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U'o r 'J l 'n In tlio qiilrkpncll rnnnclrnco of the. i'1" ! ruiicvriiliiK l > nllllriil ntJn\rf , mill trill liolil all vul > ltu olllunrs to n , rlsl'l re- | ion llilllty mill niRacn | th t IDCIUIS 'pledge' ) llmt thn | in > < iiM'Htloii , imil putifohnirnt of nil Mho betray nllUlul trum ithull bo nvlft , tlmroiicli "nil nimpnrlns. Nntlonal Krpub- llcnn riiitforni , 1H7O. Tlip wnr jtovernor will KOOH bo one of tile r-x Tin"On lo IVUliiR" cry appears lo linvo been raisiMl a little iirotnaturoly. Si-ratcli n calamity crusader suul you'll BOOH slrlko a rullrond brni'llctary. H.-iHclinll cranks will now have n IK riHl of n-st and relaxation until u iuv suas'on lupins In Ilio AVe Khali soon see how far protestii- tloiiK In favor of better innulcliml KOV- crnineJit will work for that end lu the prlinarleH and elections. Hy reugitntiiiK tlio l > ect fiitpar project nt the present inomenl the real business JKSU .of. Ouiuha show tliat they tal < e no jtock In the c'nlamlty stories of tlie rail- misatiers. If Mr * . J'Hlliiinn Iiistencl of President Olevuland had been asked to act as jirbl- triilbr In the boundary dispute between Jtrn7.ll and Jlio Argentine Ilepufollc he would have renpoiuled curtly tlmt there wan nothing to be arbitrated. j General Lew Wallace , while up at St. 1'iurt , publicly made the prediction that t Senator Hill would decline the demo- evatie nomination .for Kov.ernor of Xew York. It Is more apparent than ever thnt ( Jeneral Wallace IH not a mind- reader. Omaha takes the stale baseball cham pionship , wlildi will go a great way In atonliiR for letting this Lincoln club tin- tali first In the regular association series. ruder the circumstances we may as well say that baseball honors are easy ns between Omaha and IJncoln. The Interstfite Democratic association , composed of ofllce liolders located In Washington , bus formally resolved not to ride In I'nllmnn cars when they go home to endeavor by their votes to save the administration. The best way to test their sincerity would be to offer one of them u few Pullman passes. Chairman Wilson nays ( hat he much prefers to serve In the house than In the senate , because to him the former IK by far the more attractive Held. lie was not asked whether he would not prefer the House of Commons to the hoii.so of representatives. A straight forward answer might have been de cidedly embarrassing. The elections In Florida last week are reported to have resulted In the choice of n legislature ( hat Is adverse to the Claims of Senator Call for re-election. , If this turns out to be true the Florida senator will retire to private life at the expiration of his term next March and the country will doubtlc-ss never hear of him again. lie Las been conspicuous only for his long-winded , K speeches , and the little Incident of it winter when he exposed his stockinged foot on his desk for the benefit of the spectators In the senate galleries. His successor will of course be a democrat t , BO that Senator Call will scarcely bo missed , oven by his party associates. The decision modifying the Jenkins strike Injunction order nnd the- accom panying opinion upholding the right of aggrieved workliigmen to strike have already given rise to some talk of the availability of Justice Ilnrian as a pres idential candidate. It will be remem bered that there was some talk of the same kind with reference to Judge Caldwell - well nt the time he gtivu his decision In the matter of the Union Pacific wtfce schedule. The dllllculty with Justice ITiirlau , as with Judge Caldwell , Is that lib ia n republican hailing from u demo cratic state , nnd a southern state at thnt. Locution ( s not nn Insurmountable ob stacle , but U plays nu Important part In the selection of presidential candi dates. These incidents , however , must bo taken to Indicate the prominent plucu Which the labor'question Id going to oc cupy In thu next national campaign. The successful candidate will hayo to bo sound upon the issues between tlio wage pnrnors and their corporate eiuolovers. ; y irtiMt Kihtt.i , nt I'VT or/i rnisrt When the mailiiuim rate bill was before - fore UK > last Icgi.-daluru the bankers ami ! niliUf < H mrii who liarc intulu common eajiw with the llurllugtuii rouil umlor ) ireleiiHi of protiftlnt ; tlie credit tif thu Hppenrud in a body before tlie log- Isjlallvi1 roiiiiiillli'i's to protest nirulnst Ihe piitfstiKe of linn Ijlll. They declared Itiillvlihnill.v unit collectively that tliu en- ii'-iiiiciil ol' thu i > iuu | > Mil law wuulil bu a Wi-loiiH lilnw at tlie ( Niiiiiiiftvtal pros- ( icfily n ( thu slate utiil iiosltlvoly ruin ous In ( In1 jolilici's mill iiiiHUifacturorrt of Oniiilm. They liniiitlil lliu most out- . III-USHIUV iijutii tin1 Dunlins tlelc- mi I lull to viilc ugaliift Ihe Mil aiul thfcali'iieil ' tlit inctnhcrH with political nml liiisliicus hdstlllly. Thry iiuuli' lift' a hiinh-ii for .Svntitur Ulnrku 1 .V bulldoz ing ami Ihri'iitH and literally liiiuiuluil tin * yuiuiK man Into his priivc buwuisc lu > fi'Si'iiil ] ( Ihi'lr lttiKrtuiillk | > s , jusseVtwl hl nianliiHxl and volwl lo reiloc-iu 111 * ' lihitrnrin iili-4lK if ) the iviitilk'an parly. After tlii- passage of the niaxinjum vutf bill proKMire was exerted upon ( Jovornor by tlie same rallnmd bankers , 'stock yards managers and rebate ship pers. They predicted dire disaster to the hiiMtic.