Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE WVERY OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE BITY, THRMS OF 8U Datly Do (without Sandny) One Vear.. Daily nd Sunday. One Vear... oo, ¥ Filny e, One Yorr Weckly fles, Ona Year... Omaha, The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha, corner N and 26th Streets, Connell Biuf 12 Pearl Street, Chioago Omice: 317 Chambor of Comuo New York, tcoms 18, 1¢ and 15, Triune’ 1 ‘Washington. 513 Foarteenth Street. CORRES RNCE. 4 All_communioations rolating 1o nows an editorial matter shiould e nddressed to the ¥d- itorial Department. BUBINESS 1. A businoss lotters and remitts ndiiressed to Tho Beo Publishing Compat Drofis. chooks and postofics orders to payablo to the order of the company. The Boe Pab shing p many, Proprietors SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etato of Nebraskn, l County of Doiigins. | ** e 1. T otary of The Bea Pub- muly swear that the act- BEE for the weck w y. Omal bo ma ending May Bunday, May 22 M Average.............. GEO! £worn 10 bofore mo aud subse his 25th day of May, A. SEAL. Average Circulation for April, 24,416, ———— e ONLY ten days more and all this cruel agony of suspense will be over. A LONG pull, a strong pull and o pull all together for Omaha will restore con- fidence and prosperity. — I 18 said that there will be fewer “gpecial mastors” herealter. Sheriff Bennett fully concurs in this dictum, — e THE county commissioners ought to hold more than one meeting a week so long us our finances are in such a tangle, A urrrne more work to straighten out the affairs of the county on the part of tho Real Estate Owners association is in order. NoOW let us have no more jugglery and scheming about the paving. Let the contracts be awarded just as soon as the law will allow. Tii Boies boom is too wenk to swim the rvivers on the east and west aad it can’t help itself to any extent by run- ning north or south. Tue World-Herald has told us all about tin, but it has negiected to name single articte of tinware that costs more 1n vhis city today than it did three or four years ago. OuT of the many important projects that are now under way or incubating in this city and county there must of necessity come a great impetus in the growth and progress of Omaha. THE new naval program just adopted by Russia calls for the construction of twenty-four new 1ron clad war vessels. Aud yet the rest of the civilized world is feeding Russia’s starving millions. THE beneficence of public parks.was {fully illustrated in Omaha Sunday and Monday. There was a great outpouring of people. It is said that the screet rail- way company is in favor of more parks. ALBANY, N. Y., has a society of col- ored mugwumps who chargo all the ills which have befallen their race to the republican party. The atmospbere of Albany appears to be conducive to in- sanity. SENATOR TELLER, it is said, was so hostile to Mr. Blaine in 1884 that he voted for Mr. Cleveland. The political Judgment of such men counts for nothing nnd their counsel never should be lis- tened to. A WRITER in the Contemporary Re- view is trying to write down Bismarck. Jt cannot be done. The Tren Prince is RS great a man as Germany ever pro- duced and the history of the' reunited German empire is a biography of the chancellor himself. THE annual inspection of the Omaha police force seems to satisfy the public generally that the force is in good con- dition. One of the best things about Omaha policomen is that they are not officious and offensive, and these are un- usual things to say of a policeman. 1 THE farmers of Douglas county have B vital interest in the success of the Ne- braska Central bridge project. Its consummation will bring about an ad- vance in real property and the price of neighboring farm property advances mpaco with that of city lots and lands, ADVICES from all parte of Nebraska report vory satisfuctory crop conditions, The delay, in farm work, caused by the weather, has put everything behind, but. this will not be a very serious matter if now the wenther shall continue good. There are no discouraging sigus in the present outlook for Nebraska furmers, — THE rapid progress that is being muade with the preparations for the June exposition gives assurance that overything will be ready ut the date of opening. The promise of this exhibit s such as to warrant the highest ex- poctations. It will unquestiouably be tne finest thing of the kind ever held in Nebraska. THE eonveantion of demoerats held at Byracuso toduy was a very enthusiastic one. The anti-ring democrats arve evi- dently determined to assert their rights before the convention at Chicago. The platform is filled with the usual denun- eiavion of the republican congress, which is done simply to show that they are democrats, nnd it also contains a signifi- cant and pointed rebuke 1o Mr, Hill and his crowd. The force of that great meeting will necessitate Hill’s retire- ment or defeat, although if may not make the nomination of Cleveland im- perative, PENNY AND POUND FOOLISH. Those who oppose the Nebraska Cen- tral project becausa it will help( to im- prove part of the city in which they have no interest should bear in mind that overy