Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 13, 1894, Page 4

4 S————— e e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 3, ROBIEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED BEVERY MORNING, HUBSCRIPTION, Py Year Tially Yoar Sunday Baturdny 13 Weekly Tioe, One Year OFFICES, Tullding. Corner N Biufs hieago Offic New York, It Washington, and Twenty-tourth Bts. Commerce. Tribune DIdg. 10T F Street CORRESPONDE AN comrmunications relating 1 torlal matter whould be addr To the EAItor, BUSINGSS LETTERS ANl business letters and ances should ba addressed 1o The Ies Publishing company, Omaha, Drafis. checka and postofico orders to be made navabie to the order of the compn T HEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 10N, Tes Pub- that coples ay Beo was a8 OF CIRCULA " Thy n, EAys comple and_Sun 1894, ETATEM George 11 T7, 1ishing comp: y the actunl number of full and of The Dally Morning, Evening rinted during the month of July, ollows: 17 e 20,168 1" 2,500 19 § NT Total .. Less deductions for “unsold’ and coples v retirned Totnl sold Dasly aver Sunday. net’ efreulation. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefors me and subscribed In my pro ence this 1st day of August, 1SH. (8eal.) N. P. I'EIL, Notary Publle, This week ought to decide whether it Is to be the McKinley bill, the senate bill, the ‘Wilson bill or a compromise. It Vice Prosident Stevenson had only re- mained at his home in Bloomington, IIL, a few weeks longer, where would the tariff bill be at? It must hove the part of Mr. Majors was left off of the Nemaha the state convention. mere oversight on that Church Howe delegation to been a General Colby is once more at the front in all his glory, adorned with war paint and feathers. At this time of the year that is the most comfortable uniform. ‘What kind of a deal has Senator Stewart made with the democrats of the senate by which he is to be recompensed for re- fraining to vote at critical moments? At last tlLe vice president has discovered that he be of use to his party when the emergency presents. Unfortunately the emergency arises but once or twice in his wholo vice presidential career. can In states rights parlance the frauds com- mitted by the democrats in the Alabama state election last week concern a purely domestio institution with which the federal government las no right to interfere, Nemaha statesmen are all modest men. ‘When invited to seleet their own delega- tions to the conventions before which they are to appear as candidates, they very bash- tully place their own names at the head of tho list. What is that? The struggle over the site for the government printing office still going on? We thought Congressman Bryan's con- vinelng speech in favor of using one of the Washington parks had settled that question beyond dispute and for all time, If the county judge continues to be called upon so frequently to officiate in the mar- rlage ceremonies that make happy some bashful groom and blushing bride the county will soon be constrained to provide a recep- tion room and banquet hall in the county bullding. It is to bo hoped that Senator Vest of Missourt will not long be deprived of the opportunity to ease his mind upon the methods of the tarift conference committee which he hoped to have had on Saturday last. It is a hardship to prevent him from sharing his burden with the public and the public is not averse to sharing it with him. Give Vest a chance. The gratuitous interference of the mana- gers of western railroads in the selection of a new presicent of the Atchison should be resented by the directors as the height of impudence. The probability of harmonious actlon with other roads is a proper point for the consideration of the Atchison direct- ors, but the attempt of outsiders to dictate who the person should be is altogether un- wannanted. These over-officious officials should be told that their authority does not extend beyond thelr own lines. Philadelphians profess to feel very much relieved at the decision of Secretary Carlisle to accept one of the sites that have been of- fered for the proposed new mint. There is no use disguising the fact that many people in Philadelphia were really alarmed at the active efforts recently put forth by Denver to secure the relocation of the mint at that point and that this alarm was intensified by the seemingly interminable squabble that had been precipitated by the real estate specula- tors of thelr own city. Philadelphia would fight for the mint harder than New York has fought to Chicago's attempt to take the Indlan supply station away. With the new site settled the Philadelphia people feel assured that the point s safely passed. resist danger As we intimated at the time Congressman Breckinridge of Arkansas was appointed minister to Russia as a balm for his dis- appointment over falling to secure a re- nomination to congress. The precedent then wet 18 lMkely to cause the president no little trouble. It was alleged that Mr. Breckin- ridge’s fdelity to Mr. Cleveland was what deprived nim of the continued support of his constituents; that had he catered to the popular demand of his district on the silver question he would not have brought that misfortune upon him. As a mark of ap- preciation of his devotion he was given a lucrative place In the diplomatic service. Now comes Congressman Stone of Kentucky with a very similar story—falthtul