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VOLUME XXIIL NUMBER 24.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1892,
WHOLE NUMBER 1,168.
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THE OLD RELIABLE
Columbus - State - Bank !
.(Oldest Bank in tho State.)
Pays Merest on Thne Deposits
AND
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Ferciga Cewmtriei.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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