THE JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA.
OVER THE STATE.
A spirited religious revival is In
progress in Beatrice.
The water in the Blue rirer is higher
than for three years past.
Boyd county boasts a calf that
weighed 175 pounds at birth.
The Washington County gold find is
attracting a good deal of attention.
Personal taxes in Nance county are
to be collected by distress. Everything
goes.
akefield will have wide open
saloons this year. Last year it had the
"bole in the wall " system.
The populist state convention to
nominate state officers will be held in
Hastings some time in August.
Todias trustees have passed an ordi
nance that no barb wire fences shall
be harbored inside the village limits.
On account of illness ex-Senator In
palls of Kansas was compelled to can
eel bis engagement to lecture in Hast
ings.
a xew biography 01 the later years
ci Col W. i. Cody has been begun by
vol Prentiss Ingraham in the Duluth
Press.
Heavy rains in the vicinity or Far
cam did considerable damage. The B.
x m. railroad was badly washed in
several places.
An unknown man was found uncon
scious on the roadside near Barada,
and died before medical aid could be
summoned.
The Oxnard6 have contracted with
Hall county farmers for 600 acres more
of beets than were ever before planted
in that county.
At O'Neill the case of Dunham,
charged with cattle rustling, was given
to the jury last week. They returned
a verdict of guilty.
Bernar Kermax, one of the early
settlers in Holt county, is eighty-seven
years old and mentally and physically
as vigorous as anybody.
Rev. G. W. Damon of Battle Creek
has retired from the ministry for an
indefinite time and notifies the public
that he has become an auctioneer.
Hardy was visited by three young
tramps who had been offering for sale
various designs of jewelry. They were
placed in jail to await developments.
Len Kudi of Aurora was arrested by
United States authorities for opening
letters personally addressed to his part
ner's wife, and gave bail to appear for
trial.
At Nebraska City a runaway team
jumped onto a buggy in which sat Mrs.
Kjeldin. The vehicle was badly dam
aged and the occupant seriously in
jured. Miss Edith Steininger stood on a
high chair to. remove some loose paper
from the ceiling. When she came down,
it was with sufficient force to fracture
her arm.
N. F. Peterson, a well-to-do Dane,
living five miles southeast of Minden,
cut his throat with a razor while in
sane. It is not certain whether medi
cal aid can save him or not.
A fish story comes from Milford to
the effect tha't Mrs Norton of the
Resort hotel went down to the river
edge to look at the flood and scooped
in a seven-pound pike with her sun
bonnet.
Wm. M. Geddes of Hall county will
be a candidate in the republican state
convention for . the nomination for
state auditor. Friends are strongly
urging bis claims and are hopeful of
success.
Little Goldie Stoltz of Beaver City
was burned to death last week. She
was in the field with her father, who
was burning stalks, when her clothing
caught fire and she was fatally burned
before her father could extinguish the
flames.
The city council of Lincoln has
adopted a resolution instructing the
city attorney to begin suit upon the offi
cial bond of Elmer Stephenson, who,
as city treasurer in 1893, lost $20,000
in the Capital National bank.
Washington dispatch: Judge Strode's
bill for the pensioning of General Thay
er was today feigned by the- president.
The delay of several days which occur
red between the receipt of the bill at
the White house and the signature gave
rise to unnecessary fears as to the safe
ty of the bill, but the signature settled
the matter permanently and satisfacto
rily. Burglars robbed the Postoffice at
Howe last week. They secured a claw
bar by breaking into the Missouri
Pacific tool, house, and a drill, sledge
and other tools from a blacksmith shop
near by. They opened the safe, get
ting about S0 worth of stamps. It is
supposed the parties who broke -into
the depot a few days previous were
the robbers.
County Judge Garlow of Grand
Island in writing to the various county
judges in the state asking tbem to
meet at Lincoln the latter part of next
month in order to confer with each
other about some necessary changes in
the laws more particularly . affecting
that office. Mr. Garlow expects to
have quite an' assemblage present at
that time. The meeting will be held
the latter part of May.
