GIVING THEM THE LIE,
CREAT FORTUNES NOT MADE
; , V BY PROTECTION.
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TIi» OCt*Tlfp(»Mt(iil Assert loti of Our D«m*
i ' ftrrittlc l‘r ltm«ls llelil I p to the I.l«h(
•£' «f — Our Grrnlsit Millionaires
“f (he Itasutt of NoifTrutertloo*
argument, is more constantly
dinned into the ears of our people by
free-trade demagogues, and none ap
peals more strongly to Ignorant and
prejudiced minds, than the assertion
that protection Is responsible for great
accumnlations'of'tvealthland Its concen
tration into the hands of a few men.
t Vet no argument has less basis in fact.
Jf'or tho purpose of showing that pro
tection lins nothing at all to do with
the amassing of large fortunes, the
< New York Tribune lias been taking a
■census of millionaires throughout, the
s' different States of the Union, the re
turns from which, though not vet com
plete, conclusively prove that the crea
tion of millionaires is not a result of
o' the tariff, most of them having ac*
y ■ <juircd their wealth in unpro
’ tected industries. It is not, however,
these moderately weulthy men who
arc the objects of free-traders’ attacks,
hut the multi-millionaires, the men of
whom it hus been said that a few of
, them control nearly one-half of the na
■ tlon's wealth. How stands the case
: with them? Are they the robber
. Iiarons, the tariff monopolists? Tho
following Mst of tho ten wealthiest men
tn tho United States,together with tho
f business or industry in which their
Wealth has lieen acquired, will answer:
William Waldorf Alitor, reul estate.
Jay (Jould, rutlruads, telegraphs and specula
\ lion. ‘
John D. Rockefeller. oil.
■Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroads.
William If. Vanderbilt, railroads.
Henry M. Flagler, oil
■Jonit ,I. Hlnlr, railroads and bunking.
Russell Sage, railroads and speculation.
Collls IV Huntington, railroads.
William Rockefeller, oil.
Without'an exception these fortunes
have been amassed by'men engaged in
occupations not in any way protected
—occupations that have no more con
nection with tho tariff than with tho
apota on the sun. The rapid multipli
cation of wealth is the natural result
of tho development of our country’s
1 resources, in which development ■rail*
LUMINOUS PACTS
How Protection llullt Up GIiuu Indus*
trim.
On Nov. 13, 1873, the Iron Age quotes
French window gluss, size 10x11, ■•11"
grade, double strength, nt 8.'. 40 pet
box. Since then protection tariff 1ms
built up scores of factories in America,
giving employment to thousands of
men, and American push and energy
has so cheapened the process of mak
ing that the same grade of glass can lie
bought to-day ut 83.33 a box, less than
half. Query. If it ean be made
so cheap, what is the use of
continuing the protection? It is
right here. Other countries following
America have also cheapened their pro
cess of muking, and having cheaper la
bor to work on they can undersell the
Americans by the difference in Ameri
can nnd foreign wages. Iteinove the
tariff anil our labor will have to be re
duced to their level or they will come
in here nnd, by underselling, close our
factories, gain control of markets and,
ns in past, again raise prices. Is it not
better to continue the protection and
insure employment ut advanced wages
to the laborer in America who con
sumes and makes a market for the
beef pork and flour of the American
farmer?
Th* Hill for Free Tln-I'lnte.
The Democratic Hound last session
passe'd by more than a two-thirds ma
jority the bill reducing the duty on
tin-plate to one cent a pound for
two years and thereafter make it free.
As this bill would leave unchanged all
the existing duties in bituminous coal
and Jron ore—both maintained in the
Mills tariff—on pig iron and sheet iron;
in fact, on all the successive process
and production out of which tin-plate
is made and of which it is the com
pleted product, the bill is equivalent to
a measure to prohibit the manufacture
of tin-plate in the United States. This
is, of course, done on the assumption
tlyit tin-plate cannot be made profit
ably in this country.
