Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. "E ROSEWATER, Eptron. — PUBLISHED " OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PailyDec twithout Sunday) Ono ¥ ally and Eunday, One Year.... ... fix v nths ... Three Months, . Sundny Hee, One Vear. Baturdny It One Year. Weekly Bee. One Year. OFFIC Omaha. The Bee Bulldine. Bonth O aln. corner N and 26th Streets Counell Bluffs, 12 Pearl Street Chicaro Offic Chamber of Commercs, Now York. Ro a17, 14and 15, Tribune Bullding Washington, 513 Fourteenth Streot 9 PONDENCE s reluting to news and ald Le addressed tc the CORR All_commun ditorini n diterinl T BUSINESS LETTERS S A1l business letters and_romittances shouid te addressed to The Bee Pablishing Company. Omahn. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the com- pany. The Bec Putlishing Comuany, Preprictor T OF CIRCULATION SWORN STAT State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | %% It. Trschuck, secrotary of The Bee ¢ company, does solemnly aw: Geors Publish that the nctual eirculation of Tie DALy B for the week ending April®, 1802 was as fol- Tows Bundny, April 3. Monday, April 4. Tuesday, April Wednosday, Aprii 0 Thursday. April 7 Friday. Aprii 8 Saturdiy., April 0, 24,305 HUCK. in my Averago.... Sworn to before me o presonce this 0th day of April, A SEAL N No ary 24,510, sNTIE and Chicago is a good place for a union depot. ¥ refuses to lend his good ctional quarrel among local democrats. The judge is a parti- san democrat but not a factionist. WiTiiN a week the vepubiicans will have the opportunity of showing their democratic friends how an honest pri- mary election should be conducted. Junc CoNanress will probably adjourn by the first of July, in which éase American putriotism willbe warranted in bursting out with more than its usual pyrotech- nics. OMATIA real estateris looking up. Any man with business foresight will admit that this city cannot in the nature of things stop growing this side of the half million point. Real estate at present prices is a safe investment. THE meeting of the Nebraska elevator meon at the Board of Trade rooms on Wednesday will probably result in a State Grain Men’s association. Such an organization can be of great value to the grain business of Nebraska. IF the Board of Education is really in earnest about kindergarten instruction it should make its experiments the pres- ent term when tho weather and other conditions are more favorable than at other seasons of the yoar. AS WAS to be expected after the un- decisive battle between the Boyd and Maurtin tactions on Saturday, the half- baked editor, whose democracy was thrust upon him, was discovered roost ing safely on the top rail of the fence. GENERAL GRANT did not have the Douglag county democracy in mind when he said that republicans could safely bank upon enough democratic blunders to deprive them of any specinl advantages luck and circumstances may have given their party. “THE return of the tourist season has brought the Monte Carlo man again to the front. Renders of newspapers will understand that cable dispatches an- nouncing immense winnings at the gambling tables ot the Furopean resort are sent for advertising purposos. SOME people hereabouts who are most outspoken in opposition to voting $750,000 in bonds to the Nebraska Cen- tral have been for weeks at work upon a proposition to vote$1,000,000 to another railrond and real estate enterprise in which they have pecuniary interests, Honny riders must be men of marked force and ability in order to be useful to their constituents in congress. Ordi- narily hobby riders are one-term states- men, and this will be one reason why Simpson, Bryan, MeKeighan and others will retire to-private life March 4, 1803, — PRESIDENT ELIOT has written a lettor to the Boston Jowrnal regarding his rocent speech in the Mormon templo at Salt Lake City, A perusal of the letter leads to the conclusion that the less the president of Hurvard says upon the sub- ject the sooner will his inexcusablo mis- take be forgotten, E> {RNOR GrAY of Indiana ma; take it into his head to be the vice presidential candidite from Indiana., If he does the remarks of Cleveland about his ineligibility as a running mate may be construed into an antagonism which will take Indiana out of the doubtful ranks into the republican columu, KANSAS Crry's paved residence streets present a more attractive appear- ance than those of Omaha for several rea- sons. The grades are less arbitrary, the dwellings are not so scattered, the rag- ged edges of ungraded lots and unkept front yards are not so numerous and there are more brick and stone struc- tures. — DENVER with 105,000 people was assessed last year ut 73,183,430, A bonded indebtedness of 8 per cent, which is the constitutional limit in Colo- rado cities, equals $2,104,000. Omaha’s limit of bonded indebtednoss of 124 per cent s only 2,500,000 available, This year Donver expects to raise her valuation to $83,000,000; Omaha may ad- vance hers to $25,000,000. These facts &re & BOrmon L0 nssessors, to taxpayers, ead to legislators in Nebraska. all ¢ THE YALUE OF OR IZATION, The republican victory in Rhode Island illustrated sgain the value of organization. ‘'he republican league, composed mainly of young men, was & potent factor in the contest. There are ween forty and fifty league clubs in the state, and these active and rressive organizations—the centers of politieal energy in their several loealitics—did a work to which the sigonl triumph of the parly was very largely due. The league had charge of the speaking canvass, saw that all republican voters were rogistered, and attended to the distrioution of cam- pnign literature. 