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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1900)
-T i H 5l P I 3 I i Is i i N t II r I Ji i iji J V I M RICE r T- EDITOR 100 Per Year in Advance PUBLIBHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the Post office at Valentine Cherry county Nebraska as Second class matter This paper will be mailed regularly to its subBcribers until a definite order to discontinue is received and all ar rears are paid in full FUSION TICKET For Tresident W J BRYAN 1 For Vice President E STEVENSON State For Governor A POYNTER Boone For Lieut Governor E A GILBERT York For Secretary ol State C V SVOBODA How ard ForTreasurer S H HOWARD Holt For Audltor THEODORi GRIESS Clay D OLDHAM Buf falo For Commissioner of Fulli Lands and Build ings -1 JCAREY Saimders For Superintendent of Public Instruction C F BECK Burt For Presidential Electors FRANK T RANSOM Silver Republican Douglaj ROBERT OBERFELDER Democrat Chey enne L N WEN TE Democrat Lancaster JAMES HUGHES Democrat Colfax JOHN H FELBER Populist Cedar WILLIAM H GARRETT PopulistPhelps W G SWAN Populist Johnson PETER EBBESON Populist Howard Congressional ForMember of Congress Sixth District WM NEVILLE North Platte County Ticket For County Attorney A M MORRISSEY For Commissioner of FiJ st District HALEy For Commissioner of Third District We dont hear much from the Kepub lican spellbinders about hauling down our flag in the American Porcupine mining district of Alaska which John Hay has surrendered to England Hay Springs Leader Demos Demingpresident of the First National Bank the largest bank in Terre Haute a republican who voted lor McKmley four years ago has come out for Bryan He opposes McKinleys foreign policy and his vascillating con duct on all public questions St Louis Republic The most amusing thing now going is the buttons put out to represent Diet- rioh which do not look like Dietricn thpm nn thfiir coats as if to say Hes our idol Our hopes are all in him What a choice Porto Rico is being handled much the same as Great Britain- handled American colonies prior to the Revolu tionary war A domineering perse cuting bloodthirsty criminal greed has taken possession of our great and good McKinley as he taxes the Porto Ricans and murders the Filipinos There is a day of judgment coming but it will only amount to the removal of McKinley by a vote of the people this coming November and his punishment individually which will be poor faction for the wrongs he has commit ted Why is such murder and whole sale slaughter of people permitted by nn all wise and iust God In the a Filipino as I am an AmericanI never would lay down my arms as long as an American soldier was quartered on my shores No Never Neyerl Ji 7 j Li -- iiiffJLlJ jiurt iTTirrFSiimBBMm sftE SaaL -- V- For President WM JENMNGS BRYAN 4 For VicePresident ADLAI E STEVENSON Stand for the Flag and What it Stands fotyFreedom for AIL THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT ARISTOCRATS There is no tribute great enough for the man who in devotionto his coun try will suffer from the epithets and stigmas of partisan men for standing up for the cause he represents when o do so means all thg disgrace that can be heaped upon him by those would be imperialists There always was a class of people that would be benefitted by the doc trines that were in direct opposition to the masses of the people And there always was another class that wanted to sail in with aristocracy we might call them the would be aristocrats who are no more entitled to the place they try to occupy than a poor man is benefitted by pretending to be rich and thus growing poorer day by day or like a stove lid that is several sizes too small will allow the smoke to escape around it and as soon as the suspen sion act ceases will drop into the fire and the consequences are a red hot warming So it is with the poverty stricken individual who would be an imperialist and shout prosperity during McKinley times with his joints pro truding from his wearing apparel and is in fact the would be aristocrat or the stove lid several sizes too smalland no one will feel sorry when the sus pending act ceases and he learns that he has been a tool in the hands of the capitalist who uses his brains to catch the unsuspecting sucker or works up on the poor man of simple mind who can imagine that his interests are the same and parallel with that of the man of millions Our country is not safe in the hands of a set or gang of plunderers whose sole interests and purposes are to en rich themselves that they may be ever after independent in no matter what country Poor man beware It is you who need the good and wholesome laws of a republic and not the man of wealth for with his gold the man of money has no