Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1894, Page 4

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Babd Sworn to before me and b ence this Ist day of August, 1501, (Seal.) N. P. F Notary Publie. PRt S —————C STATE CENTRAL COMMITTE There will be a meeting of the republican state central committee Tuesday, August 21, at 8 p. m., at the Millard hotel, Omaha. A full attendance is desir BRAD D. SLAUGHTER, Chairman. _— A few recitals of the story of the sinking of the Kow Shung and the people may_be exvccted to be reasonably familiar with details of the disaster. more The disappearance of a rainmaker s not half 8o serious a matter to the general pub- lic as the disappearance of the rain at the time when it urgently needed. The tattooed men should be kept in the background this year. The republican party cannot &fford to load its ticket down with anybody that has to be defended or vindi- cated, Members of congress who are eager to get away from Washington are not standing upon the order of their going, but are going at once. The exodus will continue until con- gress adjourns We are glad to know that Allen Root Is still on the political deck and is sure to come to light with each new shufle, A campalgn without Allen would be like a ban- quet without wine. Republican candidates for congress in this state are vitally concerned in the out- come of the state convention. If a ticket 1s placed In the fleld and has to be propped up and apolsgized for they will get the worst of it. There is no danger that the populists in Nebraska will nominate any one who will decline to accept the nomination and run on their ticket. The obvious reason is that they are all willing to run for anything they think within reach. Chicago is still hammering away at the smoke nuisance evil in that city. Omaha is apparently resting on her oars with the work scarce begun. The only way to get rid of the smoke nuisance {s to compel the men re- sponsible for it to abate it. While we are trying to improve our side- walks it may be advisable to devote a Iit- tle attention to the crosswalks also. Many of the latter are in poor condition, both on paved and unpaved streets. Permanent cross- walks should go hand in hand with per- manent sidewalks. We may be sure that the German em- peror who proposes a toast to the health of the emperor of Ausiria has laid aside every vestige of anclent enmity of the two houses and is bent upon promoting and continu- ing the friendly relations that have for some time existed between them. Douglas county will be the battleground of the coming campaign. With a popular and clean candidate for governor and a respect- able ticket, republicans can carry the county by from 3,000 to 5,000 majority. With Tom Mafors at the head, the county will go just that much the other way. This is no idle threat nor wild guess, but a cold fact. The Thurston Rifles deserve congratula- tions on ther successful contest for the governor's cup. Although a comparatively young organization, they have al- ready shown themselves on several lons superior to the best of older companies. Omaha has & right to expect her representatives in the national guard to hold the first rank and rejolces that her expeotations have not been disappoluted. The senate can Inaugurate revenue meas- ures only by way of amendment to bills thst originate In the house. 10 the house wants to keep the senate from conferring fur favars upon the trusts, the easiest insure that result is to refuse to send any more revenue bills to the upper chamber, ‘The house has the whole matter In its con- trol. It it continues to send revenue bills to the senate it will be because it is willing to take its chances on having them trans- formed to the advantage of the trusts. to There may be cousiderable sympathy with Japan In German circles, but sympathy will not enter very deeply into the manipulations of the money market. If China wants to float & loan and can offer adequate security as well a8 an attractive rate of interest, all the sympthy in the world for Japan will not prevent the German bankers from selzing the opportunity for a profitable investment. Mhe money markets will not discriminate between the different belligerents in the Corean war, except so far as the virying credit of the parties make the transaction hagardous or safe. The bankers and fn- yostors can only with extreme difficulty be brought to forego present profits for the benefit of merchants who hope to make greater galns from future trade. The float- iug of the proposed Chinese loan is a purely Dbusiness mattor and will doubtless be traated Jdrom & purely business standpelat. ' . WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR RELIEFY [ The terrible drouth with which Nebrarka has been afilicted during the present season forcos a grave problem upon our state gov- ernment. At least one-third of the populated area will require relief to kecp the destitute ation, The local possibly meet the will be made al verty and ant of fuel T t anxious and will heip is given them t duty of the ways and sottlers from absolute star county demands for food and fuel that upon Thousands of famill ready fn a condition of abject j will he winter sets in authorities eannot them are thousands of and food befor tute settlers are themselves If an opportunity to do 0, and it is the manife local and state authorities to devise means for their rellef In some form. Four years ago, when the western border countles were stricken with distress by rea- son of crop failure, the communities in the central and eastern half of th: state raised a relief fund by voluntary subscription and turnished them large quantities of provisions and clothing to bridge over the worst dis tress until the legislature could