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About Plattsmouth herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1892)
l,lll,,l,lu TIIK WIWKI.Y IlKnAI.!):l,L.VITSM(UTU.XKHUASKA.O(:TOnKU27 1802. 4 1"A10,IUM, T f.l 3 i'-j r.jl It? TH U L). KATF-S One Yi'ii' 1 1 Six more ,' Ity Currier, , One Yen Knot t.iilil i Six lllllllt lis Three ni'.n' a Telrphmn- .; FACTS AH: to . Ens. i " . i : i! To nil Memli. i- I't'Opll'V V MM Yntt-r nf ', . i It li;ivin -i ii ' Villi V yt It Ii. i i the hiili-iM- i usiif'i: hi-- in 1 i . IICIltl'Mlt t'it'l .1 illlll lie lie :i . ' pi'Mil.lll 1 1 1 1 ' ' I , i . tnnity to ti - ,n (.'liiiirin.in i .. i C I St-cit-tai y .r FIi'nI Si'khIoii i t'llllults V . !'.'''.l'' Hil l III. I( ) in; nil 1'jV .ii i:iii ( !';'"" '' ( ..l.l Ni.niiu . HI Wli K I'l ' I (I'li'd'i'.l In ecniiiiinv iiii.l iclcriin.l ' Ilk'YAN's boodle coarnU h ive liiill, j lie will soon ! lost in iililr. 'ion. Till-: news f i mil Ailiansas in ex ceedingly lloaling lur Hie demo crats. As everybody eoncecds thai Cleveland will carry tin1 state liy n large majority. Il' the tariff in a tax, isn't it queer that so many people keep aiming here from oilier countries for the purpose of having it imposed upon theni'r Tin: IIi:k,W.i is willing, if the Journal in so desirous, to compare the records of Messrs. I l.ilileman and '''ravis, the two nomine.es for county attorney. Till. deiniK tats all over Cass county are crying lor help, they are begiulng to see the handwriting on the wall, ' Ihyaii will no longer rcpicsent (lie I'nited Elates. A Kl.lt ni.K AN or national hank hill is worth jut as much as the Hold dull. us in every slate in tin: Union - and everywhere else. Keep thent that way. The people want no return to democratic wild-cat money. Till'; country has more currency now per capita than it ever had in the past, and it is alt worth its face in Hold. I more III. in keeps pace with the growth (f population. More rood currency even is not needed. The democrats, though, want to give us ,i currency that nrvcrwas good ami lh.it never cm he made good. Kn;tm:i. of the Lowest tin plate mills in Wales have shut down re cently and are prepai ing (,, move their plants to this country. The information was gained from a private family letter, written with no thought of furnishing political capital. The statement mentioned wus made as an explanation of the stagnant state of huiness in Wales; Last night's Journal came out in a column article trying to clear Sherman's shirts from the Shainp deal and also claiming that the article in Monday's Hikai.d was written ly A. N. Sullivan. Mr. Sher man you are a good deal farther from home than you was when 3011 where escorting Candidate Shamp to the H. A. M. depot and from there to Omaha. TllK young man who aspires to he attorney general of Nebraska through his association with the democratic state ticket, is as ver satile in his imagination as he is reckless in his statements. He had the gall to ascrt it( his fpecch in this city a week since, the home stead bill originated with Stephen A. Douglas and Thomas A. Hen dricks. Mr. Cering should be called of by the democratic com mittee or he will hi; asserting net that Cleveland signed the eman cipation proclamation and that Abraham Lincoln assinatcd Jell avis. Ileatrice l-lxpress. I.AICi; and StelinKer can do more talking and say less than any ten jueii i 11 the county. If any mailer comes before the city whereby Ihe city would be benefitted these same two count ilmen. aided ami abetted by one or two others, are always ready a nd wil 1 i ng to oppose it. 1 hit again, if there is a contract to be h t these would-he watch dogs of the city treasury are always w illing and ready to cast their ballot for the highest bidder. When it comes to a project to benefit the city these -;; - loud iu their denuu ci.i . . . - ! .--winded spi-cch t ha . it i - .1 mi 1 c. H .1 tSUTTUL 7 A ES. I th'' popl.lar classification 'he I ouhtlu, rln I'iiii' New Yolk, New tv (' lecticu . Indiana, Mon ti ., and We t n giuia. It will be ,. Mk w.i ol these New J, .li.d . esi Yiiguoa out of I -ml 'I' In 1.1 back in the ,tc . in 11 Tin re is a 1 11 . ,1 1 says the , 1,1. i. I he tepill li- . o 1 of these, a. 1 t-ow '.vhelin r .1 . r .C .- ? III pi ion. -1 -. I . e .oil lime "I,, 1 1 ic b n demo- : 1 1 S, , v it 1 as lie- only .1,1, h. o 1 I ' 1 it- 10 take he . 1 1 .1 . ed with it o et'a II. 1, 1 being . l. 1 11 W- 11 ,1 . 