Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1892, Page 4

4 E. ROSEWATER, Emtin e PUBLISHED L iy KRY MORN OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. IMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Tatly Beo (without Sunday) One Year......... 88 00 1'ally and Sunday. One Year e 1000 Flx Months . 500 Three Mo ] Funday Be ardny 15 Weckly fee, One Year 100 OFFICES, Omatn, The e Bullding Bouth Omalin, cor Counell Biu; Chicago O mmores. York, ltoom ribune Bullding: ngLon. 514 Fourtos communieatt should be s ftorial Departmont. GUSINKSS 1. All business lottors and remit nddressed to The Beo Publt Drafts. cliecks payablo o the or: rof the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. SWORN STATEMENT OF CLICULATION. o N K [ unty of Douglas, | George 1. Trschuck, secretary of Titi Brr shing com 0w solomnly swonr thnt the cirenint v IIKE for tho wi e D 2 20,040 Thuradny, Ay, July 15 Eaturday, July Average R 24,088 GIEOWGT B 775CHUCK worn (0 hofore mo w werlbed in my N P, FEIL Notary I this Jith day of J ton for June 25,802, T is widespread cur ) know what sort of opinte is used by Mr. Birkbauser. THE Pharisees, hypocrites and Chi- cago saloonkeepers have gained a signal victory in the closing of tho World’s fair on Sunda, T7 18 too bad that a city so brisk, busi- nesslike and widenwake should have city bodies so dull in their stupidity or €0 persistent in their duplicity. THE Nebraska Central seems to mean business, and in this respect it diffors widely from any other public enterprise with which this city is connected. THE terribly high prices of fruit in this town would iead o democratic edi- tor to assume that there isa bigh tariff on all sorts of ber nd the like. THE dismissal of ninety-three out of BOO cases from the docket of the district vourt shows that the people of this tounty don’t enjuy litigation in hot weather. ONE of the best recommendations of Chairman Carter is his geninl dispo- sition. “A good mixer” is more neces- sary in a political campaign today than behind a bar WE wWoNI if Funston, one of the two republican members of the Kansas delegation who survived the cyclone of 1890, will again stump his district in his bare foet this year. THE drowning senson is now at its height and the number of victims of their own carelessness and negligence daiiy reported is appalling. Why don't veople learn toswim? NEBRASKA republicans can very easily nominate a ticket which will be de- feated. There is nothing easier; but they will be en cure suce ful 1f they wish to se- in the election. THE force bill is not an iseuo in this campaign, but if the insane and malicious yawping of the southern press on the subject does not cease we ure positive that it should be an issue. Mi. Loucks, chairman of the popu- list, convention, claims to have perfect assurance that his gang will carry thir- teen states and among the thirteen Ne- braska is not. Mr. Loucks is one-four- teonth right, anyway. Tur Denver News prints a large pie- ture of the people’s party on the march with Weaver at the head. , There are two long columns converging, and they are both coming right down out of the sky, whero they have presumably been to rip the silver linings out of the clouds. PrARL button factories form one of the chief industries of Austria, Omaha has a pearl button factory in which men are employed at $2 per day who would recoive 60 conts or 80 cents per day in Austria. 1f this state of affairs contin- ues, as it must, we shall have more but- ton malkers, more fuctories, bettor wages and cheaper hutton: i repoct of the Mississippi river commissioners that tho levees require an expenditure of several million dollars to make them reasonably secure might muke the public winee u little if it were not for the fuct that the public is used to that sort of thing. It takesan im- mense amount of money to keep that er from running over its banks. Monsigur WILSON, the famous, or {nfamous, son-in-law of tho late Presi- dent Gre vy of Frauce, has aguin brought himself into disgraceful ne :ty. Not content with ruining Grevy's caroer and hastening his death, ho was last woek found guilty of coreuption in se- curing his election as mayor of a small French town and fined $200. This is the way French people treat a scoundrel, In this country such a man could never be elected to any oflice, but if clected, he could never be convicted of anything. M. STEPH tho contractor for street clouning, is doing very good work, Since he took the contract he has spared no pains to meet the full requirements of his contract. city has rolused to meet its obligations to make payments for his work at the end of ench month, This has entailed a groat havdship upon the contractor by compelling him to advance or borrow the money to pay his