Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-25

Mig Gain for Republicans.
City Clerk Thomas E. Pratt has returned
from a stay of two weeks in Custer county
with the encouraging news of big gain
for the republicans. In one precinct in this
county there are thirtyfive voters, twenty
eight OF whom voted for Holcomb in 1896.
Out of this number three will vote for Hol-
comb this year, three are doubtful and all
of the balance have expressed their inten-
tion of voting the straight republican ticket.
w. =. Miles of Sidney was in the city
today and gave an account of an interesting
conversation which was held with William
Neville last July.
Mr.. Miles and Judge Post were or the
train going west from Omaha and together
with others were discussing the Philippine
question. William Neville, the present cam
didate for congress in the Sixth district,
Joined the crowd and took part in the con-
versation. One of the things he said was
this:
1T is the duty Of our government to con-
quer the Philippines and give the people
OF these islands a Christian civilization.
They should not be left to work out their
own salvation"
He further said that himself and other
fusionists had written to Mr.. Bryan and
were trying to get him to get on the right
terostng especially since Neville has de-
MED the authorship OF the letter which he
wrote to the Lincoln Independent last De-
cember. 1t shows that as late as July OF
this year he was publicly expressing the
same sentiment contained in the 1ndepend-
cnt letter and was trying to bring Bryan
to the same state of mind.
The state University.
Chancellor Bessey of the State university
Is devoting much OF his time and attention
to tho building UP of the agricultural and
industrial colleges of the institution. He
has returned from visit at the Ames Agri-
cultural college of Iowa, where he was for
fifteen years professor of botany, and will
give the Nebraska university the benefit
of his Investigations Speaking of the Ames
college and the University of Iowa, of which
| it is branch, Chancellor Bessey said
THE Ames Agricultural college corre-
spends to the Industrial college of the Ne
braska institution. 1t is in the center OF
the state and about 100 miles from the
State university. The educational work
has been divided and the applied science
! part Of the university is at Ames and Is
under different management from the uni
versity. At Ames the college campus con.
! tains probably eighty acres. The trees
many of which l planted thirty years ago
are now tall and beautiful. The building!
are very much like ours. Being countr!
college, it was necessary for them to pu
hundreds OF thousands of dollars of heard
earned money into buildings for housing thu
students. So they have dormitories anc
boarding halls, built with state money. Th'
buildings are of about the quality we have
Some are better and some are poorer
Otherwise think we are little better off
They have one thing that ! wish WI
had namely, a good athletic field near th
university buildings and so situated that |
Is almost ideal, both in size and genera
location. Perhaps that is one reason VIII
they are able to maintain such a stron
foot ball team"
Chancellor Bessey said that he took espe
cial pleasure in telling the professors o
the Iowa institution of the attendance a
the State university here.
'They were astonished," he said, "whe
told them that we now have over 1,6O
students. They have an attendance of 7O
at Ames and these roo are nearly all youn
men. l astonished them by telling thel
that we had more girls in this universit
last year than their whole enrolment Q
girls and boys"