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partj for year. While he i a radical f
hi wbc4 aha i to l.rir? aboat ?is.!ation
Lia calcic try for g-oTrrror be caie many Inecai and no enema e. His course
was hoaorablf frcsi the begicticg. He will go into this fight and make a canvass
r the cocit with all the rir that he would hare thrown into it if he himself
had bees Iwrt to head the ticket- John
With Lii oaal Erfy Kdmlste-n is at
work as4 the ciiiira on- Word
Lai been rec-i T-d fraia alcxnit every
eiaa is the state epos whora the repub
iicasji relied U c-ake trouble and every
ece cf thess pir their titre and tal
ett t the fcujportcjf the ticket from
top to bottoeii- A a inevitable, when
a rjEiratioa ie'tsed. equivalent to an
ectk., there were cacy candidates for
every poeitioc- The republicans t-iie4
on ocie cf ttt cacii-iate or their
friend ir.a.k:r; trouble. In that ex
fdation they Laie -n wholly dLap
ptiited. E-ry f the candidates
arsd all of the r friend are -endici; word
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by caaJ that they a re
a hr-i-h. The old worker in the party
i-eea in tDre tieily eiJxet than they
Lave er b-o brfiee. The tew secre
tary d the corrsittee, O. IX Wilson, of
Killruore cout.ty, tu os.e of the bet
ctatty chairmen we have ever had in
the ttate- He wa a farmer and left his
wheat in the held to r and take charge
cf a xacty paper that the farsers ha!
fctarted asd tuake a frht for reform
when there wa net Eiuch prospect for
aece. lie x&ce te paper a
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in redeem-
irx the coocty frost, republican rule.
We nver had a beter, eaecutive oom
cittee. LdciteB never ah owed greater
erjranizir-g ability ut core energy than
in the fe day hat have elapsed since
the orir.ves.tion and the force all over
the ttate rel to be inspired by like
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the radicals in his political principles,
that will benefit the toiling masses. In
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handle the goods from the manufac
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mat an association or tnls kind may
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bands of its patrons it should have the
co-operation of all ' the good farmers
throughout the entire 'state.
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Editor" Independent: A friend sent
me a copy of the Nebraska Independent.
l.njce it very mucxu . I- cow become a
subscriber myself and fend the names'
of thre . of my neighbors. Will you
i cleave send us this week s naoerT
That empires rise, flourish and decay
I has been proved many ( times. Other
1 governments have fallen' after conquer-
ing and ruling. over weaker nations. Hhe
FI.rttTAil Stttt ma v!1 rpnm hor tnic
It 14 high time the soldiers were called
home from Cuba and from the Philip
pines. Why haven't the inhabitants of
these islands a right to a government of
their own? Why should they not be al
lowed to govern themselves in their own
way?
What right has the United States be
cause they are larger in population and
are belter prepared for war, to send sol
diers there to force the- poor natives to
obey our laws?
We, the people of the United States,
claim that all men are created equal,
with certain inalienable Tights among!
wnich are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, if so why do we send soldiers
to tne Philippines to force the people to
obey our laws when they do not want
to?- Becau?e in- some 'way the 'head
cooks and 'bottle washers at Washing
ton, such as Mark Hanna, have got it
into their heads that there might be a
few votes or a dollar in it for them.
They talk about civilizing and christian
izing them; what good will it do after
they are ali shot? -
If Kcgland had conquered the colon
ies one hundred and, twenty-five yeajs
ago. where would we be today? But
tirtgland did not conquer us and now
that we are one of the most civilized and
pros-perous nations of the world should
we oppress a weaker people? Is there a
sensible or a reasonable reason for doing
so? Are the people of the Philippines
not created equal with the people of the
United States? Nelle Dawes, Independ
ence, Iowa.
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News of the Week
Events of the most startling character
have occurred during the last, week.
