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Okoyek CLEVELAND wilt deliver
Hie opening address at the World's
J'air. -,
Cleveland's opposition to Mur
phy is a theory rather than a con
dition, ho far as its probable effect
upon the Hill legislature.
TUB week of prayer will be oil
nerved by the Methodist and Pres
byterian churches holding union
nervices the coining week.
FKANCE is making love to the
old spendthrift nionraky, and it
looks as if she may have some live
ly times before the year is over.
It 19 safe to say that the south
will demand three places in Cleve
land's cabinet, and it is equally
safe to assume that she will get
them, no matter how many north
f rn hearts may lie made to ache in
consequence.
The idea of putting Senator Gray
into the cabinet for the purpose of
getting Bayard into the senate im
plies, of course, that the latter held
a place under the first Cleveland
administration which he is not con
sidered competent to hold now.
IK THE new gold diggings in Mon
tana and Utali turn out to be one
tenth as productive as some people
predict they will be, they will, by
lowering the cost of gold, do some
thing toward bridging over the
chasm between that metal and sil
ver Is so far as Cleveland, by his op
position to the election of Murphy
as senator, is in favor of reform, we
lire with him in so far as, by his
course in that matter, he is raising
a fuss in the internals of the demo
cratic party, we are with him still
more.
The people of California have de
clared in favor of the election of
senators by a direct popular vote,
but the senators will probably con
tinue to be chosen there by the
Southern Pacini, railroad, which
has a remorseless grip upon the
politics of the state.
THE fact that the man at the head
of the treasury, and who naturally
ought to know something about
the situation are .convinced that
there will be no deficit within the
present fiscal year, should give en
couragement to the people. The
fiscal year will not end until the
end of June.
The railroad construction in the
United States during 1S1KJ does not
reach high figures, being only
about 4,000 miles, as compared with
,4,500 in 1891, which was not a lively
year either in this respect. This
year's total has been the smallest
since 1878, except those of 1884 and
188.). However, this country has
now about 17.") ,0)0 miles of main
track, which is almost half of the
mileage of the world.
Whex the democrats were strug
gling to get into power they had
m good deal to say about republi
can extravagance. Hut they have
secured berths inside the public
crib the question that seems to be
troubling their economic souls
most is how to increase the revenue
It would seem from this that there
is to be no perceptible diminution
of public expenditures under the
democratic administration. Bea
trice Times.
THE movement to repeal the sil
ver law of 18'JU will be weaker in the
senate than in the house; but as
both Sherman and Mcl'herson are
working actively in that body to
haing about the repeal, the law
seems to be doomed. Congress
man Lodge say9 that almost every
-republican in the house is in favor
of repeal, and at least half of the
democrats are on the same side,
President , Harrison, stands with
Shenrl'ijaud jVdge on this quesr
Uncle Kns Hatch wants all
immigration fctopped for next year,
and he pve's- very good reasons
for "'.jftich ! - move.- H
-Js-how ' from 'th4 consular-report
tnat tne greater -nuniDer ot immi
grants who came from Kurope last
year had their passage repaid, and
they had an average of $ 1,'J.I in their
possession when they landed on
American soil. It is time the gates
were closed to the nations who re
gard this as a dumping ground for
criinniinala nnd pauper,
AN UNDIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY
It seems to be a foregone conclu
sion that Kdward Muiphy. jr., of
Troy, is to succeed Frank Hiscock
as senator from New York. Mr.
Cleveland tried his best to prevent
it. and his friends made overtures
to the republicans. There are a few
democrats in the legislature in that
state who are Cleveland men and
not Hillites, says the Inter-Ocean.
Their number is small, but it is
large enough to prevent Murphy'
election provided the republicans
would go with them. Hut the over
ture has been rejected. The posi
tion of the republicans of New
York, so far as ascertained, is that
the democrats are entitled to the
fruits of victory and that majori
ties rule. If a majority of the demo
cratic members of the legislature
want Paddy Kyan's backer, "Kd"
Murphy' for United States senator,
that settles it. The republican par
ty is not to be used as a club in the
hands of one faction of the democ
racy to knock down and out an
other faction.
The position taken in that case
rests on a fundamental idea
which should be dominant through
out the country Washington, Chi
cago, Springfield and elsewhere. In
a few days the legislators of Ill
inois will meet, and the first thing
will be to elect a speaker of the
house. The democratic majority is
very small, but large enough for all
practical purposes. The renubli
cans cannot claim the right to
choose between the rival -aspirants,
and ought not to entertain
any sucli idea. Vtlietlier the
caucus select Mr. Crafts or
some one else, that choice should
be rather; or, to be more exact, the
responsibility of ratification or re
jection should rest wholly upon
the party which won at the polls
last November. The people give
their sutTerages to the democracy,
and the voiceof the people is the
voice of command.
