Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. — i PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, afly Bee (without Sunday) One Year.. aily, Bea and Sunday, One Year. Bix _Months Three Mos Bunday B Baturda Weekly | RS, ©Omaha, The Lee Tuflding Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-tourth Sta. Gouncil Tiufs, 12 Pearl street, feago Office. 517 Chamber of Commerce. u-:"?,.n(‘ Tome 1 34 and 15, Tribune Didg. Cushington, 1 N. W CORRESI( nicationa relting ‘“hould be addres BUST news and_ edf- 1: To the Hdltor. PERS, ces #hould ba company, AL eomm torial matte be made pavabic -3 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1. Tuschuck, the Bee Pub- Hshing company, iy “aworn. says that e Tber of full and complete cople of The any < Evenini and Sunday Bee 554, was a8 1 18 Loss deduct Uneold and returned coplen Total sold....... Datly average el circuiation.... *Sunday. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn 10 before me and subscribed i my pres- ence this 1st day of August, 184 (Beal.) P. FRIL, Notary Publle. Bryan evidently belleves in reciprocity. Hence his determination to “labor earnestly” for the election of Boyd There are a few city officials left who have not gone off on vacations this summer. The mayor s one of the few. Laborers will show their loyalty to labor by turaing out to a man to participate in the labor day demonstrations. Today s Labor day. Lend your influence, 0 far as it lies within your power, toward making labor’s celebration a success. The motto of the free silver democrats will now be: “Tariff reform and free coin- age; it you can't get both, take one.” Misery loves csmpany. To this may be due the fact that the number of local can- didates becomes larger as the days speed on. When it comes to discussing the original Majors man the claims of one P. Schwenck should not be overlooked. Neither should those of u certain ubt. After the lowa democrats swallow the Omaha platform in their zeal to have their congressional candidates endorsed by the populists they will have to appeal to their friends for identification. Franklin it. At the same time the Illinois republicans are taking precautions that will keep that state represcnted in the senate by a republi- can. Mr. MacVeagh must not be overconfl- dent. Nebraskans will be Interested in the re- ported success of Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, in London. Nebraska has con- tributed several of the American successes abroad and is entitied to lay as much, if not more, claim to Captain Jack as any other state. That was a clever ruse worked upon t Second district democratic congressional con- ventlon when It was intimated to the as- sembling delegates that Mr. Boyd might not | accept the nomination. But it Worked. nomination was duly placed platter and proved irresistible The upon a golden The reception given to Semator Wolcott by his Colorado friends upon his return from Burope is evidence that is expected to retaln the leadership of the free silver ele- ment in the senate, despite the 1ll success which attended his efforts to block the re- peal of the Sherman law last year. he What has happened to the Commercial club's plans for continuing the excursions to tributary towns so successfully begun a ghort ttmo ago? It s claimed that the Denefits accruing to Omaha trade from these cutings are visible and important. 1f they aro a good thing for Omaha a few more of them would not be objectionable. What will republican candidates for con- gress and for the legislature say to their constituents when ealled upon to defend the head of the state ticket against the grave charges made and proven? Men are judged by the company they keep, and every re- publican candidate in the impending cam- paign will be handicapped by the candidacy of Thomas J. Majcrs, Perhaps the Idle ex-strikers at South Omaha did make mistakes, That Is no reason why every effort should not be made o find emplcyment for all those who have “families. Let employers lay off some of the single men and even scme of the heads of families for a week and thus give the desti- tute men a chance bread for their families. A system of rotation would, the emergency, serve a double purpose to earn In A Labor day demonstration two very desirable objects. It gives a graphic (llustration of the extent and strength: of labor organizations in the city. It also shows the variety and magnitude of the manufacturing industrics and mechanical trades. Every oue who views the men and floats in the procession today will have a better comprehe which labor plays iu the life of the com- munity. accomplishes In Omaha only about 26 per cent of the total number of householders own their homes. Nearly three-fourths of the people are tensnts. The population is about 140,- 000. A liberal estimate would place the number of families at 30,000. Every city that has enjoyed rapid growth must assume & tax rate incident to costly and extensive publie improvements. This eonditon has obtained in Omsha durtng the past ten years. Hundreds of business mon find it profitable 10 rent homes and put thelr funds into busi- ness capital. As the city grows ol per- manent Improvements will have been made and paid for and the tax rate will decline. Then the proportion cf home owners will begin to Increase, for it is the dream of every goid ollizeu to possess a comfortsble bume. MacVeagh wants to be senator | from Illinois and he doesn’t eare who knows | on than before of the part | | direction, and {in PEIVATE RELIEF THE ONLY RESOURCE. The decision of Governor Crounse net to eall together the legisiature in extra session to consider the question of extending public | ald to the