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Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
POINTS ON STATE POLITICS.

ONell Frontier: Billy Bryan is bright
boy, but from all appearances his constitu
ents next fall will not consider him the right
man to represent them in congress.
Papilion Times: Sarny county demo.
Gratis will send Cleveland delegation to the
Omaha convention. Sarpy republicans will
declare for Harrison, since Blame Is out OF
the way.
Nebraska Independent: The World-Her.
AIDS editorials on. the silver question are
simply disgusting We have nowhere seen
moro transparent hypocritical nonsense
crowded into so short space.
Auburn Granger: When Mr. Thurston
asserts that the republican party has plenty
of young men for congress he sends cold
chill down the spinal column of John &. Wat
son and makes Church Howe contemplate
visit to the Springs. They are no spring
chickens in politics.
Weeping Water Repu ublican: We are for
the man who the most surely will lead tho
republicans to victory, and are decidedly
against any cutting controversy within our
own ranks which shall aleniate any of our
=, much needed friends. When we want any
| contests within ranks to give us unbounded
| Joy, we want them within tho ranks Of the
other parties.
Howells Journal: The Omaha Wcr.t-
Herald is offering lot of cheap and unsoueht
for advice to the democratic party OF Ne
braska, and, among other things, it is pre-
sumptuous enough to ask that the demo-
cratic delegates to tho Chicago convention
go instructed. Now we should very much
like to know what the editor of that mug
wump sheet has got to do with the actions OF
democratic convention! Last fall that pa
per was the organ OF the calamity howlersS
and it never has been, under IT'S present
management, democratic paper and it takes
supreme gall on the part OF Hitchcock to
offer advice to that party. When our con
vention meets it will probably be able to
transact its own business without the aid OF
advice of the editor of tho World Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

RHODE ISLAND votes Wednesday on
her state officers, and for the first time
in her history a campaign in Little
Rhody has been regarded with national
interest Cleveland, Campbell, Whit
ney and McAdoo, democrats of national
reputation, addressed democratic
meeting in Providence Saturday night.
AT the same time Reed, Mckinley and
Horr were speaking to Il large and en-
thusiastic republican assembly. Rhode
Island starts the national campaign of
1892, and she ought to start right by
giving the republican ticket n decisive
majority
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
REPUBLICAN, MALCONrENTS.

The Mr.. Grace OF Brooklyn, upon
Mr. Blaine is still in the field as can
didate for the presidency, is very likely
looking for notoriety. How much
prominence he enjoys as a local poll
tican we do not know, but it is hardly
probable that Mr.. Blaine, if he pur-
posed recanting his declination to be a
candidate would select as the medium
to convey the information to the repub-
lican party man who is wholly un
known to the country. and of whose
reliability and responsibility there is no
other knowledge than the statement
that he is prominent Brooklyn repub-
lican. The naming an authority for the
statement that Mr.. Blaine will accept
the nomination if it is given him is tho
only fact that gives the story any claim
to attention, but the obscurity OF the in
divdual named initiates against the
credibility of the statement. No sincere
friend of the secretary of state will be-
lieve that he is practcing the duplicity
which is implied in the story set ahoat
publican who can consider the matter
with fair mind can doubt that If it
should be found that Mr.. Blaine was
insincere in declining TO be Il candidate
his nomination by the Minneapolis con-
vention would be about the weakest that
could be made. III Mr.. Blaine, after
having formally and in the most posi-
lnnlnra1 h,t bn
candidate for the presidency and that
| his name would not be presented to the
| national convention, has been insid-
| iously encouraging movement to Sc
| cure the nomination for himself or in
| any way encouraging those who desire
him TO be candidate, he would il nomi-
mated ALLEVIATE tens OF thousands OF re-
| pubicans who would feel that such con-
duct deserved the sovercst rebuke. But
we believe it to be entirely safe to say
| that Mr.. Blaine has been doing no such
| thing, and that Mr.. Grace OF Brooklyn
had no authority to put Mr.. Blaine in
such an unenviable attitude before the
country. Having taken himself out of
the list of PRESIDENT i candidates, foi
| bno IcioOl lildL his
health would not permit him to take
upon himself tho arduous work of G
national campaign, Mr., Blaine will not
there is no hesitation in asserting, allow
his name to be presented to the Min
neapols convention. The statement
that he is now in good health is hardly
credible in view of the fact that only
few days ago he resumed his duties at
the State department after an illness o
several weeks. The mon who persist il
efforts to induce Mr.. Blaine to take
course that would subject him to th'
charge of gross duplicity and insincerit!
are not Lis truest friends nor are they
friends of the republican party. Thei
course involves grave wrong and in
justice to the former and mepaces Tn,
harmony of the party.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
~ r0wA 4 DouBTFrL STATE,


