THE AVKEKLY HKRALI): IM,ATI8M()l)TH.NKIiUASKA, OCTOHKll . 181)2.
1
THE HERALD.
PI HI. IM1I.H DAILY KM KI'T SI'MjAV
OSMON M. PETERSON, Editoh.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
DAI LV KUITION.
ne Year (in advance) - - - " "
Six mouths, ! 1,1
lly Currier, per week, lr
WKKKLY KUITION.
One Year-in advance, SI 50
Jf nut paid in udvanie, - - S!
Mil month,
Three months, 40
Telephone Milliliter :t
Hkyan says
iN says tlie loreigner uoeft
y the tax; then why docs tht'
rcigner make such a h-1 of
til
not itiv the tit
said foreigner make
a fiissjiboul it r
CLKVLLANlulid tin' hi St lie could
or that was expected of him, in fact
lie did admirably. He succeeded
in dodging all of the issues.
Till', cow bells, tin horn and im
ported rowdyism did not help the
.cause of democracy to any alarm
ing extent Saturday evening.
Slnatok Iln.L isliappy. Well, he
might be happy, lor lie knows
Cleveland will be beaten and that
nobody can prove that he helped to
do it.
KVKKY time Hill asks a democrat
to vote for Cleveland, he winks at
Tammany, and Tammany keeps on
whetting his knifejwondcring what
it till means?
Till: little republic of Hawaii has
just adopted a more thoroughly
jrotective tarill. Great and hiiihII,
the countries of the world are fall
ing into line.
TllK Clevelandites whoare declar
ing that "the democratic condition
in New York are seriously compli
cated" are gcttitg it firm grasp on
the situation.
Il-' this squabbling and demoral
isation in the democracy of the
east continues two or three weeks
longer, even New Jersey will be
come a little shaky.
John IIayi.s.Uic reptthjican nomi
nee for county commissioner from
the Third district, is a man well
fitted for the place and will be
elected without a doub't.
Tin; only soldiers who an sup
porting Cleveland are those who
were pleased with the plank in the
democratic platform which de
clared the war to be a failure.
Jfliiii; l-'ii-: l,D got there all the
fame, and his manly speech reached
the democratic liver, although it
had to go against the democratic
hoodlums hired to interrupt it.
TllK candidates for the demo
cratic nomination for representa
tives are getting thick. The latest
aspirant for legislative honors is
Judge Dennis O'Dwyer of this city.
Ni:w York is the battle ground
this year, as it was in 1SSS, and the
republican managers can not be
decieved by movements intended
to shut their eyes to this important
fact.
Mk. llK'YAX stated the truth Sat
urday evening when he said the
foreigner was taxed under that
representation. That is just who
we say; and we propose to keep
it so.
jLIHiE Field's arguments were
such forcible and plain facts that
Mr. Hryan hail to resort to oratorical
strategics to get around them, and
then he fell short of what he had
intended.
Tliii principle need of the demo
cratic party is to devise some way
to stop thepublicnlion of labor re
ports in states where the McKinley
law has increased wages and re
duced the cost of living.
Jl'ixili FlKLD could not even be
allowed lus opening without VKK
COXCEKTKI) disturbance. The dem
ocratic committee of this city must
have 'a very high estimate of a
champion who has to have all these
assisting methods to boost him
through.
IT is pretty "tight papers" when
the noisy free trader of this local
ity cannot, dakk not, trust their
invincable Hryan to maintain the
cause of deuiocracy in an open
fair debate-but have to shut off his
opponent with tin horns, cow bells
and rowdy blutfs.
Mr. Dkyan stated Saturday night
in his debate that 100-years ago our
forefathers fought for their inde
pendence, because they were taxed
and not allowed a representation,
und that the tariff was an unjust
taxation upon the foreigner, be
cause we allowed him to have
.nothing to soy.
CROVER CLEVELAND.
That Mr. Cleveland w mid find
difficulties in the wild-cat currency
plank of bis platform every think
ing person knew all along, yet but
few persons reull supposed that
he would dodge Him issue in his
le.ter of acceptance hays the St.
