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

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G K i Qyworn to before mo and subseribod | Ahin 28th day of May, A, D, 182 BEAL Average Circulation for Apmil, 24,416, e — e THE brass band part of the campaign has alreaay begun. — No MATTER what the temperature is in other parts of Minnesota, it 1s red-hot in Minneapolis. THe chnlnr}n has only taken a fresh hold on India. It never coases entirely in that glorious English province. THE people of America will never rest contented until Jackson and Sullivan have been mutually exterminated. SoMme of the delegates-at-large to the Minneapolis convension are delogates- at-sen about the coming candidate. —e Tur republicans in this state are har- monious and united. The expressions of the state papers are indices of the proper spirit. ARD tho course of empire nd San Francisco will have the political conventions of 1900 just us surely as Omaha will have those of 1896. OMAHA wants the Santa Fe railway and wants it badly, but she would re- spectfully suggest that the Santa Fe leave 1ts three wrecks per month and its train robberies on another division, THE secretary of war has designated three officers of the regular army to at- tend ‘the national drill in Omaha from June 13 to 20. Preparations for the in- teresting event are in progress, and it promises to be a notable attraction. THE leader of the gang of outlaws who robbed a Wells-Fargo express car on a Santa Fe train on Wednesday night apologized to the engiveer for a rough yemark made by one of his party. A rue gentleman uever forgets his man ners. Tue St. Louis Republic is of the opinion that Senator Hill in his carly bird enthusiasm has caught more worms than he can control. This is hardly true, for he will be found to con- trol all he has caught as long as he hus any uge for them, THE republicans of the fourth dis- trict in Kansas have nominated for con- gress Charles Curtis, a very bright and able man. The democrats are sneering at him because he is ahalf-breecd. He might retort as did another famous man of color: “Yes, and my great grand- father was a baboon. My ancestry be- gan where yours ends.” THE statistics, which are being pub- lished in Tri Beg, of the mortgage in- debtedness of Nebraska farmers, are wost encouraging. In almost every county more mortgages are being can celed than given and those given are largely made for the purpose of buying more land. There is nothing but pros- perity in store for the Nebraska farmer. THESE suburbun sidewalk accidents aro expensive affairs. Unless some re- form is at once made Omaha may ex- pect to pay for those accidents heavy damages year after year, It has been suggested that a board of sidewalk suilders for each ward be constituted, sheir business being to build and repair sidownlks as they are needed. This would seem sensible economy, even if it cost more money at first. —_— THE city council, acting as a board of health, has recommended that the chief of police be instructed to no- tify owners 10 raise their lots toa suf- ficient grade to allow the stagnant water to run away from the places where it has accumulated. It is to be hoped that this order will be rigidly enforced. The rvecent heavy rains filled up the busing made by raising the grade of streets across the bottoms in some local- ities, and as there is no avenue of es- cape for the stagnant water it will soon bo dangerous to public health if ivis not disposed of. The wosk should be com- menced at once, Some curious and interesting facts bearing upon the condition of Buropean ond Amecican workingmen are pro- sented by W. O. Atwater in the lust number of the Forum, The vesult of the writer's researches shows that American workingmen eat more food and more oxpensive food than any other people of the same class in the world, Thelr diet 18 more whole- sowme and more productive of vital en- ergy than that of European wage- workers, and consequently they enjoy bottor heslth and are better able to sus- tain the strain of continued toil. The Awerican laborer gets better pay than his brother in Europe and therefore he cun better afford to buy good food. GOVERNORBOYD AND THE NABRASKA CENTRAL. When the proposition of the Neoraska Central was before the county commis- sioners Governor Boyd filed a protest against submitting the proposition. In view of the fact that the expenses of the spocial election were to be paid by the Nebraska Central the coramissioners did not feel justified in refusing to give the people of Douglas county a chance to accept or rejoct the proposition and they considered that the only responsi- bility which they were called on to assume was to provide such safeguards as would compel the company to carry out all the conditions under w.ich the subsidy .was to be granted. Governor Boyd now appeals to tho cit- izons of Douglas county to defeat the Nebraska Central proposition at the ballot box. He declares that 1t would be a great injustico to the people of Omaha and Douglas county to vote £750.000 in bonds to the Nebraska Cen- trai railrond or any other company and asserts that the amount asked for is almost, if not-quite, sufficient to pay for the construction of the bridge. Governor Boyd evidently forgets that the Nebraska Central is not merely bound to build a double-track high bridge, which will not cost less than a million, apd_with the appronches may cost fully a million and a half, buv it is also bound to build at least 100 miles of railroad into Iowa to a connection with two or more of the railronds that are heading westward, and in