Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1890, Page 4

. et P e R e e PPPPPPRRECTEE VLT L -~ lArdzanacezy 5 0 8 0 0 s E T B C O AAC OO T . REEIRFRL "THE v Sllbonl Nebrasks. [ 4 DAILY it 5. ROSEWATER kprror. e — = = TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally nn:l Sunday, One Yenr e, .. . BEE. OF Omaha, The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Corner N and %th Streata Counell Bluffs, 12 Penrl Btreot. Chicago Offie, 817 Chambor of Commerony arw Y ork. Rooms 13,14 and 15, Tribuue Bullding ushington, 613 Fourteenth Stroet CORREEPONDENCE All_communications relating to news and Ednm-mt matter should be addressed to the ditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. A1l business letters and remittances should be addressed (o The les Publishing Company, Omnha. Drafts, ohecks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the com 'fim Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, The Beo B'ld'g, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts EWORN STATEMENT OF nty of Douclas. { 89 Georgo B. Tzschook. secrotary of The Bea Publishine compuny. Goes solemnly swear that the nctual eiroulation of THE DAILY BkR for tho voex ending Nov. 15, 1600, was us fol- jows Thursduy. Fridav, Nov, Buturday, Nov. Average...... Eworn to .o v 21,1900 GrORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. ore me and subseribed In my preeence tnislith day of November, A, D.. 1 IKBAL| N. P, FEIL, Notary Publio. Btate of Nebraska, Connty of Dotiglas, George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- oses i snys that he Js sccretary of The Beo Pubiishing Company. that the actual_avorace Anily circulation of Tie DAILY Bem for s 10,310 copies; 0, for January, esi for February, 1800, 10, : for March, 180, 20816 copie 11, 1500, 20,664 coples: for May, 1800, 20, 18 for Tine, 150, .61 copies tar'Juily, coples; for August, 1500, s 140, 20,0 2,750 coples; for ‘Eeptem 1800, 20870 coples: for October, 1800, 20,762 TZ8CHUCK. bed in my A. D, 1800, Notary Publie. INDUSTRIALLY speaking, the path of Nebraska is sugar coated. THE Porcupine Messiah of the Sioux evidently desires a dose of cold lead be- fore shedding his quil E Honduras revolution will be re- membered chiefly for the number of pre- mature funerals it provoked. BRAZIL has ¢ elebrated the first anni- sary of her independence. One feeble old man, growing gray in exile, forgot to cable congratulations. Wrri acoal famine in the west and an oyster famine in the east, winter nights promise to be rather cheerless here in the center of the continent, THEsilent vote in Nebraska did not go about with abrass band, but it got in its deadly work on all the constitutional amendments just the same, Ir the democratic party continues to draw apart on the question of Hill and Cleveland there will be a chanee for a dark horse to slip in between, Em—— Tue grandson of John C. Calhoun will bo the next senator from Georgia, But he will not attempt to revive all the old family nonsense about states rights nnd peculiar institutions, THE Rocky mountain ‘“‘sanitariums” do not place much faith in Dr. Koch's discovery. It seems the Berlin pro- fessor failed to inject a liberal quantity of mountain wind into the mysterious lymph. LAsT year the farmer had lots of corn to feed and no cattle to feed it to, This year he has lots of cattle and no corn to feed them. It is little wonder that he is engaged upon a hunt to find what's wrong, EE——— THE Tammany candidate for mayor of New York reports his election expenses tobe eight thousand dollars. His op- ponent spent twenty-eight and a half dollars, The figures accurately meas- ure their respective strength at the bal- lot box. MR. CLEVELAND will make another pllgrimage to Ohio on the occasion of Jackson’s birthday. His oratory on that day will be a beautiful blending of the two sentiments, ‘‘to the victors be- long the spoils” and “‘public office is a public trust.” NEBRASKA is amply able and amply Willing to take caro of any of her people who are destitute of fuel and provisions, but unhappily she is not equal to the _task of taking care also of the men so destitute of sense as to telegraph dis- creditable stories of calamity across the country. E— THE collapse of the great banking house of the Barings furnishes an object lesson on the folly of investing in the se- curities of countries where the amount of the circulating medium is limited to the capacity of the government printing presses. It is the history of flatism and inflation repeated with the usual disas- trous accompaniments, —e. THE inovitable contest between Boyd and Powers is fast driving the World- Herald to distraction. Its editor has not yet worked out aplan whereby he can support the claims of both contestants, It is suggested that in his weekly edi- tion he continue to demand that Powers be seated, while the daily can be used soven days in the week in defense of Boyd. Then he can refuse to let the right hand know what the left hand doath and be dead certain of coming out on top. E————— Tue defeat of the supreme and dis- trict court amendments to the constitu- tion is a public misfortune. The need of an increase in the number of supremo court judges was particularly urgent, owing to the- crowded condition of the court docket, & condition which delays causos frily two years and offers a pro- miam on appeals. The interest of hon- ost litigants as well as justice to the oc- cupants of the bench demanded theadop- tion