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THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
SUCCESSOR TO
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
EOBERT GOOD Editor and Publisher
Official Paper of Cherry Coun
ty Nebraska
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THURSDAY JUNE 11 1896
Onr Platform
Following is the platform adopted
by the Democrats of Cherry county in
mass convention assembled Saturday
April 18 1896
We the Democrats of Cherry county in mass
convention assembled do reaflirai our allegiance
to the principles ol the Democratic party as
formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the
illHstrious line of his successors in Democratic
leadershipfrom Madison to Cleveland
We still denounce the Republican doctrine of
protection as a fraud a robbery of the great
majority of the American people for the benefit
of the few We still adhere to and maintain the
Democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue
only We believe the interests of the masses
of our population wll be best conserved by the
collection of such taxes as shall be limited to the
necessities or the government honestly and
economically administered
We express our faith in the time honored doc
trine of the Democratic party as to international
trade relations an interchange by which the
countries partici Dating shall enjoy reciprocal
at vantages We denounce the sham reciprocity
scheme of the Republicans which juggles with
the peoples desire for freer exchanges by pre
tending to establish closer relations while en
acting prohibitive tariff taxes against those
countries of the world that stand ready to take
our entire surplus of products in exchange for
commodities which are necessaries and comforts
of life among our own people
Appreciating the condition of the public mind
with reference to the financial policy of this
country and recognizing the importance of a
proper solution of this question we unhesitat
ingly express our unalterable opposition to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver except by
international agreement and until such agree
ment can be procured we favor the present
standard of value We denounce the action of
the Republican county convention in intention
ally omitting to state its views on this important
question as a repetition of the cowardlyaud dis
honest practices ot that party
Finally we endorse the administration for its
excellent conduct of public affairs its vigorous
foreign policy and ite uuparallelled management
in maintaining the pnblic credit against foes
from without and foes from within
Mclvinleys triumph is democratic
opportunity New Yorlt World
Prec silver and republican protec
r go hand in hand The former
-means protection to the silver mine
owner and nothing more
Congressman Bland was recently
asked if he would accept the presiden
tial nomination on a 16 to 1 platform
-His reply was characteristic of the man
Yes and would be elected
Not much is being said on the sub
ject of a vice presidential nominee on
the democratic ticket but it will be
well to keep your eye on Adlai E
Stevenson who has the sobriquet of
-sphinx
Nebraska has contributed three car
loads of good things to Texas If
there are any otherjlocalities that need
help Nebraska will be a cheerful con
tributor Nebraska is standing up for
herself these days
The republican leaders at Washing
ton say that in the event of McKinley
being elected president he will immed
iately call congress together for the
purpose of revising the tariff That is
the only thing he can do consistently
and the people will know what to ex
pect
-Headquarters in the saddle would
be a good wheel club motto says an
eastern exchange whereupon a broth
er editor remarks that hind
quarters in the saddle would be bet
ter This is all right but the treasurer
should insist on four quarters dues
each year
One by one the famous men of 20
years ago are dropping by the way
side McGuffey of spelling book fame
is dead Beadle who published the
blood and thunder stories which made
our youthful blood run cold and hair
stand on end is gone There are only
a few of them left
It is estimated that we pay 8000
000 more per year for chewing gum
than we do for the maintenance of all
the preachers of all donominations
If the muscular force required to
masticate this amount of gunt was re
duced to horse power what an im
mense amount of wasted energy it
would represent Add to this the
force used in shewing the rag over
the finance question and the figures
would be be cnd human comprehen
sion
fUE FINANCE ROCK
Finance is the great and all-absorbing
question before the people today
and probably at no time in the history
of the nation has a question affecting
the general public welfare received
more careful consideration or deeper
study no problem has brought out
more theoretical solutions than this
Finance is not a party question Men
of all parties differ upon it We have
free silver and sound money demo
crats free silver and sound
republicans free silver and
currency populists Finance
money
paper
is the
rock in the sea of politics which can
not be avoided by the party ships the
only question being on which side is
