Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ———— 2 e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday) One Year. Daily HBee and Sanday, One Year......... Bix Months..... f Three Months .. anday Bes, One turday Pee, One Yont Weekly Iee, One Year FIC 1din N and Twenty-tourth var 2888238 ' ot Commerce. 2 %5, Fribune Blae. Washington, 107 ¥ Street, N CORRESPONDE AN communications relating to news and edt- tortal matter sho reiseil: To the Tditor n LETTERS Al business letters and”remittances shoutd b aressed. to fee Tubliehine co : St Drafta. checks ‘and postofice orders (o o order 'of the company, & PEBLASHING COMPANY. should be STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO! George B, Tzschuck, secretary ; Hshing company, being duly ya that the_actual number of full and ¢ e coples of The Daily Morning. ning and_Sunday Bee rinted during the month of July, 1894, was as 20,015 24,190 1. ‘ lunsald and’ returned BORTIS vy oo o csaiaved Total #0ld......c..cie Dally averago nel cir: *Sunda: % GROF B, TZSCHUCK. sre me and subscribed in my pr of August. 1591, N. P. FBIL, Notary Public. Sworn to he ence _this 1st dn TO NERRASKA REPUBLICANS, All republicans who are opposed to the domination of railroads and desire to resent the attempt to make the party subservient to corporate monopolies and public thieves are hereby invited to express thelr Views by letter directed to me personally, suggesting the best method for defeating the election of Thomas Majors. All communications will be treated as confidential when so requested. We must make an organized effort to save the state from the blighting misrule which has repudiated the pledges repeatedly made to the people in our platforms; has made the execution of our laws a farce and looted the state treasury. Notice will be given in due time through The Bee what action will be deemed most advisable to accomplish the ends In view E. ROSEWATER This -is the day that marks the advent of a new tarift law. Isn't it about time for th Munictpal league to awaken from its summer siesta? Wateh the city council for the hatching of new schemes from now on until election day shall have passed. The annual crop of local office seekers has been Increased, If anything, by the financial depression and drouth. The nomination of Majors was unfor- tunate for many reasons. Matt Daugherty may yet have good cause for deploring it. Everything goes—income tax, sugar sched- ule, dutiable coal and iron, the Whisky trust Internal revenue tax. And finally con- gress goes, 1co. That tarift message promised by the presi- dent does not appear to be a sufficient at- traction to keep a majority of the members of congress in Washington. Perhaps Speaker Crisp now wishes that he had accepted the senatorial appointment which he so courageously rejected whon offered to him a few months ago. It has become a trite saying that trouble brews fa the cup. The local military com- panles are cxperiencing a forcible demon- stration of the truth of this old saw. The lingeration over the transfer switch law will be renewed at O'Neill this week, with good prospects for protracted obstrue- tive tactics on the part of the railroads. Of course the royal baby had to oceupy a prominent place in the queen's speech pro- roguing Parliament. Babies usually insist upon making themselves heard, whether of royal parents The state of Nebraska spent some $18,000 on a dress parade encampment of the na- tional guard, while poverty and perhaps starvation are staring hundreds of its citi- zens In the western part of the state in the tace. It is stwply wonderful how public opinion is crystalizing adversely to Majors, This 1s particularly true in Omaha and Douglas county and is a matter deserving the serious conslderation of the remainiug candidates on the ticket It may be put down as a foregone conclu- sion that it the matter be left entirely to rallroad democrats there will be a straight democratic state ticket put in the fleld at the September convention. This subject is now engrossing the eutire attention of the railroad cappers who imanipulated the re- publican state convention for Majors, President Gompers of the Federation of Labor says that Cleveland deliberately ignored a request of the labor leaders to attempt to settle the recent great rallway strike. Mr. Cleveland was just then busy hearing the stories of the railroad officials. He has time to listen to the appeals of labor only when he is out ot office. American President The election of a subservient tool of the rallroads to the governorship of Nebraska would be equivalent to a surrender of the ‘whole state into the hands of the railroad manager: Railroadism must be rebuked. There s no other way to maintain the re- publican form of government guaranteed by the federal constitution to every state in the union. 'The people of Nebraska are not yet ready to submit passively o & government by the rallrsad The Sunday open air concerts at the park will contioue but & few weeks longer, and the people should therefore make the most of those that still remain to be given. These ‘concerts have proved not only very attractive features of popular amusement, but also an educating force for the people who have but tare opportunities of hearing good musi That they have served the purpose for which they were inaugurated, the crowd in regular attendance has abundantly shown. The Sun- dsy park coucerts have become an estab- Aished fixture In our park system, THE DOMINANT ELEMEN Tn hie speech at Old Orchard, Me. urday, opening the republican campaign in that state, ex-Speaker Reed stated a fact long recognized by all Inielilgent observers of political affairs, that the difficulty with the democratic party today, as in all the past, Is that its great majority resides in the south. Among