Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY i . ROSEWATER, Eorron, PUBLISHED OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. L TFRMS OF SUBSCHIPTION Datly Bee (withont Tunday) One Year Datly and Kunday. One Year... .. ... K1x Montha inkve Three Mont s Eunday e, Ono Yonr Eatirdny e, One ey Weekly Ren, (no ¥ oar OFFICES | Omala. The Vee Puilding Bouth Omaha, corner N and 20th Stroots, Counell Bluffs, 12 Pear Street Chicago Office. 317 Chntmber of C Kow York, Ronma 13, 14 and 15, Trl Washington. 613 Fourteenth Stroot {CORRESPONDENCE. Al communieations relating o #dltorinl mattor should be addrossod ttorinl Department BUSI BEE EVERY MORNING. nmoros. ane Bullding and T nowa to the ERS LETTERS ahould b pany. Omaha t be mad paynble to th T o tho company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY T UWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. £ Nobraska | County of Do Gioorge 1. Tzacho Nrhing company wolomnly awe tunl etreulntlon of TIE DATLY IEE 10 nding AugusE2), 157, was ns follows 0By, AUKISE T4, eneos Mondny, Aunst 15,000 I Taoadny, Augnat i Wednoadny Thursday, Ar Friday, g Entnrday, August 20, orot s of Tik NER T tha Averago. ... ...l Vi TR YL 10, B TZSCHUCK ribed in my pros £worn 10 before me and su) enco this 20th day of Angnst, 187 PFRn Notary Publie, Nation for July 24,316, Average Cir NOTIING is ever gained by n party lowering its standard for a moment, even. Tie wet weather soems to have dampened the ardor of the city hall combatanis. Tie quarreling of two great insur- ance companies is engrossing the able Intellects of New York just now. A FALL of ice caused by intense heat has nearly destroyed a Swiss village. In this country heat sends ice up. YAWNING is said to be an excellent cure for catarrh. Then the cheapest curo we know of for eatarrh may be obtained by reading the average democratic editorinl on th tarifm, THeRe are only four enndidate congress in the Eighth Towa di and the damocrats have not held their convention yet. This looks like a luc ste Hepburn, Grover CLEVELAND in attempting make both “No Negro Domination™ eat issue of to and “Tarifl Reform™ the g the campaign might well split the dif- ference Reform. nd make the issue *No Negro [ 18 earnestly hoped that the com- mittee appointed by the Board of du- cation will decide to continue the teachers’ training school. Such an in- stitution is a very valuable adjunct to educational work. COUNCIL BLUFFS seems to be having rather more than its share of burglari thefts -and petty offenses of various kinds. The tramps who have lately been reported numerous there are ov! dently not so idie at night as they arve in the daytime, o8, FRoM various scctions of Nebraska come reports which indicate that the heavy rain of Monday was general in this state, It was needed in some localities and has given late corn u great boom. The farmors have every reason to be huppy. THE people’s party of Nebraska is full of “leaders” whose past records, if traced back to the states from which they came, would appear so foul that their immediate vicinity and the whole patty would need the vigorous applica- tion of disinfectants, Tug election of Willinm Harkness for president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was a fitting recognition of the able and talented man who has so long filled the chair of mathematics at the United States naval academy VorusLe O, from his Weave roturned ump over the west, When ho itet and says the west is ablaze. was west ho probably told them that Ne- braska was abluze. His party’s agita- tovs are always busy talking about en- thusiasm—somewhuere olse, Tie statement of architect that Omaha’s the supervising new postoffico building will be ready for occupnncy in about two years is perhaps as favorablo a8 could be expected, but at the present rate of growth in the postal business of this city it will be necded before it is finished, — SI0UX CITY i3 teying to have a fail ageicultural oxhibit, having abundoned its Corn pal The Coal paluce at Ottumwa is another deserted vuin and oniy the Creston Bluegrass valuce has the hardihood to t it again this year, The average lowa palacs of any sort is u pleasant place in which to sink plenty of cash, ——— Tae erudite New York World ob- sorves that tho Towa democrats are in oxcellent conditicn, ote., and adds, ““Governor Boies will muko s gallant fight and ought to win.”" Win what? Ho isn’t running for anything this yoar nor is he making a gallant fight for the Clevelund crowd who at Chic 10 simply snoered ut him, ———e As USUAL, Cleveland is proving him- 8olf u straddler and s afraid to put him- soif on A few days after his numination the Free Trado loague of Now York wrote him a lettor of con- greatulutions on his success and the bold- ness of the free teado plitform. But not yet have they received t of answer, The explanation is obvious He dares not champion tueir cause. The country s anxiously awaiting his lotter of acceptance in which no will muke the effort of his life to write a double-dealer on turifl. The Free Trado longue members are indignant at his actiors and say thoy will voto for Weuver record. any sor THE CANDID. It was my sincare desiro ana intention to keop private all that transpired before the republiean state committee at 1ts session