Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1895, Page 4

¥, ROSEWATER, ¥Al'or NLASHED BVERY MORNING TEINMS OF SCTACRIPTION Ithout Busday), One Y Dally 1 \inday, One ¥ear Datly 1w Bix Moy 'rh:‘;l M Bunday 1ice, ( aatarduy 1 Week! fne Year OFFT Ty Singer Dk Poarl e 50 Omaha, The outh Oriin touneil Maifs Chicagr Dffic New Yok, ooms 1, Washing 107 1 Eireet, N, W CORRESPONDENCE, s redutiug to ney Aeoshed: To LETTER 11 2ith Sta, 1 and 15, ¥ Bullding. and_ edi- he Editor bo mad George | lishing iy, Actunl nomber of f Dally, Moinin, F during the month of May, 1 .00 19:004 19,016 0 210 75 01 06 o Pub- ening " o Nol nates Dally e o this il ks ey L Notary Public o the absent of the beneh: Come home and all will be for given, The black heast has taken fizht over the digtant hil ones Miceo, the leader of the Cuban revolu- tion, is reported o BB very sanguine Sunguinary will probably soon be a bett 0 by which to describs the Cuban g The lit o fown of Lockport, TIL, which was altogether without five protection, was wiped out by the flames the other day. Now every paper in the country 18 erying, 1 told you &o. The superintendent of the city hall now finds himself between the devil and the deep blue se The couneil given him a task which it individually and collectively could not perform, According to th neyclopaedia Brit- annien the Arvabian ent for “dervish™ is fakir. That explains why the World-ITerald has become the organ and champion of the howling der At last accounts Sec ary Carlisle was in Duluth, a town made famous during its babyhood by Proctor Knott. Kentuckians always have been partial to the commercial rvival of West Su- perior. equi vishes. . A Chicago paper has discovered an available candidate for the presidency in J, Sterling Morton, The seerctary of agriculture never lived in ilinois. A prophet is never appreciated in his own countr, General Coppinger and his troops are on their way home, hut they bring with them neither sealps nor other trophies. It is too bad that the new department commander did not have a chance to show what metal he is made of. Patvolmen and firemen crowded to the wall and forced to take sldes one way or the in the police law. Each man is expected to decide a Jegal point which only the courts can determine. It is unfair and unjust. are being In 18G9 the government gave to Ne- braska 46,000 acres of saline lands, which are of great value. But the job, bers have gradually got possession of the lands and the s s very little to show for having surrendered them. N Meat Inspector Israel Frank has not condemned a pound of ment since the campaign opened up, e is on the best of terms with butchers who deal in taiuted meat. They know how to stroke the burly belled cat that doesn't cateh mice the right way of the hair. nd Commissioner Russell has not yet explained how the generous mood came upon him during which he is said to have paid out over $100 for printing the report of the penitentiary appraisers, which might have been printed as a public document at the state's expense. Counci'man Meyers of Lincoln has had a brush with Mayor Graham and promises to expose corruption in the municipal ring. ery friend of good government will support Meyers in the course mapped out. He is in position %o do the people of Lincoln a distinctive service. Defanlting Treasurer or of South Dakota admits in open court that he embezzled well on to $100,000, There upon the judge sentenced him to five years in the penitentiavy. If Taylor had stolen o span of horses or forged a ten dollar bill he would have been sent up for fifteen to twenty years. The racket in the republican camp indicates that some one has mnstered courage enouzh to dispute the right of the railvond understrappers to run the machine. o their temerity they will of course be spotted, nagged and hounded, socially and commereially, until they are only too glad to capit- ulate. Laneaster county With a degrading our schools to the dervish of Education metropolitan public village level, with a dervish couneil looting the treasury, condoning defalention and embezzle- ment and piling up taxe by high salarled supernumernrics, and with a dorvish five and police counmission or ganizing a police force officered by ex- policeinen who had scandalized the city by levying blackmail on keepers and in mintes of disorderly resorts, playing pro curers for dives, standing In with gamblers and consorting with thugs and erooks, Omaba is in o fair way of gain- Iug uweunviable notoriety, Qistriet | has | THE DANGER AVERTED. menace to the pence which has ed thi contending 8 ity through a clashing for has The truee agresd rde will meet with between been happlly averted, upon by the vival i police N the approval of all law-abiding eitizens The effect of two rival police boards, with two rival police forees ocoupying the else the same funcetions, was taniamount same territory and trying to exer to revolution, It would be the same as ir attempting to exereise the 1O ZOVOrNOrs o 1Wo mayors weve powers and Ouly one | functions of the execntive. rd of Five and P'ollee Commissioners cap Tawfully aed p functions deblving time b Lecfully oxercige the it. For ng and until it is otherwise de upon the creed by the courts the mayor and the existing commissio necessarily must continte fn control of the five and police + o'cor of departments, Govers 1 sought to avert the danger a collision at arms at the ontset by his repeated ap | peals to Aftorney General Churehill and Comnr ner Russell fo fnstitute pro codi in the suprewe court would adjudicate the constitutionalit of the police commission act. Mayor Bemis and the members of the polic have been to 1l Knpreme honrd equnlly anxious lave