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THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
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CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
ROBERT GOOD Editor and Publishor
Official Paper of Cherry Comi
ty Nebraska
lMO ler Year in Advance
PUBLIHHEI EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at 1 lie Posr oniee at Valentiuc Cherry
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TIIUKSDAY JUNE 25 1896
Okt Platform
Following is the platform adopted
hy the Democrats of Cherry county in
mass convention assembled Saturday
-April 18 1S90
Wo the Democrats of Cherry county in mass
-convention assembled lo reafllrai our allegiance
to the principles or the Democratic party as
lonnulaied by Jefferson and exemplified by the
illnstrious line ol his successors in Democratic
leadership from Madison to Cleveland
We still denounce the Republican doctrine of
protection as a fraud a mliberv of the great
majority of the American coplefor the benefit
-of the few We si ill adhere to and maintain the
Democratic doctrine of a tariff for reenue
only We believe the interests of the masses
of our imputation will be best conserved by the
collection of such taxes us shall be limited to the
necessities of the government honestly and
administered
We express our faith m the time honored doc
trine of the Democratic party as to international
trade relations -an Interchange by which ihe
countries partieiiating shall enjoy reciprocal
advantages We denounce the sham reciprocity
Mheme of the Republicans which juggles with
the peoples deire for freer exchanges by pre
tending to establish closer relations while en
acting prohibitive tariff taxes against those
countries of the worll that stand ready to take
our entire surplus of products in exchange for
which are necessaries and comforts
of life among our own people
Appreciating the condition of the public mind
with relerence to the financial policy of this
country and recogiii7ing the importance of a
proper solution ol this question we unhesitat
mgjy express our unalterable opposition to the
ilrecand 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 iu intention
ally omitting to state its views on this important
question a- a repetition of the cowardlv and dis
honest practices ol that paity
Finally we endorse the administration for its
excellent conduct of public affairs its taorous
loreign policy and its unparallelled management
in maintaining the public credit against foes
from without and foes from within
McKinley and Hobart will not be
the next president and vice president
of the United State despite the ef
forts of a few protected monopolists
This isthej peoples year
The sentiment in favor of electing
United States senators by a direct vote
of the people is growing in favor and
this will probably be the method of
their election in the -near future
The recent rains have greatly encour
aged farmers throughout this part of
the state aud a good crop is assured
Small grain especially is looking fine
and Nebraska will be not only able to
take care of herself this year bat help
ber neighbors
Mr Hobart of New Jersey is said to
be in receipt of a 50000 salary as one
of the arbitrators of the national rail
road pool The salary of 8000 which
attaches to the vice presidential office
wouldbe something of a reduction in
his income but he appears to be will
ing to make the sacrifice Boston
Herald
William G Whitney who was a
strong presidential probability has
written a letter in which he states that
he would not accept the nomination
for president if it was tendered him
and that he would not serve if elected
This is a sad blow to democratic be
lievers in bimetallism who would have
been glad to have a chance to vote for
hitney
A McKinley organ says that under
the Wilson bill the importations of
shoddy into this country have increas
ed about 400 per cent How can a
decrease of 10 per centon the tariff in
crease importations 400 per cent And
if good honest all wool clothing can
be bought now for one half the cost
that prevailed under the McKinley tar
iff what has shoddy to do with the
tariff question
Half sheet posters were distnbu ted
through the mails in ONeill Monday
announcing sucn speakers as Hon A
L Towle J IV Tucker W Oldnam
J M Thurston J3 h Myers E F
Dodd and W J Bryan at the 4th of
July celebration at Newport and that I
Holt and Boyd counties would join in
the celebration The people should
not be deceived by such misstatements
as no one believes that either Bryan or
Thurston will speak at Newport on thp
fourth ONeill San
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MCKINLEYS CON VENT I ON
The national convention of the re
publican party which was held at St
Louis last wejek was unique in many
ways Never before has a political
convention met with but one end m
view the advancement of a single man
aud never before did the convention
machinery move so smoothly in the
right direction for the accomplishment
of the desired result From the time
the doors were thrown open to the dele
gates until they were closed at theend
of the meetiug but one thought seem
ed to control the delegates and that
was the nomination of McKinley All
the finer sensibilities of mankind were
for the time laid aside all the cus
tomary independence of the American
citizens was stifled all the individual
ity of the members of that convention
was thrown to the winds and every
one bowed down to McKinley as the
heathen does to his idol and the Mo
hammedans to their God
The selection of McKinley was a
foregone conclusion and the conven
tion was a -mere formality
there manifested was ot the
made-to-order brand and like all things
made to order it was a good fit No
enthusiasm for principles was appar
ent it was all McKinley He dictated
the platform in all its ramifications
with but one exception the finance
plank He wanted a straddle plat
form but it didnt work The little
band of tree silverites present worked
hard for their principles but they were
defeated Of all those who were in
f avor of free silver before going to St
Louis only twenty six stayed by their
convictions and walked out of the con
vention All the others were McKin
ley mad
The A IP As were nicely circu in
vented by the appointinentf a Jewish
Rabbi as chaplaiu of the convention
thus once more the republican party
showed its cowardice by appointing
neither a Catholic nor Protestant to do
its praying The A P A question is
still unsettled so far as any action tak
en by the party which originated it -is
concerned
The bosses Piatt and Quay were
defeated and the party now claims to
be without the baneful influence of
bosses but in the place of those defeat
ed new ones have risen who are great
er than the old The new coterie is
headed by Mark Hanna the greatest
political manipulator ever known It
sis simply a case of Le roi est mort
v tve le roi chauged to The boss is
dead long live the boss
The selection of a vice presidential
uominee -was made apparently on a
money and social basis and was the
most brazen faced sale of this exalted
honor ever known The selection of
Hobart seems to have been made prior
to the convention though a big fight
was supposed to be in progress between
the virions candidates fortheposition
Hobart received votes on thefirst
ballot making a second ballot unnec
essary Badges with the pictures of
McKinley and Hobart printed thereon
were immediately circulated showing
conclusively that the nomination was
only a part of a prearranged plan as
these badges from their -very nature
must have been printed prior to the
convention
McKinley and Hobart
The combination of names is not
mellifluous in sound butthe two men
are probably in harmony especially on
the tariff question If democracy can
not defeat these men nominated under
such circumstances it cannot defeat
anything
A PLATVORM
The Democrat is in receipt of a
communication from Kobert Martin
an old line democrat of Ainsworth in
which he says Now that the republic
cans have had their blowout and nom
inated two of thegreatest monopolists
of this nation and set them upon a high
protection and gold platform I will
suggest a platform which if adopted
by the democratic national convention
at Chicago July 7 wiIlbeindorsed by
members of all parties Jn part the
platform is this
We believe in a tariff ior revenue
only
We believe in bimetallism aud de
mand the coinage of American gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1
We believe in liberal pensions to
the old soldiers who offered their lives
on the countrys altar to keep it one
and inseparable and thereby made it
thebest government on earth
Nominate and place on this plat
form William C 3Vhitney of New
York and Hocace Boies of Iowa and
the democratic party is a sure -winner
This kind of a platform and ticket
seems to be growing in faver and we
will not be surprised to see such a one
adopted
FACTS TO REMEMBER
The organized lie which has been iri
session this week in St Louis has ig
nored several important facts
1 It was the republican party rep
resented by the Harrison
congress which by extravagant
appropriations looted the treasury
turning a splendid surplus into a great
deficit
2 It was the republican party
which passed the McKinley protective
tariff law a law which demoralized
business impoverished the people en
gendered labor strikes and lockouts
innumerable and oppressed every
legitimate industry in order that po
litical adventurers and gamblers
might thrive on the uncertainties and
distress that such measures always
occasion
3 It was the republican -party
which passed the insane Sherman
purchase law a measure forced
from the tariff plunderers by the free
silver fanatics of the senate as their
portion of the grand divide and a
measure which more than any other
one thing caused the panic of 1893 and
the depression that has since existed
4 It was the republican party
which turned over to the Cleveland
administration a bankrupt treasury
with continuing appropriations of
millions in favor of subsidized interest
with public revenues depleted iu the
interest of private plunder and with
the plates for the bond issue that be
came immediately necessary already
engraved and ready forfehe printer
5 In fine it was the grand col
lapse of the republican partys unre
stricted legislation in favor of privil
eged classes of the republican partys
wanton abandonment of the masses in
favor of the classes of the republican
partys rotten financial and economical
doctrines that caused all the ills from
which the country has suffered during
the last three years and from which
an honest and able democratic admin
istration has done much to rescue it
Chicago Clvrmviah
ASSESSORS ERRORS
in response to numerous requests
that it do so The Democrat once
more publishes the result of the work
of the board of equalization and wishes
to make a few remarks on some of the
discrepancies found in the assessors
reports
For the benefit of those who are not
ifamiliar with the methods by which
taxes are equalized we will -explain that
the average value of a certain class of
property is obtained in each precinct
the precinct averages are added and
divided by the number of precincts and
the general average for the county thus
obtained and the assessment in each
precinct is raised or lowered to con
form to this general average This
explanation will make the table which
appears in another column perfectly
intelligible
There is something peculiar about
the assessments this year and it is re
markable that men of experience and
mature judgment should vary so much
in their estimates on the value of stock
Take horses for an example In Wood
Lake precinct the assessment on this
class of property was raised 121 per
cent while in Steen precinct the as
sessment was lowered 52 per xent
The assessment on mules was raised
200 per centin Merriman and lowered
33 per cent in Spais Cattle sheep
and lands show the same difference in
judgment but not in so great a degree
The total assessed valuation ot the
county is 195000 Jess than that of
last year which is something of a sur
prise to those who are acquainted with
Cherry county property and values but
thisjis all due to the work of the assess-
ors As an instance or now eicner ig
norance of true values of property or
an attempt to defraud the county has
lowered the total valuation this paper
refers its readers to the returns from
a certain precinct which place a valua
tion of 500 on one of the finest resi
dences in northwestern Nebraska A
valuation of 25 is made onthe furni
ture contained therein We know
bachelors in Cherry county who pay
taxes on more furniture than that and
they only have one or two rooms fur
nished The assessors books from an
other precinct fail to show a single
cent of credits opposite the name of
a prominent citizen when it is well
known that he owns thousands of dol
lars worth of mortgages
The Democrat is loth to believe
that the assessors vwilfully misrepre
sented these valuations and attributes
the results to negligence on their part
in failing to thoroughly investigate the
property or question the owners It
should become in mind however that
a sin of omission is sometimes as great
as a sia of commission
Valenne Will Celebrate
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THE TRUTH OF IT
make twj claim
Bepublican papers
for McKinlev whiff i wHl not hold to
gether very long They are
1 The nomination of Major Me- j
Kinley means of itself the certainty of
the adoptiouof a system of protection
which wiUinsure ample revenue
The McKinley tariff increases jro
tectivs duties and repealed revenue
duties for the express purpose f -reducing
revenue So successful was
it in this that the custom collections
fell from 229000000 in 1890 to 177
000000 m 1892 a loss of 52000000
2 The adoption of a protective
system and an ample revenue will of
itself bring about the condition in
regard to currency which prevailed
when the country had protection
ample revenue and general prosperity
iDefore
The country had not nmpie reve
nue and general prosperity under the
McKinley tariff and the republican
silver law supported by him During
the Harrison McKinley regime a
treasury surplus of S8000000 an
annual surplus of 100000000 and an
excess of 98000000 in the gold re
serve all disappeared During the
last four months of the Harrison Ad
ministration the public expenditures
exceeded the receipts 5810549 and
so low was the cash balance and the
gold reserve ftbat Secretary Foster
near the end of his term ordered the
plates prepared for an issue of bonds
to replenish both This was avoided
by a seizure of the national bank re
demption fund by holding up pay
ments on appropriations and by se
curing 8250000 in gold from certain
bankers in New York in exchange for
greenbacks
CLEVELANDS LETTER
Last week President Cleveland gave
out the following letter for publication
I have made no figures as to the
probable action of delegates already
chosen or to be chosen to the demo
cratic national convention but 1 refuse
to believe that when the time arrives
for deliberate action there will be en
grafted upon our democratic creed a
demand for the free unlimited and in
dependent coinage of silver
The adoption by democracy of this
policy would I believe give to our op
ponents an advantage both in the
present and the future which they do
not deserve My attachment to true
demoerac3T is so strong that consider
its success as identical with the pro
motion of the countrys good
This ought suffcoieutly to account
for my arrcziety that no mistake be
made at our jpartv convention In my
opinion no effort should be spared to
secure such action of the delegates as
will avert party demoralization A
cause worth fighting for is worth fight
ing for to the end If sound money
democrats suppose there is danger of a
mistake being made such danger
should stimulate their activity in avert
ing it instead of creating discourage
ment
President Cleveland disclaims anv
desire of arrogating to himself a con
trolling influence upon the policy of
the party and closes his letter by say
ing I hope I may not be blamed for
saying thus much at this time -in the
interest as it seemsto me of the grand
old organization so rich in honorable
traditions so justly proud of its
achievements and always so undaunt
ed and brave in its battles for the peo
ples welfare
Peoples IiirtejietuJent Party
County Convention
The Peoples Independent
County Convention is hereby called to
meet at Valentine Neb on Wednes
day July 8 1896 1 oclock p m for
theelecting of delegates to the State
Convention and for the transacting of
such other business as may come up
It has been recommended that
base our representation on McFad
dens vote for Secy of State in 1894
giving ne delegate at large and one
for each ten votes or major fraction
thereof which entitles the several pre
cincts to delegates as follows
Valentine a
Irwin
Tower
Kewanee 3
JO dCcfa O
Minnechaduza 5
Wood Lake 7
Sharps Ranch 3
Schlagle 4
MHrman
Gillaspie 2
Boiling Springs 4
Nenzel
Table 4
Pleasant Hill L
Kennedy 4
Loup 4
Mothers Lake 3
XeweyLake L
Sparks 5
atcen - 1
1
Cleveland y
BuffaloLake
It is recommended that each pre
cinct hold its primary Wednes lay July
1 1896- Further that no proxies be
allowed but that the delegates present
be empowered to cast entire vote of
their delegation
Central Co31iitt2e
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AS EQUALIZED
Tlie Valnation of ihe Various Precinct of Chewy County
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a Given I5e1ow Some Valuation are liaised
and Some are JLowered
NOTE R raised L lowered Figures are tlie per cent of increase or decrease
t Horses i Cattle Mules Sheep I Lands Lots Lnds Total
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Buffalo lake j s H so is t iW5 m i
Boiling Springs 44 20 Ci 1 ir I7fi4t tiro 74or
Cleveland V2 i s r to joo ns M ULT44
DewevLake 14 J5 SO PS pjotc 10700 S170
Elliot 7 1 4 - 7127 li7OT WJS
Ell i 8 JO S 4 07 0l7i isrtK
Gillaspie - 3 Si S 17 7101 M3 3D14
German M is IS 1M K7 3101 ittf
Georgfa 21 18 42X4 K172 WM
Irwin 2 31 30 1 sr linn 23044 37-
Kewanee 4 1 1 no 20 it uuiM 23 3 2I4M
Kennedy 2 2 1 30 20 30 7rxs wrli 17912
Loup 40 10 20 30 277V 20331 4S0S7
Lavaca 17 24 12 12 c 10371 2 2M7
Merrimuii 17 2200 17 uuri iSMifi SHOT
Mother Lake fl 14 4 m 9 uma iMif
iMiniiechaduxa M 1 10 43 2R770 79i mm2
Neil It 20 20 1 a 4257 3i7 7M
Pleasant Hill 14 4 2fi 12 1 18212 120113112
Sparks 2 211 33 12 4907 2130- aaatt
Sharps Jtaiich 33 12 20 2S tv12 3SKi95ir
Steen r2 8 n 22 WiC 11452 1SI47
Suhlnjiel 5 11 HO 3 4 14071 4070 10O4I
Table 7 20 14 ir 2430t 400429210
Valentine 2 4 30 - 10 14724 7407 22221
Wood Lake 121 27 ri si is 45337 istir refw
Valentinp Village 22 15 loo 17 ni813 ltt K7927
Wood Lake 1338 133
Codv oso S0
Crookston 11ns 110s
Nenzel 9 o
Kilgore 200 20t
Georgia no 1170
Cooper - 33 33
Sparks l 174 174
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Wagner Sleeping Car 1 I I7ll 171 1
Total valuation of the county wooc 37M0i7S044O
Grand total of valuation SlJiwwr
Av value of horses 515 mules 600 cattle 509 sheep 040 land 109
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SHOT AT SUNRISE
An Incident f tlie Ten Years W ar in Cuba
By IjEKOY XKACH
The following story is true and
serves to illustrate with what mild
and kindly warfare the Spanish sub
dued the valiant Cuban patriots dur
ing theawful ten years war
The -hero of the following tale Jose
Ijarrilio was the son of a Cuban plant
er who had married an English lady
some years prior to the commence
ment of the prolonged struggle for the
independence of the island The
father died soon after his marriage
and left a handsome son to comfort
the bereaved widow Jose was his
mothers pride He was a very hand
some fearless young fellow and as
soon as the war commenced begged
for leave to join the insurgent forces
He was at this time about seventeen
years of age and it was with tears in
her eyes that Donua Barrillo at last
consented to his wishes
my dear -boy if you will she
said -and fight ibravely tlie figlt for
