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tv n.J . '.! - '4 n.-$- -, - yl - lomirai .. .vV -rf N ' - (Mnnita - - - -, j - (A 4 " v VOLUME XXIIL NUMBER 24. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1892, WHOLE NUMBER 1,168. it . -V ;.) :' -A v THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank ! .(Oldest Bank in tho State.) Pays Merest on Thne Deposits AND Mes Loans on Real Estata ISaSfcS BIGHT DRAFTS 03 Osmalw, Ckic&ge, New Yerk amd at( Ferciga Cewmtriei. SELLS : STEAMSHIP : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES And Helps its Costozacrs when they Need Help, OFFICERS ASD DIBECTOCS : fcEANDEK GERRARD. Pres't. R. n. HENRY, VIco Pres't. JOHN STAUFFER, Cashier. M. BRUGGER, G. W. HULST. -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., HAS AN- Autliorizcd Capital or 500,000 Taid in Capital - 90,00 OFFICERS: C. II. SHELDON. 1'ros't. H. P. IL OHLRICIT. Vice Pret. C. A. NEWMAN. Cashier, DANIEL SC1IBAM, Atrft f. STOCKHOLDERS: f,. II. Sheldon, .1. T. Becker. Hennnn P. H.Oehlrich, 'irl Hiouke. Jona- Welch. W. A. McAllister, J. Henry Wnnleman, H. M. Winslow, fieoruo W. Galley, 8. C. Groy. Frank Itorer, Arnold F. H. Ochlrich, Henry Loseke, Gerhard Loseke. tST" Rank of deposit; interest allowed on time deposits; bny and sell exchange on United States and Europe, and buy and sell available securities. Ws elxall bo pleased to receive your business. We CSiktt your patronage. 2SdecS7 A.. DTTSSELL, DEALER IS IFLEI M lis, And all Kinds of Pumps. PUMPS REPAIRED ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, one- door west of Hogel fc Co's. 6jnneSS-y COL.XJMBUS Planing ME A We have jnst opened a new mill on HI street, opposite Schroeaers flonrinp mill and are pre pared to do ALL KIND8 OF WOOD WORK, such as Sash, Doors, Blinds. Mouldings, Store fronts, Counters, Stairs, Stair Hailing, Balusters, Scroll Sawing, Turning, Planing. BTEEL AND IRON ROOFING AND SIDING. pyAll orders promptly attended to. CaU on or address. HUNTEMANN BROS., jol3m Colnmbns, Nebraska. PATENTS CaTcats and Trade Marks obtained, and allPat ent bnsinees conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U..S- PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub-agencies, all business direct, hence -vc can transact patent business in less time and at LESS COST than those remote f rom Washington. Send model, drawing, or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A book, "How to Obtain Patents," with refer ences to actual clients in your state, county ox town, sent free. Address Opposite Patent'Omoe, Washington.!). & -COME TO- The Journal for Job Work OF ALL KINDS. COMMERCIAL W NEBBASKA NEWS. STATE BREVITIES. J. P. Mirdor sold his farm near York for $50 per acre. Sewani la becoming noted for her beautiful Shetland ponies. The Ruttc county fair was held last 'week and was a great success. Banker Hatch of Kenesaw was badly injured in a runaway accident John Chilton has sued the tiity of Lincoln, placing; his ditt&gSatifioOO. The Grand Islntid canning factory will turn out 40, 000 cases of corn this season, D. V. Marr, a Wyoming' stockman, will feed 5.000 sheep in Diller this winter. The poiico force of Lincoln, on af count of the shortage of funds. Is to be cut down. Some of the schools in Colfax "coun ty have been closed oh atecount of diphtheria. Cnarles A'aatas of Central City was elected stall major of the Nebraska baud union. The Ulysses ladies cornet band won the first prize banner ax the curtis G. A. R. reunion. The aggregate ot injury to corn in Neoraska from the lato frosts is com paratively small. The September term of the district court ef Lancaster county opened with a very heavy -docket. Omaha is having a great clean up so that the cholera, if it comes, will have nothing to feed upon. Elmer Williams of North Bend suc ceeds George W. Lusk as cashier of the Citizens' bank of Atchison. A young child of William Richards at Cnampion had the serious misfor tune to become badiy scaideu. The Lyons creamery butter took first premium at the state fair, and the Lyons roiler miils took second premium on Hour. The authorities of Fremont aro ex ploring the back alleys spying out cholera plague spots and ordering the people to ciean up. Emanuel Fist, on trial at Hastings on the charge of aiding in the embez zlement of county funds, was declared by a jury to bo not guiity. Frank White, aged fifteen, was bound over to the district court of Otoe county in the sum of $1,000 on the charge of pocket picking. The Midway Floral companj of Kearney has fiied articles of incorpor ation with the secretary of state and will start into business with $2,000. Frank Fenerin has been sent to the reform school from Schuyler. He had an ungovernable penchant for appro priating other people's goods without permission. Barnum & Baile'"s circus brought the largest crotvd of people ever in Nebraska City. The police nabbed 8ix pickpockets, a sure evidence of circus day. The Cedar county court house is now entirety enclosed and work on the interior is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the building wiil be fin ished soon. A cow and some pigs, with a quan tity of household furniture, were con sumed with the barn of Joe Westupal at West Point. The fire was of incen diary origin. In a stabbing affray at Lincoln Amnsa Conrad received wounds that are likely to prove lata!. Henry Har rison did ".ho cutting. All parties to the trouble are colored. Hattie IMartin, an incorrigible of Lincoln, has been sentenced to the reform school for two year?