Don't loaf around the corner grocery
arguing with your neighbors abont ti:c
best tool to use in surface, cultivation,
but buy a n ew Pivotal Frame Captain
Kidd Disc Cultivator, which will render
it easy to dodge the crookedest corn
and unnecessary to dodge the Sheriff
next Fall. If you use the Captain Kidd,
you will have money to pay your bills,
and won't have to dodre. Write us for
descriptive circulars and 4 'What Others
Say." Nebraska Molink Plow Co.,
Omaha, Neb
Postmaster D. F. Davis and wife of.
Columbus were notified by .wire to
come to Chattanooga at onceas their
little daughter, stopping with her
grandparents, was at the poiut of
death. She has been troubled for
some months with valvular heart dis
ease. S. Fraitch, the merchant tailor of
Beatrice who went to Atchison, in
6earch of goods stolen from his store,
telegraphed that he had found the
goods and that the burglar, W. IL
Browning, was under arrest. Requisi
tion papers will be produced and
Browning brought to Nebraska for
trial.
Burglars forced an entrance to
Bareehouse Bros, general merchandise
store at Adams about 1 o'clock in the
morning and secured $10 in cash and
a few articles of clothing. After
drilling the safe they were frightened
away before they had time to blow it j ill
High school building at Cedar Bluffs,
setting it on fire, and but for the
prompt action of the fire department
the building would have been burned
to the ground. The loss is estimated
at 8100, fully covered by insurance.
Lightning also struck the fine new
residence of George Young, damaging
it about S150 worth.
Jonas Reynolds, who was arrested
for having assisted Kingen and Winne
gar to break jail at York and make
their escape, was tried before Judge
Wildman, who ordered Reynolds to be
held as charged for trial in the district
court under a bond of $200. in default
of which he was again put in jail. Rey
nolds admits having hauled the prison
er away, but denies having rendered
any other assistance.
In the district court the city of Lin
coln began suit the other day to fore
close its lien on the Lincoln street rail
way, including equipments, tracks,
franchises, etc. The suit grows out of
the non-payment of taxes. A number
of years ago when the city attempted
to force collection the company enjoin
ed it, and for some technical reason
injunction was allowed, and the case is
now pending in the supreme court.
A Hot Springs (Ark.) dispatch says:
The twenty round go this afternoon
between Danny Dalv of Bangor, Me,,
and George Stout of Omaha was one of
the best events ever seen here and at
tracted a crowd of three thousand spec
tators. The men fought twenty rounds,
all of which were lively throughout
In the last round Stout dislocated
Daly's arm with an uppercut and the
decision was given to the Omaha man.
The safe in the postoffice at Waco
was blown open and robbed of 51- in
silver and about SI 00 in stamps. The
building was generally ransacked for
plunder, but nothing else of anv par
ticular value was taken. The tools
used for drilling a hole in the safe were
taken from a neighboring blacksmith
shop. The explosion blew the safe
door completely off its hinges, and
strange to say the noise was not heard
by any one.
I. J. r a ling, ex-treasurer of Lxeter
township, Fillmore county, it is alleg
ed, is short in his accounts about $225.
There has been some prospect that the
township board would prosecute him
for embezzlement, but it is now likely
that his brother will furnish him
money enough to make up the short
age and that the matter will be settled
in that way. In any event the town
ship is not likely to lose anything, as
his bondsmen are perfectly good for
the amount.
Speaking of the Nebraska Club the
Kimball Observer says: "We feel the
necessity of such an organization.
There must be something done to
counteract the efforts that are being
made to entice our people to leave Ne
braska. Sharp business land specula
tors have taken advantage of the dis
couragements of a great many people,
on account of the short crops two years
ago and low prices of farm products
this year and are holding out every in
ducement for tbem to go south."