Monday night and acquiesce in the action then and there taken. But the ardent sup- porters of Colonol Majors have seen fit to print garbled and distorted roports, whic h place me in a falso light before my follow republicans, and Mr. Majors has sought to fasten & stigma upon me in his speech of acceptancs under which no self-rospecting American citizen, and especially a man oc- | cupying my position, can afford to rest. The fact that I am a memner of the na- tional committeo gives warrant tono candi- date to cast asversions upon me, much less to churge me with complicity in one of the greatest crimes that has cver been perpes trated ngainst the people of this state. What- ever the consequences may be, I am now competled to give publicity to the scandalous tncidents that took place while the state com- mitteo was in executive session aund relate as near as | can remember what was there stated by me, Beforo the committee had met I asked Chairman Cudy for permission to address the committeo within closed doors with a view to placing before them certain fucts which, in my judgment, would make the nomination of Majors impolitic and hazardous. Mr. Cady expressed tho opinion that thore was no like- lihood of Majors’ nomination, and hence any effort on my part to nddress the committes on that subject would e superfluous. The committee first held a brief with closed doors. At p. m. Mr. Magoon, who had been informed about my desire to be hoard, called me from the corridor 1ato session tho committeo room, [ naturally supposed that this invitation was oxtended to me as a member of the national committee or tor the purpose of affording me un opvortuaity to ad- dress the committoe. Upon entering 1 dis- covered that quitea number of other persons, mostly mnembers of tho press, were being ad- mittea, The committea then proceeded with its routine work of balloting for its officers. Im- mediately after this work was completed ate read hislerter of declination as cax for neutenant governor. This wus wed by an informal baliot to fill the va- iey. Upon the announcement that Majors had received twenty-one of the thirty-threo VOtes cast a motion was made toadopt the in- formal vallot as formal. The chairman, Mr. Cady, then deliberately stated the movion and turnig toward the audienco asked whether anybody had anything o say. Therenpon [arose from my seat and re- respectfully asked permission to make a statement boaving upon the question then vonding before the committee, with all out- siders excluded. When a motion was mado that the request bo granted a great uproar aroso among the audicnce. Protests were mado at once by two Lincoln editors who nave for years been afflicted with Rosewa- terophobia, and they were seconded by several ghost dancers who had been lobbyiug ~ for Mr. Majors. They denounced the attempt to go into secret session as an unteard-of and demanded that one of should be admitted to represent Mr. Majors. I stated thatl had no objection, provided that tho paity would treat the disclosuros as confidential, but I preferred, 1t possible, to talk in the presence of Majors himself, and usked that he be invited to be present. The committee voted to go into executive session, from which all outsiders, excepting myself, Messrs. Majors and Bushnell, his advocate, were excluded, The rooms 1n which the committee neld its mecting, in the second story of the Capitol totel, wore nearly on a level with the roof of an adjoining annex. No sooner had the rooms been cleared and the dours closed than the vufflanly crowd in the corridors began to show their displeasuro by howiing, stamping their feet, kicking the petition walls, throw- ing missiles at the windows, one of which they broke. A number of them carried on their assaults from the root. Iivery twoor three minutes they bammered at the door, and whenover it was opened by the doorkeeper the mob shouted for Majors. This disgrace- ful disturbance continued during the wholo time that I was speaking. Such conduct would have been resented even by a commit- tee of cowboys. All this time Mr, Majors was sitting un- concerned 1n the room, evidently enjoying the brutal performance of the mob gathered there expressly in his interest. Had he beer possessed of a spark of common decency vroceeding, their number and respect for the committee and his party he would have made an appeal to bis disor- derly frienas to desist whilo the committee remained in executive session, My position in the room was immediately opposite and facing Mr. Majors, who sat within six feet of me. My discourse all the way through was couchied In gentlemanly language and free from any personal allusion to Mr. Majors outside of his ofticial carcer and political associations. After exhortiug the committee to weigh well the grave respon- sivility which they were about to assume I called their attention to tho following facts: First. That the friends of Mr. Majors, both at Omaha and iu other parts of the state, publicly announced thoir intention of pushing Majors ahead of which would meun either that they would omit voting for Crounse or vote directly for Van Wyck. This would doubtless be followed by a counter move on the part of Crounse men to leave Majors veblad, and as o result we would be distracted by internal aissension, when