Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1892, Page 4

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B, Trschuck, secrotary of The By Publishing company, does solomnly sw | stato that the actual ofreulation of THE DATLY Ber for the week ending Junuary % 1802, was as follows: Sunday, Dec. 27 ... Monday, Dec, 28,7700 Tucaday, Dec. Wednesday. Doc Thursdny, Dec GEO. 1. TZECHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed presence this 2 ds BEAL Average The growth of the averace dnily ¢irculat on of Tnk BEE for six years is shown inhe fol- Jowinz tabl T8 | 189 | 16.200| 15,200 19,574 13 14,196/ 15, 18,550 20,664 230 181 | 20,180 |2 — e A NEWSPAPER which purloins its news is as contemptible ny other thief. THE grand jury can do a great deal toward the cultivation of official honesty in these parts. Our in Wyoming when cannot decently lynch a horsothief they pormit him to eseape from jail and freeze to death. RECIPROCITY is limited free trads and tariff reform is limited protection. As usual, the republicans have the best end of the argument. THE old city council has very little time left in which to commit deviltry, but citizens will not breathe easy until it has gasped its lust breath. Avrnouau John Sherman drew first blood in the Ohio atorinl contest, Foraker came up smiling for the next round and the sparring continues with both men game. WhHay is it that the estimates of one city contractor go through the Board of Public Works without any unnecessavy delay while those of others are held up for want of time to examine them? IN A vain endeavor to be more motro- politan than usual Minneapolis started a new monthly magazine with the breezy title of **Westward Ho.” The impulse was sh rtlived, however, und the enterprising publisher gave up his scheme after a single issu GERMANY offers her good offices as mediator between Chili and the United States. The offer should be declined with thanks by both countries. They can settle their little misunderstanding without foreign interference by the ex- ercise of ordinary courtesy toward ench other. A FEW more vears of enterprise and Yankee ingenuity will bring the new south well to the front in commercial and material development. She now has twenty-eight blast furnuces and rolling mills iu overation and, aside from her cotton, rice and sugar, produced the past year 617,000,000 bushels of corn and wheat, Nuiw MEXICO has some equity in her request upon the government for help in orgunizing a proper public school system. Sho has an unusually large proportion of illiterates among her mongrel population, and the ordinary school land allotmont will hardly be suflicient to meet her situation, even with a heavy direct tax for school pur- poses. New Mexico cannot become a desivable state in the Ambrican union until she has made it possible for Mexi- cans, Pueblo Indians and Awmerieans alike to obtuin at least the rudiments of an Eoglish education in public schools. Tiue Interstate Commerce commission will find & small but interesting case in ‘Wastern lowa which ought to receive attention. Out of spite, apparently, one railway company refuses to receive car loads of conl from another,destined for the Glenwood Institute for Feeble Minded Children. As a consequence, the state fnstitution is embarrassod and the gond sonse of the community ouwraged. The C.,B. & Q and Wabash should have settled their contention without dis tress ng u public charity, but, as they have not done so, the Interstate C(‘om- merce commission should tuke the recal- citrant road in hand and teach it a les- son. ProrLe who know “White Beave as Dr, Frank Powell called himsolf in tho show, will not predicate an Indian war in North Dakota on the alleged at- tempt of the redskins to take his scalp, Dr. Powell probably tells this story in order to have the opportunity to remind the public ¢ sioned him and Buffalo Bill to go in claw-hammer coats to Sitting Bull’s camp and capture him, dead or alive, n little over a yeur ago. It wus probably fortunate for both that Loui and his Indian polico intercepted them before they reasched Bull's camp. The Grand River Sioux have grudge ngninst the sensationa! ex-medicine man from La Crosse tnd his story looks for all the world as if it had been especinily gotten up for the Umnhu Fuke Factory. no ANOTHER PLOT THREATENED. President Harrison, in peferring in his annual message to the change of method for choosing presidential elec- tors ndopted by the state of Michigan, did not overstate the importance of pro- viding by constitutional amendment for a uniform mothod of appointing such eloctors. The federal donstitution leaves the matter legislaturos. Its langunge is: Jach state shall appoint, in such man- nor us the legislature thereof may direct, W number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the congress.” Under this authority the logislature of ‘a state may provide for the choice of presidental electors by congressional distr . a8 in the case of Michigan, or it may take upon itself the appointment of electors, and beth of these methods have been in vogue in the past. The general course, however, almost since the foundation of the gov- ornment, has been to choose electors by the voters of the whole state upon a general ticket, and as far back as 1832 there remained but a single state, South Carolina, that had not adopted this method. That state, down to the time of the civil war, continued to choose its presidential electors by a vote of the legislature, but after the war changed its method and conformed to the prac- tice of the other states. In 1876 the electors of Colorado wore chosen by the legislature, but since that