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H. B. GROVES, EDITOR.
Fit I DAY, SEPTEil HER 14, l'JOO.
vision. Tidcot-
NATIONAL.
For President,
WILLIAM J. 1SKYAN.
of Nebraska.
For Vice President,
ADLAI A. STEVENSON,
of Illinois.
For Presidential Electors,
W. O. SWAN,
of Jolinson County.
ROBEKT OBERFELPEK,
of Cheyenne County.
J. HUGHES,
of Colfax County.
L. N. WENDT,
of Lincoln County.
W. G. ELBEKSON,
of Howard County.
W. H. GARRETT,
of Phelps County.
J. H. FELBER,
of Cedar County.
FRANK RANSOM,
of Douglas County.
STATE.
For Governor,
W. A. POYNTER,
of Boone County.
For Lieutenant Governor,
E. A. GILBERT,
of York County.
For Treasurer,
S. B. HOWARD,
of Holt County.
For Secretary of State,
C. V. SVOBODA,
of Howard County.
For Auditor,
THEODORE GRIESS,
of Clay County.
For Land Commissioner,
P. J. CAREY,
of Saunders County.
For Attorney General,
W. D. OLDHAM,
of Buffalo County.
For Superintendent of Schools,
C. F. BECK,
of Lancaster County.
CONGRESSIONAL.
For Congress First District.
GEORGE W. BERGE,
of Lancaster County. .
COUNTY.
For Attorney
D. O. DWYER,
of Plattsmouth.
LEGISLATIVE.
For State Senator,
JAMES STANDER,
of Louisville.
For Representative,
FRED GORDER,
of Weeping Water.
B. F. ALLEN,
of Wabash.
For Float Representative,
VINCENT STRAUB,
of Otoe County.
There will be no "mud sling
ing" in Cass this campaign.
Croker predicts that Bryan will
be elected, with votes to spare.
Bnffalo Bill could not get
nearer than Omaha this year, but
Teddy the Terrible will more than
make up for the slight.
The f usionists placed an excep
tionally good ticket in Die field
Thursday. Every candidate is
known as a thoroughly good man
nd i sure of election.
SHOW THIS TO YOUR NEI6H30R.
Figures talk. Just let your
neighbor see what it cost in three
years to maintain 1 ,158 inmates at
eight state institutions. Then the
cost for 1,858 for three years.
Under republican control from
January 1, lbU2, to December 31,
180-4 three years:
No. inmates. Tot. cost.
Hastings insane hosp. .330 184,.'V41 88
Lincoln insane hosp... 331 19tt,8Tj9 32
Norfolk insane hosp...m 142,029 91
(r. Isl. h. and s. home. 107 Kt;,129 40
Neb. City scIkm.I blind 71 "3,9tMl 90
Mil ford Ind home m 34, GM 35
Kearney in sell. (boys)218 148,411 21
Omaha sch
i. for deaf.. .138 87,78 01
Totals 1458 9fl,8G3 04
Under fusion control from June
1, 18117, to May 31, 1900-three
years :
No. inmates. Tot. cost.
Hastings insane hosp. .599
Lincoln insane hosp. ..3 9
Norfolk insane hosp.. .244
Gr. Isl. s. and s. home222
Neb. City sch for bl'd. 75
Milford ind. home 59
Kearney in sell (hoys) 145
Omaha sell, for deaf. .155
$205,529 22
172,144 55
131,093 63
122,444 49
7,ls0 73
28.983 5
118,231 til
91,591 22
Totals 1858 937,149 10
Take another look at that table
Do you lteliove the fusion admin-
A 1
lsiration nas been an expensive
luxury?
The legislature of 1891, a popu
list body, acting upon recommen
dations made by the governor and
heads of the various state institu
tions, appropriated for the main
tenance of twelve penal and char
itable institutions the sum of $1,
059,461. This amount, which does
not include appropriations for
new buildings and permanent re
pairs, it is now known was iu ex
cess of the needs of the institu
tions at that time. During the
biemium for which the 1891 ap
propriations were made, there were
on the average 1,980 inmates of
the ' twelve institutions, Hence,
the appropriations gave an average
of $535.08 which could be used in
two years foj the maintenance of
each inmate.. The legislature of
1893 appropriated $869,160 for the
twelve institutions. During the
biennium, 1893-4, there were 2,246
inmates. Hence, $368,98 might
be used on the average for each
inmate.
The legislature of 1895 appro
priated $868,220 for the than thir
teen state institutions, and this
sum divided by 2,544 (the average
number of inmates during the bi
ennium of 1895-6) gives $341.28
per capita.
The legislature of 1897 appro
priated $852,840 for the thirteen
institutions. There were 2,501 in
mates, thus giving a per capita of
$340.99.
