Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor. ! PURLISHED EVERY MORNING SUBSCRIPTION Daily Dea Year DAfly and Sune Six Monthe Three Montlis Stunday Re: OFFICES, 0, The ReatTnilg Souh O ek, e buflding. Al comm torial matier | NUSINESS LETT Briminess 1 nd remittances should firen T “ompany Omal 1% 10 be made mmer e g 1 have COMPANY teo in Chieago. 1 SUNDAY BEE (3 on following places: e DAy salo in Chieago f th Palmer house Grand Pacific hotel, Auditorium hotol Great Northern hotel, Goro hatol, Leland hote! Files of Tie Bre can be sean at tho Ne- braska building and the Administration build- ing, Exposition grounds tember Dlem bor ~Ae ) SWOr to e sEA ! presence this 50t - N Average Circulntion for Aaw,. 1893, 24,0756 WHEN Mr. Powell urns from his political snipe hunt he will be a sadder as well as a wiser man. ror Carrer H. HARRISON of Tllinois would not sound badly from a demceratic point of view. THAT canal proposition is loose enough to allow Jim Stephenson to tallyho clear through it without str ¢ a barb wive. THIRTY-Y firms eng. d in the manufacture of American tin plate is not a bad exhibit for the much decried MeXinley la: HOW UNFORTUNATE that Denver's snow storm has proven insufficient to chill the ardor of the Colorado free silver aavocates. WHILE has not fully re- covered from commercial prostration it is gratifying to note that she keeps pace with any of the big four of the future —Minncapolis, $t. Paul, Kuansas City or Denver. SoME of those factories that were closed down in the east under stress of the late financial stringency ought to bo given inducements to move their loca- tion to this city before reopening for the c:ming season's business. SENATOR L. R. BOLTER has deserted the ranks of Towa democracy for the allurements of free silver populism. The democrats of Towa could scarcely have expected any different action from & man trading on the name of Bolter. THERE are a great many men travel- ing around over Nebraska today in the interests of the railroad conspiracy against the judiciary of the state who would have no little trouble in convine- ing a police magistrate that they had visible meansof support. I'T REQUIRED the organization of an anti-smoke society to secure the enforco- ment of the smoke nuisance ordinance in Chicage. Will the citizens of Omaha be forced to asimilar move by the in- action of the city officials to carry out the provisions of our local smoke ordi- nance? IN THE prospective row in the demo- cratic state convention at Lincoln to- morrow Eecretary Morton has wisely declined to participate. But Congress- wan Bryan will be there and opposed to him will be the foxy Tobias Castor, who makes a specialty of securing rightof way for the corporations or for the office seckers, THE suggestion that Omaha make an effort to get the next convention of the . Christian Endeavor socioty is not inap- propriate at the present time. national assembly held here brings peo- ple to our city and impresses them with our resources and prospects for contin- ued prosperity. Itis an advertisement worth working for, —ee Ir HON. JOHN L. WEBSTER could be induced to turn his attention from the political job of turning down Max- well, which he has undertaken in the interest of his state house clients, to de- fending the maximum freight rate law before the federal court his services would be much more appreciated by the toilers and taxpayers of the state. THE county conventions have nearly all been held and the agents of the cor poration junta who have been work- Ing in every part of the state for weeks to overthrow Judge Maxwell will now transfor their scene of operations to Lincoln. No effort will be spared in the closing days of the ante-convention campaign. The men who cannot be bought will be cajoled or threatened into submission to the railrcad gang. —_— I¥ PROMISES are to bo taken in evi- dence the celebration of Chicago day ut the World’s falr next Monday will eclipso anything heretofore attempted in the way of the spectacular on the American continent. The spectacle of half a willion people will of itself be a great attraction. The fair has been a great success in every way and it is emi- nently fitting that the day which is re- served for Chicago should be the most elaborately celebrated. Chicago hagdone much to make the fair a success. ith- out her splendid energy it would doubt- less bave been a failure. Consequently the entire country will heartily unite in the congratulations which will be show- ered upon Chicago next week. Every t800 | e | cording to this veracions dispatch Web- WERSTER'S GENERALSHIP. You always have to go away from home to hear the news, This is strik- ingly illustratod by the special dispatoh from Omaha that appeared 1n the Lincoln Journal Sunday morning under the black- ype headline: “Webstera Winner.” Ac- stor displayed the most consummate generalship in hundling the Douglas | county republican eonvention and suc ceeded in carrying things his own wi in spite of opposition, aftor a most ex- citing tilt with Rosewater on the floor. The most interesting picce of news is the assertion that Mr. Powell could have had the convention instructed for him- sclf had he wanted it and that the unit rule was tinally abandoned