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THE AM ERICAN. 4 THE AMERICAN. Iiurr4 at rneuifll. a -.-ad-cl matter. 40MN O. THOMPSON. !' W. C. KKI.LKY. Hinlnee luutf PCHUfUKU W'KKLY UY THI AMEEIC1N PUELISHIN5 COIPAKT, 161 llO4BD HmnT. OH 1ft. Nl. TIIK AMERICAN OrriCK tl Howard rUrwl. Omaha. Nb. 144 IVwrll Ae., Mallon ." hl.go. IU. I. U. Hon I ripple I'reek Oolo. JVAM) m 1 omr, mtrlvtlY I" Advmnr. c . - - " TO THE PUBLIC. TIIK AMFU1CAN I. not lh ora of u fci. order. aaMK-latlon, party. clliie, fact 'on or dlvUloa of lh population of Ult grand ltr puli lie. and repudiate and brand aa fa lew all claim or char (bat It I inch, li t uch claim or charge be mad by any pernio or peraoua wboia aoeeer. THE AMERICAN I a aewepaper of general circulation. going to and being read by people of all rellglou beltef and political afflllatlona; by lb while and lb black, lb uatlveborB and the naturtillied, the Jew and lb Uenllle, tbe 1'roU'Mant and tbe Hoiiian Catholic. TbU claim ran Ih) (utmtanllalcd In any Court of Ju.tlce at any time. AMIRICAN PUBLISHING CO.. I, jom c. mow-to. !. SEPTEMBER 4, ISM. THi: TICKETS. KKFCIIMCAN. For President, WM. McKINLEV, of Ohio. For Vice-President, GARRET A. HOnAUT, o( New Jersey. Dr.MOClUTIC. For President, WM. JKNNING3 DRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President, ARTHUR C. SEWALL, of Maine. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC. For President, JOHN M. PALMER, of Illinois. For VIco-Prf tildont, SIMON I). BUCKNER. of Kentucky. TKOPLE'S PARTY. For President, WILLIAM J. DRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President, THOMAS WATSON, of Georgia. PROHIIUTION. For President, JOSHUA LEVERING, of Maryland. For Vice-President, HALE JOHNSTON, of Illinois. NATIONAL. For President, CHARLES E. BENTLEY, of Nebraska. For Vlco-Presldent, J. II. SOUTHOATE, of North Carolina. And now the Qlolie-lkmocrat de clares John Ireland favors the public schools. The (llulx-Danocrat thereby proves Itself a wilful and intentional prevaricator. JOHN Rush recently told a gentle man that if he could dispose of his property ho would go back to Ireland and teach school. There ought to bo some philanthropist In Omaha who would assist John in this. This coun try can exist without John, but Ireland cannot exist without educational facili ties. Froiiably after all Die Kerens of Missouri is not running the Republi can national campaign. The Boston Citizen says: There were to have been nine mem bers of the Republican National Ex ecutive Committee; eight were selected by Mr. Uanna, and Dick Kerens wanted to be ninth. Mr. Banna re fused to appoiut him and now there is trouble. Several of our readers have re cently asked us what we thought would be the result to the wage earner if free silver carried the day in November. The Free Sllverltes claim, if they are successful, farm products will advance in price. They do not say whether free silver will raise wages. You prob ably know. We are inclined to the opinion that, if it does not raise your wages, it will not be of lasting benefit to the farmer, because you must buy his products or he will have to keep them. The State Fair, which has been in progress In Omaha this week, has probably been the most successful one ever held in the state. The crowds from out of the city that have come in dally have taxed not only the railway systems, but also the street car system, the hotels and even the State Fair As sociation to afford them ample accom modations. Thursday was Omaha day and the fair grounds swarmed with visitors, there being scarcely less than 70,000 people on the grounds during the day, and everybody seemed to be having a most enjoyable time. Every one of that vast throng, together with as many more, spent the evening on the streets and witnessed the imposing and beautiful parade prepared by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. AMERICANS! GET IN LINfcl Two of the "Blir Stone gang, Police ConjtuU!on?r Fyke aod Jobnaon, let out liU-en member of the police force without warolnff or caue. As all of the sixteen mm wore good Americans, ai.d each one a Republican, it shows the work of the old Romanized Demo cratic gang which has for o long In fesUid this country. The citizens are all up In arms against the dartardly detd, and much is to be heard regard ing the tame. Many are claiming that these gang police commissioners are getting the iioliee force cleared of Americans and Republicans, so that the Irish on the force can be used ac cording to the old methods at the com ing election. There vat much displeasure ex preened by the audience of some 2H) persons at a meeting of Council No. 57, A. P. A., lat Monday night, regarding the affair. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: WliKRKAS, Police Commissioners Fyke and Johnson have, In collusion with Chief Irwin, dlrcharged sixteen members of the police force without cauno; and Whkkeas, We know the said six teen men to be capable to till the posi tions they occupied, and are honorable citizen and efficient officers; therefore be It Jb nolvtil, That Council No. 69, A. P A., denounce the action of said com mlnsloncrs as Infamous, and a slur on all the decent citizens of Kansas City. Further, that tho action of Mayor Jones be endortod, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the various councils In this county, and a copy bo sent to the various papers. Many warm speeches were made against tho action of Fyke and Johnson, and Mayor Jones was highly com mended for his nolilo fight to retain the men on tho force. A motion was unanimously adopted calling for an "indignation meeting" to be held by the citizens of Jackson county on Sep tember 27th, at Farlow Grove. Every American citizen should fall in line to help down the gang in the coming county election Kansas City American. A MISTAKE SOMEWHERE. A curious story comes from New Jersey. It is to the effect that a cer tain member of the Methodist church was out fishing recently and had dropped off into a sound sleep, when a sound as of a violent wind swaying the trees awakened him. He was in his fishing boat In the middle of the stream and as he looked up toward the point from whence the nolso proceeded he saw a most inspiring sight. Rising from the waters was a white mist that dazzled and almost blinded with its brightness. From out that mist a mo ment later appeared a magnificent cross which ascended and remained suspended for a few minutes before his astonished and brightened gaze. The mirage was so surpassingly beautiful that he rubbed his eyes and pinched himself to ascertain whether or no he was awake, thon took another glance at the beautiful vision, when, strange to state, it had assumed a new form. It was no longer a magnificent cross, but a very correct acd entranclngly bewildering image of the Virgin Mary, so bright, and so exceedingly dazzling in its radiance that it blinded and frightened him as he watched its up ward Bight, causing him to fall upon his face and cover his eyes with his hands in order to shut out the light that surrounded her. The curious part of this story is that it should have been a Methodist who saw this apparition. No one would have been surprised had it been detected by the optics of a supersti tious, ignorant Roman Catholic, but to be vouched for by a good brother of the Methodist Episcopal church causes no little amount of suprise. Probably he was not such a good brother after all. He may have taken one pull too many at his jug of applejack. It is said to bo powerful stuff. The failure of Hilton, Hughes St Co., of New York, which occurred last week, is significant of what might be ex pected to follow should any radical change be made in the present finan cial system of the country. Mr. Gil lam, the manager of the company, in giving his reasons for the failure says: "The immediate cause can be attrib uted to the money market and the gen eral depression of business in all lines. It is a fact that a man with $1,000,000 in United States Government bonds cannot borrow more than a couple of hundred thousand dollars on his securi ties, and the difficulty in securing loans on a stock of dry goods will therefore be appreciated." This 1b, Indeed, a serious condition of affairs. The fact that the bonds of this government are not sufficient security to the money lenders for at least two-thirds of their face value can only be explained on the ground that the financial condition of the country is unsettled and the pos sibility of a change of value in the cir culating medium. The editor of this paper believes a protective tariff along the lines laid down by the Republican party Is more essential to the prosperity of the nation than any other issue embodied in any of the platforms. A Great Opportunity for the A. P. A. Some may not readily see how it is that now is the great opportunity for the American Protective AMOclatka to achieve some of its moot signal vic tories, after having received such a complete rebuff at the late national conventions. But we should bea- in mind that the order la not a political party having the same responsibilities, but is entirely Independent of all par ties, working on non-partisan lines, winning voters to its principles wher ever it can. Therefore the A. P. A. did not suffer political defeat like