1t wusa force that was constantly felt in the canvass, keeping thes interest of republicans aroused, stimulating the apathetic to action, making converts to the caus and infusing all with earnast zoal, o The same kind of zeal and practical organization, suggosts the New York Tribune, is needed in all the states. “Fresh blood and systematie organiza- tion,” that journal, “are required in every state in order that the work so woll begun in Rhode Island may be car- ried to a successful issuo in November.” It is not to soon for republicans every- where to take steps for the thorough organization of the pacty. The officers of the National League of Democratic Clubs have issued a lurid address ap- pealing to democrats to proceed nt once to orgnnize. tepublicans should not allow themselves to be anticipated in this work. It is not necessary to post- pone action until after the national con- vention, On the contrary there should everywhore bo readiness to start the campaign vigorously and aggressively as soon as the presidential candidato is named, so that no time be lost in arous- ing the interest of voters. The ncentive to do this could hardl be stronger than it is. Al thivgs indi- cate republican success next November. Whilst the democracy plit into irre 1ble factions over candidates and s, there are no differences among republicans that cannot be ecasily set- tled. he representatives of the party in congress, with a few exceptions, are in complete harmony vegarding policies and in full accord with the administra- tion. The party is not perplexed by the question of a candidate. So far as the masses of the party are concerned the choico is already made, and every leader of strength and influence acquiesces. The nolicy of the party is also fully de fined. It is now, as in the past, in favor of protecting American industries and labor and of giving the people a sound and stable currency and an honest dol- lar. In all these respects it has the ad- vantagoe of the democracy, which is not united upon any candidate or on any policy. The situation offers every encourage- ment to the hope of republicans, every incentive to confidence. But it will not be wise to look for su¢ wholly from ons of the encmy. Thorough ganization will still be necessary, ear- nest work will have to be doae, there will still be demand for all the zeal and aggressive energy which republicans can bring to bear, The present trend of popular sentiment is not doubtful. The result in Rhode Island has mado that But no effort must be spared to engthen the conditions which will give republican success next November, org: RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN. Cvery citizen will agree that a half dozen isolated parks is not a complete park boulevard system. The pirk com- missioners and all concerned have agreed that Omaha’s parks should be connected by wide parkways, and orna- mented boulevards suitable for drives. The commissioners sought the right of eminent domain in order that individ- ual obstructionists should be prevented from interfering with their plans for a system of large and small parks, con- nected by boulevards. They were greatly disturbed last summer, when after beginning a survey forsuch an in- terior system it was finally announced that the city had noauthority to condemn lands for parks. Our recollection is that Dr. George L. Miller, the able and intelligent president of tha board, wus especiaily regretful of this supposed turn in affairs for the reason that it prevent- ed the commissioners from proceeding upon the comprehensive plans they had already outlined 1n their minds. The city attorney is recognized as an able lawyer. His position has been clearly announced after mature reflec- tion. There should be no disposition anywhere to discount tho value of so im- portant a legal conclusion. It should ho received with gratitude and accepted as an immediate solution of a perplexing problem, and should be acted uvon ac- cordingly. It is unfair to the people, to the city attorney, and to the enterprise of securing parks and boulevards to characterize Mr. Connell’s proposition as a ‘‘phase of park obstruction.” Every citizen favors purks and every taxpayer favors buying suitable park lands at the iowest prices possible, The city attor- noy’s opinion that tho right of eminent domain may be exercised, if sustained by the courts, will make it possible to meet this demand quickly and fully, The suggestion that it will delay the socuring of grounds is incorrect. Con- demnation i8 a summary proceeding, The appeals of dissatisfied land owners would naturally be upon the amount of dumages rather than the question of the right of condemnation. There is less dunger of Injunction by proceeding nc- cording to law than by ignoring the plain provisions of the charter. As the condemnation proceedings wibl give us parkways and boulevards and the chap- ter authorizes specinl assessments for these and for improving them, we shajl secure a complete park system sooner by condemnation than by negotiation and purchaso. — A MO, ARY CONGR The proposal of an international mone- tary congress, to be held in Chicago next year, will probably encounter no serious objection, though no one ean be sure that it would have results of a practical and useful nature. The bill that has been introduced in the house of representatives provides for twenty- one delegates to represent the United States. Seven of these areto be se- lected by the president and must be citizens not holding office, the other fourteen to be senators and representa- I TH OMAHA tiv appointed respectively by the prosident of the senate and the speaker of the ho The appointments are to be di- vided as equally as possible bet ween tho political partios. Thesecretary of state and the director of the mint are to be additional delegates. The bill authorizes the president to invite foreign governments to send rop- rosentatives, each government to de- termine the number, but to be entitled toonly one vote. The congress is to formulate and submit, for the approval of the governments ropresented, uni- form system and nomenclatures of coin- ago and weights and mensures, and also, if possible. an international agreement as to the relation which should be main- tained between gold and silver and uni formity in weight and fineness of coins, and the adoption of coin and coins that would ba current at the same valuo in all countries of the world Undoubtedly foreign governments will readily participate in the proposed con- gress, bocause the objects sought to be attained, or most of them, ave manifest- ly of universal interest, but it is not difficult to understand that there are almost unsurmountable difficulties in the way of 0 genoral agreement as to nearly all of the subjects which such a congross would be ealled upon to consider. The question of a uniform system of coinage and of weights and measures has been discussed from time to time for years, yet the nations are no nearer to the at- tainment of the desired object than when it first became a subject of inter- national consideration. The great diffi- culty is that no country cares to make the radical changes irom long cstab- lished systems which would be necessary to securo uniformity among the nations. The adoption of coins that would be cur- rent at the snme value in all countries of the world would eortminly be n great convenience, but it may be. doubted whether it is quite feasible. However, even if noimmediate practi- cal results should come from the pro- posed congress the discussion of the sub- jeets that would be presented to its attention would be valuable. Such a body as contemplated would be composed of the ablest economists in the several countries that would be represented, and their views would be a most impor- tant contribution to public knowledge in the various matters to be considered. People who understand the meaning of the law of supply and demand will have no difficulty in finding an explana- tion of the decline in the price of silver when they krow the amount of the pro- duction of that motal. In 1887 and for several years before the production of silver was about 42,000,000 ounces, In 1890 the product reached over 54,000,000 ounces, due 1n part to improved meth- ods in mining, and last year vhere was produced about 58,000,000 ounces, which was one-half more silver than the pro- duction of twelve or thirtaen years ngo and nearly five times as much as 5 produced twenty years ago. The world’s production rose from 96,000,000 ounces in 1887 to 128,000,000 in 1890, or oneé- third, and in the past five years it has risen one-half. The increase in the output is not confined to this country. The mines of New South Wales turne out nearly one-third more silver in 1891 than in the previous nd this pro- duct was put in the market at a cost of a little less than 53 cents an ounce. Silver production in this country costs less, so that even at the present market price of silver there is a very fair profit in the business for the mine owners, though of course not enough to satisfy them if they can compel the govern- ment to pay them from 80 to 35 per cent more than the silver will bring in the market. In view of the large increase in the supply of silver within a few years, without a corresponding demand, a decline in the price was inevitable, and even the purchase by tho govern- ment of the entire product of this coun- try couid not prevent it. Nor would tho adoption of free and unlimited coin- age by the United States alono long sus- tain a higher price for silver with a steadily increasing supply. In the ab- sence of an international agreement nothing this country might do would re- store silver to a parity with gold at the present ratio. Tho law of supply and demand operates the same with silver : with every other commodity, but the silver producers avo not disposed to sub- mit to it us the farmers and otner pro- ducers are compelled todo. They de- mand that the government shall take their commodity at one-third more than it will bring in the market, a conside tion which the government has no more right to accord to that interest than it has to give the farmer 30 per cent more for his corn or wheat thun the market price, DENVER has a silver club, which its promoters have bonsted contains 8,000 members, every one pledged to oppose any mun for president who is not pro- nouncedly in favor of free coinago, yet ata called meeting of this large and enthusiastic club only twenty-five or thirty members were in attendance, The Denver IRepublican makes light of the so-called nonpartisan silver clubs and says fully 95 per cent of those who have signed the club roll will vete with their parties at the presidential election without regard to the plunks relative to free coinage in the several platforms, Crgrse PARER HOLMAN'S committee on appropriations, with characteristic recklessness regarding the good of the publie service, has cut the entire appro- priation for surveys of publie lands to $100,000. This is inadequate and will seriously interfore with the develop- ment of the states in which there are still large aveas of unsurveyed public lands, much of which is alveady ocoupied Ly sqavters aoxious to be located definitely upon their quarter sections so as to make their permanent improve- ments, MAXIMILLIANO [BANEZ is the tongua twisting name of an irate Chilian who cannot recover from the recent humilia- tion forced upon his countr y her own imprudence. He writes to a Brussels journal a long review of the subject, arguing that the Chilian imb-oglio is merely a part of a deep laid scheme for creating a new world Zollverein, which ,an_equal number of ench being | DAILY BI - will give the [[nited States control of all the Latin American republies. This statement mwsteplunge Great Britain, France and Gftimany info hysterics, but the flag of the symerican union will float as usual withut fluttering, and sensible South and Cdfitgal Americans can think of many misfostunes far more to be dreaded. E: TUESDAY ———— WHEN Scfitgr John Sherman mado his speech at the Generil Sherman memorial banqaat, he had probably for- gotten his lettgr of April 26, 1863, to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, stary of war, in which he pronounces the terms agreed upon between Gonerals Sherman and Johnston “inadmissable,” and adds some very strong words regarding the proper tment of the conquered con- federates. Hon. George (. Gorham resurrects it and makes it public as part of a defenso of Edwin M. Stanton. The letter does not change the fact of the disagreoment between Sherman and Stanton or relieve their personal illwill toward each other of any of its bitter- ness. It does show, however, that the goldier Sherman was a more magnani- mous foo than the stateswan Shorman. BSubsequent history has almost con- 8¢ vinced the world, too, that Soldior Sher- man’s 1deas of roconstruction were better than those of Statesman Sherman. ept Shad, bune. To an impartial observer at this distance from the sceno of action it looks as if Dr. Parklurst ought to have been run in, The Pos GlobesDemozrat, The proposed ticket of Palmer and Flower 15 all vight from tho Nilinois standpoint, but New York, which is golog to dounnate the democratic conveution, will put Flower first if 1t puts kim anywhere. The Evil of Instructions, Nt L w's Republics The New York World is protesting against what it calls “the evil of iustructions.” If overy delegation is made to understand that 1t is to voto for Cleveland or a western mun, it will be instructions enough A Shight 1 New Yor un. The popularity allegea of the Claimant is as bascless as his domocracy. Mugwump politics and moral hypocrisy aro offensive to every ono trained in the school of American republicanism, Monsieur de Buffalo is a buck uumber, Take oim away ! New York Times, Lot Hillism subside under the rising dis- gust and indignaticn of the democrats of New Yori. The Bomb Seare, Chigago Times There is a certaw opera-bouffe quality about the Paris anarchist scare. The police scem to hold that all habitual criminals are anarchists. Thus lur, despite the numerous arrests und the éxtremo loquacity of brison- crs, polico ofticials, and eminent statesmen, nothing like an organized movement against society has been shown, Until such organ- ization 1s demoustrated it will appear that the persons arrésted are only ordinary crim- inals actuated b that love of notoriety which 50 often uppears among lawbroaicers. - The Hidkory Shirt Brigade. Western Resources. Resonrces is not givel to the discussion of political problems, 1t isa matter, gencrally speaking, that we havo but little to do with, but there are certain features connected with the politics of Nobraska that it seems perfectly proper for us, as a represcntative live stock journal, to discuss in a briof wanuer. The only point that wo wish to make 1n this article is this: There are cer- tain alleged farmers who are, and havo been for so long a time that the memory of man runneth not back, catertng for oflice of various sorts and characters; we refer to people who delight and revel in hicko y shirts ana boots soiled with the bara-yurd, trusting 1n this guise to convey the lasting impression upon the dear people that they are bous fide agriculturists. So horny- handed aro they in the toil that has made Nebraska blossom as tho rose, that thoy scoff at the idea of blucking their boots or wearing a boiled shirt. ‘This kind of politics might have bzen very popular in the early nistory of the west, we say it is possiblo that at that timo the neople of Nebraska were void of the or- dinary intelligence that characterizes the humblest citizen of the state today. It might have been, but we seriously question it. We question it for the reason that this hickory- shirted brigade, tuis soiled boot and slouch- hatted band of oficeseekers bave been ofice-seekers all their lives, and their ambi- tiou has nover been satiated. The time is at hand when the farmers and stockmen of this, oue of the most highly eulightened and one of the most fertile states of thoe union, should puta finger of condemnation upoa such mocicery. A pon picture of a certain would-be candidate {s drawn in the following words: An owner of laud, which he rents, he lives in the precincts of a small city and bas ever been present in tho caucuses whoso duty it was to place a candidate for governor or what not in the lfleld; his attire is that of a farmer not away from home but in his daily toils about his farm; bis hat invariably has a cobweb upon it, his shirt is of the hickory iind, his boots are soiled and he has an odor about bim of the Jersey cow that ho keeps in his stable, and one who 1s not famiiar with his tactics wouid be surprised 10 follow him in bis wan- derings over the state and through the dark alleys of the cities. Indeed 5010 truly rep utable peopie who have stood by this “office soeker from timo immemorial, almost, would bo surprised to see nimsit v the poker table with a well known sporting character, with 300 or $1,000 piled up in front of bim, Gaglug by tho sweat of his brow i4 daily bread; a man unused to agriculture in évery form excepl- iug with his verboso tougue, ~Why it is that the formers of Nebraska will lend so muc as an encouragement to one who plays them for chumps, it wa..may ba permiited to use the term, is bayoud our ken. ‘Today, in tho nineteenth centu is not evidence of a man's fealty to thedkricultural masses that ho wears the garo ofs & laboring wan; it is not evidenco that a Mman is better posted in that whicn is ne ry Lo advance the agri- culsural and sto alsing interests of Ne- braska because he- hnsists iu weariug the ap- parel waich a {.-‘l?aaenml.lve stock man would not wear at'“iny respectablo conyon- tion, to church om at auy gatbering uwuy frow howme. Wo do not med# (@ say that the apparel is essential to tha man; wo do not mean for a siuglo moment to denounce a man simply be- cause he dresses in common clothing, but when such apparel is & man's ouly clulm to the title of ‘“furmer's friend," etc, it is time that the farmers in this great state of ours wrise in & Imass and vebuke such a mockery in s0 sub stantial & manuer that such individuais would not bob up before them agein, It isa disgusting sight to one who is truly iater- estod in the growth and dovelopment of this country, to one who believes that Nebraska is @ great agricultural state and live stock region second 4o none other under the shin- ing sun, to fud a man posing vefore tho peo- ple of Lhis state as u farmer whoo bis only attribute, bis ouly claim to that distinetion, is bis hickory sturtand soiled boots. This is an ago for brain (o rule, no matter form it may come, 5o long as it 1s dire ward the buildiug up of our ivaustries i matters ot whether those who possoss tho braius bo clothed 1n_a poor dress or other wise; the people of Nooraska are not vot for dross, they are voting and demand 1 that & man who is u man in overy sense of the word snall oo Lbeir reprosoutative. APRIL 12 1892 POLITICS FROM AFAR OFF How the Nebraska Horoscope is Being Cast in Washington, RESULT OF ANALYTICAL OBSERVATION National Ne Politicians still Have aska's Fealty to Repubi and the Administration—Army Faith om and Personal Gossiy Wasnixatos, D, C., April 11, ~[Special to Tk Bre.|—The mevitablo somo one hias said that you must go away from home to hear the news. 1 suppose that 1s so. Occurronces which seem mere commonplucos at home be- come news away from the spot where they transpire, and opinions which pass current there as matters of course gain, perhaps, in valuo with a new audience, so that when I met several Nebraskans in Washington today with presumably no home politics I thought it might bo well to find out how their judg- ments worked at a distanco of 1,400 milos from the Missouri. The capital is, after all, a poor place in which to secure information ot local volitics, Senators and representa- tives of course are deluged with lotters from office holders and ofticu seckors, most of which have naturally neglected to afford any unpleasant information of the situstion at home. Personal conyersations bring out facts which are not committed to paper, and 50 here wo are largely dependent upon our visitors for authentic - information regarding nome conditions. D L. C. Burr, John H. Ames and Willam 1. Clark of Lincoln have all been 1n Washing- ton together with several others whoso names need not be mentioned, but who aroin a position to krow whereof they talk whon the politics of their stats aro mentioned. i judge from conversations with soveral of theso parties that the good crops of last year aro beginniug to mako thomsalves ~folt throughout the stato, Hardtimes invariavly work against tho party iu power, and when any change wil not be for the worso in the opinion of the volers somo sort of a change is pretty certain to bomade. Mr. Burr informs ine that thero has nover beer. in his experi- ence so much money in the city and country banks as thero is at the present time. Loan- able funds are ensy, and the retail merchants throuzhout the stae are buying freely and heuvily, While the price of grain is not what was espected earlier in tho scason, says Mr. Burr, the crop has beon so large tnat the farmer generally has received handsome returns for his labor, This natur- ally opbarates against “calamity howlers,” who have been trying to delude agriculturists of Nebraska into the opiuion that tho govornment is responsible for crop failures as well as diplomutic failures, and that the remedy is to have a national kindergarten, whero the taxation of the people at large shall provide funds for object iessons. or people who make money freely ard easily, such a scheme is totally inpracticale, and has been losing ground for a year past in other scctious of the counury, ns I presume it has in Nebraska. Mr. Bufr looks for large accessions to the republican party from the sonsible farmer clement who were led off into the alliance movement, and who have discovered, as thoy were certain to do sooner or later, that the only rosults obtained have been the pushing intd prominence of a lew demagogues throughout the country. John H. Ames of Lincoln believes that there will be a fusion this year between the democrats and alliance parties. He looks for the renomination of Mr. Bryan by the democrats of his district and his endorse- ment by the alliance convention. Whnether the fusion will extend to logislative candi- dates he says ho 1s not prepared to stato at present, but that it looks as if this would be the plan. Exactly how the two wings of the Nebraska democracy will flop in unison on the rurrency question nobody but a member of the “'same-old-sel” cluv, or the Jacksonian phalanx cau figure out, A o Sergeant-at-Arms Valentine, who has re- turned from northern Nebraska, believes that the adwirable administration of Presiaent Harrisou has strengthened the party through- out the state and that the influence of sound republicanism as exemplified in the exccutive will stimulate Nebraska repulicans to re- rewed earnestuess, and a willingness to moet whatever combination will be opposed to them. Mr. Valentine thinks that the repub- licau votes of Douglas county must be care- fully looked after in the cowing state cam- paign, and says that he hos been advising bis friends for the sake of party victory to let Douglas county select 1ts candidate for governor. He believes that the question of the stute against the city should not be per- mitted to euter iuto a strugglo for party supremacy in the presidential year. s Thero has been some talk of Jack McColl again for the governorship, but Senator Manderson informs me that Mctoll will absolutely decline the honor if tendered him. Other names mentioned are Meikeljohn and Dan Nettleton, but this matter as is under- stood will be more thoroughly canvassed during the state convention when delogates will be selected to go to Minneapolis. There has beon quite a movement among the ant- Harrison men to induce Senator Manderson to permit his name to be used for the presi dential nomination, representatives of eral states having informed him that he coutd receive the votes of their delegatiors in such an event. It is also suggested that the Alger vote would go to Senator Mander- son in the contingency that General Alge nomination was found to be impracticable, Senator Manderson, however, told me several wueks ago thai he was for Harrison, and that ho would not accept a presidentia’ nomina- vion if tendered bim nor permit the use of his name in such a connection, so 1 do not imagine that the enemios of the administra tion will find in the senator the stalking borse for their assault on tho next republican nominee. . . The first cavalry drill under tho new rogu lations took placo this waek st Kort Myer. Colonel Guy Henry of the Soventh cavalry was in command of the three troops and a large number of spectators from Washing- tn witnessed the dril. The new cuvalry drill regulations sacrifico the old precision avd clogance of movement for celerity. The Swhoels” which once delighted the avorage spectator ave dispiacod and the orders seem to have for their object the most rapid move- ment possivle to varry out tho directions, Iho columns ol masses have disappeared for extended lines; aud open order is the rule, The troops are divided 1uto sauads of seven or cight men under charge of a noncommis- sioned ofticer and arrangod in successive lines within supporting distance of euch other, Tuo effect of the drill is, there- fore, wot ot ail like dross parade, “The now drill reguintions aro being carefully swudied by the cavalry officers, who complain somewhat of their voluminousness, They mprise not only the ordinury tactics, but directions for tho care and shosing of horses, treatment of the diseases of the horse. pack ing of auiwals und management of pack trains. ln adaition, thero aro seventeen setting-up ace of the four under the ola Upton tac tics, which ruled for more thun twenty years. It 1s suggested that many amend- men's will bave to bo made when thy new drill regulations are put into actuul opera tion, and that in the end tho orders amend- ing the regulations will make up a volume scarcely loss bulky thau themselyes. 5 Speaking of army matters, there is still no news of the long expected brigadier general. Some colured friends of Colonel Hoory called o tho presidout the othoer dav to urge the consideration of his aection. Lthe matter was one that he could not even take iuto consideration, He added that to appoint Colonel Heary he would bave to overslaugh all the colonels and most of the liontengut colonels of the army, and that as fur as practicable he desired 10 making army appointments to be goveraed by seulority. The status of the linesl promotion bills re maius as at last advised. There is no possi ble chance for the enactment of the Outh waite measure iuto a law, aud uvless Mi exercises ' for tho trooper in tho | the regulations | nawe in this cou- | The president informed them that | Outhwaite consents to thoamendment mado by the senate committeo on military affairs, there is no probability that either the Proc. tor bill or the Outhwaite bill can be placed on the statuto books. There is, however, an understanding that Mr. Outhwaite, sooner than sce no extension of the lineal promotion iden, will aeroe to Senutor Proctor's meas ure, which is practically the senate amena ment of his own bili, and