Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA A ekt R e D DATLY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1891 A A R i TERMS OF SUDS y Bee (without Sunday), iy Pes and Bunday, One Year. ix ~ Months.... o Three Montha.... .. undsy Tee, One Yoar.. turday Bes, One Yoar.. sekly Doe, One Yoar...... OFFICES, o, The Bee Bullding th Omalia, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Gouncll TiiuMts, 1z Vearl mreat jee, 317 Chamber of Commeree, Hew Fork, Tsome 13, 11 and 13, Tribune Bde. Waanington, 1407 F streot, N. W. CORMESPONDENCE. Al eommunicntions relating to nows and edi- torial matter the Bditor. BUSINE v ANl business lettors and remittances should be addresssd to The Tee Publishing company, gmana. "Drate, chiocks and postofice oriers 15 made payabis to the order of the company. 4 PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George B, Tzschuck, seerstary of Tho Ree Pub- fiwiiing compary, being duly sworn, says that the I number of full and complete eoples of The Dnily Morning, Evening and Sunday Tce printed during the month of May, 139, was as Tollows: . 2008 2,247 27 34 Total ; Less deductions for unsold and’ rotirned Total sold o 7% circulation.. ... Daily average not *Sunda; 4 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to hefore me and subscribed In my pres- ence this 24 day of June. 1504 (Seal.) N. . FRIL, Notary Publfe. The Commonwealers who are on the way down the Missouri are working their passage from Alpha to Omahae Nebraska republicans should see to it that no man is placed on the ticket this fall whose record has to be defended. The prospect for a fall hay crop Is improv- ing every day. The crop of political candi- dates will be bigger this year than has ever been harvested. Judging from the precedents established this year from our criminal court, forgery Is one of the infant industries that has to be stimulated and protected. Boss Croker is coming back from Ireland to explain his operations in Tammany, but we apprehend that his fatal lapse of memory will not have been refreshed by his Buropean trip. The appeal from Peter drunk to Peter sober always produces a disagrecable shock. The reaction among the democrats who went on a tear over free silver will soon begin to set In. The school board has reserved its annual tusslo over the building inspectorship for the first week in July, s0 as to keep the man who is In and tho men that want to get in on the ragged edgo. Minneapolis is out with a bid for the next national convention of the Republican League clubs. There is nothing small about Minneapolis, to be sure. She is willing to have all the conventions, political, medical and religous. - Chicago republicans have nominated a winning county ticket. The Chicago Mall declares that no political hacks weigh down on the ticket, and not one of the principal nominees was ever a candidate beforo on a city or county ticket. In his recent speech before the silver con- forence Mr. Bryan declared that he who at- tempts to lift himself up by his boot straps will rise a very little distance above the ground. This will bo Mr. Bryan's predica- ment by the time that he gots through with the campaign of '94. Exempting federal judges from paylng their share of the income tax s a very shrewd. move. The constitutionality of the income tax will doubtless be tested In the federal courts, and it might make a differ- ence in the minds of some judges whother their pay Is to be docked by the tax gath- erer or not. Colonel Conger's attempt to scuttle the McKinley boom has proved a rather dismal failure up to date, Judging from the com- ments of the leading Ohlo papers. Mr. Con- ger's efforts in the same direction in Chi- cago have been equally abortive. The trouble with Colonel Conger was that he made his assault at an unseasonable time on McKinley and the tarift. The moral to be gathered from his experience Is that it is altegether too caMy at this time to begin the backeapping of presidential candidatos. The practice In vogue in our Board of Fd- ucation to have the secretary cast the unani- mous vote of the members present for the teachers and Janitors recommended by the committees smacks too much of the packed caucus. Members of the Board of Education should not shirk individual responsibility any more than members of legislatures or coun- cllmen when called upon to pass upon any measure or appolatment. In common par- lance, every tub should stand on its own bottom. Every member should cast his own vote and have It recorded, so the people may know Just where he does stand. Voting at wholesalo may expedite business, but the practice Is just as perniclous as would be votlng for an omnibus bill into which jobs and steals are thrown promiscuously in order to catch all the Interests and harmonizo all the jobbers. A conference of promiuent southern men was held a few days ago with New York capitalists, the object belng to interest these moneyed men in sothern enterprises and in- duce them to invest In that section. Secre- tary Hoke Smith, who attended the confer- ence, sald to a reporter that the condition of the cotton industry Is an obfeet lesson to the rest of the country. Labor is quiet and factorles are running and declaring regular dividends. “In Augusta and Atlanta, to my personal knowledge,” sald Secrotary Smith, “none of the factorles have closed during the depression of the past few months.” He stated that living and labor are cheap all through the south, good agri- cultural land can be purchased for $5 an acre, and he confidently looked for an era ot great prosperity. The active efforts that are belng made to promote immigration and to induce capital to invest in the south can- not fail to be productive of good results, but