The facts are that tin-plate is be
ing mude successfully in this country,
that several millions of dolturs are in
vested in plant for its manufacture,
and over six thousand people aro em
ployed in the various tin-plate fac
tories.
The Democrats would destroy tho
cracy must either abandon the tariff
Issue altogether, or else call a new na
tional convention, make a new plat
form, and nominate new candidates.
Of course this is meant for nothing
more than what is called in Latin a
rcductio ad absnrdum; that is to say, a
demonstration that the position in
which the party has now been placed,
is not tenable in the forum of political
dcbute. _
A Tariff Picture.
' “If wc do not buy we cannot sell"
was ever the free-trader’s cry till the
McKinley bill passed. Since then he
has been silenced by such facts as this,
that we exported only #842,958,40:1
in the year ending March 31, 1890,
which dosed six months before the
McKinley bill became a law, and that
we exported_#1,009,284,500
in the year ending March 31, 1892,
which opened six months after tho
McKinley bill became a law.
“Let Well Enough Alone."
President King of the Erie railroad,
one of the most widely known Demo
crats in business and financial circles,
lms nnnounced that he will support
President Harrison and vote for his re
election. His reasons are that the ad
ministration of President Harrison has
been so clean, sufe and able that noth
ing can be gained by a change at this
time.
Mr. King is a thoughtful, conserva
tive man and he voices the sentiments
of thousands of substantial citizens in 1
both parties when lie says in effect
“Let well enough alone.” I
A llrltlnh View of Our Tariff. j
• “The promoters of the McKinley
tariff meant it to push forward the
policy of America for Americans. One
method of realizing it was to keep all
work within their own dominions. The
country was to be made self-supplying; j
what could be produced at home was !
not to be bought abroad. That was I
the key-note of the McKinley scheme, I
and it is working out the idea of its de
signers with the precision and effect- |
iveness of a machine.”—Sheffield Daily
Telegraph. /
Han No Candidate*
The New York Sun hasn’t any candi- '
date of its very own this year, so it is ;
kind of sloshing* ’round with a kindly |
I ain-r^.
00 TRANSPARENT John Bull s Candidate Cannot Cross the Bridge on a Substitute Issue.
' -:-:---- --
Wuh and telegraphs have played a
prominent part, and the effect of which
has been to greatly augment the value
■of real estate. It is nothing but pure
demagogy which would make protec
tion responsible.—American Economist
COT THE BEST OP IT.
Democrat llerawo a Republican
■rf' la Short Order.
The Democrat and the Republican'
. were sitting on the fence talking poll
§§teo in a neighborly fashion.
’r:?’ “Well, I’m in favor of tariff for reve
nue only,” said the Democrat.
| “And that medns,” said the Repub
tican, “a general reduction of duties
on imports?”
{ “Certainly.”
: “To be followed by a larger importa
' Hon of foreign-made cheap articles?”
v •<()( course, and what we are after
)pre lower prices.”
| “Of course, and the low prices will
>; (Molt in a decreased demand for our
.' home products?”
v “Naturally, yes.”
p:: “And that means closing American
><Workshops and sending workmen to
idthe farms*”
“Well, haven’t we millions of acres
||f the best land in the world?”
'"Sure, and when all these workmen
l;get to be farmers the increased supply
■ift farm products, with no factory
’pandit to buy the stuff, will push prices
pelm to starvation point and the farm
will have to quit the business.”
M*k*But we shall have lower prices.”
“Who is ‘we’?” asked the Republi
||enn, plump to the point. “With the
%'w-Mrldngmen in factories changed to
'farmers, and the farmers starved and
^mortgaged ont of existence, what have
:-ipou got left to compose your ‘we’ to
•Whom low7 prices will be such a ben
K;|Se Democrat naked for time to look
, vp the record and End out where the
r.-^wu' waf. Be ia now a Republican.
new industry and throw all these peo
ple out of employment.
Their Old Story.
