Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1894, Page 4

FRIDAY, OMAIA{ A D;\lLY» BEE. R, Bditor. B. ROSEWAT PUBLISHED EVERY MORN| TERMS OF SUDS ily Dee (without Sundiy) One Year.... ily Tee and Sunday, One Year Ix Months. versevasIIE hree Monilis ¥ Eundny Uer. aturday Tn, Weekly lice, 3800 Year.. o Yenr. Year . OFFICES. Omalia, The & Bouth Omahn. N and Twenty-fourth Council Binfts, 1l Strect Chicago Office. 317 Chamber of o, Yok, R 14 and 15 Fashington, T Hireet, N. W. ANl communica DENCE, ing to news and edi- tortal nmtter s BUSINE uid be addressed: To the Editor. LETTERS Al business otters d o The I remittances should be Publishing company, Dratis, checks and postoffice orders (o payabie to the order of the company. THE 1 PUBLISHING COMPANY. Commeree. Tribune BIIg. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George B, Trschuck, secretary of The I Yishing compuny. being duly sworn, eays the nctual number of full and complet of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday rinted during the month of July, 1804, was as oliows: o Pub- that Total ol Datly average 1 *Sunda: 't circulation. HUCK, 4 in my pres- GEORG) Sworn to before me and subscrib ence this Ist day of Augusi, 1501 (Beal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. A praclamation of neutrality will not be out of order. Mr. Bryan's reply is awaited with much fear and trepidation. Corea s like the litile boy who stands with his hands in his pockets while his big brothers fight it out. Bryan invites himsclf to accept his own Invitation to become a candidate for the senate. What if Bryan should decline? Other things being equal home industry deserves home patronage whether in the line of public exhibitions or domestic manufac- tures. We believe we may safely put down the new posfmaster at South Omaha as an op- ponet of annexation for the next four years at any rate. The order against offensive partisans will bo suspended against the new postmaster at South Omaha until after the democratic state convention. It will be a long time before Omaha se- cures another city clerk more efficient and at the same time more honest than the late William C. Wakeley. The commission men at South Omaha and . tho managers of the Towa roads are making + time what is it? sun while the hay shines. The butchers’ strike Is water in thelr mill race. Chinese fireworks appear to be adapted to the celebration of public holidays only. ‘They do more damage to Americans on the Fourth of July than they do to the Japanese in a week of hostilities. Mayor Gilroy of New York says that Tam- many democrats want harmony. They want the offices most of all. If harmony is nec- essury to get the offices they will take theirs with harmony. Otherwise they prefer to let harmony go and hang on to the offices. If the one-legged senator from South Caro- lina wants to fight it out with the one-eyed governor of South Carolina, let them meet in the ring, each with one hand tied behind him. We will then be protected against a one-sided contest between them. Hasn't Congressman Bryan settled that little government printing office site dis- pute yet? Must all those pyrotechnics In the house a few months back go in vain just because the Washington real estate specula- tors are stronger n congress than Mr. Bryan? Candidates for the vacancy in the city clerkship will be swarming in the next few days. The unemployed politician Is not par- ticular as to the Kind of work thrust upon him. If he can't have a place as street commissioner or sewer inspector he will try to be content with the office of city clerk. Congressman Hager is doing a good thing in trying to get a fast mail service east out of Council Bluffs. This is a postal im- provement in which Nebraska as well as Towa Is interested, and the Nebraska repre- sentatives in congress ought to co-operate with Mr. Hager in his efforts to secure it. The strikers at South Omaha are to be commended In any event for their peaceable conduct since they stopped work. They seem to have profited by the lesson of mob violence at Chicago and do not care to injure what merits their cause may have by resort- ing to lawlessness. It Is to be hoped that they will continue to appreclate the necessity of good behavior. The federal constitution forbids American office holders from receiving pensions from forelgn governments. It does not forbid cougress bestowing pensions upon office holders under forelgn governments, proba- bly because its framers never contemplated the possibility of such a proposal. The royal commissioners from (he ex-queen of Hawail will do well to bear this in mind, Another councilmanic junket is being a ranged for by parties who sre anxious to famlliarize our city law makers with the re- sources of the wild and woolly west. The next outing 1s to be into the Big Horn re- glon, with a bear hunt and a ride on the Rocky mountaln goat as the chief attra tlons. P. S.