Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1894, Page 4

[ 2 B. ROSEWATER, BEditor. PUBLISHED BY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Datly Jien (without Sunday), One Yeas Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year. Bix ~ Months.. Three Months. . y Bunday itee, One Year Baturday 1 g Weekly De: MORNING., == S 2533388 Omaha, The Beo Bullding. Bouth Omaha, srner N _and Twenty-fourth Sts. Counell Bluffs, 12 1 Btreet. Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 F Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENC All_eommunications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETT 3 A"l business letters and remittances should be @ddiessed to The Bee Publishing company, Omana, * Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payabl 0 the order of t company. ™ PUBLISHING MPANY. OF CIRCULATION. huck, secrotary of The Ree Pub. belng duly sworn, says that act r of full and complete copies of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 189, was follo ek 16.. 21,124 1. 21,255 i 1. 2) 21 2 23 o 2 2 27. 28 =, 80, STATI Qeorge 13. T lishing co th Total 5 o Less deductions for unsold coples .. and Total sold Dally a I EORC o me and subseribed in my pres November, 1504, P. L, Notary Publle. Sworn to bef. ence this 34 (8eal) A CORRECTION. The Bee Tuesday morning contained an editorial under the caption, “What the Figures Reveal” The publication of this article was premature and its con- clusions are misleading, both as regards the divergence between the yote for Hol- comb and other candidates on the state ticket and the relative strength of par- ties as shown by the aggregate vote. The basis of the article in question was the table of the vote of Nebraska that appeared in The Sunday Bee. That table was correct and complete as re- gards the vote cast for Holcomb and Majors in the various counties, but there were thirteen counties lacking on the other state officers which were left blank in the table. The mistake was made in making the computation on the assumption that the totals included the entire state ticket when, in fact, only the vote on Majors and IHolcomb was practically complete. The transfer switch law decision is next in order. Several genatorial booms will be on the market at bedrock prices within a few weeks after the legislature convenes. The charter committee had better con- fer with the gentlemen who are to represent this county in the next legis- lature. All roads will soon lead to the state house at Lincoln, but only one road will lead from the state house to the senate chamber at Washington. The greatest men in Nebraska from now on until the legislature meets and adjourns are the men who hold cards of admission to the next legislative as- sembly. Collisions between Judge Scott and Justices of the supreme court seem to be the order of the day, with the su- preme court as nsual upsetting Scott's mandates. If Cassius M. Clay had a duel instead of a wedding on his hands ali the cler men ard m g'strates in Kentucky woul 1 not be able to prevent the event from taking place. Texas seems to be the lone star state in the democratic flomament. It is the only state in which the returns get better for the democrats as the figures become more complete, The county commissioners will make no mistake in revising the list of county poor charges in anticipation of an in- ereased demand for poor relief during the approaching winter. Holcomb's majority has passed the 8,200 mile post and the men who staked their money on the hickory shirt mas- querader may ns well order the stake- holder to release their surplus. Wanted, several hundred new boarders to take the places of the men who came into Omaha on railroad business just before election and quietly moved away dgaln since the Tth of November. If the difficulties between Japan and China should Dbe adjusted this month the people of the United States will have an additional incentive to observe the day of rest and thanksgiving appointed by the president. - Bryan and Thurston have both issued cards to their countrymen in general and the people of Nebraska in particu- lar, Now let the other senatorial candi- dates follow suit and tell an anxious public where they arve at, Senator Hill and President Cleveland have not renewed their acquaintance so rudely broken off by the campaign. It Is therefore a trifle premature to say that they do not speak as they pass. First give them a chance to pass. People who were Inconvenienced by the closing of the Sixteenth street viaduet pending repairs will ‘rejoice at the completion of the work. The neces- sity of a viaduct at that polut was never 80 much appreciated as when the public was temporarily deprived of its use, One of the remarkable disclosures made by the defeat of Majors is the * mumber of the disappointed who are " disgruntled ouly because they hold pledges of appointment to office condi tioned on the corporation candidate's election. The disclosure 1s all the more surprising to them because it brings to light so many pledges of the same office to 80 many different people. Had Majors been successful the number of this class of the disgruntled would bave been pnaller by but a very few. REPORT OF THE ‘STRIKE COMMISSION. The report of the commission ap- pointed by