improvement in any part of the city benotits tho whole city and con- tributes toward raising property values and recacing taxation. For instunce, the building of Krug’s new brawery near South Omaha will in- divectly henefit property owners near Fort Omuha, because every substantial improvoment that employs labor and eapital and makes a permanent invest- ment helps to raise the standard of Omnha asa city, and creates an addi- tional source of revenuo for the ity by increased roceipts from taxodt It dves not matter in what part of the city any permanent structure is located, the part of reveriue which it contributes in the shape of taxes decroases in proportion the taxation of other property inevery part of the city. Anothor thing that should be borne in mind is that property values are rela- tive. If lots on Iarnam street sell for $2,000 a front foot, lots on other business stroets will command values that are gauged by the standard vepresenting the highoest value. And this is true of evory foot of ground in the city as well as of every nere of farm dand in the neighborhood of Omaha. If farming 1unds within five miles of the postoftico are selling for 8100 an , farming lands within ten miles will, ull things being equal, command a price propor- tioned to their respective distanco from the center of the city. Now the price of ¢ lots and lands within a radius of nty miles from the city is governed by population. words, the value of real estate in and around a city of 150,000 popula- tion will certainly double with the doubling of population. 1f by any groat project Omaha can raidh her population 70,000 to 75,000 within the next five years real estate values will go up 50 per cent, regardloss as to whero the improve- whether in factories, mills, ele- vators or railway depots, shall be located. In the immediate neighborhood of such improvements the increase in value would be from 100 to 500 per cent, but there would be an increase all along the line. With the inc of property values thero will be a corresponding de- o in the tax rate, inasmuch as every structure and every improvement con- tributes its proportion of .xes and thereby relieves all the other taxpaying property in exact propo:stion to its assessed value as compared to the aggre- gate asaessment. GIVE HOLMAN A CHANCE. If the democratic party veally wishes 10 nominate a ‘logical candidate” it should have no difficulty in recognizing the man in the person of Representative Holman of Indiana. A noisy demand for economy in public expenditures will be the democratic slogan in the coming campaign, and in order to ba strictly logical und consistent the party should place its standard in the hands of the only man who has an established repu- tation for downrvight parsimony and meanness in the matter of expenditures for the maintenance of the government in its various branches. Under the leadership of Mr, Holman, who occupies the important position of chairmun of tho appropriations com- mittee, the democratic majority in the house of representatives has deliber- ately pursued the policy of crippling some very useful branches of the public service by inadequate appropriationa in order that the aggregate of the sundry civil bill may be pointed to s a shining proof of democratic economy to offset the extravagance of the river and har- bor bill. The sundry civil bill em- braces a great number of branches of government work which ought not to be made to suffer in order that the democ- racy may have campaign material, but the public interest is of little conse- quence to statesmen who have an eye to the political main chance first of all. The democrats should by all means nominate Holman for president, and their platform should dwell fondly upon what Holmanism has done in the pres- ent house. Possibly some people of rather dull perceptions would not detect the partisun purpose underlying the *‘economy’’ that has been shown in the injudicious and mischievous course pur- sued upon the sundry civil bill. " HILL'S POLITICAL SUPPORT. The question as to who will receive the political support of Senator David B. Hill when he shal! be convinced, as he ought to be already, that he cannot be nominated at Chicago, is receiving attention in democratic circles. There have been various reports regarding Mr. Hill’s intentions. One ol these states that he is now ready to swing his support to Senator Gormun of Maryland, Another says that he is on the ave of withdrawing and will name General Slocum ot New York as the man whom he desires his friends to support. Other reports name other persons whom Hill is assumed to favor. The only. thing certain is that Mr. Hill will spare no effort to defeat Cleve- land, and it is not to be doubted that he is now busily engaged in laying the wires to do this,. Who he prefers after himself will probably not be known until the convention meets. There is some plausibility in the statement that it will be Gorman, chiefly for the reason thut he is very much such a politician as Hill is, Bit the New Yorker’s support would bo wasted 1f given to the Mary- land senator, since it is highly improba- ble that the convention will take a can- didate from a southern stute, and that