There was a meeting of the execu
tive committee of the Nebraska club
held at Lincoln, at which E. A. Barnes
of Grand Island presided. A commu
nication was read from Omaha in which
the progress of the work of raising the
55,000 pledged for that city was de
tailed. It was decided that the secre
tary should write to corporations out
side of the state which do business here
and present the objects of the club,
with the view of getting their sub
scriptions to the membership fund.
Interest in the matter of the as
sault on the Dawson family by the Vic
McCarty gang in Sarpy county in July,
1894, has been considerably revived at
Alliance recently. Hon. IL C. Nole
man, attorney for the Dawsons, is in
receipt from the British embassy dated
April 2. 189. in which the ambassador.
Sir Sulian Pauncefote, states that the
case has been referred to the commit
tee on foreign affairs of the house of
representatives with a favorable re
commendation from the state depart
ment, lhe case is brought for the
sum of 540,000.
Growing out of the experience had
at North Loup last year in the way of
planting crops exclusively for seed
purposes, W. A. Prentice and a number
of others will enter on the same line of
farming this season, the gentleman
named having contracted with a Lin
coin seed firm to put in a quantity of
peas, beans and -table corn of choice
varieties, the firm agreeing to take the
product in the fall at a stipulated
price. With irrigation within reach it
is thought great success will attend
the enterprise.
' llf -V W m
j am t;s v. ii and, wno has lor years
been a resident of Nebraska City,
enaea nis me Dy taKing "itougn on
Rats." He bought two boxes of the
poison and took the same. Every
effort was made to save his life, but
without avail. He has held several
positions, but owing to the poor condi
tion of his health was not able to keep
them, and becoming discouraged, took
this method of putting an end to his
life. . He was in fair circumstances and
.A 1 . 1 1 1 M V
me act seemea uncalled lor. lie had a
life insurance of 52,000.
Dr. W. H. Gibbs of Nebraska City
was in Fremont last week for a few
days, under instructions from Secreta
ry Morton, to look up and verify or
discredit a complaint which had been
filed in headquarters to the effect that
scabby sheep had been shipped from
that vicinity to Chicago. Most of the
sheep have been shipped, but at the
ranch of Mahoney & Sullivan he found
about 400 head which he reports to be
in a reasonably fair condition, and ex
pressed himself as well pleased with
the manner in which the gentlemen
have cared for their stock.
The Prague Farmers' elevator was
burned to the ground. The cause of
the fire is not known. The elevator
was insured for 51,300. This makes
the second time inside of eight months
that the elevator has been on fire and
as there was nobody running the ele
vator since it was built, it makes the
affair somewhat of a mystery.
Charles Tiepel, ' a German aged
about 50 years, made a probably suc
cessful attempt to commit suicide at
Pluttsmouth by shooting himself
through the windpipe. The weapon
used was a 32-calibre revolver, lie had
been unable to secure employment and
became despondent in consequence.
ALTGELD TO CARLISLE.
A COMMERCE CONVENTION
OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRE
TARY OF THE TREASURY.
IS SHARPLY CRITICISED.
The Illinois Governor Replies to th
Address of Mr. Carlisle Recently
Delivered In Chicago on the
Monetary Question Makes
Charge In Regard to the
Bond Syndicate.
Tariff and Consular Questions to lie Con
slderod at Detroit, Iteginnlng June 2.
bTV .
uktkoit, iuicn., April 27. A circu
lar letter of invitation to the nationa
commercial tariff convention, to be
held here beginning June 2, 189G, ad
dressed to all citizens interested in the
subjects to be discussed, has been
issued over the signature of S. B.
Arcner, secretary, chamber of com
merce, this city.
