Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1894, Page 4

p OMAHA THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. e— e ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED © TERME OF 8U My Bee (without Sunday) On: \ly Tiee and Sunday, One Year x Montha . ree Monthe inday fie, ON tarday Tioe, On Veokly one nakia, The Te uth Omnha, C ounell DiufT o ot ANl communications relating to forial matter should be addrossed BUSINESS LETTE AR business letters and remittur axed to The Hee Publishing com e Drafts, checks and postoffice ordors de payabi the order of the eompany TH PUBLISHING COMPANY VERY MORNING. RIPTION, yoar. snty-fourth S Tribune DI0E ind edi- Editor. the s arould be R BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, huck, secretary of The Tive Pub. beinie duly wworn, aye thit of gull and completa copies ning, Kyver and_sunday e the month ine, 1901, was as 1ishing the_actnal num of The Dally M gripted aurin ollows: i 21648 61 167 98, 163 rotur fuctions for unsold and wold ge net cireulation,. n ubseribed In my pres- 1591 FEIL, Notary Public, Great bodies move slowly. That accounts for Buclid Martin's delayed call for the dem- ocratic state committee meeting. Press and pulpit to be vying with each other to see which can get the greater number of texts out of the strike. seem Woman suffrage Is not conduclve to party harmony. Compare the experience of the Kansas populists with their female political agitators. Mr. Rheem won't suffer from his failure to collect his salary as acting city electrician #0 long as his salary as manager of the District Telegraph is regularly paid. It the temperature continues as moderate for the balance of the season, people who have gone away from On for the sea- shore and mountain resorts will feel like kicking themselves when they get back. would Goubtless have Alexander Hamilton Our local Dogberry refused to naturalize and Albert Gallatin for not satisfactorily running the gauntlet of his constitutional catechism had he only had the chance. The ward heelers who hope to be judges and clerks at the primary etections feel bet- tor now that the county republican commit- tee has broken its silence. The unemployed have something they can look forward to with longing eyes. Only twenty-thr ndidates have filed ap- _plicatiens for the vacancy on the Board of Public Works. Alphabeticaliy arranged the list begins with Anderson and ends with Yrak. There is still an opportunity for somebody whose name begins with a Z. It the strike had only continued for a few weeks longer, the rank and file of the various labor organizations might have dis- covered the true po:ition of all the labor leaders. As it is, a few of them have been found out. A new deal all around may be expected when these organizations next elect thelr officers. the president of a great railway company would resort ‘to stage methods of advertising. Yet the church episode of Marvin Hughitt reads very much like a similar entertainment in- dulged in not so long ago by the late Emma Abbott. A church is not generally consid- ered to be the proper place for a spectacular Aisplay of this variety. ‘We didn't suppose For a hard times year the Christian En- deavor assemblage at Cleveland has proved a most flattering succe:s. Had circumstances been more favorable to a summer conven- tion Cleveland would have had her hands more than full with the entertainment of the visitors. The Endeavorers show their devotion to their soclety by giving its an- nual meetings as full an attendance as pos- #.ble. With storage charges at 5 cents a gallon per year and remission of taxation on all Mlquor lost by evaporation, the Whisky trust would be satisfied to have the bonded period extended ad infinitum. It is reasonably cer- tain that no changes will be made in the whisky schedule as agreed to by the senate without the trust's comsent. The trust Is doubtless the prime mover of the latest proposed change and the trust is sure to get the best of the bargain in case the con- ferees adopt it. A serles of twenty-five books costing over $10,000,000, or an average of $400,000 per volume, must be considered rather ex- pensive literature. Yet ‘that is what the eleventh census is to cost the people of the United States. No such stupendous work eould ever be gotten out by privato enter- prise, for the obvious reason that it would sink several fortunes for the By keoping the cost constantly in mind, people using the census volumes may se- oure an adequate appreciation of the privi legos they are therein enjoying. publishers. Omaha s enumerated as one of the par. tles Interested In a suit Jjust instituted 0 New York against A, L. par ber and the Barber Asphalt company to recover damages for the infringement of a patent sald to be held by General Averill, a former business assoclate of Mr. Barber. [t 18 claimed that the Barber company has been manipulated 50 as to keep the inventor of this patent out of his due share of the profits and that only now when the original Ameri can Asphalt company has been thrown into the hands of a receiver has he found hi t in a position to attempt to enforce his rights In the courts. it the as * phalt pavement lald by the Barber company Is so declded, Involves the labllity of all the cities In which that kind of pavement Is In use, and this first suit prove successful It will doubtless be followed others in which different named as defendants. Each city would then have o look to the contractors and thelr bondsmen for Indemnification for any Judg. ment that may be rendered against it. The fmportance of the litigation can scarcely be waderestimated. The infringement should by