Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1892, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: | (TTTURSDAY. e —————————————————— 5 5 S————————————————————————————————————— ;,I‘I'l]‘] DATLY F. NOSEWATER, Enimr _ BEE. ! PUBLISHED MORNING. EVERY CFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Teiy e (without Sunday) Ono Year. 3 411§ nnd Sunday, One M onths Three Menth: Eunay B Euturd Weckly Ree. Ono L8800 10 00 50 LT ribune Bullding th St reot CORRES DEN OF wiilentions relnting to nows and cditorinl 1d be uddressod tc the Editorial 8 LETTERS. A1l Tusiness lettors and romittances shonld tenddressed 1o The Bee Publishing ‘ Cmaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice 5 10 be made payable to the order of the com- viny. The Bet Publishing Company, Praprietors, EWORN ETATEMENT OF Etatoof Nebraska, Connty of Dowelas, | Georze 13, Taschuck, secretary of The Bee publishing company, does solemnlv swear hat the setunl eireilntion of THE DALY BER for the week ending May 21, 1802, was us fol- Tows: Eundny, May 15, .. .. Vv s or skt SADIS Mond v, May 16, * 2 Auesiag, Mag 17000 Wednesday, Muy 8. Thursday, May 19...70 Fridny, May . Buturdiy. CIRCULATIC Averaze ... f 24,489 GEORGE 1 T28CHUCK, before me and subscribed in my yresence this 218t day of Muy, A, D., 1502, N. P, Frin. Notary Publie April, 24,416, —— e e T democratic situntion seems to bo just betwoen a frequently mentioned person and the deep Titiz Chicago city council has at last got a grip on the Illinois Central. That raitroad is the Union Pacitic of Illinois and Chieago. Tue voters in 1800 had a terrible disease. It was a splenctic outburst of plebiscito lunacy. They promise to be rational this year. Tz World’s fair is now open overy Sunday. Ten thousand people visited it last Sunday and, strange to say, no murders wore committed. TiE young men are forging rapialy to the front. Schurman has been clected president of Cornell and Ives Tias beaten Slosson at billiards JonN M. LANGSTON of Virginia says Harrison cannot carry New York. It would be interesting to secure Mr. Langston’s opinion on Harrison’s avail- ability in Hayti. —_— TaE discreet St. Paul Globe observes that “*people don’t go to national con- ventions to sleep.” Are we to infor that the Twin Cities cannot lodge the visitors to the convention A METEOR crashed through an Illinois house ana Colonel Morrison is positive that it was presidentiul lightning striking in his direction. Tho doughty Willinm has plenty of rods waiting to be struck. THE proposition of Commissioner Carter that the emigrants to the newly opened government land be compelled to ontor during tho first few days by ensting lots would scom practicable and worth a trial. Tho present panic method is certainly the worst possible plan. Tigk Jowa republicans who are seeing the efforts of the perfiffous Clarkson and the Register crowd to poison the minds of Towa against Harrison after the state convention has mat, may por- hapsat last get some idea of the sort of millstone which is hanging arouna the neck of republicanism in that stato. I¥ TiE Paxton hotel can be made to undorgo a thorough overhauling, fumi- gation and refurnishing as a result of the contest between the owner and lessee of the building, Omaha will have no ground for complaint, But what Omaha really needs as much s any one thing is a fireproof Lotel of metropoli- tun dimensions, VERAL of the Methodist delegnues recommend that Omaha should endeavor 1o reduce the quantity of rainfell if she desires to keep puce with her old ratio of increase in population. The surest way to reduce the avernge rainfall would be to keep Mevhodist conferences at long range. The conference of 1888 brought down twenty days’ steady heavenly perspiration upon the citizens of New York, and three weeks’ outpours ing from the clouds which Omuha has enjoyed for the first time in her history would seem to justify this precaution, I 15 now a settled fact that the work of paving our streets will not begin be- fore the 15t of August, just soven months after the new city government was in- augurated. This experience would scarcely justify the holding of city elec- tions in November. Thore was some cuse for the delay of public improve- ments until midsummer when our city aloctions were held in April, but it does soem incomprehensible why all the time botween January and June has been wasted in preliminaries, and finally all the arrangements made by the Board of Public Works have to be sot aside, ———— OuR local contemporary the World. Herald has favored the people of Ne- braska with a meager and chestnutty reproduction of the proceedings that at- tended the transit of Nebraska from territorial to state governmeut on or about the 1st day of March, 1867, when tho formal admission of Nebraska into vhe union was proclaimed by Andrew Johnson, then president of the United States. All these historic facts and data, together with a complete review of the history of Nebraska’s advent as one of the states of the union were published by TiE Bek on the silver anniversary— Mareh 1,1802 But this is about as near 18 our wide-awake contemporary usually somes hopping along behind the pro- cossion on ull similir ogousions. VAN WYCK'S VAGARIES General Van Wyck is a man possessed of more than ordinary intelligence and information. He has been in public life ars and has had amplo oppor tunity to familiarize himself with the lending economic issues and especially the history and condition of pur fonal financos. He is not one of those pro- fessional agitators who roam over the country spouting finance and talking glibly of millions and billions when in fact they have never owned a hundred dollars and could not manage a peanut stand without going into bankruptey. neral Van Wyck has a large experi- ence as a successful financier. He has amussed & small fortune by judicious in- vestments in bonded securities and lands that have appreciated in value. Ho is therefore one of the best equipped men in this country to discern the dif- forencebetween a sound currency and a debased currenc; The relations of free silver coinage to labor, discussed dispassionately as an economie issue, would afford un inter- esting as well as an instructive topic for America’s breadwinners, The address delivered by General Van Wyck at Den- ver bafore the Knights of Labor not only failed to touch upon the vital points in the text, but is inaccurate and mis- loading. Instead of enlightening the toilers as to the bearing of free coinage upon wages, post of living and inerensed demand for workingmen, General Van Wyck has simply rehearsed exploded stories about conspiracics British monay-londers, and harped upon the al- loged wrongs that were perpetrated upon the union soldiers when they were paid off in greenbacks while the cred- itors of the nation have been paid off in gold. This contrast between the treat- ment of *‘the gunholders and the bond- owners” tends to evoke sympathy and resentment, but how does this incident of thirty yenrs ngo concern the wage- worker of today? Would free coinage redress the in- justice which may have been inflicted during the war upon the men who wore the blue, and would free coinage restore to the treasucy a single dollar that has been paid to the bondholder in excess of what he would have received had he been paid off in greenbacks? General Van Wyck knows as well as anyvbody does that the bonds issued dur- ing the war have been taken up long ago and the bonds now out were hought with gold or money exchangeable dollar for dollar in gold. The agsertion that we are dominated by England is the veriest bosh. The commercial depression which is as- sumed to have been the direct result of the British conspiracy to demonetize silver in America is not confined to this country. Fngland, Germany, France, Austria, and ull Burope, for that mat- ter, have sxperi n:ed o general decline in prices and stagoation in nearly every branch of industry. According to General Van Wyek: *‘Labor only prospers in the sunlight of universal freedom, when trade and en- terprise are free in all their channels; whon money, the life and spring and source of all indvstries, is pulsing warm and strong in all the arteries of busi- ness.” That is a beautiful sentence, rounded off liken poem. But what would be the effect of universal free trade upon American labor? Suppose you let down the tariff bar and let in the manufactured products of cheap lubor from Burope and Asia, how long would most of our mills and facto- ries continue running? Why has the MeKinley tariff created sucha panic all over Europe? Does General Van Wyck propose to deliver America’s toil over to the tender mercies of the British? The most unseemly thing of General Van Wyck’s address is his fling at Pres- ident Harrison. He told his audience that: “We stand far inside the line where Gen- eral Harrison, grondfatber of the llustrious prosident, stood when in his first inaugural in glowing language he pictured the dangers of & purely metallic currency aud insisted upon paper. Jackson and the elaer Harrison were in favor of free coinag why are not Cleveland and tne grandson! Don't you cloarly seo an effort to chango tho policy of the government (" General Jackson may have been in favor of free coinage, but the free silver advocates can get no comfort by any comparison of the coinage of our day with that during General Jackson’s term. General Jockson became presi- dent March 4, 1820. During his first term not a singie silver standard dollar was coined although the coinage of sil- ver dollars was free and unvestricted. In his second term there were just 1,000 silver dollars coined alltold. During the first year of Benjamin Harrison’s term there were coined $21,726,811 in stan- dard silver dollars, and the total coinage of silver dollars and subsidiary silver coins for 188) and 1890 nggregates $40,204,498; while the total gold coinage during the same period was only $3,101,03 In other words, with free and unlimited gold coinage and limited silver coinage we have coined 813 in sil- ver for every one dollar in gold in the United Stutes mint during 1889 and 1800, The contrast between Jackson and Harrison us regards coinage is so glar- ing that no free coinage mun should ever allude to it. It may be interesting for General Van Wyek to learn that it was during Gen- eral Jackson’s term the government ran short of specio and pressed France to pay the indewmnity claims of American citizens. his payment,” says an his- torian of the time, “‘took place and was received at this juncture very oppor- tunely in gold.” It mayalso be re- marked jgeidentally that about the time Jackson retived from the presi- dency thore wasa disastrous collapse brought on by wildeat banks and reck- loss lund speculution. The following extract Lrom his- torie records of the time is instructive: *The farmers had nominally sold their produce well, but they had taken pay in bank paper which the revulsion left valueless in their hands. Several hun- dred banks were swopt out of existence, but there remained an immense load of debt due by individuals, to relieve, whom congross in 1841 passed a bank- rupt law, The oparation of the law re- lieved 89,000 persous from debts to the amount of $441,000,000. Tho disasters involved the failure of several states, with au aggregate debu of §100,000,000, The banks that wore liguidutod had an aggregate capital of $200,000,000, so that the total of legaily repadinted debt amounted to #741,000,000. The debts that wero settled without the intervention of the law were osti- mated to be oqual to those legally discharged, so that the total losses ag- gregated nearly $1,500,000,000." This chapter of American wildeat financier ing tenches its own lesson. As to Grandfather Harrison little ¢ be said. He wns president just thirty days and if he had any policy on the currency issue it did not materialize. One thing is certain. General Van s appeal to the American people wive the good old times of 1830 to , by favoring schemes of inflation currency tinkering, does not promise very much prosperity to the working people. APPEALS FROM THE FLOOD DISTRICTS. The condition of the people in the flooded districts is more serious than 1t has beon reported heretofore, and ap- perls for aid are boing sentout from various parts of the country afflicted by the prolonged season of rain. The chairman of the relief committes in Louisiana has asked President Harrison to aid the efforts that are being made to relieve the destitute colored people of at state who have been driven from homes by the floods and loft in a condition bordering on starva- tion, Governor Fifer of Illinois, after a personal visit to the flooded dis- tricts, has issued a proclamation call- ing upon the people of that state to contribute liberally for the sufferers. Governor Boles of Towa has issued a similar proclamation in behalf of the homeless and dostitute of Sioux City It appears that the plain truth in re- gard to the nceds of the localities af- fected by the floods has not been freely told, and that the peonle are much worse off than than they have been willing to admit. In Sioux City, for e ample, the number of families homeless is now placed at 1,000 and the number of destitute at 5,000, and yet it is only a few days since the mayor of that in reply to an inguiry from Governor Boies, telegraphed that the damage had boeh greatly overestimated and that the people of Sioux City cotld take care of themselves and have enough left to build a corn pulace. This now seems to have boen only a piece of huncombe, de- signed to muke the outside world be- lieve that the prosperity of the town had not been intorfored with by the water, Governor Boies mates that 200,000 will be reguired to repair the damage and give homes to the home- less. In many localities ulong the Mis- sissippi river and its tributaries people who had not much to live upon beforo have now been redused to hungoer. They will have to be helped immedi- ately by those who are more fortunately situated. There ought to be a quick response to these appeals for aid. The condition of the sufferers is one of pres- ent and urgent need and the wholo country should respond to the call for help. Small contributions from many pockets will make up large totals, and the work of collecting such conteibu- tions should not be delayed. A TAMMANY MAN TALKS. Charles F. Peck, the New Yorlk state labor commissioner, has been in Denver, and while there he did some talking. As n demagogne Peck is one of the most brilliant successes of the age, but he is not much of a prophet. He says that Hill will be nominated at Chicago. It is his duty to say that, because ho owes his fat office to Hill. Moreover, he is a Tammany man, and no man with such affiliations could be expected to boom anybody but the great Tammany senator. Cleveland is not in it at all according to Peck. ‘“Harrison would carry New York despite all efforts of Mr. Cleveland should he be nominated,” he says, and “Cleveland would be beaten by nearer 100,000 than 50,000” in that state. Tammany, says the commis- sioner, is the foundation of the democ- racy of New York. and Tammany, he intimates, will jump on Mr. Cleveland ith both feet if he is nominated. The only interesting thing in Peock’s remarks on this subject is his declara- tion of the purposes of Tammany in the event of the nomination of Cleveland. He is close to Hill and knows what the latter’s plans are about as well as any- body aoes, and he is fresh from the field where the proposed butchery is to take place. His statement of the case agrees well with what THE BEE has said con- corning the outlook for carnage in New York. Of course the hatred which he expresses is mutual, The Clevelana men are as savage, though perhaps not 50 boisterous in their tulk, as the Hill men. Let the exercises proceed, — CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE “The twenty-first quadrennial session of the general conference of the Moth- odist Episcopal church will close today. The conference assembled May 2 and was expected to remain in session until the end of the month, but the vigor with which business has been pushed and the decision not to elect any more bishops at this time have enabled it to reach an earlier adjournment than had been anticipated. A great deal of work has been accomplished, and while some matters presented to the conference will not be acted upon, the record made will compare favorably with that of any pre- cediag conforence in the importance of the action talken. This conference will be memorable in the history of the church for several things, prominent among them being the separate seating of lay delegates. The adoption of the rule soparating the ministerm! and lay*dolegates was not strictly observed in this conference, but it is to bo presumed that it will be in future, Another important action of the conference was the decision not to receive any more government money for the support of Indian misston schools, it being held that the plan of government assistance of religious teaching among the Indinns is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, which requires the ab- sojute divorcement of church and state. Without proposing in this connection any general veview of the prozeedings, it may be noted that amwong the more interesting results of the deliberations of the conference wero tho adoption by & unanimous vote of the report con dewniug the unjust trestwment of the colored peopls of the south, the accept- ance by & small majority of the report reaffirming the position of the church regarding temperance, the defeat of the effort 1o abolish the time limiv on pas- torates and tho rocognition of the Ep- worth league as an nuxiltary dopart- ment of the h,to be uader tho supervision of the genoral conforence As all interested have already beon in- formed through the reports of the con- ference, the condftion of the church is on the whole highly satisfactory, though in some of the older cities of tha country its progross is somewhat slow. Socially and morally Omaha has beon largely benefitted by the conferenco, nnd a very large number of our people who have enjoyed the parsonal association of its mombors, with a much larger num- ber who have profitted intellectually and spiritually from the peivilege of listening to the learned and eloquent delegates, will rogret that tha. close of the session is at hand. As to the mem- bers of the conference wo believe that very generally thoy are well pleased with their entertainment and will have none but kindly words in their distant homes for the hospitality of Omaha. Inclement weather during most of the session of the conference has interfered with their comfort, but they understand that this locality has not fared worse in this respect than other portions of the country. The meoting hero of this groat logislative assembly of the Methodist Episcopal church is an event in the his- tory of the city which will long be mem- orable, and it will undoubtedly be of groat advantage to that denomination in thig section. Insaying farewell to the conference, lot us hove that every mem- ber will return in health and safoty to his home, prepared to take up with re- newed zeal and energy the work he has to do. chu ——— HIGH-PRICED STREET LIGHTING. The Thomson-Houston Floctrie Light company has accepted the proposition of the council and agreed to furnish thir- y-eight arc lights at $140 per annum each to burn on an all-night schedule 1n addition to the 100 lights for which the city is now paying $175 a year each, and they generously also eoncluded to make the sume price for the thirty-two lights that have been added since the fivst hundred were contracted for. The council has voted to award the contracy to the Thomson-Houston com- pany, although another company which will be ready to supply light within ninety days offeved to furnish the same service for $120 per lamp. This is the price now paid by the city of Lincoln and is supposed to leave quite a margin of profit. Noy let us see what the city will have to vay for electric lamps during the coming year if the new contract is en- toved into: 100 lamps at $175 a year, $17,500 70 lamps at §140 a yen 9,800 Total ... . | At $80 a year, which would be a fair price, the city would be paying $11,200 ayear, or a margin of profiv for the electric lighting company of $16,100 per annum. : For $27,300, at 330 n lamp por year, tho city would have 841 clectric lnmps instead of 170. In other words, we would have double the number of lamps for the money we are to piy,or if we were sup- plied with electric lights at a reasonable price the taxpayers of Omaha would save $16,100 a year on the 170 electric street lamps. At $30 a lamp per year, which is reasonable for an all-night gas lamp service, we could add 536 lamps to the number of gas lamps now in use for the $16,000 which the contract with the Thomson-Houston company gives in oxcess of a fair price for the 170 lamps. ‘We would like to know as a matter of curiosity whether the councilmen who voted for the proposed contract and es- pecially the committee on gas and eloc- tric lights have ever taken the trouble to figure out for themselves the differ- ence between the price wo are paying for electric lamps and what we would save if the light was furnishad on u fair basis and at a price which the council has a right to fix for franchised electric lighting companies under the pro of our charter, DANIEL Wi wanted to bo pros- ident all his life, but ho threw away the only chance he over had when he re- fused the vice presidential nomination with Zachary Taylor. There is a losson in this which is woll worth considering by ambitious statesmon. Aswalling His Verncity, Philadelphta Record. How can Mr. Blaino's friends complain of his enemies that they do not tako him at his word? L Crowding the Messenger oy, Chicago Times Two generals of the United States army, a job lot of wheelmen and & number of nows- paper correspondents have demonstrated that it 13 possiblo to send a messago a long dis- tance by bicycle in s littie less time than would be required- to dispatch it by canal boat, A e wia's Artless Dodger, Minneapatts Tribune. We fear Clarkson 48 an uncertain quantity, Mr, Thurston of Nebtaska tells the public that ho was av_the Alzer conclavo in Dotroit and counts him as/wn ardent Blaino mav. Pu the other hand'Mr, Loech, director of the mint, has a letter/trom him declaring bis deyotion to Harrjigy and predicting his nomination. On the: whole we better wait till he votes before we sot him down as dead sure for anybody. Life More Valgiahle Than Property. San Frapelieo Chronicle. In view of the congtant increase of trafiic op railroads it would be an excellent :dea for evory state to adoyt laws providing that when the trafic between certain specified polut of importance, or, on the entire roads within the state, if that snould be deewed MAY 26, 1892 expediont, had reachod a cortain limit—that 18, 50 many toos of froight or o many pas- songers transported within a certan time— the railrond companies shoula be compelled to double track their roads, and when a cor- tain other increase was made to lay a third track. The states certainly have ample power to establish such general regalations and to enforce them, for th lifo of citizons und the security of thelr property are supe- rior toany rights which a common carrier may deem to have becoms vosted, either by Iaw or by custom or usage. COMMENT ON THE CONPERENCE. “Cincinnati_ Commereiat: The Methodist general. conforonce in Omahu has been attendings to business during fts sitting of three weeks and soon will be ready to adjourn. ‘Tho ministers will probably get home in good time to arrange for thelr sum- mer vacations Dendwood Plenser: Omaha, at present the sceno of the genoral Mothodist conference, is busily preparing for the national inGependasnt convention, which will meet in that city July i next. The people of tho Nebraska mejrop olis will doubtiess note quite a difference in tho change from tho sublime to the ridiculous about to oceur, Philadelvhia Press: Whilo the actioa of the Mothodist conforonce at Omaha with re- gard to the Epworth league, the Christian Endoeayor socioty and the various other young pecple’s associations did not specifically make the first named the only true Metho- aist league, the tendency is evidently in that direction. Started at first as a wholly un- sectarian movement, the organization of the sociaties of Christian Endeavor amnong the young people in all the various denomina- tions soon gave evidenco of a tendency to divide on lines of special beliofs, and as a re- sult the Methodists, for instance, developed the Kpworth league as a church organization, although the Christinn Endeavor societies had led the way and stood the egg on end. As a result of church encouragement tho league numbers 400,000 Methodist yourg peo- ple and the Methodist Chrisuan Endeavor societies 200,000, Under tho influence of the church oficers, howaver, it is likely that in time the latter organization will become ab- sorbod 10 the first, This growth from unsec- tarian into church socioties is likely to be re- peated all along the lin, It is a curious com- mont upon the ery for church aad Christian unity. aal g NEBRASKA TERPRISE, Gothenburg Captures a Boston Fae- tory. Boston Globe: Unusual excitement has boen caused in Camoridge by the report that the brass and copper plant of F'red H. Holton & Co. was to remove to Gothonburg, Neb, This has been contradioted by Cambridge papers, but a Globo raporter has thoroughly investigated the matter, and it is a_positive fact that Gothenburg has secured this promi- nent industry, and that Mr. Fred H. Holton will shortly” becomo a permanent resident of this new and wonderfully favored wost- ern town. Boston and Cambridge capital- ists aro becoming deeply interestod in the possibilities which Gothenburg, Neb,, offers because of its immense water power, aud during the last week theso gentlemen have formed a syndicate which has purchasod a largo block of real estate on very favorable terms. Some of them have also baen enabled to secure from tho owners somo of this wator power stock, and will shortly visit Gothen- burg with a 'view to larger and moro oxtended investments. -Several Boston manufacturers arc now considering the question of follow- ing in the footsteps of Mr. Holton, The 1dea of water power existing on the wostern plains at first seoms absurd, but the natural push and enterprise of wastera mon has secared to (fothenburg one that will rival those av Holyoke, Lawrence, Lowall or Manchester. COMING EV. Decoration day. The World's fair. Farewell to the ganeral counference of the Metnodist church. The formal opening of thenow homo of the Pittsburg Times, Tucsday, May 31 Exposition of the Manufacturers and Con- sumers association in Omaha next month. Aunual encampment of the Natioaal Com- peuive Drill association 1 Owaba, Juno 11 0 20, The oreanized laborers of Cincinnati have decided to erect o magnificent building at a cost of §200,000. It will be furnished with all of tho couveniences for the transaction of business and with facilities for amusement and recreation, George W, Jones, 83 years of ago, now a residont of Dubvque, In., and formerly a senator of the United States, 1s to_raceive a vension of #20 a month in consideration of services rendered by him as a drammer boy in the war of 1512 and as aide-de-camp to Gonoral Doage in the Black Hawk war of e il RIB-TICKLERS, Washington Star: L' said the man who was besting the drum, “Illustrate the fact that actions are louder than words," Dotrolt Free Press: Mabel—I had a hand- S0me young man at my feet yostorday. Anmy—Yes, 1 noticed you had bought a pair of neiw shoes. Puck: “And now." said the Gotham host, as he roso from the dining table, “will you stcp ingo the drawing room and join the lndle _“V/ith pleasure,” responded the guest from Now Orloans. wiys attend thodrawings With great rogularity.” Kate iold's Washigton: Mrs. Borkeloy- 5—80 Evelyn Purseful 5 going to marry Count Ardappl Herkeloy-Jones—1 supposo sho expects to husbund her fortun Cloak Review, When coasting on the shore, beware Of reofers and of oupes, When they are worn by summer girls OF most entrancing shupes. Dallas News: The toddy is the stirring event of the toper's ex Philadelphia Ledgzor: When o rain storm comes up suddenly it 18 apt to come down thut way, too. Dinghamton Republican: The more peppery & i 18 tho 1053 ho thinks bo is 10 bo sncersd at. Philadelphin Record: Tho most exaspor- atlog insect of the present month Is the Prosi- dential Muy-be L TS THE DEBUTANTE. James G. Burnett in Seribner's, 1 blush, 1€ 1 100k in the mirro; Lsigh. while I do up my hair: Whenever I'm told that'T am b Lwonder it some one will care. 1 start i ho speaks to mo quickly: I tremblo ut taking b liand, While he only murmurs, *Good ovening." Why 18 it nien can't understand? L wish I couid tell if he 11ked mo: He's exactly the siame to us nll Tonlght ho took me to the germun— Ho'il tuke Bell to the fancy-dress ball, O, T hope he don't know that T like him: I'm afraid that I must have seemed bold When Tsuid that I “loped Le'd call shortly;" Well, 'm sure 1 don't want to seom cold. How royally handsomo. this ovening, He lookod 1n the midst of those men The rest were but shudows boside hiw. Ob, Lwish I could bosr him agaln Say he hoped that [ “wasn't too tired," 8 tho wiiltz's last strains died awuy, Ob, weroy! What nonsense I'm thinking! 1'wonder what mamma would suy. 1 thought he would teel my hand tremble, Whai e offered ta button wy glov Ob, 1 know that he doesn’t suré for me. Heigh-ho! 1'm afraid I'ni in love. Highest of all in Leavening Power,~~Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl Baking ABSOLWUTELY P?’!vugler Opinion of a Kansas Oongressman on the ' Presidontial Situation, SILENCE IS HIS ONLY RECOURSE Represontative Fanston Thinks the M from Maine Was Sincere in is Declination and Has no Dosire To Take Further Steps. Wastixaroy Buneav or Tar Brr, | 513 Fovntrryti STR Wasinxoroy, D. C., May 9. “I verily beliove they aro the enomies of our party, the democrats themselves who aro pushing Mr. Blaino most vigorously to the front for the presidential nomination just now,” said Representative Funston of Kansas this afternoon. Mr. Funston Is one of the most influential republicans in the far wost. Ho was chairman of the committee on agriculture in tho house, is & farmer and stands close to tho rural republicans. e sides ho hails from a stato whioh has long been the bauner Blaine stato and is now a warm friona of the distinguished statesman from Maine. Mr. Funston continuod: “Harrison's has been the cleanest and _ strongost admiristra- tion since Washington. With him at the head of our ticket again we can bo aggros- sive, whilo with any other man under tho ciroumstances wo will bo on the dofousivo. Mr. Harrison 18 the strongost man in_our party, not excepting Mr. Binine. He carried New York in 1889, whilo my good friena from Maine lost it in 1584, Thore will be no mugwumping on Harrison. [ have boen a friend of Mr. Blaino for o long timo and amn friend of his now, and as his friend it pro- vokos me boyond mensura to observo his old- time encmics attempting to puv him i the unfortunate attitudo of writing a secoud lot- ter, oither taking back or aMrming tho stato- ments mado in his letter to Mr. Clarkson. It must be borne in mind that aftor tho streot tatk fof tho pnssing days has disappoarod from the public mind ontirely tho letters written by Mr. Blaino in connection with important events in his life will survive and become a part of his porsonal history. Mr. Blaine's Only Cou ““Whon this fact is considerod it at once becomes obvious that Mr. Blaino can neither retract what he has safd nor reaftirm it. Re- traction would beequivant to positive proof that the chargos of duplicity and _insincerity herotofore so emphaticaily wmade by Mr. Platt and his associotes against Mr. Blaino wera advisedly made. It would be equally unfortunate to reafirm what has been sid. Such reafiirmance would presuppose ques: tions as to his voracity in the publio mind and when his history happened to be writts it would indicate that in_his last days Mr. Blaine was oppressed by the hallucination that somebody was constantly trying to forco him to bo president, and inspirod by this con- ceit ho continued t0 write o series of lottors protesting that ho would not aecept. “Again, under existing conditions, accopt- anco of the nomination by Mr. Blaine would be so offensive to a large number of ropub- licans whose party afiliations ace ot ef tho strongest that his defeat would beinevitable. Presidential Qualifications, *“There are many peoplo who believe that the president of the United States should be, above all things, frank, candid, honest and vruthful, Should Mr. Blamo allow himself to become & canaidate or encourage his own nomination or accept tho nomination he would obviously be open to the charge that his lotter to Mr. Clarkson was written for the expross purpose of deceiving the presi- dent and his friunds to the ond thut he might remain 1n the councils and confidenco of Mr. Harrison up to the date of tho couvention. No friend of Mr. Blaine is willing to believe that he is capablo of such infamy'; however, such insiuatious are in pe:fect keeping with