inhabitants of the drouth stricken aren of Nebraska means that private relief 1s to be the only resource of the destitute settlors. As soon as the extent of the dam- age done by the hot winds of July and | August was brought to light, The Bee ca the attention of the governor to the facts and presented the case for leration. The difficulties of the particularly the excess of the present state debt over the constitutional limit, were elluded | to, and the necessity of somo constitutional | amendment to enable the legislature to meet tha emergen pointe Such an | amendment or amendments would be of no | avail unless ) submitted for the ratification of the voters at the coming elec- tions In Nov:mber to take all sideration and actua his con- problem, was out. were It was for the governor circumstances into Governor Crounse done to the conclusion that the legislature is not thesa con- 80 an re- has has come extra session of quired Most recent inquiriss give ground for the beliet that the probable destitution will be so0 great as was at first feared, but some measure of rellef will non2 the less be nec- ssary for m considerable proportion of the remaining residents of the western portion of the regular of the in January next, by reason of con- not state. The ature, session which meets will not be in a position stitut limitations to much in this ir it were it would be senatorial contest to be of immediat Irrigation projects, under- taken by the various counties and townships, may be of some assistance, but only a very small part of the area has available water, and even here the work must await the de- velopment of surveys and plans. The only way then to secure timely relief is to do so through private initiative. Some form of a relief association, whose members will take upon themselves the work and rely upon ths people and the legislature, as did the State Relief assoclation immediately after the uges of the grasshopper plague in 1§ see that their contributions are later reim- bursed them and the burd:cn spread over the entire body of taxpayers in the state, It Is quite possible that are other plans more but not yet suggested 1f 50, they should be proposed without delay. It is Iincur bent upon the state officials to s that some measures of relicf are soon gotten The people of the great state ka will not allow any of their who are deserving to suffer from actual want of the n:cessities of existence. onal do even too late after th value, to there feasible under way. of Neb number MR, MORTON WILL ACCEFT. The decision of ex-Vice President M to accept the republican nomination for gov- ernor of New York, if it is given to him, will probably simplify the politieal situation in that state so far as the republicans are concerned. The parly is not altogether harmonious. There are two factions in New York City which need to be reconciled, and thers are ambitious republicans in the state who have a mora or less extensive following. There is reason to expect a somewhat acri- monious contest in the state conventlon soon to be held. There has not been a more favorable chance for many years than now exists for a sweeping republican victory in the Empire state if the party can be united. The elections of last spring showed that the peaple were fully aroused to the necessity of recording a vigorous protest against the policy of the democratic party, and there is no rea- son to suppose that this feeling is less pri lent now. Neo state has suffered more than New York from the democratic assault proteetion. tepublican harmony is essential to suceess, and perhaps no man s so well qualified to secure this as Levi P. Morton. He is not identified with any faction. He has a most creditable and honorable record as a public man. He has the qualifications that fit him to be governor of the great state of which He is popular because he has been always watchful and careful ‘of the in- terests and weifare of the people. His re- publicanism is beyond doubt or question. For these re Morton would seem to be the mest available man the republicans could nominate at this time for governor—the man who would be most certaln to unite and harmonize the party and get out its full strength at the ele on, as well as drawing from the opposition. The importance of a republican victory in New York this year cannot easily be over- estimated. It would exert a greater influence than republican success in any two other states in checking the purpose of the party power to continue the against protection, and It would have a very decided bearing upon the next national election. The republicans of the Empire state are not poor in available material for gubernatorial can- did. but, all things considered, Levi P. Morton seems from this distance to be the man best equipped for leadership in the im- pending contest and the one most likely to carry the party to splendid victory. A REANSURING PROMISE. It is announced that in its report for the last fiscal ycar the Interstate Commerce commission will be able to report substan- tial progress in enforcing their powers under the law. This will be accepted by the busi- ness public as reassuring. I there is really a brighter outlook for the enforcement of the Interstate commerce act the faet will be hailed by _all in whose welfare was intended to be that act with great satisfaction. It Is stated that recent judicial decisions have done much to restore vigor of provisions of law were impaired by decisions some of the lower courts. One of th decided by Judge Gresham the circuit bel orton on ns Mr. crusade es, subserved by the the which in s2 cases was when he was on | oh in Tilinols, to the effect that the commission had no constitutional right to enforce the att:ndance and ot by appeal ause commission was body The court overruled this decision and held that the commission strictly within its constitutional powers in summon- ing a witn:ss and compelling him to testify. This decision was rendered in the ease of Manager Brimson of the Lilnols Stesl c:m- pany, who refused to givs testimony whether the company was an owner of stock in certain short railway lines which were give undue advantages to the company. It was decided by Judge Gresham that the manager could not be compelled {o answer, becauso congress had not the power to vest testimony the courts, be a judiclal witnesses the to not supreme was alleged to in the courts authority to compel testimony before & nonjudicial body. In view of this decision it was proposed in congress to mako the commission a judicial body, but the apparent n:cessity for doing this disappeared with the decision of the supreme court up- hoMing the authority of the courts to compel testimony before the commission and of the commission to demand such testimony and insist upon its being given Another declslon, rendered court of appeals In rehabllitated, for the by the elrcuit Georgl preseat, has the | quired | of a few of the stutes \H / power of the commission to enforee the long-and-short-haul clanse. The circuit court of appeals was unanimous In overruling a deciston of the district rourt that the route between any two points by rail constituted a distinct and separate “line,” within the meaning of the law, from the route between two points, ev:n though wholly in within the first route. This has yet to be passed upon by the supreme court, and it sustained no new leglslation will be re- as proposed in congress, establishing nition of what donstitutes a line. It will thus be seen that the situation has eared for the Interstate Commero: commission, warranting the hope that the commission will now be able, as promised, to effect a more thorough entorce- ment of the law than has hitherto been the case. The public has long be:n tired of hearing excuses and apologies for the fail- ure of the commission to compel the rail- road corporations to more fully regard the law, but it is only fair to that body to eay that it should not be held wholly responsible. It could not override the judicial obstacles that have been placed In its Now, however, that these have been to some ex- tent removed, more will be expected of it. other cluded a de en somewhat way. A BOOM ABROAD. n le dispatches of yesterday was the ment that all the ters of Germany had been most favorably affected by our mew tariff law. The inter- esting information that the port trade of Germany would be very largely increased and that the bigger manufacturing firms are taking steps to increase thelr busi- ness to the utmost under the new There is nothing surprising in these advices, They simply what the friends of protection have all along insisted upon, that the effect of the democratic poliey would be to stimulate foreign industries in competi- tion with those of our own country, and necessarily this will be to the disadvantage of the latter and to American labor. We have heretofore noted the exultation with which the woolen manufacturers of England received the amouncement of the passage of the tarif® bill and the extraor- dinary preparations they making profit by it. The later news from Germa simply indicates that all Europe is fully alive to which this legislation ofters to foreign manufacturers and is keenly appreciative of the grand opportunity afforded to get possession of a generous share of the greatest market in the world. What is to be the result of the very vig- orous competition for the Amer'can market which this information fore This is the question that now confronts us, and It is a very serious one. There is involved in it the future of American industries and American labor. The clearly defined fact is that a sharp and prolonged warfare is to be waged between the manufacturing Industries of Europe and of the United States, aud that in this conflict American labor will be the chief sufferer. The note of preparation for the contest has been sounded from abroad. There the boom has begun. The stimulus of democratic tariff reform is felt in every manufacturing country of the old world. When will American industries realize the promise of the supporters of this reform? How soon will our manufacturers increase their to foreign markets, as the democratic party assured them they would do as the result of the democratic policy? And American labor, already greatly re- duced, how much lower must it go in order to meet foreign competition? our e AnnounC export was given measure. confirm democratic were 1o the advantages hadows? exports INCOME TAX NOT EX POST FACTO. The attempt is now being made to discredit the income tax provision of the new tariff law by raising doubts as to the powers of congress to enact It In the form in which it is found. To do this recourse is had to the clause of the constitution prohibiting the passage of any ex post facto law, and a Mausi- bl argument is made to include the objec- tionable measure within this prohibition.The new law provides “that from and after the first day of January, 1895, and until the first day of January, 1900, there shall be assessed, levied, collected and paid snnually upon the gains, profits and income recelved in the preceding calendar year,” etc. It further provides that the tax shall be paid “for the year ending the 31st day of Decem- ber next preceding the time for levying, collecting end paying the sald tax, and all the tax are required to make return the first Monday in March of each year."” It will be seen that tax is required to be paid for the full calen- dar year ng with December 31 next, notwithstanding the fact that eight months of the year will Lave expired before the act can take on «he full form of law. 2 This, It is said, makes the tax collectable next year upon income accruing before the enzctment of law, and constitutes clearly a case of ex post facto legisk Such however, will moment Nold water with any one who will lock below the surface of the argument. In the first place there are many precedents for the imposition of taxes upon the income or property during the previous year. It is the regular practice with all bodies which are empowered to levy taxes to fix the tax rate only after the assessment or other returns have been made, the tax for one year being paid according to the preperty or income of the previous year, mo matter what changes 'in the situation may have oc- curred in the interval. Al the spirits di tilled before the increase the “interna revenus upon which. the tax has not been paid will hsve to pay the increased rate along with that which may be distilled while force. Congress itself act in March, 1867, tax was imposed and col- for the entire calend:r year without reference to the three of the year already ela d before legislation was completed. More important still is the fact that laws of this kind not, technically speaking, ex post facto legislation at all. The term ex post facto is used in the legal world with *ference to criminal enactments only. The prohibition is intended solely to keep the legislative body from usurping the functions of the judiclary and passing sentence upon persons for acts which were not punishable at the time committed. So congress cannot convict any ome of a erime by resolution; nor pass a law making an act innocent at the time of its committal erim- inal; nor if the act be already a crime, pass a law Increasing the penalty or lessening the evide cessary to conviction or alter- ing in any manher the legal situation of the accused to his disadvantage. Legislation upon civil and financial matters cannot be ex post facto. It can be retroactive In applying to past conditions and retriactive legislation is prohibited in the constitutions It is not prohibited in the federal constitution. The courts will do upon the constitutionality of the ine feature of law scon after the installment of the tax becomes due Is perhaps ground for a Y the score of its being a direct tax, but none parties liable t on or before end the on. for a contention, not scorued law is in me the the new passed an inc tax under which lected months the constitutional ce ma biless have to pass tax firse There contest on the new ome on the seore of ex post facto legislation. The oppofients of tNE" Mt me tax will have to de- vise somo other plan of attack. An item s going the rounds of the lowa press that 26,000 homesteaders have left their flelds in western Nebraska and mi- grating eastward. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune causes that paper that somethingince 15,000 men have quit this state becayie ff the drouth. That these figures are gréfitly bxagmerated must be ap- parent to the average reader. If it be true that 16,000 voters have left Nebraska, it means that fully 50,000 people have quit the state during the last sixty days. Such a claim would be preposterous. It s true that many who farms in the western counties have glven up the struggls, having suffered two seasons of drcuth, but the total number is not great. Few actual land owners or bona fide settlers have vacated their holdings, This excdus is not as in- Jurious to the state as many may be led to suppose. A favorable seascn next year will witness an influx of people who will relocate the land and till it. Such changes hav been golng on more or less for years and the late comers have as a rule proved better oitizens than those who have gone before. are of to say men have rented the state fair. reasons Omaha 8) many sound have it that it wants There why Omaha ought not to necessary to urge them repeatedly. Above all things the State Agricultural soclely is in the success of the annual fair. ment of success is large Omsha is the center of a large population. There are about 225,000 people in the four counties surrounding Omaha. Two hours' ride will land them at the Omaha fair grounds. The attractions of Nebraska's metropolis will draw people from a greater distance. Hundred-mile excursions may be successfully run into this city, which would be out of the question with any other town as the cbjegtive point. Every railroad run- ning to Lincoln runs also to Omaha, and if the competition is confined to these two citles it Is only fair that Omaha should be glven the preferonce when relocation is de termined upon. The fact that Lincoln has handled the state fair past four yesrs is no reason claims of Omaha should now are hould be interested One ele- daily attendance. acceptably the the be ignored. why bor Commissioner Carroll interviewed recent inyi D. Wright the results of into the great Pull- man strike, is quoted as expressing a Lelief that the investigation will do much good in “the end and that out of it will come valuable recommendations. We quite agr with Mr. Wright. The investigation has done much good fin disclosing the fact that the United States commissioner of labor is under obligations to the Pullman company for a pass entitling him to the free use of its cars upon any railroad in the country. out of it will the valuable recom- mendation that some more stringent legisla- tion be provided to prevent the corruption of federal officials by the offer and accept- ance of bribe passes. There may be other good results, but this much Is already as- sured. when regarding the stigation some come This Is the ‘day when the horny-handed son of toil takes a brief respite and joins the marching column. He is proud to be numbered among 'the vast armies of mechanics and 1aborors Whose energy moves the fndustrial Wworld. Today he parades the streets of Omaha in all the vigr and strength of independent manhood, in an age the honest and industrious artisan is con- ceded to be the peer of any man. May he continue to multiply and replenish the earth. when Editor Bryan promises the public that the opinion of his paper upon public questions will not be left in doubt, This is a most radical change in policy to commence with. Heretoforo its readers have been given glimpses wf all sides of all questions and have been allowed to make blind guesses at its position on them. Such a complete re- versal of its previous policy may be too much for the public. Better go slow about it. Another cry s being raiced for the aboli- tion of the prize fight among the cadets at West Point. This cry is raised every time that the public is informed of another fistic encounter between the students as the re- sult of the resentment of under classmen to upper class dictation. So long as the officers in charge of the institution really encourage such brutal conduct public opinion can do little. A New York boerding house keeper kille herself the other day because she was unable to fill her house with boarders. She have been an exceptional boarding keeper. It Is usually the boarders who would be expected to Kill themselves be- cause of the keeper's inability to fill them to thelr satisfaction. must ho Now All Together. Chicago Inter Ocean Let every man do his best to revive b ness. At last there are settled conditions. Uncertainty Is the most discouraging thing in commercial affairs. To do the best possi- ble under existing liws, and change them when bad, is the privilége of the people LA Will Morton . Philadelphia Press. tary 8 rton s the only ation who geems to take his crow with tary Morton's rhetoric Is all very well in its way, but how about the “party perfidy’’ and ty “disg in this tariff? Does a “trust pudding serve Mr. Morton's flights of free trade? I8 it such a blessing to have millions added LC 1illors for ihe betefit of the frust? We have all heard. Secretary Morton's frec trade pleas before. What the country is yearning for is an' explanation, not of the benefits of free trade, but of ‘the benefits of “party perfidy’ end the value of demo- cratic party promises. Sec mem| to de nishing. Washingion Star. Some time aftir the 1st of January next th enue will cor to the conclusion Akat if congress did not pass the income g% elauses of the tariff bill just for the purpose of annoying him It certainly succegded, I accomplishing at least that much’ ‘It s generally understood in financial circles that strenuous eftort will be made by some of the many who deem the tax rank injustive to secure its de on constitutional. grgunds, by court of the Unftedl State some of the brightést legal ready engaged '\n preparing which the attomiey!general upon to reply. bawy inence in other cities the supreme In New York minds are al- arguments 1o will be called ts of nation m- re, it 15 ave m- flarly engaged and will surely be h pm before the tax i levied. Legitimate opp tion to the inequitable impost will be isap proved only by U o not pay direct taxes’ themselyes perfectly” willing to have oth contribute more than thelr fair share to the support of the gov. ernment under an unjust and utterly ind fensible plece of legislative disprimination FOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Grand Tsland Indopendent: The republican state convention has placed ftself completely under the control of the railroads by momi nating Tom Majors, the favorite of the B. & M, for governor. Lincoin New The nomination of Julge Holeomb by the populists is about the wisest thing that party has ever perpetratod since its incorporation as a political unit. The high personal character of the nominee, his freedom from the wild vagaries and chimeri cal schemes of paternalism, and bis acknowl edged ability, make him the strongest man they could nominate, and he will give the republicans a hard fight Cralg Times: As has now bolted th rather several cf the endeavor 1o lead the anti-monoj the party away from the sup t Majors, Piper and Bartley. As a fighter Mr. Rose water s to be dreaded In any campaign, and his opening guns indicate that the men who enforced the nomination cf unwelcome candi- dates will have their hands full in defend- ing them from the us onslaught th will be made ' Central City Nonpareil: * The republican convention nominated a ticket that will be satisfactory to portions of the state. That the convention was a cut-and-dried affair, run in the interests cf a certain few, is evident. Candidates for various offic:s were induced to enter the contest and fnducements were held out to them that could their del gations be thrown to Majors their chances would be greatly cnbanced. Lincoln, Hall and Valley countles readily snapped at the bait and it requires no wise man from the east to tell what they secured. The con vention was divided into sections as closely as the Platte river divides the state, and should a delegate arise from the section not in the combination, the chairman’s eye- sight was 8o poor thal he invariably failed to see him; but let a delegate from the other section arise and he did nct have to speak twice to be recognized. Another feature of the convention was that a man, to be suc- cessful, wanted to reside within fifty or sixty miles of Lincoln. Now that the mana gers have the ticket of their choice, they have no time to 1se, but will have to buckle on the harness and work early and late un- til election morn. But they want to see that they fulfill their promises. One thing is evident, the campaign will be a defensive one —and November will tell the story Blalr Pilot: There is an unusual amount “whistling to keep up their courage’ on the part of those who profess to believe that the late republican state convention pursued But it is evident that the conservative sense of republicans is shocked and their partisan _enthusiasm blas 0 such display ¢f hcodlumism and disposition to enforce a rule or ruin poli has ever before come to the surfac: in braska politics, Many of the scenes in that convention were worse than disgraceful; they were exhibitions ¢f flendish, demoniacal factionism pure and simple. Had patriotism predominated or had legitimate partisanship ruled its deliberations no such disgraceful scenes would have been enacted. Republi- cans of Nebraska had hoped for better things They expected that the old state house gang would be turned down and a ticket presented compesed of new men without spot or blemish. But the old gang dictated the nominations and _with their election the general policy and practice in state affairs will be continued. It is useless to disguise the fact than an element of doubt exis whera absolute certainty should be. The convention owed it to the party In this state to name a ticket that wonla unite all repub- licans in one strong, harmonious pull for victory. Republicans may and probably will give it a qualified support, but the bosses will have only themselves to blame for ft it such a protest is registered at the polls by good republicans as will result in demcralization and defeat for the republican party in Nebraska. The ticket, or and will wing of was expected, Bee republican candidates, Callaway Courier: The Courler always has been, and always will be, under its present management, a stalwart republican journal It Lias never bolted a nomination made by a republican convention. Republicans can gen- erally be depended upon to place reasonably g0od men in nomination for office. When they fail o do this it i3 the sacred duly of all who have the welfare of the republican party at heart to stamp such fallure with the seal of their disapproval. In the nomina- tion of Tom Majors the republicans of Ne braska have placed at the head of their ticket a man who has been publicly charged with crimes which ought to have sent him to the penitentiary and forever have dis- qualifiecd him from holding any office what- sver. Up to the present {ime these charge ot been satisfactorily denied nor their sity proven. We loye the republican party too well to stand silently by and allow it to become responsiblas for the election to offiee of a scoundrel hout a word of protest I Tom Majors is innocent of the charges pre ferred against him be has ample opportunity to establish that fact. Kailing to do so, he stands before the people branded as a fraud unworthy the support of an honest citizen of any party whatsoever. With dozens of able and honorable men in the republican party. and the populists making a superhuman effort to get control of the state government, it is a fatal blunder on our part to go into the campaign under tho leadership of a man about whose public records there hangs even a shadow of suspicion. It were better for the party to suffer defeat and thus learn a dearly bought lesson, than to win a victory that would cover it with everlasting disgrac We truly hope that Mr. Majors may succeed in setting himself right before the people whose support he asks. No one would rejoico over It more than the editor of this paper, and unless he does set himself right, beyond any question we know of at least one vote that will not be cast for Tom Majors this fall. O'Neill Frontier: It Is a fact patent to all in attendance at the state convention that Tom Majors was nominated in order to spite Edward Rosewater. This premise is not com- tted by Majors' most ardent and enthu- siastic supportors. In fact they freely admit 1'it not been for Rosewater’s oppo- ion to Majors he could mot have been nominated. This, then, is the kind of re- publicanism that confronts us today in the state of Nebraska. The good old principles that were ono: wont to awaken patriotism in the hearts of our fathers—and ours in earlier years—have been carefully tucked away in some obscure archive and an age of personal jealousies ushered in. So far as we are concerned we want none of it We care nothing for Edward Rosewater, nor do we care anything for Tom Majors only so far as he subserves the great living truths promulgated by the grand old party. What but such work as was witnessed at the state convention last weck thrown the re- publican party of the state from its trl- umphal pillar and almost vanquished its laurel wreath and golden rod? What such rapine has reduced us from an impreg Jority to a pitiful and doubt- ful plu And for what? To spite and humiliate Rosewater. There are worse men than Majors, and men who might make wors: records as governor, but that Is not the question. The cry went up from all over the state for new men for office, men at whom the finger of suspicion could not be pointed, but what came of it? The ticke was head:d by a man who has been actively engaged In the politics of the state for thirty years, and identified with people and things both good, bad and Indifferent. And why was this done? Simply to slap Rose- water. In fact, Rosewator's chastisem:nt was placed above and beyond the good of the party. Such pernicious practice cannot be allowed to go unnoticed and unrebuked. The party has lost the confidenc: of many people and it must be purified. The only question with us is as to the best place of purlfication raliroadism should have had. 1t we support Majors it will be use of the great principles that he is supposed to represent and not because of any particular confid in the man or the convention that placed him before the peo- day. e Rio de Ju, pened. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 2.—The state of seige has been raised Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov’t Report Ra al V=D Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PROFLE AND THINGS. The extensive and irresistible “pull” on- Joyed by the councilmen of New Orleans has been traasferred to the grand jury. The sherift will presently exercise it. A new design for a state seal for Massa chusetts Is being prepared, and the secretary of state is unable to get the type of Indian he desires to put on it. There must be a scarcity of tobacco signs down there, A Whift of Chinese war was felt at Denver recently. Some barbarian dropped a pot of sulphureted hydrogen at a populist meeting, and the Rocky Mountain News offers a reward of $100 for his capture Statistics compiled in Massachusetts show a marked increass in the number of busi ness partnerships between men and wome The custom instituted by Adam and will become fashionable in the Bay presently Although the eminent Richard Watson Gil der has repeatedly banished the blues from the white house by reading selections from his poems, Cleveland ignored him and para- phrased Tom Moore, Ingratitude could not B0 farther. In two state ars the number of drug etts has increased from 1,400 to and the number of people who take quor medicinally has increased in like rati Two ounces of spiritus frumenti constitute the favorite prescription he Socicty of the War of 1812 of Balti ore expects {o have among (ts guests on optember 12 Captain Hooper, who is be lleved to be the only participant living in that city. tain Hooper, now 96 years o tered the war when he was 14 years old Danlel M. Spraker of the Mohawk National bank of Fonda, N. Y., who has fust, cele- brated his 96th’ birthday, is the oldest bank president in the United States. He is active and constant in the discharge of his duties Such activity and ability al so extreme age are remarkable. A Jersey justice of the peac rested for picking pockets. No additional information of the crime is given, it may be presumed the fines and te out_ the victim and made him squeal in Jersey—consecrated Jersoy—courts cumulating general contempt. Cleveland is at Qray Cables, Gorman |s going abroad, McPherson and Smith are half seas over, Vest is weary and sorely per- turbed, Jones has taken to the woods and Wilson will do Europe. Dave Hill and Cal Brice, the eminent ical farmers,. have, for the moment, Iny of the party In their horny fists, Congressman-Editor D ited with admirable sel-re not go to the extent of mutila quotation, “The pen is sword,” he suggested in his salutatory Characteristic modesty forbade him quoting Richelleu's qualifying words, “In hands of men truly great,” ete.. Representative Talbert of South Carolina occuples a unique position among congre: men in that he neither goes to the theater, drinks, smokes, chews nor plays cards. He has a habit, however, of never passing a beggar on the street without giving him a nickel, disposing thus of the small ngo that most men spend on themselves. We are prone to chide the followers Li Hung Chang for using vociferous pots as implemetns of war, and point to them as idence of barbarism hen we congratu- late ourselves on having obtained a lofty plana of civilization, forgetling that for loud and {ll-smelling weapons Kentucky can give China several points in the game and win out Louise Lease, the 11-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Lease, shows that she has in- lierited many of the traits of her mother. In Topeka the other day she gathered 100 boys of the reform school under the trees and lectured them, telling them how they ought to behave. - At the conclusion she announced she would be a candidate for president some day and wanted them to vote for her. The official report of the condition of the 350 Towa banks operating under the state law for the fiscal year ending June 30 last gives the following totals ts, $61,- 271,266; capital stock: ] due de- $41,987,630; banks and others, surplus, $1,7 3; other profits, 91,796,444. The panic year had compara- tively little effect on deposits, the decrease being only $163,598.30, while cash and credits increased The report Is regarded s a satisfactory showing of Towa thrift in bard times. stores has been ar- are must be ered nt. He did g a familiar mightier than the of CONSECRATED PERFIDY, New ¥ great, great, Scott! Oh, can it be y one else in the wi Is great and good like me ric Evening Sun. , wide world Oh, fortunate the nation, “Thrice blest the ship of state That has me for a pilot, Me! Grover, co ! *Twas I anointed And Blount and dusky L secrated mysell anew To a revenue tariff bill. sham, I blessed free coal and iron, Likewlse free wool and flax; And when they pre me pretty I blessed the Income tax. And then T wrote a letter Whic old Nick—phew! And though you may not think it, That was consecrated, (oo “Dishonor—party perfidy "Twas thus 1 called it flat; But now, to show how great 1 am, I've consccrated th | that Hon PARAPHRASING TOM MOORE. Indianapolis Journal long and clumsy and seoms to have been constructed mainly for the purpose of lg- ®ing in the plagiarism at the close. Tt reads like the effort of a High school pupil turning verse Into prose. ew York Sun: It The sentence I is truo that the figures ot speech are somewhst mixed, and that the patch line between Hon. Grover Cloveland's rhetorle and Tom Moore's is rather too obe vious; but that doesn’t matter much. It Is & precious privilege to get this glimpse of the actual workings of a massive mind in full and effective operstion Kansas City Journal: Gorman lowers can congratulate themselves upon not recoiving the full weight of the fat man's condemnation and Tom Moore can now rest casy In his grave, since even so great a men as the president of the United States has placed his seal of approbaticn upon his writ- ings by claimug them as his own, New York Tribune: Why call to the fact that Cleveland's letter to Catch- ings contained uncredited but cunning lnes from Tom Moore? When true hearts lie witliered and fond ones are flown should his thoughts be directed to prose works alone? Go to, thou earping critie of the Washington Star!’ The letter to Catchings was easily made-—"twas but big, blick I's and lemonade. York World: Paraphrases of famillar poctical quotations are constantly used in prose without quotation marks, First becauss quotation marks aro generally out of place around a paraphrase, and secondly, because it is to be assumed that all intelligent people know the qu-tation and where it comes from One of the very newspapers which attack Mr. Cleveland does in the same [ssue the same thing. Of course Mr. Cleveland is not a plagiarist Louisville and his fol- attention urier-Journal: Some newspapers made the president letter to Mr. hings that marked the places in the the deadly blight of the the councils of the might.”” This {s not very intelligible, as an allusion to midsummer madness. Whay the president wrote was “the deadly blight of treason.” The passage is an allusion te the oft-quoted lines,of Thomas Moore: * * * How do the traifors like the picture? Philadelphia Inquirer: The most striking sentence in the president’s letter turns out to have been a quotation from one of Tom ore's poems, to which no quotation marks were applied. That is to say, the president I8 a plagiarist as well as a tarift and civil service reformer. Since the death of Hon. Daniel Manning it has frequently been noted President Cleveland's state papers ne of thelr former vigor and con- ciseness, but now that the limented Mr. Moore is to be drawn upon to make up the deficiency, we suppose those papers will again reach that literary level which so delights the mugwumps. Moore wasn't much on clvil service reform, but he was a “‘corker” when it came to a phrase like ‘blasting the councils of the brave in thelr hour of might.” S HOT LINERS. Philadelphia Record: Even a can't lift a mortgage off a farm, ot say in democrats tarift bill season_had bl brave in their the his had where sted hour of unless lacked cyclone ston Ne fancy sometimes paints L, but never whitewashes him, © Buftalo Courler: “They ¥ hit by that handsome Mis Phlirtem the other nig am not sur- t. 1 saw her throw her eyes at hin several time i that Sphoftiey Flelgende Dlaetter: She—And is this hair dye as dangerous as the doctors say? He— Every bit. An uncle of mine onte dyed his hair, and’ three K after he marrie widow with four children, s New York Sun: Gummey-4Vas President Monroe a sickly man? Gland Not that I know of. Why? Gummey—T thought he was. I have heard 80 much about Monroe's docterin’, Atchison Globe: When churc want to ha a plenic on Sun ita camp meeting Atlanta necessary memly ¢ they call Constitution “What are the qualifications to become an ed- pounds of type, one pres, gne subseription book, one pair of selusors, patience and a month's credit at the gro- cery store.” i hand Philadelphia says: “See that ased before Hing on your press your suit afte Record: A fashion | r trou: erly making a call.” I are however, you g you get’ the Der Chicago Recor: DI Miss ] hases whil any v she was “yes, got an It the bargain counter in Rome Indianapol|s Dlished, no atmos 1s it possible, ung worma about the ing us? Journ: etty woll “that Mars asked the speotacled “that the poets who tell us martial air have been decely- Washington St “Iere's somethin' great—simply £ exclaimed the street fakir, as he blocked the path of a portly citize don't doubt It was the reply. I beloni to the class of people, Air ject to having greatness thrust u “But . Who o in’ them. THE HOME BAROMETER, Philadelphin Times. When the baby's eyes are stormy, Yith a pucker in betwe - ndma shakes her head and murmurs he's afraid ing to rain. When the baby’ Shining like two st Grandma smiles s We shall have a spell o8 are dancing, with fun, certain who flll orders as the wholesaler dictates?” question has been answered to our entire satisfac- tion, as we are reliably informed that Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Knox do make their own hats. of fairness which has tabrie, finish and fashion dnced—not the extreme dudelike shapes—but a modest, elegant hat, and, without exception, the The binding is improved band—the crown—the color—the price—all are “The Stetson Special,” for which we are sole agents in Omaha, and other new fall shapes are now ready for inspection. best hat ever made. perfect. Browning, King & Co., S, W, Reliable Clothicrs, The Question Answered. In the issue of August 23 of this paper we asked of the wide world the question “Do you know that the ageney hats, such as Dunlap, Knox, ——, are not made by these men themselves, but by hatmakers always characterized our house we make this statement. Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Knox is also true of Mr, Stetson, who makes his “‘Stetson Special”’—the finest hat for The In a spirit What is true of the world has ever pro- the Cor. 15th and Douglas.