make fur- ther provision for them by state aid. This year the people of central and eastern Ne- braska will have all thelr resources taxed to the utmost to meet the wants of the des titute in their own communities, This Is es- of the larger towns and cities workingmen have been ployed for the past year. It will be remembered that the legisla- ture of 1891 did not pass the relicf bills until the middle of February of that year. The legislature of 1895 will be In the same con- dition. The struggle for organizing the two houses and election of U: will take up the first six wecks of the ses- sion. Even if a relief bill could be passed by the middle of January the relief might come too late for thousands of families ex- posed to the rigors of an early winter. We are liable to have blizzards in December and ‘mber. others in pecially tru where many unem- d States senator snow blockades even as carly as No The question is what shall be done in the present emergency insure the ssary relief. There are two ways open to us. We must either adopt the course pursucd in 1875, when the state by grass- hoppers, or endeavor to get the relief through an extra session of the le In 18 a state relif association was organized dur- ing the fall and its officers sccured an ad- vance of §50,000 from the Omaha banks on notes signed by leading land owners and merchants under assurance from the gov- that he would recommend in his message to the legislature that was to meet in the fololwing winter that they should be reimbursed. This plan enabled the state officers to bridge over the intervening period and the legislaturs redeemed the pledge and outstanding notes by authorizing the issue of the historic grasshopper bond. This course might again be pursued this year if a sufficient number of heavy property owners were willing to assume the responsibility. There is one ob- stacle in the way, however, this year. The state has already exce:ded the constitutional limitation In its existing debt, and If ad- ditional debt is contracted we should have to do o in contravention of that limitation. Another plan for relief which s being ad- vocated by newspapers and citizens of drouth-stricken counties s to have the gov- ernor call a al'session of the legislature and let that body devise the plan of relief and provide for the emergency by appropria- tion bills and bills to promote irrigation projects, Incidentally it is also proposed to submit several needed amendments to the constitution, to be ratified at the election in November. Governor Crounse has taken these various schemes looking to the relief of impoverished settlers under advisement and will doubtless take such action in a few days as in his judgment will most effectually meet the emergency. to nec was devastated islature. ernor DISSATISPIED SUGAR PLANTER! The sugar planters of Louisiana are re- ported to be furious at what they regard as the bad faith of the government in repealing the bounty of the McKinley law just before the harvesting of the crop and after increased expenditure had been incurred upon the basis of the expected bonus. The estimated pro- duction of cane sugar in Louisiana for this year, based on the licenses taken out by planters as required by the law, is 845,000, 000 pourds. The bounty on this amount would be over $16,000,000, and the planters insist that in depriving them of this the government violates a sacred contract, which should be as binding upon it as any other obligation it has assumed. In the expectation that what they call an ex-post facto tariff law would not bo passed by congress, they have spent, it Is claimed, $5,000,000 in vari- ous fmprovements, which, while they may be of future advantage, they had reason to believe they would be able to pay for out of this year's bounty. As they will get no bounty, many of the planters who have in- curred a heavy debt in making the improve- ments will find themselyes 1 pressed when the time comes for meeting their obli- gations, and it would not be surprising if to some of them it proves disastrous. They get some protection under the Gorman tariff bill, it is true, but the small benefit in this direc- tion will not compensate for the immediate loss of the bounty. at there is justice in the view of these planters regarding the violation of contract on the part of congress In abolishing the bounty just before the harvesting of the sugar crop and after they had gone to heavy expense in improvements, expecting that the government would deal with them in good faith, will hardly be denied. This view has been strongly presented on the floor of con- gress, but It failed to make any improssion against the determinated purpose of a large majority of the democrats to do away with the bounty, regardless of any considerations of justice or fair dealing. Senator Blanchard of Loufsiann sald in a sp:ech in the senate July 20 The loss of the bounty for the rent year means the loss of $12,000,000 or more to the pecple of Louisiana. More thun that, sir, it means ruin and bankruptey to many. The sugar crop of the present year is predicated upon the continuance of the bounty for the year. Con- tracts been wade by the sugar planters based upon the belief that the bounty for the year would surely be paid them. Auything short of this would be rank injustice and wrong.” H: pointed out that the greater part of the bounty for the year had been esrned, and said that while con- ceding, as a legal proposition, that the legisla- tive power bas a right w withdraw the bounty for the future, he dented that bounties earned can be wjthdrawn by the legislative power, Ho urged that If part of the bounty for the year has been earned, and -earned before the law granting the bounty had heen repealed, it is not in the power of