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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1897)
Wood t ill kinds is a good as cash for subscription Several parties who wer to have brought us wood can do so now Any kind or length The democrats of Holt county last week nominated a full county ticket A committee was appointed to confer with noimlists in order to effect fusion Will Pullman made a flying trip to town this week tor having implements and repairs Jumbo says he works hard in good weather that it takes all his time in had weather to repair his machinery Whitman Sun At the Keya Paha county populist convention the following were nomin ated Countr Clerk II L Millay Treasurer W Lear Sheriff John Coble Supr Ueo Fessent Judge W Thomas Surveyor 1 S VanAl stvne Coroner D W Beattie Com missioner west district Tom Laird C M Libolt was nominated as com- Tssioncr from the east district There is a vast difference in local and national or state politics in na tional or state politics we are not ac piainted with the individual but vote lor the principle that is involved while in local politics we are all acquainted and should vote for honest clean poli ties and worthv men Spruivlev Herald After a two weeks trial the writer flatters himself that he can don a Mother Hubbard and a big gingham apron and sail into the kitchen and get up as good a meal as ninety seven per cent of the hired girls in the country This is no josh Gordon Journal Wed like to gve Bro Lyon a whirl ourself We had a two days experi ence in the kitchen last week while our wife was ill It is as we thought Last week T II Tibbies wrote a letter to the popu list papers of the state showing up J W Johnson who writes for the repub lican papers as a whited sepulchre Now if Johnson will write a letter showing up Tibbies and if the various papers in the state will quit publishing the stuff sent out by these two carrion crows the people of Nebraska will have one more cause for being thank ful Choke them off SUPPLEMENT TO VALENTINE DEMOCRAT VOL XI L VALENTINE NEBRASKA SEPTEMBER 0 1897 Our friends the enemy have finally reached the conclusion that demand is regulated by the supply If prices were going down instead of up the thieving republican party would be the power to blame Stan ton Picket Even as from the standpoint of the Picket the infamous democratic par ty was to blame for the lower prices of the past A good share of Senator Allens talk last Friday night was devoted to anathematizing the man who failed to vote at elections His remarks were good very good but the Senator evi dently had forgotten his own lapse on the tariff bill The farmer who is en gaged in picking corn on election day has a small excuse for not voting but we cannot think of an excuse for the public oilicial who neglects this duty especially when he is present at a roll call on so important a measure as the tariff bill Our senators are paid 5 000 a ear to represent the people of this state and when a vote is not cast their constituents aie not represented A private citizens vote represents on the average 5 persons The vote of a senator from this state represents 750 000 persons Senator Allen recom mended that the voter who did not ex ercise his right be disfranchised How would he punish the senatoi who neg lected not only his right but his dut - The best treasurer this county ever had one who came out of oflce with out a smirch on his character his ac counts straight and his friends as numerous as ever is a democrat E McDonald The best commissioner this county ever had one who has always worked and voted for the interests of the coun ty regardless of everything else is stili working tor the people and is a demo crat P Sullivan The best county judge this county ever had the firmest and most impar tial in his decisions a man against whom no disparaging word can be said is a democrat W R Towne The democrats of this county cast about 250 votes Last fall Rryan received 685 votes in this county McKinley 604 Palmer 41 Brvans majority 40 plurality over McKinley 81 The democrats hold the balance of power in this county and their votes this fall will decide the election Here is food for thought Digest it Am rivF SrXX KVjWVC sOTft mm NO 33 0 M SAGESEE TONSORiAL h sDTIOT Hair cutting and shaving Shop in the W H Moses building HOT AND GOLD BATHS MAKE eiican Beauties C CO p n p p e n t o u n n j 3 lfL All tj a a w ar ani hi - l 4iv Lengi tw On Ilacti Box NEWEST MODELS FANCY akd PLAIN m K fiJ7o flptf wPIva FEATHER80NE CORSET 00 SOLE MANUFACTURERS SOLD LV Davenport Thacher