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The Plattsmouth Journal
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
C. W. SHERMAN. Editor.
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Official County Paper.
The treasury officials are stiil trying
to keep their bands in in the matter of
issuing silver dollars, and last week
issued $374,755 from the mint at Phila
delphia. There is considerable talk around
the edges of democratic circles of put
ting Lou Foltz, the ex-county commis
sioner, on the democratic legislative
ticket this fall. Nearly everybody iu
Cass county knows Mr. Foltz, whom to
known is to admire and have faith in.
He would not only make a strong race,
but would make a faithful and honest
representative when elected.
The petition signed by 10,000 names
now in the hands of Congressman
Bryan asking for the impeachment of
Attorney-General Olney merits atten
tion. If the Cleveland administration
goes out of office without any deterl
mined democratic effort to investigate
the relations of the attorney-general
to the railroads and the trusts it wil
be an eternal disgrace to democracy.
Is the face of the big majority
against him, Kolb has begun issuing
his proclammations announcing his
election as governor of Alabama. This
Is the plan which Kolb adopted two
years ago, which he has stuck to ever
since and which he will doubtless con
tinue to stick to as long as be has the
breath to yawp. Kolb apparently
needs the soothing quietude and pro
tective duress ef a lunatic asylum.
It is said that the new postage
stamp will be smaller than the present
red stamp. This will be an artistic
improvement, as there will be less
stamp. We may, however, look for the
republicans to make campaign capital
out of the change, as under the repub
lican administration, which gave us
the Columbian stamps, a man could get
a very large quantity of stamp for two
cents, while under the hard-times
democratic administration he will have
to take less than half the same quantity
of stamp for the money.
According to an article in the
August Forum, the Methodists of this
country collect for current expenses,
principally the salaries of their min
isters, about $14,000,000 yearly; the
Episcopalians about $13,000,000; the
Presbyterians 112,000,000; the Baptists
$8,000,000, and the Congregationalista
$7,000,000. The average salary of the
Methodist minister is estimated at
$S53, exclusive of fees and donations,
of the Congregationalist minister
SI, 050; of the Presbyterian something
more; of the Episcopalian still more.
Tub number of barrels of beer drunk
in the city of New York in a year is
5,000,000. Chicago comes next with
2,800,000. Then Milwaukee with 2,500,
000 (an abnormal total for a city not in
the first rank); St. Louis with 2,000,000;
Brooklyn, with 1300,000; Philadelphia,
with 100,000, and Cincinnati, once
the paradise of beer drinkers, with
only 1,300,000, against 1,200,000 in
Newark. The population of Cincin
nati is 330,000, while that of Newark
is little more than 200.C00. Beer is
now the almost universal American
drink, and of late it has found a great
popularity in the south, New Orleans
consuming 300,000 barrels last year and
Louisville 350,000.
Charles II. Brown, ex-senator and
democratic wheel-horse of Douglas
county, has recently written a charac
teristically strong letter to the "World
Herald, urging the election of Mr.
Bryan for the senate. There are no
more level-headed men among the
democrats of Nebraska than good, old
fashioned, honest Charley Brown, and
his endorsement of free coinage and
Wm. J. Bryan gives an impetus and
strength to the movement that will
make it invincible in Douglas county,
and take from Euclid Martin about the
last prep of respectable brain force it
has had. But for the "federal brigade"
aud bankers' clerks at Omaha, we
doubt it there would be a corporal's
guard of gold-standard democrats in
that county by the time the convention
comes off. Charles II. Brown is a
tower of strength to any party.
rgestTpampkln; the leaaer a
or the largest tom-cat, and a
of potatoes for the best looking
a on the grounds, J
XJVnnv-
Mrs. Henry Hempel and children
departed Tuesday mrning for a
month's visit at Ashland.
CAPITAL COKKESPONDENCK.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 8, 1894.
A statue of Gen'l Grant has just
been placed in the hall of statuary in
the national capital, and as soon as it
is formally accepted by the proper
committee of congress will become a
fixture among the other works of art
in that place. The statue is of heroic
size, was made in Home, and is the
work of the sculptor, Franklin Sim
mons, who is now at work on an eques
trian statue of Gen Logan, also in
Rome. This work was made on the
order of the Grand Army of the Re
public to the United States as a testi
monial of "affection and patriotic re
gard for their late comrade, Ulysses S.