employes. Such a policy is not only an exhibition of bad faith, but it must inevitably bring about a ralsing of prices or inforior work. When contractors know they canuot got thoir pay regularly, us stivulated, they will either charge highor prices or 40 voor wor k. On the other hand, the | THE CANDIDATE STATES THE ISSUE Mr. Cieveland has said that the cam- paign will bo conducted on the part of | the democracy upon the issue which he reprosents. T'he tariff, according to the democratic candidate, is to be the par- amount question in tho presidential canvass and no other subject is to be allowed to interferc with its due dis- cussion before the people. It is the ovinion of Mr. Claveland that the people are more intorested in the taviff than in any other question, and hence the duty and necessity of giving it the chief place in tho campaign. It is to be presumed that Mr. Cleve- land’s wish in the matter will be re- spected by the party managers, Not to do 8o would in effect be to ignore the | candjdate, for he represents nothing but an abstract idea of taviff reform. But the ex-president’s view of the supreme importauce of the tariff issue is not sharea by his associate on the ticket and by a number of the leaders of the party. Mr. Stevenson declared in an extended interview a few days after his vomina- tion that he regarded the danger of the enactment of an eclections law—the so- called “force bill”—as heing of greater concern to the American people than any other issue, and he put himself very squarcly on record in favor of making it the most prominent question in the eam- paign. A number of other democrats moro or less prominent in the councils of the party have taken a similar posi- tion. Particularly is this the c with some of the southern demoeratic leaders and organs, who are sounding an alarm about the danger of negro domination in order to keep that section solid for democy The new party threatens to make serious inroads upon the demo- cratic vote in several states of the south, and it will be very apt tosccure some electors there if it carr out its pro- mige to see that the colored voters are given their rights at the ballot hox. To prevent this isthe purpose of the appeal to the fear of the southern people that repul would result in the adoption of a law to enable the negr of the south to vote and to have their votes fairly counted at federal clections, While ti y will not hesitate to discuss the question of a free and honest ballot in every state of the union, it does not intend to permit the bes A republican pa democratic party to divert public at- tention from the great living issues which have 1elation to the material progress and prosperity of the whole count In this respect it will help Mr. Clevelund to keep the tariff the chief issue and will force him and his party to defend the extraordina sumption of the national pinttorm *‘that the federal government has no constitu- tional power to impose and collect tarifl duties exeept for the purpose of revenue oniy.” The democracy will not be al- lowed to escape responsibility for: this utterance in the interest of free trade, or to evade answering for effores in the present congress to give practical effect to this remarkable theory. It has adopted a platform the practical meaning of which is freo trado and its representatives in congress have thrown off all disgui nd no longer make n pretense of maintaining a taritt suffi- cient to make good the difference be- tween wages in the United States and in Burope. The party has made a clearly defined issue between the system of American protection and free trade, and it will be held strictly to that issue in the pending campn’gn GARBAGE CREM The question as to the best method of disposing of garbage is a somewhat troublesome one, but unquestionably the most ellicacious plan is that of burn- ing it. This being admitted, the -next question relates to the best fuel for the purpose. Dr. Gapen of this city, in an interview with the Chicago T'ribune, expressed a want of faith in garbage crematovies as ordinarily constructed, saying that they are too expensive and too limited in their application. He thinks the best plan for consuming gurbage is that in use at Marysville, Ky., where artificial gas is employed. This gas, according to Dr. Gupen, mingles intimately with the garbage to be burned, while conl or wood make: bed of five with which only a small part of the garbage mass is in contact, The Trilune does not agree with this view and states that the crematory now in operation in Chicago isa completo It effectually consumes eight gurbage an hour, “with the so little smell that residents in the neighbor- hood cannot tell by the useof their noses alone whether the crematory is at work or not.”” Crude petroteum is used