of both amendments, but & mean, ponurious spirit prevented thousands of voters from expressing themselves on the question and encompassed their defoat, and and that not a single workingman voted THE DEMENTED DICTATOR. When a man assumes the grave re- sponsibility as the monitor and leader of a great political movement, he should ba prudent, self-possessed, well balanced and, above all things, truthful, The would-be dictator of the Farmers’ Alliance, J. Burrows, is just the oppo- site. He is wild, visionary, off his bal- ance and utterly reckless as regards the truth, A month before the election ho as- serted that the Alliance had polled its vote and was able to muster one hundred ahd ten thovsand voters for the people’s ticket, independent of the Knights of Labor and other workingmen, who were roady to swell “its ranks by many thous ands. When the election came only seventy thousand votes were polled altogether by the independent ticket, The dictator will hardly darecontend that forty thous- Alliance men deserted their colors with those who remained true. The fact is,Burrows purposely deceived his follow- ors, Ho knew then, as he doesnow, that the available voting force of the Alliance did not exceed sixty vhousand. Fully ten thousand of the votes that they re celved at the late election all over the state were cast by workingmen and vil lnge merchants, who depend on Alliance farmers for their patronage. Before the election Burrows warned the farmers against roorbacks, while his own paper was full of the most reckless exaggerations and downright fabrica- tions, which he had concocted to fire tho farmers up to the fighting pitch. This might all beascribed to his ec- centric notions and his anxiety to achieve victory for the causo fhat he represents, But since the election the man has gone clean daft. Instead of a calm, dignified and truthful view of the situation, the dictator raves like a mono- maniac about an alleged combination be- Rosewater and the railroads for Boyd, Benton, Majors and Hastings, which winds up as follow: The crust over hell is ver On every stre: through "a so daily and heurly g y thinat Omaha. vortals yawn—always and its steaming reck ts the stranger or citi- zen as he . For the election of November 4 hell o mzed. Out of its portals through the saloons on day it spewed its elect—bullies, rough throats, tiends, devils, who cared no mo life than for a ribald joke—and they were to the last devil in the service of the boss imp of satan, whisky, the railroads, Rosewater and Jim Boyd. Fraud run riot—decent men were not allowed at the polls, Men who W peddling independent or prohibition tickets were knocked down, driven away or dragged off to jail on some fraudulent pre- text. The police were powerless to protect reputable men, or more often they were in league with deviis themselves. This is the actual state of facts on the day of election, But before election the largest preparations had been made- to perpetrate the vile crime of forcing Jim Boyd upon the reputable eiti- zens of Nebraska as their governor Twenty-eight hundred foreigners were given their first papers on condition of their voting for Jim Boyd, the fee being paid by the chairman of the democratic committee, Thousands of men were falsely registered, ballot boxes were stolen and illegal counting was resorted to. The conspiracy was wide- spread and audacious, It reached overy town where men could be found vile enougl v_out the behests of this railvoad- whisky-Boyd-Rosewater combine, The resuit is that this combine claims that Jim Bogd—whose name cannot be written without blotting a page—is to be the next governor of Nebruska, What a monstrous tissue of falsehood and drivel. Could anybody but a maniac rave in that fashion? There never was a more orderly and quiet election held in Omaha or in any other city in this country, than that held in Omaha on the 4th of November. The saloons wers ordered closed by the mayor and kept closed by the nolice on that day. The business houses, banks and factories were closed, and their proprietors, clerks and employes were at the polls early and almost finished voting by four o'clock p.m. There were two policemen stationed at each of the forty-two voting places, and in only four of the forty-two was there even the very slightost ripple or disturbance, The enly trouble that did occur at those four places was through imported non-resident prohibi- tion challengers, who were trying to ob- struct legai registered voters, No man who peddled anindependent ticket was molested anywhere., The five or six per- sons arrested for disturbance were both prohibitionists and anti-prohibitionists. The police were never resisted by any of these parties, The story about their being powerless to enforce order was concocted by a set of scoundrels who were telegraphing over the state to pro- hibition leaders that a riot was in progress in Omaha, that men were being murdered at the polls and the chief of police had given up the city, These dis- patches were intended to rouse the peo- ple in the country towns to vote for pro- hibition. But when a man like Burrows makes such a monstrous charge a week after the election, when he had ample time to ascertain that it was apalpable false- hood, he shows that he is either a wicked prevarvieator or a monomaniac. The charge that thousands of men were falsely registered in Omaha or that ballot boxes were stolen or stuffed is of a plece with the rest of hisravings, There