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For State Anditor. .
THQjiAS H. BENTON..
For'AttorneGeneral, .
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For Commissioner Tnblic Lands and"Bnildinge,
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'For SnperintendentPublic Instruction,
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Coming Events.
Hirtte -County - Fair, at Columbus,
Sept.';26-28.
Colfax County Fair Sep. 1921.
Boono.County Fair Sept. 1921.
" ChVyfcnne County Tair at Sidney, Sept.
26-2K .."
'". Dodge County Fair Oct. 25.
Nance County Fair Oct. 35.
" Ten TnousASD doltars!
.";' Into wbich state go the ten thousand"
,. . ". -clollare?
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i-V". ' 'Trnioiiy fevek is spreading rapidly
"' j : in Bo6toii.r
,' ;-v ' Tun ne-A-bridge at Omaha will be open
'"'-" forfoot passengers October 1st.
No PATmoT should vote for a candi
:'"".., Jato who thanks God he was a rebeL."
'".' TheK. Y.Sun calls Brice, the chair-
..-- man of the democratic national com-
', 'iriittee,a "rainbow chaser."
.''. i. A violent wind storm at Washington,
;' '. b. C, Snnday blew down several houses
and' .lifted a: number of roofs.
: ' , The only time" England can use an
' Irishman is when he emigrates to Amer--"-
ica and votes for free trade." London
Times.
V . It. is now estimated lhat 150 lives were
.'. lost by the eruption in July of the old
..--;" ." volcano Mayon, in the Philippine Is
."" lands. .
.' Alabmino epidemic of hog cholera in
'"'j.he western part -of- Macon county, Dl.;
.'" ..nearly 800 hogs have died within the
." 'past week.
. ":. ' THEmeeting of the .old soldiers and
.. .their friends brought together at Co-
- ' ' .Iambus, O more than a quarter of a
'?.- . "million strangers.
v."'.-'''-- The .'London Daily News says it is
-.h- rgratify.lng-t6find.that President Cleve-
""' land does not wish to make retaliation a
y- .plack of his platform.
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'.":- .BOvEB.CivEiiAND has done more
.- :. to-advance the -cause of free trade than
. ov any prime minister of. England has ever
'"'; ilbne'.'London Spectator..
.,; .'The Baltimore-American is responsi
"! ;i -ibie for-the following: The secrete of
"-"muchjuccefesin- this world axe" cash;
. 'C' corifidince, cheerfulness nd. constancy."
Miss Ceaka '.Bubton, of Washington
1 .:' '.Ci.presideiit of the Bed Cross,- con
.":.:triblfted last week "$1,000 from her pri
.':: "-vitenetftts in aid of the yellow feyer
" .; erafferecs.-. '.
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-."" J ''.Tito earthquake shocks were reported
:. pit' the 10th at Vostizza, onthe Cor
J i&tbianisulf, doing great damage. .Sup-
'ply.'.tetfts-wepe 'sent for the. homeless,
'?. "a.o4 prtfvisions'fpr the destitate. .
: 7 V-XThe aggressive amouHt of the fortifi-
f-' 'catipa appropriat011 " ' conw6 tom
U-- .the.:cbnfrence,:is-S372,000,-which is
.' -$247000 more than .the. nouae bilL and.
- " "S50,000"less-than, as it passed the senate".
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:; .' j-.jfjoI-specimen of-marine.archrtecture tliat
.'" -the world has ever seen, has been beach-
''" " .-eo! .ad -will b brbken up! She was
:"" tJWtopVandher original length. 680
. " , feetlbetween perpendiculars, or 692 feet
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V-" ..Isirrendered himself aSalt Lake to the
TX BaanhaX " answer to ihe charge
" ' o.mdawfal cohabitation . He pleaded
V jgufly-to:)Drouidictment8 and was sen
tenced to 175 days imprisotiment and
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. Gartner Thayer.
The filly attempt of democratic organs
to make people believe Gov. Thayer is a
monopolist and a corraptionist, will not
succeed. -Gen. Thayer has served his
vountry as a soldier tried and true, a
United States senator from Nebraska
and as governor of this 'state; it is true
he is an old nun; he is also old in the
service of bis "country, bat, mnlike his
competitor, MeShane, he is a poor man,
and sleeps in his office at the capitol of
the state'to save expenses. MeShane is
worth his. tens and probably hundreds
of thousands of dollars, and it is charg
ed against him that he did what he
could to 'retain the settlement of west'
Nebraska by homesteaders, because he
had there .large cattle interests, and
homesteaders, with their little, nnfenc
ed tracts of cultivated land, could not
get along peaceably with cowboys and
their roaming herds, and cattle men
were aware hat the homesteaders wave,
once started, would sweep the country,
as it has done.