--s interests of Omaha If the j ! | bill wtii * made a law. Governor Crounse gav < > these gentlemen patient hearing , bin after weighing all their arguments decided that It was his duty to the stsite and his party to alllx his signature to | the bill. j The only explanation these gentlemen Imve been iible to make Is that they were dragooned Into the service of the ruler of Nebraska , who Is in position to i-rlpiile or destroy tholr business. \VIthlti thirty days nftof the bill had IJWH aiiprovod by the governor Ihe inun who linil made Home Imwl with tlu-lr denunciations of the maximum bill and Senator Clarke experienced a change of heart. They called almost in a body upon the editor of The Hce and assured him that the maximum rale law would do more to build up the jobbing and manufacturing Interests of Omaha than . any measure that had ever been pro jected. This was also Hit' view of the freight commissioner of the Commercial club. On the 1st day of August , 1KW , when this beneficent law Avas to go Into eHVct , It was hung up : tnd set aside in the federal courts. It was n deadly blow nt the jobbing Interests of this city and left our wholesale dealers nnd ship pers to the tender mercies of their rail road task masters , for whom they had been acting as hewers of wood nud drawers of water for these long years. Who struck this dastardly blow at Omaha's business Interests ? The Im placable Burlington tscar who i < now us ing these bankers and jobbers as calam ity masmieraders lo keep Hie state in subjection and under misrule for an other decade. It Is a notorious fact that the Klkuorn road wanted to comp'y with the provisions of the maximum rate law. ami Judge Tlunylon advised tlie 1'nlon Pacific to do the same. "But these Inter ests were dragged lulo the anarchistic conspiracy to sel the laws of this state at dellanee by the Burlington satraps. Had the' nnuNlmum rate law gone Into eff < H.-t fifteen months ago Omaha would have experienced n revival of pros | > erlty in spite of the prevailing depression. Why should jobber * and bankers who are not in partnership In private specu lations or enjoying special favors at the hands of the railroad magnates Join hands with -Mr. Iloldrege to keep this t-ity In subjection to tlie whims of traille managers ? Is It better for the business Interests of Omaha and Nebraska to foist Into the governor's chair n man who lacks every element of integrity and owes his political promotion entirely to the pernicious influence of public plunderers and corporate bosses than to support u man of unsullied reputation who will do his duty withoxit fear or favor ? Shall this community bo again siu-rlll ed to promote the meroenrry ends of < lm favored few to the detriment of the whole community and the slate at large ? Looking backward over the experience of the past with railroad ringsters nnd boodlers , what are we to expect In the future If the state Is surrendered to their keeping by tlio false alarm Over the threatened cnslU of the state ? 7iV 6 The author of every Important tariff bill of recent years has found It uphill work to maintain his place In congress and re-election has been rather the ex ception than the rule. Horizontal Bill Morrison was extinguished at the same time as the light of his proposed meas tire. Mr. Mills was returned to coir - gtvss only after n hard fight. Governor MeKlnley was beaten , not so much by > the strength of the opposition as by the fact that his district had been gerry mandered so an to make It safely demo cratic. This year Chairman Wilson's re election Is open to grave doubt. It Is assumed , and naturally , too , that he typifies the tariff law which goes by his name , and tlmt n most effective way ol showing the people's disapproval of thai legislation will be to send its author to toh nu early political grave. The Imtth royal , therefore , must be fought In Chairman Wilson's district. Them wll 111u be centered the combined forces of tin republicans both within nnd without tin district. The administration nnd KH friends reeogiitee that they have an issue nt stake In the re-election of IIIr Wilson 'unit they are preparing to asslsi him with every resource at their com iiuinil. From now on until November the campaign will bo from pillar lo post and no one will know whether this latest apostle of tariff icfiim will be pro erve < ] to tlk Flfly-fouHh congress until Hie Initlols shall Imvc hern counted. Chairman Wllwm's district embraces the fifteen iinintli * In Ihe eastern part of ( the state , and extends from the pan handle In the northwest along the boun daries 1 of Pennsylvania. Maryland ami Virginia. In 188(1 ( Mr. Wilson's plurality was M'.7. In 1SHS It was n 8. tinnuijorlty being only M. In IKMI. ! following the pas sage of ( .MelCliih-y acL 1n whleh year the reptiblh-ans were almost oblllenitcd from tlii > hoiisi ; of rcptvscnlatlvcs , Mr. Wilson's nuijorlly was tMU'M. In he was ileoled lo the present eonnress by 1,157 plurality over his republican competitor , Ills majority over nil being .MIS. The aggregate vole of the district In ISSKi for congress was .ii.-Hl : , of which Mr. Wilson received ! MSU7. and I lie republic.- ! ! 