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

AERMS OF SLUSCRIT e [Without unday) nd Bunday, On ‘Wunlm , One Year. One One ¥ , OFFICE! maha, The Bee Builling. uth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. uncil Blufts, J " Street, Joago Ofce, 817 Cliamber of Commerce. W York, Rooms | 14 and 13, Tribune Didg. shington, 1407 F Street W, CORRE All communications re torial matter should be addr To the Editor. BUSINESS LI RS, All business letters and remittances should be phdressed 1o T Publi: ‘company, Drafts, prders 10 mpnny. MPANY. T OF CIRCULATION. George B. Trschuck, sccretary of The Tige Pub. Mahing company. being duly sworn, saye t the nctual number of full and complete o of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday printed during the month of October, 1SM, was 18 1 n. g 2 .. III 288852333 eekiy” Bee wa and edl- a7 and’ returned Less deductions for unsold sold. Paily average net ol Sworn to hefore me and s iis 3d day of Novem| (Beal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. The people of this city want no more special elections this year. A delicate problem- kado’s bull out of the store. getting the mi- mperor’s china Merchants who advertise in The Bee are always first to profit by seasonable weather. Statesmen out of a job will constitute ® very large element in the army of the son why t Li Iung Chang and his missing peacock feather. Mayor \\l‘]l uf Hnl'nln Just def a8 candidate for congre Nebraska district, evidently believes in taking the lesson of the election with a liberal spirit. To stakeholders: Release the money and let losers take their medicine, All doubt of Holcomb's decisive election vanighed twenty-four hours after elec- tion. Dou't be clams! By the time Governor Crounse retires from office he will have the record for the highest number of appointments to judicial vacancies during the period of a single gubernatorial term. The outlook for Tim Sedgwick's con- itest for the se taryship of the senate would be materially improved if he wera given the fleld free from contests on any of the newly elected state officials. We doubt very much whether United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D, Wright will be continued on the list of passholders of the Pullman company after his latest exhibition of ingratitude. President Cleveland ought to find enough work in the mediating line right at home among the members of his own party without sending all the way to China to obtain subjects for his prac- tice, Renewal of the contest talk admon- fshes increased watchfulness over the ballot boxes in the various county seats. Give the conspirators no opportunity to Institute a contest based on burglarized court houses and stolen ballots, aritable or; itions will be taxed to keep pace with the calls for aid dur- Ing the winter. Any plan that prom- ises practical means for the unemployed to lelp themselves is entitled to con- sideration. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver, and the Lord helpeth those who help themselve: The color line threatens to create a disturbance in a well known Woman's club of Chicago. Isn't it about time for intelligent people to disco the color question without losing all self-control? Any club worthy of the name ought to be able to settle the question for itself without ending in disruption. We suggoest to the leaders of Omaha’s 400 that a flower show might be given this winter, the proceeds to go to some charitable fund. Unlike a charity ball, whose pitrons are necessarily limited to the exclusive sets, a flower show would prove an attraction to all classes and could be made an unexampled sue- cess, Omala very cheerful department to South Omaha whenever requested to assist in extinguishing fires that threaten to get beyond the control of the Magic City fire fighters. But what is now done as a matter of eomity and aceommodation could be de- manded as a right it South Omaha and Omaha were consolidated under a municipal government. The question of annexation should not be permitted to rest when the advantages to be gained by both parties are so apparent and so important. nds the fire . When the Commercial club of Kansas City seeks redress of Inequitable rail- rond rates where the trade of that city has been grossly diseriminated against, it formulates its protest and hacks it with the moral support of every mem- ber of the ¢l As a natural result the ¢lub gets what it goes after. The Omabha Commercial club would be a powerful factor in building up the trade <f this city It it displayed o stiffer quality of backbone. hat this city #as long been discriminated against by Jallrond rate makers cannot be denled. What the situation could be greatly im. proved through mediation by the Com- mercial club goes without saying. This 8 the season of the year when vigorous work should be taken up looking to the advaucement of trade interests. | ing | nent 3,102, | the triumph of popular self-government | over HOLOOMB READS HIS TITLE CLEAR. Silas A. Holcomb now reads his title clear to the goyvernorship of the state of Nebraska, The Bee today presents its readers with the complete and official returns for each and every one of the ninety counties comprised within the commonwealth. It has been to no little trouble and expense to secure figures that are undisputed and indisputable. Not only has the official vote in each county been accurately ascertained, but sworn and certified statements of the returns sent to the secretary of state have been