President Cleveland to in- quire nto the causes of the great Pull- man strike and to make such recom mendations as the facis might war or suggest is finally at hand. It ¢ mends itself to the caveful reader as a well prepared account of the various factors that entered into this greatest of recent labor troubles, conservative and fmpartial in its reeltal of facts and suggestive of legislation that must be admitted even by the railroad mana to be far from radical. A review of this report can only refer | in a word to the testimony developed at | the hearing which the commission ac- | corded to all parties who were able to throw light upon the subject, From the evidence accumulated most instructive | accounts have been compiled of the his tory of the Pullman company and its model town venture in Illinois, of the American Railway unfon and of the ieneral Managers' association. The | general toue of the ort scems to be in sympathy with the claim of the Pull man strikers that they had not been | fairly treated. The alled philan- | thropy of Pullman town is “paternal- ism," and the thoughtful provision of medieal attendance for those who are | injured at their employment is “a tem admirably conceived from a busi ness standpoint to secure speedy settle- ment of claims for dimages upon terms offered by the company and to protect the company from litigation and its re- sults.” The purpose and plan of the American Railway union seems to ap- peal to the fair-mindedness of the com missioners and the Pallman company's policy of refusing recognition to organ- ized labor is branded as “behind the ge." The General Managers' assocla- tlon, too, is referred to as “an illustea- tion of the persistent and shrewdly-de- vised plans of corporations to overreach their limitations and to usurp indirectly powers and rights not contemplated in their charters and not obtainable from the people or their legislators.” An ex- tension of this organization to include wlronds not running into Chicago, to- gether with the proposed legalization of pooling, would, in the opinion of the commissioners, result in an aggregation of power and capital dangerous to the people and their liberties, as well as to employes and their So long at least as railroads are permitted to com- bine to fix wages and for their joint protection, it would be rank injustice to deny the right of all labor upon rail- ronds to unite for similar purpose Into the broad range of remedies pre- sented by voluntary witnesses, such as the single tax, government ownership of railways, and what not, the commission refuses to go in detail. It prefers rather to limit its recommendations to a few simple points. The right of congress to legislate in regard to the conditions of employment and service upon railroads engaged in interstate commerce is as sumed to be as constitutional as similar power with respect to rates, diserimina- tion and pooling. The first legislation suggested, therefore, is the establish- ment of a permanent strike commission with jurisdiction over disputes between interstate railroads and their employes. The commission should be composed of three persons, appoiuted by the presi- dent, and should have power to enforce its findings equal to that of the Inter- state Commerce commission. It should take upon itself the work of conciliation and arbiteation, and the parties to such a controversy should be permitted to have each a representative acting tem- porarily with it upon matters which pe- culinrly affect them. Things should re- main in statu quo yending these pro- ceedings and the commission should be left free to intervene as in its judgment seems wise, whether or not the parties apply for assistanc An experiment with such a commission might perhaps Le a step in the right direction, but it can be but a step. The ultimate goal must be regulation of the tenure and promotion of railway employes, coupled with the right of appeal, individually or collectively, for redress of grievances. If this is bound to come it may as well come directly through congressional leg islation as through the slow process of adjudication by a strike commission. Let us have this once settled and it will be immaterial whether the remain- ing recommendations—of state boards of arbitration, of I making contracts conditioned on nonunion labor illegal, of recognition by the railways of the labor organizations—are adopted or not. A permanent strike commission to sec that the railroads live up to the obliga- tions to their employes which the law fmposes might be useful, but we must have the law first. 80 ws THE PHELPS COUNTY RETUUNS. The Phelps county returns in the hands of the secretary of state show that Silas A. Holcomb for governor re- ceilved 840 votes and Thomas J. Majors 1,136 votes. The return, as made by the board of ecanvassers of Phelps county, credits Silas A. Holcomb as re- ceiving 1,136 and Thomas J. Majors 840 | votes. This fact is established by the following certificate in our possession: HOLDREGE, Nov. 10.