addition it is bound to build a union depotin the heart of Omaha at a cost of not less than $400.000, and connect the bridge and depot by elevated railroad and tunnel with South Omaha, and thence build a spur of five miles northwest for the use of any railrond company that may see fit to construct a direct line into South Omaha. A low estimate of the cost of the bridge and the improvements in Doug- las county is $8,000,000, exclusive of the cost of depot grounds and right-of-way, which will cost not less than a million and a half. At 815,000 a mile, the 100 miles of fowa road would cost $1,500,000, 80 that the total outlay contemplated by the Nebraska Central, not including the cost of roundhouses, freight yards and freight depot nnd machine shops, would aggregate $6,000,000. It is not extrava- gant to anticipate that any one of the trunk lines projected to come into Omaha over the Nebraska Central will expend at least another million and & half for freight yards and facilities necessary for competing with existing roads that enter the city over the Union Pacific bridee. Governor Boyd udmits that Douglas county cannot build a railroad bridge or have a direct interest in any partof a railroad, but he wants Omaha to vote down the Nebraska Central proposition and vote bonds in aid of factories and mills. Governor Boyd ought to kunow that we have no right to vote aid to any factory or mill any more than we have to a hotel or an opera house. His sug- gestion that the county should loan its credit to the Nevraska Central is equally impracticable. It comes too late and would be regarded as a more subterfuge to beat the bonds. Governor Boyd doubtless remembers that no such sug- gestion was made when Douglas county voted 8150,000 to the Omaha & North- western railroad of which he was presi- dent for a twenty-mile road and not even a cowshed depot. But the real gist of Governor Boyd's opposition is embodiad in the following extract from his letter: For what purpose do we want another bridge! The present bridge possesses a ca- pacity for doing ten times the amount of business now being-done. What we want is lower rates. This can be ouronly object. Competition has not lowered the rates. Will ivdo sol There is a bridee at Blair and one at Plattsmouth, which, so far as rates are concerned, to ull intents and purposes are the same as if the bridges were opposite the city. Nobody knows better than Governor Boyd that the bridge rate at this time cuts very little figure in the existing rates on staples shipped in and out of Omaha. Ten years ago the bridge rate was a very material factor to the job- bing and manufacturing intecests of Omaha, in fact it affected everybody that burned a ton of coal or used any other heavy commodity. The charge of 50 cents for every man, woman or child that crossed the river was enormously excessive. This extortion has in the main ceased. Freight rates on heavy commodities range from $4 to 85 a car and the car load vavies from fifteen to twenty tons instead of ten tons, The cattle, grain, lumber and coal rate to and from Chicago is fixed by the traffic associations and made uniform to all job- bing points on the Missourl. Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leaven- worth and Omaha have the same rate, regardless of the bridge charge. Passen- ger rates aro now 25 cents, with a 10- cent motor car rate from Omaha to Coun- cll Bluffs which sooner or later will go down to 5 cents, The prime object of the Nebraska Central project is to provide an unre- stricted inlet and outlet for ull railroads that want to come into Omaha or go out of Omaha. At present no railroad can cross the river and procure terminal facilities in Omaha without paying an exorbitant tribute to the roads that now have a monopoly of trackage.and no railroad can be built out of Omaha, | either north or souih, without expend- ing from one to two millions for right- of-way, terminal facilities and tunnéls. The Nebraska *Central is to be an open highway at reasonable tolls for every road that wants to come into Omaha, South Omaha or go beyond. Three-quarters of a million i8 a very large bonus to pay, but Omaha could better afford to pay 000,000 to open her gates to all the railroands that want to compete for her traffic than to remain bottled up und dependent upon the arbitrary will of one compuny that holds the gate. The additional tax which Governor Boyd so wuch drends is & mere bagatolle. The city of Cleveland issued $4,000,000 of bonds for one viaduct, St Paul has a debt of $7,000,000 and Chicago owes her marvelous growth principally to her courage in borrowing money for the development of the city. The Ne- braska Central means 50,000 to 75,000 additionsl population to Omaha by 1895, It means a revival of coufildence and a renewal of activity all along the line @ dofeat of the project wmeans a stand- THE OMAHA DAILY B still, protractod depression and down | ward tendency in all property values, with nobody buying except on fore closure of mortgage. NATURALIZATION FRAUDS. It is an encouraging sign of the times that many prominent citizens of New York, irrespective of party, have united in a memorial to congress asking for the appointment of & committes to inquire into the system of naturalization in New York city with a view to remedial leg- islation in reference thereto. Irregu- larities and glaring frauds have un- doubtedly been practiced under the present system. In a single court during the first twenty days of last October there were nearly 7,000 naturalizations, of which about 6,000 were by one judge. Such figures are entirely