northern democrats generally there I8 to be found more business sense and busi- ness ability than among those of the south, casily explained by the different conditions that surround them. The northern democrat, speaking generally, has been long in contact with a vigorous and steady material develop- ment. He has been a witness of practical resuits. The experience of northern demo: erats generally has been very different from that of the democrats of the south, and while, as Mr. iteed says, the latter are men of iutelligence and learning, their learning is not of a kind which arises from a thorough knowledge of business as it is carried on in the north. “While the southern man,” sald Mr. Reed, “has every opportunity to read in books of the prosperity which has come to the north, he has 1o conception of 1t, such as lived in it. He is devoted to the theorles of a bygone day. His mind is fixed upon the principles which were es- sential to the prosperity of his part of the country In the days before th Mr. Reed, it may be thought, was somewhat too generous o the northern democrats, for many of these are in most the southern element of the party those who have war.” accord with but he was and his complete speaking in a general way compari- son may therefore pass without criticism But there is something more to be said in explanation of the attitude of southern demo- erats toward the poliey under which the in- dustries of the north have developed. There Is a sectional feeling that must be left out of consideration. This was clearly stated some time ego by ative Pennsylvania. out that tho pesple of the south old system of lahor, having has sified industries to any coald conceive of no benefit from protective duties in develop- Ing their matcrial resourccs or in enlarging Wit- nessing the growth in wealth and population of northern states, a sentl ment was created, which, for political pur- poses, was fostered and constantly stimulated that the gr th of these manufacturing states was solely the result of legislation in which the southern could share, and therefore they must combine for its overthrow Even now that sentiment conti ues, after the chauged condition in labor h removed the great obstacle that stood in the way of their former industrial development. The political zentiment, £0 loug stimulated for partisan purposes, still insists on th: old that protective duties in all cas prices to the consumer, as they have been heretofore a consw ad not a manufacturing people, they 1 supposed burdens as falling espe them. The force of this view will be appre- clated when it is stated that the forty-four democratic votes in the house and the twelve in the senate from the six states of South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippl, Louisiana, Ar- kansas and Tennesscee, all hostile to the pro- tective policy, represent industries the value of the products of which Is exceeded by the value of the products of the industries of Pennsylvania alone to the amount of several hundred millions of dollars, It s this element of the demoeracy, now and always dominant, that passed the Wil- son bill and insists upon maintaining the crusade against protection. Still devoted to the theories of a bygone day asd still sec- tional in sentiment, it is democratic party of the south that is demanding the overthrow of the poliey which brought about the wonderful material development and pre perity of the country which mark the past thirty years as the most astonishing in in- dustrial achievement in the world's history. The security of our industries against further attack s to be found in the election by northern constituencles of a republican house of representatives, been not very Represent- He pointed ader their Grow of 1o dive extent their business by home manufactuves. manufacturing states not delusion enhance the NOMORE FREE GARDEN SEEDS From the very beginning of his incumbency of the secretaryship of agriculture under President Cleveland, Mr. Morton has been most outspoken in his opposition to the sys- tem of seed distribution which has existed for years in his department and which has called for the annual expenditure of a large sum of money for sending out seeds to | - ple in various parts of the country. It has long been the custom for congress to make an appropriation for the purchase by the retary of agricuture of a supply of garden seeds, to be allotted in equal shares to the Qiftercnt members of congress. The latter simply furnished the names of their constitu- ents to whom they wished thelr quotas to be sent and the work of mailing them out was performed by clerks on the pay roll of the Department of Agriculture. A farmer who received a package of choice vegetable seeds, with a few papers of flower seeds thrown in for his wife, all undor the frank of his congressman, usually cherished a ten- der feeling for the representative from his district and could not well be s0 ungrateful as to forget him when he came up for re- nomination and re-election. Experience has shown that the seed allotment, as a rule, proves much more effective in keeping a congressman’s memory green than does the distribution of carloads of Congressional Rec- ords and similar public documents. One of the first things Secretary Morton Qid after taking possession of his office was to cut down the sum to be spent on seeds and to put the clerks who had done nothing but address and mail seed packages to work on other business. When he sent his annual estimates n to congress the secretary loft out the bulk of the seed appropriation and in- timated that since the congressmen had al- lowed themselves morey for clerk hire their own clerks were able and. competent to send out what few sceds were still to be given away. Both of these propositions roused