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

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"¢ Bee Putiishing Comoany, Proprictor EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglns, | Georgo 13, Tzschuck, se Publisninz company. d that the setual eireulat for, tho week ending April o, 160 ows 8| LETTERS. ] retary of The Bee nnly swear DALY BER was us fol- Ay, April 3 28,140 day, April 4,000 Tuosdny, April S Wednesday, April 8..0000000 Thursday, April 7 Friday, Aprils ... Buturday. Apriiy. Avel . L. 24,005 ORGE B, TZSCHUCK. to beforo me and -anl{\l'lr\ln“:‘I\IH my s Oth of April, A )., 1802, s 001 day of April, Al D I8 ary Public tion for WiEN the democracy of Nebraska compresses itself into the exposition hall tomorrow night the comedy of errors wili be continued. NOW that the policelhave captured sev- eral shoplifters the court should muke an oxample of them for the benefit of other persons with kleptomanineal ten- dencie: THERE ave spots on the democratic sun in this latitude which are per- coptiblo to the naked cye. They will pro the fall crop of demoe ply have a disastrous effect upon atic vote! CoNaGi of Ohio held out against fate avith good grit, but he has yielded to the inevitable and has announced him- pelf for Harrison. Mr. Conger is the pational committeeman from Ohio. JUDGE GrRESHAM need not take the troublo to deny the canard announcing him as willing to be sacrificed by the alliance party as their candidato for the presidency. The judge is too young a wman to commit political suicide. JUDGING from the action of some of tho republican county conventions, the old railroad gang is scoking to use the Btato and district conventions for resur- rection purposes chiefly, Tt is propos- ing to revivify about all the political corpses in Nebraska. TiE spectacie of ono man with a broom tnd a shovel keeping twenty blocks of paved sireets clean is enough to make a graven image laugh, yet an egotistic dude editor in this city deliberately states that this is possible and the man can be had at $30 per month. EX-GOVERNOR GrAY of Indiana may take it into his head to be the vice presidential candidate from Indiana. If he does the remarks of Clevelund 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 column. CorLe C. J. BowLsy of Crete dis- covered that Colonel Tobe Castor owns the democracy of suline county by un- dertaking to organize a county conven- tion against the latter. When Tobe asks for a right of way in his county overybody lets down the bars and he alkes tho full width of a wide cutting scythe. Mi. MOREARTY of unsavory name and ‘ame, swears that while acting as clerk of a primary election he was in- timidated by Governor Boyd into por- mittiag illogal voters to cust their bal- lots. Mvr. Morearty is not very partleu- laras to what he swears to. Some months ago Mr. Morearty swore that he tried to break into the county jail to Buvo the negro Smith from the mob. THE Sisseton and Wahpeton reserva- tion lands are to bo thrown open to set- tlement on the 15th inst, The surplus availuble for settlement is 557,200 ncres, and of course a land-hungry host are hanging on the outskirts of the Indian country rondy for the grand regardloss rush. Tho fact that the president’ vroclamation names Friday for the opan- fng will deter very few superstitious ones from seizing upon the opportunity to serambie for raw praivie at $2,50 per acro no better thaa almost aqually cheap lands elsewhere in the Dakotas and Min- nesota which can be secured without scrambling. — A areAT deal of interest is felt in tho Ponnsylvania democratic state conven- tion, which meets today. It will nom- inate a state ticket, and also appoint delegates to the democratic national convention. There is a very strong feoling in favor of Cleveland among the democracy of Pennsylvania, and the im- prossion is that the convention will in- struct for him, in which event the cause of the ox-president would be materially strongthened. But it is understood, also, that there will be a strong effory made to secure a delogation favorable to Governor Pattison as a presidentisl can. didate. Not much has recently been sald sbout Pattison in this connection, but he is strong with his party in Penn- #sylvauls, as he ought to be, in view of the fact that he has twice carried the state by large pluralitios, and given it creditable to Ho should be a aduministrations highly hirmseit and the party. steomgsr man lu Poonsylvania than € avatand, sgalnst whom there was a plaealiby i 1984 of over K1,000, and in 388 of woer 79,000, THE TIN PLATE DUTY. Of course the house of raprosen tatives will pass the bill to reduce tho duty on tin plate. The measure provides that after October 1, 1892, the duty shall be 1 cent per pound, and that on and after O 1, 1804, tin piate, terne plato and taggers tin shall be admitted free of duty. If this bill should become a ber law the tin industry that has sprang up | tariff of the last congress be destroyed, the eapi- invested in plants under the would doubtiess tal which has been would be lost and a large number of workmen would be thrown out of em ployment. T'he work of developing our tin mines would also bo checked if not entively stoppea. It is hardly possible that the results could be otherwise, be- causo it is well understood that