—Vote of Phelps county on governor: E. A. Gerrard, fifty- three (53); Silas A. Holcomb, one thousand one hundred and thirty-six (1,136; Thomas J. Majors, elght hundred and forty (840); Phelps D. Sturdevant, thirty-four (34). I hereby certify that the above Is a true copy of the vote for governor cast in Phelps county November 6, 1894, as found by the boerd of county canvassers of Phelps county. (Seal.) A. S. ERICKSON, County Clerk. It is manifest that the returns on gov- ernor as transmitted by the clerk of Phelps county to the secretary of state were transposed by clerical error. It therefore becomes the duty of the clerk to rectify his mistake by substituting a col ed certificate. We learn from re- liable authority that Mr. Erickson de- sires the secretary of state to return him the original package so0 as to enable him to make the correction within the time prescribed by law. This request should be complied with promptly by Secretary Allen without controversy. Unless this 1s done the power of the courts will have to be invoked to .com- pel the correction of the blunder. While it is true that the loss of 502 votes would still leave Holcomb over 000 plurality the error must be cor- rected so as to make the returns sub- T 'mimn DAILY BEE: safety of our Institutions depends upon ballot and an honest count. AS 10 DUUGLAS COUNTY, There has been a deal of twaddle and nonsense published about the vote of Douglas county by befuddled corve- spondents and befogged organists, On one side it is charged that the great slump In the Majors vote In the upper wards of Omaha, which usually give heavy repub lican majorities, was caused Dby pernicious tampering with the returning boards. On the other side it is nsserted that the influence of The Bee was least manifest in its stronghold, and as proof of this assumption comparison is made botween the vote received by Majors this year and the vote received by Gov- ernor Crounse two years ago, All these allegations are far from the truth. The vote of Omaha proves two things conclusively Itirst, that Majc recelved more than his full quota of votes in the lowe wards. which are always democratic, In the IPirst and Third wards the purchaseable vote of the slums and dives was shov eled in by the d workers of the busi ness men's combine and Burlington boodle distributors. In the upper wards defection of repub lican votes, and no mg I could have prevented it. Ne: spuby lican in wi marks his ticket intelligently, and a very heavy percent- age of the republican wage workers in stores and factories had made up their minds to vote for Holcomb before clec. tion day. Most of these people read The Bee, and those who do not voted against Majors bocause they resented the thre ts of corporate employe The republicans had the election officers of the upper wards by two to one, but they could not force men to vote for Majors who came to vote for Holcomb, The country precincts of Douglas county, which usually give from b to) 200 republican majority, gave Holcomb a plurality of nearly 300, The farmers had also been aroused to resent porate domination. So much on score, Now (hese cor- that for s a comparison of figures. Three ago Judge Post carvied Douglas county by 6,578 majority over gerton, who had no other opponent. One year ago Judge Harrison carried Douglas county over Holcomb by a plurality of 4,689, This year Majors has only earried Douglas county by 443, and that, toe, with the : id of more than 2,000 democrats and fully 500 votes sup- pressed in South Omaha. On the other hand, Holcomb received 4 votes more this ar in Douglas county than he did a year ago. The highest fusion candidate on the legis- Iative ticket received 6,811 votes, while Holcomb received 10,199 votes. In other words, Holcomb received 3,388 votes more in Douglas county than were given to the eandidate for the legislature on whom the democrats and populists had combined. It should Dbe remembered, too, that the rump democrats had no legislative ticket in Douglas county. efore manifest that Helcomb more than 3,000 republican votes in Douglas county, and there is no gainsaying of that fact. Right here let us also state that neither Senator Manderson, John M. Thurston, Dave Mercer mnor anybody else could have stemmed the anti-Majors current among vepublicans of this city and county under the prevailing conditions. THE RETURN OF CONFIDENCE. There is no sound reason why there dould not now be a general recovery of confidence and with it a steady im- provement in all departments of busi- ness. The two things needed to produce this condition were assured by the re- sult of last week’s election. One of these was that there shall be no further tinkering with the tariff by the present congress and the other that the cur- veney shall be kept on a sound and stable Dbasis. It is reported t Mr. Bayard and some other democratic lead- ers urge that the free raw material bills passed by the house at the last session should be enacted into law at the com- ing session, ind it is to be expected that Mr. Cleveland, in his annual mes- sage, will urge further legislation on this line, except as to sugar, but it is entively safe to say that nothing will be done which the republicans of the senate do not approve. This being the case the industries of the coun try Mave nothing to fear. So far as the currency question s con- cerned, and it is now generally regarded as the paramount question, it is equally certain that nothing will be done by the present congress, for the reason, in the first place, that the party in power is s0 