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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1895.
"I am clearly of th opinion that gold and sil
ver at rates fixed by congress constitute the le
gal standard of value In this country, and that
neither congress nor any state (under the con
stitution) has authority to establish any other
standard or to displace this standard." Daniel
Webster.
"According to my views on the subject tnecon
spiracy which seems to have been formed here
and in Europe to destroy by legislation and oth
erwise, from three sevenths to one half the me
tallic money in the world is the most gigantic
crime of this or any other age. The consumma
tion of such a scheme would ultimately entail
more misery upon the human race than all the
wars, pestilences and famines that ever oc
curred In the history of the world." John G.
Carlisle, In 1878.
Judicial Convention.
Tha democratic judicial convention
of the second judicial district, for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for
judge of the district court, will be held
at the court house, in Nebraska City,
on Thursday, October 3d, 1S95, at 1:30
o'clock p. m. The counties comprising
said district are composed of Otoe and
Cass and are entitled to nineteen (19)
delegates each.
F. P. Ireland, Chairman.
C. M. IIubnek, Secretary.
It seems from the News that Mr.
Polk has concluded to tolerate Judge
Chapman as a candidate. The judge
will doubtless feel grateful.
The Papillion Times, in speaking of
Secretary Morton's payment of the
free silver advocates among fcis clerks
in silver, very aptly calls him "Ne
braska's clown."
The Kearney Democrat remarks
that "when PresidentCleveland insists
that he is a Jefferson democrat, it
should be remembered that he means
a 'Joe Jefferson democrat.' "
J. Sterling Morton is announced
as a candidate for president. The only
thing Morton could carry in Nebraska
would be the Lincoln Journal's ed
itorial rooms. Kearney Democrat.
Quay in Pennsylvania and IJrice in
Ohio seem to be on top in their respect
ive parties. In the senate these men
are cheek-by-jowl, both men of one
cloth, and it's a toss-up to say which is
the better or worse of the two.
It is an easy thing to run a news
paper now if the editor Lappets to a
gold bug. Eastern capitalists will fur
nish weekly supplements gratis, and
plate matter on the same terms. The
express 1b always prepaid. Aurora
Sun.
Of all the contemptible farces that
have ever been put up in the state
Castor and Martin's attempt to keep
alive their rump organization of bolt
ers is the greatest. Hardly a county
organization in the state will recognize
them. Crete Democrat.
The attention of the News is called
to the platform of the Nebraska dem
ocrats. It is the unadulterated bi
metallic democracy of Thomas Jeffer
son and there were only six votes
against it. Ohio is not here, and Brice
with his cuckooism is not in it.
These object lessons of Secretary
Morton's the paying out of the silver
dollars is just the thing. The people
want all of them they can get. But
ono thing is pretty certain: he will
never pay out any more of his own
than he can avoid. lie isn't built that
way. '
There are 1,000 delegates to the
republican state" convention and GOO
to Tobe Castor's mass meeting of
stumptail democrats. The railroads
will furnish them all with passes.
Who will pay for those passes ? Why,
the people, of course. Central City
Democrat.
There appears to be a lively con
tention over the district judgeship in
the republican press, and according to
good local authority even Church Howe
is taking a hand in the matter, and is
credited as the author of the screed in
Saturday's State Journal attacking
Judge Chapman. Be calm, gentlemen;
let not your hearts be troubled over
Impossible things. The democrats will
lectthe judge this time. It is their
turn at the wheel.
llEARU ON THE STItEKT CORNEK.
Enter Free Silver Advocate and
Gold Standard Advocate, when the
following conversation occurs:
Free Silver Advocate My friend,
leaving all jokes and contention aside,
(and I know you delight in compelling
our free silver people to prove their .
position just because you delight in
the worry you give them), why don't
you drop this talk for the gold stan
dard and take up the side of the peo
ple's money?
