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THE AMERICAN la not the organ of any act,ordt'r, association, party, clique faction or division of lha population of Mils Frond Kopubllc, and rfpodlutca and brands as false all claims or charim that It ti such, lot audi claim or cbanin be niade by any person or persona whom soever. THK AMERICAN ti a newspaper of general circulation, going to and being read by people of all religious beliefs and political affiliations! by tbe white and the black, the native-born and the naturalised, the Jew and the Gentile, the Protectant and tbe Roman Oat-hollc. This claim can be substantiated In any court of justice at any time, AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO.. I, VON C. THOHUCiH. f'tldft. JUNE 10, 18M. Congressman Mercor is expected to arrive home Saturday. It is generally conoeded that the Republican platform will favor a sin gle gold standard. We suppose Senator Thurston will now adopt a sliver standard since he has become one ot the Incorporators In a large Wyoming silver mine. aBBBBBBBaaaBBBaaaiBBaaaasBBBBBaaaaaaaBBaBBBiBaBm English blmetallUU are making an interesting fight In the cause of the whlto metal, and the price of silver has materially advanced during the past week. The Canadian Presbyterians at their general assembly In Toronto passed strong resolutions In favor of the main tenance of a national school system in the Dominion. Congressman Mercer has been hosen secretary of the national con gressional campaign committee, and his duties as such will probably detain him in Washington for a short time. Should Senator Teller bolt the Ro publican tadonal convention, be noml nated by the bolters, get the endorse' mentofthe silver Democrats and the Populists what would happen to the apostle of protection? The American believes that all money, whether gold, sliver or paper, should be Issued by the general govern ment This might require a great many changes from the present ays- tern, but the question will never be set at rest until settled In this manner. Richard Kerens defeated Chan nery I. Filley for the position of na tional committeeman for Missouri, Filley is an avowed friend of the A. P. A. and Kerens is the man who at tempted to get tbe Republican state convention to denounce the American order. MR. Loomis, a former resident Omaha, and at one time a member the fire department, has written Mr, Flagg that the claims of the American Gold Mining and Milling Company, according to the opinion of experienced miners, are In the best portion of the Cripple Creek district See their ad vertlsement Our readers have heard of the A. F, A. They have probably also heard of the American Order of United Catho lics, which is said to nave been or ganized to counteract the influence of the first-named organization, while the A. P. A. is said to have been organized to oppose the influence of Jesuitism in the affairs of state. If the people were true to their country and its institu tions instead of being true to their party, there would be no need of or ganizations such as the A. P. A. Mckinley and hobart. The Republican party ha chosen Win. McKinley and G. A. Hobart as lu standard hearers. Wm. McKlnk-y Is known to everybody, loved by a large majority of our people, renpeeted by all classes, trusted by those who know hlra personally, and admired generally for the magnificent success he has ach le ved In politic. The same is not true of Mr. Hobart. He is unknown to fame, unknown to nine out of every ten news paper men and to ninety-five out of every 100 electors in the country. There is nothing In the name, nothing to lu association that stands for any thing purely American or which ap peals to the American sentiment It could be the name ot a Romanist as well as that of a Protestant, and he Is as liable to be antagonists to tbe great body of American voters as McKinley Is to be In sympathy with them. The nomination of McKinley was the strongest the party could have made, but the platform it has stood him on is such as will cost tbe party probably as many Republican votes as It will gain from the Democratlo party. We are not prepared to say whether this paper will or will not support the Republican nominee on a gold standard platform, since his party has studiously avoided taking ground against the ap propriation of publlo money for pri vate or sectarian Itatitutions, since It failed to declare In favor of the taxa tion of all property not held by the state; since it failed to condemn the assault of the pope's faithful on Amerl- j can oltlzens parading under the Amerl- can flag and carrying a miniature pub lic ichool house on Independence day; since it failed to arraign the present Democratic government and its popish sympathizers for declaring the Mon roe doctrine applicable to Venezuela as against England In order to get the Roman Irish vote, and for its fail ure to acknowledge the belligerency of Cuba, which Is battling against Roman Catholic Spain; since It went out of Its way to reward R. C. Kerens, a Roman Cathollo, and to slap Chaunoey I. Fll ley, a Protestant and alleged friend of tbe A. P. A.; since It got scared at a Roman Cathollo bluff and chose a Dem ocratlo Jew to act as chaplain of the convention; since it did not declare in favor of Improvement In our natural!" ration laws, and since It has, appar ently, sold out to the money power, which is controlled by the Roman Cathollo church. We say, since this has happened, we do not know whether we will or will not support the Repub lican nominee for the presidency. It depends altogether upon what the other parties do. As far as Wm. McKinley is person ally concerned we believe htm accepta ble that there Is nothing against him but he is unfortunate In being placed on a platform which says so much about things of so little interest to the people and leaves so much unsaid about things they consider of vital Im portance. DANGER AHEAD. All interest centers in the St. Louis convention this woek. To It all classes are looking for re lief except the capitalist, ana he realizes that a change In the financial policy of the government may lessen his opportunities to make money off the oppressed and already overtaxed people. While he argues for honest money, or for sound money, he knows that a change In the financial policy of the government does not mean the de predation of his dollar, but the appre ciation of the poor man's dollar; that no matter what the professed intrinsic value of the gold dollar Is to-day, that hat it will remain regardless of any fiat our government may issue in behalf of paper or silver. The laborer and the manufacturer look to that convention for some ex pression that will afford them perma nent relief from foreign competition in our home markets, mat are to ua; glutted with the products of alien, pauperized labor, such as has been for years and is still being dumped on our shores from the south of Europe. The thrifty German, the sturdy Swede and Dane, the trusty Scotch, the frugal English and the Belfast Irish together with the Canadians and the native- born are all anxious to see the Repub lican convention take advanced ground on the question of immigration. All, except the native-born, came here to better their condition, to provide homes for their wives and little chil dren, and they realize more fully than we of native birth, that if our gates re main open for the importation of the pauperized labor of Hungary, Spain Italy and the South of Ireland they are no better off than they were before they came, and la many Instances not so well, for in many of their countries foreign labor did not compete with the native-born to any appreciable extent, Most of these people are Republicans they are all loyal American citizens who will discard party before they will surrender their stand for the radical and immediate restriction of immigra tlon. Both these classes are Interested in the financial plank that will be in sorted in the platform. They both realize that we need more money; that the circulating medium is Inadequate for the volume of business done and that a single standard is too easily manipulated cornered to be of real use to a country. We are la favor of tree coinage of all sliver mined la the United Slate, but are not de cided as to the ratio. We rather In cline to the belief that neither gold or sliver should be used as tha primary money of a nation. Our idea of money Is not that the dollar should hava an actual lotrlnslo value of 100 OerU, but that It should reptetent, stand for.be taken in exchange, pass among mer chants, mechanics and manufacturers, and be received by the government for all duties and imposts on the same basis as the gold dollar. It would rep resent the credit of the nation, the same as your note represents your credit Capitalists and bankers all admit that there is something better than gold when they exchange their yellow metal for bonds. The government might take this as a pointer and issue bonds of a small denomination in con venient shape, which could be con verted into a medium of exchange the same as tbe greenback, tbe gold and sliver certificate and the national bank note When the Republican party has con structed Its platform It has either won or lost tbe election, it is our cairn and unbiased opinion that even so strong a man as Wm. McKinley would find it difficult to win on a single standard platform. The people have had four years of a single gold standard and how do you thine they like it? Look Into tbe homes where want, misery, privation and penury hold sway, where the wives aad children are in rags and tatters, and where the father sits in enforced Idleness. Look at thorn and you will got their answer! Look at them and you will see what Is In store for the party which declares that It favors a financial policy which will perpetuate their misery and in crease tholr suffering. Look at them and toll us If the Republican party, the party of Fremont, of Lincoln, of Grant, of Garfield and of Harrison, is ready to acknowledge before the world that it has ceased being the champion ot the poor, the weak and the op pressed. If It Is its nominee might as well arrange his affairs and get in shape to continue business at the old stand, for it is our honest belief that the people will have no more of tbe single standard If they can help It. Since writing the above the platform as been adopted. It declares in favor of a single gold standard, Ignores all the questions demanded by the A. A. but that relating to immigra tion, and that is stated in a way tbat shows the Republican party was not controlled by any desire to hearken to the wishes of the A. P. A. BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS. Now that the theatrical season is over It will not be out ot place to say a few words in behalf of some actors who ppeared before the footlights in this city during the last eight months. We may not mention all whom some or you may deem worthy