MAJORS AS GOVERNOR #! Hli Bmllnt Record While Actinic u Chief Executive nn Indlrntlou of What lie Will Do When Elected. ECONOMICAL RULES ADOPTED HI THE STATE BOARD. Aa Absolute Check on All Dishonesty Planned and Pot Into Execution by Honest Tom Majors. The assailant* of Lieutenant Gover nor Majors profess to be tilled with f, grief because Governor Crounse was not accorded a nomination for a second term, end Congressman Bryan took oc 7|7 cation, while presenting the nurne of l' Judge Holcomb to the recent demo-pop ,/ convention, to take the republican par « ty to task for its failure to thus honor toe present chief executive of the state. The fact that Uovernor Crounse was not a candidate ami declined to stand p v ' for a second term is persistently and wilfully ignored by these enemies of 7 7 the lieutenant governor. That Gover nor Crounse repeatedly expressed his unwillingness to longer continue in the gubernatorial field cannot be denied, v- and his assertions to that end, made privately to personal friends as well as publicly through the press, were sim ply accorded the consideration by the . republican convention to which they were entitled. >1: t The assertions that tho nomination of Majors was a rebuke to tho honost and efficient administration of Uover nor Crounse is the sheerest political buncombe, and this Is most conclusively shown to be the case when one stops to consider that it has so happened that 4 , the lieutenunt governor has occupied ». tho gubernatorial chair on numerous / occat'-ins during the past two years as acting governor, and is really entitled to personal credit for much of the good work of the present administration. '<“17 A striking example of this is to bo found in the records of the state board of purchase and supplies. No one has the temerity to deny that the stute in stitutions have been conducted for the 77 7: pest two years on a remarkably oco ‘ nomtcul basis, or that tho business methods in vogue could be emulated to h\) advantage by many a private enterprise or institution. New rules regulating the . purchases of all supplies were adopted, and additional safeguards : were thrown about the annual expen dituro of hundreds of thousands of dol :: 7 lars for this purpose. The records at the state house show 7 that this new system was inaugurated during the absence of Governor Crounse from the state, when Lieutenant Gov i v. ernor Majors, by virtue of his position as acting governor, was a member of ! 7 the state board and presided over the deliberations of its meetings To him, as much as to any ono individual, is due credit for the new systein, and his *V vote is recorded In favor of the adop 7 7 tion of such rules as would throw the most stringent supervision around tho . expenditure of pubile funds Appended Is the official record, showing the posi tion taken by the lieutenant governor, 7 at well as by the other republican mem bers of tlie board, in favor of business v methods in public affairs: Office of Hoard of Purchase ) 7 and Supplies, J. -* , June 13,1893. ) The board of purchase and supplies ?; met pursuant to call of Hon. T. J. Majors, acting governor. Present T. J. Majors, acting gover 7; ner, and president of said board, A. B, ' . Humphrey, commissioner of public ; lands and buildings, J. C. Allen, sec’t Of state, George H. Hastings, attorney ■ general, and J. S. Barley, state treas 1 urer. The following rules for the gov ernment of state institutions were read & * Mid considered as follows, viz: 1. The Nebraska hospital of insane. 77 7 2- The Asylum for the incurable in f';' m, ■A ... ns tffv g: j;v ;• pfe fc s* **V C' '• ‘rlvw* 8. Norfolk hospital for the insane 4. Soldiers and sailors home 8. State industrial school for juve nile offenders tt. Institute for the deaf and dumb 7* Institute for feeble mindedvouih. & Institute for the blind. 9. Industrial home at Milford. 1(X Home for the friendless 11. Girls’ industrial school for juve nile delinquents. Fikst.—-Bach of said institutions shall make out the estimate for sup plies as near as can be ascertained to meet the requirements of the institu tions for the quarter, and all goods named in the contract shall be pur chased within ten days after the con tract shall be awarded, where store rooms are provided, except those goods which are of a perishable nature, and manufactured clothing. In case goods of the same character are purchased as those under contract but which have not been included in the contract, the person having the con tract for that quarter shall have the preference provided always that he will furnish said goods at as reasonable a rate as the same can be purchased d:sewhcre. Second—A bill or invoice shall aocom p~ny bill of goods delivered to each of said institutions, and the superintend ent shall compare foods with the bill or invoice at the time the goods are re ceived, and he shall definitely ascer n if weights, prices, quantities, _nda, quality and the like are correct bind in strict'accordance with the terms of the contract, and if found to be cor rect in every particular, he shall duly make and indorse upon such invoice a certificate showing that he has care fully compared said bill with the good* therein named, which have all been de livered U» the institution and that the same is just, true and correct and that the prices therein charged are in ac cordance with the contract price After which the bill shall be turned over to the bookkeper, who shall enter the name upon the books of the institution in a proper manner. All of such bills or invoices which said certificate in dorsed thereon shall be kept and pre •erred as a part of the records of the institution. Third—The superintendent of any tnatiution desiring to purchase any sup plies for such irstitution which are not included in contract shall make a writ ten request to the board of purchase ■V:.; ~ ■ v> ' ■/ ’ > ■* . •' ' ’ ■" . V’Xv-.-v and supplies for permission to purchase such supplies, naming each and every item which he desires to purchase, and the fund upon which the warrant there for is to be drawn. No request shall contain itema to be paid for from more than one fund. A written order to the auperintendent of an institution for the purchase of such supplies shall be issued by the board of purchase and supplies, before any article not named in the contract shall be purchased, and upon the receipt of such order by the superintendent he shall give his writ ten order to the steward for the pur chase of the poods named. Tho written order of the board shall be attached to the original vouchers to tho board therewith and the order of tho superintendent shall be retained at the institution. The same certificate shall be endorsed on the invoice there for as is provided fur in rule second. Fourth.—That a full, true, perfect and accurate set of books shall be kept by said several institutions in which shall be entered in a proper aud accu rate manner ail business transaction between such Institutions and all par ties having transactions therewith. Such books shall also contain a true and accurate account sHowing at all times the condition of the several funds of the institution. rum. — mere snail ne Kepi at e&cn institution also, a book to be known as a warrant book in which shall be en tered the uaine of each claimant, the number of each voucher, the date of the same, also number and date of the warrunt, which shall be issued thereon, as well as the amount thereof and the fund on which the same is drawn. Sixth—An invoice book shall be kept at each institution in which shall be correctly entered a statement of all goods received as well as issued or used, and at the close of each month said su perintendent shall report to this board and accurutu account of all goods re ceived, issued, or used as well as of all goods remaining on hand. Seventh.—The superintendents of the several institutions are hereby required to meet with this board at their regu lar meetings. Eighth.—That all coal and other commodities sold by weight shall bo weighed at the institution where the Bame shall be delivered and shall be paid for according to those weights. In weighing coal a scale book shall be kept which shall cousist of duplicate salo tickets with corresponding stubs. On each shall be entered the name of the contractor, kind of coal, date of de livery, number and initial of car, name of teamster, name of weigher, gross weight, weight of wagon and net weight. The memorandum nnd coupon ticket shall be filled out for each load of coal as delivered. The coupon ticket shall be given to the party delivering the coal, the duplicate shall be retained and filled in the office of the institu tion. Ninth.—It shall be deemed sufficient grounds upon which to prefer charges against the superintendent or steward or both of any institution in the state if there shall be articles placed upon the estimate for such institution, which are not needed or not intended to be purchased, or articles omitted there from which are manifestly needed or intended to be purchased, or the quan tity named in such estimate be grossly disproportlouate to tho actual needs of tbe institution for the quarter. Attorney General Hastings moved the adoption of (he rules as read. Mo tion seconded by Secretary' of State Allen. Roll being called, those voting in fa vor of the adoption of said rules were: Hon. T. J. Majors. Hon. Geo. 11. Ilastinga Hon. J. CL Allen. Hon. J. S. Hartley. Hon. A. R. Humnhrev. I un mottQn of AU?P» second by Has tings, tho boat'd adjourned. | Because of the stringent rules'that have been adopted to regulate the transaction of business in connection with the state institutions, and the system of Touchers, checking and coun ter-checking that has been made neces sary, it is an impossibility for any crooked work to be conducted or steal iug from the state to be carried on without the connivance of the governor, J auditor of pubiio accounts and the | stewards of the various institutions, as i well as direct felonious intent and con duct on the part of the members of the board of public lands and buildings. No matter how great an effort might be made by any of the officials to ben efit themseveles financially at the es pouse of the state, it could not be suc cessful without the connivance of all the parties through whose hands the business lias to pass. An esamiuation of the records and of the system that has been in vogue for the past two years shows conclu sively that every purchase, be it how ever small, hns to come before the board and approving officers, and with out the official O. li. of all these officials no payment is made for even a shade roller, a chunk of putty or a pound of | nails. It is, of course, impossible for I the officials to be present in person and ! witness the delivery of goods and the ! quality of the same, but the monthly I inventory thut is required from eacti 1 institution and the strict accountabil- I ity to which the officers of these institu tions are held, is an absolute check on ; all dishonesty. In view of this fact, : the insinuations and innuendoes of those who are opposing any or all of the republican nominees are a slap at Governor Crounse and Auditor Moore. No one believes or dares intimate that either of these gentlemen has been in j any way connected with any question- 1 able transaction, and the utter folly of charging that such things have oc- ! curred in channels which were open to ' them and of which they must of neces- i sity have known is apparent on the very face of things. In making these idiotic assertions regarding the management of public institutions, the enemy has gone on the foolish assumption that each state official is independent of the others, which is manifestly not the case. But ! the best proof of economy is in the bills, and none can question the man agement that has kept them down to ! the appropriations of the non-partisan ' legislature of two years ago It was ! to keep the institutions running on a bed-rock basis that would secure the most possible in return for every dollar | expended and admit of the closest scru- : liny of every outlay that Thomas J. Majors assisted in the formulation and adoption of the rules that made that lecord of economic management possi ble. Conceding that credit to him ia but the demand of common decency. | It is not desired to deprive Governor Crounse of the credit to which he ia en titled. In fact it would be impossible to to do this with the record of bis in cumbency in the gubernatorial office standing out so prominently and chal lenging criticism for economical ad ministration. Thera would have been no necessity for thus referring to the particular work of individual officials but for the malicious charges that Majors would, if elected, play into the hands of public plunderers Whenever he has been called upon to exercise personal supervision over the affairs of state he has been careful, painstaking and technical almost to a fault, and has been particularly vigilant to see that no loophole was left through which unscrupulous parties might obtain an advantage or the interests of the state be made to suffer. This is the official record tohchlng all matters with which he has been connected, and is the past can be taken as a criterion by which to judge the future, Tom Majors will be the most careful, watchful and particular gov ernor the state of Nebraska has ever had. nualDCH nnd Financial Iaaaea. The people of Nebraska and Kansas and a few Iowa districts will make a mistake if they do not realize that the Issue in this election is one of business and financial credit The tariff is an important issue, generally speaking, but it is not as important in states like Nebraska as the one of the restoration of ordinary business confidence. The personalities of the candidates are also minor matters. Hut instead of striking the real issue many papers, and many speakers in Nebraska, are discussing the personali ties of the candidates. If they are wise they will put all other matters aside and make the issue along the lines of financial credit. That state is still in embryo. It has not yet reached one half of its glory in an industrial sense. Every voter ought to ask himself, what effect will the success of the re publican party or of the populist party have upon the reputation of the state abroad, upon those whose money and whose labor, in the form of settlers, and upon those who want to build and borrow and develop? The business in terests that are suffering, the commer cial credit that is bleeding at every pore—these are the real issues. The struggle in Nebraska is not personal, it is not a general political struggle. It is a business struggle and Nebraska is cither going to come out still more crippled, or strong enough to regain her former position as a state for the investment of capital. It does seem as if the people of that state will realize this and will fight a winning fight to maintain property values and business credit. The en dorsement of republicanism as it exists in Nebraska this year means stability and confidence. The endorsement of populism means the opposite. Let the people make this issue, regardless of politicians Let them realize that pop ulism endorsed in that state this year will mean a loss of millions, and a'loss of confidence that ten years can hardly overcome. Democrats interested in their state should realize that the offices cannot mean as much to them as the law of credit. The south is recovering from populism. Will the west throw away the opportunity it this year has to redeem itself from wild financial theories which have already meant the loss of millions.—Des Moines Register. Onr Credit Is Our Capital. It should be borne in mind that this is not a national campaign. While the noble principles of our grand party are dear to every republican's heart this year, we have an issue of such vast and overshadowing importance to our state that all others are for the time eclipsed. It must not be forgotten that this is sue presents itself to eve.y citizen Of the state and no one is debarred from participating in the contest While good mcD and wise may honestly differ on tne great questions of national im port, all such must agree that the cred it of our people and the reputation of our state is of first importance to every inuu in Nebraska, regardless of poli tics Without credit it would have re quired a hundred years for this state to have reached the position of pros perity which it now occupies nnd to have acquired the wealth which it pos sesses We have borrowed vast sums of money and still owe a large amount. That it has in the main been wisely employed is attested by the amount of visible property within the state. To injure our credit now would be disas trous Farm foreclosures, chattel fore closures, business failures and general financial disaster would warn us when too late of the grievous mistake we had made. No fanciful notions nor Euro pian theories should prevail over actual and existing facts To elect any pop ulist ticket, whatever may be the can didates, will endanger and surely in jure the credit of every man in Nebras ka. THIS. THAT AND THE OTHER. Collodion was first used in photogra phy by Archer in 1851. In parts of Peru taxes are paid ia cocoa leaves and Peruvian bark. “Pilgrims’ Progress” has been trans lated into 303 dialects and languages. An authority claims that there are now more than 50,000 miles of ocean cable. When a Russian family move they carry fire from the hearth in the old home to that in the new. The bank of Japan has a capital of 30,000,000 yens. The value of the yen is about the same as that of the silver dollar. , A resident of Tuscaloosa county, Ala., is the father of eleven children, six being school teachers and the oth er five attending school. The West Indian migratory crab is the only creature that is born in the sea, matures in fresh water, and passes its adult life on land. Albert Hazen of Darlington, Pa., aged H years, used an umbrella to make a parachute descent from the top of the barn. ,The umbrella col lapsed, and the boy had two ribs and one leg broken. Diver Pahlberg of New London Conn., found a ring owned by Mr. Webb of New Tork city, in twenty five feet of water recently. Webb was yachting when the ring fell over ’ board, and that the diver recovered It seems almost wonderful. f,, CoMsn^oppertunities do not travel by a AN IMPOTENT PARTY HOT SHOT FOR DEMS ALL ALONO THE LINE. Item* Which Go to Show Conclusively That the Party of Cleveland I* Utterly Unlit to Shape the Destinies of a Great People. No Protection In a Plagalrlst. “Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Conies o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hours of might 1” —Tom Moore's “Lalla Rookh.” "I take my place with the rank and file of the democratic party, who be lieve in tariff reform and know what it is, who refuse to accept the results embodied in this bill as the end of the war, who are not blinded to the fact that the livery of democratic tariff reform has been stolen and worn in the service of republican pro tection, and who have marked the places where the deadly blight of trea son has blasted the counsels of the brave in their hour of might.”—Grov er Cleveland’s Theft of Braina .1 I# QA— Left In a Hole. Lightening Those "Heavy Bardens." The people have not yet discovered how the new bill “will certainly lighten many tariff burdens that now rest heavily” upon them. They have discovered, however, that the price of sugar has been increased by the dem ocratic tax upon their breakfast tables, which they shrewdly suspect has something to do with those “in fluences” to which the President was so susceptible when he failed to veto a bill containing “inconsistencies and crudities,” which, he says, should not appear “inlaws of any kind.” Hav ing experienced this one result of ‘Influences” upon democratic legisla tion, the people are not anxious to witness any "further aggressive oper ations against protected monopoly,” operations that result only in en hancing the cost of the people's food through democratic “governmental favoritism.” . — Down With the Trusts. The Gormon tariff bill is the law of the land. Let it be enforced. It will be remembered that immediately prior to its passage in the senate, Senator Morgan introduced a series of resolutions determining the illegality of §very combination, eonsniracy, [ trust, agreement or contract between two or more persons that would re strain lawful trade or free competi tion, or increase the price of any mar ketable commodity. The penalty is fixed at a fine ranging from #100 to $.\000, an imprisonment for a term varying from three to twelve months. ; The attorney-general is directed to in stitute proceedings through the several district attorneys of the United States. Let him begin. Let him be gin. Let him begin with the sugar trust Let him follow this up with the whisky trust Increasing Democratic Salaries. Democratic economy has resulted in several large increases to democratic salaried officials, 'l'he democratic min uter to Belgium gets 910,000 a year. This is $2,1,00 a year more than was paid to the republican minister to Belgium who preceded him. This looks as if protection were not such a bad thing after all, when it protects democratic office-holders. •Clad la Party Perfldy and Dishonor.’ Too Poor to Buy Cora. In 1S87 the consumption of corn in United States was 23.52 bushels for every individual In 1892 it was 30.33 bushels, an increase of &8J bush els per person, during the good pro tection times. Directly the threat of free trade came the consumption of corn fell off, being only 23.6d bushels per capita in 1893, just the same quan tity as it was a quarter of a century Did Ton Ever? No Never. Did you ever see such mismanage *“®“t °if ihe. pnblio finances by*a national administration? Did you ever see the gold reserve so l' "1 t,®e of Peace and gold con tinually going out of the country? Did yon ever Me wool And wheel end ell the productions of the farmer going et such low prices? Did you ever see e congress so in efficient end unable to agree on prin ciples or policy, meens or measures? Did you ever see e party in power yet so hopeless of accomplishing any of the changes it promised the people? Did you erer see wages so low, or work so scarce, or tramps so numer ous, or times so bard? If you have seen any of these things your memory must reach back to the time when democracy was in power. —Horne! sville Morning Times The Mugwump Editor. The pitiable plight of the mugwump editors during the uneertainity that existed as to the President’s pleasure regarding the Gorman tariff bill is aptly illustrated by the following parallel: BEFORE. I AFTER. It may be said with The country will entire truth that a draw a long and deep record less creditable to congress or more unsatisfactory to the country can hardly be recalled in the ex perience of recent years.... Had con gress saved its record from this blot and passed a satisfactory tariff bill, the other shortcomings of the sigh of relief that the session would have McKinley tariff was laid in its grave in the darkness of mid night—fit hour for its inglorious interment. _All citizens may rejoice in the relief which will now be afforded even bv the Gormanized edition of Mr. Wilson’s bill, been overlooked. New York Herald, Aug. 87, 1894. —New York Herald, Aug. 88,1891. Economy lias Began. When people were prospering1 under protection they had money to spend. In 1867 every person in the country consumed 34.1 pounds of sugar and in 1891 each person used 66.1 pounds, an increase of forty-two pounds for every one of us. But that free trade threat brought it down to 63.4 pounds in 1893, or nearly three pounds less per person. The people had to be economical last year because they were not earning so muchrnoney. Exports Under Protection. Our exports of domestic merchan dise were worth only 87.73 per capita of our population in 1867, but they were worth §15.53 per capita in 1892. Thus under protection the value of our domestic exports was nearly doubled, and this too while the prices of commodities became cheaper. Oar Wealth Under Protection. During thirty-three years of protec tion, 1860-93, the wealth of the United States increased by 857,405,000,000. Is not this satisfactory evidence that protection is a good thing for the country? Leave well alone. w* SUCA* ' TIVUSI Who Drives the Dorhe, ? How Individuals Grow Rich. _ During1 thirty-three years of protec tion, 1860-03, the individual wealth of the people of the United S ates in creased from 8514 to 81,093. Each person wns more than twice as rich in 1893 as in 1860. Is not th's satisfac tory evidence that protection is a good thing for the country? Leave well alone: Those “Influences" Prevail. The reference made by the Presi dent to the “influences” which sur rounded the Gorman tariff bill “in its latter stages," and “which ought not to be recognized or tolerated,” is a humiliating confession of his self submission t<5 these “influences.” He had the power to check them. He failed to do sa «»*u uii me farmers. Farmers will soon begin to miss the reciprocity treaties In 1893 Cuba bought from us 810,000.000 worth of provisions and breadstuffs alone, these goods being admitted free of duty into Cuba from the United Statea Hut now that we are taxing Cuban sugar, they will tax our farm products, buy more from other countries and less from us A Point on Customs Unties. Each person in the United States paid 84.65 customs duties in 1867 and only 83.66 in 1892, a decrease of 83 per capita under a quarter of a century of protection. But in 1893 the amountof duties paid was 83.07 by every person in the country, an increase of 31 cents during a single year of the mere threat p ,,Y.ou »«» The, Won't Everything has gone democratic dur Ing the last eighteen months But the November elections will not An Effective Speech. At a meeting of the Temperanc. Union, held in a small Fennsylvanh city some time since, the attendanc. consisted wholly 0f white people with one exception-tbe pastor of th, M- E- church. He was a full blooded negro, as black as the ab sence of light The colond brothei was requested to address the meeting and rising in hi. place, he g.zei around upon his exclusive white audi ence solemnly. Then he said. 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