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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER SO. 1886.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
N For Preaident:
william Mckinley.
of Ohio.
For Vice President:
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STATE TICKET.
Governor. JOHN H. M'COLL
Lieutenant Governor. ORLANDO TEFFT
. Secretary of State JOEL A. PIPER
Auditor. PETER O. HEDLUND
Treasurer CHARLES E. CASEY
- . ttapt. Pab. Inst HENRY R. CORBETT
' Attorney General. ..ARTHOtt S. CHURCHILL
Coau Pab. LandaaadBlda....H.C. RUSSELL
. . ., ) ROBERT RYAN
Judges Supreme Court.. MOSES P. KINKAID
: Regent State University... ..W. O. WHITMORE
Presidential Electors- ( FRANK J. HADILEK
at-Large ?J. E.HOUTZ
; . Firat Diatrict. A. J. BURNAM
Heeoad Diatrict A. C. FOSTER
Third Diatrict 80L DRAPER
Foarth District O. A. DERBY
Fifth Diatrict J.L.M'PHEELY
. Sixth Diatrict. M.L.FREESE
Csacraaalamal Ticket.
For CatSilb
Soaatorial Ttekot.
-. For SeaatorTwelfth Diatrict.SIDNEY C. GRAY
Coaaty Ticket.
For Representative GEORGE R. SMITH
For CoaBty Attorney C. J. GARLOW
The funeral of Hon. A. J. Poppleton
was held at Omaha Saturday last.
A wateb-spout struck San Marcos,
Texas, Sunday, causing great destruc
tion of property.
With McKinley and Protec
tion ire shall have more employ
ment, more work, and mere
wages.
The khedive of Egypt is reported aa
now making a tour of Europe incognito,
and that he has with him a scheme for
Egyptian independence drafted by
prominent native officials.
Ex-President Harrison has written
a noteworthy article on the Silver Ques
tion for the October number of The
Forum. It is probably the ablest con
tribution to the discussion yet made.
Lev J. Smith of Lincoln is pushing
the campaign for Bentley. He argues
that the government has no more right
to monetize gold and silver than to
monetize wheat, and he terms metallic
currency a relic of barbarism.
Major Mc Kixi.ET,literal!y, will be on
the stump from now to the close of the
campaign. The people have been coming
to him right along and yesterday the
stump was expressed to him by a Ten
nessee admirer. Canton Repository.
"The American Ballot" is the title of
a forceful and suggestive paper in the
October Forum by the Hon. Hugh H.
Lusk, ex-member of the New Zealand
Legislature. Mr. Lusk describes the
workings of the Australian ballot and
declares that the system now in use in
this country is nothing like it
The Mount Holyoke college at South
Hadley, Mass., the pioneer institution
for the higher education of women, re
ceived a severe blow Sunday morning,
in the burning of the main building,
with a probable loss of $150,000. The
buildings destroyed cost 3300,000, and
baildings and contents were insured for
$154,000.
"Pass trade and free silver are the
false friends of labor. They lure with
promise of cheap commodities and cheap
money. The partial trial of free trade
has proved that the cheap commodities
promised are dear to labor and at the
cost of labor; and cheap money will be
equally dear to them and a sacrifice of
their highest and best interests." Wil
liam McKinley.
The handsome increase of Thos. B.
Reed's majority in his re-election to con-
i is a flattering endorsement of the
i and all he represents. It is some-
tking that a man of even his distinction
, may be proud of, but the Tribune hopes
that when McKinley makes up his cab
inet he will find a place in it for the
gentleman who has so many admirers
ot only in his own state, bat through
out the nation. (Fremont Tribune.
- Mb. Powdebxy put the tariff question
ia a nutshell when he said in his New
'York speech: "It sounds beautiful to
amy that the world is my country, and
all men are my brothers, but self
preservation is the first law of nations
as well as of nature." The nation, like
aa individual, must live and pay its just
debts, and there is no honester, easier
method than to tax imports and protect
i labor. Inter Ocean.
Drama the month of August, as
shown by the official report of the
director of the mint, there were coined
25,000 silver dollars, almost the full
oaparitj of the mints. On this amount
the gorerameot (which of course ia the
whole body of the people) realizes a pro
it of $822,027, by reason of the differ
eaee between the bullion value of the
silver and the value as it ia coined aad
tamped by the government. This pro
it, under the system proposed by the
Bryan party, would have been so much
to the producers of silver hllie instead
TALK ABOUT TKUSTS.
What's the Matter with the Silver Miae
Syndicate?
The free silver orators have a great
deal to say about trusts aad combines
sad monopolies, as in some vague and
unexplained way illustrating the evils of
the gold standard. But they are careful
to aay nothing about that gigantic trust
in whose service they are enrolled many
of them as its hired tools and agents.
They say nothing about that monster
combine of silver mine owners which is
behind the silver standard movement.
Between thirty and forty men control
the great balk of the silver output of
America. Bat their aggregate realized
wealth from their mines is computed at
not leas than $500,000,000, while they
are the possessors of many times more
potential wealth in the hidden stores of
their silver mines.
Talk of trusts, indeed! Why, this one
infernal silver trust even if the people
should rise in their might next Novem
ber and crash it so utterly that it will
never show its brazen head again has
already accomplished a hundredfold
more mischief than all other trusts,
combines and monopolies that ever
existed. Daring the last three or four
years it is safe to say that through the
apprehensions caused in business and
financial circles by the threat of free
coinage of silver, the silver combine has
cost the American people more than the
entire money cost of putting down the
rebellion.
