Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. e atnie PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. [ -~ ——— ] TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, lly Pee (without Bunday) One Year.. ly_Bee and Sunday, One Year...... iix Mont! oresinene hres Mont Bunday Bee, Baturday _Dee, On; Weekly Dee, One 238233 ha, The Ree Bullding. Counell Bluffs, 12 Tearl Street. New vl‘\rk Rooms 13, 1 and 15, :\'IIMM Bldg. ‘Washington, 1107 1" S t, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. 3 i Al communications relating to news and wdi- ‘DHI‘I .l;u'\,(ll-: ahotld be add To the Editor. Omaha. DPrafts. ks and |m’-|";m=p 'l'-‘r‘d"r':: o be made pavh v of the pAn Y "’l‘ll 3 NE NY rinted during the month of July, 184, ny, belng duly Tosw deductions for un oples, Total sold Daily aver: *Sunday, ion.. JORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Swoin {0 before me and subeeribed In my pres- ence this Ist day of Al (Seal) T0 NEBRASKA REP A1l 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 their views by letter directed totme personally, suggesting the best methad for defeating the election of Thomas Majors. All communications will be treated as confilential 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 adyisable to accomplish the ends In view. E. ROSEWATER. We will renew our acquaintance with con- gress on the first Monday in December next. If New York republicans want Levl P. Morton for their next governor, Mr. Morton will yleld to their entreaties to become their candidate. It lcoks very much now as if Mr. Morton Is wanted. Only a few days more and the lists of con- testants in all the congressional districts will have been made up. The race for con- gress promises to be a lively one throughout the whole of Nebraska. Congressman Bryan had to stop in Iowa to give his friend, Mr, Weaver, a lift in bis congressional campalgn. This means that Nebraska is In turn to be affiicted with Woeaver befcre the campaign shall have ended. It 18 to be feared that a long time will _elapse before Scnator Vest takes it upon him- gelf to make the announcement of his own prospective relirement from public lite. The rotirement s more likely to come unan- mounced. ‘While President Cleveland is reviewing the Knights of Pythlas grand parade today, why not also review the congressmen as they march out from the seat of their long ses- slon’s labors to face the music of their con- stituents? The men who started out to capture Chi- cago were evidently not aware of the mag- nitude of the Jcb they were undertaking. They should have known that Chicago had annexed parts of lh[lc states in preparation for the World's fair. The weather reports indicate that the people residing In the country morth of us have been having another touch of mercury- expanding temperature. This is shmply to remind us that we are still within the shadow of midsummer heat. The upward tendency in prices of hogs and cattle at the Omaha market s encour- aglng to stockgrowers in this section. Re- ports from the great cattle ranges of Wyom- ing indicate a prosperous year for cattle men, as fe:d and pasturage are plentiful. On the whole, the path of the Fifty-third congress has thus idr been a rather rocky one.” Its unpopular measures have so over- shadowed i(s popular measures in the public estimation that few will retain tender mem- ories of it unless it redeems itself during the short session with which it 15 to close fts career. 5 We give no credit to the report that one of the most celebrated of the rainmakers has committed sulcide. No one who ventures into the business of rainmaking could have anything but boundless confidence in the pos- sibilities of the future. A rainmaker could not look away from the bright side of things long enough to commit suicide. Lot word go out to all the country round- about that charitable institutions in Omaha require applicants for rellef to return an equivalent in work of some kind, and the usual fall influx of chronic beggars may be cut off. Omaha has enough to do In the line of rellef work as It is, without assuming the load that noighboring communities should carry. The populists of this congressional dist will make their nomination today. Two years ago their nominee recelved 3,152 votes, and it is claimed that their candidate will double this vote mext November If a wise selection be made. At the last congressional ection in this district 25,390 votes were cast, Doane, democrat, receiving 10,388 votes and Mercer 11,488 votes. Heretofore the roads have controlled the location of the state fair. It s high time the citizens, in whose Interest the fair is held, put in their oars and locate the fair In Omaha. The oauiivld attractions of this city will dre'w large crowds to the fair, & fact which should receive the consideration of those who have the power to locate the falr, and it should be apparent (o rallroad managers. TITE TARIFF BILL A LAW. The Gorman tarift bill, as it will be known to history, has become a law without the signature of the president, agresable (o the provision of the constitution, which says: “If any bill shall not be returned by the presi- dent within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law In like mauner as It he had signed,” ete. The ten days limit was reached at midnight last night. The act goes into immediate effect, except as to the income tax provision and a part of the woolen sched- \'a &nd Secretary Carlisle has issued instruc- tions te collectors of customs with regard to carrying out its provisions. It was ported n few days ago that the Treasury department had ruled that woel, made free under the new law, which has been imported and placed in bonded warehouses, would have to pay the duty under the McKinley law un- less exported and reimported, but it ap- pears that this was a