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Secretary J. Seedless Morton, high
priest of (the Inner temple of 11111011
pare democracy, has emerged from the
recesses of official reticence, and, to
use a colloquialism, thrown up the
sponge. He recognizes the belllgerant
rights of the free silver democrats,
and admits that so far as the Chicago
convention is concerned, the old liners
are well started down the toboggan
slide. In an Interview In a Chicago
paper Mr. Morton concedes the silver
wing ol the party a majority of 100
or more, and expects them to nominate
a ticket and frame a platform which
will be directly contrary to the policy
of the present administration.
"The silver sentiment Is universal all
over the west," continued the secre
tary, '.'and it fis growing.. So many
trimmers think It is going to wftr that
they are jumping that way. There is
no hope of electing gold candidates
anywhere In the west, and right there
In San Francisco, where they have
. more than 1100,000,000 of gold coin in
the vaults of their banks, where de
posits are paid In gold by specific con
tract, and where greenbacks have nev
er been good enough for them, the
people are crying for 50-cent silver dol
lars. California is not a silver-producing
country, it is a gold-producing
country, and it Is extraordinary that
the people of that state, should prefer
silver money to gold. They are will
ing that a silver miner in Colorado
shall get the same amount of good
out of 50 cents worth of silver that
a gold miner In their own state gets
for 100 cents of gold. The gold miner
may work all day and the silver miner
half a day and both will get the same
wages if the 16 to 1 policy Is carried
out, and yet the Callfornians seem to
be crazy for It. I received two anony
mous letters while I was In San Fran
cisco warning me that I must shut up,
or leave the country. I had given an
Interview to the newspapers, in which
I had stated that the wheat and the
fruit, the oranges and the figs, and the
apricots of California were being
shipped to the outside world in large
quantities, and that the people who
bought them demanded the best They
would accept nothing but wheat and
fruit of the most superior quality, and
I suggested that the people of Cali
fornia should insist upon having the
most superior money that existed in
exchange, and that was gold dollars.
The next morning I got two letters
telling me that they didn't want any
gold bugs out In that country, and
that I would have to get right out or
take the consequences."
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'Mr. Morton was asked for his opin
ion as to the probable nominee of the
convention. He said: "The candidate
ought to be of the "B" brand one of
the busy bees Bland, Boies or Bryan.
Boles Ib a good fellow. He Is a nice,
pleasant, genial gentleman, but I have
not known him since he was a demo
crat. He was one of the best republl-
proper, decent kind of a candidate. If
we have got to have one of his kind."
Mr. Cleveland's secretary of agri
culture did not elaborate on the presi
dential prospects of our own B Bry
an. Mr. Morton Is not fond of giving
his distinguished consideration to his
jingling neighbor.
While the city council is talking of
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PRIMROSE and WEST, Minstrels
cans In Iowa until a short time ago,
and he hasn't been In the democratic
party long enough to be weaned. I
think he was a convert to tariff re
form, or else he split off with the anti
prohibition wing of the party. He
crossed the gulf on some sort of a nar
row plank, and would make a very
economy there is one fact that should
not be lost sight of. The city is pay
ing $2,000 a month, an exorbitant price,
for electric lights, out of an empty
treasury.
The gratifying announcement is
made that the Honorable Erraticus
Sockdolager Dundy has once more re
turned to Omaha and taken his seat
on the throne. He has wrapped him
self in the majestic robes of office, and
dismissing all thought of the golden
shores of Japan and the dainty women
of China, settled himself down to the
gracious task of making a Judicial
spectacle of himself. China and Japan
ace lucky nations. .
Private advices from Washington
contain the assurance that President
Cleveland did not Intend any dispar
agement of the Honorable Richard
Suave Berlin In his veto of the river
and harbor bill. Mr. .Berlin has done
a great work In making the Missouri
river navigable, and drinkable and
beautiful, and the grateful Omahans,
as they glide in their canoes through
the limpid waters of the Missouri,
never tire of singing anthems to the
glory of Dick.
The crowning of the czar was more
disastrous than the cyclone at St.
Louis. Because the second Nicolas in
sisted on bringing Sixteenth century
traditions down to the threshold of the
Twentieth century, and would crown
himself with a 1400.000 crown, with
mediaeval pomp. In the old home of
Dolgcroukl and the Boyars. four thou
sand people must be trampled to death.
The scene at Moscow was more ter
rible than those awful affairs In the
streets of Paris during and Just prior
to the French revolution. "These
teeming myriads of All the Russlas,
In their gala attire of partl-colored
vestures, are as much In the bonds of
darkness as were the French peasants
In the days of Jacquerie, and this
imposing coronation of the czar, but
seals the confirmation and perpetua
tion of their bondage. The Kremlin
occupies the foreground of the scene,
but Siberia stretches inimitably away
behind." No recent event In Russia
has brought out the wretchedness of
the people of that country as the mag
nificent coronation of the czar, and
the dreadful loss of life on the day
of the peasants' banquet was just the
sort of ghastly spectacle one might ex
pect at such a celebration In the land
of Peter the Great.
There is a marked difference between
Russia and the United States. On the
4th of March next Major McKinley or
some other good man will become the
president of 65,000,000 people, the head
of a nation and government greater
than that of Russia, and the ceremony
will be so simple that it will be but a
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