Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DATLY BEE. IWATER, Editor. PUDLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— o TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fly Bes (without Sunday) One Year. fly Hee and Sunday, One Year (x Months v hree Months ois Bunaay nes. Orie Viar Baturdny Bee, One Year Weekly 1es, One Year.... OFFICE Omitha, The Bee Bullding Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Counell Ty, 12 ear] Street, Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce, New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1107 F Street, N, W. CORRESPONDENCE, oms relating to news and edi- ¥ slould be addressed: To the Iditor. DUSINESS LETTERS. Al business letters and remittances should be addressed ta The les Publishing company, Omaha, Drafis, checks and postofiice orders to be made pay o the ovder of the company. i PUBLISHING COMPANY. f*s38338 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 11 Trachuck, seeretary of The Jinhing compiny. being duly sworn, sy the_wctunl number of full mpiite of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Dee printed during the month of July, 1594, was as Tollows: 1. e V24015 17. L2 18 10! 2 Total . Less deductions for coples Total sold ? e Daily average net circulation.. *Sunday. i GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this 1st day of August, 1591 (8enl.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Publle., Is the Breckinridge campaign for a con- gressional renomination to last until the eve of election? The proceedings of the democratic house caucus demonstrate that Speaker Crisp is more than ever cock of the house walk. No man has a right to ask for a plice on the republican ticket this year whose record has to be defended or apologized for. Great Britain is out with her proclama- tion of neutrality. President Cleveland will probably take the hint within a few days. ‘The milk in the cocoanut has several ad- vantages over that supplied from poorly fed cows In filthy ‘dairies to the patrons of cer- tain local milk dealers. A steady maximum temperature three or four degrees above 90 serves to remind us all that August is usually reputed fo be one of our hottest months. What has become of the Humane society while some of the graders have been liter- ally starving their horses to death? Is that soclety In existonce now only on paper? The only way by which the Japanese can hope to become citizens of this country is to neo to it that they are born in the United Btates and subject to the jurisdiction there- of. The South Omaha strikers must know that a resort to violence will deprive them of whatever popular sympathy they may have. Lawlessness must and will be put down. The republican party must nominate clean 5 ad capable men for every position on the ticket from governor down to road super- wisor, That is the only safe path to party success. The paved roadway from the city boundary to Benson will be completed within the next ton days, and when the few blocks that romain unpaved between the boundary and Walnut Hill are paved this road will be- come the most popular of all our drives. Omaha dealers claim to have gotten on the winuing side of the rise in corn and to have raked off a neat share in the profits of tho flurry. It is consoling to know that #omo of the loss from drouth-damaged corn fs thus oarly recouped from the eastern grain speculators, Free sugar Is out of the question, except for certaln democratic senators, who may expect to bo furnished free sugar by a grateful Sugar trust. The common people will have to pay for their sugar a price sufficient to reimburse thio trust for the outlays it has been com- pelled to make to keep its senators faithful. The French authorities do not intend to mince matters about exccuting the assassin of the late President Carnot. Ten days to them is ample respite for the prisoner and the chances of reprieve or stay on appeal are extremely slight. The executioner's knife is already being sharpened and will do its appointed work at the hour named unless some unexpected occurrence should intervene to prevent. The appointment of James D. Porter of Tennessee to be district judge was doubtless primed so as ‘to give President Cleveland an opportunity to reward some other good dem- ocrat with the place now held by Mr. Porter, namely, the Chilian ministry. The new min- Ister to Chili will of course be named with speclal reference to the probable effect of the appointment upon the coming congres- slonal clections. Local republicans are alive to the duty that will devolve upon them during the comiug state convention, and are preparing to entertain the visitors in a manner worthy of the occasion. Omaha wants to make so good an Impression upon delegates and can- didates that they will all prefer to have succeeding state conventions held in Omaha. The way to do this is to make every one feel that he is individually welcome, Don't lmagine for an instant that Con- gressman Bynum stands alone In the house in favor of ylelding to the demands of the senate tarift conferces. There are plenty of democratic congressmen who are so anxious to got home that they are willing to take the senate bill or any other bill that may be offered. They dare not express their real desires, however, and for this reason the domocrats of the house still present to the outer world an appearance