Gold Standard Advocate Well, I
confess I would like to see the experi
ment of 'bimetallism tried, but I don't
understand how the two metals are to
be brought to an equal relative value
just by operation of law. Here we see
that silver bullion is only worth half
aa much as the cold. How are we to
bring them together?
F. S. A. Just as they were brought
together for hundreds of years before
1873, when the gold standard was set
up give them equal rights at the
mint.
G. S. A. You believe in fiatism,then
that the government's say-so will
make the silver dollar equal to the gold
dollar?
F. S. A. No, that isn't the idea at
all. But by admitting silver to the
mint, on an equal basis with gold at the
present ratio 16 to 1, a steadfast mar
ket will be made for all the silver in
existence at the value of $1.29 an ounce
and that will have the effect of lixing
the price of all the bullion that comes
into market at that price, less cost of
carriage to the mint. It is the use and
not the fiat that thus creates the
value just as the value of all gold bul
lion is fixed in all parts of the world
by the mintage price.
G. S. A. But what I don't under
stand is, what makes you so confi
dent that such will be the result how
will that bring the metals to an equal
ity, and why will not gold go into hid
ing or go skurrying out of the country
and create a panic the moment silver
is made free?
F. S. A. The experience of the
world in all the ages since money was
first made ought to settle that matter
but we have bad a recent practical ex
ample or test of the process by which
parity is to be brought about.
G. S. A. How is that? A recent
example, you say?
F. S. A. Yes; don't you remember
that in 1890 the U. S. senate passed a
free coinage bill?
G. S. A. Yes; but it did not become
a law.
F. S. A. No; but did you not notice
what effect the passage of that bill by
the senate had on the price of silver
bullion?
G. S. A. Well, I remember there
was quite a flurry among the silver
bullion holders.
F. S. A. Certainly; silver bullion
took a sudden rise and went up from
90 cents to 81.21 an ounce, in a week or
so, just on the probable passage of
that bill by the house after it had gone
through the senate. Now, did it ever
occur to you why that sudden rise took
place?
G. S. A. Why, that was plain
enough. The cusses who had the
silver bullion wouldn't sell for any less,
and others wanted it, so it went up.
F. S. A. That's just the point I am
trying to make. If silver bullion would
go up 31 cents in a week, just because
one of the legislative bodies of the na
tion had passed a bill for its free coin
agebecause the men who held the
bullion wouldn't take any less, can
you not see that if a free coinage bill
were to be passed by both houses of
congress, were signed by the president
and became a law, that silver bullion
would at once go up to par with gold
bullion and for the same reason that
the silver bullion owners wouldn't
take a cent less for it than the mint
would afford them?
G. S. A. O, that is just one of your
free coinage vagaries.
F. S. A. Well, it is the "vagary" of
common sense that no gold standard
advocate can explain away.
It brings ablush of - shame to the
cheek of every true American to see
this great government truckling to a
syndicate of English capitalists, who
can at will increase or decrease the
gold reserve. Such a financial policy
is little short of criminal. The Times
would love to be able to commend the
course of this administration which
uerB me democratic name, dui a
traitor is none the less a traitor under
a democratic cloak, and we cannot re
gard as less than traitorous the action
of the administration in delivering into
the hands of an English syndicate the
financial policy of our government.
Papillion Times.
fcOWARDLX hoLD&UQS.
As a rule it will be found that the
democrats who favor the gold standard
are cuckoos and take that position, not
from conviction, but because they
want to stand in with the administra
tion. This is illustrated very well by
the attitude of the Ohio variety of this
species. Allen W. Thurman, who is
at the head of the silver sentiment in
that state, says in an interwiew:
"The silver men said plainly what
they wanted. I asked Senator Brice
to do the same. lie said he wanted
the platform of 1892 and that it meant
gold, but he was afraid to declare this
openly. The committee on resolutions
met and I am told that Mr. Ingalls
was brave and honest about the mat
ter and wanted a straight-out declara
tion, but the other members of the
committee sat down on him.
