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Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-16

MINOR MENTION.

Try Moore G. Ellis "sultana" 1oc cigar.
Tho Bee Office, No. 16 North Main street
leon s. Wright confessed judgment in the
district court yesterday in favor Of james
Coyle.
The Grand hotel, Council Bluffs. Higt
class in every respect. Rates, $3.50 per day
end upward. E. F. Clark. proprietor.
The fire department was called to the trans
fer yesterday TO extinguish a blaze that had
broken out on the depot platform.
An attempt was made last night TO rob
street stand kept by an old man named
Purdy. The lock was too strong for the
thieves TO break.
The damage case Of Mrs. Emma Anderson
against the Rock Island was given to the
Jury in Judge Thornelrs court az o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
George Poland has been taken to Percival
to be tried on the charge of robbing house
at that town. Poland and his partner,
Veach, will be tried on the charge on Mon
day.
John o'Connor, aged So, Of Weston, who
died in Sheridan, Wye. February Is, Will
arrive here Monday night for burial. The
remains will be taken to Lunkleys under
taking rooms.
John p. Martin has commenced suit In the
district court against Anna d. and T. j.
Shugart. Martin asks $3.50 as commission
for a real estate deal, which he claims to
have engineered for the defendants.
There will be an "at home" social given by
class No of Broadway Methodist Episcopal
church at the home of Mrs. ]. d. Crock
well, 1926 Park avenue, Thursday evening.
February 20. Everyone is cordially invited.
All members OF Excelsior lodge No. 259
A. II. and A. NJ, and visiting master masons
are requested to meet at Masonic hall Sun
day at 1 o'clock to attend the funeral OF
our late brother, T. L. Duboise. BY order of
the master workman.
Fire broke out in the grass at Fairview
cemetery during the progress Of funeral.
II was extinguished by the use Of blankets
taken from the horses and did no damage
other than to create an unpleasant diversion
in the funeral ceremony.
The democrats of the First ward are en-
deavoring to induce George Rudo to accept
the nomination on their ticket for alderman.
The only hitch in the movement at present
is a healthy question that has arisen as to
whether George is a democrat or not. His
politics is the only question on earth that
George is not willing to talk about.
The reunion Of the alumni Of st. Francis
academy, which was to have been held Feb
ruary 13, was postponed owing to the severe
Illness Of two of the sisters. The sisters
take occasion to extend sincere thanks to
the alumni and Their many other kind friends
who so generously and substantially remem-
bared the silver jubilee of st. Francis.
A strong effort to select j. c. Ahes as
alderman for the second ward is on foot.
The petition to place his name on the bal
lot has the signatures of some of the strong
est men in the ward from the three political
parties, who favor retrenchment In municipal
affairs. AS he seems opposed to any party
nomination, IL Is probable that the populists
will endorse him.
Moore G. Ellis Corner" best SC cigar.
Wanted, good farm loans in western Iowa
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-16

Or. Cleaver's office moved TO 600 Broadway.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-16

Columbia bicycles. Highest OF all high
grades. Call and see them at Cole & Cole.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-16

Don't miss our special sale of aluminium
ware for the next ten days. Cole and Cole
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-16

Wanted, good farm loans in western Iowa
at lowest rates. Money loaned for local in
vestors on best Of security netting per cent.
Fire insurance written in reliable companies.
Lougee G. Towe, 235 Pearl street.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-16

The big special sale at the Durfee Furni-
ture companys is in full blast. There were
terday ever offered In Council BLUFFS. The
sale lasts ten days.
The sun., 1896-06-24

Two OF the greatest political bosses in the
United States live in New York; one Demo
crat and Federal Senator, DAVID BENNETT
HILL, and the other n Republican and for
merly a Senator, THOMAS COLLIER PLATr.
In their political character these gentlemen
have been denounced by their enemies as ve-
hemently and abusively as any politician
whom we can recall. Perhaps n correct
measurement would show that Hill and
PLATT have received more abuse than other
politicians But the parallel between them
continues, In that each of them has been
conspicuous at a great crisis in his party.
When Democratic President, the Hon.
GROVER CLEVELAND, was whipping the De-
mocracy into the support Of his pet Populist
project OF an income tax, 1t was Boss HILL
who rose in indomitabe rebellion in defence
of Democratic principles and honor. When
lately at St. Louis the Republican party
seemed in the hands OF the straddlers on the
financial issue, it was Boss PLATT who
fought 1t with such uncompromising deter.
mination that it was compelled to speak
frankly for honest money.
Between a Mugwump and boss. bet on
the boss every time. The boss is trained to
the idea that his word is as good as his bond,
that party management Is a serious thing,
and that party principles must not be foot
balls for the passing folly or treachery Of
the moment.
The sun., 1896-06-24

Mr.. FREDERICK MASON of New Rochelle,
who bathed in the waters Of both the Atlantic
and the Pacific oceans, in Mobile Bay. with
sharks all around the ship from which he dove.
In the Bay OF Panama and in the Pacific, 1000
miles from shore, whore in calm he harpooned
n shark eighteen feet long, tells us that he
never e1pet fenced the slightest fear OF swim
ming anywhere and that there are no bad
sharks. Brave Mr.. MASON! But, after ALL
without questioning his veracity or attempting
to class him among tho self made heroes. 1t
may be that he 10 like the old soldier OF hun
dred fights. who declared that no fellow ever
got killed in battle. And yet q battlefield
is generally supposed to be a dangerous place
IL Mr.. MASON was fortunate enough to scare all
the sharks around his ship In the Atlantic and
in the Pacific, or II all the sharks that he en-
countered were good sharks that would bite no
fellows leg off. It does not at all follow that
nybody and every body can have the same good
fortune.
We can assure him that there are some old
salts on Staten Island who believe that sharks
bite, and who deny that mosquitoes ever do.
But we will oe glad 10 have more testimony on
the subject: and every body will be delighted IL
1t shall turn out that the shark is q poor ma
ligned and misrepresented creature.
The sun., 1896-06-24
The Hon. RICHARD C. KEREys, the Hon.

The Hon. RICHARD C. KERENs. the Hon.
NATHAN FRANK. and other Mssourians who do
not love the Hon. CHAUScEY Ives FILLEY and
made tho pilgrimage 70 Canton before the
st. Louis Convention, are going to have n power
full parade and to explode series OF pow crful
speeches; and they are going to ask Major
MCKINLEY to come to Missouri and help them
In tho fall They might do better by ask
Ing Mr.. FILLEY to como out from the
beetlinR majesty Of his unparalleled hat
and help them carry the state. BY the good aid
OF Mr.. HANNA they overthrew Mr. FILLEY tenn
porartly and drove him out of the National
COMMITTEES. but unless ine1 plicable and strange
mutations have occurred in the Republican
party OF Missouri, his little finger is still! thicker
than their loins. 1t is lnjudlcious for fact ton
lists to be too rash and sudden, especially when
there is an election on the bill.
The sun., 1896-06-24
No straddIo at Saratoga.

II the New York Democrats who are to
meet at Saratoga to-day sincerely desire to
battle for the gold standard, the necessity
for them to denounce the third term can
be obviated only by notice from Mr..
CLEVELAND that he is immovably against
1t himself Such notice might come in
various forms. For instance, 1t might be in
q despatch from Mr.. CLEVELAND to the
Chairman Of the Saratoga Convention, in
forming him that the President had de-
manded the immediate retirement from
his Cabinet OF the member who started the
third term movement with this argument: {:
why should President CLEVELAND be opposed to q
third term any more than q bank President 10 op-
posed TO I'll II bank President proves himself
petent he Is reelected. not only tme but dozens
of times"
The Cabinet officer who enunciated this
pernicious doctrine under Mr.. CLEvELAND's
own nose, and for his personal benefit. was
the Hon. JULIUS STERLING MORTON, Secre-
tary Of Agriculture. He ought to have been
turned out Of the Cabinet that afternoon.
Until he is turned out, or until Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND fatty repudates his proposition. it
will be the duty Of the New York Demo
Gratis to denounce the third term as vigor-
ously and as uncompromisingy as the Dem
ocrats of Virginia have denounced it.
Why should the New York Democrats
miss precious opportunity of proving to
their brethren Of silver States that adhe-
sion to gold standard does not mask
willingness to acquiesce in a nomination Of
Mr.. CLEVELAND for a third term3
Four years ago the State Convention Of
the New York Democracy did not hesitate
to pronounce against the nomination of
GROVER CLEVELAND. Why should 1t be
tongue-tied to-day? Will the men who
thought him unworthy of a second term.
now by their silence encourage the suspicion
that they tolerate his ambition for a third
The sun., 1896-06-24
Overlooking the Gold Plank.

II report that came to us from Albany
yesterday is correct, Mr.. WHITNEY and his
allies among the Democrats Of this State
who are working for declaration in favor OF
the gold standard at Chicago. mediate the
commission Of a serious blunder.
The report is that they intend to secure
the adoption by the State Democratic Con-
vention to-day, as basis for action at
Chicago, Of the following principles:
Sound money; gold and siner the only legal ten.
der; no currency inconvertible with coin; gradual
retirement and extinction or the 0reenbdck currency
no free and unlimited coinage OF silver"
Expanded into completeness this sum-
mary will require Mr.. WHITNEY and his as
sociates to advocate at Chicago not only the
rejection Of the free coinage of silver, but
the extinction Of about S5OO,OOO, 600 of
legal tender notes W which now fulfil the func-
tion of gold. The silverites allege, as an
objection to the single gold standard, that it
contracts, as they phrase it, the money of
ultimate redemption" The New York
Democrats, according to the report we men,
tion, propose an indisputable contraction of
$500, 100000, by destroying the legal
tender currency.
The opposition OF the silverites to
the proposal may be met by consenting
that $500, 100000 in silver shall be coined
to fill the vacuum created by the an
Inhalation OF the existing greenbacks and
Treasury notes. At the present price OF
silver, this measure would involve the in
vestment of $3.50, ,O0O, 900 in the silver bull
lion required for the purpose, and the issu-
ing of bonds for the amount, the interest on
which would be a perpetual burden on the
nation. Can sound money Democrats afford
to load down the gold plank which they in
tend to advocate at Chicago with such a
scheme as this?
Another way would be to take off all re-
strictions upon the issuing Of notes by
banks, State as we'll as national, without
making these notes a legal tender This
means a return to the wildcat currency
which afflicted the country before the war,
and 1t would be as generally unpopular in
this section as the free coinage of silver is
Besides, it would still leave the banks with
no resource but gold and silver for supply
ing the place of the sl5o,O0O,oo0 legal
tenders now held by them in their reserves
and as they would be sure to prefer to use
gold, they would have to draw 81 sc, ,O0O,O
In gold from the stock either in this country
or in Europe, thereby creating serious
disturbance, II not panic. in the money
markets of the world.
The sun., 1896-06-24
Tho Education Bill Fiasco in Grea,
Britain.

After occupying the House Of Commons
during the greater part Of the present ses-
sion of Parliament the Education bill was
on Monday withdrawn by Mr.. A. j. BAL
FOUR, who substituted vague promise
that one OF its proposals should be reintro-
duced next year.
To appreciate the collapse of the Minis
terial programme one must bear in mind
that the normal majority OF the present
Unionist Government Is about 100, and that
through the accession of the Dillonites this
WAS increased to considerably over 200 on
the second reading Of the bill, now aban-
doned in the committee stage. In view of
such vast prepondcrance Of force, and of
the closure powers at the disposal of the
Government leader, the defeat OF the
measure would have seemed incred-
BILE a month ago. Nor could such result
have been attained by any obstructive tao
tics possible for the weak Liberal minority
headed by Sir WILLIAM HARCoURT. 1t was
Mr. BALFoUR's inability to control his own
party, and the scores upon scores Of amend
ments consequently offered by the Cnionsts
themselves, that presented insurmountable
obstacles to the passage OF the Education
bill.
This tIasco will have II disastrous clfeu5
upon the political fortunes Of NJ. a, j.
The sun., 1896-06-24

There was significance in the loud ap-
plause which greeted the speech OF Prof.
CoMAs in the Spanish Cortes, demanding
the abrogation Of the CUSHING protocol Of
1877. That protocol secures to citizens
Of tho United States trial by civil law
within Spanish domains under specified cir
cPmstances, and it is specially designed to
protect them from being summarily con-
demned and executed by drum-head court.
This protocol has been invoked in the case
of LABoRDE and the Competitor crew, al
though Spain insisted that it did not apply
to them. Possibly this fact has excited the
bitter feeling Of Prof. CoMAs against the
protocol, especially as it is announced that
the Competitor crew will have new trial,
although whether under the agreement Of
1877 or the old treaty of century ago Is
not yet quite clear.
In any event, the animosity shown in the
Cortes against the CUSHING protocol can
have but one meaning. 1t is resentment
against the shield thrown by that agree
ment around Americans who may be seized
by the Spanish soldiery and threatened with
death by court martial. 1t is not pretended
that our country receives more than Spain
under this agreement, because its provisions
are reciprocal, and Spaniards in this coun-
try can claim whatever privileges our cti-
zens receive under it in Cuba But that Is
not what these people want. They do not
fear Ill treatment of Spaniards here, but
their purpose is to work their will upon our
citizens who may be unlucky enough to
fall into their clutches.
Treaties and protocols are not meant to
be unalterable and eternal, whatever their
language may imply, and If Spain should
withdraw from the CUSHING protocol in q
way that would not violate its terms, she
will act within the limits of her right. But
none the less she might rue her experiment.
Our country knows too we'll the atrocities
of the past in Cuba, and the mockeries of
law and justice there, to leave its citizens
without protection.
If the CUSHING protocol should be abro-
gated, public sentiment would be aroused
in this country against Spain in an unmis-
taxable way. The Cortes at Madrid will do
we'll to content itself with showing by its
speeches and its applause what 1t would
like to do, and not risk doing 1t.
The sun., 1896-06-24
Mr.. McKinlcy's Canton Speeches.

From the few unimportant speeches al
ready delivered by Major MCKINLEY, we
observe that the candidate is starting In for
the campaign on the lines laid down by Mr..
HANNA months before the Convention.
That is to say, the Major is solemnly assum-
ing that the tariff is the supreme issue of
1896, and is talking rs ponderously for Pro
lection us il such were really the case.
There is something comical in this per-
formance. These efforts to carry out duti-
fully a prearranged programme, which has
meanwhile been reversed and set aside by
higher authority than HANNA's, disclose on
the part of the Major lack Of adaptability
and ready invention, to say nothing OF u
lack Of humor, uncommon even in Ohio
statesmen.
Mr.. HANNA has shown what he can do
and what he cannot do. He can make
candidate, but he cannot make the issue.
If not only Major MCKINLEY, but also every
campaign orator employed by the Ex-
ecutive Committee OF the National Com
mittee, should insist on talking Protec-
tion and nothing else until November. they
could not succeed in making the tariff the
dominant question of 1896.
There is one plank in the Republican
platform which has been generally over
looked thus far. and which we respectfully
commend to the Ma jor's attention:
We proclaim our unqualified condem nation of the
unclvilizci anu baroarous practices, we'll known
iynching or killing OF human beings. suspected or
charged with crime without process OF law"
II Major MCKINLEY desires to keep his
incidental rhetoric as far away as possible
from, tho GOLD plapk aionta5 at Iouio
why should he not take refuge in the lynch
ing resolution Here is fine field for
solemn oratory. The subject is compare
lively novel as a campaign topic, while the
tariff Is a back number.
The sun., 1896-06-24
Another OF the London Times's Re-
ports from Cuba.

In q recent number of the London Times
there is report from Cuba that is even
more discouraging for Spain than the other
report in the Times upon which we COM
mented one day last month. The writer OF
1t was permitted to make an inspection Of
the trocha across the island, and also of the
large army by which 1t is defended. He
was not convinced of the value of the work,
which, In so far as he could form an opin-
ion. WAS designed for the defence of the
city of Havana, and 1t seemed to him sign
OF the weakness of Spain in Cuba that she
had been forced to defend herself by such
means. For period of four months, 6O,-
900 Spanish troops have been stationed
along the line, and have remained there In a
state OF almost complete inactivity, for the
sole purpose Of barring the insurgents out
OF the capital. number OF troops greater
yet are employed In garrison duty else
where, and are aroused from their supine-
ness only when drawn out by an aggressive
and restless enemy Thus it is that an
army OF l75000 men upholds the au-
thority OF Spain in Cuba. In all of the ISL
and outside Of the garrisoned places the in
surgents are in control, as the T4IneS's in
Spector ascertained.
So far there is nothing new in the Timcs's
report The only value of the English in
spector's statement lies in the fact that it
confirms the intelligence which we have
received otherwise from Cuba, and have
printed.
The inspector for the Times is less CON
fident than the Spanish commander that
the insurgents can never force passage OF
the trocha. He is Of the opinion that an at
tempt may be made, and that II it shall he
'SuOCessful, II will be the most severe blow
The sun., 1896-06-24

BALroUR, the leader Of the Unionists In the
House OF Commons. There may be no foun-
dation for the report that he has already re-
signed his seat in the Cabinet, but his
chance Of the Premiership, previously weak
ened by his advocacy OF bimetallism, Is now
extinguished. The Dllonite faction of the
Irish Nationalist party is also left in a
grievous position by the failure Of the
Education bill. They will be derided by
their opponents for selling themselves to
the Tories, and yet failing to get the pur-
chase money. They have secured absolutely
nothing for the Catholic Church, while in
the attempt to please their co-relgionists
they have sent the home rule cause into
eclipse ny provoking the animosity of the
English Nonconformists, to whom Mr..
PARNELL was sacrificed.
The sun., 1896-06-24

the Spanish arms have yet received in Cuba.
Since the Times's inspector wrote his re-
port the insurgents have partially justified
his opinion. A few days ago MkCEo made
n dash upon the trocba near its southern end,
and took temporary possession Of the town
OF Batabano, which is situated there, after
which he struck northward and made
another dash upon the works near Havana.
These unexpected dashes Of this audacious
leader may lead one to think that he is feel
ing the enemy's lines at different points
preparatory to movement of more serious
import by which the enemy's strength may
be tested.
The English inspector dwels upon the
singular ignorance Of the Spanish Generals
in Cuba. Their military tactics are faulty {;
they seem to have no knowledge of modern
strategy; they have never attempted to
make any concerted movement; their policy
has always been that OF weakness; they
have never been able to draw the insurgents
into pitched battle, and, though they have
an army which Is five times stronger nu-
merically than that of the insurgents, they
have all along stood on the defensive. They
have utterly failed to understand or to cope
with the situation, says the English in
spector, in whose view their conduct is
little short of madness"
1t Is truly a disquieting Indictment Of
Spanish generalship in Cuba that is here
made. One might think that there would
be CONSERVATION for Spain in the English
mans report, which Is founded upon his
own observation.
ha
the situation in Cuba, comes to the con-
clusion that, so far as Spain is concerned,
"any sacrifice would be worth making il
peace could be secured" Even the lower
ing Of Spanish dignity is not to be consid-
cred in this case. The Spanish people seem
to have no comprehension of Spain's strug-
gle in Cuba. As for the island vf Cuba, the
war is ruin.
1t appears from the English inspectors
report that he entertans the opinion that
peace would be secured if Spain were to
grant reforms or make concessions to Cuba.
But here his opinion runs counter to the
declarations Of all the Cuban revolutionary
leaders, military and civil. Ever since the
opening Of the war they have solemnly
avowed that they were determined to win
iioefly anu iiocpenuenco lor Inelr country,
and that they would enter into no compro-
mise with Spain, which might interfere
with their main object.
1t is surprising that WEYLER permits an
Englishman to send such reports from Cuba
rs have been sent to the London Times by
Mr.. CHARLES AKERs of that journal, while
he prohibits American correspondents from
transmitting any despatch that has not
been revised by the official censurate
Above all. it is surprising that he permitted
Mr.. AKERs to take observations at the
trocha and in the army for report to be
published in England, a report containing
revelations and statements which are dis
creditable to WEYLER himself, and ought
to cause the Spanish Government to recall
him from Cuba at once.