Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1891, Page 5

FALLACY OF FREE COINACE. How the Independents are Hoodwinked by the Bullionaires, WHEREIN T AFFECTS * THE FARMER, iterests of the Producer Btable Currency-—History Silver Legislation—About the Candidate. in a of Here Is delivored by bus, Saturda Free and Unlimited Coinage. Thesocond plank of the independent plat- form reads as follows: “We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver." he republican party stauds on the plat- form of the honest dollar, the dollar that will exchanyge a silyer doliar or a paper dol lar, or the gold doilar oue for the other at 100 cents, 1J eventually place the United States on a sil- ver basis with China, Moxico aud India, whose money is quoted at the mere market value of silver coin. It would drive gold out of circulation d make gold a mere com. modity, just as it was during the war, and !uslu itis today in Austria, in Argentine, n Cuba and other countres whers specis payments Liave been suspended. There hus been so much said about the crisis of 1573 and the demonetization of tho dollar by « conspiracy which is alloged to have been hatched on ‘the other side of tho ocean and which was carried out at Wash {ngton by members of our congress. It has been shown very fully in tho discussions before congress and in the rccords that there never was any such conspiracy. Democrats and republicans, the representatives from Novada and the representatives from Cali fornia uud all the mining states voted for tho bill. But even if the discontinuance of the coluage of standard silver dollars in 1873 had been the act of a combination in the interest of foreign money syndicates, tho act of 1575 restored tho silver dollar to tho position it now occupies. Although the standard silver dollar been upon the coinago of the United States from the foundation of our government, there had oanly been ,125,000 of these silver doilars coined from the timo of Georgo Washington down to the adminis- tration of Rutherford B. Hayes. The re moetization act of 1878 provided that tho United States treasuror shall cause tho coinage of 2,000,000 silyer dollars or month, From th: time on we egan the ~ enormous coinago of silyer, and in the thirteen years since that poriod we havo coined over 400,000,000 as against 8,000,025 11 the first eighty-six years of our government, and of the 400,000,000 of silver dollars that have been coined two-thirds are lylng dead in the treasury, simply becausc the peopic prefer paper money that is ex- chaggeabie into gold or silver 1o the silvor dollar itself, Now, what uso has the Unitod States for further coinage of silvor dollars ! Wagn't it much more rational to store the silver bullion in the vaults of the treasury and Issuo silver cortificates for its market yalue and let the people of the United States bave the nenefit of the differenco botweon the market value of the silver and its face valuet This is now the declared policy of the United States. Under 1t we will have a con- slantly increasing volume of currency abso- lumg safe, and any profit derived from the urchase of silver builion and coining 1t will nure to tho benefit of tho peovle of the United States, The tendency of this policy, it Is admitted, has been and will be to gradu ally advance the value of silver bullion to its legal ratio with gold, and when this is reached both gold and silver would be coined at the mint on equal terms and conditions, Under this policy we have incroased the volume of money by over 3,000,000, Will anybody tell me how the farmers and labor- ors of Nebraska are to be beaefited by free and unlimited comage! Do they own any shares of mining stock, or have they any Lver plate to couvert free of charge into sil- ver dollarst Do they want to enrich the bullionaires of Colorado, Montana und Cali foruin at tne expense of the whole country ! Senator Stewart of Nevada, in a lotter to the western congress that held its session in Denver in May, charged that the demonetiza- tion of silver in 1573 and the re- fusal to give the country free and unlimited coinage had resuited in'a general depression of the mining industry and had caused great 10ss to the people of the United States, and particuiarly to tne peopla west of tho Rockies. What are the fucts? And_by the way, I want to romark that Senator Stewart himself voted for the bill that the republican congress passed at 1ts last session for tho purclaso of 4,500,000 ounces of silver at its navkot valuo as the best measure and he only measure that was practica- ble. [n 1870 the total production of silver in the states and_territorities west of the Missouri river was §17,320,000, In 1550 the production of silver had gone up to §8,- 033,055, or double the amount, notwithstand- ing the fact that we had no free colnage, aud in 1500 we mined $02,030,831 worth of siiver in these western