their Wjudicated by the t the sined in the appeal to rights conrt, Now rival clalmants ve wernor Holcomb, the attorney and the court all apprelension of riol dispelled. The supreme court will, we have no doubt, of few 8 ous disturbances is allow the the warranto In the st will not ge will be filing within meantime the publie Inter pupers a 5 suffer and no material dax sustained by anybod THEY SHOULD I An excursion 'ty orgi cinnati to make a tour west of the Mis- souri will take in Omaha next Tuesday on its way eastward from Denver. The | tourists, numbering 230 persons, are members of the Hounsehold ¢lnb of Cin- ciunati and inelnde veople from eloven states and fifty eities nd towns, Many of the exenrsionists |represent newspapers in Ohio, West Vivginia, Indiana and Kentuek Their correspondence from the region which ey intend to will e read by thousunds of hom s who intend locating in the west in the near future. ‘The party will reach Omaha at 4 p. m. JPuesday and remain until 10 p. m. The Commercial elub should by all means areange for their reception and enter- tainment. If earriages cannot be ten- dered for their conveyance through the city arrangements should be made with the street railway company fo place a n of cars at their disposal. At this time of the year Omaha is one of the handsomest cities west of the Alississippi and eannot fail to make a favorable impression upon the visitors, ¢ ENTERTAINED. nized at Cin- visit NATOR PEFFER'S LAND CURRENCY. Senator Peffer has formally declared himself against metallic mouey and in vor of a curvency based on the wealth the nation. This greenbackism Hoyed with the 16 to 1 sily neer- <haum. Af money the creature of law and the primary function of every soverntent is to supply its people with money, the coinage of gold and silver is utterly indefensible except as the work of coinage affords employment ‘o tlor, If 371% geains of pure silver coined into one dollar can be kept at that valwe for all time to come by the of congress, regardless of the i comi 1 or warket pri of the metal, the same quantity of copper o1 iron ean be coined- into dollars and per, petnally made to cirenlate as money at that value, If congress can convert tifty cents worth of silver into a dollar by stamping it one dollar it ean con vort the same picce of silver inia ton Qollars or one hundeed dollars by stamping upon these coins ten or one T undrecd doll; Carried to its logieal auence we reach the conclusion that CONEPOSS ean convert paper into money by stamping upon it any denomination that mey be demanded for civenlation as a wedivm of exchange, This is the o gresnback doctrine, p nd simple. I diseavding gold and silver as a cur. oy Senator Peffer has only veturned to his old love, Greenbackism and metallic currency money cannot stand togethe In discarding the free silver fallacy Mr. Peffer unburdens his ience, which ecrtainly must have experienced a painful sting every time lie professed to be a convert to t metallic currency stem, on condition that sixteen parts of silver should be equal to one part of gold. Such a basis for our, monctary system was just as mueh at varianee with Mr. Peffer's con- vietions on the attributes and functions of money as a gold basis would be. Liko every greenbacker Senator Peffer the debt-paying power as the function of money, and with that single object in view anything that will liquidate debt a good enough medinm of exchanges and measure of value To make money abundant and cheap—or loanable at low should in bis judgment be the prime object of government. With plenty of woney everybody will feel richer more prosperous, even when the in crease i wealth Is imaginary, and the p money will contract the pur {ing power of the savirgs of the mass of wage workers, To make money plenty and eheap Senator Peffer would widences of debt or national notes by the wealth of the nation which is alveady mortgaged for more than twenty Dbillions by the federal government, the states, counties, citios, railroad compandies and corpor that control tratlic and industrial enterpiide in the United States, besides the wi'lions wpon millions of individual debt secured by mortgage or bond | How muneh of this currency, based on the I wealth of the uatio; ena tor ¥ ¢t wonld emit, and how and when he would bring abgut its lquida tion he has not yet divulged. Judging by the experiments on land currency which were made in Frauce more thun basis chen issue secured other fions that | general | vepresentative | THE OMAHA one hundred years ago by John Taw, and the more recent experfence in Ar. gentine, the land currency scheme I8 not half as feasiblo as the greenback | eurreneyto be issued to meet the de- mands of business -not less than fifty | dollars per eapita, and kept in eireula- tion until Gabriel bBlows his trumpet. |1F there was no redemption of green backs in metallic money there would at least be a Hmit to the quantity is {sued. But while all these schemes of finanee Lave an allurement for the man whose nose is kept on the grindstone by a mortgnge, she ditficulty wonld ways be to get men out of debt who have nothing to sell, or to keep men out of debt who keep on borrowing so long as anybody will trast them. Tn the end the Amevican people would be no better ‘..vr than they now are. tor Peffer | forgets that his land currency scheme | has been teied and exploded many times lin many countries, and the {of the commercial world bas d on the ex perience of ages is that money must rep- resent wealth, or rather the product of labor in some form, and wealth eannot | b crented by law .or by a hiteary de- of t. FOOLHARDY THREATS. When the redoubtable Digon tele- | graphed from Chieago that he and