for the sake of harmony. Now, with a very foew cxceptions, the veport is substantially correct. There was u republican convention neld in Omaha on Saturday, which el delegation to the state convention Lincoln. Mr. Webster, ably assisted ‘ley Greene, Herb Leavitt and other eminent railroad lobbyists, put in his final word on the outside and succeoded admirably in converting several delega- tions that came pledged for Maxwell to change their opinions in less than two hours. This change was evidently brought about by the stringency of the money market and a desive to visit the World’s fair by the old reliablo Burling- which all such converts are carried without money and without price. Mr. Webster did not have a tilt with ater in the convention. He had his serap the day before in the repub- lican pri of his own ward, and, being rejected as a delegate, had no right to the floor. Ho was, however, ‘mitted to apologizc for his champion- ip of the cause of his clients at the state houso and explain away his ani- mosity toward Judge Maxwell. I'he resolution to commit the dele- gates to the unit rule was not with- drawn for the sake of harmony, but for the sang reason that caused the mover of the resolution introduced at the outset to authorize the chairman to select the 108 delegates through five dummies to beat a very disorderly retreat. The convention was over- whelmingly opposed to the unit rulo and 4 large number of delegates revolted and started to leave the convention hall. It is true that the convention was captured by Webster and his railroad camp followers and it is also true that it was lost by his magnificent generalship, 50 that nearly one-half of the delegates sclectea will go to Lincoln in favor of Maxwell. ut A CAUIION 10 THE TURS. When the Nebraska Central bond proposition was submitted it was hedged by safeguards that would compoel strict compliance with the obligations im- posed. The Platte canal proposition aoes not contain a single provision that will prevent a gigantic piece of jobbery. There is ample time yet for a supple- ntary ordinance that will protect this city against Credit Mobilier construe- on rings and costly wildeat exper- iments. The great mass of our citizens and taxpayers are in favor of the canal, but they want to feel sure that every dollar voted will be honestly and intelligently expended. They will not vote to plunge the city into 5,000,000 of debt uniess they feel sure that we shall get cheaper power, cheaper electric lights and a re- liable, abundant and cheap water sup- ply. The mere fact that everybody would like to get more money in cireu- lation by stimulating public works does not justif; reckless voting away of millions without the slightest assurance that the money will be expended for labor and material instead of being ab- sorbed by speculators and contractors, Omaha has had experience enough with worthless pavements and wrotched sewer work to set taxpayers on guard aguinst a repetition of such waste on a colossal scale. THE BEE has never yet opposed a pub- lic improvement and it will not oppose the canal project if it is submitted in such form as will protect the taxpayers against the taxeaters and job- bers. Wo insist that the proposition already submitted shall be revised or supplemented by such provisions as will act as a barrier to reckless waste, con- struction swindles, or extortionate charges for power or water supply. We shall insist that the work shall be done by competitive bids that will en- able us to contract withont being fleeced. Unless these safeguards are embodied as part of the bond provosition we shall deem it extrahazardous for the tax- payers to sanction the proposed blanket mortgage on all they own and all they ever expect to own, AL PROJ, RESULT OF THE SIAMESE AVFAIR, If we can give eredenco to the latest cable advices the final scones of the Franco-Siamese episode have heen en- acted in the ratification of the treaty of cession, and the dismemberment of Siam has been accomplished without the sem- blance of active interference on the part of any of the other interested European powers, France, it seems, was only too cager to seize upcn any excuse that might offer to justify a rvesort to aggressive tactics 1n the east The killing of a few French offi- cers in command of native troops would newhere have been viewed as de- manding a recourse to violent measures, But the obdurate attitude of the French government in insisting that nothing short of a large cession of territory would offer satisfactory assurance that such events would not be countenanced inthe future forced the Siamese king to acknowledge his powerlossness and to look for assistance from the strongoer continental nations. Refusal to come 1o his assistance left him no alternative but to agree w whatever conditions the French might deign to accept as their ultimatum, The impelling motives of the French aggression in Siam have been variously interpreted. The action has on one side been viewed merely as the natural de- velopment of the mania for colonial pos- session that has lately secured a new grasp upon-all the leading European peoples. France was behind the others in this respect, and to that may be as- eted o | THE cribed the apparent