all our cnergios shoula be directed against tbe commou enemy. Mr. Majors himself was quoted as saying only a few days ago that ho was noarer RKovornor now than any other man recently mentioned for the place, meaning Crounse. Second. That Mr. Mujors’ record” as con- tngent congressman and. lieutenaut governor woula subjeor bim to attacks which could aot bo defeuded and would deprive the party of the advantage it now has in its claim that the men on its tivket are clean and unassail- able, Third, That Mr Majors was idireotly, if not directly, implicated in the couspiracy which resulted in the abduction of Senator Taylor from tiis state while the legislature was in session in 1501, At this juncture Mr. Majors asked from whom I had obtained my information. I re- plied that 1t came frow the wan under whose care Taylor wus placed by the conspirators and carried away from the state and further- more through a letter from ‘Laylor him- self which discloses the fact that Walter Seely, Majors' private secretary and fnti- mate associate, had drawn and pocketed tho salary of Taylor after his abduction, and that tho drawing of the salary by Seely can bo veritied by the records of the state Lreasurer. Mr. Majors then asked what relation the wan who carried off Taylor bore to myself, to which L vephed the only relation he bore 1o me was that [ had several times employed him as a detective, which was bis chief oc- cupation, Crounse, Fourth. Douglas county is to bo t he battle ground and Mr. Majors nas weakened him- selt by, nis bittor und impolitie warface upon Omaba and overytaing that concerus Omaba. This would huve & damagiug effect among Omuha business meu and Owaba peo- ple with local pride. IPifth. Mr. Mujors is known to be & mem- ber of the A, . A, assooiation, a secret auti- Catholi> organization. Without disparaging thoso who beloug to this order, and recoguiz- ing its strength in Douglas county, it is man- Mest that Mr. Majors will inevitably be drawu luw 8 roligious tight, when the party issues of the day. Sixth, Mr. Majors' campalgn has devol- oped the fact that his candidaoy is in the in- terest of the railroads to whom ke has ren. dered service in his oMeial capacity. In- stead of boing a source of strength this fact would becoma a source of weakness. In closing 1 made an earnest appeal to Mr. Majors to decline this nomination, whioh would confer no new honor upon him, but would inevitably result in his own defeat and would embarrass the party. Mr. Majors did not see fit to respond per- sonally, but Bushnell made a harangue, in which he glossed over the indelibie blots upon Mr. Majors’ record, sought to ridicule the damaging disclosures I had made, and wound up by a personal tirade ugainst me, Although I remained in the room until Bushnell had finiched I did not deem it worth while to indulge in any controversy with him and when the committes voted to ad- fourn the executivo session I left tho room. Tho shouts for Majors which suook the aouse a few minutes later apprised me of the fact that Majors had been nominated, and later on I heard that he had made a rousing speech, in which he referred to me as a little Bohemian. On that poiut I scarcely need to apologizo for my mother nor my motherland. Mr, Majors will perhaps learn later that there are over 10,000 voters of Bohomian birth who will remomber his sneers at thoir nationality. I must say, however, I was decidedly taken back on reading that portion of Mr. Majors’ €peech in which he had tbe cool audacity to charge the abduction of Senator Taylor upon me. What right has Mr. Majors to make such an assertion even by inuendo? What interest did I have in stugeling Taylor out of the state! What possivle object could I have in engaging in such a high-handed conspiracy? What was 1to gain by 1t, and why should I hire any- body to do1t? Does he imagine that he can clear s own skirts by taking advantage of the mere fact that I had at one time em- pioyed the man whom the conspirators hired to carry out their infamous plan? Why did he mnot also charce meo with the other infamous, under-handed criminal business carried on n the'state capitol by bis man Friday and gssociate, Walt Seely? Why did Mr. Majors make these cowardly assauits upon me when my back was turned? Why did ne not make his alleged defense and pour out his outrageous calumnies 1n my. bearing when I faced him while addressing the committee! e had ample opportunity then. L realizo that this is a very unfortunate and untimely controversy, but I cannov and will not tamely submit to such indignity and calumny. My opuosition to the nomination of Majors either as governor or lieutenant governor has been solely inspired by a aesire to save the republican party from a defensive campaign and with a view to reinstating it in the confidence of the dis- contented elements that have revolted agamst corporation rule. The charge that Tam trying to play. dictator or boss comes from the wreckers who by their shameless conduct and reckless subserviency to cor- porations have brought the party to the vergo of rumn. 1 have dictated no can- didate, but have enaeavored honestly to induce the party to nominate candidates who needed no defense. The fact that the nominations made by the State con- vention have given universal