obtained. tificates are printed in another part of this paper. The original certificates, bear- the seals of the varlous county ks or of the ses of state Coples of these cer- etary spectively, are on file in this office, where any one who Is disposed to question thelr genuineness is invited to call and in- spect them for himself. These final returns make Judge Hol- comb’s plurality over his principal oppo- The figures 3,102 represent re- ion and ring rule, They herald the vesting of the title to the goverior Ii'p in a man elecied by the people as a rebuke to railroadism and state house corruption. Let all good cit- izens acknowledge the election of Silas A. Holcomb, the next governor of Ne- braska! corporate dic REPUDIATING CALAMITY. The Bee has from the very first main- tained that the credit of Nebraska could not be injuriously affected by any re- buke which the people might adminis- ter to railroad domination and state louse corruption. Property will be safer In Nebraska, whether it belongs to resident or nonresident, with the ex- ecutive power of the state vested in an honest man than it would be with that power given over to one who would use it only for corporation aggrandizement. The governor-elect has pledged himself “to do everything that can be done to bring about a safe, economical and con- servative administration of affairs of our state government and sce to it that the faith and credit of the state are maintained.” Untrammeled by obliga- tions to the confederated corporations, free to act as in his best judgment the welfare of the people demands, inde- pendent of the rings that have in the past played havoe with the public funds, he can have no motive for failing to faithfully perform the duties of his office. In writing to their eastern correspond- ents the business men may as well come out squarely with the confession that the ante-election stories about threateued depreecation of property were figments of the imagination pure and simple. There is no excuse for seeking cover behind the fact that the legisla- ture is overwhelmingly republican, At no time was there any immediate pros- pect of populist control of the legisla- ture, and no better evidence of this could be desired than the fact that the republican state central committee cen- tered all its funds and all its energy upon the head-of-the-ticket millstone, and left all other candidates to shift for themsel The repudintion of cor- porate rule contained in the defeat of Mr. Majors will be a most potent factor in restoring business confidence hastening the return of general pros- perity. HOW IT IS REGARDED. While there has been some unfavora- ble comment regarding the new loan, on the ground that there is no exigency re- quiring it and that consequently it Is unwise to increase the public debt, the general expression of opinion has been that of approval of the president's nc- tlon. In financial circles the judgment appears to be well nigh unanimous that the exigency was such as to most ur- gently demand this measure of relief, for although the treasury gold reserve has been slowly gaining from the lowest point reached there is the possibility of a renewal at any time of an active ex- port demand for gold that might deplete the reserve below the danger point, if indeed it was not already at that point, and thereby not only threaten the im- rment of the government credit, but cause a more or less serious disturbance of the financial affairs of the country. The call for a lean has ave:ied all dan- ger in this divection. If there existed anywhere, here or abroad, any feeling of doubt or distrust regarding the main- tenance of the credit of the government it should be dissipated by the proposal to issue $30,000,000 of bonds and the certainty that they will be promptly ne- gotiated, probably at a price that will make the interest to the government not more than 3 per cent. With the knowl- edge that the national financ e to be placed on a safe and stable basis finan- clal circles have already experlenced a growth of confidence and there is reason- ably expected to ensue from this a healthy stimulus to business. The an- nouncement of the new loan was imme- diately followed by a stiffening of the of sound securities, one of the best indications of returning confi dence, and there is every reason to be lieve that there will soon be seen other evidences of disappearing distrust. There s nothing to justify apprehension of the future. The industries of the country are secure from disturbance through further tariff tinkerving. The soundness and stability of the currency is assured. The government proposes to avert all danger to its credit. What is there, then, to keep eapital timid or dis- trustful? Nothing, but on the contrary the strongest inducements for it to in- vest in legitimate enterpri because it can do so to better advantage now than a year hence, when it is probable that the vival of industrial and busi- ness activity will be at its height and all forms of property will have materi- ally advanced in value, There is one very important matter to which this new loan has invited gen- eral attention and which will doubtless be urged upon the attention of cong and that is the necessity for providing against the drain on the treasury gold reserve for supplying the export demand for gold. Uuder present conditions the treasury gets v little gold from cus- 58, toms duties, these being paid in other and | forms of currency. Tt Is suggested, among others by ex-Secretary