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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VIII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 1896.
NO. 27.
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1 DISHONOR TO US
Senator Allen Meets the Repub
lican Assaults Upon
Nebraska.
r 0 BEPUDIATION INJTHE STATE
Denies That Radical Legislation
Against Corporations Will
Be Enacted.
Favors th Sugar Bounty.
Senator Allen yesterday availed him -self
of an opportunity to respond to the
criticisms aimed at this state by republi
cans because it has turned down the re
publican crew that has plundered it for
'years.- Speaking to resolution introduc
ed by him, declaring that no state has a
right to violate the constitution, be
said:
i) "Mr. President The succ of the
populist party at the late election in
many states, and notably in Kansas
and Nebraska, has provoked much dis
cussion in the eastern press and among
eastern statesmen respecting the policies
that wift be pursued during the year of
populiBts administration. Many pro
phesies of hostile legislation and adverse
administrations have been -made. It
has been frequently predicted, if not
positively asserted, that the legislation
of those states this winter will be such
.as to retard, if not prohibit, the enforce
ment of legal contracts, and by that
means impair their obligations. It has
also been stated that the populist party
is hostile to the enforcement of legal
obligations, and has no conception of
their sacred ness.
"I will pass over the dense ignorance
irresistibly implied in assertions of this
character for the purpose of saying that
o far as Nebraska is concerned, while
her legislature will be under the control
of the populist party and her adminis
tration will shortly pass into the hands
of its representatives, there is not the
slightest ground to fear that anything
will be done that will in any respect vio
late legal obligations or place a barrier
across the pathway of their prompt and
effectual enforcement.
"The populist party of Nebraska is
composed of men who understand quite
well the inviolability of all contracts as
well a the sacredness of public and pri
vate property and the rights ol citizens.
The party was not born to destroy, but
to build up and make more secure the
rights of all, and to give to all that full
measure of justice their position as mem
bers of society entitles them to.
"I wish to utterly repudiate assertions
of an intended menace of the rights of
property or contracts by the legislature
aud incoming administration of Nebras
ka. Two years ago we elected the pres-
en t honored chief executive of our state
by a bare plurality of 3,100, It was as
serted then that his election would im
pair the credit of the state, but the ar
gument was not heeded. Instead of im
pairing its credit, his election seems to
have strengthened it,for he was re-elected
in November last by a majority of near
ly 22,000. The other gentlemen chosen
for the subordinate state offices are com
petent business men of experience and
high character, they are patriotic citi
zens, believers in law and order, and will
discharge their respective duties conser
vatively, conscientiously, and to the best
interests of all.
"Mr. President, I personally know
many members of the incoming legisla
ture, and all by reputation. They, too,
-are gentlemen of high character mid abil
ity. The majority are populists and
silver democrats, but they are none the
worse for that. They are loyal sons of
, Nebraska and of the union. They will
be guilty of nothing rash, nothing that
will impair the standing of the state,
nothing that will destroy its credit or
detract from its glory, but tbey will, on
the contrary, build up and make better
and more secnre, and inspire confidence
."in all."- .-.
"Eastern holders of stocks in our rail
way corporations sometimes express
fear of hostile legislation, and I desire to
say to them that such a feeling is
groundless. While I do not doubt that
the legislature will enact measures look
ing to the prevention of over capitaliza
tion, wild and reckless management,
and will take Strang grounds' against
railways interfering in political matters
and favoring one political party by the
free service' of their trains to the rigid
exclusion of others, from a like privilege,
yet so far as equitable and just passeng
er and freight fates are concerned there
will be nothing done of which any fair
minded man may justly complain.
"There is now pending in the supreme
-court of the United States a case from
Nebraska involving the constitutionali
ty of a maximum freight rate act passed
by our legislature several years ago.
The case may or.may not be decided be
fore the present legislature, under the
constitution, will be required to adjourn;
but 1 am safe in.saying that, whatever
the decision may be, there will be noth
ing done by the - legislature that will
savor of malice, hostility, or injustice,
-or of which the railways or the stock
holders can in the slightest degree right
fully complain.