The objects of the convention are
stated to be the discussion of means to
take the tariff question out of poll
lies, io improve tne consular service,
especially in Central and South Amer
ica, to consider the advisability of
recommending to Congress the crea
tion of a department of commerce,
manufactures and labor, and of form
ing a permanent organization. It is
stated that the convention will be
non-political and non-sectional.
oPRINOFIK.ld, ill., April 27. in an
open letter made public to-day Gov
ernor Altgeld replies to the address on
the money question which Secretary
Carlisle recently delivered in the Au
ditorium in Chicago. The letter is as
follows: "A teacher should be will
ing to answer questions. At the close
of Mr. Carlisle's speech a number of
gentlemen arose and asked for further
information, but he turned his back,
and slipped off the stage and by direc
tion of his managers the questioners
were hustled out by policemen."
Mr. Altgeld quotes at length the
oft-quoted speech made by Mr. Car
lisle in 1873, in which he declared that
the demonetization of silver would
ultimately entail more misery than
wars, pestilences and famines or the
destruction of half the movable prop
erty of the worla, and declares that
he can not understand how Mr. Car
lisle changed his views when he be
came a member of President Cleve
land's cabinet. He also refers to the
change of views of Secretaries Hoke
Smith and Herbert, who had long
denounced silver demonetization
and declares that, unlike Saul of
Tarsus, they have been ashamed to
discuss their conversions. He asks
whether they were "scoundrels and
lunatics ' until they got to be old men
and the tinsel of cabinet positions not
only made them honest, but gave thera
brains. He asks Mr. Carlisle to ex
plain why for 200 years, despite vari
ations in annual production, gold and
silver held the market ratio of to
1. Explanation is asked of the state
ments of Baron Rothschild and other
eminent financiers in 1S69 that the
sum of the two metals taken together
formed the measure of values, and why
wherever siiver was stricken down ft
was by the arbitrary act of govern
ment and not by commerce or busi
ness.
Mr. Altgeld asks Mr. Carlisle if,
wnen tne volume 01 money was re
duced and property values fell corres
ponaingiy, dui ueots, taxes and in
terest were not, a great crime was
not committed against the debtor and
producing classes and how either
debtor or laborer can spend as much
money as before, thus injuring the
great home market. He holds that as
rises in prices are dependent in in
creases in volume of money, stagna
tion must continue until the volume
of money is again restored. He quotes
lrom tne bank reports and the treas
ury statements that there was only
5-7,000,000 in gold in sight July 11.
1875, as a contradiction of Mr. Carlisle's
statement that there were SWO.OOO.OOo
of gold in America, and asks
why Mr. Carlisle makes such mislead
ing statements. In closing he says
"A year ago Mr. Cleveland sent for
his former law partner and close
friend, and through him Cleveland
and Carlisle together made a secret
contract with another friend, who was
a former client ot Cleveland's, by
which that friend and his associate
speculators were enabled to make
$9,000,000 or 810,000,000 out of the gov
eminent in a few weeks on a small
bond transaction. And the reason
given for this extraordinary and even
criminal procedure was that the spec
ulators and sharks of Wall street had
agreed to Drotect the government
against the gold reserve until the
following November. Following that,
the wealthiest, the most enterprising.
most poweriui. most .industrious and
thrift nation on the globe paid
tribute to a small .band of
speculators for protection. And
wnen the month of November arrived
these speculators withdrew their pro
tection and then the government pro
ceeded to issue another 8100,000.000 of
bonds, increasing the burdens of our
people. Now, Mr. Carlisle might have
expatiated on this, and pointed out to
the American people the lofty charac
ter of the statesmen involved in these
PERISHED IN FLAMES.
Death Chosen by Insurgents In Prefer
ence to Capture by Spanish Soldiers.
Havana, April Wi. Official advices
received here state that Colonel Aldea
while in pursuit of parties of insur
gents, encountered several bands of
them on the Carmen estate, near
Sabanilla. in the province of Ma
tanzas. The insurgents were fleeing'
irom an attack which had been made
upon them by the Key column. The
troops charged upon the Cubans from
all sides, forcing thera into the cane
fields, which were burning fiercely.
and many of them perished in the
flames which they themselves had
started. The troops continued pur
suit of the fleeing insurgents, killing
many of them.
