Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE.| A T'ER, Editor, PURLISUED EVERY MORNING. ™ NS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Ree fwithout Sunday) One Daily and A ix Mont hree Monthis Bumdny Tee, Ove Yenr turday Do, One Yoar oekly oc, Ouo Year. OFFICES, Aing N and Twonts v of Con Toriee buiiding orte. rocms 13, 14 and ot wreet 13 Forir All busiy nddrewscd tianees shonld be £ com pany. Omaha brders 10 be made mpany Fifes oAy Ing the ety for tie sinnmer can have et (0 thelr addross by leaving an order AL buRIneRs oM TH YU BLISHING COMPANY. The Bee in Chies nee THE DATLY is on saleIn Chiengo nt t; Paimor honse Grand Pactfic hotel Auditorium hotel Northern hotel Gore hotel. d hotel. les of TiE Ber can bo Braska building and the Admini position grounds, on At the wtion bulld- NT OF CIRCULATION 1am, 1aek, socrotary of ik Bre Pub- docs wolemuly swear that the e B, Tz piny ending Octobor Simday, ( Monday. Octo! John Dorgan caps the climax of the achievements of the state house boodle gang. In the at- mosphere of the rving little more could have been expected. e ,\m al of THE part |ul\|"| by s»mmu- Sherman in the present discus he re ‘on_upon peal bill demonsteates indisputabily that” in mattors of finance the senate are but pared with him. BEMiS makes a very presentable mayor at home and abroad. Omaha has no reason to feel ashamed of him on that score. His reception at Chicago on mayors' day advertises Omaha asa city of the metropolitan class. his colleagues in pigmies when com- THE taxpayers of Omaha should let well enough alone. Mayor protected their interests wherever and whenever there were steals and jobs attempted. 1f he has erred, he has erred in their interest and not in the interest of contractors and franchised corporations. A change now means a change for the worse. SENATOR WOLCOTT'S assurances of the loyalty of the people of Colorado, no matter what legislation the majority in congress may see fit to enact, are in pleasing contrast to the wild utterances and stories of impending secession that were spread broadcast over the country only a few months ago by Colorado’s intemperate governor, who then secured the name of Bloody Bridles Waite. CONGRESSMAN KEM'S masterly in- activity in relation to the bill granting residents upon the Sioux Indian reser- vation in Nebraska the same privileges accorded to residents upon the South Dakote, portion of that reservation has fortunately proved insuflicient to kill the measure. But the settlers are well aware that Kem has absolutely no claim to the credit of securing them relief. Will any self-vespecting American ci zen place his vole at the disposal of any nailroad, express, telegraph or street rail- away company or any other corporation that rries him on its pay roll? Does ¢ man barter away his soul when he hires out to one of these corporations? Ave they not get- ting allthey are entitled towhen employes effi- ciently and faithfully perform the task im- posed upon then in-the shops, on the train or at headquar PRESIDE ARNOT'S toast ‘‘to the peace of the world” is particularly sig- nificant at this time, when the Franco- Russian alliance is being cemented anew. Peace is the condition of contin- ued prosperity for the European nations and no minor indication of war, such as the message sent by the people of Al- sace-Lorraine a week ago, is to be taken a8 betokening a change in the general arift of continental sentiment, ACCORDING to the story told by Em- bezzler Weeks of the efforts of his Costa Rica friends to share the booty gained by his misdeeds the corruption of the press and officials in that Central American state is only a question of the highest bid. Newspapers that ask for money for vpposing the surrender of an extraditable criminal can have little weight with the people. The popular- ity and influence of the American press 8 not surpassed inany other country, and this is due to the fact that it has boen signally independent and free from blackmailers of every kind The O'Neill Frontier intimates that Rosey was.bought to write up the Scott case. The consideration was a subscription of 1,5 copies of Tue Bee. It is unfortunate for Mr. Rosewater, persistently claiming hat he has no “itching palm,” has nover ‘be- trayed his party” and is “old honesty" itself, that nine-tenths of the people hou- estly believe that all the obarges of such character are too true.