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THEz AMERICANl 40MN O. TMOMr0. W. C KKLLEY. HMr fCBUH. WKKKLT -T THE AMERICAS POBUSHIHG COIPAJT, MIS HuwD tTrT, 04. N. nis AMERICAN ornoM. IMS Howard Strl. tHnaha. rWtv. a 4. W iarbor . i MrMJ 111. M Whlinrr HnlMln Ksmm Uly Mo. I'. O. Ho Cripple Cra Oola. THE AMERICAN 1 From Now Until January I, I88T, For tha Small turn of 50--CENTS--50 Pay Your iubtorlption at tha 2 Rata Up to Data, and Take Ad , , vantaga of . :: Our Great Offer.:; An Paraon Banding Ua Tan Haw Bub- Jacribara will ba aora4 With vaara Bubacrlptlon to TMB AMERICAN. No paraanal cnaca accapiao wnmi nuiti for 16 eta. mora than tna amount of aubacrlptlon yoa rah to oay. aWrM 0t at t Mmt ( Si- I iM ( tohmm. (tat lar a WM tin Ma, Cll r Ctf raatr. No Commlaiiion to Agfiita. If yoa GaalT wiui oua you pay ma iiriuo. i AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. MARCH 27, 1896. OUR CHOICE. For President: W. S. LINTON of Michigan. For Vioe-Presldont: JOHN L. WEBSTER of Nebraska. Your friend cannot afford to be with out The American. Urge him to sub scribe. The A. P. A. never boasts of what It Is going to do. It lets it vote do the talking. Name us one paper beside The American that has doubled It circula tion Inside of three months. Whkn the Star gets through waging war on the A. P. A. its owner may realize where hi hired men made a mistake. A'(i.kw Cft'v Ameriatn, WE are indobted to a number of friends for copies of valuable books that have been sent during the past week ary. Mrs L. S. Smith, living In South Chicago, will please accept our thanks for twenty-five new subscribers which she has sent In since the first of the year. Think of evory candidate for a Re publican nomination for governor of the great state of Missouri, addressing an A. P. A. meeting In Kansas City 'The world flo move!" Please tend this paper to a friend In some other state when you have read It, and write him that you would like to know whether he has enlisted under the banner of Americanism. The interview published in the daily World-Herald Thursday evening and credited to this editor is, barring few minor statements, substantially correct, so near so that we are disposed to find no fault with the gentleman who wrote It out from memory. The contrast between the work be ing done by Missouri councils and that being done by the councils in Illinois and Nebraska la painfully apparent There they work openly and defy the Dowers that be. while here what la done Is done behind closed doors. F the Monroe doctrine Is to apply as to one country it should apply a) to all It should apply to the pope of Rome. What right has he to interfere In the affairs of any country on the western hemisphere any more than th Queen of England, or the Emperor t Ger many? Does he not lay claim tc tem poral power? The citizens in the congressional district of Nebraska represented by E. J. Haicer in congress, will make a great mistake If they allow the Roman church and her ally, the public press, tc defeat him for a re-election. lie is manly, straightforward, honest and outspoken. He stood for law against Roman Catholic thievery. In all the history of the union, the American spirit has never predomin ated so much as it has in Kansas City during the past two weeks. Among some of the meetings were; For the Door of Hope, at the Auditorium, with an audience of about 4,000. The his toric meeting, at the Academy of music, with some 2,000 present and at least 2,000 turned away. The debate at the Coats Opera House, with over 2,000 and hundreds turned away. - churchilu will run aoain 1 am aauy prea m mm cmm r -hwj contained tome Tory flattering opinion Of two of Nebraaka' leading attorney Hon. John L. Webater and Hon. A. S. CburchllL The favorable com me at iu elicited by the masterly manner In rhlch they bandied the maximum freight rate cae then pending berore the aupreme court of the United State and now awaiting a declalon of the court We underatand the briel hub- mlltod la the caae waa prepared by lion. A. 8. Churchill, the attorney general of Nebraska, and a candidate for a re- nomination on the Republican ticket It la aald by attorneyt to be one of the moat logical and convincing brief ever died In the aupreme court in any case. They Inform ut that it reflect treat credit upon Nebraaka'a legal adviser, and places him In the front rank as a reaaoner and a logician. It please us to bear these words of commendation showered upon Mr. Churchill as we belle vo be is deserving of them all and, while the state of Ne braska has bad many able attorneys In the 0111 ee he now hold and to which be aspire for a second term, none of them ever gave more general satisfaction, or Oiled the oftioe more acceptably. Mr. Churchill has been a student all his life, is still