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Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

them are republicans who believe in the
principles of the party, and know very
well that the cause of temperance will
not be advanced by the success of the
democratic party. They certainly have
no chance, and, we think, no expecta-
ton of carrying a single state. We
doubt if there will be enough votes cast
for St. John and Daniel next November
to be worth the counting.
President Garfield received 555,544
votes in New York state in 1880, against
534, oil for General Hancock. Governor
Cleveland received 535 ,31S votesin 1882,
against $40, AGA for Secretary Folger.
Cleveland will have to poll, therefore,
20, 226 more votes this year than he did
in 1882 in order to equal the vote cast by
New York state for the republican caudi-
date for president four years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

GREAT stress Is laid by the friends OF
Governor Dawes, down in Saline county,
on the fact that the convention requested
him to dictate the delegations to the state,
congressional eand judicial conventions.
Saline county may 90 satisfied with a
dictator, and its conventions may be
made up of men who lack the manhood to
resent bossism as an insult to their intel.
ligence and ~self-respect. The spectacle
of a sovereign convention of republicans
falling upon their knees before Pa gov.
ernor and begging him to put a ring in
their noses and a yoke upon their
necks Is decidedly ~edifying. To request
Dawes to choose his own delegation to
the state convention might have been
excusable, but to ask him to dictate
whom Saline county should vote for as
congressman, judge, or district attorney
is a confession of degradation which free
American citizens are seldom willing to
boast of.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

one Of the biggest little men in this
western country is Mayor Vaughan of
Council Bluffs. Mayor Vaughan is at
present engaged In making a tour of the
principal cities of the east and intro
ducing himself to the chief officials, the
politicians and the newspapers as the may.
or Of Council Bluffs, and endeavoring to
impress everybody hat he is a great man
in the great state of Iowa. In every city
that no has visited thus far he has had
himself interviewed on the political out
look in his state. His latest effort in
this direction appears in the New York
Herald. Mayor Vaughan has figured
it out for the Herald that Cleveland will
carry Iowa. Mayor Vaughan can now
contest with "Eli Perkins" for the honor
of being the champion liar of America.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
TIE DouGLAS DELEGAzTOM

THE DOUGLAS DELEGA TON.
1t has been given out with a grand
flourish of trumpets that the delega.
ton from Douglas county to the state
convention favors the denomination of
Governor Dawes, and that the delegates
to the congressional convention are in
favor of Weaver. This report has no
foundation in fact. There was nc con-
test in Douglas county for or against
Dawes or Weaver. A large majority of
the republicans in this county took no
part in the primaries and took no interest
in the convention. They were thor
oughly Disguised with the s~tar-chamber
method of calling the primaries, and had
no chance of attending the aucus as no
call was published in any of the papera.
Many of these republicans refuse to bind
themselves to the support of candidates
who will owe their nominations to the
trickery, jugglery and fraud, which are a
part of the present system
of primary elections, and they ~purposely
stayed away from the polls. The result
was that tho convention was a jug-handle
affair. Dawes and Weaver were not
thought of, except perhaps by a few GUS
tom house menials who made them
selves very promiscuous. The delega-
tions to the state and congressional con-
ventions were chosen by wards from
among the delegates present. No ques-
tions were asked as to their preference
for any candidate, and they are entirely
free. At least one-half of the state de-
legation will oppose the denomination of
Dawes, unless no candidate presents
himself against him. Thurston and Nye
are for Dawes, and their support indi-
Gates the drift of the Union Pacific.
Weaver will have the support of the
federal Office holders in the delegation,
but fully two.thirds of the nineteen dele
gates from Douglas would prefer another
man if he is available. They feel that
there is q grave doubt about Weaver's
election if the opposition dominates some
popular and capable candidate. This is
the unvarnished truth about the Douglas
county delegation.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
BEN BUTLER's CANDIDACY.
He is Declared Not t be the Candi-
date of the Labor Organizations.

