Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 5, 1892, Page 4

~ DAILY SEWATER, Epiron. BEE THE RO PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. — . o OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. = - e TFRMS OF SURBSCRIPTION. Tafly Bee (without Sunday) One Year. 1 nily and & Funday Bee. Cne Yenr Bnturday Tiee, One Vear Wockly Ree, One Year.... .. OFFICKS, Omaha, The Bee Bullding. th Omahn, corner N and 2ith Streets, s, 12 Pearl Stroet. 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Kooms i3, 1§ and 15, Tribune Bullding Wanhington. 518 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. communieations relating to 4 bo sddressed 88388283 on nows and 1 1 to the Lu: BUSINESS LETTERS. Al business | nd remittances shonld be addroesed 10 Th bllshing Company, Omahn Drafte. checks orders to be made payablo to the ompany. THE BEFR BWOILN STATEMENT braska. nnty of Douglas, { George 1. T7schuck. secrotary of Tie BER Pub. Mahing company, does solemnly swear that the wetnul eirenintion of L DATLY B ending July 9, 182, was s follows: Eundny, July Mondwy, July Tuesdny., July Wednerday. July Thursday, July ... Fridny, Jily 2. Enturday, July ¥ Average Eworn to before me and subscribed in my pres cnce thin d0th day of July, 142 N. P FIEL Notary Publle. Averag wation for Juno 25,802, —_—e Tur mercury and the price of fruit are still, way up. JOnN JEFFCOAT was not in it after all. Where was he? MCKINLEY at éxposition hall tonight at 7:30. Let all hear the truth. HrAr Governor McKinley tonight. Tt will bo the great treat of the year. THE people’s party of this state mnade a bad beginning by staying out all night. 17 18 stated that 100 messenger boys in Chicago walked out on a strike.” Of course they walked. 0 MATTER how the Watson investi- gation comes out, congress is singing: “*We won’t go home till doomsday.” Dip the Kenrney convention witness the occultation of Mars, or were they too busy accomplishing the occultation of Burrows? Tre love for antiquities is reviving in Chicago. It has been publicly stated in that city that cedar blocks muke good pavement: THE Daily Commoncr of Wichita, Kan., the only daily alliance paper in Kansns, has suspended. Sic semper erankibus. THE rate war is more interesting to Omaha people just now than the race war. Now is the time to go anywhere for nothing. e BERLIN will annex its suburbs and enumerate 5,000,000 of -pecple. This beats even the records of Chicago and Kansas City. MARs was reticent and the phil- osophers got little for their pains. A true warrior like Mars is always careful about his plans, THE man in this nation who sur- passes all others in picturesque, gi- gantic, absurd and unwarranted egotism is Grover Cleveland. MAN’S humanity is beautifully shown in the tireless efforts of the friends of the late Judgo Clarkson in the search for the body of the missing man. THE BEE this morning gave the po- litical situation at Lincoln in a way that any reader could understand it. No other puper did it—or could do it. THE contest for governor in Kansas lies between a capitalist and a farmer. But the capitalist is on the fusion ticket and the farmer is on the republican ticket. REPUBLICANS may unite with demo- crats in re-electing George W. Peck governor of Wisconsin. While he is governor he can’t write any “bad boy™ stories. A LIPTLE oV three years ago Weaver was in congress filibustering so that he might be made governor of Oklahoma when that territory should be organized. CONGRESSMAN DurBorow of Chi- ¢ago has been renominated, but that is all. History and fate have docreod that no man shall ever be re-elected who parts his hair in the middle. Some one has sued the city for dam- sges becauso o boy was drowned in a pool of water formed in a depression made by city grading contractors Pretty soon some one will sue this town for dumuges because a relative died here of consumption, ANTHONY COMSTOCK has secured the suppression of the lust number of Truth because two figures pictured therein were not proporly clothed, During this torrid weather in that bike-oven, New York, Zvuth ought not to be censured for portraits from life. JAMES G, BLAINE has announced that he will tuke the stump for the repub- lican party on August 17. This means thousands of wavering votes will now be cast for Hurrison. Through all of Hlaine’s career of generous und intense party sorvico he will never bave done an act more loyal than this, Hurrab for Blaine! e THE learned editorial of our esteemed contemporary on the subject of *Monkey Talk” must have tuxed the best energies of the entire force. To this fact is probably due the utter fuiluve of the World- Herald to veport the nomination of Van Wyck at Kearnoy' As usual THE Beg printed the news whead of all competitors It's what Thk Brk is here lor A WEAR DEFENSE. | The offort of Senator Carlisle, ad- mitedly the ablest of the democrat leaders, to aefend the position of his party regarding the tarift will hardly be used by the democratic national com- mittee us a campaign document. It is far too vulnerable for such a service, and yet it is not to bo expected that any other democrat will present an argu- ment