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Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Jones nnd riys tint he's aecretary of The tieo Publishing Company, that the actual a daily circulation of i morith of October 18, November, 164, 18950 ‘cop 1 for Jannar: 15,066 copies for April, 150, 1 wi: for June, 1860, DALY B ) GEONGE B, T/SCRUCK. n to bofore me and subseribed in my presence tais (th day of October, A ., 15 [8eal.] N. P! Fe THE county attorney with the state constitution and blocks the raid of the bac! TiE federal grand j up thav end of the democ which was beyond the juris the county inquisition. Wirn the Tenth street vinduct and a new bridge north of the Union Pacific shops, the railioad probiem for Omaha will be solved forever. PAT Forb is now devoting his cntire time to his tin can. Lverybody on the democratie ticket is to be thrown over- board for the henefit of Snyder. THE viaduet and union depot scheme has reached a focus at last. For tho first time in fifteen years the question is now before the voters in practical form, Tar democ Ohio safely Dakota. public cannot be dec atic assurances of victory and Towa. Both states are republican as Nebraska, Ir the prohibitionists keep Ielen Gougar on the stump in this state for the next six months we can safely guar- antee hfty thousand majority for high license. LOCAL ability and enterprise are shaping a prosperous future for Omaha. “The railrond bridge blockade on the commerce of the city will soon be a thing of the past. Tae attempt of the Ohio democrats to bolster up their campaign by drag- ging Judge Thurman out of the well- earned peace of private life was nothing less than sacrilege. . Tur price of silver bullion is now ninety-four conts an ounce, the highest point touched in a year. Thisis the re- sult of the growing sentiment of the world in fayor of a bi-metallic currency, VERY little has been said about the candidates for justices of the peace in this city. It is of the utmost im- portance to_every taxpayer and busi- ness man that shysters who run cost mills shall be keptout of the justice courts, 0 GOUGAR has sounded the key note of the Nebraska prohibition cru- sade of 1800. Slanderand vituperation, the gag, mob violence and jail for every- sbody who does not believe that prohibi- tion will do away with drunkennessand “the evils of intemperance. REPUBLICS are not ungrateful, but they are slow in dispensing their re- wards. lonore Levernier, of the First Wisconsin cavalry, has just received his share of the reward offered by the government for the capture of Jeff Davis in 1865, It amounts to two huu- dred and ninety-three dollars ONE of the most interesting features of next Sunday’s BEg will be an article from the pen of Frank G. Carpenter telling about the curious way in which men are shaved in oriental countries. The subject is treated in the author’s most entertaining style and will be welcomed by all who enjoyed the series of inimitable pen pictures of life in the far eust recontly published in this puper. THER — is a slight difference of opinion among Dakotans as to the extent of the distress in the new states. The corre- spondent of THE Bek at Bismavck as- serts thut the reports are groatly exag- gerated, - while Governor Mellette, Copgressmun Hausbrough and othors declare that distress is widespread in seven counties. Information received by the reliefl committee of the St. Paul board of trade shows that twenty thou- sand families, or nearly one hundred thousand persons, will need the assist- ance of 4 generous public to tide them over the havdships of winter. THE TEKAMAH INCIDENT. In the history of Nebraska no event has reflected ns much disgrace and dis- honor upon this state ag did the Teka- mah incident of Tuesday night. Ours has been pre-eminently o state founded upon the corner stone of free speech in the memorable struggle for the rights of ail men to be free and equal. The agitators of compulsory sobricty never tire of comparing themselves to the abolitionists of old, whose battly cry was, “Jree speech, free soil, free press and free man.” In upholding these sacred and inalienable rights they were ever ready to stake their fortunes and risk their lives. But at Tekamah the spurious re- formers who wailt to abolish the slavery of man to the inherent passion for drink have followed the example of the old slavo driver and man-whipper. They throttle free speech and deny a man who bas been villified and charged with the gravest of crimes in their presonce the right to demand that his accuser shall turnish proof of the charges made. cd with a fanatical frenzy, thoy completely lost their heads and men and women demeaned themselves asif they had been possessed of some evil spi The inoffensive presence of a single man, who respectfully sought a hearing to redress a great wrong, set them wild under tho mesmeric influence of a vold, unprineipled woman. While this person, lost to all modesty and de- cency, talked about the lewd practices of the vilestof her sex as glibly asshe would