were three registrars for each polling place, and each person who came up had to give his answers under oath asto his nativity, place of residence and qualifi- cation as a voter. The registration was carried on‘in public and the prohibition- ists, who took an active imterest, were present at every registration place and took copies of the lists so as to ascortain whether any of the parties had perjured themselves, Burrows' howl about the foreigners and their first papers Is idiotie, The donstitution of Nebraska gives every fo eigner who has resided in Nebraska six months and who has taken out his dec- laration papers thirty days before elec- tion, the right to vote just the same as it he had been a native of the state. Whether this s vight or wrong it is part of the consti- tution. There wereover seventeen hun- dred declaration papers taken out by foreigners two years ago just before the presidential glection. There may have been a thousand more taken out this year, but they were taken out for repub- licans and democrats and independents and prohibitionists nlike. Nobody could tell what candidates these men would vote for and nobody could compel them to vote any particular ticket. There may have been irregularities and technical omissions in various towns of the state, but no citizen of Nebraska, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1890 and last of all no man who holds the re- sponsible position of editor of the officiat organ of the Farmers’ Alliance, should send broadcast such vile and infamous slanders about the metropolis of this state, of which every citizen has just reason to be proud, LOOK TO THE GENERAL PROSPERITY. It 1s fairly to be supposed that the men who have been elected to the next legis- lature of Nebraska sincerely desire the prosperity and progress of the entire state, If there are any who propose to secl the advantage of a partof the peo- ple, regardless of what the results may be to the others, or any who are under the influence of sectional prejudice that may lead them to support legislation whose effect would be to disériminate unfavorably against any portion of the state, their election was a mistake and may proveto be a misfortune. Every citizen charged with the responsibility of legislation should be ready at all times to susordinate local considerations to the general good and the advantage of the few to the benefit of the many. In orderto dothis a representative is not called upon to ignore the wishes of his constituents or the wants of his locality, but simply to subserve theseso far asit can be done consistently with the princi- ple of the greatest good to the greatest number. And this applies equally to bodies of men chosen to represent cer- tain partisan or factional policies, The next legislature is expected to in- stitutea number of reforms, The men who will constitute the majority were elected with the distinct under- standing that they would carry out the wishes of the people as to certain vital matters regarding which the popu- lar desire has been disregarded. In such sircumstances men are extremely apt to misjudge the limitations of the duty ex- pected of them and go too far. We see such extravagant conception, or miscon- coption, of duty everywhere. Because a man is chosen to offlco as a protest against some abuse of corporate mono- poly or combined capital, he feels it in- cumbent upon him to go to any treme, however impracticable and im- politic, in order to demonstrate to his constituents his uncompromising hos- tllity to the matter of their complaint. Ttis hardly necessary to say that this sort of thing has resulted in a great amount of damaging legislation, leading to consequences quite as bad as those it vas intended to remedy. All govern- ment is the result of compromise, andno party can long maintain its hold upon the people that disregards this essential principle. The practical common sense of the people of Nebraska swept away the menace to our prosperity and proZross involved in prohibition, and evidence of the wisdom of that action is already ap- pearing. Let us be careful to avoid overy other danger that might lurk in unwise, impracticable, or reckless legislation, The duty to judiciously pro- vide for the protection of the people against abuses, and as far as possible to lighten their burdens, is imperative. But let us not be led by any sort of prejudice into adopting a policy which might result in checking their enter- prise, reducing the rewards of their in- dustry, and curtailing the means to pro- gress, Nebraska offers opportunitiesfor move capital; let us do nothing to repel it. There is abundant room here for more population, more men to labor and consumes let nothing be done to prevent the conditions necessary to attract them. Ina word, the demand is to build up along all the lines of material progri and not to pull down, and in order to meet this demand intelligent and con- servative legislation is required. It would be idle to deny that some ap- prehension is felt regarding the course of the next legislature. It will be con- trolled by mew men elected under peculiar conditions and obligations, and it is entirely natural that their coming into power should create some uneasi- ness. But we have faith that they will be found loyal to the highest interestsof Nebraska and will be actuated by a sin- cere purpose to promote the general prosperity. FAUTS FOR OMAHA REPUBLICANS, The vote cast at the recent election