1 1- . lectoral v , - .. . n. -cause .1 11 li.i 1 1. bd llle II , , . I i eh- , whom 101 1 .1 .- 1 ' -e . West 'i- . : In e , .1 . in cr.il IC stille 17 1. alt 1 ,011. I I v a ver small . r n 1 sss 1,, 1 e,,il, leans are ,01 1 o 1 k 1 1 1 . I01 a y l.i voi s from (i , .01 l.i' - .i. in1- in I '.-. Mon I 1 1 1 m i- t-ia e w I It th.' en. 1 ii i-s appal 1 in I iiiioul even as be. , 1 ea lilt .n i '(-. I u its lert i- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 dis it iiiiener went demo 1 ci a. ie 1 Ii.iii ii piibln :in in the vote lor dele-a e to ron.ic-s. Its Ciov- 11 ' is a 1 l-iii "'i 11. biii 1 the rest of us staie olliicis an republicans. Toe lepiibbcaiis -,.ined a slight lead 111 the le-islai lire last elected in 1 he stale. I Is rc a eseutali ves in the upper biauc.h of congress are republicans and its one in the lower branch is a democret. The doubtful stales of vital inter est, howevar, are New York and In diana, though Connecticut is close enough to make the result uncer tain and lare enough to render its acquisition import. ml. Its six elec toral voles may come in exceed ing y handy to the party which se cures them. Connecticut was car ried by the republicans until s7ii. It went dt-tnof 1 ntic that year and t e publican in lMI, hile it has one democratic ever since. The tleuio ci alio lead in IS was only Milti. New York and Indiana have been tli- idinj; their lavors between the two parties pretty equally in recent can vasses. New York was one of the original republican states and it t iling to the pruly steadily until lsliS, when it went, democratic, and il has been shifting from one side to the other iu alternate presidential canvasses since The democrats car. ried itin lMis ls7liaud ISsl,an1 there publieain in Ml, lsu and IW In diana went to tlm re)ublicans in ISiK), and remained with them in 1MU, tSdS and l7J. Then it joined New Yoik in see-s iwin from rme side to the other. It was carried by the democrats in l-M'i, by the re publicans in lsii, by the deiixu riits l-iS).;ind by the 1 eptibl icans in lsss In those tars of change it kept comp.in with New York. If this oscillation ot the political pen dulum is maintained thi-1 year these two states will i;o to the democrats, in which case they will elect their candi late, lbn ii only one ;oes, no matter w bich one. the republicans w ill win. The vote is exceedingly close in both states. Harrison's plurality iu New York in I-, out of :i total of over l.ltUil,. INK) votei, was only llt.tMH), and it was only 'J,:tS iu Indiana out of a total of about a:t7,(HH), In New York, as we look at the situation, the chances are in favor of the repub licans, and iu I iidiana of the deiuo c ruts. A S rAVEMENT. Last eveniim's Journal accuses A. W. Field of attempting to hoodie Till-: IIi:ki.i and in reply I wish to state that it is false. The facts iu the case are as follows: About the 1st of August I employed I). M. I'elersou to edit Till- IIl K'Al.n for me, and soon alter he entered upon his duties he went to see Mr. Field and demanded ifiiUU without my knowledi-or consent and when he returned he (old me what he had done, and thai T'ield had promised him the money. I investigated and -'ound that Mr. Field bad refused instead of promising. Ihe Ja sent me by Mr. Hoggs, the central torn 111 it i ft-1 1 1 ;i 1 1 T was for work pel firmed. A. 1!. Kvi 1 s. "lilt! value ol our exports ol breadstulfs and provisions, which it was supposed the incentive of a low tarilt and large i in porl.it ions from abroad would have greatly augmented, has fallen from is.lKHi.. 11 in IM7 to ir'J 1.1 .00,1 mi in ls.-, with alino-d ;i certainly of still further reduction in 1"''. The policy vv Inch dictated a low rate of duties on lor eign merchandise, it was thought by those who established it. would tend to btnelit the fuming popnla t ions of this country by increasing the demand and raising the price of our agricultural products in for eign markets. The foregoing facts however, seem to show incontestibly that no such result has followed the adoption of this policy." -President ... .! Me-V-re. 1''. WITH his little pocket vote, Presi dent Cleveland, in 1-7, killed a bill to prevent the employment of alien and convict labor upon public buildings and oilier government works. lie h id advocated, in hfs annual message, the employment of United States convicts upon such works of the government in order to save the mo n-y which, under tht1 prohibition of this bill, would have to be paid to honest labor I bis is the Cleveland who talks pompously ami ponderously annul the protective tariff "mock ing the hope of toil." It is not the hope of toil that Mr. Cleveland seeks to ati.