"Nebraska has many industries of very j
great importance. Two extensive beet
-sugar factories have been erected in the
t&te. one being located in the county in
-which I have the honor to reside. More
than a million dollars have been putinto
tthese plants and the legislature has been
invoked from time to time to render as
sistance to the enterprise and enable it
to determine by experiment whether the
soil of Nebraska is capable of profitably
growing sugar beets or not.
"Two years ago a republican legisla
ture enacted a law granting to the own
ers of these factories, and to those that
might be erected, five-eighths of a cent
per pound bounty on ail sugar produced
in the state, on condition that the pro
prietors would pay to the. producers of
the beets fa per ton. It did not, how
ever, make a specific appropriation to
carry out the act, which, under, our con
stitution must be done before public
moneys can be expended.
"I has been frequently and persist
ently predicted that this enterprise would
be raided and destroyed by the incoming
legislature. I must say that I do not
approve of all gentlemen owning these
factories have done in promoting their
interests, but l have no fear that they
will be injuriously affected by unjust leg
islation. While it is a debatable ques
tion whether .Nebraska should engage in
a permanent policy of bounty giving, yet
so widespread is the belief that our soil
is capable of producing almost unlimited
quantities of sugar beets that can be
profitably manufactured into sugar,
that aid will not be withheld until an ef
fectual trial has been made and the ques
tion lainy and effectually determined.
The benefits of the act of which I epea
inure largely to the producers of beets.
and as a result there was paid last year,
ana win De paid this year, foo.uuoto
beet producers that they not have other
wise been paid them.
"What I have said respecting , beet
sugar may also be said respecting chic
ory, a bounty has been granted upon
cnicory, and chicory mills are in opera
tion in Nebraska, and the industry prom
ises to be one of very great profit.
"The populists of Nebraska understand
quite as well as the people of any other
section of the union that it is highly iro
portant and profitable to the state to
diversify our industries as far aa can be
done without too heavy a tax on the
people. I am a believer in this doctrine
myself.
"The law to which I refer will not ex
pire by its terms for one year more, and
1 tnitiK we legislature will mane an op-
propriation to carry out its provisions.
a thing that their republican predecessors
should have done, however ill-advised its
passage in the first instance may have
been. The owners of these factories have
complied with the law, and an obser
vance of good faith required that they
suouid receive the promised Dounty.
ininic trie legislature will inaugurate a
policy that will encourage new industries
thus taking a portion of our people
from the farm and placing them in other
pursuits, where they will no longer be
competitors as producers of farm pro
ducts, but become producers of - other
useful things, while they remain con
8umersoftlie products of the farm.
am not arguing in favor of a high pro
tective rarin; 1 am only arguing in fa
vor of that indisputable power and right
inherent in every state to pursue an in
dustrial policy that will, in the judgment
of its legislature, result in the greatest
good to tne greatest number.
"In the press dispatches of .November
25 I read the following:
Boston, Mass., Nov. 24. The jubilee
banquet and celebration of the Home
Market club in honor 'of the election of
William McKiniey was held at Mechanics
hall this evening. Senator Hoar of Mas
sachusetts was among those who ad
dressed the meeting. He. said in part:
"It is certainly a saddling to think
that states like Kansas and Nebraska.
children of New England.tbat have great
farming populations where wo expect to
find if we find anywhere sobriety, m
tegnty, steadiness. , conservatism, the
great communities where churches
abound and where the schools are the
best in the world.should have lent them
selves to this crasy attempt at revolu
tion and this passionate crusade of dis
honor. ' ' 1 -
"There are some respects in which
these remarks of the senior senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. 'Hoar) need correc
tion. Nebraska is not a child of New
England, however desirable that might
be. The population of Nebraska is
heterogeneous; our people come from
every state and territory in the union.
