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SLIPPERY SILAS A. CHOSEN OF POPOCRATS FOR SUPREME COURT HouM-Brat Holcomb (lot* There With Both Brogan* and Trample* the Op position Thereunder—Poporrattc Pecu liarities Predominate at Convention*. The popocrats of Nebraska have done gone and did it. and republicans arc consequently happy over the result. For downright stupidity commend us to the fusionists of Nebraska. Pass ing by the splendid material in their ranks they picked up the crookedest stick they could find, and amid the violent protests of the decent element in the parties they forced Holcomb to the front for a seat on the bench of the Nebraska supreme court. From a republican standpoint, the work of the demo-pop aggregation at Omaha is eminently satisfactory. In the first place not more than half of the delegates were on hand, and a whole lot of skirmishing was indulged in to “fill out" delegations with local and visiting fusionists. A showing had to bo made some how, and this was the most convenient. After a bit of lubor in this direction a fairly good showing was made in the pop and democratic conventions. In the free silver rep publlean convention hall the CO or 100 delegates present would have felt lost had it not been for Charley Wooster’s elegant side whiskers. Nearly ten hours were fooled away “getting to gether,” as there was a whole host of recalcitrant bucks who were opposed to the chieftaincy of “Slippery Si,"and these had to be whipped into line be fore the great council could proceed. However, Ilryun and Allen were them and everywhere all forenoon und all afternoon, and their labors in behalf of Holcomb bore fruit when the cl ft ns gathered after supper, and 8i’s nomination was railroaded through according to plans and specifications agreed upon. Billy Neville was there, too. It wouldn't do for one member of the tripartite trust of Allen, Holcomb A Neville to be absent, and the Judge was on hand to aid and to see that not a cog of the machine “slipped.” Judge Kdgar Howard of Pnpillion, another member of the happy family, was there, but he looked far from be ing happy. Ho was a Robinson Cru soe, alone on the desert island, even his man Friday going back on him. He tried hard to get a little company, but he soon discovered the uselessness of bucking against the inevitable and sorrowfully wended his way back to l'apillion and is now engaged in de ciding which is best for him to do— swallow Slippery Silas and whoop ’er up. or maintain his reputation for con sistency. His decision will be anxi ously awaited by his popocratlc brethren. Harry Phelps of the Howells Journal wanted to fight because Si was chosen, but no one dared to pluck the qjjdp off his shoulder, and he was not accom modated. Bryan, the ringmaster, found it very hard work to get the three rings work ing on the same fake, but he accom plished the task, even if it did cause a careworn expression to assail his us ually smiling countenance. One of the amusing features of ihe conventions was the adoption of a res olution against passes. The free silver republicans started the ball to rolling, and the others took it up with a more or less gingerly grasp. They considered it dangerous,but evi dently thought that their stand on passes would be considered a straddle if they accepted the resolution and nomi nated the champion pass grabber of the state for supreme judge. How the people will look at the situation will be found out in November when the ex governor is snowed uuder by republi can ballots. Holcomb's nomination has left a very bad taste in the mouths of many fu sionists and a serious split is bound to come unless the interests of Bryan are thought to be paramount to consist ency. Democrats and populists who have opposed official corruption and pass grabbing were not slow to ex press their indignation at having to be placed in a position where they had to eat crow or leave their party. But the bosses demanded Silas' nomination and the discontented were forced to accept the supreme court vote juggler, the house-rent absorber and champion pass grabber, Benton Maret, pusher, horns, hoofs and all. The happy family is not at all happy. But The; Didn’t. • Papillion Times . ,j Very long will be the way, very hard the hills to climb, with Slippery Si Holcomb weighing-down the popocratio band wagon in Nebraska. For the good of the state, for the good of llryan, we beg the popocratic conven tions to keep Holcomb's name off the ticket. - We really feel sorry for Edgar Howard. He most talk, of course, but in this case, what can he say? ' ItARRY AOAIX DEFEATED. No Consolation for Him Even In His Peaceful Slumbers. North Platte Telegram. Word comet by wire just as we go to press that General Harry, when he got back to Lincoln, threw himself on the lounge and was soon wrapped in a deep sleep. While thus resting in the arms of Morpheus, he had the follow ing dream: The general in his dream died, and wending his way upward to the outer gate, he knocked with con siderable confidence, feeling that his war record should give him open-se same to the courts above. As the sound echoed through the corridors and died away in the distance, the gate was opened and the general was asked what he wanted. He replied that he had lately attended a political conven tion, went home disappointed and died, and notv he desired to escape from the buffeting and sorrows of the work by entering within the gates of the golden city. St. l’eter asked the general his politics, and when he re plied thnt he was a populist, he was informed that parties of that political faith were not permitted to enter, but thnt he could go round on the bluffs overlooking the city and gaze on the happy conditions within. Slowly and sorrowfully the general wandered around and took his seat on a big boulder high up on the bluffs over hanging the walls. Imagine his sur prise when he saw Judge Neville ming ling with the happy throng. Greatly astonished the general went back to the gate, and when St. Peter came he said he noticed Neville inside, and that he was a populist and had beaten him for the nomination for congress. St. Peter smiled and said that since Nev ille was nominated and before he died he had changed his political belief and joined the Salvation army, that being the only party that Neville had not joined at some period of his life. Then the general turned and walked slowly down the pathway, reflecting on the uncertainties of life and the fickleness of human nature. Afraid It Will (let Away. Seward Reporter. The pops must be getting a little un easy about Nebraska. Coin Harvey has'been speaking in the state for a number of weeks, and is billed for a long time ahead. W. J. Ilryan is also announced to make a number of speeches iu Nebraska during the cam paign. It would seem as if they were making unusual assertions for an “off year.” The trouble is, Mr. Ilryan is a little fearful that the state may get away from the fusion forces this year, which would somewhat damage his boom for 1900. He is therefore making strenuous efforts to hold his forces in line. Harvey has been sent out be cause his book had a great effect in Nebraska in 1890. Since then the peo ple of this state have seen demonstrat ed the fallacy of his arguments, and they are not likely to be again misled by his sophistries. Nor will they be deceived by the brilliant rhetoric of Mr. Ilryan. The logic of facts is more convincing than the theories of any orator, and the people of Nebraska have had plenty of facts to convince them of the unsoundness of the Ilryan argument. Won't Be Humbugged Wayne Heruld. Wo do not believe there is an honest thinking farmer iu Wayne county who will deny that this country is now blessed with prosperity, and that the ranting of the free silverites three years ago when they proclaimed so vigorously that the country would be ruined if Ilryan was defeated, was a delusion. Doubtless many of them will register his contempt for such misrep representation by voting for the party which brought u return of prosperity in additien to having carried on a suc cessful war with Spain, brought on by the continuous singsong of Ilryan and his fusion friends in congress. Hut thinking people will no longer be humbugged by the oratorical Willie. In fact, it is doubtful if he again gets the nomination. It la As Leaven. v State Journal. Up to date there has not appeared one word of sworn testime ny to dis prove or discredit the findings of the senate investigating committee. There ■has not been the slightest bit of testimony, explanation or attempt to show mitigating circumstances that would be given the slightest consider ation in any court of equity or justice. The report of the investigating com mittee stands uncontradicted if not unassniled, and the findings are just as clearly impressed ou the minds of the people of Nebraska as they would have been had the governor given the document the most spacious pigeon hole In the office. Holcomb's House Rent. ( Wnyne Republican. There are a few reform organs—God spare the name—in the state that have the brazen effrontery to try to make their readers believe that ex Governor Holcomb only drew from the state treasury the amount actually paid for house rent. These papers evidently believe their readers entirely ignorant of the true facts in the case and trust that their only source of information on such subjects is through the medi um of their miserable lying columns. ! HE IB “DP AGAINST IT” BRYAN'S WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE BARRED. Bestriding the Demo-Pop Donkey, "Free Silver and Free Trade,” Hie Path la So Obstructed by I he Solid Wall of Snbetantlal Prosperity. One of the most impressive among the many showings of prosperity with which the American people are nowa days so frequently regaled after two full years of restored protection, is that made in the news columns of the New York Sun of July 29. With its characteristic enterprise and sagacity the Sun, always keenly alive to matters of genuine public interest, has gath ered from correspondents in various business centers some very significant facts as to the abnormal activity which prevails among the railroads of the United States. No one needs to be told that when the great inland transporta tion systems are rushed with business and straining to increase their facili ties to meet an Increased demand, everybody else must be extremely busy. Railroad business is a sure index of general business. From Chicago the report is that every railroad entering that city today needs more cars than it has or can get to meet the demands of shippers. This condition is not due to any great a^d sudden increase in any particular traf fic, but is due to the steady growth of all kinds of traffic. From all indica tions the year 1899 will eclipse all for mer years in the volume of business done by the railroads. Last year was one of prosperity for the railroads, the increase in traffic as compared with that of eeveral years previous being considered almost phenomenal, but there is almost as great an increase in earnings so far this year over those of the corresponding period of last year as was the case of 1898 over 1897. All the railroads which build their own freight cars have kept full forces at work in the shops, but they could not turn out cars fast enough to supply the demand, and orders were placed with car manu facturing companies which will keep most of them busy for the remainder of the year, if not longer. Here is a curiously suggestive fact stated by an official of one of the big western railways: "More pianos were shipped over our road from Chicago to the West and Southwest in the last three months than the entire number in the years from 1893 to 1897. This is good proof of the prosperity of the farmer, for a piano is a luxury in which he does not indulge as soon as he gets a few hun dred dollars ahead. Our traffic in farming machinery was never so large as it has been this year and our crop reports made it certain that the invest ments in machinery were well made." When the farmers buy pianos they are “on Easy street." No doubt of-that. Another railroad manager said: "If we could borrow or hire from 5,000 to 10,000 box cars we could find immediate use for all of them.” At Detroit an official declared that in twenty years his road has “never seen a condition like the present. Ordinar ily at this time of the year we are not burdened with a surplus of business and rather havo difficulty in finding a place to store our empty freight cars than to employ all our energies to find cars enough to carry the business offered to us. We are certainly behind on a visible supply of cars requisite to carry the freight which we can get without any solicitation." Baltimore reports a scarcity of cars with which to move the tremendous business present and prospective. At Buffalo the freight traffic is far in ex cess of the supply of cars. Thousands of extra cars could be used, but they are not to be found. At Philadelphia a trunk line official testifies to a great increase on all the lines of his road. Speaking of the lines east of Pittsburg, he said: "I am convinced that the present prosperity Is lasting for the reason that the increase of business i3 not confined to a particular locality, it i3 general. For instance, on all the sta tions of our road there is a substantial betterment. Some of the offices report an Increase of 7 per cent, others 15 per cent, many from 50 to 75 per cent, some 100 per cent, and one as high as 216 per cent. “While, as these reports show, our business is much in excess of that of last year, we have not experienced any great difficulty in getting cars to handle the freight thus far, but there will be a scarcity of cars in the latter part of September or October. How serious it will be I have no means of telling at thia time. As a matter of fact we have very largely increased our equipment this year, and of course, that has.aided us ip handling the in creased business, but in some kinds of cars there has already been a scarcity." It is now but twenty-nine months since William McKinley took his seat as president of the United States; only a few days more than two years since the Dlngley tariff was enacted. Con trast, if you can, present conditions with those which existed twenty-nine months after the inauguration of Grover Cleveland in 1893 and twenty four months after the enactment of the all-destroying Wilson-Gorman tariff law. Ten billions of dollars would not suffice to measure the increase in in dividual, corporate and national wealth which has taken place since the restora tion of protection as the American policy. Probably twenty billions would tall below the mark. Verily, is it true, in the euphemistic phraseology of the cartoon which ap pears on this page of the American Economist, that William Jennings Bryan, bestriding the Free Silver and Free Trade ass of his party, finds his progress to the white house barred by a solid wall of prosperity, and is "Up Against the Real Thing Now." UP AGAINST THB REAL THING NOW. HAVEMEYER’S INCONSISTEN CIES. lie Wants Free Trade In Raw Sugar as a Means of Increasing His Profits. The free-trade papers have been at tempting to gain comfort from the statements of President Havemeyer of the sugar trust, before the national in dustrial commission, but can only do so by separating a few of his state ments from his whole testimony. The protectionists are willing for the peo ple to consider the whole of Have meyer’s testimony, for it proves that he is seeking the elimination of the tariff on raw sugar in order that the sugar trust’s profits may be made larg er! That fact is made prominent by his statement: “The protection on sugar amounts only to 3V& per cent. It ought to be twice as much.’’ He also said: “Congress should put an internal revenue tax on the production of Amer ican sugar.’’ He stated that his com pany has 11,000 stockholders, and his admissions show that the company’s business is not profitable, but it has made many millions of dollars by the sale of stock. Those who were in the company be fore the stock was enormqusly inflat ed have made millions, but it is proba ble that the new stockholders of the sugar trust will receive very small, if any, dividends. Mr. Havemeyer closed his testimony with a protest against the tariff dis criminations against sugar, and insist ed that “those discriminations against sugar are entirely due to the feeling against combinations in business”! He said that his company “Is in the cof fee business to stay,” yet there is no tariff on coffee, and the coffee trust has been able to double the prices of cof fee during recent years! The coffee trust is able to control the coffee trade of the world, and, notwithstanding all the squabbling between companies composing the trust, they are making enormous profits on the sale of coffee and stocks. The sale of stock has been the chief source of profits for all trusts, and when they cannot sell stocks at good profits the downfall of the trusts is at hand. Protectionists are entirely willing for the people to consider the whole of Havemeyer’s tes timony, for it is only further proof that a sufficient tariff must be maintained to protect American labor. Home com petition is the only safe regulator, and that competition will destroy about all trusts as soon as the trusts are unable to make enormous profits on the sale of stock. If you own stock In any trust now is a good time to sell, for it is possible that it will not be many months before your stock will not be worth more than its value as waste pa per.—Des Moines (Iowa) State Regis ter. In Bryan's State. A dispatch from Omaha says: “The industrial situation through this part of the Missouri valley is in dicative of the general prosperity that appears to prevail throughout the en tire west. Ordinarily July witnesses very little business in the commercial world among Missouri river jobbers, but this month is an exception. Whole salers generally have scarcely had time to invoice their stocks and ascertain the extent of business for the first six months of the year.” This is the situation in Mr. Bryan's own state, and in the other states near by. It makes an effective contrast to the situation which existed In that re gion during the years when the policy of free trade, so vigorously supported by Mr. Bryan, "both in and out of con gress, was in force, and the Wilson law was exerting its blighting influ ence upon the Industries of the coun try. It is pretty safe to say that the business men of Nebraska and of other Missouri river valley states will not have any use" for Mr. Bryan or for any other free trader in 1900. An Kra of Pronperity. The best news possible, increase in the wages of the workingman, is heard on all sides. Prosperity is not only on the way, but it is here, and the good news is not confined to one section of the country, it comes from all sections. In far oft Denver, the Times reports increases in wages that show that sec tion to be prospering beyond expecta tion. The Denver Times says: "Colorado may be In distress with ) her labor troubles, but the rest of the nation is reaping a harvest from the unprecedented demand of foreign na tions for our manufactured products. On June 10 the iron, steel and tin trust raised the wages of their employes 25 per cent. The raise takes effect im mediately and affects directly 45,000 employes. This is glad tidings to la bor. The advances are the largest made in the history of the Amalga mated association, and the wages for the year will be the highest since 1892. The tin pail brigade of the great man ufacturing districts of the eastern states have already opened the cam paign of 1900 and are shouting: “Mc Kinley has kept his promise—now we’ll keep ours.” This augurs well for republican success in 1900, and would Indicate that the calamity howler will not be much in demand in the next presidential campaign." The same news comes from Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and the other trade centers. All over New England the mills and factories are running on full time, and the employes are re ceiving better pay. It is a McKinley era of prosperity and to the president the people give the credit.—Springfield (Mass.) Union. Produce a Remedy. As to the political responsibility for trusts there is none. Trusts are no more Republican or Democratic than are ordinary business combinations on a small scale. Their friends and ene mies, their beneficiaries and victims, are in all parties, and they thrive in England and Germany as well as in America. In the eastern rural dis tricts, where the heaviest Republican vote exists, the warfare upon trusts is waged with more vigor than is evi denced in Democratic cities, where the bulk of the laboring population is in some way dependent on industrial pur suits. Produce a remedy for the evil and the Republican party will be as quick to take it up and press it as any other. Nor will it be less assiduous in search of a remedy. With things in this position how is It possible to draw campaign lines? People who are agreed cannot divide and fight; when two par ties are equally solicitous to “smash the trusts” how is one, unless it pre sents a remedy which the other rejects, going to profit by the issue? The great trouble is that no one has a remedy. The federal law is neces sarily limited in its application; the state laws have uniformly failed. Has the Democracy anything new to sug gest? If it has not its slogan of “smash the trusts!” will be as mean ingless and inconsequential as one to wipe out the grip or abolish the measles.—San Francisco Chronicle. Why Trust Them? The Republican party gave the coun try a protective tariff. Now watch the ever increasing exports: In 1895, $807, 000,000; in 1896, $882,000,000; in 1897, $1,000,000,000; in 1898, $1,231,000,000; and when the present fiscal year is completed on the 30th of June instant, look out for a larger figure even than the last one. And yet Democratic free traders predicted—they wouldn’t have it any other way—that Republic an protection would destroy our for eign commerce by killing off our ex ports. What prophets!—and why should the country further trust them? —Mansfield (O.) News. Everything Gained, Nothing Lost. The home market is ours; the wages of American workmen and workwomen are the highest in the world and the highest ever known in this country of high wages; the markets of the world are fast becoming ours. Through pro tection we have won everything and have given up nothing; we have won everything which free trade falsely claimed for itself without paying the price which free trade always exacted. Such a record ought to and undoubt edly has won for protection immunity from any serious assault for many years to come.—Trenton (N. J.) Ga zette. They “Jest Crowed.” President Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust recently told the industrial com mission that the tariff was the mother of the trust. Assuming the statement to be true the big trust over in free ; trade England must be commercial Top I sies. They certainly had no tariff ! mamma. They must have “Just [ growed.”—Sioux City (Iowa) Journal. The Western Mecca. V—, Omaha seems to be the object!™ point of all western pleasure seekers this year, and the season there is now at Its heighth. Coupled with the amusement attractions Is another of almost as much drawing power,—Hay den Bros., the Big Store. Widely ad vertised as the greatest of the Trans Mississippi stores it lives up to its name and carries incredible assort ments of goods in over forty different lines. Visitors make the Big Store their headquarters, meet their friends, check _ their bundles free and write their letters there. A postal card ad dressed Hayden Bros., Omaha, will bring you prices on any goods you want. A North Georgia candidate says: “We want the office because we think we deserve it; and we deserved it be cause we have lived here ten years and have never had anything except the opportunity of running for it.’’ "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry," Wie never realize the value of health witU it is gone. 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Mr. Cow en’s connection with the Baltimore & Ohio was due to the late Robert Gar rett, one of his predecessors m the presidency of the road and a class mate at Princeton. A great national movement has been started for the observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the death of George Washington on December 14. The Sons of the Revolution and other similar organizations have the matter in hand, and are arranging details of the plan. Misled.—"I am frank to say," he said, “that I feel you encouraged my attentions." “Perhaps,” she replied, “but how was I to know whether you wanted to marry me, or only to bor row money from father?”—Philadel phia North American. The majority of motor cars are now driven by petroleum, but a French en gineer recommends the use of alcohol instead of it, and motors are being al tered so as to consume it. There is no fear of explosion with alchohol and it is said to be less costly than petrol eum. Religion may say what it will, but there comes a time in every human soul, when it knows that there can be no heaven for it where some one other human soul is not. Married men, according to a German investigator, live longer than bache lors and are less likely to become in sane. Another argument for matrimony is found in the fact that there are thirty-eight criminals among every 1,000 bachelors, while among married men the ratio is only eighteen per 1,000. Sea Terms.—Stout Party (to bath ing master)—Got a bathing suit to fit me? Bath Robe Man—(looking over him—I guess so. What’s your dis- - placement?—Philadelphia North Amer ican.