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MORNING. RY TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION Daily Bes (without Sumday), One Year Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year. Blx Months p Thrae Monthi. ..o ooereiio s Bunday Bee. Oné Vet Baturday One Year Weekly Ono Year OFFIC! Building B Omaha, Tha Bouth Omnha, Al communicat news and ed! torial matter show T5 the Editor nusi 1t All business letters and remittane Addressed to The Hee FPublishing Omaha, Drafts, thecks and postoi be made pvable {o the order 0f the company Jl‘ll BEE PUBLISHI COMPANY ULATION. Bee Pub wnys that te coples nday B 1894, was s should be company, STATEM Gecrge 1. ) T OF CIF ek, secretary of Th lishing company, being duly sworn, the actual number of full and comp of the Daily Morning, Evening and printed during the monta of October, as tollows Tof Less deductions for COPIEs ..ovierienie Total sold Daily average Sworn to before me and s ence this 34 day of Novem (Seal.) P. Several senatorial eandidates arve do- ing some very quiet but none the less energetic electioneering. Lx-Seeretary Blkins of West Virginia geems to see the title “senafor” already prefixed before his name. Remove the election booths that still obstruct the streets, There is no reason for maintaining them longer om Reed starts out the Hub, but Le will encircle the whole country be- fore e winds up his political wander- ings. We shall now see whether the sight of witness fees in the eriminal court will sharpen the scent of our sleuthlike de- tectives. Speaking of the weather, there is cor- tainly no cause for complaint against the efficiency and moral rectitude of the weather clerk. Hawail would be happy unless a new plot to restore the deposed queen were discovered at least as often as once each month. It is a vain lope that ey dent Cleveland to incorpor; looked for letter endorsing in his coming annual mess; pects Presi- te that long Senator Hill ge. A gubernatorial contest in Nebraska would mean a bitter partisan fight, the like of which has never been recorded in the political annals of the state. The New York bankers seem to imag- ine that the new bond issue has been ordered for their especial benefit and that no one outside of New York is en- titled to have a bid considered. Adlai feels better now that his bust has been placed among the niches de voted to the vice presidents of the United States. But how much better he would feel if his likeness were to be hung in the presidential portrait gal- lery! A successful contest for the governor- ship means Majors as the republican candidate for governor in 1806. How would the honest republicans fancy a repetition of the defensive campaign Just closed in a year when so much will be at stake Mr. Reed insists that the democrats richly deserved the defeat administered to them at the recent elections. Even the democrats admit that. Mr. Reed might also have added that the repub- licans are equally deserving of the suc- cess which they have won. The city has not yet found out what the Thomson-Houston electric lighting monopoly proposes to charge for its service during the past six months, dur- ing which it has ceased to render monthly bills. When the account turns up look out for another gigantic steal. The grave robbers of Lincoln are no worse than the men who are endeavor- ing to blow breath into a defunct politi- cal corpse whose wake was performed on November 6. The only difference is the law prescribes heavy penalties upon conviction of the former, while the lat- ter are trying to work through chinks in the statutes. The men who are threatening to In- stitute a contest upon the election of Judge IHolcomb to the governorship should not forget that there have been partisan advantages taken to count out honestly elected officinls before, but that such action has always reacted to the frreparable injury of the party in whose name it las been committed. An at- tempt to deprive Judge Holcomb of the seat to which he is legally entitled, whether successful or not, would result in incaleulable injury to the republican party of Nebraska and might cost it the supremacy which now seems so se- cure. el The urkish government is going about it in the right way according to the Turkish mind. The first step taken to redress the Armenian outrages was the appointment of a commission to find ont whether the buteheries really occurred. The second step was to confiscate all the newspapers that might possibly con- taln some reference to this barbarous action. When the report of the inves- tignting commission is presented we presume another commission will be ap- pointed to ascertain whether the pro- vincial soldiers were not justified in massacring the Christians. If the af- fair is not forgotten when this stage of the proceedings shall have been com pleted the sultan may ask the other nations what they would like to have bim do. PO DELAYT QNLY. The defendants in the sult against ex-Freasurer Il and his bondsmen to recover for the state the amount of pub- lic money which was deposited in the failed Capltal National bauk are pur- sulng thelr old-time policy of delay. | Having succeeded In staving off the | trlal in one court or another for one | whole administration extending over | | two years, they now seek to keep up thelr dilatory proceedings until the pros- | eeutlon shall either pass into hands not | unwilling to Tet the matter drop or