need of a republic but to serve his interests and the poor men who try to be millionaires occasionally for about as long as their ready cash holds out always find ready fleecers There has been a great deal said about Dietrich the man who was nom inated by the republicans to catch the German vote To the credit of the re publicans be it said they are not re sponsible for the conditions that now exist as much as some blame them In the first place they wanted a man of gentlemanly bearing and thought they aiu Dietrich at the convention and accept- Mort Tiannn innlcs likfi ed the general theory that he must be ailj UiUlO luau JJiain aauuuu - I ti xx uco his caricature but the people stick all right or he wouldnt be running for for machine rtrr tc rr Xlrtnrtll H1 tTTOTT U1UVJC J ilclU AO IUU lUUUii UJUt HOT however for it is generally the worst man who nuts himself forward for office Money goes a long way and be cause the man had plenty of it that as they had a hopeless case they would get a man at the head of the ticket who would contribute largely to the republi can campaign fund by putting up a man of wealth and thus help their par ty out in the state Dietrich Jias not maSe the impression npon the people in our own town wouldnt go with him into the saloons where he expected to get his vote but remained outside wait ing until he could take a drink and re turn A lame shoulder is usually caused by rheumatism of the muscles and timents of Lord Chatham If I were may be cured by a few applications of Chamberlains Pain Balm by Quigley Chapman For sale 1 Subscribe for The Democrat 100 w Iftx 1 W PROSPERITY McKinley has a host of followers who are shouting urosperity and havent made enough money to pay for the necessities of life nor are they in even moderate circu distances yet they say Prosperity and McKinley That is a fair sample of the prosperity there is for the poor man in a McKinley ad ministration But they follow some one else when they shout prosperity for God knows there has been no pros perity for the poor man during the last administration except what has been brought about by a lavish expenditure of the public money to carry on a war against the poor people in the Philip pine Islands TARIFF TAX STAMP ACT How does our republican brethren take to the Porto Rico tariff But you know the country would be bankrupt if it wasnt for the iitamp act and the ex tra tariffs put on everything that a poor man must buy It is no wonder that the poor man can never get his head above water with the expense holding him down TEDDYS FOUL MOUTH Two months ago the whole country was willing to acknowledge Governor Roosevelt an honest fair minded man but it is different now Since the gov ernor became a national character he has been showing some very bad traits The meanest and smallest thing a man in politics can do is to try to boost him self into power by villifying his oppo nents Thats what Roosevelt is trying to do In a recent public speech spur red on by the plaudits of his followers he employed language which will dis grace him for life Making no excep tions to the rule but speaking of the millions of democrats in general he said Democrats stand for lawless ness dishonesty and dishonor for li cense and disaster at home and coward ly shrinking from duty abroad Such language stamps the man who uttered it as a dastardly demagoguewho would be in better form under cap and bells than under the honest garb of a cow boy Say republican brother are you not a trifle ashamed of the swashbuck ler whom you have nominated for vice president Such language could not come from the mouth of anything bet ter than a blatant braggart Papilhon Times In putting up a national banker for governor the Republicans did their work according to their usual manner and customs but in nominating their man they did not think they would get a man whom they would be ashamed to associate with Now if any Republi can wishes it understood that he is in with Lietrich all around and thinks a man who does as Dietrich does is all right let him clasp his dear idol in his arms put the button on his coat and go get a judge of the election to make out his ballot so he can vote for him There will be some such men voting for Dietrich The railroads now give notice that taking effect August 25th 1900 salt rates will be advanced to the basis pro posed for June 11th and which was not carried out on account -of differ ences between the railroad people them selves The proposed rate effective August 25th will make rate 16 cents per barrel higher than present rate Sixteen cents per barrel is not much to the ranchman but it is 16 per car to the railroad- Contributed KENNEDY NEWS Mr Hale was at Valentine last week Sam Sears went to Brownlee on the were voting ior sucn a