Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1890, Page 5

) THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDA PROHIBITION HERESY., | M Toha L. Webster Toroibly Points Out Tt Diven Dagers t DOES NOT DECREASE DRUNKENNESS. Bin to Vote for Prohilition, & Orimoto Adpt It (fiAIN['S GREAT RECORD OF INQUITY, Domvared With the Obsrvams of Lavin This Stats, KAISAS ‘AND NEBRASKA CONTRASTED. General Bradforl Tells How Ka HasProspered and Mr, Webster More Than Parallels theRecord. The afternom sesion of the debats at Brud Land o Frilay afternon wis clsed by Genenl Brdforlof Kansw for probibi- tionandby Hon. Join L. Webster of Omiba forhigh license. The argumemts are pre- seuted infull, THE SIIUATION IN KANSAS, Goneral Bradforl Clims That Prohi- bition is EfMctive. Generil Bradfordspokeas fullows: Ladiesand Gentimen: It s with sime Pesitation that [ atlemptto speak this after- noo. Ithas been aruleof my 1ifo to yven- tur nowlere yherel amgiveito understnd I an notweleome. | prowstedagainst com- fnghereto thise pople on this occasion. en_ £ was telegraghed (0 a numberof tines wequestine my presoice lore o disuss (his Pproposition, 1 prowsted ind said 1 diin’t Wit towme, that I wasbusyat home, that, outfairwas i progess, id tat thenatinal assmbly—a yorld wssenily ~of Oddfellows wasbeing hell at Topia, Bni thil T prefernd 1 remin at home; hese popleinsisted on ny oming, a fact wlich Thelieve they will confirm. Twas ld list night, orrather, the people Swere told that men, foreimersto this state, were hero adyising the peoplo of Nebraska wihat todo, Teambhereio dismss the quos— tionof pohibition, T cane atthe solici tition of the commitice, and T am 1ot Tesponsinl e formy presence her, unlss Tam responsible ¥orhaving commiled am eror in coning femat e reest of - a conmittes of your itiens, Iwanito siynowthatit thse gntlenen qvant to como to Topeka, in the stat of Imsas, ind will nolify mne one wook in ad- Fance, 1 will guarntee to il the latgest opera house in thecity of Topeka knowing that thoy willtalle inthe inicrests of antie rohibiiion. AndIwill puanutee this thing lio: thit afer the conreguion is in the opera house they can count them allind Lour-fifihs will be in favor of prohibition. LAplaye Ldesite, Tadies _and gentlemn #n behall of the efficioy of protibikion as pra iced in Kansws, and to nfutethe sindorous stilemants thit hayo ben mide about my tate. The popleof Kansas are a5 loyil to 508 13 arothe poploof Nebrasks o the fairstatoof Nebraska. We have no proju- Qice against the pople of Nobraska. We a0 noreaso to botherwisethan friendly | itk you, We hayve no designin comn ginto Lhostateof Nebrasia aud talking to youex- [..-em to give you thobenelt of ourr exporitnce, andif yo indthat we lave told you the truth, ad i€you fnd tint prohibiiion has {Bem beneficial to tho state of Knnsas, thon T submit inall andorthatprohilition would be ually 15 benoficiilto the stalo of Nobriska, auselsayto you thaitherware not wo Istales inthe mion whero tha people arn So {much alike inbabits and eduation, outside of tho qustin of pwhibitlon, as j@re o states of Kanus . Ne briska. Andwhymot? The very facthat Lo penie me fm the eastorn states as are the peopl of Kansw, fron Obio, Peune eyivaniy Now Yorkand all, T may"say, of thecastm stutes wme here, you lave the [Push il vin_ cliractristicof thostub of nsas, They have come her to malke their hones upn these sautifil and fertile prai- 3 como her to ltter theircondition ind "inkrests ther, andcome her to give your rowing families o betior canee tha you ad when you were a boy, and yo1mothers, when vou were girls. Tnorder to give jous childrenan opportunity o be better men and women than you are, |, Ittt a fair propsitin? Imainain hut is (ke object ofmy living in Kunsas, My object, inremmiining in Kansw is thit Tnay @i tony boys and davghters betier opor- uity than T had when I was a boy. I want to give theman elication whore fhoy willnot for that matter to testify unler the influenc of the toxicating bowl. I wut to give them an education and I want thon to grow up where theterplationis not beloro thin, w1 say toyou with aglad heart that toddy my oy wibo is twentyyean old, never saw the in terior of 4 saion. [Appwse] Aul T vant tosay tothesopeople e who have clam- orul solud about the dinger of rosubni: sion in Kansas that in Novenber, the uestionof the dunger of reubmnission in ansas is about as doubtful asthe resubnis- sion of sveryin tie United States. [Ap- plise.| Talkk (0 me about boy's becoming of ag in Kusasind nover lavingseen the interior of asiloon, never having ben tmpted by tha intoxiciting bowl, Isay b youthat the talk of resubmission is m impssbiliey, But, says tho gentlemm, what™ bnefithas prohibition done to Kansis that you should stud here and prodaim in favor of probibi- tio? Isubmit t.ofuu,;lmlics ana gentlemen, that i€ prohiibition hns' Tot benefitted KK ansas, has not been beneficial tothe morals, hasnot. reluced the rime wd puaperism in Kansas, then youdon'twant it in Nebraska. lam plin‘anl outspolcen on (his propmsition, I o't proposelo saya single word. Lere that can be distorted and what I say I say at the expensoof beng of the beliel that will be misquol ¢ things Ishallsay, but s O are tere may under- stand, Ishallcall things by their right nines and use plain lerms that 1o min can go avay from hore and feell have made statements they donot wnderstand. When pralibition wis fint proposel in Kmsas, the press of the state ‘of K asas, wilh very fow exceptions, wee opposel to nhibion just s they are in New Brska. Tho' metnpoline” pans o= Ne- sis were bittely opposed to . pohi- Dition With the exceptionof tho Topeka Capi- John A, Murtin, who wis ouce the governor of Kauss, wd a braver man never foight for his country, md amore patriotic man never breathod tho broth of Life, oppsed with allthe jower in him the wdiptaon of the prolibftion_anenduent when it was bo- Lore ourstate Lo after ling column fter column, day in and dayout, John A. Mirtin opposcl ho letrins of pobilition iy Kuisas. The sime istrueof thoLeavenworth Tines, elited by that vetran, Danidl Anthony, the fAghting colouel of Kansis, Up to 1885 Diniel Authony, edior of the Leavawaorth Tines, ave w0 coluun after colimnof abuse for at. Eonpting Lo mlore the i, s Sa St ey caild boen forced in Kansas. Yot Danicl An- thony is today one of thopolicocommissioners of the dty of Leavenworih and declares that probibiton is as well mfored in Leien- worth 4 any olber liv upn the stiute Dooks. But 1 to John A. Mirtin, After prohi- Dllion was Idnf)\mlln spiteof the pres of Eunsas as itwill bo inspitoof the press of Nebraskn, John A, Martin became con verted probibitionand untilthe day of his death s a strenuos advocatoand the most simsi- bloand forcible advocateof prohibition in the Lo of Kansis. John A, Mirtinon Junary11, 157, nade weof (s linguige: “Thenm is no lmger 81y i5s00 oF ontrversyin Kansas conorn- g the results and benilcenco of our temper- |uce laws, Except in a few of our luger cllies all hostilityto *hon hus disippesred. e six years at for exciting general tlec- tions tho questions iuvdyved in theabolition ofthe siloonwere disturbing issues, but at the election held in November, 1548, the subject was rarely metionsd by partisan :.pmkvnur cwsppers, Public opiuion, it plainly apprent, has wdergone & marked .chungc, und lheredre now very few