Cardinal Itampoila'a Letter.
Chicago, 111., April 27. The long
looked for letter of the Papal secre
tary of state has been received by the
committee on religious liberty for
Protestants in South America, and it
will be read at the Chicago Methodist
ministers' meeting next Monday morn
ing. The letter gives the result of
the investigations of Cardinal Ram-
polla, the papal secretary of
6tate, concerning the marriage
laws of Peru, Ecuador and
Bolivia, and also the religious liberty
that is accorded to the people in those
countries. t urtherniore, the letter
announces what the Holy See proposes
to do in the matter, Rev. John Lee,
chairman of the committee, declines
to state in advance anything further
concerning the details of Cardinal
uampolla s communication.
A Fire at Leavenworth.
Leavrnwoktii, Kan., April kl. Carl
Hoffman's Chickering hall and his
wholesale and retail music house, the
largest in Kansas, were damaged by
fire early this morning. The building
was valued at about $25,000 and the
stock and fixtures at 820,000. The
loss on the stock and fixtures is $12,
000 and on the building S3,000. The
building is insured for SI 3,000 and the
stock and fixtures for 810,000. Many
pianos and other musical instruments
were either ' consumed or ruined by
heat, smoke and water. The fire
started in the shipping room in
basement, and was not controlled
hree hours.
FA VHP PI?! ftTTiVRTC I M -nil aHTerat the Pre,
ent legal ratio of 16 to l, as bucu w.
THE VHITE METAL. WSN'O OF
NEBRASKA DEMOCRACY.
Proceedings of the State Convention in
Lincoln Choice of Delegates to the
Chicago Convention Faith In Free
Coinage Fledged Anew In the Platform
of Principles The Trans-Mlsslsslppi
International Exposition.
Nebraska Democratic Convention.
DELEGATES-AT- LARGE.
W.J. BRYAN L!nCK2
O J SMYTH ...... ..-'i:naD
W. II. THOMPSON. 7.7.7.7."..... Grand Island
W. 1). O. D1IAM Kearney
DISTRICT DELEGATES.
First District
F. J. MORGAN riattsmouth
C. 8. JONES Lincoln
Second District .
JOHN A. CUKIGHT-'N Omaha
C. II. BROWN Omaha
Third District
C. IIOLLENBECK rremont
G. A. LUIRART Iscrfolk
Fourth District
C. J. BOWLBY Crete
K. O. BRIGGS Seward
Fifth District n
V. A. THOMl'SEN Clay Center
P. WALSH.. McCook
Sixth Dlstri t .
J.MESO. DA II LM AN Chadron
DR. J. O. BLACKBURN Atkinson
the
for
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No Treaty With the Osages.
Independence, Kan., April 27.
D. Gorman, nephew of Senator Gor
man of Maryland, whoT with W. M.
Traskett of Arkansas and Judge Rook
of Georgia, was appointed by the gov
ernment as a special commission to
treat with the Osage Indians for the
purchase of thflr lands and allot
ments, passed through last night on
his way back to Washington. The
commission did not accomplish any
thing and the limit of their appoint
nent has expired.
Ante-Naptlal Announcement.
Bloomington, I1L, April 27. Infor
mation received from the family of
Vice President Stevenson at Washing
ton is to the effect that Miss Julia
Stevenson, elder daughter of the Vice
President, and Rev. Martin D. Hardin
of Danville. Ky., will be married at
the Aew York Avenue Presbvterian
Church in Washington on Mav 28.
The invitations are not vet issued.
The bridegroom is a son of Hon. II.
Wat Hardin, the distinguished Ken
Yucky Democratic politician.
Sam Cook's Silver Views.