they will be less frultful than would be the [ sight. ASSASNINATION OF PRESIDENT CARNOT. The announcement of the assassination of President Carnot will create profound sorrow and Indignation among the friends of the French ropublic th every part of the elvitized globe. It is a terrible blow to the republic and a menace to democratic institutions, not only In France, but which popular self-government has been os- tablished. In assassinating the head of the French republic the anarchists have Invoked “The empire means peace’” was Louls Napoleon's in every country in the re-establishment of imperialism. motto, and all the royalists and imperialists of France will re-echo the utterance of the man who overthrew the second republic by the dastardly coup d'etat of December, 1852. That the loyal, patriotic and lberty-loving citizens of France will not give up the re- public without a herolc struggle goes with- out saying, but the recent anarchistic up- rising indicates a condition of affairs that may require drastic measures and a great deal of blood letting. With the meager reports so far received it would be uscless to indulge in any specu- lation as to the political consequences or the extent of the conspiracy of which President Carnot is the vietim. It may turn out that the assassin is another Guiteau, dominated by a mania for notoriety and inspired by the crazy motion that it was his mission to rid the people of France of a despotic ruler. In that case the stability of the republic would not be shaken, although Frenchmen are prone to revolutionary demonstrations on very slight provocation. The American people, more, perhaps, than those of any other fricndly nation, sympathize with the people of France in their ordeal and bereavement. BREAKERS AHEAD. The National League of Republican Clubs will hold its annual convention in Denver tomorrow. The gathering will include many representative republicans from all parts of the country and its proceedings will attract widespread attention. Some of these leaders expect the convention not merely to formu- late the plan of campaign for the impending congressional elections, but also to make the alignment for the presidential campaign of 1896, Thoughtful republicans cannot fail to seo breakers ahead which are liable to jeop- ardize the party’s success when victory is in At no time In its history has the re- publican party been in better position for a triumphant resumption of the reins of gov- ernment than it is today. It can win the fight on the two great national Issues of honest money and protection for Amerlcan industries, with ono arm tled down. Any attempt to change position on these issues will be fraught with disastrous consequences. The advocates of free coipage, expecting to profit by the popular sentiment of Colo- rado, propose to make a desperate effort to have their pet financlal nostrum endorsed by the Republican League. They will en- deavor to have a resolution adopted that will endorse unlimited free coinage at the existing ratio, or, failing in that effort, will try to have the party committed to the free coinage of the silver product of the United States, coupled with the absurd policy of .a discriminating tariff. The endorsement of either of these propositions in the face of present conditions would be sulcidal. The republican party s the only party today that has planted itself firmly against a de- based currency in any form and against all experiments that tend to Mexicanize our money medium. The Denver convention has no right to vary ome iota from the declaration embodied in the Minncapolis platform. That platform must remain the creed of the republican party until an authoritative declaration of principles s made by another national convention. It the League can make a creed on money for the republican party in Denver this year the League will have the right to change that creed again at Its next year's mecting. The advocates of free coinage cannot truth- tully charge that the silver states were not tully represented at Minneapolis in '92, and they will hardly dare assert that the con- ditions of today are more favorable to a restoration of the old ratio, either alone or by national agreement, than they were two years ago. Bvery silver state and every territory, Including Alaska, had an equal vote in the committee that framed the Minneapolis platform with New York, Massa- chusetts or Illinols. The money plank at Minneapolis' was as favorable to silver as the party could afford to formulate without surrendering to flatism and silver mono- metallism, It may be difficult to reconcile the position the party has taken in its na- tional platform with the demands and pledges of republicans west of the Rockies, but the party cannot afford to stultify itselt by playing tast and loose on an lssue that so vitally concerns the well-being of the American people. THE BANKS AND THE GOLD RESERVE. The bankers®of New York have decided on a policy regarding the gold reserve which is highly creditable to them. They propose to stand between the treasury and further depletion of the reserve. The treasury gold fund has now reached its lowest polnt and exports of gold continue. It is estimated that the demands for the mext thirty days will reach $15,000,000, to cover payments of dividends and interest on foreign holdings of American securities. Then wheat and cotton shipments will, it is expected, turn the gold tide. The banks of New York City are sald to hold $98,000,000 in gold, so that they can spare the gold that will be de- manded for export in the coming month and still be strong In their stock of specle. Meanwhile the treasury reserve will grow by natural accretion and from that time It Is expected that trade will sustain