adherence to the policy of the administration, loss of prestige with his coustituents and conse- quent fallure to secure a renomination, He and his friends think the ministry to Chill, Just made vacant, Is about the proper size to assuage his Injured feelings. The president may be led to belleve that it is his duty to care for Mr. Stone. But he must ask himselt where this Is to end. It may not take long for him to have the whole congress literally on his handse MAJORS AND HIS FOOL DEFENDERS The fool friends of Lieutenant Governor Majors stiil persist In Inventing stupld de- fenses for his fraudu as pres! dent of the senate to the now famous Taylor voucher. One of these champions of Ma- Jorism warns republicans against taking any stock in charges by The Bee and consider them as coming from an avowed This paper, the Hastings Nebraskan, delivers itself of an opinfon as is an opinion We are told that Mr. Taylor was duly elected and was in his seat during all but fifteen days of the session. During those fifteen days he was absent from his seat, but no action was taken to Impeach him or to de- clare his seat vacant. Under those condi- tions there was nothing left for Governor Majors, as president of the senate, to do but sign the voucher as he did the vouchers of all other members. He ) more legal right to refuse to sign § Taylor's voucher than he had to refuse the voucher of some of the senators whom the editor of The Bee tried his utmost to Influence to vots as he desired. Mr. Rosewater takes special pains to not state the facts, but leaves the inference to he drawn that the act of Governor Majors, in doing his sworn duty, was dishonorable. It is in keeping with’ the other charges made by The Bee and is, like the rest of them, misleading. Who ever heard of the doctrine that army vould be In duty bound to sign a voucher for a deserter because he was not Who absconded, and for services Suppose Taylor had his term was out, nor certify over his senate that he had nt certificate the made enemy. an officer captured and court-martialed. was to tmpeach Taylor after he had how could he be entitled to pay he never rendered? died fifteen could the lieutenat gov name as president of the served for the full term two weeks after was dead? Did not Majors commit an impeacheable offense when he certified Tay- entitled to full pay for the entire fon when he knew that Taylor had gone away without leav had not roll call on fifteen session days prior to ad- Jjournment? The most brilliant defense of Majors comes from another quarter, The Aurora Republican jumps into the breach with the following countercharge: It now turns out that the Omaha paper which accused Majors of something terrible in connection with the payment of Populis aylor's voucher after he left the state and party nearly four years ago to avoid a vote on the Newberry bill, is not only guilty of theft, but 30 of forge! That Omaha paper actually stole the voucher in order to get the so-called fac simile it has been dis- playing at the head of its columns, and then, in order to make it appear that Majors had done something wrong, committed a down- right forgery by omitting Taylor's order to have the voucher pald to Walt M. Sceley. The facts in the casc are simply these: ylor, the populist, when he ran away from the state and his dutics in the senate, where the populists had put him by their vote, knew that Lo had §75 due him from the stat but in his haste to leave it, hadn't time to his money, and so he soid his account to Walt Seeley, Who afterwards drew it, as he was justly entitied to do. It will be remem- bered that this paper at the time Taylor left insisted that the only way the state had of getting out of paying pop traitor Taylor for his full time was to impeach him, but of course the pops do not believe in impeac ing one of their own members for such a little crime as being a traltor to his state, and so the money had to be paid, and this the Omaha paper knows as well as anybody else. Here is richness, indeed! How did The Beo commit forgery by publishing a photo- graphic copy of the Taylor voucher with Majors’ certificate sttached? Is the photo- graph of a public document a forgery? Where was there any attempt at forgery in omitting the order of Taylor to have the voucher paid to Majors' private secretary, Walt Seely. That order was no part of the voucher in the first place and on its face bears evidence of fraud. The order purports to have ccme from Portland, Ore., but it written on a blank with the name of Thomas J. Majors, Peru, Neb., printed on the upper margin, and the handwriting is not that of Taylor, but of Walt Seely. The most idiotic part of this defense is the assertion that Taylor knew he had $75 due him and hadn’t time to get the money. Taylor drew every dollar due him, including the full mileage coming to and returning from the session beforo he absconded. There could nothing be due him for time he did serve and Taylor knew it as well as body. But Majors’ man Friday, Walt Se concocted the scheme to confidence the state out of $75 by a fraudulent voucher and Majors helpeh him to perpetrate the fraud, when he must have known that he was certifying to a falsehood officially. The more this Taylor voucher is being ventilated and stirred the more flagrant the offense must appesr to every law-respecting cltizen. The worst of it is that the fraudu- lent Taylor voucher points to the treasonable plot to abduct a state senator in the midst of a session, and the Intimate relation that must have existed Majors, and Taylor. In many respects these fllict relations recall the part which Thomas J. Majors played when he palmed oft the forged documents bearing the great seal of the state of Nebraska upon congress, which reprimanded him in a repert made by Thomas B. Reed, and recommended his in- dictment for complicity with Peter Schwenck and other politicians more or less notorious. days before he lor was ses: and answered however. was not between Seely PREPARE FOR RELILF AT ONCE. The most serious question that confronts the people of the central and western por. tions of Nebraska is that of making provi- slon for the thousands of destitute who will have to be taken care of the coming winter. The situation is most tfortunate and the outlook as gloomy and hopelss as it well could be. The prolonged drouth has done its deadly work over an extended area, and it the worst now apprehended shall be realized the demand for relief next winter to keep a large number of our people from starvation will be almost unprecedented. It must be met, however great it may be, and it will be met It the proper effort Is made and made in time. The v 15 to ry first thing that ald whose business will be to erly distribute relief. movement is absolutely the ald that should be all solicit and done organize societies in towns prop organized necessary in will be required, as well as to provide its judicious distribution. People generally slow to respond to requests for contributions which do not come from a source having responsibility and which can be de pended upon to use them wisely and rightly. But the expediency of organizing aid socie- tles 1s so obvious that everybody will admit it without question. This being so, there Is no good reason for postponing the work. To walt until we are on the verge of winter be. lore Instituting relief preparations would a grave mistake, A general system of ald societies ought to be organized by Sep tember 1 and be ready at that date to begin sollciting and distributing relief, so that by the opening of winter all or nearly all of the destitute would be at partially pro vided for, while the requirements for carry- ing them through the winter would be pretty known, and an appeal for aid that states the amount likely to be needed commands more attention than which puts no limit to the rellef called for, In every practicable way employment should be given to the destitute who are Such an order to secure for and proper are some be least accurately one THE OMAHA DAIIY themselves it frrie oppor- where willing to keep an opportunity s given them to do so. gation work will give them tunity, and in a of counties recourse be had to irrigation In order to Insure regular crops steps are being taken with a view to starting this work, The peo- ple ot Brown, Rock and Hall counties will Submitted to them a proposition to tssue bonds for frri gation through and there 18 a very strong feeliiin other coun- ties favorable to the Inauguration of irriga- tion work. It may be that an extended pros- of Irrigation will be one the misfortune that this drouth has brought to Nebraska. Certainly nothing more be impress the people of the—central and western por- tions of the state of the absolute of getting a thorough system of as soon as it is possible anxfous and such an number must have the construction of an panal those counties, ecution tion for compensa- year's can necessary to necessity trrigation to do so, and the ripe for a determined movement this direction. There will be no trouble in obtaining the mnecessary capital upon factory terms. There s an abundance of capital ready to invest in irrigation enter- prises whenever it is offered fair and safe conditions, Congress proposes to give each of the arid land states one milfion acres of surveyed arid public land to be reclaimed by irrigation, and Nebraska s one of these states. The next legislature will be called to make for reclaiming this land and while no immediate benefit is to be derived from this it much for the people of the arid region of the state in the not remote future. In the meantime the work of irrigation can be prosecuted for the reclamation of private lands. It is a hard and discouraging experience which the people of central and western Nebraska are having, but they must not per- mit themselves to regard the situation hopeless. Thelr fellow citizens who are in a position to relieve the destitute will not allow to suffer. Let them proceed without ary delay with the prepara tions for obtaining rellef that will be needed and a generous response can safely be promised. ABATE THE SMOKE NUISANCE. Why has the smoke consumer ordinance been allowed to remain a dead letter for the last twelve months? It Is rank in- Justice to owners of buildings who have com- plied with the ordinance that many buildings in the business center should be allowed to belch forth volumes of black smoke summer and winter and thus neutralize the effect of what has already been accomplishe by the introduction of It was to be expected that owners of large business blocks and buildings would en- deavor to resist the enforcement of the or- dinance on the plea that they cinnot afford the expense. By why should they be al- lowed to dumage other buildings under the plea of hard times any more