tvhich makes pro- motion lineal through the army without *‘tho sorvico claus which would disarrange all @rades above the second lieutenant. The attempt on the part of the house to cut down the pay cotps will bo vigorously op Posed v tho senate by those who beliove that tho futerests of the scrvicerather domand its extension than its curtmlment, Military men who have looked into the subject most thoroughly are convincod that thore shou be but one common L chest for tho army, as thoro 18 for the navy, and that ail appro priations for whatever army exponse should €0 into that, to be disbursed by pay ofticers under the dircction of tho secretary of w As it is now the quartermaster peneral, ¢ missary genoral, oranance and engl officars and all other corps are disbursing, at unuecessary expense for auditing nud keeping track of vouchers. It would bo oconomy aud good senso to have but ono corps of disbursing officers for the army. Tho appropriations for each corps could be Kept separato just as well and much expenso and circumlocution would be avoided in con sequence, The proposition to detail line ofticers to pay the troops was tried oncoe be- fore with very sorry results as a conse- quence. The pay corps of tho army is in most cases composed of fine accountants and koen business men, and its record for offic- icucy and cconomy in the transaction of tho business of the goverument for more than three-quarters of a contury should b suffic- ient argumeat against any impairment of its strongth, m-» 1 passed a portion of au evening with James Whitcomo Riley a few days ago, dur- ing which ho spoko with much interest of various nowspaper men who haa been con- nected in times past with far western jour. nalism. He referred feelingly to thé late O. H. Rothacker of Omahu. “I never knew lim personally,” said Mr. Riloy, *but 1 re- coved one duy 1n Indianapolis’ ono of the most beautiful and appreciative letters re- garding my poem, “There, Littlo Girl, Don't Cry,.” that T have ever seen on paper. The man who wrote 1t was a master of language, and poeiry thrilled through every line of tho kindly lotter which came to mo uusought from west of the Missouri. I wrote uim in roply, thankivg bim for his kindly apprecia- tion, but never received an answer. Later [ learned that my ietter had reachea him on his doathbed.” “Spuaking of westéri newspaper men who have mado their fame,” sad Mr. Riley, as he adjusted his eye glassos and stroked his thin face, “Bill Nye isin many respects the greatost genius that I bave mot. His difi- dence alone prevents him,from reaching a piunaclo of tame asa poet. His kinaliness of heurt, his gouiality of temverament, and bis lovliness of disposition, [ bave never econ excolled. Ho tas the héart of a woman, the tenderness of a child. No one can toll but those who have attempted 3t how dii- cuititisro bea humorist under the trying circumstances of sickness and affliction. But L have scen Nye with an aching heart grind out his weekly letter overwhich hundreds of thousands of peoplo have lauched. Wien two of his children were lving at the poiut of death, and when he himself was ex- ded from his own house by sanitary of- ficials who had secaled the doors bekind which s loved onos wero lying, auring wecks this tendor hearted man wrote letters 1o his childran, who were unconscious of his prosence, dating them _daily from the west 50 that they should not he' worried by the feeling that, their father was in their homo and could not see them and maintaining dur- ing the whole trial a braveness which would bave done credit to a Sir Phillip Sidney or a Chovalier Bayara.” * ' [ met Pat Donan on an F street car tho other day goiug to call on George R. Weund- ling. Mr. Wenaling, who rose into promi- nence by his replies on the lecture platform 10 Robert Ingersoll, is now a man of large wealth and lives in affluence in Washington with a handsome income from investments derived from an cloguent support of the Caristian religion, *Itis a singular thing," said Donan, ‘that Wendiing, when he’ first saw his opportuaity, was quite as much of an unbeliever as Robert G. Ingersoll. He wis 4 man of fervid imagination, good pres- ence aud possessed of the gift of eloguence. His first lecture, carefully prepared, mado him his name, ana the churches at once flocked to his support. sequence of Mr. Wendling’s business fore- sight, he became interested in personal re- ligion and later joined the church. He now limits his lecturo engagewents, but makes frou $15,000 to $20,000 a year on tho platform.” Lew Wallace, whou'he wrote **Ben Hur," or rather when ho began to collect materials for writing it, is also said to have been for years an unbeliever in revealed religion, In tho cases of Wendling and Lew Wallaco mvos- tigation of tho subject for authorship resulted in their amliation with orthodox Christiau- ity. W. . A, RHODE ISLAND, HARPING O Recent ovents another great Philadelphia Timos (dem. suggest that Rhode Island place for clams. New York Commercial Advertiser (dom.): ome ou, democrats. Lot us carry (home the dead from) Rhode Island,” New York Tribune p.) & On sober )e- At this Time Open Baturdays till 1 p. m Other evonings Uil 6:80. As o romarkablo con- | I3ROWNING, K| & COo. 8¢ Wo Cornor 15ta and Douzlas Sk A of Year--- The average man'’s sign of spring we _.