Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAY B B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, PUDLISIED EVERY MORNING, [ TERMS OF 8U (Without Sunda and_ Sunday, On SCRIPTION. One Year | Daily Bee 80 Dally Tiee Bix Months ’x' Mor [ 1iee by dny dny Weekly One Omaha, The Houth Omah ner N and 24th Sts t f Tr Dullding, | Washing SPOND All commun ns torial matter should be i BUSINEES LETTERS, a4 remittr NCE to news and_ e To the Edit o8 should be Publishing Company ) postofcs orders to of the company ATl by addressed [ ULATION The 1 EMENT STA Pub- that the t the Ashing comipany actual pumbor Dally, Morning, Eveninz during the month of May 48,000 19,004 016 1 i full i 10101 19/08 18990 | 1 191 T 10,218 Total ) s deductions for 19 200 19,974 HUCK Sworn to hefore me my pres- enge thin Tsi"day of J s —_— Towa polities are in the quiescent state. The cruption will not take place until after the other state tickets are all in the field. No, ex-Govertior Boles does not eare to perform in Towa this year the sacri- fice act which Senator Hill undertook o New York state a year ago. General Coppinger has doubtless read the grave forebodings of war from the voluble tongue of Mr. Peebles with ex traordinary interes He can now scent i the battle from afar Between the new brooms of the street cleaning gang and the new chief of po- lice Omaha ought to become a paragon of virtue, both % regards godliness and that virtue which Is next to During this taste of tropical tempera- ture, for those who do not ree with the belief of Cotonel Bob Ingersoll, Wordsworth's Intimations of Immor tality may prove suggestive summer readi of the gods grind slow. mills this fall will have git like a Chicago girl to take care of the Ne crop, with the present The mills but the grist to strike n chewing gum Dbraska corn prospects. Most people expect to have warm weather in summer. But they pred not te haye more heat than is ne sary for the maturing of the crops. | All the surplus will be chberiully fore gone with by the people in this part of the country. Ald Thursday morning s that ex-Premier Stam buloft had slightly improved in condi tion and had been able to talk. The Bee said that the ex-premier had grown worse and that the doctors gave no hope of recovery. Stambuloff died Thurs( Comment is unnecessar The Worl told its r That renowned statesman and war- rvior, Hon. W. K. Pecbles of Pender, tells a thrilling tale of blood and car- nage. It will not, however, eause much alarm among the people. Bven if all that Mr. Peebles say true, if the effort is one to resist the authority of the government, it is doomed to failure in the end. he Government 1 injunction has suf- fered another severe test at Doon, Ia. The court on petition is expected to order a bridegroom not to leave, i} don or desert his bride of a day under penalty of heavy fine and imprison- ment. Perhaps the groom would prefer a prison to the meshes of matrimony. And who could blame him? Ten cases of typhoid fever have ap- peared since July 1. The physicians seem to attribute this to impure drink- ing water and microbe-lnden ice. Is it not possible the cause may be found elsewhere, due to some local condition which should not be permitted to exist? This is certainly a fit subject for thor- ough investigation at the hands of the Board of Ilealth. After scouring the town high and low, up and down, for expressions of dissent with the methods of Chief White, one business man who is not willing to le his name be known has been discovere who thinks that the chief of police did wrong in asking the commission to sum- marily dispose of Incompetents, maleon- tents and mutineers. That man ought to be slated for a plage on the Churchill police commission. War has been declared by the good citizens of Pender, and a delegation has pme to Omaha to supply the Pender ites with the proper means of defense against the unregenerate red man, If | the people of Pender would start a | colony from among the warring Poles at Gibson station they would gather in some excellent recruits and relieve Judge Berka's police docket from its periodieal entry chargeable to the coun trymen of Koscluszko, The three-story prize-packs building in Lincoln, which winter put up as a bait fo sellers, was found to Thursday morning. ‘This would indi- cate the capital prize had been won and delivered and a defeated ticket holder is seeking enge. If this be a true estimate of the situation, let us suggest to the disgruntled sucker that the man who drew the prize may b evidence of that fact, but we venture the prediction that he will never get a clear title to the property. ge store was last lottery ticket | be on fire early | | that would command gener: | renson to believe it was politic | improbably the work of Russian ewmis | saries, THE OMAHA DAILY BEB: WANT A CURRENCY COMMISSION, At the recent meeting of the State Bankers' Assoclation of New York a resolution was adopted favoring the ap polntment of a under authority of congress, composed of ex perts and men charged with the