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--..r5 The Weekly Journal C. W. SHERMAN, Editor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. SUBSCRIPTION One year, in advance, $1.00 Six months, in advance, ..... .50 Three months, in advance, .... .25 ADVERTISING Rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Plattsinouth, Ne braska, as second class matter. THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1895. "I am clearly of the opinion that gold and sil ver at rates fixed bj congress constitute the le gal standard of value la this country, and that neither congress nor any state (under the con stitutioc) has authority to establish any other standard or to displace this standard." Daniel Webster. "According tomyviews onthe subject tnecon spiracy which eeenis to have been formed here and in Europe to destroy by legislation and oth er.vise from three sevenths to one half the me tallic money in the worl i is the most gigantic c rime 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 .;. Carlisle, in 1378. Democratic State Ticket. For Supreme Justice, C. J. PHELPS, of Colfax County. For Regents of State University. T. W. BLACKBURN, of Holt Couuty. ROBERT KITTLE, of Dodge County. Democratic Convention. The democratic party of Cass county is called to meet in delegate convention in the city of Plattsmouth on Wednes day, September 25, 1S95, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of placing in nomi nation candidates for the following of fices: Clerk of the district court, county treasurer, sheriff, county judge, county clerk, superintendent of schools, coroner, surveyor, and to transact such other business as may come before it. Delegates from the first commis sioner district will also meet and nom inate a candidate for commissioner to till the unexpired term and delegates from the third district will nominate a candidate for commissioner for the full term. Delegates to the convention selected at the primaries held August 17, 1S!5, will take notice and attend. Following is the apportionment: Plattsmouth City, 1st jElmwood 5 ward 4 South Bend 3 Second ward 8 Weeping Water 2 Third ward 8 Center 5 Fourth ward 5jLouisvIlle 5 Fifth ward 3; Eight Mile Grove.... 6 Weeping Water City jAvoca 5 Firstward ljXehawka 3 Second ward JjMt. Pleasant 4 Third ward ' Liberty 6 Tipton 5: Plattsmouth 10 Greenwood 3 Rock Bluff's, 1st dist. 3 SaltCreek 5Rock"BluTs, 2d dist. 4 tove Creek 5 ! Total 110 Central committeemen are requested to send credentials to the secretary at once for compilation. In any precinct where no primaries have been held the central committee man is requested to call primaries AT ONCE. II. D. Travis, Chn. Chas. Grimes, Sec'y. Judicial Convention. The 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, 1895, 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. IIubner, Secretary. The late convention at Lincoln which was managed by Tobias Castor and Euclid Martin was nottbe howling success its promotors had hoped for. Gen. Jackson, "by the eternal," would be ashamed to call himself a democrat of the sort that allows banks and gold gamblers to dictate the finan cial policy of the government. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckneu has withdrawn from the race for the United States senate. This is regarded in the interest of Senator Blackburn, and aleo in view of the fact that the peo ple have almost unanimously expressed a preference for his re-election. The only party in this country which is destitute of principles is that organization which once claimed a Lin coln, a Greeley ahd a Sumner among Its leaders. It now belongs jointly to the money power of Wall street and the tariff barons of the east. The men who took their lives in their hands in '61 to restore the union would have been slow to enlist, had they been able to look into the fu ture and see the time when the national credit could only be sustained by an English syndicate for a bribe of $12,000,000. OLD LINE DEMOCRACY Dennis Merriman is an old line dem ocrat who lives in .Lincoln. lie is credited with having written the fol lowing letter with respect to the recent gathering in Lincoln which explains itself, and it is as rich and racy as it is true: Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 2. Dr. L. W. Edwards: There is advertised a gather ing next Wednesday in this county commonly styled the "straight demo cratic convention," whose promoters have advertised me as a delegate from the fifth ward. I make you my proxy to represent me at the gathering. Tell them that my name was used without my knowledge or consent and that I do not believe they had any caucus or primary for the fifth ward. Tell them that they are party anarchists; that they represent a bolt from the state convention of last year of less than one-tenth after participating in the making of the platform and electing the state central committee; that their pretext is the nomination of llolcomb. like the national democratic party ai Baltimore in 1S72 unanimously uom iuated Horace Greeley; that tr.eir at tempt at party anarchy is the same as a tew did in 1S72 under a like organiza tion; that notwithstanding that at tempt at party anarchy the party organization died not, but giew and was indorsed by the people of the United States at the polls three times since; that the attempt at national party anarchy "died a bornin' " just as their attempt m Nebraska will do. Tell them that they are like the bolt lug anarcnist-aemocrats ot Illinois in 1S5S, who licked the hand of the demo cratic president James Buchanan and knifed in the back the democratic party and Stephen A. Douglas because he dared to disagree with the demo cratic administration under the control of the slave holding oligarchy; that these party anarchists were paralyzed by the