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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1896)
- li I I I I Uf r m the Republican comity convention in intention ally omiuicg 10 suae iu views uu ims iiiipuiiuiUi Question as a repetition of the cowarxllyand - honest practices of that party Finally we endorse the administration for its excellent conduct of publicaflairs Its vigorous foreign policy and its iinparallelled management in maintaining the -public credit against foes from Avltuout and foes from within Walt for the nomine of the demo cratic national convention McKinleys triumph is democratic opportunity New York World The latest wrepbrts received at this office- say that A E Cady will for congress in this district A Sioux City alderman was recently lucked out of the council on account of corrupt practices and nowseeks re flection The INew York Dispatch says it osts just 319 to make a 100 bicycle No wonder the manufacturers are get ting rich A E Cady was nominated by re publicans at North Platte last Friday and will fey to be elected congressman jf rom the JBig Sixth district The populists of Sheridan county Iiave endorsed El L Heath -for con gress That rnakes the fifth news paper man in the race honors in Nebraska this year The new emergency ration which has been recommended by the special board of the war departmant will in clude a small piece of tobacco This will be welcome news to the majority of the boys in blue The convention noiv in session at Chicago is one of those that make his tory It is a convention composed of men with conrictions and principles and its action is waited with anxiety by thousands of people in all parts of -the world Utah the new state hasfour women alternates in the Chicago convention The husband of one cf these women is a staunch republican and is now hold ing office by virtue of republican votes This shows that woman true toher re futation has a mind of her own Judge C H Baue of -Lincoln writ ing on the eve of the state convention and speaking of Kinkaids candidacy said He should have faced his con gressional district with the gold plank xjf the lepublican platform staring him in the face and like Leonidas of old sacrifice every frieGd of his in the trenches before abandoning the field to some other candidate whom he knew raasxerUin to go down in defeat V agrgr5tw mmtnvi9 the organ df the combine time Asa sigh of the tirfte5 ii53Sfet tuc u Ai c iiTiiic nnnimno at the y do tSOv anwcwa vil hlCCRSpOIt TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT EOBERT GOOD Editor and Publisher ftfliciai Paper of Clie 1J0 Jtvr Yeijr a in Adifanee IUBLlbltKD EVERY THURSDAY Entered at t he VUMtyi at Valentine Cherry county Nebraska as Spmi clas matter This paper will be mailed regularly to itsislibseribers until a definite order to aisconuuuc is received inu u arepaid in lull Advertising raises 50 cents per inch per month Hates per column or for long time ads imtde known on appli cation to this office - -vv THURSDAY JULY 9 1896 Oik Platforrifo Following is the platform adopted by the Democrats of Cherry county in mass convention assembled Saturday April 18 li We the Deinrcrits or Cherry county in mass convention aniblertdo realhra our alleciance to the princhKi of the Democratic party as formulated b ieflcrson and exemplified by the illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland We still deuenhee the Republican doctrine ol protection as -a fraud a robbery of the great inaierjty of the American people for the benefit of the few Wc still adhere to and maintain the Democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue only We believe the interests of the masses of our population will be best conserved by the collection of such taxes as shall -be limited to the necessities oE the government honestly and economically -administered We express our with in the time honored doc trine or the Democratic pattyad to international trade rclations an interchange by which the countries participating Shall -enjoy reciprocal advantages We denounce the sham reciprocity scheme of the Republicans which juggles with the peoples -desire for lreer -exchanges by pre teHding to establish closer relations while en acting prohibitive tarjll taxes against those countries ofihe worli that stand ready to take ourentire surplus of products in exchange for xomrifodities whigh are necessaries and comforts of life among our ownpeople Appreciating the condition ef the public nrirtu with reference to the -financial policy of this country and recognizing the importance of -a ipronersolution of this question we unhesitat ingly express our unalterableopposition to the free and unlimited coinage of Silver except by intflrnatlbnil agreement and until shell ment can be procured we favor the present standard of Value We denounce the action of 1 r j j A lew wcfus ago tne nuiKers 01 w plate formed a combination to raise te prices of their goods The price for f C 14x20 coke tins was fixed At 050 Alter the combination wai effected ft was agreed that the- wages should berecTud As a justificatidn of the increase of price ior their gods said at the