Kg fh H I H h X i X I rrHCEErrr3T zisctismmSSSSS3SIZ MttfiWHMMlfl i j tj f HE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT 8U0CK9S0B TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT GOOD Editor and Publisher Official JPaper of ty Nebrstikfe 100 Per Ifeur Hh Advance PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the Post office Valentine Cherry county Nebraska as Second-class-matter This paper will be malted regulariy to its subscribers until a definite order to discontinue is received and all rears are paid in full Advertising rates 50 cents per dnch per month- Kates per column or for long time ads made known oi appli cation to thisoffice THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 1896 Democratic Ticket For President WILLIAM JENNINGS BUYAST Of Lincoln Nebraska Por Vice President AliTHUR SEWALL Of Bath Maine x Presidential Electors FRED METZ O W PALM EJ HALE X PIASCEKL N 0 ALBERTS SL KOSTRYZE J N CAMPBELL M F HARRINGTON For- Governor SILAS A HOLCOMB For Lieutenant Governor J EIIARRIS For State Secretary WF PORTER ForState Auditor JOHN F CORNELL For State Treasurer JN MESERVE For Attorney General C J SMYTH For State Superintendent W R JACKSON For Commissioner J Y WOLFE For Judges Supreme Court Long Term WILLIAM NEVILLE Short Term J S KIRKPATRICK For University Regent THOMAS RAWLINGS For Senator 14th District For Representative 52d District A ttorntn D H THURSTON For Commissioner 2d District Not four weeks until election day Have you done anything for the cause If not why not Wake up brothers and democracy will once i more reign triumphant When WL Greene comes to Val entine on the 17th it is to be hoped that he will not be suffering from another attack of tonsilitis This is a good town to buy the prescriptions usually used for the disease -but for his own sake he -should suffer in c silence The latest estimate by prominent republicans gives Bryan 199 votes cure McKinley 129 and marks 9 states with 119 votes as doubtful Let everybody get off his coat and go to work to gain a couple of those doubtful states It can be done and ought to be done We donlt need the east and should not waste time there The rudeness of President Elliot of Harvard to the GAR and the brutal behavior of Yale students towards Bryan marks a radical decline in our pretended leading colleges in good manners patriotism and political com mon sense They are two schools which the patriotic youth of the coun try should let severely alone They are notAmerican and do not represent American principles and behavior Ex Gold atill comes and even the mighty Bank of England -cannot stop i the yellow tide from flowing this way its course westward is in compliance so to speak with the law of vCial gravitation The faut is that trade manufacturing interests and commerce in this country are all awakening to their opportunities their present opportunities too and not merely those which the future may bring Mills are opening every day confidence is gaining headway in all our business circles and as for exports thay are having a veritable boom r - - m i STATE INSTITUTIONS Every tax payer in Nebraska is in terested in having the public institu tions of the state managed with economy Six of these institutions are under the direct control of Governor Hol comb who has appointed the officers in charge and demanded of them an hon est efficient and economical manage ment The record for the two years j will show a saving of two hundred thousand dollars to the tax payers is these six institutions When Governor Holcomb assumed office the best managed state institu tion was the Hastings Asylum tor the Chronic Insane Republican officials pointed to it as an example of rigid economy and predicted bad results when it passed into populist manage ment The -cost of maintaining pa tients at this asylum during 1892 1893 and 1894 had averaged 55 4 5 cents per day One year and a half of populist management and the results showed a cost of 35f cents per day for mainten ance a saving to the state in this in stitution -alone of 366864 per annum At the Lincoln Hospital for Insane the per capita expense of maintaining patients has been reduced from 54 cents per day to 45 4 5 cents making a saving a saving of 1089586 per annum The Norfolk- Hospital for Insane has saved the state 773376 per annum by reducing the cost per capita for main taining patients from 67 cents per day for 1892 1893 and 1894 to 59 cents for1 1895 and 1896 The Soldiers Home at Grand Island shows by three -semi-annual reports filed for 1895 and the first ihalf of 1896 a savingat the rate of 2468887 per annum over the cost of running the institution during 1892 1893 and 1894 At these four institutions the officers had to contend against short crops and other obstacles -which increased the necessary expenses At the- state prison the warden has been obstructed at every point by the objections of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings The prison can and should be self supporting yet the state of Nebraska was paying over 40 cents a day for the maintenance of convicts when Governor Holcomb assumed office Despite the fight made- by Chairman Russell and the board to defeat the economic measures institu ted by the warden