Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 7, 1895, Page 4

TERYS OF SUDSCRIPTION. Datty nes (Without Suadas), One Yenr. Daily fioe und Sunday,. One ¥ear BIx Montha ny Bea, One Yeur y Deo, Une Year.. . OF FICES. Omaha, The Nee Building. Bouth Omnha, gor Bik., Corner N ané 24th Sts. Council iuffa, 12 Prarl Breet. Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce, ew York, Ttooms 13, 14 and 15. Tribune Ruilding, ‘ashington, 1407 F Street, N. W CORR PONDENCE, All communications relaling to news and edi- torial wnatter should be nddressed: To the ditor. BUSINESS LETTERS. lotters and remittances eqmpany. HMPAN STATEMENT OF CIRCU Georgo B, Trschuek Mshin, ny the n hor of the Daily Mora printed during t Tollows: of August, 1" 2,000 19,083 15117 L 1mm 18,086 19072 19,100 20180 2 L1906 119,058 14,060 Total Vi Less deduciions coples Net sl Daily v unsoid vorag ST v GEORGE M. T orn to before n nd subscribed nee this 2nd day of 1595, (Seal.y P. How many different democracles of Nebraska are there, anyway? Parliament has adjourned, but it will onvene before congress assembles, The firm of Maloney & Smyth scems to be hopelessly divided on the silver question. It is to be noted that the prices of brooms have just been advanced, and that before election, too! Secretary Carlisle will be forgiven anyway for not attending the pow- wow of Nebraska administration demo- crats. Chauncey Depew has sailed for home. Let New York interviewers sharpen up their pencils and be on the lookout for his landing. It looks as if General Campos had come to the conclusion that the banquet ‘route is the shortest route to victory over the Cuban revolutionists, While about it, Beemer might just as easily have gotten 50 cents a day for the support of each conviet in the penitentiary as 40 cents a day. The sceretary of the treasury is h ing about as hard a time to keep a $100,000,000 gold reserve as some un- fortunate housewives have in keeping servants, If boilers worth only their price as old iron were valued at $4,000 in the penitentiary appraisement, who can tell what other property was similarly over- valwed? will as- sume to decide which set of democratic state nominees shall appear on the official ballot entitled to the use of the party designation. The great international yacht race to- day Is the foremost event in sporting circles. The Bee's account of the con- test will be unequaled in any news paper published in these parts. There is no doubt whatever that Hon. T. J. Mahoney has the requisite qualifi- cations for a judge of the supreme court, but it is feared that he will not have the requisite number of votes. Under the biblical dispensation Jubi- lee day eéame only once in fifty years and then there was a general blowout that lasted a whole year. Omaha is willing to take her jubilees a little oftener and in smaller doses. It was only to have been expected that a convention of democrats, domi- nated by Toburlington Castor, would endorse and approve the action of President Cleveland in ordering the army to put an end to “organized vio- lence.” Those greetings and congratulations sent to the president and his cabinet by the convention of Nebraska admin- “dstration democrats will certainly be highly prized. The gent'emen of the administration do not know when they will receive the next ones. Major Wheeler says there is record in the office of the Board of Public Works of the extent of surface covered by the street sweepers. If this be true, Mr. Winspear can let one of his superfluous clerks devote an hour a day to making such record. It is not 80 much a question of lineal measure covered as it is one of satisfying the taxpayers under the present system. ‘We have heard no complaint. — General Manager Ludden and his chief clerk, Jones, of the late State Re- lef conmission, were the leading lights at the A, . A, piemie in Cedar county. Jones s the man who was placed on the state pay roll by Ludden to pro- mote the organization of A. P, A. lodges and to use for this purpose stationery paid for out of contributions for the rellef of the destitute drouth sufferers. As attractions at an A. P. A. picnic these two worthies ought to be un- excelled. no —_— The Vie McCOarty gang is again in custody, charged with wmurderous as- saults upon Farmer Case and son, who were aroused from sleep and merci- lessly set upon. There can be no graver offense than this. Al good peo- ple will sincerely hope that the law officers can make a strong case and that convictions shall result in severe penalties being inflicted. There s something radically wrong with the Sarpy county officials else they would have suppressed or intimidated the Mc- Carty gang long age o0 N MAILS AND AMERICAN VESSELS During the last republican adminla tratlon an act was passed providing for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports and to promote commerce. It authorized the | postmagier gomeral to contract with | eitizens of the United Ktates for carry- ing the mails on Amcrican steamships to