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FOn rilKSIDENT,
BENJAMIN HAHRISON,
of Indiana.
Foil VIC E I'ltESIDENT,
LEVI P. MORTON,
of New York".
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The renublleans of the United States, assem
bled by their delicate in national convention,
inuiee on the threshold of their proceed I iikm te
Honor tne memory 01 ineir nrst threat leader
and Immortal champion of liberty and the
rl;; lit of the people, Abraliam Lincoln, and to
cover also witn wreallis l imperishable re
inembrauce and gratitude the heroic names of
our later leaders wlio have been more recently
called away from ourcnuncllti, Crant, iarlield.
Arinur, i.oaii ana t'oiiKluij;. May tlieirineni
orles he faithfully cherishel. We also recall
with our Kreetinu and prayer for liin recovery
the name of one of our living hemes whose
memory will bo treasured in the history botli
oi republicans anil ol tne republic, ine name
is that of the noble xoldier and favorite child
of victory, Philip H. Sheridan.
In the fplrit of those preat leaders and of our
uevotlon to tinman liberty, ana with that hos
tility to ail forms of despotism and oppression
which is the fundamental idea of the republi
can party, wo fend fraternal congratulations
to our fellow Americans of Hrail upon their
urefit act of emancipation winch completed
the abolition of slavery throuhout the two
American continents. Ve earnestly hope we
nav noon congratulate our fellow citizens of
Irfeh birth upon the peaceful recovery of home
rule iiir ireianu.
WK AKI'IK.M Onit ll.VSWKRVINIi DKVOTIOM
to the national constitution and to the inilif-
soluble union of Jitates to the autoomny re
Herveil to the states under the constitution, to
the personal rights and liberties of iti'.cns in
Hll Htates and territories In the union and es
pecially to the supreme and .sovereign right of
every citizen, rich or poor, native or loivign
born, w hite or black, to cast one free ballot in
the public elections and to have that ballot
duly counted. e bold a free and honest pop
ular ballot and just and eijual representation
t ail people tw lie t lie foundation of our re
iiuhlicun Koveriiiuent and demand eltectlve
legislation to secure the integrity and purity
of elections which are the fountains of all pub
lic authority. e charge that t lie present ad
ministration a;:d the democratic majority in
tMmress owe their existence to l he suppression
ti luf uanot, by tne criminal tniliuicat .on ot tne
constitution and laws of the tutted Mates.
We are uncromiiromisiiiL'ly in favor of the
American system of protection. We protect
against tne destruction proposea ny tne pre
dent and his party. They serve the interests
Dt hurote
VK WILL 8 IT ! POUT lNTKKEriTS OF AM KKK'A
We accept the issue, and confidently appeai to
the people for their judgment. The protective
system must ue maintained, its abandonment
lias alwayg been followed by general disaster
to all interests except those of the unHiirer
jin it sheri IT.
We denounce the Mills' bill as destructive to
general business, labor, and ihtf farming inter
ests of the country, and we heartily endorse
the consistent ana patriotic action ot tua re
publican representatives in congress in oppos
ing its pattnage. We condemn the proposition
ol the democratic party to place wool on the
free list and insist that the duties thereon
tsha'l be adjusted and maintained so as to fur
nish lull and adequate protection to that w-
uu-try.
The republican party would effect all needed
reduction of the national revenue by repealing
the taxes on tobacco, which are an arrogance
una uuraen to agriculture, ana tne tax upon
spirits used in the arts and lorineciiauical pur
jtosef, and by such revision ol the tariff laws as
win tenu to cnecK imports oi suen ai.icies as
are produced by our people, the production of
wlncti give employment to nur Ianor, and re
lease from import duties these articles of for
eiun production, except luxuries, the like of
which cannot b produced at home, there hall
Ktm remain a larner revenue man is reauisiu
for the wauts of government, ot internal taxes
ratner tnan surrender any part ot our rrotec
tive system at the joint behest of the whisky
ring ana agents oi ioreign manuiacturers.
AQAINST PAUPER AXB LA I: OR TRUSTS
We declare hostility to the introduction into
this country of foreign contract labor and of
Chinese labor alien to our civilization and our
constitution, and we demand the riid enforce
ment of existing laws against it and favor such
immediate legislation as will exclude such la
bor from our shores.