the cost of keep ing the convicts was brought down to 261 5 cents per day The -saving to the state has been atthe rate of 16 19352per annum The Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City makes a showing of having saved 3326 per annum re ducing the cost of maintaining inmates from 106 83 3 5 cents per capita per day The total savings of these six state institutions over the average annual cost of maintaining the same institu tions for the three years prior to Governor Holcombs term of office make a grand total of 9952475 per annum ATTEMPTS TO DECEIVE Here is one more deliberate att empt to deceive shown up by The Demo crat In the Gordon Journal of last week the following appeared BRYAN in 1893 No people except the greedy owners of silver mines anxious to make inor dinate profits are interested in coinage at the ratia of 16 to J No people ex cept those avaricious owners of money who profit by contracting the cur rency are interested in prohibiting honest free silver coinage at the ratio ofJ25 to 1 We have no silver mines in Nebraska and the interests of the people of this state simply require free and unlimited coinage of silver upon the basis of its reasonable value which cannot be far from 1 part of gold to 25 of -silver World Herald Bryans paper July31 1893 Now appearing in almost any other paper this article would not cause comment but in Bro Lyons paper ye gods Can it be possible that he who says the politics of this paper is putrid would stoop eo low as tice downright deception The article in question did appear in the World Herald on the datd mentioned but the deceptiou lies in the heading and the credit attached to the article The World Herald was not Bryanspaper on the date mentioned as Bro Lyon and every other intelligent Nebraskan knows and he was not responsible for the exticle Will the Journal please correct Plutocracy vs poverty monopolies vs individuals trusts vs the people is the title of the case now being heard by voters and on which a decision will be tendered Nqv On to Canton is the popular watch word Norfolk Neius Yes popular because so cheap Free transportation would draw a crowd to hell Yet the News holds up its hands in holy horror when free silver is men tioned f Norfolh Independent Another editor has been honoredr by a political party This time it is Robert Good of The Valentine Democrat who was nominated for representative of this district Of course Bro Good knows that it is an empty honor and there is no possible chance of election yet his -nomination shows that the party appreciates his efforts and were it in their power to reward him they would do so Browrilee Hornet The republicans have removed one more enemy to their cause by nominat ing Mayor Pingree of Detroit for governor of Michigan Mayor Pingree was wont to ask What party policy will best subserve the greatest good to the greatest number and his answer invariably was Free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 But all thafrhas changed now and he only asks What policy will best subserve the interests of Mr Pingree Tis thus that ambition makes liars of men Heretofore Mr Pingree has been pointed to as a great benefactor of the poor and his potato patch in the city of Detroit will be remembered for ages but in linking his fate with McKinleys in standing upon the same platform with the savior of trusts and monopolies he puts an end to bis usefulness His desire to aid the laboring man has been put behind his desire for political preferment and Mark Hanna can congratulate himself upon having re moved another of labors champions The erstvvbile advocate of principle has now become a most earnest disci ple of party MERE CURIOSITY Mere curiosity led 40000 intelli gent people to attend the Bryan ratifi cation meeting given by Tammany Hall in New York City last week and 35000 of these were compelled to stand outside in a cold rain Mere curiosity impelled the 5000 men and women to cheer as one person when Bryan appeared upon the platform Mere curiosity set the immense throng wild when be said While I do not wish to array class against clas3 1 am willing to array all the people wbo suffer from trusts against the few people who compose them It was mere curiosity that caused such an ovation toffehe democratic candidaterin New Jersey tbat the New York World the great gold standard democratic paper heads its article on the subject in letter Jersey Bryan Mad And it is mere curiosity to see good times that will place Bryan in the presidential chair on the 4th day of next March Long live such mere curiosity May its power never grow less WHAT TARIFF MEANS In the house of representatives on March 16 1892 William J Bryan the democratic candidate for president said There is a question Mr Chairman when you come to consider the details of a revenue tariffas to just how it ought to be laid I do not remember the exact language of that platform upon this question but I do believe as say and I am ready to stand by it anywhere that a protective tariff lev ied not to raise revenue but to protect some particular industry is wrong in principle and vicious in practice Now what is a protective tariff and what does itmean It is a simple device by which one man is authorized to collect