po litical parties, though they were re buffed at the national conventions. Its principles were not adopted, nor m the order they represented even recognized. But did these patriotic representatives of the A. P. A. go from the conventions to their homes with their heads down and their banners trailing In the dust? Not a bit of it. They went to their homes to meet their comrades in the conflict with banners waving high, ready to engage with re newed zeal and ceaseless activity in turning down political RomanUm at every point in all the land. The American Protective Associa tion will doubtless see that now is the golden opportunity to make wonderful advancement in numbers, influence and political power, which will develop In the fall elections. From now on until November, politics will wage as per haps never before, and political parties will be so much absorbed in their own affairs that the time will be especially favorable for the A. P. A. to put In its best work In forming councils aod get ting in members good and true, almost unobserved by politicians, papists and other opposers of the order. And this imjiortaat hand to hand work will be so quietly, so promptly and so effectu ally done as to occasion great rejoicing on election day to patriotic Americans, and consternation and madness to the Romish prlosthood and the political enemies of the republic. Tho A. P. A. councils and all its loyal members and friends will have their eyes open to see their opportunity to nominate the right men, and if pos sible elect them, to fill every office in the gift of the people. Therefore they will come to the front, be found early at the political primaries and prompt to attend the county, state and con gressional conventions, so that if it be possible the majority of the offices in the gift of the people may be filled by loyal Americans, and especially the new congress. But should the A. P. A. through carelessness, indolence or fear let the opportunity pass unimproved until after the presidential election, making no advancement in true Americanism, the order will doubtless receive the greatest set-back it has ever had, aod from which it will not easily recover. Therefore may this silent, onward movement be set in motion by the leaders of the order through all its councils everywhere, until everyone Bhall become thoroughly aroused, en thused and induced to enter anew upon its legitimate work of turning down political Romanism, now threatening our free institutions and even the very life of the republic. J. G. P. Reviving "The Standard." Meetings were held on Wednesday afternoon and evening of last week, of the stockholders In tho suspended Boston Daily Standird, to consider the question of reviving the paper. Mr. Levi F. S. Davis, of Somerville, pre sided, and addresses were made by Rev. J. D. Fulton, D.D., Rev. Hugh Montgomery, Evangelist T. E. Leyden and others. An excellent committee, consisting of Messrs. L. F. S. Davis, Dr. Fulton, B. F. Bradbury, B. F. Smith and Alfred Blanchard, was ap pointed to consider the matter and re port at a future meeting. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Ful ton used these impressive remarks: "Colonel John A. Cockcrill, recent'y deceased, and dying broken 'in heart and hope because of his own experi ence embodied In these words, which he used on one occasion: " 'You the journalists of New York, gathered in this press club, know that you are all slaves. You know it and I know it There Is not one of you that dare express an hon est opinion. If you express it, you know beforehand that it will not appear in print. I am paid $150 per week for keeping honest opin ions out of the press I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing things for papers with which you are connected. If I should allow honest opinions to be pub lished in one issue of my paper, like Othello, my occupation would be gone "The business of a leading journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawa at the feet of mammon and to sell his country and hla race for daily bread, or for what is about the same his salary. You know this and I know it, and what foolery to be talking about an inde pendent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are jumplng-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talent, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are Intellectual prostitutes." Attention, Company! There wiy be a meeting of the John L. Webster Flambeaux Club in the New York Life Building (Republican headquarters) September 5th, at 8 p. m The Plattsmouth trip and others of importance come up. DOLiLilE. (By Tom Johnson.) It was the last day of August. This great city was thronged with visitors from the surrounding towns and country, who had flocked here to attend the carnival and witness the festivities of the KnlghU of Ak-Sar-Ben. Coy maidens, retiring lads, sun burned men and grotesquely attired women mingled with the crowds which scrambled for places on the electric cars or for seats upon the railroad trains. All, everyone of them, being content if they secured standing room, and were thus enabled to visit the great fair then in progress. I watched the panorama for a long time, then set out for a walk about the city to acquaint myself with the char acter and the extent of the decorations which the citizens bad made in honor of these visitors. Even in the sunlight's glare they were not simply beautiful, but in many instances absolutely entrancing, and I wondered what would they resemble beneath the mellow light shed by the Incandescent lamps and the great arch lamps which hung suspended from every street corner and midway of each block. Used as I was to the glare and glit ter, the bustle and bustle of city life, I could not help giving expression to my surprise and pleasure to those around me. But as I had my business to attend to, my explorations were not as ex tended as they might have been had I been a gentleman of leisure, and had time been weighing upon me. How ever, they were sufficiently extended to satisfy my curiosity, and to assure me that all former attempts at decoration had been outdone. Satisfied upon that point, I returned to my office, seated my Be If at my desk and was soon dictating to my stenog rapher answers to certain important letters which had come in by the last mall. When I had finished that task, and while the click of the typewriter told that tha shorthand notes were being transcribed, I sat and twisted my mous tache and gazed idly at the green lawn beyond. I was in a pleasant reverie in a mo ment. I was a boy again. My time as an apprentice had just been finished and I was ready to step out into the world in search of employ mentand what a great, big world it seemed to mel It was almost incom prehensible in its immensity. I would not go at once Into its mys teries. I would lounge about home, go fish ing, visit my Uncle Joe at the mills near Talmage, and then, when I felt brave enough, I would plunge into the world and seek the employment I so much needed yet so much dreaded to go In quest of. I Keep my resolve. I went to Talmage Mills. I fished and hunted, and once, when a circus visited the city, I went and mingled with the crowd which had al ready preceded us. And in that way I whlled away the time. Days ran into weeks, and country life began to grow irksome. Fishing became a drag hunting ab solutely unbearable and I longed for something to relieve the monotony. One day I was thinking ot going home, when Dollie, a wee bit of hu manity, came toddling out among the trees where I was seated, bearing an aged, unvarnished violin in her chubby, sunburned hands. "Oo play Dollie music." "I play Dollie music; bless your little heart, I could not play a tune on that instrument if my life depended on it," and yet I took the violin, and drew the bow across the strings. It had an exquisite tone. I tried again. The result pleased me, and I ran to the house in search of a piece of music. I could find nothing but a hymnal. That I took, together with my little cousin, and returned to the grove which bordered the river bank. And what a time we had. That old violin fairly talked, and Dollie clapped her fat handsfas I as sayed one familiar tune after another. We spent hours together. At times she would demand a story as the price of her company, and many are the times I have held her on my knees and related some tale that would cause her childish eyes to fairly glow with enthusiasm, and her chubby arms to encircle my neck as she cried'in an ecstacy: "Oo tell another one, iCousin,Tom!" And so the days sped by. Finally a letter came from home. It stated that I had been offered two situa tions, and I should return and choose between them. One was a government job; the other was with a leading firm In this city. I chose the situation offered by the private corporation and in July of '80 came here and accepted the place. The years rolled by with alarming rapidity. I never found time to go again to Talmage Mills. Everybody there, almost faded from memory. Even my Cousin Dollie becamo but a fair-haired recollection. And the thoughts of the violin never again entered my head. But I sit and muse, and wonder what is to follow the mad rush of this life, and as I am lost to all earthly sur roundings, I see a maiden, fair, with golden hair, beautiful of face and figure, with dancing eyes and a face that reminds you of peaches and cream, pass between the window and the green lawn beyond, breaking my reverie and bringing me back to a realization that the typewriter has ceased to click, that a friend has entered and seated himself and that there is a controversy going on between some young people before our office door. A moment later that vision of maid enly loveliness sweeps into the office, and without any hesitation asks if Mr. Johnson is in. The clerk at the first desk says that is Mr. Johnson at the further desk. She came toward me beaming with smiles, her hand outstretched. No man could help but clasp it. I was no exception. I took hold of it just as cordially as it was extended, and as she felt the pressure of my hand she exclaimed: "I am your cousin, Dollie ." Then turning suddenly to my wife who was seated at an adjoining desk she said: "And this is your wife; how do you do?" I found time to break in: "Oh, Will's girl?" And my wife said at the same time, ''Uncle Joe's girl?" and she answered, "Yes, your cousin." She hurried through our conversa tion, and it was not until after she had left the office that it came to me-tbat she was not Will's girl, but Joe's, and that she had been my companion six teen years before at Talmage Mills. But we made up for it Wednesday. She was out to our house and spent the day, and we reviewed those child hood days, and were as happy as we were sixteen years before. No doubt many others have had a similar experience this week, and if they have, they are the happier that tbe fair has been held. AMERICAJiS FOK THE JiAYY. Secretary Herbert has Materially Aided the Movement to Get Rid of Foreigners. Washington, Aug. 5. The present system of recruiting now in operation in the navy Is meeting with the un qualified approval of tbe commander-in-chief of Btatlons. Rear Admiral Beardsley, command ing the Pacific station, says: "The course adopted for the recruiting for the ships, as far as possible .only young American citizens has accumulated on them a large body of excellent men, natives of this coast. When their terms of service have expired and they return to their homes there will be mingled with the people a very strong element of well-trained young men who will undoubtedly join the naval mili tia." Xew York Herald. Secretary Herbert Is doing all in his power to make the navy a wholly American institution. When he firtt came into office the enlisted force of the service was largely composed of foreigners; who never had any inten tion of becoming citizens, f and who simply served the flag for the pay they received. Under Secretary Herbert's orders, preference In enlistments has been given to Americans. Since his administration bean, congress has enacted a law permitting thennaturall zatlon of sailors under certain condi tions without the formality of residing on shore. Toe provisions of J this law, the department has been informed, have been embraced by many of the men. Since the law went Into opera tion and the secretary inaugurated his policy of enlisting as many Americans as possible, the foreign element is fast disappearing from the navy. Things certainly have been in a dis graceful state. We welcome the change and hope for more radical steps in the future. Though the A. P. A., as some of our dear Romish friends of the quill wish us to believe, is "dead andiiburied," its spirit or its ghost (which?) is marching on. Primitive Catholic. A Usurper, t The Roman Catholics want Humbert to pack his duds and go. The (Presby terian) Evangelist has the following: "Tne Catholic Review makes it clear that the pops and his bishops regard the King of Italy as no less a usurper to-day than when, twenty-five - years ago, his father, Victor Emmanuel, fixed his capital at Rome. Ourtcontempor ary quotes front the official letters of Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati, and Archbishop Kaln of St. Louis both prelates of great influence, and on oc casion want to make much of their American cltlzanshlp. We give a por tion as indicating the temper of the whole. And it is to be borne in mind that the king and his prima minister and their supporters have not abjured the Catholic faith. The whole quarrel Is over things temporal, not: spiritual: "The twentieth day of this month will be the twenty-fifth annlverary of the downfall of tbe temporal power of the pope. In reference to It, Most Rev erend Archbishop Elder ha Issued a circular, In which, after stating that the loss of his civil Independence has for a quarter of a century subjected the head of the universal kchurch to the domination of a hostile : government and deprived him of hhrordlnary rev enue for the administration of the church, he calls upon the Catholics of tbe diocese of Cincinnati to make Sep tember 20th an occasion of special and fervent prayer: 'First. Asan act of reparation to the honor of God for the injustice and sacrilege committed against Him In this outrage against His church. We will add our prayers for the unhappy authors oMt, that God may enlighten their minds and move their hearts to ba reconciledwlth Him and save their souls. Secondly. In supplication to God to re-establish His vicar on earth, in the condition of free dom and independence needed for the welfare of the church, restoring to him his temporal dominion, which he has often declared to be a necessary condi tion for the fullness of that freedom and independence. For he who spiritually rules the people of every nation mud not be politically under thepower of any one among the nations. Just as in our own America, the national govern ment, for the security of its independ ence, has created the District ot Co lumbia, exclusively its own "dominion, not in the territory of any state. Thirdly. By these devotion i-. we hope to give some consolation .to the heart of our holy father, keenly sensible to the indignities put upon the Saviour of the world, through His vicar, and heavily weighed down by 'being op pressed and seeing the salvation of im mortal souls hindered because God's church is hampered in her divine work.' The archbishop desires that special prayers be ..held, not only on Friday, September 20ih, but also on the following Sunday, so that all the faithful in his jurisdiction may also take part in them. The church every where will then supplicate the Lord to rescue it from this oppression by a gov ernment dominated by atheism and antl Christian Freemasonry.' " CoiifldencejWell Bestowed. Chicago, III., Aug. 31. My Dear Ajax. In the issue of The American of the 22nd inn. I noticed a letter ad dressed to my old friend Walter C j Kelley, signed by one "Ray horn," mak ing inquiry as to the whereabouts of all the old patriots and suggestfng the advisability of an imlependentfparty. For some unaccountable reaonifriend Kelley has seen fit to permit the com munication ot Mr. Claries Ray horn to go unanswered, and I feeljit-my duty to turn to 'you, who, in my estimation, above all others, would beiable to give the gentleman the informationuhe de sires. In regard to this Mr. Charles Rayhorn, I will say that I am at a loss to locate him, and would be very much pleased to know who he is and where he could be found gshould Ja call tbe Issued for the patriots of Chicago. About ten years ago, when I first took an active interest iai a patriotic work, I opened a bookj.which, for lack of a better title, I called "My Book of Patriots," and in which I) entered the names of all those with whomslcamo in contact in patriotic jwork. As those whose names I hadjentered there fell by the wayside through their loy alty to party principles orthrough their unconquerable love for political jobs or gold, I erased their names from "My Book of Patriots," and .with a tear dismissed them from memory. This Mr. Charles Rayhorn must be a new-comer, for I fail jto find him la "My Book of Patriots," and, as hon est, loyal patriots are a scarce article on the Chicago market, I would be pleased to add his name to themow al most depleted list of patriots, and I call upon you, Ajax, to give this new comer the Information he desires, and request that he be placed in a position where he will be able ito use his in fluence in the interest of Americanism and humanity. Again reminding you of the fact that there is no overproduction of friends of the cause in Illinois, I am, yours, Atlas. Martinelli Will Sail'September G. Washington, D. C, Aug. 29. Car dinal Satolll yesterday received a let ter from Rome announcing that Arch bishop Martinelli, the new papal dele gate, will sail from Genoa on the steamer Fulda on Sept. 6. The ceremony of tha Installation will take place at the residence of Car dinal Satolli and will beau impressive, yet very simple function. Cardinal Satolll will invite a few personal friends to be present. Cardinal Satolli will remain three weeks as the guest of the Archbishop Martinelli to explain to him all the details of hii new position. He will leave Washington on Oit. 16 and go to New York City to visit Archbishop Corrigaa for a few days. A farewell reception will be tendered him in Brooklyn by the representative Catho lic societies. He will sail on OjU 17. Dr. Rjoker will remain in Washington as Marti nelli'a secretary.