Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1894, Page 10

port of tha fraudulent eonsus, and T have no ‘doubt it was only because he had assurance that the thing had outgrown ths statute of | “limitation. (Applause and lawghter) On the way out to Washington and at Washington b never sald & word discourteous to me. our intercourse was pleasact. The truth is, that up to 1861, only a lttle more than tw yoars ago, there was no controversy between Us, and Majcrs had no cause for complaint _about alleged abuse at the hands of The Bee. Most_of you doubtless remember that during the Thayer-Boyd contdst over the governor- ghip The Bee tcok the position that Ma- Jors, and not Thayer, was the legal ex:cutl it Boyd was ineligible. I opposed the nomina- tlon of Majors for governor in 1892 because of my conviction that he was unfit for the place and beeause his conduct during his first term as Newtemant governor was such 0o honest man could endorse cr defend. That fs why I opposed Majors two years ago. 1 wanted the republican party to win in the national campalgn of 1892, and T wanted a candidate wh 4 face the people from one end cf the state to the other MAJORS' WONDERFUL RUN, Oh, yes, but Mr. Majors' friends “Didn't Majors make a good run?’ Oh He was runcing for lieutenant governor, he ran 3,090 votes ahead of Crouns votes ahead of Crounse. But lie ran yotes behind Raymond, presidential ele be ran 8§57 votes behind Eu Moore for auditor; he ran 531 votes behind Allen for .secretary of state. So that he was not run- ning 80 wonderfully far ahead of the repub- lcan ticket, if he did run alcad of Judge Crounse. And how did that come? In the first place, atrenuous efforts were made by the rallroad people everywhere to trade votes for Majors. They wanted the lleutenant governor to con- trol the senate and hold legislation in ch that was not satisfactory to them. They went to work and issued circulars to demo- eratie employes of the Burlington road to vote for Morton and Majors. They got quite a number of votes that way. Mr. Majors himself passed through the gambling houses of Omaha with one of his ociates, and through that party asked the gamblers to support Van Wyck and Majors. Majors thought Van Wyck would ba elected governor and then senator, and he would then become overnor. That was another method Dby hich they procured votes. But, last of all, everybody must understand that Lorenzo Crounse was pitted against Charles H. Van Wyck, the most popular popullst in the state, a splendid stumper, who had a large number of fricnds in the republican party, and ran 6500 votes mhead of his ticket, That accounts why Crounse, bearing the brunt of the entire bat- tle, in which Majors was not touched, fell 2,079 votes behind Majors. Another thing: Mr. Majors has asserted that The Omaha Bee and myself had fought Tim {o 1892 from start to finish, and that, in spite of that fight, he was el:cted by such a splendid majority. 1 defy him to show me one line that appeared against him in The - Omaha Beo after the protest had appeared against his nomination as candidate for ljeutenant governor by the committee. I defy him o show me where fu the whole campaign, {n any speech that I made, and I made seventeer speeches in various parts of the state, I made the slightest reference to him or his candidacy. He was not being opposed at all, and while 1 knew that even in Fremont his friends were privately cut- “ting Lorenzo Crounse, 1 did not make any fight, because I fearcd the he would defeat Harrison and Crounse both if we undertook to break out of our line at that time. So then, Mr. Majors' wonderful strength and popularity was simply because nobody fought him and bscause the railroads were working for him, and because he was running against & man who had been advertised all over as an anarchist, That is the explanaticn. Now then, we have had so much said about thit unique candidate, Colonel Majors, who modestly as- sures the people that he will be the best governor Nebraska ever had and points with pride to his work“f the legislative halls of congress and in the state legislature. HIS CAREER IN CONGRESS. Let us sce how he distinguished himself. He was in congress only ebout three or four months, and during that period there was no possible opportunity for him to do any- thing of any moment; but he was electel several times to the empty honor of a con- tingent congresshan. Way back in 1870 wo elected Joseph LaMasters as a contin- gept congressman; that s, we elected a min who was deputed to go to Washington and see whether or not congress would aliow us an additional member in case we were entitled to more congressional representati r than was shown by the national census. Mr. | LaMaster did not g to Washington. We elected Hon. Patrick.0. Haves to the same position, He did go to Washington. He went there sever:l times, and secured ad mission to the floor. He had a go:d thing It afforded him an_opportunity for lobbying and gave him o “@mnco to make himself prominent and distinguished; but he did not succeed in getting a seat in congress, with the salury and perquisites attachel. Later | on we elected Mr. Mejors, and what does the record show? Mr. Majirs was elected in 1880, and he pushed his claim with vigor On April 1, 1852, the judiciary committes, of which Mr. Thomas B, Reed wax chariman made a report recommending that he be seated. On April 11 of the tame year, how- ever, the fraud perpetrated by Majors discovered, whereupon the house of repre- sentatives passed the following resolution Resolved, That the clerk of this house be and he I8 hereby required to furnish printed copy of this report, inchuding evidence, to each of the following o The district attorney of th trict Columbia, the attorney of the United States and the governor of the stite of Nebraska, that they may take such action as they may deem suitable to the gravity of the wrongs committed Ly the persons whose conduct is in thix conclusion set forth. * The investigation made by the judiciary gommittee was yery exhaustive, reported to the house as follows ‘“The conclusion that that Thomas J. Majors is responsible for the misinformation which induced the committee to make the report on the 1st of April, 1852; that he was aided therein by 8. J. Alexander, seeretary of the state of Nebraska, by Pat 0. Hawes, Dr. P. Schwenk and George H Roberts. We ask the adoption of the follow- ing resolution: Whereas, Since the re tee on judiclary in favor of seating Mr Majors “as an additional member of the house of representatives from Nebraska Was made to the house, donbis have arisen a8 to whether what was presented to the committee as a duly cortified copy of the census of that state for the year 1872 w Mot in fact its census of 1574, and wheth. any census of state had been token and compiled fo ; and Whereas, The basis of that report was the opinloh that the ageregate population of Nebraska, shown by the certified copy of Ahe census produced, was its population for 1872, and not for 187i; Resolved, That said bifl to the committe the judiciary, with ower to send for persons and papers, to ca wcts touching this matter, and that it report at its earliest convenience at any time how this misintormation occurred and who I8 responsible therefor. HOW THE TRICK WAS TURNED. “The wrongs complained of were these In order to make the argument good in favor of an additional member from Nebraske it proved beyond controversy that the census | of that state taken by the United States in 1870 was grossly: wrong; that it had b dmperfectly taken, and that had it been correctly taken the state would have been entitied to two members in this house in- stead of one. “The proof submitted to make that £00d was what purported to be a census taken by the state in 1572, and