citiens \ of Kusas who wouldbe wilingto rtuen to the oll order of things, *“The chiange of sentiment on this question Is wil groinded andnatunl, No observing and intelligent citizen has failol to note the benelicial results alrady attined, Fully mnedenths of the drinking and drunkenncss previlent in Kunsws oigit years ago have been ibolished, and [affim with camestuess ind emphisis that this stato is today the most lemperate, orderly, sber community of peopl inthe civilizel world, The abolition of ‘the saloon s mt only promoted the peronal happiness and gencral proswrity of o citizms, but it has cnomously diminished ¢rime: has filled thosands of homes where vice and wantand wretchedness once provailed with peace, plaity and ontentment, and has ma- terially increased tho trale and business of thostcn gized in thesale of useful and whole- someartides of merhan(ise. *Notwithstanding the fict. that the popula- tion of thostat is steadily increasing, the number of criminals confinied in our peniten- tiary is steadly decreming, Many of our failsare emptyand ol show & marked falling Off inthe number of prisoiers confined. _The dockets of our courtsare no longer burdened withlonglists of crininal cases,’ Anl I wishto all your altention tothe docket of the court, of Shawn ee county : Inthe apital district, ontaiing » popila- ton of nearly 60,00, not @ singlecriminal casewas mn the docket when the present term begm Mpplmwefl I will say sixty-flre or seventy thousand people and nota crininal caseon “the docket of the districtcourt and it oly had two sessons o yer, “The laws now on oue stitue boolks touching: thisquestion nced fow il any amedments. Fairly anl honestly enforced, they make it lly impossible for any person tosell tinr liguors as o beéverage in any Kansas town or city, “That, gentiemen and ladies, Is tholan guage of John A Martin, then governor of Kans I want tocall your attenlion {o this in add tion, The gentleman may ask wasnot John P St John defeated beciuse of prohibition in Kansist I amwer emphatically, no. There s unyritten lay in the stato of Kansas onthesubjet of the clectin of ofi- cirsind ve don't permitany man to have & thirl trm. Jolm P ° St John was nominatel for & third trm 1n Kansas and beaen becaise of that fact, Wiat evidence have I, youmay usk, of that fuct. *Every man on the ticket along withSt. John was tected by an overwhelm- ing majority, incluling a colored man for auditor: Ilave lived In Kanss for twenty-three years andthere has not been. o political con- testin Kinsas during all of that tine that T hayenot takenan inlerest in tnd Ido toda I stud beforeyou today, ladies and gentle men, a min who his never voted anything butthe republican ticket in his lifé and 1 hopeto God Ineverwill, I stand here usan expmnent of the republican party in Kunsas andl sayto you thalsthe republican party of Kansas "is now and ever will be vedded to prolibitin in Kansus. Hive you any eviience of tiat fict? Has prolibition injured the republican party in Kansas ¢ Letme wll your atention tothe figures. Thoe first™ yewr we had prohibitim i Kansas the republican ticket was elected. Tho mnext two years after that John P St. John was elected y incresed majorities, Two yers after that John ¥, St. John was ot &lected, but, theticket that St. John was o1 was elicted X ajority. JohnA. Marti, a man whohad opposed prhibition, was nominted by wclamation and went befor the people of Kausas and said: “When I take the oath of office there will beno lio upon my lips nor perjiry inmyheart, The republican party resilved in favor of pronibition andthe can- vaswas nadeall over Kansas as o prohibi- bitin canpaigm as igainst Gerge W. Glick, whowasthe oly democntic goveror Kan> sas cverbad and L hope e 1 have. Mym ajorityin 18 upn the K{uhibi ion platiorm was 1,784 [appluse] My succes- sor was dected by £,000 majority. Pliing the prolibitin " phnk in the republican platlorm does ot mke the republican party o backward. I wint tosay o youthat pro- hibition has mide Kinsastoday “the peer of anystateof the United Stateson republican- ism. Wiy 2" Because the republican party is thepartyof progress. The republican party is the party totakeup the reforms that the peojle acmandfThatis why. But we in Kan- sasire pogressive republicans and we pro- Poseto continuein prohibition in Kunsas, Tsaw astatementin T Omamy Bip, T think, bit possibly it was some other paper, thatthe ropublicans in Kunsas this year were afriid totacisle prolibitin,and I unlerstand, gentlomen, the edilor of' i B to siate crothatloday in Kansas there is fear and trembling with the republian pirty abut prolibition. Great God! Lot mo tell you whit thefactsare. Heris aresolution that was adpted by the repubiican party in Iwmsas in comvenlion assem- bled mot thirty dws ago. There wer over 600 men’ from every county in Kan- sas and I wish you could hiave looked upon theface of thataddience of the grindest sot of men tht ever covened in 4 couvention. Hert is what they siid: *“Ten years exemp- tion from the evil effects of intoxicating ors, by which vice his been lessoned and. decreased, leads us to express ade- terninedoppositionto any changes in the prohibitory legislation except such aswill male the law stroiger and more finished.”? [Aplause.] Tak about the republican party of Kansus being afnid of resumbission !, Tho father of the subject of resibmission in Kansasis Senatowr Bentleyof Wichita, in Kausas, wd Twish you knew as much about. Witchitaus Xdo and you would understand why, Batley wasa delegate in_the repub- lican convention and I suggested that ho bo puton thecommittee to frame @ platform andhe wis_onthe ommitee of resolutions andmadohis little talk on that committee of resolutions. And Iwantto say thit every resubmissionist thatwe could find we put on thatcommittes of resolutions—only four of then—and they were all put o the commit- tee of resslutios that they might have their white elophant. They went bick in the con vention with a umnimous report on that resolution, and when that resolution was read to that convention they rose upen msse andgavethreocheers for prohibition. is the fear andtrembling of the republ party in Kansus, Charles Robinson, a recent republican, wasnominated for goveror aul alng with thedemorats they are gingto try to clect. him, T am glad 1 “ping to fry.” Do youknow whohe isi Hois thefirst governor of Kansus elected by thepeople; he was im- peached during histerm of ofice and ho has cen a demoerat ever sine, [Laughter,] ¥ive articles of impewchment were pre- fernd agiusthim, id Senator Plinb was. ohalrmanof the conmitiee that impeached him Aul hestands as good a chance of being elected poveror as he does of being stricken withlightiing in the next thirty days, and thatI beliove isabout one in 100, 00000, Thatis somuch then for Charles Robinson. Charles Robinson was . candi- datebefore the allimee onvention they had there, and Charles Robinson got up before thatconvention andsaid he was heart and soulwiththe illiane. I heanl the speech myself; that e was heart andsonl with the allimee; that he believea they could go to victory, md that hewoull doaway with the old parties, reputlican and democrat, of course he memt. He was not nominated. Wilits ~ was ~ nominated by the farmers' alliance, and in sixty days fom that 'tim Cho went be- fore the democratic convention and was nomnatel by the