Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1892, Page 4

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" George 1, Tischuck, secretary of The Boo publisninz’ company, does solemnlv swoar that the actual eireulition ot THE DALY BER for the weok ending May 21, 102 was as fol- lows: Eunday, May Mondny. May . o beforo me and s his 2ist day of Muy, A, D. Average Circulation for April, 24,416, JAY GouLp’s latest captures are a Kansas railroad and the rheumatism, —_— THIS little period of sunshine is merely an interregnum between the May floods and the annual June freshets. E—— Tur Methodist conference will be especially noted in history for the ques- tions which it discussed aud did not decide. THE local weather bureau kindly in- forms us that **Monday was a warm day in Nebraska.” So kind! It's always a a pleasure to be told what you already know. COLON 1ster to Spain, is entitled to the credit of the American pork’s re-entrance into Spain. Evidently Mr. Grubb's first name is Barly. “HORIZONTAL BIL again talked of for the democratic nom- ination for President. Mr. Morrison will be remembered as the nuthor of the most idiotic and illogical tariff bill ever devized. THE Presbylerian convention at Linte Rock is discussing whether it is the church’s duty to educate young men for the ministry. If we may judge from the number who do not follow the seminar- 108" teachings, it would notseem its duty nor 1ts benefit, — IN BEUROPE they are censuring the Dencon trial jury for couvictifig Mr. Deacon and in America they are censur- ing it for not ordering him to be hanged. Tuis clear that French and American morals are noton the same plane, for which thank God, Tue democrats and independents in Soutia Dukota are going to fuse, the in- dependents getting the stato ticket and the democrats the presiden‘ial electors. This is always the way. The democrats always lot tho other fellows huve the glory while they get the pap. FEW of our people realize the extent of the great National Competitive drill to be held here on June 13. Over 100 of the crack companies from all over the south, east and west will be here and the event will call thousands of strang- ers to the city. All ‘arrangements for the reception of the companies ave prac- tically made MR. BitKHAU! 11 be known here- as Man-Afraid-of-His-Shadow. aturday ho roarved like an enraged lion against the revocation of the ten- year guaranty paving regulation. On Monday he was as mild as a sucking dove, and ready to fall right in with the scheme to relieve the paving contract- ors from compliance with his specifica- tions. —_— THE dispatches announce that Sioux City has indigaantly refused the 810,000 contribution proffered by the saloonkeepers tothe relief fund. This . is, of course, an absurd blunder and must rofer to some other place. Sioux City is in Towa, and everyone knows that there can be no saloons in that state because there is a stringent law aguinst their existenc 1718 the deliberate judgment of the Chicago Inter Ocean that **we have had » tolorably damp spring,” but that *the season hus not reached the cataclysmic degrreo of dampness.” A cataclysm s a sort of deluge, as we understand it, and the Illinois and Iowa farmers whose lands have been under water are to be congratulated upon having escaped any- thing of that kind. It has merely been u dump spriug. ‘THE recent speech of Lord Salisbury on free trade hns stirred up quite o tumult on both sides of the Atluntic, A pleasing comparison may be made with that of anothor confessing English statesman, Lord Gothard, almost seventy yoars ago. He said in parliament: “I'ree tradeis nothing more nor less than an attempt of this country by means of our great advantages 1n manu- facturing to geta wonopoly of all the markets for our manufuctured products aod thus preve ! them from ever be- coming manufaciucing nations.” This is clear and frank, Anpd the object nimed at then and ever since has been to seduce America to allow Fnzlund’s wares free entrance into our ports. The attempts failed because the people never believed whully, or long, in the sophistries of free trade and the speech of Salisbury 1s an acknowledgwent of the failure. The two speeches are corvelative and a history of the whole plot BEE. | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE AMBITION OF ALGER. General Russell A. Alger has an in- ordinate desire to be president of the United States. For the past six years he has lost no opportunity to let the country know of his ambition. Before the meeting of the republican national convention of 1888 he had himself an- nounced as a candidate for nomination, and his name was presented to the con- vention. His highest vote was 122 out of a total of 781. The country has not forgotten the scandal connected with the efforts to obtain votes for Alger. The friends of Senator Sherman, and if we are not mistaken the senator himself, publicly charged that Alger’s money had been used to buy the votes of south- ern delegates who were pledged to Sher- man, and we do not remember that the churge has ever been refuted. At any rate, n great many republicans who were in a position to know what was going on believed and still believe that the friends of General Alger, with or without