mines, notwithstandng all this talk that we have paralyzed the mining industry. The fact is we have mined four times a3 much silver in the last yoar as was mined twenty years ago boforo the silver dollar was domonetized. This fact affords conclusive proof that mining under the present couditions is very profitable: that the product evervwhere has boen in- creased anc that the minesare in a very flourishivg condition, but speculating in mines, selling options to mombers of con gress aud members of the United States son- ato to pull a bill through to put millions into the pockots of billionaires has not received much encouragement. It 1s an_open secret that theso speculators and gamblers around congress lurgoly influenced the action of that body, and alihough tho congress of the Unitod States by a whitewashing investiga tion, assured tho people that there was no foundation in the reports. I assert that hundreds of thousands of dollars of mining optiona were placed where they would do the most good. 1 have no personal knowledge, but people who were in Washington 'and watched the wmethod by which the bill was boomed to give us freo snd unlimited coinage assert that there was an option lobby to push the bill. Do not reflect on any man who voted for it. Our congressmen and senators voted for 1t becavse there was a goneral clamor out here, but [ suspect that some congressmen and some senators from states where there was no ciamor for free aud unlimited coinage voted for it because they expected there would be a big advance {n mining stocks, and they had an option to take those stocks at a given price. 1 repeat pur mining industries are just as flourishing as thoy could be barring the lack of confidence among investors and capitalists in this country and abroad. About the instability of our money system. Our business depression is largely due to the withdrawal of credits from America aud wo cannot hope to nduce foreign capitalists to {nvest or loan money in America so long ns this wildeat agitation continues. If you were to loan & man 100 bushels of wheat, what would you think of it if you would hear that he was prepariag to pay you back 100 bushels of oatsi The intrinsic value of silvor has gone down simply for the reason that instead of produc ing $I7,000,000 of silver year, and 34,000,000 of gold, as we did twenty odd years ago, the relative quantities of the two metals bave been reversed. Wo are now mining 0,000,000 of gold annually and sixty odd miliions of silver, Last yoar's output of silver is estimated in the United States to bo over $5,000,000, and when a commodity is cheupened by the reduced cost of production —for after all both gold and sliver are con modities of their kind—it stands to reason they will not continue to exchange at the same ratio. You can mine throe pounds of silver now for the price that it cost to mine two pounds twenty years ago. How it Affects the Farmer. Tt has Doen said that the American farmer would gain by sfree silver begause it would fncrease the valueof his product, be would sell bis grain for a higher price aud therefore be could lso pay his debta much more readily. That, I believe, is the true inward oss of the woole thing. ' But this is also a delusion. ‘Ibe prico of grain consunied in America is regulated by the price which the Burpius of grain exported to Europe commands fn the Liverpcol mar ket. Supbpose wheat s cemts a bushel n Liverpool, wheat in America for home consumption will sell for #1 a bushel less the cost of transporting a bushel of wheat acrass the Atlantic ocean #ud the commission which the midalemen get the conclusion of Hon. E. the specch Rosewater at Colum- limited silver coinage would | worth 100 | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, TUESDAY for handling it. Now, with free silver the | American farmer would only be able to sell | his wheat in America for the Liverpool price in a dopreciated S0-cent dollar, The depre ciatod silver doliar would be a legal tender in America, and that is the kind of monay in silver or paver exchangeable for silver he would get for his products. On the other hand every commodity the farmer has to buy would be advanced, be- cause prices of morchandise are Tegu- lated by the ®ost of labor and produc- tion. If the price of all commodities in Amorica advances then lumber, coal, cloth- ing, furniture, farm machinery and’ every- thing the farmer has 1o purchase would cost 20 per_cent more than it does now. But the farmer would only get Liverpool prices for his grain in American money. 