"The reports were submitted aud in
presenting the silver report Judge
ratnck charged that Mr. Cleveland,
the members of his cabinet, Mr. Brice
and others had interpreted the plank
of 1892, reported by Mr. Hurd to mean
simply gold, and he then openly chal
lenged thani to stand un before the
convention and be brave and honest
enough to say to the delegates just
what they had said to me and others.
They did not do this by any means, but
on the contrary Mr. Hurd, in replying
to Judge L'atrick, said that no man had
a right to interpret that platform to
mean gold, that Mr. Cleveland had no
right to interpret it, nor Senator Brice
nor himself but that every democrat
could interpret it to suit himself, that
it was the declaration of the national
party and must stand until another
national convention said what the
democracy really did advocute."
If Brice and the cuckoos had any
faith in their doctrines, why need they
be afraid to say so. "The silver men,"
as Thurman save, "say just what they
want," but the cuckoocrowd are afraid
such cowards that they dare not
state their position. They are just like
the whigs were on the slavery question
before the war they want to deceive
the people by equivocation, and like
that party they will go down into de
served oblivion.
Sam B. Evans, Cleveland' post
master in Ottumwa, la., in 1SS6, and
who was two years ago appointed by
Cleveland consul to Nicaragua, is out
in an open letter t the president be
laboring the federal office holders for
their undignified activity in the late
Iowa state convention, bringing the
civil rules into contempt. The letter
is very patronizing to Mr. Cleveland,
but takes the hide off the federal office
holders. In conclusion Evans says:
"The traditional policy of the demo
cratic party is for Washington to keep
hands ofT and let the people manage
their own affairs whether at the polls
or in nominating conventions. I be
lieve in your integrity, Mr. President,
and that you earnestly desire civil ser
vice reform; that you will not approve
ot the indecency of the men, who, at
Marshalltown, armed with your com
missioners, took advantage of their
places, triumphed over their fellow
democrats, and then, in stinging words,
taunted them with the humiliation of
defeat. This letter is made public be
cause the subject is of public concern,
and with the hope that your dissap
proval of such methods will be so ex
pressed as to prove a lesson to those
who, temporarily clothed in authority,
would make your administration rules
a farce and democracy a shame in the
sight of decent men."
Years ago, we remember, certain
democrats were very ginger about the
party in thi3 county declaring itself on
the liquor question, for fear it would
hurt the county ticket, although all on
the quiet admitted that they were op
posed to prohibition. But the knot
was cut, and ever after everybody was
glad it had been done. It is so now
on the money question. There are
those who are afraid to say their souls
are their own for fear it will hurt the
county ticket. For one, this news
paper don't believe in that sort of poli
tics. It might possibly help some indi
vidual who doesn't care a snap for
principle, but wants an office awful
bad, but we don't believe that. In
politics we believe in the Donnybrook
fair idea, "wherever there is a head,hit
it," or, in other words, stand courage
ously by your principles and it will be
sure to win in the long run. If you
want to see your enemy run make a
charge on him.
As great a newspaper as the
Chicago - Record is, its editor has
shown himself lamentably ignorant of
Nebraska politics. In an editorial
printed last Saturday it says that after
great discension on the financial
question the free silver men bolted and
fused with the populists. The fact
was the goldbugs and cuckoos were the
bolters, and there were only 36 of them
all told. The platform had been dis
cussed and adopted, Mr. Bryan bad
been unanimously nominated for U. S.
senatorial preference, by a call of
counties, before there was any show of
a bolt, and it was only after Judge
Holcomb bad been nominated for gov
ernor and placed on the ticket by a
very large majority vote of the conven
tion that the few bolters walked out of
the convention, and after the bolters
were gone there were over 500 delegates
left in the convention. The Chicago
Becord is. grossly in error and
inexcusably ignorant of the facts. It
is so uniformly fair that we conclude
it has not wilfully misstated anything.