duty of reporting to congress for its consideration a cur rency system adapted to the commer clal 1s and interests of this nation. This sug not now made for the first time, 1t lias before come from other financial or al bodies, and a curreney commission has been proposed in congress, but it led command much favor there, Unquestionably there is much to said in support of the commission propo- sition. A body composed of practical financlers and business men, represent 1 parts of the country, who would r the currency question free wmy politi or partisan bl should be able to formulate a that would be aceeptable to a 1 of the intel commission, busine comprehensive nee is stion ommer be ing consid from particularly business cliberations commis n it to exert influence upon congress, since it would embody the best judgment of men prac tically familiar with financial affaivs and influenced solely by the desive to put the currency system on as firm and s possible. But it y difficult, if a commission 1 contidence. in its y to be financial and of the the The result such a also, to interests. of permanent a basis would be found extreme not impossible, to get It eastern makeup they regarded with distrust by the south and west, while if southern and western men constituted a majority of the com- mission the east would probably lack mtidence in it Thus, in any event, i would be danger of the result of the commission’s deliberations bel diseredited in advance in one section or another of the country, with the necessary effect of rendering it almost if not entirely useless when pre- sented to the vepresentatives of the people in congress. It ct that the Am goner not favorably disposea toward commissions to pass upon (ques- affecting their financial or nomic interests, and it 50 true that so-called expert opinion re ling questions not 1 vory weight in this country. The recom mendations of the National Board of Trade body thoroughly representa- tive of the commercial int country, have rarely received any con- sideration in congress. The practically mnanimous demand of the commercial bodi of the country for a uniform bankrupt law has not yet been com- plied with, The Baltimore currency plan was the work of practical banke; presumably experts in finance, and was endorsed by a national convention of bankers, but it was summarily rejected by congress. These experiences sug gest that the labors of a currency com- mission, however earefully made up, would probably amount to very little toward solving the currency problem. It might afford some enlightenment to the people’s representatives and to that extent would be a good thing, but it could not be relied upon for anything Nor It may be remarked in this con- wetion that it the judgment of great man, who, if not financial ex pert intelligent ideas re sarding the currency, that the wisest sourse s (o let the monetary system of the count alone until there urgent r an now exist for mak- ing any ¢ ¢ men predominated would very like rican people tions eeo- does ave st of the re more asons tl nge. HE STAMBULOFF The little of Bulgaria, which for years has been the s numerous political plots and connter, plots, i again prominent in the atten- tion of Europe. The wtion the ex-prime minister of the prine pality, Stambuloff, who died yesterday, is the ause of the freshi awakening of interest regarding Bulgarian affaivs, the prey. alent belief being that this tragedy ended all hope of Bulgarvia becoming independent and that the country will now practically a provinee of Russia, a consummation which the Rus- sinn has been secking to attain for ten years or more and against which Stambuloft persistently fought, Whatever ay thought of his methods, which toward those whom he regarded as the enemies of Bulgaria were severe and relentloss, mbuloft wis an uncompromising champion of the freedom and independence of his country and the implacable foe of Rus- sian designs regardin Bulgaria. As prime minister lie frustrated many con- spiracies said to have been worked np by agents of the Russian government and it was by his orders that a num ber of conspirators were executed 8 1 years ago. Hoe has been called the Bismar of Bulgaria, this title having reference to his policy of strengthening the principality and fos- tering the national spivit, The hostility of Stmmbfiloff to Russi and the desire of Prince Ferdinand to concilinte that power ecaused him to be deposed from the premiership las year, but he coutinued to be an active and influential in tl political affairs of the country. His power gone, Nowever, he could not so successtully battle against the intrigues of Russi id the influence of that power over the ruler of Bulgaria has been steadily growing. In the early part of the present month Prince Ferdinand sent a deputation to St. Petersburg for the purpose of effecting a more friendly understanding with Rus: and it was absent on this mission when Stambuloft was murderously assailed by assassins in a public street of the Bulgarian capl The ex-prime minister had made and bitter enemies and his as nation was at first asceribed to re venge, but there appears to be good 1, not AS. priveipality ene become 3 3 government be The apparent indifference of the authorities to the occurrence gives a color of credibility to the eb that they were in some e ories. 