-. From ail the evidence submitted Hattie is a decidedly wayward girl. Mr. F. M. Barker, who graduated from tho North Loup High school at the close of its last term, went to Lin coln last week to begin a 'four years' course in the state university. Harry Emerson, a young feiiow who is taking thebi-chlorideof gold cure in McCook while intoxicated robbed a grader of $o0. Ho was promptly ap prehended by the police and lodged in jail. A suit for damages has been com menced in the district court of Lancas ter county by II. J. and C. E. Hall against J. IL Mockett and William Clark, in which judgment is asked for $-J5.000. The enrollment of students from out of town at the state universitj last week reached 533. or 40 per cent greater than ever before. The total number on tho ground at that time was 0-5. The Hartington Driving and Fair association will hold its first fair this year on the 28tb. 29th and 30th of September, and the association has ono of the finest half mile tracks in northeastern Nebraska. Carl Young of Chapman had the misfortune to get severoly hurt while riding a colt last Sunday morninc. The colt stumbled and feil to the ground. He fell on his head which rendered him unconscious. Ail single taxers and those who desire to investigate tho subject, are requested to send their names and address to Rufus S. Parker, 2502 De catur street, Omaha. Object, distri bution of single tax literature and the formation of a state league. The city council of Crete has ordered a thorough cleaning of all alleys in the city and has caused notices to be served on every occupant of a house to at once clean the alley abutting on his premises under penalty of fine and imprisonment in case of failure to do so. E. I- Sooy of Benson, an outskirt of Omaha, has a family cow which he pictcets on the prairie. Tho other morning picket, cow and rope were ail missing, and Mr. Sooy started for the stooK yards. He founa his cow. and tho poiicc are now looking for the thief. John Clark, an old resident of Ash land, received a bad wound in a pe culiar manner. While engaged in tinning a roof the end of a long sheet of tin was caught by the wind and thrown upon him. Tho edge of the tin struci; his wrist, cutting his hand almost entirely off. Eight hundred dollars worth of books for Bellevue college library ar rived from New York city last week, having been purchased with a part of the donation made by Colonel Elliott F. Shepard of that city when he visitea eiievue last spring. Judge IV. H. Morris left Crete last week for Washington, 1). C, under a special appointment from tho attorney general to took up some special Cases relating to war claims that some Of tho states tire pressing; against tho govern ment He expects lb be engaged in tho work ceveral weeks. A band of gypsies aro traveling over the state in charge 'of a menagerie, consistlhgoi a seal" dog, a ""trick" WSny. two bears, two mountain lions ana a monkey. It takes a purse of 3 to see the performance' and from 1 to 10 cents to see the monkey dance." and $1 to get your fortune told. Two burglaries were reported in Nebraska City last week. Thieves at tempted to enter Carl Moreton'c resi dence, but were frightened away. They werti more successful at the res idents of R. IL Douglas, B. & M. station agent. There they secured a quantity of silver, two revolvers and numerous smaller articles. Wym'ore has a taunted house, and it is claimed VhaVeVe'ry night at dusk the u'nsee'n visitors begin their ghastly orgies. Raps are heard from cellar to garret, the 'cl'o'ck "stops 'and all vis itors are impelled by hair lifting emo tions to get 'ont and move on. A dog left in the house over night left town the nexx morning and 'never camo back." Whiie returning from bo fair grounds driving alone in her phaeton. Miss lletta Agee of Aurora, daughter of A. W. Agee of that city, feil over un conscious. Parties near by caught the horse aud took the young lady home. Three physicians were called, but she lay unaole to speak although conscious untii next morning. She wiil eventu ally recover. Wiiiiam Drink water, an "old citizen of Lincoln, was found dead in bed the other morning, at his homo at 2021) South Eighth