even as good as that of the Ken- tucky senator in support of the demo- cratic contention that protection is a fraud and a robbery, Senator Carlisle was one of the sub- committee of the finance committee of the scnate which investigated the course of prices and wages during a period of twenty-eight months before and after the passage of the tariff act of 1800. Te signed the report setting forth the results of that investigation, thereby endorsing its acouracy. But in his speech in the senate lust week Mr. Carlisle endeavored to impeach the con- clusions drawn by Senator Aldrich from the fucts obtained by the investigation, and in order to do this he used a method of caleulation so obviously mislending as to greatly detracy from his reputation for candor and fairness. Senator Al- drich had shown that the decline in the cost of living and the advance in wages during the poriod covered by the investi- gation had resulted in an aggregate saving to the 13,000,000 families of the United States of $325,000,000 for each year. No one who will honestly study the figures as a whole can doubt the fairness of this statement, but there were sume months during the period be- tween October, 1880, and September, 1891, when prices were higher than at the former period, and taking these prices as a basis of calculation Senator Carlisle renched the preposterous conelu- sion that the aggregate increased cost of living to the people of the United States had been for the period mvesti- gated, $285,000,000, o The misleading character of this state- ment was fully and conclusively gxposed by Senator Hiscock of New York, who, by a most comprehensive analysis of the wables compiled by the finance commit- tee, demonstruted that there had been a net decrease in prices for all articles in general consumption except foods, and the Latter are not aflected by the tariff, Prices in the early months of 1891 were distinetly higher than during any period of the investigation, but this was due wholly to the enhanced prices of food products, with which every intelligent man knows the tariff had nothing what- ever to do. The decisive exposure of the false and mislending caleulations of the Kentucky senator completely destroys the effect his speech was designed to have, and the arguments he was expected to fur- nish democratic oratoes for the cam- paigo will not be used. To whom can the demos look for a plausible de- fense of their position when such a leader as Senator Carlisle is unable to provide it? The platitudes of Mr. Cleve- land will weigh little against the facts which conclusively demonstrate that prevailing conditions are all favorable to the progress and prosperity of the country and that the tariff has produced none of the evils which the democratic party predicted of it. ac THE GREAT LETTER-WRITER. Writing to a southern journalist who has lately come over to his side, having been on the side of Tammany, Grover Claveland says: *‘Honestly, it seems to me the «democrats who ure not at this time loyal to the cause are recreant to their country.” To be recreant to his country a man must be false or wtraitorous. Mr. Cleve- land makes no distinction between thosé who witLhold their support from the democratic nominee upon principle and those who do so for unworthy purposes. They are all recreant to their country in the same degree, according to his view of the case. This will strike most people as a very narrow and superficial view of the duty of the citizen. Such sentiments are to be expected from cheap politicians and whippers-in, but a presidential candidate ought o be above them. The fact that Mr. Cleveland protests his honesty in making this declaration will not raise him in public estimation. Most men profess to be honest when they are pleading their own cause, “If it is his honest helief that a democrat has no right to differ from him in opinion us to his duty as a eitizen, and that to so differ is to prove recreant to his country, he simply denies the right of individual democrats to follow the dictates of their own consciences or to act in the light of what they may deem reason and common sense. Of course, such an utterance imputes, by impiication, the grossest dishonesty to republicans, and the presidential candi- date who makes such an imputation against more than one-half of the citi- zens of the United States proves himself a aarrow partisan, if not something worse. So prolific a letter-writer as Mr. Cleveland should have more discre- tion than he possesses. DEMOCRATIC GERRYMANDERS, The supreme courts of Wisconsin and Michigan have declared the ger der of legislative districts in those states, mado by democratic logislatures, unconstitutional, Both of the great purties have been guilty of adopting this method of ohtaining an uafuir partisan advantage, but in all the history of the gerrymander, since it was first employed in Mussuchusetts seventy-eight years ago, the democratic party has com- mitted tho most flagrant abuses under it, as the examples in Wisconsin and Michigan amply attest. While that party continvally boats of its profound respect for constitutional requirements, 1t hus never hesitated