They have all grown out of . this world
wide imperialism the attempt , of one
nation to govern others ahd subject peo
ples without their consent. In China
the most horrible atrocities have been
committed. All the foreign ministers,
their wives and - children, their guards
and servants have been : cruelly mur
dered. It is such a massacre as has
not occurred in the world since the Six
teenth - century. The dispatches are so
contradictory and the circumstances of
the massacre so little known, for Pekin
has been cut off from communication
with' the world for weeks, that all sorts
of conjectures have been indulged in by
the correspondents. -
It has been virtually conceded how
ever, that all the ministers of the various
powers as well as all foreigners in Pekin
have been ruthlessly slaughtered. At
Tien Tsin, which, is the point where the
forces of the various nations have con
centrated for an advance upon Pekin,
there lias been fighting for several days
of the most bloody . character. On the
13th, the-battle was renewed and the
allied forces were defeated in attempt
ing to make an assault upon-the native
portion of tne city, 'lne losses among
the Germans, Americans, Japanese, Brit
lsn, t rencn and Kussian troops were
very ' great. There ; were about 1,500
American troops engaged, including the
Ninth infantry and marines. The loss
in officers was large, including Colonel
Liscom, " Major Regan, Captains Book
miller, Wilcox and Davis . killed and
Captains Butler,-Leonard and several
others wounded. The surgeon in charge
told the correspondent that at least one
fourth of the entire regiment had been
killed - or wounded. Nearly : all the
officers reported killed have been long
in -the regular army and fought all
through the civil war.
It is reported from Washington that
10,000 more United States troops are on
their way to China. The president upon
hearing the news, hurriedly left ins
home in Canton and returned to Wash
ington: What the outcome of this bus
iness will be no man can foresee. -'The
latest cablegrams from the Phil
ippines is to the effect that every de
partment commander there is asking for
more troops. One correspondent says:
'M,ore troops is the demand which is
coming to General.McArthur from every
department of the islands. Recent
events-have worked to vindicate General
Law ton's judgment that 100,000 troops
would be needed to establish American
sovereignty over the Philippines. Until
they .attempted to hold provinces of
I 200,000 or 300,000 hostile people with a
regiment or two. the American com
manders hardly realized the size of the
Philippine islands. The present force is
not large enough to garrison more than
half the important towns, and in some
of the most important islands among
them Cubu, Panay, Samar, Leyte and
the great Mohammedan empire of Min-
dano-r-only tne commercial ports are oc
cupied."
Anotner correspondent relates tnat
Aguinaldo, who has so often been re
ported dead, burried or gone to China,
is still very active and recently issued a
proclamation which has been circulated
all over the islands concerning the Judge
Taf t commission. . Aguinaldo points out
that the k commission is simply the per
sonal agent of President McKinley and
that its appointment was never author
ized by congress. Several severe fights
have taken place at different points on
the islands. The commission is shut up
in Manila and dare not go out of range
of our soldiers. The whole of the islands
except tne few points occupied by our
troops, is still outside of our mnsdic
tion. In fact, after all the fighting and
all the etpense, we are no nearer the
end of the war in the Philippines than
when we first began.
In South Africa there has been con
siderable heavy fighting, one battle last
ing all day. All the dispatches of course,
come over the British owned cable lines,
but even from them it can be seen that
the British have suffered heavy losses.
A recent statement from the British war
office acknowledges losses of over $50,-
000 not including those who are in the
South African hospitals. The neglect
of the sick and wounded of the British
army has caused a protest from some
members of the parliament and an in
vestigation has been ordered.
Kruger s government on wneels,
backed up by the magnificent military
genius of General Botha, and the stub
bornness of President btyne, wno nas
General Dewet to engineer the fighting
in the Orange Free State, makes imper
ialism a hard road to travel for Johnny
Bull in South Africa.
The ordinary man when he glances at
the news of the week and reflects upon
the condition of the world today, com
pared to the universal peace that reigned
three years ago, will ask what has
changed a world of peace to a world of
war. ; If he does, his honest conclusion
will be that it- is the result of imperial
ism. Spain began it when she refused
self government to the Cubans and the
Filipinos. Then McKinley started in an
attempt to establish imperialism in the
Philippines and Porto Rico. That de
parture from the traditions of this re
public, started up Joe Chamberlain to
try imperialism in South Africa. The
Chinese watching .- these movements by
the two greatest powers began to fear
for the integrity of their domain. The
constant pressure upon her for territory
and "spheres of influence," inflamed a
half civilized population witn a fury
which has resulted in one ' of the
most atrocious butcheries ever perpe
trated since history began.
If McKinley had had any regard for
the constitution and traditions of this
republic and at. the close of the Span
ish war had proclaimed liberty in all the
land and to all the inhabitants thereof in
stead of adopting the phrases of old
George III and his policies, it is alto
gether probable that there would have
been' ho war in South Africa and China
and most certainly none in the Philip
pines. ' Imperialism has ' brought more
woes upon the world in the last three
years than all the suffering of the last
quarter of a century. What is still
worse, we are only at the beginning of
our troubles. No man can tell when
the wars in South Africa, the Philip
pines or China will end, how much blood
will be shed or the amount of the war
debts that will be piled up to be a bur
den to coming generations.
. it is time that . trie civilized powers
got back to the ways of liberty and that
the dogmas of imperialism were dis
carded. Nothing can be more certain
than if these policies are persisted in,
that the world will be . deluged . with
blood and a burden of
debt , imposed
upon the toiling masses
such as they
have never borne before.
The very latest dispatches are to the i
effect that the ministers had not been
murdered as late as July 9th. The allied
forces made another attack on Tien Tsin
and captured the city with a large num
ber of guns and much modern ammuni
tion. The losses in this second battle
were 800, among them 45 Americans.
New cablegrams' from Gen. McArthar
are to the effect that he cannot spare
another soldier from the Philippines.
There is great activity in the in the navy
yard at San Francisco and many ships
are being ntted out for service. ljarge
quantities of quartermaster's stores are
being shipped to me 1 acihe coast, it is
announced . in .. Washington that there
will be no extra session of coneress on
account of this Chinese war. There has
been more heavy fighting in South Afri
ca without any decisive results.
SHORT AND PITHY STORIES
Hill,
Stevenson, Towne, Davis and
Jones In Nebraska
SOME THINGS SAID ABOUT THEM
Webster Davis Glres aa a Reaaon for Turn-
- ing Hie Political Coat His Intense
x - Sympathy for the StrurgUng
, Afrikanders
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The Boers are a brave people defend
ing their homes against foreign aggres
sion. No wonder American men look
upon the struggle with more than pass
ing interest The United States of
South Africa ought to be something
more than a dream.
Foreign insurance companies are quite
as relentless in their attacks upon home
competition, but the Bankers Reserve
Life Association goes right along writ
ing the best class of risks.
' DAVID P. HILL.
"I say, Dave," said Judge Van Wyck
to ex-Governor Hill, when the distin
guished New Yorker returned to Kansas
City from his Sabbath day. interview
with our own William J. Bryan, "what
hit vou the hardest in Nebraska after
Bryan's stubborn adherence to the doc
trine of 16 to 1."
"The complacency of the people of
Nebraska. Why, do you know, Judge,
they have established in Omaha a stipu
lated premium life insurance company.
called the Bankers Reserve Life Asso
ciation, that writes more risks in a month
in that state than our three big com
panies combined? It is only three years
old, but it is a phenomenon. This fact
went up against me just as hard as the
16 to 1 proposition."
- ADLAI IJT OMAHA
"Adlai," piped up a falsetto voiced
populist at the Lincoln ingathering of
fusion leaders Tuesday afternoon, "did
you stoo in Omaha on your way here?"
Certainly I never miss stopping in
the metropolis of Nebraska when I have
occasion to pass ' near. I always get a
new idea there from somebody. This
time a representative of the Bankers
Reserve Life Association took my eye
and really- if I hadJ not been so close to
the limit of age I believe I should have
taken one of those twenty-payment pol
icies of his company. I never knew be
fore what a stipulated premium meant.
I do now. if l- had ot been unani
mously nominated . for vice president I
would have asked for an agency con
tract." ,
WHY SENATOR JOIK3 WAS BRIEF
"Senator Jones, the Mark Hanna of
the democratic party," was the felicit
ous introduction vouchsafed the gentle
man from Arkansas when he faced the
yelling, enthusiasts of the capital of Ne
braska. The senator took it good na-
turedly. though he had no boquets to
throw at Ohio's leader.
Perhaos he would have spoken loneer
if he had not known that a special agent
of the Bankers .Reserve Late Association
was in Lincoln preparing for a campaign
and conferring with the leading busi
ness men who are to be on its advisory
board. Senator Jones did not care to
interfere with anything in the way of
local enthusiasm.
TOWNE AND A VICE PRESIDENCY
Charles A.' Towne came to Lincoln to
confer with the leaders of the fusion
party, and to shoot off - some pyrotech
nics at the ratification meeting. And
he called at the capitol. If he had asked
Auditor Cornell for the report of the re
cent examination of the Bankers Life
Association he would have learned that
Vice President Latta of that successful
Nebraska corporation is temporarily ab
sent, B. H. Robinson of Omaha, the
president, would gladly welcome the
silvery, persuasive voice of the Duluth
statesman into me insurance neia. ne
might be very useful in building up the
business if he could abandon politics for
a period.
I can cinch a saddle,
I can rope a cow,
I can shoot a bear,
I can ride a bronco.
Oq blood I am bent,
- What more do you want
In a vice president)
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Roosevelt Coming to Nebraska
In an interview given out from Omaha
Coneressman Mercer says: "Theodore
Roosevelt will spend a considerable part
of his time in .Nebraska this fall. Col.
Roosevelt told me that he felt more at
home in the west than in any other place
on the globe and would devote his labors
to this part ol tne country, Nebraska
coming in for her full share." Congress
man Mercer had just arrived from Wash
ington and will spend . the summer and
early fall m the state, giving his atten
tion to the republican campaign.
All old soldiers and sailors in sympa
thy with this reform movement will meet
at the Lincoln Hotel, A o clock p. mn
Saturday, July al, lwoo. business of im
portance will be called at this meeting.
Those who. cannot attend, please send
address, company and regiment to me.
JOS. McGRAW, Secretary.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Northwest Wheat Crop. Eight Presi
dential Candidates Turning Over
to Bryan. '
The writer of this column has gone
fishing in one of the ten thousand lakes
of Minnesota. He is now stopping be
tween the Twin Cities, at St Anthony
Falls, on the Mississippi. There seems
to be the same hurry and business here
that there was years ago. The drouth
has been cut short by several good
showers and the pastures and lawns be
gin to look fresh and green. But the
ram was too late to make much of a crop
of wheat or oats. Thousands of acres
will never be cut, and what is cut will
hot yield more than half a crop. We
speak of the portions we have seen.
Many wheat and oat fields have been
plowed and corn sown for fodder. Foot
high oats and wheat in full head, white
and dry, do not put Nebraska grain to
blush in the least Corn and potatoes,
since the rain, have a good color though
small. Some portions of Minnesota
bring to mind the rocky fields of Ver
mont and Newhampshire. There is one
thing that shows good sense among the
farmers, and that is the number of hens
foraging over the fields. There is also a
thing that reflects their foolishness, and
that is the lack of apple orchards. There
is no reason why apples should not do
well in this state. We have heard but
one reason for not putting out orchards
and that is the distance off of the hrst
crop of fruit
The light crop m this state, the two
Dakotas, and in the Winnipeg country,
will undoubtedly affect the price of the
world's wheat and to some extent it
may affect trade in this northwest coun
try, but there will be no suffering from
lack of food. East India will take the
cake this year for famine and suffering.
Since writing the above a new crop
statement has come to our notice.
Former statements are ridiculed as the
work of the "traveling crop killer." The
new statement places the wheat crop
this year in Minnesota at 75,000,000
bushels. Last year it was 95,000,000.
The shortage of the entire northwest is
placed at t0,000,000 bushels. Some of
the people here think the shortage will
be much more. The fact that hay is
selling in the Twin Cities for $ 15.00 per
ton is evidence that the ground has
been very thirsty. As we write there is
falling a continuous rain, already lasting
a half day.
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There are at this writing but eight
candidates in the field for the presi
dency, with bright prospects for at least
one more. The gold democrats of New
York have called a convention and we
hope they will put another gold bug in
the field, because if they do not Mc
Kinley will have that many more votes.
The Bryan and McKinley ticket will un
doubtedly receive all the electoral votes,
because none of the others will be like
ly to carry a single state. The social
labor party nominated Harriman; social
democrats. Debs; united Christian,
Clark; middle-of-the-road pops, Barker;
DeLeon socialists, Malony; prohibition
ists, Wooley. Some may think that
working for so many tickets is all labor
lost, but it is only so many classes in
our political school. Public discussion
on both sides of all questions is one of
the most fruitful sources of useful intel
ligences Lincoln's joint discussions with
Douglas set the die of the nation on the
slavery question. Let the candidates
take, the stump and give the people their
party doctrine from the shoulder. The
subsidized press does not dare to give
both sides. You can't hire space at the
highest advertising rate in which to
honestly set forth Bryan's doctrine. The
Bryanites are ready for joint debates
but the republicans decline because
they know they are on the hard road to
travel and will lose by it
We have found two prominent men
who voted for McKinley four years ago
but are now for Bryan. One is a post
master. He told me that Bryan s notifi
cation that he would not stand on an in
definite platform turned him. "It
showed backbone," he said, "and that is
what McKinley lacks. Of course the
republicans claim they are going to car
ry the 'state, but they already show
signs of fear. Roosvelt opens the earn
paign here Tuesday.
'
St Paul Globe: "The Twin Cities are
becoming the Mecca for the political big
funs. General Stevenson and Chairman
enes are at Minnetonka; Roosevelt
Senator Beveridge, Speaker Henderson,
and Congressman Dol liver are expected
in St Paul this week, and now comes
the news that William J. Bryan, the
commander-in-chief of the democracy,
with his wife and family, will be here
in the near future, General Stevenson
is authority for the statement that they
will visit with him at Minnetonka beach
for a time during the summer.
BRYAN AND MORTON
The Slander of W. E. Curtis and
J. Ster-
ling Morton Denounced and the
Reeord Called to Order.
The ridiculous falsehoods sent to the
unicago xvecoru uv v . jcj. urus nas
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stirred up decent men all over the coun
try and they have been calling down the
Chicago Record in vigorous terms. Two
of these protests have been printed
the Kecord. now many more were re
ceived it is impossible to say. If the
Record is to keep its subscribers, it will
have to dispense with the further ser
vices of this W. E. Curtis. A long suf
fering public has become enured to
consider abl a amount of lying in the
daily papers, but Curtis has overdone
the performance to such an extent that
there is a general revolt. The Indepen
dent reproduces the two protests. The
first is from Mr. Herman, editor of the
Free Press, at Lincoln. Mr. Herman is
not a partisan at all and very ably con
ducts an independent German newspa
per. The other writer is a resident of
Toledo, Ohio, who insists with Mark
Twain that if corpses are to be exhibited
to the public they ought to be fresh ones
and not an ' old Egyptian mummy like
Morton. The letters are as follows:
"To the Editor: I note with great
re-
eret tnat mr. tjurtia did , not nnd any
more aDnronriate nerson in the whole
state of Nebraska to get his views about
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sonal foe of Mr. Bryan since the latter
was first elected to congress.
It is impossible to rectify all the un
truths that Mr. Morton told your repre
sentative. Mr. Morton asserts that Mr.
Bryan has proclaimed a union between
the democrats standing on the Chicago
platform and those opposed to it as ab
solutely impossible. As far as I know
Mr. Bryan's views and I had opportu
nity to ascertain .them on several occa
sions he is of the opinion that the dem
ocratic party, or at least its overwhelm
ing majority, declared in 1896 to restrain
the influence of themoney power on the
government as far as possible. Whether
the program outlined m the Chicago
platform and reaffirmed in the Kansas
City platform is able to carry out this
intention I shall not discuss at present.
The great majority of the democratic
party declared in 1896 for a certain pro
gram for which Mr. Bryan stood at that
time and ever since,- and whoever de
clines to recognize this platform may be
a good democrat in a historical sense
but not in the sense of party member
chip. ; " v
'Mr. Morton is also quoted as saying:
'Last week money was loaned on land
adjoining some of my own for three
years at simple' interest of 5 per cent on
a valuation of more than $30 an acre
and I saw that same land begging for a
purchaser at $2J0 an acre not long
ago. 1 interviewed a real estate man of
Lincoln, a good republican, who makes a
very large business in loaning money on
farms and he tells me that it might be
true that somebody got a loan at simple
interest of five per cent if his farm was
of the very best land. He says that Mr.
Mortons assertion is 'very defective be
cause he does not say how many per
cent of this $30 ah acre were given as a
loan, which is in this business man's
opinion a very - important matter. He
says further that it is absolutely false
that land that has been begging for a
purchaser at 12.50 an acre not long ago
would be valued at $30 an acre today.
Furthermore, Mr. Morton does not say
when this "not long ago" occurred. It
is a fact that land has gone up in later
years, altnougn . tne republicans and
gold democrats asserted at the time the
hrst populist administration ' came into
office that all mortgages would be fore
closed, land would go down in value and
the state's credit would be ruined. The
truth is that today state warrants, coun
ty warrants and - city .warrants in Ne
braska are sold at par, while during the
former republican administration the
state warrants were sold at a discount of
6 to 8 per cent. -
Mr. Morton is very indignant about
the fact that the delegates from the ter
ritories which cannot contribute a single
electoral vote have helped to put 16 to 1
in the platform. . 1 should like to ask
whether the delegates from the southern
states who helped to nominate Mr. Mc
Kinley in 1896 came "from states where"!
there was any show of getting an electo
ral vote for the republican ticket? - Like
all opponents of the democratic - party,
Mr. Morton points to tne ice trust as
showing the insincerity of the demo
cratic party ! in I its stand against the
trusts.. Now, the ice trust of New York
is the work of a few persons, and only
tne city, government oi isew loric is
somewhat implicated in the . trust. I
don't believe that even Mr. Morton would
dare to say that the men at the head of
the ice trust are men conspicuous among
the defenders of the Chicago platform
But how about the big trusts fostered by
tariffs and other legislation?
'He says: 'His mouth has been a mint.
his words, lungs and his brain have been
constantly emitting coinage to the profit
of their proprietor. The returns have
been more than $16 annually to every one
invested, sso Other trust or monopoly
has declared dividends of such magni
tude upon so small a capital.' It is, of
course, a matter, of personal opinion
whether Mr. Bryan s intellectual capital
is small or great, but even Mr. Morton
admits that Mr. Bryan's brain has some
thing to do with the returns he gets for
his work, lhis is more than can be said
of a good macy men enjoying the high
est incomes, lnat Mr. liryan earns a
good deal of money by his work as a
speaker and writer who is in demand all
over the country is undoubtedly true.
That he earned less when he was only a
lawyer in Lincoln nobody will deny who
knows the legal - business of this city.
That Mr. Bryan has been assessed for
the highest amount of personal property
in this city is true, but it does not prove
that he has the largest personal property.
It proves only that he returns the whole
value of his property to the board of as
sessors. Everybody who knows : Mr.
Bryan, be he a republican or a democrat,
will tell you that he pays taxes on every
thing that he has to pay taxes on.
"The funniest, part of Mr. Morton's
interview is in his , reflection upon "the
chronic candidature of Col. Bryan."
Everybody who ; knows the history of
the territory , and state of Nebraska
knows also that up to the beginning of
the '80s Nebraska nad no more persist
ent candidate for any kind of an office
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than Mr. J. Sterling Morton. In the '80s
he ran repeatedly for congress and for
governor, ' and Mr. Bryan . repeatedly
stumped the state for him, but Mr. Mor
ton was never able to achieve success, '
because he was so unpopular with the
democrats of Nebraska that he never
polled more than three-fourths of the
democratic vote in Nebraska. It was
the same thing over again in '90. Mr.
Morton ran for governor, wnile Mr. Bry
an was running for congress. Everybody
considered Mr. Bryan's candidacy a
hopeless task. The district had always
been represented by republicans in con
gress with the exception of Bryan's two
terms. .
When Mr. Morton was defeated, while
Mr. Bryan had accomplished the seem
ingly impossible thing and been elected
to congress, Mr. Morton became jealous,
and with the growing popularity of Mr.
Bryan, Mr. Morton's ire grew in double
proportion. Since that time he has nev
er ceased to throw mud at Mr. Bryan,
and his paper, the Conservative, has no
other object than to publish articles in
tended to bring Mr. Bryan into dis
credit. "in tnis endeavor Mr. Morton s paper
does not refrain from untruth that can
be recognized at once bv any person of
common intelligence. For instance, not
ong ago he asserted that while Mr.
Greeley, the worst defeated candidate of
the democratic party, had received 42
per cent of" the popular vote, Mr. Bryan
had only received 40 per cent. The truth
is that in 1896 the popular vote was 13,-
923,102. Of this Mr. Bryan received 0,
502,925, which makes, according to the
fundamental principles of mathematics,
nearly 46 per cent. . -
"The history of Mr. Bryan's military
service as given by Mr. Curtis wxuld be
highly discreditable to Mr. Bryan if it
were true, but as everybody in this state
knows it is not true. . :
The whole thing looks very much as
if it come from Mr. Morton.
B. HERMAN.
Lincoln, Neb., July 13.
To the Editor: When the pompous and
mendacious cicerone of the "Innocents
Abroad" persisted in displaying and ex
patiating upon a well-preserved mummy,
the bored and disgusted 'innocents'
strenuously insisted that if they were to
be compelled to spend their time gazing
upon defunct individuals they should at
least be "nice, fresh corpses. The long
drawn-out interview of the Record cor
respondent, W. E. Curtis, with J. Ster
ling Morton gives good cause for a simi
lar request by readers of the Kecord.
For if the space usually occupied by that
gentleman's effusions be given over for
the campaign to the outpouring of green
eyed political Willieboys, a suffering
public has a right to petition that these
shall at any rate be "live ones." A stale
showman engaged in the exploitation of
still staler cadavers can scarcely be con
sidered a refreshing spectacle, especially
in oog days. M. t UUMM1WUB.
Toledo, O., July 23.
Free Grub and Free Ride ' '
In order to see how many suckers
they have caught Hanna has called a
state convention to be held at Grand
Island. Howard Paul, on account of
the good services rendered, has been se
lected as general manager for Howard
county, he is the middle-of-the-road pop
who received the bills to put up.
He undoubtedly will choose the dele
gates from Howard county. Any repub
lican who will go and help make a crowd
will have a free dinner and transporta
tion furnished him by calling on their
agent for this county. The object is to
have a large gathering so the republican
papers can have something to say about
the massiveness of the convention and
advertise the division - of pops , in
Nebraska. Not a populist of Howard
county would participate in such a
crowd, and some one must advertise the
thing so they have had to call bn their
ally. St. Paul Press. , ;
A Good Selection
Theo. Greiss was nominated .forth) of
fice of State Auditor . by acclamation
This was a wise choice and the voters of
Clay county will show their appreciation
of the honor bestowed upon the countj
and their faith in Greiss by giving him
2,500 majority. Mr. Greiss has made a
very efficient county treasurer and 1 we
are sorry to lose him from the office. He
will be elected by the largest majority of
any man on the ticket Fairfield Mes
senger. -" . r ' '
Our History I
Lord Byron summed up our history
past and future in one stanza if McKin
ley and Mark Hanna succeed in this
election. Byron wrote as follows:
' ' !
"There is the moral of all human tales ;
'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past.
First freedom and then glory when that fails.
Wealth. Tice, corruption barbarism at last
And history with all her volumes vast
Hath but one page." ,
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