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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1&9G.
Tub Iowa legislature has passed tht
11 raising the age of consent in girls
cm 13 to 16 years.
One year from yesterday Grover will
arch 4th from the white house into
tirement, thank the .Lord.
The kind of bimetallism John Siier
an wants to lead the republican
.rty into is the gold standard,, with
bsidiary silver coin.
For seventy years France practiced
raetallism and gold and silver were
vays on a parity there at l."j to 1.
lile England was on a gold basis, at
r very doors.
TnE concensus of opinion among
ashington correspondents is that pol
es is in a formative state throughout
3 country, and that there is likely to
a new alignment of all the parties
fore election time.
A Wasiiixgtok dispatch siys the
itish ambassador and the Vene
2lan minister have entered into di
rt negotiations for the settlement ot
3 Uruan incident, which involved th
:est of a British police official in tin
:puted territory, out of which grew
3 president's message on the Monroe
2trine.
Judge Caldwell seems to be one of
the occupants of the higher judicial
bench who isn't a truckler to combines
and trusts. How he holds his position
or how he ever got it is more than
we can understand. Fremont Herald.
Before the war Henry Clay Caldwell
' was a studious, popular and good look
ing young lawyer of Bloomfield, Iowa,
having for competitors at the bar such
men as II. II. Trimble, Cyrus Russey
and James U. Weaver, all of whom
won more or Uss distinction as sol
diers during the war. He raised a
battallion of cavalry, and on the or
ganization of the third cavalry regi
ment from that state, was appointed
major of the first battallion, under
Huasey and Trimble. Trimble was
lisabled by a severe wound at Tea
Kid.:-e, and Caldwell took his place as
lient. colonel, becoming colonel early
in 1SG1, on the promotion of liussey.
During the spring of that year the U.
S. district court for Arkansas was or
ganized and Colcnel Caldwell, then in
'ommand of his regiment at Memphis,
whs appointed judee of that court by
Abraham Lincoln; and he is one of the
tew if, indeed not the only judges of
Lincoln's appointment remaining on
the bench in the United States. He
was a courageous, manly soldier, was
popular with the men, who greatly re.
gretted his departure from their com
niand. Unlike Judge 13rewer and
many others, he got his appointmem
t tore the corporations had corrupted
or demoralized so many of the brightest
and best members of the bar, and he
has kept himself aloof from that de
basing influence. Judge Caldwell is of
the right stuff out of which to make
presidents.
V town has no more right to depend
its success on its natural advan
:es than a man has to depend upon
wife's religion to get to heaven,
j the harmonious work of the whole
pie on a progressive plane that lifts
Dwn out of the ruts and puts it on
solid road which leads to unalloyed
cess. Tecumseb Journal.
.VThe Iowa city elections occurred
r nday and as usual generally, were
oratle to the republicans. There
9, on the average, no perceptible
.nge in sentiment. Geo. Carson, tb
ublican candidate, was elected
yor of Council Rluffs by 33 votes.
033 from last year of nearly 500
i election will be contested on ac-
: nt of frauds.
. EN'ATOR Manderson is out in a
I er announcing that he is a veritable
- didata for resident, and is not &
i Iking horse for somebody else. Ii
j ery noticeable that the press which
been bowling so loudly for McKm
has been singing very softly of late
20ur?8 nobody has any idea thai
coercion was used to change the
timent, but the fact niusiraie.
fit strange things sometimes happen
olitics.
.t Barcelona. Spain, a mob was or-
ized Sundav. which attacked the
erican consulate shouting "down
l the Yankees," and threw stone?
iking in the windows all because
ie action of the American senate in
aring in favor of the recognition
'ne belligerant rights of the Cubans,
rything indicates that the hot
ded Spaniards are aroused to a
i pitch of indignation over the mat
's Their action will not mend mat
Imuch. -
ms C. Tars key of Missouri, who
turned out of congress the other
richly deserved the fate that met
He was a bimetallist up to a
ago, when, thinking to cuiry j
i . r with Czar Reed because he had a
j est for hi3 seat in the present con-1
3 on his hands, and knowing that ;
Contestant was a free coinage man,
' irned his coat and has since bt-
ed his friends by voting with the
j 3Ugs. He will now go down to the
li of a traitor. The republicans in
by
r. riouse were not to be caught
t chaff a3 he threw at them.