— Lincolu Jouraal, ‘We do not do business on the B. & M. Jowrnal plan. We don't send reporters out ou begging or blackmailing tours for the sake of selling & fow hundrea eoples of the puper. Our reporters are dispatehed regardless of expense or in- 0omo 10 any place where an important piece of news may be gotten. In this instance, just as is usual with TuE BEE, the report had been written up and pub- lished before the order for papers was received. Fifteen hundred extra copies were wired for, but only 400 of that day's editions were on hand. The order ‘was, therefore, only filled in part. Such # thing would not happen in the B, & M. print shop. They always have several thousand copies loft over. THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR. Inthe speeches made at Exposition hall in this city last Friday republicans were exhorted to stand by evory cand date nmominated by the party, becaus next year the contest will involve the supremacy of the party at the st itol and in the halls of congross, In the interview that took pl urday botween the editor of the Fremont & Elklhorn organ and Judge Maxwell this was propounded to Judge Max Lo cap- “What do you think would be the re- sult to the party if Iolcomb were electod —the result next year, say?" “T do not know what the vesult would be," said the judge. Judge Maxwell is ot a politician, hence ho is not quali- find to make predictions as to the out- como of next year's camnpaign, THE BEE will, however, venture to answer the question propounded to the judge. If Holeomb is elected this year the republicans of Nebraska will pick their flint and enter the campaign next year with a ticket that cannot be as- sailed either on the score o1 competency, integrity or subserviency ailronds, If Harrison 1s defeated this year the railroad republicans and boodle ring men will be forced to the ar und the party will take eredit for rebuking the ontrageous methods by which Judge Maxwell was turned down at the behest of the railroad magnates who seek to dominate the supreme court as they now control the impeached state oflicials. If the republicans who resent the capture of the state convention by the railroad mercenar y down this vear and help to elect the railvoad can- didate 1t is absolutely certain that a yellow dog ticket will be nominated next year and the party will bo defeated, horse, foot and dragoons. It does not take a prophet to foretell that Harrison’s election will be hailed as a popular endorsement of railvoadism and all that the term implies. It will be trumpeted all over the state as an assurance that tho republican Tom Mujors, party may nominate Brad Slaughter, Walt Seeley, or e ren Charley Mosher, and win in next year's campaign! When th campaign does open next year the party will be on the defensive from start to finish, and its doom will be sealed. Republican stumpers will talk taviff, finance and pensions, but the farmers and workingmen will persist in pinning them down on state house jobs, on asylum steals, the looting of the treasury by Mosher and his pals, the vindication of embezzlers and thieves and the in- famous conspiracy by which the supreme bench has beensurrendered to railroads. On theso issues the campaign will be fought next year and on thess we shall be driven to the wall. ow ‘‘what profiteth a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.” What benefit will the vepublican pacty derive from electing Harrison this year if such avictory is sure tocarry with it the disastrous defeat of the state ticket, the legislature and congressmen next year and brings about the election of a popu- list United States senator in 1895 his is what Judge Maxwell may not have foreseen, but any man conversant with practical politics must realize that that is the inevitable outcome. THE A * MAYOR HaR- The entire country was profoundly shocked by the news that Mayor Carter . Ha n of Chicago had been assas- sinated in his home under circumstances to arouse the strongest sympathy and the keenest regret.. While enjoying the pleasures of the domestic circle, in which the lady soon to have become his bride was a guest, after a day passed in entertaining the chief executives of many cities; with abounding health and happiness and a consciousuess of duty well performed; with no thought of per- sonal danger and with every- thing about him bright and cheer- ful and delightful—in that mo- ment of gladness, of peace and of fairest promise the assassin came, and summoning Carter H. Harrison from the society of those nearest and dearest to bim relentlessly shot him down. Could anything be more sad or more deplorable than such a fate under such circumstances? And what more can be said of it? It was one of those tragedies which come unexpectedly and without warning, ap- palling mankind, but leaving the minds of men to grope in darkness for a suffi- sient and satisfactory explanation. It does not appear, from what has been developed at this writing, that the assassin - of Mayor Harrison had any deep-seated hatred of his vietim, He had a fancied grievance, the nature of which warrants the opinion that his mind was unbalanced, but there is nothing to show that he had long contemplated a murderous revenge. It seemy that he had mwade some sort of threats, to whieh Mr. Harrison paid no attention, regarding them as merely tho vaporings of & crank. The event dem- onstrates that this conrse was a mis- take, but it is probable that in his public career Cartor Havrison had been many times threatened with personal harm and 50 had become indifferent to such threats. He wasa man of courage and what would have alarined manyother men caused him no apprehension. It would seem likely, from the information now at hand, that the idea of killing Mayor Harrison was a suddon impulse with Prendergast und that it took complete possession of his weak and verhaps un- balanced mind. Onee having determined on this way of redvessing his fancied grievance he lost no time in carvying the cowardly aud eruel conception into execution. One suggestion presents its- self. Can it be possible that the assassin was nerved and encouraged to the performance of this bloody work by some one of stronger mind than he? As to the lesson, or moral, of this most deplorable tragedy, none suggests itself unless it be that public men should not too readily dismiss from attention threats of porsonal harm. What goes for courage in this matter may some- tmes prove to be foolhardiness. The so-called crank or lunatic whose mental tendencies are in the direction of mur der is & proper subject for the attention of the police authorities aud should never bo ‘permitted to run at large an hour after his tendency becomes known. Carter H. Harrison had a public ca- THE OMAHA DAILY BFF)IvMONDAY OPTOBBR 30, 1893 recr covering nearly twenty years, and | was serving his fifth term ds mayor of Chicago. in which position he attained his greatest volitical Whatevor misgivings there may have been at the time of his last election as to his administration of city affairs dur- ing the period of the Columbian oxposi- tion, candor and fairness exact the testi- mony that he discharged his dutics ably and creditably. The demands upon him | Guring the Jast six months were great and his labors arduous, but he met overy requirement, and the good record which Chicago has made during this time as a well governed city must be largely placed to the oredit of ber dead chicf executive. Perhaps ho would have wishod no better epitaph than this. In the numerous addresses of welcome that he made during the fair he uniformly acquitted himself sell, while in discharging the obligations of hospitality incident to his position the good name of Chicago in this respect ! was always maintained. For the past | six months no man in the: country has been more in the public attention than Carter H. Harrvison, and it is not to be doubted that he was as strong, if not | stronger, in the vegard of the people of Chicago on the day of his death than on that of * his inaug uration, though he was elected by a lgrger vote than was ever before given to a candidate for mayor in that i As ashrewd and aggressive poli- sian ho had few superiors anywhere, while as a public-spirited citizen he was typical of Chicago. There will be n universal heartfelt sympathy with his family, and especially with the lady prostrated by the sudden and over- whelming bereavement, who in a short | time was to have become his wife. cago, it hardly need be said, will fittingly honor the memory of one of its most use- ful and distinguished citizens. SHERIFF BENN&TT AND HIS CATORS. When a candidate is charged with g-ave misdemeanors in office by any re- sponsible man or paper he must either vindicate himself or face defeat at the polls. The sharges against George Ben- nett were not of a frivolous nature. They attack his official integrity as sherifl and custodian of prisoners. They were | not trumped up as campaign thunder after his nomination, but were made in all seriousness in advance of the repub- lican primaries and reiterated before he was renominated. . The republican primaries were held on October 13. On October 10, three days before the primaries, the following editorial appeared in THE BEE under the heading, *‘Sheriff Bennett's Short- comings.” VINDI- Wheu George A. Benuott was up for elec- tion two vears ago he received the cordial, earnest and vigorous support of THe BEE. He was vouched for as an honest mechanic, who possessed ot only physical, but moral stamina, and hence was specially qualified for the position of sheriff. Mr. Bennett has had a fair trial and proved himself unft for the place. Now that we are on the evo of the republican county primaries we deem it our duty to caution the party against com- mitting itself to his renomination. We do this from no personal animosity, but from a sincere conviction that he could not be suc- cesstully defended agaimst the charges of incompetency and want of oficial integrity. At the very outset Mr. Bennett was com- pelied to call in ex-Sherift Coburn to man- age his office. A fairly intelligent man would have learned the work of the sherifl’s office in three months, but Mr. Bennett has not been able to dispense with Mr. Coburn after twenty months of Lis incumbency, and we do not believe he ever will be capable of runniug the office, excepting by a substitute, Mr. Benaett’s incompetency is, howeve the least objectionable point in his candidacy for renomination. There has been inexcus- able negligence in the safe keeping of county prisoners. Quite a number of prisoners have made their escape from a jail that is consid- ered impregnable. No satisfactory explana- tion has been made or can be made for these jail deliveries. More flagrant and inexcusable than the jail deliveries has beeu the Mosher scandal. Under sentence of the United States court Charles W. Mosher was committed to prison for a term of five years. The banker convic’, was remanded into the custoayof Sherift Bennett to be kept in close confinement in the Douglas county jail until such time as heshould be transported by the United States marshal to the Lincoln or Sioux Falls peni- tentinry. Instead of guarding Mir. Mosher as any other criminal convicted of a peniten- tiary offeuse Sheriff Bennett has extended to him the freedom of the city and the sur- rounding country. He has mot only per- mitted him to roam about, but be has at least in one instance used Mosher as a guard fora prisoner whom he was called on to convey to the jail for safekeeping. When a man occupying the office of sheriff shows such a reckless disregard of the law as the custodian of convicts he has forfeited the vight to an endorsement for re- eloction, and the party has no right to assume the risk of defeat by placiog him at the head of the county ticket. The county convention was held Octo- ber 14. Two days before, October 12, TuE BEE warned the convention against committing the parly to the support of Bennett for a second term. The follow- ing extract from this appesl shows that the charges were specific and covered in goneral terms all that has been pub- lished in detail within the past week: It is an open secret that Shemff Beonett has after fair trial provea himself incompe- tent, und has been compelied to keep a stib- stitute to do the inside work of his oftice. That, however, might be overlooked. Bul Beunett's chief disqualification his mis- management of the Jail and favoritism shown to Convict Mosher, Sheriff Bennett cannot give plausible excuse for the frequent jail deliveries, nor can he or any other man Justify the Mosher scandal. Mosher has not only enjoyed the freedom of the juil but the freedom of the city and the suburbs. Mosher has been employed as o guard for other pris- ouers while they were being conveyel to the jail, sud we are credibly informed that he hus been taken to road houses for diver- sion. Mosher has embezzlel mora than £00,000, He is presumed to have secreted a great part of this swag, and the natural - foreace is that he is paying handsomely tor the favors shown him vy his juilers. Sherilf Bennett's mtrusion into the recent ciclzens' meeting aisoshows him to be tetally until for the position of ghief police ofiicer ol the county. The republican couvention must necessa- rily hesitate bofora thoy commit the party to .1 an endorsement of Mr. Hennett. In the face of such @rave charges what has Benuett done to vindicate him- solf? He has procured un affidavit from Mosher denying that he had had any ontside of the "’.Il Mosher does not swear that ho lef¥the jail alone. He does not swear that ho never to an assignation ,honse on Paul or at the corner of Fourteenth Capitol avenue: He dces not divear ‘that ho has not been visited in the county jail by Nellie Sayer many times He does not swear went streot and that he did not go to Council Bluffs,with a male and two fe- male friends unatiended by any official. Ho does not swee that he passod un- der the name of Watson or Wallace in the jail. h.pul\ Sheriffs John Tewls, F. Grigg, James D, Courten man C. Timme make affidavit that no one of them ever went out with Mosher on one of his caronsals. Noone has acensed thom. They fail to swear that they wero not awave of the fact that Mosher was going out, or was visited in jail by Nellie Sayer, John T. Linn and Samuel G. Ernest deputy jailers, swear that they never took Mosher any place except for the purpose of getting his meals. Nobody has accused them, Jailer Theodore Bennett that he never took Mosher out of the jail ex- cept to get a meal. Theodore fails to swear that Sayer has notv had access to the j; to Mosher's apartments. swear that he did not take Embezzler Henderson to a gambling room. Ho does not deny that Mosher had a private room in the jail, was allowed the run of the building and was treated as a com- panion rather than a prisoner, 1t 18 an established fact that men charged with crime will not hesitate to add perjury to their other offenses. Mosher’s general denial is rank p ‘We have abundant proof of his intima with notorious women while he was pr sumed to be a prisoner in close confine- ment. The most villainous piece of business in connection with Bennett's present campaizn is the employment of a con- victed blackmailer and ex-conviet to scatter about the city a leprous shoet that reeks with criminal libel and filth. This is George Bennett's vindicator, and this the material with which he expects to reinstate himself in public confidence. George y and Her- swears Nellio il and He '4\\"! to REEP IT BEFORE + HE TAXPAYERS. nds of our most intelligent citiz ill labor under the delusion that the 81,500,000 bond proposition con- templates the building of a canal. Some of our brightest business men have been made to believe that any attempt to divert the money from the canal would be enjoined by the courts. The reverse is true. The proposition as submitted to the voters of Omaha reads as follows: all bonds of the eity of Omahw in the sum of one militontive hundred thousand dollars (§1,500,000) be issued for the sppro- priation and purchase of waterworks and an electric light plant for said city and the ap- propriation and purchase of the tand re- quired tor such wvaterworks und wlectrie Light plant, the sald bonds to run not more than twenty (20) yewrs and to bear Interest, pavible somi-nnnually at & rate not to ex- ceed five (5) per cent per annum, with con- pons attuched, the said honds to be called “waterworks and’ “Electric Ligh Flaat Bonds," and not to be sold for less t. par; the procoeds of said bonds to be used for no other purpose than paying the cost of the appropriation or purchase of waterworks and an electric light plant and land there- tor, and the said bonds to be issucd from timeto time ns may be required durlng the years 1804, 1893 and 1896, There is not ong word about a canal in this proposition. If the bonds carry the proceeds can only legally be used for the purchase of the waterworks or electric lighting plant. The proposition places no restrictions upon the council as re- gards the purchase. The .council can have the works appraised or it can agree with Wiley upon the price to be paid without even going through the formality of an appraisement. The council ean ovorride the mayor's veto if Wiley can control twelve members, and the courts cannot interfere unless abso- lute proofs can be furnished by unim- peachable witnesses that the bargain was consummated by bribery ov fraud. Any man who asserts that the bonds to be voted under the proposition sub- mitted can be legally used for a canal is an imposter. They cannot be so used even if the legislature should amend the charter 50 as to authorize the ity to con- struct the canal or acquire its ownership by purchase. No law can operate back- ward. All who really fayor the canal project should vote no on the proposition. Those who do not want to mortgage the city for $1,500,000 without restrictions and safeguards will certainly vote no. I'r 18 said to be the intention of the president to inform the country regard- ing the Hawaiian situation as soon as the silver bill is out of the way, it being understood that he has his messago al- veady prepared. Popular interest in the Hawaiian matter has pretty much died out, but the question of what shall be done with those islands will have to be sottlod by the government of the United States in some way and the coun- will undoubtedly be interested in knowing what suggestions or recom- mendations the “president’ has to submit to congress for a solu- tion of the question. The admin- istration has maintained the most com- pleto secrecy as o its views. Not a single intimation bas come trom it re- garding what positi'n might be taken and it is to be presumed that none will be given until My, Gleveland communi- cates with congress. It is not worth while to conjectune'What the president will recommend, it it will not be at all surprising it By shall be found to hold the opinion that it is the duty of the United Statos declet the Hawaiian poople settle for themselves the form of government they shall have, with the single condition that they shall not per- mit any European or Asiatic government to obtain dominion over the islands. That, of course, this eountry could not allow. It is not probable that the pres- ident will advise either annexation or a protectorate. ’ WE TRUST that the terrible deed of the Chicagocraunk, Prendergast, will not stimulate any imitators to similar at- tempts upon the lives of other promi- nent men throughout the country. Law- lessness of this kind is fatal to afree government. It must be suppressed at | other freedom than going 10 his weals ] the first intimation. JUDGE MAXWELL'S CARD, Fremont Tribuno, October lowing “card” appeared on columns of today’s Bex Freemoxt, Nob., Oct, 27.Hon. Bdward ftoso- wate itor of THE OMARA DALY Brr: DeEan S1it—1 seo in sore of the prpers that 1w en- thusiastically in favor of Harrison's cloction for judge. 1 have made no such statement und do not caro to bo misrepresented. 1 Heleomb as much tho best man. ble Iawyer, w fair, under no obligations ¢ anefficient, capabdle, respectfully, The Tribune determined to gevuineness of Judge Maxwell's communica- vion. 1ts editor accordingly called upon the chief justice at his homo this aftornoon. He was cordially received by the judge, who was porfectly willing to tal T have come," smud the newspaper omis- sary, “to ascertain if vou wrote the letter o Tiue Bre which appears in its columns today " did homo % the editorial ra Tho §s w capa orvative 1 and wiil m: Yours very MAXWE, nscortain the firm, said the judge. “Upon ursday eveaing from 1 o statement in the Tribune, clipped frc some panor, that | was giving Harrison onthusiastic support. 1 immediately sat down aud wrote the card to Tir Bes which you refer to. I felt that an injustice was being done to me by reporting me as sup- | porting Harrison, and that T could sistently remain quiot.” “You mean that as an endorsement of Holcomb, do you?” not con rdon another question: nvention the smmunication fi that you h you wers a publican_and would from no other source except convention, D ments?" “1do not Prior to (|u- A" nomination the republican you suthorize those state remembor to have seen that in Tur Bre. 1 have always boen & republican however, and helped in a feebie way to or ganize the party. I have made a publ ment at this time as a duty to myself.” “Do you not think you owoe a duty to the party?” What do you think would be the re- sult to the pacty if Holeomb were elected — the result next year, say? L do not know what the result would be.” ——— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Gorman was chiefly succ compromising tis reputation. The use of tears to moiston talk noveity in lej ative Mr. Tellor should have fir of s native heath aud put ul in desert of 1 the canons Waite in the The president of Cos! ble. His failure o borrow the underpinning of his job. Last year New South Wales produced sil- ver and lead valued at $11.000.000, gold worth 000,000 and tin worth $500,000. Isanc Pusey Gray, United to Mexico, his obtained les doubtless to attend the politic Larry Neat, Speaker Crisp never goes to “hamber without his overc: 1t is his inaispen essary, ap thought as C koys. Lord Beaconsfield invested $20,383,120 of in's money in Suez canal stocl ago. The investwent now 0,000, and meanwhile the British treasury has been gotting b per cent on its money and it will shortly get three times that. Robert Louis Stevonson is only old. Of the other novelists Mr’ and Mys. Oliphant are each 65 Hardy and Miss Broughton are each 53, Mr. Buchanan is 52, Grant Allen is 45, Rider Haggard is 87, Mr, Barrie snd Mr. Doyle are each 33, Mr. Kipling is 20 and Mr. Quilter-Couch is 25, —— American Railrond Accldents. Philadelphia Press. n railroads in the month from August eptember 20 killed nearly ecighty passengers. Inglish raiiroads the three years from 1890 to 1802 killed forty- four passengers. This single month, there- fore, saw almost twice as many passengers killed in conspicuous accidents on Amer lLines as _were killed in thirtv-six months from all causes on the rairoads of the United Kingdom. This country has eight times as great a mileago as Great Brituin and Ireland_and carries more passenger tnough not in proportion. In 1891, for in stance, the deaths of passengers ver mile in this country was o little less than England, although the aggregate was seven fold greater; but the bloody vecord of September it would not be possible to match anywhere else in the world. It is a disgracefal proof of loose and inadequate manazement on American railioads. Fow of Lh se “acci- deats” were accideutal. e The Fort Kandall Rald, St. Paul Glabe, Some time ago Fort Randall, abandoned by the military authorities. was situated on an Indian re longing to a band of Brule Big Bear is chief. Recently the Indians have seized upon the fort, and claim it as their property, on theground that the ( States was merely a tenal on the reservation only du cupancy of the fort. Big Bear is lezally right, and his claims would doubtless be sustained by the courts if carried before them. It is credizable to his shrewdness, also, thay he is avoiding all_entanglemens with white set- lers by means of which the rights of his tribe may be compromised. He is manifestly a shrewd Indian, and may yet cause his white brethren considerable trouble, —_— Patrick Henry as n Prophet. This communication, containing a remark- able bit of history, was addressed to the editor of the New York Evening post: While looking over the *History of 1 Convention of 1758, 1 find “the following in a speech of Patrick tlenry against the adoption of the constitu- tioa of the United States: *+ “This constitution is said to have beauti- ful features, but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me frigattul. * * * Yoursenate is so imper- fectiy constituted that your deavest rights may bo sacrificed by what may be o small minorisy, and a very small minority may continue forever unchangoably this govern- ment, although horrivly defective.’ "Soen in the light of present events this seems prophetic. J. A, PATTERSON, “New York, October 19." e s Largely a Famlly Affir, Spronafield (Mass) Repubtican, The public service 1s becoming largely & family affair. This is what a special con- gressional investigating committee finds, Of 17,59 employes in the departments ut Washington, no less than 5,010 have relatives at the same 1imo drawing government sala- ries. Five ofiicials have cach eight relatives in the service with themselves, twenty-six nave five each, ninety-six huse four each, 270 have three each, and 50 on, Many cases are given whero nearly entire families, par- ents with brothers aud sisters, are holding sll-paid piaces. The spoilsmen are seizing upon these fucts as telling against reform. They rather tell iu the other divection. v ——— The Snhallows Murmur, Boston Globe, e and Russia are having a season of king that on general principles is o to be lasting. It might bo well for the lively fraternizors to sober up a little before talking too glibly of getting away with the Euglish navy aund the German army. Rica is inconsola- million threatens the senate at_on his al able companion—as nec- to the processes of risbie Hoar's bunch of 43 y Meredith Mr. Besant rs Ameri Neb.. was It rvation be- ux, of whom e That Girl. Lincoln Neiws No, George, Mr. Mosher will not be taken to see * 'he Girl I Left Bebind Me" by the keeper ot the Laucaster county jail. And it won't be nululf’ for the reason that it might bring back painful recollections of the good times he formerly enjoyed in Omaha. —_——————— Pinching the Voterans, Indianapolis Jouwrnal, In less than eight months Secretary Hoke Smith has spent §00,000 in sepding out spies upou pensioners. aud he wants $300,000 more. And yet the administration is suid to appre- clato the union veteran Where is that Law Now? Chicago Post. We do not understand that dispatch which describes a *‘war between rival saloon keepers in Creston, 1a.” We bave been Iaboring uuder the impression that lowa had & prohibition law. The fol- ! | prisonment s with Charley returning | | $1,000.000 my | { MOSHRR'S PUNISTINE: Linooln Nows: Tt would be interasting to kuow whethor or not the good timo Mosher hias boon having in Omaha counts just the same as the good time other conviots get credited with when they make iv. Auy con- desiring have real good time made can bo wecommodated by calling on Cham pagne Charley, Avrora Sun Tt appoars that no punishment o8 when and where ho wishes, society and associates with conviv of both soxes at will. Turn him loose nd let him pay his own exponsa for amuse ment, instead of be ined royall, tho expense of the Such & vunishment is a disgrace w eiviilz David City Pross: Life is going mi . while some of his vietims aro finding their 10 suieide’s Many whom he ha ned, financially, do noe know which way to turn, nor swhat to do. Tho way of tho trans; or i hard—if he a loaf of broad—but easy it he steals and is_smart enough o hold on to A make up to the Judge and other guar- of the liw braska City Press: The peopln of this te would 1ike to know where Mosher gets the monoy he is spending, and moreover whether a thief in this state is allowed to keep his stolen goods even after conviction It is bad enough that Mosher wantonly robhed tho poor people of the state, but to allow him to keep and enjoy his spoils is t0o brazen a disgrace to be borne with any degreo of complacency. Fremont Herald: Tug to predict that Mosher will not in the streets of Lincoin, ‘Ther ny defrauded deposttors there.” And it would be in the interest of public morals nd honesty il some defrauded depusitor would go fusane enough, in cases like this, 10 put the thief out of the way of doing any more of his thicving work, These are the kind of “object lessons” that the country needs just now The Alliauce Leader: As far as the treat ment of Mosher is concernca, it illustrates the humanity of this age, as compared with 300 or 400 Wo have no doubt that the 500,000 of the Capital Nutionul boodlo hidden nwa g the timo when the thief may be released to enjoy it. And further, we have no doubt that there is it least one man at large who knows quite as much about the w ter as Mosher docs. Now, 300 years Mosher would have been taken to & dungeo stretened on u rack and “put to the qu tion," as they called it: viz, he would have been compelled to cough the whole thing up Tt's u pity Moshar's im av all. Ho vl enjoys siat steals Bee says, “It s Mr. Mosher, too, 1z open o 1o Mr. In"his open lotter Mosiic Mr. Rosowater of having been b viner in several nefarious schemes and affects to be his ord will be accepted by the public before that of the Omaha editor. There are a great many people who have come to the opinion that Mr. Rosewater lacks several of the qualities which go to muke up the perfect saint, but there are few of them wh sense of justice has heen so distorted by hate and envy that they arc willin Mosher's unsup- ported word as proof positivé of his infamy. s the News has before remarked, Mosher ord i in Lincoln at the discount as _certificates of deposit the Capital National bank. Merely show that the bo. y in Moshe Ros: ne in to s com- ction is v, it is merely necossary to L v believes that tt on why the ney have excoriated him so roundly and have printed so many columns about, amy is simply to sell papors—a sentiment which he has repeatedly expressed alled on for an inter- A man who has no higher conception STARCTIb AR henbey newspaper's duty, who believes that the paramouat idea of news- paper men 1u printing news is to sell papers, who apparently fashions his actions on the old political maxim that every man has his price, 1s pre-eminently fit to rob banks, despoil widows and orphans and then at- tempt to dodge the responsibility for his crime. only mon e that he re e COMIC CALOKIC, Iveston Nows: 1€ you would with a mun do not rub hin the wr “Man wants but but it secms sou curry favor 15 Way. Dallas News: little here below,"” body else hus it. ady—What carthly use is -1t 18 going ut cost today. fiy yards, Another hund, ilrond sie railrond tie New York Herald ther—Did he kiss ‘ena—He hadn't th e to do thit. Fsther—It would requiro considorable. Buffalo Quips: “How long," says a contem- none live without wir?” It de- Most people could live a ong time \\lllmlll some of the airs which have been populur during the past twelve months. you?, Puck: Doctor—It's a boy—but I'm sorry (o tell you that ulthough It s not exnctly de- formed, it has enorwously large foot and was born with a big crop of hair. ather—That's all right, Doc—just think whatn rattling foot ball player he'll muke when he's old enough 10 go to colloge THE JACK. New York Herald. Together we had heen walking, 1n the twilight silent und di And when we rned 10 (he § 1 formed my {ons of him. Iloarncd thut he doos not lovi And sorrow o'erflows wy cup, eing the gas burning faintly, astoned (o turn it up. ! morality or Ch ! Christian 1 friends | at | MORAL LW, Minneapolis Pribune: in Jnil will be a propor punishment for those Nebraska women who took the law into their own hands and brutally assaultod & number of their ercing sisters, Such con- b as theirs Ivanced.the cause of a single stop, and A good, leng term never will New York E m he Women's infon women white re said to have had a bemg the most charitable of the city, but it was not as St. Paul ted charity, but rather in the spirit of (Null‘ 10 whom u greater than Paul said: Lot him who is without sin among you ASt Lhe first stone at hor, " Washington Post: Undoubtedly the of- feading pirls neodod somo sort of punish. ment, and thoir parents or guardians would doubtedly have administered it had they 'n made acquainied with the situation, it is cortain that the ropresentatives of promine 1ent of the town made a serious whea they organized themsel into a vigilauce committee and indulged in & white eap rafd Minneapohs T4 The ‘“white cap" business 18 on the same plan of the vigilance ommittees, though Jynchings have not yet been ncluaed 1n the scope of its operations. But the “win undertake to punish people with ing_and to usurp the functions of ts. Such proceedings should bo put down at all hazards, even though to do so should uecessitato giving the “lady white cappors” of Osceola n few months in the woriklouse or the common Jail Minneapolis J 1 tian Temperance uni braska have omen's Ch sur Aps of Oscoola, tion for Nob The Women's Chiris- white cappers of Neo- without discretion. The nco union rm by force, » white cappers suid 10 bo of “the bottor Such women, however, entrusted with vower for H v have no 1 thet of Oserola ave class of woinen, cauld hardly b geh the ball aw and orde wnsas Clby Times: Two radical depart- from established rulo have been made last few days by allezod mombers of the Women's Christinn ‘Tomperanca union and they wili bo charged, however wrongly, against that order. ‘Tho'one was the cruel 1iable torture of two crving giris Neb, The other was the slum- Huys and her companions "0 W firstacy ne- condemnas for the perpetrators, jite ribboners or uot. e e Morton and the Fa Philad phia Diguirer It is doubtful i the J. Sterlin salvo will allay tue irvitation farmers. They w but in the mean has been aaded the ros of men of other oc for Mr. Morton non s oo severe whether thoy ure v Morton nong the t0 sy 1o the farmors now 1t is u X when ther were farmed, the workingmen with to their undoing and & wholo n hypuotized a year ago. It is wido » enough now. For Mr. Morton to intimate to the people that the nation of sleep-waliers and the ticians a body of mesmerists will not tho reaping of the whirlwind, New York Tribune, One of the Roman emperors was in a state of mind onee upon & time, because, as ho put it, he had “lost a d What would be his emotions could h mostaugust gislative body in the w naking ono legislative day extend over seven or eight common days? e i Whon 1o world Jo' stits g A plekuninny's ta An’ yo' cup ob joy is b Tyvell ffseems ibout uniy ses de blessin® A’ do co'n pono's hot. When you se’ down at,tho table y luk an’ sad lettle tired de doubt— When de o d An'do smel An' de co'n pone's hot. When the eabbage pot s steamin' Au’ do bacon good an’ fat, When do chittll sputt’rin' show yo' whar dey's ut— Tek awiy yo' sody biscuit Tek away vo euk 10 18 Con " know yo' bottah maminy ses the blessin' An’ de co'n potie’s hot. I hab heerd ob lots ob sermons, 1 hub heerd ob lots of p ned o 5o b tuk me up do stuirs y land an’ set me low ae Mustah's throno, hab lef’ my heart a-singin® Inu happy aftah ton But dem words 50 softly murmured Seems 10 touch de softes’ spot When yo' mammy ses the blessin® An’ de co'n pu BROWNING, KING Largest Manafasturars anl Rollazs of Clothing in the World It strikes me That it's coming-—it always does, and it will this year, whether Corbett and Mitchell fight or not. If you don't believe it look in the almanac. Winter—that's what we're talking about, and now we're going to talk about winter overcoats. I there is anybody in the house who wants to got out they'd better go now before Lhe service begins, so as not to dis- turb the rest of the congregation. Firstly, we will call your attention to the fact that we're selling the best overcoat in the city for $10. Then thera is one for $156 that but few can sell for $20 and make a profit at all from $15 up to $35. The prices gradually rise But when you pay $20 or more for an overcoat you get something that tailors can't beat either for fit, finish, fabric or fashion. The boys are also provided for. BROWNING, KING & CO., ppeu every evenlug tillwisl Btore epen 8 Sraay tiil 1 |8 W, Cor. 16t and Douls Sls.