Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Bditor, PUBLISHED TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: aily Bee (without Sunday), One Year. Dally Bee and Sund Yea R unday Bee, Onie Year......... Baturday Bee, One Year. | Weekly Bee, One Y oF Bee B Omaha, The Bouth Omal; Councll Blu Chicago Ofice New York, It 14 and 15, Tribune Bidg. Washington, 1107 ¥ Streot, N. W. CORRESI'ONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. DUSINESS LETTERS, All business leiters and remitiances should be addressed to The Tiee Publishing company, Qmaha, " Drarts. ‘ehecks and postoffice orders 1o made payabls 10 the order of the company. Fre PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George I Tascluck, secretary of The Bee I'ub- 1shing company. being duly sworn, says thut the ctual number of full and complete coples of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Dee printed durtog the monih of October, 18M, was us follows 4 1 R 1. L 21,258 18 1 | | | 20,89 20,861 20,856 T 21,046 21123 21147 211586 22,340 2,131 20718 20,812 TR Less deduction returned P sord coples ab i Total sold Daily avera siipiaris o LA 1. TZSCHUCK o me and subscribed In my pres ence this 4 day of November, 189, (Seal.) N FEIL, Notary Public — s et clrenlat GEORGE Sworn to 1 Tom Johnson's have been blow circus tent seems to over In the melee. Remember the number. It is 15 plurality for Morton for governor New Yor of It anybody attempts to count Hol- comb out by fraud 200,000 freemen will want to know the reason why. Judge Brewer's decision on the maxi- mum rate law may now be looked for. y needs no explanation at our The king Is dead—long live the king The election was no sooner over than log-rolling began for presidency of the council. no This is a bad time to inerease public expenses in the fire department or in any other department of the municipal government. Franklin MacVeagh and William J. Bryan may extend their hands from Illinois to Nebraska and shake in mu tual sympathy. The Chinese government has just been forced to contract a loan at the rate of T per cent interest, and China fs not ruled by a populist governor, either. The Chicago Herald refers to Chair- man Wilson as one of the “inhocent vic- tims.” But it will scarcely have the courage to place Senator Hill in the saine clas: We were just beginning to grow im- patient over the lack of war news from South America, but the renewed revolu tionary movement in Brazil will supply the deficiency nicely. It's dead wrong to force Secreta Johnson into a contest campaign after he had exhausted all his brain tissue in making campaign thunder for the de- funet Majors propaganda, If the democrats want to be re ble for any more legislation during the present administration they will have to have their measures enacted into law before the expiration of the Pifty-third congress. sponsi Candidates for the United States sen- atorship from Nebraska may now be ex pected to spring up on every bush. Don’t be bashful. There is room for all. Step up promptly and make your bows Dbefore the public. If President Cleveland wants to fol- | low the precedent he has set of appoint- | Ing ai bis defeated but devoted follow- ers to fat forelgn missions the diplo- matic corps of the United States will have to encounter au early and large fuerease in numbe Now let us hear no more-about the credit of the state being ruined by the election of Holcomb. Even the Burling ton Journal admits that nothing very serlois need be apprehended by the fail- ure of Majors to connect himself with vision of state institutions. An honest count of election returns is the bulwark of republitan self-govern- ment. Any man who would counsel, aid or abet the tampering with ballots and election returns is a public enemy more dangerous than the traltor who gave aid and comfort to the enemy during the war, Even the democrats in Illinols admit that they have gained nothing by the unfair reapportionment of legislative and congressional districts which was perpetrated by the democrats of the last | legislature. Leaders of all the political | parties ¢ where should take heed of the lesson. — The friends of fair elections and an honest count should not be deceived by | the 'possum policy which the raflroad | organs are playing under instructions | directed? As stated in the preamble to | mercantile e from headquarters. The plot to count Judge Holcomb out is still on, and The Beo knows whereof it speaks. Remem ber that eternal vigilance is the only safeguard of liberty. rse the British press is as sorry over the defeat of the democracy, and particularly the retivement of Chairman ‘Wilson, as It was exuberant over the defeat of McKinley and the election of President Cleveland. All the news papers over the water are trying to per suade themselves that the result is not to be taken as disapproval of the demo- cratie tariff policy, but rather as a pro test against the manner in which it was put Into operation, If they can really derlve any consolation from this thought they will certainly be permitted to Lave | andd stri |ter al union, system e be. ey A WARNING TO REPUBLICANS. Rejpublicans of Nebraska, do you pro- pose to repudiate your national and state platforms that pledge the party in | avor of fair elections, a free ballot and an honest count? Can you consistently to ountenance the high-handed plot steal the governorship in the face of the | returns that show that Silas A, Holcomb | 700 over his highest competitor the i Would the party ever be able to atone | for such a political crime? Would it not split the party and force it on the de-| fensive two years hence, when discord and dissension would be fatal to the na- | ticket? Wl gained by counting Majors in and count Holcomb out? With a republican | legislature and republican state officers reived a plurality of ove in tional at is there to be ing Holcomb ecannot possibly eripple the With Hol- | comb counted out you put a club in |hu§ party or obstruct its policy. hands of every populist and democr: afo 1d republican institutions. THE at al Blow at republican su FRAUD CRY. | The andacions imposture that has ever been attempted in Nebraska polities is the c of the railroad gang that Holcomb will owe his election to fraud in the count of the vot It the ery of top, thief!” to which the 1roit pickpocket resorts when he wants *t away with his booty. ‘Talk about ud in the election of Holcomb after all that has transpired in this state within the last thirty ¢ ! Just look at the figures on the election table, which show a heavier vote in the state than w st two years ago in a presi dentind election. Remember, al that from 12,000 to 15,000 voters have emi grated from the drouth-stricken region | and from 2,000 to 3,000 mor Chicago during the World's never came v sert tha departed nother was imported from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Mis souri, Kansas and Towa under cont their votes for the railroad can most voters to cast didate. Talk about fraud when were distributed among vulnerable voters by the bushel and more than $100,000 of boodle was disbursed to cor- rupt the voters. Talk about fraud when all the money and all the influence were on the side of the corporate combine, while neither the populist nor demo- | cratic campaign committee had money | enough to pay postuge and stationery bills! We make bold to assert that an hon est count of the vote cast by the legal voters of Neb ka, excluding the im ported mercenaries, would show not I than 15,000 plurality for Holcomb, and if the purchased vote was excluded he would have more than 25,000, This is the unvarnished truth and if the con spirators who are planning to count Hol comb out by fraudulent returns venture into a contest we shall establish the truth of this n tion beyond peradven- ture. The fraud ery is simply a repeti tion of the tactics of the wolf that charged the lamb with roiling the water, I'he Lunb in this instance, lowever, wiii not allow itself to be devoured without giving the wolf a good deal more trouble than he can nticipate. Th charge of fraud is on the other boot leg and the wolves had hetter desist from tempting the experiment. pass bribes possib] OLNEY ON LABO GANIZATIONS. Attorney General Olney's letter Tudgze Dallas of the United States cir cuit court for the district of Pennsyl vania, in which he discusses the relation of railway receivers to labor organ tions, must be conceded to be very conservative and sensible docu ment. The state of ‘ts upon which the opinions expressed are sed is this. One of the receiv ers, who is president of the Reading railvond, had given written no tice, signed by himself as both president and receiver, that on and after a speci fied date the company’s “well known policy that it will not consent that p sons in its service shall owe alle to other organizations which may make elaims upon them which ave incompat ible with their duties to their employ ers” would be strictly adhered to. The | employes who happened to belong labor organizations and who were thus threatened with dismissal unless they should give up their membership in those organizations most naturally pro. tested to the court under which the re- ceivership had been instituted. The opinion of Attorney General Olney was called forth on the invitation of the court. Olney disapproves of the order of ceiver and characterizes it as “un- nd “d minating” and calen lated to intensify the discontent and re- sentment of the employes of the railroad against a court which would seem to in some manner ken les against them. Foreing them to give up their membership in their labor organ- izations as the alternative of losing their employment deprives them of a legal right which nothing but the most urgent | requirements of policy could | justify. It would deprive them of the benetits which will acerue to them dur- | ing and idleness or their families upon their de benefits for which they have been paying dues and assessments annually for years What, moreover, are the objects of the | nization inst which the orde 0 to a 50 business sickness to past o is r merely to fra slence ind harmonious relations employ ers and empl “Such ave the and purposes of the Brotherhood of Ra 'l way Trainm. Certainly these objects must be regarded as laudable in the | highest degree and as deserving the ap | probation and support of every good eit- izen. If the means to the praisewor- thy ends be examined there is nothing in them to which the most captious critic can object except the provision made for strikes. It is well to note that even these p of an emi nently conservative character,” The at torney gen substance of the recent decision of Jus tice Harlan that strikes are not neces sarily unlawful. He also calls attention its constitution, they ref between 08, s ovisions are full benefit of it to the fact that unorganized labor may | tion to Americ | into