five thonsand royal Orange warriors were ready to mareh upon Omaha on a mo- ment's notice the A, . A, leaders at Chicago pronounced it a cruel hoax. it oonly they disown Dixon, but {they 1 phatically disavowed all relation to aud sympathy with the fac- [tipn of A, . AL radicals whom The | Bee has dubbed “howling dervishes.” In this city and state reputable and conservative members of the order were equally emphatic in repudiating the threatened Dixon fnvasion and dis claimed for their society all connection with or interest in the Churchill-Russell police Bill. Aud now Associated press dispatelies from Kansas City flatly con- adict these denials, ports coming divectig from A, P AL councils show th: the aetive co-operation of A. 1. A throughout the country has been en- listed on hehalf of the faction that has been scheming to convert the Omaha fire and police departments into see tarian clubs for the promotion of po Titieal No other rational con- clusion is possible in view of the avowed preparation to. invade this eity and state by thousands of armed members of the oathbound order with the osten- sible purpose to compel by force the indnetion into office of their follower This is by all odds the most extraor dinary incldent in our national history nee the days of secession and rebel- tion. Why should any armed force Kk to enter Nebras to disturb her domestie peace and inaugurate a civil and religions war under color of en- forcing a law of disputed constitution- and of foisting iuto office men whose title can only e establixhgl by the highest judicial tribunal? Nebrasks not o wilderness inhabited b, V- ages and dominated by brute fore All the functions of her government are in perfect order and the rights of h citizen are fully protected by the constitution under a republican form of government. The courts are open and the administration of justice is unob- structed. Her executive is conser tive, patriotic and fearless in the dis rge of his duties and in the m tenance of order. There is no whitever for outside intervention and [the only izer to the peace of Ne braska is the fomenting of seditious strife by so-called patrioti societies who are sworn to destroy the consti tutional hts of their fellow citizens, This danger would only be intensified by the threatened invasion of armed non-residents who are banded together overthrow our present form -of goyernment, under which all the people, regardless of party, nativity or ecreed, have rights, and substitute a government of rian - proscription 1d Jacobinism in its most pernicious | form. CONKPNENS {croes of governme did ost o1 ends, is to ¢ sec MAKE THE PRISON Ihe abandonment of the prison con- teact by W. H. Dorgan under the pro- visions of the law railvoaded through the last legislature on the eve of its ad- journment seems likely to lead to serious camplications in the future man- went of the state penitentiary. Al ready there are indications that the tate Board of Public Lands and Build- ings proposes to take issue with the governor as to the proper steps to be taken in the premi The governor, it is understood, assumes the position that the warden is legally entitled to the control of the penitentiary, while, upon the other Land, the members of the board contend that the new law gives them practical control of the in- stitution as far as the letting of con- tracts for the labor of convicts, the ap- pointment of a superintendent to over- soe the work and to act as general man- ager. Withont entering into the projected controver: it may be properly suggested that the taxpayers of Nebraska are tired and out of patience with the enormous bur den of expenditu piled up during the past rter of a century by the flagrantly dishonest and corrupt meth ods of the penitentiavy ring that made its headquarters at the city of Lincoln ever since the state government | was inaugurated. Hundreds of thou- ands of dollars have been paid to con teactors for maintaining conviets when, as a matter of fact, they could and should have been self-sustaining years ngo. The state penitentiary should e made A self-sustainings lnstitution from this time on. It Is equipped with shops and foundries, furnished with machinery of modern description, and amply provided with power and water. No further ex penditures for equipment or furnishing needed. The manufacturing plant and the labor is there, and to make the | institution self-sustaining it is only necessary to apply business judgment in the Jetting of contracts for the labor of the cony and the exe of cconomy in the purchase of supplies and in the ewployment of attendants, overseers and guards . The state authorities are confronted by a grave emergeney, but they should INING 08, of ' the merits at this tix are ots cise DAILY BE THURSDAY, be equal to jt. e combined venality and stupldity of the last logi®ature very materfally enlmnced the diffienltios of the situntion, for In its engerness to comply with the wishes of the lobhy that was o Industrionsly pushing the bill to turn . $35000 into Dorgan's pockets it entively neglected to make adequate provision for the management of the penitentiary after Dorgan aban doned his contract. The omissions of the legislatu® must be supplied by the state and the officials will be held to | a striet aceorintubility by the taxpayers for their future actior | | | The republican state committee of nsas las decided to dispense with Hling a nominating convention this year. The only business for the con- | vention to transact would have Dbeen the nomination of a chief justice to sue- coed the present ineumbent, David J. Martin, who appears to have | no competitor and therefore wonld have been nominated by