of solidity, o The situation at South Omaha makes it more than ever apparent that annexation %8 demanded In the interest of law and order. The South Omaha police force of the chief and eight men is inadequate to repress mob violence or riotous disturb- ance just as the South Omaha fire depart- ment is inadequate to suppress an extensive conflagration. As a matter of self preserva- tion South Omaha should consolidate with Dmaba within the next twelve months, WHERE WILL THEY BE AT? The silver plank In the platform of the republicans of the Bixth congressional dis- trict 18 warmly defended by one of its framers in a letter which we print else- where, writer asserts that this plank was mogeled after the national republican platforms of 1588 and 1892, and he further- more insists that each congressional district has a right to formulate its own views on any of the vital issues before the people, re- gardless of what position the state conven- tion may take upon the same question. On both these points The Bee takes most de- cided Issue. The Sixth district had a right to reaffirm the pledges made by the last national con- vention on auestion of sllver colnage, but it had no right to InWerpolate it or mis- Interpret its meaning. The platform of 1888 simply declared the party to be in favor of and denounced the for attempting to the convention of the gold and siivor as money democratic administrdtion demonetize silver. What 1888 tntended to convey by the declaration 18 at this time a matter of conjecture. General Harrison did not refer to that plank in his letter of acceptance of 1888 nor in his in- augural. The denunciatfon of the demo- cratic administration may have had refer- ence to the policy of Cleveland's secretary of the treasury in exercising his discretion under the Bland-Allison act of 1878 adverse to the extensive circulation of siiver. But the fact that the national convention of 1888 denounced the democratic party for its hos- tility to silver does not justify the republi- cans of 1894 to denounce the democratic party for the alleged “crime of 1893." We might just as woll denounce the dem- ocratic party at this time for declaring the war a failure in its national platform of 1864. The conditions of 1894 are not the conditions of 1888. In 1888 silver was rang- ing from 90 cents to $1 an ounce. This year it has been ranging from 60 to 65 cents an ounce. The divergence is 8o great now be- tween the commercial and colnage value of the metals that it would be utterly impos- sible to bring them together and keep them together at the old ratio, even by an inter- let alone under a free by international agreement, unsupported national colnage act agreement. What is the. “crime of 1803" anyway? The Sherman act was passed by a republican congress and approved by a republican pres- ident with a view of stimulating the price ot silver and raising its commercial value up to the coinage standard. The experiment was a lamentable failure and the repeal of the act was demanded and supported by re- publicans with very few exceptions. What sense is there in denouncing the democrats for demonetizing silver when they had no more to do with it than the republicans? We deny the right of any congressional district to commit the party to a position on the question of free silver or any other natonal issue. Such a practice would dis- member the party. No party divided into fragments upon vital questions could survive very long. Furthermore, such a course, even it it was proper, would be impolitic. The democracy in this and other states is hope- lessly divided on that issue and republicans are in position to profit by that division. What advantage is to be gained by wab- bling and jugglery on the silver issue? How many Bryan democrats will be caught by any such chaff? Is it not absolutely cer- taln that the only hope of getting support from democrats for republican candidates in the present campaign is through a firm stand for sound money as against any scheme of free coinage flatism? In other words, it is a foregone conclusion that the Bryan free coinaga wing will support populists as against any republican, and the democrats who oppose the debasing of the currency will not vote with republicans unless the party and its candidates stand up for honest money as defined by ex-President Harrison in his letter of acceptance for 1592, When the republicans of the Sixth district come to face this issue squarely where will they be at? A SENSIBLE VETO MESSAGE. The veto message sent by President Clove- land to the house of representatives on Tues- day is sensible, and commendable because sensible. The president refuses to sign a bill passed by cqngress authorizing him to appoint an ex-army officer, designated by name, to be second lieutenant in the artil- lery, to be placed immediately upon the retired list for disability, without even the customary examination by a retiring hoard The reason assigned for this refusal is that such special legislation is subversive of sound policy and good administration, It must be acknowledged that the practice of prostituting the retired list of the regu- lar army to the private benefit of men who have mo claim to its privilege has become altogether too prevalent. President Clove- land himself confesses to having signed sev- eral bills equally objectionable as this from this point of view, his scruples