certified by the secretary of that state. It turns out and is proved beyond coutroversy that the ceusus 80 certified was the census of 1574, and that ‘4" in the certificate of the secretary of state | was chavged to a in order to make it | appear that it was the census taken two | years neirer (he time of the United States consus of 1870 than it was actually taken “Phe committee, upon the evidence be- fore them, have repoted that Mr. Msjors made that change, amd the argument and reasons of the commitiee for (hat report | are contained in the report submitted to the house. They alvo fixd that Mr. Hawes aided Majors In concealing that chapge after he knew It was made. “The substance of that part of the testi- mony s this: Hawes ywears that he w Pelled o by Majors ( make an aMday that (hat was the census of 1572 that he | told Majors that it was ‘so ealled,” and that was all he knew about it; that Majors said, *Very well: that is all T want to know.' Hawes made the afdavit, and when we asked him why he did not explain that it ‘was ‘50 called! he undertook to avold it by this kind of testimony; He says, ‘It was begun in say yos. and 079 713 tor; we arrived at was ort of the comnmit- be recommitted claim 1872 and taken all the way along up to 1874; Aud wo called {1872, like you call a public THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MO NDAY,' SEPTEMBER 17, 1891 building commenced this year (1882) and not finished till ten years from now a building of 1882 The way Mr. Schwenk became eonnected with it was this After the committee made fte report (It was before we had discovered this fmposition) upon inquiry about the state census of 1871, Mr. Alexander was called up-n and certificd that there was no census taken in 1871, He sent an official certifi- cate, over the seal of the state, that there was no census taken till 1872, of which we bad a certified copy, over the signature of his predecessor and the state seal. It turned out that Alexander had prior t> that time telographed to Mr. Majors that there was no state census taken till 1874, Majors, finding that trouble, sent Schwenk as a_messengor t Alexander with a letter, und the product of it all was that Alexander copied the old bogus census which we had in print befora us and certified it to be the census of 1872, He swears that when he certified it ho refused to | put in the year, telling Schwenk that he did not know that that was the right year, but he swore that he knew it might be filled up to suit the case; that he supposed Mr. Majors had evidence enough here cn which he could blank Schwenk swears Majors in blank. up. Majors swears that he received it but all agree that it was not filled up it left the secretary of state's office. The handwriting shows that it was not filled up by Alexander before it laft with the great eal of Nebraska on it. When Majors found out that we had the officlal rep.rt of this man Alexander, published last year, that it was the census of 1874, and that thero was no census of 1 taken; that we had it printed in six books, four of them published by au- thority of the state of Nebraska, that it was the census of 1874; finding that they were about to b» discovered, he (Majors) ‘went cut to see Alexander, Schwenk wrote to him from here to Lincoln, Neb., a letter, the vile language of which I will not quote, but the substance of which was a request that Alex- ander copy off the old, false ceriificate, and make it conform to what it really was in print; that here Hawes' afdavit would make it a plausible thing, and to say nothing about it, that he and Majors might not be caught in_any contradiction of each other. And he asked him ‘to burn that letter. That letter was by fatality preserved, and it got into the bands cf the committee.” Now, here Is another case of “burn letter''—but the letter was not burned. plause and laughter.) The resolutions were adopted without a dis- senting vote. And then, to clinch the mat- ter, a_motion was made to recons.der the vota by which the resolutions were adepted and the motion o reconsider laid upon the table. MAJORS AS A LEGISLATOR. Now, then, fellow citizens, do you think that a man who would perpetrate such a fraud upon congress and scandalize and stigmatize this state Is a fit person to be en- trusted with the position of governor of the state of Nebraska? Is he a fit person to rule this commonwealth? And yet, I want to say, while Mr. Majors claims that he had been pursued, The Bee never published the matter contained in these reports. It scarcely even alluded to the it was re- garded as something gone by until he sought to become the candidate for governor. Now, then, let us see what kind of a statesman Mr. Majors fs. I refer you now to his leg- islative caresr. Mr. Majors was a member of the te senate in 1887 and this is his record. It is not very voluminous, and it will not keep you very long. As a member of the state senate in 1887 Mr. Majors in- troduced three bills during that session Senate file No. 69, providing for the publi- cation of the session laws in one or two newspapers in every county in the state Referred to a committee and never heard from again. Semate file No. 77, authorizing counties, precinets, townships and school dis- triets to compromise thelr indebtedness. Here is the official copy of the original bill. Remember, Colonel Majors has had the hardibood to come before the people of our city and befors the pcople of -this state as the champion of the pubiic credit, who would sustain the reputation of Nebraska as a debt- paying state, and this is the bill that he in- troduced in the legislature in 1887 Senate file No, 77: A Bill for an Act to Authorize Countles, Precincts, Townships, or Towns, Cities, Villages and_ School Dis’ tricts to ' Compromise Their Indebtedness and Issue New Bonds Therefor. Section L, That any county, precinet, township, or town, city, village or school district 1s Nhergby autliorized and empow- 1 to compromise its indebtedness in the anner herein after provided. 2, Whenever the ~county commis- of any county, the city council of v city, the board of trustees of any vil- lage, or the school hoard of any school dls- trict shall be satistled by a petition, or otherwise therwise” vyou must notice s “Iin any way') that any such precinct, township or- town, city, village or school district, is unable to p in full its indebtedness, and that a majorit of the taxpayers of such county, prec township or town, city, village or sc disgtrict desire to compromise sach indebte ness, they are hereby empowered t nter into negctiations with the holder or holders of any such indebtedness of whatever form for scaling, discontinuing or compromising the san Just think of it! Here is the great cham- plon of public credit, that sought to engraft 4 law on the statutes of Nebraska by which the county commissioners, precinct officials, township or city offictals, ‘could at any time when they thought best in their own sweet way, make proposition to scale the public d:bt, to repudiate it, or to compromise it Well, now, if any populist had ever offered any such proposition he wculd be denounced, of course, as a repudiator. Here ig a repub- lican, and a man who has been chosen as the representative of the party that denounces repudiation of public debts as a crime, whether contracted by states or countles (r towns, proposing in a bill that the local off- cials of any county, precinet, township, or city or school district, shall bave the right to scale the public debt or repudiate it; and yet he stands up here and wants you to vote for him in order to keep up the public credit of Nebraska. (Applause.) What mor did he do in regard to sustaining the public eredit? Senate file No. 171, to require corporations firms and Ind!viduals