Grant." The figure represents Gen.
Graut in the act of laying aside his
sword and belt. Statuary hall is a
most interesting place for the visitor
in Washington, as it contains the busts
of many of the historic characters in
our nation's history such as Wash
ington, Jefferson, Roger Sherman,
Ethan Allen, Gov. Winthrop, Sam'l
Adams, Rob't It. Livingston, Gov.
"Old Bill" Allen, of Ohio, Gen. Shields,
Abraham Lincoln, Lewis Cass, Gar
field, aud several others of more or less
renown. These statues have gen
erally been presented to the United
States by their states.
Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, has
been nominated for representative by
his constituents for the ninth time.
For nearly sixteen years Air. McMillin
has been in congress, and strange to
say, he is still a comparatively young
man. Of course he has been a faithful
and honest representative, or he could
never have had the standing with his
people necessary to insure his contin
uance in congress without opposition
or enmity in the ranks of his own
party. He has much of the same man
ner and characteristics as to frankness,
candor, natural politeness and kind
liness of Nebraska's most noted con
gressman. It will be remembered
that the income tax as adopted by the
house and made a part of the Wilson
'billl, was the joint work of McMill'n
and Bryan.
M ANDERSON THE REPUBLICAN
LEADER ?
It is exceedingly amusing to observe
the gyrations of Bro. Aunin in the
Lincoln Journal, in his efforts to make
Senator Manderson appear to be one
of the great men of the senate. I want
to tell you that alongside of such men
as Chandler, Aldricb, Sherman, Alli
son, Hoar, Hawley and Teller, Mander
son is a very small potato. I have no
personal dislike toward Manderson,
but to be honest bis intellectual capac
ity and mental make-up is no more
equal to those big fellows than a little
"fiste"' dog is to be compared to a big
mastiff, and his nagging of the demo
crats reminded me very much of the
barking of a small dog at the heels of
a big one. To dignify him as there
publican leader of the senate is simply
ridiculous, and Bro. Aunin oagbt to
know better than to call out compari
sonswhich are said to be odious. Mr.
Manderson is not be blamed, of course,
for his physical littleness, and in an
estimate of mental and moral powers
it counts for nothing. There was
Stephen A. Douglas a physical Lilli
put but a mental and oratorical
giant, the equal, if not the superior, of
any man on the floor of the senate in
his time but, as I said, "comparisons
are odious," and I will not carry the
simile any further than to say that a
glimpse of bis mental stature may be
obtained by an xtract from a publica
tion recently made with his approval,
if not at his dictation. The following
is taken from "Seidle's Photographs
of the Most Eminent Modern States
men and Politicans of the United
States," an eastern publication. It
reads as follows:
"Senator Manderson is a thoroughly
substantial man, a reliable republican,
and unaffected by any of the popular
editions of western politics. He is
loyal to the general government in every
sense, and jealous of its honor and
credit. For this reason he always
sides with the eastern republicans on
financial questions, and did not hesi
tate to vote for the discontinuance of
the purchase of silver."
There, I take it that a western sena
tor who would allow such a thins as
that go out, when it is known that the
proof sheets were submitted to him
first, is too near the range of idiocy to
be able to "lead" anybody very far.
Further comment is unnecessary.
"Eastern republicans," by which is
meant the banking influence that pre
dominates the eastern states, in both
parties, for that matter, no doubt will
be able to hold up the senator's hands
in Nebraska in the coming senatorial
contest. We shall probably have an
influx of eastern money to assist in
carrying out that program.
Well, the dead-lock still continues
between the senate and house conferees
on the tariff bill and I can see no
O'CIOCK a. ati- --
Omaha at 8:00 p. m.
Constipation and sick headache psr
manpntlT cured, and piles prevented
signs of a break. The idea is beginning
to pervade my think-tank that tliereis
no great anxiety on the part of the
head of the present administration to
bring about un agreement; that Mr.