state having only elght electoral votes wnd being sufely democratic, Assuming that the convention would in any contingency take a southern man it would doubtless prefer Senator Cur- lisle of Kentucky, but there will be mo necessity for taking a candidate from the south and it is entirely safe Lo say that it will not be done. Mer. Hill would also waste bis strength should he make General Slocum his political legatee, for however popularSlocum may be with the democrats of New York—and there is no evidenco thut he is more so than per- haps a dozen other men in that state— the democrats of the rest of the country have no knowledge of him. He is not nationally known in connection with politics, and even with the support of l THE OMAHA Hill he could excita very little interest and no enthusinsm in the party. Topass by well known political leadets and take up & man who is not known outaids of his state is not likely to be done by so shrewd a politician as David B. Hill. All this nssumes that Mr. Hill will bs able to control his supporters and unite them upon whoever he shall prefer, but it is quite possible that ha will not be able to do this. He cannot exact loyalty heyond his personal claims, and when bis supporters have discharged their full duty to him they will be free to go 10 whom they please and this it would be roasonable to expect them to do. However, they are all anxious to defeat Cleveland and would be very likely to concentrate on n man acceptable to Mr. Hill. Tt is practically sotuled that the New York sonator will not get the nom- ination, but it is also ain that he will be a strong factor in the convention and may have n groat deal to do with naming the candidato of the party. HOW IT WILL WORK. Mayor Bemis has approved the or- dinance adopted by the city council to license gambling in the city of Omaha by meuns of asystom of pariodic fines upon keepers of gambling houses and their inmutes. 'The mayor says that ho approves the moasure for the purposo of seeing how it will work. He will find that it will work about us T BEE pre- dicted in its protest against the or- dinance last S 1t attempts to o relating to gambling and pl: lative aitd executive authorities of the city in the attitude of abettors and uccessorios to a business defined by law as a felonious crime. The mayor hus made a mistake. Ho hus placed himself and the city in an attitude of law defiance and has struck ablow at all pretense of reform. THE SYRACUSE CONVENTION. The anti-Hill convention at Syracuse yesterday fully came up to the expecta- tions of its projectors and justified alt the uneasiness that has been feltin dem- ocratic circles concerning the offects of the split in the Empire state. he grievances of the Cleveland men in New York were made known to the world in the plainest terms and their detecmina- tion to redress tho wrongs which they have suffered av the hands of Tammany breathes in every line of the resolutions adopted in condemnation of the tactics of the Hill machine. Tn its mischievous and demoralizing influence upon the prospects of tho democratic party it stands alone among the protesting and contesting conventions of recent years, and if it does not prove utterly de- structive of the integrity of the dem- ocracy of New York this year the bost judges of the political situation in that state are not to be depended upon. Of the platiorm adopted little need be said. It is essentially a democratic plat- form and does not batray the influence of the mugwump element which formed a part of the protesting body. It cone demns the billion dollar congress, the McKinley tariff law, the reduction of the surplus in the treasury and nearfy cverything else that democratic conven- tions usualiy condemn on the genoral principle that opposition to the rapub- lican party must be based upon disap- proval of what it has done. The plat- form is, in short, a rehash of the stale and exploded indictment which every democratic convention is expected to present as an excuse for the continued existence of a party that does not appear to have a mission on earth. The interest of the convention of course centered in its action upon the insolent and arbitrary methods by which David B. Hill secured the New Yok delegation to Chicago last Febru-' ary. The convention was called for the sole purpose of circumventing Hill and asserting the rights of the Cleveland men, which the senator found 1t conven - iont to ignore last winter. The resolu- tions adopted were sufficiently ugly to justify the fears of those disinterested democrats who have looked forward to the Syracuse meeling with grave appre- hensions. They refer to Hill’s support- ers as ‘‘schemers” and to Hill himself us the candidate of an “oligarchy,” and asssert that “it becomes the duty of the original elemonts of the party to take action that will restore to it- just rela- tions between members and their ugents.” Just what is meant by “orig- inal elements of the party” is not ex- plained. If there are any elements more originally democratic than that whizh constitutes the Hill faction in New York they ought to be pointed out. The Cleveland factivn, with its motley contingent of mugwump recruits, cuts a pretty figure