unconcern of hor va- | rious neighbors. England, moveover, is | said not to be unwilling to have French territory as a buffer between its inter- ests in the cast and those of Russia and thus to lesten the chances of frequent collision, The second explanation of the French | efforts is that they were designed as a by-play to influence the parliamentary elections that cecurred during the mid- dle of August last. Ko this purpose they undoubtedly had some considerable effect, stimulating French pride in for- cign acquisitions, and strengthening the forces controlled by the existing govern- ment. They overshadowed the sensa- tions of the Panama scandals and de- tracted from their political significance, but further than that their bearings upon | the outeome of the election must rerhain problematical, In the United States the sympathies of tho people have been almost univor- sally upon the side of Siam. Siam's prompt offer to arbitrate the auestion of damages seemed to place all the blame for protracted host s upon the shoul- ders of the French and made the French uitimatum appear all the more unwar- ranted. France’s aquisitions in the however, give her a firm base from which she will attemnt to extend her dominions. The Siamese affair introduces a third Buropean power into the castern ques- tion and insures further complications before many years shall clapso. NOMINATLO Sovtn Omana, Oct, 0 the Editor of Tre Bee: Will you kindly Inform many readers through the columns of Tue Bre i there is any law now in force in the state of Nebraska by virtue of which the name of a citizon may be placod upon the odeial vicket for the ofticc of justice of the suprome court without being nominated ata state convention of cither the republican, dem- ocratic or independent parties, I'he reason for this query 1s because o’ the fact that there are more than nine-tenths of the 4,000 laboring men employed in the pack- ing houses of this city, who, without regard to party afiliation, hopa to have an oppor- 3 ast a vote on the 7th day of next November for that eminent jurist, Samuel J. Maxwell. bug are afraid if the matter of fon rests entirely with tho wily pol- ians Judge Maxwell may suffer defeat, because he possesses the courage of his con victions, to decide cases in accordance with the dictates of his judgment, without reg: for the pecuniary interests of the political boodlers who have already held up and robbed the unsuspecting taxpayers of the state. PAcKiNG House MAN, Under the statutes of Nebraska any person may be placed on the official bal- lot for any state office on a petition signed by 500 electors. Idach elee signing the petition must add to his signature has place of residence, his business and his business addr The petition for the nomination of a state officer must be filed with the secretary of state not less than fiftecn duys prior to the day of election. Judge Maxwell has peremptorily de- clined to permit his name to be used as a eandidate by petition. He is a candi- date for nomination before the republi- can stato convention. If the majority of the delegates elecwed to that convention shall decline to nominate him he will not - be a candidate for re-election. This is, of course, upon the assumption that the convention is untrammeled in its decision and the vote cast on the issue is uninfluenced by bribery or coer- cion, Judge Maxwell is counted out by fraud and voted down by purchased votes the republicans of the state will repudiate the candidate, whosver he may be. —_— MENDING 1t SENATE, The Philadelphia Record, commenting on the senate situation, says: “Tho spectacle which the senate thus presents in its inability to respond to publ opinion should not. be -lost upon the country. nce, in the ,condition of things, the senate cannot be ended, it must be mendeé. The advocates and attorneys of monopolies and of private interests should be extirpated, and along with them the drones and imbe- ciles who, by their elevation to a post of which they are unworthy, have lost the happy opportunity of remaining un- distinguished and unknown. Instead of leaving the choice of senators to legislative caucuses the peuple should tako the matter into thoir own hands by nominating for the senate men who are fitted for this responsible representative trust.” Every word of what our con- temporary says is sound and voices a sen- timent which is rapidly growing throughout the country. Every day that the minority of the senate is able to keop that body in the position of an ob- struction to the carrying out of the pop- ular will, as it has been most clearly and strongly indicated, increases the feeling that the senate must be brought ncarer to the people, must be placed in closer touch with popular sentiment and made to realize more fully its responsibility to the people. The only effective way in which this can be dona is to change the method of electing senators, so that the people shall exer- cise a less indirect influence in the choice of members of the “*upper house” than under the prevailing method of leaving the choice of senators to legis- lative caucuses. That such a change would result in sending a better class of men to the senate, thereby restoring that body to its former high