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THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 1801
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
The republican electors of the
Htate of Nebraska are requested to
send delegates from their several
counties, to meet in convention in
the city of Lincoln, Thursday, Sep
tern o'er 24. 1891, at 10 o'clock a. m.
for the purpose of plr-cing in nonii
nation candidates for one associate
justice of the supreme court, and
two members of the board of re
gents of the state university, and to
tr:in:u-t Kiwh other business as
maybe presented to the convention
THE APPORTIONMENT
The several counties are entitled
to representation as follows, bei ng
based upon the vote cast tor lion
Geo. II. Hastings, for attorney-gen
eral in 1890, giving-one delegate-at
large to each countj and one for
each 150 votes and the major frac
tion thereof:
COUNTIES.
Adams
Arthur
Antelope
Banner
Boyd
Blaine
Boone
Box Butte....
Brown
Buffalo
Butler
Burt
Cass
DEL.
.11
1
0
3
... 1
2
T,
6
4
....10
COUNTIES.
.Johnson
Kearney
Key a f aha...
Keith
Kimball-
Knox
Lancaster
Li coin
.. 2
...30
Lof?an
Loup
Madison
McP erson.. .
-.14
Merrick .
44 Nance 4
Ohase 3
Cheyenne 5
t'herry 5
lay l
Colfax
Cuming "
Ciiwter 1-
Dakota 4
Dawes
I) iwiHtn 7
Nemaha
Viifkolls. .
Otoe 9
Pawnee , 9
Perkins 3
Pierce 3
Pliplns
Platte
Polk 5
Ked Willow ti
Deuel J
Richardson Jl
Dixon 6; Rock
.... 3
Dodire
.IliSaline
14
Douglas.
Duudy
Fillmore
Franklin....
Frontier
Furnas.- .
Caee
iartield
liosper
Orant
iireely
Hall
Hamilton...
Harlan
Hayes
Hitchcock ..
Holt
Hnwnl
...tSarpy
!.iMiiiifipra
.. 0
. 5
.. 5
.. 5
-, -. , . . . - ---- .
.Scott' Bluff -
Seward 10
Sheridan
Sherman
..1!,
SlIMIX
Stanton 3
Tliaver
.. 2
Thomas :. -
Thurston 4
VjiIIpv 4
Washington .... 7
Wavue 4
'ebter
Wheeler
York 1
Hooker 2
.jefferson 9
Total 545
Xo vote returned.
It is recomended that no proxies
be addmitted to the convention,
and that the delegates present be
authorized to cast the full vote of
the delegation.
It is further recomended that the
tate central committee select the
temporary organization of the con
vention. John C. Watson,
Walt.M. SEELY, Chairman.
Secretary.
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
The county convention is called
for September 19th. 1891 at Louis
ville. The primaries are to be held on
the 12th day of September.
The basis of representation is
based on the vote cast for attorney
general at the last state election,
one delegate for every fifteen votes
and major fraction thereof, and one
at large from each ward and pre
cinct. Liberty and Rock Bluffs precinct
was given their usual vote as no
fair basis of appointment could be
had on the division.
Below will be found the place and
time of holding the primaries and
number of delegates entitled to rep
representation.
PRECINCT. TIME AND PLACE DEI.
Salt Creek pre. at 7 p m. Greenwood 7
Houtli Bend -t 1 p " ou,?r?i 74
tinlsville. at 7 p m Hassenner hall 7
E?Kl t Mile Grove 3 to 4 P m Hill school hse . . 7
Plattsmouth pre 3 P m Taylor school house .. 7
Greenwood 7 p m town hall.... 3
Vim wood 7 p m Centre school houe 7
Center. 3 p m. Manley school house
Mt Pleasant. 8pm Uilmore school house .... 5
w.M k Klnff" 4 p, m Murry chool hou-e 8
Kn i! miidlll'' office Eagle.. 6
JSve Creek. 7 pm t!AK li-Ul Elmwood 9
w ore l to 3 P in Chc cae school hou-e... 5
Avoca J P m Center school house 6
Liberty; 3 P ni Union ichool houne 11
Uioenj. o V PPATTSMOUTH CITY
lot ward, eonncil chamber 8
m ward school hoiife . .?
3rd ward, Kicheys lumber office 11
4Hi ward! Wettetncamp block 9
sth ward school lioue
WEKl'IN' WATEK CITY
1st ward. 5 to 8. school house. ;. 5
lotal number of delegates la
Plattsmouth City primaries or
dered to be open at 12 o'clock m and
continue open until 7 p. m.