mistake, the xecretary of the treasury having instructed collectors of customs that all goods in bonded ware- houses ‘made free of duty under the new tarift are entitled to free entry without being exported and relmported. This will be a great relief to the importers, but it means a considerable loss to the treasury. feature of the cretary’s instructions is the abandonment of the diseriminating duties on the products of the several countries which did mot enter into reciprocity arrangements as provided in the McKinley law. n permitting the new bill to become a law without his signature the president done what was very generally expected, but business affected by the tariff has less, continued under more or less restraint, because there was no official authority for the belief that the president would take this cours and It was felt up to the last mo- ment that Mr. Cleveland might have a sur- prise in store for the country. Now that all suspense and uncertainty Is at an end it should speedily be developed whether there 1s to be an industrinl revival as the authors of the new law have promised and everybody hopes for. There has certainly been some improvement since the passage of the new law, but it s probable that our man- ufacturcrs will be disposed to feel their way cautiously until they ascertain the effect upon -the market of importations and get a better idea of the intention of forelgn manufacturers But at any rate the country will feel great relfef that the end of the long and costly struggle has been reached. re- to Another has neverthe- such DEMOCRACY AND THE TRUSTS. One of the democratic claims in behalf of the present congress, and perhaps the most preposterons of any of them, is that its policy and legislation have been inimical to the trusts. This claim is set up by Mr. McMil- lin, whose statement is understood to be in the nature of a manifesto representing the views of the house democrats, and therefore especially designed as a vindication of the party and at the same time to supply an argument for campaign purposes. That gen- tleman makes the extraordinary assertion that this cougress has passed the most stringent law against trusts ever enacted in this coun- try and he says that at the same time the attorney general has instituted proceedings in the courts to try to dissolve illegal trusts. ““The democratic party,” says Mr. McMillin, “‘was pledged to the enactment of more strin- gent legislation against trusts. It has kept this pledge and offers this as its fulfillment," referring to the tarift bill, with its sugar schedule, under which the refining monopoly is assured, according to democratic testimony, of not less than $40,000,000 plundered from the sugar consumers of the country during the mext twelve months, and a very gen- erous sum thereafter, while the Whisky trust will also be benefited to the amount of many millions. Fortunately there Is able and candid dem- ocratic testimony in refutation of this pre- posterous claim. On August 13 Representa- tive Tom L. Johnson of O} made a speech in the house vigorously combatting the pro- posed surrender to the senate on the tariff. Mr. Johuson is an uncompromising advocate of free trade. He does not, like so many of his fellow partisans, hide his light under a bushel, but declares his views in a plain and straightforward way, so that everybody can understand them. In his speech, when the house had under consideration the resolution to recede from the disagreement to the senate amendments to the Wilson bill, Mr. Johnson said of the senate bill: It is more fully and emphatically a trust bill than was even the McKinley bill. All the trusts were called in to make It up and what tricks and devices e hidden to the general public in its techni- cal language no man—I do not believe even Senator Gorman—yet really knows.” Refer- ring to the consideration shown the Sugar trust, the Obilo congressman sald with a frank- ness that must have amazed his democratic assoclate: “I1 know and you know and the people know—1 was about to say that every dog that barks in the streets of the capital knows-—that the real purpose of imposing this tax is not to give revenue to the government, but revenue to the beodlers. You cannot disguise it from the people, for the people know it already, that the purpose of this sugar tax is to put millions and millions in the pockets of men who are already million- aires by robbing the people. They know that this tax on sugar has been brought through every step of its way, carried by such open, undisguised corruption as has never been flaunted in thelr faces before; they know that the Sugar trust has purchased this privilege of taxing them, and that, though the price it may have paid may be millions, it will receive back m’llions and mil- lions Lefore the treasury gets 1 cent."” There was much more by this candid and out- spoken free trade democrat, who stands squarely upon the last national platform of his party, in the same vein, and it consti- tutes an arraignment the great merit of which is that it is absolutely truthful. It is democratic testimony that cannot be gain- sald. The pretense that the democrats in eon- gress or that the democratic administration has done anything looking to the suppres- sion of the trusts is as false as any other of the numerous claims which that party has put forth, What has the administration done to enforce the law already on the stat- ute book against trusts? A single case has been lustituted against the Sugar trust, and is understood to be now on the docket of the supreme court, but who would venture to say when it will be reached If the present attorney general of the United States, with his well known devotion to corporations, is to determine when proceedings shall go on? “That official has no confidence in the existing law, or professes