in wards conceded to be republican are de- cidedly instructive. Taking the vote for lieutenant governor, which fairly represents party strength, it clearly shows that no ward can be considered reliably safe unless men who can com- mandthe Learty support of all republic- ans are nominated, ' In the Fourth ward, a republican stronghold, thirteen hundred and thirty- four votes were cast for Tom Majors and twelve hundred and sisty-eight for Dr. Bear, a republican majority of sixty-six. The Seventh ward cast seven hundred and twenty-four republican and eight hundred and eighty-iine democratic votes, a dewocratic majority of one hundred and sixty-five. Inthe Nimth ward the footings show six hundred and thirty republican and seven hundred and three democratic votes, a democratic majority of seventy- three, Tho lesson of those figures isso plain that“he whorunsmay read.” With are- publican majority of hundreds in the Fourth ward heretofore, a straight test. practically wipes it out and makes the warda debatable one. IntheSeventhand Ninth, considered reliably republican, the figures show a complete revulsion of sentiment and democratic majorities ex- cceding the republican majority in the Fourth ward. These wards are represented in the council by republicans who seek re-elec- tion, They are the leaders and chief fuglemen of the odious combine which, during the present year, rvocklessly rioted -on the substance of the people, fostered barnacles on the treamsury, created new offices for the sole benefit of political strikers, and forced the ap- pointment of disreputable and incompe- tent persons to some of the most respon- sible positions in the city. No three men in office at the present time have dene more to disrupt the re- publican party in this city than Wheel- er, Chaffee and Davis, They have lav- ished public privileges on franchised corporations in return for boodle with which to perpetuate their power. They shamelessly snubbed honored and reputable republicans in that body be- cause they did not train with the Twen- ty-eight club. And having been fairly and honestly yoyted at the pollslast July, they dragged their treacherous carcasses to Lincoln, openly professing regard for Mercer and secretly stabbing him in Yhe back. The record ofs the combine and the Twenty-eight cluhis an unbroken chap- ter of treachery, fascality and boodle, & disgrace to the ¢iYy and o reproach to the republican party. Yot the very men who created and maintained both cabals have the effrontery to soliclt tho support and endorsement of decent re- publicans, If the ropublicans of Omaha hope to maintain their lead in the city council and secure the support of taxpayers in the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth wards, they must again repudiate the wreckers and jobbers, and nominate honest and competent men who will unite all ele- ments of the party and to whom the pub- lie good is paramoun THE AG ED INDIANS. The present uneasiness of the Indians between the Missouri and the Rockies possesses the unusual element of nov- elty, This time they are stirred not by the old spiritof aboriginal discontent at the encronchments of civilization, but by the teachings of a so-called Indian Mes- siah. As near as can be ascertained, this person is a Pah Ute, who has formerly been known by the prosaic name of John Johnson, Hisreported revelations would indicave that he is familiar with some portions of the Bible. The apparent ef- fect of his gospel of peace has thus far been to make his followers thivsty for the blood of white men and to stimulate a concerted and threatening movement all along the border. Itis impossible to sift out the grains of truth from the chaff of exaggeration that is always telegraphed from frontier towns on such occasions as this, but as the regular army is not worked to the point of nervous prostration in these piping times of peace it would seem to be well enough to dispose troops in a manner to prevent the possibility of harm to settlers. General Miles says, in ew at Chicago, that there are even thousand well-armed fight- oux, together with portions of tribes, available for mischief, They have been equipped by our generous government as well as our own troops and under desperate leader- ship could perpetrate much misery and damage upon seitbers and their prop- erty. Itis safe to say that the authorities should not trust the treacherous Indi- ans with precious human lives as long as they have numbers and arms suffi- cient to repeat the horrors of the old border days. The wisdom, therefore, of dispatching troops from Omaha and elsewhere, ashas been done, will be gen- erally endorsed. other MAKING PROGRESS. Secretury Blaine is not allowing his reciprocity policy to take care of itself, According to Washington advices there are almost daily conferences between the secrctary and representatives of the South Amevican republics, and it is confidently predicted that before the coming session of congress closes some tangible results will be seen. The South American diplomats ave manifesting a groat deal of earnest intevest in the sub- je and whenever: the preliminary question of the form that reciprocity shall take is settled the task of putting the policy into effect may prove to be far less difficult than many suppose. It is reported that the administration does not regard with favor the proposal that the president shall by proclama- tion declare certain duties waived in re- turn for like concessions