1 Till: WKKKI.Y I1KIJALI): PLATTSMOITII. NKIJUASKA. Ai;il'ST IS. 1S!-J 1 THE liER-A.XjD.1, I't I'l lslIKO li.MI.V I-M l IT MAHAY OSMON M. PETERSON, Editoh. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ii MI.V I M I'loN. Our Year lin inlviiiit'ei .Mx months lly l urricr, per wi i k, WI-I.M.Y Kll I'loN. One Yeur- in advance, If not paid in advance. Six mouths, Three moot h-. Telephone Number . j; no jt Tin: Hltnwood Leader, although it loes not support Judge Field, treated liim much more fairly than the Keho. TlIK last legislature did more liarm to the nia'erial interests of Nebraska than it is pleasant to con template. A I i; W big meetings will be worth more to the republican party in tkiis district than man) more ordi nary ones. YYlU. the Journal print just what judge Field did fay about that 15. A: M. bridge case il it is furnished with a printed copy : A equitable disli ihiition of all nominations will make Cass county roll up a republican majority which will surprise the calamity boomers. Mk'. I.nnLk- is fixing his fences or ti legislative run audit is said lie will make a record as a reformer with a big U in the Tight- investi gation. Sim.'I.y the past experience of thit- ity has been such that Mayor Hutlet 'in see the advantages to be derived by having a first-class, law yer as the city'w attorney. i I)i i the honest and working farm ers of this state want another i "d n the constitution" legisla ture: We think not. One of that kind is sufficient for a long time. llowdo the old time democrats, who are .such from principle, like he idea of playing second liddle to inch nmssbacks and boodlers as -ad the alliance party in this state? J)i H.t.Ak's to cents that Mr. Ilryan uisell will not repeat the stale d silly parrot cry i f "railroad lge" : i l;. i inst his republican op lient. VI-: k in their lives c.uld the iv'rats lu- as much with a labor as now. That fact is is making votes far the rcpuh party in tbis year of our Kurd 'It democrats as Frank White ia large-sized smile concealed hr sleeve while appearing to iproval at Mryan's hob-nob- rith the ''cheap" inoiiey crowd nes only. WycK will trade his whole ticket for legislative votes. Isn't care a fig about being or. I le came west for a U. S (-ship, mid that is what he is kiying for. IKK Tic.llK is to be congratu pott taking TlIK Herald's and surrendering the Hub lig to the court. Let the law I course with all such d Creatures. The Journal know that the tms are and always have jnocrats. They are, and The knows that the republican kiot responsible for them or ions. i:s are no match for facts efore Mr. Hryan cannot sue I this y ear stand up against lid on the stump, Ourelo illiam will be compelled to I poor crop year. ;iNi; to win is what tho s have been looking lor, g time, now." liver since Mowed good old Horace They even smack their jMillionaire Van Wyck. minion thing lorthe dev r the livery ot heaven in more successfully carry Resign. Such fellows as k and Ynndctvoort laying hts worrying about the .vrongs" is s imply ridicu tie humiliating indeed to rt old democrats to be lay cats-paw for' the ca ll y and have theirown in- sunk beneath the waves fss platform for"cheap" tl government loans to rmers. 'Mill. Till: New York Sun has appointed ex Secretary W hitm y a- foo'.-kdlcr ; for the democratic party and it says ; that while lit lias a big jol) on j lian.l, hi- is capable of tilling tin- office to the satisfaction of Amen-j can. I'm; support which the lion. David Kennett Hill is giving the Hon. ('.rover Cleveland broadens that pe culiar smile which spreads over the benign countenance of the lion. Charles A. Dana when he is really pleased. Mk. HkYAXsaystothe Cass coun ty farmer' ' I am in favor of free silver and Mr. Cleveland is dead against it. Vote for me and him. I will introduce and pass my free silver bill and he will promptly veto it. We are a team, and bound to please everybody." Wlii.Nthe republicans hold their county convention they will nomi nate a real lawyer for county attor ney. However worthy a young man may be, personally, the party cannot alford to make him its nom inee simply to give him standing before the courts and to "help him along.' Tllli laborer doe.n't care much for line spun theories about the should be workings of intricate tarilf laws. Facts undisputed and indisputable, are what have weight with his reasoning powers. As drover Cleveland truthfully stated it's a condition, not a theory which comforts us." A li;H iCKATie newspaper is nothing if not a blunderer. The Herald of Lincoln asserts that Judge Croitnse is an A. I'. A. mem ber, which the editor knows is not true. I he Catholic citizens are not idiots and they will resent the as sumption of the Lincoln democratic organ that they are. TlIK democrats have called their state convention. 