date the method of choosing presi- dential electors has been by the voters of the whole state upon a general ticket. Thus, as remarked by the president, “after a full test of other mothods, without important division or dissent in any state and without any purpose of party advantage, as we must beliove, but solely upon the considerations that uniformity was desirable and that a general eloction in territorial divisions not subject to chunge was most consist- ent with the popular charactar of our institutions, preserved the ejuality of the voters, and perfectly removed the choice of president from the baneful influence of the ‘gerrymander,’ the practice of all the states was brought into harmony.” The tendency shown by the demoeratic party in several states, of which the Michigan departure is an example, to destroy this harmony has vecently been very marked. It was strongly mani- fested by tho last democratic legislature of Ohio, and it is not to be doubted that the democratic leaders of Towa contem- plated the ‘“*Michiganizing” of that state had the party secured control of the legislature. The success of the democrats in getting control of the New York legislature suggests the question whethor they will not depart from the method of choosing electors by the popular vote, and it is intimated that they are considering the expediency of passing a law providing that this legis- lature shall appoint the presidential electors nex’, year. It is believed that this was the prime motive of Governor Hill i n his fight to mako the stato senate democratic, and none will doubt that he is entirely capa- ble of such an attempt to steal the pres- 1dency under the form of law. Having almost absolute control of the dero- cratic machinery in the state, the pas- sage of a law directing the legislature to choose electors mig ht give him great prostige in the nationa 1 convention, and he has only to convince himself of this to insure his using all nis influence in favor of a return to this old and uni- versally rejected method, regardless of possible consequences. The eloment now in control of democratic politi¢s in New York is not to be deterred from anything that may promise to give it larger power by apprehensions of future danger. Hill and his followers are laboring for prasent aggrandizement, and nothing can be too reactionary or revolutionary that will serve their pur- pose. WESTERN DEMOCRATS. The opportunity is at hand for western democrats to assert themselves, The situation in New York is such that it seems almost impossible that a presiden- tial candidate for the democracy can be taken from that state. Unless there is a most radical and unlooked for change there during the next four or five months it is questionable whether Mr. Cloveland can get a single delegate from Yew York in the national conven- tion. The element that dominatos the party now is bitterly and relentlessly opposed to him. Its leader is David Bennett Hill, and ent events have made him stronger in that relation than ever beforo. It is wholly unreasonablo to suppose that he can be induced to change his attitude of hostility toward the ‘‘c aimant,” and the following he has drawn to him will not desert him, 1f Mr. Cleveland cannot get the New York del gation there is small proba- bility of his receiving the nomination, On the other hand, a Hill delegation might promise New York if he were made the candidate, but it could not give assurance that he would poll the strength of the party in any other state, There has been talk of a possible hur- monizing of the New York factions on Governor [lower, but this is highly im- probuble, and, besides, the democracy of the country does not want Mr. Flower, who is not even the leader of his party in his own state. The factional conflict in New York being thus practically certain, us mat- ters now look, to defeat the hopes of the presidential aspirants of that stute, opens to the western democracy the op portunity to name the next candidate of the party for the presidency. An earn- o8t and aggressive movement to this end would undoubtedly draw to its support a number of the southern tes. The near'y unanimous sentiment of thut sec- tion 15 favorable to Cleveland, but it would not be difficult to change this to st at General Miles commis- | un available westernman, if it could be shown that New York vrobubly would be lost with Cleveland as the candidate, A great many influential southern dem- state than New York, and ave ou record in favor of a western stundurd-bearer if un available man can be found, | Itis said that Senator Palmer of Illi- | nois is again being taliked of as a possi- bility, but the almost insuperable ob- , Jection o him is his udvanced uge. No tirely to the control of the | ocrats believe it would be sound policy | s Primeaux | 1o take a candidate from some other THE OMAHA man quite as old as Senator Palmer has over baen nominated for the presidency and, although he is a very vigorous man for his years, the chances would be largoly against his living out a presi- dential term. There are mon not so old among western democrats who bavo quite as much ability as Palmer and would be far more likely to command the suppo-t of the younger voters of the party. The democratic situntion is com- plicated and promises to giye the na- tional convention a great denl of trouble. Bverything indicates that a great deal of bitterness and bad blood will be cre- ated, with the inevitable effect of mater- {ally wonkening the party. But at pres- ent the best and safest solution of the problem that confronts the dsmocracy appears to be in taking its next candi- date for the presidency from the west. A