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Republican National Ticket.
For President,
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
For Vice-President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
Governor,
C H. DIETRICH, Adams.
Lieutenant Governor,
E. P. SAVAGE, Custer.
Secretary of State,
G. W. MARSH, Richardson.
WILLIAM 8TUEFFER, Cuming.
Auditor,
CHARLES WESTON, Sheridan.
Attorney General,
F. N. PROUT, Gage.
Land Commissioner,
GEORGE D. FOLLMER, Nuckolls.
Superintendent.
.. W. K. FOWLER, Washington.
Comer e1 Ticket.
For Congress, Third District,
JOHN R HAYS.
Senatorial.
For Senator 12th District,
JAMES E. NORTH.
, Float Representative.
Float Representative, 25th District, com
' posed of Platte and Nance counties,
Wm. hauptmann.
County.
Representative, 21 District,
H..B. REED.
County Attorney,
a s. McAllister.
Csaiig Events-
Gov. Poynter to speak evening of Oct.
10 at Columbus; on Oct 11 at Hum
phrey. Gov. Poynter and W. H. Thompson
make fusion speeches at Fremont Oct.
8; Scribner Oct. 12; Hooper 13.
Senator Hanna of Ohio is to speak at
Lincoln and Omaha next week.
-Receipts to Saturday of funds for the
relief of Galveston sufferers, amounted
to $100890.
The first telegram from Skagway to
Seattle was received last Thursday, oc
cupying seven hours in transit
Chaunckt Depew and ex-President
Benjamin Harrison are to speak in Ne
braska before the close of the campaign.
Wharton Barker, the mid-road pop
ulist nominee for the presidency, esti
mates the vote for his party at 1,000,000.
He says New York is puzzling all of
them.
It is generally understood that per
sonally, Mr. Bryan is the wealthiest man
now running for the presidency, and
that he made the most of it during the
last four years.
E. Rosewatks of the Omaha Bee and
G. M. Hitchcock of the World-Herald
sxe to debate the political issues of the
oampaign at Omaha, Oct 11; Lincoln,
Oct 13; Grand Island, Oct 18, and Ne
braska City, Oct 22.
Tax democrats are continually losing
paramount issues. Now, their para
mount issue is the inalienable right of
brown men to shoot American citizens
oa the other side, while black men over
here are denied the right to vote.
Roosevelt
There are thousands upon thousands
of democrats in this country who are
utterly opposed to the Chicago plat
form, which has been made the party
shibboleth in places, and they will em
phasize their opposition by acting with
the republicans until their own party
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are thousands of democrats
who will gladly give a vote of confidence
to President McKinleyin his conscien
tious efforts to execute the people's will
eoaeerning their general interests. No
it in our entire history has
a higher regard for the public
welfare, or greater ability in the dis-
of duty.
Tax country is still waiting to get a
fasl report from Mr. Sulzer as to the
distribution among the widows and or-
lof fallen Boers of that $18 and
odd cents left over from the $1,800
collected st the Washington Tro-Boer
msstiaf;. The reason for the delay must
.ha that Mr. Suker knows that the dem
srastifi politicians on his committee
aoald aot bo gotten together for final
i ea the surplus, without eoasum-
itasa the amount of the surplus
ia shsminiTT" and cigars. The facility
with which nearly $1,800 could be dined
sad wmed away by his committee was
as wall domuastiated, that it would be
to further experiment on a
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This is the paramount issue: A few years ago ''General"
Coxey was leading a crowd of idle men to Washington to make a
protest against existing conditions from the steps of the national
capitol. Now this same Coxey is building a big steel casting plant
at Mount Vernon, O., and cannot find one half the men he. needs
to do the work. Lincoln Journal.
J. B. Worth.
Born in Ohio in 1838, and came to Ne
braska in 1856, coming to Platte county
in 1858, and was married there in 1859.
He has been a resident there since that
time except four years while collector of
internal revenue at Omaha. He has
been closely identified with the building
up of Platte county and was personally
acquainted with nearly every old settler
in North Central Nebraska. He had
always been identified with the dem
ocratic party until 1896 when the Chi
cago platform was adopted, which he
considered so far removed from the doc
trines of the party that he refused to
support the ticket He was twice elec
ted to the state senate from this district
first in 1876 and second in 1892. He
held several other important offices,
such as sheriff of this county, mayor of
the city of Columbus and several terms
aa surveyor. Besides being collector or
internal revenue under Cleveland's ad
ministration, Mr. North has always had
the fullest confidence of his neighbors
and acquaintances.
The Nebraska senate would have an
exceptionally strong man should Mr.
North be elected, and this senatorial
district would be well represented.
Schuyler Sun.
Keep the Gait.