the clties a ANOTHER FREE SILVER SCHEME. That the more-money men in congross will never be matisfied with anythiug less than a dopreciated currency, that they constantly keep the emergency of a depreciatod rency in mind is practicaliy admitted by the bill to modify the law of legal tender intro- Mr. Lano of Illinois and just agreed the house Judiclary Mr. me all ent our- duced to b Lane's contracts hereafter committee. werely provides that xocuted for the p of any sum of moiey, whether in gold, silver may be discharged by any money which s by law a legal tender for the pay- of debts. The 1s to prevent courts from entering judgiments upon con- tracts that call for payment in gold, or in coin, and to extend the law of legal tender to in which specifie stip rted calling for a ney. The hat all money should suro or ment purpose private transactions fons have been fr kind of m rgument Is advanced be equal whether in public or private that individu ainst on presumably particular plausibi agr not of and ments, be able to discrim the nation's money, silver certificate So far as past contracts are concerned the nal guarantee against the Impair- of their obligation effectually secures the effect of legislation of this Contracts already exccuted calling for be tampered with by islation. There may even be 0 privat Ay ate a part silver constitu ment them from kind. gold congi payment pssional le doubt as to the competency of con- to insist that all future contracts to be discharged by a payment in money shall be discharged by offer of legal tenders, the powers delegated to congress not includ- ing any power to regulate the conditions upon which contracts may be ma The several ventured to declare contracts upon certain subjects either vold or voidable and might pass laws to make the gold clause nugatory, but the constitution- ality of a congressional act embodying the provisions would bo serlously ques- cannot gross states have perhaps same tioned. There Is, of course, no urgency for legis- lation of this character, because so long as all of different kinds of currency are freely interconvertible and receivable at the same value, there I8 no hardship in having a judgment against a person for gold or for coin rather than for currency. But imagine for a moment the transition to a silver basis contemplated by the advocates of the free coinage of silver at the old ratio of 16 to 1 to have taken place and such a law would become of the utmost importance. It would force the silver standard upon individual debtors and creditors whether they wished to adopt it or not. The cheapest money in the market, or, in other words, the most de- preciated money to be had, would become the universal legal tender to the exclusion of all other kinds of money. Maintain the parity of the gold, silver and paper currency of the United States and this law would® have no effect whatever. Let silver depreciate one lota, however, and this law would drive it still lower and force the country to a silver by It is not for the present that it has been introduced, but for the possibilities of the future. It might lie unobserved on the statute book for years, to suddenly spring into life at the first threat of a depreciation in our currency. It will be far better to throttle such a pernicious bill before it makes further progress. SOUTHERN WAR CLAIMS. There is a mass of southern war claims pending in the house of representatives, the allowance of all of which would about bank- rupt the treasury. The calendar is loaded down with bills reported from committees to pay the claims of alleged loyal men who lived within the confederate lines during the war and whose property was destroyed or taken by the union army. Last week a measure was brought up which combined a large number of these claims for reference to the court of claims. This, it is said, is a trick of the supporters of these claims. The members who are behina them assert that all they ask is that the claims be re- ferred to the court, which under the law is obliged to pass on claims according to the evidence presented to it. The court may be satisfied that the crafm s a fraudu- lent one, as many of them unquestionably are, but if evidence is produced to show that the claimant s loyal, then the court has got to accept that evidence. The ad- vantage is clearly with the claimants, for it is so long since the war that it is diffi- cult In some cases, and in most of them im- possible, for the government to prove the disloyalty of claimants, many of whom are making claims as heirs of persons now dead. However diligent tha attorneys for the government may be they cannot in a great many cases get testimony at this late dato to disprove that brought forward by the claimants, who generally can afford to pay well for the testimony they require. Referring to the claims presented from a single district in South Carolina, fifty- seven in number, and amounting to some- thing more than $1,600,000, tae Charleston News and Courler sald that there were probably not more than 100 men in the en- tire state outside of the moonshine whisky district during the war who loyal to the unfon. If this is an accurate estimate of the of loyal in South Carolina during the war, more than half of tho unionists In that state must have lived in this one district to make these claims valid. Unquestionably a majority of these claims are made by persons who were not loyal, yet the government may find It im- to prove this. The amount of southern war claims now pending is over $600,000,000, and it is not probable that more than one-third of them have any sufficient warrant, but the chances are that a much larger