Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1891, Page 4

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Omaha, Neb. REMEMBER to register next Thursday. In order and Towa the It is the duty of every voter in Omaha tosoe thut his name is on the regist tion list. UNLESS our citizens awa <o from their lethargy und registor thousands of votes will bo disfranchised. a- THE Chilians have the advantage of Americans in one particular. Their election wus held y THE best sort of a gardeners’ trust for the gardencrs ns well as tho people would be a public market hou EDGERTON is making votes for Judge Post wherever he presents himself to the poople. The average American citizen when times are good can detect a demagogue on sight. WHEN it comes to the election of municipal officors all questions of birth- place, religious belief and party politics sink into insignificance. Character, competency, integrity and eflicioncy are the qualifications which should be sought for among candidates. THE Real Estate Owners association desorves credit for sending George Boggs and E. A. Benson,two of Omaha's enterprising citizons, to Chicago to negotiate for a very large farm imple- ment manufuctory which is now canvass- ing for a location in tho wost. The es tablishment would employ 2,000 men and is worth working for “Wuar could be produced at home was not to be bought abroad. That was the McKinley schome and it is working. out the idea of its designers with the precision and effectivencss of a ma- chine.” This is w the Sheflield Zele- graph, one of the greatest journals out- sido of London, has to say of the Ameri- c.an tarily law now in force, THE fact stands unchallenged and un- challenceable that the late independont legislature approprinted half a million dollars more than the republican body of two years preceding. Deducting the Worlds fair and reliof uppropriations, the excess is still over $250,000. It must not be forgotten either, that the iegis- lature of 1589 was generally condemned for its extravaganco. — THE national convention this should bho largely at- tended by our best citizens. The trans- mississippi congress will bo in se and sevoral hundred visitors abroad will be in attendunce, A fisco at that vime will be especially unfortunate and give our visitors a very bad impre sion of Omaha enterprise, 'he #50,000 guaranty should be mude up Monday night in about half an hour for the purpose of showing to the gentle- men from Minneapolis, Denver and Kan- sas City that no city in the west can outdo Omaha in matters of public inter- est. meeting evenin, sion from THE dolegates from the British isles to the Mothodist ecumenical council in Washington had a practical lesson in America civil government they will never forget. Their eyes opened wide with wonder to discover that a plainly dressed individual, accompained only by a plainly dressed cabinet oflicer was tho president of the United States, Theve were no heralds, no trumpeters, no body guard, no staff of officers, no trappings of power. The prosident came and went away. No crowd followed and no demon- stration was made. The foreign dele- gates wore profuso in expressions of astonishment at the democratic exhibi- tion they witnessed, and they go back to their homes strongly impressed that “ia government of the people, by the people and for the people” is the ideal and President Harrison an embodimont of that ideal. AN OUTRAGEOUS LIBEL. A most sensational story affecting the reputation of Judge Post, republican can- didate for the supreme court, appeared of the World- Herald under glaring and grossly The | cited by the nareator of this vilo accu i to have been Colonel Daily, in the Sunday edition Omaha libelous headlines, ading witness tion s ss prosecuting attorney of Decatur county, Towa, twenty y Colonel Daily, wholives at Council Bluffs, declares most the ted the report out Ars ago. mphatically that the reporter of World- Herald fabricd of whole cloth. Judge Reed of Council ais! the time, indictment Bluffs, who was rict judge for De- catur county at is positive against World- Colonel there was no Judgo PPost as charged by the Herald during the term while Daily acted as district attorney. Post himself was at Siduey yesterday, and is now on his way to We have no doubt he will take will effectually re- Judge \y Omuha. decisive action that fute the foul charges brought against him, DEMAGOGUES ON THE BENCH. It is unfortunate that by our system of jndicial officers invite form of charlat which w- \s are not above resorting t In a northern county a district judge has set aside decrees of foreclosure, con- tinued for and in ways exerted his authority to prevent the enforcement of valid contracts, ex- he does not pro- the settlement theso controversies although may he clear that a resident holder wilfully violated a contract with a In g western court the due nrocess of law has been arbitrarily arrested and a judge publicly bids for votes because he has taken this coursc In a southern dis- trict the farmers have been given to un- derstand that the mortgagee will have no standing in cour of the eandidates nominated for district judges by the independents in this state have pledy letters of acceptance to bo the friends of the farmer if elected. ‘The independent candidato for judge of the supreme court in making o canvass of the state boldly intimates that if he 1s elected his bias will disregard the rights of creditors where the debtor is a Thero is entirely too much demagogy in this judicial campaign. A man who will pledge himsolf to violate the sanc- tity of contract obligations is a man who richly deserves defeat at the polls, but a lawyer who will agree in advance of his election that if elected he will give any advantage to one litigant as against another either in the procosses or inter- pretation of the law is a disgrace to the legal profession. The only political and social platform upon which an honest candidato for judicial honors can stand with his head erect and his conscience clear is that be will live up to his oath to enforce the constitution and the laws of the state. The mountebanks who have announced thoso vote-catching propositions ave doing more harm to the farmers than the worst usury sharks. Thoy have al- ready impaired the credit of Nebraska in the money centers of the The possibility that Edgerton my be electod to the supreme bench and a number of wyers pledged to force contract obligations may de elected to the district has caused nearly every large eastern investment company to suspend tho making of loans in this state. The magnificent cron prospects encouraged investors and there was every prospect that money would be cheap and abundant this fall. Today it is hardly possible to make a farm loan. Business men foar to invest ov loan capital in a community where pettifogging lawyers ave applauded for declaring in advance of their election to judicial offices that they will see to it that non resident creditors shall not enforce lawful claims. clecting we nism some tlosure suits arious pressly avowing that pose to aid in of it property has nonresident. stern sd.themselves by specehos or wmer, east. shyster en- courts THE PENNSYL AMPAIGN, Political attention 1s so Jargely ab- sorbed by the camp in the states that rnors ear that the situation in Pennsylvania receives very little consideration. Yet there is a very active contest going on in that state and the result will have almost as much im- portance in its bearing upon the presidential battle of next vear as the result in any of the states. Although Pennsylvania elects this year only a treasurer and auditor general, national issues are at stake, and tho verdict of the people will consequently have an influence upon tie future determination of these questions. With ordinary there would not be the least reason for a doubt us to the character of the verdict. But the conditions are extraordinary, and of such a nature as to warrant somo apprehension of republican defeat. Three years ago Pennsylvania gave Harrison a plurality of 80,000, but last year she electod w democratic gov- ernor. This was due toa heavy repub- lican revolt against the political mothods of Quay which was abundantly vindieated by events following the elec- tion. Indue course of time Quay was compelled to retire from his position as aleader, and while it is by no means certain that ho has entirely given up political manipulation, his influence and work were not present in the last state convention, With the rotivement of the objectionable leader there appeared to most favorable promise that the republican party would bo reunited. Then came the disclosure of the frauds committed by the ocity treasurer of Philadelphia, Bardsley, the investigation of which invelves the state treasurer and auditor The senate | been in extraordinary session de- termine whether the officials shall be removed, and -its decision may have an important effect upon the eloe- tion. Independent of the consideration thut the course of Governor Pattison in this wuatter may have been in part prompted by the hope of partisan ad- itage, if it be shown by indubitable evideace thut these state officials are in any > fmplicated in the rascaliy transactions of Bardsley, and the senate aus elect gov this condition: be goneral, to measur [ \ | | convened | | oortaluly 1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, refuse to their removal, the republican cause will certainly suf- fer. The message of Governor Pattison to the senate presented a most remark- able record of collusion, fraud bery in public office, and if the senate finds the facts ad stated to be true it can- not allow the inculpated officials to re- main in office without injury to the re- publican party Such is the situation in Pennsylvanis that renders the result of the election uncertain. The republican candidates are men of irreproachable charac- ter. They mad records as soldiers, and they are worthy citizens republicans, But there even sach men will not be the full strength of under existing conditions, the republican senate bravely does whatever it shall clearly see to be its duty in the interest of official hon- sty advise and rob- honorable sound is anger that to command e party and able the| unless FINANCIAL CONSPIRACIES. Senator Sherman has felt called upon to take public notice of a document issued in the interest of the neople’s party of Ohio, which cites seven events in the financial history of the country since 1860 thut are declared to have been As like views are held by of the political everywhere v Sherman One of is the com- od in reply to conspi the movement ment by general alloged traction of the cu 3 this Senator Sherman figures showing that in 1860, with a population of 31,000,000, the total amount of all the money in wtion $135,000,000, half of which was money of variable changing value, while now, with a pop- ulation of 62,000,000, we have in circula- tion $1,500,000,000, “‘every dollar of which is as good gold, all kinds eaual to each othor, passing from hind to hand and paid out as good roney, not only in the United States, but among all the commercial countries of the world.” While our population has only doubled our money s increased nearly fourfold. Another of the so- called conspiracies was the refunding of the national debt, a process which Sen- ator Sherman says is regarded by all in- telligent statesmen as a measure of the highest value, and its results were in the interest of the people of the United States. Of course the alieged domonetization of silver was also a “‘conspiracy,” although the record clearly shows that the silver legislation of 1878 was as free from anything of the nature of conspiracy as any ever cnacted by congress. Senator Sherman cites the well known facts in the monetary his- tory of silver in this country downto the enactment of the existing iaw and says: “In spite of all, and growing out of tho 1ncreased supply of sil- ver and the cheapening processes of its production it is going down in the market and is only maintained at par with gold by the fiat of the different governments coining it.” Resumption of specie payments was another ‘*‘con- spiracy,” a measure which Senator Sherman justly says is the glory and pride of the people of the United States, since it enabled this government to ob- tain a higher credit among the nations than it had ever bofors enjoyed and to maintain it unquestioned. Reference to the other so-called finan- clal conspiracies is unnocessary to show the spirit and the quality of intellizenco dominating the poople’s party. Its ill- informed and visionary leaders can seo no merit in the financial legislation which has made the United States the most flouvishing and prosporous nation in the world, and as far as possible would undo it, had they the power, and substitute a policy which would in time reduce this country to the financial con- dition of the Argentine Republic It is high testimony to the intelligence and patriotism of the peonle that this party is everywhere on the decline. supporters ne Senator is application. conspiracies rency, presents cir was and as COLONEL JOnN M. CARSON, the able Washington correspondent of the Phi delphia Ledger, is in Ohio watching the progress of the campaign. Colonel Carv- son is a most careful observer, and his views as conveyed to the journal he ro- presents are to be accepted as trust- worthy. When, therefore, aftor a thorough investigation and study of the ituation on the ground he pre- dic the lection of Major M Kinley it is reasonably safe to bank on his judgement. Of courss there are contingencies that wmay defoat this promise, one of which is the possibility that the people’s party may cast a lavger vote than is expected, but the indica- tions are all favorable to republican victory 1n Ohio so far as the state ticket s concerned. The outlook the legislature is not so clear. SNYDER, the ont county treasurer, is not responsible for ervors of his predecessors, but he owed it to himself ana the county when elected to improve the efficiency of his office. One of doing this would be to devise a systom of book-keeping which would make it impossible for $12,000 of any fund to get out of sight so far that no- body plain i whereabouts. rogarding ADAM pros can ¢ significant Figures. Glohe-D:moera. Oue of the significant. points of tho consus statistics 15 tho fact that in the demouratic states the average percentage of persons un able to read is 27,0, while In the republican states it is only 4. A SR Let Her Squirt. Leram'e Republican In Omaha thoy are aguin talking pipe line from Wyoming. If the Standard Oil com- pany doesn't make a demonstration of some kind we may be squirting petroleum into Ouwaha Leforo the next year is out. Size of the Majority in Uoubt. Kansas City Joural, In & receat interview at Doaver, Mr. Bynum, the great democratic leader, ex- pressed considerablo doubt us to the result in Otio. Mr. Bynum Is correct 1 being cau- tious. No one ean tell within 10,000 votes of Major McKinley's mujority. Tae Campign in New York, New York Morubig Adverhaer dmy, Tammany has bardly r terribie assaults made upon it cis M. Scott when he was a mayor, until that statesmon field as full of ftght and fe Tne nominatiou of Mr. Scott democracy for Justico of the for the ecoverad from the by Mr. Frai candidate for n in the as eve city by tho eounty suprome omiLous r. Wit | close | but only to gratify the moral sentim — Mr. Fassett cactyjog on the war in the rural districts ana M Scott resuming the conflict in town, 1t looks as if the boast would be be- reft of hide and hair, ana left quite minus | auything in the sbapo of & leg to stand upon. e Golden Truths. Commereial, Paul Proncer Press has investigatioh, ana estimates the in crense of tho valug of farm lands in Minne sota and tho Dakotas has been $200,0000,000 within a year, The crops in those states this year are believed to be worth §150,000,000. Sull the democratic politicians are crying, Calamity | Dodging Cineinnati The St. made a - A Paintul Petticoat Joke. St. Paul Pioneer Press, When a Jayhawker town out in Kausas elected Mrs. Paxton mayor it was cousidered awfully funny, and for weeks afterward somo of the voters got up in the night to laugh Slowly, however, it has dawned npon them that a mayor who rogards the bailiwick as a family of unruly boys and proceeds to en- force laws that were not made to be enforeed, nt of tho truly good, is not the kind of a mayor they need after all. To make the joxe justa hairbreadth funnier she declines to resign at the reauest of the principal taxpayers, and tho funny peoploare now swearing softly and waiting impatiently for clection day to come again, PrSTE- POINTS ON STATE POLITICS. Wahoo Wasp: Edgerton is the kind of a man who will runr best whero ho is the leact known, Pawneo Republican: Judgo Post's nomin- ation has been received with enthusiasm and satisfaction in every section of the state, and more especi: v in the localities where he is best known, and his qualities as a jurist especially racoznized and aporeciated, Grand