The American people can flourish
bettor in such an atmosphere of general
conditions as we have had the past four
years, than under the last democratic
administration, which, we dare affirm,
was very much better than anything
promised by Bryan would be.
If we must have a democratic admin
istration, don't duplicate a Buchanan;
don't cater to all the uncertainties of
political adventure one or two at any
time are more than sufficient; don't
think of foisting Bryan upon the coun
try.
At the bottom of all theories of ad
ministration of offices, is the living, ac
tive force, the life of the nation. Some
men will go to almost any extreme to
gain notoriety, to get into public office.
Such are not particularly concerned
about the public welfare they wish es
pecially to feather their own nests.
Anything with them is paramount so
that it forms a more or less plausible
plea before the people for their support
in securing an office.
We have had, as it were, a taste of
what good government administration
in national matters means. Now let us
have another four years assured under
President McKinley's wise guidance,
and we may well look forward to the
most wonderful time in all our history
for industrial growth; the development
of natural resources; the opening up of
new agricultural fields; the utilizing of
the rich treasures of our mineral world;
the spread of American commerce to all
the ends of the earth.
We can, if we will.
Let us will, and will it with such a vim
that it will tell for good and all.
While the Statesman is a non-partisan
paper, we believe the office should
seek the man, rather than, the man seek
the office, and that voters should look to
the worth of the candidate, rather than
the name of the party that chooses him.
From the best authority we can obtain,
the respective ability and fitness of the
candidates for congress from this dis
trict leads us to take a pronounced
stand for JOHN R. HAYS. Mr. Hays is
a poor man, (and incidentally, a friend
of the poor man), his public and private
life is without a blemish, his ability be
yond quest'on, and if he is elected to
congress, will be an honor to his district
A strong effort by professional politi
cians will be made to defeat Mr. HayaI
w fesl sure the voters of this vicinity
will throw partisanship aside and give
John R. Hays a good majority which he
so justly deserves. Creston Statesman.
Remember that a republican repre
sentative and senator in the state legis
lature mean that many votes for repub
lican United States senators. We have
two to elect this winter, and Nebraska
wants this time two men who are thor
oughly sound on national issues. A
life-long democrat who has the stamina
to pull away from political associations,
as has been shown by James E. North,
is worthy to receive hearty commenda
tion for his patriotic course. A vote for
him, as well as for Reed and Hauptman
will mean that you wish to uphold the
administration of one of the very best
presidents this country has ever had.
At midnight last Wednesday two men
boarded a Kansas City passenger train
on the Burlington road, three miles
south of Council Bluffs, but Express
Messenger Baxter, when ordered to open
the door, told them to go to h 1, and
immediately got out of the car on the
other side, and slipped around with his
gun to where one of the robbers had the
engine crew corralled under a pistol,
and fired one shot into him, killing him
instantly. The other robber fled at
once, without getting anything. A man
giving the name of D. R. Knight was af
terwards arrested in Council Bluffs, on
suspicion.
Editorial in Ohio Statesman, (demo
cratic) July 27, 1864: With the impu
dence sad insolence of a tyrant who
feels himself already master of the
country, he thus throws in the faces of
the whole people the iron issue Abra
ham Lincoln against the people; des
potism against the republic. Thus ends
oar quotation, and just as there were
patriotic democrats then by the thous
ands who sustained Lincoln, so now
with McKialey.
A fiART.aouAW to the New York World
from Paris, under date of October 7 says
that Count Lavaux, who has just trav
eled in his balloon, the Centaure, from
Paris far into Russia, asserts that he
eould have gone to the Ural mountains
a he had not been anxious to return
here ia taws for the iaal long-distance
competition. The balloon's average
speed oa the trip was sigbtyhre mike
as hour.
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to Parte lies.
That the protended fears for the fu
ture 'of the people of Porto Rico dis
played by Bryanite orators are entirely
without foothold among the people of
that island is the gist of every reliable
report that comes from that direction.
Speaking of the Porto Rican tariff, Dr.
J. H. Hollander, formerly one of the
professors of political economy at Johns
Hopkins university and now on a visit
home after nearly a year in our -new
possession, where he is serving as treas
urer for the government and has special
facilities for observation, is quoted as
saying:
I can imagine nothing more uncalled
for than the wave of emotionalism that
swept the United States over the Porto
Rican tariff measure. The measure was
a godsend to the people of the island
and the cry against it in the United
States found no echo in Porto Rico. It
has been the means of helping the na
tives to get upon their feet so to speak,
and has done all that those who advo
cated it in congress claimed it would do.
Had it not passed, one of two things
would have been the inevitable result
a burdensome internal tax on the people
or a subsidy from the United States.
