernard Galligher. Gobel's bid was the lowest and Galligher was the third. Gobel offered to do the work for about 650,000, while Mr. Galligher asked £230,000 more than the sum asked by the Chicago man, The contract, after the ex- piration of the usubl time, was awarded to M. Gobel, and he was given a certain num- ber of days in which %o file his hond. The time expired, last week and Mr. Gobel failea to put in an appearance. Whea he filed his bill he deposited with the treas- ury department a_certified check for $1,00) to insure the fulfillment of the contract. Un- der the terms of the letting this check was to be forfeited if, in the event of securing the contract, he should fail to comply \Vifil the requirements of the department. Galligher is a well-known democratic poli- tician in the city of Brooklyn, and part owner in one of the democratic organs there, and a man who has a *“pull.” From the day that the bids were opened until the contract was finally awarded to him last Monday, he and his friends made a vigorous kick against the award to Gobel. All sorts of charges against the supervising architect and other officials of the treasury were concocted and published, and it is doubtful if there was ever a more strenuous effort made on the part of a con tractor to defeat an opponent for the award of a contract. This kick seems to have ‘been effective, for in spite of the fact that Galhigher’s bid was per cent higher than that of Gobel's, he gets the work. Under ordinary circumstances and in pri- vate business the course would have been to have readvertised and to have invited propo- suls once more from those who caved to compete for the work. Inasmuch as it is claimed by Galligher ana his friends that they labored under a misapprehension, and that Gobel had knowledee not possessed by any of the others, namely, that the granite to be cut was to be supp tractor dressed down to within one inch of the requirements for the building, it would seem that there 18 more reason than ever that new advertisements should have been placed, and that the contract should not have been awarded without giv- ier bidders a chance. derstood that Galligher's friends were posi tive that if he had known what charact stone was to be furnished by the gr contractors he could have cut his bid down materially. As it is, a Brooklyn concern with a big *“‘pull” has a fat contract in which it would seem there 1s nearly a quarter of a million dollars profit, just before a presiden- tial clection, Perhaps the affair can be sat- isfactorily explained; but at present it looks black, to say the least. QUEER PENSION REFORT, There have been some ‘‘quecr” transac- tions in counection with the compilation of the annual reporc of the commissioner of pensions which was issued last week. As stated in these dispatches, for two or three weeks before the report of the commissioner ot pensions appeared about a half dozen of the most expert clerks in the bureau were engaged in compiling a defense of President Cleveland’s pension vetoes. They selected from among the large number a few of those upon which a defense of the whole course of the president in vetoing pensions could be based. They wrote up the cases in detail and in a form something like the regu- lar brief a lawyer issues in a law case. When it was published that this work was being done with a view to putting it into a campagn document to be issued by the national demicratic committee and that, of course, the whole expense came out of the general fund created by congress to pay for the issuance of pensions, it was stated at’ the pension buceau that the work was a part of the annual reportof the commis- sioner. ‘When General Black made up his synops of the refort for the regular }mms associas tions it contained elaborate reference to the president's veto of pensions. The press was thus thrown off the track. It appeared, sure enough, that all of this work on the defense of the president’s pension vetoes was really apartof the annual report of the commis- sioner, ‘Much to the astonishment of everybody in Washington who paid and attention to this watter, the annial report of Comumissioner pension | Black does not contain this matter, A care ful reading of the report, which contains 125 large pages of solid minion and nonpareil does not disclose n single effort to defend the president in his pension vetoos, oOF to make an exhibition of the veto work of the president. Just whero this matter, which was surely propared by the experts in the bureau, hus gone nobody appears to Know. There is no question that a_ defense of the president’s pension vetoes was prepared at the pension office by these experts, and that the expense was paid out of the common pen- sion funds. In the event the people of the country receive such literature they will know where it came from. MISCELLANEOUS, T, S, Ganty, of Lincoln, is at the Howard house George S, Towle a, arrived to-da First Licutenant_George Rhulen, Seven- teenth in has béen granted four months fith permission to apply for an extension of two months. Perny S, Hearin, Nebraska and lowa Patents, and H. C. Browne, of WASHINGTON, 11.