Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1891, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. CAMPAIGY IS OPENED. Exhaustive Review of the Problems of the Hour in Nebraska. OF THE ALLIANCE AND ITS LEADERS. Despotism More Tyrannical Than That Eonght to Be Escaped From, OUR LATE REFORM LEGISLATURE. Promises That Were Not Performed and Pledges Not Redeemed. MAKING CAPITAL FOR COMPLAINTS. Why no Rallrond Measure Was Passed —Fallacious Ideas of Finance Advocated by the Hast ings Plattovm, Saturday afternoon Mr. Rosewater ad- dressed u large sudienco at Columbus, A fuli report of his speech is presented : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: For many years there has been decp-seated and widespre d it among the people of Nebrask: Kk 28 1876 the popu Inr dissatis fa manifested itsolf in an open revolt in tho ranks of the republicau party agmnst the interference by federal s in coalition with railway employes {lway managers with our state and congressional conventions, This feeling was intensified from year to year by the 1ssue of railroud passes to public oficials and poli- ticiaus, the discrimination in favor of certain shippers and tho excessive freight rates and high passenger tolls. A large number of the farmers —republicans and democrats s perated by the domination of monopolies, organized the Nevraska farmers uilianco in 1881, With this movement I myself, in com mou_with thousands of other republicans, was in full accord. I felt then and I have folt ever since that the peopis of this state should hiave the right to govern themselves untrammelled by interfevence from any cor- poration; that our public servants should ' regard an office as a public trust; that our legislature should not be manipulated by corrupt lob- bies, that jobbery shouid be bamished from logisiative halis, and that the railroad com- 1ies of this state should be made to charge reasonable vates to thgir patrons, This view 1 still hold today. At the time when the alliange was organ- ized, and ever since that time, 1 have always insisted that the policy of the altiance should be to exert its influonce WAthin the parties already ostablished, and endeavor to right the grievances of the producers by taking a tive part in the primary elections aud con- ventions, aud wrench the muchinery of the parties ' from the hands of corporations. 'hiere were, however, from the outset in the farmers alliance quitea number of the old greenbackers, men who beieved that the rnment could grind out money by the illion and distribute it to all the peoplo and make them rich, and of played out peliticians whom the old parties had discavded. In other words, men who had no party to return to, and = political adventurers who wanted fo oreanizo an entirely new party. This class of politicians obtained the upper hand in 1582 and issued a call for a state convention of auti-monopolists. Be- lieving that a wholesome lesson might be tanght, and that somo reforms wight b a complished in an off year, I enlisted with them and wo succeeded in’ electing Sturde vant state treasurer and camne very nearly clecting two members of congress. Hut Mr, Sturdevant was no sooner in the state house than he entered the old ring and veform re- ceived u black oyo. Formed a Third Party. Alliance people ceased (o manifest interest in the third party movement and gradually workea their way back again into the old parties and becamo a strong and important factor in checking the inroads of the corpora- tion managers. But their ambitious leaders and certain aemagogues aud impostors who had worked their way into the confidence of the farmers persistently kopt up the clamor for a new party. The failure of crops and the general dopression in_business naturally created discontent not only in all parts of our state but in Kansas, Dakota and Minnesotu. The aliiance was d nad recraited from the ranks of the discontented in the north- tern states, You all remember, how- thatup to within thivty days 'of the time when the cail was 1ssued” for the peo- plo's convention lasv year, the leaders und the organs of the alhance assured every body that they bad no intention of forming a third party, but that thoy provosed simply to bold aclib ovor existing parties, and if thoy failed to place in nominntion mon who wero in accord and in sympathy with the produg ing cinsses, then, and then only, would the endeavor to right their wrongs in the politi- cal arena as an independent political party. But whilo they were giving out theso assur- ances and hoodwinking their followers, tho were secretly preparing a scheme for forcing alliance men out of the old parties and foist- ing upon them candidates that would do the bidding of a junta more unscupulous and sel- fish than ~any that had manipu lated tho machinery of the old parties. Whilo donouncing the muchine ard bossisni thoy were organizing a despotic dictatorship, such as no party in this state had ever sub- mitted to. They juggled the apnortioument of dolegates to the people’s state convention o counties with scarcely any population wero given the largest representation and other counties unfriendly to the dictator were almost disfranchised. It is a notorious fact that Powers, who is an honost but very weak mau, u mere autom- aton in the hands of Dictator Burrows, was foisted on the independents as candidate for governor over General Van Wyck, and such A nonontity as Joseph Kdgerton, who could not be elected justice of the peacs in Strowms- Polk county, where ne formerly lived, or in South Omaha, whore he now lives, was nominuted for the office of attorney gencral in place of General William Leese, “This sawe bossism was carried on through the entire campaign of 1500, In many places aliiance men wers dragooneid into voting the unscratehed independent tickets by threats. They had to show their tickels to the precuict dictators before they could vote. 1 appeal to you, fellow citizens, whether that is any~ improvement upon the methods pursued by the old parties aiuiust which the people have revelted, In- dependent voting meaus individual freodom to exercise your judgment in the selection of candidutes ‘and to voto #s your conscience dictates. A people’s party convention is not infallible, * If a canaidate is competent all houest members of bis party are in honor bound to support bim. I ho'is known to he dishonest or is known to bo incompetent it becomes the duty of the iudependent, just as much as it would the