Trust, indeed! Look to yonr own
trust the trust whose rapacious policy
has dragged the country more than once
during the last four years to the brink
of bankruptcy and dishonor; the mon
ster silver trust, whose dark shadow has
blighted all the confidence and credit
which are the life of business prosperity,
and before the awful menace of whose
possible success in this election all busi
ness stands still awaiting the verdict of
the American people. Trusts, indeed L
St Paul Pioneer Press.
Three has been a constant effort dur
ing all this campaign so far by the
Bryan forces to array the south and the
west against the east, and to create the
impression that Bryan represents the
wish of the poor, while McKinley repre
sents the rich. These things are of
course not true, but they would fain
have the people believe they are true, so
that they might win the election. But
it is too much like obtaining goods
under false pretentions. The true in
terests of all sections are in harmony
with each other, on the basis of pro
tection, reciprocity, sound finances and
sound government policies generally.
As to the other part of it, every man is a
capitalist, when he has anything to ex
change in the markets of the world for
what is valuable or useful to himself it
may be money or property accumulated
through the work of former years; it
may be his present strenth of muscle or
brain, no matter what thus far he is a
capitalist, and also a laborer, wherein he
labors to some good purpose. To foster
a sectional spirit 8 to magnify a state
or a section, and minify the nation, it is
only another phase of the states-right
doctrine, a heresy that ought to have
been left buried with the late southern
confederacy. As to the other heresy,
there is a great deal of misinformation
afloat A few plain questions are nearly
always sufficient to develop the true
spirit of errror. Why should capital
and labor be at sword's points with
each other, in a country like this, where
there are no castes, and where one man
is as good as another, so long as he
behaves himself? The so-called, poor
man's capital is of precisely the same
quality as the rich man's, subject to the
same general laws and conditions. The
so-called rich man's labor is of precisely
the same quality as the poor man's sub
ject to the same general laws and con
ditions. Where will you draw the line
of distinction? Be reasonable, and
don't be too selfish is good common
sense, and good political foresight
AND STILL THEY COME.
Marsh Elder, who was speaker of Ne
braska's great populist legislature of
1891, has come out for McKinley and
has asked to be placed upon the stump
in behalf of republicanism. Beaver
Valley (Nebr.X Tribune.
And thus, one by one, and in platoons,
come accessions to the republican hosts,
from the populist as well as from dem
ocratic hosts. They cannot agree with
republicans in all things, but they do
agree that in this crisis, the best thing
to do is to secure McKinley's election,
and a congress of his kind to back him.
The Louisville Courier-Journal closes
a lengthy article on the failure of Bryan
in Kentucky as an orator with the sen
timent: "He is well named the Boy
Orator of the Platte, which is a river a
thousand miles long, six inches deep and
quicksands all the way." It may be
well enough to remark, perhaps, that
this nickname does not go well with a
good many Nebraskans in the Platte
valley, but if the nickname given by the
N. T. Sun, was based on the above de
scription of the Platte, why not let it go
unchallenged?
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Well. YM.
When even the Canucks are stick
ing up their noses at our money and
not wholly without cause it is high
time for Americans to think seriously
about the money question. The Unit
ed States belongs in the Class A,
Number 1 rank and her money must
always be as good as any that circu
culates. Conscious that its redeemer
liveth it will be able to look its pos
sessor, whether he be a Kaffir or a
prince of the realm, squarely in the
eye without linchiag. The United
States dollar must be one that is the
same for the day laborer as the mil
lionaire, worth 100 cents every year
aad every day of the year. All the
worktagmen ask, is a chance to earn
those honest dollars by uonest day's
work. When American capital 'and
American industries are assured of
that fair protection that existed a
the days of the McKinley law; with
ao question that money will be as hon
est as it was then, all doubt and dis
trust, all hiding away of capital, ill
hoarding of money from the aeeded
aad aatunJ channels of trade will be
dome away with, there will be abund
aat employment for labor at rood
aad there will be ao lack of tha
market of all for the farmers'
home market ifam.
HE MONEY QUESTION
IT IS SOMETHING LIKE THE YARD AND;
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THE YARDSTICK.
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Judging from the questions that are
addressed to The '$mes, we should
say that one fundaineoal misconcep
tion that puzzles many honest minds,
to which any question of the nature
of " money" is a novelty ia similar
to that which would &ri3 from confus
ing the yardstick with the yard.
What is a yard? A measure of
tenght containing thirty-six inches.
What is an inch? One thirty-sixth of
What is an inch? One thirty-sixth of
a yard. We are back where we started
and must try again. A yard Is the
lengfat of a yardstick. It may be, if
the yardstick is just the length of a
yard. What is a yard?
A yard has been various things, as
the length of Henry I.'s arm, or the
lenght of a pendulum beating seconds
of mean time in the latitude of Lon
don; at present it is the distance, at
62 degress Fahrenheit, between two
lines engraved upon plugs of gold in
serted near the ends of a certain bar
of gun-metal deposited in the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich, with copies
deposited in varies other places, in
cluding one in the custody of the de
partment of state . at Washington,
which in tarn supplies to the several
states. If our yardsticks conform with
this standard, they measure true yards;
if not somebody is cheated.
It will be observed that this stand
ard unit of measure is quite arbitrary.
We cannot give a good reason why the
yard should be just of that lenght,
and not longer or shorter, except that
it is so, that common consent has ac
cepted this standard and we cannot
depart from it now without confusion.
