Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1892, Page 4

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EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, ttate of Nebra 1 o By uck, Jublishing company. that the actual eircalation of for the week ending February plemnly swear DALY BRE , 1802, Was as Eriday Euturday, Feb, Average Sworn to betore me and subs ny presenco this 6th day of Februnry, A. D. 1802 BEAlL N. P, N. P. FEIL, Notary Pablie. Average Circutation WALKING is not good on the atreet visduct but it is safer than riding. —_— IT WiLL take something more than an unsuppor ted statement from Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun to blast the reputation of General Russell A. Alger. SPEECH is silver, but silence is golden; at least this is the interpretation given to the reticeace of Governor Boies at the Denver Greystone banquet on the silver question, MILLING-IN-TRANSIT rates can be socured for Omaha by the Nebraska lines; some budy or organization should press the button, which would force them to do tho rest. OMAHA’s excellent Apollo club de- served the splenaid audience which greeted its performance at Boyd's opera house. This musical club ia doing more for musical culture in Omaha than any society or club ever before organized. SENATOR HILL predicts that a demo- cratic senator will be elected to succeed Frank Hiscock, his present colleague. Mr. Hill does not say whether he will attompt to occupy both seats or select a dummy to take that to be vacated by Mr. Hiscock. THE wooden bridge across the tracks on Sixteenth street cost originally but 338,000, of which the city’s share was $15,000. We have had our money’s worth and it is time to abandon the structure for a new one of iron and steel on stone piers. THE Union Pacific has had its own way in Omaba so long that it canzot imagine the city will assert its rights. Time will prove that the movement on behalf of the jobbers and manufacturers of the city against the switching extor- tion is not a mere bluff. COUNCILMAN ELSASSER presents fig- ures to show that an 8-mill levy will pro- vide a sufficient general fund for the coming year. Unless his calculations are all wrong, the best of the argument ison his side. If 8 mills is enough the council should not levy 11 mills. READERS of the newspapers ought very soon to learn by experience that alarming dispatches about imvending Indian wars are generally baseless. The telegraph today contradicts yesterday’s sory of a battle betweeun cowboys and Navajo Indians in New Mexico. WuiLe the Cleveland men of New York are tearing their hair and the Hill howlers are dancing the war dance around the open grave of the stuffed prophet, Mr. William C. Whitney is complacently curbing his mustache and Roswell P. Flower is becoming un- usually gay for a man of his dignity and yoars, CorLoNEL WILLIAM F. Cony will par- ticipate in the Boyd celebration on Mou- day. Colone! Cody will make the two governors, Boyd and Boies, seem insig- nificant, because he will be the biggost attraction in the procession, at the ban- quet and in the hotel corridors. Still, Cody’s presence will add a pictaresque feature to the occasion. CHIEF SEAV ys he is waiting to 80e what the policy of the new adminis- tration will be in regard to dirt-haulers, The chief will permit us to remark that this is nota question of policy. The ordinance Is specific, the duty of the police department plain. He should en- force the ordinance and protect the streets from the intolerable filth now dropped upon them from dirt-wagons. — KeanrNey wants the state conventi on which is to nominate delegates to the national republican convention. Kear- ney's ambition is & worthy one and T BEE hopes it may be successful. One of the two conventions should be held in the western part of the state, and Kearney 88 the most metropolitan of the interior cities of Nebrasks has especial claims upon the state and the party which de- serve consideration. m——— TaE ex-plumbing inspector from Poughkeopsie should not rush rashly into priat. The job he held under a democratic mayor he may have earned by party services but his title to it did not rest upon experience, efticiency and ability, The less he has to say about an administration noted for the number of political roustabouts fastened upon ihe city pay roll the better it will be for almself and that administration. THURSTON AND HARRISON. Four years ago John M. Thurston | wont to Chieago ns delegate to the na- | tional republican convention. By the | help of Church Howe, who was then Ne- | braska’s member of thé national com- mitteo, Mr. Thurston succesded in hav- ing himself named as the temporary chairman by just one majority in the committee. When the convention was | called to order by the chairmin and | Thurston was handed the gavel a mo- tion was made that the convention be allowed to