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue | Patents were to-day granted the following Nebraskans and Towans: D. C. Jackson and H. J. Ryan, Lin- coln, Neb, alternate current electric motol Joseph Cockfield and €, D. Higgins, Boon Tn., metallic packing for piston and valve rods; Seneca Culver, Ruthven, la., windwmill; Abiather Fairbrother, Janesville, la. stancnion: George Henderson, Sioux City, Tn., mechanical movement; James A. Henson, assignor to Henson car coupler company, Des Moines, Ta., car couplings John Lipps, assignor of one-half to T. 8. Roberts, Rock- ford, In., hame attachment; Nelson Smith, Kearney, Neb,, churn; John Zerr, assignor of ene-half to 13, B. Hawkes, Keokuk, la., roli paper holder and cutter. oo S VETERANS ON PARADE. Grandest Demonstration of Grand Ar Men Ever Know Covuwmt Sopt. 11.—During last night the veterans, with their wives and children, continued to pour into the eity,and the camps and streets are about filled. At an early hour Grand Army men in umiform and a nobby drum corps began to form for the pa- rade, which was one of the grandest ever witnessed on a similar occasion. There were cighteen divisions, eight of them comprising the Ohio department. The ninth division was made up of the Veteran Crippled Sol- diers' association, n veterans, and Andrew raiders, a na adron, and_the Fifth United States volunteer infantry. The department of Tllinois constituted the tenth division, Wisconsia ad Towa combined to uded suth division, und_Dakota in tho The Sons of Veterans brought up the r in the eighteenth div N In advance of the divisions were the police, the commander of the parade, and the com* mander-in-chief with their staffs and the Ohio battle flag veteran association. On Broad street, north of the state house, the anse and beautifully decorated review- 1 licld the distingnished guests of the on. All along the line of march the streets were densely packed with people, and there were continued waves of applause up_and down the ¢ the veterans marched by. The old soldiers themselves joined in the enthusiasm and heartily checred in response, especially when they passed the reviewing stand on which stood old “Tecumseh’ and others of their former leaders. llinois came first after Ohio, and a very hearty groeting was accorded that state’s noble representatives, Mrs. Logan was evidently their espacial pet, for the veterans passed oy their old leaders ' on the reviewing stand and cheered and saluted the wife of their gallant “Black Jack,” and as she stood with glistening eyes and waved back a re- sponse, a kindly smile on her beautiful face gave evidence of how much she loved those who had braved danger with her beloved husband. Besides banners, Wisconsin announced v as herself with u ' badger, which _was carried just behd ~ Governor Rusk as he marched on foot with his comrades. The Lincoln post drum corps re- ceived much deserved praise_for the quality of the music made on the drums and fifes. Commander Curtis and Senator Miller neaded New York's well drilled veterans, Michigan was headed by Farquhar post of Detroit, in which General Alger marched on 1oot, to'the great delight of his comrades. The'southern states came in for about the hearticst cheers that were accorded to any delegations aside from their drilling and marching. The Sous of Veter: uniform and many car all of the continued ns, mearly all in ng arms, deserved plause that greeted them. The procession was four hours and forty minutes passing the reviewing stand, and ‘all marched quietly. After the parade about ten thousand peo- ple crowded up to the reviewing stand to call for speeckes. Governor Foraker took chiarge of the meoting, und one afier another introguced the distinguished peoplo who stond around, the crowd ehecering each name.