a storm of Indignation. The congressmen would not have so fertile a source of elec- tioneering materials plugged up and they therefore reinserted the usual seed appro- priation. Neither would they have their own pet clerks burdened with the exhausting tabor of addressing and malling packages of seeds, and they therefore made provision for a number of special clerks, who should have no other duty but this, With these additions (o the agriculture appropriation bill every member of congress felt assured that the flow of garden seeds would continue un- checked. But Mr. Morton is not to be circumyented by any such bungling device. He has quictly looked up the law on the seed question and discovered that the only warrant for seed istribution les in & clause of the revised statutes authorizing the department to pur- chase seeds “rare and uncommon to the coun- try or such as can be made more profitable by frequent changes from one part of our country to another,” the object being, of course, o encourage experiments that would teach us how to secure the best results. A lotter was thereupon addressed to the attor- ey goneral asking whether the recent ap- g0 e e e e ‘wroptiation could be appiied to seeds other | of cutting U The pensions of old soldiers than ihose referred to in that elause, and the answer of the attorney general, given in a formal communicstion Iast week, fs em- phatieally in thé negative. Mr. Morton will doubtless refuse o Invest in the common pumpkin, watermelon and petunia seeds, much to the dlsgust of the congressmen and to the disappuintment of the worthy [armers' wives. And then, when numerous demo- cratic congressmen shall have fafled of ro- election because of the dearth of govern- ment garden seeds, Mr. Morton will put in another claim for economy in the conduct of his department A ramor has been current fn official and army circles the past few weeks to the effect that the great military division known as the Department of the Platte would soon be abolished and its territory annexed to adjacent divisions. We are pleased to be able to stat however, that the rumor was groundless. To a committee of prominent Omaha cltizens Secretary Lamont has given personal assurance that the report is with- out foundation in fact. This information from the secretary of war will be a source of gratification, not only to the people of this city, but throughout the limits of the miiltary division under General Brooke's command. The rumor had its origin as a sequel to the effort being mady by southern congressmen to have a doubtless new division carved out in southeast with head Atlanta, Whatever may b: the merits of the claims of the southern people, it is no less a fact that the Department of the Platte is today one of the most important military divisions of the union. Physical conditions and g-ographical lines have culminated with the progress make the present headguarters of that department the matural base of supplies and of military operations for the vast territory of the central west. In this city center the great transportation and telegraph lines that penetrate the Indian reservations to the northwest. Omaha, as is w:ll known, was the logical and natural base of supplies of the Pine Ridge campaign, and in fact the railroads leading out of i furnished the means of rapid ortation of for the only Indian war of recent years, More- over, only within the past sixty days War department found it necessary to order the blockade of the Unicn Pacific lines raised by the troops under General Brooke's com- mand, and the fact that Omaha is at onc the headquarters of the military department of the great railway system was of incal- culable value to the commerce of the w n fact no department of during the past ten ye sccupied a more Impor- tant or advantageous position than the De- partment of the Platte the narters at of time to only troops and supplies the war lias WRIGHT WRONG ABOUT PASSES, One can admire the frankness with which Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, now Investigating the great Pullman strike acknowledges that he holds a Pullman pass and that he uses it whenever he wishes and at the time takes fssue with the reasoning by which he secks fo justify his Commissioner Wright says that he has had a Pullman pass for a number of years, in fact, ever since he made his famous report upon Pullman as a model town. When gathering the material for that report he became acquainted with Mr. Pull- man, who, through pure friendship, give him a pass to ride in his cars on any rail- road in the United States and who has Kindly renewed the pass annually each re- curring year. Mr. Wright professes to view the pass s an invitation from Mr. Pullman to make use of his cars just as he would view an invitation to ride in his carriage. A man who has been in public life as long as has Commissioner Wright ought to know that great corporations controlling valuable public franchises do not as a rule grant favors without expecting favors in return when the occassion may offer. He ceived his pass originally because he w undertaking to meke in his official capacity a report upon the condition of the town of Pullman, and the pass has been annually rencwed because in his cofficial capacity he might be called upon to investigate other phases of the Pullman company's business. Had he not been a public official he would have made no report upon the town of Pull- man, and had he made no such report he would not have had the Pullman pass. He insists that he did not use the pass com- ing to Chicago this time, and that if he had tho government would be so much the richer. Here he is apparently reciprocating tho favor by making the government which pays his expenses contribute to the revenue of the Pullman company when it was