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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-14

WAsHINGToN.-June l3th.-The Presl-
dents attack Is slowly yielding to
Treatment and " he obeys the injunc.
tlon of his two physicians to remain
quiet and not give his attention to
public matters. he will probably re.
cover without receiving a setback.
Tho trouble which has kept the
tresident sick for several days Is ons<
INIT requires rest and quiat more
than nsdlclne. and 1t IL said he would
nave been well two days ago II he had
not insisted IN attending to business
requiring great amount OF labor.
l. Tho arrival this morning OF DR..
bryant, the Cleyelands' New York doc.
tor, In addition to Dr. O'Reilly, of the
army who has been prescribing for
MIN, gave rise to reports about the
city That the President was quite III
and that Mrs. Cleveland would be sum-
nionnd to Washington from Gray
Gables. These reports were promptly
denied by Private Secretary Thurber,
who slated the President was much
improved this morning and that he
Will be himself again in two days.
Tho fact TINT the President Is indis.
lposeG has prevented few visitors at
tho White House. except those who
Hro bent on sight seeing and who come
to tho public receptions. All day the
bcSlucHh lCtuHlubI Ill HIS quarters.
lie saw membars OF tina cabinet during
the morning, but attended to no rou.
tine or other business DR.. Bryant,
after seeing his patient, walked over
ito drug store. whore q prescription
wns compounded when he returned
TO the White House, 1t Is probable
that he viii leave for New York this
evening.
Captain Eob!oy d. Evans. who goes
.aloHg with tho President OH his expe
.dlttuns down tie Potomac was with
nrcretary Lpmont to-day. and 1t II
said a trip WAS arranged for the Presi.
dent as soon as ho can leave the city.
Should he decide to take day or two
rest lighthouse tender will Us used
by the party for the voyage. which
Twill be confined TO tho river and bay.
Tho President does rot Intend to take
the dispatch boat Dolphin when he
goes To his sunGier home early III
July, but will make the trip by rail.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-14

Tho marriage OF DR.. w l.. Barnard
OF Midtletown, to Miss Ethel Covlug
ton, of StIll Pond. Nd. lis announces
10 take place on Wednesday, Juut
:ith. IL the NJ. L Church ut still Pom /,
Nd. Tho ceremony will DO perform
Cd at an early morning hour and the
bridal party will take an carly morn
Ing train foran extenle1 tour. IAeS
| Will reside in Middletown.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
LIBEL BY EFFTG Y.

Buffalo EXPRESS: a.. 7. White of Nebraska
City, Neb., has been found guilty of criminal
libel in helping to hang j. Sterling Morton
in efigy. This may be gratifying to the
private feelings of the secretary OF agricul-
ture, but it will not tend to remove the dis
like which led to his symbolical execution in
the first place.
Philadelphia Record: Two citizens of Ne
braska have been placed on trial charged
with having libeled Secretary OF Agriculture
Morton and his son Carl by hanging them in
efigy; and the case, 1t Is stated, is ex-
peceted to constitute a unique precedent. Yet
libel, in the common law acceptation of the
term, is any malicious publication by writ
ing, printing, picture or efigy tending to
expose another to public hatred, contempt
or ridicule. The Nebraska statute in re-
gard to libel will prove to be unique III 1t
shall fail to fit in with the case in point.
Minneapolis Tribune: At least one of the
Nebraska yeOmen who expressed their dis
approval of Secretary Morton's official course
by hanging him In etigy has come to grief.
His name is z. Il. White, and he has been
found guilty of libel by a jury of his peers,
Sentence has not been passed upon him., but
the penalty for the misdemeanor In Nebraska
is a fine of $500 or imprisonment in the
county Jail for a period not exceeding six
months, or both fine and Imprisonment. 1t
is to be hoped that Mr.. White will be treated
to a fine sufficiently heavy to impress for
ever upon his memory the folly OF hanging
in efigy as a method Of disciplining 4 public
officer.
Chicago Times: In Nebraska 1t is libel to
hang a man I'm efigy, the person libeled being
he whose efigy swings in the wind-not he
who makes the halter draw. 1t is no bar to
guilt II the person libeled be a member Of
the Cleveland cabinet, Even If he be the
most unpopular OF secretaries of agriculture,
this agricultural state gives him the full
benefit of the majesty OF the law. In a word,
the man or men who a few weeks back
strung up the stuffed image OF Hon. j, Ster-
ling Morton thereby incurred the penalty OF
the law Of criminal libel, which in Nebraska
is a fine of $500 or six months Imprisonment
in the county Jail, or both, in the discretion
OF the court. Good, old Spartan Nebraska!
We advise Mr.. Cleveland to take an appeal
from the national verdict to that state OF
wheat fields and populists. His stufing
would there be protected by law.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
WOE IN CHICAGO AND OMAHA.