rejecting the improved tone of business arising from the belief thatthe countcy is ap proaching an eradf safe government it is mterestingtbnote that the asso ciation throughits executive commit tee has -already decided on mating a further advance in prices Asa McKinley campaign dodge the bluff was a good one altfeough some what aged but it was very clumsily managed The anticipation that Mc- inley will be elected and a protec tive tariff placed on tin two years or more hence causes the combine to raise the price of their goods but at the same time the trust saw an imper ative necessity for reducing wages By the open confession of their organ the gentlemauwho make up the combine were acting more with an eye of pro ducing favorable effect on McKinleys chances than any necessity for a rise in prices the intention being probably to convey to the public the impression that higher prices for tin meant higher wages forJthevworkman But alas for discretion when greed comes in The public insisted on seeing the wage re duction everytime attention was call ed to the revival of prices and from the happenings of the past tew days it is evident that the trust realizes its blunder It is -also probable that a realization of the blunder took place soon after a consultation was had with the republican campaign management for otherwise it is imposible to account for the trusts late action when its de clarations of last May are remembered At that time foreign tin was selling at 380 and it was announced tfchat a better quality of domestic tin was to be had -at 350 The condition of the business was announced as tip top and the boast freely made that the Welch article had been driven from the American market Today barely six weeks later it -is announced that tin plate manufactories of the coun try will shut down throwing 25000 men out of employment Possibly the trust has been labored with on the folly ofHaeing prosperous under a democratic administration It is not consistent with republican theory for manufacturers to pay divi dends unless they have some protec tion But what has become of the great anticipation department of the republican campaign The country went to smash we werciold in anti cipation of what the democrats were going to do nearly two years later but here we have the McKinleyites telling us that their doctrine will win this year and not a single industry is reviving in anticipation thereof Sioux City Tribune State Corbetts re nomination was assured because of the g o p custom that given a second term to a state officer with little regard to his merits Corbetts expressed fear that his character would be smirched bv wording in the same office with a woman is a good index to the person He is small in stature but his smallsizeis the biggest thing about him -He is an insufferable egotist whose elevation to the head of Ne braskas public school system was an accident and whose re election would be a shame upon the people of this state WorlfrHerald There are a number of people en gaged inreducational work minis part of the state -who can and will heartily say -amen to the foregoing Corbett is a man cf andrfor the classes a man who works policy to the detriment of his office and who allows a social function to interfere with the perform ance of his duty because he is afraid to refuse an invitation from society people The Savannah News asks its readers to note the difference of purpose with which the sound money and the silver- ite leaders are going to the Chicago Convention Mr Whitney and Goy Russell have declared in no uncertain terms that they are not and will not be candidates for the nomination but are going to the convention to work fcr the -public good On the other hand Gov fBoies of Iowa already has his headquarters and will devote him self from now until the meeting of the conventions working for the nomina tion Messrs Blackburn Tillman Har ris Vest and the others are also work ing for their own uiominatioa or that of some favorite - T TXTJM r tic pcuem inatiitious pott to the nomination of IJichard i Bland of Missouri jfpr president and oliu K McLean of Ohio for vice president by the democratic convention Old Glory added a new star to her constellation last Saturday July 4 that being the date upon which the terri tory of Utah was admitted to the sis terhood of slates and granted all the rights and privileges pertaining there to Forty live stars now adorn the azure field of the national emblem and it is with pride we gaze upon the star which represents the new state It re presents the triumph of civilization and womanhood AVelcometo Utah Party ties hang very -loosely about men just now Every day some prom inent republican renounces the St Louis platform and McKinley and thousands of the masses are doing the same thing Judge Scott of Omaha is one of the latest to refuse to swal low the St Louis dose Ingalls 5ays McKinley cannot be elected and give good reasons ivhy The bosses of1 the republican party may -be pretty kshck fellows but they hare -mistaken the temper of the people and notwith the 20000000 campaign fundmay go down to defeat at the polls in To v ember Stromsburg