for fuel and the cost is not regarded ns extravagant, This testimony would seem conclusively to show that it is by no means necessary to resort to gas for effectually consuming garbage. This matter is receiving the careful attention of the authorities in some of the larger cities, and iv is one that must sooner or later be seriously consid- ered in Omaha—perhaps the soorer the better. There can be no difference of opinion i to the desirability of dispos- of gurbage by burning, and there remains to be settled only the question as to the most efticacious and economical agent of destruetion. T'his can hardly vresent a very great difieult a success, tons of minimum of ash residuum and o The attempt of the democratic free traders in and out of congress to make political capital out of the recent labor by charging Wy defonted that it troubles in th ) Lo pro by British statistics which show labor disturbances in freo trade Gr Britain are more frequont and of greate this countr ection is al extent than in the United tes. A | report submitted to pirliament by the labor correspoundent of the London | Board of Trade states that in 1890 ther wero in the United Kingdom 1, strikes, affecting 892,981 persons, while in this country during the same period there were 927 strikes, uffecting | porsous. Tuking into consideration the | vastiy er population of this coun- | try as compared with that of Great Britain—62,000,000 against 37,000,000 in 1890—euch strike in the United King- | dom had at least twice the force und | range of ove oo this side of the Alantic, affecting an average of 852 Knglishmen to 287 Awericans, The Awerican counsul at Newcastle, THE OMAHA England, has made a report to the State department regarding strikes, in which reference is made to two disturbances during the present year that together involved 110,000 operatives, one of these being the strike of the conl miners in the county of Durham. There is no pretense that free trade had anv influ- ence, even the most remote, in bringing about these dificuities, any more than it had to do with the formidablé strike of dock men t year or any other of a score of serious labor disturbances in the last two or three years, The ob- vious fact is that it is simply preposter- ous to charge difficuities of this kind to any fiscal policy, and intelligent demo- crats realize that any effort to make protection responsible for the Home- stead controversy must inevitably fuil with men of sound sense and diserimin- ation. Such oceurrences may sorve tho purpose of demagogues like Senator Voorhees in misleading the unthinking, but thoughtful men, as well in the ranks of labor as among other classes, will not be deceived. All trustworthy information shows that the average condition of American labor is very much higher than Buro- pean labor. The proportion of working- men in tha United States who own thewr homes is much greater than in England or any other country of Europe, with the possible exception of France. There is the authority of Hon. Joseph Chambor lain, who is as fumiliar as any man in England with the condition ~of tho masses, for the statement that “at tho presont time, of the working clussos, one in two, if he reaches tho age of 6, is almost certain to coms upsn the poor law for his subsistence.” As we have hevetofore said regarding the recoat labor troubles, they offer no capital for any side of politic WHY THE BARGAIN 1S OBIECTIONABLE Somebody who masks behind the sig- nature of “Union Man” makes an ap- peal in behalf of Mr. Hummel, the new superintendent of repairs through the organ of the school board combine. We aro told that “Mr. Hummel is a young nan who has lived in Omaha all his life and learned his trade as carpenter in According to “Union Man,” who is idently posing under that name to sympathy from workingmen, Tummel has never dabbled in ; Qidn’t scek the office, and ght politi knew nothing about it until the v after he was elected.” This may all be true. Mr. Hummel may be an excellent mechanic and an exemvlary young man, although the et that Charley Wehrer nas been his chief backer goes against him with peo- plo who know Wehrer's methods and as- socintions, The objection raised against Hummel was not on account of incompetency, but on account of the disreputable bargain by which his appointment wus secured, oupled with the fact that there is no valid excuse for creating the new office to which Hummel has been elected. We alveadv have a superintondent of schoo! buildings. This ofticer is sup- posed to be in charge not only of the new buildings that are to be erected under cont but also of the school- houses that may need repal If a foreman of repairs is needed he should be hired by the superintendent by the day or week, subject to discharge if he does