Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1894, Page 4

[ e DAiLY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE OMAHA e HED EVERY MOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fly Bee (without Sui y Bee and Sunday, Bix Montha Three Mo Bunday I Baturday e Woekly Bee, OFFICES, Omaha, The Tee Building Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Councdl Dlufts, 12 Pearl Street Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce, New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15 Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 F Street, N. W CORRESPONDEN( All commun to torial matter sh ddres by " LETTERS, All business letters and remiftances should be addressed o The Hee Publishing company, Omahn, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders (o be made payabie to the order of the company THEE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. news and edl the Editor, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1. T cretary of The Tee Pub. 1ishing compi| duly sworn, says th the actual © ompletecop! of The Dally Al unduy Thew uring the month of L 1891, was o% belng t 21,166 Less deductions for unsold and OODIES ovuoovveerivarerivorsivassis Total sold...... fxisy Daily avernge net cireulation .0 *Sunday. GEORGE B. TZSCHU Sworn to hefore me and subseribed In my pres- ence this lst day of August, 1594 (8eal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Publle, Bryan's acceptance came sy as a duck’s first lesson in swimming. as o The heat of midsummer will not be a marker compared with the heat of the com- Ing campaign That ordinance to regulate the price of electrlc lights to consumers does not appear to be making much headway up to date. Hill has not yet been called a cuckoo, al- though his defense of the president discounted anything the most devoted cuckoo could have made. Omaha democrats ought to have sufficient local pride to make the effort to get the dem- ocratic state convention summoned to con- veno here. himself for the United is, will the endorse the Bryan nominates States senate. The question democratic state convention nomination? The man who can keep track of the differ- ent warships of China and Japan and their different movements and locaticns will be in great demand before very long. Republican members of the tariff confer- “ence committee are not in imminent danger from overwork. In this respect they re- semble the tramps who are willing to labor but can find nothing to do. Fielden, the arctic traveler, Wellman ought to be successful with his North pole expedition. All his predecessors ought also to have been successful, but un- fortunately the pole is yet to be reached. says that George Gould's enthusiasm over the vic- tory of his yacht, the Vigilant, in its race with the Britannia is not to be dampened by 8o small a thing as a ducking in the water off the Isle of Wight. The result of his immersion was a dampness of the flesh, not of the spirit. Nearly half of the $1,000,000 which the New York park board was to pay out for fmprovements as an assistance to the un- employed last winter remains unexpended. Apparently this is one experiment in prac- tical charity that has not met the antici- pations cf its promoters. ‘What does the council propose to do about the new electric lighting contract which Mr. ‘Wiley has refused to sign under the condi- tions of his own bid? Does not his refusal to come to time operate as a forfeiture, not - only of the contract, but also the $500 check deposited with the comptroller as a guaranty of good faith? With all appropriation bills disposed of, it 18 Idle to believe that members of congress will let a little thing like the tarift bill pre- vent them from adjourning and going home to mend their political fences. The anxiety to adjourn Is the most powerful influence at work to force the conference committee to an agreement. There must arise In the minds of the Omaha guards and Thurston rifles visions of fatigue duty at the hog pens, to say nothing of an oceasional brush with hardy plg-stickers and lusty beef sluggers. While a call to arms is not highly probable, we hope the militiamen will not be alarmed at the slight prospect of a call. The newspapers that have been trylng to impress upon thelr readers that the recent raflroad strike was the greatest the world ever saw are now busily engaged in endeav- oring to prove that, compared with other great strikes, it was a mere bagatelle. They have evidently forgotten that with strikes, as with kings, the last is always the greatest. Reports from different parts of Nebraska indicafe an increased interest in irrigation problems as the result of the drouth that has recently injured the corn crop in various localities. The people are looking with more favor upon plans for irrigation and are dis- oussing what legislation is necessary to en- courago enterprises of this kind. This activity is noted with pleasure by the friends of the irrigation movement. Irrigation s bound to occupy the attention of Nebraska farmers more and more during the next few years and the demind upon the legislature for favorable legislation will be almost irre- sistible. In conferring upon President Framcis A, Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the honorary degree of Ph.D., the University of Halle has pald a most gratitylng compliment to American scholar- hip. President Walker Is admittedly our foremost political