name its temporary chair- mar, but Me, Thurston held his grip | firmly, refused to put the motion and re- less of all opposition proceeded to deliver the carefully pre a speech by which he introducad himself as an orator of no mean order to the country at large. Mr. Thurston has always had a very exalted opinion of himself and the thundering app ause that greeted his spesch turned his head complotely. He concoived the idea that President Harrison could do wothing less than make him a member of his cabinot. He did not realize what was plain to every- body else, and plainer still to the presi- dent, that the seiection of the general attorney of the Union Puacific railvoad for a cabinet position in definnce of the prevailing anti-monopoly sentiment, would damn the president and ruin the party. Thurston himsslf had pro- claimed at Chicago that the nomination of Chauncey Dopew for president would lose the party the rvepublican strong- holds of Kansas, Nebraska and Towa and could not fail to insuce the re-election of Grover Cleveland, From the day President Harrison omitted Thurston from his cabinet slate he became an object of Mr. Thurston’s offensive aispleasure. From that time to thts Thurston has never lost an op- portunity to belittle Harrison and he has thrust his personal barbs into his back at every turn. The positivo and peremptory withdrawal of James G. Blaine from a candidacy which Thur: ton and other disgruntled s smen have sought to thrust upon him has afforded another opportunity for covert attack. Mr. Thurston’s favorite way of firing his parthian arcows has been through the newspaper interview. In the last number of the Nebraska demo- cratic organ Mr. Thurston ventilates his spleen at Harrison by ealling-attention to the fact that the farmers alliance in the west has grown up under Mr. Harrison’s administration, and he goes out of his way to foreshadow disuster to the party because, as he affirms, Me. Harrison’s | sinceroly regrotted. candidacy would not have the tendency to break into the alliance ranks. On the other hand, according to Thurston, a large part of the alliance men are favorable to Blaine’s reciprocity ideas and they look upon Blaine as a great leader whose statesmanship would be exurted for the interests of the agricul- tural west. It is evident that Mv. Thurston wants to be understood that Hurvison had nothing to do with reciprocity and that reciprocity has been inaugurated in spite of Harrison, whereag everyboay knows thav Blaine is in Harrison’s cabinet ard not Harrison in Blaine’s cabinet, that Blaine never could have given us reciprocity if Harrison had not been in full accord with him. The most unkind cut of all, however, is the intimation that the uprising among the western farmers is to be ascribed to anything vhat Harrison has done or has left undone. Nobody knows better than Thurston that the farmers alliance was an active factor in north- western politicslong before Harrison was thought of for president. He knows that the farmers alliance was thoroughly organized in Nebraska more than ten years ago. In 1883 it came near elect- ing twoout of our three congressmen and it had thirty members in the legis- lature that elected General Manderson to the senute. Mr, Thurston knows, what everybody in Nebraska knows, that the alliance in this state would have no fol- lowing if had it not been for the per- sistent, pernicious aud oxasperating interference of the railroads with our polities. The farmers alliance today is more than unything else a popular protest against the packing of the conventions of all parties by railroad mercenaries, against the systematic debuchery and corruption of our legislatures and our courts by the railroad power, of which Mr. Thurston is one of the ablest as well as the most dengarous vepresanta- tives, Mr. Thuvston has a laudiblo ambition to be prominent in the coun- sels of his party, but his relations to the railroads will always be a barrier to its realization. [Even with Blaine us their presidential candidate, republicans would not have dared to select their vice presidential timber out of the Pa- cific railroad lumber yard, em— THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. ‘The prospects for a beet sugar factory in Omaha are decidedly flattering at this time. Several capltalists whose well known enterprise is a guaranty of good faith have proposed to build a fac- tory here if they can be assured of beets enough w operate it. At a mecting two weelss ago the subject was discussed at length and considerable interest awulk- To the satisfaction of all con- cerned the' farmers presént gave evi- deuce of an abiding Intervst in the en- terprise and since that time they have held sugar beet meetings in vavious parts of this county and Surpy. Every- where the farmers have expressed u willinguess to do their part, At 10 o'clock today unother