divided that an agreement on any plan which may be presented is hardly possible, and in the second place any plan which might be agreed on by the democrats would probably not be ac- ceptable to the republicans. While, therefore, the tariff must be regarded as a virtnally dormant question the | currency problem will await solution at the hands of a republican congress and president. Undisturbed stability is as- sured in the meantime to the financial interests of the couutry, and these have no reason to apprehend from the repub- liean party any hurtful change in the monetary system The expressions of leading eastern financiers indicate the influence which the result of the elections has had in reviving confidenc One of these is quoted as saying that he believed we shonld see during the next two years a vevival of business which will be as marked in its buoyancy as fas been the depression of the last two years, The expressions of a number of others, men well known throughout the finan- cial cireles of the country, were to the same effect. The leading commercial paper of the country, the New York Commerclal Bulletin, says: “Upon the whole the elections clear away some important elements of distrust as to the future course of legislation, and so far the result is favorable to the return of commercial and financial confidence. A very large majority of the people have ordered the transfer of power into the hands of those in whom they have more confidence than in its present cus- todians, and the natural inference s that they will view the future more hopefully, which of itself Is sutlicient | stimulus to business.” Reports from a number of industrinl points show that confidence s renssert- ing itszlf, and in fact everywhere there I8 being mgnigested a better feeling. Of course ‘&l- P are causes of depres- slon apart ffomd party policy and legis- Iation which will not be at once over- come, and while these continue to op- erate progress toward complete busi ness recovery and general prosperi must neces®trily be gradual. With the agriculturalini@rest not receiving much if any profit_pn its products and with the labor inferest having heavy losses to be provitled for out of futur ings the consuming power of thes elements of the population must be re- stricted for some time to come. But recovery will be surer of permanence if gradual and along strictly legitimate lines. The fact to be impressed upon those who haye idle capital which they may desire to invest in business en- vises and upon those already fin business is that there is no longer any excuse or justification for distrust, but on the confrary every reason for con fidence. When everybody shall realize | this there will ensue general and legiti mate activity and uin, steady pro gress to prosperity Tomorrow Brazil will inaugurate new pr a sident, the first one chosen by the divect vote of the people. For the | ¢ two or three days RRio Janeiro has | been the scene of g 1 ivities and | the final ceremonies connected with the inauguration promise to be memorable. There had been some apprehiension of an effort on the part of the present presi- dent, Peixoto, to a me the role of dictator, but he will submit to the pop ular will and resume his former posi- tlon in the army. The president-eleet, Moraes, is said to be a thorough repre sentative of the new republicanism of Brasil, and his election with slight op- | position attested his popularity. The | republican system of government has had a somewhat severe trial in Brazil nd its survival of revolution id for- eign intrigue w uts the belief, or at any rate the hope, that it will be main tained. From what is said of Moraes, who is an experienced statesman, his administeation 1 be expected to strengthen republicanism. The Ameri- can people feel a great interest in B ) not only because that country is a sister republic whose institutions are largely patterned after ours, but also for the reason that the future commercial rela- tions Dbetween the two countries are likely to De much more important than at present. Brazil las manifested a | veciprocal feeling toward the United States. The, inauguration of the first | president of | that republic chosen by popular sufffage Is an event in which the Americait people cannot but feel a most hearty interest. The periodical agitation for better fire protection is again upon us. There is no question that our fire service could be improved Just as every other branch of our municipal’ government could be improved. It is also unquestionable that it can be improved without any material increase in the appropriation made for purpeses of fire protection. The city should Insist upon ring everything in the way of water pressure that its contract with the water works company calls for, and some plan should be adopted to ascertain what that is. As to Increasing the expenditures of the fire department, the ecity authorities wili do well to go slow and consider care fully all the circumstances and condi- tions. The taxpayers are not in a mood to welcome any unnecessary finaneinl burden In appointing Judge E. R. Duffie to the place on the beneh of this judicial district made vacant by the resignation of Judge Walton Governor Crounse has made a selection that will command general approval. Judge