saiisfaction affords striking proof that my efforts had not beer in vain. I confidently belleve that this ticket will be triumphanty elected, although Mr. Majors will be a source of discord from now on until election unless he 1s induced to withdraw, BE. RosewaArer. R ARDING RETALIATION Judging from the tone of the govern- ment organs in Canada the sentiment in official circles is not favorable to any change of policy regarding canal tolls at present, but a dispateh from tho seat of government states that the impres- sion prevails there that the cabinet will be called together and the rchate sys- tem abolished altogether. The organs regard the action of the United States government us unfriendly, and one of them observes that it will not tend to in- crease cordiality of feeling between the two countries. Possibly not, but the Canadian people are decidedly unrengon- able, to say the least, if thoy expect this country to cultivate their friendship at the cost of the continued sacrifice of the rights and interests of its own people. ‘This had been boroe for years, during which time complaints wero unheeded by the Canadian government, and it would seem that the patient toleration of 1n- justice had created an impression in the minds of the dominant element in Cana- dian uffairs that they could continue in- definitely the violation of treaty e ments. They were certainly given wa cunt for this idca by the delaying courso of the last democratic administration, which manifested less concern to pro- tect American interests than to stand well in Enoglish opinion, but a different spirit provails at Washington now. The Harrison administration has demon- strated that wherever American rights are denied or assailed it proposes to pro- tect them, and in the presence of this duty it doeg not stop to consider whether Great Britain or some lesser power is the aggressor. The expressions of the Canadian press generally, regardloss of party, are un- favorable to any further concessions on tho part of the Dominion government, and if these are to be accopted as voicing the popular sentiment it is not probable that the government will at once change its policy. One leading paper declares thav-any further conces- sion in the face of the'act of this gov- ernment would be too great a sacrifice of dignity and self-respect. Another exults over the incident as a tribute to nada, testifying that it is a nation in this continent, and hails it as *‘the be- ginning of our history as a great poople.” Still another, a government organ, advises that the treaty of Wash- ington be disregarded entirely and neavy tolls bo imposed upon American vessels passing through the Cansainn canals, Much of this is move vaporing, and doubtless does not reflect the sober judgment of those peoplo who will con- sider this matter from a wholly prace tical point of view, The railroad interests of Canada es- peciully, there 15 reason to bolieve, will not approve of any course likely to ag- gravate the situation. Their busiuess relations with this country and the priv- ileges they enjoy from the United States are too important to be jeopardized in order to gratify a spirit of hostility vo this government, even though it have an appearance of justification in the sentiment of patriotism. Nothing can be move certain than that any extension by the Dominion government of its polioy of diserimination against Amer- icun interests would result in excluding THE OMAHA DAILY Y.OF THOMAS MAJORS. | should strictly confine itselt to the political BEE: WEDNE Canadian railvoads from the highly valuable privileges they now have in con- nection with American business, and while it is truo that would experiencd ‘sdme disadvantags from this they would not hesitate to ap- prove it as a propet and necessary nsser- | tion of our natidhal dignity and solf- respect. The probabilityfs that whon cool re- flection succeeds the first outburst of re- | sentment and practical judgment is brought to bear on the situation the Canadian authorities ivill see “that thoro is nothing to bo gained by maintaining a policy which théy have virtually con- fossed is indefensible and will, with as much grace a8 possible in the circum- stanses, abandon it, CONDITION OF THE TREASURY. The democratic organs have been en- deavoring to make poiitienl capital out of a prospective deficit in the national treasury. By an ingenious arrange- ment of figures they have attempted to show that at the ond of the current fis- cal your the trousury will bo short several miltions of dollars, and that un- less some additional methods of raising revenue are adopted tho government will be unable to meet its obligations during the next fiscal year. This as- sumed condition of affairs is contrasted with that at the close of the Cleveland administration, when thore was a large surplug in the treasury, and a textis found for sermonizing upon republican oxtravagance, Secretary Foster disposes of the idea that the trensury is now short of money or will be at the end of the current fis- cal year. .The fact is there is now a balance of 50,000,000 and the revenue from customs is incroasing at the rate of $1,000,000 a month, so that the treas- ury officials are warranted in estimating that the receipts will exceed the ex- venditures for the year by 