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MAWnmON. - - NEBRASKA
KEIMASKA NEWS NOTES
Chicken thieves are making the feath.
era flly in and about Springfield.
Grasshoppers are on the Jump, and
also on the grain, in Stanton cuunty
Visa Violet Newell of Plattsburg was
thrown from a horse at Maywood and
Instantly killed.
The corn crop In Valley county was
ever in a bitter condition. Other crops
are doing well.
la a runaway at Crete two women
Were thrown out of a buggy and quite
aeriousiy injured.
The Alumni of Trenton high echool
gave its annual reception and banquet
to the class of 1900.
The Flggltes of Oretna are again on
the jump and doing the religious act
Id the name of the Lord.
The body of an unknown man about
M years of age was taken from the
Missouri river at Bellevue.
Two men were on trial at Columbus
charged with disturbing a school meet
In. The Jury acquitted them.
The northeastern Nebraska district
reunion was held at Pierce. There was
a large attendance and a good time.
The annual county convention of the
W. C T. U. for Saunders county was
held at the Methodist church in Rsh
and. The people In the vicinity of Upland
re getting so wicked that even the
corn has been shocked in large quan
tities. D. E. Thompson will give the hard
forking mothers and children of Lin
coln an outing on the Beatrice Chau
tauqua grounds.
George Cruzen of Curtis says there
re a few grasshoppers In Frontier
county, yet they aer doing no damage,
neither will they.
Klre destroyed a wheat field and a
new threshing outfit costing $2,500 for
Joseph and Christian Newka, seven
miles west of Harvard.
Jfrs. John Schlltt of Nelson attached
herself to the end of a rope, the other
end of which was tied to a rafter in
the bam. Funeral later.
Farmer Swihart of Humboldt had an
arm torn to pieces. He tried to stop y
runaway attached to a binder and wa;.
thrown in front of the sickle.
Henry Sexbury of Pilger, foreman of
the extra section gang employed on the
F.. E. & M. V. at West Point, fell from
a handcar and broke his kneecap.
Miss Clara Blesemeler, daughter of a
Wealthy farmer at Crab Orchard, died
af humor on the brain. A magnetic
healer had promised to effect a cure.
A year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. O.
W. Laughlin of Ashland was attacked
toy rats while sleeping In his crib and
badly bitten about the face and hands.
Ludwig Vollerding of Madison and
the Anti-Saloon league have locked
horns over the granting of a permit to
the festive schooner over the bar.
F. O. McFarland, a Christian Scient
ist of Allen, relied on faith to cure his
diphtheria and has gone where he will
he shown, even though he's not from
tflnuri.
John W. Clark of Madison brought
alt in the sum of $8,000 against George
Knua. Clark In his petition charges
atrum with alienating his (Clark's)
wife's affections.
An effort is .being made to hold a
street fair at Columbus some time in
September. Should the enterprise be a
(od some prizes will be offered lor
horse and bicycle races.
Clyde Everett of Lyons, was shot and
.probably fatally wounded in the fore
head by a 22-rlfle in the hands of his
little cousin. Clay Newmyer. Both boys
arc about seven years old.
Thieves at Plattsmouth abstracted
from the box of Frank J. Morgan,
treasurer for the state Odd Fellows'
lodges, all the mall, amounting to, so
far as known, something over $1,000.
fieri bDer has organized a Billy Jen-
club. The fees thereof must be
In silver, and the only thing In
the line of gold that will be tolerated
will be the Oiling in the member's teeth.
Kextl
Trank Cateyson, a shoemaker, and
Mr. Amanda Collins of Plattsmouth
departed together. It is said, for Ne-
tuaaka City. The former leaves a wife
the Utter her husband and chll
Mrs. Ellas Sage of Plattsmouth fell
While going down cellar and struck her
against a barrel, cutting a deep
i la her face. Mrs. Sage is 72 yeai.
Md quite feeble, but hopes of her
are entertained.
8. T. Minton, a traveling salesman
ft the Western Supply and Manufac-
company of Kansas City, died
the Paddock hotel In Beatrice aftei
of but two days, resulting
tha excessive heat.
OattUeb Echtenkamp, jr., living neat
' Tl-r"i While oiling a self-binder
fjtl te arm fractured in two places,
taaat attached to the maehlnt
" yrl as aa M caught his arm li
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THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
(Hedrt' Chicago American.)
The presidential campaign of 1SO0 is
under way. The leaders have been
chosen and the lines of buttle drawn.
William McKinley la primarily a pol
itician. He wears hs prim-plea lightly.
When he thought silver popular he was
a free silver man. He voted for free
coinage along with Bland, when Bryan
was a boy at school. Later he said the
democratic party was not doing enough
for silver, and told how much more
the republicans would do if they were
intrusted with power. In the republican
convention four years ago he was
afraid to have the word "gold" men
tioned. Now he la a partisan of the ab
solute, unmitigated, slng'f gold stand
ard. In congress, when he had no offices to
distribute, Mr. McKinley was an ar-
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VIEW OP THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT KANSAS CITY
WHEN BRYAN'S NAME WAS MEN HONED.
dent civil service reformer. He became
governor of Ohio and turned over the
helpless lunatics In the insane asylums
and the Inmates of all the other state
charitable institutions to the tender
mercies of the spoilsmen. When he was
a candidate for president the first time
he promised that he would take "no
step backward" In the matter of civil
service reform. When he took office be
became the first president to take a
backward step since the reform wag
first instituted under Arthur, fourteen
years before.
President McKinley said that we
could never be guilty of criminal ag
gression, and then he began and car
ried on an unnecessary war in the
Philippines. He said that it was our
"plain duty" to give the Porto Rlcans
free admission to our own markets, and
then he not only accepted but actually
forced through congress a bill levying
heavy taxes both ways on Porto HI can
trade.
All these Inconsistencies have a
Ingle cause Mr. McKinley Is not his
own master. He speaks from the good
Impulses of his heart and then he does
what he Is told to do. It Is impossible
even to Imagine William McKinley
making such a stand for his principles
against the oressure df party leaders
as William J. Bryan has made this
week. When we elect McKinley to of
fice, therefore, his words furnish us no
clew whatever to his probable course
after he gets Into power. To know what
he I going to do we must know the
man who for the time being is "run
ning" him. In this case It Is Mark
Hanna.
William J. Bryan Is the very an
tithesis of this opponent. No man has
had more virulent or more unscrupu
lous enemies; no man tins been more
outrageously misrepresented; no man
has had his character, opinions and
conduct more distorted and caricatured,
but In all the whirlpool of detraction
t.utt has surged about him nobody has
ventured to suggeat that Mr. Bryan Is
owned by anybody but William J.
Bryan.
, lie takes order from no Hanna. He
dues nt have to call. anbody into
consultation to find out what he thins.
His convictions, based on his own ma
tured study, are his own property, and
when he has once foimed them no pow
er on earth can induce him to gie
them up or modify them or hide them
under a mask.
The country is coming to know and
admire that splendid stubbornness of
Mr. Bryan. The democrats who did
not agree with him on the silver ques
tion, annoyed as they were with what
seemed to them an unnecessary sac
rifice of political strength, are begin
ning to be glad that they have had
that revelation of unconquerable. In
flexible conviction. While It is against
them on one point, it gives them con
fidence that upon the other points on
which they and the candidate agree
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they will not be betrayed. They have
been looking for a man who would dis
play on the side of the people that
same Immovable obttlnacy that Cleve
land displayed on behalf of the privi
leged classes, and they have found him.
Another term of McKinley, Involving
the Indorsement of the almost unbroken
record of bad faith which has charac
terized nearly all the acts of his ad
ministration, would be about as bad a
commentary on popular government as
could be Imagined. But could not the
cause of popular government suffer still
more should the party which has taken
up the task of reviving the Declaration
of Independence and other old-fashioned
lews of national honor be be
trayed by its candidate? In the pres
ent crisis signs of surrender by that
candidate to bosses or to moneyed In
terests, or the exhibition by him of
any of the marks of the "quitter,"
would be very disquieting to many a
gold democrat.
What we need In the presidency now
above all other things Is an honest
man not merely one who Is above
picking pockets himself, but one whose
honesty is aggressive one who will
not tolerate Neelys and Rathbones un.
der him or Hannas over him, and
whose honesty extends not merely to
matters of money, but to matters of
principle. We know that If William J.
Bryan said that anything was our
"plain duty" he would shut that wteel
trap Jaw of his and keep congress In
session until that duly was performed
or the congressional term expired. If
an organ told him that this action
would cost him 3,000.000 votes of grow
ers of filler tobacco and "garden suss"
he would tell It that the people could
elect another president If they chose,
but that 15,000,000 voters could not
make him do a thing he thought wrong.
Thut Is a comfortable sort of a per
son to lean on In a national crisis. With
hurricane signals flying In China, even
old democrats would line to feel that
they had a nickel steel, Kruppized w'll
to trust in. Po much for the beads of
the ticket. The contrast between th.:
candidate for second place la of a dlf-1
of independence and other old-fash- ' V ! 5 -K? J1" Hi,, W TsY I
fersnt nature, but tqually Kinking.
