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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1900)
W - - fa 1 1 THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT M RICE EDITOR 209 Per Year in Advance PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at th e Post office at Valentine Cherry eounty Nebraska aa Second class matter This paper will bo mailed regularly to its subscribers until a definite order to discontinue is received and all ar rears are paid in full FUSION TICKET For President W J BRYAN For E STEVENSON State For Governor W A POYNTER Boone or A GILBERT York For Secretary ol State C V SVOBODA How ard ForTreasurer S H HOWARD Holt For Audltor THEODORE GRIESSClay D OLDHAM Buf falo For Commissioner of Public Lands and J CAREY Saunders For Superintendent of Public Instruction C F BECK Burt For Presidential Electors FRANK T RANSOM Silver Republican Douglaj pnBERT OBERFELDER Democrat enne L iN WENTE Democrat Lancaster JAMES HUGHES Democrat Collax JOHN H FELBER Populist Cedar WILLIAM H GARRETT PopulistPhelps W G SWAN Populist Johnson PETER EBBESON Populist Howard Congressional -For Member of Congress blxth District WM NEVILLE North Platte m Senatorial For State Senator Fourteenth District W F HAY WARD County Ticket For County Attorney A M MORRISSEY For Commissioner of First District W E HALEY For Commissioner of Third District ANDREW P MADSEN Democratic Representative Convention The Democratic electors of the 52nd representative district of Nebraska are requested to send delegates to meet in convention at Norden Nebraska Octo ber 10th 1900 at one oclock p m for the purpose of nominating a candidate for representative and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the convention The counties comprising said district are entitled to the following representation to wit Cherry 7 Keya Paha 5 being u i uUe at large and one for every one hundred votes or major fraction thereof cast for the lion Silas A Hol comb for supreme judge in 1699 Martin Christensen Chairman Peoples Independent Party Representative flonventtnn pendent Party of the 52nd representa tive district of the State of Nebraska are requested to send delegates to meet in convention at Norden Nebraska I October 10th 1900 at one oclock pm for the purpose of nominating a candi date for representative and the trans action of such other business as may properly come before the convention The counties comprising said distric are entitled to the following represen tation to wit Cherry 7 KeyaPaha5 being one delegate at large and one foi every one hundred votes or major frac tion thereof cast for the Hon Silas A Holcomb for supreme judge in 1899 O W Hahn Chairman At the Democratic convention helo at Cody last Saturday Andrew P Mad sen of Lavaca Precinct was nominate for commissioner for the Third district by acclamation Mr Madsen had pre iously been nominated by the populists and the action of the democratic con vention makes him the unanimous choice of the fusionists of his district The people of the Third commissionei district are to be congratulated upo having a candidate who is well equip 1 ped in every particular for the import tant office to which he aspires There Is no more important office than that ol J county commissioner Practically the whole of the countys management i in the hands ot the county board an the interest of the taxpayer will be safe m the hands of Mr Madsen A Good Thing Gov Eoosevelt and party arrived in this town by special train as scheduled I Thursday morning Enthusiastic re publicans arose early to greet a slouch hat formidable teeth and a foolish grin The issues of the day from a Republican standpoint were fully dis cussed A fair sized crowd greeted the -gentleman who licked Spain and is now candidate for vice president of the U S His visit is the best thing that could happen the fusion forces in this art of the country I M Rice and his mother arrived home Tuesday night from their trip ta Kausas The clippingin another cbWtjM tff this papfcr entmemis m A -I WJtki 1 Vs ilvjii fltf f MARK HANNA WORRIED Prospects of Defeat Cause Him to Lose His Head WILDLY BAYING THEO UGH HIS HAT His Statement That There Are No Trust linn Dismayed Hl Party Fat Frying Results Are aieager Lesson of the Coal Strike Facts For the Public to Consider Special Washington Letter Mark Hanna is very much worried In fact he has completely lost his head -over the increasing prospects of Qemoemtic success He is now wildly raving about taking the stump in Ne braska and South Dakota The Democrats would be- glad to neve him do this He would surely re elect Senator Tettigrew and roll up an unprecedented majority for Bryan in Nebraska Hannas Chicago speech in which he declared that he did not know of the existence of a single trust in the coun try has caused dismay in his own ltrty Governor Mount of Indiana for instance has differed openly with Hanna His stupid declaration could not have come at a worse time for the Re publicans They hud just waked up to the fact that the voters of the country are intensely interested on the trust question It was only last week that the Re publicans realized that their evasion of the issue meaut absolute defeat at the polls At tLe very time that