having been overcome in eich instance by the persuasive force of sympathy and sentiment. The fact that the president has himself been. incon- sistent on this subject does not, however, affect the soundness of his present position, The retired list of the army was originally intended as a provision for army officers who maintain their good standing until in- capacitated for service by uge or disability. To the officers of the regular army it was to be what the retired list is for judges of the federal courts—both an opportunity to live in comfort when a life work has been exhausted and a means of keeping the actual work in the hands of men able to attend to it. A bl authorizing the presi- dent to appoint a designated man to. a vacant judgeship to be immedlately rotired would secure no recognition in congress whatever, yet bills to use the army retired list for a similar purpose viewed as perfectly legitimate. If the beneficiary Is really deserving there are, as the president points out, various ways in which relict bills may be framed without destroying the sig- nificance of the retired list. The particular bill which has falien under the president’s veto appears to have few, if any redeeming features, the officer for whose beuefit it was intended having for- feited his place in the army through gross misbehavior and having spared no efforts to overturn the finding of the court martial that dismissed bLim through political in- fluence and political wire pulling. At the same time the principle at the bot- tom of the president’s reasoning has a wider application than to this one method of per- verting the retired list. The latter is sub- Ject to attacks from the executive as well as the leglalative, Too often are promotions ln the army and navy made merely to glve the appolntee a higher title and pay in order to retire in a few months to better advan- tage than before. Frequently the near ap- proach of the age for retirement Ls one of the most potent arguments advanced in favor of jumplug this person or that person out of the regular order and compelling those in the line of promotion to wait. The fraud is not 0 much upon the latter as upon the people who wre forced to support & retlred are list larger than the spirit of the law con- templates. Unfortunately judiclal ~appoint- ments have also on one or two occaslons been prompted by the prospect of retire- ment after the minimum period of service, and a suspicion of this character has at- tached to some of President Cleveland’s own appointments to the bench. But it he will stently in the future the prineiple enunciated in his veto message we shall try to forgive his Inconsistencies in respect to it in the past. SETTLE THE STRIK The South Omaha butchers' strike has reached the dangerous point. The attempt of the strikers to carry their demands by force will compel the local authorities to resort to foree to repress disturbance and protect property. 1If the police and sheriff’s deputies are overpowered the militia will have to be put in requisition, and it the militia fail to restore peace and keep the disturbing ele- ment under subjection the regular army will doubtless be called out, as it was twelve years ago during the so-called dump riots in this city. The outcome would in the end be disastrous to the striking butchers, although it weuld aiso inflict seriois damage upon the packers, and incidentally cripple this community. As a matter of fact, incaleulable amount of damage has al- ready been inflicted upon South Omaha and Omaha by the strike. Our stock market had been steadily gaining ground within the past six months. Omaha had overtaken Kansas City, and become second only to Chicago as a packing center. The strike has diverted a large part of this business, and it will take months if not years to recover lost ground. Nobody has been the gainer, and nobody can gain anything by the strike, whatever way it may terminate. why cannot the strike be settied ably and amicably? The striking chers have offered to submit their differ- ences to arbitration. The packers, as usual in almost every strike, declare they have nothing to arbitrate. They claim that there really Is little or no difference between the existing butchers’ scale and the demand of the striking butchers. If this is true, great harm would come from arbitration. If the arbitrators cannot agree, no harm can come from making the effort. In our judg- ment the packers and stock yards people are interested in settling the strike ami- cably. The glory and triumph of winning in such a fight will be more than offset by the bitterness engendered. If the conflict tinues any length of time it will be carried into politics in the next legislature, and the next legislature is liable to retaliate in a way that will permauently cripple the stock yards and do nobody any good. It seoms to us that arbitration 1s a very slight concession to organized labor. If it is not adopted voluntarily it will be made compulsory by law in spite of all the re- sistance of corporate employers. adnere to an no con- CONGRESS AND THE COMBINATIONS. In the whitewashing report of the demo- crats of the senate committee that investi- gited the sugar scandal there is a para- graph which has not received the attention it merits. 