Grave as are McKlnlvy'i faults. If
he and Roosevelt should be elects!
every patriot would offer up dally
prayers for the health of McKinley
The accession of Theodore House veil
to the presidency would be a public ca
lamity. Impetuous as the German em
peror, his Impetuosity Is not guided !)
the kaiser's trained Intelligence. His
continual "breaks," merely annoying or
amusing in the positions he has hell
heretofore, would be dinantrous in a
president. Before his term wa a year
old he would be likely to have us at
.war with half the powers of the world
and he would probably overrule the su
preme court at least once a month. At
the time of the Kentucky election dis
pute Governor Roosevelt announced
that every American worthy of tht
name would give his support to Taylor,
now a fugitive from Justice, and he
urged that personage to hold on, re
gardless of consequences. Soon after
ward the supreme court of the Vnited
States decided that Taylor's opponent
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had a legal title to the office. If Roose
velt had been president his principles
would have required him to disperse
the supreme court with regulars. Tay
lor for a time had terrorized the statt
courts with militia.
Adlal E. Stevenson Is a calm, well
balanced statesman, In whose hands
our national Interests, foreign and do
mestic, would be absolutely safe. If
was snid before the nominations at
Philadelphia that Hanna had laid down
the principle rhnt nobody should bi
nominated for vice president who did
not measure up to the requirements
of the presidency. That rule was fol
lowed In Kansas City, but It w,-1,
thrown Into th waste basket at I'hlhr
dalnbjg
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WHY BRYAN WILL BE ELECTED. :
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(By Jiiihard Crck r In N
Hurely no man can Vote Intelligently ',
without intelligently ,tu lying all t .
the ipsues Involved. He should caie-
fully read the democratic platfotm
adopted at Kansas City and lompaie
it with the platform f the republican
party adopted at Philadelphia.
He will find In the democratic plat
form many planks, ad of which are
worthy of success.
Among them are two planks relating
to trusts and imperialism.
One phase ot ue trusts that comet
home to all young men In the land and
through them to all the fathers and
.Tiothtrs is the fact that It limits tht
opportunity of our youths for advanre
ment to positions of ultimate commer
sial independence.
Every younj man likes to look for
ward to some day being fecure against
the rainy day and to having a home
and business of his own.
Dots any one deny that the tendency
to centralization on a large scale will
lessen the number of the "self-made
men," one of America's best produc
tions? Apologists are even now saying that
the big trusts with their army of em
ployes give the tame measure of en
couragement to the young men of the
country that a condition of Independ
ent effort would; that the least effi
cient will get steudy employment and
that the abler will work themselves
Into positions of responsibility and good
pay.
In other words, well clothed and well
paid serfdom, dependence upon the
judgment of a soulless control for
stcadlnes sof employment, liable to be
ruthlessly thrown upon the streets If It
Is doclded that to regulate production
and lo Institute savings It is desirable
to clone shops at any place, and this
without regard to local Interests or suf
ferings. This Is only one hurtful phase of the
trusts, but It is one that goes straight
to the home, and I am satisfied that a
this Is better understood Mr. Bryan
will be looked to as preaching a "gos
pel of encouragement to tha young
men t f America."
Tii.. i rout-el tr or trie iw si inn i-
(nany b(? tflB ou,ome
.I,i;,,lioan y pursued to it.
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ultimate end.
The republicans, wno nave oy
theil
policies brought trusts Into being, con.
fens that they are pregnant with evii,
but say that great combinations are
the tendency f the age.
So seems to be Imperialism, militar
ism and cstpet-bag government of the
people, and however much they may
prate about manifest destiny, we be
lleve they are hurtful to our national
well being.
I cannot look forward without mUglv
Ings to the lime when, drunk with Im
perial aggrandizement, we shall need
a standing army of 200,000 men.
If our country were invaded, or it
to protect the honor of our flag we
were at war with some powerful na
tion, I believe In taking men from,
bench, bar, shop and farm, and go back,
to their callings at the end of the war,
counting no loss too great In the service
of their country when It is In danger.
Hut soldiering as a business will not
attract our people with the opportuni
ties open for them In a country con
trolled by democratic principles.
How will this great army be kept
filled? Why, by conscription or soma
other form of enforced military eervite,
or by the employment of mercenaries.
They say we munt keep up armies
and spill our young men's blood to get
markets for our surplus. The marketa
that will count will be got by utilising
to the utmost our country's natural fa
cilities and offering better articles at
a lower price.
How about the markets we have
found throughout Kurope?
Voes not the balance of trade so
greatly In our favor show that we ur
getting markets there because we
serve them, and not beeaue they aio
subject races.
Chicago Record: "You and your wlf
don't seem to talk to each other much
when you travel," "No; we agreed be
fore we started that we d get rested "
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