transacting a banking business to make reports of thelr resources and liabilities to the auditor of public ac- counts, to provide for the examination of the affairs of such banking Institutions and to fix a minimum capital for the transaction of banking business; punish the recelving of deposits by insolvent banking institutions, ete., was Introduced in the senate and passed that body. 1t was received in the house on March 5. On March 27 the bill was passed by a vote of 68 to 8, Majors belng one of ths three to vote against the bill, Here was a bill provid banking and fraud on innocent depositors. The only safeguard that the people of this state have had thrown around them; enacted by a republican legislature and became a law In spife of Majors' vote against it. (Ap- plause,) Now that he delivered it to It was delivered to us filled filled that (Ap- against wildeat then, what more did he do? Senate to amend section 118, Title vii, Code of Civil Procedure, simply permits attorneys who are uotaries public to swear their cli- ents 1o legal papers. This bill became a law. That is the only bill he introduced In that whole session that became a law. He only introduced three bills aud one resolution: ‘Resolyed, That the doorkeeper and post- master be allowed their chairs for faithful services during the session.”” That resolution carried. (Laughter.) There is the work of the whole session of 1887 by Thomas J Majors, candidate for governor of Nebraska, who boasts that he is & statesman. (Laugh- tor.) HIS WORK IN 1889, Now, then, we come to 1889, and we have not got wuch more than that, because it is ut all of the sime caliber. In . Ma)ors was a member of the house. He in- troduced oue joint resolutton relative to state warrants, asking the supreme court for an opinion on the question as (o whether state warrants are state security. He in- troduced house roll 244, repealing chapter 86 of the Compiled Statutes af 1887, But this was a buncombe bill introduced to re- peal a bill giving W. N. B. Stout & ten-ycar extension on (he prison contract. Tt is a custom in the legislatare of Nebraska for patriots who want to hold up sowebody (o introduce just such bills. The bill of course never became a law. \ There were bills introduced at the pre- ceding session to make gambling a fslony, when we had a big fight with Majors as one of the leaders of the crowd that wanted to defeat the anti-gambling bill. At every ses- slon succeeding each other the same o sim- tlar bills would be introduced, and then the gimblers would ralse a pot, and the bill slammed into the pigeon hole and never resurrected Now, then, besides these two bilis, Majors wcoduced house roll 303, to amend sec- tion 1 of article vil, chapter 7 of the Com plled Statutes, euntitled “Revenuss.” The original section provides that {f any town- ship, precinct, Incorporated city of village in this state shall issue any bond to aid In the construction or completton of any werk of internal improvement, the revenue arising from the taxation of such im- provements shall be set apart forever to pay the interest and principal of the bond until the same shail be fully paid. Now, that Is all there was in that wonderful bill that Majors got through, Another, and the last of his statesmanlike measures, was to amend house roll No. 451, to amend the laws relating to game and fish. During that session of the legislature Majors was the chairman of the committee on fish and gam To that Mr. Watson, the speaker, had assigned him, because he knew that he was a good man to catch suckers with (laughter) and that ne was a good man at poker, 5o that he could play a gamo whenever he wanted to, That's what made him chatrman on fish and game. The bill relating to the catching of fish with hook and line and the joint resolution were passed, The second bill was indefinitely stponed. S0 he succeeded in 1889 passing two bills and one reso- lution. Altogether, in the two ses- sions In which Majors was a member of the legislature, he succeeded in passing three bills and two resolutions; one of those resolu- tions donating the chair to the postmaster and doorkeeper of the state senate. There is the wonderful work of that statesman, Thomas J. Majors, I compiled from the rec- ords, and any man that can find anything else there will be worthy a big premium. WHEN A SENATOR WAS STOLEN. I have not the time to go through his rec- ord on the maximum rate bill. There were a great many gyrations by him at that time, but I am golng now to show what Majors' record Is as lleutenant governor, and see whether or not the course The Bee has pursued and my action in resigning from the national committee were not thoroughly jus- tified, Majors, as lleutenant governor, presided over the legislature in 1891 and up to 1893 The methods which prevailed in the organi- zatlon of the state senate in 1893 fittingly 11- lustrate the interference of tha corporations in legislative affairs of Nebraska. But we will go back first to 1891. That was in the famous ses.lon that they had the big fight over the maximum rate bill. We reach the question whether or not Mr. Majors is cen- surable for the abducticn of this man Taylor. It was in this session that the deadlock oc- curred over the passage of the maximum rate bill, and during that deadlock, which lasted seventy-five hours, this man Taylor was permitted o quietly get out, £0 away from Lincoln and pass out of the state, first to Illinois and then to Oregon. Mr. Majors has publicly denied and called God to witness that he knew nothing about this, but it was something viry remarkable that he was not aware that this man was going out of his reach In that senate, when he was so anxious and showed by his rulings the greatest anxiety to prevent that deadlock from being broken, and to complete the work which the corporations had set out to do, namely, the defeat of the maximum rate bill We all admit that there are legitimate ways of filibustering and defeating legisla- tion, and there are illegitimate ways. In the legitimate oourse of parliamentary pro- cedure, men may pursue certain tactics that would prevent the majority from over- riding minorities, and also may delay and side-track legislation by perfoctly legitimate usage. But here was a case per- haps without a parallel in the annals of the United States, Hcre was the state senate in actual session, its members con- vened to pass laws for the people of Ne- braska, and here a member of that body was abducted and carried away to another state, taken out of the reach of the ser- geant-at-arms and kept away for the re- mainder of the session, for the purpose of defeating a law. Now, can anybody think of anything any more eriminal? The men who make your laws are the Mepresentatives of the people, and when anybody undertakes to destroy the legislative functions of the pio- ple, when anybody undertakes to abduct members of the legislature, he commits a high crime. 