This question is asked and answered
by Governor John N. Irwin in the April
number OF The Forum. Mr.. Irwin
points out the several causes OF the de.
cline of the republican party in Iowa.
chief among which is tho prohibition
law He says "the one great cause OF
the decay of republican majorities in
Iowa can doubtless be fairly attributed
to the working of the law prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of liquors OF
any kind within the state" He states
that whereas formerly nearly all the
Germans in the state were republicans,
now not per cent of the German vote
is cast for republican candidates for
state Offices Most of these voters are
still republicans upon national issues,
and many Of them yet vote 'or the re-
publican presidential candidates. And
what is true of the Germans is partially
true Of tho Norwegians and Swedes, ac-
cording TO MIR. Irwin. Likewise, he
says, thousands OF republicans of Ameri-
can birth who drifted with the party at
first became in time disguised with the
law and either refused to vote at all or
voted democratic ballots. These losses
could not be made good by drawing re-
cruits from the ranks OF Temperance
democrats. They were called, but they did
not respond: the prohibition democrats
talked prohibition, but regularly voted
with the democrats. Mr.. Irwin gives
his testimony that prohibition has been
in practice, in the cities of Iowa, an
utter and absurd failure.
What the great majority OF the peo-
pie of Iowa now demand says Mr.
Irwin, is county or city option, or home
rule, and he declares that unless some-
thing is done to satisfy the anti-prohiDi.
tion republicans the state is utterly and
irrevocably lost to the republican party.
Mr.. Irwin believes that a majority OF
the voters of Iowa are republicans on
national issues, but he says the internal
questions of the state may force 1T into
the democratic electoral column. The
possibility of this must be admitted, but
it is not likely to happen this year. The
farmers of Iowa, who constitute the
strength OF republicanism in the state,
can safely be depended upon to vote this
year with the party which has given
the country in reciprocity the most i'm.
portant commercial policy in our his
tory, which has opened to our pork pro-
ducts the long-closed markets OF Europe,
and which insists upon maintaining a
sound currency so that the farmer shall
receive for his produce an honest and
stable dollar 1t is unfortunate that the
republicans in the legislature permitted
to pass unimproved another opportunity
to substitute high license and local op-
tion for prohibition, but this mistake
| will not count as heavily against the
party in the presidential election as Mr..
Irwin and others apprehend. Iowa
should not be ranged among the doubt
full states this year. Her electoral vote
will be given to the republican presiden
tial candidates, not, perhaps, by an old
time majority, but Ly one large enough
to prevent any doubt rs to how the in
telligent voters of the state regard re-
| publican policy and principles.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

TIE war over the relative merits of
Walt Whitman's literary work goes on at
the side of his new made grave with as
much virulence as before his death.
One set OF critics insists that he was and
another that he was not genuine poet.
The New York Independent consigns him
to oblivion as writer, and pronounces
his literary life a failure. Other jour-
mails of equal character pronounce him
what he claimed to be, the poet of dem
ocracy, The concensus of critical opin-
lon appears to favor the thco.y that his
sun of fame set when the light OF his
life went out.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04


The supreme court of New York has de-
clded that within its territorial jurisdiction
"a foreign divorce, for a cause not recognized
by our laws, no service and no appearance
py the defendant is void"
The court goes on to note the phenomenon
that citizen of this country can be married
in one state while legally single in another.
This decision will have depressing effect on
the portion of New York society" that has
been practicing consecutive polygamy with
the connivauce OF western communities,
whose lax social arrangements were made to
invite immigration, but which, to consider
able degree. have had merely the effects OF
promoting eastern licentiousness.
The states will come in time to uniform
laws on divorce, and by that time the con-
science of the country will undoubtedly
determine that the way to reduce evils now
too prevalent will be prohi hioitlon throughout
the United Stntes of remarriage of divorced
persons during the life of both parties.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

A LION fatigued by the heat Of sum
mer day fell asleep in his don. IL Mouse
ran over his mane and ears and awoke
him from his slumbers. The Lion rose
up and shook himself in great wrath
and searched every corner of his den to
find the Mouse. A Fox seeing him
said, "A fine Lion you are to be fright
ened OF Mouse "1'is not tho Mouse
/ fear" said the Lion; II resent his
familiarity and ill-brecding." Without
a very serious stretch OF imagination,
Mr.. Esop's fable might fiud local ap,
plication in the MontgomeryM Martin
Boyd political mill.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

GOVERNOR BOYD in his Chicago
speech gave as one chief reason of tho
continued supremacy OF the republican
party in the western states the state
ment that the immigration TO that sec
tion is largest and every immigrant, as
a rule, is instinctively drawn to tho
dominant governing political party,
The governors memory must be i'm
paired. He should recall the classic
and hoary anecdote of II compatriot who
was shipwreckei and washed ashore on
a lonely island in mid-ocean. Upon re-
covering sensibility his first question
was: us there government on this
rocky islets' Upon being informed that
the people recognized such an insti-
tuition, he promptly announced: well,
I'm agin it," The facts arc against the
governor, not in the case OF onr nation
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
Deserves denomination.
ChjcuUD Tribune.

Governor Mckinley OF Ohio has author
lied the Columbus Dispatch to say that he
is not and will not be a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for the presidency. In
answer to tho plain question, "will you DO
candidate before the republican National
convention at Minneapolis for the preSi-
Dental nomnation2H he replied: 81 VIII
not. President Harrison has given us
strong honest and patriotic administration,
and if q candidate think he will be renom-
inatcd.v ~ ~
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
Underground Wires.


According to the last report OF the Bell
Telephone company Now York City has
26,SSl miles of underground telephone wires
and Chicago has but 7,2SS miles of wires
under ground. This difference of more than
20, 900 miles is tho difference between the
methods of the two cities in compelling tee-
graph ana telephone companies to place their
wires under ground. In New York tho
mayor enforced the ordinance by cutting
down tho poles where wires were ovcrh cad.
In Chicago we only passed the ordinance.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
THE NEBRASKA CENTRAL.


brasia Central Railway company's
proposition is commended to every
taxpayer in Omaha. The county
commissioners are expected to pass
upon the question of submitting Il
bond proposition tomorrow afternoon.
Should they agree upon calling an cleo
tion, the city council will, in the even
ing, be ready to take up the subject
upon behalf of the city. 1t is highly
important that prompt action be taken.
If the bonds are to meet with favor, the
earlier the election can b, held the
better for all concerned, so that work
may begin on the enterprise. If they
are to be defeated, it is only fair to the
promoters that they should know it as
soon as possible. THE BEE regards it
as entirely probable that the county
commissioners and city council will
agree to submit the question to vote.
The people can determine for them
selves whether or not it is wise to
subsidize the new railway enterprise.
They can be trusted to do what is best,
and it would be no credit to either
public body to refuse to place enough
confidence in them to permit them to
vote upon the proposition.
1t is clenr that Omaha is not yet re-
ceiviug her just deserts from the rail-
ways centering here. In fact it is to the
intcres. of most OF the corporations with
terminals here to work against the COM
mercial prosperity of the city. The
North western system and Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy are Chicago roads and
it is to their advantage in the haul of
merchandise via Blair and Plattsmouth
to that city. Their local distributing
centers are Fremont and Lincoln and
not Omaha The Rock Island has not
yet developed its Nebraska lines, and the
Milwaukee terminates at Council Bluffs.
Practically Omaha's only road is the
Union Pacific, and 1t IN aintains term
mus also at Council Bluffs. The Mis-
souri, Pacific is st. Louis road and its
| Nebraska lines radiute toward that city
and not toward Omaha. The Union
Pacific has for year been largely a
Missouri Pacific feeder, and so has been
| interested in diverting freight from this
CITY,
| Now the proposed bridge and terminal
facilities will admit the Wabash from
| the southeast, the Santa Ee from Des
| Moines, when that road is completed
and the three roads now at Fort Dodge
| Ia, will be made local to Omaha by ex.
tending the proposed line to that point
thus giving this city choice of lines to
the northeast and making US more inde-
| pendent of Chicago. Not only 80, but
this enterprise will be an invitation t,
the Great Northern system to push dowr
the Missouri valley from Sioux City ant
SO open to Omaha n competing route tt
the Dakotas, Montana and the far nor Il
west Furthermore the extension OF tn,
line through the city to South Omahi
will bo the nucleus for roads extending
into the northern part OF the state ant
to the southwest, because under tn,
terms OF the bond proposition the Ne
braslla central bridge, tracks and terml
nal facilities shall be open to the use o
any and all lines centering here upol
fair and equitable terms. There il
enough of merit in the proposition t.
warrant careful Investigation on tn
part of taxpayers and liberal treatmen
by the governing bodies of the city an,
county.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

A NEWSPAPER which will attempt to
point free trade argument by compar-
ing the conditions in North Carolina
from 1850 to 1860 with those from 1870 to
1889 presumes n good deal upon the in.
tellIgence of its readers.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
Practical Enterprise.

BHUdiO (U UOD EchO'
Practical enterprise characterizes the lines
of special work in which The OMAHA BEE is
constantly engaged. A notable example is
THE BEES recent publication of series OF
articles penned BIZ western senators relating e
to the states which they arc representing In
the national congress. Last Sundays BEE
contained letter from Senator. Warren OF
Wyoming, which we reproduce for the reason
that it sets forth much valuable information.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

THE Iroquois Club of Chicago is dane
ing the Ghost dance preliminary to an
outbreak in June. Cleveland is the
Messiah they look to, and deluge Of
mud is the force by which they hope to
overwhelm their more enlightened
enemies.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
IL win nn Itnanimons.

81 Paul Pioneer Press.
1t is now certain that President Harrison
will be the practically unanimous choice of
his party at the Minneapolis convention.
The situation is one not at oil common in
party history, and the result by no means
what a careful political observer would have
expected or predicted six months or year
ago. Yet it has come about in perfectly
natural yay
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
DEMANDING RETALIATION,

The Chinese residents of the United
States are preparing to ask their gov
ernment TO adoDt Il policy of retaliation
against this country in case congress
leglslates 10 exclude all Chinese, with
the exception OF diplomatic and consular
representatives and their necessary at.
tendants, as is contemplated by bills in
congress. A petition said TO be already
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

GOVERNOR BoIES and the other am
uous by their absence from the Iroquois
banquet in Chicago Saturday night. The
atmosphere was not invigorating for
''that good western man" we have heard
30 much about lately.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

OMAHA continues to give evidence of
reviving business in her clearing house
reports. Last week shows an increase
OF 33 per cent over the corresponding
week in 1891.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
Oycrlnn,lrd WIN siIyer.

TTIIT1IpTDhfu RccOru.
The government has 60,OO0,00o ounces OF
silver piled up in the mint vaults IN this city,
or about one ounce per capita for the popu-
lation of tue United States. II the ounces
can not be floated into circulation, what folly
to expect that any greater weight of metal
could be got afloat by an edict OF congress
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

HARMONY is spelled with lower
case ''h'' in local democratic circles
now. In some localities it changes into
a short, expressive and somewhat pro-
fame word beginning with the same
Ietter
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

MR.. CLEVELAND dragged the dec
alogue into his political speech in Provi-
dence and paired it with tariff reform,
much to the amusement of a crowd of
democrats who always vote as if the ten
commandments were a theory merely
and not condition Of righteousness.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

TEN aldermen and member Of the
school board are the trophies of the
Chicago grand jury. Bride taking is
not Just now in style in the Worlds fair
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

ality, but saving naesceptions in ALL The
states most distinctively American in
the north are s'fbly republican. In the
south the people inherit democracy and
adhere to it because OF local conditions,
and not because they are the purest
blooded Ame ricans in the union.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

The approach of spring would be
greeted with more pleasure if it were
not for the fact that it also means the
rancorous quarrel between Birkhauser
ard Squires.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

BRYAN voted for free coinage and has
the honesty to admit his guilt. The
gentleman's franlIness is more to be COM
mended than his judgment.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

THE storms of1the past few days are
hardly n circumstance TO the breeze
which ambitious local democrats are
pumping from their political bellows.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

THE Board of Education will find
public sentiment back of any reasonable
appropriations for beuutifying the
public school grounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

THE Nebraska Central gives greater
promise for Omaha than any enterprise
proposed in this city for years.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

WAsHINGToN newspaper correspond
ents are discounting the common sense
of the nation by perpetually playing
James G.. Blaine as the Bogyman.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

THE ultimatum of the Omaha iobbers
to the Iowa railways should be the abo-
lton of the bridge arbitrary or war to
the knife.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

TIE relations between County Judge
Eller and the Board of County Commits
sioners appear TO be decidedly strained.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04


Whem ba lmy Is the soft spring air,
And sunshine giittofS everywhere;
When all forgot are winters chills-
You'll have to nay your old coal bills.
New York Herald The editor OF our
groyelling contemporary t" says the Lark tins
Lum nary. "we are told has threatened To
stab us on sight with his Office shears But
we expect no injury from the assault, owing
to tn , dulness OF his weapon which has been
worn out IN constantly clipping uncrcdited
items from our scintiilating columns"
Boston Transcript; He preparing to leave)
l assure you, Miss smarte, the time has
passed. very PLEASANTLY this evening.
She mbstracted ly)-Yes, 1t is pleasant to
know that 1t Is past.
Binghnmton Leader: miss is as good as n
mile. This is probably why man doesn't feel
the distance when he's got nice girl with
him.
Elmira Gazette: Jagson says the reason
that woman tnlkS So much Is because she
suffers In silence.
Lowell Courier: II is much better for man
TO he In high spirits than To nave nigh spirits
In him. ,,t
Atchison Globe: Repenting of sin Is n
great deal like putt Ing u heavy sled uphill
after you have had a good time sliding down.
sinings; The most Wonderful thing about n
shad is how tho meat ever got in between the
bones. 90
Philadelphia Record; Tho courage OF the
.plllow-ishtlns' pusilist often needs bo'ster-
ing up.
Indianapolis Jourhi: ,""Manlily. is, the
wire, incidentaiiy.q SAY" queried Nudge,
where can get sppyr
FOUR LisE JINGLEs.
d47mh.
Old sayings are we'll enough In their way;
And yet there is f2pm for Improvement
'Twould be trueri to'say when We quote II
Where there's will there's way to
Washington star.
Remember wnen expenses mount
And styles more striking grow,
You cannot run u bank account
With the checks your trousers show.
=.
New York Herald.
Now In the social chry sails
Iios hidden many matoniess miss 49,
Who slghs for the days when her wiass she'll
unfurl-
A autteriug. butterfly, summer girl.
Somerset Ncus,
A mans deeds oft llvo after him,
But when he has pOno under
The heirs whosu heritage Is slim
Soon rem / hls VIII asuider
-.
Bcn il,k Press
Her Tau OF feathers uia la for show.
The Ohle't was ~ observation.
Aud as slo wave IL 10 aud FRO
IL raisod u orou1o OF adn.iration
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
QUESTIONS AND .INSWERS.

PAULINE. Neb., March SOTO the Editor of
THE BEE: am strong republican and have
had II dispute through Danish newspaper
with socialist concerning the last event in
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04

and cnIageu girl has thTOWH HTh UVcrDUuTu
he is all at sea.
Boston Transcript: The man In the base
ment undersells MS competitors on the street
floor.
New York Herald: Rounder-Why don't
you swear OF?
Ola Soak-I (hic) have.
Rounder-Nonsensc.
Old Soak-l be sworn off water. (HicD
Semmup again. bnrkeep. War-on-ou.
Boston Jester: perkins has given up the
brickmaking business since he joined the
Good rempars." go
why, what had that to do with itt
you see. IL was against his moral convic-
tons to wet his clay.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
SURE AS TEXAS.

HIHHtUVOIS JUUTHII'
When robins come to nest again
And sing anew their sweet refrain;
When pussy willows leave their nest
With soft gray down on every breust;
When balmy Is the soft spring air,
And sunshine giittorS everywhere:
When all forgot are winters chllls-
You'll hive to DnY your old COnl bills
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
pIts1NEss LETTERS.

All communications relating TO news ana
editorial matter should be audressed tc the
Iditcrial Department..
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
CiUSTIC and COMIC.IL.

New Orleans Picayune: When a mans hest
and engaged girl has thrown him overheard
he is all at sea.
Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-04
SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION
ktaie OF NelrnSkn =.

Average Circulation for February a4,51o.