such foreign countrles as in lhis judg- ment will best subserve and promote the postal and commercial interests of the United States, the service to be equitably distributed among the At- lantie, Mexiean, Gulf and Pacific ports. In addition to being of American r ister, eligible vessels must be owned and officered by American citizens, and provision is wade that certain propor- tions of their crews shall be American citizens, These and other requirements pre- sceribed in the act are designed to in- swe the carrying of the mails in the Dest els of their class owned and officered by American citizens, The ¢t also provides that such vessels shall be constructed with reference to prompt and economical conversion into auxiliary naval cruise and according to plans and specifics ves: owners and the secretary of the navy No vessel not approved by the secre- of the pavy as suitable for the rvice requived can be employed by the postmaster general. Another con- dition imposed for the special benefit of the government and for the general benefit of American commerce is that all vessels accepted as mail steamers shall taky American-born boy under 21 years of age fo 1ch 1,000 tons of register and one for cach majority fraction thercof, who shall be educated in the duties of seamanship. Beyond all this the gov- ernment stipulates that any of thes steam m be taken and used by the United States as transports or cruisers upon payment to the ownel of the fair actual value of the vessels at the time of taking. In consideration for carrying the mails and having a peremptory call upon the ships for na- tional use the government is to pay a fixed charge per mile according to the truction and tonnage of the ves sels and the nature of the service. The purpose of this legislation was to encourage the construction of American steamships for ocean com- me It was a step toward the res toration of our merchant marine, Un- der the operation of this act the Pos office department has contracts for es rying the mails with four American steamships running to British ports and for a smaltadditional expenditure for this service the government practi- cally becomes the possessor of these vessels, which are available at any time for naval use. The additional al- lowance for m in the nature of a subsidy, and although the ne policy is practiced by the British government it appears that the British postal authorities refuse to send mail by these American steamships unless it is speclally directed to go by them. This is a noteworthy example of the British spirit of selfishness. For many years English steamships have enjoyed a monopoly in carrying the mails from this country to Great Brit- ain, deriving a large annual revenue therefrom. Now that the monopoly is broken and American mails can be carried in American ships, equal in all respects to those of foreign -construc- tion, the British postal authorities seek to help British ship owners by discriminating against American ves- se's. This suggests what may be ex: pected whenever this country shall ag- gressively institute a policy for the restoration of its merchant marine. We shall have to overcome not only the competition of the enormously wealthy ship-owning interest of ent Britain, but also the opposition of the British government, which will be ex- erted in behalf of that interest to the fullest extent. The highest tariff this country might enact would not be re- garded with greater disfavor in Great Britain than would a policy for build- ing up our merchant marine. This fact ought to impress the American people with the great importance of the ques- tion of regaining the position we have lost in the ocean-carrying trade. cor THE RACE IS IN KENTUCKY. Apprehensive of defeat on the living issnes the democrats of Kentucky have injected the race question into the cam- paign and are using it to keep the rank and file in line. Some time ago they started the story that the republican candidate for governor had given assur- ances to the leaders among the colored people that in the event of his election that race should be recognized in the distribution of patronage. Of course the statement was absolutely false, but denfal of it went for nothing with the men who felt the necessity of playing upon the prejudices of the people in order to avert defeat. REver since then the bughear of negro domination has been held up before the democratic voters and they have been told that republican success would bring the col- ored race to the fore in the administra- tion of the affairs of the state, com- pelling white men to submit to the die- tation and control of negroes. They have been told that such a state of things would be a menace to society and a danger to the peace and order of the commonwealth, That this appeal to race antipathy has had some effect is very probable, not- withstanding the fact that the white voters of Kentucky outnumber the col- ored voters more than six to one. Noth- ing is more potent with the average southern demoerat