congress to withdraw the bountles so earned, and he cited numerous authorities in support of this position, But the bounty has been withdrawn, as- suming that the bill in the hands of the president will become law, and the planters of Louisiana and the sugar raisers of other states have no ridress. The responsibility for this injustice and wrong, it should be understood, rests entirely upon the represen- ha THE O tatives In congress of the democratie party A8 long ago as last March the demoorats of the senate In caucus agreod that the bounty should be pald on the sugar crop of 1894 Brought to the test, they violat:d this agree planters of Loulsiana have ment. The sugar been dgspoiled by their own partisans. THE CONFLICT IN ALABAMA confiict the fac- Alabama s still attracting attention and seems likely to become more inte if the announced purpose of the Kol carried They nd to hold mass meetings next Thursday and resolutions have from the state head quarters of the faction, declaring that frauds committed at the rccent election between The tions In democratic osting jites is out in county been sent out we state such fraudulent and that they will governor brought improper agencies corrupt recognize methods, and not or sustain a into through It is the intention of the Kolbites organize themselves into “an honest election league for the purpose of ntaing the law and conserving the rights of American citizens, as guaranteed under our form of government.” It Is the opinion that If the resolutions are passed at the county meetings there will be trouble, but the men who believe they were cheated out of the elcction are not troubling themselves on this score. They are very much in carnest, and if trouble comes they will un- doubtedly be found ready for It in whatever form it may present itself. That the supporters of Captain Kolb have very substantial grounds for the charge of fraud cannot be successfully questioned. Two years ago the populists of Alabama demon- ted that there had previously been whole- suppression of votes in many countics. The evidence of this was so plain that denial was impossible. Two years ago Kolb was de- feated by 11,000 He then claimed that a majority of the votes had been cast for him and that if there had been a fair count he would been declared elected. Tt widely believed that he was right then and it is than probable he s so when he ¥ that the majority claimed for Oates has been obtained by the grossest frauds. Kolb and his supporters are thoroughly familiar with the methods which Alabama democrats have been wont to resort in their efforts to win elections, and their declaration that the victory of Oates was sceured by fraud is therefore entitled to some welght. Captain Kolb has threatened that he will £0 to the capital of Alabama on the day that the governor is to be inaugurated and set up a separate state government. It is hardly Iikely that he will carry the conflict to such an extreme as to inaugurate insurrection, as his threatened action would amount to, but that he and his followers may create a seri- ous disturbance of the peace appears to be assured, and something very much like a revolutionary movement ‘in Alabama is cer- tainly promised. The results of the county mass meetings, to be held next Thursday, will go far to determine the probable extent to which the Kolb faction will carry the conflict. Although Kolb was supported by some republicans and by populists, most of whom had been democrats, the fight is really between democrats, and may be accepted as vindicating all that has been said hitherto by the republicans regarding frauds in south- ern clections power sueh to evidently str sale have was more now, to MANDEI MONEY PLANK. The adoption of a firm and outspoken plank in favor of honest money is one of the most important duties which the republican state convention which meets in Omaha this week will have to perform. Its action upon the silver question is bound to cut no incon- siderable figure In the comin campaign and it should proclaim no_doctrine that will need elther explanation or apology. That the men whom the republican party in Nebraska has lonored are beginning to appreciate the ne- cessities of the situation must be gathered from the expression upon this subject which Senator Manderson has just made publie. In an interview a few days ago the senator is reported to have spoken thus plainly: *1 hope that the convention will make no foolish concessions to the free silver craze, but will stand sturdily for republican doctrine upon the financial question. I do not believe that there is a vote to be gained by any half-way yiclding to the populist ideas, while there is much to be sccured by standing firmly by the principles of a sound political economy, as demonstrated by the experience of the world. The republican party is in favor of bimetal- lism, of the maintenance of the credit of this government and the adoption of such legt lation as will enable it to stand, as it mus among the strong nations of the globe. The tendency of events throughout the world, in my judgment, is on the line of a readoption of the double standard, but we shall retard rather than accelerate this movement by making undue haste in an attempt toward the impossible."” Senator Manderson's advice embodies the true pollcy which the state convention should pursue. It is essentially the same that The Bee has repeatedly recommended and which The Bee most vigorously urged upon the meeting of the State Republican league two months ago. It Was the plain path for re- publicans then and it is the plain path for republicans now. The republican party has an established reputation as the party of lionest money and it cannot well afford to lose or oven Injure that reputation by