MISLEADING STATEMENT. Hon, John L. Carson of Auburn, one of the oldest and perhaps best known national bankers in Nebraska, ealls the attention of THE BEE to a misleading remark in the report of the comptroller of the currency calculated to do Ne- braska serious injury. Mr. Carson shows also that the reflection is got jus- tified by the facts. The language is as follows: ‘It will bo observed that Tex- as and Pennsylvania stand at the head of the list [in the number of national bunks organized], as they have during the past two years, with seventeen new associations in each, Texas, however, having the larger capital. Following these come the states of Washington, Tllinois and Iowa with eleven banks oach and Nebraska and New York with ton each. Kansas shows nine new asso- clations and rvanks next to New York." Then follows the objectionable expres sion: “It will be observed that not- withstanding the fatality attonding banking operations in Kansas and No- braska these states take prominent places in point of new organizations.” The exception to Lhis statement taken by Mr. Carson is that we have had but four national bank failures and one suspension in the state in the past year. The suspended bank soon after resumed business stronger than ever. We have never had as many failures before in a singlo year, but inasmuch as there are 140 national banks in the state the rec- ord does not justify so serious a reflec- tion upon our financial institutions. But even if it were a desperate show- ing, Notraska does not deserve the dis- courtesy of such a fling froma public official. The comptroller’s report goes to bankers and financiers throughout the entire country, and a statement like this from so high an official financial source is calculated to do us serious damago. There is no way of obliterat- ing from the record remarks of this kind in a public document. The fail- ures which occurred in Nebraska were due wholly to gross cavelessness and causes foreign to conservative banking. They do not prove that any “‘fatality” atvtends the businessin the state. On the contrary, the facts show that Ne- braska banking institutions are excep- tionally wall managed. Mr. Carson has been at the head of one or more such in- stitutions for more than a quarter of a century in this state and he is justifiable in resenting the imputation of the comp- THE HASTING Hastings is the metropolis of thoe west- ern half of the great South Platte re- gion. Sheis the commercial and political capital of the old Second congressional district, and as such is as fairly envitled to a federal building as Nebraska City and Beatrice, The United States Dis- trict court holds perviodic sessions in Hastings. Her postoffice business is as large as that of any town S BUILDING. DAILY BEE of equal population. The city is the center of a section of country which 18 growing rapidly and is destined to have a population of 20,0¢0 to 25,000 by the end of the present decade. With- out disparaging the claims of any other city 1n the state, THE BEE expresses the hope that the present congress will muke liberal appropriation for a public building in Hastings. There can be no economy in depriving a city of over 10,000 population, that has alveady been designated us u federal court city, of the benafit of a United States court house and postoffice. As a mattor of fact, the rental paid by the govern- ment exceeds the interest on tho es- timated cost of such a building. The policy pursued with regard to public building appropriations for the smaller cities by the preceding congresses has been penny wise and pound foolish, A governwment that can dispose of its 2 per cent bonds at a premium can afford to build fire proof postoffices in every city of 10,000 population. Such build- ings would pay for themselves in twenty years by setting apart the differcnce be- tween the present rental of postoffice buildings and the amount of terest paid on the capital invested. The affairs of the government should be conducted on business principles. Nexr Friday the delegates to the National Lengue of Press Clubs at San Francisco will pass through Omaha en route und they should be met by delega- tions from our various business men’s organizations with a cordial welcome and such other courtesies as thoir brief stop in the eity will permit. JAMES B, Bovb is beginning to ! his title clear, but regards all cong. lations premature until the supre: court hus formally announced its d cision. Tue oil inspectors’ gang will scarcely wait upon the ovder of their going, but vacate just as soon as the decision of the supreme court ut Washington is ven- dered, Nebraski's Generosity, Rapid City (8. D.) Republican, Nobraska deserves ber prospenity. Out of ber abundance she has sent a train load of “corn to the Russian sufferers. —~— On the Right T Nt. Lowis Star It must bo a great rehor to demooratio editors o be ablo to cease their attacks upon President Harrison, Mr. Blaine, and otner great and good men, and let loose thy vials of their wrath on the heads of people so well deserving of it as Messrs. Crisp, Gorman and Hill. Tunero is one peculiar thing “about democratic editors, and that is that their | wbuse of democrats who difter with them is | ack, MONDAY, J more bitter then even the denunciations of ropublicans in Mghteous wrath at Bourbon iniquity, bR T RTr—. The Greay Ski New Vork Adr Mr. Holman wWill please observe that the oves of tha natfon are upon him as he goes through his great act of removing the epi- dermis from a government floa, with a view to securing thoe hide and tallow. - # Demoels Big Spollsmen. @lbe-Democrat. The two strongest men iu the demooratio party