not periorm his duties satisfac- torily under his directions, just the ¢ as a foreman who works under the street commissioner. This would center the responsibility with the superintend- ent or buildings instead of establishing a loophole for shifting the responsibility from one person to tho other. This is precisely what Mr. Wehrer does not want, His object is to have a man in charge of school building repairs who would not be so particular as the super- intendent. In other words, Wehrer is aiming to revive the old system which enabled dishonest painters, plasterars and eesspool men to rob the school fund by presenting inflated vouchers for in- ferior work. Another objection to the croation of the new ofticg of superintendent of re- f is m:.? it contempiatos employ- ment all the year round ata salary, whereas a foreman of vepairs employed by the superintendent of buildings would be subject to discharga when the build - ing season is over and the superinten- dent of buildings can supervise all the iring himself. and his associates who business principles knew all theso but they wanted Wehrer’s support, have not hesitated to sacrifice the inver- ests of the taxpayers to further their political schemes in the board. THE WHEAT PRUSPECT. The yield of wheat this year in tho great district of the northwest dovoted to the cultivation of that cereal now promises to be somewhat below that of last year, but it is predicted in Minne- sota that the crop will be about an aver- uge one. By tho government report on the first of this month the condition of the ecrop was placed nearly 6 per cent below that of last year at this time. The reported acreage is practically as large as that which produced the ex- traordinary crop of 612,000,000 bushels last yoar, The decrease 1un condition will result in a docreuse in the crop of about 37,000,000 sls, leaving 575 000,000 bushels as this year’s production, barring unfavorable couditions from now until the crop is harvested. Not- withstanding the unprecedented exports last yoar, occasioned by the shortage in Kurope, there is still an increaso of 000,000 bushels 1n the unsold stocks wheat on hand, und as nothi ap- proaching the foreign demand of last year is to be expected this year it is evident that the price will be depressed by the lurge excess of supply over de- mand, During the past week there has been u genoral strengthening of the market for coreals, hut wheat has not improved as was expected. T'he anti-option agi- tation is blawmed for this by some dealers and the Minneapolis Lribune suys that it bas *‘completely eliminated all specu- lative intergst in the future of wheat,” T'ho same paper suys that the bill will work to the detriment of small capital- ists and do great harm to the country willors *“without compensating the pro- busi of DAILY THE DAILY BEE.| BEE! WEDNESDA 3 ducer for the ¥5i! which is given him for the privilego, of doing that which the Hatch bilbtscohdemns ns immoral in the speculatiod,” This is a view of the caso that seems, 4§ roquire clucidation. It is not quite clear how wheat gambling oan result to WY dvantage of the pro- ducer. The newspaper quoted spouks of the bill ns “adverse legislation” and ays that “anythifg that would give as- nee to capitak: that the proceeds of its adventure would not be confiscated would give uu Impetus to trade that would add several cents per bushel for every iota that bur farmers have to sell.” It will not be easy to make the farmer believe that gambling in wheat on the part of professional speculators can re- sult in any permanent benefit to him. He knows that the law of supply and demand is 1nexorable and that natural conditions must govern the markes. All the gambling in the world cannot alter the conditions which must ultimately control prices. The facts which we have set forth will readily account for a stagnant wheat market. It is to be earncstly hoped that the foreign de- mand will prove to be wreater than is now promised and that the market will therchy bo stimulated; but in any event the wheat gambler cannot help the farmer, but must inevitably injure him by croating ficticious values and an un- settled condition of the market. sur THE concrete sidewalks which are now being laid in this city at 22 cents a yard may for all wo know be exactly in accordance with the specifications of the Board of Public Works, but thay arve by no means up 1o the standard of a gran olithic pavemant. There is as much dif- forence botween concrete pavements as 19 durability as there is between sand- stone and granite. We have ote prvements in this city that have en- dured five yoars and are almost as good as new today and wo have concrete pavements that began to peel off and ceumble within thirty days after they were laid. It ull depends