Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1894, Page 1

B ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAIA, TUEF ISDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1894, SINGLE COPY FIVE CEN! ALKED T0 FREEMEN Mr. Bosewater Addrosses Thousands of Omaha's Honest Workingmen, LABOR'S REAL INTEREST AT PRESENT Liberty of Speech and Action is Endangered by Majors' Sucoess, COMBINZD CAPITAL AS THE MENAC: Corporations Stop at Nothing in the Effort to Shackle the People, UNITY CF ACTICN THE OPLY RELIEF In Workshop and at the Polls the Me- chanles wod Laborers Must Stand Together and Vote Agalust Monop- oly's Willing Tools. Bxposition hall last night was well filled by an enthusiastic gathering of Omaha work- Ingmen, who gathered to hear Mr. E. Rose- water upon the question, “Are You Men or Berfs?" As soon as the doors of Exposition hall were opened the great room commenced to fill with ladies and gentlemen, and before the meeting had been called to order fully 2,000 persons were present, with half as many more coming in after the parade upon the streets, a counter attraction, had been brought to a close. The great audience was & representative one, and, as the argument by Mr. Rosewater pregressed, quently and heartily applauded, The meeting was presided over by Mr. A. A. Perry and upon the platform were D. Clem Deaver, Dr. Rodolf, John Jeffcoat, Sam DeNedry, Ell Stoddard, Michael Nelson, T. C. Kelsey, Louis J. Thms, A. Tichnor, J. M Taylor and others, while upon the floor there were hundreds of the leaders of all political 7 prifes. As soon as Mr. Rosewater entered the hall he was loudly applauded, which ap- plause grew into a perfect ovation as he proceeded down the aisle and to a seat upon the platform. MULLHALL ON THE ISSUES. In calling the meeting to order Chairman Perry introduced Mr. Richard Mullhall, who ®poke briefly upon the existing political situation. He sald that he wanted to say & few words upon some of the legislation that was passed during the legislative ses- sion of 1890 and 1891. In a circular which had been scattered upon the streets, Mr. Mullhall sald that therein it was stated that during that session Tom Majors had voted for all labor laws that were up for considera- tion, supporting them by might and main ‘This Mr. Mullhall denounced as a lie, as he was there as a member of a committee com- posed of himself, T. C. Kelsey and J, M. Kinney. That committee went to Lincoln Wwith a petition, asking for the enactment Of just laws, but they were turned down by the bankers and those who were acting in the interests of Majors. The bill looking to relief was finally introduced, but when it came up for passage, but one man, War- ren Switzler, voted to have it become a law. Majors, sald Mr. Mullhall, deliberately lied When he sald that he voted for the bill, in- stead, he had voted for a bill which met With the sanction of G. H. Boggs and the wealthy contractors, I am not here,” continued Mr. Mullhall, “at the beck and call of politicians, but to say a word in behalf of the laboring men, of Which I am one. I do not want to say how they shall vote, but I say that when they look Into the lonest face of Silas A. Hol- comb and then into that tattooed face of Tom Majors, I think that they will know how to cast their ballot tomorrow. It is now a question of whether we are free men or slaves, and I say the American working man will never be a slave. Chairman Perry, stepping to the front of the platform, sald that he had the pleasure of Introducing a gentleman who was well known in Omaha, Edward Rosewater, edi- tor of The Bee, who would discuss the political issues as applied to laboring men ©f Omaha and Douglas county. The great audience broke into loud cheers, which con- tinued for some time, and after it had sub- sided Mr. Rosewater spoke substantialy as follows: WANTED TO TALK TO WORKERS. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow Citizens: The warm grecting you have given me here this evening gives me the assurance that you are earnestly desirous of Informing yourselves upon the fssues up- on which the present campaign finally rest. I particularly desire to address mysely to- night to the middle classes, and especially to the wage workers wha depend upon their faily toll for their living and for the main- tenance of their families. On the bell that trom over Independence hall proclaimed Wiberty throughont all the land you find the motto which should inspire every American citizan when he goes te the polls tomorrow Upon that bell was Inscribed, *Proclaim liberty throughout the world to all the Inhabitants thereof.” The Declaration of Independence contains three fundamental truths—that all men are endowed with certain inallenable rights, among them being the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happlcess, Lite was placed first, liberty second, and happi- mess, or the right to hold and enjoy prop- | erty, last, In these degenerate days a new doctrine has been promulgated. These mod- ern ideas seem to place property first, life next and liberty last. In one of his public addrosses Abraham Lincoln used these words ‘I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence. 1 have pondered over the tolls that were endured by the officers and #oldiers of the army who achieved that in- dependence. 1 have often inquired of myself What great principle or idea it was that kept . Whis confederacy so long together. It was mot the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that ser timent in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world for mll Suture time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the Wwelght would be lifted from tho shoulders of @ll men. This Is a sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, friends, can the country be saved upon this basis? If it can, 1 will consider one of the happlest men in the world if | ©an help save it. 1t it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But At this country cannot be saved without gly- Ing up that principle, 1 was about to say I . would rather be assassinated on this spot | COMPetition between them s 1o wage L' These were the words of the gr moner who sprang from the people. LIBERTIES CERTAINLY THREATENED. “We are today confronted