economist, and, more than any other Amerlcan writer upon economie toples, bas achieved & reputation ocutside of the boundaries of the United States, It is especially significant to the peaple of this oountry as showing that the university au- thorities of Halle remembered and recog- nised the contributions of the United States to higher education and honored us with & place on the program of exercise for the bi-centennial anniversary of their lustitution. MAJORS AND THE TAYLOR VOUCHER. The “abduction” of Taylor, the pop sen ator of the session of 1891, who fled the ranch & few days before the close of the session, has been the ocea- #lon of much tin-pan thunder from time to time since his disappearance, The pops accused the republicans of spiriting him away to preven' the passage of some anti- rallroad legislation at the time the forces were very equally balanced. The facts seem to be that Taylor sudden) left for Council Bluffs, ostensibly to rest an visit hls mother, but that after he had de arted he ohanged his mind and took passage for the Pacifi where he has resided ever since. Taylor has added to the mystery, acc to rumor, since that time by impariing his confidences to emissarfes of The Omaha Bee and to p! on the other side of the fence and his apparently do not Jibe. After he left he sont an order to draw the remainder of his pay to Walt ley and Seeley drew it and disposed of it according to directions him by letter.—Lincoln Jou nal. The voucher is the signed in the cours siding officer of the senale. ator Taylor absented himself from the senate when the maximum rate bill came up and did not re- turn during the session. His voucher for 75 salary was presented to Majors by Walt ecley and was approved by Majors. The charge is made by Omaha paper that the money never reached the abscond- ing senator, but the paper omits in he pho- tograph copy of the voucher the order writ- ten by Senator Taylor, The omitted order reads in this way hereby authorize Walt M. Seeley to sign my name to vouc! warrant for me.” This order was signed by Senator Taylor.—Lincoln ate Journal, The “acting governor' ought to pray to the Lord to save him from his fool friends. The defense they attempt to make for him is, it anytbing, more damaging than the original charge. A public man who excuses Nimselt on the ground that he is a chump might as well confess himself to be a knave. The fool friends of Mr. Majors claim that he signed the Taylor voucher in the course of his duties as president of the senate. Are we to infer that signing vouchers for men who have absented themselves by absconding 1s Mr. Majors' ordinary method of doing his duty? Does any man dare contend did not know that Taylor out his full term, and, therefore, was titled to pay for the full term? Can any reputable man or paper defend an officer who would certity to vouchers which on their face were frauduient? If that is Mr. Majors' way of doing busine for the state as lieutenant governor, Wl would he do if he ever became governor? The fool friends of Mr. Majors contend that The Bec has purposely omitted in the photograph copy of the voucher a few lines of postscript which were attached. We cheerfully present the fac simile of the order clsewhere, with the original, and ask its inspection by republicans who have any dis- position to condone this rank piece of im- posture and fraud. We are assured that after Taylor had absented himself from the state to accommodate the corporations that were interested in beating the maximum rate bill, he sent an order to Walt Seely authorizing him to draw the remainder of his pay, and Seely drew it and disposed of it according to directions. Now let the fool friends explain how Taylor came to send back from Oregon an order written on a blank headed with the name of Thomas J. Majors, lieutenant governor. How did Taylor get to be on such intimate terms with Majors and Se:ly as to carry in his portfolio the lieutenant governor's blank letter heads? Does not that fact warrant the suspicion that Majors and Seely were both accessories to the plot to have Taylor abducted? Who put it into Taylor's head that he was en- titled to any pay after he had left the state for good? Why did Taylor choose the private secretary of the licutenant governor among all his other confidants to get his fraud- ulent voucher cashed? When these pertinent questions are an- swered we will ask how did Seely dispose of the $76 which he collected on Taylor's fraud- ulent voucher, cashed on the certificate of Thomas J. Majors, lieutenant governor? The statement of Taylor, over his own sig- nature, which fs in our possession, denies most emphatically that any part of the $75 was ever recelved by him or paid out under his direction. — STILL NO AGREEMENT. Another week of struggle between the democratic tarift conferees failed to bring about an agreement, though it ended with more favorable promise that one would be reached on the sugar schedule, which is the chief -bons of contention. A great many schedules were submitted to the conference, all aimed at reducing the advantage to the trust which it would derive from the senate bill. The sugar schedule in the pending meas- ure not only gives the trust the protection of one-elghth differential, with one-tenth on German sugar, but it also carries a substantial protection to the trust in the ad valorem rate. Any ad valorem rate that makes the samo duty on raw as on refined