Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-24
HE DANCED WITH A BEAR.
A Capital City Youth Who Got Very
Tight Squeeze.
BETTER FOR THE POOR TO sTARvB."
A Lincoln Aid Society Refuses Money
From Musee Sunday Perform
ance-The Washington Visit
ors-Thayer on Glucose.

LINCOLN, Neb., May 23.-[Special to The
BEE Five prominent young society men Of
this city went to Cushman park yesterday
with their best young lady friends, and after
pleasant afternoon returned home with the
young ladies. The young mon were not salts
fed with the fun they had had and returned
to the park for froic They imbibed freely
of stimulants and decided to have stag
dance. There is large black bear among
the curiosities of the park, and as the animal
is very tame one of the young men resolved
to have bruin for his partner in the dance.
The bear enjoyed the fun, and for some timo
the ludcrous scene caused peals of laughter.
Finally the young man grew tired and
started to escort his furry partner to seat but
bruin didn't care to rest, and getting
tighter grip on the young man, dragged him
around at a wild gallop. The young man
began punching the bear in the ribs and
bruin reciprocaUed with slap over the head
that temporarily stunned his dancing partner.
The young mans partners gazed on dis
mayed and finally one of the braveSt came
forward to the rescue and commenced kick
ing the bear. The brute dropped his part
ner, and running after his assailant, struck
him several hard blows before he escaped.
The boys finally escaped. Two of them
carry reminders of the escape.
THE WASlIINGToN ENCURSIONtSTS.
The twenty-five business men of Wash
ington who came here on n special excursion
from the national capital yesterday are being
royalty entertained by the members of the
Real Estate exchange and members of the
board of trade. Lincoln has proved great
surprise to them and they can scarcely be-
lieve that so beautiful a city should exist
where only about twenty years ago there
was nothing but wilderness of prairie.
This evening the excursionists were tend
cred an elegant banquet at the Windsorlhotel
and at its close number of appropriate
toasts were offered and responded to. Hon.
G.. A. Atkinson acted as toastmaster and the
Hon. II. ii. Oakley delivered the address OF
welcome on behalf of the board of trade. The
response was by Henry G.. Stewart, ir.
Governor John M. Thayer welcomed the
visitors to the state, and Mr.. S. III. Bacon
made the response.
The following toasts followed:
sWhy We Came to Lincoln, - Erwin Adams;
'What Lincoln Was and What 1t Is" S. Nc
Coniga; "How Lincoln Strikes U.s." j. w.
Boteler; sWhats the Matter With the
Westln B. l.. Pitcher; "Our Guests" Hon
j. Fl. McClay; "Lincoln as Viewed by Cor
respondent" G. A. Hamilton; Eastern Opin-
ions of the West" Dr. L. o. Hills.
The visitors will remain another day.
"BETTER FOR THE POOR TO sTARvE."
The members of the Relief and Aid society
opened their mouths and eyes with horror
when they were informed that the Sl7.S5
Musee, for the relief of poor families of the
city, was the receipts of a Sunday entertain
ment. A meeting was held specially by the
members yesterday to determine what they
should do about the matter and it was unani-
mously voted to return the money to Mr..
Lawler, and the treasurer was so instructed
to do One of the members, in speaking of
the matter afterwards said: ut is better
for the poor to starve and the sick to die than
to receive money gained in such an unholy
manner.n
NOT A LOVE FEAST.
person who was present at the conven-
tion held Wednesday afternoon and evening
at the call of Ex-Governor Butler as The peo-
ple's champion, j. H. Craddock, secretary of
the state assembly of the knights of Labor,
and Q. e. Hall of the grange, pronounced the
event as regular monkey and parrot al
fair
at appears" said he, "as if this self-con-
stituted committee drafted set of resolu-
tions and came into the meeting of about
eighty delegates and demanded their adop-
tion. These resolutions called for the organ
ization of II new political party After this
was presented n minority resolution was p re-
sented by Mr. Cameron opposing the creation
of new party. This surprised the callers of
the convention, who stated that they were not
prepared to act on it, as the other resolution
was unanimously y passed by the committee. BY
a cunningly laid scheme it had been decided
earlier in the session to delegate the discus
sion and settlement of all resolutions to Sc
lect committee of five previously picked out
by Hall. AS a result Il hot discussion followed
and Cameron'S resolution was denounced by
the democratic members as being in favor of
republicanism. A. Craddocl, seeing that the
scheme for which he worked so hard was
about to fail, arose, and claiming to represent
the knights of Labor and the workingmen of
Nebraska, demanded in their name that the
first resolution be passed. He declared that
he was a state officer of the knights of Labor
and spoke with authority He arraigned the
IL, oil th.At
which we are heir He charged it with de-
feating the bill for the adoption of the Aus
tralian system of balloting at the last legisla-
ture.
juncture and said MIR. Chairman, too am
knight of Labor and as such and working
man l wish to enter my protest against
the adoption of the resolution hrst intro
duced for two reasons:
"sl Because it purports to bind the
Knights of Labor of this state to a set of
resolutions gotten up without their knoWl-
edge or consent
"s2 Because to no man have the laboring
men of Lincoln delegated the power to so
bind them. There are 5000 laboring men in
Lincoln and 1000 more in Omaha, besides
the thousands of others in the state who have
no knowledge of this convention, much less
have an authorized delegate here, and you
certainly cannot and should not pass this
resolution purpOrting TO mislead them and
place them in IA wrong light after election
'CfauuOck jumped vi au JnlS JuncJure ana
attempted to bride Burns tongue by de-
nouncing him as an interloper and not dele
gate qualified TO speak in the convention
BURNS inquired il there was not an invita-
tion extended to all knights of Labor to at
send this convention, and Craddock being
struck dumb for an answer, Burns took his
thence for consent and claimed tho privilege
to speak.
"'Sit downr came chorus from demo.
cratic throatS.
"But Burns did not sit down. He de-
manded by what authority Craddock and other
members of the order assumed the power and
right TO haul over the laboring men OF Ne
braska TO some new party without Their
knowledge or consent.
"'Am here as a state officerP said Grad
dock.
"Do you as SUCH asked Burns, charge
the republican party with the defeat OF the
legislative bill favoring the Australian system
OF ballotingi If you do you state false
hood as the democratic senator from Douglas
county formed a combine against it,
1.-The democrats present rose TO man and
demanded that Burns be suppressed, but that
gentleman, in the name of the thousands OF
worlsngmen unrepresented demanded that
no resolution be passed endorsing something
they had not seen.
,tThis slxirmish was the preliminary of q