m fcs - J lh ii WIiENTINE DEMOCBAT - - - BY I MR1CE VALENTINE NEBRASKA NEBRASKA KEWS NOTES Prosperity is flourishing in todity i mfsTJ York Presbyterians dedicated a new church mt Syracuse 23room corn proves an excellent crop ft Trenton 3 A bicycle thief was captured red handed at Florence Tecumsehs police court did a rattling fjeod business last -week 2jruit was damaged by the storm mround Beatrice and Syracuse A succession of small showers has greatly improved the crop prospects at 3fernam The3rand Island fair was the main attraction in the South Platte country last week Schools opened at Geneva Monday IThe Ward school opened for the first time in four years Someone is poisoning dogs at West 3 oint and a number of fine blooded canines have been killed Slmonson Bros Co of Alliance ave sold their lumber and coal yards o J B White of Grandon Mo The second annual meeting of the County Attorneys association of Ne braska was held last week in Hastings The residence of William McPherson At -Falls City was badly damaged by lightning but none of the inmates were -Injured The annual harvest home picnic at f Trenton will be held about September 14 The event will be one of the best ever held Mrs John Clements of Lyons died at Iher home with cancer of the stomach airs Clements was 73 years old and had resided there since 1867 Jl Anderson fireman on passenger -train No 5 westbound from Chicago tad his foot crushed while working -around the engine at Ashland Ernest Rottman of Douglas couldnt the temptation of selling liquor without a license and again talks to iiis Iriends through the bars The Lincoln Central Labor union at tended the Labor day exercises at Omaha A special excrusion train left at 8 a m returning in the evening J H Hamilton Co grain and lum ber dealers of Leigh have recently purchased a large grain elevator lum ber yard and fifty barrel flouring mill at Modale la Secretary of State Porter was be fore Judge Holmes Saturday to show cause why he refuses to allow the can fiidates of the populist party a place on the official ballot me of the innovations of the state fair will be the model kitchen presided jover by Hrs Harriet S MacMurphy of Omaha who will give daily demonstra tions with Nebraska cereals Woodmen log rollers were in Pender 3y the hundreds last week One of the reat attractions was a base ball game flayed by the Ponca nine and a nine nade up of Winnebago Indians rhe crew of a freight train found a ymm lying dead near the city limits at Blair He had 1040 in his clothing The theory is that he was killed by a freight train earlier in the night Cyril Cox the little stepson of G J aioffett of Geneva was playing in the echool house lots and in attempting to jump over a mower which ras cutting ihe grass had his foot almost cut off The saloon trial at Mead has already piled up several pages of transcript find the saloon side is going to make it s big as possible as the temperance people must pay for it before an appeal can be taken The case of Sam W Christy against George W Stubbs in which the lat hers election as judge of the Seventh judicial district was contested was dis missed from the supreme court on mo tion of the relator Ed Miller- and Joseph Kellar pro prietors of the Lawrence Literary and 3enevolent society a club alleged to ave betm organized to handle liquor Tvere arrested for the illegal sale of li quor and taken to Neligh to await trial David Barrein a prominent young farmer bought a quantity of carbolic cid in Newman Grove and on his way lome the bottle was broken in his pocket saturating his clothing By the time he reached home he was rav Ing with pain and within an hour had expired the carbolic acid having burn fed the whole hip to a crisp r The beginnings of a new primer have -been made by one of our exchanges The questions may be Indefinitely con tinued by teacher and pupil See the corn In the field Can the xorn walk 4No the corn stalks See the pretty- cake Does the cake stalk Never But you should see a cake -walk bave a roDe Can the rope walk Yes if It i Jtaut The hen is in the garden Does the ien rise No the hen set3 -The mercury is In the tube Will vthe mercury set No my child Wait untilJuly and itPP J 7 - -- - ADDRESS CHAS A TOWNE OPENS THE CAMPAIGN AT DULUTH HE ROASTS ROOSEVELT With Irresistible Logic He Tears though the latter were the aggressors the Administrations imper ialism to Tatters an intention General Anderson who took command of our land forces In the islands about the first of July 1S98 in an article in the North American Re view for February 1900 says I was the first to tell Admiral Dew ey that there was any disposition on the raxt of the American people to hold the Philippines if they were captured There will be little dissent from the proposition that if he came to Manila with such knowledge the most obvious1 considerations of justice and fairness mS y I i - r i - ftjj and much Is attempted to be made out of such expressions as they fired on our flag 0 But of sfince we had secretly Tn1nth Minn fSneciali The largest formed a determination to seize the to listen to a Dolitical sneech ands it ts annarent that whenever that that ever assembled in Duluth occurred design became manifest or we attempt- at the armory when Charles A Towne ed to put it Into effect the anpinos opened the campaign In a lengthy ad dress in which he replied to the recent their object to be independence would speech of Governor Roosevelt delivered resistit The aggressor regardless of at St Paul on the occasion of the tlonal convention of the League of he who stood in defense of a right but Republican clubs and arraigned the he who by act or threat compelled the administrations policy in the Philip- ither to defend it The development of pines The audience which comprised the hostile design was itself an attack persons of all shades of palitical belief The wonder is considering th tropical and many scores of women listened at- nature of the islanders and the long- tentively to the orators remarks for continued course of our mingled more than two hours and frequently throughout the discourse the applause was deafening The speech which wlM be used as a campaign document is described as Mr Townes greatest political effort At its conclusion he was tendered an ovation by the multitude present Mr Towne opened by expressing a lack of patience with any one who be lieved in their party right or wrong considering the latter simply another statement of the divine right of kings He then said Numerous questions are involved in this campaign It is rare however that more than one great issue is de cided at a time and as a rule one subject of interest is uppermost in the public mind and chiefly calls for dis cussion and decision This is especially true in 1900 The relatively secondary matters Important as they are all have reference to policies to be pursued by the republic The issue of first moment the one that temporarily dwarfs all oth ers by comparison is whether the re public itself is to continue it is one of the paradoxes of history that a policy of subjugation and con quest should have been the inheritance of a war of liberation he said Then he reviewed at some length the causes leading up to and the chief events of the Spanish war He took up the insurrection in the Philippines sketching it briefly and telling how brilliantly Dewey and his sailors en gaged the Spanish -fleet in Manila bay and continued It was thus as a mere incident in the prosecution of our war for the lib erty of Cuba that we found ourselves in the Philippine islands It is claimed that circumstances were such as to compel us with due regard to our in terests and our international duties to pursue in these islands thereafter the policy for which the administration has become responsible A brief examina tion however of those circumstances will suffice to show that the policy adopted was not only unnecessary but It was in the highest degree tageous to us while involving the ut most cruelty and injustice toward the inhabitants of those islands and violat ing every prinoiple of good faith and the honorable traditions of American diplomacy PROMISE OF INDEPENDENCE He said the coming of Aguinaldo was at the invitation of Admiral Dewey and that he was to be an ally of the Ameri cans quoting from the naval records in support of his assertion After again referring to the different situations in Cuba and the Philippines he said But the statement that we never promised the Filipinos their independ ence conveys a false impression Out- conduct was such as to estop an hon from a justification or excuse for an attempt to subjugate the islands The Filipinos made no secret of their rebellion against the Spanish gov ernment What they desired to do was required that the Filipinos be speedil acquainted with it Tet they were per mitted to indulge in the illusion of hop from our supposed friendliness to thel plans of independence with which thei proclamations had made us familiar ADMINISTRATION THE AGGRESSOR After describing the strained relations between the Americans ahdthe Fili pinos after the capture of Manila Mr Towne said Our opponents are in the habit of referring to the outbreak of actual hos tilities between us and the Filipinos as if they were earnest when declaring who struck the nrst blow would be not cence ambiguity and offense that they were not betrayed into violence long before any physical clash actually oc curred As a matter of fact however as shown by General Otis official re port our troops fired the first shot and the Filipinos stood on the defensive He then discussed the protocol and the treaty of peace and the proclama tion of January 3 1899 at Manila which he declares Is of the very essence of imperialism Divested of Its cant and made over into plain language the proclamation tells the Filipinos that we have seized their country by brute force anc propose to hold it and that they must submit to our pretention yield to our assumed authority orbe shot to death It boldly proclaims the right of conquest the highway robbery of nations For the first time in Amer ican history It is asserted by the re sponsible leader of a great party and a president of the republic that we may rightfully wage war for the purposes of domination and acquire property in the lands of other nations and juris diction over their liberty and persons by the mere test of superior strength It violates the most sacred traditions of our history But what is probably as sinister in this proclamation as this flagrant in dorsement of force as the basis of a0rSemenA r e n o withdrawal and leave the -vacancy un nucai auiauiiLjr - filled He argued that the populists imperialistic tendencies in the Stvenson for tlve is the cool umln the democrats had ignored the popu president has the power to act before lists in the Kansas City convention the execution of the treaty The treaty ofei tnnv i t il Tf Via I Tint indppn I iv- f WUR IKJL VKL liiHUCU iJ v - been approved by the senate but might easily never nave been approved since the final action of that body is said TEVENSON SUCCEEDS CHAS A TOWNE ON POPULIST TICKET FOR YIGE PRESIDENT Mr Stevenson Gets His Fourth Nomination by the Action of the Populist Committee Chicago 111 Special Adlal E Stevenson tied William J Bryan In the number of nominations when the popu list national committee last night named him for vice president Up to that time Mr Bryan had been nom inated four times and Mr Stevenson three times The populists by accla mation nominated Mr Stevenson for vice president to fill the vacancy on their ticket caused by the with drawal of Charles A Towne A test vote however which preceded the final vote showed that twenty four of the ninety five members of the com mittee present were opposed to nom inating the vice presidential nominee of the democrats silver republicans and American Monetary league Senator Marion Butler of North Car7 olina chairman of the committee put up a hot fight against the nomination of Mr Stevenson although he knew before the committee went into ses sion that the Stevenson men had over seventy votes General James Weaver led the fight for Stevenson Senator Pettigrew who had been talking for Stevenson for three days made his record good for the populists of his state by voting with Senator Butler on the test vote MAKE MANY SPEECHES The committee held its session at 206 LaSalle street with Senator Butler in the chair and Secretary Edgerton at the desk The session lasted for nearly seven hours most of this time being used in speechmaking Mr Townes letter of withdrawal was read and ac cepted and then General Weaver started the fight by moving that Mr Stevenson be nominated to fill the vacancy Almost immediately a sub stitute motion that a populist be nom inated was introduced and then the oratorical floodgates were opened Gen eral Butler said that he thought the populists should accept Mr Townes ocratic vice presidential nominee they would lose prestige and give the mid dle of the road populists good cause to claim tQ be enuine peopleg been taken by a bare majonty I to have party Committeeman Washburn of of one vote This assumption of power admittedly before the treaty conferred it on him and where the exercise of it was certain to involve the nation in war as it soon did was the most pro digious ROUGH BIDE FOR ROOSEVELT Taking up Governor Roosevelts speech he declared it to be enormous ly disappointing Neither in matter nor in manner is it worthy of its occasion he said In respect of argument the speech is with rare exceptions an altercation of eva sion and assertion In spirit it is a com pound of scold and scullion As to its facts it abounds in inaccuracies which if accidental are inexplicable as com ing from a man who has performed creditably in history and biograph But the world is accustomed to inconsist encies from Mr Roosevelt It has long looked upon him as a predestinedand incorrigible eccentric It has given up attempting to explain or reconcile him with himself It is quite impossible whether it would be worth while oth erwise or not to make an entirely sat isfactory diagnosis if a civil service - ref0rmer in partnership with Thomas orable nation trom using such a plea f riliPS citizen soldier who ridicules Piatt a the volunteer a leader in battle who finds glory in beng rescued from an ambush a hero who boasts of shooting a fleeing foe In the back a candidate Un nlowo nnrl tn flelPSfltPR and to form a government of their own and gaueries to obtain a nomination that to be absolutely independent of Spain he doeg not -ant a gentleman who The representatives of the United- ciarges sx and one half millions of his States in the east knew of this object fellow COuntrymen with lawlessness perfectly well The Filipinos proclaim- dishonesty and cowardice a statesman ed it to the world wh0 mounted on a hobby rides roughly Tt is iirmortant to bear in mind that r0Qtnnc in ennnmics and the Filipino republic established under poiitics swinging his partisan larjat the leadership of Aguinaldo was a gov ernment in fact recognized throughout manche the island of uuzon ana several au joining islands to the south capable of preserving order collecting taxesmain taining education and a complete sys tem of public administration raising and supporting an army which for a considerable period numbered 30000 and conducting war according to the hu mane principles of modern internation al law It is Impossible to determine the ex act time with which the authorities at Washington decided to take forcible possession of the Philippine islands It is clear that Admiral Dewey for a and yelling like an intellectual Co PLEASED WITH THE POPULISTS Lincoln Neb Aug 28 Special Mr Bryan thus expressed his pleasure today over the action of the populist national committee in indorsing Hon A E Stevenson for the vice presiden cy I am very glad that Mr SteVenson has been indorsed by the populists He is thoroughly committed to the principles set forth In the Kansas City platform and deserves the support of oil who Relieve in those nrinclDles To considerable period after the battle of have nominated anyone else would hccve weaKenea tne ucxet jne - Si toi nn nftwiort nf snh IXdfJiJlCX wuj w -a list organization will profit rather than suffer by this evidence to place the triumph of principles above partisan ship a The democratic congressional conven tion for the Tenth district of Wiscon sin nominated for congress F A Part low a banker of Barron -county New Tork Press A woman never forgives a man for his Kinaness in bringing 3ier husband home arumc r L Massachusetts talked in a like strain Senator Butler Secretary Edgerton Vice Chairman Edmisten George F Washburn and Senator Pettigrew were appointed a- committee to draft an address to the populists of the coun try WASHBURN STANDS FOR BRYAN Treasurer of National Committee Gives His Views Chicago 111 Special In comment ing on the action of the national com mittee of the peoples party in nom inating Mr Stevenson yesterday as its vice presidential candidate to fill the vacancy cased by the declination of Mr Towne Mr George F Washburn treasurer of the national committee said I opposed the nomination of Steven son because I believed the rank and file of the party was opposed to it 1 favored the nomination of a populist who would stay with us until the polls closed or else take no- action on the declination of Towne When Towne allowed his name to be presented to our convention for a candidate for nomination It was equiv alent to an acceptance furthermore his friends pledged us in the convention that he would remain in the field Had there been the least suspicion that he would not have remained in the field he would not have been nominated therefore I deny his moral right to withdraw without our consent after using our nomination in trying to se cure another I believe the best way to hold the populist vote for Bryan is to keep faith with our constituents Had our na tional convention been in session in stead of our committee it would cer tainly have nominated a populist Notwithstanding the local conditions and the efbarrassment caused by this act I appeal to populists everywhere to work earnestly with unceasing vigor for the election of Mr Bryan He Is the greatest reform crusader of this age and his election must be assured In saying this I voloe not only the sentiment of Senator Butler chairman of the national committee but what I believe to be the true sentiment of the rank and file of the party throughout the country NO CHANGE TO ESCAPE Puck Newlywed What is the right thing to do when your wife asks you for money and you havent got it Oletimer Oh there is no right thing to do under those circumstances Any thing you do will be wrong Isnt it kind or tnese peop e ma remarked the young fish to drop us lines with food on em VDpnt you believe it replied the mother fish You must learn to read between- the lines A LETTER TO ROOSEVELT A FIlIHplnoWrltes Him aLetteV About St Paul Speech New York Special The following open letter to Governor Roosevelt written by Sixto Lopez who was for merly secretary to the Filipino com mission in Washington has just been given out Dear Sir I have read your remark able speech delivered recently at St Paul Minn in which you charge the Filipinos with being the precise anal ogues of the Boxers and Apaches and our government with being a bloody Aguinaldoan oligarchy Nothing ap peals to the best human emotions so much as the spectacle of a brave man Permit me to say that I cordially join with the American people in admira tion of the chief of the rough riders but while admiring your achievements as a soldier and a fearless reformer my admiration ceases when you strike at what I believe to be the truth Indeed I am afraicf that your brilliant career may receive a check in the unequal contest for truth has never yet been vanquished I cannot believe that a gentleman and a soldier will make serious charges against an opponent without being in possession of absolute proof of his statements -Consequently if your charges are true I must cease to be a champion of the cause of my people If they are false you ought to cease to be the champion of yours CHALLENGE TO THE GOVERNOR Therefore In the name of my coun trymen for whom you and your col leagues have made such lavish profes sion of friendship I challenge you to furnish proof of your charges or else withdraw them Let me draw your attention to the circumstances as we Filipinos- view them You came to our country You call us Dear General Aguinaldo You ask accept and profit by our aid in the defeat of yoW enemy You deliver Spanish prisoners over to or chaurge You place a large number of your own sick and wounded practically in cur care When your enemy has been defeated you turn upon us shoot us down by thousands and when our resistance Is greater than you anticipated you de clare that we are the precise analogues of Boxers and Apaches and him who you once styled dear general when you required his aid you now refer to as Bloody Aguinaldo Honor bright do you consider all this as consistent writh the conduct of a gentleman and a soldier There is only one escape Prove your charges Look at it in another light You are powerful and wealthy You can bring to your task of extermination the most deadly weapons of so called civilized warfare Your soldiers are well armed well fed well quartered We on the contrary are without wealth and without a single field piece We have very few arms and inferior ammunition We have only such food as our soldiers can find in forest and mountain and we have to live in swamps and jungles exposed to every weather CONTEST AN UNEQUAL ONE The contest Is thus fearfully unequal but of this we have not complained Our Philippine mothers and sisters have silenced the pang when an imperialist shell or bullet has robbed them of hus band father or brother We have fought fairly even your own officers have admitted that we have conducted the war fairly and in accordance with the customs of modern war Yet not content with having all ad vantages on your side you would now try to take from us our good name How pitiable how infinitesimal A brave man will always sympathize with the smaller dog A worthy foe man will be generous to his weaker op ponent A gentleman and a soldier will not heap- dishonor upon his adver sary Do you believe these mere truisms Then there is only one escape prove your charges Indeed you ought to have proved the charges when making them Honor fair play the generosity you should have shown to a weaker opponent who is absent all proclaim that ought ought to have given proof at the time But let that pass It is not too late even now EVIL REPORTS ON BOTH SIDES It will not however suffice to ap peal to imagination or assumption to rumor or unfounded reports Such ru mors and reports cut both ways There have been as many evil reports against the American soldier as against the Filipinos Your own commissioners ad mit isolated occurrences are regret table indeed but incident to every war but they do not feel called upon to answer idle tales without foundation In fact TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Mid roaders of Iowa met at Des Moines and state central committee will name the ticket Governor Stone engaged rooms at the Hoffman house New York city for eastern democratic headquarters M E Mprgan of Appleton Wis was nominated for congress by the Eighth district democratic convention Congressmen CHrk of Missouri and Grosvenor of Ohio debated Expan sion at Mountain Lake Md Chau tauqua Colored press at Indianapolis elected Cvrus Field Adams president of the national association chose other offi cers and adjourned The United States army transport Lawton arrived at Seattle from Nome with 22C passengers two thirds whom are destitute miners returned at the expense of the government i oil I LITERARY NOTES mm t w r Burden of fJ tnvenepublfahed bJ Florence and at Boston- NJ ton Mifflin charged York is a novel of purpose with high ethical feelmg l is in no wis ts Idealism but it lactic It is indeed in point o bright aess and humor very like Converses story PMe xix Miss wo years ago while the lye 8tj tronger and yet quite as charming is that of her first work The Cosmopolitan for August fully of that excel mstalns the reputation ent magazine Notable among the men intents we can take space -to tion only a part are Tthe Exposition A New Stead position by Wm T port Palace by Montgomery Scbuy r Some Notable Murder Cases hy of the United Republic tVm F Howe States of Great Britain by John Bris en Walker With Boer and Briton y Frank R Roberson Some Gossip ibout Writers by Caroline A Creevy ind poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Dlinton Scollard Of course all the pa illustrated Thft ers are profusely Cosmopolitan is only ten cents a copy Fifty years in European literary mu jieal and social circles should furnisl my observer with a host of pleasing memories and given the art to relate them tersely and yet entertainingly a volume of interest and value must re suit Such In brief is the story or Personal Recollections by H Suther land Edwards who knew Thackeray Reade Adolphe Sax and many others notable In history from opera singers to revolutionary Russians Published by Cassell Co New Yofk price 150l Major General James H Wilson U S V who sailed for China last week Is about to revisit a country with which he is familiar How familiar he has admirably indicated in his book China Travels and Investigations in the Mid ile Kingdom a new edition of which i being brought out by D Appleton Co The Burden of Christopher is an in herited manufacturing business whicb he endeavors to conduct in a manneff diametrically opposed to that of mod ern competitive ideals He sets out to make the business a co operative one but never gets beyond profit-sharing short hours and the maximum wage He is finally ruined by the com petition of rivals paying low wages md enforcing long hours these the re suit of a strike in which the strikers were defeated The story shows how Christ bearing1 ind the present competitive system are forever at war The difficulties of the problems presented by the conflict of ethical ideals and competitive commer cialism are realized and dealt with fairly but with a clear feeling that the competitive system and the golden rule cannot be harmonized The love interest is at once strong -and pathetic and the character drawing clever This book can be obtained at the Me geath Stationery CompanyOmaha Nebj ABOUT HOG CHOLERA How To Render the Hogs Immuno From Hog- Cholera To many persons this may seem im possible but we assure you it can bt done in perfect safety if you only do it the right way We do hot advise an attempt to immunize a mixed herd 3 herd of all sizes and ages We advise jnly rendering young pigs immune after the sows and the balance of the hero have already had the cholera The pro- per time to render pigs immune 13- when they are about one month old Our Plan Put one or two sick pigs Into the pen with your pigs Your pigs will take the cholera Have them so arranged that every one will come in contact with the sick pigs and every one will take the disease at the same time Let them run together two or three days but in the meantime keep the pigs and the sows on very short feed They will become hungry and wil leat their medicated food when yom are ready to commence treatment After the sick pigs have run with the well ones two or three days then de t stroy them It is best to burn themi Disnifect the ground they run on By this time the well pigs will have the disease well set in their systems On the fifth day after the well pigs were exposed to the disease begin a thor ough course of treatment with the Snoddy Remedy just as if they wero sick Treat both pigs and sows for seven days or until they take enough medicine to put their systems thor oughly under its influence When you see their discharges black and look like they had been eating charcoal and if they have taken the amount of med icine prescribed in article No 3 in our booklet they are safe In this way the pigs will have the cholera but the remedy being given them In their feed and through the milk of the sow just before the time for the disease to develop in them It will prevent the disease from making them sick The action of the remedy Is cer tain and will never fail when the pre scribed amount of the medicine Is pro perly given A hog may have cholera while his system is under the Influence of th remedy but the disease will not make hinusick He will be hearty and thrifty all the time and no one can tell from his looks that he has the disease After a few days the disease will leave him and he will never have it again Any practical farmer can make this a com plete success in every case We hav made this test often and know- it is perfectly safe to undertake We shm be glad to correspond with any Jnte ested parties The Dr J w e I Remedy Co Alton mi BroC0ZI ca office Des Mqinesi la is -S it 4 3 I T Ah 1 i r i a m K il