upon the quantity and quality of the cement and the mixing and laying of the concrete. The cheap grade of concrete sidews is as much of a cheat as were the wooden paving blocks laid Bh Park avenue and Leavenworth street. It requires expert sidewalk inspoctors who can’t be tam- pered with to suparvise the mixing of the coacrete and laying of the walks. Otherwise we will have abvut the same wretched condition of sidewalics within less than five yoars that we have now on the wooden paved streets: cone THE treasury balanc iich demo- cratic papers predicted would disappear before the close of the fiseal year, Juno 30, was at that date ove 5,000,000 and hasnow in less than three weeks risen to $32,700,000 in addition to the %100, 000,000 gold reserve. This is even larger than Sceretary Foster antici- pated. It has besn caused by the heavy increase of customs revenuo receipts, averaging $1,000,000 per month over last year’s receipts. The internal reve- nue receipts were greater during the past year by $8,000,000 than they were a year ago. Were it nov for this heavy caused by the republican tariff increase law of 1890 the extravagant and scandal- ous appropriations of this democratic congress would wipe the surplus out and reduce the country to a perilous finan- ciul condition, These facts should be studied and d ted by every voter. THOSE disease breeding ponds scat- tered about the city are in the same condition that they were in several weeks ago when the Board of Health and the common council began to talk about having them promptly attended to. What are the influcnces that are pre- venting action? Have the owners of the lands upon which the stagnant pools are located induced the authoritics to let them alone? One owner of a stag- nang pond is said to have declared that he would not have it filled for 500, He lives at a distance from it and is therefore out of danger, but those whose homes are near it are risking their health, to say nothing of the unsightli- ness of the thing. Some filling in is now in progress, but the places most needing it are untouched. THE taxpay Omaha will hardly be able to understund just where the business methods come in wli the school board pays 22 cents a yard for concrete sidewalk of secondary quality when stone flagging =an be had for 17 to 20 cents a yard. It 18 evident that the only sliding scale the Homestead men want is one which will slide up, only. —_— Botter Than ce, Grand Istand Independ nt. Frank G. Carpenter's Russian lotters in Tag Owans Bek have begun. Thoy read Iike a story and are full of iuformation. el The Sympathotip Strike. New York Herald, Of all strikes the “sympathetic strike” is the siliiest and miost indefonsible. It 15 much as if & man should feel obiiged to out off & hand 10 order o show his sympatny with & neighbor who had met with the sawe misfortune. . Faots Are Stubborn Things, Indicgpolis Journal, It is & fact that the demooratio variff-for- rovenue-ouly polioy nover has prevailed in this country ten years at a time without causing large réduction in tbhe wages of workingmen, & corresponding reduction 1o the chances of ompigywoent and an increaso in the prico of all mauufactured products to tho consumer, T—— Leader of the Forlorn Hope, New Vork Advertiser. Mr. Harrity of Péuusylvania has made up nis mind to avcepy the chairmanship of the Clevelaud nations), committee, As he will not be called upou to trouble himself avout Peunsylvania, he can devote the bulk of his attention 1o the roseate nortbwest, in which it is expected that the sun of Cleveland will eventually rise. The west, however, is the quarter in which the sun usually sots, R Look to the Mititia, New York Timos ‘The recent experience of the new states of Idabo and Wyoming may, and certainly should, dinose them to look wfter their militia orgauizations, which huve proved so woak and inadequate during thoir late riot troubies, Idaho, according Lo the latest returns, pos- sessed a total of Lwenty-elght officers and 2 and the actual force found to be availu- bie for the disturbauces in the Warduer re glon was 195, Wyoming's returas showed sixteen officers and 27 men, and probably only @ like ratio of avalable forces for the rustler troubles, In proportion to population these states, even | with this insigoificant | trade frivnds, JULY 20, 1892. CAMPATGN CLATTER, 3 Tho current of sentiment in this oity is rapidly drifting towara Judge Crounsoas tho most avatlable man to lead the party in the coming campaign, Crounso is not a mag- netic man, He is very muoh like Harrison— ho 15 clean, cool, level hoaded and unassail- ablo, cither as & private citizen or & publio man, Judge Bstello oxprossos the boliof that Judgo Crounse is the strongest man that tho ropublicans of Nebraska could nominate for