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Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
Onr Eriends. The Enemy.

The democratic state central commit
tee has held meeting and called a state
convention. The attendance was very
small, and chilly composed of profes-
sional politicians with the railroad
brogue Tobc Castor, of b. NJ, and jim
North, of the Union Pacific, were most
prominent, All of them profcssed to be
sanguine of a glorious victory on the
straight and narrow democratic tow
path
The tidal wave which they expect TO
float the party into the harbor is, how
ever, not yet visible to the naked eye. 1t
takes a visionary or a railroad right-of
way man to discover signs ofla popular
uprising in Nebraska that will
mop out the $4,000 republican
majority on straightout demo-
cratic issue. The very idea of the
democrats carrying state that will cast
100000 votes at the next election, when
they will have less than 10000 straight
votes, is indeed ludicrous. There
is as much chance for the straight demo.
Gratis to carry Vermont and elect sue.
cessor to Edmunds rs there is of Ne.
braska democrats electing a straight
ticket and democratic successor to Van
Wyck.
To be sure Valentine and two or three
other simon-pure stalwarts have declared
that they would vote for democrat
rather than to re-clect Van Wyck. Mr..
Valentine may go to the legislature
since he can't go back to Con
pr 1Nttf In a nlg,h II.
have to move out of the state
if he recorded his vote for democratic
senator. The duty of the minority In q
representative system of government is
to act as brake on the majority and
force them to put forward and elect their
best men But the railroad democrats of
Nebraska have no such aims. Their
only function IS and always has been to
coalcscc with the corrupt and dishonest
republicans in elevating the choice of
the railroad managers to positions and
carrying off small bones and scraps for
their pay.
The committee, who met in this city
on Friday, no more represented the
sentiment of Nebraska democracy than
the committee of republican ringstcrs
represents Nebraska ropublicanism. On
this account the views of the gentlemen
on the political outlook are worthless,
except as they indicate the drift of the
railroad gang with the democratic label.
They tell us that Van Wyck is not popu-
lar with their friends, which everybody
has known all along. Their friends of
the railroad persuasion have no use for a
senator who persists in clashing with the
wishes and interests of the corporations.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

the order not being as yet very strong
in the dominion. II may operate TO re-
strain the growth of the organization in
Catholic localities. where very likely it
was not expected under any circum-
stances to become strong, while on the
other hand, it may have the effect of
stimulating its advance in Protestant 10.
calities. Should 1t be extended to the
United States, there is reason to believe
that it would be more likely TO give
the order strength and prestige than to
weaken it, since doubtless thousands Of
Catholic workingmen not now identified
with the order, would regard the edict
as piece of ecclesiastical interme ddling
with a purely temporal matter which it
is their duty to repudiate, and would
therefore enter the organization. Pres
ent danger to the knights lies more in
the direction of "bull' in pervertng
the order to political machine than
from anything of that character proceed
ing from Rome.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
POLITICAL POINTS.


Colonel Gabe Bouck offers to run for gov
ernor of Wisconsin on an honest demo
cratic platform, with campaign conducted
by the people.
Carter Harrison boldly acknowledges that
he wants to be elected mayor of Chicago for
the fifth time, and then to succeed Cullom IN
the United States senate.
Representative Long, of Massachusetts,,
thinks John Sherman ought to be nominated
by the republicans for president
New York Tribune: "Sunset' Cox is
really to set his face towards the setting sun
soon, and a letter from him. recently received
here, says he will be candidate in the au-
tumn for his old seat In congress. NJ r. Cox
has found that the solemn east is no place
for him. His art is not understood, and. his
best fancles are expressed to dull ears there.
A. p. Williams, the newly elected Califor-
mia senator, is chairman of the republican
state committee, and like nearly everyone in
California, is rich.
Hubert o. Thompson was rare bird in
New York politics. His estate foots up only
1000.
Senator Edmunds says good, clean
western candidate is essential to the success
Of the republican party in the next election.
Congressman Hscock Is said to be sure of
denomination.
John w. Mackay is to enter the senatorial
| fight in Nevada, backed by Millionaire Flood
Fitz John Porter, lately placed on the army
retired list, is likely be the democratic candi-
date for governor of New Jersey, in which
event he will probably be placed also on the
| retired list in politics.
w. D. Kelly, the colored candidate of the
Kansas democrats for auditor Of the stat state
is pleasantly ..44tFssire6 10 BY the Teavenwort
Times as "a man Of no standing at home OIL
abroad, and a blatherskite and blowhard
who Will not receive the support of cor
poraPs guard OF the colored voters"
Senator Hearst has had good many
things said of him, and now the San Fran
cisco Call ntmates that he is ''slickens
senator" There are are good many SLICK
uns in the senate who don't come from Cali
| fOrnia
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
Contcnts OF The sunday Bee.