democratic party of that state. headed by Douglas, and soon after were ashamed to own what they had done. Tell them that they are the fellows who tranced in high feather because of having their own way in the state con vention two years ago. Tell them that because one-tenth could not rule the whole of theconven tion of last year that that is no reason why they should whine and bawl like spanked babies who could not have their own way. Tell them that their movement and the republican machine are working to the same end, with but a singlethought the idea being to make the supremacy of the republican bosses in Nebraska secure and to have the federal officers go to the national convention. Tell them that the democratic party will surrender to no such combination; that it is already in the field in line to battle with its Hag unfurled and that if it goes down it will not behumiliated by a surrender to bolting anarchists, but with its colors flying and fighting as one for its life against the allied forces. It will stand as an eternal protest against "republicanism" which is one of the greatest foes of a free government. Tell them that they have the encour agement of the republican politicians of this state and the pity of every old line democrat who has a thorough con tempt for men who, after they have been thoroughly and completely whipped, refuse to "take their medi cine. Tell them that with all of my good feeling for them I would be inclined to chastise them. But tell them that as an old school democrat I simply pity them. Dennis Merriman. The soundest money is that which will help avoid panics aud tend to keep prices stable. The fathers of the re- puunc tnose men who Had gone through the trials incident to a long and bloody war that was fought in be half of liberty and equality estab lished a system which was as near per fect as the mind of man has been capa ble of inventing, and that was the bi metallic system. The history of the country since that time shows that when we have had panics it has been because that system has been violated by big banking corporations which floated too many wildcat promises to pay. The gold and silver currency of the fathers was alwaps stable always ouuuu a iuuu as Lue uiLL!fr!L;ii i if: i system of the fathers was maintained. Ao sooner had John Sherman and his fellow conspirators succeeding in over throwing that system than the great panic of 1873 followed and since that time the products of men's labor have had a general downward tendency, and although the single gold standard was set up as the acme of "sound currency" it was not able to prevent the panic of 1893 the most severe in all modern times. Free coinage would bring the best of sound money, and that is the only thing that will bring it. Mr. Bryan left the 23d day of Au gust for the Pacific slope, and will fill several engagements in Colorado and Utah on his way there. He has been engaged to speak in the larger cities from Los Angelles north to Pugent Sound and will return sometime in October. Mrs. Bryan will accompany him. It is one of the most remarkable things of these strange times that a young man like Bryan should in such a short time make such a profound im- ment. Tt is whispered that in return pression upon a great people like ours, for the Journal's support Mr. Gere, is It is probably a fact that he receives promised a portfolio in President Mor more invitations to address the people ton's cabinet. Kearney Democrat. on the money question from every quarter than any twenty other promi nent men, and he is not managed by any literary bureau either. The invi tations come directly from the people of the towns and cities, and with of fers to pay his expenses in many cases and a certain sum in others. The people know he could not afford his time and travelling expenses, and they freely and voluntarilycontribute to aid him in his work. As an example of this brotherly spirit that is today uniting the masses in one solid phalanx of invincible voters, we give you what we witnessed not long since, while introducing Mr. liiyan to the many people wUo had just heard him speak; a young farmer who had lost two or three crops came up and while shaking hands placed a dollar in Mr. Bryan's hand, saying take this to help on the cause. The money was kindly returned with the assurance that the cause was marching on at a more rapid pace than any other of so great importance, had attained in this country. This is Mr. Bryan's way and the way the people propose to stand by him. Yet the hired liars for the trust combines and money gamblers of Wall street set afloat vile slanders about this man; saying he is paid by "silver kings" to deliver speeches in their be hrlf. It is hardly necessary for us to say much statements are false in every particular; that he has not received a dollar from any silver syndicate or others interested directly or indirectly in silver mining, Imt it is a fact ami those circulating these lies know them to be such. Crete Democrat. A SAI IMPOSITION, The gentlemen from this county who attended the late bolting pie-biter's convention were basely deceived in ad vance by those who were engineering the affair. They were told that it would be a big convention of represent ative democrats, that such men as George L. Miller would be there to give it character aud dignity. For weeks the word was given out that John G. Carlisle and Mr. Morton would be there and make speeches, and after that delusion was dispelled Mr. Carlisle was to write a letter to be read amid the shouts of the delighted cuckoos. But the affair came short of all these attractions. It was not a large gather ing, although free passes were offered galore. Those who look upon Dr. Miller sa the be-all and end-all of de mocracy were chagrinned to find him absent; neither Mr. Carlisle nor Mr. Morton weie there, and neither of them wrote letters, and the former at the last sent only a telegram toTobe Castor say that he regrets his inability to attend his (your) convention by rea son of a "press of business." He evidently did not wish to be identified with a meeting of bolters from the regular party organization. Mr. Huff- ner is apparently the only man who extracted any comfort out of his at tendance. The Nebraska City Press is support ing Judge Chapman and denouncing E. F. Warren, the man from that csunty who wants the nomination for judge as unworthy of the place, while the News is defending Warren. The fact that the Press is peculiarly the organ of John C. Watson may hare its influence in dictating the course of that concern, lor reasons which may possibly be understood by the bar Mr. Watson is probably not in favor of a change in the judgeship. And that may account for the milk in the cocoa nut. We notice that many republican newspapers are gleefully picking flaws in Edmiston's management of the oil inspection office, but these same fel lows observe a death-like silence in the face of the fact that the late republi- can oil inspector deliberately stole So,- i luw fir hiath mnnfv. arm iniir. m rpnun can attorney-general has made no ef fort to recover the stolen funds or to punish the thief. The pop inspector may not be blameless, but he is an hon est man in comparison with his repub lican predecessor. Papillion Times. V3i. E. Annin, the personal repre sentative of Mr. Morton and the Cleve land cabinet, has given out the state ment that the president has practically revoked his order of 1887, forbidding office holders from participating in partisan conventions, thus giving them to understand that he expects them to run the party wherever they can as they have tried to do in Nebraska, and succeeded in doing in Iowa and Ohio. How greatly has Mr. Cleveland changed within the past seven years! That great exponent of Grover Cleveland democracy, the Lincoln Journal, is giving J. Sterling Morton's presidential boom a hearty endorse- REPUBLICAN PARTY II A KAILE1. After thirty years of trial tbe coun try rejected the republican party and overthrew its chosen pol'cy, finding that it was the essence of legislation for the benefit of aclas, and not for the whole people. If this proves any thing it shows very clearly that polit ical parties, the same as individuals are not infallible; that they may be diverted from their original purpose, however good aud patriotic it might be, into channels of evil and wrong. Such is the verdict of history with regard tw political parties generally. They can only -be trusted to carry out avowed purposes that are consistent with the welfare of the common people. The effort to make the whole country pros perous by the adoption of a system of taxation (called a protective tariff) which made a few men rich and ex pected them in turn to enrich every body else, has proven a most lamen table failure, as was shown by the Carnegie war, demonstrating that the beneficiaries of that system could not be depended on to divide the profits with the men whom the system pre tended to help. The republican party originated in the effort to make slavery sectional and freedom national; and there is noques tion now that that effort was justifia ble and a righteous one. Theseopeof the original party, however, did not even include any position on the tariff Search the platform of lSoG and the tariff is not even mentioned in it Neither was protectionism in the plat form on which Abraham Lincoln was elected. Protection, therefore, was an afterthought pushed in by designing men to enrich themselves and was kept undercover, while "loyalty" was held up to view as the great party virtue. But the crying wrong of the protective system was so great and so evident that even the virtue of having saved the union could not always protect the party from defeat. It went down, de servedly, in 4S4 and again in "92, on that issue, and it is the sherest politi cal folly now for that party, to try to rehabilitate itself on that issue. In the opinion of the writer such a movement is not an honest one, and it is only put forward as a blind to prevent the masses from thinking of the only real, live issue now before the country iuhI the world to -wit: the financial ques tion. The money loaning fraternity, who form the most selfish, powerful, vicious and corrupt combination known among men, is engaged in a struggle to fasten its fangs into the throat of all industry, enterprise and to make slaves of all men who labor, and they can only succetd by casting dust in the eyes of those whom they mean to deceive and plunder. They try to hold their victims by claiming to be for "sound money," and charge their opponents with favoring "fiat money," "cheap money" and tell all manner of lies about them. But the question is before the peo ple, for solution, nevertheless, and it. will cone up in spite of deception, tar iff humbnggery and the "sound money' fraud. How much belter this world would be off if the divine injunction to "love one another were univerfallv ob served. Hitil T I'iK-le IVlr. World Herald. Uncle Pete Huffner, the sage of Plattsmouth, is a happy man today. The political organization known as the bolters, of which Uncle Pete should be recognized as the real leader, has honored Cass county's Grand Old Man by making hi in a member of the state committee. Even this long-delaved recognition of merit ami genuine leadership will be appre ciated by the people of Cass county. who, for a great many years, have compelled Uncle Peter Buffner to fight off honors with a club. But for the becoming modesty of Uncle Pete, he would long ago have held high office. He has rejected all of these with scorn. But honors have been thrust upon him. There stands the bolters' political organization! There stands Uncle Pete lluffner! Hail to their chief ! k'lt is something of a mystery to me," said Charley Grimes to a Jouk nal reporter this morning, "how my old veteran democratic friend, Col. Ituffner, is going to accept the nomi nation tendered him by the second ward free silver democrats and popu lists for assessor. Here is Ed's posi tion: He is state central committee man of the bolters for this district, is a rampant 'goldbug' and a staunch op ponent of fusion, and now is a candi date for office on the ticket of the reg ular organization. In addition to this he is a delegate to the regular couuty convention. I have a vague desire to know "where he is at." How can he sit in a convention of those whom be has just been denouncing as anarch ists and lunatics? He can do it con sistently I don't think," and the sec ond ward councilman vauished into the mist of the hereafter. a Mi.YEit pr-5.TFor.ai. The follow in reoluM.uis were unanimousU adopted at the demo cratic state convention, held in Omaha August 2-d: "We, the democrats of Nebraska, in convention assembled, reaffirm our faith in those principles written in the declaration of American independ ence, and emphasized by .leffeiron and ence. and emphasized by .Jefferson and Jackson, namely, that all men are created qual; that the me endowed by their creator will certain unalien able rifihis. iiiiM.ntr which are life, liberty aud the pursuit of happiness; that wrovernmeuls are instituted among men to secure these rights, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; and we demand that all of the departments of the irovernmeut, legislative, executive and judicial, shall be administrated in accordance with these principles "We reaffirm the declarations made by the last democratic state conven tion hela in Nebraska on September 126, 1694. "We believe that the restoration of the money of the constitution is now the paraiuout issue before the county, and insist that all parlies shall plainly state their respective positions upon this question, in order that the voteis may intelligently express their pre ference; we, therefore, declare our selves in favor of the immediate re storation of the free and unlimited coinage of cold and silver at the present legal ratio of 1(5 to 1, as such coinage existed prior to 1873, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation, such gold and silver coin to be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private. "We send greeting to our demo cratic brethren throughout the union, who are makiug such a gallant fight for the restoration of bimetallism and congratulate them upon the progress made. "We depreciate and denounce as un-American and subversive of the principles of free government, any at tempt to control the action or policy of the political parties of this country by secret cabals or organizations of any character, and warn the people against the danger to our institutions thatlurks underany such secret organ- iz.itiou. whether ba:ed ou religious, po litical, or oilier differences of opinion Ilecoguizing thai the stabilitr of our institutions must test on the virtue and intelligence of the people, we stand, as in the past, in favor ot the free common school system of the stale, and declare thai the same must be perpetuated and receive liberal financial support, and that the man agement and control ot said school svslem should be non-sectarian and nou-partizau. i ne uemociacy oi eurasKa up proves and commends the declarations of Presideut Cleveland in the past in 'condemning the pei iiicu. us activity of incumbents of federal olhces under the government, in attempting to con trol the policy and nominations of their parties, and we -hereby recom mend the renewal of the policv of the first administration in that regard. "We atlirin the uncompromising op position of thedetnocratie party to the fostering aid I y the government either national or state, of chartered monopolies, and declare it as the rec ognized policy of the partv from the davs of .Jefferson and Jackson to watch with the utmost jealousy the encroachments of corporate power. and we are in favor of such legislation as will insure a reasonable control by the state of corporations deriving t heir power and privileges from the date. and espec'allv the regulation of rates for transposition bv the rail roads of thp state." 11 o Duu'l L.tvt Hen-. Maitiu WiugooU of l'intthujouth id a man who lias been acquaiuleil with the geography of this couuity tor thirty ) ears, but uol until lust Satur day did lie have the pleasure of being eutertained iuside of the citv jail. He brought two carloads of cattle to South Omaha and, after disposing of the stock, started to Omaha, intending to make some purchases. To his sur prise he was met bv a man who called him by name and inquired about the folks at home. Wingood accepted an invitation to drink with his new friend. No sooner had he drank than he became deathly sick. While in an unconscious condition he was robbed of $30. Fortunately for him he had $S2 in his inside vest pocket which was undisturbed. Wingood tavs he made the first wagon track between Flor ence and the present site of Omaha and know? all about the Indians and border ruffians, but that he is not up to the times with knock-out drops. The police have a description of the man who administered the drug and expect to land hira in jail. The drug was administered in a South Omaha saloon. World-Herald. If Winenod is a resident of this city or vicinity he is either a very obscure one or gave a fictitious name. Post master Fox says no such person re ceives mail at the postoffice here and inquiry among a number of citizens failed to reveal his identity. 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