We declare our opposition to all combina
tions of capital organized in trusts or other
wise to coutrol arbitrarily the condition of
trade among our citizens and we recommend
t. conirress and the state legislatures in their
respective jurisdictions such legislation as will
prevent the execution of all schemes to oppress
the people by undue charges on their supplies
or by unjust rates for the transportation of
their products to market.
we approve legislation Dy congress to pre
vent alike unjust Diirdeiis ana uuiair discrim
ination betweon states.
PUBLIC LAND LEGISLATION.
We reaffirm the policy of appropriating the
public lanus oi tne uuitea states to oe Home
steads for American citizens and settlers not
aliens, which the republican party established
In 1862 against the persiste.it opposition of
the democrats in congress, which has brought
our great western domain into magnificent de
velopement. The restoration of unearned land
grants to the public domain tor the use of ac
tual settlers, which was begun under the ad
ministration of President Arthur should be
continued. We deny that the democratic party
. has ever restored one acre to the people, but
declare that by the Joint action of republicahs
una democrats aDout nity million acres ot un
earned lauds, originally granted for the con
struction of railroads, have been restored to
the public domain in pursuance of conditions
Inserted by the republican party in the oilgin-
ai erants. w e cnaiije toe democratic adminis
tration with failure to execute laws securing to
eiuer9 tine to men iiomesieaus ana witn us
ing appropriations made for that purpose to
Iiarrass innocent settlers with spies and prose
cutions under the false pretense of exposing
frauds and vindicating the law.
ADMISSION' OK TERRITORIES.
The government by congress of the territor
ies is based upon necessity only to the end that
they may become states in tne union : there
fore, whenever the conditions of population,
material resource, public intelligence and
morality are such as to insure stable local gov
ernment therein the people of such territories
should be permitted, a right inherent tn them,
to form for themselves constitutions and state
L'overnments and be admitted into the union.
i'ending preparation for statehood all officers
thereof should be selected Iroin bona fide
residents and citizens of tne territory w herein
ttiey are to serve. South Dakota should of
right be immediately admitted as a state in
the union under the constitution framed and
adopted by lier people, and we heartily en
dorse the action of the republican senate in
twice passing bills for her admission. The re
fusal of the democratic house of representa
tives, tor partisan purposes, to favorably con
sider these bills is a willful violation of the
kai red American principle of local self-govern-
mont nnd merits the condemnation of all Just
nieu. l he pending bills in the senate for acts
(Vikota. and Montanna territories to form con-
KtituiioiM and establish state government
should be passed without unnecessary delay.
The republican party pledges inself to do all in
its power tn facilitate the admission of the ter
ritories of New Mexico. Wyoming. Idaho and
Arizona to the enjoyment of self-government
as states. Such of them as are now qualified
as soon as possib'.e.and others as soon as they
may become so.
THE MORMOX QUESTION".
Th rniitical power of the Mormon cliurch In
ho ipnirorips as exercised In the past n a I
jnenince to free institutions too dangerous to I
be long suffered. Therefore we pledge the re
publican party to appropriate legislation,
asserting the sovereignty of the nation in all
the territories where the same Is questioned,
and In furtherance of that end to place
upon the Htatule book legislation stringent
enoiiuh to divorce political from ecclesiastical
power, aud thus stamp out the atteudaut
wickedness of polygamy.
'the republican party is In favor of the use
of both gold and silver as money, and con
demns the policy of the democratic adminis
tration in its efforts to demonetize silver.
We demand the reduction of letter postage
to 1 CMit per ounce.
In a republic like ours, w here. tli? citizens Is
the sovereign and the otlleHl the servant,
where no power is exercised except by the w ill
of the people, it Is Important that the sover
eign people should possess intelligence. The
free school Is the promoter of that intelligence
which is to preserve us a iree nation, mere
fore, the state or nation, or both conblned
should support free institutions of learning
sufllcient to afford to every child growing up
in tiie land the opportunity Of a good comiuon-
ecuooi euucaiion.
