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1 il 1 i r-rtilt.h.i1 Rtwy BatunfeT 1 1 Tins Aujisci rrBusiiixo Co. Oor.UU ud M -. Uoootn, Krt. JUmnowa .... J.ILTluHrwi. .Editor ... Basinets Managvr "In the beauty of the Ellies Christ was born across tho sea, With a glory in bis bosom That transfigure you and me. As he strove to make men holy Let u strive to make them free. Since God is marchinj en." '-Julia Ward Boat. "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who power exerts. 'A ruddy drop of manly Wood The surging sea outweighs." Emerson. rTLe who cannot reason is a fool, He who will not reason is a coward. He who daro not reason is a slave." TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address all buaincas cemmunicetlons to tuna matter lor pcblicatlcn to Editor Tamers' AIIUDoe. , jLrucin wniwu m wiu v. - - cm doc be xurd. Very lost wwnmunicaUona, Marine on w IHEFARMERS'ALLIANCE fcbushkd tout at CORNER 11TH AND M STREETS, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. THE LEADINgInDEPENDENT PAPER IN THE STATE. J. BURROWS, Editor. J. If. THOMPSON, Business Ma'gr. M II Prsssat Use and form -eight pares, seven olnmn quarto. Largest weekly paper pub VaMlnKebruka. ' Csmplct ia Erery Department. Advdiiaiii( Eaica made known on applica tion. ascription, $12S per annum Invariably In Advance. CUUt tins. Fre annual subscription $5.00. yarues sending clubs ai above may add sin le subicriptiens at club rates. PREMIUMS. Stan Aixiahci one rear tod Look In? Backward pott paid tl 60 " M Labor and Capital 1 40 " " Cietar's Column.,.. 1(0 " " Our Republican Monarchy 1 40 Cwhluf's Manual Ij - K paper overs.... ISO ' Cloth covers 1 SO v " " Whither are we Drifting f gj ' - Emltb's Diagram and Rales...... 110 " LBrtctirtnancJal 0 O Catechlin 1 50 " - " Baker's Motisy Mo ' " Bopo! 1 St " RioharTi Crown ... 160 ne above books torsi'. at this office and eat post paid on receipt cf price as follows ; Looking Backward .60ets. . Cesser's Column , uoota. labor and Capital........ ct. Our Bepublloao Monarchy .,..2cts. Cosbinf's Manual, raper covers.. '....Sets. " " Cloth covers SOcts. Sattk't Diagram and rule SOcts. Whither are we Drifting j jo. IMce'a Financial Catechtim SOcts. Baker's Money Monopoly ssots. Hchard's Crown BOcts. Address AUIAHCC pub. CO., lincoin. m. THE ST0S.V C0MIXG. , Scent Ohio. Bill McKinlty and Jim Campbell undtr an old patched umbrella railed patty bigotry. Meaty cloud ap proaching fron the South. Bux. "Say, Jim, have you heard from Kentucky!" Jim "Yes, Bill, and the darned storm's headed this way, and this old umbrel' don't shed storns the way she oncedid." AFTER THB STORM, CP TO THEIR KECKS IN WATER: . Bill.' 'Say, J-Jim, it isn't m m much cf a fl-fl fl flood, is it?" Jim.-N fi-co, Bill." GEXi LEESE FOR DISTRICT JUDGE. We are happy to be able to state that there is no doubt that Gen. Wm. Leese -will accept the nomination for District Judge in this the 3d district, if it is ten dered him by the independent conven tion. This does not put Gen. Leese in the attitude of seeking the nomination. On the contrary it is within our knowl edge that he has with great reluctance conceded this much. Gen. Leese with bis partner Mr. Stewart, is building up valuable and lucrative practice. This he must relinquish, if he takes a place on the bench, for a position where the pay is small and there are no perquis ites. He also knows very well that if he accepts the independent nomination the -whole strength of the railrcad power -will be arrayed against him; and he no doubt feels that the issue may be doubt ful We do not feel that it will be. The nomination of Gen. Leese will mean a square f ght between the people and corporations with the people's bold est champion to the fore. While we know they will resort to every vile device known to railroad politics to defeat the f eople, we believe the people will win. It will be their duty .and their interest to forsake party lines, and elevate a ju diciary that will be free from corpora.e domination. Allen T. Field will be the railroad fa vorite. He was elected before under the special direction and supervision of Tom Marquette. , He has fully Justified tfce confidence of his railroad backers. His first decislon.that of the Cass coun ty bridge case, recouped them for all outlay la electing him. ' How, men of Lancaster, it you are for liberty, for free homes, for relief from corporate bondage and for a pure ud untrammeled Judiciary, strip for tfee fray. This fight is to be to the knife, .and the knife to the hilt. It hi the duty of the convention which wets next Saturday to nominate only men who will add strength to the ticket AQ aentl Tjent. all k'eas of party re wards, all concessions that any man Las any claim upon any office, should be entirely discarded. Above all should all candidates who have any taint of trade or corruption be sent to the rear In fact, candidacies should be ignored altogether, and men should be selected alone on account of tneir known fitness and honesty. this it done ire trill carry Lancaster county in Xorember. THE COVXTY COXf'KXTIOX AXD THE C0UXTY TICKET. The Lancaster County Independent convention meets on the 15th. This convention is to select a- full judicial and county ticket, and delegates to the state convention, and choose a county com mittee for the ensuing