amount will finally be allowed. It is urged that notwithstanding the undoubted fact that a large proportion of these claims are fraudulent and that the difficulty of the government showing them to be fraudulent year to year, still it is the duty of congress to let the court of claims or some other tribunal sift these claims and adjust the few valld ones. This is a questionable proposition. It is, of course, just and proper that loyal men lving In the south during the war whose property was taken or destroyed by the government should be reimbursed, but there is reason to believe that very few sucn have not al- roady had their claims adjusted, and who have neglected to do so hardly deserve it involves an by people who government, The persons present a just clalm to reim- for of property have had ime in which to do so, and If they have falled to improve the opportunity they to blame. The taxpayers of the must not required to provide money for indefinite for this pur- with the certainty that a considerable proportion of it will be paid to persons who have no just right to it. has been an enormous locrease in the amount of these presented in the present con- gress, showing that the opportunity for gotting recognition is fully apprectated by the people In the south, who can make out our were, proportion men possible Increases from those consideration if raid the not to who interminable on loyal ould bursement treasury the were alone are countr; be an time There alms ® plansible elaim against the government The amount of fraudulent pension dlaime | ts insignificant in comparlson with the fraud connected with these southern war claims. It is time that public sentiment made ftselt heard In this matter, which should not be lost sight of mn the election of the next house of representatives XTRAORDINARY COMPLICATION, The government has an extraordinary in- ternational eomplication on In re- sponse to tho request of Governor Jones of the Choctaw nation, in the Indian Terri tery, troops were sent there for the purpose of expelling certain Intruders among the striking miners, who, it was charged, had committed all kinds of lawless acts. Among these miners are subjects of Great Britsin, Italy and Belgium, and the diplo- ive of each of these coun- tries has protested against the action of the Unf ates in removing these allens from the Indian country. According to Washing- ton dispatches the French ambassador had an interview a few days ago with officials of the Interfor department In reference to this matter, and just before this the British dor had sent to the secretary of state a communication received by him from British subjects in the Iadian Terri- tory, In which it was set forth that. they had violated no law of the United States, and the question asked whether these for- eign subjects could be legally efected, hav- ing violated no law. It was further asked whether the United States is responsible for the property owned by them, whether they had any choice of states to which they might be taken, and whether the states could object to their entrance; also whether they could demand subsistence for thelr familios from the United States during the efection, and whether they, as British sub- jects not willing to go to other states, could lawfully demand passage to England. It is stated that of this Kkind has arisen before, so that the position of the government regarding it establishes a precedent. It seems that the negotiators of the treaty between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations had in view the possibility of trouble from the in- trusion of persons not by birth or adoption members of either nation, and provided against it. There is also a statute which provides that “every foreigner who shall go into the Indian country without a passport from the Depirtment of the Interior or its agents, and who shall intentionally remain there, is liable to a penalty of $1,000.” Under the plain treaty and statutory pro- visions applicable to the case in question the Washington authorities are clearly jus- tified in doing what they have done. They complied, so far as now appears, strictly with the obligations imposed by the treaty between the government and the nations in the Indian Territory, and there can be no doubt that the assertion of the right of the United States under the treaty to eject intruders from the territory, whatever their nationalities, will be sustained. As to the questions propounded by the ejected British subjects, it is pretty safe to say that the answer to them, if any shall be given, will be that the government has nothing what- ever to do with providing for themselves or their families, and that whether they elect to remain in this country or to return to England is a matter about which the govern- ment is not concerned. These people have no legal claim upon the United States for subsistence, and the idea that the govern- ment should undertake their deportation to England or anywhere else is manifestly ab- surd. Such being the case it is not easy to un- derstand upon what grounds the diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium base their protest or how they expect to Justify it. It would seem that there was concerted action be- tween them, so that it must be assumed they were all persuaded tha® there are justi- flable reasons for their action. The matter is not likely to lead to any Impairment of the friendly relations between the United States and the European governments con- corned, but it presents an international in- cident that is Interesting if only for its novel character. m AN E hand France, matic represen ambassa no complication