meot- ing is to be held at the Board of Trade roows, to which citizevs of Omaha and farmers of Douglas county are urgently invited. The capital is ready to embark in the enterprise of manufacturing beet sugar if it can be assured that the beets will be grown in this viclmty in sufi- clent guantities to sustain a factory. On the other hand the furmers express a wiliingness Lo raise the beets if ‘a fac- tory ean be secured and & proper guar- snty given them of & market for their product. This meeting should bring the capitalists and the farmers wgether, and it is of the utmost consequence thercfore that our substantial citizens be present, Omaha hus the opportunity at this mo- ment of focalizing the beet sugar indus- try at this point. If advantage is not taken of this opportunity now, this city | may see the day when it will be most OMAHA Indi%erence on the part of our business m... w public inter- ests has several times cost us dearly. On this oceasion 1ot us hope there shall be neither negligence nor indifference. — CLEVELAND PROTEST. The meeting of New York democrats to protest against the action of the state s0 in calling the convention to THE commi DAILY 1 tend a boutévhrd c¢hhose delagates to the national conven- | too distinet- Clevoland tion fc was ively and swously o meeting to have the desired influence. It was obviously n mistake to give it this character, but so intense is the de- votion of the adherents of the ex-pr dent t to give it oxprossion on every oc Of course everybody understood that the movement was in the interest of Mr. Cleveland, but none the less it was a mistake to turn it into a public demon- stration for that candidate, and in doing 80 the moeting lost weight which it would otherwise have carried. However, it was a demonstration which showed that Mr. Cleveland has a numerous and influential following in New York, The language of the reso- lutions adopted is unequivoeal and vig orous. The state committee is ar- raigned in terms that cannot be mis- understood and is called upon to recon- sider its action. In the ovent of re- fusal to do this the committee created by the resolutions 1s authorized to take such action as may secure a proper rep- resentation of the people of the state in the democratic national convention. The speakers were unsparing in their denunciation of the men responsible for calling the early convention. What will be the result? In all prob- ability there will be two democratic delegations from New York to the na- tional convention. It is extremely im- probable that the state committes will reconsider its action and revoke the call for the February convention. That would be a surrender which Mr. Hill and his adherents cannot make without great danger of losing the stake they are playing for. Undoubtedly they ex- pected a revolt when they decided upon the course they have taken, and if they were not fully determined to adhere to that courso they could have changed it inadvance of the meeting of the pro- testants and gained move credit than they could got from changing it now. It would seem safe to say, therefore, that noattention will be given to the protest of the Cleveland men, and that the Hill forces will gather at the apnointed time and select a delegation to the national convention which Hill will control. Moreover it will be tho delegation which the national convention will seat, because it will be regular, regardless of the date of its selection. The protesting New York democrats wiil not haye much weight against the Hill-Tammany com- bine with the practical politicians who will compose the national convention. The democratic situation in the Em- pire state makes for vepublican victory next November. It is hardly possible that the factions there can be har- monized, and they certainly cannot ‘be united on goy New York candidute. No one outside of New York now talked of as a candidate could command the full democratic vote of that state. The pros- pect is most favorable that the repub- lican party will carry New York this year and with it win the national con- test. ruary conspi fon. — THE RIGHT 10 CONDEMN. Omaua, Feb. 12,—To the Editor of Tne Bee: 1 reaa with care your recent sug- gestions about the existence and the use of the power of emiuent domain under our city charter for the purchase of park lands. [ think it necessary to say in Tue BEE, with your permission, thav Park Comtnissioner Lake long since advised the commissionors that the power of eminent domawn seemed 10 be in the charter, minus the necessary ‘‘ma- chinery” —1 believe I use his own word—-for its practical exercise. But may I not ask the editor of Tue Bee to give earnest attention to the proposed excorcise of this power of eminent domain as applied to the purchase of lauds for parks, to see if he is not in error in urging Its use for such n purpose. The power itself is a