street. He had been complaining of poor health for several days, but went to bed the previous night no worse than usual. When his wife awoko next morning sho found his dead body beside her. Ho had died some lime during the night. The board of secretaries of the state board of transportation have recom mended that it be ordered by the board that the Chicago, Burlington it Quincy company permit By ram Blair to erect an elovator at Broken Bow and permit him to have the use of a site on -the elevator switch" east of the Wirt elevator, and that such site be set apart within ten days from the service of the order. Tho coiiision four miles east of Ashiand was more serious than at first reported. A work train had taken up its 1'ag and was about to run back to South Bend, when a special stock train going east ran into it, the two engines coming together with great force. The engineers and firemen jumped into the river, and so far as Known only one man was injured. Tne two engines were badly wrecsed. Captain Rohde of company D, N. N. G., has been instructed to furnish a detail of not less than three men from his company to report to Governor Boyd for escort duty in accompanying him to the opening of the Columbian exDOsition October ID. Captain Rohde wiil send five men, each of whom must be not less than six feet tail dressed in complete United States fieid uniform and of soldierly bearing sad appearance. The final game for the state singles shampionship of the State Tennis as sociation, were played in Lincoln last week between C. S. Culhngham of Omaha and Frederick Shepherd of Lincoln. The first three sets had been finished last week, leaving Mr. Cuil ingham in the lead. His superior nrowess was soon evident on this oc casion and he won three sets straight, the score standing G-L 6-2, G-2. Mr. Cullingham will retain the champion ship lie already holds. The cham pionship in doubles is held by Mr. Cullngham and J. W. Batten of Omaha. Farm lands in Gage county have re ceived one of the greatest booms in u rices during the past month that has ever been known. This is a result, mainly, of the influx of eastern farm ers, a majority of whom appear to bo from Illinois, and who were brought in on the recent harvest excursions. Scverai farms are reported to have been sold and contracted for at prices that would astonish the average east ern farmer. One man sold his farm at f 50 an acre, and then it took a $200 bonus from the purchaser to induce his wife to sign the deed. The first annual meeting of the Old Settlers' association of Nuckolls coun ty was held in Nelson last week. The association was organized about three months ago, and has a member ship of 200. The members consist of persons who have resided in the coun ty twelve or more years. About S00 people attended the meeting, which was very good, considering that the farmers are all busy putting in their wheat- Attorney General Hastings was orator of the day. He spoke of the eariy history of county and state, its growth, development and rapid in crease in population and wealth. Joseph II. Geiiding. formerly an employee of the B. & M. railroad, has commenced a suit for damages in the district court of Lancaster county, placing the amount at $20,000. He alleges in his petition that he was em ployed by the company at Piattsmouth and that on December 23, 1S91, he was engaged in his regular duties of switching cars; that by reason of the improper manner in which a carload of lumber had been loaded, the lum ber feil from the car and buried him beneath it; that he received injuries to his back, hips and other parts of his body which have permanently incapa elated him from work of any kind. A hearing of the attorneys for the petitioners and the remonstrators in the matter ot the application of Charles H. Paul of Adams county for a pardon was given to the governor last week. W. P. McCreary and B. F. Smith of Hastings and Judge Harvey of Lincoln appeared for the petition ers. Hon. Chris Hoeppner, county attorney of Adams county, and J. IL Bowes of Hastings appeared for the remonstrators. Mrs. Paul, the wife of the condemned man. was present. After hearing the arguments on both sides at length, and having reviewed the evidenco as presented, it was an nounced that the pardon would be granted. Paul is said to be a physical wreck, and the statement is made by his physicians that "he could not have survived the term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced. TROUBLEFEARED. Concotd Ordered to fcbldii to i'rotefel Anlericari ihierotn , WAsiiftGTttx.Scpt 4. The epidemic bf rcvdlutlon's in Southi and .Gentrst America is. Rpreadihr. .Th6 Republic bf JeolHifcbia is now in , danger. Word has reached tile State department tl.at serious trouble is brewing in conse quence of the quarantine established against European and American ves sels. The trouble commenced by the action of the authorities at Savarilla in firing on the British mail steamship Atralo as a warning to keep out of the port. The British residents have resented this action, nnd other foreigners, especially merchants', Brd toraplaining bitterly of the action of the Panama authorities in closing all ports against European and American vessels. Business is said to be com pletely paralj-zed, and general discon tent prevails as a, result". The Ameri can Consul at Colon has advertised that the American vessel be sent there as a means of preventing trouble and to protect American interests shonld the necessity arise. The Concord has accordingly been dispatched from La Guayra, Venezuela. WARRANT OUT FOR PECK. The New York Labor Commissioner Con tinues to Kcmalii Hidden. Aijiaxv, Sept 21. When the court of Sessions for Albany county met yes terday there was an expectant throng to see Labor Commissioner Peck ar raigned. He did not appear, however, not having arrived in the city. At 11 o'clock District Attorney Eaton prnctic allj ndmited that thti sealed anil .yetun opCncd indictment was against Mr. Peck by asking the court to issue a bench warrant for Mr. Peck, whom he be lieved to be in town. The court granted the request, but Mr. Peck has not been seen in the city, although his counsel, Mr. Meegan, said he expected him. District Attorney Eaton said this morning: "The statement that I have tried to get Mr. Peek in jail is untrue. I hs-ve given him warning of every move and, in fact, have kept him out of jail by warning him to obtain bail." COLORED MEN MEET. An Appeal Issued for Fair Treatment of Their Itace In the South. IxniAXAroLis, Sept. 24 The Na tional Colored Men's association was ill session here yesterday at Wright's hall. A national appeal is to be issued ad dressed to the American negroes, and all friends of human liberty. The appeal asks: "May we be permitted to live peacefully as common eitizens of the country that is as dear to us as life, or must we sub mit to the cruel, merciless judgment of Judge Lynch and the enemy's bul let." The association is non-partisan in character and has for its object the betterment of the colored people's condition generally; freedom from political prejudice and control, and fair elections for the race in the South. TOASTED THE HE KM IT'S FEET Robbers Try Ineffectually to Secure a Hidden Treasure. Laxcasteic, Pa., Sept. 24. Another outrage was perpetrated in the lower end of this county last night. The victim is Lord Reynolds, an old her mit, who was believed to keep a large sum of money in his lonely house. Two masked men broke into his home and demanded that he show them where his treasure was hidden. He protested that he had none, when the men cut him in numerous places on the body with a knife and finally burned his feet in a terrible manner by hold ing them to a lighted lamp. The her mit, however, refused to divulge the place in which his monej was hidden and the robbers were forced to depart with onry S3, which was found in hi pockets. MR. LOVEJOY ARRESTED. The Secretary of the Carnegie Company Charged with Riot and Assault. Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 24. Serrctary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel com pany, was arrested yesterday by Constable Walls on a warrant issued by Alderman King, charging him with aggra vated riot and assault and battery. Mr. Lovejoy entered bail at the alderman's office in the sum of 52,000 for court. Thomas Mellon, the banker, went on his bond. The charges against Lovejoy were made by Burgess McLuckic of Home stead. Informations of the same charges have been made against Messrs. Frick, Lcishman, Curry, Potter and Childs. Production of Floor. 3rixxE.vroi.is, Minn., Sept. 24. The Northwestern Miller says: "The flour output was practically unchanged last week, attaining almost the 200,000 baiTel mark. The week's production was 198,320 barrels, averaging 33,100 barrels daily, against 197,744 barrels the previous week, 180,930 barrels for the corresponding time in 1891, and lG4,.-40 barrels in 1890. Most of the mills are using a little new wheat, the proportion varying from 5 to 20 per cent, and as far as can be ascertained it is working tery favorably. Direct exports for the week were 04,040 bar rels against 55,583 barrels for the week before." Grand Army Men Nearly Perish. Dethoit, Mich., Sept. 24. A dozen Coopervillc G. A. R. veterans recently had an experience like Napoleon's army at Leipzig. A bridge over which they were marching fell, and the men first m the rank were trampled upon by those on top in mire and water. I ostmaster Peck and J. If. White sank out of sight, their upheld hands onlv being visible. They were unconscious and nearly dead when men standing upon an improvised raft took them out- Others of the post were badly bruised and had narrow escapes from the bottomless mire of the creek. Favorable Oatloot for Indian Crops. Calcutta, Sept 24. Reports from the Madras Presidency continue favor able. At the end of August, 4,750,000 acres had been sown in seven districts that recently suflared from draught, against an average of 8,250,000 acres formerly sown. There is every pros pect of a good harvest in the Presi dency. The rainfall in Southwest Ben gal is deficient, especially in the Hooghly district, where the harvest wiU not exceed half the average crop. j WHY HE LEFT. flI.XK.1leGliATIITELtiS WIl HE Left the Alliance: The Cx-Prestdetltortbe Kansas .lilt muee Gives Ilia Reason's for iioinz In and for Goius Out of the Third Partjr Move. Kansas City Journal. Beloit, Kas., July 31 Special. About one and one-half miles from this handsome little city in Mitchell county, busy at work in his harvest field, a representative of the Journal found farmer frank McGrath, ex presideht cf the Kansas Farmer's' AUU ance, and one of the practical farmers who organized the people's movement in this state. Let's go into the shade under that tree, " he said. "It's blamed hot in the sun today. I guess the boys can keep up with the machine, and I'd just as iief rest a half hour as not I can't work as steady as I used to." Mr. McGrath. some weeks ago you wrote a letter which was published, and in which you announced your withdrawal from the People's party. Would you mind stating more fully than you did in that letter your rea sons for your withdrawal, and will you give your idea of tho general con dition of the People's movement in Kansas?" -I will tell you why I went in, and why I came out I first went into the Alliance, a secret organization, which Vas expressly declared to be non political but sdleiy for the mutual benefit of the farmers, in the way 61 cultivating closer relations socially, and for mutual assistance in practical education and business interests. I soon discovered that the Aiiiance proper was only a cunning plan to create a new political movement Well it was cailed ki farmers' movement ' and I being a farmer, and being ready at all times to join any movement that would better the condition of my own class, without injustic to other classes, went into the new political deal heart and soul, believing that from the political organization of the farmers would come purer politics and a rem edy for some of the wrongs that farmers have suffered in the past That's why I went in. 1 came out because the movement has ceased to be what it started out to be. a farm ers' movement My idea of a farmers' movement is that it ought to originate and to remain under the direction and control of farmers, and not drift into the hands of jack-leg lawyers and pro fessional politicians. -You say the farmers' movement in this state has drifted into the control of lawyers. Now, suppose I came to this state from St Louis on a mission of importance to the independent party, where would 1 go and to whom would I go to consult the party." You would go to the independent headquarters at Topeka. There you would find no farmer, no artisan, no mechanic no laboring man, but a lot of lawyers, who sit around ail day and smoke cigars, and piot nnd plan how they can best keep the wool over the farmer's eyes, and mane him think that it is his movement, and that he is realiy "in it" You would find there running the farmars' movement Dr. McLallin, who is scheming night and day to become state printer. You would find Noah Allen, a lawyer, who, in connection with Mrs. Lease, organ ized a so-called Farmers' Protective association, the object ot which is to defeat by hook or erook, tho enforce ment of legal contracts. You would find John Bridcnthall, a lawyer and all round sharp practitioner. You wouid find Lawyer Doster, a communist who advocates repudiation, and that all lands should bo held in com mon. You would find Nicholson, another lawyer, and Sara King, another lawyer, who began twenty years ago as one of tho 'young and rising sort. ' but who has never yet risen to plead a case in any court higher than that of a justice of the peace. At liy He Get OIT the IVason. I tell you that tho clientless lawyer is driving the farm wagon in this state and that is why I got oil. If I've got to have my politics dished up to me by lawyers, I prefer to go with the iawyers who have somo standing in their profession, and who are able to make an honest living out of their profession instead of whining around the farmers, advocating what they don't believe for the sake of a politi cal job. It's the same way up in Nebraska. If you went there today and started out into the country to find some of tho farmers who are managing the farmer's movement you would be laughed at You wouid bo directed to a couple little editors in Lincoln who have heads about as big as a co canut and. you wili find around their office in consultation with them two or three alleged lawyers, who never go to court except as spectators. But when you want to see the grand high wriest of tho Peonle's movement in Nebraska you wouid go to Paul Van dervoort who is notorious as a pro fessional lobbyist ali the way from tho state capital at Lincoln to the national capital at Washington. You wouid find this man Vandervoort devoting his entire time to the People's move ment After spending twenty years of his life as a hired go-between, assisting corporations and land syndicates to plunder the farmer, he now blossoms out as a farmer's friend, aud any day you can see him dodging in and out of the hoteis, holding council in a low keyed voice with tho cheap editors who flit back and forth through the state on railroad passes, fixing things for the state convention. You would see at Omaha a little pop-eyed, baby faced lawyer named Strickier. who was chief chambermaid at the late national convention, and is now the national committeeman from that state. The spectacle of a lot of strong, thrifty farmers being led around and managed by such brazen demagogues and such little puppets is enough to make the whole country laugh out loud and lose forever all the confidence it ever had in farmer" sense. Fooling the Farmer. And yet these farmers call it their movement and get together and chucicie and congratulate each other that Paul Vandervoort and little Strickier have come over to the Peo ple's party. If you went out intothe country in Nebraska where tne real farmers are. who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of this movement, j you woum sec mem meeting togemer in county conventions and talking to gether iti ffrotid add making plana with as mUc'h earnestness and enthusi asm as if they really had somsihing to say ifi the matter Of who should he dominated on ibs?r tftato' ticket on August 3. Bui ifi the Cintim4 Paul Vandervoort and the little pop eyed Strickier and the cocoanut headed editors have had it all ar ranged for months; and they havo set aside John H. Powers, who 13 voor in everything but honest manhood, and they have set aside J. Burrows, who has been working disinterestedly in this movement for ten years they have set aside these men because their methods bro plain and honest; they have slated Van Wyflk for the gov ernorship and for the United Sat?d senatorsh'ip. because, they say, he is' skilled in all the devious ways of the old parties, and, having become rich out of political plunder in the past" he is now able to compensate Paul Van dervoort and the little popeyed lawyer and the little cocoanut-headed editors for their services in behalf of the dear farmers." But it may be that Van Wyck is the strongest man for them to put up by reason of his experience and his money." No, ho is not the strongest candi date, if- you mean by that his ability to get votes. No man who is a noto rious demagogue and who has been a professional otlicebunter all his life can be a strong candidate on the peo ple's ticket in a farmer state where the voter takes his Australian ballot into the little! stall and there remem bers thai one 6'f the cardinal princi ples of the people's party is that tho office should seek the man and not tho man seek the office. No! Van Wyek's" money can buy the truckling support of the cocoanut-headed eaitb'rs and the little pop-eyed lawyer and the puffing braggadocio of Paul Vandervoort but it can't buy the votes of thousands of independent farmers who are to-day humiliated at the spectacle of the most shameless scramble for office that Nebraska ever witnessed. Kept Tab on Nebraska. I have kept tab on that state pret ty close for several years and I have never yet seen in either of tho old parlies a man running for governor and United States senator both at once, and chasing from town to town, night and day, for six months before the nominating convention. Why look at that man when he was in the United States senate from ew lork! He has never denied that he mace a mil lion dollars by introducing bluff reso lutions to depress the stock values of different railroads, speculating on these stocks all the while himself, under the direction of Jay Gould, and now he comes back to the farmers of Nebraska and calls himself the farmers' friend. When he wants to go to New Orleans or San Francisco, or his old home in New York, or anywhere in this broad country, he carries a letter from Gould, asking courtesy of the different lines. But when he goes on short trips in Nebraska, from town to town, among the farmer., he buvs a ticket at each station and takes good care that all the farmers standing around see the ticket, and whenever anyone happens to catch him with a pass he impudent ly calls it 'foraging on the enemy.' "' Then you don't think that Van Wyck will be nominated for governor and that the independents wiil carry Nebraska this fall?" No; I didn't say that I think Van Wyck wiil be nominated all right for he has the party by the throat and it can't wiggle, but I don't think it will win the election this fall. 1 tell you there are thousands ol in dependents who went into the move ment two years ago because they thought it was an honest movement as I did, but who are today ashamed of the whole business and will wash their hands of it at the polls next November"' What do you think about fusion?'' "I don't think it wiil work. It's a trick; and no national election was ever yet won by a fusion trick. You can sometimes work a trick on a little town caucus or a county election, but when you get into national politics there is a dignity and a patriotic senti ment in party doctrines that shames the petty tricks of ward politics. Farmer ot W orklns That Way. And I believe the Democratic lead ers in Kansas have blown their light out forever, as far as their party is concerned. They undertake to sneak their candidate into the White house under farmer petticoats, but I don't believe the farmers want a president elected that way, and I think the good sense and honest conscience of the na tion will brand the fusion scheme as dishonest on the part of both parties to the contract And it will make tho straight forward honesty of the Repub lican party stand out more conspicu ously in the eyes of the nation than ever before." What per cent of the independent party are farmers?' "Seventv-eight Der cent" What per cent of the independent party as it now stands are in it solely for what good they believe it wiil bring to the country In general?"' 'About four-fifths of the independents are honest and conscientious, and they are in the movement for what good there is in it About one man in ev ery five is scheming for an office or personal benefit of some kind, and he don't care a straw what wild schemes are proposed, only so it catches votes. I tried hard to keep these crazy schem ers out of the party but it was no use." "What do you mean by crazy schemers ?" Hun by Crazy Schemer. Well, the sub-treasury schemers, for instance. That was the most un practical, as well as the most catch ing doctrine thev ever invented. It set the people wild with enthusiasm. 1 denounced it in the councils of the party from the very start hut the restless agitators who were beating the bushes for recruits said it was no matter whether the scheme was practical or not 'it catches votes like wriiiifiro. We need it to arouse the people.' Why! I tell you it caught like wildfire, 1 receivea nunureas oi letters from farmers all over the state asking when we thought it would be come a law and when thev would be likely to get relief by it as they needed it to relieve their present em barrassment and to pay off matured loans. 'The worst- trouble in the whole movement is that the lobbyists of the party, those whose whole business was to lash the people Into fury and areas t class prejuaice, have cama tne peo-1 plo off their feet and turned their , heads completely into a condition of hate and jealousy and crazy restless ness, until a man almost doubts the whols of popular government. If the farmers were let alone they are not unreasonable, and they wiil do no hfJrirj; but the trouble is that the far mer don't fun it The agitator runs the movement Attd tbs rank and file recklessly applaud and loiiow, and the fellow with the wildest schetnegets the lotidest cheer. I am sorry for th cotfr'so' things nave taken. I believe in farmer organization, but I don't be lieve in a farmer iBorernent manipu lated and managed by re?Wls agila tors and shyster lawyers.1 How the TariflTla Not Added! Wo are pleased to see the stren uous persistency with which the enemies of protection hang on to the a's'sum'ption that trio tariff is added to the price of home productions. They yet do this, knowing ais well a we. that it is all their hope and When that assumption is knocked from un der them, their case falls to the ground. We are glad they hang on this, for they are losing ground on that score every day the campaign ad vances, and are bound to be brought down from out this tree before it closes. The status of the protective princi ple, as we havo heretofore stated it is just this: Tho protective duly is levied on the foreign product not OK the American made. The American made has steadily grown cheaper un der protection so that we do not have to use the tariff taxed article. Nd mad can set It aside! Now we wish it distinctly observed that we do not make assumptions without proof, and wo will proceed to prove our as sumption by referring to mostly articles of necessity: Tho working girls dress (called) a fabric of substantial print, Ueat pat em, worn by majority of tho working poor: Duty 5 cents a yard; can be bought in the open market in New York for 3 cents a yard. Will some body explain to the people hdw the tariff is added. AccordingKMr. Bry an's ridiculo at tho hall the other night if the tariff is aaaed in tbis case, the original prion is below noth-" ing! But Mr. Bryan's ridicule does not alter broad facts! Working girl's dress (wool home spun) Duty on this suit if imported, would be $1.13; was bought of a dem ocratic merchant in New York all made Ud ready to put on for ?3.98 15 cents less than" the tax. How is the tax added? And what becomes of the lie that the common necessa ries are higher? Working girl's cloak (-Pattern cir cular" Beaver) heavy double gar ment for winter: Duty $5.13; retail price $3.98. These are New York prices where most working people live. But what becomes of the tax? Poor girl's dress (wool and cotton dress goods): Duty, when imported, $1.79; bought at home for $1.80. Now, to borrow some of Mr. Bryan's ridi cule, all vou have to do is to abolish the tariff and you can get the suit for one cent! Woricing girl's apron (calico) : Tar iff taxed 5c a yd: retail price 41c. The enemies tell the people this poor girl's apron "is taxed 110 per cent" This may not be an outright lie but isn't it meaner than a direct lie? Working girl's summer dress (chal lis, wool and cotton) : Tariff taxed 9J cents a yard: retail price 7 cents a yd. This goods is good enough for any importer's daughter, but the working girl can buy it without the tax being added. Poor boy's pants (good, firm mate rial) taxed 43c a yd; can be bought for 27c a yd. Who pays the 43 cents? Poor boy's suit (all wool, good enough and fine enough for Vander bilt's boy.) Duty on whole suit $1.24; it costs only $1.20 complete. Where's the tax come in? Poor man's shirt (flannel all wool) The shirt is taxed 80c; but it was pur chased for lie less than the tax. How tlo democrats reconciie this? They don't reconcile, they just assume! Working man's shirt (shirting prints) Taxed 5c a yard; retails for 5c a yard. According to Bryan's ridicule the purchaser simply pays the tax and takes the shirt along for nothing. Poor man's blanket (not the finest material of course, but what most working men sleep under), tariff 95c, which, Van Wyck once told us at the opera house, the poor man paid; it is purchased at 90c We all know how Van lied to us. Ho lies this way to the people wherever he goes. Comfortable (cotton and wool): Duty $1.31; prico$1.00. Nowif there is anybody who was at the hall Fri day night and can't, prove how tho tariff is added to the price, it is not his fault, for Mr. Bryan didn't explain it Hand-saw fiies are tariff taxed 75c a dozen; they sell in New York for 48c a do;:. With all the blowing of the free traders why do they never ex plain these things? The duty on a barrel of sait is 33 3-5c; New York farmers buy it for 28c a barrel exclusive of the cost of pack ing. Under good old democratic free trade the farmer had to pay the price of two or three tons of bay for a bar rcl of sait Now it is so cheap there is no use longer talking about it The tariff tax did it! Because "it is ad ded." Now we como to wire nails. Mc Kinley in his Nebraska speech refer red to wire nails and pottery goods. Bryan in his speech here referred to both because he is around answer ing) McKinley. We will leave it to the young men in Bryan's audience whether he denied what McKinley said in either instance. He ridiculed both as absurdities, for he was here for that purpose. But couldn't deny the broad fact that the tax on wire nails is 2c a pound, while they sell in New York for l.C5-100c a pound, and pottery goods have fallen off in price one-half since the increased tariff. The tariff is not added on the American made. Before wire nails were made at home, we had to pay foreigners 10c a pound for them. Why didn't Bryan ridicule that part of it? Lead pencils are taxed 60c a gross, and can bo bought for 45c a gross at retail. How is the GOc added? Mr. Brvan was here to exolain it but did he? The workingman's smoke. A box of cigars on which the duty is $3.00 re tails at $1.50 per box. -THE- First National Bank COXsTJlCBTJS. ZTEB. TymECTOItS . ANDERSON, rrcs-t. J. U. GALLEY. Vico Pres't O.T.KOEN.Cnshier. C. E. EARLY. Asst Caskien O. ANDERSON. P. ANDERSON. JACOB GREISEN. HENRY BAGAT2. JAMES G. REEDEU. Statement of Condition at the Close ol Sdjinen July 1Z, loins. BESOCBCXS. r ...,in;.nnt. 1211.215 I? Kenl Estate. Furniture and Fixtures.. 19.M0 U. O' Jtomls , jj.jw w Duo ffota other banks 1 40.WI.1S Cash oa Hand. 2110.'- 62.848 91 SSI'AICKM UArnxne. rafiit.il Stock raid in.. Surplus ynml Undivided profit Circulation .........-- Deposits ......... .8 G0.0COCO . 30.M) Oft 2,573 SO . 13.500 U . 21X5.228 ri S 312.102 11 gusmess ards. r h.kii.ia:, DEUTCJIER ADYOKAT, Office OTer Columbus State Bank. Columbus. 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