year and elect chairman to the same. It is by all odds the most important county convention to be held in the state. The result in Lancaster con nty next November will have more influence upon the election of D3 than that in any other half dozen counties combined. For this reason it is of the utmost importance that a first class ticket in every respect should be selected. All personal friendships and all sentiment should be discarded, aud only those men selected who will add strength to the ticket. Some time ago Mr. McNab, Secretary of the independent county committee, called a conference of farmers from the different 'sections of the county to con sider the situation and discuss measures by which the success of the party could be secured. This was a very necessary and proper step. Much scheming and electioneering was going on in the city, and several would be candidates were laying pipe with great zeal, while as far as the farmers were concerned nothing was being done At this conference Hon. I.N. Leonard acted as chairman, and J. A. McNab as secretary, and the different sections of the county, and the different Interests were fairly represented by about twenty leading farmers. o democrats were present, ana not withstanding the rumors on the street, no demo.'ratio conference has been held nor no democratic combine made by any one. No attempt was made to set up a slate, or make any combination that should bind any one, it being simply an informal discussion as to the availability of candidates and the fair representa tion on the ticket of all interests and sections. The political situation, and the avail ability and qualifications of men who might be made candidates, were fully discussed. It was acknowledged by all that the tight was to be a hard and close one; but it was agreed that it could be won by a good ticket and hon est and self-respecting work. The gentlemen who seemed to have the preference of the meeting for candi dates are as follews: For District Judges, Messrs. Leese, Sawyer and Tibbetts. For Treasurer, Hon. O. Hull, of Green wood. For Sheriff, Mr. Wm. F. Elfeldt, of Buda. For Clerk of the District Court, Mr. Elias Baker, of Lincoln. For County Commissioner, Mr. Leon ard Beeson, of Elk. For Superintendent of Public Schools, Prof. Easterday, of Lincoln. For County Clerk, Mart Howe, of Lincoln. For County Judge, Mr. Wynn, of Lin. coin. Ai the gentlemen present did cot wish to bring out candidates who had not previously been mentioned, no names were selected for coroner or surveyor. Da analysis it will be seen that the above ticket, if nominated by the con vention, would prove to be the strongest that could possibly be made. The nom ination of Judge Leese will divide the fight between the railroads on one side aud the people on the other. Mr. E feldt is a representative inde pandent German aud the Germans of the county willra'ly to his side. The G. A. R. is well represented in Leese and Howe. The farmers have their champion man in Hon. 0. Hull, and he is well supported by Elfeldt and Beeson. The city Interests should be satisfied with district clerk, county clerk, super intendent and the four fudges. The city societies will find all the men in this list that they could possibly hope to have selected. We have no possible interest in this matter excepMo secure a winning ticket; and if ay better men than the above can be selected we shall heartily support them. MAYOR WEIR'S AD.VIXISTRATIOX. Mayor Weir has been in possession of the oflice of mayor long enough to fully determine the kind of material he Is made of, and the result is eminently satisfactory, not only to the party which elected him, but to nineteen twentieths of the business men of the city, who care not near enough for political par ties but who want a business adminis tration. The new city engineer is Alva Dob son. Insteud of silting in his office and contenting himself with giving orders based on estimates and drawings, and leaving important work, in the proper execution of which hundreds of thou sands of dollars may be involved, in the hands of inexperienced subordi nates, Mr. Dobson is on the streets with the men, seeing that the grades are properly and economically done. This fact has attracted tne notice of observing citizens, as well as their com mendation. ' In the office of water commissioner some very large leaks were discovered. The new commissioner is ' Mr. C. D. Bullock. "He has already saved to the city treasury over 13.000, which would have been lost under the old manage ment. And he will rescue a goodly ad ditional sum from the U. P. Railroad company. This company was using a THE FAKMEHS' ALLIANCE, j great dtal more water than it was per- ing for. Io fact it was paying a mere trice compared with tbe value it was receiving. A bill for about 11.200 back rates has been made against that com pany, which will probably be amicably adjusted. The police embroglio wm unfortu nate. But the position of Mayor Weir ia that matter is impregnable. First, tbe mayor is held responsible for tbe maintenance of order and the proper policing of the city. But it would be gross injustice to force thU responsi bility open him and at the same time deprive him of all authority over or control of the agencies by which those duties were to be performed. What ever may have been the intention