duty of ‘any otlier good itizen, to refuse to give him his vote and to support a candidate whom he kuows to be tand capable. , | have said all this preliminarily bo- vause it hus been charged that I, iv common with many auti-monopoly republicans, have £0uo back upon what wo have formerly ad vocated and are now in league with tha cor porations to rivet down the chains of slavery upon the producers. As & matter of fact, ] realize that thero aro many grievances 1o right andl vecognize the necessity of the peoplo regulating trausportation rates; but 1 simply differ with other anti-monopolists as to the most offective way to secure rodress. Whon the independents became a poiitical party they assumed tho responsibility for the couduct and actions of their men, If the re- publican party of this state is 1o be beld re spousible f6r the acts of its officers during the past twenty odd years, certainly the in dependents must be hield responsible for the of their oficers and legislators. If they Bave accomplished auy good for the people OMAHA, e - MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1801, thoy are entitled to the proper crodit. If they have failed to redeom the pledgos they bavo made, taey have foefeited popular con- dence What have they done to earn the people's gratitudo! You~ all remembor that every candidato on the independent ticket was pledged to vertain vital reforms. Candidates for the lezislature were pledged to cut down state expenses, to reduce taxation, to do nway with supernumaries in the stat fices, to clean out tie stato house and gi more economic government. They pledged 1o pass stringent usury laws. laws to prevent trusts and combinations among man- utacturers und elevator men, laws to abolish railroad passes and laws to do away with the school book monopol, How have they kept these pledgest One plank in their platform adopted at the Hastings couvention reads as follows : Resolved, That we heartily commend the Independent mombers of the' legisluture for having redecmed every pleage made by the people to enact their platforn into law, pendent Extravagance. Tthe most extravagant logislature that this state had ever had was that of 1854, two s previous. During last year's campaign independent leaders and cheir papers denounced thot body in the most scathing mauner. Now the independents organized both houses of the last legislature, elected thoir speaker and their —president of the sonate. They organized all the committees in both housés and were in_absolate control of the machinery of government_so far as avpropriations wore coucerned, What do we find? "The total appropriations in 1830 were £2:%0,108.55. The total appropriations in 1 by the reform legislature were $2,88(,- 63, That1s in round numbers more than half 4 million in excess of the most reckless and extravagant appropriations ever made in this state. Deduct, if you please, the $200,- 000 votgd for the relief ‘of the drouth suf- fc and deduct the 80,000 veted for the World’s fair, ana_we still have $236,248.75 more appropriated in 181 by the reform legislature than was appropriatea two vears previous by a legislature tnat has been denounced as the most recklossly extra ant body of law makers Nebraska ever had. In 1800 tho general fund tax in Nebraska was 45180 mills, In IS01 the general fund tax was 5 mills. This is cconomy and refcrm with a vengeance! Let us look further at the record of the reform legislature und what do we find¢ Mr. [lder, the reform speaker of the house, clected vy the independents, drew vay for sixty days’ service as a membex, the full £300 to which any member is entitled, He was also paid £22 for mileage, although he rodo back aud forth to his homo on & pass. On the top of all this Mr. Elder drew pay for seventy-two days’ service as speaker at the rate of ¥ per day, $216, making in all The clerk of the house, Mr. Eric Johnson, who was imported into this state at the in- stance of railroad politicians years ago to lielp them defeat the alliance candidate for congress in the Second district, made a record of reform in the house by drawing pay for 130 days during a session in which the mombers could draw sixty days. At £ per day be recoived $600; but this was only a trivial affair, for Mr. Johnson also had him- self credited with $1,500 for compiling the journal of the nouse, a job that he could very readily have done in ninety days. That after drawing 00 for two months' session, he pocketed §00 a month for copying the house journals, What do our tax-ridden farmers think ubout that! ‘The assistant elerk of the house in the re- form legislature aiso put in a claim and drew pay for 150 days at # per day, which goes to show that new brooms do not always sweep clean. Mr. Pirtle, the secretary of the sen- ate, after drawlng pay for 150 days’ service in the session of sixty days, drow §1,600 for compiling the journuis of the senate. Mr. Walter Seely, who is not considered o very scrupulons man about drawing salaries, only recelved 300 for the same work in 1859, Lam creditaoly informed that only two: members of the last senate paid their fare in going to and coming {rom _the legislature. Over hulf of the members of the bouso did not disdain to accept pasteboard bribes by which the railroad dromedary first gets his nose, afterwards his huwp, and then his whole body in when he desires to manipu- Iate a legislature, The records show that the mombers of the senato drew &37.50 in mileage, and members of the house $2,220.35. Mr. Stevens of Furnas drew §57.80, which at Gcents a mile represents 1,00 miles of travel. Mr. Stevens was tho most loud mouthed denunciator of repubiican extrava- gance. The independont reform legislature, ke all the other predecessors, divided itself into commitiees for junketing tours. One of theso junlkets was an excursion to Galveston, Tex., for which the stato of Nebraska paid #4530, and all tho state had to show for that pleasure trip to Galveston was two barrels of oystors, dished upat independent head- quarters at the Lindell hotel, in order thay the republican and democratic members of the lowislature should not even get a smel! of the ovsters. [Applunse and cries of *good.” | In all candor and earnestness I would like to know how any man or set of men can justify thy legislature in tuking $450 out of the state teeasury in such hard times, when the west- crn half of the state was stricken with drouth and the poople of that section wero wn need of fuel and clothing. Another little extravaganza, perhaps nov so flagrant ns the investment in_Texas oysters, was an appropriation of $0 for Linches served to the uniformed state militia during the time the boys were guarding tho covernor's oftice. 