Cleveland sees that if an agreement is
arrived at, and a bill is passed, that it
will have the effect of taking the dis
cussion of the tariff out of politics, and
that as business will fail to revive very
rapidly, people will be able to see that
the cause of the depression has not
been reached and the money question
will spriug nito renewed prominence
to the dismay of eastern goldbugs.
This idea, I will admit, is nut wholly
my own, nor am I the only one who
sees force in it. Many other begin to
believe in it, and there are signs of its
having originated in the white house
itself. That the silver question gives
the president more worry than any
thing else in the category of political
action. It is no secret that the effect
of the repeal of the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act was disappointing
in the extreme, while the action of the
gold speculators in continuing the ship
ment of gold to Europe is giving him
great concern and uneasiness.
Later The word is goius? the
rounds this afternoon that the con
ferees on the tariff have pgretd, or are
ready to make a report to the two
houses tomorrow u basis of settlement
of their differences; and as a conse
quence everybody, at least among the
democrats, about the capitol is in a
happy frame of mind, while the repub
licans are unhappy, and there is now
talk of an early adjournment. There
is a very general belief, of course, that
the president will sign any bill that
congress passes. If he should veto the
bill because it is not good enough, it
would be an act of unutterable folly,
such as his party would never forgive
him for, and it goes without saying
that he will never do it. Whatever the
basis of agreement, the bill is a vast
improvement over McKinleyism, and
will bring much relief to an overtaxed
people. Tariff reformers will have to
keep up the fight until all .semblance of
protection, with all its infamies, is
eliminated from the statutes.
The rapidly-changing condition of
politics in Nebraska attracts much at
tention in Washington, and it would be
hard to find a democrat, cr indeed an
average citizen, who is not deeply in
terested in the hope of Bryan's elec
tion to the senate. I see many people
here from various parts of the country,
and it is no unusual thing to hear men
say, when his name is mentioned, "Do
jou know he is my ideal of all the
statesmen now in public life?" or,
"That's the man I am hoping to be
able to vote for for president some
time." I hear this sort of talk from
people who live all the way from Flor
ida to Oregon, and from Pennsylvania
to California. It is surprising to learn
how many men have been keeping tab
on bis speeches and track of his record
as admirers. Now that he is in the
field for the senate, it seems that he
has the good will and hearty good
wishes of everybody one meets about
the capita, at the hotels or at work in
the departments. From a Washington
standpoint it is but the bare truth to
say that he has earned a seat in the
senate. One can hear this from the
pages on the iloor, the ladies in the
gallery and from the members on the
floor, as well as in the senate.
Those who delight in political
parallels will find it an interesting
study to read the platform upon which
Abraham Lincoln made his race for
the senate against Stephen A. Douglas,
in ISoS, and the recent announcement
made by Mr. Bryan. The student will
find it in the speech Lincoln made be
fore the republican convention at
Springfield, in April, I think. That
speech was the ground-work of his
subsequent campaign. The republican
party was new then, and Lincoln was
something of a pioneer in the advocacy
of its doctrines and the formulation of
its principles. He did not hesitate to
mark out new ground upon the new
issues presented upon which to fight
his battle and his fearless courage in
that fight made him the logical candi
date of his party and landed him in the
presidency two years later. Let the
reader study the character of Mr.
Bryan's address, or platform, and he
can draw his own conclusion. No
bolder or more fearless political pro
nouncement than that letter of . Mr.
Bryan's was ever made since the ad
dress of Abraham Lincoln above
spoken of. In addition to the doctrines
he has advocated in congress, he ad
vocates three new propositions the
foreclosure of the U. P. mortgage and
sale of the road if necessary to pay the
debt, to the end that lower charges for
freight may be made to the people of
the west, and in this he is sustained by
a state democratic platform, framed by
Mr. Morton himself; a single term for
the presidency, and this is the doctrine
of Mr. Cleveland in his first letter of
acceptance; and, third, in declaring in
favor of the purchase and operation of
the postal telegraph system. In this
he has abundant backing including
Mr. Wacamaker when he was post
master general
I need Only add that the republicans
, n . . , - t. ohimn mill koiiii
wbo meet him on the stump win have
an interesting time of it. C. W. b.
SEESbN &
A t.tnrrievs
AN AGKKEJI KM KEACHKU.
After a drawn-out struggle a tariff
bill has finally been agreed upon. The
bill which now has the endorsement of
both houses and which will become a
law is not as good as the Wilson bill,
but it is a great improvement on the
McKinley law. It reduces the duty on
woolen manufactures 50 per cent.
largely increases the free list, and
makes a material reduction on all the
articles entering into general use
The honest democrat preferred the
Wilson bill for the reason that it pro
vided for free sugar, free iron and im
posed lower tariffs generally, and but
for a few traitors in the senate this bill
would have become a law. Had the
Wilson bill passed the pledges made to
the people would have been kept to a
lettei , whereas the new bill only re
deems them in part. But it is a step,
a long step, in the right direction, and,
while not just what was wanted, the
business and industrial interests of the
couutry were in such a condition as to
justify a compromise with a view to
speedy settlement. The democrats
agreed to enact a tariff law for revenue
oulv.and while not euci-eedine in a
technical sense, they have convinced
the public of their honesty of purpose
and can go before the people again
with the knowledge that they have
kept faith with them and have honestly
endeavored to discharge every obliga
tiou. That the democrats did not suc
ceed in passing a bill in strict harmony
with the platform is due, not to the
majority, but to impotent minority in
the senate, which was either influenced
by bribe money or was too narrow-
minded, too selfish, too disloyal, to rise
above personal aggrandizement.
A I'Ori'LIST PAPKK ON KKYAN.
Omiiha Evening News.
William J. Kryan has publicly an
nounced his candidacy for the high
office of United S'ates senator from
Nebraska. In a manly, straightfor-
waid letter the great free-silver cham
pion asks the suffrages of the citizens
of this commonwealth. Populists and
free silver democrats alike will rally to
his standard, and Manderson, the gold
bug, Manderson the tool of plutocracy,
Manderson the toady to the Roths
childs, Manderson the tory will be suc
ceeded by Bryan, the friend of Ameri
can money for the American people.
The Evening News will give to Mr.
Bryan its most hearty support. We
would tii.it the distinguished statesman
was an out-and-out populist iu name
as well as in principle, but we realize
that this is no time to split our strength
and that all patriots must rally to de
feat a common enemy.
William J. Bryan is a man of noble
w ords and noble deeds. For the people
and the people's money he has fought,
incurring the hatred of tories aud gain
ing the everlasting love of patriots.
Mr. Bryan is a good man, a clean man,
a sober man, aud a friend of humanity.
At the fountain of the water of eternal
justice where the immortal Jefferson
has drank this commoner from the
prairies of the wes drank, too; at the
shrine of liberty and human rights
where Jefferson worshiped, there, too.
has Br j an sought the truth.
Men are transient, principles are
eternal. It is the soul of Thomas
Jefferson that lives and not the clay
that marked his earthly career. The
spirit of William J. Bryan reflects the
spirit of patriots dead and living, and
that the eternal principles vouchsafed
thin nation when the star of liberty
first shone may be heard again iu our
betrayed senate halls we unite our
selves with the common people of this
great state in support of Nebraska's
child of Jefferson patriot, statesman,
aiftl commoner William J. Bryan.
Side by side, hand in hand, and soul
to soul, may Allen aud Bryan, patriot
sons of the patriot west, thunder the
everlasting story of Mood-bought
liberty that must and shall be eternally
preserved until the tory horde .shall
tremble shall be crushed shall be
driven from the citadels of power for
ever. Drop into Lehnhoff's and drink a
glass of cream soda water.
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Sole agent. t'ltittKnioutli , NeK
$500 Reward!
XVR will n-.v ilu nbove reward for nny case of
I-iver Coiuplairt 1 v -pt-psia, sick Heailnche In
digestion .n ; tt-'i.ii.'ii or Costiveness we cannot
cure with VtC-. '.Variable Liver Pills, when
the tliret lioiw -triclly complied with. They
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Mo, pud never fail to give sal-
iMaetion. Vuj.nrCnatru. Large bases, ascents,
uewareot couuti'tliils ana imitations. incKr"-
ninemanuicturcdniy uvthk jomnc west
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OF PLATTSMOUTH.
Is distinctively the place where the Farmer's Dollar Goes the
Farthest. We lead, as ever, in
Buggies and Carriages.
This year's line is larger than ever and the prices
cannot fail but suit.
As to Implements,
Our two large store-rooms are brim-full of the BEST and
MOST PERFECTED to be found in the Implement
market.
SPEAKING OF J 0 prince Wi: Manufacture
JLJLCll IlGOO, The Very Uest
For the Money, and are the only firm using "Old Fashioned Oak
Tanned Leather" in Cass County. Consult your own interests and
Deal with an Establishment which conducts Business on the Plan of
Giving Real Worth in Return for the Buyer's Money.
FRED GORDER & SON,
30?t30D .Main Sfreet, IMattsiiioutli. X-b
Are You Alive
To Your Own
PERHAPS you are, but
There's one good way
land of the living buy your
Furniture,
House
IPEARLMAN
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HIS PRICES will not admit of Competition
they're so downright low. Give him a call.
PEARLMAN, The House Furnisher.
S OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE, PLATTSMOUTH.
PAIN'S GORGEOUS HISTORICAL SPECTACLE
"LAST DAYS OF POMPEII'Mtenodons
At COURTLAND BEACH, Omaha.
September 2. - 3 - - -
f 1,000 Fire-works Display Each Production
Krilurvil KatrH n all IlailroHilH .
Look
Mrs. J. Benson,
LADIES' FURNISHER.
OMAHA.
READ THESE PRICES
Ladies' Skirts Hum 7")C. to $14.40.
Ladies' Waists from r(h: to S .611.
Narrow Val. Laces from loc per
do., up.
nutter Cream ami lsiacK iac-ea in
Hoi don and olln.r stles Irons Wo a
yard to t lie tlnest quality. Our .stock
is very larj;e aud no oid goods on our
shelves.
We make a spi ciaky of Ribbons and
Handkerchiefs.
Good uuaiity Gloria Silk Sun I m-
brellas from $1.00 to $5.00.
Sneeiallv low prices on Ladies' and
Children's Hoiseiy and Underwear.
We have many lines ot iuiies r ancy
Goods, not kept in other stores.
We are giving special prices in
Gloves.
In short, we make special prices in
every department.
Come in or order by MAlb. vve
will give your older prompt anil care
ful attention.
MRS. J. BENSON.
151t Douglas St., near 10th.
OMAHA. NKI5.
Dr. Agnes Y. Swetland,
HOMEOPATHIST.
Special Rttemlon to ntcirl-, lilsenses or
Women and Women- Snrei
Office:
lf-i.. Friiim Street,
'IVlephene ll.M
Omfiha, Neb
BSESON &. ROOT.
Attorneys at Law,
PLATTSMOUTH. NED.
OFFICS-K'Ucertld tloi.k.over Flral Narl lank
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of not, you ought to be.
to prove that you're in the
Stoves and
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out for Kxriimlniis.
Iton't MiKrt It.
Right Arm Paralyzedl
Saved from St. Vitus Dance.
"Our daughter, Blanche, now fif
teen years of age, had been terribly
afflicted with nervousness, and had
lost the entire use of her right arm.
We feared St. Vitus dance, and tried
the best physicians, with no benefit.
She has taken three bottles of Dr.
Miles' Nervine and has gained 31
pounds. Her nervousness and symp
toms of St. Vitus dance are entirely
gone, she attends school regularly,
and has recovered complete use of
her arm, her apatite is splendid."
MRS. B. K. BULLOCK, Brighton. N. Y.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Cures.
Pr Miles' Nervine Is nold on a positive
rtiarantee that the first buttle will lienetit.
Alt drusKists sell itatM.6 bottles for$., or
It will l" sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by tue lr. Miles Medical Co., Klkhart, lud.
Sold by all druggists.
The" rianSifter"llour is ttie popular
brand. Ask for it from our grocer.
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