Many of them formerly resided in Bo
hemia, : the German states, England,
Scotland and Ireland, Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, Italy, and, in fact, many came
from different parts of the habitable
globe. Muny, it is true, came from New
England, and, be it said to their lasting
hojior. they are true Nebraskans, and
while they love New England as a child
loves its parents, they are not blind to
her faults nor her virtues. The popula
tion of Nebraska is rapidly becoming
homogeneous, and 4 all, regardless of
birthplace, are deeply attached to the
state and to its welfare and are keenly
sensible of the necessity of her bearing a
good name. They ire, therefore, jeal
ous of any imputation ngainst it, and
the senior senator fro o Massachusetts
was somewhat unguarded, to say the
least, in saying, as In- is reported to
have said, that Nebraxkn engaged in a
'crazy attempt at revolution and a pas
sionate crusade of dish'inii!'.'
"Mr. President, Nebraska is a land of
churches and schools, and they are
among the best in the world. The sen
ator, from Massachusetts does not find
faultVith our local institm 011s; he only
grumbles, whines and scol-l because in
the exercise of an undoubted right of
freemen the electors of Nebraska saw fit,
by alear majority, to elevate to power
members of the populist partv. He
speaks of ; it as 'this crazy attentat at
revolution and passionato crusade of
dishonor.' Mr. President, Nebraska has
never engaged in a revolution t hat was
not pacific and lofty in its character and
directly within the troo province of a
Christian government,
"Massachusetts possesses nothing in
Nebraska that should entitle her fore
most man to speak of our iieople as the
senior senator from that state has done.
While we accord to Massachusetts ber
rights, and look upon her as an older,
and therefore a more compact and better
organized community than ours, we do
not look to her for advice on a political,
social, scientific, religious or aav other
question. '
"Mr. President, Nebraska will success
fully weather every gale that may beset
her pathway. Her sturdy sons and lair
daughters will not become discouraged
and give way under imputations like
those I have noticed. The battle for
better conditions will be renewed aud
wttged to its utmost to make her' one of
the foremost, as she is now one of the
most important, states of the union,
and it will be done under tboadministra
1 tiou of the populist party, for the world
should know that that party has come
into power to administer the affairs of
state for numberless years to come.
The populists understand well that their
legislation must be of a character that
will meet the approval and judgment of
all to enable tbem to contiuue in power.
Tbey understand well that whatever
they may do this winter . will be swept
aside by a republican administration
unless it be of a character to meet with
populist approval and to continue the
party in power,
"I have no utterances of complaint
against any other section of the coun
try. I am not prepared to charge any
1 with disloyalty or with engaging in a
'passionate crusade of dishonor' because
they may not entertain my political
opinions. I am willing to accord to
every man and every community the
right to think and act as they may see
proper, so long as tbey do not trespass
upon the like right of others, and I will
not fail to do them justice here or else
where. I demand a like right for Nebraska."-..
'.'Itcannotbe truthfully said of Nebras
ka that she joined in : the crazy and
dishonorable crusade to enforce the
provisions of the brutal fugitive slave
law. Her people have never been guilty
of mobbing one of the.r own citizens for
no greater offense than raising his voice
against oppression and wrong. The
stillness other atmospherl has not been
broken by the appeals for assistance of
cringing men and defenseless . women
and children, guilty of no offense but
fleeing to her soil for freedom, only to be
captured and placed in chains by her
citizens and returned to servitude for a
reward.
"Whatever may be said of Nebraska
she has not been guilty of any of these
crimes against the laws of Uod and
civilization. She has never dishonored
her foremost citizen, when living, for
extolling the cause of liberty, and placed
wreaths on his grave when dead, because
he had been the frieud o,f liberty. She
has done none of these, and no dishonor
of this kind attaches to her name or
imperils her glory.