not to have. He believes, with Mr. McMil\in, that it is “so mild and | gingerly” as to be inadequate to the pur~ pose of crushing the combinations, yet he has failed to give it a fair test, and neither he nor the president has suggested to con- gress how Its defects might be remedied and the law made stronger and suficicnt for its object. The democratic pretense of hostility to trusts and combinations, whether coming from Mr. Cleveland or Mr. McMillin, or any others who speak with responsibility for the party, has been shown to be hollow, false and hypoeriticnl. There by not a trust in existence that will be in the least degree in- Jured by the Ttegislation of this congress, and not on: of them stands in any fear of the adm nistration MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. The embodiment 1nto the state platform of one of the principal political parties of Ne- braska of a declaration in favor of munieipal ownership of street cars, gas and electric lighting plants and water works must be taken as an indication of the great growth of the popular Interest this question. Munleipal ownership whenever brought fo ward as a definite proposition is always a purely local issue, peculiar to the citles and Yet no municipality can undertake to conduct any enterprise of this character withoyt first securing enabling legislation from the legislature, so that to this extent the broader question becomes necessarily a state Issue. The dritt toward municipal ownership in this country has been quite perceptible in re- cent years, although it has been extremely irregular and has been confined to but two or three features of municipal service. City= owned water works are almost as common here as abroad, about half the water works in the United States being publicly owned, while the of people served by public and private works is still more in favor of the former. This is explained by many by the fact that the earller water works systems were built before the great development of the speculative stock com- pany, when the municipality was the only party able and willing to undertake the im- provement, and that the precedent thus set has had a considerable influence. s works in the American cities, on the other hand, are usually private concerns operating under express franchises, there being less than a dozen which are managed directly by the municipal government. Street rail- ways were developed at a time when the in- dustrial corporation reached the height of its power and as a consequence they are Wwith but one exception universally owned by pri- in all the American cities. The introduction of electric lighting, still later in point of time, camo just at the turning point in the agitation for municipal ownership. Blectric lighting therefore has been a field most hotly contested and a field in which experiments with public plants have been numerous and for the most part entirely successtul. Along with this movement there have been many attempted compromises between the two contending forces and many devices by which the conduct of these enterprises has been left in private hands upon conditions Intended to protect the public and to give the public an adequate return for the valuable privileges conferred. These have generally taker the form of a premium for the fran- chise, a division of profits, or a desig- nated share of gross receipts for the city. Many of these arrangements are proving fairly satisfactory and the franchised cor- porations, heeding the warning ery for municipal ownership, are becoming more willing to consider propositions of this kind It is certain that the sentiment Is strongly against any more free grants of unconditional franchises to corporations for the mere ask- ing. Municipalities will hereafter insist upon a just compensation for the use of their streets for these municipal services, Whether that compensation shall be derived through municipal ownership or through grants of conditional franchises to private 'parties, each city will have to determine as the oc- casion arises. towns. proportion vate companies ANARCHISTS MAY STILL COME IN. There will be a very general feeling of re- gret that the bill which passed the senate, providing for the exclusion from the country of alien anarchists, did not pass the house and must go over to the mext sesslon. Ac- cording to the commissioner of immigration, and the statement has been confirmed on the floor of congress, a large number of European anarchists are on their way to the United States. The commissloner is reported as saying that between 400 and 500 anarch- {sts, representing the scum of the continent, recently left German ports on their way to this country. He expressed the opinion that unless something was done immediately there was danger of trouble In the future from these people. As the law now is, after one of these anarchists gets into this coun- try, even when expelled from Europe, there 1s no way to get rid of him. The case is cited of a prominent anarchist who recently arrived here. It has been ascertained since he landed that he had been convicted in gngland, but having been admiited there is no way to deport him. The bill passed by the semate not only provides for the exclusion of persons known to be anarchists or in sym- pathy with anarchistic doctrines, but also for the deportation of such persons who had not become citlzens of the United States. The objections to the bill in the house were that it Qid not define an anarchist, and that it gave 00 much power to the authorities in dealing with persons charged with being an- archists. This, it was held, afforded oppor- tunity for possible persecution and injustice, There is unquestionably a very general popular sentiment favorable to the exclusion of allen anarchists and to ridding the coun- try of those already here, but