to promote parti- san advantage by the most reckless uso of the gerrymander. It has done it in Ohio and it did it in New York, stealin, the senate of the latter state for the purpose. The republicans of Now York are contesting the democratic gerry- mander in that state on precisely the same grounds that similar laws have been declured null and vold in Wiscon- sin und Michigan, and if the supreme court of New York is as honest us the courts of those states it will render a like decision. These clrcumstnoces aguin call public | sttention W the dangerous character of yman- | THE OMAHA tho gerrymander as affecting {he rights of the people. In his last annual mos- sage President Harrison characterized it as a form of political robbery. Chief Justice Morse of the Michigan supreme court said that “the time has arrived for plain speaking in relation to the ont rageous practice of geerymandering, which has become s0 common and has 80 long been indulged in without rebuke that it threntens not only the peace of ths people, but the permanency of our free institutions.” A justice of the same court declared 1n reference to this mat- ter that the greatest danger to the re- public is not from ignorance, but from machinations to defeat the expressions of the popular will. The utterly, lawless application of the gerrymander in Wis- consin and Michigan, and there is reason to beliove in New York also, shows to what extrems the democratic party is capable of going in order to re- tain power. If it would disregard the constitution in the statesnamed it would not hesitato to d0soin every state to keep its grasp upon power. EMOTIONAL AND INCONSISTENT. Our emotional contemporary, tho World-Herald, suys that the fact that tho strikers at Homestead feel sanguine of success ‘“*does not reflect very much credit on their intelligence.” It puts their case in this way: The men at Homestead are without work. They will scon, many of them, bo without homes. They will fina itdiffieult to get work elsewnore. Now, why are thoy feoling san- ne! Doos it muke them sanguine to know that their wives and children will be hard DUt to it this yoar to get the comforts of life! Does it make them sanguine to realise that tho sympathy of the groat majority of peonle in tnis country is with Carnegio and his crow! Does it make them sanguine to know that somo of their number aro to be tried for manslaughter! Or to draw the conclusion, as they must, that lavor almost invariably ets the worst of it ina war with capital! Or to como face to face with the fact that this government is run in the interosts of concerns like the Raading coal cembine and the Carnegie cowpany? 1f they are sanguine in the face of these facts they must huvo meat that wo kuow not of. This is a fair specimen of the - inco- herent and confusing vhilosophy which the World-Herald hus brought to bear upon this question from the first. That paper has no fixed views upon the rela- tio isting between the owners of the mills and the strikers but is 1nfluenced from day to day by its emotions. A few days ngo it thought that the strikers were doing a heroic and defensible thing when they forcibly denied the right of the owners of the Homestead property to control their own premises and pre- vent mobs from trespassing thereon; but now it holds the strikers up to con- tempt for being so fatuous as to hope for a successful issue, ‘We have before called attention to the responsibility of such newspapers for the troubles at Homestead. Such utter- ancos as the above, containing as they do the sting of taunt, are calculated to do harm and cannot possibly do good. The statement that “‘the sympathy of a great majority of the people in this couutry is with Carnegie and his crew” is untrue, and it is absurdly inconsistent with the previous statements of the same paper. Bqually untrue, and even more foolish, is the statement that this government is run in the interests of concerns like the Reading coal combine and the Carnegie company. The intel- ligent reader will not require a refuta- tion of such silly allegations ns thesc Nothing but harm can come of such utterances. When the workingmen are in a state bordering upon desperation it is unsafe to taunt them with folly and failure. If the event shall prove that the Homestead strike isa failure the men who have engaged in it with honest purpose, the men who have withheld their hands from violence and sought only a peaceable achievement of their ends will receive public sympathy. No friend of the laboring man will fling his failure in his face and tell him that the hope which he cherished did not reflect credit upon his intelligence. —_— A WORTHY MEASURE IN DANGER. The bill introduced in the house of representatives some time ago to com- pel all railroad companies in the United States to equip thei with auto- matic couplors and their freight ongines with driving wheel brakes now appears to have no prospect of meoting with favorable action at the present session of congress, and it is intimated that even if it is brought upagain next win- it may be killed in the senute. 