The Democratic cry of “Retrench
ment and Reform” is disclosed to the
people as a humbug. It was known to
be a humbug when the Democratic
leaders took it up. They knew that
the only place where retrenchment
was possible was in the pension ap
propriation and they also knew that
no reduction there was possible while
there was a Republican President and
Senate. The measure for reducing
pensions has not been framed and will
uot be until all departments of the gov
ernment are in proper order. Then it
will come along with free silver coinage
and free trade.
TOO WEAK TO STAND UPON.
The Democratic Papers De aoitnoe the
Tariff Planlt Adopted at Chicago.
We reproduce in another column,
says the New York Sun, the remark
able analysis with which the Post-Ex
press, an independent free trade jour
nal, has shown the surprising empti- j
ness and absurdity of that part of the
Chicago platform which relates to the
tariff, to protection, and to free
trade, No one in possession
of his right mind can peruse this
analysis without perceiving that this
part of the platform is a mere tissue of
absurdity, without sense or logic
sufficient to stand by itself long enough
for its measure to be taken. When read
in connection with the masterly and
indestructible view of the question
presented by Andrew Jackson in his
second annual message, the plank ap
pears as little short of lunatical, or
idiotic. Nothing more destitute of
reason or coherency was ever offered
to the public as the manifesto of a
great political party.
, The Post-Express maintains that by
reason of this preposterous and lament
able part of the platform, the Demo
mention of Gresham (who is not a can*
didate) and of W. Jennings Demore it
(who cannot get a nomination) and the
most kindly enthusiastic remarks for
Adlai Stevenson.
One Reason for It.
The Gray's knocked out In Indi-an
By Grover and his orew.
And that is why they've lost their sand.
And now are (cellnit blue.
Composition of Coal.
The composition of Pennsylvania an
thracite coals has been made the sub
ject of a most exhaustive analysis by
Mr. McCreath, a well-known chemist
connected with the geological survey
of that State. The specimens, which
were obtained from mines regarded by
most consumers as producing coals of
equal value, were collected from one
hundred to two hundred tons of coal,
as it was ready to be shipped to mar
ket, the amount collected in
each case for analysis ranging from
one hundred to two hundred pounds,
the bulk of each specimen being final
ly reduced by the ordinary methods
employed in sampling mineral products
for quantitative and qualitative analy
sis. From the table of averages given,
it appears that the maximum of fixed
carbon obtained in any one specimen
was 83 3-10 per cent as against 90 to 93
per cent as has frequently been re
ported by different authorities; and the
minimum of fixed carbon was 73 per
cent instead of the generally reported
33 or 84.
A Loud Ticker.
Mamma-^You look as if you hadn't
slept much.
Little Dot—No’in, 1 didn't.
Mamma—What kept you awake?
Little Dot—I waz waitin’ for the new
clock to go to sleep.
Not Silent.
St. Peter—Um—I never heard much
of you on earth.
Deacon* Loudd—Yon didn't? Good
ness me! My shoes squeaked louder
than anybody’s in church.
A F.IRJIURV FRIEND.
A farmers' friend went forth ono day.
To suilT the scent of the new mown buy.
He’d a scheme to work and a game to play.
On the honest, trusty farmer.
He hail fame, and hie name was Charles Van
Wyck;
He’d a cheek as hard ns a railroad spike.
For the railroad pass he’d a keen dislike^!)
But he loved the honest farmer.
He wore hia favorite old blue coat
That had raptured many a farmer’s vote.
And bo «ang In a soft, free, silvery note,
In the ©iir of the honest farmer.
“O. I’m ihe original far era* friend;
Invented the scheme myself.
If It works with you. as it works with mo,
It will fill your la • with pelf.
Firat put ine into the governor’* chair.
And then into the senate.
Then you stay here, while I go thcro,
And thus we’ll both be in it.’*
Now the suu was hot and the air was dry,
And the sly old schemer passing by.
Brew rein In front of the farmer's uoor,
And began his song about tho working poor.
•*Your hand is the baud that holds the bread,
Give me your vote,” the old man said.
‘‘Follow me and I’ll lead you through.
And show you a scheme that is good for you.**
Bnt the fanner heard not. a word he said,
’Bout the honest hand that holds the broad,
For fast asleep in his easy chair.
On the broad front porch us he rested there,
He dreamed a dream ai d seemed to see
Himself in a greut tine apple tree.
And as he shook with might and main,
And the apples fell like drops of rain.
Down on the ground was old Van Wyck,
With a cheek as hard as a railroad spike,
Urging the farmers all to strike.
And he saw that as fast as the apples dropped,
Into the old man's bag they popped.
Into that farmer’s ear tho flies
Buzzed like a politician’s lies;
’Till at last awaked from his troubled dream.
With a bound and a wild unearthly scream.
The farmer reached for his old emooth bore.
And the yuller dog stood near the door.
You’ve heard of the witches of Tam O’Shante",
<»f the old grey marc and her midnigh- canter,
But never witches or old grey mare
Made better time than was made right there,
And no bull pup with a drooping lip.
Has ever held with a tighter grip
Than that yallar dog as he saw tho chance,
And c.oscd in on the slack o’ the oid man's pants.
It's the guess o’ this plain country bard
That the scene which occurred lu that farmer’s
yard.
Will occur ugotn on election day.
And the very old llarry’ll be to pay.
Bnt the most embarrassed man at the end,
Will he Vau Wyck th.* farmer’s friend.
A LA HIAWATHA,
Just two years ago this summer
We’d a drouth th«»t was a hummer.
From a rain lens sky the sun light
Burned the grass and caused a corn blight,
Ami the people lost their reason
When they saw I he dronthy season.
And they danced like ghostiy creatures,
Bound a hoard of famine preachers.
Came a hungry green back faiker,
Chief McKeightui money maker.
Came like Quantrelfs bloody r riders,
Vandervoorts and Keuis and Shrader.*;
Came a dozen other speakers.
Boodle suckers, otllce seekers.
And they talkeil in ways eratic.
Of the people plutocmtlc.
Of the ral road and the loan client.
And the bulls and bears of Wall street,
And of Shylock and his vices,
And the robber tariff prices.
Talked they all like long eared nsscs,
Bode they all on railroad passes.
Talked they ad of deprivation.
And of hunger and stnrvn ion.
How republicans and sinners.
Were appressiug the bread winners,.'
By mani pula ting grain rates.
And controlling heaven’s flood gates.
And how through the tariff si .ught.T,
Grover had a six pound daughter.
And they shouted forth defiance.
And enrolled in an alliance.
And the farmers paid assessments,
Paid they in great wads of l oodle.
From the pockets of the nianv,
« a me the quarter, nickle. penny.
Till the sum was many thousands
And the boodle suckers fattened,
Fattened on these contributions.
O. the gentle summer shower!
Freshening the grass and flower.
0, the rain from heaven deoending,
Bringing harvests never ending!
Filled again Is every wlo-at bin,
Plenty is the corn Modamin,
E'en the hopper Pah-puk-keena
Fails to enter the arena.
Thrift and wealth in every valley
Makes the peoples spirits rally:
Makes them stay within the corn field,
Gathering the go.dfeu grain yield.
And refrain from ghostly dreaming.
While the earth with fruit is teeming,
And the pearly r .in drops falling,
Bobs the hoboes of their calling.
Now the hoboes curs*e the weather.
And they murmur ihus together,
••Farewell to our boasted glory!
Wa ted is our ghostly story t
Darkness spread her mantle o’er us.
Soon we'll join tho^e gone before us.
Join the host of gho tly strangers,
Join the late lamented grangers,
In the realm of the disgusted,
in the kingdom of the bust d.
The Mnlle Ha* Loti ll* Grip.
'How now, my good Lord Bryan
my good
how fares your grace and whither
doth the battle tend?”
■Oh my kind Horatio, is that you?
Come nearer me good fellow, for I
need a friend. 'Come near to me Hor
atio, and let me have your symoathv.
Place your cool hand thus upon my
temples Horatio, for I am feverish, I
am not well.”
••Tut tut, my boy, be not so peevish
in this hour of mighty consequences!