THE treasury increased the cur
rpnCT circulation in the past seven
"" to the extent of $1,700,000. If
:58 be "contraction" let the alli
ance and free silver cranks make
the most of it.
Tin: Republican party will insist,
as I'resident Harrison says, that
every dollar of money issued by
the Government, whether pape r or
coin, "shall be as good arid kept as
as any other dollar." It will never
consent, in other words, to such in
flation and depreciaton of the cur
rency as the next Democratic na
tional platform will recommend.
UNCLE Sam stands with his hands
under his coat-tail, and remarks to
Europe, South America, and the
world: "Gentlemen, if you see any
thing good that you want, ask for
it. Our granaries are full to over
flowing. We have the juice in bar
rels, cotton that will keep the spin
dles of the world turning, while our
cattle graze on a thousand hills,
and our pigs squeal and grunt in
millions of corn fields. Speak out,
gentlemen."
Befokk the close of October a
complete plant for the manufacture
of tin plate will e in operation in
the city of Cleveland. One of the
numerous rolling mill companies
of that city is now putting on ma
chinery and will start out with the
production of 500 toMKD boxes of tin
per week. Karly in the spring the
capacity of the plant will be trebled
if everything goes well. This in
formation is gleaned from the local
columns of the Cleveland Leader. It
is especially interesting on account
of the matter of fact way in which
the information is published. The
truth is that tin mills are spt inging
up in so many places that their
erection is no longer a matter of
natianal comment.
Kx-Goveknok Forakek of Ohio,
is reported to be confident of repub
lican success in that state this year.
He is quoted in a recent interview
as giving half-a-score of congent
reasons for his faith in the result,
and perhaps the best of them is his
statement that the republican party
is enthusiastically- united in suport
of its candidates. These expres
sions of the ex-governor ought to
go far toward correcting the im
pression entertained by some that
he is not heartily in favor of Major
McKinley's election, or that in some
way he is disgruntled. Fair-minded
men will be disposed to accept the
opinions of Foraker regarding the
outlook as given in perfect good
faith, and undoubtedly he will find
opportunity to make satisfactory
denionstration of this before the
campaign is much farther advanced
Meanwhile McKinley is pushing
the fight with his wonted spirit
and vigar, and the situation ap
pears to be growing better for the
republicans everj- day. Bee.
The northwest is this year a poor
field for calamity shriekers.
Farmers are blessed with good
. . . i . i
crops, gooa weatner anu guuu
prices. These coming together
always beget a sentiment favorable
to protection among the people.
Reverse conditions are those under
which free trade sentiment grows.
Protection and prosperity, poverty
and free trade, is the way the pairs
are made up.
Particularly this year does the
advent of good times strengthen
the cause of protection. They come
in the wake of the McKinley tariff.
in the face of the confident asser
tions of its enemies that it would
oppress the farmer by lowering his
prices and narrowing his market.
Instead the farmer is receiving ex
cellent prices and the world's mar
kets were never so eagerly waiting
for his abundant crops. American
agriculture has got rid of the over
production which oppressed it for
a few years back, which oppression
the free traders said was due to
protection. Under increased pro
tection the adverse conditions
vanish, farmers get good prices for
what they sell, and buy their sup
plies cheaper than ever before.
What ingenious theory will the "re
former" invent to account for these
phenomena, directly contradictory
of all his fervid utterances in re
cent years? American Economist.
A FREE TRADER ON IMPROVED
CONDITIONS.
The bakers" had their turn; the
hair-dressers, the grocers, the shoe
makers, all manifested discontent;
and the workmen in the sewers
joined in the demand for improved
conditions. The Nation.
If there is anything in this world
that will make the editor of a free
trade newspaper weaiy to the point
of exasperation, it is an effort by
hair-dressers, shoemakers, work
men, and such, for "improved con
ditions," and we hnd tlie editor
saying:
"The French government having
sown the wind by refusing to pro
tect the omnitms-arivers who
wished to work, against the as
saults of the strikers and the mob
that sympathized with them, is now
reaping the whirlwind in an epi
demic of strikes." .
We guarantee a fiit in spectacles
or no sale. uering a o.
"THAT McKinley robber tariff"
doesn't seem to have "impoverished
the American people" to any large
extent. Where an- the democratic
prophets'r There are none to do
them reverence.
SiiNATOK PEFi-'E K says that
"money ought to be provided for
the people in the same way that
postage stamps are furnished."
Hut we can not get postage stamps
without given an equivalent for
them, and so the analogy fails.
"Tin: United States no not ai
I'KOACII THE (JUESTION (PROTECTIVE
TAKIFF) FROM THE SAME STANDPOINT
AS OURSELVES. TlIE OHIECT OF
THEIR STATEMENT IS NOT TO SECURE
THE LARC.EST AMOUNT OF WEALTH
FOR THEIR COUNTRY, HUT TO KEEP
171', HY WHATEVER MEANS POSSIBLE
THE STANDARD OF COM FORT AMONG
THE working classes."-London
Times.
Reciprocity with Canada may
not be accomplished this year, but
it will be brought about in 1S02 or
ISO:?. The republicans, in a com
mercial sense, are going to absorb
the entire continent, if they have to
keep on pegging away at recipro
city negotiations through the
next administration and the suc
ceeding one. Globe-Democrat.
THE St. Louis Republic, is in
tensely exciied by the discovery,
which it a'leges has been made,
that there is a Republican plan to
control the Farmers' Alliance in
Missouri for the baekrug of a third
party, and v',ii a view to divide the
democratic vote. Hut the fact re
mains that Misssouri democrats can
turn out and roll over old logs and
bring up democrats enough to
sweep the State by arousing major
ity. Missouri is improved, but it
needs education before getting
there. Inter Ocean.
The newspapers now fighting the
pension policy of the republican
pany are the same tha i ."during the
rebellion, declared the war a failure
at least once a week, and demanded
that Abraham Lincoln should make
peace on such terms as he could
get and stop the useless effusion of
blood. These fellows naturally
have no use for the ex-soldiers who
knocked their peace proposition
endwise and destroyed iheir repu
tations as prophets in bringing the
war to a successful termination.
Lincoln Journal.
The character of the commis
sioners appointed by the president
to investigate the emigration from
Fviirope to America made it certain
that they would do their duty care
fully and intelligently. The reports
of their proceedings in Furopen
capitals show that they are contin
uing their investigations with all
their care and skill which had been
exDected. The information which
they will obtain cannot but be use
ful in enabling the United States to
deal with one of the most serious
groblems which has arisen in their
history. The proposal to control
the departure of undesirable emi
grants from European ports by
some system of examination and
consular permit is one of the mat
ters to which the commissioners
are giving especial attention and
their recommendations on that mat
ter will be awaited with interest.
An interesting question has been
settled by the state department as
to how far a former citizen or a
foreigner who has declared his in
tention to become a citizen of the
United States is entitled to the pro
tection of this government when he
again sets foot upon his native
soil. One S. Gerber, a Polander,
who had taken out his first papers,
returned to Russian Poland. His
property was confiscated and he
was banished to Siberia by the Rus
sian government on some trifling
pretext. His friends asked the in
tervention of this government, to
which the acting- secretary of state
replies that he is not a citizen but
has only declared his intention to
become such, and that the United
States can make no just demand
upon the Russian government for
his release. This is hard on the
victim of Russian tyranny, but the
point taken is probablj' just. He
remains a citizen of Russia until he
becomes fully naturalized in the
United States, and in this instance
S. Gerber would have shown good
judgment by staying outside of
Russia's jurisdiction. K earney
Hub.
UNCLE Sam will proceed in a
business-like way to feed Europe
and keep her people from starving.
Russia prohibits the exportation of
rye, and other large exporting na
tions r re inventing methods to
keep a good supply of grain at
home. The United States alone
seems to be overflowing with
everything that is good under the
sun.
Now is the time to get a saddle at
your own price at Keefer's. tf
GERMAN SUGAR AND AMERICAN
PORK.
Th"re are no indications, so far
as public information goes, that
Germany has made any movement
toward reciprocity, and there is no
foreign country more interested in
it than the Germany Empire. The
present condition of trad.' between
that country and this can not con
tinue long. It is too otie-sidetl to
be tolerated, and the reciprocity
clause of the McKinley bill pro
vides an effective remedy.
The Washington dispatch to the
Inter Ocean of yesterday stated
that during the first three months
after sugar was placed on the free
list Europe exported to this coun
try :r:J.0TiUSl pounds. At that rate
the exports of a year would be
1.202.225.824 pounds. Bv far the
greater part of this sugar came
from Germanv. Indeed, sugar is
, ,
the leading export of that country
as it is the chief import of this
In 1880 the value of Germany's ex
port of sugar was $il,7lO,C2 and of
thefmports of the same commodity
into the United States $101 ,'M):i,S20.
Nearly one-fourth of our imported
sugar came from Germany. There
are, however, other sources from
which we can derive all the sugar
we need, and if the duty should be
restored on he German article tha
would be equivalent to its exclu
sion. I he price would not lie en
hanced by the closing of our ports
against the product of that conn
try. If Germany persists in di.-
criminatipg against our pork the
president will be compelled under
tlje provisions of the McKinley bill
to reimpose the duty on German
sugar. If Minister Phelps has not
pressed this subject upon the at
tentioti of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs it is high time he did.
