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Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15

AS time goes on managers of the State
fair are pcrfccting plans for the exhibit
on u scale of magniticcnce never before
attempted in Nebraska. They assure
the people that transportation facilities
will be such as to meet any possible
demands upon passenger and freight
trains. The motor line will be pre-
pared TO carry three times the number
of people it hauled last year. This is
important. Let all the people know the
fair will be easy of access and the gate
receipts will be enhanced 20 per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
THE ILLINOIS MANIFESTO.

The address of the executive commit
tee of the honest money democrats of
Illinois, urging another convention for
the nomination of an honest money
democratic candidate for the presidency,
may be expected to result in speedily
determining the curse of the democrats
throughout the country who are in re-
volt against the action of the Chicago
convention. AS we have heretofore
noted in reference to this matter, there
is very decided diversity of opinion as
to what the sound money democrats
should do. There are influential men
and newspapers who strongly urge that
the proper course for the democratic
opponents of free silver is to support
the republican candidate, to the end
that his triumph shall be so decisive and
overwhelming as to forever stamp ont
the free silver heresy. Others no less
prominent in democratic councils insist
that it Is essential to the preservation
of the name, the character and the prin-
ciples of the democracy that another
convention be held and II sound mo ey
man placed in nomination on Il sound
money platform. There are leaders
whose Judgment will have great weight
in determining the question who have
not yet spoken, but who will probably
now feel called upon to express an
opinion regarding the attitude of the
Illinois sound money democrats.
1t must be conceded that the argu-
ments for another convention presented
by the Illinois address are forceful. 1t
would doubtless have the effect, IA the
address says, of showing that the demo-
cratic revolt against the policy of re-
pudiation and national dishonOr Is earn
est and determined and it is most
plausibly urged that the fight of the
honest money element could be made
more effective If il had IA candidate and
Il thorough organization. Without Il new
ticket and n sound money democratic
campaign, says the address, the whole
educational force of sound money demo-
cratic sentiment would he p~aralyZed
from the beginning" These Illinois
democrats believe, not u~nreasOnably,
that more can De accomplished by demo
Gratis than by republicans in keeping
democrats in line for honest money.
What they aim to accomplish is the de
feat of the repudiationists and they
think this can be more surely done by Il
third ticket than by leaving honest
money democrats free to vote or 10 re-
frain from voting, as they shall deem
best.
A decision Of the question urged upon
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
The Duty of the Hour.

ANNN lNiN AlhNit-
The nomination OF such a man brings the
true issue before the country with startling
dtstinctness. The elements capable OF giy-
ing to such a man 500 votes In a democratic
national convention can he trusted for one
thing only-to ruin this country with aston
ishing rapidity II they ever get power to
rule it. The most dangerous are not the
rascals who profess anything Tor the sake
of office, and want office as a chance to sell
their convictions. The thoroughly sincere
and determined enthusiasts, whose faculty
for believing is so stupcndous that they tdn
go wild over Bryan's assertions. cannot be
reached by reason. and can only be crushed
by overwhelming malorities. 1t Is to the
honor of many democratic Journals that they
did not need this eminently suitable nomina-
tion to cause them TO bolt. From this time
on, the chief duty of every good citizen,
whatever his political associations in the
past, is to make Overwhelming and decisive
the defeat of the jacobin candidate by Me-
kinley and Hobart.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
PROGRESS OF YELLOW FEVER.
Reports from Cubn show n Very
HrnNy MortnIity.


WASHINGTON, July 1A.-The marine
hospital bureau is receiving full reports
Of the progress OF the yellow fever, cholera
and small pox epidemics progressing in
various parts of the world. While these
show a heavy mortality for the hot months,
the ravagcs are not such as to cause fear
so far as this country is concerned. The
last reports from Cuba show that small
pox is proving more deadly than yellow
fever. The fever is epidemic at the seaport
towns where the Spanish troops are gar
risoned, but the small pox is virulent
throughout the interior. A recent letter
from DR.. Caminero, United States sanitary
inspector at Santiago de Cuba, says there are
1000 cases in that city which has $4,000
population. DR.. Caminero says. There are
tenement houses which contain as many
as twenty-seven cases. Yellow fever has
decreased somewhat, but will again COM
mence its deadly mission as soon as the
new recruits, announced as coming, being
to arrive
In his last letter DR. Camincro reports
small poN has taken a most %virulent form
and deaths increase daily. The disease has
taken a malignant character and all the
cases end fatally at present. Eighty per
cent of the small poN cases are non-vacGin-
ated colored people, who are completely OPP
posed to being vaccinated while the cpl
demic RACES from fear of catching the dis
ease. The government will make vacCina-
tion compulsory and government physicians
will go from house to house,
Marine hospitals officials will strictly en-
force the quarantine laws and thus guard
against the entry of the epidemic to Amcri-
can ports. No case of yellow fever has yet
been reported in the United States and Key
West, Fla, is the only place afflicted with
small poX. The reports from there show
twenty-one eases and four deaths for the
week ending July 9.
Late cholera reports from Egypt are more
favorable. The United States commissioner
at Constantinople reports that the disease
is abating in the interior of Egypt. The
Egyptian outbreak has not yet spread to
any European port. A report appeared last
week that cases of Asiatic cholera had APP
peared at Dantzig, Germany. Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman cabled at once to Consul Gen
eral Kay at Berlin and in reply received a
cable saying: False alarm: not Asiatic."
Little apprehension is felt here that chol-
era can be brought to this country from
Egypt as the trade is very limited. As a
precaution, however. Consul General Pen
field at Cairo, acting under Instructions from
Washington, has ordered that no invoices
for shipment of rags to the United States
should be made until thirty days after the
cessation of cholera.
Reports concerning the plaques in Canton,
Japan and Formosa show that they are
abating.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
Debnsed md vicious.

The platform in every vital part ap-
peals to everything that is low and de
based and vicious in human nature. In
its moral quality and in its public policy
1t bespeaks the most lawless, irresponsible,
incendiary group of besotted leaders who
have ever been thrown to the surface even
in the worst paroxysms of American dema-
gogism. 1t matters little what nomination
comes out of such a convention, 1t is i'm
possible to recognize any serious distinction
among the mediocre aspirants who compete
for it's honors. No public man with any real
self-respect or any Just sense of public
responsibility would stand on such a shame
less platform. 1t is to the credit of the old
democratic leaders that not one of them is
named as a candidate.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
Down VIII Trenson.

New York COmmerclal Advertiser
When the cannon shot of treason kno1ked
at the gates of Sumter hundreds of thou
sands of men forgot that they were demo
Gratis and remembered that they were Ameri-
cans. Now, when all the alien and abhor-
rent forces Of this cosmopolitan republic
are banded together for robbery and riot
under the fiery flag OF the m and the
leadership OF demagogues who disgrace the
American name-when the once great demo
cratic party has sold itself to anarchy for
thirty pieces of silver and forsaken every
tradition and principle that gave it cohesion
or s~tanding-when not merely the honesty Of
our dollars, but the stability OF our insti-
tutions, the authority OF our highest tri-
bunals and the safeguards OF order and
society are threatened by revolt as danger
Gus as the uprising OF the slave power a
third of a century ago, the sons OF the war
democrats of 1906 stand facing a duty
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
siivcr's siren song to Labor.

II lbul llhllteI lltSS.
The swindling sham Of silver ~monnmeta
ltsm strutted its wild hour of sound and
fury on the stage at Chicago in all the
masks with which its fakir promoters have
everywhere sought to disguise the bad
reality. 1t was not enough that It borrowed
the title of bimetallism, while boldly re-
pudiating what all bimetallists ConCede to
be the only means by which bimctallism Is
Observation-Disclosures agreement; but
here as II sought to disguise its
impudent attempt to levy the tribute of its
gigantic confidence game on the masses Of
the American people by the audRcious pre-
tense that silver recommendation is in the
interest of the masses. This was the theme
of Mr.. Bryan's speech to the convention.
In every form in which the idea could be
presented he maintained that to ~lcgislate
for free coinage of silver was to l~egislate
for the masses against the classes; for the
poor against the rich. Never was d%elusion,
if it is only d~elusion, more grouullesG-
Never was falsehood, If 1t is only false
hood, so directly contradictory of all the
facts of human experience. 1t is seldom
that an economic error so mischievous is
capable Of such conclusive demonstration of
it's fallaCy.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
Here is Hot stuff.


The corrupt and purchased union of the
demagogue politicians of the south with
the free silver west is what made the Chi
cago convention and the Chicago platform.
Altgeld's disreputables had a hand in the
mess, but the Waites and Tillmans, the
Pennoyers and Tellers, fortified by the
money of the big bonanzas, opened the way
for the new dogmas of secession, reputation
and ruin.
The old drunken, swashbuckling, dead
beating. nigger-chasing, north-hating south,
urged on, its whisky bought and its few
other expenses paid by the silver trust,
behind which are sheltered some of the
most colossal seoundrels unhung, has been
heard from once more and for the last
time in national convention.
1t is now SOLDERING off, with a head sew
eral sizes too large for its hat, with its
alcoholic valdr adj gone, its friends alienat-
ed and a new woman In the form of a
new south at home waiting, mopstick in
hand. to give .the, old fool a drubbing that
will last him, la us hope, as long as he
lives.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15

Our now famous contemporary has
not since the Chicago convention told
an anxious .,pMblic of the growing de
lection in the democratic ranks. 1t has
had nothing to say of the movement
now on foot tn South Omaha and in
this city to form Il sound money league
among democrats. which is to be simply
an organized protest against the Chicago
platform. There are at least $4,000
sound money democrats in Nebraska;
over $4,000 voted for Mahoney last year
an off year. viii these voters follow
the advice of the New York sun?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
WHAT III
The True Inswqrdness of the Chicago
Money Plank.

~" yin 'il'
A correspoadtht asks us the meaning of
the last CLAUDE Of the Chicago free silver
plank. 'Wef kssr such legislation as will
prevent for the future the demonetization of
any kind of JegaF tender money by private
It means tss5torbid. by act of congress, the
making of cosfsacts providing for payment
in a specihed kihd of money-gold contracts
being particularly aimed at. At the present
time and for many years back state and city
bonds and private notes and mortgages are
or have been made payable in gold. The
object of this is twofold. 1t lnsures to the
man who loans payment OF the same money
value that he parts with, and it enables the
man who borrows to obtain a lower interest
rate ON account of the security given that
he will pay in kind
The Chicago platform proposes to forbid
this. 1t interferes with the right OF private
contract. acceptable and profitable TO both
parties thereto and Injurious to nobody. II
il had been proposed to forbid contracts
whereby a man who borrows 100 bushels of
seed. wheat agrees to pay in the same sound
grain instead OF in wOrmy buckwheat or
oats and chat, the Tillman style OF farmer
would undoubtedly have howled. But moth
ing is too bad for the MAI who loans sound
money and stipulates to be paid in the
same.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
Comparisons Are Odious.

From Tilden to Bryan! From Napoleon to
General CoXey, from alabaster to mu | from
a lion to a tree ;oal, from an eagle to a buz-
zard, from the sun in the heavens to the
Jack-a-lantern of the swamps.
From Jackson to Bryan! Jackson, who
swore like a sailor, who fought in the pub
lie streets, and who smoked a corncob pipe,
but who was honest as far as he went, WHO
had dignity and character, and who was a
patriot II ever there was one. Yes, and
from Jefferson to Bryan! Where is there "a
democrat who can couple these two names
and then restrain his passion and profanity?
We congratulate the various and varied
nincompoops who nominated Bryan. He is
a man after their own model.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
Duty of Sound Money Democrats.
rbica m Post

In the presence of such a distortion of
democratic principles and policy it becomes
the duty of sound money and conservative
democrats to organize to preserve the Party
name and honor from just ignominy and
shame. They must make their protest as
public as the distortion of democratic princi-
pies has been vociferOus and notorious.
They must publish their protest to the
world. They must make the renewal of their
loyalty to all that is honest, sacred and
established in the history of their party so
clear and unmistakable that the whole world
may know that II was a populist wolf that
was masquerading in the skin of democracy
at Chicago in the year 1896.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15

Reports of the Chicago convention in
the foreign press are said to have
aroused doubts in the minds of sober,
thinking people abroad as to the sanity
of the American public. There is one
way to remove this false impression
cffectually. Election returns announcing
that the free silver fallacy and the re-
pudiation frenzy has been overwhelm-
ingly rebuked at the polls will restore
us to our proper place in the estimation
of the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
IMPRISONED AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Government of Peru il Called On to
Ply nm indemnity

Government OF Peru IL Called On to
Pay nm Indemnity.
WASHINGTON, July 1i.-It is understood
that the secretary of state has instructed
the United States minister at Lima to de-
mand the prompt settlement Of the claim
of Victor H. MacCord, an American citizen,
for alleged brutal and inhuman treatment
by the Peruvian authorities. Mr.. MacCord's
claim is for 5000, 900. While Secretary Olney
does not specify the amount that should be
paid in satisfaction of this claim, it is said
that he contends that it is a Just and equit-
able claim and one entitled TO prompt salts
faction.
The claim grows out of the arrest and
Imprisonment of Mr.. MacCord by the Peru
Wan authorities in 1885 while he was acting
as superintendent Of a railroad at Arequipa.
There was a revolution in progress at the
time. Through the alleged perfidy of the
engineer Of a train conveying troops on the
road of which MacCord had charge it was
delivered into the hands of the revolution
lists. MacCord was Immediately imprisoned
and word was sent to him to arrange his
affairs. as an order had been issued to
shoot him within an hour. He was marched
out to the parade grounds before a file of
soldiers armed with rifles and asked If he
wished to say anything before being shot.
He was. however, saved by friends and
transferred to another prison. He was re-
leased after several days of intense suffering
as a result of harsh treatment and was COM
PEELED to pay a fine of 81, 500.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
THE RIFLE IN THE HALL.
Indianapolis Journal.

Indianapolis Journal.
From the days of Boone and Kenton,
In THE Dark and Bloody GrOund,"
To the days when homes and gardens
In the bluegrass land abound;
Since II sent its leaden messengers
To bring the savage down,
We have blessed the good old rifle
OF Kentucky n o
1t Is long and grim and rusty.
And out of date its lock,
And furnished are its mountings
In brass upon its stock;
But we low the ancient Weapon
Resting high against the wall
Tha old Kentucky rifle
on the buckhorns In the hall.
BY the late and letters given
on its butt we understand
Tina our ~grandslre was its master,
And in his sturdy HAND
1t cleared the way for progress,
Thro' many a saVag fray.
To where Ills dumbly hanging
on the uckhorn there today.
Thro' trial and the wilderness,
His faithful guard and guide,
Twas cherished by that hardy soui,
And twas his boast and pride,
Now, 'mong the rich requests he left,
The dearest OF them all
Is the long Kentucky rifle
on the buckhorns in the hail.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
ola Leaders Thrust Aside.
Minneapolis Tribune.

It is usually the unexpected which hap
pens. Bland, the father of the free silver
craze, was acknowledged to be the logical
candidate. For a whole generation he has
been working up the agitation which finally
eliminated in the Chicago delirium. Boies
of Iowa had substantial claims, and the
friends OF Senator Teller deemed the hoIni-
nation his by virtue of a conspiracy entered
into with the free silver senators ID disrupt
the republican party in the Interest OF the
white metal. Yet all these men we're thrust
aside and the nomination given to a boy
from Nebraska, who was hardly out of
swaddling clothes when the gentlemen TO
whom the prize l~egitimately belonged were
bearing the heat and burden OF the mis-
sionary work in behalf OF the new gospel.
such is the ingratitude Of reform" move
ments.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
WHY SHOULD THE CITY INTERVENE

WHY SHOULD THE ClTY INTERVENE?
What has the city of Omaha to gain
by keeping the water works in the
hands of receivers? What has the city
to gain from preventing the reorganiza-
ton of the water works company by re-
sponsible owners with whom its officers
can deal and whom they can riGhtfully
hold for an honest compliance with the
terms of its contract? In other words,
What has the city of Omaha to gain
from keeping the water works peTUetu-
ally under control of the federal courts?
These questions naturally suggest
themselves in view of the action taken
by the city attorney, apparently with
ont authority, to prevent the consumma-
ton of the mortgage foreclosure sale
which promised TO put an end to the
shifting of responsibilities and to place
the works on II solid foundation in the
hands Of men who have the means to
make whatever improvements are neces-
sary for the perfection of the plant and
itS enlargement TO meet he growing
demands of The city and its patrons.
These improvements and extensions are
not likely to be made if litigation is
indefinitely prolonged. In any event.
the city has no interest in common with
the holders of watered water stock
which the foreclosure proceedings have
wiped out. That stock never repre-
scented money honestly invested. 1t was
issued by stock jobbers under false pre-.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
Extent of the Democratic Revolt
Agninst RcnmIinIinn mud Nmim.

Extent Of the Democratic Revolt
Agninst Reputation and Ruin.
The Bee published yesterday a list OF
thirty-nine democratic newspapers that had
repudiated the Chicago platform and ticket.
Three great divisions of the country. north,
east and south, were well represented. But
the list was incomplete. Every hour adds
to the number. So rapidly are they rally
ing to the standard of honest money and
prosperity that it is difficult to keep a cor
rect record of the mighty revolt in the
democratic ranks.
The additions since Monday and Tuesday
to the list bring the total up to seventy,
eight, as follows:
AUSTIN, Reinstatement.
BOSTON, MASS.-Globe, Herald, Post.
BALTIMORE, MD.-Sun, News.
BUFFALO. n. Y.-Courier, l%nquirir.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Eagle.
BRIDGEPORT, CONDITIONING Farmer.
BENNINGTON. VT.-Reformer.
CHICAGO, ILL.-Chronicle, Stats.
Zeitung, Abenpost.
CHARLEsToWN, w. Va.-News,
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.-Times.
COLUMBUS, GA.-Dispatch.
DALLAS, TEX.-News.
DETROIT, MICH.-Free Press.
DAVENPORT, IA.-Democrat.
ELIZABETH, N. J.-Herald, Democrat.
EASTON. PA.-Express.
FITCHBURG. MASS.-Mail.
GALVESTON, TEX.-News.
HoLYOKE, MASS.-Free Press, Journal
HARTFORD. CONN.-Times.
JERSEY CITY, N. News.
KEY WEST. FLA.-Euuator. Democrat.
LOUISVILLE, KY.-Courier-Journal,
Times. Post, An2eiger,
LEWISTON, ME.-Sun.
LOWELL. MASS.-Times. Star.
LEXINGTON, KY.-Herald.
LA CROSSE. WIS.-Chronicle.
MANCHESTER, N. H.-union.
MOBILE, ALA.-Register.
MACHIAS. ME.-Union,
MILWAUKEE, WIS.-Journal, Seebote.
NEWARK. n. News.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.-Picayune, States.
NEW YORK CITY-Sun, Times, Herald.
Evening Post. Staats-Zeitung, 1rlsh-Amer-
lean.
NASHVILLE, TENN.-Banner.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.-Register, News.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Record. Times.
PORTLAND. ME.-Eastern Argus.
PROVIDENCE. r. Journal. Bulletin
PETERSBURG, VA.-IndeX-Appeal.
RICHMOND. VA,-Times,
SALEM. MASS,-News,
SIOUX FALLS, S. D.-Argus-Lea1er.
ST. PAUL, MINN.-Globe. '
ST. LOUIS, MO.-Anzeiger des Westerns.
SPRINGFIELD. MASS.-Republican.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.-Herald. Courier.
SIOUX CITY, IA.-Tribune.
TROY, N. Y.-Press.
TRENTON, N. J.-Times.
UTICA, n. Y.-Obseryer.
WASHINGTON, ID. Chimes.
WILMINGTON, DEL-Every Evening.
YONKERS, n, Y.-Gazette.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15

Lincolnites are very much disturbed
over the proposition to have Bryan re-
ceiye the notification committee in New
York, and also to have the campaign
headquarters there. But from the free
silyer-populist point of view ii is the
thing to 10. The latter party is strong
In the west and weak and diScredited
In the east. The considerations that im-
pei republicans to fight hardest in the
west would logically cause the demo
pops 10 seek converts down east, Lin
coin people should not be SO selfish and
unreasonable
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15

In this hour of triumph for the populists
of Nebraska, when the sky is hidden by the
impenetrable capillary jungles of the free
silver delegates, and probably cracked by
the repercussion of their yawp, every humane
heart will go out in sympathy to the Hon.
Wharton Barker of Philadelphia. He sits
alone with his disappointment. He reckons
up his frustrated hopes; perhaps he reckons
up the expenses of his journey to Chicago
and of his modest retreat thence to his home.
where he has since been engaged in writing
his letter of acceptance. If the Hon. Bub
Bryan has as kind a nature as he has
orotund a voice, he will not neglect to send
a telegram of congratulation to the Hon.
Wharton Barker.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-15
UIccrous Financial Fnds.

All the ulcerous financial fads OF the
century have headed up into one big malig-
nant pustule at Chicago and the patriotic
duty is to destroy that pustule to save the
whole republic. The country cannot have
a return to national prosperity until the
malignant tissue is eXcised. AS the free
silver element is massing its entire strength
from all parties and is stalking all upon he
issue, the republican party must meet the
exigency with old-guard firmness and enter
into this conflict against Reputation with
the magnificent energy and patriotism it
displayed in the great campaigns of 1860
and 1864,