beyond the bounds of'reason, and it is evident that there must be something wrong in the working of the machinery that turnsout citizens of the United States at such a prodigious rate. p: For many years the making of voters out of raw material in such numbers as the exigencies of politics might. seem to require has been a great industry in the metropolis, and it has been carried on only a little less recklossly in some other cities, It is a reproach to the whole country and an affront to the dig- nity of Amorican citizenship that such proceedings should have been tolerated solong. If the homest men of both great parties in New York will unite against vhe system complained of in the memorial referred to it can be reformed, but not otherwise. The proposed inves- tigation may bring about some good re- sults. INDEPENDENT OF LEADERSHIP, An esteemed but misinformed con- temporary, referring to areport that the Platt and the Miller elements in New York are working for the nomination of Blaine, says that this “‘insures the elec- toral vote of the Empire state to the Maine statesman in case he consents to be the candidate.” The trouble with this conclusion is that it is based upon theassumption that there is such a thing as a Miller element in New York, rep- resenting that portion of the republican party opposed to Platt. If there were really an organized and tangible oppo- sition to Platt in that state, aligned under the leadership of Warner Miller, and both leaders were agreed upon Blaine, there might be some ground for the belief that the party in that state could be made solid for the man from Muine. But there is no such thing asa Miller element in the Empire state. Mr. Miller is not in any sense a leader there, and his name is no longer mentioned in such a connection. The opposition to Platt is entirely unorganized and no man stands as its representative. It is made up of that quiet, thoughtful and unob- trusive eloment of the party which makes its influence and power felt at the polls and does not consider itself in need of a leader. Indeed it isan ele- ment that would resent rather than seek leadership, and neither Warner Miller nor any other man could enter into an agreement as its representative. Tt will hardly do to attempt any such gasy solution as this of the difficulty in New York. The republicans of that state who do not follow Platt are some- what independent in thought and action and no man is authorized to speak for them. Thoy constitute what is known as the conservative element, and as such they could safely be counted upon to give an earnest support to President Harrison, They will stand firmly for what they believe to be safe and whole- some. In the support of the president they would be logical and consistent, and as the Blaine boomers could not logically and cousistently do otherwise than follow the same course the nom- ination of President Harrison would mean a united party in the Empire atate. TO CRIPPLE THE POSTAL SERVICE, The democratic majority in the house of representatives, which a few weeks ago passed the most extravagant river and harbor bill in the history of the government, is now seeking to make political capital as the party of economy at the expense of the efficiency and pro- gress of the postal service. The bill brought in by the house postoffice com- mittee proposes a reduction in the appropriation for the next fiscal year of over half & million,dollars as compared with the appropriation for the current year, and this in face of the fact, accord- ing to the statement of the chairman of the committee, that the number of post- offices in the United States is increasing at the rate of nearly 100 a week. In round numbers there are 65.000 post- offices in the country and a year hence the number will be nearly 70,000, yet it is proposed to reduce the appropriation for aalaries of postmasters, pay of clerks, rent, lights and fuel and -other matters between $500,000 and $600,000 below the eatimates. A short time ago the postmaster gen- eral addressed a letter Lo the chairwan of the house postoffice committee urging that the estimates of the department be allowed, as absolutely necessary to main- tain the efficiency of the service and pro- vide for the steadily increasing de- mands, Furthermore, the postmaster general said if congress would give him the appropriations he had asked for, so well established is the service under the genorous and wise legislation of a pre- ceding congress, that he would do that which has not appeared since 1882; that is, pay into the treasury a profit under existiLg law for the next fiscal yeur. But these representations of the head of the Postoflice department appear to have had no effect upon the democratic mem- bers of the postoffice committee, who proceeded to frame a measure the effect of which would be to cripple the postal service where it needs money for its ef- ficient administration. As the postmas- ter general has pointed out, there is cer~ tain to be nextyearan extraordinary demand upon this service, while foreign visitors, will naturally make comparisons between the mail facilities in the United States and in their own countries, so that the present is a peculiarly in- auspicious time to cut down appropria- tions for the postal service. But lu any event this service is not the place for the application of a pinch- ing economy. The improvement of the mall service is in the interest -of the E JUNE 4, whole people, and there should be no | halt in its progress toward the highest attainable standur@ 'of officiency. When the present administration came into power this service was greatly reduced in efficiency. ’1‘!