The French, and many other con
tinental nations following them, have
adopted, and similarly recorded, a dif
ferent unit of length, the one-ten-millionth
part of the earth's meridian
quadrant, called a metre, with decimal
divisions which is about 10 per cent
longer than a yard. The use of this
measure is optional in this country,
but it is commonly necessary to trans
late it into the corresponding English
measure. As each is exactly deter
mined, however, and their ratio is
fixed and invariable, this translation
is not difficult, and either equally
represents the necessity of a fixed
standard of measure.
The necessity for a standard meas
ure of value is not less evident We
can make that standard anything we
please, and in earlier stages of civiliza
tion, and in the infancy of commerce,
the standard varied in nearly every
country, as it still varies in a few
countries the least advanced, from the
silver rupee of India to the brass
"cash" of the Chinese. But by a pro
cess of natural selection the common
consent of the commercial world has
gradually settled upon a given weight
of gold as the least variable, the most
durable, compact and convenient This
has not been the result of legislation
but of the natural operation of the hu
man mind. There has been much
legislation directed toward the selec
tion of some other standard or stand
ards, but it has been always inef
fective, and no legislation it now con
ceivable that could reverse this near
ly universal choice. It is as fixed as
the metre or the yard.
Where legislation comes in is simply
in describing and defining the unit in
which length or weight or value is ex
pressed. Thus the unit of value in
this country is 23.22 grains of fine
gold, called one dollar, with its decimal
divisions. In Great Britain it is 113.001
grains of tine gold, called a pound,
with divisions in shillings and pence.
The pound is thus equivalent to $4,866
and the shilling to 24.33 cents. The
common measure is the standard
weight, the Troy pound of 5,760 grains,
and this is as carefully preserved in
the government mints as the standard
yard.
The price of a commodity, such as a
given weight of silver at any time, is
accordingly expressed in England in
pence and in America in cents, -but
this price is practically the same, any
slight variations being due to the ex
penses of commercial exchange. It
represents the exact weight of gold
that will purchase this amount of sil
ver. So with the price of wheat or of
anything else that is freely exchanged
between two countries. The price may
be expressed in different terms, but it
always refers to the same standard.
We might if we chose, make our
dollar smaller, as we could make our
yard shorter, but its value would still
be estimated by the standard, and it
would simply require more dollars to
make an equal value, as it would take
more yards to make an equal length.
In either case we should have con
fusion and inconvenience without any
gain. If we made our standard some
thing else than gold, we should have
the added difficulty that the ratio with
the former standard would not be
fixed, like the ratio between a yard and
a metre, or between a long ton and a
short ton; but would require a fresh
calculation every day, since there are
no two substances that will always
and under all conditions bear exactly
the same relation of value to one an
other. And there is just now the further
difference that if congress were to pass
a law declaring the length of twenty
inches a yard, nobody would think of
applying it to existing contracts, so
that a man could deliver twenty inches
of cloth where he had sold a yard;
whereas those who want to declare 53
cents' worth of silver a dollar expect
to have it declared a legal tender for
an obligation of 100 cents. Philadel
phia Press.
The west will be the enemy's coun
try also by the time Bryan gets back.
BRITISH "CLAY" WORSTEDS.
With "EJajaM Etoa-
Kass Am Uht Wdcat.
Bkadfobd, June 20.
Talking to one of our leading wont
ed coating manufacturers and discuss
ing pointedly the large volume of trade
Bradford was doing with yoar aide, he
accidentally said:
"Do you know that thousands of clay
-worsteds which are being sent to Amer
ica are being finished with liquid sine?"
"Liquid zinc," I said in atter aston
ishment "What's that?"
."Why, I understand that it's simply
zinc, melted or boiled into thin liquid
and applied to worsted coatings in the
finishing process."
As I appeared flabbergasted, he blurt
ed off abruptly, "It's quite right what
I aay, for I was told a few days ago by
a finisher who has infahod thousands
by this process. "
"Then explain to me further," I said
anxiously.
"Very welL You, being aa experi
enced man ia the Yorkshire trade, know
that orders for thousands of pieces have
been given oat by American buyers
(this was hut August) at sack a low
price that auamfaetarera hardly know
ey. Those pieces ordered auHtweiga,
according to contract, so maay ounces
to the yard at such and such a price.
Bat manufacturers soon found oat that
if they give full weight of honest mate
rial, according to agreement, no profit
would result whatever. So, in order to
make ends meet with more alacrity aad
margin, they are' simply tuning 16
ounce clay worsteds by this sine pi imam
in finishing into 18 ounce, addinc at
least 3 ounces to the yard of this injuri
ous material. That, of courso, means a
nice profit to the maker instead of a cer
tain lost, for zinc, of course, is cheaper
than worsted. " j
I was astounded and resolved to in
vestigate further from a reliable cloth '
finisher who has turned out thtwainda
of finished pieces. Knowing aim iati-'
mately, I turned the conversation on to
this very subject
"Yes." said he, "you are right ia
your statement But liquid sine ia rath
er too fine a name for this ignomiaious ;
process. We are finishing today thou-
sands of pieces yearly and weighting ;
then) falsely with flour, epsom salts,
salts of lead and salts of zinc, and j
though the pieces when finished give no
perceptible signs ct containing this
health injurious matter, yet there it is
in the piece, giving to the cloth aa in-'
creased weight, when really the actual
weight of the piece is several pounds!
lighter than the scale show it to be. "
ing cloth and accessary to the British
rag manufacturer, but of these delete
rious matters with which the cloth is
impregnated in the last process before
being worn and "dried in" the piece
the wonder is that people are not poi
soned in heart and life. Yabkxbv
Cheap Chiaeee Waal.
It is not, perhaps, generally known
that the wool industry of America is
being seriously threatened not only
from the rapid increase in the produc
tion of sheep in the Argentine Republic
Australia, Canada and some European
countries, but also in China. Twenty
five years ago there were no imports into
this country of China wools. In 1870
there were 9,016 pounds of China wool '
imported, of tho value of but $1,312, ,
the import price per pound then being J
10.45 cents; whereas in the present year ',
(1895) the imports of China wool have '
reached 26,089,418 pounds, of the value
of $1,699,414, the import price per :
pound being 5. 15 cents. This China
wool, moreover, has been demonstrated '
to be equal to our low grade of merino
wooL Hon. John H. Mitchell t
The Vteaaere Beet Markets.
It has always seemed to me that it
was infinitely better that the farmer
should have a market at home, a mar
ket at his very door, than to be compel
led to seek a market iu distant coun
tries and among distant populations.
As long as there is a demand at home it
is a self evident proposition that it is
better than to seek consumers abroad,
and that the home demand is safer,
more reliable and more profitable than
any foreign market can possibly be.
American buyers are the best in the
world. Hon. William McKinley.
- Read Protection Paper.
If the friends cf protection would al
ways read Republican papers that favor
a policy of protection, they would there
learn the truth about Republican poli
tics. This would result in less fretting
and quarreling among Republicans, who
are often set at loggerheads by the in
tentional misrepresentations of Dem
ocratic papers, made for the sole purpose
of creating dissension in Republican
ranks. Democracy and discord are synon
ymous. i'a Bay Crap.
The Canadian farmer must be looking
forward with satisfaction to the harvest
ing of his next hay crop. During the
McKinley tariff period our imports of
foreign hay averaged only 80,000 tons a
year, but in nine months of the current
fiscal year we imported no less than
246,814 tons, practically all of which
came from Canada,
Democratic Qod Times
.Eastern manufacturing interests are
the worst off of all lines of business, for
the foreign competition is in no degree
abated, and mills are still reducing
their output, and some of them are clos
ing down altogether. Kansas City
Journal.
Railroad
a Per Kile.
Passenger. Freight.
....$2,101 ftijBtf
.... 1,781 4.161
1882.
1885.
Democratic decrease $330
97K
Tobacco Leaf (Wrapper) Imports.
Pounds.
1885
1888.
Democratic decrease.
3,03J7S
8X07,077
MeKJaley em Preteetloa.
If the policy of protection is not to be
just in its application and national in
its scope, based upon broad principle,
then the sooner it is relinquished the
better. It cannot be sustained and ought
not to be for one class or interest or
section and denied to others equally
within tho contemplation of its purpose.
Tho raw materials class have rights
which cannot be ignored. Those who
think otherwise forget that the advanced
product is only the manipulation of the
less advanced, and the less advanced of
the still less finished product, with hu
man labor as the chief factor in all, and
protection upon tho one cannot be suc
cessfully and permanently maintained
without protection of the other. Hon.
William McKinley.
We ask our silver friends to look
squarely at the truth. The gold standard
is not the cause of this bigger debt in
time of peace. The administration, in
stating that such is the case, is hiding
behind misrepresentation and treacher
ously permitting the blow deserved by
itself to fall upon an innocent party of
which it very ostentatiously professes to
be the guardian. One hundred and fifty
millions of dollars, or more than half the
proceeds of the Cleveland bond sales,
have been used in paying the expenses
of the government, for which that po
litical fraud and financial fiasco, the
Cleveland-Wilson tariff , failed to pro
Tide. -New York Sun.
Be largo
"The tariff bill enacted by the Dem
ocratic parry, while not perfect, is con
structed on right lines," said Mr.
Thachertothe Democrats at Saratoga.
That's what the tailor said to the man
whose coat was so small he couldn't put
it on. New York Tribune.
Mr. William H. TiUinghaet a direc
tor of the Delaware and Hudson and
formerly president of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company, said, "Now
we can confidently expect to see an im
petus to business that will benefit the
railroads. "--New York Sun, 1893.
The "impetus to business" caused
railroads to earn $223 per mile leas from
passenger traffic in 1894-5 than from
1891 to 1898, and $786 per mile leas
from freight traffic. Did this "benefit
the railroads?"
CAMPAIGN SONG.
r H1 aati
T a a. liAHuroaa.
-laa Weatiac of the Oi
The Daaaocrata assy aiag their
their- talas af woa.
AaUaa the ataaach KaaaWeaaa
Bat wkna Norembar days
Dearacrata ataat flan.
Thaa hurrah for Bin MeKJmtagr aad hurrah
for Jade MacOoU.
TaeauvaritaB a-gmaaias go the foUea haas
to kill.
Bat they sa bobm store aaaMreas ia spite af
Bryaa'a skill:
Uaaa oar eeaad laaactal sehaate ao evils
Thaa hunk for BUI MeXlalay aad hurrah
for Jack MaoOoU.
Gaaraa: The Daaaoorate aad aUvorttas
are drives to the wall.
Thaa hurrah for BUI MeKJaley
Aa4 arotaetlOB f or ae aU.
TaeBoaaUata with dowacaat eyae thecoma-
try's lUabeeaoaa.
Aai talk of aire oalaadtiaa with tear sad afeh
alaetloattaieroUaroBBdthirplaaa
wo will forestall.
hurrah for BUI MeKuuey aad hurrah for
JaekMaoOoU.
The WOaoa Ml has proved N. O. the Iboobm
tax kaockei oat
Thaa goodbye to Orovor Oevelaad, we'll pat
hie f Dree to route.
Por oar aaBM will be called legion whoa the
leaves begin to fall.
