July 31, 1902..
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THE CANCER OF DEMOCRACY
Aa Address From the Secretary of the
Liberal Democratic Party of New lork
Apply tbe Knife Iastead of
Poaltlcea
The liberal democrats down In. New
York state are up and doing with a
vim that bodes no good to the reor
ganizes. They argue and rightly,
too that if New York must fall into
plutocratic hands, the particular plu
tocrats should wear the republican
brand, because then the democratic
party would not be held responsible.
The Independent has heretofore pub
lished the liberal democratic platform
form and given part of the ticket. In
a letter to The Independent, Mr. Jay
W. Forrest, secretary of the state com
mittee, explains the liberal demo
cratic position as follows:
We are today able to congratulate
ourselves and the democracy in gen
eral Upon the heartiness in which our
candidates and what they stand for
have been received. Within the past
thirty days I have seen our state from
Montank Point to the Canadian bor
der, and unless all signs fail our can
vass is receiving warm approval rrom
the thinking portion of our electorate.
Here and there honest and cautious
men have asked why the battle nas
not been carried on within machine
lines? Some have even said in their
Innocence, that as the ralth itself wan
with us that it ought to be easy
enough to drive the lepers out of the
machine itself and then it would be
purified.
To such, and to all, we say that the
slightest knowledge of New York poli
tics teaches the wise and well-posted
that such a course, wnile tneoretically
right, is practically wrong, for the.
reason that it leads the lambs into tb a
dens of the wolves of New York poli
tics for shearing only. Every well
posted New Yorker, no matter what
his politics knows that more money Is
expended in this state to control pri
maries and conventions than is used
to carry elections. It is therefore nec
essary to use practical methods to
prevent smothering of truth in what
should be Its own temple. For that
reason after considering all other
means we have placed In the field the
only democratic ticket New York will
have this year, and as we are poor in
wealth, but rich in faith and loyalty
the only method of enabling true dem
ocracy to give vent to its pent-up feel
ings in an effective way was the one
adopted. We view the present politi
cal battle as the skirmish for the great
er battle of 1904, and we recognize
the condition to be somewhat akin to
this:
Two prize fighters or past renown
are preparing for battle. The trainers
and interested parties are suggesting
treatment and exercise. One of these
fighters is in the pink or condition,
the other is suffering from a cancerous
growth (and that growth is David B.
Hill). Some of the ailing fighter's
friends feel that poultices, etc., will
bring our man around all right in time
for the great fight, while we agree with
the most eminent surgeons tnat for
such a disease the knife is the only
thing that Is a remedy and so believ
ing, we say, Surgeon, out with your
scalpel and cut out the foul growth
(David B. Hill) that the fighter may
have a chance for his life. Such a
treatment, while we admit its drastic
course offers the only hope of a perma
nent cure, if the knife te now applied,
two years will show its lack of party
cruelty, and its scientific wisdom for
the time which elapses will have sear
ed the wound and the only thing that
will remain will be the minutes of the
clinic.
Every well-read democrat in this
state and nation knows that my diag
nosis of the political disease from
which the democracy of New York is
suffering is a correct one and the only
dispute is as to the treatment from
the old woman's palliative of flaxseed
poultices I appeal to modern surgery
which says the scalpel alone is the
remedy. Where, therefore, can there
be longer dispute, when, after agree
ing on the diagnosis, authority is all
one way?
True, I know the flies that rest, on
this old and long-festering sore will
be and are even now running around
the state loudly declaring that the sore
has agreed not to put Itself in obnox
ious evidence, and that the party con
vention will be pure ana sweet and
that no objectionable men will be
nominated for office this year. Yes,
gentlemen, that is partly true, I should
not be surprised to see some good and
honest men nominated on that ticket,
but it is all political chicanery. If
there were any reality to it these same
little flies which carry disease from
this sore would not be the birds to
carry such news. The mere fact that
they carry the news is proof of lt3
falsity.