the better and safer sailing To the
left is the maelstrom of silver mono
metallism which looks attractive be
cause of the ignus fatuus labeled bi
metallism which hovers on the edge
of the whirlpool and throws a glare in
the eyes of men which blinds them to
the whirling vortex beyond This
maelstrom may possibly be crossed
but not without serious damage to the
ship which attempts it and the loss
of a large part of the crew To the
right of the rock is the deep smooth
channel of sound money with not a
ripple disturbing the placidity of its
surface except those caused by the
swirling waters of the maelstrom sil
ver Wise captains always steer for
this channel which leads direct to the
port of Prosperity but those of a
reckless disposition those who seek
for notoriety those who think to de
rive a personal gain from the venture
steer to the left regardless of the fate
of others when they themselves have
nothing to lose
The question now is which channel
will the various political ships or
parties prefer From all indications
the republicans will try to take both
with the result that the ship will be
split in two with small hope of either
part of the boat arriving in port un
less it is taken in tow by some passing
vessel Democracy will probablv
choose the dangerous route by way of
the maelstrom and if it does its only
hope for safety is in the earnest work
and ardent prayer of those who object
ed to the captains course The ship
Democracy can expect no help from
other vessels because the boats that
usually pass that way are of lighter
draught and carry a much less weighty
and valuable cargo than she
The course of the ship seems to be
predetermined and all the words all
the entreaties all the arguments all
the facts that may be put forth by the
dissenting part of the crew who have
not been blinded by the light of the
ignus fatuus will have no effect upon
the men who are determined to risk
the ship for the hope of attaining a
doubtful kind of glory With a great
effort we may finally arrive in port
but the venture is sure to be costly
SOME DATES IN COMMON
Four years ago this month the na
tional republican convention met in
Minneapolis The McKinley tariff law
was in full force then The Saturday
before the convention met in Minne
apolis one of the greatest strikes in the
history of the country was inaugura
ted and on that day the Battle of
Fort Frick was fought In this strike
carried on while the republican nation
al convention was in session many
lives were sacrificed and thousands
upon thousands of dollars in property
and wageB lost and destroyed This
great strike was against a wage re
duction made under the beneficient
McKinley tariff This was sixty days
prior to the nomination of William L
Wilson Gve months prior to his elec
tion and ten months prior to his
taking his seat in congress
Before the echoes of the Homestead
strike had died away another strike
against a wage reduction was made in
New Orleans Human lives were lost
property destroyed and women and
children forced to beg during this
strike
These are but two instances out of
many Yet they took place under the
McKinley law a law which could not
reauce wages it it tried But our
friends the enemy tell us that our la
bor troubles were caused by a fear of
what the democracy would do with
the tariff Did they have any fears
of that prior to November 1892
World Herald
The republican tariff and revenue
theories make a paradox If the tariff
is so high as to shut out foreign goods
it is successful as a protective measure
but an absolute failure as a revenue
measure If the rates are low enough
to let in foreign goods your high pro
tectionist is disappointed The very
purpose of protection and revenue are
antagonistic if we take the republican
view of protection which is the prohi
bition of foreign goods
Tt would have been better for tho
country if Harrison had vetoed the
Sherman bill that brought n the pan
ic a couple of years ago CJiicago
Tribune
At last republicans are beginning
to acknowledge the corn It was
not a democratic administration or tai
iff legislation that brought on the
panic It was the Sherman silver bill
which Harrison faiied to veto
It is to be regretted that the presi
dent is obliged to approve or disap
prove all appropriation bills in their
entirety It often happens that a very
objectionable item is allowed to stand
because the president does not feel
justified in stopping the work of a
whole department by disapproving
the appropriation bill containing it If
the president had the privilege of ap
proving some of the items in an appro
priation bill while withholding his ap
proval from others there might be less
eagerness shown by members of both
houses to load down an appropriation
bill with wholly unnecessary expend
itures New York Herald
CYCLONE FACTS
The St Louis cyclone has been
made the subject of much comment
and investigation by eminent scien
tists all over the country and a
curious fact has been determined
thereby It was noted that all the
large buildings which were wrecked
appeared to have been demolished by
explosion from within That is the
walls fell outward instead of in To
account for this peculiar circumstance
the ingenious theory which is very
plausible has been advanced that the
centrifugal force of the storm re duced
the air pressure on the outside and
the buildings being closed the conse
quent expansion of the air within the
rooms produced an explosion It has
also been determined that the safest
place for persons during a cyclone is
the cellar under a frame building
unless one has a cyclone cave conven
iently located
REPUBLICAN HARMONY
Another instance has occurred
which forcibly illustrates to what ex
tent harmony sweet harmony pre
vails in the republican ranks Sena
tor Dubois formerly of Illinois but
now of Idaho has undertaken like
other republican senators from the
west to bolt the party it it does not
make a silver declaration He says
It will be a straddle at St Louis for
the republican party has not the cour
age to make a plain clear declaration
in favor of the gold standard
This being the case what is Senator
Dubois of Idaho Senator Teller of
Colorado Senator Jones of Nevada
Senator Allison of lowa and other
prominent republicans including
John S Clarkson ckairman of the
national committee going to do about
it No straddle platform will satisfy
the free silver people no straddle
platform will be accepted by the sound
money men In this terrible strait it
will be interesting to wait for the
action of the national convention tD
see what methods will be adopted for
unifying the antagonistic elements
If the present campaign is a sample
of republican harmony we beg that
such harmony may never be found in
the democratic party
POPULISTS AND SILVER
The Missouri World published at
Chillicothe Mo is one of the leading
populist papers of the United States
but it isnt in favor of 16 to I It
says
The millions of silver men have
not as yet elected a single delegate to
the St Louis convention of the silver
party
The silver dollar irredeemable and
absolute money made of fifty cents
worth of silver bullion is an object
lesson that has taught the people more
on the money question than Senator
Allen pretended to know A free
people and a specie basis cannot exist
in the same nation c
While we are sorry to hear of a man
occupying the high position of United
States Senator and professing to be a
populist advocating a metaiic basis
for government paper money it is
gratifying to know that there is so far
as we know no other in like position
so inexcusably iguorant of the fact
that law creates money This to Sen
ator W V Allen of Nebraska
Of all the thousand populist papers
in tbe United States we do not know
of one that favors a specie basis and
yet Senator Allen attempts to make
out that the peoples party favors pa
per money redeemable in coin The
specie basis fraud is the mainstay of
the money power
From the above clippings it would
seem that the populist party is not in
favor of free silver only as a means of
attaining an end In that case what
will beebme of our free silver friends
who so confidently count upon popu
list support at the polls this fall
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WHAT THEY WILL DO
Not quite a month is yet to pass be
fore the meeting of the democratic
national convention to nominate candidates
and vice
didates for the presidency
presidency of these United States
When the next number of this paper
reaches its readers the republican na
tional convention will be in session
six weeks from today the populists of
the nation will be assembled at St
Louis These are the three great po
litical parties of the United States
each differing from the other in fun
damental principles yet each claiming
to be working for one object the
greatest good to the greatest number
The leading questions of the day are
finance and tariff Upon the latter
question the people have decided that
the democratic party is right How
will it be about finance The repub
lican party will meet and point with
pride to its record during generations
that have gone will declare in favor
of civil service and for high protec
tion and will adopt finance resolution
which like the monument in the old
storv will be of various hues accord1
ing to the side from which it is viewed
The democrats will follow their time
honored and approved custom of de
claring for a -tariff for revenue only
will endorse the present administra
tion with the exception perhaps of its
financial policy will adopt a free sil
ver money plank and nominate Hor
ace Boies Adlai Stevenson Kichard
Bland or somebody else for president
The populists will ask for paper mon
ey and lots of it will push the initia
tive and referendum and sub treasury
plans to one side will fight a little
over endorsing the democratic nomi
nee and then put up a man of their
own political faith
The outlook is enough to give one
the blues but all hope is not yet dead
The coming campaign promises to be
one of the most complex and exciting
ever known in the United State3 and
the government at Washington still
lives Stand up for democracy
Nothing shows progress more clear
ly and accurately than iron Popula
tion shows it finally but a temporary
increase in population may be due
merely to a corresponding increase in
the food supply It may indicate com
