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Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-30
LINCOLN PEOPLE AND FLAG DAY.


Mckinley and Hobart Pictures Dec
crate Nearly Every House in Town.
LINCOLN, Neb.. Oct. 2o.-(Special. THE
approach OF flag day" is indicated by the
number OF flags and Mckinley and Hobart
Autographs that are appearing in the win
dows of residences all over the city On
many residence streets nearly every house
for blocks is thus decorated and 1t is eX-
pected that by Saturday this feature will
be general.
There was a republican rally at the pub
lie school house at Normal last evening at
s o'clock. The gospel OF republicanism was
preached by II. H. Wilson of Lincoln and
Wilson l. Davenny of Chicago. The Univer-
sity Place Glee club furnished music. The
Lincoln Drum corps aud Escort club at
tended in body. The republicans of Nor
NAL made this the red letter rally of the
campaign in their village.
The county commissioners are busily en-
gagged trying to pick out of the hundreds
of applicants the judges and clerks for next
Tuesday, The commissioners will endeavor
to secure only the most competent and
rapid workers as clerks in order that the
result will be known as speedily as pos
sible. Instructions to count the vote on
president before that OF assessor will then
not be regarded as necessary.
Hon. j. H. MacColl republican nominee
for governor, made thIse speeches in Lin
u
old Palace hotel, Twenty-hrst and streets,
from to $3.50. He was then taken to the
tent on Fourth and @ streets where he
made a half-hour speech. The third speech
was made at the n street headquarters be-
tween and $50.
Frank j. Sadiek OF WILDER. one of the
olectors-at-large on the republican ticket
was in the city today. He places the re-
publican majority in Saline county at 450.
The members of the Original Fourth Ward
Ladies' Mckinley club rendered reception
to the Young Mems Republican club at n
street headquarters last night. John b.
Cunningham presided and speeches were
made by H. NJ. BUSHNELL Congressman
Strobe and others. The music was by the
University Double quartet.
The Union Boys Debating club OF the
State university will celebrate its decennial
anniversary Friday, October 80. This club
Is an adjunct of the University Union Liter
airy society and has enjoyed period OF ten
years OF unbroken activity.
Rev. Charles H. Bentley, national nominee
for the presidency, was observed on the
streets Of Lincoln yesterday afternoon. Rev.
Bentley's return TO Lincoln was not her
aided by trump or drum, edict or ukase but
his coming was that OF an unobtrusive clt-
zen who is seeking neither glory nor re-
nown.
Frank Highly OF Chicago, who represented
the national committee as marshal for
visiting delegations at Canton for some
time is I'M the city, He comes from head
quarters at Chicago and says not the slight
est doubt Is entertained there OF McKinley's
getting over 800 electoral votes
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-30
silver Men Cannot Compete.

ALBION, Neb,, Oct. 29.-(special. THE
popocrats were to have their great rally
here yesterday. This wac to be their great
demonstration, that was 10 completely over
shadow the Rosewater meeting of the re-
publicans. mammoth procession was ad-
yertised for the day-the greatest in the
history OF the county. When the process
sion marched through the main street It
was composed Of a band wagon and four
other teams Only about $50 people were
In attendance, and the rally was a great
failure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
DANA'S DISHONESTY.

az am unable to reconcile with any
ideal OF integrity a change in the law
which will permit man who has Dor
rowed 100 TO pay his debt with a humid
red dollars. each one of which Is worth
only half as much as each dollar re-
ceived from the lender" So says
Charles A. Dana, the New York editor
who supported Ben Butler for presi-
dent on a greneback platform Ii Mr..
Dana finds it hard TO reconcile a fifty
cent dollaSr with his idea Of integrity,
he ought to find IL still harder TO recon-
Gle 200-cent dollar herewith Per-
baps he thinks it perfectly just TO Ne
Quire a man who has borrowed 800
TO pay bis debt with hundred dollars.
each of which is worth twice as much
as each dollar received from the lender.
IL VIII be observed that Mr. Dana's So
licitude Is entirely for the creditor. and
that he considers I; entirely proper 10
double the debt OF the man who Dor
rows.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
THE SHIP OF STATE.