necessarily gives the trust a protection in the difference between the price of raw and refined. It appears that what the conferees have been trying to do was to devise an ad valorem schedule which would not glve any addi- tional protection to the trust, and then to leave a differentlal as a -specific duty for the benefit of the trust. The understanding is that the trust will mot consent to any schedule that does not provide an ad valorem rate, and as refined sugars differ in value according to thelr saccharine strength, it has been found not an easy thing to dev'se an ad valorem schedule on raw and refined which will not conceal a protection to the trust. The new schedule upon which it is thought an agreement will be effect duty of 40 pe= cent ad valorem on raw sugars, a8 In the pending bill, and on refined sugars, according to the press dispatch, of “40 per cent ad valorem of the amount necessary for the protection of refined sugars at the wholesale price In the country from which it 1s exported, plus a differentlel duty of one-fifth of a cent per pound.” If correctly reported, this scems a rather complex scheme and it is not clear that it would reduce, as claimed, the benefits to the trust by 50 per cont over the senate schedule. Under this arrangement the trust would derive no bene- fit from the 40 per cent ad valorem on raw sugars, as would be the cxse under the schedule of the pending bill, but it would seem that this would be fully offset by the protecticn afforded in the fincrease of the differential and the ad valorem on refined proposed by the new schedule. The one- tenth cf a cent differential against sugars coming from countries paying an export bounty is eliminated, probsbly by reason of the fact brought to the attention of the con- terence by the State department that under a troaty entered into In 1828 with Prussia the United States agreed to impose no higher duty on any product of that kingdom than was imposed on any articls comiog from any other country. So far as Prussia’ is concerned, that treaty is still In existence, and it is sald the United States cannot im- pose any diseriminating duty on sugar pro- duced in that part of the German empire. Assuming that an agreement will reached on the new sugar schedule, coast which Majors dutics as pre- one of his Majors served not en- that had not 1 provides for a be how | yleld THE OMAHA 1 ! long will it tske to patch up an acceptable o mpromise in the event of the en ceal and iron, conferces being Induced to on ‘raw materials,"" 1t is sald that | the | approval of house scmething these as they proy democ the pre and iron ore, v have done on sugar? sition hos been submitted to vith s dent, for A atic * confer the sliding scale on he for a the free list settlad coal thdr n to put at some futur: that the and fron ore. It rema the house and t themselyes by a them both date, Tt will not on ars to be free s to be seen wh stuitify cepting anything less app senate agree t president will FREPARING FOR TITE HARVE. There is abundant evidence that the Sugar t, confident of leglslation by its interest, is making re the rich harvest It active in this congross in very preparalion that s engugzed from every as Egypt, York from dis- tory an to in prospect 18 gathering quarter, in raw sugar far away having arrived at W few daya ago. A pateh stated that at no period in the h of th ree of New York amount of raw sugar been on hand. The raw al ranges through all qualities, which Is taken as another indica- tion that the after everything in sight. The shipments, it is sald, are from sugar-producing country on the globe and include the greater part of the available boet produced. A report from Philadelphia states that the wharves are not tensive enough to accommodate the sug laden vessels, s even as a cargo Alexandria a recent comn has such mat now in storage trust s is every sugar lately me of which have been com- pelled the river to await their turn ery ble warehouse in that city is full and wholesalers are le ing cellars in which to store sugar. The statement is made that not only has the trust gathered in all the raw sugar available, but the stock of refined sugar in the country is rapidly being wa to be held for the atdvance in price which is sure to follow the adoption of the proposed democratic sugar schedule, By holding all the available raw product the trust has practically cornered the market frozen out those who might be able to do harm to the sugar refining monopoly. Be- sides the sugar it has already imported the trust has a vast amount which it can bring in shall determine. It is stated that there are 50,000 tons of raw sugar in the West Indies which the trust has made no attempt to move in bulk, but all of which conld be landed in this country within a month. Upon these importations of raw sugar the government will get no reve- nue, but the consumers will have to pay the millions of extra profits which will accrue to the trust if the proposed democratic legis- lation regarding sugar is enacted. Whether under the sugar schedule of the pending tarift bill or the amended schedule, upon which the democratic conferees are expected to agree, the trust is assured an enormous extra profit on the refined sugar that will be made from the supplies of raw it is now accumulating. This will be taken out of the pockets of the people without contributing a dollar to the revenue of the government, which must wait nearly a year