Louis Globe-Denim rat. However,
he has done this veiy thing. A few
lines in his letter v.-ie devoted to
the financial question in general, in
which he mentioned l and sil
ver coinage, but nodiiiet reference
was made to the proposition boldly
put forward by his parly in the
National conveutioi4to u peal the
10-per-ctnt tax on currency of state
banks, so as to permit those institu
tions to issue circulating notes. He
said, "Whatever may be the form of
the people's currency, National or
state, whether gold, silver or paper,
it should be so regulated and
guarded by governmental action
or by wise and careful laws that no
one can be deluded as to Un
certainly and stability of its value."
This is the nearest that Cleveland
came to recognizing that the finan
cial question, as presented by his
parly, involves something more
than what has been called the sil
ver problem. No person, from read
ing this passage, or any other part
of his letter, could suppose ;hat his
party is seriously and formally
committed to the revival of the old
state banns of issue, with the
steadily fluctuating and often
worthless currency which they
sprung upon the people. This
purpose of his party, throughout
the whole of his letter, the candi
date takes especial pains to con
ceal. It will be conceded, of course,
that Mr. Cleveland's difficulties and
embarrassments in connection with
this state bank question are bound
less, ami are calculated to tax the
ingenuity of a such more ingenious
and versatile man than he iw. This
is a pohoy, as he is well aware,
which is opposed to the dictates of
rensou and the lessons of experi
ence. 1 1 has been tried on a large
scale, under all sorts of conditions
and for a long period of years, and
it has brought w idespread ami re
peated disaster on the country.
Losses to the extent of tens, of mil
lions of dollars have "Deeu indicted
on the people by the currency of
discredited or defunct banks. Of
course, the poorer ami more num
erous class, owing to their lack of
facilities for keeping track of the
changing fortunes of the banks,
were the chief snMercrs. The can
didate knows that such a proposi
tion as this cannot stand serious
discussion, and that a party that
comes out in opn championship
of i' is doomed to certain and over
whelming defeat.
This policy is opposed by three
out of every persons in the eastern
states, democrats as well as repub
licans. A few democrats in the
south and west favor it, even in
those sections where there, has
been no decided demand in that
party for it. Hut Mr. Cleveland
will find that dodging the issue
will not conceal it, The republi
cans will not permit it to be either
downed or ignored. It will be kept
to the front in all the eastern states
and the candidate will have to en
dure the einbarassment and dis
credit which the folly of a coterie of
his friends in the convention have
inflicted on him and his party.
TllK attention of the honest and
legitimate business men of this city
is again called to the desperate tm:
truths that are uttered by the leve
lling Pirate, the alleged editing of
which is done by Milton 1). Polk,
assisted by G. F. S. Hurton. In last
evening's issue of this scab sheet it
states under big head lines that
the injunction proceedings in re
gard to the city printing had
stopped the paving of Sixth street.
Any man with a thimbleful of
brains knows this to be untrue and
the olfer of both the legitimate
newspapers of Plattsinouth I'k'ovi-s
it, if proof was needed. Then
again. This same livening Piratt-
iu the very same issue says that it
is "stated" that the present editor of
TllK IlKKALD has been "kicked out'
by the proprietors of this new
paper. There can be little doubt
that such a fact would beeininently
gratifying to Messrs. Pojk and Hur
ton, but the proprietors of The Hlk
A LD and the editor know nothing to
this effect, and they have an idea
that they are in a position to know
fully as much about their business
as an opposition rat shop.
TllK foreigner pays the tax, and
as he has no representative in our
government, it is unjust W. J.
Hryan. Then either remove the
taritf, or permit ISngland, Geraiany
and France to send representatives
and senators to our congress.
The clearance house of New York
showed Saturday that gold is re
turning to this county in large
quantities, and that the financial
outlook never wan brighter at the
1st of October than it is at present.
THE DfcBATE.