when it poses as a more original-clement of democracy than the war-painted warriors of Tammany. hail, Tammany is more than original—it is aboriginal. The hope of the democrats in other states that this convention would prove to boa mere protest hus not been ful- fiiled. It took the form of a regular con- vention, representing the democracy of the state of New York, and us such it elected delegates to the national conven- tion at Chicago. This means a great deal. It means war. There is now no escape from the dilemma thut has been stendily developing ever sinco the Clove- land mass meeting at Cooper Union last April. The peacemakers at Chicago will have their hands full. — INSINCERE AND MISLEADING. All the talk about Omaha or Douglas county bui'ding and operating a railway bridge ucross the Missouri river is noth- ing morg nor less than an attempt to sidetrack the Nebraska Central project by indirection. In thegfirst place the parties who advocate {nls are either ig- norant or ingincere. They either donot kknow that no city or county in this state can be divectly or indirecily interested inony railroad or they are trying to mislead people. Article xii of the con- stitution of Nebraska reads as follows: No city, county, town, precinet, muniei- pality or other subdivision of the state shall ever become a subscriver to the capital stock or owver of such stock or any portion or interest therein of any railroad or private COrporation or association. 1If the city and county cannot own an interest in a railroad or pdrt of & rail- roud, how can we legally build a rail- voud bridge which is un essentinl part of a raitroad? Suppose we bud & right DAILY BRE: WEDNESDAY 3 ! to build n bridge capabls of being mada intoa railroadtbwidge, how could this bridge be buil®hitfier ‘the charter pro- visions goverijg bridges ncross the Missouri, and hew could the city or county get such’dfhartor? Any bridge,. t¢ compete with the Union Pacific bridge must have an out- let and an iclet= 1t must be a bigh bridge like the ¥#ion Pacific or it can- not get into Sotth Omaha without tun- neling the citw.at an expense of millions, unless indeed tho bridge is built at l!!‘llevuov(w Florence, which is not what Omahu wants. A high bridge leading into the center of Omaha, like the St. Louis bridgoe, must have an elevated railroad track such as. hus been projected by the Ne- braska Central. Who is to build this owerhead railroad, since naither the city nor county can own o railroad or have uny interest the-ein? The whole scheme of a free railroad bridge or of a bridge owned by the county and city is impracticuble. It would be more manly and honorable for the opponents of tho Nebraska Central and the backers of the existing bridge monopoly to come out squavely and fight the project un the ground that it would be injurious to their interests or that it would clash with other schemes for which they intend to ask subsidies from Douglas county or Omnha. THE reciprocity arrangement with Austria-Hungary, of which the presi- dent made proclamation a few days ago, furnishes additional ecvidence of the value and- importance of this policy. We do not import much beet sugar from that country, but the government of Austrin desired to retain the American murket, and in order to do so has ad- mitted the United States to all the ad- vantages of the zollverein arrangements recently made with Germany, Belgium and Italy. Our manufacturers obtain a reduction of duties on o long and varied list of products and ought to be bene- fitted to an amountv much larger than we pay annually to Austria-Hungary for beet sugar. The United States now has all the advantages of preferential or minimum tarit rates in Germar France and Austria-Hungary, a consid- eration not extended to any country out- side of the European continent. THE houso of representatives has passed a bill to classify and prescribe the salavies of railway postal clerks which, 1f it becomes a law, will materially better the condition of those hard-worked public servants. It es- tablisbes six grades in the service and the salaries range from $800 up to $1,800. The life of a railway postal clerk carries with it many risks, and the character ot the service ranks ‘among the. -highost under the government. The men are deserving of thé proposed increuse of salavies, and thoy are fortunate in the fact that this is so generally recognized in congress. THE census bullelin of cereal produc- tious for the states of Iowa, Kansas and Arkansas reveals 'the pre-eminence of Towa a8 a-corn-growing state, the:vield of 1889 being 318,130,762 bushels ‘and the acreago 7,585,522, thus giving an aver- age of 41 bushels to the acre. The average of corn in Arkansas is 20, Kansas 85.49. In oats Towa’s average is £9.09; Kansas, 80.49; Arkunsas, 14.50. In wheat Kansas has an average of 19 21, Towa 14.09 und Arkansas 6.80, The west- ern slope of Town s proven to be by far richer for all grain raising than the land near the Mississippi. WHEN the politicians figure Iowa’s vote for anyone bat Harrison they are entirely mistaken. -Two or three dis- trict conventions, which were held tho same day as the state convention, in- structed for Harrison, and all would have