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GOVERNOR MICKEY AGAIN.
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loymalisna Ceagrtsaieual Ceareatioa.
The repablieana of the Third congressional
district of Nebraska are hereby called to meet in
delegate convention at the opera house in the
rity of Colambas, Nebraska, on Tuesday, May
17. 19M. at I-JO o'clock ia the afternoon for the
parposeof placing in aoraination a candidate
for coagraas from the Third Congressional dis
trict to be voted for at tbe general election to be
held in the state of Nebraska on the 8th day of
November. IBM, for the election of two de leitt
to tbe nations! convention to be held in the city
of Chicago on Jane 21, 1901, and for the tnnsac
tioa of aach other business as may nicularly
come before said convection.
The hasia of the representation of the several
counties ia said district at said convention shall
be tbe votes cast for the Hob. J. J. McCarthy,
candidate for congress at the regular election
held on November 4, IMS, giving one delegate
for each one hundred votes or major fraction
thereof so oast for the said J. J. McCarthy and
one delegate at large for each county. Said
apiiorUobBMBt entitles the several counties in
tbe said district to the following repn-wnt&tion
in said convention:
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Boone 14 Merrick..
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Carning 12 Pierce
Dakota 7 Stanton ..
Dixon Is Thurston.
Dodge 20 Wayne
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Dated Norfolk. Neb.. March 3. UKU.
F. D. Fales. Chairman
Jack KocsiafcTUN, Secretary.
Ofteial Call for lopablican State
Ceareatiea.
The republicans of the state of Nebraska are
hereby called to meet in convention at the Audi
torium ia the city of Lincoln, on Wednesday,
May 13. MM, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the
parposeof placing in nomination candidates for
tbe following otfices, to bo voted for at tbe next
aarsl election to be held in the state cf Ne
braska, November 8, 1004, viz.
Governor.
Lieateaant governor.
Secretary of state.
Auditor of public accounts.
Traaaaicr.
SaperinteBdeat of public instruction.
Attorney general.
Commissioner of public land and baildinge.
Eight electors of president and vice president.
Aad toeleet four delegates at large end four
alternates to the republican national convention
to be bald ia the city of Chicago. 111., on Tues
day, Jane 1, MM; and for the transaction of
aach other business as may regularly come I
f ore said state convention.
Tbe basis of representation of the several coun
ties in said convention shall be the vote cast for
Hob. John B. Barnes for judge of t lie supreme
court at the general election held on Not ember
1, MOt, giving one delegate for each 100 votes or
major fraction thereof so cast for said John II.
Barnes, aad one delegate at lare for each county.
Said apportionment entitles the counties men
tioned below to the following representation in
the convention:
Booae is Butler II
Colfax u Madiwin 19
Merricfc. 10 Nauce. y
"tie.. 10 Polk
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li. C. Li mis a v, Cliairiii.-ui.
A. B. Alitx, Secrttarj -
Johm O. Maher. who lost his job as
court reporter at O'Neill for talking
eanocratis treason, has proclaimed
his intention of takiutr 10.000 Parker
ahoaters from this slate to the St.
Levis convention, lie will need to
ay comrades to have his
ahoaters. Examiner.
1892 the 'Japanese mercantile
ras the thirteenth in tbe world
ia -point of tonnage, it had risen by
1901 to tho eighth position, and it is
interest is to note tbat it is rapidly
coming ap to the same relative status
as that oooapied by the Japanese navy.
w asreath among tLe navies of the
world.
"NotMag'says the Berlin Chamber
of Ooaaaaeroe. ia its last annnal re
pert, "can take the place of American
aaeoaaea cheap and nutritions article
of food for the amasses of our popula
tion. Therefore, it would be a matter
of deep regret if the high import
duties of the aew taxi law were not
reduced to a reasonable degree.