For years Omaha has prided itself that
1t was run on the wide-open plan. 1t con-
trasted' the gay life and business activity of
the place with the somnolence and Sunday
stiffness of certain Iowa towns, where the
so-called 'goody-good" people eXeTted their
fatal influence, the conclusion being newt
able that Omaha's push and enterprise was
wholly due to inspiration drawn from the
saloon, the gambling hell and their natural
concomitants. But the past year has tried
them as by fire. Business stagnation, suffer-
ing thousands of the unemployed, and other
conditions which these suggest, while across
the big Muddy" in the despised state of
Iowa, comparative immunity from these
dread conditions has been enjoyed, have led
the people to reflect that something beside
open wrOng-doing lies at tho base OF bust
ness success, whether the individual, the
municipality or the state be considered
Chicago Journal.
1t is in accord with the eternal fitness
of things for Chicago papers to preach SER
mons on Omaha vice and depravity. II
London is the modern Babylon, Chicago is
her only rival in America. Chicago is the
largest cesspool of vice in America, not ex-
cepting New York. and her spasmodic efforts
to suppress gambling and repress the dives
and dens of vice are known to be mere
shams. Every Sunday morning the Chicago
papers contain column upon column of adver-
tisements of immoral resorts and personal
solicitation OF patronage for such places. If
any town in America has been running
wide open year in and year out 1t has been
Chicago.
1t comes with very bad grace for a paper
in Chicago, which has grown hoary with
age in a city that supports 5000 saloons
and thousands Of dens Of vice. to taunt
Omaha with deprayity. and 1t comes with
poorer grace yet for any Chicago man or
paper to taunt Omaha about business stag,
nation and the suferings of the thousands OF
unemployed, The destitute and unemployed
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
THE GREATER NEW YORK.

After twenty years or more of agitation
the people of New York City and Brooklyn
and the adjoining towns and villages are
to be given an opportunity to say whether
they desire to be incorporated into one large
city. The bill which passed the legisla-
ture and was signed by Governor Flower
last Wednesday simply provides for an ex-
preston of public opinion. The vote on
the proposition to make one great city out
of New York, Brooklyn and the adjoining
towns and villages to the number of fourteen
is to be taken at the next general election,
in November, and in the meantime this ques-
ton will probably engage the attention of
the people of those cities and towns to the
exclusion of almost every other subject.
If the proposition is carried New York will
at once take rank as the second city of the
civilized world, exceeded in population only
by London. The area Of the territory which
it is proposed shall be under one municipal
government is 317.77 square miles and the
population embraced in it, partly estimated,
is 1866, 1872. The population of London is
about 4,300, 900, of Paris 2.450, 900, and Of
Berlin 1850, 900. In 1880 there were about
1850, 900 people in the territory which 1t
is proposed to embrace in the greater New
York, the increase in thirteen years having
been over LOO, 900. The same percentage
of increase during the remainder of this de-
cade would give to this territory a popula-
ton very close to 1000, 900 and in another
ten years it would probably reach the popu-
latlon of the British capital. There are
very cogent reasons why this proposition
for a greater New York should prevail,
but whether they will be found sufficient
to secure a majority of the popular vote
for the proposition 1t would be hazardous
to predict. New York is certain to be-
come, in the not far future, the financial
and commercial metropolis Of the world and
there are the best of reasons why that city
should be put in the way to also become
the first city of the civilized world in popu-
lation. This would be accomplished by the
success of the proposed consolidation and
it should therefore appeal to the pride and
the patriotism of the people interested.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
rorcE or ruE Site PRESS.

Hastings Tribune: Il. Roscwatcr an
swered st. John In a masterful and success
full article. and showed that In every respect
this state Is ahead OF Kansas.
Kearney Hub: with the gamblers being
run out OF Omaha and the scarlet women
out Of Lincoln, the smaller cities OF the state
may reasonably expect an influx OF popula-
ton during the carly days OF March.
Genoa Leader. An exchange sueeringly
says that Rosowater Is likely to trot out
Cady for governor this fall. We'll, Rose
water or no Rosewater, Mr., Cady would
make a clean, strong candidate and a good
governor "all-e-samee."
Falls City Journal; While hunting up the
congressional timber of this district don't
overlook Hon, Sam Chapman Of Plattsmouth.
His republican admirers are legion and their
praises loud and long for his ability and for
his rapidity in movement In a race for a
stake of such Importance.
Tekamah Burtonian: The only two men
of the "old gang" that the Burtonian wants
to see brought out for state officers next fall
are Treasurer BARLEY and Auditor Moore.
For the rest of the ticket give MS an entire
new set Of men. Tho success OF the repub-
llcan ticket In Nebraska demands this.
Cedar Rapids Commercial: About this
time Paul Vandervoort will to
wag his wondrous jaw in the alleged interest
of labor. The vociferous Paul vigorously
voices the various wrongs Of laboring men,
but for every word uttered IN their DehalG
he thinks a thousand In favor Of himself for
some Office with large salary and no work.
Paul is the apostle of his own mouth and
was never known to work with anything
else.
Bloomington Echo: w, J. Broatch of
Omaha is an avowed candidate for governor,
before the republican convention. and he will
come into the next convention supported by
a delegation that on the side won't want
him. Omaha has a whole list Of statesmen
who have their eye on the United States
senatorship, and they won't be sidetracked
by governorship. Omaha politicians are a
similar set to other politicians, only there
are too many Of them for so small a state
as ours. If we had more people 1t would be
easier to get us on the run.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.

If reliable advices from Washington are to
be credited, that amiable friendship which is
supposed to exist in theory between the oc-
cupant of the presidential chair and the heir
apparent to the throne is sadly lacking in
fact. President Cleveland went through al
most the whole four years of his first term
In the white house without any incumbrance
in the vice presidential office. He became
accustomed to consulting only himself and his
favorites in the cabinet upon matters of
party policy. The republican president pro
tempore of the senate had no claims what
ever upon his benefcence. He felt himself
in a position unapproachable by any of those
who surrounded him. From this realm of pic
tured superiority Mr.. Cleveland has been I'M
able to remove himself, although circum-
stances have been greatly altered by the
fact that there is now an occupant of the
vice presidency who has feelings and am
billions of his own.
The vice president, we are told, has been
given to understand that he constituted
nothing more than an ornamental appendage
to the democratic ticket which was pulled
through in the fall of '92 by the personal
popularity of the president. President Cleve-
land wants to reserve the nomination of
his successor on that ticket to himself and
has frowned down upon every movement
OF the vice president that is calculated in
the least degree to give him prominence be-
fore the public. BY the latter this treat
ment has not been appreciated and acknowl-
edged with the ardor that is BETTING an at
tendant upon the court Of Mr.. Cleveland.
The result of the presidents attitude
toward the vice president has, as might have
been expected, been to drive Mr.. Stevenson
into closer relationship with the democratic
cabal that has been opposing the presidents
personal policy. The vice president neglected
to assume that position of bitter hostility to
the free silver men which was incumbent
upon the true administration democrat, Some
of his u%tterances have been taken to convey
the impression that he may himself be
slightly tainted with the free silver heresy
and this is by no means the caper that will
ommend him to presidential favor. He has
associated rather intimately with Senator
Hill. having accompanied the senator to
Albany to attend the New Years reception
given by Governor Flower, and while there
made an address before the New York State
Bar association, in which he made a COM
plimentary allusion to Senator Hill. 1t has
furthermore been charged that the vice
president took a hand in the fight over the
supreme court vacancy and that he made SO
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

people in Chicago today would outnumber
the entire population Of Omaha.
We apprehend that Omaha's condition,
moral or commercial, will not suffer by com.
parison with that Of Iowa towns and cities.
In the first place. the largest town In Iowa
has only a trine more than one-thlrd Of
omaha's population, and consequently the
incentive for vice and crime must be cor
respondingly less. In the next place,
Omaha's badness has been kept within sight,
while the badness OF low towns has been
kept under cover. No truthful person Will
contend that Iowa towns are free from the
evils Of intemperance, gambling. and the
social evil. They exist in proportion just
as they do in Omaha. with this difference,
that they flourish surreptitiously. In any
event, Chicago has nothing to boast Of over
Omaha on the score Of cleanliness, de-
cency or freedom from want and distress
among the unemployed.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

bold as to assist Senator Hin and his friends
to ompass the rejection Of Mr.. Peckham's
nomination. In this he was perhaps not a
very active participant but he lent the anti
Peckham forces alt The moral support at his
command. VOID
Coming down to questions OF patronage,
It is charged that thb president has not
given the requests' OF the vice president
the consideration to which they are by his
position entitled. 20 The vice president has
no offices of his own to distribute and what
ever he wants to encourage his friends he
has to ask for at the hand Of Mr.. Cleveland.
The vice president has been rather on the
side Of modesty In his demands for office,
but yet the number OF his candidates who
have failed to secure the desired places ex-
ceeds that Of those who have come out sue
cessful. 1t is little wonder then that the
relationship between the president and vice
president is merely official and formal in
stead Of personal and intimate. The vice
president does not find the announcement
which he had hoped from the occupant of
the white house for his ambition for promo
ton. What is to hinder him from seeking
that encouragement in other quarters?
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

Ex-Boss McKane's condition is just sew
sew.
Though the weather suggests the contrary,
the wise man will continue long on coal.
The president drinks coffee from n cup
worth 800. Jefersonian simplicity grows
apace.
The Colorado secession movement is a
heroic effort to get from under the demorali2-
ing Waite.
The Pennsylvania tidal wave resurrected
more than one has been" Ex-Governor
Beaver was elected to the town council of
Bellefonte.
Rev. DR.. William II. Furness, the great
Shakespearian authority, delivered a lecture
at Philadelphia the other day which had
been written a generation ago. He is in his
9th year and is still vigorous.
The report given out a week ago that
Cleveland was sick, and which was subse-
quently pronounced an epidemic of men
dacity," arose from a diagnosis of the con-
dition of the administration.
An ancient colored dame has been found in
Indiana who remembers seeing Washington
when on his way to New York to be in
augurated. The discovery puts a wedge in
Ohio's claim to a monopoly Of prehistoric
remains.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

The work of the German silver commits
sion will be watched with unusual interest
by the people of this country, who have thus
far looked in vain toward Germany for an
official expression Of sympathy with the
movement looking to a larger employment of
silver as an international money. Germany
has, since 1871, been regarded as hostile to
the use of silver. 1t tried to unload its stock
of silver coin upon the market and was only
prevented from continuing this policy by the
losses with which it was threatened by the
falling prices. The report that the silver
commission is attracting general attention
in Germany is a hopeful sign for those who
expect ultimately an international monetary
agreement.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

1t is announced that "Hon." A. G. Wolf
enbarger has returned to Nebraska after a
protracted %sojourn in the east, and that he
has decided to abandon the prohibition plat
form and to attempt to earn his living
henceforth by honest labor. We hope he will
be strengthened in his good resolution. Had
he and his associates exerted themselves to
build up and increase the prosperity of Ne
braska as much as they have to SANDER her
reputation and to pull down her credit, his
return to this state would be much more ap-
preciated by its residents.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

State Treasurer BARLEY is Of the opinion
that every dollar Of the floating Indebtedness
OF the state can be wiped out before the close
of the fiscal year, on November 30 of the
present year. In order to do so he must
have the cooperation of every county treas
urer in the state, Nothing but the prompt
collection of delinquent taxes. together with
the payment OF current taxes due the state,
will accomplish a result SO greatly to be
desired. The times are not favorable 10
prompt payment of taxes, but much may be
accomplished by energetic action upon he
part Of county treasurers
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05

a pension for total disability resulting from
wounds received during the war will not
unfit him for further fighting service. Wit
ness the encounter of the two captains at
Lincoln, in which the totally disabled PEN
sioner got the better of his opponent. The
man who was beaten in this bloody fray
deserves a pension for the violence done
him and his feelings from the government
which has thus deceived him into believing
that the disabled captain was not dangerous.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
TRITE TRIPLES.

Plain Dealer: The congressman-at-large
is a terror to the sergeant-at-arms.
Philadelphia Record: Many of the best
acrobats can't even balance an account.
Dallas News: With a vain young man
one fulsome compliment pays for two
drinks.
Philadelphia Times: In initiating Mrs.
Lease as a Mason probably instead of the
usual goat a pair of kids were on hand
Lowell Courier: 1t was so cold Saturday
that it was no unusual sight to see an
ulster frieze.
Elmira Gazette. Jagson says the ambi-
tious artist may not be superstitious at first,
but he soon begins to depend on signs.
Toledo Blade: ooh. there is a terrible
funnel-shaped cloud coming this way"
We'll, the funnel begins soon then. Get
into the cyclone cellar"
Chicago Tribune: rs the mistress of the
house imp inquired the peddler. NO" re-
piled the tired-looking, timid woman who
had gone to the kitchen door to answer the
knock. ITS her afternoon out"
Truth: Older s~ister-Clara, I'm surprised
to see you soak your bread in the gravy.
It's exceedingly bad form.
Clara-Well, it's awfully good taste.
of the blacksmith shop, when the proprietor
queried: You are sure your father told
you to get the old mare shod, are your
And the boy said shooer.
1T.
BroWning. King and Co.'S Monthly.
If bills and duns and work were born of
sleep;
If cares were fancies, and in slumber deep
Our enemies pursued, yet ne'er o'ertook us,
While friends were ever kind and ne'er for
sock us;
II riches grew on bushes all around;
If all they wanted everybody found;
If glittering things were gold, just as they
seem
dream!
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
THE DOMINATION or TIE BRIGADERS.

~ iD4N UT fIb
The attitude of Senator Brice of Ohio
against the domination of the southern men
in congress is said to be approved by other
northern democratic senators, who are I'M
derstOod to be disposed to unite in resenting
the sectional spirit which the southerners
exhibit, particularly with regard to the tariff.
The statement is made on what appears to
be good authority that before the Pennsyl'
vania election there was a sort of under
standing between certain democratic sem
ators from the north that if the republicans
carried the election by a heavy majority
these senators would assert their rights, not
only as senator's. but as representatives of
great manufacturing constituencies. The
belief was that Pennsylvania vote would
show that the reaction manifested at the No.
vember elections last year was permanent,
was probably increasing, and would indicate
the complete overthrow of the democratic
party at the November elections of this year
unless a radically different course was taken
by the democratic party in congress, whether
Mr.. Cleveland approved it or not.
The position taken by Senator Brice gives
color of cred,bility to the statement regarding
an understanding between northern demo-
cratic senators, but whether any practical re-
suits will come of it seems at least question
able. The democratic senator from Ohio was
not at all amiss in his characterization of
the men charged with the important duty of
revising the tariff. They are all from the
south, and none of them represents a manu-
featuring constituency. They respectively
live in country towns, where there is no OPP
portunity for them to learn anything in a
practical way about the operation Of the
tariff in relation to manufacturing indus
tries. They may be of exceptional ability as
theorists, but without some practical knowl-
edge they cannot be good tariff builders, and
it was a mistake to commit so important a
work to such men, and all of them from the
same section. The time for the northern
democrats to have resented this was at the
outset, and, having failed to do this, they
may now be denied what they ask in the
interest of their constituents. What they
have done, however, is to supply the repub-
lican party with valuable testimony as to
the sectional feeling which has largely con-
trolled in framing the new tariff bill, and
good use will be made of this testimony at
the proper time.
Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
A Recover Wanted.


Indianapolis SenLinel NdenD'
The people of the United States are en-
titled to know what their representatives
are doing to earn their salaries. For the
last two weeks they have been doing prac-
tically nothing. Friday they did even less
than usual, and, still worse, they pre-
sented a spectacle which must nave brought
the blush of shame TO the cheek of every
true American citizen. Had such Disgrace
full and unbusinesslike methods prevailed
any private corporation stockholders would
have Immediately applied for a receiver,
and the presentation OF a record OF the
a doubt.