than an appeal to his prejudice against the negro, particu- larly in connection with politics. A recent evidence of this has been fur- nished in South Carolina and every- where in the south the feeling of dem- ocrats in this respect is the same. Sug- gest the possibility of a colored man getting into public office and it arouses them as nothing else will. But it is very likely that®here are some sensible democrats in Kentucky who will not be misled by the absurd cry of negro domination, men who cannot be deluded into the belief that there is any danger of a race whose voting strength is only 03,000 galning ascendancy over nearly | such conduct, in v particular | tions to be agreed upon between the | as cadets or apprentices one | " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE 400,000 white voters, and who cannot bé persuaded that Kentucky soclety would suffer or that the welfare of that state would be less certainly conserved even If a few colored men shonld get into public positions. The negro domi- nation ery raised by the Kentucky democrats Is the best possible indica- tion that they have no confidence in carrying the election on the living is- sues, with the anomaly of a eandidate antagonizing the platform on the most important question before the people. It is a distinet confession of weakness and will not, therefore, there is reason to believe, have any influence with fa minded democrats who see that there are greater dangers than the possibili of having a few colored men in public office. PERNICIOUS POLITICAL ACTIVITY, It is amusing to hear democrats com- | plaining of the political.activity of the office-holding members of their own party and citing the order made by Mr. Cleveland nine years ago against ew of the 't that democrats generally condemned that order when it was issued and it has never been respected, or certainly not since the year it was made. When Mr. Cleveland, in 1886, saild that “the in fluence of federal office holders should not be felt in the manipulation of polit ical primary meetings and nominating conventions” he had not in mind to be again a candidate for the presi He was committed to a single term and had no expectation of seeking an other. But when subsequently hie made up his mind to seek renomination the order regarding office holders in politics was ignored and democratic officials of every grade were as active in the primaries and conventions of 1888 as before the order was issued The railw mail service w demor alized by replacing experienced clorks with democrats who could be useful at primaries and conventions, and it v well remembered that all over the country democratic postmasters, reve nue collectors and other officials were never more active in polities than 1888, with the full approval of leaders and the rank and file of the party. Al that Mr. Cleveland said in his memorable order was sound, but it was ot approved by his party and h never been respected by democratic office holders generally. in the THE NE At one of the v under republic TY FOR REFORM. ard club meetings I n auspices, but in r ity conducted in the interest of the oathbound combine, the assertion was boldly made that there is no good rea- son for a citizens' reform movement in Omaha. This urance may be satis- factory and convineing to ward poli- ticians and men who make a living out of politics. But it will scarcely be ac: cepted as gospel truth by the taxps in view of the deplorable condition of our municipal treasury, the depletion of the school fund and the inc ed bur- dens imposed upon them to maintain a horde of tax eaters. It is passing strange, too, that the assertion that there is no call for a citizens' reform movement comes from one of the four men who have been drawing $20 a day out of the city cash drawer since the first part of July for work that the comptroller and his force had neg- lected to perform and had been paid to perform. The squandering of school money upon political wire-pullers and the degrada- tion of the whole school system by the pernicious interference of irresponsible corner-loafers who dominate the Bo: of Education may be a matter of no moment in the eyes of some people, but the true friends of the free school stem and all citizens who desire to divorce the schools from the baneful influence of sectarian politics must con- cede the mecessity of a reorganization that can be effected only by a gene uprising of the voters, regardless of party. There may bg no call for a citizens' reform movement in the eyes of the spoilsmen and place hunters, but when the spectacle is presented of a district judge descending from the beneh which he has disgraced and dis- lonored by his judicial usurpations, his mountebank performances and his anties, and mounting the stump for the delivery of vile harangues at republican club meetings called to promote his can- didacy for renomination, all reputable citizens must realize that the republican party in this county is hopelessly de- moralized and disorganized, and there- fore not in position to purge our local government of the abuses from which this city and county are suffering. There is no tangible evidence either that relief can be looked for from the democratic party, which is distracted by factional contention, and at best in the minority. Only by the combined action of the citizens of all parties who desire to restore integrity and economy in the management of our local affairs and who desire to make our courts again respected tribunals of justice can the irvesistible demand for reform be met and satisfied. The Kansas City stock yards people and the Kansas State Sanitary Board are at swords' points over the attitude of the Kansas officials with respect to the inspection of cattle supposed to have been exposed to Texas fever. The stockmen are said to be moving for the dismissal of certain members of the board because they have made public reports of the results of thelr investigations. The merits of the con- troversy are immaterial to ordinary people, but they are an annoyance to stock shippers and stock dealers. Per- sons having stock to sell can avold all trouble by shipping direct to the South Omaha market. They can do just as well, if not better, there than in Kansas City and in the interval the warring factions can settle their dispute. The Hon. Jim Stephenson should re- strain his temper. The Bee has no dis- position to deprive him of a lucrative contract or to prevent him from mak- ing an honest living. The Bee simply Insists that street sweeping under the old contract system Is more expensive to the taxpayer and less remunerative to the laborer than the present system. We are paying a street commissioner and we might as well make Lim earn his salary. We have the laborers with us and if Wi give them a chance to earn more meney they will be in con- dition to spewd more money. In other words, if we Jilye to tax our citizens for str Sweaping, it is desirable that the money be pald directly to the men who do the jyork instead of paying part of it to the contractor and another part to boodlé esuncilmen and inspect- ors who don't inspect anything but the pay roll. Spanish soldie ry are fully capable of torturing a defenseless woman, but it will be we!l fo wait a day for affirma- tion or denial of the report. Ameri- cans are given a variety of news r ports from tlre 'y in Cuba so charm- ingly contradictory and conflicting that the reader never knows when he is ling the trath. This will continue 50 long as the Spanish government ex- ercises censorship of news reports. If a speech in support of republican- ism by Isance 8 Hascall can have any effect upon the intelligent votars of the South side, our estimate of their cali- ber and ¢ ‘ity must undergo radieal revision. During the war Hasea'l was a rank copperhead. Last year he was the populist candidate for councilman, but since that party spewed him out he is a shouter for republican principles. Getting Down to Bed Rock. St Louls Republie, Judge Scott of Omaha has fined another man ftor contempt of court Omaha either is, or thin contemptible person Uphaol i D Minneapolis Jou The A. P. A. organization, now controlling the city government of Omaha, has made a point of turnir Roman Catholica out of ofics, but have scdulously protected the eity treasurer, an A. P, A. man, who is charged with being short his accounts 1t would he well for the , who re gard them 88 to prove their $30,000 in Sprin epublican. American agriculty s certainly worse state of than the citzd of (he and in Englan homestead, and This property was valued inan English rocent dspression t The « lo of 639 acre 1 hous seven 1 dozen £100,000 $70,000. of thi but 1 as this. ¥it arket. elphia Times fill, it will thus come und cotton produce , wiil get more in prices tha a greater yield aples, with the big in reserve to fill nands both at homs and abroad th seem to fit t marketo better this year than usual, and the preparations for ‘moving them will be hailed by everybody as the signal for the beginning of a very busy and profitable fall and win that the naller crop by an ey formerly secured their respectiv corn and potato cri possible de On the w for Cleve 2 a Lou Conrler-Journal. It s certainly ‘true, as Mr. Whitney sug gested, that Mr. Claveland is stronge- than ever he was with thg conservative elements in America. Along' with some vexatious shortcomings, chiefly embarrassing to those who are associated with him, he possesses some of the rarest and best virtues of a pub lic administrator. ‘But, with all his claims upon the confidence of his countrymen, he would prove the ‘weakest possible candidate for a fourth nomination and a third term; anll neither he norrany one whose opinion is worth considering hus‘any thought of such a thing. The dog-days are over, boys, let the third- term foolishness go to sleep. Term. he French Repudlie. € lobe-Democrat. The French repablic may be said to be twenty-five years old. On September 4, 1870, when the news of the surrender of Napoleon 1L and the imperialist army at - Sedan reached Paris, Gambetta proclaimed the es- tablishment of the republic. Imperialism ended with Sedan, but the republic proper did not Legin until the war closed in 1871 The th'rd republic has lasted several years longer than any other governmental system which France has had since the overthrow of the Bourbon regime under Louis XVI., more than a century ago, and she has had many of them in these hundred years. More- over, the republic seems stronger now than it was at any previous time, Apparently France has broken permanently with royalty. POLITICAL SNAP-SHOTS. Chicago Record: Mr. Ingalls has begun in earnest to inflate the pneumatic tires of that senatorial boom. Minneapolis Journal: New York has no living d:mocratic ex-senator. When Hili's term expires she will have one, for the term of his life. Chicago Inter Ocean: A couple of ““good western men’ will most likely be asked in 1896 to step up and head th: presidential tickets. “The star of empire” is in the west, Chicago Tribune: Mr. Cleveland's bait for a third term gets a nibble now and then, but all the big fish still fight shy of It It is pretty certain he will never get enough to make a mess. Kansas City Journal: If Secretary Morton wants to put “free silver” on his employes he should make them presents out of his own pockets, The money in payment of their salaries is earned, not free. Globe-Democrat: Thd present governor and two ex-goverzors of Maryland, ali dem- ocrats, are out in opposition to Senator Gor- man and the state ticket he has placed 1, the field. They propose to make their pro- test count by supporting the republican ticket. Unless present indications chang- the Gorman candidates will not get more than half the regular democratic vote. Hadibn o MAK IT SHORT, Chicago Tribune: Of the forty-nine mem- bers of the republican national committes twenty have thus far put themselves on record as favoring a short campaiga and one as against it. One refuses to commit him- self. The twenty-two others have not yet been heard from. Of the twenty-five demo- cratic committeemen who have said their say, thirteen are for.a short campalgn, seven are against it and fiye are non-committal, Thus it appears that the republicans are more decidedly in favot of the new departure than the democrats, bBut that it s not un- likely th majority of the latter will de- cide for a short campaign. Chicago Times: {The short campaign has fairly taken hold jof the people bf {::: Judgment everywhere throughout the coun- try, and some of the most influentfal papers have come out in its favor. Whatever pres. sure, therefore, can be brought upon the poli- ticlans who more 6r less direct the affairs of party to hold lateconventions will be brought. The only atgument offered against it 1s that time may'hot be afforded the new national committees 'to perfect their party organization, but this'isl more In seeming than in reality. As @ matter of fact the same men, whether on the committees or off, direct the campalgn year after year, or at least are open to consultation, and their advice experience” can be had for the asking. A URDAY, SEPTEMBER T, 1893. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The republican government in France has been weighed in the balances of two dec- ades of experience, and has not been found wanting, It has stood and withstood storm and stress. It survived the monarehlanism of McMahon, the intr gues of Bonapartism, the meteoric Impostures of Boulanger, the shock and shame of the Panama dlsc'orures, and the stab of the assassin's knife that plerced the heart of President Carnot. France has grown and gained under the republic far more rapidly than under the second empire of the reign of her “legitimate” kings, Today her army is to that which succumbed at Sedan as of old was the Macedonian phalanx to the Persian mob. Today her navy takes rank only second to that of Great Britain, and con- sists of ships that can float and fight, officered by men who have proved their capacity elsewhere than In the court ball room at Versailles. 1In spite of German war indem- nity, in spite of Panama canal swindles, the French peopls are prosperous, the nation:l treasury well supplied, while the burdens of taxation awaken no such outeries us the ever incraasing demands of her he foe's self-styled “war lord.” For these snd other like reasons France can afford t> look on with much patience while Gormany makes merry and Is glad over the victory of Sedan tience under what must seem to be gratutitous taunts Is not easy, but it Is pos- sible. It Is rational. It is more, it is Judiclous. 1Is it revenge that France burns to take on Germany? 'Therc Is a bloodiess revenge to be had, far nobler and swea er than any bloody revenge could be. It s to bo had by teaching Germany an object leson of the Immensely greater happiness, Inte'- lige prosperity, honor, and even warlke gth to be achlevel under a free govern- ment, than under an hereditary monarchy administered by an arrogant contemner of popular liberty. The way for France to conquer Germany Is by resolute'y ko:ping the peace and pushing right on in the paih of freedom. " Belgium s one of the most backward of European countries with regard to the edu- eation of its people, the average of the popu- iation unable either to read or write being over 30 per cent. It must, therefore, be a subject for regret that the present conserva- tive government should have identified itselt with a measure that can only tend still fur- thes to inceease the prevailing ignorance. Unmindful of that particular clause in the consiitution which guaran:ees liberty of con- ce, that Is to say freedom of creed, the government has just re-enacted compulsory religious in fon in all the schools public and comy The liberal law of 1879 made these schools secular—that is to say, freed them from sacerdotal control and eliminated religious hing from the list of compulsory priests, however, were allowed s for giving religious teachings to hildren whose parents desired it, and mitted to the school at stated times purpose. In 1884, the conservatives that time in power, a reactionary d allowing the communes to ry schools longside, or in- stead of the public elementary schools exist- ing under the statutes of 1879. The Catholic vy, as intended from the outset, took ad- vantage thereof to establish schools of their own dencmination every e, the result be- ing that the public and secular schools were gradually closed on the ground of economy, only about being left, of which more than half are in Brussels alone. The gov- ernment has now abolished even these 150, thus deliberately going back to the state of affairs which prevailed prior to 1879, this constituting the first measure of any import- ance enacted by the legislature elected since the revision of the constitution and the in- crease of the franchise. Of its widespread unpopularity the recent disturbances at Brus- sels furnish abundant evidence, and it may be said to have reunited all sections of the opposition against the Roman Catholic church, bovrgeois and workingmen, liberal capital- ists and socialists, all combining to protest against this gross violation of the Belgian constitution. were a the being at law was pas subsidize volun e It bodes ill for Turkey at the present junc- ture that the recently appointed grand vizler, “Little” Said, should have insisted on re- signing. He is known far and wide as the most scrupulously honest man in the Otto- man empire, and is clever enough to appre- ciate the fact that so long as the sultan per- sists in maintaining in office pachas and beys of proved dishonesty and corruption it is hopel:ss to expect to accomplish anything with regard to the improvement of the Porte's affairs, poiitical and economic. With- in a few days after entering upon his duties as prime minister he presented to the sul- tan a demand for the dismissal of his col- league, Hussein Pacha, the minister of marine, who for the last twelve vears has used the money which ought to have been spent upon the once magnificent navy of the Porte in enriching himself and a ring in the imperial household, through whose influence he has managed to retain his hold upon the d:partment of which he is the head. Hussein is the recognized chief of the *‘old Turk”” and anti-foreign party, which is blindly opposed to everything in the shape of reform. The fact that the sultan should have preferred to let his grand vizier go rather than dismiss Hussein is equivalent to an admission that he has no intention of complying with the demands concerning Ar- menia recently formulated by the great powers. e The new Prussian income tax law is now in full operation and it affords, incid:ntally, a faithful picture of the average financial condition of the citizens. It is shown that out of the 2,519,008 persons taxed there are 2,197,712 who are earning less than 3,000 marks ($760) per year, and 70 per cent of the total population cannot be taxed at all, they earning less than 900 marks ($225). In all ‘96 per cent of the populition earn less than 3,000 marks. Of the remaining 4 per cent there are 209,702 p-rsons earning from 4,000 to 6,000 marks, 39,656 earning between 6,000 and 8,000, and more than that last number only 72,038, including in this last category all banks, stock companies ana other corporations and bodles of men con sidered an entity in the Jjuridical sense. There are 143 persons or corporations en- joying an annual income of 1,000,000 marks or over, and of these there are ten single mul- ti-millionaires with incomes of from 6,000,000 10 7,200,000, and two corporations with 8,240, 000 marks income. On the whole, therefore, it will be scen that Prussia is still, despite her annexation of fertile and wealthy coun- tries during the past thirty years, a very poor country. And this, notwithstanding the fact that this January 1, 1 there were 3,750,251,623 marks of deposit In the 1,471 savings banks of Prussia. in The completion of her port at Blzerta, on the coast