his knowledge—and presumably the former —bought outright for cash in hand many of the votes he received in the convention, and yet he got but little more than one-sixth of the total vote, showing that he had no strength with the unpurchasable delogates. This matter alone is sufficient to ren- der Alger utterly unavailable as a pres- idential candidate. It is absolutely certain that he could not earry Ohio, for no friend of Senator Sherman in that state would vote for him,und the influence this fact would exert in other republican states would undoubtedly be disastrous to the party in oral of them. With such a leader the party would be put on the defensive, and its fight from the beginning would bo a hopeless one. But apart from this, General Alger has no claims to a nomi- nation. Until recently his strong point was his military record, but this has been shown not to have been above criti- cism, Unquestionably he did good ser- vice, but his retirement from the army left a cloud on his record which his ex- planation of the circumstunces does not efface. His record as governor of Mfchi- gan was not marked by any evidence of excoptional executive ability that en- titles him to consideration above a dozen othor republican state executives who have never been thought of in con- nection with the preside He has shown none of the qualifications which a man should be required to have in order to occupy the highest office in the re- public. General Alger is several times a mil- lionaire. His woealth, so faras we know, has been acquired in legitimate and honorable enterprises, though it has been stated in so public a place as the senate of the United States that he has been indentified with one or more mon- opolistic combinations, which if not un- lawful were of the class commonly re- garded as boing hostile to public policy. But, however this may be, it is Alger’s wealth ratker than any personal quali- fications or fitness that gives him availability with the men who are en- couraging his presidential aspirations, In their desperate purpose to aefeat the renomination of President Harrison, these men would not hesitate to corrupt delegates to the national con- vention, and Alger is theonly man seek- ing the nomination who has a ‘‘barvel” that can be drawn upon for this purpose. It hardly need be said that a nomination bought outright would e repudiated by tho rank and file of the party. The republican party cannot afford to enter the race of 1892 under o lead of a standard-bearer who ie even suspected of having obtained his nomination by the purchase of dele- gates. Not only will his movements and those of his friends be closely watched, but every delegate who votes for him will subject himself to the sus- picion of bribery. The candidate of the republican party must be a man whose record needs no defense or apology, and who has no alli- ance with any cabal of boodlers. THE SECOND TERM OBJECTION. Of the twenty-three presidents of the United States seven were re-elected— Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon- roe, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant. The effort in 1880 to nominate Grant for a third term developed nn overwhelming popular opposition, and the failure of the effort probably settled for all time the question of eligibility to a third term in the presidency. Is there any considerable popular sentiment against asecond term? Ex-Speaker Reed, Sen- ator Quay and some others assert that there i8 and that it is steadily growing, and they urge this as an objeetion to the renomination of President Harrison. They cite the fact that in half a century no man has succeeded in being re- elected to the presidency with the ex- ception of Lincoln and Grant, and from this they conclude that popular senti- wment is opposed to a second term. Hence it would be unsafe for the repub- licans to renominate Harrison. But these enemies of the president overlook some important considerations in connection with this matter, and in doing so0 very greatly weaken, if they do not entirely destroy, the value of their historical fact. It is manifestly import- unt to remember that since 1840 only threo prosidents have been renominated, and that of these but one—Cleveland— failed of re-clection. The weight of argument in this fact is obviously not favorable to the positions of those who oppose the renomination of the presi- dont on the ground of popular hostility ton second term. But looking further into the history of this matter, it is found that generally the party refusing to re- nominate its president has been beaten. Examples are furnished in the olections of 1844, 1848, 1852, 1860 and 1884, The Springfield, Mass,, Republican, in noting these facts of history, say: S0 fur, then, from proviug the pownt of Reed and Quay, the historical arguwment proves, il it proves anything at all, that the republican party would be incurring greater datger in rofusing to renominate Hurrison thun otherwise. The whole force of it is agaiost theenemies of the administration. Iv is & boomerang that comes back squarely at thum so far as it is capavle of hittng any- thing. It is all in support of that other view which the anti-administrationists are scout- ing, that refusal of a party to