the pres- ent duty affords only such protection to the home manufacturers as enables them to compote in the markets with the for- oign producers, who have lowered theiv price since our tariff on tin plats went into effect. The bill of the ways and means com- mitteo is thereforo deliborately de- signed to break downanow and growing Ameriean industey in the direct inter: est of British manufieturers who have grown rich from the advantages they enjoyed in the Amorican market. Tho proposed logislation can find no excuse o justifieation in an incrensed price of tin plate, because the price of that arti- clo is lower now than whon the present duty was put on, that is, it is selling for less in New York. The report of the majority of the wiysand means com- mitteo says that the present law sub- jects every American industry which uses tin plate to new and burdensoms oxactions, but there is no preof given that such is the case. Even if it were a fact that every such industry was com- petled to pay a little more for tin plate, would it not be better that this should be done for a time and the home in- dustry built up thun that we should continue perpetually to depend upon the British manufactarers, who would be liberty to make what price they pleas when American competition should be destroyed. There is no longer any question that the manufacture of tin plate can ho suc- cessfully wried on in the United States, nor is there any reason to doubt that with proper encouragement it could be developed into one of the most important industries of the country. Notable pr \s bron made within the past year, and it would have bsen much groater but for the apprehension of such legislation as the democratic house of representatives proposes, tho building of several lavge factories hav- ing beon postponed for this reason. It is reasonably believed that il the pr ont duty were maintained thres or four vears longer there would be enough tin plate produced in the United States to meet the home domnd. This prom- ise the democratic majority in the house would defeat. The republican senate will undoubted- ly thwart this design, and if it should fail to do so President Harrison will not fail. The young and growing tin industry of the United States, the pro- gross of which has bosn exceptional, should be given a fair opportunity to demonstrate what American energy and enterprize can malke of it, and if this bo done theve is every reason to expect, from what has alveady boen accom- plished, that the result will vindicate every promise and prediction. A CANDIDATE WITH MISGIVINGS. A candidate who doubts whether his nomination would be wise, dispirits his friends and encourages his enemies. A mun is assumed to know himsolf better than anybody else can know him, and when he utters something in self-dis- paragement, or which implies that, the world is warranted in accopting his own estimate of himself. Mr. Cleveland, in aletter written to a gentleman of Chut- tanooga who hud sent him the report of a democratic meeting at which the ex- president was oxtolled, said: **I hav frequent misgivings as to the wisdom of in putting me in nomination.” Tho date of this letter was the day after the Rhode Island election, and it is quito conceivable that the result of that con- test may have had a deprossing ellect upon Mr. Cleveland. Ho went into the little state in the closing days of the campaign to inspirit and encourage his party, and to preach asain the gospel of tariff reform. Hisadvent thore was sig- lized by a good doal of democratic enthusinsm and he delivered a preparod address which contained only “glittor- ing generalitios.” But his presenceand his counsel could not stay the swelling tide of popular sentiment in favor of republican poli The well-employed and prosperous people of Rhodo Island could not be deceived. They know the source of their prosperity and they ren- dered a verdict for its continuance It is quite possible, under the circumstances, that this may havo raised in the mind of Mr. Cloveland o question as to the wisdom of the democratic party again putting him in nomination, If Mr. Cleveland was sincere in what he wrote to the Chattanoogaman it sug- gests that ho may have bogun to realize that the one idea upon which he has porsistently dwelt for the last five or six years, and on which rests all bis claim to party leadership, is no longer of such overshudowing importance in the popu- lar vegurd 0s he had believed it to be, Although beaten on the issue he made for bis party in 1888 the result of the congressional olections of 1890 gave him fresh hope, but if he has given more than a superficial study to later events he must have discovered that conditions have materially changed, and that the appeals and argaments of two years ago will not have the samme potency this yoar. The complete failure of the demo- eratic prophecies of evils to come from the tariff logislation of tho last con- gress, and the division in that party re- garding a policy of reform, have opened the eyes of & mujority of those who wora misled two years ago to the falso pretenses and tho charlatanry of the democracy, No class fering any of the hardship or oppre rress sured the country would be ex perienced The averuge costof living is not groater than before the prosent tarifl law