SPEAKERCRISP S SENATORIAL AMBITION Among the press dispatches last week was noticed one announcing that the democrats of the Third Georgia congressional district had unanimously renominated Speaker Charles F. Crisp to represent that district in the Fifty-fourth con- gress. Ordinarlly this would have comparatively little significance. Members. of congress from the southern states are quite generally returned term after term so long as the political complexions of their Qistricts remain unchanged and they con- tinue to give satisfaction to thelr constitu- ents. Speaker Crisp himself made his first appearance in Washington as a member of the house of the Forty-eighth congress and has been successively re-elected to every new congress since then. At the last con- gressional election he received 11,574 votes, as against 4,982 votes‘for his opponent, and his present renomination insures another vic- tory at the next election. The renomination of Speaker Crisp at this moment, however, goes to confirm the report that he harbors considerable doubt as to his ability to secure a promotion to the senate. To make sure of his continuance in the field of national polities he will take a re-election to the lower house of congress and use that as a prop to his senatorial ambition. When, upon the death of Senator Col- quitt a few months ago, Governor Northen tendered Mr. Crisp the appointment for the unexpired term, the latter explained his declination upon the highly patriotic ground that his services were more needed in the house, over which he had been chosen to preside by the majority composed of hls fellow democrats, than in the senate. But his declination was ad- mitted to have been inspired by the conviction that it would strengthen him with the people of Georgla and make sure to him the election to the senate for the full term of six years, beginning March 3, 1895. In fact, it was with the understanding that Speaker Crisp was to be unopposed In his senatorial ambitions that the place which he had refused was glven to Senator Walsh, who has always been a warm political friend of Mr. Crisp and who was expected to step aside and give him a clear field. It now develops that Senator Walsh no longer looks with favor upon this plan. Although he stated at the time he was ap- pointed that he did not intend to be a can- didate for the full term, but would be satis- fled simply to serve until the legislature got together to choose a successor to the late Senator Colquitt, he the such a pleasant place that he does not want to give it up so soon. He ls therefore said to have announced to his intimate friends that he will be a candidate for re-election. Under the precedent that prevails in the south of continuing public men I ofice, he will have the inside track. Furthermore, he Is personally very popular with the people of Georgla, and in his brief senatorial has found senate career he bLas succeeded In dolng & great | denl for his sta government ald fq ‘This means that if into the senato he wiji It makes it look ffs appointment to t also th away hig succeeding it pertieularly in secaring Atlanta exposition, Crisp wants tb get have to fight to do f In throwing away o unexpired he nce for the full term SpYMgr Crisp must be serfously cogitating whether the reward of party loyalty really repays the sacrifice of senatorial am term ow AN OBIECT LESSON FOR OMATA. The recent home Industry banquet at braska City has furnished an object for Omaha. It emphasizes the fact that the conversion of the products of the farm, gar- den and orchard afford the most substantial basis for the prosperous growth of this city. braska City has been rated as a slow- going, conservative town, but she has out- stripped Omaha in the manufacture of cereal products and In the canning of vegetables, which are abundant at doors. Within a radfus of twenty-five miles of Omaha soll is as prolific as it is around Nebraska City, there is enough raw material in the way of grain and garden truck to supply a score of starch mills, oat meal and cracked wheat mills and canning factories. The Morton cereal mills at Nebraska City employ 500 hands and consume 6,000 bushels of grain a nd the aggregate pay roll of Nebraska City's mills and factories chiefly devoted to the products of the .soll exceeded $700,000 last year. As a natural consequence the land values for farming and gardening purposes have been materally enhanced, and farming has been made profitable by creating a home market. The weakest spot In Omaha's industrial armor is a lack of mills and factories that would absord the bulk of the grain and vegetables raised in this vi- cinlty. To that fact is chiefly due the sparse settlement of Douglas county, which can and will support a family on every twenty-acre tract within ten miles of the city and a family on every forty-acre tract within a adius of thirty miles. That alone would double the value of every acre in this and adjoining counties on both sides of the Mis- sourl and more than quadruple the volume of money in circulation among our business men. There is enough raw milling and factory material available in this vicinity to give steady employment to 10,000 hands, and that means an increase of fully 50,000 population, from the Incidental in- se by reason of enlarged trafiic facili- ties and multiplication of home Industries in lines of commodities that must be consumed by the factory and mill hands. 