Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1889, Page 4

B. ROSEWATER, Bditor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRME OF SUBSCRIPTION E’l"i‘ A Sunday, One Y e . ix Months P e THE _DAILY BEE. Omana, Bes Bullding, Chicago OMce, 67 Rookery Bullding e York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- "W ashin on, No. 613 Fourteenth Stroet. Council Blufts, No, 12 Pear Street. Lincoln, 1029 P Sueet, CORRESPONDENCE, All communieations relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressed to the Editor- 18l Department, BUSINESS LETTERS, ATl Lnsiness letters and romittances should be addressed to1le Beo Pubilshing Company, Omahn, Drafts, checks and postoffice oraers be made payable to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors #Sre Bullding Farnam and Beventoenth Strects, Tne Bee o the Trains. There 18 no excuse for a failure to get Tur Ee on the trains, _All newsdealers have been noti- od to corry a full supply. Travelers who want e Bee and can’t got §€ on trains where other Omahavapers are carried are requested to no- tify Tne U v'l‘;ll‘l DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Stato of Nebraska, 7 County of Douglas. ¢ 3ol Ueors B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee PUbIhing Company. diss solommly swear that the actual circulation of Tie DATLY BEE for the weex ending October 19, 1590, was as follow: Bunday, Oct, 19, Mondny, Oct. 14, Average, GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Btate of Nehraska, County of Douglas. to hefore me and . P, FEIL Notary Pubiic, George B. Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- poses und says thuv he'la sectetary of Th fics _ Dublishing Corapany, that the actual averago dmily circulation of ‘s DALY BER for the month of October 188, was X 3 November, 18, 18,966 'coples: ' for December, 2888, 16,223 coples; Tor January, 1859, 15634 cop’ fes:' for Fobruary, 1850, 15,00 coples: for March, I8, 11804 copleas for APl 10 183 cop! for May, 150, 15,609 copie: ¥ June. 188, 14 coples: for July, 1850, for Angist, 1650, 1461 “coples; coples. Sworn to before me presence this 4th day of October, A D., (8oal.| N. P! T Wi ARE in position to deny the ve- port that Adam Snyder is the chief of a Clan-na-Gael camp. He is simply a member on probation for thirty days. 4 copl cople for Septembe GRORGE B T Pullman compuny’s earnings for the past year are equal to two-thirds of the operating expenses. This does not include the exactions of the porters. A LARGE colony of German farmers in fowa and Kansas have purchased twenty-two thousand acres of land in _ "Pexus and will move there next spring. This 15 the effect of prohibition. Fri § ANT PO; t GEN- ERAL CLARKSON bas hung up his cleaver tomporarily. Lingering demo- cratic office holders can employ the time in frequent, fervent prayers. THp certainty of o reorganization of the county board spreads dismay from the drug store to the poor house, No- vember promises to be exceedingly cold for the sinccures. WIILE the easterners are shivering in storms of snow and sleet, the west is enjoying the bracing sunshiné of au- tumn, interspersed with mellow show- ers. Asnsummer resort in winter the west takes the palm It 18 perfegtly natural that an en- dorsement of Sheriff Coburn as “a good and faithful public servant” should come from the lower regions of Douglas street. The lawless elements of that quarter are merely reciprocating for favors received. t is banking altogethor on the Irish vote, which Pat Ford has contracted to deliver, But it remains o be seen whether Ford can deliver the goods, and whether Mr. Snyder can be clected over a competent man like Heimrod, even with Pat Ford’s ance. T suggestion of a registration hol- iday is timely und oughtto be generally adopted by employers. Registration is essentinl to exercising the right of citizonship. It is important thevefore that every emplaye he given an oppor- tunity Lo register. A FEW years ago one thousund dollars a frout foot was considered an exhorbi- tant price for choice unimproved busi- ness property on Farnam street. To- day it commands from twelve to eigh- teen hundred dollars per foot front. This is tho best possible evidence of the growing strength of Omaha realty. There is no safer means of investment and noue insures better returns, THE assurance on the part of the ma- chine organ that Coburn would be a churl if he refused to run so long as the were willing to elect and re-clect Y, even for life isin accord with the eternal fitness of things. Coburn has held office and lived on the government just twenty-three years and he ought not to be dmven from the crib, ’S’noutrage. MissouRI furnishes a parallel to the tragic death of Judge Terry in Califor- nia. Lawyer Bowman, who was killed near St. Louis a lew days ago, was one of the fighting, vindictive barristers with whom the state is afli d, He was the leader in the frenzied prosecu- tion of Colonel Cockerill, then manag- ing editor of the ost- Dispatch, which culminated in the death of a partisan. Editors were the chief objects of Bow- wan’s walice nnd he has met his death at the hands of one of the fraternity. Em————— Tur packing interests of the country for the past week show an enormous in- crease over the corresponding week of last yoar. The packing centers of the Missourl valley buve virtually wrested from Chicago her supremacy as a hog wmarket. Five cities show an aggregate production exceeding Chicago’s total, Considering the fact that the hg city was without 'a rival in the valley five years ugo, the progross made in this de- partment