OUB MERCHANT MARINE,
We earnestly recommend that prompt action
be taken in Conciess in the ei uctmeiit of such
legislation as win best secure the rebabllit
tlon of our Ainerlcsn merchant marine, and
we protest against the passage by conineHs of
a free ship bill as calculated to work Injustice
to labor by lessening the wages of those en
gaged in preparing materials as well as those
directly employed In our shipyards. we te
maud appropriations for the eurly rebuilding
of our navy, for the construction of coast
formications and modern ordinance and other
approved modern mca-s of defense for the
protection ol our defenseless harbors and
cities. for the payment of just pensions to our
soiuiers, ior necessary works oi national lm
portance in the improvement of the harbors
and channels of internal. ;coastwlser -and
forelgu commerce, for the encouragement of
the shipping laterests of the Atlantic. Gulf
and t'acitic states as well as for the payment
of the maturing public debt. This policy will
give employment to our labor, activity to our
various industries, increased security to our
country, promote trade, open new and direct
markets for our products and cheapen the cost
of transportation. We alllrm this to be far
better for our country than tDe democratic
policy of loaning the government's money
witnoiii interest to "pet banks."
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The conduct of foreign affairs by the present
administration has been distinguished by inef-
nciency ana cowaraice. Having withdrawn
from t lie senate all pending treaties effected
by republican adininistratiors for the removal
of foreign burdens and restrictions upon our
comineice and for Its extension into a better
market, it lias neither affected nor proposed
any others in their stead. Profewsing adher
ence to the Monroe doctrine, it has seen with
Idle complacency the extension of foreign in
fluence in Central America and of foreign trade
everywhere among our neighbors, it has re
fused to charter, sanction or encourage any
American oiiianizvllon lor constructing the
Nicaragua canal, a work of vtal importance to
tne maintenance ot the Monroe doctnue ana
of our national influence in Central and South
America, and necessary for the development
ot trade with our Facillc territory, with South
America, and with the further coasts of the
Pacific Ocean.
FISHERIES QUESTION.
We arraign the present democratic admiuis
tration for its weak and unpatriotic treatment
of the fisheries question, and its pusillanimous
surrenuerol all privileges to which our hshery
vessels are entitled in Canadian ports under
Hie treaty of lsl8, the reciprocate marin
tine legislation cf ls:(t and comity of nations,
and which Canadian liohing vessels receive in
the ports of the United Matea. We con Je mn
the policy of the present administration and
the democratic majority in congress towards
our lWherles, as unfriendly and conspiciously
unpatriotic and as tending to destroy a valuable
national industry and an iudlspensible resource
of defense against foreign enemy.
The name of American applies alike to all
cili.ens of the republic, and imposes upon men
alike the same obligation of obedience to the
aws. .At the same time citizenship is and must
be tiij panoply and safeguard of him who weais
it, should shield and protect hiin whether high
or low, rich or poor, m a!) bis civil right. It
should and must'afford him ptotcrtion at home
and follow and protect him abroad in whatever
land he may be on a lawful errand.
flVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The men who abandoned the republican par
ty in lfS-l and continue to adhere to the demo
cratic party have deserted not only the cause
of honest government, but of sound finance, of
freedom iand purity of the ballot, but espec
ially have deserted the cause of reform in the
civil service. We will not fall to keep our
pledges because tl ey have broken theirs, or
because their candidate has broken his. We
therefore repev o;ir declaration of l4,towit :
The reform of civil service auspiciously begun
under republican administration should be
completed by af urther extension of th" reform
system already established by law to all grades
of the service to which it is applied. The spir
it and purpose of reform should be observed in
all executive appointments, and all laws at
varience with the object of existing reform leg
islation should be repealed, and that the dan
gers to free Institutions which lurk In the pow
er of official patronage may be wisely and ef-
iecuveiy avoiuea.
The gratitude of the nation to the defAnders i
oi tiii union cannot be assured except by laws
ine iegiiai;on oi conirress should conform to
the pledges made by a loyal people, and be so
enlarged and exteuded to prov'de against
me possiointy mat any man who Honorably
wore the federal uniform shall become an in
mate of an almshouse or dependent on urivate
charity. In the presence of an overflowing
treasury ij would b a public scandal to do less
ior i nose w nose valorous service preserved the
government. We denounce the hostile spirit
shown by President Cleveland in hi numerous
vetoes oi measures lor uension relief, and the
action oi tne aemocratic House of representa
tives in refusing even consideration of general
peuajon legislation.
in support oi the princ riles herewith enun
ciated, we iuvite tJje co-operation of patriotic
imru ui an jij nc, trKtaiiy wi an worKing
men whose prosperity is seriously threatened
by the free trade policy of the m-esent admin
istration.
In accord with established precedent,
Omaha comes to the front with the usual
number of congressional aspirants, Web
ster, Connell, Broatch, Smith, and others,
all agree that Omaha should have the
honor and that none of them "are in the
race to throw the nomination to any oth
er part of the district." The Herald
suggests that they might have added
with greater propriety, in the light of the
past, that if Douglass fails to secure the
nomination, we make due warning, that
the usual number of Douglass republi
cans will vote for the democratic nomi
nee, who of course will come from Doug
lass. Do you hear? The Herald will
be frank in saying that it favors the nom
ination of a man from some other part of
the district and to keep the plan up un
til Douglass republicans redeem them
selves and proye their loyalty to the party
Babyhood for August is, as usual, full
of seasonable hints and practical -advice
to young mothers. In the department of
"Nursery Problems" alone a great variety
of interesting topics may be found, such
as oucKing tne tongue, uuinine as a
Cause of Deafness," "Slow Gain in
Weight," "Throwing up Milk After
Nursing," "Coated Tongue," "Rings Un
der the Eyes," "Time for Weaning,"
"Slow Teet'iing," etc. It is very desira
ble that Babyiiood, whoso many useful
suggestions and careful medical advice
make it indispensable to every young
mother, should be found in every nurse
ry, and persons willing to aid in extend
ing Babyhood's usefulness will find it a
pleasant and profitable task. ' The pub
lishers offer unusual inducements to en
ergetic canvassers. 15 cents a number;
1 1 .50 year. Babyhood Publishing Com-
past, o Beekman treer. isew lone.
Q EN E HAL HARRISON ON OUR
AMERICAN COMMERCE.
Speaking to a large concourse of visit
ing citizens day before yesterday, Gener
al Harrison frankly spoke his yiewes and
sentiments touching our needed trade
with the South American btates and reso
lutely argued that our carrying trade
ought to be maintained, protected and
fostered by the goyernrueut. That Ameri
can merchants ought to be encouraged to
export and import upon American bot
toms under the American flag and that
the markets of the South American states
especially, should be under the control of
American merchantmen. We are curious
to see how the civil service party will
take to the republican candidates' plat
form in this respect. Can anyone im
magine Grover Cleveland working out a
departure of this kind as a national poli
cy and urging it upon his party and the
nation for the nation's aggrandisement ?
Not Much ! If anyone has heard any
thing from a democratic statesman, dur
ing the past twenty-eight years, save a
dismal croak about "Outraged Constitu
tions," "Violated "National Faith" and
"Taxation and Robbery," we would like
to hear of it. Their entire stock in trade
is to descry American institutions and
create the impression among the nations
of the earth that the American citizen is
an overtaxed, down tredden, God forsak
en individual, without future hope, un
less the very fellows who were engaged in
a slaveholders conspiracy the other day to
divide and destroy the nation, are given
all the fat offices and permitted to dic
tate its policies, as they were wont to do
in the balmy days of the "Auction block."
So, we say, it is doubly gratifying to in
telligent citizens to be permitted to hear
a candidate for the great office of presi
dent of these United States, speak proud
ly and hopefully, of the prosperous
American people and courageously put
the demagogue behind him, in advocat
ing the building of our merchont marine
by protection and substantial encourage
ment. Ilpre is what our candidate sug
gested :
"We are not attracted by the suggestion
that we should surrender to foreign pro
ducers the best markets in the world.
Our sixty millions of people are the best
buyers in the world, great applause,"
and they are such because our working
classes receive the best wages. Applause.
But, we do not mean to be content
with our own market. We should seek
to promote closer and more friendly com
mercial relations with the Central and
South American states applause, and
what is essential to that end? Regular
mails ape the first condition of commerce.
The merchant must know when his order
will be received, and when his consign
ment will be returned, or they can be no
trade between distant countries. What
we need, therefore, is the establishment
of American steamship lines between our
ports and the ports of Central and South
America. Applause. Then it will no
longer be necessary that an American
minister, commissioned to an American
state, shall take an English ship to Liv
erpool to find another English ship to
carry him to his destination. Applause.
We are not to be frightened bv the use of
that ugly word "subsidy." Laughter.
We should pay to American lines a liber
al compensation for carrying our mails,
instead of turning them oyer to British
tramp steamships. Applause. We do
not desire to dominate these neighboring
governments. We do not desire to deal
with them in any spirit of aggression.
We desire these friendly political, mental
and commercial relations and advantages
which shall promote their interests equal
ly with ours. We should no longer fore
go these commercial relations and advan
tages which ur geographical relations
suggest and make so desirable.
Since the New York Tribune fired its
double shotted charge the other day into
the political viscera of the great civil
service fraud in the White house, the re
mains are hard to recognize. The Trib
une says:
It is whispered that sundry mugwumps
have organized tbemselyes into a lodge
of sorrow in order formally to give vent
to their feelings in relation to the awful
havoc wrought by this Tribune gun.
Mr. George William Curtis is understood
to have expressed to the lodge his firm
conviction that the Tribune must have
known that the gun was loaded. We
don't often agree with Mr. Curtis nowa
days, but this conviction of his corres
ponds with our own. We deliberately
loaded that gun for the purpose of rid
dling the record of a bogus reformer.
We took tliat target excursion on pur
pose.
Rumor has it that George Jones assur
ed the lodge that he never realized to
what a pitch of perfection the modern
firearm had been brought until he beheld
Mr. Cleveland's truly good reputation
after the Tribune's gun had been fired.
I tell you brethren," exclaimed Fagin.
the tears running down his cheeks like
another Jones river, "there actually
wasn't enough left of it to wad a tov
pistol."
The lodge said It would be glad to
hear from Larry Godkin, of the second
ward. But Larry's feelings were much
too painfully deep forcoherent utterance.
Ever sice the gun was fired he has gone
4uoui wuii coiion siuireci in ins ears.
-1 i I.I. ..A. j V . .
muttering under his breath, "Will the
noise of the gun never cease?" We mav
stnte here, for the benefit of Mr. Godkin,
that the reverberations of the report of
that gun will be heard by the voters all
through the campaign.
P. . A correspondent wants to know
whether in going a gunning last Monday
and making a dead duck of Mr. Cleve
land in his character of "reformer" we
were not violating the game law. We
answer, no. I he game law does, indeed,
prohibit the shooting of ducks during
certain months. But nothing ia said of
decoy ducks.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND IR
ISHMEN WILL LEAVE
CLEVELAND FOR
HARRISON.
The following press dispatch from
New York shows the drift of the Irish
vote-in New York. They are coming
General Benjamin! "One hundred thous
and more":
New Yokk, Aug. 2. Numbers of
democratic workingmeu here arc threat
ening to vote for Harrison because of
Cleveland's tariff policy. A fair repre
sentative of this disaffected class is Dav
id J. Laughlin, one of the most promi
nent labor men in New York. lie is
judge advocate of district assembly 41).
He says he has always been a democrat,
was a member of the general committee
in Tammany hall in 1884, but he is not
going to vote for Cleveland this year.
Said he: "One hundred thousand Irish
men who have heretofore voted the dem
ocratic ticket will vote for Harrison this
year. It is a common charge that Irish
men who are opposing the tariff policy of
the democratic party are acting selfishly.
Perhaps they are. But I want to ask you
if the English free traders who want us
to pass free trade bills are not acting sel
fishly? I have been a salesman in the
dry goods business for twenty years. I
have been connected with LeBoutilleer
Brothers for something like three years.
Do you know that we are making no
woolen goods here at all of the kind that
are sold over the counters of the big dry
goods hsuses in this city? Why, pretty
near all of the woolen goods sold in this
city now are made in France and Ger
many. We cannot make them here un
der the present tariff, because we pay our
workmen too high a rate. Why, you
can't manufacture ladies' dress goods in
this country. The present tariff does not
admit. Even under the present tariff we
are obliged to patronize the German and
French industries, when, as a matter of
fact, we can make a better article here.
The French manufacturers are making
the bulk of the money that is being made
in the clothing trade. I want the Amer
icans to make that money. That is all
there is about the matter." Sieourney
W. Fay. anoter woolen man, is also op
posed to the tariff policy of the demo
cratic party. He said: "I most certain
ly am against the Mills bill and the tariff
policy of the democratic party."
"Mr, Cleveland is a reformer" says
our democratic neighbors; well, if he is
why dont his administration show it?
lias any civil service supporter of his
dared answer the terrible indictment pre
sented by the New York Tribune in its
"special 100?" There is the record, taken
from the records, showing the most dam
nable list of appointments made by Gi o
ver Cleveland. Nothing since the inaug
uration of Washington can compare
with it. The mugwump press, which
declared for Mr. Cleveland in 1884 solely
on the grounds of his reform promises,
have been forced to admit that he has
practically abandoned the whole civil
service scheme. Mr. Cleveland is not a
reformer, he is a patron of boodlers of
the worst type in politics; his instincts
all tend to low associations politically.
He left congress in session the other day
and went a fishing and the democratic
press was careful to say that he only met
one or two leading men apd that his sole
object was "ftsli." New who did Mr.
Cleveland go fishing with? Smith M.
Weed; who is Smith M. Weed? Does
any of our readers fail to recall the
wealthy manufacturer Mr. Weed the
man sent by Mr. Tilden to buy up the
South Carolina electors. The man who
telegraphed back to Pelton over his own
initial that he had made the purchase for
$83,000! This is the boodler reformer
Cleveland flies to for advice and help in
his extremity in New York. Do our
democratic friends remember who went
to South Carolina with Mr. Weed to buy
that electoral vote? For fear they have
not kept track of that fellow, the Her
ald reminds them of his identity and
suggests that his name be pasted in the
f 11 . m
crown or eacn aemocratic nat, lie is an
important democrat nowadays and the
only fellow who had influence enough to
get a hearing before the dark lantern
committee on the Mills bill. His name
is Havemeyer and he did it with sugar.
He is the democratic prince of trusts who
sugared the Mills committee and with
the congressmen from Louisiana saved
sugar. These are the men Mr. Cleveland
advises with; the men who engineer
democratic policies for the dear people.
Yet, our democratic friends would have
the public endorse Grover Clevland as a
reformer Mr. Cleveland is anything, ex
cept a reformer.
The Journal is down on the "Middle
men.'' It advises the farmer just how to
sell his butter. Tells him to make it
clean. To be careful in feeding his cow.
To have his wife assist him. To eet five
cents above the market price and have
his customer stay by him all the year
round. By these means the Journal
argues the farmer will get rid of the
groceryman aud find a quick and easy
means for the disposition of his other
produce. Aboye all thing3 the farmer is
advised to be honest. This article is
supposed to be remotely connected with
the "robber tax" still it may be drawn
entirely from the editor of the JournaTs
experience with the groceryman and
farmer. We nominate the Journal man
for the head of the Bureau of Agricul
ture. Whats the use in not haying a ser
vant and farmers friend at the head of
that establishment?
SIR. EDMUNDS' OPINION OF
CLE V ELAN I) AND HA RRIS ON.
Vermont ratified all along the lino the
other day aud Senator Edmunds opened
the ball by giving his neighbors his
opinion of the mis-tit in the White House,
as follows:
"My belief is that Vermont will load
the column with r. greater majority this
fall than she ever has before. Instead of
25,000 or 550,000 majority, we have the
strength and ability to carry it to 40,000,
and I believe we will do it. There is a
moral influence behind the republican
party which will make it invincible. I
must say before you go, however, how
happy I am in the choice of our standard
bearer. I sat within reach of my hand of
General Harrison in the senate of the
United States six years and know him
well, and knew him intimately during
the six years that I was with him in the
senate; and there does not breat he a more
honest, conscientious and truthful man.
There is not a bad spot nor streak in him
anywhere and when he goes to the White
House, as I honestly believe he surly will,
you will have an American president in
stead of what you have now, really a Brit
ish president and nothing else. I mean
what I say. I mean no tlisrespet to the
democratic party or to Mr. Cleveland
himself; but if he had been Lord Salis
bury himself, he could not of acted more
to the satisfaction of the British people
and more in the interest of the British
manufacturers, and in fact, in favor of
British people in everv way. (Cries of
'Row about Minister Phelps ?') He is
bad chip like the rest. However, the
business before you now is work for Har
rison and the republican parly. The real
ousiness is tne Home business. if you
are democrats, any of you (as I hope
some of you are here, for we want to call
sinners to repentance,) we want you to
come in. What is our welfare is vour
welfare. What is our loss is your loss.
BLAINE IS COMING.
We truly pity the nerves of the average
democratic editor and rounder, for Mr.
Blaine cannot be kept out of their pre
sence much longer. On the 8th ot August,
only next Wednesday ! Tomorrow, just
think of it! That fearful man dreaded
by the democratic party more than it
would fear the ravages of the Asiatic
cholera in their midst, is certain to land
in New York amidst the cheers and em
braces of thousands upon thousands of
his loving fellow citizens, yes. he will
land and greet the people and the people
will greet him; not because he is a candi
date for a great office; not because he is
able to dispense patronage to a grand
army of pap-suckers; not for any of these
but because he is the most illustrious Am
erican now living; because he is the great
est statesman America has produced and
because he is the friend of his country
and the acknowleged defender of itt
honor and of the great industrial sj'stem
under which it has taken the first place
among the nations of the earth. Mr.
