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STATE TICKET.
Governor..........J . H, MICKEY
Lieutenant Governor.E. G. M'UILTON
Secretary ofState.A. OALUSHA
Auditor.....E. M. SEARLE.JR,
Treasurer.1'BTEK MORTBNSKN
Superintendent.J. L M I1R1EN
Attorney General.NORRIS BROWN
Land Commissioner. ..H. M. EATON
For U. S. senator....,.E. J. BURKETl
Fer congressman, 6th dlst....M. P. KINKAID
COUNTY TICKET.
Count attorney. E. H. Benedict of O'Neill;
representatives, W. N. Coats of Stuart and
8. W. Green of Ewing.
For state senator, Dr. J. P. Gllllgan of O'Neill
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Notice of Supervisor's Convention.
Notice Is hereby given that the re
publicans of the Fifth supervisor dis
trict of Holt county, Nebraska, will
meet In convention In the village of
Chambers, on October 8,1904, at one
o’clock In the afternoon, for the pur
pose of placing in nomination a candi
date for the office of Suprvispr for said
district. The townships comprising
said district will be entitled to repre
sentation as follows:
Inman, 8; Chambers, 9; Conley, 2;
McClure, 2; Lake, 2.
It is recommended that no proxies
be allowed and that the delagates
present pass the full vote of said
township.
George Davis, Chairman.
J. W. Holden, Secretary.
COUNTY DIVISION MEANS IN
CREASED TAXES.
Emmet, Neb., Sept. 28.—Taxpayers
of Holt county: Have you thought
over the proposition we are up to this
fall to divide the county—make three
counties out of one? Three counties
means three court-houses instead of
one, three sets of officers instead of
one. Have you ever wen the big
vaults full of records? Have you any
idea what it will cost to abstract all
these records? You know what one
abstract costs whenever you buy or
sell a farm. You have some idea what
thousands of them will cost. It takes
experts to do this work; it means big
salaries to get them. Where is your
money to pay them. It means thous
ands of dollars. It means bonds on
the new counties.
Don’t believe these men who tell
you they will build their own court
houses and hire those clerks. This
kind of talk will all cease after election
| -"-after they have won the battle they
will ask you to vote bonds. This
means mortgages on your farms be
cause your property is Incumbered un
til the bonds are paid. Your taxes
are now reasonable. They are going
. downward and will be lower next year
than this year. You are now getting
older. The work is harder On you
I than it was ten years ago. Anew
county means a ten year debt on you.
At that time the work is still harder
on you and you would curse yourself
for taking on this new and needless
burden.
Don’t believe it when they tell you
the new counties will raise the price
of your land. You can buy a farm
today within five miles of O’Neill Just
as cheap as you can fifteen miles away.
Don’t believe that you can buy your
necessities of life cheaper in the new
county seat. They will charge you
more if anything because their burd
ens will be heavier and the farmers
will have to pay the bills.
Now gentlemen farmers, when you
read this letter, don’t think that it
is written or dictated by an O’Neill
schemer. It is written and diotated
by myself. I am a farmer living nine
miles west of O’Neill on a stock and
dairy farm, which means lots of hard
^ work to make an honest living, pay all
expenses and taxes, and I don’t want
any further increase in taxes. The
distance some of you have to go to the
county seat is not the burden increase
in taxes would be. You don’t have to
go often and you can afford to take a
day off once in a year or two and enjoy
life. Don’t believe the stories that
summoning juries and witnesses from
any part of the county is ruinous; you
know your taxes are going down.
HENRY MARTFELD.
POINTED EXPRESSIONS PROM
ROOSEVELTS LETTER.
We intend in the future to carry on
the government in the same way that
we have carried it on in the past
s « • •
! We are content to rest our case be
fore the American people upon the
fact that to adherence to a lofty ideal
we have added, proved governmental
efficiency.
I * * *
No other administration In our his
tory, no other government in the
(world, has more consistently stood for
THBOOOBB BOOSKVZZ.T.
the broadest spirit of brotherhood In
our common humanity, or has held a
more resolute attitude of protest
against every wrong that outraged the
civilization of the world, at home or
abroad.
• * *
It has behaved toward all nations,
strong or weak, with courtesy, dignity
and justice; and Is now on excellent
terms with all.
• » •
Our foreign policy has been not only
highly advantageous to the United
States, but hardly less advantageous to
the world as a whole. Peace Hnd
jgood will have followed in Its foot
steps.
• • *
Within ,ths limits defined by the
national constitution the national ad
ministration as sought to secure to
each man the foil enjoyment of hla
right to live his life and dispose of bis
property and his labor as he deems
best, so long os he wrongs no one
else.
• • •
It Is but ten years since the first
attempt was made, by means of lower
ing the tariff, to prevent some people
from prospering too much. The at
tempt was entirely successful.
• • •
To uproot and destroy the prtrtectlve
system would be to insure the prostra
tion of business, the closing of factor
ies, the Impoverishment of the farmer,
the ruin of the capitalist and the
starvation of the wage-worker.
• • •
During the last five years more has
been done for the material and moral
well-being of the Filipinos than ever
before since the island first came with
in the ken of civilized man.
• * *
We did not take the Philippines at
iWlll, and we cannot put them aside at
will.
• • •
We have striven both for civil right
eousness and for national greatness;
and we have faith to believe that our
hands will be upheld by all who feel
love of country and trust In the up
lifting of mankind.
• • *
We hold ever before us as the all
important end of policy and adminis
tration the reign of peace at home and
throughout the world; of peace which
comes along by doing Justice.
• « • '
The constitution must be observed
positively as well as negatively.
• * •
We do not have to guess at our own
convictions and then correct the guess
If It seems unpopular.
* * *
A party which, with facile ease,
changes all Its convictions before elec
tion cannot be trusted to adhere .with
tenacity to any principle after elec
tion.
• • •
As for the navy, It has been and Is
now the most potent guaranty of
peace; and It is such chiefly because It
Is formidable and ready tor use.
• • e
If on one great Issue they (the
Democrats) do not mean what they
say, It is hardly safe to trust them od
any other issue.
* • * /■
Free trade and reciprocity are not
compatible.
• • •
They (the Democrats) have occu
pied three entirely different positions
j(on the Philippines) within fifty days.
(Which Is the promise they really in
tend to keep}
* • •
Since the close of the war with
Spain there has been ao substantia)
change In the rate of annual ex
penditures.
• • *
! Where there la no respect there can
be no trust A policy with so slender
ja basis of principle would not stand
'the strain of a single year of business
adversity.
• • •
j If a tariff law is passed aimed at
preventing the prosperity of some of
our people, it Is as certain as anything
can be that this aim will he achieved
only by cutting down the prosperity
of all our people.
• a •
There is not a policy, foreign ©1
domestic, which we are now carry Inf
out, which it would not be disastrous
to reverse or abandon.
• * *
This government hn« been true tc
the spirit of the fourteenth amend
ment in the Philippines. Can our op
ponents deny that here at home the
principles of the fourteenth anti
fifteenth amendments have been In ef
fect nullified?
* * •
If continued in power we shall con
tinue our foreign policy and our hand
ling of the navy on exactly the same
lines to the future as in the past
PULITZER’S MISTAKE
Be Does Not Understand the Attitade ol
Parker.
Joseph Pulitzer did not attend the
gathering of Democratic editors which
met and communed recently with the
Democratic candidate for the presi
dency, but he wrote a letter, of which
this was the concluding paragraph;
“It is because I so strongly desire
Judge Parker’s election that I speak so
plainly on this subject. I earnestly
beg of yon when you see him tomor
row at Esopus, to urge that he accept
also the full responsibility of his posi
tion; that he will not permit the cam
paign in New York—the pivotal state
-—to be mismanaged by the small poli
ticians who beset him.”
“Beset!” "Beset,” Indeed! Little
is Alton B. Parker "beset” by the
small politicians to whom Pulitzer al
ludes, those who have, for years, been
the vassals of David B. Hill or among
the operators for Tammany. Alton B.
Parker has been one of them himself.
Foxy political manager for Hill, who
repaid him by an appointment, and
who, in the present year, has repaid
him further, he is not likely to be “be
set” by his own associates. Mr. Pulitz
er must be wandering in his mind. It
is upon those from whom he wishes
Mr. Parker to dissociate himself that
Mr. Pulitzer depends for whatever
rote he may get in New York—Tam
manyltes and the Hill henchmen.
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>. If our opponents come into . (
j; power they can revoke this or-; ‘
j. der (pension order No. 78) and . t
j; announce that they will treat the ; ‘
> ’ veterans of 02 to TO as pre-! c
j; sumably In fuH bodily vigor and ; j
) • not entitled to pensions. Will -1
’; they now authoritatively state ; ‘
i- that they Intend to do this? If t
j; so, we accept the issue. If not, ; J
j ■ then we have the right to ask ■ c
j; why they raise an issue which, ' J
> • raised, they do no* venture to ■ t
J; meet?—Roosevelt’s Letter of Ac-; [
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Mr. Parker, Democratic nominee for
president, has never journeyed west of
Buffalo, N. Y. What does he know of
the great west, Its people, their
achievements, their possibilities, their
needs? How can he reconcile the de
mands of the different sections, and
decide great questions properly and for
the good of the whole country? Of
limited experience, a narrowed hori
zon, he Is not comparable with Theo
dore Roosevelt, who has traveled the
country over, lived east and west,
knows the people, the country and Is
a president of the people, not con
tinued by WaU street and Its influ
ences.
‘•Political empirics” well describes
the species of constitutional hair-split
ters who see the constitution rent in
tatters every time a new condition de
mands the exercise of some govern
ment power not dreamed of In the phil
osophy of Thomas Jefferson. If the
political empirics of 1881 had had their
way there would have been no union
left for their successors to weep and
groan over in 1904.
The annual report on the coal in
dustry of Illinois, furnished by the
state bureau of statistics, shows that
miners were never so prosperous as
under the McKinley and Roosevelt ad
ministrations. The coal output of the
state now la nearly twice what it was
under Cleveland; 15,000 more men are
employed than six years ago, and
wages are fully 50 per cent higher
than in 1897.
When the industries of the country
prosper coal is In demand and miners
get their full share of the general pros
perity. When the mills and factories
close or work on short time for lack
of orders, railway traffic falls off and
the mining Industry suffers. Miners
are as much interested In maintaining
the Republican policy of protection as
any other class of workingmen.
Balfour, the prime minister of Eng
land, In a speech delivered at Sheffield,
declared that Cobden, the apostle of
free trade, was “a great man, but he
failed to foresee the developments of
the last half century which had made
free trade an empty name and a vain
farce.”
There is one truth that seems beyond
the comprehension of the Democracy,
that “the old order changes, yielding
place to the new." Otherwise it
would not try to fit the Jeffersonian
knickerbockers of 1804 on the lusty
American giant of 1904.
The element which leads and domi
nates the Democratic party today
stands not for tariff for revnue, but for
ultimate free trade. There Is no use
trying to dodge that fact. The work
ingmen of America must take note
of It. _
Judge Parker Is said to have writ
ten his financial views so as to not of
fend Bryan. He voted that way, tooi
• couple of times.
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I Sir, I hold to the opinion that ?
ail war is barbarous. I am j
against war, civilized or nn- 5
civilized except it be necessary to x
redeem people from oppression, 5
or be for national defense, or to j
sustain the national honor in the I
protection of American citizen- j
ship.—Senator Fairbanks in the 5
senate, May 20, 1897. J
NOTHING TO TAKE BACK
Bow Will Bryan Explain Bis Hostility
to Parker ?