The Turkish shipments to the Unit
ed States iavoiced through the three
at Constantinople, Saloaiki,
aow an iacrease from
$3,936,323.92 per annum five years ago
to 18,961.663.25 It appears that the
iaeraaas ia the exports of Turkish pro
duct, to the United States has
tester than the combined in
of aach exports to all other
i of the world: aad that in
Turkey's commerce with the United
States the aalaace of trade ia favor of
Turkey shows a higher percentage
thaa that of any other countrv of th
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It is a matter of serious import
what the result of the assessment under
the aew law is going to be in Booae
No law however good can
i itself aad ao law so complicat
ed, aa tha revenue law oaa be made that
will aet suffer at the hands of those
amfpsasd to look oaly for defects. It
Melearij apparent that there is a care-faUyuaaamwdaayltaoiroughlyorgaKdsed
to the aew leveaae law by
of the repablicaa
pwty win are responsible for the pas
amceef the aew law. All the leaders
pfeyiBg
preiudioes of the people at the
the started out
the aew law to ho
they are. for political
ia their
it a iailare. -Albion
Telegram against Governor Mickey are
well known to Joarnal readers by this
time. They were, in brief, that Govern
or Mickey admitted four cars of oil into
Nebraska tbat fell below the test re
quired by law; that he discharged tbe
oil inspector for refusing to admit said
cars, and that because of these acts,
Governor Mickey acted as the corrupted
tool of the Standard Oil company, and
thereby committed a crime against tbe
people of Nebraska.
We explained in onr first article that
tho editor of the Telegram had borrowed
a republican charge without giving cred
it for it. He verified the troth of our
statement by reprinting the Hayes let
ter in his last issue. We had already
reprinted a part of Governor Mickey's
letter written for the specific purpose of
answering the Hayes charges. Then the
editor of the Telegram promised to fur
nish testimony to rebut Governor Mick
ey's statements, but finding no evidence
on the subject, he went down into his
pocket, drew out the Hayes letter which
had inspired his first article, reprinted
it in full and labelled it ''additional tes
timony.'' If a lawyer in the trial of a
case, when asked to produce evidence,
should simply reread his complaint and
sit down, he would be laughed out of
court. The editor of the Telegram is in
Dreciselv this position. Had he been
sincere when he said he would like to
see Nebraska's governor cleared of the
blot placed upon bis record by tbe Hayee
letter, he would have withdrawn his
charge upon reading Governor Mickey's
letter.
No pnblic official ever more complete
ly exonerated himself from a charge
than did Governor Mickey from the
Hayes charge, and nothing short of the
blindest kind of political prejudice can
explain the Telegram's statement that
Governor Mickey's letter "was an expla
nation without explaining anything."
Even if tha Hayes charges were founded
on fact, the editor of the Telegram must
credit a republican with the discovery
of the fraud. But tbat they are the
grossest perversion of facta, the follow
ing will show:
First, ex-Inspector Hayes claims that
he secured the passage of tbe new oil
law, and tbat his deputy, the present
inspector, fought the bill. On the other
hand. Governor Mickey claims that not
even the Standard Oil company fought
the bill, and tbat it passed by a vote
practically unanimous and without op
position; that if anyone worked against
the bill it was Hayes himself, who called
up the manager of tbe Standard Oil
company by 'phone the day before the
bill was called up for final passage and
warned him that he might work against
it.
Second, Mr. Hayes charges that Gov
ernor Mickey removed him on tbe day
that be rejected the four cars of low-test
oil and on the same day that tbe Stand
ard Oil company's agent interviewed the
governor. To this charge Governor
Mickey answers that Hayes knew even
before the passage of the new oil law
that he would be removed and tbat his
successor had actually been appointed
before the interview specified.
Third, to Hayes charge that the gov
ernor ordered the admission of the four
cars of low-test oil after Hayes had re
jected it. Governor Mickey replies that
they were either on the aiding at the
company m refinery ready for shipment
or were actually in transit at tbe time
tbe company's officers received notice
of tbe passage of the new law. Tbe gov
ernor also states tbat Hayes had pre
viously admitted thirteen cars which
fell from two to six points below tbe
legal standard, for tbe same reason tbat
the governor ordered the four cars ad
mitted, namely, tbat tbey were in transit
at the time of tbe passage of tbe new
law. And be adds, tbat not a single car
of oil has been admitted since that date
which has not come up to tbe legal test.
r-onrih, Mr. Hayes charges that the
governor is in the hands of the Standard
Oil company. Governor Mickey replies
that not a single representative of any
oil company has approached him for a
favor of any kind. And he further ex
plains that upon an investigation of the
accounts of Hayes after the latter re
moval, he discovered a shortage of $124.
80 and the disappearance of every re
ceipt taken from the state treasurer.
The governor offers to prove every
statement regarding the Hayes letter.
Hayes, on the other hand, has never lift
ed his pen in answer. He and his fol
lowers, save only tbe Columbus Tele
gram, have been as silent as the tomb,
for tbey know tbe more tbe matter is
given publicity the more votes will Gov
ernor Mickey attract from those who
want a clean executive.
Goveroor Mickey left an opening for
his enemies in just one place the law
permitted him to order the condemned
oil shipped back, at the expense of tbe
Standard Oil company.
If tbe editor of tbe Telegram honestly
believes that every pnblic official should
be condemned as a criminal who does
not strictly enforce every letter of the
law, regardless of reason and circum
stances, let him be consistent and turn
his purifying criticism on officials nearer
home. Let him inquire, for instance,
whether County Treasurer Becber is
treating delinquent tax-payers as the
new law commands. It requires that he
issue distress warrants in February for
the collection of delinquent personal
taxes. He has failed to comply with the
law. Hundreds of dollars that the law
ays should be in tbe county treasury
are still uncollected. Under the law,
Treasurer Becher could have had every
dollar, costing the delinquents hundreds
of dollars in sheriff's fees, just as under
the oil law Governor Mickey could have
sent tbe low-test oil ont of the state,
costing the Standard Oil company hun
dreds of dollars. Tbe cases are parallel.
If Mr. Mickey is a criminal, so is Mr.
Becher. As for the Journal, we heartily
commend the action of both officers.
Treasurer Becher knew that many farm
ers were ignorant of tbe new law and
that it would be unjust to do all that
the law permitted him to do in the wav
of making casta for tham nn.i.n.
Mickey likewise knew that tbe four cars
of the Standard Oil company were in
transit at the time tbey received notice
of the flimsy of the new law. and that
it would be a cress iniustice to anak
naaeeessarv mat. Mnooisiiw bl..
theoiliaqaeatieawas safer than that
Mauttod for yean under the old law.
Now if the Triegram, without the ia
trodaotioa of farther evidence, still ia.
oalliag Govaraor
criminal, we shall force him on hie own
every Platte county official above tbat
of Mr. Mickey in his list of criminals,
and we shall defend them just as entbx
sisstically, so long as their records are
as clean.
In conclusion, we ask our readers, who
is defending the criminals? The Tele
gram is making itself the mouth-piece
of Hayes, the man who left his office
"short," and who, unlike Porter, had to
"put it back." It is up to the editor of
tbe Telegram to apologize either for the
insult he has offered an honest governor,
or for the 'insult he has offered hie read
ers, by surrendering his editorial pen
into the hands of such a man as Hayes.
THE SITUATION.
The republican primaries are over.
Contests were made in tbe First and
Third wards in Columbus, and in several
townships. The issue at these contests
need not be disguised. It was a ques
tion of whether delegates for or against
Ed Hoare for chairman of the county
central committee should be selected.
Anti-Hoare delegates were elected in
tbe Third ward and in Columbus town
ship. We have been unable to get defi
nite information in the First and Second
wards and in the townships where con
tests were on. It is safe to say, how
ever, tbat a majority of the Columbus
delegates are anti-Hoare. Messrs. Gar-
low and McAllister have been announced
as candidates for the chairmanship from
Columbus. A canvass of the Columbus
delegations shows that Mr. Garlow ha6
more strength than any other candidate
mentioned. Mr. Garlow, we understand,
has never been chairman and he has
some enthusiastic supporters in Colum
bus. Mr. McAllister, on the other hand,
has support that Mr. Garlow catjnot
command. Other things being equal, the
Journal would like to see the chairman
ship come to Columbus. In the year of
a presidential campaign, every effort
should be made, and a chairman resid
ing at the county seat could command
tbe situation in the county, we believe,
much more effectively than a chairman
residing elsewhere. As to the position
the Journal will take in this matter, we
do not want to leave the slightest doubt.
We are bound by no obligations to any
faction or interest, nor do wo speak for
any man or group of men except our
selves. We know little of the history of
politics in Platte county except from
hearsay. Those who relate that history
to us do not tell the same story. There
fore we shall enter upon no fight against
any man upon hearsay evidence, but we
shall draw our own conclusions from the
best evidence at hand and act accord
ingly. Applying these rules to the pres
ent situation, we say emphatically that
we believe it is a mistake for Mr. Hoare
or any other man with as much opposi
tion aa Mr. Hoare haa, to ask for the
chairmanship. We believe that ninety
five percent of tne republican voters of
Platte county are 'not in the slightest
degree interested in the petty quarrels
from which these contests spring. We
believe that the dragging in of these
quarrels injures the party and that the
leaders in them should therefore step
aside or compromise. We admire tbe
personal courage of a man who will not
-lie down" before the enemy. But when
in order to prove bis personal courage
any man insists on leading his followers
into a political light in which all must
lose, that man is disloyal to party and
not a fit leader.
In urging that the chairmanship come
to Columbus this year, and suggesting
that tbe conspicuous leaders of tbe two
factions come together, we are taking no
stand against any other section of the
county nor the present chairman who
resides at Platte Center. Mr. Hoare has
been chairman for three years. Platte
county voters know his record better
than we do. If they believe, in spite of
the opposition to him in Columbus,
that he is the best man for tbe place
another year, and that the residence of
the chairman is immaterial in a presi
dential year, they will elect Mr. Hoare
for a fourth year and the Journal will
work with him for republican victory.
However, we hope that Mr. Hoare and
his friends in Columbus will get together
with the leaders of the opposition and
go into the convention without a fight.
Of course if the -fight not called off
before the convention, all must be found
in the same wagon after it.
oraotheis paid for his services to
Hearst, bat the fact reawiat aadhrpat
ed that he ia giving his support to the
most unworthy figure in American
politics ia the person of this same
Hearst. Some day we will reprint a
democratic editorial on the subject of J
Grover Cleveland and see whether the
Telegramcom-Bands us to apologize
for that. Of course the Bryan fol
lowers will say that the other fellows
are not democrats ; but the oilier fel
lows say the same thing about the
Bryan wing, and the other fellows
seem to be in the majority.
We consider that we have nothing
to apologize for.' As for the Tel
grant editor's advice that we should
not fall into the style of journalism
of the Chicago Chronicle, we would
say that we have no intention of so
doing and would advise him to drop
it himself. For his paternal supervi
sion of our editorial columns we are
grateful. As to his threatened reversal
of his (presumably good) opinion of
us, we are prepared for the worst.
RAILROAD ASSESSMENT.
The democratic newspapers are try
ing to gain the support of the farmers
and other property owners by charging
that the republican stale. boards of
equalization have been owned and con
trolled by the railroads and as a result
that tbe republican administrations
have robbed the private property owner
in the interest of the railroads by un
der valuing railroad property. While
every one knows that all property in
Nebraska has been undervalued to the
detriment of every interest and indus
try in tbe 6tate, property owners will
not be so foolish as to lay tbe blame
upon republican administrations when
they-know that the fusion administra
tions from 1891 to 1900 not only failed to
pass a new revenue law to remedy these
evils, but did not attempt to raise
the valuation of railroad property un
der the existing law. The Joarnal
does not believe that Governors Hol
comb and Poynter were owned and
controlled by tbe railroads simply be
cause they found the railroads of Ne
braska to be worth $3,000,000 lew
than the valuation figured out by
Gov. Crounse and his assistants on
the board of equalization. Nor will
the democratic newspapers be able to
convince the voters of Nebraska that
they may hope to obtain greater justice
at the hands of a democratic state ad
ministration than tbey have received
from the republican administrations,
unless they cau show from the records
tbat democratic administrations in the
past have been more jast than repub
lican administrations. In 1894 Gov.
Orounse's board valued railroad and
telegraph property at $28,306.69-?. In
1S95. Gov. Holcomb valued the same
property at $25,691,633. Ib 1900 Gov.
Poynter's figures were $26,442,295. In
1901 Gov. Savage's were $26,801,391.
Now, democrats, if you believe tbat
republican valuations have been too
low. how about these fasionist valua
tions? H. O. Lindsay, chairman of the
state central committee since the
opening of the eventful campaign of
1900, and to whose abilities as an or
ganizer and a close, hard political
tighter that great up-hill victory hat
been attributed, haa been selected by
Judge Sedgwick and Judge Barnes as
clerk of the supreme court. Victor
Seymour, a prominent candidate for
the clerkship has been appointed
deputy. Ex.
Oue million dollars has been st
aside by congress for the building of
the Pathfinder reservoir dam on the
Platte in Central Wyoming. Thio
dam will be the means of reclaiming
500.000 acres of land in central and
ThaKsTMl law.
(State Joaraei.)-Whoa citiseas of
Nebraska hegia quarreling about the
operation of the old reveaae law. some
uaplsasaat facta are brought to the
surface. It is true that farmers hare
andervalaed their lands and forgotten
to list all or their live stock ; that
town men have pat in a part of their
stuff at pauper prices,and have entirely
forgotten the rest; and that the rail
roads have dodged taxation on their
terminals, have had main lines stop
half way across tha state" and have
indalged in other schemes to keep the
state board from raising assessments
that seemed to the managers already
too high. There won't be much op
portunity to call names and throw mud
over the aew law if an agreement
Jen be reached as to the real value of
the railroads. ' Farm lands ore going
in on thi basis of the latest sales in
the neighborhood. The farmer says :
"My farm i worth so much bacause
it will sell for tbat. . It doesn't make
any difference what it cost me, or
how much I paid to have the house
built or the well dog. Now these
railroads are vorth so much a mile,
because thoy will sell for that, as ycu
can tell by examining the quotations
for their stocks aud bonds. If I am
assessed for what my farm is worth,
the railroad must b assessed for what
it is worth. If vm dj that I will be
satisfied."
(Hastings Tribune ) It is an easy
matter for the opposition, in search
for sometbina to make a campaign is
sue of, to attack a measi re not yet
properly tried, and to charge what
may be lacking in final correct adjust
ment to willful disposition to dis
criminate. But as this is a matter of
direct interest to all taxpayers, re
pablicaa, damoorat, populist and pro
hibitionist alike, it becomes necos
sary to lay prejudices asido. to rec
ognize the difficulties attendant upon
the drafting of so important a
measure, aad to allow the new law
rime to show itself before criticising
it or passing judgment on anybody
these measares are of too vital impor
tance to too mauv people to bo made
mere sounding campaign thunder of.
( Lincoln Star. ) Net earnings afford
some light in assessing property, but
by no means a clear and satisfactory
tight. One farm, one stock of mer
chandise, one manufacturing plant,
one railroad may yield verv large net
earniuss, while another stock of mer
chandise, another manufacturing plant
and another railroad' may be operated
at a" heavy loss. But the latter clas
of property, although it yields no
earnings but only losses, cannot
therefore be relieved from contri
buting to the expense of govern
ment. So any oon of these items o!
property may oue year yield a net loss.
and iu any case will yield varyiug re
torn, while some of them will flnctu
ate ia earning capacity from year t
year more violently than other. It it
in the nature of things impossible to
make an equitable apportionment oi
the tax harden on the net earnings ba
sis. even if it were desirable to have
it attempted and if it were tbe consti
tutional method.
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CONCERNING APOLOGIES.
Last week we pablishod an editorial
from a democratic paper, the Chicago
Chronicle, about a democratic politi
cian, W. J. Bryan. Now it happens
at this time that the good old demo
cratic party is all shot to pieces, being
in the interesting position of a honse
divided against itself. When you read
a democratic editorial about a demo
crat, the betting is juet even as to
whether he will be described as "that
great citizen whose name is a syn
onym in all the world for parity and
honesty" (Columbus Telegram in the
Chicago Chronicle vs Bryan), or as a
miserable travesty on humanity, a
foul distortion of the divine image,
an arch-deacon of iaiquity. apostle
of corruption and high priest of sin.
(Eastern dem. papers vs Bryan; The
Commoner vs Everybody; Columbus
Telegram vs Cleveland, Hill et al. )
This is no quarrel of ours. It does
not directly concern republican
papers. Democrats have told much
truth abcut each other, and here's
hoping that the good work may go on.
They furnish good republican cam
paign material, and when we print
one of their articles it is to show onr
readers what democrats think of each
other. The Teh gram has demanded
of as, under rain of forfeiting its pro
fessional esteem, tbat we apologize
for re-priaiing the Chronicle's re
marks about Mr. Bryan, that great cit
izen, etc. We will apologize when the
Telegram apologizes for what it has
said about Governor Mickey, Chancel
lor Andrews aad Grover Cleveland.
We thiak too that the Chronicle's
editorial was coached in language
somewhat intemperate, but it is a
style familiar to the readers of the
Commoner, the World-Herald or the
Telegram. To the Telegram's ques
tion as to whether we coasider Mr.
Bryan an advocate of bribery ia
politics aad a scoundrel geaerally. we
reply that we do not Personally we
thiak Mr. Bryan ia a geuUeataa
Politically we thiak
he haa aid himself wide open to the
western Nebraska. Federal aid of ir
rigation is one of the many good
things for which President Boosevelt is
largely responsible.
In the coming stale convention the
congressional districts will be entitl
ed to the following representation up
on the basis of one delegate for each
100 republican votes or major fraction
thereof and one at large from each
county: First district, 159; Second,
109; Third, 215; Fourth. 195; fifth.
174; Sixth, 205; total, 1057.
The Cedar Rapids Outlook has in
stalled a new power press and gasoline
engine and will appear in a new and
enlarged form. The ed'tor of the
Outlook has shown commendable en
terprise in his attempt to provide his
readers with a better paper.
COLUMBINES.
BV P. J. BABBOX.
Permit na to angicest the name of Mr. O. C.
Shaaton for Vice-preaident. Teddy needs a
strenuous running mate.
It ia true that a cob pipe detracts aomewbat
from thttftoo.1 lookn of a joamr. gentleman. But
consider how much the yoang man improves the
appea auce of the pipe.
Will our friend Judge Howard soppwt W. R.
Hearst if he should be nominated against Rooat
velt ? We don't want to insiot on an answer, bat
thought we might ask.
It would be a service to hnmanity if people in
general and women in particular could be made
to appreciate the fact that the human voice ran
be lifted up in song without the employment of
that everlasting tremolo. A singer wlio doesn't
warble on every note is a mighty pleasing rarity.
The medical fraternity haa entered a protest
against the kieing hahit. We wiah to go oa rec
ord in unqualified endorsement of tbe medical,
fraternity's posi ion on this question, in so far
as it relates to tbe kissing of babies. Farther
than this, we stand ready to be judged by our ac
tions.
There is an upper crust in every walk of life
which lives its best existence in public. Left to
themselves, the members of these various Four
Hundred wonhldieof runiti, for tbey are not
sufficient onto thenifelve. A definition of the
artistic temperament might be. A soal whose
poesibilitieH for enjoyment vary in inverse ratio
to the number of its companion?. The tru art
istic spirit flourishes in solitude. And not only
in tbe realm of art, either, does genuineness de
pend on first principles. The church which dis
plays the most pompo is ceremony has the least
religion and woald soonest aband n religion if
deprived of an audience. The woman who a
dorns herself most perfectly for the public gaze.
if she have not beauty in her soul, will rival tbe
Indian squaw in slovenliness in the seclusion of
her home. All enduring things of beauty are
conceived aad bora apart from the haaata of
men. Think of tbe musicians, tbe painters, tbe
poets, who have plumed themselves ia fine rai-
it and drank champagne aad produced
works which have died with them. Then look
at the masters of all tha sgesialWir atUaa-aaat
cellars, fashioaiag their fancies ia tha iisiHsi
smoke of their pipes of day. tmildiac tbe bar-
is aad bWadiac the colors which defy ma-
withalaskof Bheta or a cup of
Financiering-.
In these davs, when gold is going
out of the country in a vast stream to
pay for the Panama canal property,
a striking contrast is afforded to a
condition which prevailed a few yearr
ago when the government was com
pellfd to bay gold. Last wee).
12.800.000 gold went to Paris, from
New York, which was by far the
largest shipment of the metal in any
one week in the country's history.
Late in 1895 the biggest previous re
cord in gold outflow was made, when
17, 239.000 was sent ont in a single
week on account of the scare in thi
country over silver dilution. A few
months earlier almost as large a sum
was shipped abroad.
Bat the gold outflow now attract!
no attention from anybody, while th
thipments a few years ago alarmed the
country. The difference in the poli
tical and social conditions will ac
count for the contrast. The panic of
1893. which started just after Cleve
land entered office in his second term,
nnd which was precipitated by the
victory for bis party a few months
earlier, sent gold'in the treasury far
below the 1100.000,000 line, and com
pelled Cleveland to issue bonds to buy
gold. A-sale of 950,000,000 of tea
year 5 per cent bonds was made on
February 1, 1894, and in November of
tbat year alike amount had to be sold.
But this did not suffice. In February,
1895, 162,000,000 of 4 per cent thirty
year bonds were sold, and in February,
189C, $100,000,000 at the same rate and
for the same time were disposed of.
These $262 000 000 of interest-bearing
bonds had to be sold by Cleveland
in his second term in order to keep
the redemption fend of the treasury
intact and to meet the aovernment's
expenditures. Today the treasury is
.overflowiag with gold, aad the govern
ment's income, notwithstanding the
redactions ia taxation in recent years,
more than meets its cntso. Here is
a contrast between democratic and
republican financiering which will
appeal to the country. In thee e repub
lican days the .government can spend
$50,000,000 for a canal without mak
ing the slightest appreciable difference
in either the treasury condition or in
that of the moaey market, while the
ordinary expoases of the government
ten years ago could not be met and
the gold fund' keot ap above the
danger line without large sales of
iatereat-beariug bonds. Here are
points of difference between demo
cratic and republican financiering
which will be brought out in the
press and on the stnmp in the cam
paign of 1904. Globe Democrat.
Umifomity af MtuuaeaaBt.
The Bureaa of Standards, which is
an important division of the Depart
ment of Commerce aad Labor, has ia
press a volume of great impsrtance
to the commerce of the country. This
work, which will be published within
a few months, will exhibit the stan
dard measures in every stata of tho
Union and it will astonish those who
see it. According to the data gather
ed by Mr. Stratton, tho chief of the
bureau, it appears that the capacity
oi a bushel, for instance, varies so
greatly in tho different Btates that it
is difficult to understand how business
can be conducted with anything like
uniformity. This is particularly
noticeab'e in grain measurements, for
oats, wnar, beans nnd sends of all
kinds are rated by a do.su different
standards in as many states. Nor is it
in measures of volume alone that this
diversity exists. In the mstter of
wire gauges there are no lei8 than
four different standards recognized
by tho trad. It is the purpose of the
volume uow to be published to show
these wide differences aud to ptve
the way for congress to enact some
general legislation which will fix a
national standard, which will then
probably bo adopted by tho states. A
bushel of beans will not then weigh
ttfty-six pounds iu Massachusetts,
which is the rase today, and thirty
two pounds of oats in 'Now York will
be regarded as of equal volume to
thirty-two pounds in same of the
western states, where the standard
bushol today must contain thirty
three or thirty-livo pounds Ex.
Type-PrinTing- Telegraph.
The International Economist, of
Berlin, of December '. contained a ro-
port of a lecture by Mr. William von
Siemens boforo tho Electrical Society
with roferenco to a uov rapid type
priuting telegraph, whirh has been
constructed bv Siemens & llalske. Tho
ipparatus belongs to the spociea of so
called automatic telegraphs. w.Vere the
telegram is prepared in such a manner
that, with an apparatus similar to a
typewriter, holes aro punched iu a
continuous paper tapo for every letter
fo be telegraphed. Thi paper tape
then rnns through the rotating tele
graph instrument aud automatically
euds corresponding currents over the
wire. As thi Siemens & llalske
ipparatus sends the Urge number of
J. 030 letters uer ntiuute over the wire,
while a single operator, even with the
best auxiliaries, caunot send more
than 200 or ;00 letters iu tho fame
time, it is possible in this way to send
telegrams from quite a number of op
erators over one wire. For
every letter the apparatus punches
two holes iu the tape aud directly
over them the letter is printed in ordi
uary type, so that the perforated tape
contains n perfectly legible telegram.
It is possible to have tho erforation
done by the public and tbe tape sent
to the telegraph office. Experiments
over wires of the federal telegraph
have demonstrated the practicability
of tbe system over greater distances.
Its simlpicity of mechanism and conse
luent reliability furnishes the best
iliance for its use.
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Sons, Vose 4 Sons, A. B. Chase. Steger Sone. George Steck, Hardman,
Reed & Sons. Emerson, Scbmoller 4 Mueller and twenty other makes.
These pianos are strictly new, up-to-date makes of many years reputation.
WOULD YOU LIKE ONE OF THESE ?
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$550.00 Piano now
$500.00 Piano now
$400.00 Piano now
$350.00 Piano now
$300.00 Piano now
$275.00 Piano now
$250.00 Piano now
Don't delay. Call or write at once.
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Lincoln Store,
135 So. llth St., Lincoln, Nd.
Council B1uHj Store,
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Sion.v C'itv Store,
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Publicity for Corporations.
Discussing the policy of publicity
for corporations, an eastern financial
paper remarks that a management has
far more to gain than to loso by a
reasonable regard for publicity. Of
'entimos, it observes, were the pnblic
to put credit iu official denials, tbe
effect of an issuo of bonds or stock
might prove disastrous to a successful
loatation. It is pointed out, by way of
illustration, that had the Pennsylva
nia Railroad company broken the
news of its last stock issue to irs share
holders gently, instead of denying
everything up to the last moment, it
would probably not have the assist
ance of an underwriting syndicate.
There is no doubt that for scund
corporations, that intend to manage
their affairs in an honest nnd straight
forward way, there is value in pub
licity and we think this is getting to
be quite generally recognized by such
corporations. It is a new policy and
it was not to be expected tbat it
would be adopted at once and by all
corporatioup, but it is undonbt?dly
growing in favor and will b generally
accepted when tho management of
corporations realize, as they must do
in time, that refusal to comply with
the policy will arouse suspicion as to
the soundness of a corporation and
thus work to its injury. A beginning
has been made in the application of
publicity and it is onlv a question of
time when it will be as common
among the great corporations as it now
is with tbe national banks. Omaha
Bee.
You are Respectfully Invited to look over
Our New Spring Goods.
OUR CLOTHING is made up in the best
of workmanship," latest styles, perfect
lit and lowest living pricesWe offer
you real bargains. : : We keep everything
that's good in the GENTS' FURNISHING
GOODS line in great variety.
We call your attentiou to our complete lint of
..SHOES..
They are especially made tor us of the hot
material by the foremost manufacturerM of the
country ami we sell them no higher than
inferior shoes are sold lor. :::::::
We Repair Shoes Neatly aid Promptly
FRISCHIIOLZ BROS.,
41 1 Eleventh St., Columbus, Nebr.
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This Week in History.
May 8 to 15.
8th Metric system originated
France, 171)0.
9th Columbus sailed on his last voy
age. 1502.
10th Centennial Exposition opened,
Philadelphia, 187'..
llth Washington made general of
France, 17&0.
12th-01d South church, Boston, be
gun. 11C9.
13th John Smith begin settlement
at Jamestown, 1U07.
14th Lewis anl Clark left St
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oaarges that tho Ohronlole baa made I bser thstr sola co-apaaloa. Tfca tnaBisto-
IfOoakWS WktkJcracyueschuiTe. (Eadofftaana.)
Dutch ladies papers comment upon
rumors that the Peruvian bark raisers
of Java are to form a trust. As Java
supplies fully 75 per cent of the total
amount of Peruvian bark used in the
world, and only eighty planters are
engaged in cultivating the trees, it is
proposed to erect more qninine fac
tories ia Java aad to nee at least one
half of the yearly crop for this pur
pose, as well aa to interest the Vera-
visa baric growers in other countries
ia the trust and so dictate the price
for quiaiae in the market of the world
Udsptadsat of the European industry.
A Very Complimentary Notice
One of the most original comments,
because of its emphatic way of ex
pressing its approval of the big Camp
bell Brothers shows, which exhibit
here Friday, May 13, is the following
from the Evening Herald of Charles
ton West Va. :
Every promise that Campbell Bros,
made was fulfilled and wore too. Tho
people were astonished and agreeably
surprised. The show was immense.
The best circus acts ever been in Char
leston were given under the big teats
of the Campbell Bros. The menagerie
and museum was sunorb.
To particularize it would require a
page. The Campbell Bros. , are gentle
men and know how to handle a large
crowd and make everybody feel at
home and they know how to please
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Envelopes with your return card
printed on them, for GO cents a single
hundred; for larger quantities, and dif
ferent grades, call at The Jocmnai.
osace for prices.
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a new stock of
Fine Wall Paper
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over before buying.
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compound all prescriptions.
Call oa as.
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We have a customer anxious
to buy a farm of 120 or 160
acres close to Columbus. He
will allow the present owner to
retain possession this year. It
must he good laud, fairly well
improved. :::::::
COLUMBUS MARKETS.
Wheat, new 70
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Oats jp bushel 32
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Stock steers V cwt.
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clean up all alleys and grounds adjoin-
bMh w nlthie removed or properly
covered a-x Taia should be done Tever I
spring, aad all should be iaterested K
thw movement, aa it i . tt, .-.T!-Tr. .
good ksalth, aad also fmZSSSSS.
trAaaoceaoftheeity. IftS.is.ot
will be doae by the city, aad taeesneaaa
for the work wUl he cha f
Property and 01eeted another tasea
ArorsT Bosuitsua, Mayor.
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