moneyJxom his fellow man There are two ways in which iyou can pro tect an industry Youi can give it -a bounty out of the federal treasury or you can authorize it to take up the collection itself Tbisis the only dif ference Suppose that the Chairman desired to help some particular indus try for instance one in the home of my friend from New York Mr Raines who was asked the question He might do it in either of two ways He might pass around the hat here and collect the money and tarn it over to the -favored industry or he might simply say to the man I will put a tariff upon the imported article and make the price so high that you can collect the additional price for your home made article Now what is the difference except that in the one case the Chairman passes around the hat and turns the money over to friends and in the other case authorizes the friendto pass the himself his he hat r tr ANOTHER MCKINLEY RECORD What a queer old world ibis is any way and How devions and inexplicable are some of thccouclusions arrived at and arguments presented regarding presidential candidates Now theres Bryan and McKinley and the prohibi tionists The McKinleyites are afraid that Bryan will get the votes of the prohibs so they are assiduously circu lating a story to the effect that Bryan once stumped this state against feition all of which is false This stumping was supposed to have Ibeen done in 1890 when Bryanfirst ran for Congress but all that Bryan ever said in his speeches it that time regarding the proposed prohibitory amendment was that the democratic party is not in favor of attempting to regulate the appetites of men But what of that Our republican friends are attempting to make a mountain out of this mole hill and hold up their hands in holy horror at the thought of anyone dar ing to make such a bold statement And they point with pride to Mc Kinleyte address in 1874 when he said among other stronger things By legalizing this traffic we agree to share with the liquor sellers the respon sibilities and evils of his business Every man who votes for license be comes of necessity a partner to the liquor traffic and all its consequences Nobody desires to argue this ques ion in a presidential campaign but many will honor McKinley for th words quoted above But like all other McKinley records this one has two sides On South Market street in Canton Ohio stands a Mittle three cornered one story building occupied by John Rolli with an ordinary every day liquor saloon The land and building occupied by this saloon is and for several years has been in the possession of Wm McKinley and the rentals paid for the property go into his pocket This is given on the authority of the New York Voice the greatest prohibition paper in America By McKinleys record he can be shown to be in favor of anything and everything In the Republican platform of 1860 adopted at Chicago that on which Abraham Lincoln was elected presi dent appeared the following plank That the maintenance inviolate of the right of the state and especiallythe right of each state to order and con trol its own domestic institutions cording to its own iudaemenfc o i - u i Dirvcij to caacutirii lu Ulclli UUUU1UK of power upon which the operation and endurance of our political fabric de pends and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory no matter under what pretext as among the greatest of crimes Thirty six years later the Chicago convention on July 7 1896 writes the following plank which the republican machine of Hanna McKinley Piatt Merriam Quay and Payne denounces as anarchistic We denounce arbitrary interference by federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the constitution of the United States as a crime against free institutions If this plank on which William Bryan and the army of freedom 1896 stands is anarchistic what that on which Abraham Lincoln J in of and the allied forcesof union and freedom stood in 1860 When Mr Hanna by the most ex traordinary campaign of boodle that the country ever saw solidified the re publican party inifavor of repudiated McKinleyism he was regarded as the most dangerous man in Amirican politics His activity in politics was looked upon as wuolly pernicious JBut good reasons exist for a change of view with regard to Mr Hanna This gentlemans methods are distinguished by an ingenuousness which instantly reveals where he is at and what are his purposes He managed his Mc Kinley nominating campaign in such a way as to make it a spectacular ex hibition of boodleism Mr Hanna is not in danger but a danger signal He is a red lantern over the political ditch The American people owe Mr Hanna thanks for waving the red flag of danger- St Louis Republic The free silver republicans are talk ing of putting a state ticket in the field This is as it should be Re publicans are backing gold standard democrats and chuckling in their sleeves over the confusion of the party and democrats will be justified in adopting retaliatory measures If this ticket is put up voters can take their choice of six tickets when election day comes around jf - - - - ir - 4 iiii i - irr MVTYWf Spain oiloaida loan of 2u00GG0 in London rewntiy but could find no taker even though her railroads guaranteed the