'he object of this bill is simply and solely the protection of the lives and limbs of railroad trainmen. The num- ber of railroad employes killed and maimed under the present system every year is appalling. It is believed by those who have made a special study of the matter that hundredsof lives would be saved annunlly by the adoption of the new systom proposed in this bill, and there is a strong demand throughout the country for such a, law. Of course the railroad companies oppose it, coy- ertly, at loast, if thoy da-o not do so openly, and it i¥'stated upon what seems tobe good authority that the companios nave friends enough in the senate to do- fent it. The opposition to the bill is based upon the plea that it would entail enor- ormous expense upon the railroad cor- porations. Butthe termsof the bill mako liberal provision—too liberal, wo think, considering the precious human lives in- volved—as to the time to bo allowed the compunies for the change from the old system to the new. Several yeurs are given for the equipment of the old cars, a length of time suficient for the wear ing ous of the present mankilling outfit, and only the cars bui t after the enact- ment of the law are to be immediately provided with the new couplers. It is o be regretted thata measura so im- portant canuot becoms u law at once, and it is still more to ve regretted thav there are influences at work in the sen- ate which way prove fatal to it. cars "HERE is a very general feeling that ‘L year ought to ba ene of exceptional progress und prosperity for Omaha. Nehraska will have groat crops and the production in all the contiguous coun- try will be large The agricultural communities in the territory tributary to this city are assured a generous we.sure of prosperity. This means, of DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, ourse, an increased demand for the pro- ducts of the mitlund factory, a larger movement of flié morchandise of tho manufacturer and merchunt. Omaba enterprises wilb hdoubtedly realizo the good effects of thig added prosperity and it is reasonnbly to be expected will ex- pand their operttions. But thore should be more than thig realized. There will be room and oppertunity for more in- dustries and it'is Aot to be aoubted that if the proper effopl be mado they can be sccured, An early movement in this direction is to be'llesired. Omaha must push its claims, to consideration if 1t wonld hold its place in the race with would-be rival A WESTERN democratic journal says that the price of antheacite conl has been advanced #1 a ton by the wicked tariff trust, and that “millions of dollars will be saved to consumers by tariff re- form and free coal.” There is no duty on anthracite coal, and the complaint, therefore, takes its place with hun- dreds of other explodea democratic campnign torpedoos, Those who are in the habit of reading the free trado newspapers often encounter such ab- surd arguments against the republican protective policy. No man who sin- cly dasires to know the truth in ro- gard to protection and its fruits will place any dependence upon the.demo- eratic press. ] THE intelligence that the Chicago Great Western railway has practically decided to carry out the plan, contem- plated for more than o year past, of ex- tending the system by building a line to Omaha, itis to be hoped is well founded. It appears that this is one of the fruits of the Nobraska Central project, it being understond that it is the purpose of the Great Western to use the termi- nal facilities of the former company. The consummation of this project would be a material benefit to Omaha. Tne temperature isa little high yet to admit of the serious consideration of practical measures for increasing the industrial enterprises of Omaha, but the matter ought to receive attention at anearly day. There must be a very rnest and energetic effort mado in this direction the present year so that next year, which ought to be the most prosperous in our history, shall show the desired results, KXTENDING the freedom of the cit a form of compliment which has the authority of antiquity, but which in these modern days has lost much of its oid meaning. None the less the council, in voting to give the freedom of the city to the Masonic visitors, did a very proper thing, and the zens will sup- plement it by giving the Shriners and Kuoights hearty welcome and hospitable entertainment. - i mortality record of Omaha for July was larger than usual, due to the increased death rate among children, but in comparison with the mo ‘tality of other citics it was swall. While the citizon of Omaha gets a taste of all kinds of temperature, thero a-e fow scc- tions of the country more healthful than this. Strange Lapse of Momory. Washiagton Post. Mr. Cleveland is writing a great many lot- ters these days, but be is not saying a word about the one-torm idea. ELE GV - Diniel Took His Toddy, New York Advertiser, The uttempt to whitewash tho inebriated democratic nouse begins to assume a ludi crous phase. But remember, brthren, that Daniel Webster used to take a drink occa- sionally. — Congress and Its Work, St. Paul Pioneer Press. Judgéd by tho record of its work, tho Fifty-second congress must