Island Independent: Who was more proliic of promise thaa the Traitor Taylor, and who more ready to violate them 1n the last legislature, Taylor and Edgerton appear to be off the samo pieco of goods, but fortunately the people have learned from the action of Taylor to examine the record, as well as the words of a candidate, 'riend Telograph: Soldiors are protuy generaily satisfiod with tho prosent ponsion laws and it might bo as well to suggest to Paul Vandorvoort as he goes around over the state attempting to crack that old chestnut, that a little consolation regarding the enormous expendituras of the people's money by the last legislature may be of intorest to more people in this state just at this particu- lar time. Nebraska City Pro When a person thinks of Paul Vandervoort, the openly noto- vious lobbyist, perching as a reformer and lowling out against tho railroads as an inde- pendent, it makes one smile. Paul is owned body and soul by the railroads, and went iat the alliance party on order of the mononalics, drawing his pay from them the same as of yore. What is true of him will apply equalty as well to others in the independent camp. irand Island Independent: A. M. Post is acknowledged to be an upright, honorale gentioman. Nover a stain has rested upon his character as a itizon or as an ofticer. He is possessed of an education and learning in law and has had nine vears' exparience on the bench, where ho has given the best satis- faction. He revresents no class and is pledged to nothing but equal and_exact jus tice to all, regardloss of class. This is the kind of a man to elect. Greeley County ' Independent ; personally acquainted with Jop Eagorton. Have known him since June, 1836, and know him to be an unprmeipled office soeler, u man who is in any party that will promise ov offer him a place on the ticket. Ho is with- out education, and should he by accident be elected to the supreme bench, would bo a dis- grace to the state, ana all law abiding men who voted for him would be ashamed to admit that they hud been so mistaken in their judgment. Lincoln Journat: It 1s rumored out in Polic county that in the few cases in which Edgerton appeared in the courts there dur- ing his practice as a lawyer he dared nct reiy on himsell to draw the vapers, but was in the habit of employing Mr. A.J. Sawyer of Lincoln, to write them for him. The Poll county people are of the obinion that a man who cannot prepare o petition or an answer in tittle simple lawsuits such as Edgerton had in that county 15 hardly it for a seat on the supreme bench. Fremont Flail- 1f Paul Vandervoort said in his speech at Red Cloud, as charged, or any spoech that “tho patriotism of the soldiers auring the war of the rebellion was all bosh, and that very fow soldiers went into the war except those who were lured in by the bright promises of bounty and pension in case of disability,” he is a poltroon and a coward. That Bawl Vander- voort had no higher patriotism than the few dollars hesaw in the seevico is evineed by his course in politics and otherwise. He never served any party or any institution or any department that ho did not attempt to subserve to his own porsonal emolument, ov greod and he never loft any servico but what was the better for his having rotired. His wind and gall made hi ander of the Grand Army and the darkest blot.on the record of that fustitution is tho association of his name in that capacity. As a bag of wind he 15 asuccess, but as a man or a soldier ho is but a walking blocls, fit oaly to dust the company’s regimentals on. Wo are comm Star: you'think that now i Fionce In newspipar ofl City Editor—Yes, indeed, What makes you think so? “The first thing he did wh desk was to hide the ink and lo ditor—To ny expe- 1gavo him « his pen up.” has married Miss Dashor." el L0 e i rash ox- nade man aud irl, and It {s doub nation will worls well te she'sa taflor Jsuch a combi- TR ULSTER, Bkt News, The woather now'ls erow For winter's aluiost hore, And soou [ plaee of light top coat The ulster will gpnor And now, anent RIS wintor weap A word's not slitof place A'word extollingit. in fact, And yieldin 2in dio priise, Thy ulster isn't much on stylo Nor does 1t shaw nuch shuy 1t tis most comfortabie, With lon e sind sprendin But, host of alkAE rone The ground. 40 110 0 Can 820 honoi i she rized coat And the throardg! lir pants, < cool, w York Sun: fothson—Hullo. Thompson I heur you're takin® Keeley's bichioride of gold, Are you curedd Thompson—Perteptly. | wouldw't take drink for £3; hite thetiste of thn st now Toi Well, dgy sou think Tt will be per Tiompson (thoughttully | | U'm afrald so. Yo Ing & Yorkers fng 0. There thure kor's Statesman: There is talk of forn- yucut club up in Canadi of Now Chiare shoi b no di-ulty in do- \ are plenty of “skippers' up | Post: A tuestrieal writor its wre oot imodest rybody knows that they St. Louls marks that t course not shrinktnzg (hing ro ot ure tutement that Binghamoton Lo der: The de Vo revently erught recelved in stive siionce, an of > his Tr s Boston ript Crenture bod 1 set of hor carcer wnd Lieart over s 1891. WASHINGTON GUSSIP, Wasnixoroy Beneav or e Bew, } 518 FovwTrENTIC STREET, Wasnixaroy, D, C,, Oct. The information in today's press dispatches by way of Kansas City that Major George W. Steclo had resigned his position as gov- ernor of Oklahoma, creates no surprise here, The report is nov confirmed official but is doubtless true, When in Washington a short time ago, George Stoele said ho was not satistied with his oMcial_posivion, either its auties or location ana tuat ne intended before many months to return to his home in | Indiann, whero private business, he wanted to resume bis Some months since the parliament of Great Britain passed a law 0 ald of the Irish ton antry and looking to the relief of the con- wested districts of Ireland, Under the pro. visions of that act five commissioners hi been appointed in Ireland to seak out m ures of relief for tho destitute poor of Ire land. Oneof the commissioners, Hon. Hor ace Plunkett, hus been detailed to the United States for tho purpose of inquiring into the immigration laws of this country, and espe- fally why the late immigration law was passed, which is so_strongly prohibitive of the poorer classes of the old world 1nto the United States, and the inquiry iuto the de- mands of labor 1n this country ana _the op- portunities of securiug homesteads in the United States. Plunkett is accompanied on his travels rl of Iingall. They have made tour of tho United States, traveling alon the Union Pacific railrona, passing through Colorado and a_largo section of the western torritory, looking into tho labor matters and the land 'question, and were, on October 14, at the Ireasur; department ' in consultation with the superintendent of immigration. Mr Plunkett says that [voland has lost oue-half of uer population i the last fifty years, and yet sections of that country are 5o taken up with Baronical castles and the preserves of the lords, that the land left to the labor man. and ' out of which tho tenantry must make a living, is so limited in_quality and so steril in its soil, that it is hardly possible for these people to raise erops that will so much ns pay the ronts _On the western shores of Ireland dwell 50,000 peoplo ou hold ings where the soil is exhausted, and they are confessedly unablo to raiso sufticient to meet family needs, and they aro & on the oor rates of that country. Tho proposition under the now law is to combine four, five orsix of these holdings into one and one family will bo ablo to mauntain itself profitably: but the trouble arises us to whut will become of the four or five families thus disposessed. Thero is no vlace in Irelana for them to go to; Kngland won’t have them, and Mr. Plunkettand the earl are i Americs seeking an mterpretation of our immigration Laws that will pormit these peoplo to ve trans- ported to America. ‘The manvfacturers of Ireland arc so iimited that the people dispossesed of lands ave unable to sarn a living and cannot go to the factory aistricts for employment, and they cannot go to England for the fuctory districts in England are on the vergg of the bread riots now. Mr. Plunkett hoped 1t would bo possible to pre-empt larwe sect of lund in the far west, and locate bis people there, or to find sections of the country where there was greater scarcity of labor, and ship these people to those sections, with arrangements mado with ' contractors so that they could be given emvloyment at once and not become public charges. Mr. Plunkett frankly stated that the bitherto unsatis- factory condition of the people of Ireland was rapidly approaching that of real waut, and unecessitatea governmental action on their behalf, that there was no place for themon the continent of Europe, and no place for them in Envlaud; their’ mother country refused to accept them or to lot them set up housekeeping so they could have their own bomes; that South Anerica could offer no_inducements to feed them in their condition, andthe United States presented the only possible hope-for them on the globe. Tho superintendeut told Mr. Plunkett that thirty years ago the people of this country sang that Uncle Sam was ‘‘rich enough to give us all a farm,” and that it was belioved the territory of the United States was prac- tically inexhaustible, but the building of three railways across the contiuent has re- sulted in towns every few miles along those roads, and splondid cities in many instances. Branch roads were projected from the main lines, until the whole country was now pierced and interlaced with railroads until what was twenty years ago a_desert is toduy a populated region. An empire of people now live beyond the Mississivpi river, aud the rush of American people for free homo- steads 1o tho United States where the rapidly developing country cnhanced the valuo of lands and afforded opportunities for money making had been so great that the public domain is now practically con- sumed, so that, o few_months siuce, when the president of the United States declarad 11,000 homesteads in Olklahoma open to entry for whoever should bo first to settle on them after 12 o'clock on a given day, thore wero five times as many men oa the border line at 12 o'clock that day, awaiting the stroke of the clock to rush into that land, as thero were holdings. The result was many con- flicts, and in somo instances bloodshed, and four ‘men out of every five were disap- pointed, and that in_his opinion the national or even'the municipal effort on the part of foreign poople to come to this country and colonize @ large section of the public domain would result in an em phatic_protest from the Amevican peo- ple. He said there was a demand for iabor in many sections of our country, yet the commissioner of labor recently reported more than 500,000 men in the United States outof labor. This is because we are 5o rap- idly developing as a_country that we ara uot vet able to equalize our supply and demand, but when our laborers could be diverted to tha fields of demaud, the probabilities woro that we had suflicient people in ourowa country to supply all lubor wants. “Tho superintendent said thore was a rising protest in this country against immigration; that_the law passed ‘last winter sougzat to divide the desivable from the undesirabio and let the desirablein and keep out the undosira- ble: that when the Bureau of Immigration was fully established he believed this end would Le achieved, out thero was a strong sentiment in this country for more rostrictive logislation thau this law, and what congress might do this coming winter could only be a matter of coujecture. Personally, he believed that cvory man who was dissatisfled with™ the conditions of tho old world and came to America to escape those conditions and with a dotor- mined purposeto build up & home in tho new country and bocome one of its citizens in doed and 1 fact, should and woulc have no hand of oppositiou raised against him, but he was satistied that if the people of Ireiand, or elsewhere, sought to movo their congeste aistricts by wholesale to this country who had beon under the care of the poor oflicors for years, that their comimg would meet general opposition and they ought not to seck to come, for under the law of 1591 they would not be permitted to land. Tha superintendent expressed himself in high regard for the Irish character. mentioned the fact that 20,000 Irishmen bore arms in the revolutionary struggle for the colonists. In the wars of 1812 and 1316 and in tho war of the rebellion the Iristman had always bean found a patriot; that no_foreign class assimilated with Americun life woro rapidly. nor had contributed moro for the upbullding of this country; that the Irish- men in America wore vapidly coasiy hewors of wood and were moving up in the scales of citizonship und po hand would by keepuny Irishman from Ainerica, with tho spirits of the fathers that camo be- fore thom, yot an organized offort to plant as- Amorican raisod to | the surplus veople of i congestod and paupor would not ba the American district in the United States Jooked upon with favor by peopie A local newspaper of today announces that Cony of the Currency Lacy will s00u roti ofice. It was reported some time Mr. Lacy beon tender aud would likely accept, a prominent ban presidency 1 New York Secretary Blaine's butler has just arrived feom Augusta ang says Mr, Blaine is lookiug well and feeling woli and will bo here within very few days to resume bis official dut PSS H A Record New Yo that has ravaged England last two (Weanesday and houses, uprooting all along the most ont En unequalled 30 and alous death ker. the last weecking eabourd tempests lays, piors and vess: parantly one of recorded in r possibly September the by the ni ce tho fumous storm of who wer 1of Q A He | 10 be | drawers of water, but | coming | A MOST DAMNABLE RECORD. —_— | | | Joseph Edgorton at Stromsburg Daped and Sold Out His Olients. HE PREYS UPON A DESTITUTE WIDOW. He Put Ho Up a Job to Confidence an st Man Out of His Farm Unvarnishod s, ands | Stromsnvra, Neb, Oct Spacial to Tue Ber.)—J. W, Edgorton, the indepond ent aspirant for a soat on tho boneh of the supreme court, formorly tived in this village, and 1ts residonts hiave the livliest recollection of bis e whilo her Ho came Stromsburg about and romained about five years, He posed as a lawyer, but in tho five years he had only forty-three cases in the district court. An oxamina tion of tho records roveals a serios of failures and miscarriagos that tell an eloguent story of this ayubitious lawyer's professionai moth- ods and capacity. It is a fact which mombors of tho bar com- ment on s signiticant that in thirty civil actions, Mr. idgorton was attorney for | the defendant in only six. Ho won only two | of these suits, and the plaintiff got judgment in one, The other three, for various reasons, wero dismissed. People familiar 18 roer to nino | with his carcer here ex- plain this fact with the intimation that ho instigatod n considerable numboer of tho actions in which he figared. The record of the cases in which he was attorney for the | plaintiff lends color to that inference, Mr. Edgerton was such attorney in thirty- three suits. He won a cloan vietory ia lon est, open contest in Lwo of them. In one of these his client got judgment for & in five divorce cases defaults wero taken, and in three others divorces were granted at the plaintiff’s cost. Nine suits were dismissed at plaintit's cost and seven were dismissod by agreement or stipulation. Two wero stricken from the docket and no dismissed on motion of the defendant. There woro two decrees against defendant by stipulation, and ono suit for £10,000 was sottied by Bdger ton for $100 without the knowledgo of his cliont. During his five years in Polk coanty Mr. Edgerton was engaged in fourcriminal cases, wivice for plaintiff and twice for defendant. Onye Hung and the Other in the Pen. In the former, both of minor importance, the defondants pioaded guilty and were fined in nominal sums. Oue of the ctients defended vy Edgorton was hung and the other was sont to the ponitentiary. Numerous stories aro in circulation hero veflecting upon Mr. Edgorton’s professional conduet and personal honor, and they are vouched for by responsible persons who ex- press a roady willingness to back their state- ments with aflidavits, Ouo of the first of Mr. Edgerton’s undertakings aftor landin in Stromsburg was the drafting of & number illage ordinances. It 1s alleged that ho omitted to provido these Jogal “dont’s” with penalties, and tho pecple who know him at- tribute 'tho omission to his ignor- ance. At any rate it made him the laughing-stock of the community. and the humor of tho thing is not yet exhausted. Villainous Betrayal of Clients, Two cases in which Mr. Edgerton botrayed his clieuts will serve to show what manner of man aud luwyer he was. In one instanco ho acted as the attorney for W. A. Frawley in tho purchase of u tract of land from Samuel | Rutherford. Edgerton mado out tho deed and took Rutherford’s