Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1893, Page 4

P —— HE DAILY BEE.| ROSEWATER, Editor ISHED EVERY MORNING. 8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. ot Sundas) One Year. One Year il Al ix Moviths Treo Monilin uncay I wnm(ur T Foekiy e o One e OFFICE i Teonty-aixth streets e, 317 Chpmber of Commeren 0 7 Chinmber of Corr ; i 15, 14 15, Tribuwe bullding Washiogton. 513 Fourteenth sieot. COIRESIONDENCE, e 1 compnnieations reltlte (o news and edi- (orin1 ottt Shotlld b pddrensed: 1o the Baitor TUSIN K68 LETTERS g Jettors i remitiancen shonld bo e 1o 11 1 PUDIL IR COMPALY.OmANY BTt e BstoMec ordor 10" b6 mAde U the order of the company. Artion Jewt iy (e ¢l1y for the simmer can have AR Ty et Lo thidr fddress by leaving 8o order at husiness of Sk P UBLISHING COMPANY. The Bee In Ol e DATLY and SUNDAY Be i3 on sale in Chieago at the following places: Patnior houso. Grand Pacific hotel. Auditoriun totel. Great Northern hotel. Gore hotel Teland hotel. Files of THE e canbo soon at tho Ne- Braska building and the Administration bulld- ing, Exposition grounds. e Al busi OF CIRCULATION. | sidered by him to be important, AWORN STATE stage of X oty ¢ ’ George 1. Tokelek, steretars of Tire Bre Pub- WARIDE COm ARG, flogs’ gty swenr (At the actun efreutntion of Tir ending October 21, 1505, Sunday, October 15, onais, Octonor 11 Betover'1 Friday, Octol Baturdiy, Oct THERE are only two wecks left for candidates to write letters of personal explanation, For a noteworthy specimen of the queen’s Fnglish, commend us to the affidavit of Bank Wrecker Mosher. an find fault 5 in refusing to support If so, let him stand CAN any decent republ with THE Br Sheriff Bennet up and be counted. M. I. O. U. BACHELOR says that he 18 under monetary obligations to quite a number of persons.© Hié creditors have _pur most sincere sympathy THE issuing of checks on a bank and ptopping them before they are paid is one of the favorite tricks with which Bachelor beats his creditors. A8 AN affidavit muker Mosher isa greatsuccess. He can give Bennott soveral lessons in denying what is not charged, and not denying what is charged. ® I¥ BEMIS has played into the hands of the water company,how does it come that the vaterworks force wasthrown against. him in the primaries, and how does it come that the men who manage the politics of the water company are work- ing for Bedford now? ONCE more the kaleidoscope of silver legislation turns and the panorama of compromise fades from view. How many more turns will be necessary to give per- manent relief by the passage of the re- peal bill is the problem thut remains as far from solution now as eve TRE Philadelphia Inquirer speaks of Hon. J. Sterling Morton as ‘“President Cleveland’s secretary of the agriculture, who has been lost sight of since the cab- inet was announced.” How cruel! It isn't Secretary Morton's fault that he hasn't been heard oftener and louder. OMAHA and Nebraska are getiing some advertising out of the prominence of their representatives at the World’s Congress of Real Estate, now in session at Chicago. When the reaction finally sets in thoso who pin their faith in Omaha dirt are bound to reap the just reward of their confidence. THE Osceola way of promoting social purity may not prove very effective in the long run, but affords the partici- pants plenty of fun during the proced- ure. If wives can't make their homes sufficiently attractive to keep their hus- bands in them it will require move than a sporadic coat of tar and feathers to eradicate the evil, OMAHA people may possibly derive some consolation from the knowledge that atleast twenty-five public buildings for which congress has appropriated money have not even reached the stage where work s begun. The chances are that some, at least, of those twenty-five will be still incompleted when the finish- ing touch is put upon the Omaha federal structure, —_— MINORITY rule, we are told, was not mentioned 1n the proclamation zalling for the extra session. Neither was clo- ture, nor sitting it out, nor ifteen-hour speeches, though ail of them have come 1o the front. 'We have been subjected to minority rule long enough. Let the majority take control, notwithstanding the silence of the president’s prcelama- tion on that subject. CHIEF SEAVEY'S suggestion that mem- bers of the police force be required to attend strictly to their own business without demoralizing discipline by polit- ical intermeddling is one upon which the Board of Fire and Police Commis- sloners should not delay to act. Profes- slonal politicians on the police force #tand in the same light as professional politicians «s janitors in the public schools, They must ull go, COMMERCIAL union with the pan- Americun republics cannot fail to be ad- -vantageous to all concerned, but why should the United States reduce itself, as Senator Stewart wishes, to the mone- Aary plune of the South and Central American states? Senator Stewart's amendment to make silver the exclusive medivm of exchange in trans- sotions with the people of thuse coun- tries is nothing less than a proposition for the United States to adopt the single sllver staudard, ixt, A the The following open lotter has been sent to all candidates for state office of the different parties Honored Sir—I, as an American etizen who belioves the custom hitherto follpwed of deceiving the masses should no longer pre- vail, and that each voter should have the right to kuow how the candidate secking his suffrage stands upon all questions‘con i vep numbering many the state, us their presiding 10 s in in their behalf tho following propositions ho American Protective associa- tion bolicves¥n the verpetuation of the pub- lic school system, and is opposed to a divi- sion of the school fond with any sect for the support of schools teaching auy particular senting an ovg thousands in ofticer 1 desire Mization the foregoing meet your approba- tiont Second—They believe in complote separa- tion of church and state, by which we mean that 10 laws shall be enacted respecting vhe establishinont of any religion, aud that no money shall be appropriated from either na- state or municipal treasuries for sec- tarian purpose Can you endorse the second proposition? Third—We believe in the right of e man to worship God according to the dic- tates of his own consclence. y d proposition will certainly meet ‘ouirth—They believe in freo speech, an untrammeled press and one ballot for each and every citizen, faivly cast and honestly counted. What have you to say in fourth proposition? ifth—They estoem, all persons—whether rich or poor, high or low—who come to this comtry with a desive’ to familiarize them- selves with our laws and forms of govern- ment, and who swear allegiance to the United States, without a mental reservation in favor of any foreign prince, potentate or pope, as men worthy of beiag clothed with that highest honor—American citizenship. Can you give your unqualified support to the foregoing? Sixth—They believe in the restriction of immigration, 80 as to protect the honest tizeu labover trom the depressing effects of the criminal, contract and pauper Rofan Catholic horde that is swarming to our sho What say you in re ation? hey are unalterably opposed to vricstly dictation ‘and interference in the affairs of state, knowing that whenever church has been placed above state the lib- erties of the people have not only beea Jjeopardized, but completely overthrowr, Can you endorse, unhesitatingly, the above decluration? Eighth—We helieve it to be a violation of the constituticn and the law to induce women to take oaths or vows whereby they may be deprived of vhew liberty, without due process of law, and ave, consequently, opposed to the imprisonment, by sect, order or power, of people governed by reiigious fanaticism, for either gain, greed or any other purpose, and favor giving them their liberties whenever they demund it. What have you to suy on the above propo- sitiont Ninth—We believe the toiler, with his wife and large family of children, is entitled to as great consideration as the millionaire, because of the greater interest the nation has in the wealth producer, with his large family. Do you endorse the last proposition? In behalf of the American Protective as- sociation in this state, I would respectfully ask thuat you give these propositions your careful consideration, and that at your earliest convenience you transmit mea reply. J. S. HarrreLp, State President. The right of any considerable body of voters tointerrogate candidates concern- ing their positions on any of the vital issues of the day cannot be called in question. The questions propounded by the president of the American Protec- tive association are, however, in no way pertinent or applicable to anybody who may be elected to office in this state, either on the state ticket or on any local ticket. The whole sories of ques- tions propounded has becn borrowed from other states or from Canada, where public school funds can legally be di- verted for sectarian instruction, or where the lines of demarcation between church and state have not been clearly defined., On the first five propositions there is no division of sentiment in this state. Every man elected to offico is required to take oath to support the constitution of the United States and the state of Ne- braska, and that oath must be taken without mental reservation or evasion. No man can live up to the constitution of Nebraska and divert one penny of the school fund for the support of schools teaching any particular religion. The first amendment to the constitution of the Tinited States reads as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the free- dom of speech or of the press. Article i, section 4, Bill of Rights of the constitution of Nebraska, provides: All persons have a natural and indefeasi: ble right to worship Almighty God accord- ing to the dictates of' their own consciences, No prefereaces shall bo given by law to any religious society, nor shull any interference with the rights of conscience be permitted. Section 22, Bill of Rights, provides: All elections shall be free and there shall be no hindrance or impediment to the right of a qualified voter to exercise the elective franchise. Article xiii, entitled Fducation, di- rects the legislature to provide for the free instruction in the common schools of this state of all persons in this state between the ages of 5 and 21 year Section 11, article vii, provides: No sectariannstruction shalt be allowed inany school or institution supported in whole or in part by the public funds set apart for educational purposes, nor shail the state accepl any grant, conveyance or be- quest of money, lands or other property to be used for sectarian purposes. With these safeguards embedded in the fundamental laws, what need is there to. ask a candidate what he,ap- proves or disupproves? -As well might we propound to the candidate the follow- ing queries: ‘We believe that the earth is round. Does the foregoing meet your appro- bation? We maifitsn that the sun shines in midday when no clouds ave visibl e. Whal have you to say in regard to this propesition? We peessist in believing that water will run down hill. Can you giwe your unqualified sup- port to this proposition? As between the third and sixth propo- sitions there is an irreconcilable clash. regard to the rd to the restriction Editor of | | asks the | can we draw the The third aflioms the right of ever man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and that right is affiemed by the federal and state constitutions. The sixth proposi- tion attempts, to withhold that right from Roman Catholi 1t singles them out from d@meng all other creeds and exciusion from this country. How that to be done without doing violence td the principle that all men have a rvight to worship God according to the dictates of their bwn conscience. We already have a strict law against pauper immigrants, but how lina between Roman Catholics and other immigrants without revcaling or changing theconstitution? The seventh proposition is applicable to Canada. In this state priests and preachers have no more to say than citizens, und if ever any church attempts “ to int with the state it will got its nose put out of joint. The eighth propo-ition is put wrong side foremost. In plain English, itis intended to convey the idea that con- vents and cloisters are out of place in this country and nuns and monks in these institutions are deprived of their liberty without due process of law, The affirmation that these things are in vio- lation of the constitution and the laws is contradicted by the fact that they are allowed to exist. If the belief that they are unlawful was well founded the con- vents could be thrown open and the nuns liberated by court proeess on writs of habeas corpus. The proposition ghould have been put in this form: Are you in favor of abolishing convents by law? Even there the constitution of the United States, which prohibits congress from making a law that would prevent the freo exercise of religion, mighe in- e The ninth proposition is unmeaning and pointless. Nobody in America will dispute that the poor man is entitled to as much consideration at the hands of the law as a millionaive. The bible itself gives him first place in heaven. A rich man has no more chance to get there than has a camel to pass through tho needle’s eye. The fact is a poor man with a large family is entitled to greater protection and care at the hands of the state than the millionaire, who can always take carec of himself. From an outside standpoint it seems to us that the interrogatories to candi- dates in this state should have been framed in line with existing abuses or reforms in law that are demanded in the interest of good government. ot ore AS TG DR. ME& ANDIDACY. It is an old and true adage that poli- tics makes strange bedfellows. Three years ago W. J. Broatch made a desper- ate effort to.capture a delegation from this county as a candidate for governor, He was knocked out by Dr. Mercer in every ward and mopped off the state in one round. Thereupon his wrath rose to a tremendous pitch, and he figur- atively swore eternal vengeance upon Mercer and everybody that supported Mercer. A year ago last spring when Mercer wanted to be a delegate to the national convention, Broatch was. still rampant and followed him from Omaha to Kearney and back. ‘Within the past few months, however, Broatch has become a very warm admirer of the doctor for the sume reason doubtless that Strang and other politicians with wrecked mayoralty am- bitions pooled issues as against George P. Bemis. Misery loves company. And now the doctor’s whilom enemy, Broatch, goes into print in the paper that has been the refuge of all stranded republican politicians to vindicate the right of Dr. Mercer to be a candidate for mayor by potition. Like all the other dislocated aspivants he takes Rosewater as his textand reads him a lecture on inconsistency by pointing to the fact that THE BEE refuses to sup- port Bennett, Bachelor, FEier and Schwenck in the present campaign. Captain Broatch assumes as a matter of course that Rosewater wants to bar Dr. Mercer from the race and misinterprets the gossip of reporters about the late tea party at the Mercer hotel as a personal thrust from Rosewater and an aftempt on his part to outlaw Dr. Mercer in the political forum. We de- sive it distincetly understood that Tue BEE interpases no objection to the can- didacy of Dr. Mercer or any other man. We have always held that political conventions are not infallible. We believe that the highest duty of every citizen is to vote against any candidate whom he knows to be dishonest or dis- reputable. 'We believe that ever) American citizen has a right to aspire to any office which he is qualified to fill and he has a right to use all ‘lawful and honorable means to gratify that ambi- tion. We concede that Dr, Mercer is qualified for the office of mayor and we concede that ho hasa perfect right to run on any ticket or without nomination if he thinks he has any chance to be elected. Wo are even willing to con- cede that De. Morcer has a right to be a candidate for mayor if he knows, as every rational man does know, that he has not the remotest chance of being elected. What we would like to know is, whom Dr. Mercer proposes to assist to an election. We know he wants to de- feat Bemis to gratify his friend Broateh and his friend Strang and all the other friends whose political necks have been disjointed by republican conventions. We know he is trying to please every- body who last yoar publicly rejoiced at his discom@ture in the race for governor aud national convention delegate, and he would like to gratify every patriot who has been balked by Bemis in trying to loot the city treasury. But in all candor we would like to know what grievance Dr. Mercer has that justifies him in trying to elect either Hascall or Bedford? Would he contend for one moment that he has not had fair play in the race for nomination? Did wot Tre | troat him fairly? Did this paper print anything that would turn a single vorer from him? It is an open secret that he spent a big pile of money to carry the primaries. He has admitted personally that 8500 were put into” one ward by “the field against Bemis," of which he was \a member. With the field massed against -him Bemis mustered 45 out of 81 ydtes on the first ballot. Of the 33 votes EIUS 0 THE OMAHA DAILY | BEE: WEDNESRAY, cast for the pfield only recoivedin any other repufiflo man pretend that he was cheated,omt of the nomination, What chance hnd he with his twelve votes, even if Befis had failed to get the necessury mujority? Dr. Mercor's ¢httirman, Phil Winters, as biga rogue 4§ ever trod in shoo leathor, protends that the Fourth ward delegation, which, votod for Beinis, was fraudulently seated. Wiere was the fraud? The mbst ‘infamons thing ever done in Douglas gounty politics since W, J. Broatch was @iven a delegation to back him for the national convention by smashing the Third ward ballot box and destruction of the ballots, was the brazen attempt to unseat the Fourth ward delegation on the pretense that they were not duly elected. This shame- less attempt to disfranchise a vepublican ward was backed by whom and on what grounds? The head and front of it was adrunken bum and political vagahond, who prints a Swedish blackmailing sheet, and the doeument on which he and his: associates in rascality claimed seats was'a fraudulent affidavit to which the name of Richard Tizard was forged. These men knew that they had not received one out of threo votes cast in the ward. Judge Lytle, their chosen representative to witness the count, had acquiesced in the award made and signed by all judges and clorks. But suppose the Fourth ward had been left out entirely on the ground that the convention had no satisfactory evidence that the delegation holding credentials was elected. In that case there would have been seventy-two dele- gates in the convention and thirty-seven votes would have been a majority. De- ducting the nine Fourth ward delegates from Bemis he would still have had thirty-nine, or two more than he needed for a nomination. In any event, where would Dr. Morcer have come in with his twelve votes? If Dr. Mercer decides to be a candi- date by petition, as he has a right to be, he cannot truthfully pretend to run on any gronnd excepting “anything to beat Bemis.,” In this campaign that battle cry can only be intepreted one way. The franchised and unfranchised corpoga- tions, contractors and jobbers want to down Bemis and Dr. Mercer has chosen to sacrifice himself politically to help tnem accomplish that end. Dr. Mercer Does he or PARSONS AND POLITICS, Another impracticable preacher has publicly declaimed against Mayor Bemis. The echo ‘has returned to its original source.: This time Rev. Mr. Hellings, whose name is suggestive of raising sheol, has 'spoken. He makes no objection to . Mayor Bemis on the score of honesty,inor does he pretend that Mayor Bem#¥ Has not made a faith- ful and efficient éxecutive.” His sole claim is that Mayor' Bemis did not favor the so called anti-vice crusade. For this reason, says Rev. Mr. Hellings, * any change would be a change for the better.” Yes, tuke Bedford, Huscall or the devil himself rather than a man who honegtly differs with other citizens regarding. the best method of dealing with certain evils which have existed from time immemorial and which will continue to exist until the end of time, The policy of Mayor Bemis regarding these evils has been to confine them to a particular locality; and by keeping them under constant police surveillance reduce them to the minimum. He did not believe it was possible or practicable to carry out the extreme views of the anti-vice crusaders, although favoring the suppression of vice by the means most effective for that purpose. As the result the city of Omaha stands among the first in the country as an orderly and well governied city. In proportion to its population ithas less of immorality and crime than any other city of its size, the statement of its defamers to the contrary notwithstanding. THE firm stand of President Cleveland tor unconditional repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman law seems to have had a good effect upon the democratic silver senator: yesterday notified the silver republicans that the democrats had decided to drop the fight against the repeal bill and allow it to come to a vote. The obvious infevence is they concluded it was best, from a party point of view, to adopt this eourse, for these democratic silver senators must have learned, if they .made any effort to ascertain public sentiment, that their conduct in the senate was doing great injury to their party. It was strengthening the republicans in Massa- chusetts, New York, Ohio and else- where. Whether the proposed change of conduct will help the party to re- cover what it has lost in votes is a ques- tion, but it may prevent further damage to it. It is said that the silver repub- licans will not undertake to prolong the fight, and it would manifestly be useless for them to do so, so that it is probable that the end of the silver fight in the senate will bé reached this weck by the passage ofian unconditional re- peal bill, — o0 IF MR. MERCER'S bill to abolish the messenger service }n connection with the electoral returns of presidential elections becomes law there will be a diminution in thesceamble to be put on the ticket as presidential elector. The chief incentive for tandidates for that position has herefofore been the chance of being selected toipueform the ardu- ous duty of carryli a copy of the cer- tificates from the state capital to Wash- ington with all expenses paid by the government. Takp’ this chanco away and the prosidential. electorship stands stripped of all its attractions, Mg. TAUBENECK of the people's party national executive committee is pre- dicting that the populist congressmen will be in the majority in the Iifty- fourth congress and that 1896 will see a populist president elected. Is this tho same Taubeneck who was so profuse in his predictioas of populist victory in the national election about a year ago? A LITTLE occurrence over in lowa, where a man was compelled to go through the marriage ceremony twice because the marriage license was valid only in the county 1n which it was issued, OCTOBER 25, 1893, | county. might serve as a text for our legislative reformers. There is no reason why the vatidity of a marriage license should not be ‘recognized throughout the entire torritory of thestate by whoso authority it is granted. The only argument against such a modification of the law is that it might open the way to fraud and forgery, but thero_are many ways to guard against that withont restricting the operation of a liconse to a single The last legislature of Penn- sylvania amended the law of that state in the direction of liberality and fgpe- dom. If the Pennsylvania law is adofin- istered without abus other statos might profit by the good ¢xample. nosk demoeratic newspapers which have raised the hue and ery over the departure of Senator Allison from | Washington in order to take part in the Towa stato campaign might devote some of their attention to Senator Hill, who is nddressing political meetings in Now York and Brooklyn, The principlo is unchanged, whéther tho senator comes from a state 1,500 miles distant or five miles distant from the capital. NESS is the bost dr card any entertmnment caa secure. Just advertise a lecture as *“for ladios only” or “for gentlemen only,” and no matter how dull or silly or improbable may be the story which the lecturor has to relate he will find plenty of people driven by their curiosity to bite at the bait for the regular price of admission. W His Travels. Washington Post. The Omaha man who has been arrested for huving eighteen wives ought to_be able to arrange a fow pairs with the Trenton woman who is in similar trouble on account of her seven husbands, gt Suffering from n Mortal Wound. Philadelphia Press. Union Pacific had a since the line was completed twenty-four years ago. It is overweighted with capital and of its lines some help and some hinder it s0 that the system as u whole is wealk For months no one would have been sur- prised to hear that toe company had gane into the hands of a receiver. Its mortal wound was _dealt years ago when Jay Gould ruined it. As the ‘time when the govern- ment deby_comes due approaches the line has a steadily decren! alue and its real veril is not a_reccivership. but the breaking up of the entire system, depriving the main line, which the government owns, of the feeders which give it its chief value, Pl T T Murderous Trolley. New York Recorder. The modern *King Herod,” who rules over Brooklyn in his great greed of gain_is moro merciless than even the monster described in_ the scriptures. The latter destroyed only tho little 2-year-old male childven. The trolley herod spares neither age nor sex. Young and old alike are ground beneath his chariot wheels that his coffers may be filled to overflowing. And'so1tis in Brooklyn the sacrod narrative tells us it was in Rama: “In Rama was there a voice heard, lamenta- tion and weeping, and great mourning. Rachel wesping for her children and would not be comfdried because they are mot.” The fathers and mothers of Brooklyn de- demand the dethronement of “the modern Herod.” It is a demand that must be answered. ied career Th Lack of Contidence, Niobrara Pioneer (Rep.). No time in the recollection of the Pioncer has there been such a lack of confidence on the_part of the republican press as over the nomtuation of Judge Harrison to succeed Judge Maxwell. There is nothing particu- larly distasteful to Judge Harrison usa man, | But as a supreme judge, it is very serious when considered in " the light of politics. Judge Maxwell has for so long been the teacher and interpreter of our luws, and his Jogic has bee y best of for a politicai p: turn him down is a crime. He has been truthful and above the narrow dictates of party. His decisions have been based on honesty if not always agrecable to those who disagreed with him. And for the people to he thus shamefully dealt with is.one of the hardest blows this state has ever received. Jt is a selfish, narrow-minded liar who would say that the dowhfall ot Judge Max- weli was done by Mr. Rosewater's activity in his behalf. A back of that, when he gave in his world-wide decision of the citizenship of -Governor Boyd, followed by later political decisions, the bosses were bent upon Maxwell's defeat. R er seems to be the excuse for all evils in this state, aud yet on general principles Tue Bee 1s consistent und often cureless of con- sequences when the true cause of the people 18 at stake. Whether Tug Bee will support H son_ Or not is not at this writing re- vealed. But from the tenor of the unfettered republican press it would scem that its policy could be but endorsed by the peoplo of Nebraska if the Brad aughters and the Tom Majors and the devilmakers gener- ally were defeated and a new deal begun, The Pioneer feels ihat in the defeat of Judge Reese the people submittea too casily, and had the people party placed better timber in the field two years ago iv might have succecdaed. As the Pioneer un- derstands it the nomuation of Holcomb i8_very much of an improvement in the line of lawyers and he is equal in natural abilivy to Harrison, without the corporation tail vo his kite. The Pioneer 1s as ever a believer in the wisdom of the republican party’s principles, But this state has been managed too out- rageously by its worst side and it is high time to calla halt. The independent, un- fettered republican press of the state with almost one voice demand it, the people are tired of state house mismanazement and its continued abuses, and the proper resent- ment is for the people of Nebraska to place the guillotine of disfavor over vhe heads of those respousible for this stato of affairs, ———— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, A groat rovival of religion is in progress at Harvard, under the direction of = evange lists. Dave and Jim Lillie of Filley are in jail at Beatrice charged with stealing and killing a hog belouging to J. W, Wright. Dr. von Mansfelde and wife of Ashland celebrated their silver wedding anniversary and over 200 guests were prescnt on the oceasion to participate in the festivities. While D. W. Ferry of Talmage was visit- ing the World's fair nis 9-; r-old daughter was attacked with membraneous croup and died in a few hours. All efforts to reach the father have proved unavailing, John Clark, a McCook restaurant keeper, has been arrested by Sherift George K. Coon of Webster county and taken to Red Cloud, to answer to the charge of stealing a horse, buggy and harness, which were also seized by the sheriff, but were afterwards recov- ered by a Mrs. Adams, to whom Clark had traded them for a restaurant, The Burlington express leaving Platts- mouth Monday night struck an open switch about a mile e of the Missouri river bridge. The engineer veversed his engive, but owing to the steep incline of the switch he couid not stop. The engine ran to the end of the switch und jumped off and turned over in the ditch, ‘T'he baggage car turned across the track just as the rest of the cars stopped. No one was injured and not much damage dote except to the engine. Firth suffered heavily from a fire early Sunday morning. It started in the back part of the store of Phillivs & Powell. It was discovered by & man workiog in the miil, who gave the alarm. The buildings de- stroyed were the drug store owned by T. H. Davis, who lost heavily; the Firth botel, the building owned by Dr. Towelle, occupled by Phillips & Powell as a general merchan- dise store, and the boot aud snoe store of C. M. Winstiruck. Phillips & Powell lost a portion of their goods and James Dean lost oods which were stored iu the hotel buila- ng. Wiltstruck saved wmost of his stock. United and hearty effors on the rL of fiuunk men of the town saved a z;\uln uildings. About a third of the goods burn were insured. AN ANSWER TO | Nowrnt Love, Oct. 28.—To the Editor of candid and well written communication apponred in a recent issue of Twr Bew from the pen of Charles Wooster. But while the article contained much that all good citizens would approve the conclu- sion which he reached, to wit: That repub- licans were justified in withholding their support from Harrison and in voting for tho populist or democratic candidate was illogi- cal ind could not bo sustained from tho facts stated, wore they all admitted to bo true. It is admittod by Mr. Wooster and by all parties that Judge Harrison's past record, both as a eitizen and a jud at he nas been o ablased Judge; that he has nover been charged with cornoration leaning that he is endowed with a clear, unclouded intellect in a marked et cultivated by deop study and pains. taking thought; that he has always been in mpathy with' the eveat common peoplo, that his truest and most en- thusiastic suppor busi- ness mon, fa s with whom he has enjoyed the closest, ¢ yday ac quaintanceship. The writer has known him best in his professional relations ; he has, so 1o speak, grown up under the shadow of his his learning, adm i his faculty and sought to and knows wh pof ho The writer, like Mr. Woo isa an, hus always been o republican Lways expects to be a republican. Ho belicves that republican principles can best be sustaineo and perpetuated by elevating to office pure, honest and able men. Such a Judge T, O. C. Harrison. But Judge other claims for republican He has been u life-long ropublican, alw allied to the best element of the | party. He las done good work for the party, its principles and its candidates in the past. He went to the lato republi conve 1 in tho interest of his townsm Governor Abbot, ana voted for him to the e has always been loyal and has the right to expect the party to now be loyal to him, unless he has forfeited in some w nd of himself, his past gooa name and cter. ‘This no one has yet charged. But, 1ot us assume for the moment and for the mere sake of acgument, that tho ch: rges 1 by Mr. Wooster ave true us admit that Judgo Reeso was do- y the railrond interests four years z0. Can that in any way affect Judge Har- son? Or lot it be admitted ument that Judges Norv wealkeminded as to hay influcnced the late impeachment trial by corrupt ot Does th te that Juage Harri- son could be so influenced? He had no con- nection with the impeachment contest. Or admit again that the ilroads of the state did tu a hand in the late convention to depose Judge Maxweil, because they thought uim hostile to their interests, could that fact alone in anv way compromise the intog- ity of Judge Harrison? v has the highest respect for the and ability of Judge Maxwell, and y favored his renomination for vi ons. But now that Judge Harrisor n nominated it is not enough to that corrupt corporation influence encom- passed the defeat of Judge Maxwell, and that therefore another upright man must be defeated. Before such a conclusion can be Justified it must be shown that Judge Harri- son wasa party to the corruption or his or integrity in sothe other 3 sed. Noone has as yot made such ion, much less attempted to prove Let us not make the mi ko of defeat- ing another upright man merely to spite the corporations. Had thoy foisted a corrupt railtoad tool upon us we might have been justified in refusing to support him; as it is, we are not. The true situation seems to have been this: A large class of honest people thought the railronds were seeking to control the nomi- nation. Anotner largeelass thought Judge Maxwell had reached that age when he should retire from the bench, The railvoad candidates were dropped by the mass of the convention and a man unsullied by any fac- tional strife was nomivated. A large num- ber of Judge Haurvison's old Hall county neighbors resido here, many of them popu- but not one but ' speaks in the highest s of their old neighbor aud resent any imputati tupon him. His vote in his own distric | be immense, and the writer believes that when the people of the s speak next Nove that if Judge M WOOSTRR, support. Post are 50 le mber iv will be to the effect cwell must step down Judge Harrison must as surely step up. Tet us castigate the corporations by stripes on their own backs, not by 1 upright ma E SRV e Sherman’s Great Speech, Cineinnati Commercial. speech of Senator Sherman, in which aigned the democratic majority in the senate as responsible for the prevailing ob- struccon, was a stinging rebuke to that side of the house, and when, with eyes that flashed fire, almost, aud caused him, ns o newspaper reporter puts it, to resemble his brother, Tecumseh, in his palmicst days of the war, appealed fo the democra asido if they could not, and_the minority would quickly scttle the ma the galleries were enthused, and, but for the rules of the dignified senate, there would bhave been an_outburst_of applause. The remarkable feature of Senator She mau's suggestion is to be found in the fact that a republican minority woula probably pass a bill that would be “quickly approved by the democratic presidont. In this the people of the United States, who turned the republican party out of power, will find food forreflection, and they had’ better begin right here in Ohio to give expression to their views through the ballot box in November. aying lefeating 1. BABCOCK. T he I'll tell you The time has gone by, father, when such men HOW THE WICLTY RAVE FPALLRY, 10 fow senators can why not onei If one » him caart The msn in tha who shoutod to the s that “he had enough of and that tho peoplo had o Was o1 der, undoubtedly, but e manaod to enunciato the solemn truth in_the sonatorial hearmg. He spoke the scatiment of the country Chicago Post: Washin contirm our suspicion, w expressed, that the true torial deadlock was to be tions between certain song market. 1t is a pity there is no pr hod of impeaching, o ishing theso tr ™ nduct is no it ouglt 1o by ow York Sun New York Horald paralvzo legisiniion can, why not i, lphia senato gallory dilatory lawmiie their pre enough,” ton dispatchies h has beon often uso of the sena- ound in the rela- oticablo gracing and pun- misreprosentatives, riminal in the eye of . \When, therefore, wo find republicans in the senaie professing & wiltingness to join with the silver ropeal democrats in cstablishing o _cloture rule, theroby surrendering the advantage they possoss the impending fight over the tarifl, wo aro greatly improssed with their roanimity, public_spiriv and the ngth levotion to the silver Philadelvhia Ledgor Vice President & otion breaking 1l vided & majorit disposition o endois of ropeal and of an am, should promptly 1 make clear to him that to aid him in cu struction. | IV the delay and ind the filibusters method of re s is intimated, willing to put a k in tho senat onators signify a his action, tho friends idment of the rules their forces and majority is ready 1 the Gordion knot of ob- niry s ampatient with nant at the pretenses of that there - is no lawful uing tho senate from the con- trol of a minority of its members. Hary It has now been demonstrated that the senate is the weakest and most dangerous feature in the federal sy The framers of the constitution most moritorious device, its constitution was sunposed Lo bo their safest and best compromise. 1t was supposed to Le a conservative cheek upon the possible excesses of the poputar branch of e and a del autocratic or monnreh art of the president tendencies on the 1t had not existed \ rs boforo 1t proved that one part of its supposed mission was a failure, It vas not a check, but a mo eou- . Now, at the beg of the second contury, it abundantly proves that excesses are to be expected from it rather than from the house of representative: . MICROBES. Boston Globe music, so the of it in his ti s suy. ck Is a_great lover of He has made a grean deal There's one merit in sleove~it is large enough ugh in. the h to have v, 1ook beautifal rect photog- that's it. Ssume your ss: “How do you like my asked a young wite of her W the wretch, “that it iive' me an example, “Well, he uses vertea Interrogation point to indicate whero a I ngh comes in. Washington Star: “Of course,” suld the young man who was interviewing the poli- tician, “you belleve that Iarge sums of money n be legitimately used in politics.” O, yes,” was tho reply: “but I want you to put me distinetly on record as drawing the ine at monocl Memphis Appeal: The continuous sessfon was a continuous oienic for the senator who Wished to weir an’ Irby g without letilng Mrs. Senator know about It. A BIRD IN THE TAND, Detroit Free 2 “Iwant to ho an angel,’ A congressman did And through the air ¢ An answor from on highs u cunnot be an angel, you know, voui dunco, or'can bo holding s al on i plied the membor; “L'll keep my present pluce, In running for the other Lmightu't win the race.” et b R HARRIS OF TENNESSE New York Tribune. My namo s Isham Harris and Icome from Tennossee; Don't waste your time on others, but keep ybur eyes on nie Unléss you want to miss a sight worth zolng milcs to sec, I'm a lore, The rul ake And I hayy ore. alking cyclopaedia of parlinmentary are just as safe as wheat when Har- tie floor, 0't muoy equals as u senatorial But that s not the kind of fame I hanker for woduy; Like tho warhorse of the scriptures, T am snorting for the fray; There'll be enough to follow when I have cleared the way. s Tsham Harrls and T come trom looking for excitement, just fix your Baze on e, For when I have resumed my seat there'll bo o dead V. P, BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers anl Ratailaes 4 AT Glothing n tho Worl 1. finish, fabriec and fashion best hat in town. BROWNING, entag till 6.9). il npen every breshdiiad " 54 a bit better than those B., K. tailor makes them better. $10; $12.50, $15, $20 up to $25. Overcoats, $10 up to $35. 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