Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1894, Page 4

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COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICR, CLAY CENTER, Neb, Oct. 15.—To the Editor of The Be In your Fremont speech you quoted from Csngressional Record, volume 14, part v, pages 3,247 to 8,282 Parties here have ciaimed that the language you quote is not 'n sald Record. Wi you kindly get us this Record, that we may have the proot. GEORGE A. SHIKE, Treasurer. The parties who challenge the cor- rectness of the quotation from the vol- ume of the Congressional Record cited in the Fremont speech are !mposters. “I'lie bound volume of the Congressional Record, containing the quotation made from the report of the judiciary com- mittee of the house of representatives concerning the conduct of Thomas J. Majors and his accomplices in palming a forged census return upon congress was exhibited at Lincoln to an audience of 2,500 people. The supporters of Mr. Majors were not only Invited to inspect the volume, but requested to read the during (he month of Beptember, 1804, follow | 21,508 o1 23420 21,23 | 1,638 21,057 3% 21,043 1% 20,957 1 20,05 21 ! Both at Y - Hatd Total Lean ded: cop'en Total sold {8 B ARE TV Iy average net circulation *Sunday. clions for unsold and .34 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to befors me and subscribed in my presence this 1st of October, 1894, (Seal.) P. FEIL, Notary Pubiie. STUBBORN FACTS. Who hired Seth T. Colo to conduct Sen- | ator Taylor out of the state while the Now- Berry bil was pending? OMcinls of the Burlingt Who paid Seth T. Cole for staying with Taylor 1o soe that he fulfilled his contract with the ol room Loodlers? The Burlington rallroud. Who kept the senate Tayior was being spirited away? i Majors. Who certified to a fraudulent voucher for Tuylor's pay after he had been abdueted? Thomas J. Majors. Who drew the 875 which was paid out of on the friudulent voucher? n rallroad. Mujors’ private secretary, Walt M. Seely. ens ure stubborn fa; of cuttlefishing ean by 4 and no amount | Senator Hill Is making a presidential campaign on state issucs. Wanted—The names of the labor lead ers who have refu: ed to ride on Pu'lmin pusses, Isw't it pretty near time for the em- peror of China to strip some of his sub- Jects of a few more ornamental decors- tlons? McKinley to speak in Loutsiana, the 't of the solid south! Wil the won of the present campaign never e? A The eredit of Nebraska depends on | corn, hog and hominy. by Mosherism, but it cannot be r by Majorsism, The pugilists will have to do some thing desperate soon or the train rol bers will supplant them as the favorite topic in the top set. evived President Cleveland would no doubt like to have a substitute to perform the unpleasant duty of deciding what should do in the New York campaign. he I this oxposure of the potato as an over-rated article of food had only con earlier, Mayor Pingree of Detroit might have cultivated some other vegetable in his now famous potato pateh. Byery Tammany congressman . who voted for the Wilson hill was turned down when he asked for renomination This Is the way Tammany maintains discipline among the men whom it ele- vates to office, Lf this keeps on much $50,000 haul which the train robbers se i cured at Aquia Creek wil degenerate futo a paltry $50, with small perqui sites from (he | erson of the express me . senger thrown in. longer that Every man who wants to vote at the election this year, and every one is in duty bound to vote, must have his name duly entered on the registration books. There are only four more reg Istration d Don't negleet thix necessu formali The Chicago Herald is still harping on “the Gorman-Brice traitors,” but nary o word about Senator Hill's co-operation with the “traitorons” combine, What a difference a little thing like the demo- cratic nomination for governor of New York will sometimes malk | fore | tis a It can be rulned | | to tignt. | Toyal support | moraliza report of tl indiciary committee to the andi The same was done at York and Bradshaw last week, and at both these places this public document romained on the platform for inspec: tion affer the speaking had ceased. k and Bradshaw a number republic availed them- the invitation to inspect the records and verify the contents as read and published While it would be im- practicable for The Bee to procure a bound volume of the Congressional cord of the Forty-seventh or any other gress for each town and village in the state, the volume quoted from can doubtless be found in the state library and several other public and private librari Majors lLimself has never dared to call in question the correctness of the quotations cited from thes Con fis imal Record. but simply has sought to make light of the offense for which the committee asked the attorney g eral of the