went into effect, and is probably less. Very few articles of g by tho tavifl, ave higher now thun then, or interest is suf- sion | from the tariff which the democrats as- | sneral use, affected THE OMAH and some are lower. Hence itis that excopt from the democratic politicians there is no urgent demand for tariff re- | form, at least upon any plan which the democ people who are not in politics men, wage workers, and farmers appreciate the advantages of u stondily- growing home market—are not joining has thus far proposed. The Lusinoss who in the cry for reform by democratic standafds, They are very well satistied with the situation asit is, and quite willing that prevailing conditions shall continue until experience shall show that a change is necessary and might be an improvement. Mr. Cleveland represents nothing but the idea of tariff reform. All hisstates- manship and his only claim to party leadership aro comprehended in this policy. TIf the people do not want it, and there would seem to be ample e dence that such is the case. Mr, Cleves land would be a hopeless candidate. Perhaps his analysisof the situation has brovght him to this view, and therefore the misgivings as to the wisdom of again making him thoe standard beaver of his party LET IIM DO HIS DUTY. If it is trueascharged by Mr. Mahoney that repeaters and non-residents carried tho day at the demozratic primaries last Friday and if it is true as charged hy Mr. Mahoney in the convention that delegates were bought by the Boyd f tion it is within the power of Mr. Mahoney to purge the democracy and make an example of the parties who have sot the clection laws at defiance. In fact it is Mr. Mahoney's duty to vindicate the law. As county attorney he is empowered to filo an information against every man whom he knows to be a violator of the primary election law and to prosecute these offenders in the eriminal courts. In doing his duty as a public officer he will not only purge his own party of corrupt election practices, but render a orvice to the whole community. The primary elections ave the base of our entire system of solf- nment, We cannot hope to perpetuate the govern- ment of tho people by the peopie unless weo strike at the root of the corruption of our elective system and purge the primaries and conventions of every taint of bribory. GRAIN MEN The meeting of the Nebraska in this eity Wednesday prom- OF THE STAT elevator men of ises to be well attended. The object of the ingathering of grain dealers is to form astato organization for mutual benefit. Its scope has not yet been fully outlined, but the general purpose is to unite the grain dealers of Nebraska into a protective association which shall have strength enough 1 its membership to induce the railvoads to deal fairly with Nebraska shippers and aid them in building up loeal markets. It will be possible, of course, for the association to 80 combine as to oppress producers, but the local competition be- tween dealers and between adjacent railway stations can be relied upon to prevent this, Under existing laws the unot diseriminato so sharply hipper as to drive him out of and therefore even if this association shall combine at any time to keep prices down, new buyers and nsso- ciations of farmers can readily break the monopoly. It should therefore be aceepted as a fact shat this moeting i not for the puepose of forming o trus with which to control the giain busi- ness of Nebraska. Such an association as is contemplated can muke itself felt for the benefit of the grain business of the state. Tt can by combining the intorests of grain men along the soveral competing lines force the railways to revise tariff's which are unfair, to grant milling-in-teansit rates and muke such other concessions as ex- pericnce has shown are essential to the growth of the local markets. It can aid greatly in building up milling industries and developing a comprehensive public warehouse system. It can also to a large degree control the inspection of n, and thus prevent the unfair grad- ing of distant points. There are other subjects also movoe particularly affe ing the grain buyers themselves such as rates of commission, dealings with castern buyers, rating the grain and the like, which will receive attention. ‘' Bk on behalf of the citizens of Omaha welcomes these gentlemen to the city, and hopes they may orgunizea strong associntion. ABOUT COMPETING BRIDGE Omana, April 11.—To tho Editor of Tt Bee: ‘The building of another bridge over the Missourl, which would enable all castern roads to enter the city, is a matter of vital necessity to the future development of Omaba. But if it is to cost the county ali or nearly all of the cost of the structure, why could not the county and city build and own it! We would then be absolutely securo that no dog-in-the-manger pohicy will be ever played against any road seeking admission to the city. Suppose we vote the bonds and at the same time accept the proposition of the Union Pacific road and release it from its bond; and suppose, further, thav tho new bridge, after we kave voted the bonds and roleased tho Union Pacific, will not material- 120 and tho whole project falls into innocuous desuetude, as was the case with the samo projecta couple of years ago, where will wo then stand! If, on the other