Hadlig1it It has given us great pleasure to pe ruse in several exchange notices com plimenting the merchants of Stuart for the persistent manner in which they keep theiruames and business before the people through the columns of their home paper The Ledger is proud of its advertising patronage The mer chants ufStuart are an up-to-date set of business men and know the value of advertising They are not ashamed of what they have to offer and are con stantly adding new bargains which are popular and competitive therefore they are persistent advertisers Stu art Ledger Eree silver democrats speak glibly of how all the populists of the United States will support the nomineeof the Chicago convention if he stands on a 16 to 1 platform but they evidently dont realize the exact condition of affairs Although they say that the free coinage of silver will make one dollar equal to every other dollar the populists dont support that idea Witness the following from the Mis souri World The free coinage of silver advocates in the democratic party with few ex ceptions do not recognize the fact that money is -created solely by law and insist thatall paper money should beredeemed inCoin This is not the doctrine of the peoples party which demands that all money shall beXmade equal A party advocating the re demption of one dollar by is not in favor of making alldbllars equal MCKINLETS PROGRESS The republican candidate is a rbon only on the tariff In regard to the currency he has shown a capacity to forget things that it was inconven ient to remember and to learn things that were indispensible to his success Atfew years ago he voted for free silver coinage A little later he voted to coin not less thah 2000000 nf more than 4000000 a month Still more recently he voted to have the Government touy practically the entire silver product of the country and issue Treasury notes1 against it In Eebuary last he declared for a dollar as untarnished as the flag In the eyes of -Bland and Teller a bright new silver dollar 50 per cent flat just meets this definition In the Ohio platform he favored dollars of pmial irmrphfloinfl1 sfnrl dpht navincr O - j a power dollars sv Our present gold and silver have this power at home Pressed for a more definite expression the candidate said we must have full dollars As this was not satisfactory he said in his speech to the Notifica tion Committee that our money must not ODly be current at its full face value at home but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial centre of the globe It is perhaps a little uncertain whether Mr McKin would havethis done by comforming all our coinage to tne worlds standard or enforce his must at the mouths of our cannon or our orators jBht his unqualified approval of the St Louis platform gives ground for the hope that he will yet declare in plain terms his opposition to the free and independent coinage of silver It has not failed of observation however that Mr McKinley has not yet done this or mentioned the gold standard- New York World v i v t J j y JJr WTIt i A qifjss W Are women moro patriotic lhan men That is the question that has beon bothering Tni Democrat for some time past At the Eourth of July celebration in this city last Saturday the dearth of men in the bowery dur ing the exercises tvas especially nonce able Women were in numbers and the scene was a gay one but the men stood outside the range of the speak ers voice or on the street corners sav ing the country by discussing the free silver question the tariff enigma or the crop prospects The Fourth of July is the one especial day set apart f r a display of patriotism and that this display should be made principal ly by women is to say the least re markable Again at school commencements women always predominate in the number who are present to witness the progress of their offspring while man proud man with hia superior intelli gence his greater wisdom and more noble attributes contents him self by sarcastic references to the sweet girl graduates and her essays on the past present and future Why should things be thus and how long will man continue to declare himself womans superior intellectually as well as physically if he does not mend his ways and take more interest in affairs spiritual and intellectual as well as temporal and physical Men call their fellows effeminate if they show emotion or interest them selves in the affairs which are usually included in womans sphere but to the mind of The Democrat ib is far more noble to be tender kind and true than to be harsh cruel and decep tive As a rule men are all the latter but it is their teaching that makes them so not their natural inclination The fear of ridicule the dislike of smiles at their benefit combine to make them unnatural Man was in tended to be womans superior but the intention has been misconstrued and perverted until now guaged by the la W of nature and natures God he is rapidly becoming her inferior PS We are not in favor of wom ans rights as the term Is generally understood The St Paul Dispatch is a strong le publican paper but it evidently is sick ofthe slobber being indulged iin over McKinley In