the previous action and state- ments of many of the men who ure now seek- ing 0 have Mr. Rlaine stultify himself and they are charging by innuendo for their own selfish purposes at this timo the very things they have been charginy, directly or indi- rectly, against him t{hroughout his political carcer. Silence is Mr. Blnino’s only protec- tion from his enemies, the enemies of the re- publican party who soek merely to use his namo to conjure with, regardless of the ter- rible consequence to Mr. Blaine's reputation should ho prove to be what they hope he may prove to be.” How Harrlson Might Be Defeated. Colonel Willlam Coggswell of Massa~ chusetts is an influential republican member of the house. Ho was olected mayor of his bome city, Salem, for quito & uumber of yoars and ‘each time re-elected over his o0p- ponent by an ovarwhelming majority but ouce, when ho was defeated, his defoat being the result of the circulation 0f & cruel_false- hood. On the day of his election Colonel Coggswell was very ill with diphtheria. Av noon a report was circalated over the city that the colonel was dead. His friends, fooling it was useless for bim, cast their bal: lots for another man. Before the report could be negatived he was defeated by an overwhelming majority. Colonel Cogswell does not believe Presi- dent Harrison’s renomination at Miuneapolis can_ bo defeated except by somo such methods. If arash is made for Mr. Blaine, it will bo founded on some rumor quite as baseless. Speaking of tho outlook for the convention Colonel Cogswell said this after- noon: ‘Judging by the sentiment in my section of the country the renomination of President Harrison 18 not only cxpected but WORK OF BLAINE'S ENEMIES wishoed for. The friends of Mr. Blaino, and they aro very many, have taken his lettor of declination as finai and they do not expect bim to come oat cvery day n the papsrs ana assuro the pooplo that ho meant what he said in his lotter, nor will thoy chango thoix ows until something equally authoritativ comes from him which they do not expect, for ther do mot thiwk “ho would troat them, notwithstanding thos who are onposed to Harrison ure endeavor ing to lead the people to beliove Me. Blain would writo one thing ana mean anothor, | beliove Harrison will bo ronommnated for tho reasons above stated, to-wit: That tho great masses of the ropublichn narty are oxpocting it and wishing for it and whon the people start in such mattors thoy gon- orally have their way, however much (he solf constituted managers of tho party iy oppose it. Representative Burrows' Views, Representative Burrows of Michigan has for along period of vears boon one of tho loading republican members of tho committea ou ways and means. He was prominent in the compilation of the tariff of tho lasy congress aud took special intorest in the rociprocity teatures of the He s0 distinguished bimsolf in that respoct that Mr. Blaino delogated him to make a reciprocity speech ata oston business wen's banquet a fow months ago. Mr. Burrows suid this aftornoon to T BEE correspond- ent, in speaking of the presidential nomina- tion outlook: ““The administration of Bon- jamin Harrison has not been excellod for ability, ntegrity or gonoral strongth by any administration of recent times, and I may add at any time within the history of onr country. It is absolutely above criticlsm, Prosidont Harrison has beon fully abro with his party i all tho great issues it has espousod, aud in his domestic ana_foreign policy he has given tho Amorican pooplo groat cause for pride. If renominated, wo will have nothing to dofend or apologize for and will dofy all assaults from the onemy from any quarter.” Miscellaneous, Senator Pettigrew introduced a bill today providing that all that portion of tho Fort Randall military roservation lying witbin South Dakota may bo selocted at any time within one year after the approval of thosur- vey by tha tate as a part of lands granted to it undor the provisions of tha statehood act. Mrs. Senator Kyle of South Dakota an- nounces to her frionds that sho will not va ablo to receive calls for soveral months on ac: connt of the arrival of a littlo daughter, A. B, Cady was today appointed postmas- tor ot Amos, Dodge county, vice W. F Mann and A.'A. Simms at Thompson, Joffo son county, vico J. D, Mastors removed. Senator Manderson has securea daly mail service on the Stuart-Butto postofiico route. “Thore is a petition on filo in the Postoflico department to change tho site of the Lona postofiice in McPhorson county to the rosi- denco of George Sellers, Sonator Manderson will_roport favorably a bill to relieve John H, Wacker of the Sec- d infantry from a stalo old charge of tech- cal desertion during the late war. 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