1f you depre- | clate the dollar do yov gain anything by it} 1f you open to all tho ‘world the chance of coming to the American inint and let them dump their silver that is worth only 75 cents or 80 cents in exchange for ovidences of in- debtedness against the government for §I, you are bound to depreciate the currency of tho country, drive out the metal that can be ekchanged abroad dollar for dollar, and de- preciate yoar own products, raise the price of everything you hiave to buy and you gain nothing in returu, Not even the men em- ployed in the mines would gain anything. The mine owners alone would pocket the bonus, Tho ordinary laboring man certainly has nothing to gain by free and unlimited coin- age. The laboring man wants a dollar that has the largest purchasing power. His inter- est i3 not to have a dollar that will buy less but that will buy more, bocause wages o not advance in proportion to other things. Wages and real estate are the last things to advance, and the first thing to ¢o down. That is the economic, well tablished fact, and the laborer who bas saved up a dollar ought to have the benefit of buying as large a quan- tity of commodities, or wearing apparel, fur- niture and carpets, or anything that he needs, with that dollar, as he possibly could got. When that doilar goes down 1n its pur- chasing power ho loses part of his savings and is compelled to pay more for evarythiug he needs for himself and family. Office and the Candidate, Let us now turn from the platform to caadidates in the present camnaign. The oftica of supreme judee is one of the most im- portant within the gift of the people. Every intelligent citizen recoguizes that the man who occupies the highest judicial tribunal in our stato should 'be a law: well versed in law, and a man whose careor inspires popular respect and confidence. The ropublican party has placed in nomination for the position of su- preme judge a man who is not only a very compotent and successful lawyer, but a man who s served upon tho bench of your dis- trict for over ten years acceptably to the people, and whose reputation as a citizen 1s above reproach. The independent party has nominated Mr. Josoph Eagerton, not be- cause he is quaiified for a placo on the su- preme bench, but because r. Edgerton is a good stump falker and has managed no gratiate himself into the confidence of a lot of credulous farmers who trust nim and want to honor him with an oxalted posi- tion for which he is totally unfit. When [ first heard of him Edgerton was a republican office seeker in Poik county. After tho allianco carried that county ho bo- camo a rampant anti-monopolist. When he landed in South Omaha_ six or seven years ago he again proposed to be a repubican, but when be found the town overwhelmingly democratic he became a democrat, and was honored by the solid democratic town council with the appointment of city solicitor. His record 1n that position, the highest oftice he over held, is, to use mild language, decidedly malodorous.' As tuc legal adviser of the gang of boodlers that plastered South Omana all over with morgagos e holped to perpo- trate and cover up the most flagrant jobs. Every lawyer in Omaba knows that since he was ‘dropped as city attorney for Souin Omaba Mr. Edgerton has not_earned enough money to pay for the clothes he wears. He has no law practice. But Edgerton managed somehow to pay his way during the whole of Last winter as a“‘guide, philosopher and friend’* of tho independonfs in the legisiature, Ho was at the capitol during the whole sos- sion and he is _credited with doing some sly but very effective work to prevent the nas- sago of the stock yards bill, which providea for reduced charges for handiing and feeding live stock at stock yards and made himself solid with the manager of the South Omaha stock yards, Andin this legisiative lobby Mr. Edgerton formed a deep attachmer.: for that new apos- tie of tho third party, Piul Vandervoort. Paul the Apostie. Paul isnow stumping the state for Mr. Edgerton. 1 take it that men are known by tho company they keep, and that Mr. Edger- ton has full” confidence in the ability of Mr. Vandervoort to bamboozle the farmers for him, aud that ho expects through him to work up sympathy among the veteran soldiers of ttis stato, General Vandervoort issued a valedictory before he went into the camp of the independents and made a tear- ful appeal to the boys in bluo and tno formors. Let moread from this precious document : After many days and nights of thought of the most careful deilberation, looking over the parties and peoring into the future, 1 wve decided to ciose my career in the ranks of the republican party, and cast my lot with the independents. Mind you, he was a republican officeholder wheon the legislature met at Lincoln and held a position in the mail sorvice at Omaha, but he hired out to tho telophone company as & lobbyist, and while drawing pay as superin- ent of mails at Omaha be was down at Livcoln manipulating the legislature. 