its issue of July 4 it has this editorial It would bei splen did idea if those who are managing the campaign of ex Governor McKin ley couldifiud some means or Other to reduce the number of delegations of all kinds that are daily visiting Can ton to pay their respects as they repre sent it to the candidate of the republi can party Not a day passes but half a dozen and more delegations of one kind or another and representing all manner of associations make pilgrim ages to the home of the republican candidate for the presidency One day last week four or five hun dred lawyers from Pittsburg called up on him Another day it was several nundred ministers who went a lone distance to shake hands with him At another time it is a thousand -or two operatives in the various mills and factories of Ohio and of adjoining states In very many instances it is mere curiosity and to say that they have shaken hands with the future president of the United States In other instances there are axestcgrind though this is slenderly veiled through a programme adroitly prepared After all what does it amount to in making the nomination of the convention ef fective by votes at the polls The Omaha World Heraid is after Senator Thurston with a sharp stick and is prodding Jiim quite heartily on his- change of front on the silver ques tion Senator Thurstons conversion to the gold standard is of so recent date like McKinleys that -it arouses suspicion to see him so strenuously in favor of it Judge Westover went east Tuesday morning He will visit Lincoln and Omaha then go to Pennsylvania to at tend to some equity work for his brothers-in-law the Gealys of -Gordon On his return he expects to stop at White water Wis to deliver an address on the money question Rushville Stan dard The people of Johnstown Ainswoth and vicinity have petitioned the direc tors of the Golden Irrigation District to revise the boundaries of the district so they may be left on the outside Tiiey have little irrigation schemes of their own M 1 yw im 11 ifciiM u 1 1JBW Vulh Eichard 1 Eland running ior president on the democratic ticket and the combined endorsement of the pop ulists and free silver people it is said the republicans wont even know tbey tried to elect a president this year The proposition -sounds very nice and all that but Moses Plunkett Kinkaid got out of the race for congress in a hurry and almost before any of the politicians in northwest Nebraska knew where he was at had safely secured the nomina tion for provisional supreme judge It is currently reported that Judge Kin kaid was afraid to run for congress on a gold platform consequently coquett ed with the supreme judgeship to avoid having to stump the district with a goodchance for defeat after a hard summers work Be that as it may his action has not made him many friends in this part of the state He had been in the race for congress so long thathisjnomination was consi dered a sure thing His candidacy at the state convention had the effect of shelving Geo A Eckles of Chadron who thought the nomination for aud itor was within his grasp and caused Alfred Bartow who wanted to be su preme judge if Eckles lost the aud itors place to be sat down on very hard Aflof this is not conducive to the most perfect harmony in the re publican ranks and some of Judge Kinkaids former friends may -knife him on election day A MYSTERV STOR3T Mystery stories have become regu lar features of the great metropolitan papers and in order to keep up with the procession The DeeOchat has made arrangements to commence the publication of a story which will at once awaken the interest arouse the curiosity and sharpen the wits of those who read it and attempt its solution To those whoare -unacquainted with the methods usually employed by pub lishers who produce these stories we will give this explanation The story is published in installments varying in number from four or five to fifteen or even twenty The Democrats story will probably run eight or nine weeks The story is not explained un til the final chapter and here is where thewits of its readers find their greac estexercise As stated before the story will be published from week to week until the final chapter is reached Then there will be a lapse df about two weeks to allow those who may de sire to do so to send in their solutions of the -mystery around which the story revolves After that the final chapter will be published To make it more interestingto those who try to solve the mystery Tiie I Democrat will give three prizes to those who 3end in the first second and third best solutions as follows Eor theibest solution 500 Eor the second best solution 300 Eor the third best The rules governing the competition are very simple All that is neces sary for you to do -to become a compet itor is to send one dollar to Tiie Val entine Democrat in payment for a years subscription in advance Anyone can compete for the prizes under these terms All those who are in arrears on sub scriptions maybecome competitors by paying such arrears and a year in ad vance Three disinterested persons will be selected as judges of the solutions sent in and their decision shall be final No person in anyway connected with The Democrat will be allowed to compete The story is the work of the gifted young writer ueRoy Leach and is en titled The Preston Mystery It deals with events which transpired in the early days when the cattlemen were all powenui ana tee scenes are laid in our own section of the state The story will be copyrighted to protect this paper and tie author from pla giarism The plot abounds in thrilling climaxes and exciting scenes and the story is sure to make a hit Watch for further announcements next week IWSriMRraFrSTFrr pWSSKg JLIIWII ccrncr ao industry New Zealand exported 44430OC worth of gold last year Three-quarters ol it earne from the west coast and Otago Paper which cannot be destroyed by fire has been discovered by ii French man A speeinn u ha it is stated been subjected to a severe test that of ev posurc in a potters furnace for 4S hours and came out without injury The largest collection of ornitho logical specimens in the world is that in the British museum which contains 200000 specimens The late Henry Se bohni the cll known naturalist be queathed his collection of 17000 birds to the same institution V close estimate of the crop of oranges in southern California this season made by the president of the Southern California Fruit exchange puts it at 9000 eaT loads or 2700000 boxes This s in increase of about 400000 boxes over last season Coal mining1 is paying one party of miners in the Yukon country better than gold mining paid them A find of excellent coal was made recently in the Forty Mile creclc district and with wood at 12 and 14 a cord the coal mme is an excellent pay streak Photographs of Perrinefs comet Tvhich was visible during the last win ter show that it had two tails one straight and the other curved sharply backward According to the views of the Russian astronomer Bredecbin the straight tail probably consisted of atoms of hydrogen and the curved tail of atoms of iron A company has lieen organized in Xew York city for the manufacture of nonilluminating fuel gas and has an application foipermission to lay mains in the streets The companjr says it can supply nonilluminating fuel gas at 50 cents per 1000 feet with such re duced rates to factories as will make it cheaper fuel than coal Pride Eli CONCERNING PRIDE of IntellicencH Pride of anco and Many Other Sort I have been engaged upon a serious problem latety but one which is seem ingly so simple that everyone should be able to solve it I have been trying to define pride What is pride any how There are so many things that we call pride which cannot possibly pass muster as the real article Again Ave have been taught all our lives that nothing that is false can be real and yet we are day by day brought in con tact with an existing condition which Ave denominate false pride Her is a paradox surely There is pride of birth pride of being pride of in telligence and pride of a thou sand of other things of about equal importance but the grouping of them all brings me back to the original question What is pride To be proud one must have something to be proud of and hence pride is appreciation and it is only when that sense of ap preciation is well directed- that it pos sesses the ring of quality When men and neglect duties through some mistaken sentiment of possible criticism or of probable self-humiliation real or fancied the sentiment which actuates them or rather which stands in the way o their activity is not pride it is conceit I do not be lieve that pride cam be qualified Jt seems to me that itmustbe as individual as a mountain or a tree and that its ex istence is dependent solely upon the honest worth of the person in whom it dwells My observation has given me the conviction that no matter how seriously men and women of the world deceive others the- invariably deceive them selves more and the cause of this is too frequently through the mistaken notion of pride We never deceive others until we first deceive ourselves It would not appear necessary to mis represent anything to a second or third person if it were not that we want to convince ourselves that the misrepresentation is the result of some thing which we should have accom plished or which we may yet do and here we are influenced by that quality of conceit which dreads criticism and which is willing to numiliate itself for a word or two of praise It is alwavs self deception first N Y Kecorder Peoples Independent Party Comity 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 Deen recommended that ve base our representation on McEad 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 Yalentinc g Irwin y Tower 2 Kewanee ti Lavaca 6 Minuechaduza c ood Lake T - Sharps Ranch - ti Schlagle - z ow 4 German Gillaspie Boiling Spriiifp Nenzel Table 2 1 Pleasant Hill 2 Kennedy 4 Loan Mothers Lake i 3 DeweyLake 2 sparks G Steen i Enlow i Georgia 3 Cleveland 3 BufialoLake 3 It is recommended that each pre cinct hold 11s primary Wednesday Julr 1 1896 Eurther that no proxies be allowed but that the delegates present be empowered to cast entire vote of their delegation Central Cosduttee - Y uy f Jb V J