congr 1 then goes on to recite the | THE OMAHA DAILY B unite on the spur of the moment for the purpose of precipitating a strike, and gives it as his opinion that organizations such as the one at lssue operate to min imize the possibility of sueh conflicts, | while the approval of the proposed order must tend to increase those possibilities. The acceptance by Judge Dullas of Mr. | Olney's recommendations cannot but | contribute much toward restoring among the wage workers of the country tl confidence in the fairness of the federal courts which was so rudely shaken at various times during the last few years. | NDED STATESMEN. The number of democratic statesmen who nded by the republican ave Is large, but only a few of them had attained such ne or promi nence in the councils of their party as to give them a claim to special consid- ation. Of these William L. Wilson of West Virginia, chairman of the ways and means committee, Is easily pre-emi- nent. The name of Mr. Wilson has within o year become familiar to the people of two continents as a radieal tarilf reformer and in large part the author of the tariff bill which, had it became a law, would have brought the United States neaver to free trade than it has been for forty years. Mr. Wilson was the choice of President Cleveland for the chaivmanship of the ways and means committee and his attaimment of that position was the beginning of his undoing. He is now serving his sixth term as a vepresentative from the Sec- ond West Virginia district and will be succeeded in the next house by a repub- Tican. It is quite probable that Mr. Wil son will be heard from again in politics. The gr awwd of the president for him may be manifested in giving him some important position. But Mr. Wil- son's constituents, a large majority of whom are deeply interested in protec- n industries, have so de ted his ecozomic theories is doubtful whether he will get ss again, should he desire to | do so, at least for some Perhaps next in rank to the West Vir- ginfan among the stranded statesmen is My, Bland of Missouri, the indomitable and persistent advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, whose name 8 been associated with all the silve Tegislation of the past sixteen years. Mr. wd is serving his cleventh term representat in congy but hi will not be heard in the proceed- ings of that bod, fter March 4 next, his constituents become tired of his silver and free trade theories and wisely desired to try a republican repre- ive. With him will retire to pri- ate life two other democratic rep sentatives from Missouri who have a newhat extended reputation as the Ivocates of policies which a large ma- jority of the people of this country do not favor, Mr. Hatch and Mr. Docker; both of whom have been long in con- gress and enjoyed considerable promi- nence in the ceuncils of their party. Mr. Willinm M. Springer of Illinois one of the stranded statesmen who b oceupied the position of a party leader and is serving his tenth and probably last term in congress. Mr. Springer was chairman of the ways and means com- mittee in the Fifty-second congress and conceived the plan of reforming the iff by numerous separate bills, a scheme that failed to complish anything ex- copt o isly damage its author’ claim to statesmanship Springer very active in the last presidential cam ign, but Mr, Cleveland would not al low him to be continned as the chair- man of the ways and means committee. Another Hlinois democratic statesman, Mr. Fithian, who made himself known to the country as the author of ship Dbill and is an advocate of trade and free silver, will go into retive- ment after March 4 next, probably to permanently remain there, A stranded statesman who ought to have been retived long ago is Mr, Wil linm 8. Holman of Indiana, celebrated as the “great objector,” whose stat manship consists in objocting to eve sort of appropriation, except in where his own district would be bhene fite. Doubtless his peculinrity islator has not been altogether value- but his fellow partisans got tived of him and sent him to the rear in thi e will be accompanied in his retivement by the obstreperous and vulgar Bynum of Indiina, whom no self- respecting constituency would have kept in congress five terms. Ohio furnishes to the list of stranded statesmen Tom Tolmson, from the Cleveland district, an avowed e trader and single tax advo- cate. Johnson has the merit of having more candor and honesty than the great majority of his party, but he was caught by the republican tidal wave, and the district he represents will have in the next congress a representative who be- lleves in protecting American industries and American labor, The list could be extended, but it is suflicient to refer only to the more prom- inent members of the party in power whom the people have given leave to at- | tend to theiv private affairs after March 4 next, It the defeat of such men that gives significance to the reaction in popular sentiment. STR cistvely repudi that it S0 serd wis ease CONZress, WORK FOR THE COMMERCIAL CLUBR. Now that the campaign Is over the excitement Incident thereto has sided, the men | should get together and end. th owth Omaha by any | means that may be within their reach | A program of industrial enterprise and tension should be mapped and carvied into effect through the Commercial club, The tidal wave of prosperity which Is setting in slowly but steadily should be taken advantage of and every