Nebraska Newspapers

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BKUNO TXSCUUC1C
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GEO. J1I5IMUOD ,
II. S. HALL ,
JOHN" MATTHIHSOa ,
JAMES H. YOUNG.
T. W. IILAOICHUKN ,
Jf. O. 1UCKETTS.
Tor County Attorney :
EUWAHD W. SIMEUAL.
For County
ISAAC N. PJBIICB
Ciunioii HOWE should publlslt facsim
iles of those letters of endorsement from
men who don't ' know him.
Mu. CJ.KVEIAND is putting in a good
deal of liia tlmo fishing nowadays. While
angling for trout in West Virginia , ho is
trolling for votes in New York.
HAVING narrowly escaped giving Colby
a coat of tar and feathers a few years
ago , the voters of the Gage county do
not propose to whitewash him with an
election to tlio state scnulo next month.
Tlio contrast would bo too marked.
IN striking from. North Bern ! toStanton
the Union Pacific rolaliatos'ontho NorthWestern -
Western for invudingits territory between
the I'latto and the Elkhorn. The future
seat of war in railway circles is certain
to bq tlio Elkhorn Valley and Its prosper'
Otis counties.
Mil. McSiiANK's ownership of stock in
a cattle company , according to Church
Howe , disqualifies him from asking the
votes of Nebraska farmers. This horrid
crime of John McSUano is of course more
liolnous than lobbying for the stockhold
ers of a railway company.
TUB popular vole idea frightens the
politicians. It ia n blow at the legislative
lobby. Honestly carried Into effect it
would remove the auctioneer's block
from the state capital and drive the
traders and money changers from the
temple where our senators are elected.
And that is where it hurts.
JAMES YOUNO will provo a strong can- ,
dldato for the legislature. Ho wears no
silk stockings or kid gloves , but ho wears
n hat which covers a brainy head. Jimmy
Young is nn honest and honorable me
chanic who can be counted on to vote for
\vlmtIiobeHeves to bo right and who
stands firmly on the platform adopted by
the party which placed him in nomina
tion.
Ciiinton llown's brilliant war record
oti regimental quartermaster should be
printed mid widely distributed among the
old soldiers. Church was bravely stay-
ins with the mule teams in twenty-six
engagements while , as Artemus Ward
Would say , "the bullets , those dreadful
messengers of death , wore passing nil
ground him thickly in wagons on their
way to the battlefield. "
JOHN MATTIIIKSON , whom the republi
cans lw 0 nominated for the legislature ,
will "run1' Hltu ft rnco Iiorso election day
towards a Bafo and fiuro inajcriiy
oloan-otit republican , a level
workingmanand an honestrespected and
valuable citizen. With Jimmy Young ,
tieorgo Heimrod and John Matthie-
son the republicans have a combination
which cannot bo beaten.
THE city registrars open their books
his week in the various wards. The
* places where they will sit and the hours
at their session can bo found officially
Advertised in other pages of this issue.
Every voter owes it to himself and to
the party to ECO to it th , t his name is nn
the list of his ward. This can only bo
done by a personal visit to the registrars ,
Hundreds of voters have changed their
Residences since ths last registration and
cannot be correctly listed unless they
Biakeit a point to see their names placed
en the books.
1'oiuilnr Voting for Senator.
1-or the first time the people of Ne
braska arc about to exercise the privi
lege granted by their constitution to take
direct action in the election of a United
States senator. This new political de
parture did not originate as the work of
some visionary reformer who took part
in forming our fundamental law , but is
thn result of long and persistent popular
agitation , which preceded the revision of
our first state constitution , i'roni the day
on which the popular and parly choiro
lor United Stales senator was defeated in
1871 , when John M. Thaycr was cheated
out of his rc-eleelion by shameless and
wholesale bribery , public sentiment de
manded a measure by which
the popular will fchould bo cv-
pressed anil respected in the choice
of United Slates senators. This fiontt-
inenl found expression in the republican
htalo convention of 1871 through a plank
in the platform demanding national leg
islation thai would enable tlio people to
vote directly for lliair senators. In ae-
eordanco with Ihis demand Ihu legislature
by an almost unanimous vote of botli
houses passed the following joint resolu
tion and memorial , which was approved
by Governor Gaiber February 25 , 1875 :
To thu Honorable tlio Senate and llou.se of
Hupiespntatixes In Congress assembled :
Your memorialists , the legislature of tlio state
of Nebraska , \\ould respectfully lepreseut
that they express the will of the people of
tills state In asking for an amendment to the
constitution ot tlifi United States uhlch shall
provide for tlio election of United Stales
senators by tlio whole people and not by tide-
Rated outboilty. Therefore your memorial
ists would icspcctlully ask your honorable
body to propose an amendment to .section 5J ,
article 1 , of this constitution of thu United
States , by which this election by their quail-
lied representatives shall bo arranged more
In accordance with the demand or tiio popu
lar voice.
Hesolvcd , That the secietary of state be ,
and Is hereby Instructed to tr.xusuilt a certi
fied copy of tills memorial to our senators
and representatives In congress who are
hereby requested to use all honorable means
to secure the object above expressed.
Tlii.s joint resolution was introduced by
lion. ] Jen Harrows , then a roprusenlalive
from Douglas county , and the records
show thai it was voted tor by such men
as John fll. Thurston , Guy C. Barton ,
Samuel Chapman , C. L. Burr , N. K.
Griggs , Dr. Bear , and many other well-
known republicans and democrats. The
legislature which adopted Iho memorial
created the convention which framed
our present stiito constitution. That
body , fresh from the people , carried out
the popular wish as far as lay within its
power.
The political enemies of Senator Van
\Vyck , and notably Mr. Charles II. Gere ,
have taken exceptions to Mr. Van Wyck's
appeal for a popular vole on United
Stales senator. Mr. Gere went so far as
to urge the adoption of tlio following
resolution by the republican stale con-
vcnlion , but the committee promptly re
jected it.
AVhercas , the national constitution pro
vides that United States senators shall be
elected by the several states by the legisla
ture thereof ; therefore , any attempt to nulli
fy this provision , under the pretnxt of ap
pealing to the popular vote , Is an assault
upon the organic law of the nation.
Mr. Gere was a member of the con
stitutional convention and supported tlio
adoption ol the coiibtilution with nil ils
provisions. It is rather late in the day
for him now to protest against a popular
vote on United States senator. The pre
vailing sentiment on tins question at the
time the constitution was adopted was
forcibly shown by Ihe vole on the propo
sition itself , which was submitted as a
separate article and adopted by a very
largo majority. Had the people not
been so intensely desirous for the reform
in tlio election of senators that article
would scarcely have received a majority ,
of all the votes cast.
ior ten yo\rs , this proposed reform has
remained a dead letter simply because no
man who has held a seat in the senate
heretofore , and no candidate for senator
has dared to risk his chances of success
with the people. Senator Van Wyck is
Iho first man who is willing to fall or
stand by the popular vote.
The question is will the people exorcise
their privilege , or are they so indiHerent
aboul the highest ollico within their gift
that llioy are willing lo have il auctioned
oil' lo the highest bidder or gambled for
among the political scrubs who dare not
enter the lists in tin opo'n contest. While
Senator Van Wyck is the choice of a
majority of tlio republican candidates ,
many uandidalcs now before the people
have pledged themselves to support Sen
ator Van Wyck only in case ho
receives the majority of Iho popular volo.
These who desire lo have Van Wyck
returned have it within their power to
reeled him by a concerted effort through
the-ballot box. Although we do not con
cede that blank votes are to bo counted
as against the return of Van Wvck erin
in favor of some second rate dark horse ,
wo realize that a failure of a majority of
the people to vote on United States sen
ator will bo regarded as a proof that the
people are indifferent and have no par
ticular interest in tlio senatorial issue.
While il is true that the people cannot
in this way elect Van Wyck , their votes
are an instruction to the members of
legislature which few will dare disregard.
Nebraska is the only stale In Iho Union
lhal has ventured to enaut law that gives
the people ( ho privilege of voting their
preference for United Stales senator , and
having thai vote canvassed , counlod and
recorded. The country is watching Iho
experiment with a great deal of interest ,
because it affords some hope of making
the senate n popular branch
instead of a house of lords.
Every voter , whatever his preference ,
should exorcise Ids right of choice. Every
friend of Senator Van Wyck should personally -
sonally sco to it that the senator's name
is on the ticket which ho places in the
ballot box on November 3. A largo pop
ular void tot General Van \Vynk \ in
doubtful counties will iJs 9 their posi
tion beyond doubt and will impost ) ft
moral oDligatiou on legislative candi
dates to voice the popular will in spite
ff the promises and threats of the poli
ticians.
Tlio 1'rosporoiin South.
Speaker Carlisle ) itu > burnt doing his
best the during lasl few weeks to disabuse
the country of the Idea that the southern
states have not yet recovered from the
stagnation resulting from the civil war.
In thu speeches which ho has buon mak
ing in his own district in defense of his
opposition to the Blair educational bill ,
Mr , Carlisle uses as his principal argu
ment , aside from that based on grounds
31 public policy , the general prosperity
of tho-south and her ability to educate
her people without recourse lo Federal
aid. Mr. Carlisle denies that the south is
so poor as to need such help , rtminrking :
No such unfortunate state of alfatrs exists
nnywhcie In this countiy to-tlay , not even
in the south , which was wasted and Impover
ished by the war. Compelled to rely upon
Its own natural resources of soil nnd and
climate , and upon the cneiyy , enterprise
and manly spirit of Its own people , that pai t
ot our country has long since repaired the
ravages ot the war , anil Is now more pros
perous than I'vci before In ils history.
The gen oral statement of tlio Ken
tucky congressman is fully borne out by
Hie latest detailed stuti'ties of industrial
enterprise throughout the south. There
is particular activity in till iron and steel
enterprises not only in Alabama atvl
Tennessee but elsewhere. The Baltimore
Manufacturers' Jtcconl In Its last weeks'
i.ssue states that "a largo number of fur-
naees have been built or coiilrueled for
while the number of now steel
works , pipe works , machine
shops , foundries , bridge works and
Miuilar enterprises Is very large ,
During lliu past nine months llioro have
been added to the number of manufact
uring and mining enterprises , -18 ice
factories , ranging in cost from $15,000
tip to sf 150,000) ) fiO foundries and machine
shops , many of them of largo size ; 1
Bebscmcr .stud rail mill , 10 miscellane
ous iron works , including iron-pipe
works , bridge and bolt works , etc. , r
sloe foundries. Ill gas works , 28 decide-
light companies , 8 agricultural imple
ment factories , Hi mining and quarry
ing enterprises , 13 carrintro nnd
wagon factories , ! ) collon mills ,
10 furniture factories , SI water
works , ! ! tobacco Inctorlcs , 71 Hour
mill , and U03 lumber mills. The amount
of capital and capital stock represented
by the Jfcconl's lisl of now enterprises ,
the enlargement of old plants , and the
rebuilding of mills during the first nine
months of 183(1 ( is $83,831,200 , against only
$52,330300 , ! during the corresponding
peiiod of 188oj ami it concludes that "the
south has made more solid anil substan
tial industrial progress since January 1 ,
188C , than over before in the same length
of time. "
This marvellous advance is due to Iho
fact that the south thrown ou its own re
sources is energetically developing its
great mineral and agricultural wealth.
Foreign capital attracted by the
prospects for profitable investment is
flowing into the section , new fields of in
dustry arc being opened which in turn
assisl in maintaining the value of labor
in the agricultural regions , and the south
seems entering upon an era whoso re
sults will overtop the moat prosperous
( lays of slave labor , largo plantations and
the concentration of weallh in the hands
of the lew to the detriment and degrada
tion of Ihe many.
Kxcuscs Which Convict. '
The lamoaltempts which Church Howe
i.s making in his campaign speeches to
purge his checkered record arc doing his
canvass more harm than good. He has
so far failed to explain away a single one
of Iho grave charges made against him.
lie halts and hcsilales when accused of
selling out tlio grange in the legislature
after being elected as an anti-monopoly
candidate , but informs liis hearers Ihat
in his action on railroad mailers ho was
carryinc out the wishes of his constitu
ents , Confronted with his treachery to
republican ) } in his bnixen attempt lo hand
over Ihe national government to Tildcn
and democracy In 1870 , he whimpers
out that Iho special session to
catjvass the electoral vote was an
expensive piece of business , and that in
protesting : against it ho was anxious to
save the state $0,000 of Iho people's
money. Ho dodges entirely his I'alrlck
campaign , and makes no effort lo answer
the charges that ho Is convicted by the
records of voling for a democratic
United Stales senator m 1877 , working
for him as his lobbyist and openly accuseU
of pocketing $3,000 of secret service
money placed in his charge to bo put
where it would do th most good. Ho
leaves untouched the grave charges of
bribery and corruption in connection
with tlio introduction of his gambling
and prohibition bills , which , il is charged ,
died an unnatural death soon after largo
sums of money were raised lo buy oil'
his advocacy of Ihoso measures.
The charge that by false representations
to the farmers of Nomnha county he in
duced them to ship all their stock- over
the road of which ho was an atloruoy and
then pocketed half of the secret rebates ,
this trickster has the audacity to explain
away by telling his audiences that the
amount pocketed was not quite a
half and that the process was
purely a business transaction. To
tlio general charge that his whole record
shows him to have been a railroad capper
sailing under the colors of a friend of the
producing interests , he answers that he
has always been and is still nn advocate
of railway regulation by congress , ami
that whatever his record lie is sustained
by the unfaltering trust of the good and
honest people of Nemaha county.
And ihcso are the answers which this
ilisreputablo political mountebank who
is now posing as a republican loader in a
republican district makes tolhoqucsUons
which honest republicans throughout -
out the district hurl at him as ho
mounts tlio stump from town to
town. Ills excuses are his
own conviction. His explanations fur
nish enough arguments lo his enemies lo
unsure his defeat. No abuse of his oppo
nent as a capitalist can wipe out the
stains on his own remitation. No tirade
ugainst a successful business man who
lias made his money In legitimate trade
3an divert the attention of republicans
from the wealth which Church Howe Is
2lmrged with having acquired by the
methods of the swindler , the corruption-
1st and the knave ,
Ho Does Not Care.
It Is painfully evident to the country
.hat tuu ror.H ! ° u * between Providence
uid Grovcr Cleveland are , ! ! ka the situa *
.ion in Bulgaria , very much stniiiifu.
i\ hat the French call entente coriliulc ,
Manifestly does not exist. Cleveland , in
ils public acts does not appear lo con
sider that there is a " God in Israel , "
uid Providence continues in its inybtur-
ous way its wonders to perform without
tpparontly a thought about Uruvcr
Cleveland. When the Omnipotenl hand
iiw : ( il lo shako the fair city of Charleston
nto ruins , it was not stayed by the
snowledgo that Cleveland was fishing in
.hu Adirondack's. When Ihe same hand
iu.w lit lo pile up. the waters of the gulf
mil submerge a peaceful , happy village ,
jt held not back because Cleveland was
fishing in West Virginiai
The result proves that it would have
made no ifill'eronco tb Iho stricken people
if Cleveland had been in Washington.
Possibly , had ho boon there , n fen
pounds of hard bread would have been
front to Clinrlt'.slon with these fifty tonls
to feed as well as shelter GO.OCO people
Possibly , had he been there , ho wouh
have argue I that us some 100 people liuii
been drowned at Sabine I'nss a tlo/.en
tents would bo sunieient to shelter those
who were left , ns the place was not large
and ho might have sent them , and tlevisot
other means of relief for people so sore I j
alllicted. At least ho could have nn
nouneed over the ollicial seal of the see
rotary of state that hu was sorry , but
couldn't do nnj thing until congress met
and passed a law authorizing him to aet
Things wore diflere.nl in 1871 , when
Providence permitted Mrs. O'Loary's cow
lo start a lire that destroyed Chicago
President Grain \\as at his po.sl in Wash
ington , and appeared lo understand that
Providence expected him to do something
at once lo shelter the shelterless , feed Iho
hungry and relieve the distress of Miller-
ing women and children. And ho did it.
His heart was quick to prompt , his heat !
to plan and his hand to execute. Ho
heard the voice of humanity , which ia
the voice of God , and ho answered ,
"Hero am I , " But Cleveland hears no
wall of anguish from the south. The
earthquake may wreck human habi
tations and bury m the ruins the
sleeping and unconscious people.
Tlio winds may destroy , the waves may
overwhelm ; human bodies may lloat ev
erywhere among the wreckage , and
( locks of bu/zards may tear and devour
the llesh thereof. The survivors , stripped
of all earthly possessions , and mourning
the loss of loved ones , may not have
where to lay their heads. Thu nation is
called upon for help , bill the head of the
nalion goes a-lishing and docs not hear.
A man who is not responsive to human
fullering , who has no nerves to feel , no
sympathies to bo touched , docs not repre
sent tlio American nation in its human
ity. He is simply a cold , selfish , heart
less politician.
Uank Notes Krdcorncil With Silver
Certificates.
In the Bin : of Sunday , speaking of our
national bank redemption , we said :
Complaint Is made that Iho fund lor re
demption of notes ot national banks failed ,
in liquidation or reducing their circulation ,
amounting to neaily foitv millions , Is a
needless withdrawal of chi'tilatlug medium.
But it is not so. The notes of these banks
are in circulation until presented for rcdemi -
llon In greenbacks , which coiihtituto this
tund. The exchange bf p\io \ for the other
neither decreases or inyieays circulation.
In speaking of thoj ampunt of the re
demption fund wo used the latest
figures then accessible , and of the consti
tution of Hie fund as1 Ihe' law originally
proscribed , viz , greenbacks. From a
Washington dispatch lo .the Olobe-Dcmo-
crat , however , iin > reference lethe
the effect of tlio bond calls
on national bank Circulation we get
new facts of much interest to tlio public.
In that dispatch a leading treasury ollicial
explains that when bonds on deposit by a
bank as security for-its bills are called
for payment , tlio corresponding amount
'
of bills is not required' once lo bo re
turned for canccllylion. On Ihe contrary -
trary , the bank simply returns the
treasury's receipt for the bonds and re
ceives in cash the 10 per cent of difference
between the war value of the bonds and
the 00 per cent of notes issued on Iho
bonds , The bank is then credited on the
books in tlio redemption fund witli this
90 per cent , nnd as the
bills come into the Ireasury in
ordinary course of business or as muti-
laled and unfit for further circulation ,
they are redeemed and cancelled.
By this very sensible method , although
the fund for redemption of bank circula
tion , by reason of Inle bond calls , had in
creased on October 13 lo § 70,080,000 , , yet
the treasurer does not take a step to
secure the redumption of the notes ,
except , as before said , Iho cancelling ot
those coming in in tlio course of business.
This is a practical compliance with the
request of the banks that called bonds
should bo allowed to remain without
interest as Security for notes , and ae-
complishcs what was suggested in the
Now York livening 2'ost that the value of
the bonds should remain in Iho treasury ,
and the notes bo allowed lo continue
in circulation. While this does not con
stitute a comprehensive nor , perhaps , a
technically legal remidy for the rapid
extinction of llio basis of our bank circu
lation , it at least prevents the rapid call
ing in of that circulation ilbolf.
In another respect the treasury has ap-
peard lo have learned soniolhing.and . that
is in regard to silver. Before his inaugura
tion as president , Cleveland sent
u message to congress in
opposition to its further coinage -
ago , and continued that opposition in
(
his second message in Deceinber last ( the
first legal one ) . Manning , also , in his
Hrst report turgidly elaborated his theo
ries on "one metalllsm" and "two metal-
hsm , " and could see no salvation for the
country except In killing silver coinage.
But the action of congress and the unmis
takable friendship for silver displayed
throughout tlio country , and the contin
ued postponement of all the evils threat
ened by its coinage , hrts changed the
treasury policy , and silver is now being
helped into the people's liquids instead of
being hindered. On October 18 the coinage -
ago of silver dollars bad trenched $211-
020,000 , , of which only $878DO,000 | remain
in the treasury as owtfoil'by the govern *
mont , the rest being jf'tli ' hands of the
people in coin or y.ort\icatcs \ ( , Since
Augusl 1 llio Iroasuryllias put into circu
lation of com dollars I $5,400,003 , , and of
silver jortilicatos $13/000,000 / , , a total of
$18,000,000 , and .by the1 method of credit
to banks for bonds rod/jf / ucil | , it Is really
redeeming the national ibank notes as
they gradually come ini with silver ccr-
lifioales , especially the now $1 and $3
cerlilicalos , which are going oul faster
than ov r. And yet the heavens and the
earth have not come together !
HKAVY grading ! touringup ; the side
walks on n score of streets , I/ / heavy
profanity could accomplish it , safe am !
substantial sidewalks would be quickly
put down on Farnaiu , Dougias and Hur-
noy streets.
THE largo labor vote which Iho No-
maha frauu is boasting that ho has
safely housed will not put in an appear
ance on election day ,
Hatcher & Co. , 1310 Douglas -street ,
pan money ia any amount , Low rates.
Keep It Hofnro KopuMlunns.
The republicans of the First dislrle
should ask Ihcmselves whether a man
having such a record ns thai of Cliureh
llowo has any rightful claim upon the
support of tiny decent republican. Leav
ing out of question his corrupt methods
and notorious venality we appeal to re
publicans to pause and rolled befoio
they put a premium upon party trea
son nnd conspiracy ngainst its very exist
ence.
Ton years ugo , whnn the republican
party was ou the verge of disaster , and
every electoral vole cast for Hayes ami
Wheeler was needed to retain the party
in power , Church Howe entered into
a conspiracy lo deliver republican
Nebraska into the hands of the enemy.
This infamous plot is not a mere conjec
ture. The proof of it does not rest ou
surmise-or suspicion. It is not to bo
pooh-poohed or brushed a\\ay by pro
nouncing il one of ltoscwnler\s malicious
campaign slanders.
Tlio records of Ihe legislature of which
Church Howe wac a member in ' 70-77 ,
contain the indelible proofs of llio treasonable
enable conspiracy , and no denial can
stand against evidence furnished by his
own pen. Briefly told , the history of this
plan to hand over the country to Tildou
and democracy is as follows :
In 1870 Nebraska elected Silas A.
Slrk-Kland , Amasa Cobb and A. H.
Connor presidential electors by a vole of
31,010 as agalnsl a vote of 10,1)31 , ) cusl for
Ihe Tildcn and Hondrlcks declors. After
Iho election it was discovered that the
canvass of this vote could not take place
under llio llicn existing law before the
legislature convened. The electoral vote
had lo bo canvassed iu December
at the latest , and the regular ses
sion of tlio legislature did not begin
until January. In order to make
a legal canvass of the electoral returns ,
Governor Garber called a special session
of the legislature to convene on the 5th of
December , ' 70 , at Lincoln , lor tlio pur
pose of canvassing the electoral vole of
Iho slate. The democratic effort to cap
ture republican electoral votes is historic.
Tildon's friends , notably Dr. Miller , had
been plotting for the capture of one of
the electors from Nebraska , and it is also
historic that a largo bribe was offered leone
one of the electors , General Strickland.
The call of the legislature broke into the
plan of the plotters , and they found a willIng -
Ing and reckless tool in Church Howe.
When the legislature convened at the capi
talChurch Howe ( Hod a protest which maybe
bo found on pages 0 , 7 and 8 of the Me-
braskn House Journal of 1877. The fol
io wing extract makes internstingreading :
" 1 , Church Howe , a member of the legisla
ture of Nebraska , now convened by procla
mation of his excellency , ( lovcrnor Silas
Clarber , for the purpose of canvassing and
declaring Iho result of the vote cast m Ne
braska for electors for president ? ind vice
president of the United States , heioby enter
my solemn protest against such act , dcnyhiK
that the governor has power to call llns body
in special session for any stvli purpose , or
that this body has uny authority to canvasser
or decline the result ol such vote upon the
followinc grounds :
First. This legislature now convened hav-
IIIR been elected under what is known as the
old constitution , has no power to act In the
premises , the new constitution of the state
havlnp : been in foieo since November , 1875. "
The second nnd third clauses deal with
technical objeclioiiri and are somewhat
lengthy. The concluding sentences of
lliis precious document are us follows :
"For the foregoing reasons I protest
ugainst any canvass of the electoral vote
of the state byi his body , and demand
that this , my protest , be entered upon
tlio journal. " ( Signed ) Church Howe ,
member of the legislature of Nebraska.
The democrats did not respond to the
call of the governor and there was barely
a quorum in Iho senate , while there were
several to spare in the house of which
Howe was a member. The protest en
tered by Howe was doubtless prepared
by the Tilden lawyers in Omaha and
Howe hail the glory of being the solo
champion of Sam Tilden. The legisla
ture ignored Church Howe , spread his
protest on its record nnd canvassed tlio
electoral vote in spite of it.
When the legislature convened in Jan
uary , 1877 , the presidential contest was
at its hoicht in Washington. Church
Howe had , > ianged places from the house
to the senate. Karly in the session , a
resolution was introduced expressing the
conviction on the part of the senate that
Hayes and Wheeler having received a
majority of Iho elecloral voles were en-
lilted lo their scats. This resolution
gave rise to a very lively debate which
lasted two davs. Church Howe asked to
bo excused from voting when it first
came up and was so excused. . On the
final passage of the resolution llio record
Ipago 370 , Senate Journal 1877 , ] shows
the following result ; Yeas Ambrose ,
Baird , Blanclmrd , Bryanl , Calkins ,
Cams , Chapman , Colby , Dawes , Garfield -
field , Gilham , Hayes , Kenuard , Knapp ,
Popoon , Powers , Thummol , Van Wyck ,
Walton and Wilcox 20.
These voting in the negative were :
Aton , Brown , Covell , Ferguson , Hininan ,
Holt , Church Howe nnd North-8.
During the same session of the legisla
ture , Church Howe's vote on United
States senator for the first llirce ballots is
recorded an having been cast for 12. W.
Thomas , a South Carolina democrat ,
[ pages 108 and 208 Semite Journal. ] AH
this time Church Howe professed lo be a
republican independent , republican on
uiutonul issues and a temperance granger
: m local issues. Wo simply ask what
right a man with such a record lias to
the support of any republican.
I'HOMINKNT PUHSONS.
General ftoser A. Troyor still wears his
mlr loni ; and still cairlcs himself like asol-
lier , but no Is notably stouler and dresses
ess like a Virginian and moio like a Jiioad-
ivay man ,
Dr. Galling , the Inventor of the Outline
inn , Jives In an unpretentious but comfort-
iblo house near Hartford , and goes bul llttlo
nto society , being absorbed by his own Ideas
.nil work.
Leonard W. Jerome , ol New York , nllows
ils daughter , wife of Lord Itandolph Cluuch-
II. chancellor of the Jlrltish exchequer ,
! jr > , ooo per annum. Lord Churchill's salary
3 SJo,000 a year.
Albert Kink , the famous commissioner of
ho trunk-line pool , and the most polenllal
nilway oftlclal In Iho Untied States , u a
icruiali by blrllii fitty-sovcn years of nijo.
nd a widower with olid daughter In her
sens , to whom ho Is passionately devoled.
Kx-Senator David U Yuleo , of Florida ,
fho died in New York a few days ago , was
10 lost state prisoner of the war to receive
U discharge. It Is not genet ally known
lat his name was originally Levy , which
as changed many years ago by an act of the
iglshituio ,
Secretary Lnmar's marriage Is to take place
etweeu November 7 and the couveuipg of
consrcss , the date as rot not belnt ? deftnlteli
atcrecd upon. The secretary has ftttrvl up hli
residence on N street , Washington , int (
which ho moved a few days ao , and e\oty
thine Is almost In readiness for Ihe iccctuloi
of the biide.
A 1'nrnllol.
JNVir llann AVtc .
When jouurn acioss a polite railroad oftl
clnl joncaii uencr.iliy make up your mint' '
that there is a paial'el load somewhere it
the uolRhbuihood.
? finopill ( < t niul ttio I'ttullc.
i\ri < ' Voim t < .
The fiist pilnclplo ot the monopolists' '
pools Is that the public Is "Ihelrgoo'e. ' ' Thcj
\\ill some diy find that It is a blid uith an
other species wltlt ela\\ .
The Dogs Are N'ot Worrylitfj.
Oifaitfii 7'iwrs.
If Abinlmm S. Hewitt should bo elected
mavorot New York ho would clean out the
baikliutlop.s In the motiopolis or die In thr
attempt. Iteini ; a suffetor fiom Insoinnma ,
ho objects to the nolsv eur on piinclple. Let
( iotlmui don owners make a note of this fad
bcloie It Is too late.
October FlowcrH.
11 * . r. lilrJmnlf , { llinnMyn M
Vo It.imlnc flowcis , ot btowu October's
blooming
With deeper colors ( hail me bom of spilnp ,
Beneath your 01111111111104 and scailets gloom-
Ini ;
1 see the shadows of decay's daik wings.
Your corneous tints are only premonitions
( M lading foiee In soil anil sunlit air ;
And , conscious these , with jot unspent voli
tions ,
They deck tlio earth with beauty passing
fair.
As the last wa\o upon the beach breaks loud
est ,
As the dying dav puts her best Dtnverv on ;
While yet the earth in your an ay Is proud
est
Tluough the gay masks I maik the summer
gone I
STATIC AND TISUUITOUY.
Ncl > raolui
Waterloo is tlirealened wilh a paper
mill.
mill.Tlio
Tlio Rev. Hitler is doing the revival act
in Beatrice.
The sons of the Buckeye .state in Liberty
have orgtml/etl a reunion club.
The machinery for sinning an artesian
well has arrived at Chadron.
ShnriiV Hamilton , of York , captured
Smith , an escaped jail bird , in Hall
county.
The people of North Bond nro trying
to close the saloons of that place on Sun
days and after 12 o'clock at night.
Another new town has been located on
the Hock Island , near Beatrice. Grading
is being done for 3,200 , feet of bide Iracks
at that point.
The Shelton Clipper lias been blessed
with a family anchor and pi-box agitator
a nine pound boy baby , with regulation
lung power.
It is eslimalad that the shipments of
stock from Chadron this season will ag
gregate JJ.OOO cars , or ( W.OOJ head. Kival
towns will doff Iheir cliapcaux and bow to
the supremacy of Chadron.
Ex-Governor Furnas has raised on
Nebraska soil some beautiful wimples of
cotton , as a matter of amusement. The
liber is a Irillo coarse and short , but it is
clean and of good weight.
John Mohr , a "funeral director" of
Ponea , took a mournful procession into
a ditch tlio other day. His team ran
away , kicked him severely , and laid him
out on the roadside insensible.
The murderer of Quinn , the man who
was killed in the northeast part of
Adams county , was traced as far as St.
Paul , where ho had left the team. No
further trace of him could be found.
Frank Uoolilo , a farmer living near llio
Howard county line , while returning
from Grand Island with a wagon load
of lumber , broke through a bridge and
was crushed lo death. He leaves a wife
and three children.
John Strand , a well known farmer liv
ing in Albany township , near Iloldrcdge ,
had a tooth extracted a few days ago.
On his return home ho took cold in the
jaw and died from the effects of it in a
lew days afterwards.
Mr. Jas. Hutcsoii , of Central City , met
wilh n peculiar accident last week. Ho
jumped from a wagon and the broken
handle of a hay fork which was stuok in
tlio ground hit and penetrated his eye ,
the aight of which will probably bo de
stroyed ,
Al Prohm , who was convicted and sen
tenced to Iho penilenliary for obtaining
money under lalso pretenses , was kept
out of Iho state enb by a dose of cpieae.
While the medicine was doing the heroic
act his lawyers obtained a stay of pro
ceedings from the supreme court , and
the papers arrived before Al recovered.
Oleo eounly again comes lo Iho front
with n freak of nature that will surprise
tlio natives. It is no more than Iwo pigs
born with a horn each about two incites
in lenglli located about midway between
their nose and their ey s. The protuber
ance looks like ilesn , is covered with
bristles , out also greatly resembles horn.
Editor McDonaiiKh , ot the O'Neill
Tribune , has been nominated for senator
and his election is ono of the coming
certainties. Just in the prime of mental
and physical beauty , a voice like a
thunder clap , and a brow unfurrowcd by
care , he will hold down a chair anil
move to adjourn with a weight of grace
that cannot bo copied or clipped. It is
shear folly to nominate an opponent. A
single exclamation from Mae's right
shoulder would lay him on the sunny
side of a cemetery , where llio slory
of his fate would DO read in the simple
epitaph , "Didn't Know it was loaded. "
'Iho pen Is mighty and gels there every
time.
Iowa items.
Carroll and Dunlnp are to bo connected
by telephone.
Work has commenced on the soldiers'
homo at Marshulltown.
Abundant veins of coal have boon dis
covered in Sao county at from 183 to 000
luot below tlio surface.
The strike ot thu minors has boon ad
justed at the Coutomllu mines on the
basis of 4 cents pur bushel.
Miles Aldrioh , of Kpworth , Dubuqiiu
eounly , celebrated his ninety-third birthday -
day on the llth in.st. Ho is haul to be thu
oldest person in eastern Iowa.
There is ti well 2,000 feet deep on the
farm of , Jolm V , Fnrwell , near Monte-
zumit , The water is highly magnetic ana
possesses medical qualities in a remark-
nblo degree.
Surveyors on llio Northwestern are In
Ihe vicinity of Moravia , making a survey
from Ottumwa to Kansas City. They
ire reported UH running a parallel line
with the Milwaukee ,
Warrants have been drawn on the state
; reafaury ns follows ! $10.000 for payment
if militia ; $5,000 on account of state
in veraily fuml ; .fa.CO ! ) for support of thu
inivorsityl7,0W , ( in all.
Humboldt parties entered into min
ion lost week over a diffortmeo of $ lo"in
iollloniont. Besides the fees of the
, wo lawyers ' the costs fooled up $17. The
laintin'got Judgment for $1.80.
While working in the rook cut on the
last side of the river near Leigh , thn
vorkmen found a bullalo's horn embedded
u ttiorrock thirty font below the sur-
ace. It was In miou mi excellent state of
( reservation lliul the rings could FuoaSifr
ountodonit.
An Ida county farmer last tpringctit
ifl the horns of twonly six yoarlincs so
lose to the head that half an inch of
uticlo. was taken with them , They wore
lien senl for the
away summer to pas-
lire on thu Musoun bottoms.
week they were rcluriiotl anil -
horned animals were in much l > i t . r
condition than these which liad hot b , t
so trcnleil.
Phillip Kussoll has struck n fine il > v-
ing well ou his farm in Pocahout M
county , northwest of Clare. HU son .
boring and struck the stream , wh i It
throw the augur out of the hole wn i
great force , and hns boon spouting r
since. A peculiar thing about it U H it
it is only forty feet from the suifu ) ,
and located on top of the Lizard bluff.
Dakota.
Mitchell sciil § 23.75 lo Iho ClnirleXo i
sufferers.
A pottorv manufactory Is soon to lo
established in Hapid City.
Thn result of threshing in Brown count v
is somewhat discouraging.
Deadwood will sink $15,000 , in marif1-
nmi/.ing Main street. Rapid ( ' iy
will put in $30,000 in a similar nnpro.o-
incut.
Thete is great fear In Fargo Hint : \
scarcity of water will give serious Ironb o
this winter. The water in tlio Ked n.nl
Chevcnno rivers was never so low bcfo o
as at prosent.
Leolu , the county scat of McPhorsivi
county , is located in the midst of n f -
tile agricultural district. The neare t
railroad is Iwcnt.v-lwo miles away , hut u
survey lists boon made and llio gnuKi
nearly completed Into the town.
A fiend in the .shape of n man made an
attempt to commit rape on the person of
a live year-old daughter of James Crowe ,
of Yankton , on the Mth lust. The brulo
was caught and will be held to answer
according to the law -for his disgusting
crime ,
About Church Howo.
When Church Howe was nominated
for congress by his packed convention at
Beatrice , the Journal thought it would be
best to support him , anil wo tried to
"gulp" down the dose with the usual
grace expected of a newspaper man when
obnoxious and offensive men succeed by
illcgitimale means in securing a nomina
tion.
tion.As
As wo have remarked previously ,
Church Howe is tlevolmg his lime to
slalo polilics instead of explaining his
own conduct and course. Ho has been
charged with very serious offenses , and
some of a most damaging character.
Notwithstanding this , ho maintains a re
markable silence , presuming , we suppose ,
that the republican voters of this district
will vote for him simply because ho re
ceived the republican nomination with
out regard as to how lie secured it.
We nave kept a friendly silence in re
gard for Mr. Howe , hoping that in his
first speech in the campaign ho would
make an explanation and endeavor to
clear up the charges made against him ;
but in this wo have been more than dis
appointed. Instead of explaining his
own course , il scorns by thu dispatches
Hint ho is devoting Iho larger portion of
his time lo llio denunciation of Mr.
MeShnno , the democratic nominee , { sim
ply because , as it appears , ho is the atlor-
ney for a largo ealllo company even
carrying along a map of Ihe grounds
upon which llio caltlo graze. Of course ,
any thinking person will see thai in pur
suing Ihis course he is only slriving to
draw fire from himself. Mr. Howe
knows , ns well ns each of our road-
era do , that the farmers in Ihis clis-
trict are not and cannot bo in
jured by or interested in the cattle com
pany ol which Mr. McShano is attorney
for. Ou the other hand Mr. Howe certainly
knows that every stock raiser in this di -
trict is vitally interested in the great
question of eneap transportation to the
eastern markets , and as he is and liai
been lor years the mouthpiece of till the
railroads when they had any dirty work
to do , he must know that what tlio people
require is that ho should show how ho
can , with his past record and afiiliations.
bq tlio people's friend in their contest
with corporations. Knowing this , tlio
fact that fie devotes h's tune to the abuse
of his competitor instead of explaining
his own position , show. * that ho cannot
make an explanation that the people
would accept.
So far us this paper is concerned , it re
grets exceedingly that the. character of
Mr. Howe is such as lo make it impossi
ble for it to support him. The day has
gone by when the party lash can bo ap
plied to inlelligunt men so as to force
them to support dishonorable and dis
reputable nominees. Wo would bo false
lo ourselves nnd to our readers were wo
to fail to say that Mr. Howe is not worthy
to bo the slandard bearer of the great re
publican narty of this dislrict.
Ho has boon charged in Ihe years in
which he has been in public lifo in this
stale , with having sold out on almost all
important measures upon which ho was
called to act. In 1875 ho supported from
first to last for United States senator that
most coirupl of democrats , . ) N. H. Pat
rick. It was openly charged at the time
that for this conduct ho received iin
ample consideration. To those charges
ho makes no reply or even attempts to.
Again in 1870 wo find him in tlio state
soniitu endeavoring lo do an act , tlio most
perfidious and infamous ever done by
an.'j public official. In Iho great conlest
between Tilden and Hayes , the latter had
carried the state by u vote ol Iwo lo ono ,
Iho result standing in round numbtrs
: | 0 000 for Hayes and 10,000 for Tildon.
Ihoro being no law in our stale for the
canvass , of the vote the legislature was
convened to pass ono. Tlion Mr. Howe ,
the present standard bearer of the re
publican party used every moans within
Ills power to keep the vote of Nebraska
from being counted at till. As Iho
records ot Iho sonalo disclosed , ho
entered his solemn protest against
the canvassing of Iho vole and by every
means and subterfuge tried to disfran
chise the entire 50,000 , of Nebraska voters.
Why ho did this is apparent to every ono
knowing to tlio fact that If Nebraska's
throe clvotorinl votes wore thrown out
llltlon would have been elected by two
majority. What ho received for this
ilanumblo aot can only bo surmised. The
people of this district , In view of his own
silouce , cannot bo far wrong in believing
lint h3 received a largo part of the iniH
lions of corrupt money that WHS lloatlng
[ jroiind to secure the election of Tildon.
Ihis part of his career , as shown bv the
record , has boon standing in Iho editor-
ml columns of the Omaha BP.K for u
tionlll nast , and -yet ho IIIIH not oven at-
ximpli'd lo reply to it , which would bo
mpossiblo as the record fctnnds printed
) vor lila own signature ,
Uonry 13. Alihey.
New York Tribune ; Henry E. Abbey.
ho noted theatrical managcr.is a slender
nan. who carries himself well. Ho a
oiiml , ruddy fneo and black mustache ,
10 Is always carefully dressed. Mr
Vbboy was originally a Jeweller , bavin- - '
earned thu ( ratio in Ids falhor's shop i 2
vestorn town. Ho may bo seen riding
input the city , his favorite convoy , "o
mmg a hansom. Abbey has had his ups
Liid downs , but through them ho has i re-
orved an indifiurenco to wealth which is
K'i ? ' , , yimUin with motho o ,
"
kv he saids "I cannot understand whv
iien am cra/.v to bo rich. If a man has
11 ho wants I should think thut would bo
r 2 ! ' J'n ° llllrntllirboin ( the PlMO
> r one of the
younger members of the
font urbilt family lhan in the place of
he ciders. Take Frederick Vanderbilt ,
or instance , with eight or Ion millions
hioh is amplo. Ho has nothing to do
niliam nj"lm1s5but . , w ' forty or Cornoftiw filly millions and
piece , have all the responsibility of
n.0"ff ] } P llio family name and trans-
lilting Iheir weallh unbroken to some-
ody who will muiiiUii , the family name
nil fortune. They ure in trouble all the
" \ ° j whereas the younger sons' liavo
othjii to do but to enjoy thgniBulvoj , "