United States and the prose- cuting attorney of the District of Col- umbia to institute criminal procoedings. See Congressional Record, page 3, ehrunry 24, 188 f Majors selves of THE FIGHT ON TAMMANY. If the rule of Tammany in New York City s not broken this year It will have to be contessed that that politieal orgnnization is invineible, Never be- in its hist has there been ar- yed against it o more formidable op- ition than is now being marshaled. arly all the leading papers of city actively or passively against the Tamnany candidate for-mayor; there i rganization of democrats that will join with the republicans in supporting the anti-Tammany candi- date, and even the women are taking part in opposition to the further corrupt md unserupulous rule of Tammany. All this shows low profoundly popu- lar feeling has been stirred by the dis closures of the last few months regard- ing the poli and metheds of this or- imization, and how keenly alive the better elass of the people of New York re 1o the necessity of overthrowing moralizing and dangerous powe The influence of Tamimany was dealt a ring blow when Croker withdrew from the |k <hip, imquestionably im- pelled thes by the fe ments, some of which have sinee come The dise s of the Lexow miittee showing how Tammany lers profited by blackimailing b the people an insight into the of Tanmuany which they had before, and led thousands to abandon it whe have hitherto given it If all the elements now gainst it remain so the favorable for the de- Vil ] strong ven aper never in combination yoxpect i most feat of Tammns Rut this powerful political organiza- tion is most prolific in resources and las shown its g fighting capacity in many havd battles. Four years ago the wis yed against it a com bination of republjeans and independ- ent democrats which seemed very for- midable, but the combination was de- feated by a There is reason to believe, however, that pub sentiment against the organization is stronger now than it was then, and it tainly ought to be in yiew of recent developments, although there has not a time during the last twenty uirg or longer when there was not mndant ¢ m why the friends of good and honest government in New York City shonld have united to strike down the rule of this corrupt political abal. It is responsible for more de- tion in politics, for more rotten- 88 in city covernment, for more cor- raption in the halls of legislation and in the tribunals of justice than other politieal body that ever existed in this or any other country, and its | control of the commereial metropolis of the nation has loug been a reproach and a stigma, not alone upon the people of that city, but upon the country. It has been the bulwark of everything that is o Judge Ielker made a very eloquent speech at Washington hall, full of hope and promise, but Mr, Felker's record in the legislature and in the lobby doe: not tally with his promises. The qu tlon s, what would Mr. Felker do elected to the state senate? it Why open more kind rten schools when we have no won for higher grades and are obliged to shorten the school term for all children? The con- stitution of the state ssly fixes the school age at b, and children under that age are not entitled to be taught at the public expense. Governor Pattison of Pennsylyania freely expresses himself as of the opin fon that President Cleveland should eome to the active support of Senat Hill In his fight for the governorship of New York. He forgeis that the pol ey of reclprocity has been repudiated by the present administration, Euclid Martin says that there is no question in his mind that Secretary of State Allen made a grave mistake when he declined to accept the certificate of “momination of the democratic rump nominees. Mr. Martin has a miud that | 18 wonderfully elastic whenpver To. burlington pulls the strings. evil and demoralizing in politics and the uncompromising foe of everything wking to the reform and purification of political methods. 1t follows that un- der its rule, or misrule, New York is the most. extravagantly and corruptly gov- erned ¢ in the world. If the power of mman tion the result will everywhere be re- garded as a political event of very great e , as well as local. PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN POLITICS Attorn neral Olney has notified a United States district attorney in Iowa | that it is contrary to the rule of the De- partment of Justice for such officers to actiy participate in politichl cam- paign work, and it is said that other dis- trict attorneys who had contemplated | engaging In political work had recelved | & similar notice. It appears this is an old rule of the department, which, it is | stnted, has bLeen uniformly observed sinee it was made, though doubtless in- stances of its violation conld be found. However, 1t is & good and proper rule and ought to be strictly