There is therefore nothing for men
who are democratic in its truest sense
and who love their, party for the
truths it stands for, and not for what
alone it may bring In place or spoil,
to do in the emergency that today con
fronts you men of New York, but to
rescue your party from political har
lots who are trying to debauch it.
Virginus, that noble Roman of old,
sacrificed his own daughter in order to
save her honor. It is not such a dread
ful alternative that is before us because
all we need destroy is the debaucher.
Still the love and courage of that
loving Roman father should be an in-
them to carry out the right at what
ever cost without the counting. Then,
again, the great Jesuitical order has a
maxim which, while as a general thing
I don't admire it still I think here is
the exception where it can be nicely
used. It is: , "The end justifies the
means." :' ' '
The question has been asked, Why
do we call our organization the liberal
democratic party?
- The answer is, that the election law
of our state prevents us from assum
ing our right name without an adjec
tive which will distinguish us from
the crowd which has legally stolen our
name-plate. Therefore for the pres
ent we must be known by our deeds
and not by name alone. .
The public press is full of articles
asking what are democratic principles?
And so far as the machine of New
York and its "sore" is concerned echo
carries back as an answer only the
question. While the great duck-hunter
of that state just without the union
replies that democratic principles is
give the other fellow the husks and
take the "corn" yourself. And he
appears to be the most nonest among
his kind for almost all of us are agreed
that is just the lcind of democracy he
practiced from 1892 to 1896 the husks
for the other fellow the people the
"corn" for himself.
Our answer to the question is given
as clearly as English will make it
Read our platform. There you will
find that we stand square-toed on the
Kansas City platform, and there we in
tend to stay until the next national
convention of our party modifies Or
changes the same.
In our platform is no platitude, no
Janus-faced idol; , nothing but the
straight goods, sold only over tl;e
counter of the national democracy.
We believe the goods aie the best of
fered by any political organization and
we believe the masses want the goods
and want the clerks who have been
dispensing them to still continue at
work. For that reason and for no oth
er we are enlisted in this-cause. We
are volunteers and while like all. in
telligent animals we like "corn" !?r
the ease and comforts it purchases.
We expect as our, own individual .re
ward some of the husks the great duck
hunter said we have been lately feed
ing upon. But while we admit the
truth to be that your portion and mine
may be political husks, still our work
will bring to our party a return 'ci
power, a retention of its present hon
ors, and when these things come to a
political) party its devotees earn the
right to' wander in the land of milk
and honey as a reward for faithful and
honest work.
No other course, even If we wore
base enough to accept it. is open to
us. The Lord is said to chasten those
whom he loves, and he has surely dis
played a love for the democracy that
is encouraging, for He has never failed
to chasten us for our misdeeds and
falterings. Other parties In our his
tory have appeared to thrive and ob
tain power by reason of their iniquity
and double dealing. Some individual
democrats have also succeeded, but
never our party. Witness Cleveland
and his Morgan bond selling anti-huisk
schemes and its effect on the national
party. Witness David B. Hill stealing
state f-enators and enjoining legisla
tures and note the quick retribution.
Then ask yourself if from even the
basest of motives it is not profitable to
be politically honest and turn out
our own political thieves?
Albany. N. Y., July 22, 1904.
DANGER AHEAD
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The Republican Party is Divided Into
Bitter Factions It Faees a Grave
Crisis
The time for a revulsion against re
publican policies seems to be at hajid
and many of the leaders realize the
fact. The disaffection is largely In
the eastern states and is so serious
that the president, his cabinet and ihe
best speakers of the party are all go
ing there to try to stem the tide. Im
perialism and the trusts, both prod
ucts of republican policies, nave
estranged thousands of voters in those
states. The condition is recognized In
many of the republican organs. Les
lie's Weekly utters the following wail:
"It is time to ask, in all seriousness,
whether the death of William McKin
ley marked the apogee of the repub
lican party. While we are drifting
apart on a question of trade with Cu
ba, the democracy is getting together.
While such rock-ribbed republican
states as Vermont, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania are being torn by clashing fac
tions, the democratic leaders are fall
ing into line in solid ranks and pre
paring for the contest of 1904.
"Is our leadership lost? Less than
a year has elapsed since the pitiful
death of the lamented McKinley, and
we find a third of the republican mem
bership of the senate, representing a
dozen states, nearly all repubican, in
opposition to the administration. And
over what? A perplexing tariff ques
tion? ... '. ';.
"The ardent protection sentiment of
some has been tried by the trust de
velopments of the past few years, and
many believe that, some of our pro
tected industries should be strong
enough by this time to stand alone.
The task of the administration Sis
therefore difficult. It is now being pjet
to the crucial test of the highest
statesmanship It must be tactful, re
sourceful, conscientious,' unambitious,
jnjjalwflVQTiPillatorJJiennyo-v
tunate break In a republican senate
following manifestations of dissatis
faction in the house, is not a trlflln
matter, and the growing unrest of the
masses Is In marked contrast with the
confidence and hope they felt while
they followed the banner of William
McKinley. ;
"It needs no prophetic eye to realize
that the republican party is racing a
crisis. How shall it be met? It is not
a question of 1904: it Is a question of
1902. Political changes in this coun
try are sometimes very abrupt. The
party that, enters a presidential cam
paign with broken ranks, disorganiza
tion and disaffection, is beaten before
the contest begins.
The journal of the American Tariff
League is fighting Roosevelt outright
and makes no bones of It. So it gos
the whole United States over. The re
publican dailies have had a good deal
to say about "harmony" in the demo
cratic party. They seem to have less
of it in their own party. The only
party that is really harmonious Is the
populist party. They go serenely on
their way, and since they heaved their
traitors over the transom, there has
been nothing to, disturb the universal
brotherhood that exists among them.
Tax Reform
In New York, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois, Ohio, Wisconsin and a few other
commonwealths not excluding Colo
rado some progress has of recent
years been made in the assessment
of taxes upon Intangible holdings and
In the collection of such taxes, despite
the opposition of trusts and courts and
the sneering comments of the major
portion of the republican press, whicn
has sided with ; the tax dodgers and
against the people. Here in Colorado
the. exception to this rule are so few
and so far between that they are eas
ily singled out. The state legislature,
the state board of assessment and the
attorney general and his assistants
have received nothing but sneers and
false statements from tnese so-called
advocates of reform, who forget that
the most pressing reform In the ma
jority of states of the union at present
s the taxation reform a reform
which has almost abolished the state
land tax in New York and which has
disposed of It entirely in the state of
Pennsylvania. Denver News.
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Mr. Beger Advises True Democrats to Vota
the Populist Ticket In States Where
the Kansas City Platform Has
Been Repudiated
Editor Independent: Please send
Henry Soughman's paper to Waynes,
Pa., and please write his name H. W.
Soughman as there is something wrong
some place with the mullet headed
postmaster as Henry has only received
two or three papers since he sub
scribed for the paper. I told him that
It was no fault of the editor as my
paper came as regular as clock work
and so I requested him to make this
change that he might find out where
the fault lay. . -
One thing more. I intend to vota
the populist state ticket this fall be
cause the democratic state convention
made two serious blunders in my est!
mation. First, because they failed io
reaffirm the Kansas City platform. In
has ingrafted in it the Declaration of
Independence and the anti-imperral
plank; also the only anti-trust plank
that has within it the best remedy yet
proposed to shackle the large ; com
bines. To refuse to reaffirm the Kan
sas City platform is a slap at the Dec
laration of Independence as well as at
the financial plank, which is opposed
to government by injunction While
the money question in not paramount
at this time, it is just as important
now as It ever was and will be so un
til we secure the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at tht:
present legal ratio of 16 to 1. without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. It is folly to
vote for the position of the reorgan
izes on any question at stake before
the country excepting the tariff, and
they cannot be trusted to even handle
our side of that question, because the
vast majority; of them voted the re
publican ticket in the last two national
campaigns, knowing that the republi
can party was the mother of trusts and
private monopolies. They now con
demn that which they helped to be
stow. Is it possible they can be trust
ed to destroy private monopolies to
which they helped to grant power?
We might just as well vote the repub
lican ticket as any one or them be
cause ou can see the policy of the
two. When you define them they nat
urally drift together. The only-difference
is the republican party V policy
is more direct and radical, also more
vicious and sweeping at present than
the reorganizes', but the two policies
will eventually drift together. There
fore I sound a note or warning to ev
ery lover of true democratic prin
ciples as set forth in tne Kansas City
platform.
In every state where The reorganiz
es have controlled, the conventions
refused to Indorse the Kansas City
platform. The thing to do Is o vote
the populist ticket and snow them un
der an avalanche - of ballots so deep
that they will , keep nanas off the
ruler. 'VM--' '---'
Robert E. Pattison for governor, a
gold democrat ! in - our last national
convention. He was a delegate at
large and voted to the last against our
financial planTc: For lieutenant-governor,
George Wilkes Guthrie, a bolter
in the last two campaigns.
V i FRANK REGER.
Dunns Station, Pa.
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Editor Independent; Enclosed
please find check for $3 in payment for
the last five cards which I sold some
time ago, but have been so busy har
vesting that I have not had time to
think about sending the pay for them.
I notice with considerable interest
what The Independent has to say in re
gard to railroad taxation. I am also
reading the bulletins sent out by the
railroad companies and I have come to
the conclusion that the best and fair
est way out would be to assess all
property in the state both real and
personal at its actual casn value. Con
sidering always that the railroads
must either squeeze the water out of
their stock and quit trying to reap
a dividend from it or else be willing
to pay a tax on it as the actual cash
value thereof. J. M. VAUGHAN. ,
Huntley, Neb.
(Our' present revenue law requires
exactly what Mr. Vaughan advocates
but the question is, How can it be en
forced? ' Probably no two men, with
out consultation with each other, or
somebody else, would place tne same
valuation on a given piece of prop
erty. Accordingly, "actual cash val
uation" would necessarily vary to some
extent, even in the face of the most
rigid law which could be made. The
fact of the matter is that it is mors
easy to raise taxes on a low valuation
and high rate of levy, than It is with a
high valuation and low rate. For il
lustration, it Is desirable to ratee
taxes at about the rate of $1 to the
$1,000 actual value. It could be done
by a two-mill levy on a $500 valuation,
a five-mill levy on a $200 valuation, or
a ten-mill levy on a $100 valuation.
But the average man pays most at
tention to the assessed valuation
the rate is so small it doesn't seem to
count until he pays hl3 taxes Offer
to assess his property at $1,000 and
assure him that the rate would be
but one mill, and he would "go up in
-he air," as the slang phrase scoes; but
make his assessed valuation $100, even
if he knows the rate will be ten mills,
unless he stops to make a calculation
he will he better satisfied. At the bot
tom of all this crowding down pro
cess, illegal as it is, Is a phase of hu
man nature which should not be over
looked. The Iowa plan of making a
valuation and then by law assessing
only 25 per cent is a tacit admission
that her legislators understood the use
of a low base and high rate.
. If every property owner was re
quired to make return of his own prop
erty and fix the valuation, with the
understanding that any person might
buy it at the assessed valuation within
thirty davs, th difficulty might be
solved. Ed. Ind.)
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A Shrewd Diplomatist
The . pope has made some presents
to his Satrap Governor Taf t, whom
his holiness has anointed as governor
of the Philippine Islands,! endowing
him with the divine rights of an ab
solute monarch, who Is only tributary
and responsible for his acts to the
Holy Father, and . Secretary Root hast
for accepting those gifts although the
constitution forbids it and makes the
acceptance of such presents dependent
upon the consent of congress, but
that constitution is anyway an old.
mouldy parchment, which for year3
was tramped into the dust by our
statesmen so that nobody can read it.
"The pope has again proved to be the
shrewdest living diplomatist He askei
and received an enormous price for the
land of the friars in the Philippine
islands. We have to pay for it with
the independence of our. people, by
subjugating this government and peo
ple again under the authority and ab
solute rule of the infallible pope.
"That is the curse of the evil act,
that contumely it bears evil." Shlller.
As all our learned butter and bread
philosophers, statesmen, judges and
lawyers together with all their wisdom
could not find the least legal argu
ment to subjugate the people of the
Philippine islands and rob their nat
ural resources, therefore, there was no
other chance to reach that goal than
to appeal to the divine rights of the
middle age; but such divine rights can
only be bestowed by the infallible pope
as the representative of God on earth;
therefore, President Roosevelt had to
put on his knee breeches and crawl
on his belly to kiss the slipper of the
holy father praying to endow him with
the divine right of a ruler over those
islands.
To that "fait accompli" our subserv
ient members of our United States sen
ate and congress will say, "Yes, and
amen," thereby at once recanting and
overthrowing all principles and at
tainments of the great reformation, the
great revolution and especially the
Declaration of Independence; degrad
ing this people again to ignorant,
stupid idolaters of the infallible popo
and to miserable slaves of some avar
icious, tyrannical rulers.
Every European government has
abolished monasteries and confiscated
property for the common weal, espe
cially for education and benevolent
purposes, but not a single one of those
governments even of Catholic states
bad asked the pope for his consent.
Only a year ago congress of the Cath
olic state of France had abolished
monasteries in spite of the protest of
the pope.
It was left to the invincible rough
rider general, the greatest president
of this protestant republic, the protec
tor and defender of free thought, free,
speech, free press and equal rights, to
crawl on his belly, kiss the slipper cf
the infallible pope and pray for con
sent to abolish the monasteries in the
Philippines. ; "
Even Archbishop Ireland admit3
these facts. In an interview with a
representative of the Associated press
Bishop Ireland said among other
things: "In his conversation with
Governor Taf t he (the pope) expressed
the highest esteem for American meth
ods of treating church matters and re
marked, that he had more than on?e
pointed to the United States as set
ting an example well worth copying."
The question of religion in the Phil
ippines is now formally and officially
his (pope's) own and it should be con
sidered as such. .
No stronger proof for fair-minded
ness, in, settlement of tne . religious
question in the' Philippines could the
administration have given than to re
spond graciously to the wishes of the
Vatican that a messenger from the
American government should go -to
Rome to discuss matters directly with
the pope and his advisers. Other gov
ernments would have gone to work
in their own way without a word being
said to the head of the church or a
counsel asked of him.
F. SCHWEIZER.
Woodlawn, Neb.
Venomous Call
Whereas the United States congress
voted that the United States Constitu
tion be not applicable In the Phili r
pines. Are they not tnen directly to
blame for the atrocities committed it
the Philippines? There Being no con
stitution applicable to forbid and re
strict. Smith gave orders to kill and bur.i
and make the island a howling wilder
ness and the soldiers must obey orders
or be punished. Official reports of
these atrocities were sent to Secretary
Root and he and the president gave
do protests against it .and kept it sec
ret as far as possible." This was cer
tainly silent approval. When congress
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Lincoln,
voted not to have the president hamp
ered with even the constitution, they
sowed the very seed of which they are
now reaping an abunaant harvest cf
burn and kill and create a howling
wilderness and other crimes and de
predations against humanity and justice.-
. ;
The president was given full power
to rule the Philippines unlimited and
unrestricted. He has done so and now
strange as it may seem some of
the senators had the gall to stand on
the very floor of our senate and defend
the practices of burning and killing
children and giving the so-called water
cure which kills 75 per cent of the vic
tims. After all the scandals, suppres
sions nd oppressions and then to de
fend this administration in Its foul
ways and means Is remarkable. It has
been the foulest administration In the
history of our nationt
Imperialism, trusts, the Fowler bill
and the departures from the constitu
tion will never be shackled until the
people cry out in protest against them
in righteous Indignation. I say,
brethren, it is our plain duty ; to pro
test unanimously regardless of party.
Some of the senators are saying,
Don't throw mud at the American sol
dier, but a little thrown at the right
ones who most deserve it would not
hurt anything. It will only serve as
mud applied to the bite of a serpent
to extract some of the venom.
Here is a chance for home mission
ary work among our own people. Let
all of our Reverent D. D.'s protest re-,
gardless - of denominations In a most
righteous cause. Perhaps some charit
able nation or people will provide for
the helpless, homeless, fatherless an.i
motherless orphans of the Islands who
are less than ten years old. But wno
can atone for their bereavement? Who
can now correct the wrong that has al
ready been wrought? But It should
stop that it may not be a.ny worse.
Brethren, you have what you voted icr
in an abundant harvest. Are you go
ing to vote for the same again?
DEXTER TUTTLE.
Lewiston, Idaho.
Is He Sincere. '
If the Omaha Bee Is sincere In Its
fight for reform in railroad taxation it
should lend its aid in electing the fu
sion state ticket. E. A. Brown In Loup
City Times-Independent
In view of the vigorous educational
campaign being made by Mr. Rosewa
ter, on the line of railroad taxation.
The Independent does not feel war
ranted with charging him with insin-.
cerity, even though he is supporting
men who can be depended upon to do
exactly the thing he is fighting against.
Of course, Mr. Rosewater might be
charged with inconsistency without
impugning his sincerity.
Agricultural Building, State Fair.
The board of managers of the state
fair realizing that the one this year
will be a record-breaker, are prepar
ing the grounds and will make them
both more commodious and attractive
than ever heretofore. Several new
buildings have been constructed, paint
has been applied freely to old ones
until there is a general changed ap
pearance for better. The demands for
space were never so great in all depart
ments; space in the stock barns is be
ing rapidly taken while the reports
of great displays in the agricultural
department simply exceed all previous
records. The fair will not only be
great in magnitude, but it will be in
quality beyond anything ever seen in'
Nebraska heretofore. TJie attractions
are not being overlooked and extra
effort is being made to make the speed
far superior to former years. The fol
lowing announcement in this depart
ment is made by the management:
An interesting list of events will be
provided for the visitors to the state
fair by the speed department. From
fifteen to seventeen events will be run
during the five days. The racing will
bgin cn Monday with a epec'al fea
ture, a free-for-all trot for the Lin-
coin roadster club. A running ana a
ti ot ting event , is scheduled for each
day. On every day except Thursday
there will be a pacing event. On that
day .this f eatur v ill be supplanted by
an extra trot, uver 54,ouy win d oi
fered in purse?: All er-ries in purse
races will close August 10.
The speed program Is as follows:
Monday, September 1 Labor Day.
Special Free for all trot or pace, for
Lincoln roadster club, $400.
2:35 pacing class, $400. - "'
Running, half mile and repeat, $75.
' Tuesday, September 2:
Trotting, 2:45 class, $300. !
Pacing, 2:17 class, $400.
Running, three-quarters mile dash.
Wednesday, September 3:
Pacing, 2:12 class, $400.
" Trotting, 2:30 class, $400.
Running, one mile and repeat, $100.
Thursday, September 4:
Trotting, 2:23 class, $400.
Trotting, 2: 40 .class, $300.
Running, $75.' ' i
Friday, September 5:
Trotting, 2:18 class, $400.
Pacing, 2:22 class, $400. h
Running, one mild dash, $100.
PILES
Fistula, Fissure, all Rectal
Diseases radically and per
manently cured in a fovr
weeks without the knife, cutting, ligu
ture or caustics, and without pain or
detention from business. Particulars
of our treatment and sample tnalkd
free, - v v, -'V':-' 1
Mr. W. G. McDaniel, railway engi
neer, writes: Hermit Remedy Co.
Dear Sirs: I have doctored for bleed
ing and protruding piles for fifUvn
years, the trouble becoming worse aa
time went on, until I was laid up sl :k
in bed not able to attend to my du
ties. My wife came to your oSice to
get treatment, one Saturday, the fol
lowing Monday I was able to go to
work, and in thirty days I waj com
pletely cured without the loss of an
hour's time. Several doctors told rn5
that nothing but an operation would
relieve, and I think the cure in my
case, In bo short a time, Is wonderful
indeed, and is most gratefully ac
knowledged. Very truly yours, W. O.
McDaniel, 367 Milwaukee ave,, Chicago.
We have hundreds of - similar testi
monials of cures In desperate cam
from grateful patients who had trlt.X
many cure-alls, doctors treatment,
and different methods of operation
without relief.
Ninety per cent of the people wo
treat come to us from one telling the
other. You can have a trial aampia
mailed free by writing us full partic
ulars of your case. Address Hermit
Remedy Co., Suite 73S, Adama .Ex
press uuilding, Chicago, III.
Nebraska Volunteer Fireman's
Tournament
Tenth annual event to be held at
Grand Island, August 5 to 7. Halt
rates from all Nebraska points via tho
Burlington Route.
The Nebraska State Volunteer Fire
men's Association has arranged to
hold Its annual tournament at Granl
Island. Nearly $1,500 has been ap
propriated for cash prizes, In addltloa
to many valuable medals and trophl&a,
for exhibition drills, contests ani
races. Firemen will attend from all
parts of the state.
For this occasion the Burlington
Route has made a rate of one fare for
the round trip. Tickets on sale Aug
ust 4 to 7, inclusive, good returning
until August 8.
Ask the Burlington Route aent or
vrite J. FRANCIS.
Genl Pass. Agent, Omaha, Neb.
SPECIAL, RAILROAD RATES TO
: , ... . THE WEST.
The special rates made for the Im
perial Council meeting. Nobles of tna
Mystic Shrine, at San Francisco, Juns
10 to 14, A. O. U. W. meeting at Port
land, June 10 to 20. B. P. O. E. Grand
Lodge Meeting at Salt Lake City, Aug
ust 12 to 14, and the Knights of Pyth
ias meeting at Ban Francisco, August
12 to 22, apply through Colorado and
Utah via the Denver & Rio Grand
and Rio Grande Western, "The Scenic
Line of the World," passing the most
famous points in the Rocky Mountain
region. You should see that your
ticket reads via this route In order to
make your trip most enjoyable. For
rates, dates of sale and free descrip
tive literature call on your nearest
ticket agent or address 8. K. Hooper,
O. P. & T. A.. Denver, Colo.
KBW PULLMAN SLEEPING CAU
SERVICE LINCOLN TO KANSAS
CITY- . ... -Sr:--
a
Beginning July 1, the Missouri Pa
cific will Inaugurate a Pullman Ca
Service between Lincoln and Kansas
City, leaving Lincoln' at-10:05 p. in.
and arriving at- Kanaaa City at
a. m. ..'"'..:.'-
Passengers may remain la the Elop
er at Kansas City until 7;30 a. m. if
they desire. ; For berth and reserva
tions, apply at City Ticket Office, 1435
O st.,. or Depot, 9th and 8 ats.
F. D. CORNELL, P. & T, A,
Come to Lincoln during the Ass:em
bly meeting. You will have a pleas
ant time. Come prepared to take ad-1
vantage of the special clearing calea !
of summer goods. Yoa can save, by
doing so, all the expense of the tri?
and summer outing. In this issi
note the special bargains offered ay
Fred Schmidt & Bro,, and others,