~ More were added, and although the meeting Iasted but half ‘an hour thousands werc shouting and chearing before the erowd _dis- persed for Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Alger, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. Foraker, Mrs, Fred Grant, ex-President Hayes, Colonel Fred Grant, John A. Logan, jr., and others. This_even: ing the ofiicers of the national organization dined at the Commercial club, This even- ing the national oflicers and_members of the staff met in the law library of the state house and some pleasant remembrances were there given to their chiefs. Command- or--chief J. P. Rea recived a beautiful gold badge. At a big camp fire to-night addresses were made by General Sherman, Governor Fora- ker, Commander-in-Chief Rea, _General Fairchild, Governor Thayer, of ' Nebraska, General Hovey, of Indiana and others. —— FIFTIETH CONGRESS, Senate. WasuIxGTox, Sept. 11.—In the senate the house amendment to the senate bill for a pension to the widow of General Heintz man (reducing the mount from £100 to $7: month) was non-concurred ence ordered. Mr. Sherman, from the committee on flnance, reported a bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production. PPlaced on the calendar, The house bill for the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting officials of the treasury, known as the Fourth of July claims, was taken from the calendar and and passed. “The senate then resumel consideration of the Chinese exclusion bill, and was adaressed by Mr. Stewart in favor of it. He was fol- lowed by Mr. Teller, who criticised the man-: ner in which the blll had been introduced and hurricdly passed through the house, 1t finally went over without action, The senate then adjourned, a in and a confer- House, WasuiNarox, Sept. 11.—The house re- sumed consideration of the sundry civil ap- propristion bill, the pending amendment being that relative to the reclamation of arid regions. Messers. Vandever of Symes of Colorado fayored the senate amendment, which was attacked by Mr, Herbert of Alabuma. Finally the debate ended and tue appropriation in the senate amendment was reduced from $250,000 to $100,000, The house then adjourned. 2l s Stopped by Train Robbers. Prescorr, Ariz., Sept. 11.—The westbound express train was stopped by three men at Parker’s Mill last night. They did not get anything. A reward of £1,500 has been of- fered for their capture, and Wells, Fargo & Co. will increase the amount, Sl Patented a Churn. Wasmixaroy, Sept. 11.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee]—Nelson Smith, of Kearney Neb., was Lo-daygranted & patent on’ achurn’ California and ROYAL NUPTIALS AT TURIN. Marrlage of Princess Bonaparte to the Duke de Costa. THE CITY DECKED WITH FLOWERS laborate Preparations For the Event —A Description of the Beautiful Dresses Worn By Two of the Ladics Present., Wedded His Niece. [Copuright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.) Ty, Sept. 11—[New York Horald Cable—Special to Tie By ] —This city may be described to-day as having boiled over with excitement. It was the day when Princess Clothilde gave away to her own brother her own daughiter as a bride. In an- ticipation of this marriage of & ducal uncle to his princess niece, Turin was en fete, The strect through which the bridal procession was to pass was hung in red and white, the colors of Savoy. The arches of its fine arcades were filled with flow sup- plied by the wealthy inhabitants of the place. Victor Emanucl was transformed into a vast amphitheater with a great flower basket standing in the center. Nearly all thoe streets, houses and publie buildings were gay with colors. Catholics were heard expressing pleasura, because the marriage did not take place in the private chapel adjoining the quirinal at Rome. This was at the express wish of the pope himself. Prin- cess Clothilde, mother of the bribe, wrote to Leo XIIL, who immediately abridged the formalities of the dispensation for the mar- ringe betweon the uncle and niece, but on condition that the wedding should be sol- emnized outside the territory of the ancient papal states. The pope also hinted to Card- inal Bonaparte that his presence would not be necessa; Still, Cardinal Alimonda, Archbishop of Turin, was requested to spare no splendor of ritual in the celebration, Prinee Napoleon had his son, Prince Louis, with him and looked quite becoming. He sa- luted the cheering crowd in quite imperial fashion. Princ Mathilde received quite an ovation. Two of the most magnificent dresses were worn by Queen Margheretta and Princess Mathilde. The former wore, for the church, muuve satin brocade with rippled lines in the same color and having a directoire coat in palo, silver gray brocade of the