Hanna in sulted the intelligence of the whole peo plp by declaring that he knows of no trusts the other party leaders and the I drift of affairs has been very irritating to this politician who knows how to conduct only one kind of a campaign and that the sort which he managed n 1896 This is different The people are aroused over great national issues Po litical tricks aud bribnry cannot be suc cessfully utilized this year Ilanna doesnt know what to do so he loses bis temper and thus increases the chances of Republican defeat The strike of 130000 coal miners in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania at this time has its political nnrtno ft InfTPJlSRS tliO CliaUCeS Of Re- be concessions and arbitration here and there and the strike as a whole would soon be broken There ve a few things about this Pennsylvania strike which the public will consider carefully Nine railroads and abput a dozen coal operators control the anthracite region of Pennsylvania This combine makes millions of prof its every year because it can dictate prices to the consumers What is its attitude to the men who dig the coal from tua bowels of the earth Simply that of the most greedy and selfish tyrant No slaveowner would Impose upon his slaves the conditions which the coal trust forces upon Its workmen Think of supporting a family of five on 90 cents a day and Uimpg only 180 days work in the year Tiiflfc sums up the situation for the average mine The coal combine has taken the posi tion that It owes no duty to the public or to its employees It refused to submit the grievances ot the men to arbitration because it knew that any board of arbitration would decree that it must pay living wages out of its millions of profit The operators welcomed the strike and all the btoeidsbed and violence which are likely to follow because un der the pretext of the stelke it could advance prices to the consume The strike is a profitable venture for the operators As might be expected there were scenes of bloodshed before the strike was a week od Starving men who have been carefully gJeoed from the lowest classes in Europe and Imported because they were- cheaper than Amer ican labor could not be expected to ex ercise mueb self control As soon as they began to throw stones the Repub Ucan governor of Pennsylvania order ed out the militia under the command of a man who is well known s p crea ture of the Standard Oil trust Of course every law abiding citizen de plores bloodshed and violence They are not excusable aveh when men are starving that a trust may make mil lions but it must be resjmbered in this connection that the operators In vited the strike with a full realization of Its probable consequences rather than pay their miners S150 a day for one of the most arduous forms of la bor known The country cannot help passing its verdict ots the trusts The miners strike is an awful objept les son The Republican party believes in fostering and promoting trusts The Democratic party believes In restrain log their evil tendencies Wnrri tGrmpmuy - TllP people of this country must realize and the sooner the Oetter that wherever and whenever the employers of labor endeavor to control the ballot of their emplojees liberty is endanger ed and government will become a plutocracy if the movement is not checked The implied threat back of the statements made by large corpora tions is that if their plan of govern ment which looks toward the uplift ing of -the classes at the expense of the masses is Interfered with they will pull their money out find produce a panic that labor may starve itself into subjugation What is needed with these people is a strong hand like Bry ans to teach them that prosperity and power rest with the creators the masses and not with the drones Brawn and brains make the wheels move and not European stockholders or those wlro ape royalty bPlieying that the way to reach the masses is through their stomachs With a monarchist like Hay to con duct our foreign policy Ilanna to look flftor Jaftor and a checkbook for the politicians it 3 tJniefor the common people to look after tbafr own rights or get ready to take to tftll timbe Wlmt lins the Republican party done to shorten the hours of toll yVhen the eight hour law Trent le fOF flip senate the Republican sen ate did ho Ijaye time to pass it but the Republican Apwate nad pJentr of time to nss a nnanaial iill that TV J Bryan The Danger of Militarism In ths Edited States we are now threatened viltf militarism which within a few years sviii foppome as odi ous as any that exists in Europe Wp must conquer peoples who are unused t pjrilized restraints and who if they were do upjt want the domination of 1 foreigners Ta restrain and control such people we will need ftfl eyer jn Paper trust scraper trurt Trust in kerosene Clock rust lock trust Trust too in benzine Casket trust basket trust J 5 4 i Trust in lace and silk Ejrg trustkeg trust Trust in cheese nnd milk QtaOii aiBww Miiutra3iaawiuMafeMj p THERE ARE NO TRUSTS MARK HANNA 00ERCIN THE VOTE OF LABOR The policy of coerclon which was a characteristic feature of the Republic an campaign in ISOGis again in evi dence this year Prominent among the railroad companies adopting this pol icy is a