it without bolstering by outside At the meeting of the bankers which de- clded upon this course it was sald that It the treasury reserve should fall to $50,000,- 000 no one could’ foresee how serious might be the consequences. It was also said that 1t i to the interest of the banks that there should be no new issue of bonds, because that would certainly affect injuriously the quotations for the former issue, which would be unfalr to the subscrit to that issue. There was no agreement as to concerted action among theé*banks to supply gold ex- port demands for any given period or in any stated amount, but simply a general understanding that each bank should decide for ftselt what it ought to do and that, all together, the banks should furnish the rellet demanded. The adoption of this eourse Is important and timely. Perhaps it should assistance. gase If there were different soclal and politi- cal conditions (n that section. The south, however, notwithstanding this drawback, has had & vigorous material growth during the Jast fiftoen years. have come earlier, but that is no matter, since 1t is in ample timo to relleve the treasury from a most embarrassing situation and to avert another issue of bonds. It 18 a commendable departure which will cause the publie to think somewhat botter of the New York bankers. The ten- aclty with which these bankers have held on to their gold when the yellow metal was going out of the country In large volume and the treasury reserve was steadily dwin- dling away created a popular feeling not at all friendly to them. Thelr course hitherto in giving legal tender paper only where gold was required by customers, compelling the latter to go to the subtreasury and exchange the paper for gold, scemed an extremely seifish and unpatriotic policy. This was the course putsued a year ago and again last winter and spring, giving rise to a popular impression that the purpose of the banks was to force the government to lssue bonds In order to replenish its gold resorve, It seemed, until the dectsion to provide gold for export was reached, that they were still indisposed to do anything to protect the treasury, but while they have made a some- what late manifestation of a desire to relieve the situation it is only fair that they be glven the credit due, The proposed course of the New York banks will be reassuring. The treasury gold reserve will not experience any further de- pletion, but, on the contrary, should begin to gain, and may within the next four months be fully restored. Indeed it is quite certain to be in less time If the new tarift shall go into effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, for then there would doubt- less be an immense rush of imports. There will be no need of issuing more bonds and that question can be dismissed wholly from considaration. Thus this simple action of the New York bankers will have far-reach- ing effects and will do much good. THE SILVER DELUSION, According to the Atlanta Constitution we need more silver and plenty of it. Certainly we do and we also need something to get the silver with. But, joking aside, why is there need of more silver coinage in a coun- try that has nearly four hundrsd mlillion of coined silver dollars laying dead In the na- tional treasury? If there is such a demand for silver dollars as a circulating medium why In the name of common sense do not the people draw It out of the treasury in place of paper currency and gold coin? Is not the treasury more than anxious to unload the silver coin now in its vaults and even pay for its delivery if somebody will take it off its hands? As a matter of fact the peo- ple do not caré a straw for more silver coiu. They are willing to take paper that is re- deemable In elther gold or silver on demand. To coin more silver dollars at this Juncture, when the country is clogged with silver coin, would simply be a waste of energy. Another question that would naturally suggest itself is, what should Uncle Sam buy the silver with when he Is short of ready cash? Should Ne stamp some more paper money? If so, what would the people gain? Would it not be more sensible to let the bullion alone and print greenbacks as fast as more money Is wanted? Our free coinage delusfonists would doubtless reply that Uncle Sam need not buy another dollar of bullion if he will coin the silver bullion which the mine owners will present at the mint. But suppose Uncle Sam should be so accommadating as to stamp one dollar on every sixty cents worth of bullion, who would redeem these dollars and with what? If they were redeemable in paper we would land at the old flat mill and nobody would want his bullion colned. It these silver dollars were redeemable in gold there would be a rush to the mint and every dollar in gold would be hauled out of the treasury within less than a week. And then the silver dollars would cease to be worth any more than their commereclal value in bullion, just as the Mexican silver dollars aro at this time, At that stage the bottom of the silver craze would drop out and the fools who want to make bricks without straw would begin to open their eyes like nine day Kkittens. THE REIGN OF SECTIONALISM. Northern democrats are beginning to ad- mit, what they must long since have real- ized, that the spirit of sectarlanism Is as prevalent at this time in the south as it has ever been, and that it dictates the course of the representatives In congress from that section. A democratic member of congress from the north is quoted as having sald recently that it seemed to him from what he had seen in the present congress that the democrats of the north have had the sectoinal Issue forced on them again by the south. He had heard southern members say that the