demcratio convention. Wien hewas govemor of Kuisas Quantrol wasabout to assault the city of Lawrence. Thoy weit tothe governor and says, **What must wedo? He says, "Wemust meet and Dass stroig resolutions.” That is the kind of & mn hewould be it he was governor of Kan- sas and (he resubmissinists waited that that kind of aman, Now, [livein Topka and lam prous of Topekca. It isone of the most beautiful citios I ever saw inmy 1fe: fue streets, elegant buillings, nice busiiess ind agrowing wwn. Letme tll youhow the peple of Topoka thew arsmitten with the fer of probib tion We hada sugar mill built there two yeurs g it was mpleed and ruming, and mado a lirgo umount of sugar. The next spring ittook fire and bumed down, Tt was unfrtunite for thetown, for it wasan insti- tution that would consume 200 tons of sorghum in . day, Now, then if the town was dilipidated ad opital was afrid of the town, doyou suppose they would have re- buillits Buttheydid. Theystarted uplast week and are today rolling outsugir by the ton. Twelve hundred acres of cane has been planted o supply that zill, and it is today being oprated might and _day, requiring seveutyive men tooperate it, When prohibition was sdopted In Iunsas thoe who tmveld abut, incluling the newspajrs, why they sald il you adopt pro- bhiblion in Kinsas the population will go away, you will deppulite our tows, depopu- Lateour state, property will become valueless and wreck and rain will stareat uson ever: haud: there will beno more buildings built n in your wwa." Thse geatlemen who advo- tiprohibition in Kansas, who op- posed the imendment would have cartoons representing the dilapidated streets of the town, cows minf herded on the main streots, nd would have long plans and specifications sayiog, “If you vote down the amendment theso buildings wiil be built; if you don's they will never be built, bankers and men of money will leave the state and leave the town? What are the facts? When we adopted prolibitin in Kansas wodidn't have a single rod of paved streets in the city; today we havegot 17 miles of as good paved streets as thero are in the world [Applause.] We didn't have a single milo of sireet railway, and today we have 35 miles of the best clec triorailway in the UnitedStates, [Applause. | We havo a god horsecar and two motor lines and today the population of Topekn is more than twice as great as when prohibi- tion was adoyted. And I want to sy to you right hernow thatif probibition had bene- fitted noplace in Kansas but the city of Topka, I would saythe benellt tho clty’ has received from prohibition is worth all it has costthe entirestate, everything that it has costthe entirestato, Grorgo W. Viel, tax commissioner of the Unin Pacific reilroad, wasa strong Glick resubmissionist when Glick was candidate for poveror. Since thattimehe was elected a member of the legislature upon the prohi- bitin-republican ticket and is the candidate again this year of the republican party. Why, wé have auother man in KKansas, and Twint'to read won what ho says. J. W, Hanilton was state treasurer, was elected the second time I was elocted. He was elected on therepublican-prolibition platform as state treasurer by 66,00 majority, J, W. Hanilton writes a letter and here is what he says: “Itis well knownto my friends that when tho probibitio question was first agi- tated T was anantiprohibitionist. I did all in my power to defeat tho amerdment. [was whii they called a Glick resubmissionist. ButI wis mistaleen then, The prohibitory lawhas my endorsement, not only because 1t is the doctrine of my party, but because I believe itis right. Idonot see how any faie- minded man who has lived in Kansas for the past five vears can be otherwise than in favor of the lw. I don't want my children, nor anyother man's children, to grow up whero they willbe cnfronted by sabons every day of theirlives. I am satisfied wwith the law andshall vote and worlk to leeep it in force.’ Somuch for J, W. Hamilton, ex-state treas- urerof the state of Kansus. We have 106 counties in Kansas that elect every two years 106 county attorneys, and her arcsome figures I_offer for the gontle- men's coisideration, Out of the 106 county attomeys today in the state of Kansas all but 14 are prohibitionists. xll\mnuuse]. Out of thel06 probate judges in Kansas all but 16 are prohibitiois Wo hat Judges, or rather 3 judges and 3 ers,making 6 in all, and they are each an d evey ome of them for prohibition andhaveso stated, I haven't time to read their letters, but I have them here, Last July there was a convention of school teachers of Kansas numbering 1,300, and they were all, with one exception, for prohi- bitin in Kanss. [Appluse.| We had a convention in Topeka, Kan, less than ninety days ago, of 3,100 delegates they were “absolutely every one of them for prolibitin. [(Applause.] We have 40 senators and 125 members of tho legislature in_Kansas, and 90 per cent of them are for pronibition; all the women are forprohibition; allthe children are for pro. hibition, and all the good veople of Kansas arefor prohibition first, last and all the time, LApplause. | Tie Liquor clements have done some cute things; they have gome info Kansas and hired sone men who absolutely dou't drink a drop to advocate resubmission. And the genlemin when he cime to Topeka and found what he didwas escorted around the cityof Topekaby one William B, Tomlinson, William B. Tomlinson was in New Hamp- shire when the question was before the peo- Leof New Hampslire and said that liquor could bebought in Topeka at any gentle- man's pleasure and stated that on'the main strects were running open saloons, running absilutely open. He told that right in the stato of New Hampshire and I heard him. Assoon as Mr. W. B. Tonlinson came back IMr. Welch, the present county _attornoy of Shawueo county, put Mr. Tomlinson on the stand. “Mr. Tomlinson, where do you live?” “Topeka, Kansas.” *“How long have you lived there?? “Tenor twelveyears.” “Are youwell acquiinted in this city!? “Yos, Sir) “You know the streets and alleys pretty well2? Well, yes sir.! “You are aboat as well acquainted with them as men ordinarily are!” “Yes, sir.” “Do you kunow of any pluces in Topeka where inloxieating liquor is sold contrary to law!’ “No, sir.”” When did he lie! In New Hanpshire 6runder oath! I understand that some judge in Kansus, in the state of Kansas, has said: ‘“The prohibitory law in Kunsas has produced a race of liars.” I suppose this fellow isone of them. The men who lie in prolibitory Kansas are the saloonkecpers who_are arreted, and who testify in their ownbehalf and testify that they hive never sold liquor contrary to law, and the topers that are put on the stind ad swear theynever bought any whisky, [Applause, | Cipitalis the mostcowardly thingon earth. It is sail mouey is the greatest coward on caxth, and I beliéveit, if the theory of these peojle is true that prohibition has tuined the state of Kansus, and we would become debili- tated if we adopted it. I wouldliketo give it to you straight for three solid hours, but my timeis limited, During the years we have had prohibition in Kansis wo have incroased our taxable wealth attherate of $20,00,000 a year, while in Nebraska, under high license, “vou have only increased §9,000.000—-$11,000,000 a yearin favor of Kansis.