1 dare say the stato would Lave been in great peril if they had left the stato house long enough to have got their weals at their regular boarding houses, Among the incidentals which the reform slatuvo piled upon the tuxpayers was tho onss which amounted to £10,000. 5o was saddled on the state without ~ the remotest excuse, and I maintaiv here, aud I kuow whereof I speak, that the whole scheme was concoctea as a piece of revenge by the prohibition cam- paigu managers, who knew they had been dofeated by over 50,000 majority in tho state of Nobraska, but wanted to trump up an ex cuse in other states where tho same issue is pending by charging that there had been gross frauds and rioting in Omaha, South Owah and okher towns in the state, ~ Eyery rational man must admit that tuero was no excuse whatever for contosting the elections of our state ofiicers from the governor down to land commissioner, in the face of the re- turns, which show that they nad been elected by pluralities ranging from 1,200 to over )00. In 1584 the republican party turned over the goverument of the Uniled States to domocrats, after twenty-four years of rule, on a majority of 1,500 in thé city of New York, where Tummany has supreme control. Ours is & government of the people. Majori- ties must rule %o long as the princivles that underlie our form of government provuil, Tho republican party stepped down from power, and with it an army of more than 100,000 federal officiais, Hero in Nebraska the state was torn up for montns by a base- less contest, and nearly #11,000 of the people's ¢ spent on lawyers, notaries and stenog- rs. Forthe contest made by Governor or there muy bave beon an excuse, At auy rate the expense incurred to the state was trivial, ‘There was no foundation for the contest made by the independent candi- dates for state ofices and cortamly no grounds for the claim of Mr. Edgerton’ who was defeated by more than $,000 plurality and ron away behind his ticket and yet Edgerlon came to Lincoln to besiege the legislature under pretense that ne had bees alected attorney goneral. Now that legisla- ture hud o duty to perform whon it met, Every man in° Nebraska expected that within six days at loast after the session had commenced in anpropriation would have beon wmade for the relief of the sufferers in the estern part of the state. Reluble reports had been published of the intenso sufferivg, want and destitution provailing ou our frontier counties, aorth and south, and If at uny Lime during’ January or In toe early part of February a blizzard bad oc curred, hundreds of people would have boen frozen to death and any number of them would bave starved bad the railroads been blockaded by suow. Yet what did the legls- lature do! They were wrangling and jangling over the bones their leaders wanted to pick. ‘They were in session more thun five weeks before they would touch the reliof bill, which aid not pass until the Sth of k uary They did wot care anything about the sufferers 30 long as a lot of greedy ofice bunters and shyster law- {CONTINVED ON FIFTH FAGE.] Dunrry, Oct. 11, Stewart Parnell arrived at Kingstown at 7 After leaving London there were no demonstrations along the rail- way route (the London § until Chester was reached. deputations from Liverpool, Castle-on-Tyne and places joined the train. Mr. Parnell’s col including Messrs, o'clock this morning. parliament, John 1. Redmond of Wexford, John nor of Tipperary, Joseph Nolan Henry Campbell of Fermanagh, tzgerald of Longford O'Kelly of Erscommon, extended greetings to the various deputations The funeral about 2 o'clock. tober morning—dark, dismal, wet Notyithstanding the unfavorablo sur- roundings eager groups of people had col- lected on the quay to watch the transference of the coffin from the train to the (appropriately named inky darkness, which was by the few flickering lamps in and about the railway station aud w front. white wooden case in which the beon placed was borne upon the shoulders of seamen to the steamer. regular intervals. O’Brien, for no the members of the house of commons who followed the body from Lonaon and the Kingstown delegation comprised nearly ail the parliamentary u.dherl‘:'nlu % M‘n l;;nllell. All gathered around the coffin in absolute Silente, Which was unbroven even by the ax. | drenching showrs. change of friendly greetings until after the nsterence of the body to the railway car- ‘The short distance was soon made— the train arriviag ot the Dublin station av A Vast But the Gaelic were eagorly broken into smalt meutoes of the sad occasion. As the hearse moved body of police formed in front of the proces- sion, whicn appeared to fall into an orderly march in a purely extemporized fashion, band of the Workingmen's lowed directiy behind the police escort and | bier. hin Saul.” Then came with their Doad Mar Athletic as iation hurlers roversed, resembling a military body 15" As the march prog- nser, yet they kept along the at ‘reversed ar ressed the crowds grew d clear of the line of the procession whole rcute to Castle Hill, where the seried ranks of peovle occupiod évery inch of space, Phe city hall was reached at 8:30 o'clock. 1ts front was coved with solemn draperies. nt rain storm streamed down as the coffia was borne into the hall towards the 1t kopt raining in rents for hour after hour; yet the of the vast throng that were struggling their way towards the city hall wa the slightest, uor was their whit dampened. remarkable serenity. pervaded the entire” mass, broken by partisan cries or even the remotest symptom or tender.cy to disorder. 10 o'clock the gates wore opened and instantly the people poured into body lay in state in the coun- reular room now huay- black, rolieved by scrolls of white satin and ipoped festoons, black letters the last words of the dead chicf. The coftin which rested on a raised the unddle of the chamver, was masses of wreaths, floral crosses, Irish harps and other flower dosigns, Touching ‘Iributes of Regard. Photographs of the lying in state were | apove. 