after the tariff bill goes into effect before it can get anything of consequence from the duty on sugar. It is a great opportunity which the democratic party has given one of the most rapacious of the monopolies. to anchor in to unload. av housed, and as circumstances It may as well be confessed that American pride has been a little hurt by the numer- ous defeats of the yacht Vigilant and the easy way In which the Oxford athletes van- quished the Yale men,but there are consolatory explanations. So far as the Vigilant is con- cerned, she had not until Saturday been given a fair opportunity to fully test her sailing qualities. She requires deep water and a good wind, and having both of these in the race over the queen’s course oft Cowes she easily outsailed the Britannia, winning by over six minutes of actual time. It has been conceded, even by some English experts, that the Vigilant is the faster boat, and evi- dence of this is mot confined to yesterday's race. As to the athletic contest, the claim is not unfairly made that while the Oxford team was selected from the best athletes of the twenty-one colleges embraced In the Ox- ford system, and therefore fairly represented England, the Yale team came from a single college, and was not entirely representative of America, since the team could have been strengthened by selections from other col- leges and universities. This claim Is not put DAILY BEE | by the par forth to detract from the victory of Oxford, but simply to correct the assumption that the result afforded a fair comparison of the mer- its of the American and English systems of collegiate physical training. These events have been marked by good feeling on both sides, so far as the participants are con- cerned, and they cannot fail to have a whole- some effect in stimulating a fraternal spirit of rivalry in the direction of rational sport. What gives every indication of being a long and bitter fight between the people of Milwaukee and one of the largest franchised corporations in that city has been begun by the refusal of the street railway company to continue the sale of commutation tickets 50 long as its assessment for taxation is not reduced. The tax assessors raised the val- uation of the company's property to some- thing like a fair estimate, compared with those put upon the private property of in- Qividuals, and this so roused the ire of the street rallway magnates that they de- termined to make reprisals upon their patrons. The people of Milwaukee have al ready commenced to hold indignation moet- ings and to threaten to use bicycles and other conveyances whenever possible, and the city authorities have shown a determi- lon to enforce strictly every ordinance tmposing a duty the street railway company. The question is simply one whether the franchised corporations ar amenable to the law or are above the law There is nothing at present to compel the company to sell commutation tickets, but it 15 asserted that before many days elpase it will find it to its own advantage to resume the practice thus interrupted, to upon It is not surprising to learn that the com- missioners sent to Washington to lay the case of the ex-queen of Hawail before the president and present another plea for her vestoration have been refused recognition by the secretary of state, They could not rea sonably have expected anything different, because, In the first place, they represent no exlsting government, and, In the secind place, the Executive department has rele gated the Hawallan matter to congress. The president has said as plainly as possible that ho wants nothing to do with it, ex- cept as instructed by congress. A resolution 1s pending in the house for the recognition of the republic of Hawali, and although the demoerats show some reluctance about adopt ing It, possibly for the reason that it might reflect on the course of the administra there is little reason t» doubt that ultimate! more the republic set up by the men Who organlze the provisiongl gpvernment will bs recog- nized by the Unied States. It is obviously the best way'df ‘Wringing the farcical busi- ness to an end = = owitirs aloag the new boulevards to object to the order for that has fssued remenm! ocoupy of Not expense of provided maintained Property who are templed beon they the owners permanent sidewalks them shiuld a much better position to that than abutfing hipon ordinary streets, the initial pa¥ément, but they Both bu'lt issioners. property only a durable with a are they spared ar nd The park com- mission will keeps it In the best pessible repair It is being spr at the cost of the public at large The fact that a street has been made a boulevard in itselt makes sbutting preperty more desirable and valuable. Uniform and ara to complete th oral effect So contribution from those fn the fmprcvement should forthcoming without complaint Supplying belligerents with the munitions of war may be a violation of strict neutral ity, but it has oceurred in that has taken place in the past and is likely to oceur in all wars of the future. It s al- ways disavewed by the governments thus violating the ne ity laws, who -claim have done everything in their power to pre- vent such violetions. In they are called upon to make age done by their neglect. in the present Corean war are suffering from infractions cf neutrality laws, but thie offending naticns are more powerful than either, their chances of securing indemnifi- cation