The ship of state, just now. does not
seem to be making much Roadway.
There is no lack of wind. nor Of many
and various kinds of steam engines,
electric motors and sails, paddle
wheels and screws of all kinds and
patterns, while everything aboard of
the kind is being worked to its fullest
capacity. But the ship doesn't go. No
two sails are set alike, no two screws
are turning in the same direction,
while the wheels are making very IN
certain revolutions. Besides there are
wheels in the heads of her crew and
the bellies of her commanders are filed
with winds from every point of the
compass, which are being worked off
in every conceivable direction In adj
dition to the unsatisfactory condition
of things aboard there are sand bars
and snags ahead and behind. and reefs
and shadows upon either side, and fog
and clouds everywhere. Where the
port is, or what the particular destina-
ton, no two of either passengers or
sailors are Of the same opinion, while
the captain of the craft has taken to a
dory and gone to fishing in Buzzards
Bay. Not few would like to cast an
Choir and while waiting for fairer
weather overhaul the steering appa-
ratus, but the majority favor a bigger
head of steam, stronger electrical cur
rents, and more wind. Life preservers
are at discount, nobody caring
sailors darn whether he ever gets
ashore or where. The nearest land Is
beneath the keel. and that is not in
sight The only thing normal in the
appearance of the vessel is the flag.
The stars and stripes still float from
the masthead in cheering undulations
All else is the bedlam of an insane asy-
1,ry
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
RUSKIN AND MILLAIS.

The late Sir John Millais. the great
est English painter of history, his wife
and Ruskin afforded something of a
parallel to the loves and marriages of
the German musicians.
Artistic temperaments can not he
spiritual always. The case of Millais
and Mrs. RuSkin shows this very plain
". but deIicately withal. When Sir
John Millais was once asked which Of
lis pictures he valued the highest, he
answered by picking out the "Order of
Release and the ''Vale Of Rest"
These two. he said. had given him most
pleasure in the painting and most sat
isfaction in the retrospect.
They are, indeed, among his best
works. Yet neither can be called his
masterpiece. The Order of Release"
the most familiar of the two. repre-
sents the bare waiting room OF Scotch
prison. into which young clansman
has been ushered to his wife, while
the jailer takes the order of release"
which will have TO be verified by his
superior before IL can result IN final lib
erty. The great triumph of the pic
rure is the face of the woman. q face
full of noble grace and dignity, lit up
by a shrewd. triumphant smile
At the time that young Mallais paint
ed this picture-and he was a young
Malliais then, not more than 24-he
was depely in love- Ten, in this pic
tpre, as indeed in most OF his after
works. he represented woman as a
thing TO be loved
1t is pre-euninentiy in this picture
that the sweetness Of woman is re-
fiected- And no wonder. For the
Highland wife is portrait Of the wo-
man with whom sIillsis was In love.
She had been q Miss Euphemia Chal-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
FIGURES ON FUSION,

Those free silver Democrats who are
counting on fusion with Populists to
give them several states which they
could not otherwise hope to carry.
would do well to study the percentage
of the vote in each Of such states, as
This is especially true in the states of
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan,
where fusion is expected by the free
silverites to give their candidate ma
jority Of the electoral votes.
In making their ante-election esti-
mates the free silver Democrats count
the Populist vote Of 1894 to show what
they hope to accomplish through fusion
this year. In 1894 the Populist vote
was much greater than it was two
years before. This was caused by the
desertion Of many Democrats to the
Populist camp. In calculating the gen
eral effect Of fusion throughout the
country, even granting that the entire
Populist vote will be delivered to Bry-
an, and not counting the detection of
gold Democrats, it is interesting to
note that in twenty-three states the
straight Republican icket in 1894 poll
ed more than 80 per cent Of the entire
vote cast This is an important item
in such a calculation.
In those states where much stress is
laid On fusion this year by the free sill
YER Democrats the Republicans polled
the following percentages Of the entire
vote cast in 1894: Colorado, 500; Illi-
nois, 52.7; Indiana, COS; Iowa, SIS:
Kansas, 500; Michrigan, 57.5; Mime
sofa, 52.4; North Dakota. 55.5; Wis
consin, $40, and Wyoming, 52.3.
These figures are worth studying.
They are full Of instruction for Bryan
and his mongrel combination ticket
with one head and two tails.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
SOME MISTAKES.

The Republican party is for bimetal-
]ism, is for the largest possible use of
silver, independently coined on gov
eminent account, at an unQuestioned
parity with gold, as the party is also
for free silver as soon as an inter-
national ratio can be agreed upon.
The platform so declares. In fact the
whole country is for silver and the peo-
pie would not listen to any proposition
TO do away with it as a money metal
The difference between the parties is
not what the newspapers of New York.
which talk Of Reputation" hold, but
its difference as to the best and safest
way to encompass the use of the entire
product There are comparatively but
very few men who desire that gold
shall be the only money metal. So this
''repudiation" talk and Bourke Coch-
ran prophesies do more harm than good
as do these threats of insurance COM
panies, and other corporations. The
American people are not to be moved
or Influenced by threats. Every threat
but confirms the man who Is oppressed
by present conditions. Its promises he
wants not threats. He wants to find
the best way out and wants to know
why it is the best
Bourke Cochran made q mistake In
his reflections on the west, as he did
also in assuming that there is a want
of honesty among silver men. There is
as much honesty among silver men as
there is to be found in any party. Coch-
rams mistake is as bad as the one made
by the New National Democratic
movement whose leaders appeal to the
people to save the laboring man from
the disastrous results of free silver.
The appeal is hypocritical. 1t is the la
boring man who is demanding silver.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
KANSAS CITY DIES HARD

The Republican state convention. 1t
seems, failed to please the Kansas City
Star in the resolution relating TO grain
rates. 1T utterly fails to cover the
vital issue of the present time says
the Star. 1t then proceeds to notify
Kansas shippers that the proper thing
10 do is to enforce lower local rates on
grain to the Missouri river. The writer
gives his case away in saying that COM
petition will always keep rates down
to the minimum on all shipments to
the greater markets, but thinks it ruin
GUS to submit TO present local rates to
Kansas mills In general and Kansas
City in particular. The point is made
that it costs as much to deliver grain
from Kansas points TO Kansas City
elevators as TO st. Louis. and it is insin-
uated that somehow the, shipper is a
heavy loser by the arrangement. What
difference does ii make to the Kansas
farmer whether his grain goes to Kan
SaS City, Mo-. or st. Louis. Mo-. so long
as the rate is the same: So far as
freight rates are concerned there is no
difference. but there is a gain of sub
stantial margin by reason If landing il
in a much larger and better market 800
miles nearer the sea board.
The Star is greatly concerned be-
cause this interstate competition dis
eliminates against the great mer-
chant mills in eastern Kansas" VIII
it raise a crusade against rates from
Kansas points to Atchison. Leayen-
worth or Fort Scott? Nobody believes
it for moment
Their supreme seliShness is shown
in the statement that whatever rates
are made out Of Kansas the grain nler-
cahnts Of Kansas City will have a hand
in moving the crops Of fhe state. They
can buy grain in Kansas City. says the
Star. and ship TO any market in the
world. Certainly they can. and they
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
AS TO COwARDLY OURS.
tor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
While the Chicago Tribune is content to
put an estimate of 1900 on the audience
that recently heard Mr.. Bryan in the
Madison Square Garden, a correspondent,
with sources of reliable information at
hand, sends IN his figures refut!ng the
same and is kind enough TO volunteer the
additional information that the Tribune is
beeming with untruthfulness OF fact and
81 tement. But the Tribune, so far from
taking its correction In silence and max
ing apology, Is instant in taking the high
est imaginable grounds in such matters,
and calls its informant a cowardfy cur
because of his objection to placing his
identity and exact address at the dispo-
sal Of the TribuDe, which so filed with
wonderment that there are in this world
$50 many cowardly ours who haven't the
manhood 10 acknowledge their identity
under certain circumstances. Manhood.
Gentlemen. the phantom speaks of man
hood Himself a sham behind a sham,
beyond all cal one that. as Emerson says.
the hand will pass through anywhere or
anywhers-to say nothing of the foot-his
article all unsigned, speaks of manhood.
Who could Blame the correspondent II he
felt at this like Hamlet when he said,
''How now, A rat?" and made the pass.
The Tribune IS A remarkably well-mean-
iRg sheet, and we should like II under
stood that 1t hereafter treats with the
utmost Difference and respect all the in
formation it is favored with, especially
from correspondents, for II is a fair in
ference that che that throws you bone
doesn't wish you were dead neither is il
a handsome thing to have a phantom in
CRATE reject the proffer, and exceed the
bounds of decent apprehension in so do
ing, and We should feel greatly embarrass-
ed to see ven a phantom offered the footed
bones of sixteen footer in lieu of an ex-
act address.
1t IS said, he that arises with an eppe-
tite rarely sits down without one, but
whose arises from the perusal of one OF
these bolts of nothing shot at nothing.
from the pen of a phantom, frequently
enjoins the maid to stuff the entire sheet
in the ash barrel, knowing full well he will
have no appetite for the remainder of the
month. Faithfully yours,
E d. GILBERT.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
MR.. WATSON'S MANIFESTO.

Hon. Thomas Watson of Georgia, the
Populist nominee for vice president, is
the bull in the china shop of Demo
cratic-Populist fusion. Mr.. Watson is
not only man of infinite vagaries, but
he is pugnacious and obstinate to an
unusual degree. Just at present he is
impressed with the idea that the Dem
ocrats are inclined to use the Populists
to pull their cheStnutS out Of the fire,
without offering any consideration for
the sacrifices demanded of the Peoples
party. Mr.. Watson does not intend
that all the self-sacriflce and generosi-
ty shall be exacted of the Populists,
and in manifesto" printed yesterday
he virtually dictates terms to the silver
Democracy. In the first place ne points
out that the Peoples party will not &C
cept Sewall as Bryan's runnig mate.
Only four states, he asserts, have
agreed to take the man from Maine,
while in thirteen others the Populists
insist upon Watson. The plain infer
must be withdrawn before the Demo
Gratis can have an effective fusion with
the Peoples party. For, in Mr.. Wat
sons opinion, 1.-The money power die
tated his nomination as a counter move
to Bryan's." Mr.. Watson also sug-
gests that there is an element of GRO
tesqueness in Mr.. Germans promi-
hence in the campaign. German, the
goldbug and protectionist," observes
the Georgia Populist, sis controlling
Bryan'S free silver campaign. If Sc
wall remains on the ticket and German
continues to pull the wires, the whole
country will see clearly enough
that no free silver law would be
passed. Mr.. Watson evidently in
tends that the Populists shall have sub
staptial recognition. including the vice
presidency for himself, and the silver
Democrats will find him a very hard
man to handle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21

are smart for doing it, but it is inter-
state competition which forces them to
pay st. Louis and Chicago prices rath-
er than the cut-throat figures offered
at a one-horse way station on the Mis-
souri, river. Interstate commerce rates
are just what the Kansas shippers
want. 1t is through these rates that
we gain access to not only the best in
land markets, but to the seaboard, and
when once firmly established Kansas
City will be allowed to look on and see
how naturally and cheaply every bush
Ell of export grain will go directly to
gulf ports without even consulting her
wishes
The Star urges the state railway CON-
mfssiOners to get a move on them and
save her from inevitable ruin, but they
will do we'll to remember that they re-
side in Kansas and Kansas City Is in
Missouri.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
NEXT YEARS CROP.

Mr.. Joseph 9. III. Swami the author
of the book on weather forecasts and
crops. a work based on actual obser-
vationS covering a half century. and
when alluded to by the press of the
country, elsewhere in this issue tenders
the farmers of Kansas some gratuitOus
advice touching the next crop. AS will
be seen he predicts an unusual sever
winter and much precipitation. scuh
wet spring as will render planting
difficult. His letter Of advice is copy
wTited but any paper in Kansas is au-
thorized to reproduce it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21

mers, the eldest daughter Of George
Gray of Bowerwell, Perthshire. She
was Mrs. John Ruskin. the platOnic
wife Of the eminent critic. historian
and rhapsodist.
Ruskin had been married in 1852.
The union, as already limited, was a
merely platonic one, owing to an in
trinity on the part Of the bridegroom.
He had made no secret of that inirmity
to his bride. But he was already IA
nous man; he was wealthy, he had a
magnificent eloquence of language at
his command. Mss Chalmers admired
him; she thought she loved him. So
she accepted his proposal of marriage.
DESTROYS TO have his young wife's
portrait taken, Ruskin chose his friend
Millais to transfer her features to can
vas. She gave the painter a number
of sittings, and the husband was so
much concerned in the work that he
sometimes watched it's progress. Mil
lais has been described as the hand
soonest man in England. He had ev-
cry quality likely to win a woman's
love. Mrs. Ruskin possessed every
womanly charm. He was drawn at
once to the young and lovely wife of
his friend, an attraction that appears
to have been reciprocated. In plain
parlance Millais and Mrs. Ruskin fell
head over heels, or heels over head. if
you like, in love with one another with
out the least intent on their part
The author Of "Modern Painters is
as generous as he is chivalrous. He
did not, as ordinary men would have
done, fly into jealous rage nor did he
have a scene with his wife. He told
her gently what he had perceived, and
assured her of his continued friendship
and esteem, and Of his earnest desire
to promote her happines sat any price.
She turned crimson at the words, as II
they had been revelation of her own
soul, which, in part, they may have
been.
The critic condemned himself for
dizziness in thinking a platonic mar
riage natural or satisfactory one,
and announced his willingness to as
sist the pair to felicity for which they
were obviously fitted. Instead of put
ting any obstacle in the way, he would
remove the only one to their love and
happiness himself-and he kept his
word faithfully. Under the peculiar
circumstances there was no trouble in
obtaining a divorce. The matter was
managed privately, without any scan
dial, and in 1854 Mrs Ruskin who was,
became Mrs. MillaiS, who is. They
proved to be most harmonious couple
Moreover, Ruskin continued to be the
firm friend of both.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21

A r. Newman has given up the Wa
tonga Herald 10 Mr.. Northup who says
ne agrees with the psanks OF some parties
and d.sagrees with others.
The Blaine County Herald which Is sup
porting Bryan says that IL the Republic
cans hadn't taken up a gold plank II
would have been for Mckinley.
The territory of Oklahoma has got 70
the point where the sherffs have begun
to sell mortgaged farms from the steps
OF the court house" II Is too bad.
Pat Nagle told an Fl Reno paper the
other day that most Of the Democrats OF
K.ugfsher county were for Callahan.
wbata bout the street St Antoine?
The Garfield delegation 10 the FL Reno
Democrats convention will favor the
nomination Of straight Democrat for
congress They want none Of Callahan
Tom Chambers. one Of the Kansas Dem
ocrats who In the legislature OF 1899. held
the balance Of power and made John Mar
IN United States senator. now lives IN
Oklahoma City.
Tho happsest period IN Reverend Cal
fahan'S ufe was Hnen nc was 'iDasi.'T- a.
rniuastr The happiest period IN Dennis
FIynn's life was when the house passed
the free homes bin
Sly OberIanaer stroIled into End the
other day for the first time IN week A
reporter for the Wave tackled Inn out sly
had only one eye opened and refused 10
talk for publication.
r. Zee Guthrie got MP after Henry ASP
had sr,oken az Perry the Other cay and
made a Democratic speech. This = crsn-
stdered as a cry courageous thing ~
many Democratic papers in the territory.
Why?
At Oklahoma city a travelling man rave
= barzzxeuzan a silver dollar % settle a
IN cent bill Th~y got 20 q'Iarretinx over
Ananc> The travelling man said silver
dollars were only worth nifty cents ard
IN. barzzzernaa refused TO give him back
any change
The II Reno Star says that Forester.
n. man who was arrested o. a rev
charge after Just beng liberated from =
long se-vice. tired 20 eSczpe the other 6sy
but some one sii him CT sbe had with a.
iron bar ard -'sabseuu>nt prooeessnzs In
.s-s-sfes1 him 10 more"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
THE LUXURY OF GRIEF.

A man was arrested at Wichita yester-
day for disturbing his neighbours peace
by weeping at his wife's funeral and was
fined so for his offense-
For a great many years We have heard
the women abuse the men because they
don't take IL harder when their wives
Go Hence, but when one gives way to
the sorrow within his breast, and tries by
a great noise to express all he feels, he Is
arrested and fined so. Is this Justice? Is
this showing proper feeling for one in DIS
tress?
In future. must a man take his choice
between locking up his woe. and asasurn-
ing a marble exterior. and be abused for
coldness and lack of feeling. or weep his
eyes red. and be thrown into Jail for II ?
There are a great many men who haven't
so 10 spend for the luxury of grief: must
such me be thrown into a prison cell for
weeping for the dear departed who have
been called Up Yonder ?-A1chison Globe