shall die of sheer old age. The members of the supreme court | [ have shown a commendable desire to expedite this suit in which the tax- payers of Nebraska have so much at ake. Tt is true that they declared that the district court of Douglas county | iad no jurisdiction over the matter, but upon proper representation by the coun- sel for the state they agreed to take orlginal jurisdiction over it themselves. Never having exercised original powers in a suit of this kind they promptly adopted new rules providing for the | summoning of a jury to try the issues of fact and for such of the procedure 1 was novel to the court. Even now, when the attorneys for the defendants asked for a continuance until April on account of the illness of three of their clients, they refused so long a delay and set the over only until nes term, which begins on January 1. The plea for the continuance just granted is plainly intended for the pur- pose of delay. There 1s no gainsaying the fact that some of the parties are ill, but that does not mean that their interests are without ample protection. In a civil suit it is not necessary that the parties be actually present in court witnesses. ted through at- just as well. Suppose there were 100 joint defendants, it would be quite probable that some one or other of them would be ill all the time. Would that mean that the sult should never come to trial? The attorneys in this ease will doubtless try the same dodge when it is called in January. Should they do so the counsel for the state should object most emphatically. Bither Hill and his bondsmen are lable for the state’s deposit involved in the bank failure or they are not linble. The tax- payers want to have a final decision at the earliest possible moment. The court should tolerate no further unneces: 3 Jday. GOVERNMENT BANKING. There is consensus of opinlon among well-informed financiers that there can be no complete remedy for the difficul- ties of our financial system and no per- manent relief for the treasury from the embarrassments to which it is subject under present conditions so long as the government does a banking business. The paper obligations of the govern- ment redeemable in coin, which under the declared policy of the government means gold, amount to over $500,000,000. These obligations are a constant menace to the gold reserve of g treasury Ac- cording to the repg of United States Treagurer Morgan the redemption of legal tender notes (greenbacks) in gold since the resumption of specie payments has been, in round figures, $181,000,000, and of this amount $142,000,000 were redeemed during the fiscal years of 1893 and 1804 and the first three months of the current fiscal year. Of the treas- ury notes of 1890 the amount redeemed in gold has been over $6G8,000,000. If these redeemed notes had been can- celled the liability of the government would have been reduced to that amount and the obligation to retain a large gold rveserve in the treasury would have been materially lessened. But as the treas- ury is required to reissue them the gold labilities of the government were not reduced a single dollar by the redemp- tion of the notes. Returning to circula- tion through the disbursements of the government they were again available for drawing gold from the treasury, and this process could go on indefinitely under existing law. Referring to this condition United States Treasurer Jordan says it may be ne ary to issue bonds at the rate of $100,000,000 a year ad infinitum, and he suggests that it would be far wmore cconomical for the government to issue 2 per cent bonds for every dollar of its note circulation and let the latter rest upon the bonds than to go on issuing 5 per cent bonds to replenish the gold re- serve and then in a few months losing the gold in a perpetual process of re- demption and re-redemption. The prob- lem that confronts the country, and to which it is understood the president and secretary of the treasury are giving their most earnest attention, is how to effect a change from existing conditions and establish a system of finance that will relieve the treasury from the diffi- culties and dangers that now beset it and at the same time give the people an entirely sound and safe currency. Secretary Carlisle, it is said, desires to see the pressure for gold for export shifted from the treasury to the banks, pd prompt redemption of notes in coin the counters of the banks he considers important to accomplish this result. It is stated that one of the features of his plan will be the gradual retirement of the United States notes and of the notes issued under the Sherman act, these constituting the paper obligations of the government which are a menace to the gold reserve. The elimination of greenbac! treasury notes from the currenc ever 1 s and v, how- essary to the protection of the treasury, will not be found a simple matter. Not only will such a proposi- tion be vigorously opposed by certain clements in congress, but the necessity of redeeming the notes by actual cash rafsed by taxation or by the issue of in terest-bearing bonds presents a difficulty that may not be easily overcome. Then the withdrawal of $500,000,000 of civen- lation calls for its replacement by a cor- responding amount of some other form of currency, and a plan must be devised that will issue a ecurrency as sound as that withdrawn or the people will not have it. Altoget the question is com- plex and full of difficulties, but that there is a general and growing sentl- ment in favor of divorcing the govern- ment frem a banking business is un- questionable, Great interest Is feit in the promised plan to be submitted to congress in the executive message and the report of the secretary of the treas. ury. It Is not expected, however, that any plan which the administration may formulate will be adapted by the pres- ent congress. Perhaps the wisest thing for this congress to do would be to cre- ate a nonpartlsan currency eommission with authority to thoroughly Investigate the subject and report to the nest con- gress a plan for a new currency system, With the diversity of views on the ques- tion In the party in power it is hardly possible that it can be wisely and satis. factorily disposed of by the present con- gress during the remaining short period of its existence. 1HE BATTLE FOR SILVER. The advocates of the free coinage of silver are not talking as confidently as they formerly did, though they still manifest a determination to keep up the fight. The late elections were somewhat discournging to their hopes, especially the result in the silver states, and they cannot conceal their sense of disap- pointment and discomfiture. Nowhere did the cause of free silver gain strength from the result of the November elec- tions, the voice of Nevada in its behalf counting for nothing. In Ohlo, where the democrats made free silver an issue, they were overwhelmingly beaten, casting the smallest vote for many years. In no state of the south was the advocacy of free silver of any advantage to the party championing it, and it was not a winning shibboleth in Colorado and other silver states. The national executive committee of the Bimetallic league will meet in St. Louis next week, and it is said to be probable that the fate of the league will be decided at this meecting. An officer of the organization is quoted as saying that if new life cannot be infused into it its promoters are.of the opinfon that it should be abandoned. This official said that the lack of interest on the part of silver-producing states is the most discouraging feature about the work. Unless silver producers and the large business men of Colorado and other mountain states come to the front at once he saw little hope for the cause of free coinage for to come., Possi- bly the silver producers may be induced to come to the front, but it is hardly probable that the class of Colorado bus- iness men who might exert some influ- ence will waste any time in a cause so unpromising as_that of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the exist- ing legal ratio. The battle for free sil- ver, however, is not to be at once and utterly abandoned. According to report the irrepressible Bland, although beaten for re-election, will oceupy a-part of his remaining time In congress in the effort to have a bill for the free coinage of sil- ver passed. He does not expect such a measure to become law, because Presi- dent Cleveland is irrevocably committed against such a policy. IHis veto of the ge bill demonstrated that no legislation for injecting more silver into the currency will receive the approval of this administration. But Mr. Bland and other free silver democrats would like to commit the party to this policy through congressional action, and it is at least possible that they will be able to do this. They might not be able to command as large a vote for a free coinage bill as was given for the seign- forage measure, but there is reason to believe that they could muster a suffi- cient number to pass a bill. This would commit the party, so far as that can be done by the action of its representatives in congress, to free silver coinage, and the fact would be used to array the party for that policy in the next nd- tional campaign. The free silver demo- ts profess to believe that as a matter of salvation the democratic party will be obliged to declare for ¢ coinage of silver and show its sincerity by nomi- nating an out-and-out free coinage man for president. This is what they now propose to work for, so that there is no likelihood of a cessation of the battle for silver during the next two years. The eund of the conflict, it is pretty safe to prediet, will come with the re- sult of the next general election, and the nature of that result, it is hardly possi- ble to doubt, was very distinetly fore- shadowed by the late elections. Cer- tainly in the event of the democratic party espousing the cause of free silver and nominating a candidate for presi- dent in 1896 favorable to that policy the election of a republican president and congress, not unfriendly to silver but opposed to a course that would place the country on a silver basis, would be assured. It has been most conclusively demonstrated that a majority of the American people do not favor the prop- osition that the United States should undertake alone the free coinage of sil- ver, and the longer they have to con- sider it the greater will be the number opposing it. The silver question must sooner or later find a solution, but it will not be what the free silver men propose and insist upon. Bimetallism will continue to be recognized as the policy of the country, but not under conditions which would inevitably lead to silver monometallism. TIME 10 WAKE UP. It is time for the business men and commercial interests of Omaha to wake up and join hands in an energetic move- ment for a great industrial revival in our city, Every factor in the com- munity can be united on such a pur- pose. There need be neither divisions nor dissensions. The prosperity of Omaha I8 a common platform which is large enough to embrace all within its compass. It can not be denied that Omaha just at present s still under the disadvant- age of unfriendly feeling among many of the towns and cities of the interior of the state. The antagonism created by the ill-fated and unsavory alleged Business Men's association was eagerly grasped by the competftors of Omaha nd turned to their own advantag, his antagonism is by no means justi- fied by the facts, as we have shown that the real business men of the eity held aloof from the distasteful political or- ganization, and when the decisive mo- ment came acted in harmony with thelr patrons throoghout the state and ngainst corporate domination. Yet this antago nism persists to a certain extent and it is only to be expected that it should be manipulated for the benefit of eompe- ting cities. During the recent cam- paign Omaha busines houses reported frequent losses of trade that were trace- ATURD. 1A able directly to the prejudice engen- dered by the plitical situation. It is of the utmost ffhportance, not only that all the lost grfind be regained without delay, but that we again forge ahead and begin an dggressive movement for more complptageontrol of the territory naturally teibutary to this eity. If the Omaha wholespjers, jobbers and com- mission br fiuw'}n will only get together and work incgopcert they will soon be able to point to accomplished results. Omaha has {adigputable advantages for supplying Nebraska and western trade. Her business men bave the resources and enterpride. . What is wanted Is combined and Pogressive action. . - bty The Bee Is informed that a numbet of the heavy patrons of the Omaha post- office, ineluding leading merchants and bankers frrespoctive of party faith, are petitioning the president and the post- master general to appolnt ex-Governor James B. Buyd to the Omalia postmas- tership. This action will meet the ap- proval of nine-tenths of the patrons of the postoffice. The volume of business hias grown to large proportions in recent years, rendering it of paramount fm- portance that o man of large business experience and recoguized capabilities be chosen as a successor to Major Clark- son. The newspaper references to the moyement looking to the appointment of Mr. Boyd have met with popu ap- vroval in this community, the consensus of oplnion being that Mr. Boyd Is pre- eminently the man for the | Pri- vate advices from Washington indicate that Mr. Boyd's appointment may be confidently looked for shortly after the senate convene t month. According to the testimony of the men in charge of Omaha's fire department the only way to make the scrvice ef- tective Is to double the number of men on the pay roll and add to the present cquipment indefinitely. We have re- peatedly asserted that there is room for improvement in the fire department as in other departments of the municl- pal government, but the question is one of improvement with the resources at our ¢ommand. The further develop- ments of the inyestigation now in prog- vess may throw light upon this point that will materially aid the authorities in arriving at the most economical way in which the ubject can be accomplished. A great many Omaha people would be tempted to hold special Thanksg! services if they could only be as that the wooden sidewalk nuisance in front of the old Farnam Street theater site would be abated before snow flies. e Odious Comparisons. St. Louls Repubic. ‘We refer Hon. Joseph Medill of Chicago to Hon. William Bryan of Omaha for a tip as to the value of newspaper ownership in a senatorial eoiites oo e NE The OfL-Told Story. \Chicago. Record. The stories of old employes turned out of government'situations in Washington em- phasize the well-ascertained fact that of the various *of wrecking a young man’s career one of the best is to give him a job at the capital. st e LR The Alabwmn Combatants. Courjer-Journal, Kolb says 1l by the grace of God" he will be govftor of Alabama December 1, and Governgw Jones says that 'by the grace of God"® Willam C. Oates will be governor of Alabama December L As Gov- ernor Jones is a man who alway® keeps hiy powder dry, the odds are all in favor of Oates. Fledges Must Bo Redeomed, Globe-Democrat. No party has a monopoly of the popular favor. Power brings responsibilities which no organization ever yet formed was able to meet satisfactorily always. 1f, when the republicans regain complete control of the government in 1896, they fail to meet the povular expectation, however unreasonable that expectation may chance to ba, they will be driven out of congress in 139 and out of the presidency in 1900. i The Kealm of Desperadoes. icago Herald. Reports brought by residents of the In- dian Territory describe a reign of terror as existing there. Business men and property owners are panic-stricken, and there 13 com- plete commercial and industrial paralysis owing to the prevalence of lawlessness. The Cook gang and other organized gangs roam up and down the country, plundering citi- zens and travelers, shooting down those Who resist and burding the houses of those who do not submit to plllage. Not half the crimes are reported in the newspapers. It s evident that martial law Is an insti- tution that was establ ed for the purpose of being declared over just such disturbed territory as that described at the south- west, and the army should be there to en- foree it. Ol ‘Where the Leade Chicago Herald. The west will lead the democratic party hereafter, It will rewrite the doctrine of the party as it has come to us untainted ex- cept by New York greed and jealously, It will insist upon candidates and standard bearers in the future who will neither falter after a combat in carrying out the will of the people nor conspire before the combat to knock the democratic standard down, The west is disgusted with the meanness of the thing called protection democracy whose other name is New York democracy; whose third name, and all meaning the same odious entity,'ls New York selfishness. he east has had its day as dominator of the national democratic party. Now it must come to the west for leadership. ———— 3 rower of Vopulur Id ols. Philadelphia Record. It is merely a colncidence, of course, but it is a curious pectacle to see Lord Rose- bery rushing off to Hawarden in crder to consult his_ex-chief, Mr. Gladstone, upon the most important pending question in British politics, while the young kaiser al- mos simultaneously is making prepara- tions to obtain the support, or at least the tolerant acquiescence, of his ex-chancellor, Prince Bismarck, with regard to the politics of the new ime in Germany. An at- tempt s being made to minimize the im- portarce of the projected journey of Prince von Hohenlohe to Varzin, but the visit will inevitably be construed to be a tribute to the powerful Influence still exerted by the tron chancellor over the German imagi- naticn. Both the kaiser and Lord Rosebery have probably diseovered that it is easier to supersede a.cveteran statesman than to smash a popular. idol. =T ——— Evolutlon of Ocean Steamships. Phijadelpbia Record, The launch gt the Cramp ship yard of the largest vedsel ever built In America naturally awakens’ speculation concerning the evolution of Bteamship dimeasions Within the past half century. The new glant mer- chantman, the:six-decker 8t. Louls, is more than one'tenth of a mile long, being 654 feet over all, with an extreme beam of 63 feet, and a tohnade of 1,000 tons. She s surpassed in lenkth, therefore, by six trans- atlantic _steamers’ which now plow the waves cf the ‘deep. The City of Rome, bullt thirteen years ago, is 561 feet over all, and the presens American liners, the Parls and the New York launched haif a decade ago, are each eet from bow to stern. The Teutonfe and the Majestic exceed this length by exactly two feet, although they have only 57 feet beam and 9,087 tonnage, The swift Cunarders, the Campania and the Lucanis, constructed in 1852, mark the high- est achievement of the world In glant ves- sels. They are 620 feet long, with a beam of 65 feet. The longest vessels afloat ifty years ago were the Britannia and the Hibernia, each of which were 225 feet athwartships. In 1848 the 230-foot America was built. Then came the Z6-foot Asia in 1850. Five years later the §T5-foot Persia was launched, Two dec- ades passed before this record was beaten in the 4%-foot Bothnia. The Servia, bullt in 1881, was the first ship to surpass the 60- foot mark, In half a century steamship di- mensions have been almost trebled. Three hundred and_ninety-five extra feet have been added. The development of speed has more than kept pace as well, and, with the advent of triple-screws in the merchant marine, may yet result in the racing of these huge craft across the Atlantic in the marvelous space of five days. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The announcement which the new ozar seems to have made that he will abolish the secret court police and the state of siege or martial law and that he favors freedom of the press certainly sounds as though he meant to liberalize the Russian government The “secret court police,” however, 1s sim- ply the band of police of which it Is the duty to detect and frustrate plans for the assassination of the czar, and is a very small part of the secret police which overspreads the empire and constitutes the chief terror of all educated and liberal-minded Russians. To abolish the censorship and to establish in Russia freedom of speech and of the press would, indecd, amount. to a revolution, and a revolution that would ultimately be most beneficent. But it would probably operate at first in such a manner as to frighten the crar who made the concession Into retracting it. The trouble Is not only that public opinion is denfed expression in Russia. It Is that public opinion does not exist in Russia. The educated classes, 5o far as they are not identical with the prosperous and satisfied classes, are too small in number to consti- tute what may fairly be called a public. The evidence all points to the conclusion that the great mass of the Russian people are not ripe for citizenship, and that, if citizen- ship were to be thrust upon them, they would not know what to do with it. No doubt they would like to be relieved from the exactions imposed upon officials, and in Russia all officials appear to be corrupt. But the desire for a more lib- eral and representative government is enter- tained only by the educated class, which Is numerically insignificant, though the conse- quences of repressing it are by no means In- significant. . The dominion of Russia takes in about one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and one-fourteenth of its inhabitants. The death of the soverelgn of so much territory and such a multitude of people is an event of utmost moment in the political concerns of the world and is likely to be followed by changes of policy in the administration of the empire which will open a new page of history in the west and in the east. The late czar was on the throne nearly fourteen years, his predecessor’s reign having just ex- ceeded a quarter of a century. In this interval the poliey of the empire has been consistently in the direction of the preserva- tion of peace, except in 8o far as it has been necessary to subdue an occasional eastern tribe which stood in the way of the Russian advance, but how it may be in the case of the new. sovereign is yet a problem. There is a strong party in the country, represented with particular force in the army, in fayvor of doing something besides regulating the interior concerns of the country and guard- ing and ocecasionaliy pushing forward a few furlongs its frontiers. The new ruler may be inspired with this aggressive disposition, or, on the other hand, he may be inclined to cling to the moderate and peaceful policy of his father and grandfather, which, it must be said, has mot protected the empire from serious Internal discontents nor been popular enough to ward off from the sovereign the constant peril of assassication. An outside war, in the opinion of many Russians in the army and out of it, would subdue and extin- gulsh a host of perilous domestic discontents, threatening to the dynasty and even to the whole fabric of society, and they may be right; on the other hand, they might come out of such a conflict with less prestige and perhaps less territory and population than they now possess. The revelation as to the financial condition of Bulgaria will prove a disappointing sur- prise to all those who have hitherto been led to believe that the economic situa- tion of this Balkan state was of the most prosperous character. This belief was fos- tered by the late Prime Minister Stambulof, whose report on the finances of his country are now shown to have been of a decidedly mendacious character, and the new premier, Stolloff, who owes his education to the American missionaries of Roberts college at Constantinople, deserves much credit for his courage In making a clean breast with re- gard to the real condition of affairs. What the effect of this confession will be in Bul- garla Itself fs dificult to prediet. The Bulgarians are the most industrious, economi- cal and thrifty people of eastern Europe, with a praiseworthy horror of everything in the nature of debt; and inasmuch as their lia- bilities and their constantly growing heavy burden of taxation only date from the election of Prince Ferdinand to the throne, it is quite possible that their democratic instincts may get the better of their loyalty and that they may decide to rid themselves of the costly luxury of a sovereign and a court before they are absolutely enslaved in the same manner as thelr nelghbors, the Servians, by the greedy financiers of Pesth and Vienn o “The agitation in favor of universal suf- frage among the laboring classes In Austria is daily increasing,” writes- the correspondent of the London Times in Vienna. “Although it is with evident reluctance that its true proportions are admitted, it is now forcing itself constantly with unmistakable signifi- cance on public attention. The conspicuous self-confidence of its promoters is derived in @ great measure from the knowledge that thelr opponents are divided among them- selves. The working classes present a com- pact phalanx against a loose coalition of the conservative elements, which will scarcly sur- vive its first attempt at practical legisiation. The labor party in this country finds another source of encouragement in the con- sciousness that the crown itself is desirous of seeing the suffrage extended. The fact is that the opponents of a liberal extension of the electorate are awkwardly situated. They are pressed for concessions both from above and below, and nobody doubts that If they are compeiled to yield, as they probably will be, the present party organization in Austria will undergo a substantial modification. The Brouping of parties In this country is also closely bound up with questions of nationality that it is not regulated, as it is elsewhere, by abstract principles of policy, but in a great measure by racial consideratians. It is hardly necessary to say that this Inevitably weakens every parliamentary coalition. The working classes thus owe their growing power not only to their own exemplary organization, but also to a great extent to the fact that the coalition opposed to them consists of so many heterogeneous elements.” Spain's new cabinet, although Senor Sagasta remains at its head as premier, differs radi- cally from its predecessor in that it is of a strongly protectionist character, whereas the outgoing administration was committed to free trade. The new ministers announce that thelr first step will be to withdraw all the draft treaties of commerce which have been under negotiation for some time with the foreign powers and to prepare a reform of the tariff on high protectionist principles This prospect has created widespread satis faction in the manufacturing districts of alonla and Biscay, as well as in the agricultural districts of Castilla. Senor Gamazo, the leader of the protectionist party in Spain, has been appointed president of the Royal Commission intrusted with the duty of revising the tariff, and in view of the popu- larity of the defeat of the free-trade purty among nearly all classes of the population, the new cabinet is likely to be long lived. . A ministerial crisis {s threatened in Vienna as a result of a disagreement among the ministers and deputies with respect to the question .of universal suffrage, which Is strongly pressed by the labor party, and finds favor with the crown. The conservatives are bitterly antagonistic to the proposed electoral reform and are working vigorously to postpone action, However long deferred the extension of the suffrage may be, all the indications point to its ultimate accomplish- ment. Austria, In this respect, Is at present considerably behind other European powers, and the emperor is anxious that he shall come into line with more liberal monarchies. His partiality for universal suffrage has made him an immense favorite with the common people, and it is felt that the power of the conservatives Is bound to be greatly weakened. The Austrians are a happy and prosperous people, and the lower classes may be safely entrusted with the franchise. them by corrupt | BEOOD, RRUBEN, BLOOD. Courler-Journal: ~ Kolb of Alabama, who several weeks ago subsided under a demo- cratle majority against him of over 27,000, has been revived by the old republican cry of “fraud," and joins the pack with the desperate hope of getting some of the wool | But it will continue to be with Kolb, as it has been heretofore, a case of “all cry and no wool."” A republican congress has noth ing to do with the seat to which Kolb aspires. Indfanapolis Journal: Reuben F. Kolb, the defeated populist candidate for governor of Alabama, says in a pubiished manifesta that “by the grace of God" he will take his seat on the 1st of December, while Governor Jones says that Willlam C. Oates has been duly elected and “‘by the grace of God™ shall be installed in the office. From what the Jour- nal knows of Alabama politics and election methods, it does not believe that the grace of God Is a factor in the case, but it be right well pleased to see the pending con- test tried In an honest human court. Washington Star: Those who know Reu- ben Kolb are satisfied that a physical conflict is inevitable; that he will insist upon what he believes to be his rights, no matter what the consequences may be. Willlam C. Oates Is not unknown; he has many times particl- pated in scenes quite as exciting as are likely to materialize in connection with the present trouble; he, too, will stand up until the last moment for the rights and privileges which ho believes have heen conferred upon him by the people of the state which he repre- sented for so long a period in congress. Go | effect that Oates has been | fairly-expressed will of a majority of the voters in Alabama and that it wiil be hi duty to see to it that Oates is duly installed in his office. That the power of the state Wilk be used in behalf of Oates is certain. The question now is: Will the irregular forces of Kolb be sufficient to overawe or defeat the instruments who will be summoned by Governor Jones? THE COMICAL CREW, elected by the kins has political aspirations?* because he likes to have men sla he back and call him Old Horse Sy p him Plain Dealer: DId you ever see a_man who didn’t know how preaching ought to be done? Inter Ocean: “Who is the new boarder?" “He's one of the greatest inventors of the age” “In what line?" “Excuses for not | paying his board.” Milwaukee Journal: When a man of mid- dle life gets time to think about himself he cannot help wondering how he has en- dured so much. Indianapolis Journal: “Liversby was tell ing me that he had a dream that an angel appeared and told him that he would go stralght to heaven when died. Now, vhat do you think of that h, that's just like him—he couldn't even dream the truth," Chicago Tribune: “The greatest advan- tage a Boston girl has over the rest of us," sighed Miss Wellalong, laying aside the volume she ading and taking up one with larger print, “is that the world never looks upon her spectacles as a sign that she is growing old.” New York Weekly Actress (angrily)— Did you write that eriticism which said my impersonation of “The Abandoned Wife" was a miserable fajlure? = Critic—Ye—y you see, you looked so {rresistibly beautiful that it was impossible to fancy that any man could abandon you. Chicago Record: Mr. Mildeyes (seeking a reconciliation)—You're prettier now, Emm: than you used to be. Mrs. Mildeyes (still angry)—That's right— tell me to my face that I used to be homely. Boston Transcript: Mrs. Pinsnice—I think It a great wickedness to read a newspaper on the Sabbath, and I don't understand how professing Christlans can do such a thing. Brother John (interrupting)—Thought T saw you reading the paper last Sunday, Susan. Mrs, Pinsnice—You saw nothing of the sort. I was merely looking over the bar- gain advertisements, GOLLY, W BE THER! Minneapolls Times, O Thanksgivin' day is comin’ feelin' mighty spry, And ye're whetlin' up our appetites for ait; Everybody get in line for turkey-sauce and pie, And ' mind you, late; and we're honey, don’t be gettin® Get out bright and early And tog up in yer best; Democrats are in this Just like