1t the Commercial club and home industry people would emulate the example of Ne- braska City and center their efforts upon the manufacture of cereal products and the establishment of starch factories, flouring mills and canneries instead of seeking to in- duce the location of factories that must im- port their raw material from distant sections of the country, they .would promote the bullding up of home industry on an im- pregnable foundation, esson our very and apart crea There I3 an issug between the govern- ment authorities and the steamship panies regarding the subsistence of immi- grants landed at Ellis islana which prom- ises to have serious consequences for the people coming hers. who cannot afford to provide for themselves while waiting for a decision as to whether they can remain. The food contractorsat Ellis island will not furnish food unless he 1s patd, and the government authorities and steamship com- panies Tefuse to pay; while a great many of the immigrants .are unable to pay. The treasury officials take * the position that steerage tickets are to New York and that the steamship companies must feed pas- sengers until they reach that port. The companies claim that they have complied with their contract when they bring passen- gers into the harbor of New York, and under the direction of the United States govern- ment discharge them at the designated place of inspection. This seems a reasonable con- tention, but it appears probable that the issue will have to be decided in the courts, and in the meanwhile the pour immigrants will suffer. It is unquestionably a very proper provision of the government that steerage immigrants shall be detained for inspection, but when the steamship com- panies have duly complied with the re- quirements of the immigration laws it seems clear that they ought to be relieved from further responsibility:=~ Certainly no more effective way could be found for check- ing immigration than that of subjecting immigrants to the ordeal of being penned up on an island without food, put our demo- cratic officials are quite capable of this sort of economy. com- According to a Washington dispatch the pre:ident has been somewhat annoyed by the persistent attempts to make it appear that he had appointed an investigating com- mission at the request of labor leaders. We see no particular reason why Mr. Cleveland should be especially annoyed by such a re- port. He certainly did mot agree to appoint tho commissioners at the request of the railroad representatives, because they are not at all anxious for an investigation. He may wish it to appear that he has acted upon his own initiative and solely from a desire to get at the truth, but few people will believe that the move was original with him. At all events, the president need not have felt ashamed if he had listened to the suggestions of the labor leaders and bad acted in response to thelr requests, Should the ezar carry out his expressed intention of pardoning a large number of per:ons convicted of political offenses on occasion of the coming wedding of the czare- witch, there will be great lamentations that he cannot have one of his children married every day. His subjects must devoutly pray that his family may be often enlarged in order that the pardoning power may keep tolerable pace with the judgments of the courts upon political offenders, Spectuoulur Philanthropists. Washington Star. Both Mr. Carnegle and Mr. Pullman can furnish testimony to show that a combina tion of business and spectacular philan- thropy Is a very delicate undertaking. Cooling In Hot Weather. Washipgton Post nerve of the Ohio democrats is en- A to considerablé admiration, They are making arrangements to capture a con fonal distrlet that is ordinarily good for 6,000 republican majority. e Good Advie, Philadelphia Press. The advice of The Omaha Bee to the re- publicans of Nebraska to nominate clean, Lapable candidates and not load themselves Qown with men whose unsavory record will call for an apology and explanation has an application outside that state, i aMirming o Trath Jbe-Democrat, It is historically true, as the Minnesota republicans say in thelr platform, that *the Fepublican party took labor from the auc- tion block and made it honorable;' is equally true that the same pa done more to increase wages and pro- mote the general welfare of the working classes than any other that ever exlsted., R DAILY REE: TUBSDAY, | T LY 17, 1901 PROPLE AND THINGS, Senator Call's, vindication goes trooping down the avenus of time as a sockdolager. Out of regard for the happy memorics of Poverty Flat Bret Harte wears silver-white hair The oplulon I8 growing that Is entitled to u place in the strik the comntry Tha skipper of the Vigilant has secured, after repoated trials, a pretty accurate rear view of the Britannia. An untrained Oatling s ahout ud diligent a promoter of suicide as the raw millitiaman or the beery deputy marshal The vast, aching smptiness of the Ken- tucky state treasury lends a piquant flavor to national financlal schemes from that state With a view to probing the true inward- ness of the collapse, a man named Bottom was appointed receiver for a bank in Denver. The first newspaper mail from Sacramento and San F isco since July 1 reached the Bee office yesterday. It was a trifle mole-dy. Gompers, the leader of the federation, Is an oxpert roller of stogas. That accounts for his readiness in smoking out the boy- cott Debsomania tory of ye o condition of Mrs. Lowse Is again alarm- Ing. Just as she emerged from an attack of nervous prostration a few pernicious Diggs in the ribs produced a relaps Lfforts being made to rupture the gas combine in Chicago are a needless waste of energy, in view of the fact established by recent events that every able-bodied Chi- cagoan is an animated gas tank. A German paper gravely announces that “Robert Buchanan, the famous