failing to stand up to the line where It has always Should the republicans be inclined to yield a portion of the ground to those who are Infected with the inflation virus, the other parties, particularly the populist pariy, will not hesitate to outbid it. If the republi- cans recede one step, their opponents will recede two steps. If there are any gains to be had from biting at the free and unlimited colnage of silver bait let the other parties nave them, for they will be more than coun- terbalanced by the gains accruing to the republican party from a firm stand in favor of Lionest money. Republicans entertain no special hostility to silver. All the legislation that has been enacted In recent years for the purpose of promoting the use of silver as a money metal has emanated from the republican party. The republican party is thererssa committed to bimetallism and to a wider emsloyment of gllver money, but it has been convinced by Its own experiments in that direction that the United States cannot attai that' object by instituting the free and unlimited coln- age of silver at the existing ratio alone and unaided and without the assistance of the greater European powers. Free colnage un- der present circumstances Is neither a safe nor an appropriate means of furthering bi- metallism. This is the present position of the republican party upon the money ques- tion. All the state convention should do is to proclaim s adherence to It and set its face squarely against the free silver coinage 1dols and towards strictiy honest money. stood. There is a bit of humor in the wording of the city advertisement inviting proposals for electric lighting for a term of three years, commencing January 1, 1895. That advertisement states that “no bid will be re gross | that they will no longer submit to | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1804, [ cetved, read oF considered by the counet | which containslhnyt condition of any kind, | but such bid shall bo in strict conformity to | this advertisenbnt|fnd existing ordinances.” How \ conditional or not ynless it road by (t? Dowa rths ecouncil pre able to gather $rotd the making the bid thay the bid Is, or strict o the advertisement existing ordinaness? The councll, if it can malk Jeglaration gifted with e atght o taculty that enables [t 1o mform the tent 1 propogals without receiving or | reading them whether a bid 1s ceivod and d to be name of the party Is the coungik jo know Is 18 not, i conformitst and good its must be ond some similar itself of con St seal The county commissioners are determined that | the coming strictly | increase of cou { the work of county poor relicf during shall b2 conducted business principles, Last year ty charges was so great and that a rable element of loosencas and fraud was unavoidably admitted. This year this fs to be reduced | to a minimum. Strict economy will not only | teduce the expense to the taxpayers, but it will also permit the funds at the disposal of the commissioners for relief work to go fur- | ther actual Business | methods are those that give the greatest pos sible aid to the worthy poor at the least pos sible expense. This is tho object which the commissioners intend to accomplish. winter upon the s0 sudden cor. even and do more wood, The fact that a man who has belonged to a political party from very origin and has alwzys voted a straight ticket, has never asked for any office, is no sign that he does not ccntemplate asking for something in the future. By proclaiming his wonder- ful record from the house top he certainly conveys the impression that he is going to ask for something very soon. its Blessings in Pairs, Chicago Tribune. Good rains—the tariff question settled, is seldom two great blessings like the: come in a single day. Tt % On New York Sun, and most honored United States: David senator, of New York. democrat in Bennett Hill, A Natur: clusion. Kansas City Journal. A good democrat like Mr. Cleveland shouldn’t seriously object to taking water when whisky and sugar go with it. - — A Plous Exclamation. Rocky Mountain News (pop.). Waiteism is not populism. Walte and his appointees esteem that it is, If it is, then God_pity the populist party, for the voters of Colorado will show it no mercy The Little Matter of Sugnr. Globe-Democrat. The people will at once begin to pay a higher price for sugar as one of the effocts of the tariff bill that s claimed to be “‘bet- ter than the McKinley law,” under which sugar has been cheaper than at any previ- ous time since the war. ‘Gene Ficld's Pertinent Conundrum. Chieago Record. How is Hon. George L. Miller disposed toward young am Jennings Bryan? Heretofore nobody has been able to amount to much in Nebraska without the consent and co-operation of that venerable sage, the patron saint of the Soughing Catalpa. Loosening the Grip, Minneapolis Times. The promptness with which money comes out of hiding as soon as the tarift is settled shows that it is not more money that is needed to make tim, sod, but confiden on the part of those who have the money that they will not all if they ven- ture into trade or industr Grover's Letter Did the llusiness, Sprigiield Republ @xecutive interference - has never ¢ yet falled to arouse antagonism in congress, even when put forth in plain behalf of the cause of the people, and it is a question whether Mr. Cleveland's letter did not op- erate in the end rathe to stiffen than weaken the backs of the recalcitrant sena- tors of his parf But he certain made a great mistake when he sought to rally the house and the people about the coal and iron ore duties when the latter were aroused over the sugar steal particularly. . able € erlstics, Washington Stas The notable characteristics of this year's tariff legislation are (1) otection to cer- tain tr , (2) the populistic income tax, and (3) Gorman's personal defeat of Cleve- land. The principle of protection has not been wound . There has been some un- systematic fting in the products to which protection is applied. In certain respects it is legislation which the publicans could without inconsistency hav passed In re- sponse to the demand of the farmers for a modification of the tariff. It is so far from effectively assaulting the principle of he culminating atrocity of class legis- lation’’ that the tariff reformers are dis- gusted with it as the discreditable offspring of “perfidy and party dishonor.”” The trusts and the populists, an extraordinary combi- nutlon, have reason for rejoicing. There is not miuch comfort in any feature of the leg- islation for the democrats, the majority of whom have repudiated and dishonored it in advance. Threo Citizenship in the Navy. Philadelphia Record, An American navy with half of its sailors aliens Is an anomaly; and the request of the senate for the birth statistics of the enlisted sea force of the United States evidently foreshadows an attempt to rem- edy this paradoxical condition. Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo disc 1 some years ago that of the 7,046 e Seamen only 8,608 were of American birth. The pay of a sailor on an American ship is her than the corresponding figures on any foreign pay rolls, and a chance of receiving commissions similar to the system in the army has been propc Naval re. cruits are no longer so scarce to find among our own citizens. A bill is now pending by Which naturalization is to be made possible during active service afloat. The adoption of this measure would prevent injustice to any alien now in the service; but every forcign-horn sailor who should refuse to be come @ citizen of the United States should be promptly made to walk the gangplank. s Uncle Sam d China, Chicago Tribune. The senate has confirmed the treaty with China. Its provisions have been discussed for some months, and the general opinion is that there is nothing harmful in them. The Chinese government accepts the exclu- sion provisions of the present laws and will not countenance violations of them. While a few coolies will continue to slip into the United States, no matter how rigid the laws may be or ho eadous an attempt I8 made to enforce them,.there is reason to believe that this new treaty will tend to diminish rather than to increase the number of illegal immigrants. The ratification of the treaty at this time was especially desirable, ‘ The Chinese govepnment has felt aggrieved for years, owlng, to what it looked on as unfriendiy legislation, That grievance being removed, the United 'States will be on good terms with both China and Japan, and will be ubout the only country whosé motives neither of them wjll guspect, The fortunate position it occupigs may enable it to play in time the part of al mediato —r—— Not a Cure for Lobbying, Cliiganp Record. Senator Allen of Nebraska has introduced into the senate a lk to prevent professional lobby ing," but with''We (Xpe'ts ruh a meai- ure to accomplish’{s Kot easily discoverable, It might answer_the_purpose of calling out an expression of-congressional opinion, and there would certainly be much edification it not joy in whatever speeches might be made upon it by the senators who be- friended the Sugar trust. But Senator Allen must know as well as the other senators that the prevention of lobbyini by the proposed law s out of the question, Aside from the fact that it would be exceedingly difficult to make a legally effectual definition of lobby! of his bill s that it recognizes the culpabil- ity of the lobbyist only. The lobbylst is irresponsible and irrepressible, The only way in which he can be sup- pressed s through the election of congress. men who will not listen Ho there are senators or representatives who will consent to come under the influence of lobbylists there will be lobbyists to influence them. The lobbying pros S can and 11 be cirried on somehow in spite of all the laws that congress might pass and all the bars that Senator Allen might have placed across the capitol doors, And when, on the other hand, the mem- bers of congress are men whe character and stamina will not permit them to enter into lobby negotiations, the meretricious sractice will cease &t once and without eed of legislative Interventions POLITICAL POTPOURRE Joe Rdgerton s putting in all his spare time trying to infuse life into the popullst ravks, and it fs sald he has considerable spare time on his hands just at pres:nt Ten cou 8 will be back of Judge Hensley of Columbus in the Third distric! democratic congress<ional convention At least that s what Jud, Parks says in the ¢ nbus Tel- egram, and he is talking for the One of the Heatrice organs Is busy telling bow the county convention was solid for Summers, while the other republican paper Is engaged in proving that the delegates are for Pearse. The convention Wednesday will show which of the newspapers tells the truth, It is asserted by a has not been controverted, I8 working th ‘old soldier racket'" only when it is of benefit to him. General Thayer has not yet hurried fnto print to explain why he is ®0 vigorously fighting for the nomination of Majors An effort is being made by the state house impeachables to use the Saline county dele- gates to the republican convention as a catspaw to pull tho combine's chestnuts out of the fire. The only thing that will satisfy the combine will be the nomination of Majors. Holdrege Forum: Some politicians are urg- ing the nomination of Tom Majors for gov- ernor beeanse The Omaha Bee is opposed to him. The say it will make Majors for The Bee to be against Lim. Such politi- cians