315,000,000. Stress has been laid upon the fact that a small loan was extended and also that no provision was made for the sink- ing fund. As to the first, the secretary points out that instead of its being an unusual occurrence there have been many parallel cases, while with regard to the so-called sinking fund there is in reality no such fund maintained and never has been. Moreover, [ailure to make specific provision for this fund— that is, for the purchase by the trens- ury of a cortain amount of bonds annn- ally—has happened several timosin past years, instead ot the present instance being the first since the creation of the public debt. ‘The sinking fund act, which Secretary oster says w passed 1n 1862 to strengthen our credit, was not put 1nto effect at all during the seven years aftor its passage, and its requirements were not met in {ull during the five yoars from 1874 to 1879, The effort of the democrats to glorify the Cleveland administration for leav- ing a surplus in the treasury will not carry much force with‘those who remem- ber the persistent denunciation of the republican party for having allowed a surplus to accumulate. The democratic party then professed to regard the sur- plus in the treasury us o crying ovil and a menace to the republic, depriving the people of the use of their money and in- viting waste and extravagance. Assoon as the republican party got into full power in the government this surplus was given back to the people, and now the democrats ave finding fault with this. A large part of it went in paying off the ional debt, which was re duced during the first three years of the Harrison administration to an amount one-third more than during the whole Cleveland administration, It was spent in improving the postal service,inextending the usefulness of the Agricultural department, in increasing the navy and in other ways for the gen- eral good. The truth is that the Cleve- lund administration did not desire to get rid of the surplus, as it could have done by more freely purchasing bonds and thus at once giving more money and saving interest to the people, be- cause the existence of a surplus prom- ised to be a good thing for providing no- litical capital, Now that it has been distributed to the people the democrac endeavors to turn that fact to its politi- cal advantage. The national treasury is in no present danger of becoming insotvent., It is meeting its obligations, and there is ever, ason for confidence in the as- suranco of Secrotary Foster that it will continue to do so. JUDICIAL CANDIDALES, Soveral of our district judges are among the prominent candidates for congress. On general principles such candidacy is to be deprecated as drag- ging the courts into the arena of poli- tics and placing members of the bar who aspire to political office at a disad- vantage. No lawyer desires to incur the displeasure or hostility of the judge before whom he is obliged to plead the causes of his clients. Somo of the new states, profiting by the exverience wivh judicinl politicians, have embodied in their constitutions provisions that ais- qualify any judge from an election 1o any political office ducing the term for which he has .been elected judge. This is a wholesomo reform which sooner or later will be adopted by Ne- braska. In any event, n m‘.m holding a place on the bench, of Whalever party he may be, should become a candidate for con- gress or any other political office unless o resigns the position of judge. This was the view talken ‘by Judge Allan W, Field of Lancaster, who promptly re- signed his placo) as, judge when ho ac- copted tho nomination for congress on the republican tlckes. Ivstands to remson that judges are like other mortals, hey naturally will remember political friends and will not forget political enemies. A judge who remains on the bench while he is a candidate will scarcely refrain from tipping the scale of justice toward his supporters and frowning upon or turn- the cold shoulder to parties with whom he has had a tilt in the pelitical arenn. This would even be much wmore applicable to a judge whose ambition had been foiled by defeat at the polls, Justice with such a man on the bench would be warped and our courts would become tribunals of persecution and our own people | 21, 1892 favoritism rather than of equity and unbiased exposition of tho law. Tur state ticket nominated by the democrats of Towa last week contains no names of importance or strength, Perhaps the best known is Senator W, G. Kent of Lee county, the candidate for railway commissioner. Colonel Kent is a man of wealth, who has served sevoral torms in the legislature and is an ne- tive banker and retired tarmer. His dutios in the legislature have not been connected with railway matters, and his votes havo beon uniformly with those opposed to the prosent railway control of Towa. Though a pleasant man of honesty and plausibility., his record will condemn him as not 1n line with the best interests of anti-corpora- tion Towa, —_— THERE are many sidewalks in the city where it is impossible for pedestrians 10 keop their footing after a rain has made them slippery. This is due to the un- dermining of foundations and the conse- quent settling of one side or the other 80 that the planks stand at an angle. These