1t is as high a crime as treason itselt. You necd not levy war against a state and destroy it; you can de- stroy it by just such methods, without firing a gun. What did Majors say? T find as a part of a Lincoln paper, the organ of the Burlington road, that I suppressed a part of Majors’ speech at the republican state convention. The truth is that I never saw it until it was in print, but I will give you the beneflt of his utterances as printed here. Majors’ exact language was, referring 1o the charge: “As God is my judge, I aid not, I know nothing about it, “but had it been in my power I would have spirited vay every populist member of that legis- lature.”” Now just think of a man sitting in the high seat—of the president of the senate—saying that he would have gloried it all the members of the populist party in that body had been spirited away and ab- ducted, criminally carried away from the state house. Could you think of anything more seditious or anarchistic from a public man and from a man who aspires to be the chief executive, the man who is to execute the laws made by our legislature, the man who is to be vested with the veto power? That man publicly declared that he would bave rejoiced if somebody had bribed the other members of the populist party and carried them away bodily out of the state? I say that it is the most anarchistic utterance that has ever been heard in any public body, and the disgrace of the republican party is that they applauded this man to the echo, un- thinking, not realizing what an enormity it was for him to make such a declaration in a public body presuming to represent the republican sentiment of the state of Ne- braska. WHEN HE SIGNED THE VOUCHER. Now, then, the evidence shows all along the lines. 'Mr. Majors’ private secretary was Walt M. Seely; he was the confident of Tay- lor; he aceompanied him out of that senate chamber; he was along with him in the town; he finally precured, by the signature of Majors, a false certificate, a voucher, in the name of the absconded senator, for the amount of $75, under the presumption that that man was entitled to the balance of that money; that he was entitled to the $75 to pay him for the services rendered as member of the state senate, Now, Mr. Majors makes this explanation: He says that that man was entitled to that pay, because the constitution says that any member shall be entitled to in a session of sixty days to $300, and no more. The con- stitution does not limit the session to sixty days. Tt limits the pay to $300, even if the scsslon should last twice sixty days. And Majors had the audacity to say to a great convention of intelligent republicans who. are within the reach of the Journals of the two house, that this man had served sixty-three days, and that on the sixty-third day he had already passed the limit of the $300, and therefore, was entitled to the money. The record shows that Tay- lor disappeared on the fifty-third day of the session. Now, the record s a good deal more veracious than Mr. Majors. When Mr. Majors runs agalnst the printed records of the state senate he runs against a solid wall. Supposing that the man had been en- titled to full pay, how could Majors pretend that he could issue a certificate to Mr. Seely, his private s:cretary, for the unexpired time, when that man had run away, and when the sergeant-at-arms had been dispatched after him; when he, Majors, knew all about this 'man’s having absconded—how could he issue a certificate that the man had served through the whole session? The whole ses- sion lasted only until the sixty-fourth day. That s the record. It is the most scan- dalous misdemeanor that a public officer has ever committed in this state. The state auditor or the state treasurer may excuse himselt on having a great deal of work to do, and that with the multipiicity of papers that he has to sign he has made a mistake; but this man had only thirty-three members of the senate and the few employes of the senate to sign for, and he certainly knew just what he was doing and he cannot es- ocape the responsibility. I, for ome, will not stand up before the people of this state and advocate the election of a man who, under his oath of office, swearing to high heaven that he would do his duty, would certify to a fraudulent voucher, and then put it in the hands of a boodle secretary to be taken and pockated. 1 have in my possession the letter of Taylor that denies that he ever got a penny of that money, and the voucher, e fled by Majors, Is entirely in the handwrit- ing of Seely, and it is written upon the blank of the lieutenant governor. How eould Mr. Taylor in Oregon have gotten this blank? “He got It, of course, from the lieu- tenant governor's private chamber. HIS PRIVATE OIL ROOM. And here let me call your attention to another matter. W had a great deal of lobbying and bad work at the state eapl- tol. T admit that fn every state capitol there Is & great deal of corruption, & great deal of venallty and a great deal of logroll- fng that is irregular or eriminal; but never in the history of Nebraska did a lieutenant governor convert the chamber assigned to him in his capacity as presiding officer of the senate fnto what we call an “‘oll room"'— convert it into a barroom, a gambling room, put in there a whole lot of bottles, decanters, Jugs ruh liquors, and supply the members of thé senate who are of his stripe with Yale lock Keys to get in there, and all the other -outside lobbyists who were working the senators and manfpulating them during the session of the legislature to promote the interests and schemes of jobbers and corpora- tlons, Fellow citizens, do you think a man who would thus demean himself in a position of honor is fit to be crowned chief executive of this c'mmonwealth by your suffrages? Is it not an insult that any reputable, self-re- specting American eitizen should be asked to vote for such a man? Is it not the duty of every American citizen to consider his vote as a sacred trust, transmitted by the founders of this republic for the purpose of perpetuating free instituticns? HIS FRAUDULENT NOMINATION But_my repulilican friends have asserted that Mr. Majors was legally nominated; that he was nominated by a convention of repub- liean delegates, and, having received that nomination in a degal manner, he Is entitled to the support of every good republican. Now, 1 deny in toto that he was legally nom- inated. It is a uotorious fact that the sixty delegates from Lancaster county, by whose voles he was nominated, did not have their credentials from the republicans of Lancaster county. They had their credentals through the instrumentality of the political satraps ot the Burlington road. The con- vention that met in Lincoln to select those delegates nominated a county ticket and legislative ticket, and then em- powered the candidate for leutenant gover- nor, Mr. Moore, to select the delegates to the state convention, If he had selected those delegates then and there, and submitted them to the convention, they would have been legally nominated awd elected, but he did not do that. He let that convention ad- journ without submitting a name, and he waited for more than two weeks, until these jugglers and tricksters who were setting up the job to nominat: Majors had gotten in a delegation that they could manipulate and they could use. Now, I say, whatever is begotten in fraud vitiates all contracts. This delegation, without which Majors could not bhave been nominated, was a fraud, and had no existence under the rules of political hodies. Furthermore, T charge that nominated by bribery. There were any number of delegates—and I get it directly from Mr. Jack MacColl himself—whose fares were pald by Mr. MacColl from different sections of the state, and they were bought up the night before the convention in some manner, with money, with annual passes, or with pledges or promises of rebates, what- ever it may be. They were turned over, they were bought, and the nomination was bought, and I denounce it as one of the most disgraceful things that ever happened in the state of Nebraska. (Applause) When a man procures his nomination in that man- ner, no man, no matter what kind of a partisan he may be, is bound to support him. He is absolved. = The fraud absolves all things. But, leaving that 8t of sight, T want to appeal to you as a matter of state pride, whether you are going to elect a man who has so forgotten himself in public bodies as to use language mot fit for any decent man to repeat to another. You have heard what the committes, of which Thomas B. Reed was chairman, reported, that the letter which