, The talk concerning Thayer being a
monopolist is bosh. To be in public
life as long as he has, with the high po
sitions he has oocupied, and to be
worth only about $2,000, is, of itself, al
most enough to refute the flimsy lie.
Texaa Awake.
It seems that the author of the free
trade bill is likely not to have everything
his own way Fn his congressional dis
trict. In the contest which inevitably comes
between those who raise cattle and those
who raise sheep in the same region (the
two not being able to graze profitably on
the same grounds), congressman Mills
has takep the side of the cattle men as
against the-sheep raisers, and these lat
ter are now strenuously opposing his.
re-election to congress, with a probabili
ty of succeeding. -
Col. E. A. Jones", said .to be. a very
popular man in the district, has .con
cluded, to be a candidate against Mills,
because he is very much opposed to the
MUls bill.'-
The district contains eight counties,
five of which aggregate 7500 majority
democratic, one is republican by 1,500
and the remainder are about even; so
that the hope of the sheep men to defeat
Mills is not without good foundation.
. Judge E. S. Dcndt, of the U. .S. district-court
of Nebraska, while out on a
vacation and hunt in company with his
nieces, Mrs. Elmer D. Frank of Omaha,
and Mrs. E. W. Howe, all on horseback
going to their hunting camp, along a
path on the side of a mountain in Wyom
ing, a savage silver-tip bear, driven by
shots from the other side of the moun
tain, broke through the brushes twenty
feet distance, and with a savage roar and
desparate lunges made straight for one
of the Lories, who rode nearest the brute.
With courageous gallantry, the Judge.
leaped from his horse, and, jumping to
the side of the path, stood between the
bear and the ladies. He had his Win
chester, which he drew on the bear, ad
vancing upon his hind legs, has fore legs
outstretched for the death hug, a bear's
favorite mode of attack. Judge Dundy
fired, but, although the bullet took ef
fect, it did not stay the progress
of the bear. On came the fu
rious animal, Judge Dundy still shield
ing the ladies. Once the brute laid bis
monster paw on the Judge's shoulder,
tearing his coat and lascerating the
skin, but by a skillful movement he es
caped the hug and drawing bead once
more he brought the bear to the ground.
He then called to the ladies and found
Mrs. Frank dangling by one foot, caught
in a rope in the saddle, her horse mak
ing fearful lunges. By a miracle the
lady was rescued from her predicament,
and the two led to the bear. It was a
monster brute weighing about 1,000
pounds. The Judge will secure and
bring home with him the pelt. This
must be a matter-of-fact bear story, no
fiction, as it comes attested by a private
letter from Medicine Bow Park, Wyo.,
and is fully endorsed by bring published
in the Globe Democrat, at Atchison,
Kansas.
The North Nebraska M. E. conference
closed its annual session last week,. and
the appointments for the several dis
tricts were announced. For the Grand
Island district they are as follows: J. W.
Shanks, presiding elder; Albion, H. G.
Pittenger; Albion circuit, Gilloghy; Ce
dar Rapids, R. S. Crawford; Contral City,
H. S. Hilton; Central City circuit, J. B.
Leedom; Clarks,R K. Fierce; Chapman,
C. S. Moore; Columbus, H. L. Powers;
Elba, W. Rose; Fnllerton, G. W. Martin;
FuUerton circuit, C. D. Day; Genoa, G.
A. Martin; Grand Island, a W. Savidge;
Petersburgh, W. A. Wilson; Scotia, L.
Campbell; Silver Creek, S. Cates; St
Paul, J. E. Moore; Wood River, E. C.
Harper. Rev. J. L. St Clair, who for
merly labored at the Columbus station,
goes to Ponca, in the Norfolk district
Prof. Richard A. Proctor, a noted
-astronomer, died of yellow fever in Wil
lard Parker's private hospital, in New
York, at 7:15 on the evening of the. 12th.
The Prof, had spent the. summer at his
place called Oaklawn, Marrion county,
Fla, and was. not known to have been
exposed to the disease. He was on his
way to England, where he intended to
lecture this fall and winter. His. death
was preceded by black vomit, which sets
at rest all. doubts in his case.
On the 12th forest fires were raging at
various points along the.bay shore, north
and northwest of Bay City,Mich. Great
damage resulted. In many places hous
es and other property were destroyed,
and at others people were fighting for
their lives or fleeing to save them.
Quinn's lodging camp has been entirely
wiped out, the men saving themselves-
only by precipitate -flight
Congressman Ltkan of Iowa struck
ihe right note when he .said: ""what my
people want is the best market for the
products of the soil -they .can possibly
get and, 'too, they want that market at
the very shortest possible distance from
their own doors.
It is one of the best evidences of the
prosperity of our cities that so large a
proportion of the men who work are
covered by their own roof trees. If we
would perpetuate this condition we must
'maintain the American scale of wages.
Gen. Harrison.