1n order to do effective work he took up his hieadquarters at the Lindell hotel with the independents and actually eulled them into the belief that he was 1 deep sympathy with them. When Postmaster General Wana- maker through his special agent ascertained that Vanderyoort had descried his post and was at Lincoln lobbying for the telephono and telegraph companies he_decided to dis miss him, As soon us Vandervoort becawe aware that his head would come off he sout in his resignation and bid good bye to the republican party. As a matter of faet, while he cut loose from tho republican party he did not cut loose from the railroads and other monopolies that have had him on their ay roll. But I must read a little more from >aul's valedictor I pave my first vote for Abraham Lincoln whtf'ln the prison pon at Milan, Ga: 1 hiava loved the party and tolled for its welfare in sunitght and gloon have risked my life and been u hbed and stoned In the dark ul benlghted quinine and fever stricken distric of southe Indiana. Tho new apostle forgets himself a little bit aud tells us in another part of this lotter: I went to the war atthe a; ot 16 1 was captured and lived one year in’ the cwmp of Belie Islo with my comrades freczing in the trenches. Lot us seo. If Vandervoort went into the war at the age of 15, und remained there until ke could vote for Lincoln, ne must have served six years. I happen to have th report of the adjutant general of Illinois right here, who certifies under the seal of the stato that Paul Vandervoort enlisted at Camp Butler near Spriugfield on the 10th day of June, 1862, tho frst time, and was mustered out at the place where he had eolisted, the camp uear Springfiold, after ' three months, be cause the term of his company had expired. If he was 15 years old in June, 1562, howola was he in November, 1564, when Lincoln was elected president for the second term! He could uot have been much over 17, and if ho voted for Abraham Lin- colu at 'the age of 17 ho was an early voter. [Applause.] Iwant to call your aitention to another little discrepancy.” He says he voied for Abrabum Lincoln in @ con foderate prison. Did confederatos gatber votes for Abraham Lincolu in the robel prisons and forward tho returns to Washing- ton! [Applause and laughter.] Further on in this saintly epistlo Paul says: I am not going to join the 000! party wuse there 1s nothing left of it but u remi- seence, & governor from Kitkeney, and tho ug, Fooking saloons with their blour-cyed, osed band of howllng dervishes oh soul stirring prohibition sentiment ppouls to the Woman's Chrstiun Temper- 'ce union At the risk of shocking the good people who have pinuea their faithon Vandervoort's professions 1 waut you to look at this letier, *aul's own handwriting. POSTOFFICE OMAHA, Murch 28, 189).—Doar Lan getting a splendid 10t of statistics eneral Hangs the owner of the Dodiin rry. Howrites mo that | | make them smplote. He want you to bid on granite for | your house. Thinks he can satisty you Yours, PAUL VANDERVOOIIT, This letter, written just beforo tho opening of the probivition campalgn last year is directed to Hon. Peter Tler, the ‘famous | whisky distiller. Vandervoort was the middle wan for the Dodiin granite quarry and volun- teered 10 furish lier statistics against pro | bibition s sn inducement for an order for O = OCTOBER 1 OVERCOATS. In Earnest. The public is fast finding out that we mean business on the Lig ther is favorable and so are the prices, as they last. LONDON TANS, ONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUS $7.50, $8.50, $10 and $12. We Mean Business. ht OVERCOATS: the weae You can have them as long 15 and $18 SUITS. Before you buy don’t fail to sce our fancy Chev- iot Sack Suits, for nobby business wear. ; N 4 > LLook in Our Show Window. g CREOVVIBED O THE DOOERS, Last Saturday our Boys’ Department was crowded all day. the bargains offered at this sale. B@YS KNEE BANT SUIT SALE. T J They will be run all the week. Plenty of them. All sizes, ) ( T = No better proof is needed of $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 BOYS LONG PANT SUITS. All the nobby styles for this season are in. CONTINENTAL. You can’t afford to buy until you have seen our $9.80, $10.00 and $12.00 Suits. UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT--SPEGIAL UALF PRIGE SALE Rustralian Wool, Gamel's- Mair and Merino Underwear: 50c--650 dozen Natural Wool, perfect finish, size 34 to 44, at 50c cents each. 75c--480 dozen absolutely All Wool Natural Mixture, suit, at this sale 75c each. $1.00--375 absolutely All Wool Winter Weight White Merino, the finest grade on the market at $1.00 each. in all sizes, sold everywhere for $2.50 per Send Mail Orders this week for Underwear, and we will promptly fill them. CONTINENTAL OCLOTHING HOUSE. Dodlin gramte. But Paul has experienced u change of heart. Ho is so disgusted with those red nosed democrats. As an Oil Room Manager. But that1s not all. Last year Vander voort testified upon the witnoss stand _h\ Omaha thut while he was in the lobby at Lin- coln for the railroads in 1857, Lie never knew of an oil room or o room in which liquor was given away to members of the legslature, and did not have any liquor in his own room. Now here is the ledger of the Capital hotel kept by Mr. Kitchen. In this ledger you see thero ~ are accounts against various peoplo who stopped thore dur- ing tho session of the legislaturo. You will see in this hotel ledger, pages 91, 100 and 110, headed John M. Thurston, debtor, and among the items charged to Thursfon are: January 25, Vandervoort, lodging and board, §104.25; 27th, room 15, cigars—room 15 was Paul’s room; February 6, bar 40 cents; February 6, cigars $3.50; b, washing, §1.40—they took caro of their lobbyists and kept them clean; 9th, cigars £. Then again cigars. Then wo come to February 18, cigars; February 20, bar and cigars $34.15. He did not know anythng about the liquor in the oil room. but he had run upa bur bill of &34.15. February 24, bar, #4; 25th, bar, £.50, and cigars; and then we got around acain to the 20th of March, bar $2.95; then some more washing; then on the 25th of February wine, $5. on the samo day another order for wine, £5; 25th, bar, $1.10; then on the 2ith board and loaging, §135 ‘and the total hotel bill which Thurston is charged with for Vander- voort during that memorablo session when the apostle of auti-monopoly, temperance and reform was playing eapper for the railroads foots up Skl Thurston’s bill ageregated 5o Vandervoort's mewrory was slightly out of jomt when he testified under oath that ho did not know anything about the logislative oil rooms and nover had any liquor in his rooms at the Capitol hoteL. : Now lot us onco moro continue Vander- voort’s pathetic valedictory. He says: ays lived in the sunlight of trath. Idefy an; © a broke ymise of mine in v ne tod my hi a dishonest doilar, und h all the ablliity Uhave, and with all my rt, and with tij r]nnn‘nl ota noble wife ana my bright eyed children T will go with gladsome bope into the ranks of the indepen dent party. Always in the sunlight of truth, indeed. Never touched a dishonest dollar. Listen to this touching tribute to his_parents and then contrast it with this letter from the home of nis boyhood: My father with hands blistered tofled eariy and'late. My mother in daylight and dark- ness. She had no joy. She bore her children and worked her fingers to the bone in the Hickering light of a tallow candle, BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Jan. 0, 150: Yours recelved. In'answeras to Paul Vin- dorvoort’s youthful antocedents, I have often said. and ‘sl think, | never knew a more worthless. strong, healthy boy than he was; not eriminaliy So. but lylus. doceptivo and false to s good fathier, never would work, but play off sick. I think be enilstod here while attending Wesloyan school aud too younz, was sent for rd as a recrult, and wént Into a cavalry went. Tnis was my understanding, 1 Wits [0 the service at the time. After the war he roturged here und was very torward in politics and gov some appoint- wents in rural school districts as a speaker, and after otion worrled the successful can- didate for some lmportant office. I beliave one of his demunds was territorial governor, but they gradually let him down to & mall clorkship. Aud from that on you are botter postod than Iam, Tamtoounwell to write further. Sure itis we donot want him back as w eltizen Yours Respectfully, O. BARNARD, Paul's Resonant Roar, Vandervoort's most blood-curdling ap- peals are to the old soldiers and a sweoping denunciation of the republican party for going back on tho veterans of the war. I appeal to my com rades” howls Vandervoort with @ voice that resemblos the fog horn of an ocean steamer, “‘for whom I have labored all my lifs, who have won all the victories of 'the republican party, who stood by them with as loyal devotion as in the da, when, with iron bands and nerves of steel, they held the shiniug musket and flasbing sabro in the red front of battle on all the flelds of carnage: who have forgiven broken promises and see rewards given to thosa who battled in the lines of the gray, to come out and join hands with the rising glory of the new party." What biatherskite and Has ever a nation on earth done as much for its volunteer defenders! Have Wwe not peasionod every man who has boen waimed in battle or disabled by disease! Are we uot carrying thousands of soldiers' Dear 8ir.— impostor! widaws on the national pension rolls? Have wo not pensioned every man who wore the bluo who is now dependent? Are not our pensions more liberal thun thoso of any other nation! Are we to pension ablo bodied swashbucklers like Vandervoort, who never received a scratchin the war, and have been kept on Uncle Sam’s pay roll two- thirds of the time since the wart Let us seewhat Vandervoort's rule1s as the great champion of tho soldier. A few ! years ago when he was temporarily out of the postal service, he was employed by a Washington pension agent who has amassed $£2,000,000 out of the pension claim business, to'use his influence with Grand Army men to clamor for more pension appropriations. Not long ago, when on the stand, he gave the fol- lowing testimony : Q. You may state whether you ever gave or furnished any passes to members of the legis- lature during the session of 18877 'A. Toccasionally furnishod passes for mem- bers upon their requests, ‘Che members of the legislature ull had time passes. Q. When did,you leave tho ratlway mail service as chietclerk? A, In 1853, Q. What did you do atter that? Al Tu 185 1 was employed by the Unlon and Central Pacific to seeure the nutional cn- campment at Sun Frantisco, and aftor the on- was secured, in 1886, I was em- ploy by the same railroads to secure the travel over their lines o San Francisco. What docs this show! It shows that Paul andervoort as a Grand Army man used his influence to got the railroads a long haul for the encampment and carry the delegates to tho Grand Army encampment and other veterans cloar across the continent to San Francisco, and yet this uotorious railroad capper is now stumping the state for Edger- ton, and while he pleads for the puor soldiers and denounces the republican party for not having done enough for them, ho is only trying to use the old soldiers as cats' paws to pull the railroaa chestnuts out of the fire, and while he is_advocating the elogtion of Eagerton he is traveling on railroad passes over this state and he is making regular re- ports every few days at railroad head- quurters. This s s mission in the camp of tho independents, and if Eagerton is elected tho railroad mausgors expectto have a friend in court. Vanderyoort ana Edgerton were both lob- bying at Lincoln last winter, yet we are told that the producers of ‘this state can rely upon Mr. Edgerton s an unap- proachable ~man. How is it? Is a man who has been a lobbyist, a man who has not got any business as & lawyer, who does not spend sixty days in a yeur at'tho court and probably not, I might 3av, two hours in a weck at his profession, fit to bo judge of our supreme court! How can such a man aspire to such a high posi- tion? It seems to mo that tho people of this state cannot afford to do tnis, notwithstand- ing the feeling that groat wrongs have been porpetrated in the past, notwithstandiug the fact that the people demand better govern- ment and that our legislatures have failed to givo them reliof. It seems to mo then that the rank and filo of the jndependents, the farmers and tho working peovle who are reully in earnest and honestly desire reform fina themselyes in this dilemma. They have endeavored by a third party movement to rid themselves of bad government, of bossism, of the machine, and they have eudeavored through au independent loglslature to formu- late laws that woull give them better rates on the railroads, that would protect them in every direction against corporations, and they have found that their confidence bas been betrayed by their own representa- tives, and they have bean imposed on by do- sigoivg meu. Now what shall they dof I am just as much in faypr of all the reforms we have advocated, butT beliove that if in- dependent republicans aud indepeudent dom ocrats would work within the lines of their own parties that they have sufficient strength n this state to con- trol ~ every convention, to control overy legislature and get all the reliof they want. In California when the working peo ploof that state did not waat the Chinese to remain, what did they doi They did uou creato a new party. ‘They went to the demo- cratio party and in their conventions passed resolutions in faver of Chinese restriction laws. They went iuto tne republican conventions and did the sawe thing, and they weut to the national conven- tions of both parties and pledged members of congress to euact laws excluding Chinese from the United States, and they suceeded. A single “ism" is not likely to create a great | revolution in the United States. T'be mere desire of reviving greenbackism, which has been dead ever since resumption went into effect \n 1575, is not going to revolutionize the politics of the country or give & new party control, or even tbo balance of power | take | ary. in nationai affairs. At the very best a third party is ooly a_tomporary expedieut, T assert right here and I kuow whereof I ' speak that if Mr. Burrows and Mr. Powers had not mude the frantic efforts tney did and sent requests and appeals to mom- bers of the farmers alliance to keep away from tho republican prim- aries last year, wo would have had a republican convention that would haye nominated a clean anti-monopoly ticket. We would have uomiaated tho ablest and most reputablo men within the ranks of the farmers alliauce, and weo would have had a legislature that Would have been true blue, and would not have been cajoled into passing fictitious railroad bills and all sorts of legis- lation that costs ws enormous sums of morey without rendering any equivalent. Railroad Manipulation. It is a mattor of fact, too, and 1 want to call your atteution and that'of the independ- onts to that, that last year's people’s conven- couvention was manipulated by the railroads almost as much as any convention that has ever assembled in this state, A very cousiderable number of membvers in " that couvention wero manipulated by the railroad lobby that was right there on the Hoor. When the convention met it was understood to be in favor of Van Wyck for governor, but the lobby managed to manip lato it to 'mominate Mr. Powers. Now, M Powers is not a railroad man. Ido not charge tnat, but Mr. Powers was a weak man and the 'railroad managers wanted the woak- to head that ticket, and they Tno same thing hoppenel re- ntly in the indepenaent judicial convention of our district Vandervoort came in and helped to foist two men on tho indevendent judicial ticket, one of whown has been an at- torney ot the Missouri Pacific and the other one who is known to be coutrolled by the railronds. Candidates with a good récord wore dofeated. Aud yet Burrows appeals to all independents to voto the unscratched ticket, and assures them that every candidato on their state and judicial and county tickets is thorouchly honest and oapable, It is a shame and a fraud. 1t is with independents just as it 1s with the rank and file of all parties, They listen and believe every mountobank and windbag who pretends to’sympathize with them and makes profuse promises. Thoy have allowed themselves to be led by a few lnwvers liko Mr. Edgerton and our man Strickler who formorly was a rleeping car conductor and turned up as a great constitutional ex- pounder and has had no cases oxcenting those brohibition contests, That class of people, the Vaudervoorts and their ilk, lead them by the noso and try to make them beliove that they are now on the high road to reform- ing the state and gving us better govern- ment than we have had, When the national campaign of 1502 opons, necessarily thero will only be two great parties after all. And whon we come to state ofticers and the state ticket, is it not likoly that the republican party, de- irous of success, would put to the front the very best men it can _command and would yield to whatever the farmers demand provided ~ always that the farmers would part in our primaries and iu our conventions, but if they absent themselve: and if they g0 into a soparate campaign ana divide themselves into a miuority they simply throw their votes away and they will accomplish nothing. Men in all parties aro after all but men. The label of any one party does not make & man honest. A man nowinated in an independent convention is no more to be trusted than & man nominated in any other convention uless he is known to bea reliavle, straightforward, honest man, and unless heé has the instinets of integrity and sincerity. Now, I trust, fellow citizéns, that you will waigh this matter well, that you will not undertake to place upon the supreme bench a man who Isconfessedly incompetent and whose only claim for vour suffrages is that ho professes to ba a convert to overy fleeting popular dogma be it ever so wild and vision 1 hope that you will, on the 3d day of No- yember, put your seal of coudemnation upon all the spurious reforms and cast your votes for Albert M. Post and place upon the su- preme bench & man trusted and respected by the people in his own county and the peoplo of his own district o will bring t the discharge of responsivlo duties the ripe judgment of an experienced his I thank follow citizens, attention, and I trust that when you come to make your choice, regardless of party—be cause after all this is 8 question thut affects every citizen and the integrity of our courts you will 4o your duty as citizens, who love the state and its good name and reputation more than they love their party, vou for your Richara will bring to Boyd's theater for threo nights and Saturday matinee, commencing Thursday, October, his successful portraiture of rural New England life and 1w **Old Jed Prouty" will eract all the quaint mannerisms and utterances of tho peoplo “way down enst.” It1s stated that there was once indeed an “0ld Jed Prouty” iu the flesh, and that Bucksport, Me., was his abiding 'place for almost two gonerations, and moreover that Richard Golden himself, who plays the part, hails from Bucksport and saw much of old Prouty 1 the latter's lifetime and carly resolved to give his elaerly fellow-villager a dramatic form at the proper opportunity. The sale of seats for the entire engagement of “Old Jed Prouty” will be put on sale at § o'clock tomorrow morning. Fred E. Wright, Hoyt's well known re- resentative, arrived in the city this morning. He comes in _advance of “:A Midnight Beil, which appears at Boyd's new theatre on Thursday, Friday snd Saturday of next week. — i Don't Feol Well, And yot you are not sick enough to consult a , or_vou refrain from so doiug for fear il alarm vourself and friends—wo will you just what: you need. It is Hood's Sarsapariila, which will lift_you out of that uncertain, uncomfortable, dange condi- tion, into u state of good' health, confidenco and’ cheerfulness. You've no idea how potent this peculiar medicine is in eases like yours S John F. Finerty, Congressman Hryan, Congressman M M. V. Gannon, John M. Thurston, Will speal at the colebration, Wed 5 new theate ghan, 'reaty of Limerick” esday evening, Oct. 14, Admission 50 cents. The following Judge Shields yesterday: Restdence and Address, $Albert Schewe, Omi 1 Christiun Kalser, Omu § L. B, Fuller, O i Auno B Hunt. On JE 1 Fashbuit, Omaha 1 Ro Markold, Omaha.... ydohn Lar 1 Annic were 1ssued by Omalii {A.. Ormah i Edua B8 Moyer, Omalin Attend the bi-centennial ceicbration of the *“Treaty of Limerick" ut Boyd s New theate Wednesduy evening. Admission 50 cents, el Build The following p superintendent of buildings yestes Jon Hart, 1-story frame cottuge, Nin teenth und Plirce streots. 0 One minor permit o 155u0d by the 1,000 100 81,100 - VanHouten's Cocoa—The standard of the world . —— Attend the bi-centennial celebration of the “T'reaty of Limerick” at Boyd’s Nuw theater Wadnesday evening. Admission 50 cents, eeee Gt Western Pensions. WasiixGToy, D, C., Oct. 12, —[Special Talo- gram to Tue Be, |—The following list of pen- sions grantad is reportod by Tuz B aud Examiner Bureau of Claims Nebraska: Original —Josoph Ferguson, amuel H. Hunter, John Dugger, Theodora Wheeler, Isaac N. Coonor, Warren D. Vane curren, Kovert J. Kerles, James A. Davis, Martin Smith, John Josts, Swmuel Miller, Jocob W. runt, Dantel Snyder, Henry Blackbird, George W. Murphy, Henry C, Haskins, 'Clark Perkins, Seymour L. Studs loy, Burnoy Lunison, John R. Pagles, James B! Chapin, Martin H. Van Horn. Additional Ezra Brown, George Venters, Francia Kibboy. Increase—Louis B. Reed, Wilham R. MeDaniel, William Watle, William Murs phy, Lemuel L Gaudy, Henry Morris, | issuo—dosenn Stohl:' Mexicun survivor Jackson Totte: lowa original—Henry Dupell, Lewis Lincs, William L. Jordan, Charles 13." Wood, Willt iam Nason, William Irvine, Russell B. Lock- wood, Charies I. Gardner, Dave McEvers, William Little, James E. Jowel, William M, M. Conmun, I'raklin Stanton, Charles M. Home, Charles H. Britton, James 1. Green, Nathan Brown, James Thomas. Additiona] —John Richmau, Jeremiah Cofu, Joseph Shultz, Willam Klukow, Charles M. Rupson, John A. Lamb, John C. Haney, Jucop 1 Rosacrants, Rostoration—Cornelins Dun nick. Increase—Robert H. Williums, Zu ariah A. Brown, Simon Leggert, | siogor, Prerce Gilbert, Henry Reves, Cyrus H. Phelps Kubn, John Kelley, Georgo Reissie — Georgo ~ Mikesell, Emery, Thomas Bain, William H. Cook. Ioissuo and incrense—Idward H, Jones. Original widows — Mary T. Lano, Jucok Beck, father, Mexican’ widows— Elizabeth Ryan, Eleanor L. dlason South Dakota: Orig Wood, Alonzo Truesdell, Asa H. Daytou, Georgo T, Wood. Additional—Augustus M Eldowney, David I, Clurk, John Van Hor: Reissue and increase—Ashiby Randall Gessler's Magic Headas beaduches in 20 minutes., A Attend the bi-centenniul celebration of the “Treaty of Limerick” ut Boyd’s New theater Wednesday evening. Admission 50 cents. Wi Jumes M. nal—Hartson 1, 10 Wafers,Cures al At all druggists - What o Newspa Mr. J. Beckman, tho Farnam stroot cigar manufacturer, called upon Tue Bee tosiy that the campaign for homo industry beiug waged by this paper had been of practical valuo to his businoss. He has found 1t nece essary o puton more men to accommodate his increased patronage which laiter he at tributes to the better publicsentiment created chietly by Tue B an Do, The U. § government are using large num- bers of the Improved Howo scales. Dorden & Selleck Co., ugents, Chicazo, 1L, Boodlers in Statue Quo, The council committeo apvointed to look into the alleged charges of boodling preferred agninst certain members, tried to bold a meeting last night. 1t was a failure. There Were no witnessos present to examine and the depositions that had beon applied for Lnd uot returned. An attempt will be made to hold another meeting noxt Thursday night. VAN HouTen's Gocoa. PLEASE READ THIS. OO Cents a pound for VAN HOUTEN'S GOCOA (“Best & Goes Farthest”) seems to be high. Let us'compare it with the price of Coffee: 11b. of good coffec costs at least 30c., makes 81 half-pint ¢ 1 ¢ “V,H. Coco, * therefore 90c., ¢ 1650« 90c, D~ Which is the Cheaper Drink ? ~BWQ RETAIL PRICE ver_pound 90c. — | s R “LIBQ ¢ Sold by every Groce 1 93 cups of Coffee, ‘‘V,H.Cocoal! SIS POIOIIO PGS PTG IIORIISIIIIIIIIEIIIN G IOIEGOIIOI0090000805