. ie U. S. senate Friday passed a
f resolutions recognizing the bel-
ent rights of the Cuban revolu-
sts, and also looking to the inde-
ence of Cuba. The resolutions
adopted by a vote of sixty-four
V. and this indicates, as well as
tell-known temper of the house,
they will also pass that body, as
are to be acted on on Monday
There is really no apprehen
Df a war with Spain over the mat-
lecause Spain is too wise to take
a course.
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Uuty of the L'nitftl States.
Of the members of the U. S. senate
none are ready in debate or on occasion
so eloquent as Senator Vest of Mis
souri, lie made a brief impromptu
speech on the Cuban resolutions Fii
day, which for genuine patriotic fervor
and eloquence ha seldom been equalled
in late years. We quote a siDgle par
agraph as an example:
"We, Mr. President, are confronted
with one overwhelming, oveiuling, ab
solute, and determinate lesolution in
this debate. Shall we,the great exem
plarof republican institutions through
out the world, declare that, in our
opinion, the people of Cuba are able to
maintain their independence and have
achieved it ? Are we to wait until
that island is desolated by tire and
sword? Are we, a Christian and God
fearing people to stand silent and
dumb while the Spanish governor,
called a general, declares that be in
tends to pen up the people of Cuba and
butcher them into subjection to the
Spanish throne V Sir, if we do it God
A ill curse us. If we do this thing and
stand here until a desert has been
made of that splendid island, you may
he certain that the time will come
when there will be retribution upon us
is a people, because we have not been
rue to the task assigned us by Provi
ience, because we have not cherished
hf iprracv of self covernment as be-
- o -
queathed to us by our fathers'
Charncterlrttlcally Martin.
How characteristic it is for little
men to ape the importance of big men!
There isEnclid Martin, who, by virtue
of his truckling to Morton and Cleve
land, is postmaster at Omaha, and
who, several years ago, was clMiraiai
of the Nebraska state committer, bu
was beaten for re-election by a vote of
four to one in the state convention
but is now supposed to be head of the
bolting wing of the democracy in this
state, has rushed forth in an interview
upon the challenge issued to this rene
gade crew by the regular democracy,
and declares that it cannot be con
sidered. Martin states mat tins chal
lenge comes from men who were demo
crats oner but are democrats no longer.
that the proposition might as well have
come from the poj uiists as from the
silver wing and that the ancient,
initiated and superior order of post
masters in Nebraska will hold their
convention and elect delegates regard
less of the aid or consent of any or
conization on earth. The interview is
characteristic of Martin. From the
start it turns with scornful allusions
to the Nebraska democracy, and over
flows with Martinian braegadocia. It
reads like Martin talks in a man
ner showing the smallness aud narrow
ness of the little, contemptible, brassy
j nonentity who draws a salary from the
government and feels culled upon to
bow himself in the dust at the crook
of Cleveland's finger, or to clothe him
self in sack cloth and ashes when his
lord and master, J. Sterling Morton,
turns his ees to the vest. For this
kind of a political reprobate to set him
self up as a democrat is gall immeasur
able. For a man of his calibre to at
tempt to read out of the partv an over
whelming majority thereof, and con
stitute himself the political joss ot the
.Nebraska democracy, is the height ot
imbecility. Enclid. Martin is a creat
ure of politics who has received al
together too much consideration from
his party, and it has turned his head.
Let him suffer the full effect of a
forced retirement from politics for a
while and his blatant vaporings will
cease.
Thai l)ht.
TnE Congressional Record of the
2Gth ult., contains the wonderful
sneech of Senator Carter of Montana
in vindication of his course in voting
against takine ud the house revenue
r
bill, and the sharp debate which fol
lowed between Hoar, Sherman and
TpIIpi-. as to the meaninc of the Min-
npanolis nlatform. when it declared
that
'The American people, from tradition and in
terest. favor timetallism. and the republican
pnrty demands the u?e of both gold and silver
e.i standard money."
And that debate ought to be issued
;n pamphlet form and be read by ev
erybody. That old fraud, John Sher-
i . . S oil ttm ir.
man, was never snuwu m an u.o
consistency so completely as he was by
Senator Teller, when his argument was
likened to that of a"bunco game."
A rumor seems to be gaining
strength that Gm. Weyler, the brute
who was recently put in charge of the
Spanish forces in Cuba, is about to re
sign. The force of public opinion in
this country, generated by the debate
in the U. S. senate, in which Weyler's
former conduct was severely con
demned, is believed to have been too
strong for him to bear. In any other
army save that of Spain Wey ler aould
not be allowed to command in any
capacity.
Another Omaha concern the Om
aha Fire Insurance company, went to
the wall this week. Those aristocratic
Omaha bankers who have gone crazy
In defense of the gold standard ought
to have taken some of the gold they
have been putting into government
bonds and helped out this young in
surance company, which was doing a
good, safe business before the country
felt tbie blighting effects of Cleveland's
republican financial policy. Papillion
Times.
Much as the republicans of the east
profess to be devoted to protection and
bimetallism, events have occurred in
the senate which have laid bare their
false pretenses, and prove beyond a
peradventure that they really arejnore
anxious to maintain the gold standard
than to a protective tariff. Senatoi
Carter cauterized them by a speech ot
rare power and clearness on Wednes
day, and Senator Allen unmasked theii
false pretenses, compelling them to
choose between the gi. Id standard and
a protective tariff, offering to furnish
the votes necessary to pass a protective
measure if coupled with a freecoinage
measure. These goldbug republicans
have stripped themselves naked before
their enemies, and can no longer poee
in any other light than as worshipers
of the goloen calf.
year ago. The magnificent army
which Calvin S. Hrice led to victory at
Springfield a year ago has apparently
vanished from the earth and only here
aud there can its scattered forces be
seen. The appearance in the city last
week of Jesse M. Lewis of ITrbana,the
amous silver chieftain, gives a decided
impetus to the purpose of the silver
people, who say that they will control
the next delegation to Chicago. This
does not seem to be an idle threat,
either; from present appearances, with
the gold democrats silent and inactive,
there is every possibility of the dele
gation going two-thirds for silver to
Chicago."
NKItKASKA NK1VS.
Mrs. Jessie Moon of Ashland was
thrown from a carriage and danger
ously hurt Thursday.
The 15-year-old son of W. J. Mc
Cracken of St. Paul was kicked by a
horse and is probably fatally hurt.
James Spencer of Nebraska City,
while working in a ditch, was covered
by a ton of earth. He was seriously
hurt, but will recover.
lue farmers at Juniata are busy
sowing spring wheat and rye and pre
paring their oats and corn ground,
which is very fine condition. Many
have begun plowing.
Lombard post. Grand Armv of the
Republic, of North Loup has completed
the refurnishing of a new hall, supply
ing it with new carpet, etc. throughout,
and dedicated it with a social tkhouse
warming."
A. J. Henry, ex-clerk of the district
court of Howard countv. has been
sued by the Citizens' National bank
ot St. Paul for collecting illegal fees
as clerk of the district court. Suit
was brought for Slll.iW overcharge
and penalty.
..SPECIAL SALE..
OF
Ladies' Fine Shoes
airs,
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makes in
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Comprising the- best
the United States.
Ed Oliver, the butcher, will soon
move bis family into town and occu
py the ltamge property on Tenth and
Walnut streets. Druggist O. II.
Snyder will remove from the latter
place to the Timothy Clark house, on
South Sixth street.
llring in Your Wood.
Wood will be taken at this office in
payment of accounts due the Weekly
Journal.
There is a screw loose somewhere.
The Nebraska City News has an ac
count of what it calls 'a meeting of
the democrats of Missouri," and, in de
scribing the men composing the meet
ing, it says:
"All of them knew when they left their
hemes, and know now. that they were making
themselves targets for violent abuse and nlac
ing themselves under the ban of proseriMit n, if
proscription rule6 in the democratic party of
Missouri."
Has it come to this, that'Hhe demo
crats" of Missouri cannot meet with
out being placed under the ban vf
"proscription," and if so, we should
like to know who is going to proscribe
them? Hasn?t our good neighbor
slipped a cog somewhere? To be hon
est, now, were not those men a iot of
money-loaning vagrants who call them
selves "democrats" simply from force
of habit, who haven't a real demo
cratic sentiment in their narrow souls?
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Special attention given to
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The coming of Messrs. Bryan and
Laws on Saturday eyening next, ha3
awakened anew the interest in tne
money question, and has set people to
wondering what new phases of the
question will be discussea. n wowu
be an interesting feature of the meet
ing if those who cannot see their way
clear to favor bimetallism were to put
such questions to the speakers as would
settle the points on which they are in
doubt. There never was a naore court
eous gentleman to "an auditor who
asked him questions than Mr. Bryan,
and no doubt be would esteem it a
favor to have questions propounded to
him.
The Chicago llecord'a Columbus, O.,
letter, written by a trusted correspon-
dent, states that "in me micKejc
state even the dormant democracy is
growing active in preparation for the
coming fight within its own ranks for
the control of the party on the money
question. It is almost certain at mis
time that the democracy will face
about op that question and be just as
radical for silver as jtwas against it a
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