acknowledgement. “I'he buyer paid the price agreod on and put tbo dood on record. A few months later Rutherford made a socond deed to the samo property, this time transferring it 1o Thomas Rutherford. Tho latter immediately mort gaged the land for $200 in favor of Edgerton. Whon Mr. Frawley learued of this romark- able transaction he interviewed Samucl Ruth- erford, who pleaded the baby act, saying that ho was under age at the timo of giving the first deed, but had reached his mujority bo fore signing tho second. The young man was arrested on a charge of obtaining mouoy under falso pretenses and put under $1,000 bonds, Rutherford at once bogan bogeing for o settlement. EFrawley had surmised that Edgerton was at the bottom of the affair, and he was_convincod when the latter ap. peared s the young man’s attorney. Bo lioving that the lawyer had made a dupe of Rutherford for the sake of an attornoy’s foo, the proscentor agreed to sottle the case. Thomas Rutherford gave him a quit claim doed to tho proporty and Edgerton released his mortgage This is the caso as Frawley kuow it at the time, but Horace Putman throws strong sido light on tho scieme, After the deal betwe Rutherford and Frawloy was made, Idger- ton went to_Mr. Putman and said ho had a decd from Thomas Rutherford to Putman for this samo piece of land. He wanted Putman 0 tako the deed and put iton record, Mr. Putman naturally was surprised that a val- uable property should be transferred to him without consideration and with no previous negotiation or understanding, The thing looked bad on the face of it, sud he demanded an explanation. Edgorton’s statement wus ot satisfactory. Mr. Putman becamo satis - fied that it was a scheme o beat some one out of tho land, and hoe declined to bo & party tothe trickery, although Iazerton assureil him he “could got tho lund.” Taere can bo no mistake about this, for Mr. Putman saw the deed and read it Duped a Poor Widow. In another instance a_poor widow was tho victim of Edgerton's duplivity, After con- siderable begging on his part ho was em- ployed by Mrs. Kaspar Johuson in a suit against an Osceola saloonkeeper named Cole for $10,000 damag It was alleged that Cole had sold liguor to the plaintift’s hus- bana aud that while under the influenco of suid liquor he was frozen to deatn, Mrs. Jonson and Kdgerton entered in to a coutract by which the latter bound himself to presecuto the case on a coutingent fee of one-half and topay all expenses. It was also agroed that neither should settle or dis- miss the case without tho consent of tho other. Several months later, however, Ed- gerton sottled the case and dismissed tho uction, and that, too, without the knowlodgo | or conSent of his client. Hesaid he had re ceived #100 1n sottlemont. When Mrs, Johason was notified acdion and_called at_his oftice, Edgerton put in n claim for &5 for oxpenses and insistod that it should bo deducted from the $100 be- fore making a division. He said he had paid A, Sawyer of Lincoln for preparing the petition and he reckoned the expenses of his trip to Lincoln at $10, Tho coutract was produced, ana after muen parleying Edger- paid his client $30, less the court costs. Mrs. Johnson was not only a widow in poor circumstances at that time, but haa four small children depeudent upon her for sup port. At the timo of this meoting there were | present, besides the attoruey and his client, | Peter J. Andersor, N. P. Mouson and C. A Jdggerton first o 1 giving the #25. When sho refused to ac- | copt so small an amount he called M. Monson into his private ofh and urged the latter to betray the widow's intor- | esis by advising her to accopt Edgorion's tender. Mr. Monscn had befriended Mrs. | Johuson, and spurned the contemptible prop | osition. During these negotiations the law- er made a great display of tomper and used profane and vulgar language in the lady’s prosence. He even went 5o far as to ordor i Mr."Jounson, hor brother-in-law, to leave the offic of this | tor | Johnson ronos widow about with | sense of the Johnson's death and famillar with logal pro- coedings think the widow had a vory stroug caso against the liquor selier, and thoy ox- prossod great surprise that the suit should havo boen settlod for so pititul a sum, Thoso stories aro not mere hearsay. Many of tho statemonts may bo verified by the public records, and the others will be gladly substantiated by some of tho oldest and best Known oitiz . INCLINED 10 DEFEND. Breach Promise Suit Lincoln Citizen. Lixcory, Neb,, Oct, 18.—[Spocial to Tu Ber.|—The 81,230 breach yf promiso case in which Emmanuel Van Campen figurod as the faithless lover and Miss Caroline Haarala as the injured maiden, again fntrudes itself on tho publie. This timo Emmanuel has some- thing to say. Ho objocts to the jurisdiction of the in the caso for the reason that a summons has never boen logally served on him, having loft Nebraska Decomber 0 with the intention never to roiurn again to bo A oitizen 1n substantiation of this allegation he pro- duces several aflidavits, one of thom by Mose Van Campen, his fathor, To enter this jection Emmanuel appeared n court. Usually in s0 when the defendant makes an ap- pearance 1t signifies that tue issues are Joined. But in this case the defendant de- clares that ho appears merely for the purpose of objecting, or in other words has ap- peared but not appeared —an anomaly known ouly in law. i ot Againse a ho D PORT LOWELT At the meeting of the ‘city toachers yesto day James Russell Lowell, the doad poet, was the subject of discussion. One teacher, of. Austin, took occasion to jump upon tho litterateur in a savago manuer. Ho pointed out & number of alloged woak points in Loweil's character and declared that vo man with such weakuossos could be great, Ho then branded the poet as being dishouest in his brief political carecr and scored him foe accepting the position of minister to the court of St. Jumes instoad of confining him- self strictly to the work of a professor aud literary man This ouslaught stirrod up something of a small cyclone among tho other teachers, many of thom admirers of Lowoll, and they gUvO Austin such a whirl that lie will not s00n forget it. One of the toachers prefaced his the poet in theso words : idea of Lowell's leon responsibilities of citizenshin added to bis native genius made bim from early life—in the true and undegraded sonse of the word—n politician, and an cffoctive one, as well asu statesman whose writings are an arsenal of human freedom I'his sentiment was greeted with prolongod applause, ONDS AND ENDS. There are 125 cadets in the military partment of the Wosloyan university and 175 in the Stato univorsity, muking a grand total of 300 in the city. All bids for the ercction of the new li- brary butlding tho State umversity havo been rejected, and consequently no work will Ve done this fall No word has yet boen received of thie mis- g councilman, il M. Rice. His best friends ave loth to believe that ho would de- sert his family and business simply becauso ke had lost heavily at cards. Ho has not veon heard of for a month. Mrs, Ida Waltors has boen granted a divorce from ber husband Gustave, on the grounds of cruelty aud desortion. ' He did not appear., Thomas * Willoughby, tha ex-conviet, is tighting the petition of s wifo Mary for divorce. A defectivo flue caused a $200 blazo last night in tho home of 5. A. Payne, Eloveuth and Q streets. As Clyde W. Warfel has failea to obe orders of tho court as to tho payment of alimony to his wifo pending divorce procood- ings, tho juago has ordered tho suit brought brought by Clydo to bo dismissed. - OTHERWISE. de- ", 1ND this and the end comos he Is out of breath, The nicest thing In the world is to seo n young man who is zood (0 his mothor. The railrond that fssued too many passes some day may have to pass a dividend. Business dispatehed is business woll dono, but business huried is business 11 done, 0 15 one lucky thinz aboutspotied ehild- ve never huve then in our own famlily. How absurd 1t Is for 5 tho Dlies to sturt out and try to paint town, world man when he b the vt happy: aud yet Tonah was un- ly “in (L for threo wholo days at wronzod hato the The less eomplaining n man who the more people will wronged him, When o woman £0es (0 & man f in her troubles she does 1 at th cumulating new ones. Men say so many 1dlo and foolish things that nogroator calamity could hefull o man Uiiin L0 0o nlways taken at his word, Tho protty sights in the lonz lane of your 1o come iito view whon your eyes aro tirod out and dit, and you can't halt see them. When i man simiios when he 1 angry. it is o good indication that the knife e is carrying Qb s Slecves 18 an unusually long and sharp on 10is the beliet of hunian race th ather prople a good deal casle their own. You can genera sympathy sk of g members of tho ( tho lives of than they can iny y find o gas 1 you Jook for 16 with i lighted candle, your frionds may not find you in good condition after your discovery L never pays no atte tatks loud and_hoister Wared the new oflice boy.” “Heonlv ucks dut Wity down town eanse ne dasn't at home Riches do not to tenzthen hfe. Tho man who is o ric tan g0 in sumnc And'sonth i winter does not Hve any lonzer Phan the poor fellow who has (o stay at home and shiver or sweat with overy woather n - TIPS ON THI CAMPAIG, Wayno Herald: Post will supreme Judgo by about 5,00 Spito of the fict that the railr i hand e M. Blzorton as thoy choose, 16 ho Shoutd be elected. o 15 of that class who wou . tell'the peopio to “he damned” aft they had deposited thelr batlots for him Thorefore it bohooves the people not to monkey with another Tayle Fulrbury Entorpriso: Judzo Postis o lawyer who belleves I decisions based upon law. 1o o 18 A judzo nine years in ono distriot fnd had 1o opposition when renominatod. e 18 not a polftician, but 15 s stuaious, auiot mannorod man. 1e'ereied his own dlstelot, Which fs domoeratic, by 1410 majority, bo Satise the people Know Bim (o be an honest S Just Judize.” o ou tht to b alocted i jus- tice of the supreme court regardiess of poil- uies, Papiilion Times bo in 15 know thoy (@em.): Tt wns oasy for Bryan tolend demoerats along paths thoy knew wore sife, and _they followed his every step unhesitatingly whilo they recognized old Tandmirks. But now our brilliwnt “voung Toader s asked us o join b m in o chiso politienl gonl which lios heyond truo Nie iines, on Into fields whero the 5 of demagogism grow rank and tall And hore the chise must end Bialr Pllot: The eniamity journaly fnz Lo ke the prople bolleve that th between Post and Fdgorton is slmply o Botwoen the rallronds and the peoplo. iy il hosh. O 600 peoplo prosent when Post Was nom i ted, overyony knows that ho wis not the raiiroad cholve, und intellizent men all over Nebraska know that if the rallroads have uny desire to use a justice of the su= preme court E 1 B8 thol T cholew over others. Monopoly owns Lilm bod. breechos, and can hini more ehonply thun y othor mun over named for the place. - : Nobody 1s ever glud to seo the man who comes around when you have Just made a mistake about samething and tells you what he would have dosn n your pluce brimstone may mike wselves, but it does ench cthor Belug afratd of i s0me poople behuy Gentlomen acquainted the facts of not make then lov Highest of all ia Leavening Pow Rl ——y er.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE <