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THURSDAY, APRIL SO, 1896.
State Democratic Platform.
We, the democrats of the state of Nebraska, in
convention assembled, renew our allegiance to
the principles taught by Thomas Jefferson and
courageously defended by Andrew Jackson, and
demand that the great problems now before the
people shall be solved by the application of
these principles to present conditions.
We congratulate the democrats of Massachu
setts upon the candor and frankness which char
acterized their platform urterances of yesterday.
We rejoice that they, no longer quibbling about
the ratio or holding out the delusive hope of In
ternational co-operation, have at last consented
to submit to the people the question, whether
the United States shall have monometalUm or
bimetal ism whether the American people Bhall
deliberately adopt the English system of finance
or restore the gold and silver coinage of the con
stitution. The Massachusetts demand for a
single gold standard and for the redemption of
all government obligations In gold alone pre
sents the paramount issue of the campaign, and
we welcome the contest.
We endorse the language nsed by Hon. John
C. Carlisle in l37S,when he denounced the "con
spiracy" to destroy 6ilver as a standard money
as "the most gigantic crime of this or any other
age." and we agree with him in the declaration
then made that "the consummation of such a
scheme would ultimately entail more misery up
on the human race than all the wars, pestilences
and famines that have ever occurred In the
history of the world." We are not willing to te
parties to a 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 restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the pres
ent les?al ratio of 13 to 1. as such coinage existed
prior to 137-T. without waiting for the aid or con
sent of any other nation, such gold and silverto
be a full legal tender for all debts, public and
private.
We are opposed to the retire raent of the green
back and demand that the secretary of the treas
ury, Instead of issuing interest-bearing bonds
for the purchase of gold, shall recognize silver
as money of redemption and exercise the right
to redeem greenbacks, treasury notes and all
other coin obligations la silver when 6iiver is
more convenient.
Believing that general laws should not be set
a.-Ide by private contract, we favorsuch congres
sional legislation as will, without Interfering
with valid contracts already in existence, pro
hibit for the future the making of agree
ments for the payment of any specific kind of
legal tender money.
We are in favor of a tariff forrevenue only.
We are in favor of a constitutional amend
ment autnorizing the collection of an income
tax as a part of the federal revenue system.
We are In favorof theelection 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 referen
dum system as an aid to securing a government
of the people, for the people and by the people.
The democratic party has ever been the party
of religious liberty In the country. It has al
ways been and is now opposed to the union of
church and state in any form or under any pre
text whatever; it is opposed to the imposition
of any religious test for office; it is opposed to
all secret political organizations of every kind
or character, or any open political organization
based upon religious prejudices, as contrary to
the spirit and genius of our institutions and thor
oughly un-American. It stands by our public
school system as a means of popular education
and is opposed to any diversion of public school
tunas to any sectarian purpose out it recognizes
the right of parental control and the rights of
conscience In the education of children as in
accord with the fundamental doctrines of the
democratic party, that the largest liberty con
slstent with the rights of others Insures the best
government.
Ed. Cam re ell and others of Grov
er's officials in Iowa are said to be put
ting in their best licks to keep that
state in line for the goldbugs, but they
will evidently have an up-hill task of it.
The democratic bolters in Cass
county are such a small force as to ex
cite only ridicule. A "mass'" conven
tion of less than fifteen acquiescent
participants out of 1,900 democrats in
the county gives one a pain to think
about.
The World-Herald has done a good
thing by exposing the unfairness of
State Auditor Moore in becoming the
creature of the alien insurance com
panies in their warfare against the
home mutuals. Mr. Moore must fish
or cut bait. He caunot assume that
he Is higher than the law.
One of the good results of the Har
vey lecture at Omaha last Friday was
an arrangement for a joint debate on
the money question between Mr. Rose
water of the Ree and Mr. Bryan of the
World-Herald to come off sometime
soon. Rosewater has plenty of pluck
but very poor judgment.
The gold standard democrats are
now making a move to have the na
tional democratic convention post
poned till August in hope of defeat
ing free coinage. It is a vain effort.
Though it may be successful in putting
off the convention its defeat in that
body will only be the more emphatic.
The mayor in his appointment of
chief of police probably forgot one of
the first tenets of Jeffersonian de
mocracy. Jefferson laid down three
questions us paramount in the appoint
ment of any man to public station, to
wit: Is he honest ? Is he competent ?
Is he faithful to the constitution ? The
second of these questions would rule
out his appointment of chief of police,
for every one knows that Mr. Fitz
patrick is not competent to fill a place
of that kind which requires a good
deal of writing, and he cannot write.
There can be no excuse, therefore, for
making such an appointment. It is
radically undemocratic.
DEPRESSION IN FARM LANDS.
"More than one-half the farms of
Cass county will change hands through
the courts, before long," said an ex
tensive farmer to. the writer a few days
since. Asked why he thought so, he
said "because they are mortgaged for
more than they are worth, and the
notes cannot be renewed. I tell you,"
he went on to ohserve, "the farm land
in this county has got to come down
twenty to thirty dollars an acre, the
way things are running now. All
around me are farms the crops from
which at the low prices of these times
cannot pay the interest on the loans
made against them, and, if they are
sold a deficiency judgment will occur
besides. Only the other day the
Ueebner farms near Nehawka were
sold, and on easy terms they brought
only $20 to $22 an acre. A few years
ago those lands would have brought
$15 under the hammer. That shows
pretty well what the trend of prices
are. If this continues more than half
the present owners of farms iu Cass
county will soon be homeless. You
ask me the cause ot all this? I am
not deeply versed in financial matters,
but I think it is the lack of money in
the country, or in the world. The low
prices of farm products have their
parallel iu the low prices of everything
else except money, and money is al
most as high as it ever was, and is a
good deal harder to get. People may
think I'm a crank, but I think if the
silver that lies in the mountains west
of u3 could be coined into money it
would afford relief, and it's.about the
only thing that will do it, to my mind."
Such, in substance, were the words
and ideas of one of Cass county's suc
cessful fanners George W. Harsh
man, whom most of the people of the
county know. He is fortunately well
enough situated to be independent,and
and he is not a soured dyspeptic or a
crank. He is a plain farmer, who has
been about the world a good deal in
his time, and has the kind of judgment
that comes from experience and hard
knocks against the corners of the
world about him. His judgment is, at
least, as good as that of the average
man of affairs, and with his fellow far
mers it ought to be worth something.
One thing we know, however much
we may differ as to the cause and the
remedy: The only plans of relief of
fered are; (by the republicans) first, a
higher system of tariff taxes; second,
(by the eoldbug bankers and tbeir
satellites) stop agitation of the silver
question.
As to the first, the remedy smacks
too much of desire for partisan suc
cess to be seriously considered. The
effortjto enrich a people by taxing them,
has long since been found to result only
in the enrichment of the manufacturer
in whose interest the tax is levied.
As to second, it is plainly delusive.
In 1893, when it was proposed to stop
coining silver by repealing the Sher
man law, the promise and prophesy
was made that the passage of that
measure was all that was necessary to
bring prosperity at once; but it didn
come. Xotonly that, but times have
been growing tighter all the time
"Stop agitation" has been the shib
boleth of tyrants and wrong-doers in
every age. It is a mere pretext and
sham. Agitation is the only peaceable
means of righting wrongs and reform
ing abuses in this country, and the cry
against it simply indicates a weak and
defenseless cause.
More than five hundred republicans
of Omaha have organized and joined a
free coinage league, and the number is
growing daily. In response to an in
vitation from this body, W. II. Harvey,
the author of Coin's Financial School,
delivered an address last evening at
the Creighton theater, on bimetallism.
The lecture was free, and an Immense
crowd was out to hear the distinguished
advocate of two-metallism. It was a
great occasion and a speech to more
than match the occasion. Mr. Harvey
has a very happy faculty of presenting
and analyzing a subject, and before he
had spoken half an hour his audience
was in complete sympathy with his
every utterance. Although he read
most of his lecture, that seemed to
make no difference with the crowd. It
simply went wild over his masterly
handling of his subject. The republi
can silver advocates of Omaha are to
be congratulated on their good fortune
in obtaining such a rare treat for the
people and for the means of education
it afforded. Mr. Harvey is a modest
appearing man of a retiring nature ;
one who does not seek public notoriety
for his own gratification, and there is
only a bright twinkle of lha eye, a
quick, nervous movement of the body,
a notably erect and manly bearing to!
indicate the possession of more than
an ordinary mind : yet he is a tower of
strength to the cause of eilver; a very
lion in the path of the money power.
Toe gold standard democrats in
Kentucky think to carry that state by
the "mass" convention plan. They
should import a few men like (Guild,
and then they might win.
Notea of the State Cnnventlon.
Delegate Grimes objects to too much
enthusiasm.
Doc. Deanng as a manager is out of
sight. He knows several things be
sides understanding how to act as sec
retary. The speech of Oldham, was what
made him delegate at large. He would
easily have been beaten but for his
many happy hits at the goldbugs.
Judge Robinson of Madison is one
of the best appearing men in Nebraska.
Tall, lythe, erect, graceful, with an
open, benignaut yet dignified face, he
would command attention iu any
gathering.
Matthew Gering made the speech of
the congressional convention, in which
he showed that the present one was
the legal and only convention of the
democrats of Nebraska, and declared
himself for free coinage at 1G to 1.
Cass county was not only honored by
the election of a delegate to the
national convention, and an assistant
secretary, but in the selection of one of
its delegates Matthew Gering--a3 a
member of the committee cn resolu
tions. And the character of the plat
form reported indicated that the place
was no sinecure.
Gov. Stone, of Missouri, who spoke
in the evening before a great audience
at the Funk,is an orator of rare power,
is a polished speaker,using just enough
of the southern vernacular for one to
make sure that he was not born east
of the Hudson. His face is fairly
modeled after the type of the earliest
picture of Lincoln. In form and con
tour he reminds one very much of the
pictures of Uncle Sam. lie is a man
of much natural grace and dignity, a
real old-fashioned gentleman. One
does not realize the llightof time when
he is talking.
No greater exhibition of unselfish
devotion to principles of political
action has been made in modern times,
at least, trail that displayed by Hon.
V. J. Bryan when he declined to re-
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ceive the unanimous endorsement of
the late democratic state conventkn
for president. When a resolution was
offered tendering him the endorsement
of the convention and the unanimous
vote of the delegation, it was received
with a perfect storm of applause and
cheers, liut Mr. Bryan arose and, af
ter repeated and continuous effort,was
finally heard above the din and calmly
stated that he was not in this fight for
honors or emoluments, but because he
believed it right and for the best inter
ests of the people. When he went to
the national convention he preferred
to go untrammeled by any expressed
preference like this, so that he could
make his voice heard in the cause of
bimetallism. When the free coinage
platform had been adopted by the na
tional convention it would be time
enough to talk about candidates, and
he had no doubt the right man would
be chosen to lead the people to victory
To make this light a resolution of en
dorsement would only hamper and
hedge him about. He begged that the
resolution might be withdrawn and
it was withdrawn. Had he have been
tempted by the glare of tendered
honors he could have gone to Chicago
with the best of prospects of a nomina
tion for the highest office on earth, but
he would have none of it. As the
the leader of Nebraska's delegation he
has a great opportunity of promoting
the cause of free coinage, and in that
capacity he can be a tower of strength
to the cause. Principles first, office af
terwards, is an excellent motto.
It would be hard for the czar of
Russia to find a more suppliant set
of subjects in his empire than the
republican delegates to the late state
convention were to the party bosses.
With them principles are of very slight
importance, but the disposition of the
offices wag a paramount question. The
will of Boss Thurston was law. When
he cracked the whip every slave went
on his knees. "We pledge ourselves
IN advance to the platform of the
forthcoming republican national con
vention," was one of the resolves of
fered by the Boss, and the delegates
doffed their hats and bent their knees
in pliant submission to his dictum. It
was a sad spe,ctaJa for the sons of
revolutionary sir.es to wftp.-s Who
but abject slaves to partianism, for
getful of the first principle of repub
lican government, would meekly sub
mit to be dictated to In that matter?
Truly, the republican party is a party
of bosses and submissive creatures,
whose faya f country is swallowed up
in the love of Wls. ft reat is the g. o .
d. and Thurston is it prophet. For
shame that such creatures .could be
found in Nebraska!
Now that the free coinage wave is
again sweeping ofer the west again,
isn't it about time for ths cry to be
raised tbat it wust be stopped or the
credit of the west will be ruined?
What has become of the Yates crowd
of Shylocks who a few years ago were
shouting so loudly for Nebraska ? Has
the gold standard forced them into
bankruptcy ?
Gov. Altqeld of Illinois is as fear
less in politics as he is in the perform
ance of his executive duties. He has
written a letter in reply to the recent
speech of Carlisle in Chicago in which
be takes the hide off that suppliant
tool of the goldgamblers, and hangs it
on the fence. Carlisle will never have
the gall to come before the public
again without explaining his change of
heart. A few years ago Gov. Altgeld
commuted the death sentences of cer
tain men convicted as boom-throwing
anarchists in Chicago, and pardoned
one out of prison. Time has shown
the wisdom of his act, although he
was denounced in unmeasured terms at
the time. The anarchists of Chicago
have been as completely killed out by
the fair treatment of Gov. Altgeld as
the anarchists will be by the power of
his logic.
The Chicago Times-Herald's Wash
ington correspondent says President
Cleveland believes that he could beat
Major McKinley, running on a sound
money platform. It is safe to say
there are millions of people in this
country who don't believe that Mr.
Cleveland could beat a "yaller" dog,
even with the Ten Commandmeuts,the
"Golden Rule" and the Sermon on the
Mount embodied in his platform. For
three years Mr. Cleveland's ears have
been deaf to all sounds save the voice
of Wall street and the dulcet tones of
wheedling cuckoos. He will hear
other and less charming music from
now on. The people will speak plainly
and unmistakably. If Mc and Grover
were the only contestants, McKinley
would be safe with five millions of a
majority. Ex.
Dukino the past few years the re
publican party has patted the A. P. A.
on the back and profited by getting
the votes of the order, but they nursed
a viper in their bosoms. The A. P. A
is now of the opinion that it is bigger
than the republican party and pro
poses to dictate the nomination for
president. The order has declared
against McKinley and says it will not
support him for president either before
or. after the nominating convention.
This is a serious matter for the repub
licans and it is a reaping of their re
ward. Schuyler Quill.
The voters of Nebraska should not
forget that Boss Thurston's convention
at Omaha declared itself "against the
free coinage of silver," and that it
tabled, by a large majority, the follow
ing resolution, offered by W. J. Cou
ncil:
'We declare that both gold and silver should
be rrimary money and recognized as such by
the government of the United States, and should
be a full legal tender for all debts, both public
and private ; that the government should not
discriminate in favor of gold as against silver
and that the mints should be opened upon equal
terms to both gold and silver at the ratio now
established by law. We oppose the issuing of
government bopds in times of peace."
If free silver wins at Chicago it will
be sure to win at the polls ; for the
people are tired of the gold standard.
And it won't be six months after free
coinage is adopted in the United States
until every nation in Europe will be
flocking to the double standard. A
little of the spirit of :7G in this country
is all that is necessary. The goldbugs
are a cowardly set if they once get
on the run. While greed is their god
they will be in a hurry to get under
cover when they see their game is up.
The appointment of Charles A.
Miller as councilman for the second
ward was a surprise, but it is con
ceded that it is all right. "Whitey"
Miller is a young man of many good
qualities and no bad ones, and having
taken an interest in city affairs all his
life, he is in a position to do much good
in the council.
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