Henri Watterson says that Gro
ver could not carry a congressional dis
trict in the Union as a candidate for a
third term. He also says that the man
who regards Grover as a statesman is
a "fool or a craven tool." This we fear,
coming from a goldbug, will discourage
some of Grover's worshippers. That
shrewd schemer, W. C. Whitney, says,
"in the next twelvemonths Mr. Cleve
land will grow greatly in public es
teem." Whitney manipulated the ex-
officeholders at Chicago and secured
the nomination of Grover and is
anxious that his work be not rejected.
He is also anxious to he president him
self and wants the. cuckoo support.
Democrats have had enough of the
New York band of democracy for a
while and will not likely take another
dose soon. Crete Democrat.
Secretary Morton went over to
Mauassas, Virginia, the other day and
by pre-arraugeinent. had his presiden
tial boom started from that place, at a
farmers' institute. It is veiy appai
eut why he didn't come to Nebraska
for that purpose, as there isn't a re
spectable number of democrats that
could be got together for such a pur
pose. Mr. MorUn Iackp many neces
sary elements Hint wjuld make him a
popul.r c-mdidite with the common
people.
Farmers of Cass, do uot permit miy
sort of a slip in arrangements to inter
fere with making nn exhibit at the
state fnir. If there c;n be no unity of
action beforehand, prepare an exhibi
tion of your own, and depend upon
uniting with others on the grounds.
Cass county can beat the state, if .slit
tries, aud it ought to be done by all
means.
There is one test of a goldbug
which takes in nine-tenths of the
crowd. He is a money lender for hire.
Whenever a man conies to the conclus
ion that he will depend on the labor
aud enterprise of others to enrich him,
he wants the fatUst dollar he can et
for his return, and he cares little who
is wrecketl so he gets his own.
The Nebraska City News, which
supports the bob-tails, prints the call
for the meeting of that coterie which
it terms the "democratic state conven
tion," for 1 September oih, irox. Why,
man the democratic state convention
met and adjourned on the '22 inst.
There Is nothing democratic about that
affair of vours.
To Patron f Public School.
Most of the schools of Cass county
begin Monday, Sept. 2d. The first day
is an all-important one to all con
cerned, hence the necessity of readi
ness on the part of patrons, pupils and
teachers. The following suggestions
are intended to bring to your attent ion
now a few important matters relative
to your school, which otherwise might
not come to your notice until school
begins:
Will all the pupils have the neces
sary books with which to begin work?
Will the teacher know anything
about the work of her particular school
Lefore meeting her pupils the first
morning.
Will the school yard bo covered with
tall grass and weeds?
Arv tbera blinds or curtains on the
sunny side of the building? Are there
any window-panes out?
Is there a sufficient number of good,
comfortable seats?
How about blackboards?
Have arrangements been made to
have the rooms thoroughly scrubbed
before school begins?
Is your school supplied with wash
basin and towels?
Are you ready to give the school
board and teacher any assistance pos
sible in making the school this year
the best you have ever had?
Are you going to make a special
effort to see that your children are at
school every day and on time?
Trusting that you may profit by
these suggestions, I am,
Yours,
Geo. Li. Farley,
County Superintendent.
Cull Fur Prohibition Convention.
The prohibition electors of Cass
county, Nebraska, are hereby called to
meet in convention at Murray, in said
county, on Friday, August 30, 1895, at
two o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
placing in nomination the following
officers', to-wit: Clerk of the district
court, county clerk, county treasurer,
county sheriff, county judge, county
superintendent of schools, county cor
oner and county surveyor, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may lawfully come before the conven
tion. W. O.. Tucker, Chairman.
Tom Walling, abstractor of titles,
Todd block. Guarantees accuracy of
all his work. lOtf. i
TlIK CKEll'tON,
(Written for The Journal.)
God kissed the waters ami the Day was ton-.
A maiden white and fair,
lie called Ills rosy, smiling daughter Morn.
And touched her yellow hair.
When she grew weary and her blue eyes
drooped,
He spread her. with a veil.
And from its folds a chining army tro-jped,
Iler wakening to hail.
His nighty voice upon the bilenre fell,
The great initial sound,
It echoed onward with incieti-ir.g swell,
And Melody was found.
Isabel Kichet.
Married hlxry-Oiie Years.
Very few couples, indeed, are there
residing in Cass county, and in Ne
braska, for that matter, who have
been married, and aie still enjoying
a state of wedded bliss, for a period of
sixty-one years. Such is the case,
however, with Grandpa and Grandma
George Meisinger, residing seven, and
one-half miles west of Plattsmouth.
Tuesday, August 27th, Grandpa
Meisinger was eighty-three years
old and it vvaa al.so lii.s sixty-first
wedding anniversary, while Grandma
Meisinger is only one year his junior.
Sunday his seven sons and their
families, who all reside in Ca-8 county,
and a number of friends from Ihi.s city
went out to Mr. Meisinger's pleasant
home and duly celebrated the double
event. About seventy-live people
were present, of whom some fifty were
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren of the venerable host
and hostess. The Turner winging so
ciety of this city rendered some choice
vocal music and the day was passed in
a quiet and enjoyable manner.
Grandpa and Grandma Meisinger
located in this county about twenty
one years ago and since then have
seeu their seven sturdy sons become
well-to-do and prosperous farmers
of Cass county. The only child
residing outside of Cass county is
a daughter, whose home is in Illinois.
Grandma and Grandma Meisinger
are both hale and hearty old people
and bid fair to live weveral years to
come, which is rtainly the hearty
wish of their legion of friends.
IlilS Apple For tl Fhit.
Dr. It 1$ Wallace of Cass county left
a basket of wpides at th Wor'd-IIcr-ald
office yesterday. t;even in number,
that weighed from one pound, one
and three-fourth ounces to one pound,
two and a half our ces and slmut'il an
average circumference of fourteen and
one-fourth inches.
These remarkable apples were grown
by John Clarenre, near Union, 'ass
county, who has a tii;e orchard, well
filled with many varieties of excellent
apples.
It must be remembered tlut C!fs9
county in 1S70, at the centennial, took
the prize for large, fine apples over all
the balance of the United Stales. It
will not be strange, then, if Cass
county con en to the state fair with
some record breakers. World-Herald.
A Nwvere Arcitlmt.
F. S White is wearing a badly
crushed arm and hand, the result of
accident lait Saturday. He was sit
ting in a car eating bananas and as
the train was crossing the bridge at
Ashland, Mr. White threw some of
the peels out of the open window. In
doing so he tin usl his arm out too far,
and the bridge struck it. The aim
was badly bruised trtun the shoulder
to the hand and several (ingf-rs were
crushed. The wounds were very pain
ful, and Mr. White will probably not
be so particular hereafter, where he
throws banana peels.
Pushes Track Ltiying.
The Omaha street railway compauy
Is bending every energy to build the
state fair grounds track to the grounds
in time for Jubilee day, Friday of next
week, and ahead of the fair. It has
laid curves at Elmwood park and
crossings at the Missouri Pacific
tracks at Fortieth aud Forty-eighth
streets, and will bo ready to jump in
when the county and city finish the
grading of .Leavenworth street this
week. World-Herald .
An Agtil Couple Weddel.
John Marsh, aged 63, and Mrs. Mar
garet Johnson aged G5, both of Cass
county, came to this city and were
united in marriage by County Judge
Eaton. Thus do the gods of love feast
the aching void of the hearts of the
aged as well as of the young. The
Press extends to the aged couple the
wish that briars of solitude and dis
content may be permanently removed
from their path as they jog along the
few remainingyearsof life. Nebraska
City Press.
Doe Your lireath Come
in Duchess Trousers?
Many get theirs that way.
C. E. Wescott & Son in sales have
passed the line of 4,000 pairs of Duchess
Trousers.
Everybody happy in Duchess Trous
ers. C. E. Wescott & Son sells them,
and everyone who tries them is sure
to buy none other.
1 1 .
de Peppeiberg, Buds and Bock'y are
superior to any other branda of cigars.
in this western country. !
J. Pepperberg, Mf t.
HI pays
Bargains
worth having;
The sweeping clearing sales in every de
partment during July will be a great say
ids to people in buying dress goods, ilks,
sheeting, muslin, white goods, linens, Defl
spreads, towels, ginghams, or in fact any
article in the dry goods line. Bargains in
every department.
A (Jreat Slaughter Clothing Sal
For ten days we will sell men's, y
and children's clothing at one half of
regular prices. Don't think don't wait
but come and buy your clothing at half
price.
Clothing .
$ 5.00 suits now for $ a. 50
7.50 suits now for 3-75
10.00 suits now for 5-
12.50 suits now for 6.25
18.00 suits now for 9.00
20.00 suits now for 10.00
Men's fine all wool $2 and $2.50 pants 05c
All $3.50 to $5 pants for $1.75
All $s to $7-5 pants for $2.30
Boys long- pants suits
Sizes 16 to 19 ye rs.
All $5 to S5.50 suits for $3.50
All f.7.50 to fg suits for $375
All $10 and $1 1 suits at $5
Boys' wash suits at 45c
Boys wash knee pants at 19c
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Hayden's Grocery Sale
Qreat reduction in our
New Dried Fruits
Good raisins per lb jKc
Grapes . " 3c
New California Prunes 7 tts for 50c " nMz
New California Prunes 6 JLs for 50c " 10c
New California Prunes 5 fts for 50c.... " i2c
New California Pears 5 s for 5c " 12WC
New California peaches 5 lbs for 50c ... . " nc
New Evaporated Raspberries " 20c
New Evaporated Blackberries " 7J4c
New Evaporated Apples " 9C
All above dried fruits are 1S95 crop.
Coffee and Tea
Golden Rio Coffee 4 s for $1 per ft 32c
Good Rio Coffee 5 fls for $1 " 22c
Standard Java Its for $1 " 3?c
Best Japan and Mocha 3 lis for $1 " 40c
Japan Tea ic
Good Japan Tea ' 25c
Choice new colored Japan 3 2s for $1... n 40c
Select new colored Japan 2 lbs for $1... " oc
Fancy new colored Japan 2 Tbs for $1 .... " 60c
Best new colored Japan 2 SjS for $1.20... 7
Canned Fruits and Syrups
3-tt) cans peaches 15c two for 25c
2- tb cans extra peaches 20c " 3c
3- !t cans best peaches 2?c " 4?C
3-lb cans plums all kinds 12C
Golden Drip syrup 50c gral 5 gal. for $.2 00
Honey Drip syrup 50c gal 5 " a
Amber Drip syrup 50c gal 5 " 250
Best Golden Honey syrup 70c gal. ..J " 300
imported Chow-Chow 15c qt per galjoc
mported mixed pickles 15c qt " $
Hardware
Grass scythes only...oc Grass snaths only. ..50c
Grass sickles only. ..50c Grass rakes only 50c
Machinery oil from acc per gallon up.
Scythe stones 5c each.
Screen doors 75c each.
Ve carry large stocks of poultry wire, screen
wire, barb and plain wire, guns, etc.
Hayden Bros.,
I6th and Dodge,
Omaha. Neb.
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RELIABLE
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Cor. Sixth and Pearl Sts.,
KEEP EVERYTHING IN TUEIR LINK.
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GIVE GOOD WEIGHT,
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Sixth Street Checkered Stain,
AND WILL RUN IT !.r.
FIRST-CLASS S'j .
Special attention to Funerals. Uatkt. be
uu to all trains. "PromptnoHu and Fidelity to
Cub tomers" fs his motto
H. Q. LIVINGSTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
INSUEAIJCE.
Plattsmouth.
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