in his power to save that sum to the public treasury. There Is, moreover, a great dif- ference between accepting an invitation to ride in a carriage and acgepting a pass to ride in a public conveyance. The owner of a carriage may, if he desires, pay for his friend’s ride, but where people ride in Pull- man cars on passes the necessary inference is that those who pay, pay also for those who ride on passes. Unfortunately, Commissioner Wright Is not the only government official who possesses Pullman passes, that form of petty bribery having been extended through the entire public service, mationsl, state and local. This fact, however, makes it uone the less a bribery. THE QUASTION OF EXPENDITURES. When the democrats in the impending state and congressional campaigns under- take, as undoubtedly they will, to urge the claim of ecoromy in expenditures, they will be met by some facts which they will not find it easy to explain away. It has al- ready been shown by Mr. Cannon, republican member of the house committee on appro- priations, and others, that the alleged econ- omy of the present cong: s has come wholly out of pensions, the appropriations for other purposes exceeding those of the first session of the Fifty-second congress by more than $1.000,000, Ex-Speaker Reed called attention to this democratio claim of economy in his specch last Saturday opening the republican campaign in Maine, and indicated how it will be met by republicans. But there are some details as 4o the way in which this congress has spent the public money that need to be understood. One of these relates to the many increases that have been made in the salaries of democratic officlals, especially in the diplomatic and consular service. There s a long list of of- ficlals who recelved their appointment under this administration who are drawing larger salaries than thelr notwith- standing the distress throughout the country, and regardless of (he fact that for years the democrats have continually declaimed about the extravagant salaries of officials. For the Increase of most of these salaries there fs no excuse, and at any rate this is a most in- auspicious time for Increasing the pay of public officlals, The tendency in all private employments is in the opposite direction, and there can be no valid reason for raising the salaries of those who serve the public under existing circumstances. Moreover such a course does not comport well with the policy same action, re- predecessors, | whose record as and refusi listen to the claims of vet- e tor Sk Ano ner fact deal to be noted Is that a great has been expended for idle clerks. Theymembers of the present house have an adguniage never before possessed by all the members of the house, and that 18 the serviTes of clerks. Kvery member is entitled to Wyploy a clerk during the ses- slon, and, of course, all of them have done so. It s not necessary to discuss the pro- priety of thf"Véifstation by the last that provided ‘for this. It s sufficient to know that a ‘tongress democratic in both branches, [hE'‘fajority having come into power with voluminous promises of economy and reform, has not only allowed that legis- lation to stand, but has taken advantage of it to practice a measure of nepotism entirely unparalleled. Very largely both democratic senators and representatives have selected members of their family or near relatives for clerks, so that the revenue from this source is made a sort of family affair, and not a few of these clerks have practically nothing to do. While the democratic leaders prate about saving the people’'s money they are silent the money wasted in order to pay tives liberal salaries for doing nothing. The democrats should be careful ‘not to nvite too close an Investigation of thelr claim of economy. It is a subject they may find it *) their advantage to avoid. of money congress about relatives of senators and represent There Is very little politics in the plank of the republican state platform con- cerning sugar beet culture, and for that reason it will raceive the undivided support of all parties It serves to emphasize the fact that despite the drouth and simoons uf this season ugar beet crop in Nebraska has flourished nd multiplied. The year's output of sugar factories promises to exceed that of former years and will be the means of saving many farmers from distress the coming winter. Farmers adfacent to the Grand Island and Norfolk factorles this year increased the acreage planted to beets and will realize handsome profits by their fore- sight. The fact has been proven that the sugar beet can be successfully grown in Nebraska, be season dry or wet. It is hardy anywhere. The prejudice among farmers against experiment- ing with being fast cause it has been demonstrated that is more sssful and remunerative. 1t is fair to predict that next season will witness a largely Increased acreage devoted to beets. Labor will be cheap, the price of sugar will be a shade higher and the erop will be drouth-proof. -These conditions, fident, will be taken advantage of by land owners throughont the We have it upon good authority that there is unlimited capital in the ‘east awaiting favorable portunity for nvestment in beet sugar enter- only remains for' Nebraskans to bestir themselves ‘and this capital will be attracted to the state, Every patron of home industry. will do everything possible to encourage sughr beet culture in Nebraska, the reason of the and can be grown beets is overcome, be- no crop sue we are con- state. op- prises. It — The secretary of: the Assoclated Charities reports that Omaha is being overrun with T asking for food and alms who refuse , to . take work when it is offered to them. The people who have been giving indiscriminate aid, often in money, to all applicants without' the