haud, we spend now the demanded subsidy ou & public struc- ture, we shall be freed forever of the bond- age of the Union Pacitio Bridge com sany. TAXPAYER. The reasen why the city and county cannot build, own und operate a railroad bridge across the Missouri Is because they have no right to expend money for improvements in another state. While the city and county are permitted to aid by the issue of bonds in works of inter- nal improvement the constitution of this state forbids them from making in- vestments in railroad stocks. he only feasible project by which the bridge could be constructed directly by the county would be in connection with Poutawattamie county, Iowa. That might have been done before the Union Pacific bridge was built and it should have been done when the Douglas street bridge was chartered. A free railroud and wagon bridge would have been of incalculuble advantage to hoth Omaha and Council Biuffs, But the time has gone by and Pottawattamie county is not likely to join Douglas county in any scheme to build a ruilroad bridge. Even ! it public sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of sugh a project partios in- terested in the awin bridge monopolies would defeat it @igectly or indirectly. The only way.weif, is to break the mo- nopoly by liberal mid to a bridge that will become part'af o competing railway system powerful anough to covo with ex- isting linos. 1'mper safe be thrown around) the propos the twin-bridge mpnopolies should not fon, but be permitted to tend it down with condi- | tions that would capitalists who' ave willing to Omaha permanent relief, ——— fiot by acceptable to give James R, Yousa. executive clerk of the United States senato for ten years past, has been removed from office as a result of the investigations of the senate committee on foreign affairs into the question ns to who is responsible for permitting facts to leak out of executive segsions, The semite has made an ex- hibition of itself in thus allowing Mr. Young to become the seapegoat of this absurd investigation, Iivery newspaper man in Washington knows that the tors themselves re the proceed- ings of the scoret sessions, and it is no edit to themto vote that punish ment shall be inflicted upon a elerk whoso position happened to be confidential to the executive session, WHEN a democratic senator or ropre- sentativo introduces a long resolution covering feur or five subjects and eall- ing upon the president or ono of the cabinet officors for certain information it is always safe to say that ho is fishing for political capital to be used in the coming campaign, Senator Morgan's resolution requesting the president to furnish items of taxation on imports from the United Stites imposed by Hayti and information regarding an agreement with rmany on certain articles of commerco is intended as a covert attack upon reciprocity. Shonrtog Tim, Philadelyhia Inquiver. Speaking about free wool—thera'll bo lots of it ying around loose after Cleveland and Hull meet in the Chicago convention, Ehe Emulating the Cla New York Advertiser—sth. Hon. John M. Thurston is in town, but de- clines to discuss presidential candidatos. He has an opinion that this subject is slightly too personal as to himself, but this 1s an erroncous opinion, he Land Grabhoers, Kansas C.ty Jowrnal. Lay the hand of the law on the lot jumpers in Oklahomn. They are tho worst public eucmies in the territory. A bandit has a bad chance and cannot do much. The lot jumpers can rob and demoralize whole towns. w Iden of Ttalinn Dignity, Detroit-Free Press, The suggestion that Italy will decline to accept the §20,000 offered by this govern- ment in settlement . for the New Orieans massacre, provided it is given as Ya mark of friendship,”” and motin recoguition of & lia- bility, presents & hew iden of [talian dignity. Plenty of oom at Home. Chcago Time There is no room 7or a bust of James Rus- sell Lowell in Westminster abbey. Space, of course, bas to be economized in order that no British lordling who dabbles in verse or plays at politics may bs crowded out. How- ever, the snub which those unwise Ameri- cans who thought to emphasize Lowell's virtual expatriation by ensconsing his eftic; in a British valhalla have received is very thoroughly deserved. A Ludicrous Assu Cinetnnati ¢ Me., Cleveland is frequently spoken of as a great statesman, and <o poses. The assuwmp- tion is ludicrous. Whenever did he say a great thing or doa great act! In the most that was ever doue in bis name, he was sim- ply the instrument or tool in the hands of men of brains. His few speeches and letiers have been very commonplace, containing no striking thoughts or sentonces. Except for purposes of a figurehead he is about the poorest stick of timber the democratic party ever pickea up, and that is sayinga greav deal. AN mmey — Cat-and-Dog Carnival, Lincoln News. Give the Nevraska democrats a smell from the bottle of success and thoy will straight- way get drunk and smasn the bottle. Thoy can turn fortune into misfortune, change success into defeat and transform good luck into adversity in a way that is positively alarming. They are so constituted that they thrivo in misfortune only to wither pway ere the flush of victory is well upon them. They can create a disturbance in less time ana over amore trivial subject than any cass of men on carth. Let them have a litts ropo and if they don’t hang themselves it will be beeause the rope was torn to shreds in the scramble; and everybody will bo slashed and smeared in the melee. Cats and dogs could sit on a fence enclosing a lot of Nobeaska democrats intoxicated with the exuberance of transi- tory success, and actually get points on how to claw euch other. B A Season Ticket to Defeat, New Yorl Sun. In 1888 the democratic party went crazy for tariff reform and trotted iuto the mud be- hind the elephanting economist of tho mug- wumps, Licking No. 1. 