Pennsylvania company which army of Republican spellbinders were is endeavoring to control its employees busily hunting for material with which in the Interest of the Republican party During the recent 0 and Veterans to defend the course of the Republican party in regard to trusts The campaign fund did not material ize as Ilanna expected and the whole publicpn defeat The Homeaftind strike erce them imo voting in a certain man- Hofonrpd Harrison and for the same i uei reason that the miners strike is likely to defeat McKinley A strike of this sort calls popular at tention to the immense powers which the trusts and combines have obtained In this country A strike of 130000 men in one indus try would be wmt jcally impossible un less a trust was ie onntrol of it If that number of men went PB strike The electors of the Peoples 1 lfr association meeting in Cleveland the company cast aside all pretense of fairness in politics and Superintend ent Screven in a speech to the veteran employees told them how they should vote this fall Mr Screven says Vote for Mr McKinley nnd you will be doing what your employers the C and P railroad want you to do If you desire to hold your positions vote for the re election of President Mc Kinley If you do not and he should be defeated he consequences will be upon your own head This is not a mere intimation or even an emphatically expressed de sire it is a direct threat a brutal at tempt upon the part of a man employ ing a large -number of laborers to co- New York World T - REPUBLICAN LABOE CRUSHERS The Time Has Come For the Trust Millionaire Methods of Common People to Look After Their Own Rights Putting an End to La bor Troubles It is fortunate for the Pennsylvania coal mine strikers that election is near and that themerciles3 and lawless manner of crushing out the Homestead strike proved such a boomerang for the Republicans in 1S92 What the Republicans would like to do would be to shoot down any striker or any workingman uot a striker showing his head in the streets as they did in Brooklyn under a Republican governor and mayor in 1S93 bayonet the wom en and children and then drive the sur vivors into a corral and hold them prisoners as President McKinley did with the regular army in Idaho less than two years ago Thats the trust millionaire Republican method of put ting an eud to labor troubles and com pelling workingraen to take 90 cents a day or any other wage the employer chooses to pay Its hard on the vic tims especially the dead ones but its effective That plan wont be worked this year because its presidential year But with McKinley re elected and the trusts securely intrenched in power the workingman would have scaut mercy in future strikes The regular army would be in front of him and the militia behind him and the lash of the trusts would be over him driving him ever on in grinds out more millions for the mil lionaire and deeper poverty for the poor New York News The Civil Service Commission The civil service commission has de elded to delay its report until after plectipfj although t tvas due the 1st oi last June gp the public will not have an opportunity tp know haw many more places McKinley has taken from under civil service and farmed out to his henchmen It doesnt make so much difference The commissioi frothed at the mouth when McKinley cave to nations bank tP ppnfFO tQQk JOpOQ plapes from under the civil of the paper money of the country gpmPP m year bpt ns report was carefully censored SO that up priapism of the administration appeared there The Republican party has had plenty of time to legislate when i wanted to legislate but where Is the bill that protects the laboring iLu11 ffm the fear of the injunction W J Bryai A Boomerang Report Secretary Boots made to order re- will PPrt frPm tbe new PlPPine creasing army Then follow jarge s Wttjer a boomerang It repeats camps near all our large cities to overawe what will be described as the the usual OtjS brand pf lips apij urges dangerous classes As this huge ma cfaig gathers into itself the manhood of the emiitf Fy to that extent will our home life be 4fffyd Atlanta Con Biitution The Omnipotent Trust Leather trust feather trust Tpist in salt and soap i4 i ru wheel trust Trusir tvifoP W Packing trust sacking tmsii Trust in coal and ice Brass trust glass trust Trustin oil and spice Tin plate trust school slate trust Trust in beer and booze gesc Jrust nail trust - r Trust ifi tiplss n3 screws that raIIroo4 fronebfeps he glFPB PH for the Philippines right flway ft seems to forget that congress will leg islate for the Philippines if it ever gets an opportunity and that such a sug gestion is a bit previous while a war rffe The full dinner pnil argument of the trust managers of BIcKinleyfn pamnnlcn will of course strike the Vi THE LOUD VOICED EEPUBLI0A1T A Few Timeiy Troublesome and Important Questions Fop Him to Answer If some loud voiced firm jawed Ironclad Republican worries you by clatter and if you And that you cant shout as loud as he can or keep him still long enough to squeeze in a word or if you find that in noisy debate or argument you are unable to Jieep up your end and remember that Jeffer son and poor Goldsmith were such why just go where it is quiet where you can think