English writer of farces, has gone bankrupt. His Habilities amount to 300,000 marks, his only assets being some comedy idens.” In Hong Kong, a ties, the population averages only 368 women to every 1,000 men. Anxious mammas with marriageable daughters of mature might do worse than emigrate to the Celes- tlal empire. One vast, mighty truth rises like above the fog of strike and boycott. an authority than Henry shivering world that panacea for all our ills. it not original. The New York World asserts Mr. man exhausted seventeen hours in p and constructing his defense. He was too weary at its conclusion to tack on a para- b explaining the discharge of the men who waited on him with the grievances of the employes e NEBRASK.A AND NEBRASKANS, No less orge assures a single tax s the anning The school census shows that there are 553 children of school age at Ord. The first annual bicycle meet of the Red Cloud wheelmen will take place July 26, The Beaver Valley harvest home will be held at Wilsonville on October 10, 11 and 12. The new tennis club of Grand lsland has adopted for its colors navy blue and white. A lawn tennis club has been organized at Alliance and a fine court has been se- cured. The for the porter. A Red Willow county farmer only har- vested 360 bushels of turkey red wheat from cighty acres. The Sons of Veterans band of Red Cloud will furnish music for the interstate reunion at Superior. John Todd, who carved Harry Wolfe at a dance at Ulysses, has been held for trial in bonds of $500. The pontoon bridge between Covington d Sloux City will be rebuilt as soon as the high water recedes. A base ball tournament Burwell July 26, 27 and 2 boring towns have been teams. The people of Sterling will erect a monu- ment to the soldiers of the late war, and the date of the unveiling has been fixed for September 22. Accessions to the Seventh-Day Adventist faith are growing in numbers near Loup City. Twenty-one people were baptized in the river the other day. The fourth annual farmers reunion be held at Verdon on August 15 and Pioneer dinners and various sports furnish the entertainment. Tho residence of County Commissioner Malloy at Cedar Bluffs was entirely desroyed by fire while the owner was in Wahoo at- tending a meeting of the county board. There Is talk of passing an ordinance against the Russian thistle at Valentine, im- posing a heavy fine on any property owner who allows the weed to grow on his prem- ises. Willie Taft, a boy living near Hartington, rested his gun on his right foot muzzle down. His second toe Is entirely gone, and there s @ jagged wound in his foot that Willie will ‘not soon forget. A bathing club has been organized at Crawford with over thirty members, all of whom believe that cleanliness is next to godliness. The club will build a dam agross the White river and will erect bathing houses, etc. Says the Schuyler Quill: The Quill learns of a good one on ex-Marshal D. J. Burke, now in the secrot service of the B. & M. raillway. At one time, while a resident of Schuyler, Mr. Burke owned a horse and the worst fault of the animal was that it slobbered badly. One day the ex-marshal saw an advertisement in a newspaper which read: “How to cure a horse of slobber- ing. Send $1 for recipe” Burke could hardly wait till he got to the postoffice and sent that dollar, and after it was sent he hung around the office every mail time until he nearly set tho postmaster crazy With his Inquiries about the probabilities of the mail. Finally the letter came, and upon opening it the recipe was found. It read: "Teach it to spit.” Burke recoy- ered, but has hardly been himself since. 5 - Concerning Our Billy Bryan. Chicago Herald Fongres Rryan, having openly an- Pt hdrasal from the. demo- cratic party, is |\ulI entitled to any con- sideratio ands. ’llllfcfi‘;~l|=\:' ::;l.--‘xlxsr mer political affiliations, Mr. Bryan and his mistaken friends hav been endeavoring to play the stat demo- cratic committee in his interest, which it Was believed would be promoted by an early state convention. The state central committee by a_three-fourths vote has de- clined to be used in Mr. Bryan's behalf. Mr. Bryan had a perfes right 1o leave the democratic party. The democratic ty has an equally perfect right to let him o, He has voluntarily cast his lot among those who ect democratic principles and advocate docetrines inconsistent with the nu- tional platform of the demd ic party. Mr. ryan has abandoned constitutional politics for cyclonic politic Let him abide by his choice. He is outside the democratic pale by his own will, and he shall stay out- Side by the will of the democratic party of Nebraska. financial stringency s discontinuance of the responsible Merna Re- will_be held at All the neigh- invited to send will 16. will —_——— Task of the Conferees, Philadelphia Times. The revenue bill has been referred to a committee of conference, whose task it will be to reconcile the differences between the two houses of congress and put the bill in shape for final passage. This task is means an easy one, Of the 634 amend- ments made in the senate, two-thirds of which are changes In the of duty fixed by the house, it s that considerable number can little controversy, but M notice that he will op| house, the general compound duties, 8o will have many points of dlsc Fetting down to the burning questions of Sugar and free coal and ore. The McKin- was in conference committee ten The present conference is likely to by @ fortnight at least, but there can ho doubt that it will result in a meas- that will receive the prompt concur- ence of both houses. by no eturn to that th rding to recont statis- | rs | Shasta | Henry is unselfish | Pull- | Editor Takes the His Confidevce Money!ess People Tuto | AND TELLS THEM WHY HE WANTS OFFICE Cltizen 1o 1 erib on nis Up the nd Makes an 1 on Hix Ow To the Republican [Press of Neheaska There Is an old sayfng to the office shonld the man saying, in_ these degenc That's a very (» days seek pretty but there are around chane fallow s0 many fellows that the poor office does not to get out for a h before & nabs it and walks away. 1 this to meloncholy fact, for I have been waiting several for an offico to come along and take me in, and as yet no office has hove in sight Therefore 1 have changed my tactics and am going gunning for the office. 