—It must be understood that the excursionists have pledged themselves not to talk about stone pavements or such trivial matters while they are on the road. The Iowa democrats commend President . Cleyeland's letter to Chalrman Wilson as a mad)y, outspoken document that meets their thost hearty approval, and in the same breath they condemn any and all efforts made to tmpede the passage of real tarlff reform. It this 18 not blowing hot and cold at the same The president's letter has sertaloly been impeding tariff reform of whatever kind. So it Is to be commended s an outspoken document and condemned as an Impediment to tarltt leglslation. THE CEDARQUIST CASE AGAIN. The actlon of the president in remitting the penaltics imposed upon Private Cedar- quist, found to apply himselt to target practice on Sun- day, and the summary command to bring the officer who ordered target practice on Sunday to trial on the charge of himself dis- obeying orders, will doubtless create some- thing of a mild sensation in army circles, When the secretary of war, in response to a resolution of Inquiry introduced into congress by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, sent to the house, only a fow days ago, a statement of the findings in the case, from which It was to be gathered that the department head approved of the entire course of proceed- ings, it was the general impression that the matter was at an end and the whole closed. Now the president absolves the prisoner from the necessity of serving the unexpired portion of his sentence, and, as It were, turns the tables upon officer by requiring him to answer for his part in the performance. It will be noticed that the language of the order of August 1 implies that the officer who gave the now obnoxious order did “in violation of the orders of President Lin- coln, given in November, Reference to this order of 1862, however, reveals noth- ing more thun an injunction for the orderly of the Sabbath and a timely of the advice given by Washing- soldlers regarding the propriety unnecessary work on the This order of President Lincoin was referred to, merely as a citation, in the order of President Harrison abolishing Sunday inspection in 1889, but the court martial is not to be called under the latter regulation. It is furthermore a question of doubt whether the order of President Lin- coln is still operative, inasmuch the army regulations since issued, and purpor ing to contain all of the orders tions in foree at the date of publication, make no mention whatever of it. It is therefore not so clear that there has been a violation of orders on the part of the superior officer, and this will "be the first question that will have to be determined. Through this latest phase of the situa- tion the Cedarquist case gives promise of attaining a celebrity which its merits seem scarcely to warrant. So far as Cedarquist is concerned, the findings in his trial stand just as they are, the question now being whether he shall be in a measure vindicated by-the branding of the order which he dis- obeyed as fllegal and the conviction and punishment of the officer glving it for violating the almost obsolete order of 186 It is purcly a matter of military law, the law of Nebraska respecting Sunday ob- scrvance having no bearing upon it what- ever. The succeeding stages in the episode will be watched with widespread interest. case of his superior 50 observance repetition ton to his of refraining from Sahbath. as nd regula TIE QUESTION OF FREE SHIPS. It is probable that mothing will be done at the present session of congress with the bill introduced in the house providing for free ships. It is mot known what support it would command in the house, while as to the senatc it is doubted whether it could pass that body. It is necessary In order to bring it forward in the house that an order be adopted fixing a day for its consider- ation, and it seems that the speaker is not desirous to have the measure brought for- ward. As the matter rests very largely with him, it is assumed, therefore, that the measure will not be considered at this ses- slon. In the senate there is said to be either hostility or indifference toward the bill on the part of those who have made such modi- fieations in the Wilson tariff bill. Well in- formed opinion says it is more than doubtful whether the Dill could pass the senate in any case, and the prediction is made that the measure will not pass the present con- gress. In that event the movement for free ships will be at an end for some time to come. But the question of restoring the merchant marine of the United States is too im- portant to be wholly dismissed from con- sideration, and the mext republican congress will undoubtedly be urgently called upon to enact legislation looking to this end. Men of all parties realize that the time has come when this country should cease to be de- pendent upon foreign ship owners.for the ocean transportation of its products. It is admitted on all hands that a great com- mercial nation like the United States ought to have ample facilities of its own for the carriage of its forelgn commerce, and that 0 long as we have not such facilities our progress toward commercizl supremacy among the nations will be retarded. Not until we can carry on our foreign trade in American ships sailing under the American flag shall we enjoy that complete advantage which is essential to commercial expansion. No less important is the consideration that we are annually paying to foreign ship own- ers an enormous sum which constitutes a drain the stoppage of which would add ma- terially to our prosperity. Nobody will ques- tion that it would be a great benefit to keep at home and spend among our own people the $200,000,000 or more which go abroad every year in payment of freights and pas- senger fares. The importance of this question is obvious. The difficulty is in devising wisc and prac- ticable legislation that will bring about the desired result. No progress has been made under existing laws, and none is to be ex- pected. Whether the proposed law would accomplish what is needed is problematical, while it is certain that its effect would be damaging to our shipbuflding industry. It is by no means a simple question, but the re- publican party can be depended upon to find a satisfactory solution whenever it shall seriously address itself to the task. CREATI SOME ANXIETY. continued outflow of gold is sald to b causing some anxlety in eastern