ere slight indeed. They may be cx- pocted to vigorously, although the protest will not exert very much foree in all probability roadway com ukled more permanent walks needed small a most interested be every wa to some Instances good the dam- The belligerents the as protest The striking butchers at South Omaha cer- tainly deserve commendation for their or- derly conduct thus far. They should not permit their record to be stained by a re- sort to violence of any kind. At the same time their friends would like to see them maks scmo tangible effort have their differences with their employes adjusted The strike should not be unnecessarily lessly prolonged. to or use- Judge Ong, C. J. Smyth, and all the other member: Free Coinage Democratic much relieved. Until answered their polite become a candidate for senate they had F. J. Morgan of the Nebraska league now feel Congressman Bryan note inviting him to the United States neither sleep nor peace of mind for fear their invitation might meet a declination. They can now rest in peace. Mr. Bryan euchers the democratic state convention by framing a platform for him- self. Should the convention endorse him for the senate upon a platform conflicting with his own statement of principles, on which platform would Mr.' Bryan be running? The convention can consistently endorse Bryan only by promulgating his statement as its platform. —_— Popular Opinion of the Sennte. Loutsville Courier-Journal. The senate has ‘written its own doom. It might_have been forgiven the impotence of the extra session; it cannot be forgiven the insolence it now displays. The people have as little shage in its favor as they had In its election.” It is talnted with scan- dal, honeycombed with jobbery, evil rumors. The ticker clicks Legislation Is ‘shaped, by the stock er. The lobbyist 'is given ear while the people go Unheard. The verdict of the ballot is flouted, while protected monopolies are asked their ‘will. The people have no part or lot in such a babel of selfish in- terests, beset by under_the, in the Forum, ter of land is concerned the gre of Enelishmen are ten’ ants, and *“John Bull" pays a trifle more l!HIH $200,000,000 a year for farm rent alone. This fact becomes the more clear, and one may add the more lugubrious, when it is sald that there are 72,000,000 acres of land in the United Kingdont and that 50,000,000 of these acres are owned by 15,000 persons, and 30,000,060 are owned by only 1000 per- sons; in a word 38,185,000 inhabifants of Great Britain have 22000000 acres, and the other 15,000 have 000,000 acres; or, more concisely still, ‘1,600’ Englishmen’ owh five- twelfths of all tiie land in Great Britain, s ‘Principle Be Dinged; Offices Weo're Al Phil; Iphia Ledger. The democrats of North Dakota are not gaining in sense. They have decided to e with the populists. The antics of the party have clearly shown that it is not fitted” for legislation or administration, and the populist governors of Kansas, Colo. rado and Oregon have by their conduct of affairs demeaned the dignity of their of- fice. Nearly all the state officers of North Dakota, from Governor Shortridge down, are popul The fusion state ticket at the last e tlon had a majority of about 1,750 over the ublican ticket.” The pres- ent legislature is republican. ‘While the natural democratic vote in the state |s small, it would be better for the party in the long run to abide by its principles, in- stead of going after the loaves and fishes of fusion, a quest which bids fair to be disappointing. This is not a populist year. So far o Dangerous Blanders Waslington Post, We declare it as our deliberate opinfon that the attiiude of these who row antisone ize the senate amendments to the Wilson bill is not only a contradiction of the time- honored democratic gospel of “a tariff for revenue only,” but a demonstration of hos- tility to the welfare of the American people. The country needs now more than it has ever needed at any tme in the past, legls- lation that will give an Impetus to industry and commerce and at the same time re- cstablish public confidence by setting up the national finances. The house bill con- templates neither of these results, It ab- solutely forbids them both. And we tell the self-appointed champions of that un- toward blunder that while they play their mock heroles to cateh the plaudits of the Erounalings the structure of the tountrys welfare will tumble about their foolish ears. —_— BOIE VD HIS PARTY, f Democracy. ew York World: Governor Boles is a good example of a public man with convie- tions and the courage of them. Chicago Record: 'However disheartened the lowa democracy may feel at the prospect of an up-hill campaign, there is nothing in its platform to!indicate a tendency toward surrender. That 4locument is quite as out- spoken and trenchant as was ex-Governor Holes' speech Courler-Journals ;- Governor democracy to thy AVashington statesmen, and talks it in words “with the bark on." But if he wants to reach tho Gorman masters of the situation he, shenld talk in words with the “sugar” on,,,Soft words may butter no parsnips, German gang are of the Boles talks but thie opinion that suggred words honey some hives. Chicago Heralde The democrats of lowa stand to thelr guus.on the tarifft question Disdalning to notice” the lying assertions of the republicans (lmtithe present depression and the panic oflask year have been caused by fear of less arl plundering, they