of industry evidences the steady westward wovement of the ‘world's stock market. FARM PROPERTY IN THE CENSU. In providing for the eloventh census congress judicionsly omitted & number of subjects which were embraced in the 1eath, but it might very wisely have enlarged the scope of the next census by requiring the ecollection of data showing the condition of the farm property of the country. Such an in- quiry should include information re- garding the extent to which such prop- crty is mortgaged, what proportion of it is free from debt, how much of the farming lands of tha country are owned by those who oultivate them, and the amount that is cultivated by tenants, such information to be,of course, arranged by states. The importance of carefully obtained of this kind, for obvious cconomic rensons, will not be questioned. At present the country is wholly with- out information ot a trustworthy char- acter showing the condition of its farm property, so that there is no means of knowing whether one of its greatest interests is obtaining an equitable sharo of the wealth it creates, or whether it is ns & whole prosperous or the reverse. A great denl of loose statement and intentional misinformation regarding this matter has been given the public within the lnst fow years, the effoct of which has been more or less to the disadvantage of the farming interests, particularly in the west, and under existing ci cumstances anything stated with a show of authority carries some weight, because there is no way to disprove it. The only way to obtain this informa- tion so that it shall be ns trustworthy as data difficult to secure, and subject 10 constant changas, can be, is for the government to prosecute the inquiry. Jongress not having made provision for this, further legislation will be necessary, and doubtless there will be no trouble in securing this if the in- terest most concerned shall ask it. For thoe purposo of getting an expression of the farmers of the country on this mat- ter the Western liconomic association has issued an address, setting forth the desirability of including in the mnext census information re- garding the condition of farm property in the United States, and rec- ommends that this address be adopted by bodies of farmers, organized or un- canized, and sent to Washington. Elsewhere in Tie B will be found a communication from the sident and ry of the association giving in netion of that body, and th teution of farmers is invited to it, If the farmers of the country generally will unite 1n making thisappeal to con- gress there can be little doubt that it will receive favorable consideration. SPANISH AMERICAN COMMERCE. There has just been issued by the gov- ernment an elaborate work by Mr. William E. Curtis, representing the state department in charge of the tour of the delegates to the Pan-American conference, which presents a most coin- plete and comprehensive statement of our commerce with Spanish America, and gives much other information re- lating to this subject which is of pecu- lar interest at this time. From this volume it is learned that the total population of Spanish America, including the West Indiesand Brazil, is nearly equal to that of the United States, being over fifty millions. A very small proportion of this population consists of non-pro- ducers, there being only about half a million Indians in South and Central America, so that nearly every inhab- itant is a contributor, directly or indi- rectly, to the exports of the country in which he lives, and to a degree a con- sumer of imported merchandise. The exports of these countries are raw materials, their na- tural or cultivated products. The im- ports are manufactured articles from Europe and the Uuited States. In several of them, as Mexico, Guatemala, Chili and Brazil, there is some manu- facturing, but the product is not equal to the home demand, which has to be met by importations. In fact,in none of these countries are the mechanical in- dustries of such extent as to merit se: ous cousideration in trade calculations, adding, as they do, but very little to the wealth and commerce of the coun- tries. A few steamers would carry the entire annual product of the factories of the two southern continents, and the increase is 8o small as to offer no com- petition to foreign producers. But in the resources of agriculture and in the production of raw material all of these countries are rich, and in their devel- opment most of tham are making rapid progress. Thus Chili, the Argen- tine Republic and Uruguay are exporters of breadstufls, and’are also large producers of sheep and cattle, in which they are likely to become at no very distant time compet- itors of the United States in the Euro- pean markets. With the exception of pork and dairy products, 1n which the South American countries will never be able to compete with us owing to climatic conditions, and of which they will continue to be large and increas- ing consumers, those countries will eventually have a sufficient local sup- ply of food products and became active rivals for the trade this country now enjoys in Burope. The trade of the filty millions of people south of the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico amounts to one thousand millions of dollars anuually, nearly evenly divided between exports and im- ports, and in the countries south of the Tropic of Capricorn, those of the tem- perate soil of South America, the foreign commerce is in- creasing with amazing rapidity, Of the large and increasing import trade of these southern countries, which doubtless last year