same pattern, made with long square ends at the back reacning to the skirt hem. "This coat adeep vest in mauve brocade, elabor- ately embroidered with steel cord and stesel and crystal beads. The skirt breadth is parted in front over straight folds of gray brocade, ecach side of the opening being edged with embroidery to match the vest, The short dollman wrap of the gray brocade is also bordered with simi- lar embroidery and is lined throughout with mauve satin. The Princess Mathilde wore a tulle of a bluish pearl color. The front and sides of the skirt were elaborately em- broidered with gold and bordered with gold lace and the former was dotted all over with spots formed of a single gray pearl and one gold spangle combined. The edge of the skirt in front was finished with deep fringe in gray pearls and steel beads falling over a band of gold lace. The train, over four vards in length, is in gray faille brocaded with boquets of red and pink roses with th foliage intermixed with gold flowers. This magnificent silk was manufactured at Lyous over twenly years ago expressly for Empress FEugenie. After the death of Napoleon, the empress presented 1t to the princess. The sides of the train are each caught together in a single long, narrow fold which is held in place by bow knot shaped ornaments in gold passementerie and it is lined throughout with gold yellow satin. The royal and notable personages present are too long to send. They in- cluded three kings, a score of princes aud princesses, and scveral ministers of state. In the bridal group may be men- tioned the three sons of the bridegroom, the Princes Emanuel, Victor and Louis. Prince Victor Bonaparte was notinvited, which was a grief to his sister, the bride. He should have been, but for the paternal veto, the chief witness for the bride but his place at the civil ceremony was taken by Prince Charles Bonaparte. I could £l your columns with a list of the principal presents, if space and electricity permitted. The Duke de Aosta and the Princess Letitia have been at the royal palace since Thursday re- ceiving deputations and presents, Probably the most worthy of mention is the gift of 400 ladies of Turin—a Sedan chair richly embellished and intended to remind her of a lost art of Turin; also a gift from the municipality, a tapestry chest in the style of the seventeenth century, containing specimens of the richest brocades, silks and velvets of Italy, The representa- tives of the house of Savoy, Bunaparte and Braganzie met in the grand hall of the palace at 11 o’clock for the civil cere- mony. Senator Fariny, president of the senate, read the articles of marriage. 'I'he decds were signed by the duke and princess, by the king and queen of Italy and Prince Jerome Bonaparte. Lt 10WA NEW The Annual Meeting of the Society of Friends. Sept. 11.—[Special Telo- gram to Tn .J—The Towa yearly meet- ing of F'riends opened at Oskaloosa Septem- ber 4 and will close to-morrow, after having disposed of a large amount of business of great importance to the society in the future, A number of prominent ministers are in at- tendance from the east, the Pacitic coast and elsewhere, Among them is the Rev. Will- iam Allen, who was a slave in east Tennes- sce. He came to Indianaafter his liberation, learning to read and write after he was thirty years old. He is a very efticient min- ister, The Towa confercnce of the Methodist Episcopal church was brought to a close in Warer the same place lust night, when the appoint- ments for the year were fnade publie, Fully 1,50 strangers visited the city Sunday. Ex- cursions were run in from all directions. The Methodist couferonce adopted resolu- tions favoring loga! prohibition and expressed its oppositton to the third party movement in Towa by thanking the party now in power for what we now have of prohibition, Suicided in a Cell. Crestoy, Ta., Sept. 11.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—A wowan named Ida Harring- ton suicided by hanging herself in her cell in the jail at Greenficld, Ia., last night. She had been locked up for drawing a revolver on a negro whom she clatmed had robbed her of $700. and had been in the cell but & few hours, She was a notorious character, and some months ago attempted suicide’ by taking “rough on rats,” presumably because the negro, of whom she was enamored, refused to longer live with her (e B Business Failures. New Youk, Sept. 1.—Thorne, Carroll & Co., hosie made an assignment to-day, glving preferences amounting 1o over §20,000, | \ j E LB | { | £ | R b J— i 1 Al A R i ] i e 4 1 3