1t Is this: “Though perhaps outside the scope of the duty imposed upon your committee, they take occasion to strongly deprecate the importunity and pressure to which congress and its members are subjected by the representatives of great industrial combinations, whose enormous wealth tends tn suggest undue influence and to create in the public mind @ demoralizing belief in the existence of corrupt practices.” Having made this statement it would seem that some member of the committee might with entire propriety have proposed some way to remedy this abuse, which is a re- proach to congress and the country. But no suggestion looking in this direction has been made and it must be assumed that members of congress will continue to tol- erate the importunities of representatives of industrial combinations as well as of those of the corporations which maintain a lobby at Washington to dine and wine congressmen regardless of expense whenever the interests of the corporations are to be looked after. To merely- deprecate this state of affairs amounts to nothing. 1t will not deter the combinations and corporations from sending men to the seat of government to influence legislation, nor will It have any effect upon members of congress who are willing to hold intercourse with these men. And so long as this is tolerated the public will be fully war- ranted in believing in the existence of cor- rupt practices. Indeed, the fact that the combinations and corporations keep repre- sentatives at Washington must be taken as prima facie evidence that such practices do exist. 1If it was simply the purpose of the corporations to enlighten congress regarding proposed legislation affecting their interests there would be no necessity for keeping at Washington high-salaried representatives with unlimited means at their command. It is because they know there are congressmen who can be corruptly manipulated that they keep well paid lobbylsts at Washington who undorstand the arts by which weak and dis- honest men are caught. Perhaps the cnly suro cure for the abuse which the members cf the senate investigat- ing committee deprecate is to be found in a higher standard of public morality and self- respect among congressmen. No such scan- dals as bring reprosch upon the American congress are ever heard about the British Parliament or the French Assembly. The obvious explanation is that the members of bodies are constantly solicitous to maintain unsullied their character as public men. They know that the suspicion of any connection with corrupt practices will destroy them politically, and consequently they are careful to maintain a high standard of public morality and honesty. They are not subjected to the importunity and pres- sure of combinations and corporations be- cause they will not permit it. A member of the House of Commons whose ear was at the command lobbyists and who commonly assoclated wilh them, as many of the mem- bers of congress do, accepting their favers )f one sort and another, would be retired to private life and political obscurity at the first opportunity. Our earlier congresses were free from scandals because their me bers had truer ideas of integrity and moral- ity in public life, and also a loftier sense of the honor and dignity of their positions. The men Who gave character to the earlier congresses wero not mere politicians and their ideas of public duty were clevated and clean. True, there was no Sugar trust or Coal syndicate in those days to practice cor- ruption, but there is no reason to doubt that the men of that time would have been preof cgainst even these influences. The im- portunity and pressure of the represgntatives of industrial combinations will cease just as soon as members of congress refuse utterly to have anything to do with these people personally and keep aloof from them. Sen- ator Mills set an admirable exsmple when he declined to see the president of the Sugar trust, kuowing the object of that offcial in ling on him. If all congressmen would emulato this example there would speedily bo an end to the umportunity on the part of those most of on . ’ ; P 1T BEFORE REPUBLIGANS. lobbylats and to the scandals that bring re- proach upon Thngyess and the American pecple. appears 18 be no doubt that as carried Afabama, but that there fraud in the eloction, as charged by seoms toube no less cortain, and it is highly probable that the defeated candidate and his supporters will make some trouble before the matter 15 settled. This 1s fndicated by the tan- guage of his published statement, in which he claims to have been elected by a large majority and charges wholesale frauds on the part of the;supporters of Oates. The closing paragraph of this statement contains a distinct threat and Kolb has heretofore shown that he has fighting qualities which compel the respect of his adversaries. The contest between the Kolb faction of the dem- ocracy and the regular organization has been golng on for four years. In 1890 Kolb was defeated for the nomination for governor in the regular convention and then claimed that he was defrauded. Two years later he again lost the nomination, having in th meanwhile allied himself with the farmers alliance, and he ran separate ticket He was defeated, and then, as now, charged nis defeat to fraud. This year Kolb was nominated by a conventlon representing a combination of democrats, republicans and populists and made an aggressive campaign. The democrats, however, were well organ- ized, they had many speakers in the field and they appear to have made gains among the colored voters, What Kolb can do in the matter, beyond holding public meetings and denouncing the successful party as he did two years ago, is not apparent, but he may be expected to raise a good deal of a disturbance. The election of a successor to United States Senator Morgan was an {mpor- tant factor in the campaign and undoubtedly exerted a considerable influence favorable to Oates. Thore Oates was on a to The decision by Judge Bellinger that the allotment of Indian lands in severalty makes the Indian an American citizen and deprives him of the benefit of any special legislation onacted for his benefit by congress is doubt- less the logic of the law, but it is sure to create trouble for the Indians who find them- selves with a title to their shares of the tribal lands. The judge was led to this con- clusion by the case of a man accused of ille- gally selling liquor to an Indian, in which a defense was entered that the law prohibiting such sale applied to Indians only in their tribal states. The theory upon which the decision is based is that the jurisdiction of congress under the constitution to legislate for the domestic affairs of the Indian is con- fined to the tribal Indian. It assumes that whenever congress orders the lands allotted in severalty the Indian has progressed far enough to take care of himself and has no longer need of a federal guardianship. This, in most instances, is really not the truth, because the aljotment. is made {rom alto- gether differentf motives. The Indian is in as much need ¢f federal control and super- vision after as ‘before allotment. Take that protection away, and the Indian will be help- less in the hands of unscrupulous whites. The large number of counterfeiters re- cently apprehended.by the government detec- tive service shows how irresistible a big stake Is to crooks ‘and thieves in spite of the almost certain detection that follows the act. There is scarcaly an unpunished coun- terfeiter in the couritry, vet there are hun- dreds of men ready to embark in every coun- terfeiting enterprise. The counterfeiter - is doomed the moment he sets about his work. Figuring on Globe-Democcat, tradstreet’s” makes the aggregate cost of the recent strike $51,000,000, of whicn considerably more than half is in wages. The railroads lost by destruction of prop- orty about $2,000,00, and this they will re- cover from taxpayers. Fruit growers are out $2,500,000, and can call on no one to re- imburse them. Moest of them are poor men, struggling to make both ends meet. Harmony In the Carolinas. Chicago Inter Ocean. The democracy of South Carolina is h: ing a real lively, nice time all by itsell. Governor Tillman'calls General Butier some fourteen different kinds of ‘“‘a liar,” and Butler shows that Tillman is ‘“a’ white sepulcher of fraud,” with all the colors of “u hypocrite'’ painted all over him. The state has not been so amused and enter- tained since the days of the Hamburg mas- sacre. —— The kxodus to Europe, Indianapolis Journal, 7 . The exodus to Iurope which be in the spring still continues and Some of the steamers which left New York last week carried as many as 1,000 steerage passengers. Steamship agents es- timate that not less than 25,000 a month are now returning to Iiurope as a result of hard times and low rates. 1t is a sin- gular illustration of the operation of nat- ural causes in the correction of social con- ditions. e Millions 1n the Sugar Deal. Cincinnati Commercial. The sugar recelpts at the four ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Balti- more since January 1, or since the develop- ment of the sugar policy of the democracy led by the president and the senate—are 1532043 tons, ‘or about fifty pounds for each sugar_consuming person, and on this the agreed sugar schedule 'will advance the price 2 cents a pound, or $1 per caplta. In other words, the people of the United States are to turn ‘over $60,000,000 to the trust that has the patronage of the president and democratic senators. e Scandalous Misconduct of Senators, New York World. ‘This report casts such a stigma upon the senators as no newspaper publication could. It discredits both the intelligence and the integrity of that body. It betrays its utter incapacity to deal with misconduct on the part of its own members, and reveals its entire lack of desire or willingness to do so. It is a consent to shame, a confession of blind insensibility to scandalous misconduct. The report leaves the senate worse smirched with suspicion than before. It will con- vince the public that those accusations are true which the report is carefully framed to deny, “The whole proceeding has been n cowardly shirking, and no man's reputation will suffer more by it than Senator Gray's. e A Deniordllelng Ruling. Minn#apbifs Tribune. It appears that' President Lincoln, in 1862, tssued an order %0 ‘the effect that soldiers should not be compelled to do unnecessary work on Sunday. Recently a private named Cedarquisi, was ordercd by his sec ond lleutenant Lo, engage In target practice on that day, and réfused. He was tried by court martial and’ sentenced to fine and imprisonment. The! tecretary of war has now ordered that the sentence be remitted and that the officer Iwho issued the legal order must be L ht to trial for dis- obedience to the president’s order. The at- torney who defénlgd Codarquist declurcs that' the effect of 1E ruling Is that a sol- dier need only obfy 'wful orders. This would scam#e be a dangerous rul ing, subversive ofidiscipline and good order in the army. Thi'first duty of a soldier is to obey, and he #inot to stop to ask ques- tions or discuss llegal points. The officer may be presumed 1o be as well posted on the law as the private; if he isn't, he issues an unlawful order at his peril,'and may subsequently be punished for ft—but (h: duty of the soldier at the moment is to obe: without question. = It would be rather a dangerous state of aftairs if a company or regiment were confronting a victous mob and the soldlers should set up their own private judgment and declare the orders glven them by the officers to fire or charge to be lllegal. The order {ssued by the sec- retary of war cannot fall to exert a demor- allzing effect upon the army. Cedarquist should be punished for disobedience. The right course for him to have pursued was to obey the order for target practice, under protest, at the time, and afterwards bring Charges against the' lieutenant for issuing an lllegal order. Such a course would b in the line of the strict maintenance of dis- clpline, T the privates in rank are to be allowed to set up as amateur lawyers and act upon their own judgments as to whether orders are legal or illegal, the army will be- come & mob, n early ncreases. Kolb, | ) REFLECTIONS ON RAIN MAKING. New York Sun: Prof. Dinsmore of the Normal school at Bmporia and other Kansas experimenters are working hard to produc rain by artificlal means. If the Kan farmers want rain, why don't they get up a pleine or induce the iegislaturs to prohibit the use of umbrellas? If mere thunder and guns could be depended upon to broxch th casks of heaven, the populists would have Kansas ten feet under water. Boston Globe: Speaking of Prof. Fernando Sanford says in the Popular Sclence Monthly: “There Is no evidence to show that even the smallest local shower has been produced artificially, Further than that, it is safe to say that no method of pro- ducing artificlal rain has yet been publicly proposed which suggests to one familiar with the sclentific principles involved even a pos- sibility of success.”” But, then, there were sclentific gentlomen who told Noah once that he was away off fn thinking there was going to be a flood. Philadelphia Inquirer: Prof. Sanford says that theoretically the best way to produce raln would be to send up liquefied carbonic acld, because in vaporizing and expanding the acid would take enough heat from the surrounding air to set molecules vibrating in gaseous form. But to cool the air sufficient to give a quarter of an inch of rain over a square mile would take 400,000,000 pounds of the acid, and if such a quantity could be pur- chased at a dollar a pound the cost would be $600,000 per acre for acid alone. The plan of the professed rainmaker seems to be to contract to furnish rain to as many sections of the country as possible. If it rains over any one of these areas he will collect the pay. It it does not rain the experiment has cost no!hing. Springfield Republican: — Fafth in the pos- sibility of bringing down raln by artificial means s particularly strong with the officials of the Rock Island railroad, and while Prof. Sanford of California is writing down the failure of all such ecxperiments, the Rock Island road has an experimenter named Jewell at work trying to bring moisture upon the parched plains through’ which the road runs. They declare that he has been successful enough to warrant their furnish- ing him a special car and paying his ex- penses, besides a salary. Jewell claims to be able, by the discharge of certain gases in the air, to so far reduce the temperature as to bring about precipitation. He tells big stories, but the Rock Island people scem to think them true, and testify to this opinion by the expenditure of some money. St. Paul Pioneer Press: But this year was the ralnmaker's opportunity, and where is he? Never was there such a chance for him to confound the skeptics. For weeks the prayer of a line of great commonwealths, from Manitoba to Texas, has been for rain. A moderate discharge would have saved crops worth millions of dollars. In South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas a rainmaker with any evidence to support his title could have won a bigger harvest from the clouds than the rescued farmer from his crop. The demand for rain was never more general or urgent. So, too, there would have been little chance to dispute the right of the rain- maker to credit for any precipitation that occurred. The drouth was so prolonged and severe that a break in it could hardly have been attributed to natural causes. The rain- maker who really brought rain would have marched out with flying colors. — e PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ho is a wise senator who recognizes his own Sugar orders. Ex-Secretary of War Dick Thompson is writing a book, and he is 83. His great age protects him. The late victories of the Vigilant con- firm the popular notion that George Gould is a capital fellow. If reports from the seat of war are correct, the Chinese are going after bottom facts with persistent regularity. It took seven hours’ balloting to nominate Christian Holler for congress at South Bend, Ind. But he