about her last dinner, before an au- dience composed largely of school girls and boys, she was heartily applauded. And when she imperiously commanded her audience to lay violent hands upon the man whom she had outrageously slandered and whom she did not dare to face, they resolved themselves into a howling mob. To cap the climax of brutal intolerance these zealots actually went so far as to scek to throw the editor of the leading daily of this scetion into a filthy jaul for dur- ing to appear in a public meeting to face his traducer. ‘What a blot upon Nebraska’s fair fame! Such an incident could not have taken place among the desperadoes of Texas or Mississippi. It remained for the fanatics of the village of Tekamab to advertise this state hroad as harboring at least one commu- vity in which the spirit of the Spanish inguisition is rampant and in which no man or woman i e from per on. Fortunately for Ne- iska, there is only oue Tekamah in ‘We kuow of no other place in this commonweaith where people who eall themselves intelligent christians would be guilty of conduet that recalls the dense orance and brutal bigotry of the middle ac Such people are capable of burning at the stake dis- senters from their “ism,” and appiying the thumb-serew, the rack and the stocks to those who offend their peculiar notions of public morals, VALUE OF GOOD FAITH, The cqually just and generous princi- ple whica Commissioner Groff has an- nounced will bo observed respecting settlers on the public lands whose good faith can be established in ca. where the letter of the law has not been strictly compiied with, will have gon- eral approval. His decision in the case of Mary Meyers, who, seven years ago, made a homestead entry in the Nio- brara land district, but by reason of sickness and pov was unable to comply with the fall re- quirements of the law as to occupancy, is so manifestly fairand just that no one having vegard for the spirit of the law can find fault with it. The woman had made such improvements on the lands as her health and means would allow her to make, she had given all the at- tention to it that she could in her cir- cumstances, and she had refused an offer for her claim that would have con- siderably more than reimbursed her for the outlay she had made. In all this there was the clearest evidence of good faith, while there was nothing ex- cept her failure to occupy the land con- sly to show that she had ar tention to abandon the claim. But both sickness and poverty prevented her re- maining on the land except at the peril of her life, and Commissioner Groff justly holds that the law does not re- quire that life and health should be sacrificed to maintain a residence. The homestead law was conceived in abroad and generous spivit, with the purpose of enabling the peopie to secure homes on the public domain under such conditions as would insure settlement and protect the government ugainst fraud, but it was not intended to estab- lish a hard and procrustean policy which no circumstances should affect. Nor did such u policy prevail until re- cent years, when there appeared to be an opportunity to make political capital out of it. How much injustice it was responsible for will never be known, but it doubtless greatly outweighed the small benefits secured to the govern- ment. The principle announced by Commissioner Grofl in the Meyers docis- ion w feve with a proper re- gard for and enforcement of the home- stead law. 1t offers no invitation or wt for neglecting the requirc- ments of the law. 1t simply says that the government will be satisfied with the suflicient evidence of the settler’s good faith and honest intent when the circumstunces beyond his control are such as to render full compliance with the law impossible, or only to be done at the greatest of sacrific A COMPLICATED SITUATION. There is & mass of contradictory re- ports and rumors regarding what is happening or to huppen among the rail- roads of the country, the effect of which is to give the situation & more than ordinary complicated aspects The one established and highly important fact is the traffic compact between the Uugion Pacific and the Chicago & North- western, by which arrangement there is formed practically a single through railway systom from the Atlantic to the Pacific. What i to be the effect of this alliance upon compoting railways is justnow the lead- ing ‘question. There is excellent rea- s0n to believe that this combination hag been strengtheued and rendered wore formidable by taking in the Alton, and what other moves may develop in this large and very interesting game of rail- way alliance is a subject of curious con- jecture. What will the rival lines to the Northwestern which have com- petea for the Union Pacific’s Omaha freight mow do? They will lose most of this freight, and it is not to bo supposed that they will submit 1o this loss without a struggle. Their only apparent recourse, assuming that the alliance of the Union Pacific and Northwestern is not repagnunt to the inter-state commerce law, is to form other combinations. 1t is not doubted that this course is now being most eeriously considered by all the lines. The report that the Pennsylvania road, the Burlington & Quincy, the Burling- ton & Northern and the Manitoba have practically closed the details of a close traffic arrangement is altogether probable. What the other roadsare doing with a view to their protection is not divulgeds but it is to be presumed theyare not idle. 1n the opinion of practical railroad men the result of these movements must eventually be the formation of four grand trans- continental trunk lines, crossing the Mississippi and Missouri respectively at St. Paul, Omaha, Atchison and New Orleans. This would seem to be inevitable unless thero should be brought about a general railroad combination or trust, such as has been suggested and is believed to be earnestly sought by certain railroad magnates. The question as to whether this new form of combination is legal will have to be determined. The inter-state com- merce commission will doubtless be called on 1o0'pass upon 1t very soon after it goes into effect und the policy under itas torates becomes known. It is clearly hostile to the rule of the Inter- State Commerco Railway association, which prohibits the diversion of traffic to a single line by private arrange- ments, but this association has literally gone to picces. Withoutlegul standing and powerless to enforce its rules, the association had ceased to exist from the moment the compact between the Union Pacifia and Northwestern was con- cluded. The tendency among the great trunk lines is toward feleration, and the progress of the movement in that direction will be of the greatest public nterest. QUALIFICATION Lixcony, Neb, Oct. 30, 1850.—To the Editor of Tur Bre: Will you kindly in- form me how I will proceed to qualify in order to vote at the coming election? Iam a Cavadian by birth; came to Massa~ chusetts at the age of ssventeen—in 1883, Have been a resident of Lincoln for over a year. Have never voted. Respectfully, S. C. BRowN. The national law governing natural- ization provides that an alien coming to this country under the ago of eight- een need nov make his declaration of intention to become a eitizen, but must take out naturalization papers before he can vote, provided he has lived con- tinuously in the country vears and is twenty-one years The children of persons duly matural- ized, being under age at that time, become citizens of the United ites on avciving at their majority. Underthe lawsof Nebraska an alien who has declared lus intention to become a citizen oL the United States thirty days prior toany election, and has lived in the state six months, in the county forty days and the precinct or ward ten days, is a qualified elector. Me. Brown fails to state whether his father was or isan American-citizen. If not he cannot vote without procuring naturalization papers. Those papers can be had on application to the clerk of the district court. OF VOIERS. of SHALL WE RAISE THE EMBARGO? The Teunth street viaduct and union depot proposition has been revised and proper safeguurds have been provided to protect the interests of the city and isure the construction of a new depot. The conditions unaer which the viaduey and depot are to be secured are pro- nounced fair and reasonable by many of our heaviest property own- ers and taxpayers. A bonus of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is asked to reimburse the union depot company for part of the outlay they have obligated themselves to incur in the erection of a viaduct and depot. If the company earries out in good faith what it agrees to do and the Union Pa- cific railroad company grants the use of its bridge to all fowa roads on r able terms under the of arbitration Omaha will back in the stimulus given to her growth within two years thrice the value of the bonus asked for. It re- mains for our citizens now to determine for themselves whether they are will- ing to tax themselves seventy-five hun- dred dollars a year for the next twenty years in order to bring about the early removal of the embargo on our com- merce, or whether they deem it prudent to retard the growth of this city and sub- mit to the annoying and damaging transfer system,with 1ts wretched depot facilities, for an indelinite period. W are pained to note chat the scion of the greut house of Astor did not carry out his pledge to subscribe twenty mil- lion dollurs to the New York world fair fund. Mr. Astor came down to the level of ordinary mortals with twenty-five thousand dollars and his nding in public opinion has fallen away forty thousand per cent. AO 1} DICATIO. It is made the duty of each grand jury in this state to inspect the county jail and report its condition when they sub- mit their report to the court before they are disbanded, The foct that the grand jury which has just adjourned reported that they found the Douglas county jail in good condition, is paraded by Sheriff Coburn’s champions as proef positive that there has been nothing wrong in his management ot the jail. Nobody pretonds that the building in which Douglas county prisoners are confined is in bad condition, and if it had been 80 found by the grand jury, the blame would not be with the jailer or his deputies; but the grand jury has not inguired into the conduct of Sheriff Cobura in uannugliou with eriminals under his cusfody and care. They had no means of knowing anything about the favoritism exhibited toward people charged with murder and all manner of high erimes? fior of the alleged mal- treatment of ‘prisoners who have in- curred the difpléasure of the sheriff’s chief jailer. The report of the grand jury, therefore, 18 in no sense a vindica- tion of Mr. Caburn. Tur people .who voted against the proposition te: construct additional school houses Jiave only themselves to blame now for the lack of school room in the central portion of the city. It is out of the question now to constructa contral school building in the neighbor- hood of vhe high school during the pros- ent year. If a bond proposition is sub- mitted now the proceeds can only be used next spring. The only way that we can see out of the dffficulty is to rent one of the large rosidences ndjacent to the high school und convert it into a temporary school house for the use of the lower grades. To leave the high school building to the lower grades and rent some large building for high school purposes wouli be out of questioa, even if it could be legally done. Mahone a Pretty Heavy Man. St. Paul Ploneer-Press. Billy Mahone weighs only ninoty pounds, but his opponents appear to have consider- able difficulty in crawling out from under him, wi L The Wires and the People. Washington Post. The New York courts are to decide whether the clectric wires or the people are to go under ground. At the present time the outlook for the people is not promising. In the Dramatic Notes. Chiengo Hevald. The French papers are not usually subposed to be posted ou American affairs, yct the Panis Figaro priuts a notice of the burning of the Talmage tabernacle with its “Theatri- cal Notes.” i ety No Wonder She Faited. Milicaukee Sentinal, The woman who tried to start an institu- tion in New York for the spanking of chil- dren, to relieve mothers, has not mado a success of it. She is from Kogland and did not know that the American child not ounly refuses to be spanked but runs the house- hold and is particularly the boss of its mother. Burdened With His Namea. New York Herald. ‘There is an Austrian who has just been of- fored o snug berth as captain of a Hritish merchant vessel. He happensto be burdeusd with a name thut would be out of place on the ship's register. So His Royal Highness Archduke Jean Nepomucene Salvator Nearle Joseph Dean Ferdinand Balthasar Louis Gonzague Pierre Alexander Zenobius An- tonin has asked thie emperor’'s permission to resign his titles and become a private citizen. We hope that he will succeed in his manly endeavor, and that Captain John Hapsburg will turu out to ve the happiest tar cn the wide seas. ————e AFIERNOON 0ld Lady—* w've stole my daughter's love. Unabashed Culprit—Well, didn’t T re- turn itd Dr. A. (mesting his college friend after a long absence)—ilo you remember Fraulein Korn, with whom we danced so often, when we wera students together at Bonn? Dr. B, (after reflection)—Ha, ha! you mean that good-looking but dreadfully frivolous young lady of whom you used to say that you pitied the man who might chance to marry her. Well, what about her? Dr. A —Ahem! what about her? Why she 18 now my wife. A young woman of this city is married to a. gentieman who is many years her senior. They have become well enough acquainted to say unpleasant things to each other. The othier morning at breakfast he suggested a a foreign tour. “But we mustn’t visit Egypt.” “Why not?” “I'm afraid yowd go to slecp in public some time.” -*Well, sup- pose Ldid?” “You'd be stolen for a mummy, sure.” “But, my dear woman,” said Do Broot, “be reasonable.” < *I won't be reasonable,’” she snapped pettishly. “Very well, then; be a woman." “How intensa are the fires of love!” ejaculated the poet. ‘“‘Yes,” answered the father of six marriageable daughters; ‘“‘but they do take an awful sight o’ coal.” Druggist (awakened at 2a. m.) what is it?’ Customer—*It's a boy. up!" A gossip writes that a new is “The Peace Society.” The members as- semble for tea in fashionable studios, languidly look through collections of sketches and as languidly listen to music, and then, with continued languor, discuss questions for banishing ideas of war from the youtbful mind. One idea is to treat war as merely an incident 1n text books of his- tory. ‘This is the society which, some time ago, began its self-appointed mission by recommending the banishment of drums aud tin soldiers from the nursery. Jones (meetmg an acquaintance en the train)—How are yeu, Smitn? Mighty glad to see you, Been in France all these years, eh? How's your wife! Smitu—Wife! How id you know I was married? Jones—Why, you jumped when I touched your arm, Most women 1iké to look at pretty pictures, but they don't like to have their husbands show them pretty pictures of other women, just the same. George—Why 80 sad, Charlest Milared return your love# ouly returns my letters, “Dost love me for my wealth or brains?"’ He asked the maid with words intense, To which she myag this wise THE “Well, Get London freak Does not Charles—No, she *“Ted—I suppose the best way to find oul whether she loves me is to go right up and ask her. Ned—Not at all, my boy. You had better ask one of her girl frienas. e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Pomona Grange, of Webster township, Dodge county, hiss (rganized u mwutual insur- ance compan, The Plainview schools are so crowded that additional room will have to be secured for e winter term, Mrs. Alva Lemons, of Cozad, died at the Norfolk insane asylum recently of tuber- culosis of the intestines. Mrs. M. 8. Drake, a Columbus milliner and dressmaker, has been forced to close up on account of slow collections, ‘There are 117 cases ou the docket of the Madison county district court, now in ses- sion, four of which are ciiminals, ne Nebraska City saloonkeepers have filed a remonstrance With the city council against reduciog the police force. Mischievous Edgar boys stole a wreoch from the waterworks tool house, opened & bydrant, and hulf flooded the town, The Hastings clothing firm of L, Stone & Son has been forced 1o the wall, T'he assets are $21,000 and the liabilities $13,000. The wite and two children of Joseph Stanaley, who lives near Shelton, have died iu the past four weeks of typhow fever, and another ohild {a striken with the diseass. Tt is belleved that the sicknoss is caused by Arinking water from a well which is situated in @ eattlo yard, A number of brick masons at Broken Bow {umped the town owing good, sized saloon ills. One of the men, more of & speculator than the rest, borrowed the salooukeeper’s overcont and took it with him. A Grand Island musician is the possessor ofa violin over two hundred yoars old which he bought for a song from ® poor and fgnorant Ttalian family in Kansas. It s probably the finest instrument of its kind in the west., The horse owners of Wymore and vicinity are atarmed over the appearance in that city of a disease which is bolioved to be glanders. The barn whier tho dissuse apponred hus been closed, the afflicted horses killed, and it 15 thought there is no danger of the disease spreading. Town tiems. Clinton will spend #1,000 for park improy ments, Work has commenced on an_elevator of 20,000 bushels capacity in Sioux Centor. Maquoketa citizens are trying to socuro the location of a watch factory in that city. The trustees of Coe college have held their annual session at Codar KRapids and ro- clected all the old officers. There have been 2,130 barrels of sauer kraut packed in Dubuque this fall and the works have closed for the season. A case of smallpox is reported in Allen Grove township, Scott county, and the peo- ple m that vicinity are greatly alarmed. Henry Leo, u bridge builder, fell from a bridge near Oskaloosa and was dashed to death on the rocks thirty feet below. + Clara Edmonson, & woak-minded Keokulk girl, took a dose of poison_with suicidal in- tenf, but a stomach pump in the hands of & skilitul doctor saved har life. A singular accident happened to a lad named Riley, living near Otiumwa. _He was patting a yoang horse tied to the man- ger with a haif inch rope. Ho took hoid of the rope and gave it a turn around his haod and then reachiod up to rub the col's head. The animal suddenly threw its head up, caught young Riley’s thumb 1 the 1oop of the rope and cut it off. Wyomwng and Colorado. Bunches of catticare being sold at Buffalo, Wyo., for §.5 a head. Rev. R. d has resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Cheyenne and will leave for a new tield of labor January 1. Serious charges have been made against Police Judge Johnson, of Aspen, Colo., and a committeo bas been appointed to invest: gate them, Charles Cornish, wh Cheyenne, W. woman at Sunhouse and’ sentenced to prison for life,has just died in confinement ax Joliet. All the employes of the Laramie, Wyo., glass works have left town, many of them going to Streator, 1L, where they have been pronnsed positions, I. L. Braunon, sixty-three years of age, who was colonel of the Forty-eighth Penn- sylvania volunteers during the late war, has been sentenced at Denver recently to one year in the penitentiary. The county commssioners of Fremont and Crook counties, Wyoming, have neglected to provide for an election aud those who want statenood will not be able to vote, It is stated the omission is partly due to the op- position of certain county officials to some portions of the constitution. Of tho crew of eighteen on the Monitor during her immortal combat, with the Merri- mac, there were seven gunners. Three out of these seven men, who did the actual fight- g on that occasion, were in Pueblo, Col., the other day. They are H. S. Currie, of Silver Cliff: H. S. Blake, of Hardscrabble, and Major Fay, of Pueblo. Johnnie, the sixteen yea Johuson of Green river, Wy nest a fow monthsago and secured a position on the Union Pacific at Blackfoor, Idaho. The other day he resented the insuits of a drunken Mexicar. by shooting the “greaser’’ through the k A corone jury decided that the killing was done in_self-defense, Mr. Johnson has gone after his wayward son and will send him to an Kastern college, was convicted at THE JUDIOIAL CONTES J. T. Moria ents Some Points for the Con tion of Voters, Omama, Oct. 31.—To the Kditor of Tne tue action of the bar of this district in rela- lion to the selection of judges,” I find several things that ought not to pass unnoticed. Taking the historical facts to be just as he states them, they worrant the following im- portant conclusions: 1. 'That since 1852 the people of this judi- cial district bave sought to put and keep on the beneh men who were distinguished by ability and chavacter, rather than by politi- cal afliations, 2, That in order to put and keep such men on the bench, our people have deemed it nec- essary to plant the election of our judiciary on a non-partisan busis. 3. That tho method of thus planting the election of our judzes on a non-partisan basis has proved a success. 4. That in the election of 1887 it was effect- ual in placing on the bench a set of men **far superior” to those on the straight *‘republi- oan ticket.” To show the soundness ot these conclu- sions we need to reflect but a moment on Mr. Simeral's facts. He tells us that in 1882, after the number of our judges had beeu increased from one to two, a petition was circulated among the attorneys of our “'entire district,” asking the governor to ap- point Juige Wakeley, who had been a life- long domocrat. It is evident, from what Mr. Simeral says, that this petition was signed alike by republicans and democrats. Inother words, It Was & nou-partisan movement to get @ worthy man on the bench, regavdiess of mero political considerations, ' It was suc- cessful. Yielding tov the prayer of the peti- tion, Governor Dawes did one of the noblest acts of his pubhc career; and the bench of this district, in the per- son of the Hon. Kleazer Wakele was thereby adorned with one of the purest men, one of the ablest jurists and oue of the wost impartial judges to be found anywhere in this country. Again Mr. Simeral tells us that in 1888 the republican and democratic judicial conven- tions met on the same day, and by “‘mutual agreement each couvention nomivated oue candidate,” the republicans naming Judge Neville and the democrats Judge Wi “This course, it will be seen, was equl t0 a nomination of eac ventions, aud is 8o ¢ where ho says *It was virtu The proceeding was, for all practical pur- poses, & non-partisan movoment. In the light 0f what followed it amounted to the same thing, &8 an express agreement by both parties to vote for both men, regardless of politics, T'he agreement was adhered to, and both men were eiected without opposi- tion, [n'the next place Mr. that in 1857, after our bench lLad been in- creased to four judges, u “mocting of the cn- tire var of our distyicu alied to_select four nimes to be suggested 1o tho party con- ventions 8 suitable rsons to occupy the ich;'” that at the meeting thus called a *resolution was passed unanimously recom mending Judges Wakeley, Groff and Hope- well,” but adjourned *without providing for the fourth place;” that later on_the dewmo- cratic judicial convention ‘“‘acquiesced in the request of the bar and pluced the names of Judges Wakeley, Groff, Hopewell and Hov, William A. Stowe on their ticket; that a few thereafter Mr. Stowe died, place on the ticket was fliled with the nae of Judge Doane; that the republican judicial conyention “refused to ratify tuc action of the bar,” and nomivated four republicans, oue of whom was Judge Hopewell, who was also on the other ticket, as above stated: that a “citizens' meetng" was then calle snd participated in by s ‘“large numbe of our leading snd most 1nfluential tizens ;" that this meet- ing, by ‘@ hearty unanimity, en- dorsed tue democratic nominees:’ that it was universally admitted that “the ability and legal attainments represented by the citizens'-democratic ticket were far superior 10 those of the republican.” From these facts it 1s clearly apparent that the call for & bar meeting ailuded to was & nou-partisan cailj that tho m imeral informs us ting of bhe © bar held in pursuance of such enll was a non- partisan gathering; that when this meetin recommended Judgos Wakeley, Groff an Hopewell (the first named a democrat and the others republicans) to the poiitical con- ventions of both parties, such recommendas tion was made on a non-partisan basis: that when the democratio judicial convention thereafter met, ratified the action of the bar meeting, completed its work by putting the name of Mr. Stowe in the “fourth place,’” and thereby went before the public with a ticket consisting of twe ropublicans and two demcorats, it acted on a non-partisan b that the