boldly place the respansibility for (hese things where It belongs. , Cincinnati Commercial: Ex-Governor Boles of Towa, in addressing the democratic state convention at Des Moines, was frank enough to say he could not look for- ward with confidence to the final consum- mation and faithful fulfillment of the prom- ises of his party. No sane man ever ex- pected ona of them to be kept. Minneapolis Journal: The Iowa democrats may have meant to declare themselves for sound money, since they voted down a free sitver resolution. But, after declarin for the use of gold and siiver “‘without discrim- ination” and for doMars of equal intrinsic value, they declare that all paper currency must be “redeemable in such coin. Which coln, gold or silver? Now, of course, dollars can't “be of equal Intrinsic value” if both are minted “without discrimination.” The intention of the plank doub'less was good, but it 13 far from being expliclt. MONDAY, AUGUST 6, & 1894, POLITICAL POTPOURRL Crounse’ s &M now the newspaper “Compromise on battle ery of the Majors-B. 8. itral City Nonparell: Tt looks much as Jack MacColl would be nominated on ballot Herald A state officer with a bloated countenance and a whisky hespearcd nose Is about as disgusting an object as one cares to meet Lincoln He J.H. Ager, B & M aster county delegation wtate convention Kearney Hub: So near and yot what Tom Majors sadly hums as he p forme the dutics of acting goverior in the absgence of Governor Crounse from the state Wallace Star: There is evidence in wight that Jack MacColl fs losing ground He has enthusiustic supporters in every connty in the state, and nothing short of a miracle can prevent his nomination. The populists of the First congressional district wil hold their convention at Te cnmseh Augnst 80, Nobody has as yet men tioned the name of Jerome Schamp fd th smination, but still there fs plenty of time ring him out. Wisner Chroniele Keep your eye on Gov- ernor Crounse while watching Majors and MeColl struggling for the highest persimmon on the political tree. After Tom and Jack shall tired each other out, Uncle Lo- renzo will gather the lucfous fruit Charles Wooster, editor of the Silver Creek Times, has announced his candidacy for the leglslature from Merrick county, but h he will not make any canvass for the nom nation. He proposes to be chosen fairly and openly by the delegates to the county con vention of their own free will, or not at all Wayne Herald: Mark the Herald's predic- tion: If the populist convention of this con- gressional distriet nominates a populist for congressman the democratic convention will not indorse him, no matter who he is. Please bear this in mind. Neither will the den crats be able to deliver the in this representattve or senatorial district should they promise support for Judge Robins Minden Courier: The Journal very feeble attempt to answer Th charges against Tom Majors and the republi- can committee, but utierly falls to mend matters. The World-Herald also takes a hand and tries, by ridecule, to discounte- nance Rosewater's statements, but the remain, and they are surely stubborn things The “honorable bilk” from Nemaha must take his medicine Lincoln Call: Matt ald: It transpires that Colonel capper, named the Lane to the repubilcan so far, Is no to Daugherty, the repub- lican nominee for congress in the Sixth dis- trict, deserves the recognition which he has received. No man in the western part of the state has labored harder for the success of the republican party than Mr. Daugherty. He has checrfully given his time and ability to the upbuilding of the republican cause, and he enjoys the respect and warm friend- ship of people of all classes in the Big Sixth. Lincoln News: If the rumor that comes from Omaha to the effect that Majors will slamp to Crounse and take the lieutenant governorship is true, Mr. Moore and his friends who really want him to be lieuten- ant governor will ba in a fair way to learn another lesson. And that lesson will be, when you want an office make your own fight and don’t plug up delegations for others in the hope of being carried in on their shoulders. Some of the populists of Otoe county are laboring under the impression that the last legislature reapportioned the state and that Cass county is no longer attached to Otoe for a float representative. The Syracuse Herald announces that Cass Is now attached to Saunders, and makes fun of the papers that have been figuring on the old appor- tionment. The laugh this time is on the Herald. It thought the last legislature did what it ought to have done, but it didn’t by a good deal. Grand Island Independent: The best of the men mentioned for the gubernatorial nomination of the republican party is un- doubtedly Cady of St. Paul, who s an able and clean man, not burdened with railroad connections of any kind. The republic chances are splendid, If the candidate is a man who deserves the full confidence of the people, but without such a candidate the party may again be defeated, as it was when it placed that weak man from Fremont as its leader at the head of its state ticket. Grand Island Times: Daugherty is exactly the candidate to meet the requirements of the complex situation in the Sixth district and carve out one of the most notable victories that has ever been recorded in the political annals of Nebraska. Possibly some other candidate as strong could have been se- lected, but certainly none who