&r was general com- plaint regarding jf. This state of affairs was due to the fact that it had been aliowed to degenerate into a political machine. The application of sound business principfgh 4o the service re- stored it to whatsdt was under previous republican managbmiént, and the liberal policy of a republian congress enabled the present postmaster general to jm- prove the servicd” {{util it has reached the highest stage of afficiency in its his- tory. The peopls, wWio have reaped the benefit, approve of every expenditure that has brought about this result, and they will not now endorse a policy the effect of which. would be to impair the service and put a check to its progress and improvement. —— THERE are signs of a growing interest throughout the state, and particularly in the manufacturing towns; in the ex- position that'will open in OmahaJune 11. Itis going to be a great exhibit—a veritable revelation of the extent and character of Nebraska industries—and it ought to roceive the attention of as many of the people of the state as can come to Omaha during the eleven days it will be open. It will give them the best opportunity they have ever had of learning what Nebraska is doing in the way of manufactures, I 18 singular that men who have been for years in favor of giving Omaha a union depot, and who have insisted that the entrance of all railroads into the city would be an important aid to its progress and prosperity, should now be in opposition to the Nebraska Central project which contemplates providing these needed conditions to Omaha’s ad- vancement. Such people strikingly illustrate the perversity of human nature. THE Omaha friends of J. R. Buchanan will learn with pleasure of his election as chairman of the Western Passenger assoolation, succeeding W. W. Tinley, resigned. Mr. Buchanan has been gen- eral passenger ugent of the Sioux City & Pacific, and is in every way qualified for the place OTHEKR LANDS THAN OURS. It hias been announced that the English parliamont will bo dissolved on June 20, This will be almost exactly six years after the break up of the parliament which wit- nessed the mtroduction of the home rule bill in 1885, The new dloctions must, according t0 the statute, be all completed within thirty- five days after tho dato fixed for dissolution, The friends of Ireland ‘on this side of the Atlantic can, therofore, judge for themselves how much time they, have to get togethor and recover the ground. which has been lost. ‘They cannot now pretenid that there1s any uncertainity about tte warniog. The aay is fixed, beyond whichizall their regret and com- punction for wasted opportunities will be 1n vain, If thoy meanito do for Ireland what they did in 1885 ana 1886;1f they wish the aatiofialist members to keep the eighty-five Irish seats which they now hold, they must:act 8t onoe without frit- tering a moment in dissonsion or delay. The money needed for the élootion expenses of the Irish nationalist’ party must be collected and forwarded be(or:}guno?fi or it will arnve too late. The boroffzh elections, be it re- membered, immediately follow a dissolution of Parliament, tho county elections taking place a lttle later. Tho unionists have al- ready given notice that they intend to con- test every seat in Ireland, a course which will compel every nationalist candidate to deposit beforehand the statutory costs in order that he may be voted for. We have brought these facts before to the attention of Irish-Americans, and if we recali them now it {s because there is nolonger any doubt that the need of heeding them is imperative, and that the decisive struggle I+ at hand. * e The disease which is troubling Italy lles deeper and demands_ more herolc surgery thao the dismissal of 8 fow hundred oivil service employes. It is in the demands which Italy is compelled to meet as a member of the triple alliance that the root of the evil lies. Neither Germany nor Austria is ac- counted rich, but both are rich compared with Italy, and both have as much as they can do to bear the burden of the military and naval armaments which they are main- taining. Italy 1s in the position of & poor man trying to compete with rich neighbors. She canuot stand the strain. Her expenses for army and navy are out of all proportion to her income and resources. They are crashiog the life out of the country, and sooner or later, if thoy are not lessened, there must be a national collapse. Italian states- men seo this, but they lack the courage to faco the situation and satisfy the exigencies. They fear the loss of prestige which a with- drawal from the dreibund would involve. Haviong taken the position tbat Italy is a first class power they are intelligibly reluct- ant to make an acknowledgmert to the con- trary. ‘The voters and taxpayers, who haye to pay the bills, when next an opportunity is glven them to express their opinions, may poasibly take o different view of the matter. 