Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1893, Page 4

¢ had the pleasure of a personal acquain- 3 o4 THE DAILY BEE KWATER. Kditor, oS PURLISHED EVERY MORNING. TION. TERMS OF SUBSCRI Datly Bee (without Sui O Dails i Sund:y Bix Month Three Montiis Sunday Bee, One Y Saturdny e Weekly D 1t we and el ) the Bditor AL conn tortal mat shonld b Is on saloin T rand Pa Anditorium hotel Great Northern hotel. Gore hotal, Tisland hotel, Files of T Yraskn buitdi 1ng, Expos: Rer canbo socn at the N, and the Administration build- 1 grounds. " SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of N i [y t § k. soeretary of THE Ber Pub- u the mee this 14t Avernge Clroulat CONGRESSMAN KEM and Meiklejohn do not speak now as they pass by. Ir 18 considered certain that no more prisoners will escape from the Douglas county jail. FEucLip MARTIN has accomplished the task of leading his horses to water, but can he make them drink THE presid aid to still stand firm. Tt takes considerable momentum to move a mun of his avoirdupois. RUSSOPHOBIA is now raging with ongressman ~ utmost soverity among the inhabitants of Paris, and is rapidly spreading to all parts of I'rance. OMAHA people have now been taught the difference between a fire engine and a water hydrant. Theone propets water and the other doesn’t. A PREMATURE touch of winter may be said to have passed in the vicinity of Congressmen Kem and Meiklejohn dur- ing Tuesday’s session of congress. WE TRUST the public will be spared the reappearance of the discordant board of lady managers to mar their enjoy- ment of the elose of the World's fair. WHEN it comes to good, fatherly ad- vice Senator Sherman is in a position to enable his fellow senators to profit by the results of a rich legislative experi- ence. X ONE good thing at least is assured by the Union Pacific receivership if it re- sults in cutting off the operations of the garnisheo sharks who have been for years hounding railroad employes. THE bond investment swindles and their officers are not deriving any very great amount of comfort from the most recent action of public authorities in re- lation to their schemes for duping the people. SECRETARY MORTON is not finding so much favor with the congress of agricul- ture in session in Chicago as with the newspaper correspondents at Washing- ton, to whom he furnishes his ready- made interviews. THERE are too many democratic law- yers in this neck-o-woods to make it worth while to discount the chances of the selection of Hon. John (. Cowin to assist the Dopartment of Justice in pro- tecting the interests of the government in the Union Pacific. —_— JUDGING from the constant activity of Lord Sulisbury in addressing public meetings throughout England, the veteran ex-prime wminister is not yet reudy to resign tho leadership of his party into the hands of the talkative Joseph Chamberlain, mr————— THE city of Omaha is certainly doing everything that lies in its power to fur- nish its citizens with ample fire prote tion. With apparatus of the most im- proved description and a fire department well disciplined and efficient, our busi- ness men need feel no unusual fear of uncontrollable fires. THE secretaries of the State Board of Transportation need have no dread of the work of personally inspecting the points of intersection of the roads which seok to be relieved from the provisions of the transfer switch law. The rail- road managers may be confident] y re- lied upon to make their travels agroe- able and their stops pleasant and profit- able, ACCORDING to the World-Herald Mavor Bemis is responsible for the in- sufficient pressuve in the fire hydrants. Is not Mr. Bemis also responsible for all !hs accidents that happen on the street car lines, and for the overcharge of the electric lighting wires that have resulted in amumber of fatalities? Of course if Bedford had becn mayor these things would not happen. Great is Bedfo Bmall is Bemis. enm————— WHILE the editor of THE BEE has not tance with Hon, Mr, Kem of Broken Bow and does not remember ever to have seen him, we feel under obliga- tions for the space he has generously mw Tue BEE in the Congressional . If we could conyeniently have the remarks placed at top of eolumn, surrounded by pure reading matter, we should feel still more grateful. As an exclamation point Mr, Kew is & sucocess. TRYING TO EVADE THE LAW. Word comes from Lingoln that the State Board of Transportation has finaily decided to investigate the allogations made in the petition of the Burlington and Itock Tsland raileond s asking for re- 1 lief from the provisions of the transfer switeh law. The law went nominally into effect on August 1, but sixty days wern allowed tor the railroads o put in the proposed switches before the penal- ties of the act should begin to attach. Not a single switeh has been constructed in aceordance with the law, presumably becanse the railroad managers have im- plicit contidence in their ability to se- cure ita practical nullification at the hands of the State Board of Transpor- tation. The members of this baard appear to suffer from no anxiety to carry out the plain mandates of the statute. Fvery | railroad in this state is openly violating the law, but nota single prosecution has been instituted to recover the penalties that are daily aberuing. Every day that any railroad neglects or rofuses to com- ply with the provisions of the act claps- ing after the expiration of the sixty-day respite makes that rpad guilty of a mis- demecanor, punishable by a fine of not less than %50 nor more than %500 for each and every day that it neglects or re: fuses to build and maintain such switches, Tho money collected from the recaleitrant railroads is to be paid into the general school fund of the state. But the state officials charged with the exccution of the law are showing no particular regard for the welfare of the school fund, unless it is that by. allowing the railroads to continue their repeated vio- lations they may hope in the end to turn over a larger sum to the support of the public schools. T'he petitions of the railroads secking relief proceed upon the theory that the law was enacted to remain unenforced. Accordingly they ask to be exempted from its operation at every point where it calls for the construction of a switch, Such wholesale exemption was of course nct contemplated by the logislature, or it would itselt have refrained from passing the Packwood bill. It foresaw that there might be in- stances where the law might work un- usual hardship on a ruilroad without affording the public any corresponding benefit, and_ it provided that the State Board ofyTransportation might, after a thorough personal investigation, relieve such roud from the operation of the penalty clause in such case. This re- lief, however, should have been accorded within the sixty days after August 1. Tho roads had amiple time to construct switches or to secure exemption from their contruction before the penalty clause went into force. To seck total oxemption from tho provisions of the law is simply trying to evade the plain intent of the logislature that enacted it. The State Board of Transportation will rting the authority vested in it if it strips tho transfor switch law of all power to bring relief to a corpora- tion-ridden people. FROM THE FRYING PAN IN 10 THE FIRE, In practical politics ministers of the gospel have proved themselves to be novices and blunderers. Thoy generally lead their flocks from the frying pan into the fire. 1t is all right enough for men of the cloth to have political con- victions and stand up for the elevation of public morals, but when they advo- cate impractical and impossible reforms in municipal government, they ave very much like the man who wanted to buck the locomotive. They fail to realize that social evils cannot be eradicated by crusades from the pulpit or the election booth. The best that can be done in dealing with vices that prevail in all great population centers is restraint aud police surveillance. When it comes to turning down an officer who has the manhood and cour- age to face the issue and tell the truth rational and thinking people will ask themselves, ‘‘What is to be uccomplished by such a course?” Is any candidate who is in position to be elected mayor of Omaha likely to do better, or as well? Will a democratic mayor who is willing to pledge himself to the preachers that he will institute radical changes in deal- ing with the vicious classes live up to his pledges after the election? Wiil not those pledges of reform be turned over to the political pawn shop as irredecema- ble? Is there anything to be gained in the interest of public morals by asking the good people to deliver their votes to the highest bidder? If so, Hascall will outbid Bedford as much or m8re than Bedford is trying to outbid Bemie, MONEY ACCUMULATING. Reports from all the financial centors of the country say that money is ac- cumulating in the banks. At the close of last week the New York banks held nearly 834,000,000 in excess of their legal reserve, and a like condition existed in Philadelphia and Boston. Indeed, at every point where money can accumulate it has been piling up and the present in- dications ave that this process is likely to be continued for some time. Sucha situation may very reasonably be cited as evidence that there is an ample sup- ply of money in the country, but the fact which it just now illustrates most forcibly ‘i the prevalence of business stagnation. Thero is a greatly vestricted legitimate demand for money and at the same time the speculative demand is less than usual, The latter is, perhaps, not to be re- gretted, but the former means a state of affaivs which may even be deplored, since it shows that a vast amount of both capital and labor is at present earning nothing. If all the industrial forces of the nation were adequately employed such a condition of affairs would not exist. The accumulation of money in the banks atsll the financial centers is proof that the country is nou having the material progress and Ppros- perity which it ought to have. The obvious fact is that while the busi- ness depression is not 80 serious now as 1t was a couple of months ago, it has not entirely passed away, and the only sound conclusion must be that 1t will not wholly pass away so long as the sitver question remains unsettled and there is danger that this country will adhere to & policy which wmust inevitably lead it to a silver basis. Undoubtedly the ques- ¥ il 2 4 THE OMAHA tion of tariff revision exerts a consider- able influence upon the operations of business. The operatigns of the indus- trial interests of the country are neces- sarily more or less affacted by the un- cortainty as to what the party in control of the government will do in the matter of departing from the established eco- nomic policy of the couftry. But it is probable that this has a less decided of- fect in maintaining the business depres- sion than does the uncertainty regard- ing financial legislation and the appre- hension that the end of the silver fight will be some sort of a compromise which will not altogether corréct the evil that was inaugurated by the legis- lation of ffteen yoars ago. Sweeping changes in the tariff system of the country in the direction of free trade would unquestionably bring disastor to many interests and be gener- ally injurious, but these are not so much to be feared as a financial policy leading to an unsound and unstable currency. It is the fear that the country will drift to such a currency that has most to do with maintaining the business depres- sion, ANOTHER TIMEL K TO. The veto of Mayor Bemis of the con- tract for grading Dorcas street from Second street to Sixth street keeps up his rvecord for fearlessly using the authority vested in him for what he be- lieves to be the best interests of the tax- payers of the entire city. But for the interposition of this veto the eity might have been called upon to pay out of its general fund the expense of grading a bluff facing the Missouri river in which only a very few of the tax- payers have the remotest concern. Not ono person in five hundred residing in Omaha ever had occasion or ever will have occasion to travel over that portion of Dorcas street between Second and Sixth streets. It would be manifestly unjust to compel the citizens in general to pay for the proposed grad- ing when it serves only a comparatively few of their number. Not only would a positive injury have been done taxpayers, had the city on account of any failure of Mayor Bemis to veto the contract been called on to pay the sum involved out of its general fund, but an injury would also be done the working men of Omaha. Payment to a contractor out of the general fund reduces the amount available for the general improvement of streets from Which the city gives direct employment to labor. The expenditure of money raised by general taxation is justifiable only upon improvements intended for general use, - APPROACHING STATE ELEQTIONS. The state clections of this'year will take place less than three weeks hence, and as to the more important of these the outlook seems highly favorable to the republicans. This is particularly the case in Ohio, where, unless all signs fail, Governor McKinley will be re- elected by a very large plurality. The republicans of thatstate are manifesting a much greater interestin the campaign than are the democrats. Their meot- ings are more largely attended, they are more enthusiastic, and while repub- licans have the utmost confidence they are not permitting this to interfere with active work and the maintenance of thorough organization, Knowing that the stronger they make their plurality the greater will be the influence of the result upon the country-—and they have this in view—they are working with all possible energy, and according to all re- ports with excelient effect. There is a great deal of unemployed labor in Ohio which was earning good wages a year ago, and from the ranks of this labor, the greater part of it in the manufactur- ing districts, there is every reason to expect the republicans will gain thou- sands of recruits. Men who believe that democratic tariff agitation is in large measure responsible for their idle- ness, and the number of such is undoubtedly very considerable, will vote the republican ticket. Me- Kinley has thus far made a strong canvi and the arrangements of the republican managers arve such as to as- sure an aggressive and vigorous cam- paign to the end. So far as appoars on the surface the democrats are making a hopeless fight. Although the campaign in Massachu- setts is not receiving so large a share of gencral altention as that in Ohio, it is being conducted with activity and earnestness on both sides, with national issues, principally the tariff—since republicans and demo- crats are practically on the same ground regarding silver—commanding the at- tention of voters. The question of tar- iff revision is one of very great impor- tance to the people of Massachusetts, whose industrial interests embrace the whole range of manufacturing enter- prige. Perhaps in no other state is the promise of a sweeping revision of the tariff, on the line laid down by the last democratic national ®convention, re- garded with greater solicitude than in Massachusetts. As ono of the leading papers of that state says, this question touches the people to the very quick, It is the prevailing subject of popular discussion, and it is on this question, beyond all others, that the people of Massachusetts are going to vote next month, The present aspect of the situa- tion is favorable to the republi- cans, and they ought, under pres- ent conditions, to win by a hand- some majority. If they -do there can be no doubt that the influence of the vietory upon the country would be great, and it might have a decided effect, also, in inducing the democrats in congress not to carry tariff revision too far in the direction of free trade. So far as the tariff question is concerned, the voice of Ohio and Massachusetts joined in strongly condemning the attitude of the democracy toward protection could not fail to have a very decided weight, The campaign in Towa has not been conducted with quite as much vigor as in the other states referred to, but it ought to be safe to predict a republican victory there. The efforts of the demo- orats to disparage the republican candi- date for governor by attacking his per- sonal character are reacting to their disadvantage and ought to do so. There is a good deal of interest in the New York campaign, although there DAILY are no national ‘Mues involved. The contest i3 ower.) the candidate for the court of mppeals, the dem- ocrats having _ named for this position Judge Mag#ard, who was re- sponsible for the, I!j}efl that gave the democrats control,of the last state sen- ate and enabled David B. Hill to go to the national senate. The deflant atti- tude of the democratic machine in this matter will, it is belfeved, give the state to the republicans, fiough such a result cannot be predicted with any degree of confidence. For the: general influence they will exert, thg' really important elections this year .will be in Ohio, Massachusetts and Towa, aud at present the chances in all these states appear to favor the republicans. TRADERS' TRAINS. Through the efforts of the Commercial club arrangements have been perfected whereby traders' excursion trains will be run in an out of Omaha by the lead- ] ing railroad lines of the state. Nominal rates will be made from all intermedi- ate points, enabling merchants and resi- dents of country towns to visit Omaha, make their purchases and return home within a day. The initial train will be run by the Missouri Pacific from Falls City, from which point the fare will be $2. That the train will bs well patron- ized goes without saying. Omaha's trade in southeast Nebraska is not what it ought to be. The merchants of this city are determined to push their goods into that territory, well knowing that no other distributing point on the river can compete with Omaha if the trans- portation lines deal fairly with our job- bers and manufacturers. There can be no surer means of in- creasing the wholesale and retail trade of Omaha than by running traders' trains at stated times, as now contem- plated. They must, however, be well advertised in the towns through which they are to pass far enough in advance of their time schedule to enable the people to make arrangements to patron- ize them. These trains will prove to be of mutual advantage to the railroads, the merchants of Omaha and to residents and business men throughout the state. Self-interest can be dopended upon to make the enterprise a success. The first essential point is to inform the people that the trains will run, and when. That done, we predict that the traders’ trains will become a popular feature of business in this state A CAUSTIC REMONS IRANCE. The deep-seated resentment among the rank and file of the republican party over the high-handed outrage perpetrated in its name by tho railroad oligarchy in deposing. Judge Maxwell finds expression in theé letter of Charles Wooster, which appears on this page. Mr. Wooster was one of the delegates from Merrick county to the republican state convention... He belongs to the old school of fighting republicans, who were ever ready to stake their fortunes and their lives in the cause of human free- dom, equal rights and a government of the people. While Mr. Wooster is perhaps a little too severe in his caustic criticism of the two supreme judges that voted to vindi- cate the impeached state officials, he does in the main hit the bull’s eye as re- gards the subversion of true republican- ism in the interest of railroadism and boodlers. Mr. Wooster is by no means the only republican delegate of the late convention who does not hesitate to de- nounce and repudiate the action of the convention. We have heard from scores of other delegates who propose to do just what he says he will do. And they will do it because they believe that it will be the salvation of the republican party to bo decisively rebuked this yoar. IF Joff was running for mayor down in Vicksburg he would have a walkaway on his name alone. ward of Meric, Globe-Democrat, Mr. Olnoy has been re-olected a diroetor of tho Boston & Maine railroad, in recogni- tion, presumably, of his masterly inactivity as a prosecutor of the trusts. e Tolerated 1n the Farty, St. ul Globe (dsm.,), Congressman Bryan denies that he ha forsaken the democratic party, and s that his remarks to that effect’ at Lincoln last weelk were intended to be understood in a Pickwickian sense. Bryan may come back 1f he so_desires, but tho democracy will say with Othello: ~ “Bryan, I love thes, but never more be ofticer of mine,” i Stick to the Stralght Issue. Indianapolis Journal, It is to be hoped the ropublicans in con- gress will have nothing to do with any coun- promise on the silver ‘question. They have made their record in favor of the uncondi- tional repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Shermun law, and they should stand or fall on_that proposition. No compromise can bemade that will ot be o disgraceful sur- render and ruinous to the party that agrecs to it. < Stoers and Stoere Lousville Courler Journal, Every day or two we hear some kind of a report that the democratic “‘steering com- mittee” of the Umted States senate is seriously thinking of taking definite stops to bring the silver repeal bill to a vote, It is is to be hoped that there is some truth in these revorts. At present the only ‘“steer- ng” visible in the senate1s the determined and predetermined kicking of the bay steers from the silver mlfi . How to Seetre Bepeal, Chicago Lribune If there are forty<three senators who ro- ally want a vote on the¥epeal bill all they have to do is 1o put their names to a petition 1o the vice |n'mldmn.‘}?:hm the self-evident fact that there has be the bill, that all the Senators who want to speak have spoken, pnd asking him thereforo 10 put the question, rahn passage of the bill. The vice Krelldnnl. &luuh a document ns this in his hunds wWould know thatif he complied with suchla request ho would haye behind him not a majority of the sen- ate, not merely abogt all the people of his own state, whose political support is essen- tial to bhim if he hag hopes for the future, but the great m of the people of the United States. debate enough on % % THR OMAWA DAILY BEE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 18 e e S e TRE UNION PACIFIO, New York World: The government prace wically paid the entire original cost of hon- estly hailding the rond. If it cost more than the government gave it was only becaise some large fortunes were stolen in the pro- cess, Tho company has never paid back the governmont's loans. 1t has not evan paid the interest, It has been a principal task ot successive managements to evade the gov- ernment’s claims, Kansas City Star: The fact that the Union Pacific has gone into the hands of receivers does not argue that the west is 10 a bad way Here comes the Sunta Fe with a_statem of incrensed roceipts in the past thirty days. The causes which forced the Union Pac into court have very little bearing on the condition of tho tributary country. An in- terest account that ate up the gross receipts did the business with the Union Pacific. Washington Post: None of the great roads, of the country, however, have felt the influ- ence of the hard tines more soverely the Union Pacific. W out of its gross earnings of about $46,500,000 for 1802, it netted a surplus of £2,000,000, the falling off in its business duriog the present year has been 8o mar as to render certain a deticl nues of not less than §3,000,000, with current obligations of $5,000,000 to 000,000 to meet between now and the the year for labor and torial and sinking fund and interest charges New York Evening Post: For the seven reported months the net. earnings of the company were more than $2,500,000 below the seven months returns in this frightful wreck of business the respon- sibility lies primarily at the door of the sil- ver agitation. he loss of earnings is the visiblo sign of shrinkage and distress in thé country through which the Union Pacific runs. Itis grim justice which has meted out the heaviest penalties to the hotbeds of this silver craze, the states whose senators are now leading in the struggle to block leg- islation. Philadelphia Record: In manipulating the transaction for absorbing the Kavsas Pacific system Mr, Gould, as supreme controller of the Union Pacific, played the two organiza- tions against each other so as o pocket some £5,000,000 at the expense of the shareholders of both. This was one of those brilliant strokes which have excited somuch vulgar admiration for the Napoleon of railroad wreckers, The predecessor of Gould, Mr. Adams, would as readily have joined a gang ot western train robbers as to have ontered into a deal for plundering the organization under his care. In point of criminality the plunder of an_express car by masked high- waymen is a much less reprehensible trans- action, New York Tribune: The company's debi to the government is about $50,000,000, se- cured by second movtgage. This and the first mortgage debt of about £30,000,000 will begin to mature in 1805. The duty of aeal- ing with this matter devolves upon the pres- ent congress, and cannot be delaved. The placing of the property in the hands of re- ceivers and under the protection of the courts should hasten action. That congress will treat the subject with the good judg- ment and common sense with which men en- gaged 1n ordinary business affairs manage such matters is perhaps too ‘much to expect. At least it cannot make a worse muddle of it than it has done heretofore, The gentle- men appointed receivers are fully compotent, Chicago Times: Tt will result from this Jjuggle that the United es will never be reimbursed for its ad cement, foolish as it was, to these Pa ilroad corporations which, while th manipulators made milliouaires for their immediate projectors and builders, have left the concerns them- selves in such shape that they are unable to pay their debts. The corporations within corporations, the ferry and bridge compa- nies, the terminal organizations, all and sing- ular the meaus by which adroit persons manipulate to enrich themseives and leave their_creditors next to nothing, make of this property nothing more, so fap as the lien of the government is concerned, than two streaks of rust west from the Missouri river. Kansas City Times: The 4,000 employes of the Union Pacific whose wages, as a airect result of the receivership, have been increased $75,000 a month, probably have no kick coming at the court's .late decision. Thus early in the day they have assurances that the road’s affairs will be safely and wisely administered for the best interest of all by the receivers, asindeed they could hardly ve aaministered otherwise with Mr. S. H. H. Clark at their head. As receivers M Clark, Anderson and Mink will be at liberty to make rulings and order changes which they could not have done as officers of a failing road, and theiwr trans- S AR S T e of the court. Everything considered, the public has confidence in the Union Pacific's receivers, and believes that they will manage the property as it can best be done. San Francisco Call: The disaster would not be irreparable but for the circumstances in which the Union Pacific is placed. The Kansas Pacific fell into the hands of a re- ceiver in 1873 and got out in 1879, But the insolvency of the Umion Pacific occurs at a period whon a government claim of some 50,000,000 or over is maturing. It will avail the company little to borrow wionsy to meet its coupons if next day it is called upon to pay what it owes to the United States. It seems obvious that before the stockholders regain possession of their property they must settle both with the government and their other creditors. While the corpora- tion was paying its way and rendering use- ful service by furmshing Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado railroads with an outlet for their produce there was a disposition in congress to deal leniently with it. But now that the company has gone into insolvency without the act ‘of the government there would seem to be less harshness in enforcing the national claim. THE FUNNY BONE. “hronicle Pletshurg wi from heing withd ‘mpl-r is gradualty ulation. “What lovely bachelor apurtments Puck: But they sy ho has strange )Iruw»»rl has! doings there.” “Yos; 1 fancy his room is better than his company.” Tid Bits: “Let mo se “Isn’t this Dobbs that we woers just talking about a relative of yours?” “A” distant rolu- tive,” suid Dobbs. *Very distant?" should think so. 1le's the oldest of twelve children, and I'm the younge suid Bobbs to Dobbs, New Orleans Picayuno: When the captain of a yucht gets on a port tack he ought to have his shoes on. Dotrolt Tribune: The shoe dealer Is one uin who makes Rothing by haviug his foot- wear half-sold. Somerville Journal: Itisn'tatall fair to es- timnte the cost of cigarettes to the smoker at only s 4 ban Buffalo Courler: Jaggsiey, who was dis- charged the other day because of drink, cun't Dbe convinced thut hisjob wusn't spirited uway. Philadelphia Recor: wore quarreling whon tompted to interfere. Two tough young men Mr. Busy - ' sald one of the 5 ho Lf:“\.“i‘.”' sald Mr. Busybody: “why wm 17" “Becuuse yer alu’t got nothin®™ ter do wid the cuse.” Harper's Woekly: Policeman X-Suy, J()hllll‘y‘?\vu!ll't there a.big tight here a Illl{u erl\fln ul|)((u'l Y. N ny--Yes. Pollconyn X—-Who was in It? Where have O 1 dunno; but it's all tn this extra T'm sellin’. Buy one? Last year sho was the gayest girl That sported on the ) But since she wed au She's quite beyond our With birth and ristocricy Aud rank she's 50 opprossed Sho will not look upou the waves Unloss they wear & crest. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roal Baking Powder , ABSOLUTELY PURE than | Oharles Wooster Ropudiates the Work of Railroad Repablicaus, DISH AN UNSAVORY OF CROW Lot the Party Be Sudjected to the Dis- wipline ot 1 or Rather than Deostroy Free Governe meat, Siver Crurk, Neb, Oct. 17.--To the Editor of Tue 8gr: You have heretofore, At different times, permitted mo the priv- ileges of your columus, o fact which 1 have duly appreciated. 1 now come again, asking to be heard, and perhaps, asking it as one having some rights, for 1 shall very likely say some things of which you may not. ap- prove. 1f, under thé circumstances, 1 am somewhat personal, both as to myself and others, 1 trust T may be pardoned I observe that in this campaign Tnr Bre proposes to give Harrison only a qualified support. For iy part 1 cannot see why any republican who i3 opposed to ring rule, to railroad domination in state politics and to the defense of public plunderers, simply be- cause they muy happen to be republicans, should give Harrison any support at all, 1 do not believe that a republican thief is any hetter than any other thief, or that the pub- lic official who has been placed in office to serve the prople aud to guard the interests of the state and then lies still and permits the stato to be robbed, is any botter than the robber, and I never understood that it was any part of the duties of the supreme court to whitewash high officers of state who may have been derelict in their offcinl duties, or to lot them escape the just penalty of their offenses through any technicalitios of the law. I beliove that a majority of our present supreme court did that very thing in the late impeachment cases, and for one 1 am not disposed, without protest. to permit them and their friends to say who shall be their next associate, We all remember how the gentleman who wil' be our next chief justice secured his nomination four yeavs ago, or rather, per- haps, how the railroads and the ringsters gave it to him by packing the Hastings con- vention against Reese, who had wade hin self obnoxious to those parties, and had cor- respondingly endeared himself to the rank and flle of the party. Mr. Norval was a gentlemanand a good lawyer. Like Mr. Harrison, he was highly recommended for his personal qualities of mind and heart and 50 the rank and file of the psrty through a feeling of party pride and party loyalty saw that ho was triumphantly elected, but the sequel has shown that the raitroads and the ringsters knew full well in whom they trust. Two years later the old- nds of Reese rallied to his support and proposed to again place him on the su- prome bench, but as before and now, tho machinery of the p: s iv the hands of the railroads and the ringsters, and then, as in our late convention, the voites of their op- ponents were throttied, 3 Reese was defented and Post received the nomination. Like Norval, he was a gentlemun and a lawyer. His independent opponent, even if we admit him to have been a gentloman, was not a lawyer; the rank and file of the party stood by him as they had stood by Norval, and he was elected, but the sequel has shown that the railroads and the ringsters Iknew in whom they put their trust. This year the same element of the party thut had thus twice favored Reese, and for similar though much stronger reasons, tavored Maxwell, by all odds the ablest jurist the state of Nebraska had ever produced, but before the as railroads were in the saddle with whip ana spur and feed. Again in convention the friends of honest government were wagged, Maxwell was slaughtered and T. 0. C. Harrison of Grand Island received the nomination of the republican varty of the state of Nebraska for associate justi the supreme court. Harrison, li and Post, is a gentleman and a far as 1 know he has been an u‘ I certainly would not wish to ti hirow out an insinuation against him, but if elected wiil the sequel show that the railvoads and the ringsters knew in whom they put theiwr trust? That is the question. That is the question that confronts every sincere republican who believes in honest government; who Dbelieves in self-government, who believes in an impar- tinl and untrammeled judiciary, and who be- lieves that in the party councils the plain farmer or laboring man has as much right to be heard as the fine-haired gentleman vho prefixes Hon. to his name, wears a gold ring and sports a diamond pin. That is the question that every such republican voter must settle with his conscience now or when he stands next November in his booth at the polls. Can he afford to take the chances? I am a republican. 1nave always been arepublican, My father was a republican, o freesoiler and a whig. I cast my first vote for Lincoln whila at the south wearing the army blue. Afterward, while in school, aud for the more than twenty-one years that [ have lived onmy farmin Merrick county, very few have voted the straight republican ticket with greater regularity than I have done. I have fought the independent party from its first inception. Asa member of the alliance I was probably the first openly to repudiate and denounce 1ts leaders for conspiring together to betray the alliance for partisan purposes. I repudiate and de- ' nounce them now. They hecame | ors ot the independent party as they tvore lenders in the alliance. Thoy have virtuaily destroyed the alllance, and whe their true charactor and selfish aims becaw known it was aimost the destruction of the i independent parly. These leaders, with a few honorable exceptions in the state and the counties, are an unprincipaled oftice- seoking Jot unworthy the support of good citizens, Very naturally and with good management the republican ¥ Iast year clected its stato ticxet atned county, but since then it seen gh tho party had been throwin all that had boen gamned. 1f the i ents should win this yoar, it will be owl largely to the wretched work of the gang in n i encompassing the defeat of Maxwell. As 1o | our party in Nebraska, I foel very much as the Tribune expressad it when it once found aself i opposition to the re. Quolican party in the state of New ork. It said, “Lot them for a time suffer the discivline of disaster,” 1 like w. | had almost come to boelleve ;nmn proferred it as a stoady diet, but | either my stomach is getting weak or | have had too much of it. ITdo not believe 1 can stand another dose this fall. After not more the crow that like than cook and the manuer in wh up. Take 1t to kick. Much as I dislike the independents aund much as I'dislice to put myself in opposi- tion to my party on uny question at 1ssue before the people, I propose to vote for Hol« comb and not for Harrison. CHARLES WOOSTER, oh it is se aitogether, 1 am constrained The great issue aftorall is the mouth issue, 1f Chicago and the senate will stop blow- ing all eise will bo forgiven. Bavarian sooialists find the task ot chang- ing their Diet an unpopular one. The ability to do nothing is quite vociter- ously demonstrated by the senate. Among other accomplishments shown by the Union Pacific receivers is that of pisca- torial dentistry. overal JTowa sharks are floundering, tootbless, in neighboring pud- dles. Mrs. Kendal is very sarcastic about this country being ‘‘young, fresh and virtuous." Perhaps sho laughs at us for beng also patriotic, progressive and prosperous. Mrs. KKendal has a lovely smile. The five children besides baby KEsther Cleveland who were born in the white house were aiso girls. One of theso girls, the grandchild of a president, is now employed inone of the departments in Washington, ending she begun, her days under the governmenv's roof tree, ‘The velocity of a senato: eontestagainst time has been uscertained with onable accuras In his fifteen hours defenso of silver Scnator Allen emitted 25,000 words. Allowing some httle time for coffee con- sumption and side colloquys, the statesman from up the Kikhorn attained and sustained a velocity of 280 words a minute. Pass the belt, please Young “Jack” Astor does not seem to bo a complet hardy wari very time he icel of his ACht Nourmahal the skippers of vessels in the ity weigh anchor and get out of the with all the haste possible. He ran the vessel ona roef a week ago and last Thurs- day rammed a ferry bont and n sunk it. He explained that the first accident was “duo to champagne.” He must have “switched” to absinthe or plain whisky when he butted the forry boat. =3 John Herreshoff, the present head of the famous yacht-building family, is totally of most remarkable cnergy cything considered, he is most interestin of this note- though th accom- “Tlie men are possessed of unusual r strength and of refined tastes. Julian and Sally are accomplished ns, but Nat Herrveshoff is the boau handler par excellonce, the ecducated en- gincer, the mau_who has in the main de- signed and worked out the novel ideas that have put the Herveshoffs in the first rank of naval architects. NEBRASKA A ) NEBRASICANS, Two valuable horses were stolen from the barn of David Garrison of West Union and the thioves left no trace. There were two funerals in Talmage Tues- day. The bodies of Mrs. Reuben and Mrs Perrenoid were laid to rest. Burglars robbed the postofiice at Roseland of §4 in postage stamps and then blew a safe in Tull's store and secured $45 in silver. Mrs, Louise Forbos of Plattsmouth wants a divorce from her husband, Henry, because he stolo a pair of her mules and left her with eight children by a former husband to sup- port. " Chiarlos A. O'Brien, a Plattsmouth saloon keaper, was found ded in his place of busi- ness with an empty bottle of laudanum by his side. Ho had been using the drug te help him sober up. Cloveland vlain Deler. A Joy across the landscape is a pleasure deep and strong, A wealth of g nerry song; ond the paleof mortal strife Poace sproads d and crimson tints, o flood of her gentlo wings. Beyond the shadow rings: The Sun stines with a richer glow, as in my childhood days— Tho anols seom to sweotly sing amid the shin- ing haze; Rejolco! Rujolc ) of raptu 5 The autumn iime is hore buckwheat cake ‘ot despair a hope eternal ), atruggling soul, the light again, the relgn of BROWNING,KING— | Largest Manufaoturars and Ratallars of Clothing ln the World. It always follows That the firm who handles only first-olass goods gets first class trade and about all ofit. Of course there isastragglernowand then, but one dose of shoddy usually set- tles him, and “the cat comes back the very next day” and is only too glad to give us a couple of dollars more on a suit because of the reliability of the goods. Then there is the fit, finish and fashion to be considered; all of which are as near perfec- tion in our clothes as tailors can make them. We sell a mighty nice suit for $10 and from that on up to $25 for a very swell affair that merchant tailors get $50 for. Overcoats from $10 up. To cap the climax we will sell you the best hat in town for a good deal less than hatters do. We carry all the latest shapes in the celebrated Stetson hats. BROWNING, 18, npen every evenlog till 6.4). Bore pon S urday hi KING & CO., W. Cor. 16t and Douglas Sts.