enforced. A recent report from Washington stated that President Cleveland wholly disapproved of any participation by gov- | ernment officers in the pending ecam- paign, and that he was displeased with the activity of Secretary Smith in the Georgln campaign, although the secre- | active part in a political campa the | any | s broken in the coming elec- | MAHA DAILY BEE: ISNAY, tary was a very earnest defender of the policy of the administration, where, as the result of the state election has shown, the administration needed o champion, It is said that In consequence of the president’s disapproval a number of officials at Washington who had in- tended fo take am aciive part in the eam. paigns in some of the states abandoned this purposc and will confine the support of their party to voting, as it Is under- #tood Mr. Cleveland himself proposes to do, the anmouncement having just been made that he will register on his way to Waslington from his summer resort, and return to New York on election day and vote for Mr. Il Of course this an- nouncement, if it prove to be authentie, will be just as serviceable to Hill as if Mr. Cleveland were to make n speech for him, but it is not strictly in the line of “pernicious activity. In his first administration Mr, Clev land issued an order disapproving active participation by government officers in politics, but it was not strictly observed. & protty well respected for a year fier it was proanu'gated, but when aign of 1888 came on the orde did not veceive mueh attention from any eluss of officelolders. I'rom eabinet offi eors (o fourth-class postmasters all were more or less perniciously active in the cause of Mr. Cleveland's renomination, and, although the attention of the ad- ministration was repeatedly called to this violation of the president's order, it is not remembered that anybody was called to aceount or made 1o suffer for it. There is a different state of affairs now, and therefore the wish of the pre ident in the matter will probably be re- spected. In any event, principle that men service, and therefore the servants of | the whole people, without regard to political divisions, ought not to Ny g, They orm pub liowever, it is sound in the government 1 | lie duties and not | interests, and they should be requ [adhere strictly to the former. There | should be no distinction or discriming | tion made in the application of this prin | ciple. Every elass of public officials | should be subject to it all | alike servamts of the whole | “There is 1o better reason for permitting a member of the cabinet to go about | making partisan stump speechies than }nu-r.- Ix in the distriet attor- [ney or a postn No who | paid for the performance of public du | ties should be allowed to use any of the | time ne 10 the perf of steh duties in active politic 1 ple. seof or 1ster, one is Ry e 1 work. AN TMPORTANT DECISION, The decision of the supreme court y terday granting the writ of mandamus prayed for in the test case brought to determine the power of the county treas- urer to sell property for delinquent spe- issesstients levied by the city is im- portant not only s elearing up the law upon this disputed point, hut also as res- cuing the eity treasury from a position that was fast becowming embarrassing. The system of special assessments under | which the greator number of our public iprovements have been mude has be- come so well establigied and the p dure under which the impositions of this | been collected by declaring | them delingquent and ovdering the prop- | erty in default to sale had been followed |50 long that auy judicial order caleu- {lated to throw suspicion on the legality what lad been done could not but » the whole system in a chaotic eon- cluss o In this case the question to be decided wias purely one of statutory construction. The opinion of Judge Ambrose of the district court, now reversed, went into the listory of the power to sell property for (nxes delezated (o the municipal go - ment with the greatest care and mi- nutene and analyzed critically the chavter provisions relating to the collec- tiom of delinguent taxes, Construing the statute mast strictly, Judge Awmbrose came to the conclusion that the only au- thority conferr 1 authority to sell for deling neral taxes, that if xes the delinquent special assessments might be weluded I the sale, but that if there | were no delinquent xes the | property could not sold for delin- [ quent sp sments alone. The judges of the supreme court have, it seems, preferred to construe the statute {'more liberally, and, reading section 91 | of the charter in the light of prior and | subsequent. sections, find in it the au- ty which the county treasurer has exercising in selling property for dinquent specinl assessments, so far as they have been legally levied. Property owners who have been ne lecting to puy their