-fy, as is ubowd by his record on labor measures, both as gover nor f New York and as president. Ivvery thi'.g as subordinate to his desire to ride his impracticable hobby of free trade. ;i:k Wo a M Siiani- publicly an nounced in his speec h ntk'oekwood hall that reports circulated that he was working in the interest ol J ml .re Field were absolutely false and he stood ready to prove them so. The lilui .voo I Leader will now have to look up a more substantial excuse lor .supporting Hryan or come out and acknowledge that it is supporting liryau in ordet to have ii few democratic voles thrown to the independent candidate for commissioner. CrOVKNXOK NoiMiicx of (ieorgia appealed to ihe negroes for their support in the recent election in that suite. "Governor Norlhen has refused invitations to white com mencements in order to lend the in lluence of his presence to the colored schools." Southern demo crats appealing for colored votes indicates a radical upheaval of con ditions. l)KI.t;thl western farmers who have dreamed of an alliance be tween the west ami south should study the result in Georgia, where there has been tin: greatest revolt ul white democrats against the re gular party organisation that has occured in the history of the part. Yet the official re.- ult shows over e(i,'MI majority for the regular dem ocrats, Siii:ki n's charge hist night that 1 1 . 1 1 1 -1 ri ii 1 1 claimed locarrythe vote of the indepetid'Mit in his vest p icket is nothing niore than could be expected of such is man as. Sher man. Mr. I tableman is making a good clean light tor his election and will hi- elected notwithstanding all the mud the 'Journal is throw ing. I Ii:K'li are some western farmers who labor under the delusion that an alliance between the west and the south could be made that Would sweep the country. They may be in.,1 ructed by studying the manner iuwhifh Weaver was driven out of Cco- .;a vi:h boots and jeer-, and hi - vv ile rotlen-eggetl. A undeveloped country, vttlei by poor men, has to I orio-.v motu-v lo tie. -elop it.-'df. T!ie people's party movement, by the alarm it has caused timid capital, has in creased the difficulty ami the cost of getting money in Kansas, and has brought trouble on the heads of those who owe money. Till; Hoston Herald (Dem.) says wistfully: "After this campaign is over, the state bank qutstion will receive a fair discussion." The Herald would probably like to de fer a "fair discussion" of the taritf question until the sainek lime. The republicans are ready for it on any subject now. Till-: wii i 1 of the ex-editor, in Sat arday's Journal, was indeed pitiful to people acquainted with the facts in the case. He seems to be troub led with the same mania that has been troubling Grover Cleveland for some time writing letters and sa ing nothing fill, city council will have .1 prop osition made lo them on the tity h. ill project tonight. Tin: 1 1 1: j i.i sincerely hopes that the council will see fit to .accept the proposition as it is au improvement that is badlv needed. I' K'tiM the tlav s of border ruffians until now K.iu-as has never had an thing to thank the democratic party lor. All she kn.uvs of prog ress and prospeiity has been doe lo tht' republican party. Tills is ,1 year when the men who farm the laud want to be particu larly wide awake lor the men who farm Ihe farmers are dangerous. W. J. UnY.-W's trusted lieutenant, C. W. Sherman, had 1 barge of Gee Roam Shamp while iu this citv. W hat can it mean ': Till-: city attorney is bound to hold his situation if there is any possi. ' eh. MK. DEPEW'S OHATiON A Persian proverb represents the it it I I lay as saying, " I .1111 darkned by my own light." In much the same way a great orator labors under a certain self-imposed md inevitable disadvantage. He has himself as his constant rival, His audience expects so much that he must not be content with saying what would be satisfactory coining from the lips of a less known man. This was especially true of Chaun cey M. Uepew at the exposition yes terday. I-.verybody was expecting a masterly oration, say the Inter Ocean and would have been satis fied with nothing short of that. The occasion called for the best