1t is not to be believed, of course, t Prince Ferdinand himself had any knowledge that the life of his ex-minis ter was even ln danger, but there has sense to | | it people of the country Fn 1 no indieation that he feels ‘ ret at the assassination an perhs in his enger desire to conciliate Russia he would not dare fo express regret it lie felt any A majority of the Bulgarlan people are decidedly anti-Russian and the mur der of Stambuloff must have a tendenc to inten this fecling and make | stronger and more determined the pur to thwart the of Russia, | which are distinetly adverse to the inde pendence of Bulgaria, Stirving events therefore likely to happen in the prineipality. The people, remembering the devotion and loyalty of Stambuloft | to the welfare of the country and be- lieving that for this he was slricken | down, will be likely to hold to ccountability those whom they may re 18 responsible for his murder. In |t there may be other startling | tragedies played on the stage of Bul garia. any s pose designs stern DEFINE, THE COMPTROLLER'S DUTIES, Now that attention has been directed the methods that have vailed in the city comptroller's office, it devolves upon the council to formulate new regulations that will prevent a re currence to loose pre- of by which a defaleation in the treasury remained so long covered up. The new regulations should not stop of compelling the comptroller to verify the records of every city officer who handles municipal funds in ar \pe or man- ner and to it that the is paid into the city treasury promptly at least once each month. No oflicer of the city, high or low, should be per- mitted to withhold a single penny of public money from the treasury longer than thirty day; Ta yers may be surprised to know how many city offic and employes do handle publie funds. First, of course, stands the city treasurer, who receipts for ta general and special, as well as the proceeds of bond and moneys pald into the school fund from rious souree Next comes the cle of the police court, who receives all fines, penalties and costs imposed by the police judge. Then we have the fees colleeted by the city clerk, by the building by the boiler in- spector, by the city electrician, by the plumbing inspector, by the Board of Public Works. by the city engineer, by the park commission. Last but not least money collected by the librarian of the public library and by the com- missioner of health and his assistants, The accounts of most of these boards, officers and employes have never been amined by the comptroller, nor h there been any attempt made to get a full settlement from thes various cus. todians of public mone; All these oficers may be perfectly honest and their accounts may have been kept cor- rectly, but the city s had no means of knowing whether the revenues which belong to the city and are ecollected in its name have been pocketed or properly covered into the treasury. No other cor: poration that pays out m a year would tolerate such reckless and unbusi- nesslike methods, short see to cash sales, inspector L KICKLER P DUY When Governor Crounse appolnted Virgil Ovid Strickler a member ofsthe Board of Fire apd Police Commission- ers he aroused intense indignation among all classes of our citizens. The 1 man who had no standing in the community and notoriously lacked public confidence was regarded as an unmitigated outrage. Barring the Hil- ton appointment, nothing reflected greater diseredit upon Governor Crounse than” did the selection of Strickler. This mountebank has now been per- forming on the police commission trapeze for more than two years, He has played to the grand stand by all sorts of cheap demagogy while secretly allied with the very people he was openly denouncing. He pretended be fore the Young Men's Christinn associa. tion to be a great moral reformer, when in fact he was as friendly to the re puted proprietor of the gilded palaces in the social evil district as was the ite chief of police. While ranting bout the gamblers and gambling houses he has been the mainstay of Chief Detective Haze, who had played into the hands of the gamblers and on the | witness stand in the district court testi- fied under oath that he did selection of not know who was running the Dinmond gamhling and pool rooIns. The latest anties of Strickler are on a | par with all his former exhibitions. For months he had been clamoring for po- lice reorganization, but when the op- portuaity to reorganize was presented he sought to block every effort looking in that direction. I two months he played see-saw with the other commis. sioners and kept the police force with- out a head and in a state of utter de- moralization. When the commission finally tived of his dilatory tactic and appointed a competent and ex perienced chief of poli trickler en- tered protest. This may have been his right if he was actuated by honest mo- tives, but the mountebank is not tent to stop with this. He set the most pernicious example by publicly inelting the police to insubordination under pre tense that the appointment of the new chief was illegal. Here was a police com: | missioner aiding and abetting mutin and sedition. While he is a jack-lawyer, Strickler knows law enough to know that a de facto officer, whether he is governor or chief of police, is ta be obeyed in the execution of the functions of his office until lis title has been ad- | judicated by the courts. If anything | could be urged in mitigation of the con- duct of mutineers who have been dis- missed from the force it is the fact that they have acted under the inspiration of this fomentor of anurchy. In his capacity as police commissioner Strickler has a right to differ with his | nssoclates and he has a right to ord his vote against every reform which he has pretended to advocate, but no police commissioner has a right publicly or privately to enconrage police officers to plot against their superiors or try to subvert the discipline and efficien the force. Mr. Strickler should re without ceremony or delay. The Commer has been worki il club is all right. on sowething b the inexcusable negligence | than the fry silver democratic state convention. "Fery member 1s up to his neck In work that will make the state fair the grestest suce it was estublished. The club feels that under the circumstances it can leave the care ot the free silVer democratic convention | to the fre temocrats of Omaha Spem—— The eity comptroller fs now | an indefinite Teave of absence, while he | is drawing 198 $208 o month as usnal, » far as ean B ascertained, his office is doing exactly’ the work it did while hé" wids there and probably more. Some months ago, when the comptroller was asked whether he conld :,...«nvl_\ get along with one clerk less, | e was sure the office could not be run | with a smaller force than it then had. To a man up a tree it would seem that the comptroller is either a mere figure head or the city has been paying for more than there is need What is true of the comptroller's office is also doubtless true of several other city oflic ss since njoying same ns elsy orks The State university is going to feel the stress of the deere tion in the decreased returns which its We-mill levy will brin This goes to | show that the university appropriations | ave made upon an entirel Dasis. Instead of being a levy of a stipulated part of a mill they ought to be lump sum appropriations. In such the unive Yy authorities would have ac curate informativn of their resources and could make their estimates with a knowledge that every ‘cent relied upon would be available. As it is the re sources of the university va with the whims and moods of the local assessors throughout tl sed state valua wron case defects in to fix Bvery one recognizes the the law which allows assessors the total tax valuation of Nebraska at S17TL,000,000 when the actual value of real and personal property in the state it at least ten times that amount. But eve ent legislature has refused to undertake a thorough revision of the revenues and things have been allowed to go from bad to worse under the ex isting le The remedy lies in a radical change in our methods of tax administeation. The state and county officials are powerless until the are changed. Turkey is mor reopen the 'n question and said to be making warlike preparations in anticipation of possible trouble. This is Turkey’s chief stock in trade and with beautiful effect ry time occasion offer; Should it come to ac- tual hostilities, however, the share of Turkey in the settlement of the Eastern question would not be very great. The other interested pow, feel quite con fident that they are able to adjust that matter without the help of Turk when the timg foi action arrives. once 1816 to is used « Dr. Graham wlor is kind enough to nssure the mew warden of the peni- ry that his recent public stric tures. were not directed at that high functionary. Dr. Graham Taylor, it will be remembers isited the pen a few hours and then felt himselt well qualified to criticise that institution. He is now confident that his remarks made a deep impression upon the peo- ple of this state, when as a matter of 't the idea pr ils that the doctor did not know his line The Difculty 18 to Choose, Globe-Demoerat. Tt is said that Morton thinks Allison would be a good man for the presidency. Others think that way, too. In fact the republican party has several men of that sort. This is one of the ways in which it differs from the democracy e The Three Corn Graces. St. Louls Republic, heads the list of states in acreage 504.000 acres, and the condition of her reported to be 105. Kansas is a good second with 8,426,000 acres fn almost as good condition, averaging 104, Kansas' crop is we'l advanced and she may be counted on to pro- duce the largest ever grown west of Missouri, Another state that is likely to beat her record as a corn producer is Nebraska. The condi- tion of her crop averages 95 and she has nealy 8,000,000 acres Towa with 8 crop is -~ Ono of tha Natlon Fuilders. Chicago Chronicle To Stambuloff, the victim of an attempted assination in Sofia Monday, belongs th of rank among the nation builders of entury. Like Bismarck and Cavour, he added a new nation to the list of Buropean states. The princes who pretended to ru Bulgaria were but his puppets. He enthrone them, arranged their marriages, upheld their power. Never able to compel European ac- quiescence in the complete liberaticn of Bul- garia from the power of the sublime porte, he nevertheless, by the arts of diplomacy and by the firmest and most insistent statesmanship, achieved virtual independence of the sultan’s rule. — - The Ngoabble for Pluce. Philadelphia Record Abdut the worst thing that can happen any young man of fair acquirements 4 good health Is that he shall secure a subordinate place in the public employment. Such a pos'- tion is bad enough under the system of rota- tion in office that has prevailed in the United States, depending upon changes of political administration. It ts still worse under an established civil service, where the clerk and his desk become' prettically one plece of furniture. Tt has' been well said that “‘the civil service Is a cemetery for young men. Interments take fitace at all hours. Pity it is that youth does not hite a higher aim.” And pity it is that the noble pursuit of politics is cheapened and degraded by this etarnal squab- ble for place. —le Warming to siivar Republican: Buftalg Pdpress (rep.) According to ef-Sejator Sanders of Mon- tana a plan beif 14ked of i the Rocky mountain states 1§ to' choo: electors at the next presidential ¢lection with instructions to vote only for’a’ free silver man for th presidency, - without régard to the nomines of the party they rtepresent. This is on a par with the ofNer plan of withdrawing in a body from®the“next national conven- tion in case the'némfnee is not a silverite, as he will not bx !!Phe republican leaders should make up) thoir minds that the best way to minimize the influence of these silyer cranks and break the force of their inevita- ble bolt is to keep them out of the national convention so far as possible. Encouraging them to come with an idea of effecting & satisfactory compromise is the merest folly, Highest of all in Leavening Po Roval TROUBLE IN THE Relations Netweeh Mishop Prieats July al of Matz and His DENV vicar g Colo., confirmed the New York yesterday diocese have united R, 18.~Father Robinson, the diocese of Denver, report, telegraphed from that the priests of this in a petition Rome for early action on Bishop Mata's resigna- tion, but he declined to discuss the matter, ather Corrigan sald that the fact that “‘the cathedral prope was on the verge of being sold for debt had much to do with the matter, as we all feel that such an would be a lasting disgrace to the diocdse. Wo ed a letter, setting forth situation here as It exists at present testifylng to the importance of quick action by Rome upon the matter situation fairly, T think the pope that the church was suffering in Colorado, both temporally and spiritually, through the delay in taking action upon the bishop's resignation. The memorial made no charges against the bishop beyond what the bishop himself has already stated in his letter of resignation. We simply endeavored to explain the situation here. We ssked that a certaln person be sent here to in- vestigate the situation and agreed to stand by whatever report he should make. We tried to keep the matter secret, hoping that the ecclesiastic we asked for would come quietly make his investigation, report to itome and the whole matter be settled withont undue publicity.” Bishop Matz Is In the east endeavoring to collect money to pay the interest oa the | large cathedral debt and to prevent a crisis until Rome shall relieve him from his great responsibility. SRR “S——— FOR THE Faulkner 1s Not Frea Siver Orators, WASHINGTON, July 18.—Senator ner, chairman of the democratic congressional committee, denies that any party of demo- ocratic orators is to be sent into the north- west under the auspices of the committee during the present summer and approaching fall for the purpose of discussing the cur- rency question in a series of meetings. “1 have written Mr. Hazzard, who to have Initiated the movement for the tour,” said the senator, when asked about the report, “telling him that the congres- sional committee could have nothing to do with the scheme. There s no campaign on this year and the committee does not feel called upon at this time to send orators | through the country to discuss any question If any individual gentleman or a party desire to %0 out as Individuals and address the peo ple that is another matter. They have a per- fect right to do so, but it is not proper that the name of the congressional committee should be used by the party as was pro- posed.” TOO EAKLY CAMPALGN Chatrman Sending Out Faulk- was Silver Men Meot in Chien CHICAGO, July 18.—The executive commit- appointed by the recent silver convention Memphis met in conference here today with the members of the Bimetallic league, with ex-Congressman Sibley as chairman The fissue discu was the advisability of separate political action in the campaign of next year, but no definite action was de- cided upon and it was expected that another meeting will be held tomorrow. Among those present today were J. R. Goodwin of Mem- viis, Charles Coffin of Arkansas, J. O. Ralph- snyder of West Virginia, secretary; Ackler of Nashville; General A. J. Warner of Ohio, A. W. Rucker of Colorado, and ex-Judge H. W. Miller of Chicago. tel Senntor Morgan Favors Frea Sliver. GRIFFIN, Ga., July 18.—The principal event at the Georgia free sliver conven- tion, held here today, was the speech of Senator Morgan of Alabama. He said that the democratic party was the friend of silver. ‘It s, he said, “a safer guardian of the rights of silver money than any other party, whether republican, populist or mugwump. 1 therefore am willing to en- trust this great question to their keeping and 1 shall remain at my post under that flag, as 1 have done for twenty years in the senate, and will do all that is in my power for this and the cause of the people. Pt Ak Deputies Capture a Notorlons Woman. OKLAHOMA CITY, OkL, July 18.—Jessie Finley, the notorious young woman who participated in ths escape uf the Christian | brothers, was captured Pottawatamie county last night by u posse of deputy United States marshals and brought to this city, She is the woman who supplied the prisoners with revolvers and supposedly planned their escaps from jail. When captured she was changing male attire for her own clothe: and had not put on her shoes. The officers, apprehensive of being caught by the Chr tain boys and their friends, hastily mounted their horses and brought her to the city bare- foot. Sai'ing Vessel Lost at Son. SAN FRANCISCO, July 18.—The British bark Florence, which left Newcastle, Aus- tralfa, on January 26 for Panama has not yet reached her destination and she has been giv- en up as lost. Nothing has ever been heard of her since she sailed from the colonial port and a month ago reinsurance was frecly of- ferred at 90 per cent. She was a stanch iron vessel of about 1,500 tons burden and was in command of Captain Higgins. She should have made the voyage by the last of April and she is now posted as being three months u»elnhm She was loaded with Australian coal. n e e Wateh Dog Frevented a Fire. CINCINNATI, July 18.—The barking of a watch dog prevented the total destruction early this morning of the Price Hill Incline power house, which would have been a loss of $125.000 and cut off the communication of 10,000 suburbanites. The dog's efforis caused a prompt alarm to be turned in, Taoe damage by the fire was only $5,000 and the Incline resumed traffic before noon, —~——— W ant Hates on Horse Meat. SAN FRANCISCO, July 18.—The Transcon- tinental assoclation has received a communi- | cation from Portland, Ore., asking that the rates on canned and pickled horse meats in carload lots be established between Port- land and all cities in the United States. The application follows closely on the application for new rates on live horses from Arizena common points to Oregon. —_—— Must Decide by Next Monday. PHILADELPHIA, July 18.—The big carpet mill owners of Kensington have notified the striking weavers that the mills will be opened next Monday, and if the strikers refuse to return they will clese down indefinitely. The manufacturers agree to pay the current rate of wages until next Decimber, when they | wilt pay the advance demanded by the strik- ers -— Well Known Nowspaper Man Dies, BOSTO! July 18.—John T. Ellis, the newspaper correspondent who fell on the steps of the Hotel Thorndyke Tuesday and frac tured his skull, died today. Mr. 1lis as well known in newspape ircles in W York, Chicago, St. Louis and Washington, as well as In this eity. e Cashier of a Lefunct liunk Arrested. AURORA, Mo., July 18.—W. L. Loudon, ex- cashier of the Aurora State bank, which failed last April, is under arrest on the charge of baving received $18.95 in deposits, knowing that the bank was in a falling condition. His signed. —_— Took Her Deg: rmany. BERLIN, July 18.—An American woman, Miss Maltby, has obtained the degree of doe- tor of philosophy at the Goetting university. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE bond has been placed at §$500 and was quickly | the | and | We stated the | and tried to show | hol'" | | | event |t | word fail PUSHING TARIFF TO THE FRONT, THE LONG DISTANCE DEDATE, Why Washington Post (fnd): With such a tarift In operation—a compromise between the Mc Kinley act and the Wilson bill—and with the sun of prosperity shining on all our industries, It Is difficult to see how the republican party can ma get up a tarift fight next | year. But that is thelr program. Nearly all the organs of that party are shouting for a tariff campaign ey all make the mistake of attributing their victory in 1594 entirely to the tariff, whereas, it was the resuit mainly of democratic diggust with democratic incapacity. There has been no reversal by the people of the verdic nounced upon fcKinley bill in 1890, and repeated in 1892, In its principal feat the present tariff is acceptable to all but the extremi on both sides New York Mall and Express (rep.) publican party has plain sailir aly to follow the logie keeping clear of all side fssues, victory along the lines ot in_its successive platforms. The notable vie tories which 1t has already won have been fought out upon tho distinctive tarift lssue Upon that issue, as the paramount feature of the next great national campaign, it is des tined to march again into the control of the federal government. The republican party has never disappointed public expectations, and has always kept faith with the people of all conditions and sectlons, because it has been true to its own principles and has not been seduced Into strange pat Boston Journal (rep.): Towa in an accurate recognition of the political | outlook. Its republican state convent like that in Governor McKinley's state, voices the dominant sentiment of the repub lican voters, and, indesd the American people, in giving the tarift issue the p donce “over all others. It was first in the | speeches; it was first in the platform. On | this point the lowa republicans, citizens of what used to be regarded as a_purely agri cultural state, are as explicit and emphatic as ever were their political friends of Pennsyl vania or Massachusetts, They denounce the democratic notion of free trade, and stig matize its embodiment in the Gor Wil son bill as a disastrous humbug. They con gratulate the country that in the prosperity of our industries under republican supremacy their paralysis under democratic rule, and their revival with the repudiation of the democracy, the vindication of protection is complete. - Minneapolls Times should engage In an en the bass are biting so somothing harder to underst than their arguments Kansas City Jouenal: Mr to demolish n's Financial Mr. Harvey promises to demolish There is reason to belfeve. public will be the princi Detroit Free Press: Th bate on the financial q m Chicago. The fssues involved fully handled, but the tract far att done sixty days Horr and Hare elght-day talk beautifully is than--well, promises ol," and Mr. Horr, howevor, that the sufferer e Horr-Hary stion is now on at Wil be skille controversy will ate than it womld have When a people are making money and enjoying the comforts of lite it s difficult to them that gov- ernmental mismanagement Is plunging them headlong to ruin Globe-Democrat: Messrs, Harvey Horr, the two eminent journeymon, jaw- smiths of finance who have started a debate in Chicago, are totally ignorant of the signs of the times or tl id that the particular phase money question upon | Which they proy shed the luminosity [ of their ignoran of date. A fow | months ago everyhody seemed to be inter- ested In the silver ques evorybody is tired of it and howling t from it | We have ascortained by ir at the book | stores that the demand f kind of lit- rature has fallen off from fmmense to noth- ing In a few wecks, and that its lard price 1s liable to descend from the 50 cents a volume of a ago to 1% cents a pound fn a short tin Chicago Nows ng listening as he at a time In a verbal con must sit quictly by whil blows on lis devoted head cendemned o nothir most sneer, Mr nim with rhe and reason. How much more inspiring it would he if they could stand up toe to toe and go at their debate with vocal blow and parry, thrust and foil ‘mixing up” fn the warm parts of the argu ments and striving against cach other sim- ultaneously with irresistible torrents of sar casm, with twists and trips of wit, with sheer brawny rivalry of statisties, until the referee cried “Break away!" and the contest- ants were led to their corners. Also, how much sooner would it be —— JINGLING RIS MES y de- The re vine before it. It vents, and arch on to ampaign laid down t and y ow see to is 0 out \ Now a re Iry ar st follows Ohic o g as | i t M does and anean work Mr. Harvey Horr ralns and Mr. Horr is but smile, or at Harvey pummels do while it over. —t PERSONAL AND O UCHERWISE, The Chicago Richelleu in its lexicon. has discovered ered the = he hu engaged Wb e youth besides the sea, as fond as fond caw She And be. t, when they come together ¥, they never speak meets Dr. Ibsen is to have a monument erected they in his honor during his lifetime, It will stand in front of the Royal theater fn Chris tiania Hon. W. A, Clarke having moved from Montana, his distinguished rival, Marcus Daly, is reasonably safe in awarding the con tract’ to fence In the state. There is an element of refined cruelty in heated argument, in view of the persistent activity of OId Sol. Public comfort de. mands that competition be discouraged. Lillian Russell's