character, is not to be doubted, and it would have the equally important offect of inducing senators to pay more attention to public sentiment and to the popular will, in- stead of arrogantly, as now, setting themselves above the people and under the cloak of ‘“senatorial courtesy” disre- garding the popular demand and reck- lessly endangering the public interests and welfare. The eourse of the senate for several weeks past has furnished an unanswera- ble argument in favor of such a change as will thoroughly “mend” that body and make it what it was intended to be, a conservative check to hasty and inju- dicious legislation, lnstead of the bul- wark of monopoly and private interests, as it has become. The intelligent judg- ment of the country overwhelmingly con- demns the so-called “eourtesy” which vermits a minority to obsteuct legislu- tion indefinitely, and this unrepublican and intolerable practice, which puts it in the power of & few men tostop the machinery of government whenever their sectional or selfigh iuterests may OMAHA DAILY E: TUESDAY, o at stakg, must go. It will go, with all the abugps' incident to it, as soon as the people take the matter of the choice of senators jgto their own hands, and it would seem—a- safe prediction that this will be doh@in the not very remote future, bl 1T COMES Tfém the best of democratic authority ta#'President Cleveland is “‘as stubborn for'Van Alen’s confirmation as he is for tha rapeal of the purchase clause in the Sherman law.” If this is the truth, as noW scoms most probable to any one who has watched the develop- ments of the' #50,000 bargain scandal, the breach botween Mr. Cleveland and tho senate is apt to be considerably widenod before the matter is finally settled. With the nomination referred tu the senator from New York, Mr. Hill, for report to the committee on foreign relations, the president is not doing much to placate the men upon whom the yielding to his “stubbornness” do- pends. The last batch of New York ap- pointments was scrutinized microscop- scally to discover possible traces of ma- chine democracy, but in vain. The anti- snappers are still having overything their own way with the president, but when they turn to the senate they are finding themselves rather lonesome in the society of the political firm for which Senator Hill has become the self-ap- pointed spokesman. NOTWITHSTANDING the report of the grand jury, which has been led by the recent attack upon the coroner system of New York City to make a recommenda- tion that the office of coroner be abol- ished, the agitators who have been par- ticipating in the onslaught must not leave Tammany out of their reckoning. An organization which is founded and lives upon the spoilsand plunder of New York City offices is not likely to letslip such a lucrative source of gain until it is assured that it wili bo supplanted by something affording equal opportunities for jobbery. alled Pan-American silver congress meets in St. Louis today. The call for the congress was couched in lan- guage lurid enoagh to believe that noth- ing less than secession and anarchy would follow the repeal of the silver legislation now on the statute books. But from all indications the delegates are a very mild-mannered and harmless lot of people. They will probably adopt the customary resolutions denouncing the gold bugs -of Wall street and ad- journ. 3 INCREASING the internal revenue tax on distilled spirits will give us another example wherethe tax is not shifted to the consumer. Just as the i.nposition of a high licensg Has left the price of beer unaflected, the.proposed 10 per cent ad- ditional internal revenue tax will not affect the retail liquor trade. It may, however, drive a few of the distillers out of the demacratic party, though the old-time bourbon gets as much whisky for his money ad ever before, ‘WHEN Pregident Cleveland sent word that he was too: busy to see Director General Davis'df the World’s Columbian oxposition he simply gave the divector a taste of his own medicine. Mr. Davis can now appreciate the feelings of the hundreds of people who have been com- pelled to tarry in the ante-room to his office in the inis! building while he was Cinein: As was pred Jommereial. 1y months ago, tho demos ic majority in congress was so heavy it was bound to vreak of its own weight. It 18 broken now, and there aro none so poor as to do it reverence e Smooth Saiing Without Prohibition. Gobe-Dzmocrat The campaign in Towa wears a most en- couraging look for the republicans, owirg mainly to the fact that they refuse to be hampered in any sense by the baleful issue of prohibition. el No Occaston for Mourning, Fhilad-Iphia Press., Nobody has yet found it necessary, as the administration procession goes by, to hang this placard on the hearse: K This 15 Not o Republic: i Some facts are pre-eminently self-evident, B Gold Mining In Montana, Helena Independent, 1t can be truthfully said of Montana, as it has been of California, that the auriferous ground of the state has been scarcely more than skimmed over. The preseuce of rich gold deposits in the state is not a matter of speculation—the fact is known to be true. The gold outpur of Montana in 1802 was, in round numbers, $3,000,000. Though this is a small sum compared with the silver output for the same time it is an 1tem not to be de- spised, aud with the depression of the silver mning industry there should be a corre- sponding revival of goid mining. ——— No Time for Sectionmlism, IWashington Fost. Governor West of Utah takes substanti- ally tne same ground as Governor Crounse of Nebraska with regard to the vroposed convention of stales at St Louis and declines to appoint delegatos. He doubtless agrees with other con- servative governors that this is no time for holding conventions on sectiovsl lines and fomenting discords. 1t will be time enough for the Pan-Ameri- can Bimetallic asspeiation to agitate new commercial departures and nonintercourse with the east when congress shall have utterly failed to peconcile existing differ- ences and the govgrnment finds 1tseif unable 10 hold the union together. ————— Hoaglng O a Serap, Philadelphfa Ledger, If Governor Flower is as good as his word the sheriff of Kings couuty will have to choose between:preventing the Miwchell- Corbett fight and removal from office. The governor has ulready expressed his opinion that the proposed fight is in direct violation of law and that he will hold the sheriff re- spousible for neglecting to prevent it. The governor of New York possesses the power of removal for fatlare to discharge o known duty. It may be safely predictea that the fight will not come off if the sheriff is con- vinced that the ‘governor means business. Like a good manyiother public officials the sheriff of Kiugs county cares nothing for enlightened public opinion, but like most public ofticials he does not want to be dis- wissed in disgrace from his oftice. —— Penny Wise and Pound Foolish, Chicago Herald. Fcono my in the matter of safeguards in variably proves expensive to railroad com panies in the end. 1v is asserted that a wreck which occurved recently on a road leading out of Chicago was directly due to the closing of a night telegraph office in order to cut down expenses, and this in the face of the fact that the road was carrying 100,000 passeogers & movth more thau its ordinary trafiic because of travel to the World's fair. By discharging & telegraph operator and closiog the oftice the company “saved” perhaps $45or $0 a month. The wreck due to Lhis economy will probably cost the company anywhere from $25,000 Lo §100,- OCTORER 3, 1893, 000 in actual loss and damage suits, to say nothing of the bad reputation which the wreck gives the rond, which will lose it many thousands more. Thore is no neces. sity for pointing a moral in this case. The facts speak for themselves, PO Opstreperons Tarks Tamed. New York Evening Sun The sturdy interference of Secretary Gres- ham in the matter of the attack on Miss Melton, an American missionary in the Noor- desh mountains, has not been without re- sults. The governor of Mosul, who delayed the trial of the accused, has been removed by the grand vizier and another appointed in his place with orders to sce that justice is done. Turkey has probably realized by this time that we are building more war ships with all modern improvemonts and know how to use them. Tt is always easier to got satis- faction in such a case when you have not to rely upon the law of nations alone - Lemoeracy and Diplomney. New York Evening Post (Dem.) The quality of the diplomatic appoint- ments thus far has not beon higher, on the average, than under previous administra- tions. Care has been taken, as usual, with one or two important posts, like London and Paris, but the othors have been flung to the spoilsmen, with the old, time-honored disre- gard of the national reputation and the na- tional interests. Mr. Quincy has buon al lowed a dobauch among the consulships which would have sickened a Blainite, and has sent him home to Boston with a wet towel round his head. He has sent out to look after our trade in the uttermost ends of the carth the usual quota of broken-down men and ignorant editors, who will, of course, if, partly through the discredit of them, the democrats should lose the next election, be remorselessly cast adrift at their posts, and many of them will have to ‘‘beat” their way home, to our further dis- grace, [ER N ——, NEBRASKA POLITIOAL POINTS, Pierce Call: The Fremont Tribune prints L. D. Richard's letter to Rosewater, but fails to print Rosowater's answer. Why? 'rh{- answer by Rosey was the best part of it. Silver Creck Times: We are for Instruc- tions, and iron clad instructions at that. We have all seen too much of men falling in with the popular current, securing a place on a delegation and then utterly failing at the critical moment. That is one of the many schemes to which tricksters resort to defeat the party will. Of course we don’ wish to intimate that there are any trick- sters i Merrick county, but then it is just as well to be on the safe side. No friend of Maxwell should object to instructions. Pierce Call: The Norfolk News says that if *“Judge Maxwell is the only republican who can defeat the independent candidate then the republi party of Nebraska had better disband.” We think like the News that the republicans can etect any go honest, upright man—one with a clean record. But Frick has not a clean record, but is a railroadite and a monopolist of the rankest kind, If he is nominated he will be buried on olection day. Itis time that the rapuolican party was tearing loose from this lway octopus that has been its controlling factor in years past. . Lincoln New: One thing is growing pain- fully evident, and that is thav the fierce partisan spirit being engendered in the fight for the supreme judgeship is menacing ve- publican success this fall. The anti-Max- well men are using tactics and epithets that will estrange many republicans who love r play. and that will be pretty hard for these men 1o swallow if Maxweil does happen to be nominated. It Maxwell {s turned down by means of the dummy ¢andidate in overy county scheme, and some man nominated whose afiliations with the railroads are more than suspected it will mean the loss of many votes. The re- publican state convention has a very delicate task before 1t. Tobias Tribune: As the time for holding the republican state convention draws near it is- apparent that the real issue will be, shall Judge Maxwell be shelved. The issue arises because of the judge’s anti-monopoly inclinations and his opinion in the impeach- ment cases. Every corporation capper and every heeler of the state officials will do their best to shelye the venerable judge, and they have a fair prospect of success, for although the rank and file of the republi are at heart in favorof the sturdy old juri still the whip of the party leaders and wire pullers at the convention will probably daraw enough of them into lin to prevent his nomination. It is probable that Saline county’s delegation will be anti-Maxwell, and we do not have to look far for the son. This is the home of Hon. George Hastings and the county is full of voters who for the past twenty years have been his ardent supporter nd ad- mirers, and who tod although they may fecl at heart that ““Saline county's favorite son” has made a grave mistake, still they love him and are unwilling to send a delega- tion that would directly or indirectly reflect upon Mr. Hastings or show that they thought that he was disloyal to his constit- ucnts by not serving the state as he should, The Tribune holds General Hastings in high esteem und has never believed him guilty of any willful wrougdoing, but in order to vin- dicate him we do not think it ne i do we think it right o snelve th jurist Nebraska ever had, simply because he did not decide a case in our friend’s favor. The Tribune, and it belleves it voices the sentiments of the rank and file of the repub- licans of this vicinity, would like to see the delegates from Saline county instructed for Muxwell, as our neighbors, Jefferson and IMillmore, have already done, believing that ch action would redound to the good of the Ly and the state. e $30,000 FOR A JOB. Globe-Democrat: The only thing to be said in favor of the Van Alen appointment is that it gives Cleveland a good chauce to correct a serlous mistake. Philadelplia Fimes: Even admitting Van Alen wears a- u:0n0elé no reason has been so far adduced why he shouldn't also honestly bave a foreign mission in his eye. Washington Post: The country is, pro- pared to compromise with Ambassador Vau Alen if he will agroe to take Ward McAllis- ter and Hobart Chatfield Ditto Taylor with him, Philadelphia Inquirer: On the whole it would seem us if President Cloveland and Mr. Whitney had beon cruaily unposed upon, and it would be an act of kindness to tho president for the senate 1o reject this ridicu- lous person. New York Advertiser: Van Alen, the rich idler, paid 0,000 to Whitney to help the cause of British free trade and reform, hitney spent the money for Cleveland and Cleveland was clected. Cleveolund repuys Van Alen with u fat foreign appointment. Philadelphia Record: Tt is said that Mr. Van Alen desires that his nomination for the Italian wission shail be withdrawn by the president. He could not have given u better proof of his fitness for the place than by re- Tusing to accept it under the civcumstaices Minneapolis Tribune: “1 have paid in ¢ el them now deliver the goods,” i Mr. Van Alen's sole reply when anybody asks him about that Italian mission, Tho senite now has an opportunity to redecm itself by refusing to confirm the appoinment, but the senate can bo depended upon to do exactly the other thing. New York Sun: But what sort of a figuro would Van Alen make in Rome with this scandal attached to his avpointment! And what sort of satisfaction could he derive from the distinction, with the public every- where believing, and the public in Kome bo. lieving more than auywhore else, that he got his appointiment in return for a political ro- nation of §0,000. New York World: Van Alen contributed & large sum of money last year to the demo- cratic campaign fund. Because of tuis he has been nominated as ambassador Lo Italy. Mr. Whitney concedes it. Mr. Van Alen admits it. He never rendered any other service Lo tho public or to his party, except that he has voted two or three time: ']'Il‘u ofico is given to him solely as a ‘‘recogni- tion,” & return for the money he gave to help the party to success. New York Post: No explarations, or de- nials, or feats of interpretation will gey over this. The last man in the country to whom the president of the United States should give a great office is the man who has given most money towards electing nim. ‘The bestowal of offices on persons who sup- port the party with great sums of money iay, in some cases, be inuocent, but nothing but a total change io huwan nature would prevent it very soon making every office, in- cluding the presideacy, aa article of wer- chandise, ANEBRASK L AND NEBRASKANS, F. A, Sayre of Kearnoy died of old ago in his SOth year. Fifty peovle left Wilber in a body to visit the World's fair. Dalby & Chaney have sold the Stella Jour- nal to a stock company. ‘The balance of the week at ve lively. The fair is on. The Adams Kxpress company no longer delivers goods up town in Salem Burglars entered Burger's store nt Aurors and walked off with several hundred dollars worth of goods The Congrogationalists of Neligh have called Rov. Mr. Lawrence of Massachusetts to he pastor of their church, The Plerce Call has begun its seventeenth vear. 1t is one of the oldest and most relia- ble papors in northeastorn Nobraska. Dr. J. L Byrne, who disappeared from Table Rock twelve years ago, leaving a wife and family of chilaren, died recently in Texas. The Ancient Order of United Workmen lodge of Cambridge will hold a picnie Friday and it has invited nelghborine lodges to par ticipate, Autelope county people fied with any of the three tickets 1 the field will soon meot fn mass convention and nominate some candidates of their own, H. B. Fancher of Dixon county raised 1,500 bushels of flax seed on 100 acres of sod and sold the crop for $1.450. The one crop was worth half as much us the land it was raised on. Hon. Frod J. TFox, for twenty years a lead, g democrat of northeastern Nebraska: died at his home in Creighton Saturday night. He was a candidate for the nomina- tion of judge in the Ninth judicial district, A pretty Fullerton girl, says the Post, whom it was thought would remain an old maid because there are no dukes nor kings in this country, is engaged to a man whom her family is opposed to, and their opposition makes her love him until she is almost crazy. Exchanges and corvespoudents will p note that our “nslnfih‘r address is B Nob.. says the Navoryillo Press. Napervillo is growing so fast that the postofice au- thorities are, presumably, waiting for it to become a presidential office before appoint- ing a postmaster here. In the meantime wo carry our mail to and from Basin and wait patiently until we get a chance to get even with our Uncle Sam, ——————— DED BRIL Elmwood will ho are not satis- BRA) NTS. Yonkers Statesman: Two wrongs don't make one right, unless, perhaps, it is a sil- verite, Lowell Courder: Ttis th enchantment to the Philadelphia teloscopn istant viow. which Times: Autumn's coming Is fall follows after the summor- Washington Post: The female up hor enlongated skirts is not train robber, who holds necessarily a Philadelph! In Court--What's yourage, madam? “A witness docsn’t huve to testify against hersoif, does she?' Puck: Mrs, servant kecp hor pla Mrs. Hiram Daly—Sodo 1; but, dear me, I can’t make one stay over a weck! -Lbelisve in making a Philudelphia North Amerle pressed you most in Chicago? “Tho crowd. 1t impressed me so m ely broath “What im- ch that Washington § the stars so | Mr. I'igg—Oh. these astronomers are scour- ing the heavens ail the time, Truth: The Rector—Did you ever hear of the theory that peoplo will Rave the sam= vo- cations in tho noxt world as they had 11 ¢ The widow—I don't heliove niy husbana i He was an ice dealer. Somerville Journal: You can nlways tell a mean man, becauso when anything about the house goes wrong he always’ tries to put the blame upon his wife, WANING DAYS. Washington Star, The nights are cold, The Are gray, The frost king now Is on his way. We miss the Fird We miss the be Wo miss the flow And leafy trees We also migs, 'Tis joy fo state, The spoons who sug The old front IRIENCE, Somerville journal. The man who, iu the eariy spring, Laid out a garden plot May not have raisod pnying crop, But, oh! he knows a 1ot Next year, whon spring comes, you will seo Him sitting on the fence, And telling others doleful'tales Of his experience. Until a man has tried it once, Ho never gots to know How hard it is to hoe and spade, And how fast weeds can grow. How hiot the summer sun can shine, How dry some weoks can be, And how the Lord has made o bug, Tor evory plant and tie But hoe who, n the early spring, id out & gardon plot 1 le: this, and more by now, o wiil not ! ery deep— Not I ho knows hiniself And all his tools, all summer long, Will 1ie upon the shelf. DIED ON HIS SON'S GRAVE, Eugene Starr Finds Where 1is Soldior Boy Wax Muried and Expires. ATIANTA, G, ~Kugene Starr of Holyoke, Ma: yestorday at the spot ‘where his son w buried years ago. The son, Frederick Starr, belonged to Company G of the Tenth Massachusetts rogimont when the war broke out and went with it to the front. Ho and a companion got separ. ated from the regiment and wandered over the country fora long time. Starr finally succambed to want and exvosuro aad his body was buried by his comrade, Stal family were not informed of the young man's death and probably lived in hopea that tho soldier voy would some day turn up alive and well. The man who closed his eyes in death and laid him away inarude grave roamad over the entire con- tinent and at last settled in California, where he died a short time ago, Among his pApErs was one asking that Kugene Starr of folyoke, Mass., be notified of his son's death, and directions were given how to find the grave. Last night a party of coon hunters in the wilderness noticed a strange light in the distance and on investigating camo upon a dying man, who said he was Eugene Starr and that ho had come thero in oh of his son's grave. The huniers aid t they could for him, but ho died shortly after being found, hterally upon the last resting place of his long dead boy, ‘The au- thorities telographed the mayor of Holyoke, who contfirmed the stor INSURANCE CONCERNS BREAK, A Company in Tace and One Hampshiro Go to tho Wall. TAcoma, Oct. 2--At the instance of Stats Insurance Commissioner Mott, the Farmers Insurance company of Spokane has been placed 1n the hands of a rveceiver. Moty says the books of the coucern have been kept 80 a8 to deceive the stockholders, The as- sets, he says, do not amount to more than 85,000, The indebtedness greatly oxcecds this amount. The company has out over $2,000,000 worth of policies. Between the conclusion of the ox- amination and the receiver’s assuming charge 21,000 worth of securities were abstracted from the company’s vaults. The ofticers of the company are: Paul Bockmeyer, presi- dent; James Hopkins, manager, and T, B Flynit, sccrot I'he company was or- ganized April 1801, Maxcuester, N Fire Insur: I New H., Oct. 2.—The Peonle’s nce company, + weoks of tribulation, has made its | organization is now at The directors voted to retire the company’ front business and o reinsure the risks, Ambiguons Dispat New York, Oci mysterious telegram Ribon of this city fr pox, Colombo, has a dispaten, which ish words, © safety”], xpinined. An explanation of the received by Senor m his brother at Mowm- 1 obtaificd. The onsisted of the two Span- abemos salvacian™ (W was supposed 1o annow safety of at least some of the passencurs crew of the missing Atlus line steamer Alvo, on which Seuor Ribon's nephew was a pas senger. The steamer Ails, which arrived here today, brings the e ation. It seems that the Panama Star « crald published an article about the Alvo, which a man liv- ing at gena understood as announcing her arvival. He tel phed his congratula- tions to Senor Ribon at Mompos, an interior town, the dispatch which caused 8o much commotion uere. e Mrs. Deacon 1n New York, New York, Oct. 2.—Mrs. Edward Parker Deacon, the divorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon, who killod Tmilo Abeille, a well- known m: bout-town of Parl night of February 17, 1802, arrived on the L Bretagne yesterday. Mrs, Deacon was ac- - companied by her youpgest child. a nurse and a femme de chambre. She did no her married name. She ery retired on the passage, seldom appearing nmong the passengers, the majority of whom did not know she was on board, Upon her arrival in New York she was driven to the Brevoort house, where she refused to 806 reporters or accept a telegram sent to her room, know St Patriek's. New Yonrk, Oct. 2.—The steamer La _ Bretagne, which a| d from Havre yester- day, brought the massive piece of silveraltar furniture known as the ostensorium, used in the exposition of the sacrament. It was or- dered about two years ago from Lyons, France, by the League of the Suered Heurt for the use of St. Patrick’s cathedral, 1t is made of the finest quality of silver, heavily gilded & u ostensorium and a thabo ostensorium weighs about cighty-five pounds and stands five feot high, It cost 10,000, not. including the jewels used on it Its entire cost was contributed by members of the Leaue of the Sacred Heart, e cali ondon, Itev. Amory H. Brad- twenty-three years Dr. Bradford New Yous, Oct. ford, D. D, for minister of the First Congregu- tional church, Mont Clair, N, &, one of the editors of the Outlook, and widely known as i preacher and author, has received a unanimous call” to the pastorato of Westminster chapel, London, the largest Congregational mectivg house in the world, and located near Buckingham paluco, West- abboy, and the Housesof Parli Dr. Bradford has not yet signifie his intention concerning the *call,” BROWNING, KING Largost Manufasturers an | Rytallars of Olothing In he Worll. Nay, nay, Pauline, The theory that a man, to be well and elegant- o el ly dressed, must have his clothes made to his own order by a merchant tailor is busted—for makers of clothing havegot the business down to such a fine point that the large manufacturers hire all the best tailors in the cbunLry to make up their goods. The quality of the cloth is just as good and the workmanship is often a great deal better than the ordinary tailored job. At least this is true of our goods. Our $8.50 suit isin just as good style as the $10, $12.50, $15.00, $20 00 and $25.00 sort, and are in every way reliable goods, guaranteed to wear and fit exactly. Our overcoats, in every con- ceivable style, range from $8.50 up as high as $25,00. Our new fall and winter underwear is in, BROWNING, Store open every evenlng il 6.4). PO iy il 1 KING & CO., |8, W, Cor. 16t aad Dyugias 5ts,