Boutwell, that congress should provide for the pay- ment of duties, or a large percentage of them, in gold or gold certificates, so that there would be a constant inflow of gold into the treasury from this source. If that were doge the banks would not be able to hoard gold as they now do and when there was an export demand for gold they would at least have to share with the treasury in meeting it. There could be no combination made among the banks, as has been charged, to throw upon the treasury the whole burden of meeting the export demand for gold and the treasury reserve could be kept intact. THEY HAD THEIR F Colonel T. J. Majors says that it would be a good scheme for the newspapsrs to let Mr. Rosewater alone, religiously alone; they shouldn't refer to him in any way, and then he would perish of the dry rot and innocuous desuetude. This is all very fine in its way, but it does seem heartless to try to despoil the newspaper men of the only fun they have. To rustle through a campaign without a few shots at. Rosewater would be a flat, stale and unprofitable busi- ness; and it i3 doubtful whether there are any editors sufficiently herolc to attempt It. —Beatrice Express, August The newspaper men who grind rail- road organs and organettes have had their fum. Their course reminds one of the boys and the frogs. The boys had their fun, but it was death to the frogs. Majors himself did not live up to his own text and went ip for roasting “the little Bohemian on the top of the hill” where a dignified silence would have impressed people more favorably. But Majors and the newspaper clagquers had to have their fun and it would seem heartless to expect them to “rustle through a campaign without a fow shots at Rosewater” just to keep them- selves in target practice. LANDSLIDES IN HISTORY. The almost unparalleled victory of the republican party, so aptly character- ized as a political landslide, has given occasion for looking into the history of party politics in the United States for historical examples of similar oc- currences in former days. This his- tory tells us how seldom anything of this kind has happened and as a neces- sary consequence emphasizes the im- portance of the republican success just achieved. The first great political land- slide, taking landslide to mean an un- expected and decisive reversal of pre- vious public sentiment as expressed by the ballot, was experienced in 1800. From the differentiation of the political parties during Washington’s first ad- ministration the federalists had been the dominant factor, although not with- out serious opposition. When, however, in 1798, they enacted what have since been referred to as the odious allen and sedition laws the tide turned against them, culminating in a verl- table landslide in the elections that re- sulted eventually in the selection of Jefferson to be president by the house of representatives, to which the choice aceidentally fell. The second great political landslide was that of 18 en the democrats with Franklin Pierce for president swept the country almost clean. They took 254 electoral votes out of a total of 206. There were ups and downs of party polities in the interval preceding, but none of them were of that striking character that is essentlal to a land- slide. That of 1852 was supposed to have been due to the indecision of the whigs and it resulted but a few years later in supplanting the whigs with the republicans, who declared against the further spread of slavery in unmistak- able language. The election of Lincoln was not a landslide, for he received less than a majority of the popular vote, but his reelection comes properl within that ecategory. The republican ticket in 1864 had things practically unanimous. The fourth great landslide is set down as that of 1802, It gave the democrats for the first time since the war absolute control of all three branches of the federal government and recorded high water mark for their power in the various state governments. This was unquestionably one of the most remarkable political manifesta- tions of the country’s history, but it was, it seems, but the forerunner of another still more remarkable. The landslide in which the people of the United States have just partici- pated is a complete reversal of the popular verdict of two years No such change has ever been wrought in the short space of time that has inter- vened Dbetween these two elections. There have been political landslides be- fore in the history of the United States, but none so significant as this. The republican landslide of 1804 is a phe- nowmenon unique among its kind. ago. DISAPPOIN % It appears that the president’s recent order extending the classified service is unsitisfctory (o a 'arge number of dem- ocratic postmasters who have not been ble since their appointment to give po- litical friends and partisans positions. It is reported from Washington that the department has received a at many communications from these appointed spoilsmen asking that their s be excepted from the operation of the late order, so that they may have an opportunity to pay political obligations and swround themselves with persons of like political affiliations. A new post- master canuot at once make a clean sweep of the employes of his office with- out throwing the business into chaos. He must himself learn all about the de- tails before he can safely venture to put new men in the places of the old, and then the process of “weeding out” must be gradual if efficiency is to be main- tained, While it is true that postoffice work is almost entirely routine it does not follow that it is the easiest of mat- ters to acquire a thorough knowledge of it, 80 as to be able to perform it accur- ately and expeditiously. There is a mul- titude of details in the business which it takes time to learn and which call for intelligence and attentive application Hence the man who becomes postmaster with a prowlse cut for every place under him, fancying that he ean replace the old employes with new ones as he might 80 many common laborers, awakens to the fact as soon as he assumnes his duties that this is not practicable, This bas | tand banishivg forever from who want their offices left 'mp yet to the operation of the gpolls Bgstem. But this cannot be done, and If these men were not utterly blinded by parti- san zea XI'J ¢ would see the obvious ab- surdity 0111('1:‘ equest. To suspend the nporgg;, of the president’s order as to some offices would fnevitably lead to its complete revocation, for the clamor from the spoilsmen would become gen- eral. What gort of a position would this place the president in? Mr. Cleveland is not the sért of man to yield in the slight- est degrge o a demand of this kind prompted distinetly and wholly by parti. san motived) and when it was decided at a cabinet meeting that the new civil servico order went into effect on the day it ‘was signed it can be depended upon that the decision was final. The democratic postmasters who have repub- lican clerks will bave to retain them until they can find some other than a political reason for removing them, mak- ing their peace as best théy can with those to whom they had promised posi- tions. They will have no sympathy from anybody not of the spoils-seeking class, for all such heartily approve the action of the president. The Intelligent senti- ment of the country is strongly in favor of the extension of clvil service reform wherever it can be applied as rapidly as practicable, and what Mr. Cleveland has recently done in this direction is en- tirely creditable and commendable. He took no thought in the matter of the wishes or promises of the politicians or the hopes of the place hunters. The president has not at all times seemed to be friendly to civil service reform. There have been perfods In hls public career when he appeared to lose interest il the reform and to be willing to allow his subordinates to disregard It. To the ex- tent that he has shown a proper concern for its promotion he is to be commended, and his latest order has received the un- qualified approval of everybody except the implacable spoilsmen. The idea of starting a contest upon the election of Judge Holcomb “for appear- ance sake,” as Is being intimated by raliroad organs, will hardly command the approval of any number of real re- publicans who have the welfare of the party at heart. A contest “for appear- ance sake” must tend to alienate thou- sands of republicans who swallowed Ma- Jors' nomination with a protest and' to keep away other thousands who refused to bow to corporate dictation. The re- cent clection has shown the machine managers how far they can go in out- raging the sentiment of the rank and file of the republican party, and it has shown them where they must stop. If they think i contest is necessary to vin- dicate their position they greatly mis- take “appesrance.” The party is not in the vindicating business this year. The New York Times, commenting on Mr. Morton’s statement of his election expenditures. tlurlm.: his recent success- ful I.‘III\ILU s, Why should he spend ’0000 for the privilege of being N‘ 40 a public office for a term of ‘twodyears, the salary for which would barely reimburse the outlay, es- pecially when the people were so anx- ious to give hith a big majority without being paid for it? A more natural and equally unanswerable question wou'd be, Why should Senator Hill spend even lialf that amount or anything at all for the privilege of Deing defeated, espe- clally when his defeat was assured, no matter how much money he might have been willing and anxious to pay for a victol The causes of political ambi- tions are not to be analyzed thus roughly from the surface. Excitement incident to the recent elec- tion is abating. The people again pur- sue the even tenor of their way. Busl- ness shows a steady revival because the winter season forces people to buy. Omaha jobbers have built up an enor- mous trade simply because they can un- dersell eastern jobbers in territory trib- utary to this city. Retailers always have and will continue to b where they can get the best goods cheapest. Referring again to that bewhiskered chestnut, the proposed contest of Judge Holcomb's election, it is given out that the latter's friends have not been asleep, and when the time comes for taking testimony they will be very largely in evidence. It is this stubborn fact that has Induced certain influential republi- cans to protest against a contest. Hol- coml's plurality is already too large to suit them. Turnlug Down & Globe-Democrat. The author of “Ben Bolt" was the demo- cratic_candidate for re-election to congress in a New Jersey district. and was defeated by over 8000 majority. The old saying about writing the songs of a nation ought to be consoling to him. — - —— The Job > Sinecure. St. Paul Ploneer Press. The problem which confronts ruler is that whic oet, the new baffled his predecessors: How to make Russia progressive without making it free, and how to make It