all the rest! oo LR THE TALKER. Washington Star. Day after day, year after year, ‘The echoes pulse to his tireless volce; In valn are your efforts not to hear; He doesn’t give you the slightest choice, Like the sail gaunt mast, His larynx flaps in the endless rush Of air from his brazen lungs, a blast ‘That ruthlessly startles some sacred hush. that beats on the wreck's Like the waves that dash on the trembling sands, less as time in thelr dreary roar, His flow of language the place commands; Thoughts flee like birds from the storm- swept shore. But Justice Is sure; supreme, though slow. Perhaps, 'midst the outcast souls some day, A _demon will fix him in voiceless woe, While avother bore tauntingly has. his ernor Jones makes modest statement to the | Harper's Bazar: “Why do you think Jen- | LEADING FEATURES, THANKSGIVING NUMBER The opening chapter of Dret Harte's latest story, “Clarence,” will appear In The Sun~ day Bee. The fame and rare accomplt ments of this talented story-teller are the best guaranty of the high quality of his new production. The Bee fs confident that no brighter attraction could have been ses cured. The is copyrighted, Nlustrated and exclusive with The Ree In its territory. The page devoted Interest t popularity IV of that of Mysore," this to subjects of spectal boys and girls (3 adding to the of The Sunday Bee. Chapter capital story, “The Lost Opal will lead the page. Following brief articles: “A Thanksgiving pider What 1t Cost to Dis- cover America,” “The Pirst Thanksgiving," te. A story ve Thanet, “The Happy Thanksglving of the Burglar and Plumber,™ | Is of extraordinary literary merit, There is not a dull line in the interesting and original matter composing the woman's page. The Parls fashion letter is within itself a distinctive feature that will com- mend itself to feminine taste. A description of the game of basket ball, a popular and ceful game that has found favor among girls, will be read with interest, Descrip- ‘IIHII is also given of Thanksgiving souve- | nirs, charming new favors for fashionabie | women. New Ideas fn fancy work, recipes | for toothsome cakes, how to make paper frocks and miscellaneous fashion tips all go to fill the page to completion, | ted description of the new local club house on Douglas street will embellish the society page of The Sunday Bee. Every important social event of the week will be | faithfully chronicled. | il | Colonel J. W. Nichols tells an interest- [ ing story concerning the assassination of | President Lincoln by J. Wilkes Hooth, many | of the features of which have never before bheen published. For some months prior to the assassination of President Lincoln the famous “Bucktall” vegiment, of which Colonel Nichols was a member, served as & | bodyguard to the president. | | An filustr: | One of the young men about town relates ‘}hw experience at a sitting where he ana a | tew other young bloods tried indulging m hasheesh, a drug which produces about the | same effects as opium. To a reporter this | young man tells a tale that is replete with startling incidents. The address of Dr. W. O. Rodgers, who went from this city as a delegate to the National Fraternal congress, now in ses- sion in Buftalo, N. Y. Is given in fuil. It contains an ex: istive history of fra- ternal socleties, showing that they existed centuries before the birth of Christ. The sporting department will, as usual, teem with Interesting and original matter, Thanksglving day's great gridiron struggle between the Universities of Nebraska and Towa is outlined in advance; the sports of forest, fleld and stream entertainingly treated, the ball field thoroughly trodden over, and, In fact, healthful and manly athleties of all kinds intelligently touchea upon., The remarkable success of Japanese arms in China has awakened universal interest in all that concerns the modern Napoleon of nations. Untll Japan accepted the chal- lenge of China and proceeded to whip tane orlental glant out of his boots, compara- tively little was known of Japan's develop- ment, elther In arms or in peaceful pur~ sults. The lessons Japan is now giving China demonstrate the efficacy of modern influences. It is no less remarkable than the development of her manufacturing in- terests, which is treated in Mr. Frank Carpenter's letter to The Sunday Bee, The weekly letters of Mr. Robert P, Por- ter, from various points in Great Britaln, have hitherto dealt with the industrial and economic features of Knglish life, In his next letter Mr. Porter will treat of several striking features of soclal life. Conspleu- ous among them are the annual pageant and installation of the lord mayor of Lon- don, and the feast that follows. This gor- geous show Is one of the ancient institutiong of the world’s metropolis, but it is decline Ing In popularity, while the feast is calcus= lated to promote involuntary sulcide, Mr, Porter also presents proof of the wides spread sentiment aroused by southern lynch- Ings and its effect on southern credit. The dawn of better times, Minister Bayard flattery, and phases of London journalism unite In making the letter one of the most interesting of the series. say. THE SUNDAY BEE. T To get to o urday It's the b we've done particulars, YOU WILL HAVE (@) SAIL IN EARLY ur sale Sat- iggest thing this year. See third page for Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas,

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