'I'his boro the sy the pablic was : Theso show that the coffin was placed at the base of the O'Connell statue, side 1n bold reliel cil chamber—a large ily draped circle, me the bier, d black horses, surroun My, Paroell, Ireland's Leader Laid at Rest, Mourned for by His Countrymen. HE IS RESTING AT LAST IN MOTHERLAND. They Strew His Grave With Flower and Blossoms, Swe He Made. I'be rema tramn reached Holyhead at It was a typical British Oc- cold and Sobs were dictinetly audible as the procession filed down the double gang- way into the ship. Here the coffir was deposited in an enclosure specially fitted up for its reception, and here the faithful fol- lowers of the dead chief kept watch and ward throughout the voyage hannel, relieving one another at Amongst those who kept. guard wers the lord mayor of Dublin, High Sheriff Mead and Mr, Parnell, the brother of the deceased. The journey across was eventless, the boat making the passage in a gale of wind and through torrents of rain. At Kingstown a crowd had collected to reccive the remaivs on Irish soil. Conspicuous among those present were the foliowers of Mr. Parnell, Richard member of parliament, for Waterford; Dr. Kinney, member for Cork; T. Lawrence Carew. for Kildare; West Donegal: T. Donegal; Dublin connty; Wilham . East Wicklow; olan, for north Galway; Patrick These with North Monoghan, mourners were women. "The ceremony of lying in state wi been closed at noon, but numerous that the closing of the doors was postponed until after 2 o'clock, and even then hundreds were obliged to go away disap- At a quarter to 3 the procession started, le cutive of theleadership committee LoxnoN. O 11 it Alcek rawn by six coal | Caplo—-Special to Tue Bee ed by the colleagues of | As the coftin passcd, almost vand Frag- rant as the Sacrifice of Charles orthwestern line) Hore large Manchester, and James J. mail boat the Ireland), reely The large coffin had The Parnellites fol- across St. James J. Rochfort John J. lent Orowd. A vast but silent crowd, with uncovered heads awaited the train as it rolled into the | A gl Timothy Harrington, the member of parliament from Dublin, and Dr. Hackett, who attended Mr. Parnell when were injured at Kilkenny, as weil as other notables, here joined the swell Conspicuous in front of the ses of people were members of Athletio association hurlers used in their sports all drapod with black crape caught up with green ribbons, Representatives of the di { the leaguo wore black badges were printed the dying words of the states- ive my love to my colleagues and | mass b nation.” Upon being removed from the train the case was taken from the coffin, which was then lifted into a hearse, a panel of glass ex- | seo the cortege met the great contend- posing the coffin to view. Wreaths and otber | ing -~ wave of tloral tributes literally covered the top of the hearse and were piled around the coftin These, after they had been put aside, seized upon by the crowd, picces and kept as mo. | amid his eyes with the Yerent brauches of upon from the station a | taken to the upper gates. was removed aud piaced upon a platform especially constvucted for the purpose, ordor to enable those in the procession unton fol- | file around it and have a full view of the pitiless tor- numbers not reduced in gerness ono Tt was an assemblago of reverential quiet | St. which was un bearing in buried in admitted, and on either are the statues of Grattan Conspicuous on the coftin were three wreathes from Mrs. Parnell; a cross, with tho inscriptions “My own truo love; best and truest friend: wy husband, from his broken-hearted wife," wscription was the followin, My dear love; my husband; from his heart- and stiil within this was the My dear love; my husband, my | a1 kiog; from his heart-broken wife," ore also two lovely little wreaths Parpell's daughters, with the “From little Clare and little Kitty, 10 our doar motner's husband. 10 o'clock till 2 in the afternoon a coutinuous stream of people poured into the 3 It is estimated that 40,000 persons availed thomseives pay their respects to the illustri arly all woro the deepest mou men with a band of black crape interwoven with green ribbon around the arm us dead. ning, the the crowd { PEACEFUL BE HIS SLUMBERS, | ssaemiee v sncectog ke Soruets favorite horse followed the bier. Jumes Stephens and Johin O'Leary, was next belind the family carriage. tions of the principle Irish tows trade societies, private carriages and oitizens on foot. and shone brilliantly. The scene was impressive. All the windows and route was abandoned. other Mourning Multitudes, O'Con | Witnessed in Dublin. Louth, James and to seo to it that such bodies a: baphazard incursions of irregular cession, yet roverential order, in the [ larity. relieved music heading the different si procession strove to maintain. Power, | tween the serried ranks of on-lookers. pressive. Colonel nevin, Scenes at the Grave. tving task to keop them moving. cut out of the artificial mound poorest people. would bo nec soil around the mound. funeral [ By 4 o'clock the police became whélmed by the power of the ove the cemotery. which | reached the low tempt to drive_them back. crowd around the gata others ' trying to A'scene of great confusion” ensued The hearse was reached the spot. Here the side of the gruve. A body of the Cli and formed a circle, within which dignitaries, Mr. Parnell's colleagues in liament and the relatives, Darkness had set in. ‘The noise of shrl women, the audible the voice of the clerey v of the rotunda chapel an of Manchestor, ofticiated, the fnner group. dais in and took the last view' of the coffin. loving memory of mothe®'s 1and.” Dublin wards they met a_respeétful grooting. the time arvanged. concerned must b ceromony. The pageant of tho fune conducted demoustration, the without incident. Probably never Despite | wi to have out the day out of respect to the dead Was 50 ings, were todsy conspicuously absent Ixoltement in London. LCONTINUED ON SECOND FAGH. | Prominent amone the individual members of tho procession was Johin O'Connor, lead- ing by the arm the blind member MeDonald Then came carriages containing Mrs, Dickin- son, th sister of Mr. Parnell, Mr. Parnell’s brother and sister, and other nearer friends. The lord _mayor, in state, preceded by tk city marshal and the sword and mace bearors followea the representatives of the corpora- various Ioresters, home ruiors, Just as the procession started the rain hap- pily ceased, the sun broke through the clouds tops along the lino of march were pa with people. It had been planned to take a somewhat circuitous route to the cemetery to gratify the anxiety of the thousands of people in the city, but