Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1891, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER. Evrron. ® PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly Bee (without Sunday) One Yenr Da Sunduy, One Year 8800 10 00 500 260 200 15 100 Kunday Enturday F Weekly Bee OFFICES: Cmaha. The Bee Bullding Fouth Omnhia. corner N and 2ith Streeta Cou 1 Street. hamber of Commerce. 1 15, Tribune Buliding CORRESPONDENCE. cations relnting to nows and r should be addressed to the nt All comm BUSINESS LETTERS. css lettors and rem it be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, cheeks and postoffice orders to be made puyable to the orderof the con pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors THE HEE BUILDING, nees should EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION of Nebrs | unty of secretary of Tne Ber pmpany. does solemnly Swear wlition of Te DAILY BER that the o was a8 for the ween ending October 24, 1M, follows Bunday Oect. 18 Mondny, Oct. 18 Tuosday, Oct, 2 cdnesday, Oct, 3.7 ursday. C ot 5 Suturdiy, O¢ AR t % Average............ ¢ GEORGE BT &worn to betore me and subscribed presence this 20th day of Octol er, A. Do 1801 BrAL E. P. ROGOEN, Notary Public The growth of the averaze daily cireulation of Tuk Bk for six years is shown in vhe fol- lowing table: K. in_my 88 | TR0 18574 I 18 Jdanuary February March April. May .. J A 1000 A1/ 18,744 187788 444,118,185 15,061 4050/ 143491 15,154 15710 250, 14459 18,084 i 15,05 081 18,72 20,048 July. Avgin Eep ember Cetober Noves FOR THE CAMPATGN. pader In this state o posted on Toth theso WEEKLY for TWENTY Inorder to give every and Towa an opportunit: the progress of the canmpaizn states we havo docided to offer BEE for the Lalance of this y CENTS. Send in pur orders enrly. Two dollars will be acceptod for a club of ten names. Tue Bee PusLisming Co. Cmaha, N HENRY OSTHOFF in his autobiogra- phy cuils the saloon he rented from ex- President Hayes, and which afterwards made him notorious a *small hotel. THE Board of Education will expend nearly three-quarters of a million dol- lars the coming year, if the sehool bonds aro voted. This is argument enough in favor of the best men. ABuse of the Real Estate Owners association does not explain why $12,000 belonging to the county bridge bond fund has gone glimmering, and escapes 1pts to locate its whereabouts, GENERAL VAN WYCK must foel highly complimented when he is called 10 plead the cause of anti-monopoly on the samo platform in Lincoln with the well known railroad lobbyist Vander- voort. Independent politics malkes strange companionship. HENRY OSTHOFF, . Hascall Ed Rothery and I. performed from the samo platform in the single-act comedy, “Three of a Kind,” Saturday night, in a South Thirteenth street saloon. The three politicians were as much at home on one side the bar as the other. —_— IGNATIUS DONNELLY instituted suit ngainst the Pioncer Press of St. Paul for $100,000 damages by reason of an alleged libel. The jury brought in a verdict of 81 damages and allowed the plaintiff $5 for attorney’s fees. Donnelly had over- estimated the value of his character ox- actly $99,090, THE legislature of 188) was extrava- gant beyond any preceeding session of that body. This is a fact which is gen- erally admitted, but the independent reform legislature of 1891 appropriated over half a million more than its extray- agant predecessor. Reform logislatures come t0o high 1f this be u sample. THE fact th eneral John M. Palmer managed to squeeze through the Illi- nois legislature in the United States senate had almost passed from wemory, when a press correspondent discovered him hunting a house in Washington and reminded the public that he would enter upon his dutics the first Monday in Decembe CriLt’s government is ry young and this explains why it is so impertinent and indiscrete in its treat- ment of Americans. When it is older it will know more. This great country cannot be snubbed by u revolutionary South American republic with impunity of but the callowness of that republic is an extenuating circumstance which should tempo Patrick gan’s righteous wrath, e IF ANYBODY still doubts Edgoerton's want of a common school education let him obsorvo the way his verbs get mixed up in the following ‘extracts from a vor- batim report of his speceh: “1f the gov- ernment is wrong the people is weong.” Us follows that is talking this reform movement.” “When the farmer was paying their taxes.” “Then she done what wo demand.” “There is soveral tospeak today.” *Two bills was intro- duced.” *There is a fow ronds.” tacting the candidates.” “*My enomies has circulated the report.” new course oven THrE Shefticld, England, daily Zele- graph is not menlly mouthed in its dis- cussion of the McKinley tariff. It de- nounces it in round terms for the evil it has wrought upon English manafac- turers, and says that only the dim pros- pect of a return of the democratic party to power in 1802 “*has prevented the re- moval of Engiish manufacturing plants from Brudford, Leeds, Birmingham and elsewhere to the United States.” Major McKinley has no stock in the Sheftield Telegraph, but it is doing him an im- mensely valuable service in its out- spoken discussion of his tariff measure. FROM A BUSINESS STANDPOINT, | Viewed from a purely business stand- | point the election of J. W. Edgerton