loan She is now in a position to go Into the hands of a receiver as a bankrupt and Cuba doesnt propose to be reckoned among the assets of the country And the Philippine Islands aie in a state of revolution also Spain will shortly have to retire from her colonial poB essions Every man should vote occording to the dictates of his conscience For the past two years Governor Holcomb has given this state the best adminis tration we have ever had He has been persecuted by the republicans vet not one of them can say -a word against him or his official act3 With such aDian in the governors chair for another two years this state will be prosperous andtfreed from the thieving gang of republicans ONeill Sun THE AMENDMENTS The ninth proposed amendment to the constitution is perhaps the most important one of all as it provides for the investment of the permanent school funds ofthe state No objec tion from any source has ibeen raised against this proposed amendment and this paper will therefore pass it with out comment until next week The next amendment proposes to allow merging of the government of cities of tthe first clas3 with the government of the counties in which they are located This amendment applies tovOmaha only and is being combatted by some farmers papers in Omaha one of which says This proposition applies to the city of Omaha and the county of Douglas in which Oraaha is situated should such amendment become a part of our constitution as Douglas county is now constituted it would be easily possible for the city and county to be incorporated even against the wish will and vote of all the farmers of the county The result of such incorporation would be to saddle the farmers of the county with a proportion of the euurmousueDu or mis city masmg a burden of taxation which swould ruin the value of farms and render farming in this county unremunerative Furthermore such incorporation wonld disfranchise the farmers vote thereby depriving him of local This paper cant see it that way however as the amendment expressly stipulates that the proposition for merging the governments must re ceive the assent of a majority of the votes cast in such city and also a majority of the votes cast in the county exclusive ot such oity Where does the disfranchisement come in Ycte for the amendment WATSONS MARTYRDOM Mr Watson exhibits as part of the martvrdom to which he has been sub jected for the sake of populism -the criticism of his actions by the Bryan press If Mr Watson is honest he must confess that thi3 criticism has been based solely on the evidence that he was willing to sacrifice to his own ends all the nrincinlfis anrl objects for the support of which his party joined with -the democracy The evidence of this is strengthened by the latest manifesto of the populist candidate for the Vice Presidency In this document Mr Watson is both in- aiuucre auu xuconsistenu wnne pro fessing devotionto the Bryan cause he tries to stir up populist resentment against it by charging democratic bad faith and to arouse contempt for the alliance by calling it a division of loaves and fishes Mr Watson knows that the only ar rangement the democrats could make was fusion in the different states by state organizations He knows thafrif the rank and file of the populists were deceived their own leaders deceived them and neither Mr Bryan nor his representattves -consented to it But Mr Watson -protests against an alliance by fusion because it is a mere division of the loaves and fishes He protests in behalf of the principles of populism He threatens the democrats with populist defection if the alliance is not made by placing him on the national ticket What is that but a division of the loaves and fishes in a different way What object ot Mr Bryans election would be defeated by the defeat of Thomes E Watson Mr Watson will find it hard work to convince the mass of populist3 that they should vote for McKinley because the populist shares of the loaves and fishes were scattered in ther different states and not all given to St Louis Repuhlir I iSSL tf Daxnovratio PiatforiH The following is a synopsis -of 1 he platform adopted by the national con vention at Chicago July 0th 1896 The plank referring to free coinage of silver is given in full Itecogiiizuif that tho money question Is para mount to all others at this time v Invite atten tion to the fact that tiic federal constitution names silver and gold together as the money metal of the United States We declare that the demonetization of silver in 1877 has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall in the price or com Jiodities produced by the people Vve are unalterably opposed to a sin gle gold standard Cold monometalism is British policy it is not only un Amerieau but We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the presenclegal ratio of lc to l without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation We demand that the stan dard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender equally with gold for all debt public and pri vate and we favor such legislation as will pre vent the demonetization of any kind of leal tender money by private contract weareopposuutoiiie poller and practice ot surrendering to the holders of the