of a very flattering notice, but nevertheless what we do . . , 1 1 . , say shall oe wnai we oeueve to do the truth. Foremost among the actors whom we have seen are the Leckeys the one as Svengall In "Trilby," the other as the elder brother In "Shore Acres." Both were magnificent con' ceptlons of the characters represented Frank Mayo In "Pudd'nhead Wilson was among the best characters we saw last season. Clay Clement in "My Own Dominion," and Salvlnl in the Three Guardsmen," both understood the character they delineated. Mr. Gillett portrayed a very dlffioult char acter in "Too Much Johnson," in a most acceptable manner. The same is true also of Mr. Crane who appeared in the leading part in "My Wife's Father." Louis James and Walter Whltesldes were quite acceptable in their Shakespearian roles, while Henry Long and J. Francis Kirk of the Woodward Theatre Company were nrime favorites with the audience for more than two weeks. Of the ladles who appeared before the audiences In this city not over half a dozen were even average in their conception of the parts they took, if memory serves us right we thought Caroline Mlskel Hoyt's acting very pood. The some was true of Effie Elsler, Pauline Hall and Mrs. Wood ward. The manner in whlchl Bessie Bonhlll sang "Paradise Alley"was re freshing, and some of the living pic tures rendered by members of the troupe to which she belonged were realistic and beautiful. The flag dance bv Miss Goldie of the Woodward Theatre Company was very good. theuirh we believe it would not have been as much appreciated oy a ma jority of the audience had her costume been less abbreviated or her limbs less symmetrical. We were disappointed In frlmrose and West's aggregation. The only meritorious things were the singing of the small colored boy and the drill by the troupe under the direction of Mr. West. The much advertised Geo. Wilson wasn't in It at any stage of the game as a funny man. The Grand Opera in some of its parts was very gooi; in others greatly over drawn and exaggerated, and In others positively weak. The Hanlons were good, Faust was Ureeome and tha Devil's Auction I but little better. , . Tha young ladles who performed be fore the publlo la tlghu, had with few exceptions, the appearance of being; underfed, and were anything but well proportioned The dancers and high kickers of the female persuasion were as good, oa aa average, as any we ever saw. KEEP THE EXPOSITION OUT OF FACTIONAL. POLITICS The exposition bill has been passed by Congress. Appropriations will be asked from the legislature of the state of Nebraska, from tha county commis sioners of Douglas county, and from the city of Omaha, aggregating probably a million dollars. It is thought that 1000,000 will in "all probability be in vested by the United States govern ment and other states and territories possibly more. In addition to that, private contributions will be requested from all citizens interested in the suc cess of the exposition. Nothing is more natural than that politicians should attempt to take ad vantage of the exposition to boom themselves into office, or to be placed In position where a portion of these great funds will have to pass through their hands. Every candidate for the office of governor la attempting to state that he would be of more assist ance to the exposition than any other, and should be the exposition candi date. The same is true of every other state office seeker. The Bet is insist ing tbat its friends and candidates for ofll :e are the only ones who would be to the advantage of the exposition. It is stated that there are over ten can- dates for the state senate in Omaha who claim that the exposition will be a failure unless they receive the nomi nation and election. There are nearly sixty men who feel the same about their candidacy for the legislature from this county, and the exposition Is their special argument in.thelr be half. The exposition does not take place until 1893, so that we can reasonably expect two years of this talk. Mean while what Bhould the true friends of the exposition do? They must treat it as a business matter for the advantage of Omaha and as a great advertisement for the west. If they run it into poll tics, political dissensions will destroy the usefulness of all the prominent managers. Charges and counter charges and campaign lies will be cir culated to the disgrace of our citizens. It should be inaugurated as a business movement and conducted throughout as such. Men of all parties should be taken in on equaj. trms,.:wbere no con tention should arise excepting that who best can serve and how best to agree as citizens for the welfare of the state. Charges ot venalty and corrup tion will doubtless be made; but, if without any partisanship, without any attempt on the part of the managers to advertise any favorite candidate for office, the best citizens of all parties put their shoulders to the wheel to make the exposition a success, it will be, without doubt, of Incalculable ad vantage. An attempt to force it Into politics will disgust good citizens, dls- courage contributions ana impair me . 1 M I 1 usefulness of all who are connected actively with the enterprise. PARTY PROMISES. Senator Thurston, on taking the rVialr as permanent chairman of the National Republican Convention at St, Louis, made the following announce ment of the alms and objects of the party: The supremacy of the constitution oi the United States. The maintenance of law and order, The protection of every American citizen in his right, to live, to laoor and to vote. A vigorous foreign policy. The enforcement of the Monroe doo trine. The restoration of our merchant ma rine. Safety to the stars and stripes on every sea, in every port. Revenue adequate for all governmen tal expenditure and the gradual extin guishment of the national debt A currency "as sound as the govern ment and as untarnished as its honor," whose dollars, whether of gold, silver. or paper, shall have equal purchasing and debt paylne power with the best dollars of the civilized world. A protective tariff which protects. coupled with a reciprocity which re nt nrnf-a tea. thereby securing the best markets for American products, and opening the American factories to the free coinage of American muscle. A pension policy just to our living heroes and to the widows and orphans of their dead comrades. The government supervision and nnnnl nf transportation lines ana rates. The protection of the people from all unlawful combinations ana unjust exactions of aggregated capital and corporate power. An American welcome to every uoa fearing, liberty-loving, constitution respecting, law-abiding, labor-seeking decent man; the exclusion of all whose birth, whose blood, whose conditions, whose veachings, whose practices, would menace the permanency of free wfit.nt.inns. endanger the safety of American society, or lessen the oppor tunities of American labor. Tbe abolition of sectionalism every star on tbe flag shining for the honor, and welfare, and happiness of every commonwealth and of all tha people. A deathless loyalty to all that is truly American and patriotism as eter nal as the star. The publlo has often been assured that the Roman Catholics of this coun try do not oppose the election of Prot estant to positions, and that the charge that they do is wholly and ab solutely false. We do not care to argue this point at this time, but will say tbe attitude of tha church in Quebec gives tbe color of truth to the charge. Of court e the printed reports may be false. We have known tbe Omaha Bet and the Kansas City Star to publish un truthful statements. The press of Canada may be as unreliable. At the suggestion ot some of the gentlemen interested in THE AMERI CAN we omitted nearly everything of an anti-Roman character from the last two Issues, in order to convince them that our subscribers would be satisfied with nothing but a vigorous opponent of political Romanism. They are con vinced and are willing to let the editorial policy remain in our hands, and we feel for all the world like a man who had been endorsed. Thank you friends for kicking. The Roman hierarchy will stoop to any scheme to withdraw publlo at tention from their rotten system of political intrigue. Be careful, they will bear very close watching. We need Americans on guard at every station and at every post of duty in this government. ELECT the man for president who will say to all foreign powers: "You shall respect our flag and our citizens when in foreign ports." The attempt to turn public attention from the Roman question by the agita tion of the money question will not succeed. Linton is a Republican. Halner Is a Republican. Such men act as Amer icans should act In congress. THE POLITICAL LUCE. No man can permanently be success ful In making political combinations who by means of pledges or otherwise succeeds in obtaining at one and the same time the support of the Bee and World-Herald, the railroads and antl- monopolles, the Catholics and the A. A., the Republicans and Democrats. The combination Is too Inconsistent to be permanent. It must result in de ception to some and mistrust to all. The success it met with in two cam paigns Is in Itself the reason why It must be unsuccessful in the third, for the means that brought it about can not always remain secret. Of the candidates of the position ot congressman there is not one wno can be said to be lacking in ability to properly represent this district. They are all lawyers. Messrs. Cornish, Ken nedy, Brome and Carr take high rank amongst the lawyers of the state. Mr. Cornish was assistant city attorney, and as such for four years attended per sonally in the district court and su preme court to all suits brought against the city which required a jury trial, while the city attorney attended to equity cases and advised city officials. The levy for the judgment fund to pay judgments rendered against the city during his administration was reduced from two mills to one-half mill. Al though the total levy for 1895 was less than It had been for any year since 1885, there was still over $3,000 surplus left in the fund. This very enviable record puts him among the first rank of lawyers at the Omaha bar. Messrs, Kennedy, Brome and Carr have held no official position, but their rank Is In no wise second to that of Mr. Cornish, There are more people In tbe United States who believe that the general covarnment should possess the sole right to Issue all money than the com blned number of "gold-bugs" and "sll verltes," and the party that has the nerve to make tuch a declaration In Its platform will come pretty near get ting their votes. It has been quietly hinted among the friends of A. J. Lunt, that that gentle man would like to be a councilman from the Fifth ward. Lunt is a young man, but he is in possession of a good stock of business sense. It isn't always a good plan to "plug" friends oi a candidate lor the same office you are seeking In another ward It usually reverts against the man who does the most "plugging." There are more conventions to the square Inch this year than for the past four years. Next comes the National Democratic and then the Nebraska State Republican conventions. The Board of Education has selected two very capable men to fill the posl tlons made vacant by the removal of Rev. T. C. Cramblett and John L, Pierson to other states. Superinten dent Gillespie of the Deaf and Dumb Institute waschoaen la Ret. Cramblett'a place, and CoL Henry a Akin la tha place of John L. Pierson. Both are men of wide experience. They are capable of doing much for the eleva tion of our school system. e John H. Russell la the latest candi date for the office of city councilman faom the Seventh ward. The next important duty of the Board of Education is the selection of a superintendent of buildings, a custodian of supplies and a secretary of the board. Ot these the superintendent of build ings la the most responsible position. The man who is chosen should be one thoroughly capable, sober and careful. His ability should be unquestioned. A careless, inefficient or a drinking man should not be chosen, particularly when the board has so many capable, temperate men to choose from. The present incumbent is not efficient or capable. He is both a drinking and a profane man, if the reports that reach us are true. He has never contracted as the law specifies, and he knows just enough to stand up In an A. P. A. council chamber and slur the Y, M. C. A. and to declare that, they are not there to listen to a man talk about the flag of our country. To choose such a man when such men as Wm. Stevens, Daniel Coy and Samuel MacLeod are applicants would be a disgrace and cast upon the board a stigma It cannot af ford to bear. To think that the board once chose such a character over aa true, loyal, trustworthy and able a man as Samuel MacLeod, simply because the Omaha Bee was opposed to him, is enough to cause ail true patriots to blush and to wonder If the present board will repeat the mistake. While Samuel MacLeod was superintendent of buildings there was no occasion for tbe employment of a man to superin tend the construction of new buildings. The same will be true if either he or Mr, Stevens is chosen to succeed Mr. Banker. Banker does not know enough about carpenter work to instruct his men how to do a piece of work. He al most invariably asks them how they would do it and after they have told told him he says, "well, do it that way." Give the people a man who knows enough to honor the flag, to tolerate the Y. M. C. A., who will not drink with his men during wonting hours, and you will have our support. The Omaha Bee has started another campaign of lying and misrepresenta tion. It Imagines that the editor of The American is a formidable candi date for the city council from the Seventh ward, and that he must be de feated even if it must be through mis representation and probably of abuse. Its chief fugleman Is Ed. Walsh and its preferred candidate is an A. P. A., and a good man; but what benefit Is a good man If he gets In the hands of design ing and unscrupulous demagogues and malcontents the one a contractor on the most gigantic job ever perpetrated on the people of this city and county and the other so dishonest that it would not expose the corruption when It was laid before It In the shape of affidavits. If Rosawater undertakes to dictate the councilman from the Seventh ward he need not be surprised If the people repudiate him. They have done that before when he as sumed the role of a dictator. In every campaign are to be found a class of "leg-pullers" who make it a point to work every candidate who may have any political aspiration. Sometimes they want the favor of a loan for a few days and forget there after to return It. The Lance has seen a man hurriedly step up te a candidate with a story that he has some one "to fix," and in order to do it he must get the price ot the drinks that he may treat tne atoresaid iriend; at another time this leuow has a bill to pay and he must pay tt at once, or he must have anything from a street-car fare to a railroad pass especially if the candidate has any pull with the railroad company. These are only a few of the various schemes concocted to "work" the wayfaring candidate un til It has come to pass tbat a man who enters politics, if elected, must count on donating his first year's salary to "friends who elected him," and yet there is no law upon the statute books that makes "leg-puUing" a crime and Eunlshable. The legislator who has ack-bone enough to secure the passage of a law of this kind will be a publlo benefactor. Burned the Bible. In a small town near Plttsfield,Ma&s., a resident was burning some brush near the school-house, when he discovered a partly burned Bible. He looked around and found four more In the same condi tion. He made inquiries from the chil dren, and was informed that the teacher had burned some books and papers. When he confronted the teacher she almost fainted on being in formed of his discovery. The case was reported to the school committee, and on visiting the school they found the teacher and pupils reading from a prayer-book instead of the Bible. The teacher received an indefinite vacation. National Messenger, Stenographers and Lawyers having transcripts and other legal documents to be bound can have their work done at The American book-bindery. 1615 Howard street. Telephone 911. 1 ,