renominate its president for & second term amounts in the eyes of tho country to & repudiation of bis administration, und an expression of a waut of confidence 1n the ability of the party itself to give the country a successful administra- tion. Nothing could better show how on- tirely upon small personal grounds rests the opposition to the president. The assumption that there is any widespread popular sentiment nguinst a socond presidential term is groundless. The principle has the highest possible sanction and ought to he respected in every case where n president has been faithful to his great trust and loyal to the policy of his party. It is not to be doubted that the republicans made a mistake in 1884 in not renominating President Arthur, who had given the country a most ereditable ndministra- tion, and there is a lesson in that for the party this year. Not only is the historical argument against the oppo nents of Harrison’s renomination, but, what is more important, the desire of the mnsses of the republican party is against them, ITINKRACY STILL STANDS. The Methodist general conference yesterday disposed of the question of the time limit of pastorates, which has been regarded ¢ one of the most important subjects discussed. The party opposed to the romoval of the limit won tho bat- tle by sharp work in securing the adoption of the minority report, and the conservatives, who belieye thas frequent changes stimulate the spiritual life of the church, will now rejoice. That there are two sides to the itin- eracy question is shown by the fact that after years of debate the church is still divided concerning it. Perhaps no other matter of church policy so closely concerns the rani and file of the people or arouses among them so much interest as this, And it is not alone a question of interest and concern to Methodists; its reach is as broad in every ‘commun- ity as that of the social being of the pastor himself. The people in general, whether Methodists or not, like to have their friends stay with them, and it1s needless to say that a Methodist minis- ter’s circle of friends is bound to be large in any community to which he may be assigned. The inevitable itin- oracy, which is soon to take from Omaha s0 many conference delegates, to whom our citizens have in a short time become attached, is regretted by the people at large, without regard to creed. The Methodist minister does not belong altogether to his church, and if everybody could vote on the sub- ject the time limit would be abolished by a tremendous majority. G IN THEIR OWN LIGHT. Six years ago an effort was made to procure for Omaha an extensive system of parks and boulevards by creating a park commission and giving that body ample power to secure by purchase or condemnation such lands in the city and suburbs as were most suitable for a chain of boutevards and parks. At that timo the real estate boom was at its height and speculators were staking out all the farming lands within twenty miles of the town into additions to Omaha. Some of theso kite-flying real estato dealers got it into their heads that the parking scheme would interfere with their wildeat operations and de- prive them of o chance to earn com- missions. So they turned in with the roustabouts and corporation lobby that were fighting the new charter before the legislature because it contained a local railroad taxation clause and helped to knock out the park provision. Within less thun six months thereafter the real estate excitement subsided and then it began to dawn upon the bat-blind specu- lators that they had dealt a fatal blow to suburban real estate values by de- feating the park propositions, which if carried out would have taken reveral thousand acres of land out of the mar- ket and made all the lots and lands ad- jacent to the parks and in the suburbs generally m ore valuable and salable. And now}a prominent real estate specu- lator, who has made a handsome nestegg out of railroad right-of-way deals, comes to the front with an attack on the Ne- braska Central project. He propounds eleven sepurate questions, whioh sim- mered down in a nutshell assert by in- ference if not directly that the Nebraska Central subsidy is to gointo the pockets of Jay Gould, and that the Union Pacific road is a silent partner with the Ne- braska Central and has no disposition to lay o straw in its way. If Jay Gould and the Union Pacific are at the bottom of the Nebraska Central project, why are they locating the new Union Pacific boilerhouse right across the path of the proposed Nebraska Cen- tral bridge? Why was there no objection inter- posed by the Union Pacific director who sits on the Board of County Commis- sioners to the provision embodied in the Nebraska Central proposition which bindy that compacy and its assigns for- ever to permit any railroad coming in or out of Omaha to use the tracks, terminal facilities and bridge at reason- able ratesin the face of the fact that the Union Pacific has refused the joint use of its bridge and facilities to othor rail- roads, and is now in the courts, at the instance of Jay Gould, trying to cancel the contract mude with the Rock Island and Milwaukee roadsby Charles Francis Adams? We must sy, if Jay Gould and the Union Pacific are really behind this Ne- braska Central project, they are playing a very deep game. IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE. ax-Secrotary Whitney says that he 18 going to Chicago in the interest of peace. He is the first democrat thus far heard from who hes committed him- self to the interest that will bo most in need of promoters there. But possibly Mr. Whitney does not realize how lonely and miserable a peacemaker will be when the warring elements of the dem- ocracy assemble vo nominate a candidate for the presidency. The traditions of the party are all against his program, and it is many years since the democrats have made such elaborate preparations for catting throats and raising the mis- ohief generally as they have during Mr, ‘Whitney’s visit to Europe. This is not due to the fact that he has been absent, but rather to the fact that Mr. Cleve- land and the silver question have been present. It is interesting to note in this connec- tion that there is serious talk in some quarters of selecting My, Whitney as & WEDNUSDAY, MAY 25 compromise candidges. This reminds us of the celebratdd compromise that was effected in the gase of the husband who wanted dn,,-‘h.r a domestic pet and the woman who insisted with much warmth that it sjould be a cat instead. They vnmpunms: x?nn the cat. Mr Cieveland is an¥$fponent of Hill and free coinage. Thprefore the Cleveland men are willingf if need bo, to com- promise with theif oppononts by agree- ing to support Mr. Whitney, who stands as a ropresontative of everything that Cleveland represdpts. It is this spirit of self-sacrifico :} disinterested Jdevo- tion to the intergdls of the party that is going to make things lively at Chicago. I1 1S the opinion of the New York Advertiser, which views the political situation from an independent stand- point, that this is not a democratic It can see no signs that the demc party will be uble to elect its candidate for president. Local elections through- out the country have been unfavorable to the hopss of democracy; the cons uous incapacity of the democratic ma- jority in the house of ropresentatives has weakened popular confidence in the party; its devotion to free silver has had a demoralizing effect upon it and in every way it has impaired its claim to popular support. “Tho democratic party,” remarks the Advertiser, *‘seems to have cut its own jugular with cold and ignorant deliberation.” 1t has,and nothing else was to be oxpected from the men put forward to shape its poli and define its principles. The leader- ship of the democratic party has never been wealker than it is now, and the fact that some of the men who were thrown to the surface by the political upheaval of 1890 have gone to the front shows the voverty of the party in men of sterling qualifications for leadership. The only hope for the democracy in the national contest is in some grave blunder by the republicans at Mianeapolis, and there is no great reason to apprehend that any serious mistake will be made there. With a united and harmonious party thero is every indication of republican success next November in the election of both a president and house of repre- sentatives. Mr. HarTcn, chairman of the house committee on agriculture, expects to got tho anti-option bill before the house this week. That gentleman appears to be sincerely interested in the proposed legislation, but it is not so apparent that his party colleagues in the house genarally sympathise with him. The prolonged delay in reaching this meas- ure is naturally to be regarded as un- favorable, though it is believed that if action can be hadon ft it will pass. U doubtedly the préssure from commercial bodies in opposition to the bill has been very strong, that from the southern bodies especially exerting a decided in- fluence, but there is ap agricultural con- stituency represented-in the house which it would be dangerofis to the majority party in that body tdjignore. Just now the producers thamsélves may feel less concerned about it than they would under different conditions, for with prices mounting rd from natural causes the speculdtor has no terrors for them. Howovery these conditions will not always prevall, and the time will come when the proposed legislation may be useful. An any rate, as has been said before regarding it, even if it should fail to accomplish all that is ex- pocted the exp:riment is worth trying. S0 LONG as we have a Board of Public Works its supremacy regarding pave- ments, paving materials, seworage and public improvements that come under its scope should be sustained by the mayor and council, excepting in cases where incompetency, reckless waste or collusion with contractors can be proven. If the law creating the board is wrong, if the powers vested in it by the charter and ordinances are too sweeping, then the law must be repealed or the powers revoked in the due process of law. If any individual member of the board ex- hibits rank partiality or seeks to dis- criminate against one contractor for the benefit of another, it is the duty of the council to arraign him for misdemeanor and have him removed from the office. Confederate Spitework. New York Advertiser (dem.). Tivo ex-oonfedarates in the houss—Kilgore of Toxas and Herbert of Alabama—defeated, the other day, an appropriation of ,000 for a podestal fora monument to General Sher- man, which the peoplo of Washington City propose to eroct. How did this help the democratic party? Historlo Court. Abandoned. New York Tribune. Neither the governor of North Carolina nor the governor of South Carolina was present at the Meaklenburg celebration, Had they been, the known abstemiousnoss of the orator of the day would have furnished a new occasion and added emphasis for the historic interchange of ceremonious cour- tesies, New York Commercial. Rotail coal aealers have anuounced a rise of 25 cents a ton In the price of coal. Retail purchasers hivo been payiog it for a month. And Attorney General Milier of the United States tolls congross that ho has no knowl- edro of It except from the public prints and public rumor. ThéA whav has become of the congressional committee that was appointed to Investigate this maiter! And whore is the interstate railro: mmission it ostin, N 3 Of course the people of the United States and the majority eleeengress will assent to the annexation of the Sandwich islanas whenever that med§urg;is seriously brought forward by authorized persons. There are somo things that ke ealghtened press of foreign countries may consider as predeter- mived in this county, Without the formality of o preparatory volp eigher ln congress or at the ) olls, and one gf these is the manifest dest' .y which in the maturity of providenco is bound to briug various outlyiug rogio districts, istands and peoples into the Ameri can union, _— - Swashing the Long Haul, Detrott. Free Press. Unless the suprema vourt of the United States has more agility in hair-sphittiog thun we credit it with its receant decisions as to the sale of ‘‘party-rate” tickets by the Bal- timore & Ohio rallroad knocks the effec- tive portion of the iuterstate commerce law into smithereens. Thecase lnvolved the right of the railroad in question to sell party-rate’ tickets—tickots, that Is, t0 parties of notless than ten persons, . lower rale per person than that charged for TWELVE PAC asinglaone. Tho sale was attacked as an “unjust discrimination’ within the meaning of tho intorstato commerce law, but the court beld that it is not such discrimination uny more than the sale of mileage or excarsion or commutation tickets. “A man ES. may sell,” the court says, “‘oneapor at wholo- snle than at retail;” and a railroad may do the same; and this salo of party tickets at a lower rato than singlo tickets is merely a salo at wholesale. * = * But if this is done what beoomes of the “long and short haul" clause, which is about the only thing of any valuo left in the interstate commerce law?! Cortainly if the companies can dis- criminate in favor of the wholesale purchinser of freight transportation that particular clause is loss than a “‘rove of sand” to vind them in the intorests of the farmer. It looks as it the traditional “conch-and-four” has teen driven through the interstate enact- ment. POV —— o and 1 Ph ladelphia Record, The floods in the west hare not been so destructive ot human life as was the sudden downpour that swept over fated Johnstown, in this atate: but the destruction of property has boen greater than even in that terrific visitation, The worst feature of this form of calamity is the inability to provide against it and the ceriainty of future visitations of even greater soverity. As tho population shall increaso along the river courses, and tha forests bo cut away upon tho headwaters of tributary streams, tte buik of life ana property to be destroyed and the volume of water from melting suows and protracted rainfall will alike contribute to make dis- aster more appalling. 1t does not seem to be an enginecring possibility to confine the waters of such groat streams as the Mis- souri and Mississipi within their banks. e Every year et two the country is saddenod and the markots deprcssod by news of great floods along our western rivers. The losses aro reckonea in tens of millions, moving pictures aro drawn of tho misery and despair in which thousands of sutferers sit amid their ruins, and a general sense of imoending bankruptey is diffused. But succeeding events refute gloomy auguries, and the com- mon prosperity is continuous. Naturoe re- pairs her own ravages, and though the process is noted only by those whom it most intimately concerns, and perhaps is only haif uppreciated by them, the final result may be found by those who look for it. Individuals and loculities doubtiess often suffer a not loss, but tha goneral welfare is not infrequently enhanced by occurrences which seem to mean nothing but disaster. Fire the Pretenders. Chicago Herald, The committee having in charge press nc- commodations at Minneapolis has been cour- ageous und judicious 1n resisting spurious pretensions at the republican national con- vention. The press committeo of the demo- cratic convention in Chicago should exercise like discrotion and independence. The seats assigned to tho press should be allotted on only authentic credentials from a known publication. Place should be given only to veritable writers namea by the paper that employs them. —_— RENOUNCING FREE TRADE., Pniladelphia Inquirer (rep,): There is no sonse in trying to hide the meaning of his bis words, Freo trade admits its defeat. It is a crushing blow to.the free traders of this country, but it 1s both timely and deserved. New York Evening Post (ind.): The gods must bave finally determined to destroy Lora Salisbury’s government. He is prcne to mako troublo for his supporters whenover he delivers a speech, but his performance at Hastings vesterday was an almost incredible piece of political folly. Denver News (dem.): Lord Salisbury's speech in favor of retaliatory protection has aroused ap intenso sensation in Great Britain. The provosed exclusion of Ameri- ©can manufactured goods by a high tanft is a vid for the workingmen’s vote for tha tory party in the coming Eunglish elections. New Yerk World (dem.): Lord Salis- bury’s tariff speech is regarded in England as oneof those bids for votes which will get them at cost of losing a ereat many more in other quarters. The sentiment of English constituencies in favor of a free commerco is strongly founded in experience of its bene- tits, Chicago Herald (dam.): The democratio national convention in this city next month is not going to take its motto from the stupid leader of the stupid party of Great Britain. We have accommodated British intercsts .long enough in our economio theories. The ‘American people spoke their convictions on tariff in the last congress election. New York Morning Advertiser (dem.): It is only fair to Mr. Blaine, however, to admit that he stands where ho has always stood. Lord Salisbury has come over to his ground. It is acharmidg thing to see harmony be- tween two statesmen of international impor- tance, who have 80 long stood 1n juxtaposi- tion beforo tho eyes of the English-speaking world. Philadelphia Record (dem.): Nothing that could happen outside of the United States would be so disastrous to the trade of this country ns a reversion on the part of Groat Britain to a policy of protection and isola- tion. Wo could batter afford to sacrifico all other foreign trade wo have than to 10se our hold upon tho Englhish markots, But there 18 no danger. Philadelphia Pross (rep): Lord Salis- bury’s specch shows how hopeless the cause of free trade has bocome wheu the premier of England declaros it a failure, Yet there are those who propose that the United States shall adopt a polioy abandoned in the homo of its origin, which fifty years have proved o miserable failuro in promoting the prosperity of the house of its friends. Philadelphia Ledger (rep.): The Unitel States can enjoy o tariff, bacause it nas all necessary rescurces within 1ts own boun- daries; England cannot have a fair-trade policy against this country, because she is dependent upon it for hor people’s food and her manufacturers’ raw material. This is the situation there and here as itis presented by the head of the British ministry, and it is not a theory but an actual condition, THE WAY T0 WAX FAT. Lowell Courlor: A poem that fs always sure of a murket—tho lay of the Lon. Dallas News: The fixed star s ono thathas @nough money to settlo down, Boston Commer: 'he lard refiner never knows whut he cn until ho tries, Elmira Gazotte: Jagson says it Is proper to wish tho anxlous candidutes muny Lappy re- turns on election duy. Boston Transcript: Patient—0, doctor, you don’t know how v worrles me to think that [ might be buried alive. Dootor—Unlm yourself, Mrs. B. You need have no feur of anything 1iko that. Trust to me. and I assute you that you are In no dunger. Tho Misslssipp! 18 flood- " replied the St Louls man, “what we peoplo’are trying to find out is how all that Waler §ot pust # prohibition state like lowa." LAMENT OF TIE SEASON, Chicago Times, Little drops of watof, VFalling every day, et roal ostate w-moving Tn a lively way. Lattie deeds of parchment Aro all have to show For the acros by the river That we ownod a Week ako. Somerville Jowrnal, A man strove hard for famey Long years he worked, Btruggling Lo make a name, No tusk he shirked; And when at last he died A sculptor went And cnrved, his faults to hide, A monuwent. Apother man strove hurd | To help m nd. From happlo debarred, e tried to find Bome way to sucoor those 11l 1 disgrace. He died; and no one knows s burlal pisce, FIRST BALLOT FOR HARRISON Leading Rapublicans Declare the Presi dent's Renomination to Be Assured. WILL FAVOR A BIMETALLIC CONGRESS Explanation of the Silvor Situntion In Eng- land—Bankers Inelined to See the United States Met Half Way Immediatoly, WasniNeToN Buneau or rie Brw, 513 FourtreNT STaee Wasnixaroy, D, C., Mas I fully expect the Minueapolis convention to ronominate Presidont Harrison on the first ballot. e merits a second term and | sm confident that tho republicans as a body aro determined that tio shall serve the coun- try again. If it might not be consirued by somo into a criticlsm of other presidents I would say that General Har- rison has mado tho best prosident wo evor had. Thoro 1s mot & wenk spot about him.” Thoso were the words chosen by Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin to oxpress his views this aftornoon upon the outlook of tha republican national conven. tion, Senator Suwyer was ono of the origl- nal Blaine men in the northwest and is at presont an ardent admirer of tho distin- guishod secrotary of state. Sawyor continned: I havo no idea that Mr. Blaino will bo nominated under auy condition of circumstances, Such a stop would bo emineutly unwise. Ho wroto a letter tor tho purpose of taking his name out of all cousideration for the nomination. He meant what ho said and T do not believo ho could b persunded to_accopt the nomina- tion. Ho s a momber of Presi- dont Hurrison’s cabinet and after writing that letter and remaining in tho cabinet 1t would bo very improper for bim to nccept the nomination, No, sir, the nomince will bo President Harrison! Ho gave us a strong nead for our stato cam- paign four years ago and we can sweop W consin again with him, With him we can mako au_aggressive and progressive cam- paign. From the start be would grow stronger, whilo I fear that under the presont conditions we would have to do a great deal to defond Mr, Blaino and that he would grow weaker as a candidato as tho campaign pro- gressed. But wo must take Mr. Biaine at his word aud consider him out of the presi- dential question.” Phere was & very perceptible diminu- tion of tho Blaine gossip at thoe capitol to- day and it was noticed that tho anti-Hurri- son talk nad waned anazingly, while any number of the best informed and most promi- nent men in congress unhesitatingly an- nounced it s their betief that the opposition to the president’s renomination was moro noise than anything else, Views of Leading Republic enator Proctor of Vermont, a very con- servative man, said: *'A vigorous opposition can make a héap of notse sometimes, 1 ro- ward President Harrison's renomnation as certain as anything in politics. T cannot make myself beliove that under tho condi- tions Mr. Blaine would aceept the nomination, much less ocquiesce iu the nomina‘ion in ad- vance, had he any notion that he would bo nominated, We have never had a better president, viewed from apy point, and the opposition, as a faction, grows weaker and weaker when inquired into. With such a candidato the party is perfectly at ease, It has an abie and clean man and one who can be aggressive to any deeree,” Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, who so recently won such a magnificent victory in a popular election before his constituents,said : “It will be Harrison on the first ballot al- roady. I sce a very perceptible decrease in the agitation against him. No, Idonotthink Mr. Blaine's name will be presented to tho convention, and if itshonld be I do not be- lieve he would be nominated. If nominated 1 don’t think it would be wise, all things considered, for him to accept, and I bave no idea he could be induced to accept the nomi- nation.” @''President Harrison has fulfilled every promise he made four years ago. He has disappointed no falr minded person; he is acceptable to the Pacific siove, a thorough American and & woll equipped statesman, and I think our peoplo will support him," ] nator Mitchell of Oregon, who is the hinese leader in congre +1 can see no reason why he should not succeed himself,” continued Senator Mitchell, “and I may add that 1 fully expect to see him renominated, Oregon is a strong supporter of Mr. Blaine and he has a host of enthusi- astic admirers all over the Pacific country, but at the same time there 15 no good reason why those same people should notasenthusi- astioally support Harrison. Ho has not fallen short of their expectations in any resect. Thea it is very well known that Blaine aoes not want the nomination, and I don’t think that any man who reatly knows his physical condition would insist upon his acceptance. ‘We havo success in full view with Harrison at the head, and I am for victory, first, last and all the time.” Ropresentative Dingloy of Maine, a life- long friend of Mr., Blaine, says this: “President Harrison, in my judgment, will be nominated at Minneapolis on the first ballot. Biaine meant what he said in bis lettor declining the use of his name in the convention and <t is the understanding amoni his true friends that he would not accept tha nomination if it were tendered him. It's not treating Blaine fairly to doubt his sincerity by saying he would accept.” Sllver Situation in ngland, Hon. John C. New, former treasurer of the I tosink. A seam had been started United States and now consul goneral at London, arrived in Washington last night and returns on Saturday to England. 1 met Mr. Now this aftornoon and had an interesting talk on the silver situation in England, Mr, Naw said in his honest judgment a satisfao- tory solution of the probiom was approaching, ““The assurance of & himetallio congress in England thoroughly aroused to the pressing nocessity of afirmative action is in itself & great triumph,” said Mr, Now, “but the certainty of results with happy promise to our sil ver interests and to ail commoreial in: terosts everywhere is still more a mattor for congratulation. I came directly from London and | assure you no offorts to sup: press the rising tide in Eugland in favor of oimetallism will succeed. “Hero is a olipping from the London Stan- dard giving a report of a bimetallic moeting hold 1n Egyptian hall, Look at the namas: Samuel Lioyd of Lloya’s, Sir T, Sutherland aud othors of that stamp demanding in most forcible resolutions immediate acceptance of tho United States' invitation to the confor- once, an action which will make a fixed ratio betweon gold and silvor. When I tell vyou that at last the directors of tko Bank of England are alarmod at the narrow basis of fluancial operations through gold alone and are joining others in urging bimetallism, you will' gain_some idoa of tho pressura brought upon England to join the United States jn the first practical movement to: ward internatipnal bimetalllsm whioh we have had sinco 1873, ‘Do I beliove there will bo substantial res sults! Just as thoroughly as I believe & stand bore. 1 beliove that the outcome of the coming conference will be hailed with ap- plause not only by our groat republican west with its important mining intorest, but by the whole country which will bo correspond- iugly benefited,” Miscellane Tho judgment of tho commissionor in_the timber culture contest of Holena Plota against Johu Lompka, from Abordeen, S. 1., has been affirmod. Hon. G. L. Godfrey of Des Molnes, Ia., momber of the Utah commission, and Arthut L. Thomas of Salt Lake are at tho Riggs house. The senato today passod Sonator Mander- son’s bill douating to tho city of Siduoy, Nob,, twenty acres of Fort Sidnoy for come* tory purposes. Governor Thomas of Utah and W. E. Annin of Nebraska have beon appointed dol- ogates Lo tho national silver conference, which convenes here this week, . Osborn was today nppointed post- master at Hale, Madison county, vioo J. J. Dauiel, resigned; W. J. Smothers, Mineoln, Holt county, vico C, L. Bright, resigned; A. B, Stott, Holtman, Holt county, vico A. 1. Shipman; Harriet A. Saenston, Alpine, Uinta county, Wyo. Assistant” Scoretary Chandler today d missed the timber culturo contest of C. C. Bowles aguinst 1. L. Ricaards, from McCook. Tho assistant secrotary of the interior has ordered o readjudication of the additional townsito case of ox rel. tho mayor of Coal- ville, U. T, exparto end remanded the case back to the local oftice. P, S, fors with the 1 D. C, May New,consul genoral at Lond of the day at the whito house, New Co W ASHINGTON, John a port tdent eneral SUBMARIN Two Tests of the New Gun Which Did Not Provo Successful, New Yonk, May 24. —Two more shots wore fired under water yosterday at the navy ds in continuatlon of the tests of the csson improved submarine gun and tor- pedo. At the first shot there was a mufiled explosior, the surface of the water in a groat circlo around the bow of the Destroyer bubbled and sesthed violently,but twenty feot beyond the vessel there were no signs on the surface to show the course of the projectile until its reappearance at the upper end of the dry dock as 1t floatad to the surface. Tho vessel recoiled violently, but the rop: prevented it from going back more than & fow fect. On raising the nets 1t was found that the airection taken by the projoctile had not been satisfactory . The first net was piorced at a distance of five feet below the water level, showing that tho projectile roso two feot in the first 100 feet of its course, for tho gun is soven feot below the surface, It had also deflected from its proper horizontal courso and gona three feot north. When the other nots wers raised they showed no marks atall of the passage of the projectile and i was concludod that the shot had passed underneath the nets, The secona shot was moroe successful in one respect—that is, it pierced each of the five nets, llut it was not an accurate shot by any means, and the rl'c)ucliln took an erratic course, bemg deflected many feet from the proper direction, both horizontally and vertically. Oficers were holding the ropes which hold the first nots, which are 100 feet apart from each other. They found that it required one-half a second for the projectile tostrike the first net, 100 fest from tho qun. The second net was struck in 1 seconds after the dischurze, aud the thi net, 800 fect from the gun, Was struck in 31¢ seconds. The projectilo appoared beyond the sixth net immediately afterwaras. This latter net was extrenely heavy and too sirong for the projectile to piorce. Iuwas concluded that it had either passed under ide of it. The projectile came to the surface. as it had been designed to do, but it soon began to fill with water and by the shot. The erratic course which the torpodo took was shown when the nets were raised, The first not was pierced 5!¢ feet from the sur- face, the second 6l¢ feet from tho surface, and the third 7 feet from the surface. = SBROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers and Retailors of Clothing in tl It's the Gospel Truth Tha't_v&so_]_d all b 405 suits in all, abou ho World, ut nine of those $18 Suits for $7.50 long before night, Satur- \day, and so many iwere disappointed that we're going to give them another show. We've taken all the broken lots, t 30 different kinds, and from 1 to 15 suits of a kind, compris- ing every popular fabric, size, color and style, and made$5 lots on the frontcounter at $7.50, $8.50, $10, $1 2.50 and $15. These suits are worth and have always hereto- fore' been sold by us for a great deal more; some for twice Browning, o give our eraployes thelr evenings, wo oloso Wt 0:8) p. ., excopt Saturdays, at 1) p. m. as much. King&Co 1S.W. Cor. 15th & Douglas Sts.