would have been stronger. Mr. Daugherty is pre-em inently qualificd to represent any congres- sional district in Nebraska, and the fact that he is a rustler from head to heel is good reason why he should succeed the famous nonentity whose capacity has been circum- scribed by his ability to sign vouchers for his unearncd salary and set aside a slice of the public domain for a cemetery at Sidney. Jarvis S. Church makes the following com- ment in the Auburn Post: Church Howe is Nemaha county’s candidate for congress, and his name will be presented to the Nebraska City convention as a candidate for that po- sition Wo desire to see him nominated and elected; first, because we know him thor- oughly and like him as a friend and neigh bor; second, for twenty-five years we have seen him in various trying positions, in which he has succeeded to the entire satisfuction of all when most men would have failed. At the Minneapolis national convention he could do more in influencing men of authority and clothed with power than could any or all others from the state, and the favors thu granted were distributed to all the bo alike. At our own state conventions, when other men failed to control the turbulent spirits, Church Howe, being called up, has succeeded. In our state legislature no man ever wielded greater influence in trouble or out of trouble than he, his enemies being the Judges, and in this he has proven himself time and again to be the champion of the common people. Is there another man in this district of whom every man can say we are certain he will be. ready to successfully meet every emergency in which he may be called upon to act? There are many men whom we think might do fairly well, but they have had his opportunities. They have stood side by side with him and still he was the man called upon by the multitude in preference. All this means something, at least it does to us. All we have now to say is that the push, energy, ability and expe- rience of such a man is ready and willing to serve the people of this congressional dis- trict If such is their desire. Nemaha county may be pardoned if she desires his nomina tion; we love to honor such a man; but, how- ever much wa desire it, we are not going to insist it we are convinced that the judgment of the coming convention is not favorable. We believe, however, that it ls. We can- aidly admit to be true all that has been urged in favor of Judges Strode and Chap man and shall work heartily for the election of elther if nominated, but we shall consider the matter as very unfortunate for the en- tire district if Church Howe s not the nomi- of that convention. — Mount Tacomn as & Park. Denver Republican. proposition to_ establish a national which would include in fts limits in the state of Washington h should commend itself to the Mount Tacoma I8 interesting in that it contains near its immit what may b alled relics of the glacial perfod. There are several glaclers and also speci- mens of Arctic flora and fauna, such as can be found in but few If any other places in the United States. While the establish- ment of the proposed park can hardly be sald to be essential to the preservation of these things, it may be essential to the sreservation of the forest growing at th se and upon the lower slopes of the untains, Ra In the Senato Hill We Trust. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The only safe course 18 to pass the senate bill. Not that this bill will bring back the prices and prosperity that we had in this Country. 1t will help, however. It will cer- tainly bo far better than to leave the Mc- Kinley bill on the statute books. Let us have back American money, not Enghsh money; American prices for labor and pro- duet, not English prices; then we shall have American energy and prosperity. nise wnd the Realization, Philadelphia Press, July 31 western democratic newspapers, the rald, for instance, which induced of 'that section to ‘“vote for oy veland and $1.25 wheat,” saw that cereal sell in Chicago on Saturday at less price than corn sold in Omaha yes arday. And the democratic party has not “tually “begun business yet. What they have given us so far is anticipatory only. The park Mount 15 one governme The Pr The Chicago H the people Shall the The ecand fronts the A menace acy of Thomas J. Majors con- republican pacty of Nebraska to Its in the To elevate him to the position of success impending campaign standard bearer will place the party on TELL-TALE REEP 1T BEFORE \ 1 J 1 Party Commit Itself to ¢ Standard Bearer ? the sive and subject it to a galling fire that ' | RAPUBLICANS, 1 Tattooed following bill, certified as president of the s Im‘ to by T % ta) nate, was placed Lin the hands of the auditor and a warrant for §75 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bal- wnce due for alleged services In the senate for the last fifteen days of the month: CERTIFICATE TFor Servicesas < © JSrom... € 1001, 60 days di Miteaye Balance e, Lincoln, AR, day of. [& Liay of. perday, - 39 2.9 -mites at 10 cents per mite, Total, = Deduct amount drawn, 13 RS @4 Dreee, Eramined g Attest, Py g = oA /- 107, Warrant No. it could not withstand. every party leader on compelled to champion man who is tattooed dellible infamy. They would be confronted at every crossroad 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 commonwealth had honored with a place in the halls of congress as their representa- tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbehavior of that same ex- congressman while acting in capacity of president of the state senate. During two sessions of the legislature in which he occupied the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as lieutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and capper for the corporation lobby, and exerted all his power and influence during each 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 se 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 bili. 