citizens' moeting subsequently held wns & non- partisan assemblage: that the “hearty unanimity’” with which it ‘endorsed the democratic nominees”” was but an emphatio oxpression of the non-partisan sentiment which controlled its dehberations; that tho ‘‘universal admission of the suveriority of the citizen’s-demooratic ticket” over the re- publican ticket was an admission that tho several non-partisan movements set on foot hnd succeeded In putting better men n the fleld than tuose named by the purely parti- san-republican judicial convention. As Mr. Simeral says, the result is well mown. The republican ticket, the partisan ticiket, the puroly political ticket, sudge Hopowell only excopted, was snowed under, and tho nou-partisan ticket was triumphantly elected. Another important inference also foilows from Mr, Simeral’s statement of facts whicn it18 well. perbaps, not to lose sight of, namely: that in defeating the straight repub- lican ticket in 1857 our people succeeded in elevating to the bench a better class of men than would otherwise have been the case, We find, then, in Mr. Simeral’s paper a strong busis of fact on which to rest the four {V‘r(:poslliunl with which we bogan this ar- cle. But, strange to say, Mr. Simeral ventures to contend that in the canvass now going on Mr. Clarkson is not before our people as & non-partisan caudidate. This is done, quite evidently, for the purpose of taking ' away from Mr. Clarkson tho strength and prestige which such a position would naturally give him. This contention on the part of Mr. Simeral, while not wanting in ingenuity, has, nevertheless, no foundation whatever on which to rest, as shown by certain mutters to which he, in part. alludes. The call for a bar meeting to be held on the 20th of last month was signod by lawyers belong- ing to both potitical parties, and was therefore @ non-partisan call, The meeting held i our city in pursuance of such call was composed of lawy belong- ing to both political parties, and was a non- partisan gathering. The votes cast at that meeting, of which Mr. Clurkson got a major. ity, were the votes of gentlemen belonging to both political partics; and the action of that meeting resulting in his suggestion or rocommendation to the judicial conventions thereafter held was a non-partisan proceed ing. His endorsement or nomination (or whatevor else it may bocalled) by the demo- cratic judicial couvention some days later was certainly a recognition of him as a non- partisan candidate, and a pledgo to him of democratic support on that basis, 1t is mere quibbling to talx about how the delewates 1o that convention were selected Whatever the manner of their selection, the all-important fact that they were democrats is not disputed; and this being true, they could not and would not have pledged thoir party to the support of Mr, Clarkson on any other theory than that of his being o non-partisan candidate. Thero are still a few more fucts worthy of being borne in mind. Mr. Clarkson i publican. His republicanism is unques He )8 not the candidate of his own party as such; but being put in the field by the act of both the bar mecting and the democratic judicial convention, he stands before our people as a non-partisan candidate, a3d as such he expects to bo elected. His competi- tor, Mr. Davis, is the nomince of tue straight republican judicial convention—his candidacy rests on this fact, and on nothing else. Yet despite all these cousiderations, we find it cluimed, in an address published m last Tuesd: signed by Mr. John L. Webster , that Mr. Davis is ~the non-partisan candidate,” and on that ground thoy make an appeal in his behalf. v that Mr, Davis is tho non-partisan :ht, therefore, to be elect- Mr. Clavkson 1s the parti- and ought, therefore, to be defeated. The address in question impiiedly concedes that there is am mand for u non-p e, und that such caudidate ought to be elected. and hav- ing mado theso implied i In view of the foregoing facts and others familar to the publie, it would seem that the gentlemen who publishea the address above alluded to, wherein th seek to put Mr. Davis in_the attitude of being a non- san caudidate, must have counted large- on the gullibility of our people. J. I, Mortaxry. PARTISAN JUDICIARY, The Business Men of Omaha E Their Prefercnc To the Electors of tue Third Judicial Dis- trict:—Too much importan.e canuot be given to the sclection of our judiciary. An inde- pendent, fearless, able and incorruptib beuch, all citizons are interested in secing es- tablished and maintained. The benen should Ve kept aloof from partisam primaries, con- ! ventions and politics. It should be non-par- tisan. T z0we elected four jndges | Dy non-pariisan movement who have houored the position. We had supposed that the non partisan principle had been firmly establish- ed. There1s now an effort on foot to ove throw it which counot be too severely cen- sured. vress | without regard to party, jolning therein, The democratio convention has endorsed his nomination, but the republican convention