* Wo have built, 5,000 miles of milroad in Kansas since we had prohibi- tion—more miles than you have got in the stat of Nebraska today. Wehavetho great- est milesge of railroad in the state than in anyother states in the unicn excepttwo, The census of 1880, Tomlinson to the contrary, shows that I<ansas has made the greatest in- créase in population of any state west. of the Mississippi river. The cities and towns of th.e state of Kansas have increised in the last ten years from 50 to 400 poreent; the cily of Wichita has increased more than 200 percent since wo had probibition in Kansas. We have ot more churches in proportion to the population than any state in the union, more school houses in proportion to the population than any stale’ in the union; we have got mor newspapers in proportion to the popula- tion than any state In theunion, and that is notall; we have gota bigger school popula~ tionin’ proportion 1o the population than any state in the union. Why! Because people como to our state from all the states and ter- ritories w educate their boys in a plice whero there am no salons. That is the reason | the debate and answering General Bradford, Mr, Webster sald : My Follow Citizens: 1have not been In. vited to come to the beautiful city of Grand Island to mako a political speach, but to talk to you mbout the evils of this nefarious doc: trino of prohivition. Foribout a half an hour I have listened to_ words dropping from the 1ips of & citizen of the state of Iounsae: why is trying to make this audienco believe that the palladium of the republican party in his stalo rests its bosom on the doctrine of prohi. bition alone. Just before that Ilistencd to another sddress from & gentleman from lowa who had been honored by the vote of his peo- pleto the position of goveraor of his own state. Thave heanl bothof these peopls talk to this aulienc abput the ne- ficent things of plolibition as ono of the fundemental doctrines of the republican party which has added so much tothe glory of thestate of Kansas; but I want w remind my people of tho stats of Nebrasks, and particulatly the republicans, of whom [ am one, that the state of Towa re. pudiated the doctriie of prohibition by clect. ing a democrat as the succossor of Governor Larrabee, and thatthe state of Kansus, of which my friend talked 5o uch about what happened when ho was elected, that his gov- ernor, St. John, ws snowed uuder and the republican party lost & republican governor and puta democrat in the offie of governor of the state of Kansas as a refutation of your political prolibition leresy, [Applaise.) These two prohibition states, through that doctrine which they hung to a8 a republican party swamped both of them politically, and fora time you people, talkingabout your re- publican bravery, submitted to democrati rule because your people had more s than you had and said prohibition s not the thing forourstates. Upin this good state of Nebrasks, we, with our great republican party here, my friends, you do not need to come and ‘talk 0 us about our republican principles. We have not had prohibition and wenever hada demoeratic governor from the very day when Nebraska stepped in theunion as d state for twenty-three yeaws, and our elections come along and we have uniformly without exception elected and installed & republican governor, and we did It without theaid of any probibition doctrine. [Ap- plause.] But I must not talk politics 1o this people, and what I have saidon that subject would hay understand that T have notsaid it forthe purpose of talking or influencing any man politically, 1am here to talk prolibition alone, and not poli and would not have referred 1o this question except s an answer to the suggestions which these people have made for the pur pose of tiying to persuade the = re. publicans of the state of Nebraska that you must join hands with prohibition as a great moral and religious cause to save the state from thedemocratic party, and | deny it, T look down over the state of Kansas again, Why, my friond who last addressed you took great pains and_considerable deliberation to show vou how hisgreat doctrine had swept over thestateof Kansas, how overwhelmingly it was accepted by the people, how much gool it lad accomplished for the people of the state of Kansas; but he hesitated to tellthis people that in that state, where so much good had been accomplished—the great paradise to which all peoplo must tlee to educate their children—that the peoplo in his home state. while he is up lere talk- ing prolbition to Nebraskuns, are laying the plas of a to re-submit the question to his people, and wlhen they do, pro- hibition in your state,my dear sir, will be voted down by the good sense of your 1,600, 000 population. [Applause, | Now, us thegreat living example of tho great benefits of prohibition, he refers to his native city of Topeka. Beautiful it it may have its thirty-thres miles of stroet rail- tmay haveits twenty-threo miles of paved streets; it is the capital of the But I would liave this people r before the state of Nebraska had taken its place as one of the states of this union—even efore the white men hal establishea habita- tions upon the soil of Nebraska—Topeka was alieady cstablishedas o town, Away back 10 those carly days beforp there was a habita- tiouin the ‘city” of Owaha, Topeka had a name; and yet, under your doctrine and rule, Topeka today, by the emsus just com pletod is reported tohave 31,00 people, while the city of Omaha, built Singe * your town was started, has today by thit same census over 13) population. [Avplause.] We grew to it without the aid of prohubition, Without prohibition, sir, we have reached a population of more than 00 per eent greater than yours. As compared 10 your twenty- thiee miles of pavement the city of Omaha— new as jtis—the grandest city of the state, has fifty-two miles of pavement, or more than twoto your one, and as to your thirty-thres miles of strect Tallway, your prond city of Omoha—news itis—in thesame time has built foritsell cigi of strect rail- way; orin other words, nearly tiree miles to your one. Iwill tellmy friend from To- pela that without the aid of prohibition, the city of Omahahas grown 300 per cent fister in wealth, in popultion, in railways, in pave. ments, in_sewers and ' in cverything that makes a city grandand good—and all with. out the beneficent aidof your prohibition doctrine. Inthe discussion last evening [ undertook to say to this audience that, prohi- bition did not deerease drunkenness, and had attuched to it as practically administered no benefits to any people or stalo in the union, I oven went ono step further and a serled the doctrine that _ proh bition asit is practically administered in the prohibition states of the union absolutely and actually produced more drunkards than the license system, andup t this present mo- ment I have waited forthe man to open his mouth toanswer that proposition, aud so far I have not yet hadgiven forth the data or facts from one city in any prohibition state to disprove my assertion. Timecuts me short and therefore in the few minutes only which I shull detain this audience Iwantto add a litue more than I said last night in proof of the proposition on which I then urged. And I will lave the remainder of that topie until another time, perhaps for this evening, if occusi offors itself tome. [havenot finshed w. te. member that old prohibition state of