1t 18 understood that a general election is impendirg. It may have momentous conse- quences, especially if the pope should change his policy aud encourage the “faithful’ to go to the polls instead of forbidding them to do s0. Heretofore about 40 per cent of the elec- toraio have failed to vots, Q'here are large possioilities in that hitherto silent contin- geat, " Tho fact that an fiferpational exbibition Is to be opened in Septembar at Kimberloy, 600 miles inland from £ape Lown, furnishes somewhat startlingévidénce of the wonder- ful development of'Bouth Africa. Kimber- loy, it scems, is now & Mlourlshing town with 40,000 inbabitants, sad-edmirablo railroad communications wity Cdpe Town and Port Elizabeth. Bemng on" the borders of the Orange F'ree State, {tis practically, if not goographically, the ,gefiter of South Africi That the exhioltion is.sure of success is proved by the fact that it has been found necossary to enlarge the original plaus very greatly in order tomake room for the ex- bibitors who have ahi@dd} apptied for space, There will be fou at courts—British, Canadian sod chln. Continental and South African. In the center of the vullding will be displaye« on a large scale the two South Africaniadustries which appeal most strongly o the English imagina- tion. On the one hand will be the result of & whole month's working of the Johauuis- berg gold mines, ou the other an imposing parcel of dismonds. The process by which the gold is extracted froy the quariz, the crusbiug, ana so forth, nnd the wasbing of the diamonds out of the ‘‘blue ground,” will alyo be shown. Iotending vistors will be interested to hear that Kimberiey is now only twenty days distaut from London, sna that there are abundant facilities for travel in & new aud romaotiec country. As for the business prospects of South~ Africa, it may be meutioned that the lmports rose from £8,- 500,000 in 1885 to £18,780,000 in 1890, , 1892=TWELVE_TAGES UNANIMOUS FOR HARRISON Leading Republicans in Nebraska Reaffirm Their Faith in the President. POINTERS FOR MINNEAPOLIS DELEGATION That the Tnstractions of the Kearney Con- vention Should be Adhered to Scrupus lously 1s the Generally Ex- pressed Sentiment. Bearnior, Neb., June 8.—[Special to Tuw Ber. |—The sentiment very generally pre- vails among republicans in this section that the instructions of tho Kearney convention ara not imperatively binding upon the dis- trict delegates rogarding their voting for Mr. Harrison’s renomination, Yet at tho same timo the voice of the republicans of the stato in convention assembled is entitied to the serious consideration of the republicans elsewhore throughout the state, because a state convention of fairly elected delegates is supposed to reprosont a greater portion of the republicans of tho state than does a dis- trict convontion or delegation. Such at all events is the expressed opinion of A majority of tho republicans of this section of thestate. Among the more prominent republicans interviewed on this question wers Mr. 8. C. Smith, Colonel A. C. Jordan, Hon. Watson Pickrell, Hon. L. E. Walker, Postmaster C. M. Rigg, R. W. Sabin, Judge H. W. Parker, M. E. Shultz, Distriot Clerk R. W. Laflin, J. E. Coboey, Hon. I. W. fanck and Hon. M. B. Davis. ‘I'ne secret tight that is being made in some parts of the state against tho renomination of Mr. Harrison is deprecated. There is no question but that a very strong Blaine senti- ment provails in this locality, yot ab the same time republicans without "exception froely admit that for statesmanship, dignily and farreaching results the administration of President Harrison is unequaled and un- surpassed. Tnat he is fairly and honorably entitled to a renomination all most cheerfully admit. There seems to be a general acquies- conce in_the almost _inevitable renomination of Mr. Harrison, on tho ground that such is tho very proper thing tor the convention to do. Lixcory, Neb., June 3.—[Special to Tue Beer.]—G. M. Lambertson, & leading attor- ney of Liancoln and one of the prominent re- publican leaders of Nebraska: [ am not in sympathy with the movoment to provent the renomination of President Harrison. He has given tho country & wise, conservative and business administration—one of the best tho country has seen, In my judgment the delegates-at-large from Nebraska should obey tho instructions of the stute convention and vote for the nomination of Harrison and also for Mr. Rosowater as_a member of the national committee. Mr. Blaice caanot take the nomination without being open to the imputation of bad faith. We have alwavs won with a soldier and for that reason I am for Fiarrison. S. J. Alexander, ex-secretary of state: “I am not in sympathy with the anti-Harrison movement. President Havrison has given tae country the best administration since that of Abrabam Lincoln. As far as the op- position to Harrison in Nebraska is con- cerned, I have failed to detect any strong movement. {know the Lancaster comnty convention had no other man in view when it sent delegates to the Kearney convention. The stato convention assembled with the undursundinx that Blaine was not a oandi- date. The delegates were instructed for Harrison and they are in duty bound as hon- orable men to vote for him. When the con- vention recommended Mr. Rosowater asa member of the national committee it did so in the interests of harmony. The dolegates at Kearney were determined 1o unite all elo- ments of the party and the instructions for Mr. Rosewater wera made with that purpose in viow. The delogates to Minneapolis ac- copted thelr offices after the instructions wera givenand thay are in duty bound to follow them. W. 8. Humilten, a prominent attorney and the probable republican nomines for county attorney: Personally, I huve always boon a Blaine republican, and I believe thut a ma- Jority of tno republicans of Nebraska are for Blaine. Yet, at the same time, I believe that. the republican party should accept Mr. Blaine’s letter, in which he said that he was not a candidate, in its true meaning and spirit. President Harrison should be re- nominated, and any attempt to disrogard tho instructions given the delogates at the recent etate convention at Kcarney will bea mon- strous breach of good faith. Those instruc- tions apply to the selection of Mr. Rosewater as a member of the national committee with equal force; and while, pernaps, the dele- gates-at-largo aroonly formally bound by the instructions, I believe tnat the district delegates are equally in honor bound to abide by the will of thorepublican party of Ne- braska as expressed by the slate convention at Kearney. 