financial circles. More than half of the gold which tho New York bauke to the treasury was exported last weck, the out- ward movement for this week will be heavy, and there is no indication of an early cessation of the demand. This state of af- faire is naturally creating some solicitude, because it Is realized that it cannot con- tinue much longer without causing gold to g0 to a premium. Should that happen the danger |s that it will be accompanied by a panle, which In the present condition of business could hardly fail to be most dis- astrous. Practical financiers who can wader- stand what the possible effects of a pre- mium on gold would be may well feel alarmed over a situation that promises such a (hing at any time. The government's gold reserve continues to decline, being now down to $54,000,000. A combination of bankers or speculators could take every dollar of gold out of the treasury in a week or compel the stoppage of specie payments, In elther case forcing gold to a premium. It Is pointed out that the reserve now only allows about 8 cents of gold for the redemption of a dollar of the government's obligations, which comes pretty near to banking upon the faith of s recently sent gullty of disobeying an order | | | poliey on | It is unquestionable that THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ! the government and in a sense makes the | government's paper currency not much better than fiat money. Quite naturally the question s being asked what is going to be done about this peril by the government Are the president and the secretary of the treasury waiting for the passage of a tarift bill in order to increase the revenues ot the government and relleve the embarrass- ment? 18 this is their reliance for reliet the president taken an extraordinary course bring It about in counseling a the part of the house democrats that has antagonized the senate and re- duced the chances of an agreement between the two branches of congress, Another thing that has improved the situation is the recent order of the secretary of the treasury for resuming the coinage of sil- ver dollars at all the mints of the country. the effect of this order has been to increase distrust in finan- clal circles, for although this coinage will not materially increase the obligations of the government payable in gold, still it is regarded as a most imprudent thing to do at this juncture, when it should be the policy of the treasury to reduce rather than add its gold Washington dispatches represent the of the treasury as feeling no apprehension about the immediate future, notwithstanding the steadily disappearing reserve, which stmply shows that Mr. Carlisle 1s in close touch with the financial sentiment of the country. Of course he has a remedy in his own hands, If he cares to exercise it, in {ssulng bonds, but the administration is reluctant to do this, and probably will not do it without additional authority from con- gress. At any rate it is practically com- mitted to this position. The simple and direct way out of the dif- fleulty s by a settlement of the tariff ques- tion. 1t that were accomplished the drain of gold would cease, the revenues of the government from all sources would increase, and there would be improvement both in the business condition of the country and in the condition of the treasury. The very best thing that can be done to give relief in all directions is for congress to drop the tariff and adjourn. Another month of suspense and uncertainty may produce most deplorable consequences, 50 is the strain upon all business interests, yet the democratic factions in congress seem elther blind or indifferent to the peril. to has to not to obligations, secreta not severe THE 10WA PIE-BITERS. The fulsome culogy of Grover Cleveland and all hie has said or done since the 4th of March, 1893, as embodied in the platform of the Iowa democracy, affords proof conclusive of the fact that the pie-biters were on top in the state convention. The Iowa pie-biters have outdone Senator Vilas in slobbering all over the great federal patronage dispenser. They have put the molasses and soft soap on so thick that it cannot help but disgust nine- tenths of the rank and file. They commend the administration of President Cleveland for the ability, wisdom and patriotism shown in dealing with matters of public interest. Well, where has this administration shown such wonderful ability and wisdom In deal- ing with public questions? Does the con- dition of the country indicate any marvelous statesmanship in dealing with the finances of the nation? Have the revenues of the nation fncreased and has wne credit of the United States been improved? Have the federal taxes been decreased and s the treasury in better condition now than it was before Cleveland came in? Not content with slopping over about the signal ability displayed in bringing the country to the verge of bankruptcy and revolution the Iowa pie-biters especially ap- prove of the present administration for the lopping off of many useless office holders, and for its firm and wise policy toward the other nations and countries of the world. Is not this enough tickler to make a horse laugh? What office holders have ‘been lopped off outside of a few wretchedly paid clerks and minor inspectors of meats? How does the present federal pay roll compare with the pay rolls of former years? O, yes; there has been some lopping off in the pension bureau. But that was done more to gratify the southern brigadiers than the northern taxpayers. That wise and firm policy in dealing with other nations of the world caps the climax of ple-biting obsequiousness. What nations have we held off at arm’s length by the firm