slight- est inquiry, ave; no doubt largely, to blame for this; because by their conduct they have been oducating 4 class 'of professional tramps The worthy object of charity seldom declines to make small return to his bene- factor whenever possible. If the charitable inclined should insist on a labor test from able-bodled applicants, no matter how insig- niflcant the work, the sweeping of a side- walk already just swept for example, the professional tramp would soon learn to steer clear of this city. some No matter what the outcome of the contro- versy over the award of the governor's cup to the best drilled militia company Ja state may be, Omaha will keep the trophy. There is some satisfaction to be derived from this, although it is o maiter of regret that the award could not Lave been made without engendering unfe'., 'y feelings between the two local compas the Japanese ral Chinese oonsuls at Honolulu have foridden their countrymen residing in Hawail to discuss the pending ar between thelr two countries. This edict is in the interest cf peace. If the residents of Hawail want to fight out the war lat them go home and enlist under the stan- dard of their government. They would get no satisfacticn out of a war of words. The They Whisked the Whole Loaf. rooklyn Unfon. eland and Carlisle have sugar men from first 1o last, with Gorman and Brice, Smith & Co. was about coal and iron. Not about su, e An turcpean Rarity, Springfield Republican. Crop returns for August 1in Great Britain are the most encouraging received in years Wheat, barley, oats and grass report con ditions of from 9 to 110, while the potato vield promises to be large. Wheat through- eastern Europe is reported to have given a yleld above the average. The cereal shortage in America Is thus met by a for- elgn_situation which precludes the possi- bility of famine price been good The quarrel Chance for a Revolution. Phils Iphia Press, President Hippolyte of Haytl, according to late dispatches, is dying, and a revol tion, as a consequence, is impending in the Black Republic. The history of Hayti hus been written in blood and the prospect for a change In the future s not at all ing. Hippolyte "has maintained his posl as president for fouf years only by resort- ing to methods" of 'extreme violence with his enemies and, the secret plotters in their employ. begn charged with nearly crimie against human lif e ne il np’ worse and no_ bete an those who'fa'vé sought his overthrow vom first to ladt, With few exceptions, the patriot in Hayti isiof the professional sort —for revenue only. —drrer—— The Efficacy Dynamite iIn War, Now ¥ork Sun, The tests of the dynamite gun at Sandy Hook on Tuesday. established a new princi- ple in regard to the defense of our coast, namely, that hoy llb( warships cannot enter the harbor of Néw . York. Striking and one- sided as t rulvm\lllun may see cannot be called /idifavagant after the dence of the thyegishots fired fr pneumatic gun., Against & quarter ton of dynamitd; ypeed and exploded with reasonable accuP#c¥. any vessel, armored as heavily as thiéy Afite, becomes like news- paper; it cannot stuy‘afloat. No ship would even dream of approaching the coast where dynamite guns of proved efficiency are known to exist. They might as well sail stralght over Ningigs “Would Down Any Party.” Rocky Mountain News. Zditor Rosewater of The Omaha Bee |s an_ ardent republican and & strong anti-silver man, but he has always fought the corrupt railroad ring which has controlled the republican party of Nebraska. y naturally he bolts the Majors for governor, n 0il room’ manipulator would down any convention that nominated him. The Bee has been runniiz Majors' record on its editorfal page for several weeks, and served notice on the party that it would not support him if he was nom- inated for governor. He was nominated by w trick, and now the republican party will have to fight Its campaign without the ald of The Bee, which enjoys a widespread influence ir the state, FOICK OF TRE STATE PRESS. O'Nefll Frontier: The republican state con- vention nominated Thomas J. Majors as Its candidate for governor. It appears to us that the nomination of Mr. Majors is a severe blow to the party at this time when harmony is needed to secure victory. Mr Majors f% too oid w politician and Jt is high time that be should step down and allow some of the younger element to lead the party. Had he done this the republican party coud go into the campaign and make an ageressive fight, but now have to be on the defensive Valley Enterprise: The Enterprise knows nothing of the past history of the ecandi- dates below the tattooed man from Nemaha. Majors has always worked in the interest of the Burlington raflroad as against (he employes and laboring people. He s the pet candidate of the B. & M. (Lincoim) Journal, cne of the most tyrannical, corpora- tion, nonunion papers in the west. No far- mer or union labor man can vote intelli- gently and support a stagnated railroad “shyster” like Tom Majors. The people will see to the fact that Majors Is turned down this tall and buried deep in his corrupt political grave Grand Island Independent: As we yester- day reported in a short telegram, Mr. Tom Mafors, the most notorious of all republican candidates, has been nominated for governor by the republican convention, through the influences of the B. & M. railroad. He would make an {deal railroad governor, ready to veto every law that may be passed by the legislature for the protection of the people against the arbitrariness of railroad com- panies. The nomi fon ot such men by the railroad power is one of the strongest argu- ments for the establishme of government railroads. This victory of Majors, if it does not prove a defeat of the republican party, some years ago the nomination of