Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1893, Page 4

S OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1t Sunday) One Year. TE| Patly Dea (w1 i1y and Si ix Monthin roo Montha nday Beo. uturday B Veekly Bee and Twenty-sixth streets wtroot amber of Commerce, 14 and 15, Tribune bullding toemth streot. B Kew York. rooma ‘ashington, 613 CORRESPONDENCE, Ko 11 communientiona relating 10 nows an o ettt Raked T the BATOF AN s addressed t Drafta. ¢ s to bemade nmer can have ving the el X 110 their nddress by leaving an order ¥ PUBLISHING COMPANY. ENT OF CIRCULATION. ¢ of Trn BER Pub- G shing company., ¢ awear that the metnal clrewlation o v Bunday, Cctobe October Jetobe Noven b | Sworn to hetdr m L presence this 4th ¢ i PR > NP « Notary Publle. Average Circulution for October, 24,315, WimH the exception of Bennett and Eller the county ticket is satisfactory to repuolicans of all factions. PropLE will soon be tempted to ask whether the extra session of congress was really worth what it cost. HASCALL may fool all the working- men some of the time and some of the workingmen all the time, but he cannot fool all the workingmen all the time. Tue so-called death blow to silver was not enough to prevent highwaymen from attempting tosteal Montana’s sily statue of Justice enroute to New York. EuRrol governments may as well understand first as last that the United Btates will not sit passively should they attempt to interfere in the affairs of Brazil. IT LOOKS as if Governor Boies were trying to play the sympathy dodge as a last resource in his contest for re-elec- tion as governor of Towa. HASCALL has had many schemes to fool workingmen. His latest is to fool them into voting for him for mayor. He makes the mistake, however, in con- sidering all the workin_men fools. Sioux Ciry is to be congratulated upon its bright prospects for an imme- diate and complete recovery from the financial shock that overtook somany of its leading enterprises last spring. GEORGE E. GIBSON has been an honest, capable justice of the peace. He has earned a re-election and if everybody who likes him personally remembers to give him a vote his piurality will be large. ACCORDING to the aflidavits published in defense of Shortweight Bedford the shortage in conl was due to frozen scales. The question is, how long did the scales stay frozen? And why didn’t the frozen scales give overweight instead of short weight? WE SHALL soon know whether the Chinese residents in this country are disposed to obey the law requiring their registration under the Geary act within six months. If they use the extension of time for the purpose for which it was intended this may be the ond of Chinese legislation for some timo to come. ‘WORKINGMEN of Omaha should vote for George P. Bemis as mayor unless they wish to put an end to public work. To elect Hascall as mayor would be a calamity. The credit of the city would be gone, public improvements would stop, no bonds could be sold and depression on every side would exist. DEMOCRATIC applicants for presi- dentinl appointinents to postmasterships in Nebraska who wore disappointed in not seeing their names sent to the senate during the oxtra session of congross may have at least the consolation that they thereby avoided having the nomi- nations hung over adjournment without being acted upon. THE adjournment of congress releases Senator Sherman in time for him to carry out his promise to participate in Governor McKinley's campaign. senator is a trifle late, but his efforts will do more good for the republican ticket in two days than has been accom- plished by a host of lesser lights in the whole two months, ALL law-abiding citizens must rejoice in the fact that Nebraska was rescued from the stain of another lynching by the exerciso of common sense by the sheriff of ono of its most enterprising counties. The law nevd not be avenged by further violations of the law. Mob violence is unjustifiable in a state where the criminal courts are open for the con- vietion of all who are proven guilty. ) ing American citi- zon place his vote at the disposal of any railroad, cxrpress, telegraph or street rail- way company or any other corporation that carries him on its pay voll? Does a man barter away his soul when he hires out to one of these corporations? Are they not get- ting all they aveentitled to when employes effi- ciently and faithfully perform the task in posed upon them in the shops, on the train or at headquarters? DR. SCUWENCK has had his namo in- serted on the ticket of the German dem- oorstie organ. German-Americans of Owanha, whether they ave demoerats or republicans, cannot stultify themsclves by giving & man