walks have boen in the sawme con- dition for months and there is no indi- cation of any movement toward putting them in a safe and proper condition. When cold weather makes them icy the public will have to take to the road. And perhaps this noglect may result in a fow suits against the city for fractured limbs end broken hends. will five Tie Douglas county fair, which open next Monday and continue days, promises to bo an unusually at active exhibit, The liberal sum in premiums offered by the agricultural socioty should cortainly insure a large display, and as there appears to bo mor than the usual interest in the fair this year an exceptionally fine exhibit is ex- pected. The racing feature will un- doubtedly be superior to that of provious years, judging from tho entries already made, and they will not close until Wednesday night. With the attrac- tions promised the fair ought to bea financial success. DEMOCRATIC politics in Chicago is in a blissful condition of harmony. The county convention met Saturday morn- ing and wrangled from 10 o’clock until 1a. m. Sunday without comploting tho ticket. Monday afternoon they threw away a nonpartisan judiciary slate and put up some well known democratic pol- iticians for judges. Riot of the worst sort prevailed at both meetings and the republicans see an easy victory ahead. ANNA KATHERINE GREEN has written aletter declaring hor belief in the inno- cence of Lizzie Borden. It will be membered that her great book, *The Leavenworth Case,” treated of a case almost exactly identical with the Bor- den mystery. It is certainly difficult to belicve that a sane daughter could be guilty of such an unnatural and horrible crime, A Tempoinry Epidemic, ohe Dem: crat. nore and worso labor dis- 7 and 15 than thore have but the country recovered from them all right. Tne English papers are oo hasty in predicting tho collapse of the social and political fabric in the United States, [ There woro turbances in 1 been in 1502, SN A Plucky gor. Philadelphia Ledger. At last a passenger has been found on a western train with pluck enough to resist n couple of masked train robbers. Unfortu- nately he was not a very good shor, and the roboers escaped, but bis pluck saved the passenzers from being robbea, for tho would-be thieves retreated as soon ns they met with determined resistance, 4 - - Costly Luxury of a Strike, Chicago Tribune. Under tbe laws of tne state of New York whenever there is trouble in a county of so grave a character that the ordinary police force cannot control it the sheriff summons the posse comitatus. If that force cannot subdue tha rioters then the sheriff calls upon the governor, who orders out the militia, and under the law the expense of its employment 18 charged to ‘he county where the lawless trouble hasoceurred and whence the requisi- tion has been made, upon the theory that the state has been called upon to do tho work of the county. The county furthermoro is maae responsible for all damagns inflicted by the rioters, as, for instance. in Buffalo and Erie county, for the burning of cars and destruc- tion of freight and buildings. Tho taxpayers of that county, thercfore, aro confronted with tie fact of 8,000 state raards within its limite, costing them say $20,000 per day, and are getting worried over the big bill whicn is accumulating. s AN New York Sun (dem.). A day after the Michizan democrats had prostrated themseives at the feet of the lapor anarchs, the lowa democrats com- mitted themselves to this dishonest and puerile proposition : “We aro in thorough sympathy with tho multitude of honest toilers throughout the lond, and we observe with deep sulicitudo tho ‘conflicts between capital and labor, which manifest themselves in the ever-in- creasing number ana scope of lockouts and strikes, Lhese conditi ms are chargeable to the policy of the republican party, which has for its object the disbursement of taxes among the favored few, and the mantenance of privileged classes at the expenso of tho masses.” Wo have italicized the dishonesty and the puerility. ‘Uhero is not a man iu the country with 1intelligence ouough to swallow an oy- ster who doesn’t know that this proposition is nonsense, Most of the great strikes and the great “conflicts between capital wnd labor,” in_other words, the acts of violence of lubor organizations against emplovers snd nonunion men, occur 1n the nonprotectod industries. Look at Coeur d’Alene, Look at Buffalo, And as for Homestead, the Amalgamated association doesn't pretond to beliove that tho tariff had auything to do witn the lockout there, Wo warn the lowa democrats that they are bringing no credit upon the democratic party and adding no streneth to its cauvass by trying to give & potty pArtisan Lwist to tho groat labor disturbauces. Thoso dis- turbauces reach tho root of social order in the United States. sod in dealing with them there should be no recrimination batween re- publicans and democrats, Tho case is Loo serious for that, RE ILIATION AGAINST CANADA, Cincinnatl Commercial government, in its shabby treatment of the United States respecting Welland canal tolls, may well be rormnded that trade discrim- iuations are tricks at which two can play. Philadelphia Rec Retaliation of any sort)s a poor basis for mmicable relations with neighbors: and the position taken by a portion of the London press, that thero is nothing but politics in it, is' & narrow view of the question, Doubtless thera is a deal of politics in it across the boundary line, put 10 this country popular judgment can easily find much larger questions on which 10 ex ercise itself in political action, Denver Republican: The Canadiaus have receivea just what they deserve and just what they bad a right 10 expect. But not- withstanding this is true aud notwithstand. 1ug Canada had ample notice, it is probable that the Cavadiau and British press will say that tbis prociamation is wu illustration of crudeuess and lack of good manners on the part of the Americans. Boglish nowspapers The Canadian will almost surely say that the action of the prosident was taken with a view to encing the coming election. ‘That Is the way tho Knglish bross always talks about Amer- ican politios, St. Paul Globe: This toil fsto b simply to offset a similar proc tho nadian government in regard to the Well- and canal, but that fact will not assuago the wrath of the Canucks. Uadoubtedly a wail- ing and gnashing of tooth will trauspiro in the Dominon that will bo neard far over England. The Canucks will shriek for ro Prisals und for war, and than duck down for safoty benind John' Bull's coat tails Now York Recorder: Canada must carry out the troaty stipulations imposed upon her in rogard to the uso of hor canals by Ameri- can shipoers or face discrimination against ner 0w eitizens in the use of the St.'Mary's canal. ‘That is the meaning of the proclu charged mation issucd by the president yesterday. In future a duty of 20 conts a ton will bo levied on all freight from the Canadian ports pass- ing through that great artery of lake com- morca, @ Chicago Post: Tho future of the thing called Canada is plain enough. England has 110 use for the lubberly hobbledehoy and will Wwaste no more time or money helping it out of its absurd quarrels. It is of no use to the Unitea States, which has alroady drawn to {tsolf the best of the Canadiau citizenship. Ot itsell the thing cannot stand. In timo it wiil como whining o the back door of this union and box for admission, And Unole Sam, the big, good-natured, easy-going chap, will tako the' vagabond in, Chicago News: But the vresidont’s procla- mation deals Canadian interosts u far heavier Dlow than the Weiland canal diserimination dealt Amorican commerce, Ou this sido only a fraction of American snippors ias suffored from the Wolland caual tolls, The pre- ponderance of American tonnaga ¢oes no farthor east than Buffalo, On the other hand, the practical pronibition of the Sault o, Marie canal to Canadian vessels affocts tho most profitable of all Canadian shipping interests—tho grain and ore carrving trade from the northwest vin Lnka Superior ports. i - SMILE PROVORERS, Siftings: When the opportunity of n man's 1F0 prosents itso; troduction, New York Sun: Tho cat dostor shonld suceeed provty well, havinz nine lives 1o ex- periment on, £ ho usually waits for an (n- Chi. you som ren er me Miss Tarticts--Ttisn't necessary, I havo thut tired fooling, 4 News: Mr Spooninz—May 1 glve lttls token which will help you to Philadolphia Record: “It's vory quo old maids have any diffinity in married.” “Tadeod?" “Yos, for tractions appear to be matehloss,” Life: Tanks—1 tried to gor Old So; o Asbury I'ark this yoar for his bt it wik no use, Bunks—Whero is ho Tanics—Bar Harbor er that witing tholr ut- k to go acation, )1 of course, Boston Gazotte: Maud—She is a woman who Las sulfered agroat doal for hor baliofs, sthei—Dear tie! What arc her hellefs wd-—=Sne belfeves that sho can wear o No. 3 shoo on o No. G foot and u twenty-three-ineh corset o thirty-inch waist Georzo—Mad - wdevotedly, thinz=without you nothin= Madee—1 wish | eontd say as mueh, 1 Georze—You might it you wore as biz a lar as T an darlinz ith you life I love is ov you ey~ “1wish you wonla 2 your imbeeilo paticns.” man to the superintendent of an nsine nsy- Tum, U have a job [ ean zive the man who his tho toust vestize of mind. " “Indecd? What o “1 want nim to horscs, ow York Sun o0k amol let me sadd n suggest names for race Washington Star: 1t has alwiys béen the rule that the one with suspenders on pays for the leo cream. Lifo: She—Why with that fan. Are you afraid of 1t? Ho ailantly)—I “am afra.d of anything that could produce a coolness between us. vou toy so nervously i SON WhY. Baltim e Herald, Why do thev stop and_turn and gaze O tho binshing maid petite, With looks that ire onoush 1o dazo, Asshe walks down the street? True, she is fair—that al Her eyes are azure bluc; A pretty dimpled ehin has sh And hair of raven huo. But surely that gront multitude On somethins olse Aha! I see, the rozuish Has man's suspendors (e e HOW 10 W As DONE, New York Weekly, IS VERSION. I had not the least fntention To do the thing 1 mention, T had shaken hands and Started for the door, But our elances seomedl to mingle, And 1 felt my pulses tinglo With w biiss costatie, whioh I'd often folt ve- ore, he surely did not chide me, stood quite closo beside me: If she whispered No, 'twas very low, 0, a8 we stood so nearly, It was just tidfio, merely. To bond and kiss her, while the lizhts were dim and low. I knew, of cour: But thén. you se Resist him wh Tknew ne really But the . I shouldn't, ¢, 1 couldn't e put it to me so, ouldn't, you know. I couldn’t o bim with a stern: Sir, you must Ana so. althouzh I shouldn't, Just beeause ho reatly wouldu'e Desist when first | suid him no! so all inaminute, © wasn't mich sin i it, He, well, he kissed e, while the lights w dim and low Z Largost Manutis ‘ii your ning to suits. W will have them ble 1n style, fit and finish. mer suit must go. Browning, b 0:3 0 we 0 . 1ose at 10 p. . 0 ur store clos duys, wh I'rigttul Cuts Are being made in every department in our store in order to close out the last of the summer goods. hot weather ahead of you yet and ]wcll afford to invest the few dol- ’I:u‘s we sute, so don’t put off till the last of the week what you can just as well do tomorrow. with the finest list of bargains you ever saw. Our new fall goods will be open for inspection next week. line this year, as formerly, contains all that "is desir- exoept Satur- 4 NEW HINT FROM PARIS, Earopean Edition New York Herold FOR THE PROMENADE, A neat walking costume of Havana wool, with trimmings of dark bluo satin and rib bou of assorted hue. The skirt trimmed af the bottom with guipuro do fantaisio lnid flal on the stuff, The Dircctoiro coat very close® fitting, the broad rovers of bluo satin ovoen e over mousseline de soie. Sash fastened vy o jeweled buckle. The straw hat beige colored, with a bunch of diversely hued flowers, niitats RAPRERS OX Commercial Oporators Witt Hold o Meot= g to Form n National Union. EW YonK, Aug. 20.—~Tho Tribune say The cofamercial telegraphers of tho United States are engaged in forming a national brotherhood. A committeo call has just been issued for a mouting of ropresentatives in IKansas City on Soptember 2 to form suoh an organization. For some timo correspondence has beor going on in relation to tho subjoot aud interest iy boing minifested in all parts of the country. The O'Rellly, who took so active u part in the great telegraphers’ strike In 1583, and who 1s now an assistant editor of tho Kuights of Labor Jonrnal, is in the city conferring with New York loadors on tho subjoci. He was soon by a Now York Tribuno reporter yesterday and spoko warmly of tha project. Ho said that the telegraphers had either to organizeor submit to tho W orn Union, which, ho atlogos, has pursued a poliey of réductions during the last six yonrs, He says that the average salary of a graph operator is less than & por month, and that tho means of making o docent ex- istence hus to be eked out by working oxtra, A tolegraph_operator was o highly skilied workman. Not only must he kuow how to send a messige,but he must bo an encyclo- vedia of information. No oparator shouid be required to work more than eight hours a day, and first class operators should receive not less than $100 per month. The oncrators were organizing Lo maintain their standing as a profession, not to_throaton and intimi- date, bit to educate. They roalized tho only v'to zain tho respect of the confpanies is mtain a solid front. v that a meoting phia on Sunday at which delegates were elected to attend the conveution at IKansas City, and that meetings were hold on the same day to discuss the subjoct and soloct delegatess in all the largo cities. Local nnions have boen formed in twenty- soven cities already, and after the convention six commissionea” organizers will bo in the feld. The national association will unite all these and mako a powerful organization. O'Reilly will start for Kansas City at the end of the woek to take an active part in the national convention. A secrol meeting of tho New York operators will bo held on Friday night. s Fourteenth Army Corps Reunion. Wasmizatoy, D. C., Aug. 2. —Membors of tho Fourteenth army corps mot here last night and comploted arrangomonts for told- ing a grana veunion of the surviving mom. bers of the [ourteenth army corps in this city during the coming national encampment of the Giraud Army of the Republic. The date selected for holding this reunion ls Monday eveuing, September 19. Tho moot. ing will occur on the *“White lot,” 1mmedi- ately south of the oxecutive mansion, now known us “Grand Avmy place.”” Al the members of the corps uro urgently requested to be present. Walt Huanall, iighty-fifth Illinois nfantry, J. C. Donaldson, Ihirty- shth Ohio infantry and J. R. Lconard, Seventy-fifth Indiana infantry, wero appoint: ed a committee to look after the mauter. —— Contesston of a Convert, John A. Cockerill in New York Herald, For thirty vears tho democratic party has doue rothing but protest aud opposo. it is & dostructive and not a creative organization, It is essentially a minority party. Tho i telligent mind of the country must continng to regard 1t as unfit to control or direct af. fairs, Py NIZING. was held in St in the Ring. New York Her i, Latest advices from the vurious seats of war i the Unfted States indicate that the government of the people, by the peoplo, for tho people, though somewhat battered, is still in tho rving. ROWNING, KNG =5 co. 1eed il =asaian of Olothing lu the World, There is lots of suit or your boy's is begin- look a little rusty you can ask in one of these nobby i all closed out this week i We'll entertain you |fj The In the meantime the sum- King&Co |S.W. Cor 15th & Douglas St