Mexico, Mo., April 27. S. B. Cook
of the Democratic State central corn-
transactions, for, strange to say.many mittee says a small percentage of the
of our intelligent people are utterlV sound money Democrats will vote the
unable to comprehend it. While Mr.
uariisie does not seem to nave been a
success in the capacity of a bunco
steerer amoDg the laboring men of
Chicago, there are many points upon
which he could be very interesting.
and I would suggest that they bring
him back and let him talk about mat
ters in which he is at home."
A Divorce In the Army.
Leavenworth, Kan., April 27.
Mrs. Virginia Brady was granted a
decree of divorce from Lieutenant
Jasper Pi Brady by Judge Myers of
the District court yesterday afternoon.
The ground was gross neglect of duty,
and there was no contest. Mrs.
Brady was given the custody of their
2-year-old child, ine suit was en
tered late Hiursday night and an
effort was made to keep the matter
out of the papers. They are both
well-known in society and army
circles.
Senator Stewart's Daughter to Wed.
Washington, April 27 Senator and
Mrs. Stewart announce the engage
ment of their daughter, May Belle, to
Mr. Payson. The wedding will take
nlace at the Stewart Castle, May 16.
The young couple will reside in Balti
more, where Mr. Payson is at present
engaged in business.
Many Mexican Miners Burled.
El Paso, Tex., April '27. The Santa
Eulalia mines of Chihuahua caved in
yesterday. Seven miners have been
taken out dead and thirteen wounded.
Forty-four others are still in the
mines.
Republican ticket, bnt the loss to the
party from this source will not exceed
10,000 votes. He thinks on the other
hand the clean cut, unequivocal plat
form adopted at Sedalia will not onlv
bring out thousands of Democrats
who were disgusted in 1894, but it will
bring to the Democracy two votes for
every gold standard Democrat who
toins the Kephblicans.
Yanderbllt linys the Defender.
New Yohk. April 27. Mr. William
K. Vanderbilt. the head of the syndi
cate that built, equipped and raced
the Defender, has become the sole
owner of that yacht. Mr. Vanderbilt
has bought out the interests of the
others, as it was agreed in the plans
that he had the right to do any time
after the America's cup matter had
been decided. What Mr. Vanderbilt
will do with the famous craft is mere
ly a matter cf conjecture.
An Indian Oratorical Contest.
Lawrence, Kan., April 27. The In
dian pupils at Haskell institute held
an oratorical contest last night, the
first of the kind, so far as is known.
ever held in the United States. There
were ten orators and the programme
was interspersed with music
Howard and Cable Are Convicted.
Topeka, Kan., April 27. Frank
Howard and Frank Cable were found
guilty in the Federal court of robbing
the postoffice at Ulysses, Grant county,
and Judge Foster sentenced them to
the. penitentiary Howard for three
years and Cable for five.
Lincoln, April 23. The free silver
democratic state convention was not
called to order until nearly 3 o clock.
The delay was caused by the Fourth
congressional district, whose delegates
occupied the hall until a late hour,
electing their district delegates to Chi
cago.
Chairman G J. Sraythe rapped the
delegates to order and Secretary Lee
Herdman read the call.
A committee on credentials was dis
pensed with and credentials were hand
ed in to the secretaries and accepted.
The chair appointed the following
committee on resolutions: W. J. Bryan,
Lincoln; W. II. Thompson, Grand Is
land; J. O'Connor, Omaha; James Sul
lixan, Columbus; Matt Gering Platts
mouth; Ed Fallon. Falls City, and H.
C Kitten house, McCook.
RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATIir.
The following resolutions were mov
ed by C J. Smyth, and unanimously
adopted by a rising vote:
Whereas, Hon. hd 1. Smith has been
one of the ablest and most loyal cham
pions of true democracy in the state of
Nebraska;
Whereas, The hand of a terrible dis
ease presses heavily upon him, and he
has been, and is, suffering excruciating
pain; therefore, be it
Resolved, lliat the democratic state
convention, recognizing his valuable
services to the cause of democracy, and
deeply regretting that he is beset by
an awful affliction, sends to Hon. Ed
Smith words of cheer in his manful
battle for life, and tender to his wife
and children the assurance of its pro
found sympathy;
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION.