new yacht is named *‘Take Me.” Several have tried it with varying re- sults, but still the fair Lil should not be “ rmitted to pine away in h trending lone ness, Notwithstanding the generous, even lavish, advortising given Mrs, Stanford's jewels, with incidental mention of her brandy fizzes, it is but just to say that philanthropic lady has n ambition for the stage. George H. Latimer, who was once a fu- gitive slave, celebrated the 75th anniversary of his birth last week in Lynn, Mass. Mr. Latimer was tho first slave to be captured under the fugitive slave law. A government surveying party is serlously disposed to add 1,100 to the altitude of Pike's peak, making its height 15,647' feet The correction will be useful in elevating the price of a trip on the cog road. Major H. A. Huntington, late of the United States army, formerly aid-de-camp to Major General Halleck, and a man of lotter: been created by the king of Greece a alier of the Order of the Savior. Robert E. Scott, who died at Augusta, Wis the other day, was a nephew of Sir Wal Scott, being the fifth child of Charles Scott a younger brother of the author. He was born in 1820 and came to this country in 1544, Marquis of Salisbury has generously pro- vided for his nephews in his cabinet, and fs now casting about for snug quarters for his cousins. One of them Is booked for Speaker Gully's place. Nepotism is all right when it has an aristocratic flavor. Thomas P. Westendorf, the writer of the “I'll Take You Back Again, Kathleen,” was r(‘Y'ltll']y appointed superintendent of the state reform school at Chehalis, Wash. Mr. Westendorf has written many songs of a like character, but the one quoted is the only one that has lived long in public favor, Pierola, the rebel leader who has been elected president of Peru, is a handsome man, tall, erect and well proportioned. His hair is slightly tinged with g and at the top of his forehead is a white lock that is in sin- gular contrast with the rest. Pierola is dis- tinguished, it is sald, for his courtesy. He was once a professor of philosophy in a Lima ninary, and he is a son-in-law of the Mex- fcan emperor, Iturbide. 4 fotde dufe S ORI Ripred Up the Back, Kansas Ofty Star. ‘The democr: c party in Nebraska is so completely split that two separate state con- ventions have been called, and each fac Is doing its level best to snub and diser the other. If the party had ever been real power in Nebraska the split might serfous but, as it Is, it is more like | o One of | the Boutls Atnerioan rebellioas. toee | Bhe lcyad masyallj and ons nything else—hardly worth a serious con- | T knew 1t by her whispered we deration, (She soft rmured “No, in soci- 8 they pass by, Troy Ir A woman may be careless, And for style may have no passion; Tt it she's only pretiy She can’t be out of fashion Detroit News. It is not known that Washington, when he was president E'er took his bottleful of bait and off a-fish- ing went; But then, you know, 'twas h fisherman to b Because in his eveéntful told he. d for him a lite no single lle Detroit There's one thing about the hot weather, It makes us rather resigned To what may be coming hereafter, In case of our falling behind, Washington bill the aused “How landlord? a while to think much have you “How much is my I will pay it o Ana the landlord And_murmured Bot?" Truth How the statesman Insincere Man's weary soul is vexed; He'll «hake your hand one minute, and He'll pull your leg the next! by New York Recorder New womun, in her hours Despite scorn of man, When chased by snakes or bugs or bees Screams on the same old has chev- of ease, n Budgoet pbbed the fly; he had a bite; the frout to port; hed the fish he sald, this is sport.” He b H That experience teaches no man may deny, But such is the harshness of fate That, though we may study” her texts til we die, We never can graduate. Indfanapolis Journal, He brought home a fancy lawn mower, And ran it each morning at 4; But the novelteo Has worn off, and he Perspires and plshes no mower. Maldens turn their heads away Meaning yes, and saying nay. —~0ld Song She thought to mask her he With jest and Inughter g I kyew she loved me by her glance, (She looked the other way.) rt from me I sent her roses, begg Would wear them Jld me she loved me by (She wore gome mignonette.) choic ! Ana when a rival claimed my her capricious whim She plainly showed she cared for me. (She gave the dance to him.) waltz, be fair night 1 ) aware that we are having the most sweeping clearing &4& x sale Omaha has ever seen ? E‘&é‘ The most sweeping in scope, the most tempiing in price reductions. for bargains, A positive opportunity We have just taken an- other slice off of the already low price, and we now consider the present values on our clothing absolutely absurd, They can’t last long the way they are now, so don’t hesitate or you will be too late, ) s— PRICE s on straw hats still continues. THAT Any straw Boy’s price. hat in the house—Men'’s, and Children’s—at just one=half If you want the Money, we'll Trade Eack, Browning King &Co.