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We reserve the right to reject any manuscript,
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separately. Give a facta.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST V; 1894.
Republican C'onresional Convention.
The republican electors of the Third conRreR
nional district of Nebraska are requested to send
delegates from their several counties to meet In
convention in tho city of Norfolk, on Tuesday,
August 23. 18M, at 7:80 o'clock p. m., for the pnr
Iose of placing in nomination a candidate for
congress from fcaid district.
The several counties are entitled to represen
tation as follows, being based upon the vote cant
for Hon. J. 31. Itaymond for presidential elector
in 152, giving ono delegate-at-large to each
county and one for each 100 votes and tho ma
jority fraction thereof:
(bounty. Del.County. Del.
Antelope. ... ... ! 3Iadison
Boone 10,Merrick "j
Hurt. 11 Nance
Cedar 8 Pierre.
Colfax Platte 10
Cuming H Stanton ;
Dakota. r.,Thureton b
Dixon 6 Wayne 8
Dodge. - lr, , ...
Knox Hi Total 1-.5
Dated Norfolk. Nebr., JuuU 18, IBM. ,
Bdrt Mai-es, C. C. McNisii.
Secretary. ( hairman.
Kepnblican County Convention.
Notice is hereby given that the republican
county convention will Ik; held in the court
house. Columbus. Nebraska, at 1 o'clock p. in. on
.Monday, the 20th day of August, 1SJI. for the
purpose of placing in nomination a county
ticket for the following otlices:
One county attorney.
One representative.
And to elect delegates to tho htnte convention
to bo held August 22d, ls!l. in Omaha, Nebr.
And to select delegates to the congressional
convention.
And to select delegates to the tioat representa
tive convention.
And to select delegates to the senatorial con
vention and transact such other business as may
properly come before the convention.
All primaries to elect delegates to the county
convention to be held Saturday, Aug. ISth, be
tween tiie hours of 2 and C p. m. except in the
-wards of Columbus they shall be between 12 m.
and 7 p. in. Tho wards and precincts will lie
entitled to the following representation to the
county convention:
City of Columbus Butler 2
First ward 5 , Loup 1
Second" ' Lost Creek 4
Third 7 i Burrows 1
Columbus town-hip. 3 Grand Prairie 1
Crest on. .
4 t aionroe
1 ' Joliet. 2
5 I St. Bernard 1
2! Woodville 2
8 Walker 3
M. K. Tons eii.
Chairman.
, Bismark
Sherman
Shell Creek
Granville ....
Humphrey
H. T. SroEBHV,
Secretary.
Coming Event.
Colfax county fair, Sept. 13-22.
State fair at Lincoln, Sept. 7-14.
Platte county fair. Sept. 2T.. 26. 27.
The republican state convention will bo held
at Omaha August 22, 10 a. in.
People's state convention at Grand Inland.
Wednesday, Aug. 13. at 10 a. in., Platte county
entitled to 10 delegates, Madison 10, Stanton 4,
Colfax 7. Butler 13, Polk 12, 3Ierrick 7, Nance 8,
Boone 11, of the 751.
Besides our own state, those affected
more or less by the severe dry weather
are Indiana, Wisconsin, and here they
had light frosts on the yd injuring cran
berries, Iowa, Minnesota, with light
frosts Thursday and Friday, South Da
kota, Kansas "in greater part, Ohio,
Michigan, with light frosts on the JU
and 4th, Kentucky, in part, N. Dakota.
Theke seems to be an opening now
for a central Nebraska man on the re
publican state ticket, and, as the name
of Gns. G. Becher has several times been
mentioned, now is the time to make a
strong pull all together for Columbus.
There is no doubt but Becher would
make a very strong candidate and what
is more, would make a very excellent
officer, after election. Strike while the
iron is hot, and let Platte county re
publicans get to the front and give the
state ticket a man of character.
Tiie Palmer folks in Merrick county
are making a heroic effort by legislation
to be effected to rid themselves of Rus
sian thistles. It is such a pest that it
must be exterminated or the farms be
made worthless by it. There is no middle
course, and individual work here and
there, if ever so good, will not answer
the purpose. From all accounts it is one
of the very worst enemies that may strike
the farm." The Jouknal. months ago.
gave a complete description of the pest,
and the best means of getting rid of it.
The New York Voice has been ex
posing the lottery schemes at Kansas
City, and finds a considerable amount
of rottenness, of course. One of the
items mentioned is the fact that the
prizes advertised by the lottery com
panies are not paid, except in a few
cases where the amounts are small, or
where those receiving aro really agents
of tho company and turn the amounts
back to the company as soon as they
receive them. One man who was ad
vertised as having received $75,000, said
he never got it, but was paid for making
affidavit that he got it The lotteries
are conducted for the benefit of the
officials, the same as any other gambling
business. '
Conqbesshax Bbtak is out as a can
didate for U. S. senator. In a letter to
the executive committee of the Ne
braska Democratic Free Coinage
League, he sets forth his principles at
length. He favors tariff for revenue
only, an income tax; the option on the
part of the government, of paying either
gold or silver on all coin obligations;
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
on a basis of 1G to 1; making the presi
dent ineligible to re-election; a liberal
pension policy; the operation of the
telegraph system by the government,
and the strict control of railroads and
all other public corporations by proper
legislation. The Chicago Times says
that Mr. Bryan's principal opposition
will come "'from the impotent Morton
and such following of party ragtag and
bobtail as he may be able to muster."