of tbe legislature as to vesting the power of appointment and removal in the excite board, it actually did leave that power in the hands of the mayor. The new charter has two clauses which are dis tinctly opposed to each other, and until this inconsistency is removed the old method of appointment nust remain The closing clause of Sec. 3 of the new charter reads, "The city marshal and such number of police u tbe excise and police board may authorize, shall be ap pointed and may be removed by the excise board, as hereinafter procided, etc. New there was a failure to pro vide for said removal by the excise board, and the closing clause of Sec. 18 is as follows: "The chief of police and all other police officers and police men, shall be subject to removal by the mayor whenever the said mayor shall consider am. declare such removal ne cessary for the proper management or discipline or the more effective working or service of the police department." In the absence of Mayor Weir six po licemen were removed. He claimed the right, on his return, to designate the persons who should be removed, and did so, removing others in the place of those removed by tbe excise board No legal steps have been taken to coutest his action, and probably none will be. Tbe best citizens of Lincoln sustain Mayer Weir. Tho bummers and the saloon element condemn him. The honors are all on his side, and he can well rest content. THEy COVXTY C0XVEXT10X PLAT FORM. We believe the true policy in regard to a platform for our county conven tion is to adopt the declaration which formed our state platform last year. This platform embraces theso leading independent principles upon which the largest number of persons agree. This would seem to be sound policy. There are some who wish to load the platform with a varied list of declarations upon which the largest number disagree. We consider this very unwise. We can safely be content with the statement of sound general principles, leaving the details of their enforcement to be ad justed when time demands it. Take the sub-treasury p'an, for instance. It is a plan for increasing the volume of cur rency. Well, nearly all of us want the volume of currency increased, but 90 per cent of us consider that particular method of increasing it to be impracti cable and unsound. Under such cir cumstances docs not wisdom dictate that we should simply make a demand for the increase, and not specify the method of it! We want the ninety per cent with us instead of against us. We want a platform which will repel no speaker from the stump. We want no platform that will embarrass any man is his desire to support a clean ticket. We want a few leading and sound prin ciples upon which the largest number of us will agree, instead of a large num ber of doubtful Issues upon which the largest number disagree. A WICKED DEMOCRATIC-IXD. C0.V- BIXE. Returning fiom a trip into the coun try last week, the first thing we heard was that Burrows had been setting up a wicked democratic combine. Inquiring into the matter we found it was a fact only Burrows hadn't heard of it before. Bat wo found that Prof. F. L. M. East erdsy had been spoken of for county superintendent. We are informed that Prof. Easterday voted for J. H. Powers, and part of the balance of the indepen dent ticket last fall. This was the great wicked democratic combine; and was all there was to it. No conference of any sort has been hold with any demo crats, or any democratic committee, that we know of, and no democratic cr other slate has been arranged for. We publish in another column a report of a little meeting of independent farmers, to wnicn no democrats were invited. These men haven't offered advice to anybody, and nobody need take their favorites unless they choose. SHALL "THE OFFICE SEEK THE 'MAXr The Farmers' Alliance of this county adopted the principle that "the office should seek the man, and not the man the office." Every member of the Alli ance has consistently adhered to it. We have known of no farmer who has been legging for a nomination; and no farmer candidates were proposed to bring before the county convention un til a few days ago, and then by men en tirely disinterested, none of whom would take any office. This has not been the case in the city. All kinds of schemes have been set up to secure some coveted official prize. We will say to some of tbe men who have been fishing for nominations, that if they secure them in that way they will defeat themselves by disgusting and repelling the voters they need for an election. Joining teams with a repub lican otbce-bolder, so that no Ratter which wins both get there, may be fine hand politics,' but it will not win this year. ' CUSH MAX PARK. This popular resort is keeping up its good name as one of the pleaeantest places in the state. Trains run regular at convenient hours. LINCOLN NEB. THURSDAY, AUGUST TBI SI'S TKEASliY. The sub-treasury proposition, briefly stated, is as follows: Tbe government is to build ware-houses in each county cf sufficient capacity to Here the ereal and cotton crops (all imperishable pr ducts, in fact, though none of them are in any sense imperishable) said ware house managers to store uch crops and issue negotiable receipts to tbe owners of the same redeemable in eight or ten months, and the government is then to loan to the holders of receipts, when desired, SO per cent of their face value in U. S. treasury notes. I the receipts are not redeemed at maturity the gov ernment is to sell tbe products on the market, and redeem them itself. In our iswe of Jjly 30th we published a very able article discussing and con demning the sub-treasury scheme, for which we have received thanks from several correspondents. More attention has been given of iate to the real char acter of this proposition, and as it be comes to be understood it is uniformly rejected. The Cincinnati platform only alluded to this and other matters tenta tively, which should receive considera tion in a national convention to be held later. If it had been making a platform for a national campaign, it would never nave adopted it. It6hould not be forsrotten that the People's Party unqualifiedly condemn the national banking system as unequal and unjust. That system loans 00 per cent of their value on government bonds to a select class. It must be remembered that the pres ent bonded ware-house system as ap plied to whiskey has been denounced by the People's party as simplv infa mous, as it is. But inasmuch as the trov ernment practically loans money to the distillers on their whiskey by letting the taxes remain unpaid while the whiskey is in bond, it is to that extent the exact counterpart of the sub-treasury plan. Tbe projectors of this must have bad the distillers' warehouse law ia view when they drafted it. As pointed out in the article of July 30th, no easier method could be found by which the speculator could get hold of a controlling share of a crop than by these receipts. The government having furnished the storage at the expense of the tax-payers, and being responsible for the safe keeping of the crop, the speculators could buy the receipts and have the crops in the most convenient form in the world. Let us see what one man could do toward cornering wheat with say ten thousand dollars. He buvs and stores $10,000 worth of wheat, and gets f 3,000 cEib. 8.000 6.4(0 6,400 5.131 6.120 3 270 2.6 0 200 J.fltW 1.H30 1,000 4 0X1 2,610 2 OH) 1,600 j.m 1,10 840 ' $34,830 It will be seen that this can be still carried forward until he secures nearly four thousand more to use in cornering wheat or any other-product, out of $10,000 cash. Under such a system the countiy would be a speculator's para dise, or in other words, the idlers would thrive and the producers suffef . The impracticable nature of the propo sition wiil be seen when estimates are made of the storage capacity that would be required, and when it is seen that these store-houses must be furnished conveniently for all the farmers or gross injusi ice would result. But these are not., by any means the worst objections to this scheme. It is proposed as a measure of financial re form. The government if to loan to the holders of ware house receipts treas ury notes to 80 per cent of their value. These loans are to be made at the time the crops move, and to be withdrawn at the maturity of the receipts eight months afterwards. Apply the system to all the crops that may be called imperisha ble, and it will be seen that an expan sion might take place that would tire the moon to shine upon, and a corre sponding contraction follow when the time arrived for cancelling the receipts. All financial authorites agree that one indispensable quality required in a cur rency is stability. One of the greatest complaints against our present system is the facility with which national bank ers could expand or contract the cur rency at will. As a measure of actual financial relief it is one of the most lame and inadequate ideas ever conceived. But what are treasury notes? They read, 'The United Stat will pay one dollr cn demand." Suppose the gov ernment issues one thousand millions of such notes this fall, on the security cf warehouse receipts. Having no gold to redeem them with, the Wall Street Shy locks could bankrupt the government in less than three weeks. We have discussed this subject at this time and two weeks ago, because our state convention is at hand, and there are some persons in this state who think the independent party ought to adopt the sub-treasury plan, liothiug could be more fatal to the party. A national party that would adopt so wild and chi merical a proposition would not endure three mouths. It will be observed that the papers of the money power are very anxious to make it appear that the people's party of many states has, or soon will, adopt this plan. Our enemies are very anxious we should do it. It is a safe plan in warfare to refuse to do as your enemy desires. It would be extremely bad policy for the independent state convention to put a plank in its platform endorsing a prin ciple on which not only the party is di vided, but which has fewer supporters among the general public (ban any other financial proposition ever made. A few propositions upon which the largestnum ber agree, Instead of many upon which the largest number disagree, will be the wisest course to adopt. . tW H. C. Stoll, of Beatrice, went into the Independent party to get an office. There being no offices for such as hr, he went back again. A good example THE U FAKE. Will the Journal Publish the Refuta tion! We publish in this issue a complete refutation of tbe vile slander upon Bros. D. Mct'all and Thompson Bissell. We can pile up affidavits unlimited from the best citizens of Valley county, prov ing the utter falsehood of the charges made against those gentlemen, and as to the mutilation of the flag. The sto ries were pure invention from begin ning to end. Now the State Journal gave great prominence and publicity to these infa mous falsehoods. They were vile charges made against two honorable men and members of the Grand Army. The Journal took great paius to go to the governor and other state officers and get their opinions as to what should be done with men who would utter or sanction such opinions, having pub lished no proof that they did utter or sanction them. Now will the Journal publish the denials? We will have a number of affidavits next week, proving the falsehoods of the charges. Will the Journal publish them? We will see. THE EIGHT HOUR LAW. Eight hours constitute a "day's work" according to the statutes of Nebraska, and the process of fermentation has set in, as mast be the case with all laws that make radical changes in the cus toms of the - people. The question of first moment in the matter does not seem to be the length of time a man shall labor, but the amount of pay he shall receive. The employers objecting to paying ten hour's wages for eight nous s work. To complicate matters still more some laborers are objecting thit thty needed all the money they can earn in ten hours and are willing to work ten hours. As the law prescribes double pay for extra hours, the laborer is cut down one fifth of his former wages, and tbe economy he has been compelled to practice heretofore is in- eased in propartion. That the law does not cover the Ques tion of compensation seems apparent. Wages fluctuate in response to supply and demand of work. The man who is out of money and work will work much cheaper than he who has plenty of both; and the employer who needs help will pay better wages than he who does not, while the margin of profit on the work employed in connection with competition fixes the scale of wages. One of the considerations which led to the passage of the new law was that laboring men should have more time for leisure, while the work now given to eight men should be divided between ten men, so that while the eieht were cultivating their minds, etc., two hun gry men might have a chance to earn their food. A strike for ten hour's waees in re turn fer eight hour's work is simply a strike for an increase of wages nothing more nor less. If the employer's profits will bear the increased expense, they ought to have submitted to it long ago. If it will not, no power can compel them to do so. But in either case, the eight hour law should be honestly tried and amended if found necessary, and a solution of the question will speedily follow. The next step, and we think a more important one, should be to find means to compel the corporations to pav the best wages for labor which the business will 6tand without taking into account the false value of watered stock. A le gitimate proportion of the product of labor would thus accrue to the laborer, andquitable relationship be establish ed between capital end labor. A SPOILED APOLOGY. In its issue of Sunday the Journal pul verized Burrows for an article he never wrote. In its issue of Tuesday it apol ogizes for the article, and eave the Inde pendent credit for it, instead of The Al liance. It then adds, "but it sounded so much like the voice of Burrows that tho mistake wa9 natural enough' This is exactly the kind of fairness the editor of this paper is receiving. We defy the Journal to find a word ever printed in these columns that was not strictly and entirely honest. And yet, by this fling it implies that we have ad vised or wculd advise farmers not to pay their debts. How much better it would have sounded for the Journal to have made a clean manly apology, with out a lying reservation which is as much an insult as the first charge. The following false Associated Press despatch was sent east from Omaha: Omaha, Neb., Auk. 2 A mob has at tacked Omaha and Grant smelting wares ana is driving out tne workmen. The police are powerless. Great dam age wiil result, as the tires are unpro tected. The mob ia several hundred strong and drunk. Very good. The Bees&ya ' the woik iagmen of Omaha have not done any thing unlawful cr threatened to injure property or persons." TITO GEMS FROM THE BEE. "Moral cowardice in a newspaper is as oase a quality as moral cowardice in an individual. "Honest newspapers have opinions and are manly enough to express them." The above appear in tne Bee without credit, so we presume they must be original. Permit us to remark "them's our sentiments." IX A Ql'AXDARY. We were about to wxirt an article about the villainous Louisiana lottery business,, thinking we might possibly aid Gov. Nichols in the noble fight he is making against that vile swindle. But ail at once thote Adams county resolu tions occurred to us. Louisiana is sure ly outside of our bailiwick. The lottery swindle is "none of our business," and Gtv. Nichols will have to worry along without our help. in. 189L REPUBL1CAX ABS0RPTI0X. The future course of the republican and democratic parties may easily be predicated upon what has already come to pass. The New York Tribune said last spring that if the new party became formidable the two old , panic? would soon give it its quietus. This meant that in presence cf peril they wo-ild fuse against it There is no reason in the world why they should not do this. There are no vital questions at L'-'iue be tween them, and there are no ties of party fealty that will for a moment out weigh their desvre for success. Take away sectionalism and the bloody shirt, and the cohesive principle of the repub lican party is gone. How do facts jus tify this view? In the face of a common danger in this state last winter, when the democrats might lose the governor aud the republicans the other state offi cers, those old parties rushed into each other's arms, and nothing but the pass ing of tbe danger could sunder them. In Kansas democratic and republican fusions are common. In Kentucky, right on the edge of the bloody chasm, they made several of them. The nomination of Gen. Leese means thd same thing in Lancaster county. It will force a fusion of the railroad element of both old par ties, and place the dividing line where it should be, between the corporations aud the people. This is as it should be. The party name has been a mask for the rail road guerrilla thieves between the lines. They cared for neither party so they were allowed to plunder the people. This division will not only come here, but everywhere, as soon us the people realize the nature of the contest. The republican party will go down in such a melee, and re-organize in the new formation; but the democratic is im mortal. In the shadow of its pyramids, with no moral ideas and no ambitions, it will be found a thousand years hence peddling pea-nuts at the same old stand. The tendency of things is well stated in an article in this issue, entitled "Repub licanism, Democracy and Nationalism." RAILROAD EMPLOYES. There is no class of men in any com munity who would be bsnefited sc soon or so largely by the success of the inde pendent party as the railroad employes. Very probably the first law to be passed when tbe independents get control of the general government will be to prc vic'ie for the government ownership of railroads. With such a law there would necessarily be a provision for making employe?, in that service permauent offi cials with rules for promotion from the ranks, pensions for disability to the person injured, and to the employe's family in case of death. If the railroad employes of Nebraska will look into this matter hey will be come convinced that all their interests are with the independent party, no-; only as railroad employes, but as wage earners generally. Under government ownership and control the railroad em ployes will be just as the officers of the regular army, and. will be promoted for length of service and special ability in the line of their service. Under the Australian ballot system there can be no danger to any railroad employe in voting to suit himself. Thanks to the new system of voting, no one need know how he votes. There is no question but that under government ownership of the railroads all appliances for the safety of railroad employes would be adopted as soon as their utility could be demonstra ted, and employment in the train service would be much safer than at present. The eight hour law for government service would also be in force. Rail road men, study your own interests and unite with the great industrial party, whose interests are your interests, and which is organized for the express pur pose of protecting all men who earn their living by their personal efforts, in stead of being for the benefit of those who live off the income of investments. WILL THE PARTY BE BETTER THAX ITS LEADERS? The resignations of Qsay and Dudley, siys the Voice, from the chairmanship and treasurership of the national re publican committee are actions whose moral effect will be largely lost because so long delayed. Dudley's "Blocks of Five" letter was made public during the campaign of 18S8, three years ago. The charges against Quay were made long before that.in Pennsylvania campaigns, by Charles S. Wolfe and others, and over a year ago the whole story of Quay's public career was told by the World, the information being gained without doubt from Chris Magee, re publican leader of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. The Evening Post after ward conducted a special investigation and substantiated all the important parts of the story. Quay's retirement at that time would have been accepted as a deference paid to the public sense of common honesty. He has defied, and the national committee with him, the outraged sentiment of the country, and even now the national committee in ac cepting his resignation, pass resolutions declaring that they accept it against their judgment, "with reluctance and regret," and speaking of Quay's "nobil ity of character" and his "pre-eminent service to the cause of good government and patriotism." Dudley receives a similar endorsement of his public course and character. Clarkson now takes charge of affairs. He is a politician of precisely similar' character. It wa he who confessed bis attempt to bribe St. John in 1884, of which confession Dr. Howard Crosby said: "IT IS AN ADVOCACY OF LYING PURE AND SIMPLE. IT OVER TURNS THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY.... IN THIS CASE THE LYING IS OF THE BLACKEST KIND. IT IS THE LYING OF A TRAITOR. THE MAN THAT SEEKS TO USE SUCH MEANS IS ROTTEN.' Subscribe for Tni Aleiakcb. OPPOSITION TO RINU RULE. How the Changes Work. The citizens of Lincoln took pos session of the city government about April 1, Mr. Weir was placed ia the mayor's office to clean out the stab'es. As every one knows, many of the best citizens have heretofore contented themselves with taking their choice of the candidates placed before them by corrupt politicians. The salaries of city officers are not usually a temptation to men of first-class ability. So the best men have minded their . own business and permitted the most corrupt politi cians to manage public affairs, pocket the meagre salaries, and with it the "perquisites" of which the ordinary cit izen knows absolutely nothing, but which aggregate ten times the salary. Thus has the city been run until it be came almost too rotten to save. The mayor's office is worth $10,000 te him if he will accept the bribes to wink at crime as his predecessors have done. The gambling houses, the saloons, the dens, and the boodle rings are all will ing to "divvy up" for the privilege of being let alone. . It suits gamblers to be jerked at noon and hare their tools refunded at mid night for a private consideration; but they are skipping now, none are left, except perhaps a few private holes which are difficult to reach. It suits the saloons to have policemen on their beat who forget that the law requires them to close up at 10:30 p. ra., and stay closed until 5 a. m.; but the sa loons are kicking like a bay steer in a rum barrel. It suits the Journal to lie allowed to charge fabulous prices for work re served exclusively for it aud have its bills allowed without a question: but the Journal howls with pain at every breath and loses no opportunity to mis represent the administration and place it in bad odor before the public. The boodle gang are "mighty willin' " to work for the city in making improve ments when ihey are allowed to manip ulate the finances to their own advan tage, or to pack the caucus with their own set in a small room just big enough to contain them. while their opponents are obliged to crowd around the door outside, or to hold their secret midnight conclaves- to plot for their own aggrandizement at the expense of the public. But the boodle ring, as one man, is helping the Journal all it can to break down the ad ministration of pure and honest govern, ment in the interest of the stinking car cass which has been buried. There can be no surer indication that the reform administration is clean handed than the tribute unwittingly paid them by their enemies in these howls of rage that emanate from a set of men who are openly accused of cor ruption in public affairs. One of the wisest appointments made is that of chief of polled in the person of O. P. Dinges, a man of unquestioned in tegrity, able and incorruptible. ' So also in the appointment of Adna Dobson as city engineer, the mayor made a selection for unquestioned hon esty, capability, and incorruptibility. The appointment of Prof. Hicks to the chairmanship of the board of publio works stands out in bold contrast to the appointments that would have been made under the old regime based upon political boosting rather than special fitness for the position. And so the good work goes on in the spirit and fact of reform, and the law- loving citizens of Lincoln have come to see it with their eyes and acknowledge it with their lips, and they will band together to see that honest and pure government is perpetuated in this good ly city. OFFICE SEEKERS GALORE. Upon the Farmers Devolves the Duty of Selecting a Good Ticket. The publication in our city edition last Tuesday of the full report of the little consultation held by a few farmers last week, republished in this issue, had a remarkable effect upon the city cliques and office hunters. The proof that there was no democratic combine going on dropped some of the howlers nat. 13 ut the candidates blossomed out on every corner, and the factions in the city fell foul of each other in the most approved fashion. It is evident now that if good nominations are made the farmers must make them. By coolly voting together they can nominate whom they please. This power should be used for good. The best men should be elected. Location and other inter ests should be well considered. The full number of officers the city can fiairly claim should be riven to it. Give the Germans a good representative. Give the boys in blue a good show. And give the enemy h ail Columbia. THE SPEAKERS E.WHAXGE. Our proposition for a speaker's ex change for this fall's campaign is meet ing with much favor. Send along tbe names. Sec'y Thompson will classify and arrange them, and the work of furnishing speakers will be much more simple, as well as cheaper and more effective. THE ADAMS COVXTY RES0L17I0XS. We have received a very able letter for publication from Mr. Linus G. Stew art, speaking kind words for the editor of this paper, ' and condemning the Adams county resolutions. We with hold the letter for the present, as we do not propose to be the subject Oi any contention in the Alliance. We have all we can do to fight our enemies, with out fighting each other. But the letter may be cf use in the future.