The legislature of 1899, an in
tensely partisan republican body,
being "sick and tired" of hearing
the populists and democrats talk
ing about fusion economy, re
solved to cripple the state institu
Hons by making inadequate ap
propriations, so that deficiencies
would occur, and thus increase
the cost of managing them. For
it is well known that no merchant
will sell goods on time to the state
as cheaply as he will for state war
rants that bring him a premium
Besides, there's often a "hold
up" by some disreputable legisla
tor and a "divvy" before a defic
iency claim will be allowed to
pass.
Well, this legislature appropri
ated $867,985 for the thirteen state
institutions, and even now repub
lican editors and politicians are
saying: "See how liberal we
were!" But wait. On May 31,
lyOO, there were 2,824 inmates in
the state institutions. That means
only $307.36 to maintain each in
mate two years. On the average
this is less than the very closest
economy will require. This is
only $153.63 per year. Now, in
1 897 the actual cost for mainten
ance was $150.06, on the average
per year per inmate, and for ex
traordinary expenses $5.56, mak
ing a total of $155.61. L1I898
the cost was $155. In 1899 with
increased prices on necessary
trust made goods, the cost was
$160.27.
The legislature of 1899 was
knowingly and wantonly niggard
ly. Its members knew that only
by a miracle could the increasing I
population of the state institutions I
be maintained on the $867,985
which was appropriated, and some
of the members chuckled in glee
and said: " the pops; we'll put
them in the hole this time."
Bed-rock was reached in 1898
No inmate of a state institution,
taking a general average, can be
maintained a year for less than
$155, and owing to the prices of
the goods used, it may reach $175
Under republican misrule the
average cost per capita was:
1892 249 80
1893 221 51
1894 184 87
But no republican administra
tion has ever succeeded in reach
ing the $175 limit, much less $153
68 the niggardly amount appro
priated by the legislature of 1899
The f usionists will pull through
with a few deficiencies, but hardly
as great as those under republican
rule, when they had $267.54 to
maintain each inmate per year.
WHAT REPUBLICAN PAPERS SAID
Last winter, pending the discus
siou of the Porto Rican tariff bill
in congress, and immediately fol
lowing the passage of that act by
the republican majority of that
body, a large number of the lead
ing republican and independent
papers of the country opposed and
denounced this measure vigor
ously, as will appear from the fol
lowing extracts from a few of the
many prominent journals which
expressed their views on this im
portant subject.
In making these quotations, no
democratic paper is quoted. Read
this:
Utica Herald:
"Trade relations between the
United States and Porto Rico
should be unhampered."
Omaha Bee:
"It will be naturally asked, 'If
this consideration be shown
Hawaii, why not Porto Rico?' "
Buffalo News:
"Pbrto Rico is part of the
United States. There should be
no tariff walls between portions of
the union."
Chicago Tribune:
"The inhabitants of the island
should be allowed to buy, duty
free, all the necessaries of life pro
duced in this country."
Philadelphia Telegraph:
"The demand that Porto Rico
should be compelled to pay cus
toms taxes on its commerce is pue
rile and discreditable."
Baltimore American:
The recommendations made sev
eral months ago by President Mc
Kinley, Secretary Root and Gov
ernor General Davis, were made
after the fullest investigation and
careful thought. They were then
the wisest, considering all condi
tions. The true manhood of the
nation, considering first the good
of the people of Porto. Rico, fails
now how to comprehend how, in
so short a time, those recommen
dations can be said to have been
erroneous and opposed to the best
interests of all concerned."
Boston Transcript:
"Starvation in Porto Rico
Rico means simply that we are
willing to profit by burdening the
productions and supplies of an
island which we control, as Eng
land discriminated against Ireland
for centuries," ,
New York Sun:
"Porto Rico is fairly and ration
ally entitled to the status of an
American territory in 'some form,
between which and this country
commerce should be as free as be
tween the states whose borders
touch."
Rochester Post-Express:
"The fact that they are loyal to
their new flag and that Porto Rico
is a part of our new territory,
ought to be sufficient to obtain
generous treatment at the hands
of the American people."
Cincinnati Times-Star:
"It is a sorry spectacle when a
nation that went to war for hu
manity, stoops to bully an island
whose population will never ex
ceed 1 pr cent of the mother
country, into paying tribute for
fear the ward may become com
mercially the competitor of the
guardian."
Chicago Times-Herald:
"Whether the Porto Rican tariff
is 25 per cent or 5 per cent, inde
terminate or for two years, makes
not a particle of difference with its
justice. It will not be acceptable
to the American people because
of the plea that it is such a little
breach of 'our plain duty,' as ac
knowledged by President McKin
ley." Cincinnati Commercial - Tribune:
"Even if home products must
meet some competition, it is,
nevertheless, our duty to act in a
humane manner."
Kansas City Star:
"To treat Porto Rico as an ob
ject of charity is mighty shabby
return for the confiding and joy
ful alacrity with which it threw
itself into the arms of the United
States. It is a shameful play at
philanthropy to extort taxes from
Porto Rico."
Philadelphia North American:
"Has a year and a half of em
pire stripped us of all the fine
feelings of humanity with which
we went into the war for Cuban
liberty, and turned us into a race
of mercenary oppressors?"
Indianapolis Journal:
"Will it be wise to run the risk
of destroying the confidence and
dulling the loyalty of the people
by enacting laws that will make
them feel that, though Americans
in name, they are aliens in fact?"
Portland, Me., Press:
"The best way out of the Porto
Rico mess would seem to be to re
trace the steps taken and get back
to the president's original platform
of 'our plain duty.' It is far bet
ter to correct an error, even if it
involves some humiliation to do
so than to stick to it."
Philadelphia Public Ledger:
"Let us give Porto Rico free
trade as recommended by the
president, and as demanded by
public opinion and the representa
tive press of the United States."
New York Sun:
"Congress sullenly leaving Porto
Rico out in the cold, the victims
of war, is like a troop of soldiers
that refuses to bring in the
wounded from the battle field.
Porto Rico, over which flies the
same flag that is to be seen on the
Washington cajfttbl, must be
treated like territory belonging to
the United States, instead of for
eign territory; the Porto Ricans
must be recognized as people who
owe allegiance to the stars and
stripes, instead of being held off
like people whose allegiance be
longs elsewhere.
Vincent Straub, of Otoe coun
ty, was nominated for float rep
resentative by the democratic and
populist conventions in session at
Union, Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Straub is a well known and re
spected farmer living south of
Avoca, just over the boundary
line between Cass and Otoe coun
ties, and owns 1,200 acres of land
in Cass county. He was elected
float representative in 1896, de
feating S. W. Orton of Weeping
Water, and in 1088 he was can
didate for the senate, but owing
to the immense popularity of M.
L. Hayard, who was the repub
lican candidate for governor, he
was defeated. Mr. Straub is a
German, well educated and thor
oughly awake to the exigencies
of the present time. He will sat
isfactorily represent the district
in the coming session of the leg
islature. PCEPCSTE20US LIE.
Some wild-eyed Imperialistic writer
has been obtained to supply the little
administration organs in this state
with campaign tommy - rot of t he
worst sort. Of all the drivel ever put
fortli this is the worst, Pegiuniug
with a gob of rot about McKinley 1 ic
ing the right hand bower of t lie eity,
the manufacturer of platitudinous
stuff runs off the track into this sort
of a ditch:
"He had gone forth to a struggling
people of unhappy islands and torn
from their limbs the chains of servi
tude and silenced forever the sover
elgntyover them of one of the most
merciless monarchies known to mod
ern history."
Now how is that for a hold lie' And
this in the face of the unfilled pledges
to Cuba, who is at the mercy of the
worst set of thieves that ever infested
any land. And this in the face of a
robber tariff on Porto Hico, , part and
parcel of the United States, under t he
flag and under the constitution. And
this in the face of the fact that the
Fill pi nas have been shot down Itccausc
they sought the liberty promised
them by this government. When a
political party so far forgets all de
cency as to deliberately and flagrantly
lie in its campaign literature, then
that party should lie lammed into the
earth until it is unrecognizable as an
organization and that is its impend
ing' fate. Instead of breaking the
shackles the administration lias licen
forging more onerous ones.
0LNEY FOR BRYAN.
Richard Olney's "conversion" to the
Bryan cause is, in some resjieets, the
most notable event of the campaign to
date. Mr. Olney was (J rover Cleve
land's secretary of state, and by all
odds the ablest man in the cabinet.
He is a Boston man, identitied with
many interests, commonly supiosed ,o
be antagonized by the Kansas City
platform. But he is a democrat. lie
was the author of the Venezuela mes
sage wherein he made (j rover Cleve
land defy the Britisli govennient to
the point of war, to try to extend its
territories in South America.
Such a man was not likely to give
his support to an administration that
voluntarily "hauls down thc;Americau
flag" over American territory iu Alas
ka. It is the final test. No American
deserving the name can do more or
less than Mr. Olney lias done. The
brains and heart of the American
people go with this staunch New En
gland American away from McKiu
ley to Bryan.
SHERMAN ON IMPERIALISM.
John Sherman, former secretary of
state in President McKinley's cabinet,
in a recerit' interview said: "The
wealth we are taking out of our own
country now to fling after those Phil
ippine islands is fabulous. We have
taken away the miners and agricult
uralists to subdue the Filipino native,
Depend upon it, the other nations do
not envy us, but think us foolish.
"I see not the slightest sense iu our
long excursion to the Philippine is
lands, 12,000 miles away. There we
have no acquaintances or atlinities, or
anything which gives promise of a
happy solution of a most foolish un
dertaking. The natives show that
they do not want us by the courage
with which they light us. 1 fear that
perseverance in this i mix.' rial policy
will ruin the republican party."
INSULT TO VOLUNTEERS.
When Rocjse elt two years ago wrote
that now famous letter to the secre
tary of war, in which lie declared that
the "Rough Riders," of which he was
the commander, was "as good as
any regulars and three times as good
as any state troops," he allowed his
egotism to get the better of his judg
ment to a very considerable ex
tent. Right now Col. Roosevelt is
greatly in need of the state troops of
which he wrote so contemptuously,
and the spectacular hero of El Caney
and Poison Gulch would give much to
recall these words. After all the
letter is characteristic of the man.
Whether the people of the
United States want such a man for
vice president, a position from which
he would be liable to be called at any
time to that of chief executive, re
mains to be determined at the polls in
November.
In the two years that Theodore
Roosevelt has held office his time has
been passed in frenzied flights over
the country seeking that vociferous
admiration so freely accorded him by
the dime novel reading urchin and the
thoughtless citizen. This would be
all right if Colonel Roosevelt were not
holding public office. But the people
pay him a salary as governor, and as a
governor he is expected to stay at
home and attend to the people's busi
ness. He is certainly not paid to
travel around the country election
eering on his own behalf. New York
Journal.
The steel trust is opening up a few
of its mills, but it is reducing the
wages and lengthening the working
hours of its employes. Perhaps what
it saves in this way will be ued to re
lieve the embarressment of the repub
lican national committee, which is
sadly in need of funds with which to,
among other things, buy t lie negro
vote of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
That the negro vote might not lie
purehahle has not occurred to the re
publican managers.
J. P. Falter has made one of the
ttest commissioners the county has
ever elected. For live years he has
served iu this capacity, and has ever
leen on the alert for thebesl Intcresfs
of the county. He is a level headed
farmer with a keen business instinct
and because of Ids knowledge of county
affairs is the I test toss I hie choice for
the position. He should receive the
united siipjH.rt of bij constit uents in
the First district.
The weakness of the llanna-McKIn-ley
syndicate liefore the tcople is
shown in the eagerness and terslst
ence with which they urge thccurrcn
cy question uton public attention in
thiscamaign. The paramount Issue
is that w hich was declared at Kansas
City to be such, and nothing can set
aside t hat fact. Most on Post.
An Omaha little girl, says an ex
change, added this to her prayer:
"And please, O Lord, take good care
of yourself, tent. Jf anything should
happen to you we wouldn't have any
one but McKinley to depend on, and
he isn't doing as well as Pa cxtected."
Holt County Jndctcndcnt.
In view or the fact that every time
"Teddy" Kooscvelt otens his mouth
to make a campaign speech he puts
his feet into it, would it not be a good
idea for the republican managers to
compel him to wear a mu.zle and
furnish him with a phonograph to do
the talking for him?
What (Governor Kooscvclt wants
now is for some one to present him
with an automatic, double action,
kicking machine. He realizes the
need of it daily, as one of his unwise
remarks of ot her days come back to
torment him.
"Teddy t he Terrible," bad no ter
rors for t he Chicago, workingmeii as
they passed in review on Labor Iay
they ignored him and cheered William
.1. Ihyan to t he echo.
('ass county will le well represented
with Hon. tJeorge W. JScrge on the
floor of the next house of representa
tives. The storm which visited the Texas
coast the jjrst of this week is one of
the worst ever recorded in the world's
history.
The republicans arc planning for a
great show on Octolicr 2.
James Slander in known as one
of the best citizens of Cass county.
His record in unsullied, his char
acter is untarnished; ho is a man.
He was nominated for state sen
ator by the fusion conventions last
week, and if elected will make a
better representative than Cuss
county has had in the senate for
lo, those many years. Ho has
j never held public office, has never
run for office, but his friends,
friends of the best interest of the
county and state, have importuned
him to make tho sacrifice at this
critical time. Ho is the man for
tho place, and your vote will help
place him when; he belongs see
that he gets it. And how about
your neighlior? Spare no pains
to secure his vote for the same
man no county will be better
represented than Cass.
Stand up for Cass county! This
is your chance to do it. There
are among her citizens three men
who have been nominated for tho
legislature James Stander, Fred
G order and B. P. Allen, who, if
elected, will faithfully represent
the best interests of the county.
You owe it to yourself to see that
these men get every vote in your
precinct.
Hon. G. XV. Berge is becoming
acquainted with this district. He
is making friends wherever he
goes, and the irresistable force
of his arguments is making him
votes. Watch his smoke.
Ignorance is the only tangible,
excuse for si man voting the re
publican ticket this fall dense
and incurable ignorance.
All hail! William tho First!
King of the United States, and
emperor of Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines!
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