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

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March 6, Mondiy, M ¢ dn F. to nows revsod te LETTERS. and remittances shonld All Y EWORN Ftate of Thuraday, March i Friday, March 11 EBaturday. March Average....... ... GEO. T, Eworn to before me and subscr presence this 12th day of March, A. T EEAL P, = Average Cireu NERAL ALGER has oxpressed him- pelf to a Cheyenne reporter as well sat- istied with his presidential boomlet. General Alger is very easily satisfied. THE avernge Washinglon newspaper correspondent cannot escape the convie- tion that it is his duty to edit his paper and direct the political public sentiment of the nation. —_— ON of the currency in Argen- tine drove the S0-cent paper dollar down, down t 4 cents. And yet there are people in Americn who cannot learn anything from the experience of Argen- tine. INFLA THE Board of Iiducation has taken no stops thus far toward furaishing their rooms in the city hall. Tt is to bo hoped this body will give the home [urniture maunufacturers and dealers a chance to socure this work SENATOR W AK proposed consti- tutional amendment to muke the presi- dent inclegible for a re-election for four yoars after the expiration of his term would doubtless meet with popular ap- proval if the presidential term was fixed at six years, Now suppose Governor Boyd should issue a proclamation convening the leg- islature in extra session and Mr. Thayer shonld attempt to counteract the pro- clamation by revoking Boyd’s call ‘Whom would the legislature obey? If Thayer is bound to test his right to re- sunie the governorship this would be the shortest way to bring his claims to & focue, LXAMINATIONS for admission to the college, scientific and professional de- partments of Harvard university are to be held in Denver, St. Louis, Minneapo- lis and Chicago on June 28th, 30th, July 1st and 2d under the charge of univer- sity officers. This annonncement is of Anterest in the west for two reasons: First, because it shows an increasing interest on the part of this university in this section and second, because a large number of young men ave preparing to enter Harvard and will desire to take the examinations. There is no gooa reason, however, why Omaha should not have been added to the list of cities where examinations are to be held and we hope another year tosee this city given the recognition her situation and importance deserves in this con- nection. THE BEE suggests that Har- vard alumni in this city and state make astrong effort to have Omaha incluaed next year. THE presence in Omaha during the pust week of two opera companies, both of which played to crowded houses, demonstrated that a very large element. of our people apprecinte whatover is worthy and moritorious and are ready to give it generous support. There is hardly a better index to the growth of culture in a community than the atten- . tion it accords to the better class of dramatic and musical entertainments, and judged in this way Omuha is mani- festly making most gratifying progress, A number of examples in the present _ Boason’s experience of the theaters could ba cited in evidence of this, The fact is vhat whatever may be said of the slow progress of this city in material prosperity during the past year or two, the intellectual life of the community has been steadily active and expanding, and never were the conditions more tavorablo to its continued growth, — It 18 somewhat remarkable to find public opinion in ¥ngland so much op- posed to the decision of Lord Salisbury rvegarding a renewal of the modus vivendi in Bering sea, but it is gratify- ing evidence that public opinion there 18 wiser and juster than that of the gov- ernment, There can be no reasonable excuse for the refusal of the British gov- ernment to continue tho arrangement of last year, the pretense that to do so would be unfair to the investors in Canadian senling vessels being wholly untenable. The piratical poachers who haye made preparations to carry on the indiscriminate slaughter of the seal in Bering sea have not the slightest claim to consideration from the British gov- ernment, and nobody can understand But ho is desirous of pleasing the political element in Cana¥la which is in sympathy with his government, and whioh appears ov unwilling to incite a quarrel between Great Britain and the United States perhaps as a means of strengthening 1ts power in the Dominion. The temper munifested at Washington, together with the influence of public opinion in Eagland, may induce Lord Salisbury to piunge his position, INCITING ANARCHY. And now comes Mr. Joseph Blair, one of tho attorneys for John M Thayer, with a formal complaint that the afore- said John M. Thaysr has prematurely vacated the office of governor and should by rights bo fopced to resume the digni- tios and prerogatives which he had exor- cised by virtue of a preposterous as- sumption of the state supreme court, which was roversed by the highest tribunal in the iand. but as yot has not been officially expunged. Now it seems o us that the people of Nebraska have been trifled with long enough. They have been torn up over the protended claims of bogus govern- ors and have patiently submitted to the mockery of justice ever since the dis- gruntled prohibitionists started the Powers contest that opened a wedge into which Mr. Thayer was pushed by Mr. Blair and other eminent constitu tional hair-splitters. The state has been given a reputation second only to that of South Carolina and Mississippi right after the war, from which it will take years to recover. We concedo the legal profundity of Mr. Joseph Blair and are williug to have it duly recognized and widely nd- vertised. We realize that the state has not done enough for Mr. Thayer and would gladly see him taken care of for the balance of his days if the island which he has recently annexed down in Texas does not afford him scope for the exercise of this executive talents. Technically Mr. Blair may be right as regards gubernatorial successions, From a strictly legal point of view ‘Thayer, not being an emperor or king, could not abdicate at will. But being an intruder without a shadow of title to the office nobody whio desires to perpot- uate popular self-government can be justified-in countenancing a repetition of the high-handed usurpation under the semblance of legal forms. It is against the spirit of our institutions to override the will of muajorities and plu- ralities when they have been ascertained and it would bs a travesty upon justice to attempt to reinstato a man into an office to which he had no right in the first place and from which he voluntar- ily retired when the decision of the United States supreme court had been rendered in favor of the man whom the d elected. s attempt Thayer would simply mean and Nebraska cannot afford to encournge anarchy and Hissension either to enhance the reputation of Mr. Blair as a co tutional expounder or to gratify to reinstate M. Mr. Thayer’s overpowering ambition to rule. THECOSTLY CONGRESSIONAL FUNERAL The burial of a deceased member of congress has come to be a very expen- sive affuir. This is true hoth as to the cost in mouey and the time taken from public business for memorial services. A short time ago & member of the house of representatives, in discussing a pro- posed amendment to the rules providing that memorial services be held on Sun- day, stated that the'house paid out from $1,000 to $20,000 for burving o membor, besides about $1,000 for the extra cost of pronouncing eulogies, and in addition the expense of printing. This member thought congressmen might malke their grief much cheaper to the people, and he had no doubt that it would be appre- clated by the great majority of citizons all over the country if congressmen should either cheaven their sorrow or forogo the public expression of it. He made another good suggestion, which was that deceased members should be buried as their constituents are buried, at their own expense. Ho knew of nothing in our republican sys- tem of government which justifies such profligate grief over deceased public servants, and there is nothing. It is unnecessary to inquire as to the origin of the custom of providing for the funeral expenses of deceased mem- bers of congress out of the publie funds, Tt is sufficient to know that ivis being abused, and that therefore a change is necessary. When 81,200 is taken out of the publie treasury to pay for a casket to enclose the remains of a congress- man, as was recently done, and $200 more expended on extra trimmings, it is obviously time 1o either stop altogether the burial of decensed congrossmen at the public expense or to establish by law what the maximum cost of a con- gressional funeral shall be to the public. A bill for this latter purpose was intro- duced some time ago, and it ought to pass if congress is not disposed to en- tirely abandon the custom, But there is really no good reason why the usage should be muintained. The people pay thoir representatives for their services. All of them are well enough off to make provision for thelr funeral expenses. ‘Why should the whole people be nsked to pay for more thun the incidental ex- penses of a committee to accompany the remains from Washington when a mem- berdies at the post of duty and such other attentions us it is proper to show a deceased public servant? But if more than this is thought to be desirable, if it be deemed the proper thing that a deceased wmember of congress shall be coffined and photographed at the public expense, then let there be a limit fixed to the expense, 8o that the people will know about what the death of a repre- sentative in congress will cost them. With regard to the other question, that of consuming the time which ought to be given to the public business in memoriul services to the dead, the sug- gestion to hold such services on Sunday was u good one. The day Is appropriate, the services being largely of a religious nature, and they doubtless would attract more popular attention if held on Sun- day than on & week day, thus exerting # better influence thanthey nowdo. As a matter of fact, these memorial exer- cises are in & majority of cases slimly attended both by mombers of congress and by the general public, and it is not surprising that this is so in view of the generally commonplace character of the | eulogies delivered. It was said by a member of the house who advocated holding memorial services on Sunday that he thought the proprietr ies of the occasion would be much better observed than he had sometimes seen them. But the most cogentargument for the change is the fact vhat the public business, with which these exercises have properly no connection, would wot be luterfored | anarchy, THE OMAHA with. - More than tweaty days were oc- cupied by the Fifty-first congress in thase memorial sorvices, and it would not be an altogeth wekless tion to say that they v fcally lost. It cannot be said that thers is at pros- ent any wide-spread popular demand for reform in these matters, but none the less thore ought to be n change, par- nsse o prac ticularly in the matter of the cost of ; grown | the | congressional funerals, That he beyond reasonable limits, and it is duty of congress to at least put a check upon it, AN UNIT AND UNWISE PRACTICE, At every session of congress bills aro introduced to remove tho charge of desertion against persons who enlisted in the army during the rebellion, and to correct the record in the case of other persons in the military service who wors guilty of some violation of army regu- lations for which they werc dishon- orably dismissed. It rarely happens that theso mensures fail. They are given a perfunctory consideration by the committees on military affairs, a favorable report is made on them, and they pass without further attention. In this way hundreds of men who acted the part of cowards during the greatstruggle for the preservation of the union,or who were driven out of the military service in consequence of some flagrant miscon- duct, are every year whitewashed by congross and trathful records falsified. This practice is a gross injustice to the brave and honorable men who gave taithful service to the country. Most of the men who ask congress to re- move the charge of desertion or to cor- rect the record of misconduct that has been made against them went into, the army not from patriotic impulse or a sense of duty to the country, but for the revenue there was in it. They wore the recipients of the liberal bounties which were paid during the last two yoars of the war, and they accepted this money with the intention of deserting at the very first opportunity. Everybody whose memory goes back to that period vemembers that the country swarmed with “bounty jumpers” who fled to Canada and Mexico in hordes, and that one of the greatest troubles of the mili- commanders was to prevent tho ion of the men whose incentive to enlistment was the generous sums of money they r ved. They were mercenary politicians who had not the slightest interestin the suc- cess of the union cause, whodid not hesi- tate Lo perjure themselves, and who were ready to see the government overthrown vather than risk their lives on the bat - tlefield. They were more reprehensible than pronounced traitors to the govern- ment, and while expediency justified the removal of the disabilities of the latter, there is no valid reason why the rec- ords of odium justly made against the former should be romoved or corrocted. The effect of doing sois to put a premium upon desertion and other crimes against military law. The men who are purged by act of congress are enubled to secure admis- sion to the association of the veterans who patriotically performed their duty. They can get into the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, and thereby appear for what they were not —brave and honorable soldiers. More than this, they may get on the pension rolls of the government. In short, the effect is to restore them to every right enjoyed by the bravest and most faith- ful defenders of the union, and no ex- tended argument can be needed to show the impolicy and the injustice of doing this. Certainly no other country in the world would do it. Congress ought to stop showing favor to the men who de- sorted the government in the hour of peril or were dishonorably dismissed from the service for just cause. Butif there be any valid reason for relieving these men of the penalty and odium of faithlessness when to be faithless was a most grave crime against the govern- ment, let thero be a general law passed that will embrace them all, and thus have done with a practice that is repug- nant to every patriotic consideration and against good policy. WOMKEN IN THE CONFERENCE. Bisnop Newman in a recent sermon stated that two-thirds of the members of the Christian ch urches of the world are women. Itisgenerally believed that more than two-thirds of the active, effective religious work of Christian churches is performed by the feminine membership. Yet in very fow of the churches are the women permitted to participate in all the privileges of church membership. With a few exceptions they are barred from the pulpits, and in none of the great denominations are they ad- mitted to the legislative privileges ac- corded their brethren, There are lady evangelists all over the country and a number of very prominent Methodist women like Mrs, Van Cott, Miss Willard and J. Ellen Foswer who conduct public worship, direct evangel- istic work, lecture, etc., but they are not admitted to the sacred circle of the ordained ministry or to membership in the general conference. For many years the Methodists as well a8 other great Protestant denominations have been considering the question of removing the Pauline restrictions against the women of the churches. The suffrage and other movements for the advancement of women in the social and political world have forced the question into clerical circles. The Quakers have always permitted women to preach. The Unitariuns and Universalists are like- wise liberal. The Methodists, thoaugh radical upon almost every other so-called reform, have held back upou this propo- sition. At the general conference in - 1885 the movement forced itself into more than usual prominenca by the . appearance of five women with credentials as lay dele- gates from as many annual conferences demanding admission. The ladies were | denied seats, but the controversy waxed exceedingly warm and the question be- | came one of burning Interest to the | Methodist fellowship of America. It was decided to submit the proposition whether women shall or shall not be ad- | mitted to membership as lay delegates of the general conference to the mem- bership of the churches as well as the | annual conferences. The vote of the membership of the churches could have uo bindiug force DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH ! t i upon the generalgggnferebco, but it was desired as an evidpgge of the wish of the people. The vote resulted in 182,0°0 10 favor of the j ition nnd 100,000 against it. In fhofnnual conferences the vote cast u ho propsition was 10,756 and the mpjofty in favor was 436, It will ba seon that"the sentiment is by no means unanimous upon this question. An amendment o} tho constitution of the church requires i throo-fourths vote of tho annual conferonces and n two- | thirds voto of tha genoral conterence. The question is therafore still unsettled, but with n b I\'nf qf 182,000 votes in the churches as h* riucleus for further growth. Only _201,000 votes out of 1,500,000 were cast, but the issuo is by no means dead. In fact it is vory much alive and at the meeting in May in this city no other question will probably be pre- sented in which the general public will be moro deeply interested. The western conferences thus far have very generally elected delegates believed to be favorable {0 the admission of the women, and in spite of the conservative east will insist upon resubmission. The battlo in the conference here cannot be conclusive of course, but with the strong vote al- ready polled back of them it is safe to say that the women will lose no ground and within a few years they will bo rec- ognized, LINEAL PROMOTIONS. Army officers below the rank of eap- tain are just now very much interested in the action congress may take upon the subject of lineal promotions. Under the present system second lieutenants are promoted to first lieutenancies and first lieutenants to captaincies according to their relative regimental rank. The order of their class standing on gradua- tion from the military academy givos them tho privilege of selecting their regimental assignments. Consequently the graduate is careful to solect a rogi- ment where promotion will be reason- ably certain, and young officers are often jumped to captaincies over less fortunate but perhaps more meritorious licuton- ants who fell into regiments where pro- motion was slow. There are now two bills before con- gress proposing to apply the system of lineal promotion now existing in all other regimental grades to lieutenants. The Outhwaite bill, which has passed the house, would admit and perpetuate present injustices by applying the prin- ciple cf lineal promotion to first licuten- ants as they are now arranged lineally, but would prevent them for the future. Tho bill as proposed by ex-Secretary Proctor in the sonate as 1 substitute for the Outhwaite measure proposes toaccept the regimental system as it exists today and proceed with vromotions in the future lineally, giving ofticers tho bene- fit of their present lineal rank as dating from their last premotion. The difference between these two propositions is ilJustrated by its effect upon a lieutenant’ whé has been in the service for twenty-one years. Under the system of regimental promotions which has heretoford existed he now stands first on the list and will be a cap- tain within a few moaphs unless the law is ehanged. If the Outhwaite bill is finally adopted, which does not now seem likely, he will be fifth in the list for promotion and would probably be ad- vanced in rank within twoyears. Under the Proctor proposition his standing will be No. 52, and as he is now past 40 years of age his promotion may be deferred for a considerable period. From this instance it will be seen that the lieutenants of the army aro very much interested in the fate of the bills, Those who are in regiments where pro- motion promises to be rapid are bitterly opposed to a change. Those who were less fortunate are quite as bitter in their opposition to regimental promotione. There are two sides to the question. Generals Grant, Sheridan and Sherman weore aturdy supporters of the existing system, and they insisted that lieuten- ants should be entitled to the promo- tions made possible by the casualties in their regiments. The officers directly affected insist that any change in the law working retroactively will be gross injustice, because it is a part of their contract with the government that th shall realize the benefits of the assign- ments secured by good work at the mili- tary academy, They, of course, regard the more mechanical system of lineal promotion as a clog to energy and an in- ducement to avoid danger in time of WA, On the other hand, the advocates ot lineal promotion point.to the injustices inflicted upon deserving officers by the regimental system, whereby recent graduates from West Point, who have perhaps never seen any active service, are promoted over old officers who have heen engaged in the most arduoua fron- tier doty. There are many anomalies, it must be admitted, in the system of regimental promotion which to a civilian seem sub- versive of the efficiency of the military service. On the othér hand, any re- adjustment of the list of lieutenants as it now stands will either perpetuate the injustices already gomplained of or debar many meritorious officers from all hope ot promotion beyond' company grades. The general efticieiicy!of the army, how- ever, ls the important question pre- sented, Upon thya|gingle idea should the whole discusslon rest. Individual interests cannot b8’ ‘permitted to inter- fere with 8 reforiv Which experience, common sense #nd{jequity demands. There should, howeyer, be a well nigh unanimous sentimient' in the higher ranks of the service''th its favor before 80 radicul and far-redehing o change in the existing order of things s under- taken, and congress will do well to give advocates of all the systems in question patient hearing before adopting oither of the proposed measures. E— INVESTIGATE THE CHARGES. | The Hoard of Education cannot afford to rest under the censure of the grand jury. That body, in its flnal report, which has become an imperish.i.» rec- ord, says: Among 8 variety of serlous ramors affect ing that body |the Board of Education!, sev eral cases bave come to odr knowledgs where members of the voard have oeen, or still are enguged, either directly or indi- rectly, iu furnishing supplics or beivg iuter- ested in contracts with the board, We are 13, 1892--SIXTEEN PAGES, advised that this fs illegal, thongh not in- diotable, 48 the law provides no penalty in such cases. But we wonld remark that it shoula not roquire a penal clause to provent members from violating the law The oxact language of the law orning in such cases is as follows: That it shall be unlawful for any member gov- of the Board of Education to have any pe cuniary Intorest, either directly or indi rectly, in any contract for the erection of school houses, or for warming, ventilating, furnishing or repairing the same, or be in any manner connected with the furmshing of supplies for the maintenance of the schools, The grand jury, after patient inquiry, distinctly asserts that soveral cases have come to its knowledge where members of the board have hoen, or still are, en- gnged either directly or indirectly furnishing supplies or being inter: in contracts with tho board. This is a grave charge and if true the members referred to have violated tho plain letter of tho law and their sacred oaths of office. Thoy may not be indictable by the grand jury and perhaps there is no penal statute governing in their ca but the board itself certainly has the authority to expel members for corrupt practices, malfeasance in office, if it shall care to assert its priviloges. It can at least investigate and put on record its findings and invite guilty parties to re- sign if nothing more. Every honest member of the board must feel keenly this thrust at the intog- rity of the organization. He should bo unwilling to submit to this refloction upon his honor as a member of a body whose integrity should be above suspi- cion. We shall be very much dis- appointed if no action is taken to lift the imputation of rascality from the board. Newspaper charges and common rumor might be passed without further notice than an explicit denial or a demand for specifications. I[n this case, however, the charges are gravely made by the honorable grand jury. They were seri- ously considered by that body and evi- dence of their truth of a convincing character was formally prosented under oath. The board can, therefore, do nothing but make a public investigation, lot the consequences to individuals be what they may. Will the board do its duty? THE attempt on the part of the New York Herald to forestall an instructed Harrison delegation from Nebraska by suggesting Senator Manderson as a presidential probability finds no encour- agement ot the hands of Senator Man- derson, who is too shrewd a politic to be used by the anti-Harrison combine. THE army canteen is in more danger from the assaults of the Indian soldiery indirectly than from the Woman’s Chris- tian Temperance union directly. Can't Comprehend Truth, Eh? New York Commercial. The expert witness caunot, as a rule, be- lieve in a hereafter. P ey Loud and Long. Phiiladelphia Times. ‘Tho prospective prolonged debate over the silver question will corroborate in anothor way the nld saying that money talks. Lol Two Great 5. Chicago Times. Fmperor William now expresses a laudable desire to ‘“pulverizo” the czar. Hore's a chance for that New Orleans Athletio club o get two famous heavyweights into its justly celebrated arena. Ne Kk Press. One of the marvelous things of tho times is tho report that Russell Sage is hostile to monopolics, trusts and combinations. Yet ho is no doubt still willing to loan any of thom a fair amount of money at cent per cent on adequate securizy. Tiio Dran of Gold, Globe-Democrat. A littie over $9,000,000 in gold has been ox- portea since Janury 1. A third of this sum, however, went out last weck, and the move- ment may continue at this rate for several weeks yot. Fortunately, though, we are in ‘s botter position to stana a drain of this sort than we were last yoar, when the shipments wero much larger than they are likely to be this year. e Sl The Tug of War, New York Commercial, King Georgo will do well to let Greek meet (ireek among his subjects, and keep himself and bis respectability out of the contest. ‘Theirs is a country to which lines 1n Bishop Heber's missionary hymn are peculiarly ap- licablo, When the gods left Olympus they did so for good reasons, and thought them- selves lucky to be able to retain their not very extensive wardrobes, LTy A Winnlng Combination, Chicago Tribune. Has it oocurred to anybody to suggest that Mr. Booze of Kausas, the prominent prohioi- tionist, might be an accoptable running mate for Governor Botes of prohibition Iowa! Any kind of straddle woald do for a platform, und the the ticket Boies and Booza—or Booze and Bofes, itis immaterlal whioh of the two names goos first—would sweep the ocountry like an epidemic of measles. Mundano celestials are having some trouble just now. Harris, the California saint, has desertod his following and taken a wifo; the church militant in Towa s 1 need of the state troops for protection, and Schwein- furth, the Rockford Christ. 13 liablo to have bis kingdom desecrated by the minions of the law. An angry husband would have “heaven' sold to pay him for the loss of his wife. TALK ABO hiladelphia Record: Over Berlng: Salis . ury, P{flldelphll Enguirer: Doubtless the seals join with the diplomats in wishing that Bering sea were permanently closed. New York Recorder: We have fair I In dealing with Amer- he must play fair. Letthat ulimatum be sent to the Hritish premier! Kansas City Journal: While Mr, Blaine and Lora Sallsbury are having their little ame of tag about the modus vivendi in the EQHIIK sea the poor seals are getting de- cidedly the worst of it. St. Louis Kepubliv: If the republicans waut a war with Eogland out of the sea'skin Job, let them go abend. It would paralyze the west and all the exporting states so com- plotely that there would not Lo a republican state {u[l in the basin of the Mississippi. St. Paul Pioneer Pres: The truly great seal of the United States is theone that nav- igates the briny deep of Bering sea. The ritish bave taken some wroug impressions from it if they suppose Uncle Sam muy be bullied with more ease in 502 thao in 1776 or 1812, SEALS. Now York Iudependent: Lord Salisbury’s accoptance of arbitration will count for httie if be proposes Lo defeat it ludirectly by throw- ing down meautime tue barriers against | poachers, Wae doubt whether thesenate will ratify the treaty unless an ad interim cossa- tion of seal slaughter is arranged for. Cow- mon justice and genoral precedent require & suspusion of acls iu dispute, whea & joiut | appeal is made to a tribunal to determine their rightfulness, Globe-Democrat: Thers is no division of sentiment among Americans on the Bormg son questions. Democrats as woll as ropub licans will stand by tho administration in as serting he rights of tho country on this 1ssue. There will be no backdown by the Chicago Tribune: The law must bo en- forced rigidly, and the knowledge that such will bo the outcome probably will tono down the bluster of Lord Salisbury, which has overy appearance of being made for the pur- pose of bracing up the disheartonod tories Who are now closoe upon dissolution and an appeal to the peoplo. But whether this be 80 or not, there is nothing which will settie this complioation more quickly than a reso lute declaration of American rights under the law. Washington Post: Those priviloges oither beiong to the United States or they are tho common property of tho world. 1t they be ours, let us sav so and lot us hold them at all cost. Lord Salisbury has furnished more than a suflicient justification for withdrawal from tho agroement to arbitrate, and wo should lose no time in withdrawine, Wo should return to the securo ground of our rights and stand thore. Tho United States cannot afford to have one policy for Chili and another for England, e VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Columbus Telegram (dem.): KEven in Ne- braska democrats cannot agree on the silver question. There may be fun ahead in the state convention, Hastings Democrat: If the Democrat understands correctly the tompor of the dem- ocrats in this section of the Lord’s vineyard, they will refuse to longer continuo s tho cav's paw to rake independent chestnuts out of the fire, Fremont Flail: If republicans caleulate to win this yoar thoy must put forward tho bost material they have for governor for Mr. Boyd, of the democracy, and Mr. Van Wyck, of the fadopendents, are foes worthy of thoir bost steel. 3 Central City Nonparoil: T Ovana Bere's history of Nebraska as printed in a four-page ecition lnst weok is a treasure to bo pro- served for future reference, as it contains much valuable information not found in books. When 1t comes to repeating Ne- braska's history Rosoy knows pretty near what he is talking about. Columbus Telegram (dem): Tho tale About a democratic-independent combino by which all the state and congressional oftices have been apportioned out, is too simple to uttract more than passing attention, and re- r\lbllcmn need not get frightened over it. 1 they aro beaten, 1t will 1ot be by tho carrying out of any such chimerical schcmes as have been put in circulation by some imaginative simpleton, whoso knowledge of politics is evidently far below par. Premont Herald (dem.): Dr. Miller 1s quoted us saying “I can say that I have it not over three days old direct from Grover Claveland that ‘the blunders committea by the present democratic congress have never been exceeded.’ " Shades of Horatio Sey- mour! when is tho doctor goine to quit tho patent medicine business! Ve thought the doctor must have *‘bad it” from somebody to como in as proxy to the committ Why doesn’t he **follow New York" as usual? Plattsmouth Journal: T contains a small-sized political sensation, in which tho hickory-shirt statesman from Nomana county is dubbed *“a horny-handod granger railroad pass book.” The sensation is accompanied by a fac-similo lotter si by Walt Secley and a B. & M. trip p loged to have been issued by Majors 10 one R. M. Campbell. Should Tom Majors secure the republican nomination for governor next fall issues of Tite Bre of this date will be in great demand for campaign documents, Crete Vidette: The action of the demo- cractic press in Nebraska in heralding every little move or mumble made by Cougrossman Bryun is bocoming nauseating. Whnen littie boys attempt toargue with grown people they are considered fresh and ill raised, but the sickening offorts of this nervy young man to force himself into prominence are considered by his party papers in this stato s the quintesonco of statesmanskip and political sagacity. Retribution is sometimes delayed, but he will receive i chastisement noxt November. Seward Reporter (rep.): The republican party of Nobraska must nominute the best men that can_be sécured, regardiess of where they live, and stand shoulder to shoulder for their election. If o man from the country is the bost and most available man to head "tho ticket, let him be nominated, but if an Omaha candidate will make a better show for vic- tory, other thiugs being equal, by all means 2ivo us the Omaha man. Let no sectional differences and no revengeful feelings stard in the way of republican success in Neoraska this year, when we have to olect not only a governor, but presidential electors, congrass- men and & legislature that will choose a United States senator. Close up the ranks and let every republican in the state bo pre- pared to do his whole duty, regardiess of personal feelings or sectional prejudices. —_— JAY GETTING GENEROUS, Pittsburg Times: Jay Gould is evidently a very sick man. 1In adaition to his 810,000 “church_extension” donation he has just given 825,000 to a collego. Providenco Telegram: Jay Gould has given $25,000 to the university of the City of Now York. How generous the groat finan- rier is getting to be in these days of his ill health. Now York Commoreial: The crank who wrote to Jay Gould usking fora wifle of 3,000,000 does not road the nowspapers, He should have put a “‘Rev.” vefore his name. Lven cranks should be abreast of the timos, Now York Advertiser: Jay Gould has gone to Mexico. One of his last acts before moeting! leaving Now York was to donate 25,000 to the Now York