delinquent special assessments, relying upon the security of their property from sale under the original dectsion, will no longer have ex- cuse for withholding payment, Had the decision of the district court becn af- firmed, nothing but a validating act of the legislature would have enabled the city to collect this outStanding money, while the city would also doubtless hayve been involved in almost ceasless litiga- tion with tax title purchasers who had Dought in property at such sales in pre vious years. Besides all this, the eity will be freed from the necessity of in- curring still further temporary indebted- | ness in order to redeem the short-time bonds just coming due. In a word supreme court has simplified matter all parties concerned. be il asses The Board of Education has finally voted to shorten the school year by | four weeks and to cut the salaries of the teachers and Janitors in a corre- | sponding ratio. This is the first real measure of economy, and it will doubt- | less occasion no little discontent among the employes who are affected by the | | change. There is one thing, huw.-v.-r,} | that must not be forgotten, and that is that the proposed reduction in salaries 18 not commensurate with the reduc in the amonnt of work required. school year was formerly supposed to consist of forty weeks, and the salaries were supposed to call for forty \\‘v\-l«n' work. It was reduced at the cowm- | mencement of the year to thirty-cight | weeks without any eut in salaries what- | ever. Now it s still further reduced | | early in the ¢ to thirty-four Weeks while the sala appropriation Is to be curtailed by only one month’s yment, There has really been an incféage in the rate of wages paid to the public school employ BOND SWINULES STILL ACTIVE, The agitation against the bond invest- ment swindlgg, which were at the height of their prospenity nearly a year ago, had considernble effect at that time in suppressing 'thede fraudulent concerns, but reports gre once more becoming common that they are again trying to renew their opemtions, not that the old compat which were driven into in. solvency are regaining their feet, for whenever one of them declares bank- ruptey, the resurrection, but the same schemes are being worked on a smaller scale in vari- ous parts of the country. So far as the mails are involved, the swindlers have been pretty effectually barred from their use. The Postoffice department has passed upon the prinel- ple involved and has repeatedly decided that it is identical with that of the lot tery, and that the busi s comes within the same elass as the promotion of lot teries. Tl bond cluded from the mails is one that was operating from Atlanta, Ga, 1t claimed, of course, that it was bhased upon a per fectly mate plan and that it was not to be compared for a moment with the frauds that had alrendy been ex- posed. Investigation hy the authorities showed that this scheme, 1 il the others that had been recently brought to their attention with those orig though diff tails were e latest company ex agreed ally condemn and ing perhaps in winor de- sentially aud primarily of the lotte ord “There are several points upon which there is dispute as to whether particular companies are not techuically beyond the law prohibiting the mails to matter in advertisement of lotteries, but most of them arve alveady in the proce: [ adjudication. When the ding in the ull have been decided, as expected, within the next two or thre months, the law in relation Dond investmoent panies may be viewed as fairly sottled, and most probably in accordance with the opinion handed down in the first ease against the Guarantee company. But while the bond swindle still active their doom has long heen scaled ad i approaching nearver and nearer. e war made by the Postoftice depart ment lude their literature from the mails is but'one factor in the de- struction of their busin The longer they continue in existence, the more frequently ave they ealled upon to re- deem their bonds and their fraudulent aracter is soonr disclosed by the fact that they are unable to keep their pledges. They rpach the end of thelr rope before more than the first few bonds are paid and then wlhen no more mone an be collected from eredulons dupes they are foteed to suspend. The re 10 longer in doubt as to the v of the business and do not care to be swindled twice by the same cheme. Nex e conrts s fo com- to ¢ We see that an appeal for aid for the Trouth sufferers of southwestern Ne- | braska has finally made its appearance in some of the eastern newspape nd assistance of all kinds is solicited by M. L. A. MeNeil, editor of the Southwest Nebraska Courier, at Orleans, Ne mana; of the relief bureau. We as- sume that this is a perfeetly sincere ef- fort to inangurate a plan of velief, but think the appeal would have 1 much more effective if made with some show of official or semi-offic authority, The absence of any one recognized org: tion for this purpose leaves the f open to any one who may volunteer his services, and encourages much duplic tion of machinery and consequent waste of effort. It is not too late yet for some systematic plan of coming to the rescue | of the {drouth sufferers, Thomas J. Majors has been sent to either the senate or lower house of- the state legis- lature almost every session for over twenty years from his county of Nemaha. If he had n a betrayer of the trust and confidence of the people who sént 'him, he would never have been returned.—Plattsmouth Organette. This is abont as truthful as any other of the assertion organettes. Within the last twenty-five years Mr. Majors has been elected twice to the legislature—in 1887 and 1880, But if he had been elected ten times the t wonld prove nothing. The most disrepu- table have been co! tion of lieutenant governor. We have accurate statistics showing the cost to the city of educating each pupil in the public schools. The figures run, on the average, to several times the fee that is being exacted from non- resident pupils. Why shouldn't non- resident pupils pay something approxi- mate to the cost of the education which they are affordéd at the expense of Omaha taxpayens? sneral Wedyer,is so busy prom his own candidaey for congress in the Ninth Towa districét that he is unable to spare time fo reciprocate the boost which Congressmin Bryan gave him f Uneasy lies the head of the govern- ment employe who refused to sign Mr. Martin's demoeratie rump petition. s Judge Jenkins glyes Onkes, the North- ern Pacific reqalyer acensed of fraudu- lent practices, & dlear certificate of char- is no possible hope for | substantially | made by the B. & M. | things Majors is charged with | mitted by him in the posi- | ing | acter, Onkes will now cheerfully certify to the legal ability of Jenkins and his satisfactory service on the bench. Blow Holes on the Back Track. New York Recorder. Washington s threatened with n wave of relative taciturnity. Bourke Cockran re- fuses to be returned, and Jerry Simpson, W. Jennings Bryan and Tom Johnson are all ljkely (o be beaten. There are times when ‘silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.’ the Agony. hia Ledger arely system of conductini elections in Norway it requires severa weeks to elect the members of its Storthing or Parllament. ~ These elections began nearly two months ago. Delegates are first selected by the voters, and the former then choose the members of the St Thé latter contest began yesterday. Thi suffrage 18 not universal in Norway. The voter must have a property, income and class qualification, and he must be % years of age. o age limit varies greatly in European coun: In Hungary it is 20 years. Kee £ of Trouble, Minneapolls Tribune. The United States gov In refusing to join the European powers in an Intervention to stop the Oriental war. The time-honored policy of this country is > keep clear of forelgn cntanglements, nd especlally not to nvolve itself with | European or Asiatic powers vertheless, it would be well for Uncle 8am to have | powerful fleet of the Chinese and Japanese | waters to look after our interests in case of | a breakup. Our trade with China s valu- | able, and may made more <o, while as | for Japan this country could capture the | lon's share of it if we had sufficlent nayy and merchant marine it does well § Decision Tribun the owners of u road may do a whose custody it is temporarily may feel disinclined (o do. They { rigks which he (s unwilling to. It the judge had granted the wage reduction askeld for the result might have been the hiring of cheaper employes, followe | costly accldents, or there might have which, though not a have been more expensive than the mainten: of the old wa, and which would have injured the public. ‘Therefore Judge Woolson Is to be nmended for his conservative policy. If mortgage holders, after the roud passes into their hands, do not feel inclined to follow 1t they néed not do so. The prob- abilities are that they will not reverse his decision. What judge in naturally can tak scale —_—— Out for the Tiger's Pelt. New York Times larm bell ring ymmon defe When the out for the ¢ his neighbor an, but all and mer e obody asks be. demo a1t or a repu belabor the enemy-—and don’t inquire about his polities, either. entire voting population of the city of York, outside of Tamman is out for the tiger's pelt. The cloak of democracy will not conceal his stripes, nor will any appeal to party feeling soften the wrath of his iers. he decent people of the city, the people who fear d and keep his commandments, are sick to death of Tammany tired of its everlasting of its coarseness and ignorance S little stealings, its habitual corrupt dealing, its stupid, bratish, sullen defianc her its nasty tices are uncovered, and its boycott of brains and reputation in its nomi- and appointment There is a fe that to have fe! more men government who were not born a stable and brought up in a gin mill would be a help, el 2 anling Revising Pharasaical Notions, Washington Star Pharasaical in its attitude to ward the wild and wooly wes he cast frequent ¢d attention to the superi- ority of eastern virtue and the absence throughout this region of species of crime only too common in the country beyond the sslssippl. Conspicuous among the western methods of acquiring wealth has been the extremely improper habit of train robbing, and upon that topic many a homily has been preached by eastern people, who never appeared to be able to understand how it was possible for three or four or half a dozen men to ‘hold up” a train load of passengers and get safely away with large booty. But opinfons will have to be revised in @ hurry, for last week forty miles of the nation: capital N men easily secured control of the thbound ex 8 on the Richmond, Fredericksburg Potomae railroad and got safely away, taking with them m than enough money to repay them for the time and muscle expended in a train stopping and car wrecking effort -— Mr. Cleveland's Last Chance, New York Sun ‘The only obstacles to the clection of Sen- ator Hill as governor of New York have come from the administration. The aban- donment of the Chicago platform, the cre- ation of the Income tax, the policy of in- famy, are the chief of these, On his own record as a democrat Mr. Hill ould be elected without trouble. But the administration has estranged business n { by the income tax, insulted American sen- timent by the policy of Infamy in Hawali and Samoa, disgusied thousands of loyal democrats by its desertion of the princi- ples upon which It was elected. We need not speak of the services that Mr. Hill has rvendered to Mr, Cleveland and the democratic party in this state and the nation. In keping the New Yol lemocracy solid in spite of faction and mutiny on the part of some professed admirers of Mr Cleveland, Governor Hill did a great work for him and the national democracy. Now, | when Senator Hill, undismayed by the rout of the democratic forces in half a | dozen states, prepares to make a rally and reorganization and check the retreat be- fore it i me an absolute skedaddle, he has a right to look to the administration for all the heip It can give. FLOATING FUN. sally if bl Somewhat Detroit Fre any mackerel What kind are mum. Customer—Have you Clerk—Yessum, Customer they? Clerk—Dead one Atlanta Constituti understind that ur new book is out ¥ v Yes, $30." Chicago Tribune: “Don't talk to me about compulsory vaccination! exclaimed the man who had his arm in a sling. *1I'm sore on that subject.” A young ma! to pl Popular in South ay on a cornet is that his nelghbors let him 1i yashington St 1t said the p B0 an' git shaver. terrible in that, is there? there Is. Just thik of that over me with a razor an’ talkin’ no help for gotler thing 1 say feller_standing doin’ all the Miss Stone sister o you. Puck: Charley—8So she would only b did you say? Tom—Well, as 1 have (wo sisters as it is, I told her that it could never 1 hadn't shirts, neckties, and scarfpins encugh (o go rounc told_you a What Somerville Journal: “And what kind of a chin has she?’ she asked, as he paused in the middle of an attempt at deseription of her features ‘A moveable one.” said he, after a mo- ment's sober thought. And then he heaved a deep and pensive sigh. Indianapolls Journal: He—You women have no right to the ballot for the simple reason that In case of war you would not be able to fight She—Then why do you allow a man who is crippled to vote? He—Why—er—if that Isn't just like woman to ask some such foul question as that. IN THE AUTUMN. Kansas City Jowrnal. These lovely, happy autumn days, So charming and so rare! The earth o rich in changing hues, The skies 5o blue and fair; 8o clear the pebbly, gurgling brooks, 80 cool and erisp the air 1 wonder if I'll have to by New flannel underwear? Ao B oA B S DAl ST B E B4 ol B IO e Bk The World’s Fair Tests showed no baking powder S0 pure or so great in leav= ening power as the Royal. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 4 106 WALL 8T., NEW-YORK. Sl A ok Dol Sl S SO S O O S S i PEOPLE AND THINGS, The emperor of China (s the sick man of Asia. It must be admitted that the Japaneso are artists when it comes to painting China red The Grand Old Man of Bngland has laid out sufficlent literary work to keep him busy for two years. A few sections of toothsome ple, carefully distributed, would lend symptoms of vitality to the toroll ticket One important detall in arranging joint de- bates in the future will be dispensed with, By right of precedent the lady candidate will bave the last word The profound silence of Cleveland in the present party emergency is believed to be | due to the somnolent effect of Richard Wat- son Gllder's poetry In the matter of campaign armament fn the east, democratic guns bear as close a relation to republican artillery as a cast iron Rodman_ does to a modern Krupp “Beauty for ashes, the ofl of joy for mourning.” Nothing I8 said about ofl, but a New York widow is said to wear a pinch of her husband’s cremated remains in a locket. Returning steamers Francisco the advance guard of seckers who invaded Alaska and summer. They went away cheery and hopeful and return ill-clad and destitute, That concerns grounded on greed are short- | lived s proven by the collapse of the Cali- fornia_raisin combl One hundred and fifty stockholders have withdrawn, alleging publicly that the combine’s methods are dis- honest and fraudulent. There are only four or five members of the Vermont house of representatives who ap- pear on the floor of the house this session without necktles, and only one who discarded a collar also. As a general thing in all state legislatures there are too many members who wear the collar. Since the death of Tolmes there are only four surviving members of the class of 1820 of Harvard, namely, Dr. Edward L. Cunning- ham of Newport, R. I.; the Rev. Samuel May "llll‘ class secretary), of Lefcester; the Rev. | Samuel F. Smith of Newton, the author of I‘ America,” and Char es 8, Storrow of Hcston | “It is not quite so clea ays a Manches- | ter, Eng., paper, “why the barrel has super- | seded the log cabin and the like in American elections as a typical object with which to arouse the industrial voters,” etec., ete. That editor is evidently unaware that, politically, the barrel has come to be a buy-word on this side. Dr. Holmes was an inveterate wag in pri- vate life. An apt illustration of this was furnished when, in writing a reply to a note dated from the then newly invented ‘“‘Man- chester-by-the-Sea,” he dated his answer from “Beverly-by-the-Depot.”” His death fs likely to loose a flood of such jokes, many of which have been kept among his friends No matter how great a majority is piled up against the democracy of Pennsylvania, the campaign will be rcmembered for apt and picturesque descriptions of the party. One batch of patriots are denounced as sters, roosters and rufans.” A rustler says the party is confronted are bringing to San the gold last spring noted with helpless harvester in a hopeless fleld.'” The political situation in New York fur- nishes an infinite variety of perplexing changes. Preliminary betting is two to one Morton, while large sums are offered on the success of Strauss, the Tammany candidate for mayor. ~An unprecedented feature of the local contest is the New York Sun bolting o Tammany nomination. The Sun Is ferninst Strauss. The newsdealers denounce Cal Strong, tha anti-Tammany candidate for mayor, because his firm sells periodicals be- low the established price. This defection is offsat by the Trade Union conference, which denounces Strauss because he allowed {he misappropriation of the city fund for the reliet of the unemployed. The imported coachman incident is likely to figure in labor declaration directed at Morton, while Hill is being pelted with denunciations on all sides. The fight grows in heat and interest hourly. KELLY LEARNED ONE LESSON, His Next Army Will e Kept in California to Influence the Legislatare. OAKLAND, Cal,, Oct. 16.—General Charles Kelly, who led the San Francisco regi- ment of the Coxey army to Washington, has completed arrangements for a new industrial march, but instead of going across the con- tinent he will this time direct his invading forces toward San Jose, and the productive regions that lie along the route. The object of this march is to secure signatures to a congressional petition for relief of the unem- ployed, and incidentally obtain contributions of ~supplies for the army that is rapidly increasing in numbers at its big tent. Branches of the army will be established in various parts of the state with the inten- tion of massing forces at Sacramento during the next session of the legislature in the manner that Coxey and his followers went to Washington. ——— Death of Dr. Cha Woodhouse. RUTLAND, Vt, Oct. 16.—Rev. Charles Woodhouse, M. D., has died here, aged 83 years. He entered the Universalist minis- try in 1834 and occupled pulpits In New York, Vermont, New Hampsnire, Massachu- setts, Kentucky, Towa and Illinois. In 1865 he was graduated from the Hannaman Medi- cal collego in Chicago and was later pro- fessor of medical jurisprudence and insanity in that institution. He then came to Rut- land. He was twice grand master of Ver- mont Odd Fellows. A widow and three sons survive him. YOUR MO Facts. Governor. The vote for Governor in Ne- braska two years ago was as foilows: CROUNSE (Rep.).......... 75,4206 68,617 VAN WyeK (Pop.) MORTON (Dem.)iv.ivon.... 44,195 whether on subjects garments. | would only be fair to warn y | the court “ring- | and then further changes in the big com- “discord, demoralization, disgust and defeat.” | And still another spellbinder is working “a | | EX'S WORTH OR ¥ political, ANOTHER CONTEMPY CASE. Burtram's Offended Justice of the Pence Takes n Cue from Seott. The Cedar Rapids Gazette publishes t! following Interesting note and comment: editor Gazett—since reading Rosewaters contempt case in the Omaha bee I have got onto a new fidea of law and I though it 1 not to call me crank any more before T put the new law In force on you. you seo I am judge of the justice court of Burtram and It you call me erank any more 1 will ighue an order and arest you for con- tempt of court you may think this & threat- ning letter and have mo arested for sending it through the mail but when you reflect that 1 am the court and you cannot arrest you will chango your mind and quit calling the court a erank. ELIAS DOTY. It 1s only fair to say that Judge Doty did not send the abova through the mall, but snenked fnto tho office and handed it to the editor and then hurried away before we found out what it contained. It he don’t look out the judge of the Bertram court will Kot his pants worn out with a shoe. Perhaps the court cannot ba arrested, but it can be kicked. The “governor,” now judge, has not been around our office for two weeks, but as soon as the editor returns he immediately looms up with a communication. We cannot understand how Doty can attend to his pho- tograph business fn Cedar Rapids and the court bus\pess in Bertram and still have time o write, letters to the press. —— NEWS ror rue 1My ral 0. 0. Howard Will neral Advanee in Kank, WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 ecial Tele- gram.)—President Cleveland will have to make several promotions in the army dur- ing the next two w . Under the army organization there are permitted but three major generals, there having been no lieu tenant general since the death of Sheridan. On November § General Howard retires from active service by operation of law, having reached the age limitation, 6 years, His retirement will create a va- cancy among the major generals, and will necessitate a change in the commands of the great military departments. General Miles has been notified by the officlals to hold himself in readiness to relieve General Howard, but his own relief depends en- tirely upon whom the president selects for promotion from the brigadiers. Practically every one of the six are candidates, but the chances have narrowed down to two, with every prospect of General Ruger, the senlor, carrying it off. 1 McCook will use s beat efforts to secure it, on the ground that he will reti ext spring, when Gen- eral Ruger or some other officer may be advanced, and thus permit him to retire with the Increased rank. General Ruger will not retire for three years and is re- garded as the most formidable candidate. Just ten months after General Howard's retirement comes that of General Schofleld, Retirement of G Kesult in a ¢ mands will follow. ~Ge transferred from New York where he will be at the head of the army for seven years, Through every grade of the service will follow promotions created y the retirement of General Howard. irst Licutenant Charles McQuiston, ourth infantry, and_Second Lieutenants Hiram McL Powell, Second infantry, and Willlam P, kson, Twenty-fourth infan- 'y, are detalled to report at Willett's Point, N. Y., for instruction in torpedo service, Caplain David A, Lyle, Ordnance depart- ment, will Inspect ordnance material at the works of the Hureka Steel Casting company, Chester, Pa. Iirst ~ Lieutenant G 1 transferred from troop G to troop L, and First Lieutenant Hugh J. Gallagher, troop L_to troop G, Sixth cavalry. Majors-A. K. Rockwell and John Simpson, quartermasters, and Captain C. H. Potter, Eighteenth infantry, will assemble at the general depot of the Quartermaster’s de- partment, Philadelphia, to ascertain and fix the responsibility for any deficiencies in or damages to property received at the depot. First Lieutenant Henry k. Waterman and Second Lieutenant Kdgar Jadwin will be examined for promotion by the board in session at the Army building, New York City. Plst Quartermaster Sergeant tasey is transferred from Fort McKinne: Fort Niobrara; L. Alexander Hester, Kort Niobrara to Camp Eagle Pass, Tex., and Charles Yeager, Fort Bowie to Fort Omaha and future duty at Fort Crook ek ey ey THE VOICES. Miles will be to this city, eral 5o Sands 18 Thomas 1o James Whitcomb Riley Down in the night I hear them: The Volces—unknown—unguessed— That whisper, and lisp, and murmur, And will not let me rest. Voices that seem to question, In unknown words to me, Of fabulous ventures and hopes and dreamg Of this and (he world o be. 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