| know of :}11([ it be- _~ hooves him to get that spring suit out ours the best selection as to style ity, make and pricec and the equal of tailor made garments, lé_q just like tailors do, except we make a [ 114 whole lot of them, so we can sell them P so much lower than tailors can. guarantee to fit you perfectly. You'll need [ a light overcoat, too; ours will l)lcusc you. Browning, King & Co |'S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas St Rhodo Island visit viewed (n the light of his recent severe condemnation of olf-geek- ing canv for the presiaential nomination 1" Cincinnati Commercial (rep.): Forty years ago Rhode Island elected Philip Allen, democrat, governor of the state. It has not had a democratic governor since. Tho little state has learned that it oan got along very woll without ono, Globe Democrat (rep.): ‘The lesson of the Rhode 1sland election, aceording to tho Now York Evening Post, is the demonstration that “‘the indepondent voters hold the decis fon between the parties this year in theit own hands.”” It is equally evident, we should say, that they have resolved to vota tho republican tickot. Boston Aavertisor (rop.): Perhaps tho most humorous feature of the Rhode 1sland clection 18 the announcement of tho demo- crats that nobody expected democratio suc. cess in Rhoae Isiand. Unfortunately, the domocratic campaign managers are on record as predicting a grand vietory, and it is too late in the day to retract their utterances of aweek ago, New York World vde Island co. The unbrokon, (dem.): The result in y be summod up in a_sen ord_of forty yoars romains The republicans have earried tho state this year as they have done in every prosidential yoar since their party was organized. But they have boen mado to 1ight u goud deal barder for it than thoy ever did before, . New York Tribune (rep.): On tho morn- ing of the Rbhode Island oloction the At- lantw Journal remarked: “Tho democrats havo forced tho fighting and have Kept their OppoOnents on the run ever since the campaign opened.” Txactly so; and the republicans 0t 50 used to running that by the time elec- tion day camo around thoy just ran clean ahead of the democrats. It is a dangerous thing for the democrats to get their oppoa- ents on the run, FASHION A s D n i FOTARIES, Bright gold or silver buttons aro attached to the fashionablo shoe, Miss Helen Gould has now throo lovers who are inmates of insane asylums. “The proper thing is that women's shoos for indoor wear match the dress in shade. ‘The best riaing habit for women is tha ubit of taking o gallop in the fresh and dewy morn, Open work gold or silver slippors aro n novelty, and s01s tho slipper which 18 com- posed of nurrow strips from the vamp to thy anklo, Mrs. Alico Froeman Palmor, forme president of Wellesloy coiloge, and now thi wife of u Harvard professor, 1s called “tho brainiost woman in America,” A kiss, according to a matter-of-fact corre- spondent, is *'a demonstration of love which will dry the baby's tears, turill the maiden's heart and spothie the ruflled feelings of a tirod wife.” Humphry Ward, having been invited 0 0ne of 4 symposium on tne question, **Whnat Kind of a Man Does a Wowan Pre- fer!” has givon it as her opinion that tho woman’s man should know how to box. What the maidens saved i Lent By abstinence and sacrifico Soon will joyousl; be spent On [aster bats of 1ofty pric — Chicago Times, Ball gowns that saw services before Lent came in will need freshening if they are to be worn after it goes out. A protty devico which answers admirably for simple bodices is a “'sash,” as the old fashioned ribbon bolt is called in these quoer modern days. The slesves that are to go on now gowns are the subject of wuch anxious thought and careful planning justnow. They must bo full and wido—these aro the two groat requisites. These fulfilled, they may tako on any form that caprice diotates and that good taste approves. When the appraisers came to make a list of the personal property of Mrs. Julia Swinford, an old lady who died recently at Berry Sta- tion, Ky., they found 115 nightcaps, all of different styles and patterns, ten pairs of shoes that had never been worn, fifteen pairs of scissors and au innumerable lot of spools of thread. Mrs. Aona H. Wilstach of Philadelpbia left her valuab.o art colloction and 800,000 to be spent in caring forit to the city of her residence, and the authorities have just formally accepted the gift. The pictures will be'placed in Memorial ball, under tho supervision of the commissioners of Lair- mount park. Washir rrl/l:ll after silver will be value and not for ton i its intrinsic zal-tender associations. A billentitled, “Tt shall be unlawful to hirg any red-headed femalo to pluy base ball wils recently intoduced in the Albany Tegisluture. Puck: Sympgthetie Stranger (to bystanders) ~Bring a gluss of water for blm 1o drink, auick. i : Colonel Ryerson (of Kentucky)—Hold on, gentlemen, hold on; ain'thure 50 bad as ail that. Indinnapolis Journal: teacher wants to know the dif between slfects” and “consequences.” Mrs, Flzg—1 think [ can nnswor that, When your father came home from that banquet Tast night he felt tho effects of it; und today hie is sufforing the consequences. Kato ffiold’s Washinatg Ing suit a regular work of Ciara admiringly, as she hold up the artic in question. +Ol, 1o, responded Juck; Tommy—Paw, rt is long. cord- ucer Tho porplexing question In Kuansis. 10z 1o the Atehison Giobe, is: What for i 1t 13 not to pour your coffeo into? Dallas News: No man ever falls int habit. A habit is something thit must pursued step by stop bofore it ls ever cau bt mind turns to base ball. Tt is the surest in time totake in the game, IHe will find , qual- We make them | We will j P LT —+