and probably always will be, and for that reason Is better equip ped to fill the oflloe he now holds than any man who spends bis time In pel I tics to the neglect of his legal training. We believe most of our friends would be glad to aee him renominated. CHICAGO POLITICS. One of our regular correspondents contributes the following: At the present time la Illinois, and especially in Chicago, one bears a great deal of "machine" politics and machine" leaders, and to a great num ber of people the word ''machine" as used In connection with politics 1 as so much Greek. The most simple definition of the term "machine" is, "An organization of men (or rascals as the case n.ay be) organized to control the nominations in the different politi cal parties. Now when the "machine" 1 in such a position and is powerful enough to dictate the nominations, it doe not overlook the key to the situa tion, namely, controlling the nominees. The whole "machine" may be and often Is manipulated by less than a dozen men, and these men in turn may be handled and directed by one. The Ro man machlno, the greatest and most corrupt political machine on the face of the earth, is operated from the foun tain head on the Tiber. It Is composed of innumerable smaller machines, all working in harmony and to the one end of "Roman Catholic government for the world and the supremacy of the pope." The Republican and Demo cratic parties in America are two of the "minor" tarts of the one great 'machine." To Illustrate how one of the small machines can be put together for the benefit and glory, and also" for the financial gain of the holy church, take for an example a county in any state. The bishop will select, say a dozen of the faithful who are taking an active part in politics. To do this without making any mistakes in bis lelectlon, be will request a dozen of his priests, each to pick out for him a man In bis vicinity. To get the right man, the priest will have to go over all the evidence In his possession, as received through the confessional. The man finally selected may not be a good church member, that is not a regular attendant, and for having committed some crime, or being mixed up In a scandal he may not have been to confession for a long time. But Mr. Priest has been hear ing the confessions of the wife or daughter, sister or mother of Mr. roll ticlan, and be knows considerable oi his crooked ways and dark deeds, as well as his financial standing, and in fact knows more and remembers more of the man's history than the man knows himself. The bishop selects one man of the dozen and in a nice quiet way hints at the necessity of having an organization to assist the faithful into oftice, using as an argument that when employed at good wages with very little work attached, the church benefited. Number one sees the point, and having been given the names of thn nt.hAr eleven, who he understand are good fellows for the work in hand he starts out to get them together, They meet and organize secretly, and . . . . ,i arrange to divide tnemseives equauy between the two big parties, circle number two. Now as there are only twelve, and they do not represent all the wards or townships, it is their first work to find a suitable representative in each of the several districts. In this class they can take in recruits from different classes men who are ambitious and not overly scrupulous, men whose honor is a secondary con sideration to wealth and position, men who lead public lives that are models of all that is good, but whose private lives are monuments of corruption and dishonesty, man who will steal to-day aad confess to the priest to-morrow and receive absolution, with a pennance to swell the receipts of the poor (?) box When this gang, circle number three. get together and bind themselves abide by the decision of the majority when selecting candidates for office, the machine is in fair working order, The power behind the throne, or rather the throne behind the power, sow com mence to select available candidate for office. The bishop, through the in formal loa furaUhed by the prlosU, can have on baad at all time a large lit n all part of the county and ia both part lea) of eligible for office who will see to it when elected that no legisla tion 1 enacted that will curtail la any ay the power of tne church. Circle number four, which i oomposed of the ward-worker" or "ward-heeler" a they are called, and who compose largely the delegate to convention, are the outside "ring." They are kept In their party line by small payment of "cab" or "stuff," and by small posi tions, uch a inspectors, ward fore men, etc. It 1 their duty to keep the voter in line by controlling their pre cinct club, by selecting the proper per son for delegate In their primary dis trict