Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1892, Page 4

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Btate of Nebraska, ) Jonnty of Dou oorgo 13, k. scerotary of The Bee Publishin: y. doos solemnlv swear that the actual circalation of Tnr DALY Be for the week ending April 2, 1802, was as fol- lows: 5. Bunday, April17..... i Mondav, April 18, « S Tuesday, April 10 20750 Wednosdy, April ). 24,684 Thursday. April 21 24603 Friday. April 22 ik 24642 urdny, Apri g I 24,272 Average GEORGE . TZSCUUCK. Sworn to before mo and siubscribed in my presence this 2d day of April, A, D., 1502, NEAL N. P, FEIL, Notary Public. rage Circulation for March, neral Co N K Methodists throughout the country may be assured that the reports of the proceedings of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to be published in Tue Bee will bo accurate, fair avd interesting. We shall devote all the space necossary to muking complete Jdaily reports of the ses- sions of this great moeting of ono of the greatest of protestant churches. Our staft assigned especially to the duty of reporting the conforence is thoroughly informed vpon Methodism and selected with particular ref- erence to preparing accounts of the delibera- tions for Methodist readers. Persons in othier parts of the union interested in the general conference will find it to their ad- vantage to subscribe for Tre Bre during the month of May THE “surface water” on the federal building has remarkuble staying quali- ties to sy the least. WiTn a good state ticket and an honest platform Nebraska republicans ought to be able to sweep the state, but it will require both these conditions. —_— HE Russian poor lost a devoted and disintorested friend when Countass Tol- 8toi died. Her whole life has been marked by devotion to the work of bet- tering mankind. RRIGADIER GENERAL STANLEY'S re- tiroment on June 1, when he reaches the age of 64, will afford a grain of con- solation and hope to the colonels of the army who failed to succced General Kautz. PERSONAL animosities and private malice must be relegated to the rear in the coming campaign. Only by har- monious, discroot and ageressive action can the state be safely counted upon for the republicans, WHEN tho council meets Saturday night it should proceed immediately to pass the ordinance submitting the Ne- braska Central bond proposition to a vote. The people are becoming impas tient ut the delay. —— T1E industrial exposition in June will bo the groatest display of Nebraska manufactured products and manufactur- ing processes ever made in the state. It is now quite certain the Coliseum will be crowded to its utmost capacity by ex- hibits. — WHITE GHOST of Crow Creek’ agency in a lettor to the commissioner of Indian affairs suggests that the government will do justice to his race only at the muzzle of a musket.* The chief with the tautological title is not altogether wrong. — WieRre was tho Honorable Horizontal Bill Morrison when the Illinois demo. cratic state convention met on Wednes- day, with the long knife he is believed to have carried for Senator Palmer ever since that gentleman begun to nurse his presidential boornlet? . — THE Pioneer Press pleads for a lawless city administration for St. Paul. The paradox is explained, howevor, by the further romark that there are too many fathers-in-law, sons-in-law and brothers- in-law holding office at St. Paul under democratic nepotism, — Tre prohibitionists of Texas are en- titled to commendation for their grit if not their judgment. Though snowed under by the tremendous majority of 120,000 u fow yours ago, they get to- gothor regularly and name candidates for all the state oflic THE free vraders who are now saying 80 much against the tin plate industry not many years ago made a similar out- o against American steel making. Thoy nsserted that we eould nover hopo to make stepl in competition with Great Britain. We now muaufacture twice ns much as that countrylnd the same re- sults will follow the development of our tin plate industries. — Tue Ilineis demoeracy will not catch votes by its plank opposing compulsory education. The American people are in favor of universal intelligence. They believe every cnild in this country should be educated in the English lan- guage. They do not care whether he be taught at home, in & church, in a parochial school, in a private institution or in the public school, but they do be- lieve it is the duty of the state to see that he is given arudiamentary English education ut least. They will show the democracy its mistake in the next elec- tion in Iliinois, and will force that party 10 eat its words in some future platform. THE MAINKE REPUBLICANS, The action of the Maine republican state convention, in endorsing the ad- ministration of Prosident Harrison and decluring that the bost interests of the country will be served by his renomina tion and olection, ought to silence the over zealous friends of Secretary Blaine who still talk of him as a possible cundi- date. If there was the slightest ground for believing that Mr. Blaine not entirely sincere in withdrawing hisname from the list of candidates or the lenst hope that he would aceept tho nomina tion if given him unquestionably the leading republican politicians of his own state would know of it. Nobody will doubt that the republicans of Main would raliy as a man to the support of James G. Blaine as a candidate for tho prosidency if they thought he desired it, or even if they decmed it possible to induce him to accapt a nomination. It is niso entirely safe to nssumo that if Mr. Blaine had any intention different from that he has publicly announced he would communicaie it to some of his trusted followars in his own state, in order that they might guard against committing themsalves to another. The action of the Maine republicans attests their full conviction that their distinguished fellow citizan is abso- lutely and irrevocably out of the list of possible presidential ndidates, and serves notice on republicans elsewhore who have been clinging to the idea that Mr. Blaine might be induced to take tho nomination if it were thrust upon him that under no circumstances would he consent to be the standard bearer of the party in the impending campaign, This being so it is the obvious duty of those friends of Me. Blaine who want to make him a candidate whethier he will or no to abandon a course which must be an- noying to him and works against party harmony. Their esteem and admir wis tion for Mr. Blaine is commendable and is shared by all republicans, but thefe zeal is not wise when its eifect is to creato distrust of tho sincerity of the secrotary of state and to give warrant o0 his political enemies to charge him with duplicity. There has in this way been very great injustice done to Mr. Blaincand it ought to cease now that the republicans of his own state havesaid as plainly as no»d be that he will not ba tho candidate and by their declaration in fuvor of the ra- nomination of Harrison have indicated that their preference is also his. Those who hereafter insist upon urging the candidacy of Mr. Blaine will not deserve to be regarded as his frieads or as the friends of the republican party. GOULD STILL IN CONTROL. Jay Gould has outgeneraled his antag- The foreign stockholders we: onists. & confident of their ability to force the Gould interests out of the Union Pacific. The vote was close, but the wizard of Wall street as usual lit squarely on his feet, having secured proxies for 26,000 foreign shares through friendly broker: Mr. Gould’s most trusted lieutenant, S H. H. Clark becomes president of the road from which he was driven by the Adams regime more than ten years ago. This promotion, coming after a year of his management of the property. during which the Union Pacific traveled a very rocky road, 1s regarded as a complete vindieation for the Omaha railway mag- nate. It makes him the autoerat aof Union Pacific affairs with noappeal in regard to matters of detail. Sidney Diilon has reached an advanced age that unfits him for business and practically retires from active railrond manage- ment. With the possible exeeption of Mr. Fred L. Ames of Hoston, no man promi- nently identitied with Union Pacific af- fairs would naturally be so friendly to Omaha as Mr. Clavk. He has large pri- vate interestsin this city and here ho achieved his earlicr triumphs as a rail- way manager. Ho is thoroughly in formed in regard to thesituation and his elevation to the presidency ought to pre- vent the annoying delays which have hitherto retarded the transaction of much important business because of a lack of definite knowledge at eastern headquarters. Mr. Clark is a great im- provement upon Mr. Dillon in every way. Personally he is a genial gentie- man and a8 a railway manager he has no superior in the country. He will be favorably inclined to Omaha without doubt. It is too early to forecast what policy will be pursued regarding the union dopot, the extension of the shops and other local matters, Mr. Clark knows all about these matters, and it is reason- able to anticipate that tho board of directors wili defer to Mr, Clark’s jude- ment upon these and all kindred sub- jeets, and will nuthorize him to act ashe may deem wise. 1t will be a consolatian to know that appeals to the local offi- cials which may bo referced to the pres- idenv are certain of intelligent and im- mediate consideration. AN OFT REFUTED CHARGE, The silver men tenaciously adhere to Athe charge that the silver legislation of 1875 was passed by deception and fraud, notwithstanding the fact that the assor- tion hus been repeatedly rofuted and that the records of congress show it 1o be ut- terly without foundation. Thus the Col- orado silver convention, heid a fow days ago, declared that “'silver was demone- tized in 1873 by fraud and in the inter ests of the morey power of the conntry,” and the republican convention of that stato, dominated by the free silver advo- cates, assertedin its platform that *‘the great erime of the demonetization of silver in 1878 was conceived in deception and born in frand.” The people who insist upon misrepre- senting the history of this legislation sesm incapable of being convinced by indubitable facts. They refuse uttorly to accept the record, though it is as clear and plain as it could possivly be made. [t shows that the legislution of 1873 had beerd recommended by the sec- retary of the treasury years befove it was adopted and that the bill which was finally passed in Fobruary, 1833, was in- troduced in June, 1868 Was it con- cealed from the attention of congress and the public during all those years? Not at all. On the contvary it was discussed in every session of congress, underwent various modifications and amendments, wus referred for the cousideration of THE OMAHA experts, and finally went to a conference committes of the two houses, which agreod upon the measuro and it was passed. To say that a bill which was for nearly five years before congress, was read many times and repeatedly passod by one or the other house, and passed finally as the result of a confor- ence of the two houses, was put through by deception and fraudl is manifestly without excuse or justification. The fact is there was no opposition to this legislation from the silver pro- ducers, for the reason that at the time of its adoption and for some time after a silver dollar contained more than = dol- lar’s worth of silvor. In 1873 the com- mercial value of the silver in the silver dollar, according to the report of the director of the mint, was about $1.03, and for thirty-nine years previous to 1873 the amount of silver in the dollar had always been of greater value than the amount of gold in a gold dollar. 0 long as this condition remained the pro- ducers of silver did not concern thems« selves about the coinage of that metal, the number of standard dollars of which coined from 1792 to 1873 being only 7,830,538, Not until the commercial price of silver had fallen so low that it beeame profitable to the producers to have it ¢ d into dollars did the de- mand ariso for opening the mints of «he country to free and unlimited coinage, and the vigor and earnestness of that de- mand has grown with every decline in the market value of silver. The silver legislation of 1873 was as well understood by the silver producers of that time as any that has followed it. There was no concealment or decaption or fraud connected with its considera tion or adoption. But then tho silver miners could go into the market and got more than a dollar for the amount of the metal contained ina dollar, and of conrse they did not want their silver coined. The conditions have changed, aud the commercial valuo of the pure silver in the silver dodar being only about 67 cents, the producers demand the privilege of taking their product to the mints and having it coined into dol- lars at the public expense, they getting all the profit. KEARNEY IS PRAISED. Every man who attended the state convention at Kearney is profuse in his praiss of that enterprising city. No people could possibly have been more hospitable or more attentive to their guests, The'hotels were overflowing of course, but the homes of the citizens were cheerfully opened to the visitors, and democrats and independents united with republicans to make eve-ybody feel perfectly at home. The beau tiful little opera house, whi oats 1,200 people, was packed from pit to dome of course, but Kearney people cheorfully gave way to visitors where it was neces- sary. In short, nothing more could have been done for the comfort of the delogates and theiv friends. Bvery man who attended the convention came back the friend of the metropo itan “Hub” of Nebraska, sworn in his own behalf never to allow anyhody to say anything unkind either of Kearney or Kearney people. Whon the city again asks for a stato convention she will get it unani- mously if the matter 1s left to a contral committee made up from the delegates who have just enjoyed her gracious hos- pitality. Tre factional conflict in the Ohio re- publican state convention was happily settled, so far as the selection of dele- gates-at-large to the Minneapolis con- vention was concerned, by taking two Sherman and two Foraker men. This was undoubtedly the wise thing to do, in the interest of party harmony. for while the Sherman faction was in the majority and could therefore rightfully have taken everything, to have entirely gnoved Poraker might have created a disturbance in the party dangerous to its success next November. As it is the ex-governor will probably be control- able and disposed to be obedient to the will of a majority of the delegation, which very properly will be headed by Governor MecKinley, There was a strong tendency in the convention to instruct for President Hurrison, but having in view a possible contingency in which the name of MeKinley might be presented to the national convention it was decided to go no farthor than a hearty endorsement of the adininistra- tion. The platform is of the robust and outspoken character always to be oxpected from the republicans of Ohio. The delegation to Minnenpalis will un- doubtediy be & unit in support of Har- rison’s renomination, —— OMAHA should not overlook whe im- portance of the people’s party national convention. It will attract thousands from all parts of the country. Every preparation possible must be made to accommodate the crowds which it will bring hither. THE mectings of the general confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church next week may be more dignified, but it is quite certain they will not be more unanimous or more harmonious than the arney republican convention. MAY DAY will see 2,000,000 socialists in line on the continent of - Kurope, and everybody else is praying only that they | may keep in line. The danger is that they will drop out of order into a rivtous mob. —— A Suggestive Conundrum. Washington Post. If 1t is wrong for southern federal of- ficeholders to go to the Miuneapolis conven- tion as delegates, why is it rizht for portn- ern federal ofticeholders to go iu tho same oapacity ¢ e —— Nothing Elso to Polnt At Portland Oregonian, A wajority of the damocrats of Oregon do not really like Grover Clovelaud, but us he was the head of the only democratio udmin- istretion the country hus known within a geuoration it was thought necessary ‘‘tu point witn pride to Grover Cleveland.” - Our Trade with Mexico, Min ster Romerw tn North American Review The statistical bureau of the treasury de- partient of Mexioo has just issued & statis tical abstract of the exports from Lhat coun- try for tue fiscal yoar endiog June ), 1891, It appears therefrom that the United States 1s fast absorbing the Mexican trade. The total exports for that yeur smounted %o $68, 276,95.34, sud the share therein of this coun DAILY try was 844,033 08 wholo. Next col or 71.00 per cent of the ngland, whose share of Mexican productdl is yalued at $10,85%,- 728,33, or 17,20 per-elnt; in the thira placo is France, with the sum of $,0653,531.33, or 5.77 por cent; in the fourth placo comes Germany, with $2,785,874.86, or 4.40 per cent. Populas em, n New Navy. San Frafcisen Chroniele. It takes a groat aeal of persnusion to con- vineo the democratio congress thut the poo ple are determinéd g have a navy worthy of the country. Tho demond has certainly been emphatic enongh, but 1t remains to be seen whother it will nfy be drowned by tho clamors of tho Sx10 demoeratic politicians who are anxious Lo make a bogus record for saving the people's money. . e i Discovered an Issne. New York Tribune. Aftor five months of inaction in Washing tow, and four of action in Albany, the demo- cratic party has succeeded in suvplying an Jssuo for tha presidentinl canvass, That issue 1s fraud in cheating eloctors out of their rights, fraud in steaiing the control of legis- lative bodies, and fraud in providing ma. chinery for unrestricted corruption at tho polls, Glohe-Democrat, Sinoa the passago of the McKinley tarft law our exports have been constantly in- creasing, whilo thosa of ingland have been steadily decroasing, This effectually dis- Dposes of the theory that protection tends to curtail the salo of our products in foreign countries. - The Silver Side Show. Philadelphia Inquirer. It is always best to stick to a definite policy and let the side shows take care of themselves, They never amount to anything in the end, and this is just what the repub lican party will do. Protection, reciprosity and honest monoy are good enough for it. ——— KEARNEY'S HOSPITALITY. ow the Hubites the R Captured the Boys at nt Convention. OyamA, April ¢ 0 the Editor of Tnn Bee: Amid the wrangling turmoil and strife which always accompanies a convention, bo it republican or democratic, county, stato or national, it is a pleasure to recall the happy featuros attending such convention. And I venture to say thut of the many strangers, delegates and others who visited the city of Kearney during the copublican convention few will forget thoe generous hospitality, the kiud courtesy and the solicitude for the com- fort and weifare of their uests displayed oy the peopio of that beautifui city from its big- hearted mayor down to its humblest citizen. Upon ourarrival we marched 1n a body several hundred strong to the Midway hotel, which is known all over the state for its abls management, 1ts bomelika cheer and above all the politeness ef jts manager and clerks. We were informed that the house was full that no more rooms could be had: nothing loft but a few cots. Our fears of having to spend the night inthe open air were, how- ever, quickly dispelled, for we were directed 1o 2 room adjvining the office where wo found acommittee of citizens with lists of many residents of Kearney. who had placed their homes at the disposaliof the committee. Lit- tle boys were in readiness to show the guests to tho place to which they wero assigned and in less than an hogr from the arrival of cur delegation every visitor was under shelter ana L verily Seligve that accommodations could havo beon tound for auother trainload if necessary. ¥ Thy followitig day the visitors wera driven over the city and 'shown its many points of interest; its caal s which furnishes the power to run its electricmotor cars, its elec- tric hights withd wich its stroets aro briiliautly Mghtedw, jts flouring mitls, and Last, and by o medns. least, its immenso cot- ton factory, a vuildiig 403 feet long by 104 feet deep, containing over 500,000 worth of miachinery, all of which is now in the build- ng and rapidly being placed in position. The first thivg o strike a strangor and make an impression is -the brightness and cleanliness of the buildings, botn business and residence, the beautiful displays of tho shop windows, the appearance of prospority in the business quarters of thic city and the elogant residences with thoir finely kept lawns. All these denote that enterprise ard push which bave made Kearney what she 1s today, and all this is combined with u publio spirit of 1ts citizens which loaves so pleasant an_impression of their hospitality. Yours truly, Sot. PriNce. e PAT AND POINTED, Somorville Journal: here are men who mistake the publicity of a patent medicine testimonial for fame, New York Ierald: Trotter—Is that plain looking young person over there one of this sonson’s buds? Kosnlle—She was, into a wall flower. but she has blossomed New Orleans Picayunc: It costs nothing to sign o tomporance pledze.while the bichloride of gold treutment is very oxvensive. Philadeiphia Record Clerk! awhile. Biravo, Mr. Weather Just keep 1t up oo the new tack for TIE QUESTION OF TilE DAY, Washington Star, The sun comes out and sheds agaln His bright and genfal ray But there's a question fri "Tis “has ho come to stay?" ht with pain; Clothier und Furnish ng in the sume apartmen Beaver—No. We had a disag) moved. Molton—What was the troublo? eavor—lle grew 50 stout that I wear his clothes. Melton--Arn't you with Ban:lo ement and I couldn’t ~ Washington Star: “Did you say. data ligtle whisky wonld do'me good? “Yol physic an. tah, ou dingonizo do case ozin yoh kain't ‘skubber a gin symptom? n' seo of Somervillo Journal: Thoseason of the yoar is coming when the boiler-plato and reidy- print newspaper associntions will begin to send out to the enterprisinz pupers they supply articles on “Tho I'roezin: of Water Plpes” and “How to Heat Your Houso Kcon- omlently.” v Columbus Post: A maw's politioal friends arv not wiways tho men he would 1ke to trade horses with, Binghamton Republican: A ment Iy wurped whoho can’t gostralg asaloon, Sl Amorican Farmor: The best mothod for bhandling bees, for yn gmataur, 1s by proxy. Rochestor Post: 1bad debts, liice the Tudian resorvations, ure ogdncto seitloment, e SPRING'S LANT\BORN DARLING, bar Robet, J, Burdette. It is the May-day; By tho air; ‘The sun wbove, Loy brizht it Is. Within my theont Lurks spring-time's note, Aud severid kinds gt {tises: Brouch, tonsll, Iarvnt seve Which the May postssidom eve Sl g8, o How sweet to put o8 bpuvy overaoos i And lightiy “tread,thy lastice yleldiag To »:I"::"x?lm-, »hnq’;‘fi’l"m‘ through the slimy And como out shfe, with bosh goloshes ai“Howory May? tail, snow, wind, rain aud Halt, doctor, bed, and plastors on both feet! ns o the fon er the distant loa vies. from fur The clrens poster blos And, walking s owly Howe' coming ou Lo i The I Haurk. frow thy cloar. It is the shrelil-lippe1 crocus that [ hear. and »wned comedian I see. cackling hen yurd, sharp and By violet hiaunted ways I soo the weed With nose of bioous, and rugs that woo tho sun, With listloss step, and sense of ehronle d, With sudless Journey wlways Just buzun Tho vornal tramp, who sioops, aud eats. and hess | Frow May to Ml Soft buas the na | troos. | The seed mun ombalmed; : Avd plous gardencrs, on beuded kuvos, | THeraten 1n the ground for hooless Lulbs be- oulmnoa. X Ouill iy Usg nighty and raw tho Geful day, Coldus 4 Norwiy bura the bouss; it's My stomac Y man, upon legs. wish supless bicoms, with antique goods BEE: FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 1892, SPOILS NOT THE MAIN 0BJECT Goorge William Ourtis Talks of the Higher Aim of Party Organization, DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS Distribation of Patronage Has Thrown Down the Standard of the Early Citizens ~Monarch Supplanted by Boss— Reform in Sight, Barmimone, Md., April 23.--Lohmaa hall was waoll filled tonight with a brilliant audi ence to hear George Wililam Curtis deliver his appointed lecturo at the annual mooting of the committee of the Association for the Reforta of the Civil Service. Mr. Charles J. Bonuparte presided. Other gentlomen on the stage were Archibald Howe, Dorman B, Eaton and Daua Estis, Boston, Mass.; Rich ard D. Dada, Cambridge. Mass.; Joseph Parrish, I, L. Siddons, R. Francis Wpod and Charles Richardson, Philadolphie Pa.; R. H. Tompkius, Washington, 0. C.; George R. Bishop and Silas W. Burt, New York, and Franklin McVeagh, Chicago. Mr. Curtis was frequently and warmly applauded. Ho spoko as follows: Genesls of an Idea, In the nineteenth yoar of our constitu- tonal union, Fulton essayed with steam to force nis little veasel, the Clormont, up tho Hudson river to Albany. 1t twas an oxpori- meut in mechanics, but’ no more an experi ment than the republic in politics. Inoes- sant cure, comprehensive ooservation, intel- ligenco, discretion, shrewd modification of details, perpetual deference to the hints of exporience, a thoughtful cara which has not yet ceased, all of these have developed Ful- tow's strugeling, doubtful Clormont pushing ita way upon a smooth strcam to Albany in thirty-two hours to the magnificent marine palace that crosses the turbulent ocean in five times thirty-two hours. Much more was nocessary to this marvelous dovelopment than the invention of the steam ongine, and the applica- tion of steam to navigation. Very much more is nocessary to honest government, to the security of iberty, the equality of rights and the general welfare, than a republican form of government. Among the Zulus toduy republic would hardly prosper. In bourbon- ized France o hundred years ago a republic was a saturnalia of wrong and blood. Wen- dell Phiilips, seeing only the cause and the result, the inhuman tyranny that proauced the French revolution, and the relaxed grasp of despousm that followed it, called it “the most unstained and wholly perfect blessing Burope has had in modern imes.”” However that may be from the orator's point of view, the F'reuch republic of 1793, the fierco outr break of a people imbruted by unspeakable oppression, was itself an awful revengo in kind. Kven great as is the progress ana marvelous the recuperative force of the I'rench people, and fair their future pros- pect, the republic is built upon volcauio ground, and may yot reel with earthquake shocks, Opposition of Custom, The uncertain fortane of reform in politics, fluctuating between sudden success and long delay, is well explaned by a remark of Fislier Ames, that *‘the only constant agents in political affairs aro the passious of mon; and oy what Gardiner, the latest and mas- torly “historian of the great civil war in Bagland, says of the Presbyterianism of Prynne, that it enlisted on the side of tho average intellect of tho day, *‘which looked with suspicion on 1deas not yot stamped with the mint mark of eustom: tue feeling which unconsciously oxists in the majority of man- kind, of repuznance against all who aim at lighor thinking or purer living than ara deemed suflicient by their contemporaries, ont shapes n il governments more or leas stifled, controlled or repressed; but in those | of popuiar form, it is seen iu its groatest rankness and 1s truly thoir worst enemy." The experience of a century has jostifled Washington's words. Tha superstition of divine right has passed from & king to a party, and the old fiotion of the Iaw in a monarchy that the king can dono wrong hias becomo the practioal faith of great muititudes in this republicin re- gard to party. Armed with the arbitrary pow. or of patronnge party ovorbears the frao ex pressiop of the popular will and entronches Iself 1d illicit power. It makes the whole avil service a drilled and disciplined army Whose living depends upon ocarrying clections at any cost for the party \which controls it. Patronage has but to cup ture the local primary meeting and it com mands the whole party organization, Every member of the party must submit or ro- nounce his party allegiance, and with it the gratification of “his political ambition, and Auch is the malign force of party spirit that in what seems to him a desperate alterna- tvo he ofton supports men whom ho dis trusts ana methods which ho despises lest his party should bo defeated. Ho takes prac tically the position that party loyalty re quires him to support one party swith bad measures and unfit candidates rather than aud who usually i toe opinion of their con" temporaries, coutrive to miss their aim." Buv existing order cousists always of ideas whidh are stamped with the mint mark of custom, and the hope of progress, therefore, Lies in the ideas which are not yet authenti- cated at the mint. In the legal security of liberty progress has been always effected by reculating tho executive power, which is the fipal foree in all politically organized communities. Tho great chavter, the grand remonstrance, tho petition of vights in England, weroall declar- ations against the arbitrary oxercise of cx- ecutive power, and steadily diminished by jealous popular care, this power grhdually became mainly the arbitrary control of patronage. Birth of the Constitution, Our fathers were ldrgely children of the Englishmen who with great gyves of reform bound the royal prerogative, and the Ameri- can declaration of iudependence 1 logitimato succession from magua charta and tae grand romonstrance was in arraignment of tho abuse of the executive power. Our col- onial politics were in large part a contest over patronage between the royal gov- ervors aud tho colonial legis'atures. Tho de- struction of the statue of George the Third in the Bowling Green at New York, at the voginning of the revolution, was symbolic of the instinctive distrust of exective power by the colonists. The crown was the embiem of executive oppression, and whon the republio began_in the formation of the first state con- stitutions during the revolution tho chief dis- tinction of thoso constitutious was the at- tempted rostraint of that power by distribu- tion botwoen the logislature or the éouncil aud the governor. With the same jealousy the framecs of the constitution in establish- ing the national government limited the ex- ecutive power of appointment. They pro- vided that only with the advica and consent of the scnate should the president apnoint certatn specified ofticers, whilo the convress should provido at its pieasure for the appoint- ment of others. The constitution thus re- serves to the senato apractical voto upon the appointing power and to congress the desig nation of the methods of appointment of all inferior officers, © People Were Supreme. The people hud assumed vheir own govora- | ment, but as they could not administer it di- rectly it was administered by agents selectod by party or the organized majority, but under such restrictions as tho whole body of voters or the people might impose, Tho crown had | | vanished. There was no king or permaucnt axecutive. Thero were s president apd a legislature elected by the people for limited terms. But the practicat agency of the gov- ernment was party and whoever was clected president, party remained in the administra- tlon as permanent asa king und with the same control of the oxecutive power, But executive power, whether in vhe hands of o king or & party, does not changaits nature. It seeks its own aggrandizement and cannot safely be trusted. Bucklo says that no man is wise onough and strong enough to be vested with absolute authority. It tires brain and maddens him. But this which s true of an in- dividual is not less truo of au aggro- gate of individunls or a party. A parly or a wajority needs watching as much s u king, Indeed, that distrust 1s the safeguara of de- moeracy against despotism fs & truth as old as Demosthenes. Liko a sleuth hound dis- srust must follow executive power however it may doubie aud whatever form it may as- sume. It is as much the safeguard of popu- lar right against the will of a party as against the prerogaiive of a king. Distrust is, in fact, the instinctof enlightened politicul sagacity which sees that tho peril of popular iustitutions lies in the abuse of the forms of popular government, Tho wreat common place of our political specgh, eternal vigilauce s Lho priceof liborty, is fundamentally true. It is @ scripture esscntial to political salva- tion. T'be demand for civil service reform is | the ‘cry of tuat cternal vigilance for still { turther restriction of Lho executive powers. Ouly & Step Towards Liberty. Civil servica roform, therefore, fs but another successive step i tho development of liberty undsr law. it is bot eccentric nor | reyolutionary. It is @& logical moasure of political proress. In the light of lurger ex- | perience and adjusted to the exigencies of a republic in the nineteenth cevtury instead of & monarchy In the tnirteeuth and seven- | teenth cecturies, in the spirit of tio | wiso joalousy of thu comstitution, in the intercst of free institutions and of | bouest government, it proposss L0 re | strict still further the executive power as | exercised by party. It is a measure based upon_ tho observation of & century during | which goveramerit by Darty has developed conditions and tendencies aud perils which could not bave been foreseen in detail, aithough &t the begiuniug of party govern weut under the constitution, Washinglon | said of party spirit: *it exists undor differ- risk the success of another party with rood moeasures aud suitable men. Disgrace of the Development. These rosults, howevor, are now evident, What our fathers could nov guess, we can see. Party which is properly simply tho or ganization of citizons who agree in their views of public policy to secure tho enact- mont of their views 1n law, has become what 1s well called a machine, which controls the political action ot millions of citizens, who vote for candidates that the machine selocts, and for moasures which tho machiue dic: tates or approves. Servility to party takes the place of individual independonos of nc- tion. So completely does it consume politi- cal manhood that like men suddenly hurriod from their warm beds into tho night air, shivoring aud chattering in the cold, over wtelligent ~citizens, who have protested against their party machine as fraud- ulont and false, and an orgun- ized misroprosentation of tho party conviction and will, declaro that if their pro- test against tho power of fraud and corrup. tion does not avail and the party commands them to yield, thoy will bow the head and bond the kneo in lovalty to fraud and cor- ruption. The despotism of the machine is so absolute, aud the triumph of the party so supersedos the reason and purpose of party, that we have now reached a point in our political developmont, when upon tho most | vital and pressing public questions, part donot even know their own opinions, and .factions of the wame party wrangle fiercoly to determino by & majority what the party thinks aud proposes. ~Meanwhilo so com- pletely has tha conception of party, ns morely a couvenient but clumsy agency to promote certain public objocts disappeatad, that one of the chiof journals in the couutry remarked with entire gravity, that it found 0o fault with conscientious independence in partios,” which was Iike announcing with lofty forbearanco that as a philosophic mor- alisi, it found no fault with truth telling or houest aealing. 5 From Monarch to Boss. 1f I am tolling the truth, it is plain that when the control of patronage passed from royal prorogative to popular party, tho spirit and purposo of its exercise did not substan- tinlly change. A hundred years ago in Eng- land the king bought votes in parliament; today in Amerfca party buys votos at the polls. The party system bis subjected tho citizen to the machive, and the first great re- source of its bribery fund :s patronage. It is the skillful annual expenditure of sixty mil lions of public monsy in the national arena, aud by that of thirty millions in the munict® pal contests of New York alone, not by edu- cational arguments and appeals to roason, that the machino or managers of parties at- tempt to secure ov maintain- their uscendan- cy. Tammauy Hall defends itself as Hume dofended the king. The plea of bothis the same. The king must maintain tho crown azaiust the parhament, and he can do 1t only | by corruption said Hume. Party is nece: sary, says Tamu but party organization cau te made erfective only by workers, Workers must bo paid, and the patronage of the government, thatis to say the emolu- ment of place, is the natural fund for such payment. This isthe simple plea of the spoils system. It plag every party on a wholly venal basis. Under its control party is o longer a combination of oitizens for public ends: it is a trading company seeking JAhe advantage of the leading partners. 1t is ‘the seliishaess of tho individual, not the pub iic spirit of the citizon, upon which it rests, And this view has varlous consequences, What the League is Doing, We are approaching the third presidential election since tho leaguo was organized. Does | opinion which is _known to were $000,000,000 instead of $50,000,000 1t s not impossible that, in the present develop- ment of the party system, the party of this administration, as of any other, by the shrowd expenditure of that sum micht main- tain ftself in power. But the affence fs not moasured by figures. The abuse of a trust of #50,000,000 is morally as grest as abuse of | atrust ton times as laree, | Permeates All Polities, |, It is not an abuso peculiar to this adminis- | tration. There has ‘beon no administration siuco that of John Quiney Adams which has not done the same thing, It was long dono amid genoral publio apathy arising from the good uatured and caroless focling that it was the natural order of politics, the common law | of parties. It grow un gradually amid gen= | eral " ignorance of its tendoncy | and public indiffererice, The spoll system may piead that although a breach ofthe earlier tradition in national politics, it is really as old in New York | and nearly as old in Pennsylvania | A8 parties thomselves, and that 1t has grown strong with too general acquiescence. HBut | that is only to say that public eviis and abuses do not arrest attention and arouso organizad resistanco uutil they aro seen to bo public perils, That is now distinetly seen, and this loaguo is tne living, notive, ARETESSIve witnoss of the happy awakening of tho public mind to tho fact that the pros- titution of patronage to_the maintenance of party power wmperils liberty today iu a re public no less than the arbitrary will of a King tmperilled it \n & monarehy, - Iour yuars ago as tho prosidential eloction approached, the loaguo stated 1n somo detail tho reasons for its dissatisfaction witn the administration of that timo. It tested tho administration by the simplo standard of re- form, and all that it could say was the scopo of tho classitied servico had boen somewhat sularged and thai the rulos and regulations had boen revised and improveo. It declared that the general party chango in tho sorvico which had followed the inauguration of the new prosident was not demandod by the wel- fare of the service itself, nor by any publio advantage whatevor, and was due sololy to a partisan pressuro for partisan objcots which unfortunately tho president tad not re- sisted. But it will not bo forgotten not only that the party of the presidont had not demanded reform, but that its contrall- ing sontiment was hostile to it Gained by n Change, Tho presont administration came into pow- Cr not with the usual varue olatitudes upon tho subjoct, but with adefinite promise of ro. rm and the distinet plodga to fulfill its plodgos. But it celobrated the succoss of its party with a wild debauch of spoils in which its promises and plodges were the meats and the drinks that were riotously consumed. Novertheless the reform law has beon s faithfully observed as by its predocessor, and the scopo of tho roformed service hus boen greatly enturgod. The secretary of tho navy. in tho interest of the public, and ho could have done his party alsono groator scrvice, has introduced the reform into tho skillea and unskilled labor system of the navy yards. lu his lato speoch in Rhode Is- land, a cavefully and skillfully propared de- fense of the admimstration and the strongest presontation of its claims to public conft donce that probably will bo made during the pending campaign, Secretary Tracy savs: UL believe I am’ justified in saying vhut 80 far as its administrtion 15 con- corned the navy has nover beon treated so little” in tho spirit of a party quostion as 1t1s today: the regulations of the dapartment within tho last vear have eradicated all political considerations from the employmont of navy yard labor,and havo made that employment dépondent alone upon the skill and efficiency of the workmen.” . A more signal illustration of the pructical progress of voform canuot be found, and when wo add to this action of a_republican secrotary of the navy the fact that a demo- cratic membor of the house of reprosenta- tives has unanimously reported from the committes of which ho 1s chairman a bill to mako the order of tho secrotary in ono de- partment tne law in all departments of the government, it is plain thut the beneficent flame of reform of which 1 spoke is in no danger ot extinction. ‘Tho president has also somewhat extended the classified service, and has authorized open_voluntary competi- tions for promotions, whilo the postmaster general had already adopted the prineivle of competitive promotion in his department. Sang of Sue But it s by party a ction, novertheless, that roform must bo secured. Why, then, do o anticipato success{ Becauso party itsolf is finally subject to public opinion, and what- ever the machine may wish 1t is at last oblized to conform to public opinion as a sail- 1ng ship to the wind. ‘There is already a pe- culiarly intelligont” and influentinl reformn opinion, an opinion with independent votes, of which party machines are con-cious and to which they now formally defer. 1t is an public_oflicers, any intelligent observer doubt thav the party | who often sharo it, and, taught by ofticia) ex- of ‘admnistration controling the vast salary | perience the practical value of reform, they fuud of the civil service, which is pra a corruption fund, enters upon the campaisn with an immense but whoily illicit ad vantage ! Lilee overy administration party it is justly entitled to every advantage that arises from a wiso policy, from the houest and eficient 1 p-oduce the peremptory popula couduct of affairs, from strict adhesion to the | relief, promisos by which it solicited public support, aud from the faitaful fulfillmeut of voluutary executiye plodges. advantages the party is entitled. But so far as its administration has expended #0,000,000 | old English write in salaries with a view to the next election and to the continuance of the party in power, 0 far it has betrayed the principle of popular government, because so far it has deliber- ately bougut party support with publio } money. The disposition of that fund was committed to it in trust for the public wel- fare, and everv cent of it which this administration has spent 1o advance a party tically | introduce it cautiously into their administra- tion. Party machines, truculant and defiant, ro- sist, bug iike kiugs, thoy yicld at last to the people. The king whose “arbitrary excesses demand for ordains however raluctautly, a ro- striction that limits bis power. Our appeal is now, 6s 1t has always been, not to party, To all these legitimate | but to the people, who aro masters of party. ons, in_ tho phrase of an cut tho claws of John; as tho English parliament taught terribly iho English kine, that not he, out the Eng- lish peoplo was the sovereign; as the Ameri- can colonies taught tho English parliament, inturn that the American people would rule America, 5o by every law aud custom do- manded by public opiuion, whioh rostrains the arbitrary abuso of exocutive power by party, tho American people aro constautly As the English ba interest has been spent in botrayal of a pub- lic trust. If the navional patronage fund T SBROWNI 8o W. Coruze 15ta Knocking Th beautiful line of | suits, which other two sale 5, We | our own make, cut | not less than $15. Browning, |S. W. ) Open Saturduys tl! 1 p. d__Ouber evenings Ul G 2 weeks ago we sold for a day an $1 G simere with those left from day at the uniform price of $7.50. lined, and retailed all over America Not over 100 suits; come early if you want one teaching American parties that not the par- ties but the people rule. NG, KINGE &5 anld Douslas i = % mgs S Y - sack suit for ) $7.50, and last {2 week we offered ., an iron gray cas- invisible | plaid sack suit at half price. We lhave another ight colored sack the slace on sale Satur- All y artists, fine serge or King &Co Cor. 15th and DouglasSts r—2- e ol