is not out of the woods yet. A poll of the Ashland district gives Breck- inridge nearly twice as many votes as either Owens or Settle. Blue grass reformers are opposed to untried men, evidently. A cursory reading of Chicago papers leads to the conclusion that Mr. Stead’s reputation would be materially enhanced in the city if he would write less about Chicago. While J. Sllican Coxey was addressing a multitude at Alliance, O., a horse standing near dropped dead. The animal was hitched short and could get out of range of Coxey’s voice. It is proposed to erect in Washington a monument to Pierre C. L'Enfant, the engincer who planned the streets of the city. His remains are buried at Green Hill, Md., where he died in 1524 The Genini, a naphtha launch built for President Cleveland, was seized by the Standard Oil company at New Haven for debt. As soon as the seizers learned the name of the owner they dropped it quite suddenly. 2 Brooklyn is experimenting with poslal trolley cars. Two cars have been fitted for that purpose—one half of each arranged for the handling and assorting of mails. ~ They will be operated between the city and outly- ing districts. Au editor in New Mexico was enthusfasti- cally walloped by local censors for failing to exercise judicious supervision over his “patent inside.” The incident suggests that border journalists should lay aside the saw and ax and test their guns on the boiler plate. Judge Amos M. Thayer, the new circuit judge, is 52 years old. He served In a Ne: York regiment during the war and was ad- mitted to the bar in St. Louis in 1868. He has served on the state and federal district benches since 1874, and takes high rank among the jurists of the west. A New York Chinaman gave this char- acteristic opinion of the war: ‘“Jupan not whip not any Chinamen. Bah, only spitfire! He not big soldier like China. China say shoo, bang, that slettle. No more war. Only flea bites on elephant now. Not make much difference. China keep Corea if he like.” Fon. Austin Blair of Michigan, whose death is announced, was one of the famous group of war governors, He was one of the founders of the republican party, but drifted away from his first love In 1872, A short stay in the democratic camp effectually cured him, and he returned to his first alle- glance a stalwart among statwarts. LONG FACES. not TONIC FOR Boston Courier: “Stars and garters!”” ex- claimed the man as one of the ballet girls kicked off a tuft of his hair. Somerville Journal: Judging by occaslonal disclosures at the seashore, (he summe girl is getting through the season in pretty good shape. Washington Star: “Er lazy Uncle Eben, “will tire his s dodge work more dan er indu will tn doin’ twicet de 'mount. Yonkers Statesman: Mrs. I see by this paper that a western man has invented a moveable keyhole. Mi Crimsonbeak—That's nothing new. I've seen them many a night. man,” said f tryin' ter rious man Crimsonbeak Indianapolls Journal: First Chinese War- ric Whattee this Clistian sclence? Second Chinese Warrior—Machine guns Priscilla—Don't you envy my luck? Isn't Jack Murray a &plendid fellow to have for a fiance? Prunella—Oh, yes; 1 know that from experience. Truth: Syracuse Courier: Warm smiles are still worn, but cool expressions are preferred. Judise Miss Faith Cure—Now, Mrs, Biunt, after hearing the experiences of our brothérs and sisters and what divine mercy has done for their salvation, don't you think you would like to join us? Mrs. Blunt— No, thanks. 1'm afraid I'm not bad enough, Wiggs What a fear- Somerville Journal: Are you tak- ful cold you've got, old man! ing anything for it? 1S Wigis- FAN TAN. w York Press Quoth Admiral Ting: “It's o thing How these confounded Japanese fight; They sank Chih and Chen, and, sad, say, then Ching-Yuen knocked clean out of sight. very strange to ce it won't do for me to venture to r sea, So I'll not take the blame of that sin; But a challange I'll send by the hand of some friend For & game which I think I can win, ralnmaking, | {Shall the Party Commit Itself to a Tattooed Standard Bearer? The candidacy of Thomas J. Majors con- fronts the republican party of Nebraska as a menace to its success in tho impending campalgn. To elevate-him to (he position of | standard bearer will place the party on (he defensive and subject it to a galling fire that following bill, certified to by T. J, | Majors as president of the senate, was placed | In the hande of the anditor and a warrant for $75 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bal- wnce due for alleged services in the senate for the last fitteen days of the month: I the THE TELL-TALE CERTIFICATE. / For Services as '/: wler Srom...