there is also a very proper feeling that legislation for this purpose should be clear and explicit in definitions, and so carefully drawn as to render almost impossible any wrong or in- justice to_individuals in its operation. The American people have no sympathy with an- archism, but they want it treated in a way that will not bring reproach upon them as a just people. There Is not, or at any rate there should not be, any politics in this mat- ter. Every man who respects law and order and desires the preservation of the public peace will agree in demanding that persons hostile to these conditions be kept out of the country. Nobody wishes the United States be made the asylum of men the cardinal principles of whose doctrine are murder and the destruc- tion of property. All good citizens, irrespec- tive of political afliations, must agree that there Is no good reason why this republic should give refuge and toleration to theso people. It Is to be apprehended that the present tailure of this measure will be taken ad- vantage of by a large number of Buropean anarchists to flee to the United States, for European governments will not fail to take advantage of the opportunity to drive as many s possible out of their territory. The police agthorities of nearly every Buropean country are active in bunting down anarch- ists, and with this country still open ta them they may be expected to come here by hundreds. Undoubtedly the proposed meas- ure will finally become a law, but it is likely that in the meanwhile the anarchist element in the United States will be materially In- creased. to Hopefulness Is certainly one of the char- acteristic qualities of the advocates of free silver colnage which never leaves them. Here ~ T . it b ke et o we have Senatgr Woleott of Colorado return- Ing from Eurgpmmnd expressing himsell a having seen mostr hepeful signs for the re- suseitation of himetallism In the three prin- cipal Buropedn ®buntries. 1In fact, at no time do we Yerember seeing any opinion quoted as corfink’ trom the free silver men that was not cdiiched In the most hopeful language. To (tfigir eyes everything has a silver tinge, and they feel sure that by wait- ing long enougth their hopes will be realized It must bo adtfittdd that were it not for this hopefulness it woyld be d!ffcult to discover upon what basts they continue their fight fr free and unfimited silver co'nage In the United States, The iner:ase in the volume of business in Omaha last week over a corresponding period last year may be partially accounted for in the fact that eastern jobbers have with- held credit from many old customers through- out this siction. The result has been of ad- vantage to Omaha jobbers, who are in a po- sition to know their customers, and are demonstrating their ability to duplicate east- ern prices. This condition of things is now and will continue to be a source of profit to our merchants, Customers thus gained will be held and Omaba's trade extended to larger proportions. One firm sold nearly $30,000 worth of goods in the Black Hills country the past month, and has, during the season, covered territory to the north- west heretofore neglected by Omaha mer- chants. i1l wind that blows nobody good. It's an The railroad press of the state is just now assiduously engaged in denying the fact that the republican state convention was manip- ulated and controlled by railroad managers. 1f the nomination of Majors did not prove the power of railroad cappers, the fact that a Far- nam street hotel was made the secret head- quarters of railway officials prior to and dur- ing the convention, and that sald officials kept their runners go'ng day and night, trad- ing and buying delegates, would plainly in- dicate the character of the nominee. No man who watched the course of Majors when the maximum freight rate bill was the state senate can doubt for a moment his abject subserviency to the railt:ads of this state. They, and they alone, have nom- inated him. before to The of railroading s becoming more and more profound as the years go on. Perhaps ordinary minds are not expected to fathom it. When Kelly's army sought transportation eastward last spring it was denfed them at any price. Now the Wa- bash road has dumped a detachment of the army upon this community, baving hauled them from St. Louis at a merely nominal rate. science Governor Waite of Colorado s to have everything his ‘own way in the convention that is to renominate him as the populist candidate for, gevernor, Governor Waite has really been running things his own way ever since he took possession of the gubernatorial chair. Nebraska manufacturers will make the greatest exposition of their products at the state fair this yepr ever seen in the state. It will be the chief feature of the fair, worthy of the consideration of every citizen of this great state. A Gommgndable Failure. GlabecDemocrat. - The present congress is to be thanked for having failed to live up to a good many of its threats. plS o3 Tickles the Fellows Abroad. ew York Tribune, It is doubtless cheering to Mr. Cleveland and his followers to learn that the un- American tariffl bill receives the hearty ap- proval of nearly every manufacturer in The measure was constructed to foreign demand, and it does it to a nicety. et T A Information Wanted. Courler-Journal, It would be instructive and interesting it every democratic constituency that fee called upon to invite its present congres man to stay at home next time would file specifications showing whether the disci- pline was imposed for doing too much or too little for tariff reform, A Futile ¥ Indinapolis N What President Cleveland expeets to gain by refusing to sign the tariff bill we cannot tmagine, By ullowing It to become a law without his signature he is as much responsible for it as he would be if he had