to the supreme bonch would be as disas- trous as unother season of drouth. At first blush this assortion may seem pre Those wh famil situation will sible relation can the tion or defeat of Mr. Edgerton have upon the commercial or industrial prosperity fo this ? What difference can it make to our merchants, mill-owners and farmers who may be elected judge of the supreme court this yoar? If there no other issue in the present paign than the relative standing of ton end Post and their respective eapacities to expound the constitution and the laws, thore would ba no rial differenco to tho business community which of them is But quiet apart from the notorioua fact that Mr. Edgerton is totally unfit for a place upon the supreme bench, his election will be | interpreted abroad as an endorsement by the people of Nebraska of thedogmas enunciated in the independent platform and advocated from every stump in this by Bdgerton, Kem, McKeighan other anarchistic agitators of reforms that have for their object the depreciation of our currency and the consequent sealing and ropudia- tion of private and public debts, In other words the election of Edgoerton would place Nobrask the blacklist among eastern and foreign investers and keep her there for two or th longer. The inevitabl would be a contraction further shrinkage of land destruction of confidence 1n any enter- prise that our merchants and manufac- would desirs to promote with foreign capital. [t would entail upon our cities id towns continued stagnation and would compel thou- of workingmen who are employed in workshops and factories to leave the state for want of employment. When we say that the election of Kdgerton and defeat of Judge Post would eripple the prosperity of our people and retard the growth of this state we only s in a mild form what we con y believe. There widespread prejudice Nebraska and other western ates that have been swept by the tinancial craze, and it would bo deplor ble indeed if our people, regardless of . do not arrest it at this stage and restove confidence by recording a de- cided protest aguinst it at the coming election. ous, are not with the ask what | poste very stal chosen, state and on vears consequenco of credits, a values and a turers sands now MR, BLAINE AT HIS POST. After anabsence of several months Mr. Blaine is again at the seat of gov- ernment and in the discharge of his duties as secretary of state, According to trustworthy statements he returns from his extended vacation in a condi- tion to resume and carry on the arduous labors of the State department with his wonted vigor and energy. His health, impaired by the exacting work to which he unceasingly devoted himself for a year and a half, is restored, and the promise is that Mr. Bluine will now be able to zo on in the discharge of his duties without interruption, though he may wisely decide to exercise more moderation in kis work than heretofore. Undoubtedly no one feels greater grat- ification at the return of Mr. Blaine than President Harrison. The absencs of the secretary of state necessarily imposed additional labor upon the president. It compelled him to look into details which ordinarily dre presented to him by the head of the department, and to pros cute inquiries nand investigations usually done by thatoffic It will therefore be a very considerable relief to the pres- ident to have Secretary Blaine again in control of his depurtment, to say noth- ing of the value of ng him at hand as an advisol With the return of Mr. Blaine the administration family is again complete, but it will not long remain so, the resignation of Sec- rotary Proctor taking effect November 1. There continues to be a great deal of gossip regarding tho relations between President Harrison and Secretary Bluine in reference to the presidential nomina- tion in 18 There is not the reason to doubt that these are ent! wdcordial. Thore may not be any standing between the pre dent and sceretary of state on this sub- ject. TItis highly improbable that it has ever heen a topic of conversation between them, But no fair-minded man witl aceuse or Mr. Blaine of seeicing the nomination while he isa member of the administration, and on the other hand nobody who can appre- cinte the character of President Harr will doubt that if he saw that the repub- lican party demanded Mr. Blaine he would interpose no obstacle to his nom- ination. Botb have very positive cla upon the respect and confidence of purty which it is not to be doubted recognized by each, and whichever the vty d to ms its standard wor in the next fonal campaign have the hearty of the other. Equally desiring republican sue- cess, theve will be no issuo betweon them on the question of nomination, INSTERSTATE COMMISSION VACANCIES, It is said that the president very careful consideration to the claims of candidates for the Interstate Commerce desires to appoint »d Judge Cooley, and the ne sity for doing this is obvious, ‘The sug- gostion that one of the vacanecies shoula be filled by the appointment of a man familiar with the commercial of the country, and the other by a man who has had practical acquaint- ance with the transportation business, would, if earried out, weaken the mission in public confidence strengthen it. Except Judge Cooley the legal ubility of the body not great, and henco it of the first importance that when he