acclamation. Whil { this procedure may be somewhat ir {regular, it will commend itself as busi- | nesslike and economical. To call 500 or 600 or even 1,000 wen together to nominate the only candidate in the field f8 an expensive far The ¢ ample of Kansas might have been fol- lowed this year bysthe Nebraska re publican state committee. The con- ditions are practically the same. K o By the time anybody attempts to muster those five thousand A, I’ A, wa riors, armed with Winchesters, he w experience a great deal more chagrin and mortitication than did General Coxey when bis industeial avmy reached Washington. Instead of needing one hundred passenger coaches and a train of ten baggage cars to convey the Sarmy” from Konsas City to Omaha, a singl door Pullman would hold all the warriors and ail their ordnance aud quartermaster stores, A bulldog revolvers and a squirrel would probably take the place of 5000 Winchesters. As a matter fact there are not 5,000 Wineheste in all Kansas City, and, for that mat- ter, in the state of Missouri. side dozen rifle the of Cadet Taylor has of two weeks from at economy and secured a vacation his arduous labors retrenchiment in the council. Meantime, the four expert ac- countants who were hired to do the work which by rights devolves on the comptroller, will continue to draw their §20 a day. Meantime the squad of tax- eating supernumeraries will keep on drawing extravagant salavies, and mefintime no steps will be taken to plog up the %000 hole in the eity treasury. As chairman of the finance committee and watchdog of the treasury Cadet Taylov is a howling success. His va- cation might be extended to wr in- definite period without causing much distress to the taxpay The “law is ahvays right” shrieks the dervish organ. The organ doubt- less acted upon this theory in the last campaign when (he courts compelled it to live up to 'n diggraceful contract by which it had sold its editorial page to the republican managers at the rate of 3750 per column. But how was it when Judge Scott set aside the anti- lottery law to get its editor out of a serape? Why Not R eat History?t Indianapolis Journal Before the battle of Bull Run Spain recog- nized the confederates as beligerents. Why should not the United States accept the prece- dent when the Cuban fnsurgents set up a provisional goverament? ki - istarbed by Trifles. Kansas City Journal The government’s shortage for August fs at the rate of $1,000.000 a day, but neither the president nor the secretary of the treas- ury is permitting little things like that to mar his summer pleasures - Roxwell ix Willing. Kansas City Star, Flower of New York says iat there are not many men who will re- fuse a presidential nomination. Is this -a modest way of announcing that he will be ready for the democratic lightning next year? 2 Ex-Governor the Line ix Drawn, New York World, It is asserted that Mr. Cleveland is “fishing for mummyehogs.”” This must be a mistake No one connected with the administraticn ever fishes for anything below the grade of striped bass when there is a call for vigor in pro tecting the lives and property of Americans abroad. Where — The Pligrimage Aba St. Paul Pionecr ‘Press. The pilgrimage of the proselyting silverites through the nortiwest has besn declared off. Senator Morgan or some.one of his retinue has evidently had a strong attack of good judgment, for a trip through this section, Where farmers are busy harvesting crops that are solving more questions than any speakars could answer, would not only be devoid of results, but would not even attract atten- ticn, . e Hysteries of at Scott. Chicago News. Judge Scott of Omaha seems to be another of those interesting persons who have only to touch the botton to throw thcmselves into a fit of uncontrollable anger. It Is surprising how nicely, in nine cases out of ten, people with ungovernable temper do govern their tempers. The man who cannot poseibly re- frain from striking: a boy or a cripple when he gets mad can be 88 polite as anybody be- fore a bigger man, Cor in Abm n Denygr Republican, It is doubtfuljif there has ever been a more favorable seasonifor corn than the pres ent. Abundant rain- has fallen, and it has fallen just whenymost desired. The result will be an enormsus.crop all over the central west, and although iain prices will be low, farmers will be able ko get good prices for the stock they feed. At will form a market for cattle, frgm which KColorado cattle growers will reap a big profit.! .. Presidentiol Chicagadtc In a recent intarytiw Mr. Harrison coufided Bis belief that heowa® “not the man.” Ton Reed, like Major MoKinley, has effaced him self as much as popstble from the political borizon. Amongstaesdemocrats this _coy re- fusal to take toomeobspicuous a parl in the fleld is even more pronounced. When Mr. Hill magnanimously tendered his Kindest wishes to Colonel Morrison the latter replied with crushing cynicism and flatly refused to play the role assigned (o him. In eftect Mr. Whitney has done the same thing with the political tributes laid at his own feet, and thoughtfully suggests that a third term of Grover Cleveland is just the th'ng to strike the fancy of demcerats throughout the land In fact the candidates are offering a beau | titul exhibition of magnanimity and self-ab negation. It ix a fine example of old-fask foned courtesy, but the public will not be decelvod into thinkipg that some of these sntlemen cannot be prevailed upon when the | r'ght time comes. From the way in which | they are shyly deprecating all allusions helr own fituess for the nomination it may be set down that there is searcely ome of these modest gentlemen who does not believe :1;« his future may be full of golden poss Pilities. Coy Judge | AUGUST 15, 1895, LOCAL CAMPAIGN CHATTER. reil Ovid Strickler says that Omaha has | no poliea force; that the fire and police fore | went out of existence on August 1. a great head Virgil has. Editor Hitehfake has gone over body and broeches to the dervishes, and the local dem- ocrats are at least temporarily relioved of his idiotie efforts to swamp the party on | every issue | Windepear Is In the reform business in | earnest. He hasn¢ bhad such a spasm of honesty sinco he went out of the house mov- ing business a few years ago. The latest charge is that Chief White was caught cheating at solitaire, This ought to be referred to Broatch and his friend, Jack | Morrison, for investigation. | it Members of the republican state central committee have been solicited to subseribe to.a $1 fund to help out the dervish cause in Omaha. Contributions should be sent either to Vandervoort or Pyburn. And now the report is that H. P. Haze has been turned down by Council 125, When Haze {s refused the support of Pyburn, Sack- { eft, Redfield, Stryker and the rest of that | gang there is nothing left for him but to | turn over a new leaf and try to be decent for {a while. It will come hard at first, but he | can get accustomed to it soon. Last fall when Herman Timme and Frank Crawford organized the Harrison Re publican club they decided to start a dervish paper at Bennington. Subseriptions in ad- vance were secured and a goodly amount of advertising paid for in advance by the busi- ness men of the town. A pocket full of type was bought and the “long felt want” ready to materialize. But it didn't, Secra- tary and Business Manager Crawford disa peared and President and Editor Timme re- pudiated his obligations. The business men of Bennington are still looking for their paper, and there is a scheme on foot to re- vive the project In C. Ranter Scott's interest. Van Alstyn will take Frank Crawford's place as business manager and Timme will remain at the head of the paper. Fred Sackett has been engaged as statistical editor and prom- ises to present figures in proof of anything the dervish combine claims. Colonel Mel Redfield will be the military editor. Judge Hitchfake has rendered his dectsion in the fire and police board case. The old board can now expect to be cited for con- tempt. e + The theatrical star whose salary was $200 a week envied the low comedian who got $7 a week, and explained his envy by saying, “Tho low comedian gets his salary.”” The -Herald hawkshaw wants to go to work city detective's salary for the same reason One of the deadly secrets which the Grand Order of Howling Dervishes swears not to reveal is, which is their official organ, the New Reprobate or thc Woolly Howler. Councilman Kennard believes in reciprocity, Broatch is on his official bond and although the bond might not pan out 10 cents on the dollar in a court of equity, he regarded him- self as bound to return the favor. So when Broatch slipped in that resolution directing Matthieson to turn the furniture and sta- tionery In the police commissioners’ office over to Broatch and Vandervoort, he promptly in- troduced it and relieved his dervish col- leagues of the trouble, K PERSONAL RWISE. A man In New York had the temerity to “talk_back" to a street car conductor, and was fined $5 for disorderly conduct. The remains of Paul Revere rest in the Old Granary burying ground in Boston not far from those of John Hancock, one cf the signers of the declaration of independence. Robert Bonner's son Edwin says that the $24,000 his father paid for the rigit to publish Mr. Beccher's story “Norwood” serially in the Ledger, still stands as the largest sum paid by any story paper for a novel. Geronimo has been in confinement ten years and his warlike spirt, if not subdued, fs very carefully concealed. During his captivity he has consoled himself with dealing out justice in the capacity of a magistrate to his tribe. Joseph B. Stearns of Camden, Me., who died recently at the age of 65 years, was tie inventor of the famous duplex system of telegraphy. He had the largest collection of carved ivories in the world, and was also a bibliomaniac. One of the clubs of Pittsburg, the Bohemian, has opened a subscription for funds for the erection of a monument to the memory of Stephen G. Foster, the composer of “Oh, Susannah!" “Old Folks at Home" and the “Old Kentucky Home." President Diaz of Mexico is described by a recent eyewitness as purely Aztec in appear- ance. “His color is almost that of an Indian. His hair is black and straight and falls a little over Lis temples. His strength lies in his chin carly as Sampson's strength lay in his Joaquin Miller's ler a soldier under Willlam Henry Harrison, but his father was 80 mueh a man of peace that he lived for seventy years with the Indians, and nover fired a gun or used & harsh word. The military strain came out in the poet who, as early as 1855, was shot in a skirmish. Miller is a native of Indiana, but for years past California has been his home. Frank M. Pixley, whose Weath is an- nounced {n San Francisco, was one of the most aggressive editors and politicians on the Pacific coast. From the law and public offices he drifted into journalism, and in 1877 es- tablished the Argonaut, which by its ag- gressive originality and vigor proved a dis- tinct success. In 1591 nervous prostration and writer's paralysis forced him to give up activo fournalism. He wad 70 years old, and left a fortune estimated at $1,000,000. Louis Vossion, the French consul at Phil- adelphia, upon whom has been conferred re- cently the cross of the Legion of Honor, fought in the Franco-Prussian war, being severely wouudel at