people of the north ought to pay all the pensions. Cleveland's most grievous mistake, sald this congressman, has been his coddling of these southern men, and yet he has hardly one sincere friend among them. “We may need a re- allgnment of partles,” sald this congress- man. “The republicans and the intelligent democrats of the north are not very far apart on financlal questions, and they stand together in opposition to the rank soclallsm that is burrowing Into the democratlc party. We may be compelled to strike hands for a common cause, and if we are it will be as formidable a coalition as was that occa- sioned by the patriotic outburst of 1861. There are other northern democrats In con- gress who cntertain similar sentiment No one has been more frank and fearless in exposing the spirit of sectionallsm that dominates the southern men in congress than Senator Hill of New York. In his late speech against the Income tax he declared that this proposed tax, the indlvidual feature of which had not been recommended by any democratic president or secretary of the treasury or commlissioner of internal revenue, was suggested, advocated and persistently pushed by a majority which is temporarily “in the saddle” In this congress “and is driving the democratic party with reckless and headlong speed into the abyss of politi- cal ruin.” These men admit, sald Senator Hill, that such an Income tax will affeot their own people but little, They have taken pains to fix the exemption high enough so that thelr states will be required to con- tribute little or nothing. They desire a federal Income tax, not to reach the men of wealth In their own states, but to reach those in other states. The tariff bill, from beginning to end, shows evidence of section- alism. Whatever the south 1s most inte ested in is treated with generous considera- tion. The senate measure is not so bad as was the howse bill in. discriminating against northern interests, but it Is far from being liberal to any of these interests. The con- trast between the treatment of cotton and wool s one illustration. Another fs subject- ing the farmers along our northern border to the almost unrestrioted competition in our own markets of the Canadian farmers. The house bill proposed to remove all restric- tion to this competition tn the form of dutfes. The senate bill provides for dutles on a few agricultural products, but they are too low to afford any real protection, and Canadian producers, with thelr cheaper land and labor, will send thelr products into American markets in almost as great quan- tities as If there were no duties at all. That & great many northern democrats fully understand the sectional animus which 18 80 obvions fn UB¥hostility ot southern | men to pensions, in,the propused Income tax, and in the diserimpatipn against northern interests in the tariff bill, !s Indieated In the results of elect®fi# 'eld since the char- acter of the demoergtjg polioy beeame known, and there can be no doubt that it will be Indfcated still more #frongly in the elections to come. The great, hody of intelligent and conservative northern democrats will rebuke at the ballot box the: spirit of sectionalism that now dominate/thd party. When the Ketcham furniture contract was being enginesred through the council The Bee made vigorous war, ggainst its supporters on the ground thatlt. tvas a rank plece of Jobbery. During th¢ protracted fight made against the Infamous deal fts supporters made indignant denfals of the charges of boodlerism. Bach of them for himselt and for all the others disclatmed any Improper influence and denounced the charges of cor- ruption as a maliclous fabrication. And now an African has emerged from the wood pile, In a suit brought by an Omaha bank against the Keteham Furniture company, which has gono Into the hands of a recelver, it has leaked out that the agent of the company claims to have expended $5,000 in securing the Omaha city hall furniture contract. How did he spend that $5,0007 Was it simply in dining and wining the council and procuring refreshments at unseasonable hours in unlicensed Does it warrant the inference that the greater part of the $5,000 of the boodle was distributed Judiciously where it would do the most good? members of resorts? not informed opinion at Washington the senate tariff bill will not be through the house when It reaches that body. It is said that the reccption of the changes from the house bill promises to be the reverse of friendly, and this is especlally true of the amendments that have stripped the proposed free list of all raw materials except wool and framed a sugar schedule for tho benefit of the trust. A number of house democrats are outspoken in their denunciation of the sugar schedule and declare their determination to make a fight against it. It Is said that at least three members of the ways and means committee are bitterly opposed to the sen- ate's arrangement regarding sugar, but it is suggested that the administration may bring such a pressure to bear upon this opposition as to induce It to accept the bill as it is. Still the prospect seems to be good for a very protty fight in the house before the tariff bill is disposed of. The best 1s that rushed senate Abraham Lincoln received a salary of $25,- 000 a year in flat currency for his services president of the United States. Grover Cleve- land recelves $50,000 a year in gold or in currency convertible Into gold. Abraham Lincoln was obliged to pay an income tax. Grover Cleveland is to be exempted from tho income tax. Comment § superfluous. Congress Is Nét fiymg to Plenses Globg-Democrat. The most acceptable Fourth of July pres- ent which congress could make the country would be the placitig of the tarift bill in the