than property owners would be excused from supplying their buildings with fire escapes or sewerage conncetions. The smoke nuisance might be tolerated in suburban factories for a on or two, but its enforcement in the business center is imperatively demanded. THE IRRIGATION CONGRES. The next irrigation congress will be held in Denver during the first weck in Septem- ber. The indications are that it will be very largely attended, and it is assured that its deliberations will be regarded with rather more than usual interest, so great has been the awakening recently on the subject of irrigation. At no timeé since the discussion of the irrigation problem was seriously en- tered upon has there been greater interest manifested regarding it than is being shown now. Western sentiment in favor of active measures for the reclamation of the arid region has been growing steadily stronger and more aggressive. The con ted efforts of representatives in congress from the states having arid lands has compelied at- tention to the subject in congress, and one of the good results is seen in the proposal to give each state in which there arid lands 1,000,000 acres of surveyed public arid land to be reclaimed. The agitation of this subject in the west has made an impression in the east, and from sources that were formerly indifferent to the ques- tion now come expressions favorable to some action for making available s0 much of the vast area now worthless as it Is practicable to reclaim. Hostility to the great scheme of adding hundreds of millions of acres to the productive area of the country, with all the grand possibilities of tion, has been largely silenced, and there are few who do not concede the vast im- portance of this question and Its claim to the earnest attention of statesmen. The re- clamation of the arld regions will be a work of mighty proportions. Its accomplish- ment will occupy the time of a genera or longer, and will require the expenditure of an enormous amount of mone But it means, when accomplished, an addition to the wealth of the country which will many times repay the cost. Nebraska should a full representa- tion In the coming congress of men who have a hearty interest in the Irrigation question, not from the point of view of the speculator, but from that of the general welfare, It has been suggested that in making the ap- pointments the governor should give the preference to the actual users of the waters of the state, but at any rate only men who have a genuine interest in the subject should represent Nebraska in the irrigation gress. time ie be satis- upon| provision prom as them unneces: the dense, smoke consumiers, are such a consumm, ion have con- IN STRIKE INJUNCTIONS. strike Injunctions has fad with employers having their employes, ‘and mania will end is more than sceing person can at fow THE LATEST Resorting to to be quite the Qifficulty with the injunction an ordinary fa Commeneing coma where prosent Qiscern. with a railroads which applied for restraining orders to pre- vent their men from refusing to handle a portion of their legitimate freight trafiic, expanding to striking em- interfering with the property and finally commanding sted labor organizations then prevent ployes from of the company, all officers of inte to refrain from counseling or advising mem- bers to inaugurate a strike, the been rapid and the progress great. It re- mained, however, for a New York judge to bring the strike injunction to its culmina tion by issuing a writ that virtually pro- libits aggrieved employes from making use of the strike at all The wording of this glven last week by Judge plication of a firm of as follows The defendants, thelr agents, servants, substitutes, confederates, and all persons in- cited thereunto by them, or either of them, are enjoined from hindering, Interrupting, obstructing, preventing, or otherwlse inter- fering with the exercise and management of the lawful trade, business and calling of the plaintifs, either by assembling or loiter ing in front or in the Immediate vicinity of the places of business of the plaintiffs, or by establishing or maintaining a system of patrol, picketing or espionage, by stationing or keéplng one oF more persons in front or in the immediate vicinity of the places of business of the plalntiffs during business pace has markable order, Dugro upon ap- merchant tailors, is GEE Y MOND 1891 hours. The from all restrained printed defepdants are also interference by means of notices or pullentions, or from enticing any ome from§ the employment of the plalntiffs, or trof hindering, by signs, word dovices, or othef forms of mengee, ¥ who maw=®ish to enter the employ ¢ plaintiffe his goes further than any other case of judicial interforance strikes that been brought to notice, It really seeks to into a mero tusal of the tailors to the te offered them and v relinquish ment of their pluces to n: They are forbidden, even to to Keep them- selves Intornted of the situation or to com- muni any way those supplanting them. The order does sons the with has public resol strike the re- work at ms sluntary nunion men attempt with wh cate in are not stop at the use of force or of threats to compel | others to but equally prohibits any effort them away from the service of their former employers, whother by persuasion or other usually lawful means Another important point to be noted is that the plaintiffs are