The Pioneer Press gave an account of
a frightful accident last week at Urick's
tunnel, on the Montana Central railroad,
some twenty miles from Helena, by a
premature explosion. Ten men were in
stantly killed nd terribly mutilated.
HAaUUSON ACCEPTS.
The Rkfubxjcax Cajtdidatb's Fostcai. Ikma
or AoOTrrAH cc Lrxi Au, flra Bn
Monro, .or DraBonraas ahd FaAmoras). H
Stands Squab Ufox the Plattobx cjr the
Pabtt Coxt-cxtiov. Tax Obbat Iaapx or
ra -Dat DtaouasaD n a SsATSSKAkniKC
Maxxxx. I . .
' Indiamapous. Sept 1L The fc "low
ing is General Harrison's letter at eept
ing the republican presidential noi aina-
uon:
Indianapolis, Indl, Sept 11. 2 1. M.
Extee, and others. Committee Gi ntle-
men: When your committee visiM d me
on the Fourth of July last, and pre sent
ed the official announcement of myjnom-
ination for the presidency of the TJ aited
States by the republican national con
vention, I promised as soon as pra stica
ble to communicate to you a mon for
mal acceptance of the nomination.
Since that time the. work of rece iving
and addressing, almost daily, large dele
gations of my fellow citizens, his' in
some measure rendered it unnecessary
touse this letter as a medium of (com
municating to the public my views ipon
the questions involved in the camp ugn.
I appreciate very highly the confit ence
and respect manifested by the coi iven
tion, and accept the nomination w th a
feeling of gratitude and a full sen le of
responsibilities which' accompany it .
It is a matter c f congratulation that
the declaration ot the Chicago coi ven
tion upon the questions that now at tract
the interest of the people are so ;lear
and emphatic. There is further can 9e of
congratulation in the fact that the con
vention utterances of the democratic
party if in any degree uncertain or con
tradictory, can now be judged am 1 in
terpreted' by executive acts and mes
sages, and by definite propositions in
legislation. -This is especially true of
what is popularity known as the tariff
questiou. The issue cannot now be ob
scured. It is not a contest between
schedules, but between wide apart prin
ciples. The foreign competitors oC our
market have, with quick instinct (seen
how one issue of this contest may bring
them advantage, and our own peopU are
not so dull as to miss or neglect the
grave interests that are involved for
them. The assault upon our protective,
system is open and defiant. Protection
is assailed as unconstitutional in the
law, or as vicious in principle, and tpose
who hold such views sincerely cannot
stop short of an absolute elimination from
our tariff laws of the principle of pro
tection. The Mills bill is only a itep,
but it is towards an object that the lead
ers of democratic Jhoupht and legisla
tion have clearly in mind. The impor
tant question 'is not so much in , the
length of the step as the 'direction of it
Judged by the executive message of De
cember last, by the Mills bill, by the, de
bates in congress, and by the .St Louis
platform, the. democratic party will, if
supported by the country, place the tar
iff laws upon a purely revenue basis.
This is practical free trade free trade
in the English sense. The legend upon
the banner may not be " Free Trade."
It may be a more obscure motto, Tariff
Reform;" but neither the banner nor
the inscription is conclusive, or indeed,
very important The assault itself is the
most important fact
Those who teach that the import
duty upon foreign goods sold in our
market is paid by the consumer,, and
that the price of the domestic competing
article is enhanced to the amount of the
duty on imported articles that every
million of dollars collected for custom
duties represents many millions more
which do not reach the treasury, but are
paid by our citizens as the increased
cost of domestic productions resulting
from the tariff laws, may not intend to
discredit, in the 'minds of others, our
system of levying duties on competing
foreign products, but it is clearly al
ready discredited in their own. We can
not doubt without impugning their in
tegrity, that if free to act upon their
convictions, they would so revise our
laws as to lay the burden of the customs
revenue upon articles that are not pro
duced in this country, and to place upon
the free list all competing, foreign pro
ducts. I do not stop to refute this theory as
to the effect of our tariff duties. Those
who advance it are students ofmaxims,
and not of the markets. They may be
safely allowed to call their project'tar
iff reform," if the people understood that
in the end the argument compels free
trade in all competing products. This
end may not.be reached abruptly, and
its approach may be accompanied with
some expressions of sympathy for our
protected industries, and our working
people, but it will certainly come if
these early steps do not .arouse the peo
ple to effective resistance.
The republican party holds that a pro
tective tariff is constitutionally whole
some and necessary. 'We do not offer a
fixed schedule, but a principle. We will
revise the schedule, modify rates, but al
ways with an intelligent prevision as to
the effect upon domestic production and
the wages of the working people. We
believe it to be one of, the worthy ob
jects ot tariff legislation to preserve the
American market for American produc
ers, and to maintain the American' scale
of wages by adequate discriminating du
ties upon foreign competing products.