About midway the legislattvc
session the city of Chicago will
hold its municipal election. At the
present time there are two demo
crats in the field for mayor nnd no
republican. Already there are
nianeuverings on the field of cleni-
cracy for republican alliance, as if
the party which elected John A
Roche and Hampstead Washburne,
with only one term between them,
could be used as a whip in the
hands of one democratic party to
lash the rival faction, the difference
between a mere matter of personal
perferences. Why should the
party which has given the city of
Chicago so many honorable re
publicans fatoop so low? It is all
very well to promote discord in the
other party, provided it can be in a
purely incidental way, but to make
that the central idea, of the party
would be a stupendous blunder, if
not a great crime.
The mugwumps who helped to
turn out Harrison and put Cleve
land at the head of the government
appear to think that politicel re
form means the thwarting of the
people, but that is not genuine re
publicanism, either with a small or
large K. What the people decree
at the polls should be carried out
in legislation and administration.
General Grant said many things
which were peculiarly felicitous,
but nothing more thoroughly true
and wise than that the best way to
secure the repeal of a bad law was
toeuforeit. So long as it is a dead
letter nobody cares whether it
stands or falls. Let it have vitality
and the people will promptly and
vigorously demands its repeal. II
it be really a good law, its virtues
will bebrought outbyenforcenient.
The same principle obtains in gen
eral politics. The way to overthrow
a bad party is to let it have scope
to assert itself. If the democracy
deserved to win it can afford to put
its platfoini into effect, and in due
course of time it should be com
pelled to stand face to face before
its own principles and either carry
them out or make public confession
that it has not the courage of its
profession, that it won the recent
election under false pretensions.
When it comes to municipalaf
fairs there may be a citizens' move
ment which will desire support
that will not depend upon whether
the head of such a ticket happened
to be a democrat or republican, but
upon the nature of the movement
itself, The Inter Ocean has no
hesitation in saying that-if the
municipal interest should demand
an'abandonment of party lines no
partisan consideration hhould be
allowed to prevent it. but no devia
tion from the pathway of party
politics should be countenanced for
the sake of fomenting democratic
discord and 'arousing party preju
dice. That kind of polities is too
paltry and unmanly to receive the
republican sanction.
TO JUMP ON THE TARIFF.
Democracy has come into power
upon a plain and most aggressive
platfonn.The platform declares that
the protective tariff of the republi
can party is a fraud and a robbery.
Upon that platform Mr. Cleveland
planted himself and was elected,
and every provision therein will ue
carried out. The democratic party
proposes to jump on the present
tariff. It proposes to deface the old
thing so that its own father, the
present minority governor of Ohio,
will not know it. Democracy will
shiver it from top to bottom till its
rotten and bloated old carcass will
sift water like a sieve. It will shake
it till plutocracy takes on the pal
lor" of the grave and monopoly's
death rattle will be heard around
the world. Nashville (Tenn.) Amer
ican. KxtkACTS from a report br the
British minister at Guatemala to
his government upon the subject
of coffee cultivation in that repub
lic have been received by the
bureau of the American republics.
The minister Hays that the extra
ordinary growth of the coffee in
dustry in Central America, and
especially in the Republic of Guate
mala, woutd seem worthy of special
notice, and inasmuch as there are
still thousands of acres of hind
suitable to the cultivation of the
plant to be purchased on fairly
reasonable terms, it opens up an
extenuive field for foreign enter
prise. The large fortu ies made in
a very few years by planters should
attract the attention of young men
possessing small capital. With
from $15,01 R) to $.15,00 to start with a
small fortune might under ordin
ary favorable circumstances be
looked for within a period of ten
years, The export of coffee from
Guatemala in 1801 amounted to .",
107,851 pounds, valued roughly at
about $12,000,000, and this year's
crop will, it is confidently believed,
be considerably in excess of that of
1801. Speaking generally, the cli
mate Guatemala is singularly
healthy.
The Atlanta Journal, one of
Georgia's leading newspapers, has
recently grown into more marked
prominence. It advocated Mr.
Cleveland's nomination against
other strong party papers in the
state, and comes forward now an
ardent advocate of the Chicago
platforn, giving particularly zeal
ous and blind support to the free
trade plank in that vicious instru
ment. In a late editorial this free-trade
paper in the largest manufacturing
state in the South says: "What
ever tariff bill the democratic con
gresB may pass, it is certain that it
will abolish the tariff on wool." It
goes on to argue that the tariff on
wool benefits no American indus
try, utterly regardless of the fact
that our thousands of wool cards
and looms are turning out now
more than two-thirds of all the
wollen goods we us? and afford em
ployment to hundreds of thousands
of operatives and workmen in the
various pursuits incident of this
industry.