Page 1. New York Herald Cablegrams.-- -
Specials to the BEE.-General Telegraphic
News.-Washington Letter.
Page2. Iowa and Nebraska NeWs.-Sport
ing Events.-City News -Miscellany.-Ad-
vertisements.
Page g. Special Advertisements General
and Local Markets.
Page 4. Political Points.-Press
Comments.-Views and Interviews. Com
plments of the Press.-Miscellany
Page 5. Our Silent, Solemn City, by j. Is.
]. Ryan.-Lincoln Letter.-Miscellany'-Ad-
vertisements. .,
Page Z. City News--General Miscellany.
Pages. City News.-Local Advertise
Pages. omahas Military Post by E. A.
Hunter.-The Newsboys of Omaha, by A. j .
Kendrick. k.-Death of Father Bergin, Report
ing Forty Years Ago.
Page 10. The Freedom OF Speech by H.
G. Adams.-Gcneral Fremonts Memoirs
Smiths Saloon.--Short Animal Stories.-
wsss Ssas H5Ssy f{ Sly'5fqH9 i5f Es Ladiepepper
mint Drops 1mpieties. Natural Curosi,,
ties.-Religious.-Ed al.-Musical and
Dramatic balites.-Literary Notes.
Women and Journalism.-Men Who Wear
Uniforms.-Poetry.
Page H. Sordid Saints and Sinners, a
Utah Sketch, by Minnie Rath.-Iheatrlcal
and Musical Events in London, by Key
note.-The Rhineland of America by More
ton.-The Boom at Callaway.-H They
Dine in Berln.--The Powder River Country
by General Brisbin.- Miscellany.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

PRINCETON graduates throughout the
west will be panied to learn OF the death
of the venerable ex-president of the iusti-
tuition DR., John Maclean, which oc-
cured last week in the village which he
had made for nearly twenty years his
home. Since 1868, when he resigned the
presidency to make room for his sue
cessor, DIR. McCosli, DR., Maclean has
lived in peaceful retirement at Prince
ton honored by all who knew him, and a
recipient at each recurring commence
ment of genuine ovation from the old
alumni who graduated under his incum-
bency of the presidency. A gentle,
affectionate and hearted old man,
none knew him but to respect his sturdy
piety and to admire his broad guage
philanthropy which covered, like man.
tie, all creeds and conditions of men.
DIR. Maclean's death removes the last sur
yiver of the ex-presidents of an institu.
ton of learning, the third oldest in the
United States, and which has counted
among its heads, the elder Burr, iona
than Edwards, John Witherspoon, the
signer of the Declaration of Independ.
ence, and John Maclean and James Me
Gosh
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
He Got There Jnst the Same.


''Daniel," said the president, as he closed
the unabridged dictionary he had been care
fully examining, "a sage is wise man. A
man of gravity and wisdom"
"Yes, SIRE"
''Tilden was the sage of Greystone"'
'Yes, SIRE"
"Clay the sage of Ashland"'
"Yes, SIRE"
''Webster the sage of Marshfeld?'
"Yes, SIRE"
"Neither of these sages was ever master of
the white house?"
'.No one has ever called me sage?"
II have never heard you so denOminated,
sire"
The chief magistrate bent to his pleasant
toll, humming softly to himself: "Love comes
like a summer sigh"
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

BRUSSELS, Belgium, win be the scene
to-day of an event of very grave i'm
port to that country, and the result of
which will have no inconsiderable inter-
est for The people of other European
countries. There will be great social
istic meeting held in that city at which il
is expected not less than fifty thousand
workingmen Will be present, the ostensi
BILE object being to urge the demand upon
the government for universal suffrage. 1t
Is understood that If the demand is not
complied with, the worklngmen through
out the kingdom will enter upon an indus
trial revolt in the character of general
strike, and recent experience has shown
what this means in Belgium. Ii had been
apprehended that the government would
not permit the meeting, but if it enter
tanned such purpose it has reeeded from
it. though very ample precautions have
been taken Tor the protection of the
public peace. We recently noted the un-
fortunate condition into which the labor
and industries of that country had been
thrown by the labor difficulties of tho
past two years, and there is reason to
fear that this will be aggravated by the
oreseni movement.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

IF the truth of history is to be sub
served by the controversy gong on over
the battle of Gettysburg, there can be no
proper objection to it, On the contrary,
it ought to be encouraged. But the drift
of the discussion thus far appears to be
so largely of personal character, in
tended to glorify some and detract from
other of the distinguished soldiers who
participated in the inllnortal and decisive
battle. that it may well be apprehended
that the result will be rather to blur and
blot the page of history which records
this event than to free itifrom mistakes
and errors, and render it more just and
trustworthy. The evident disposition of
General Sickles to deprive General
Meade of the chief honor of this great
victory will assuredly not succeed, and
it is an award that can be made without
diminishing the just glory of the other
brilliant commanders in the battle. So
will any effort to detract from the splen-
did services of General, Sickles fail,
though he will not add to tn cir lustre by
his attempt to depreciate the services OF
others. The men who commanded at
Gettysburg compose galaxy whose
achievements are secure against the as
saults of envy, or malice, or detraction,
and even the destoying power of time,
and they will share together in almost
equal proportion the glory of that crown
ing triumph.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
rbree MilIionaire Senators.

Senator Fair is the most conspicuous fail
ure of the rich men who have purchased
places in the senate. He Is a man of no edu-
cation and very little knowledge of the
world. He has absolutely no influence upon
public affairs, and finds very little compan-
ionship in the senate.
Jones, of Nevada, is a much more attract
i've man. He is familiar with public subjects
and is much more companionable. He has a
very wide acquaintance among public men,
and is well thought of at the dinner tables
of Washington. lie tells very good stories,
Stanford appears to have better social
standing than most of the far western sena-
tors. lie has opened large house in wash
ington and understands the art Of entertain
ing better than most of the wealthy western
pioneers. lie probably has more influence in
the senate than most OF his western mon
eyed colleagues. His influence. however,
comes largely from the Central Pacific rail-
road, rather than from the power OF his
money.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

1t is amusing to read in some or our
exchanges the sage advice to prohi-
bitionists that they should drop working
for general total abstinence law and
devote their energies to securing n local
option statute,
This is quite unnecessary. The Ne.
braska high license law provides fully for
securing local option wherever local
option could be voted under any statute
specially drawn. The entire power of
granting license in the counties is vested
in the county commissioners. Their as
sent to or refusal of license is final.
Under the law, the petitions and bonds
must be ample, but even when they are
fully up to the requirements of the stat
ute, the licensing board has full discre-
ton TO refuse the license. All that any
county opposed to the sale of liquor has
TO do in the premises to secure no license
is to elect county officers pied ged on that
issue. Ii this is not local option, pure
and simple, we fail to discover the rea-
son why.
Aud this, ii may be said is one of the
best features of Nebraskas excellent
high license law which other states are
now studying so closely. 1t is home
rule measure, perfectly adapted to meet
the wishes of every locality. To any
community where prohibition is de-
manded it offers prohibition. In sections
where 1t is not demanded, and on that
account cannot be enforced, it gives q
license guarded by severe restrictions in
the public interest, limiting the number
of saloons and compelling their proprie-
tors to support the common school
system
The experience of every state where
prohibition has been attempted proves
conclusivcly that in the cities and
large towns, at least no license
means free license. Isolated communities
may drive the business of liquor selling
under cover and divert it into other chan
nels than the saloon, but it is carried on
just the same. The internal revenue
reaps its usual receipts, the distllleres and
breweres do not decreas their outputs,
no matter what conventions may resolve
or legislatures enact In Maine, the issue
in. the present campaign Is virtually the
same issue of years ago, before the Dow
law was passed, How shall we stamp
out the traffic." which flourishes in spite
of laws and police regulations. In Iowa
and Kansas, the same issue Is paramount
with as little hope of settlement. Nebras-
ka's high license law, properly enforced,
provides Il solution of the problem which
is by far the best yet offered, viz: Prohi
bition, where prohibition can be ell.
forced or is demanded by a public senti-
ment which must be the basis Of enforce
ment. and restricted license with u heavy
tax in communities where prohibition
would mean the transfer of the liquor
| traffic from the saloon to the drug store,
with heavy loss of revenue and no cor
responding benefit to the public purse OF
| to public morals.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
Barrel-Organ Novelists.

The reaction from the Howells-J James
school of novels is steadily gaining in
force. 1t is acquiring momentum
which even the mutual admiration So
cicty. which holsters up these two
greatly overrated writers, cannot en-
tirely resist. Readers are beginning to
demand characters of flesh and blood,
not Photographic reproductions of COM
monplace and uninteresting nobodies,
whose conversations on triiles make up
what is called story, quite devoid of
plot and almost equally devoid of Incl
dent and interest. The reading public
has not been able yet to persuade itself
that plot and counterplot are not es-
sential features of an artistically COM
posed novel; that incident is superfluous;
and that all that should be demanded is
light and sketchy black and white IAN
alysis of character" generally charac-
terlcss and quite incapable of impressing
itself as pleasing ana forcible picture
upon the memory.
A comparison of Mr.. James and Mr.
Howells' novels, with those of any of the
masters of fiction is only needed to show
how utterly they fail in attaining a
standard which the authors complacently
assume they have passed. "The Boston
ians, MIR. James latest work, drags the
reader over enough pages to make six
volumes of the ordinary English novel,
and when the journey is over leaves him
wondering to what purpose he has spent
his time The trip was pleasant enough,
to be sure, but when the coach door
slams and the traveller alights he has
nothing to show for his journey. There
| is no picture of strongly drawn char
acters like Colonel Mannering or Colonel
| Esmond, Sidney Carton, Wilkins Micaw-
ber or a host of others which the names
| of Scott, Thackeray and Dickens will
at once raise in the minds of those who
are familiar with their works. A faint
remembrance of chatty conversation, OF
| bits of fairly done description, of q
| thread of incidents on which the con-
versationalists We're strung, of Chapter
at the beginning and Chapter LXI ut
| the close-these comprise the sum total
| of the impressions which the ordinary
reader secures from Messrs. Howells' and
| James productions.
| Both writers have shown, however,
that there is field in which they have a
| place. Each has done good work in the line
of short sketches where sustained effort
was not required, and the interest of the
] reader could be safely carried over a few
| pages of bright and sparkling chat and
trifiing incident. BY this work they
would be judged if they had not foolishly
seen fit to assume to be the founders of a
new school of fiction in which the re
| porter's note book is to be the chief basis
and the commonplaees of conversation
arc TO take the place OF we'll develoDed
plot, and original and strongly drawn
| characters.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
a Stride in Omaha journalism.

Omaha Times: The publication of a Sun
day morning edition of the BEE, making
thirteen editions q week, six evening and
seven morning, is astride in journalism un,
equalled in the world, considering the mann
moth size of the paper, being seven-column
quarto In point of both news and appear
ance the BEE falls little short of equality
With Chicago's great dallies. and with the
0tner splendid dailes here neither the st.
Louis or Chicago papers are finding much
sale. Good papers here have done much to
attract people to Omaha as a great business
center, and the prosperity of the BEE gives
evidence of the great liberality OF our busi-
ness men in bestOwing newspaper patronage.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
High License the Proper Method.
Cone. ri "a. H. Patriot.

The Philadelphia Record remarks that reg
ulatiOns of liquor selling and liquor drinking
that are too stringent are singuIarly alike in
their effects to the lack of all regulations.
When kew IS put upon the statute book that
cannot be enforced 1t is an abandonment of
what is practicable for what is hnpractlcabIe
i'm fact, giving mp of tie uue function Of
government. If the law should require that
the only punishment for larceny should be
hanging and quartering, larceny would ga
unpunished So prohibltoTy laws defeat
themselves. The true temperance reform ID
tainable. The taxing power appears TO bs
the most available means In the hands OF leg,
islatures, and stringent license .he proDel
methods OF modifying the evils Of the drink
ing habit
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

through the awakening of a widespread
public feeling. OF the future she is
hopeful "Tho signs of the times point
toward an extinction of old preiudices
and a rcversion of former customs.
The means and instrumentalities for
cnlarging the sphere of woman's
usefulness, elcvating and improving
her condition, and rendering her
more self-reliant and more helpful to So
ciety, are in operation With the active
and earnest support OF the intelligent and
brave women who are zealously labor
ing for the cause of their sex, these agen-
cies must continue to grow and expand
until every woman who will can share in
their beneliccnt power.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
What Rules the World.

AUttTtCuH fhfutttts
They say that man is mighty,
lie governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre
Ger lesser powers that be;
But mightier power, and stronger,
Man from his throne has hurled,
"For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world"
In deep, mysterious conclave,
Mid philosophic minds,
Unrayelling knotty problems.
His native sphere man findS;
\ ct all his "ics" and 'isms"
To heavens four winds are hurled,
"For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world
Behold the brave commander
Staneh mid the carnage stand,
Behold the guidon dying,
With the colorS In his hand;
Brave men they be, yet craven
When this banner is unfurled:
s'The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world"
Great statesmen govern nations,
Kings mould peoples fate,
But the unseen hands OF velvet
These giants regulate.
The iron arm of fortune
With w0man's charm is purled,
"For the hand that rocks tile cradle
Is the hand that rules the world"
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
The Craze For Literary Distinction.


A new York man who offered prize of S75
for the best short story sent to him by speci-
fled date received over five thousand manu-
scripts. The man was thunderstruck. His
experience only showed, however, the extent
of the existing literary craze. Nearly every
man, woman, and child is writing for the
press, the magazines, or the waste-basket.
The literary market is glutted-glutted long
sight worse than the blackberry market.
The retail price of story is now very near to
the original cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

'The last memorable event that | rcmem-
Der about the old hotel" said another old set
tier, "was the arrival there of a man who had
been scalped by the Indians near OYerton.
lie was an Englishman named Thompson
who was working on the Union Pacific
track. He was scalped and left for dead to-
gether with two or three others, who died.
Thompson, soon after the Indians left got
up and found his scalp short distance from
the place where the Indian had dOwncd him,
the scalper having accidentally dropped
it. Thompson was sent into Omaha,
bringing his scalp along in bucket of
water. Drs. Peck and Moore were called in
to attend Thompson, who was greatly disap-
pointed when told that the scalp could not be
replaced by sewing. The scalp was a strip
about ten inches long, and at one point was
five inches wide, 1t having been cut from the
center of the head from the forehead to the
neck, The wound was terrible one, the
knife having penetrated clear to the bone.
The victim was sick for long time owing
to high fever. The scalp was stretched on
a piece of board, and tanned, and when
Thompson recovered he took 1t away with
him as souvenir He worked for while
in the Union Pacific shops, but
was always troubled with a severe
pain in the head when attempting
to lean forward to pick up anything. He
left Omaha and went to Chicago, and from
there finally returned to England. 1t is said
that he never was the same man after his re-
coyery, and that at times he was partially in
sane from the effects OF the scalping."
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
Tennis and Flirting.

Tennis tournaments are flirting matches in
disguise, And that is why bald-headed men
and slabsded women have as little chance
of being chosen to play as a COW has of get
ting into the kingdom of heaven.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

SECRETARY WHITNEY will push the
construction of the new ships ordered by
the last congress and the session just
closed of the present congress. When
the vessels are completed, a couple of
hundred of the gallant tars who are
wearing out dress suits on shore duty
will be given chance to pay the usual
tribute of landsmen to Neptune.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

Black Hills Times: The Omaha BEE makes
its appearance with q Sunday edition, and
the energetic management has stepped into
the field of journalism that occupies every
day of the week 1t is good newsy paper,
and at all times fights monopoly and favors
the workingmen.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15
COMPLIMENTS OF THE PRESS.


Hastings Independent: The Daily BEE now
pays its respects to the people seven days in
the week. This Is move that will be duly
appreciated.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-15

THERE will be considerable interest in
observing what effect, if any, the edict OF
Rome against the Knights of Labor, an
nounced from Quebec on the authority OF
the cardinal for Canada, will have upon
that organization. II as conjectured IL
is intended to apply only to Canada, its
effect will not amount to great deal,