Mr. Majors wrote contained matter that was too vile for any man to print or publish. Down in Nebraska City, I think a year or a year and a half ago, a banquet was given, at which Mr. Majors was present, and he made a banqueting speech that was so filthy and low that he had to send out the waiter girls from the room; it was so low and vile that no man dared to repeat it after the banquet was over. The same thing was done by him at Lincoln at a banquet given by the Manufacturcrs and Consumers assocfation. Now, a man who is 80 addicted to such language, such coarse, loathsome expressions, is not the kind of a man that should be elevated to a position which fs bestowed in other states only on men of the highest moral quality. I trust, fellow citi- zens, that you will see to it that the state is not to be disgraced by any man in the governor's chair who ever makes a speech or even in private will use language that is unfit for any other man to repeat AFPEALS AS A REPUBLICAN. I have stated at the outset that I want to appeal to the republicans, and to the young republicans in particular, and I want befor closing to say ta you that I feel deeply inter- ested. I have liyed n the state of Nebraska now thirty-one years, I was a republican when {t meant something to be a republican. The first time any man struck me down was in Tennessep, in 1859, when I uttered free soll sentiments that seemed to be con- trary to the popular spirit of that section. 1 lived in the south as a union man, coming right out of the Western Reserve, where re- publicanism was cradled, and lived down there among votaries of secession until the war broke out, - I have been in ths field My friend here, a young man, who was in his swaddling clothes about that time, has sneeringly remarked that my war experience was behind some telegrapher's table, pro- tected from all danger. 1 want to say that 1 went with General Fremont and his staft through the entire campaign of West Vir- ginia; that many a time I sat alone upon the rock surrounded by guerrillas, and have been where any moment my life was imperiled 1 was with Gen- eral Pope in_ his entire campaign, beginning at Warrentown and ending at Bull Run, participating in the bat- tle, and was on the battlefield, lying among the dead men and dead horses through (hree nights and three days, and I think that I know what the men who wore the blue fought for. I sent the emanci- pation proclamation out of Mr. Linclon’s of- flce with my own hands by telegraph on the day when it was issued. (Applause). And 1 was assoclated with the men who were loyal and true to the flag that were found In the Military Telegraph corps, and selected particularly because they could be trusted and placed in a spot where it re- quired not only the capacity, but the loyalty of the cltizen and the man. Now, in ail that, in all these years, I have been a republican, and I have proved my republican- ism in a thousand places. Now, then, I appeal to you as republicans. The men of 1776 and the men of 1861, pro- tected by the free government under which we live, with the bayonet and the bullet. It Is for you now to come forward and protect it with the ballot. Ballots are omnipotent in the campaigns that we wage now, but the issue Is just as Imporfant; It s just as im- portant that liberty, equality and the right of the people to rule themselves shall be preserved as it ever was during any period in the history of this republic, The repub- lican party in Nebraska for some years past has simply been registering the orders of the corporate power. No man dares to run for any Important office in the state of Nebraska on any of the tickets, excepting possibly on the popu- list, without first ascertaining whether or not it would be offensive to the railroad managers for him to be a candidate. Now it is not for us to be ruled by anybody e cept our consciences. It is for us, on the contrary, to do our duty as citizens of the state. STANDS SQUARELY FOR HOLCOMB. But what shall we do to be saved? Shail we vote against the republican candidate and for the populist? That Is the issue that presents itself squarely. Judge Hol- comb is the candidate with whom Majors can be beaten, and no other man can possi- bly come now into the field and get the ma- jority of the votes. It is a square issue now between Mafors and Holcomb; and, as between a clean, honest, stralghtforward citizen, against Whom no man up to this time bas been able to prefer a charge of dishonesty, directly or by iusinuation, or imputation, I say, I hm for Hoicomb. (Ap- plause.) Some of my rapublican friends have sald that Holcomb wal @ copperhead during the ar, that he was a oyal eitizen. Well, I am ‘sorry to admjt $hat he was about the time, as I know jt—he was in arms; he was 8 years old about that time. (Laughter and applause) He Was fi years old when the war was over, and I cannot tell how much he did to help the rebels in the south. I have not been able 40 find out. -(Laughter.) The truth is that almost anything will be chared. But et 78s compare the men. Here f8 Colonel Majors, who says he s goin to maintain the ofedV of the state, and here Majors was Is Judge Holoomb, who does not say It In so many words, but whose life, whose actions, whose conduct 18 a guaranty that the state I8 going to have a conservative man in the chair, and a clean man, and that cannot be said of his opponent. (Applause.) What shail we do? Shall these young re publicans in this state, and the older repub- licans whose battle cry was free sofl, fi speech, free man and Fremont? Shall we now destroy the state just because a man wears a republican label? Salling under a false flag, and who shculd sall under a dif- ferent flag altogether? He should have a lo- comotive or cow catcher. (Laughter and ap plause.) We must now put down the rebellion again, but in a different form. The speeches that are to be made to you will all be appeals to the glories cf the re- publican party, what it has achieved in the past, all the magnificent monuments it has erected to the memory of the great men that foaght and shed their life blood for the na- tion. We all agree on that; we are all in favor of revering the memory of Grant, the memory cf Abraham Lincoln, the memory of Garfield, and the memories of all the patri- otic soldiers, Sherman and Sheridan, all of them, regardless of creed and regardless of party. But shall we surrender the state to public thieves? (Cries of No, no) That is the question. Why, within the last forty-elght hours we have been told that Governor Crounse, by his economic management, has succeeded in reducing the expenses of the state institu tions §$64,000 this year. Well, what does that signify? It signifies that the institu- tions might have been managed under pre- ceding administrations, if these impeached state officers had boen acting honestly, at $54,000 less than they were managed. But what will it be under Majors, with all the old boodle men coming back to their old places? Oh, Yes. INTEREST OF THE CORPORATIONS. 