Duffie is emi- nently qualified to perform the duties of the office. During his brief occu- | paney of the bench as the successor to Judge Ogden he gave universal satisfac- tion and earned the respect and the confidence of all who had occasion to have relations with him either as litigants or as lawyers. Judge Duffic can only bring still further credit to Governor Crounse for the long list of excellent judicial appointments made by him during his term of offic The Burlington registers a protest with the Western Passenger association against the adoption of any plan which shall take out of its own hands the granting of applications for half- fare passenger rates on its lines. The railrond officials are con- stantly inveighing against the abuses of the pass system and of the half-fare, but whenever a proposal is made to remedy them they are the ones to interfere with objections. We believe that the only way the pass evil and the half-fare evil can be really abolished is by some form of public supervision over the passenger departments of the different railroads. The county clerk of Phelps county has asked that his certificate of the election returns be sent baick to him in order that he may cotrect the error of trans- posing the vof¢ for Majors and Hol- comb. The corporation cappers and their organ find that they were alto- gether too previous in expressing their glee over this littld mistake —— Judge Brewep must be given credit for tlie ingenuity With which he man- ages to declurd the maximum freight rate law perfeglly, constitutional and yet hang it up indefinitely because its enforcement woulif be unconstitutional, The distinetion s fine, but the difference is broad. i1 0.0 e— Two of u Kild, with Variations. Philadelphia Record. Nebraska and Nérth Carollna are a set- off. In one state a populist-democratic gov- ernor is elected and in the other a populist- republican, FSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1894, | thing | the republican candidate for governor which BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING, Mefore Nomloating. Lincoln Courler: Nebraska has seen enough of the “Tom™ and “Jack' brand of republican politics. The time has come for the injection of a little more dignity and a little more common sense and a little more honesty and a little more patriotism Into the management of the republican party in this state, The baser element of the party has been allowed (oo tight a grip, and respecta- bility and decency have been sent to the rear. In the naming of tickets there is scarcely any consideration of questions affecting the wel- fare of the state and the party. Action is guided almost solely by the personal influence exerted by the self-constituted bosses. The threat of political disfavor is held out, and t the crack of the practical politicians’ whip the rank and file of the party fall in line with Wardly a murmur. The candidates of the party are seldom the choice of the republican voters. They are in most instances men who have secured a place on the ticket by the exercise of a political “‘pull,’ who have practically beaten their way 1o the front Just now there is a protest against this kind of republican management, or rather mis management, and it will be a dangerous thing for the party to disregard the warnings that have been sounded. As was generally expected, The Bee has turned its batteries on Tom Majors, and is opposing the nomination of the licutenant governor with all the force that Mr, Rose water can throw into an attack of this sort This fight on Majors is in some respects in advisable; but it is having its effect notwith- | standing the statements of s newspapers | that have attempted to make light of the| howings made in The Bee. As a general it is no doubt wise in a politician not the stories that are’ circulated about the charges preferred against Ma f too serious a nature to be fgnored, act there has been no attempt to the slatements made by The Bee, by the way, pretty well backed up, spled by a great many people as conclusive evidence that Majors is guilty. In simple truth, Tom Majors is not the kind of @ man for governor of this state, as all re publicans not unduly influenced by the bosses dmit, and as all republicans know. Lincoln Call: There are increasing evi- lences throughout tho state of a disposition to rescue the republican party from the wire pallers and Jackals that now oppress it and place the party on a higher plane, a plane of patriotism Whether this sentiment will be powerful enough at the state convention to effect the e overthrow of the bosses and nom- a strong, clean ticket, on a genuine re- tform, we are unable to say. hope there is enough good sense and loyaity to the party and devotion to the state left among the republicans of Nebraska (o re, at the approaching state convention, a radical departure from the old methods and the old-time bosses. If republicans have no other motive than e simple desire to have the party succeed they should bend all energies to the task of re- claiming the party in the present campaign. There must be a change for the better if the party is to remain in power in this state. deny ; but disprove After N Call: Some inating. interesting corre- spondence between E. ewater, editor of The Omaha Bee, and Thomas J. Majors, \epublican candidate for governor, is pub- lished in this issue of the Call. This correspondence is interesting chiefly as showing the mental unrest which the growing enthusiasm for the republican ticket is causing the little imp who runs The Bee, and who attempts to run the republican party, and whose final separation from the party is a most hopeful augury of complete republican triumph. Mr. Majors treats the latest manifestation of the jabbering manikin in just the way it should be treated. * ¢ * Rendered desperate by the knowledge that his own infamy is fast burying him in the sands of irrtrievable disaster, the manikin at Omaha is capable of resorting to any artifice, however damnable, in the hope of averting the fate that impends. The public may expect, between now and election day all that the diabolical ingenuity of the imp can conceive. The public may expect the most: dastardly attempts to stay the onward march of republiean enthusiasm, and be pre- pared for all tricks and machinations and harlequinade that balked devilment may re- sort to. But it will not avail. Nothing that this little misfit at Omaha can do can effect in the slightest degree the overwhelming victory that is in store for November 6. And has the Call has before remarked, one of the most gratifying features of the approaching pleasantness will be the utter humiliation of this manikin, Rosewater. In the big plurality that an aroused public will pile up for Tom Majors and Nebraska, this pigmy who would be a potentate, this treacherous, deceitful, malicious disciple of infamy will be completely engulfed; and his threats and ravings in the future will be provocative only of derision and contempt. all: Mr. Rosewater has not thus far answered our open letter with reference to the ‘“best method of defeating Thomas Majors;” but a report has come to us to the effect that Mr. Rosewater is considering our suggestion with a view to acting thereon. And we are much troubled. When we sug- gosted that the best way of defeating Mr. Majors would be for The Bee to support his candidacy we were writing in anything but a serious vein, and it did not for one moment occur to us that Mr. Rosewater would follow our advice. Hence our agitation now over the report that he will support Mr. Majors from this time on. If The Bee should openly espouse Majors we would never forgive ourselves for the defeat of Lincoln would necessarily follow. We can only hope that this report is unfounded and that Mr. Rosewater will continue to aid the state ticket by opposing it through his paper. —————— WHITTLED TO A PO. Buffalo Courier: Just because the suc- cessful candidate executes a few steps in glee upon hearing the returns Is no reason why he should be designated as a ballot dancer, Truth: Kitty—All the girls were ecr over that foreign count, but he fell in lov with Ada the minute he saw her in a decol- lete gown. Tom:—Yes, I understand she savs she won by a neck. Indianapelis Journal: > you don't believe that the good die young? Potts— That used to worry me a good deal when I was a boy, but I know better now. Life: Bruded—Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf are appy now. Thickhead—Indeed? Is it Bruder—Of course not. It's a di- Washington Star: “De office seeker what gits defeated,” sald Uncle Eben, “mout git some comfoh’t out of noticin’ dat many er man's triumph has ended right short wig 'is election.” Philadelphia Record: The Frankford Sa. says that the psalmist must have some dry goods store before he wrt the days of my life will I walt till change comes.” Truth: Mrs. Professor (jealously)—What's this long hair ¢n your coat, sir? Professor—Oh, that {s—er—oh been coaching a football el All my I have just en, my dear. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Deacon—And you admit, sinful young man, that you won the hat on election? Spruce Youngster—Yes, sir. “And thus to me, sir, admit the gambling habit? “No gambling about it. of the result. 1 was dead sure AUTUB ODE. Kansas City Journal. Let those, whose volces are id tude Fair aufub’s praises sig: The pleasadt days, the charbig dights Fide idspiratiod brig 1'd like to chadt of fallig leaves, Greed, yellow, red, ad gold, But I cad’'t sig of adythig With this codfouded cold. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S, Gov’t Report oYal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE SOUND ADVIOE SPURNED. At the outset of the Jate campaign there were a few level-headed republican editors who did not join In the crazy jubilation ¢ the ghost-dancers over the opposition of The Bee to the election of Majors. We reprint the sound advice of these paperk at this time as an interesting reminiscence of the cam- paign Just closed. The York Times made the following comment There Is no disguising republican party has a hands this fall, and it helm who is in the fact that rod-hot fight on needs a man at the every way qualified to wage it, a man who ¢ m the emer- , compreliend the peculiar situation and turn everything' to good account for the party. It is a critical time amd a campaign where skillful management will count. There Is no use of claiming victory hands down.” We can have one such as Nebraska has not known for years, or we can fool away the opportunity and be