and to take up the cry for a can didate "who ba been decided upon by circle number one" and quietly pushed to the front by "circle number two." The information get abroad in the ward that Mr. So and So l a candidate for a certain office, the ward-beoler take up the cry and shortly the in formation appears in the partisan press that .Mr. So and So Is being put for ward in his district by his "friends." In a district where everything goes Democratic It Is only necessary to get the right man on the Democratic ticket, and in a district where the voter awallows the Republican ticket, yellow dog and all, it only needs the right kind of a dyed-ln-tbe-wool Re publican. In the district that 1 close, or wliero the Independent voter resides, need two of the faithful, one of whom generally know before election that ho Is only put up to bo defeated, the "machine" Is to quietly knife him, but he will be taken care of after lection in some appointive office. At intervals, reform organizations spring into existence, either brought to the surface by the "machine" to cover some "dirty work," or by good, honest men who have the question of good government at heart but who lack experience. When the reform is started by the latter class, the machine Immediately take steps to capture It. This Is done by members of the "gang" getting Into the movement In sufficient numbers to control Its action. A leader" is selected who can "yell" re form In a loud voice and who makes himself conspicuous at all meetings, and it is not long before he Is up in the front rank on the platform, and chair man or president of the organization. The presiding officer having the ap pointing of committees, it is not long before the movement is diverted from its original purpose and becomes power less. Great patriotic movements have thus been side-tracked in their efforts. If some of the members become sus picious that all is not right, the presi dent may go to far as to call upon some of the "machine leaders" and have them remove an obnoxious aspirant for office in order to quiet the restloss members and put them to sleep. The great A. P. A. movement has come in some parts of tne country unuer me control of the "Roman machine," and being used to assist "petty poli ticians" and ward-heelers into office. The rank and file, as a rule, are honest and true patriots, but when the presl dent of an A. P. A. council Is seen com ing forth from the parish residence of Roman Catholic priest at the be witching hour of midnight, it is time to ask. "Where are we at?" While the people of to-day are such partisans, the onlv genuine reform can come through the capture of the machine by honest and conscientious men. This can only be done by getting control of the very smallest of the cogs or the machine, the precinct club. This is a club which under ordinary circum stances meets about once a year for the election of officers. The presidents of the precinct clubs constitute the exocu tlve committee of the ward club and can dictate its president and the city central committeeman, and so on along the line. If they attend the meetings of the ward club they can Inform them selves of the dates of the caucuses in their primary district and can thus control the delegates who are selected nefore the primaries. If the honest voters ever expect to have any lasting reform or break the power that is at present ruling our cities, our states and our nation, they must not overlook the little precinct club, and put none but "Americans on guard," remember ntr that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Ajax Chicago, 111., March 23, isae. THE POLITICAL DECOY. The American Patriot, of San Fran- cIsco. does not miss the mark when It says: Though not necessary, It may be ap posite to allude to the character and use of the decoy-duck. The special functions of this peculiar bird are fa miliar to the sportsmen of this coast. The very first thought relating to this specimen is fraudulent. In deception was It conceived and constructed, and to deceive Is the prime motive of its oroxv character. It is built on lines so closely resembling the feathered tribe which it counterfeits, as to completely conceal IU identity, and pass as a genu ine member. As a result, when it is found Coating around in the haunts of the real bird, no nuplcioB.whatever 1 entertained of It true personality or the buslnea it i commissioned to exe cute. IU babita, iU pursuit and its appearance are not distinguished by lu victim as different from their own. To all Intent aad purpose it i a wild duck, and o the genuine bird are misled to consort and fraternize with it whenever it seek association with them. Iu peculiar characteristic do not awaken the distrust of Its live comrade. It never quack, or file, or dip iU bead. It