1. M. Lansipg, county judge and 'Fruldont of the State Republican leaguo: he dele- gates that wore selected to represent the Ne- braska republicans at Minneapolis are in nonor bound to vote for Harrison. 800 how, as honorable .men, they can avold it, The Kearney convention was a Harrison convention, S0 determined was the conven- tion to instruct for Harvison that each dele- gato was called before tho convention and required to pledge himself, and when one or two plodges were cousidered evasive tho delegates were calleda back and made to ex- press themselves more plainly. The samo is to be said in regard to the instructions to make Mr. Rosewater a member of the na- tional committee. The men who don’t like Mr. Rosewater opposed it; but they were beaten by a large majority, and the delegates at Minneapolis should register the aeciared wish of the party and mako Mr., Rosewater a member cf the national committee, C. O. Wheedon, one of the leading repub- lieans of Lincoln: The great mass of repub- lican votersin the country, outside of the oliticians, demand the renomination of President Harrison, The Nebraska dele- gates having been instructed for Harrison should vote for him. In my onmion either Harrison or Blaine will be nominated on the first ballot bofore Nebraska is reached in the call of states. ‘Tho instructions in regard to making Mr. Rosewater & member of the national committee should also be obeyed. The only way & party oan’express its desires is by giving instructions in the state conven- tion, and unless therc are very grave reasons for so doing such instructions should be fol- lowed to the letter, Judge M. B. Reese, ex-nssociate justice of the Neoraska supreme court: I most ocer- tainly beliove that the delegates from Ne- brasia to the national republican convention should stick to the letter of theirinstructions and vote for Harrison. They were sent to Minneapolis as Harrison men and should vote for Lim rogardless of their personal in- clinations, They should also vote™ to make Mr. Rosewater a member of the national re- publican committes. They have boen in- structed to do so by the republican party of Nebraska and cannos avoid their duty, J. B, Strode, a prominent attornoy whose nume is frequently mentioned in connection with the republican congressional nomina- tion: When the Kearney convention met it was gonerally understood that Mr. Blaine would not be a candidate. With that under- standing the convention instructed its dole- ates to vote for Harrison, and I certainly liove that they should doso. I believe that to nominate Mr. Blaine after he has so positively declined to allow his name to be used as a caudidate would be & bad if not fatal a,nnug. L. W. Billingsiey, & leading republican and prominent attorney: Ido not hesitate 0 sy that the Nobraska delggates to the na- tional republican convention are in duty bound to vote for Harrison ana also to make Mr. Rosewater 8 member of the national repub- lican committes, If they were unwilliug to KO to Minuneapolis under such instructions they should not have accepted the positious of delogates. The instructions woro given before the delegates were elected and they know the platform they were elected uypon. 11 there is about it. <n, Neb., June irod Hedde, editor of tho Grand Island Independent, has always been an ardent admirer of James O. Blaine, but his viows bave chauged somewhat as to tho latter's candidacy, and in & recent ue of nis paper he suys, iu an article headed “Blaine Nominates Harrison:” “Blaine might have succeeded in getting the nomina+ tion if he haa come out openly and candidly as 8 candidate for the great office of presi- dout insteud of writing his so-called declin- iug lovter. Short as it was, it was full of —[Spaoial 1o | ambiguity, Tt could be takeu for a definite declaration that under no oircumstances would he accopt the nomination, and 'most everybody undorstood it that way. But when 1t appears that he did not mean what his words seomed to say, that letter is a great blundor, us it exposes him to the sus- picion of duplicity.” Editor Hedde is for {arrison and believes the delegates are in duty bound to work for him. He 1s also hotly opposed to the kicking that done against Rosewater. C. F. Bentley, cashier of tho First National bank, “wlose counsel has weight and is sought, but who doos not dabble to a great extent in active politics, is unconditionally for Harrison, and thinks the aelegates are bound to respect the instructions given at Kearnoy. George Humphroy of Doniphan, candidate in '00 for the legisiature, says: ‘‘Harrison is unquestionably the man to be nominated, and the delegates are in duty bound to work for him according to the Kearney instruc- tions, This administration has boen clean, able and patriotic, and he has no peer. 1 think, too, thut the recommendation of Rose- water for the national committee should be oncried out. Seth P. Mobloy, chairman of the Hall county republican contral committeo, is very much vpposed to the anti-Harrison move- mont. He sald: *‘Noother man could make the run Harrison could make. There is no question but that tho delegation for Ne- braska m work for him, The Kearney in- stractions are