es his place shall be taken by a lawyer of high attainments. The president, it is said, is lookin, fitness rather than to sectional in and it is not certain he will b the Mississippl in mauking the choice. But if the can at the time recognize the just claimsof tho transmississippi region and give to the a man of the class he de- suspect ms the are des ke support is giving vaeancies on the commission. He first-class to suc interests com- rather than at present is 0 president same commission sives, thore is every reason to belicve THE ho will make the appointment from that section, Itis hardly necessary to say | that the right man can be found. Ne- | Mr. Lambert- | requirement, | nof affairs, | sident has | appoint a man to late Commissioner Bragg, who was from Alabama, though he may not select a man from that state. is an entirely proper decision, and for | the same reason that the south is given representation on the com- mission the transmississippl country should receive recognition. Aswe have heretofore pointed out this region has two-fifthe of the railrond mileage of the United States, and its interests depend- ent on railroud transportation are as great as thoso of any other section and are rapidly growing, It is well known that the president is considering the propriety and justice of giving the transmississippi country rep- resentation on the commission, and in this fact there is favorable promise that ill fill one of the vacancies from braska has a candidate in son who answors to every both asa lawyer and am It is understood that the pr decided to southern THE ELECTION MUST BE FAIR. The new election law may utterly fail as a reform measure if the judges and clerks of election are all of one potitical th. There is now a definite purpose unfolding to k the election booths with partizans of Henry Osthoff. In the Fifth ward whero there are thirty- five officers Osthoff has been allowed to name thivty-one judgos and elerks It is very clear that the scheme is to place the election machinery almost wholly in the hands of rank partisans and personal adherents of Osthoff and the gang of contractors that are his principal back- ers. This is a violation of the spirit of the law and an open invitation for election frauds. Unless the election officers are air and honest men the Australinn bal- lot will honest election It will be an easy mattor for corrupt office- seokers and their friends to reg- ister gangs of repeaters and to vote them at the polls if the election officers are in collusion with them. In fact it cannot bo prevented. Now it only fair and proper that there should be at least one republican judge upon each board of seven election officors in ch election district. The independ- ents are also entitled to represen- tation. A rofusal on the pavt of the mayor, council and commissioners to concede this reasonable demand will plainly indicaie a purpose to rape the ballot. A board made up of five demo- crats and two of the opposition would satisfy any honest demcerat. If the boards are made up of demo- crats there will be nothing left for the opposition but to dog the steps of every contractor who has recently established a graders’ camp within the city and place detectives at every polling place to prevent the voting of gangs of thugs and repeaters. Every rogistered voter should be known by somebody in the district where he votes, and the re- publicans, indepondents and honest democrats should unite to prevent fraud at the polls. An example will be made of any individual or collection of individ- uals who attempt to vote fraudulently and somebody will go to Lincoln tolearn ar honest trade if the attempt is made and not prevented. We must have an honest election and if we do not have it this time we shall make sure that the persons who prevent it, whether they bo judges, clerks, challengers or outsiders aro made to suffer for perpetrating and attempting to perpetrate frauds, not secure MORE EDGER1ON NONSENSE, Joseph W. IEdgerton, the independent candidate for judge of the supreme court, has now been stumping the state for two months. He has repeated the same old speech wherever he has ap- peared. We had verbatim copies made of it as delivered at Al- bion and at Lineoln and they wore found upon comparison to be identical. He has recited this piece so often that it drops trom his lips with great ense, but he has not had the good sense to leave out its original foolishness or modify its patent misstatements. He goes back to the beginning of the war for the causes of the present unrest and discontent among the people and claims that the beginning of the con- traction of the currency began when the second issue of greenback promises to puy wus made and when gold went to 85 Just how much it is con- tracted he does not know, for he says in 1866 thore was $52 per capita, but now *‘there are a great many differ- ent claims as to the amount in circula- tion. 1 have one report that puts it at less than 5. There is another which claims it to be 370, and still another that claims it to be $20.” Nevertheless, al- though this uncertainty exists, the financler goos on to prove that “when you contract the volume of the currency you con- tract or diminish the price of labor and all products of labor.” If the por capfta circulation is now $70 per capita, how does he account for the fact that