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FUSION TICKET
-For President W J BRYAN
For Vice President E STEVENSON
State
For Governor A POYNTER Boone
For A GILBERT York
For Secretary of Stat C V SVOBODA How
ard
ForTreasurer S II HOWARD Ilolt
ForAudltor THEODORE GRIESSClay
D OLDHAM Buf
falo
ForCommisioner otluMIc Lands and Build
ings J CAR EY Saunders
For Superintendent of Public Instruction C F
BECICBurt
For Presifirntlal Electors
FRANK T RANSOM Silver Republican
Douglas
-ROBERT OBERFELDER Democrat Cney
enne
L N WEN TE DemocratlJincaster
JAMES HUGHES Democrat Collax
JOHN ll FELBERPopiflist Cedar
WILLIAM n GAKRETT PopulistPhelps
W G SWAN Populist Johnson
PETER EBBESON Populist Howard
Congrcssicnal
For Member of Congress Sixth District
WM NEVILLE North Platte
Senatorial
For State Senator Fourteenth District
JN F HAY WARD
County Ticket
For County Attorney A M MORRISSEY
For Commissioner of First District
W E HALEY
For Conmteiocr of IMrd Dlsjrirt
Judge Bakers speech here last Satur
day was without doubt as able a de
fense of the iniquitous policy of Mc
Xinley Vadministratiou as any republi
could make and was listened to by a
fair sized audience composed of the ad
herents of McKinley and Bryan about
equal in number He failed absolutely
to arouse any enthusiasm whatever
even among those who have always af
filiated with the republican party His
discussion of the money question show
ed plainly the weakness of Republican
argument when he declared We
the republican party have coined
more silver in the last year than has
been coined by all the democratic pres
idents since the birth of the world and
have kept it on a parity with gold
Within one minute he was charging
the fusion ists with being advocates of
the coinage of dollars worth 53 cents
If Judge Baker and our republican
friends are in earnest why not also be
honest and consistent The time has
come when our people are not to be so
easily deceived and we verily believe
the weak and misleading argument
which is being universally used by re
publican orators will lail to find lodge
ment anywhere among the truly repre
sentat ve American voters who intend
to exercise their rights of suffrage by
voting to perpetuate those orincipfes
near and dear to every lover of human
liberty
Judge Tucker was nominated for
county attorney at the republican coun
ty convention last week not that any
one except the Judge himself thought
that he would be elected but because
no other republican lawyer w anted the
nomination Quite a number of the
leading members of the jarty favored
leaving the place blank but the Judge
wanted the opportunity to make the
race and with no other candidate he
could not be refused The voters have
made up their minds to re elect our
present county attorney nd the senti
ment even at the republican conven
tion was very strongly his way As a
leading stockman was heard to say I
am a republican but when it comes to
the election of a county attorney I am
for the man who will give me the best
service in the office and I dont carel
what ticket he is on Mr Morrissey
has shown himself to be faithful and
able he has given us good service and
we cannot afford to vote against him
just because we do not agree in poli
tics This is almost the universal sen
timent -among the people It is a busi
ness proposition and the voter will sup
port the man who for the past two
years has filled the place with signal
DIETRICHS LAMENT
This will happen iu tbe private
ganctum of the Hastings banker about
the 7th of next November
My puttons are gone
Und a big pile of mon
Und I haind been elected yet neider
Der Dutch trew me down
I behafed like a clown
Und I fll o great big stuffed
ee2er
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN VERSUS REPUBLICAN
not apply to republican representative
government Liberty is
not the same at all times and in all
places Ibid
Lincolns Reply to Congressman Dal
zell October 16 1854 -Speech at
Peoria 111 Little by little but stead
ily as mans march to the grave we
havo been giving t up the old for the
new faith Near eighty years ago we
began by declaring that all men are
created equal but now from that be
ginning we have run down to the other
declaration that for some men to en
slave others is a ksacred right of self-
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EPUBLIOAN orators are finding the Declaration of Independence quite a stumbling block this
fall aiirt their only answer to the Fusionist who suggests that it has always been our national
effvs cM ped is a slur I his speech in this village last week Judge Baker wanted to know when the
Democrats discovered it Well Abraham Xincoln discovered it and defended it in his day as the follow
ers of William J Bryan are defending it today The Democrat publishes below extracts from the
speeches of Abraham Lincolnwhen the slave owners of the soiith were attempting to discredit that im
mortal document
We ask every Republican to read what the father of his party said on the subject of Imperialism
Militarism and Slavery and then ask himself if the party has not drifted from its moorings
Republican national piatform for
1900 The largest measure of sHf
government consistent with their wel