It holds that the price ot Ameri
can wool would be higher if the
tariff on foreign wools were removed.
Ho. P. C. Cheney, ex-governor
of New Hampshire, and one of the
defenders of The American Pro
tective L"ague, hss been appointed
minister to Switzerland, and soon
leaves for the Kuropean republic.
The Manchester, N. II. Union well
says:
Kx-Governor Cheney is well
fitted to discharge the duties of the
position. The appointment is a
recognition of the Granite stateln
which all the citizens can share an
honest pride, and a worthy son of
New Hampshire goes very appro
priate to extend the courtesy of
this government to a rugged re
public which has always been
friendly to the United States. The
compliments of the Switzerland of
America will be extended to the
Switzerland of the Old World
through a highly creditable rep
resentative. THE health authoritees of Unrlie
have awakened to the danger of
disease-breeding ice. The micro
scope has revealed micro-organisms
alive in the ice and ready to do
their deadly work when used in the
pitcher. It is well for all
who use ine to know the locality
where it is cut, and whether it is
pure or contains the germs of dis
ease. The health authorities of
every city should condemn every
ice-house where, ice is gathered
from.' stagnant- ponds of, impure
water. They are diseased and death
breading agents. ; . .. ,
. A national,: quarantine is de
manded by the country,' and when
this is adopted and immigration is
ordered to be suspended for a year,
there is a reasonable assurance that
for twelve months at leastjthe peo
ple will be adequately defended
against the cholera.
Till? bronze statute of ex-President
Arthur for New York has been
completed and is ready to be
placed upon its pedestal.
ATTACKING THE SHERMAN BILL
The proposition to repeal the
Sherman bill requiring thejgovern
ineut to purchase silver bullion
with treasury notes redeemable in
gold or silver is again at the front,
or, rather, is getting there. Two
causes are contributingto the suc
cess of this attack, which, upon
their face at least, are hostile to
each other. This probable alliance
between jxilices otherwise un
friendly is the especial danger of
the situation.
The repeal movement is to be
pushed in the senate under the
lead of Senator Mcl'herson, of New
York, says the Inter Ocean a capi
talist whose sympathies are on the
side of gold as a single standard.
He expects the support of that sea
board class of both parties. Some
of those who voted for the Sherman
bill originally would like to see it
repealed. They only support it
then as a breakwater against the
high tide of free silvce. They were
afraid that unless something of
that kind were done a still more
radical measure would be passed.
This argument no longer holds.
The election is over, and the presi
dential chair is to be filled for an
other four years by a pronounced
and extreme opponent of silver.
The monomtallists may be expected
to present a solid front in support
of any measure discriminating
against the silver dollar as a mone
tary unit.
The other class rcletred to nre the
supporters of the stale bank sys
tem. To repeal the Sherman act
would be to Htop the pres nt expan
sion of our currency. It is being
increased under this silver pur
chase bill at a rate fairlyeven with
the growth of the country in popu
lation nnd business. Repeal that
law and the result would probably
be contraction, or at least very near
ly that. The new national banks
are not, as a rule, taking out any
more circulation than they are
obliged to. and the old banks are
reducing rather than increasing
their notes. Something must be
done to expand the volume of cur
rency. The wild catters see in the
Sherman bill a barrier in their way.
So long as expansion conies
through its operation the public
will not cry out very loudly for
the repeal of the 10 per
cent prohibitory law on state
bank money. Hut let the Sher
man bill will be repealed without
the restoration of the Bland bill
and there will be a vociferous de
mand for the money.
Such is the reasoning of the
champions of wild-cat money, and
therein lies the especial danger of
the situation. The repubican senate
should not allow itself to be used
for any such purpose. The mone
tary condition of the country
should undergo no legal change
during the next few remaining
months of this administration.
The democratic party will soon be
in position to repeal or enact what
ever national legislation it may
pee fit to, and there should be no
divided responsibility in the mat
ter. If the democrats want to
stop the purchase of silver let
them do it. The republican party
accepted the responsibility for the
legislation of the congress elected
in 1888, and now let the democrats
take their turn at doing something
besides finding fault.
CLEVELAND'S PLURALITY.
According to the latest estimate
Mr. Cveleland's plurality in t'ie
popular vote over Gen. Harrison is
about 280,01 X). This is a broad mar
gin, it is true, but the men who are
proclaiming that it is the broadest
ever known are seriously in error.
It has been exceeded in dimensions
several times in the past third of a
century. Lincoln led Douglas, his
nearest competitor in the popular
vote, about 500,000 in 1800, says the
Globe Democrat, and led Hreckin
ridge over 1,000,000. It is true that
the democratic party was split at
that time, but it is equally true that
the repulicans lost many votes by
the presence of the Constitutional
Union ticket in the field. Lincoln
beat McClellan 400,000 votes in 1804,
but those were' war days, when
eleven states were in insurrection,
and those States, too, in the demo
cratic section of the country. In
1808, in reconstruction days, Grant
beat Seymour 300,000, and four
years later lyj beat Greeley . 700,000.
Greeley, of course was not really a
democrat,'. mt' the democtats. in
dorsed him, and they showed more
enthusiasm for him at ! least in " the
beginning of the canvass, ' than
they did for Cleveland, this year. As
the whole vote was much smaller
in those days than it is in these,
those big pluralities represent a
far larger proporation of the ag
gregate than Cleveland's does. ,
In truth, though, this lead Kf
Cleveland in tin- popular vote af
fords no measure of the nclative
strength of Cleveland and . Harri
son with the people. It has been
gained in the south, where both
parties do uot stand on the same
plane with regard to the privilege
of voting. Every state in the south
is democratic at all times and un
der all circumstances. Some of
them are fairly and honestly demo
cratic, and doubtless will remain
democratic for many years to come.
Hut several of the southern states
are democratic simply because that
party has the control of all the lo
cal offices and the voting machin
ery, and being reckless and un
scrupulous in its methods and
practices, it is enabled to stamp out
all opposition and securely in
trench itself in power. In those
states the constitution and the laws
in every state are llagrantly and
systematically disregarded. Re
publicans are either kept away
from the polls or their votes are
not counted. Elections there are
mere farces. Nobody familiar with
the conditions and practices in
these states imagines that the re
sult in elections furnishes a true
reflection of the sentiment of the
community. If the conditions were
as fair ail over the south to the re
publicans as they are nil over the
country to the democrats, Mr. Cleve
land's plurality either in the popu
lar vote or in the electoral college
in this year peculiarly favorable to
the democracy, if, indeed, there
were any plurality at all, would
have been extremely small.
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MEXICAN TROUBLES.
The Mexican government has se
cured evidence against 200 leading
Mexicans of the state of Tanioulifa
and the Texas frontier in the
revolutionary movement. This ev
idence is in the nature of a secret
revolutionary pronunciamento dis
tributed only among those believed
to be in sympathy with the' cause.
This document outlines the policy
of the proposed new government
and the plan of revolution. The
pronunciamento pronounces Diaz
to be a tyrant and a traitor who has
robbed the people of their rights
and who could be overthrown only
by force. Mexico is declared to be
in a state of Beige and the Mexican
people are called to arms. Catarino
Garza is named as supreme chief of
the revolutionists and he will, the
pronuncimento says, call a
general election for a constitu
tional convention as soon as the
revolutionists take possession of
the capital. Free sufferage and no
re-elections the motto of the re
volutionists. The document is
signed by Prudencio Gongales,
Sevriano Sauex, Julian Flores,
Kustorgie, Ramon, Josephena, and
105 others.
A republican contemporary in
the east has been looking through
the records and finds a statement
in President Fillmore's message of
1851 which is worthy of the careful
perusal of the western fanners who
have been told for years that their
prosperity depends almost wholly
upen larger exports of breadstuffs,
which would only be secured
through a low tariff. The same
argument was used nearly half a
century ago, and the low tariff
was the result. Its effect upon the
agricultural interests of the coun
try is thus described by the presi
dent, "The value of our exports of
breadstuftVand provisions, which,
it was supposed, the incentive of a
low tariff and large importations
from abroad would have greatly
augumented, has fellen from $08.-
000,000 in 1847 to 121,000,000 in 1851,
with almost of certainty of a still
further reduction in 1852. The
policy which dictated a low rate of
dues on foreign merchandise, it
was thought by those who estab
lished it, would tend to benefit the
farming population of this country
by increasing the demand and
raising the price of our agricul
tural products in foreign markets.
The foregoing facts however seem
to show incentestibly that no such
result has followed the adoption of
this policy.
The fact is that selfishness, which
deminates all businesstransactions
dictates the purchase of the neces
saries of life wherever they may be
had most conveniently. Furope
must eat and never stops to ask
where the different kinds of wheat
on the market were produced. The
purchase depends in every case
upon the jiriee and the quality ot
the goods offered.
IK THE democrats at any time be
fore the election had. proposed to
revive the, duty on sugar Harrison
would have been , re-elected, and a
republican. e.ongyess would' have
been chosen. However, their cru
sade now jn this direction ,will de
feat the democrats in the congres
sional electiQiis in 1804 and in the
presidential) and congressional
elections in 18TX5. '-"-.
CoXC.KESSMAX IIARTER. whose
name is somtiines coupled with
the post of secretary of the treas
ury in the Cleveland cabinet, is all
right on the silver question, but he
is in favor of wild-cat currency.This
eccentricty would destroy his
chances for the office if Cleveland
ever really intended to appoint him
THE TRUTH AT LAST.
The politictl campaign being,
over, the political campaign lie is
in process of decay it "is dead aiyi
already stinketh."
As to tin-plate prices, the fact fa
thus stated in the Chicago Mori
...t in o mi ui u in us review n
trade during the year 1802:
The foreign prices having been crowded
down to the lowest possible point and
kept there in consequence of the turitT
limitation, the general state of trade bus
not been entirely satisfactory to the for
eign milkers, importers, or jobbers. All
classes of buyers have acted conserva
tively, and ainu-d to keep stocks as light
as possible. The voliimii of business,
however, fort lie year shows mi improve
ment over lil.
The News Record has been ;t
persistent enemy of the McKinley
bill, and not infre quently has ef
fected to deplore the increase of tin-
plate prices, "on account of the
tariff." Hut in dealing with the
cold facts of trade history during
the year it gives publication, on.
he authority of one of the larg.
est Western dealers in tin-plate, tc
the statement that prices have i
"been crowded down to the lowest
point' and that this is directly "in
consequence of the tariff agitation.
Furthermore, no only have prices
been kept down to the lowest pos
sible point, but the continuation of
Jow prices seems, in the eye of the
largest dealers, to depend upon fail
ure of free-trade democracy to ac
complish its purposes. We quote
the News Record report again:
The year closes with general trade unite
and some improvement is looked for as
soon the possibility of an extra session of
congress will have been dismissed. The
foreign prices remain low on all grades,
being only a trade above the lowest
prieeson record, and on some items very
little ubove net mil cost.
Improvement of trade, then, is
dependent on the failure of "the
possibilities of an extra session of
congress," which would disturb
tariff conditions. Meanwhile, un
der the operation of the "infamous
bill," quoting the News Record
again:
The foreign prices (of tin-plate) remain
low on all grades, being only a trille above
the lowest prieeson record.
The truth is out at last.
ELMWOOD NOTES.
From the Kcho.
Mr. and Mrs. (J. K. Parniele and
children of Plattsmouth are spend
ing the holidays with Mrs. Par
niele's parents.
It would naturally seem that a
man of Dr. Haughey's intellectual,
ability and actual experience would
know more than to play with a pus
sy cat with an unwholesome flavor
but he didn't and the consequent- J
was the doctor had to bury a sun ;
ot clonics.
School district No. 101 is the
youngest district in the county, yet
it is among the foremost in enter-
t i . i . : ,.
lI13C, UI1U UllUVl iiic biijjui laiuii ui
Miss Kosa Harris, the efficient
young teacher. She has secured a
nice start for a good library of in
structive books and placed them in
the school house. She is simply
laying the foundation for a great
and good work, and the worthy
board will no doubt bear her out in
ner undertaking. This we call gen
uine enterprise and teaches us that
no dead people should be hired as
school teachers.
One cedar tree in a mill at Gray's
Harbor, Washington turned out
188,500 shingles. At that rate Wash
ington could put Texas under
roof and not miss the timber.
in;
conmicHT tftsi
All gone
woman's suffering and woman's
weakness. Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription puts a stop to it. It's
a remedy for all tho delicate de
rangements and disorders that make
her suffer, and a cure for all the dis
eases and disturbances that make
her weak, It's a legitimate medi
cine, that corrects and cures ; a
tonio that invigorates and . build
up; a nervine that soothes and
strengthens.' For- bearing down
painsj displacements, all the- func
tional irregularities peculiar -to the
ex, it's a safe and certain remedy.
Other medicines claim to cure?
That's true.' But they don't claim
to do this : if the Favorite Pre
scription fails to give satisfaction,
in any .case for .which it's recom
mended, the money paid for it is
refunded.
Judge for yourself which is likely
to be the better medicine.
And think whether something else
offered by the dealer is likely to be
"just as good."
You pay only for the good you get
Qp to terms it's the cfaajw