man as many A Warnav inoir mtmoi f of the delegates knew nothing about Woodiake with a load of grain and pro visions for haying J A Gee went to Brownlee last week repairs Mrs D A Pierceys brother Ed who has been visiting the Piercy family for several weeks has returned to his home in Denver- Del Ayers is helping Henry Fleneaux during haying Everyone in the neighborhood report cattle looking fine and prophecy some early beef US OASIS Afrc T OnicRnhprrxr nrrivprl linniA that had been hoped for and some men from a three months pleasure trip from I v 1 1 Indiana wnere sne nas oeen visiting friends and relatives She came home last Sunday morning from Wpodlake She is looking well but says she prefers the sandhills to the east- Sunday evening one of R Quisen berrys haymakers while ridingafter the milch cows had a little wild west show all to -himself He rode the broncho all right Puck Do you want to buy land It will pay you to see I M Rice MKINLEY AND HAY BACKED DOWN Give the British Possession of Ten Miles of American Territory in Alaska HAY SAYS HE FEARED WAR Tries to Make It Appear That the Cession is Only Temporary Bluffed by British Clamor Special to Rf public St Louis New York Aug 11 To avert war with Great Britain is the excuse given by Secretary of State John Hay for his action in concluding the modus vivendi of October 20 1899 by which a ten mile strip of the Territory of Alaska as originally ceded by Russia io the United States was transferred to the British Crown This is the sum and substance of a review of the Alaskan boundary dis pute dictated to a correspondent of the New York Herald by Secretary Hay at his home in New Hampshire It can be stated the article reads that there has been no cession of ter ritory to Canada under the provisional boundary just completed in accordance writh the terms of the modus vivendi It is a mere temporary line devised for the practical working of the two gov ernments in their administration po licing collection of tariff duties and so forth of the territory until the boun dary is finally determined The modus vivendi was entered into because of the refusal of the Canadian commissioners to accept any settlement or adjustment except one that this government felt would deprive it of territory to which it had a perfectly sound title The contention of Canada was that the boundary followed the continental coast line ten marine leagues inland jumping from headland to headland This would have given them control of all water access to the gold fields by the Dalton trail White Pass and Chii coot Pass control of all the Lynn canal and of Dyea and Skagway The United States contended- for the line on all the recent maps which followed the windings of the coast put the Lynn Canal in American territory and gave to the United States Dyea Skagway and Porcupine Creek The United States felt that it had a substan tial case and could hold its claim Canada wanted to compromise and suggested its willingness to abandon its claim to Dyea and Skagway if the United States would permit it to have Pyramid Harbor so that it could haye a tidal entry to the Yukon region The United States held that compromise was out of the question as its boundary was the correct one Canada in its desire to get a port of entry then offered to arbitrate Arbi tration would have meant in the first placean admission ot the United States that there was a flaw in its contention and in the second place would have led to a compromise and the perma nent boundary yet to be fixed would have been run somewhere between the Canadian and American lines Thus Canada would have got what it wanted a deep water harbor on the Lynn Ca pal But in the meantime while the United States was standing out for its territory a portion of which Canada wanted to get by calling for arbitration of a question that was not possible of arbitrament something had to be done to easerthe tension at these southern gateways to the Klondike No one would desire a fight be tween England and the United States over the Klondike gold diggings and yet the embers of war were smoldering there Canadian claims somewhat shifty and altered from time to time were supported by all the public men of the Dominion and were made in the hope of getting a deep water harbor and the United States purposed holding the ground This government sent troops to Dyea and Skagway Canada had mounted police in both placfes Cana dian policewere on the station of Dyea and Skagway daily and in some places Canada had government offices It was a sort of no-mans-land or rather a land with a dual government Disputes were constantly arising An armed conflict over the enforcement of law or the maintenance of order might arise at any hour Therefore to remove the danger of conflict the modus