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-1 ( . " . : Sept. io, 1896 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 3 THE NATIONAL. COMMITTEE. 8entot Butler Make a Formal State- . ment. So much has been said concerning the vice-preeidential situation and the atti tude of the national committee concern ing it, that at its recent meeting the tol ling official statement was sent out: WAbhington, D. C, Aug. 18. "The people's party's ticket as named by the St. Louis convention is Bryan and Wat son, and that will be the people's party's ticket until the polls are closed in No vember. Mr. Bryan is ai much our can didate as Mr. Watson isr As far as this committee has power it will strive just as hard to elect one as the other, and will leave nothing in its power undone to help either or both. But it will not sao riflc one in the interests of the other." And on the next day the Associated Press put to Chairman Butler the follow ing specific question: "In view of your statement yesterday to the effect that the populist candidates are Bryan and Watson and will be until the close of the campaign, and are to be earnestly supported to that end, without discrimination for or against either, what will be the position of your committee with reference to those states in which democrats and populists have fused, the populists taking the state ticket and the democrats all of the electoral ticket?" In reply Senator Butler gave a formal statement, which, it was announced, is the unanimous opinion of the executive committee: "We have no official information that this has been done in any state. If it has been done or is contemplated, the national committee will not approve or recognize it. The highest law in any party is the action of its national con vention. No man or state or organiza tion can be disloyal to such supreme authority of a party without arraying themselves in direct and hostile opposi tion to the national convention. Our national convention nominated Bryan and Watson by an overwhelming ma jority, and it is the boundon duty of every loyal populist to support both of these candidates earnestly and loyally, and, besides, Watson stands for what Bryan stands for, and, therefore, Bryan and Wateon constitute the only ticket that represents the principles that pop ulists believe in and have contended for him the beginning. Mr. Sewell is no more the candidate of the peoples party than Mr. Hobart is. "The executive committee wfll see that the action of our national convention is maintained in every state, but if there should arise dissatisfaction or disloyalty to either of our candidates in any state, then we are sure there are true populists in such states who will support the whole ticket, and such alone will be recognized by our national committee." "Does this mean," Chairman Butler was asked, "that you will insist upon a a straight Bryan and Watson electoral ticket in every state?" "No. But it means that wherever pop ulists and democrats joins ' forces on the electoral ticket, there must be a due and proper recognition of each party's can didate by a just and equitable division of electors supporting the candidates of the respective parties." NEBRASKA INVENTORS. A Movement On Foot to Organize An Association. . A movement has been placed on foot to organize a State Inventors associa tion for the purpose of securing better advertising, better exhibiting facilities, especially at state fairs and the Trans Mississippi exposition, etc. Much good can be brought about this way, and at almost no cost. Almost every line of work is organ ized and there is no reason why the in ventors should not be organized also. Let us go ahead, no matter whether you have a patent or whether you manu facture your article. If you are a genu ine inventor and reside in Nebraska we want to hear from you. If we hear from a sufficient number to warrant a suc cessful organization, we will call for a metering in the near future. How many' are favorable to this move? Write me at once. James Pearson. Gerraantown, Neb. Silver Dollars In Mexico. The following taken from the Chicago Becord of August 31, will be read with interest by those who have been harping upon "the United States be coming 'Mexicanized' if it opens its mints to the free coinage of silver: J. H. Kennedy, a former resident of Iowa, has attacked the statement so generally made regarding Mexico and silver by making the following affidavit before E. H. English, a notary public at Valley Junction: ' "I, James U. Kennedy, now a resident of the town of Silalva in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, do solemnly swear that I am an American by birth; that I served three years in the 7th Iowa during the late civil war; that I have always been a republican; that I have resided in Mex ico for twenty-live years; that I speak the Spanish language as well or better than I now do the English. I have trav eled through twenty-four of the twenty aeven states in Mexico in an official ca pacity and as- interpreter for numerous syndicates. I have had access to almost all the archives of that country. I am better acquainted with the customs and , usages of that country than I am of my mother country. I left Mexico on the 2d day of March, 1896, coming to this country to visit my friends, relatives and old comrades. During the last month in Iowa I have heard more ab surd and utterly false statements made in regard to Mexico than I ever thought could be conjured up by mortal man, all to deceive the voter. "One most heard is that you can take one American silver dollar into Mexico and get two Mexican silver dollars for it, or that you can get a 50-cent meal and throw down an American dollar and they will give you back in change a Mexican dollar. I brand this as utterly false in every respect, a lie manufactured out of whole cloth. I assert that a Mex ican will not accept an American dollar, either gold, silver or paper, for any Amount, but will refer you to a broker, where you can sell your silver dollars as bullion for Mexican money, then they will trade you. The largest hotel in the City of Mexico will not accept American money under any circumstances but will invariably refer you to a broker. "By paying the mintage any one can take silver bullion to either of the mints in Mexico and get Mexican silver dollars for it, and for 250 years silver bullion has never fluctuated up or down to ex ceed 2 cents. "I hear it asserted that the national debt is payable in gold. I brand this as utterly false. Every dollar of the debt, 1146,000,000, is and always has been payable in the lawful money of that country, and we are now paying our debt in Mexican silver dollars, the money of the contract. "I assert that Mexico in the present decade is making strides of advancement greater than any other nation on earth. Twenty-five years ago we had eighty miles of railroad, now we have near 8,000 miles of railroad. We are build ing factories on every hand. Twenty eight years ago, when the French army was driven out, the Mexican government was left penniless, not a dollar in the treasury. We can now pay our entire national debt any day a demand would be made for it. 'l am now on my way to Mexico to spend to rest of my life. Any one can find me by addressing a letter to James II. Kennedy, Siaaloa, Mexico. "In conclusion I invite an honest and thorough investigation into the facts of my statement and I defy successful contradiction. I am not the owner of roiuing stocks and no personal interest has caused me to make this statement, but have given it by request of an old comrade.- James H. Kennedy." Mr. Whedon Called Down, Tp the Editor: Lawyer C. 0. Whedon is quoted in the State Journal Wednes day morning as saying in his recent speech: "The Chicago platform also states a falsehood when it says the act of 1792 made the silver dollar the mone tary unit." The law reads as follows: Sec. 9. "And be it further enacted, that there shall be from time to time struck and coined at the said mint coins of gold, silver and copper of the following denominations, values and descriptions, viz: eagles each to be of the value of ten dollars in units. Then follows the number of grains the eagle shall contain. Then half eagles, quarter eagles, etc Then the following 'dollars, or units each to be of the value of the Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain 371 4-1 6 grains or of a grain of pure, or 416 grains of stan dard silver." Now will Mr. Whedon point out where the falsehood of the Chicago platform lies, or does the lie, lie with him? Section 20, the last section of the law of 1792, reads as follows: "And be it further en acted, that the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dol lars or units, etc." Air. Whedon, what dollar or units? Surely the unit dollar of section 9. This unit of account was never changed as to the pure silver it should contain even to the fraction of a grain. No where in any coinage law prior to 1873 is there any attempt to engraft into the law the intrinsic idea of value of money. ' But that the more than infamous crime of 1873 has done the work may be seen as follows: iSec. 15. That the silver coins of the United States shall be a trade dol lar, a half dollar, etc. There the stand ard unit dollar of 1792 is dropped from the coinage and the trade dollar substi tuted. Now look sharp at section 14 of the same law of 1873 and see the pre paration made for the great crime to put the American people on a gold basis and to introduce for the first time into our laws the intrinsic value idea of money. Section 14 reads as follows: "That the gold coins of the United States shall be a one dollar piece, which at the standard weight of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains 'shall be the unit of value.' " Changed, you see, from "unit of account" to "unit of value." The man or men who were instrument al knowingly in the revision of the law of 1873, which changed the unit of ac count to the unit of value and dropped the unit of account from coinage were greater traitors to the American peo- Sle than Benedict Arnold or Jefferson 'avis. Mr. Whedon is quoted in the Journal as saying, "We adopted the gold standard in 1853 and not in 1873." Another whopper. I challenge Mr. Whe don to show the law where any law was passed prior to 1873, making gold the standard. That law of 1873 is an ele phant on their hands and they now want to lay the blame on someone prior to 1873 or even the birth of the republican Sarty, but it won't work, Mr. Whedon. any other statements equally false were made. W. F. Wright. Col. Alexander Hogeland, president of the boys' and girls' national home and employment association has returned to the city after five weeks' tour through the west. The colonel was asked what his political affiliations were in the pres ent contest and he replied that he was not committed one way or the other. "I want to say though," continued the colonel, "that Bryan is immensely pop ular everywhere I have been in tact I heard of nothing but Bryan. There is little doubt in my mind but that he will be elected next November by a tremen dous majority. The people believe in him; they believe him to be honest in his convictions and that the latter are well ounded. Personally I am a great ad mirer of the gentleman and if he were to win I do not think I would grieve very much, but you must remember that I am not committed to any party." The colonel- gave a sly wink and sauntered down the street. 16 TO x IN OERMANTOWN. A Bryan Club of 200 Members Organized at That Place Oermantown, Neb., Sept. 2. (Special correspondence.) A large Bryan free sil club was organized here some time ago. Much interest has been taken in the work. At present the membership reaches nearly 500, with good prospects of many more. Hon. M. B. Palmer was chosen chairman, Postmaster C. E. Hans, vice president, Hon. James Peer son, secretary. A cavalry company has been organized. This line of work lids proved very interesting and valuable. The McKinley people have a nice little club of about 135 members. . Hon. E. W. Olney is president. One thing the Oermantown people can boast of is the harmony which exists between the two clubs. No mud slinging will be allowed by either club. The interest is much favorable to Bilver. The Bryan rlub is composed of all silver men, irre spective of parties. Ventriloquist Hanna: "Ton will observe, ladies and gentlemen, tfaat the little figures speak exaotly ai I direot " St, Louis BepQUSa JESSE STRODE'S APPEAL. H. M . Bunnell on Money Before and After the Convention. Secretary of State Piper has announced that he will give a hearing to the pro test filed by Chairman H. M. Bushnell of the First district congressional commit tee against thecertificates of nomination of Judge Broady sent in by the populist and national silver parties on Septem ber 15. Under the law the secretary . is author ized to pass upon the validity of all ob jections and his decision is final unless an order shall be made by the court. BaahneU'a Former Stand. The following communication relative to the stand which H. M. Bnshnell took on the financial question when editor of the Call will be read with interest just at this time. He may have done so but no one had ever been given to believe he had experienced a change of heart until after the St. Louis convention: To the Editor: I would like to say a few words the columns of your paper in relation to my position on the free silver question. It has come to my ears that a few people are telling upon the street that I came out for Bryan and free sil ver, because the republicans of Lincoln did not nominate me for city attorney last spring, and one H. M. Bushnell, in last Sunday's Journal, while he did not have manhood to makethecharge direct, by insinuation tried to convey the same impression, and I wish to state the facts in the case once for all and end the mat ter so far as I am concerned. I have advocated the free coinage of silver by this country ever since the Bland bill was before congress in 1878, and believed then and believe now that we will never have a prosperous nation until that is brought about, and any one who will have the fairness to investi gate can ascertain, from my republican friends in Lincoln, thafact. I believed that it would be brought about by the republican party, and long after the spring election, was in the movement to send McKinley electors to St. Louis, mainly because the goldbug press was charging that he was in favor of the free coinage of silver, and then believing that I would have the pleasure of voting for him on that platform at least as friendly to silver as the demo cratic platform, if not more so, but when the convention at St. Louis closed the door in the face of the members of that party who believed in the free coin age of silver, and the democratic party declared in favor of it, I could see but one course left for me. As an individual the republican party has always treated me fairly and given me more considera tion than I was entitled to, so far as party services were concerned, for I have never been active in its work, and for its work, and for years never even at tended its caucuses or took an active part until the lost two years.and instead of feeling sore over the results of the spring election, I flelt flattered by the very handsome vote that I a comparative stranger in the party, got as against so many good men and old servants of the party, and the only re gret that I ever expressed was that I had not been better informed as to Mr. Scott's strength so that I could have gotten out of the way and given the nomination to him, as so many of us felt that he was much more entitled to it than the one who received it. Now as to hoping for official position in the fu ture, any man who is posted as to the political complexion of this city and county knows that a person whose sole purpose is the securing of an office would show little sense if he left the republican party for that purpose, and that one is ten times as likely to secure an office at the hands of the republican party here than from any other, unless there is a remarkable political upheaval in the fu ture. The only thing left for roe when the lines were squarely drawn by the politi cal conventions on the silver question, was to either smother my convictions and stultify myself by advocating what I did not believe in as Thurston and Bushnell have done and are doing, to put party loyalty above loyalty to country, or to sever my party relations and advocate what I believed in. I de cided to adopt the course I have. A number of honorable citizens believed that it was their duty to remain in the republican party. I am willing to give them credit for being honest in that de cision and I have never accused them of doing that from mercenary motives, and claim the same right to act according to roy own judgment, but when such men as Bushnell attempt to cover up their own sudden change of heart by slinging dirt at others it is time to call a halt. The osly excuse that Bushnell can C&L. """"" ' give for making such a charge is that he judges others by himself. What is his record? The Call when Bushnell was at its head for a long time openly advocated the free coinage of silver and denounced in no uncertain terms the McKinley bill as a villainy and an outrage and some of the editorials make interesting reading now and I comend them to the people who have heard his addresses this year as proof positive of the consistency of their author. Nov. 7, 1890 his paper said in an edi torial "The reasons for the overthrow of the republican congressional majority are as clear as noon day. The McKinley law was the Jonah that swamped the hopes of the republican party. High taxation for the benefit of the monoplies can never be popular." On Dec. 10, 1890 he said in the paper VThe McKinley bill is not a political measure for the general good, but is a greedy, grasping sectional measure increasing burdens and passed at the dictation of a handful of millionares (Was Mark Hanna one of them7) who have grown rich on the in justice that makes of protection a mono poly with no power to crush opposition and drive out competition." March 1, 1891 his paper said "On the 4th of March the present congress ex pi res. Upon the two great issues, issues that m. above politics, the financial and the tariff questions the national house of representatives has been in league with the east end against the west. The interests of three fourths of the country have been subverted to the interests of one fourth. When the house refused to accede to the senate amendments to the McKinley bill and to give a measure of relief to the west that act was answered at the polls in a way to make republicans sick at heart. When less than two weeks ago the same house refused to give the senate free coinage bill a bearing it again invited a castigating that fell short of application only from lack of opportunity." On March 4, 1891, he out-Herods Herod and puts the blush of shame upon the modern free silver advocates because of their moderation. Study the follow ing: "When the first session of the pres ent congress ceased contraction of the currency enough to allow a slight in crease in silver coinage all the gold images of Wall street prophesied finan cial disaster. Vile sharks of Wall street said gold would leave the country by ship loads. The actual export of the metal was less in six months following the commencement of the increased coin age than it bad been for any six months during ten years prior to that time. The Wall street gods had prophesied falsely regarding the results to follow that law and lied to the people. When with the opening and closing session of the present congress three months ago representatives in congress who had heard anew from the people and their still more honest demands for free coinage and the repeal of the crime of demonetization attempted to enact legislation to this and for the people the wails of the golden gods again arose and their adherents cried out against relief measures with more zeal than ever. "Pass free coinage and the country is ruined," wailed Wall street. "Pass free coinage and gold will take wings and fly," howled the dervishes who dance at tendance around the gold images. But there was sense and patriotism in the United States senate to answer the de mand of the people. When, however, it came to the bouse successful efforts were made to stop it and the pleadings at large was that free coinage was frighten ing business, that the etc. Can it be possible that our friend Bushnell has joined the ranks of the bowling Dervishes? Has he joined his wail with those who worship the golden gods of Wall street? I hear that be has. When he speaks of the crime of demone tization cannot our populist friends say truthfully, "We thank the judgi for teaching us that word." , It seems to me that somewhere I have read, "Judge not, that ye benot judged," and "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone.'' Can he blame us if we conclude that his present course is caused by the fact that as is currently reported he has been promised the post office in this city if McKinley is elected. Oko. E. Hibskk. Wanted-An Idea Who can think 01 tome ample thing to patent? Protect yonr iartu; they may brlns ou wealth. Write JOHN WKDDERBURN CO., Patent Attor- neT e. Washington, D. c, for their $1,900 prite offer 1 list ot two hundred Invention! wanted. and Campaign Stories SLU0"?.. eol!rct,0,, ' konoron. aaee dotee told by the aathor and all the great reform orator tateemeit, and writer, lilaatratiac very phase ot the mosey question. Haadeoaaa. It bonnd. Prlea eenu. XZrOKX rUB. CO.. linooln. Vet, NAMES THE COMMITTEE. Chairman Jones Appoints MemWitof the Executive and Advisory Committees. Chicago, Sept 3. Chairman Jones of the democratic national committee sprung a surprise late yesterday after noon by announcing the appointment of members of the executive campaign and advisory committees. These appoint ments have been pending lor some time, but it was thought they would not be announced nntil after Saturday. The committees as announced are as follows: Executive James K. Jones, chairman; Thomas 0. Towlee, secretary; Henry D. Clayton, Eufaula, Ala.; Thomas McRae, Ft. Scott, Ark.; J. J. Dwyer, San Fran cisco; A. D. Wilson, Durango, Colo.; Richard R. Kenny, Dover, Del.; Samuel Pasco, Monticello, Fla.; George Ainslee, Boise City, Idaho; John C. Sbanklin, Evansville, Ind.; C. A. Walsh, Ottumwa, la.; U. Woodson, Owensboro, Ky.; N. C. Blanchard, Shreveport, La.; Arthur P. Gorman, Laurel, Md.; D. J. Chapman, Detroit, Mich.; William J. Stone, Jeffer son City, Mo.; W. H. Thompson, Grand Island, Neb.; James Smith, jr., Newark, N. J.; Joseph Daniels, Raleigh, N. C; William C. Leistilow, Grafton, N. D.; B. R. rilman, Trenton, S. C; James M. Head, Nashville, Tenn,; Peter J. Otey, Lynchburg, Ya.; E. C. Wells, Milwaukee, Wis.; Charles A. Smith, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lawrence Gardner, Washington, D. C: Thomas Marcom, Muskogee, I. T. Campaign Daniel J. Campau, Michi gan, chairman; John R. McLean, Cin cinnati; William S. Stone, Jefferson City, Mo.; Clark Howell, jr., Atlanta, Ga.;J. G. Johnson, Peabody, Kas.; Thomas Gahan, Chicago, III.; William A. Clark, Helena, Mont.; James Kerr, Clearfield, Pa.; Frank Bosford, Michigan, secre tary. Messrs. Clark and Kerr are the addi tions made to this committee today ahd there is still one vacancy to be filled. Whether this is left for Senator Teller of Colorado is a matter of conjecture, In addition to the advisory committee here tofore announced the following names were added today, completing the com mittee: Hon. George Fred Williams, Massachusetts; Hon. Alexander Troup, Connecticut; Hon. John W. Tomlinson, Alabama. Chairman Campau of the campaign committee will be the ex-offlcio chairman of the finance committee. Kimbrough Jones will act as private secretary to Chairman Jones. Arrangements have been made to sup ply some 4,000 newspapers with cam paign matter from headquarters in the form of Dlnte matter, "patent insides," and telegraphic services, the latter to be furnished to country dailies navmg no rearular Dress service. This is a new ae rmrture and one from which much good is expected to result. The national silver committee is now receiving from the presses ten million copies of campaign documents which are being sent out at the rate of 50,000 a day. This is in ad dition to the 2,000,000 copies of similar matter sent out this week from Wasniug- ton by the democratic committee. See For Yourselves. In the Canton, Ohio, News-Democrat of Aug. 26, the following letters appear whuh ned no further explanation. They only go to'prove to what extremities the Hanna men will go in order to conceal the truth from the public. Read this: Great Bend, Kas.. August 20, 1896. Secretary Bryan Club, Canton, Ohio- Dear Sir: A local republican paper states that there is no Bryan club in your city, while another says that there may be a club there, but it would not contain any reputable men, for the reason that that class of gentlemen in Canton are for Mr. McKinley. Please write me the facts in the case. Have j ou a Bryan club, what is the personnel of the association, and have you any prominent men in it? I am an old Ohio republican, but 1 shall vote for Mr. Bryan. I am also a member of the Bryan club in this city. How is the silver sentiment ia your locality? Is Bryan going to get any vote at all in Canton? Your reply will oblige. I en close stamp for reply. Very truly yours, W. E. Cabb. Mr. Cook's Reply. Canton, O., Aug. 25, 1896. W. E. Carr, Esq., Great Bend, Kans. My Dear Sir: Your favor of the 20th inst., in quiring about the Bryan free silver club of this city, duly received and contents noted. In reply I will say that there are five Bryan free silver clubs in this city. The Central Bryan Free Silver club, which, as its name implies, is the main organization, has membership exceed ing 600. The West End club, the Sixth Ward club, the Fifth Ward club, and the Third and Fourth ward clubs com bined have a membership exceeding 650, making a membership in the free silver clubs of Canton of more than 1,250, and tho movement is not thirty days old. The clubs are composed of as good, honest, intelligent and prominent men as live in Canton merchants, doctors, ministers, lawyers, contractors, artisans, men from all the trades, many of whom are prominent in labor circles; butchers, bakers, grocers, foremen and proprietors of shops; in short, men from all walks of life who believe that the deadly clutch of the gold standard fiend should be torn from the throat of its victims. The silver sentiment in Canton and Stark county is very strong. It is a conservative statement to say that in Canton (population 40,000,) and Stark county (population nearly 100,000,) the sentiment in favor of free md unlim ited coinage is three to one. It has been said that the American people are like calves. You have to pull their ears to make them take hold and then pull their tails off to make them let loose. So it is with the partisan calf; he has a hold on the old party teat and it's hard work to pull him loose, lie knows free silver and a lartrer volume of money is a good thing for the great common people, but he won't pull himself away from the dear old party, though it has declared in favor of the withering, desolating, confiscating, death-dealing policy of the British gold standard, but be pulls and bumps away, thinking he may grow fat on his own slobber. Hence we do not expect to carry this city and county three to one or Bryan and free silver, but we do ex pect that Bryan and free silver will carry Canton aud Stark county by a large ma jority. Many of the most prominent G. A. R. men in the city from all parties, belong to our clubs. Edward Raff, cashier of the Central Saving back, is a free silver man. and Conrad Schweitzer, cashier ot the People's Savings bank, is a 16 to 1 man. So you see that thefree silver men of Canton are made up of all those classes, by those who earn their bread by the sweat of their face, down to the banker. The Brvan free silver clnb of Canton sends the Great Bend club greeting, and don't be surprised if Ohio gives Bryan and free silver a larger majority in No vember than does Kansas, the pioneer state of financial reform. I am, very sincerely, Allem Cook, Secretary Bryan Free Silver Club. BRAND NEW ORDERS. The Adjutant General Tells How Tbilisi Most Bs Ran in ths Future. Adjutant General Barry has just issued general orders No. 9, which art as fol lows: "The following rales relating to requi sitions tor property and the issue of the same will be strictly observed In the fat ore. Requisitions for property must state that the articles called for are nec essary for one of the following reasons: First "To complete equipment" Where the number of men in the com Eany is larger than the number "on and," of any article ot individual equip ment. Second "To Replace Articles Stolen" or "Unavoidable Loss" Affidavits (two or more) must be attached to the requi sition, setting forth clearly all ths cir cumstance attending said loss. Third "To Replace Unservicable Prop erty" When in the opinion of the re sponsible officer articles of clothing or . equipment are unservicble from servioe or damage, authority will be obtained from the adjutant general to turn them in for examination. On receipt of such articles at this office they will be replaced by an equal number, provided, that in the opinion of the adjutant general all of the articles are of no further use. Ar ticles which may be considered by the adjutant general as useful for further service will be returned to theoffier send ing them and count as so many Issued on his requisition. Requisitions to re place unserviceable property must state on the face that an equal number has been shipped, as indicated above. Requisitions which do not comply fully with the foregoing conditions will not be considered at this office, and should not receive the approval of intermediate com manding officers. , ' , Do Ton Like It. What is offered by the republican party. Nothing but to keep on in ths present standard, wheat growing lower; labor growing lower. Do yon think this a condition promotive ot happiness? Henry M. Teller. WHO"LL 8TART THE BALL? A Contributor Wants to Know Why Ws Can't Have a Woman's Free Silver Club. "No great outward transormation can be effectively achieved without a pre vious inward and spiritual transforma tion, in which the female part of the pop ulation must take an incalculable share," is just as ponderous a proposition to day as when the Aueen of the Girondins swayed the political forces of France. That this is pre-eminently true and thor oughly recognized by the advocates of "gold" is fully evidenced by the zeal with which they are every where pressing the women into active service wherever they can influence a vote. Already, "woman's national headquarters" have been established in Chicago, and woman's far-reaching power has become an important factor in the gold camp. Never has there been a time when wo man's influence was felt to be more potent than at this very hour. We have asked many times in vain for due recog nition, but today the men are calling upon us for aid and shall we, the devout friends of silver, sit listlessly at our fire sides dallying with those little feminine "nothings" that occupy so many vain able hours, while our sons and brothers ere being beguiled by the seductiveness of the ladies' "sound money" smiles? Let nsbe up and doing, for eternal vigilance is the demand ot the hour. A harvest of young minds await the reaper's sickle; who can so surely direct that eon's mind aright who is about to cast his first bal lot as mother. We have but to remem that at the polls in November a verdict is to be registered either in behalf of the homes of the thousands, or the palaces of the corporate rich, and we women of Nebraska should have but one common interest. , Education is the cry of the hour, and we women should give our unflagging support to those brave fellows who have undertaken to teach the common people to think and act independently of every power save their God-given souls. There should be an active women's silver club in every ward in this city, as well as throughout the state, where the all-important questions ot the day may be studied and analyzed, the better to pre pare ourselves for the wielding of that influence which belongs to woman alone. All we need is a moving spirit to set the ball (tiling, and rest assured that after once eing set in motion it will not be "gather moss." Let us hear from women interested in this move Free Silver Republican. left t othej ment Not a Direct Tax. In 1895 congress passed a law to tax carriages. That question was raised, whether it was a direct tax and the court decided that it was indirect. If yon could tax carriages you could tax in comes. Henry M. Teller. In clubs often or more campaign subscriptions lOo each. No com mission allowed. Rlpans Tabules cure liver troubles. , f J