1 he date is Aug. 10 and the place Lincoln. Hryan will be the attraction as at the spring convention and we shall see if he will deliver that free silver speech again. The convention will be afraid to endorse the free silver sentiments, but it will endorse Wil liam's eloquent tongue. Mk. Ilk-VAN wrote to the mana gers in this district that it was nec essary to hold hold bis congres sional convention UKl-'okK the Nationaj convention to avoid irri tating embarraisinent on thestump for the candidate. "The outside world need -not know about this," stated the instructions to the local democratic statesmen throughout the district. TlIK democratic party of Nebras ka is without a great newspaper supporter in this campaign. The Omaha World-Herald is somewhat democratic, but its father-in-law has been nominated for governor by the republicans and Mr. Hitch cock has no more fondness for hav ing his wife's lingers in his wool than theavcrage married man. Her papa will be governor. Tin-: Carnegie Company ottered to lease its Homestead worRs to the workers for a guaranteed rental of four per cent on the investment. The steel workers were led into their mistake there as they are in all mistakes they make, by the blantant demagogues who earn their bread by the sweat of their mouths, and anarchists. No party which appeals to this element can ever have the confidence of the sub stantial farmers and business men. First of all, the McKinley law did not increase the duties on the steel products of Homestead. The du ties were decreased instead. De creased on building material, large ly manufactured at Homestead from one and one-fourth cents pound to nine-tenths of a cent a pound a reduction of $7 a ton. See M McKinley law. On steel rails the duty was reduced from 17 and f'JO.W at ton to $13.11 a ton. See,lH. If the tarilT reduc tions could prevent strikes the Homestead riot ought to have been avoided. If there is any Cass county demo crat who sincerely desires to know just what sensible business-men democrats really think of Hryan and of his chances for re-election, let him take the train and visit Nebraska City and the lion. J. Sterling Morton. A confidential chat with the Otoe county bourbon statesman will reveal the facts. Of course, Mr. Morton is not talking for publication. That would be in discreet. Mr. Morton is not sup porting Hryan and hundreds of other honest-money democrats in various parts of the district are quietly and effectively working against the young man eloquent. ITHAT BRIDCK DECISION. J udges 1- it-11 ami Lansing wcr-' at Klmwond Saturday vimi l ii last ami made tin' opening speeches there of tlu- present congressional campaign. Judge Field referred to the H. Ac Cass republicans will be asked to M. bridge c.ie decision and told his ' support will be held at that place, audience the exact truth about the The train service is such that very case and his statement was per- little time is allowed for cousulta fectly satisfactory to all who heard ' tion, when the convention is called him understanding!'. That all who heard him did not do so im ikrstandingly we are torced to admit since reading the bungling Report of the speech which appears this week in the lilmwood licho. The editor of that paper either loesn't know what he is talking about or he is trying to injure Judge Field while apparently sup porting him. In the lir.t place the case is not correctly stated by the democratic writers and speakers, for political reasons. As usual they presume their audience densely iglior ant and extraordinarly credulous. Their cry is that the 1 1. A: M. railroad was attempting to escape taxation when they know that such is not the case and (.'very other man knows so who knows anything about it. The contested point in the case was purely one of law whether the bridge was subject to state or local taxation. If the bridge, within the meaning of the law, was a super structure on the right-of-way, it was taxable to the state. If it was