university. This, with bix £10,000 for church eoxtonsion, {naioates that ho is disposed to put up heavy margins arainst the future, o~ - COMICAL COMMENT, Washington Post daosires 10 con hou'd ave tinued his d onel Fitzsin for u fow more rounds, Tndianapolis Journal: Lawger—Well, we got the best of th ou hive hoor sentence to n prison hy, Uil be o tis whero v Al you get the best of ‘om Kate Field's Washington: “How man; Included in the genoral public “it depends on whethor you to subscribe fo and tuke a drink o Inviting it W NEWSPAPOF OF 10 0010 1) Now York Sun the body politic tho course of his s 15 that the renson y all the ward healors in the efty working for you?" a man on the front boneh asked “We will cure all tho ills ot the candidate exolaimed i h. 1 have HER FIRST CAKE . L. Sylvester in Judpe 8o mensurod out the hutter with a very sol- onin alr; The milk and sugar also; and she took the Ontost onre To count the oggs corractly, and to add a lit tlo hit Of buking powdor, nors oft omit. Then she stirred it all togother, and she baket it full an hour, But she nover quiite forgave horslt for loav which, you know. begin: ing out the flour, Washingtos tar: Paderewski's I8 t logitimate successor of the chrysanthemumn araze. New York ‘Uribune: Soft says lio saw tho Aurora Bor TEhOURNY no Was noarsighto Sharpleigh—That nccounts for it. boy can't soe beyond his own nose. leigh—01d_ Soak 18 Inst night Tho otd Somarville Journal: Some people ssem to think that talking tn & moral way Is loading u roligious life, Philadolphia Record: A sclontifio J says that flsh fove music. Thero 1s no thitt tho shad is partial to bonos. arna oubt Now Orleans Pleayune: When a buckwheat cnke 19 not done up brown it becomes a fla fallure. A poet In the M irront Atluatio thus Lits oft thio Month of : , by Sot troo from In paliid skies. And cold as frostod violot's oye. A tlon March that shakes his mano To frizht those steads of goldea roln Whoso charjoteer drives on apace With steady splendor, god-1ike graco, Rochester Post: A artiols asks Do titles pay? Well, i Iy, no. until thoy are sued, and then sowetinos they get outof it, Washinzton Star: It fsn't always the struggle for daily bread thut mukes boop's fool the race with poverty. [t is v. ofte 3 the strugilo for torrapin and quail on toust. Clatms It is Blackmail, Any, Neb., Maren 12.—To tho ditor o) Tue Bez: Tho filing of the potition against Judge Gaslin by Mrs, Guyer for £0,000 for alleged breach of promise is regarded her: as a blackmailing scheme, The piaintifi the suit bus been regarded by many as in sane, and it is alleged her nearest neigh bors and relatires will huve noth ing to with her. Tho prevailin) opinion here 1s that she was put up to bring ing the suit by another party. With, the pe tition Hlea there is an agreoment signed by the plaintiff and her attornoy that tho o torney is to have one-half of tho proceeds of the suit, and that the piaintiff cannot_settle it thelcoraehtoluer) attorney. 1 hava talked with a large number of leading citi: zons, aud every one oxpressed the belief that this iy nothing more than a disgraceful schome for the purpose of extorting money. It has developed that somo parties have been endoavoring for some time to procure a pho- togravh of Judze Gashn for the purpose of sending it along with a picture of the plain- tiff 10 the Police Gazotto, and thus briny him into disrepute. do ] PRO derviman in Yankee Blade, 1dd, threo years I've waited . To'see this blo | | 1 i l had v Yer whut you've beer _'d ike to know, 1 sw. Well, ourtin' w've talked on every subjeck Cept th' one you most thought on. Hare on tho horsehuir sofa Long havo I sut and sat Wond'rin® with you b B me, Just what you would be at. 1knowed you'zo after somotii; That shaok your heart with dread, Yot loug's you wouldn't spoik, Jadd, You might as well beon dead. Now this yore sort of dodgin' Might ninke of some a f In spito of ail th But luws! n to Isny this thing must stop, Ju You've roely ot to hoar: So, while I up nnd ask you, S'pose you expand that ear. Long, wearily I'vo waitod On'leap year's loosoning hand, And now I'll do the talKin' For I've just got the sand. 18'nose you want to marry; But wio, you'd nover cheep, How's that? You don’t mean me, Judd! Well, that puts mo to sleen. Aqd soat lust you'vo spoken, You'd dio to know your f; Wi as preachin's pre ite too lute. neiudodl 5 L0 500 1 for throo yours, n for me. Is not the for St. Patric We have made Opon Saturduys tll Other ovenings Ul | ‘ ' Browning, ~ BROWNINGKING [ Se W, Corner 15th aad Douglas Sti. Shamrocks are a regular customer or never have or never expect to trade with us, you are welcome to one as long as we have any. The handsomest . buttonieres in the city. W |S. W, Corner 15th and Douglas Sgg 2 T k's Day--- arrangements for a supply ot shamrocks, the picture on the left being a lifelike rep- resentation. These beautiful shamrocks will arrive in time to | be given away to those who call at our store on St, Patrick’s day. It don’t make any dif- ference whether you King & Co