governor, and ho has a roason for the faith that is in him. He said that Judge Crounse stood for years as the exponent of anti-mo- nopoly in this state, and that he has the con- fidence of the farmers w o greater dogreo than almost any other candidato whoso namo has as yet been mentionea Twenty county republican conventions will bo held this week and all kinds of oan- didates are hustiing in spito of tho heat, The approach of theso eonventions has ro- sulted in an exodus of politicians who have been makmg their headquarters in Omaha for the past weok or so. Walt Seely, genoral pass distributer, left Iast night for Chadron, whors he goes 1 take charee of Tom Majors' campaign for dele gates from the northwest. ek MacColl passed through Omaha yos- terday on his way to Chicago. He confirmea the report that Tom Majors visitod him at Lexington and offered to tuen over his “chances to MacColl. Mr, MacUoll, how- over, refused to aceont Majors' magnanimous offer, He told the PPeru statosman that it was entirety out of tho question for him to onter polities this vear. Ho gave as his rea- son that his business affairs would not admit of the sacrifico. 'he republican st convention should pay hittle attention to the kind of a shirt a canaidate wears. A boiled shirt will do it it has the right kiid of a man inside of it.” Thus says the Norfolk New: According to all reports received tho Laa- caster county republican convention was a very high-handed affair. “Gag law reigned supreme,” romarked & Lincoln man who camo to Omahia yesterday. “Si Alexander sot the pins to have Georgo Bowerman name his own defegates, and he didn't pro- pose 1o have them knocked over by ob- jectors,” Tho follo of the pooplo’s party in Dougias county uro one by one domon- strating that they are not in the movement purely for love of tho causo. They soom to be pretty thoroughly 1noculated with love for office as well, and the county delegation will g0 to Koarney accompanied by two as- piriug patriots who desire ofiicial honors. Iney both want the samo place, so it is deal sure that at least one of them will not come home in an eccstatic frame of mind. T'ho twain‘aro V. O. Strickler and 1. B, Mina- han, both of whom have aspired and been 1eft before, so that it is not probable that they will take it s0 much to heart asa less exporiencad candidato might do. “There's nothing like getung used to a thing,” as the widower remarked at tue funeral of his third wife Ior several days Strickler has been en- donvoping to convince Minahau that the latter does not really want to be a eandidate, but Minahan has been surprisingly obtuse, and up to aate has veen unablo to see tho force of Strickler's arguments, 1f John Jeffeoat is really vlotting against VanWyck, the general might as well drop out. Jeffcoat is not much in a convention, but his pro-convention work among tha pop- ulists is of a most blistering character. It is said that Dr.C. Stewart of Auburn will be the republican candidate for senator from the Second district. W. A. Koithley, who ran a prohibition paper at Ashland, an ndependent journal at Culbertson aud & republican nowspapsr at Superior, has now flopped sgain and has wiado the Superior Times a demoeratic organ, o e NEW CHAIRMAN, THE Chicago Herald (dem.): Mr. Carter 1s not expected to make a very astute or a remark- ably brilliant chairman, but s seclection way serve to hold Moutana in the republican column. Minneapohs Tribune (rep.): Mr. Carter is comparatively young, and somewhat inex- perienced, but what he lacks in thgse he makes up in shrowdness, activity and com- mon senso. Of course bis spurs,in this field aro to be wop, but the Tribund is satistied that, all things considered, tho cboice is wise and one that will bo vindicated by tho resuly in November. New York Heraid (ind.): Te President Harrison, as ho sits on his Capo May cottage poreh today, we tender our con- ratulations, and for two reasons, , that he has at last bcen able to secure a national chairman who is likely to remaln at his post; and second, that ho has gotin the place a man of such scope and volitical adroitness as Mr. Thomas H. Cartor of Montaua. Vow York Tribune (rep.): In choosing Mpe. Carier asits chairman the Trepubiican nationsl committee selectea & leader of whoso competency and fituess there can be nodoubt. * * * Hois cool. Ho does not lose bis head, His verceptions a ck, his instinct sure, his judgment is 0 and lus resolution ready. Few men 10 tho coun- try are wore widely or pleasantly kunown to those on whom falls the burden of political campaiguing. e Thomas H. Carter, tho now ohairmau, is one of the men who had special cbarge of President Harrison’s intorests at Miuncap- otis. Ho has bluo eves and o sunay chin beard, which gives him an agricuitural ap- pearance, but