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PATRIOTS RESPOSDING.
The following friends have said they
would help take up the 13500.00 which
The American owes. We want 350.
Who will be next?
Homo (H) Kansas City, Ho., 1 share 110.00
I, M. A., Falls City, Neb., 1 " 10.00
"De Ole Man" seems to hold a
pretty good lead hand In Missouri poll
tics. 'Bah for Filley.
ONE of the patriots living at Lincoln
and who la looking to St. Louis for an
American and an American platform,
writes us that he knows Mrs. Bryan to
be a Presbyterian. Our friends will
please take notice.
Tin: Ticinrrs.
REl'l'ULICAX.
For President,
W41. McKINLEY,
of Ohio.
For Vice-President,
GARRET A. HOBART,
of New Jersey.
DrJMCH'HATIC.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BUY AN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
ARTHUR C. SEWALL,
of Maine.
rilOHlBITIO.V.
For President,
JOSUUA LEVERING,
of Maryland.
For Vice-President,
HALE JOIINSTON,
of Illinois.
NATIONAL.
For President,
CHARLES E. liENTLEY,
of Nebraska.
For VIce-Prealdent,
J. II. SOUTQGATE,
of North Carolina.
WONDERFUL CRIPPLE CREEK.
We have had very little to say about
the mining company we are interested
in because we were afraid we might be
over confident or too sanguine. Since
the discovery of gold in the Arcadia
and in too Abe Lincoln last week, how
ever, we have concluded that there is
not a foot of ground in the whole
Cripple Creek district which is not
filled with ore, and which will not re
pay any man every dollar he expends
In going into the mountain the re
quired depth, and with that idea firmly
fixed in our mlud we shall push as vig
orously and as rapidly as posslbte the
work cn our mines In Nlpplo Mountain.
Private advices from the gentleman
who has charge of the work at Nipple
Mountain, are such as will warrant us
in saying to our friends that If they de
sire to speculate In Cripple Creek min
ing stock with a good prospect of realiz
ing something on tholr Investment, the
stock of the American Gold Mining and
Milling Company, is as safe as any in
the district. Rloh strikes have been
made all around our claims above, be
low, east and west and It does not
seem possible that we would be the
only unlucky fellows in the district.
Until further notice, we shall sell
stock in the American Hold Mining and
Milling Company which is capitalized
for $2,0C0,000, and whose capital stock
is divided into 2,000,000 shares of 11.00
each for 5 cents per share. Only
enough stock will be sold to develop
the mines.
Every dollar received will be UBed in
sinking shafts or digging tunnels, and
it we strike ore in paying quantities
you will be benefited in proportion to
your Investment, and if we do not strike
it, you will not lose very much.
Many pcor men have made a fortune
In Cripple Creek, and many have been
disappointed, but this is a world where
a man must risk if he would gain,
and while we make you no promise that
you will be one of the lucky number,
we hope you will be, because if you
make money by investing it In our
company we shall also be on the high
road to prosperity.
If vou invest now, you get in on the
ground floor with us, and then we all
go up or down together. Do you want
to try your luck?
Remember you get 500 shares of
American Gold Mining and Milling
Company stock for $25 00, or 100 shares
for $5.00. If paying ore is struck you
make 95 cents on each nickel Invested.
Shall we write some stock in your
name? See our advertisement in
another column.
ROME IS ACTIVE.
Just at this time it would be well If
each American citizen did double the
usual amount of thinking.
Rome is intensely active in this cam
paign. She had her Kerens, her Car
ter, her Ireland and a host of lesser
luminaries manipulate, as far as pos
sible, the last national convention of
the Republican party; and she has,
since its adjournment, been most as
siduous in her efforts to create the im
pression that the Republican party and
the Republican candidate were com
mitted to her line of action.
She pursued the same tactics toward
the Democratic convention. Her Har
rlty, her White, her Gibbons and a
regiment of red-necked "Mc's" and
"O's," did all they could to steer the
old hulk up against the A. P. A. reefs,
and since the convention passed into
history they have sought every oppor
tunity to trp the nominee into declar
ing hit hostility to a majority of the
loyal citizens of this repablio who have
been brave enough to say there Is dan
ger from political Romanism and we
will oppose it whenever it shows 1U
head.
Re it said to the credit of the Demo
cratic nominee, Mr. Bryan, though
conscious of the fact that ninety-three
out of everyone hundred Romanists af
filiate with his party, he ha i gone no
further than to say, what any nojd citi
zen could honestly and truthfully say,
that he Is In favor of the fullett and
freest exercise of tbe right guaranteed
by tbe constitution of tbe United States
to every man to worship God according
to the dictates of one's own conscience.
Major McKlnley holds to the same
view.
Thus far the nominees of both the
great parties stand on an equal footing.
What, then, shall determine whom we,
as loyal Americans and true patrioU,
shall support? Shall the silver lesue
take precedence of the principle that
no public money shall be appropriated
for sectarian institutions? Shall the
tariff over lap and hide from view
the issue that church and state must
forever remain separate? Shall either
or both of these issues formulated by
tbe two old parties cause us to forget
that there is an alien hand raised 13
desecrate our flag, to overturn our pub
lic school system and to stiflj free
speech and a free press? These, fellow
citizens, are questions for you to weigh
carefully and well. Upon your decision
rests the future welfare of this grand
republic. By your decision posterity
111 be elevated to the highest plane
of civilization, or be given an Impetus
toward the deepest depths of ignoranca,
vico and superstition. By the success
of one party Rome becomes all-powerful;
by the defeut of that same party
she becomes a pigmy in politics, and
loses all the prestige she has labored
years to build.
It is your duty as loyal Americans to
watch the Romans. They are too con
fident of success to practice their usual
deception. They will be solid for one
man before election day.
AS WE SEE IT.
This is a suspicious world. The other
day we received two letters, one from a
Democrat and one from a Republican.
In each was a very plain charge that
we were supporting the candidate of
the other party for a consideration for
boodle and an intimation that we
could not afford to fight our friends.
Wo wrote each gentleman that,
while we were editing a patriotic paper,
we were at the same time a frea man,
and would support whoever, in our
opinion, most nearly represented what
patrtotlo orders were striving to have
enacted Into law, and that whenever
the tone of Tbe American became un
pleasant, we would accept a draft for
what they owed us, and cancel their
names on our list.
The editor of The American Is not
Infallible. He makes mistakes, but be
is not purchasable. What appears on
the editorial page is his honest, un
bought opinion; and, while it may not
coincide with the opinions held by
some of his readers, nevertheless, it is
what he believes.
In this campaign he will not attempt
to settle the money question, nor the
tariff ajuestlon, nor any other partisan
issue. He will attempt to point out
who can, in his judgment, be relied
upon by members of the A. P. A. to up
hold the principles they are advocating.
While he will do this, the candidates
who do not receive his support will
have no just cause for complaint be
cause of his attitude toward them.
This editor will tell, as has always
been his custom, nothing but the truth,
and if that hurts a candidate's chances
for election, he will have nothing but
his record, his associations, and his at
titude toward our grand and growing
orders, to blame.
A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile,
dated July 12, 1896, Bays: Banados Es-
panosa, a deputy, and formerly a cabi
net minister, one of the stanches t
friends of former President Balmaceda,
made a' notable speech In the house of
deputies on Friday, detailing the plat
form of the reglsts. He said it was
calumny to affirm that the party would
make war on the Roman Catholio re
ligion. It was true, however, that the
reglsts would oppose with all their
strength the clergy who made politics
their occupation. The speech has made
a deep impression. The debate in the
house and senate between the adherents
of Vicente Reyes and Errasuriz con
tinues with great acrimony.
Bishop A. Cleveland Coke, of New
York, died Monday. Our readers will
remember him as author of the famous
letters written to Satolll, which were
freely distributed during the campaign
of 1895. Bishop Coxe was probably
the most able, as well as the most log
ical, eloquent and convincing o rator in
the Episcopal church. He was both a
great and good man, and a true and
loyal citizen. Not only the members
of his church, but the people of the
country at large, have reason to mourn
his death. He was always alert, ag
gressive and active, intensely patriotic,
and outspoken in his opposition to
Romanism. His name will live in his
tory. A convention of convicts, all with
out assurance that they will ever be at
You Need Money!
BUT YOU DONT NEED IT
HALF AS MUCH AS
You Need Work to Earn It.
It is the intention of the John L. Webster Republican
Club to hold a Grand Rally in
Boyd's Opera House, Thursday Evening, luly 30, 16,
To point out the way to secure both work and money.
Everybody welcome. Seats free. Meeting will be ad
dressed by Hon. John L Webster, Hon. A. S. Churchill
and a prominent out-of-town Speaker.
All Republican Clubs Cordially Invited.
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liberty again, will be a spectacle to be
seen in the state prison this week, says
a dispatch from Columbus, O. The 200
prisoners who are held Indefinitely
under the habitual criminal act some
time ago asked Warden Coffin for the
privilege of consulting in regard to
testing the habitual criminal act. Iu
chapel the warden announced that he
had decided to allow them to hold this
convention, and would permit them to
meet any night this week in the audi
torium of the Roman Catholic chapel.
The time is not yet fixed.
The platform adopted by the Repub
licans of Missouri contains these planks:
Seventh The publlo school is the
bulwark of our civil institutions; there
fore we demand that the present effi
cient school system be made entirely
free from sectarian control, and favor
tha adoption of a constitutional amend
ment reducing the school age of five
years.
Eighth We are unalterably opposed
to the appropriation of publlo funds
for sectarian purposes.
Ninth We demand the floating of
the United States flag over the public
buildings, including school houses, in
the state of Missouri, during business
and school hours. - -
Father Henry "Anderson, priest
of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church
of Hamilton, Ohio, caused a sensation,
July 12, when he retained ex-Congressman
H. L. Morey to draw up the neces
sary papers to impeach Mayor Charles
S. Beach. The father complained that
he could not sleep at night on account
of hoodlums gathering in front of the
parsonage and making night hideous,
and he says the mayor refused to afford
him protection and cause the nuisance
to cease. Mayor Beach said to-day that
he did not mind being Impeached, but
he would not fight a duel.
Rich discoveries of gold at Cripple
Creek, Colo., and elsewhere, are being
made dally, says the Omaha Trade Ex
hibit, and the production for 1896 will
be the largest ever known, estimated
at two hundred million dollars. Cripple
Creek alone is producing one million
dollars a month, and steadily increas
ing. Mining stocks are advancing in
price more rapidly than any other
stocks, and many pay dividends of 35
to 40 per cent. They offer the best op
portunity to make a large profit on a
small investment.
The American Citizen had no au
thority for saying we endorsed Mr.
Bryan. We admitted his nomination
was an honor to Nebraska, but we have
not endorsed him or any other man
for president. The endorsement busi
ness will be taken care of later on,
when the returns from the conventions
are all in.
Never were party lines more gener
ally broken down than they are in this
campaign, and it's going to result in an
American victory.
Judge Cunningham R. Scott Is
courting Dame Fortune again. Mls(s)
Fortune may be the result.
Do Straws Show Which Way the Wind
Blows!
Count John A. Crelghton of Omaha
has counted out $5,000 to aid and abet
Mr. Bryan in his (designs upon the
presidency. Count Crelghton has money
to throw at the blrds.-JVe rooni Tribune.
Is This Trnel
The supreme court of Missouri has
ruled that if a Democrat joins the A.
P. A. he is no longer a Democrat. Wise
court has Missouri. Memphis Ameri
can. '
Dr. Kay's oRenovator is perfectly
safe, mild and yet certain In effect. 25c.
MST INKY Wi
Continued from page 1.
comparatively, of the American people
who desire a dishonest dollar, and the
bimetalllsts have no monopoly of these.
Anything that enhances the purchas
ing power of a dollar is just as dishon
est as if it proposed to reduoe the pur
chasing power of a dollar. The only
difference Is that one of these dishonest
men wants to get more than he is en
titled to and the other to give less than
he agreed.
"Honest money" Is not secured by
calling people hard names or professing
a pharaealcal superiority over other
men, but by recognizing the fact that
this is not a struggle nbetween two
classes, each seeking to get the better
of the other, but an honeste difference
between equally honest citizens as to
the best means for securing honest
money a controversy having for its
object a good currency, not the estab
lishment of a specific theory as to a
specific ratio between two metals.
The only possible guaranty iof an
actually honest money lies in the sin
cere and earnest application of the tra
ditional policy of the Republican party
"a currency of gold, sliver and
paper, " equal in dignity as legal tender
and equal in purchasing power, dollar
for dollar. A currency Jwlth only a
gold legal tender, Is just as dishonest
as a currency with unlimited sliver.
Such a platform Is in no ,sense a
"straddle." It is the most vital truth
affecting a sound currency the world
over. The world's experience shows
this combination and our own experi
ence proves It possible. What Is needed
is an administration broad and true
and earnest enough to devote Itself to
securing a sound currency of gold, sil
ver and paper legal tender all honest
and equivalent. A currency so honest
that it will give us dollars equal In
purchasing value, (unlock gold and give
silver the wldestuse consistent with
such equivalency.
Give us the same ratio of well
guarded legal tender; that France has
and our present sllverccolnage will cir
culate and our six hundred million dol
lars of gold will be unlocked. Then we
shall have a truly honest dollar, and
not till then.
Such a man will be neither the tool
ol the "gold" men nor the servant of
the "silver" men, butathe savior of the
country from a strife i that bida'falr to
ruin our prosperity, shoulds either side
prevail. It Is work for a broad-minded
patriot not a one-sided theorist.
Jerry Morgan.
MGR. SATOLLPS SUCCESSOR.
J - Ml
An Italian by Birth and Jan American
by Naturalization.
Mgr. Dlomede Falconlo, who, In all
probability, Is to succeed Mgr. Satolll
as papal delegate to the United States,
is an Italian by birth and' American by
naturalization. He cimev to America
as a young man of 24 In 1365 and en
tered the college of Bonaventure, at
Allegheny, N. Y. Upon thej'comple
tlon of his studies he was ordained as a
priest by Bishop Tlmon, of Buffalo, and
for a few months filled the' position of
tutor in his alma mater. TJThen he was
sent to the diocese ot Havre de Grace,
in Newfoundland, and was "speedily
elevated to the ranki of vlcar-general
of the diocese. His superior executive
abilities were quickly recognized and
it occasioned littleisurprlse (when he
was drafted by his order to Italy and
by the pops created bishop of Accrenza
and Matsra. Early In J 1835, -Mgr.,
then Archbishop Falconlo, returned to
New York and undertook jthe humble
Si
and laborious work of his order among
the Italians of the city, In which mis
sion he evidenced great zeal and
achieved a notable success. After sev
eral visits to Italy, he was elected at a
meeting of the general chapter of the
Franciscans In 1389, procurator-general
of the order for the Italian branch, and
after serving three years In that office
he was created bishop of Lacedonla.
Mgr. Falconlo's appointment to the
highest position in the Rjman hier
archy in America will, it is said, ba re
ceived by the regular clergy with
much approval. His rapid advance
ment attests his great ability. He is a
most scholarly and accomplished man,
a pleasant companion, an eloquent ora
tor, and a deep thinker. He speaks
English as fluently as Italian and is
equally eloquent in both languages.
uuring bis work in America he at
tracted the people to him with wonder
ful tact, and his great sincerity of pur
pose has made him popular in all his
fields of labor. 2Yi&mi.
An Angry Bishop
Montreal, July 15. There is a
good deal of surprise over the anger
displayed by Bishop Labrecque, of
Chlcoutiml, because his candidate did
not win. He told his congregation
after the election that he refused to
bestow his blessing on all who had
spoken ill of the episcopate in general
till they made amends for their fault.
The general opinion Is that he would
show better judgment If he had, like
the other bishops, quietly let the mat
ter drop.
If you are "dead tired" tone up your
system with Dr. Kay's Renovator. See
advt.
For worn-out business men nothing
equals Dr. Kay's Renovator. See advt.
TwelTS Thousand Will Strike.
New York, July 23. After several
months of agitation, a strike of the
various organizations constituting the
Brotherhood of Tailors was declared
last night. It involves about 12,000
workmen in New York, Brooklyn and
Brownsville. It is alleged by the
tailors that wages have been out 80 to
30 per cent, and that they are com
pelled to work more than ten hours a
day.
Democratlo Elector Resigns.
Baltimore, Mi, July 23. Randolph
Barton, one of the electors-at-large on
the Democratic ticket in this State,
has announced his withdrawal. lie
declares that he cannot accept the cur
rency plank in the Democratic na
tional platform, and it is his intention
to vote for McKinley.
Down ta 9O,000,O0O.
Washinotox, July 23. The gold re
serve went below the ninety million
mark yesterday for the first time in
many months, and at the close of bus
iness the actual figure was $89,761,336,
a reduotion of $3,708,300 for the day.
Of the withdrawals, $3, 033, COO was for
export
Joseph Waaler Harper Dead.
New York, July 23. Joseph Wesley
Harper died yesterday at his home in
this city, after an illness of three
weeks. He had long been a sufferer
from gout Up to last year he had
been the senior member of the firm of
Harper Bros., publishers.
Troop Trains to Be Dynamited.
Kt West, Fla. , July 23. Maximo
Gomez some time ago issued a procla
mation warning the publto not to
travel on trains that earried troops.
This proclamation has been followed
by a general order from Gomez, issued
last week, commanding the destruc
tion by dynamite of all Spanish troop
trains. The Spanish soldiers have
been In the habit of firing from the
windows of trains at women and chil
dren, several of whom have been
killed, and the insurgent commander
proposes, by the use of dynamite, to
avenge these outrage
a