with very much the same situation. Can_ our liberties be preserved! Are our people strong enough 10 resist the encroachments of monopoly more dangerous to the preservation of our libertios than the laws of King George 117 “You all understand the pressure that has been brought to bear upon the people of this state in the present campalgn. Thousands of employes are being coerced to vote for a ca didate who will enable these monopolies to continue the rule they have exercised in Ne- braska. On August 22 in this very hall a man was nominated for governor at the be- hest of the great corporations of this state. Months before that convention assembled runners wer ent out 1o all parts of the state to distribute passes, to pick out cor- Tupt tools of the railroads to act as dele- gates, and to set up straw candidates for the purpose of turning over delegates to a can- didate for governor whom the railroad were determined to folst upon the peopie. In this very hall this greatest of all villainies w consummated, and in the preserce of 2,000 people it was asserted that this nomination was the voice of the republican party. Do any belleve that Tom Majors was the free aad untrammeled cholee of the republican party of Nebraska? (Cries of “No," “No.") Every body fn this hall will admit that the rank and file of the republican party Is just as honest and just as much in sympathy vith good government as the rank and file of any party, but the republican party Las fallen info the control of leaders who are controlled by a ring that makes its head- quarters In the penitentiary ftself. (Ap- plause) Jt was asserted in this hall that that nomination was honestly procured, but the assertion {s as falss as the campaign assertions made by Tom Majors on the stump throughout the state. Delegates were ap- pointed days a.ter they had been author- ized, and the names selected at the private residence of J. H. Ager, the paid tool of the B. & M. Other delegates were brought here pledged for Jack MacColl, but after they reached this city they were swung over to the Majors side. Do any of you believe that they received a revelation in their dreams—(laughter)—that led them to belie that Tom Majors was anncinted of the Lord (Laughter) I think they were led to change their mind by lubrication. And it is under such circumstances that a man was nom- he was fre- | jnated who will tomorrow be marching to | defeat.” (Applause.) Mr. Rosewater then hastily sketched over some of the charges that have been pre ferred against Thomas J. Majors in the pre: ent campaign, touching particularly upon his connection with the rings at the state capital, his part in the conspiracy for the abduction of Senator Taylor and other scandals. He then turned his attention to the nrincipal subject of his address, the responsibility of the laboring classes in conuection with good state government. He sketched rapidly the many changes wrought in the relations be- tween capital and labor in the last fifty years in the United States and showed how the concentration of capital had enabled great companies and corporations to control the wages and service of hundreds of thousands of wage earners, RECOURSE OF THE WORKER. “The only thing loft for the laboring men,” he said, as he proceeded, “the only legitimate means in their power for opposing these gigantlc combinations of capital, is the forma- tion of wage earners of all classes into bodies of organized labor unions. (Applause.) In no other way can laboring men succeed. 1 have been a wage earner myself, having worked at my trade for thirteen years, and for a great many years I have been an em- ployer of workers. T will confess to you frankly that the men employed in my own establishment would not be able to receive the wages they now have had it not been for crganized labor unions. (Cheers.) The only two weapons you have are the union and the strike. This may be a sad statement, but it is true. I do not care what the labor commissloners say, for as a rule they are the Kid-gloved servants of the corporations, any- way, the strike has been the only means by which labor has successfully upheld wages. It is only by co-operation that labor can re- sist the pressure of organized capital. “There is another remedy aside from the trade union. It is the ballot box. (Cheers.) Just think of the pressure that has been brought to bear upon the wage earners of this state. Just think what the conse- quences will be to yourselves if you bow down to these corporations who are today attempting to dictate how you shall cast your votes tomorrow. Tonight there marched through the streets of this city a proce sion made up largely of men who had been compelled by orders of their employers to participate. They carried torches paid for by the B. & M. and filled with oil donated by the Standard Oil compary. Those men were degraded by their employers. They hired their services to the B. & M., but they did not barter their manhood. And yet they wero compelled to sell their manhood in order to hold their places. It was one of the most dis agreeable attempts to ride down freedom of political thought ever attempted in Neobraska. “In the early days the serfs were com- velled to wear an iron ring around their necks as a badge of their slavery. In those dovs and in this state the men who are en- slaved by these corporations are required to wear a Majors badge upon their coats to show that they belong to the railroads. I am very much mistaken if the men that have thus been intimidated and degraded do not tomor- row resent the insuits that have been heaped upon them. (Applause.) “What happened here the other day: A young clerk, not yet old enough to vote, was discharged from the Nebraska National bank because he had dared to assert that Hol- comb was an honcst man and that he had been honestly nominated. He was deprived of his place because he had an opinion of his own. But that is not the worst of it. Aftsr the facts had been printed Mr. Yates came out and ecast a igma upon the name of that young man by Insinuating that he had been guilty of some crime for which he would have been discharged by any institu- tion. What does that mean? It means that that young man has been blacklisted, when, as far as 1 can learn, his only crime