vivendi was enter ed into It provided for a line to be fixed by an officer of the United States Coast Survey and a Canadian astrono mer at each of the points at which the disputed country could be entered Thus it was not a complete or continu ous line from Yukon or Canadian ter ritory on the east to United States ter ritory on the west but lines indicated by monuments at the White River Pass the Chilcoot Pass and along the Kle heeni Klehini River and Porcupine Creek north of the Indian village of Klukwan these lines being drawn only at places where access could be had in to the country beyond It was to be merely a temporary working boundary for the time being so that each coun try should know where it could exer cise its authority so long as the arrange ment lasted In looking over the names of the del egates to the Grand Island mid road convention the startling fact presents itself that about half the delegates pres ent were republicans and further it is ascertained that nearly all the dele gates were furnished with passes by the republican committee The few popu lists who participated in this conven tion in good faith are dropping the deal like a hot iron Holt County In dependent IGALLS AIX5W AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ORTH AAAAAAAAJ A M MORRISSEY o kf o ATTORNEY AT LAW VALENTINE NEB C M SAGESEE TONSQRIAL ARTIST Hair cutting and shaving HOT AND GOLD BATHS I When the Heart is Affected By rheumatism or any of the muscles near that orgiinit is like tampering with an electric wire for death may come at any moment If life is worth it do not hesitate but get Dr Drum monds Lightning Remedy Send S5 lo the Drummond Medicine Co New York and they will send you two large bottles enough for a mouths treatment by first express It is not as quick as electricity but will save your life ij you lake it in time ODWYER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Superintendent of a Private Hospital For the Treatment of Diseases All Kinds of Surgical Operations Successfully Performed VALENTINE NEBRASKA J S ESTABROOK COUNTY SURVEYOR All work executed with promptness and accuracy VALENTINE NEB- A N COMPTON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at Quigleys Drug Store Nights-Upstairs-Red Front Valentine House J A HOOTON Prop Recently opened and newly furnished Not a restaurant but a hotel 100 PER DAY The best of viands and treatment given to our patrons First Door South of Bank of Valentine M ATTORNEY AND ABSTRACTER Valentine Nebraska Practices in District Court and U S Land Office Real Estate and Ranch Property bought and sold Bonded Abstracter WVW WATCH CLOCK AND JEWELRY REPAIRING I AM NOW READY JbOR BUSINESS 7 With a nice se lection ot Watches ana Jewelry All kinds ot Repairing and Engraving done prompt ly and warranted LJ F i3 HP l555fg WAX ses AlsojSV n left side IebI an hip 3 on right hip and on left side Valentine Nebr State Brand reg istered 5TA Cattle and horses branded same as cut on left hip Range 2 miles east of Ft Nio brara jjxdI r Mm nxx i tnn of your ffildfasfiionedway jars Seal in weia mra way by aMRrtiiir ofTJure defined rarane - inetn or Odor g air tight and acid proof Easily applied Useful In adozenotner r unni thn honse Fiill directions wltn each ponnd cake Sold cyerywaei STANDARD OIL CO- Made by i r yr j y - jl 9Lf rmmMm Tv7nnedvXebr SaniH sis cut on left sfriA nnrl hin and on left shoulder of hor W E Haley Valentine Neb Brand registered No 200 Range in Sharps Ranch and German precincts 6 miles south of Ivilgore N S Rowley TBI y r 111 q on left hip of horses p on left jaw and left shoulder of horses ixl q on left hip of horses Henry Pratt Rosebud S D Left side Horses same on left shoulder Deerhorn clip on some cattle j Prideaux Sanford ttrtfssteii D Stinard Kennedy Neb Stock branded on left side Horses branded on left shoulder I 1 H SCHTJLTZ PotofHce address McCann Neb Stock branded as on cut Range iforth and south of Georgia MORRIS JANIES R3lEJSiSafei Illlll Postofflce address f osenua s d Cattle branded on ids sme as on cut Horses on leic tnigli Rrnge on Rock Creek WSM a John DeCory Rosebud S D Some branded ID 417 on left side Horses JD on left hip Range in Meyer Co elope Creek Charles O Tackett Rosebud 5 r Range head of An telope near St Marys 111133IU1I Horses branded on left thigh WyjhA ESSI mlm I Peter Ylondray 3 i iiji Rosebud S D Leftside Left ear cropped i VB orse3 branded Range Little White Kiver at mouth of Uedar Creek JULIUS PETERSON ostofllce address Gregory Neb Branded as on cut Range two miles oorth of Gregory JLkJB P A Cooper i 1 CP r JKryj i ir V LSjfJtnX Chesterfield Nebr Cattle branded FV8 a5 cut on lertside Borses same on left IJA leftS 4 cmPlet8 Press and printing outfit for sale Wvtn - i at this office 90 c w U A I ft I y