w The florf oik Ncuas It looks im though It was going to 1 o n landslide to MoKinloy General Prosperity is undoubtedly ono of tlio best campaigners tlio republl onus havo In tho Hold this tnimpnlKH Ho it n good debater nono of thocnlum ityitcs during to tultu issue with him Republican apathy Ih disappearing uiidor mi activity tbo Fcopo and aggros sivoncFs of which is confusing to tho fusionists Keep a pushln anil Ne braska will bo redeemed lioyond a doubt Nebraska shows every indication of getting in lino for MoKinloy and pros perity It will look lonesome If it docs not follow tho general trend Other western states aro getting back in lino There seem to bo a million and ono rvnsoiiH why Win MoKinloy Hhonld be re elected an president of tbo United Stntes and tho principal iouroii of thorn all in that Bryan will bo elected if McKinley Ih not It Ih but llttlo inoro than two weekH when you will bo called upon to decide whether you want u contlnunnco of prosperity or whether you favor n return 1o tho democratic calamity times Jont mnko a mistake Tho ro oloctioii of Win MeKluloy now seems to bo assured but it will not do to take it for granted It soonis to Tin Nrws that novor has it boon more important for tho republicans to got ovory voto out Thoro must bo no stay-at-homes if tbo state is to bo swung into lino for prosperity progress and Win MoKinloy Not u voto should bo missed Tho decrease in delinquent taxes in Madison county this year as compared with lbill is a significant indication of prosperity nmoug tho farmers Tho troublo has boon taken to count tho land descriptions of tho two years It was found that whoroas about 1I80 pioces of farm laud had boon advertised for Bile for delinquent taxes in 1801 this year but about JWfi descriptions were ad vortkcd Four years ago tho delinquent taxes on farm laud wore thoroforo about JiOO per cent moro than this year A iiico showing in favor of MoKinloy pros peritty that no ono will euro to disputo Tho fuHionists ovo working tboir lying machines over time iu an etlort to discredit Clins II Dietrich and thus bolster up Governor loyntors waning hoiHs of being ro elected Their latest is a story to tho etlect that all tho min isters of Hastings aro opposing Mr Dietrichs candidacy ou tho proteose wthat ho is not entitled to recoivo the support of tho christian pooplo Rev J H Wright a minister of that city takes exceptions to tho story and promptly brands it as a falsehood Winding up his oxposuro of a fusion roarback tho rovorond gentleman says No all tho mini tors are not ouposed to Mr Dietrich in fact I am satislled that not any are bo opposed except those who are well known to bo of the oppos bite political belief I shall support Mr Dietrich The tlop of tho Hastiugs Republican seems to bo a mntter of no serious con sideration to tho peoplo of that city Tlu other republican papers aud thoro aro a least two good ones loft seem to think it a matter of money and that tho paper is at last where it belongs it never hav ing been strouuly republican Another reason for a change is not hard to Hud when it is considered that both dailies of that city and ono strong weekly have been republican whilo the fusionists have been represented by but one weekly with little moro than 1000 cir cnlatiou It is not unreasonable to suppose that if a city of the Bizo of Hastings has two dailies it would be the part of good policy for one to repre tieut one political party and tho other support the opposite At tho ripe ago of 77 years John Sherman has passed away He was one of tho leading statesmen of tho United States and his loss will bo sinceroly mourned He has served his couutjy in a public capacity for inoro than forty two years most of the time as a mem ber of the senate and has left tho mark of statesmanship on all his deeds He was a close student of the tiuaucial con ditions of tho country and it was one of his lifes endeavors to perfect a system that would establish tho countrys finances upon a subsiautial basis In the campaign of 1890 Mr Shermans name and the crime of 78 were associ ated by the fusionists His old time friends as well as his enemies will unite in acknowledging that in the death of John Sherman this country has lost one of its foremost statesmen Governor Shaw of Iowa at a recent Slithering of farmers iu that state painted the following vivid picture of prosperity You get up early these fall mornings fog and mist and drizzle hang over everything j it is cold belts slip shocks are damp men aro cross the engine dont steam it teems as it you would never get started Presently the buu rises the mist vanishes things warm up the