1t 1 don't get what I want I'll always feel that I should have been suc- cessful, And if T don't get it I am going to whoop it up for the republican ticket just as 1£ 1 had not been disappointed I want the repubiican no secretary of state. Is that plain enou, There secms to be but one way a nomination in these degenerate days, and that I8 to get out and hustie for it his I am unable to do. It keeps me busy getting one of the best weekly newspapers in Nebraska, and [ have no time to make a | tour in the interests of my candidacy. And again, It takes money to make such a Vi A nd at the pr nt time my a consist wholly of liabilties. Kor that reason 1 take this method of announcing my candi- dacy and appealing to the republicans of the | state to put my name on the ticket. If 1 get the nomination I'll hustle for election, and if elected I'll do my best to conduct the busi- ness of the office as it should be conducted. There are a number of reasons why I beifeve I would make a pretty good sccretary of state. In fact there are so many reasons of this « that it ig impossible at this time to give all of them. But a few will be out- lined for the edification of the masses First, I am pretty well acquainted the routine of work at the state house Second, 1 believe in the supremacy of law, and if elected will do my best to conform to the laws governing the actions of the secre- tary of state. There are some laws that ne ed changing, and I believe that the best way to secure the repeal of a bad law is to enforce it. If elected secretary of state I will, as a member of the state board of transportation, do all I can to make the railroads obey the law and leave it to experience to determine the wisdom of the law. Not being a consti- tutional lawyer I am not able to Judge whether laws are good or not. Third—If elected secretary of state I will, as a member of the State Board of Purchase and Supplies, do my best to buy the best goods at the cheape’t price, and in all c give the preference to goods made in Ne- braska. I will sign no vouchers for goods furnished until I know that the goods have been delivered and that they are equal to the sample. Fourth—If elected T will endeavor to make a good record for the first two years in order to secure a re-election, and having secured a re-election I will continue to do my best in order to keep up the good repu- tation I made during the first two years. Fifth—If elected [ will not lose sight of the fact that I am a servant of the people, and will not be seized with the idea that I was elected to save the state, and that by so doing I have earned the heartfelt grat- itude of a downtrodden people. Sixth—If elected 1 will devote my time to the duties of my office and not devote a portion of it to private speculation based on knowledge gained while acting as a servant of the people. These, beloved friends, are some of the reasons I have for believing that I would make a pretty good secretary of state. If you believe as I do, give me your support. There are some reasons why I am a candi- dato for the nomination. First—I want it. Second—I have just a a candidate as anybody. Third—The salary is $2,000 a year. Fourth—I am a republican, and every re- publican has a right to aspire to office. Fifth—I want to experience how it feels to be a candidate. Thero are some who may take exceptions to my method of conducting a campaign for this nomination. Some may feel sore because I do not get out and call them wup to the bar with & sweet smile and ask them what they will have. To such I will say that such a method of campalgning costs money, and that's something I do not possess. ‘And if I did I would spend a mighty small portion of it for whisky. Some may oppose me because I am a country editor. To such I would say that T had rather be a country editor strug- gling for a living, than to be an office holder execrated by the people who elected me. Some may oppose me because they do not know me. That is all the more reason why they should support me. Many may oppose me because they are supporting some other man. That's all right. And some may op- pose me because they do not like me. That's all wrong. M have been a republican all my life. T am a republican because 1 have studied the history of my country. I am a republican beeause republican principles have made this the greatest and grandest nation on earth. I belleve In the use of gold and silver as money, because the history of the world is that both are money metals. I believe in paper money backed by the credit of Uncle Sam, because history te ches me that paper is used largely to do business with. I am ainst flat money because a nation Is like individual—only good for what it pos- 1 believe in the dignity of human Father of us all labored I believe in labor or- ganizing for the purpose of advancement. T“';m l’fnpn:fl'll to strikes, but believe that there are times when they are justifiable. But 1 never will uphold force as an argu ment for the settlement of labor troubles. I beliove in high protective tariff because I have a home of my own and I am going to protect that home against the world. And the nation is but a great home, and each of us o member of the family. These are some of my views, but if T am elocted secretary of stafe my time will be so fully occupied in attending to the duties of the office that I will have to let congress o for questions of finance and tarif. w, men and brethren, in my candidacy I will ‘have to depend upon you to help me out, 1'cannot leave home to sce you per- Sonally, but you can do me a heap of good. I had rather have the friendship and sup- port of the country press than to have the Dacking of all the political machines. The country press molds public sentiment these day8 1t T am not successtul in this fight 1 will at least have a serapbook filled with the Winaly mention of the press, and I had rather e that than all the offices within the gift of the people. T am in this fight to win, but o or lose T am a republican, heart’ and . for the ticket, because I know the re- Dublican state convention will pominate a good one. It will be good even If my name is not on it Now, gentlemen, 1 our hands. Sln)ry 1 e ou before the con i :nll {u ‘Omaha on August 22, and we'll have a time. This goes ‘\\I:wlhl*r 1 EILII in it or s for republican success, not. Yours for TePublgy PN MAUPIN, hove ar me be a years for ation to secure with good a right to be $2, an sesses. lahor, because th to make this world. matter in san’t come around and tion. But I'll see leave the Highest ol all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. 5. Gov't Report. Baking effect that the | have discovered | | But LLMAN'S PRAINT, o Mall: There are, howover, somg points Mr. Pullman skilifully evades. No meation I8 made by him of the Irritating canses feading up to the strike of his em= ployes. From his statement no one would be able to gather that one of the grievances Wis the summary disehargo of the m { the committes of employes which the in Othor matters the town are also fgnored, Chicago Times: George M. Pullman's exe planation s admirable and well caleulated {0 carry convietion with it but for cnie thing 1t is founded upon a fundamental untruth, If George will state squarely how much he profited in repairing Pullman cars at the ent rates of wages, as well as how much he lost taking contr ¢ to build freight cars for less than cost, the public will see that hie “ate terapts to keep his men at work, even though he lost money,” were quite remuners ative In the end Chieago Dispateh turbance Is not it not come Inerense madel in is dis- Had The present labor without good results. the world would have still looked on George Millionaire Pulliman as an common man. His epistie to the people would not have boen written, and he would he classed among the seokers after the riches of earth, and as one of the om0 chances of getting inte heaven &ro a 100 to 1 shot. Instead anotlier halo has been taken the shelf and sot fauntily on a head, r harp has been added to the saintly ra, and the extra guards at the pearly and stroets of gold have been doubled. Chicago T'ost: George M. Pullman's char- acteristics are plainly displayed in the pro- nunciamento that he has fssued from the Mills building, New York. The man has suceceded by long years of soif-deception in ling himself into the belief that he is a ithropist when ho Is really a_ harpy. is honestly unable to see that the cant and humbug in him are responstble for the disaster that has overtaken the country. He does not realize that If he had acted like a man and shut down his pauper factory six months ago, instead of trying to pose as a philanthropist at the expense of his work- men, there would have been no Pullman strike, no rafiroad tie-up, no paralysis of commerce. He fs blind to everything except the greatness of George M. Pullman. He has humbugged himself so completely that he cannot realize how completely he has failed in humbugging any one clse. SWELTERING SMILES. m gatos Town Toples: May—Jack and Carrie were riding on a tandem bicycle when he pro- posed_to her. Idith—I wonder what she did. May—Tumbled. Judge: Tr it T couldn’t M O Flana wort’ th' wholle ill, an’ is lolabl minute! rance it insure your hushand's’ life. wn—Shure, it wouldn't be he wurruks {n a powder ' be blowed up at anny T called to see Washington Star: “T object,” sald the mosanito i a theatrical hotel, “'to this in- terference in_my business. The idea of my not being permitted to o my uct without a net Puck: Miss Boardman—What kind of bird could it have been that bullt its nest here where it can be so easily despoiled? Miss Summer Girl—Well, I'm not much of an ornithologist, but it ‘must have been a jay. Buffalo Courfer: *“Notice Lushley at the banguet last night? Scem: the spirit ¥ but not so 3 entered into hin Indianapolis Journal: Visiting Foreigner— Taking it all around, you Americans have a most remarkable respect for the laws of the land, Citizen—Y I guess we do; but ought to see how we pitch into the who make them! you men Atchison Globe: When girls want to sit in a hammock for solid comfort they hang it in the back yard where no one can see. Philadelphia Times be seen collecting letters at midnight, but this doesn’t explain why some late males don’t arrive till near morning. HER FEAR. Harper's Bazar, She's fond of honeysuckle, And Virginia creeper, too, She loves the soft clematis And wistaria true-blue. Letter carriers may But, oh, she's awfully afraid, This little girl of mine If in the flelds she chance to meet A wandering bo-vine. e AN APOSTROPHE 10 LAURA. 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