daa- gerous one. Its frequent abuse has wrought mountains of injustice upon defenseless citizens in our country. I know of no pre- cedent to justify its employment in buying broad acres of land for park purposes by any munfcipal corporation. But suppose the power to do S0 wero now complote m our Owaba case, and suppose that the city council should accept the advico of Tue Brg, refuse to pur- chase i the ordinary and just way, in ac- cordance with the expressed will of the peo ple at the ballot boxes, every public interest beiug vigilantly guarded as 1s being done by the late considerate and conservative action of the city council, how long woula it be be- fore the city would possess its much needed park lauds? Would not every siuglo one of the victims of the power of eminent domain appeal to the courts, as would be his or hor indefeasible right, and in tnis way postpone indeflnitely, at no small cash cost, the acqui- sition of park lanas? Talso ask the attention of the editor of Tue BEE to the plans of the park commission for a park *‘system,” which the law contem- plates, with the scheme, already far ad- vanced, wheraby the parks recomimended aro vlanned to be connoected with the centar of the eity, and with each other, by broad pavk- ways. | rogard tois feature of the purk “system’’ almost as important to the beauty and prosperity of the future city as the parks themselves. Aud, is it not so! Much of the ground for these broad driveways is al- ready as good us donated to connect the city with the Parker tract, and to & convection peyond it with one devised and to be con- structed by the Forest Laws Cometery asso. clation, and which, Mr. Horman Kouatze - forms me, is to be offered to the city in au improved condition as a free gift. Am I not right in saylug thut we canaot, #s & pevple, afford to break up these plans. Gronrer L, MiLLen. We do not propose to enter into a dis- cussion of the legal points involving the right of the city to exercise the power of eminent domain for the acquisition of parks, That must be left to lawyers and courts, We do, however, differ most decidedly with the ehairman of vhe park commission ns to the propriety of exercising this right We never can and never will have a well-planned sys- tem of parks and boulevards unless we doexercise it. We must have a chain of parks and boulevards connecting with each other and laid out upon ground that i most available. Thers vever will be a time when every owner of grounds suitable for parks cau be in- duced to purt with his lands u} reason- Wt they cannot control the desire | [ is any, | appraisers will not come from tho tax- BEJ A\TURDAY ablo prices.,, Some of these parties | would stubbarnly refuse to sell at any price and Btfjers would hold up the cit as soon as {f gyas determined that the land is neadod to lay out a park o ex- Railronds - have to take property for depots and ri wiy by exdrdising the power of domain. Wiy should the ci cting in the interest'of the public health refrain from exerdisifig it? The danger, if thero is imiovervaluation and not in undervaluation. The pressuro upon ways beon allowod 1t-of- minent payers, but from the parties interested in getting & high appraisement. And wherever the appraisement is too low property owners have redress at the hands of courts and juries. The talk about ratifying the will of the peopie is on the assumption that the votors had viewed the various tracts and were familiar with their value. Tho truth is, the people voted the park bonds blindly, in the belief that the mayor and council, who had to pass upon each deal, would act upon business principles and buy the largest amount of land for the smallestamount of money. They do not expect the council to ne, lact any opportunity to procure land on the hest terms nor will they be excused for neglacting to condemn and acquire park and boulevard grounds by appraise- ment if it is found that the lands best suited cannot be purchased at reasona- ble prices. ADVICE FOR 101A. The republican party of Towa has car- ried prohibition until it has twice sunk beneath the waves. It has one more chance, and but one more, to rid itself of this dead weight, and to save itself from disaster. The present legislature is wrestling with the subject and the demo- crats are determined to fasten the in- cubus securely about the neck of the re- publican party. Nothing will please the democrats better than to force the republicans to 20 into the national canvass with pro- hibition still in politics as a club with which to brain them. The prohibition- ists remain solidly arrayed agminst both the old parties, but especially the re- publicans. They will either act inde- pendently or in conjunction with the in- dependents in the ensuing campaign. They defeated Blaine in 1884, and they would cheerfully lend tuheir aid in de- stroying the republican party abso- lutely in the next campaign. If ‘the repyblicans of Towa permit themselves to; bo forced by the demo- crats into the position of sustaining the present inoperative prohibition law, the chances of carfying the state next fall for the republican electoral ticket will be anything but encouraging. Political sense and lggislative honesty unite to urge upon the republicans of the Towa | legislature to permit prohibition to vs- cape from party politics. = A reusonable license bill,iwith local option, is cer- tainly preferable to a law which is not enforced, and'is a continual source of ex- pense to communities and trouble to all concerned. THERE has been. nothing so far to/vin- dicate the English prediction that the course of the United States government in the Chilian matter would alienato the South American republics. Not the slightest intimation has come from any of thoso countries that their people ate offended at the course of this govern- ment or sympathize with Chili. There is not the slightest reason why they should be, since Chili’s course toward her neighbors has not been such as to commend her to their affection. But in any event the people of South America have learned that it is the policy of thuy United States to cultivate their friend- ship and they are in no danger of suffer- ing injury or wsult from this country. English influence has done all it pos- sibly could do to incite in the South American republics a feeling of hostil- ity to the United States, and it hus failed. This country is stronger now than ever pefore in the respect of the southern republics, and it will grow in their favor THE editor of THE Bgt has been favored by Mr. Walter M. Seely, gen- aval raliroad, pass distributor and s0omer extraordinary of ex-Contingent Congressman Majors, with a large en- velope headed “‘Senate Chamber, Lin- coln, Neb.,” and marked ‘‘personal.” This official package contained a copy of the Lincoln Herald, with an editorial puff for the B.& M. granger with o hickory shirt and a volley of mud at Dr. Mercer. Why an ex-confed. dem- ocrat should be called upon to boom a republican candidate for governor we are at loss to divine. It ia in keeping, however, with the peculiar campaign that has been carried on for the lust sixty days in central and western Ne- braska by aset of political ostriches who imagine that their posteriors are concenled from sight while they are en- goged in throwing dirt. THE “‘yuux:;amocrnt” ubout to cast his first vote wio eloquently proposes to follow the de atic banner carried by Boyd, Morton and Miller, is not very fa- miliar with gjw history of Nebraska. Nobody suspgits either Morton or Miller of democrati@leadership in these de- generate dayS—when young Mr. Hitch- cock is at the helm of the great aemo- cratic org Ji t hus been a long, long time sinca Mpwl, Morton and Miller smoked peace pipos 1n thesume Sumoset or any other tepee or carried torches and flags in tA®Same procession. THAT is & ghgnilicant lotter which ® Chicago SchagkFurniture company ud- dresses the secretary of the Omaha Highest l;fau in Leavening Pow ol | trast FEBRUARY Board of Education, of which the open- ing sentence is, “1f your school bonrd | intends to award the contract for furni- ture to the compnny is bidder,” ete. The the schoo! farniture lowast not in therefore the suggestive re- hint trust by to and 1 The hoard should take the and the 'ns not in the assurances that Omaha is not ownod the furniture trust. If prove this, the hids should jocted on Monday and ments inserted to give the furniture firms fighting the combine all the chance possible to secure the contract, ve cone nocassary all new advortise- by ro- UNCERTAINTY regarding the result of the conference of the® peoplo’s party, to be held in St. Louis Februacy 22, is said to have a pecyliar effect upon poli- tics in Kansas, so far as the democrats and new parly men ave concerried. They are entirely at sea as to what courss to pursue. Moeanwhila the sub- alliances have deposed their old dele- gates bocause they were not sulficiontly enthusiastic for & new party and have electad in their stead adelegation which will make a vigorous fight at St. Louis in favor of a convention to put a presi- dential ticket in the field. Thel g of the new party in Kansas, believing that that party will have n national ticket, have rofused to consider propo- ons from the democrats for fusion on atate und electoral ticket, but it is pre- dicted that in case this belief shall prove to be mistaken it will not be poseible to hold the people's party together in that state. ‘I'he result of the St. Louis con- ference will have a decisive effect on the new party gencrally. Tie effort toeffoct a fusion of the democratic factions in puisiana has failed, and the warfare between them is being carried on with imabated vigor. Ther very small probability that further efforts