Maine, andas I not finished that I cannot at the instant drop down immediately to the states of lowa and Kansas, but us speedily as timo will permit I purpose to show by ofticial data that the same ratio of ¢ s and drunkenness exist in Towa and in Kansas, as | shall prove, or hav proven, oxistin the states of Maine, New [ulll&mhim and Vermont, where this prohibi- tion doctrine existed and was enforced as well as it could be, perhaps, before Towa or Kausas undertook to enforce any such a doctrine, Now, in thestatoof Maine, according to the census of 830, there were'in the peuiten- tiaries 213 persons; in the county jails 185; why, Notwithstanding the fact that we have increased our population in Kansas 680,000, we have decreased pauperism, taxes andthe number of prisouers in the veniten- tiary. Yet, in the state of Nobraska, with a much less populataon than the state of Kansas, you haye got twiceas many boys in your reform schools as we have in Kansas.” These are thefucts in regard to these things, centle. men, andthatis notall. I could g0 on here until the sun should hide behind the western horizon and give you fact after fact, column after column and volume after volume of evi- deuce of the benificent results of prohibition in Kansas. We areproud of Kausas, proud of our institutions, proud of our republican- ism, and we are only sorry that you republi- cans in Nebraska don’t have the backbone wehavein Kisas. Ouly sorry, Isay. Come outof the woods, come out and give us a fairchauce. Come out and be the advance party of America. If youdon't defeat will stare the republican party in the face, 1 want to say toyou that the only safeguard of republicinismin the United Statesis tosdopt prohibition in the next nutional platform. 1 want tosay 0 you if you don't, if there is not an unequivoeal plink in the next na. tiouwl platform for probibition, republican- {om wikl b divn dnd e AeRiEAbL: president will be elected, and I want_ to say to you I hope never 10 seo that day, I think thero will go into the platform of 1802 a square and Lmequivocal planis for probibition allover this and. Ladies and gentlemen, T didn't expect to say this much undor the circumstances, but [ am here ready to prove the facts I have given you 1 am here ready to referyou to the official documents from which they are de- ducted. I say amin to verify these facts, what [ have siid, simply to verify these facts, I hope 1will have an’ opportunity to present the oficial figures and @ compari- sou belween the state of Nebraska and the state of Kansas which will show you beyond the possibility of a doubt that probi- bitin has docremsed” taxes in Kansas, and high license increased taxes in Nebras ki, POLITICAL PROHIBEITION, It Is Stamped by Mr. Webster as a Dangeroms Heresy. liclosing the Friday afteraoon session of and there were eight which had been sent out to asylums, making & sum total of 405, In 1858 there were in the jails 347, and in 1859 there were 445; in the penitentiary 150, mak- inga total of prisoners in 1880 0f 50, Or, in othier words, there was an increaseof prison- ersin the state of Maine during the samo nine yeurs of prohibitionof 183, or an increaso of nearly 50 per cent, while the population of thestateof Maine incressed but a little moro than 10 per cent. There is & record of statis. tical facts which tonds to show that under the prohibitiod ““doctrine aime didnot diminish, but that crime actually mcreased. Acconding to the ofcial reprts of the state of Maiie in the year 1580—that is, the last fiscal year—there were sentenced to the county jails 3,957 per. sons. ‘Iherd were in the Julls atthat timo 4,710, Taking the population of the state of Maine at 000, 1think it fair to say that 830,000 rep! nted the male portion of the population, and the result was that in tho state of Maine during the last year that one person in the proportion of cighty-eight, or one out of cighty-eight of the entire male population, men and boys,of the state of Taine, were sentenced to the jails for crime, Great salvation from crime by prohibition in the stato of Maine! A great place, as my friend Bradford would have it, to take the boys where they cannot learn any. thing about what crime is. Go a little further. Out of that number, 1,345 weresent tothe county jails for what! 'For keoping sober on &)romhll.luu water? (Applause,) No my friends, it was for drinking rotten whisky under the prohibition law. Thereare 105,000 men in the state of Maine over 21 years' of age. The men in jail for drunkenness, there- fore, was oneout of every 122 of the male population of the state of Maine over 21 years of age in jail for street drunkenness. O, what @ glorious record that is for prohibition, And that is what Jou want us to support and vote foroutin Nebraska, There is @ percentage of drunkenness existing down in prohibition Muine from data gathered from the report of the state prison inspector that 1 defy these i cople to find its parallel in the history of the state of Nebraska or in the history of Penn. sylvania, or in the history of New York, or in the history of old whisky-making Kentucky, orof wine-growiog California, But the fact is when they want to find a parallel of in- ifluily manifested by the records of thestate of Maine forstreet drunkenness you have to &9 to the prolibition states wflnn) it. (Ap- Plause.) Why, down iu that glorious probibi- SEPI'EMBER 23, 1890. tion state of Maino they keepan oficial reo ord by which they ascertain the number _of Rersons who yera sent lo thio cowly Jails for runkenness, ‘Tley give thelr names and tho period of time for which they aro sen. tenced. I found by looking over that record that in the state of Maine for the last yeat that in Yorkcounty 155 were n jail as drunk. ards; in Penobscoi county, wherethe dty of Bangor is, 120in jail as drunkeeds; in Kenne bec, where the town of Augusta is, 270 In jail as drankards; in Cumberlind, whern the town of Portlnd is, 423 in jill as dronkards, Now think amoment. In the city of Omaha, 1n fie Dougelss county jail, of n population of 156,000 peoplo—I mean ‘in’ Douglas county— there were sant to the county jail for drunk enness the number of 5 Iwant you to ob- sorve that that is but 120 more than were sent to the (‘mlm_\',uil frow the town of Port: land in the state of Maine. That city of Port. land in the state of Maine had 83,810 popula- tion compared with Omaha with 130,00, or Douglas county with 156,000 people; or " in other words = thero aw five times the population i1 Omaha that there is in Portland and about five times the population in Douglas county that there is in the county of Cumberland, and_yet the persons sent to the county jall for drunken ness in_your probibitin town of Portland was neirly equal to the numberin Donglas county, Nebraska; or in other worls, by comparison of population there were nearly 300 per cent, more peoplo sent to e jails for drankenness in Portlind in the stato of Maine last ¢ than were sent tothe county Jailof Douglas county for drunkenness in ourcity, Have I not come pretty neat prov- ing the facthiat T assrted esterday, that prohibition asadopted was the real deuikrd maker of thestates of this unin? Havel notcome protty near establishing the fact that in Nebraska to vote for prohibition would be asin and toadopt the amendment would be a state crime! Overin New Hampshire, the borderstato, which lias prohibition, the number of persons who have bewmn sent tothe state prisoms for crime commiitted has increased gradually every year from IST2 down to IS, It began With 80 in 1572 and ended with 182 fn 1857, There was an increaso in the prison population of New Hampshire under prohi- bition of mor than 200 per cent. Thenover in that little neighboring state of Vermont, said Mr. Edward Johnson inan ar ticle in the Popular Science Montily, at that date there were 440 plices in_ Vermont where liquorwas sold. They had 332,000 peo- ple, and with her 440 salons, Nebraska, with her overone million people, with 80 sa- Loons. So that in your probibition stite of Vermont, with one-fourth the population of Nebraska, you more than one-half as many saloonsas we had; or, in other words, in prohibition Vermont you had moro than 100 per cent, more saloons according to the population than we have inthe state of Ne- oraska, If itso happens that prohibition is the great productive power which instigates the increasing of the number of the grog shops and produces the inerased number of pevitentiary convicts, and increases thenum- berof street drunkards, isit not time for the people of this stateto say, wo will stop inthis carcer; wewillexamine the doctrine which these men teach, and we will say to them before we cast our votein favor of pro- Libition, you have got. to prove tous by some data that there is some hope for some pros. perity or salvation from this nefarious evil if Yourdoctrine of prohibition is to be accepted by us. Why, over in that liittle state of New Fumpshive there was issied o public document by the commissioner of riculture, talking about the prosperity of thatstate, Aniong gther things 1¢took occasion tosay that in New Hamyp- shire, where thereis ~ supposed toexistnoth- ing but goolness and prosperity and, mark it farmers of Nebraska, thatin New Ham p- shire there were 1,442 vacant farms with Zood farm houses erected upon them. Thero were the beautiful hill shpes ; there worn the fresh streams of waters thero was tho growing timber; there was the lusurious cli- mate, yet it seemed as if s panic had struck the state of Nu\\‘llnm]‘)thrc; that prohi bi- tion had blasted it with its strong hands and men were obligel to abandou their ke their farms and allow them togointo decay and into vuin. Judgo Nott of the court of claims, having loked over that record, took oceasion to tell tho peo- le what he saw up_in that samo stite of New Hampshive. Andlet me read two or th sentences: “I suw on thesumnit of the hillagainst theevening sky, what scemed tobe a large cathedral. Driving hither 1 found ahuge old-ime two-story church, a large aeadenny which had blendedin the dis- tauce with the church, a villige with astrect 130 feetin width. Idmve on aud I found that the church was abandoned, the acader dismantled, the village deserted. The furmer wlho owned the farm on the northof the vill- agelived on one side of the broad stre: howhoowned the farmon the soutk on the other, and they we the ouly inhab- itants. ALl of the others had gone to tho manufacturing villages and the t cities ofthe west. Herehad been industry, odu tion, religion, comiort and contentment; but there remained only a drear solitude of for- saken houses” o you, the people of tho state of Nebrasks, I bring the picture, Do you want the time to comein this state by theevilsof this prohibition doctrine, which makes whisky frec and drunkenniess sinply o pastime, that your churches shall be aban. doned, that, your schools shall be dismantled, that your houses upon the streets shall bo abandoned and that the farmer shall bo the only occupantliving upon either side of your street in the deserted town of Grand Island! [Applause.] Thank God, the people of tho stale of Nebrska havetoo much good judg- ment and too much good sense toover adopt a constitutional amendment which drives away our people from their homos, destroy: our villages and wipes out the greal’ prospe ity ot our state, which stands without arival and without a peerin increase of population, in wealh aud inprosperity, There stands started here, the new enterr [ leam that 2,60 acres of your land has been turied to the raising of beets, with a sugar plant whose smole coming out from tho tops of the chimneys, beckoning the peo. ple to_come to it as” the source of wealth, There ison this great banner in front of mo two pictures, one of which Twish simyly o remnd the people, we rise beets and wo ary prosperus; but when you strike out that and want tosay, we vote for prohibition, you wi have toadd to it what is upon the other sid e: ““Qur farms we mortgaged.”” [Applause and eries of good. | Owing to the fact that the houris growing very late I will not detain you more thau fiv minutes longer to dispose “simply in a ve few words of the history of the effect of pro- hibition in the stato of Massachuseits aud de- fer what I have tosay touching tho effects on Towa and Kansas until [can address you to- night. Down in thestateof Massachuscits the peo- ple undertook by statutory provision tohavo prohibition, and did haye it from 1570 to 1574, five years inclusive, At theend of that time there was a change in the system, Tho leg- islature of the stte of Mussachusetls ap- pointed a committee to ascertain what wers tho benefits and what were the evils, if any, growingout of theliquor habits and enistorn 1 tho stato of Massachusetts, That committeo after @ thorough investigation was required to make its veport to the logislature of state. That report discosed tho that duving the fiva years from to 154, under prohibiton, that there were arrested for drunkenncss 147,693 people. Under the license system from 157 0 1579 that sume report disclsed that thoe number of arrests for drankauness was 1453, 020, By comparison it will b: obsorverd from that official report thit under five yers of License system there wore 14,073 loss sts for drunkenness than there were during an equal period of time under prohibition in the state of Mussachusetts. ‘That reportwent out to the people of thatgreat state, and when my prohibition friends here wero cam. paigning the state of Massachusetts but a uple of years ago to have them adopt pro. hibition that report was pressed home into the hauds of every voter, and when election day came thedoctrine was wiped out us ono of the things of the pastin the stite of Mas. sachusotts.” That committes in that oficil undertook further to thit the prohibition law, while diminishing the open saloons, does so only to muliiply the secrut places. That more liquorand worse liquor was drank, that drunkenness had inceased in almost in direct ratio to the closing of the popular places of sale, and that thews woas more of it in Boston' than there had boen i any previous time in the histor eily, © Prof. Golden Smith baving read over that roport of the commitioe of tho legislature of the state of Massachusetts denouncing the results of prohibition in that state, published a loug article over his own signature and giving that a3 one of the illus- trations which led him to the opinion that {;mmmuun was unprofitable, and that prohi ition produced more drunkirds than th conse system, sothat when [ hayo ase my proposition bere that probibition is o sponsible forthe making of drunkards | haye bick of thatstatementno less an authority than Golden Smuth, asto whose