certainly do not have the good of their party at heart, Cozad Tribun Jack MucColl goe: the big Sixth, where all convention heen held with a handsome majority. He is likewise holding his own in the east of the state and every day increages the probability that_the next governor of Nebraska will be the Dawson county man Grand Island Independent: Mr. Majors is the weakest man that could be put up by the republicans for governor, and the man most like.y to be defeated. Therefore the popu- sts and the Bryan democrats very anxious to see him nominated by the republi- cans, and the latter should keep away from him. Lincoln News: The silence of the Majors organs in the matter of the serious charg against him as a man, as a public official and a candidate is simply deafening. This is evidently another of those justly celebrated railroad campaigns, in which public senti- ment is disregarded and force used to ac- complish the desired ends. Wall Star: Every rural rcpublican pap:r that supports Jack MacColl does so from a sense of duty to the party. As a rule newspaper men have nothing to gain, nacially speaking, by the clection or de of a candidate for governor. We hay 1s prefer Jack MacColl because, like our- Ives, he is free from guile. The worst thing that has been said in print_about the candidacy of E. M. Correll for the republican nomination for licutenant governor is that he is an advocate of woman' suifrage. It is crucl to bring up a record on this subiect at this critical of the game. There will be no women the vonvention to help out “Rasmus.’ Carl Clouse, one of the candidates for the legislature on the republican ticket from the Fifty-sixth district, is an editor, and in his own paper he asgerts that he is embarrassed, and as & conscquence the situation is de- cidedly painful. But, he continues, “whoever votes for us will vote for a mighty good man.” Carl believes in the old adage that “he who tooteth not his own horn, his horn shall not be tooted.” Ansley Chronicle: We have it dircet from one of the recognized pop leaders that O M. Kem will be defeated for a renomination for congress, which information, no doubt, will be a source of satisfaction to all in- telligent men in this congressional district who have studied the vacancy existing for the past four years. No matter whom the pops nominate to succeed Kem they can't worse the situation any. Beatrice Times: The barnacles of the re- Lincoln paper, and it that Tom Majors have in _publican party seem to think that because this is republican year every sort of an old plug can be elected if nominated. Acting upon this idea, there is an unusually large number of unworthy candidates seeking for recognition in the state convention. = No greater or disastrous mistake could be made. The necessity is greater than ever before for good men. In no other way will the state be redcemed from the coutrol of the democrats and populists. From the warden of the penitentiary down to the capitol messenger, everybody in the state house ring has been promised that he will retain his job if Majors securcs the nomi- nation for governor. All the bank examiners are also in the deal, and the way they are hustling for the man from Nemaha is a caution. The impeachables and their satel lites have caught the fever, too, and th are pulling every string in sight to help out the tattooed candidate. If the state conven- tion should conclude to “‘vindicate” Mr. Ma- jors by giving aim the nomination, there'll not be an office in sight for any of his workers who are not in the ring if the prom- iscs of reward alrcady made are kept. Silver Creek Times: At the last session of the legislature it must have beem very evident to any one keeping run of the pro- ceedings that Thomas J. Majors, as presiding officer of the senate, was in full sympathy with the opponents of railroad legislation and the thieving outfit whom the legislature sought to impeach. He is a representative of the machine, of the professional politi- cians—the politicians who are in it for re nue. With such a man in the governor' chair the railroads and the people who live by public plunder would have nothing to fear. Not that we wish to say that he is per- sonally dishonest, but that he could be de- pended upon to stay by the crowd that he trains with. The republican party of Ne- braska cannot afford to make such a man their candidate for governor. AtinbiiAAEs il PEOPLE AND THIN The country is now anxiously gazing ward Buzzard's Bay for a tariff sign. There is some ground for the report that Cleveland’s malaria {5 of a conservative char- acter. “Sugar House Jim” is the profane nick- name which has bzen glued on Senator Smith of New Jersey. Senator Vest threatens to retire from pub- lic life. There is a disposition in Missouri to expedite a realization of the threat. The man who did not finish his dash to the North Pole should be credited with having sucessfally eluded a Saharaic summer. General Prosperity Is somewhat dilapidated and rheumatic, but these trifles will be over- looked If he takes to the saddle promptly. Governor Walte's letter insisting on popu- lists keeping In the middle of the road fur- nishes a clew to the ancient mystery, “Who struck Billy Patterson?” Congressional sick leaves are multiplying, It is generally believed a large number of statesmen will be invited to take a pros longed vacation by their constituents. Senators Sherman and Hoar and ex-Senator Evarts are all related. The latter two are double cousins, both on their fathers' and their mothers’ side, and when Mr. Evarts was a vouth Senator Hoar's father was his guardian, Colonel McClure, the veteran editor of the Philadelphia Times, is gradually recovering from the eftects of a prolonged and danges ous illness. His right hand, the last member to retain traces of the disease, is slowly re- covering its functions. Prof. Falb's hopes of promotion to the sig- nal service have sunk to zero. His combi- nation tidal wave and earthquake failed to appear In the vicinity of New York. None but reliable prophets can hope for a place under this administration Hon. Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chili and citizen of Nebraska, is circulating in St Louis as advance agent for the Harr n In- ternational Telephone company. According to a published interview with him, Mr. Egan still cherishes a wholesome disregard for Grover Cleveland. Tom Nast, the American cartoonist, who located in London six months ago, is again on the high road to prosperity. He is at pres ent at work on a life-size painting of the surrender of Appomattox for H. H. Kohlsaat of Chicago, which is to be presented to the city of Galena, the birthplace of General Grant. “He laughs best who laughts last.” S ator Gorman's subdued cachinations are liable to wind up in physical anguish. The admin- istration 1s determi; to hang his sen- atorial scalp on a white house bush. Alre dy the plebiters of Maryland are on his trail, and not & few ambitious politiclans have jolned in the chase. If they do not lay out the smooth fixer, they will make the race s0 warm for him that a Kansas simoon will ha hlizzardish in comparison, to- | republ stralghts.” | | along ut of | TO ALL REPURLICAN CL It has been decided by the committee of arrangements for the republican state co vontion to be held in this city on Wednesday to have a general turnout and parade of the n clubs of Omaha on Tuesday nigh The various republican ward clubs t members of the Hamilton elub, Younz M Republican club, Gariield elub ! clubs and of nationalties invited to meet at thelr respective halls this (Mcnday) evening to confer and arrange for Tuesday's demonstration, The presidents of the several republican clubs of the city and county are requested to meet H. M. Waring, secretary of the state league, at the Millard hotel this morning at 11 o'clock to make plans for the demonstra- tion, ns. and clubs of other are | BRING ON YOUR PROSPERITY. Chicago Tnter Ocean: Just as soon as con- gress gets out of sight business men will take cour The whole year, through congress has been “the dead fly in the ointment,” the open sewer breeding disease and commercial death to every enterprise, and its final ad- | Journment will be hatled as a universal relief. Chicago Herald: Under the new conditions business should revive and times should im- | | | prove. Some d of improvement all the line scems to,be inevitable. But the full tide of prosperity’in this country can never be reached until every vestige of pro- | tection is stricken from our tariff system Boston Globe: The business of the country, without rogard to party, are all glad that the tariff bill has been passed. Though many of them do not like the bill, they think the relief from uncertainty which its passage assures will give an impetus to busi ness. DBoth republican and democratic bus| ness men now look for an era of brisk trade and general prosperity New York World Business will certainly become brisk as soon as the tariff bill is signed. This will be the case regardless of the character of the bill, for it is notorious that the business of distribution (commonly called “trade’) can adjust itself to unfavc able conditions to such an extent as to be unwilling to have them changed even for the better. But the business of real production does not admit of such adjustments, except in a much smaller degree—a fact it’ will be well not to lose sight of. New York Herald: The views of business men and others in various parts of the coun- try, may be taken as volcing the general feeling that the dawn of better tiimes has come. There is every reason to belteve that business will now begin to re- vive, finances improve, markets become more active and industrial activity quicken. That the outlook will be hailed by the people, and especlally by workingmen, goes without s ing. This welcome tide of better times is ex- pected to set in not so much because of the changes in the tariff, made by the bill which has now passed both houses of congress, as because the agitation and suspense which have hung over the country for a year have at last been removed. The inevitable effect of the uncertainty as to what changes would be made in the tariff system was to handi- al, commercial and industrial ac- and cause dull times. The dispelling uncertainty and consequent suspense ival men of thi must as inevitably clear the way to a of prosperity. s Pl B LABOR NOTE Painters’ union of Buffalo declared for pure and simple soclalism. St. Louis shocworkers won a strike against a reduction of wages. Cleveland is getting r bration on Labor day. The labor unions of Reading, Pa., are going to have a big celebration on Labor day. The iron moulders all over the country are voting on the American Federation of Labor political platform. The Central Lahor union of Toledo, O has endorsed the political program of the American Federation of Labor. . The general office of the Journeyman Bakers and Confectioners International union has been removed from Detroit to 5 Boerum street, Brooklyn. The convention of the American Glass Workers assoclation, assembled in Montreal, adopted the political program of the American Federation of Labor. ie International Typographical union is- sucd twenty-one charters last month, of which twenty comprise the German-Ameri- can branches. The convention in October promises to be very interesting. From statistics recently gathered it found that there are 1,200 bricklayers in St. Louis, about half of whom are out of em- ployment, while of 375 plasterers in