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For President:
WILLIAM M’KINLBY.
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GABBETT A. HVBABT.
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y For Governor...JOHN H. MacOOLL
For Lieut. Governor....... .OBLAN DO TIFT.
For Icontujr of Slot*.J. A. PIPIB.
For Auditor..P. O. UEDLCND.
For Trooauror..CHAB.1. CAdEY.
• For Buperleteodent.....i«...R, B. OOBBITT
For Attomeg General....A. & GHUBCHILL.
For Commlaoloner.H. 0. BUR8ELL.
Supreme Judge, long term.B. BTAlf.
* Supremo Judge,iborttrm...M. P. KINKAID.
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V JOHN TBOMMBBSHAUSBEB, of Iwlug.
J. A. BIOS, of Btunrt,
... For CountyAttorney:
I. H. BEHBDIOT, of O'Neill.
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>sn McHuen, in last wMk*i Son,
> thinks 1m has unearthed a marc's
*v neet by publishing afreeooinage
v. plank adopted by the republican
county convention in 1892, when the
tt ; editor of Tn Faoimn was a mem
ber of the committee on resolutions.
The plank in question wee written
by the gentleman who is now at the
v head of the free silver dob, and, as
*.b he ia well aware, that the plank as
originally written was objected to,
bat after it had been remodeled by
its author, upon enggestiona from
the other members, was incorporated
in the committee’s report Is there
| v anything said - there about the
ratio f Dose it say we want free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 18
f to 1, 82 to 1, or 1 to It No. They
did not want the government to
> place its stamp npon 58 cents worth
of silver and make it worth 91.
W They were in favor of the free coin
age of ailver at a ratio that would
pot 100 cent’s worth of silver bullion
. in a silver dollar, so that its value as
>; - bullion would be as great aa its
^monetary value. More anon.
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A OHANOK OV HBAftT.
A the democratic county conven
tion held in O’Neill in 1898, the fol
. lowing resolutions, written by T. V.
Golden, were adopted npon motion
... made by O. a McHugh, editor of
the O’Neill 8un:
Y " We usquollAdely iadorss ths platform
\ of the party as promulcatsd by the
■ vpatiosal couvsa.Uoa sdoptsd at Chicago
' W the slate coavsatioa at Lincoln la
18M. *
,We believe the party alone folly kbit
0-i.. aader lit well uadaratood prime! plat to
’. itfvt wholesome goysrsmeata to mmal
| ; clpalitiea, oouatiaa. atmtaa mad aatloa,
mod. an therefore opposed to uniting
«itk toy other party (or temporary iadl
.... Tidoal baaed t, or for aay otkar purport.
* ■■ Wa tndoraa tka aotloa of Praaidaot
Clevelaad aad particularly kit effort!
* to rtpaal tkt Sherman act, tka most tar
of legislative Iniquity, forced opoo tka
■ / people by tka uawlao aad arlmlaal acta
of a rapubUaaa ooagraaa.
Wa fully apprariata the boaorgives
;*w«e ^kp Praaidaot ikaeaUad la tka wise
aoiaetloo of Hoo.J. Stadias Mortoa to
' . T* aaat la hia cabinet aa aacretarvof
agriculture.
| The following raaolntioo, intro
4oood by O. a Botes, was almost
^ unanimoualy Toted downf and ita
author sorouadod with biases aad
. .catcalls:
■arrived, That thia convention favon
“ » dear aad literal ooaatruotiea oftkr
!' aadosal deaaoeratlo platform, aad tbal
ooithar gold mor silver akoold be im
c » paired la thalr monetary value, by die
; ^criminating legislation.
- Tho ringing words contained ii
ingoing resolutions eall for m
fMMMot in particular; Thsy shoe
that if HcHngfa and Qoldan mead!
10¥ what they than said they are hypo
■oritas now, and if they mean whai
they soy now they were bypoerito
VjJ. • -it.-' %•
then. In either event the records
prove them June-faced. M\
But aside from the damaging evi
dence famished by the archives, the
fact is well understood that at the
time of the promulgation of these
resolutions both McHugh and
Golden were exercising the pliant
hinge of the knee that thrift might
follow fawning upon Grover Cl eve
land, but disappointed in that they
turned their faces to the rainbow of
promise in the populist sky ud gave
the lie to their own words of praise
concerning the democrats. It is fair
to presume that they are actuated
by the same motives now that they
were in 1808.
Taa people of the big Sixth district
will elect ,W. L. Green to eongrese-*
• man who will cast his ballot to ask the
Oady national bask crew to step down
and ont of the "governing" business and
restore the functions of issuing and
controlling the entire volume to U.
Sam., give silver an equal show at the
mists with gold, and most emphatically
demand that John Bull remove his
treacherous gold be-daubed nation
paralyistng fingers from the throat of
this republic or else he will smell some
of the powder of revolutionary days.—
Beacon Light.
, Is not W. L. Greene the man who
was employed by tlie populist legis
lature a few years ago to assist in
the proseoution of u impeachment
case against some state officers?
Was he present during the trial f
Did be attend to the wuts of bis
client—the state of Nebraska—as u
attorney should? Is it not a fact
that instead of attending to the
duties he was employed for ud ]
paid to perform that he got on a <
prolonged debauch and not only dis
graced himself and family by his '
utios, but his client? Is this the 1
kind of a man you want to send to ]
congress to represent the b^g Sixth? j
Do the people of this district wut ,
to pay a man $5,000 a year so that .
he can satisfy his insatiate greed for 1
liquor? We think not We believe '
the people of this distriot have had
enough of mu who represented
them in uything but a creditable
manner, ud realise the need of a
man whose brain will not be clouded
by the fumes from the sparkling
cup, ud will lay aside all party
differences ud on the 8rd of next
November elect A. E. Cady; a man
who will not only be a credit to him
self ud the people he represents
but the state. ’Bah for Cady!
SXLAH UT IMS.
Since the Boa in its desperation
has gone - back to the republicu
records of 1802 in an attempt to
show that certain mu who are now
supporting McKinley, were thu
supporting a different platform, Tax
Fboxtiib has due a little investi
gating u its own account It finds
that in the republiou convention
held in 1802 Clarence Selah, thu 1
deputy revune collector, was chair- 1
mu of the oommittee on platform, ,
ud author of the following pluk ,
adopted by the cuvention:
We most heartily endorse the prin
ciples ot protection to American in* '
duatrles as enunciated by the platform 1
of the national party and exemplified in
the main by oar preeent tariff laws, !
under which, according to the reports of ,
senatorial investigation on the parts of
such leading democrats as Senator Car
lisle; of Kentucky, and Howe, of Ten- <
naaaoe, it is conclusively shown that the
«oet ot the necessaries or life coveted 1
by the tariff have in the aggregate de- :
crease* 1 per out.; that the wholesale
price of the earns articles have decreased
8.8* of 1 per cent; that the price of ]
agricultural products have advanced
nearly 14 per out, while the wages of 1
American laborers have advanced three
fourths ot one per cent.. We hold these
unanswerable proofs to be evidence '
strong as holy writ of the benefits of ,
republicu tariff ud reciprocity, and
appeal to the commercial sense of the 1
voters.
since tarn auspioious event air. i
Selah has lost hie Job end acquired
• eore heed end ia now president of
the O’Neill Bryan free silver club.
In the platform,written by Mr. Selah,
he aaya the retail price of manufac
tnred prodnoe waa declining,’that
wages were increasing and that the
price of farm products were rapidly
rising. He said theae truths were
unanswerable. We oonoede this to
be true at that time, and true today.
He went still further and averred
that they were evidence strong as
holy writ of the benefits of republi
oan tariff and reciprocity, and he
appealed to the commercial sense of
the voters to sustain the system.
These prosperous times to which
Mr. Selah points us with un
answerable proof were under the
same financial system in vogue to
day. Then is the gentleman presi
dent of the Bryan free silver club
occupying a consistent position to
day? We think not. What more
does he offer us by his free silver
theories titan were in existence un
der protection and reciprocity?
Nothing.
We know what great prosperity
' we had in '92, and Mr. Selah has
1 told us how we got it. If protection
’ was the cause of it then, and he
i assures us that it was, it will be diffi
cult for him to oonvinee the voters
’ that the free trade platform upon
’ which he now stands would produce
> the same results.
■ A GENERAL DENIAL. „
Mb. Editob: In viewtof the feet
that certain popnlista are aasidu
onilj circulating the report that I
faTor the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1,
without the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth, I deem it
proper at this time to outer a gen
eral denial
While it grieves me beyond ex
pression to feel called npon to re
fute a slander of this nature, espec
ially when I have been resting secure
in the belief that my political de
portment had placed me above sus
picion in that particular, yet I feel
it a duty I owe my friends and the
party in general to spike tho> lie
before a sufficient length of time
has elapsed to permit it to be ac
cepted as true, because : unoontra
dicted
11 realise fully that it is >« matter
of little importance, bat it is just as
trail to keep these things straight
sod stop the populistic tongue
From wagging about “new converts,’'
irho are net converted.
The fact is I have never favored
lie free and unlimited, coinage of
lilver at the ratio of 16 to 1, or
lpon any other ratio except it be
he ratio. established by the com
nercial values of the two metals.
Che moment we oommenoe the un
imited coinage of a silver dollar
tontaining lees than a dollar’s worth
if silver, that moment are we on a
lilver basis; therefore, the question
ilaeed in issue by the popooratie
ilatform is: will a single silver
tandard be a benefit to this United
Hates? This question is answered
ly Carlisle in his famous five points,
rhieh stand today not successfully
ontiadioted by any man living or
Lead, not even excepting the boy
irator of the platitude. The points
node by Mr. Carlisle are as follows:
First—There is not a free coinage
lountry that is not on a silver basis.
Second—There is not a gold standard
lountry that does not use silver as
sonsy along with gold.
Third—There ia not a silver standard
lountry that usee any gold as money
ilong with silver.
Fourth—There is not a silver standard
lountry that has more than ons-third as
nuch money in circulation per capita as
he United States has.
Fifth—There is not a silver jtandard
iountrv where the laboring man receives
air pay for his day’s work.
The issue presented, in this cam
paign is not, in fact, whether or not
ve want more money, but whether
ir not we shall Mexicanize our cur
ency. Our free silver friends insist
hat we want “more money,” “a
(heap dollar” and a lot of other rot
IVe can admit that free silver wopld
jive us a “cheap dollar,” but we
nnst deny that it would give us
'more money.” A familiar cry of
he silver deluaionist is that they
wek to alleviate the woes of the
lusbandman whose farm is growing
ip to Russian thistles under the
lighting dew—might for the sake
>f a pun be spelled d-u-e—of a
mortgage, but he forgets to tell the
roter and the-farmer that 80'per.
sent, of the mortgages have a. gold
slause and .must be paid in gold or
its equivalent; ana be remans fur
ilwr from idling the debtor farmer
that free silver would plaoe gold at
t premium and thus increase hit
lebt an slssming and unbearable
per cent. In truth and in Cset the
mly clsssss the silver man nan ap
proach with any degree of consis
tency is the debtor whose paper has
no gold danse, and the man who
Lives in that limited area, the silver
producing states. To the first he
oan hold oat die alluring promise of
a chance to pay his obligations in
50-cant dollars, and to the latter he
oan assure unlimited .prosperity by
reason of mins devdopnient
The farmer who sella produce in
stead of talking polities weald not
reap any benefit from free sifter.
Even it it would double the price of
everything he add, it would not
benefit him. Such a condition
would double the price of every
thing he bought and leave him at
the end of the year no better off
than before. It would open up no
boundless market for his products.
The silver industry bears about the
same relation to our other industriee
that the spray does to the wave, 01
the firefly to the sun.
Mr. Editor, instead of being in
favor of free silver, I want it under
stood that I am opposed to it almoel
to the point of intolerance. I con
sider it neither more nor leas than a
makeshift, stolen from the populists,
to continue the same old democratic
party in power. The party whose
record is one of depression to the
United States and extermination to
its industries. It attempts to rids
again into power upon a wave of
general dissatisfaction caused by its
own maladministration of affairs.
By blatant bombast it seeks to arouse
a false patriotism by pretending to
reach out a protecting hand to the
silver mines, this democratic party
which never protected anything, not
even the American flag. What it
wants is office. It 'feels that same
old itching in its palm and it must
be scratched, no matter if every
pension is out in two, every savings
account halved, every salary reduced,
every factory shut down and busi
ness generally sent to the demnition
bowwows neatly packed in s hand
basket
The most prosperous times this
country ever saw were under the
same financial system we now have.
This fact appeals to me and con
vinces me then that to some other
cause must we ascribe our present
depression. In looking for the
cause we must turn to history, and it
is not very ancient either, for we
find it in records less than four
years old. In Deoember, 1802,
President Harrison in lps message
to congress said:
Than never has been a time in our
history when work was so abundant, or
when wages were so high, whether
measured by the currency in which they
were paid, or by their power to supply
the necessaries and comforts of life.
The general average of prices hss been
such as to give agricultum a fair partici
pation in the general prosperity.
Eight months later, in August
1898, with congress convened in
extraordinary session, President
Cleveland found a different condi
tion staring the people in the face.
In his message he said:
With plenteous crops, with abundant
promise of remunerative ‘ production
and manufacture, with unusual invita
tion to safe investment, and with satis
factory assurances to business enter
prises, suddenly financial distrust and
fear have sprung up on every side.
Here we find the two extremes
existing long after the crime of ’73,
and the latter can be ascribed to
nothing but the threatening policy
of the democratic administration.
Why return to the conditions of
’78 f Why not return to the condi
tions ’92, which was the most pros
perous period in the history of the
nation ? It can be done by the
election of William McKinley, the
re-enactment of a protective tariff
and the reciprocity treaties.
The salvation of the western
farmer is not in the silver mines,
but in p^ptection and the factories,
supplemented by the benign influ
ences of reciprocity. The factories
employ 'thousands where the mines
employ a single man. Create your
market by giving employment to
the idle millions of the east and
prices will regulate themselves.
Now, Mr. .Editor, I have endeav
ored to briefly ^define my position
for the benefit' of those who have
counted me a convert to free silver,
and I hope the misunderstanding
may be understood. It is impossi
ble in a single dash to go to the
bottom of these questions and em
bellish with rhetoric the golden
truths relied upon by the republican
party, as they are so multifarious
that the pen must needs flow on for
ever, like Longfellow’s brook.
Were I an ardent free silverite I
would not support Bryan and his
revolutionary platform, nor identify
myself with the ragtag and bob
tailed portion of the population of
the United States, who are his chief
and most numerous supporters.
Tours for sound money,
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