reputation, Judgment aud standivg there is nono o im posch. Tt would be unjust and unfair to yon Ehat I should detain you longer at this late hour of the evening, and I want, therfore lo dismiss this disewssion this aftrnoon with tho chillenge which I threw out to thee friends opposed 1o meat thoopening of this dobate, that if you have got theduta which Jroves that prohibition drives it the drink 1g of liquorand reduces drunkennes and ruluces crime, thit it is about tine now that you bogin to give itout to an fmpatient audienco. [Appluse.] poninne! S RIGHTS AND CRIMAINALS, They Will Now be Considered ina New Term of the District Court. Again hasthe fourth Moday in Sopten- bor marked the ipening of another {erm of tho district court, For thirtyfive conswcutive yows las this been the case in Omaii. Of the throngof lawyerswhowas prosent yosterday, there was bt ono whowas present atthe opening ofthat fiest Septenber term,a swore and fiftcen years ago-Hon, A pleton, Omaha's presant. ity attorue, Judge Hopewell was tho first menber of tho beuch o arrive. He lnd ben spnding his summerat his home in Tekanah, and _as hepassed tothe aute-room to lay asidohis it alargonumber of the attormeys pressd for- ward md gave bim o exceddingly cordiil welcomo. I have beon sponding my summer sad he, *insuperintending numerous repalrs and inprovements about my home, and I feol stronger and heartior than ever,' and the speaker's appearumnce fully warrited his as- sertion. Theother mambersof the bench hid ben inthe city most of the summer,und for this ruson theit appearanco upon'the scene a Tittle later cwused no inusuil demonstration. OF the 36) menbers of the bar it issafelo sty there were not a dozen absetees, while the presenco of a largo number of i aided in filling tho large court-room. The hour for ()chiw: was 9::30, but it after 10 when the julges took their s “The waiting time was passel by an examin- tin of copies of the doclcet, which hal been placed in the ands of every menber of the bar by Clerk Doores, why, by tho way, moved through the throng logrand pr Thedocket containg than any previous dock A the court. It is, too a very importint and interesting docket. The three nost import- ait criminal suits amthe Tony Frank mur- dor case, the Nistel murder ease, and thit involving the wsault of Carer, It will b the second trid _of Tony Erank for tho murder of William Cronist apeddier atElkhorn, the jury having disi greed at the previous trial, which took place It term. James Reynolds will be tried for the murder of Nistel, the youngclerk e Carter case wasone wherin a old nan by that name was assaulted by a gaug of toughs. Judges Wakeley, Dane aind Hopewell whore the only ores to appe the benen, Judge Clarkson being at The momant they had taken thelr seils the venerable Lotis (irebe heriff, in @ feeble voice aunounced the openingof the sesion Judge Do tely amounced the following as bailifts for the lerm Louis Gbe, John Norberg, H. B, Fut, Patrick MeQuilla The lollowinz were annoinced as the b committee for the tern 1. L McCulloeh, Simen Bloom, J. J. Poiuts, J. H, Mcltosh, W. D, Beckett The call of the docket was then proceeded with very Iriskly by Judge Doane, who lept the Lawyers at nearly their wits' ends 10ok- ing out for their interests. This work con- sisted simply in the dismissal, con tinance orassignment for trial of the various cases coming in Judge Doane's dopariment, being all those having even num bers Judge Hopewell followed witha callof the cises having odd nunbers, Incdentilly, he remarked that the niles of thecourtwould e observed very strielly this term, owingto the unprecedented number of cases Judge Wiakeleyannomeed thathe expected tocallthe equity docket Welnesday norning inhis court roormin T Bk building, It was learned from County Altorney Ma- honey that 1o criminal business would be taken up nutil Julge Clarvkson should rotir, 1ext week. Thelivst case of this cluss which e will takoup isthatof C. L. Wundt, agent of the Panley Jail company, charged with at- temptng to bribethe oun'ty conmissioners, s indicted by thelast grand jury, T'he session closed with lhearing of exparte nntters, The Detwiler Estate, The long-fought contest over the Detwiler estate has at list come o anendand the property goos to the widow and clildren, Such was the decision of the Supreme court, handed down last Saturday, In 1866, John B. Detwiler becamea rest demt of Omiha, ought property and gre wich. He deeded his proporty to hismother, for the benefit of hiswife, Tater, both Detwiler and hismother died. Detwiler’s relativesthencommenced suit to gain possession_ of the valuable property and fora numberof yers the case has been inthe county courts.’ g SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. Independent Primary Caucus. The independent wliticaliparty will hold ity caweus in K. of L. hall ths eveninz toelect delegates to the county convention to et in Gate City hall, Omihia, Wednesdiy evening, A Mission in St.Agnes® Church. The Rev. Fathers Shea aud Maurer, S.R., of St. Louis, will hold a rnission in St. Agnes' chiurch, begiming Sunday, October 10to Last ten days, These are the very elo- quent and learned gentlemen who heid the missionlast year in the sime churh aul createda very favoruble impression. Gun Club shoot. The final shoot of thegun club was held at the Third ward range Sinday afternoon. John JS, Gorman won the seison badge, The slhoot was at ity blue rocks, outof five swreoned traps, Amegican rules governcd. The following i the score: John J. Gormn L., Blaichanl and Willam McGrath 41 cich, A V. Miller 37, Gus Seidior 3, Bor- nurd Bloom and James B, Snith 5 csch, Fred Bowley 2, (. M. Sanford 10, . J. Kggor 2hand Hermun Kobert 26. The ties will be shot oftat adateto be fixed herenfter, Notes About the City. Steplen Thomas of this city gnnted a pension, A sonand daughter of Richan Swift are sk with scarlet fever, Rev. Father Charles Mugn causus of St Agies parish, Work has been commenced by Egrers & Bock o1 thenew Exchinge bank builling. A meeting willbe held in the Emanon clib rooms Thursday cvening to orgunize s social club. Ticket won the watch vafied of Siturduy evening for the benefitof DinielJ. Flynn, Twelve persons appeared hefor the board ofexauiners of the city schools Saturlay for eortificates, Dr. I S. Gee, who has been out of his mind some months, Sundiy was taken to tho asylum at Lincoln, The Rev. Dawson been appoiit astor o Episcopal church of this city. Benjimin S, Adams has removed to this ity from Omabaand has taken the Kelloy residence, Twenty-second and J streets. on of Mr.andMrs, I. A Fraer, of Bellev o, di undiay mopm- ingand wus buried at2oclock yesterds afternoon 1. Stapl>. an employo at ahy picking hoise, Saturlay rocely pinful wound by vunning @u iron through hisright hand The Rev. Donovin the order of Trappists from It a very interesting discourse clurch Sunday ovening, An infant daughterof Mr. and Mas, D, J ht died Sunday uftemoon at #oclock and will bo shipped to Wiota, ., this morning, for intermes red ton year: Thowns ¥ has been istaking the of Omaha lus the Methodist the Armaour- haooke of Omaha, of ud, delivered in St Agnes’ daughterof Mr, and , Albright, was kickedin ght oye Sund. horne adly injured. The first it to be dead proper at- overed consciousness, fire department was calld out twice Sunday night. AL 11:30 oclocka fire took Rescuehoseto the norther paxtof the eity, and when. reaching A street discovered that the fire was up northof Sleeley's, in Omaba. Atd:lie false alarm at call-box 12 brought the compauy out agaia, TW0 VERY INPORTANT BILLS. Bight-Hou Labor wd the Omala Mint Discused by Hon, W, J. Connell, RETURN OF THE CONGRESSMAN FORA REST The Contractfor the New Union Depot Lot toan Omaha Conteactor and Work Witk Be Commiencoed Immediately. Congressman Conuell arived feon Wiashe- ingtor Suday andis spnding afow bys in thecity, Heis loking splodidly and is In perfect health, notwitlstanding the fact that e has beenabsat from fower ol alls of congress than perhaps any other meaber of that Wdy and has had more thantho wverage share of hard work to perform. L am not in aposition to say much regird- ing local polities,’” said Mr.' Comell to a i reporter, “oxcept that 1 feel very grateful for the endorsemmnt Ihave re- wivelin the tion of dlegates tothe wne vention at Plattsmouth, tonight,' Reforring to mtionl afies, the ongrmss- man spokeof the almost certainty of his la- bor bill beoming a law at this presont. ses- sion of congress, *“The bill has passed the house, he contin- ted, “and has bon plicod sixth on o s padal calenlar of twelve bills thit the sente has agreel to onsidee before afjoummeit. e bill has been very favonbly received everywher, aud is gonenlly wlod as a longe step in the rightdivection n the interest of the wage-workers, Etdeclires that eight fours shall constitte aday’s work foralt liborurs, workmen and mechanies enployed by the government or by contrictors on gov- ernment work. It is tho measure that (he labor unions have Wen demanding for tho PASE twenty yeus. [t goesas fir asnational leggislition could go in sueh case “The bill doi't affect postal eniple was asked, 0, & special bill has boen pssel by the house reducing the hours and adjusting tho componsatin of postil employ s, 1w about the bill fora brauch mint at Omaba introduced by you! Lhat measarn was suggestel to me byan Omaiy goitlenan who has o great miny valuable ide rding the establishment of amint here, Ireferto Goneral Ik, I\ who fumisiel me with valy data and statistics touhing wpon the matter and o impressed mo with the feusibility and i mportanec of the projpct tto work al it. Theofficils of the epartnent and themint officers dooply iuterested in the pln and 1 introduced the measure, I madeno noise aboutit but I have received considenble ene couragement aul hive rasonto hope that the bill will be fivoribly wnsilered by the next congress. The measur templites the establishiment hew of Amintsecond mly to theone b Philad elphin and would _result, in 1umense beefit to Omala md the wining andlabor in terostsof the woild.” Mr, Comell spoke of tho ative workof the Nebraska deegation, and rfernd espec fally to the faithful wtive work of Corgrssmin Liws as o iber of the com- mitteo on fnvalil pensions M. Comnell and chiliren are visiting friends at St. Johuwsburg, Vi, while Mr. Connell is here, The congressnan will attend 10 a fow urgent cases i court and will wiuen to Washington thelatter partof the week. The Convention Tonight, A special train of ninecars hasboen se- curedfor the acommodation of the delegites. and visitors to the First districtcon grossinal convention at Plattsnouth this evening Nearly every wardin the city has organ- ized 4 delegation which will atiend the on- vention ind body. The biz Sixth is in the lead so far and will trn out neariy if not quite two hundred strong, headed by Sixthward banl. Other wanls an propaw- ing tosend big delegations, and the prospets e thit the capacity of the train wil be taxedto acomuodaie all who desire to at- tend the convention, “Llave beea isked a fov thousand tines this morning about the fare,’ said Mijor Furay, who he > of the irrangements. “Theonly tic aryis tobe arepubli- and et on he spoial tainwill leavethe B, & M. depotat o'dock, five minites ahead of the rogulartrain, and rourning will lave Plattsmouth aboit midnight. JOIHNSON GETSTHRE JOB. Man Will Build the New Union Depot. AnOmala coitractor hiss secarad the on- tract for the construction of the new wmion depot. ; Vien the plans were prosented, seven hids wereoffexd. The lowestof these was made by aDenver coiteacor who withivew h bid afterwirds, havine mide an_crrov in k computatins which rendered it inpossible for i toomyly with the terns of the con- tractunderhis olfer. With this withdraywal, Arthur Johnson, of this city, became thelowest bidder. His bid was ansidered by the architects, Vin Brunt, & Hove, Kansas City, and found to comply with tho speciicatins. On this showinir President Kimbll of the Omaha Union Depots compuy anmuncd his aceptunes of Mr, Joluson's bidund s coitract will be madeat ouce, Theamount of the contmet has not been deternined, as figureson the variousbranches of thejob lave ot ben fuly omputed. Mr. Johison has ulrosdy Degun the work of contracting for materiil and has o fore of nen iu readiness to begin work as soon as the foindation shall have been comploted, SLun glid that, Mr. Johnson has secured the contract,” sid ~ M. Kimball, “He has his anen here, and woknow that he will psh the work. The foundation will boin shipo for Wi to baginon the superstructure the middle of November. His cont for the completin of the superstructure, ex- dusive of plumbing stean bet, pover and such equipment,’ J —— Justhowan alte icine clunsestbo systen is i opm quistion; but that Ayer's Sarsaparills dos proluced radical ciange in the blood is wellattested o all -sides. It is. everywher considered thie best remedy for blood disorders, Stealing Wrecking Tools. TheB. &M. teteclives have discovend a scheme by which 8 gang of sueak thivves has been preying on the company's prop- Al of th ompuy’s bason- ger coades aro sipplid with a box containing axes, a hamuer, saw,and other toolsto bo used in wse of o weck. In quite a lirge number of cars, these wols navebeen keptin thotoilt rom md have been freqiently stlen. A watch was put on and tho disaovery snde ihat (i unlcing regilar trips dong the reen Ouahaand Lincoln. Their plan was W enter the toilet rom and W the box containing the tols out of the window near iy conveniont stition, whoe the hoty would be secural by an ally, In this maimer the ompuny st soveral hundred dollars? worth of ¢ools before the work of the thieves wis discovered. No arists bhave been made yer, An Omaha ——— Tickets at lowest rtes and superior aecommolations via the great Roele Island route. Picket oftice, 1602—Six= teenth and Farnan streets, Oma Billy Moran Dy ing. Themotler of Billy Moran, the exclerk of the connuty boanl, is making aueffort to lave her son brought home fron theasylun. His case has been declared utterly hopeless and the mother desires that her son pass tholast few days which arepronunes by the ned- ieal faculty of the institution 1o bé very uear at hand, athome, Mrs. Moran's wishes will undaubtedy becomylicd with, ———— M. Winslow's Soothin o teothing is the fanily centsa bottle. Hyruj for chil benefictor, 23 el Faoncing the itessevation. F, Hunphroy, ssistut quar- rin clargeof the detils of erecing the now Fort Onahaopeisd bids atnoon for a fivencanl fence around thenew reseryi- tion, near Bedorue, There wore gzt bid- dors. I fenc will e in the neighboriood of 20000 feot mand & couploof days must elipse before thelowest can be wscertined,