labor is generally well paid? If it is but $3, the argument falls to the ground, for Inbor receives at least twice as much for the same servico today ns in 1850, Tho fact is that the question of per capita civeulation has nothing to do with oither the price of labor or the price of the product of labor, ‘Then he goos on to say that **by con- tracting tho v which may or may not huve been contragted nccording to his figures, “we have increased the national debt so that it is a greater bur- den on the peoplo today than it was at the close of the war.” facts show that our public debt at the close of the was $2,773,236,173.69and that on Janu 1, 1891, it had been reduced to $1,0: 672,951.48. In other words, after piying all our interest as it had also lifted $1,747,563,2 of tho prin- cipal. Not only so, but all of the remain ing indebtedness is carvied ata vory low rate of intevest, while a large part of the principal alveady paid was J ing 6 and 7 per cent per annum Since Janui 1, 1801, the debt has been reduced far balow the billion point. Yot this knave or ignoramus insists that it would take more of the products of lahor off the than tho groat curren neeruod we W= of overy kind to pay billion three billic we now owed the ly closo of th owe ne av OMAHA DAILY BI This | o :5s than o | MON DAY war. This i€ Fot which ought not to de- coive anybody,y The want!8f @ larger of money in ecldeulation, according to Edgerton, Was made the producing class o gro@h, borrowing class, and honce *‘wok today 9,000,000 mortgaged Mofhes” which “will bo owned by r..;-l-:gn.-r* and o state of serf- dom will bo fighgurated worse than was the sorfdtith of Russia.” Of courso there are not Half as many as 9,000,000 mortgaged hopes but that is a fact of 1o consequenedto agerton, To prove that the issug'et a large volume of paper money would prevent such dire conse- quences, the stump orator refors to the remarkable prospority of France and demands that the volume of cur- rency per capita shall be fixed that the printing presses shall be kept busy grinding out greenbacks and “‘thereby always guaranteeing a steady volume and steady prices.” In this argument ho says I'rance paid off her indemnity to Germany and allows his hearer to infer that this was paid in paper money, Of courso this is false on its face, but supposo we refer to France LU ALD A/ L W ad i long time bonds, and other make- shifts it is really more pros- perous than Amorica. As mat- ter of fact the French are taxed to death. They puy more taxes per capita than any other nation on earth and the national debt is larger per capita than that of any other nation. Her national debt is $6,107,643,450, or nearly two and one-halt times that of this country at the close of the war and about seven timos that of today. W have 18,000,000 land owners in America; France has but 4,500,000 and Great Britain but 30,000 K has a population of more than 38,000,000, America more than 64,000,000, At every village in France there are customs gates and everywhere tuxes are levied. 1f a man rents a house for 31,000 he is obliged to ay something like 20 por cent addi- tional to the government. They pay taxes on the windows of tho houses. A farmer going to Paris with eggs, butter or vegetables pays a customs wax. Francoe will not do as an example with which to prove want of prosperity in America. The eminent apostle of fiat financo at- tacks the position that the deposits in the banks of this state veprasent the ac- cumulated wealth of the people of the state. If a man has $1,000 in the bank he generally considers himself $1,000 ahead of immediate domands. According to Mr. Idgertonbhis is all a mistake, because that maney is loaned out to another man and* ho pays it to still others. The New York banks have more money to the credit of their de- positors than there is actual cash in circulation, and this man who never had a bank account of his own thinks s that this con- clusive proof that there should be more legal tender certificates issued. He might just as well insist that a grocer who has a capital of $10,000 and does a business of $200,000 must increase his capital to the full $200,000 in order to do business. If the depositors of this country should © all demand their money on the same day they could not get it, any more than if the policy holders in a life insuranco association were all to die the same day the beneliciaries could bo paid in full. The fact that one $100 bill can be used in exchanges to pay 100,000 of indebt- adness or even more does not imply a necessity for 1,000 $100 bills. On the contrary it 1llustrates the principle that money is merely a medium of exchange not essential to the exchangoe at all, but simply a modern convenience of exchange. For unmitigated drivel and perfectly senseless wind Edgerton’s haraagues would take the first premium even in a testv of this style of merit with entries from Kansas and Nebraska like Kem, McKeighan, Pefler, Simpson and Mrs. Lease. volume 80 a is ONE of the boldest enterprises ever undertaken in thiscountry was that of constructing u line of telegraph through British Columbia and Alaska on the one side, and over the barren waste of beria on the other side, the two to be connected by a cable across Behring Straits. This project, with which the late Bdward Creighton of Omaha identified, was cntered upon in 1865, and