binding upon the dologates-at- 1arge and most of the district delogates have pledged themsolves and are in honor bound to respoot their pledges. Mr. Rosewater should without condition be recommended as & member of the national committee. Tho wolfare of the republican party demands full complianoce with the action taken at Kear- ney.” “No, sir, Iam for Harrison from bottom p," said C. P, R. Williams, editor of the Island Times, when asked what he thought of the anti-Harrison movement. “The president has given us a noble, cloan, able, patriotic administration and is the man to whom must be given the nomination. I have no sympathy with the disgruntied ones who are now trying to force Blaine to the front for selfish purposes. Blaine is an able statesman, but Harrison would make a bet- ter run. _'Thon, too, Blaine has declined and we take him at that. 'I'ne delogates-at-large have no rignt to work for anyone excepting Harrison, being instructed to do so at the Kearney convention, and as to tho district delogates, almost all of them pledgea them- selves for Harrison, and are just as much bound to support him at Minneapolis as the instructed delegatos. Harrison, Rosewater and hormony is what Iam for, aud if the delegation knows what it is doing 1t will em- hatically comply with the resolution of the Caarney conventlon, requesting the deloga- tion to Minneapolls to recommend Mr. Rose- water for a pluce on the national republican committee.” John Allen, clerk of the district court, de- clares that Harrison is the best man and thinks that the delegates of Nobraska must keep Harrison for first place, all others second, E. C, Hockenberger, ox-county treasuror, made the remark that he had always favored the great statesman Blaine, bat his apparent ambiguity in his letters has mace him for Harrlson above all others. **Harrison’s ad- ministration has been a remarkably efficient one and no other man could run the race along with the president. There would bo 0 my opinion no possible excuse for tho delegates who represent our state at Minne- apolis, should thoy support any other candi- aate for tho nomination. Aud let me say, 100, thut the instructions to_recommend Mr. Rosewater of Tir Omana Bee should on no account be disobeyed or unheeded. There's a man who is not given the great credit due him, and those who are trying to kick him have no idea what they are in reality doing.”” George A. Hummel, one of the most influ- ential and strongest republicans of the county, said that were he a delegate he should work for Blaine if there were a chance to nominate him. “If it is seen that the republican party wants Blaine, the delogation should, in my opioion, work for him. The instructions at Koarney were given for Harrison, but not for Harrison as against Blaine. I think Blaine will bo nomi- nated yet, though the work that is now being done_for him should have boen done several monthe ago."” “Phe movement against Harrison will re- sult in an unnecessary fight. If Blaine should be nominated the republican party will have to be on the defensive on account of his letter of declination as well as other roasons. On the other hand, if the repub. licans nominate Harrison we put the demo- cratic party on the defensive. The latter has given a faultless administration and will bave to defend none of his actions or spoeches.” This is the opinion of W. M. Geddes, presidont of the city council, who stated that hoe was always and is yet an ad- mirer of Blaine, but thought the Nebraska delegation was without any doubt pledged to work for Harrison. *“I think, too, that the Kearney instructions to recommend Rose- water should be complied with, as be is a strong factor and deserves recognition.” FaLws City, Neb., June 8.—[Special to Tie Bee.]—Your correspondent 1nterviewed a few of the leading republicans of this city and county as to the secrst fight going on in some parts of this state against the renomi- nation of President Harrison and if they consider the Kearney resolutions binding upon the delegates to the Minneapolis oon- vention and the following expressions were iven : Bl idge Isham Reaves: I certainly consider those Instructions as binding the delegation to vote for Benjamin Harrison as well as to select Edward Roscwater as nutional com- mitteeman, 1 am for Harrison, harmony and ——— for governor. Hon. Ed. 8. Towle: Yes, the delegates chosen from Neboraska are In honor bouna to support Prosident Harrison under those instructions, and the republican party of this state cannot afford to throw Rose- water and his influence overboard. F. W. Samuelson: I consider the Kearney instruotions to the delegatos as binding and 1 think Harrison should get the vote of the Nobraska dolegatos, Don't think Roso- wator has so endeared himself to the party by his past record as to deserve muoh recogui- tion from the republicans. But I want vio- tory and Benjamia Harrison. George W. Holland, distriot delogate: I shall cast my vote at the Minnoapolis con- vention for President Harrison under in- strootions from the republicans from the IMirst distriot and boeause wo cortainly oan- not get a botter man than Benjamin Har- rison. Howaever, I do not consider the Kex noy instructions as bindingon the “big four' under certain circumstances, M. W. Musselman: I have always been a howling Biaine republican, and if my vote could put him in the presidential ohair I could die happy. But Blaine seoms 1o be an impossibility, and what's tho matter with Harrison, anyhow? Tho represontatives of the party from Nebraska are in duty bound to support Benjamin Harrison at l\{hul!lp- olis, and I prodict his nomination on the tirst vallot. Dakora Ciry, Nob,, June 8.