attitude of the foreign office? The only complication that has arisen in the past seventeen months has been the Hawalian muddle and that has settled itself in spite of all blundering interference. The most ridiculous performance of the Towa pie-biters is their endorsement of the Wilson letter. The consensus of opinion among all democrats is that the letter had better been burned. It has caused demoeratic leaders at Washington stomach ache than any political dish of crow that has ever been served. It has created greater consternation and stirred up more rancorous resentment than any utter- ance or political document that has ever cmanated from the white house. Insteal of smoothifig the way for the tatiff reform it Las intensified the Jangle over the mongrel bill and brought humiliation upon its author, who will now have to swallow himself by signivg a bill that he denounced as iu- iquitous. The Towg pie-biters have overdone their self-imposed task. more AN APPEAL FOR SETTLEMENT. The responsible democratic press of the country is urgently appealing to congress for an immediate settlement of the tariff contro- versy. It asks the party in power to bring (he issue to an end, even if it be necessary to allow the existing law to stand. With prac- tical unanimity the newspapers of character and influence which represent democratic and tariff reform Ideas demand in behalf of the general welfare that the deadlock be- tween the senate and the house on (his ques tion shall be maintained no longer, and that if they cannot at onc? come to an agree- ment the controversy be abandoned and the Industries and business of the country be re- lieved from the uncertainty and the strain incldent to the conflict over the tariff, A few examples of this sentiment will serve to indicate the general drift. The Phil- adelphia Record, & most earnest advocate of tariff reform, whose editor Is the democra'ic candidate for governop of Pennsylvania, says: “If the variance between the two houses on the tarift inyolved nothing more than a the- oretical difference of opinion In regard to the rates of protective duty it would not matter much whether the committee of conference should come to an agreement mext month or next year. In ordinary cireumstances neither the revenues nor the public finances would be seriously affected If a tariff bill should fall by reason of a disagreement about one-eighth. of a cent a pound on sugar or upon the question whether or not iron ore should be put upon the free list. But the business interests of the country impera- tively demand that the two houses shall ad- Just thelr dflféi@hces without further delay. To remit these interests to another period of agitation, doubt.cand uncertainty would be intolerable.” & Philadelphia Times, heartily | tn sympathy”'Wrih the tarit reform policy, that the .Grst great necessity of the country is tolhave the tariff issue settled. The MeKinfey *bill,” declares that paper. “would be better.than the condition of uncer- tainty that nfust prevail if tariff legislation must’ be defeated.” The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, a¥ barnest advocate of tarift re- form, says: {'We have gone through a panic and a succeeding depression, extending over a year, of profeund and unparalleled inten- sity, and this- depression will continue as long as uncertain'y bver the tariff continues.”” It declares that bisiness and labor cannot stand an extension of this state of things through another fall and winter, and they cry aloud for relief from the terrible strain. It points out that investments have become 5o pre- carlous that foreigners are withdrawing cap- ital at as rapid a rate as just before the panic; that after borrowing on bonds the federal treasury has still been reduced to a wa condition than before; that the rev: nues of the government languish, its gold re- serve is below the previously recorded lowest point, and it is confronted again with the al- ternative of suspending gold payments or bor- rowing money. “This thing cannot g0 on,” the paper quoted, “‘without bringing the country to the verge of another panic, and it cannot go on without plunging us into another winter of more extensive un- employment and distress than the last and inviting the most profound economic and s cial disturbances. We say, therefore, that congress must settic this tariff question one way or the other immediately.” The New York Commercial Bulletin talks in the same strain. “The real basls of treasury improvement,”” it says, “must lie in the gradual restoration of confidence abroad and prosperity at home, and these require, first of all, the cessation of the tariff dusturbance and the return of business to its normal chanvels, With this accomplished the drain of gold would ccase, the development of crop movements and exports soon begin, the reve- nues revive, and the improvement of treasury conditions would be more rapid than those who look only at the most unfavorable and temporary features of its present situation seem able to perceive.”” These appeals for a settlement of the tariff controversy at once, one way or the other, reflect a ncarly universal sentiment among the Industrial, business and labor interests of the country. Senator Aldrich is reported to have urged the democratic conferees to either come to an agreement or abandon the controversy, and this is what they should do. The existing situation is most deplorable and to continue it much longer cannot fail to greatly add to the disastrous results al- ready experienced. We are in the last month of summer. If the deadlock on the tarift is not brought to an end within the next thirty days there will be a winter of unprecedented hardship and privation for millions of the people. Such a calamity must be averted and it can be done by bringing to a conclu- sion the tariff controversy. 