stand confossed & failure and & humbug. Nouno of its prede- cessors can show as bare and meager a lis! of things accomplished. e A Great Polltical Fact. New York Sun, May 10, A perporual candiaate for president, like the stuffed prophet of Rhode Islana and St. Paul, is u perpetual source of partisan ge- rangoment and irritation, a nuisance to his party and a ore and vexation to voters gen- eraliy. Progressive Protecton, Globe=Demoerat. Hugh O'Donnell began work for the Car- negie company at 67 cents a day, &nd when he quit he was gotung $16) & month. So there is one case, at [cast, in which wagoes bave been materially increased under the volicy of protection. s Button, Springfi-d Union. For the sake of saving a cont, maybe, on a dozen peari shirt buttons, which would sup- ply o man for a_yoar or two, the free traders would close up our thriving pearl button shops and force us to buv tha products of Austrian prison labor. Thav's just the pith of the pearl button agony. A Soathern View of Penslons, Durham (N- €.) Globe. The fellows who receive pensions voluntar- ily went into the war—they went, not for love of country, but for the money they were promised and 'which they receivea—sli a month. * % + Tho pension fraud is the groatost of the age—aud Cleveland struok the boggars in the face. He should bo given a chance to bit 'em again. JEELR AL iy Keep an Eys on HilL Phitadelphia Bulletin. ‘Tho republicans who count on Hill opposi- tion to Cleveland as a fuctor in their cam- paien for earrying New York are making a mistake. Hill” willSulk and make mouths like all politieians of his kind, and then come to terms; and long before the campaign is over ho will boon fhe stump shouting as vociferously as any democrat for “the wholo ticket."" 2 ————— A Model Demoerat, St. Pauk Pioncer Press In all the roar thas has been made about the brutality of Colonel Streator in hanging Private lams up by the thumbs at Home- stead, shaying ome. sido of his countenance and drumming bim out of camp, nota word has been said in democratic journuls about the politics of the offending ofiicer. The reason for this Iy twat Lioutenant Colonol Streator 15 a preminent democratio politi- cian of Westmorelayd county, Penusylvunia. e INDUMTLEY AND PROGRISS, Now York makes 2,000,000,000 cigarettes a yoar. Ao express engine uses ten gallons of water per mile. ‘Thero have been patents granted to 64 New York women siuce 1804, Russia’s woolen industries employ 5,000, Cotton wanufaclurers amploy 500, Many coffeo platers in Mexico wake a profit of 25) per cent on Lbe wmount of monoy lnvested. A New Yorker has made a clock which contains 34,000 pieces of Woog, comprising about 325 varietios. “The people of the United States read and support as many newspapers as England, France aud Germany combined, Exverienced planters In the south now raise the wale cotton plant, being thus en- AUGUST abled to securo the seed without the lint or colton. 1ot blast furnaces are now being con- structed in such a manner as to use the heat derived from tho furnace for baating the air b.own into it to smelt the contents A recent test of brick made by the dry clay process at the Watertown arsenal, ac- cording to Paving, showed an average com- pressive strength of 8,072 pounds per square inch, Recently a clever person in St. Petorsburg arranged and piaced on exhibition a clock with a phonograph attachment that will re- peat at any hour set, according to tho possessor’s desire, such orders of aunoun ments as may be committed to it. Judgo Good, the cordage king, lives at t'ar Rockaway in 'a beautiful cottage. Good's income is said to be £1,000 each day and 31,000 each night. These sums are from royalties on the rope-making machinory which he in- vented, Ho worked at the trade of ropoe- making in an ordinary rope-walk. 11 Michigan it is unlawful for ruilway companies to noglect to block the frogs on their ronds, so that the fest of omployes may not be caught therein, A switchman, while uncoupling cars, had his feet caught in an unblocked froz and was injured. Ho sued for damages and proved that other frogs in the yard were unblooked, and that the yard master had been notified of their condition, The court decided that it was no defense that the company had employed men to keep all frogs blocked and that proper materini haa veen furnished for that purpose, because the negligence of the ewmployes was the negligence of the compan . o MYSTERIOUS MURDERS, Horrible Crime O mitted at Fall Mass , in Broad Daylight, Fais Riven, Mass, Ang. 4.—Androw J. Borden and his wifo wero found dead at their home, 92 Second streot, at 11 o'clock this morning. Both had boon frightfully mutilated about the hoad and faco with an ax, cleaver ora razor. Mr. Borden lay on sofa in a room of the house. His head haa been cut, and gashes from four to six inches long were found on his faco and neck. Mrs. Borden was in her own chamber on tho upper floor, and the condition of her face and bead was the same as that of her husband. No jmplemonts that could havo ocon used in the commission of the crime wers found. This leads to the beliof that Mr. and Mrs. Borden were murdered. Mr. Borden was & real ostate ownor and mill man and was seen on tho stroet half an hour before ho was found dead. 1t is said that tho servant, Bridget Sulli- van, says she went to the room to make somo inquiry of Mr, Borden about five minutes before Lizzin Borden eave the alarm. He was theu sitting on the sofa reading a nows- paver. Mr. Borden was on tho streots and in soy- eral of the banks as late as 10 o'clock. poadbeariisfoed Murder and Sulolde. Sr. Jostrm, Mo., Aug. 4.