Chicago News, Aug. 9th.
"For a month or 80 this has been said
again and again in one of the morning
papers, and, in fact, it Is quoted In Q
great many papers all over the country,
that Ben Butler has the labor ~organiza.
tions, the socialists, and the greenback'
ers at his beck and call. Well, sir, it il
not true, emphatically not"
''Why, was not Butler nominated for
president by these organizstions2" asked
the reporter in astonishment, of the
speaker, who is one of the leaders of the
laboring element in the city, but who
preferred to have his name withheld.
"No, sir, he was not" This was said
with a perceptible tinge of asperity.
"You seem to have fallen into the same
errors as the papers | spoke of. The
facts are these: Ben Butler received the
nomination at the hands of a handful of
so-called auti. monopolists, greenbackers,
and liberal leaguers.' But these are not
the same as the labor organizations.
There are at least five hundred thousand
members of such organizations in the
country. There are 20, 900 of them here
in Chicago-trades assemblies, knights of
labor, socialists, and greenback-la b
men. None of these organizations want
Butler, nor have they nominated him.
The truth is that all such labor associa-
tions exist only for the purpose of raising
the standard of wages, of regulating
strikes and apprenticeships, and for all
other measures tending to the advance
ment of the labor interests. Their aims
are not political, but social ones. The
members belong to either of the two
great parties-are either democrats or
republicans. These organizations are de-
batting societies as well, in which the
merits of the various candidates of their
parties and platforms may be discussed
once in a while. But these are merely
side issues, and to my knowledge no con
certed action has been taken-nor is it
in contemplation-for reimbursement of
Ben Butler or of any other candidate.
The members are at full liberty to pick
out for themselves a candidate to their
liking"
elbow is it one hears so much of the
greenback-labor party, then2"
ooh, that is due to the fact that this
party used to play a big game once-in
1876 and in 1880. But they have no
party organization now, except in a few
states, like Michigan and Iowa. And
even this holds true only as to the green
hackers, but not the labor organizations.
Papers like the Chicago Tribune, which
try to make it appear that the labor or
CARNATIONS have declared in favor of But
Ter, and are doing their best to break up
the democratic party-such papers sim
ply misstate the facts in a palpable man
ner. There Is no Butler movement at
work among the laboring men that l
know Of"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

as slick as deers and as handsome as pictures,
The youngsters are ~three-quarter bloods.
Judge Brewer, of the United States court
at Denver, on the 2sth, rendered a decision
against the Maxwell Land and Cattle com
pany cutting down their land claims 300, 00C
acres, on the ground that the surveyor made
this SLIGHT mistake in marking the company
lines.
Recent statistics have been compiled in re
gard to the wheat crop Of Colorado, which il
now being threshed, which shows some 5 pc,
cent increase thereof over any former year
This per centage Of increase, thus far shown
gives the state a yield of about . 100 OC
bushels. OF this total Colorado will consumt
some 1900, 900.
Bill Chittenden, a man of forty.fve, sui
cided in Denver recently. An admirer anC
companion of newspaper reporters, he saved
the fraternity the labor of writing up the sen
sation in all its thrilling details by doing thu
job himself, even to o stunning heading, be
fore the gun went off. Such consideration fol
the faithful on earth will lessen the tolls a
Peters gate.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
WYOMING.

N1OMlNhF
The territorial treasury is flush with S27,
The cost of furnishing the Presbyterian
church at Cheyenne was $4,000.
1t is reported that the Graft oil lands are t.
be sold to a London syndicate Tor a fancy
price.
The brotherhood of locomotive engineers
with headquarters at Cheyenne, has thirty
five members.
Five hundred coolies are employed in the
U. p. mines at Rock Springs. The daily
output in summer averages 1900 tons per day.
The winter shipments average about 5000
tons daily. The Cinnamon get 70 and 81
cents per ton for mining, earning thereat for
their masters from $50 to S25 per month each.
Coal is delivered to consumers there at 50 per
ton.
The Albany land and cattle company, which
was formed recently to help tine lessees of the
u p. land surrounding Laramie to buy has
been Incorporated. The principal place of
business of the company is to be at Laramie
City, with branch offices in other territories
and states. The capital stock of the company
is tixed..at So CO, 900. divided into 5000 shares
of 500 each.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
SLA VERY IN BRAZIL.

The movement for the emancipation
of slaves in Brazil has received q fresh
impetus by the presentation of a new
government measure in the chamber OF
deputies for the immediate liberation of
all slaves over sixty years of age, for the
localization of slaves in the provinces
where they are now domiciled, for new
taxes in favor of the emancipation fund,
and for various restrictions In the trans
fer and possession of slave property. This
measure of course meets with violent
opposition from the slav e-holding ele-
ment, for they naturally fear that it will
lead to the early extinction of slavery.
This measure, which has become one of
the leading questions in Brazil and may
precipitate a civil war in the cause of
freedom, provides for the liberation of
all slaves of over sixty years of age, and
that they shall BIO supported either by
their ex.masters or by tho state. 1t ia
required also that there shall be an i'm
mediate matriculation of slaves, supple
mentary to that of 1871 and 1873, in
which all the particulars of each slave,
including value, shall be recorded. This
must be done within one year, and all
slaves not so matriculated shall be free.
The taxes that are to be imposed for the
emancipation fund, are to be used in
purchasing heofreedom of slaves from
their masters. The maximum values are
to be fixed as follows: $500 for those
under 80 years; 500 for those between
30 and 40; 5000 for those between 40 and
DO; and $500 for those between 80 and
GO. Taxes are to be imposed on the
transmission of slaves by inheritance or
by bequest, varying from five to fifty
per cent, and a tax of ten per
cent. is to be collected on all sales
OF slaves. To transfer q slave
from n province to another, except
when accompanying his master, will rem
der him a freeman. Agencies for the
purchase and sale of slaves are to be pro-
hibited, #s'
Such are the provisions of tho pro.
posed act. but as yet it is questionable
whether the government can carry this
measure through parliament. That the
shareholders, who are rich and In
~huential, will fight it at every stsp there
is not the least doubt, and the probabil.
ity is that it will either be defeated or
modified 30 that it really will
amount to but little. However,
it is evident that the agitation
in the interest of emancipation in Brazil
is producing some good results. But it
will take a long time to bring about the
entire emancipation of the slaves in Bra.
iii, and perhaps it can never be accom-
plished without a great revolution. Such
au event, however, may come when least
expected.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
ass ESSuENT

The Tlliuois committee on revenue re.
form, appointed by the real estate board,
has submitted its report, recommending
several changes in the manner of making
assessments. The chairman of the COM
mittee, in explaining the report, attacked
the small assessments paid by railroad
companies and corporations. The state
tax for 1888 amounted to about SAC, 1000,
600, of which s2s, 900, 900 wus assessed
on real estate, about So, DOC, 900 on per-
sonal property, while only a little over
5000, 900 had been paid by the rail-
roads and other corporations. 1t
seems that the boards of equaliza-
ton in Illinois, like those in
| Nebraska, failed to discover thatthe rights
of way, which, as a rule cost large sums
of money, as we'll as tho numerous side
tracks, were worth anything. In Illinois,
as in Nebsaska, there seems TO be a lem
iency manifested towards railroads in
matter Of assessments. The Chicago
| NeWs, in commenting on this fact says:
Nearly every railroad owning property
in the city has been assessed this year
less than last, The famous Western In
diana, which was assessed last year 3d.
260, is this year passed by without mo-
| tice, while some roads, which by their adj
vertisements would lead one to sup
pose were roads of no secondary
Importance are not assessed o
penny. The effort to place the burdens
of government upon real estate is more
serious than it appears at first glance,
but when this burden makes itself felt in
rentals upon places of business and
homes it will begin to be appreciated,
and that, too, in a quarter where it will
produce great hardship. The ease with
which real estate can be found and the
difficulties of assessing personal property
is no excuse for 30 unfair an assessment
as has been made the present year,
which does not admit of any excuse
based upon either reason, justice, or the
laws under which the assessors are pre-
sumed to act.
What is needed in Chicago and in;.Omaha,
and in nearly every city of, the country, is
a fair and honest assessment, under
which the rich shall be taxed in proper
ton to their wealth, 30 that the greater
burden shall not fall upon the persons of
moderate means. There is too much
coneealment of personal assets, and.Han
effort should everywhere be made to
secure complete statements of personal
property as we'll as real estate. Rail
roads and other corporations should be
treated the same as individuals
and be compelled to stand
their proper share of taxation. The office
of assessor, therefore, should be filed
by active and vigilant business men,
who would do their work accurately and
promptly, without fear Oh favor. As a
rule the assessors are men of no business
qualifications whatever and possessing no
ideas of the real value Of property. The
majority of them depend upon the assess
ment rolls of their predecessors from
which they simply make copies, thus
avoiding a personal inspection-of proper.
ty and inquiries Us to it's present value.
Reform is certainly needed in the man.
ner of making our assessments as well as
In the qualifications of assessors.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
MONTANA.

The town of Belknap, one of the mush
rooms born of the Occur d'Alene stampede
was wiped out of existence by fire, recently.
The value of the silver and copper product
of Butte this year according to the present
rate of production will be SIS, 600, 900 and o.
the territory $50, 600, 900.
1t is reported that the Northern Pacific
company are discharging their section hand
and other laborers along the line and supply
ing their places with Cinnamon, whom they
procure for 50 cents per day.
Foot-pads, thieves and burglars have be
come 80 numerous in Helena that the Herald
of that place calls for the revival of the vigi
%lantes, and says: Eternal vigilance and plen-
ty of rope will accomplish a good deal at the
hands of 3-7.77."
Prospecting in Bear Gulch has resulted il
the discovery of some rich gold bearing quartz
The lead is large and well defined, some Of
the specimens show free gold; others, though
not showing gold to the naked eye, proved
upon being pulverized and washed, to be very
rich in the yellow dust.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

Ir need surprise no one that the re-
port of M. de Lesseps. chief engineer of
the Panama canal, should have an on
tirely different coloring from the recent
disparaging accounts of the canal enter
prise published in the New York papers.
At a recent meeting of the inter-oceanic
canal company M. de Lesseps reported
that the entire expenditure up to
this time has been $40, 00O, 900. He
characterizes the work hitherto done as a
campaign in staliment full of difficulty
and very costly but "now' he says, ''we
are ready for attack, and
the work will go forward with
astonishing s.rapidity." During tho
year 1888 there were G,200 men en-
ployed; now there are 10000. 1t will be
remembered that the company bought
GO, 534 shares, or a controlling interest in
the Panama railway, as an auxiliary to
the canal enterprise. This Nj. De Les.
seps says, has proved a prudent invest
ment. The dividends have gone up
from $12. 80 to $15. and this year he
thinks they will be $40. The entire
energies of the company will be directed
to the completion of the canal in 1888.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

Now that the government has re-
moved Payne and his followers from
Oklahama, should not the next step be
to remove the cattle kings from the In
dian territory They have fenced up the
whole country unmolested and have no
more right in that territory than Payne
had. The leases which the cattle men
have obtained from the Indians for a
mere song are, as is claimed by eminent
legal authorities who have been consulted
in the matter, null and void, as they
are held TO be in direct conflict with the
United States statutes. The question
has been brought before Judge Treat, of
the United States court at st. Louis,
for decision. Hunter, Evans q Co., and
others of st. Louis, had leased an area Of
land larger than Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut and Rhode Island combined, for
less than two cents an acre, for ten years.
This iscertainly a Wholesale outrage and q
gross imposition upon the Indians, and il
Is against these land-sharks that pro
ceedings have been commenced 70 ousI
them. III the Indians can legally lease
lands to citizens of the United States,
then they certainly ought to receive .
decent rental at least.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
How IL Looks.

Philadelphia Press.
Unless all signs fail Blaine and Logan
will carry every northern state. This
would give them 248 of the 401 electoral
votes, even should the 1913 votes of the
sixteen former slave states be cast for
Cleveland. The only northern states
that can fairly be considered debatable
In this campaign are New York, SO votes;
Indiana, 10; New Jersey, 8; Nevada, 3,
and perhaps California s, though there is
little doubt but hat the latter state will
give a majority to Blaine. Some demo-
Gratis are 80 %sanguine as to claim Connec-
ticut 2 votes, New Hampshire A., and
aver Ohio 23, but, unless the republican
canvass is caught by some unforeseen and
all but impossible cyclone, the three
states last named do not belong to the
doubtful column, and will give the re-
publicans, with Maine, 6; Vermont, A;
Massachusetts, Ia; Rhode Island, A;
Pennsylvania, 80; illinois. %; Michigan,
I3; Wisconsin, IL; Minnesota, 7; Iowa,
13; Kansas, 8; Nebraska, 8; Colorado,
3, and Oregon 3, a grand total of liz votes,
which may be depended upon beyond any
ordinary pera~dventure.
There is q very hattering prospect of
breaking the solid south In the campaign
by the capture of West Virginia's six
votes by the republicans. There is a
good chance, to, that the democrats may
lose both Virginia's twelve votes and
Louisiana's eight, but we do not anchor
our hopes on the support of those states,
but if 1t comes it Ia welcome. Itrequires
this year POI electoral votes to elect a
president. AS we have seen, the repub-
licans are certain of ..l77 votes without a
southern state or New York, New Jersey,
Indiana, California or Nevada. Should
they win Of these latter states only New
York the republican ticket will have 2l3
votes, or twelve more than a majority.
Should they lose New York and New
jersey and win Indiana, Nevada
and California, they will have two
more than a majority. Losing both New
York and Indiana and carrying California,
New Jersey, West Virginia and Nevada,
the republicans will again have two more
than a majority. Conceding to the dem
ocrats every southern state except West
Virginia, to obtain a majority they must
gain at least ffty-tour votes from the
doubtful states, which they cannot do
without getting New York and two
other states. The republicans, on the
other hand, need but twenty.four votes
from the doubtful states, and New York
state is not necessary to their success.
That the prohibition vote will have
any appreciable effect in this election is
very improbable, Prohibitionists, as a
rule, are men OF sense, the majority Of
Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13

WI have received a copy of the
''rules and regulations of the board for
inspection of buildings" These rules
have evidently been adopted from some
older city, and were no doubt drawn up
by a competent architect and builder.
If these rules and regulationa are strictly
followed, Omaha will hereafter have
very substantial buildings within the fire
limits. 1t remains to be seen, however,
whether these rules will be enforced or
become a dead letter, like a great many
other ~''rules" in this city.