Rich- rds Qid, will certainly weaken the republi- chances for victory in the election. Ashland News: The state convention a Tom Majors affair throughout. E was cut and dried two months ago that Tom Majors was to recelve the nomination for governor and he to dictate the balance of the ticket, and it was carried out to the queen’s taste. The ticket from top to bottom is ca ceded to be the very weakest that rould have been named and expressions of condemnation are heard on every hand. Such expressions as these were heard among the republicans ind business men in Omaha after Majors ved the nomivation: “It's a dirty “It means a pop governor and ¥ of pop misrule, “We n't elect him, boys. “Tom Majors has been a seeker after office for the past thirty years and we hope when le s defeated this time he will not try to foist himself upon the party again’ I may have to vote the ticket be cause T am a republican, but it's a bitter pill to swallow.” Expressiol of this kind were heard on every hand nd th came from good men, who meant every word they said. 1t looks very much like the state central committee was a party to the deal. “Tom Mafors has named his ticket, now let him elect it 1f the Majors combine think they can make the republicans of Nebraska swal- low him they are badly deceived.” Unless the News changes its opinion very materiall; in the next few weeks we shall certainly be leve that these remarks mean something Crets Vidette: To say that the work of the republican state convention is generally satisfactory would be to say what we honestly believe to be untrue. The republicans of Nebraska never held a convention that sent 50 many delegates and spectators away so thoroughly disgusted and dissatisfied as the one just ended at Omaba. Right does not Dbecome wrong because advocated by one whom we may dislike. The truth is just as true when tramped into the earth as when exalted beyond the reach of vicious per- verters, Men who declare a certain position to be wrong because a certain man adv it allow their passion and prejudice to smother their reason and common sense. As a republican we expect to support the ticket; but as a man, free born, owned or controlied by no one, we reserve the right to express our opinion In regard to results, and the methods by which they were accomplished We expect censure for our position, but will receive some commendation, while he who chokes down his honest sentiment in defer- nce to & power to which he Is beholden, or for selfish purpos commands the respect of no one. We sincerely believe the nomina-~ tion of MacColl for governor would have strengthened not only the state ticket, but every congressional, legislative and county ticket as well. As a republican we sought to bring about that result, and as a candi of that party thought such action specially desirable. If we were wrong it was only a mistaken judgment. The convention, in what manner it Is not now necesasry to de- tall, thought differently—but majorities are not always right Silver Creek Times: It was unguestionably the biggest republican convention ever held in Nebraska, and there was probably never another convention whems there was more in- trigue and underhanded work. As last year in the Maxwell fight the state central com- mittee aided the bosses in putting up a job on the republicans of the state and in tying the convention hand and foot. As temporary chairman they named a man who was not less arbitrary and tyrannical than was the chairman of the convention last year at Lin- coln. But he was put there for that purpose, and, although he lacked every essential qual- ification of a good presiding officer, he served that purpose well. In view of the great weight of precedent for such conventions, it would perhaps be unjust to s that as re- gards its management and conduct it was unrepublican, But we do say that gag law was secretly and deliberately planned and un- blushingly enforced. There was no freedom of action or expression of opinion and the candidates nominated and the platform adopted are to be regarded as the candidates and platform of the bosses and the B. & M. railroad and not of the republicans of Ne- braska. Republicans may vote the ticket and howl for the platform if they will, but they are under no party or moral obligation to do s0. We sald as much of the convention last year and we repeat it here. We may be charged with treason to the party, but it matters not to us. For lo, these many years we have submitted to such damnable work without public protest, but republican or unrepublican, party loyalty or party treas we will do it no more. Renublicanism supposed to mean equality and liberty. That kind of republicanism we believe in, but we detest, denounce and abhor the republicanism of chicanery and arbitrary power. Lincoln News: The republican convention was characterized by a large amount of enthusiasm, but its work has not achieved the same desirable result, we are sorry to say. The convention, in the humble opinion of the News, made several grave mistakes, which will place the party on the defense in this fight. It was dominated palpably by an element that is inimical to republican success, and makes the wock of preserving republican supremacy very much harder than was necessary. That a ticket contain- ing such good matorial was the outcome is all the more remarkable. As a republican paper, desiring the success of the republican party in Nebraska, the News belleves that the convention approached dangerously near hari-kari and has made it possible for the success of the powerful opposition that just such tactics as were pursued at this con- vention has raised up. Only a united effort alon the line can achleve victory. The News halts long enough in masticating its dish of Majors crow to point with pride to