done so if it had been considered necessary. Not a single man would have been elected by that and those con- ventions if there had been a suspicion of hisloyulty to the implied and expressed preference for the candidacy of the president. THE Chicago, Fort Madison & Des Moines railway is being rapidly com- pleted into Ottumwa. It would be well for Omuha to keep an eye ou that road, The Northern Pacific is said to be after it, for the officials of thav road inspected it last winter; the Baltimore & Ohio has designs on it, but the Santa Fe pr tically owns it, and thoy should be en- couraged to push it onward to Omaha, the point thoy wish to reach. NoBopY doubts that the fair promise of success of the Nebraska Central bond election has forced a showing of the scheme to build the line already sur- veyed between Papillion and Yankton. Many important enterprises will tumble over one another to get a foothold in Omaha when it is seen that the Ne- braska Central bridge is to be built. June 16 is the day on which this mo- 'mentous question is to be decided. — AN OMAHA judge has excused a farmer with corn unplagted from jury duty. His honor evidently has no sympathy with tho “hold ybfif corn” principle. — THE democrats ave taking an abnor- mal interest in the:Minneapolis conven- tion. They had Befter save their brain fog. Thisisa rgp‘ablionn year, —— A Pivotul Btate Secpre, Kanaay Gity Journal The fact that au, Jadiana distriot conven- tion has declared ‘fup Blaine does not_aitor <ho fact that indiaug would roll up & bigger majority for Harnson than for any other man on earth, %0 Clipping J'.’.'mr. Trimmings. Boston (lobs, The new mayor of Hoston has started 1n to mako & record among the veto champior-. He bas dropped a fly in the large sua lusclous westorn “junker” of the' aldermon by cutting down thewr $5,000,000 loau to 31,600,000, b An Exaggerated Quality. Globe-Democrat. The value of great personal popularity (n a presidential candidate. is often overest mated. Clay snd Fromont were men of this sort, aud they had hurrah campaigos when they ran for the presideucy, yet both wero beaten by men who possessed not an atom of this quality. Clay, in 1844, was defeuted by Polk, snd Fromont fell benina Buchanan, e Reason for Reed's Flop, FPhiladelphi s Recor d Mr. Thomas B. Reed ennouuces that he is .to separation and for Blaine because Harrison rejectod his candidata for colleacor of the port of Port- land, “‘whore ho lives.” A blow 1n such & vital spot 1s, of course, an unpardonable sin in the code of down-east statesmanship. Blame should feel highly flattered by such frank support, with all tho generous oxpect- ancy which 1t import il kv SO Proof of the Pudding. Kansas City Jowrnal, In his Providence speoch Mr. Cleveland askoa if a single manufacturing establish- ment had increased wagos of employes since the passage of the MoKinloy law. Domo- eratio papars tako frequent oocasion to say that the inquiry is still uaanswered. The Albany Journal gives a list of twenty-seven establishments which have incroased wages from 10 to 50 per cont withifi tho past year— instances that happened to bo within the knowledgo of the editor of the paper. The list, with a httle research, could doubtiess be doubled several times ovor. When re publicans assert that the tariff is a biessing to Americap iabor, they mean what they say and have the proof to substantiate it. —— A Double Treason St. Paul Ploncer Press (rep.) It answers very woell their own present pur- poses for the Blaine boomers to fill the am- oient air just now with declarations of themr purposes; and, to one who is accustomed to weigh words a great deal and facts vory littlo, their scheme has & certain plausibility. But the bottom will fall out of it long before the convention meets at Minneapolis. That body will be different from any othor repro- sontative assemblags of republicans of the nation if it does not dectine to be stampeded, and proceca if nocessary to give the Blaine movemeat a ' sudden quietus. To the Quays and Platts and Clarksons it sooms tho simplest and most natu- ral thing in the world to avail themselves of Mr. Blaine's great popularity to accomplish the purposes of their petty spite. They would use theadmiration and eathusiasm which Mr. Blaioe has always commanded, and never more than now, either to make him the candidate, v-ith Alger or some other nonenity in second place, or to give the nomination outright to one of these men after the drift to Harrison had been checked. What the consequences might be to Mr. Blano or to the republican party they do notswop to think, becauss they do not care. It seems to us that every man true to the'republican party and every sincere friend of Mr. Blaine will see that the anti-Harrison program contomplates a rank troason to both ky's Centennial, Chicago Herald. T'he 1st of Juno is the centennial anniver- sary of the admission of Kentucky as a state in the uoion, In the last seasion of the Second congress Kentucky and Vermont were both applicants for statehood. The enabling sct admitting Kentucky was vassed February 4, 1791, but the admssion was put off until Juue 1, 17 The enabling act for Vermont was passed Febraary 18, 1791, but as no date was set by the act 1t becamo a state immediately after congress adjourned, March 4, 1701, But Ken- tucky 1s fairly entitled to be called the oldest child of the union, Ic wasa remarkable peoplo that settled that commonwealth. Sprung trom the best of Virginia stock, the early settlers were a race of heroes who in twenty years wrested *'the dark and bloody ground’’ from the in- dians, In 1770 the Virginin legslature formed the whole territory into the county of Ken- tucky, and it 8o covtinued for a number of years, but as the population increased a feel- ing of independence grew up and separation was demanded. So many delays ocourred that the people became much ancered, and cer- tain of the leaders entored into negotiations with Spain, then the possessor of the Louis- iana territory, to come undor tho protection of that pow Other efforts were made looking to the establishment, of Kentucky as an independent republic. Finally, in Decem- ber, 1780, the Virginia lezislature consented then the peovle turned to the federal government for admission. ln all, no less than nine conventions were held demanding admission before congress passed the enabling act. ‘Tho people of Kentucky have always been singularly independent in character and have been devotedly attached to personal liberty. Therr first constitution made man- hood suffrage the basis of government, being tho first American constitution to establish that principle. - Kentucky bad besn a state in the union but six years when those cele- brated resolutions of 1708 were adopted op- posing the alien and sedition laws and deny- 1ng the power of congress to pass such laws and protesting against them. In every war in which vhe United States have been engaged Kentucky soldiers have borne a prominent and honorable part, and in the war of 1812, particularly, they saved the credit of the natlonal arms. The name Kentuckian is synonymous with everything that iy generous, hospitable and chivairous. Kentuckians may well be proud of their st and its bistory. No commonwealth holds a more honorable place in the union today. It is the mother of rtatesmen and heroes and names that will last as long as our history are imperishably associated with it. Asit enters upon its second century of statenood it may rejoice in the past, for fus record is noble and enduring. A FEW POINTED REMARKS, Philadelphia Record Tow's things, Billy? asked th sueak thief of the pickpocket. who had just returned from Cherry Hill. “Oh, I'm getting my bund in aguin,” said Billy. with a grin. Elmira Gazette: you hear a littlo child use profane language you can bo rea- sonubly sure thit his father sh hiiself, New York Herald: ~ Wool--What did you do vith that umbrella I let you huve lust”week? 1t—1'vo got It yet. ? 0ol—Nething. Only I umbrella trost. Judge: Miss Vanity—That Mr. Flipps is ul- wiys staring nfter he torments me al- most to death with his ntteutions. Miss Vixen—I know. Poor fellow! He never aid have much sense. Olothier nnd Furnisher: _De Tootville— Maxter didu’t stay married to tho Chicago woman very long, aid ho? What was the mat- er? **Von Blumor—He found that nono of her former husband’s clothes Gvted him. hy? don’t'belong to the AT HOME AND ABROAD. Judge, Ho growls about the coffeo anl he grumbles ut the steak; He mukes remnrigs about the bread his mother used to buke, And fosters the Impression with his weury 1ittle wife That her cooklng is the worst he ever tackled in his life, But at noon he seeks the lunch room and he grabs a chunk of pie And struggles in o munoer that brings moist- ure to the eye: He tossos down a sky biue milk they ladlo to the herd And hands his money to the clerk and never says & word. Binghamton Repubiican: The boom will b on the rye when the national conventions as semble. Indianapolls Journal: If you feel dfscon- tonted with your lot get out iud dig In it and ralso something. The Kite: A competing hotel s gone ously of another thav "It stands without ar Fival. Washinzton Star: “I just recelved o very incendlary letver,” suld one clerk to another. “From ¥hom?" “The boss. He throatens to fire me." FOREORDAINED. Somerville Jowrnal, As children we together played; Our purents slde by slde Had lived for years, and early planned That she should be my bride. Tloved hor trom my childhood days, And she, too. held me dour; We both of us felt lost wnd strunge Without the other near. Ialways was her cavaller, And quick to take her part. A child, 85 muld, a8 woman grown, 1gave her sl my heart, Until I eame to marrying, And then—whew! Wha't a whir §ho chose to wed anothe r wan Aud I—unotier girl COLORED MAY FAVORED THE Why the Afro-Amerioin Delegation Will Support President Harrison, WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THE RACE Opinlons of the Leaders of That Element of the Republican Iarty on the Sub- Jeot . Thoy Are Solld for Renomination, Wasiixarox Buneay or Tae B 3 FOURTEENTI STRER Wasiixaroy, D. C., May 31, 2 There can no longer bo any doubt, if auy thero has been, as to who will bave the sup- port of the colored delegates in the Minne- apous convention. It is the unqualified be- lief of the jour great colored leadors of the country, located ut presont in Washington— tho venerable putriot, Fred Douglass; ex-United States Senator Blanch K. Bruce of Mississippi, Congrossman Henry P, Coeatham of North Carolina and ex-Con- gressman John . Lynch of Mississippi—that the colored delegutes will, as thoy have good cause to, support the prosident in tho con- veution. Tue Ber correspondent this afternoon calied upon Hon, Fred Douglass at his home, which 18 vpoa & prominent elevation in Ana- coslin, noar this clty. Mr, Douglass accom- panied the presidont to Rochester and par- tivipatod in the Dacoration day exercises just after an extended urip into the south. As ho talked ho coutd look down over the city of Wushington with its 100,000 colored persons, who almost worship him, and tbo breezes from the peninsula of Muryland oust about bis shoulders lis long white fufty locks till at umes be appenred the embodi- ment of all that could be pure and wise in man, nd of the Colored Man. “Ishall attend the Mimnneapolis conven- tion,” said Mr. Douglass, who has lost nono of his vivacity of manuer ana vigor of speech, “‘and will depart from here on Fri day. I amon the wroug side of 75 years of ago, 50 that no one can say truthfally thay 1 am actuated by selfish motives. I could not sccept & political position if it were offered to mo. L am going for the purpose of doing what I can to bring about the ronomination of President Harrison. He has dono more for the colored man in the way of offlces than any prosident woe ever had, Hw has done more than any president to give tho colored man fair recognition in private life and pro- tect his home and family. To my mind wo never had ereater president. ““The position taken by President Harri- son upon the election bill, called by his ene- mios in the south tho ‘force biil,’ should on- dear him to the colored people as long as he lives, and they should revero his memory when ne is dead. To the president the credit is due for creating the bill in the first place and then pushing it through the house and almost through the senate. His moral influence as well as_his official endorsement. und assistance were behind tho measure.’” “Do you think the colored peaple in the south véry muoh desired tho adogtion of that ill 1 The old white haired colored patriot raised up from the rustic chair, his oyes flashing earnestly in every word, = *“Ihat biil meant protection to the lives of every colored voter in thesouth. It meant as fair political and personal treatment as is given the colored or white man in the north. 1t meant uniformity of the elective franchise.” Solid for Harrison, “Do you believe the colored delogates could be stampeded iu convention for any other man " “I do not,” saia Mr. Douglass. *The col- orea voter knows s friend and he recog- | nizes principle. These colored delegates to the Minueapolis convention will recall as reaaily as I'do who'it was sixteon years ago that left the speaker’s chair in the national | house of ropresentatives and tock the floor to speak with all his power 1u_opposition to a bill which proposed to arrest kukluxism in tho south and put a stop to the wholesalo slaughtor of the colored voters at the hands of white democrats, They will recall who fought and defeated upon the republican sido of the house the first ‘force bill’ intro- auced in congress, and they will recognize in him the same man who permittod his name and moral influence to be used ouly a few months ago to defeat the eléotion bill of Prosident Harrison. “No, sir; the negro delegates to Minnespo- 1is cannot be taken away from Harrison by a stampedae.’” “Can they be bought for another candi- date?” “Money is a powertul corrupting infiuenco in politics,” said he, “but it will not tempt men of principle. If I miss not my estimate of the negroes who will sit in the Minne- apolis _convention they will stand by the man who has made for them the best presi- dent since Lincoln and who, fn many ro- spects, has favored colored men and women beyond the Lincoln moasure. 1 would bo greatly aisappointed 1o find any colorea man in_the opposition.” - Mr. Douglass then entered inton general discussion of the strong points of the present ! of the prosent administration wore not only | such as to make every citizon broud of his | country, but count upon prosperity in the | future. Congressman Cheatham of North Carolioa is known throughout the south as one of the | foremost colored men and 18 a statesman of the highest type. other expectation than that the cotored delo- ates will all support Prosident Harrison at Minneapolis. Some of thom have voted for Senator Sherman in past conventions, but Mr. Shorman is_not a candidato, aad it he wore I have no doubt they would stand by the presideut because he hias done more in | every way for tho colored man than any president wo have had since 1 havo kept trace of current politics. Prosident Harri son has said more kind words, endorsad more moasures and had in view more good gener- ally for the negro than any president we have had, and he has given more of thew officos than any two presidents.” Senator B, K. Bruco of Mississippi said IF T had time I could say wore for Prosident Harrison than any two men whose namer may come bofore the convention, looking a! the situation as a colored man, and if the col ored delegates do-not support hitn as a body in recognition of what be has done for them Ushall be sorely disappolnted.” Ex-Congressman John R. Lynch of Miss. issippi said: “The president will be renomi natea and the colored delegates will have the pleasure of kuowing they stooa by him in recognition of whut he has done for the race. There is every reason why the colored race should support the vresident and not one in the negative. But the presidont has been to overy one alike, that 1s tho ronson he has been such & good president for the oolored race.” Miscellaneous, Assistant Secretary Chandler toaay af- firmed the decision of the commissionerin the homestead case of Amy H, Leonard sgaiust Martha Goodwin, from Yaukton, . D., in- volving a divorced wifo question, ' The lanu 1n dispute was formorly in the limita of the Fort Randall military roservation. Au ef- fort was made to show that Martha Good- win’s divorce from her husband was fraudn- lent for the purposo of securing the land, but she is given the land in dispute and hor divorce 1 dectared good. Senator Manderson roturned from Omaha last night and presided over tho sonato today. Ho is confideut that Prosident Har- rison will bo nominated ana says Hon, K. Rosewator will undoubtedly be Nebraska’ member of the republican national com- mittee, Itis boing rémarked in Nobraska oircles here that the three members of the houso from this state have lost all intorost in their vension bills if thoy ever had any, as they do not attend the Friday night sessions of tho house which are devoted to private pension bills and thero has not been & quorum present for many weeks. P. S, H. Western Pona WasmNgroy, D. C., May 81.—[Special Telogram to Tiur Ber.]—The following list of pensions granted is reported by Tus B and Examiner Buroau of Claims: Nebraska: Original-Georgo White, James G. Wilson, Georgo 8. Williams, William D, Bushtel, Poter Gold, Frauk ‘Thomas, I Sims, Hugh Kinzes, Joseph Newcomor, D) ius Turner, Jonas L. Manafioy, Samuel kul. ton, Ezra’ E. Meltz, Wesley' G. Hummel, Charles, H. Morrill' Additional~Lovi M. Copeland, Hulbert L. Burns, William Nurl- barth, Increase—Ransom 1%0ss, William Original ~ widows—Anna Shaw. Original—Cnavles Schick, Winfleld 5. Sargent, Milton J. Smith, William D, Russell, Charles W. Hawkins, Jeptha Ellington, Granville 1. Haunnan, Edgar | Cohable, ' Edward Polton, Davis Grang Levi Allison, Francls W, S, Drake, James Moran, David Longshore, Harrison Thomp- son, John Pike. Additional—Mint Walker, Samuel L. Wood, Elias Yates, Robert W, Barges. Increase—Christopher Todd, Fred- erick A. Smith, Noah Brown, Martin Cooper, Amos Brinogar, ‘'homas B. Daulels. Rei sue—Solomon Creighton, Robert Hobson, de- ceased; William Lowrey, Joseph Sommers, Original widows, ete.—Fannoy Richey (mother), Jemima M. Dungan, North Dakota: Additional—George W. Phelps. South Duakota: Original—John Zimmer man, Marcellus Gray, Jay P. Eddy, James Goodwin, Henry Marks, Seth T. Winslow, Richard ' L. = Smith. Addituonal—Poter Behnes. Increase — Daniel Austin, jr., Thomas B. Douglas, Original widow— I'ranceha L. Brott, Colorado: Original—George A. rellorg, Ona d. Woodward, Larkin Ford, Wiliiam Quialan, James W. Couovers, Horace G. Pickett, Ralph L. Waiton, Bdward L. Chad. fiold, Walter B, Carlislo, ' Increase—Iman Killip. Original widow—Mary Aun Petti- john. Wyoming: Original—Perry Benjamin, AT Y Trains to Minneapolls, The stato cortral committes of Nebraska delogation to the republican national conven- tion at Minneapolis has seleoted the Sioux City route as their oficial route, and will leave Omana Saturday, June 4 at 5:45 p. m., ‘Webster street depot. Delegates and alternates to the convention will leave Omaha at tho same timo on the same train, Fatal Explo: 2 in a Mine, WILKESBARRE, .Ps. May 31.—A terrific ex- plosion occurred this morning at the West £nd Coal company mine at Mocanaqua, twenty miles distant,in & drift whero eloven administration as comparod to those of Washington, Lincoln and Grantand point- 1ng out the manifold reasous wny the colored men should stand as a wall for Prosident Harrison, Advantages of the Adminlstration, He said the American and business policios men were woriing, moet of whom wero seri- ously burned. 'Mine Boss John Pottrool and John Welter, & miner, were taken out dead. e Oapo Cod Ttar: The man who laughs Inst Is the one who is too thick-headed to sce the point of the joko at first. (o= §BROWNINE, KINGE Largest Manufacturers and Retallers of Clothing fu the World. W hen It Rains--- TV RVIRRAT Mdaa lbe just Al pri Majthat we R P oy prices a You want an umbrella and you know if you buy it of us it will as we represent it. ces and qualities. |Our great suit sale has been such a great drawing card’ will continue the few days longer. i $7.50, $8.50, $10, $12.50 and $15 for suits worth lots more. To keep up the assortment we have added about 150 new suits to go at these prices also. These suits are from 30 to 45 per cent under price and if your' size is amongst them you get a barg Browning, To eive our eiaployes tholr ¢ \ings, wo BLGIS0 . m., oxcopt Baturduys, at 19 p. ain, King&Co 1S.W. Cor. 15th & Douglas S1s. close m.