Gravelotte, and afte-ward served in the consular service at Mandelay and Rangoon in Burmah, and at Khartoum. For twenty years he has been stationed at Philadelphia. He is a contributor to the Nouvelle Revue, and has written a story on the constitution of the United States. Some unknown historian of notable oc. currences, whose veracity is bomb proof, per- petrates this: Twelve years ago H'ram Hern beck, then 17 years old, living in the town of Neversink, Sullivan county, N. Y., quarreled with his parents. He left home and went west, delarirg his inteation of becoming a miner. Nothing was heard of him until last Tuesday, when he straggled into his home. ragged, penniless and penitent. The parents gave him a cordial greeting and the meetirg after his long absence was a happy one. Shortly after Hiram's arrival a terrific thun- der storm passad over the farm, and lightning struck and killed a calf in the barnyard: From there the same bolt entered am open | window of the house, hit the family bible lylng on the family centertable, and opened it at the fifteenth chapter of St. Luke, leaving a black mark opposite the twenty-third verse, which reads: “And bring hither the fatted calf and kill it, and lat us eat and be merry.” ——— Better Off Here Than + Kansas City Journal evidenca in abundgnce to prove that when the American negro leaves this country to locate in another he is morally certain to render his condition much wors than it was here. With all that has baen said, either falsely or with truth, about the abridgement of the negro's rights in the south, he Is really better off the han any- where else. He finds there a healthful ongbnial environment, occupstion which we!l fitted to his pecullar capabilit a frui'ful soll, a hospitable climate and pleuty and wear, As for his eivil and polit rights, that is something which will work out all right in the end, and he Is giving himself less trouble about it than the political agitators who assume to be his where, There is Colonel €. R. Scott may have another organ | That's | Aches all the time, | Knew Secrotary Gresham very well, and os- | the | | | | | squa GRESHAWS REPUDLICANISW, Evidence that 1t Remained chnnged While Scoretnry of State To the Editor of the New York Sun: Sir teemed him very highly. Ho had will and a massive physique to No man could desire a more loyal friend or dread a more fmplacable enemy. When put his hand to the plow he looked back. With the whole sentiment country opposed to the poliey of State department, he never fliughed, an iron once ident approved, when he acc of secretary of state. Staudi of his reputation, with a doubiful future be fore him, he was still magnificent in bis un- bending determination, even as he had bheen in the hour of battle as a soldier of union. 1 remember two incid the character of Secret He was postmaster gen Arthur. It was In 1887 of Assistant Posimaster General with W. A. Pledger, then chairman of republican state committes of Georgla. 1 b, then never met Judge Gresham. While Mr. Pledger was talking to Mr. Hatt pted the Gresham ral under President 1 called at the office greeting Mr. Pledger cordially and being in troduced to mo he turned to Mr. Hatton and said “Mr. Hatton, have you ordered that mission for Davis as postmaster at made out for Mr. Pledger? “Why, no, general.” “Why not? “‘Becaus: the Athens postoffice to anc General ham lool ly in t and in fey-cold tones “I have *promised Athiens postoffice 10 Mr. Pledger’s candidate. See that the commission is issued.” Mr. I com her person.” his assistant low, measured, the commission made out for Davis Whon General Gresham left Mr. room he invited Mr. Pledger and me into his office. “I am glad to see you treat 0 fairly, general,” said T. more cabinet oficars who would require that Mr. Pledger should prefer his requests through some white man.” “I don't care anything about color,” sald General Gresham, with the sus- picion of a smile. ““The republicans Georgla have made him chairraan of Mr. Pled resents the rapubli he recommends ought to be done. And it was done, as far as Postmaster Gen- eral Gresham was concerned. It was treat- ment of this sort, a treatment which very few republican_cabinet officers extended to lack republicans of the south, whether they were members of congress or chairmen of thelr state committees, which made General Gresham so popular with them, and would have given him a substantial following among them in the Chicago convention in 1584 President Arthur had not stood out for the nomination as his due, and as a vindication of the clean and dignified administration he had given the country after the death of President Garfleld. Indeed, when 1 spoke to General Gresham about his eandidacy, in 1554, he insisted that under no circumstances ho allow hiz name to be used as long as Gen eral Arthur desired the nomination. He was loyal to his chief, and did all that he could to promote his chances to succeed himself. But the cards were stacked against President Arthur even as they were against General Gresham. The one became president by an aceldent, while the other was prevented from being president by a personal feud as intense and implacable as that other feud which ex- isted between Mr. Blatne and Mr. Conkl and kept them both out of the white house. Twelve years after the Pledger incident General Gresham was secretary of state in a democratic administration. Being Inter ested in the efforts of H. C. C. Astwood, who had supported Mr. Cleveland as against Gen- eral Harrison, to be reinstated consul to Santo Domingo, 1 called upon Secretary Gresham in company with Mr. Astwood. The secretary recelved me cordially, although hoe was momentarily expecting a visit from Baron i%ava, the Italian ambassador. The secrotary looked worn and tired and hag- gard. After he had stated the case to him the secretary said wearily: “I don't know anything about thal phase of the work of the State department. I did not accept the position of secretary of state for the purpose of turning good republicans out of office. 