defeated e Nebraska City Press indulg following comment Colonel T. J. Majors has canght expressed in a recent editorial by the and has suggested that the state republican papers leave Mr. Rosewater religiously alone. This is as it should be, and while it may deprive some of the newepapers of consider- able amusement, yet as long as Mr. Rose- wate res to remain on the other side of the f banish his name from the repub- lican household until such time as he shall have repented the ecrror of his ways and climbs over on the right side unassisted Fighting The Bee will not make Mr. Ma- Jors and the balance of the republican ticket any great amount of new friends The North Bend Republican took a broader w of the situation in its immediately after the convention: The republican pre:s of the state {s making a grave mistake. It should pay less atten- tion to fighting Mr. Rosewater and more to fighting democracy and populism. The Re- publican has several times said that it did not always admire Mr. Rosewater's political actions, but it takes this occasion to an- nounce that he is a man of convictions, hone:t in_ his Ideas and sinc in his fons. The editor of the Republican has known Mr. Rosewater for years, and knows that the storfes about his blackmailing poli- ticians are damnable lies. He is a natura horn fighter and will leave no stone unturned to down the men he believes are unfit office. He never forgets, and he has the faculty of always getting, sooner or later, the man he goes after. The Republican the its the idea still Issue believes he acted unwisely in glving Judge | Harrison that port “protesting support.” It believes he made a mistake in refusing to sup- Majors, but it believes that he acted entious motives, is no use denying that Mr. paper has a wide influence. It is the greatest paper in' the west, and deep down in their hearts the masses of the people believe that he is a tolerably safe guide. Mr. Majors goes into the campaign with The Bee against him. He and his friends must ot be misled by the oft-repeated assertion that The Bee's opposition means votes. It means nothing of the kind. It means lots of bard work to counteract the influence of The Bee. The republican state ticket going to be elected, but it is going to take lots of hard work, and the party has no time to fight Mr. Rosewater. It must fight the other two great parties in this state. Let's get the plan of campaign firmly fixed in our minds, fellow republicans. The Howells Journal looked at the matter in this way: The expected has happened. Fditor Rose- water of The Bee has resigned his chairman- ship of the national republican committee and is now in the position to fight the nominated hickory-shirted man from Nebraska, A great many people may think that Rosewater has no influence in the state of Nebraska, but election day will show that his influence is the balance of power in this state. His pro- testing support of Harrison last fall, which came very near defeating that man, and his open opposition to Majors will turn the con- test in favor of the popnlists. People may think that Rosewater is not consistent, but if the republican party had followed his leadership and advice the party would today be composed of honest men, no matter what party principles were advocated. But it has ever been thus, every man who tried to serve the people in an honest manner has been driven from the party. The Wayne Republican foreshadowed the difficulties in this language: We are not speaking in the interest of any candidate for gubernatorial honors, but we think the party at its Omaha convention onght to steer clear of the “chronics.” We do not believe it is good politics to place nomination the representative of a faction or Rose- cligue, one that cannot command the hearty | support of his own party. It would look as though the present licutenant governor has been too intimately identified with those not in harmony with the past interests of the state. Let us look for a candidate on whose garments the stain of the state house cannot be detected. A campaign of defense is not palatable to most of us, nor can we go into it with the same vim and determination to win. Cuinmity 'as tind Its Day. Philadelphia_Tim We may thus r bly hope that the trade revival which ready begun with such healthy strengt 1 go on from this time with quickening activity, and it make very little differenc the credit of it is count able to take ca is for the politicis we may rejoice t has had his day. v is abundantly All that it w e it a chane and to g 3 hat the calamity howler 1 in the | Press | for | is | Les “ANAT CONTEST Plattsmouth Journal: There Is said to b A well-formed plan on foot for contesting the election of Governor Holcomb, and A. 8 Churchill, the attorney general-elect, 18 re ported to be preparing for it. That belng the case, county authorities cannot be tor careful of the ballots deposited with the county clerks. It the gang could get holé of any of the ballot boxes and rob therr they could then claim that the returns were unreliable because the ballots did not cor respond with the returns, and seek to throw out the vote of such counties, A trick ol that kind may have been contemplated by the crowd aboard which went west on”that | special the other night. The ballots in