by other coun- tries. Thercis not only a doubt as to the constitutionality of the method, but it is considered to be at best a temporary makeshift, the practicability of which is very questionable. The general view appears to be that the proper way to at- tain reciprocity is through treaties, and it is understood that the conferences of the secretary of state with the South American representatives have taken this direction. So much progress has already been made that it issaid sev- eral such preaties will probably be ready for ratification by the senate at the com- ing session, A very encouraging circumstance in connection with the subject wasfurnished in the recent formal prescntation to the president of the newly accredited Span- ishminister. In the courseof his remarks the minister clearly indicated that his government is giving very earnest con- sideration to the question of commercial relations with the United States, with an evident desire to promote an increase of trade asa basis of mutual advantage. It is known that Brazil is most anxious to enter intonegotiations at once, and there will doubtless be no difficulty in effecting ancntirely satisfuctory reciprocity treaty with that country. Progress will be slower with the other South American republics, and partteularly with Argen- tine, whose financial complications with Europe are of 50 setious a nature that it may be several years before they are so far straightened out/ that she will be free to make any new reommercial arrange- ments. Reciprocity with Mexico is also likely to be somewhat delayed, although there has really boen no intimation from that country unfiféndly toit. But on the whole the 0utloolq is exceedingly prom- ising, and the fact, that a number of years must el before the policy can beco) general is not at all dlscnurng‘? . It is a great and comprehensiya ;scheme, necessarily involving many d;@rulum which cannot be overcome at once, The progress al- ready made is far beyond what the coun- try had a reasonable right to expect at this early stage of the consideration of the subject. The agricultural producers of the country have thelargest immediate con- cern in the success of reciprocity, When it is stated that out of staples valued at three hundred million dollars exportel from this country last year only fifteen millions were taken by all Latin Amer- ica, with its population of fifty millions of people, the importance of more inti- mate commercial <relations with those markets becomes obvious. And the first benefits from such relations come chiefly to the agricultural producers. The policy which Secretary Blaine s industriously urging upon the attention and acceptance of the countries south of us has primary reference to the advan- by American farmers tago tobe gained in securing new and greatly enlarged markets for their surplus products. —————— SO0CTAL SIDE OF FARM LIFE, Thero is one element in the recent phenomenal uprising of the farmers throughout the west and south that has been largely overlooked, This is its social side, There is no drawback in the condi- tions of the farmer’s lifo that rests so heavily upon his wife and his sons and davghters as its loneliness, Not even the price of corn, the interest on the mortgage or the altitudinous railroad rates are burdens so constantly depress- ing as the isolation from the pleasures and the benefits of other human society. This fact is largely responsible for the spontaneous growth of the farmers’ movement, for the faithfulness with which itg meetings have been attended and for the solidity with which its vote wus cast on election day, And it 18 an element in the matter that political managers cannot aflord to overlook. Whatever political advantages the furmer may win or lose from his move- ment, he certainly has much to gain from frequent association with his neighbors and from friendly discussion of matters in which they have a common interest. The present organization is capable of being made immensely vala- able in a social and business way. The social side of farm life is a matter that should reccive moro attention from newspupers and magazines than it does. Itis a channel through which much could be done to make a great elemont ofour population happy and prosperous. TrEopening of a standard gauge road from Colorado Springs to Ogden is an event of considerable importance to the railroad world, The route comprises a large part of the Denver & Rio Grande system, but does not traverse the Royal gorge and Marshall Pass, those scenic wonders which have made the Rio Grande famous. The road traverses Ute Pass, South Park, Lead- ville, the valleys of the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan, and joins the Rio Grande Western near the Utah bound- ary. The gauge of the latter road has been broadened through to Ogden, The great advantage of the line, which is controlled by the Santa Fe company, is that it affordsa standard " gauge rond from the eastern base of the Rockies to the Salt Lake valley and places the Sunta Fe on an equal footing with the Unilon Pacific at Ogden. Despite the discomforts of narrow gauge passenger cars, the splendors of this route have at- tracted the cream of transcontinental travel. The change of gauge and equin- ment will malke it a most vrofitable sum- mer feeder for the Atchison system. Aside from the importance of the change to the railroad systems of the west, it is a notable evidence of the gradual disap- pearance of