the fact that while there are a few holes in its reputation as a prophet on state politics, It can diagnose a Lancaster county convention or delegation with precision and correctness. It remarked several weeks ago that the Lancaster delegation was put up in the interest of Tom Majors, because it was named at the house of the best known rallroad capper In the state, J. H. Ager, and the solid vote for the Nemaha states- man at Omaha demonstrates the truth of the statement. The night before the convention met Douglas county offered to give Moore 108 votes It he would give half of his dele- gation to MacColl. If Moore had had com- plete control of his delegation he would naturally have grabbed at such an oppor- tunity to make himself, but he was not even given the chance, as the railroad- Majors men on the delegation almost hustled Crane and Slaughter out of tit room, was thing To Sign or Not to i, Globe-Democrat. Cleveland's “solemn sense of responsibil- ity Is being put to its severest test in the atter of getting Itself adjusted to the necessity of signing a tariff ‘bill which he has declared o be a measure of “peridy and dishonor."” —————— A Touder Attachment. New York Sun The fathers of the republic never fn- tended that our lighthouse tenders should be cmployed as foating hospitals, the party will | T ——— PROPLE AND THINGS. — Mossrs, Altgeld and Story should atbitrate their difference. 1t will require an lubricate the state, Sharks are being caught waters as well as on land. Mr. Pullman Is as conspicuous a fallure in selecting a model son-in-law as in the oper- ation of & model town, Physically and mentally, is a man of much welght pounds with his boots on It a match should be ‘arranged between Messrs, Thurston and Bryan, the best ef- forts of modern pugilism would sink into insignificance. Frank Lawler 18 o populist extensive oil room to in New York Lord Salisbur He turns Chicago's great candidate for congress. Mr. Lawler's advice to Omahs Jacksonians to shun officesecking was evidently intended for the grand stand A Oronhyatekna, a Mohawk Indian who lives in Tcronto, draws $10,000 a year as a supreme officer of the order of Foresters in Canada, and has an income as a practicing physiclan. He looks 45 and is suspected of being over 70. Govarnor Matthews of Indiana is receiv- ing much praise for mortgaging his property to raise $40,000 to pay the state militla Governor Flower of New York applauded for a similar act during the cholera scare of 1892, but when he charged the state 7 per cent for the money, popular enthusiasm suddenly congesled. Willlam Cullen Bryant's mother, it is said, kept a diary for fifty-three years with- out missing a day. This is the entry for November 3, (794: Storming, wind n. e.; churned; 7 fn the evening, son born.” This leads the Boston Transcript to believe that Mr. Bryant 4id not inherit his poetical pre- dilection from his mother. Mrs. Belinda L. Randall of Roxbury, a de- scendant of Sam Adams of revolutiona fame, has present~d the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ‘a china punchbowl and salver once the property of the Marquis de Lafay- ette and by him presented to Adams. It was made in China, and has the arms of Lafayette upon it, designed according to the ideas of the Chinese artists. Mr. Will Visscher, the poet, lecturer, newspaper rounder and realty rustler, hass decided to precipitate himself on the drama- tic stage. He will make his debut at the interstate fair in Tacoma, Wash., as Denta tus, an old soldier and centurion, in Vir- ginjus. Those who remember Visscler's maryelous faculty for soldiering in Omaha in 1876 will need no assurances that he will make a hit in that line. Evanston, the high cult and prohibition suburb cf Chicago, has becn fnvaded by the hosts of villainy and booze, While the towns people take their tipple at home with great regularity, such a thing as a public hawking of the stuff is unheard of. Recently a cargo of watermelons struck the town, and as €0-n as a few julcy samples were properly dis tributed, the demand for the remainder ex- ceeded the supply. They were plugged and soaked with whisk It is reported that H. Kohlsaat, cently publisher of the Chicago Heral purchased a controlling interest in the New York 'fimes_for 5,000, The Times was scld by the Jones estate about a year ago to a stock company for $300,000. 1f a controll- ing interest has been purchased for the sum named the transaction shows a decided de- preciation of the property. It is said Mr. Kohlsaat will fake charge of the paper in October and change it frim a democratic to a republican organ. Florence Nightingale, who is now 74 yeas of age, is in very poor health. She lives in a quiet spot in the west of London, but even her neighbors do not know her. To an merican who recently visited ber she ex- pressed her thanks for the many kind letters that she Is constanily receiving from America, and she mentioned especially the testimonial presented to her by the American government in return for her advice with re- gard to improving our hespital service at the time of the civil war sy . blem of Irrigation. indorsed, re- has The 1 Phi The public la the west now un- occupled comprie crea of 89,000,000 acres, and_the statement is made in &ress' by Representative Plekler of | South Daltota that {wo-fifths of the entire area the United § ists of arid lands, and that upon over 600,000,000 acres of this 1and crops could be ra‘sed if water were supplicd Mr. Pickler has introduced a bill to provide for' the appointment of & non-partisan com- mission of five persons to inquire into thess dcsert lands and report upon the best prac tical system of irrigation. If such a schems ould be made successfdl, and there reason to believe from p al filus of it in Utah and Cailfornia that irri will reclaim the waste pla vide a benefact] mate. Tn these 600,000,000 it is stated that a population of more tham 0.000.000 persons could be sustained. Not one-half of 1 per cent of this land has been irtigated, and the results of irrigation, as told’ about in the senate reports, have far ssed the predictions of its first ad- el o LD Danger in the Overhead Wire. Boston Globe ne way and another terror lurks 1l constantly from wires that may time come in contact with scores of With shocking resuits. It is there- urce of great satisfaction to know the wires are to be put undergroun( burying a dangerous nuisance, 5 vQf course, o “certain_amount of enlence must accompany the changes which the new law will bring about, bt temporary annoyance will be but a #m rice 4P bay for such a boon as the remoy of that too-long-tolerated menace o sufety—the overhanging wire, = ' PUHe incon- | and their POINTED REMARKS. Qalveston New: Ma the teack beoaus y (A A ) of a misplaced switel Brooklyn Life: She—Why does the oces make that moaning sownd? Hv——l‘rnb.hl; one of the bathers stepped on its undertow. Atchigon Glol a store and bargain, she sa were waiting for When & woman es What sh. at two oes to considers a other women ( ks Cha Kot one voices 1 ever h ever He's gol a fine volce kes (sadly)—Yes; nice it about an hour ugo he bo There goes of the finest hear him sing? voice. T heard owed ten, ard Indianapolis irnal have concluded not o adopt bloomers, have Mamie--Yes. 1 sec by the papers that they are getting %o common that the men do not stare at them any more. Fishkill Standurd George, dear, home my new Sugrest any 1 suppose it’ mizht be tmproved about two-thirds of (he Minnfe—80 _you Mrs. e duck suit Osogood-—-0 4 has just sent Tell me, “ean you Mr. Osogood —Oh, except perhaps it hlvl"‘v- by cutting oft Miss Chicago Tribune: Hostess (who does not know him very well)—Professor, there {s no clergyman present. | shall have to ask you to sy grace. Professor (infidel of long standing)—No cleruy * Then let us re- turn thanks in silonce Truth: Youn; Birl 1 ey Ve Miss Hore Wait, I get my Kol Young Said, Miss Herdso collection of me that Saldso You are the only now. Don’t move till What I'm getting photographs of arth up . souvenir me1 who tell Acv 1 v Says China, “Com Clear out ther Or else I'll ta And quic ys Japar Says China re nothing but 1a But I'm the Sald Japan, “If Tn You'll g0on be lacquered, 1003 For 1 will take my carvini knife And you will lack-er cue. Thinks the House Should Investigate. New' York World, Why cannot the hous which has JAR-OUS 1 ALE. now from ( my carving off your ear tle Jap, ut China-ware.” vou? uered ware, through.* lacquered ware, of representatives, just passed n free sugar bill by & vote of 276 to 11, order an Investigation of the “hllen’ and ibhorrent forces” that have poific 1 its votes? Tat the In,uences ar be 1o doubt. 7 vat senator in Sugar trust ctock and have profited by their knowlediee of the conspiracy which has scoured the (rust its 10,000,000 bounty, there is_ample_reason to believe There has never been national legisiation \ i Veen a triumph of the tr a sham investigat whitewashing rep hing investigation? How mu sugar monopoly pay for this umph? Who ot (he n ? by the tips? Who shured in corrupt there can have speculated reate this, shame scandal in here hus burning than this ana did the unique tri- Who profited the specula~ York R A critical examination of the tariff bill discloses the fact that it is punctuated with errors of all kiv The langu. some of the sc is confused fusing, wh ard o many the werds employed convey o meaning precisely opposite to what the committes intended. ~Again, commas are out of place improper distribution may mean 10ss to the r tangles in the custom houses and litigation in the courts. Before this there have been errors in bills of this character, but the number of them in the measure now before the president is un- precedented The responsibllity for this most discredit- able sts with the demo- of the ways and means mmittee of the house, the finance com- mittee of the senate, and, in addition, the democrats on the two conference com- mittees, g -— The Facts in the Case. Kansas City Star, e of the equal sulfrage amend- New York constitutional cons ventlon is accounted for by a member of the convention upon the theory that the great majority of the women of the state were elther wholly indifferent (o the propo- sition or were acivally opposed to it. That 18 not only a plausible but a logical ex- planation. The female agitators who are clamoring for the ballot making a good deal of noise, but they do not reflect the sentiment of the greal mass of their sex. The right of the elective franchise will be conferred upon women whenever it becomes apparent that a majoMty of them desire to exercise the privilezes' and assume the pesponsibilities of citizenship, and not bea ore. The failu ment in th: —_——— GAGEMENT WEEIK, New York Press. In his he held her tiny hand, The fingers soft he pressed, And as they walked along the strand, His passion he confessed. HeER " he said; ou more than life The secret in my face you've No doubt—then be my wife k the color fled ot Drow, wn sigh k me now. ead, From lip and che And pale becane A with a long-dr “Qh, do not a; “Why should not T an answer seek ow, my sweet?" asked he. use, she said, ‘I-I—this week L am engaged to thre e sal thing else. sole agents. Gone to Sleep. The renowned makers of hats have all gone to sleep this year except John B. Stetson, and he'sthe manthat put them to sleep for he made his “Stetson Special,” and they can’t touch it for style, or any- It's a modest, elegant hat, and we're The few summer suils we have are going at half price this week. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor. 15th and Dougsl