—Julws Clemens this morning shot and killed Mrs. Philpena Morgenthallor and then blew out his own brains. Clemens had Mrs. Morgonthatler ar- rested some time ago on the charge of sotting fire o one of his housns. Sho was acquitted and 1nstituted a aamage suit. Attorneys tola Clemens the woman had a good case. Brooding ovor the matter 1s thought to be the cause of the crime. il Will Divide the Waters, En Pso, Tex., Aug. 4.—Acting Governor Picmentel and Governor-oloct Ahumago of Chibuabua, Mexico, arrived here to confer with ofiicials of the United States concerning tho division of the waters of tho Rio Grande river for irrigation. Governor Abumago says the subject will bo treated in a spirit of fair- ness. River, - The Death Roll. Pirrsnune, Pa., Aug. 4.—William Reese, the oldest iron worker 'in the United States, and one of the best known manufacturers here, dicd at his hoine in Bolivar, Pa., today aged 74 years. PRt WEITHER FORE Orric oF WEATHER BUneav, | Oniana, Aug. 4. | A low barometer is central this evening over tho Dakotas and is unaccompaniea thus far by rain. Itis slowly moving castward toward the lake rogion. Tho conditions re- main dry and hot west of the Missis<ippi river. [u the upper Missouri valley aud southwestern ‘sections the temporature ut 7 o'clock registerea in the nineties. Rapid City, S. D., reports o maximum temperature of 102 for today. Hot southerly winds pre- vail west of the Mississippi. Local Forecas For Enstern braska, mabs aud Vicinity — Warmer, i Wi mllhl'r, south to southwest winds during Frida; W AsuINGTON, D. C., Aug. 4. —Forecast_for Friday: For 'Nobraska and Iowa—Fair, warmer in eastern Iowa; coolerin Nebraska winds shifting to west. For the Dakotas—| showers in_western Dakota; cooler in shifting to wester] STS. “air, preceded by Minnesota and North South Dukota; winds BE MERRY WHILE YOU MAY. Washington Star: “I have now attained the Fahrenheit of my ambition,” romarked the thermometer, Atchison Glob man easy After he falls off one, a ever compares anything to being as s fulling off & | Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly: The most revolutioniry and Inconstant class of men in the world e tho newspaper compositors Why, they actually set up new leaders evory nizht. Ne fizurea tives Is £0 York Herald: Carruthes at what the coweateher on locomo- ’s for douf men. Thoy can't henr but by looking around cher. the whistle they can st Lowell Courier: oruntions unusunl frequer rity. vhe sarsubariiie manufacturers? e of Where are Boston Cour! hat that su :ges Wiys room at the top : It was pro d the sayin ly the plug There 15 ul- Philudelphia Ledzor: The mosquito knows how to strike, but ho positively refusos to be locked out. . Elmira Gazette: That barber Is poor indeed who doesn’t even hons his razors. Chieago Inter Ocean: It Is no vrouble to get asteiking plovure of a pugllist. Boston Transcript: Tho mosquito 1s not In- clined to favor prohibition. He is unani- mously in favor of open bars and unalterably opposed to the screen law. Galveston News: 'l ke things by stdrm. Washinzton Star: Miss Blimkins says she doesn’t daunce,” suld 006 young man 10 un- other at i plenic 0cs she, tho was the reply. “Well, you should ' liave scon hor a fow Lo wh bug went down hor hack THE CAMPAIGN AL BILLVILLE. Atlanta Constitution, didutos for ¢ ress, twonty up to dates Fiftoen ropresentutives u-swingin' on the gate: l‘urlyvl:vn for louc twenty-six for shorff, Just n-yellln to the crowd Flve for tax collector; tax receiver. ten: Autis all a-runnin’ 'galust the prohibition mon: Fitty-two for Au'twenty-save rear! One candidate for preacher—he's most too wenlk to tulk; ie'd havo strilght walk-over if ho had the stronzil o walk! Oh, every wan Is on the run, an’ ready to ad- dress us, With fitteen senator—little, but they're An' arshali thirty odd for mayor; coronors a-bringin’ up the ndred candidates for editor Washington Star, One day i congressmun sot out, As 80 of thew will do, Tho city fair to wulk ubout, And taste 1ts ploasures, 100, ow," sald hoe, “what shall i¢ be, Ninge long © hope to rown? In faith, Itsore y puzzies me To know what 1l bring home, Perhaps u gent'emanly ‘tight,' DS yulear lond:' “plalu drunk, they will tudice, 36 of prive L 50.d. ot chanco IL" and bis eyo With resolution ¢listened, i tail how, by and b Twill happen to Le christened . STEVENSON AT LOUISVILLE He 8peaks at the Dedication of the Wat- terson Club House, POLITICS ARE COMPLETELY IGNOR[Dl ntucky and Her Horoes His Themo—1he Domocratic Campnign ¢ Jones' Majority in Alabama One—rolitical Pointers. Lovisviiie, Ky., Aug. 4.-~This has been a groat day and night for the Kontucky domo- orats, Tho oponing and dedication of the new Watterson club houso drow togother all the loaders of tno party in the state. The governor and staff eamo down from K'rank- fort. The legislature was left without a quorum. But tho chief foature of the ocon sion was the presence of Hon. Adalai K. Stevenson, democratio nominee for vico president, who came at the invitation of the Wattorson club, and spoke both to & great concourse of peoplo at Liederkran’s hall and to a small gathering at the \Watterson olub house, where ho was given a resoption, and where Mr. Watterson, in spito of bis rocent severo illness, of which he showed docided traces, also spoke. Flags and bunting shono overy- where. The city was in holiday attire and in holiday spirits, Tho Wattorson club house was gorgeous with the decorations by day, and also iwith flluminations by night. Goveruor Young of Kentucky prosided over the mass moetng and introduced Gon- eral Stevenson to tho immenso audience, Ho was groeted with tumultuous onthusiasm. Amoag other things he said: Stevenson’s Remark MR, PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Taccopted with pleasuro the invitation of your committee to be present at the dedis tion of the hall to the Watterson club, For this kind remembrance | am profoundly aratetul. The hear.y greoting accorded mo by this audienco—as well as tho courteous terms n which you, sir, have boen plensed to present me—-have touched me doep “Amongst those who nave weicomed mo to this metropolis, 1 recognize gentlemon with whom it has been my good fortuno to be as- sociated in the public servico. den, whose lofty devotion to principle, 0 less than whose eloguenco, has rondered them fit successors 10 Clay and Critteudon, and their illustrious compoers. “I 100, am a Kentuckian, The years that have passed siuce my footstops wore turned toward the magnificent state which stretches northward to the lakes, havo not. weakenod tho cords which bind me to the old common- weaith. The memory of our pioneer ances- try, of the privations and sufferings endurefl, of the obstacles overcoma, of the perils en: countored by the glorious men and women who made possibie what our oyes now be- hold—-is the heritage of all Kentuckians, 1 glory with vou in the history and in the tra- ditions which for a bundred yoars have made Kentucky so potent a constituent i our fed- cral union. | | Kentucky's Heroes, “It is my pleasing task tonight, Mr. Presi- dont, 10 rémina you that Illinols hasn't been unmindful of ber obligation to her sister state, separated by the Ohio, but united by ancestral ties and the memorios of common dangers, Moro than sixty years ugo, while there yot survived within hor borders heroes of the Thames, of Tippecanoe and of tho | Raisin, Illinois honored horself by giving to a splendid county the namo of Joo Davies in commemoration of her gratitude to tho law- yer, tho eloquent advocate and warrior, as knightly s ever Koatucky sent forth to death on tho fiela of battle, “In the beautirul cemetery near the capi- tal city of this couwnonwealth, where sleap somany of her illustrious dead, stanas o monument imposing, erected by grateful peovle, to the heroes who foll at Buena Vista. inscribed upon that monument with the names of McKeo and of Clay, is thut of an illustrious Illinoisan lawer, the peerless soldier, John J. Hardin, Of the many wifted sons given by this commonwealth to lllinois in the carly davs of its bistory I may wmen- tion Bdwards, Cook, Start, Logan, Brown- g, Dickey, 'Walker, Melleruand, Yates, Oglesvy and Palmer, mon who all along tho pathway of our history have proved such potent faciors 1n molding its institutions and in the upbuilding of the state. Lincoln's Fame, “But this 1s not all. Dlinois is debtor to Kentucky for ons more illustrious than thoso whom I have named. Greavas a law- yer, with marvelous powor as an advocate, tho'peerof tho mightiest in_debate, wiso as great ocoasions demanded wisdom, the famo of Abraham Lincoln is not confined to tho state of his birth, nor his adoption, but is tue heritago of all péople. “Mr. Prosident, th's is a masterful hour in tho history of this motropolis and of this commonwealth, Tonight you formally dodi- cate the Watterson club house. This mag. nificent audienco has assombled to witness 1o 1die ceremony. Who can forecast how far reaching in its conseaucnces may bo the work of this hour. ““The club whose guest Iam tonight has honored itself by adopting a name well known 1 ali of the states of this union. Wherever in this broad land, men of brains, men who hava tho courage of their conyvic- tions, manty wen, the loaders of men, are & 'knnwn and honored, Watterson 18 a house hold word."” NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMUTTY It Meets and Elects Don Dickinsor Chalrman of the Campalgn Committee New Yonk, Aug. 4 —The campaign com mittee of the democratic national committer met this morning and spent the time up t¢ adjournment for luncheon in a general dis cussion on matters partaining to the oam. Phign, but no decision was reached on chair- man of tho campaign committee, While at iuncheon the committee finished its business. On motion of 1. C. Wull of Winconsin, seconded by M. W. Ransom of North Carolina, Hon, Don M. Dickiuson was unanimously chioson chairman of the cam- PAaIgN comumitton, On motion of Gorman of Maryland, B, Smalley of Vermont was elocted secrotary. Chairman Harrity of the national commit- 100 was authorized to appoint the necessary subcommittees and to employ assistants and a clorioal foroo for headquarters, Mo imme- diately appointed George N. Parker audi- tor, and William Duft- Haynie of Rapid City, 8. 'D., superinteudent of the information bureat. Frank M. Duffy of New York was appointod mossenger, The campaign committeo docided that the resolution of the national committeo con- templated the appointment of nino member: of the campalgn committoe, exclusive of M Harrity. so today Mr. Harrity addea Wil- tiam C. Whitney to the committeo, Tho ad- visory committee will not be appointed for soveral days. RMONIOUS REF ers of the ¥ Firmly United, NEW Youk, Aug. 4.—A largo and enthus- instic picoting of the executive committeo of the ropublican leaguo of the stato of Now York was hold hore yesterday. White law Roig, vico presidential caudidate, was warmly grooted whon he made his appear- ance In an address, ho culogizod the club's work and said that the utmost harmony pre- vailea botwoen the stato committee and the state league, Chairman Thomas H. Carter of tho repub- lican national committeo also addressed tho meoting. He urged the extension of club organization. Sepator Hiscock nddrossed the meeting ard sald that the repuolicans wero united and sure of succoss. Colonel McAlpin was ro-electod president of the exccutive committee and Job . Heges secrotary, Aftor the meeting a_confernnco was held between Chairman Carter, Whitelaw Reia, J. Sloat Fassott, Senator Hiscock, W. C. thorland of Rochester and Cornelius N Bliss, It was romored that Mr. Fassett vep- resented Mr. Platt, and that all griovances had been adjustad, but no one would say anything regarding the rumor, TBLICANS, New York Mo rty Again Completed the Ticket. AvxniNaros, W. Va,, Aug. 4. —The repub- lican convention this morning comploted its stato tickot. W. P. Payne was nominatea for treasuver and Fhomas O. Bullock for at- tornev genoral. For jadge of tie suprome court, long term, J. M. MW horter of Groen Brier was nominated on the first ballot. For judge of the supreme court, short term, Warren Mitler of Jackson, 15d. Doolittle of bell and James A. Newton of Preston werc uominated on the first vallot, A. W. Campbell of Ohio and Enoch Carver of Fayeite were nominated by ucclamation for presidential eloctors-at-large and then the convention, at 3:15, adjourned. Wenver in Novada, Wapswori, Nev., Aug. 4.—A large dolo- gation of the silver party of Nevada met General Weaver, the people’s party nominoe for presidgent, at Woils yestorday and es- corted him through the state. He was given a recoption at every station and delivered brief speaches, which were enthusiastically received. At soveral points he was greeted with bands of music and the roar of cannon. Ho speaks today in Rano and Virginia City, and will leave for Los Angeles, Cal., in tho evening. Clevelnnd Righly Pleased. Buzzanw's Bav, Mass., Aug, 4.—Mr. Cleveland expressed himseif 8s being much pleasod over tho result of tho election n Atabama. Mr. Cleveland is in roceipt of 18 congratulatory message from Governor- elect Jones assuring him of an overwhelming democratic victory in November., County Elne Nasnvitie, Tenn., Aug. elections are being held throughout the state for shemff and other county officers today. No state oficers will be chosen. Nominated for the Third Time. Savaxyan, Ga, Aug. Congressmun Lester was today unanimously revominated for a third term. e ALIFORNIA TRAIN ROBBERS. nger Train and Secure a Large Booty, Fresxo, Cal, Aug. 4.—The passonger train, southbound. was held up by train rob bers near Collis last uight. The robbers compelled tho engincer and fireman after stopping the train to walk o quarterof @ mile ahead and then ordered the oxpress wessonger to open the doors of the express car. Ho refused, and thoy demolishod them with bombs, forced open tho safo and took out the money contained 1n it, the amount of which is unknown. They ' com- pelied the fireman to help carry the treasuro away, and thon tho robbers mounted horses and galloped off. The engino was damuged by bombs exploded under it and the messen- had a rib broken by a bomb exploded in the express car. oy HOld Up i Pass co. Largest Manufacvurors an 1 ravailses of Clothing fu the Worll. Drifting--- Everything ers. tailot’s art, as we have been these garments perfect. Our and then the satisfaction of knowing that you are well dressed is worth something extra. Browning,King&Co | Our storo eloses at 650 p. 1 d ys, when we close i 1 anl everyboly seems to be drifting For never have we been able to show such choic sclections of cloth, made up in the highest style of the that everything that cin be has been done to make oxcept Satur- ‘ our way this season. We are doing a business of i which we are very proud and one which will con- | tinue to make us custom- this year. It certainly seems prices are as low as any \ | S.W. Cor15th & Dougl