one of the members of the expedition was Mr. George Kennan, now distinguished throughout the civ ilized world as a traveler and writer. The project was finally abandoned when the second Atlantic cable laid proved a but the expedition was oyer two years, and the obtained by Mr., Ken- nan was the foundation of his subsequent careor, which has been evidently brilliant and useful. It was a most remarkable experience which that expedition had, some of the more interesting features of which are pre- served in a publication called *The IEs- quimaux.” thut was issued monthly at the camps at Port Clarence, Russian Amevica, and ‘Plover Bay, Bast- Siberia, J. J. Harrington, edi- and proprietor. One obtaing the pages of this journal v interesting’ facts regarding that arctic whete the temporature sometimes fulls to2 degrees below zevo pratty clear idea of whav vdship of living in those ra lands. Mr. Kennon was but 20 years old when he joined the telegraph expedition, but his faculty of close observation was already woll developed and Be took tho fullest advantage of hisdppportunitics. As result he has givel to the world a great amount valuable information and about all the adourate knowledge it possesses of the Siberian wnd the sutlerings of the unfortunate e sent th Russian government The citize Omuha will opportunity tomorrow evening from Mr. Kennan the story of some his perilous, romantic and experiences. CANADIAN Lood] bonds and this is ¢ succes absent experionce ern tor from and can ge must be the 1 desolate northe a of prisons ) by the have to heut of remurkablo 15 of an jumping their of thit the governmont hus the evidence viet them. GENTLEMEN monts of the furniture i postpor tion will not enab! 15t hom p rties who 01k OCTOBER 26, nctors to escape the just rebuke of the peonle at the polls November That furniture contract is a political issue and the fingers eaught in the trap will cortainly be pinched if not broken. PERITAPS the early approach of elee- tion has had the effeet of making con- tractors loso interest in everything else, and this will explain why there wore no bidders for two good sized grading jobs on Frida, The contractors are taking a hand in tho city election. 1T 11AS been assortod and is not denfed that M. P. J. King, the democratic nominee for county judge, has nover been admitted to the bar and knows no more law than he has been able to gather from the police court of Sonth Omaha. ors were perform- ing the can-can when they reached the bond propositions. They kicked too high. The school bonds are a necessity and should be voted without opposition. OMAHA stands a chance for the Walter A. Wood Harvester works, but has a suro thing ona Walter A, Wood har- ester depot. T Fifth wi Vorens clovato the justices courts in this city by selecting the best men for these offices regardiess of party. Sourit OMAHA demoerats repudiate Bdgorton. They know him too well to ive him their support. can A Power for Gooil. Kansas City Journal. The transmississippi congress at Omaha has a chance to do good worlk for the west in preparing for the socuring of national legis lation to aid irrigation, Tho rainmaking craze will pass and so will the rainy season, and then there will be need of artificial watering of crops on the old lines. - : A Modest Request. Chicago Times. Tho disputed election case of the Nebraska governorship camo up in the supreme court of tho United States Monday aud the attor- neys for Governor Thayer modestly declared their preforence that the hearing of the case should go over until next year. This is not an umiatural desiro on tke part of the fraudu- 1ent tenant of the Neoraska executive man sion. Beingin possession of an offico to which he was not eiected—an oftice, indeed, for which ho was not even uominated, and for which not a single vote was cast for him —no would gladly avail himself of all the law’s delays. —_——— Two Distant Views of lowa. Boston._Advertiser (rep.) The growing importance of lowa as a coal- producing state should not be overlooked. Today Iowa ranks fourth among the coal states in the value of total annual products and takes the same rank in the number of mines and total wages paid. In the other leading coal states the average price of coal per ton at the mine is nowhere so high as in Towa. Inview of the fact that protection has done so much to develop the natural re- sources of the state, it is to ba hoped that the Towa republicaus will keep the local free traders on coals during the heated campaign and will “scorch” them on election day. ey Endorsed at His O'd Home. Crete Vidette, Wo notice that the republicans of Douglas county have nominated Hon, J. W. Eiler for county judge. This isan important office, and especially so in a populous county like Douglas. Mr. Eller was for many years a prominent lawyer of the adjoining county of Fillmore, and served in this district as prosecuting attorney when Judge Weaver was on tho bench. He was a young man with more than ordinary legal ability, and his namo in Fillmore county was a synonym for fair dealing and integrity. We are not surprised that bis attainments have been recognized by the republicans of Douglas county, andwe can cheerfully congratulato them upou having nominated a good lawyer ono whom, if elected, will make an upright and worthy judge. S IT WILL ELECI POST. Platte County Sentinel, (Ind.): The