men are cheerful the horses prick up their ears the machine bums the golden grain fairly boils into tho mciiMii p tho men on tho Mack begin a Ming mid a good days work is In pros pct when just then some fool drops a monkey wrench Into tho cylinder My friends prosperity has just begun to work nicely dont for mercys Fiiko throw a monkey wrench into tho thrush lug machine The fusionistH have been paying some very lino things about Ex President Heiijainin Harrison Ho hns been do scribed as a patriot tho loHt president tho country over had admired by all citizens of tho republic without regard to party Ho contains within himself tho uemo or statesmanship and all that Ih lovely anil profound in a leading American citizen In view of all this it was confidently expected that Mr Harrison would crown all with a halo of glory by declaring for Mr Hryan and warning tho people of tho evils of McKinley imperialism Thoy have said that behind his aggressive Americanism Jh a comprehonslvo knowl edge of tho facts and yet ho is support ing McKinley for re election If tho fusionistH have any power in lauding tho wisdom of a groat man thoro will bo thousands of them who like Mr Harrison will support Mr MoKinloy and his administration Mr Hryan was so anxious to secure a privato monopoly in tho publication of Ins First Butt to that ho had it copyrighted and provontodall publishers from compoting Anyone who trios to print tho First Hattlo is liablo to get Into tho clutches of tho law Mr Hryan know tho demand for his book would bo largo enough to moan a good thing and ho didnt propose to divido tho prollts with anyone This move of Mr Bryans also moans that tho book cannot bo is sued at a less prlco than tho ono ho and his publishers ohooso to nsk In viow of all this it is interesting to witness Mr Hryun tho politiciuii jump outo Mr Hryan tho author in tho following language A privato monopoly has al ways boon an outlaw No dofonso can bo mado of an industrial system in which ono or a fow mon can control for their own profit tho output or price of any article Under such a svstem tho consumer suffers tbo extortion It is really too bad that Mr Bryan has such on opinion of himself but ho is un questionably in tho Bamo boat with the lellow who will control tho prico of any thing not an nbsoluto necessity Novor has thoro been moro confidence on the part of tho republicans that their Qindiduto for president will bo elected and novor have tho domocruts given up tho fight so oarly in tho contest That they havo dono so this oimpotgn is wel Attested by a communication from Frederick F Schroder the Wushiimtou correspondent of tho World Herald winch was probably intended to bo con fidential but has leaked out Mr Shrader writes Tho prevailing opin ion touching tho result of tho election as reflected by competent judges is that McKinley will bo elected by a majority us substantial as that of l Sim Ho wii carry Illinois Kansas and South Dakotn and possibly Kentucky Ho will carry New York and West Virginia but may lose Maryland nud Indiana In Ken tucky tho republicans will elect thoir candidate for governor and in Nebraska thoy may elect tho governor and legisla ture A mouth ago Maryland was as good as lost to tho republicans Since then the gold domocruts havo shown great activity and their iufluence may redeem it for McKinley Gormnu is probably not sincere in his support of Hryan but tho Baltimore Sun for McKinley four years ago is now an aotivo advocato of Bryan nud this is an important factor Unless there is an uuforseen force at work McKinloys election is now nssured Win Atainsou writiug from liagley Iowa to tho publisher of the Stark county III Sentinel under date of October said I noticed in reading tho last Seutinal that somo fellow told vou that his sugar pail used to hold one dollars worth of sugar and now it held two intimating that his sugar pail had expanded but that ho was not an expan sionist Wo cau bent that hero in Iowa Four years ago my wagon held 1 70 worth of oats now tho samo wagon holds 10 80 worth of oats In Ml my wagon held 0 00 worth of shelled corn uow it holds lfi 00 worth In MM my wagon held 5 hogs that brought me 1750 now they will bring 7i00 Iu i0 my wifes butter jar held 70 cents worth of butter now it holds fl00 worth Iu -mi hor egg basket held 80 cents worth of eggs now it holds 11 10 worth Iu her jar of butter would buy 5 pounds of the best coffee now it will buy 1 1 pounds of the same coffee Iu fKt her basket of eggs would buy 24 bars of soap now it will buy 52 bars of the same soap In I couldnt have sold my farm at any price now land is selling around me at o000 per acre It says Foinething in the Bible about i he mau that has eyes and will see not has ears and will hear uot lest he be come converted and be healed Tho man that owns that sugar bucket is no doubt some relation to him Nebraska Most encouraging reports ooutinne to ome from Nebraska While Mr Bryan is cavorting around the country re ceiviug the adulation of Tammany nnd dodgiug Roosevelts questions aud so THE NORFOLK NKWS TllllHIUY OfTOHKU 2 1001 forth his homo Muto is slipping out of his grnsp If the election were to morrow mild Mr Hryan tho other dnv I would bo elected If tho election were postponed much longer than No vember t Mr Hryan would fall In Ne braska beyond all question A month or two ago Mr Hryan could havo car ried Nebraska without eirort But the drift for emtio tinio has been agninst him Tho republicans alert quickly noted tho drift nnd immediately became aggressive and now aro pushing the fighting at ovory point Kaoh day sees votcH lost to Hryan Kaoh week tho re publican prospects improve Republi cans aro becoming confident Reports of aroused interest and republican gains aro becoming numerous Tho hopo of greatly reducing tho Bryan majority has given way to confidence that Mo Kinley electors will bo chosen nnd that a legislature will bo elected that will send two republican senators to Wash ington This Is as it should bo This is tho year for tho redemption of Ne braska This Is tho year to sond Into everlasting rotiroment Populist Poyntcr and Populist Allen aud Ohief Populist Bryan together with all tho other pop ulists big and llttlo who havo mode Nebraska a byword iu tho nation Ne braska is entitled to bo a republicnti state and to bo represented in national and state affairs by men of equal rank with those of its neighbors Nebraska is a prosperous state a growing state It is not calamitous and thero is no room within its borders for a calamity government as represented by tho popu list idea It will bo money in Ne braskas povkots to go republican this year Nebraska will increase her Bolf respoct by going republican this year will increase tho respect in which sho is held by tho nation Inshort it is worth whilo from every point of viow for Ne braska to voto for a change this year Therefore on with tho lighting I Sioux City Journal Itaneliil Fusion Tactics In its zeal to present a trust issno to the peoplo of Nebraska the World Herald recently undertook to show the influences of tho trusts at Kearney nnd in so doing appears to have slandered that city itiBomucn that tho Hub hns called it to time rather severely It recites that about nine manufacturing institutions of that city havo been closed by tho trusts and that tho cotton mill is allowed to run but spasmodically Thero is ono institution that tho Hub admits was closed by tho trusts all others except thoso still running were boom affairs and failed naturally like Norfolks electric railway lino not because a trust had squeezed them out of existence but becuuso tho demand for such institntious wns not a paying ono Tho following is ono of the facts used by tho World Horald and tho Hubs answer From t ho sito of tho ruined woolen mills let tho citizens of Kearney take Mr Ilauuato tho beautiful cemetery ou the high bluffs overlooking tho city and gather around tho grave of a man who was once one of Kearneys leading and most progressive citizens Upon the headstone is carved tho name of Hocht By unceasing toil and rigid Hcouomy Hocht ucquired a considerable sum of money Being a butcher by trade ho conceived tho idea of establish ing a packing industry iu Kearney He bought land erected a packing plant and weut to work Tho packers trust squeezed tho Kearnoy packing industry to death Hecht lost every dollar he had and became a raving maniac He was confined in an asylum and after a few mouths of misery untold committed suicide murdered by a trust Tho reference to Mr Hecht touches Kearney people in a tender spot His end was a tragedy following close on n a succession of bid ventures a fire that destroyed his packing house and finally at a vital moment plnciug his trust iu a mau who accomplished his financial ruin nt one fell stroke He became a raving mauiao and as such he died Peace bo to his ashes Shame ou the dastard who prostitutes his editorial calling to go into the grave to bring forth falsehood 1 Closing its irrticlo tho Hub says So far as tho plitioal side of the World Heralds trust article is coucrrued neither the Hub nor any citizen of Kearney cares a rap Distortion of fact could bo glossed over iu such a enso Hut in this iustance tho World Herald has iu its eagerness to say some thing mean about trusts struck a blow at ono of the fairest communities of this state which has prospered oven beneath the heavy baud of providence is buildiug still on the lines of long ago and is ngain nearly at the point where manufacturiug can bo invited in a better way than by indiscrimination subsidy to fiuancial weaklings and un scrupulous promoters Except iu tho one instauco of the cracker trust as stated in the begining tho trust ouce has had nothiug to do with the failure of tho enterprises referred to Tho World Heralds nrtiole is a mass of clever falsehood of ungrounded state ments that are calculated to do this city an injury Not even political exigency not even the bolstering up of a lost cause uot eveu the pretense of partisan expediency can justify anything so gross and if the Hub knows the temper of the people of thiscityit can guaranty the author of these dirty diatribes that the republican majority that will be polled in Kearney nt the coming elec tion will be a good and sufficient indica tion that they have read and pondered well vv Truth About Marcus Itamiii The peoplo of Norfolk and vicinity were very favorably Impressed yester day with the speech anil appearance of Senator Hntinn chairman of tho repub lican national committee They could not reconcile his kindly and smiling countonunoo with tho stories of grasping sordiilness that has been told by tho political writer and tho cartoonist and as a matter of fact his appearance does not bolio his lifo The following is taken from a Wash ington correspondence to the Omaha Bee and gives a truo insight Into his character Tho facts about Senator Hnnnn aro not generally known Although every intelligent man realizes that tho major portion of the silly stuff that is written about him every day in tho year i mere toinmy rot without nny foundation in fact and not worthy tho credence of any thinking American citizen yet a very re spectable number of peoplo really do bollovo that if ho is not tho grinding grasping selfish corrupt combination of unholiness that tho newspapers describe ho is to Fay tho least an unwholesome typo of politician to bo looked at oskiiuco and not to bo trusted under any circumstances They can not reconcile Senator Haniia with their highest and best conception of American manhood and American citizenship thoy cannot think of him as nn nntis smiling modest and kindly gentleman who has absolutely no designs what evor upon tho welfnro of tho American pooplo but who ou tho contrary loves his country quite as well as any of them All of which howover coincides most rendily with tho truth A remarkable condescension wns witnessed recently when tho mnn who does tho political stunt on tho editorial page of ono of the prominent democratic uewspnpers of tho east observed that thero are nt least two men iu the United States who were thoroughly capable of getting down on a level with the every day man with a message thnt could bo best oppreciated and under stood One of these men nccording to this gentleman is William Jennings Bryan and tho other is Marcus A Hanna Think of that Is it not n comparison without a parallel iu tho annuls of Bryanism And is not this character istic of Mr Hnnnn rather a peculiar ono to bo possessed by a man whose want of sympathy for tho plnin people has been so widely and persistently ad vertised in tho columns of tho opposi tion press The truth is that his heart-to-heart talks havo been one of the sur prises of the campaign No more forceful speeches have been made in years It is a fact that nine tenths of the falsehoods that are so glibly fashioned day after day are inspired iu the absence of the most remote reference to the truth and by men who have not even a superficial knowledge either personally or through any authentic source of the man they disparage and nbuse with such effervescont gusto Tho stories written have absolutely nothing in common with tho truth and it is not intended that they should have Singularly enough although Senator Hanna has for years employed organized labor upon a stupendous scnle strikes among his employes have been conspicu ous through their absence There has been no Btrike in the history of Mr Hannas lifo There has been no strike among any men employed by any com pany in which he has had an interest The record is clear It is significant too that during the Jgreat street car strike in Clovelaud still fresh in our memories not a line in which Mr Hanna was interested was tied up for so loug as the fraction of a second Every car continued to run regularly so far as his employes were concerned Not a man in the employ of Mr Hnuua could be in duced to join the strikers For all of which there must be a very good reusou There is It is this Mr Huunu mny be approached by tho humblest employe There is no more accessible man than himself He desires and even invites his employes to lay their grievances their complaints before him It mny be done with impunity He may bo seen per sonally Thero is no formality about the mutter The employe with a complaint walks into his office without eveu being announced Tho door is always open to him There is no clerk to meet him iu an outer chamber aud convince him tbut it is not necessary for him to see Mr Hanna personally He walks directly into that gentlemans presence nud when he retires thero has usually been an amicable adjustment of tho grievance These complaints are few iu number so few in number that there are almost none at all Complainant and com plaint aro treated with the utmost fair ness and consideration and it is ap preciated And therein in large meas ure lies the explanation of his amiable relatious with his employes Then too ho interests himself in their welfare and he has their best inter ests at heart Illustrative of his kind nesB of heart and generous impulses many a motormau and street car con ductor cau testify to his sympathy and solicitation iu their hour of need He has visited homes when a wife or child has been ill or perchance themselves Busy man that he is he has found time for that The writer 6tates that Mr Hanna places no political restrictions what- Vl EXPORTS OP MiNiVfi i Riinnrrc iiuivvu I 1895 V 185098 14 V 1900 3899T550 d 1 1AIUIUO ur m FOREST PRODUCTS TO 1895 28576235 I90O MjSM 34 viSS evor on his employes and doesnt know how they voto Iu Mr Hanuas pres ence ono day ono of his out of town malingers said I havo never voted any other than tho democratic ticket and I never expect to do so His em ployer laughed good naturedly at the assertion The writer also states that ho contributes freely to benevolences but nlways with the express under standing that his action bo not adver tised He does so modestly and for tho sake of giving nud not for praise In tho Boston Herald of October 13 is given the full text of the Into speech of Senator George F Hoar Without re linquishing his stand on tho expansion question he accords to Mr Bryan his true position on the same question While he opposed from first to last n policy that would mean expansion Mr Bryan supported tbo Paris treaty the true foundation of the issue and now hypocriticnlly lays the fall blame ou President McKinley ignoring tho fact that the president is but carrying out the duties imposed upon the govern meut by tho treaty of peace The senator well says What has been doue has been done What has been hns been and it is now impossible lor Mr Bryan or any one else to undo tho past and he consistently takeB a stnnd iu support of tho president Our question now is for the future Enid tho senntor We cannot forget thnt for everything that has happened Mr Bryan is more responsible than any other man than any other 20 men since the Spanish treaty left tho hands of the president That treaty involved the whole question It affirmed the constitutional power of the United States to acquire foreign territory it pledged the faith of the peoplo thnt tho congress of the United States and not the people of the Philippine islands should determine their future faith It purchased sover eignty over an unwilling people and pledged the faith of the United States to a foreign power to pay for it And when the defeat of the treaty seemed assured with many votes to spare Mr Bryan the great leader of the demo cratic party came to fcWashington in person disregarding the remonstrances of his wisest supporters and stabbed the opposition in the back in the hour of its assured victory Continningthe venerable statesman said No fellow citizens If this Spanish trcatybe right President AIcKinley and Mr Bryan were both right If this treaty bo wroug President McKinley and Mr Bryan were both wrong Mr Hoar has finally decided that Jho wonld sooner Bupport the man thntJbas been consistent all the time than the one who wonld go back on his record and is now seeking an election by abusingl tho ad ministration for doing that demanded by him and his partisans Tho senator toward elope of his address said You cnunot help the cause of anti imperialism by going into partnership iwith Bryan ism You caunot mix tyranny dis honor broken faith anarchy licenso in one cup aud have constitutional liberty the result of the mixture In his address at South Sioux City recently according to thu Dakota Couuty Record Congressman Robinson licensed the republicans of conducting n perfonal campaign against Governor Poynter It is ftrange how facts get twisted by these politicians Now if it were tho newspapers it would be different they are not expected to get such things correct or at least that is the charge of many men both great and small But a politician never violates a rnle to keep facts and history straight therefore it must be the news paper but for fear some may be misled by this it will perhaps be just as well to state that Governor Poynters character has not been attacked by the republi cans unless his official actB which are being shown up right to the people may be termed his character It ia Mr Dietrichs character that has been assailed aud not by the republicans but by the fusioniBts who havo not beeu estopped by the knowledge that thoy were conducting the dirtiest foulest campaign against an aspirant for the KS V M i - wt tAiw iva mmmmmim ter v Liiv2b jv fin t t ffvwnvNr WW k iiv v uv whitw i m rmijxkrfiiuui ivy wwmmmmmm VYSt MTMlWk i tSara5Bfaffl iS It mwt MzZfaMbK 52309484 It Sort o Looks os If Id Have o Expand governors chnir ever witnessed iu thiB o any other state It is to be hoped that the proper change mny bo made by Mr Robinson or the paper reporting his speech In his speech nt Cooper Union Mr Bryan said if wo should Bend n collec tion of patriotic songs to tho Philippines we could not complain if the Filipinos chnuged the words a little and sang My country tis of thee laud of hypoc risy And this is truo Americanism This is the man who claims to be the only true disciple of Abraham Lincoln 1 Does Mr Bryan presume to believe that such n sentiment could havo been sug gested by the great emancipator And Mr Bryan aspires to be president of this bypocriticnl nation I Ho undoubtedly hopeB that a majority of the people will endorse such stuff as that But will they Not if the spirit of George Washington Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln still liveE If there were no other reason for burying Mr Bryan beneath an avalanche of votes th t one utterance should be snfficieLt Are you one who will endorse it W W Yonng republican nominee for state senator is pledged to no man for United States senator either directly or by implication and all as sertions that ho is so pledged nre but the false representations of his oppon ents who realize the despernteness of the situntion they are in nnd accord ingly should meet the condemnation of every honest voter of the district Stanton Picket Whnt business have the fusionists to usurp the functions of the supreme court That body is to decide on the status of the people of Porto Rico nnd the Philippines nnd it has not yet been determined by anyone that they are either citizens or subjects of this conn try although in their feeble efforts to ward finding an issue the fusionists try to make it appear that they aro the latter The fusionists of Pawnee City have announced that an old soldier has re cently been converted to Bryanism but the record discloses the fact that certain veteran has been dead for more than a year It must be very discouraging to members of thnt party to get ready to whoop or up a little over a new convert only to find that he has beeu dend for a year or more It is but two weeks until election Vigilance and untiring effort should be the watch word of the republicans dur ing that time It may reasonably be expected that they will encounter muuy queer dodgOB und freaks on the tho part of the fusionistB who should be met at every turn and be kept iu tho corner to which they have been driven Tho difference between Roosevelt nnd Hryan on their stumping tours is that Teddy answers questions put to him straight from tho shoulder while Mr Bryan evades ami dodges It shouldut require a moments thought to decide between tho pnrticn they represent John Hill recently suid Soni9 men are born lucky somo meu aro born in Ohio meaning that ono was tanta mount to tho other Just paste it in your hat that both Wm McKinley and John R Hays were born iu Ohio The republican ticket from top to bottom is worthy of support and no scratched ballotB are necessary Vote it straight Get tho state in line for McKinley and elect a commendable state administration as well Tho fusionistB lacking other campaign material have started their roorbacks out early but it may be expected that they will come more frequently and Btrouger as the campaign noars its close Waxtbd Reliable salesman to sell complete line of paints lubricating oils etc Liberal terms and good position for mnn of ability AddreBB The Atlantic Refiuiug Co Cleveland Co I Cleveland O T i -