obllgatious ot tue jiiiitici btates cue option reserved by law to The Democrat and the Thricea week JSew York World one year 150 - t the government of redeeming such obligation in either silver coin or gold coin We are opposed to the issuing of Interest bear ing bonds ofthe United States in time of peace We lemand that the power to issue notes to circulate as money be taken from the national banks and that all paper money shall be issued directly by the treasury department We holdtlmt tariff duties should be levied for purposes of revenue and that taxation should be limited bythe needs of the government honestly and economically administered We denounce as disturbing to business the republican threat to restore the McKinley law which has been twice condemned by the people iu national elections and which enacted under the false plea of protection to uome industry proved a prolilic breeder of trusts aud monopolies enrich ed the few at the expense of jnanv restricted trade and deprived the producers or the great American staples of access to their natural mar kets Until the money question is settled we are opposed to any ugitacion for further change Iu our tariff laws except such as are necessary to V make the deficit in revenue caused by tho ad Na verai deeision of rhfi SnurAtnp fnnrf ni fh in- v- come tax There would be no deficit in the revenue but for the annulment by the Supreme Court of a law passed by the democratic con gress iu strict persuance of the uniform de cision of that court for nearly one hundred years We hold that the most efficient way of protecting American labor is to prevent the im portation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in ourJiome market We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrunglrom tJie people by oppressive taxation and the lavish appropriations of recent republican comrresses whmh irpnt tu r high while the labor that pavs thorn is unemploy ed and the products of the peoples toil are de pressed in price till they no longer repay the cost of production we enounce the arbitrary interference by federal authorities in local attain as a violation of the constitution of the United States and a crime agauist free institutions KecoguiziHjj the just claims of deserving uniou soldiers we heartily endorse the rule of Com missioner MlimllV that nn imrw alioll J o H tranly dropped from the pension roll aud the fact of enlistrnentand service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disabil ity before enlistment We extend niirsviniintlii tn t1mninfni hi their heroic struggle for JIberty and We are opposed to life tenure in the public service We favor appointments based upon merits fixed term of oflice and such an admin istration of the civil service laws as will afford equal opportunities to all citizens of ascertained lltnes We declare it to be the unwjitten law of this republic established by custom and usage of one hundred years and sanctioned by the ex ample of the greatest and wisest of those who rounded and have maintained our government that no man should be eligible for a third term of the presidential office NON PABTIBAlSr BIITAN CLUB iK Below will oe -found the constitution of the Xon Partisan William J Bryan Club ivhich all who believe in the principles there set forth are respect fully asked to sign Tour membership in this club need not interfere with your connection with any other club ota like nature illeud the constitu tion and then sign the blank form at the bottom and send to L G Sparks President Jiobert Good Vice Presi dent or D H Thurseon Secretary of the Club at Valentine COlSrSTITUTIOKr ARTICLE r AAMK Section The name of this organization shall be the W J Uryan Non Partisan Free Silver Club ARTICLE II OBTECT Section l The object of this organization shall be to disseminate a silver sentiment a batter understanding of the finance of the coun try among its members and the people of the county generally and to promote good citizen snip by purity of purpose and harmony of action and to work for and secure by honest efforts the election or W J Bryan as our next President ARTICLE I1I OFFICEB5 Section J The ofiicera of this club shall be a President Vice President Treasurer and three Secretaries ARTICLE IV COMMITTEES Section J - There shall be an Executive Com mittee composed of the officers of the club to arrange all preliminaries of the campaign and to fill vacrncies when such occur -It shall be the duty of this committee to scale a program for each meeting ARTICLE V FUNDS Section 1 All funds for rnnie shall be raised by voluntary contribution only ARTICLE VI RULES Section l Roberts Rules of Order shall gov ern the meetings of the club ARTICLE VII TIME OF MEETINGS Section J This club shall meet every Friday evening at 8 oclock andclub rooms will be open to visitors at all hours ARTICLE VHI MEMBERSHIP Each member must Identify himself with the club by signing the Constitution and accept the principles -set forth In the same SIGN THIS To the officers and members Non Partisan William T of the Bryan Club Valentine Nebraska Tou are hereby authorized to enroll me as a member of your Club and af fix my name to the constitution of the same Respectfully Name IOstoiUce Address i H v - A X J a I