today—Hill and Gorman-—are the two most unscrupuloys politicians in the country, without a single gharacteristic to ricommend them to the approval of honest and repulable citizons, 4 ng Act, nt Reclprocity, New York Tritune, Tho policy of reciprocity continues to ada, triumph to triumph. Our Washington dis- patches contain full details of tho agree- ments which have been concluded with Great Britain in respoct to nearly all the British dependencies in the West Indies, and also British Guiana. Itis also stated that reciprocal arrangements are neariy completed with some of the Central American states, and there is oxpectation of the announcement of a like arrangement with Mexico. These announcemeats speak for themseives, The wisdom of the authors of reciprocity is again vindicated, and another notable achievement 1s added to the laurels of the present administration. -— It is Better, Chicago Tribune. 1t Is better in every way that the decision should bo in favor of Boyd. To all intents and purposes ho was a oitizen. Ho was also the choice of the pooplo of Nebraska for gov- ernor. Were he to bo kept out of the oftice during his entire term and a holdover be al- lowed to fill the place great dissatisfaction woula be created in Nebraska. It isnot usual for supremo court decisions to be known in advance, but it is to be hoped that there is no mistake in this roport as to its findings, and that tho man whom the people elected will ba allowed to tuke his seat. Then the democrats will not be able to use Boyd’s case as an ex- ouse for giving seats in other states to denio- crats who were not the choice of the people. gt Fletitious War Alarms, Philadetphia. Ledger. War alarmiste are not confined to Europe. They have been at work over there for at least ‘ten years prophesying un outbreak, discrediting oficial utterances and prefer- ring vague rumors and ‘“'signs of activity,” ete. Some day, if they keep at it long enough, they will prove by the event that they were right, ignoring their numerous failures. War alarmists in this country havenot had much expérience, but they were equaily expers, When all their stories are denied one after the other and in deta they fall back on the ‘“‘active preparations for war with Chili and the statements of an- onymous individuals “acquainted with the facts.”” \Vhen their reports are read criti- cally they are found to contain bushels of conjecture and insiguation based upon a single grain of fact, and generally a grain of fact susceptible to another interpretation. pkedpiposti iy SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. Some of the papers of the state have just begun to “kick!’ on.the congressional dis- trict ‘‘gerrymander” ~which was accom- plished by the legisliture & year ngo. So far these editorial gfotests are very mild, but they aro apt to grow stronger as sum- mer approaches and tho campaign draws on apace. Here is one from the Grand Island Independent, & républican paper: “\Vhon the next congressional race is calied, Hall county. will not be likely to bo 1t—sho will be a stranger in a strange land, entively outside of her jurisdiction, Tho last opportionment, is in several respects a disgrace to tho men who made it, and_ this 1s truo both of senatorial ana congressional dis- tricts. The aini appeared to bo to give it to Hall couaty in the neck at every turn of the wheel, but Hall county will help smash somo slates 'all the same whien tho time comes.” Here's another, this time from « bourbon sheet, the Beatrice Democrat: O all the {mbecile acts of the last logis- lature, the meanest was the apportionment of the state into congressional districts, The Fourth district winds around Lancaster county, with Saunders county ov the north and Gage on the south. 1t makes an odd- shaped district, but we can stand 1t." A Stromsburg citizen who designates him- selfas a “Shylock,” aud who occasionally lends a little money at a rather suff rate of interest, has been reading the paper printed at that place by L D. Chamberlain, the Hoadlight. Ho finds that vhe immacutate . D., whose fierce assaults on the 2-por-cont-a- month sharks have given him a bloodthirsty reputation throughout the state, is tho greatest usurer of them ail. To prove it Mr. Money Shark quotes from tho editorial coi- umns of the Headlight: *The constant an nouncement_at the head of my paper fixes the price at 8L _per year in advauce, or 81.50 if paid after the year expires.” The Shy- lock figures it out this way : ““When I take his paper from the postofice I have accepted the terms on which he says I can have it, and have thus made a usuvious contract. If the price of the year's subscrip- tiou was 81 January 1, 1591, and is $1.50 Jau- uary 1, 1502, that extra half-dollar is 50 por cent interest for the use of the dollar for a year." “This roasoning forces the Shylock to denowminate Mr. Chamberlain a “‘brother usurer,” aund causes him to exclaim “When I salute him on tho rialto, it is not. cousistent in bim to pluck my beard, spit upou my gaberdine, and say ‘Begone, baso usurer.’ " ‘There seems to be a hiatus in the entento cordiale, or something of that sort, batween the defuncto would-be governor of Dodge county and Nebraska's honorable represen- tatives in the upper house of the national logislature. These few words are not written simvly to displav a knowledge of French and Hog Latin, but for the purpose of introducing & little paragraph from tho official orgauette of the aspiring Fremont man who thinks he 1s still in state poiitics, The young man who grinds the machine has beeu remaing Tur Ber's Washington dispatclies, ana notes the fact that Senators Manderson and Paddock have both given expression to their bejief that the principlos and purposes of the republican party ave takings s renewod hold upon tho people of Nobraska, and that the prospeets of the party are brigut, . This doesn’t seem to please him, and ho ¥iVes a turn to tho or- gmllullu'u crank and produces the folinwing wail: 1t is to e regretted, that Senators Man. dorson and Paddock uxo just hoistiug their fair-weathor signals. There was a place for them as veneficidries of the party, in tho midst of the stormtha swept over 1ho state o year ago. But they took to their lone collars, and aro just HQW getting their heads outside the celiar door and are dountless sur- prised to observe, that thero ure so fow clouds anc that thape I8 50 little destruction in the path of the storm, after all,” The Beatrico Democrat is irying hard to make it appear that Senator Paddock will havo a hard row o hoé i cultivating Gage county politics durlng. jhe coming campaign. The Democrat quoles & well known repub- lican politician as saying: “1f the friends of Seaator Paddock pursue the same course next fall that they did this, and attempt to run the party machine, Sen- ator Padaock will go before the legislature without the backing of bis own county.” pendent party are said to have held a private confereuce at Lincoln the otber day to sur- voy the flold, pateh up the breeches made Quring ibe late political bawle and prepare tho pluus for pulting the reform forces iu battio array to “murch on to & glorious vies tory in the coming strugzie with tbe lmpsjof bell”” Among the onthusiastio men meu tioned as belng presont at this council of war wero Farmers Van Wyok, Wolle, Blake and othors, but Burrows wusu't 1o be seen, UARY W0ODS ARE FULL OF THEM. Nebraska Contains at Present a Multiplicity of Oandidates for Congressional Honors, THE LINES OF BATTLE SLOWLY FORMING. to Co omee Men W . ibute fo he Six Districts and th Represent Th 'ho picket lines idthe political contest to be waged in Nebraska noxt year are alrendy outlined in the rough. ‘I'he outposts are be- ing established, and the points of vantage on eithor side are baginning to show themselves, The most important matter to be decided in the near future by the republican state central committes will by the selection of congressional committees in each of the six congressional districts of the state. Tho re- districting of the state has, of course, abol- ished the old congressional machinery and made it necessary to provide a new equip- ment of central committeos in each of the six districts to take the place of the three old committe now obsolete. Tho National Republican Central committea has recommendad to the staio ocentral committos that the various congressional committees for the new dis- tricts be appointed by thoe state cedtral com- mittes and this matter will be one of tho leading topics to bo discussed at the next meeting of the republican state central com- mittee, to be held at the Millard on Janu- ary 14 Wil Re: There will doubtless be a disposition on the part of sowme of the membors of the committee Lo refer this matter to the leading republicans of each congressional district and to appoint a time for them to meet and select their congressional committees, Others will probably favor the appointment of these district committees by the state central com- miittee, A warm and interesting discussion is expected. Congressional candidates in every district in the state are already in tha field or prepar- ing to take the field, and the indications are that theskirmish for the nomination upon the republican ticket will be brisk and persistent from now until nexv fall, when the nomina- tions will be made. ttro Tho First congressional distri consists of the following counties: Cass, Otoe, Lan- caster, Nemaha, Johason, Pawnoe and Rich- ardson. ‘The gentlemen who have been mentioned for congress on the republican ticket in tho First aistricy are: Church Howe, Thomas Majors, Judge Allan, W, Fisld, John (. Wat- son. J. L. Caldwell, Judge Chapman, Isham Reavis and Jesse B. Strode. Theraare others who have boen suggosted, but the above are the more prominent ones. he democratic probabilities spoken of by leading politicians are: W. J. Bryan, Frank P. Ireland and Frank White. ‘T'he Second district is made following counties: Washington. Lie probable republican candidates already meutioned aro W. J. Convell and John L. Webster. “I'he democrats meationed for congressioual hovors {u_the Second aro Charles Ogden, Warren Switzler and T. J. Mahonoy. The independent leaders Just now thrusting their intellectual frouts above the horizon of the future in this connection are Allan Root and V. 0. Strickler. 5 Third and Fourth Districts, _The Third district is madeupof the follow- ing counties: Merrick, Nance, Boone, Platte, Colfax, Dodge, Burt, Cuming, Stanton, Mad- ison, Antelope, Piorce, Wayne, Thurston, Dakota, Dixon, Cedar and IKnox. Hon. George D. Meiklejohn, Hon. George W. K. Dorsey, Mr. John K. Hays, Mr. C. C. MeNish and Judge Norris have been men- tioned as probable candidates for congress on the republican tickot. Judge J. C. Crawford, Join M. Moan and Dr. Keiper are supposed to be putting up rods to attract democratic lightning and Judge Allen, I'red Jewell and Mr. Poynter will probably wear top boots and red flannet shirts with a view to catching the nomina- tion on the independent ticket. he Iourth district will have a political show of no insignificant proportions. The following counties are in the rourth: Saun- ders, Butier, Poli, Hamilton, York, Sewazd, Fillmore, Saline, Thuyer, Jefferson aund Gage. T'he republicans who seem to passess con- gressional aspirations n