hands of the president before that date. Popullstic Extravagance. Chieago' Record, Senator Peffer says that he has no more respect for the demnodratic platform than the democratic senators themselves have. But can he prove.this, somewhat sweeping and extravagant assertion? The Rainy Day Pl Chieago, Herald. The anthracite coal operators have good big stocks “hived=1n-convenient places, and as might have been expected we are al ready hearing of “discontent” and im- pending strikes among the miners. = The hituminous crowd are not to have a mono poly of robbing the public under the pre- text of a miners’ strike, The Success of Arbitration. New York Post. Arbitration has been successfully em- ployed in the settiement of troubles be- tween the management and the employes of the Mobile & Ohio railroad. The com- pany found it necessary last spring to re- duco expenses, and proposed to cut down the pay of its men 8 per cent. The enginecrs agreed to such a reduction for four months, and a similar cut-down for a somewhat longer perlod was accepted by the firemen and other employes on the divisions south of the Ohio river; but all of the emploves forth of that river, except the engineers, refused these terms. In- stead of striking, however, the men agreed that both sides should submit their cases to a committee of arbitration, composed of the lieutenant governor of Illinois, the president of the St. Louls Merchants ex- change and a clergyman residing on the line of the road, with an agreement that they would abide by their decision. The committee gave a hearing and unanimousl decided that a 4 per cent reduction ail around until the 1st of October would be the falr thing. As the dispute concerned only the wages of employes (except en- gineers) north of the Ohlo river, the de- cision applied simply to this section; but the management agreed to extend its ben- efits to the men séuth of the river and re- store them hereafter half of the 8 per cent reduction which they accepted last spring, There seems to have been no “hitch” about the proceedings from first to last, and the success of arbitration in this case ought to ot a precedent for the settlement of all controversies on this line in the future. A Kducatlon of the Indians, ‘Washington Star, If Thomas Brackett Reed had been a student of Indian affairs all his lifetime and had made a speclalty of Indlan edu- cation he could not have pounded the edu- cational nafl more squarely on the head than he did in his recent speech on Indian chools. Remarkably sound was his re- ply to Representative Coombs, who asked him what he thought of the education of Tndians in eastern schools to send back to teach thelr own tribe. Mr. Reed said that his experlence about teachers had been that there might be such a thing as the dvereducation of teachers, and it was his impression that the very best scholars o by no means the best teachers. MF. Reed's judgment coincides precisely with the Indian experience of Captain J. M, Lee of the Ninth United States infantry, who probably knows as much about the red man as any other human being on the face of the earth. In discussing the subject with a representative of the Star during the last Sloux campaign, Captain Lee sald: “I want every young Indian th be educated, but the knowledge we feed to him ought to have a commerclal value. The Indian who,qan correctly state the boundaries of Kgmschatka has no show whatever nlunush@" of his brother who has no book learning but! who can intelligently earn $10. Classical education for_Indians is simply expengiwe nonsense. When I was in charge of the Cheyenne and Arap- ahoe agency I had ‘a teacher there who Would spell the same word fifteen ways on one page of a letter, but he educated more Indians than any ether teacher I ever saw. He taught the boxs what a yard was, and made them understand - the welght ‘of a ound and the valug of a dollar. Rvery hoy in_ his school fowned from ten to twenty hewd of catue atter studying undor him for five yeais. . That is the wort ot an education the, Indian needs.”” It con- gressmen would ‘only be less Intent on matters political i’ connection with the Indian service ahd would ask for and be uided by the advice of such men as Cap- tain Lee thi Indiun problem weuld be very much less dlflluuiE of solution than it now s | ment POLITICAL POTPOURRE Fairfiold News-Herald: governor Jack MacColl seems to have the lead, But nobody should think for a mo- that Tom Majors Is sleeping. The so-called silver confer- ence at Omaha proved to be a meeting for the purpose of greasing the track over which bold Billy Bryan expects to siide into the senate. Wood River Guzette: The republican con- gressional convention for this district will be held at McCook, August 9, and It s a3 good as settled that W. E. Andrews of Hastings will be nominated Wallace Star: Matt Daugherty may not be chosen by the republicans of the Sixth, but the aspirant who beats him in the con- vention will know that he has been mixed up in a very animated contest West Point Republican: It the’ newspaper comments are any criterfon, Tom Majors will not have a corporal’s guard of delegates for governor at the state convention. The gereral sentiment of the press 18 that new men should be put to the front Holdrege Citizen: It now looks as If it would certainly be Andrews and McKelghan in the congressional ring again this fall. After the severo drubbing he got two years ago it Is not at all probable that McKelghan will caro to have any debates this fall. Fairfield News-Herald: Somo flend in human form has started the story that Jack MacColl was conveniently -in_Canada while the war raged. So he was. When the war broke out he was 11 or 12 years of age and Canada was his home. True, he should have ridden bfs hobby horse over to this eountry and taken General Grant’s place, but his parents needed him to work in the garden. Kearney Sun: Of cou Brother Green hasn’t abandoned the idea of organizing his cavalry company, 500 strong, for the pur- pose of reviving waning populism in Ne- braska; the scheme i just sleeping. True, if he 1t nominated for congress, he might let it slecp, But the question that bothers him most §s how to wake up his congres- sional booom. It seems to have dropped out of sight too. Holdrege Citizen: The first duty for the republicans to do Is to nominate the best men possible for the various offices this fall The next is for every republican to pull off his coat and work for their election from the day they are nominated till the votes are coutned. The election this fall should be a republican land slide which should bury popism so deep that it can never be reaur- rected with its unamerican and unpatriotic ideas. Hastings Nebraskan: Lorenzo Crounse has made Nebraska a good governor and there is a mafority of 15,000 of the people of Nebraska who would be pleased to vote for him again, but Mr. Crounse has declined to be a candidate for renomination and his wish In the matter should be considered. There are other republicans in the state who are up to tho requirements and the conven- tion wiil experience no difficulty in selecting a man that will fill the bill. Shelton Clipper: J. T. Mallalieu of Kearney has announced that he is not a candidate for the republican nomination for congress. That leaves the field to Matt Daugherty of Ogalalla and Judge Kinkaid of O'Neill, either one of whom would make an excellent candidate and an equally good congressman. It is regretted by Mr. Malla- liew's friends that he has decided not to make the race, as all were confilent he could be nominated and elected. Tecumseh Chieftain: From a perusal of the newspapers of that section it appears that the republicans of the western part of the state are practlcally unanimous for Hon. Jack MacColl for governor. He has also a considerable following in the eastern coun- ties, and it certainly looks as though he is the strongest candidate in the guberna- torial race. ~However, Hon. Thomas Majors is a smooth politician with a fighting record, and he is to be considered as still in the list of possibilities. Grand Island Independent: Last week the democratic silver convention was opened at Omaha with about 1,500 delegates present. Judge Ong called the convention to order and read a speech, which, with democratic logic, charged that the great financial mis- fortune and business depression of 1893 and 1894 were the necessary consequence of the immense prosperity which thirty years of republican legislation have given our na- tion, -and- that demoerats could not bo ex- pected to avert these evils in a moment. It is an amusing perversion of historical facts, which will not be much of a recommenda- tion to their proposition to coin more 45-cent flat dollars. Hon. W. H. Thompson of this city was made permanent chairman ot the convention. He also had the honor of in- troducing the Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the Nebraska white metal apostle, to "the great convention in the evening. ~Grand Is- land has furnished several chairmen for state conventlons of late, and it is a pleas- ure to see such men recognized. In the race for Kearnoy Sun Prof. Herron's Nonsense. ‘ashington Post. Tt will occur to most people to wonder how Prof. Herron reconciles himself to remaining in lowa college or any other educational establishment, maintained in Whole or in part by soclety. ~ With his of “wages” and his ideas of the ex- lating soclal organization he must be a poor creature If he can consent to an ar- Tangement by which he owes his authority and his livellhood to an institution he pro- fauses to despise and loathe, He must be a traitor to his own convictions, unless, in- deed, he has lied in proclaiming those con- Victions as his own. But there is and can be no doubt as to the duty of college authorities with reference to such a teacher, and Governor Crounse Indicates that duty Very clearly. We do not want our youth misguided by pernicious counsel, oven if we were willing to nourish the enemies of Soclety; and Prof. Herron should be sent %o look for malntenance and sympathy amon the outlaws whose cauge he advo- cates. Let him go with is friends llm! followers and set up that “Christian state’ of which he babbles so abundantly. The ‘American people will adhere to law and order and civilization yet awhlle. st Ll Cause and Effect. Chicago Herald. willlam J. Bryan, chief of the Pralrle Fire and Cycloné Bureau of the I(\‘mnlulll(' league and residuary legatee of Kolus, 18 carrying things too far. His contract 'did not require him to begin operations until Thursday morning, but in his misdirccted enthusiasm he turned loose one of his self- acting tornadoes on Wednesday night and blew a large section of Omaha into the Missouri river. Not only this, but e in- vaded Towa, which is in’the jurisdiction ot Little Typhoon J. B. Weaver, and infringed upon that gentleman's prerogative by scat- Yering numerous barns abroad on the wings of a hurricane. - Mr. Bryan's employcrs Should check his unbridled zeal. If he in allg to waste his wind in this prodigal fashion he will not be able to fan the prairie fires, which are, after all, the main attraction of the show. ————— A Toyal Family Pout. New York Commercial. Kalser Wilhelm I8 hopping mad at his royal grandmother, Queen Victoria, be- cause she euehered’ him_in land grabbing around the Congo Free State. These prop- erty disputes in families are very distres- Sink, and they are especially liable to lead to trouble when it is somebody else's prop- erty that Is to be filched. Still, the petulant kaiser can get even by making faces at Vie, She won't mind it, and it may ease his mind. Anyhow, it appears to be the only resource he has left. fusctlt LBNREE Justice for Rich and Poor. Toston GHlob When a poor man steals a loaf of bread because his children at home are starving the public has & good deal of sympathy for him, but when a n with a salary of $8u,« 000 a year is convicted of being a forger and & thief and Judge Ingraham glves him five years and ' half in Siug Bing the public says tersel; “Serves him right.'” L LR Gluss Works Resume. M'KEESPORT, Pa., June 24.—The Howy ard plate glass works will start tomorrow, giving employment to 800 men, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PEOPLE AND THIN Mr. Tom boom another Boost, of Kentucky jor The color of police harmonizes with the many of the wearers. Belva Lockwood {8 63. She began teach- ing school at 14, was mareied at 18, and wanted to boss the nation at 56 The revised medal of the World's contains a sufficlency of cherublan lettes to avold senatorial discourtesy. As commander-in-chief of the Common- weal army, General Coxey imperils the per- petuity of his gab by riding n a Pullman The House of Lords has again _rejected the deceased wife's ister bill. The little prospect for payment unless the extravagance is cut down Pantata Is a short and expressive ter timely substitute for the clumsy, phase, “Is there anything in it?" tomizes a political hand-out Havemeyer says the Sugar trust never contributes to the minority. This actounts for the diligence of the democracy in ox- tracting all the sweetness now. When Senator Allen delicately invited the gentloman of New Hampshire to “come out- Ide' he doubtless intended to give him a w impressive tips on base hits. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has gone to his summer home at Beverly Farms, Mass, under injunction of his physiclan, to keep quiet and beware of casual visitors. A pale amber statesman named Pabst is spoken of as the probable eandidate for gov- ernor of Wisconsin, He commands a mil- lion or two, as well as other stimulating qualities for a campaign, and the boys only walt the word to beer the nominee to vie- tory. A learned Parisian physician, Dr. Fauve, contends that the odor of flowers has a harmful effect on the voic and thinks that the presentation of bouquets to theatrlcal artists should therefore be dizcontinued Such reform might reduce the expenses of a few enterprising prima donnas Jo Happy Sing, who counted on the fact that he had been conducting a_ prosperous barber and laundry business for twenty- three years in lowa to exempt him from the operation of the Geary law, was the first Chinaman outside of California to be started for China under its operations. He was sent from Cedar Raplds. Sam Houston's grave In the littie come- tery at Huntsville, Tex., is in so shabby a condition of neglect as to excite regrot on tho part of many Texans. There have been propositions before the legislature to rem: the patriot's remains to Austin, the state capltal, and to erect a monument over them, but nothing definate has ever been done. Marfan Phelps von Rottenberg, the only daughter of William Walter Phelps, has been a great companfon to her father and presided over his grand house in Berlin, in the absence of her mother, while he was the United States minister ‘there. She is a large and striking looking young woman and the possessor of much strength of char- acter. Her husband, to whom she was mar- rled last year, is a rising man in the foreign office of the German empire and will prob- ably become one of the emperor's cabinet officers in due time. e SO PUNGENT BR Reed has given his presidential He has donned a suit uniforms in mental Omaha condition of falr panta- on ES. Youth's Companion: one doctor lately aske “How do you manug pafa?” “Oh, T generally have to sue the heirs!” answered the second doctor. It is recorded that another: to get your bills Tndlanapolis Journal: Aw, what o lot of farmers! Sccond Bleacher—Farmers nuttin’. Dem guys Is tryin’ to play ball cause dey ain't 1it for nuttin’ else. First Bleacher— Truth: Jasper—Women who are divinely tall are usually vain of their beauty and spend lots of money on clothes. Jumpuppe. , they keep their husbands profanely short. Tnter Ocean: “T wonder {f it's really true that fish I8 a brain food?" “Well, I'm sure they have some effect, for every time my husband goes fishing he comes home too dizzy to stand up.” Wimbleby becanse calls his he doesn't Boston Transcript dog “Non Sequitur” follow. Chicago Tribune: “Have you got any eggs that'll do to t'row at a” ham actor?” asked the business-like urchin with a L ket and a bad eye. “Why, yes,” said the grocer, leading the vay to'a barrel In a back room, “I think we have a—phew!" Puck: Gradd—I hear you have a full- blooded Indian In class '06. How does e do? Softmore_(enthusiastically)~Do? He's out of sight! You just ought to hear him give the class cry! Washington Star: “She has become quite a butterfly of fashion,” said one girl. “Positively dozzling,” replied the other. “And yet her father started as a small corner grocer.” “Yes. You know we learned at school that it takea the grub to make the butter- Yo MAN'S LOVE. Madeline §. Dridges He begs me to marry him, here and now; He frets at a week's delay, When he plotures the joy that will crown his brow From the date of the wedding day. He's quite convinced I can fill to the brink His life with bliss; but, you see, 1It_never occurs to the man to think If the bliss will be shared by me. PN A SRS 50 O ST S SRR S MR 1.0 - THE LATE MR, PRELPS Chicago Horald: Mr. Phelps was never opular’” man as James G. Blaine was, He was aristocratie by birth, breeding and edus eation. But he was porsonally and politieally honest, and his death Is a loss in theso days when such qualitios appear to be growing rare in public men Wilwaukee Wisconsin: Phelps, while overywhere moving in the best soclety, never forgot that he was an Amerlcan citizen and a republican whose duty it was never to cover up the shortcomings of any man, ne matter how eminent, who faltered during the slaveholders' rebellion. Philadelphia Ledger He was publie spirited, zealous and cultured, and ussd his great opportunities for the benefit of his country In congress and as minister to Gers many. Though a relatively young man, he has made a good name for himself here i In Eorope and his death will be widely mourned ow York Horald: As minister to Austria, as commissioner to the Samoan conference, as a reprosentative of New Jersey in the Nouse, and notably as minister to Germany, he mido & most excellent public record, and his recent appointment as lay judgoe upon his practical rotironent from political life was warmly approved by republicans and democrats allke as a mark of the esteom Ih which he was held, personaily, by his polies feal associatos and opponents. Kansas City Star: Among those who were most familiar with him, the sorrow whieh lias been caused by the death of Willlam Walter Phelps will be softened by the knowls edge that the grave was invested with no horrora for this notablo man. Possessed of abundant wealth, rich In those accomplishs ments which, under ordinary conditions, ronder an ample fortune a thing to be de- sired, life was to Mr. Phelps little moro than a Barmeclde foast. Almost from boyhood He was the vietim of ill health. ow York Sun: The Intonse and genulne Americanism — which characterized him throughout his useful life was perhaps the secrot of his friendship and profound admir- ation for and smpathy with that most Amer- fean of our recent statosmen, Jamos O, Blaine. Mr. Phelps unaffectedly regarded public office as a public trust; and whether e was serving his or his state In the more conspleuous more modest station, the principle of his activity was the same. He was an honorable, clear-hoaded, high-minded man; and by his untimely death “ho nation has lost a good eitizen. Courfer-Journal: His appointment to one of the lay judgeships immediately on his r turn from his last mission to Germany by a demoeratic governor, and its prompt con- firmation by a democratic logislature, ate tested the esteem in which he was held at home. In accomplishments he was easily the first citizen of New Jorsoy. Had he lived a yet greater future surely lay before him; but his carcer, oven as his premature death leaves it, sots to ambitious young Americans a lesson at once useful and e spiring, for it tells only of obstacles overs come by steady and sturdy purpose, and of victories achieved against odds without a blot blomish. Thore were men more_ nolsily able in our publi¢ affairs than Willlam Walter Phelps, none of more sterling worth, of more commanding talents or of purer lite. prietb st The Armor Plate § L Now York World. Upon a minute examination of the ree- ords made in the Carnegie shops the Cume mings committee finds that no Iess than 5§ per cent of the armor plate work done thero was fraudulent and that the frauds were committed deliberately and under an elaborately devised system. The only pos- sible Inference {8 thit from the beginning the government has been made tho vietim habitual, continuous, premeditated and ystematized swindling. " Tt is impossible to doubt that the contracts were undertaken rom the outset with the design of cheating the government to the fullest extent sible. With these facts proved, it is hardly worth while for the committes to do any- thing more than certify the facts to the attorney general in order that the swindlers may be prosecuted and punished If the com- mittee can get any assurance that Mr. Olney will employ honest associate counsel to conduct the prosecutions. The jails yawn for these felons. Muking Ame: St. Louls Republic, General Grant's daughter, Nellle Sar- toris, is about to do what she shovld have done’ at first—marry an American. Nelllo Grant was always too good for the brute of an Bnglishman who won her, and many. an American felt régret when the daughter of a great gencral and a pr the United States turned her face over the sea for a life partner. But it is never too late to mend. Nollle Grant—let us drop the Sartorls now—will forfeit a good deal of Inglish money by taking this step, but she will get that which is many diameters better, an American for a husband. — PHILOSOPHY AND HEAT. Washington Star. Sing Inn, as you will, with your message of nope, Fond bird, from your perch of palmetto, While the light, waving grasses Keep time on the slope To your scherzo or stald allegretto, When first the rare beauty of summer ex- pands Man feels like a saint or & hero, But it's different, quite, when the mercury stands At ninety degrees above zero, Sing _on! and promise—most faith- tully, too- To thoughtfully gaze upon beauty, With a glance now and then at the good and the true And occasional glimpses at duty; But, alas! conscience binds us with delloats strands, And a_man will oft act like a Nero, In spite of himself, when the mercury stands At ninety degrees above zero, we'll Going to the bottom Going to the BottonN) —————— in price now--going to take inventory next week —your last chance to get suits for $7.50 and $8.50—worth lots muore. Boys' suits $2.50—$3—worth 50 per cent more— stilts given away to boys in boys' department— See thre $4.50 combination suit with another pair of pants and cap to match. Browning, King & Eo_Q W. Corner 15th and Douglas.”