In the Dakotas the Russian thistle
has already proven to be the most ser
ious evil farmers have ever had to con
tend with, whole counties in some
localities having been depopulated and
given over entirely to its overwhelming
spread. Its appearance in this county
has justly caused our people the greatest
alarm, and the need of prompt action is
apparent to all. It is perfectly plain
that to wage any successful warfare
against this pest the work must not be
left to individual effort. The neglect of
one fanner may sow the farms of a
dozen neighbors with the thistle in
spite of all their efforts to exterminate
it within their own borders. Neither
can a county cope with the evil single
handed. Concerted action throughout
the state and in all other states affec
. ted wherever - possible together with
. action by the national government upon
its territory, should be bad and that
without delay. Central City Courier.
C6MPLETE
SURRENDER
House Agrees to the Senate
Tariff Amendments.
TWO H0UBS FOR DEBATE.
Program Arranged In the Democratic
Caucus Fully Carried Out.
TMBTEEN DEMOCRATS VOTE NAY.
Principal Speeches Made by IVIUod, Criip,
Reed and Burrow Separate Bills Passed
Placing Coal, Iron Ore, Sugar anil Barbed
Wire on the Free List Itourke Cock
ran's Sensational Speech.
Washington, Aug. 14. The long
struggle over the tariff bill came to a
close at o'clock Monday afternoon,
when the house, by a vote of 182 to 105,
decided to discharge the conferees from
further consideration of the bill, recede
from its opposition to the Go senate
amendments and agree to the same. It
was a complete victory for the senate.
The house made an absolute surrender.
The result grew directly out of the sen
sational course of events at the senate end
of the capitol, precipitated by Senator
Hill on Fridaj'. Up to that time the
house conferees had stood linn against
the senate amendments, and especially
on the three disputed schedules of coal,
iron ore and sugar, and the temper and
voice of the house was for war war to
the end. But the indications that the
Democrats of the senate might be unable
to longer hold a majority of votes in line
for even the senate bill and that the bill
was in desporate jeopardy forced the
house Democrats to immediate action.
Admitted "They Were Beaten.
The conferees of tho house at last ad
mitted the' were beaten and that an
other vote could not be risked in the
senate that it must be either the seuate
bill or no bill. The whole question was
precipitated at the caucus held just lie
fore tho house convened, at which, after
a thorough review of the situation and
speeches in favor of receding by Speaker
Crisp, Chairman Wilson and others, it
was decided to take the senate bill, and
immediately afterwards passed separate
bills placing coal, iron ore, sugar and
barbed wire on the free list and by so do
ing place the house on record and at
least partially overcome the humiliation
involved in its defeat. The program ar
ranged in the caucus was carried out to
the letter in the house after an iron clad
special order had been adopted. The
scenes in the chamber throughout tho
day and evening were at times euasa
tional. The galleries were packed and
the members applauded and cheered
their respective leaders to the echo.
Under tho terms of tho order, but two
hours were allowed for debate on tho
main proposition to recede aud agree to
to the senate amendments on the tariff
bill. A parliamentary skirmish pre
ceded the pitched battle, but points of
order raised by the Republicans were
swept aside. Tho speaker ruled the
house with an iron hand. The principal
speeches for and against the main ques
tion were made b- Chairman Wilson
and Speaker Crisp on tho Democratic
side and ex-Speaker Reed aud Mr. Bur
rows on the other. There was no time
for preparation and all the speeches
were hot from the forge of the brain
and were greeted with round after
round of cheers and applause. Bourke
Cockran (N. Y.) aud Tarsnoy (Mo.), both
Democratic members of the ways and
means committee, delivered scathing
and sensational speeches, denouncing the
surrender of the house as cowardly and
indefensible.
Took It as a Personal Affront.
The speaker replied to Mr. Cockran,
whose effort was a brilliant one. with
such temper that the latter took it as a
personal affront, although the speaker
disclaimed such intention and made a
vicious lunge at Speaker Crisp. There
was no attempt on the part of the Demo
cratic leaders to claim a victory. They
all admitted they were accepting the in
evitable, justifying their action on the
ground that the senate bill was infinitelv
better than the McKinley bill. The
most startling feature of the day. per
haps, was Cockrau's eloquent appeal tc
Chairman Wilson to name the Demo
crats in thesenatewho threatened the de
feat of all tariff legislation if the dispute
between the two houses were persisted in,
but Mr. Wilson made no response.
When the vote came to bo taken at 0
o'clock, 1") Democrats. Messrs. Bartlett,
Cockran, Hendrix, Dunplry, Warner and
Covert (N. Y.), Dave, Meyer and Price
(La.), Everett (Mass.), Gorman (Mich.).
Johnson (O.) and Tarsney (Mo.), voted
with the Republicans against the resolu
tion. The Democrats then put through
one after another, what the Republicans
derided as the "popgun bills," placing
coal, iron ore, barbed wire and sugar on
the free list and which in the brief de
bate on each of the bills they maintained
would be passed only to go to their death
in the senate.
When Chairman Wilson took the floor
he spoke calmly, but eloquently, the
Democrats crowdiug about him and
listening intently to his ever' word.
Again and again the applause broke
forth. He said:
Mr. Speaker: I have made the motion
which I have sent to the clerk's desk, not
on my own responsibility or from my ofn
volition, but as the official organ of the
caucus of my associates ou this side of the
house and by their direction. I shall say
very little myself on this occasion in ad
vocacy of the motion, and I shall be sin
cere and frank in what I shall submit to
the house. I do not pretend I am grati
fied at the outcome of this prolonged con
troversy. I had hoped and believed that
this house, backed by the American peo
ple and enthusiastically sustained by the
Democratic party, would be able to
achieve some honorable compromise be
tween the two houses which we could
have accepted not from u sense of duty,
but with a sense of satisfaction and a
feeling that we had responded to the
mandates of the American people.
Wilson Learns a Valuable Lesson.
But, Mr. Speaker, we have simplv real
ized in this great fight the fact sc well
stated by the great leader of the tariff re
form fight iu Great Britain that when
the people have gained a victory at the
poll9 they must have a further stnnd-up-and-knockdown
fight with their own rep
resentatives. And we have realized, if
nothing else, the salutary leson of the in
trenchnient of the protective system in
this country under years of class legisla
tion until the mere matter of tariff sched
ules is a matter of insignificance and the
great question presents itself i this to be
a government by a selftaxing people or a
government by trusts and monopolists?
(Applause on the Democratic side.) If we
have taken out of this fight, no other
lesson than that it has been to us a great
and inspiring and a valuable lesson. I
shall not attempt, as I said in the outset,
to explain the merits or to dwell upon the
demerits of 000 odd amendments to this
bill which this house is about, of neces
sity, to concur in. Perhaps I could not do
justice to the merits of the amendments.
My attention has necessarily been o con
stantly and so steadily directs to their
demerits that it would require same ex
perieuceto learn what the merits are.
(Laughter ami nimlausf I
But whatever the measure of sbortcom
lng of this bill in its present form
whatever Imj its demerits in mere
schedules this I do know that it
is bt-tter than the McKinley bill.
(Loud Democratic applause.) This I do
know, that in a part of it, it does afford
some relief to the tax payers or this coun
try and does clip the wings-of the gigan
tic monopolies that are now oppressing
them and blocking legislation. (Applause
on the Democratic side; derisive cries on
the Republican side.)
Take even those provisions of the bill
over which the contest between the houses
has been waged; take iron ore and coal,
upon which we have confronted and to a
certain extent unsuccessfully confronted
the great railroad syndicates; yet Ave have
reduced them both nearly 50 per ceut be
low the McKinley bill. (Applause).
Touches Up the Sugar Schedule.
Take the sugar schedule, over which the
greatest of all the contests between the
two houses has been waged. Vicious as
it niHy be, burdensome to the people as it
may be, favorable to the trust as it may
be. it is less vicious; less favorable to the
trust: less burdensome to the people than
is the McKinley law, under which this
trust has grown so great as to overshadow
with its power the American people. (Ap
plause.) If for no other reason then, those
who believe that when they cannot take
the full step which they desire; when
they cannot do that which the people
commissioned them to do, they must take
the best they can aud step as far as they
can, made find some justification for an
unhesitating choice between the two bills.
The question is not raised as to whether
this is a government of the American peo
ple for the American people, or a govern
ment of the sugar trust for the benefit of
the sugar trust. And this house will
show the people, I donbt not, what its po
sition is on that question, and the senate
also will show the people its position.
Reed Aroused the Republicans.
Mr. Wilson spoke but 10 minutes at
the opening of the debate. He then re
served the balance of his time, and Mr.
Reed, the leader of tho opposition, took
the floor. The gentleman from Maine
aroused his followers to the highest pitch
of enthusiasm. Following is his speech:
Mi:. Sl'K.VKKH: I am somewhat reluctant
to address the house, because my feelings
are divided between two emotions. One
is an emotion of regret for the Democratic
party and for its position, and the other
is a feeliug of equal regret for the country
and its position too. So far as the gentle
man from West Virginia is concerned and
his compatriots, there is not the slightest
necessity of my commenting on the differ
ence lietweeu this scene of sorrow and the
triumphal procession which carried him
out'of this house. (Laughter aud applause
on Republican side.) lie is not so joyous
now, having been carried out in another
branch, and mora effectually. (Renewed
laughter.)
It is unfortunate forthe gentleman from
West Virginia that he and his compa
triots have had to contend with gentle
men of so much more capacity and skill.
Undoubtedly the house conferees meant
well. Undoubtedly their intentions were
honorable, but they were no match for
the gentlemen whom they met in the
other branch. They were not so skillful
as those men. Why our conferees came
back to us, gentlemen of the house, with
out so much as the name of the bill they
transported across the the building a
month ago. It will be known in history
as the Gormau-Brice, vice the Wilson bill,
dead. (Laughter and applause on the He
publican side). And not dead on the field
of honor either. (Renewed laughter aud
applause)
It Kpitaph Has Been Written.
We shall not write its epitaph. That
has been done by a nearer and dearer per
sonage. That has lieeu done by the man
whose name must be affixed to this bill
before it oan be a discredit to the statute
book. Ills nime must be affixed. He
tells you this bill i au instance of perfidy,
injustice and dishonor. We have nothing
to do in the next campaign except to read
the testimony of your chief magistrate,
under whose protecting wing the commit
tee on ways and means of the house have
lived so that we do not know at any mo
ment whether thej were a committee of
the house of representatives or a commit
tee of the executive. (Applause on the Re
publican side.) Out of your own house
hold has come your condemnation. Xay,
out of your own mouths has your con
demnation come.
For we shall read that bold aud uncom
promising declaration of the chairman of
the committee on ways and means that
we were to sit here until the end of our
term to put down the sugar trust. What
do we have instead? Why, we have a
proposition to fire one of those popgun
tariff bills for which the gentleman from
Illinois (Springer) was deposed from the
ways and means committee. (Laughter
on Republican side). His successor, after
filling the atmosphere with his outspread
wings, finds his nest in some other bird's
premises. (Republican laughter). Why
not resign if you were to adopt the action
of the other person? I congratulate the
gentleman from Illiuois (Springer) upon
his personal triumph. I wish I could con
gratulate the country upon something.
(Applause ou the Heptibiieau side).
McMillin (Tenn.) followed Reed. He
began by recalling in connection with
Reed's prophecy of political disaster to
the Democrats of the house, the over
throw of the Republicans after the pass
age of the McKinley bill in 1890. After
criticizing Mr. Reed for not discussing
the question at issue, he proceeded to
point out some good features of' the sen
ate bill, fr wool, free lumber, free
hemp, etc., aud tho reductions in the
general schedules.
Burrows (Mich.) followed McMillin.
"Friday last," Mr. Burrows declared,
"was a remarkable day iu the history of
the bill. The house was firm that morn
ing, but that afternoon, when Mr. Vest
in the senate threatened to turn on the
calcium light and expose the secrets of
the conference, come what would, the
Democrats of the house had fallen tc
their knees Democratic jeers. The
Democratic executive, theretoforo firm,
was quiet and yielding when he heard
that threat. So a caucus met and all was
abandoned. It was not compromise, it
was unconditional surrender. In view
of what the president had said of the
bill; in view of the rumors that would
cling to it forever, the president would
belie his character if he did not return it
with all his scorn and contempt and the
interrogatory, -Is they servant a dog
that he should do this thing?' "
From a Populist Standpoint.
Mr. Wilson then yielded a few minutes
to Pence (Colo.) tho leader of the Pop
ulists who said the Populists had
thought and thought still the contest
over the tariff between the two old
parties was a good deal of a mock con
flict and a sham battle. Any measure
was a measure for the relief of the
masses, Mr. Pence proceeded, if it re
pealed the McKinley law. In conclusion
he paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Wilson.
Cockran (N. Y.) was given the closest
attention by the expectant galleries and
was at times enthusiastically applauded
from either side of the chamber as his
sledge hammer blows were dealt at the
McKinley law or the senate bill. Mr.
Cockran was deeply in earnest and his
protest against the consummation of this
tariff legislation recalled his fainou;
speech of protest at the Chicago conven
tion. Mr. Cockran ridiculed the action
of the house conferees in having gone
forth to meet the senate conferees and
then having turned and fled at a shadow
without having met the enemy in con
flict at all.
In closing he said: "Thus you stab
tariff reform in the house of its friends.
You'surrender the dignity and inde
pendence of the house to secure the pass
age of a bill which will so firmly en
trench protection in popular favor that
this generation may never see anothei
successful effort to overthrow it. If we
are to swallow this whole obnoxious bill,
then in the name of fair play, in the
naSlS of decency, i-. thf name of Ajnjrj
ican liberty and freedom, let the gentle
man from West Virginia (Wilson) tell
us to whom we are surrendering; tell us
who they are who constitute the new
force in this government to which we
are compelled to pay tribute; tell us fully
and without reserve the character of the
action which he asks us to take, that we
may judge the depth of the infamy into
which we are invited to descend." Ap
plause. Barbed Wire Trust.
Hopkins (Ills.) and Gear (la.) spoke
against the barbed wire bill and Coombs
(N. Y.) for it. Bryan (Neb.) spoke vig
orously for the bill and Pence (Colo.)
said the barbed wire trust might suffei
from the bill but the American people
would gain. The vote to place barbed
wire on the free list was: Yeas, 187;
nays, 84. The following Democrats
voted against free barbed wire: Graham
(N. Y.). Reilly (Pa.), Sperry (Conn.),
Stevens (Mass.). Republicans voting
for it were: Wilson . (Wash.), Pickler
(S. D.), Marsh (Ills.), Lucas (S. D.), Doo
little (Wash.).
The free coal bill was passed yeas,
160; nays, 104; answering present, 1.
Twenty-one Democrats voted against the
bill, as follows: Anderson (W. Va.),
Bankhead (Ala.), Boatuer (Ala.), Bnrnes
(Mo.), Crain (Tex.) Davey (La.), Denson
(Ala.), Edmunds (Va.), Eppes (Va),
Kribbs (Pa.), McKaig (Md.), Gates
(Ala.), Reilly (Pa.), Bobbins (Ala.).
Swanson (Va.), Tucker (Va.).Tyler (Va.),
Wise (Va.), Weadock (Mich.), Wheeler
(Ala.). Wolvertou (Pa.). Ilanghen (Wis.)
was the only Republican who voted for
free coal.
The Republicans joined with the Dem
ocrats in voting for the free sugar bill.
It passed 2?G to 11. Those who voted
in the negative: Messrs. Boatner, Davey,
Meyer, Ogdeu, Price and Robertson
(Dems., La.), Everett and Stephens
(Denis., Mass.), Hanuer and Reyburn
(Reps., Pa.) and Sperry (Dem., Conn.).
This is the largest affirmative vote ever
cast in the house.
At 10:23 p. in. the house adjourned
until Wednesday.
PROVISIONS OF THE SENATE BILL
Tatiir McaMU : Which Takes the Place ot
the McKinley Bill.
Washington, Aug. 11. Tho senate
bill which tiie action of the house (bar
ring a presidential veto) insures as the
lay of the land in place of the McKinley
bill provides the following rates of duty
upon the great staples which have been
the bones of contention:
All raw sugars, 40 per cent ad
valorem; sugars above No. 10 (refined),
1-8 cent additional; sugar produced in
bounty paying conutries, 1-10 per cent
additional to these rates. Hawaiian
sugar is still free under tho reciprocity
treaty.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton; pigs, f 1 per
ton; iron or steel rails, 7-20 of 1 per cent
per pound; lead and dross, 34 of 1 per
cent per ponnd.sil ver lead burning ore.the
same duty on the lead contained therein.
Tobacco for wrap-ier., $1.50 per pound
uustemmed. 2.23 stemmed; cigars and
cigarettes, $4 per pound and 23 per cent
ad valoiem.
Coal, bituminous and large slack, 15
cents per ton.
Precious stones, cut and uncut, 2b per
cent ad valorem, set, 3u per ceut, uncut,
Id per cent; glaziers aud mineis dia
monds free.
Logs and sawed timber, (save tropical
woods) and wool are free.
Tin plate I 1-15 per cent per pouud
after October 1 .
Marble rough, :1') cents; dressed, 85
cents per foot (cubic). White and red
lead, 1 1.2 per cent per pound.
Under the internal revenue sections of
the bill, playing cards are taxed 2 cents
a package. An income tax of 2 per cent
on incomes above 4,000 is provided for;
also a tax on corporations of 2 per cent.
Whisky is taxed $1.10 per gallon and
bonded period fixed at eight years.
- To Prosecute the Stanford Estate.
Washington, Aug. 14. Se:.ator Hill,
from the committee on judiciary, re
ported an original bill directing the at
torney general to institute in the United
States court of California such suit ai he
may deem necessary to enforce the claim
of the United States against the Stanford
estate. Ten thousand dollars is appro
priated for the purpose of the suit.
Senate Proceedings Were Tame.
Washington, Aug. 14. The seat of
the tariff war having been transferred to
the house, the proceedings in tho senate
Monday' were comparatively tame. The
report of the conference on the sundry
civil bill was agreed to with some modi
fications and the bill was sent back to
the conference.
THE NEW CLA'-S'FICATiON.
Forty Populists, Thrca Democrats and Two
Cowards In the Senate.
In the senate of tho United States at
tho present time there aro 40 Populists.
Their names were disclosed by the vote
against striking out the Populist in
come tax sections of the tariff bil:
Win. V. Allen, Xcb. James K. Jones. Ark.
Win. 13. Hate. Toan. James II. Kyle, S. D.
James II. Berry, Ark. William Liudsay, Ivy.
J. S. C. Blackburn, Ky.
'X. C. Blancbard, La.
Calvin S. Brice. Ohio.
Donelson Caffery, La.
J. N. Camden. W. Va.
F. M. Cockrell. Mo.
Bit-hard Coke, Tex.
John W. D.miel, Va.
C. J. Faulkner. W. Va.
J. Z. George, Miss.
C. H. Gibson. Md.
John B. Gordon, Ua.
H. Hansbrouxb, N. D.
I. G. Harris. Tenn.
Eppa Hunton, Va.
J. L. M. Irby, Jr. C.
T.J.Jarvis.X.C.
A. J. McLaurln, Miss.
John Martin. Kan.
Roger Q. Mills, To.
John H.Mitchell, Or.
Samuel Pnaco, Fla,
Win. A. Peffer, Kan.
R. F. Pcttigre-v, S. D.
T. C. Power, Mon.
M. W.Ransom, S.C.
W. K. Roach, X. D.
G. L. Shonp, Ida.
II. M. Teller, Colo.
G. G. Vest, Mo.
W. F. Vilas. Wis.
D. W. Voorhces, lud.
Patrick Walsh, Ga.
E. D. White, Cal.
Forty Populists! Socialism is making
headway toward anarchy!
In the seuate of tho United States at
the present time thero are three Demo
crats namely:
David B. Hill. X. Y. E. Murphy. Jr., X. Y.
James Smith, Jr., X. J.
And in the senate of tho United
States at the present time there are two
cowards:
A. P. Gorman, Md. George Gray, Del.
There are other cowards whoso names
might go with these. But these cowards
aro conspicnoas so conspicuous that
they deserve to standalone. New York
Sun.
Bottling Them Up.
THE SOUTH IN VSE SADDLE.
Look Forward, Xot Backward, and Prepare
For the Coining Victory.
Seven "southern senators and congress
men, with one northern senator of
southern sympathies, have been intrust
ed with the industrial destinies of 70, -000,000
of people. Jones, Wilson, Mc
Millin, Turner and Montgomery come
from villages with lass than a combined
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population of 10,000. What can norths
era industries expect from these men?
Not one of them knows anything of the
needs of labor aud industry, and yet
they are to shape a tariff bill that must
overthrow our whole splendid network
of industrial activity and progress. And
where lies tho blame? With tho north
ern Democrats who in 1892 voted for
Grover Cleveland and a Democratic free
trade congress.
Tho lesson must be learned, and it will
prove a bitter experience. It is too late
to look back. We must look forward and
repair the wrong as soon as we can. We
must begin at once and labor incessantly
till the bill which seems destined to be
come a law is replaced by a law of pro
tection. Our country must recede, our
laborers must be idle, our factories
closed, our savings withdrawn and
spent, our splendid progress, national
and individual, checked, but next No
vember aud again in 1896 we can right
the wrong, and we must do it so em
phatically that the Democratic party
will not again come to the front for a
generation to come.
Another English Adviser.
The Liverpool Mercury comments
editorially upon tho position of affairs
in tho United States and says, "The
shackles of protection were strengthened
to au unprecedented extent by the Mc
Kinley tariff. " With this opinion we
cordially agree, and if it were to apply
this one fact to the case of our recent
labor troubles it would find that it was
the very fear of tho loosening of "the
shackles of protection" that has result
ed in tho unfortunate condition of our
"tens of thousands of men" who have
not yet been ground down to a condition
of mere existence, bordering on starva
tion, such as can be found in European
countries, but who have been accustom
ed to live in comfort and prosperity
under tho belief that America was for
Americans and not for foreigners.
Au Object Leuon In Free Trade.
O God. look down with pity ou this broken
heart of mine
And send tome ork to Bare me from tho open
path to crime.
For ten long months I traveled in sunshino and
in rain
In search of some employment, but my efforts
have been vain.
For many Ion
: and happy years I havo corned
in tho
mill
The means to keep dear grandma. I hope to
kt-ep her sun.
Then all iho girls were happy, we had money,
clothes and homes.
Our song of joy was drowned by the music of
the looms.
To the old mill every morning we marched in
gay phalanx.
Planning tor the dinner hour to play our girl
ish pranks.
But early in the summer we heard the sen
tence passed
The free trade plague Is coming; we must shut
down at last.
The savings I had treasured from the wages I
bad made
I have paid out as a tribute to the nation's
scourge, free trade.
My cl-itues are in tiie pawnshop. I am now
aslmmcd to meet
In the happy hours of daylight the friends I
u-eu to greet.
The home that I had furnished with many a
fond device
Tiie free trade scourge has robbed me of that
humble paradise.
I have nothing now to live for but a duty to
fulfill.
My hopes in life were buried with the closing
of the mill.
But I cannot leave dear grandma. She took
me to her side
And nursed me in my Infancy when my own
dear mother died.
The purpose of free traders now to wreck our
lives Is plain.
Our lives Ehall be the sacrifice; our honor we'll
retain.
-Jennie Farrell.
KILLED BY FALLING ROCK.
Fonr Men Meet Death and Two Seriously
Injured Near Cheyenne.
Cheyenne, Wy., Aug. 14. A most
frightful accident, resulting in the death
of four men aud serious injuring of two
others, occurred at the McShane tie
camp in Granite canon on Tongue river,
35 miles northwest of Sheridan. The ac
cident happened last Friday, but the
news was not brought to this city until
after the inquest had been held and the
bodies of the unfortunate meu prepared
for burial. The dead are:
E. P. Gallagher.
N. F. Watts.
William Angrovb.
John Hendricksen.
A large force of men at work on
Tongue river getting out ties for the
Burlington and Missouri extension to
Montana, where a flume is being con
structed in the bend in the river. A
blast of tiOO pounds of giant powder was
put in and after the smoke had cleared
away, a number were engaged in remov
ing the rock and dirt that had been
loosened by the explosion.
Without a moment's notice, a huge
pile of rock fell from the overhanging
cliff, burying four men beneath it. Gal
lagher and Watts have relatives iu Colo
rado. .
Australian Adrices.
Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 14. The
following Australian advices have been
received here: The government of New
South Wales intends to introduce the
Australian rabbit on the British markets
by shipping them in a frozen condition.
They hope to thus get rid of the pe3t. By
the steamer Maori King the experiment
of shipping live cattle to England is be
ing tried. Twenty head were shipped.
The cattle are worth Si, 10s iu Auatra.
lia, but it is thought they would fetch
15 to 'Q in England.
Left Her Fortune to the Church.
Baltimore, Aug. 14. Mrs, Celinda
Whitford, a wealthy widow of this city,
bequeathed nearly ail her large fortune
to charitable and religious organizations
connected with the Catholic church, part
of it going to Indiana and Pennsylvania.
She leaves the Catholic university at
Washington and St. Agnes hospital at
Baltimore $50,000 each.
Santo Most Meet Death.
Paris, Aug. 14. The board ot par
dons maintain, the sentence of death im
posed upon Santo, the assassin of Presi
dent Carnot, condemned to death on
Friday next.
More Cholera Reported.
Liege, Aug. 14. Twenty fresh cases
of cholera and several deaths have been
reported.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES,
Five prisoners broke jail at Logansport,
Ind.
Mayor Jo Bunce, formerly of Louis
ville, Ky., has joined the Coxeyites.
The Kolbites are making preparations
for a vigorous campaign for congressmen
in Alabama.
The Omaha Jacksonian club has in
dorsed Representative Bryan for United
States senator.
A negro, arrested for murder, tried to
commit suicide by hanging himself at
Little Rock, Ark.
The anarchist trial at Paris resulted iu
the acquittal of 27 of the 30, three being
convicted of criminal offenses.
P. L. Cook, a Stuartsville, O., saloon
keeper, was beaten to death with an iron
rod. by masked robbers.
J. S. Williams, a miner, was arrested in
Colorado City, Colo., for threatening to
kill Deputy Sheriff William Shellenber
ger. Ella Russell, the songstress, is said to
have b( en secretly married to a young
officer iu the Italian army. Miss Russell
is a native of Cleveland, O.
Lightning struck the barn of John Dob
son, near Monticello, Ills., and the hired
man and six horses were killed.
Zacharian Bosley, an engineer at the
Terre Haute, Ind., street railway power
station, was killed by an electric current
of but 500 volts.
In order to still further restrict produc
tion it is said the whisky trust will clove
distilleries in Chicago, Peoria and Ciu-cinnaib
THE EAEMEES LOSING
DEMOCRACY COSTS SHEEP RAISERS
$100,000,000.
Bttth the live Stock and the Wool Hare:
creased In Value Every Sccta or the
Country Suffers Worse Tliaa tho Scab,
aad the Foot Rot Poor Lambing Seaxons.
The sheep formers of the United
States have lost over $100,000,000
through the decrease in the value of
their sheep and of their wool through
the mere threat of free trada A careful
comparison of the number of sheep iu
the 47 different states and territories
shows that there was an increase of less
than 1,000,000 sheep between Janu
ary, 1892 and 1894, a period of two
years. Such wretched lambing seasons
the country has never before witnessed.
The total loss in tho value of the sheep
was nearly $60,000,000, and the loss
through the cheapness of wool was near
ly $45,000,000, distributed among the
different secti.au ot the country as fol
lows: M9C ctk--ct o.ns.
6hces.
New England. . J.91I..j
Middle states.. G.StO.lSti
Southern states CX1.17
Western states a.Kti,307
Pacific states.. 6.710,077
Other states... 8,0:5,(Ba
Wool. Total loss.
S1.06 S3,aiT,;48
4.S"J,M: 11,501,108
S.C.-jO.O'-I 15.079.WS
16,J61.503 43,827,812
5,747.0-U 14.4o3.05tl
7.2,:87 13tV;.5
Total U.S S,8S4.Mt; $4'BO,0S7 $104,(4,iai
Farmers know that sheep iu this
country increaso largely in numbers.
They look forward to tho lambing sea
son because it adds to their flocks, and
every littlo lamb that lives is worth a
few dollars to the farmer. But thero
must havo been something tho matter
with tho sheep between 1892 and 1894.
In the good old McKinley protection
days thero were 44, 988,305 sheep in the
United States, yet two years later there
wero only 91,430 more sheep. This is a
very small percentage of lambing. For
the year 189J1 tho lambing season must
havo been very bad, or some plague
must havo struck the sheep. Perhaps it
was tho freo trade plague of Grover
Cleveland. That struck every other part
of tho country and blasted business.'
Perhaps it struck the farmer's sheep
and made them barren.
The American wool clip for 1893
amounted to 301,538,138 pounds of
washed and unwashed wool. Its price
rauged from 18 to 32 cents a pound,
aud the total clip was worth $08,391,
055. A year later, however, tho aver
ago price of wool ranged only from 10
up to 23 cents per pound, there being a
loss of from 5 to 9 cents per pound. The
total clip ut the beginning of this year
was worth only $45,317,459, a loss to
the farmers of $23,073,590.
But- this does not cover the entire
wool loss first, becauso the nearer we
havo been getting to the time when freo
trade in wool is to take effect the lower
has been tho prico of the American wool
quoted, and farmers are not able to ob
tain today nearly as much money for
their wool as they could six months
ago. This further loss of money to the
farmers we aro not able as yet to arrive
at, but we have shown that thero are
830, 960 different sheep owners iu the
United States, each one of whom lost
$30. 88 through the lower value in price
of his live sheep since a Democratic
president and a Democratic congress
controlled the administration of tho
country. And wo further find that each
one of these 830,960 farmers lost $27.
77 through tho decrease in one year in
the price of their wool, thus making a
total loss to every sheep raiser in the
country of $58. 65. What fine Democra
cy this is, and how it tallies with tho
promises of 1892!
That loss in the value of sheep we
have shown to the farmer was worse
than the scab. This loss in tho valuo of
wool comes on the top of the freo trado
scab like a dose of foot rot. Iu fact, the
present condition of tho American sheep
is worso than if it were afflicted either
with tho scab or foot rot or with both.
It will take longer to efface the Demo
cratic disease than it would to eradicate
all trace of either scab or foot rot or
both. Vote it down.
Charles R. Bcckland.
Canadian Hops Coming.
Canada is not generally given the
credit of being able to grow hops, aud
most people would say that the climate
was unsuitable for it. Some consign
ments, however, of hops from British
Columbia wero sent over to London last
autumn aud sold well. Ontario is now
entering tho field, ono grower having
planted 35 acres this year and propos
ing to prepare 20 acres more for next
year. Iu about three years ho states
that ho will havo 100 acres under hops.
The lower tariff placed upon hops by
our anti American administration
should serve as au incentive to the Can
adian hopgrowcrs, who may bo able
to secure a part of our American trade
in our American market.
Senator Hill It It a Kagbag Production.
Xot Altogether Sectional.
The New York World vehemently'
denies that the Democratic tariff bill is
sectional. Perhaps not altogether so, be-'
cause besides protecting the south it
protects tho collars and cuffs industry
of Troy frith a very large protection.
Philadelphia Pre.
J. P. Pomeroy, a Boston millionaire, is
trying to colonize the prairies of western
Kansas with Russian Mennonitre.
Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Kain
of St. Louis are visiting the summer home
of Colonel Dick Kerens at Elkins, W. Va.
Alderman Shriver was shot in the leg by
Street Railway President Beun at Benton
Harbor, Mich. They had quarreled over
the expiration of a franchise.
The Ottawa, Ills., contingent of the Sal
vation Army was again urrested for ob
structing the street aud spent the night
in jail.
The will of Judge Eli Ainsworth of
Providence, R. I., will be contesed on the
ground that lie was incapable of properly
disposing of his itiOO.OOO estate. Fifty heira
are interested.
A mortgage for &2,000,000 has been filed
at Elyria, O., by the Johnston Steel com
pany iu favor of the United States Trust
company, covering their entire plant at
Lorain, O. Improvements will be made.
It is likely that Attorney General Oluey,
in view or recent disclosures, will prose
cute officials of the Atchison, Topeka aud
Santa Fe road for violation of the inter
state commerce law.
Wo can furnish Peterson's Ladies'
Magazine and The Columbus Journal,
both for 2.15 a year, when paid in
advance,
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and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
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cures Diarrhoea aud Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates tho fuotl, regulates the stomach
aud bowels, giving healthy aud natural sleep. Cas
toria is tho Children's Panacea tho Mother's Friend.
Castoria.
"Castoria Is an excellent mcd:oin Jo- -":-dren.
Mothers nave repeatedly told tao ot iu
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Dii- G. C. Oooop,
Lowell, MikiS.
" Castoria Is the btit remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I hope tho Liy is rut
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, cul a- Castoria in
stead of the various quack no-.tri:nu which are
destroying their loved ones, byforcias opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby beuliu
them to premature graves.'
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Conway, Ark.
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REAL -ESTATE -LOANS -INSURANCE,
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COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
MONEY TO LOAN ON FAKMSut lowest rates of hit. -rent, on abort or lonir time. In itmouu
to suit applicant.
HONDED AHSTK.UTEKS OF TITLE toullrenleMtatoin 1'latteeouuty.
KeprwPntTlIELEADINC INSUKANVE CO.V.PANIES..f tho World. Our rami policie. a
the nu.t liberal in u--. Lobsert adjusted. au.I promptlj paid at tliiotli,-e.
Notary Public alwat in otlieo.
Farm ami city property Toroalo.
Make collections or foreign inheritance! and s.ell utemnship tickeU to aud fiom all par
turPe. laug'91-tf
Tnn Norfolk Journal says, and wo le-
llftVA it. Rluvil-f; tlia nvir.f truth- '.'PI... I
work will bo larj-o!y .-u'deil if omploy !
ment could bo furnished to pooplo who
would like but art uuahlo to earn their j
living by day'a labor. In such a tiino it
becomes almost a duty at tht statu to I
provide employment for its citizens and f
givo them a chance to earn their living!
instead of supporting them at public'
expense If sullieient employment could
be furnished to carry the laboring and
farming people of Nebraska through the
coming winter and leave them in good
shape at the commencement of farming
operations next year, this state would ;
not. only feel no bad effect from this!
years crop failure but would be the
most prosperous commonwealth in tliel
northwest."
Half Kates
to Hot Spl'inx. S. !.,
Itiii'linirtou Uoute.
via the
Every Friday during July and August
tho Burlington Itouto will sell round
trip tickets to Hot Springs, S. I)., at tho
one-rate rate. Tickets good for 15 days.
This substantial reduction from tariff
rates brings a trip to this greatest of
western health resorts within every
one's reach. Consumptives, rheumatics.
sufferers from every ill that tlesh is heir
to, will make no mistake if thov take
ndvantage of this opportunity.
Full information upon application to
local B. & M. It. It. agent, or to J. Fran
cis, G. P. & T. A., Burlington Koute.
Omaha, Neb. ijul('t
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It is an old saying that a "new broom
sweeps clean" but when we say "wo
sweep the world" we mean that among
all tho railways of the world none stands
higher in the estimation of tho public, in
all especial points, than tho Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. It is the
only lino west of Chicago which runs
electric-lighted, steam-heated and vesti
bttled train's between Chicago, St. Paul
and Minneapolis, and between Chicago
and Omaha. Try it. F. A. Nash,
Gen'I. Agent, l.r04 Famam St., Omaha.
W. S. Howell,
Trav. Passenger and Freight Agt.
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AVlien Baliy was sick, we pave Iior Castoria.
Yt'hwi she wc.5 u Child, the crifd for C.t'oria.
"A'liea :Jr. became. Miss, slit' citing ti Castoria.
Wheu hlie liad Cliildreu, sliu truvctlieui Ciu-torin.
St. Patrick's Pills are carefully
prepared from tho lest material and
according to the most approved formula,
and are the moRt perfect cathartic and
liver pill that can be produced. We
sell them. C. E. Pollock .t Co. and Dr.
Heintz. druggists.
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VETERINARIAN.
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OTtrrpoHtf&ce, ltaprtt
! Castoria.
" Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I nxiunincnd it ossuperiortoaoy prescription
kuoMU to me."
II. A. Abcuer, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St, Urooklyn, N. Y.
" Our pli) sieLuis iu thj children's depart
cien: have sikj-cu highly of their rrperi
tuce in their outside practice with Castoria,
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itud.cal supplies what is kuowu as regular
products, yet we aru free to confess that tho
merits of Castoria lms won us to look with
favor ujh)u it."
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