tpat district are: Hon. George H. Hastings, ex-Governor Jame W. Dawes, I, J. Foss and L. W. Colby ‘Tne democrats may rallv around one of the foliowing gentlemen: W. G. Hastings, Judwe Hambel or Dr. Johnson of Fairmont. Judge Bates and 1. D. Chamberlain appear to bo gathering the indevendent strevgth about thelr camps. Hustling in the Fifth, The Fifth district will be a hummer. includes the counties of Clay, Nuckolls, Webster, Adams, Kearney, Hall, Franklin, Harlan, Phelps, Gospor, Furnas, Red Wi low, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Dundy, Chase, Periins. Thero are a fow ropublicans in this district who have not been mentioned in connection with tha congressional nomina- tion, but they will probably be beard from in a folv days. Those already running prelim- inary survoys across the fleld are: J. G. Tate, of Hastings; Dan M. Nettleton, J. H. MePheeley, Searles of Nucbolls county, Me- Neouey of Webster, Dilworth of Adams, Burton of Harlan, Rhoa of Phelps, and ‘Adams of Nucholls, The democrats will n all probability nom- inate “Sodbouse” McKeighan and ex-Spoak- er Elder will probably spriug into the arena as the independent Spartacus, Bigger The big Sixth is an empire in itseif. It cmbraces tho following counties: Boyd, Buffalo, Dawson, Lincoln, Keith, Cus Shorman, Howard, Greeley, Valley, Wheelo Garfield, Holt, Rock, Brown, Keya Puha, Loup, Blaine, Thomas, Hooker, Cherry, Grant, Logan, McPherson, Arthur, Sheridan, Dawes, Box Butte, Cheyenno, Kimball, Bauner, Scott’s Bluff ' and Sioux. There's plenty of congressional tim- bor in the sixth. Herc is tho array of republican talont from which to seloct: A. . Cady, James W hitohead, Jack McColl, H. M. Grimes, Judge M. P. Kinkaid, J. C. McCaun, F. M. Dorrington, Judso Chureh, Judge Hamerand Aaron Wall. Tfie democrats and independents will prob. ably unite upon Ko if he makes a record to which campaign orators will be justitied in reforring “with pride,” ete. The decision of the subreme Thayer-Boyd case will, it is belioved, settlo onio uiatter so far as the democratio party of Nebrasku is concerned. Leading poliucians believe that if Mr, Boyd 15 permitted to serve out his term as governor of the stute, he will be renominated for another term by his party pect Locul Opinton, the First and Second, up of the Douglas, Sarpy and It han Some States, court in the HASTINGS IS IN BRNEST. t City Be wirly. Hasmixas, Neb,, Jan, 1,.—To the Editor of 'ug Bre: 1 notice in Tur Bex of December 30 an article “In Bohalf of Hastings,” in which is given a synopsis of what has bsen done in congress by senators and representa- tives i bohalf of & public building for this city. Tho article is doubtless written in dofenco of the stubborn fact that Hastings has uot yot roceived a building, and also as an apot- ogy, ws it were, for her fallure to receive it in the rocent past. It will bo seen from the articlo thut the fiest blll for Hastings was introduced in the Forty-uinth congress (nearly Len years ago), and at that time Hastings was tho only city in the state outside of Lincoln and Owmaha that was asking for a bullding At tho close of the Forty-ninth conwress wo were uot surprised to find that the bill had failed to become a law, and the reason: +/Poo many heavy approp: tion bills," was, doubtiess, o vahd excuse. This excuse, howevor, has » to us thronghout tho vears of th. ‘iftioth and Pifty-fivst congresios regularly, . ul it has becomo stale and misleading. = We have been led at the opening of each session of congress to beliove that Hustings' chaces wore far in advance of any other city of the northwest; but at«the clo+é of the session we flad our oill has failea Lo pass and this stereo- A Critic Who doled out [ bad been granted by the honorablo Board of Deuel, § typod excuse offerod As & roason for such | failurs, | Trus, Me. Miliiken did roport ths bill upon the expressed condition that threo fifths of the amount should be stricken out of it and immoaiately after the carving (which didn’t_quite kil fhe bill), to make death sure, thoy raised the old objection that “‘appropriations were too hoavy' and the ery of put on the brakes” was raisod. | And us was suggosted by Reed, MeKinloy and Cannon, it was allowed to *sleep to death,” and %o tho bill slept and still sloops Truly the Hastings bill has had an road and it would seem that after so much hard work and such a disastrous exparionco other cities with less population thau Hastings would lack the temerity to ever hazard a bill for u publio building in thoir behaif, and especiuliy so when Hastings haa tho advantage of being the lareer city and having the prestige of a foderal col But | what dowefind! Nothing daunted, Nebraska | City. Beatrice and I'remont cast thotr nots in the great uncertain waters of public favos long fter Hastings had been strageling and, | whilo she is in tho throes of dofeat, those cities succeed in flling thoir nets, ow we are prompted to ask how did their bills escane the withering influence of *too many hoavy aporopriations ' How did they escapo the iitiberalism of the spoaker that is cited in the article; tow did they escape tho sentonce ol *'tho death sleap” of Tow Reed nd William MeKutlove Wo of the Second district have right 1o know; and further we would respectfully ask of theso citics to givo us tho seeret of their success, for wo wish It understood that the people of Hast- ings are of a liberal class, and if it tawes other means out of the usual courso we aro anxious to know what it 1s, foe “we aro in 1t We want and need n public building. Again we are surprised to find that the Second congressional distriot with her splen did republican reoord, having forty