shot in his oratorical locker. lie must be at his best. Happily the greatness of the oiVasion served as an inspiration, and the address not only sustained the great reputatii 11 of the orator, but added material'' to it, That address deserves to be treasured in literature as one of the great orations of historic occa sions, anil Ihe verbatim report of it, given elsewhere, ought to 1 e carefully read. The keynote of this superb ad dress was i-truck when Mr. Icpew said "the crosson calvary was hope; the cross raise 1 011 Sail Salvador was opportunity." That epigram niatie statement was wrought out on a lofty plane of thought. Mr. Dt pew has an international reputa tion, and his words will command a hearing on both sides of the At lantic. His treatment of the historical phase of his subject showed him to be a student of the philosophy of events, and not merely a gleaner of (acts in the field of events. This oration s'hows profound ap preciation of the exalted character of Columbus. He treats with silent contempt the mud batteries which would smirch the personality ol Columbus by prying into faults common to the men of his time, ami links his name with Washington and Lincoln, the great trumvirate of American history. The reference to the exposition it self was brief. The great orator made no attempt to exhaust the general subject suggested by the occasion, lie had a del'mit'- and pertinent purpose, ami what he alteiupletl lo do be grandly accom plished, lie ciio.-e to unfold the higher meaning of the event cele brated, and he tlid it so well that he has added one more oration to the list ol classic eloquence. rilKcounlry has now entered upon the full tide of enthusiasm in the Columbian celebration, which will continue through at a greater or less stage through next xear. It will rt Meet glory upon the I'nitrd States among all the nations of the earth. Whatever i-t necessary to can ing out the plan of the cele bration will piobahly he forthcom ing, i f a pi, I riot ic people have to subscribe 1! out ot their own pockets. lint 'ho e people should bear in mind the niggardly au I parsimonious 111 1111,1 r in which the project was tested by the demo cratic coiigiess, which has com plete. I its first session. The first action of congress was to refuse the Worid's fair even a single cent. It was "agin the constitooshun." T hen they heard the country's out cry of indignation, and came to the conclusion that to appropriate two ami a half millions might he allowed by the constitution, t hough five millions was prohibited. Otherwise the 'Vorld's fair would have had nothing. Till-: Fdinvvood Leader is evidently iu tin1 deal ami is now supporting Hryan because be pledged the dem ocratic vote of the third commis sioner district to the iudepemleat candidate. ENGLAND IS FOR CLEVELAND. 1 1 is exceedingly gratilv ing to find that the democratic convention has made the tariff question almost the sole i.-sue on which the elections are to be fought. After the h ud tilings which have been said in Kngland concerning American trade policy we fancy there are some who will Confess on reading Ihe democratic manifesto, that Tinted States poli'.ics have been iiiipert.vily. understood. The con vent ion. alter re ject ing ii mildpio-te-t against protection sub-Uinled the fol low ing v igofoiis paragraph: "We denounce republican protec tion a- a (r.uld and we declare it to be a 1 11 udamcn tal principle of the democratic part that the federal government shall have no constitu tional power to impose or collect 1. 1 l it! duties except for the purposes o! revenue only, and we demand that tie- collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of government when honestly ami economically administered." T here are lew of us ir Kngland who would go further than this, ami the demo cratic party in the States may rest assured that if KngTish sympathy co'iM c.rry the election of Grover Cleveland in November the White house would be theirs. We hhall watch the development of the struggle with the keenest interest and even if the triumph be not at tained all at once there is indeed i reason for congratulation that one of the great American parties has made free trade, pure ami simple, the great battle cry of the future. ! Liverpool Journal of Commerce, ; June '.'