will have a different re- sult, in which case there should be an oxcellent chance of republican success. There has been some factional trouble in the republican ranks, but the prusent tendency is to harmony, and in the ci cumstances every vepublican in Lou ana ought to put aside any personal grievances he may have and do his part to puy the state in republican control. There has never been a better outlook for doing this than there is at present and the opportunity should not be lost. will remeraber that in 1872 Hon. Henvy C. Lett of Browaville was the democratic candidate for gover- nor against Colonel Robert W. Furnas. They will remember too that Mr. Lett has been a governor by brevet ever since. Governor Lett has just been de- feated for mayor of Salt Luke City. As he ran upon the democratic ticket he was called Colonel Lett. Brevet titles come freely to our old friend, but the real dignities and emoluments have an unhappy habit of eluding the genial and handsome gentleman. NEBRASKA Harri; us a Critle. New York Evening Sun., It is said that a recent literary perform- ance leads Mr. Harrison to regard his secre- tary of state as the forsmost American author. Vashington Star. Russell A. Alger expresses the opinion that it is a healthy thing for a party to have anumber of presidential candidates. Ac- cording 10 this diagnosis both parties aro en- 1 Joying the greatest robustnoss. o Courier-Ji Mr. Harrison will be his own successor { upon the national republican ticket, and if : there are those who think that he will prove a weak nomineo, or a caudidato easy to be boaten, they will find themsolves mistaken. o Y The Volce of the So Allanta Constitution, No other demacrat can, as matters stand, carry the stato of New York—no other dem- ocrat can smash this busy conglo meration of wooden-headed mugwumps and democratic tramps. It is not only in Georgia and the south that the party is turning to David B. Hillas its leader. Democrats everywhero recognize in him the man to load thom to victory. A Fako Factory Without Sense, Lincoln Jowrnal, But by fakes the small correspondents manago to earn an honest penvy from week to woek. If they could only grind out a grist evory day they would be i clover, But of course that would spoil the markot, 80 they have to wait several duys after making a lot to let the public forget. In that respect they show mora business senso than the Omaba World-Herald man who has 'em every day and has’em bad. —_——— SHORT AND SHARP. New York Herald nelghbors to be poo Kate Fleld's Wasl P ngton: Don't judie hiers by uppenrances. Judgo thom by their isuppesrances. 0 disgrace for our CllcagoTribune: Captain of Arizona Reeu- lators (adjusting the noosel~A mun of your tulents, sir, 1s bound to rise. Condemned Horse Thief—Yes; I seem to be right in the line of promotion. Life: He—What do ~boauty or we Vell—er—['d ma ou regard as most o, woalth it I were ck: “T've lost my overcoat," ot irreparably. 1 hope.” “Yeos, IU's zono for keeps. My wite hung it up in her wardrobe."” Tou Tho whistling plow- w favorite subject' for but they have alwiys be h ut some other ti Just the moment aftor: Ins plow. h brought up suddenly agalnst u rock. Somerville boy has alw. Fliegende Blacttor: der I cun't find you at hon here all the timd In the s Debtor—1lon - see drink is out of sheer desy 10 DAy you? Elftings: pulpit -1U's no won- 5 when you are on drinkiy thut the rewson 1 ir at not being able There's many @ 5lip hetween the ud the chureh door. New York Herald: Joss—Miss Senrs has a good voice, but she is wiwiys wttempting the impossile. 55— What did she sing last night? Joas, Mo w Child AgainJust for To- night.” er.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Powder | | OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The confliot over the new Prussian educa- tion bill has ended for the present 1 a com- promiso and & committee. Tho crisis is tided over by the favorite device of modorn diplomacy, & mod vondi. Neithor Herr Miquel, minister of finance, nor Herr Benningson, president of the Hauoverian ad- ministration, will rosign for the present The German emperor and Count von Caprivi s00m 10 have discovered that even in Prussia peonle have opinions, and that political con victions are not renounced on the instant at | the emporor's nol. The bill is now in the | hands of a committee of twenty-eight, with a government majority, varving on various points from two to ten orelov Count von | Caprivi has intimatea that concessions will | be made. No concession can bo made which | will satisty tho liberals and not eviscorate tho | meature, The principle of the il is a state god with state machiner for onforcing the teachings of its own deity accord- ing to tho forms of one or the other of the rocognized confessions or soots in Prussia. It this princiole bo maintained libarals must oppose it. If it bo