World- Herald is nothing if not sensational. But it will never mako a vote for Edgerton by slandering Judgo Post. Hastings Nebraskan: If the Worl-d Herald comforts itself with the thought that tho voters of Nebraska arcto be caught for its candidate by vilifying and traducing his oppouent, election duy will impress upon it the immensity of its error. Grand Island Independent: The World- Herald flatters itself that it has settled.tho supreme judgeship clection, and in a measure 5o it has, but in favor of Post, whom it so foully and grossly slandered. Its vile attack has made Post hundreds of votes in Hall county, and probably in_every other county in the state. too. All self-rospecting people like to show their contempt for such ghoulish warfu Central City Noupareil charges brought acainst Judgo Post Omaha World-Herald are true or fal judgo deserves the commendution of all honorable men, in the courso he has pursuod, 1n being willing rather to bear the blame than to give the name of the lady so thut scandal mongers could have a swe to gossip about. The World-Herald materially assisted Judgo Post 1 bis e tion which is now a foregone conclusion. Seward Reporter: Towhat depth of infamy has the publisher of the vile and slanderous sheet descended, when he, for the sake of & mere partisan advantage, deliberately starts in to ruin_and drag down. not only an bonoved and respected man, but his wite and chilaren. Itis no wonder that voters aro more inclined to turn toward Post than away from bim, and wo look for such an aval- anche of votes for him as will show tho slanderers of the World-Herald how they are regarded, and bury them too deop for rosur- rection, Stoux City Journal: The democratic man- agers in Nebraska ave making a villainous wssault upon the personal character of Judg Post, ropublican candidato for judge of ti supreme court, _Yet no man stands higher among his neighbors. The charges are to tully falso and inexcusable, The popularity of Judge Post, which is due nat only to his admirablo record and qualifications as judge, but also to his high personal ch acter, was such that his opponents in shee dosperation resorted to invention of seandal ous yarns, The effect will only be to increnso his majority. In bis own county, whers ha has lived many years, large numbees of dom- ocratic neighbors will vote for him as an | answer to the scandalous insinuations which | aro being circulated, NOVEABER. Whether the Lee €. Harby in Ladi 8 Hom® Jo rnal. Like some fair woman who hath lost youth's charms, Yot holds November e Norne down by thair vifts Some hint of heuven's glow Erc falls to earth hor mantle soft of snow, Whit har She clothes ) iangs every Andd fiths the From merry s Upun the fr n her heart ali zoodly sif worn pilo by storm’s ul clouds, yat showing thro blue and sunshine's tters then tho' hill and vale are m i dainty garb of white; Wh WIth ey Jewe s Fur and with venoes of deligit igh belis, and the rythmic an road, ying fe 0 comes Thankszi Day—us 1t should Wwith and heerfu'ness and Joy ringing 1685 £ huppy chorus swells priciee 1o God above His protecting love! WASHINGTON GOSSIP, 518 FOURTEENTIU STREET, Oct. 20 known Wasnixerox Buneav or Tie Bee, } Wasmsarox, D. C. General H. V. Boynton, the well correspondent, has an article in Washington Post on the “Plaus of procity — Evolution of the Idea and dent Harrison's part in It,” in wh states that reciproeity, as it was devised in the McKinley tariff law and is at present being perfected, was first brought to the practical light by General Harrison, on the last day of July, 1585, 1n & campaign spocch ut Indianapolis. The first appearance of any definite form for a reciprocity law in con- gross, he says, was sented by Senator Piorce, just before the McKinley tariff bill was reported from the committee on finance to the senate. It was the suggestion of President Harrison and stands in the law tou . Mr. Blaine's idea was o retain the duty on sug 0 that it could be tradea for markets in gn countries for our surplus products of the farm, eto, This was referred to the followors of McKinley who wanted free sugar for the breakfast table. President Harrison advocated the abolition of tho duty on sugar, making tho article free and at _the same time giving tho president vower in the law to store the duties on sugar where there was a refusal to enter by direct agreoment into reciprocal trade, The president called about him the leading repub- licans of the two houses of congress, ex vlained to them the advantages of thus form of the law, which would give us free sugar in any event from the outset and not interfere in"the least with reciprocity with sugar growing country, as we could toro the duty on' the product of countr should it refuse to accept our terms of reciprocity by which its sugar was to come in_free. The president's plan won, General Boyuton concludes, that inas- much as reciprocity under any other form would have been relegated to the slow stages of negotiation, it could nov have veen effected nearly so well by any process other than the one wo have. Mr. Blaine remained in his house nearly all of this bright and pleasant Indian summor day and welcomed a number of his personal and official friends. He did notattend church services He looked much stronge than when he alighted from the train yesterday and to some explained