signed it. What a man can prevent, and does not, he must be held accountable for. All that the president can accomplish is to allow a measure to become a law which is so bad, from his point of view, that he will not’ sign it, and at the same time to assume full responsibility for it. s s Expert Opinion of the Trust Tariff, Cleveland’s Letter to Wilson. Every true democrat and every sincere tarlft reformer knows that this bill in its present form, and as it whil be submitted to the conference, falls far short of the consummation for which we have long la- bored, for which we have suffered defeat without discouragement, which in its an- ticipatlon gave us a rallyiug cry in our day of triumph, and which In it§ promise of accomplishment is 8o interw, democratic pledges and demoer that our abandonment of the cause principles upon which it rests means party perfidy and party dishonor. B Lt Fruits of Fol Chicago Tribune The window glass manufacturers of Pitts- burg and their employes have come to an agreement as to the extent of the wage cut which should be made on account of the reduced protection of the new tariff. One side said’ it should be 30 per cent anc the other that it should be 15. They hav compromised on 2. Thus the triumph of the democrats in 1892 and their attempt, incomplete though it "Is, tc out theé free trade pledges of their platform have cost the men employed in the one-fifth of their old wag that_they voted for demoey ndidates in 1892 they must blame themselves for the reduction to which they huve jusi cons sented. e ———— NEBEANK A AND NEBRASKANS, To prevent thers being any failure of the water supplyl’e hew well is being sunk by the Fairbury Whter Works company. President Wairén of Gates cllege, Neligh, has resigned Wis ‘position and has accepted the presidency of'a c:llege at Salt Lake In spite of, Lhe, poor crop year, the Rich- ardson county,fair at Salem, September 18 to 21, promisgs,te be a very successful ex- hibition. The conventdon of the Ycung People's union of the Kast Mebraska confere of the United Brethran ghurch opens this morning at Crate, | Joe Upton, P’ Cass ccunty farmer living near Union, found a vein of coal while dig- ging a well. 'He tested some of the output, and when he’founl that it burned beautifully he at once mAdé drrangements to secure ma- chinery for sinking a shaft, James Myers’ of Odell is under arrest on the charge of embezzlement for failing to account for funds in his possession as cashier of the Farmers bank of Odell. It is sald that a number of farmers and business men are losers by the dishonest practices of the young man, A. R. Graham, & well known Nebraskan residing at Wisner, Is about to remove from the state and make his home in New Mexico, where he has secured a large tract of lan that he will convert into a ranch. He will leave for his new home about the first of the year. Sugar beets in Madison county are reported as locking fine, and they will make a good crop, even if there Is no more rain until after harvest. As much time as possible wi be allowed them to mature, and it may be that the Norfolk factory will not start up until & week or two later than usual (his fall. { TOLOR OF TRR STATE PRESS, Lincoln News: For people who are blamed glad that Rosewater has withdrawn from the republican party as at present constituted, the friends of Tom Masjors appear to act r hufty and do a heap of talking about its hav- ing w0 effect on the result. Cozad Tribune: The defest of MacCell Is to be deplored. It is quite generally con- ceded that he was the best vote getter be- fore the convention, and his nomination would have cemented together all party factions, while Majors is already contronted by the strong opposition of The Bee. Pawnee City Republican: . The turning down of W. 8. Summers in the state conven- tion for attorney general was a oruel and unjust act. He was undoubtedly nominated on the first ballot, but the secretaries and the inability man to grasp the situation ballot to ba taken, which mers' defeat, Niobrara _Ploneer: The nomination of Thomas J. Majors for governor of Nebraska bodes no good to Nebraska or the republican party. He is one of the worst types of the politiclan, and while he parades his army record as sothething wonderful, there are many men equally as brave who never have been heard of. A brag for himself and a tool for the great corporations, self-respect- ing republicans will think many times before they cast their votes for him. Wisner Chronicle: The ticket the republican state couvention arouse a great deal of enthusiasm among the publicans of Cuming county. They had hoped to see the c:nvention controlled by a spirit of wisdom which would dictate such nominations as would harmonize the party and attract to ite ranks many voters who had repudisted the men and methods that had reduced it from its once proud estate to a mere skeleton of its former self. They are consequently disappointed to see a ticket named which disrupts the party 1 places it upon the defensive. This was inexcusable in the face of the fact that the party con- tains many men capable of commanding the cordial support of all its voters and leading on to a certain and glorlous victory with important, far-reaching and long-lasting ad- vantages to the party in this state. Broken Row Republican: Regardless politics, the nomination of one of county's most highly respected citize high a position as governor of the looked upon with pride. The judge evidently stands high with his party, and all that seems to be required for him to receive a nomination at their hands is to signify a willingness to accept. Since he cast his lot with the populist party, three ars ago, he has been favored with a nomination each year for positions of honor. Believing that the nominee on the republican ticket for governor was not a strong