Blaine is coming and the American peo
ple are happy over the national event;
notwithstanding the agony of the small
army of exceedingly small born demo
cratic politicians. Welcome Blaine !
THE HOMES OF THE ESKIMO.
Their homes were cold and cheerless in
ihe extreme, but they had powers of re
sisting it that seemed phenominal and far
beyond human endurance as we have
found it limited in our own zone. I have
known one of these cold-weather caval
iers to take a reindeer hide that had been
soaking in the water, and that was froz
en as stiff as a plate of boiler-iron, and'pu
it against his bare body, holding it there
not only until it was thawed out, but un
- i. P. j 1 1 mi
111 it was perrectiy ciry. ine skin was
to be used as a drum-head for singing
and dancing exercises, and had to be dry
and hairless to answer that purpose, the
soaking ridding it of the hair, while
there were apparently no other means o
drying it than the hereic method adopt
ed. From the large number of reindeer
killed by these Eskimo they are abun
dantly supplied with skins for bedding
and clothing, and in the making up of
these neccessaries they have displayed so
much tact and talent with the limited
means at hand that they are the best
dressed natives in the north. From one
of their fancy displays on certain gar
ments the boot tops they get their dis
tinetive tribal name, the Kinnepetoos.
Frederick G. Schwatka, in the American
Magazine for August.
Mr. Cleveland must go. If any of
our good democratic friends doubt it
first gaze on the "rogues gallery'' exposed
by the New York Tribune with it3 ad
ministration galery of wife beaters, de
serters, swindlers, gamblers, dog-fighters,
scoundrels that reviled Lincoln and made
scarf-pins out of the skull of a union sol
dier; drunkards, forgers, blackmailers,
and ballot-box sutffers, etc. Then if you
are net confounded, dumbfounded, and
convinced, gaze on the royal pilgrimage
of private citizens who are daily paying
their respects to the next president at his
home in Indianapolis. The fateful linger
on the great political deal of '88 points
unerringly to the disappearance of the
bogus reformer of the White house in
March 1889.
Democratic sources of imformation
place the great Grover on a fishing expe
dition; but since the expose of his (ad
ministration) appointment by the New
York Tribune, the managers of that
Journal think he is planing a sneak on
their fresh air excursion. Its fresh air
this administration evidently needs.
Republican State Convention.
The republican electors of the ttnte of
Nebraska are rcquotcd to nciid delegates
from their sivital conntio: to meet in
convention at the city of Lincoln Thurs
day, August 2:1. 188S, at 2 oVlotk p. 111.,
for the purpose of placing in noni'miit'ion
cnndidattH for the following state offices.
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
State Treasmcr.
Auditor of Public Accounts.
Attorney General.
Commissioner of Public Liinds and
Buildings.
And the transac tion of such other busi
ness as may come before the convention.
THE API'Otn lO.N.MlCNT.
The several counties are entitled to re
presentation as follows, being based upon
the vote'enst for Hon. Samuel Maxwell,
judge, in 1887, giving one delegate nt
large to each county, and for each 150
votes, and major fraction thereof:
flOt-'N'Tl KB.
VO I Kf .
II
I'OI N'I I KS.
v.n KM.
Adams
AtiUlopc ...
Arthur
I-.laiiie
Koiiiie
Hox iUilte..
Hniwn
Huirali) ...
Hutler
Hurt
Cass
Cedar
CliHse ,
Ch.rry.... :
Cheyenne. . .
;'
Co! tax
'inn inj;
Custer
Dakota
I awes
I law son
Dixon
Dodire.. .. ..
Douglass. . . .
Dundy . ...
Fillmore
Franklin
Frontier
Furnas
!aire.
Carfiild... .
(Sosjjer
C.runt
Ciueley
Hall....
Hamilton ...
Harlan
Hayes
Hitchcock ..
Holt
I lowiod
Jefferson ...
Johnson
Kcjiniev
1 Key ha Paha...
Keith
Knox
II l.alieiisler
Lincoln
.1 I i-ojraii.
1 .0 1 1 1
Mad Hon
:t
H
1
7
. .. r
...
n
8
5
4
. . . .
10
7
7
li
a
...12
10
... 7
..It. Mel'lierson ....