merchant tailors, who can neither claim that their business fs particus larly of a public nature or that the public will be n any way inconventenced by the temporary interruption of their work hould the prineiple enunciated be nized In this case, a similar injunction could be secured by employers in any line of busi- ness whatever reference to its pri- vate or public character. It is aimost needless to add that the Tail- ors’ union has significd its intention to fight he injunction when it comes up this week for hearing before the court. Its attorney maintain that the judge exceeded authority that making the injunction permanent would be a gross invasion of the liberties guaranteed to American citizens. It Involves the very life of the instrument of labor warfare, The fact that a Judge be prevailed upon to fssue so sweeping and unprecedented a order agaln emphasizes the necessity of legislation, both state and federal, that will define the powers of courts over strike in- Junctions. cease ‘work, “to entlee” seriously without has his and strike as an can restraining 1t the publithed interview Superintendent Fillmore of Pacific is to be credited, to the effect that his company intends to pursue the leaders of the recent railway strike on its r matter they may seck employment, and to use every effort to prevent them from carning a liveliliood the Pacific coast, the Southern P official are rashly adopting the very tactics which so severely condemned in the strikers. When the latter attempted to prevent others from taking their places the railroads im- mediately appealed to the courts for protec- tion, Now they in their turn propose to interfere to prevent the strikers from work- ing, not only on their lines, but on the lines of any other compiny which they can possi- bly influence. - Should they do this they will lay themselves open to the same accusations which were ladged against the strikers. A conspiracy to deprive men of an opportunity to work is just as_illegal and reprehensible whether concoctedf by strikers or raitroad officials. with the Genera outhern ad, no where on fic they —— Another army martialed for falsely certifying voucher. But Thome officer is to be court- to a pay Majors, who delibera- tely certified to a fraudulent pay voucher as president of the senate for a member whom he knew to have absconded expects the republicans of Nebraska to stultify them- selves and put avpremium on officlal fraud by nominating him for the office of governor A Cutting Comparison. Washington Star, The Geronimo fam| ecelying better treatment in the United State it is getting in France. Here murderer who rejoices in that remembered with terror on the ern border—is being comfortably cared for government; in France the c lo~ Santo Geronimo will - soon chopped off short by the guillotin e Deception from Start to Finlsh, Cincinnati Enquirer. The fight over the tariff at has been a deceptive one. T to be that the Wilson bill was pieces, and that even if the se concede all the president, house_conferees, now asks, ‘the tory would still be with the changes in sugar, coal and mere incidents’ of a gencral overhauling and destruction of the house measure. There dc [ * to have been much of the bill in the conference. The house fight has been to get a little latent recognition, much than the principal cognomen onthwest- be Washington he truth seems torn all to were to gre senate iron ore are i Sl Calamity Sarea Courler-Journal, It Is said that the new will be smaller than the pre: This will be an artistic improvement, as there will be less stanp. We may, how- ever, look for the republicans (o make cam- paign capital out of the change, as under the republican administration, which gave us the Columbian stamps, a man could a very | quantity of stamp for 2 cents, while under the hard-times democratic ad nistration he will have to take less than the same quantity of stamp for the money. postage stamp ant red stamp. That Curions Compound. New York Sun. William Jennings Bryan of Ne g populist of the ways and means committee, ani the general sounding board and vocal hat of the regions be- yond the Mississippi, is to become the cd itor of that curious ‘compound, the Omaha World-Herald. He will write' his leading articles with 4 hot poker on wood, and they will_be reproduced in asbestos. We eain hear the shriveling of things and see th money power crackling into ashes as I viating Rilly fulills his dread mission and scatters his blood-red Republicans the may acknowledg vedemption of Nebraska to repub- it not a sure thing this year. I nominates a weak, corrupt and candidate for governer it will be beaten just as surely as the election rolls around in November. Party tles are much looser In Nebraska than t have been and the voters of the state will prefer put ting in even a populist to some republican whose records @ndl public acts stamp him as @ tool and capper for corporate inter ests, In other words, If the friends of Tom Majors, bucked by the railroad Interests, force him upon {he party as a candidate he will be repudiated “by " the voters of the state, for il on “that his record and his afmliations ¢ah be proven so unmistak ably that decent men will spew him out Mr. Majors is bagked by the same old gang that has made, populist party in braska a formidable cpponent, by the men. who moké [politics a trade and ruption a profession, and who hav themselvey (to the republican cause they Know or principles, but. hegause by reason of it preponderance {n Nebraska it 1s possible or them to use 1€ for their own base ends, The News is oppised to Mr. Majors be cause he is 4 mualy whose previous record is 1 1o any) bekef that he will attempt lieve the burdens under which the people of this sigle @re now suffering, that he will bo honcst and efficient in the pe formance of thé Jutles appertaining to- the gubernatorial offis; that he will stand for the people in any ‘conflict of interests be- tween themselyes and the railroads, or that he will or can be elected even If nominated It is for any good man whom the repub licans of Nebraska may select, | \Why ' the party should commit political” suicide b naming Tom Mafors when thero are men like MacColl, Cady, Crounse and dozens of other able republicans with untarnished reputations fs more than w n - unde stand. The News, with thousands of others, I8 asking only that Majors be not nom: inated, because they beliéve he 1s not fitted for the position and because if nominated he cannot recelve the full party vote. Give \y good man, one who can command entire parly strength, who Is clean, able and hon and whom we can sup port with e freedom, honesty and heartiness. It the party allows itself to b ed in the Interests of corporation candl- dates and political shysters It will have to stand the consequences. This Is not & yewr for trying to force obnoxious candidates upon the voters of Nebraska; don't try it same DA believe in Its manipi A s AUGU ST 13, | nominated for governor it POLITIOAL POTPOURRL. Central time appr brighter, the state Wallace stat, Jack City Nonparell: As cc aches MacColl's chance Even tho southeastern will help to swell the m Star: Every republican in who 15 posted knows the MacColl means an easy victory party. There {8 some flaw in the of a republican who will not try to defensive campalgn, Kearney Hub: There fs nothing the ter with the MacColl boom. It fs making schedule time, twenty-four hours a day, will reach Omaha August 22 without having 0 much as a splinter chipped off in the v age. The western man Is a sure winne Set it down and don’t forget it Platte Center Signal: The Omaha showing the record of Tom Majors time, as It did the record of Sheriff Bennett Bennett was renominated, however, and The Bee fought and defeated him. If Majors is is safo to say he will receive the same fate as Bennett Lyons Sun: The rank and file of the repub lican party in this part of the state do not take kindly to the candidacy of Hon. Thomas J Majors. There is no use talking, Mr. Ma jors Is a nice man personally and has lots of friends, but he should stand aside for a while and’ give some one else a chance Chadron Citizen xation without repre sentation was one of the conditions that our forefathers vigorously kicked against. The Sixth district of Nebraska has found itself confronted with this state of affairs for the past four ye but the voters will throw oft the galling yoke this fall by electing Hon Matt Daugherty to congress. Central ivention Brow corner of the for the make-up avold a Bee is up in nparell: Many men sider a nomination on the republican ticket as equivalent to election. While such may be the case, the party cannot afford to take chances by the nomination of shysters and political hangers-on. The party demands clean, capable men. The skirts of the party have been sufficiently smirched in the past by unscrupulous men who cared only for the boodle there was in it. The sooner these men are given to understand they do not con- trol the party the better. Avoid the rocks Beatrice Tmes: There is a decided effort on the part of some active men to folst ean didates upon the republican party of Ne braska without regard to thefr fitness for the office. These manipulators have no ob Ject beyond their own personal advancement and they are secking to use the party ma chinery for this purpose. This is made pos sible by the carelessness of the voters who negleet the primaries and think that they have done thefr duty when they cast their vote. Such a policy will never secure good men in office. The real work must be done at the primaries. That is the place to de- feat schemes and trades. Select good dele gates to the convention and good nomina tions are sure to result The friends of Hon. R. E. coln are very confident that way to receive the nomin governor. Perhaps his sanguine, but they at least have many good reasons for believing that his canvass has becn so carcfully made that he is likely to receive a handsome mafority of the votes in the state convention. Mr. Moore's record a_citizen of Nebraska is all that his ands claim for it. He served two terms s mayor of the city of Lincoln during the time when that city needed good government As a state senator for three terms Mr. Moore has proven himself an eflicient member. H one of the best debaters in the state, and whenever he has been callid to the chair in the serate his rulings have been as fair and impartial as the most exacting could desire. As a business man he has been suc- cessful and his executive ability is well known in every part of the state. Silver Creek Times: The Times don't be lieve the convention should nominate Lor- enzo Crounse by acclamation or at all, for the principal reason that he continues to claim that he don't want the office. We don’t believe in forcing any office on a man who don’t want it. The preliminary canvass has been waged almost wholly between Ma jors and MacColl. The former has been play ing a losing game from the first, and from th first his own friends, in our opinion, have had little faith that he could make the non ination or the election if nominated. Mac- Coll, on the other hund, has continued to ain’ from the time that he was first seri ously regarded as a candidate until his nomination on the first ballot seemed as good as assured. After having made an open and honorable wanvass for the nomination, why now at tiis late day should an effort be made to sidetrack him for a man who says he don’t want the nomination? e e THE WEAVER CONFUSION. con Moore of Lin- he is in a fair tion for licutenant friends are o Minneapolis Journal: The democrats in the Ninth lowa congressional district have nominated General Weaver for congress That district returned Hager (rep.) in 189: by a plurality of 2,478, and it is no doubt & little more this year. But Weaver Is pleased at being nominated to anything by democrats, populists or socialists. Chicago Record: The recurrence of a few more such instances will be enough to ex cite some justifiable speculation as to the true destiny of the popullst party. At all events, Its chances for independent political life arc not bettered by frequent fusions with other parties, though in this ir it is clearly the democratic organiz that has had its hide hung on the fence. Chicago Tribune: By their platform and by their choice of a candidate the democrats of the Ninth Jowa district have put th sclves on record as being in favor of cheat- ing_cr s out of half their dues by in ducing a 50-cent currency, and then of cheating them out of the remainder as speed s possible thereafter by doing away with gold and silver, as Weavir and th populists advocate, and atiempting to re place them with pieces of paper on which is printed the lying legend, “thisis a_dollar, e “this is ten dollars,” when it is redeemi and has neither actual nor when no idea of equivalent value s connected with tion ble in nothing, promise value; or exchangeable such shinplaster: WOULDN'T THESE JAR YOU? go Int ““There goes one of C wrilers of fiction that we have untr Who is he?' *The Chic: the greate in this weather clerk Life: May- jolliest thing you he's nice. Next to a man, Brooklyn know of? the Myself, 1f New York I'm doing first rat with my he to he indecd it to see some of of them are as Marie—T tell yer yer the marrer of your you blindly, fondly and now I loath are fals to Wart! T until the § and dispise Fluerctte—Heaven give me U'll knock the power to re neck off her! said the proceded to disrobe fusband, 'who had gone to bed with boots on, *“John told me he had studied the bar in his youth. I can well believ for T think he Knows every bar in town “John, wife her his for Indianapolis Journal: Her \ heaved convulsively Leaning ov ¢ akitat In fact, It was ¢ contain herself. the rail of the ship, she was ubtful whether she could Licutenant vesterday. Captain Marine Journal We ad peed only five mile ¢ arctic expedition)—That's what T reck W got to do better than that £ expedition will be catching up with us Dundee News: A local band was one day playing at Dunfermline when an old weaver ame up and asked the bandmaster what that was they were playing. “That is ‘The Deuth of Nelson,' ™ solemnuly replied the ba aster YAy, man,' remarked the wea “ye ha'e glen him an awfu' ath.'" You “that say," you sald the are stung Washington Star Chineso philosopher, by ingratitude.' “I am," replied LI Hung Chang, You should have remembered our anclent provi rb which reads: ‘Don't fool with a bee.' " I did,” was the melancholy re “This was a yellow jacket.' nse. DITION o Press, A girl on the lawn A flashing gleam Of a silken stockin; A malden's seream. A girl on the Mostly all g Of silken st But nary beach, king “ sereain. nomination of | KEEP 17 B Shall the Party Commit Itself to a PUBLIGANN, Tattooed Standard Bearer? The candidacy of Thomas J. Majors con- fronts the republican party of Nebraska as a menaco to Its success in the impending campalgn. To elevate him to the position ot standard bearer will placo the party on the defensive and subject it to a galling fire that THE TELL-TALE r Services as day of the following blll, certified to by T. M Majors as president of the senate, was placed in tho hands of the auditor and a warrant for $75 was Issued to W. M. Taylor as bal- wnce due for alleged services In the senate for the last fifteen days of the month: CERTIFICATE, gy per day, permite, 1utal, D Balance due, Dy, o Lincotn, ... et 3/ trawn, I hereby certisy that the above account & (s SN Eramined /ml’”‘"" % ’r’//a" ,u.nu)}%q iy {:;j";"f,. o a\/ i I c/ é/m‘ @/ S Received of T1L. ’Z/ NTOX, Warrant No.(// ".// n, fudite 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 tattooed with a record of in- dellible fufamy. They would be confronted at every crossroad with the story of the forged census returns that scandalized the state at the natfonal capital and placed a tigma 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 occupled the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper iouse by virtue of his election as lieutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notorfously 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 tho rapac- ity of corporate monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the session of 1891 the state was scandalized by the abduction of Senator Taylor, a popullst, 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 gnorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed tho 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 time of his abrupt departure In the middle of March. On March 31, when the session closed, s correet and Just, and has not been paid, ) witun) P 3 Loy ¢ President.” 