oune, the populists scanned the fleld over to find a man stron with the people to put against the blue- shirted statesman from Nemaha county. In sizing them all up they wisely concluded that they had no man within their ranks as strong as the tall sycamore from Custer county, and his nomination was easily cured. Lexington Pioneer: The defeat cf John H MacColl at the recent republican state con- venticn was aceomplished by a series of un- scrupulous tricks wholly beneath the dignity of any man who desires or aspires to hold a state office. Straw men and verdant dupes were inducsd by the Majors strikers to be- come candidates in a_number of counties in the state with the end in view of weakening MacColl's support. _Annual passes over the B. & M. lines in Nebraska were also used with a liberal hand and produced the effect a —votes in the convention for M, 1t is not prabable that western Nebraska will for many years have another opportunity to be represented in the gubernatorial chair, and yet it was westorn delegates that de feated the western candidate, We believe today that a large majority of the voters of the state prefer MacColl to Majors. That the latter is not a popular candidate—especially in the eastern portions of the state—is ac- knowledged. With MaeColl as a candidate the party would have accomplished a sweep- ing victory; with Majors as a leader the re- sult is doubtful. Grand Island Independent: state convention was not representative of the republican party, but of the railrcads, whose influence put its stamp upon most of the members and brought about the nomina- tion of men who will never defend the in- terests of the people, but protect the railroads in all their nefaricus schemes for taking the most possible amount of money out of the people and defranding them of their right of self-government. This character of the con- vention, which has led to such a result, is nct only contemptible, but it shows great stupid- ity, endangering the success of the republican party. The railroads have become more bold than ever, and want to rule or ruin. And the ruin of the republican party may be the st result. There is immense dissatisfaction in our e>mmunity, and probably in all other communities, with the convention and its work, and la-ge numbers of true republicans declare that they will not vote for the man of bad repute piaced at the head of the re- publican ticket. Whether thesé men will vote for a candidate of their own cr endorse a_candidate of another party, or not vote at all, nobody can tell yet. But there can be no doubt that there will be in Nebraska a great exodus from the republican party as far as the gubernatorial candidate is con- cerned, and it is feared that this will also have a bad influence on other nominces of the republican ticket, and perhaps even on the county tickets. If such things bappen, they probably will, the railroads and their subservient tcols will have to stand the re- sponsibility for republican defeat. b el CARNEGIE AND THE PLU ED PLATES. New York Herald: In view of the find- ings of the Cummings committee there ought to be no delay in bringing the conspirators to trlal. The president can secure their pun- ishment. Wil he do it? Philadelphia Times: The lives of hun- dreds and thousands of seamen and the very safety of the nation may be fmperilled by sucesssful fraud in this direction, and no leniency should be shown to the guilty. Philadelphia Inquirer: According to the logic of the report the whole object of the company was not to make armor and bolts which would pass the test, but simply to palm off upon careless inspectors substitutes that did not come up to the mark. Boston Post: The point at issue is not whether the armor of our new war vessels will stand the test. It is whether the manu- facturers of this armor foisted it upon the government under false pretenses. This is a me—the most serious crime against ths republic since the war of secession. Boston Journal: The turpitude of their frandulent practices is heightened by the fact that they imperilled the lives of the nation's d:fenders and the honor of the flag. Sucha crime as this is closely akin to treason. It the perpetrators received justice they would one and all be sentenced to long terms in prison at hard labor, or banished from the country which they have 80 infamously be- trayed. Chicago Herald: It fs further intimated that ther: is no law for the proper punish ment of such crimes. Can that be possible? Can it be possible that contractors can play the part of the most dangerous as well as the meanest and most heartless public ensmies by exposing the army and navy to destruc- tion without subjecting themselves to pun- ishment as criminals? If 50 a law to meet such cases should be enacted without delay. Indianapolis News: The infamy of such conduct 18 almost past belief. It is not pleas- ant to reflect that therz is one man in the United Staes who would do anything to weaken the country's power to defend her- self or needlessly to fmperil the lives of those who stand betweon her and her foes. And that is what the Carnegle company has done. Perhaps it is not technically treason, but cer- tainly no greater “aid and comfort” ecould be given to the nation’s enemies than by seriding against them ships covered with rot- ten armor. Denver Republican: The grossness of this outrage on the government and the people is seen when it s considered that the presence of these defictive plates might in battle endanger the safety of a ship and of all the oficers and men on board. The loss of a war vessel might affect the result of a war and subject the nation to humiliation and disgrace. Yet such was th: greed of the men responsible for these frauds that they cast aside all considerations of this kind, risking the na- tional honor and national welfare for the