Republicans can have no fault to
find with their champion, Judge
Field. The universal comment is,
Field is much clearer, stronger and
abler than was expected and Hryan
correspondingly weaker. The cry
of "stop thief" that the democrats,
especially the editor of The Journal
who has the Hryan-phobia.toquotc
a prominent democrat, set up was
exemplified Saturday evening
whinning that republicans were
putting up a job to get possession
of the meeting. The democrats
organized to mob the discussion j
and imported a gang of hoodlums
from Omaha and Nebraska City for
that express purpose.
It was a deliberate planned
scheme to spoil the debate and wind
it up with a hoarse howl for Hryan.
Democrats of the respectable school
attempt to whitewash the affair by
calling it an ovation. It was an
ovation, a democratic-ovation just
such an ovation, minus the rotten
eggs as Weaver and Mrs. Lease re
ceived at certain points in the
south.
Judge Field satisfied everybody
of his ability to roatt Mr. Hryan to
a turn and for that reason the dem
ocrats did not intend he should be
listened to in his close. Hence, the
tin horns, the cow bells, the rufiiiati
ism and blackguardism of the
imported healers during Judge
Fields close of the debate, when
he was constantly interrupted and
drowned out by the hirelings im
ported for that purpose.
The democracy of this city can
"put it in their pipe and smoke it"
that Mr. Hryan did not make any
votes by the attempt to gain any
advantage through! the precon
certed howling of a hired mob.
There AKE democrats in this city
yet, who have some regard for free
speech and orderly public meetings
and upon this class the dirty resort
of Saturday evenings democracy
must leave a lasting impression.
TllK republicans put up a strong
ticket at Weeping Wafer Saturday.
It's a mighty we-ik cause that
Can't stand fifteen minutes rejoin
der in debate.
IIII.L is responsible for the hot
fight in his party in New York and
he is glad of it.
OKLANlM) TlU'T is a strong man
for senator and he will be elected
by a large majority.
It is imported that Cleveland
takes no stock in the stories that
the canvass in New York is "quiet."
I the debate Saturday night
Judge Field completely snowed
Hryan, (the young man eloquent),
under.
Mk'. HK'YA.N shed great big crocko
dile tears because the poor for
eigner was taxed without represen
tation in this country.
J. II. IlALDKMAN, our nominee for
county attorney, is a staunch re
publican and one who will till
the office with credit.
John A. Davie and A.S.Cooley
are two good men for representa
tives and should receive the hearty
support of every republican.
TllK consumer pays the tax, 1
appeal to you to say if it is fair to
tax the foreigner who has no voice
in making your laws.- Hilly Hryan.
Hot KKK COCK h! AN refuses to talk
for Cleveland. Moreover, the Cleve
landites who know how he feels
about their favorite don't want him
to talk.
There is much more of and for
Harrison in Tom Piatt's speech
than there is of and for Cleveland
in Dave Hill's speech. This is con
fidential. Goveknok Mckinley's forthcom
ing speeches for Major Warner in
Missouri will help the party ma
terially. Warner and the state are
in great luck.
The only difference between the
republican force bill and the demo
cratic force bill 19, the former ap
peals to reason nd law, the latter
to the mob,
The republican dollar has a
greater purchasing power for all
the necessaries of life than any
other that the country hag ever
known, and the people will not vote
it down to please the democratic
party.
MR HUBBELL S $1 5 SU T.
Mr. F. M. Hubli.'ll, the only pro
tected millionaire of Des Moines,
has ju-t returned from a trip
around the world. In a 11 interview
with the gentleman published in
The Leader the "little wizard" of
Des Moines says:
Jit-fore leuvIilK Des Moines I fulled to
supply nivself Vl itli 11 V'TKiiinH wardrobe
und upon my arrival in London purchased
t lie suit 1 have on. 1 went into a tailor
shop, wan measured, anil had thrill miide
t.) order. They would cost me Stj in Do
Moines. 1 paid $lt for them. 1 know a
Hood tliiny when I nt it, und 1 atonic
ordered two additional suits. Tliey cost
$1" eucli. I cannot buy them for less than
$."5 in Des Moines. Our protectionist
friends insist the foreigner pays the tax.
Before leaving London I purchased u
small sacque for which I paid $1.13. When
I arrived at the custom house in New
York this Insignificant piece of wearing
apparel cuutdit the eye of the iihIciiiis'
linker, and, holding it a arms length and
surveying it critically, he chirruped:
"Three dollars, please, Mr. Hubbell." A
brilliant Idea struck me, and, addressing
him in my blandest manner and with all
the polish aeipiired in foreiun courts by
rubbing up uKainst crowned heads, I said:
" 1 f you will consent to take the sucque in
payment fur the duty you run have it."
Did he call me? Not much; he replied
that unless 1 paid the duty on that
garment lie would sei.e the entire eon
tents of the trunk in which it was stored.
I mid it and am now ready to swear that
the Americans are the worst swindled lot
of chumps oil earth by reason of the
turifl. It is a fraud.
The K'egister has taken the pains
to submit these extraordinary
statements to a careful analysis. It
is prepared to deny that Mr Hub
bell paid $15 for suits that would
cost $55 in Des Moines. It is pre
pared to state that the suits for
which Mr. Hubbell paid $15 in
London can be bought in Des
Moines for from $25 to 10, not a
dollar more and they will for that
money be put up in reputable Des
Moines houses that employ union
labor. In establishments that
employ scab labor those suits can
be made for about $5 less. Keady
made, lie can buy them iu Des
Moines for $10 or $U When Mr.
Hubbell said that those suits would
cost him $55 in Des Moines, he was
110 doubt honest, but he was mis
taken. The K'egister challenges
him to have those suits submitted
to a committee pf expert tailors, one
half of whom shall be free traders
of the approved Knglish tally-ho
Hubbell kind, and the other half
protectionists.
What is the dilfcrence in wages
between Loudon and Des Moines,
To make in Des Moines, under the
union scale, a $55 suit, costs in
wages alone, in saying for work
actually done, from $1S to $LU
On a. 1 average about one-hall the
cost tit' a tailor made suit is tor
wages. This statement is made on
the authority of one of the best
merchant tailors in the city, a man
who has worked in England as well
as America. Mr. Hubbell cannot
lake the union scale of wages anil
show that the work 011 a $55 suit
can be done for- less. How, then,
will Mr. Hubbell reduce the cost of
sin h a suit to $15? Where will the
workingnian come iu ? In Fmgland
the work of making a $55 suit, which
here costs from $i$ to JfJC, in wages,
costs from $'.) to !j'10 in wages, or
about one half. The work of mak
ing a $J7.."0 suit, which is the kind
Mr. Hubbell bought in London, is
of course less. Hut if it costs fJO to
make a $."j suit, will Mr. Hubbell "in
his blandest manner" and "with all
the polish acquired in foreign
courts, t,y ruutung up against
ciuwiieu ueaus, leu tne American
workingmen, the workingmen who
live on the way from Mr. Ilubbell's
office to Terrace Hill, where they
will come in, where their children
and their wives will come in if
under Kngiish free trade that suit
is to be sold to rich men for $15?
The American workingnian would
like to know? And are Americans,
after all if they pay their working
men wages at which they can live
like men and bring up their chil
dren like Christians, the "worst
swindled lot of chumps on earth?"
Would they not be entitled to that
name, "chumps," if they did less
than they do for their workingmen?
Mr. Hubbell would tear down the
custom houses. Why? He buys
and wants to buy in the cheap
est markets regardless of the
wages that pre paid to the men
who do the work. It is so with
nine-tenths of the millionaires
of the country. They do not want
tarilT laws. They want to break
them down so they can buy cheaper
goods. They are buyers of the
products of labor. They do not
have to it cross legged on a table
from morning until night making
suits of clothing for $15. Tear down
the tariffs. Sell suits for $15 that
cost $55. Who cares for the laborer?
If Mr. Hubbell has had an oppor
tunity to look into the the sweating
shops where those $13 suits are
made, seen the misery of the men
and boya there, seen the hollow
eyes of the poor women who had
sewed their youth and beauty, the
the brightnss out of their eyes and
the roses out of their cheeks into
the button holes in which the Des
Moines millionaires carry their
Marchal Niel roses he would not
have come back boasting of his $15
suit of clothes. We are sure that if
Mr. Hubbell had looked back of the
scenes he would have kept his
money iu his pocket and had his
"gorgeous apparel" made by men
who consume his w ater works Coon
river lager. We say we are sure,
and we would be absolutely sure, if
it was not for his own statement in
the Leader that "before leaving Des
Moines I failed to supply myself
with a gorgeous wardrobe," Ac.
That makes it look as if the "Lun
don" buying was done with malice
a forethought.
Hut there is just one other ques
tion which The Register will sub
mit to "the little wizard" of Terrace
Hill, and that is this: If Mr. Hub
bell beltves iu free competition of
the products of labor, why does he
not believe in free competition
among water companies? He holds
in this city an absolute iiiouoply on
water. He will allow no other man
to lay a pipe iu the streets of this
city. The city council in its insane
desire to give some man a mono
poly granted him such a franchise.
What is the price of water iu "Lon
don", Mr. Hubbell? We would like
to know, and so would all the con
sumers of water in this city, and so
would the city, which pays some
thing like $50,(100 for jets of water
that do not rise as high as the old
state house or Crocker school
house? We would all like to know,
"don't you know?" Well, why can't
we know?
Hetween Mr. Ilubbell's monopoly
and the so called tarilT monopoly
there is great difference. The tar
iff only shuts out competition with
cheap labor abroad. There is left
therefore the element ot competi
tion among Ga.OOO.OiiO people at
home, but iu Mr. Ilubbell's case
the monoply is absolute, it shuts
out all competition, it all but keeps
a man from digging a well in his
back door yard.
A CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.
It appear that den. Weaver has
not so much reason to complain of
the rough treatment that he re
ceived in Georgia as has been
commonly supposed. At least, that
is what we are given to understand
by one of our esteemed southern
contemporaries, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, which explains
that he simply encountered one of
the customs of the cininiry, and
misinterpreted it as a special ebul
lition of prejudice and intolerance.
"They treated hi 111," we are told,
"precisely as they treat their own
eminent politicians." When he was
Hill titled with stale eggs there va
tin intention to discriminate against
him on account of his positii u or
his opinions, The same thing
would have happened to any oilier
man at the same time and place.
Gen. Gordon himself, we are as
sured, would not have escape,! un
der the circumstances. Local
impulse was responsible for
the unplcasaLt proceeding, and
local impulse is not to be con
founded with general ciisseduess.
The people were in a mood to work
off their superfluous energy by
fantastic and picturesque means;
and when that humor is upon them
they are no respectors of persons.
It was embarassing to the distin
guished speaker, of course, as he
could not be expected to know the
true meaning of such a leitimis)r:i.
. tioi)i and Ilobody HWmA to have
been kind enough to enlighten him
with regard to the prevailing pecu
liarities ot society; but the design
of flagrant insult was absent all the
same, and really, our contemporary
asserts, "he had no more right to
complain than if he had gone to
Scotland and caught the itch."
(ien. Weaver will feel better, it is
presumed, when he reads this ex
planation. He has judged the peo
ple of Georgia not wisely but too
hastily. They are nothing if not
hospitable, but sometimes they like
to egg a passing statesman by way
of novelty and amusement. He
should have tarried longer with
them and given them a chance to
entertain him with other diversions
peculiar to their philosophy of
courtesy and inagninimity. It was
not because of his record as a union
soldier that they spattered him
with diseased eggs. "The prismatic
hues of memory," as Micawber
says, had nothing to do with the
case. Keither was he the victim of
a violent antipathy to the party
which he has the honor, such as it
is, to represent iu the capacity of a
candidate for Jthe presidency. He
collided with a custom of the coun
try, and didn't see the joke, that
was all. His experience was un
fortunate in the sense that he was
a stranger with a defective appre
ciation of humor and an Iowa
standard of civility; but now the
matter has been interpreted to him
in such a candid and considerate
manner he will not fail to modify
his view of ft, and to snake a proper
apology for his abrupt departure
from the state and his serious re
flections upon its citizens. It is not
likely that he will care to pay
another visit to Georgia, however
cordially he may be invited to d
so, and hence the eggers will 1
leuer. mat w ill be easy and i
pensivt'i and to do less would be
..v. . v . , iniu.st.-ii as a man u.iwii
ing to torgive a fancied insul
which was in fact only the opera
tioti of a custom of the country.
The Vermont and Maine "Incident-"
It is undoubtedly true, as more
than one republican has remarked
that if the republican vote in No
vember should fall olT in all the
close slates in the same rations'
did in Vermont and Maine iu tl
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the most obtuse and bigoted dein
cre.i iooks tor any such decrease, ot
.v,. .i.ij m mill uecrease at an.
There were good reasons why there
should be a light vote in those
states which will not and eanno
operate elsewhere. In Vermis
mere was no special incentive fo
turn-out by the republicans
large numbers. They knew the
state was safe fo r them in any con
tingency, and they were fully aware
that a majority of double the usual
dimensions would not have any
partici lar influence on the presi
idential' canvass. Vermont is so
constantly and so overwhelmingly
republican that an unsually heavy
majority for the party in September
would have no more "moral effect"
on the cmvass iu November than a
like democratic increase in the
state election in Arkansas, Alabama
or Georgia could. Harrison would
not be benefitted in the slightest
degree in the former case, nor
would Cleveland be in the latter
case. In Maine state issues had a
disturbing influence on the repub
licans. A similar condition of
thino-s in Maine in former nresiden-
tiai years nas uau a like effect, ye-
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the vote in tin- two Vnw Kun-lin
oiates named. 1 Heir assertion that
they do is bluff pure and simple.
It is a sham by which the news
pa ers and stump speakers of their
party endeavor to conceal the in
herent weakness of their ticket and
policy from the rank and file. Dem
ocratic prospects are just as dim
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and forbidding as they were a
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thu-aasm which that nartv mani-.
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.v,nr. ,i-u mis tiaie
ate conspicuously absent at the
present time. On the other hand,
the republicans, while they are not
disturbing the molecules of the at
mosphere with any shouts or toss
ing up of hats, have a fair assur
ance of victory. They are not at all
disconcerted by the vote in the
recent elections. They feel lhat
their policy has fully vindicated it
self, and that the majority of the
people are with them. A walk-over
in the election is not looked for by
them, but thee lirlievo th.it ilw,,-
can elect their ticket, and they can
give sound reasons for the faith
that is in them. No boasting is
being done by them anywhere, and
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chasing. The outlook for the re
publicans, that is to say, is alto-
getner encouraging. .None of the
representative men of the party are
looking for a "clean sweep" of the
county in WC. It is an 1SSS canvass
and not one of the 1S72 pattern that'
they are counting on.
WITH PLEASURE, GENTLEMEN.
TllK IlKKAI.l) ami The Journal desig
nates The News iifliie as u "raf shop'
Will they be kind enouh to state upon
what urounds (hut epithet Is applied.
-The Kvetiinn Pirate.
This is the reason: Hecause The
News did what any "rat" would do
cut prices. Mr. Geo. H. Mann, the
foreman of The News is a first-clast
printer and a Union man. Yet, he
will not deny that if a printer had
acted towards him, as The News
has acted toward the legitimate
newspapers of l'lattsmotith he
would lose NO TIMF; in designating
him as a "rat." The principle is the
same, whether the persons involved
are employes or employers. The
News cannot sneak out of its con
viction of being a rat office simply
because it employs one honest
Union printer.
The democracy of this city dared
not allow Judge Field his closing
Saturday evening. What do the
people who have been listening to
the campaign of reason and educa
tion think of the bluff of Saturday
evening r
Hilly Hryan wantH .to return
the wildcat currency of thirty-threit
yeara ago, or earlier, but no mat.
who remembers anything about
those times will vote for him. They
prefer our present money Bystenx
for it is the beet the world ever eaw.