THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
Oct, 27, i3g8
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THE WINNIflQ TICKET.
For Governor
WILLIAM A. POINTER of Boom.
L4a tenant Govrnor
E. A. OILUERT of York.
ertary of Stats
WILLIAM F. PORTER ol Iferrlck.
Aodltor ol I'ublie Accounts
JOHN r. CORNELL of RichAdaon.
Treasurer
JOHN B. MKSEKVE of Had Willow.
I apt. of Publio Jnstmotlon
WILLIAM R. JACKBONtfDoll.
Land Commissioner
JACOB B. WOLFE of Laasaster.
Attorn General
C0N8TANTINE J. SMITII of Doualas.
FOR CONUBEHb,
Lrst District
James Miinalian of Lincoln,
second District
Gilbert M. Wtcbooek of 0,
Jut.
Third District
Job 1. H. Itoblnson of Madison.
fourth District
V. L. Stark of Aurora.
fifth IMstrlct
R, ), Sutherland of Nelson.
Sixth District
W, L. Green of Kearney.
LANCASTER COUNTY TICKET.
or District Judge (to Mil vacancy.)
Samuel J. TutMa of Lincoln.
Tot lhantv Attorney
John I Jrr, Mncoln
for State Senator
J, 11. Hurley, Lincoln.
J. J. Stcln, SultiJlo.
For ifr preventatives
J. II. Ctiryea, Waverly,
W.C. 1'hippa, Uavelocl
A. E. Sheldon, Aco
K. Miller, Lincoln.
Lf M. Wente, Lincoln.
Iror (bounty Commlssloner-i-
Win. Hchrowlw, IIncolr.
The republicans bnvh furoiHhml tb de
faulters and the Judges to try them.
Over these two things they do an im
mense amount of bragging.
They must be having whole lot ol
McKinley prosperity upin Custer county,
The delinquent tax list fllls eighty. col
um ns of the Custer County Chief.
The Iron Age, perhaps tbe most titter
gold standard paper la existence, says
that "prosperity has returned, but It is
prosperity based upon a permanently
lowered Tttto of wage,"
Mr, Burkett's attention Is called to a
letter addressed to him by Mr. Muna
hao. It Is likely, however, that Mr.
Uurkett bos gotten so far Into the woods
since he started to run, thut It will not
be possible to find him,
Bixby has got another stove, and now
ha thinks be is fixed for time aud eter
nity. The stov will keep him warm tor
. the lew years he has yet to live, and In
the next world be knows that he will be
warm euoutih without one.
It is not the promise that the pops
bar broken that troubles the republi
cans. It is the promt) that ere kept.
The; are rjt thtt the jh will make
some more trotnLe and keep thtra
again. That Is what make their
Rights so sleepWe.
k 11,. Si .;..j7aa
llilcheotk i guikg to t elected in tie
rWoud d'atrH't. AUrr tbsttb old sol
dier ill fc a cUuee to getsotmiol
their paiwa rlsnw alteadt-4 la tbst
ksv U so Urn pid,r(w hoWddvist
at WblusUtt wltils lv Mercer d
VwU4 his Un to U!U.g th UiArte.
Ak the tvttblsa you Rit ki
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wkst U iU J, Tks U ws
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mimw Iks I'urty KsWt tl kiut ts bat
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Tk M'aW if are alssjs
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tkii tkal asj aa aikl ke tw4
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A MEW ISSUE.
During the last few weeks old Tiddle
de winks has had tbe jim-jams and sev
eral other kinds of contortions, but last
Sunday it not tbe"jabberwoeks," "which
It acknowledged In a plainly printed
headline on its editorial page as follows:
"George Fred's Jabberwock." From its
hysterical screams only this could be
made out. It had never heard of the
Cjage-McCleary-Walker scheme to create
the most gigantic money monopoly that
ever entered tbe mind of a man unt il
Georgi Fred Williams delivered his
speech at tbe Oliver. That Is what gave
If th "i.ihberwocks." The Journal's
claims of Iguorunce will be readily
granted. There will be no dispute on
that ground, but wheu it puts ttie ropuo-
llcan members of congress onusowu
level of Ignoraneo by saying that not
oneintwuof them ever heard of that
scheme, it only makes Itself supremely
Mdlculous. A bill of that character was
Introduced In 1803. At that time it
was called "Tbe Baltimore Plan." on
account of having been drawn up by a
lot of bankers who assembled at Haiti
more, 4 A great discussion arose In con
gress over it. Tbe committee on onus
Ing and currency held numeroussusalous,
with Bill Springer In the chair, ah trie
great bankers of New York, wero sum
moned before tbe committee, lueluumg
Williams of tbe great Chemical bank
and Ht. John, who soon after had to re
sign because of tbe testimony ho gave.
A full report of these proceedings were
published In tbe Nonconformist nud
oopled Into all the populist pilars. Tbe
republicans papers said very little about
It, and of course those who read only
republican papers are In Ignorance of
this, as of almost every thing tine that
they ought to know.
This bill hns been In congress In somo
baM ever since, Ifcwns part and par
cel of the repeal of the Sherman act
schema. It was tbe plan submitted by
tbe Indianapolis convention and was
sent to congress with McKinley' ap
proval. During tbe lust congress there
wm nVreat furor over it. Walker the
-
old crank from Massachusetts wanted
tbe bill known by his name reported, but
one duy whou he was away the commit
tee reported one of tbe other bills and
when he come back he kicked up a great
row and the bill was sent buck to the
committee. The scheme has been the
talk of Washington for four years. Gen.
Warner devoted the whole ol his address
to a discussion of tbe bill at the Omaha
money conference. McCleary, himself,
wib there and the convention badgered
him for a whole evening about his bill
and ha employed all bis time In dodging.
Tbe scheme has been discussed for
three years In all the free silver papers
and mogoilnes of tbe country. This
writer has writon columns about it which
have been reproduced la hundreds of pa
pers all over the west. Now old Tiddle-de-winks
says that George Fred Williams
sprung a new Issue) As for its assertion
that it never beard of it, it Is probably
true. It never heard ol much of any
thing that was of value to mankind.
H'KINI.KY.
It appears that the republicans under
took to get up a dixlurbance at the
meeting UNsembled to listen to an ad-
dross y George Fred Williams at Platts-
mouth tbe other night, aud in return
McKinley got such a skinning as bus not
been ndmiuixtered to him in a long time.
The fusiou leaders have treated the pres
ident with the greatest respect. In re
turn tor It tbe republican papers are now
trying to set McKinley up ns a sort of a
god to be worshipped a man who isuot
to be criticised under any circumstances.
A far as this pner is couccrnud, it will
always reuder dim respect to the office
of president, but ns lor the mnn McKin
ley, it bus tbe most profound contempt
for him. There Is not a man today
prominent in American politics who ts
mors contemptible than this man Mo
Kiuley. He has been a trh ksterand a
fraud a supporter first of the tariff bar
ons, then of the trusts, corporations,
and th money power. For years h
was a rabid advocate of Irvssklwr. II
made seeeu aftef S('V in eougrnss iu
favor of It, and vot4 lor It jut as long
a it was iMisMrv for hint to do so to
hold his seat.
TbN Mit a mors disgraceful
thing don by a publio mn than when
a llo4 Mark lUsaa H lak nphi
our lor IIHii.iHMi.and wkils Mark held
ts aiorliisg uvr htm pat HiaipM
pW.Wst as4 idayaltk him a a child
pay with 1 toy. Hi aMot'lstlon
ssrkwt islolks WkiU ItoSMoar
a 4tares la Ik katwa, II ap4al4
a tuaa rUry ol war wku ks4 oee
bwi etturtmarllaWI lor wwsrdi k
.M,k a kts wtoal lutlial lft4 Ik
ftat,wtwttHlv i;ikb; kUow4 ki
b'lkt la ! B(i tttt ail 4ot,r la Ik
l-ssrf s4 4i a beokw m !' a
a;lia ss4 sraif malrael. wfch k
m sak a 4w - Ik it Mlka.4
44 Yk la sM aot sU4 II
Tt if sl a ! vmts4al la
Whlslo sa sww sa Is Ilk
awMlaait It 4ia4 a4 skua4 il a
M K aWy.atik Ik stsWawsl tkat
Xmt W 1 'tttrfra t k4lMi
was ! lwl la lkr 4 at Ik an
mI I N tkiik.t, Aka ktt Ik tt
4ay a4 ti-l ta. la t Twl,
kHI k M tS4 H Ik MS kWM
IU tki a4 k ka ka a
kU tk lis kf Ik t"sltt 4it.rk a4
tfcey kM'4'k4otl ttta
tm,kk W. kit k.J U
lltva tk hi llaaas ka
sooa have to meet charges of wholesale
bribery, started McKinley out to swing
around the circle In the midst of a cam
paign as an electioneering dodge, ac
companied by a large part of the cabi
net and all the army and naval officers
that could be Induced by positive orders
to go, the silver editors said nothing,
although a constant Are was kept up all
the time on Bryan, who was with bis
regiment taking care of tbe sick and dy
ing. But tbe thing has gotten beyond
endurance. Courtesy has no more effect
on the men who are planning to give the
sovereign power to coin and control the
money of this country to the banks and
ruduce the people to abject slavery under
them than water has on a duck's back,
McKinley and bis whole Mark Ilanna
Rteve Elkins gang can prepare them
solves for a defence of the toy who occu
pies tbe White House.
FOKKWAKNICO.
Every 0110 of tbe correspondents of
tbe great gold bug dailies who have re
mained in Washington during the cam
paign and all of whom have access to
the uatloual headquarters of the differ
ent political parties have for the last
four weeks said that there would be a
majority in tbe next congress against
tbe republican party and the "more
permanent establishment of the gold
standard," Last Sunday the Journal's
Washington liur gave upond practically
acknowledged that tbe next house was
lost.
Let every render of the Independent
preserve the following statement. It
will be of use in the near future. II the
fre silver forces carry tbe next congress,
there'll be a howl go up from one end of
the country to the other that tbe elec
tion of a free silver congress has so
frightened tbe people that u punlo is In
evitable, The fall in prices that is sure
to come, no matter what tbe political
complexion of tbe next congress will
all be laid to the fact that there was "a
threat" against tbe gold standard, if
the republicans succeed, and if the free
silver forces succeed, it will be because of
that.
Every economist knows that there
must be a further fall in prices if the
gold standard Is policy persuod. Banks
cannot lomr continue to do business
with 1 10. of credit to f 1. of actual mon
ey. The thing is impossible Every
sort of effort is being made to hold up
the weak concerns until after election,
but even that is impossible as will be
seen by the list of recent bank failures
printed in anothtr column, Wbtn it
comes, tho old cry will be raised that It
was all on account of "the threat of free
silver." Remember this 'and be fore
warned. x
MTAIIMNO TIIK COMMON SCHOOLS.
It is a month since the Independent
printed from the senate and house jour
rials of 1805 the damnable record of tbe
last republican legislature showing that
that body passed through the senate
and ouly lacked a few rotes of passing
through the bouse a bill that absolutely
closed hundreds of country school
bouses In this state and left thousands
of children without the means of secur
ing a common school education.
No denial ot the charge bos ever been
printed in any republican puper simply
because tbe record was given in full and
ns It, was made up by the republican
clerks of the senate and houne no denial
can be made.
It stands as a proven fact that tbe
list republican senate did pass senate file
222 which reduced the limit of taxation
for school purposes from 25 milts to 15
mills and provided that any school with
an average attendance noi exceeumg
Ave should be cloned.
Itstauds as a proven (art that a ma
jority ol republicans In the house voted
lor that bill and that it was ouly pre
vented from paniug there by a minority
of III li'pubiirans actiug with th pop-
UliNt to defeat It.
It stands a a proven fact that the
ouly oH't of this Infernal bill was to
favor th railroad nud uou-realdent
laud owner who ohleetwl to Joying
thflr bar ot school taxes to educate
th childfu la dUtrict wher they had
priqwrty.
Htau4aa proven fact that at
!! six ol th republican member ol
th IMI3 W-v-UUtur wka voted lor tbi
bill stabbing th Mmmua school ol th
Ui ta th iuterMt ol corporations ar
r.,44te lor slvetioa lu tb Mil kfl
Utur. They are:
VJ 4 DtNat.
Cig i4 1mm!.
Bur ol Leatr,
lUiktoa id l.rir.
IUhIIj ol tt.s
lUlwc t4 VakiHUw.
Ts Uttl w ltrolM4 a4fikr4
by rWnniof Vjot IKmicU. It
Uttr"4ue4 at ! request (4 Ik
Was lkt 4i4 l ! la y
kM4 !'. vArl wa la h
kH4 ko 4 nk tiplf M I if
a l-ft. ;r, U oHf ky
a h4litt i4 Ik rfeMN
at eelH k U. Mil HM
1'iwm ! la tk, truss kil4
la 4 IU k u imi 4hJ! ta at Ik
tr sk h4 system 4 Swk.
A atrftf 4 Ik topaMwia
ti lk Wvl ttkJwa kHitf vowj
tkwa lt, 1 kMi'ta mWwa
4kv mpI lkt 4r 4t It
k it t ia IM twl.
lMtk r-atnl Nkk t
Ukkaulkf rihJ aa kf
''
"AVAILABLE FUNDS."
The populists hare nothing to conceal
and no misrepresentations to make con
cerning the state treasury. All that
they desire to do is to present the facts
In such a manner that the every day
working man can understand them.
Tho speeches of Judge Hay ward and the
articles generally appearing in tbe re
publican papers, whatever the motives,
certainly do not prununt the facts, which
are as follows:
Whole amount turned over
by Hartley $802,002.75
Amount a vailable for reduc
tion ofdobt J402,y05.24
Judge Hiiyward's statement that
Meserre had t'400,000 with which to
pay the debt of tbe state is false. This
1402,005 21 was the amount of money
that wus in tbe fund thut could bo used
for that purpose and the puymouC of
tbe current expenses of the state as fol
lows: GenerulFunl f 104,000.70
Sinking Fund.. 143.900.01
Temporary University Fuud D.r.OO.Oo
Relief Fund 1,500.05
Institute Feeble Minded 2,888.04
Total f 402,005.24
Tbe amount of tho general fund could
be used for canceling and paying off
state wurrrints aud that in tbe other
funds for paying the rights standing
against them. There are 1 4 other funds
in which there were $400,597.51, not a
dollar of which was "available" for the
reduction of tbe state debt. Among
them was tbe permanent school, capitol
building, state library etc.
On August 81st, 1898, there were in
27 different funds, f 407,441.06 on hand
but only the following were available
for the reduction of the state debt:
General Fund 8,087.81
Sinking Fund 8,487.79
Total $11,555,79
Since Meserve's Incumbency of the
office, all of tho temporary university
warrants, relief bonds and institute for
feeble minded warrants have been paid.
There is quit? a large sum of money
locked up in six or seven different funds,
where all claims agair.st them have been
paid off and it lies there idle. But Me
serve cannot touch it until the legisla
ture takes action. As soon as it does, it
will be applied to a further roduction of
the state debt. It must first be trans
ferred to the general fund by act of the
leglHlutur".
Tho above tsatement forever wits at
rest tho charge that there is a large
fond In tbe bands of the treasurer that
ought to be paid out. There is only
U,555.79 that can be paid out with
out making the treasurer and bis bonds
men personally liable for misappropria
tion of publio money. That will be
paid out on the next call for warrants.
STILL AT TUB OLD STAND.
Old Tiddle-de-winks has discovered
another mare's nest. In speaking of tbe
populist circular it says:
"In one plnce in this circular tho state
treasurer says he bs reduced the state
debt 1788,488.99 and in another place
in the same circular be gives tbe amount
as 1700,524.09. Which is correct?
Tbe latter figure is the amount that
the state debt bad been reduced up to
July 1st, and the former tbe amount of
the reduction up to August 1st. Repub
licans should not forget that Meserve is
still doing business at the old stand and
the reduction of the debt of tbe state of
Nebraska goes steadily on and will con
tinue to go on, until tbe last cent is
paid provided always that the popu
lists continue to run the treasury.
TOOK PITY ON THEM.
The Nebraxka Advertiser, published at
Nemaha, asks tbsfollowingoonundrums:
"Why did the educational board can
cel th delinquent leases ol school lunds
jiiMt whn th holders were getting abb
to payT How about th 941)0,000 back
rent money that was wiped oft th books
and lost to the state?"
Wagiv it up, Perna it was be-
onus UuclsJaks thouijht that if h col-
Ut4 tho delinquent tease and tbat
9 lOO.OOO back rent and addd It to tb
1.185,0(50.03 Increaa that b mad In
th disbursement to th common
school ta 1 months, th popl woul4
riwiapla tbir wrath at th cheating
tb republican h4 4ooan4 bann every
on oil hem. IsthslS N.W.tUs-
der, would aot too b printed at lk
k4 uf tk editorial soIuimb ol th Ad
vertise, V Nney lk in only aa
t,tkMk t"r I a4 I arte Jai
lust t..uk mi v i a'k t""' rlur
a H4r a4 lsutt ?
IMai lit loe e la itt i4 their
HI.
m Yin aBa Mtaaa
Tk go) 1 14 4iU ar.,.t punt
a 4t' k-U Ik letetftaai
ttUoftMfiu Ubk UiUf 4rif tke
Wita liar. A lo- ' 4 Ik
a wtlmaa, however, Ml tUe4
ku tkf keep ImU4 alter a
WiikU Ik Ul t- 4as I k4
(a tk ivar l 4 lk4'f l"e
tk4lk Mf4 Ik kJUs.11
kaskkv ka aaiie!, Tr4-a
Halkiaal 4 N.w t.wk. PtaH
kftiik ui l iwa. M t . a4 l !
ttuaJ (4 !UIk, N.kv, Ik 1t. a
I oal i4 (Jektia, IWk, a4 a kM a wa
t MkM a4 Tfa4ia kaak 4
New Tk lvly. Tkr ara a t
mm ta kltoa la Ik Islar. IV.
tattti arkti a4 ta s
teal Ik f waattet
the election. Tbat sort will all go at
once about the middle ol November.
. There Is not an economist in the Unit
ed States today who does not know that
one of two things must happen. Either
prices must be further reduced or we will
have another '03 affair. It is absolutely
impossible to carry on business for any
great length of time on bauk credits
which run about ten to one of actual
money. It has been tried a thousand
times and it bus always ended in a
colapse. It will end there this time just
as it always has heretofore,
Tbe crops cannot be moved at tbe
present prices with the amount of money
in circulation. It is an impossibility.
They say that there Is 400,000,000
bushels of wheat for sale in the wheat
growing states. It will, at 50 cents a
bushel, take 1200,000,000 to start it
off. Then there ate the hogs, tbe cattle,
the corn, tho cotton, the oats and hun
dreds of other things tbat must be sent
to market. It takes money, actual
money to do it. Bank credits are avail
able for only a small part of it. When a
farmer takes a load of wheat to tbe ele
vator, be wants money bank credits
won't answer.
There is no trouble about there being
money to move tbe crops. One-half or
one quurter of the money we have now
would move tbe crops without any diffi
culty whatever would more them just
as quickly as twice the amount that we
bare, The trouble comes about the
price, If tbore are 400,000,000 bushels
of wheat to move, if tbe price is 1 per
bushel, it will take f 400,000,000 of
money to start it. If the price Is 50 cents
a bushel it will take only $200,000,000
to start It. Anybody but a gold bug
republican would know that much.
Tbey don't seem to know anything, for
they claim tbat the amount of money In
circulation has nothing to do with
prices.
To sum up tho whole thing there is
not enough money in existence to move
the crops at tbo present prices. Prices
must of necessity come down, or if they
are attempted to be held up by more
bunk credits in tbe fields of business
where those credits can bo used, aud tbe
actual money turned Into use to move
the crops, then the banks will go up tbe
flume and we will have '03 over again.
That is the situation as riewed by every
economist iu both this country and
England.
TIIK DANGER AHEAD.
The people are just waking up to the
fact that this is one of tbe most im
portant elections ever held in the United
States. Tbe gold power is taking every
advantage to attract attention away
from tbe real issues. Tbey want to talk
about Bryan, the war or anything but
the real thing that they are after, which
Is to curry the next congress and then
establish the gold standard. For tbe
purpose of deceiving tbe people tbey
talk about the 'Ipresentgold standard,"
as if It were already established. They
well know that prices will have to be
cut in two again before the gold stand
ard is reached. Tbey already have bills
in congress tbat will do tbe work, if tbey
can only put the "be it enacted" to any
one of them. Those bills provide for the
retirement of the greenbacks, the treas
ury notes and the silver dollars. Tbey
make everything redeemable in gold.
Just as sure ns tbe sun shines they will
pass one ot those bills if they succeed in
this election.
But the retirement of tbe greenbacks
and the making of all other money re
deemable iu gold is not by any means
the most dangerous feature of those
bills. Tbey establish a bauk aristocracy
with far greater powers than the world
ever saw before. The system of banks
that th bills create, with the branch
attachment which is provided for all of
Ihem, will within flv year drive every
privuto and state bank out of existence
aud th whole country will be absolutely
at tbe mercy ol Wall strt, No greater
danger ever threatened this republic.
Get out and work a you never worked
Mfor. that tber is a legislatur
that will eud Allen back. Me that
very rtitorm coogremsn 1 eiecieu.
Goat it and keep at it until th last
tot I counted.
A foriSTSOl Hl.lt.
Tk pop editor out at Hebron, who
publUbe a lour rolania w kly ka ifo.
tea kirn-ell lata troabl up ta kUeye.
Whea Ik ftuaty ortWr ekasgl, k
(tt aa oro-f lor a ibui ruer
kead. II lrUtt4 Ihem asl took lam
over la k etiusly olfl"f wko ksd or-
4ere4 Ikewi, 4 ak4 Ik tmsef what
fc Ibottifk! k ontfkt lakr far XUm.
Tktrhr 4.J't t sow tut stKeei.
that Ik 4itv kk at tk lM l-rl lor
Wiur kea.ls 14 ay Ik repukbrasa.
Tkllk4t4il, IUfoa4 that Ik
.rH tbt-sed M tin r !kutt!.
Tk pup 4i ' 4 lkt Btl k
tit wa'k a4 f t kU ta i 4 a la 1 1 ?.u
4 It wss rail, ! a U '4 M
aiaki. .fkv a4 4.a'l laua
akal N 4 , II a 101 kt k ! tk
It &0. Ikees '! af tu4
kept k Ik ay in-ta l h l la a
ymk 4 UuaNa A 'I tl tWM !
km Irwat witaM, a a vJI, r
imkl pive4a ta ''4i4 p ki".
4t Ik evsntf. Itaakl kakav
kaaaakeMer s tki. Tk y a
ta tk trst aaa g sl It
eailtte a pee,a-s 4a peaa
a4 atr Irt la klkia rpk.ka
TUK QUANTITY THEORY.
The very first step in tho study of po
litical economy must consist in gaining
a right conception of what value is. The
terra is used from the rery first lesson to
the last and the one who does not know
what ralue is, can know nothing else of
tbeBcience. The definition that econo
mists use is: "Power in exchange."'
That is eridently correct, for a thing
that could not be exchanged for any
thingnot for money or any commodity
could not be said to have ralue. The
definition given by Senator John P,
Jones, however, will convey1 a clearer
idea to most minds. He says: "Value is
human estimation pla-jed upon desirable
objects whoso quantity is limited."
It will bo evident to any, with tbe ex
ception of a gold bug republican, that
anything of unlimited quantity could
have no value. If wheat were piled up
lu unlimited quantities on every hand it
would hove no value. Even a repubfi
cin gold bug would admit that, and
after admitting it, would turn right
around and say that an unlimited quan
tity of.'gold would not affect tbe value ot
that metal iu tbe least. All gold Is po
tential money. Tho amount of money
even if there were unlimited quantities
of it would not in the b ust affect its
value, is wbut the republicans claim aud
somo of them are such idiots that tbey
believe what tbey say.
The value of everything increases just
in tbe ratio ' that tbe quantity is dimin
ished. Water on tbe bank of luke Erie
has no value, One can dip it up be
come possessed of it, but be can't ex
change; it for anything. Water In tho
midst of a desert, where tbo quantity is
exceedingly limited becomes of great
rulue, Tbe ralue has iucreused just ia
the ratio tbat the quantity bas dimin
ished. Any one save a gold bug repub
lican can see thut. He can't. Don't
wear at him. Ho can't help it. TbeA
are wheels in his bead.
The republicans are resurrecting their
old, deud and buried tiieory of over pro
duction to account for tbe constant fall
in the price of wheat and cotton. With
thousands half naked and thousands
more half starved, tbey will find tbat it
will not work half as well as it did when
John Sherman first promulgated it.
Once upon a time tbe republicans
started out in tbis state to win a cam
paign with a catch phrase that read as
follows: "God bates a coward." Since
Burkett and Dave Mercer took to tbo
woods upon being challenged to a fair
debate, they bar bad no use for tbo
phrase. It is, however, just as true as
it ever was.
Judge Norriss, who is running for con
gross on tbe republican ticket in toe-
Third district, is rery much disgusted
with the fusion of tbe democrats and
populists against him. Ho thinks tbat
it is an unholy alliance, a political crime.
A few years ago when ho got up a fusion
with the populists and republicans to-
elect himself ta tbe district bench, bo
thought fusion was all right, and there
was nothing unholy or criminal about it.
Tbe main argument made by Judge
Hayward and the inducement held out
to get the citizens of Nebraska to rote
the republican ticket, is that Hartley did
tint tttaul nil Hia ninnuv tliwra iviim in ttlA
treasury. He thinks that tbe republican
party ought to have a lot of credit for
that. Tbe infereuce is that if tbe party
is returned to power they will not take it
all next time. Tbey will leave a little for
a nest egg.
When the First National bank of
Neluigb closed its doors last week, a teU
. . ....
egram was sent out from mat burg
stating that it was closed pending an
xamiuation aud it would resume uguln,
but in th report that the examiner sent
to Washington these words are found:
"Tb condition of th bank makes re
sumption Impoeeible." It was ouly tb
repetition of tb old story: "All th de
positors will be paid in lull,"
Shatter proved himsolt to be a regular
cad betor tea thousand eop!s In Chi
cago tb other day, Geuerwl Mil met
him on th platform wilk Mi Kmley and
t tended hi baud. Shatter drew hi meet (
up aud refuw4 to shake hand with hi
superior otlhvr, II wa hUaed by Ik
ero4. Tker U aa old soldier la Lin
vol a who served eeate year Il tk
army, llcaaglva kiet.iry ol lk prk-
v l rkaraeter id Haafter that wol4
Msktk kair slaad om Iks ka4 ol
aia i p! aver a moral ibidi.
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