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Omaha daily bee., 1892-07-03
d. NJ. Kem.


the most radical sec
tion of the famous
old Burnt District"
so called because 1t
was the original abo-
lition belt of Indiana,
the district which
sustained George w.
Julian so long and
faithfully. Mr.. KEN
was reared on a farm,
received a common
8 n DOL education,
married at the age of
20, aud in 1882 went
TO Custer county,
Nebraska. and home
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THE PARTY LEADERS
Eome Of the Men Who Head the Great Re-
form Movement.
THEY COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
Farmers, Artisans, Prohibtionists and Ma
chine Politicians Upon One Platform
MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT IN ALL PARTIES
Some Have Won Renown While Only
Notoriety Belongs to Others
MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT IN ALL PARTIES
some PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES
story of the Life OF the Van Wycks, PETERS,
Simpsons, McKeighans, Donneliys aud
Other Shining Lights Among the
Modern Apostles of Reform.

Some Interesting people are figuring In the
present big convention. Many oil them nave
cut wide swatns during the past year in the
political field and have national fame or no.
torietv. Some OF them, and they are promi-
neut too, are surprises that resulted from the
political revolution OF 1890, while others arc
pld war horses who have shifted the battle
In the ranks of the republican and demo-
cratic parties and have been forced by the
turn Of the political wheel to choose between
rear seats in the old parties and chances for
preferment in the reform movement. Ap-
pended are sketches OF some OF the promi-
nent workers in the convention.
Charles III. Van Wyck.
Charles H. Van Wyck has been congress
man from New York and senator from Ne
braska, pioneer soldier and lawyer, and
now he is in private life, but an active
worker IN the farmers alliance and peoples
party movements. He was in congress as
republican, but opposed the railroads with
good deal of energy, and in consequence was
found lying outside the breastworks when
the Nebraska legislature chose senator in
1887.
He was born at Poughkcepsie, N. Y, In
1924: was graduated FROM Rutgers college,
New Jersey, after which he studied law was
admitted to the bar and was soon elected
district attorney for Sullivan county, New
York. He gained popularity so fast that In
1858 he was nominated for congress by the
republicans of that district and though tho
democratic majority had been 200 he COM
pletey reversed it and was elected by nearly
the same aiOrity, assisted greatly, no
doubt, by the general political stump" OF
that year.
In 1860 he was reelected, and while hold
ing his seat in congress was made colonel OF
the Tenth Legion, or Fifty-sIxth New York
volunteers. He served in the Army of the
Potomac TO the close of the war, became a
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Judge william A. McKeighnn.

The more one investigates the political
cyclone of 1890 the more surprises he finds
In it. That many old standoys, like ingalls,,
Cannon Il Co., should be laid aside is less
surprising than that so many very new men
should have come in-such rs PETER, Simp-
son, Kyle 4 Co. But a closer examination
shows that these so called new men really
had records in their states before entering on
the national arena.
There, for instance, is Judge William Ar
thur McNeiPhnn, congressman from the
Second Nebraska district by virtue of &c. l04
votes, against 81, 1i6 for the republican and
,220 for the prohlbitionist. He is iocularly
referred to as the homeliest man in congress
and doesn't mind it at all, for ne is phloso-
pher. 1t is SAID AT his home that there are
but three thoroughly homely men in Ne
braska, "Dan Netteton is one and VIII Nc
Keghan is the other Two" He has dis
played the usual good taste of homely men
by marrying u smart aud pretty woman,
Miss Lois L. Brown of Fulton county, Him
ois.
He was born In Cumberland county, New
Jersey, January 49, lS42 went with his
parents to Fulton county, Illinois. In lSiS,
and gained an unusually good common
school education there, becoming noted even
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ponents. lie said, when she spoke OF him
after his defeat ''lell her that men'S enmty
ends with the battle; only women ana saw
ages scalp the dead"
Her speech before the Women's Christian
Temperance union at Washington created
something very like rlot-ndeed, IL would
have been q riot in meeting Of men. she
was the last speaker on tho program for the
day ana had not proceeded far before there
was kissing. She declared that she was
used 10 that aud went on. She shouted that
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Greshem viii not make national laugh
ing stock Of himself by consentlug TO become
a candidate for president before the Omaha
convention. Ho is u reformer, but he Is not
q Dlanked fool.
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Senator william VI. Stewart.

farmer.
Senator william VI. Stewart.
Tho peoples party may place in nomna-
tiou for president, William Morris
Stewart United States senator from
Nevada, and ono of the best known
men in the west. Mr. Stewart was born in
Wayne county New York, August O. 1927,
but was taken while a small child by his
parents to Trumbull county, Ohio. He at
tended the Ll ons Union school and the Farm
ington academy AL taught mathematics in
the former school while yet u pupil. Hon.
James g. Smith, one Of the judges Of the SUI
preme court of New York, took fancy TO
Young Stewart ana aided him in taking
course OF STUDY at Yale college. But the
course was not completed Young Stewart
caught the gold fever aud went to California,
arriving in San Francisco in May, 1850. He
Immediately began work with a pick and
shovel, and accumulated some cash. In
1852 he commenced the study of law, and IN
December following was appointed district
attorney, reelected TO the Office the following
year. and in 1854 was appointed attorney
general Of California He moved TO Virginia
CITY Nevada in 1860. ana was Interested In
early mining litigation and the development
of the Comstock lode. He was member of
the territorial council in 1861 aud Of the con-
stitutional convention in 1868, was
elected United States senator Ia
1864, aud reelected in 1869. In 1870
he resumed the practice Of law in Nevada
and California and was thus engaged when
elected TO the United States senate as a re-
pubhcan In 1857 TO succeed James q. Fair,
democrat. Senator stewart lives al Carson
IItV
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school of the Ohio
university at Cincin-
natl in 1854, enlisted
as q private at the
beginning of the
war, ana advanced
in rank with a rap
idity eQualed in very
few cases. He was
elected first lieuten-
apt of company q of
the Second Iowa in
fantry, attained the
rank of major Octo-
Der 3, 1862, and as
both his colonel and
lieutenant w c re
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took dp the winters of his boyhood until he
went a soldering. All through the war he
went without scratch or one sick day. His
supcrapundant flow OF animal spirits, his
quick perception of the humorous, impaired
strength and lent. support in many doleful
situation. Always full OF ioility and
jokes, quaint and original, as of brave endur-
ance atid strong armed helpfulness for sick
or wounded comrade no long march tagged
him. No lack of hard tack checked his
cheeriness. e.e & .ssa
Home from the war before he was 20, he
entered Cedar Valley seminary, Wisconsin,
where he graduated after four years. Mr..
Wardals splendid health has enabled him
to do hard farm work that would have
broken down most men; yet, withal his
reading was kept up. and his earnest thought
was constantly seeking ways and means to
lend hand to such as had fallen behind in
the life struggle.
When the old Wisconsin home became too
closely envroned by civilization, the pioneer
spirit of Mr.. Wardall took him to n newer
section Of country IN Iowa. About this time
the grange movement sprung up and in its
activities he found elbow room for large,
helpful work. He was one of the chief
leaders iE the peoples revolt IN Iowa which
changed the political complexion Of that
state several years ago, and compelled atten-
ton to the needs and wishes of the farmers.
The accom- mplished work of civilization
crowded once again and love Of pioneering
drew MIR. Wardall Dakotaward. The
grange, as 1Orerunner ana preparation lOf
u larger scope of thought touching the
problems and maladjustments of the ousi-
ness side OF agriculture, had performed its
mission and declined, but the evolution of
thought went on and found expression IN the
newer organization Of the farmers alliance.
Mr.. Wardall was one OF the four or five
men whose energy and ability organized the
alliance IN Dakota, and gained Tor 1t that
footing which made 1t something OF dictator
in political matters in that state. He is
,lNnp . hn tiun nf "a Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and IndustrialUnio
His time is chiefly devoted to the insurance
a strong advocate OF woman suffrage, and il
bitonist, but he is content to let those ideas
putting the new party on its feet
o. NJ. KEN.
The political revolution of 1890 was pro-
life of surprises, but in no district was the
surprise greater than in the Third Nebraska.
Messrs. Simpson, PETER and Kyle are indeed
new men, but the Hon. Omer Madison kem
is if possible, little bit newer than either
of them. A very practical farmer and un-
known outside of his county, he received the
independent nomination for congress, put in
twelve weeks at campaigning, with SUP
posed republican majority of l2OJO in the
district, and defeated the popular George w.
Dorsey by 81, S3l votes to q, 1853.
Such facts would make man prominent
IN spite of himself, and Mr.. KEN has so far
borne his honors well. He was born Novem-
Der 10, 1855, in Wayne county, Indiana, in
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vember foundered; crew rescued by life
saving station off Point Betsey; cargo, 49,
249 bushels corn, Is, 100 bushels rye"
Commander Jerry Simpson received great
praise for his skill asa sailor, especially while
in comm and of the Rutter and other vessels
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In boyhood for general information. Early
in the war he enlisted in the Eleventh lll-
nois cavalry, OF which Bob lngersoll was
colonel, and served TIL near the close. He
then settled on u farm near Pontiac, H.,
took an active part In organizing the farm ers,
and ran once for cong ress, but was defea ted.
In 1850 he located in Nebraska, settling near
Red Cloud, was made county Judge of Web
ster county in 1885, and the next year was
the democratic candidate for congress against
Hon. James Laird.
He was defeated, but acquired reputation
as q stump speaker equaled by very few
His supporters love to tell how successive
champions OF the republican policy were
called to meet him. and how none of them
was anxious to meet him the second time.
His career in Nebraska is sort of comedy
in Itself, as he was living in sod house
when elected 10 congreSs-one he put up i'm
mediatcly after the grass shoppers evacuated.
us he says. IL is much more comfortable
than an eastern reader would think as il has
three rooms, and the sod walls are oullt TO
plank frame. Politically Mr.. McKeighan
accepts the peoples party platform as an en-
trety He was recently nominated for con
gress in the Fifth Nebraska district. com
pri,ng the west three-fourths Of his old dis
trict
Jerry simpson.
The representative Of tho Seventh Kansas
district IN the Fifty-second congress is in
deed u remarkable American, but not by
birth "A United Stalcsan, for he is native
OF New Brunswick he entered congress
by reason OF political cyclone, and IL is an
odd coincidence that the first compliment
ary notice of him which can be found In
print was In connection with storm.
Hero are tho original entries from which the
notice was made up:
"Barge j. IL. Rutter, Commander Jerry
Simpson towed by steamer II. V. Ketcham,
left port for Chicago Goth of October, 1873;
storm of Point Betsey and parted from
Ketcham 3lst; anchored OF Luddlngton leak
lug badly; severe storm from southwest No
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tasings were next at hand. lie was worthy
chief Of the Independent Order of Good
Tomplars Of Canada before he was % years
old He has lived ON his farm near Clear
Lake, :. D., for several years, and during
that time ho bas Ueen one OF tho influential
pen OF the state.
Tho first Independent or peoples party
convention growing out Of alliance education
WAS held IN Dakota June J, 1890, aud was
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In 1882, the Texas state alliance was form<
ally organized, ana its membership was lin.
itcd TO white persons. lu four years, eighty
two counties had become interested In and
identified with the work Of tho now order.
A meeting was held at Waco. January II.
1887, for the purpose of taking steps "a
brlng into harmony WIN inc alliance anotnef
organization OF farmers in the state of Louis
lana known as the "Farmers Union" Dele.
gates from the union were present and thu
two bodies united, taking the name of the
Farmers Alliance and Co-oDerarive Union
OF America" with q. w. Macune as its presi.
dent.
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dent of the northwest association. He is
rugged. gray-whiskered man of &c. somewhat
austere in manner, but thoroughly in earnest
IN his championship of the cause of the
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-02
PERSONAL.

Vice President Morton's daughters have an active
share I'm church work at Rhinebeck. They condnct
sewing school for poor children on Saturday morn.
ngS and "A little sunday school twenty-lour HOURS
later, IN room in Mr.. MortonS house.
DIR. Theodore H. Cuyler, OF Brooklyn. preached in
Providence !a,t sunday.
Japanese newspapers print pictures Of Mrs. Potter
Palmer. which shows how the fame Of that energetic
and persuasive champion Of the Worlds Fair has
reached The nttcrmoSt parts OF the earth.
Hermann Rocdcr, who died few days ago In
Lisbon WIS formerly the tutor Of Queen Maria ii.
Rocter was born IN Saxony. but went 10 Portugal la
1880 As professor Of German In Of the colleges.
lie was very popular In his adopted country and Tor
a time was private secretary OF King Don LULU
The Right Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coke. Prltestant
Episcopal Bishop Of Western New York. was much In
tcstcd in the day Of fasting and prayer observed on
Tuesday by the co0rcd people Of this country. and
called upon his fellow cuIchmcn 10 participate therein
In the services Of that day he made of the follow
ing special prayer which Will also be repeated on Sun
day next throughout his diocese Almighty & d, VINO
hast made of blood all nations IN tho family of man.
and by Thy Providence hast determined the bounds OF
their hnbitations, we bless Thy holy name that W.
dwell in this land and are chartered by it, free laws
with protection for life liberty AMI the pursuit OF
happincSs Hear applications In behalf OF any
OF our brethren from whom The protection Of the laws
Is unjusty taken away; restore them T. their nights
and Gnctiiy 10 them All thelr WfongS ana all INC
trials and troubles OF this world, that we and they
may finally be patakers of the life of the world to
come. send Thy Holy Ghost and move the hearts
and minds of all ccuntrymen TO their own III
stltutlons from overthrow and cruel pervcrsion, SO
that living here In good ncighborhood and kindly fel
lowship Thy blessing and tender merces may never be
removed from the United states Of America. All
which we beg, contessing our unworthlness and I'M
ploring Thy compositions and gracious lnerposition
through the merits Of Our Divine Lord and saviour
Iesus Christ. Amen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-02
THE UESTEkN FLOODS and 1HEIR
REMEDY

While il is now pretty clear that the original
calculation of the loss from the recent West
ern floods was greatly exaggerated, 1t Is GER
tain that this years foundations have been
unusually disastrous to property. 1.-The New
Orleans Times Democrat" an authority on such
questions. accepts with reserve Bradstrccts
estimate of s32. 0O0. 900. but believes that the
real figures to the end Of May will approximate
nearer S4O.O0O.000 This includes losses III
Illinois. Missouri. Iowa. Arkansas and Louisi-
ana where the floods aud frc~hctS have been
heaviest. and leaves out Mississippi, where the
high water has flooded many OF the lowlandS
and driven out the settlers.
After all due deduction the magnitude of
the damage thus sustained obviously invests
the Western food problem with more than
passing interest, especially rs no adequate
means of solution are forthcoming. with the
Sioux City calamity in mind, il becomes I'M
possible 10 explain away the damage AT It.
Louis and New Orleans, for example, by Il
thoughilc>s snccr at the lcvccs. The figures
popularly cited u attest the fragiluy of these
structures are inevitably misleading and II Is
shown that the frequent recurrence OF breaks
in the same places and the calling OF the
crcyasscs by several different names deceive
even those locally interested. The present
Mississippi breaks. instead of reaching a total
longth of four and "a half miles, are thus said
to fall within 2,23O feet or less than Calf
mile. OF this length, the Arkansas breaks
amount to loo feet, and both i'll Arkansas
and on the lower coast" below Ncw-Orlcans
the lack Of needed repairs is chiefly to blame.
At tho same time, the conclusion is war
ranted that the stanchcst lcyecs are not 10
DO depended on to protect the cities and farms
in the Missouri and Mississippi valleys, so long
as the continued decreasing of the upper cOun-
try swcS the volume of the river current cnor-
mously every year. The relation of dcforcSta-
ton to cyclones and tOrnadOcs is now generally
understood, and the official report on the floods
of 1889 pointed ont its equally disastrous eff
feet in stimulating tho formation of dangerous
torrents IN France, as 1.-THE Times Demo-
craft recalls, the great floods Of 1856, with
their property damage of $4,000 900, were
tho direct result of the dcnudaton of the South
crn Alps The application of rcforcsation as
remedy has, however, there produced the
happicst results, and in this country the rcstOra-
ton of some Of our vanished forests might help
% tame even the raging tributaries Of the
Missouri and the Mississippi. The problem in
this case is, it is true, vast and complicated /;
but it is high time to initiate effective meas
urcS of reform.
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mitores. recitation halls and laboratories pre-
sented to Yale within the last few years

The time approached and draweth nigh lor
the resumption Of the work of lie GYPSY Moth
Commissioners of tie neighboring Commonwealth
If Massachusetts,. Soon it will he in order to
cav in language familiar as a household word to
every son of Massachusetts, 81 Gypsy Noun
Commission quacris, circumspice' One OF the
places that are likely to demand early and earnest
attention is the historic town of Medford. some
Of the agents OF the G.. NJ. Commission came to
grief there last year, being in fact attacked ny
an Infatuated citizen armed with a cleaning
broadaxe. But the assaant's triumph was
brief and he was cast into Jail for repentance anu
reformation Hence, Medford may probably DC
invaded now with comparative safety. At least
we hope for no bloodshed during the coming sea-
son: while, with the increase Of knowledge con-
corning the gypsy moth which the Commission
is constantly securing. the work of DISCRIMINATING
the pest will doubtless be prosecuted with vigor
throughout the limited area to which Field
Director f. H. Forbush reports that its ravages
are confined
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have an additional claim upon the geherai
UNIVERSITY INTERESTS.

'
Tho nrcscnt is a red-lettcr year in the his
tory of public enterprises in the city of New
yorl, Within its first six months it has seen
tho complction, or the assured establishment,
of number of works of the highest lmpor-
topco The beautiful Washington Memorial
Arch has been substantially finished by pop
Mar offerings Possession has formally Dceh
taken Of the site of the projected Protestant
Epscopal Cathedral, and an adequate ana al
mirobln site has been secured for Columbia
Colloco near by. thus insuring that MorningSlde
Uoicbts will be crowned in the near future
with an architectural group that might we'll be
rho pri1e of any capital. Only yesterday we
had the pleasure of announcing that the Grant
Monument Fund had been completed ana a
fitting memorial Of the Nations greatest soldier
thus assured. And to-day the welcome news
is published that the University of the City OF
Ncv-York has been enabled, by its friends
contribution of 5000 600, to purchase an adj
m;robe site for its new home above the llar-
lem River. -,
This last announcement will be received with
cspccia satisfaction, because it indicates the
increasing prosperity of an institution OF learn
ing. long and widely hOnorcd, and greatly com
mendcd to the interest Of the people OF New
York. which has, for various reasons, often
failed TO receive its full need of recognition,
and which has in diverse ways been sorely
hammered in its work. Perhaps the fact that
il is so bread and catholic, that it is SO free
from scctarian control, that it is essentially
peope's university, has actually INITIATED
against It, II has had no great religious de-
nomination at its back. to support 1t as mat
fer Of duty and to honor it as matter OF prlde.
Il has simply made its appeal for popular sup
port on the ground of lis own merits. Now
and then it has feared that its appeal was little
Needed. But the news Of to-day indicates that
# last it is being heard, and heard to some
pnrposc. We shall be much disappointed III
this city if hcnccforth the University has cause
to complain of neglect.
The University is its own best plea TOR gen
crous support To mention the names OF
Valentine Mott, Samuel +. b. Morse John
Torrcv. the three Diapers, Elias LOOMS,
Charles Davies, William Kent Samuel Gross,
Theodore Frclinghuyscn Howard Crosby ana
others who have been identified with TINS
institution, and whose best lifc-work has
largely been achieved within its walls, Is
10 mark tho intellectual progress OF the
last haf-ccntury; To recall their connection
with the University is to present to the people
of Ncw-York a plea no philosophical citizen
can resist Five decades ago the Gothic pile
ON University Place was one of the wonders OF
the city Let us hope that within five years
f. come there will be on University Heights
if that shall be the chosen name-a cluster OF
buildings equally the wonder of the city OF
these days. with an endowment ample for all
needs to make and keep the seat OF learning
Is worthy in future as it has been in the past
of the great capital whose name it bears