of Dr. Schwenck's mal- odorous record thelr support for & posi- tion i the city council. Schwenck has brovght disyrace upon his own nation- #lity when he was i office and should be kept i private life for the rewain- dor of bis duys. DAILY BEE; MONDAY, 3 N NOVEMBER 6, 1893. RESCUE THE SUPREME COURT. From The Sunday Bee. In times of war the sentinel that goes to sleep while standing guard subjects himself to the penalty of death the same as if he were a deserter. The man who stands sentinal as the tribune of people and allows the enemy to rob them of their liberties without sounding the alarm is precisely in the position of the sleeping sentinel or the descrter on the eve of battle. : The suprome court.is the bulwark of a free people. It is the arbiter between debtor and oreditor, between employor and employe, the botween railroads and their patrons, between insurance com- panies and their policy holders, between taxpayers and tax-shirkers, between the A supremo court composed of conscien- tious, and upright judges stands like a pillar of fire between might and right, between usurpation and constitutional power, between arbi- trary people and their public servants. fearless action and reasonable remuner- ation, between the sovereign state and Can we have such a supreme court so long as their credentials emanate from Czar Holdrege and the mercenaries who turned down Judge Maxwell? Men of Nebraska, the hour has como to rescue the supreme court, no matter at what sacrifice and to what extent you must do violence to your political creed. Let party perish for a time that the vepublic and republican institutions may survive. The bugbear of frightening capital from Nebraska if the railroad candidate for supreme judge is defeated should have no terrors for any patriotic citizen its corporate creatures. who ioves his conntry and its free insti- tution But how can the state’s credit be crippled any worse than it has been? Could anything be more damaging than the fact that the state treasury has been looted by the connivance of our state officers and is now $700,000 short? Could anything be more damaging than the scandalous conduct’ of the impeached state officials and the subjection of our supreme court to the dictates of the con- federated corporations? Could anything worse happen to Nebraska than the sur- render of the right of self-government to arrogant railroad autocrats, who maintain their power by anarmy of mer- cenaries, fed at the expense of the pro- ducers? If there ever was a time when every man who loves freedom and hates despotism, under whatever name it may dominate, should strike a blow for liberty, it is next Tuesday when he casts his yote for supreme judge. & TOMORROW’S ELEC [IONS. Elections will be held in thirteen states tomorrow, in five of . which— Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa, Virginia and ‘Wisconsin—full state tickets and legis- latures will be chosen. Among these states the greatest general interest is directed to Ohio, where the campaign has been fought with protection as the predominant issue. The re-election of Governor McKinley is very generally conceded to be assured, tho only ques- tion being as to the size of his plurality. Two years ago he defeated Campbell by over 21,000, and his supporters aro claiming that these figures will bo largely exceeded this year, on the ground that the conditions favoring republican success are much stronger now than two years ago. The demo- cratic hope is to at least lower the plu- rality by which McKinloy was first electad, arguing if this can be done it will amount to defeat. Tt seems that the appearance of ex-Governor Campbell in the campaign a week ago had the ef- fect to somewhat stimulate democratic zeal, but the decision of the ex-governor to help his party was probably made too late to do it much good. Taking part so near the end of the fight only empha- sized the well known fact that the nomination of Neal was not pleasing to Mr. Campbell. Governor McKinley has maintained throughout a most vig- orous and aggressive campaign, and it will not be at all surprising if his plural- ity tomorrow considerably exceeds that of two years ago. In that event it is easy to see that McKinley will be very prominent in the thought of the country as a possible presidential candidate in 1896, After Ohio, Massachusetts and Towa share about equally in the interest of political circles. In the former state the indications favor the election of a republican governor, while there ap- pears to be nodoubt that the other repub- lican candidates for state officers will be elocted and that the leg- islaturo will continue to be rapublican. As Lo Towa, the chances of victory ought, to be with the republicans, but the de- feat of Boies 1s by no means assured. The prohibition issue still complicates the situation, while the democratic cam- paign has, on the whole, been conducted with the greater energy and aggr ness, even if not altogether a fair and manly fight. The result in Wisconsin is problematical, with the chances favor- ing the democrats, who have now full control in thav state. In 1890 Wisconsin elocted democratic state officors by a plurality of about 8,000, and last year the Cleveland electors were chosen by 6,470 plurality. It is quite possible that the democrats may not show as much strength this year. Of course Virginia will elect a democratic gov- ernor and legislature. There is a good deal of interest felt in the New York election, more particu- larly with reference to the result of the voting for associate justice of the court of appeals. For this elevated judicial position the democratic candidate is Justice Maynard, who is & member of the court by appointment of the gov- crnorto fill a vacaney, his selection Y_ming the reward of judicial sery- lees in aiding the democrats to steal the state semate. An un- comoromising fight is being made against Maynard, not confined entirely 1 revublicans, and his defeat is re- garded as probable, although he has the devoted support of the demoeratic ma- chine. As the legislative districts were newly arranged by the last democratic legislature, the democrats will probably retain control of the legislative depart- ment, and it is to be expected that they will also elect the state officers to be chosen. Pennsylvania is expected to give the normal republican majority for a justice of the supreme courtand a state treasurer. 4 The result in none of these states, with the possible exception of Ohio, will really have any very great genoral significance, though they will serve to indicate to some extent the trend of pub- lic opinion. A LAST WOID OF WARNING. TO THE CITIZENS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY! When I first met George A. Bennett, on the day after he had been nominated gheriff by the republican convention two years ago, ho was a total stranger to me. His bearing impressed mo favorably, and the fact that ho had been a hard working mechanic enlisted my sympathy in his behalf. Without ask- ing for a single pledge, either of patron- agoe or political servico I gave him the mest earnest and cordial support from the beginning of the campaign until election day. From that day to this no personal controversy has occurred be- tween us. During the two years since he has been sheriff he has never been abie to refuse me a political favor, directly or indirectly, and has never been asked to contribute a penny to THe BEE except as a subscriber. There is no complaint against him on my part on the score of patronage. The sheriff's advertising is at best not very profitable at legal rates, which are 40 per cent lower than the rates we charge to regular customers, who adver- tise more every month than the sheriff does in a year. More than a year ago 1 became con- vines that George A. Bennett was neither a competent nor an_efficient law officer. His office work had all to be done by a substitute and his executive work as custodian of prisoners had fallen into the hands of negligent and law- defying deputies. Jail deliveries became froquent, and in one instance a city prisoner was released by Jailer Bennett, the brother of the sheriff, without an order from the police judge or mayor. When the sheriff’s attention was called to these flagrant violations of prison usage he passed them by in contemptu- ous indifference. As time passed matters went from bad to worse. Criminals who were pre- sumed to be in close confinement in jail were encountered in saloons and ques- tionable resorts, sometimes in company of the jailer and sometimes alone. Last spring one Hondoerson, arrested as an embezzler, was taken to the Diamond in the night by Theodore Bennett, the jailer, and left there to amuse himself in a game of faro. The jailer himself took part in games and finally left his prisoner several hours without a guard. Then came the Mosher scandal, fol- Jowed by other revelations that ave too vile to be detailed in any paper. Suffice it to say that the proof is overwhelming that under Sheriff Bennett the Douglas county jail has not only been turned into an assignation house, but a veritable brothel, in which custodians of prisoners acted the part of procuvers. In one in- stance a negro was permitted to pay private visits to a white girl 15 years old, on whom, it is represented to me, an abortion had been performed, with full knowledge of the matron. The only defense which George A. Bennett has so far vontured to make for this horrible state of affairs has been by thevilest of personal sbuse and gross libels gotten up by two criminals whom he had harbored in the jail. At first this model sheriff circulated a leprous sheet edited by a convicted libeler rep- resenting me as having become incura- bly insane. This was followed up by a shower of muck from Bank Wrecker Mosher, who stands self-conv d of perjury and forgery. This unconscion- able thief had the insolence to charge in an open letter that he had been form- erly associated with me in deals and that I had worked for the transfer of the convict labor contract from Stout to himself. In proof of this fabrication he cited the fact that several of my po- litical friends, including George W. Lininger, had voted for his bill. Asa matter of fact Senator Lininger is on record as voting against his bill, and ex- Representative C. J. Smythe will bear me out when I say that I urged him to op- pose the bill when it was before the house. The charges made by THE BEE were not trumped up for campaign purposes, Some of them were made months before Bennett was renominated, and the most sorious charges were published before the republican convention had been held. George A. Bennett knows that THE BEE is perfectly responsible. Every charge made agaipst him is borne out by affidavits and eredible wit- nesses, Bennett had ample time and opportunity to secure a vindication by usking for an investigation at the hands of the county commissioners. A major- ity of the board are members of his own party and certainly would have given him a fair hearing. Instead of demanding an investiga- tion, Bennett has sought to counteract its effect by the most dustardly per- sonal assaults upon me and by circulat- ing the most impudent falsehoods con- cerning the motives that impel me to oppose him. One of the stories be has put in circulation is that my opposition to him is a fight against the American Protective association order, when everybody knows that THE BEE is giv- ing cordial support to halfa dozen mem- bers of that order who are on the repub- lican ticket. Another infamous libel which he has cireulated industriously is that I have been paid or promised an enormous sum of money by John A. Creighton and John A. MeShane to bring about his de- fear. While making desperate efforts to sustain himself with the members of the American Protective association this man Bennett is endeavoring to bring 0dd Fellowship and Free Masonry into disrepute by secking to use them as cloaks for his official misconduct. Now 1 have been a Free Mason for more thui & quartor of a century, but if any Masonic bod§*was to endorse or condone Bennett's offitT§l misdemeanors T should abjure the craft and dengunce it as an enemy of good fovernmeny. The high- estobligation df a true M loyal and lawsabiding citizen. stand by its mom- to uphold a association {0 bers, right or wrong, public official’ who has and scandalizZdd the public service be- cause, and only because he is one of its members, thea® the order would be a menace to free American institutions. T am loth to believe that any decent or roputable moember of the American Protective association will stand up for Bennett and by endorsing him for ro-election justify the infamies that have been perpetrated by him as custodian of the county jail. It will not do for Bennett to plead that the worst scandals are chargeable to the jailer. George A. Bennett fs responsible for the acts of his deputy, Theodore Bennott, and his failure to discharge him long ago shows that he has no regard for his oath of office and the laws governing the office of sheriff, I am aware that Bennott and the gang of desperadoos that train with him, threaten violence and even assassina- tion, but if [ knew that I would incur death within the next twenty-four hours 1 would do my duty and warn my fellow citizens against committing the safe- keeping of criminals for another two years into the hands of a man who in defiance of law allows favored prisoners to run at large, visit gambling houses and disorderly resorts and allows the jail to be converted into an assignation house. . ROSEWATER. BEMIS AND THE ANTI-VICE PROTEST. A committee representing the anti- vice movement, which last spring sought to abolish gambling and the social evil in Omaha, has issued an address to voters, which has been given to the pub- lic through the daily press. Its soleaim and object is to defeat the re-election of Mayor Bemis because he has not complied with the demands of the crusaders. Now let us discuss the grievance of theso gentlemen in all candor and with- out bias. They assert that 2,000 voters signed a petition to'the council and po- lice commission for the better enforce- ment of law. That is stating it very mildly. A petition in favor of better enforcement of law would have been signed by every man, woman and child in town, outside, possibly, of the very small number engaged in lawless pur- suits, The anti-vice petition meant somethiog more. It was an attempt on the part of wellaneaning but impracti- cal reformers 10 scatter the population of the burnt disteict and drive gambling from known haunts to hotels and holes in the wall. Now how did, they go about this? Gambling is a felony under the statutes, and the renting of houses for assignation and lawless cohabitation is also punish- able under the criminal code. Did these paople lodge a solitary complaintagainst the owners of ouses in the burnt dis- trict? If so, thd first man they would have struck would not haye been Mayor Bemis, but a near relative of the demo- cratic candidate for mayor, who owns the largest block among the palatial haunts of sin, and they would have struck a score of very respectable gentlomen who contribute liberally to religious and benevolent institutions. If you want to make an anti-vice crusade effective you must not stop in front ot the city hall, but go for the men who owr the build- ings in which gambling and the social evil abide. But that would strike some people whom the leaders of the crusade do not want to offend. The ' statutes made the sheriff the chief executive officer for apprehending criminals and suppressing crime wher- ever he may know it exists. Gambling, being a felony, comes directly under this head. If any special complaint against this crime had been made to the county attorney aod sheriff they would have been obliged to take notice of it and have the offenders prosecuted. Did the anti-vice crusaders ever ask the sheriff and the county attorney to break up gambling houses and prosecute the keepers? Not a bit of it. Have they tried to hold the sheriff responsible? Not at all. They want to make Bemis the scapegoat. Now admit that 2,000 voters did sign the anti-vice petition. More than 20,000 voters did not sign it, and many of those who did sign it privately asked the mayor to let matters rest. It should be remembered that the movement began in the midst of a very depressing season, when business was aimost at a stand- still and merchants, hotel keepers and restaurants were going to the wall for want of patronage. But the great offense which Mayor Bemis is charged with is voting down a resolution introduced before the police commission ordering the chief of police to enforee all luws and ordinances. This resolution was in the nature of a censure of Mayor Bemis, who, as chief execu- tive, is presumed to enforce all laws as far as practicablé, Does any rational on blame the mayor for not voting to censure himself He had issued an order to the chief of police to enforce all laws and ovdinances s well as they could be enforced under existing con- ditions. 1 any specific complaint had been made agalpat Chief Seavey for neglect of duty the mayor and the police board would-have been obliged to investigate the charges and pass sen- tence according to the evidence. But no specific charge was made and the mayor very naturally regarded the reso- | lution as a reflection upon his own con- duct and voted it down, as any spirited | n is to be a | I it is | the purpose of ife American Protective | debauched | man with an§ If-respect wouid have done: The anti-vice committee winds up its tirade against Mayor Bemis by asking: ““C'an any one vote for such a man for mayor of Omaha?’ Now let us ask these gentlemen, whom do you advise voters to support for mayor? Somebody will be elected mayor next Tuesday. If you don't vote for Bemis because he does not come up to your idea in dealing with vice and crime do Hascall and | Bedford come any nearer to your ideal? | Haseall is a constant associate of the classos you want to suppress and Bed- ford makes no pretense of municipal re- form in the direction you are traveling. Mereer's candidacy is a farce. Every vote given to him is half a vote for Has- call. He stands no more chance of elec- tion than of being struck by lightning in January, and if ho was a possibility for mayor he would no more carry out the i of the anti-vico people than Mercer did net sign the anti- ition and would not have touched it s0 long as he had any political pros- pects. In w of these stubborn facts, what will people who ave satisfied with the way Bomis has administered the affaivs of the city and protected the taxpayers against the rapacity of cosporations and contractors gain by voting for candidates who are not as safe’ THE HAND.CAPPED CANDIDATE. The republican state committee, rec- ognizing the potential influence of THE BEF, has kept at the head of the first column of its campaign sheet an extract from this paper concerning the personal character and qualifications of Judee T. 0. C. Harrison, This is very compli- mentary to THE BEE as well as Judge Harrison. But why does the campaign organ omit the concluding portion of THE BEE'S comment relative to the methods by which Harrison’s nomination was secured? The article which the railroad repub- lican editor has kept in big black type at the head of his sheet appeared in THE I under the caption, ‘A Handi- capped Candidate.” The suppressed por- tion of the article reads as follows: Mr. Harrison's candidacy will, however, be resented by thousands of republicans bo- cause 1t was Lrought about by methods that are unrepublican and therefore destructive of the sovereign right of the people to self- government. Mr. Harrison is not the choice of the ropublican party of Nebraska through representatives voicing its senti- ment. He holds his title from a convention dominated by railroad magnates and state house plunderers. His candidacy repre- sents the elements that have degraded re- publicanism and converted 1t into an instru- ment of usurpation and political misrule. He is the product of a criminal conspiracy to make the highest judicial tribunal of the state subservient to the satravs of the rail- roads, who seek to fasten the chainsof politi- cal serfdom upon our people and reduce Ne- braska from its proud position as a free state to a subjugaterd province. Under such circumstances Mr. Harrison's candidacy is doubly unfortunate. It is un- fortunate for him that he comes handicapped by political backers who are discredited by the people, and it 18 unfortunate for the re- publican party, which caters the campaign loaded down by the incubus of monopoly and official delinquency. . These deplorable circumstances make it impossible for Tue BEE to give Judge Harrison its unqualified support. We are compelled to protest against the pernicious methods that have brought him into the field and to remon- strate earnestly against the substitution of railvondism for republicanism in the coun- cils of the party. AS BEYWEEN ELLER AND BAXTER, The two leading candidates for county judge, J. W. Eller and Irving I. Bax- ter, are both republicans. Eller comes before the citizens of Douglas county as the candidate endorsed for re-election by the convention that endorsed George Bennett for sheriff in the face of the most damaging charges of official mis- demeanor. Mr. Baxter was endorsed by the bar association and the demo- cratic county convention as one of the candidates for a nonpartisan judiciavy. Botween the supporters of Baxter and Judge Eller there has been a war of words waged that has filled columns and pages of the papers and furnished material for pamphlets and circulars enough to supply the want for carpet lining in the whole city for the next ten years, Brushing aside all tho charges and countercharges we find this to be about the state of facts: Judge Eller has introduced a new set of blanks and books for the use of the county court. The books, o far as can be ascertained, have been well kept and the records of the office ave fairly up to the standard of other courts. The blanks introduced by Judge Elle* have mude a very heavy increase in the costs of publication. There has also been a vory material increase in the cost of pro- Dating estates. These increased costs are all charged up to the estates of people who died leaving any property. In other words, Judge Eller hus levied needless costs upon the widows and orphans whose property goes through the hands of the county court. The glaring con- trast between the number of clerks em- ployed by Judge Bller and his prede- cossor cannot be explained away. The United States circuit and district courts, which do fully three times thoe business that is done in the county court, only employ four clerks, while Judge Eller employs nine clerks. This extrava- gance cannot be justified on the ground that the pay of these clerks does not come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. Kverybody knows that it does come out of tht pockets of people who have business in the county court, There is no reason why the county court should be a mere cost mill for the benefit of tax-eaters. One of the clerks of this court boasts that he can Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U, 8. Gov't Report, Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE .make as much as $3,000 a year. If that is true there must bo many fat plekings around Eller's court which the people of Douglas comnty are obliged to pay for in one form or another. If the citizens of this county want to perpetuate a cost mill they will vote for Judge Eller: if not, they will vote for Baxter, ONE paramount fact must not be for- gotten in the excitement of this election. Mayor Bemis has been on the safe side upon every question involving the in- terests of taxpayers and workingmen. His fow mistakes have not cost the city either money or reputation. Mo has been as solid as a rock on the side of the people as against contractors and cor- NO pressure could be applied railroads or other beneficiaries of public franchise during the last two years to induce him to approve a meas- ure contrary to the welfare of the city or to veto an ordinance which he felt the public interest demanded. Ho has been incorruptible and everybody who has had dealings with him knows it. Safe beyond question, well equipped by two years of oxperience, honest as the day is long and representative in character, he should be and will be triumphantly re-elocted. THE popular demonstration in favor of 'rance which occurred unavoidably in Madrid on Thursday must go far to confirm the rumor that Spain was to be included as a third party in the I Russian alliance. The sympathies of the Spanish people are undoubtedly with the French, and even if the acce sion of Spuin to the alliance is not yet an accomplished fact Europe cannot be much surprised should the rumored agreement materializo in the very ndar future. ranco- The Evil nud the kemedy. Chicago Tribune, To stay an opmdemic of murderous crankery there is nothing so effective as o hempen quarantino promptly establishod and rigidly enforced nd, Philadelphia nquirer. Wise men say the opening of the foot ball season will show that at least one branch of American intellectualit nov suc mbod to the prevailing tendency to grow bald. g = The Office and the Price, New York Tribune., Wouldn't it be well for Mr. Cleveland to make up a list of the campaign debts which he_propos ischargo by gifts of honor and salariet ging to the people, and let us see at once and in full just what has got to be met? A Sectionnt Monsure, Globe- Democrat, The principal trouble about the Geary Chinese exclusion law is that it was passed, not in response to any definite national sen- timent, but to serve a local volitical purpose; and hence the country is not sitting up of nights 10 pray for its enforcement. s oy Denver New: Bryan of Nebraska can never be nominated for congress again by the democrats of the First district in Nebraska, because the ad- ministration now controls the democratic machinery and has decrced his defeat. If Mr. Bryan intends to return to congress again he must join the people’s party. bk Souna Up 10 Date. Philadelphia Record. The statement contained in a Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune thit tho administration has recelved information from Brazil of proposed intervention of for- PROPLE AND THINGS, The fndications point to a snow storm within forty-eight hours. Senator Allen has ordered 50,000 coples of his fifteen-hour speech for gratuiwus dis. tribution. Of course the issuance of & Thanksgiving proclamation {u!t as congress adjourned was # mero coincidence, Senator Wolcott goos to Burope, doubtless to make a personal cxamination of the gold- bugs of Lombard street The fact that Lobengula travels with & band around his stomach probably accounts for the music in Matabeleland just now. George Gretty of Sclinsgrove happy father last of which w; Gretty last Sat Mr. Ferris' claim to or ing and turning a big to sustain. Governor | rights that should by Senator Allen ma coronors, but tho cli hildren, the ented to him by Mrs. ality in design- will bo aifiicult oyer has some respected )t bo in cahoots with imstance of his chal- lenging & careful reading of his long dis tance specch looks mighty susicious. In spite of reportod defoars King Lobon- gula maint A large unrufed front When in a sitting posture it is said his paunch forms a cushion over his knoecaps. Some good may yet como from the Nicar agua canal schome. Several congressmor think it ought to bo fuvestigated at the ox pense of the government, aud are willing te sacrifice their valuable timo for a junket to the neck of the continent in midwinter. The Rocky Mountain Nows places Go Pennoyer on a pedestal, wreathe: Parian brow and exclaims with Shakespoaro: A combination and a form Indeed, Whero ove i soom 1o set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. It is sad to s mmy Patterson taking a standing joke so seriously. Mrs. Harrict Lane Johnson, who presided four years in the white house auring the ad- ation of her uncle, James Buchanan, and spent four years abroad when he was T to tho court of St. James, has been in Philadelphin for a week as the guest of Mrs. George W. Childs Wootten. With her was her young cousin, Miss Mary Ken. nedy, a nieco of John M. Kennedy of Balti- more, tho author of **Horseshos Robinson' and other stories, and who is said to have contributed some chapters to Thackeray's “Virginians," e BLUE MONDAY I Philadelphia Re you think a girl lik course.” sort of poso d¢ Why, Proposo, ox rls 1s queor posttion™ diy. el is not In it 1n sociuty tili Detrolt Tribune: Visitor on the promenado Tsn't Mo, v infoxieati ntortainer—It cortainly 1s until you got accustomed to deinking it Boston Bullotin: DI fn bad form in tho n hap With five dig ybody else at the the morning. wre said to be Still we have wnds to ve envied ablo quite early fn Chicago Post: Mabel—What made you get so rod and ssed just bofore you went out of the room Just, now? Marie—If I tell you, don’t breath it to a soul. You kuow the clock on my stocking? Mabel—Yes, Mario—Well, it had run down. Muggins—My wifo 18 cof, and every night she keeps me awake by sticking them up in the middieof my back, Irat’s funny; they nover tronble Indelphin ke cold 5. .~ What about him?" as fired yosterday. “Why +0Oh, he came in ‘loaded.’ " Tow did it happer s old Jigston had o uneral procession?”" for it himsolf, nst s along the lino ol the money to to torment tho reside, march o the cemetery.™ NE POPU Attanta Constitution, They talk about our statesmen—an' the tall, ATt STATESMAN. eign powers is_confessedly nothig more than the assumption of a prominent official, but the other half of his assumption, that the administration woald toler: viola- tion of the Monroe Doctrine, is entirely sound on general principles. an to be inhospitablo. a and other regions pecu- liarly aff the silver crisis choose to come to California with their oves open_and try their luck here, knowing that all the avenues of employment are overcrowded here, as elsewhere, we shall not repulse them. But wo decidedly objoct to having them’ cruelly lured here on the false pro- tense that we are 1n need of their services. I e Olney’s Opportunity, St. Louis Post. Attorney General Olney can exercise his well known talents as a lnwyer by prosecut- ing the coal combine, which has been strengthened by the Vaunderbilt millions, Although he thinks the anti-trustlaw un- constitutional, there is good authority to tho contvary, and he ought to test it at least. But verhaps his velations with rail- rond corporations are such that he cannot perform his public duties without violating his duty to himself. Largest Manufaotur of Ulothing la We back up it never stop: It's more exaspel crops; But the statesman who's the bestof all, in wisdom and in wit, Is the kind that pli thon decldes to quit IN SHORT METER, tin' thun the weather or the y states his mind, an’ Chicago 7 ribune. They've gone away. The madding crowds no Blockade the street, And the man with the pasteboard luncheon box > No more we'll meet. New York Press. Ho sat some minutes thinking, And then he softly spoke: “Whon a man 15 boit on drinking He'll end by being broke.” The cleverness some pe With what they're doing ever Is all in making others think That they o 0 Chicago Inter Oceal The men who fishing lies b For days and days togethor Will let that subjoet drop just now And lie ubout the weather. BROWNING, KING arsanl Tinallaed vy Worll Every statement with the goods themselves. Tuesday is election day, And you will then repair Into your district voting place Purchance you'll make a w. Tomorrow or today, Andyou may have to buy a hat, E To castyour ballot there. = A losing hat to pay. {If not satisfac- tory return them. We want to do more than make ager one sale, Wewant to make you our customer for all time to come, do—every stitch of clothes we sell. knock out all the tailo We make—or rather our tailors That's why we round abouts, They can’t make them any better and they don't sell them for less than twice nobody else’s goods and rely upon holding our trade. the best fit, fabric, finish a not handled by us. We handle we can therefore always our prices. Bargains other than nd fashion to be had are We will sell you a suit or an overcoat for g1o that you can't get in a big bargain store for less than $15, and we have always sold them for gro and shall continue to sell them for $i0, BROWNING, 18 Store npen every evenlng til 6.4 P aturday uill 4. KING & CO., W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Ss.