republi- can votes in tho state legisluture of three yoars ago, has so hittle influonce in Washing- ton that she has never vou succosded in get- ting one dollar of Ucited States monoy within her border, while other cities and countios, some of which have never been noted for great republican majoritios, have succeeded in_getting their public baildiags without very much delay. There is u good roason for this state of affairs, and ono thai will assert itself in the near future if western Nebraska is not given recognitior No newspaper or individual has any just cause for suying that the peoplo of Hustings do not appreciate what has been donoe for them. Wa have waited long and patiently and bave beon true to cvery republican trust. Wo are not disposed to make war upon other cities that bave beon more fortunat but it is a fact, and we realizo it fully, v Hastings and tho Second congressionnl dis- trict have not recoiyed justico from tho hands of those of whom she had a right to expect justice, and from whont, for valuo_received, Justice1s so justly her due. PO, g o FRUIT OF PROIIBITION, manates From of Power to Control, Laxiay, Nob., Dec. $1.—To the Editor of e Bee: We notice inTie Moaxise Bee of Docember 28 a spocial telegram from Beatrice, Neb, reporting a fight and stabbing affray to have happoned horoat a dance on Christmas eve. - Wo wish to say through the columns of Tus Bre that the report is on- tirely false, as thore was no dance or troublo of any kind. Wa believe the articlo a dirty fling at the faiv name of our town, and for the purpose of iuflueaciug the County Board of Suporvisorsin the matter of granting a license for asaloon here, ‘'he latter clause of the article explains itself: hey say Lanham has for some time been bofore the County Board of Suporvisors -~ for a saloon, and thus far has failod.” A part of this is'true at least, and the defeat has boen caused by such work as the articlo reforred to. The parties opposing a licensed saloon aro not working in interest of true temperauce, but are uiding Kansas bootleggers. Our town is located about one-half in the state of glorious pro- hibition Kansas, where probibition is en- forced to the latter everywhers, the other half bewg located in Nebraska, With no saloon on the Nobraska side of our tittle burg, Kansas bootleagors and dive keeers are carrying on a profitablo business and we must adimt that under the absonce of a well roguluted saloon, thero is more drunkennoss and disorder than there would be if a licenso Lac k County Supcrvisors of Gage county. 4% Every girl in the land should road “Physi- cal Development and Exercise for Women,” oy Dr. Mary Taylor Bissell, and as the work is now published in cheap form in the Portia series, it is within the reach of the most moderately circumstanced. There is a fund of valuable information 1n this little work which should be imported to all who have in their caro the guardianship of young girls, As tho author suys: “There are thrao distinct conditions in the lifo of tho averago young woman which are certainly capable of seriously retarding her physical developmont, as they now oxist, and these concern her habits of dress. habits of school life, and havit of (not) taking exer- cise.”” Published by Dodd, Mead & Com- pany, New York, and for sale by J. S. Caul- field,' Omaha, Nob. “01d Raclot's Millions,” by Emite Riche- bourge, translated from tho French by Mrs, Benjamin Lewis, is a very pleasing story of the fairy tale order,and although by a Freénch author, s puve in tone and ilinstrates how a man will sacrifico everythine to his sroad for money, in an fnteresting and life-likko manner. Published by the Cassell Publishing com: pany, 104 and 106 Fourth avenue, Now York ci Christmas fiction s the leading element in Drake's Magazine for December. The stories are, as all short stories should be, worth tell- ing'and well told. Published at 11 Fraulkfort streei, New York, — WHAT THE SCHOO], Jowrnal of Education 1t Is wondorful whast unliko thinzs P'ho school bell says o the bovs, when it rings! For instance, the laggard, who drags niong On his way t0 sehool, eurs this sort of song Ol—suz—huin! Why did I conic? Study till four— Books are u horo! O how I wish I could run off and fish! Sve! there's the brook Horo's Line and hool What's that you suy? Hurey up—ol Oh—lium-—ho 8'pose | must o Study til four, Books age & bore Then the boy who loves e, Who, does what should do, Comes bravely ulong with sutehel and hooks. ‘he broeze in his whistio, the sun in his looks, And these are the thouzhts thut well up like W BO1IE BE to be faithful and his parents thiok best he 1 bell with its fuithful ding- + He had strong HUSTLING FOR KAUTZ' SHOES. Army Officors Making a Hard Struggle to Sooure a Promotion, A DOZEN COLONELS PULLING WIRES Probability sl That Otis WIll Knock the Per , but There Is No Cortalnty ns the President Keops 1y Own Counsel, Wasmsaroy, D, Tus Bev, ) —HBrigadier General August V. Kautz, now commanding the wmiiitary de- partment of Columbia with hendquarters at Vuncouver barracks, will retiro for ago next Motday. His suceossor will by salected by Prosident Harrison from among the colonels of tho three uvms of the service. Couse- quently adozen candidates are working every wire to seoure the coveted prizo, The leading competitors are Colonels An drows, \Whoaton, Carlin, Otis aud Swaine of the infantry and Colonels Carr and Forsytho of the cavalry. Colonels Carlin and Wheaton are in Washington working hard, Colonel Forsythe 15 Omaba. All have friends who are leaving no stono unturned, Colenel Andrews of the Twenty-fifth in fantry is the ranking colonol of the urmy and has only two years