Merrick
W Nance
Nemaha
.11 NuckoIlM
.lljOtoe
I'awnee
I'l l ktr m
17! Pierce
. f; rolls
. "il'lalte . ..
. s l'lielps
. ;: Kichardson .
.l-';Ked Willow....
i7Salice
. 4jSary
.in amulets ..
. 7 Seward
. 10!.Sherilan.
. . . J
...l!
. . . :t
... r,
... i
... 4
hernial! 7
Moux ..2
- taiituii
Thayer ..
I li 1 1 11:1 s
Valley
Washington
.. 4
7
a
.. G
. !!
.. 5
.. U
. . 3
11
.. 1
.. 11
. ..lj Wajne
... k! Webster
... 1 W heeler ... .
. .. ;' York
. .14 Unorganized
7!
.. !l Total
Ter. .
071
It is recommended that no proxies lie
admitted to the convention except such ns
are held by persons residing in the coun
ties from which the proxies are giyen.
To Chairmen County Central Commit
tees; Whehkas, At the republican state con
vention held at Linc oln October 5, 18s;7,
the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the state central com
mittee be instructed to embrace in its call
for the next state convention the submis
sion of the prohibition question to the re
publican voters at the republican pri
maries,
Therefore, in accordance with the
above resolution, the several county cen
tral committees are hereby instruc ted to
include in their call for their next county
convention the submission of the prolib
bition question to the itKrujiLicAN voter
at the republican primaries.
Geo. D. Meiklejohn, Chairman.
Walt. M. Seelb v, Secretary.
CZTTING A PATENT.
UusInoHs of l'atent Lasers Muldng un
Application Tho hern.
"Do patent lawyers niako money P
"They ought to. There arc from thirt3- to
forty tUous'iail applications mafic for patents
an.i ths majority of thesa cqiho tbrou-f; law
yers. They raroly do business on romm;.;
sion and they charge good fees. There uro
scores of patent lawyers in Washington and
their offices line the streets in tho neighbor
hood of tho interior department. Some of
them are very prosperous and snmn hnv
made fortunes. The patent business for a
big invention is worth a groat deal of money
and hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been spent in protecting the interests of tho
telephone."
"Can the clerks be relied upon not to dis
close the secret of the office f I aaked,
"They must promise to do so on taking
their position," was the reply, "and if they
were caught doing otherwise they would be
at once dismissed. It is a curious thing that
patent lawyers do not invest more in patents.
They see so many plausible things fall
through that they lose faith in everything
except the hard dollars which they receive in
fees." .
"Does an inventor need a lawyer?"
"No, in nine cases out of tea Le does not.
If he will write to the department it will
furnish him with all information. It will
define for him what consitutes a patentable
idea, and I will tell you how he must set
about getting a patent. Ho first applies for
the issue of a patent in writing, and this ap
plication is a petition which gives his name
and residence and gives a clear description
of his invention or discovery, specifying the
part, improvement or combination for which
he wants a patent. He will not need to fur
nish a model unless ho asked for one, but ia
expected to send along a drawing which
Bhows exactly what the patent asked for is.
All drawings of this kind are photo-lithographed
after they come to the office, and
these photo-lithographs are for sale. They
cost twenty-five cents apiece, but are not sold
till tho patent are issued. The inventor
mast swear that he is the original inventor
of the thing for which he asks a patent, and
he sends his affidavit along with the petition
to the commissioner.
He must send along, also, $15 as a pre
liminary fee, and his entire fee for the com
pletion of the business will be $3.1. When
the application comes into the office it is re
ferred at once to the division to which it bo
longs, and it takes its turn. The patent ex
aminers are all specialists. They are high
salaried clerk3, and the most of them have
been in their present positions for years.
They can tell at a glance whether a thine is
old or new, though they have to make tho
most thorough investigation in each case.
and that not only in tnts country, but in the
books of all other countries. Ia case there is
any question about the granting of the pat
ent, the question is referred to the commis
sioner, and here it is best for the patentee to
employ a lawyer to present hi3 Bide of the
case. If the invention is atrikinsr and new it
can be gotten through without the employ
ment of a lawyer, and there is a great deal of
money wasted in lawy ers' fees. Theso law
yers charge high rates too, but the highest
priced are, as a rule, the cheapest, for thev
understand their work, and there 13 no slip
ping through the papers which they draw
nn, Frank G. Carpenter.