Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1890, Page 5

4 . & whoso st v P FRIDA OCTOBER 24, 1890, PADDOCK'S PRONUNCIAMENTO. An Earnest Appeal to the Farmen of Ne- braskea, GRAND RECORD OF REPUBLICAN:SM. Facts and Figures of Interest to the Voters of this State—A Scor- ing of the Weak- Kneed, Wasmisoroy, Oct. 23.~[Spacial Telegrm to Tur Be enstor Paddock, having been keptin Washington by his public duties until & tine when his cofdition of healthwill not pernit him to takeflie rostrum fn the in- terest of his home ticfet, has deternined to adiress the voters offNebraska by means of a1 open letter b the republican candidate for @overnor, A cpy of that letter was placed in the hands of your correspondent today and isappended. It is well worth acareful read- fngand thorough digest by every resident of thostate, and, althoigh bastily prepares, it will be found to be a fullresume of the work acomplished in the first session of the pres- 38, with spedal reference to the 30 the west, and will furnish abun- wons for the continuance of tho re- 13 in contwl of both the legislative and excoutive branches of the government, SENATOR PADDOCK'S PRON USCIAMENTO, Usiren States Sexare,WasuNaos, D,C., 21, 1500.~To Hon. L. D. Richards, Fre- mont, Neb.—My Drak Sin:—I very much re- gret that the state of my health, thedemands ofmy oficial duties andthe condition of my affairs, almost entirelyneglected dur- ender itimpossible for meto yate in the pending political by letter, to submit bearer of the parts to you,the standird of w Ihave had the honor tobe a member for thirtyfive yeaws in Nebrasks, and through you, to my other friends inourstate, s few suggestions in re- lation tothis contest, PAST AND PRESENT POLICY OF THE REFUDT PARTY Fir<t of al), I desire, briefly and in a very general way only, to advert w the pastand prescut policiesof our party,andits promise of future usefulness, and tourge the importance to the whole country, particalarly to the west, of its continuance in power. Ldesimalsoto say something of contentins within the party, in soune degree Tparticipatel, in the Tecent ses- sion of congress. all dknow that the republican party nized in the interest of freedomn and Buman progress. In the placeof the rule of universal liberty originally establisted by the fathers as the underiying principle of government, a most &rmul ble movement hud been inaugurated make slavery the rule and freelom the exceptio; tonationalize slavery and localize freedom. The determination had been formed and freely declired, that even the wery institutions proviced by the patriots of the carly times, to protect and perpetuste Lorever the freedom and the equality of all men before the law, wern to be made su bser vient tothe purposts of the new propigands PORVATION OF THE REPUBLIAN PARTY, We all remember what followed., A vast multitude of the libertyloviog men in the north rebelled and high protection tariff ‘whigs, and low tarift democrats, rele- ating all such issues to the utur me together and formed the republican party with the determination to seta final limit to the further encroachments ofthe slve pover. THE OP This very trans-M n a art of which the people of Nebraska now veand prosper, soon became the princip: scene intha fist actof this memorable strug- gle. The democratic party, dominated then as it was throighout the” war and has beon sice, by the solid south, undertookin Ka 8as Lo maintainits pretension that slavery existed as & matter of right, under the con- stitution, upouevery foot of the public do- AN trenched behind an administration of their own ereation, holding the public purse, controlling the army and nayy and with a multitude of federal officenolders anxiousto do its biddiug, the s believed that 1t would succeed, as it s done before. It was met upon this field of its own choosing by the force of the young free state republicsn party, & born _giant, to ture many cubits were added each f its life, and it was defeated, and out. THE TIRST FRUITS OF VICTORY were the election of Abraham Lincn and thedefeat of this scheme tobujld Kansas int) the keystone of an arch of slave states which should spanthe contineat from the Missouri to the Pacific,and of which Ne- braska should be oue. The chief executive ofice of the nation passed into the hands of the republican par- ty. Kunas was admitted asa freo state, and thedoor of theunion was closed against the ad missicn of slave states forever. Finding that they could molonger make wuseof the union and’ its great powens to ex- tend and perpetuate human slvery they de- termined to destry it. They left its sals of authority ~ and power in the executive, judicial and legislative brinches of tho national government. They Yeft thearmy and navy for service in which they had becn educatéd at the expense of the uufon which they had swornto defend, and took uparms for its destruetion, 1 canuot mow weview the history of the grand march of great events from the pliins of Kansas to Appomatos, nor is it necessary, ‘because all arefamiliar with that wonderful story of patrictic endeavor, and brilliant ac- conplishnent. Suflice itto say, that the his. tory of that notable epoch canuot be corr written, unless it isat the same timea faithi- ful chironicle of theunpardleled achievements of the republican party. The union was notonly saved but it was weestablished on the enduring foundations of Yiborty and justice which the fathers so well and refully laid and which slavery had ught to displace. PARMERS, STOP AXD THINK. 1bes, through you, to urge the republican farmer in ourstate, who contemplates leav- ngthe party which ias won, by the grandeur of its achievements, the proudest placein political history to pause and reflect and it will not be dificult for him to Imagine what might have boen ifihis slave state programme Tad succceded, as it would have aone if the republican party had notbeen organized, with the best averige intelligence, courage, morals and concience of th country in its member- ship to preventsucha consummation, et him CONTRAST THE MARVELOUS GROWEH OF XE- BRASKA 4n population and wealth; fn intelligence and morals, with that of the former © ~states of the south, its seniors by many decades, and esimateif he can the magnitide of the service rendered by the re- publican party in saving this great common- waalth from the blight of slavery. THE BENEFICENT LAND LAWS, Let him compare the beneficent land laws Mow upon our statute books for the acquisi- tion of homes upon our prosd and fertile priirie, enacted by republican congresses, With these which were in force when this @reat party fist took possession of the gov- ermmer He will find very instructive object iessons ln the eastern part of our state n which the public lands were nearly all soid, under the old law, by order of a demo- craiic president, at public sale, often in im- meuse icts, 1o nou-resident speculators, to be held unoccupied and uncultivated, a veri- table otstacle in the way of the settlement and development of the country, Early settlers cantell him of many a “squat- ter,” who, in the early days had Bis quarter section, upon which he had made his home, sold from under him by these merciless pub- Yicsales, because ho could not raise the money o pay for it. 3 ot him comnare this land system with that Which came through the homestead legisla- tin of the republican party, immediately after it sccured eoutrol of congress, sad the BUmMerous otber enactments in the interest ©f the settler which have followed. SPANKS AND JUDGE GROFP. Let bim compan Sparks, unders deno- ok ane cratic administration, and our own Judge Grofl, under a republican administration, | and mk bimif ho would liketo exchange ro. publican Taws and republican adminisiration or democratic laws and democratic adminis- tration. Lethim compare the raliroad land grant policy, which was first insugur ated by the democratic party (o aid i the construction of roads, malnly of local interest to particular states, with the repub- | tican polics, afterwards, whi uniting the Atlatic ana’ Pac iron nils, nearly six fixed in the law for the completion thereof. It s true we shall be forced to admit that there have been abuses under some of these acts, It would be strange indeedif corporate greed and individual selfishness should not succeed in gaining some advantages in under- taking so stupendous & labor, even under administration of a law as nearly perfect as human agencies can mak But most val- uable results have been reached. Three o four great lines have alrady been com- loted the Puific, and it Is be otbers are’ soon to follow. WHAT THE BENENTS HAVE DEES, The benefits resulting to our own state from this policy have been very great. We havemany hundreds of thousands of people within oir borders and many millions in wealth that would not now be found here if the republican party had not enacted this Paciflc railroad legislation. 1 do not, in what I say upon this topic, wish to be understood as justifyingor do- fending unreasonable or oppressive acts on the part of the compauies owning and operat- ing these roads. Ou the contrary I detest snd condemnn them. AMELORATING THE CONDITIONS OF TITE PEOPLE. Indeed, my congressional record will sus- tain me in the statement that T have labored, and at leastin one important instance with success, forthe amelioration of certain con- ditions ' specially complained of by our own [egyie as most severatpon them, Moreover, In*the (ast session T helped, as a repu blican in a republican congress, to save the govern- ment by the passige of an act for the forfeit- ure of more than eight million acres of un- earned lands, Under grants formerly made to some of these companies it shoull be remembered, but jtis generally forgotten in the freedom of thecriticism of this class of legislation, that these grants of alternate sections of land were mado upon the theory that the lands thus reserved bythe government would be doubled in _value by the construction of the road in aid of which they were granted, The price (o the parchaser was corres ponding- Iy increased fron & winimim of $1.2 to the double minimum priceof $250 per acre. This would have resuitedin the government re- ceiving forits share of the lands as much ay it could have received for the whole without the rilroad, 1f the original plan had been carried out. ' But with its accustomed LIBERALITY UNDER REPU theselands were opened by homesteader, with the limitsonlyof eighty in- stead of 100 acres, to cach settler. In other words the government gave half of its land on the lineof a constructed raflroad to en- hance the valueof theother half andto pro- motethe settlement and _development of the country, and then gave its own lands thus enhanced in value to itsown citizens, who would improve and Live upon them. Nosuch example of beneficent legislation can be found iu any country on the face of the earth. AZRAIGNS DEVOCRATIC RULE. The general legislation affecting the great territories of the westwhen the democratic party w der southern democratic control was repressive, and obstructive of growth and developmentand of an early transforma- tion from the territorial condition to that of statelood. The CHIEF AIM OF TILE REPUBLICAN PARTY, from the day the lamented Lincoln was laced in the executive chair, has been to uild up, make prosperousand speedily pre- pare the torritories for admission as states, 'his liberal policy explains how it comes that Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming, formerly democratic territories, have taken their places in the umion, with the Da- kotas, alongside their great sisters, Kunsas, Nebraska and Colorado, inthe imposing col- umn of republican states of the trans-Mis- souri country. And be it remembered that only the other day, as time is measured in the history of civilization, this vast region was a wilderness, a desolation. WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS DONE NEBRASK A, Why is it that these young republican sis- ters of Nebraskaare so firm, so pronounced, s0 enthusiastic in support of the republicau party, and Nebraska. which has been bene- fited 'athousand-fold more than either of them by republican policies, and which should leal this grand procession, holds ack, wavers, drops to the rear and sulks in her tent f There isno reason why this should be so, Indeed, there isevery reason why itshould not be so, What has the republican party done or omitted to do, in the past two years, that can justify the withdrawal of the vote of confidence given it by our state in 15581 PRESIDENT IABRISON'S ADMINISTRATION. Has the executive then chosen been falso to his_high trust or derelict in bis great of- fice? No! By universal consent his official life and vhe conduct of his administration have been singularly pure and acceptable. 1t will not be disputed that the president and his associates in the exccutive branch have won the confidence ana respect of the whole country by their able, discreet gnd skilful mansgement of the administrative affairs of the government. WIAT CONGRESS HAS DONE. Has congress permitted its work togo un- donel No! Never in 1ts history has so much been sccomplished by the two houses of congress in the way of useful legislation as within theperiod I have named. Never in the historyof the government has congress in any of its sessions worked somany hours in each day, so many days_in each month aud and somany months, with a si tion, in any year as during the 1 has any congress done so much entitled to commendation and so little to condemn. ACTS WIEIOH HAVE BECOME LAWS, Hero is a list of some of the more im. passed and approved by the h afurther list of some of the Important bills which have passed either the senate or house of representatives, now pend- ing and most orall of which are quite certain to become laws before the endof the next in. The folowing were enacted into ch resulted in fic coasts with FOR Thesilver bill providing for the purchase of 4,100,000 ounces of silverand the issuance of trasury notes for thefull valueof the same per 1onth, thus increasing the volumo of the currency nearly $0,000,000 per an- num; the customs administrative billto pre- vent frauds in the entries of imported_goods, which will make s saving of many millions of dollars to the treasury annually, without in- creasing the cost of such goods to the con- sumer, The reorganization in_part of the fedecal judicial system for therelief of the supreme court, DISABILITY PENSION BILL Oneof the most important and useful bills passed by any congress for many yearsis the disability pension bill which gives a pension to_every exsoldier, who has suf- fered the least impairment' of his_ability to maintain himself and family by his own labor providing pensions also” for widows and winor children without the requirement to prove the incurrance of discase in the service and the line of duty, In this connec tion also the fact may be properly stated that the congress has passed andthe president ap- proved more than nine bundred speeial acts granting pensions to ex-soldiers and the widows and children of ex-soldiers where the required technieal proofs were impossible to obtain, EXCESIVE TRANSPORTATION RATES, There was also the dissolution of the senate during the interstate commerce commission to investigute the charges as to excessive transportation rates on the agriculturl pro. ducts of the trans-Missouri country to obtain markets and to apply a remedy therefor, under which the most useful results have been reached, as is well known by every citi. zen_of Nebraska. The anti-trust bill; the antilottery bill; the bills for the admission of Idabo and Wyoning; the bill providing for the cele- bration of the four hundredth anniversary of | the land | the discovery of America in 1802; grant for feiture bill, by which the govern. ment will recover overeight million acres of uneamed land under grant to cortain rail roads; the ropeal of the st which ail public lands were required to be withdrawn from settiement between the 108rd meridian of longitude t the Cas. cade wountains in Califoraia; the bill lo jrovile certifoatet = ef - lonors ble discharge to _ex-soldiers who have lost their cortifiate of discharge; the bil for the establishment of & national years before the date | of 1558 under | | park on the battiefield of Chicamaugua; an- other blll to set apart the tract of land con- | talning the mammoth trees of California for anational park: appropriations for the Hen. nepin canal and the Galveston and Sabine Pass dm“\ water harbor project, all in the interestof cheaper transporiation of agricul- | tural products of the west tothe seaboard to | foreign markets, commencement of preliminary work f | mating the semi-humid lands in the w | Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas by ms a general system of artesiin and other | wells and reservoirs, under which work has | already or is about to commence in Nebreska, and many other appropriations and measures | of special value tothe agricuituaal and othe interests of the west. The bill providing tha 10 person iu time of peace shall be tried for desertion after the lapse of two years; the bill extending the provisions of an act for the relief of railroad land settlers and of persons who have been on railroad lands five years but whose entries have not been recos H bill forthe relief of soldiers who served du ing the late war under assumed names ; a bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one state into another; a bill to apply the proceeds of the sale of public lands to the support of agricultural and industrial colleges; @ bill providing for the inspectio under the direction of the secretary of agi culture of salted meats for ex- orts, for the inspation of all impovted food products drinks and drugs, with a retaliatory provision against countries discriminating against our hogs, beeves and the products thereof, ete.; abill trans ferring | the weather bureau ' from the war depart- ment to the agricultural department; the bill extending the tune of payment to pur- chasers of Omaha reservation lands: the bill todispose of the Fort Sedgwick military res- ervation to actual settlers under the flome- 4 law; the bill to provide a territorial form of government for the territory of Okla- homa; the bill relating to the Pawnee reser- vation lands; thebill to amend the act con- stituting Lincoln a port of delivery; the bill for the construction of & bridge across the Missouri river opposite Monona, la.: the bill for the construction of bridge over the Missouri river, opposite Douglas ¥, Nebraska; the bill authorizing the akingand filing of final proofs, when the day of hearing came during the vacanoy, in either the office of receiver or register of a land office, by the remaining officers, ete.; the bill establishiug the Broken Bow and Al liance land districts in Nebraska. ACTS WHICH PASSED ONE OF TIHE TWO HOUS Ialsocall yourattention to the foilowing important bills, which has p: d one of the two houses of congress and are now pending in the other, most, if not all of which, are sure topass at thenext session: The federal election bill, passed the house and is pending inthe senate; the Conger lard bill, passed the house, is pending in the senate; the pure food and pure drug bil ported from the committee, and is p) on ths senate calendar and on the preferred order of busi ness; the bill for the inspection of live ani. mals'and the products thereof at s houses, rendering establishments, iz and packing establishments, te and is pending inthe hou. bill for the iuspection of live anirmal: of exportation, which are to be exp passed the senate and is pending in tho house; the bill to prevent combinations of railroads and ocean freight lines to put up rates of transportation of live animals from the section where produced to foreign markets, passed the senate, and is pending in the house three shipping bills to encourage the importation to South America and other countries of our agricultural and other products from this country:; the bill for the adjustment of accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics on the basis of eight hours for aday’s performed labor for the United States passed the house and is pending in the senate; the bill t pre- vent the employment of couvictlaborupon the coustruction or repair of any building, house or other structure belonging to tno United States passed the house and is pend- ing in the senate; a bill amendatory of an act to prohibit the importation of foreigners and aliens ‘under contract or agreement to perform labor in the Unitel States passed the house and is pending in the senate ; a bill amendatory of the present law authorizing settlers' affidavits in pre-emption and com- mutation of homestead entries to be taken before county judges aud other local officers, passed the senate and is pending 1n the house; the bill providing for an account- ing to all thestates for 5 per centof the net proceeds of the sales of Indian reservation lands in such states, passed the senate and is wpending in the house. An amendment to the general deficiency bill, making an appropriation of 5,000 was secured in ~ the fiftieth con- gress for 5 per cent of the net proceeds of the siles of Indian reservations in our state; a bill providing for the selection of lands for educational parposes in lieu of those appro- priated for other purposes in abandoned mili- tary and other ceservations, passed the sena and is pending in the house; a bill providing for the compulsory attendance of witnesses in land cases, before registers and receivers of land offices, passed thehouse and is pending in the senate; a bill to repeal the timber culture and preemption laws, Nebraska being excepted from the operations of the repeal, but to have the privilege of commutation and other privileges in respect of settlement, proofs, ete., provided for in the bill, passed the house and senate with amendments, referred to a conference com- mittee, and is still under consideration in that committee and certain to be passed; a bill to provide for the disposal of the apan- doned military reservations of Fort Hartsuff, Fort Sheriaan and Fort McPherson to actual settlers undes the provisions of the home stead law, passed the senate andis pending inthe house, LOOKING TOWARD ERECTION OF POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS. There are also a number of very important bills which have been considered in aud re- ported on by standing committees and which are now upon the senate and house calendars ready to be taken up and passed. Among these is the bill pendingin the senate to pro- vide for the erection of postofiice buildings in towns where the gross receipts of the office have exceeded 000 per annum for three consect rs, which, I cousider, certain of passige before the expiration of the pres: dential term, LEGISLATION FPAYORING THE FARMERS, Nebraska is distinctly an agricultural state, the foregoing record covering only a portion of the enormous work done by the Present republican congress during its first session, if compared with those of all the congresses that have gone before it will show more accomplished on behalfof and in the in- terest of agriculture than that of any in the history of our government. Our stite is also @ public land state, The record of legislation on that f will compare favorably with that of preceding congress, however much such congress may have done as to the legislation unon other subjects not relating directly to the disposition and settiement of the public lands and to agriculture, but in most of which Nebraska has an interest equally with the other states, it will be seen that that, too, will compare favorably with the best preced- ing record ever made by any congress in a single session. PROTECTING AND PROMOTING ALL INTERPSTS, The legislation has not only been on lines rotective of existing interests, but it has n on the most progressive lines in respect o the promotion of education, the strength. eniug and broadening of our civilization, and the development_generally of every material interest, _ Considering all these things, why is it, I ask, that Nebraska, than which no state in the union has received greater benefits from republican leg- islation and republican policies, should hesi- tate in its fealty, while her younger sisters above and before whom Nebraska should stand 1n faith and true allegiance and earnest support of the republican party, are hot with their ardor t9 uphold and strengthen this great and patriotic organization which made the existence of Nebraska, as it is today, pos- sible, and by the same wise and liberal poli- cles has now secured for these others their places in the union! Why is it at this time, when by the aid of this very party the brightest constellation of stars to be found in the azure firmament of the wunion has, through the birth of these new states, pre- seuted itself, the light of Nebrasks, hoereto- fore brightest ot all, becomes dim and un- steady! How is A VAST AND PRUITPUL REGION, ricultural and other resources, tly there were ouly three now there are eight republican states, having six- teen senators and & corresponding number of members of the house of represeutatives, making one of the strongest groups in the union, with a complete identity of interests, the ability to protect them, to urge t | claims, and to press their viewsand their | judgment influentially us to general legisla- | ion affecting the whole, Why is it, there- irei. a An appropriation of #0,000 | for investigation and experiment and the | | lican | the | Tae fore, that Nebrasks, egtitled to the place of primacy in this grand mblage of states, with an aggregation of political power of value to all her inkrests, can consider even fora moment & pmposition from any source to abindon this great allisuce and unite her destinios with AN IMPOTENY WISORITY 2 neither o dafined poli nor influence! explanation which our state ls charged entertaining 19 that the repub- party bas' blundered tormulstion aud adoption posses ciples Th with ¢, nOF prine single giren, but they are indénsequential, or the so-called McKinley biil TRADITIONAL BLUNDERS OF THE CRATE General Grant used tosay that if the repub- lican party should do nothing whatever to com- mend itself-and DO party in history has done so much to make it worthy of commen- dation—the jnnumerablennreasoning, perverse, and_inexplicable democratic party would provent the latter from displacing the former in the control of democratic party could always bo_reliedon to heipus out in alleged mistake in srning which the the government; that the this yise, But that one republican legislation, con party itself has been, still is, is likely herea- ter to become more divided, can be made the excuse fn a state like ours, by any republi- can well.wisher of the state or of the coun- try, to leave the republican ranks, either by the direct or indirect route, through any at- tempted third party oranization,to take a party, in all place the democratie passes comprehension, Why, my friend, this very measure, the pusageot wiich is suggosied as roason or th party in Nebras! and wise republicans olf insisted that it should be modified. T think, is well known everywhere Without the least desire whatever for any political recognition or reward, or the con- I have reccived for a ent warrant from arty could extend to me political reward of any tinuance of any which single day beyond my pre the republican party—and no other kind under any circumstances—I say to you that I never was a stronger republican than Iam now, and T any time with better masons for the faith that is in me than I can give today. A FEW REASONS, you why this is. istory of orga Let me tell party in the ized govern- ments in all the worll was ever better grounded in the intellizence, conscience and courage of its membership than the republican par It is an aphorism in_political hi which is as <ood now as it was whenit was born, that the best past; and judging from the record of the un- paraileled” usefulness of the party toour country and its civilization in the past, by what better sign can we determineas to tho visdlom of adhering to it, considering the great interests of the present and the future tobe developed and couservedi No party ever made such sure and rapid marches from one vantage ground to another in human progress, Some times itstops a little to gain strength for its forward march, but it never faces to the rear. It never takes a step baclk- ward. A point at which the republican party may have rested a day in a decade that has passed muy be reached in theirslow and uncertain advance by our democratic friends inan- other decade, but by that time the republican party will have formed and _occupied & new picket line, a decaae abead in the march of civilization, THE ALLIANCE OPPORTUNITY, + 1deeply sympathize with the farmers’ alli- ance associations in theiraims and hopes as tothe betterment of the condition of the ag- ricultural class, and tho advances of the «reat interests they represent. There is nothing that I can do that I will notdo, 8 a citizen and as their representa- tive here, to conserve these interests. 1beg, however, to say to them, through you, that I can do nothing, nor can they, in their behalf that will be useful except through the instru- mentality of the republican party. There is positively no hope of securing results of any value in the direction of economic reforms outside this wise, patriotic and powerful organization. The iniluence of the allisnce associations, if excrcised within the repub- lican organization, would be potential in directing its policies. It would give to those of us who desire the party to adopt new lines as to certain economic measures a much needed moral support to maintain the conten- tion within the party which commenced in the senate iu the formulation of the tariff ure recently eaacted. Under <the stimulus of the decisive victory of 1583 the manufacturers of the east in many cases demandel our application of the tarift principle not warranted by the re- quirements of protection for the equalization ofthe labor cost between this aud foreign countries, in response to this demand the protection pendulum swung towards exces- sive imports, and oo far away froma reason- ablo scale of prices for manufactured com- modities, cousidering the interest of the con- sumer. Butif they willstand with us and help us we will soon bring it back to the line established by the Chicago conveution of 135, This contention wiil be useful to the party. It wil) broaden, deepen and strengthen its foundations. It will clear the republican atmosphere so that western ideas and west- ern interests, as affected by economic ques- tions, will become more apparent and com- mand and secure the consideration to which they are entitled, THE WAY T0 MAKE A CHANGE, Both of the great political parties—and par- ticu'arly the democratic party--have assumed that questions relating to measures distine- tively economic are to besettled by the east, and in consonance with eastern ideas and interests, There is going to be a c in this rule, but this can ouly be these parties withia their r tions. Our eastern friends in both parties are going to be better educated in the near future as to the size, advoidupois and strength of this agricultural colossus of the west. The best equipped teacher ofthis most important work in the republican through its congressional majoriti by the west, and 1f our alliance friends desire 0 help in this refc maust join us and assist in making aud controlling these majorities. In no other w: their proper influence or advance the interest for that protection for which they organized. OUR HOME MARKET. The destruction of our home market would ruin our western agriculture. A tariff which does notafford ineidental protection for the equalization of the cost of labor between this and foreign countries would ruin hundreds of Aumerican industries orforce a reduction of ages, which would be equally disastrous to the farmer as well as the wage earner him- self. he so-called MeKinley law is as much to be preferred over such a tariff as light is preferable to darkuness. It ought te be, and t will be modified materially in some res- pects. When returned to the house with the senate amendments it would have been a better law than the much talked-of Mills bill would have wade. A TARIFF COMMISSION NEEDED, My judgment is that the west ought to unite in demanding the inmediate creation of & permanent non-partisun tariff commission, which should be empowesed and required to adjust the inequalities of the new law on cou- servative lines of prowetion, I have no doubt that this will be doue at the next ses- sion of congress. CRITICISMS ANSWERED, I have seen evidence of & disposition on the part of some of our, rgpublican frien criticise my action in reference tothe tariff conference report. Pérmit mo tosay afew words to you ou that subject. I spoke and voted in’ the senate ‘srainst thereport. I sincerely hoped it would not be adopted, and 1 have never for a moment regretted mwy ac- tion in that regard. There is, howevcr, a very geueral misapprehension as to the effect of my vote if amajority of the senate had voted” with me, d the report had failea of " adoption. The gen- eral understanding seems to be that it would have been the defeat and the end of the tariff bill itself. This is nov corvect. If the report had been defeated the next parlia- mentary step would have been to order a new conference. It was my belief then, and 1t is now, that within three days after the confer- ence committee should have been ordered the bill would have been modified s0 as to have been acceptable in the main to every senator from the western agricultural states. Every oneof these senators who voted for it did so with reluctance, as did the members of the house esentatives from our beliey it was perfoctly that negative votes by them would availed nothing in the house, but a large dis- cretion should be given & representative frow in of one measure. A few other reasons are at most subordinate tothe one to whach I refer— DEMO- surd, | ¢ blunders of tho | There is no reason in this country for a pe withdrawal of republicans fron the a, was opposed by as good as_any whosupported as humble & member of the party never was a republican at No political ancient o Judge of the futureis by the & state like ours as to his action on vurely economic questions, I did mot consider my stion politicalin any sense: but if it was, {t was in full accord with both the letter and s(;(rll of the tariff declaration in the platform OF 1385, and by thatonly Is the orthodoxy or the heterodoxy of any of us to be determined. 0 NOT BE DECEIVED, Tn conclusion, T beg, through you, to appeal to our alliance friends who went from the re- | publican ranks into that organization, not te be deceived by the illusion of a great pro- posed third political party organization. The ailure of such a scheme is inevitable. No party like the republican, the splendor of whose record bas illumined the pages of his- tory fora third of a century ; which has boen, is now, and is to be hereafter, in the fore- front 1 the march of human progress, can be broken down. Our alliance friends may be able, by their great numbers and the right- eousness of their contention, to capture, con- trol and use, but they cannot. desti publican party. If it should meet with dis- comfiture this year, it will be stronger next. manent third party, The south will remain solid in {ts support of the democratic party. The record of that party justifies this action on their part. That party will therefore en- dure. Hence our alliance friends must sooner or later make their choice of oneor the other. A TRANSITION PERIOD. This s a transition period, not of parties, butof political ideas and polici The re- publican party is to be the special champion of cheap transportation. Every drop o in the United States that can be uti necessary to supply rumlx‘{ilivv water chan- nels of commerce. The Hennepin ¢ nd the deep harbor improvements indicate the coming policy of this progressive party. On this line the Tepublican party has made up its mind to enlarge the markets for our agricultural and _other products, and it will do it It has already opened the door of South America for reciprocal trade. The unification of the hemisphere, forthe accomplishment of which our great secretary of foreign affairs has done the pre- liminary work, will be consummated by the republican party. 0 secure the construction of a railroad to the Paci when it was done through repub- lican legislation, was a greater performance than will be now the conunection of every South American city of commercial im- portance with those of the United States, and republican legislation will secure the re- sult inside of the next decade. GREAT WORK TO DE ACCOMPLISHED. On ail these, and on other lines of progre there is no end of work for the next congross, and in all of this no_state in the union is more interested than Nebraska. None but a republican congress can or will do this work. It will therefore be a crime against our interests to permit a break to occur in our delegation which may prevent this great consummation. “There ought not to be, and in my judgment, there is no doubt of your election as gov- crnor, nor indeed of the election of the entiro stato ticket as well as the three candidates for[congress. The personnel of tho state ticket has mever in any vear been stronger, As for youl 14 permit me to say that the excellent judg- ment, sound discretion and_ remakable self containment which have characterized your candidacy, throughout, if there was nothing else to commend you to the people, ought to convince all as o tho strength of your equipment for the chief executive office of the state. But you were & good reader. The Hon. Redfield Proctor, the present secretary of the war, one of the ablest, purest and most eMicient officers in the public service today, in whose regiment you served, speaks of yourself aud your serviceas a sol- dier, in the highest terms of commendation. The'respect and_affection which this strong and good man entertains for you would bethe only endorsement you would need wherever he is known, even” if you were wholly un- known. There is no one, not even a member of your own family, Wwho is more interested in your success than Redfield Proctor, snd no man_in this world ever believed more thoroughly in another than he does in yourself. ' Moreover, you should be elected because you are a republican, and_your c didacy is the candidacy of that great party Considering the material interests of the state, your defeat would boa calamity. I think I'have given good and suficient rea- sons in the preceding paragraphs of this lot- ter for the belief that, in a business point of i our success and that of the eutire ve- is of the utmost im- portance to our state, The state ticket s an exceptionally good and strong one from top to bottom, and ought to, and will be elected. The congres- sional mominations are equally good and strong. Few men have ever succeeded in securing S0 strong @ position in congress in the first session of therr service as Mr, Conuell. He has the respect and confidence of the House, and if continued in the service by a re-clec tion, with the \aluabls¥experience of his first erum he will take rank among the most useful representatives from the we: Mr. Dorsey has a very strong standing in the house. He is one of the most alert, adroit, indefatigable and successful workers that haye ever been in congress from the west. Whatever his views and whatever bis votes on the tariff or any other cconomic question, the state cannot afford to lose his experience und his prestige in thehouse of represeata- tives. Mr. Harlan is the exact type of man that ought to come here at this time. He is honest and upright, he s a good | . his views on public ques: tions are ewinently correst. He is a man of convictions and has the courage to maintain n ticket them. When he 1s preseat in the house he will not be constructively absent, if elected, as 1o will be if his district fs true to_itsel and its interests, I predict for him & great record of usefulvess to the state. I beg of my friends in that aistrict, to make certain his eloction. 1f they could understand the situation here as I do, if they could realize the importance to themselves, to the party, to the state, and those of us who ave working night and day for the conservation of its interests, to have such n staunch republican helper in oue congressional work, there should be no ques- tion us to the success of his candidacy. I begof our friends to recollect the loss of a single congressional candidate in our state may lose us the house of ropresenta- tives and make impossivle the accomplish ment of the great work the republican party has in band. With an the party yours, st prayer for the success of on November 4, Iam, faithfully A. 5. PADDOCK. WOMAN'S INLUITION, Nearly Always Ri Judgment in Regard to Common Things. An old gentleman over seventy, came into the city from his_farm without his overcoat. Tho day turned chilly aud e was obliged 10 forego his visit to the fair. To a friend who remonstrated with him for going away from home thus anprepared, he said: “I thoughtit was going to be warm my wife told me to take my overcoat, but I wouldn't. Women haye more sense than men anyway. A frank admission. Women's good_sense is sald to come from intuition; may it not be that they are more close observers of little things. One thing is certain, they areapt to strike the nail on the head, in all the ordinary problems of life, more frequently than the lords of creation, “According to Dr. Alice Bennett, who re- cently read a paper on Bright's disease before the Pennsylvania State Medical saciety, sons subject 1o bilious attacks and sick head- achs, who have crawling sensatious, like the flowing of water in the head, who are ‘tired all the time and have unexplained attacks of sudden weakness, may well ba suspected of tendencies in the dil disease.” van newsparer corrospondent, Joa Howard of the New York Press, in noting this statement suggests: *Possibly Alice is correct in her diagnosis, but why doesn't shogivesome idea of tréatment!: I kuow a man who has been ‘tired all the time' for ten years, Nightbefore last he took two doses of calomel, and yesterday bhe twished he hadn't.” A proper_answer is found i the following letter of Mrs. Davis, wife of Rev. William J. Davis, of Basil, 0., June 21st, 15%: “I do not hesitate to say that I owe my life to Warner's Safe Cure. 1 had a hemorrhage frommy Kidneys for 4 five months. _The physicians could do noth- ing for me, My husband spent hundreds of dollars and T was not relieved. [ was under the care of the most eminent medical men in thestate. The hemorrhage ccased before I had taken one bottle of the Safe Cure. 1 can fafely and do cheerfully recommend it o all who are sufferers of kidney troubles.” ART AT THE FAIR. Arrangements Being Made to Secure a Magnificent Display, New York, Oct. 23.—The committee on finoarts of the world's Columbian exposition wet this morning. The object of the meetng wasto make preliminary arrangements for securing an exhibit of flie arts from the ures and salos of Europe and the orient and to select & manmager for that department, which the committee intends to make one of the features of the exposition. Letters were read from the executive committee informing them that owing to tho restricted tinancial condition of the organization it would be un- wise to {ucur any expense until after the meet- ingof the national commission,which is to be held in Chicago on November 18 and which will then be fully prepared to arrange for the necessary appropriations. A motion was adopted selection of a manager for the fine arts departments to @ committea which will report to tue full committes at Chicago November 15. After discussing various matters of detail, the committee ad- ned to meet tomorrow morning. tr referring the — The oppressed subjects of European gov- ernments turn to this country for free homes, free laws and for the free usé of Salvation Oil for their p Ttis the slight cold frequently contracted that finally undermines the system. Use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrupin the begiuning stages and be cured. A FATHER'S TERRIBLE CRINE. Ho Feeds His Children Poisoned Sweetmeats and Partakes Himse!f, Beruiy, Oct. 23, —To the community was shocked by the discovi thata retired farmer named Gast had given his children some sweetmeats in which he haa previously put poison. He partook of the confection himself, After suffering great agony for some time the murderer and three of the children were relicved by death from their sufferings. Two others of the children arein a dying condition, ana physicians say there is no possible chance of saving them. No reason is known for the crime, Pears Soap Fair white hands; Brightclearcomplexion Soft healthful skin. “PEARS'—-The Great English Complexion SOAP,~-Sold Everywhere.” 2 like priie mower. So don’t use scissors! -~¢ Strange indeed that ¥4 ; F RAEECY ‘ A CEN S I D SAPOLIO should '‘make everything so bright, but ‘A needle clothes others,and isitsel} naked' Try irinyournexthouse-cleaning What folly it would be to eut grass with a pair of scissors! Yet peo- Ee do equally silly things every day. Modern progress has grown up om the hooked sickle to the swinging scythe and thence to the lawn % But do you use SAPOLIO ? Tf you don’t you are as much behind the age as if you cut grass with a dinner knife. Once there were no soaps. Then one soap served all purp: oses. Now the sensible folks use one soa in the toilet, another in the tub, one soap in the stables, and SAPOLI for all scouring and house-cleaning, < 'NO CURE! NO PAY. DrDOWNS 1816 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. Beventeon yoars' exporience. a v hron ¢ and F Semina’ Weak: . 3kin and Urinar; psu Fation froe. Book My Crgmas. N los of L A reguiar graduaten medicing, a vate disea s, Nght L [ Aiplomas sbow. s stilleatirin g with J0r@ABOAL CUro guarant e for Cat lmpotency, Sypillis, Sir oture. ani al 6> $90) for evdry cate [ undcrbaks ani ral OMcobours—9 4 . 8 8 p. @ Baniey A I awira: at frem OVERLAND COMPANY, AARNAN STREET, OMAHA. Teas 665 00 Per Can, -