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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1896
Democratic Ticket
For President
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Of Lincoln Nebraska
For Vice President
ARTHUR SEV7ALL
Of Bath Maine
Presidential Electors
FRED METZ
O IV PALM
FJ AALE
X PIASCEKL
N 0 ALBERTS
S L KOSTRYZE
J X CAMPBELL
M F IIARRINGTOX
For Governor
SILAS A IIOLCOMB
For Lieutenant Governor
Ji E HARRIS
For State Secretary
TV F PORTER
For State Auditor
JOHN CORNELL
ForState Treasurer
JiN MESERVE
For Attorney General
C J SMYTH
For State Superintendent
WR JACKSON
For Commissioner
J Y WOLFE
For Judges Supreme Court
Long Term
WILLIAM NEVILLE
Sfiort Term
J S KERKPATRICK
For Cdunly Attorney
D HJTHURSTON
Have you heard from Arkansas
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gWe cannot restore
to the treasury or to the people with
out a chaoge inour present tariff laws
Major McKinley
WhenMcKiniey promised them a
tariff act the bond between him and
the millionaire manufacturers
signed sealed and delivered
Dr W B Ely
of
-nominated for state
this place
senator of
A perusal of the church record shows
that about one third of the church
members in Gordon do not pay one
dollar a year to the support of the Gos
pel and yet all made the public prom
ise to contribute of their means so far
as they were able Some way we dont
bank much on a mans religion who
isnt willing to contribute something
to the support of his church The
poorest sinner in the community has
to contribute at least 3 a year poll
tax to the support of the community
in which he resides If he is a church
member he ought to be obliged to do
as -much for the church He is morally
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district by the republican conven
tion at Gordon on the 5th We con
gratulate the Doctor on his nomina
tion but cannot wish him success
Although a good man he is on the
wrong side of the political fence
Ainsworth Home Rule
There are two classes of people in
this world who are contesting for
wealth One class battles with nature
in the effort to produce wealth and
the other class is struggling with the
question as co how they may obtain it
from the producer and our present
civilization has erected the latter class
as its standard of excellence Rush
ville Standard
Down with trusts
JDown with plutocracy
Down with monopolies I
Down with all forms of organised
oppression to labor
Honest poverty and honest property
are alike to be respected
Equitable taxation is just taxation
and the people should be taxed in pro
portion to their ability to pay
TARIFF
AND RECIPROCITY
HUMBUG
John DeWitt Warner chairman of
the ways and means committee which
framed the Wilson bill recently wrote
a letter to the New York World tak
ing for his text that portion of Majoi
McKinleys letter of acceptance which
refers to tariff He says in part
Mr McKinley charges that Ameri
can labor is not sufficiently protected
under the Wilson bill
What would you have
The average duty levied hy the
Wilson bill upon all imports including
free as well as dutiable ones is above
20 per cent which is about the total
labor cost in American products In
the more highly developed manufac
tures it is of course higher Of these
those of iron andsteel and textiles con
stitue the greater part of our imports
and steel rails and cotton and woolen
cloths are probably the most represent
ative items Taking the reports for
1890 and 1891 of the United States
Commissioners of Labor we find that
the total labor cost per ton of steel
rails from materials in earth to the
finished product was then in the
United State lio9 in Great Britian
781 and on the Continent somfiwhafi
higher than in Great Britian To
meet that 378 difference per ton in
labor cost the Wilson bill gave 784
per ton protection which with the
transport cost of such bulky articles
insures the American producer pro
tection of at least his total labor cost
In cotton and woolen cloths the same
reports show the labor cost then to
have been on the average well under
25 per cent while the Wilson bill pro
tects them by duties averaging 40 per
cent or with every allowance and
adding nothing for transportation
giving protection of more than the
total labor cost If in fact labor with
such a tariff is not sufficiently sub
sidized eyen from the protectionist
standpoint would it not be well before
proposing further taxation to fin d out
what proportion of the tariff taxes
labor actually gets and into whose
pockets goes the bulk of the protec
tion claimed to be imposed for labors
sole benefit
Mr McKinleys tariff argument is
properly closed by his zealous plea for
reciprocity which it will be remem
bered was the one feature of his bill
in which he had no part but is the
only item of that bill which he now
recommends be immediately re
store Reciprocity as elaborated by
McKiDley is the gentle art of plaguing
a portion or our people unui some
body else shall cease plaguing another
portion He must himself admit that
in itself each item of a tariff is either
beneficial to this country and should
therefore be retained without refer
ence to the wishes of other nations or
else that it is damaging to us and
should be repealed without waiting to
consult them And since internation
al exchanges are of goods which dif
fer from each other it is also clear that
any repeal or retention of tariffs in ac
cord with reciprocal arrangements
must be of duties levied upon articles
in which certain of our citizens are
most interested m return for similar
treatment by a foreign nation of
duties upon articles in which not the
same persons but others of our citizens
are peculiarly interested That is to
say reciprocity consists in refusing to
confer a benefit or to wright a wrong
to certain of our citizens unless a
foreign nation will favor certain other
ones the purchase of new friends by
selling old ones the renunciation of
free trade at the will of the American
people in favor of limited free trade at
the option of foreigners
Mr Hanna talks too much Does
he ever stop to think Does he ever
seek honest advice or is he satisfied
with the prudent silence Or obsequious
approbation of the politicians with
whom he has surrounded himself If
Mr Hanna really knew what operates
upon the minds of voters who will de
cide the election he would know that
by putting himself so much in evidence
he is making votes for Bryan There
are certainly enough voters in this
country who do not approve of the
methods or the objects of Mark
Hanna either in business or in politics j
to render his too great conspicuity in
the campaign perilous to his candi
date New YorTc Sun
The recent relay bicycle race
across the continent was made iu
days The distance covered was 3385
miles This shows an average speed
of 11 1 miles per hour or 267 miles per
day The riders had bad roads to con
tend with in many nlaces or the time
bound to do more Gordon Journal 1 made would have been much better
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HUUKHlMmua
If McKinley is elected and our
factories resume operation giving Say
one million idle men employment at
even the low wages of 1 per day it
would put six million dollars in circu
lation every Saturday night and every
dollar would be worth 100 cents which
is about as fast as we could even coin
the silver mine owners silver bullion
and we believe it would put the money
in better hands Springview Herald
The words were put in italics by
this paper
Every man who is out of work
shoud be for McKinley Every farmer
who cannot sell his grain pork and
beef or has almost to give it away
should be for McKinley Every mer
chant that is tired of dull trade should
be for McKinley Every man who is
tired of hard times should be for Mc
Kinley Stuart Ledger
Why
Because McKinley represents the
party which precipitated the panic
which caused a drop in the price of
farm products and lessened their con
sumption Because McKinley repre
sents the party which enriches the few
at the expense of the many Because
McKinley represents no principle ex
cept protection which protects no
body but those who need it not and
because that is the only cure he offers
for the present business depression
HOW MR SO-AND-SO
There was a time when the prefix
Hon to a mans name meant some
thing and the use of the word was
confined to those who had occupied
positions of honor or trust in the ser
vice of their country but that was be
fore the era of politics into which we
have recently been plunged Hon
like Prof has been abused until it
now means nothing The title of
Prof is given to every corn doctor
every quack musician every faker who
has enough money to purchase space
for a newspaper announcement
Hon is worn by every man who
makes a speech if he is on your side
of the political fence and the one
time coveted title is now bestowed right
and left without discrimination with
no thought for the fitness of the sub
ject to the title or vice versa
A man hardly dares enter politics
without the title and if he has the
temerity to do so his friends immedi
ately invest him with the regalia
which is rapidly degenerating into
merely a badge for the politician
Lawyers are as a rule the worst im
posed upon in this matter and they
should enter a protest against having
their profession dragged to the level 1
of the mere politician Is the thing
keeps on it will not be long until
plain Mr will take rank above
Hon and Prof and the new era
will be hailed with delight by all who
believe in simplicity justice and
right
IS IT FREE TRADE
The Valentine Democrat is au
thority tor the statement that McKin
ley lies when he says that the Wilson
bill is free trade bill Men like Mc
Kinley are not in the habit of lying
Bro Good should tell his readers what
he would call a tariff bill under which
the balance of trade is against the
American people and the revenue is
not sufficient to run the government
We would call it worse than free
trade It is a give away for which
there was no plausible excuse New
port Republican
The Democrat is pleased to note
that Bro Wiltse has taken upon him
self the task of helping it circulate the
truth This paper still asserts that
Major McKinley stated a falsehood
when he said the Wilson bill was a
free trade bill This paper is sorry to
know that men like McKinley are
not in the habit of lying because that
statement gives it a very poor opinion
ot the Majors intelligence Anybody
who knows anything about tariff
knows that the Wilson bill reduced the
tariff as a whole only about 5 per cent
from 1893 and added less than twenty
articles to the free list The amount
of exports and imports has nothing to
do with making the Wilson bill a free
trade bill but if it did the showing
would be immensely in favor of free
trade Anybody who wishes to take
the trouble to sendfor a copy of tariff
statistics can easily learn that the
imports under the McKinley law in
1893 amounted to 867000000 while
under the Wilson law they only
amounted to 655000000 By a little
ffguring they can learn that under the
McKinley law in 1892 the percentage
of imports admitted free of duty was
563 and in 1893 it was 513 by in-
13 1 vestigating a little more our searcher
for truth will learn that under the
Wilson bill only 58 per cent of our
imports were admitted free of duty
Does an increase of 7 per cent in free-of-duty
imports constitute free
trade
H
IS IT ROT
The politics of The Valentine J
Democrat gets more putrid every
day Itisa pity that a local paper as
bright as The Democrat should be
given to publishing such political rot
as it does Gordon Journal
The Democrat is real sorry that its
politics do not agree with Bro Lyon
and that he thinks them putrid be
cause this paper and its editor has a
profound respect for him and his pa
per The Journal is a first class news
paper rarely sinks to vulgarity or per
sonal abuse and is always found bat
tling for Christianity and gently
chiding the men who do not pay their
bills but insists on talking politics
pitching horseshoes and in other ways
faithfully labor for the salvation of
their country
But the Journal should be more ex
plicit when it charges this paper with
publishing political rot Perhaps it
does sometimes let its feelings get a
little the better of its iudgment and
uses rather sarcastic language when it
reads the humbuggery put out by the
republican press and hears it spouted
by republican orators but is it rot to
antagonize principles which are to its
mind radically wrong Is it rot to
favor an income tax that the rich may
be compelled to bear their just share of
the burdens of government Is it rot
to say and prove that the laboring men
and consumers of products in this
country are in the toils of trusts and
monopolies which hesitate at nothing
which will fill the coffers of the mil
lionaires who compose the trusts Is
it rot to show the extravagance of
republican administration which dis
sipatedthe handsome surplus left it
by President Cleveland and refuse to
accept as its own the legacy of panic it
left the democratic party Is it rot
to contend that Wm J Bryan the
magnetic orator the deep thinker the
honored son of Nebraska and the
champion of the peoples rights is a
more fit man for president than Wm
McKinley whose every word indicates
policy and shows that he is owned
and controlled by the very mew who
have all but ruined the United States
Is it rot to deny that the Wilson bill
is a free trade measure and give
statistics which prove its superiority
over the McKinley bill
If these things are rot in heavens
name tell us what truths are not rot
j iiis jjrtjjei is me oujy one m tins sec
tion of the state which antagonizes the
pet theories of the McKinleyites and
as such is of course a fit object for
censure but it protests against being
charged with publishing political rot
until its articles have been proven
rotten
BRYAN ON DEMOCRACY
In his letter accepting the demo
cratic nomination for president Wm
J Bryan said
A democratic form of government
is conducive to the highest civilization
because it opens before each indivi
dual the greatest opportunities for
developement and stimulates to the
highest endeavor by insuring to each
the full enjoyment of all the rewards
of toil except such contribution as - is
necessary to support the government
which protects him Democracy is in
different to pedigree it deals with the
individual rather than with his ances
tors Democracy ignores differences
in wealth neither riches nor poverty
can be invoked in behalf of or against
any citizen Democracy knows no
creed recognizing the rights of each
individual to worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience
it welcomes all to a common brother
hood and guarantees equal treatment
to all no matter in what church or
through what forms they commune
with their Creator
The democratic party is pledged to
defend the constitution and enforce
the laws of the Uniited States and it
is also pledged to respect and preserve
the dual soheme of government
tutea by the founders of the republic
The name United States was happily
chosen It combines the idea of
national strength with the idea of local
self government and suggests an in
dissoluble union of indestructible
states Our revolutionary fathers
fearing the tendencies toward chrystal
lization as well as the disintegration
guarded against both and national
safety as well as domestic security is
to be found in the careful observance
of the limitation which they impose
A dignified but firm maintenance
of the foreign policy first set forth by
President Monroe and reiterated by
the presidents who have succeeded
him instead of arousing hostility
abroad is the best guarantee of
amicable relations with other nations
It is better for all concerned thatthe
United States shuuld resist any
r f
sion of European authority in the
western hemisphere rather than invite
the continual irritation - which would
necessarily result from any attempt to
increase the influence of monarchical
institutions over that portion of the
Americas which has been dedicated
to republican government
I desire to give special emphasis to
the plank which recommends such
legislation as is necessary to secure the
arbitration of differences between
employers enaged in interstate com
merce and their employes Arbitra
tion is not a new idea it is simply an
extension of the court of justice The
laboring men have expressed
a desire for arbitration and the rail
roads cannotreasonably object to the
decisions rendered by an impartial
tribunal Society has an interest even
greater than the interest of employer
or employes and has a right to pro
tect itself by courts of arbitration
against the growing inconveniences
and embarassment occasioned by dis
putes between those who own the
great arteries of commerce on the one
hand and the laborers who operate
them on the other
The democratic party is opposed to
trusts It will be recreant to its duty
to tne people or tne country it it rec
ognized either the moral or the legal
right of these great aggregations of
wealth to stifle competition bankrupt
rivals and then prey upon society
Corporations are the creatures of law
jnd must not be permitted to pass
from under the control of the power
which created them they are permit
ted to exist under the theory that they
advance the public weal and they
must not be allowed to use their
powers for the public injury
CHOKE IT OFF
The Canton O Repository the
organ of Major McKinley which is
being sent to all newspaper men in the
country should be choked off at once
Several times The Democrat has
called attention to misstatements
which appeared in its columns some
of them being so gross that even re
publicans could no5 swallow them In
the issue of September 10 we are in
formed that under the operation of
the McKinley law which considered
the tariif the governments credit was
all right and no bond issues were
needed And this in face of the fact
that the official documents have fre
quently been published which show
that Secretary Foster had prepared
plates for a bond issue before Cleve
land was inaugurated and in spite of
the fact that the first bond issue was
made before the Wilson law was pas
sed
The treasury department has made
public certain facts that republican
organs and stump speakers will care
fully abstain from mentioning One
is that when narrison entered the
white house after the expiration of
Clevelands first term he found avail
able funds in the treasury to the
amount of 200384916 and when he
he left the white house in Maich 1893
the available funds had been reduced
to 62450575 Both of these sums
were exclusive of the 100000000 re
serve In four years the treasury had
lost 167898341 This fact shows
what party was responsible for the de
pletion of the treasury Chicago
Chronicle
The nomination of so young a man
as Bryan for the presidency and the
nomination of so old a man as Palmer
for the same place shows a healthy
tendency on the part ot the American
people to entirely eliminate the age
issue from their politics A man is
not too young for any office that can
be given him under the constitution if
he is a man of sufficient intellectual
and executive caliber for the place for
which he is named Nor is a man too
old for any office if his vigor is unim
paired and his faculties are intact no
matter if he has nearly reached or
even actually passed the octogenarian
limit
Now that Li Hung Chang the great
Chinese statesman has visited this
country and learned ajl he could of our
customs and methods of government
the American people will sit down and
wait for China to show signs of im
provement immediately on his return
to China It is said that Li contem
plates building 33000 miles of railroad
THE AMENDMENTS
The first proposed amendment to
the constitution of the state provides
for two additional supreme judges
making five judges in the supreme
court instead of three as now The
work of the supreme court has accum
ulated so rapidly and as the stute
grows older will continue to accumu
late that the election of these judge3
has become almost imperative if we
wish speedy decisions upon important
cases At present two supreme court
commissioners are assisting the judges
but as they are answerable only to tho
court and not to the people and as the
expense of two additional judges will
be less than the commissioners it
seems that this amendment should re
ceive the unqualified endorsement of
the voters of the state
The second proposed amendment
provides that the salaries of the su
preme and district judges shall be fixed
by the legislature three fifth of each
house concuring and the salary shall
not be changed of tner than once in
four years As this amendment does
not provide any change from the pres
ent salary of 2500 each and as it
may sometime De expeaient to en
crease or diminish the amount paid
our judges owing either to an increase
or decrease in the labor to be per
formed it will be well to support this
amendment No change in the pre
sent rate of compensation can be made
without the concurance of three fifths
of each branch of the legisture and as
our representatives and senators but
reflect the sentiment of the people of
their districts a majority Df the voters
would certainly desire a change before
it would be made
The next proposed amendment pro
vides for the fixing the salarise of the
executive officers of the state in the
same manner of those of the judges
two thirds of each branch of the legis
lature concuring Why the difference
in majorities should be made is unex
plainable If two thirds is required
tor one why not the other This
amendment also leaves out the the
clause in the constitution which says
There shall be no allowance for clerk
hire in the offices of the superinten
dent of public instructions and attor
ney general Evidently the officials
named think they need help Ask
them about it when yon write
The opponents of Bryan announce
that they have all the brains and edu
cation on their side seeming to forget
that Nebraska has but 31 per cent of
illiterate people while the east
averages up about 6 per cent
to restore the McKinley law which has been
twice condemned bv the neonln in nnfnoi
elections and which enacted under tbe false
jjicu ui muieuuuu iw iiwme inuusiry proved a
prolific breeder or trusts and monopolies enrich
ed the few at the expense of many restricted
trade and deprived the producers of the great
American staples of aecess to their natural mar
kets Until the money Question is settled we are
opposed to any agitation for further change in
our tariff laws exceprsucli as are necessary to
make the- defieit in revenue caused by the ad
verse decision of the Supreme Court on the In
come tax There would b no deficit in the
revenue but for the anuuhwent by the Supreme
Court of a law passed by the democratic con
gress in strict persuance of the uniform de
cision of that court for nearly one hundred
years We hold that the most efiWant wv nf
protecting American labor is to prevent the un
portation of foreign pauper labor to compete
with it in our iiome market
We denounce the proliigate -waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppressive
taxation and the lavish appropriations of recent
republican congresses wnich have Kept taxes
high while the labor tbatpavtheni f unemploy
ed and the product of the peoples toil are de
pressed in price till they no longer repay the
cost of production
We denounce the arbitrary interference by
federal authorities in local attairs as a violation
of the constitution of the United States- and a
crime against free institutions
Recognizing the iust claims of deserving union
soldiers we heartily endorse the rale ol Com
missioner Murphy that no names shall be arbi
trarily droppea from the pension roll and tho
fact of cuiistmentaud service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease and disabil
ity before enlistment
We extend our sympathy to thf people of Cuba
m their heroic struggle lor liberty and Indepen
dence
We are opposed to lire tenure in the public
service We lavor appointments based upon
inenis nxim term ot onice ami such an
wneu ne gets nome xnat wm give ortteriviiiato m wn affiVa
our steel rail mills another onnortunftv I juai opportunities to all citueaa of ilicenained
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emocvatic Platform
The following is a synopsis of the
platform adopted by the national con
vention at Chicago July 9th 1896 The
plank referring to free coinage of silver
is given in full
Recognizing that the money p eslion Is para
mount ro all other- at this tune we invite atten
tion lo the fact that the federal constitution
names silver and gold together as the money
metal of the United States We declare that
the demonetisation of silver in 1S73 has resulted
in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding
fall in the price of com Jioditles nroduced hvriii
people we are unalterably opposed to a sin
gle gold standard old mouomeralism is a
British policy it is not only un Aiiierican butt
auti Aniaricaii
We demand the free and iinlimirpi i ninm nr
botli gold and silver at the present legal ratio- of
I to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of
anv other nation Vc demaud that the stan
dard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender
equally with gold ior all debfc public and pri
vate and we favor such legislatwn ai will pre
vent the demonetization ot any kQfi of leal
tender money by private contract
We are opposed to the policv and practice of
surrender jug to the holders of the obligations or
the United Mates the option reserved by law to
the government of redeeming such obligations
in either silver coin or gold coin
We are opposed to the issuing of interest bear
ing bonds ol the United States in time or peace
We demand that the power to issue notes to
circulate as money be taken from the national
banks and that all paper money shall be issued
directly by the treasury department
We hold that tariir duties should be levied for
purposes of revenue ad that taxation should be
limited by the needs of the government honestly
and economically administered We denounce
as disturbing to business the retjuhlicrm ti
icpuuiiu esiauuaiieu bv cusroui and
sell goods abroad than they en at I hundred r years 77 and sanctioned bj
home even after paying heavy
portatiou charges
to snow now mucn cneauer they can w eqeeiarejc to oe tne unwritten law of rhi j
usatre of
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I uiijjiu ui uiK Kroiusi anu wisest of those who
founded and have muintamed our gotcnunett
1 that no man should be eligible for a third Urw
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