U rever observed to eat or drink. Rather 1 it taciturn and impassable. Dut these peculiarities are unnoticed by iU unsuspicious as sociates, who flock around it with ap parent unconcern, never dreaming that one in their midst I there for the pur pose of baiting them ointo a trap whereby they may be captured by the owner of their wooden representative. Yes, the decoy-duck 1 a very peculiar creation, set to deooy andjmlslead; and woe be to those whom it victimizes, for not only their liberty, but their life often, pays the penalty of their ignor ance and indiscretion. Without enlarging further on this illustration, or pushing the parallel closer, we will transfer .it quite natu rally to a consideration of the decoy In politics. There are many attributes of the two In common. Theopolltlcal de coy is designed for very much the same purpose as his prototype. His first business Is to deceive, allure and cap ture. He Is far superior in the com parison to the sportsman's decoy, in that he is anything but inanimate or a wooden article. A very lively, active and vigilant fellow Is this political de coy. Flies do not congregate on him. He Is a hireling, however, and does the work of the man or party that owns him for pay, and for pay only. His harvest is ballots. He is all things to all men and all parties to win votes. It would be pure childishness to sup- poso that the political decoy is not at this very writing busily plying his trade within the ranks of the A. P. A. It would be a moral and physical im possibility to exolude him. He Is with us under orders from the old parties nd in their pay. Our order is the great bunting ground, the political preserves" of this decoy for the cam paign of 181)6, and we are his would-be victims. His ordinary conversation is very much the same as the genuine A, A., and although bard to detect, if he is intelligently sized up he may be discovered. He is not confined to any one stratum of the order. He is in the rank and file and on the official roll, an omnipresent evil. Whenever a man Is found seeking to disarm and dissipate prejudice against either of the old par ties, by sophistry, by a discriminating praise of past records, by copious prom ises and pledges In behalf of old-party candidates for office, then beware of the decoy. Whenever affiliation of the P. A. vote with either of the old machines, by stealthy combinations and bargains, is sought for, beware of the decov. Whenever the names of party men are presented for our suf frages who are not unequivocally above all suspicion and reproach as American citizens, and whose words and . acts have not been consistent with the prln ciples we espouse, beware of the decoy Whenever we are told that the Repub lican party cannot succeed without the P. A. vote, and that we can have what we want of that party, beware of the decoy. Whenever a proposition of a political character comes before the membership of the order for their con sideration and acceptance that is not porfoctly clear and straightforward on IU face, without the shadow of some trick or design concealed in It, beware of the decoy. The honest A. r. A. must have bis eyes and ears open to every visible and audible lndlcatlon,or the decoy will get away with his vote SOME WISE SUGGESTIONS. Since the passage in the national congress of the amendment prohibiting the annrorjrlatlon of money for sec tarian schools, Congressman W. S, Linton has been thanked individually and collectively for his patriotic action In securing the amendment. A mem ber of a Chicago council of the A. P, a. wrote him a personal letter, to which he received a courteous reply. as follows: Washington, D. C, March 19, 1896 My Dear Sir: In reply to your es teemed favor of late date, will say that I appreciate and than your council w t.h kind action taken. The victory is not yet complete, however, unless we win in the senate, by having the house amendment " Prohibiting the use of money for sectarian schools" retainea In the Indian Appropriation uiu. i would therefore sueeest that the mem' bers of your order can do the cause a great deal oi gooa oy noi oniy wnuug tn th member of conere38 who repre- senU your district, commending the action of the house upon IU good work tn iidontinir the amendment ana sinn ing out sectarian appropriations, but at the same time, do not fail to have them write the senators from your atAtfl. and also adODt and forward reso lutions from your council, requesting thAm nv all means to see tna me nmvlslon above referred to re mains in the bill. The senate will soon be called upon to act In the matter, and mem hers of that bodv should know. if they do not know, that the American uuinia fl.r aroused unon this Question. Thanking you for your kind letter, and with best wishes, I remain sincerely