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THE WINNERS OP 1896.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President
WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio.
For Vice President .
G. A. HOBA KT, of New Jersey.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor
JOHN H. MacCOLL.
For Lieutenant-Governor
ORLANDO TEFFT.
For Secretary of State
JOEL A. PIPER.
For Auditor Public Accounts
P. O. HEDLUND.
For State Treasurer
CHARLES E. CASEY.
For Supt. Public Instruction
HENRY R. CORBETT.
For Com. Lands and Buildings
HENRY C. RUSSELL.
For Attorney-General
ARTHUR S. CHURCHILL.
For Supreme Judge, Loner Term
ROBERT RYAN.
For Supreme Judge, Short Term
MOSESP.KINKAID.
For Recent of State University
W.G.WHITMORE.
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
For Congress. 6th District
E. A. CADY.
For Senator, 30th District
J.S.HOAGLAND.
For Representative, 54 District
J. H. ABBOTT.
county ticket.
For County Attorney,
T. C. PATTERSON.
For Commissioner, Third District,
JAS.S. ROBBING.
In one of his most pompous and
labored speeches Bryan says: "You
ask me why I know this cause is
true. I can give you many good
reasons, but one is sufficient that
every enemy to good government is
against free silver." Just read that
over again and then take a look at
the statesman of America who are
coinage
of
V-7
silver. It reveals the
of the man.
demagogis.m
The republican campaign in the
state is being conducted very
aggressively, and the managers at
the headquarters at Lincoln are
confident of the success of both the
national and the state ticket?.
From now until election every
county will be supplied with all
. the speakers that can be handled
by the local committees. This is a
campaign of education, and that
always means republican success.
A. E
CADY, the republican CaHi;Xa man William J. Bryan is we need but
date for congress, is making a very
aggressive and telling canvass in
this district, and there is a bright
prospect of him overcoming the
majority which the demopops have
had for the past six years. At
every place at which Mr. Cady
speaks he makes votes, ior the peo
ple recognize readily that he is a
brainy and brilliant man; a man
far superior in all respects to Ton
silitis Bill Green. With Mr. Cady
representing this district at Wash
ington, measures which effect the
welfare of the people of western
Nebraska will receive the proper
attention. Unlike Kern, he will not
be simply a "seat warmer."
The Souh Omaha Daily Sun, a
free silver paper, refers as follows
to Generals Alger, Howard, Tanner
and others who have been making a
tour of the west. It shows the
"patriotism" of the editor of the
Bryan organ: "A carload of old
bummers called 'generals' are now
touring the country on free passes
and their other expenses are being
paid by S Hanna, telling the people
how to vote. They were in Omaha
last niyjht. When the people stop
to consider why such skunks are so
terribly interested, it is enough to
settle the matter that it is not any
love for the poor man or the laborer
that prompts these 'ginerals' to
thus swing around the circle. But
then the rotten old ship is sinking
so fast that the crew is becoming
desperate, and to be fair with them
they hardly know where . they are
at."
Walter Weinman's conclusion
that Nebraska will go for McKin
ley, but that the vote will be very
close, is the result of a painstaking
and non-partisan study of the en
tire state. Mr. Wellman went to
every important point where reli
able political information could be
secured. He added, subtracted,
weighed and balanced all the evi
dence obtainable, and concluded
that while the figures were very
close, the advantage rested with
the republicans on account of their
superior organization and the eter
nal truth in their cause. Mr. Well
man' said after going through the
state that he was most impressed
with the vigor and enthusiasm of
the sound money adherents, They
have plenty of staying power in
this campaign, whereas the cheap
money people long ago said the
last new word to be said about the
"crime of 1873." And organization
and enthusiasm will do wonders in
the last month of the fight. Jour-
It is not a matter of local pride or
mere sentiment here in Nebraska.
It is a -matter of business; "We
must give our "electoral votes t
Major McKmley to show that we
are people who are worthy of be
ing trusted with the stewardship of
outside capital. We need the capi
tai. we nave enormous recources
waiting development. There Is
but one way to get the monCy we
need. We must borrow it. We
cannot hope to find lenders unless
we show ourselves fit people to be
trusted. Journal.
It is . well remarked that when
farmers recollect that there was a
decrease from 5.91 bushels in 1S92
down to 4.94 bushels in 1892 m the
annual consumption, per capita of
our population, of American wheat
in the home market, and a decrease
of 11 bushels iu the per capita
consumption of our corn within the
same period, they will begin to
realize the truth of Mr. McKinley's
statement that "prosperity of man
ufactures is inseparable from tli
prosperity of agriculture." "r
REMARKS OF M'KINLEY.
Clnccs tlio Issues of tlio Campaign Upon a
Ulgh Plane
Major McKinlcy placed the issues of
the campaign upon a high plane when
he said in addressing the delegation
from Vermont:
"To me the question of free trade la
a question of humanity, the voice of la
bor pleading for its own, and the ques
tion of free silver a question of pub
lic morality, honor, and good faith,
and its success would be a blot on our
hitherto spotless national credit."
The money loss to the American peo
ple by free trade and free coinage can
be approximately measured in dollars.
The figures showing the increased im
portation of manufactured goods under
the Wilson tariff law graphically depict
the money loss sustained by the Amer
ican mechanics. Dividing the total as
sets of all building and loan associa
tions and the total savings deposited in
the savings banks by two will give a
fair idea of the losses that will fall up-,
on several millions of our people by the
adoption of a debased currency.