abandoned the bill is so much wasto paper. The pres ent intention is to foree the bill through. A majority of about thirty is believed to bo cortain in the Landtag; but, says a compo tent witness, popular agitation against it is mereasing. All over the kingdom tho press, limited as it is, muzzled as it is, speaks out Opposition papers—thoy call themselves in- dependent, weaning that thoy are not in gov ornment pay—denounce the il as a purely clerical measure intended and well calculatod to put primary oducation in Prussia under clerical control. So it will; or would, if that imperial signature in tho Muunich album bad uot told the world that the will of the king is the suprewmo law. o Mr. Chamberlain’s accession to the leader- ship of the government party in the House of Commons will give special prominence. no doubt, to his soclalistic schemes. He very likely had these in mind yesterday when he rubbed the vinegar into the wounds of his tory associates by explicitly sayiug that ho took the position of leader as a liberai. His plans for better housing of the poor and for securing small leaseholds to tonant-farmers are apparently to give way, for tho present, t0 his project of state pensions for the aged. On that suoject he contributes an articls to the Iebruary number of the National Review, in which ho sets forth the details of his plan plan which is subjected to a most destructive criticism, from tho finan- clal and practical point of view, in the Lon- don Kconomist of January ‘30. 1n general, he would Imitate the German plan of providing an old-age iusurauce for workingmen up- wards of sixty-five vears, by payments from an accumulated fund to which the working- man himself, his employer, and tbe stato should contribute in equal proportions, He objects to tae preseat system of postofico annuties that it requires payments which a great many laboring men, with only ‘“a weok's resorve between them and starva- tion,” are utterly unavle to make; but tho Economist shows that, on his own plan, fully as 1arge or larger paymeiits would often have to be made. The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna has just published an olaborate artiolo on the subject of Turkish armament, and declares that the sultan has succeeded 1n raising the effective strength of his forces to 1,000,000 men, of whom 700,000 could be mobilized. The dif- culty is to provide them with improved mod- ern weapons, & necessity which gives rise to political as well as financial questions. For tho last teu yoars Germany bas supplied the porte with all the torpedoes, rifles and caanon which the Iatter power has been avle to find money to pay for, and F'rance thinks 1t time that sho had a share in the business. Her ambassador at Constantinonle induced the ‘sultan to send a military commission to the ish experts h(ve not been convinced that Canet’s guns are better than Krapp's. Tho most prossing military problem for Turkey just now, however, re- lates to the arming of her infantry. The Ottoman crmy now possesses three different systems of rifles independently of the Win- chester central firo carbmo. It has 500,000 Martini-Henry rifles, old system, 220,000 Mausers, caliber 93¢, ana an order has been glven for 280,000 Mannlichers to the Gerwan Manufacturer, Loewe. As this aifference of systems would be likely w have serious con- sequences, it has been decided to recon- struct the Martini-Henry after the model of the new Maunlicher, which would give 780,- rifies for vhe troops of the line and the ro- serve, while the Mausers would be dis- tributed to the Basni-Bazouks and other ir- regular troops, Contractors of differont oationalities are endeavoring to obtain the contract for tue transformation of these 300,- 000 Martini-Henry rifies, competitors are the Gormans and French, Figure 1t out March, a garment, 75c a suit. garment, regularly $1. underwear $3.75 a suit, that we always got $5 for* and lots of others. make $4 to $8 if you this week. Browning,King & Co ABSOLUTELY PURE O pen Saturduys tL 10 p. m. Other evenings Uil 6:30. | 8. W, ministerial | famous Canet foundry, but as yet the Tnrk- | “The only serious | 8Se W. Corner 15th and Douglas Sts, HORACE BOIES: HIS BOOM. 4 r s Lo New York World (dem.): Governor Boied | 1 is ono of tho men that ““Demooracy in 1802" has its eye upon. | Chioago News (ind. dem.): Tt s said thyt Mr. Boies would not part with his prosiagh | tal boom for &7 in oash, ! Minneapolts Tribuno (rep.): The spocch | of Governor Boles at tha Denver banguet | Will not have a tendency to improve his | chances for the democratic nomination | . Minnoapolis Journal (ind. rop.): “Uncle | Horaco" is swinging around the cirele vigor ' | ously enough to suggeat that he is golng te be in the field in Chicago next June. The Boies beo is a very musical insoct i Denver News (dem.): Botes of lowa hay been stricken with the Wall