exceeded five hun- dred million dollars in value, the United States got only a very small proportion. About sixty-nine million dollars was the value of our exports to those countries, while we purchased from them products to the value of over owo hundred and seventy-five million dollars, In other words, we bought thirty-five per cent of what the countries south of us had to sell aud sold them less than fifteen per cent of what they purchused, over eighty-five per ceat of their im- ports coming from Europe. This faivly represeuts the situation for the past quarter of a century, during which time it is estimated we have paid to the southern countries in the settlemant of balances a sum greater than the prin- cipal of the public debt at the close of the war, and additions continue to be made to the enormous total at the rate of one hundred and ten million dollars a year, These figures impressively show the necessity of an earnest efforton the part of the United States to improve its ex- port teade with the Spanizh-American countries, and they indicate the great importance of the three Americas’ con- gress,called todiscass methods for bring- ing all these countries into closer commercial relations and especi- ally to improve and enlarge their trade intercourse with the United States. There are some obstacles in the way of accomplishiog this which may not be easily overcome, but which will not prove to be insurmountablo if ap- proached in the right spirit. The fo eign delegates lenve no doubt in the public expressions of a desire to culti- vale more intimate and extended trade relations with this country, and the re- sult, it appears likely, will depend largely upon ourselves. ON THE BROAD GAUGE. Omama, Oct. 24.—To the Editor of Tmm Bem: Every thinking person who owns property or docs business in Omaha must ad- mire your defense of the interests of tho poo- ple against jobbery by city and county ofi- cials and the greed of the railway corpora. tions. I beliove the so-called union depot should bo built, and shall vote for the Tenth stroot viaduct, but while the city of Omaba will pay for it, why not have ono the full width of the street, and not have an eye-sore for strangers to view from the union depot! In that case we would have a good streot if the unton depot was not a great edifice. “The people of rival citics admit that in less than ten years Omaha will have a population of threo hundred thousand. How about nar- row viadacls then? ‘There may be ten wmore railroads running to Omahs m less than ten years. Will each new ¢impany be allowed tho use of the union depot for a *‘reasonable’ rontal? Lbelieve 1t is safe to say tho majority of the people of Omala appland the broad ge ideas of Tne Bee, and look to 1t to vrotect thom in matters above alluded to. Yours truly, DAL The viaduct, as planned by the city engineer, is to be cighty fect wide. That was the width agreed upon by the owners of property abutling on Tenth street. While wo should have pre- ferred to have a viaduct buiit over the whole width of the street., we consider eighty feet ample for all the travel and between the proposed union depot and the heart of the city. Broad- i L is only eighty feet few, if any, of the via- ducts in American cities exceed eighty feet in width. As we understand it, the intention is to narrow Tenth street from Jackson over to Pacilic street to eighty feet. and convey to the ownors of adjacent property the ten feet frontage between the viaduct and the presont building line. Whether all the Towa railroads and all projected rouds willavail themselves of the Tenth street union depot is prob- lematic. It will he manifestly to the interest of the union depot company to offer reasonable terms to all the roads if the depot desires to earn any income on its investment. The only thing we are not clear about is the toll which the Union Pacific will exact for cross- ing its bridge. That will depend largely on the disposition of Union Pacific railroad. Uader the ordiunnce passed by the council, the bridge tolls are to be fixed by arbitration in case they are considered excessive by any road that desires to cross the river. To insure fuir avbitrators, the city should have the right to name one arbitrator, the Union Pacifie another and the road sceking o crossing the third. THE ARMY APPOINT) President Harri EN'TS. son has shown rarve judgment in the selection of Lieuten- ants Theodore True and John M, Hyde, of the Fourth and Lighth infan- try respectively, for promotion to the quartermaster’s department. The ill be a general feeling of relief in army civeles at the advancement of such old veterans from the line to the staff. The various rumors which have been flying around in the press asto General Harrison’s intentions to make such staff appointments from civil lifo . instead of from the army had a very disquicting effect upon the line where the prospect of promotion. to such vacancies has always herefofore acted as a spur to good service. THE BEE'S special dispatches some months ago indicated that it would be the settled policy of President Har- rison to adhere to the line marked out by his republican predecessors in tho matter of staff appointments. The se- lection. of General Alexander of Towa was a departure to some extent from this policy. But in the case of General Alexander, the president chose an ex- army ofticer of admirable record aud with the best of personal qualifications, In the case of Lieutenants True and Hyde, however, two lieutenants who have served continuously in the urmy since the very opening mounths of the war, and are smong those heading the list of first lieutenants, are given a promotion which they well deserve, and are clevated to a staff department with which they have been indirectly connected for many years, Lieutenant True was stationed for a long time in the department of the Platte, a portion of his service being at Fort Owmaha and the remainder in Wyoming. He is a cultured, refined, hard-working officer, a favorite in his regiment and in every way fitted for the position which he will at once assume, Lieutenant Hyde, of the Eighth in- fantry, is now stationod at Fort Nio- brara as the adjutant of his regi- ment. He makes the second quarter- master chosen from the Eightk in- fantry within two years, his predeces- sor being Captain Summerbayes. As promotion in the Eighth infantry has been for years among the slowest in the army, the selection of Lieutenant Hyde will give a welcome advancement to several other veteran subordinate officers. ———— THe republican county committee should join with the democrats in an ef- fort to test the cowstitutionality of the rogistration Taw, and no time lost in involting the aid of the supreme court. Unlgss some such action is had the law willidisfranchise hundreds of voters at thd coming election. Ep—— A Snggebrion 10 Mra. Boulanger. Afanta Constitution. It Mrs. Geferal Boulanger would go to her husband, and pacle the bogus Mrs. Gen- eral out of 'tho house, the illustrious exile would no dowbt simmer down and behave like a little man, Y A Trug Definition of Success. A ew York Sun. That man is most successful who best and most fully puts to useful sorvice all his vowers and faculties, who finds and utilizes the opportunity for their employment, or, in other words, gots into the place which he is Dbest fittea to fil. - Manderion's Solf-Respeoct, FPhiladelphia Times, It is lamentable, indoed, that o gallant sol- dier, a rospected citizon and a senator who has been lately honored by a nearly unani- mous re-clection, conld so far forget his self-respect as soldier, statesman and patriot as to accept a lawless pension, especially when L% is a gentleman of liberal fortune. - The Prestige of the Republic, London Speetator. No state, however powerful, will ever again do with ease anything to which the American republio is opposed. There is not a diplomatist in Europe who docs not know this, and who does not hold that Napoleon TIL was only sane in quitting Mexico, and that Prince Bismarck showed nis wisdom when, rather than quarrel seriously with ‘Washington, he abatdonod all pretensions in Samoa. st e S Well Meaning But Misguided, Washington Post. Tho Post, while always ready to do full justice to tho excellent motives by which prolubitionists are actuated, has held that the high-license system furnishes the bost, most oractical and most successful means of controlling the liquor traftic and keoping it within bounds, It believes that experience confirms this conclusion and that all the known facts in the case point in this direc- tion, With no hostiiity ta prohibition, there- fore, it is in favor of high license as the more nikely, and consequontly the more excellent way. S— THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD. The working hours of the tramway om- ployes of London have been reduced from fourteen to twelve hours per day. Iu the British colony of Victoria, the eight hour system has been established, and is sat- isfuctory both to employers and omploy The shoe strike in North Adams still con- tinues. The old hielp are gotting | where, while tho manufacturers aro teaching ns of Eogland aro better supported by thd workingmen than the trades of this country. | Oue unton hus §400,000 in its treasury. The strike azaidst the reduction of wages , lasted only a few hours, and the trikers won. Joun Burns, the leader of tho recent suc- cesstul doclers’ strike in London says it has boen the means of raising wages iu at loast trades the “avorable K. of L. in Gres ter Workn Paper B yunts of the prospects of the t Britain arc given by Mas- vehibald of the New Yoric ngers' nssembly. The paving outters’ union, or Baltumora in 1856, now has fifty-five b in nineteen states and runs a trade Its headquarters is at Berlin, Wis. A new development of the labor question is the suit began by two miners av Cireens- burg. Pa., against & boss who called them *Mollio Mag “Nover before,” says the Paris entof the London Telegraph, been so0 abundant and so well remuncrated in the city as during the exhibition season.” In the newly drafted constitution for the state of Wyoming it is provided that “eight hours shall constitute a lawfulday’s work in all mines and on all stato and municipal works,” orrespond- has work Two years ago there were but twent, X unions in the journeymen tailovs’ organiza- tion, now there are over one hundred; two years from now there is expected to be at least two hundred. Tho boycott thatwas recently declared against a popular dining saloon of New York city for driving out its union waiters was too heavy for the proprietor and he surrendered a short struggle. ‘There ave 200 delegates at the St. Louis convention of the National Typothetwe (em- ploying printers),aud a resclution was adopt- ed that there was nothing in the condition the printing trade to justify a reduction of the hours of labor from ten to eight, Anumber of lubor orgauizutions are de- manding that the ninth census be taken in the winter at the time when the houscless and homeless are compelled to take refuge in the cities and towns, and the fashionables have roturned from the country and from Iurope. It 18 reported from Birmingham, Ala., that a sScoteh chomist named Archibald nas dis- covered a process by which all phosphorous may be removed from iron and the ore con- verted into Bessemer pig at a cost of only 50 cents a ton, The process is said Lo have been successfully tested. Thore will soon be a national organization of the tile tayers of the United Ntates. Favorable'responses have been received to the circular calling for its formation that was recently seut out by Progressive Tile Layers' union No. 2,690 of New York city. The long strike of Scott's coal miners at Spring Valley, IlL, is sull unsettled. and it 100ks as though the strikers, who have re- jected the offer of a slight advance, would be out all winter, They are yet receiying sid from labor orgunizations. The strike of the coal miners at Brazl, Ind., is now in it sixth month. Simply ‘an Off-Hand Guess. Teraman, Neb., Oct, 23,—To the Editor of Tue Bee: 1 want to tell you the way the ‘Worla-Herald got its prohibition statistics in editor of the Burt County Herald, went to Mr. Malmsten, Rd to Mr. Nesbit, couaty both positively refused to even guess at it for him aud gave no figures avall. Mr. Karns then came to me and asked how much majority the amendment would have in this county, ana without even stopping to think the matter over [ said 1 guessed 600 or B00. If the estimate was ‘made in all counties tho same way, the value of the World-Herald's production doesn’t have to be guessed at. H. Wape G — Not J. K. North's Son. CoLumsus, Neb, Oct. 23.-To the Editor of Tux Bee.- In your 1ssue of Oct. 22, there appears a speclal from Schuyler saying that young North, one of the thieves arrested for horse stealing was & son of Edward North, of Columbus. Will you do me the favor to say that there noever has been but oae North fumily 1w Col- winbus since the white man took possession und that this young North is no relatve of that family eitber near or remote, and the fuct that he claimed Lo be the sou of Edward North of Colubus, 18 sulicient to condemn him bere where the citizens know there is no such person @8 Edward Nortu, but in other parts of the state whore | have friends County Judge. and ncquaintances thi faot may not be known and the culprit may be thought to be connected with my family. Very truly yours, 3. . Nonrn, e ONE O¥ A HUNDRED. A Commorcial Travelor Who Fought For a Copy of The Bee. VALERTINE, Neb,, Oct. 2..—To the Editor of Tne Ber: Inotice in Tre Bew a state- ment that newsboys add others had been suppressing Tnr Brx sales along the Union Pacific railroad lines, This calls to my mind that the same trick has been played along the Elkhorn railroad. I was traveling salesman foran Omaha nouse last May, and going from Omaha to the end of the Ime at White Wood, and on the main line to Casper, Tre Bee was not shown or offered at all, and when I would ask fora Bee the answer would be “All gone.” But after the newsboy (or newsmen some were) haa passed all through the train with the Herald or World, he would go back and return to me with one copy of Tar Bes only. Other times tlcy would refuse and say they had none at all, but by a little cursmg and getting on my ear for a Beg, it would finally come out. I cali to memory one of these men, but 1 do not kaow his name. H run was from Omaha to Long Pine, and ho had only ove arm. But whether ho was on the road in May or June last, I do not remem- ber, But he played this samo trick at that time or before when ho was news agent, for it was ho who got the cursing and I guess ho got stung with Tne ¥ 1 spoke of it several times to other sales- men and I concluded that there was a con- spiracy to suppress Tue Bre, But I knew in my own mind that the fighting editor of 18 Bek would find it out soon. Yours, Knoxto Kioken. P. 8.—No need of placing my name to the above, but will make afidavit to samo if wanted. S A NON-PAKTISAN JUDICIARY. Mr. C. 8. Montgomery Makos a Strong Anpeal for Clarkson, Owama, Oct. 23.—To the Editor of Tr set 1 do not w nter upon a contro- ! through the me- the privilege of noticing the letter of R. W. Breckenridge printed in your paper on the 22 fust., for the reason that tho charges therein contamed might be considered ad- mitted if not controverted. Mr. Breckenridge made his professional debut in this city us a clerk and student in the ofice of Urofft & Montgomery. Ho was there taught to be caretul and truth- ful in his statements. Such training and his life since as an upright, able and honorable gentleman and lawyer, should have prevent- ea such an_exhibition ot foolish and reck- lossly relinble statements as his letter presents It is true that our democratic lawyers con- ceded the propriety of the selection of a re- publican lawyer to suceeed Judge Groff, but they always did 50 with the proviso that he 1 by the bar of the district, believed the bench should character. This was the express understanding U the bar at least shonld bo bound by the selection made. 1t was so stated as the un- derstanding between Mr. Breckenridgo and conversation of a private andidates prior to the be of a non-parti od to anda wit ndidate, H. J. Davis, tempora judge, by favor of Governor Thayer so understooa it, as is evidenced by ms hLesitancy in accepting the republican nomination. 