20,70. The normal deiu- ocrallc majority may be placed at about IJKHI. Tin * change of a few hundred votes would ilefcitt .Ml1 , W.llsoh. ami It Is believed thnt the prevailing dissatis faction among the minim ; and manufac- luring classes M-Ith the change In the rates of duly mi coal and iron will alone be snlllclcnt lo aci'ompllsh that result. * U'c have the opinion of the Washing ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger ' , usually a dispassionate ob server , that while the district must be considered lo be normally democratic. It Is not so confirmed in thai direction as to make it safe under every contingency for the democrats , even with a leader like Mr. Wilson as their candidate. The republicans certainly Imve reason for encouragement , in their hopes of de feating the reputed autliTn * of the demo cratic tariff law , and no surer sign of the alarm of the opponent could be wanted than the appeals which demo cratic organs generally are making to Ids constituency to reward , without re gard to nwillH , what they delight in calling "his unyielding devotion to dem- ocratlc principles. " When it conies , however | , lo the question whether per sonal admiration of Mr. Wilson or dis satisfaction with his courstv in congress shall welch tln most , the great Inrtff reformer must be al a serious dlsiul- .vantage. Unless there Is a. marked change In the temper of the people , the mit look will ho good for the engulfing of Chairman Wilson , nlong with n con siderable number of his colleagues , lu the wreck of the democratic party. TllK IIAXKlXf ! I'Udlir.KM. Is Hie administration petting ready to 'iiHl ' Its Inllucuc'c. in favor of a stale tank currency ? This question Is sug gested by the statement which Secretary 'arlisle ' has had prepared at the Treas- try department sliowhig the currency lircnkitloii of the country before the war and from certain outgivings .from ources which ought to lie well In formed. It Is snid tlmt the plan of ro lling the legal tenders and substituting in elastic banking currency Is well bought of liy both the president nnd the secrelary of the treasury , but politi cal considerations may persuade them to iroeeed cautiously in urging such n imposition. Congressman Walker of Massachusetts , who Is a member of the liouso committee on banking and cur rency , said In n recent public speech that Speaker Crisp would allow no-hill for any Ihianclal reform to come before the house unless that bill bore a pro vision for the repeal of the 10 per cent tax upon stale bank issues. Mr. r said there could be no doubt nlMtut .Speaker Crisp's attitude. It Is l > y no means Improbable tlmt Ihero Is n. good understanding between the sccro tary of the treasury and the speaker of the house of representatives on this subject. The statement of clrcn'ntlon before < lu > war which Secretary Carlisle has had prepared Is Intend.ed to show that there W4is no undue Inlhitlon under the old .system of state bank Issues and in this way to serve the tidvocatos of the repeal of the lax. Of course Ihe circulation Is estimated and therefore the statement must be taken with some allowance. According to the statement the highest bank note circulation was reached In 1857. when It Is estimated to have been $2HOO < MXio. That-was the year of tin ; great panic , when every bank in tin ; country suspended specie payment and many of them went to tlio wall , carry ing distress lo every part of the land and ruin to thousands. There had been a steady inflation of bank note currency for two or three years and the character of most of It had been growing steadily worse. The wildcat stuff served the purpose of speculators , however , and was widely scattered. It got Into tie ! hands 4 > f the producers and wage 4 < arners and constituted the principal part of their savings , for the total specie circulation of the country at that time , almost entirely of subsidiary silver coin , a large proportion of which was foreign , was only ? iC.O,000.000. ! When the crash came the people were not long In dis covering the utterly worthless character of the paper money , and only those whose memory noes back to that time can understand Ihe ileplorahle consequences quences of that discovery. It amounts lo nothing to say that the bank note circulation of that period was less than half In amount of the present paper currency. It Is not the relative quan tity but the difference In quality and character that Is to be considered. Our present currency rests upon n sound and substantial basis. There Is ample security behind every dollar of It. A very considerable part of the state bank currency before the war was without any security. The danger of returning to the ante-bellum polity is that In time the country would bo again Hooded by a haul ; note cir culation , with virtually nothing behind It. That would mean ultimately Incalculable Injury to ill legitimate in- toresls and especially to the agricul tural producers and wage earners of the country , who could not prote.'t them selves ngiiliiHt ( such a currency. They must oxchnnKo their'products nnd their Uilior for the money of current use. This ijuotUlou will undoubtedly be pressed nt the coming session of con grcss , nnd If , ns now appears probable , the administration Is favorably disposed toward tlio proposal ( o reiMNil the iO per cent Ins on state bank Issues , and Speaker Criiy will allow no bill for financial refrain to roluc before the house lhal dijj'S hut contain a provision for the ri ) | > oajofjtlie act , the chances of such legislation will he very