There is something else besides math
ematics in this campaign. As Major
McKinley said to the sturdy New Eng
landers from the Green Mountain
state, it is a question of humanity and
of public morals. Shall we deprive
American labor of its undoubted right
to supply the home market, and after
robbing it for the enrichment of foreign
labor give it a depreciated currency
with which to purchase the necessities
of life? After doing this shall we re
pudiate our national obligations and
destroy our credit with the nations of
the earth? '
These are questolns of humanity and
morals. Fortunately for the welfare of
this country they appeal quite as
strongly to a very large proportion of
our people as do questions of mere
profit and loss. Chicago Times-Herald.
NARROWNESS
OF BRYAN.
Poos
Not
Understand the Principle
of
Unity of Interest,
order to find out how daneerous
Tn
tost.udy his public utterances. .He has
no com-jpti&n of thru country as a
unit. His mind is not broad enough to
understand the great principles of unity
of interest. He looks upon the man
who has money as a public enemy
who deserves no protection and who
is entitled to no rights. Witness these
statements takei from a speech de
''vered by Bryan in the house of rep
resentatives on Jan. 30, 1S96:
"Who is it that most needs a navy?
Is it the farmer who plods along behind
his plow upon his farm, or is it the man
whose property is situated in some,
great seaport, where it could be
reached by an enemy's guns? Who is
it demands a standing army? Is it the
poor man vrho goes about his work, or
is it the capitalist who wants that
army to supplement the local govern
ment in protecting that property, when
he enters a contest with his employes?"
One almost has to rub his eyes to
make sure that he has not been dream
ing that this man is a candidate for
the presidency. Why, his conception
of the country" is as narrow as was the
King of Siam's knowledge of the uni
verse when he refused to believe that
water could become solid because he
had never seen ice. This mighty na
tion, stretching from ocean to ocean
and from the great lakes to the gulf
is as firml3r bound together and as inter-dependent
as are the various parts
of the human body. . If one part is af
fected the whole is more or less dis
eased. If a great fleet were to anchor off
New York" harbor and shell the me
tropolis, it would, in Bryan's opinion,
make no difference to the farmers in
Iowa or to the employe in Cedar Rap
ids. He seems to think 'that because
modern guns have not yet been per
fected to such an extent that they can
hurl solid shot from New York to the
Mississippi valley, that therefore ve .
should have no adequate protection for
our seaport towns.
Small benefit has It been to Mr. Bry
an to attend church regularly. He
evidently has never heard or heeded
this text of Scripture:
"For if tho bedy is not one member,
but many.
"If the fcot shali say, 'because I am
noL the hand, I am not the body, is it
therefore not of the body?
"If the whole body were an eye where
were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing where were the smelling?
"But now are there many members
yet but one body.
"And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, 'I have no need of thee;' nor
again, the head to the feet, 'I have no
.need of thee.'
"And whether one member suffer all
the members suffer with it, or one
member be honored, all the members
rejoice with It."
We commend Mr. Bryan to the study
of these words. The country is one
body. New York cannot say to the
west, 'we have no 'need of thee;' or the
west cannot say to the east, 'we have
no need of thee.'
If this country were all laborers and
no capitalists labor would have no yar
ied employments. We need our farms
and we need our banks. We need our
factories and we need our factory men.
The man who seeks to array one
class against the other and who thinks
the interests" of one .section are hostile
to the interests of the other is not fl
to be road supervisor, let alone presi
dent of the United States. Cedar Rapr
Ids Ha.) Republican-.
Nebraska Man Appointed.
Washington, Oct. 5. Herbert "W.
Damon of Nebraska has been appointed
nrmy transportation agent at Price,
THE REPUDICRAT'S QUANDARY.
Albert Bigelow Paine in Harper's Weekly. -Waal,
yes, come to think it over, it is
J porter hard to say,
In tills mixed-up mess o pollytics,
where do I stan today.
There is Sryan an there's Sewall, an
there's this here Watson, too, .
An' a feller with a mor'gage don't
know what is bes' to do.
Some they 'low thet Bill an' Sewall will
reduce the thing by half;
Others say that this here SewalPs jest
a-fillin' us with chaff;
Fer they 'low thet he's a banker, an' is
hence a plutycrat 1
Till a feller with a mor'gage jes don't
know where he is at.
Yes, ;I staid with the Republicans fer
' more'n twenty year,
An I never had no trouble yet to read
.my title clear,
Till I got thet cussed mor'gage, an the
neighbors did the same,
An' Si Simpklns said he reckoned thet
the gold bugs was to blame.
Course we'd mostly built-new houses,
an' indulged in kerridges,
But SI 'lowed he was entitled to what
ever goldbugs is;
An he likewise use' to tell us, in a mos'
convincin' way,
That the government 'ud fix us with a
flat loan some day.
r
So of course we all turned fiat, f er Si '
said that fiat drew
About 1 per cent.-per annum, with pro
vision to renew
All of which was gratifyin', and SI
'lowed 't 'ud break the heart
O.f that "party" in the mor'gage that
was named as "second part."
Now there's them thet says that Wat
son hes engaged to see it done
By a-running some new ray show. thet
they call sixteen to one;
But an hones' man gits puzzled how to
vote, an sorter fraid
Thet he'll make some fatal error, an'
his mor'gage won't be paid.
Chicago Post.
THE TWO CANDIDATES.
Personal
Contrast as Shown in Their
Speeches.
There is no more impressive feature
of this campaign than the personal
contrast between the two opposing
presidential candidates, as shown in
their speeches, in their treatment of
the great issues involved in the con
test and in the respective attitudes of
their points of view.
From the sophomoric rant and fus
tian of the boy orator, with his mere
tricious appeals to class prejudice and
passion; with his shallow sophistries,
hfe blind dogmatism of ignorant and
preposterous assertion, his plentitude
of words and his paucity of ideas the
American people turn with mingled
contempt and indignation to mark the
quiet and simple dignity of William
McKinley; the elevated tone and com
prehensive breadth of his plain and
short addresses to all classes of his
fellow-citizens; their epigrammatic
conciseness of phrase, compact of wall
ordered and well-considered thought
and instinct, with a broad and gener
ous patriotism that springs from a gen
uine sympathy with the toiling masses
and a profound comprehension of the
inter-dependence of all classes and all
interests. Bryan addresses himself to
the ignorance and hatreds of the
classes; McKinley to the intelligence
and patriotism of the masses.
The American people have taken the
measure of these two men, and have
accepted the revelation which each has
unconsciously made of his character.
In the one is recognized- the reckless
and dangerous demagogue; In the oth
er the wise and patriotic American
statesman. - . "'
Bryan has sunk in public estimation
with every speech he has made. Mc
Kinley has risen in the respect and ad
miration of the American people every
day since his nomination. Behind the
latter stretches a long record of useful
and earnest public service, as a soldier,
a legislator, a statesman, the master
ful executive of a great state, and
which have trained him for the great
duties and responsibilities of the au
gust office to which the American peo
ple have invited him. Behind the for
mer lies no career of civil activity which
affords any guarantee of his fitness for
that office. His little public life has
been confined to the platform. His
world the stage on which he has strut
ted his brief hours of sound and fury.
The one was selected for the chief
magistracy of the republic by the well
matured and deliberate voice of the
great Republican party from among
the most honored statesmen of the re
public. The other had not been
dreamed of as a possible candidate
when, by a theatrical burst of oratory,
he . tricked a nomination out of the
transitory wave of emotional applause
which followed from a tumultous as
semblage of fanatics, anarchists and
lunatics.
Both men have stood for three months
in the full glare of public criticism. The
Ohio man has stood every test of char
acter and fitness for the great trust to
which he has been summoned. Even
those of opposite political parties who
differ with him on minor matters of
legislation, know that he can be sajp-
ly entrusted with the stupendous pow
ers and responsibilities of the presi
dential, office; that he would maintain
the honor of the government and faith
fully guard all the constitutional safe
guards of liberty and justice.
But no one after the exhibition which
Brvan has made of himself would trust
him for a day with the guidance of
the destinies of this great republic.
The remotest possibility of his elec
tion fiills the American people with
just apprehension. For they see In it an
era of distress and calamity and na
tional dishonor such as the republic
never before confronted, even In the
darkest hours of the rebellion.
In the election of McKinley they feel
that they can confidently look forward
to the revival of all the conditions of
..industrial and commercial activity, and
to the inauguration of a new and gold
en era of prosperity. Pioneer Press.
, You Can Bet on 'Em.
Those "who are so loudly proclaiming
that the farmers are sitting up nights
waiting for a chance to vote for cheap
money will experience a shock when
they read the returns from the agri
cultural strongholds. A very small per
centage of the farmers of this country
have been carried away by the vaga
ries of Populism. The farmers havo
always been the backbone1 of the Re
publican party and the stanchest de
fenders of the nation's honor. Bay
City Tribune.
"No people except the greedy own
ers of silver mines, anxious to make
inordinate profits, are interested in
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. No peo
ple except those ayericious owners of
money, who profit by contracting the
currency, are interested in prohibit
ing honest free silver coinage at the
ratio of 25 to 1. We have no silver
mines in Nebraska and the interests
Of the people of this state simply .e
quire free and' unlimited coinage of
silver upon the basis of Its reasonable
value, which cannot bp far from 1
part of gold to 25 of 8ilverr'-Worb-Herald,
Bryan's paper, July ttt, 1893.
TOEDMAFEWWOEDS
EVENTS OCCURRING IN ALL SECTIONS
SUMMARIZED.
Happening From Home and Abroad Re
duced From Columns to lines Every
thing: bat Pacts Eliminated For Our
Readers' Convenience.
Friday, Oct. 3.
A bride of four days Mrs. J. W. Frazer,
shot herself through the heart at her
home in Cairo, 111. Firo which started
in the World clothing house at Milwau
kee destroyed three buildings and four
firemen woro overcome by smoke Tho
Sprecklcs sugar refinery at Philadelphia,
operated by the trust, has been closed
down, throwing 800 men out of employ
ment Rival suitors for a lady's affec
tions, Thomas Newkirk and Henry
Ashcroft, fought a duel with Winches
tors near Middlesboro, Ky., both being
killed A. H. and Mrs. M. A. Drake
after having been twice divorced, were
remarried for the third time at Pony O.
T., in tho presence of a 12-year-old daugh
ter Coatmakcrs in Boston to tho num
ber of more than 3,000 went out on a
strike because their employers have re
fused to ronew an agreement of wages
and conditions David Halfla was killed
in a dispute with B. Miller at Victoria,
Tex. At Wichita, Kas., Mrs. George
Cerf shot horself through tho lung for no
reason A vicious dog atMaryville, Mo.,
attacked a party of school children, in
juring two so badly that they wilf die
W. B. P. Adams, an nged planter of Now
ton county, MisM&sippi, died as the re
sult of being gored by a bull A grain
of corn lodged in tho windpipe of James
Garvin at Decatur, 111., nnd choked him to
dcah in a fow minutes Whilo practic
ing with a rifle at St. Joseph, Mo., Theo
dore Dcutsch, nged 13, was fatally shot by
his half brother, Logan Miller, aged 16
Threo women, wearing male nttiro and
masks, havo notified a widow named
Watkins, near Harrison, Ark., that
sho must movo within ten days
In the Ca-cndo mountains Andrew Nel
son, a hcrdor, was caught iu. a stampede
of eheep and tlio animals were piled upon
him, smo'hering him to death The
office of tho circuit court at Eureka
Spring?, Arlr., was robbed, indictments
for liquor selling and gaming and the
evidence in tlio cases being carried off
Charles Bobbins, arrested for burglnry at
Hutchinson, Kas., confessed nnd had be
gun on his scutcuco within 21 hours of
the commission of the crime An Italian
who surrendered to tho police at La Crosse,
Wis., confessing to murder in Buffalo, N.
Y., on being taken to the latter city
proved to bo the wi ong man and he got
the ride he wanted free.
Saturday, Oct. 3.
Three men lobbed the First National
bank of Joseph, Or. Ono of tho robbers
named Brown was killed, another, name
unknown, badly wounded, the third, Cy
Mtzpugh, made his cscapo with tho money
Bishop Shanlcy of Fargo was as
saulted by a man named Daly. Tho bishop
defended himself successfully and Daly
was a-restcd A cotton picking ma
chine, the invention of Felix Neighbors,
was given a trial two miles south of Fort
Smith, Ark., and psoved a success An
drew D. White, from Ithnca, addresses an
open letter to Governor Culberson, de
nouncing him nnd Mr. Bryan for u.ing
the Bismarck letter, r.nd claiming that
the ex-chancellor is hoping to disposo
of Germany's surplus silvor bullion-;
A. R. Brosseau, carpet dealer In New Or
leans, hns made an assignment for tho
benefit of his creditors Tho silk factory
at Sterling, N. J., owned by Alfred Strcu
li and others, was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, ?2 0,000 Professor J. W. Carter, a
prominent cdiica'or in central Missouri,
died very suddenly at hU home in Wavcr
ly, Mo., aged 73 years Five million dol
lars will not cover the loss by the recent
fire at Jncmcl, Jamaica, and hundreds of
pcoplo are homeless and without food
The Elwood, Ind., window glass factory
has resumed operations Tho tin plato
works at Gas City. Ind., the largest in the
west, have shut down Bu glars se
cured nearly $7,000 im stamps from the
Rolling Prairie, Ind., postofficc Har-y
M. Schmcidcr, hardware merchant of
Washington.has made an assignment.
Tex., was arrested at -San Francisco
P. J. P. Tynan hat been released from
prison at Boulogno, France, and is on his
way to this country Dr. D. K. Pear
sous, who promised 810,000 to the Mount
Holyoko association, will give $40,001 for
tho building fund William J. Warring
ton, a music dealer at Carthage, Mo., at
tempted suicido while under arres'. for
alleged embezzlement Tho Minnesota
Methodist couferenco voted ngaiu.st the
admission of women to tho general as
sembly by a vote of 49 to 17.
Monday, Oct. 8.
R. A. Fnlk and wife of St. Joseph, Mo.,
were chloroformed and robbed in their
home Haskell B os. dealers in notions
and peddlers' supplies at Dcs Moines, la ,
havo failed The Sr. Charles hotel at
Pell City. Ala., wa to'ally destroyed by
fire. Lo.-s about f2J0,033 Ricliard Mus-
ser, a resident of Musca inc, la., since
1851 and one of the lumber kings- of the
Missis fppi valley, died of heart discaso
William Dula of Sergeant's Bluff, la.
has brought; suit foe $5,000 damages
against Justice of the Peace Foster and
others for falso arrest J. H. Cates of
Oklahoma City, supposed to bo ono of the
Christian gang of do pcradocs. is under
arrest at South McAlcstcr, I. T. Ifarry
T, Baldwin, a painter at Morris, 111., fell
from tho top of a Democratic flag pole a
distance of 100 fedr, and was instantly
killed The tobacco growers of Southern
Kentucky are considering tho advisability
of not raising a crop next year The
Hannibal Carrlago company filed a trust
deed in favor of C. H. Norlliam as trustee.
Assets, 5,000. Liabilities not known
Joseph Land, a contractor at Marshall.
Nev., was fatally injured by the falling
of a scaffold J. H. Brown, alias Wal
lace, a forger wanted at Fort Worth,
A hospital for consnmp Ives is soon to bo
established near New York Tho Wis
consin Methodist Episcopal conference has
for the third time placed itself on record
favoring tho admis ion of women as dele
gates to thcgcncr.il conference, by a vo'e
of 103 to 30 D. A. Kcuyou, aged 71
years, of Colorado Springs, Colo., has ac
complished the remarkable feat of walk
ing to the summit of Pike's Peak.
Tuesday, Oct. 0.
Secretary Olucy has returned to Wash
ington from Falmouth, Mas?., whore he
has spent tho summer Kansas City's
street pageant inaugurating tho fall fes
tival of the Priests of Pallas, was post
poned on account of rain Professor
Samuel Spencer of the Southern railroad
denies that tho Southern is negotiating
for the purchase of tho Seaboard Den
ver expects 100,000 visito -s for the fail rcs-
tival of tl. Mountain and tho Plain
San Fraaej3co and San Joaquin Valloy
railroad Was formally opened for passcn
gor traffic between Fresno and Stockton
by Governor Budd Sixry-flvc fncks of
oro wo: th $5VJ0 wore stolon fiom tho ore
house of the May Ucllo mine, near Victor,
)Co!q., and all tho workman havo been dls
eha ged Ptcoidcnfc Cleveland left Buz
zard's Bay on t hp Onci-.la for New York.
M s. C levcland ami tho children will go
by train and visit the Benedicts at East
Greenwich Cardinal Tatolli will sail
from Now York Saturday, Oct. 17
jCyrus and Henry Sncll will p obably die
And eighteen others arc badly hurt by the
collapse of a barn at Wpsf Cimaau, p.
ArcSblshop Marunellilias been Inducted
Into the administration of tho apostolic
delegation under the tutelage of Cardinal
Satolll, Mgr. Sbarctti'andDr. Rookor
Albert Borcham and tlio mysterious
"Johnson" wcro arraigned before -Commissioner
Graves at Detroit and re
manded to jail on the charge of smug
gling tobacco Professor W. A. John
ston, principal of tho Lockland, p., col
ored public schools, shot aud fatally
wounded Miss Mamie Carter, ex-eachor
in the schools London Chroniclo an
nounces that tho czar aud Lord Salisbury
have agreed on a policy for tho ultimate
deposition of the sultan Chlna has
consented to tho building of a branch of
the Siberian railway across northern
Manchuria, pre-empting tho right to pur
chase tho branch after 30 years Kear
ney and Haines, the Iri.-h-American dyna
mite uppects arrested at Rotterdam, arc
now on their way to America.
Wednesday, Oct. 7.
W. H. Opot", dry goods merchant at
Houston, Tex., has made an assignment
D. W. Holdorman, one of the pioneers
and wealthiest cattlemen in Kansas, died
nt his homo in Emporia The Anderson,
Ind., bolt and nut works havo at last
joined the trnst and an advance in prices
is looked for Twclva men aro now
under arrest at Florence, Ala , charsed
with complicity in tho Bchelor mnrdnr
conspiracy Frank Hazzard, a promi
nent yonng farmor living near Seymour,
Ind., died of convulsions, superinduced
by tho bite of a small black spider Tho
minor's strike at Percy, 111., which has
been on since August 10, has been de
clared off. The minors have resumed
work at a satisfactory advance Mar
shall John Filey of Morning Sun. Ia.,
who was shot two weeks nco by McPhcr
son of Kellhsburg, 111., died of his in-
juties. McPhcrson is still at largo
Tho water works at Enterprise, Kas.,
have been shut down by Receiver Hare,
he claims tho plant is run at a loss and re
fuses to opcrato It N. O. Hopkins,
formerly prominent in Missouri politics,
died at Paadcna, Cnl., nt tho ago of 72,
from the effects of injuries received from
falling off a stroal; car Private Emory
Jone-, Battery H. Thiid United States
cavalry, shot and fatally1 wounded James
P. Wehlmaa at St. Auguslino, Fla. Jones
is regarded as crazy and is now in
jail Forest fl cs aro raging on tho
mountains no:ir Pasadena, Cal. Only tho
strongest efforts prevented the llro from
crossing the Dark Canon and sweeping
tho whole front range, on which the Echo
Mountain hotel and Mount Lowe aro
located Judgments aggregating ?89,780
were rendered in the circuit court nt Hot
Springs, Ark., agninst Ed Hogaboom as
president of this defunct City Savings
bank William B. Ross lias been np-
pointcd receiver for B. L. Price & Co.,
New York clo'hing manufacturers. Lia
bilities, 12"i,C03; nominal as-ot. 95,000;
actual assets, 25,CO0 W. R. Smith, be
lieved to ba of the jewelry firm of Smith,
Pratt & Co., of Chicago has boon arrested
at Fargo, N. D., by Marshall Cronan. Ho
is wanted in Chicago on a
chargo of having stolen several
thou-nnd dollars wor;h of diamonds
The United B.ethrcn dedicated their now
church building at Kearney last Sunday.
Tho total qua-tcrly tax returns for tho
quarter just euded in South Dakota was
only $Gl,2-il, the lightest of the year
George P. Lyniin has been appointed gen
eral passenger agent of tho Chicago, B Ar
lington nnd Northern Henry P. Sea
man is in jail at St. Paul awaiting extra
dition papers from Texas on a charge of
swindling the Dallas News company out
of?600.
Thursday, Oct. 8.
Secretary OIney has written Mr. Bayard
to make immediate investigation of the
Castle affair iu London nnd report to tho
state department Bishop W. D.Walkor
of North Dakota has been elected bishop
of the dioce-'c of Western New York It
is rumored that Bishop Thomas Becker of
Georgia will be made lector of the Catho
lic university to succeed Bishop Kcanc
Carl F. Nitz. a Chicago physician, s'abbed
his wife to death nnd then blew his own
brnins out Prince Michael KhilkofT.
Russian minister of way.; aud communica
tions lauded m t-au Francisco from the
steamer Eelgic. nc left "Ru-sia six
months ago and will inspect American
railroads Near Altata in tho Gulf of.
California on Sep' ember 18 three ves els
wore lost, viz.: Schooner Rebecca, Ger
man barkeniino Helena and schooner
Cometa. Information is meager, bnt it is
believed they wcro beached by the tidal
wavo and tnat tho crews escaped O.to
Andcrfon, paying telle-of the Little Rock
Saving? Bank and Trust company, and
Ora Houdctte, aged 20, woro found un
conscious on theporch of a f drool b;:ihling
in Little Rock, Ark , having taken
opium that they might die together.