as it was found that it wouild bo scarcely possiblo to reach the place of burial before 6 o'clock, the more indircot It wasa great procession, surpassing in point of numbers anything of the kind ever Besides, it presented some extraordinary toatures never scen any other city in the world. - Auywhere else a demonstration on so large a scalo would have been conducted on a regular plan; some organized body, appointed with marshals to guido the eluments into an orderly sequence, authorized to participate on the occasion should be protected on their march from outside elements. Here, howeyer, no such systematic plan seemedto regulate the pro- the same fine instinct prevading everywhere, gave the maren an aspect of drilled regu: It was a motley mob of well-clad citizens, side by side with the raggeaest that followed the procession and extended some miles. Bebind the members of the Dublin munici- pality came those of the provincial corpora- tions, trades societies and other organiza- tions. Some 40,000 people had passed through et the council hall during the four hours the next behind. All heads were un- | hody had ls 1 in state ano the of these joinea the procession, forming into line, six abreast, wherever a gap in tho pro- cession permittea them to go. ‘Che bands of tics, where- ever the chance afforded, sometimes at in- tervals so near that the different strains and different keys of the different bands made harsh discord, besides imperilling the march- ing cadence, 'which those regularly in tho Long strips of jaunting cars, privat carriages and every sort of vehicle' added lefigth to the cortege. The best coup d’oel of the procession was [\ probably that obtained at Kingsbridge after two of the five miles toward the cometery had been traversed. The rain had ceased and the brilliant sunshige showed both sides of the Liffey densely lined with spectators. At every point of vantage the roofs of houses and the parapet of the bridge over the river were ail occupied. The long, regular column of marching men kept step in harmony he- one single strain of the ‘'Dead March in Saul’" brought absolute stillness and sorved to make the spectacle of such vast silent masses im- Throughout the long and torturous route, which the committec of arrangements had selected with the view Yo afford the largest part of the people of Dubln an_ opportunity to view the demonstration, admirable order was kept until the cortege’ came near Glas- People began gathering.in the cemetory early in the morning, Jicing the wind and ing throughout the day, crowd on crowd in- spected the turf hned tomb, guarded by a single group of police, who had a difici The grave, which was some seven feet deep, had been vering a plot which had long been used to inter the ce into the grave suggested that it avy, in order to gev aown to a solid foundation' for the monument, sink concrete pillers right through the sub ncreas- g crowd and by the withdrawal of a por- tion of their force, who went to try to clear a way for the funeral at the entrance gates to When tho first part of the procession ate At 5 o'clock, it was found to b impossible to penotrate tho dense 1n the struggin with the onlookers the police were obliged 1 abandon the at- The surging soeking procession for a time was checked thrown mnto disarray. It was decided close the lower gato aud this was affected great disorder just as the hearse At 6 o'clock the fast falling dusk found the procession still filing past. ‘There seemed no Iiklinood thatthe stream of marchers would end till far into the dopths of the night. ordors were given to remove the coflin to the Gnel succeeded in clearing & way to tho grave grouped the lord mayor of Dublin, the civic The crush around about was terrible. of chiildren, and the cr of men struggling amid the crush mado in iting the ritual of the Church of Englaud. The portion of the service had been celebrated at Nicholas church, where the remains rested twenty minutes while on the way from the city hall. At the grave Rev. Mr. Vincent Rev. George Fry hey were obliged to cut the secvices shost s the crowd broke into_the protectiug civelg and overwhelmed Sweet Flowers and Blossoms Some time after, fu ' the dead darkness, when the crowd bad thinked away, the moré intimate friends again grouped themselves around the grave, deposited wreaths thereon grave became heaped up With the masses of floral tributes, one of which was Miss O'Suea’s, overiooked in‘the description given gestive words, ‘‘In To many scores of thoussnds the return to just hyve beem w woury walk. was 7 o'clock when the mourners started to return to the city. As thay drove past num- berless pedestrians silenfly trudging home country clubs and assogiations marched di- rect 10 the railway statiohs, where excursion traius had been kopt in |waiting far beyond | The most nlupr«-nsnmflmml of the day to b peen atter not a grand spectacle, had an especiully solemn futerest. Attaching to the gravely intense seriousness of fesling pervading the myriads partaking therein gave & unique character to tho ‘wholo manifestation. 1t was sce 0@ libel upon the Irigh people to suggest of the last opportunity to | that they would m/: upoupl\\u e tsl()u for partisan rioting. Apart from the acei- dental disorder at the ccmetery the day was 3 ‘© WAs & great popular demoustration the dreaching rain, a large proportion of the | ttended by so' little .excitement, Most of the public nouses remained closed through police, unfailingly obtrusive in Irish vath night Sunday quietess prevails in the city, | Copuriaht 1891 by Jomes Gordon Bennett,) Herald All Sunday EBRASKA FARMERS WEALTH Evidence of Prosperity in the Northwestern Connties, RESULT ~ OF INTELLIGENT EFFORTS. Proper Attention Alone Required to FProduce Enormous Returns -Agri- cultural Samples from tl Vicinity ot Craw Crawronn, Neb,, Oct. 11.—[Special to Tnr: Bee.]—As recently preaicted, if the rains continued, Dawes county would hay lareest crop of all kinds of grain and v tables ever raised in northwest Nebraska, has proven true. When the state fair was held at Lincoln the counties of the novthwest were there with enormous exhivitions of grain and vegetables, Wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn, potatoes, turnips, beets, sugar beets, cabbage, onions, parsnips, water melons, muskmelons, cucumbers, squashe pumpkins were never so plentiful. One day last week & party of tourists passed through Crawford. Of course tho citizens could not afford to miss the oppor tunity of showing 1tself to advantago an when the special train stopped at the B. & M. depot a display of grain awaited their in- spection, that had been gathered within a radius of five miles within twenty-four hours, This display was made through_ the efforts of C. J, Grable and others assisting. It in- cluded samples of everything produced in the west and covered a space of nearly two hundred square feet. Hugo squashes weigh- ing eighty pounds, potatoes weighing two pounds, beets as long asa_man's arm, oats seven feet two inches bigh, cabbage weigh- ing cighteen and onc-haif pounds, corn measuring ten feet nine inches in height, were inspected Two winter oxhibitions are being pre and are now to bo scen here. ‘These i samples of iargo fields raised 1n this vicinity. Wheat averaging as high as forty-five bush- els to the acre; oats, 120, and corn, seventy. All that is necessary 10 raise good crops western Nebraska is proper planting and attention, Isie's Prospects Improving. Neb,, Oct. 11.—|Special to Tne lsie is moving along rapidly this fall, and by cold weather will have several new buildings completed. Trade is good, and not half the crop marketed yot. Wheat is running from twenty to thirty-six bushels per acre, aud every farmer has from twenty 10 100 acres to thresh. Farm help is scarce, and good wages are being paid. Altozether the town and surrounding country is boom- ing. Lohse Bros. keep their seventy-five barrel mill gowng day and night. It run an average of three days a week all summer, whilo most mills in the west wero shut down. ‘The mill, elevator and local grain buyers are kept busy Handling tho grain as it comes in, The Ancient Order of United Workman lodge organized here two weeks ago has a membership of twenty-two, and is prosper- ing. e itz lare putting in extra clerks to assist in caring for the large and rapidly increasing trade, The Methodist Episcopal church will erect afine new building immediately. Sevoral new business enterprises will open here this fall. A number of land seekers came in on the harvest excursions, L. . Crawlord News Notes. Crawrorp, Neb., Oct. 11.—[Special to Tne Bee.—The clang of the first church bell ever heard in Crawford was sounded this morn- ing. "he bell 15 the property of the Congre gationl church of this city. It is a 900-pound bell, The city schools are running in an excel- lent manner. A fivst-class corps of teachors are in command. Mr. Gorton, an old and respected resident of this city, died Thursday evening and was buried yesterday. A largo numver of tho harvest excursion- ists have beou in Crawford within the last ten days. “The Editorial association mects this week at Chadron. Rev. Dr. Moore has been roturned to the Crawford charge of the Methodist Episcopal church. "he farmers’ reunion begins next Wednes- y and continues three days. Messrs. Ed- gerton and Dech will speak. Proparations are being made for a large crowd. Will be Presented Today. O'Nemr, Neb., Oct. 11.—[Speciel Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|--Hon. A. W. Crites passed through the city today on his was to Lincoln, Crites is district judgo by appoint- ment of Governor Boyd. Heis & candidate for the same position on petition under the now law. Harbaugh, independent eandidate, filed a protest against the potition of Critos, the protest haviag boen sustained by County Clerk Mahor. Crites will present his ap- peal to the supreme court tomorrow. The grounds of Horbuaugn’s contest is that Crites stoals his thunder by running us the inde- pendent candidate, whereas Harbaugh is the candidate of the people's independent party Return tor Trial, Penv, Nob., Oct. 1l.—[Special to Tur Bee. | —Frank Phillips, who was implicated 1n @ robbery at this place a year ago last July, Igs just returned to this place to stand his trial. ‘Phe theft was committed in Peru by 1 and Buet Patterson, also of this place. They entered the meat markets of W. IR York and Ben Wann, and appropriated quito & quantity of hides and chickens, whick thoy hauled to Nebraska City and sold. Patter son was tried at the fall torm of court a year ago, but as no one appeared agrinst Phillips nis case was not called up. He was roleased on £00 bail. Two Tickets Named. Sraxtoy, Neb., Oct. 11 —~[Special to T Bek. |—Tho republicans held their county convention here yestorday and nomluated A. Axen for treasuror, L. Smithborgar, clerk; A. Peters, sheriff; O. L. Lamb, judge; C. 5. Coney, superintendent; W. L. Bowman, coroner, und C. M. Densmore, surveyor. I ne domocrats also held their convention at the sume timo and nominated Adam Pil- ger, ureasurer; A. W, Sharp, clerk; Joseph Gratton, shoriff; J. Machur, judge; Mrs. D. Elmore, superintendent; I N. Vinning, coroner, and A. (. Moderou, surveyor. Gering News Notos, Genixg, Neb,, Oct. 11— [Special to Tu Bee. |- Judge Church of the Thirteenth judi cial district has notified attorneys, jurors and litigants of the adjournment of the Octobsr term of district court from October 20 to December 17. Work is getting into a lively condition on the farmer's canal ip this county, about one hundred teams and men being at work on the headgate. Tne company has p chhsed about 8,000 feet of lumbver and is having it hauled to tho site. Will Handle the Orops. McCooL Jusetios, Neb., Oct. 11— (Special to Tue Bee.] —W. R. Vandervert has just finished & 1arge storage steam pow ator and this week he commenced buying grain which will now go through the elevator. G, W, Stanbaugh & Son have received a car loud of machinery for their mill. They are putting in a full roller system. Visited the € Nowrork, Neb., Oct. 11.—|Special to Tue Bee. Several hundred citizens visited the Sioux City Corn palace yesterday, the occa sion being traveling men's day Thayer County Litigation Henroy, Neb, Oct. 11.—[Special to Tu | Bee.|—-The October term of the district | court of the Seveuth judicial district m; Thayer county will commence xt Tuesday with a docketof eighty-five cases, eight of which are state cases, ~ Five of the prisonors now 1n the county jail will most likely go to the ponitentiary for a fow years iz sharges of murder and burglary. S FROM 1EXAS TICKS,” Source of Infections Animal Discovered by an Expe Lixcory, Neb, Oct. 11.—D Billings, investigater of infectious discases for Nebraska, asserts that completely demonstrated that tne causes Texas fover. Ho has isolatey fever from the blood of Texas ticks, vato thom puro and kitled cattle by ino tion with culture divect from the ticks Fatal Aceident at Millard, Warenioo, Neb,, Oct. 11-- [Special Tele gram to Tk Bre.