1 concern myself only with its foreign poli You will bave to see Mr. Quincy. He matters of the kind you mention.” “But I don't know Mr, Quiney,” I said. “I will introduce you,” said the secreiary. When he went into Mr. Quiney's room it was crowded with anxious men who wanted to leave their couniry as consular or dip- lon ic officers. Mr. Josiah Quincy was in close coufab with a southern senator. He al the moment the secretary entered the room and approached. “Nr. Quiney, Mr. Fortune is my friend, wants you to reopen Mr. 1s of his state, and what He Astwood's case. Please give his presentation of the case the | consideration you would give mine.” This was the last time that T saw Secretary Gresham. Shortly after the interview Mr. was designated as consul at Calnis, France, but the democratic senate turned down the nomination on the recommendation of Senator Morgan, who took the position that it was bad poiicy to send black men to represent the United States in white countries. The points in the statement of Secretary Gresham that convinced me that his republi- canfsm had undergone no change, although he was the chief advizer in the democratic cabinet, were, first, that he “did not accopt the office of secretary of state for the purpose of turning gocd republicans out of office,” and, secondly, that he “concerned himself only with the forelgn policy of the government.” I do not believe that I violate any con- fdence in making public this conversation which occured in the presence of a third person. 1 do not believe that Secretary Gresham's republicanism underwent any change before or after his entrance into Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet. He must have been actuated entirely by personal consideratigns and the flattering persuasion of President Cleveland. 1 prefer to think so. T. THOMAS FORTUNE. TIOWA PR Astwood Davenport Democrat: In the matter assessment for taxatlon the state of lowa nishes an example of the moat gliring in justice between couuty and county. The Statute provides that assessment shall bo at full value, but fn no county in the state is this law complied with. If the assessment were reduced below actual value by a certain invariable proportion in all the countles of the state there would be nothing to com plain of, but it is not. In one it is half value, of in another two-thirds and another something | else. Sioux City Journal: Colonel Jenkins is & man of some judgment decided to permit the use of democratic ticket for railroad commis:i-ner but he cannot afford to throw up his job with the Pennsylvania Railroad company, and will not. Colonel Jenkins will use the dem- ocratic party to such advantage as he cin in introducing the Pennsyivauia, but he doen't propose that cold weather shall catch him hunting employment on Marshalltown dentlals Des Moines Capital: The Nebraska dem ocratic state convention is called to meet at Omaha on Thursday of next week. In one of the counties, where the postmasters con trol the local committee, the later has called the county convention to meet on the 28th six days after the state convention. The object ‘of this peculiar call is to have the county convention elect delegates to Secrelary Morton's bolting convention, which is to be held later. The regulars of the county pr pose now to hold a mass eonvention and e delegates without the help of the co 3 George He has name on the t mittee Highest of all in Leavening Po Royal guardians. he never ot the Others might waver, but he pursued the line of ac- | tion he had mapped out, and which the pres- | office g In the wrack the it which illustrate rank Hatton the u Generai Gresham sauntered into the room, and after | Athens | . general, T have promised to give the | ank Hatton colored to the roots of | | his hair, but without another word ordered was | Hatton's | ger “I Know one or Pledger's of their state committee; they have no representatives in the congress; necessarily Mr. Pledger rep- the | if would & 5. | ore- | J. STERLING'S noow, Minneapolis Times: J. Sterling Morton Is ut for the democratic presidentinl nomina- ton. Iis knowledge of troes won't help him n his efforta te eapture that persimimon, Qhidngo ENeti And tigw tHere Is o wes dofined Impression that that “good western 1 man has been found and that he is no less a porson than J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, Mr. Cloveland’s ideal secrotary of agriculture. Many are his virtues and “e'en his faillngs icaned to virtue's sida’” Me is a democrat of the ol school, which has fts advan aARes end disadvantages He has & mediun-sised rel. He is for howest m ney. He Is & grand old farmer. Ha is popular everywhere. Ho has horse sense, loves a Joke and can take one. Ho Is 63 years of age and in good health. And he would not be afrald of & pre ideatial nomination it he were to meet it in the dark, on the streets of Chicago or bebind A barb-wire fence on the prairies of Ne braska Chicago Tnter Ocean rotary Morton, the ear iret, was trotted out as a candidate. Mr. Mortan is as handy with his pen as Mr. Whitaey 15 with his torgue, only instead of being all xmilos he is all liughter. He does not condesceud @ flatter his pa but he £ets the geitle stream of h's humor to flow- Ing. e cannct lay hand to pen without put- tiug on the cap aud Jingling the bells. To his way of thinking, evidently, the secretary of agriculture Is charged witi the duty ot { taking the of cou 1f he is not quite as op‘imistic e s more amusing. 1i Kiug come agaln he would have no difficulty in choosing his | ramitiar ] m. But Whitney has one decided advan a great big harrel, a regular hogeliead, In fact, Whether it wouid { be on tap at the bung or not fs an open ques. tion, Chicago Times-Herald: Mr. Morton Is a | than of id21s and opinions. He hadn't been Lin office very long before he noted the fact that the annual seed d'stribution by which congressmen kept their agricultural constitu- | ents solid at the expense of U Sam was & monstrous far nd lie quickly abolished it. He made up his nind that Prof. Harring- | ton, the chief of the weather signal service | burcau, was not as skilful a man as Prof. | Mcore, the Chicago weather map. He satis- fied himeelf of the correctness of his position | and promptly placed the Chicago man at the head of the bureau, knowing full well | that the act would call down upon his head | & storm of muledictions from tho friends of | Prof. Harrington. To the farmers who have | been content to Jog along in the wake of thelr | fathers and raise nothing but cereals he says: | “Grow potatoes.” He supplements this ad | with 2 mass of valuable information to dem- ‘mm:mo its soundness, showlig wherein po- tato ralsing can be made a profitable industry. | No man is sounder on the money question than J. Sterling Morton. He did not wait until the free silver fallacy had been Killed and then foin in the obscquics, but he was mong the first of the honest money cava- | liers to plerce the noisy flatists and help drive them to cover. Mr. Morton is not a r. He Is a leader. s - DOUBLE HEADER, Only yesterday Se est trifier of the cab | \ s as 1 ¥y Lear should oMAnA | Chlcago News: Tn the pollce board in- Junction case in Omaha the judge has de- | eided that the new board has a right to the office, but cannot take it. That is to say, the commissioners may look, but musin’t touch. Denver News: In the Omaha police board row Judge Hopewell simply holds that the | rival boards must settlo their quarrel by proper procedure in the courls, the board now in possession to rema‘n in charge of the | ofice until ousted by judicial decison i'he contestants might have known that without | waiting for a judge to tell them. | Chicago Dispatch: It should be the first duty of all good citizens to obey the law. Omaha should appeal to the courts for a ettlement of this controversy, and in the | meantime both fagtions should bind them- | selves to respect a truce until the courts shall | be able to make a final decision. Civic war- fare, disorder, lawlessness and rioting should not be permitted to disgrace the fair name ot {any American city under any circumstances whatsoever. Uuder the conditions prevailing in Omaha an open rupture would be little less then a crime. Keep cool and go slowly. | ‘ Philadelphia Record: Do you paint, Mr. Wil | =Only” the téwn oce | Chicago why vegetables are so high,” sald Mrs. | Pneubride, who was wandering about the market with a basket on her arm, “but [ suppose.” she added, as a thought struck somo of them ‘may haye been raised on one of these roof garc Wildrake Tribune: ean't understand Washington = Star: “Now, ' sald the anibitious young man, | “you have to, il mo tation tried my volce. 1 want you frankly what it Is best adapted And " without a moment’s hes eminent musician responded “Whispering.'" the Indianapolis Journal: | little Danny, “McCars | ball_and baited it out “Hould #hn there,” interrupted Mr. gan. “Did he bat his eye, or did he the ‘ball out?" “And then,” read 7, 8ot his eye’on tho iro. bat Somerville Journal: The man who whistles at his work may have a happy disposition himself, but he is likely to sour the dis- positions of all his companions in the office. : At Saratogn was the biggest purse single hand? Stacy Manson-—Impossible! that hand? Stacy ago. She's my roit F Mans o ever 'Wo W ~Ttight wife now. e Press: “My hai the bald-headed man as he rubly poll in a reminiseent way., ambitious thing abors rie. “Ah? " respon s Lis companion toningly, “Yes; it aiways cam n won millions, o Ald you here, two a cash, | hola years De remarked 1 his bare “was the most Qques- out on tog ago Tribune: introducing into this A v authorized ty-Horr Deba Woman of the House-Sick Gentlemanly Stranger {zhborhood, lition of the im, Tige. Washington Star. up on this building, Bang of Inborers “We're ahead of the time now, ain't we?" A one of the men. es. But the contractor wants to hutry and get it all up before it falls down.” THE MODERN MAID, Tichmond Dispatch, R You'll have to hurry sald the boss of a “1 am Enf T'cannot wield a broom, Nor pull and husk the *"Twould jeopardize my health to make he beds or ean the frult, help you dust, or sew, or hake, 1 my strength recruit.” | ory Ere | | Thus spake the maiden, gave a cough, | o strengthen her appeal, Then donned her bloomers and rodo oft Ten miles upon her wheel. L ILL POSTED, w Chicago Tribune. He couldn’t spuak correctly And had never read a book, And in the dictionary | He never cared to look e never 8o his ver And there ‘Neath 1o be a vacu | surface of his nate. He couldn’t do arithmetic Nor algebra the sai | Ana biess me if t | Could even write his na Though shy of education And the things that others know, He kuew St all in base ball And wus never counted slow, jer And the averages they made, And for dlamond information Laid them all out in the shade Knew the name of every pla He talked about it all the time | He made himself a bore, | And though ignorant in other lines ‘ He always knew the score. wer.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE,