Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOTTRNAL.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. S, 18S4.
Esieni at tie PerteSce, Celtmtzr, Set., t: tuwi
dus mittor.
COI IMW AN'S SPEECH.
SrBtNGFiELD, 111., Sept 28. Col.
Fat Donan's speech here last night,
at the Republican rally, created a
perfect storm of enthusiasm and in
some parts was startlingly brilliant. In
his sketch of tbo history of the two
parties ho said :
The Democratic party has been on
evory 6ide of every question except
the right sido, which it rarely hits
except by mistake. Even when it
straddles it generally manages to get
both legs on the samo side, and that
tho wrong sido. Its platforms, speech
es, and organs everlastingly overflow
with high-sounding fol-do-rol about
"the lofty aspirations and immutable
principles of tho grand old Demo
cratic party" ; but, judged by its per
formances, it mistakes appetito for
aspiration, and does not know a
principle when it sees one. What
aro its much-vaunted principles as
manifested by its works? Get out a
pair of cross-eyed spectacles and con
template its wonderful record.
From its earliest organization tho
Democratic party proclaimed itself
tho ardent champion of human free
dom, and yet for fifty years it held
and taught that slavery on American
soil was a divine institution, and it
fought every movement and measure
that tended to check its spread or
mitigate its horrors, and at last
plunged the country into a bloody
four-years war to hold 4,000,000 of
human beings as plantation chattels
mules with souls. It sympathized
with Greek slaves and Algerian
slaves, with slaveB in Egypt and East
India, and everywhere else at long
range and abroad, while it passed
fugitive slavo acts, set up human
auction-blocks and whipping-posts,
and riveted tho shackles on millions
of Blares in a free republic at home.
THE CUEKEXCY.
Its every utterance, from 183G to
1SG4, declared a hard-money party,
recognizing gold and silver only as a
legal currency. On this ground it
savagely. contended against the issue
of tho greenbacks during the War,
denouncing them as lawless and
worthless rags. Yet in all its West
ern and Southern State Conventions,
from I860 to 1878, it resolved in favor
of paying all Government debts and
dues in greenbacks, maintaining,with
many a burst of sham rhetorical fire,
that "a currency which was good
enough for soldiers and laboringmen,
was good enough for bankers and
bloated bondholders." It howled
hard money for fifty years and yet
opposed resumption of spocie pay
ments until John Sherman had tri
umphed and the hanks resumed. In
1S6S it was for hard money, with
Seymour and Tildou in New York
and Bayard in Delaware ; lor univer
sal grcouback payments with Pendle
ton in Ohio and McDonald in In
diana; and for total repudiation with
Brick Pomcroy and Henry Clay Doan
and 100,000 of their fellow-statesmen
and financiers throughout the South
aud WuntJor Hpt't'ie down Jvisf, for
HhiupInstiM'h ami rag-h:ihii!ri out Weal,
and tor cooiiBkinn ami moonshine
whibky jilnion niiyvlnri in the
Southern tiiouiit.-miH.
TIIK TAIMKK
Through all if, hisioi) jl Iihh avow
ed Itwlf for "! Imt!i- ami bailor'
rihtn"; hut .( ind- w-his if has twrn
for a high .ioiMi,v.iaiiH with Katou
ifS CoiiioTiir.iii. Sam Kaiulull in
Pennsylvania, ami h'amlolph Turkcr
in Virginia; -tor a horizontal, razeed,
fitrawberry-shortcakr noil ot u taiilf
with Bill Morrison in Illinois ami
John (7. Carlisle in Kentucky; and
for frco trade and smugglers' chances
with Heuri Walterson aud his blath
erskite compatriots everywhere a
quart bottle can he snaked over the
border without catching tho eyes of
the pestiferous revenue vermin.
Loudly professing tariff aud protec
tion to pull the wool over the eyes of
Ohio sheep-raisers, it elects Free
Trader Hurd in tho Toledo district
and defeats Protectionist Converge in
tho Columbus, district. Hih tariff,
low tariff, horizontal In.-ilT, perpen
dicular taritl, and no tariff at all, any
thing, everything, nothing in partic
ular you pays j our money and you
takes your choice. As Gen. Hancock.
when he thought he was running for
President a few years ugo, appropri
ately remarked: "It's tt mere local
issue anyway, you know."
FOU IIO It ACE GUKELEY.
For half a century the Democratic
party maintained as a fundamental
article iu its creed that "this is a white
man's Government, made by white
men, for white men and their pos
terity forever." "Death to Abolition
ists" aud "d n a nigger" wore its
shibboleths and battle-cries; and yet,
in 1S72, it nominated Horace Greeley
for the Presidency, one of the fathers
and high priests ot Abolitionism, aud
as hitter a foeman as pro-slavery ever
knew.
AGAINST THE UNION.
This same Democratic party thun
dered with Old Hickory, "By the
Eternal, the Union must and shall be
preserved," while it went into nullifi
cation with John C. Calhoun and
political secession with Jell' Davis
and Bob Toombs. Swearing it only
wanted to be let alone and to be
allowed to go in peace. Southern
Democracy fired upon Fort Sumter
and inaugurated a war that made a
hundred rivers run red to tho sea
with fratricidal blood, and reared
Golgotbas of fraternal 6kulls on count
less beautiful fields where once the
clover bloomed and golden harvests
smiled, and all this while Northern
Democracy was crying "Peace, peace,"
though there was no peace, aud was
hoisting the soldier McClelUa on a
white-flag platform and trying to
capture tho Government with a
Major-General's uniform stuffed with
musty peace straw.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The Democratic party announces
iteelf as the party of civil-service re
form; yet its great exemplar and
patron saint, Andrew Jackson, origi
nated the cardinal doctrine gf its
faith and practice, "To tho victor be
longs the spoils"; and it has just sent
George Pendleton to tho eternal bone
yard in Ohio for being foolish enough
to believe that its platforms aud pro
fessions really have any meaning, or
aro anything but red-flanuol bait on
the fish-hooks with which it hol3 for
suckers.
One of its fundamental tenets has
over been hostility to all internal im
provements by tho General Govern
ment; but there was novor yet a
river-and-harbor grab-hag so deep
and dirty that it did not thrust its
clntches to the bottom of it, aud, if
there was any chatico, get away with
the bag itself.
ON THE J.AI50R QUESTION.
It delights to parade itself as tho
laboring-man's party, tho friend of
the honest toiler, while for genera
tions it held millions of slaves and
now furnishes two-thirds of all the
convicts to compete with the free
labor of the country, aud when its
avowed policy is to throw open our
doors to tho competition of all the
pauper and chopstick labor of Europe
and Asia. It perpotually prates of
its yearnings for the freedom aud
purity of the ballot, while it plants a
shot-gun and a bloodhound before
every ballot-box in Mississippi and
Louisiana, and wears its "red shirt"
stuffed with tissue suffrages in South
Carolina.
EDUCATION.
It sounds aloud its devotion to the
cause of popular education, while it
burns negro school-houBes and flogs
their teachers in a dozen Southern
States, and while Democratic majori
ties are measured by "X marks" from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Maj.
John W. Daniol of Virginia, whom
the National Democratic Committee
has just employed to teach Ohio men
how to vote, and who is in every re
spect a representative of Bourbon
Democracy, a few years ago in the
Virginia Senate advocated "applying
the torch to every public school in
the State," aud bitterly denounced
"the flagrant wrong of taxing the rich
to educate tho children of the poor."
This, said the speaker, is a fair
glimpse of the party of the wheel
about and turn-about. The average
Democrat spins around so fast it is
impossible to toll whether his breech
es are buttoned behind or before. He
iB not to be blamed for it; he has to
do it to keep up with his parly tho
trick mule (without his intelligence)
of tho National circus, tho great many
horned what-is-it of partisan hum
buggery. Now you see it and now
you don't see it, and when you do
sco it you don't know which end of it
yon see. It is here, there, every
where, and nowhere at once. It pro
fesses everything, meaus nothing, and
practices leR8 and worso than nothing.
It employs language to conceal ideas,
if it has auy, and ambuscades behind
every respectable sham the imagina
tion can noiict'tve. It tried to dis
guise peace resolutions and dralt
riots tiuder brass buttons aud shoulder-straps
in 18G4, and to hide twelve
States full of i'i?Minn-chert.h:iig
Yankt'O-hater-s and progrcsK-opposern
behind a fat Major Goneral who con
sidered I In; taritl' a local iss:n- in 1830.
It i", in short, a rrru'ent ration and
conglomeration ol all know 11 and un
known, ali possible and impossible,
rontradictioUH, inoorntHU-nrieH, t-he-
nanigaiis and b;imliuzl;-, and its
whole hiHtory has been a perpetual
masquerade ball, where the country
hau paid the fiddlers, aud too often
paid them dear.
NOT A TRUSTWORTHY TARTY.
Is this the record of a party to
whose hands intelligent freemen
would bo willing to commit the des
tinies of the new world, to confide
the Government of a hemisphere, to
intrust the management of all the
Vtt-,1 and varied financial, commercial,
political, and moral interests of nearly
M.OOO.OOO of people? I can't believe
it. I will not believe it until I sec it,
and wheu I do see it I ahull be ready
to believe in National insanity, and
to call lor the roofing in of the conti
nent from ocean to ocean as one pro
digious, hemispheric lunatic asylum.
You wouldn't trust a man with such
a record as clerk to a watermelon-
wagon, as deckhand in a tripe factory,
as dairymaid on a grccir-chccso farm
with an ancient ox and two he-goats
as 4ts total stock in trade You
wouldn't trust him with the charge
of a peanut-stand or a sansagc
sluffing machine. You know you
wouldn't. If you caught him hang
lug around your stable or hen-house
you would turn on the fire-alarm, let
loose the bull-dog, and call the police.
THE SOLID SOUTn.
But, said the speaker, all this long
record of contradictions, crookedness,
folly, aud crime was to him as noth
ing compared with another reason for
refusing to turn over the country and
the Government to tho Democratic
party. He referred to the dangerous
supremacy 01 the Solid South that
would surely follow Democratic suc
cess. The election, he said, is a life-and-death
struggle between two civ
ilizations, the civilization of the North
and the civilization of the South.
The one is the civilization of the
nineteenth century, the civilization of
freedom and progress, of the school
and library, the railway, the factory,
canal, and mill the civilization of
enlightened industry, and splendid
development; the other is the civili
zation of the eighteenth century, the
civilization of slavery and the duello,
a civilization of proscription for opin
ion's take, hostile to popular ednca-
tion, despising labor, and opposing
progress; the civilizition of the
whipping-post, of the Ivu-Klux, aud
the bulldozer, of the shotgun and the
tissue ballot, of Hamburg, Copiah,
Danville, and Yazoo. As instances of
this Southern civilization, ho cited
tho fact that, last year, one citizen 06
Floyd County, Georgia, reported to
tho tax-assessor $5 worth of property
and ten dogs. He protested vcho
montly against admitting such a civ
ilization to authority in this country,
and said If a Democratic President
is elected these Southern States, con
stituting what is known as tho Solid
South, will givo him 153 of tho neces
sary 201 Eloctoral votes, and tho men
who furnish those votes will own and
run the Administration thoy place in
power as surely as a largo dog can
wag his own very insignificant bob
tail. So the triumph of the Demo
cratic party means tho triumph of tho
South over the North means the
surrendor of tho Government aud tho
Union to tho hands of the men who
fought four years to overthrow that
Government aud destroy that Union,
and whoso hatred of both is just as
ficrco today as it was twenty years
ago. All tho offices will bo filled
with long-haired and wild-eyed Se
cessionists, bulldozers, Ku-Klux, aud
moonshiners; and the pensioning of
Confederate soldiers, so strongly
urged by Jeff Davis in his recent
letter to the Georgians, payment for
Southern slaves "stolen by tho Yan
kees," reparation for Southern losses,
and the assumption of Southern War
debts will begin to "swing low, sweet
chariot," within the range of human
possibilities.
Protesting against such a surrender,
the speaker drew a glorious picture
of the Republican party and its rec
ord, contrasting it in a blaze of fiery
eloquence with the Democratic party
and its Solid-South aunox, and closed
with a vorvid appeal to his country
men to choose between them so as to
promote the best interests of the
country we love, of the world, and
of humanity.
Northern Nebraska.
There is still a large immigration to
various parts of Northorn Nebraska,
especially to the upper Eikhorn val
ley and along the prospective line of
the S. C. & P. railroad. For some
distance above Valentino the land is
of a sandy nature, but when a point
is reached on the Running Water,
about 16o miles above the town
named, there is a large tract of ex
cellent farming land. A gentleman
who recently located at the mouth of
Box La Butte informed the writer
that in that vicinity there is an agri
cultural belt at least fifty miles
square, which compares favorably
with average lands in the eastern
part of the state. The climate there
docs not appear to vary to any great
extent from the climato of this local
ity. Corn grows readily, and wheat,
oats and all kinds of vegetables do
extrordinarily well. There are now
forty or fifty settlors in the vicinity
of Box La Butte, aud early iu tho
spring a large number of immigrants
will go there from Iowa. The con
struction of the S. C. & P. railroad to
that point will give impetus to the
country near the western line of tho
ptale, and its settlement and im
provement will bo marvelous. It is
unfortunate for Omaha that it has not
a direct railroad lino reaching into
that territory, as at present Sioux
City and other towns eat aro getting
the benefits of its settlement. Kven
now it is not too late lor this city to
reach out. in that direction, and it
should be done if possible. It would
pay. (hiwha Jtembltrtni.
Mit. E. A. Watson, formerly of
Perry Springs, contributes Ihu lollow
lng for the linilil of l!n n-adrr of
I In- I'rin'rir Furuirr: " hail over
two hundred h-iin, and hoi lo-l half
of them by hog rhoien I then dip
ped eais of i-oro in ('-tioluia far be
smearing IIimii, and thii-.w thmu
among the hogs. They ale il greedi
ly, and in a week all were on the road
to recovery. Another remedy I have
used successfully is that of feeding
corn in the ear, which has been char
red black."
PROCLAMATION.
WIIEKEAS, a joiut resolution was
adopted by the Legislature of the
State of Xebr.-.s.ka, at the Eighteenth Ses
sion thereof, snd approved Februarv 27th;
A. i. 1SSJ, proposing au Amendment to
Section Four (4) of Article Three (:) of
the Constitution of said State, anil that
said section as amended .shall read a
foilows, to-wit:
"Section A. The term of otlieo of mem
bers of the Legislature shall be two
years, aud they shall eaeh receive a
salary of three hundred dollars for their
services during said term, and ten cents
for every mile they shall travel in going
to and returning from the place of facet
ing of the Legislature, on the most usu:d
route. Provided, hoiccvcr, that ncither
inembcrs of the Legislature nor em
ployee shall receive any pay or perqui
sites other than their salary and mileage.
Kach session, except special session-,
shall be not less than sixty days. After
the expiration of forty da of the session
no bills nor joint resolutions of the na
ture of bills shall be introduood, unless
the Governor shall, by special message,
eall the attention of the Legislature to
the necessity of passing a law on the
subject matter embraced 111 the message,
and the introduction of bills shall be
restricted thereto."
The ballots at the election at which
said Amendment shall be submitted shall
be in the following form: "For proposed
Amendment to the Constitution relating
to Legislative Department.' "Against
proposed Amendment to the Constitution
relating to Legislative Department.''
Whereas, a joint resolution was adopted
by the Legislature or the State of Ne
braska at the Eighteenth Session thereof,
and approved February JSth, a. 11. 1SS",
proposing an Amendment to Section One
( 1) of Article Five (.") ol the Constitution
ot said State, and that said section as
amended shall read as follows, to-wit:
"Section 1. The Executive Depart
ment shall consist of a (."overnor, Lieutenant-Governor,
Secretary of State,
Auditor of Public Accounts. Treasurer,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Attorney General, Commissioner of Pub
lic Lands and Uuildings, and Hoard or
Kailwav Commissioners. The otliceis
named in this section shall each hold his
otlieo for the term of two years from the
first Thursday after the first Tuesday iu
January nextafter his election, and until
his successor is elected and qualified.
Provided, however, that the first election
of said ollicers shall be held on the first
Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in
November of lSO, and each succeeding
election shall be held at the same relative
time in each even year thereafter. All
other ollicers that may be provided for by
law, undei the provisions of this section,
shall be chosen in such manner and at
such times, and shall hold their ollices
for such length of time - may be provi
ded by law, and shall perform such du
ties ami receive such compensation as
may be provided for by law. The Gov
ernor, .secretary of State, Auditor of
Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commis
sioner of Public Lands and Ituildings,
and Attorney General, shall reside at the
seat of goefnment during their terms of
oflice, and keep the public records, books
and paper there, and the ollicers herein
named shall perform such duties as may
be rctjuired by law."
The ballots at the election at which
said Amendment shall be submitted shall
be in the following form: "For proposed
Amendment to Section One 1 of Article
Five Ti of the Constitution, entitled,
Executive Department.' " " Against
proposed Amendment to Section One 1
of Article Five ." of the Constitution,
entitled, 'Executive Department.' "
Therefore, I, James W. Dawes, Gov
ernor of the State ot Nebraska, do hereby
"ive notice, in accordance with Section
One 1 Article Fifteen l.Tj of the Consti
tution, and the provisions of an act
entitled, "Au Act to provide the manner
of proposing Amendments to the Consti
tution and submitting the same to the
Electors of this State,'' approved Febru
ary loth, a. l). 1S7T, that said proposed
Amendments will be submitted to the
(liialitied voters of this State for ratifica
tion or rejection at the General Eleetiou
to be held on the 4th day of November,
A. 1. INSI.
In Wiiness AVftKKKOr, I have
hereunto set my hand and caus
ed to be allixedthe Great Seal of
or the State of Nebraska.
Skai.. Done at Lincoln, this ISth day
of July, a. I). lSSt,the Eighteenth
year of the Stale, and of the In
dependence of the United States,
the One Hundred ami Ninth.
IJv the (5 overnor, JAMES Y. DAWKS,
Attest: KnwAitn P. Koockn,
Secretary of State. ll-.1ia
KRAUSE,
LIJBKER
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Tho Now York World accuses
Dana of the Sun of concocting somo
morn scandals about Cleveland, and
says that several ullidavits have been
prepared. It is a Cerman lady this
time and tho wild oats are alleged to
havo been sowed sineo tho governor
has been residing in Albany. We
hope Brother Dana will givo us a
rest. Stale Journal.
Mrs. Frank Loslie says: "I have
never in my lifo employed a maid,
French or otherwise, bavin jj faith in
the proverb that 'The Lord helps
those who help themselves.'" Mrs.
Leslie is tho head of a publishing
house which issues eleven periodi
cals, and her personal daily attention
is given to tho business.
J-yj--t-s, t j!r" """"
"Why, old fellow, I thought you
were dead long ago," he exclaimed,
grasping his friend's hand and shak
ing it with an enthusiasm that almost
brought tears to his eyes. "No, not
dead," ho responded calmly. "I ex
pected to be, but a divorce intervened
in time to save me."
That was a funny mistake of tho
man who took up a testament, and
glancing at the running title, "S.
Matthew," said that he always knew
Stanley was smart, but didn't know
he ever wrote ou religious subjects.
Brakcmau : "The train is now about
to enter the 6tatc of Missouri. Gen
tlemen who have uot provided them
selves with carbines will pass forward
to tho locomotive aud crawl into the
tender!"
Furniture needs cleaning as much
as other wood-work. It may be
washed with warm soapsuds, quickly
wiped dry and then rubbed with an
oily cloth.
"We believe that cvey where the
protection to a citizen of American
birth must be secured to citizens of
American adoption." Republican
Platform.
FREMONT NORMAL
AND
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
FKEMOXT, NEIL,
Prepares Young Men and Women
run tkiciiim;. fok kiikinks mkk,
rot: rintuc i:i:whn; ami spkakimj,
rwu .wiiiiiiiin mi i,oi.i.r.ui. Ml. I liO
KKSSIOXAI. SCHOOLS.
To Enjoy and Adorn Koms and Social Life.
: Superior Instruction in:
MUSIC, DRAWING, & PAINTING.
TIIOKOUCII TRAINING IN
Pi'iimaiMhip and Aid. TIIK OTIIKIi
('OJhMt)N P.ltAXCllKS, iu rnmnien-ial
'nrrrspoHilcnr and Hook -keeping.
Samples of wiitin tea-hers' srript sent
to inquirers.
The President of this C'olloo has h:id
OVKU TWENTY YEARS' KXPKR
IKXCF iu educational woik, and li.i.s
thoroughly inspected and compared the
construction, organization, methods, ar
ray cements and equipments of more
tliHii one hundred Universities, Normal
Schools, anil Uiisiiu'ss Colleges.
FALL TERM (! week) will h'in
(let. 21, l.ssi.
WINTER TERM (i."i weeks) will he"in
Dee 30, 1SSJ. fv
SPRING TERM (12 week) sill heyin
April 13, lvCi.
i:ii:.si:.s vi:irv i.ow
Families can pureha-e ou-es and lot
near the college on easy ti'rms :., to tiuicH
and interc.-t. 1-or partuuv.rs address
WAV. JONES,
Pr'st. of Normal and Ihis'W.ss Tollee,
Fremont, Xcl. 11-lm
AfoUllM TJ0 TlEJE
FRO N'lT! A
The season for self-binders and reapers, which has proved successful to us beyond anticipation
in the extremely large number of machines we sold, as well as in the perfect operalion of each ma
chine and the unbounded praise and satisfaction expressed by each uurehaser, being over, we are
again ready, and offer to the farmers of Platte and adjoining counties goods which arc now ir season
and which we propose to sell at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.
-WE ARE PREPARED TO GIVE BARGAINS 1N-
Mowers,
Hay Rakes,
Hay Sweeps,
Farm Wagons,
n TXT
spring w ag
'ons s jbuggies,
Sulky a Walking Plows,
Wind Mills,
Pumps and Pipe.
iTHJC LAEGEST STOCK Ol
SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE,
Cutlery
9
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IN" COLXJM13TJB.
At the Lowest Living Prices. Come and Convince Yourselves.
We sell the celebrated AULTMAN & TAYLOR, and C. AUtiTWTAN & CO.'S
Threshing
Machines,
Horse Powers and Endnes.
DEEK1TSTG,
WARRIOR,
CLIPPER,
CL1M AX,
WOODS,
The "AH Sorts" man of the Boston
Post says that a brakeman on a drunk
at Chicago fell into a sewer, and at
once yelled, "St. Louis, change cars!"
A passenger on an ocean steamer
seeing a fellow-voyager looking rath
er crestfallen, asked him what was np.
'My dinner," was the laconic reply.
Camphor placed in drawers or
trunks will prevent mice from doing
them any injury.
HENRY LUERS,
DKAI.KU IN
CHAL,L,ENQE
WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Pumps Repaired on short notice
JSTOne door west of llcintz's Drug
Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. 8
Send six cents for
jiostage, and receive
free, a costlv box of
goods which will help you to more money
right away than anything else in this
world. All, of either ex, succeed from
lirst hour. The broad road to fortune
ujicus 1'iiuii; me "uiia, auaoiuieiy I
sure. At once address, Tkue & Co., I
Augusta, Maine.
Tiger,
Holling'swoi'tli,
Hoosicr,
Climax,
Surprise,
Taylor,
Champion,
and Daisy,
3D
KTECE WELL KNOWING
ABBOTT, STUDEBAKER AND RACINE
Buggies and Spring Wagons.
THE CELEBRATED STUDEBAKER !
AND THE
Light - Running Orchard City Wagons.
HALLADAY, ECLIPSE, "I. X. L.," U. S.
STAR and ADAMS
EVERYTHING WE SELL IS FULLY WARRANTED!
A PEIZE.
We cordially invite everybody to call on us.
in our line, and will give you BOTTOM PRICES.
We are always ready and glad to show anything
Thirteenth Street, near B. & M. Depot,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
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