Thea harrah for Bill McKJa'ey aad hurrah for
JackMacColL
The democrata any toot their horas.
Aad oa the voters call.
Bat the auaaaa waat MaKlaley
Aad high tariff for aa au.
Our deiaocratte silver Meade their helpless
state bewail.
Aad la tale they much resemble a kite without
a tail:
Great Orovor eaaaot lead thest, oa Bryaa they
Thea harrah for BUI MeKJaley. aad harrah
forJa?k MacOoU.
rally rosed the eUBdard of the glorious
O. O. P.
aee yoar beet eadearon te nim the
victory.
Oar battle cry to tariff high, good tiaiee we
shall iaatall.
Thea harrah for BUI MeKJaley, the Kapoleoa
of them all.
Chorus: Doa't you beer the saishty alogaa
Blag out from hat and ballt
Harrah for Bill MeKJaley,
Aad'horrah for Jack MasCoU.
Why Does Net Bryaa Aaswert
Mr. Bryau tells the farmer that free
coinage of silver will give them cheap
dollars with which to pay their debts.
Mr. Bryan tells city workingmen
that free coinage of silver will raise the
metal to $1.29 per ounce, bringing the
silver dollar to par with the gold dollar,
thus giving city workingmen another
dollar as good as the present one with
which to buy the farmers' products.
That is to say, to the farmer the Bryan
silver dollar is to be a cheap dollar to
pay debts with. To dry labor the Bryan
dollar is to be a dollar of high purchas
ing power to buy with.
Free coinage of silver cannot produce
these two dollars. It can produce only
one of the two. Why do not would-be
supporters of Mr. Bryan ask him which
dollar he really means? Both the farmer
rho wants to pay debts and the work
ingman who must buy farm produce
are interested in having this question
answered. Chicago Post.
Shavlagthe Paailoaa.
In his letter of acceptance Mr. Bryan
says: "No nation can afford to be un
just to its defenders." Why, then, does
he propose to cut down the purchasing
power of soldiers' pensions one-half by
paying them a 63-cent dollar? In his
speech, in St. Louis on Saturday Mr.
Bryan said: "When you raise the price
of gold in a gold standard country yon
lower the prices of all the products which
are measured by money." He therefore
proposes to raise the prices of all pro
ducts by lowering the standard of
money. He would thus cut down the
purchasing power of the soldiers' pen
sion one-half according to his own doc
trine; and this he calls justice to the na
tion's defenders. Philadelphia Record
(Dem.)
Nebraska Political Kotea.
The South Omaha Tribune, a Demo
cratic newspaper, came out squarely
last week for McKinley and honest
money.
Tom Watson made several addresses
ia the state last week for Tom Watson,
Populist candidate for vice president,
and talked fiat money from start to
flipah,
The incendiary speeches of Groot and
Donnelly at Lincoln have not set well
with the thoughtful, law-abiding peo
ple of Nebraska, and have done the free
silver cause an injury.
At last accounts Judge Greene had not
come to the scratch in the proposed de
bate with A. E. Cady, candidate for
congress.
JackMacColl, Republican candidate
for governor, has been campaigning in
western Nebraska with marked success.
Bryan votes were a scarce article in
the recent encampment of the Nebraska
National Guard at Lincoln.
There is a growing coolness at Lin
coln toward candidate Bryan since he
went abroad to be notified and is stump
ing the country instead of staying at
home as becomes the dignity of a presi
dential candidate.
The Lincoln Journal publishes a con
tributed article showing that the Wil
son bill has knocked nearly ten dollars
per head off of Nebraska cattle and par
alysed the cattle industry in the state.
A parry of old soldier notables will
make a flying railway tour in the state
next week, making short stops at sta
tions and making speeches for their old
comrade. Major McKinley.
Watson's reception by the Populist
leaders of the state was more formal
than affectionate, owing to the fear that
he might break in on their scheme to de
liver the entire electoral vote of Ne
braska to Bryan and Sewall.
Walking in the middle of the road
aay be a thankless piece of pedestrian
ism, bat there are thousands of Popu
lists in Nebraska who want to take that
path. Notice is made of their intention
to call a convention and nominate a
straights tete ticket and electoral ticket
The electors will be for Bryan and Wat
son. It the Democratic managers don't
like that they can very easily bringabout
a peace by amputating the political head
of Mr. Sewall. Lincoln Journal.
With apologies to the Saa Fraaciaco CalL
"And everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go."
We fail to see such cause for alarm
about oar financial conditions as the free
trade papers exhibit They forget en
tirely that Mr. Cleveland and hisfor-
eaaa mBuaaanes wiu bos ds permuted to
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""" m-arfm-mmWj-m-ar
"aamfklamT 1 Mv " maaaaaamaaaamm
tmeeoemtryfartaaa-latodeot
To Chleaao aad the East.
Passengers going east for basJaess, will
naturally gravitate to Chicago aa the
great comaasroisl center. Paeseagers
re-visiting friends or relatives ia the
eastern states always desire to "take ia"
Chicago en route. All classes of passea
geca will Aad that the "Short Line" of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Bail
way, -via Omaha aad Council Blaffs,
affords excellent facilities to reach their
destinations in a manner that will be
are 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 k Omaha Short
Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee k 8t.
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, time tables.
maps, eta, please call on or address F.
A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Neb.
DARN THAT HOG.
THATS THE FORTY-SEVENTH TIME tkia
week he'a taken aa exeanioa trip. Well,
old maa. are jroa goiag to apead yoar life
ckaalag aoge? Come ia aad iret eome of that
Page Wovea Wire Fearing aad are bow eaar it
ia to keep them where they belong.
Bold aad pat ap by
C&EASTON.Agnt,
ISfebtf Calamine. Nebr.
B. P. DUFFY.
WM. O'BRIEN.
LAWYERS.
Special attention given to Criminal
Law.
Office: Corner Eleventh and North Bta.
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA.
ALBX&T t REEDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office orer First National Bank,
COLUMBUS, - - NKBRASK.
Sljantf
W. A. McAixistbb.
W. M. Cobsbuus
VeAIXISTER ft CORNELIUS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA
Sljantf
PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
The following proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, as hereinafter set forth in fall,
are sabmitted to the electors of the
State of Nebraska, to be Toted npoa
at the general election to be held Tues
day, November 8, A. D., 1896:
A joint resolution proposing to
amend sections two (2), foar (4), and
five (5,) of article six (6) of tha Oonati
tation of the State of Nebraska, rtlatiag
to number of judges of the supreme
court and their term of office.
Be it resolved aad eaaeted by the Legiala
tare of the State of Nebraska:
Sectioa 1. That aectJoa two CO of article
aU (f) of the Coastitstloa of the Stat
of Nebraska be amended eoaa to read aa fol-
Sectioa & The aapreme eomrt shall aattl
otherwise provided by law. oonaiat of Ave
CO Jadcea. a majority of whom ahall he aeees
aary to form a quorum or te proaoaaoe
adedaioB. It shall have orltiaal Jariadlctioa
la caaoa reUUas to revenue, civil cases la
which the state ahall be a party, maadamaa,
quo warranto, habeas corpus, aad each
appellate JarledtctioB. aa may be provided by
law.
Sectioa 2. That eectloB foar CO of article
aU CO of the CoastltNttoB of the Stat
of Nebraska, be ameaded ao aa to read as fol
lows: Section A The Jadgea of the aapreme
wort ahall be elected by the electors of the
state at large, aad their term of office, ex
cept aa hereinafter provided, shall be for a
period of not leas thaa Ave (6) years aa the
legislature may prescribe.
Section a. That aaction Ave CO of artlel
aix (O of the Constitution of the Stat of Ne
braska, be amended to read aa follows:
Sections. At the firat general elaetioa to
be held lathe year 18H6. there ahaU be elected
two CO Jadgea of the aapreme court oa
of whom shall be elected for a term of
two CO years, oa for the term of foar CO
years, and at each general election there
after, there ahall be elected oae jadge of
the aapreme court for tho term of fiv
CO years, anleas otherwise provided by
law; Provided, that the Judges of the aa
preme court whose terms have not expired
at the time of holding the general elec
tion of 18W. Khali conrtnuu to hold their
ofBce for the reinamJer or tha term for
which thjr were respectively cumntis
aloaed. Approved March . A. D. 1803.
A joint resolution proposing aa
amendment to section thirteen (IS) of
article six of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, relating to com
pensation of supreme aad district court
judges.
Be It reMlved by tho Leziatatar of th State
of Nebraska:
Sectioa 1. That sectioa thirteen CIO of
article sue CO otthe Constitution of the State
of Nebraska be ameaded eo a to read a fol
lows: Sec IS Th Judge of th auprema aad
Awtrlct coarta ahall receive for their eervice
sack compensation aa may be provided by law,
payable quarterly.
Tke legislature shall at Its first mtoa
atter th adootioa of thie amendment.
three-fifths of tha members elected
aca none concurring.
ompensauon. tb com
tabllshed ahall not be
than one ia foar years, aad In ao event
two-thirds of th member el ted to
aeh houae of Uw wgtslatar
therein.
Approved March a). A. Dt 18m.
A joiat resolutioa propomag to
amend section twenty-four (24) of
article fire (5) of the CoastitatioB of
the State of Nebraska, relatiag to com
pensatioa of the officers of the execatiTe
departmeat.
n-i 1 .- j trrtb? lailslalaii
of the State of Nebraska:
Section L That aectioa twenty-four (SO
ofarttcto fiv CO of th Conatitatioa of the
State of Nebraska teammded to reed a fol
lows: mmtioa m The officers of th
paranent of th atate government ahall
receive for thmr services a nnmneamlioa
to be eatabllahed bv law. which shall
amthor incn ad aor diminished during th
er wnicn iaj anaii nav seen om
med aad ther ahall aot racmv to thmr
ewa aw any fees. coat, intereata. upon pabUa
la thmr hands or under
taetr control.
BcraulaltM of office or other
nation aad all few that amy
after b payable by taw for a
Bcrformad bv an officer ncovlAad tor to
thttarttcM ahall be paid la advaac into th
tat treasury. Th tecJatature ahall at tta
amtewaVmtaterth adoption of this amend
meat, three-fiftha of th member elected to
aeh hoaw of th legtamtar ea
carrtec. eaTamhm tha aatartes of the
tats arttete. Tu earn-
itublwhad ahall aot horhaaged
oae ia foar veers aad la ao
maiem two-tnirda or u mm
alerted to eack houae of tte legislature
taeruB
.A.D.law.
A joiat rasolatioB arofKamag.to
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, THE iTER OCEAN, ChJcaf.
the OoaetitBtioa of the State of Nebrac
ka, nUttac to jadioial power.
Beit reaotred aad eaaeted by the LeziaU
tare of the State of Xebnuka:
Seettoal. That ectlouoa0) of article aix
(V) of the Coaetitatloa of the State of Nebnafea
he amwiileil to read aa follow:
BaetJoal. TheJadli4alpewr of thU atata
reeled ut a emareme coart. district
eeaatr coarta Jaatleaa uf tba
. nolica aumfcitratM. and la aiirh ilutp
aoartsmferlortotlM aapreme cooit a mar
ha ereated by law la which two-thirds of
tae memaera elected to
Aaaroved March . A. D. lam
A joist resolatioa propostag to
amvaad seotioa storea (11) of article six
() of the Ooostitatioa of the State of
Nebraska, relating: to iaorease ia aaai-
ber of sapreaM and district court
judges.
Be it reeolred aad eaaeted by the Legialatare
of the State of Nebraska:
. fiectioa 1. That aeetloa rlovea (11) of
article alz CO of the OuMtitutioa of the State
MeDraaaa be ameaded to reed a fol-
Iowa:
BecMaa 11. The leelalatare. wheaarar twa-
thtrdaof the members elected to each hoase
shall cobcbt thereta. aaar. la or atter the year
oae thoamad tljht huadrad aad ninety-aerea
aad mot oftaaar thaa oace ia every f oar years.
laoreass the somber of jodgej of aa
preme aad dktrlct eoBrts. aad the ladical
dJatricta of tha atate. Bach dlitrlcU shall
be formed of compact territory, aad
Boaaded by coaaty ltaea: and such ia
or eaee. or aay change ia the boundaries
of a diatrict, shall sot vacate the otto of aay
Jadge.
Approved March S). A. D. 185.
A joiat rasolation proposing; to amead
sectioa six (S) of article one (1) of the
Oonatitation of the State of Nebraska,
relatiBg to trial by yuj.
Be M reaolved aad enacted by the LagmUtara
the Stat of Nebraska:
Sectioa 1- That sectioa six CO. article oae
(1) oT the Coaatttattea of the State of Ne
braeha be - to Mi u faiinw-
Seetion a. The right of trial by Jury shall
remain Inviolate, sat the teglsttar may pro
vide that la civil actions five-sixth of the Jury
amy reader a verdict, and tha legislature may
aho aathorixe trial by a Jury of a leaa numbor
thaa twelve maa. la coarta inferior to the dis
trict court.
Appreved March . A D. 18HL
A joiat resolution proposing to
amend section one (1) of article fire (S)
of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat
ing to officers of the executive depart
meat. Bait resolved and raailiil by th Leslala
tare of th State of Nebraaka: "
Sectioa L That aaetlon oae CO of ar
ttclefiveCOof th Caastiiutioa of th Mat
of Nebrssk b aaaeadad to read as fol
lowa: Sectioa 1 The executive department ahall
pa;! of a governor, lieutenant-governor,
aacretary of atate. aaditor of public account,
treasurer, aanmiatoBdeat of public in-
f pubUo lands aad butldlan. aad three
railroad commiaeioaera. each of whom.
FfP aald railroad commissioners,
ahall hold hie omc for a term of
two years, from the firat Thursday after
h first Tuesday la January, after
hi election, and until hto aueeeasor is
tested aad Qualified. Bach railroad com
admloaer shall hold his oflfee for a term of
three years, befinnlnr on th firat Thursday
after the first Tuesday in January ater
am mectioa. aad aattl hU euccea
or 1 elected aad Qualified: Provided.
however. That at th first general dee-
tioa held after the adoutioa of tkia am;
meat there ahall be elected thro railroad
aommlmtonen. oa for th period of oae
Tear, oa for th period of two years, aad
aa for th period af three years. Tha gov
ernor, eeeretary of state, auditor of pub
lic accounts, and treaaarer shall reside at
th capital during their term of office;
law ahall keep th public record', books
aad papew thee and shall perform auchda
ttesaa may be required by law.
Approval March W. A. D. 18U.
joint resolution proposuig to
section twenty-six (26) of ar
ticle five (5) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, limiting the num
ber of executive state officers.
B it received aad enacted by the Leg
mmtar of th State of Nebraska:
Section h That aectioa twenty-six CM) of
axttate five C) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska be ameaded to read as
follows:
Section M. No other executive atate offi
cers except those named la aectioa oae CO
af tbm artici shall be created, except
by aa act of the legmtature which la
aacarrad to by aot tew thaa three-fourth
af th aaembera elected to each house
thereof:
Provided, That aay office created by aa
act of th teglslatur may be abolished by
th legjejarer. two-third of th mem-
to aaea nous taereox concur-
Approval March ML A. IX. lam.
A joint resolaticm propostBg to
amesd sectioa sine (9) of article eight
(8) of the Ooaatitntiom of the State of
Nebraska, providing for the investment
of the permaaeat educational funds of
the state.
Bait reaolved and enacted by theLegmU
tnr of th State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That aectioa nine CO of artici
Jjht CO of tho Coaatitution of th State
oTNebraaka b amended to read aa fol
low Section. Att fend belonging to the atate
for educational parpowa. the iatereet aad
teaoaw whereof only are to bo need, ahall
Wawawd treat fund held by the state,
aad th atate ahall supply all loam there
of that may In aay manner accrue, ao that
aula rorever Inviolate
tad ahall not be te-
loaaod except oa United State
to weurlttea. or regie erod county
or reaUterad ehool d&rriet boadaof
that atate. and aaeh funds with th lnter
am aad ineem thereor are hereby aolema
ly alaagafi forth purposes for which they
ar granted aad eat apart, and ahall aot
be transferred to aay other fund for other
Tha board created bv aectioa
1 of thm arttete la empowered to sail from
warn nay or w eocunues neioegisg
school fund aad tai
ivaea
therefrom la aay orta
d In tkia aacttoa boar-
higher rat off iatereet. whenever
lor Borwr wvearmena mpr-
provlded farther. That
aay
warraat apaa tha aft trewurec reg
atarty lanwd In purauanee of aa annroprl
atton by tma lamalatar aad aaeured by th
levy of a tax for lie payment, ahall
it, and ther ahall aot bo aay
ta th proper faad to pay sack
it. th board created bv aaetlon 1
lien is in ami iismei sor
of tkia artici amy dtroct th atate treas
urer to pay th sweat da on suck war
raat from moaea la his hand belonging
totk permanent whool faad of th atate.
aad ho ahall hold aald warraat aa aa la
jmaawat of aald permaaeat ackool fund.