Resolutions endorsing the Trans-Mis
sissippi and International Exposition
were adopted as follows:
Whereas, Delegates representing the
twenty-four states and territories west
of the Mississippi river, at the Trans-
Mississippi congress of 1895, adopted
resolutions providing for the holding of
an exposition for the purpose of exhib
iting the products, manufactures, arts,
industries and capabilities of thete
states, and territories, and
Whereas, The said congress voted
unanimously that said exposition should
be held at the city of Omaha, Nebras
ka, in the year 1S9S; and
Whereas, The common interests of
the states and territories constituting
this great region will be greatly pro
moted and benefitted thereby, and the
great state of Nebraska will be espec
ially benefitted by such an exposition
within her borders, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the 800 citizens of the
state of Nebraska assembled together
as delegates to the Nebraska democrat
ic state convention, held at the Funke
opera house at Lincoln, Nebraska, on
April 22, A. D. 189G. that the holding of
6aid Trans-Mississippi Exposition is
hereby heartily approved, and that our
senators and representatives in con
gress are requested to co-operate with
the senators and representatives of the
other trans-Mississippi states and thor
oughly and actively endeavor to pro
cure at this session of congress the pas
sage of a bill giving national recogni
tion to said exposition and providing
for an appropriation for a national ex
hibit and the necessary and proper ,
buildings to contain the same; and be
it further
Resolved, That a copy of the forego
ing resolutions be certified by the sec
retary of the convention and sent to
the senators and representatives in
congress from Nebraska.
Mr. Bryan, of the committee on reso
lutions, presented the following report:
We, the democrats of the state of Ne
braska, in convention assembled, renew
our allegiance to the principles taught
by Thomas Jefferson and courageously
defended by Andrew. Jackson, and de
mand that the great problems now be
fore the people shall be solved by the
application of these principles to pres
ent conditions.
We congratulate the democrats of
Massachusetts upon the candor and
frankness which characterized their
platform utterances of yesterday. We
rejoice that they no longer quibble
about the ratio and holding out the de
lusive hope of international co-opera
tion, have at last consented to submit
to the people the question, whether the
United States shall have monometal-
ism or bimetalism whether the Amer
ican people shall deliberately adopt the
English system of finance or restore the
gold and silver coinage of the constitu
tion. The Massachusetts demand for
a single gold standard and for the re
demption of all government obligations
in irold alone presents tne paramount
issue of the campaign, and we welcome
the contest.
We endorse the language used by
Hon. John G. Carlisle in 1878, when he 1
denounced the "conspiracy' to destroy J
silver s a standard money as "the
most gigantic crime of this or any
age, and we agree witn mm in the
declaration then made that "the con
sumation of such a scheme would ulti
mately entail more misery upon the
cuman race than all the wars, pestl-
ences and famines that have ever oc
curred in the history of the world."
We are not willing to be parties to
such a crime, and in order to undo the
wrong already done and to prevent a
further rise in the purchasing power of
the dollar, we favor the immediate re-
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ing for the aid or consent of any other
nation, such gold and silver to be a full
legal tender for all debts, public and
PWeMe opposed to the retirement of
the greenback and demand that tb
secretary of the treasury, instead of is
suing interest-bearing bonds for tne
purchase of gold, shall recognize silver
as money of redemption and exercise
the right to redeem greenbacks, treas
ury notes and all other coin obligations
in silver when silver is more conven
ient. Believing that general laws should
not be set aside by private contract, we
favor such congressional legislation as
will, without interfering with valid
contracts already in existence, prohibit
for the future t-he making of agree
ments for the payment of any specific
kind of legal tender mone'.
We are in favor of a constitutional
amendment authorizing the collection
of an income tax as a part of the feder
al revenue system.