ho is an ablo lawyer and an ologuent speaker. Heis only 38 yoars old, haviog been born in_ Scioto county, Ohio, in 1854, Ho moved to Illinois in 1565 and lived ona farm until 1875, when ho moved to Burlineton, Ia, Hero he studied law and 1882 moved to Moutena, He was a dolegate from Montana in tho Fifty-first coperess, was electod to congress in 1850 and was do- feated in 1500. He was secretary of the na- tional congressional comwmitteo “in 1800 and was appointed commissioner of the land of- fice iu Marcu, 1591 It is w Free Trad atform, New York Sun, The subjoiued louter from an esteem corrospoudunt morits a cowplete and cau aid respouso: To the Editor of the Sun—Sir: Will you pleaso iuform mo whotlier the democrutic platform is a freo wade platform or whether it only asks u revision of the present tarifff Au ardent admirer and supporter of Cleve laud, I am in doubt. Itespectfully nwanp H . Y., July 6, portion of the Chicago platform which states the principle relatiog to the tarif is in tho followiug words: ““We denounce republican protection as o fraud, a robtery of the great majority of the American peoplo for the benetit of the fow. We declare it to be a fundamortal principlo of tho democratic party that the federal government hus 1o coustitutional power to enforco and collect tarlft duties, except for the purpose of revenue only; and demand that the collection of such taxes shall bo limited to tho necessities of tho gove t houestly und economically administered,’ This {s u freo trado platform, as neaily as ne with any ou-to us Spring Vailey ‘That 1t 13 possivle to mak duties left in it avall, It declares that pro- tection is not only & fraud, but is entirely unconstitutional; and while the execution of this platforin would requiro a prompt and powertul vevision of the present riff, in order that protection might bo eliminated, there would be no dificulty about the change, Revenuoe can be raiseo as casily by the ne rule as by the old. Precisely how Mr. Cle nd now stands on this question is ot you clear. His famous message of 1557 was a square declaration for the principle of freo trade; but our free the statesmen of IKeniucky, showing, sy equal some older commuuitios. | now say thut it bad ao soouer boeu delivered to congross than he wishod to_repudiate its dootrine: and the platform offerod at Chi ongo by the regular platform committeo of the convention, with a rampant free trador 1iko Mafor Jones of St. Louis, Mr. Clovo- land's close friend, as its hoad ' and spokes- man, was a protectionist document. That platform, however, was repudiated by the convention, and the froo trade platform was adoptod 1 its place. il S— CCUMEORTING 1 Somerviilo Journa man to ho seneron Philadeiphia Record: How dutl of Wiy, Summorgirl—= frl—\What? horrid M. Drummor New York u 1 don't see why you ndvertised Iive man Merchunt—\Why not? Drummor—Hocauso at the salury you offor load. a man would soon be Chicazo Tribune: “There!" sho said, stapd- inzon her tip-toos, * Linm about your size. “On the contrary,” sald the “disconsolate 1over, “my sighs are about you, Philudelphin Record YOung man who 1s conte of one of those suow wh given the str on the w Imost t ) bear u fastidious 10 purchaso 518 hereby zht thp that the nervous stra i er as ho watchos for dirt spots 1y great for the ordinary human miod inder. THE GENERAL SCAPEGOAT. Washington Star Ho swallowod eallons of champagne, ust compuny ho kepts feit disduin for cooking plain, 1o very soldom slept; TS nerves wore always sorely tried By hoavy poker deits, Yet when he diod the publie cried, SIUs duo to elgnrettes!™ A mugwump poct has writton a demoeratie npaten boem entitlod “Over the HilL to the White House." Boston Courfor: When a waiter Is tippod It sives him aleaning towards his liberal pat- ron. L Columbus Post: After all your boasts of fistic <. i1, the most fatal “olow™ ever struck Was the one that put out the M KINLLY a. BuATRICE, The Great Tarit Advo. braska Au 5 Governor William MeKinloy will speak at the Beatrico Chautauqua August 2 at 3 p, m. The following autograph lottor from governor will be read with iut tho 2P Ae al Benidmon PES /] fi_l A Tianibin, A2 275 1 P inl ZHE SONG OF THE 1EOP. New York Sun, Three times three are sixuy-siy, s ot noeded for making bricks, tepend on politics And the peoplo's party knows it! S PARTY, f wand snout, prople’s pirty kuows it Why should the firnie aclyo and diteh, Bhy o furmer avlyo and ditel, ner's wifo darn and ent can make ‘am rich And the veoplo’s party krows When we've st And purzod Wall street of 118 bulls and be, We're all azoin’ 1o bo milHonaires: oo And the people’s barty L nows it! kieked the plutoerats down infunious mort be fhaunted by suc s for ail, 'y é ~o beople's party kno Away with No more w Uncie San And th he, s it! O. this will 5 Vzlorlous Innd When things are done as we have plannoc And we'll prosperity, fresh afid cannes nd tho people’s party knows it! 1ves of the t 8 will bo doller notes. Il be diamond rings round the heads ot outs. And siiver tips on the norns of gonts And the peopie’s party knows it! The cheese'll bo stiver, the butter'll bo gold, The streums'll ran whis<y, hot and co.d, And wuzwumps will forget to seold: And the people's party knows it! th ult.'1l b 15 wiltl HIDSO) socks: Aud the people's party knows it! the ifth prox., se to tuink of frocks, s foet will be sheathed in S0, hur) Ah, hureah for the great P 1equals 7and 0 equals i, A'is B, and X s And the peoplo’s party knows it! L NEW HINT FROM PARIS. European Edition New York Herald. FOR THE COUNTRY. This costumo do campagne is made of thin and vory light gray cloth. The jaoket opens to show a shirt front like thoso worn by men, gathered in at tho waist by a yellow gauze searf, e — Convieted BurglarCommits Sulcide, Corvamnrs, O, July 19.—~Prank Rowland and James Doyle, partner convicts serving five years in the Ohio prison, each for burg- lary, agrood: I'riday to commit smaoide. Row. land suicided Sunday night, leaviag a con- fession in which ho implicates a numbor of men who are now at largo and vindicates others who ho claims are serving timo for crimes which they did not commit. Doyle became insano today. The prison ofiicials refuso to give tho confession to tho publio until after an investigation, -~ Will Fly the Stars and Stripes, Pumanenenis, Pa, July t is an. nounced hore that Clement Q. Griscom, prosi- dentof tho Tuternational Nuvigation com- pany, who is now in London, has completed negotiations with the Britisn government for the formal transfer of the City of ~Paris and City of New York from English registry to American resistry. ‘These stoamships will bo admitted to tho American registry immediately and hereafter will fly the stars and stripe - A Strong Gladstonian Ally. Washington Star. The news that Mr. Gladstone's cabinet will probably contain Prof. James Bryco, author of “The Amwerican Commonwealth'! veral times a distinguished visitor to hores, is well received in the United States, No foreigner hus writtou altogether s0 well on Ame n institutions as this pen. tleman, who as colonial secratary of a liberal to the bim government would doubtless add spect and admiration felt for side of the Atlantic, ro on this REPUBLIC, The republican eloctors of the state of Ne- sk aro roquested to send delegatos from in con Lincoln, August 4, 18 for the purposo of placing in ndidates for the following state b thelrseveral counties to moeet atthe city of o'elock a. m. nominat ‘ntion overno Lieutenant governor; Secrotary of stat Auditor of public & ; Superintendent of public tnstruction; Attorney general Commissionerof publie lands and bufldinzey Eight presidential clectors: And 10 transiet such other businoss as may come before the convention. THE APPORTIONMENT. Al countios are entitled to repros being basel upon th astings for o \to- for each 100 votes and thie major fraction thervof: wccounts; nsure 1l one i I 2 Perking i Riaind § Plorcn i Boone 2/ Phelps 3 Boyd 8 P R | Box B 12 Po 7 5 Mamiiton 220 11 ed Wiiiow.. 9 5 Hurlun..... ) Kichardson Hayes. U1 | Roek axn ) Iite 5 Suline 21 Hooker ] 12 1 1 o ‘ ol KKeya Il i anton 0 4 Custor Thiyor .1 12 Dakota. Mhomis 2 Dawes huraton 5 Valloy....[! & | Whslogto .. ) Wayne o | Webator ) puglng Wh Dundy Yo Fillmora ) Franklin i Nemuha 012 Total 5 Nuckolls | Frontier [ It s recon mitted giates pro vote of thedele ) proxios nd that the I w noriz S. D Mencen, Chalrman. WAL M. SEeLy, U. B BArcompi, -Seeretaries. Jo il SUTHERLAND, ) & prices todo it. 14, at $1.2. and $6 at S0c; $1 ones at 73c. Browning, )ur store closas at 6:50 p. m duys. when we close at 10 p. . Largost Manutacturers and ravallors of Clothing fu the World, Non-rip-able Pants. Our inventory takes place soon now. For 50c your choice of a fine lot of boys' knce pants, ages 4 to 14, with extra patch thrown in. You might tear ‘em, but you can't rip ‘em; if you do, you get mother pair for nothing, for every pair havin rantec label on will be replacel if they rip. at 75¢ with the same guarante $3 2-picce double breasted plaid cheviot suits, ages 10 to pant suit 0 suits for $5, suits go at $6. Star shirtwaists 35c¢, regular 50¢; 73¢ ones These are not rejected remnants in waists, but the genuine Star Shirtwaist, everyone perfect, ox00pL Satur- A winitmens L ez SPROWNING, KINGS 6§ £0. A 5 Our new fall goods will come soon now, and our present stock of children's clothing must be moved now anl here are rLour war- Aunother lot ; another at $1. $2.50 and , 14 to 18 years. $4; were $35 All the $8.50, $9 and $10 King&Co | S.W. Cor, 15th & Douglas St -