50 more says The Philadelphia Press gives the history of the so-called, slums report that has been cauging considerable comment in the news- papers, and which, as we have said, is not de- serving of the attention it has received. The investigation of the slums of the lead- ing cities off'the country, although under- taken by’ Labdr-‘Commissioner Wright, is really due to Senator: Kyle, who introduced a resolution for that purpose during the first days of his appearance in Washington as a member of the senate. Mr. Kyle's party affiliations being still a question of doubt, he encountered no opposition to his pet pro- Jject, and the resolution carried with an ap- propriation of $20,000 to defray the expenses. The work, however, was intrusted to the labor commissioner, instead of to Mr. Kyle, as the latter originally contemplated. Com- missioner Wright figured that to gather the statistics called for by the resolution would take $200,000, rather than $20,000, and there- fore confined himself to four of the larger typical cities of the country. Even then all he attempted was a mere compilation of what was already at hand in the census re- ports and the municipal reports of the dif- ferent cities, He does not claim to haye brought out a solitary new fact, except, per- haps, by way of comparison, but the $20,000 has been ecaten up, and Mr. Kyle doubtless feels relieved. The World's fair officials have succeeded in inducing the senate appropriation commit- tee to insert Into one of the appropriation Dills an item for the indemnification of the French exhibitors who suffered a loss of their exhibits at the fire in the Manufactures building. The house had re- fused to make this appropriation, but the interested parties hope to push it through the house in the shape of a senate amend- ment. Thus the World's fair officials will shift upon the taxpayers of the whole United States the obligation which the stockholders ought to discharge, and will increase by nearly $100,000 the already large bill which the federal government has defrayed for the benefit of the Chicago exposition. As a great part of the fair stock has been elther given over to the Field museum of Chicago or belongs to the city of Chicago itself the greater part of this appropriation will in reality be a subsidy to Chicago. The fed- eral government will doubtless be able to stand the expense, but it is to be hoped that this 13 the last bill which the falr company will ask the United States to pay for 1t The Rock Iskand 7oad, which has been man- ipulated by private interests to building up two town sites'to the detriment of the regu- larly designated county seats, only a few miles distant, has receiyed its first wretaliatory blow in the agfpgipent of congress upon a bill requiring 1t to, naintain stations at the two towns, Round Fond, and South Enld, agalnst which it has besn, discriminating. If this were the end of, kg controversy the railroad would doubtleds feel satisfied, but in the in- terval its unjidt. and lawless actions have stirred up such & feeling of resentment among the people of Oklahoma that further territorial legislatign regarding the obliga- tions of the rallggds to the public may be confidently expectgd. It seems that the rail- roads will never jearn the lesson that it will gonerally pay them to deal falrly with the people. The currency plank of the Iowa demo- cratic platform 18 @ somewhat unique pro- Quetion, but it does not require very close study to show that its authors are In favor of the free coinage of silver and simply had not the courage to plainly say so. Ex- Governor Boles, in his address as chairman of the convention, indicated the prevalling seutiment in advocating the free colnage of silver with “proper safeguards to pre- serve the parity of the metals.”” The talk about safeguards 18 the merest subterfuge, because there is absolutely no way of main- taining the parity of gold and Silver if the mints should be opened to the free coinage of the latter under existing conditions. The moment. the United States adopted that poliey independently of other great com- mercial nations, whether upon the present ratio or some .other, gold and silver would part company, and they would remain apart as long as that policy was maintained. In other words, we should go at to a silver basis. There are no ‘“safognards’ against this inevitable result of free silver colnage undertaken by the United States alone. once cretary Morton doubtless feels elated over the result of the conference on the agri- cultural appropriation bill, which terminated with the exclusion of the item setting aside a million dollars for distribution among the several states for the purpose of exterminate ing the Russian thistle, The socretary made war upon this appropriation from the very first, characterizing it as a dangerous step towards paternalism. He wrote a scorching fetter against it to the chalrman of the sen- ate committee on agriculture and used his own personal influence to defeat it. It slipped through the senate as an amendment to the house bill, but was caught in conference and the house refused to sccept it. The conse- quencs is that the states that want to get rid of the Russian thistle plague will have to devise the ways and means for themselves. The Agricuitural department will also avoid the work of supervision which might have been saddled upon it. The republican caucuses in this city are called for noxt week, Friday, August 10, The thimbleriggers and wire pullers are already busily engaged in preparations for capturing