© 1501, day of. Miteage Deduct amonnt « Balance due, Lineoln, 9/‘((/ 97 /»u to.. Dniliday of .ctet B0 daydlyilporday, o o = 3.2 5. mites at 0 cents per mite, N ] Totat, - & i S ey by 17 ; SENATE o an yv 2000.2X 426277 DA irawn, v 4 hereby certiy that the above account i eorreet an y ust, and has not been paid. (s Attest, 0//‘:’««1‘ b Spciyjari Examiied s tren ), e ~O<f - hiditgpDic dccounts. /IZ"/%"// 7 )uflu\/ Approved, :7/\ 0’/ : Deputy. Warrant No.C Reccived of Itll.lgv'l'o A uditor of Pupxe 4 tmon (81 nty §740 ) 2 . Tanlrt. @ * o) it could not withstand. Every candidate and every party leader on the stump would be compelled to champion the candidacy of a man who is tatiooed with a record of in- 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 tho 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 occupled the responsible and honor- ablo position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as leutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and cappor for the corporation lobby, and exerted all his power and influence during each session of the leglslature to promote The above 1s a fac simile of the certificate signed by Lieutenant Governor Majors and approved by the auditor, as now on flle in the office of the auditor of state, The warrant for $756 was cashed by Walt M. Seely, private secrstary of the lieutenant governor, and pocketed by him. Taylor never received a penny of this money fraudu- lently procured by the connivance of the lieutenant governor. 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 lhe knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that laid him lable not only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the criminal courts. Had Majors certified 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 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 Licutenant Governor Majors, and especially 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, sesslon closed, when the 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 common= wealth? THE SENATS OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the tieutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the senate cham- ber into a legislative ofl room, in which lquor was dispenzed freely to members of the senate who were addicted to drink, and to Tobbyists, 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 so 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 choice brands of liquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously sup- plied regardless of expense by the corporato concerns whose bills were to be logrolled through and whose Interests were to be protected by the bland, affable and accoms modating ileutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? = =l THE TELL-TALE 2. MAIORS, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. LAY HEMAWACOUNTY TAYLOR ORDER. 2 Senate Chamber. w2 Fenee il (%/WC 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 ¢ B / Governor Majors. It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but is written on an of- ficial blank, headed with the name of the lieutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the dato line feft blank, except the figures 1891, The Scotia Monitor has suspended publica- tion, The at’ Gering September Charles Klago, an failed, with liabilities assets of $1,800. It is reported that county are Killing their horses because they have nothing to feed them and there is no sale tor common stock. Another attempt to find coal is being put forth south of Plattsmouth, and a diamond drill is now foreing its way into the bowels of the earth on the Midkiff farm. Three Beatrice nimrods who went to the wilds of Wyoming on a hunting expedition bave returned with two bears, a mountain goat and numerous other game that isn't to be found In the state of Nebraska. While excavating for the Bayard canal in Cheyenne county workmen found a com- fair will be n.ml plotely constructed ~*ane oven and firepluce, with wood and charcoa’ ready for use. The to 21. cotts Bluff county 19 Aurora of has and groc over $1,000 Hamilton farmers in fAnd was burled beneath three feet of soil. There is much speculation as to who built it and when. It might have been built a thousand years ago or in the days when the Mormon trail ran up the valley or by some of the early hunters and trappers. It is evidently a relic of @ bygone generation, pre- served almost complete beneath an accumu- lution of years. So far as possible it will be kept for the tnspection of the public. i False to Party snd Pledge. New York Sun The preservation of American institutions 18 of higher moment than the performance bt % Ueiocratio pleage. Lt the populista and soclalist labor people enact thelr | come tax when they oblaln power (rom the democratic party cannot enact it for them. as a blackmail payment for a tariff bill, without being false to the first ideas of Aw an politics. - - A PARISIAN INCIDENT, country to do so. Thi . Lugene Pield. The Cafe Molineau is where A dainty little minx Berves d man as best she can Ry serving meats and dri Oh. such an air the creat And su pretty I took delight that sutumn night In hanging ‘round the place. I know but very little French, I have not long been here; But when she spoke, her m, Full sweetly on ar. Then, too, she scemed t Whate'er I had to say, Though most 1 knew ““Bong zhoor," and voo play."” The female wit is always quick, nd of all womankind Tis here in France that you, The keenest wits shall find And here you'll find that subtle gift, That rare, distinetive touch, Combined with grace of form' and face, That glads men overmuch wilng broke understand perchance, ‘Our kirls at hom Lack either that They don't combine As does the Galll Far be it from me Lo mil Our belles acrows the sea And yet I'll swear none cian compare With this fdeal She And then 1 praised her dainty In very awful French And parleyvooed 1n guileful mood Until the saucy wench Tossed bick her haughty auburn heq And froze th disduln “There are on me no flics,’” said she, ‘o 1 come from Bangor, Mal " 1 mused aloud, o this; the art s livine 40 foot