and write out some per tinent questions for your stormy friend to answer Pin him clown with these 1 Do you believe that an income tax Is a good tax 2 Why does the Republican party fail to support the income tax 3 Why does the Republican party refuse to take the high protective tariff off goods controlled by trusts 4 Why does the Republican party permit great railroads to discriminate in freight rates in favor of a few trusts 5 Why does the Republican party fail to pry into the affairs of trusts with its interstate commerce commis sion as a prior G Why does the Republican party present to England a large chunk of American land 7 Why does the Republican party refuse to permit goods from Porto Rico to enter our country free 8 Why does the Republican party refuse to promise the Filipinos ulti mate freedom if they will lay down their arms 9 Why does the Republican party want to have the nation carry a large and costly army These two latter questions are rela tive If lie says the large army is nec essary because of the Filipino war dont let him squirm and get away from answering question No 8 If Wp want on iuepiuo tux The Re publican party in pnt wilting1 that we should have nn income tax which would give to the laboring man some relief fropi the burden of taxation The Republican party puts the burden upon consumption nnd makes men pay in proportion to what they want instead of in pro DPriop to what they have Today we cannot cplleqt Jn income tax We want nn ainenjlment to the Cfln1 stitution that will enable the tax to be collected Today he governr men can draft he pitijtep in time of war ljnf if pannpf draft the pocket IlBPfe U PaHnot lnF lt hand upon pnnieP up1 ant pisKp wealth bear it aihnpe if tle ex penses of government W J Bryan rir vJ CV ft - S ir FOUR ENEMIES OF MAN Aristocracy Militarism Slavery and Imperialism NOWOONPBOflTTHETJfllTED STATES Heresy of Imperialism the 3Iot Dan gerous Since Heresy of Secession History of Nations Proves the Truth of This Assertion Their Attractive Sides By David Starr Jordan president of Stanford vcrsity There arc four enemies that have stood in the path of man These are aristocracy militarism slavery and imperialism There are various other enemies but those are the four arch enemies in the political sense Theyi all spring out of the Idea that man be longs not to himself but that he be- If he has the brains of a gnat he longs body and soul to somebody or will say yes something else which owns him Tneso four enemies in a dangerous garb con front the United States today Schiller says that the tyrants reach hands to each other that they reach to each other the hands They stand together now These four stand together now Wherever there is one the oth er is Aristocracy slavery militarism and Imperialism They reach each others hands They all have their fair attractive side They are defended sometimes at the fireside Slavery was discussed and defended from many a pulpit in New England Aristocracy has its fair side The foundation of a quality Is aris tocracy the foundation of our liberty 1 Is rebellion against it the very thing we came here for There is afalr side of slavery and a fair side of militarism How clean the streets can be kept under military dis cipline and how free from noise How easily people can be sent to bed at dark if it be desired There is a fair side of imperialism You will find in many places that nine tenths of the people believe It is a good tiling for the world Maybe It is but when we come to read history freedom was promised the Filipinos from the one sde t0 tbe other -we will no Filipino war would be on 10 Why do trusts and why does the corporate wealth of the country the monopolies and other wage lowering and price raising concerns support McKinley Press him to answer But he wont He will try to dodge Let him gulp and swallow and hem and haw and sputter and swear but he will not an swer He will quibble and fly to chicanery SojoSosoo5ocSoSoJoSooS o o If we have an imperial policy we must g a have n large standing army as its natural O and necestary complement The spirit which o will justify the forcible annexation of thej O Philippine Islands will justify the seizure of O other islands and the domination of other the ceaseless treadmill that I mlXul HJT X certain if not rapid growth of X In our platform wc aslc for a labor bureau with a cabinet oflleer at its head What docs the Republican party ask for Why a department of commerce nnd industries Com merce has its representative now in Olir cabinet The secretary of state is in touch with the consular serv ice and the attorney general hns a Rood deol to do with corporation law I do not understand how any laboring man can fnll to rpaliue thv importance of that plunk in our platform asking that a representa tive of labor shall have a scat in the presidents official household so thnt thp toilers may nlTays havo a roicp in the diRPPHNipn of question In which they are intprP8ted W J Bryan expect a our military establishment W J Bryan g O O 4oJojoSoSoSokJoSoooSoSo3 AN APPEAL TO PARENTS Bryan Points Out Dnngers Which Menace Their Children I would call the attention of every father and mother to present political and industrial conditions I would ask them to analyze these conditions in vestigate their causes and their tenden cies I would press upon them this question Is the young man Absalom safe vUe you satisfied with the pos sibilities and the probabilities which now open before ypur son Is he safe when foreign or domestic financiers are allowed to determine the monetary sjstem under which he lives Is he safe when by means of taxes laid almost entirely upon consumption he is compelled to contribute nccordiug to his wants rather than according to his possessions Is he safe when the bondholding class determines the size of the nation al debt UPQH which be must help to py iptpresf lS 1P safp if a laboring man when he is denied the protpctiqi pf arbitration and compelled to submit to such hours and terms as a corporate employer may propose From William J Bry ans Anwust Speech find that the British people have been debauched by their course in India and that the Hindoos have been curs ed You will find that the English people have been turned from being a strong freedom loving people You will find also that the hearts blood has gone out of Great Britain as it has gone out of all countries which have engaged in constant wars We know how Napoleon depopulated France by his wars We know of the murders of the nobility the murders of the peasantry nnd the result in France today In 1G30 when the Phil ippine question was a burning one iu Spain La Puente an Augustinian friar expressed his opinion of the whole thing when he said Agrainst the grain of redeemed souls I place the cost in loss of ar madas and of soldiers nnd friars sent to the Philippines and these I count the chief loss that while mines give silver and forests erive lumberonly Spain grivea Spaniards nnd she shall glve so many of them that some day she shall be left childless nnd forced to bring up strangers children Instead of her own The heresy of imperialism is the most dangerous that has arisen since the heresy of secession and it must be fought as vigorously as the heresy of secession If we admit as citizens any number of millions of people that are not ready for liberty if we admit them with all the degradation which they must bring into our politics we must take the consequences It Is better that we should be just and faithful to our own principles and to the principles of God and that we should in our laws be no respecters of persons because if in our laws we arc respecters of persons we must go the way of empire as all empire has gone The best way In which the growth of any man or nation has ever been promoted has been through self gov ernment democratically looking after Its own affairs We do not expect that self government will always be good government Men learn not by their successes but by mistakes It Is ab solutely Impossible for any republic to conduct any affairs well except its own i Wo are opposed to government by injunction We are in favor of trial hy jury If the meanest horse thief and the lowest murderer are entitled to trial by jury then the laboring man Is entitled to trial by jury And It Is no answer to your demand for relief from government by injunc tion to say that the dinner pall is IH11 J Bryan BOfiHPTPW a RepfclpM Jlnsq Governor Roosevelt is happy in the fact that the people believe that he al ways means what he says This is What shocked so many people when in a magazine article v some years ago ho deplored the treaty for peaceable arbitration of the Bering sea question Making the Poor Man Pay e tuen preferred war with Great Th1 price of flour has been advanced Britain over a miserable claim of prop by the flour trust from 215 to 275 1 erty in the seals and of jurisdiction bag the su car trust has raised the over Bering sea Belief In what price of surar from o to 1 cents a ernor Koosevelt says involves the be- employees of the trust citfsed mills pound the Standard Oil trust has au- lief that he is a reckless jingo who piffifffffTyr ypced lie rjrieeofprffrcjm 2 to 15 infers war to neppe and that be be -- - tFr ti Htulr rrf rFcf tLuaL S acu tt rtr rir1 ttHPPF iiRSW the lerpfQre a dangerous 8R price pf the poorest grade of its fin accidental ppcupatipn of the office Mr Hanna saye We ffliisf keen our faf trom 2 to f cents a pound an fif president pf tbp Upifefl gtajeg mills running full time to supply the advance of S3 ner cent has been made Philadelphia Record and markets of the world This is rank by the woolen trust oV SO ppr pppf b - treason to the Republican idea of a the cracker trust of 30 per cent by the Hanna 6ad ffiftj jrusfsH home market Likewise it is queer si10e and leather trust and similar ex- Within a few miles of Hanna as he fogis coming from the leader of a part orbitaut advances in the price of their shouted I dont believe there is a that implores the continuation of a products have been made by the broom trust in the United States the icy alleged to be neeessa in prder 0 trust the hardware and stove trust trie trust a monopoly pure and simple - prevent foreign pauper made goods aud other combinps tllflt control art was ordering away the last of its work from competing with American made cies 0f prime necessity in the houses ers and effacing an entire twj goods of the pour Kansas fcnty Times fcTork World f 1 r v