We are in favor of the election of
United States Senators by the direct
vote of the people.
We are in favor of a liberal pension
policy.
We are in favor of the initiative and
referendum system as an aid to secur
ing a government of the people, for
the people and by the people.
The democratic party has ever been
the party of religious liberty in this
country. It has always been and is
now opposed to the union of church,
and state in any form or under any
pretext whatever; it is opposed to the
imposition of any religious test for
office; it is opposed to all secret polit
ical organizations of every kind or
character, or any open political organ
ization based upon religious prejudices
as contrary to the spirit and genius of
our institutions and thoroughly un
american. It stands by our public
school system as a means of popular
education and is opposed to any diver
sion of public school funds to any sec
tarian purpose, but it recognizes the
right of parental control and the rights
of conscience in the education of child
ren as in accord with the fundamental
doctrines of the democratic party, that
the largest liberty consistent with the
rights of others insures the best gov
ernment. On motion of G J. Bowlby the chair
man declared that nominations for del-
egates-at-large were in order. Selec
tions were then made in accordance
with the result given at the commence
ment of this article, W. J. Bryan and
some others being selected by accla
mation. A resolution was introduced by J. C,
Dahlman declaring that "the democra
cy of Nebraska presents the democracy
of the nation the name of W. J. Bryan
and recommends his nomination as can
didate for president, and that the Ne
braska delegates be instructed to for
ward his candidacy." The reading of
the resolution was received with great
enthusiasm, but Mr. Bryan asked that
the resolution be withdrawn, and this
was done by the mover.
The convention then adjourned, and
moved away in a body to the Burling
ton depot to meet Governor Stone of
Missouri, who spoke at night in the
Funke opera house. The speaker vig
orously denounced the administration
of Grover Cleveland at short intervals
during his entire speech.
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.
It costs four times as much to gov
ern American cities as is spent for the
same purpose in English cities.
A new steamboat, just launched for
the Hudson river service, will cost
11,000,000 and be provided with engines
of 8,000 horse power.
There are nearly 16,000,000 chtldrea
In school in the United States, nearly
14;000,000 in public schools, and nearly
400,000 teachers.
During the 900 years that the Pekin
Gazette has been in existence 1,800 of
Its editors have had their heads taken
off for having exceeded instructions.
The children of the poor in Japan arc
nearly always labeled in case they
should stray from their homes whilst
their mothers are engaged in domestic
duties.
The longest paved street in the world
Is Washington street, Boston, which is
seventeen and a half miles long; the
shortest is the Rue Ble, Paris, which is
barely twenty feet long.
In England and Scotland milkmaids
believe that If they forget to wash their
hands after milking their cows will go
dry. This superstition is diligently
fostered by the owners of the cows.
In Nebraska farms average 190 acres.
In Massachusetts 86. But In proverbi
ally thrifty Holland the average is
thirty acres. Seventeen-twentieths of
all the farms In Hojrid.are less than
50 acres in extent.
Japan claims the oldest wooden build
ing in the world. It is a log storehouse
in Yara, which is now used to shelter
some of the Mikado's art treasures. An
age of 1,200 years is claimed for it.
Some of the logs are nearly worn away
by the weather.
To send a telegram' to London from
New York and get an answer takes two
hours. The message goes through
Causo, Nova Scotia, and Tenzance.
When special arrangements have been
made to clear the wires, fifteen seconds'
will suffice for a message one way.
RAM'S HORNS.
Any kind of an unrepentant sinner is
a lost one.
Bible promises were made for Bible
loving people.
Only those who love souls can learn
how to win them.
A negative sinner Is as sure to be lost
as a positive one.
ine slave is no less a slave whose
chain is made of gold.
In a cold prayer meeting the ba
seats are the warmest. J9
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There is no greater commajv"
than "love one another."
The grateful heart has muslef
angels cannot sing.
Whoever belleveth God
God's reward for doing It.
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