free when nihilism Stands ready to convert free- dom into anarch xRS Cuckoos at n Premium, New York Sun. Like the Columbian collectors,_from circul be a premium on cuckoos; and there is a veritable ‘uppropriateness, ' considering the origin of the bird in politics, in the fact that heredfter all cuckoos will be stuffed. No lloro Financial Nonsense. St,) Paul Ploncer Press. Let us have peace and rest on the money question. us end the silly struggle against patutal laws, give the people the promise of & &table currency for the future, appoint a federal commission of experts to study and report on the whole question, and encouragk’ debate cn the proposition to se- cure a note qurrency that was adopted by the Baltimoré convention of batkers. The day of thé charlatan and the demagogue is over, we fervently hope, for a time. It is the first ‘duty of th epublican party to malntain sound, conservative financlal pol- lcy, assuring the country against change, politi the that have occupied the the halls of congress for that have wrought [ncal- to the prosperity of the drawn off by nere will soon financlal - follies press, the stump, years past, anc culable damage people. — A FISHERMAN'S ENTHUSIASM. Washington Sta By the stream where bend the rushes, Where the shailows scold and sob; There it I8 man's true ambitions Wildly n his bosom throb. There it is the flerce sensation, Half suspense, yet all delight, Strikes him as he hoarsely whispers, “I believe I've got a bite." Tell me not of tottering glories; Of republics tempest-swept; Tell me not of heroes vanquishe Or of promises unkept. Tales of sacrifice and valor Later on may seem aright, But at present—you'll excuse it v “1 believe I've got a bite.” OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. It seems to be practically settled that the Attack on the veto power of the Lords i to be precipitated at once on the assembling of Parliament. Rosebery's somewhat temporiz- ing policy Is sald to have been overruled In the councils of the liberal party, and instead of waiting until the Lords have given further reason for dissatistaction by more vetoes, they are to be sharply challenged at the out- set by a resolution, to be pased by the Com- mons, denying their right to reject bills which the Commons has enacted. Of course such a resolution would be earnestly opposed by the tories, but the full government strength would be behind it and it would un- doubtedly be-passed. The Irish contingent couid not refuse to vote for it, and of course the radicals would be only too glad to do so. The Lords would probably accept the chal- lenge and proceed to veto the Welsh disestab- lishment bill, or any other radical measure of reform the Commons may pass. This done, the fssue will be made up upon which to go ta the people, who must pronounce in general election upon the right of a hereditary house to veto the legislation enacted by the repre- sentatives of the people. o By the appointment of Prince Hohenlohe to be chancellor of the empire and prime min- Ister of Prussfa, Willlam IT has apparently placed himself in the hands of the conserva- tive-agrartans, who have returned only about a quarter of the members of the popular branch of the German Parllament, and who are not much more strongly represented in the Prussian Landtag. How Is Princs Hohen- lohe to eke out the majority Indispensable to carry the economiical and political meas- ures which must shortly be brought forward? To pass any bill he must gain the support of the natlonal liberals, of the unionist rad- icals, and of that section of the centrists which rallied to Caprivi in his hour of need, and gave him the desired addition to the army by a small but adequate majority. How can a man who typifies the junker ele- ment, and who possesses none of Caprivi's #kill (n debate, hope to collect about him the diverse political factions, which agres in nothing except devotion to the unity and glory of the German mation? If it be true that Prince Hohenlohe is to be but a figure- head and mouthpiece, and that Bismarck is to be the real pilot of the German ship of state, the change of sovereigns in Russia bodes no evil to the peace of Burope. He who built the German vessel can best steer it. The relegation of the practical If not the ostensible guidance of German politics to the man in whom s personified the work of 1866 and 1870 tvould be a tardy but splen- did recognition of the truth that in. the case of great men age gathers wisdom and prestige with every year, and that In the mers name of Bismarck lies a power with which to conjure and to conquer. The breaking off of diplomatic relations be- tween France and Madagascar is another step toward settling by war a dispute that ought to find some botter mode of adjustment. But France seems thoroughly exasperated with what she considers as bad faith in the Malagasy government. The treaty of 1885, which, following the last war, conceded to France the entire control of the ‘“exterior relations’ of the island, has ever since been prolific in disputes. The French considered it as establishing a protectorate, and Eng- land in 1890 acknowledged that protectorate In return for French recognition of British claims In Zanzibar. But Madagascar's chaflng under this foreign control has been continuous. She has sought to limit it in every way. She has granted trade facilities to Englishmen and Americans that irritated the French. She even at one time tried to Issue exequaturs herself to foreign consuls, instead of having them go through the office of the French resident. Now the Hova gov- ornment at last seems willing to run the risk between indepondence and that greater subjugation which defeat implies. Ten years ago the French found that while they could blockade the coasts, yet the dense forests, the prevalling fevers and the lack of roads were serious obstacles to marching to the Malagasy capital in the interior. But such a_campalgn they are now considering again, and If they undertake It the queen’s forces will dispute the way. oar Japan has nearly 30,000 miles of telegraphic wire, including several submarine cables, one of them connecting the main island, Nipon, with Tsu-Shima, the largest one between her territory and Corea, of manifest strategic importance in the present campaign against China, and which will in all likelihood be extended to the mainland as soon as oppor- tunity serves. There is hardly a point on the Japanese coast without its telegraphic sta- tion, and in fact the system there, consider- ing ‘that it is the growth of a few years, is one of surprising growth and efliciency. Field telegraphy modelled upon the latest Buropean standards is in use in her armies, and the police and fire alarm signals are now communicated by electricity throughout all the large towns In the empire. Japan has profited by her western schooling in all particulars, but in none has she shown more ingenuity and energy than in appropriating to herself all the latest results of electrical science, including that of lighting up her streets and larger buildings. Unless China is inclined to follow so enlightened an ex- ample it may become necessary for Japan to annex her and take the business in hand herself. P Afghanistan Is the land gate of India open- ing westward, and through it all her invaders from that direction have come—Darius and ylax, Alexander, Nadir Shah and the rest; a long procession, perhaps mot yet closed. The country is, roughly speaking, about 600 miles square, and lies at an average altitude of more than 4,000 feet above the sea. Its inhabitants comprise about a dozen different tribes, always at war with each other except when restrained by a power superior to their own, and their general characteristics seem to have undergone no perceptible change during the historical period. They are still good fighters till they are whipped, which is commonly rather early in the contest, and still as enterprising robbers as they were in the days of Perdiccas and Parmenio. The country 13 of immense strategical importance, lying “as a neutral ground between the British frontier in India and the Russian in Asia, the policy of its ruler being thus a matter of utmost importance to both those countries. The present ameer, Now appar- ently dying, has been a firm ally of England, mainly bzcause he had the choice between that attitude and deposition. A like alter- native Is pretty sure to be presented to his successor, whom Russia will likewiso en- deavor secretly to influence, or, perhaps, openly to menace. So that his court at Cabul is sure to become the center of an active and intricate system of intrigue and wire- pulling, in which he is likely to jump and gyrate efther way, according to the energy with which his leading strings are jerked. State monopolies are the order of the day in Burope, being rendered necessary by the ever-increasing demands upon the revenues in connection with the expenditure entailed by the huge armies and navies. Thus, the h government, not content with having uired monopolies of the tobacco and for match trade, has now submitted a bill to the Chamber aimed at the conversion of the manufacture and sale of spirituous liguors into a state monopoly. It has like- wise befors the legislature a project which, it enacted, will give the state an exclusive right of property in all literary and musical works on the expiration of the copyright. By this means the government will have sole possession of the works of dead authors and musical composers, and will only assent (o their publication on the payment of certain fees. In Austria and Hungary schemes for the establishment of a state monopoly of spirits aro likewise under uiscussion by the legislatures, while in Italy measures of the same kind are projected. It would seem, therefore, that while on the one hand the governments of Europe are engaged in de- vising measures of the most despotic charac- ter for combating the socialist movement, they are, on the other, driven by financial straits to embark upon a policy that can only bs regarded as tending io state soclalism. . All Together for Good Times. Philadelphia Times. The great need is the hearty co-operation parties and all interests to inspire business confidence in the highest degree, and thus glve employment to our labor and happiness o our people. Politiclans are now out of the way of improvement in com- merce and trade, and let all with one accord unite to promote healthy and enduring busi- ness prosperity. VOIOR OF THE STATE PRESS. Arapahoe Mirror: Republicans took Majors' defeat with very wry facos, and felt too sad tg Jollity over thelr great victory the coun- try over. And they are now willing to ad- mit that Rosewater has some Influence with Nebraska voters. Lincoln News: Thero is one bugaboo that can be expectel to do no more service in any succeeding elections. It fs that the oppo- sition of Rosewater makes votes for the man he opposes. This campalgn song has long been warbled with varlations in this state, and it