not, then it was not taxable. Mr. Meeson for the city and county held that it was not a superstructure on the right-of-way. If Judge Field had wanted to aid the railroad he is too good a lawyer to have attempted to do so in the manner ascribed to him by the democrats. To do so would be foolish. Judge Field knew the case would go to the supreme court and he also knew that no decision of the lower court in such a case would have no inlluence in the one above. His only inducement was to give the right interpretation of the law, as he understood it, and which lie believed must be main tained by the higher court No honest lawyer, democrat or repub lican, ever questioned Judge Field's motives or believes any such rot as the democratic newspapers have and will publish about it. What the licho says is' unfortu nate for the reason that some peo ple will take advantageo the non sensical HtulT and try to attribute it to Judge Field. The Journal will take it up in tonight's issue and ex ecute a play of words upon it. Hut Judge F'ield cannot be held account able for all his fool friends do any more than can Mr. ltryan for his fool friends and the Lord knows Hryan has plenty of them. Mr. Ileeson said this afternoon in talking to Tin; HERALD that any lawyer who knew the charge that Fit Id was unduly favorable to rail roads, on or oil the bench, was ab solutely false and silly. "Judge Field," said Mr. Heeson, "showed his fairness in the M. 1. right-of-way cases which were tried before him and in fact his whole career upon the bench is an honor to him as a judge and a lawyer. Matthew Gering, lisq., is a democratic law yer and he will tell you that the 'railroad judge' cry against Judge Field is absurd." The talk about the II. & M. bridge decision of Judge Field in any way affecting the passenger or freight rates ia all nonsense and Judge f'ield never tittered such foolish words aa the Klmwood Kcha would lead people to believe. TlIK business men of this town are coming to their senses as to the support of nondescript newspapers. There is no room, and never was, for a third daily paper in this town, while everyone will recognize the propriety of keeping up twodailies. Ivxperience proves that two dailies cannot live here, with the limited number of readers for a daily in this town, at less than la cents a week or ."() cents a month, while one daily, be it ever so good and fair and wise in its management and control, would be unsatisfactory. it... . . , ... 1 iicncc, u is apparent mat mere is no room for a nondescript paper that pretends independence in poli tics and cannot suit anybody. It must go u Hie wall - as going to the wall it is and the man of busi ness who gives it support is merely prolonging the agony of its demise. Plattsmouth Journal. TlIK New York Sun warns the democratic part)' to drop their tarilf nonsense and make the Force hid so-called, the issue. They would be no better otf if they followed Mr Danas advice. The people of this country are as much in favor of an honest ballot and a lair count, as they are of protection to American interests. The only sensible thing for the democracy to do is to admit that it has been wrong, repudiate its past and say with candor that it will make an effort to do right in the future. THE COUNTY CONVENTION. It has been i u.-'oniary f-r ,-niii.' time pas-t to hold the county con- vention at Weeping Water and the ColllUl. tion to 'republican county conveti-1 nominate the ticket which at 1 o'clock. rvverything is rushed through with undue haste to allow delegates to catch return ing trains, which leave at about It o'clock - two whole hours to attend to work which ought tobedelib -r- ately and carefully done. The time is at least four hours short. The 1Ii:kai.i calls the attention of the Committee, and republicans generally, to this matter and asks that arniiigaiiients forthe next con vention he so changed that dele gates will have ample time and op portunity to meet each other, talk over the situation, and thereby do their work with greater delibera tion. No delegate will go to the next convention who cannot afford to spend two days, or parts thereof, in the work of selecting a county ticket. Let the call read that 'he convention will convene at or 10 in the morning. Delegates will then go to Weeping Water th eve ning before and during theevening and the early hours ol the next morning can have the