stroot lightning Last fail he won his fight on a free coinugt | platform, now he declares that silver mus not be mentioned for fear of offending the { Cloveland_gold bugs overnor Boies ha followea Campboll Chicago Times (dem.): Mr. Boies is in | the primo of life, activa montaliy and phyai cally, robust in health, and destinad appar- ontly to long life. _And, prime consideration at atime when New York, still claiming | leadorship, is offeriug destruction, ho 18 f resident of the Mississippi vailoy, now the seat of empire. Chicago Tribune (rep.) | form of 1o protection for the producers of raw matorials and somo protection for the ucers of manufacturod ones Governor thiuks tho domocrats should make their fight this fall. 1t would ba better for him, however, to state his tarift plank cor- and not envelop it in a cloak of wordy which mnoan sometning else, Chicago Horald (dom.): Governor Boio: possesses a largo endowment of the caps and courage regnisite for leadership, Ho i3 vot afraid to say that what is wrong iy wrong. not ouly in the large but even in the teast homeopathie dilution. Ho is not afraid, therofore, to make a clear definition of the 0 which must be met sooner or later, and which ought to bo met by the democratic party in tho approaching contest tor tha presidency. Donver Republican: Governor Boies does not oven dure to go that far in his vublic ut | verances at present, bocause he fears that | his Listle presidential boomlet would bo de- stroyed by the hostility of the loaders of his party in the east to coinage. Aftor the | effocts of last night's champagno have passed { away probably tho democratic leaders of Coloraao will” youder why thoy brought Governor Boles 800 miles to show that he'# was afraid to tackle tho silvor question 1n any form, St. Louis Republic (dom.): ver spoech, as 1 his campaign, Mr. Boie: handles issues like a master. The shrewdest of shrewd politicians could not do nearly so well what ho doos merelv from his sense of what is moro and what is less important for tho welfare of the people. What he docs not say in his Donver spoach gives more compell- ing force to what ho doos say. Ho is frank and caudia, but ho shows that he knows where to begin and whore to stop. 1t is o great thing for a public man to know that. Few kuow as much, Nono know more. NOTHING BUT WIND. And on this plat In his Den- Cantain Jack MacColl is at the Millard. There 15 a woll definoa breeze stirring just now that promises to sweil the sails for tha MacColl boatas tho winner in the next guber- natorial rezatta. A prominent south Oman ropublican said this morning to a roporter: 4 am for Jack MacColl. With Jack MacColl | for governor and a good Douglas county mu for state troasurer wo can weld the repub~ lican vote of Douglus connty and the ruralg districts firmly together.” Omaha repub- licans will stir up a sectional fight if they insist on naming the candidato for governer, but if thoy make a break for a secondary place on_ the ticket thoy will gt it, and the whole state will be with them. Mr. Henry E. Kryger of Neligh was Omaha yesterday for the purpose of arrang- ing with United States Attornoy Balker tor | the forwarding of his boud as receiver for ! the Neligh land oftico to Washington. Mr. Kryger was appointed a short time ngo to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of | Mr. A. Lundvall. Speaking of the political atmosphere in tho vicinity of Neligh Mr. Krvger said: *‘Thoro | has been a good deal of indefinite speculation concerning tho candidates for goveruor, but no settled or woll defined sentiment nas been expressed in favor of any of the alleged can didates as yet. Juck MacColl has been fre- quently spoken of, Tom Majors bas a good many friends up there and Dr. Mercor of Omaha has been mentioned by quite a num- ber us a very likoly man for tho nominatiou.” Republic Omamy, Feb, ~‘T'he state ceuiral com- mittee will meet at 2 o’clock sharp Saturday afternoon, February 20, at the Millard hotel, Omaha, for the purpose of apportioning representation of the several counties, fixing upon the time and place of tho next sted, convention to elect four delegates-at-large to the national convention at Minneapolis. and such otber business as may come before 1t. . D. MEROER, Chairman Republican State Central Com. U. B. Bawcomug, Secretary. Sl Fifteen T) A Yearling, SAN Fraxcisco, Cal,, Feb. 12,—A numboer of horses uave been purchased of Senator Stanford by eastern men, The princival ani wal was Beautiful Bells, a yearling, for which §15,000 was paid, the largest price | ever alvon for au animal of that ae, yourself--- April and maybe during a little bit of May you'll find it pleasant to wear heavy underwear. We've knocked the prices silly on our underwear for this week. A lot at 40c Fine merino 75c a Very superior wool You can also buy a business suit Cor, 15th and Douglas ts. 'y [