Miss Houdctte may lecover
Vice President Steven on delivered an
address to Che grand lodge of Masons of
Illinois, reviewing the scope and nclii.'vc-
mcnts of the order: '1 ho Fono a f ags
was held up neaCloudninn, Cal., r.nd
two masked robber ;. iiflo.1 tho mail
pouches nnd oppress box. A pos o is in
pursuit Ohio bankers met at Dayton,
O. President C. E. Nilcs of Findlay up
held the gold standard aud ;ommeuded
tho administrations of Harrison and
Cleveland John Krody, a New York
dealer in bedsteads, bicycles and curtain
poles, hns assigned to Frederick Schwan
haus ror William J. Koornor, a news
paper artis formerly of Pittsburg, i3
hold without bnil by a New York cor
oner's jury for the murder of Ro.-ie A.
Redgatc Nonunion men, imported by
the Canadian Pacific to fill the places of
tho striking telegraphers, aro easily per
suaded to join tho strikers.
Their Protest Sustained.
Denver, Oct. 8.-r-Secretaiy of Stato
JIcGaffery gave a decision sustaining
the protest of tho silver Republicans
against the use of the Republican name
by the McKinley party. Should this
protest bo sustained by the supreme
court the McKinley people will have no
ballot in this stato as they neglected to
file by petition before the time for bo
doing expired.
To lie Hearil After Election.
Lincoln, Oct. 4 The secretaries of
the stato board of transportation ad
journed the hearing of the cose of the
Nebraska City starch mills against the
Missouri Facific Railroad company uutil
Nov. 18.
PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
The follor'ng proposed amendments
to tho Constitutiou of the State of Ne
braska, as hereinafter set forth in full,
are submitted to the electors of the
gtate of Nebraska, to be voted upon
at the general election to be held T :es
day, November 3, A, D.,-1893:
A joint resolution' proposing to
amend sections two' (2), four (4), and
fivo (5,) of article t$x (6) of the Consti
tntion of the State of Nebraska, .relating
to number of judges of the supreme
court and their term of office.
Be It resolved and enacted by the Leglsla-
tnre ot the state ot oDrasica:
Section 1. That section two (2) of articte
Bix fff) ot the Constitution ot the tStato
of Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol
lows:
. Section 2. Tho supremo court shall until
otherwise nrovUcd bv law. consist of five
GO judges, u majority of whom shall be necos-
t Bury to form a quorum or to pronounce
a decision, lt-suallnavo original Jurisdiction
in cases relating to revenue, civil cases in
which the state shall be a party, mandamus.
ouo warranto, haboas corpus, and such
appellate jurisdiction, as may bo provided by
law.
Section 2. That section four CO of .article
eix (0) of tho Constitution of the State
of .Nebraska, be amended so as to read as fol
lows : .
bection 4. TThe judges of the supreme
court snail no elected by tho electors ot the
state at largo, and their term of office, ex
cept as Hereinafter provided, snail be ior a
period of not lesj than five fS) years as-the
legislature may prescribe.
Section 3. That section five (S) of article
Bix (&) of tho Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, bo amended to read as follows :
Section5. At the first general election to-
be liQldjn the y ariKAJ. there shall be elected
two CO judges or the supreme court one
of whom shall be elected for a term of
two (2) years, one for the term of four CO
years, aad at each general election there
after, thero shall bo elected one judgo of
the supremo ourt for the term of fivo
(5) years, unless otherwise provided by
law; Provided, that the judges of the su
preme" court whoso terms have not expired
at the tine of holding the general elec
tion of 185X3. shall continue to hold their
office for the remain Jor of the term for
which they wore respectively commis
sioned. Approved March 'S), A. D. 1835.
A joint resolution proposing
an
amendment to section thirteen (13) of
articlo six of tho Constitution of the
Stato of Nebraska, relating to com
pensation of supremo and district court
judges.
Bo it resolved by tho Legislature of the State
of Nebraska:
Section I. That section thirteen (13) of
article six QS) of the Constitution of tho Stato
of Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol
lows: Sec 13 The judges of tho supreme and
district courts shall receive for their services
such compeiis ition as may be provided by law,
payablo quarterly.
The legislature shall at its first session
after tho adoption of this amendment,
three-fifths of the members oleuted to
each houso concurring, establish their
compensation. Tho compensation so es
tablished, shall not be changed oftener
thuu once in four years, and in no event unless
two-thirds of tha members elected to
each houso of tho legUlaturo concur
therein.
Approvol March 30, A D. 1805.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section twouty-four (24) of
article five .5) X)f tho Constitution of
the State of Ncbraska, relating to" com
pensation of the officers of the executive
department.
Bp it resolved and enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. Thit section twentv-four (24)
ot articio five (a) of thi Constitutio 1 of the
Stato of Neurasua bo amended to read as fol
lows :
Section 24. Tho officers of the executive
department of the state government shall
rojeive for their servicoj a conipensatipn
to be eitablish)d by law, whlt-h shall be"
neither mjraed nor diminished during the
torm for which thay shall hive been com
missioned and they shtll not receive to their
own use any fee, cos's, interests, upon puolic
moneys in their hands or under their control,
perquisires of office or other compen
sation and all fees that may hero-
anor do paytoio ir law ior services
performed bv an officer provide! for in
this arti ;lo shall bo paid in advance into the
f state treasury. The legislature shall at its
first session alter tho adoption of this amend
ment, throe-fifths of tho members elected to
each house o tho legislature con
eurring, establish the silaries of thj
omcers named in th s article. The com
penation so established shall not be changed
oitener tnan oncu in rour years and in no
event unless two-thirds of the members
ek-cte;d to each house of the legislature conzur
tiimcm
Approved Man Ji 29. A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section one (I) of artiole six (Q) of
the Constitution of the State of Nebras
ka, relating to judic'al power.
Be it ro.3o!vel and enacted by tho Legisla
ture of th3 St no of Nebraka :
Section 1. That .sect io 1 on (i) of article six
(5) of tho Constitution of theStaiOof Nebraska
be amended to 1 ead ai follows :
Section 1. The judicial power of this state
sh ill bo vested in a supremo court, district
courts, connty courts justices of the
1 qcl- o. po i e magistrates, aud in such other
couria inferior to th s supremo couit as may
be created by law in which two-thirds of
the ' memoe s elected to each ' house
concur.
Approved March 20, A D. 1835.
A joint resolution proposing - to
amend section eleven (11) of article six
(6) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, relating to increase in num
ber of supreme and district court
judges.
it resolvol nnd enacted by the Legislature
of the Stato of Nebraska :
s-ectioa 1. Thai section eleven (11) of
article stx QT) of ihe Constitution cf the Stato
of Nebraska bo amended to rca I as fol
lows :
Section 11. Tho legis'aturo. whenever two
thirds of iht? members elected to each house
shall con u.- therein, may. in or i.f ter the year
one thousand ijit hundrod and ubiety seven
and not oftener thn ones in every lour years,
increase tho nu.iibcr of judge of su
preme aud district courts, and the judical
districts of tho state .Su.h districts s-hall
be formed of compact territory, and
bounded by county lines; and such in
crease, or any change in the boundaries
of n district, shall not vacato the office of any
judge. V'
Approved 'March 33, A. D. 1895.
c -A joint resolution proposing to amend
section six (G) of article one 1 of the
Constitution of the State, of' Nebraska,
relating to trial b7 i1?'
Bi it r.oolved and tnacted by the Legislature
of th t St nto of Nebraska ;
Section 1. That scption six (fi). nrtjcje one
(1) of the Constitution of the Stato of Ne
braska bo amend d to i -d as follows:
Section 0. 'lho rifht of trial br jury shall
remain inviolate, but the legis ature may pro
vide Ihit in civil action five-sixths of tho jury
ma render a venli ;t. im l ths legislature may
ol-oan horizs trial by a jury of a less numbjr
than twelve men, in coups inferior to tho dis
trict court.
Approved March 23, A D. 1S95.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section one (1) of article five 5)
of tho Constitution of Nebraska, relat
ing to officers of the executive depart
ment. '
Be it ro solved and enacted by tho Legisla
ture of th? Sta'c of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section- one (1) ot ar
ticle five" (ii) of the Constitution ot lho ttato
of Nebraska Le amended to read a fol
lows :
Section L The executive department shall
consist of a governor, lieutenant-governor,
secretary of sttte. auuitor of pub.ic accounts,
treasurer, su erintendent of public in
struction, attorney general, commissioner
of public lands and buildings, nnd three
railroad commissioners. ca.h ot whom,
except the sail railroad commissioners,
shall hold his office for a term of
two years, from the first Thursday after
the first Tuesday iu January, after
his election, and until his snccessor is
eiectol and qualified. Ea?h railroad com-'
mirioner shall hold his office for a term of
'throe years beginning on tho lirst Thurslay
alter the first Tuesday in January a ter
ins
EO
however.
tion
ment
commlsslonerj. ono ior tbe period of one
year, ouo for the period of two years, and
one for the period of three years. Thu gov
ernor, secretary of state, auditor of pub
lic accounts, and treasurer shall reside at
the capital during their term, of Qflkfi;
erection. and until nu sueces f w . ; T . . - w - ,- , . ir-r
r is. elected nnd am ified: Provided. Band, iilffUC, Hundred-artrt NinhH-'QU
, 'lhat at the first general oiec- . . -., . C ' . - ;. J'
hold after the adoption of this amend- ine JLnaependeuce of th. TTnifwl
there t-hall be elected three railroad
they sKall keep the public record, books
and papers there and shall perform such,du
tiea'as may bo required by law.
Approved March 80, A. D. 1833.
joint resolution proposing
amend section twenty-six (26) of
to
ar-
tide five (5) of the Consttfntion of the
State of NebrasEa, limiting tho num
ber of executive state officers.
Be it resolve 1 and enacted by tho Leg
islaturo of the Stato of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section twenty-six (26) of
articlo five (5) of tho Constitution of the
State of Nebraska be amended to reaa as
follows:
Section 26. No other executive state -offiv
eers except those named in setioa onct (1),
nt thta articte
snail be creaiea, -exce
hr nn act nf, iVm lrtt-UlfttrirR which
Concurred In by not less than throe-fcmrths
of the members elected to eafch house
thereof: 11
, Provided, That any office crested by, an;
act of tho legislature may be abolished by
the legislature, two-thirds of the mem
bers olected to each house thereof concur
ring. Approved March 30. A D.. 1833.
A - joint resolution t proposing & to
amenu secuou nine ui uxtiuie eigu&
(8) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, providing for the investment,
of tho permanent educational funds of
the state.
Beit resolved and enacted by the Legisla
ture of the State of Nebraska:
Section I. That scctio-i nine (0) ot article
eight (8) of the Constitution of tho State
of Nobiaska be amended to read as fol
lows: Section 9 All funis belonging to the state1
for educational purposes, the interest and
income whoreot only aro to bo used, shall
he deemed trust funds held by the state,
and tho statn shall supply all losses there
of that may in any manner accrue, so that
the same shall remain forever inviolate
and undiminished, and shall not be in
vested or loaded excopt on United Stato
or state securities, or rczis:cred county
bonds or registered school distrlrt bonds of
this state, and suh fundi with th) inter
est and income thereof are hereby solemn
ly pledged for the purpose! for whU-h they
are granted and set apart, and shall not
be transferred to any other fund for other
uses;
Provided. Tho board createl by section
1 of this article Is empowered to sell from
time to time any of the securities belonging
to the permanent s.-hool fund and invest
the proceeds nridng therefrom in any ot tho
securities enumerated in this section bear
ing a higher rate of interest whenever
an opportunity for better investment is pre
sented; And provided further, That when any
warrant upon tho state treasurer reg
ularly isued in purananco of an appropn-.
ation by the legislature aud secured by the
levy of a tax for its payment, shall
be presented to the stato treasurer for
payment, and there shall not be any.
money in tho proper fund to pay such
warrant, the board created by section 1
of this articio my direct the state treas
urer to pay the amount due on su h war
rant from moneys in his hands belonging
to the permanent school fund of the state,
and he. shalh h ld said warrant as Jin in
vestment ot said permanout school fund.
Approved March 29. A D. 1805.
A joint resolution proposing nn
amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska by adding
a new
of said
sectiou
section to articlo twolve (12)
constitution to be numbered
two (2) relative to the merging of tho
government of cities of the metro
politan, class and the government of
the counties wherein such cities are
located. '
Be it resolved and enacted br the Lee is -
lature of the IState of Nebraska:
Section 1. That article twelve (12) of the
Constitutiou of the State of Neur.iska be
amended by adding to said article a new sec
tion to be numbered section two (2) td read
as follows:
Section 2. The government of ny city of
the metropo itan ctas3 and the gov
ernment of tho county in which
it is located may be merged wholly
or in part when a proposition so to do has
been submitted by authority of law to tho
voters of such city and county and re
ceived lho assent of a majority of tho
votes cat in such city and also a majority
pf the votoj cast iu the connty exclusive
pf thojo cast in such metropolitan city at such
election.
Approved March 20, A. p. JS5,-
A joint resolution proposing- an
amendment to section six (6) of article
seven (7) of tho Constitution of the
Stato of Nebraska, prescribing the
manner in which votes shall bo cast.
Be it resolved aud enacted by tho Legislat
ure of the State of Nebraska :
Section 1. Tint section six (G) of article
seven (7) of the Constitution of the State
of Nebraska be amended to, read as fol
lows: Section 0. A' I votes "rh dl bs, by -ballot, or
such other method - as may bo prescrik ed
by law provided thj secrecy of voting be
preserved.
Approved March 9i A D. 1805:
A joint .resolution proposing to
amend sectiou two
f
(2) of article .four-
teen (14)- of the Constitution
of "the
State of Nebraska, relative to donations
to works of internal improvement aud
manufactories. ,'-
Bo it resolved and etacted by tha Leg
islature ot th State of Nebraska:
Section 1 That tec iou two (2) of article
fourteen (14) of the Cons' itu. ion of Um
State of Nebraska, be amended to real as
follows:
St?c. 2. No city, county. own, precinct,
municipality, or other tmbaividon of the
state, shall ever make donations to any
works of int rnat imprifveunut,' or
manufactory, unlesi a pr -po-itlon so to
do shall have been first submirted to tho
qualified, electors aud ratiflu i,y a two
thirds vote at an election by authority of
law; Provided. That such donata ns of a
county with the donations of such nul di
visions in tho aggregate chatl no exceed
ten per cent of tho asses-iid valuation vf
such county; Provided, further. That any
city or county may, by a threo-fourths
vote, increase such indebtcdn "as five per
pent, in addition to such ten Pl'r cent an. I
nq bond1? or evidences of ipaobiedncss so
Issued shall be valid unless lh H:im. sh , 1
h-ivb endorse! thereon a ce-tifrsite aigiicl
by the secretary and nnui.o'r of mnt
showing tbat the some is fsimc-l pursuant
Approved Mrcb 9, A D., JS95,
I, J. A." Piper, secretary of '. stato of
the stato of Nebraska, do hereby certify
that the foregoing proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska are true and correct copiesf of
the original enrolled and engrossed
bills, as passed by the Twenty-fourth
session of the legislature of the State
of Nebraska, as appears from said
original bills on file in this office, and
that all and each of said proposed
amendments are submitted to 'tbe
qualified voters. of tho State of ."Ne
braska for their adoption or' rejection
at tho general, election, to -be helot-Jon
Tuesday, the 8d day of N(rremcr,A.
D., 1890: ; .
In testimony whereof, L havo here
unto set? my band and affixed;tho great
seal of the Statd;of- Nebraska.!.- '.
States the One Hundred "anil Tweiity-
Jlrst, and of this state tho. Thirtieth.
' (SeaL) T. A. PIPER,
Secretary of State.
Done Vat ;Iimctfn. this . Jl7thtda'y; of
JulV. in thevearof nnrTrHffirrfYn-