4 nuly. orof P - il The above Is a fac simile of the certificatq 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 $76 was cashed by Walt M. Seely, private secretary of the lieutenant governor, and pocketed by him. Taylor never recefved a penny of this money fraudus lently procured by the connlvance of the leutenant 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 he knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that laid him liable 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 rod, 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 res publicans of Nebraska are asked to make chief exccutive of state and commander-ine chief of the military forces of the commons wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the lieutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the senate cham- ber into a legislative oil room, in which lguor was dispensed frecly 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 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 lieus tenant governor's room was generously sups plied regardless of expense by the corporate concerns whose bills were to be logrolled through and whose interests were to be protected by the bland, affable and accome modating lleutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and Jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? Amount, ¢/ e il L 220 THE TELL-TALE 1ENANT BOYERIOR, QUNTY, TAMAORS, Lt FEAU. NCMANA TAYLOR ORDER. Senate Chambey. & %(/‘L( / / it Ao Gl o narid C&Y\Q/JA}“Q/ @t Tho above is a fac simile of the order of the abducted ex-senator authorizing Walt Seely to reccipt the vouchers and warrants for his uncarned salary. It will be noted that the order is in the handwriting of Walt S te secretary of Licutenant Governor Majors. It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but is written on an of ficlal ‘blank, headed with the name of the licutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the date line left blank, except the figures 1891, S BILLS. Pittsburg Commerclal: Senator Allen's | suggestion that 360,000,000 be appropriated for distribution among the worthy poor 13 much more creditable to his heart than to his Judgment. If he will help knock out the democratic tariff legislation the worthy poor will soon be ln much better circumstances, It would be much better, though, to give the money to the worthy poor than to the unworthy Sugar trust Philadelphia Ledger: Senator Allen of N braska wants professional lobbylists punished by fine and imprisonment. That is all right, provided a bill can be framed which shall draw a nice line between the professional lobbyist acting corruptly and the men who seek to influence the action of congress by argument for the public good. But Mr. Al bill, even though carefully worded, will very likely not reach the most objec- tionable lobbyists who tried to influenc congress at this session, for they were not professionals” in any true s:nse How We Trounce Globe-Democrat have forgotten war with Corew In 1871 A there o ArFange i cony ton for the protection of shipwrecked Americans and was fired upon. An expla- mation was demanded, and none beln Hiven, an attack was made on the ( forts, Lieutenant McKee and two men were killed on our side and the Cor 1053 was 360 men and 481 pieces of artil — -~ Tho Cyelonn iu s Fog. Chicago Herald thicken upon N lone, Willlam J. Kryan. the error of quitting the after it had glven him a ife, Mr. Bryan now which he sought in Most persons that this country was at fleet was sent Misf braska's young rtunes political cy committed ratic {nning 0 la that the part public object doing so is slipping from his sight. Nebraska popullsts will not supoprt him for senator beeause they fear that the coquettish spirit which took William away from the democs vacy for a visionary indicement would also lead him to abandon populism the first time a suflicient reward appeared in the digtance. The young political cyclone is in danger of finding himself a man without party. It w tier for William o hav been on securely with the new love before le was off with the old MY WILD LITTLE LINNET.” Hpectator for London When Carroll asked Kate a hand That controwle of land. Her Went lips they 1 her heart and Just a hundred good acres lovely brown eyes wild with surprise shot scorn at his saucy Young Carroll Maginn, Put the beard to your chin change in your purse, it u w win '’ And, And th you wotlls Then Carroll made Kate his most Higant Ani off to the plow Diggins lampooned from the heard finely grown | blown, Kkind to me il And the pockets f Says he, “Maybe Kate might be now i 8 y lad ¢ e tarty by at his cruel ould flame, 0 try a fresh flin slonel Carty In and airs and great b plendor steps in, it when ard 10 or all his gr his chin, Och, lave me ried Kate with “Ior my h in, th Carroli Maginn “Hush sobbin' this minute, Tis Carroll that's in It! I'va caged you at last, thin, my wild little e alone A groan, the grave wid po: