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TllK WKKKLY 11KKAL1): PLAITSMOUTH, XKHltASKA. M-X'EMHKU 8 1892 THE HEBALD. Pl'FUSllKl) IIA11.Y EX I' KIT SUNDAY S3Y i:ott oieoa. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY EDITION. One Year (in advance) Six montliH By Currier, jht week, WKKKI.V EDITION'. One Yeur In inlviiiice, If not mil in udviiiue, Six IllOlltllS, Three month, Telephone Number US. f I (HI 3 ll 15 $1 .'HI fj ltl THE greatest trouble with the democratic party is Ili.it it can not trust itself. TllE democratic busses will meet in New York and tell congress what not to do before it assembles. Tilts far only sixteen states are demanding places in the cabinet but the returns are not nil in. WlSK people won't bother to ex plain "how happened," but get a good ready, ami see th.it it don't happen attain. SENATOR Illl.l. began beheading in Albany, while drover wis sim ply beheading ducks down at Hog Island. There is fun ahead. Those who an; expecting the monetary conference to make a 05 cent dollar wotih 1 X cents. All over the world will be disappointed. TllE high ambition of the demo cratic congressman (luring the present session will be to draw pay promlly for doing as little work, ns possible. TllE public is profoundly inter estecj in the health and safety of drover Cleveland. They have no desire to enjoy "four years" with Adlai Stevenson. IT is to be hoped that the Behring Sea case will be settled during the present administration, for the next one' is not likely to lake the Ameri can view of the matter. IE tlie democrats put back the duty on sugar they will deserve a vote of thanks from the republican p.irty; A sugar duty would knock out the democracy in 191 and 19", President Harrison's forth coming message will probable be short, as it is no part of his business to point out the proper way for the next or ' .t - - - -business of the government. Frank Wilson of this city is a candidate for the position of secre tary of the senate. Mr. Wilson is the right man for the place, lie is thoroughly competent, anil in fact is the best man in the state for the secretaryship. The Herald be speaks for him success in his can didacy. ' The South is a unite in fa -or of wild-cat currency, and the North ern democrats will not dare to op pose it under such circumstances; but Cleveland und the republicans will probable be able to protect the country against such ajgravc peril to all commercial and industrial in terests. WHILE the reformes.on paper are preaching about the iniquity of coal trusts and that sort of things we notice none of them have din covered the sublimated gall of the daylight robbers who manage the Nebraska telephone. The fellows have just elevated the prices of telephone charges from an ulready exhorbitation figure to an outrage one. The first things the Nebraska legislature ought to do is to regu late the Nebraska telephone trusts ...v. .....Kvn ... wn.-i lllll-misiuoie ; monopoly have always been double what they honestly ought to be, j and right now, when that manage. ment raise their prices, is a lit and j exceedingly appropriate moment to let them know that they do not own 1 the earth. : Democrats are getting worse scared the nearer the responsibility I approaches. The New York Her 'aid has been sounding democrats ion the question of nn extra Bession. j It finds: "Of the 188 representatives there are 72 who favor nn extra ses sion and 78 who are opposed to it and 38 who 8re non-committal Both republicans and democrats are included in the list, and if we generalize from this number, 188, we may safely conclude that the American people as a whole, irre spective of party, are opposed to nn xtra session by a very conspicuous us majority." The Herald adds: We may safely conclude that Mr. pleveland in refusing to call it 70uld be backed by the common ense and the best judgment of the ation." ' Doubtless true. The peo le are prosperous, contented, and 'appy under "the robber tariff law" hat ia the use of hurrying? I 1IA rMl!lf,Y.U -f 41.1.. ...... ! .1 1 . The o (Vic i nl figures in most of tlie states show a falling off in tlie re publican vote as compared with isss. In Indiana Harrison's vote November 8 was 255,015, against 23, 301 in 18. Cleveland's vote in 1892 was :i72,74), as against '.'til ,013 in H, Here is a republican loss of 7,7ltl, ! and a democratic gain ot 1,720- In Wisconsin Harrison's vote this year was 170,973, against 170,533 in 18S3. Cleveland's vote was 177,147, against 155,232 in iNSrt. Republican decrease, 5,50; democratic increase, 22,1 la. TllK Journal endorses an install ment plan of an obscure Sarpy county paper relative to the demo cratic policy of revising the terrible t.irilf. The l'apilliou statesman thinks it will taker about ten years or more to pair the McKinley down and now we wonder what the mis guided readers of tin Journal think of the bclliclose tarilT reform who has howled ho long and loud about the robber tariff ? TllE republican party can "point with pride" to all its grand history It cannot be drowned. It's record will be studied and compared with the history past and to come of the party coming into power. To make Mich history will challenge the wisdom of their wisest statesmen, for no country was ever more pros perous that the United States under republican rule, New York and other Lastern cities have contributed an advance guard o. hieves and bummers for the world's fair, und Chicago will be wise to build extra rooms in the work-house and penitentiary to ac comodate them. There should be no maudlin sympathy in dealing out justice to crooks of cleverly class. The New York Advertiser says; "One of the really admirable feat ures of the Australian ballot sys tem is that it affords the defeated party u beautiful explanation of how it happened." Hut in Mas sachusetts (iovernor Kusscll deems to be having a hard time to show "it happend" just "on the squam" , TllE ICastern co;d barons are ach ing to raise the price of coil, and are afraid to do it. Had it not been for public opinion, openly expres sed, and the certainty of law be hind it, coal would have been $2 per ton higher than now. CLEVELAND must remember that it has been only a (.Im't :" ""ice ne was riimscll so anxious to get an office that he gave if 10,01 H) for the promotion of his ch inces of suc cess. THOUGH THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER During the canipai gn which end ed with a triumphant dtniocracy, yelling in a chorus, "the bloody shirt is played out." We were told by the democratic press that all re publican testimony concerning an unconstructed and unrcconstrueti ble south was either the product of a morbid imagination or of a men dacious mind, says the Inter Ocean When quotations in support of re publican testimony were made ironi the southern press we were told that the newspapers quoted from either had no existence or cir culation in the south, or that they were republican campaingn sheets, published under pretense of dem ocracy, but really being republican document. a The existence of the Durham, (N C.) Globe was particu larly denied by the northern dem ocratic press. Hut, though the campaign is over the Durham Globe revolves on its axis. We have a copy of its issue of Nov. 10, 181)2, before us. That it in not, and was not, a campaign sheet, is proven by its title page, which accords the issue of Nov. 10 as volume 3, No. 38. So that the Globe is a well established newspa per, with nearly four years of age to its credit. Furthermore, it "guarantees to advertises a circula tion more than double that of all the other county papers combined. So much for the standing of the Durham (N. C.) Globe. We make a few extracts from its editorial col umn: Is the war over? Do the smart nlecks of the north know Unit this fair nouthlutiO. wnn once Impoverished by u Hungry, Greedy, Wolvine, Kiiscully Horde of Sneaking, Cowardly Dirty und Lousy hand of Mlnerubte mercenaries? They are the fellows who soukM to wreck this country, and who nought to stent the virtue of its daughters. The campaign is over, as we have said, and the editor of the Durham (N. C.) Globe, is not seeking to "fire the southern heart" to vote against Harrison. He merely is rejoicing that, as he says: Now the election is over, and brave Grover Cleveland, who slapiied the dirty pension beggar in the face, propose to do liia duty, Nice reading this, for union sol diers, isn't it'r Kspeciailj for those who were fools enough to vote for "brave Grover Cleveland, who slap ped the dity pension beggars in the face." This is the manner in which the Durham Globe describes the origin of the diseases for which union soldiers are pensioned: They merely went to houses of ill repute, emit nil led private diseases, uu'l (Mine UK'iiin to the pension bureau as yrrat uinl Krniid stildiers, und their claims were re warded. This is what the Durham (N. C. Globe declares to be the future destination of the money now granted to L'nion sol diers, their widows and their or phans: Take the millions from the fraudulent pension rolls, und Kive h to the honest Southern Kent letnan who was rulilieil burned ami imprisoned. A few million must come sunt h now, and t lie Sunt h is in the saddle for Unit purpose. It may be said thatihisis not ;i true echo of southern opinion. It is a louder echo than the discreet men of the south would give. Hut wait and see the increase of southern war claims that will be presented to and approved by the next con gress. Wait and see if Grover C. will veto them as cheerfully and as promptly as he vetoed the bills to pension soldiers of Ihe union. The campaign is over. In the desecra tion of soldiers' graves in Indiana and in the brutal insolence of southern democracy we are behold ing its first results. POSTPONING THE MILLENNIUM. The drift of all democratic talk during the recent campaign was pessimistic and cal. unitarian. From first to last.it was proclaimed that the country had been brought to the verge of ruin by the exac tions of the tariff says the Globe Democrat. The people were repre sented to be standing around in at titudes of misery and dispair, be moaning their general poverty, and praying for delivrance from the remorseless clutches of their op pressors. "We see them,"exclaiined Cleveland in his speech of accept aece, "burdened as consumers by a system of taxation that unjustly and relentlessly demands from them in the purchase of the necessaries and comforts of life an amount scarcely met by the wages of hard and steady toil, while the tribute thus wrung from them builds up and increases the for tunes of those for whose benefit this injustice is prepetuated." Other speakers dcr-iCl the Muni tion in still more lurid and scarify ing colors. Things could not be worse, they represented, or the necessity of relief nioredistinctand urgent. The voters were assured that if they would restore the democratic party to power, this would all be quickly changed and the roseate dawn of the millennium would soon be visible to the eyes of the waiting and watching victims of protection. There was no limita tion and no contingency attached to this promise; it was positive, sweeping and unconditional. Well, Cleveland was elected, and now those who supported him with the understanding that they were to witness a miracle of ravens bear ing all sorts of blessings to them out of the kies are coolly told that the millennium will probably be indefinitely postponed. The demo cratic party will assume control on the 4th of March next, but it is ev ident that the work of redeeming pledges will not bey in at that time. There is no reason w hy there should be any delay in the matter; and cer tainly, if the case is as bad as we have been told, tl e earliest oppor tunity should be seized to improve it. A special session of conirress would provide all the required .fa cilities for the removal of the tariff burden and the prompt inaugura tion of the promised era of plenty and happiness. Hut the leaders of the party are curiously averse to that method of dealing with the subject. They have suddenly grown very conservative where only a very few weeks niro they were panting with eagerness to make life easier for the people. It does not seem to them necessary or advisable to be in any hurry about attacking the alleged mon strous evils of the tariff, and put ting an end to the distress upon which they recently dwelt with so much rhetorical energy. They see no particular reason why practical steps should be taken in the interest of reform for a year or more after the beginning of the new adminis tration. Their ardor; has oozed away to an extent that must be re garded with amazement by those who listened to them and took them at their word before the elec tion, The explanation is easy, of course. They were not sincere when they made their fight on the tariff: and now that the power to do what they please has been placed in thir hands, they nre obliged to proceed slowly and to make a mockery of the professions upon which they won their victory. THE FRENCH MINISTRY. Arter a protracted crises the Lou bet ministry, after having survived the crises precipitated by the Car inaux strikes, the anarchist explo sions, and the debate on the press bill, has at last fallen under the huge Panama scandal, the vote at the final crises being a majority of eighty-live against the goverment. i This vote was followed immediately by the resignation, says the Inter Ocean, of the M. Loubet and the ! other members of the ministry, and j France is again without a cabinet. The ministry evidently courted de feat and rode for a fall. In the present temper of the French cham bers it was useless for the ministry to prolong the crises by conces sions, even had that been possibfe, which is extrcnici- doubtful. The public sentiment outside the cham bers is even more emphatically ex pressed than in the decisive vote which overtlnew the ministry of J.oubet after at stormy and precari oils life of a few months. Kven a much stronger ministry could not have withstood a scandal which promises to be the greatest revela tion of 'political corruption of the century if not of modern times. The events which have led to the overthrow of the ministry on the Panama canal question may be briefly stated. I'mh r the original contract of 1878 the Panama canal was to be finished and placed at the public services within twelve years from the beginning of the work. That period will expire February 2th next, and for some weeks prior to the developments which have just led to the overthrow of the ministry there was renewed talk of reviving the great enterprise in which France has sunk so many millions of dollars, the accumula tions of the peasants and the.thrifty middle class. The total sum paid out by the Panama Canal Company, according to the report of Mr. Mon chicourt, the official liquidator, amounted to over $250,1 K)U,00(), of which sum it is now charged that only $80,000 000 or $100,000,000 was for legitimate expenses, the remainder having dried up like the rain on Saoara, unless the investigations that have been started succeed in tracing this money to the pockets of deputies, ministers and other high officers of state. The investigation was precipi tated by the efforts of French cap italists to revive tlie Panama Canal scheme under a new company, with a capital of 30,000,009 francs, the new company to take the assets of the oil company, which Mr. Monchi- court estimated to be lo.imo.doo francs, or $040,1 XX). The Columbian government recently renewed the Panama Canal concession fora year in order to give time for the re sumption of work, and the process of raising more money from the Fren;h people was about to begin when the crushing charges of polit ical corruption and malversation of funds brought disaster to the scheme and overthrow to the gov ernment. As to what may be de veloped in the investigation, it may be said that few if any believe that the venerable and illustrious M. De Lesseps, now in his 88th year, and fairly entitled to be considered the most illustrious citizen of the republic, has had a guilty complicity in whatever schemes of corruption the develop ments may disclose. Mismanage ment and miscalculation he may have been guilty of, but his sins whatever they may have been, were probable those of invincible faith in his grand scheme and in hisabil- ity to carry it through. His signal success in the great Suez Canal conspired to give the French peo pie the same faith in De Lesseps that he had in himself, and until the canal company stopped pay ment four years ago French inves tors did not lose hope in the bril liant scheme which they believe would repay their investment and confer on French the honor of ac complishing the two greatest achievements of the century. Such aptimism and faith in grand de signs on the part of both De Les seps and the French people deserve a better end. The humiliation that has come to De Lesseps in the clos ing years of a long and honored career is the saddest fact connected with the great Panama Canal scan dal, unless it should prove, as has been suggested, the means of over thtowing republican government in France. This, indeed, would be the crowing misfortune of the century, for the failure of republican gov eminent in France would mean a period of socialism and anarchy that would liud no parallel, except in the events of a hundred years ago in France. But that the gover nment will recover even from the shock of the Panama Canal scandal is the hope and belief of all who have watched the growth of repub lican principles in France. CURIOSITIES OF THE VOTE. There are some curiosities about the presidential vote in the western states that are not easily explained. Indiana polled 10,048 more votes than were polled in that state four years ago. Illinois' gain was 107, 303, Iowa's 38,588, Wisconsin's 16,027, and Missouri's 14,288. Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas and Colorado polled a smaller vote than in 1888. Minnesota's vote fell off 3.222 from what it was in 1888, although it is claimed that the state has gained about 200,000 in population. The returns from Nebraska, Colo rado and Kansas give no prohibi tion vote, and, as sent out, they also show a loss in those states. Ne braska's loss is 4,903 votes from 18. Kansas' 10,073 and Colorado's 24,802. These figures would indicate that ree silver and national control of the railroads did not increase the interest of the people in politics in most states. There is another curious feature about these returns. In Indiana the republicans lost 7,710 from their vote in isss, and the democrats gained 7. Ilia. The increased vote in the state as shown by the returns about equals the increased vote of the people's party and the prohibi tionists. In isss Harrison had 203, 301 voles, Cleveland 201,013, Streeter 2,091 and Fisk 11,881. In ls2 Har rison's vote was 255,012, Cleveland's 202,710, Weaver's 22,108 and Hid well's 13,011. The democratic gain about equals the republican loss, and the gain of Weaver and Hidwell over Slreeter and Fisk about equals the increase of the total vote. In Illinois the large gain in the total vote was distributed to nil the parties, but the democrats received the bulk of it. This total gain was 107,303, and the democrats received 8s,(X)3of it, wdiile the republicans received only 8,81.1 In 18 Harri son's vote in Illinois was 370,473; Cleveland's, 248,278; Streeter's, 7,0! X), and Fisk's 21 00.1. In 1S02 Harrison's vote is given at 399,288, Cleveland's at 420.2S1, Weaver's at 28,590 and Ind well's at 20,0s.". In Iowa the total gain in four years was 38,58x8. The republicans gained 7,773, the democrats 10,531 and the rest went to the people's party and the prohibitionists. In ISSS Harrison had 211,508 votes, Cleveland 179,77, Streeter, t),I05, and Fisk 3,550. In 1802 Harrison had 210,372 votes, Cleveland 190,408, Weaver 20,010, and ISilwcll 0,322. Wisconsin's gain over ISSS is 10, 727. The republicans lost 5,505 votes and the democrats gained 22.210 over lSvS. Four years ago Har rison's vote in Wisconsin was 170, 533, Cleveland's 153,232, Streeter's 8,- 552 and Fisk's 14,2X7 and Fisk's It. 2s7. This year Harrison has only 170,078, Cleveland has 177,4 18, Weaver 0,820 and Cidwell 13,045. The hide- pendent, vote remained about the same in both elections. The Ger man loss to the republicans repre sents the democratic gain. In Minnesota there was a total loss from 1888 of more than 3,(XX) votes, and the loss to the two lead ing parties was much greater. Tin republican vote fell off 23,192 and the democratic vote 0,373, while the populists' strength about equals both losses. In 1888 Harrison's vote in Minnesota was 112,492, Cleve land's, 101,385; Streeter's, 1,095, and Fk's 15,311. In 1802 Harrison has 119,300; Cleveland, 98,012: Weaver 29,5!Xi, and Hidwell. 13,152. ' Nebraska lost nearly 5,(XX) votes, unless there is a prohibition vote unrecorded. In 18X8 Harrison had 108,423 votes; Cleveland. 80,552: Streeter, 4,220, and Fisk, 9,42!). This year Harrison has 88,1X13 votes; Cleveland 25,341, and W aver, 83,780. Hie populists robbed the republi cans of 19,822 votes and the demo crats of 55,2X0 votes. In fact, they absorbed the democratic party in Nebraska, where Cleveland's fol lowing is now only 25,(XK) In Missouri the republicans lost 9,495 voles, and the democrats gained 0,054. In 18x8 Missouri gave Harrison 240,257 votes, Cleveland 801,974, Streeter 18,032, and Fisk 3,539 In 1802 Harrison's vote is 220,702. Cleveland's 208,128, Weaver's 37,(M), and Hid well's 3.3IX). In Colorado there was a loss of 21.892 votes from 1x88. The republi cans lost 24,317 votes and the demo crats lost all they ever had. In 18X8 Harrison's vote in Colorado was 50,. 774. Cleveland's 37,507, Streeter's 1.200, and Fisk's 3,191. This year Harrison had 20,457, and Weaver 40, 449. It is clear that free silver did not bring out a big vote in Colo rado. Weaver's vote is only 3,(XX) larger than was Clevelanda's in 18X8. Kansas shows the same depress ing effect of the people's party on the vote. The total vote fell of 10, 073 from that in 1888. The republi cans lost 25,(XV8 votes, and the peo pie's party, after absorbing the Democratic vote, giined about the same number. Kansas has gained in population in the last fouryears, and her vote is 10,000 less than in 1888 when Harrison had 182,904 votes Cleveland 102,745, Streeter 67,788, and Fisk 6,779. This year Harrison had 157,230 votes and Weaver 165,887. Taking all these figures into con sideration, it does not show that the people's party put any new en thusiasra into a presidential cam paign, but in reality cut down the total vote wherever its influence waB felt. JAY COULD. The late Jay Gould was a selfi man in the sense that he adjust his operations with a view to curing the largest possible p -- -.. -.. v , I'ltl CI I till. CUJ , nine oc uiu a great ueai lor oilier.- in one way and another, not in the spirit of a philanthropist, but in the regular course of events which he practically shaped and con trolled says the Globe Democrat. He was one of the largest employ ers of labor in this country, to be gin with, and he generally paid : 1. .1 ' 1 . . . r . fair just wages. Tens ot thousand of men were gainers by his succe sharers in his profits, in otht worus anti to that extent he was t public benefactor, without preten ding to be anything of the kind. He did not hire men because he loved them, or because he felt that it was his duty to help them, but because they were useful to him in his busi ness enterprises. There was no obligation ot Lrratittide on then part, perhaps, but they were ia debted to him, nevertheless, for de sirable situations, and he was en abled to give them good wages by the fact that he was a shrewd man ager ol his own interests. He was also a benfical factor in the re spect that his investments tended to increase the general value of the properly and the aggregate volume of business in localities where he sought to multi ply his possessions. Hi-s main ob ject at all times was to make money as fast as possible, and he never asked anybody to credit him with a higher motive; but the logical re sult of iis proceedings was a salu tary distribution of profits which would not otherwise have come to pass. He got the lion's share, to be sure, but in the process of getting it he necessarily improved the con dition of a great many other people. It is easy to say of such a man that he was a public enemy because he used great power in the exclu sive promotion of private ends; but it is not so easy to prove that he did society more harm than good, all things considered. We are not bound to indorse all the question able methods that he adopted in his contests with envious and formid able rivals; nor are we called upon to condemn him for defeating men in schemes of speculation who would gladly have taken his last dollar from him by any means if they had known how to circumvect aim. Those whom he injured were principally those who challenged him to a test of skill in a game which they supposed they under stood better than he did, and in which they expected to dam age him by the same de vices that he employed to triumph over them. It was not simply as a trader in stocks that Gould applied his remarkable fiuan cial ability. His railroad opera tions formed the most important part of; his restless and far-reaching plans of personal aggrandize ment; and it is by them that his career should be chiefly estimated. It is not to be denied that he took the Missouri Pacific road when it was a practically valueless prop erty, and made it the most prosper ous line in the country. That meant an addition of many mil lions to his wealth, but it also meant a large growth of commerce and a large enhancement of prop erty values forSt. Louis and Mis souri. He did not absorb all the profits that accrued in the case. We may readily believe that he would have done so if it had been possible; but the conditions were such that others gained as well.and thus he rendered a service which, if it did not justify his irregular and offensive deeds, should at least tend to gentle popular judgment with regard to his character and achievements. THE ART BUILDING. The allottinent of wall . J..IVV I 11 the F iue Arts building to various nations lor tlie Hanging of pictures to be exhibited at the World's Fail has been made as follows: Lmeiil HatiKltiK space. square feet. 'Jl,'u- . auiio ... km nss; Xotinn. (ireat Britain.... Canada Kriinee lieriiumy iMisirui Heluiuin l!l.v M0 .Mirway hr) I'-MlO h,4i;2 7.0O5 8.KI0 7,7:!S 7.8H7 ,S.'tT fwcilen. 4.17 I'eninark 37,'j K'ussia f-,i llolliiml ' " Ji'Piin '..'"I".-'.,' ai 'iexico.v:.v..v:.v:.v.:: s : The space applied for had to i, cut down in almost every case, for uie simple reason that th gate exceeded the total space avail- nuie. i ne space allotted to Great Hritain, Germany, etc.. as a mi. eludes that for their colonies.' Iu me space allowed Vrnr no'i will be devoted to French master pieces owned in America. TllE republican nolicv dnrimr 4Vio comming session of congress will be one of masterly watching for chances to hold the democrats to the promises upon which they ron.ia.1 41. .... -""' oe recent election. I