Si-" -V- r t tft'- ijinii X -" " -' it 'J7 Jh Jl.?j I :- f I? Columbus gountaL Entered at the Poet agoe. Colambaa. Kb.. as Coqo-cJbm mail matter. sueii KTZST WEDJTXaOAT n Mr. K. TURNER & CO.. Colwnbua, Net. nun or ernatnurnost One year, by mail, postage prepaid JA Six months '. .75 Three months - .40 . Vnaahla lm Adrenae. Use, OB applica tion. BIGSTRUGGLEISON Republican National Conven tion Is Called to Order. flr1f?aauaiBi eogens nmuen thai alaea of resi- 4aBoatbayahaaJdatoaaMUfa by latter or postal caro, cma aota taatr termer ana men resent poet ossca.-thoaretsn.hlaina to readily ' lad the mm om ear mallijacliat, from which, heinc in tjpa, we eaeh week nriat, either on the wrapper or ontbamwaim of vow Joubiml, the 4at to whieh year eabeeripttea ia paid or ac counted for. Bamittances ehoaJd be made ither bymoBordar.ragiatarad letter or draft ayabUtotUwarof aa at IfHni oX vvi FAIEBANKS IN THE OHAIE. Text of the Platform That Has Been Agreed On. TBIUMTH FOB THE OENTEAL WEST. All commsnieeUons, to oeenro attention, must t accompanied by tba foil nam of the writer. W nweiTe the right to reject any manuscript. aaJ cannot aerse to return tha same. We dt-eir a crrrionaent in every school-district of I'lttta county, oas otjrood judgment, and rr lia!.l in t7 way. Write pl.ialy. each item twuately. Owens nets. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17. 19W. Coming Convention. Democratic, Chicago, Tuesday July 7. Populist, SLLouis, Wednesday, July 22. Free Silver, St. Louis, Wednesday, July 221 The transtnissippi exposition to be held at Omaha is now an assured thing. President Cleveland having approved . the bill, providing, government recog nition and aid, and appropriating 200, 000 for a building and exhibit. It will undoubtedly be a grand anair, anu a great advertisement for the whole west ern portion of the United States. Is the case of Hiscox's charged with the murder of Sellers in Burt county, the judge found that an offense had been committed and there was probablo cause to believe that the throe defen dants were either jointly or severally guilty of the offense. He ordered them held in custody without bail, for trial at the next term of the district court. All witnesses wefe required to give 500 for their appearance at the trial. The following from a political oppo nent, the Schuyler Herald, is not bad: "H. C. Russell seems to stand an ex cellent show of being renominated for commissioner of public lands and build ings. The only opposition he has is the editor of the Omaha Bee, who has an old grudge against H. C. Wo have no use for Russell's politics, but consider him the peer of a majority of the men who have held office by the grace of his party. Here at home where the gentle mau is well known he will have the united support of his party." The general committee of preparation for the national republican convention have had considerable more work than ordinarily falls to the committee. In the Grst place the hotels and restaur ants are virtually a unit in refusing to entertain negroes as guests or customers, and there is, in consequence, talk of renting a hall and employing a corps of cooks to supply them food. In malting up the roll for temporary organization, the committee are confronted with l.rS contested seats from fifteen states and one territory and of these the entire delegation is contested from live states and Arizona. eolation Favors an International Agree ment on Silver Small Missouri Break . For Reed Monster McKinler Ie oastratioa Vice Presidency. Is the face of the fact that there is a deficit for the fiscal year just closing of 830,000,000, the administration still clings to the statement that the country "does not need moro revenue." The whole country knows that the Wilson Gorman tariff measure does not furnish sufficient revenue to pay the running expenses of the government. If it is I not moro revenue we need, wuat is it.' The expenses are more than the in come, and the public debt has been in creased by the issuo of bonds to meet the deficiency, and it is useless to try to make the people of common sense be lieve that there is a sufficiency of rev enne to meet expenses. Seward Blade. Outside the popularity of Major Mc Kinley, the present political situation leads logically to his election. On this financial question we aro sure to lose far less from our own ranks than we shall gain from the disrupted democracy. Our party has always stood for financial integrityand it always will. The credit of the country is safe in the hands of those who for nearly thirty years have preserved it. This is a matter too well understood by the ieople of the country to require argument, and this with our determination to protect the rights of American industry are sure to end in a tremendous political victory next November. Norfolk News. Tnis is the way it goes in Mexico. In the state of Jalisco, the town of Topac was struck by a cyclone, and the follow ing account was given to the press: "It was accompanied by a water spout that detached from the sides of mountains enormous masses of rock, and mud was piled up in the streets of the town to a depth of eight feet and in some cases to the lower branches of trees, into which inhabitants had climbed to escape the inundation of water and mud. Three-fourths of the town was utterly destroyed. Thirteen bodies have been taken out of the mass of earth and debris, and 30 are missing." Democrat for McKlnley. The Buffalo Enquirer, heretofore a democratic journal, has enlisted in the support of McKinley as the proper man to be our next president. It puts the case thns: "It is a cause that is near to the heart 1 of business interests. It is an effort in which the laboring men of this country, seeking a return of prosperity, good wages and active demand for labor, are participating. It is a cause that enlists all classes and divisions of society. The poor and the rich want McKinley. The poor -and rich want good times once more. The popular demand for him is 'the strongest demonstration ever made for .an individual. The Enquirer will help the people. It will exert itself to secure his nomination and will do its part for his election." Inter Ocean Shorts. We hear a good deal about "a return to good times," but has any one ex pressed a wish to return to or to retain Cleveland times? Protection is still in politics, and in Site of amateur statesman will stay at e head of every republican procession in the campaign of 1896. Other ques tions are side issues. Giving 9,000,000 in gold to an English syndicate as a premium and then preach ing a sermon to congress on "economy" is not an impressive object lesson even from the president. Henry Watterson writes from Paris that the more he sees of Europe the prouder he is of being an American. This, however, was before Kentucky went 16 to 1, and the Colonel may wish to revise. One of the democratic organs wants republicans to establish a kindergarten at St. Louis for "the infant industries to play in." Bat if our contemporary will wait until next November, when the ballots are counted, it will see that "the infant industries" have been provided for. The infants .have cut their teeth on "tariff reform" bones, and their voices frill be heard. St. Louis. June Hi. Fully 15,000 wildly enthusiastic people delegates and spectator wore seated in the audi torium when Chairman Carter of the national committee called the 10th na tional convention of the Republican party to order at noon. Most of the 909 delegates were in their seats when Charles W. Fairbanks was introduced as temporary chairman. His keynote speech was on the line of the Indiana platform. Nearly every sentence of Mr. Fairbanks' address was applauded and mauy of its sentiments brought out approving cheers which fairly shook the big building. Hard Fight on Money. The most remarkable feature about the convention so far has been the ab sence of bad blood among the partisans of the various candidates. The triumph of McKinley lias been so completo thus far that his friends can afford to be magnanimous and His opponents cau do nothing but acquiesce in the ascer tained will of the majority. The partisans of Reed, Quay, Morton and Allison still wear the buttons and are as staunch as ever in their loyalty, but they realize the hopelessness of making shrieking or offensive demonstrations in faror of their champion, and the man agers of the anti-McKiuley candidates have practically sheathed their swords. This does not mean that they have abandoned the field, with the exception of Governor Bradley of Kentucky, who dropped out last night. The names of the other candidates will be presented and voted for and will probably poll their fnll strength. Indeed, the Reed men have labored assiduously to rally the followers of the Maine man. They have appealed to his friends, to go down with colors flying. So, too, with the colors of Morton, Allison and Quay. But no one ventures to suggest the pos sibility of McKinley's defeat. The real struggle that is going on is over the financial plank in the platform. Be yond the disputes in the various delega tions over the supremacy of men and factions, it is almost the sole subject of plots and counterplots. It is the real battle ground. In phrase and word it is all important. Upon tariff, npon all other questions, thern is substantial unity, but the differences upon it are as wide as the continent. Free silver and gold arc as irreconciliable as the poles and the radical silver men are prepared to stake their all upon the issue. Knowing they cannot succeed, they are even now formulating the manifesto that will sevor their allegi ance to the Repub'ican party. Radicals Largely Outnumbered. But these radical silver men are large ly outnumbered. Headed by Senator Teller of Colorado, they have only mus tered five states and perhaps one terri toryless than 50 delegates in all out of a total of over S00. The real struggle is between those in favor of a bold declar ation for the maintenance of a gold standard except through international agreement and those whose friendliness to silver, although opposed to free coin age, makes them seek to avoid a specific indorsement of the gold standard. The result of the meeting of the various state delegations yesterday demon strated emphatically that the conven tion will not dodge the issue nor equivo cate in lauguage. Twenty-eight states, comprising the territory east of the Mississippi and almost the entire south ern members of the resolutions commit tee met and instructed them to vote for a gold declaration. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Nebraska,Ore gon and Washington also tcok strong ground for gold. Iu Indiana General Lew Wallace was chosen a member of the resolutions committee, after he had declared he would, not stand on the In diana plauk and that the utterance for the maintenance of the gold standard could not bo made to strong for him. Minnesota, with IS votes, instructed ex Governor Merriam to insist upon a declaration for the gold standard. Michigan and the northwestern states, Iowa and the Dakotas, and several of the southern states, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana, announced their opposi tion to free coinage, but did hot favor a too radical declaration in favor of the gold standard. Iowa Delegates Solicitous. Iowa was particularly solicitous, and feared it might carry the northwest to the Democratic camp in case the Chi cago convention pronounced later for silver. The eastern delegates are over joyed at the outcome and believe the result of yesterday's action removes the last uncertainty as to the character of the financial plank. The exact language of the plank has not yet been drawn. Mark Hanna, to whom all eyes are turned, has had mauy planks presented to him, but all mean practically the game thing, the maintenance of the gold standard until an international agreement cau be reached, and unalter able opposition to free coinage. Coupled with these declarations will be un doubtedly a declaration in favor of such use of silver as the needs of commerce demand, bat not beyond the point wnere the maintenance of the paiity would be endangered. Senator-elect Foraker of Ohio, who is to be chairman of the committee ou resolutions, has prepared a rough draft of a platform covering most of the" subjects to bo pre sented and this will furnish the basia for the work of constructing the plat form. The selection by the various state delegations yesterday of their members on the committees was marked by few incidents, save iu New York and Missouri. Victory for Piatt. In New York all the smouldering bit terness between the Piatt and auti-Platt factions broke forth and ex-Senator Warner Miller, the head of the anti Piatt faction, threw down the gauge of defiance to the New York leader.' He made a ringing speech, in which he spurned the leadership of a man who had declared that McKinley was unfit for the presidency and moved to depose bim by making Chauneey M. Depew chairman of the delegation. There were hot words oq both sides. Thur low Weed Barnes denounced the Herki mer statesman, who had been instructed for Morton, as a traitor. The anti Platt faeriou polled 1? out of the 70 votes in the delegation votiug and Mr. Piatt wb re-elected chairman. In the Mis-1 souri delegation, Chaanccy L Riley, who for many years had been the Mis : souri representative on the national committee, was defeated iuhisambitioa to again be a national committeeman and Richard Ken-i; was re-elected. This is the outcome of a long straggle , for supremacy. It is now claimed that owing to the J fact that Chauucoy I. Filley was turned down by the Missouri delegates, some of the Filley men wl jump frost Mc Kinley to Reed. It is said that five of them sigued an agreement to vote for Reed, and others are riaimed. As to tba Vict, PreeMeaey. The situation as to the vice presidency continues indefinite. Opinion does not seem to crystaliae. The talk of Hobart of New Jersey, Lippitt of Rhode Island and Evans of Tennessee goes on, but does not seem to be regarded seriously. There was a strong belief early in the day that perhaps the New York delega tion could agree on some one who would be satisfactory to both factions, and there was a renewed discussion.of Gov ernor Morton and ex-Secretary of the ' Navy Tracy, but when the factions de- clared war to the hilt, all idea of New j York furnishing the tail of the ticket was abandoned. Although the Maine delegation is not advertising the fact, it is almost certain they will present the name of ex-Governor Cleaves. Repre sentative Diugley of Maine, who was spoken of, does not covet the honor. There is still a lingering hope among a vast number of delegates that Speakei Reed will be nominated by a spontan eous outburst in the convention. If he is, it is not believed he could decline any more than Logan could in 1884 or Hendricks and Thurman could when they were placed on the Democratic tickets in 1884 and 18S8 respectively. j The Money Plank. The money plank of the platform has been agreed npon. It is a victory for the middle west, but is perfectly satis factory to the extreme east. The New England contingent, headed by Senator Lodge and backed by the Piatt and Quay forces in New York and Pennsyl vania, urged the adoption of a short, emphatic declaration, as follows: "We favor a maintenance of the ex isting gold standard, and are opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by in ternational agreement for bimetallism with the leading commercial nations of the world." The leaders in the middle west states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska, were equally strong in their insistence upon a declar ation that wonld not be open to the charge of equivocation. Michigan, Iowa and South Dakota, three of these tiers of states, stood out against a declaration favoring in terms the present gold standard. They rather favored something distinctively friendly to silver, while affirming their opposi tion to free coinage under existing cir cumstances. The plank agreed upon by the Iowa delegation, after a four hour struggle and which is understood to have the indorsement of Senator Allison, fully sets forth this idea. That plank was as follows: Iowa's Currency Resolutions. 'We favor the use of gold, silver and paper as the money of the United States, all to be kept on a parity of value, and the enactment of necessary laws to ac complish the purpose. . "We also favor the use of silver as in ternational money, either through in ternational agreement, with free coin age by such natious at the current ratio, or by concurrent legislation by the leading nations to accomplish the same purpose. "That, pending such arrangements, which should be promoted by the power of the United States, it is unwise and inexpedient for the United States alone to adopt free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1 to 1, and. therefore, we op pose such free coinage of silver." Compromise Declaration. The leaders in the middle west offered the plank, which follows, and which was submitted to Senator Lodge and other eastern men as a substitute for the plank prepared by them yesterday and has been accepted by them as com pletely satisfactory. This, it is believed, ends the long fight over the financial plank. Senator-elect Foraker, who is to be the chairman of the resolutions committee, will present it to the com mittee. This is the resolution: "The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enact ment of the law providing for the re sumption of specie payments in 1879. Since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to eveiy measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. "We are, therefore, opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver ex cept by international igreement, which we favor, and until scch agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard should be preserved. We favor the use of silver as currency, but to the extent only that its parity with gold can be maintained, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolable the money of the United Sate4 whether coin or papor, at the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth." Monster McKinley Meeting-. A monster McKinley mass meeting was held last night iu the music hall, which forms part of the exposition building, in which eight yean ago Grover Cleveland was nominated. The audience was made up largely of visit ing delegates, although local politicians were in evidence and also a number of ladies. Introduced by Mark Hanna, Governor Boshnell of Ohio presided over the meeting. On taking the chair, the governor said William McKinley was the choice, not only of Ohio, but of the nation, and the audience rose and howled its acquiescence. Like Virginia, he said, Ohio has come to be the "Mother of presidents," and she was ready with her man for the present oc casion. The governor was followed by ex-Congressman William E. Mason of Chicago, who started out with the statement that tomorrow the Repub licans -of the country would meet to nominate a president. The audience sent up a terrific shout for the man from Ohio. "Why don't yon speak about silver?'' inquired a voice. "Silver," said Mr. Mason, in response, "is a great issue, between Democrats and Democrats." Mr. Mason's speech was almost wholly a eulogy of McKinley. Congressman Grcsvenor said an attempt was being made to blind the issues of the campaign by the introduction of the silver ques tion, but the American people were not to be deceived. What they wanted in the money line was the American dollar. The populace had its inning last night. There was enough red fire, music, uniforms, banners, transpar endes and cheering to aatiato the most expectant. On every corner, in every hotel lobby and before headquarters of states and candidates were to be beard "Hail to the Chief," and "Marching Through Georgia," while streets lead ing to big hotels had but little elbow room left for pedestrians bent on er rands or sight seeing. .nmnamnamVnsmnmm ' L .-. ib an r - - a. ewamaamaw eabaaanaefjhiawsBanmaBaAfeaAtaafetnfc awanaiAmmh,Aiama.A bout It from tlie wawawaBftiinwawawawawawawawaawf M MH H B nwawawawawafmwawawawawawf mwawawarnmwawawl mwawafl it dip House toDfs uiat p Cruel War. lis Marat m chtap sbaH-m gat. CD. HTZPATRICK Is after the "GREAT BARGAIN" men with a long pole and a sharp stick. Have we the greatest bargains on earth? No. Have we bought goods 50 cents on the dollar? NO Are we selling you goods that were refused by the good house wives of Omaha? NO Are we selling you goods that have been cried day after day at our late Columbus auction? 3fcTO Is" there a smell of camphor or moth balls on our goods? 3iTO I 1TO 1 1 They are all new and fresh. Are there anv men or companies of men in Nebraska who are foolish enough to sell you $2.00 worth of HONEST GOODS lor $1.00? No, of course not. If there are the board of insanity should know it. The state will take care of such freaks. ,Now! then, has E. D. Fitzpatrick, (do not confound me with any of the "two-dollar-for-one Patrick's or 1 11 suicide) not always given you value for your money? "STES. And has alwavs given vou a HUN DRED CENTS' WORTH OP GOODS FOR ONE DOELAR. Alwalgiven aiways slven you a ttUJN HONEST, FRESW NEW and our prices today, and for the next 30 IDu7ZS,-"will be such that even the-great-unheard-of-two dollar-for-one-BARGAIN MEN WILL BLUSH FOrISIaME. Compare our prices with others AT THE White Frent Dry Goods Store ! You can buy the best Percales at 10c, the best American Prints at 3c, the best American Indigoes at 4c ' the best Irish Lawn at 12c, the Dotted Swiss (elegant) at 22c, the best India Linon 10c, 25c, French Or gandies 12c and others get 20c for same. We have the best 5c, 7c, 8c and 9c Muslin in central Nebras ka. We have a fine line of Ladies' Underwear at greatly reduced prices to close. 20c a yard, some of the "cheap Omaha stores" are getting 30c for the same goods. Our S5c Henriettas are sold at others' stores for 7 5 to 85c-what a difference! These are but a few prices given to show that we are in this FIGHT FOR TRADE, and in buying from us you are not getting any auction goods or any of the "car load" of goods dumped in from Omaha. Come and see us. Get our prices. It will pav you to compare. We want your good will. We want your good word. We want your trade. We want your money We want to give you value received. We want every lady in Platte county to come to our store If you do, you will bless the hour that you came. Follow the crowd to E. D. Filzpairick's While Front Dry Goods Store. E. D. FITZPATRICK. territorial Democratic convention ef fected permanent organization by elect ing Hon. H. B. Ferguson of' Albu querque as chairman. Resolutions were adopted favoring the "free and unlimited coinage of both silver and cold, independent of the action of for. eign nations, at the ratio of 16 to 1, the same as existed prior to the demonetiza tion by the Republican party in 1873, and we hereby instruct our delegates to the Democratic national convention to support no man for president of the United States or any platform which is not in faithful accord with these princi ples, and to vote as a nnit on this propo sition." Richard . Bland of Missouri was indorsed for president. The dele gates chosen were: Antonio Joseph, M. M. Salazar, A. A. Jones, John T. Hewitt, W. S. Hopewell, Demetrio Chavez. The Howells Journal ventures the fol lowing definition: "A sound money is a legal tender that every man in the nation is morally bound to make good. Such is the money that the general government issues, be it either gold, silver or paper." smflwH IIIHlnwwVlVnVwlIVHIVwelfl I 50 CENTS s -ON THE- $ SALE ! I Kw fcisYsaaj, X. M,, Jane llTbe To Chicago and the East. Passengers going east for business, will naturally gravitate to Chicago as the great commercial center. Passengers re-visiting friends or relatives in the eastern states always dsire to "take in" Chicago en route. All classes of passen gers will find that the "Short Line" of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail way, via Omaha and Council Bluffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a manner that will be sure to give the utmost satisfaction. A reference to the time tables will in dicate the route to be chosen, and, by asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for a ticket over the Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short Line of. the Chicago, Milwaukee k St. Paul Railway, yon will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short Line" trains arrive in Chicago in ample time to connect with the express trains of all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, lime tables, maps, etc, please call on or address F. A. Mash, General Agent, Omaha, Neb. 50c shirt waist sets. 2.1c 5 E Sido Combs, the 25c ones aw A W WJ a A "v E Side Combs Sterling mount- E E ed 25c S E Tortoise shell-back Combs, E E 75cto 1.50 S E All lengths belts 50c on the S E dollar. E E 50 new belt buckles 25c, E s tlnt iiUU at sJO m Stick pins 10c, 15c, 35c, all E E worth double. E E Free silver badges 15c E j Solid gold baby rings 50c M. C. 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STEVENSON, Agent Columbus. Dr. H. E. AYERS, Agent Lindsay. 3 3 M. F. GRASS, Agent, Humphrey. mwmiiwiiimiMMmtHwiiiiHiiuiiiiiiiiiiHtiitiiMiiiiiinttiHiitJ B. P. DUFFY. WM.O'BKIEN. COLUMBUS, Maprtf NEBRASKA. JJOITY A O'BRIEK, LAWYERS. Special attention given to Criminal Law. Onto: Comer Eleventh and North Su. COLUMBUS, ; NEBRASKA. ' COXOM?cs' ' W. A. McAr.LISTKR. W. M. CoR.VKI.ItJS roALLISTER CORNELIUS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, XZBKASXA - i i -t f t i 4 5r nwsars5. ' , - l anil 'a nisi rnfiaai Jamil