fort without proving progress But
when a peaceful country shows a great
and continuous gain in the production
and consumption of iron it means pro
gress as well as prosperity
The countrysgrowth in iron produc
tion during the last ten years has been
enormous and it has been specially
marked at the South where Tennessee
and Alabama have led the movement
In 1885 the total production of the
country was 4144000 tons while in
1892 it was 9446000 The Souths
production of 1885 was 559440 tons
while for 1895 it was 1549000 Thus
the Souths production has almost
1 ed and that of the country has doub
led within the single decade New
York Worl d
The Aberdeen S D News com
plains bitterly that under the Wilson
bill we imported 246000 tons of hay in
nine months while under the McKin
ley bill the imports only averaged
80000 tons a year The Wisconsin
published at Milwaukee sadly relates
how the decrease in duty has reduced
the price of potatoes to three cents per
bushel in some parts of Wisconsin
and both papers loudly berate demo
cracy for refusing to protect the
farmers The whole thing becomes
intensely amusing when we look up
the tariff figures and find that the
tariff of 1883 which from a republican
standpoint left nothing to be desired
placed a duty of 2 per ton on hay the
Same as the Wilson bill and that the
duty on potatoes is now 15 cents per
bushel The tariff question is a Bud
ding for democrats this year
Suppose the Supreme Court had
had manhood enough to stand up for
the justice of the income and the
millionaires had been compelled to put
up a little of their abundance say to
the amount of 40 to 50 million a year
where would the Wilson bill have
been It would be Hying high you
can see and it would have been a rev
enue producer Only the Supreme
Courts interference gave Democratic
tariff reform a black eye and prevent
ed its being a wonderful success
Only a short time ago Senator Sher
man with a greatshow of patriotism
said that the American citizen should
pledge the shirt on his back if neces
sary to defray the expenses of the gov
ernment But when Senator Du Bois
amendment to impose an additional
tax of 75 cents a barrel on beer port
er and ale he voted against it
THE OBJECT AND MODES OF
PUNISHMENT
Read at the meeting of the Cherry County
General Teachers Association held at Valentine
Maya 18 by Ulysses G Stevenson
In my estimation there is no sub
ject which is creating so great a sensa
tion or is attracting the attention of so
many worthy educators of the present
time as the one of punishment be
cause it is necessarily brought in con
nection with every other subject about
teaching
Unless the teacher possesses the
power to punish in one way or another
our public schools must crumble and
go down to ruin Instead of being a
place of instruction it would be a
rendezvous for bigots and children of
the foulest conduct
Many young teachers who enter in
to the profession are too liable to fol
low in the foot steps of their predeces
sor They dont stop to reason for
themselves but think they must
punish for the same reasons and in the
same manner that some teacher did
when they were going to school prob
ably twenty years ago but many
changes have taken place since then
The only true object of punishment is
amendment on the part of the pupil
not because the teacher has some ill
feeling towards some family in the
district and desires to take the spite
out on the children but because they
have disobeyed some rule which has
oeen adopted for the benefit ot the
school in general
Sometimes it becomes necessary to
to punish a pupil for his own benefit
while at other times he should be pun
ished as an example by which other
pupils may profit
Some children do wrong when at
the time they do not know that it is
wrong others do so because they dont
stop to think whether it is wrong or
not there is still another class of
offenders who persistently do wrong
They try to think of all the meanness
that is possible for them to pei form
On such pupils I say inflict the pun
ishment which you consider most
severe But at the same time endeav
or to show to the entire school that it
is justice and that you intend tohave
the rules which you have made ob
served at whatever cost
Now comes the question about
cripples and deformed children The
only proper way to do is to punish
them for disorderly behavior the same
as any one else Of course there are
times and certain circumstances when
we can show them a little favor
which I think is perfectly right and
proper But we must all admit that
in general they must receive the same
treatment or there will be an ill feeling
created both towards the teacher and
the afore mentioned pupils Then
again there are certain hereditary
deseases which must be taken into
consideration but the teacher must
decide on that as best the circumstan
ces will permit If children received
the proper parental training at home
there would be no need of punishment
in our schools today The pupils
would conduct themselves in a genteel
manner and the wheels ot education
would move along quietly and har
moniously
The mode of punishment causes a
greater diversity of opinion than any
thing else in connection with school
work I dare say there are no two
teacheis here today who use the same
mode in every respect
I might mention a few ot the most
common for example making the boys
sit with the girls or the girls with the
boys as the case may be I do not
approve of this method for several
reasons It can not be applied to all
the scholars for one pupil would prob
ably do some mischief just to get to
sit with some particular scholar And
then it might be the cause of one
pupil taking some disease from an
other Keeping in during recess time
is one mode which -1 think is very
wrong on the part of the teacher
Instead of depriving a nervous wide
awake pupil of his time to play you
should grant him all the more because
his body requires a certain amount of
exercise and if he dosnt get it one
way he will another Many times
when a restless little fellow gets into
mischief if you will send him out to
play for a short time you will reap
splendid results
Then keeping after school as it is
comonly called is another mode which
is very good on account of neglected
work except in a country school in
winter where the pupils have a long
distance to go and have a large
amount of work to do after getting
home in the evening which is a com
mon occurence on a farm
Using the dunce cap or the dunce
block is not practiced so much at
present as it was In former times
must say that such a mode often
does more harm than it does good for
it makes a pnpil feel degraded When
this is done the scholar is made worse
Never inflict a punishment that will
cause a pupil to feel lowered m the
estimation of others
1 will mention my favorite which I
think is the most practical in all sea
sons of the year any day of the week
and all hours of the day
That is whipping either with a
whip rope strap or a ruler whichever
is the most convenient This mode
may be carried to an extreme very
easily but like all other methods the
teacher must use good judgment in
applying it Only a short time is re
quired it is the most effective and is
remembered by a greater number
There is one more which I desire to
mention That is expelling from
school When pupils get to be young
ladies or gentlemen and do not have
pride and respect enough to conduct
themselves in a proper maner then
expel them but never expel a small
pupil as they do not fully comprehend
the meaning of such punishment I
might mention several more but I
think it inexpedient
Mr C H Dotys paper on Edu
cation Old and New will be pub
lished next week Read it
The celerity of the southeasterly
movement of the atmosphere was so
altitudinous yesterday and the trans
position of crystalized silicate so pro
fuse that mens faces got very dirty
and their souls got very hot Hyannvt
Tribune
The curfew ordinance went into
effect last Friday night When the
fire bell sounded the alarm there was
a great scrambling and running for
their homes Nine oclock is late
enought for children to be allowed to
be out on the streets playing and the
Sun trusts that the city officials will
rigidly enforce the law ONeill
Sun
President Cleveland vetoed the river
and harbor bill but the real authors of
the veto were the greedy jobbers who
rushed in to get personal and political
grabs out of a useful and necessary
public measure
It is disgraceful that the Govern
ment cannot give money for the cause
of the commerce and navigation with
out giving 5 to blackmailing schemes
for every dollar legitimately expended
St JjOivis HepuMtn
The New Eepublic the organ of the
prohibitionists of Nebraska has bolted
that party and will espouse the cause
of Charles E Bentley the presiden
tial nominee of the bolters or Nation
al party In his account of the nat
ional convention at Pittsburg Editor
Bittenbender uses the following allit
erative headlines Deacon Dickey De
fiantly Dominates Wild and Wooly
Western Woodbey Wages War With
Wardwells Wily Warrior
IT IS YOUB DUTY
To celebrate tlie 120th an
niversary of the independ
ence of the United States
Valentine extends an invita
tion to yon to visit her on
July 4th 1896 Accept it
Ieoples JTntlcjteiuJent If arty
County Convention
The Peoples Independent Party
County Convention is hereby called to
meet at Valentine Neb on Wednes
day July 8 1896 1 oclock p m for
the electing of delegates to the State
Convention and for the transacting of
such other business as may come up
It has been recommended that we
base our representation on McFad
dens vote for Secy of State in 1894
giving one delegate at large and one
for each ten votes or major fraction
thereof which entitles the several pre
cincts to delegates as follows
Valentine o
Irwin 3
Tower u
Kewanee z
Lavaca s
JUinnechaduza - 5
Wood Lake - 7-
Sharps Uanch i s
Schlagle 4
Eli 2
German - 3
Gillaspie 2
Boiling Springs 4
NenzeK - a
Table 4
Pleasant Hill a
v
Ivennedy 4
Loup X
Mothers Lake s
Dewey Lake 2
Sparks s
sten
Enlow
Georgia -
Clevelaud
Buffalo like
It is recommended
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that each pre
cinct hold its primary Saturday July
1 1S96 Further that no proxies be
allowed but that the delegates present
be empowered to cast entire vote of
their delegation
Central Committee
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