sake of the money they might make by swindling the navy department. Prico of Wi Ly, he Whisky trust has in price of § cents per effect today, This makes of the cansed resulted chair- another in Sum- selected by doos not of Custer s to as state, i The republican Advanced the PEORIA, Aug. 2T ordered an increas: gallon to také the basis $1.3 ineficiency of the | “PEACE CONTRIBUTIONS. " How Corpoiations Buy Tmmunity from Legisiative Attack in New York, A striking story of the leglslative black matling of corporations In New York state is by Joseph B. Bishop, fn “The ence,” which appears in the Century for September. Mr. Bishop gives the following Incidents, which are, he says, of unques tionable authenticity: Toward the close the campalgn of 1893 the president of a powerful and wealthy corporation called a meeting of its directors to consider a speclal matter, There was some delay them all together, and the meeting was not held till the Friday preceding election day. When the directors had assembled president stated to them that th, had been asked to contribute $15,000 to the democratic campaign fund. He adyocated the granting of the demand, saying that the corporation amount was the same that they had pald the | year befor: that they had got all they had bargained for, that he considered the pa ment a good business investment for the company, and that as careful custodians of the iuterests intrusted to them they could not afford to refuse. Tho directors voted the payment. It was stipulated by the ‘‘peace” negotiators that the money should be di- vided into three equal parts, one check for 5,000 to g0 to a state machine ieader, an- other for the same amount to a local bo and the third (o a campalgn committee fund. The checks were drawn, and were be called for by one of the beneficiaries on Mon- day following, They were locked in the com- pany's safe. On Saturday the cashier or other employe in charge of the safe was calle expecting to return on Monday. He was delayed, the safe could not be opened, and when the chetks were called for, the person calling was told that they had been ordered and drawn, but could not be reached for the reasons given; he was told, however, that it was all right, and it he would call on Wednesday, the d after election, he could obtain them. On Tuesday the electlon was held, and the it showed that the democrats had lost control of the legislature. When the checks were called for on Wednesday, they were withheld on the ground that the demoeratic bo: 8 ““had no gouds to deliver” in return for the money. Another instance, no less authentic, equally illuminating. A meeting of tha board of directors had been called a iow days before election to consider the question of a contribution of an amount similar to thy one in the foregoing case. It was voted to it. Omne cf the directors said that in his cpinion there was considerable doubt as to the outcome of the election, and he suggested, therefore, that it might be expedient to have the check which had been drawn ‘“mislaid quite accidentally” till after election. If the democrats carrizd the election, he explained, it could be sent to them with a note stating that it had been mislald, and no harm would be done. If they failed to carry the elec tion the check could be destroyed. It was destroy Whatever clse these instances show, they eal a perfert understanding on the part ot the contributors as to the real (bject of their contributions, They are not giving to the campaign fund because they believe in the principles of the party recelving the money, but because they are buying' peace.” One prom- inent head of a great corporation, the '‘as- sessment”’ on which by Tammany in cne cam- paign was $100,000, and the regular contribu- tion cf which is fuily half that amount, says in conversation that he and his corporation are well satisfied with the present system. “We get what we pay for, and think it well worth the money.' While it is probably true that in some in- stances the “‘peace” mcney is paid to protect a corporation in the maintenance of privi- loges that are hostile to the public interests, in the great majority of cases it is paid to se- cure immunity from ail kinds of blackmail- ing attacks. Of course, it is itself black- mail, but it Is a fixed sum as against innumerable and incessant_attacks. All those who refuse to pay it find out sooner or later that it is much cheaper to yield. Not only is the legislative power in the hands of the men who ask the tribute, but the local ad- ministrative and police powers as well. A corporation carrying on Its work in New York City and subject to local regulations will soon find that unless it makes a ‘“peace’ contribution fts business is practically at a standstill. I have in mind one instance, the full details of which are in my possessicn, but would cccupy too much space to be sot forth here, in which a corporation which had refused to buy “peace” was com pelled to fight in the courts, all the way up to the court of appeals, for a permit to which it was justly entitled from the local authori- ties to tarry forward operations under its franchise. It got its rights in the end, but only after more than a year of delay, during which time the development of its business had been virtually stopped, entailing upon it in business injury and legal expenses a loss of not less than $100,000. A “peace’’ offering of $10,000 or $15,000 would unquestionably all this annoyance and ex- pense. It would be a mistake to infer that when the outlook concerning an election Is doubt- ful no contributions for. ‘‘peace’’ are made In such campaigns they are made in smaller sums to both sides. “We always give to the funds of Tammany hall, the county democracy and the republican: said the head of a great corporation who was asked for a contribution a few years ago. He was making himself “solid” ‘with all sides, in the way in which Jay Gould declared that he was wont to do in the old Erie campalgns: “In_republican counties 1 was a_republican, in democratic counties I was a democrat, in doubtful countles I, too, was doubtful, but in all cqunties | was an Erie man 1s < o T ey K or anything else. Price of in gotting the ' PATRIOTIC BILLY. “irenter Love Math Than This It is seriously announced, says the Washe lugton Star, that Tepresentative Bryan of braska has devotcd what he terms his “quota of plants from the Bbtanic Gardens to the decoration of the grave of Thomai Jefferson. A more affecting tribute than this an hardly be imagined, and many sympa- hetic tears will roll down the cheeks of those who worship the memory of Monti- cello's eage. Meek and lowly followers of Jeftersonan doctrines have at times hoped that e day honors would be heaped upon the sod beneath which fs the last resting place of him who prepared the Declaration of Independencs. but ncver In the most op- timistic of their dreams Afd exaggerated mental visions behold the beauties of M Bryan's “quota of plants from the Botanio Gardens”—the blossoming eacti, the graceful | palm, the fragrant heather and the Rorgeous tulip. Daisies and roses were looked for, hol- Iyhccks regarded as probabilities, golden-rod permitted, but beyond these and a few other of the simpler wild and cultivated varteties no Monticellan hopes had soared. And now comes this torrent of generosity, which prom= ises to make Jefforson's grave blcssom with floral radiance such as is likely to break the horticultural record. How this example is going to affect the remainder of the Fifty-third congress may not now be guessed at, but the chances are that the ancient and honored pract'ce of distributing amons con= stituents such blossoming and other verdure j as can be se 1 from the elcemosynary in- stitution which Superintendent Smith has conducted with such admirable success will | be continuod until the end. A fow statesmen may be willing to give Jefferson a_handful | or two of the cut fiwers they beg from the propogating gardens, but such lavish prodi- gality as that of Mr. Bryan fs not likely to be contagious enough to cause comment. Curlous pecpls may wonder and ask what Thomas Jeferson—(he premier advocate of governmental simplicity and administrative economy-—would think of congressmen who call upon the nation to provide them with valuable plants and rare orchids. No one knows, and, what Is more, no one cares. It is enough that Mr. Bryan has electod to beautify the Jefferson tomb, even theugh he may do it in a conspicuously un-Jeflersonian, or " even anti-Jefersonian, fashion. Mr. Bryan has, however, done more than a little thing. With his senatorial campalgn just about o get something ¢f a move on itself, and with many an empty flower pot in Ne- braska, he Is careless of his future that he may honor the shades of him whose departed, yet ever-present, greatness he adores. Greater love hath no congressman than this: That he lay down his quita of plants on the grave of a man who, by reason of his ocou- pancy of a grave, has become as a resident of the District of Columbia, and can no longer exe the American voting privi- lege. No Congressman - MIETHEFUL REMARKS. Harper's Bazar: “What did the lecturer say when the hit his chest?" “He said that such attentions quite took his breath away.” stitution: “Do you think bal- 1L 1y old?" "I don't know. that I've seen were wearing Atlanta Con lot girls are Some ballets spectacle Texas Siftings: A petrified man has been found in Wisconsin, It is probably the body have prevented | of a man who fell “stone dead.” Atchison Globe: The trouble fs that a girl in love never looks in the future any further than the next night he Is coming. SILENCE Washington Star. Where once the song birds gathered all i ‘melancholy now Wards of deep regret are spoken; there's a - frown on many a brow; In vain we look for melodies that cheered us fong ago. Where onee the cuckoo warbled sounds the cawing of the crow 5 = TARIFK REFORM, (As Bxpounded by Democratic Orators) Indianapolis Jour We robbed the farmer of his waol, And cunningly and deftly plannéd That Canada should have the “pull™ On all the products of his land. We bowed before the whisky ring, And did the syndicates no i1l But then we crushed that awful thing, The infamous McKinley bill. We crippled all our factories, And tore the warp from many a loom We blighted our home industries, And shadowed all the land in gloom; We served the greedy S ust, And let it work its soverelgn will— But then we trampled in the dust The Infamous McKinley bill, We cut the labore down, And filled his home with want and carej Or turned him workless from the town. To tramp with hunger and despair; We caused a shout of hopeful joy To rise from every foreign mill— But then we managed to destroy The infamous McKinley bill ‘We helped monopolies and rings, And favored trusts, both old and new In short, we did the very things We once declared we wouldn't do, We failed, "tis true, to br The least r But then we The infamous ng about form--and always will- nashed and blotted ou McKinley bill. With witless brain and thriftless hand We cast prosperity away, And left the markels of our land To every foreign bird of prey— But then you are aware we had To starp, and smash, and crush, and kil The awful, wicked, hor bad Gone to Sleep. The “renowned” makers of hals have all gone to sleep this year exceept John B. Stetson, and he'sthe man that put them to sleep, for he made his “Stetson Speecial,” and they can't touch it for style, It's a modest, elegant hat, and we're sole agents. The few summer suits we have are going at half price this week. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. v/, ( And infamous ) bill. lor 15th and Douglas.