William Jennings Bryan has been
officially engaged by the Democratic
national committee to make speeches
In New York, Indiana and other
places. The former candidate for the
presidency has something of a reputa
tion as an agile political contortionist,
but he will have the time of his life
explaining his record during the pres
ent campaign. Mr. Bryan has been
on a good many sides of a good many
different questions, and yet lie lives to
tell the tale. But just how he proposes
to advocate the election of Parker is
a mystery.
Bryan was opposed to Parker before
the convention met at St. Louis. He
was opposed to Parker every day dur
ing the sessions of that inharmonious
gathering. When Parker sent his tele
gram supplementing the Democratic
platform Mr. Bryan rose from a bed of
sickness to denounce the nominee as
a traitor and a dictator, and his dra
matic appearance on that Saturday
night was one of the most extra
ordinary episodes of an extraordinary
convention. Bryan lashed Parker and
he dared the convention to send a tele
gram to the nominee demanding his
honest opinion on other well-known
Democratic principles.
Later on Mr. Bryan, In his paper.
The Commoner, while the events in
the convention were fresh before him,
openly charged that Judge Parker was
a party to a corrupt attempt to deceive
the convention and that his nomina
tion had been secured by improper
means. It was them that the former
candidate for the presidency put him
self on record by saying In The Com
moner of July 13, less than a week
after the nomination: “I have noth
ing to take back.”
It seems a curious thing to find a
man who has "nothing to take back,”
appearing on the stump favoring the
election of Alton B. Parker for the
presidency. If Mr. Bryan has “noth
ing to take back,” he should in com
mon honesty when he appears on the
stump in Indiana, and elsewhere, re
peat to his audiences exactly what
he said in The Commoner of July 13,
which was printed exactly one week
after the Democratic convention was
called to order and only four days
after Judge Parker was nominated for
the presidency and had sent has tele
gram repudiating the Democratic plat
form.
In this issue of The Commoner Mr.
Bryan said:
"It was a plain and deliberate at
tempt to deceive the party. The New
York platform was vague and purpose
ly so; because the advocates of Judge
Parker were trying to secure votes
from among the people who would
have opposed his views had they
known them. The nomination was
secured, therefore, by crooked and In
defensible methods.”
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tics Bryan’s campaign speech for Par
ker ought to be worth going miles to
hear. If, as he says, he has “nothing
to take back,” how will be explain
matters to the people? What did he
mean when he said In The Commoner:
“The nomination of Judge Parker
virtually nullities the anti-trust
plank?” Was It true on July 13 that
Parker’s nomination had been secured
“by crooked means?” If it was true
then Is It not true now?
Mr. Bryan in The Commoner said:
“I shall not appeal for votes for the
ticket on false grounds.” How can he
appear on the stump, therefore, and
seriously ask the workingmen of the
country to vote for the Democratic
nominee after The Commoner had de
clared that “The labor plank as pre
pared by Judge Parker's friends on
the subcommittee was a straddling,
meaningless plank?”
Was Mr. Bryan lylDg when he said
In his paper, “A Democratic victory
Will mean very little, if any, progress
so long as the party is under control
of the Wall street element?"
If the party was under the control
of the Wall street element when Mr.
Bryan wrote that editorial, is it not
just as much under the same control
while he is on the stump?
Perhaps Mr. Bryan can explain
away these things. Perhaps he can
answer these questions.
Perhaps not.
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j [ A man who is weak enough to ]'
> ■ put his candidacy in their (Hill’s ■ c
JI and Belmont’s) hands before the ! ‘
) ■ convention would not be strong ■ <
*; enough to resist their influences ]'
> ■ after election, If he were by any ■«
j [ possibility successful.—William J. ! J
> ■ Bryan. ■ t
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Would « He WUeT
It is conceded that the Democrats
are not on record on the tariff question.
This being the case, would It not be
unwise to trust tariff revision to the
party opposed to the principle of pro
tection, the result being practically
free trade, bringing industrial depres
sion, hard times and the inevitable
lowering of prices on farm products?
Silence has grown weary listening
for the reply that comes not from
Esopus to Tom Watson’s query, “What
is Judge Parker’s position on the negro
question?”
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