1 met a traveler today, and he said to me “A gentleman who called upon ounced you very much Who was he?" “Well,” he says, "he was the agent of the Standard Oll company,” (laughter) “and he says that he Is opposed to you because you are down on Majors. He says you didn’t treat the Standard OIl people right when you denounced the oil inspection.” Well, there is where the shoe pinches. You may depend on it that the Standard Oil com- pany and every corporation, big or little, de- plore the danger to which this state is going to be subjected by the election of a man by | the name of Holcomb. But what danger is | thero after all? They tell us the eredit of this state will suffer so terribly, Several gentlemen met in Lincoln two or three days ago styling themselves the exccutive com- mittee of the commercial travelers, and they passed a resolution that they wanted the credit of the state upheld and Majors clected. Those gentlemen had not seen that little bill that Majors introduced repudiating public debts. Probably if that bill had been seen by them they would not have made Mr. Majors out 0 much of a great man to pro- tect our credit. But what makes the credit of a man? His abllity to pay. What makes the credit of a state? The ability of a state to meet its obligations. If we had had a good crop this year with fifty or sixty mil- lion ‘dollars coming in for corn and hay, the credit of Nebraska would have been away up. But these gen- tlemen point to the fact that there are sev- eral precincls in this state that cannot sell their bonds at the present time, that the credit of the state s impaired by the fear that & populist would become Rovernor of Nebraska. Just think of it! And about six months ago, when nobody dreamed about a populist expecting to become governor, | there were several countles in this state | that could not sell their bonds, either, Wi had a ropublican governor, and he is still at Lincoln, Gives us good and honest men in the state house, cut down your appropriations, save the people from extraordinary taxation, and give us a providentially good erop, and you may rest assured that the credit of Nebraska will be as good as that of any other state in the west. (Applause.) STAND FIRM AND WIN. | In conclusion, let me express the hope that these pernicious Influences that will be ex- | erted from one end of the state to the other | between now and election day in all forms and shapes, in the shape of annual passes, | in the shape of rebates, in the shape of | promises of preferment, in the shape of prom- ises of employment, in the shape of down- right boodle, will have no influence upon the | freemen of this state, and particularly upon the true republicans. Let republicans of Nebraska administer a rebuke to railroadism | and boodleism and we will have a clean ticket in 1596, and we will redeem the state. | Just look back a little bit. In 1888 Har- | rison had 108,000 votes in this state. Since | then 25,000 republicans have dropped out | of line. In 1802 Harrison only carried Ne- | braska by 4,970 odd votes. In 1892 there were 24,440 democrats that voted their straight | democratic ticket. If 5,000 of those had been drawn the other way the state would have gone against Harrison. What hope is there of redeeming the state for republicans if you endorse bribery, perjury and rank fraud, and g0 to the people afterwards with a demand for their confidence? My firm conviction 18 that the republican party can only be saved by standing up this year for Nebraska against the corporate satraps who seek to crush out every vestige of liberty and home rule through the corrupt | use of party machinery and political mer- | cenaries who wear the party livery. | It republicans of Nebraska possess the courage and patriotism of the founders of the grand old party they will rise in their might and proclaim that the railroads must keep hands off, and when they have their hands off we shall have free government and we shall have honest government. pobil BN THE JACKENIFE, A Queer New York Bullding that is Only Three Feet Wide. The heart of the nursery child would be quite carried away by a glance at a building at the corner of Gold and Platt streets, says the New York Sun. It Is long enough and | tall ‘enough for human habitation, but its width suggests the thought that it may have been Intended for one of Mother Goose's chil- dren. For all the world it looks like a big toy house. Fancy for a moment how incon- gruous Is the appearance of a three-story bullding 120 fect in depth and three fect wide. Those are the dimensions of the house at 17 Gold street from the rear on Platt street. The building is somewhat wider In front—"that Is, it is wide enough to let a man g0 through a door and wedge himself against a bar on the inside. Once inside, he finds himself in a room that narrows down almost to a point. It is like looking down a long, narrow triangle from the base to the apex. So far as is known it is the narrowest room in_New York. ‘ears ago It was a public house, famous with local politicians and known as a favorite resort for sporting men. The rooms on the second story were few and small, but were large enough for a small poker party or a close conference. ‘“Prince John" Van Buren entertained his friends there (n “gallus” style, and many a campalgn well laid in those rooms was carried to a successtul end. In later years the place was frequented by the best class of merchants, as business grew about on &l sides. The first or ground floor 1s now used as a saloon. The two upper stories are used for living purposes. It is like living in a cup- board. The rooms are like corners of a cigar box. A fair-sized hallway would take all the rooms between the two halls, but, as any hall- way is out of the question, the rooms are connected by doors which leave no space on the sides. In the parlor of one suit’there is an upright plano that Is set against the wall and reaches to the center of the room. The stove in the kilchen, where the building grows narrower, reachies from wall to wall 1f the furniture was proportionate to the of the rooms the place would look like a dol’s house. P e trie Vells. One of the most objectionable gualities of the electric bell is its uniform noisiness nd shriliness. There are many places in which an alarm of a less aggressive and per- emptory nature is desirable, and it is sur- prising that a “quiet” electric bell has not been manufactured for use in offices, hotels or private houses. The bell can be adjwsted to maka as much or as little noise as may be needed. Its principal feature is that it an be used either as a slow striking bell, a single stroke bell or as an ordinary trembling bell, according to the way it is connected on. PR Buried with Mis Hobby There is no accounting for tastes! A den- tist dled In a rural town in England a few days ngo, after spending over Hfty years in pulling the molars of his fellow eitizens. He had made it a hobby to keep all the teeth which he had drawn in the course of his professional eareer, and took great pride in the collection. When his will was opened it was found that he had ordered the col- lection of teeth to be placed with him in his coffin for burial. His heirs fulfilled his com- mand, and almost 30,000 teeth were put into the cofin with the dead archaeologist of a future century shall happen to open (hat grave he wili have “food for thought”” and some diMeulty perhaps in explaining the presence of so many teeth, PRESIDENTS AT PLAY. Outdoor Sports 1u Which the Chief M trates Have Found Keereatio When President Cleveland goes to his sum- mer home on Buzzard's bay he takes a few short fishing (rips, but beyond that he in- dulges in no sports, says the New York Sun It is when he is living in Washington that he goes on his more important shooting or fishing expeditions, He usually does his gun- ning on the shores of the Potomae river and Chesapeake bay. He likes duck shooting. His trips sometimes last a week, and during part of that time he may be indccessiblo by mail or telograph. His hunting ground is substantially the same that Benjamin Harri- son used, and constitutes what may be termed the great presidential game presorve t lies south of Washingtor, and takes in the Potomae river and Chesapeake bay to the sea. The game Includes wild ducks (among which are canvasbacks), quail, pheasants and snipe, and occasionally wild turkeys. It a president is a true fisherman and will fish with only the rod and reel he may go upon the out- skirts of the presidential preserve and find streams