good. They ina > be lessened , however , by the elec tion 4 > f a republican liousuof representa tives , which u'o'nld carry with It the popular ivpiidlntjQii uf the onttiv detiuv cratlo policy. us The Omaha fake-mill , which grinds out baud ine-down campaign pabulum in the interest of Tom Majors , still keeps on harping about the Impaired credit of states that have popnltsls in the governor's chair. Itallroad bankers and eastern money lenders are quoted as authority for the assertion that the bonded securities of Kansas , Colorado ami Oregon are unsalable and mort- gag 's 441111101 be renewed in those slates. Now , the proof of the pudding is In the eating thereof. The fact that bonds Issued by cities and counties in those states command a ready sale In eastern markets at n premium knocks tlie bottom tom from under the railroad calamity cart. The New York Engineering News and American Uallway Journal , a recognized corporation authority , under dale of October 4 , prints a list of municipal bonds purchased by eastern Investment companies during the week ending Octo ber 2 , Among the sales reported were City of Portland ( Ore. ) water bonds , bearing Ti per cent Interest , price 111' , while City of Chicago drainage bunds , due In twenty years nnd bearing . " per cent. Interest , only commanded 107- % . and Anbury Park ( X. J. ) r per cent water bonds were sold at 11)8. ) Pen- no.ver. governor of Oregon , Is n p'opullst , but the governor of New Jersey Is a sound money democrat , and so Is Altgeld , tn.K' governor ' of Illinois. And yet the Oregon K'g' gen ' bonds sold at a higher price than those of Illinois and New Jersey. In the same column of municipal bond sales we Had that City of Denver public Improvement bonds , bearing 4 per cent , sold at par , while tlie water bonds of Ihe Cliy of Tacoina , bearing 5 per cent Inteivst , sold at only li points above par. The rt per cent city bonds of Pueblo sold at 101 % and Hie li per cent bonds of Spokane sold al exactly the same price. Spokane Is lu Washing ton state. Pueblo In Colorado. The governor of Colorado is n populist , the governor of Washington state a re publican. a * ' j J Facts are much more potential than llction. Senator IIIirHMoi'ch ot-nwejilauce to the committee ( fiat notified him of his nomination as democratic candidate for governor 'in 'New York1 Seems to have been particularly' framed for the pur pose pfjiiiipivsMlntfupon , hihMiUdlUirK the immense sacrifice which he takes It upon himself 1olmako in condescending to say yes. He Insists that personally lie has everything lo lose and nothing to gain by the contest to which he Is sum moned. On this point tliero will be no iiicnnsldenibk1 disagreement with him. It Is universally expected thai defeat will mean the destruction of Senator Hill's political Influence , but the risk is not all In tills direction. Tlicre Is a chance of equally great gains , because success points to the presidential nomi nation. Senator 11111 may consider n democratic presidential nomination lu IS'.H ! to be nu empty honor. It is on this theory only Hint he can claim that tlie present contest holds out nothing for lilm to gain. Tlio contest for the best taking alliter ative phrase goes merrily on In Pennsyl vania political circles. Only a week erse so ago - I-'ditor Singerly. democratic can didate for governor , referred to the gang of wire-pullers who succeeded In eueher- Ing his pet congressman , McAlccr , out of n rcnoniinatton ' " , as "rlngsters , roosters and rulllaus. " Now Michael Ilyan. another prominent Philadelphia democrat , gels back al him by saying that he can see nothing ahead but "ills- cord , demoralization , disgust and Im pending overwhelming defeat. " Mr. Sing'rly can't very well let th's challenge go unaccepted. We await with excited expectancy a thrilling characterization of Mr. Kyan and his friends that shall Include at least five round , redolent , rumbling , ringing , resounding allitera tive r's in It. A Nuinn to 4 ; < > rijuro Jly. ChlraKO Tribune. The Hon , Clem Deaver , who la trylnjr to lie a conRrcssman from Nebraska. Is rush- Ins blindly to his fate. Dr. Uium of New York Is waiting for that name. McTilnlirrV Krtiliirkiililo Tour. Ole ) - peinorrnt The wetscrif.lpiir bt Governor McKlnley Is one of the niostsuccessful Unit has ever been made by \iiibllc hian In this country , nnd the explanation lien In tlio fact that bo illscusseH B , question of Burpunfilnfi ; nubllo Interest lu a f > ty ) < t-Itiut suits the jioople. Urirt ufj.IJylltlcul Sciilliui'iil. rfljivi furli WoilJ. The town cltffjqnft In ConnecUctit have Kone nKalnst tlie democrats. Jt Is true that town elections -ar&jJartjely nffected by local Issurs anil are not , usually to be counted n Important imllcritlr/nH-of the drift of politi cal Koiiliment , baMlmcO'onicct cjt elect ) IIH show at least that , tlio tide which has been running against tlie democratic party has not yet turned.- " ! ' ! MBH. Kftl York Bun. Every forelgn-bomi man in this clly , or In any other parn4 | > f tha I'nitcil State * , who has fulfilled jmi .lawful' conditions . wlilcli papers if , liaturallzallon may be grunled. la le 45Jy Entitled to these papers , UIWH application to any court empowered to Issue theme It IH n good , healthy Blffn that. foreign-born-residents take a practical Interest In American politico and are de- slroiiH of Qualifying themselves to vote In elections , Tphtlnc Modurn Nuvlpi. PBIIVIT nrj'UMInm. Naval ollleers In Europe , tis well oa In the United States , lire watching the prod- tens of the wnr between China and Japan because It Involves & lest of the ctllclcnc > of modern wan < hlp nnd guns. It apnearn , however , tlmt nuvnl ofllcers the world over disagree still as lo the clllclency of armoreil cruisers when compared with bat Ho ship * when encased wllh the latter. The realst- tnir power of a. battle shin iintiuestloimbly Is superior to thul of a cruiser , but the latter la the more easily handled , and this muliPH up In a Croat measure for ltd poorei protection against Hhots that strike It. Hath styles of vi-flwcls have their place , and no navy would be complete without a larKf number of battle Hhlpn. nnd also of armored and unarmoreil crulners. The latter would be used chiefly aa conunerco destroyers. A republican politician at I'lcrcf line nren Konr * o far ns ( o threaten the | > o tiii Btor at that place with removal ( pom office If ho Ooc not quit nupiHtrtlni ; Holcotnb nod turn In nnd help Mojorx. A German tiller n ( ( 'timing co\M \ y toll dropped Into town the * other dar for his pa per , PnttlnK on hi * "sprm , " ha looUo \ at the democratic hollers' ticket headed by Stnrdevant. and thru remarked to tha i'r"1e ot men standing about him : ' Acli , none at us wilt vote llmt ticket. The follows what nominated It don't vote It neither. They Just put It up f ° r us furmcrs lo vote Instead of voting for llolcoiub. Them fello\\l. \ they all votes for Majors themselv.'s. Hut we ain't fools.Ve know our buslne ? * . " It Is reported that tlie republicans of tlio Eighteenth senatorial district will bocbllicil to secure a ncxv candidate , for It Is said tlmt J. S. Clmpman. the nominee , Is not cll.qlble. He has not lived In'thnt district long enough to entitle him to the olHco , Tills ought to be looked Into , for rcpubllc/m party i already Imndlcuppcil PtioiiKh without Laving any Inollglbles alter toe election Is over. Mr. Charles Woostcr editor of tlie Silver Creek Times , 1s an old soldier , a niembe-r of the Orand Army of tlie Hepubllc. Also an old republican. He was a delegate from Mer- rick county to the republican tate con vention. Mr.Vooslcr Is decidedly opposed to ths elecllon of Tom. Majors. A few days ORB- he received a clrctmr from tlie Republican Union Veteran nssoclntlon on behalf of Ma jors , and thereupon makes the following com ment : For Ilio Information of old aoldlera , we publish In nnntlic'r column a document from the "Soldiers' llureau" at Lincoln. If any olif soldier wants to be worked let him write for Information. Other things being equal , we vrould always vote for nn old soldier In pref erence to his opponent , but no old soldier should vote for a bad or Incompetent man because he may have served In the war of the rebellion , So far as our stale ticket Is concerned there Is no argument that can np- peal to voter * generally that should not with equal force appeal to Ihe old soldier. In the election of a president or a congress man * Ihe cusp would bo different. Again we repeat , "wo are Retting very tired , of this old soldier racket. " Mlmlen Courier : Maintaining the credit of the stale by electing Smutty Tom for gov ernor Is decidedly unique. Wahoo-Era : Let the honest clement of Ne- braska emulate the example of the moral clement of Kentucky and knock out Tom Majors and the gang. Let the ladles take a hand In the affair. I'apllllou Times : If Hank wrecker Mosher could return from the penitentiary would he vote for Holcomb ? Not much ! He would bo shouting for Tom Majors. Just as all the state liouso thieves In and out of prison are doing. Wlsnor Chronicle : If the republican party of this state had taken the advice and heeded the warning of Hosewatcr and the antimonopoly nopoly clement In Its ranks a few years ago there would be little call for a third party In Nebraska and no danger of Its supremacy. U has waxed and grown strong because of the refusal of the bosses to servo the real Interests of the people as against tlie cor porations. * Silver Creek Times : All this talk that the election of Holcomb would Injure the cr 1it of the state Is all poppycock.S Hal more discreditable thing could we do than to elect Tom Majors ? Republicans do not propose to vote for Holcomb because they like him or his party , but because they -njro dlsllko to vote for a railroad rlngster. The people nf the country are not all fools , and they will be able to see that this contest In Is largely nonpartlsan a fight aga'nst ' bors- Ism and rullrocdlsm as per.uiilHed In tljo head of the republican ticket. Plalnvlew News : "Vole for Majors to spite Rosewater" is a mighty sound and logical argument. Isn't It ? Y-'l that Is the ciy that Is going up all over the state toJay. Nebraska republicanism lias reached a very lonr level. Wholesale boodlerlsm and "Moshor- Ism" In the state house Is nothing- , honesty and uprightness In the state government Is nothing , railroad management of the guber natorial chair Is nothing , we mutt close our eyes to all tliesa Iniquities nnd "vote for Majors to spite Hosewaier ! " ' Nlobrara Plonder : Tbe repudiation -alt Majors Is not Ihe repudiation of the republi can party. It Is a local matter that needs a severe reprimand from UIP rank and file , but It Is not very good Iogl3 for any one to abandon the party's prlnolpU-s unless ho does not truly believe them good. The I'lancer cannot endorse the va.iarles of tlia poputl.st party. But It happens llmt the njinlneo for governor of that party la a nun of character , has a good record as 4 citizen and a , and will. It Is "believed , make a conservative executive. If lie believas In frea silver , the sub-treasury , or Eovern.npiit ownership of railways , he will have no rlnincj as governor of Nebraska to give any of them to tlio people ple , Nebraska wants A conservative , just man for that office ar.d the principles of the two parties can take care of themselves on other lines. 27/15 OHIO tiir.l'Jlt IOK.I. Chicago Tribune : The declaration of the Ohio democrats In favor of depreciated money Is not to be wondered at. The democrats of that state have been rotten for years on the money question. A quarter of a cen tury ago the Pemllotons , Thunnans , Aliens and other party leaders In Ohio wanted the government to pay the holders of the gov ernment securities In Irredeemable shlnplas- tera. They were opposed to resumption and wanted the country to keep on using an Irredeemable , fluctuating currency. Chicago Herald : It Is quite probable that the national democratic party will earn estly favor the policy of co-operating with other countries In the restoration , or rather the establishment , of bi metalllsm upon a safe and permanent basis. It Is not going to be led by men Im bued with Ohio Ideas Into an attempt on the part of this country alone to establish bi metallism on the rate of 16 to 1 , because such an attempt would surely end In fail ure and disaster and the overthrow of the party responsible for It. Chicago Record : For the democrats In other states who are assiduously talking tariff this declaralon may b uncomfortably confusing. If It came from the democracy of a western or "silver state" Us effect would not bo very marked , But It comes from Ohio , where the interest In silver Is assuredly not that of the silver miners or the silver purveyors. Whether or not the move was taken with a view to weak ening Mr. McKInley's hold on the Ohio people ple by making the tart IT an unimportant Issue its effect will be confusing to the party outside Ohio. Philadelphia Press : The Ohio democrats hive Issued an address declaring that the free coinage of silver la tlio supreme issue In this canvass. They declare In thel , state convention In favor of cheap mono ; and evidently think that Is a better Issue for them than the tariff. In that res pec perhaps they are wise. Thu people know the effect of democratic tariff legislation nm cannot be fooled by a campaign of falsehood On the silver question they can be more eas lly deceived. The workman cannot bo made to see always that his wages will not be In creased under a 60-cent dollar while every thing ho buys will be iloublo in price. Bu that Is the Inevitable effect. rrulltlni ; l > r Crimp. Springfield ( Mass. ) Itrpubllcan. The Nebraska supreme court has decider that a man who murdered hlu daughter ma ; inherit her property. This reverses a. de clslon Riven by the same court In the same ciiso three years ago. Then the Nebraska court followed n decision by the court o appeals of New York , which ruled tha while there was no law uovcrlng such a case , yet ns a matter of public policy tlc courts could not let a murderer Inherit the property of Iila victim which was gooi sense and ought to be peed law. Now tli Nebraska court decides that In the atoenci of any law covernlni ; such coses It can no make one , and cannot overturn the cslati llshed rule of Inheritance , even though th heir came to liH heritage hy murder don by his own hands. Cold J'UJ-B fur tlin < lllaius. Philadelphia Timed. The community of business now has thu assurance of stable conditions which wll enable It to put forth UH utrength of on terprlne. It Is already putting It forth am la confuting- day by day , by Its activity , tli falsa cries nnd ularma of tlio partisan prophets of evil. " \Va liatf mighty few et the war Rovernors eft. eft.Mr. Mr. llryan Miould try few challenges on Job Fltzslininons. Aba Hewitt Is afflicted with the chronic emocratlo ailment. Iln 1ms taken himself nd his ily pep lii abroAd. It l about nn even cliEiici" an lo whether I will be an African or an Asiatic who willet ot the Huropea * ! woodpile ablate. Political corporation * are posted on the ricks of tlie canning Industry. They Invar- lubricate Ihe growler before rushing U. 300 and 100 women arc licensed apolhrcurlea In the I'nlt-cd States. So careful lire they In the performance of their duties hat they resent n wink at the fountain. Governor Stone has Inaugurated n crusade agal'ul the gamblers of St. Joseph , Mo , The ibjcctlon to the sport Is that the rattle of be chips disturbed the sleep of the residents , Miss Klla Knowlrt. who came very near irlng elected * tate' attorney ot Montana , ins Just been pnld a fee of $10,000 for effect- tig a settlement In K lawsuit Involving large uliilnp ; Intercuts. This Is probably tlie high est fee ever paid to a woman lawyer. Governor MeKlnley has assisted In open- ag HIP campaigns this year In Ohio , Maine , ndlann mid several olhcr states. As nn opener Mr. McKlnlry Is nnlijuf In his wny. although of course hf Is not to be compareJ vlth four noes In the little game of jackpot. Colonel Strong , the nominee ol the com mittee of seventy , for mayor of New York , Is a republican from 'wayback , and a well reserved man of l > 5. He Is president of the Central National bunk of New York and the icail of the dry goods house of William L. Strong & Co. At the celebration of her 100th birthday a ew days ngo at Topeka. Kan. , Mrs. Kath- erlne Roberts wore a gown made for her rhcn slip was 18 years old , "a blue and /like organdie , short waist and short , puffed sleeves. " She vclected It , no doubt , because - cause It Is In the prevailing style. Lawyer Golf , candidate of the anti-Tarn- nany forces for the office of recorder , Is one of the remarkable men brought out by the > criodlcal overhauling of the municipal gov ernment ot New York , Until the beginning if the Lexow Investigation , Goff was not ; nown beyond a limited court circle , and Then selected a nlilef prosecutor the pro- [ cctors i and supporters ot the Inquiry feared t would be turned Into a farce. The result ElG far has been an agreeable disappointment Qoff has chown marvelous ability as a cross- examiner nnd has become n terror to the e intrenched ] political corrupllonlsta In the city. The fact that he has sprung from compara tively obscurity to national prominence Is evidence of the readiness of the people to loner the nams nnd extol the services ren dered la belialf of honest government. Colonel John M. ClilvJngton , a Colorado loneer. whose death Is announced In Den ver , was one of the heroic characters of western history. At the age of 27 , as a , Methodist minister , ho went to Missouri and jecame so conspicuous In the anti-slavery Ights that friends prevailed upon him to cave , He was presiding elder in Omaha lu 1856-7 and made Nebraska City his home In 185S , Two years later he went to Colorado , where he distinguished himself as the com mander of troops sent out to suppress marauding Indians and squelch a conspiracy : o make Colorado a confederate state. In aoth expeditions he was successful. The Missouri guerillas were routed In the battle of Oloriette and the marauding Indians an nihilated at Sand Creek. He was a typical pioneer strong , fearless , reliant and re sourceful , and generous to a fault. He was 73 years of age. Yesterday was Chicago's naming holiday , the twenty-third anniversary of her bap tism of fire. The Impression embossed on Ihe popular mind by the heel of Mrs. O'Leary's cow seems to be as dlftlcult to eradi cate as the cherry tree and the llttlo hatchet. The revival of the O'l ary cow tale by the Chicago Tribune provokes a statement of the tacts by the Chicago Herald , which serves lo show how fairy tales originate and grow to the proportions of truth. Says the Herald : When the fire broke out tlie stable was locked , and Mrs. O'Leary was a&leep In her own house. The O'I.eary house , 137 Do Kovon atreel , was occupied by two families at the time of the Ore , and the family-In the rear gave an entertainment that night for the purpose of raising funds to start a new- arrival In business. One of the young men attending the party had occasion to stand beslilo tue barn , and when the necessity of Ills to standing no longer existed , he filled Ills pipe , lighted a match , used It to light his pipe , and dropped the lighted match upon the ground , setting flre to the shavings beneath the stable , and thus starting the lire which destroyed Chicago. Tlie true or igin of the fire was established by sworn tes timony. Tarty Tralty unil Civil .Service. Minneapolis Times. True civil service reform will recognize party government us the soundest system. Jt will demand tested litncsa. It will make a four or six years' term for every olllce from the president to the lowest clerkship. It will apportion federal olllces among the states according to iwpulatlon. It will In- j'ito ' the young manhood of the nation to look upon office not as u means of proctir- Imr iv living- , but as n process of education , whose advantages ore rewards of party service. It will continually put ) n new blood and continually put out thoae who are In danger of forgetting citizenship In the enervating- sloth of officialism. It will condemn the creation of an olllclal class. It will look to the training of citizens by perpetual rotation In office. It will regard otflco as an honor to which every man has a right to aspire at any time and which he Is to earn by pernonal Illness ami by zeal for party principles. TllK V.JTIT.1S Iff yR\f \ JtOHK. Utobe Democrat : A change of 10.004 , or ten In each Election dlitrlct , would hava defeated Hill for Governor In ISSS , and thi republicans hul winter Ruined 17,000 , votei In ttro congrmlonsl districts , Tlio m th - matlcal clmnces , thereforetctm to be de cidedly ngaliiKl. him , considering tha fad that the republican drift Is rrmarXablj-atrons this year. Chicago Herald : In twenty-six yenrs , ( tnce 1668 , New York ban hail but two rr- publican governors. John A. Dlx. wan fleeted orer Francis Krrnan In 1S72 , Ihe Qreeltr yrar , and Alonto I ) . Cornell wai circled in 1S7JI over Lucius Robinson , Tammany hall bolting the ticket and running John Kelley , who received about " 0,000 rotci , The com bined Hoblnson and Kctlby vote wai IQ.OOK ! greater than Cornell's. Undoubtedly , all thing * being equal. Now York Is a demo cratlo state. In 1SSS , wliun Harrison car ried the state for president by 11,000 ma jorlty. Hill was elected governor by 20,000 majority. Chicago Inter Ocean : Squally a * It looVj far Hill , the ndmlnlstratloti , antl-admlnls- trntlon , Tammany and county democrats- likely to "get together In New York. " Tin slakes art ? too high to permit of rational supposition of cross purposes betwron tin players , They are likely to unite In tlio gnmc , however furiously they afterward may quarrel over division of the vrlnnlnRs If unfortunately the ntunings Rr > to them. It never Is wise to predict republican vic tory upon democratic dissension , and just now It Is superlatively foolish , For what ever the hatreds of the democratic faction * In New York may be , the Instinct of olf- preservation Is common lo all ot them. New York Kvenlng Post : The nowa from the Connecticut town elections will nliow Mr , Hill that he l running In a very bad year , nl that the republican tide which rose to High In the Vermont and Maine elec tions In not yet on the ebb. Towni Imve gene republican which have been n-gularlj democratic for thirty years , nnd In all < * C' lions of the state republican gains ot Udal wave proportions arc visible. Mr. Hill must bo a very sanguine nnd Belt-confident person If he thinks that he possesses the wonderful qualities which will be necessary 'to turn back this wave In New York livewecka hence. It he were the unanimous anfl en thusiastic choice of his parly the task would be a stupcndlous one , but with a large pro portion ot his party in open revolt , and with the entire moral sense of the state offended , Ids prospects are dismal enough to prompt him to decline the honor which has been "thrust upon him. " Ills position la one which no enemy of his could desire to see changed. ASSUUTKlt S3IILES. Indianapolis Journal : "Who won In the poker game lant nlghfT" "The ossllled man , of course. He hud such stllT hands that no body could beat him. " Detroit TribuneUramntlst This Joke l meant to lilt tinbltr theater hat. Player It will go over the lu-nds of the audience. ilnrper's-nazur : Trotter I s. oM man , met a very pleasant relative of yours In ilie mountains this year. He wus very . kind , too , nnd lent me } 10 when I wiis par ticularly hard up. Faster ( Kadly ) : I'm nfrnlil you're inls- laken. I haven't got any such relative. * Truth : Author Why do you persist In abusingmy bookJ I Iiove been lold by many people tlmt It la nn exceedingly rare work. Critic Kxuctly. So rnre that It needed roasting. St. Louis Post : While Cnptoln Howgnte was chief of the weather bureau lie sceron to have thought any method of raising the wind was Justifiable. Buffalo Courier : Coroner You swear pos itively that you were not to blaiup for the man's death ? Tr. Tyro ( haughtlly-Cer- ta'nly , sir ; they d d rot pall me soon entujh. Indlannpo"a J urral : Ur.cle Josh Hid car of them robbera git a-holt of yew when yuu I was In New York ? Uncle Si No , by goph ! Rvery time I seen one of them police 1 ilailfii.il Inter a hall way or somethin' . Kate Field's Washington : .Toots How Is It Tanks always put K. C. U. after lus name ? Uanks He In a Keeley Cure Backslider. Washington Stnr : "Whnh cr smnht AlecJc makes his mistake. " said Uncle Klien , "nm -maclnln' dnt he Mn fool de res' ob oo wort' 'bout his Impohtunce ez easy oz ha kin hlsse'f. " , , SOMETHING- A MAN. New Yorlt I'n-M. His nature's pleasant nnd lie makes Sunshine in places dim ; j- > He laughs away the pains and aches Of fr'els , nnd cheerfulness awakes. And everywhere In- goes he takes His wife nlong- with him , S THIS ll.lXtHD.lTK. Cliloauro Trlliune. Sill on ! sail on , O candidate ! J'ut on more canvas. Get a call ! The mob down town , with fill Its fears , , With all Its hopes or future beers. Is looking at thee mighty straight. We know what gang Is In the deal , What heelers we hove had to heel , Who hud to pull each little rope. How many bums we've got to treat. How much bkulldiiKgery to meet. And where we've got to place the soap , Fear not the * roorback's sudden shock ; , We'll llml u way that Kiime to Mock. AVIth rum , gin , whleky , beer and ale. Soeh word Ihou canst not know as full. In spite of rock-und-rye and roar , In spite ot marching clubs galore , Go on , nor fear the enemy. Our lietw are two to uno on thte. * Now hump thyself. Choke down thy fears. The other chap will until the tears. We've got him licked already. See ? \oon aioffavs troKTir on vnvn MUSKY II.-ICK Thi ® Sort. A suit like this , of Cheviot , oassimere , scotch , tweed , mixtures ; black. , blue , grey and all the new fall novelties- All long1 cut , and sacks cutaways ways and double breasted ; trim med with first quality serge or farmer satin ; sleeve linings the best , sewed firmly with double silk thread in all seams , pockets caught up and made by as good tailors as""thoro are in America , oloth thoroughly shrunk before out. Sizes for tall slim men , tall fleshly men , short slim and short "chunky" fellows. Wo fit all builds of men perfectly , and maKe slight alterations to correct any little peculiarly of build , such as sloping or round shoulders. All this for $15 , $ J8 , and $20. You can't get ready made suits like them in Omaha at any price , and merchant tailors would charge you $30 , $35 , and $40 for no better suits , Bettor look at 'em now while you can get your size color and style from the full stock. Browning , King & Co , , Reliable Clothiers , S. W. Cor , 15th and Drmglus.