narrow gauge roads as ave- nues of trade and travel in the mountains. ey THE persiftent determination of the Mormon church leaders to banish polyg- amy from the tenets of the Latter-Day Saints seriously disturbsthe political at- mosphere in the region of Salt Lake. John W. Young, son of the late Brigham Young, supplements the declaration of the rccent Mormon conferenca with a petition flled in court denying that polygamy is a partof the discipline of the church, or that it is taught, encour- aged or practiced. This answer is made tostop further proceedings looking to the escheatment of church property. According to Chief Justice Zane of the territorial court, these declarations will stand unless proven untrue, The bur- den of proof restson the government. Should it fail, all anti-polygamy laws necessarily fall to the ground, and a large array of officeholders will soon find themselves, like Othello, without an occupation, The outlook for the regu- latorsof Mormon morals is decidedly gloomy. 4 <4 T1ME does not dim nor age chill the warmth of Mrs, Hill-Terry’s regard for the legal profession of California. Hav- ing comfortably disposed of two disci- ples of Blackstone, she sigha for more victims to plant ‘neath the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. She has discarded the explosive love tones of the pistol and substituted the Sullivan method ot im- pressing her adovers, varying the style by giving them & smashing with her um- brella on their throbbing domes, How long this style of courting will continue depends on Sarah’s consuming vim and longevity. 1 — RAILROAD projects and practical work in this vicinity are in keeping with the growth and development in other departments of activity, and in- tensifies the long-felt want of another bridge over the Missouri river. THE report that Sidney Dillon is averse to a ‘‘vindication” conflicts with bis life-long habit of taking every job that promised fat berths for the various branches of the Dillon family. THE board of health chafes under the council mu yet the members are se- cretly conniving to maintain the muzle for two years by aiding the re-clection of the leaders of the combine, —— THE demoerats of the Fifth ward owe it to themselves and the city toelect a councilman who will not devote hisen- tire time to feathering his own nest. OMAHA’S normal school starts in its career of usefulness undér most promis- ing auspieca. — A pLow at the council combine is a blow for the advancement of the city, —ee lowa's Dairy School. Cliieaqo Tribune. Towa is to have a dairy school. Competent teachers, they say, will runnet, e Mr. Dana's Democracy, Chieago News. In regard to the proposition toputMr. Dana in the seuate, how would it do toput up & democrat in his steadi o Y Position of the Three Ps. Denver News. The three Ps—Plumb, Pettigrew and Pad- dock! Their states back up thelr vote agaitst the McKinley bill. South Dokots, Nobraska and Kansas regard tho f a8 o tax, PR S—— Fuan Abead for '02, New York Herald, (Dem.) ‘Well, if the domocrats think they are to haven walkover in 1802 they dre mistaken, Wae shall have a regular Letter-go-Gallagher sort of time, and don't you forget it. e Late Recognition and Repentance. New York Press, A The democratic party lot Allen G. Thur: man live to be seventy-seven yearsold bofore the bogin to appreciate him, Now they wish they had pominated him for president in- stead of Cleveland ek — Ridor Haggard Overlooked. Chicago Tribwne. Intryingto get at the truth regarding Stanley’s rear rear column the prying report- ers have overlooked the only man who can turn the clear light of dayon Central African mysteries. Weallude, itis ncodless to say, to H, Rider Huggard. ———— A Principle in Folitios. Chdeago News. Success is as dangerous to parties as to in- dividuals, The democratic party's recent victory threatens its victory in 1802, If its managers are wise they will wmper the Jubi- lations with discretion and stick closely to the policy of adjusting the tariff to the de- mand of the voters. il —— Who Reaps This Harvest? Chicago Inter-Ocean. Flor the past six months or more the New York Voice was engaged in raising alargo sum (825,000) to be used in thecanvass in Ne- Uraska to defeat the republican ticket. It was done. But what has prohibition galned Just stand back and see the harvest reaped from the Voice fund. i e— A Daniel Come to Judgment. Kansas City Jowrnal. Judge Brewer's westorn chin whiskers have been sacrificed to the dignity of the United States supreme court. 1t was doubt. less a severe ordeal to Judge Brewer, but ho _will find some consolation in the assurance of a Washington corvespondent that he now re- sembles Daniel Webster. i The Reward of Mrs. Lease. New York World, There is some curiosity throughout the country tosee what sort of a plum will fall to Mrs, Lease, the lady who was such a moving force In the farmers' alliance in Kansas, and made 150 speeches for its candidates, In many sections it is belioved that man, with his usual magnanimity, will kindly permit Mrs, Lease to return to the fireside and mind the babies, —— The Northpolomania in France. The London Telegraph announces the ex- istence of a college of aerial navigation at Paris, Ttis now proposed in the next ex- ploration of the Arctic region, when the expedition reaches a point beyond which the ships cannot travel, to use air ships and sail away into the open sea and roturn with s cargo’of fruits and flowers and all the other good