where trout are tolerably numerous. From the beginning of the government dentist. If some presidents have used these grounds for their | exploits with rod and gun, General Wash- ington, lying at Mount Vernon, knew every of the land for miles up and down the In his younger days be was a thor- ough sportsman, but after he became presi- dent there 18 no record of his shooting or fishing. President Harrison's first experience in the preserve was when he distinguished himself by shooting a negro's pig under the Impression that he was firing at a raccoon He offered to pay for the animal, but the owner considered that the accident was a fment to him and declined to accept re- muneration. President Harrison afterwards proved that he was a good shot. He could undergo unusual fatigue and ha and even shot ducks from a sink box, b, as every sportsman knows, 1s a ver: nfort- able’ thing to do. He never rode horseback, and for fleld sports he had no taste what- ever. When President Claveland goes to the sea- shore he does not Indulge in swimming, al- though some of his predecessors have been very tolerable swimmers. John Quiney Adams, next to Benjamin Franklin, was the greatest of swimmers among public men. In winter, when he was president, he used to take long, solitary walks up Pennsylvania avenue and around by the capitol every morning before daylight, returning to the white house just as tho day was dawning In summer his walk was in the opposite direction. Going up above Georgetown he would there undress and plunge into the Potomac for a swim, A president when he indulges in recrea- tlon must take it quickly, for he is seldom 50 situated that he can have a prolonged vacation. President Arthur was about the last president who took a complete vac tion. One summer he and General Phil Sheridan went out to the Yellowstone re- glon. They camped out, hunted and fished, and were often 100 milés from civilization. This was his only prolonged vacation. Ho was, however, very fond of fishing trips. ~ He handled his rod well and loved angling for bass and trout. Among fishing presidents he ranked first. When he was on one of his official trips in the south a fishing club at Louisville presented him with a beautiful rod with a German silver | reel, on which were engraved Izaak Walton's famous words about his love for all good flshermen as a gentle, kindly race of men. It is doubtful whether he ever received a it that pleased him more than this. His predecessor, Garfield, could shoot toler- ably, but mever fished, General Garfield was a boy in his love of other sports. For some years the old National Baseball club boasted of him as one of its honorary members. He was a constant attendant at the games and he knew the players to play himself sometimes when he was on the farm at Mentor. He was a billiard player also and when he came into the white house the billiard room in the basement, which had fallen into neglect and had not been used for several administrations, was renovated and a new table was put in. Here he used to play nearly every afiernoon. He handled o cue well and was especially expert at pin pool. He was an excellent horseman. All the earlier presidents were horseback riders. Horseback riding afforded an easicr way of traveling than a stage coach, for the roads wero almost universally bad, and the coaches were built without much regard to the passenger’s comfort. Washington was undoubtedly the best rider among the presi- dents and he enjoyed the exercise greatly. He had little time to indulge the laste after he became general of the army and was too old for hard riding after he retired from the presidency, but before that he was one of the most enthusiastic fox hunters in a fox hunt- ing country. His diary relates how he cut fox paths through the woods in Mount Ver- non, how he “catched” three foxes In one day and how much interest he took In his pack of hounds. Some of these were im- ported. ‘“‘Sweetlips” is one that Washington mentions several times. There Is no record that he ever was a fisherman. The gentle Madison, on the other hand, was no sportsman. His ways were those of the student and he lived the simple lite of a country gentleman without engaging In any of the sports that interested his neighbors. His friend and mentor, Jefferson, who lived twenty-five miles away, was more versalile. He rode a_great d=al and much of his riding was for pleasure. It is probable that Jeffer- son did some‘shooting, but It {3 not recorded that he was a sportsman. Monroe was a constant horseback rider and a few years before his death he wrote to his friend Lafayetie about the fall he had from his horse. e Armour's 1mpecunlous Kinsman, It has been a matter of current report for years among Board of Trade people that Phil Armour has no poor relations, says the Chicago Herald. “Heaswill not allow any of them to remain poor,” a veteran of the board remarked by way of explanation of this unusual good fortune of & rich man. *‘He makes them all rich.” “I have heard that story before,” Mr, Armour remarked with a smile, when one of his friends asked him about it the other day. “But i's a mistake. 1 have enough of them.” Then the big packer burst out into a laugh and his friends knew a good story was com- ing. “One of the poor kind—he lives down in Illinols—Is one of the most persistent men I ever knew. He keeps writing and writing for money all the time. He is fellow, only improvident, and if he dis- played the same energy In attending fto business that he does In writing to me he would have been rich a long time ago. Well, he kept sending one letter after another, saying that if he only had $500 he would be all right. He repeated this so often that one day I told my secretary to write that it he wouldn't bother me for a year I would send him $500. “Well, sir,” and Mr. Armour's sides shook with laughter, “‘as soon as the malls could bring a reply 1 got it. He sald, ‘Make it $1,000 and two years,' and I thought it was such a clever turn that I sent the money."” “What happened next?"’ “In about three months he wrote again saying the agreement was off because his wife hadn't been included. The Liars' Club, A little girl In Twiggs county, Georgla, caught a small live rattlesnake and brought it to her mamma. Luckily she had seiced it by the neck and so wasn't injured Mount Clemens, Mich, advertised as a summer resort, has placed on’ exhibition in a store window at Detroit a six-legged frog, alleged 1o have been caught within her borders. Infidels say the thing, which Is preserved in alcohol, 18 30 years old and me from Europe. Sam Day of Wesley, Me., asserts unblushi- irgly that he has laid low with his strong right arm and his unerring rifie just 245 bears during a busy life. Sam is a corker! The Muncle, Ind., llar, always facile princeps, reports another shower confined to a single farm In that much fabled town. Affidavits are charged for as extras, Father, mother and 4-weeks-old baby in u Rocklord, Mich, family have a comblned not a bad | of frogs, | taking short | personaily, and he used | | tional park and for other purpose | | | ron welght of 610 pounds. Luckily, papa and magma have stopped growing' Grant county, Kentucky, has a man 68 years old who 18 Just cutting a second set of teeth, The ways of providence are indeed Inscrutable! e S ENEMIES OF THE PARK. Rallroad and Trolley Lines Seoking 10 the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone park, says the Philadel- phia Press, attracts several thousand tourists yearly for Its sclentific and enic Interest, It is also a lodestone for commercial greed, The secrotary of the interior, the offclal guardian of the park, has to keep in oheok hotel and trasportation companies and the other necessary evila which should serve the park but not subordinate it to their own interest. Ita forest growth and game are with difficulty preserved from destruction, while vandals who are not carefully watched and vigorously dealt with are ever ready to huge ks into fts spouting geysers and risk their permanent mutilation in the endeavor to procure some novel effe Tho Cooke ( y raflroad is a standing menace Lo the int ity and seclusion of the park, which has thus far by the unceasing efforts of the park defenders been kept outside of that great game and curlosity preserve The ubiquitous trolley now seeks to erect its poles and string its wires through Yel- lowstone park. One Daniel May is seekipg from the present congress a ncession to build an electric railway on the roads which the government has constructed through the park at great expense He seeks also for the grant of two beautiful park waterfatle to generate electricity for his trolley road. There is no limit to this man's gall How does ho suppose that the buffalo and deer and other large game that find in the seclusion of the park a refuge from the enemies that assail and are exterminating them elsewhere will stand a buzzing, whirring trolley rail- road in thelr vicinity? — Captain Anderson, the superintendent of the park, is strongly opposed to this trolley Invasion. In a let- ter to the secretary of the Interior he says: “I object strongly to marring the beauties of nature within the park by the unsightly structures (power houses. poles, ete) that the road would necessitate, 1 object to turn- ing over the excellent roads of the park, which have cost the government hundreds of thousands of dollars, to a private corpora- tion. The roads would necessarily have to be abandoned for wagon travel as soon as turned over to the electric company. Owing to the character of the timber in the park, it would have to be cut off for 100 feef both sides of the line to prevent it constantly broken by falling trees. In fine, the bill seems to ask that the park and all that is in it be turned over to Mr. D. B. May for his own private use, and with no compen- sation to the roment. I regard it as an unneeded, undesirable and vielous conce: sion and one that would rob the United States of 1 that it has expended in the park.' We are glad to say that Hon. Hoke Smith and the house committes on public lands ag with these views of Superinteadent Anderson, and with this adverse influence against the bill there is little danger of ita becoming a law, at present at least, A more powerful Influence, the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad company, as- sails the park In another quarter and asks permission to build straight across the center of Yellowstone park, from east to west. The objections to the Cooke City rall- road apply with tenfold more force to the Burlington scheme, for the latter proposes to skirt with its tracks Yellowstone lake nd bridge the Yellowstone river, and have dcpot, hotel and yard room within the park for the handling of its freight and pas- sengers, This company has extended its Burlington & Missouri River line far up into northern Wyoming, and now it says that unless it can build through the Yellowstono park the only avallable route for the extension of Its road west is blockaded. This line in its railroad construction in north Wyom- ing has been steering for the Yellowstone park for some time,-but it Is still sufficiently r off to enable it to run either north or outh of the park without deviating greatly from its bee-line west. Routes have been surveyed on both sides of the park which are pronounced very good. The Burlington by following either of them would serve the public without vitally injuring Yellowstone park. The bill which gives the Burlington this Toute through the park was introduced last January under the title of “a bill to encour- age and establish better facilities for travel to, from, into and through Yellowstone Na- The smpany that is to be the reciplent of this favor is named in the bill as “The Grand Island & Wyoming Central raflroad,” but in the report of the commiittee on public lands, endered last Tuesday, it is stated that the 1 company is the Burlington. The report is adverse. We trust that this great cor- poration, which keeps building its way west by various reaches, will not be halted In its movement to the Pacific, if that is its goal, in order to wrest from congress permission to build through Yellowstone park. It can- not get this permission. One railroad ad- mitted would be a signal for many to enter, and cven_ono would do the park irreparable injury. Let the Burlington skirt the park n the south, but closer than the Northern acific does on the north and the Unfon Pacific on the west and it will get its full share of the park travel without making that great preserve less worth visiting than now. — An 01d Lady" Those who have charge of stitutions for the aged poor will tell you, says the Youth's Companion, that no toplo is more pleasing to some poor old women than the discussion of thelr “better days,” when they were the fortunate possessors of “everything heart could wish for,” as they are apt to express It. Some old lady never tires of describing the finery she had when she was a bride; another boasts of having once owned & gold band chany tea set” and six ‘“solid silver tea- spoons;” while a third dwells at length on the elegance of a flowered silk gown and charitable in- | satin parasol with fringe fifteen Inches long that she once owned. One poor cld woman mever says anything until the others are done boasting, Then she calmly remarks: “Well, I never had any chany tea things, nor no silk gowns nor embroidered petti- coats, nor openwork stockings, nor gold ear- drops, nor nothin' of that sort; but I have had four husbands, an’ I'd like to know if any of you can beat that!” —————— King Won the Bet, Eugene Field says that not long ago Cap- tain Charles King, the author, was traveling in a rajlway car with a number of friends. The news agent on the train worried the party a good deal by his persistent offorts to force his wares upon them, But the party held him at bay by declaring that they had read all his books. “Well, T've got one read,” sald he, and King's latest novel “Pghaw! that's not new,” sald King. “I got It only this morning,’ answered the agent, “It has only just been published, and I'll bet you $10 you haven't read it."* “I'll take that bet," sald Captain King, and the two put up thelr money. Then Captaln King pulled out one of his visiting cards and handed it to the agent, saying: “I am Captain Charles King, the author of that book, and I read it In manu- seript and in proof. “Ges whillikins!” gasped the agent with a low, sad whistle, and he went off and didn't bother that party any more. book you haven't he produced Captain it Stub Ends o Detrolt Free Press: Beauty love, but it cannot maintain it. Morning is the tonic of the day. Second nature is sometimes stronger than the first Forbidden fruit ne highest trees There 15 nothing in some pedigrees except length. Contentment is the triumph of mind over matter. Lovers love hampered by Marriage 1s 1 into on fallures often speclal wonder. may Incite doesn’t always grow on poetry bec cold facts. the only partnership not en- business principles, and that oceur should not excite our use poetry s not - The Wrong Plea. In a suit for separation in a French court counsel for the plaintift pleaded, wmong other remsons, Incompatibility of tempera- ment. He dépicted the character of t| husband as “brytal, violent and The husband'B advocate rose in his turn and described the wife as “spiteful, short- tempered and sulky." “Pardon me,” interrupted the fudge, ad- dressing both lmbs of the law; “I caunot see, gentlemen, whore the lncompatibliity of temperament comes