was a hurrah for Holeomb. Now I want to ask you if your company ean blacklist you if you refuse to comply with its political wishes? The man who will blacklist an employe on account of his poiitical opinions ought to be sent to Lhe penitentiary. (Cheers and a volce, hurrah for Majors.) That's right, you have earned your $10. (Great laughter and applause and the same voice, “Hurrah for Majors.”") Well, perhaps it was $15. (Ap- plause.) There are about 500 fellows like you tramping around Omaha hurrahing for Majors at so much per tramp. ~(Applause.) “Wage workers, I appeal to you to see to it that the next legiclature passes a law that will prohibit blackmailiug and make it a criminal offense! (Applause.) How are you oing to get that law? By electing Majors? (Cries of “No,” “No.") You will get it by electing Judge Holcomb, for he will not veto such a law after it is passed and you all know that Majors would.” HOW CAPITAL ENCUMBERS LABOR. Mr. Rosewater then read the following ex- tracts from Henry D. Lloyd's recent work on “Wealth Against Commonwealth,” to fllus. trate the manner in which capital had gradually eneroached upon the rights of labor: The railroad companies engaged in min- Ing and transporting coal are practically in a combination to control the output and fix the price. They have a practical monop- ol ‘of the produciion, the tranaporiation nad the sale of anthracite coal. * During the first forty years, congress reported in 188, the mines were worked by individuals, as are farms. The hundreds of em: ployes were In active competition with each other for labor. The fundamental law of Now, my | work, fair wa myself | were ready to give then supply and demand alike governed all pa ties. 'As to engagement, employer and em- ploye ‘stood upon a_common level of equal- fty*and manhood. “Skill and industey on the part of the miner assured to him steady honest measurement and Should these be denied many other employers The miner had the same freedom as 1o engagement, the same reward for faithful service and pro- tection against Injustice that the farm hand possesses because of the compatition be. tween farmers employing hands, ¢ o ¢ This virtual combination of all employers into one syndicate has practically abolished and, humane treatment by one employer (Continued on Second Page.) ESTINATES DIFFER WIDELY Both Bides in New York Prediot a Victory with Apparsnt Confidence, THACHER REV.SE5 ERIE COUNTY FIGURES Grant Claims Sixty Thonsand in New York and the Strong gers us Cons fidently Prediet ¥ Deteat, NEW YORK, the eve of battle,”” “resting under arms” and stmilar phrases were current at the varions political headquarters today, Most of these places were almost deserted, as many of the man- agers have gone home to vote. An exception to the rule was the case of Chairman Hackett | at the republican state headquarters, in the Fifth Avenue hotel, who having paired votes with a friend in Utica, will remain here until after election. He sald today nothing had occurred to change the estimates of republican success already made public, On the other hand, Chairman Thacher, at democratic state headquarters, before leaving for Albany this afternoon, gave out an es- timate that Morton would have than 40,000 plurality above the Haj and that to overcome this Hill would have pluralities of over 60,000 in this city, at least 10,000 in Kings county, and from 1,000 to 1,200 in Richmond county. Mr. Thacher admitted, however, that Erle county, which the Hill men have been claiming by some 5,000 votes, was at best doubtful. Confident claims are made by both sides on the local issuss. The supporters of the committee of seventy ticket predict tha Tammany will be drowned by a “tidal wave, and say that for this reacon all estimates of figures on the local result are worthless. At the headquarters of Hugh J. Grant this afternoon, the Tammany candidate for mayor ued a statement, in which he asserts that “Tomorrow the democrats of the city of New York will give an overwhelming plu- rality for the state ticket headed by David B. Ilill, and the county ticket headed by myselt. He continues: “I shall assume the mayor- alty on January 1, pledged only to give of- fices to men who can and will administer them for the public good,” and adds “Being a democrat, I shall use democratic means to do whatever the public needs to have done. Mr. Grant declares the Lexow committee has ‘“fnally thrown aside the ecloak of anxiety for the public good and has appeared, Just as the Fasset committee appeared in the week beore election day In 1890, as an utterly partisan republican body.’ Among other statements the Grant head- quarters made today was that the members of the Hebrew order of B'nai Brith were Working against Mr. Beekman, the seventy's candidate for judge of the superior court, on the ground that he had cast a ‘str on their race by saying: ““The action’ of such people is contemptible when a eommittee of the order appeared before the legisla- ture last year to ask the home for aged and infirm Hebrews in Yonkers be exempted from taxation.’ dn predicting today the success of the anti-Tammany ticket, Campaign Manager Jerome of the committee of seventy sald he believed the voters would get to the polls carly, and he was sure that In this event the seventy candidates would win by over- whelming majorities, Great interest s taken by all politicians and by voters genetally in the subject of the weather tomorrow. Despite today’s storm the weather bureau predicts clear weather for election day, and it is believed the ful- fillment of this prediction is worth thou- sands of votes to the republicens, Superintendent Byrnes ordered that all po- licemen on duty at the polls tomorrow shall b2 detalled to precincts where they do not regularly belong. This, it is belleved, will prevent fmproper acts by the police under the influence of election officers and others with whom they are personally familiar and friendly, There was a good deal of heavy betting at the St. James and other uptown hotels today and also in the Stock exchange circles, The general odds were 5 to 2 on Morton as against Hill, and about & to 4 in favor of Strong against Grant. Of course there was considerable variation in the terms of the various wagers, but the odds noted were about the average. There was little betting on pluralties, MISSOURL CAMPAIGN CLOSED QUIETLY. Republicans Claim They Wil Gain Two and Possib'y Four Congressmen. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5. —The political cam- paign closed quietly here tonight. Only three state offices are to be filled, and the demo- cratic candidates for congress will be elected by probable pluralities of from 15,000 to 20,000. Two years ago the democrats had a plurality of 30,000, but since then the populists have greatly increased thelr strength, and the new blood has been largely drawn ‘irom the democratic plurality. In the congressional districts the republicans clalm they will gain two and possibly four members. In the Twelfth district in this city they expect to elect Sterrett over Cobb, the present member, and in the Fifteenth, which is in the lead and zinc mining region of the state, they confidently expect to elect Burton. A hot flght has been waged in the Fourth or St. Joseph district, the Fifth or Kansas City district and the Eleventh, one of the St. Louls districts, and the vote will probably be close, with indications in favor of Joy, republican, in the Eleventh, and of Elifson and Tarsaey, democrats, in the other two. In the Eighth district “Silver Dick" Bland will no doabt be re-elected by a small plurality. The other districts will elect democrats, except the Tenth, which Is the only dead sure republican district in the state, The democrats assert there will be 1o change in the state's delegation, but admit that the democratic majorities will be some- what reduced in the lumber region of 1ue Feurth and the mining section of the Fif- teenth, TROUBLE FEARED IN KENTUCKY, Removal of Republican Electlon Oficials Louisville the Caose. LOUISVILLE, Nov. 5.—Kentueky tomor- row will elect eleven congressmen for the full term and one in the Tenth district fill out the unexpired term of Congressman Lisle, deceased; four appellate judges and county officers. The campaign has been one of excitement from the beginning, the republicens being more aggressive than ever known in this state. They have nomine:s for all the offices to be filled. The demo- crats will elect their congressional candidates in the First, Second, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth, and probably in the Sey. in which Owens Is the democratic nomines and Judge Denny the republican. Owens' election 1s made doubtful because many of the fricnds of Breckinridge have refused to support him. The feeling between these factions Is intense and bitter. The really doubtful districts are the Third, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh, the chances being about equally divided, [n this, the Fifth, there Is @ suppressed feeling of excitement this evening, which forbodes trouble tomorrow Over 100 republican election officers have been removed and democrats appointed to succeed them during the past forty-eight hours, The old officers were appointed fo serve for a year, and as they have eleven months yet to serve, they will attempt to take forcible possession of the books and trouble will probably result. Democraty Concede Massachusetts, BOSTON, Noy, b5.—Perhaps the severe storm is responuible, but there is little ex- citement In and about the city on thls, the eve of election. There is no betting on the result in this state and the democrats not more | n river, Il)‘ concede the el re state re. publican ticket and eleven congressmen out of the thirteen, although they make no figures regarding the plurality’ oft Goverfor Greenhalge. PULLICAN CONGRESSIONABCLAIMS. Certaluty of at Least m S the Next Cougress. WASHINGTON, Nov. B~Chaitman Bab- cock of the republican Gongressional com- mittee today addressed a dispateh to Vice Chairman L. D. Apsley of Hudson, Mass., claiming for the republicans the election of 183 members ot congress, four more than a majority of the house, and the probable election of 218 republicans. The dispatch Is as follows: 3 WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Hon. L. ley, Vice Chairman Republican Congres- sional Committee, Hudson, Mases.: ““I have late information from tates and close calculations of districts, and without a sin- gle exception the reports show large re- publican gains, and from the latest advices I figure upon 183 districts that will elect republicans beyond any question and thirty- five districts in which we have more than an even chance to elect. I confidently be- lieve we will have a good working majority in the next house. ‘J. W. BABCOCK, Chairman." The detailed estimate made by the chair- man is as follows: Majority in D. Aps- rob- State. Sure. able. Alabama ... 0 Arkansas ifornia ado State, 1/ Missauri Montana Nebta 0 ] 3 Georgia daho Llinois lana, N i Oregon Soutn DakoGu. Wasiigston .. 3 V. 12 N0 T 11 Wyoming ... 1 Minnesota k| Mississippl 7| 0| Totmls ....13 Mr. Faulkner, the chairman of the demo- cratic committee, will not make a detailed prophecy. He says the coimittee feels con- fident from fts advices that the democrats will elect a majority of the members, and does not see how the complexion of the house can be changed from demoeratic 1o re- publican. He cannot understand on what tho republicans base their assertions of con- trol. COLLECTING THE RETURNS. Preparations Made to Give thq Most Prompt Service Ever Kootm. CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—Extraordimary prepar- ations have been made for the distribution of clection returns in Chicagosand elsewhere in the west. The work In many respects will be on a scale never before attempted and is to be accomplished In part, at least, by methods entirely novel. The Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies: will supply bulletins (o their customers, ciubs, theaters and other resorts at the usuml rates, covering the country more rapidly &nd thoroughly, it Is expected, according to the greatly in- creased number of men employed, than on any previous similar occasion. The most uniquo feature of the work, probably, will be in_the methods to be utilized by the Long Distance Telephone company, which, in connection with the Chicago Telephove éom- pany, will make an. interesting new departure by furnishing free o all who have tele- phones an extensive series Metins. These bulletins will be talked direcfly through long distance telephones from New York to Chi- cago, nearly 1,000 miles, and will then be distributed through the local telephone sys- tems to offices and firesides almost without number, Renublleans Confldent in West Virginia WHERELING, W. Va,, Nov. 5.