fare and our duties shall be secured
to them the Filipinos by law
Lincolns reply to Eepublican plat
form July 101858 Speech at Chica
go 111 Those arguments that are
made that the inferior race are to be
treated with as much allowance as
they are capable of enjoying that as
much is to be done for tuem as their
condition will allow what are these
arguments They are the argument
that kings have made for enslaving
the people in all ages of the worfd
rou will find that all tjie arguments
in favor of kingcraft were of this
class they always bestrode the necks
of the people not that they wanted to
do it but because they were better off
for being ridden This is their argu
ment Turn in whatever way you
will whether it come from the mouth
of a king as an excuse for enslaving
ihe people of his country or from the
mouth of men of one race as a reason
for enslaving the men of another race
t is all thr same serpent
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Franklin MVeagh McKinleyite
The constitution or national policy
adopted by thirteen haul consolidated
weak rescued colonies glad to be able
to call their lives their own cannotbe
expected to hamper the greatest nati n
in the world
Lincolns reply to Franklin MVeigh
July 101858 Speech at Chicagulfi
In every way we are better men in
the age and race arid country in which
we live for these July 4th celebra
tions But after we have done all this
Ove have Hot yet reached the whole
There is something else connected
with it We have besides these
meH descended by blood from our an
cestorsamong us perhaps half of our
people who are not descendants at all
ot these men they are men who have
come from Europe German Irish
French and Scandinavian -men who
have come from Europe themselves or
whose ancestors have come hither and
settled here finding themselves our
equals in all things If they look back
through this history to trace their con
nection with those days by blood they
find they have none They cannot car
ry themselves back into that glorious
epoch and make themselves feel that
they are part of us but when they
look through that old declaration of
independence they find that those old
men say that We hold those truths to
be seff evident that all men are cre
ated equal and then they feel that
that moral sentiment taught iu that
day evideuces their relation to those
men that it is the father of all moral
principle m them and that they have a
right to claim it as though they were
-blood of the blood and flesh of the
flesh of the men who wrote thatdeclar
ation and so they are That is the
electric cord in that declaration that
links the hearts of patriotic and
me n togetner that will link
those patriotic hearts as long as the
love of fre dom exists in the minds of
men throughout the world
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Lyman Abbott McKinieyite The
axiom that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed is a baseless assumption
Lincoln Iteply to Lyman Abbott
October 16 1854 Speech at Philadel
phia What I do say is that no man
is good enough to govern another man
without that others consent X say
this is the leading principle the sheet
anchor of American republicanism
Our Leclaration ot Independence savs
We hold these truths to be self-evident
That -ill men are created equal
that they aiji endowed bv their Creator
with certain inalienable rights that
among these are life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness That to secure
these rights governments are instituted
among men deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed
I have quoted so much at this time
merely to show that accordng to our
ancient faith the just powers of the
governments are derived from the con
sent of the governed
Senator Piatt of Connecticut Mc-
Kinleyite In the right to acquire
territory is found the right to govern
and as the right to govern is sovereign
and unlimited tbe right to govern is a
sovereign right and I maintain is not
limited in the constitution I think it
must be admitted that the right to i
rmirarn ta snvprpicrn and iinlimileri
Governmenns derive their just powers
from the consent of some of the gov
erned
ttBetfaV reply to Seuatof PMtj
July 10 1858 Speech at Chicago
I should like to know if taking Jbis
old Declaration of Independence that
declares that all men are equal upon
principle and making exceptions to it
where will it stop If one man says it
does not aiean the negro why not an
other say it does not mean some other
man If that Declaration is not the
truth let us get the statute book in
which we fird it and tear it outl Who
is so bold as to do it If it is not true
let us tear it out Cries of JNo No
Let us stick to it then let us stand by
it then Let us discard all
quibbling about this man or the other
man this race and that race and the
other race being inferior and therefore
they must be placed in an inferior pos
itiondiscarding our standard that we
have left usl Let us discard all these
things and unite rs one people through
out this land until we shall oncenore
stand up declaring that all men are
created equal I leave you hop
ing that the lamp of liberty will burn
in jour bosoms until there shall no
longer be a doubt that all men are
created equal
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2ew York Tribune MoKinleyite
It is a favorite notion now to quote
the words governments are instituted
among men deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed
as if these embodied a law of applica
tion to ah inhabitants alike The
Declaration of Independence was a
formal notice that the inhabit
ants of the colonies consented no long
er to British Rule
Lincolns reply to New York Trib
une June 26 1857 Speech at Spring
field 111 The assertion that all men
are created equal was of no practical
use in effecting our separation from
Great Britain and it was placed in the
Declaration not for that but for fut
ure use Its authors meant it to be
as thank God it is now proving itself
a stumbling block to all those who in
after times might seek to turn a people
back into the hateful paths of despot
ism They knew the proneness of
prosperity to breed tyrants and they
meant when such should reappear in
this fair land and commence their vo
cation they should find left for them
at least one hard nut to crack
WhitelawsReid McKinleyite ap
pealed to the people to Resist the
crazy extension of the doctrine that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed
Lincolns replv to Whitelaw Reid
Oct 15 1858 Speech at Alton 111
I think the authors of that notable
instrument intended to include all men
but they did not mean to declare all
men equal in all respects They did
pot mean to say that all men were
equal in color intellect moral develop
ment or social capacity They defined
with tolerable distinctness in what they
did consider all men created equal
equal in certain iualienable rights
among which are life liberty and pur
suit of happiness This they said and
this they meant They meant to set
up a standard maxim for free society
which should be familiar to all con
stantly looked to constantly labored
for and even though perfectly attain
ed constantly approximated and
thereby constantly spreading and deep
ening its influence and augmenting ihe
happiness and value of life to all peo
ple of all colors everywhere
From the speech -of Representative
John Dalzell of Pennsylvania one of
the Republican leaders of- the house
From the Congressional Record But
Mr Chairmad if we are compelled to
legislate subject to the limitations of
the constitution- we cannot in my
judgment govgrn the Philippines and
Porto Rico so as -to secure both their
welfare and our own Feb 21
I want to say before 1 concludeMr
Chairman that I am not im
pressed with the argument that
all government is by consent of
the governed That is a proposition
that however nicely it looks theoretic
ally we have never dopted in practice
in this country The rule
stand together They are as opposite
as God and Mammon and whoever
holds to the one must despise the other
When Pettit in connection with his
support of the Nebraska bill called the
Declaration of Independence aself
evident lie he only did Avhat consist
ency and candor required all other
Nebraska men to do Of the forty odd
Nebraska senators who sat present and
heard him no one rebuked him Nor
am I apprised that any Nebraska news
paper or any Nebraska orator in the
whole nation has ever yet rebuked him
If this had been said among Marions
men southerners thongh they were
what would have become of the men
who said it If this had been said to
the men who captured Andre the man
Who said itvould probably have been
hung sooner than Andre was If it
had been said in old Independence Hall
seventy eight years ago the very door
keeper would have throtled the man
and thrust him into the street
October 4 1854 Speech at Spring
field 111 My distinguished friend
says it is an ipsult to the immigrants of
Kansas and Nebraska to suppose that
they are not able to govern themselves
We must not slur over a argument of this
kind because it happens to tickle the
ear It must be7 met and answered
1 admit that the emigrant to Kansas
and Nebraska is competent to govern
himself but I deny his right to govern
Bny other person without that persons
consent
Rev P S Ilenson McKinleyite in a
speech deliveied in Chicago May 7
1899 k And so today iiere are those
who wave the Declaraaion of Inde
pendence in our faces and tell us that
the thing to do is to deliver over those
islands of the arcnipelago in the east
to the people who are their rightful
masters for all governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed So wrofe Thomas Jef
ferson Do you remementfber thattne
Lord said to Joshua My servant is
dead And so is Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe tnat Thomas Jeffer
son was infallible I believe that a
live president in tha year of grace
1899 is just as much of an authority
as a president that lived and died 100
years ago I am no worshiper of a
saint just because he is dead Let the
dead bury the dead As to that hal
lowed document that declares that all
governments derive their jist powers
from the consent of the governed that
is to be literally construed there never
was a greater false hood palmed off by
the devil upon a credulous world It
is not true of the government of God
Lincolns reply to Rev P S Henson
August 15 1855 JLetter to George
Robertson When we were the polit
ical slaves of King George and want
ed to be free we called the maxim that
all men are created equal a self ev
ident truth but now when we have
grown lat ana have lostall dread of
being slaves ourselves we have be-
com so greedy to be masters that we-
call the same maxim a self evident
he The Fourth of Juiy has not
quite dwindled away it is still a great
day for burning firecrackers
Lincolns appeal to the Amerioans of
1900 October 16 1854 Speech at Pe
oria III Let us veadodt the Declar
ation of Independence and with it the
practices and policy which harmonize
with it Let north and snuth letall
Americans let all loveis ot liberty ev
erywhere join in the great and good
work If we do this we will not only
save the union but we shall have so
saved it as to make and keep it for
ever worthy of the saving We shall
have so saved it that the succeeding
millions of free happy people -the
world over shall rise up and call us
blessed to the latest generations
Full dinner pails and employment
for laboring men at fair wages are two
things the Bryanized party regret to
see Such conditions do not make
calamity votes The Republican
The miners of Pennsylvania receive
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iu icura u acj
Is that fair wages
The present syndicate administration
has raised the price of everything the
workman has to buybut has not raised
his wages Are those conditions con
ducive to a full dinner pail We cant
see it that way
It was reported in the papers a
short time ago that Mark Hanna was
suffering from heart desease When
the returns come in next November it
would be well for Marks friends to
have a physician handy as he is liable
to receive a blow that will mot t kill
gtryermntftl The principle Cttrntft futhet of tbe trusts
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Special dispatch to the World IIerald
Greenwood Nebr Sept 14 Hon
J R Sdvereign spoke here Wednes
day evening at the fusion rally to fully
1000 people His arraignment of the
syndicate presidents policy of imper
ialism was the best ever heard in this
section Rev T W C Cheeseman
followed in a characteristic address that
was interrupted with frequent slorms
of applause He said in part
In Mr Bryan we have a man of the
Gladstone type I read the other dtiy
agrand eulogy on Gladstone referring
to his pre eminent moral and religious
views Two great moral qualities
stand out conspicuously in the characv
acter of Gladstone honesty and en
thusiasm Even in the blinding heat
of controversy his motives were seldom
seriously questioned by his most bitter
opponents all because he cculd not
disregard the command of conscience
Even- Carlyle in his interview with Mr
Stead said Ah now what a con
science he has There never was such
a conscience as his He bows down to
it and obeys it as if it were the very
voice of God himself
Every word of these statements is
true of William Jennings Bryan I
hold him to be the greatest moral force
American political life has known since
Abraham Lincoln stood for freedom
against slavery and union against dis
integration Possibly Mr Bryan may
be mistaken in some of his views It
remains for history to prove But
even his enemies must admit that he
is always on the side of conscience
And I would rather follow a man
whose conscience is the guiding light
of his life and policy than any man
who disregards conscience but is intel
lectually brilliant A man whose
strength is as the strength of ten be
cause his heart is pure than a man
who cares only for selfish
ations whose
golden
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rule appears to
be Do as the party wirepullers demand
and monopolies declare I would
rather follow a man who having seen a
plain duty abides by his resolve to
champion its cause than one who
weakly yields to the tyranny of hydra
headed Corporations Look you A
man with a conscience may make a few
mistakes but a man without a con
science will inevitably bring disaster
upon those who trust jn him
God give us men a time like this de
mands x
Strongniinds brave hearts and ready
hands
Men whom the love of office cannot
buy
Men who have opinions and a will
Men of honor imen who cannot lie
Men who dare to face the demagogue
And damn his treacherous villainy
without winking
Tall men sun crowned who live aboye
the fog
In public and private thinking
I say I believe Mr Bryan to be
such a man He is but a human crea
ture and therefore may make mis
takes though our republican friends
would not need to use abuse instead of
j argument if they could find any mis
takes in his oplicy I believe Mr
Bryan stands today for conscience as
against greed and selfishness and that
he has a faculty for executive worth
rarely equaled in our countrymen I
reudm a recent number of the Chicago
Record an account of Mr Bryan as a
soldier The writer labof ed hard to
prove that Mr Bryan does not possess
the qualities to make a soldier The
same kind of reasons are urged against
him as men urged against Abraham
Lincoln But even this writer admits
Once seated at his desk at regimental
headquarters Mr Bryan was no longer
a hesitating bewildered novice His
natural executive ability applied itself
easily and confidently to the consider
ation and solution of the practical mat
ters which there awaited him Yet
one of the most constant cries of the re
publicans is Mr Bryan has no facul
ty for executive work E hold that
Mr Bryan is a typical American of the
highest type He is democratic as
opposed to aristocratic to the back
bone He recognizes no class distinc
tions We are told that he never even
treated a private soldier as an inferior
but knew his nlen by name and thdt
he visited every serious case of sick
ness daily and by his personal sympa
thy and inspiriting buoyancy which he
jseeined to impart so easily he practic
ally won over several cases of malig
nant typhoid which had been given up
because of the hopelessness of the suf
ferers themselves This man the
peoples man- the man of the people
tho man ho recognizes human broth
erhood not only when making cam
paign speechesj but in ordinary life
this man who comes down to us all
touching us all with warm flesh and
blood looking at us out of kindly ejTes
carrying our burdens bearing our sor
rows championing dur cause this is
tho men whom the great plutocracy of
America has resolved must be kept out
of the presidency because he is a dan
gerous man
Are you going to enthrone in the
presidents chair for a second period
thte mvkU whom tire trust magnates anQ
jenwlioshave
know that a good
Kazor Strop is ne
cessary to keep a
keen edge on a raz
or In fact it is
impossible to keep
sharp with
a razor
a poor strop We
just received a line
of the Eeadyfornse
Ready fd use
We be-
strops
lieve they arc the
best made Come
in and examine
them
QUIGLEYCHAPMAN
DRUGGISTS
Valentine Nebraska
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the grasping sordid Mammon-worship-
pers select Or are you going toput
there the man who is always and every
where one of us absorbed m the pas
sion to do us good I tell you friends
and aristocratic
there never was a wealthy
cratic party yet that did nofrseek to
down those servants ot God who came
forth with the peoples woes upon their
hearts and the peoples best interests in
their sacred keeping This was the is
sue between Christ and the wealthy
sadducees and hypocritical pharisees
And therefore because he drew away
iinany people they set into operation
all their most powerful machinations to
achieve his overthrow Did theysuc
ceed They vilified him they scourged
him they spat upon him they crucified
Him but His voice sounds -throughout
the world today and it has sounded
through all the centuries And with
that voice comes the death knell of
ery tyranny aad despotism afflicting
the souls or bodies of men Under the
holy symbol of the cross that was to
have silenced -that voice forever men
have gone forth to drive wrong from
her throne tyranny from her sway and
iniquity from her empire They have
fought the battles of little children
and weak women and enslaved men
They have taken up the cry of Elliott
When will thou save the people
O God of mercy when
Not kings and lords but nations
Not thrones and crowns but men
Flowers of thine heart O Lord are
they
Let them not pass like clouds away
Their heritage a sunless day
God save the ptoplel
That is the cry of our great leader
wholike a noble knight of ancient chiv
alry has gone forth to redress human
wrongs and woes He is not sponsored r
by wealthy trusts and vast corpora-
tions but he lives in the hearts of men
of all men whose vote cannot be influ
enced by money or lovef office-
The mere fact that J Wesley Tucker
is an old man and needs the job will
not have enough influence upon the
voters of our county to bring his vote
up to within two hundred of that cast
for the present incumbent A M
Morrissy whose administration as
country attorney for tne last two years -meets
the approval of every man who
places the welfare of our county above
party nameThe people of Cherry coun
ty are business people and will vote to
continue a business administration two
years longer
D R Bremner treasurer of the Na
tional Biscuit company and a lifelong
republican has formally declared for
Bryan He attributes his change of at
titude to McKinleys foreign policyand
says while he is unable to thorouhlv
agree with Mr Bryan on the money
question he believes that imperialism
threatens grave dangers and that he is
utterly unable to support orvotefbra
continuance of the policy of the present
administration
I place the philosophy of Franklin a
gamst the sordid doctrine of those who
would put a price the
upon head of an
American soldier and
justify a war
of conquest upon the ground that it
will pay The democratic
party is in
favor of the
expansion of trade It
would extend our trade
by every
and peaceful means but is not
willing to make merchandise of human
blood W Erf an -
For county commissioner of the First
District we present a candidate whose
acquaintance with the
affairs of our
county and whose business
ability can
notbeequaledby an I
public party Such a man fe W E
HWey whose triumphant
election
seems now assured Vote for m -economy
and good government
I save jou 20 to 60 per cent
on your
fTeand Wnte in the best 2-
wiupuuies ot the state
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