has nominatea » partisan candidate. While wa regard the nomination of tho bar as high evidence of the qualifications and fitnoss of Mr. Clarkson, and_beliove that by reason of his groater age and experiemco, ho has a higher claim upon the suffrages’ than Mr., Davis, we place our appeal to you principally upon 'the importance of withdrawing the Jjudiciary from the unsecmly and discredit- Wble contentions of party primarics, conven- tions and politics. Lot us uphold the fa- togrity and bouor of the bench. Let us moot the attempt Yo overthrow the non- partisan principlo with determined resiste ance and overwhelming defeat. Woodman Linseed oil works. George H. Hammond & Co., by Hy. . Mo day, manager, packers South Omaha, W. L. Parrotte & Co., wholesale hat aund caps, Loo, Ciarke, Andreosen-Hardware company, E. M. Andreesen, secretary and treasurcr. Charles A. Coe, wholosalo boots and shoes, Paxton & Gallagher, wholesalo grocors. Darrow & Logan, wholesalo hats and o American Hand Sewed Shoo company. Gilmore & Rube, wholesalo clothiers, C. B. Rustin, Kirkindali, Jones & Co., and shoes. D. M. Steele & Co., wholesale grocers. Williams, Van Aornam & Harte, wholesale boots and shoes, Louis Bradford, wholesale lumbor. James J. Brown. Acme Pressed Brick company. Thomas I, Tuttle, insurauce, Georgo A. Hongland, wholesale lumber. Sioan, Johnson & Co., wholesale grocers. MeClurg Cracker company. Drexel & Foll, contractors and stone work- ers, Richardson drug company. Bemis Omaha bag company. Ribble & Smith, commission, J. W. Walker, commission. The imerson seed compauy. Milton Rogers & Sons, wholesalo and retail stoves. Kennard gluss and paint company. W. F. Fahs, manager Wm. S, Wilson & Co., wholesale tobucco and cigars, Charles Shiverick & Co., wholosale and ve- taul furniture. § A. C., Dreibus, wholesale confectionary. J.H. Boonskia. Omaba Rubbor Co. Turner & Jay, hats and ca Churchill Pump Co. E. T, Weiant, Mgr., for A. T. safes and vaults, Rector & Wilbelmy Co., ware, L. Kirscht & Co., Cigars. John A. Wakefleld, wholesale lumber, Max Mever, wholesale jewelry. B. A. Lauman, of DPerkins, Gateh & Lau- man, china aud glass ware. S. A. Orchard, Wholesale and retail car- pa. wholesale boots Ds. Dean & Co., wholesale hard- wholesale liquors and Meyer & Raapke, wholcsale groce Marks Bros., Saddlory Co, L. Stone, of Dewoy & Stono Ccompany. Peyeke Bros. & Co., commission. P. Roceo Bros. & Co., commission. J.. Robmson Notion company, wholesals notions, 7 Lombard Tnvestment company. A. ¥ Bosches & Co., cold storage and com- mssion. Charles Furniture anager R. G. Dunn & Co. Soper, We 0., wholesalo Tumber, 1. 1. 'Davis, cashier Kirst Natio John'S. Brady, of McCord, Lrad wholesale grocers. Parim, Orondorff & Martin cultural instruments. Allen Koch, of Kirkpatrick, Koch Guods company, wholesalo dry geod Powell, cashior Am n Loan and rust company. Gunderson, and door mill. Brown, of Cotsworth Lumber com. pany. C. Dunbar & Co., publishers. company, agri- Dry ail lumbor. D. Wyatt, wholesale and retail lumber. A. A. Stiger, of Kelley, Stiger & Co., dry goods. Owaha Paint and Oil company. vin & Duntire, guns and anumunition, J. Dickey rge Patterson, of Nebraska Fuel com- pany. ¢ & Soegelke v Brother. Omaha Pacl treasure Juduhy Packing C. wift & Co., by A. C Miller & Richardson. Aaron Calin, 3. W. Nash. Omana & Grant Smelting and Relining Co., by Guy C. Bariou, president. M. H. Bliss. 1man Buck T. J. Beard Bro. s Morton & Son. . Ford, cashier ng Co., by James Vides, jr., . A. Cudahy, Douglas County Douglas County Banle. John Linderhoim, Byron Reed Co., A. L. Reed, sec'y. Dexter L. Thomas. Harry Lawrie. Wendell Benson. Cummings Neilsor Lininger & Met W. A. Paxton. D. . Bowman. Phillip Potter. CrpaR Crerk, Cass To the Editor of Tuk Ber: Did the last re- publican state _convention, which convened Hastings, by resolution or otherwise, favor the carrying out and endorse- meut of the prohibitory amendment to the constitution of the state of Nebraska as sub- We appeal to you to vote for Joseph R. Clarkson to succed Judge Groff. While Mr. Clarkson 18 a republican in politics, he was selected by a large meeting of the bar, our most reputable and distinguished lawyers, mitted oy the last republican legisiature? D, 8. DrAPER. an state convention took no ed tothe prohibition amend- The republi action with re, ment.—(Ed. B # OW clean one always feels after using the Ivory Soa “Yes, that's because it rinses off so casily. My attention was attracted to the soap by secing an analysis of it published, in which it was shown that the * Ivory " was a well made soap, that the alkali is so thoroughly combined with the oils, that it has more than ordi- nary cleansing power and there is nothing sticky or greasy about it A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be ”qut as good as the ‘lvory’ they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, IMKS the peculiar and r_euurk;.blc qualities of the genuing, Ask for ' Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it Copyright 1886, by Procter & Gamble-