—The eve of election in this stato finds the republicans in a more confident humor than they have ever been on a similar occasion. In the First district they claim Doverner's election to congress and the betting men are offering 0dds on him. Democrats do mot concede the defeat of their man, Howard. The situation In Wilson’s district is unchanged. Both sides are confldent and matters are in great doubt. In the Third there is a hard fight, Wwith the chances about even, The chances for Harvey, democrat, in the Fourth, are considered good. Republicans believe they will make large gains in the legislature and the democrats concede the claim, but say it will be safely democratic. Take Yoor ¢ hoiee of Claims. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 5.—Both sides are confident of carrying Indiana.. Chairman Taggart of the democratic state committec said tonight: ““There is mot the- least doubt In my mind that the democrats will carry the state, tho county, the township and, it there was a city election on”hand now, there would not be a republican left in the city government.” Ho also claimed a majority of the thirteen congressmen. > Chairman Gowdy of the republican com- mittee will give no figures, but he said the state would go overwhelmingly republican and that more than a majopity of the con- gressmen would be republicais. Cluim Five Thous SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 5.—Washington tomorrow will elect two congressmen at large and two justices of the supreme court and vote on an fmportant constitutional amendment relative to the Investment of state funds. Half the state senators—seven- teen—and all the members of the house— seventy-two—are to be elected. The re- publicans claim they will win by at least 5,000, nd 0 Washington crats on legislative tickets and from reports received the Post-Intelligencer claims the legislature for the republicans by a small majority. Californin Campalgn Has Been Lively, SAN FRANCISCO, NOV. §.—A lively cam- paign closed in California toright. California elects this year a complete state ticket, seven congressmen and a legislature. There are four tickets in the field-sdemoerats, republi- cans, populists aud prghibitien. Tonight both the democrats and Fepublicans claim a Victory and are confidefit Gf thelr success. The next legislature will felect & United States senator to succeaed Bemator Perkins, who was appointed by fhe gavernor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Stan- ford. The weather will pe falr tomorrow and a large vote will be pelfed. o6 In Kansas, TOPEKA, Nov. 5.—TFhere are four tickets In the field for stale offices—republicans, democrats, populists and prohibitionists. To- night both republicans and. populists are claiming the state. No ome: can tell how many votes Overmyer, demmoerat candidate for governor, will poll. iman Cur- tis will undoubtedly be pe-elected Doth republicans and populists are claiming the other congressmen. It s the biggest fight ever witnessed in Kansas, and the feeling among the opposing factions has become very bitter. Fignt Hus Been Fight Principally ou Congressmen. CINCINNATI, Nov, 6.—The election In Ohlo tomorrow s only for local and state officers, In addition to congressmen. The fight has been lmited to close districts for congressmen. The present Ohlo delegation in gress consists of eleven democrats and t'n republicans, Sorg In the Third, Ritchle in the Ninth, Outhwaite in the Twelfth, Johnson in the Twentieth and others are considered doubtful of re-election, Cleveland Fas Written No Letter, WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—A dispatch from Alblon, N. Y., printed today, gives an ex- tract from a letter, purporting to have been written by President Cleveland to Robert L. Thacher, upon the political ituation. can be stated on authorlty that the dent has not written any letter bearing the existing canvass in New York state, |and jailed. | will be necessary to cause these arrests by | wholesale, but Most of the estimates go much higher. | There Is fusion between populists and demo- | (OLONIZED AT THE CAPITAL Illegal Voters - Registerel Precinots at Lincoln, in Several OUTRAGE ON T+E BALLOT CONTEMPLATED Alleged Voters Located In 1. & M., Switch- yuards, on the Government Square and o Vacant Hoases—Cirizens Aroused and Watehful, COLN, Nov. 5.—(Spectal Telegram.)— Registration frauds are lively topics of con- versation in the city this cvening. At the local independent headquarters there s a { list of nearly 100 names which |s being held | for further action tomorrow. These names It Is claimed, are of parties who have regis tered from vacant lots, and those who have taken out their first naturalization papers Within thirty days and subsequently regls- tered. Such registration is clearly illegal, as the law distinctly states that first natural- | 1zation rapers must be taken out thirty days prior to an election, At democratic head- quarters it was said that warrants were being secured for these illegally registered parties, and would be immediately served upon thelr attempt to vote tomorrow. Chair- man James O'Shee says that the committee had polled each ward in the city, and knows that the suspected parties are not legal voters. One man who took out his first naturalization papers last Saturday regis- tered the same day. “We have,” he names of many men who have { reglstered from vacant lo There are forty- twvo of them in one precinct and we have the names of twenty-six men who are registered from one little cottage.” Such wholesale attempts at fraud on the part of Majors strikers will be vigorously opposed tomor- row should the illegally registered parties attempt to vote. Mr. O'Shee further says that he proposes to carry the war Into Africa and see that every man falsely registered and offering to vote on such registration is promptly arrested He does not anticipate that it continued, “the if the arrest of one or tw examples does not have the effect of deterring the rest of them he will proceed to extreme measures. The contemplated fraud is so apprrent, bold and aggressive that the honest voters of all parties are astounded at tk barefaced attempt to steal a majority for Tom Majors in Lancaster county. SAMPLES OF THE FRAUDS. As an example of these gross frauds in the reglstry it may be stated that precinct B in the Sixth ward, which never registered over 150, is now listed for 1/3 votes. The en- tire registry of the city is sixty-one less than in 1892. From one six-room house in the Second ward twenty-two voters are regis- tered. From another three-room house in precinct B, Sixth ward, eight voters are registercd. 