According to all accounts Em
peror William is greatly disturbed
in his mind over the friendly rela
tions now existing between France
and Russia and the rye ukase of
the Czar. He would do well to con
sider that his subjects are seriously
threatened with the loss of the
chief market for their chief export
It is as if the United States, with iU
immense grain crop, were threat
ened with the closing against it of
the English market. Germany
needs rye from Russia, but still
more does it need a market for its
surplus sugar. Once let our ports
be closed to its free importation
while open to the sugar of other
countries, and the agriculture of
Germany would feel the grip of
hard times as never before.
The advantage is on the side of
this country. In a game of rela
tion Germany would be handicap
ped throughtout. Our farmers
would be glad to send their pro-
visisons and breadstuffs to Ger
manv. and there are a few other
commodities which we naturally
send to that country, but no seri
ous loss would follow to our peo
ple by the total shutting offj of
trade with Germany, while the Ger
mans themselves! would be im-
nroverished bv it. There is no
other country in the world with
which thev have so profitable a
trade as with the United States
The German Government can not
afford to put that trade in jeopardy.
Inter Ocean.
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
There is always a freshness
about The Ladies' Home Journal,
and a perfect knowledge displayed
of woman's best wants at every sea
son of the year. The Journal is
wide-?wake; it employs the best
pens; it understands what women
want, and it is never weak; it has a
way of entering into the daily life
of a women, and appeals to her
every mood, every joy and every
perplexity. Its September number
gives evidence that it is getting
stronger with each issue. Its regu
lar salaried now number sixteen,
and include Rev. T. De Witt Tal
mage, Maria Parloa, Margaiet Bot
tome, president of "The King's
Daughters"; Mrs. Isabel A. Mallon,
undoubtedly the best fashion
writer in America; Eben E. Rexford,
Elizabeth Robinson Scovil, Maude
Haywood, Foster Coates, Kate Tan
natt Woods. Kate Upson Clarke,
Emma M. Hooper, with Edward W.
Bok as editor-in-chief. For one
dollar the Journal is sent to any
address, for an entire 3rear, by the
Curtis Publishing Company, of
Philadelphia, who conduct the
Journal.
The postmaster general has au
thorized a pneumatic tube com
. .i
pany to put in an experimental
plant at its own cost for distribut
ing mail through Philadelphia. In
London and other English cities
the me nod has been tried and
adopted by the postal authorities
In St. Louis the postmaster has se
cured permission of the department
to try the experiment of sending
mail to the sub stations by electric
car. This isn't quite so rapid as the
pneumatic tube, but it is believed
that it will discount the present ser
vice of mail wagons.
I AM one of those that believe that
these men from your shops, these
farmers remote from money centres
have the largest interest from all
the people of the world in having a
dollar that is worth 100 cents every
day in the year, ami only such. If
by anj' chance we should fall into
a condition where one dollar is not
so good as another, I venture the
assertion that th poorer dollar
will do itsxlirst errand in paj'ing
some poor laborer for his work.
Therefore, in the conduct of our
public affairs, I feel pledged for one
that all the influences of the gov
ernment should be on the side of
giving the people only good money
and just as much of all that kind
as we can get. Benjamin Harrison.
A FLOOD VICTIM TURNED UP.
At the time of the Johnstown Hood
there lived in the city a young man
named James Springer, who was em
ployed bythe Cambria Iron Com
pany. He was never seen after the
Hood and his friends, thinking he
had been drowned, packed up his
clothes and sent them to his mother
in Alliance, Ohio. A dispatch from
that city says, that the mother has
received letters and and papers that
thoroughly established the fact
that her son was aiiiongtlie living.
The letters were from Janus, and
he tells a strange story of the cause
that led to disappear. It seems that
the boy escaped, but he was so
dazed by the events that he fell in
with a number of negroes who took
him to Maryland, where, a few
weeks later, he shipped as a sailor.
The young fellow says he luu'dly
knew what he was doing, nor what
impelled him to leave. He had
shipped for the West Indies, and
had traveled all over the world
but recently returned to the United
States. Trouble of a serious nature
had been brewing on him before the
flood, and it is supposed that, un
nerved by the terrible destruc
tion of the water his mind became
unbalanced and was the cause of
his sudden disappearance.
TAXES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA
The ICnglish statesman fir politi
cian generally tells the truth when
he compares British and American
conditions; it is the American free
trader who resorts to falsehood and
prates about the "taxes that burden
the industry of this country."
The American Economist quotes
as follows from a recent letter
which Dr. G. B. Badenoch, a well
known worker in British politics,
recently addressed to the Kentish
Mercury:
"The rates and taxes which we
have to pay every year amount to
180,0C1,CD0 ($C30.0CX),C DO). For every
1CD worth of home production we
have to pay, to meet this enormous
yearly sum, 12, while the people of
America pay no more than o on
the same amount. This arises from
the duty which they exact on
foreign goods sent from England
and other countries."
Dr. Badenoch sees what "free
trade" does; it makes the British
pay very nearly two anu a jian
times as much in direct taxes as
the American has to pay. But this
is not all; Dr. Badenoch continues:
"Besides this let us reilect upon
the words of John Morey in his
address to the Amalgamated Engi
neers at Newcastle ten years ago.
It is an awful fact really not short
of awful that in Great Britain, with
all its wealth and power, 45 per
cent, which is very nearly one-half,
of all the persons who reach the
sge of sixty j ears, are or have been
paupers. iso as ur. Knoues saiu
in his address to the Social Science
Congress, held at Leeds in Septem
ber, 1800, there are in England to
day a sufficient number of paupers
to form a procession in four deep
and 1CD miles long. Iheir cost in
poor relief for the last year was no
less than 8.440,821, or 6s (.fl."0) per
head to tne entire population."
Thanks to protection, which cre-
. . c a 11 .
a aemana ior American iauui, wc
are not in the sad condition of a
nation whose tax for the relief
of paupers amounts to
$1.50 on every man, woman and
child in its domain.
What the English free trader
says is tne Dest coniraaiciion mat
can be given to what the American
free trader says of the effects of pro
tection upon the industries of this re
public. JOSEPH SHERA.
For 27 vears Joseph Shera, of
Rock Bluffs has been engaged in
the business of selling general mer
chandise at that place, and to-day
he carries a large and complete
stock of groceries and general mer
chandise which he can sell cheaper
than any competetors for the fol
lowing good reasons. He pays
no city taxes. He pays no house
reht. He, with his family attend to
his business. His farm furnishes
all his needs and more too. Conse
quently it is hard to undersell him.
lie keeps constantly on nana a
larce supply of flour and meal. He
is alive, and a let live man.
For lame back, side or chest, use
Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 25
cents. For sale by . o. ricke &
Co. and O. H. Snyder. 3
on in'
UU h
PARK
Mines lo Offer tho opr
tniFliir Iralineat.
! No Excuse for not having a
Home ot Your Own.
Put What you are paying out
for Rent into a home.
7 per cent money for persons
wishing to build in South
Park.
Look to trie Future
ana invest now in
South Park.
THE OPPORTUNITY OF A
LIFE TIME.
Among other reasons why it is
better to invest in South Park than
elsewhere in the city, are these:
Property is more saleable if you
wish to sell, more rentable if you
wish to rent; if looking for an in
crease in value.no other part of the
city will compare with it inprospect
The 5th ward composed largely of
South Park, less than three years
ago could hardly muster up a vote
at the last general election the vote
was 130 and all were not polled. It
has been less than two years since
the city invited us into the corpor
ate limits, yet we have over one hun4'
dred newly built house ond others
in process of construction, owned,
with few exceptions, by the parties
now living in them.
This part of the city has a store
water mains, electric arc lights,
church and school priveledges and
a new church edifice just erected
of which the whole city is proud.
Plattsmouth's steady growth for
five years past almost doubling its
population; the advance stand it
has taken regarding public im
provements, the certainty of a new
$80,000 court house; the completion
of the great Missouri Pacific rail
way into this city, giving us anoth
er great trunk line and competing
market; the constant increasing1
pay roll of the C. B. & Q. shops, to
gether with many other well known
reasons, assure a steady and perma
nent advance in realty, which will
doubtless effect South Park mor
favorably than any other portion of
Plattsmouth.
With a view to the encouragement of
a still greater growth of this part of
the city, we will continue to sell lots on
monthly payments, furnish money
with which to reect hocses loill ex
change lota for other improved city
property or for dtsirable improved or
unimproved property.
It is not so much the speculator
as the permanent resident that we
wish to purchase this disirable
property. Out of over eighty pres
ent owners of South Park
property lone are speculators
hence there are no fictitous values
and lots are selling at about the
price they were immediatly after
it was platted a strong argument
why the present is a most desirable
time for investments. Much addi
tional information regarding South
Park may be had by calling, at my
office on Main street over Bank of
Cass County.
R. B. WINDHAII.
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