freedom Lonely will 1 be without
you but I am willing to bear the pain
that your absence will cause me know
ing that you fight for Cuba Jod I
am sure will aid the struggle for lib
erty and I will hope and watch for
your safe return to me at the end of a
victorious campaign Farewell
Por Diosy Cuban libre mi maeire
Adios For God and Cuban liberty
my mother answered Jose as
he kissed her farewell Then the
Donna watched him ride from view
in the dense rforest
A few hours ride brought our young
hero in sight of the patriots camp A
considerable number of men were lying
about for as the camp was located iu
insecure spot a sudden attack was but
little feared The patriots here
gathered some five hundred in num
ber were under the command of Col
Alvarez a leader of tried courage and
ability He greeted Jose warmly
You come at a good time senor
Jose in fact you could not have chos
en a better for we are to attack Santa
Clara tomorrow and though we will
have thejdetachment ofGeneral Garcia
to aid us we need men badly We
hope to be able to teach the boasting
Spanish dogs within the town a lesson
their cruelty of late is something
terrible and we mean to put a stop to
it there at least You may rely on
my best efforts senor Alvarez said
Jose My song henceforth will be
Vira i Cuban libre
It is well Jose and now let os to
supper And arm in arm the two
men wended their way toward the
Colonels headquarters
Next day the troops were put in
motion and after a six hours march
halted a few miles to the eastward of
Santa Clara where they were sooti
after joined by the main column under
Garcia swelling their forces to fifteen
hundred men
Tlie General after a spirited address
to the men ordered au advance upon
the town
They halt upon the outskirts of tim
ber surrounding the village the caval
ry form up then the onset is sounded
Away they rush their fierce cheer
sounding above the roar of hoofs wav
ing their machetes wildly Pell mell
they dash upon the Spanish outposts
These meu lire their carbines wildly
aud spur madly into town The Span
ish withiu quickly rally and met the
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charge with firmness Standing iu
solid columns they receive the Cuban
rush upon the points of their bayon
ets For a moment there is a clash of
machete on sabre and bayonet the
roar of musketry then the Spanish
square is broken by the Cuban clmrge
Then the Spanish reserve open a de
structive fire and the patriots waver
and fall bacic At tins moment there
is a sudden rush and Jose spurs for
ward waving his machete in the air
the bullets are living thickly about
but lie minds them not as he shouts
Forward my comrades Viva 1
Cuban libre A fierce cheer answers
him and with a resistless shock the
Cuban horse again strike the Spanish
line and break it through There is a
roar of guns the clash of steel
cheers of Viva Espana Viva la Cu
ban librel then with half their men
cut to pieces the remnant of royal
infantry iiy in Jdtal rout for the
woods
But where are Colonel Alvarez and
Jose Barrillo When the Cubans call
their roll they art- missing
A company of cavalry instantly
starts in pursuit of the Spanish Com
ing up with them in the forest they
charge desperately but are met by a
close fire and are forced to retreat in
confusion During the brief fight the
patriots see in the center of a Spanish
square two prisoners they are Jose
and the Colonel But unable to res
cue them the Cubans are compelled to
retire within the town while the
Spanish continue their retreat
Jose and his commander are held
prisoners for several davs then are
tried by court martial and condemned
to be shot the following morning at
sunrise All day do they stand expos
ed to the burning glare of a tropical
sun a torture well nigh unbearable
but at last the sun sinks low in the
west and cool evening relieves them
Next morning at sunrise the first
gleams of the orb of day fall on a
scne of tragedy In the forest camp
the two prisoners still stand tightly
bound to the trees and before them
stands a file of sokiiers The faces of
the prisoners are pale but youth
muugu c ur j use xiiirnuo nas re
solved to meet death liKe a man and
though his face be pale his HrmJy
elosea lips show the courage of t hero
within The file ot Spanish soldiers
advance close to the condemned men
as if to make sure that there would be
no miss Then the otlicer in com
mand of the tiring party addressed the
Cubans Men your lives are for
feited to the Spanish government
have you anything to say Only
this senor said Joe Long live
Cuban liberty A command quick
and stern then the roar of riiles
answer the shout of our hero while
his proud head fails forward The
Spanish tile slovly away leaving ia
the lonely forest glade two bullet torn
soldiers of liberty two Cuban mar
tyrs one a soldier old in wars the
other a fond mothers darling In a
distant southern proviuce Donna
Barrillo will look in vain for her boys
return
Come to Valentine fuy 4r
Valentine will Celebrate
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