has lost its flavor henceforth. When a man undertakes to tell you that the opposition of any newspaper or news- paper man is calculated to make votes for the man whom it confronts you may put it down that he is couversing through his chapeau, Schuyler Herald: No political party can claim a victory in the election of Holcomb for governor. The popullsts alone can elect nothing. Democratic votes appear to have been given nearly as largely to Majors as to Holcomb, and the reform governor also re- celved a fair sprinkling of republican votes throughout the state. But ths one force that undoubtedly accomplished Holcomb's election and Majors' defeat was the work of Rdward Rosewater and The Bee. Rosewater alons can claim the victory. Mr. Holcomb owes his election to B. Rosewater. The Beo and its editor have a right to exult. Lincoln News: With a plurality of over 3,000 agaiost them the republican state cen- tral committee is utterly foolish to undertake a contest over the governorship. There have doubtless been errors in the count, but the chances are equal that they happened to both candidates. If the committee has evi- dence of fraud that it claims to have, it must be remembered he other side clalm to have similar evidence. It Is unrea- sonable to suppose that the railroads, mak- ing as desperate a fight as they did to elect Majors and having in_their employ the most unscrupulous of all political workers, would hesitate about carrying a point If it required a little underhanded work to do it. The News has not the least doubt but that Holcomb s honestly and really elected, and 1t would be sorry to see the republican party hurt by the proposed action of men who are | instigated only by selfish motives. Beatrice Times: The suspicion has pre- valled in recent years that the republican party is being dominated by the railroad and other corporate and unholy influsnces. If grounds exist for such suspicion the next legislative session will afford a splendid op- portunity for our representatives to remove those grounds. We have won a signal vic- tory in Nebraska. Nebraska is republican today on national fssues by at least 25,000. With absolute satfsfaction that the state administration will be pure, patriotic and business-like, we may hereafter confidently count on from 25,000 to 50,000 for our state ticket. Our legislature bas a great duty to perform. By proper administration of the affairs of state confidence in the republican party may be restored and the party will | again galn the old-time majority; a failure | to properly administer the affairs of state | will simply weaken our party and corre- spondingly strengthen the opposition. Wakefleld Republican: We are glad to see a disposition in the G. O. P. in Nebraska, as well as elsewhere, to adopt first princi- ples, as held by Abraham Lincoln and enun- clated by his contemporaries. The only hope of a revival of the business Interests is through the practice of thoss principles. Lincoln gloried in standing close to the “plain people,”” as he called his friends, and there was the real source of his strength and great success. The republican party in this state needs to take due care to stand close to the people and to carry out their wishes and demands into just and wise laws. It has and nceds to have nothing in common with monopoly, mor can it afford to listen to any exorbitant demands of cor- porate power. Send the camp followers and the spoils hunters to the rear, enforce rigid economy in every department and lot the better element of the party mark out its course by the exercise of common sense and plain honesty. This way only lies real and lasting success. Fremont Leader: The defeat of Majors is a great triumph for Edward Rosewater. The little dogs that bark at his he:ls have insisted for years that he was a detriment to tho republican party, and to insure the success of any one was to have The Bee oppose him. It was an untruth, but th: men who run the railroad republican party of this state do mot stop at so small a thing as a misstatement. Rosewater boldly and openly opposed Majors from the first to the finish. He resigned his position of na- tional committeeman so as to be fres and take no advantage of the man he consid- ered unfit to represent the re- publican party. He courageously came to Fremont, dared Richards to meet him, and showed to the satisfaction of every fair- minded man that he did not take part in defeating L. D. Richards. He took the same course at Lincoln, denouncing the boodle ring there, and pointed out the men con- nected with the Mosher bank swindle, who filled their own pockets, while they de- frauded the small depositors, and that the same men were part of the boodle gang of the state. He went to York, Grand Island and other places, and everywhere declared openly why he opposed Majors and supported Holcomb. Even since the election he has| stood up for counting the votes and has declared, como what may, Holcomb shall not be counted out. He early discovered that this was the game the lying, thieving gang of Lincoln was concocting. The people of Nebraska without regard to party are filled with praises of Edward Rosewater for his manly fight in behalf of honest government | one or two yet for this state. The popularity of Mr. Thomas J. since election has caused him to be “nibfes tloned” for United States senator, national committeeman, and even for presidents There is nothing too high for his vauliting ambition, Hugene Mooro led the republican state ticket this year, Just as he did two years ago. Henry Corbett was a close second, and Col.”” Russell had the honor of bringing up the rear. He didn't even secure as many votes as Tattooed Tom. Sturdevant secured less than halt votes as the enthusiastic Tobe Castorites claimed for him as the only “straight” mi running for governor. As It was, he res celved just a few over 7,000 more votes tham he was entitled to. Owing to the fact that on some of the offices there was no fusion, pluralities don'{ count for much this year. It is the total vote that knoc The post-election poems in the B. & M. | Journal make even the writer of them tired, to say nothing about the effect they have o the readers of the subsidized organ. Poor Bixby's muse is out of whack Since olcomb won the race. He walls, and walls, and not a smile Lights up a reader’s face. Down on his farin in Nemaha Sits Majors with a sigh; From Peru comes the doleful sound Of lamentation’s ery. In sackeloth he will sit there till The ashes make their mark, And then there will not e'en be heard A smal) Peruvian bark. rdudrcs BECRETARY CARLISLE. New York Worl The renewal of tha' talk of Mr. Carlisle's resignation i noms sense. It has been said that the fired essential of a good cabinet officer fs ability to keep on smiling in front while being booted in the rear. Mr. Cleveland’s cabi~ net members have learned to o it. Chicago Pos The secretary's friends make the defense that he submits to humfl tion because he Is too poor to give up the salary. We Know poor men, very poor men, who Wwould not serve for §8,000 a year in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet while there were vacan- cles on_the front platforms of the street cars. But dignity ia not a quality of Mr. Carlisle's declining years. Ho Is poor byt humble, very ‘umble. New York Sun: Human nature presents some astonishing spectacles. Hon. John Griffin Carlisle has not yet sent in his resl nation as a member of Mr, Cleveland's cabi- net. Patient, meek, cheerful, long-suffering service and subservience have many exem- plars in history. There is a herolsm about the endurance that endures and works on, smilingly and unreproachfully. Secretary Carlisle continues to smile, to serve, and to subserve. It has reached a polnt where the newspaper organs of Mr. Cleveland—he has are beginning to taunt the carnest, smiling, uncomplaining secretary of the treasury for his splendid endurance of repeated insults and injuries from his offi- cial superior. Let them beware. They may go too far. Even the worm will turn, Even this herole and greatly wronged sub- ordinate may cease to smile, to serve, and to subserve, Some duy the secretary mi startle the executive with a letter of resk nation, —_——— PLEASING PERSIFLAGE. Life: Collector—Say, look here, I'm tired of_caliing here about this bill. The Debtor —Well, I am mighty glad to hear it. Philadelphia Record: Quishy—Wh: you take that chrysanthemum off? ~I'm afraid I'll take cold, Detroit Free Press: Manager—Why do you wear such a high hat to the theater? Lady—To match the price of seats. don't ayboy Inter Ocean: “Mary, how was it I saw you treating your friends to my cake fruit?” "Mary—I can’t tell, ma'am, for the loife of ‘me, for I'm shure I covered the keyhole, Plain Dealer: Stern Parent—George, you ought to be ashamed to think of going to that misernble gambling shooting match for turkeys—and you all out of practice! Washington Star: “When yoh hyah er man claimin’ ter be a Jonah' said Uncle Eben, “yoh am Jestified in habin’ suspicions ;‘Mk he ‘am too lazy ter hustle foh good uck.” New York Weekly: Friend—If your wash- efwoman charges by the plece it must be rather expensive, \oun ouseKeeper—Oh, [C5es 80 many things that her bills r high. Boston Courler: So hard the times on us borne that luxuries are few, and last ar's overcoats are worn, and pretty well worn, too. Indianapolis Journal: ““Tell worst,” sald the candidate's wife, was defeated by thirteen thousand votes.” “There! Didn't I always tell you thirteen was an unlucky number? THE MISSING GARMENT. New York Pres "Oh, where are my trousers?!! in anguisl he crier “My new pantaloons, I belleve they are Eone.” “Oh, "“I’I llhuy re not stolen,” his children replied; “Dear ma has gone out on her wheel me the The Drop. If you get the best of a man at his own game big dollars’ worth for every dollar you pay. What We’ll Yo Saturday:. A big, burly Irish Freize Ulster, made of cloth that weighs 34 ounces to the yard, every fibre pure wool; ankle length, deep storm collar, lined with a specially manufactured flannel overcoat lining—It's closely woven, a wind warder, snow shedder and cold ex- cluder—sw and $12.50 Saturday. Two grades, four Here colors. OVERCOATS—Meltons, Kerseys Freizes, Shetlands, and Chinchillas—They begin at $7.50 and run up to an imported cloth in the new Paddock style at $26 and $28. SUITS=-=-Men’s. We don't keep all kinds—only the reliable sort. A line of handsome, long square cut, double breasted cheviots, in black and blue, all wool, a splendid gar- ment and worth fully $15. A good suit, all wool $7.50. P Buy 'em Saturday—Examine 'em Sunda, O EE L s g Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothicrs, S. W, Cor, 15th and Doullll. you'rea “lu-lu.” May- be you've an idea you can get the best of clothing dealers, and get a $15 suit of ‘em for about a dollar and forty cents. You can't do it. If you geta dollar’'s worth for a dollar you're in luck. We guarantee & great Our price Saturday $10. with ‘em on."” (] mu! M