legitimate project that prom | ises to enlarge our commereial and man- | utacturing facilities should be stimu- | lated. | Among the matters that have been | | under advisement the club recently | [is the location of the head | quarters of the Brotherhood of 1 | motive Engineers, Omaha an organization that is tho oughly established, has ample means in its treasury, and emple force of clerks, and expends many thousan of dollars annually for station and job printing. The order draws to its | |headguarte.s delegiti ns from every s ec- | tion of the country, who naturally would | and sub- business Omaha wor to pro mote of n be proposed of heo- | which would bring to | | Private | Major SATURDAY, have to Patronize Omaha hotels and other coneerns, There arg several important deals in view to m&.g‘- our manufacturing con cerns and_increase their number. Al this leav a very wide field for our business fen and bankers in lines that would beri@fit them individually and col lectively, well as the whole eity. If the city council ean A contract for electrie a period of more than one year, what becomes of the other long time contracts that the council has ap proved from time to time? What be comes of the Ten-year asphalt repairing contract which s so carefully protected by certain members of the city council? into for ot enter lighting What becomes of the ten-year garbage | collection contract, about which we have already had so much scandal? What be- comes of a dozen other important con- tracts which extend beyond the fiscal 3 ? Better invent some other excuse to reject the electric lighting bids, if one is necessar “I heard a man say he was ready to bet $10,000 that Holcomb would not be the next governor,” is the way the rail road under-strappers arve putting it up tods This s the tip that is being sent all along the line to the railroad claqrers to pave the way for a trumped-up con test ordered by the Burlington czar. It makes no difference what Holcoml's plurality is—the attempt is to be made to disfranchise nearly 100,000 voter th's state. The whirlwind already by the Holdrege gang is apparently not The vote given Mr. representative in the although not suflicie nevertheless, a that gentlen W. A. Page for next legislature, t to elect him, is, gratifying evidence of w's popularity. Mr. 1 ahead of the next highest man on his own ticket, and nearly 1 d of the lowest man on his ticket. This means that he was pre ferred by about 1,000 voters who did not yote for his associates. Defeat under such circumstances can by no means be discouraging. The political czar of Nebras abdicate, The people of Neb willing to give the railroads fair treat- ment, but the railrond managers must attend strictly to th legitimate busi- ness as managers of railroads and re- tire from politic This was the ediet promulgated last Tuesday in the defeat of Majors, and it should be respected and lheeded if the railroads want to stop the war against railroad domina- tion. must ka ar Took His Breath Away. Kangas City Star. Hill_decided yedterday not to attempt to raise his voice from out of the depths of the New York Iun:lnlch. Nothing that he could have said would have been worth stopping the procession to hear. i 8 The Hoodoved Chafrmanship, Globe-Democ The fate of Motrison and Wilson will ¥ a fine lesson to would-be tariff smashe If the democrats ev plete control of the government again they will have n hard job getting anybody to take the ¢hair- manship of the ways and means commiltee e Klassing of it ALL Clicago Post. Tammany hall has gonesdown fin trievable defeat. Its hordes of oriminal porters have been scattered 11k the wind. The penitentiary leaders. And the west, relic that has oppressed If these many years, breathes freer and thanks the honest men of New York for their uprising, ———— Divine Rights of Immoratity. Louiseille Courier-Journal. There are at least two points of similarity between Nicholas 11 and Alexander. 111 Alexander married the beirothed of his dead elder brother, though in love with another woman, and Nicholas marries the woman selccted for him, though he alr has a wife and children. The “aivine right of kings' overrules the divine law of man- kind. frre- up- chaff before awns for its of a welght —_— The Lang Face for Policy. Springfield Republican Although still wearing long faces Keeping up rates, the fire insur panies enjoy a record of loss $105,789,600 so far this year, against 87,400 in_the same time last some exceptionally disastro before January 1, they will somely 'to recoup thems; losses, fires ensue be able hi for last y Where, Oh Whe, Paul Globe tes of f st The at 16 expl ady inage of silver to 1 now. pl take the floor and n e they are at. A scrutiny of the returns indicates that the opponents o fr coinage coined tes Tuesday in the ra.io of 16 against to 1 for. That cri may be laid away with the rag baby of the seventies, and the subject considered in a common ‘sense way. st Kansas City The prospective policy of G toward American eattle will cause t) partment of Agriculture at cause a closer insnec to this country fi caution is sugg: ducing glanders are frequently Burope exports L retary Morton is little les her eye Morts o Kalsor. tar. any This pre- d by the danger of intro- ind kindred dis which ound in the horses which the Unite Se ng to give Germany a son in reciprocity which may open —_—— Germany's Cattle Kdict. Chicago Herald Tt is again asserted at the German fo office that the prohibitory decree “was not intended as retaliation for the American sugar tariff, but was an absolute sanitary necessity.” 'And it Is added that s the United States government is guarantee that the Texas fever is extinct’ the edicts will bevescinded That may not be very soon. ment may not be be that Texas f is catarrh is extinet. 'We may find it neces- sary to exact fiom the German government a guarantee that the practice of adulterat- ing wine and beer is extinct in CGermany AIl that our government can be expected 10 uarantee is that eattle and meats shipped to Germany are pot diseased. ——— Last of the ¢ 1t elgn Our r able to gu extinet than that govern antee The concluding chapter in the history of Cedarquisk's difficulties with the nment oy the. subject of target prac has now BHER made public Private Cedargust, it will b was sentencedi th donfinement )n consclentioun gmunds, to take part with some of his eqmrades In Sunday & practice at the Lellevue range in Nebrask The War depdrfmept did not approve that result and directed his re e, declaring at the sume time that the officer who ordered the target praghiceon Sunday must himself tried for \iplating President Lincoln instructions of November 15, 182, which r strict Sunday Jebomin the army and na to the measure. of strict re Worth of the Second infantry ingly tricd, but Was found not appeared from General Brooke's revie the case that the court evidently c the target practice at Belleyue necessary, ;r, at all events, that Major Worth, in ordering it, had considered it in “the exer ise 0f an honest and reasonable discretion His battalion of the Second infantry was in camp, and, thirking the regiment ordered to duty in suppressing the riots then requiring the attention of the army, he wanted to have thcse who were belindiend in target practice catch up, so as to be effective like the rest But Private Cedarauisf al adviser was not content to let the matter rest with his client's release and restoration to duty une Worth's acquittal. He filed additional charges. Then the War department inter vened by informing him that it could -t undertake to try an acquitted cfficer again for what was the, same al leged offense th¥® story of the Cedarquist case, Ingenious attorney can consiruct a seque e emembered refusing, gullty W or nsidered 1t | NOVEMBER. 10, 1894. OTHER LANDS TEAN OUR. The principal tople of Buropean specula- tion naturally continues to be the character and policy of the new czar. The dead Alex- ander has been eulogized, criticised and dis- missed with as kindly a farewell as may be. His sorvices as preserver of the peace for Burope are greatly recognized; and his nar- row orientalism, his determination to crush out from Russia everything that was not Slav, the tyranny and oppression with which he treated his people, as positively con- demneéd. But Alexander s dead, his reign ended, his pet ambitions dead with him, and his policy, domestic and foreign, a thing of | the past, unle:s hts son and successor sees fit to revive them—and this is the very point {upon which Burope is groping for light. It | 18 not known whether Nicholas is | bigot as Alexander was—a persecutor of |Jews and Stundists, and all outside the national church of which he was the head; or a reactionist and foe of reforms, or a repudiator of pledges like those to Finns and Livonians which Alexander broke. To whom will Nicholas turn in friendship among the rulers of Europe? What countries will he cultivate an alliance with and to which will he be indifferent or unfriendly? Will he be for peace, or will he be greedy to extend Russian power if he invites war by so doing? It would be comparatively easy to answer like questions about the successor to any other throne in Europe, but the absence of any anthentic information abont the charac- | ter, the predilections, or the probable inten- [ tions of ‘Nicholas 1T make prophecies cerning course as a ruler of the Russias principally guess work. Agitation Ru:sia not for a constitution till one is obtained. The people yet qualified for any considerable degree of self-government, and, whatever we may think of an absolute monarchy in the abstract, we must admit that in the past it has been the best form of government for Russia. But the czar can make many changes in the interest of liberty without yielding any of his powers. There Is great need of a reorganization of the bureaus through which the government is carried on. The young czar may conclude to attempt some reforms. If the nihilists, however, keep him in continual fear for his life they will prevent the reforms which they desire. It is important that the czar should be fa- miliar with his country, but if he cannot leave his palace without fear of assassination he will find it difficult to obtain the in- formation necessary. 