Approved march 9. A. D. 18m.
joist lasolattoB propceiBg aa
aaaaadment to tha ConstitutioB of the
State of Nebraska by adding a aew
geetioa to article twelve (12) of said
ccamti tatton to be aambered sectioa
two (2) relatiTe to the Bterging of the
of cities of the metro-
the goyerameat of
dmw ale
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$4.tt
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to cash, aiabtr of Ik mmllv. !
t'ao vary best of Its kiad. lai LRKR.
located.
Be it resolved and eaactos by m
www uk uw ran oi AearaaBn:
Sectioa L That article twelve CIO of the
CunHti.uttoa nf tho State or Nebraska he
ameudedt-y a-tdluto.iaid article a new aee
tloa to be numbered sectioa two CO to read
aa follows:
Section & The goveramaat of aay tty t
the metropolitan cleaa aad tae gov
ernment of the coaaty m whiea
tt is kvated mar be merged wholly
or la part when a proposition so to do has
been submitted by authority of law to th
voters of such city and coaaty and re
ceived the aauat of a majority at th
vote cast la such citr aad also a maWitw
us ibb Tuitrt ca in tu cenuiy exef
r thoM east la each metroaoHtan amy at
ajjsajaja aval
Approved March a A. IX lam,
A joiat resolution aropoaiag am
araeudsaeat to sectioa six () of article'
savea (7) of the CbnstitattoB of the
State of Nebraska, preecriaiar the
manner ia which votes shall be cast.
Be it nwolred aad enacted by the Laaislat
are of the Stat of Nebraska :
Section L That auction six CO of arUei
even (7) of the Constltatioa of the State
af Nebraska be ameaded to read aa fol
io wa:
Sectioa. All votes shall he by ballot, r
each other method aa may be praeoribed
by law. provided the seareer of voting h
preserved.
Approved March 9. A a lam.
A joiat resolatioa aroaoatag to
amend sectioa two (2) of artkie foar
teea (14) of the Coastitatioa of the
State of Nebraska, relative to doaatioaa
to works of internal improvemeat aad
manufactories.
Be It reaolved and eaaeted by th Lss
wlature or the Bute of Nebraska :
Section 1- That section two CO of artiste
fourteen CIO of the Constitution of th
L follow:
Sec. 2. No city, county, town. precUot.
municipality, or other aabdlvteloa of tae
atate. ahall ever make doaatioaa to any
works of internal hnprevemeat. r
manufactory, unless a propoatttea a to
do ahall have bean firat submitted to aVa
aualifiad lctora aad ratified by a tw-
f""L7w?."t 15 eecon ay aaiaenty or
law; Provided. That such deaatleaa af a
county with th donattoaa of saea aahat
ialoa la th asfitate ahall not exceed
tea per cent of the assessed valuation eg
sack county; Provided, further. That aay
etty or county may. by a three fear la
vote, iacrmvi such Jndebtedaes fiv par
cent, la addition to auch tan .per eaat and
ao bond or evidence of Indebted ao
lacaed ahall be valid Bales th mm shall
have eadonod thsreon a certificate -Jg-rrl
by th secretary and audi I or of state,
ahowiag that tho same le issued pursuant to
law.
Approved March . A. D.. ltm
I, J. A. Piper, secretary of state af
the state of Nebraska, do hereby certify
that the foregoing proposed aaaaadneeaaa
to the Constitatioa of the State of Ne
braska are true aad correct eoaies of
the original enrolled aad sngroapat,
bills, as passed by the Twaaty-foarth
session of the legislature of the Stole
of Nebraska, as appear from aafm
original bills oa file ia this office, aad
that all and each of said proposed
ameBdments are submitted to the
aaalimed voters of the State of Ne
braska for their adoption or rejection
at the general election to be held oa
Tuesday, the 3d day of November. A,
D., 1806.
In testimoay whereof, I have aere-
utoaetmyhaBd and affixed the great
teal of the State of Nebraska.
Done at Lincoln this 17th day of
July, in the year of our Lord, OaeTaoa-
sand. Eight Hundred and Niaety-Six.
of the Independence of the Uaitoi
States the One Hundred and Tweaty
First, and of this state the Thirtieth.
(Seal) . J. A. PIPER.
Secretary of State,
. C. CASSIN,
raorBiKTOB or Tax
Vamvaaawev mrBjafajl avJmvJawBWTjv
Fresh and
Salt M eats-
Game and Fish in Season.
imtHigbest market prices paid for
Hides and Tallow.
THIRTEENTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, - . NEBRASKA
Zfeprtf
UNDERTAKING !
We Carry Coffins, Catkttt mn!
Metallic Caskets at as law
rices as any one.
DO E&mALMINGr
HAVE THE BEST HEABSE
IN THE COUNTBV.
Dr. CLARK'S INSTITUTE
va ana AmmJkMmmMV Ur Tntsl at
Drink Habit .
Alse Tobacco, Merphlne attel
other Narcotic HaMtt.
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