to serve, bat for tonsons not stated ho 18 said tot to be serlously con sidered for the place Coionél Carlin of the Fourth infantey has an excollont record of warservice, He wasin the old arny and suffered in rank during the reorganization ut the close of tho war, Since that time he has been chiefly on the froutier. He rotires in 1503 avd his hysical condition is considered as militating agiinst his chances Colonel Frauk Wheaton, Second infantey, wais also in the old army. His record of sery 0 is phenomenal, Ho fought in every bate tlo of the Army of the Potomac. In wadition, ue saved Washington from Jubal Iar raid, commauding the twelve regimouts which beat off the confoderate leader wheu only seven miles from the capital. Ho w also with Sheridan in the Shenandoah val- ley. Siuce tho war his record has been one of coutinvous service on the front Ho is In Washington today for the first time in sevontecn years, General Wheaton stands second on thelist of infantry colonels. He is backed by strong New Bogland and Ne- braska influenc Colonel E, S.0tis of the Twen entered the war in the full of '62 as a captain and left it as a lieutenant colonel onough 1nfluence to retamn the grade in tho re-organization and becamo & colonel in 'S0, His record is not a long ono, but his political pole is longe The stroug chances are that it will knock down the per simmou. Socretary Proctor pushed hard for Colonel Otis when General Kautz was mado brigadier, and Seuator Proctor is working ard for him now. The impression in tho war departinent is that Colonel Otis has veen decidod upon. He will not rotive until 1402, Colonel Swaine, Twenty-second infant 18 said to be the choice of General § He enterod the Military acad has been in the service ever since. He was colonel of an Ohio regiment during the war, the highest rauk be ever atained until 'si, when he took commund of the Twenty-second infantry, From '69 1o '74 e served with tha Second infantry, now stationod at Omaba. Colonel Swaine hus four years to serve. Ho retires in 18 Colonel Eugene Carr, Sixth cavalry, was a brigadier general during the war. 1o is o West Pointer of the class of 50, and has a liue record of war and frontier service. Ha rotives in 1804, General James W, Forsythe, Seventh cav- alry, graduated from the ucademy in 56, and was a lieutenant colonel in war ‘times, ' His service has been largely on staft duty sinc 1864, when ne associated himself with Gen eral Sheridan and remained with that officer until bis promotion to a coloneley in }Iuin 57 years of age and does not ret; 84 This completes tho list of p obibilities The seloction will almost certal ly be made from the infautcy arm. If the opinion of nive-teuths of the staff hore foned is worth anything, Colonel Otis be thu man. His chances require explanation. Uy to u brigadier generalship, promotion is seniority, Beyond & colouelcy promo tion is within the choice’ of th presideat. He can make a brigadier of uny ofticor he may select. General Crook, for in stance, was' promoted from a licuteunant coloneley to a brigadiership over the head of forty ranking ofticers. 'Tho liverty given in this direction is duo to the fact that manv ofticers fitted to command a regiment ave not competent to command a military depart. ment. There has been a strong sentiment for years in the War departwent in fuvor o seniority promotions irrespective of physical qualifications, the fecling being that tho veis crans of the war ought to be taken caro of. Secratary Proctor, however, with his prace tical ideas, insisted that the first qualitica. tion in a candidate should be his physica ability to take command of troops in case of war. Ho opposed General Kautz's promotion on the ground of his certain inabllity for field service aud urged Colonel Ous' appointment for athi reason thiat ho had ton years to sorvo and that young men were needed at tho front. Geoeral Schofield, on the other hand, has rocommended four of the souior colon the vacancy, including Wheaton ana ¢ President Harrison uever gives as mation of his intentions, and on the 6vo of the vacancy “you pays your monoy and tako! vour choice,” . Jan. 2.—[Special to foth infantry 1531, o natil will It Eve was made of Adam’s rib, she mu have been the first of the Arib tring. The American hoz is said to be the greasios ghimal oxtunt. If you don't believe it try him, ohnkins: It seoms ns If overything minipulated by the Stoek Exenange ng Billkins: “Yes, evorything but life." Johnging: “Yes, bt [ 000 where thut life is short.” Where now, Ho1zs? “Golng down to see old Th Sk bim for his danghter’s hund. 3 lsut what Is this in your pocket? and grenudo—to uso in cuso o somo »won firo. you know. Wo have no sympathy for Samson. 1l should have known thit the hoys would ul Taught at il 1E he iov his wife cut his huir. TUAT COLD, Washington Stars A cold you get; 'tls bad, and yet You might bo ck nder it ith tl sk 10'er yo X DI 1ot a score of tolks who boio and proscril sl certaln qulte your knoo As he heais Ui doaz Cling, clung, cling ' 80 glad | could sing! Honven so blue, Duty to do! Birds in Zvory thin Even a boy Finds study u joy! Whon my work's done ' reudy for fun Keenor iy pli For the tusks of the day. Cling, elang, cling ' 5o glad 1 coula sing! These 0re the songs waleh the two oy 8 heard, When tho sehool bell was rluging, word for word Which do you think wis th Which do you heur, a8 you're trudgiig along? Don't b W Tnggard ‘—far herter, I siy air, falr, truer sons? And knows just what to do Druke's Muguzine: What & world of won dors wo live in. Lot words produce cooluess Sult water gives us frosh fish. Neat! 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