that " his car was too warm during the latter part of his journ: here and took from him quite all” of his snap and vim. Among his cailers today was Attorney Gen- eral Mull, vho expressed delight upon seo- ing the secretary of state appearing so well. During his social and business call upon President rrison yvesterday afternoon Mr, Blaine evinced the keenest interest in bis work, inquiring about the status of vavious pending questions. He ssid today that he would be at his desk in the State department at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning and begin his work with determination. Hao wants reports from his various bureaus immediately to enable him to prepare his unnual report, and as soon as ho has received these and sufficient data, will closet himself at his residence and begin work upon that document. Mr. Blaine ap- pears to be best satisfied and looks better when o is at work, and says he welcomes the duties before him. Ex-Speaker Thomas Reed is in the city, looking rosy cheeked and virorous, on his v to Ohio, where heis to make several cches for Mciinley. He makes but two volitical observations—that Mills will be speaker of the next house of representutives and McKinley elected governor of Ohio. J. L. Caldwell of Lincoln is at Willard’s. PUS. H. Sl i POINTS ON SUA0E POLITICS. Grand Island Times: Our friend on the Democrat _don’t like Rosewater's speech. No wonder, he was a member of the logisla- ture that so recklessly squandered the ple's money, and he don't like to hear the details, Take your medicine, 0., you helped repare it. Hastings Nebraskan: Themembers of the farmers alliance in reaouncing allegianca to the so-called mounopoly, money power party and ring rule, have as 'a rule” cspoused the cause of the demagogue and the boiitical charlatan, the wreckers of party. prosperity und government, the scum of every poliucal pot. Platte County career as a lawyer aatinel (ind.): In his W. Edgorton never had but three cases before the supreme court. A man of his limited experience is scarcely it to be intrusted with a position at tho top of the ladder of judicial houors. Competency ought to be considered in the wselection of men for the supremo beneh, Vote for Post. Friena Telegraph: Deop thinking, honor- able men of the democratic party are always in favor of zood governwent. This is ono reason why they should support Hon. A. M. Post for the supremo court. The hope of the future of Neoraska stunds at this time more upon the action of tho sober thinking men of the state than upon the likes and dislikes of party prejudice. Grand Island Independent: Complaint from all sectious of the state is the samo in regard to unusually light registration and lack of interest, denoting a light, very light vote. There is really no good exetise for this. Itis truo that democrats are disgusted be- cause of the fact thut they huve no tickot in the fiela. and that disgust is so intense in many that thay will refuse to voto at ail. Muny independents, too, feel deenly the deg- radation placed upoi them by the nomination of such a candidate as Idgerton, who is known to bo totally uufit and incompetent, and on that accouut they have, lost interest, and the result will be a light vote, Genoa Leador: Tho independents an- nounce that Paul Vandervort will hold forth in our opera house in tho near future, Shades of Julius Cavser! Paul Vandervort posing us an anti-monopolist and presching ndepen- dent doctrine! )it ba that it is tho same Vaudervort who for years has been the wost corrunt railroad loboyists aud oil room manipulator in tho stato! Tho m and most unscrupulous corruptionists v cursed Nevraska with his presenco? t God! Have the independent leaders ot the nerve to spring thut man on us as a reformer! The leaders of the party in this town aro m om whom any amount of gak is expected, but this is too much. L TRIBUTE 10 WORTIH. New York Tribuue: Grady embodied the best spinit of the new south—a phrase to which he gave large cu ey —and his vir tues o worthy to be celebrated, The ora- tor of the occasion was Governor Hill, who showed good sense in keeping politics in the ound, and spoke fitting words in honor aay’s character and worth. cago H Henry W. Grady stood as 1itive of that generation of south orn men that Lus growu up since the war whicn has made the wSouth.” His pub lie caree all too brief, and when ho died uunder circumstances that wade him almost a martyr 10 the causo he had ardently es poused, of briging vack fratermty and good followship between tho sections, be was uni versally mourned, But his teachings w ) not forgotten, and have grown and spread OUTLOOK VERY FL;\'l‘TERINE. Judge Post's Prospects Not Affsoted by Rooent Libellious Attaoks, MANY DEMOCRATS OPPOSE EDGERTON, Tiaw arly Favor the Re publican Candidate as They De- sire a Man the Be Ability on any | Lixcory, Nob., Bk, |~ Attornay ( Commissioner Ot Special to uoral Hastings a Humphroy, who stumping tho western (o d Lang havo portion of the stato 1 the interests of Judge Post, report the out look very flattoring. ‘They that the libelous story told concerning Iost by the World-Herald has faiion flat and s not bo lieved by the peoplo with whom thay have conversed They declaro furthor that all licaus and many domocr All the leading dem been suy the repub will vote for him, ratio lawyors almost to A man declare that