things which are said to exist in that undiscovered region, A e Somewhat Chestnutesque. Chicago News. ‘The market reports declare that there is ‘‘a scarcity of gold.” With all due respect to the mews-gathering noses of the gentle- men who corralled this item, we would say that to most of us this information is too old and time-worn to print even as an exclusive, marked “scoop.’”” With a large percentago of the public there has been a scarcity of goldsince it sucked the gilding off its first rattle, il v Governor Hill's Conscience, Kansas City Journal. A prominent New York politician says thatthe chief obstacle to Governor Hill's going to the senate is that he has always promised the senatorial plum to Smith M. Weed, who has twice aided him to obtain control of the legislature. That may be an obstacle in the mind of the politician referred to, but it will have no effect upon Governor Elillif he wants the senatorship and isn't afraid of Weed's revenge. a Nutshell, Gazete. FORTY-THIRD (ONGRESS, Republican senate; republican house, 1872, FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, Republican senate; democratic house, 1874, FORTY-FIPTH CONGRESS. Republican senaté; democratic house. 1876, FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, Democratic senate; democratic house. 1878, PORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, Republican senate; republican house. 1880, FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, Republican senate; democratic house. 1882, FONTY-NINTH CONGRESS, Republican senate; democratic house. 1884, FIPTIETA CONGRESS, Republican senate; democratic house. 1886, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Republican senate; republican house. 1888, FIFIY-SECOND CONGRESS, Republican senate; democratic house, 1892, T THE AFTERNOON TEA. Grammutically spoaking, akiss Is a noun; technically speaking, a conjunction; and gen- erally speaking, o first class article, Others have knocked at the gate of my heart, Saying: *‘Fair one, let mein, I pray,” But you boldly scaled the walls at a bound, Saying: ‘‘I'm here, and I'vecome to stay.” “I dreamed of you last night,” she said with a lingering glance. “Did you, really " he inquired eagerly. “Yes; Ialways drcam when I eat lobsters aund pie at night.” She—You didn’t stay witn her long. He—Hardly, I asked ber to marry me and she said no. Sho—Still you should have remained, There's generally a postscript to what a girl says. In this world of contradictions The strangest, I engage, Is this, that when a girl has staid At twenty-five for a decade She's always called by men a maid« En of uncertain age, Maud—Do you purpose attending Dr, Cere- monial's church when you go back to town! Madge—~No, [ think not. You know he has adopted the new style of confession, and I have been naving such a good time here all summer that I wouldn’t care to face the doe- tor with the load I've got on my conscience, She had not expected it—Alice: “O Maud, T’m so troubled,” Maud: ‘“What about, dear!” “Why, I've been engaged to Tom Jinks for nearly three weeks, and he hasn’t given me any chance to break it yot, and 'm afraid ho isn't going to, What shall Tdo? Iveally be- lieve he thought T meant it!" “Chaxlie, dear, what is a monopoly!" she askoed, looking up tenderly, as he rested sub- missively in his arms, with her dainty head n estled against his coat collar, “Well," replied Charlie, manfully strug- gling to bring bis mind to' cops with ab. struse subjects, and failing altogether to get beyond concrete facts, “1 sincorely hopo that this is,” “Maud, did you speak to the Squelchly girls at the play last night " 3 “No, indeed, mamma. They weee too far off “Why, I thought you sa1d they sat just be- hind you." “They did, but they were in the parquet circle, They were just 75 cents too far back for me W speak o thew, mamma." FROM THE CAPITAL CITY, A Young Woman Who Could Not Face the Prospect of Starvation, LIVERYMAN FOWLER 1S CONFIDENCED, A Drug Firm Considers Hself Swine dled Out of a Btock of Drugs ~Three Candidates for the Pen, LixcoL¥, Neb., Nov, 18.—[Spocial to Tu» Bee, | ~Thearrest of Mrs. Maud Maoy and her daughter Kato fornot paying a fine s considerable of ashock to the friends of thg two women, The two are mothorand daugl tor and live tn a cosy looking coftago on Tenth, near M street. Tho place hus bic under police survetllance for some time an i the oMcers have found suficient evidence to confirm their suspicions. When the girl wi. arrested she burst into tears and said she hi { tried toearn an honest living by clorking i one of the leading dry goods establishmen! of Lincoln, but the wages she received w 80 small that she could searcely v the rent and nothing was loft for food and clothing Threatened starvation drove her toa life shame, FOWLER 18 (CONFIDENCED, W. Don Fowter, proprietor of tho live stable at 1110 PP street, is excoedingly anxion« to renew acauaintancoship with one J. W Seymour, who secured a horse and saddlo from him on Wednesday, the 5th inst, Soy mour represented himself as an officer, and that he was after some horse thieves., He secured thehorse and rode off, saying that he wotld be back in a few day The Satur day following a postalcard was received froin Seymour stating that he was at Nebraska City and 1 hot pursuit of his men and would be back in & short time. Sinee that timo nothing has been heard from him, and Mr. Fowler is ata loss toknow whether he has been tricked out of a horse, or whether the man_ was really an officor. He has cor municated the facts to the police, and anin vestigation will be seton foot. SWINDLED OUT OF DRUG A STORE, Anson L, Rootand Edward L. Parish asic for §3,400 damages from Charles W, Wilson and Howard W. Zink., Root and Parish wer ownersof a drug store outfit at Twenty fourth and O streets two months ago. The declare that about that time Howard W Zink, the real estate agent, brought to ther a stranger giving the name of Charles W Wilson and recommended him a3 a man of truth and integrity, and one on whose word thoy could roly. W ilson represented that he 'was owner of a half section of land in scction 10 of Greeley county, and that the same was worth $12 per acre. Relying on these repro sentations, Root h traded thoir dru stoclk, which was worth 2,400, to Wilson for that the land. But since then they declare they have discovered that they b rrossly swindled, and they chargo Wilson with having wickedly and malic; conspired together in making their sentations in order tocheat and defraud th druggists. They therefore ask for damages to the full valueof their drug stoclk. THREE NEW CONVIOTS, B. Joues d his deputy, Mr. y, wore callers ar the police_station last evening. They bad brought - down to the penitentiary Mariin Burger, a three-year maun; Ed Hoagland, o two-year man, and Purcell, a horse thief who will serve for one year. Burger hired two boys named Hoagland to burn an enemy's hay stacks, and one of the boys turned state's evidence, resulting in the conviction of the other two. SUPREME COURT. F. S. Howell of Boone county was admitted to practice, The following causes were argued and sub- mitted: County of Valley Robinson, Gottschalk vs Becker, Rutherford vs State, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railrond com- pany vs Grablin, Bartlett vs Cheescbrough, Scott vs Chope, ' Phenix Insurance compiny V'x: t]s“wnm.knwsm. Onmotion, Haas vs Roths child. Templin vs Bell, dismissed by plaintiff, The following causes were continued : Has call vs Valley company, Rublee vs Davis, Kilpatrick-Koch dry goods company vs Ful ler. Plaintiffs were ordered to file and serve briefs on or before the 25th inst. in the lowing causes: Janss vs Wilson, Farmers' and Merchants’ Bank vs Upham, Maddox vs Clearey, McDaneld, fl, vs Rittenbusch Lincoin & Black Hills railroad company vs Phillips, etal. Three cases plaintiff allowed to file brier in fifteen days and defendaut in ten days thereafter. Cass county bank vs Bricker; defendant allowed ten days to serve and file briefs., ODDS AND ENDS. The Misses Alice Lehenkubl and Anna Polsley of Wahoo have been spending tho week in Lincoln visiting with L. W. Gilchrist and family at 1545 I street. Articles of incorporation of the Farm manufacturing company of Columbus w s filed today with the secretary of state. Tho capital stock is §100,000. The incorporators A, W. Clark, Warren A. Way, Johu C. Swartzley, Angelo C. Picket and Charles A Woosley. Fixe Chief Madden of Ashland is the guest of Chief Newbury of this city. H. G. Lapier, residing on Twenty-second and Dudley streets, reports to the police thnt while he was at work at Eleventh and H streets yesterday afternoon some fellow stolo his ulster, worth £20. An elderly gentleman named Fred Foster, living at Roca, loft his grip, containing somo clothes, some dress goods and flannels, in theo waiting room of thy Burlington depot. while ho weut out to meet a few friends. - When ho returned tho grip had disappeared. Tom Mc- Cullougn and Tom McGuigan were urrested on suspicion of being the guilty persons. Tho case of R. R. Randall vs Mrs. D, Ham- ilton has been attracting the attention of the district judge today. Theladv lives in Lan sing, Mich, but has property interests in Harfan county aud Lincoln, and Randall acted as heragent. For his services Randall asked §500. The jury cut the figures down to $175. —— Jamaica Has the Grip. New Youk, Nov. 18,—[Special Telogran to Tue Bee.|—Advices from the West Indies say la grippe is now touring through the islands and Is making itself especially felt in the Island of Jamaica. There ave at present hundreds of cases of severe influenza in tho island, the affection having spread to every portion of the country. The doctors ag that It is genuine Russian influenza, the the same as the grippe which was epidemic in New York last spring. Thore bave been agreat many cases in Kingston, and last week many prominent business men of tho city, including the postmaster general of tho island, were prostrated by the mulady. of them having been confined to their roo for several days, A similar state of affuirs isreported from other townsand districts, and the disease has evidently taken full possession of the island. LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subseribed and Guaranoed Capital. Pald in Caplta : wrassie 30,000 Buys and sells stocks and bonds; negotiites commerelal paper; receives and execules trusts; actsas transfer agent and trustee of corporations, takes churge of property, ool- lects taxes, Omaha Loan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. Pald In Cupital. oo Subscribed and Guaranteed Liability of Btookboldors. .. v 5 Por Cent Interest Patd on Dopos!ts FRANK J, LANGE, Cushilor. Ofoers: A U. Wyman, president. J.J. Brown, vico-president, W, T. Wyman, treasurer. Directorsi~A. U, Wyman, J, W.Millard, J. J. Browa, Guy O, Barlu, E. W. Nasl, Thense L Klmwall, George b. Luke. 850,000 .,000 10,000 200,000 apital. g - v