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 lime of his abrupt departure in the middle of March. On March 31, Bvery candidate and the stump would be the candidacy of a with a record of in- when the sesslon closed, ™~ bttt focounts, /2‘ /,)('/, £ »/,m\,/ Deprty, Drrored T State, g Deputy, Reccived of 'l'.ll.lg VIO X Auditor of Dup) Py that the above ecount is correet apud ust, and has ot been paid. (Surtiene) AR @ tovnr = e 7)) / “Amount, ;/ V), (v The above is a fac simile of the certificate signed by Lieutenant Governor Majors 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. Seely, private sccretary of the lieutenant governor, and pocketed by him. Taylor never received a penny of this money fraudu- lently procured by the connlvance of the lieutenant goverior. This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a dangerous man in any public office. When he certified that Taylor had served through the entire term he knowingly and wit tingly committed a grave crime that laid him liable not only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the eriminal courts. Had Majors certificd to a frandulent 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 chief executive of state and commander-in- chief of the military forces of the commons wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the leutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the senate cham- ber into a legislative oil room, in which iiquor 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 to the gang carried a Yale lock key in his pocket so as all times, night or day, when the senate was in session or at recess, to the demijolns and decanters filled with choice brands of liquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously sup- plied regardless of expense by the corporate 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? who belonged to have access at THE TELL-TALE T3 MAJORS, LITUTENANT BONERNOR. PERU, NEMAWA COURTY TAYLOR ORDFR. | Senate ¢ hamber, Zene @Me’./ anr. CAfaril Zo Algan 7 narv MQ/ wanfilz/n;b\,l The above is a fac simile of the order of the abducted ex-senator authorizing Walt Seely to receipt the vouchers and warrants for his unearned salary. It will be noted that the order is in the handwriting of Walt M. Seely, private secretary of Licutenant LUBRICATED LEVITY. You never hear of mosquitoe couple Galyeston News: on the of lovers complain front porch New York Weekly: Dentist—What! You don't want gas? You insisted upon having gas the time. Vietim—You haven't been eating onions this time. Here s an | in IMlorida 1t What “Wade and Printer’s Ink: Reporter- about a boy who went wadin and swallowed by an alli head shall 1 use? Lditor—Try Found Wanting." Indianapolis Journ “My sympathies, sald the effervescing young wo altogether with the dear Japanese Y85 are our hired girl’s’' responded the matron, “She belleves all china should be eternally smashec Hightone—Tt must such good rep Mrs, M and 1 am rday she surely Harper's Bazar: M be 50 comforting to h from your daughter at Vassar, prop—Yes; Emily 18 a bright girl very proud of her. Only ye sald in her letter that she 1 wear glasses by the end of the year. it oc- Indianapolis Journal: Mrs. Watts 0 o curs to me that this 15 a very good time forgiye one's enemy Mrs. Potts—1'd like to know why Mrs, Watts—Just think what fur in heaping coals of on his sort of weather. there is fir ad this TRYING TIMES, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oh, the fat man he waddles, Tho fat man he toddles, The fat man will melt if hé stops; With never surcease Of his studies in grease As ho mops, and he mops, and he mopsl p boe, g en_, /728, ’/ff/ to vveeher, Lzer j;[m/ It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but is written on an of- ficial blank, headod with the name of the licutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the date line left blank, except the figures 1591, Governor Majors, THE OLD HOME NINE, Louls Post ball groun's ball; uther 1t fime Wis very st ' bin to th ) Bee w game somehow ke an ole tho' the cr An' the playin’ good, th T kep' thinkin' I'd ruther s Our home nine play. But Hdn't seem Al Bubby Grimes, us; half as blg Ye never heard o' Who uster piteh for wagn't more'n pm's glant 1Rus he struck out fifteen In the game they played t I'd a heap ruther see Grime Our home nine play We didn't have a base ball flel’, With 5 aroun’ bliny s medde it Wi h feller hunkered on the grass Without a cent to pay, An' people cum fer milex to see Our home nine play No player got a salary Who was in our ole hon An’ sich a thing was neve W man a-payin’ a fine; ach one's heart wis in th wus out to win the fruy I wisht that I could onct more Our home nine pl Kame ¢ bin to the ball groun's o o game all; But how ‘nuther it didn't seem Like p ole home game ‘tall, An' T kept longin' all the time Tor the gone-by Saturday When I set on the grass to see Our home nine play,