See you not how yon bold Knight doth
rush the battle? He has already gain
ed the moat and with his mighty bat
tle ax is pounding at the castie gate as
he would shiver it in splinters with
his ponderous blows?”
••Aye, aye, Horatio, I see. I see it
all too plainly, and the sight doth
make the shivers chase each other up
my spinal column. But Horatio, he
has no science; this burley Knight of
’69. He has no skiil or grace of
movement. He is but a plain XebrasKa
product, born to a life of toil, a mere
digger in the mine of musty books.
And for me, whose every tone is
charged with eloquence, and whose
every motion is graced with Dleasing
attitudes, for me whose name has been
carried on the wings of fame to the
four corners of the land, for me. in
whose career the bourbon busom beats
with high anticipation, for me to be
matched with this bull dog, who closes
his jaws upon republican truth and
then holds on, this bludgeon swinger
who pounds me with common facts as
asootty blacksmith would forge an
iron beam, and then to have this
sweaty moo of red neciced farmers
gather round and cock their heads and
nod and lean and listen to his vulgar
argument, and when I smile my sweet
est smile, and soar my SDlendid Deri
ods as a boy would soar a kite, to have
churlish yeoman turn away, and smile
among each other, as if iD cold deris
ion of my matchless eloquence, it
makes me sick; Horatio, and if I had
that hasty chalenge back. I d let ihi,
sharp spured warty legged rooster of
tbe tariff have his way: and as a bi-d
of swifter wing and brighter nlumage
I d sail me up among the bright free
silvery clouds of dizzy eloquence, and
never have any handsome feathers ruf
fled by the blows of this snort winged
bhanghigh who fights upon a dung hill
of common ordinary facts.
"Buv my lord, you magnify your
own calamity too much.”
••Stop; Horatio! Utter that word
again, and by the spirit of old Hick
ory Jameson I'il turn your picture to
the wail forever. Know you not. fool
ish boy, that by the token of that ac
cursed word this present evil is now
tome upon me! Never speak that
word to me again. good friend, as you
would have my blessing in the years
to come. You see, 1 thought to please
the farmer in the arouthy year, and
when Heil’s next-door neighbor,
Texas, biew her scorching breath
across Nebraska fields and withered
all the crow. I tnought to please the
farmer with my sympathy, and so in
immagery I led him to the very poor
house gate, and showed him there
within the dingy quarters he must
occupy, when tariff robbers had con
signed him to the bankrupt’s cell,
but no sooner had the word calamity
escaped my lips, when lo! prosoeritv
burst forth iike a blooi .ing garden of
sweet flowers, and now these ungrate
ful farmers, despising my prophesy,
do hiss at the very word calamity, and
say that I have slandered all the com
monwealth. And so I say, Horatio,
speak not that word to me again.”
••but my lord, by this same evil
token which you now despise, you
planted your banner on those castle
walls two years ago. And will you
now turn tail and ruu, and let them
kill the goose that laid your golden
egg? Bruce up my lord and have
some spunk! Remember how you
swiped the ground with that long,
drooping, willowy wisp from Omana!
Brace up my noble lord, and smile as
you did then. Ring in some verses
with the smile, and cheer these brawny
grangers with smooth speech! Why,
by my hallidome, as I remember now.
that smile alone was then worth full
one thousand votes in every bailwick.
Mount the turret there and give ’em
the smile again. Trot out the old
iamb story, and mayhap for its very
age they'll listen and reverence you
once more.”
••An, good Horatio, mores tne run:
There was a time when I oouiii piay
that smile upon the multitude, and
even as a warm sunbeam kissing a
baby's chubby face will maite him
dream of angels, so that same smile of
mine shed out across the gaping
crowd, would warm their hearts and
give me easy access to their confi
dence. And when I wove in with my
handsome Grecian smile a few smooth
ly curving gestures, the yawping hood
lums would open up their lusty throats
and from the very bottom of their
stomachs would come such mighty
veils as would silence the belching
thunders of old Vessuvius. Hut aias!
Horatio, the Grecian smile hath lost
its grip, and the curving gestures no
longer weaves the wanted spell upon
the crowd. Horatio, whatever be the
issue of this uncertain hour, remem
ber me. that I was eloquent. And if
this bold young tariff slugger doth
o’ercome here, then hang my picture
on the wall, and in the coming years
when you have wed. and curly-headed
babes climb upon your knee, then
point them to the picture, good Ho
ratio, and say that I was eloquent.”
take Down Vonr lrul»e Color* and
Fnt up Your Ticket a* You *l«-an it.
The independent press of the state
are carrying at the head of their col
umns what they call their state ticket:
For Governor.
c. h. van wick.
For Lieutenant Governor.
C. 1). SHRADER.
But that ticket is a deception. It
does not convey the real meaning of
the Van Wyek and Shrader move
ment. Their ticket should read:
For U. IS. Senator.
C. II. VAN WYCK.
For Governor,
C. 1). SHRADER.
i Van \\ yck is not running for gov
ernor. Everybody knows that. Van
I WycK has no ambition to be governor
i and remain in Lincoln among the peo
j Ple this slate. His ambition ali
| points toward Washington City, where
his home is, and where iiis principal
t property and money interests are. The
oniy personal effects of his that are
purely of Nebraska, is the old blue
coat that he has worn for years while
among tne farmers, in sham humility,
as a decoy to capture the farmer vote.
And it is Snrauer who is the real can
didate for governor. Shrader, who
damned the constitution ana insulted
the supreme court, he is the precious
patriot who lias consented to save this
commonwealth by becoming its gov
ernor. notwithstanding he despises its
constitution and refuses to ooey the
manuates of its highest court. Go out
into tue country precincts of Ciay. and
Adams and Hamilton counties, where
hundreds of independents have come
back to the republican party in the last
few weeks, and the loyai farmers
there, who love the constitution and
respect the law, will tell you that the
tnoughtof Shrader being governor of
Nebraska manes them ashamed of the
independent movement.
Trying, to Fool the ^tvedn.
As the calamity leaders feel their
grip loosening, and the sand slowly
but surely sifting out from under their
;f®** l'*ey begin to clutch at straws,
lhe desperateness of their losing the
cause is shown in the silly attemnt to
make capital out of the story'that
someone in tne republican state con
vention turned to his nearest seat mate
ana said '-D—n the Swedes.'' If the
Swedes of Nebraska were overgrown
chucale headed boys, as the caiamitv
leaders seem to have sized them uo‘
then an appeal to their sensitiveness
on such a childish proposition might
avail to arouse their anger against tne
republican party, llut in the first
place no one knows for sure that such
a thing was said. In the second Diace
no one knows who said it In the
third piace everybody knows that if it
was said, it was said by some hot
heuaed fool, who is not in a position
to control or represent the renublican
lastly the Swedes of Ne
braska are not mere grown up children
that they should take offense on so
flimsy a pretext. The Swede who left
his humble home across the sea. where
men who are born poor remain poor
; and die poor, came to this country to
! belter his condition and found the re
mibiican party welcoming' him with
| open arms to a citizenship that has no
peer in any land under the sun. with a
I 160 acres of land as a homestead
thrown into the bargain; who has since
steadily prospered and is now well-to
do. with land and home and public
schools and all that blesses and exalts
manhood, will not. on such childish
pretext, turn his back upon the repub
lican party, the only party that ever
honored his countrymen with a state
t>;Hce. The Swede is not naturaiiy a
part of the rag-tag and bob-tail of
Nebraska, and to size him up as a
chump is an insult to his good sense.
The Impulse of the reeple la tv It It
the Hepnbltcnns This Vear.
Some one out in Dawson county tel
egraphed the Dee that the republican
alliance men were becoming tired of
Van Wyck and Shrader and Vanaer
voort, ana were coining back into the
republican party. The next, day a
Worid-Heraid dispatch denied the re
port and asked to have a single man
pointed out in Dawson county who
was tired of Shrader and Van W'vck
and Vanaervoort. Promptly twenty
three men in one little neighborhood
stepped up and signed a statement re
nouncing the independent party and
pledging their faith and votes to Den
Harrison and the republican ticket.
Out in Clay county where McKeignan
ate yaller legged chickens from house
to house two years ago, in Marshall
precinct, where only four republican
votes were polled in 1890. forty-three
voters hare already announced for
Iiarrt'ison. In El Dorado precinct, of
the same county, where only twelve
republican votes were poiied in ’90,
there are now fifty voters who are
tired of Elder, the ex-speaker, and of
Vanaervoort the lobbyist. ' In Ham
ilton county the alliance republicans
are coming back by the score and are
rallying to the party that stands up
for America and Nebraska. Kepubii
can meetings everywhere arc largely
attended and the stall committee have
more calls for speakers than they can
supply.
A Brilliant Jluu Who Hus Never I't*
t<»re«l a Word In Defeime Or Hl»
State.
••Tiie briiibmt young Bryan.” is the
way ins admirers put it when they
sueak of the congressman from the 1st
district. Yes, he is brilliant, an elo
quent speaker and a handsome young
man of pleasing ways. But how has
he used his briiiiant qualities during
the few years he has been a citizen of
this state? His principal business has
been to talk; and what has he talked
about? lias he talked about the
splendid achievements of his own state
in its material development? in his
soaring llights of eloquence has he
ever pictured the sturdy thrift and the
unprecedented financial success of the
farmers ana business men of his own
district? When did •■the brilliant young
man” ever utter to his ••vast anu mag
nificent audiences” in other states, a
word of praise for Nebraska? Has he
ever stood up for Nebraska, and has
he ever advertised the fact that more
poor men have started here and be
come well to do in the last decade than
in any other state on the face of the
earth? lias he ever told that to his
audiences? Or has the general force
of his eloquence been turned against
Nebraska and against its reputation?
Let him answer how he has used his
talents. Let him now account fur his
stewardship. ■ -
*tan«l Up for ftebramkn.
••Stand up for Nebraska.1* says
Judge Field of Lincoln. “Stand up
for Nebraska.” says young Andrews of
Hastings. “Stand up for Nebraska.
says .Jim Whitehead of broken Bow.
And the three congressmen cowards
who slandered the state in congress
and advertised it3 people as paupers
are now dodging the brickbats of truth
and denying that they ever were
calamity howlers. Brvan now tries to
ret ail the slander, and with graceful
bows and smooth gestures he stam
mers out a faint eulogy on his sturdy
constituency for what they nave ac
complished. McKeignan chucks the
farmer under the chin and prophesies
that he will be abie to keep the wolf from
the farmer door a few years yet. if he,
MeKeighan, is returned to congress.
Kern, in his dreamy confusion, clutches
in the air for an idea and admits tnat
his people will oe abie to keep soul
and body together if the government
will loan them $2,500 apiece on their
land at 2 percent per annum and if they
send him back to rend the signs at the
national capital another two years.
In the meantime the people are doing
a little standing up on their own ac
count and they will never again en
trust the reputation of the stale with
men who will seil it for a salary of
fo, 000 per year.
A Practical .Man tra a Dr auter.
Whitehead is a practical man, with
loyal impulses strong and vigorous
characteristics. Kent his opponent,
is a dreamer, so unpractical 'in his
plana and so weak in his judgment
that he voted for everything his peo
ple did not want, and opposed every
thing they did want, und now his can
vas for relection is spent in explain
ing to his constituency.
Hr>au, the Artful l)o ia<,P. •
Congressman Bryan denies that he
ever was a Calamity Howler. Will
-Mr. Bryan tell the people of his dis
trict when he ever uttered a word in
defense of the prosperity of his slate,
against ihe Calamity Howler?
Farmer Frank McGrath, ex-presl.
dent of the Kansas State Alliance, in
an interview with the Kansas City
Journal referred to V. O. Strickler
Independent candidate for Atly. Gen'l
as -A little pop eyed baby laced law.
yer. ” .