—While Mr. Murphy foreman of the Woodwortn ranch near Mil- lard, and a strangor were driv ing through town about 5 o'clock this evening their team took fright and ran away, throwing both men out. Murphy struck on his head and shoulder. His companion was thrown heaa foremost through a combination wire and vicket fence. His head struck one of the pickets, which fructured his skull, makinge a wound an inch and a half long by balf aninch wide, through which the brain protrudes. Physicians wero called and have done all they could to alley iato their suffering, but the unknown will dio. Murphy complains of fearful pains in his head and shoulders, but may pull through. Accidentally Shot. Yonx, Neb., Oct. 11.~ [Special Telogram to Bk, |—Howard Drauchor, a youth of 16, was accidentally shot this afternoon by a Winchester rifle n the hands of a companion The boys, together with several others, were returning from a hunting expedition and stopped to rest in the Unipn Pacific yards. ‘The Drancher boy laid bis run down on a pile of ties with the hammer raised and one of the others attempted to pick it up, not knowing it was londed, when it was discharged. The ball, a 22 calibre. entered Draucner's left breast’ just above the heart, taking an outward course, and was cut out by the sur- geons from his back. The wound is not considered u fatal one, but is very painful, After boing shot_the boy ran a distauco of four blocks and fell unconscious on the steps of his home. Safe Blowers at Elmwoo 1. Eixtwoon, Neb, Oct. 11.—[Spacial Tole- gram to Tue Ber, ‘The lumber office of Dickson & Stopher was entered at_an early hour this morniug. The safe was blown and §15 taken. The tools which were used in doing the work were taken from the carpen- tor shop of Kde Ubley. Thoy also stole a double barrel shotgan from the Missouri I?a- cific tool box belonging to the foreman, Mr. Chinery. Tue thieves were tracked as far as Ligcoln, where adescription was fur- mshed the police. Bavn and Stock Destroyed. Hanrvarn, Nen, Oct. 11, —~[Special Teie- gram to Tne Bre.]—A large barn on the farm of Mr. Neuman, five milos southeast of this place, together with four hovses, was burned today about 10 o’'clock. The loss is about $1,000. The insurance on the horses is £300 in thy Omaha Fire and German, The barn was fnsured. The origin of the fire is unkunowan, AP BOODLE AGAINST PRINCIPLE, Louisfana’s Camputgh Against’ the Lottery Company. Curcaao, TIL,, Oct. 11.—"One of the hottest campaigns known in the history of the state is on in Louisiana.” The speaker was A. M. Cook of New Orleans, vice president and general mauager of the Louisville, New Or- leans & Texas voud. M. Cook was at the “almer houso toduy on his way to attend, as a delogate, the convention of the Western Waterway association, which convenes on the 15th at Evarsville, “Yes, it's u hot fight and no mistak > continued. *“The issue, of course, is in re- gard to the Louisiana lottery. Thoy want a renewal of the charter for twenty-five years and to pay the state $1,250,000 a year for the privilige, where they have heretofore paid about £0,000. 1t can hardly be called a fight between the two parties, Partisanship and party afiliations havo been forgotten. You can find democrats for and agaiust and re- publicans for and uguins The lot- tory peoplo realize of course that'it1s a fight to the death and are using barrels of money. “What do you think will be the outcome “It §s impossible even to give o good guess. I never saw a contest whovo the adherents of both sides are so equally divided. Whoover wins the victory will have only a few votes to spare. 1ts boodle against principle, and so far it's nip and tuck which will win,» g s R KILLED ON DUTY, Sad Fate Which ave Denves Dexven, Colo,, Oct. 11.—Horace Kuig the driver of steamer 5 was instantly killed carly this morning while crossing the wracks at Nincteenth and Bussett streets. The alarm of fire was sent in from Zang's brewery a_little before, and away went the steamer and big ladder truci from the city nall. Tho rush to the rescuo was wild, and as the horses crossed the tracks at meteonth and _ Bassett, the jolt was fterrible. Knight was thrown off, but nobody noticed that fact, and the horses carcered madly up Ninetcenth street and up the opposite hill to where the five was and stopped. It was not until half an hour later that it was found the driver was missing. The members of his company then searched for him, but in vain, wud finadly rewraced thewr tracks, picking his body up exactly where he had fallen, 500 fec from the nose bouse, There was not a mark but he wus quite dead. The news 1 constornation at the city hall. A lite lost for a fire that amounted to nothing. The dead man was single and resided on Bell avenue. His romains reached the city hall taken charge of by When found he was alto- gether beyond the reach of modical wid, WEATHER FULEC. For Omaha and Vieluity -Fair; station ary temperature, followed by ligit showers and colder Tuesday. For Missouri—Fair, stationary tempe ture, nortberly winds, For Dakotas—Slight cooler in the east by Monday nignt, variablo winds, be coming northerly. Por lows and Nebraska-—-Fair, except slight showers In western Neoraska: colder by Monday night, except slightly warmer in cast [owa and stationary temperature in west Towa; southeasterly winds, becoming norib wosterly, For Kansas —Faj stationary temperat erly winds, For Colorado—Light rains; slightly cooler; winds becoming northwesterly. Sy Daring Thicves, HoLuinavssurg, Pa., Oct. 11, —Burglars broke iuto the clothing stove of Henry Iice early this morning and carvied off & wagos load of goods valued at §2,100. Tho robbors then forced their way into Walter Lindsuy's general merchandise store, and after blowing the safo open extracted §100 1 cash slightly cooler, except o in southeast; south Cuieaco, 1L, Oct. 11.