—[Special to Tne Bep.| —Ex-Senator John T. Spencer s strongly opixonud 10 uny secrot fight in either national or local politics and that the dole- gates ohosen should be governed by the instructions passed at the convention in which they were nominated. Secret and underhandod fights of any description are always detrimeutal to the party in which they ocour, Atloo Hart, congrossional delegate to the Minneapolis convention, is ovposed to any ‘“‘secrot session” work and wants to fight with ears and eyes open und hands up; thinks that all resolutions made at conven- tions are binding upon delogates olected, and that the ropublican party at this tme nust nfll‘l(lfl anything to create discord within the ranks. VOICE ¢ THE STATE PRESS, Trend of Editorlal Thought on the Duty of the Delogates. Holdrege Forum: Imagino the Nobraska delegation at Minneapolis defeating Roso- water us national committeeman, and then cach delegate coming home to expluin that it was the other fellow and not himself who cast the black ball in the secrev ballot. Secrt ballots as explanations will not go, gentlemen! Wo must have a square doal in this matter and no monkey business. Indianola Courier: The voloo of Nebraska republicanism at Kearnoy, as to its wishes in reference to the renomination of Harri- son, and also in reference to the placing of Rosewater on tho national committee, was so positive and unequivocal that the sixteen men who go to Minneapolis will misropro- sent this stato if they FMI to act fully aud fairly according to that exprossed wish, Curtis Enterprise: It is sad there have been lotters written and agents sent out over the state, urging the delegates to Min- neapulis to bolt the instruction of the state convention as *to Rosowator and the national committee. We are loth to believe, such a story. Such conduct is daugerous’ at this time. The voto at the state convention was three to one in favor of the resolution and the duty of the delegation is too plalu to be misunderstood or disregarded. Seward Reporter: The republican state conveution oxpressed itself clearly when it suid: “It is the wish of this convention that E. Rosewater be made a member of the na- tional committee.” In theso words the will of the party is given to the entire sixteon delegates. The party had a_right to thus expross itself and the man who undertakes o st up his persoual will against taut sug- gestion has more nerve that judgment. Do as the party has asked you to, geutlomen, and you will do well. Sutton Advertiser: A careful canvass of the sentiment of this locality as to the proper one to nominate at Minneapolis for the next prosident of the United States indicates a decided voice for Mr. Harrison. These opinions are given by all the old soldiers, business men and farmers, They give as a reason for their conclusions that his admin- istration has been good all the way through ~—honest and thoroughly business and Ameri- can—and to change bim off now would be to condemn policles which have proved to be good. Everybody says stand on the record and let well enough alone. Clay County Sun: It is being whisperod quietiy that our delegation wiR aisregard the instructions of the state convention and will refuse to put Rosowater on the national com- mittee. Itlis said that several of the delo gates will vote against Rosewater on per sonal grounds. A man who 1s big onough to represent one-sixteenth of Nebraska repub- licanism is ocertainly too big & man to be measured by so small a'motive as personal spite. The insiouation is dishonorable to our representatives. They will do as they have been roquested to do by thestate convention, and they will do it cheerfully, like men, and not like pouting school boys, Grand Island Times: The attitude of the fourjor flve republican bosses, who have boen trolling every politioal pool in tho country for several months secking a candidate with a hook baitel with the presidential nomina- tion, is similar to that of the old maid who was out in tho orchard praying for a hus- buud. An owlsittingon a limb of a treo went ‘to-whoo, to-whoo,” and the maid answared ybody, good Loral” These malcontents are willing to support anyone who 18 sucker enough to bite at the tempting bait thrown to him; not becauso they love him or would be for him fromany etandpoint of right or principle, but simply because they are aganst Harrison, whose ad- ministration of our governmental af- fairs for the past four years has been the cleanest, wost business- like of any that the country has over en- joyed. The opposition of these individuals to the renomination of President Harrison has for its basis purely personal reasons, ntd uothing else. MattQuay wanted 10 dispente the patronage of the state of Pennsylvaniu, Tom Platt of New York wanted a place in the cabii General Alger of Mcnigan INUED ON EIGHTIL PAGE. ] Largest Manufacturers and Retallors of Clothing in the World. Interesting To Mothers--- Saturday we begin the greatest sale of |1 boys’ and children’s -cloth- dark These prices may ing ever inaugurated in this western country. The sea- son has been - so backward that we are becoming over- stocked and you can now buy of us boys’ suits at $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3 and double breasted suits at $4, $5, $6 and up, in cheviots, cassimeres and worsted, light colors. seem and awfully low for good goods, and so they | i'n NI BR| 7o give our eraployes their eyenin; ab0:d Our own standard makes. Browning, King& Co S o e teyandea's, e |8 W, Cor. 15th & Douglas Sts