benelit of consultation with and advice from each other. It in of the utmost importance this year that a strong ticket shall be placed in the field. It will greatly aid the state and congres sional ticket if this is the case. Personal preferences and ambi tions ought to be laid aside fcr this year and every man should favor the candidates for the various places whom he believes will be strongest before the people at the polls. The situation can be better understood and the right result ac complished by having what is prac tically a two-days' convention. Again, such a convention would make the task of setting up a job and railroading it through the con vention much more difficult to suc cessfully carry out No matter how much talk is in dulged in before the holding of the primaries and how much modera tion and the elimination of per-t-onal considerations is advised, the good work will not be so satis factorily accomplished if the dele gates are rushed and driven, be cause of limited time, on the day of the convention. The only sure way to avoid mistakes is to have plenty of time and a friendly exchange of ideas among the delegates just previous to the holding of the con vention. No stateor National con vention would do otherwise and county affairs is of more immediate importance to every citizen than those of the general government. Call the convention for ! o'clock in the morniii'r. At one time during his con gressional career Mr. Hryan was so much disgusted with the hypoc risy, cant and rottenness of the dem ocratic majority in the present house, that he seriously contem plated making a speech exposing the methods by which unworthy matters were log-rolled through the house, and then retiring to pri vate life. He knew that such a speech would necessarily compel his retiteinent, yet he took con siderable time to make up his mind not to do it. When the young man entered congress he felt the re sponsibility that was upon him. He honestly wanted to carry out some of the pledges made by the democratic party and in which he devoutly believed. He was young, enthusiastic and unsophisticated. When he was undeceived, when he learned how utterly hollow were the pretenses of the democratic leaders for the welfare of the peo ple, when he learned how rank was their hypocrisy and their sel'ish ness, he was so thoroughly dis couraged and disgusted that he came very near exposing it all and retiring with the plaudits of the people and the condemnation ol the managers of his party. He hes itated and was lost. Ambition smothered duty, anil in attempting to retain his seat in congress he is using his talents o apologise for and explain the very thing that his own conscience tells him is out rageous. O.NI-; day not long before Un democratic convention at Chicago, Fiditor Sherman was in a communi cative mood and he penned and printed a prediction that if drover Cleveland was nominated he would "be defeated in New York by lad,. IM." There are times when the blunder of party managets is so exasperating to the editor of The Journal that he is compelled to speak out in meeting to relieve the pressure. It is then that he states acts pretty vigorously. ELECTION OF DELECATES. ; The republican National com-1 mit'ee lias on its table, in position to be taken up at Home future time, a must important resolution. It reads: KVw lived. That hereafter republican Nalioiiiil rotiveiitiuiis In- cuminiseil ,.f drl- ruutf x Ipiiii the e -er.il -later-, aii.irtionrit upon the rrjuMii'un vote actually eat at the lust iri-ivliii president lal election; .iiml votes uml traction thereof renter than one half, to he the hasi- of represen tation for each ilelcua'e. The National committee shall certify to the chairman of each state committee, the number ot delegates to which each state is eutilleil under this rule, and shall regulate the ap portionment and election of nucli dele Kates. Now let us see, says the New York Sun, how this would work in prac tice. The following table shows the vote at the election of lsS in every state, the number of dele gates accredited to each state in the Minneapolis convention, and the number that each state would have had under the above resolution: Vote. States. Iw, Now. t Ii' Alabama ri'lii" j'.' Arliaii-as r-s.T."' J rt s California 1 U Is Colorado ."iii.771 7 Connecticut 71. l 12 In I lelawaie f.'.7:l t( '.' Honda L'ii.i.i7 s ieoruia 1'i.t'W Si i; Illinois :s:iU7.l Is r.;i Indiana i: .1 ;iu low a '.'I1.."ks Ji'. :rj Kan-as ls.'.'iol 2n y, Kent in U v .Vi.:U Jii '.'.' Louisiana :w.sn Pi l Maine 7:UU 1.' la Maryland Ir'.!i-ii Pi 11 Massachusetts IMLMC l in Michigan l'.i''..:i''7 IN :il Minnesota Ill'.l'fJ Is 'Jn Mississippi :ii.n'; Is 4 Miss, ii in SW.'-'-m Kl :i .Nebra-ka i(l.i hi Ii Nevada 7,.'.'.i ii I .New Hampshire 1"i.7.'t s 7 .New Jersey lU.lill 1'n i'l .New , drk Ms,7.v.i 7 m .North Carolina l:tl.74 II' l' ( hio 4Ii;,."l 4'i .7.1 Orcifon :i(,l"il ' 5 I'eimsylvniiiu fis'i.e.il 114 7'i h'hode Island I'l ,!' s .1 South Carolina litai Is 'J Tennessee litviss 1'4 In Texas ss,4J-.' :to 1:1 Vermont i'l.lCJ S ii Virginia l.Vi.llis '.f LM West Virginia 7s.l71 II' II Wisconsin ITii.Vd 1'4 5,4IO,.t! sis' 7DI1 The following changes are shown by this system, which must recommend it self to students of politics: ;.UNS IX N'OKTIIKNX STATES. Illinois 5 Now Jersey 1 Indiana New Yrk I'l Iowa Ii i )hio i:t Kansas r, Pennsylvania It Michigan ii Wisconsin 1 Minnesota 1"! - Total, K) I.OSSKS IX NOKTI1KKX STATKS. Colorado 1 Nevada 5 Connecticut 1' New Hampshire.. 1 Maine 1" ( reon ,'t Massachusetts.... 4 K'hode Island .. .. j Nebraska 1 Vermont 2 Total Net naius in the North ,Vi. (iAINs IN SOI TIIKKX STATKS. None. I.ISSKS IN SOITIIKKX STATKS. .ii Alabama . ... Aakaiisns,, .. I ela are Ilorida eoryia Kentucky ... Louisiana Maryland .... 1 1 M ississippi s Noi 1 1; Carolina . . t Sodt h Carolina . . 4 Tennessee . . Texas 4 Viruiniu Il' West Virginia . .. . II . ;t . hi . 14 . i; . ;i . t Total KKCAI'l I'l l. A I'loN. Losses in the South in; Gains in the North. . .. ji The late convention also included forty delegates from the six new states of Idaho, Washington, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana; also six delegates from New Mexico upon the ground that that territory is about to be admit ted as a state, and two each from the other territories, including Alaska, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia. Should the system proposed lo the National commit tee be adopted, the new states would have delegates to the next convention, proportioned upon the basis of the vote cast next Novem ber, as would all the states. The territories would be excluded, and they ought to be. There is no reason whatever why they should be allowed to have a voice in a presidential convention when they cannot cast a vote at the polls one way or the other. There is plenty of time before another presidential year comes around to digest this scheme thor oughly, and it is one that will grow in favor. No fairer method than the elec tion of delegates noon the basis of the vote actually cast has ever been devised, and it is difficult to see how one can be, Not only is it the most just system, but it carries with it an incentive for the workers at the polls to give all their ener gies. If a minority state wishes a large representation in a National convention it should be willing to work for it. This plan would call out the voters, and would tend to encourage the building up of the republican party in states where the vote is now meagerand hopeless because of Cie very lack of an in centive to do better. VISIT THE STORES It will be remembered that the the only article of manufacture claimed by McKinley in his Omaha speech, to be cheaper in this coun try than abroad, was cotton cloth, Possibly the reason for this may be found in the fact that the duty on cotton cloth was reduced by the McKinley bill from -2 to 11 per cent, of the rate it was tinder the old law. As it was with sugar and qui nine, whenever the tarilf is reduced or taken off, it goes down, In this connection it is also a significant fact that Fall K'iver, Mass.! the cen ter of the cotton mill industry, is now in the most prosperous condi tion she has experienced for many years. Journal. Hut cotton goods have advanced in price, Hrother Sherman. Just walk across the street to the Dovey store and post up a little. 1 1 1 ii democratic managers in the IVWt flf. I.. I..'..... ..4 t. . 1 v.. tuy. iiiuiiin in int.- eiudiict ... t. ri.:,.. ii. , , i Alii lilt ii i i 'i r wu i M.'u ni'rn is, it trying to make political capital out of the fact that Chairman Carter once sold book agent "territorv" to some Nebraska fellows who did not know enough to make good book agents and thereby accumu late wealth. There was nothing wrong or even remarkable in Car ter's business. He simply re-sold territory that he had bought. He didn't agree to furnish the pur chasers with brains to make money out of their purchases. Hkvan is a pretty clever worker, but he cannot be re-elected. He is writing personal letters to young democrats all over the district, thanking them for their efforts in his behalf and doling out taffy in sickening doses. He believes these boys will be tickled to death over receiving a personal letter from a famous congressman and that they will be lead to believe that the elo quent William considers them of great importance. William is a shrewd advertiser, but lie ,nnot win this year, l'eople are pros perous and republicans this year. Mk. ISk'YAN's campaign literature has begun to arrive. Copies of the I'lattsmoutli public building "bill are already here and are being dis tributed by the congressman's cam paign general, liditor Sherman. These documents are government print and are reports of Bryan's bill and the recommendation for favorable consideration. Was this a republican congressman doing this, what a .senseless howl would go up from the democratic man agers about "using the people's money for parti.au purposes!" In this respect TlIK IlEKALI) has no word of complaint to make against Mr. Hryan for sending out these re ports. That is what the govern ment prints thejn for for the in formation of the public. We mere ly mention the fact to show the dif ference between republican and democratic arguments. The docu ments prove nothing but the fact that Mr. Hryan wants it tobeknowu that he is on record as in favor of doing somethii g to offset his pretty speeches in which he tells the world that we are a poverty-stricken people who must have the govern ment make us a lot of cheap money to keep us in existence. Tin; democratic mouthpiece of Mr. Hryan, the Journal, says TlIK II Lk'liLD "evidently thinks the citi zens of this town are fools." This is because we advocate the election of Judge F'ield to congress in the place of Mr. Hryan. The Journal goes on to complain of Judge Field's decis ion in the H. & M. bridge case. We desire to say r'.ght here that Judge Field upon the bench was a high minced jurist and too gteat a man to play for votes by making demo gogic decisions. He laid down the law as he understood it and fear lessly. Now while we are pbottt it we will state that corporations have some rights and that sensible people admit this, and that good citizens only want what is right. Any judge ia liable to have hi8 de cisions occasionally overruled by a higher court and a higher court occasionly errs in its interpretation of the law. FJven so infallible a bench of jurists as those who once constituted the United States su preme court once held that a negro had no rights which a white man was bound to respect. "The rail road judge" cry against Candidate F'ield is absurd and silly. Hryan is a railroad lawyer and is the partner of one. He is not necessarily against the people on that account. Such stuff is nonsense. It is on a par with the'anarchUts' appeals to the ignorant. Such slush is not credita ble, coming from so well-informed a man as KJditor Sherman. OCR friend of The IlKKALl) need not worry about Mr. Hryan. He's all right. Journal. Tin; llKk-ALD is doing no worry ing. The other fellow will do the worrying and we propose to do our part in contributing information to keep the worrying up to boiling point. HUMORS OF THE CANVASS. Il-roui the Philadelphia Timrs.l K'iiii; out the one w ho knew it all For months before the liyht be;;au ; k'iim in the just as knowing man Who sees where victory's bound to fall. Kirn; out the dark horse, liuindereil, lame, His nciyh of pride dulled to a siuh; Ivitinin the chosen steeds with eye Atlash and snort that breathes (,f flame. h'inirout the cooler reiyu of prose With tines not far from fact's plain scope; Kititf in the caiiipnisTU poet's trope, His Moines, dreams, and fervid blows. Kinc out the quiet talk of thins Where mind anil head still played a role: Kitn; in the lurid, blaziu soul (if speech that soars ,,ii fancy's winns. Kitnj out the old, rinu in the new, The snielliu torch, the brazen band. The car debate, the corner stand, The march by eiht ntnl four and two. KIhk In the prophets once imaiu, The bettor's cash, the blower's blow In short, let everything just n. Anil make n live, red hot campaign.