of Tunis, gives France a valuable naval station upon the south side of the Mediterranean. A canal, not quit: a mile long, very wide and deep enough for her heavy armorclads, has been cut through to a lake of great area, which serves as a land- locked baven and port of supply and re- pair. Although a fresh water basin might have a still greater value, no better shelter could be asked, and it 18 evident that the protection of the port, the lake and the canal by fortifications can casily be secured. The work on the canal and its surroundings has been going on for three years, and that of fortitying and of constructing additional es- tablishments of a naval station will doubt- less continue for years more. Bizerta will henceforth figure prominently in the discua- sions of the control of the Mediterranean. e Shoddy Gets a Show. Globe-Democrat. One American crop this year will show a decline. The yleld of wool Is placed at 294,000,000 pounds, a falling oft of over 30, 000,000 pounds. The vacancy has been filled by democratic shoddy, raked together by the chiffoniers of Europe. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE BOCAL CAMPAIGN © Charley Unitt Insists that & man can be long to an erganization and still refuse to swallow all its teachings and principles. Ho | made a strong argument on that line before | the Swedish-Awerican Gardeld Republican club fast night. Charley Is trylog to con { vinco the Swedes that while he belongs_to the Junior Order he does not swallow tor cudoree the cardinal principle of the order that nore but Amorican born citizens shail bold office. Charley Is willing to have the Swedes capture any office in (he gift of the peopls so long as they do not want the counly troasurership. His Junior Order en- thusiasm is rampant against any Sweds who may desire the momination for that office. A newspapor man who applied for a posi- tion on one of the dervish organs & few days ago was Informed (hat there was no vacancy at the time, but if he would wait a few days he could have a place. He asked It that was a certainty and was assured that it was. One of the reporters, he was told was golng to have a position on the police force under the Vandervoort regime, and that if (he applicant woula wait until that time he would be given the place of tho re porter who was going into the sleuth busi- ness. “The newspaper man knew a thing or two and is now on his way to Chicago, still looking for work. Virgil Ovid Strickler is expected to follow ex-Confed. Covell's lead in a few days and declare himself in line with the dervish con- tingent in the coming fight. Positive evi- dence that Virgil Ovid worksd in the legls- lative lobby against every measure intro- duced *by the populists has been placed in the hands of the members of that party, ana cven his nerve is not strong enough to allow him to seck further favors in that dircction Major Wheeler had a peculiar sensation tn his throat last night and made but a poor show in his attempt to prove that the day labor method of street cleaning was a fail- ure. The peculiar sensation [n his throat was the logical result of trying to get such ullar ideas out of his head. Since the “Watch Dog of the City Treasury” was turned down so hard by his Fourth ward constituents a few years ago he has been lying pretty low, in keeping with his former record, that he should make his reappear- ance In public life on the same platform and advocating the same principles with that other eminent reformer, Inveterate Snorter Hascall. Prof. Rathbun told the Swedish Republican club last night that there was no need of a cltizens' movement because the republicans were going to nominate a ticket made up of clean, capable men. If that's the case, Professor, why don't you bring out your candidates? What are you going to do with Unict, Scott, Dick Smith, Jim Allan, and all that gang that you are now parading as candidates? Al Sigwart was the only member of the Churchill-Russell police force to get on the pay roll. Is it possible that “Captain” Sig- wart is the only member of the dervish con- tingent of aspirants who was thoughtful enough to send a dollar with his application and get one of Paul’s autographs and a certffi- cate “pretty enough to hang in any parlor.” Johnny Thompson wants to know what City Treasurer Dumont was doing up at St. Peter's church the other day, and has de- manded, through his paper, an explanation. Johnny, here's a tip on one of your own crowd. Uncle Hiram Savage started up the other day to visit one of the Catholic churches and find out whether arms were stored In the basement, His courage oozed before he reached his destination, however, and he spent the afternoon at an engine house in the vicinity, hoping to see the armed forces of a foreign power come out for their daily drill with Winchesters. Prof. Rathbun told the Swedish Republican club last night that the A. P. A. democrats were on the alert and would insist upon a straight democratic ticket and would refuse to endorse the