1t is not likely that there wil be any change during the period of mourning, whatever may be done afterward. M. Jules Roche, reporter for the budget committee of the French Chamber, furnishes in the Paris Matin an interesting comparison of the French and German military forces and expenditure. He says that the French ordi- nary war budget is about 518,000,000 francs, or 563,000,000 francs with the extraordinary war expenditure. The number of men pro- vided for in 1895 fs 509,000, or 31,000 below the imum fixed by the organic law of the army. The German ordinary war expendi- ture, he says, is fixed at 600,027,581 francs, and the extraordinary at 187,030,267 francs, the total being 787,957,838 francs. AS it con- tains no extraneous expenses, nothing has to be deducted from that total. That fact, how- ver, is not, in M. Roche’s opinion, the most significant difference between the two budgets. | Compared with the war budget of 1894, France augments her ordinary war expendi- ture by 10,000,000 francs, and diminishes her extraordinary expenditure by 5,000,000 francs. The Germans diminish their extraordinary war budget by 24,000,000 francs, but it still amounts to the enormous sum of 188,000,000 francs, whereas in France it is 45,000,000 francs. What is more important, says M. Roche, the Germans increase the permanent ordinary war expenditure by 65,000,000 francs. By the financial law of March 26, 1893, this was fixed at 535,000,000 francs, but in March it was raised to 600,000,000 francs. Contin- uing the comparison, M. Roche declares that the effective strength of the army fixed by the German military law Is amply provided for. The 2,498 companies of German infan- try are maintained at a strength of at le 150 men, whereas the 2,426 companies of ch infantry rarely reach the effective of 125 men each declared in the French organic military law to be indispensable. In Fr. he says, the military law is made subservient to financial necessities, whereas in Germany the military law is paramount, and is en- forced regardless of cost. The correspondent of the London Times in Rome takes a hopeful view of the financial situation in Italy. He says: ‘“The absolute sincerity with which Sig. Sonnino went to bottom of all the obligations, and the pes- simism of his early statements, which were realized in every particular, justify us in ac- cepting the conclusions based on them. The general situation, commercial and industrial, is either improving or not deteriorating, and, though the agricultural situation is somewhat inferfor to that in preceding years, it is met by a notable increase in confidence. The po- sition of the Banca d'Italia is also Improving, in spite of an interested attack made on it in cortain quarters, and the hearty understand- ing between it and the government is, I am able to say, about to develop important re- sults in the Improvement of the general finan- clal situation. The difficulties of the general position are real enough. For the last few years Italy, financially speaking, has been Roverned by and In the interest of the banks, with a frivolity and indifference to the sound and permanent Interests of the country which, if continued much longer, would have made inevitable the bankruptcy which disinterested crities prophesied three years ago. 1 believe that if European complications are avolded, and the ministry is allowed to complete its program, Italy will find its finances this year, if not prosperous, yet perfectly sound.” . will continue in are “The Trench commissioner who was sent to Madagasear to try to persuade the Hova government to consent to a protectorate has falled in his mission, and left the island, The French government has, therefore, de- eided to ask the Chamber of Deputies to de- clare war and vote money, the probability belng that $6,000,000 will be asked for as a first installment. The Hova army is small, but it has been trained by English and French officers, and there is a good supply of artillery and modern rifies. The men are well fitted with guerrilla warfare and in the dense forests, where the French troops will have to cut their roads, the surrounding bush will swarm with Hov But the native army will also have allies. Generals Feb- ruary and March have often proved to be formidable commanders to fight against, and there is a Malagassy proverb that forest and fever are the count greatest protection against foreigners. The cemetery at Tama- tave is full of graves of brave Frenchmen who died of fever during the last war. The campalgn is likely to prove a costly one It is a curious fact that the late czar, Alexander III, whose Tartaric cast of fea tures seemed to indicate a strong infusion into his veirs of Kalmuck blood, was in reality of almost purely German descent. The reigning family of Russia are Roman- offs merely by courtesy, being descended from Anna, the sister of the Empress E beth, who was the last Muscovite sovereign of purely Russian biood. Anna became the wife of a German, the Duke Frederick of Holstein, and the son of this mar the short-lived czar, Peter III, was, fore, only half Russian. The wife of Peter III, the famous Empress Catherine II, was also a German; their son, 1, therefore, | was but_'one-quarter Paul I, Nicholas I (the son of Paul), and Alexander |11 (the son of Nicholas and father of the |late czar) each in turn married German and consequently Alexander Il was than one thirty-second part of The characteristics of Alex- ander III, however, completely belied his descent, and lent no support to the theory of heredity. His tastes were those of a Moujik; his prejudices were antl- n, and in his sympathics no less than in personal appearance he was every inch a Russian, The Belglan conservatives have been largely | succedstul over the liberals and socialists in the elections under the new suffrage law In the Chamber of Deputies they will be | 100 strong, alnst twenty-three progres- sists and twenty-five soclalists. In Brussels alone they have galned elghteen seats and have a majority of 13,000, In the mining and mascufacturing districts, however, the | wives; not more Romanoff blood. as religious | th program of the soclalists is remarkable for its moderation. It does not, In fact, go any further than that of the English radi- cals, and many of its demands are already laws in this country and In England. They may not be granted at present, but the next election is certain to soe a change In the political complexion of the Belgian Parlia- ment. SOME FETCHING READLINES, St, Louls Globe-Demoerat (rep.) Toosters. Atchison Globe (rep.): Quit the election and go to work. Cleveland Leader (rep.): Protection, patriot- ism, prosperity! Goodby, tinkers Louls Republic (dem.): Counting dead and wounded. It grows worse, | Cineinnati Commereial (rep.): The victory is complete from Maine to California Minneapolis Journal (rep): IU's awful, A record of the greatest landslide in the his tory of American politics. Atlanta Constitution (dem): No longer solid. The heretofore solid south is at last shattered. Everything is goue. Minneapolis Times (dem.): OId gone. Bland, Hatch, Wilson, Holman and Johnson are retired. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.): Tears. 1f you have any to shed, prepare to shed thew now. This is a most melancholy tale o figures Kansas City Star (ind.): Mossba quished. The revolution in the of democracy” much the most of any this year. Louisville Courfer-Journal (dem.): They tumble us into an open grave. And where stands old Kentucky? Iiven the old com monwealth seems disposed to apply the slipper. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin (rep): The elephant is walking, and the democrats are blue. The elephant is walking, for people have proved true; the elephant walking, and you hear tremendous squawk- ing, for he's treading out the rooster crop of eighteen ninety-two. - CURRENT CHAFF. A flock of talking about St the landmarks Springer, kism van- ‘G braltar remarkable “This,"” the knife “is the op remarked bout to season Indianapolis Journa the oyster, as he descend on his shell, for me." W n Richmond Dispatch: When a man fs in- formed there are triplets in his family he can hardly believe his own census, Detroit Tribun and more to re stage.” “That ting out “People are coming more alize that all the world's ccounts for so many scandals get- Lowell Courler: The Boston barber who keeps his shop open Sunday is apt to get into & scrape. New Orleans Pleayune: “Be sure you are right, then go ahead,” was Crockett's motto; but {f he were alive now and blocking up a street crossing he would be loudly invited to go ahead, right or wrong. Somerville Journal: doctor from an old doctor in the dark, be- cause you ask the old doctor a que i't answer you immediately, if he was cock sur u can tell a young Kale Field's Washingt about the club to my wife. “I do. I speak of it in glowing and then stay at home occasionall wife thinks there fsn't a more selif-sac ing husband in the world!” terms, o my ific- New York Herald: Magistrate (to wit- ness)—I understand that you overheard the el between this defendant and his s sor, Magistrate—Tell ‘the court, what he seemed to be doing. Wiiness—He secmed to be doin® the list- enin’. Yis, if you can, MAN'S INCONSISTENCY. Truth, My Peter says, on Sunday, that he'll sure a bachelor be, On Monday, swears he loves me, and will ere long marry me. He tired is of me Tuesday, and on Wednes- day, knows me not Thursday, courts my neighbor, and his passion wixes hot. Friday he regrets it, such a bore; he And ' Saturday nevermore. SETATIALS AT AN ELECTRASTATIC PAIR, Hardware, He was the gallant engineer Of a glant dynamo She sung to the wires the whole day long With @ chorus of “Helio!” on on for he finds her promises {o love her— He loved the telephonic maid, ‘Till his heart's vibrating plate Was magnetized and polarized At a milllamperic rate, His love he expressed in ohms, And ampercs, or even in volt In voltic phrases and dynamo figures, Of currents, arc lights and bol id he: “By the great broken circuit, Or move, by the Ruhmkorff ¢ Your negative answers will d To some subway under the soil. t a spark of inductive affection, Not a positive ‘Yes' b I'm afraid the wires havi In favor of some other lad. Then regret, like a galvanometer, Or an astatie needle, it smote her, And she =aid: “Of love I have o As strong as an Edison motor.” So he ¢ ped her In there; | rather a jud, the | endorsement ¢ 18 | judgment it s “I never talk | CAUSES OF THR OATACLYSM. New York Recorder (rep): It is settied, In short, that the republican party will have the inside track on the presidential race course in 1596, Indianapolis Journal (rep) party in this country was ever overtaken by se general and overwhelming disaster as was the democracy in the north yesterday. New York World (dem): The democrats did it! It s not a republican victory. It is a defeat for bossism and peanut politics, home, in Washington and throughout country, Chicago Horald (dem): Reereant demo- crats in the senate were largely responsible for the fatal procrastination, but not more han tho chosen leader of the party, Mr. and., His fallure to act promptly and energetically, more than any other one thing, was the cause of the revorse this year, Clncinnati Enquirer (dem): The over- wihelming story of the ballots is notice to the administration that enduring democratio principles must no longer be ignored or sacri= ficed “and the parly of the people made & mere fusteument for the satisfaction of a few ambitions and the gratification