that city only 163 were reported at work. Chairman McGrann of the congressional committee on labor has instructed the com- missioner of labor to gather complete sta- tistics on the subjects of convict labor and the results of the introduction of labor sav- ing machinery. The first contract given out for stone under the new state of New York law providing that all stone used in state or municipal work shall be cut and dressed in and by citizens of the state s for the conrt house of Rens- selaer county. The price is $110,000. The boards of trade and similar organiza- tions of the state of Texas are ‘“roasting" Governor Hogg of that state because he con- demned the ‘sending of the United States troops to Chicago during the great railroad strike. Some of the resolutions start with the phiase, “We, the people dy for a grand cele. =pX] ones $7.50—sacks—cu $2.50-—all wool cheviot—6 —and $3.50—nice quiet ation suit little Seoteh cheviot checks 2-piece suits—straw hats lowest price: Reliable Clothiers, 8. W, * The Fall of /S —ocassimeres—worsteds—elegant goods—Boy's suits— another--$3—neat checks—Ilatest cut—double breasted another—$4-—little better—But—best of all —$4.60—extra pants- Browning, King & Co., PUNISH THE TRAIN WRECKERS, Indlanapolis Journal: Nothing In the re- cords of Indian cruejtios can surpass in all the elements of flendishness the Rock I8 land catastropho at Line:ln. Philadelphia Times: No left_unturned to bring the miscreant to jus tico I it shall cloarly appear that the wreok caused with deliberate and malicious on stone should b Salt Lake ‘% to be in all ribune Thosa down If there s power the detsctive force of this they ought to be treated as those doomed passengers, thom to a tree and let them to death hington Post the sphere murderors enough country; and they treated namely, tie slowly ‘burn W within i Al mail of national would be competent for congrese to flx & penlty for wrecking such trains, and to make a standing offer for the capture and convietion of wreckers, The people would heartily approve such legistation, New York Tribuno: Can any punishment be too severe for the authors of this horrible tragedy? Tu California the penalty for traln wreeking is . Without golng to such an extreme, is it not tme for some other states to revise their laws on this subject and impose penalties calenlated to have a deterrent effect on men tempted to commit such 108 ? Milwaukeo Evening Wisconsin onomnity of wickedn rries our m back to tho relentless and Apaches. Yet have w Apache Tndians right engaged and induc trains action, 1t are uch an nories blood-thirsting not a. band of in our midst who are Ners to engage in wreek Ing railroad trains, and thus murdering asting persons who are no more th f their grievances than the queen of land. Minneapolis sons capabla this country is tppal most scems to be on which would allow suel to have a regular trial Rock Island company neither should the tat ny, in the effort who should be evidence can b of the cri Journal The fact that per- f such infamous work live in enough and it al- excoss of generosity men, it apprehended, But certainly the lould spare no money, of Nebraska spare sceure the scoundrels, disposed of just as soon as btained to conviet them e e SMILLS BETWEEN THE LINES, rd: The poker player s has the Dlues Philadelphia Rec happiest when he Knte eld's How sp’ look at another Washington: “Unwomanly? e never turns around to woman's hat, Tribune party, severely, gFace o your kneos,' I had her there all list evening, sir," responded the embarrassed youth. oung man,” sald vou ought to latest novel failed to cateh the publie, as he expected it would. Any particular reason? Walton—Hr—it was a detective story. Brooklyn Life my wife. She rything exc He I owe everything to Everything He—Well, pt what 1 owe my creditors! tgon Star: Eben, “voh Tain't intiahly man dat keeps taliin’ 'hout de beaw honesty. Hit soun’s too much ez ef he wus argyin’ ‘wif hisse's Philadelphia Times ally play first fiddle if handle her beau, “Sometim The girl can gener- she knows how to <hington Star: “Don't you consider or Sorchum one of our risimg states- men?" said one citizen to another. Yos," was the reply; “ never saw a man do so much rising—1o explain,” Transeript: Bmperor Willlam's Al conturics ago kept a toll- gate, and the members of the family now living are in the habit of remarking, evi- dently in respect to their pike-keeping' fores fathers, “Wic geht's?"" toston ancestors sove SOME WEATHER ADVICE, Atlunta Constitution, Take the weather as it comes— A’ no use to weep: Let the thunder beat fts drums— Let the lightning leap! Hunt up every breeze that stirs Quaff the lemonade; Thank God for thermometers, But hang e shade! WIAT TIE WILD WAVE 541D, Cleveland Plain Dealer, He stood by the roaring sea, And he Sang sonnots, softly, ‘Tenderly o the wavel and stars—helow, aboves He sang the tale of his absent love; “Oh, wild and treach'rous sea, To me Bring back (hat face And 1 s prace, Yestreen [left with thee!” Outspake (he roaring seas “Wh I ) gayly, rily The sweel mermaid, with scanty carh, o gary, ho pierced thy heart with cruel barb tening plen; TForever thine, By bond divine - And art thou searching she? “To yonder canopy, flee— Ah, e! And ‘peep thou softly, Silently; Another pours in her The nothingness And ‘his Dear me! Thy sainted dream Is gorging cream On the dollar hie won from thee willing ear, delights to hear Pompeii (Prononneod Poin-pi=—yo) Is not more com- plete than the Fall of Prices — pronounced half-pri-ces—in our men'’s suits—$25 suits ~$12.50—$20 ones $10-— $17 $8.60—s15 light or dark—cheviots ones to 14 years -all colors— patterns—same quality combin- to mateh-—neat guaranteed all wool—all at cost— nicest waists— cap Cor, 15th and Dougl: