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mi i r mm. Tf iii t. Ma PL f CO er U d i oi Mi it XX h p h r r P e f r t s 1 t i 1 i t IThe Weekly Journal C W. SHERMAN, Editor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY AT PLATTSMODTH, NEBRASKA. SUBSCRIPTION. One year, in advance, .... aSbc month?, in advance, . '. . Three months, in advance, . . S1.00 .50 .25 ADVERTISING Rates made known on application. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1890. Call for Cougresalonal Convention. The democratic convention for the th First district of Nebraska is hereoj Be called to meet at .Lincoln, Nebraska,on th the22d day cf April, 1S9C, at eleveu o?clock a. m., for the purpose of nomi nating two delegates to the ileuo ocratic national convention to b held in Chicago on the 7th day of Julj , said nominations to be ratified by th democratic state convention to behelt in Lincoln on the 22d day of April, 1S96. at two o'clock p. m. Th basis of representation shall.be one del eate for every 100 votes, or major fraction therer f, cast for Hon. W. J Bryan for United States senator m 1S93. The several counties shall be en titled to representation as follows: Caii 21 Otoe 20 Pawnee t Johnson 13 I.incater 46 Xemaba 10 Rlcbardaon 2 Total 138 A few years ago the phrase "statu! up for Nebraska" was stereotyped in every republican paper in this state and now that they have a chance to ch so by supporting Gen. Manderson fwr president the phrase has lost its charm All the oropertv in the world is- measured by the amount of money in the world. If gold were the onh money and it took all the gold to makt a dollar the lump would buy all the property. Hence it is important to all the people to have plenty of legal ten der money. The republican party is controlled by the banking interests of the coun try. It is important to that interest that it should be represented in the national convention. Why not send bankers there as delegates and then they would be sure to look after theii own interests and there would be no trouble about it. That the Woman's club has been a benefit to the community every citizei who attended Friday evening's sessior thereof and witnessed the session o the farce congress can readily attest. It was a rich intellectual treat, and demonstrated the fact that in intel lectual pursuits the members of the gentle sex are not "dead-head3."" Somebody asks why the banks are so universally opposed to free coinage of silver. That's easy. They wani everybody to be dependent on the banks for their money and with bimet allism they know that they could not control the volume of money the peo pie could then get money from other sources besides the banks, hence the kick. Congressman Hartman of Mon tana came nearer cutting the lights out of Cleveland Thursday on the floor of the house than any man who evei tackled the old fraud, because of a gratuitous insult offered by him to the western states and territories, in his recent address to the Presbyterian home mission society, in New York. It was a most deserved rebuke, and will do much to show up in flitting colors the narrowness and hy procrisy oi the chief magistrate the idol of the money power. The fact that with very inadequate advertising and with no political party at its back an audience that not only tilled but overflowed the biggest hall in town could be brought together and kept there for nearly four hours at a time when no campaign is on, as was that of Saturday evening,is a sufficient answer to the carpings of those who assume that the interest in the cause of free coinage is on the wane. On the contrary it proves that the inter est is intense and is growing. The people are satisfied that it is the gold standard that has brought on the hard times, and they want relief; and they are going to have it, too. The republicans pretend that they want a protective tariff. In their na tional platform at Minneapolis they de clared that "The American people, by tradition and interest, favor bimetal allism and the republican party de mands the u?e of both gold and siiver as standard money." Yet when an op portunity to secure this result, coupled with a protective tariff, in the present congress, the great majority of the members of that party in both houses, L'bey woild than pr- rather have the Wilson bill tection, coupled with bimetallist . Which proves that their pretenses are false, and that they ate hypocrites, as a party. Long before the war the slavehold ers of the south very much deprecated the agitation of the slavery question. Bat for these abolition agitators this country can live in peace and qui etude," said the southerners, "and there would be no trouble between the north and south. But if they keep up this agitation and helping our niggers to run away we will be compelled to recede from them and set up a govern ment of our own, and then we can eu joy ourselves and our institutions with out their consent." History tells how the matter terminated. History is uow repeating itself on the money question. In 1ST3, when the people a ere not looking for it, the gold-t"iab-oers, by the aid of a few plotters in uoth houses of congress, destroyed the ree coinage of silver, the gold standard adopted and ever since have sound the people disturbing their peace jy keeping up an agiUtion lor the re turn of the country to the bimetallic standard. In 1S93 Mr.CIeveland, voic ing the sentiment of the gold men, de clared that this agitation was ruining the creditof the nation, and it must be stopped. If the Sherman act were abolished and the purchase of silvei oullion for coinage purposes was stopped, the panecea for the hard times and the panic, (just then brought on by a conspiracy of the New York oankers) would be over at once. Just stop coining silver, stop this agitation, dud we will be all right. There are vnen in this town today who believe such folly. -'Why don't you stop stir ring up this money question," say they; it is you silvey cranks that are niak .ngall this trouble and these hard iimes." "You stirred up the mud in the brook," said the wolf to the lamb. Such men ought to begin to realize that this agitation will be kept up,will never cease, until the great wrong to .he people is righted; uutil the money of the constitution is restored to it ancient landmarks, and power to cor ner the monev of the world is taken out of a combination that is endeavor mir tn pnalava the human race. While Liberty bleeds she find defenders. Since President Cleveland's vicious speech at the Presbyterian home mis sion meeting, in which he insulted the western states and territories by allud m?tn them as "undesirable territor- ," and "unsafe states" he has been aken to task in many quarters; but it . ell to tha lot of the Rocky Mountain 'ws tn brincr out the fact that the worst and and most "abounding cor rimtirm" in the land is to be found riht. in New York citv. within a few olocks of the place where Mr. Cleve and stood when he spoke. Not only this, but in the report of the board ol home missions these "fetid pools" may "overflow and devastate the sur rounding country," and are far more langorous luaii iue uiai uianiu tny where "to the future peace and prosperity" of the country. Here it was that the mission board have found it most difficult of reform. The home of the social evil in its most revolting torms and every form of vice which goes with it, within a stone's throw of Wall street, and seems to be its coun terpart and possibly not a necessary out a product, nevertheless. If the president had informed himself of the fact that there was a far greater per centage of crime and immorality right in Vaw York citv than in any other part of the country be possibly might not have attributed the small amount of wildness there is in the western states and territories to the product of the silvar"craze," or as productive of it. The spirit of that l'hansee wno, when he went up to temple to pray, oegan to say, ".Lord, I thanK inee that I am not as other men are," seems to be possessed by the occupant of the white house. A young woman' living on Mission street makes a living by selling her skin for grafting purposes. A year ago she first contributed a little skin to a friend who was in need of a whole hide, and, finding that she could stand the pain and that her skin wan par ticularly healthy, she concluded to profit by it. She sent a letter to nearly every physician and surgeon in this city and Oakland, calling their atten tion to the fact that sb had healthy skin for sale. Since then the young woman has had all the orders she could fill at very reasonable rates. She charges $1 a square inch, and usually parts with twenty-five or thirty square inches at a time. Altogether she has bad nearly seven square feet of her skin removed from her body, and has now got around to the second growth. Bbe is probably the only woman on earth who has been flayed alive. San Francisco Post. rfltafitfifl thn nrov.osition. T MANYWERETHERE The Bryan-Laws Meeting Crowds the White Opera House. A MOST CONVINCING SPEECH. Hon. V .1 Bryan's Speech on Bimetallism Compiled to be I lie Moitt l.uclritl aut Convincing One Evit Made lu Itie City. A tire at I'opular liiiontrt4tloii. Notwithstanding very inadequate advertising, the meeting given in 1 e- balf of ItiH non-partisan HnneLallu League on Saturday evening brought. about a great outpouringof the people White's hall was crowded to the doors. aud standing room was at a premium when it was called to order. Previously the High School baud played several airs in front of the hall, and demonstrated that the boys are making commendable progress in the production of good music. A. X. Sullivau, Esq., presided at the meeting, by invitation of the com mittee, and introduced the speakers. A letter, received irom Professor F. C. McClelland explained his absence, which was because of his necessary ab sence from the city on account of im portant business. lu l is letter he says: I shall be sorry to miss such a treat, but I am already convinced that the free silver movement is a very import ant, one and I am ready to join any organization that has for its object the advancement of the cause and the presentation of the truth on the sub ject to the people." Hon. (vilbert L. Laws was the first speaker, and although not an orator, he presented an interesting array of facts and reasons for his own course, as a life-long republican, in favoring bimetallism. He was listened to with close attention for nearly an hour, and left the impression that he was a man of earnestness and sincerity. After the applause which greeted the close of Mr. Laws' speech, Mr. Hryau was introduced and at once put himself enrapporte with the audience, which greeted his appearance l5 hearty applause, and then for two Hours he held the crowd by what is considered the greatest effort ever made from a platform in this city Much as has been said in Mr. Bryan's favor heretofore as an entransing orator it is conceded that since he wa. here before he has greatly improved bo.h in method and manner. TriE Journal, would not attempt to give even a synopsis of Mr. Hryan's speech, hut it is suflicient to say that t was in every way worthy of the cause and the man who made it, and resulted in making many converts to the free coinage and in strengthening be faith of others. There is no man living who can state a proposition 'ii ore clearly or can treat it more logi cally or dis passionately than he, and although he courted inquiries from his auditors, no one ventured on asking him a question. A certain prominent politician in town, is reported as saying that Mr. Bryan is "a demagogue, and who ever listens to him for five minutes is a blattant ass." It seems that there are a large number of blattant asses n town, then. The trouble with such people is that they connot answer him nnd dare not combat, him. It were far better if the whole country were made up of such demagogues as W. J. liryan. Some member of congress has evolved the fact that 6" pages of the Congressional Globe were taken up in the discussion of the bill which demon etized silver in 1873, and then he asks, with a flourish ot rhetoric, "How could it be that that measure was passed in the dark, and that nobody knew about itV" The writer of this paragraph has carefully scanned over every page of that record, and knows for himself that the demonetizing of the silver dollar was not discussed at all; that various details of the hill were dis cussed, as it was a act for the revision of the mint laws, but the only refer ence to the dollar in the debate was as to whether the eagle should be left on the trade dollar, for which the bill pro vided. There was no talk, even upon the subject of bimetallism or the single standard, and it is a mystery how the bill was changed so as to leave the sil ver dollor out. In bis talk on the measure John Sherman left the im pression that the dollar was provided for as of old, and nowhere specifically avowed that the bill made gold the only standard. In some form it was before congress snveral years, and in all that time the real evil in contemp lation was not discussed at all. John Sherman seemed nnxious for its pas sage and impatient of delay. When the last discussion took place on the measure, but he never disclosed the real reason for tljat anyiety, and after the bill passed the senate ft went to a conferepce committee where It was amended in many particulars, and when reported it was passed without a .nil ir.11 n. nnn A i oll o O I n a f oil Phlia Thug the most important atid disastrous act j of that or any session during the cen tury was passed withou' a single mem ber of either house calling attention to the fact that the bill as passed left out the coinage of the silver dollar, and made gold instead of silver the unit of value. Who shall say that this was done in innocence ? A Republican Aii Society." The Paplllion Times very aptly denominates the Euclid Martin coterie of bolters the "republican aid society,' and referring to the proposition made by the democratic committee to sub mit the money question to a primary election of all the democrats of the state, says: "The issue is plain. Xo man who claims title to the proud appellation of democrat can for a moment animate politically with Martin and his traitor ous band and still lay lawful c'aim to be designated as a democrat. There is but one democratic organization in this state. Martin and his gang of bolters have no more claim to title as democrats than has the devil to wear a christian's crown. They are r.ot even to be diguified by recognition as belligerents, for they are a pack of guerillas, too cowardly to fiiiht in open, hurling their shafts always from behind republican breastworks, always retreating when pursued by true demo crats into republican swamps and quagmires, the foul effluvia from which is poison to those of the household of faith, but meat and raiment to im postors of the Martin name and brand." Some days ago this office was the re cipient of a pamphlet from the secre tary of agriculture, being the copy of an address delivered by J. Sterling Morton to the New York "Board of trade and transportation" on Jan. IS, 1896, and directed to "Col. Free Silver Sherman,' in the characteristically bold hand of the secretary. We con fess not to have read it closely, and filed it away for a more leisure time. Tuesday's World -Herald, however.con-tain-d a letter from George A. Abbott of Tecumseh, which caused us to ex amine the book, and Mr. Abbott's criticism is true. In substance, he states that Mr. Morton misquotes sec. 2 of the Sherman purchase act of 1890, and deliberately states that that act gives to the noteholder, and not the secretary of the treasury, the option of demanding gold or silver for the re demption of the treasury notes issued under the act. This charge -is true, astonishing as it is. The law specifi cs ly gives this option to the secretary of the treasury. By leaving out a part of a sentence Mr. Morton attempts to deceive his rea lers into believing that this option rests with the note holder, just as Carlisle has been doing. The falsehood is palpable, and one can only wonder that a man of Mr. Morton's character and standing would find himself so hard pushed for facts to sustain his contention that he would resort to a forgery and falsehood like that to bolster it up. The Mortonian coat of arms should be changed and its motto, "plant trees" be supplanted by by one that would remind tke secre tary of the fate of Ananias and Sapphira. Mr. Morton is not in a posi tion to plead ignorance of the law, for he carefully quotes, in italics, the last clause of the section in question. Be sides, he is a lawyer, aud knows too well what plain English means. Mr. Morton owes the world a very humble apology. Everything New. Groceries, Canned Goods, ' Dried Fruit, Tofoacco and Oigars. A. P. THOMAS SON Have openen a splendid new stock of these goods in FITZGERALD BLOCK Which the public is invited to purchase. QUICK SALES, ... SMALL profits Will be their motto. It will also be their purpose to keep open a First-Glass Meat Market Where everything in that line will be kept in tirst-class order. Farmers are invited to call and trade. H. O. LIVINGSTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, y o T A TVT C V Plattsmouth, Nebraak vyf a ; V ''ill LL these Shoes are clean, fresh goods, just froni the wholesale house. They generally retail from $3.50 to $S-5. Q (( and ALL will go at the ridiculous price of VjJ L JJ This is no humbug-... We mean business, and all we ask is for you to call and in spect these goods, which arc 011 display. Why not avail yourself of this golden opportunity to get FIRST CLASS SHOES at SHODDY PRICES? Rob't Sherwood PL ATTS MOUTH, NEBRASK A The Plattsmouth Mills With the best Machinery made, manufacture THh BEST BRANDS OF WHEAT, GRAHAMA1T7B RYE, BUCKWHEAT H IUUU EVERY SACK Trade Especially Solicited Runs Night and Day to Supply Demand. C. HEISEL, Prop., Washington Avenue, Plattsmouth, Web. it Buv Your :OF: F. S. WHITE, Every purchase is a guarantee that best and most goods August Grdoer, Successor to jFred Gorder & Son : : : DEALER IN : : 0 .Is pleased No. 1 to call special attention to his line of. . Hand-Made Harness, Made of Old-Fashioned, Oak-Tanned Leather, which he is able to warrant as first-class in every particular. Also has a fine line of Covered CARRIAGES and BUGGIES. He has also added to his stock a first-class make of BICYCLES, with all the mod ern improvements. Harness Repairing at Lowest Prices Ko. 300 Maiiiot., Pluttsmoiuk, Neb ..SPECIAL SALE.. OF Ladies' Fine Shoes Comprising the best makes in ....the United States. ...... ,- 5 GUARANTEED. O O 5 S ! Groceries, Dry Goods, Notions I Goneral Mdse. o s o The Old Reliable Pioneer Merchant o ? o made at his store you obtained the for the least money. Dine