of a personul vanily in high place Buffalo Express (rep): This s not a | victory “won by skiliful leadership or the | unusual popularity of caudidates. It is the | return of the people to the republican party— a declaration of their belief in the principlas for which republicanism stands and of their | renewed confidence in the honesty and ability of republican statesmanship to carry out those principles. Indianapolis News not last forover, and reactions react the other way. The people, democrats and all, {are simply di:gusted and angry at the demo- | cratic party, and this, not becauss of its principles, but because of its performances, We should say that yesterday's election is ment upon one party than an the other. ~ And what a No the Cleve (ind): Hard times do Louisville Courier victory of the reaching and Journal (dem): The publicans has been so far- complete as to sink mere | personal incidents and local inflaences quite out of sight. ‘There will he a spectal tale to tell to account for a particular defeat here and there; and for the reduction of this or that majority; but the democratic collapse Is too universal to be ascribed to anything ather than untversal and profound dissatis- faction. Never in the history of the country have the people been so disappointed in work of their own doing, and neyer bofore did they make such haste to undo it. ‘With some the object of distrust has been the adminis- tratlon—with others the congress—with the party organization wherever it itself. — - EVANGELISTS ON THE LEVER. t Meeting d od Invoke NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9.—On account of labor troubles on the levee, brought about by the white laborers in an effort to get rid of colored labor as a competitor, an evan- gelical meeting was held at Wesley chapel of the Methodist Eplscopal church, attended by fifty ministers and 1,500 people. Prayers were offered for guidance and blessing and a long preamble and resolutions were adopted, reciting the deeds of lawlessness committed by mobs in the past and con- cluding as follows ““When the representatives of civil govern- ment, municipal and gubernatorial, secem to act with a measure of indifference to such a condition of affairs, may it not be said, in the days of primitive Christian ex- perience: ‘Lord, uato whom shall we go? But the rescuer is close at hand, there is one to whom we may go, and it Is unto Him of whom the disciples said: ‘Thou hast the words of eternal life.” Unto Him, therefore, have we come this day for guidance, bless- ing and protection, BISHOP MATZ RESIGNS. Announcement Given to the Pross by His Private Secratary. DENVER, Nov. 9.—Bishop Matz of this diocese has tendered his resignation to the pope with a request that it be acospted as s00n as possible. The bishop could not be sesn tonight to find out the cause of his resignation, but his private secretary gave tho following to the Associated Press: "In the absence of the vicar general I am authorized by Rt. Rev. Bishop Matz to an- nounce through the press to the Catholic clergy and laity of the diocese the fact that he has sent on to the holy father his resig- nation of the see of Denver with the request that his holiness would graclously accept it as soon as possible. The bishop considers it necessary to take this somewhat unusual course in consequence of the inaccurate and misleading reports which may find thelr way into the press.” the Guldance of s Ship Owner Appeals to the Court. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9.—M. J. Sanders, agent of the West India line, n British tho United States court an injunction re- straining the white screw men and long- shoremen from Interfering with his loading his ships by colored labor. This is an out- come of the existing troubles. The Cotton exchange and other bodies endeavored to keep the matter from going as far as the federal government, but Mr. Sanders re- fused to delay longer, claiming that the local protection accorded was entirely insuf- YOUR_MONEY'S WORTH For Men equalled, worth g1s. $10. to above; same price, g10. so popular this season. Suits-—Blue-grey cas only $10 Saturday. ment and worth fully g1s. For Boys Boys’ Ulsters, all used to sell for §6.50. Not many of these, at one price Saturday, $3.50 labor party and the soclalists are the victors, Overcoats., Meltons, medium length, with or without velvet collar, worsted lined; colors are those new light and dark wood shades Your choice Saturday, g$10. back to the shoulder, round corner ficient. ——————————————————— OR _YOUR MONEY BACK. Tempters---Ten Dollors---Today. Ulsters, rough Chinchilla cloth, color, Oxford mixed, ankle Jength, deep storm collar, heavy plaid serge lining, silk sleeve lining—a storm stopper un- Our price for Saturday is only Another style Ulster of smoth heavy weight cas- simere, in brown and black, equal in make and finish sing'e breasted, fly front, cloth faced clear sack or cutaways imeres, A handsome, long square cut, double breasted cheviot, in black and blue, all wool, a splendid gar- Our price Saturday, $1o. Two Temptations Today. wool cheviot, full length, with flannel lining and deep storm collar, worth and Our price Saturday only $4.00. Boys’ Suits—All wool cheviot suits of various kinds, colors and makes, from seven different lots-—all ; none worth less than 5. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothicrs, S. W, Cor, 15thand Douglas. subject, has obtalned from Judge Pardee in