coun ties carried by Holcomb are especially It | danger. We want to say right et that men who commit frauds in electior | matters should be dealt with very summar | fly, and if caught in the act or convicted # | short shrift and a new rope is none too good for them. The political consorts of Mosher | prust be taught the lesson that an election elects, Grand Island Independent: If railroad die- tation and railrond swindle can control our | elections, our country is not any more “the | land of the free” than it is “the land of | the braves,” who are bought or intimidated | into obedience to raflroad orders. Every honest republican ought to ralse his voice against railroad attempts to steal the election from the man who has been elected, may this man be his favored candidate or not. The republican party of the United States | acted honest wisely when it deelined to make a contest against the election of Grover Cleveland, though his election was decided by a plurality of only about 1,000 in | New York state, and although it was very doubtful whether this plurality was ob- tained by honest mean Ne- braska central committes {act in a similar way. The majority of our Nebraska republicans undoubtedly are in favor of repudiating a dishonest contest against Holecomb, and if our republican state central committee in their miserable obedi- ence to railroad orders should comply with the commands of rallroad magnates, trying | to upset the verdict of the people, to destroy { our liberty, and to make railroad serfs oul of our “free men,” they will ruin themselves and probably split up the republican party, driving out of such a corrupt party all true | and anti-monopoly republicans. We hope yet that they will not be accessories to the attempted election steal Lincoln News: the past when | superintendents We have not Mr. Holdrege and his sub- kindly relieved us of the onerous duties appertaining to the aelection of councilmen; wo have kicked but slightly when they insisted upon having a majority say in picking out the most suitable men for county and state offices, but we do moal | strenuously object when thiose able raiiway superintendents insist upon selecting for ut | the next United States senator. It is now | rumored that Hon. T. M. Marquette, the gen: | eral attorney of the Burlington, is to be pushed forward as a candidate for the Man: derson succession, and that he will have the united support of the Lancaster county dele: gation. The Nows has na very grave objectiont to Mr. Marquette personally, save that if would be unwise for the republicans of Ne- braska to send a man so far advanced in | years as he is, when just as good, if not | better, intellectual timber s just at hand. | Tt would also be very unjust to Mr. Marquette to attempt to deny him the right to aspire to the position because of his connection with the raflroad; but we do strenuously ob- fect to the Burlington making him its candi- date and ordering every other Lancaster can: didate out of the way. In Mr. Lambertson Lancaster county has a man who would ably represent the state in the natlonal sen- ate, Mr. Lambertson is a man of national repute, of acknowlodged executive and oratori- cal abllity, and he will do the state honor it selected. Judge Field is another Lancaster county man who is qualified to fill the posi- tion and whose candidacy will recelve hearty support in Lincoln, There are doubtless others in the city whe could also just as ably represent the state in the senate, and we therefore respectfully protest against the Burlington pushing itsell into this canvass with the intent of forcing any of its official representatives upon u Let the railroads for once permit this ta be a case of natural selection. R S E OF BOREDOM. objected in THE Ella Wheeler Wilcox. As you sail through life take pains and steer | Away from the island that lies too near, | The in | «le of Boredom, which all men fear. The isla But we doclk, And offers the people a chance to talk. a sets up like a shelf of rock, to the sailor who lands at the talk all night and they talic all 1s you will to get away, pin you down and they make you ay. They talk of the things they have done and afd, They talk you awake and they talk you to bed, Till you' almost wish they would talk you dead. And the queerest thing, and one to deplore, About the dwellers upon that shore, who may claim | Not one of them knows that he is a bore. cer away from that island shelf, is governed the; y by a wicked elf, gou be a bore and not know it yours 8o S self. Overcoats. that are and oxfo. a heavy and deep We're giving choice of three styles of overcoats built with $20 worth of wear, and just as many dollars worth of looks, for justan even $15 this week. One is a melton, box style, gaod length, in brown, black rd mixed. It hasan extra good plaid serge lining, fly front, double stitched edges.—Another, is an extra long Oxford with velvet collar, Farmer satin lined, and in every way equal to most $20 gar- ments,—Number three is an ulster, domestic Irish freize, cassi- mere lined, with silk sleeve lining storm collar. $15 gels any the above, and we warrant 'em. We give money back as readily as we take it in, if customer is not satisfled. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor, 18th and Dougl,