50 understood 1t is also evident fr ous attempt of his sup- porters to explain his position, It is not true that the Douglas county bar is numerically democratic. Possibly one- third ave d No mo Aguin, it is not true that we wish to dio- tate. 4'wo years ago we offered to support thvee republicans if the republicans would concedo Judge Wakeley as our candidate, and consent to the selection of the three re- publicans by the bar. This proposilion was refuscid, and hence followed the fig n bench, resul of the present judges, including Groff, the regular nominees, by majorities ru from 4,000 to 5,000. Still the ward politic o not satisfied, but they were warned. Continuing the fight this fall, they repud- fato again the nou-partisan candidate and uated another republican, who 1 lonor was bound not to accept their choice. Nev theless, he is aman and lawyer of high cnuracter and standing, acting from a mis- taken sense of duty to part; Why was he chosen? Because, as soveral of the delegates have told me, he was the only man of all who were mentioned who would have any chance of election. They were forced to take him by the non-partisan sentiment in this district, which demands good men, Ile could not have been chosen othe wise. They hope to elect him and thereb; defeat the non-partisan_ides, when they will return to the habitsof former years wherein political standing rather than fitness for of- fico has wov ed. “Again it is not true that a_majority of the democratic lawyers favored Mr. Clar would be willing to poll the vote und yi tne fight 1f Mr. more republican supbe and further, if the republivan support whole did nov constitute a majority of the teading repudlican lawyers of more than two years standing at this bar, vreseut at the mecting. 1t is not troe that the democratic judicial convention merely endorsed Clarison, if moro than an sndorsement he required. ‘The democratic sup rs of Mr, Davis de- mavded a ballot for nomination, and a balloy was had, and Mr. Clarkson was nominated, not, however, as a_democrat, but, neverthe: less, as the candidato of the party, which re- mained true to its record ¢ of non- partisiunsbip in jud Mr. Breckenvidge's suggestion as to tho manuer of the selection of delegates to the democratic. judi Thoy were selected by & large committee ap- pointed by the county convention, and there was no dictation by any one, each member of the committee selecting a certain member from his ward. It 18 true that the democratic bar is in favor of @ non-partisan judiciary, and 1 hope 1t always will be, 1t is ulso true that demo- cratic Iawyers wish to assist in naming the candidates, It is, in my opinion, unsafe to leave the matter wholly to a political conven- tion of either party. In crder to have true nou-partisanship, democrats should have a voice in numing the. republican candidates, and republicans in naming the democratic candidates, % Mr. Breckenridge is ngalu wrong in his statement that the republicun party a major- ity of 8,500 votes or anything like it in this district. 1have befors me the official tabu- Jated statement of the vote last fall us com- piled by etary of State Laws, It shows thatthe Harrison electors in the counties comprising this district, had a majority over the Cleveland electors of exactly 653 votes. 1f wo tako the yotes cast for the candidates for the offices of Leutenant goveruor, secre- rary of state, treasurer and auditor of pub- lic accounts, beigg those little affected by local considerations, and by propor addition and division average their majorities, itshows a republiean majority in the district of just 142, If we averago in the same manner the vote for all tne state officers, it shows a large democratic majority, owing Lo the large voot cast for the democratic candidatos for go ernor and attorney general by reason of var- jous influences. I view of these facts it can hardly be prover to charge democrats with “audacious dictation” in seckiug a beariug in the selection of our judges, And, further, in view of these tigures, the {ssue is not one of republican supremacy, backed Dy invincible odds; neither is it a ques: tion of sustaining a *'splendid nomination," but is the old question over again: Shall the udiciary of this district be coutrolled by po- itical considerations, or by nou-partisan in- fluences and true business considerations ! For many years the non-partisan idea has rovailed, and has kept upon our district hench democrats Savage, Wakeley and Doane, and_republicans Neville, Groff and Hope- well. T call upon men of all classes who may at any time be required 10 submit valuable rights uad intercsts to the consider- ation of our judges, to adbcre to the practice %0 long and firmly’ established. 1oth the cunaidates are republicans. ~ Waiving what socms 10 me & breuch of {aith on the part of Judge Davis, and the source of his nomina- tion, T do not hesitate to say that both are gooa and capable lawyers, and _either awill make a good jud though I think Mr. Clarkson will make the botter one. The only _voint left is the J\rlue\plo sug- Eleot Davis an you n{ven flood-gates of futuro politi- cal influence and destroy the sssurance which we have so long enjoyed, of having the honored, able and honest bench Wwhich nonpartisanship has given us. Be- lieving in the independence of the people of this district, as 80 often exhibited, not only in judicial but in local elections, I do not hos- itate to predict Mr. Clarkson's election and theroby a renewed trinmph of nonpartisan- ship in judicial elections. (. 8. MoxTaoMERY, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. 4 The Fairfleld Call has suspended vublioa- 100, The Congregationniists of Loigh wiil erect & parsonago, The delinquent tax list of Adams county amotnts o $16,000. Work has been commenced on & new hotel at York by Colonel Crabb, Richard Thompson, of Hastings, is to start a now democratic paper in that city, The tax levy in Jefferson county for the current year is $11,000 Joss than in 1888, Cortland Odd Fellows will dedicate their new hall on the evening of Octobor 31 with fitting ceremonies. A contract has been let for the erection of a carriuge factory at Kairbury, to be ready for occupancy by Januury 1. An athletic club has been organized at Te- Komha with & embershiv of twenty-flve, und a completo gymuasium outfiv will be se- cured. The Nebraska City council has ordored the fire department team sold to pay for repairs made to the city ball. A howl of indigna- tion is the result. ‘Whitney huoters have returned from Wyo- ming with two wagons loaded with over two hundred and tifty deer and antolope hides and horns, Jefferson county prohivitionists have, by resolution, agreed v support any candidato of either of the old parties who will come out publicly i favor of the prohibition amendment. Paul Lovejoy, a young Omaha Indian, has gono to tho training school at Carlisle, Pa., 1o study for the ministry, and a daughter of Wa-jop-ka has departed for tho same placo to secure an education. Maony leaders of Columbus society have been making depositions to be used iu the di: vorce case of Mrs. Bonesteel vs Dr. S. A. Bonesteel, which is now on trial at Denve! ‘The litigants were formerly well known resi- dents of Columbus, There was somo talk about a meeting of the Fairbury bur to disbar Lawyer Gowdy from practice for taking a #& fee and con- ducting n caso, says the Fairbury Democrat but upon his showing that that ‘amount was all his client had, and thero was 10 show of getting a chattel mortgage on anything, he was excused, Says the Plattsmouth Journal: Con O'Leary, night watchman on tho bridge, bought a cow in April, 1886, which in May following gave birth to two heifer calves, and in eloven months from that day gave birth to two more heifer calves. in the sec- ond year one male calf, and in the third yoar one male and one heifer calf—giving birth to soven calves in threo years aud flye months, "The vow is now about nine years old. 10 A flax paluce county. An Oto man has invented a pumping water with a horse, Burlington is to have a new jail costing in the neigitborhood of §25,000, Large numbers of animals are dying from hog cholera in Webster county. Henry Bagley was thrown from a beer wagon at Dyersville and received injuries from which he died. Oto has no market for ler thousands of bushels of potatoes and wants a starch fac- tory to utilize them. Peter Ryan, serving a lifo sontence for murder, has lost his reason and has been trausferred to the insano department at Anamos; John Stark, a farmer living near Grundy Centor, complained to his wifo that he could not breath, and when sho roturned from a neighvor's where she went for help she found her husband dead with his throat cut. The grand commandery of Towa Knights Templar, and the grand chapter of Royal Aren Masons will convene in Davenport tho second weel in November. This will be the twenty-sixth annual conclave of the grand commandery end tne thrty-sixth annual convoeation of the grand chapter. Mrs, Henry Rivers fell into a Dubuque and in somo way the lidebecame closed, preventing her calls for assistance from being heard. Her daughter went to araw a pail of water about un hour after- ward and was scared into fits at discovering her mother's predicament. Mrs. Rivers re- ceived no njury beyond a very cold bath. A distressing meident oceurred on a Cen- tral train the other day. A lady witha threc-months-old bavy boaraed the train at u station near Fort Dodge. ‘T'he train had not fairly got under wav when tho baby was taken sick and died in a_few minutes. The train was stopped and the poor mother walked back homo with her acad baby iu her arms, During a social at the home o in Oskaloosa, Dick Atchison b volver from a shelf and pointiog it Wetherwax pulled the trigeer, The struck Wetherwax in the face, glancing downward ana causing a wound from which it is doubtful he will recover. Alter the affaic Atchison tried to take his own lifo with & razor, but was prevented. e says ho didn’t know the revolver was londed. He was arrested to awail further examination. The eat N thwest. A Clinaman has been appointed adminis- trator of an estato in Los Angeles, An cffort is being made to reduce strogt car fures in San Erancisco from b cents to 3 cants. Dietrich Hummeback, a San Francisco carpenter, has the leprosy. Tho diseuse showed itself some months ago, Ivis estimated that tne grain crop in va, ltems, is being erected in Vama machine for ern at Round Valley, 1dabo, will not reach over 1,700 bushels against 852,000 bushols last yoar. O, F\, Smith has sarrendered himself to the authorivies at San Jose, Cal,, and con. fessod to having robbed a hotel in_Hucoda, Wash. A troubied conscience led to the confession. Bdward A. Peckham, a seventoon -yoar-old boy employed in a Cheyenno cigar factory, died the other day from tobacco poisoninig, and all the boys in thothroe factories in thad city have left. An Indian named Heonan murderod another Indian named Mose near Tolt, Wash,, while drunk. This is the third Indian Henan has killed. He also shot J. W. Borst some years ago. o is still at large. Dr. C. M. Chambliss, Bozeman, Mont., be- came involved in & quarrel with Lawyer Vivion, who is conduoting divorce procesd- ings against the doctor on behalf of his wife, nnd the two camo to blows, A revolver in Chambliss’ hands was discharged, but tho lawyer escaped injury. mine, has a breadth ranging from 1,000 to 1,200 foot, botween the syonite footwall on tho west and the propylite banging wall on the east. The groatest broadth of solid ore found m the consolidated Virginia and Caii- fornin discovery of 1874 was 300 feet, the bullion yiold of which rangod from $100 to £700 per ton. The total yield of the Co stock lode from its discovery to date is esti- mated at #00,000,000. This estimate inoludes bullion realized from ore-tailings and othor aro yielding proportios in the vicinity of the Comstock. g CONDITION OF THE PRODUOERS, Will the Next U. 8. Census Show ths Mortgage Indebtedness on Farms. There is a growing feeling that the farmers and other wealth producers do not receive an equitable return for their toil. The state- ment is reveatedly made that ‘‘the rich aro growing richor and the poor poorer:" that ninety-five per cent of the wealth of tho country is owned by less than five ver cent of the population; that three-fifths of all tue wealth is in the bhands of less than thirty thousana persons, and that tho sturdy, self-respecting farmer is becoming the American peasant. Lack of facts upon which to base conclusions has rendered even theorizing valucless, and ignorance of the truth makes the prevalent discontent only more dangorous. The first requisite to an- intelligent discussion of the subject is a knowledge of tho actual facts of the case. Up to this time none of any importance have been collected. Much statistical information has been gath- ered and published to show the production of woalth in this country, but none to show its distribution. An important step in this di- rection, in fact tho primary step, would be the collection of data to show to what ex- tent tho farms and the lomes—tho basis of our civilization—aro owned by their ocou- pants and free from deb Correspondence has beea had with the chiefs of the bureau of statistics of the various states, asking them whether they had collected nuy such information, With singular unanimity they roply that the facts are of great imvort- auce and ought to be collected, but that the labor and expense of such an investization are too great to be undertuken by a state bureau and that the work naturally devolves on the national census. Mr. Robert P, Porter, superintend- ent of tho elovonth consus, in reply to cor- respondence ou this subject, suys tho act authorizing the census did not contemplato tho collection of theso data: that beforo he n undertake the work thero must be spe- cial legislation by congress instructing hin to do 8o, and thut he will lay the matter bo- fore the secretary of the interior with a view to securing such legslation. There is no doubt that if a general public demand existed, tho legislauon could be secured. The country cannot afford to wait till another census for the facts, as ot least fifuc s would bo required to mako them and in these days of the rapid concentration of wealth into a few hands that time is too long for a first diagnosis of the case. By that date the patient will be fatally it With a view to creating such a demand the Western Economic association of St. Louls, has 1ssued this address to the farmers and oth alth producers of the country. The practical method of procedure is for any body of such individuals, either organized or unorganzed, to adopt resolutions of the fol- lowing character and to send them to Wash- ington : Whereas, Thore is a growmg belief that the farmers and other producers of the coun- try do not obtain an equitable share of the wealth which they create, and that the tarms and tho homes of the country are very largely under mortga and, Whereas, Exact kiowledge on this subject is of great importanco in the study of the social and_economic questions of the day; therefore, be b by (insert here the name of the body' adopting the resolutions and the locality. | Resolved, That it is our judgment that the aext United States census should show what percentage of the people of this country occupy their own farms and homes, and what proportion are tenants; and of those who occupy their own farms and howes, what proportion have their property freo from debt; and of the farms and homes that are under mortgage, what percentage of the value iz so mortzaged; and be it further Resolved. That the secretary of this meot- ing be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Hon. John W. Noble, socr tary of the interior, Washington, D. C., and 4 copy 1o the congressman from this aistrict, with a request that he use his influence to have these facts collected ana pubhshed. T'his matter is neither ropublican nor dem- ocratic. 1t is purely econor The appeal 18 made to you personally, the reader. 'Tho next time you are in a meeting of the Whoel, the Alliance, the Farmers' and Laborers! union, ordinary mass meeting, or what not, introduce resolutions expressing theso sonti- ments, and send them to the oflicials named. As the reassembling of congress is at hand, and as considerable time will be required to procure the necossary logislation and to pre pare the schedules boforo the next enumera- tion, prompt action is necessar C. M. Urrox, President. B. C. Kkrier, Secretary. Western Economic Association, IT is very annoying when in the bath to drop the soap and have to feel for it. The Ivory Soar floats, and is without ex it lathers freely and is easily rinsed most luxurious soap for bathing ; cption the off, leaving a sense of cleanliness and comfort attainable by no other means, A WORD OF WARNING, There are many white soaps, each represented to be *just as good as the 'Ivory' they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine, Ask for “Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it. Qonyright 185, by Procter & Gamble