"What was the 'crazy attempt at rev
olution and passionote crusade of dis
honor' of which the senator from Mass
acnusetts spoke. Nothing, sir. more
than that a majority of the people of
Nebraska, believing that silver is money
of the constitution, and that it should
be coined at the ratio of 16 to 1, upon
terms of equality with gold, saw fit to
cast their ballots in November last for
the elevation of one of her formost
citizens and the most brilliant orator of
the age to the presidency. Was there
anything revolutionary in that? Was
there anything dishonorable in it? Was
in a 'crusade of dishonor?' Sir, for
eight-one years of our national exist
ence silver had been thus coined, and
until it was demonetized in iota by a
'crazy attempt at revolution and a
passionate crusade of dishonor,' in
which some of the representative men of
Massachusetts participated, and by
which tbey sought to confiscate, one-
half the property of the debtor classes
of the nation. If there can be more dis
honor in public affairs or in government,
than the eonfiscation of the property of
its citizens, directly or indirectly, I do
not know where or ia what direction it
can be found. If Massachusetts pos
sesses a monoply of useful knowledge of
the financial question, or any other, for
that matter, 1 have yet to learn the fact
Mr. rresiaent. it is possible that a
man can be born under another sun and
in another clime thau that of Massachu
setts and possess a modicum of intelli
gence and patriotism and learn the sharp
lines 01 uemarkation between 'revolution
and a passionate crusade of dishonor'
on the one hand' and lofty patriotism
and u high sense of public and private
duty on the other. I say, sir, it is pos
sible, because I well understand that
there are those who have been born and
lived in Massachusetts who have con
ceived a most bittbrhatred for the west
and everything western, and who believe
that neither good nor intelligence can be
found in that section of the country.
The patriotism of the people of Nebras
ka is as broad and limitless as her plains;
their Christianity and sense of duty are
as pure and untainted as berasmos
phere. Never thus far in the history of
the state has she been guilty of dishonor,
and never as long as intelligence is pre
dominant and God reigns in the hearts
of her people will she be guilty of any
thing that will place a stain upon her
good name or that will cause her to be
spoken of by honest, intelligent and fair-
minded men 111 a disparaging manner.
"1 shall not now speak at, length re
secting this matter, as I will at another
time. 1 have only embraced the first op
portunity presented to declare that Ne
braska, though under the domination of
the populist party, will be true to her
teachings and will be an honor to her
self and the union of which she is and
will continue to be a foremost member.
"Mr. President, it is an error to al
ways look upon the accusing source as
pure. Many times the accuser is more
guilty than the accused. Shakespeare,
who has given the , world more useful
knowledge than any other single indi
vidual, in my judgment, very aptiy put
the truth in this language:
Th Jury, paaalng on the prisoner's III, -;
My la the iworn twetye bare a thief or two
Qalltler than him tnjr try.
"I may be permitted to add that it is
cot improbable that among those who
accuse Nebraska add Kansas there may
be found a few more guilty than those
they try.
' "I cannot understand the motives that
prompt Recusations against the integ
rity of Nebraska and Kansas, or any
other state, for that matter, that may
have seen fit to elect populist state
officers. Sir, we are American citizens.
We understand the duties and obliga
tions imposed upon us as citizens, and
we understand our rights as well. It is
the desire of all having a habitation
on the soil of Nebraska to make the
state one of the brightest and best of
the union. May it not be possible that
in the future history of our glorious
country, when the greater republic is to
be built, resting on the foundations of
the present, Nebraska, with her teeming
millions of intelligent people and h or
boundless natural aud acquired resources,
will be called on to take her full share of
responsibility, as I trust she will be
awarded her full measure of praise? And
When the time comes we will shrink from
no responsibility or duty in contributing
our full measure to the glorious result.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Substance of Biennial Reports of the
Superintendents.
According to the biennial report of
Warden Leidigh to the governor, there
are 285 convicts in the penitentiary, of
whom five are women. During the bi-
ennium four have been pardoned, 38 bad
their sentences commuted and 56 were
paroled, two were transferred to the
asylum, one escaped and was recaptured
and five died. The number of prisoners
two years ago was 851, and the average
for the two years was 818.
At present the prisoners are employed
in the manufacture of stoves, cooperage,
harness and brooms. The contractors
pay from 80 to 45 cents per
man per , day. the state fur
nishing steam power free, except
in the harness workl where the contract
or pays 30 cents a day per man and $50
a month for steam power. The warden
advises that contractors be required
hereafter to pay for steam power.
The warden asks for f 63,875 for the
support of the penitentiary the coming
two years, being at the rate of 25 cents
per diem for 350 convicts. He thinks
this amount to be sufficient to maintain
prisoners, providing the institution is
allowed to use the amount realized from
the prison labor for the maintenance of
Wis prisoners, lie asks for $ 2,000 for
-repairs;
, An interesting feature of the report is
the reference to the baptism of five male
convicts and one temalo prisoner in the
presence of all the prisoners last May.
The warden commends the parole sys
tern, but recommends that means be
provided for recapturing escaped paroled
prisoners, since the law went Into op
eration thirteen paroled prisoners have
escaped, of whom five were recaptured
The report of Superintendent Abbott
of the hospital for the insane shows that
823 inmates were treated during the
bienmum, that there are at present Sol
inmates nnd 35 out on parole. There
were 49 deaths in the two years and two
prisoners effected their final escape. Two
of the deaths were from suicide and one
patient was killed by a fellow patient
There was expended for improvements
Superintendent Abbott asks $2,000
for an addition to the sewing room and
$8,000 for a i(ew workshop for males
and for residence quarters. which the
superintendent recommends employment
ior patients.. He asks $,U()U for a cold
storage room near the kitchen and $1,
000 for a new dynamo for lighting pur
poses
He estimates expenses for the coming
two years at $120,000, based on an av
erage of 350 patients and a per capita
01 VL ii.ib. This is $6,500 less than
the estimate of 1894 for a less number
of patients, if the improvements asked
for are granted, the number of patients
can oe increased to 425 and an appropri
anon 01 f 134.UUU will be necessary,
based on a per capita cost of $198.25
the improvements asked for. but not
listed among current expenses, foot up
How the Farmers Prosper.
Bancroft, Neb., Dec. 8, 1896.
Epitob Inpepenpent: I see by my
last paper that my subscription to the
Independent expired the 15th of Novem
ber. Under renewed prosperity and re
stored confidence, all form of products
are booming, corn up to ten cents, oats
eight cents, hogs $2.76 and we sold all
our wheat when it was less than 40 cents
t J keep the wolf from the door, as did
all the farmers hereabouts now on ac
count of all these good things vouch
safed to us by virtue of McKinley's elec
tion, I will enclose you money order to
amount of 80 cents as renewal of sub
scription. We think that 'we accomplished a trreat
work in this republican stronirold bv
giving Bryan electors 16 majority, Hol
comb 25, Maxwell 45 and electing the
whole fusion ticket, township and elec
tion board. We accomplished all this
and was aflled by two speakers from
abroad while the Hannaites had 6 or 8
speakers. By the way C. Dewald wants
to be assistant oil inspector, I think he
is worthy the position.
ery truiy,
' ' L. R. Fletcher.
: . Somewhat of a Chaffe.
Instead of the preachers driving the
money changers from the temple, as
Christ did, now the money changers em
ploy preachers who uphold and defend
their swindling game. They employ
preachers who not only will not drive
the money changers ont, but who call
every man a "calamity howler who
wants tljem driven out. The Caucasian.
IT
CLEAR
Maximum Bate Case Stipulation
Made to Secure
Delay
UNTIL AFTER THE SESSION.
JoTm L. Webster Shows Up
Board of Transportation
a Little:
the
Be Was Not Consulted.
Attention has been called recently to
the action of the state board of trans
portation in directing the attorney gen
eral, by resolution, to enter into a stipu
lation with Hon. J. M. Wool worth, coun
sel for the railroads in the maximum
rats case pending in the United States
supreme court. It was believed that
this action was but a subterfuge to pre
vent, if possible, obtaining a decision in
that case until after the coming session
of the legislature shall" have" adjourned,
so that no legislative action toward the
enactment of a new law could be had for
two years more should, the existing law
be held defective by the supreme court.
It will be remembered that Hon. John
L. Webster of Omaha was 'employed by
the last session of the legislature as spe
cial counsel in behalf of the state in this
case, and $10,000 was appropriated to
compensate him tor his work. When
the action of the board of transporta
tion was recently annouueed Mr. Web
ster declined to be interviewed. This
was but natural. Mr. Webster is a re
publican. The members of the state
board of transportation are also repub
licans.' But Mr, Webster has recently
spoken, and what he says in relation to
the matter shows the cunning of the
men who, while pretendiug to serve the
state, are really acting in the behalf aud
interest of the railways.
In answer to questions as to when aud
why he had filed a motion for a reargu
meut of the maximum freight case in the
supreme Court. Mr. Wtfcgter said;
"On November 18 last I prepared a
motion to have the maximum freight I
pn f a Aaana suit, flturn friie itainiiinatif lsT
the supreme court at as early a date as
might be convenient to the court, and on
November 19 formally served notice
upon the solicitors of the railway com
panies that I would have said motion
submitted to the supremecourt at Wash
ington on Monday, November 30.
"I then caused the motion and notice
to be printed, and transmitted to the
clerk of the supreme court for filing in
the regular way, and in the due course
of business. I band you a copy of the
printed notice and motion which I have
just referred to. .
1 he submission of such motions to
the court is very much a mere matter
of form and naturally would have been
particularly so in the present cases, by
reason ot tbefaet that the said cases
had been advanced at a previous term
of the court, had been once argued and
had been restored to the docket by order
of the court for the reargu men t. It
seemed to me to be a very simpte thing
to have an early date fixed for the re-
argument of the cases. I caused an ar
rangement to be made with a" lawyer
friend in Washington to submit the
motion to the court, which was accord
inglydoneon Monday November 30."
He was then asked what he knew
about the action of the board of trans
portation in stipulating for a rehearing
after the holidays, and he replied:
'Ihe first I heard of the resolution of
the state board of transportation rec
ommending the attorney general to ar
range for a hearing after the coming in
of the new administration was Novem
ber 28. On that date I received a letter
from Mr. Churchill, enclosing a copy of
the resolution of the board, and a stipu
latiou which had been entered into be
tween himself and Mr. Woolworth, as
solicitor for the railway companies. The
resolution appears on the face of it to
have been passed November 18, and the
stipulation purports to have been signed
November 21. At the date of the stipu
lation my notice to advance the cases
had been served, and at the date of the
receipt of the letter of the attorney gen
eral the motion and notice were on file
in the office of the clerk of the supreme
court at Washington." .'
Mr. Webster was asked if he knew any
reason why the board should make such
a stipulation, and what effect it would
have upon the motion already filed by
himself as special counsel for the state.
and be answered as follows:
"I do not know why the board passed
the resolution, nor why the attorney
general entered into the stipulation re
ferred to, as I have had no conference
with any of the parties touching the
transaction.
' I do not know the effect produced by
the resolution and the stipulation. By
the terms of the stipulation the motion
to advance the case for reargu ment is to
be submitted to the court on the third
Monday in January, 1897, and if the
court is not then in session, then on the
first Monday thereafter when the court
shall be in session. The third Monday
in January would be the 18th day of the
month.
"Under that stipulation, coupled with
the resolution of the board, it will be
seen at once that my motion to have
thocanses set for an immediate rear-
guinent was practically stipulated out
of court. The court could not very well
sustain my motion to fix an early date
tor the reargument of the cases when
it appeared by the stipulation and tie
resolution that the caes should not he
heard until after the holidays, aud that
the motion even should not be pre
sented to the court until January 18."
In regard to the effect of the stipula
tion upon the bill as concerns an early
rehearing of the argument in the case. "
Mr. Webster said:
"By the term of the stipulation the
motion in advance is not to be snb
mitted until January 18. Under tit
practice of that court no announcement
will be made of the ruling on the motici
until the Monday following, which wlif
be the 25th.
"Of course the date fixed for the re-sr-guinent
would be at a later date, so tv
to allow time for the parties to attr 1
an d be prepared for the argu men t. It b
also well known to lawyers haviitjary
business before that court that th enztt
adjourns over the month of February,
and resumes its sitting about Uttr:! 1.
It is self-evident, therefore, that thtdie
lor the reargument of the cases cotU
not be set down for an earlier date tian
sometime in March, and an opinion
could not be banded down in the ru!ar
order of business until about April 1, or
later. It does not take much of a J.U1
osopber to discover that in the mean
time the Nebraska legislature will have
transacted its business and adjourned.
a You may have read the legend of tit
Sage of Salamanca, who by the wavir 3
ot bis wand could ring the bells o! NVj
Dame, Omaha has a sage."
A BiS I'll.
Hurlbut building. Tenth and P
The
streets, was the -scene of a disastrous
fire yesterday morning, entailing a total
estimated loss of something like (4.CC0
or $5,000 or possibly a little larrw. Tta
ground floor was occupied by tarnr j
Bros, as a dry goods, clothict and t -1
store, and their loss is estimate I 1
themselves as about $10,000, sri t;
Chief Malone at about $1,CC0. I ':x
Jack occupied the second floor, r-'.:
furnished rooms, and the loss t 1 r i
estimated at about $1,000. The Iz'U
Ing is owned by the estate of J&z:
Rothwell, deceased, late of Boston, as 1
the damage, roughly estimated, wIJ
amount to something like $2,000 or
13,000, probably less.
WANT8 TO HANG ON.
8c p Dundy Humping Himself to IZS.l
His Cletksbp.
The painful intelligence comes fr-i
Omaha that thaf entrprf1fij gti.:
Scipio Dundy, is making an active cxn
paign to succeed . himself as c'ork of t" t
federal court under Judge McHugh. Li
has been writing letters to the Uwven
of Lincoln asking letters of endorreccrt
which he may use in solidifying himt.t
with the new judge. Scip is quoted is
having said that should Judge McIItJ-h
fail of confirmation, so that a republi
can would be appointed in his stead, it
would be useless for anyone else than
himself to apply for the clerkship. Mean
time be is making a grand rush for the
place under McHugh.
ED SMITH ACCEPTS.
H Will Become
Attorney
General
, Smyth's Deputy.
Ed. P. Smith of Omaha, who was of
fered the deputyship under Attorney
General Smyth, has practically reconsid '
ered bis former determination not to ac
cept the position, and will probably take
the place if he can arrange his personal
matters to make the change convenient.
Mr. Smith has been practicing law in Ne
braska for eleven years, the first five be
ing spent at Seward, Neb. He is an ac
tive and consistent democrat, and wan
chairman of the last democratic state
convention. He will not move his fam
ily to Lincoln, and there will 4e no
change in the law firm of which be has
for several years been a member.
MR. BRYAN'S BOOK.
An Outline of Its Contents and Purposes
Given in Its Preface,
The fact has become known to those
who possess the means of finding out
such things that the title of Mr. Brvan's
book will be "The First Itattle,"and it is
understood that it will make it appear .
ance earlv in January. Its purposes and
probable contents are explained by the
author in the preface to the work as fol
lows:.
"The campaign of 1896 was a remark
able one, whether we measure it by the
magnitude of the issues involved or by
the depth of interest aroused. ' I , have
been led to undertake the proseut work
by a desire felt by myself and expressed
by others to have the more important
incidents of the campaign put into per
manent form for the convenience of
those who have taken part in the con
test, and lor the use of those who shall
hereafter desire to review the struggle.
'The amount of work done by the ad
vocates of free coinage is beyond com
putation, and the number of those who '
took an active part in the contest too
great for enumeration. These facts, to
gether with the difficulty of choosing be
tween so many meritorous speeches,
have compelled me to limit the quota
tions to the addresses made und papers'
issued by persons standiug in an official
or semi-official capacity, aud to the prin
cipal speeches delivered by myself. I have
added a brief history of the campaign, '
including a discussion of the election re
turns aud the significance thereof. . It
has also been- thought best to narrate
the part taken by me in the silver agita
tion prior to the convention, aud at the
request of the publishers, I have included
a biographical sketch, written by Mrs.
liryan."