vours. W. S. LINTON The American reproduces this let tflr as a matter of national interest. What the guardian at Washington of our principle uggeU to a local coun cil will apply to all councils. Let each council throughout the union Immedi- tely make known their desire to their senatorial and congressional repre- senUtlveo, and urge them to adopt the amendment. When the RomanUts thought they bad a chance to embroil this country in war with England, they offered the government 100,0(0 armed and drilled men to utt tin it in lu position on the Monroe doctrine. Now Cuba 1 im ploring aid from America, asking an enforcement of the same doctrine. Do we read any burning editorial in be half of the Cubans? Where are thoee 100,000 Roman Irish? Don't they care to have the Monroe doctrine main tained except a against Protestant countries? Can Roman Catholic coun tries abridge that doctrine without of fending the spirit of Americanism? We think the animus of the cry in be half of an enforcement of the Monroe doctrine in the Venezuela controversy is easily detected when viewed by the light afforded by the silence maintained by those same lOO.COO Irish Romanists, when a province or a dependency of a Roman Catholic country is pleading for help. It shows that RomanlsU are sworn to break down rrotestantism. How could they break it down more surely and effectually than by having Protestant countries engage in war? THE POLITICAL LASCE. An effort will be made by the Ninth ward delegation to the congressional district convention to send John C. Cow- in to the national convention. It will take considerable explaining to make some people believe that Mr. Cowin is ntitled to be thus honored by the Re publican of this district for any politi cal sarvlce he may have performed- The "four Johns" were the attrac tion at Boyd's opera house last Tuesday evening. No doubt some people in the audience were amused at the manner in which one of them flaunted the flag and spoke of the little red school house. C. L. Chaffee, Dr. W. O. Rogers, W. G. Whitmore and our old farmer friend, James Walsh, are candidates for delegate to the National Republi can convention. Hon. W. J. Bryan, of Nebrasl a, de livered his time-honored free silver speech in Kansas City a few days ago. There is a suspicion among his populist admirers that he Is quietly working up presidential boomlet for himself among the free silverltes of the Demo cratic party, in the hope of securing an endorsement from the Populist conven tion at St. Louis ext July, but it is hardly probable that the latter party will refuse to honor such honest advo cates of their principles as the Hons. Paul Van Dervoort, William H. Allen or Governor Waite. It has been quietly hinted that Texas and Oregon Popu lists Intend sending solid delegations for the first named gentleman. The Republicans of the Fourth ward at Washington Hall gave Senator Thurston a splendid reception last Monday evening. Mr. Thurston spoke briefly and to the point upon some rf the quest ons as to how he stood upon the make-up of the Nebraska delega' tlon. From there he went to Twenty fourth aad Cuming streets, where the Eighth Ward Republican Club waa in session, and met with a similar recep tion. The Senator can well feel proud of the manner in which he was re celved. Our friend John B. Smiley Is a can didate for mayor of South Omaha. Should he be fortunate enough to be nominated and elected, that city will have a live, business-like executive. Paul McAuley is building a political fence around the police judge's office in South Omaha. He expects to get It finished before May 1st in time to take possession of the enclosure. From present indications, the friends of McKinley have "gobbled" the entire Douglas county delegation in his inter est. We do not believe Douglas county will have any trouble in making a set tlement with Albyn Frank, as the books are being kept In better shape and more systematically than ever be fore. That was an Interesting session of the Central Labor Union last Wednesday nieht. The investigating committee evi dently was satisfied as to the reliabil ity of the evidence upon which the re port was based. The Central L&bor Union cannot offor 1 to allow itself to be controlled by self-confessed boodlers. who prostitute their positions for per sonal gain, and it did perfectly right when it accepted Ihe committee s re port. But it should go further, and recommend to all the loyal unions that they expect every man who dares ac cept money from politicians for acting as decoys and for influencing the mem bers. The laborer can never obtain re lief unless he acU independently and vote for the most honest man regard less of his party affiliations. The letter presented by Mr. Boyer at the Central Labor Union the other night was an Interesting document after all. Mr. Rosewater's campaign methods at the last election have the of "boodlelsm." and aim' r ply coi firms the joft-made. asaarttoa" that money waa used ia every once It- ' able way to thwart the will of the people. The 'Yathalie Leader." This, I believe, I the only Roman Catholic paper published in Nebraska. The editor! a reverend of that church, and therefore must be endorsed by the aid church. If I were to give my opinion I would aay the editor of this beet must be loosing money, but If be can throw mud at the ProtectaoU for hlle, be will be given a church where be will receive a larger Income, ' nd therefore it will be money in bis ocket. If b is creditor know how the Omaha Roman Catholic paper went. they will be careful that this editor does not become very heavllv in debt. Let us see what the reverend gentle man prinU about Mr. Linton of Michi gan. This gentleman was not in favor of giving public money to a sectarian Institution The Roman Cat hoi to church when all the other denomina tions had withdrawn because of an un- ust division of the money between the denominations. On the other hand, the Catholic Leader of Orleans, Neb., wanU the public money to be given to iU church, while the other denomi nations do not receive a cent. It says of Mr. Linton, "narrow minded fanati cal viper," "rabid fanatic;" t Morgan and other "bigots dare not strike ex cept from behind the screen." It seems to me that it is strange that men who respect tne united states and those who are trying to allow all churches to have the same benefits and who are trying to keep this land out of the hands of a foreign despot would ad vertise in such an un-American sheet. If I wished to be disloyal to my coun try, a traitor to everything she holds dear, I would patronize just r such sect papers as this. It says of the government schools among the Indians, that they are sinks of immorality for their young." wish to ask one question, "Why is it that the priests of the Roman Catholic church this editor is one will not allow the convents to be opened for in spection?" It is generally believed, because of the reports of those who have been on the Inside, that they are exactly what he prints of the govern ment schools. Mr. Linton may be the next presi dent and we know the reverend gentle men of the Roman Catholic church, in all parte of the United States will fill their papers with exactly the same language as used In the Holy (?) Catho lic Leader, and for this reason, I think he would "make a good run." Orleans. How Is This! The following are some of the names appearing on the list of delegation to the Democratic city convention. Study them and try to figure where an Amer- . lean would come in for representation, says Z7ie Kansas City American: First ward P. Kennally, William J. Shea, Thomas Canty, John Kelly, Sr. Second ward John O 'Grady, John Conlon, J. B. McGowan, M. Moran. Third ward John C. Mahoney, John Coffey, James Flanigan, E. F. Brady, John Keating, John Grady, E. S. Foley. Fourth ward J. J. Reilly, Peter Gulnan, James Collins, H. J. McGowan, Frank J. O'Flaherty, James Burke, Bernard Corrlgan. Fifth ward J. E. FItzpatrick, Tim Ryan, John Scanlon. Sixth ward Matt Kenlon, Peter Leary, John J. O'Connor, Charles Cree- land, William Foley, Fames Gleeson, H. C. Brady. Seventh ward W. C. Scarrltt, J. A. Callahan, William Bailey, James Pat rick, John J. Burke, William Sullivan, John Larmon. Eighth ward Con Murphy, C. E. Corcqron, John Lanagan. Ninth ward John Laahy, S. O. Flanigan, M. S. Shlnnlck, Andrew Scanlon, William J. Carroll, M. Mc Grath, Thomas Gleason, Ed Burke, Charles Mallon, Jerome Donnelly, James Keenan, John Gllday. Tenth ward Thomas W. Brady, J. C. Bronaugh, John Sullivan, James McKlnsey, Larry J. Burns, John Leceiskl, Frank Kelly, W. E. Hogan. A Good Suggestion. Editor American: The American flag floats over thousands of our school houses. The scholars formally salute the flag in occasional patriotic exer cises. The love for- this symbol of nationality is deepening yearly. It would be well were the flag displayed in our homes, teaching the children that under its folds there ia protection and peace by virtue of the national power. In place of less worthy devices on walls now bare and inexpressive let the American flag be unfolded and rev erently cherished. Subscriber. The Central Republican Club held Its regular weekly meeting Thursday night. There were a number of new members present and fifteen applica tions for membership were acted upon favorably. The program for the next meeting includes a debate upon a phase of Romanism that will Interest every American citizen. Next Thursday night is the regular night of meeting. 1302 Farnam Street is the Union Pa cifio City Ticket Office.