these meetings, The Bee has never been in favor of the caucus system so long as the contest must bo settled at the primary elec- tion under the law. The ward primary is the proper place for the expression of popu- lar sentiment. Every member of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners is sworn to consider only the Interests of the city and the success and effectiveness of the departments under his control in making appointment or con- sidering promotions or removals. If new appointments are calculated to subserve the efficiency of the police force better than promotions the duty of the commissioners is clear, o Alabama Pointer. Cincinnati Enquirer, The Alabama election will g 6th of August. There will be you as to the political complexion of the next house of repr atives. If the populiste show a long reach in the south, look out for breakers. . Bill Allen's »Barren Ideality. St. Paul Globe. Senator Allen's desire to make the p rich is certainly_commendable. But his bill appropriating $50,000,000 from the fede treasury will not accomplish his purpose. The entire sum named would not be sufli- clent to satisfy more than fifty of the many thousands of poor. He should add I a dozen cyphers to the amount and make a thorough job of it. « —_—— Subsidenco of the Scare. Globe-Democrat. The talk about increasing the States’ army has subsided. The army can be quickly enlarged to any extent with first-class ™ material when the necessity arises. One thing to remember is that our regulars are paid nearly three times the amount received by British soldiers, and that to add to their number means a heavy increase in expenditure. = e Measuring the Hent in New York. New York Sun. A number of large wholesale houses in this city have been surprised lately by hav- ing thousands of circulars that ‘they had sent out returned to them by the postal authorities for insufficient postage. = The circulars were all sent out with the en- velopes unsealed and were stamped with I-cent stamps. It appears, however, * that the humidity moistened the mucilage on the flaps of the envelopes, and that they had sealed ‘themsclves and become first” class matter. By held on the “pointer United e nding Bill Doomed. Philadelphia Press. The Reilly Union Pacific funding bill has never had much chance of pa such prospect as it has will be s destroyed by the destructive critics Representative Boatner's minority report on the bill. The stockholders of the Union Pacific deliberately diverted to their own profit the money which should have paid the government bonds, and no one will re- gret if the government finally takes its own and leaves nothing but the mortgage ahead of its own lien. e Heresy of Fuslon. Chicago Tribune. It is a novel feature in Alabama politics that the leading colored ministers In that state held a conference the other day in Birminghtam and decided to give the sup- port of thelr race to the political party that enforced the law requiring separate conches for the two races; that gave like punishments for like offenses, both to the negroes and whites: that enacted laws pro- teeting b1 ck wemen f16m ravages of whites and blacks, and pledging themselves maintain_law and order. The proposition was submitted to the chalrman of the demo- cratic state committee, und as the straits f his party are pressing it was eager 1 promptly accepted. The ministers there- upon issued an address to their people tell- ing them that as they must look to u ma jority of the best element of the white for protection it s important that all negroes vote for Oites and the demo- cratic ticket, and urging them to do so. It is agreed ‘upon all sides that this prac- tically “insures Oates the support of the majority of the colored people of the state, Thus the contest is narrowed down to oné between the white democrats and negroes on the one hand and populists on the other, It Oates wins he will owe his election to the negroes. —_—— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Nat W. Smalls, formerly editor of the Fre- mont Herald, has purchased a democratic paper at Lake Geneva, Wis. Thomas Laver, a Custer county boy, was drowned in the lake at Ansley while in bath- ing. He went into tho water in an overheated condition. A. G. Prewett of York sacrificed the index finger of his right hand to furnish material for soap. e was foeding the pressing ma- chine at the soap works when the accident oceurred. » Firth was visited by a $10,000 fire that de- stroved the general store of T. Durling, How- ard’s furniture store and a millinery estab- lishment. The insurance will reach about alf of the loss. Mrs. Seth Mobley, who has had some exper- jence in certain state asylums, proposes to take to the lecture platform (his fall and give the public the benefit of a *Peep De- hind the Curtain of Our Public Institu- tions.” Tho old settlers of Polk, York, Butler and Seward counties will hold their annual pic- nic in Lord's grove, near the corner of the four counties, on Wednesday, August 8. Great preparations are being made for a grand time. L. Grimm, a 17-year-old boy living near Broken Bow, was thrown from a horse and dragged for some distance, and when he was picked up it was thought he was dead. In spite of his serious injuries, it s believed that he will recover. A queer freak of lghtning was the Im- pairment of the hearing of Chris Vollnage, a farmer near Plattsmouth. The bolt struck Vollnage's house, tore down the chimney, ripped up the roof and reduced the cook stove to scrap fron. When Mr. Vollnage re- covered from his surprise he found that he had lost his hearing, but it is believed by his physician that he will recover it in a short time. Suys the Callaway Courler: A list of the names of those who have left this vicinity for other parts during the last six months would be a surprise to many of our readers on account of 1ts length. It is probable the exodus has only commenced, and wo would not be surprised to find at least one-half the population of this part of the county gone inside of two months. The absence of many will be temporary, although & considerable number are golng for good. KEEP 1T BEFORE BPUBLICANS. Shall the Party Commit Itself to a Tattooed Standard Tho candidacy of Thomas J. Majors con- fronts the republican party of Nebraska as a menace to its success in the impending | campaign. To elevate him to the position of standard bearer will place the party on {h defensive and gubject it to a galling fire that THE TELL-TALRE ( . e [ Tale f et | wnce due Bearer ? the following bill, certifed to by T. J. Majors as president of the senate, was placod In the hands of the auditor and a warrant for $75 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bal for alleged services In the senate for the last fifteen days of th: month: SERTIFICATE. services as f ¢ o dayof. / Z.to.... O 60..daysdls..."- Jrom 1801, Miteaye o rlday of..2ea s e perday, - = 3.2.Y... mites at 10 cents per mite, otal, = Deduct amount drawn, - Balance due, D0k 37 Lingoln, 1301, T herchy eertify that the above account ts correet and ust, and has not been paid. i) s . (s Attest, fi’ Examined g adugtes: 77 xamine ’/:.!l\,k,///, dpproved, § 7f ‘])/, it Pyl gecoiis, Tl e G = 72 (20 o o5 Presidenty Deputy. Alliag . Dej Reccived of T1I. Warrant N it could not withstand. every party leader on the stump would be compelled to champion the candidacy of a man who is tattooed with a record of in- dellible Infamy. They would be confronted at road with the story of the forged census returns that scandalized the state at the national capital and placed a stigma upon the man whom the people of this commonywealth had honored with a placo in the halls of congress as their representa- tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbchavior of that same ex- congressman while acting in capacity of president of the sta'e senate. During two sessions of the leglslature in which he occupied the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as licutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and capper for the corporation lobby, and cxerted all his power and influence during cach session of the legislature to promote jobbery and assist boodle schemes and ob- struct, sidetrack and defeat all railway reg- ulation bills and measures to curb the rapac- ity of corporate monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the session of 1891 the state was scandalized by the abduction of Senator Taylor, a populist, who had been elected on the anti-monopoly platform, which pledged him to support a maximum rate law. It is notorious that Taylor was on confidential terms with Lieutenant Governor Majors, and especlally with his private sec- retary, Walt M. Seely. There s no doubt whatever that Majors and Seely must have known of the plot to abduct Taylor in order to keep him from casting his vote for the Newberry maximum rate bill. Taylor's abduction created such a sensa- tion that even If Majors had not been ad- vised about the plot he could not have been ignorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed the sergeant-at-arms to have Taylor arrested shows absolute knowledge on the part of Majors of the disappearance of Taylor. The records of the auditor's office show that Taylor had drawn $262.40 as his pay and mileage for the session up to the timo of his abrupt departure in the middle of March. On March 31 Every candidate and when the session closed uty. NTOX Auditor of Py “»uum, j/“/.lmoum, ;/') VN prazih The above Is a fac simile of the certificate signed by Licutenant Governor Majots and approved by the auditor, as now on file in the office of the auditor of state. The warrant for $75 was cashed by Walt M. Secly, private secretary of the lieutenant governor, and pocketed by him. Taylor never recefved a pnny of this money fraudu- lently procured by the connivance of the licutenant governor. This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a dangerous man in any public office. When he crrtified that Taylor had served through the entire term he knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that lald bim liable not only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the criminal courts, Had Majors certificd to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay in the army pay roll, he would have been court martialed and cashiered in dis- grace. Where the offense was as flagrant as the Taylor voucher fraud, he would have been made to serve a sentence in a military prison. Is this the kind of a man the re- publicans of Nebraska are asked to make chiet executive of state and commander-in- chief of the military forces of the common- wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the lleutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the senate cham- ber into a legislative ol room, in which liquor was dispensed freely to members of the senate who were addicted to drink, and to lobbyists, male and female, who resorted to the room for debauching the law makers. Every fellow who belonged to the gang carried a Yale lock key in his pocket s0 as to have access at all times, night or day, when the senate was in session or at recess, to the demijohns and decanters filled with cholce brands of liguor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously sup- plicd regardless of expense by the corporato concerns whose bills ‘were to be logrolled through and whose interests were to bo protected by the bland, affable and accoms modating lieutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and Jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? _ PEOPLE AND THINGS. Japan s making some striking decora- tions on China. Even the weather shows a tendency to slide on democratic grooves. President Cleveland's_scrap book has been enriched by Senator Gorman's analysis of “Cowards in High Places.” A new evil menices the railroads. Red hat bands affected by fast young men sig- nalize a locomotive tie-up. The first genuine “dry” spell since the enactment of the prohibitory laws has just closed in lowa and Kansas. Behold the bill collector. He is hard to please. The recipient of numerous cool re- ceptions, he is iuvariably hot. David B. Hill plumes himself on having touched a popular cord. This explains his present diligence in working the saw. Periodic reports from Kansas regarding ex-Senator Ingalls' condition tend to show there is yet considerable power behind the thrown. A change in the political complexion of Kansas is a consummation devoutly to be wished. The country has had a surfeit of its hot winds. The unnouncement of the early arrival of Mr. J. J. Corbett presages the lmmediate opening of the dramatic season and seyeral human geysers. Although the Pullman boycott collapsed three weeks ago, several eastern publications are now shedding vast quantities of ink on its defenseless grave. Governor Waite of Colorado declines to stand for re-election. Notwithstanding re- ports to the contrary, the governor has an occasional lucid moment. Mr. John Brown of Topeka doubtless re- alizes mow the utter folly of toying with a mule's hecls while standing in range of the catapult, His condition is a Brown study. Wisconsin has an extensive array of can- didates for state offices skirmishing in the timber, but there is nothing to show that they were instrumental in ‘“setting the woods afire Dr. R. Baynes of Rockland, Me., is 99 ~year: old, but has good tecth and eyesight, u nelther liquors, tobacco, tea nor coffee, and Sleeps In an iron chair for the sake of its supposed magnetic value. In a recent duel in France between a pewspaper man and a deputy, the former carved a blowhole in the cheek of the latt Considering the article operated om, the sword proved handier than the pe Perhaps there is some Corean n||.h'klluu in- volyed in the scrap between China and Japan. The operations thus far show that Japan wants a celestial investigation of the claim, ““There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.'" The Philadelphia Ledger points out that Shakespeare foresaw the demoralized condi- ton of the democratic senate when he penned the verse In ‘‘Hamlet” begloning: “'With devotion's zeal, and plous visage, we do sugar o'er the devil himself.” The great Manchester ship canal, the open- ing of which caused such a jubllee a month ago, seems to Nave had a few Panama trim- mings. Sir John Harwood, deputy chair- man of the ship canal board, says that the sum of over 34,600,000 has been diverted from its righttul channel, to-wit, the canal, and gone into some Wrong pockets. Now thera will be another ragiug canal scens, THE COMICAL CREW, Buffalo Courler: Oddly enough, it always makes a horseman hot to lose the heat. " Aunt amblosher Chloe—1I's Indianapolis 8 an! readin’ dat de gods h neckehure ebery day. : Uncle Ephum—Dat's nuflin’, honey; we's got wate Journal: s 50 Record: The Washington Hostess ou take sugar, senator? ent minded)--Confound Chic Th it, no! pan (il s s n Star: “Will_you pass the su d the senator's wife, “ilave we done much of anything else?” inquired the absent-minded statesman. Washing Ruffalo Courier: s Chincher making any money out of polities?” “Not a cent. he I8 pe fied with what he makes in it fectly satis- Monthly: Doctor—Don't be ker than you are a : same trouble. Today Browning's alarmed. | s year ago, and with th 1 am weil and hearty. Patlent (anxiously)—0O who was your physician? Minneapolis Journal: he ex- claimed. “Well, 1 should say so. And the least exertion wears me all out’ And while his wife toted a crying baby around wandered down town and walked eight and forty-two laps around a billiurd doctor! Tell me Atchison Globe: When a young man re- s from u picnic and says he had a good or rowing boats and pulling lilie e . and eating lunch in Dugs, It 1 just as much u hasture o u said he caught 300 fish or ie as thoug Killed a bear, He sat for a long time “What |s the mats “Is there trouble on Washington Star: pped In thought asked hls wife. our mind?" Yot exnctly,” he answered, mopping the perspiration from his brow, ‘mot unless ye might look at'it as a kind o' remor “What wa pying your mind?" o was wondering whether I'm the same man that kicked about having to shovel snow last winter,"” L Destruct Prospect, 1 Globe Seventy-five New started for home to offer their services as soldiers to the emperor. If they charge on the Japanese the way they do In the laun- dry business no opposing army can with- stand their onslaught. e M THE WAR IN THE EAST, Chinamen have Minneapolis Journal. young man from Japan, can;” in, There was Accustomed to “rushing th But a Chinee from Pe OF oplum reekin’, Bowled him out with & blow from his fan. 'his young Chinee man had his eye On the can containing the rye, Which the same he did drink In three shakes of a wink, Remarking, “How's that for Bhang-high* At this, our friend the mikado, Assuming an air of bravado, Replicd with a sneer, “We'll capture Corca! Assemble our National Guard, O The fight then went on till the dragon Was left with hardly a rag on, And England and Russia They made such a fuss, sir, That his nibs, LI Hung Chang, Jug on, e