8ix or seven voters were found reglstered from land lying between Third and Fifth streets, on which are located the B, & M. tracks, without a house within several hundred yards. It was suggested that these would-be " voters had registered from box cars, Some of these very parties have not only registered minus a local habjtation, but they have also taken out their first natural- lzation papers within {hirty days. Two parties registered from 606 and 509 South Tenth street. The lots are-camprised jn the postoffice square, in which there is not a residence. Some of the determined cftizens of Lincoln who are bant upon bresking the force of this nefarious conspiracy say it is thelr intention to allow the voter to complete hls fraud up to the point when he Is about to hand in his ballot o the judges and then nab him, The Lincoln justices before whom these will be brought are all republicans, but it is not thought they will be at all derelict in the execution of their duty. One of them, B. E. Spencer, says he will remain in his office all day and be ready to hear cases that may b brought before him. He further says that It in any case he finds that the election laws of the state of Nebraska have been violated he will punish the offender by the extreme limit of the law. This he will most certainly do, regardless of partisan bias or political favor. B. & M. BRINGS TWO CARLOADS. The B. & M. road today brought in two car- loads of men from some point south. It Is considered certain that it §s for the purpose of colonization, end with a view 1o vote them on the names registered from the vacant lots, This the road will be unabie to accomplish as both democrats and populists are cn to the game, and both parties will have representa- tive challengers at the polls. The “illiterate voter” bunco game on part of the Majors ward heelers has been run down and this contempliated fraud smoked out. Lincoln is decidedly too small a city for such a transparent scheme to be successfully worked. In some of the pre- cincts almoet every voter knows his neighbor and it will be extremely dificult for a man to sell his vote and dellver proof of having done o along with the goods. That there is a conspiracy to defraud the ballot box at every point possible tomorrow no one doubts, The revelations of today have awakened citizens to the enormity of the offense contemplated. 1t is likely to go hard with all offenders convicted, and they are cer- tain to be punished if caught red handed in the act, There are too many watching for such attempts. The watchword is ‘‘let no guilty man escape.”” The feeling In the city tonight is one of calm confidence in the elec- tion of Judge Holcomb. A republican traveling man, whose terri tory embraces Colorado, Nebraska and Kan- sas, bit $100 today that the republicans would be victorious in Colorado. He sald he had $100 more to bet against Governor Waite, but found no takers. A prominent democrat offered to cover it on Holcomb |z Nebrarka, but the commereial man deelined to bet on Tom Majors, stating that it was his judgment, formed <rom close observation in almost every county in the state, that Majors was a defeated man. LINCOLN'S REGISTRATION The total registration of the seven wards of the city of Lincoln 1s 6,900. This is a trifle less the registration of 1892 which was 6,961, and less, also, than the registration of 1890. The registration by wards Is as follows: o 50 he Fourth ward. Fifth ward.. Sixth ward., Seventh ward 6,000 len for Democratic Ald NEBRASKA CITY, Nov. 5.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—The republicans held their closing rally at the opera house this evening. The hall was crowded and enthusiasm was plenty. The speakers were Tom Majors, Judge Strode and H. C. Broome. Judge Strode devoted his time to a review of the money and tarlfl questions. His talk was one of eound republican doctrine and was received with applause. Majors attempted to catch democratic votes by flattering Secretary Morton and Cleveland. There was enthusiasm for Broome and Strode all through the meeting, but Majors' reception was mot very flattering. He mentioned Rosewater's charges, but failed entirely to disprove them, in many instances passing them by. Red Fire at Hast ngs. G8, Nov. 5.—(Speclal Telegram.)— The largest and most enthusiastic political rally that has been held In this city for years occurred here tonight. At 7:30 the Republican Flambeau club, headed by the Hastings Military and Coronet bands, and followed by hundreds of voters, made thelr appearance on the street, going through different maneuvers and lluminating the HASTI WEATHER FOR ELECTION DAY, Forecast for Nebraska— Warmer In Central wnd ¥ South Winds, ‘artly Cloud; ern Port streets with all kinds of fireworks was kept up till a late hour. Hon. John L. Webster of Omaha and Hon, W An- drews dolivered fine republican specches to an extra large crowd in the opera house, while Mr. Thompson of Grand Jsland and Hon. W. A. McKeighan spoke to an over- | erowded house in Button's hall. The whole | affalr was a great s which TO DOWN CORFPORATE DOMINATION. Heyan Closes the Campiigh In an Eftort for Hole LINCOLN, Nov. b.—(Speeial)—The cam- | paign in aster county wound up tonight by a democratic and independent rally at the Funke opera house, and a republican | parade led by the Lincoln Flambeau club The principal object of this procession was to distract attention from the opera house gathering, But no such result crowned (b effort, as the Majors fireworks and soundin brass well advertised the political ting and hundreds were turned away unable to gain even standing room in the opera house Mayor A. H. Welr, candidate for congress from the First district, and 8. J. Kent, candi- date for commissioner of public lands and bulldings, divided the time with Fon, W, J Bryan. - Altogether the affair was the most spirited and enthusiastic politic pisode that has taken place in Lincoln during campalgn. Applause was liberal and points | made by Mr. Bryan in favor of Judge Hol- comb's candidacy telling in their effect. Mr. Bryan, after a short review of his congressional record, devoted the major por tion of his remarks to strong, earrest pl for honest state government, equal rights for all and special rights for no man, Ie reached the height of eloquence in his de nunciation of the corporate influcrces th were now at work (rying to corrupt th ballot in Nebraska. e claimed the election of Judge Holcomb tomorrow by a yote any- where from 10,000 plurality up. While h was speaking a telegram from Omaha w handed him, which he read to the packed audiy 1t was as follows: “*Omaha republican corporations are spend- ng $10,000 tonight in brass bands, torch- lights and fireworks, while people are hun- gry." Broen held the crowd until a late hour and closed with a glowing eulogy of Hol- comb, logient me ) o MAJORS CRIMINAL AUDACITY. Alleged to Have A in Boyd County, BUTTE, Neb., Nov. Special Telegram.) —By the merest accident a plan was dis covered and frustrated Sunday evening by which the glaring frauds porpetrated in the county scat election of two years ago wers {0 be repeated in the interest 6/ Tom Majors and the state house ring. A secret consul tation of the leaders was held Sunday a noon and a plan formulated to cause the arrest of the Spencer election board on & trumped up charge, and in the confusion resulting a board favorable to the Majors faction would be seated. The plan included the using as witnesses and officers several leading populists of Butte, thus keeplng the populist workers engaged while they fised the baliots to sult themselves. The whole scheme vas unfolded to The Bee corre spondent by one of the gang, and prompt MegsutessweTe At onece taken to circumvent the movcment. A frée ballot and fair count will result here. No More Favors for Tobe. BUTTE, Neb., Nov. 5.—(Special Telegram.) —The announcement that a free silver demo crat has received the appointment of post- master at Atkinson was reccived here with surprise by the fow old line democra Another surprise awalted them when it be came known last night that R. Rochler, an anti-adminjstration man had been appointed to the Spencer postoffice. L COTTON STEAME nring Frauds BS ON FIRE . Seven Burning at One Time In Savannab Last Night. SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov this evening fire was di of the cotton steame tral compress wharf. At 6:30 o'clock rovered in the hol Skidby, at the ( The fire was in holc No. 3, in which there was absut 2,600 bales of cotton. The Skidby had about 10,000 baic aboard. She had about concluded loding atd would have clemed tomorrow 3 had gained considerable heads covered and at this writing is still b AL 615 It was discovered thut the In the cotton in the hold of the ste; timcre City at the G-rdon pres about a mile away from the scene of th fire on the Skidby. Alongside of the Iralt! more City lay the steamer Castle Garth and a few minutes after the discovery of the former's cotton being afire, fire was al discovered In the forepeak of the « Garth, 15 which compartment there about 100 bales of cotton and the sear clothes. The fire on tht Baltimore City w. but small and was Soon put out, On th stle Garth it is more obstinate. About as hour after the discovery fire on_the Baltimore City an vi from the steamer Stag. also loadin don's wharf, alang with the Baltim and the Castle Garth. This fire proved { Le the mist chbstinate of the three at th, Gordon wharf, and is still burning. The Stag had on a larze proportion of her carg: Some 400 bales have been taken from her hold and the holds of theé Baltimore City and Castle Garth and put on lighters. Abay the sa me { the Staz was reporte afire at Gordon's wharf, fire broke out | the hold of the steamer’ Del Garth, at th Central press wharf, near the Skidby, wh et the first fire occurred, and in a few e the steamer Petunia, a1:0 at the ( tral press wharf, was reported with fire her cotton. The' shiy at this wharf were not over 300 y: The fire on the Petunia w ] All of the fir now 1es on the Stag and t1 s far as can be estimat s to the origin of the fires ther planation, The ships anl cargees ar covered by insurance. There has recentl been trouble amcng the 'longshoremen i1 this city, but there is none now Later—12:05 a. m—Fire has just out in the steamship Armeala, 4t th tral raflroad wharf, making seven vesse now on the list. — BLIZZARD IN NEW urnin olt. except Skidby. " Th 1 is about th 1o 50,00 is n h ND. Snow Storm of U a1 Feverity Raging Atong the Atlantie, NEW YORK, Nov. 6—A snow storm at Hartford, Conn., this evening developed at 9:30 o'cleck Into a regular blizzard, Tele- graph and tclephone wires are prostrated and-the city is almost entirely eut off from communication by wire nformation as to the extent of the damage {3 unobtainable, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. b.—A severe rtheast storm Is passing over the city to- night, accompanied by a heavy gale and dangérously high tide on the ceun front, Much damage hag been done to the wire The lifesaving crews are keeping a shar watch wrecks. . Nov. 5.—A severe northeast gale ened the city this evening. Shipping Ladly delayed in the and tele- Eraphic seryice s paralyze PORTLAND, Nov. 6.-The scyere storm which has béen sweeping New England reached this city about § o'clock. No ves- sels in the harbor are venturing out. ik ACID CARBOYS EXPLODED, Ove Man Is Kiled and Six Others Injure CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—Death 18 the sequel to the disastrous explosion today of two carboys of nitric acld at 12 to 132 Mnarket street. One man s dead and severa! others injured and may die. The dead DAVID FRIEND, watchman, The injured are:' John Dode, Joseph F. Ely, Edward McChill, John McTntyre, Wil | lam Munson. Frank "Whitemore, captain nsurance patrol No. 1, may die. The fire was caused by an explosion of two carboys of chemically pure nitric acld. Al of the men were injured by inhaling the acld fumes. Captain Whitemore is well known In the sporting world as a wrestler. Are | they | FIXED FOR ~ FRAUD Nefarious Scheme to Overthrow the Publie Will Brought to Light. MAJORS' BOOMERS BEC M: DESPERATE Plan to Fraudulently Vote People Who Can Not Re d or Write, | ELECTION JUDGES IN THE CONSPIRACY Friends of an Honest Ballot Will Punish the Eailot Tamperers, (Z\R HTLDREGE ISTUZS HIS UKASE mploye omptorily Ordered to Be at Home to Vote for Tate tooed Tom oday—~Many Miserable Falsehoods Given Cireulation, Revelations of the most startiing character Off contemplated frauds at the election booths In this city and elsewhere have been made within the past forty-eight hours. The Majors managers, who have been diss pensing money all through the campalgn with lavish hand, have not ex~ hausted resources at thelr command, but have set an immense corruption fund to be used where it will do most good, while the polls are open. They have scarched through Australian bailot law for flaivs which it enabie them to trace purchased Majors into the box, and ink they have hit upon a scheme will afford an easy and hand- ling of the purchasable voter: TAMPERING WITH BALLOTS, This audacious scheme is nothing less than this: The law that where a duly registered voter to swear that he “ unable read -and write, or is herwise dizabled from prepating his own ballot himself, he may have th: assistance of of the judges of election for this pury The Judge in this instance is per- mitted accompany th into the eaclosure and to mark his balot for him prdance with his directions The Majors men propose (o take advantage f this provision of the law and are sald to have seeured for this end the services of a number of judges of elect'on in different wards and precinets, particularly those In which there are large bodies of voters wha cannot read and write the English language. They propose literally to buy up these voters nd the judges who stand in with them are te to it that the goods are delivared. The method of operation is comparatively imple. The workers have the money se and the judges in question have nged a set of signals by which they ire to.inform one another that each has care tied out his part of tNe program, The voter who wants to sell his vote is to be paid s #mall sum down and furnished with a Majors sample ballot and a card or signal that wil} enable the judge to Identify him. When sent nto the voting booth he is told to ask for tha assistance of a particular judge, if only one Is in on the game, and the latter makes up the official ballot to correspond with that supplied by the worker on the outside. The judge is also to put a secret mark upon the sample ballot or the card of identification, vhieh when carried back fo the worker, em- titles the voter to the balance of the money agreed to be paid him MAJORS AT ALL HAZARDS. These judges who have been fixed have also been instructed to mark the official hallot for Majors whenever they are called pon to prepare ballots for ignorant or dis~ ibled votcrs, no matter whether the latter direct them to mark their ballots for Hol- comb or mot. This s in direct violation of the election law and renders the judges who 1o it liable to arrest and sentence and penad servitude, but the Majors men are desperate and will stop at no chances. They propose to capture the entire vote of those unable to read and write English. They are willing to pay for that vote where it is purchasable wnd are ready to steal It where it is not on the market. It this prung without the most the the the votes a which o provide is ready is rer to one to voter < who to disy Jrear scheme suddenly could have upon the having it known scept those who are on the inside, might possibly have proved euceessful, ‘o be forewarned Is to be forearmed. cautions have been taken to nip these plans: n the bud, The judges who have been tam- vered with are all on the list of suspeets and the first one to make a move in conjunction with the boodle crowd will find himself inder arrest with the grave charge of vio- ing the election laws preferred against iim, In every precinct where this scheme 18 been slated, intelligent foreigners who ome under the description of those who can ot read and write the English language ind who are entitled to the assistance of the fudges in preparing their ballots wil nake the test. They will try the judges to see if they give the signals or secret marks, f which they will be apprised, and the first 1gn of corruption will be the signal for am irrest. They will also watch the judges fm hia preparation of ballots, and keep tab on them, to insure them marking the name of Holcomb whenever so directed. The judge who dares to disregard the direction of the. voter will not long retain his officlal posie tion. There may be other schemes by which the Majors men hope to purchase votes, but thhs is the one they have been relying upon ang for which all the details have been pere fected. Under the vigllant watch of the mem in charge of Judge Holcomb's interests thim wholesale purchase of votes with the rem= aant of railroad boodle will hardly be ef= fected. MAJORS HEADQUARTERS DESERTED, The state headquarters of the several come mittces were practically deserted yesterday, Every attache had gone home to vote, and none of them will return. Tho state liouse em~ ployes, who have been taken from (thelr desks at the capitol, returned home yesterday: afternoon, their services being no longer nec= cssary, Seventeen men who draw salary from the state treasury have beci employed at the headquarters of the Majors campaign either In doing clerical work or in perform= ing misslonary service In other parts of the state. Thelr combined salaries for the two months that the state has been deprived of their services would amount te hundreds of dollars a week. CAMPAIGN ROORBACHS. The street corners were crowded all day yesterday by local politiclans eagerly dis~ cussng the situation and the pro.pects for today, The Intense Intercst shown is been publie any it But Pre- to furnishing the local workers for Majors am Opportunity to disseminate & great mass of