they will support Post as they wish an in telligont maa on the supromu beneh STATE UNIVERSITY IMPROVEMENTS, A now powor house and mechavical build ing will be erected this fal' on tho State uni. versity grounds. Work on it will bo com. menced immediately Whe completed o engine and the electrical different complete systoms will bo put in operation. Considerablo sp will be sev apart for a mechanical departm which will constitute a fou extended oducation i prac near future, DETECTIVE YEOMANS' SALARY. . B. Kimball, who represents tho oxcise board in the fignt between tho two members of that committee and mayor over tho matter of Dotective Yeomans' salary, has filed an allegation that Yeom was removea by the excise hoard within the legal limits of po id that he is not entitled to his wages as a policoman since July 1, and that the atlowance of his claim by tho council was w direct violation of the law . The fight on the part of tho excise hoard is to remove Yeomans, whilo the mayor is de- tormined to retain him. ODDS AND ENDS The weather signals will be given from the top of tho State university this year. A flag staff thirty feet hign will'be placed on ton of the tower and the signals given threo times sach da; On Friday evening at Crandull's ball, Twenty-fourth and O streots, occurs the an nual bail of tha tive department, Adjutant Genaral Cole and Colonel Hoteh- kisa leavo tomorrow for Chicago to meet N tional guard officers in consultation in regard 100-horse power dynamos of t0 it lation for a mora cal trades in the until they have reauimated ry southern state and brought them into Living toucn with the whole unior. Denver News: Grady wus greatest of Americaus, and in Beart and brain bad no superior umong tho wen of his day and generation. Tt is fit that bis memory shoula ba honored and perpotu ated by @ monument that shall remind \ng_ wenerations of the splendor of bis jius, but when it snall crumble with the uing ages, oven as the monumeats of hens and Itone have crumbled, his oration at the New Engiand diunerin New York wiil be recalled aud rehearsea as ono of tho fluest and most patriotio pieces of oratory that ever fell trom me ‘tal lips. of the qualities of to tho appearance of state milintinmen at tho World’s fair. It is expected that an en- ampment will bo held at Chicago during tho progress of tho fair. T Sitron, Charles Smith and A. Anderson were arrested at 3 o'clock this morning itr Charley Steaberg's cigar store while play- ing caras for the cigars. Stenberg was also arrested. The Wasp: “Can you toll me, my_ friond," Sld the eldvrly sontloman (o ‘tho 1o o, what the huwmp on the the ouinel \amp on th W “Yes: of what valuo is (67" Well, (s lots of vilue. De camel wouldn't e no eood widout it.” Why not?" “Why notr Yer don’t suppose people y twenty-five cents Lo soo any huwp on hin, do yer?" ‘ud aniol wid= Chicago Trivune, He vowod e loved her as his lifo~ His gentlo Curoiine. I want you for my little wife. Dear girl!” he eried, “Be mine! “We ne'er can stand before a priest,” “The maidon sadly suld. “You do not wear your trousers creased, Your necktle isnot re St Pappinjay — Young Nood Dl of turiosity. Po D rnoticed it Poppinjay—But ke has, though. 20 ho bouht a nickel slock N but it reaily ran aceu Some tine nteed fora ¥ wely for two Ponsonby—What of that? Poppinjuy—Well, he had to Kk the clock to pleces (0 see what wus the matter with it A Minnes Mo an indict r entored ademurror a prisonor eharged 1 fine hogs belonzing ound that the shoot- ased their value, as the expense of killing of “the animals saved the own AUTUMN IN GEORGIA Walton Neiws. Oysters on the half-sh *Possunis up the tre How the ronsting 'tut Fall’s the time for m rs smoll} Chieago Tribune: Johnny’s mothor was ads ministering u sound spanking o he oy “Don't yoll so loud, Jobuny,” suid Willie, poking WS head into ‘the room, “unless want the neigibors 1 think you're one of these calumity howiers.” Kate Field's Wus now that Thave given that quarter. Tonght to have luck lashly— Don't foilow, my Ing to do with it Cashly—Why? Flushily—1 and « Cashly—T! poor Wwor cur man; noth- the races one day the wato i Dlind man, but he couldn't seo it THEY HOTH LIE, Brandon 13 «k aw, Tho timid purtridgo now Hos elose Within tho thicket's shade, Andnow the huntsuan Hes abroad Of shots o never made National Tribune: Oklahoma Photographer (to wiid looking sitier from the Panbindle) eyeson this spoton the wall il throwing up nis hands exposes the muzzle of ot! don'tshoot! I sur- Sl Dozoly takes a two- After dinner ever ovorsleep: 0 Tings for & messens 1 whon the niesseng it wikes hini up. Noew York Sun hour nup every duy r bofora Arrivos Froo Press . WS nme you p josling. What was that Detroit ented awhilo ngol ouns o ATty She—Gos Ho—Yos. hit Shi-— O, 10, alian’t know befo hiad wuch lons our ling. Anything the matter Its quite upproprinte; only Uit iU was w gos.ng which Now York Weekly: Young Hardhoad—I St e why [ ot invited 1o parties of- T suro T always bohave iiko a gon s the troubte. You thist Lho girls think you stupid HOW CHANGED, New York Herald I mot her first in leafy June DOWn by the aaire sei. A perfoet gypsy there she seomed, Ier wiys wero gay and fr 1800 hor 10w upen the street, S0 hwughty. cold and stald; Al 1 Uhe witamn £ pons o'on Witehing summer maidy — Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE