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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Ohio democracy lost no time in making it
known that it is democratic.
Sir Thomas Lipton will have to continue
drinking out of a gourd. M
Has the-New York World any assurance that
Mr. Cleveland would not do it again?
iJ8lto dat0 Mr. Bristow has not received any
lengthy commendations from Oyster Bay.
It seems that the president saved up in order
to have plenty to bestow upon Mr. Root
wiMr W? dId not "stand pat", until after he
had reached the north bank of the Ohio river.
wA,large number postofflce officials insist
wn J;?akmufl?ed 'souncl frm tho east is only Mr
Hanna throwing up his hands and calling for
she dfd noWi? Humbert's favor is that
"dwUny." ' her .victims about "duty-and
lv nBTh?I1IOnrotted that milo almost as rapid
quesUon backed away from the ta!r&
vh?08- New York World yet received formal
samin6 Now torkThat It V?"3? f tho
same in Now JSM" tUo
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I'there ,s not edi&US ttat
nf TO,.WiII; ol,eorfu"y admitted that Secretary
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The Commoner.
Tho .Nebraska democratic platform is a model .
of brevity and conciseness. The committee con-;,
tained two good democratic newspaper men.
Democrats who are discouraged by two defeats
in battling for principle might study with profit
tho persevering qualities of Sir Thomas Lipton.
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It seems that the president was saving up all "
the good things to say to Mr. Root Mr. Root
may deserve them less, but he. needs them more.
Tho pretender to the throne of MoroSco is ' '
dead again for about the ninth time. He JsHftllK .
a few laps behind tho money question, however, .,
Ex-Governor Taylor will hardly launcti a vlco
presidential boom as long as Governor Durbin has
ono on the 'way. It might complicate matters for -Taylor.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Pulitzer's new
school of journalism will have a chair devoted to
teaching aspiring genius the virtue of always giv
ing proper credit.
Tho democracy has less to fear from republi
cans than it has from men who claim to be demo
crats, but put in most of their time boosting re
publican policies.
Mr. Taft is another gentleman who is of the
opinion that the battle of San Juan Hill compre
hends all there ever has been of war in tho
history of this republic.
Governor Pennypacker has discovered that it
takes more than a subservient legislature and an
enacting clause to secure the Tsi Aniflcation'of
the Pennsylvania press.
An Illinois man insists that he is daily re
ceiving communications from the dead. Let him
prove it by giving us something from Mr. Re
publican Tariff Revision.
Can it be possible that the persistent Wall
street booming of Cleveland is actuated by a
knowledge that republican management is to again
end in a forced bond issue? -
Attention is again called to Tho Commoner's
educational offer. This offer should be carefully
noted by young men and women who desire to
secure a college education.
Tip to date the administration has sent no bat
tleship up the raging Wabash to demand sum
mary punishment of a man implicated in the
assassination of Governor Goobel.
Our great and good friend, Abdul Hamid, sul
tan of Turkey, is afflicted with failing eyesight,
but he can still distinguish the difference be
tween an ultimatum and a warship.
The Ohio democratic platform does not please
republican organs and their assistants. The Ohio
democratic platform was framed largely for the
purpose of displeasing the aforesaid organs.
The Grand Army of the Republic is. still of
inViPSS? that th?,re Were a "tUe brushes
,in the civil. war worthy of being mentioned in tha
same day with the terrible battle of KetU Hill
What would it profit democracy to have its
loyal newspapers devote all their time to L
republican rottenness while disloyal democrat
were working republican schemes under cover?
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i16 admInlstration is so worried about get-
SS5i?f min ?ack Int0 circulation among the
people it might begin by adopting measures cal-
Tho Nebraska republican convention cheered
olution?ekn JCnKinl03;' ?,ut e mmit?ene S
oiutions killed a resolution declaring in favor nf
reciprocity the declaration being in almolt tho
exact words of McKinley. - aimost tno
tinnTthtSrlca?? ChrnIcle. driven from its asser
tion that Mr. Bryan bolted in 1892, says that h
would have bolted in 189G if th mlS iwJ , ?
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,. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 33,
;"", Tho victims of -Madame Humbert need nnf
feel lonesome. Over toe in the United Statea
Hhere are several millions'of men who continue X
vote for "protection to infant industries."
Mayor Reed of Kansas City delivered a speech
before the Nebraska democratic convention, and
,'' UUS1CUI- W1" appearvm the next issuo
of The Commoner. Mayor Reed'ir speech is desert
ing of the widest publicity. V
Thpse eminent republicans who were horrified
.at the idea of providing the people with an in
creased volume- of real money are now laying
awake, nights trying to frame up a scheme for giv
ing them a token money based on intangible se-.
curitieg.
The "Subscribers' Advertising Department"
affords a wide field of publicity to Commoner sub- '
scribers who want to buy or sell some meritorious
article.
The Aldrich bill provides for depositing gov
ernment money in favorite banks. Mr. Rockefeller
owns the favorite banks. Senator Aldrich's son
married the daughter of Mr. Rockefeller. The
administration's financial policy is quite a neat
little family affair.
The Nashville American says: "As a news
paper there Is nothing In this neighborhood that
approaches the American." This is a handsome
compliment to the other newspapers in "that
neighborhood," and an unlooked-for admission
on the part of the American.
After recalling Limo.n, Leavenworth, Spring
valley, Evansville, Danville and aNfew other lo
calities to the north of tho Ohio river, perhaps
the south would be willing to let us settle our
race problem in our own "way.
Dr. Shaw's failure to promptly provide an
adequate remedy for that case of undigesled se
curities was not due tovlack of uesire. 'It was duo
wholly to lack of transportation facilities at a
critical moment He could not get the medicine
to Wall street instantaneously.
Borelli's comet is headed for the earth and
traveling at therate of 3,000,uuu miles a day. As
it. is something like 'steen billion miles away it is
not likely to arrive sooner than a republican ad
ministration busts a trust This fact should re
lieve all fears of the present generation.
Mr. Aldrich is reported as announcing that
there will be no effort made to secure a asset
currency at the coming session of congress. What's
the matter? Scared out? The republicans do not
dare to meet the currency issue. They are pre
paring another confidence game on the people.
Mr. Machen is showing symptoms of laying
profane hands upon the pillars of the republican
temple. -This is an indicai on that the' prosecu
tion of Machen will consist largely of editorial as
servation in the columns of1 the administration
press that does not.sever much congealed "moisture.
Senator Hanna has discovered that money
is being collected from southern negroes for the
pretended purpose of aiding tho passage of the
ex-slave pension bill introduced by Senator Hanna
by request." He would probably be willing to
withdraw the bill without waiting to be re
quested.
i, AThe1man with a plan for an elastic currency
that will benefit the financiers is warmly wel
comed at Oyster Bay. The man who has a plan
for emancipating the people from the yoke of
financial bondage to the trusts mdets up with
tne secret service officers before he gets within
sight of the surf.
Mr Cleveland has assured Mr.. Eckles that
?2wiP n-St,talk Politics at Chicago in October,
ana Mr. Eckles has assured the public that tho
club is merely showing its appreciation of the
great service" Mr. Cleveland rendered at a time
p great business peril to the nation." As the
only service rendered was to the financiers it ia
appropriate that the appreciation should be shown
by them rather than by the people who were the
victims of his Wall street policy.
.m,iMa3orCJharles H- Smith, better known aa
Bill Arp died at his home in Cartersville, Ga,,
o? ugu?t 24 The news ot his death brought
saaness to thousands of homes that had been
Brightened by his genial counsel, his homely
Philosophy and his ready.wit "Bill Arp's" humor
Jw e?r?t ray of "SW tnat pierced the gloom
that settled over the south at tho close of the
?. Wf' and lt, gave hPe " courage to mil-
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