—~At 8 mass meoting of Danish Citizens today arrangements were | made and fuuds started for the erection of a | statue to Huns Coristian Ancerson in Lin colu Parl = NUMBER 116, SHE 1S NOW A T0TAL WRECK With Her Back Broken the Dispatch Lies On the Delaware Shoals, CREW WERE HER ENTIRE SAVED, Story of the Loss of the Government er Told by Official Dis- patehes — Notes from Washingtc DerAwARE Bueskw e, Del, Oct. 11 The United States stoamship Dispateh Is & complete wreek, Her back is broken and she is listed off shore twenty to thirty degrees Phe life savine station signalled that no as- sistance could be rendered. Ier crew are all sufe, Wasiizaroy, D, €, Oct. 11, Superintond- ent Kimball of the Lifo Saving service today received the following tolegram AssATEQUA, Oct, 11—, ), Kimball Superintendont Lite Saving sorvie ton: — Officors and crow of the United States steansnip Dispatel aro ull t Assatogua Life Suving station, and are making ont as well as cireunistanees will allow. The wreck fs full of water, Tisted off shore and fast browking up. LS TRACY, Keepor Assategua Life Saving Station. Superintendent Kimball recoived the fol- lowing dispatches from J. S. ‘Tracy ASSATEGUA, 30 p. m.—~The orow of the United Stutos <toamer Dospatel was landed by, lige savingerow with the station life boat. ASSATE IUA, 8230 - The United States stoamet Dospatel and crew of soventy-four all told, from New York for Washingtoo, no 0. Wind north, fresh, high sea, ebb tide, 8 o'elock Suturduy morning was Wrecked two miles south of Sieepspen i1, str shore. Lives saved, ity -four: rded the wreck ats: 1.1 ding the crew at o) i, i de ton t 1 Trozn tho wrock, finishing wt 11 a. . WEST POINT € IDETS, Recommendations by the Late Board of Visitors, Wasmixarod, D, C.. Oct. 11, ~The secre- tary of war Lus received the roport of the visitors to the Militury academy of West Point througn Major Jolin Carson of this city, member of the board and its secretary, by whom the document was prepared. This roport is a very elnborate and comprebensive paper, coveriug upwards of 100 payes and treating the subjects discussed in a novel and striking mannor. ‘The first question considered by the board was whether the strength of the corps of cadets as now ostablished should be in- creased. The bourd agreed to recommend the passage of an act fixing the strength of the corps of cadets at a maximum of 409, The. board recommends that iu addition to the present allotment of one cadet to cach repre- seutative and delegate in congross two cadets be allowed to euch stuto at large, to be nominated by tie senators respectively, and that the president be authorized to nominate from the country at largs twenty. T'he boards calls attention to the ineficiency of the present preliminary examinations, as shown by the failure to graduate of more thun 50 per cent of the cadots admitted. As showing the morit of the system of selecting candidates for appointmont the board presents tabies 1o show that under the competitive systom ‘60 per cent graduated ‘and 40 per cent falled to graduate, while: thosoapuointed direct only 42 percent gradu- ated and 55 per cent failod. The board strongly condemns the practico of tilling the professorships at the academy entirely with army officers. They might it is said, property hotd such places as have inti- mate relution with the scicnce of war; vot otherwis ‘The deficioncy in English is said to be pain- fully apparent at the academy and it is urgently recommended that move attention Lo given to tho subject. In this connection ? v pointedly: None instructors in th deparvment of modern lauguages have a_speaking knov ledgze of eithor I'veuch or Spanish, the two modern languages taught at the' academy. The ability to speake these languages does 1ot seom to bo regarded as ossential in the instructions at Wost Polnt.” The board says White the corps of caders Is thoronghly in 1 ficld movements, certain de- ted from the scime of military instruction to which we tfully dired on of the proper authoritios. | sehaol of the soldier, mounted, the endet the eare of horses, TBME ¢ groomed aud knows nthing and bridiing. unless tained bhefore aeudom y board structions on t sentlal Again the board divects atteation to the utter iack of proper arms and equipment for field exercises and particularly to tho need for modern ordnance. Huving in view ihe failures of fovmer appeals, the hoard says L the government can supply the wiprn guns 1 tako the plice o untiquitics now 1 posivion In ths soi st and sloge hattories wo recommend that thiese two worso thin wseloss batterigs bo diss mant'ed and that wooden guns, fashloned aftor the lutest approved miodels and furnished with approyed careinges anes be mounted in thelr stead, Souch coursc would not wvert the ridicule to which the United States 15 now justiy subjeeted by main hsolete armament in th e instruction of tatur 1t would furnish « men e e zant of tho as boen mude in the fab- ns and that they fully ap. wnce and valueof the in Jvemont v oaddition o this woode Todels of modern tasivion would an iden of the kind of likely in warfaeo nd of Uho niotliods ¢ iving ther ‘I'ho member of the hourd are Senators Manderson and 1ugh: Representatives Bu rows of Michigan, Scranton of Pennsyl- vania, and Lanham' of Texas: in addition to the following named gontiomen sppointed by the prosudent: Rev. Frank A. O'Brien, Kalamazoo, Mich.: Colonel J, Murfee, James A, Waymiere, Maujor John *M Carson, David W. Payne, Elmra, i General 7. S. Peck. Burlington, Vt and Hon. Robert O. Fuller, Cambridge, Mass. WILL BE REPRESENTED, Uruguay and ine Republic at the World's 5 Wasimsaros, DL C., Oct. 11.-The prest dent of Uruguay nas issied a decree entrust- ing the Association ttural of Uruguay with the duty of proparing an oxmbit for that country at the World's fair. This asso tion i5 well organized and embraces the groater part of the agriculturalists of the re- public. The Latin-American bureau of the World's Columbian exposition received information today that the Argentine IRepublic had ap propriuted $100,000 to pay the expense of its representation at Chicago in 1803, I'nis Liberality was unex- pected because of the financial depression in that country, and, indeed, it was foarcd that from motives of economy the Argentin® government would decido not o take part in the expositio at all, but ( ral Mucilla, the leador of the liberal party in the low house of the Acgentine congress, in advocat- ing the appropriation, expressed the senti- ments of the government and people when he sald that votwithstanding the financial em- barrassment of the country, it was impera- tive that the republic should be reprosented, not oniy for the sake of displaylog her warvelous resources, but also for reasons of another nature; reasons of Awerican policy und international gravity, and because of & press Lo the United States their estoem and & sincere and reciprocal cordial it I'he appropriation was ordered by a vote of 44w 1, desire to e