1n 1891 the Ohio democrats, sticking to tho same old tanT reform as vropounded by the same old corpulent Cobden, became unpro tected mats for Major William McKinley, ir., and the ropublican phrty 1o wipe their feet on. Licking No, 2, In 1892 the RRhode Island democrats took up the same old howt aud fight for the same old tariff reform and thesamwe old sarcotic der- vish, Lickiug No. 8 Hasn't tho demoeratic party had enough of this sort of thingt, The sarcotic dervish is whiriing to cmpty hauses. Is it impolite to suggest that tarifiraform, Lo, has ot been what the managery'of thoaters call a draw- ing attractiont ! It will pay the dgsperatic party to throw away iLs season tigket to defeat. iy The Irropeessiblo Conflict, Fairtwyy Enterprise. The question of _Lhe regulation of railroad rates will be the most serious one that will contront the next logislaturo that assembles iu the state of Nebraska; for no party in the state could dare to iguore it in its platform or shirk action when the question is to be aecided. There 1s a deen, widespread and almost universal fecling ameng farmers and ship- pers that rates are 10 ALY respects oxces- sive und unjust, ana to this feeling the alli- ance and independent orgaus give constant and violent expression. On the otuer hand certain of the organs of both the aewocratic and republican parties claim on bebalf of the railroads that the roads of the state at presout rates are run without profit, and that further reduction would result in ruin to roads aiveady in oper- ation aud the absolute stoppage of any further builaing of railroads within the stato, In this, as in The almost all other cases, the | §oldeu wean Lies belween the Lwo extrewes, uards should | responsiblo elomont of the party should come | fare of the PRIL 13, 1892 1t will not be safe to take counsel from the organs of tho cornorations owning the great linos that intarsect our state, and still less to #ive heed to the {ll-advised und intemperate mouthings of tho would-ba statesmen of the Crane, McKieghan and Powers stamp. pecially in the ropublican party it is emi- nently fitting that tho cool, lovel-headed and to the front and insist on boing heard in the annunciation of tho principles upon which the party will ask the suffrago of the people next fall. A policy subordinating the wol people to the greed of corpora. tions, bosides boing wrong in principle, would be likely to result i a defoat at the volls, and that, too, by a faction as utterly incapable of affording rolief of the wrongs complained of, as was that miserablo crowd of fancied reform statosmon who howled their impracticable schomes in the last legis- lature. No friend of his state would ike to sco poiicy inaugurated that would cripple the railroads wo already have and put a_stop to tho extension of new lines to places destituta of these primo essentials of our modern tion, however much such a state of things micht please a fanatical faction who nave a creed to vindicato at any cost to the prosperity of the industrious and thrifty among us, ——— MEN OF NOTE, Robert Lonis Stevenson has bocomo so popular in Samon that bhe is talked of as a future king of that place. Mr. Brown, who has just becn elocted gov- ernor of Rhodo Island, will receive the munificent salary of $1.000 a year. Senntor Voorbees of Indiana will deliver the oration at the formal opening of tho now steel bridgo over the Mississippi at Memphis May 12, » Rusk wants folks to beliove that ho get more solid fun out of his 400 acre farm in Wisconsin than he can out of his position in Washington. “The conductors on two lines of streot rail- way in New York have beon notifiad that they taust wear white shirts, linen collars aud white ties when on duty. By tho will of tho lato millionnire Robort A. Bavoes of St. Louis, provision is mado for a new hospital in thav city, whero there are already many renowned and well-man- aged hospital rd of Delaware will ation to the Chicago demo- ceatio convention, where his veice and in- fluence will bn thrown strongly in favor of Mr. Cleveland’s renomination, Ir. Justico Lamar's wrotched health 1s to be largely dua to his great absorption in his books, ~ He is almost unmanagenble by his wife when once ho gots 1uto his library. Ho is passionately fona of reaaing. M. Deibler, the exceutioner of France, has expressod the ofiicial opinion that the mur- derers whom ho exccutcs nowadays are @ much more elovated class inteilcetually than those on whom he practiced at the ginuing of lus career. IKnte ield’s compiiments to Mr. Borrowe : “That there should livo an American low cuough to barter his own infamy aud theroby ray the weakness of 8 woman whom he s preiended to love! So baso au act bo- comes u crime for which there 1s no name. Such moval lepers should bo shunued by every man und womau possessed of 0no aton of self-resnect.’” On the oceasion of bis 70th birthday, which no celebrated on the 2nd inst., Rov. Edward Isverott Hale, D.D., reccived the following tribute of esteem and admiration from the venerable poct, Whittier: “Never fails thy heart to groot Noble deed with warmest beat, Hands of waat and souls in pain Have not sought thy door in vain. Thou hast kept thy fealty good To the human brotherhood.” Colonei Al Fairbrother has declined to be a candidate for governor of North Carolina. “He docs nol give s reasous, but to those of us,” says tho Columous ‘Lelogram, *who Linve henvd the plaintivo remark of the gov- crnor of Nortn Caroliva to the governor of South Carolina no reasons are required.” g Y STrATE AN T B D CLE TELAND. Globe Democrat: The Massachusetts déle- ates to the Chicago convention are in- structed to vote for Cleveland, uniess they shall think it better to vote for somobody else. New York Advertiser: Mr. Cieveland seoms to have Massachuserts. This is_com forting, Had Massachusotts cold-shouldered aresident of Buzzard’s Bay it would havo been worse than Rbode Island—and Rhode Islana was bad enougb. New York World: The Massachusetts democratic convention has named_its favor- ite for the vresidency, but has left the task of nominating to the national convention, to which it belongs. The Massachusetts dele- gates will be uninstructed and unpledged, New York Times: The action of the demo- cratic convention of Massachusotts will give a now impulse to the wave of feeling that is alrendy swoeping over the country in favor of the nowination of Cieveland for” the presi- dency, and, it is not too much toadd, in favor of his election. Philadelphin Record: Tho dem Massachusetts by their action cl cate the path of courage and cons pursuing which the party may houor or loso without distionor. think that defeat would be Massachusetts platform. Chicago Post: The Massachusetts delega- tion witl come to Chicago uninstructed but undeniably solid for “Monsienr de Buflalo.” This fact 1s the more uoteworthy beeause tho most conspicuous man among tho delegates- is our old friend, Hon. Patrick A. Collins_of Boston, the eloquent, tho irie- pressible, who has not recently bedn consia- cred a very ardent Cleveland man. St. Louis 1 The Massachusetis dolegation goes to Chicago uninstructed, If 1t 1s the right sort of delegation that is the way 1t ought to go. A number of instructed delecations in a convention are apt to befow asituation and contributo more to discord than havmony. The groat duty of stata con- ventions is to select capable and responsiblo men as delegates and lot them wet their in structions from tho people. Boston Globo: Although Cloveland senti- ment unmistakably provailod, the convontion yesterday wisoly left to the discrotion of its representatives the course to bo taken re gardiog the prosidentinl candiducy. Its members fully realized that the great and all-important” duty to bo fulfilled at tho nu- tional democratic conclave in Juneis the choico of u standard-beaver who witl suroly lead tho way to glorious triumph next No vember, s of rly indi- toney in win with Wo do not possible on tho - TICKLISH THRUSTS, New Orleans Pleayune: Cotton s not King when fire gets the bestof it Galveston News: The promising young mun s 1u deby Washington Star: A good clockmukor shoutd b fumous for is striking achiove- ments. Puck: Mrs. Suburh-are with her porsonully? Proprictress of inte)ligence office) =Vos, 1n- deed. She s wgood girl, | bhavo known' her for yoars. She comes 1o hero almost every week for u pluce. you nequainted Judge: “What Is your nume?" sald St Peter 10 tho urrival at the gite. “Viola limsy ML sir."* How did you ogeuny your thne on brette, s r Soubrette?! mused Petor. u 20 huck and get n doctor's ait you're dead.” earth?" “Suppose, cerifis A FRUITLESS HAUL New York Horald. He was n sneak thief, bold aud bad, Who stole on April first A pocket book, and wher he looked Within, his L5t he cursed He found a little fadoea flow: Some recipes for lon: A button hook, son But ot o I ite IMtoid's W “Ah, Blanlk, 18 it you? 1 heas you're running a house of your b T Bluuk warried." oLry, cont! responded sadly, “only Press: Mrs. Bloobumper—Yes, s roudy (0 KIve wavice. Thoro ure exceptions, Dutroit Fre everybod y Ix al Bloobuiper “Are there?” “Yos; doctors and lawyers.” Philadolphis I 4: To prove that the clothes he sells are ali wool, u Lldgo wvenu sler shows customers the wotks in the ¢ uents. Boyd Men . meots in edly be one of party has hold for years. are alroady drawn bo along tho linos of instructing Cloveland or sending an uninstructed dolega tion to the national convention. miugled with this will tween tho Boyd and anti-Boyd factions. evening. Wolbach and a host of shoulder hitters from over theitate cs and created quite a political about the Paxton. o'clock this evening in Bxposition hall. v Most of Boyd's supporiors in delogation, in timonts exprossed by the governor. 1as ous found that out of a total of forty-two couu- ties, instructed “to delegation, pressed u preferenco for Boios as tho have instructed against have Douglas and Cheyenuo counties double-tieaders being e in favor as sending Cong the leuder of the state delegation national convention. aspi tho convention to be elected delegates to the national convention will be the following: W. Coolk of Gage county. Jefferson, Milton Doclittle of Holt couvty, “Thompson of Hall county, J. (%, Sioux county, Rove J.H. Harwood of Lancaster, . B. of Cass, . J. W. Farrell of Harlan, Saline county county count; tin factions wax tle approaches. counting on the assistance of A. J. Poppleton and J tho doomed to disappointment in a part of that anticipation at least, Mr. Popploton strazgle and I have no inclination to engago in any conte bl @ I S S ATDEMOCRACY'S DONNYBROOK Metaphorical Feeling for Hoads Will Begin at Seven 0'clock This Evening CAREFUL REVIEW OF THE SITUATION el Confident of Winning T Polnt, but the Opposition Is Hopeful and Active - What Papoers Sa the State The democratic this city the stato convontion which today will undoubt- most exciting that the The lines of bawle The fight will probably for Grover Mixed and come the fight bo- The democratic clans bogan to arrive last Tobias Castor, Jim North, 8. M. no in on tho evening trains atmosphere Tobias Casto is one of Mr. Bovd's most faituful friends and he usually keeps weil up ot the drift of sentiment touching the actions of the governor. bolt 1ast night Boyd will have 850 votes in the convention outside of Douglas county. little about tne bolt but I feel porfo will stand by Governer Boyd." Spenking of the anti-Boya Mr. Castor said: “Governor [ know but very nere 1n Douglas county, tly confidont that the state Jim North was asked what he thought of tho situation and only roplied that it looked as thou the governor. the opposition would bodoneup when 1t came to a decisive struggle. thare would by some opposition to He thought, however, that Tho convention will be cailed to order at 7 The nold meot ous district delogations will ings this afternoon for the purpose of decid- ing upon tho delegatos from thewr districts, thoy wish electod Governor Boyd said attho county conven- tion that he was not in favor of sending an instructed detegation, but thought it wiser to send a dolegation of men who wo tained a full view of the field and haa learned tho d cide what course was best to pursuo for tho good of tho country and tho party as a ua- tioaal organization. has taken level-hoadea and 1o 1d bo ablo whon they had ob- o of a majority of the party to do The auti-Boyd faction hold of this statoment to show at Mr. Boyd is zot a friend of Cleveland. seem to bo uninstructed the sor This aused tho Martin mon to take up tho ud yell with a good deal of carnest- Tt scoms likely, thereforo, that the n faction will mako the most of th 1y for Cleveland in order to win the sym- favor of * sendiug an accord with patily of the convention in their struggle to Zev into the convention, Sizing Up the Prospeets. In looking over tho reports from tho vari- democratic county conventions it is twenty-three have sent ~delegations vote for a Cleveland seven counties have ox- o- out of the their del Boyd and two him. "The others upon the subjoct. will navo in “the convention, tho spiit ased by the Boyd and Martin fight. Four counties out of tho forty-two are essman Bryan as o tho Amoug the prominont nes will bo p. ted to and idential candidate. uvo have to vote Eloven inatructed for Governor remained silent ants whose Hou. josopn Oberfelder of Cheyenne, D, Jo D, Hubvell of I J. Hale of Madison, R. A. Beatiy of Adams, Frank K. Spearman of Hitclicock county, J. I, Crocker of Buffalo, W. H. Kol 1gor “of Hamilton county, Cougressman Datlman of t Clegg of Richardson, Wallace nty, Castor of Douglas Douglas Gilkerson of aunders Tobias Euclid Martin of overnor Boyd of and Local Aspect of the Fight. ‘The local fight between the Boyd and Mar- warm s the'time of bat- The Martin men have been M. Woolworth 1n tho struggle before convontion, but they are doubtless Mr. reporter was and Popploton en by o Bep yesterday wass asled if he inteuded to tike auy part in the convention, “I shall not be in the convention,” smd “It will be an all night of the kind anticipated. " At thes Time ) { 7 ¢ of Year--- %] The average man's mind turns to base ity, make and price so much lower than a light overcoat, too; Open Saturdays till D p. Othier ovenings Wil 630 If°1 | hotel. « A3ROWNING, KINE - ©- : o Wo Corase 1Ly and Doasie v 7 ball. It is the surest the best selection as to styles, qual- tailor made garments. just like tailors do, except we make a whole lot of them, so we can sell them guarantee to fit you perfectly. You'll need Browning, King &Co |S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas St 4) | could name the prasidential tickot, which is | of course altogothor improbable,” continued Mr. Popploton good naturedly, *1 would name Governor Pattison of Pennsylvanin | and Governor Botes of Towa. 1 think it will | ho uvtterly impossible for us to eloct either | Cloveland or Hill, to earry New York and without New York wa would have no chance to eloct our candidate. [ am in favor per sonally of sending an uninstructed delega | tion to tho national conventton.' Mr. Woolworth returned vosterday aftor an absenco of soveral days and was suprised to find that he had been eloctod delegato to the state convention. “1 have just como homa" ho said to a Bre reportor, “and havo hardly learned the situation. 1 am told that 1 was clectod a delegate to the state conven tion, but | know nothing of it asido from that mere statement. 1 could not say at this winuto what 1 shall do in the premises. 1 am ignorant of the causes that led to this peculiar stato of affairs and until 1 have given the matter moro attention I shall not be ina pusition to say whether I shall ba in tho con- veution or not."* HROU 1 STATE. Utterances of Dema tho Situatio The situation in Douglas county has at- tracted wido attention throughout tho state and has afforded the themd for many hot ed- itorials in the democratic press. Nover has thero been so much wrangling among the bourbon oditors, and it doesn't ook as if rec- neiliation would bo an casy matter, Editor Calhoun of the Lincoln Herald be- lieves that Boyd should be sent to Chicago as a dologate-at-lareo s a courtesy to the democrat who could bo elected, as an act of justico to the man who has beon prosecutod and persccuted and put to great oxponso sim- ly pecause he is o domocrat.” According to G. P. Marvin, editor of the Beatrico Democrat, “Governor Boya is ono ot thoso self-sacrificing gentiomen who be- lioves that tho tail should go with the hide, He is willing to accopt aaything that the democracy has at its disposal.”” ienial Charlie Sherman of the Platts. mouth Journal has lost his geniality and do- clares that “tho Boyd program will got few supportors in Cass county 1d Hall, who was in the last as o momber from Hall county, assorte in his Grandg Isiand Democrat: “Goveruor Boyd ought to feel proud of the broke up condition of the democratic party in this stato as the rosult of Lis loadership. As a disorganizer ho is o docided success but ns a leador and statesman he is a dismal failure.” Becauso the York county democratic con- tral committee appointed. delogates to the state convention without consulting tho mombers of the party, C. D. Casper, the vot- eran democ anti-monopoly editor of tho York Pross and David City Pross, exelaims in no uncertain tono: ~1f tho rank and file of the party fail 10 show up at the polts this fall it can be proporly charged to the ring tac- ties of soif-appointed leaders, Democracy of tho truo kind advoeates no such starchambor methods. The county democrats shonld havo been allowed o come in and expross a prof- cronce. Then they would have felt some in torest in the work of tho state convention. The party will nevor gaina victory, or cust a rospectable sized voto whilo such methods prevail." Listen to W. H Herald and hear whatho has hoard : more than 5 per cent of the Nobraska de- mocracy is either for Cloveland or Boios, all the candidates meutioned for delegatos to tho Chicago convention, that is_Governor Boyd, Dr. Miller, J. Storling Morton, Churles Owdeu and’ the rest of the Omaba big guus are out and out for Hill. Wil Nobraska democrats perform the uincompoop act and choose this samo old Omaha crowd to mis- represent them Accoiding to the Blair Record tho demo- crats of Washington county favor Euclid Martin of Owmaba, W... Bryan of Lincoln and W. H. Thompson of Grand island as three of the delegates-at-large. Thero will, according to tho sume paper, be lots of trouble in the delegation to the state conven- tion, because Dick Thompson has, it is al- leged, stolen a proxy and proposes to show up when the proper time comes. Dick, the Record claims, is a resident of Hastings, and Mouthpleces on logislaturo Karns of the Tekamah W hilo . “he came hero for a course of Keeley troat- ment, not expecting to remain hera at all. Hois nota representative of this county in any senso, and 1t looks as if ‘Dick’ was not ‘in_ it after all. We aro also informed that lhe is for Boyd, first, last and atl the tin nd that ho cane buck hero from Omahalast Iriday nignt with the determination of securing a proxy it he could not get there any other way. ‘I'ns morning bie took tho train for Hastings and other poiuts to begin laying plaus for a schemo to switeh into line enough county delegations to show up weil for Boyd."” This is the way ldgar Howard of th Papillion Times tefls the tale of woe: It 15 the ola story. Charley Brown, jealousof the popularity of tho governor, secks to ove throw bis ola-timeeuemy. He dare notenter the lists in person, but puts Euclid Martin forward as his champion. Now Mr. Martin 15 a very nice geutleman and a good demo- crat. He would be deserving general sup- port by democrats did be stand in betier light before them, but, floundering in the quagmire of fusion alongside Brown, he de- serves defeat. Governor Boyd ought to ve chosen as a dele; e 10 the national conv tion. Democrats of Nebraska would say by dofeating him that, aithough ho 15 our gov- ernor, he is not fit 1o represent us in national affairs. We say he ought to be chosen, but we say it with a proviso. He must first de, clare bimself in favor of the nomination of Grover Clevelund, and, further, e must not ask permission to name bis associates upon the deiegation.” Committ There will be a meef state central comm (Wednesday) at 3 o'clock 1akLEs O democratic Afternoon n Merchants we be- sign of spring know of and it hooves him to get that spring suit out in time totake in the game. He will find and the equal of |\ We make them |} tailors can. We will ours will please you. b