Citizens' movement. Of course that's been the scheme all along of Pete Birkhauser and his gang, but it was hardly expected that it would be so openly announced at a republican meeting. Men who -suffer from an impediment in their veracity and bronchitis ought to have a good memory. When Major Wheeler de- clared to the Second ward republicans that he had always voted the straight republican ticket he forgot that a man by the name of Danfel H. Wheeler testified under oath that he had voted for R. C. Cushing for mayor, although Cushing was the regular democratic candidate and, horror of horrors, a Roman Catholic. MUUTI AN RITY M, Indianapotts Journal, When lovely woman takes to bloomersy LAnd flies along s it on wings, The other girvls indulge in rumo About “symmetricals” and things, Washington Star, He never learned the alphabet, They say, entirely through, He started'in with A B ©, But skipped to 1.0 U, 3 Atlanta Constitution, We do not know the place he's xone We hope he's free from harm All that we know--his son, John, Is runnin® of the farm! Judge. “A word Is enough for the w Is a proverb that tells us no lles; Which is why to a jury, thoy say, A lawyer must talk half a day. New York Recorder. A damsel at Ashury Park, She went In to bathe for' a lark, But she lost off Ing (Twas really quite shocking?) And she had fo go home in the dark. Life, T press my suit to call on her, 1y trousers are in or 1 call on her to s t, And find her scorn Increases, Truth, It_my cook could ride a cycle She would make a ord neat, For, {0 fudee her by her dinners, 8She's a scorcher hard to bea THE WANING SUMMER, Montgomery Folsom. These are the days when I feel a craving For the flelds where the corn Is waving; Where the bee on the jimpson settles To mingle his venom with the big bull nettles, Dawns when the blue-eyed morning glories Blush with a hundred sweet live storfes; And the skeeter under false pretenses Whets his bill on the old rail fences. Ncons when the cooling winds care Ceme from the hills like a breathi ing; Under the onks the cow repose Pigs in the mudholes up to th sing 5 bles r nos: Dusky eves where the light cloud co The golden west where the sunset he Coachwhip s those rollicking rou Frighten an out of his (rouser LEADING SPECIAL FEATURES. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BER' IN A HOLLOW OF THE HILI Continuation of Bret Harte's fascin ing romance of western life a graphic descriptions neatly llus with well drawn picture CHICAGO'S DRAI hvogel, AGE CANAL the well known Ger- of the inception of iterprise and the ma which its com- pletion is expected to work in the drain- age of the World's fair city. this gr CHICKAMAUGA FIELD Description of the where £0_many, heroes of the blue and gray were sacrificed to grim-visaged war. Detai of the exercises for its dedication as a national park. Notable monuments in its confines. LOOKING THROUGH LICK TELESCOPR The famous observatory on the sum- mit of Mount Hamilton, 4,000 feet above the sea The in us appliances to aid in scanning the Sketch of the astronomer in cha DEDICATION: mous battlefield COPENHAGEN'S GREAT FREE PORT: Its advantages to Danish commerce and inducements it holds out to r merchants xplained by . Murphy. Wonderful ngo by the introduction of the free port system into Denmark. IN WOMAN'S DOMAIN: Autumn fashions for little malds and men who are about to return to school. Rev. Anna Shaw’s interesting summer colony of ependent new women. Women as conductors for a day on the Bay City, Mich., street rallway_system in “the ‘tnterest” of charity. Sel toples for our women readers, notes about celebrated wome THE COMING GENERATION: General Garfield as a_boy hero; his early struggles and noble aspiration: Other stories that please the little folks. Prattle of the youn, ROUND THE GLOBE ON WHEE The number of wheelmen and wh women is ever increasing and the popu- larity of the bicycle department of The Bee {8 likewise increasing, Fun and money in bicy L o March of the festive bloomer. What the local wheel clubs are doing. Live news for bicy- clers of both sexes and all ages, THE WEEK IN SOCIETY: Preparations for the of the Knights of Ak: for the winter. Intertainments ddings of the week. Home com- ings of the summer tourists, THE WORLD OF SPORT: Timely review of the leading sporting events of the week all the world over. Bright gossip of local sporting circles. Among ‘the ball players. Something that will satisfy all the different tastes for sport. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE UNEXCELLED! READ IT! Here We Are— array of new goods such as New fali suits— New fall overcoats— New fall furnishings— New fall hats— New —Everything new—so nice and new—all the new” est fancies—all the proper styles—in profusion—an show betore, new prices too—new fall suits and over- oats as low as $8.50 that fit, wear, look and are as good as any tailor makes them for three times the money. Browning,King & Co S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts, we've never been able to