The effect of low rates and larger impor
tations upon the public revenue is con
tingent and doubtful, but not so the
effect upon American production and
American wages. Less work and lower
wages must be accepted as the inevita
ble result of the increased offering of
foreign goods in our market By way of
recompense for this reduction in wages,
and the loss of the American market, it
is suggested that the diminished wages
of the workingmen will have an undi
minished purchasing power and that he
will be unable to make up for the loss of
the home market by our enlarged for
eign market Our workingmen have the
settlement of this question in their, own
hands. They now obtain higher wages
and live more comfortably than those of
any other country. They will make the
choice between the substancial advant
ages they have in hand, and the decept
ive promises and forecasts of theorizing
reformers. They will decide for them
selves and for the country whether the
SrotoctiYe system shall be continued or
estroyed.
The fact of a treasury surplus, the
amount of which is variously stated, has'
directed public attention to a considera
tion of the methods by which the na
tional income may best be reduced to
the level of a wise and necessary expen
diture. This condition has been looked
upon by those who are hostile to protec
tive custom duties as an advantageous
base of attack upon, onr tariff lawal They
have magnified and nursed the surplus
which 'they affect to deprecate, seeming
ly, for the purpose of. exaggerating the
evu, in order to reconcile the people to
the extreme, remedy they propose. A
proper reduction of the revenuej does
not necessitate, and should no't suggest
the abandonment or impairment of the
protective system. The method sug
gested by our convention will- not need
to be exhausted in order to effect the
necessary reduction. We are not j likely
to be called upon; I think, to make a.
present choice between the surrender of
our protective system and the entire-repeal
of the internal taxes. Such' a con
tingency, in view of the present relation
of .expenditures to revenues, is remote.
The inspection and regulation 61 the
manufacture and sale of oleomargarine
is important .and the revenue derived
fmm it in not so meat that the rebeal of
the law need rater into any plan of rev
enue reduction. The surplus now in the
treasury should be used in the purchase
of bonds. The law authorizes this use
of it and if it is not needed for ctarrent
or deficiency appropriations, the people
and not the banks in which it has been
deposited, should have the advantage of
its use by stopping the interest en the
public debt At least those whoj'need
tossly board it should not be allowed to
to use the fear of a momentary stringen
cy, thus'produced, to coerce the (public
sentiment -upon other-questions.
Closely connected with the subject of
the tariff is that of the importation of
foreign laborers under contracts M ser
vice to be performed here. The law now
in force prohibiting such contracts re
ceived very cordial support in the senate,
and such amendments as may be found
necessary effectively to deliver our work
ing men and women from this most
inequitable form of competition will
have my sincere advocacy. Legislation
prohibiting the importation of laborers
under contracts to serve here will, how
ever, afford very inadequate relief to our
working people if the system of protec
tion duties is broken down. If the pro-
I ducts of 'American shops must compete
jji the American market witnout Favor
ing duties with the products of cheap
foreign labor, the effect will be different,
if at all, only in degree, whether the
cheap laborer is across the street or over
the sea. Such competition will soon
reduce wages hero tathe level of those
abroad, and when that condition is
reached we will not need any laws for-'
bidding the importation of laborers un
der contract They will have no induce
ment to come, and the employer no
inducement to send for them.
In the earlier years of our history
public agencies to promote immigration
were -common. The pioneer wanted a
neighbor with more friendly 'instincts
than the Indian. Labor was scarce and
fully employed; but the day of the im
migration bureau has gone by. While
our doors will continue to open to proper
immigration we do not need to issue
special invitations to the inhabitants of
other countries tocome to our shores, or
to share our citizenship. Indeed the
necessity of some inspection and limita
tion is obvious. We should resolutely
refuse to- permit foreign governments to
send their paupers and criminals to our
ports. We are also clearly under a duty
to defend our civil positions by exclud
ing alien races wjhose ultimate assimila
tion with our people is neither possible
nor desirable. The family has been the
nucleus of our best immigration, and
the home the most potent -assimilating
force in our civilization. The objections
to Chinese immigration are distinctive
and conclusive, ahd are now so generally
accepted as such that the question has
passed entirely around the stage of ar
guments. The laws relating to this
subject would, if I should be charged
with- their enforcement, be faithfully
executed. Such amendments or further
legislation as may be necessary 'and
proper to prevent evasions of the laws,
and to stop further Chinese immigration,
would also meet my approval. The ex
pression -of the convention upon this
subject ia- in entire harmony with my
1 views.
Our civic compact is a government by
majorities, and the law loses its sanction,
and the magistrate our respect, when
this compact is broken. The evil re
sults of election frauds do not expend
themselves upon the voters who are
robbed of their rightful influence in
nublic affairs. The individual, or com
munity, or party, that practices or con
nives at election frauds, nas suffered
irreparable injury, and will sooner or
later realize that to exchange the Amer
ican system of majority rule for minority
control is not only unlawful and unpat
riotic, but very unsafe for those who
promote it The disfranchisement of a
single elector by fraud or intimidation
is a crime too grave to be regarded
lightly. The right of every qualified
elector to cast one free ballot and to
have it honestly counted must not be
questioned. Every constitutional power
should be used to make this right se
cure and punish frauds upon the ballot
Our colored people do not ask special
legislation in their interest but only to
be made secure in the common rights of
American citizenship. They will, how
ever, naturally mistrust the sincerity of
those .party leaders who appeal to their
race for support only in those localities
where the suffrage is free and election
results doubtful, and compass their dis
franchisement where their votes would
be controlling, and their choice cannot
be coerced.
The nation, not less than the states, is
dependent for prosperity and security
upon the intelligence and morality of
me peopie. xnis common interest very
early suggested national aid in the es
tablishment and endowment of schools
and colleges in the new states. There
is, I believe, a present exigency that calls
for still more liberal and direct appro
priations in aid of common school edu
cation in the states. The territorial
form of government is a temporary ex
pedient, not a permanent civil condition.
It is adopted to the exigency that sug
gested it, but becomes inadequate and
and even oppressive when applied to
fixed and populous communities.
Several territories are well able to
bear the burdens and discharge the du
ties of free commonwealths in the Amer
ican union. To exclude them is to deny
the just rights of their people, and may
well excite their indignant protest No
question of the political preference of
the people of a territory should close
against them the hospitable door which
has opened to two-thirds of the existing
states. But admission should be abso
lutely refused to any territory a majority
of whose people cherish institutions that
are repugnant to our civilization or in
consistent with a republican form of
government.
The declaration of the convention
against all combinations of capital organ
ized in trusts or otherwise, to control
arbitrarily the condition of trade among
pur citizens, i& in harmony with the
Views entertained and publicly expressed
by me long before the assembling of the
convention. Ordinarily capital shares
the losses of idleness with labor, but
under the operation of the trust in some
of its forms, the wage-worker alone suf
fers loss, while idle capital receives its
dividends from a trust fund. Producers
who refuse to join the combination are
destroyed, and competition as an ele
ment of prices is eliminated. It cannot
be doubted that the legislative authority
should and will find a method of dealing
fairly and effectively with these and
other abuses, connected with this sub
ject It .can hardly be necessary for me to
say that I am heartily in sympathy with
the declaration-of the convention upon
the subject of pensions to our soldiers
and sailors, wnat tney gave and what
they suffered I had some opportunity to
observe, and in a measure the experience.
They gave ungrudgingly. It was not a
trade, but an offering. The measure
was heaped up, running, over. What
theyachieved only a distant generation
can adequately tell. Without attempt
ing to discuss particular propositions, I
may add that measures in behalf of the
surviving veterans of the war, and ot the
families of their dead comrades, should
be conceived and executed in a spirit of
justice and of the most grateful liberali
ty, and that in the competition for civil
appointment, honorable military service
should have approximate recognition..
The law regulating appointments to
the classified civil service received my
support in the senate in the belief that
it opened, the way to a much needed re
form. I "still think so, and therefore
cordially approve the clear and forcible
expression of the convention upon the
subject .The law should have the aid ot
a friendly interpretation, and' be faith
fully and vigorously enforced. All ap
pointments under.it should be absolute
ly free from partisan considerations and
influence". Some extensions of the clas
sified list are practicable and desirable,
and further legislation extending the
reform to other branches of 'the service
to which it is applicable -would receive
my approval. In appointments to every
grade and department fitness, and. not
party service, should be Che essential
and discriminating test and fidelity and
efficiency the only sure tenure of office.
Only the interests of the public service
should suggest removals from office." I
know the practical difficulties attending
the attempt to apply the spirit of the
civil service rules to all appointments
and removals. Itwill, howeyerr, be my
sincere purpose, if elected, to -advance
the reform.
I. notice with pleasure that the con
vention did not omit to express its
solicitude for the promotion of virtue
and temperance among our people. The
reDublican Darlvhas always been friend
ly to everything that tended to make the j
home life of our people free, pure and
prosperous, and will in the future be
true to its history in this respect
Our relations with foreign powers
should be. characterized by friendliness
and respect The right of our people
and of our ships to hospitable treatment
should be Insisted upon with dignity
and firmness. Our nation is too great.
j both in material strength and in moral
' power, to indulge in bluster, or to be
suspected of timorousness. Vacillation
and inconsistency are as' incompatible
with successful diplomacy as they -are
with the national dignity. We should
especially cultivate and extend our dip
lomatic and commercial relations with
the Central and South American states..
Our fisheries should be fostered and
protected! The hardships and risks that
are the necessary incidents of theSpusi
ness should not be increased by an.
inhospitable exclusion from. the near
lying ports. The resources of affirm,
dignified and consistent diplomacy are
undoubtedly equal to the prompt and
peaceful solution of the difficulties that
now exist Onr neighbors will surely
not expect in our ports a commercial
hospitality they deny to us in theirs.
I cannot extend this letter by a special
reference .to other subjects upon which
the convention gave an expression. In
respect to them, as well as to those I
have noticed, I am in entire agreement
with the declarations of the convention.
The resolutions relating to the coinage,
to the rebuilding of the navy, to coast
defenses, and to public lands,, express
conclusions to all of which I gave my
support in the senate.
Inviting a calm and thoughtful con
sideration of these public questions, we
submit them to the' people. Their in
telligent patriotism and the good Provi
dence that made and has kept' us a
nation will lead them to a wise and safe
conclusion. " .
Very respectfully, your obedient ser
vant, Benjamin Harbjson.
And Tarn, Think of Graver' 10,000 Ckeck.
.Think of Thomas Jefferson sending
$5,000 to John Quinoy Adams for cam
paign purposes, or Washington handing
a bag of gold coin to Alexander Hamil
ton with instructions to "whoop er up
with the boys," or Jackson giving a
check to Benton on Biddle's Philadel
phia bank to pay the expenses ot Craw
ford while he made the canvass of
Georgia, or Clay selling eoonskins (the
entire year's catch of all the niggers on
his plantation) and forwarding the pro
ceeds to Joshua R. Giddings and De
Witt Clinton to solidify Ohio and New
York for the Whig ticket! Minneapo
lis Tribune.
The Condition That Conn-eats Us.
Here is the New York Sun's analysis
of the presidential situation. And a
right good analysis it is without a sign
of comfort for the Sun's candidate or
its party:
Necessary for a choice
Southern democratic states...-.
Needed for Cleveland and Thnnnan . . .
201
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A"r AUsaTk ajv
AtjTH ST VXB4. p V
Connecticut 0
Total 51
New York 38
Indiana IS
Total 51
Will Contest.
St. Loots, Sept 14 Information
comes from Arkansas that C. M. Nor
wood, late fusion candidate for governor
of Arkansas, will contest the election of
Governor Eagle. Dr. Norwood claims
to have been elected by 700 majority.
The republicans and union labor party
of Arkansas have decided to fuse on the
presidential ticket Governor Hughes
has offered a reward of $200 for the ar
rest and conviction of each of the parties
who stole the Pulaski county ballot
boxes.
American Goods for Aaterieaa Mosey.
American money should be spent at
home to pay for American made goods.
Let us sell our cotton, wheat, oil and
other products for cash, instead ot buy
ing knick-knacks with the proceeds and
supporting foreign systems of labor and
trade. All that America needs can be
made in America, and American manu
facturers are entitled to the patronage
of the American people. - Chicago
Journal.
A Center Shot.
The president has sent a letter to
congress in response to the recent reso
lution, imparting the information that
not a case of alleged unjust treatment of
an American merchant vessel has been
reported since March 3, 1887. In view
of this fact, he had better write another
letter telling what he meant by his re
taliation message, unless it was to catch
votes. Hastings Gazette-Journal.
Patents Granted
To citizens of Nebraska during the past
week, and reported for this paper by C.
A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opposite
TJ. & Patent office, Washington, D. C.
W. V. Cecil, Omaha, brick setting; J.
A. Hooton, Clifton, wire fence building
apparatus; H. L. Pharris, Superior, corn
cultivator; C. H. Roselius, Nebraska
City, door catch; J. W. Yates, Geneva,
road scraper.
Fell From the Con Palace.
Sioux City, Iil, Sept 17. This morn
ing Dave Whitmore, the ex-prohibition
pedestrian, while at work decorating
the turret on the corn palace, fell a dis
tance of forty feet and suffered serious
and what may prove fatal injuries. His
left leg was broken just below the knee
and the right ankle was fractured. He
also sustained serious internal injuries.
Campaign Lies.
"We have now discovered why the
JouBNAXt ssks for a prohibitory law."
Democrat of Sept 7.
It is sufficient to say of this lie that it
is a very blundering one. The Journal
favors submitting any question of great
publio interest to a vote of the people,
but ib opposed to the adoption of the
prohibitory amendment
No Third Party Converts Made.
Chapman, Mo, Sept 17. Rev. J. G.
Tate, well known as an able' republican
advocate, and Frank Cramer, a local
prohibitionist of 'considerable ability,
discussed the leading political questions
of the day before a large audience .Sat
urday evening. No third party converts
were made and the republicans, were
strengthened.
Aa Earthqcake Somewhere.
San Francisco, CaL, Sept, 17. The
tide gauge at San Celito yesterday registered-traces
of an earthquake 'trans-'
mitted through the Pacific ocean. The
waves travejed at the rate of 400 miles
an hour. Wherever the earthquake
took place it must have occurred six to
eighteen hours before it was registered
here. . .
Agent Porter sends a-telegram from
Chicago to Chief BelLofthe fj. & secret
service- it Washington, statins; that on
the 11th he captured at Mount Carroll,
BL, two counterfeiters, Keach and Mc
.LaugMia, together with a large amoant
of counterfeit aaoney and a complete
outfit
Enodand is showi-ag exceeding anxiety
for the passage of the Mills bill and for
Grover ClevekBd's re-election. In this
instance the advice is excellent: mod omt
what England wants you to do, and
then don't do it '
The recent p'urohase.of United States
bonds' has caused a marked decline in
the treasury- surplus, which fell from
$110,000,000 last Monday weak to $103,
950,000, as stated in the treasurer's re
port. .
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NEBRASKA NOTES. '
Mr. Albin Hedbind and Miss Annie
Faulan eloped from Wilcox, one night
last -Week. They had not been found up
to the 12th inst
Burglars broke into John Wray's sa
loon at Culbertson the other 'night, but
were soared away by a shot which prob
ably hit one of them.
On the 12th Major John C. Baker,
paymaster, visited Camp John R. Brooke
ahd paid the boys in blue their monthly
wages, about $20,000. ..
Two car loads ot excursionists arrived
the. other day at Kearney from Massa
chusetts and Connecticut 'They will
remain a few days. A good scheme for
Kearney.
H. H. McElhenny at Nebraska City
one night last .week found a thief in his
residence, and fired several shots at him,
some of which must have taken effect,
as he left blood stains on the sidewalk.
Recently at Grant a traveling gambler
by the name of John Willcome attempt
ed to swindle citizens and was promptly
arrested by Sheriff WinchelL He had a
hearing and was bound over to the dis
trict court
Last week, a number ot deaths occur
red at Huntley, ten miles north of
Alma. Two children ot Elliott Lowe,
have died, and Mr. Lowe's brother, a
young man about 25 years old, died of
the same disease.
John Spinieck, living in Omaha, near
the corner of Eleventh and Douglas
streets, aged fifty-two years, on the
night of the 16th shot and killed his
wife and then shot himself. -He has
been a resident of Omaha for many
years.
Dominic Staffin, living east of Im
perial, was found dead in the road, last
week, about a mile from his claim.
When last seen he was in a cart, having
a gun with him and on his way home.
He is. supposed to have accidentally
shot himself.
Thirty-two years ago yesterday, Sept
10th, the first building was erected on
the site of the present city of Fremont
It was the joint work of E. H. Barnard,
Cornish Lee, Leander Gerrard arid John
A. Kountz all of whom we believe are
still alive. Herald.
A Bee special from New York says
that the steamship Colorado arrived
there on the 13th from England, having
on board ten Clydesdale mares and one
stallion for G. Millar, Nance county, Ne
braska. Another and larger shipment
will follow next month.
A B. A M. train from Omaha Thurs
day night was attacked about a mile out
by parties throwing ears of corn at the
headlight breaking the glass and put
ting out the light A few minutes later,
passing through a cut, a dozen men on
the embankment bombarded the engin
eer and fireman with stones. Engineer
Green was quite seriously hurt having
been hit in the stomach and ribs with
heavy rooks, besides a severe blow on
the leg.
On Wednesday as M. M. Huck and
wife and Bisae and Birdie Kelser and a
Mr. Greeley, with one of Mr. Noris liv
ery teams, were crossing the Mike John
son bridge, that stood about twenty feet
above the water, it gave way precipitat
ing them, horses, carriage, and all, into
the bottom of miry Maple creek. The
wonder is that they were not all killed,
but strange as it may seem, no one was
hurt It was a condemned bridge, but
no notice had been given. North Bend
Flail.
Waahlncton Letter.
From oar regnlar correspondent, 1
Senator Hale's committee, which in
vestigated the democratic violations of
the civil service reform law, met this
morning to consider their report to the
senate. The report will clearly show
many plain and intentional violations of
both the letter and spirit of this law by
democratic officials.
Cleveland's good luck is certainly
getting to be a thing of the past First,
he wrote his free trade message, which
is the rock upon which the old demo
cratic hulk will be wrecked in Novem
ber. That was hardly a piece of good
luck. Second, he attempted to distract
public attention from his first blunder
by sending in a real, genuine "jingo"
message on the rejection of the fisheries
treaty by the senate, in which he wildly
asked for more authority in order that
he might punish the wicked Canadians
for their treatment of American inter
ests. He expected his request to be
refused, but bis luck again went
back on him. The republicans did not
oppose, granting him all the power he
might imagine necessary for the protec
tion of American interests, but during
the discussion of the bul giving him that
power the republicans took occasion to
let the country know that Cleveland has
had the power in his hands for' more
than a year and a half to have brought
.Canada to her knees at any time, but he
has declined to use it The biU giving
him the additional power asked for has
bean passed by the house without se
rious opposition, only four votes against
it, and it will, in due time, pass the sen
ate, so that Cleveland has failed entirely
to take-the attention of the voters from
his free trade message. After the eiec-.
tion it will be Cleveland's "bad luck"
that will take the place of the "good
luck" with which the country has been
surfeited. "
Representative Bayne of Pennsylvania,
is enthusiastic c-ver, republican prospects
as indeed are most-; republicans here,
particularly those who, like Mr. Bayne,
are warm'persona, friends of CJhairman
Quay and are thua enabled to keep post
ed on the inside work of the campaign.
Mr. Bayne gives good solid reasons for
tk expected victory in New York. He
says: In the first place, Mr. Harrison
will get the votes of May repmblieaas
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COLUMBUS.
who voted against Mr.-Blaine in 1831; he
will hold all the Irish vote that Blaine
got, they are opposed to opening onr
market to England. Another important
element, the prohibition vote is going
to be very small this year, not only in
New York, bnt throughout the country.
In 1884 it was said that there-was no
difference between the two great parties;
that there was no issue. This led
many earnest temperance people to de
clare what the issue should be, and they
voted for prohibition. But these people
nave otner interests. Tnere is an issue
a very clear issue this year, and most
of them are deeply interested in it. As
republicans they will vote with us, and
the loss to the prohibition vote will be
gain for Harrison. I feel perfectly sure
that we will carry New York, Indiana,
and Connecticut and I believe wo will
carry New Jersey and one or two south
ern states.
Representative Rowel!, who has just
returned from the west, says that the
expressed hopes of the eastern demo
crats to carry Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota
or Michigan will not bo realized. On
the contrary,Mr. Rowell thinks the re
publican vote in those states will this
year be a gain on that of 18SL He also
thinks the party will make congression
al gains in the states mentioned.
Euajat private pension bills were vetoed
by Cleveland Friday.
It is believed here that the notorious
Eugene Higgins has been employed by
the national democratic committee for
crooked work in Indiana. If Higgins
tries any of his Baltimore tricks in Indi
ana he should be promptly swung up to
the nearest tree.
Senator Hoar has called the attention
of the senate to the fact that his resolu
tion which was passed August 28, re-.
questing the president to send copies of
remonstrances that had ever been made,
by his direction to England on- account
of Canadian mistreatment of American
fishermen has never been complied
with. " r
Many bills have been introduced to
break trusts, but unfortunately for; the
people none of them have become laws
and no trusts have been broken up.
Other Coantries.
Last week eight French threshers
were killed, and five injured by an ex
plosion of a threshing, machine at Ciron,
department of Indie.
Members of the- provincial councils
in Spain have been elected, a triumph
for the liberals. The carlists made- a
hard fight, but only elected -a few of
their candidates.
The Daily News, admits Daviti's pa
triotism, but thinks he has greatly mis
conceived his political position.' Hap-I
pily, however, the, Irish' cause iscomr
mitted.to the' care and conduct of men
with more sagacious heads;
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from 'the Congo country, stated ; thai
Major Bartelot had been, murdered -By,
native courtiers. Pref-Jamison, natur
al, aadreturned.to Stanly Falls and is'
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It was stated .fast week-in -London :
that upon the assembling of "th.Parnell- .
commission application will be made, for -
the release of Mr.DiJloa'on bail in order .
to enable him to appear-either aS an. ac;- .
cused prisoner or as a witness.
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Davitt last week wrote id the secretary
of the Parnell commission "that he .never -
sanctioned the publicatioa.,of his. 'state-'-,
ment, and that h'e; did not -know- that: . -anybody
intended Ito' publish id"-- He ad-' '
mits the authenticity of. the document. ".-
The rivers Xenit Guadelfea and" Grant :
ado in Spain last week e.vejhoweU thei'f . '.
banks, causing, much- damage 'and'..
great-destruction to pro'pertyin the.aip
jacent country. Villages -have I-been' "
swept away. The people. havebecome.
panic stricken and have taken :efagein:
the mountains'-- Many- persons '.were.".-'
drowned. Twelve corpses have-'already- .-.
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Train No. 1, the Fin Express Teayeif "-:
Council Bluffs 7:35p.'n.;-dafly,-arriying.-.
at Denver second; day 6:15 p. ib., Ogdm -
third day 5:45 p..m and Ssn -.frandseo
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same morning, at or aboat 10-00'aJ-muar-':-.
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p. nt, San Franctfco-'third. "dhy vat- 10:5v.:-V;'
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