."), INC A Fkl-E-TKADE DEMOCRATIC I'AKTY. The majority of the Committee (on Resolutions in the Chicago Convention) was disposed to pro ceed with some caution iu regard to the taritf. It carried its halting resolutions in the proceedings in committee. I!ut when this resolu tion was submitted to the conven tion itself it would have none of it, and rejected it in favor of a resolu tion demending a tarilf for revenue only. This resolution was pro posed by Mr. Henry Watterson of Louisville Kentucky, who is an out-and-out free trailer. Its adop tion by the convention is a victory for the free traders, as it commits the democratic parly to the near est approach to Iree trade that is possible in the United Stales.--Manchester Ivxamiuer, J tint: 'J I, IN'.VJ. CLEVELAND'S HUM I .MTU. In accepting then omination, Mr. Cleveland dwelt almost exclusively on the tariff question, and it is somewhat remarkable that his. speech ilelii s a firmer faith in the principles of free trade than tlid the recent deliverance ot the Itritish prime minister Lord Salisbury at 1 Listings. -Dundee Advertiser, J uly 1V.C EI I-ECTS 111- CLEVELAND'S ELECTION. The following question was ad dressed by a representative of the Cardiff Daily News to Mr. J. H. Rogers, the well-known tin-plate mauutacturcr; "Supposing Cleveland were elected, what do you think would be the elTcct of bis policy "I think the result would be that tin1 duties would be gradually lowered and that wages would con sequently fail. The working class would, ot course, not he will to re main without v.orlv, ami manufac turers would have to reduce wages to enable them to compete success fully with other countries. Wages iu America are at present about doubled what tl'ey are here, but if America adopted free trade they would probably be it d need by one half, and become equal to the wages paid here. The question of free trade or protection in America this, therefore, is ol far more impor tance to the working jlass of America than it is to any class in this country. In America t he work ing class earn high wages at pres ent, and the cost ot liv ing out then is so little' more titan it is b.-re that they have much greate:- couilort and are able to save more rapidly." Cardilf Daily News, July hi, ivi. SOUND CUnKcNCY. Since the resumption of -pecie payments under republican aus pices, every dollar o! American money in circulation in this coun try has ceen as good as any other dollar for all pui poses ot home business. Treasury greenbacks, the notes of national banks, silver notes and silver dollars have all been interchangeable. Those handling national bank notes have never been given even the trouble of inspecting Ihe bill to see what particular bank issued it. The stability, convenience, comfort and value to every branch of trade, and especially to laboring men ami small tradesmen, of such general soundness, in currenc cannot be est limited. .Now, the proposition is helore Un intelligent nation, indorsed by the convention of a great party, to in troduce a condition into tin- cur rency of the hind which would make the Hank Note Repoiter a necessity again lor every one who handled paper money. In place of a currency which, for many years, has been invariably worth its face value, it is deliberately proposed to substitute ii system of banks which would inevitably give a daily lluctuation that would vary with the uses to which the money was put. It j would have one value within the state where it was issued and diU'ereiil and a lower value the moment it crossed stale lines. The currency ot tin- states would have varying values, rang ing as in th,. u!d times of this rag money, from - per cent to all per c 'lit, w ith that p 1 1 1 1 i o 11 which would circulate at all, and again, as be fore, m itch v. olild be exel uded from general circulation. To meet a cry which alvvav s exists for more money the democratic leaders oiler this wildcat scheme with the evident hope of the, it ing intelligent Amer icans with it. A new currency w hich brings the Hank Note Reporter with it to every place of business would prove a li nancial pestilence. Laboring men, capitalists, manufacturers, and tradesmen of every degree should unite to declare a national quaran tine against it. THE LITERATURE OF POLITICS Through coming ate in the pro gress of the political campaign Mr. Whitelaw Kcid's formal acceptance f ,'u' republican nomination of the vice presidency will do much to inspire ami confirm the enthusiasm of the party, says the Inter Ocean. It very valuable addition U the current literature of politico. Mr. Rei 1 shrevvtlly remarks that a-i "each of the presidential candi dates has once commanded the ap proval of the American people in its highest form of expression.atten tion necessarily is called less to the men themselves, and more to the principle that each is put forward to represent, and which he would, in the event of election, be required to carry out." Hence we hear less enthusiastic cheers for ' Grover" or for "Gallant Hen" than wc heard four years ago; the interest in the candidates, is secondary to the in terest in the principles that they represent. The great principles represented by Harrison are pro tection o American industries, honest money, ,1 free ballot. The principles represented by Cleveland iire those of free trade, an uncertain paper currency, and habitual sup pression or falsification of the billot in all the souihem States. The lines of demarcation a e clear. Mr. K'eid fortifies his position as a nominee of the party of protect ion by numerous statistics; we ven ture to quote th )sc which relate to his own state of New York, and which are the compilations of a democratic commissioner of saving banks, a democratic board of equalization, ami which have been made public by these democratic officials since the democratic national convention affirmed that there was no evidence in proof of inercastcd prosperity since the pas sage ol the McKinley bill- the re peal of which the convention demanded. The figures read thus: Net increase nf wai s $ i;,-t77,!Ci (HI Net increase of ri m 1 1 1-1 i n lis .Net iiii-si'iis). ,,f siivmn lunik "leixisits i:t,7.Vi,HS 27 Ni l increase if limn anil Imilil- iim iis-iH i i 1 1 i 1 1 1 si ... is.Vvs.TJO o. ,et increase 0, valinitinii of real an. I iiersuiial (imperty I.",:',.-,, E7ri.'l 00 I'his is a good showing for one state. No 111 in, as Mr. K'eid says, evvr has lost .1 dollar by the note of a National bank. It is good while the bank is soivent .and good if it prove insolvent. It is good every where and under all circum -stances. It is n -ar the truth to say that no man ever handled three notes of the old state banks without finding one or more of them to be valueless. It is democratic policy to restore, the old state bank system. Mr. Iv'eid warns ihe republicans, and all business mi n. ol the extra ordinary danger from the election of a democratic president. This year the preisdency carries both houses oi congn-.-s with it. To elect Cleveland is to electa demo cratic senate and house. Consider ing bo.v 'prosperous the country now is, ,M;, )(nv carefully even moderate changes in the fiscal system should be made, it is ter rible lo contemplate the disasteis that will be inevitable upon the adoption of the demociiiti; revolu tionary programme of changes in the banking system, the coinage system, and the tariff system. W.J. Hk' An spoke the other eve ning iitAlvo, Cass county, and in his speech, commended Mr. Ilig gins for voting for Van Wyck for C S. senator, when he was a candid ate six years ago, ami denounced lion. Jerome Shamp for not voting for Van Wyck, to defeat the inde pendent candidate for congress in this district and elect Hry.-in, and to defeat Morton and elect Van Wyck ': Can vou not see that both these men are traitors to their respective parties'.- Office ami the spoils ,, office is all either of them are after' And after the meeting was over., liryau went into caucus with men present, to turn democratic voters over to the independent candidal, in Cass county, for county com missioner, for independent votes lor himself for congress! Here an two men. who are ready to betray every candidate and principle ot their party to secure oi'liee for them selves. Defeat Hryan with JeronK Shamp. Shamp is honest and ;, true independent. He can and wil' be elected if vou will do voltr iT l'ryan is already beaten, and d crats must now choose ? bet I' iflt iiiul Miami). Don t tl vour votes away 011 lb van. ,D Y.fii Wyck by toting lor either or lie- other ot the two candid whom v 011 r conscience tells y the l est man. Liberty I I SIM' gall the self-rcspet tanners ol Kansas to be represt; Washington by men vvhoreprCtf that farniei s' sons and dauglf can only get means of Jivinp selling their honor and virtue. The Journal is becoming perate. It plainly sees the 1 writing on the wall, and the wa cries and bogs- of the iudepend to support Travis is amusing. S .4 .si ( 1 V III 1 Jl IB- it" V 1 1 , !!' T