The first would have been too heavy too
carry; the other alternative would have
made the islanders wards of charity and
would have further encouraged them in
idleness. From practical demonstration
of the operations of the act I am more
than convinced of the wisdom of the
measure. As to the finances of the
island, I would say that in the place of
a deficiency we have now a surplus of
about 8350,000, a most encouraging
omen. My budget this year will net
about 82,000,000, realized as follows:
Customs in Porto Rico, $1,000,000; Porto
Rican customs in the United States,
$500,000, and from the internal revenue
of the island, $500,000.
The facts about Porto Rico all point
to a wonderful improvement of condi
tions in the island since the transfer
from Spain to the United States, and
the people of Porto Rico, far from com
plaining of their treatment would not
go back voluntarily to old conditions
any more than the people of the United
States would exchange their present
prosperity again for the hard times that
preceded the election of McKinley.
Omaha Bee.
Saturday afternoon one of the fiercest
tornadoes that ever visited northern
Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin struck
Biwabik, killing two persons, injuring
eight and damage estimated at from
$300,000 to $500,000. The funnel-shaped
cloud was irresistible, tipping over loco
motives, and carrying cars 100 to 300
feet Houses in its path were blown to
atoms and the furniture scattered for
miles.
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kuldtery.
Our stock of fall and winter hats is
now complete. We have a line of street
and trimmed hats that challenge all
competition this season. Our assort
ment goes beyond anything we have
ever shown before and is certainly worth
careful inspection. Popular prices.
Mrs. W. S. Jat,
2t Thirteenth Street, Columbus.
A WELCOME GUEST
Is Coming to Columbus, Oct.
18, 19 and 20.
THREE DATS ONLY!
He Conies to Help the Suffer
ing Fnblie.
Many people of our town know Dr.
Terry by what he did for them on his
lost visit to Columbus. We are sure
many more will welcome him on this,
his third visit All persona who wear
spectacles, or have any trouble with
their eyes, should know the doctor per
sonally as he is an expert optician and
has had many years successful practice.
Quito a number of our people had their
eyes treated optically by Dr. Terry on
his last visit here and all speak in high
est terms of his wonderful skill in fitting
glasses and great relief afforded by
same, and we are sure from the many
inquiries we have received as to the date
of his next visit many mors are anxious
ly awaiting his return.
Dr. Terry comes representing the well
known firm of Columbian Optical Co.,
manufacturing and wholesale opticians.
This firm is the largest of its kind in
the west; they are established in Dee
Moines, Iowa, Omaha, Neb., Kansas
City, Ma, Denver, Colo, sod Salt Lake
City, Utah.
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This is a double guarantee that the
doctor's work is right as this firm posi
tively guarantees all work done by him.
This is what the Columbian Optical
Co. says for Dr. Terry:
"To the Public: We consider our
selves fortunate in securing the services
of Dr. J. Will Terry, one of Chicago's
best Refraetionists. For several years
previous to his connection with us, he
was employed by one of the largest Op
tical institutions of Chicago ss expert
optician. Knowing bis ability ss we do
by two years of expert work with us we
give a positive guarantee with his work.
Our Omaha house is located at 211 So.
Sixteenth street and we stand ready at
anytime to correct errors made by him
should any occur.
8hoald you have any trouble with
your eyes do not miss this most excel- i
lent opportunity of having your eyes
examined and as examination and con
sultation are free there is no reason why
you should not consult the doctor.
A few symptoms of eye defects, head
ache, nervousness, eye ache, smart burn
or water, intolerance of light inflamma
tion of the lids, dizziness, styes on the
lids, blinking pain in eyeball, orbit tem
ple or forehead, dark spots floating
before the eyes, pain in the back of head,
f cross-eyes, granulated lids, etc
j Physicians especially are invited to
call and investigate our system of cor
recting 'all errors of refraction, asthe
nopia and muscular insufficiency.
Seeing is believing. Come and see.
Dr. Terry will be at our store Oct 18,
19 and 20, three days only. We invite
all suffering from weak or defective
eyes, to call and see the doctor. Con
sultation and examination free."
Yours truly,
Brodfukhrer's Jewelry Store.
Attention, Ladies.
Beginning Friday. Oft. 12, to Satur
day Oct 21, inclusive, wo will give yon
special prices on our pattern hats.
While we have a full stock to select
from, we can copy any style in any color
you may select, and we guarantee our
work.
All orders given personal attention.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs. Eva Martin,
2t Manager of the 4Ro.val."
Real Estate Transfer.
Becher, Hockenberger & Chambers,
real estate agents, report the following
real estate transfers filed in the office of
the county clerk since our lost report:
H I Murdock to Kate Sullivan,
lot 9, blk 5, Smith's add Col.
wd $ 70000
Kate Sullivan to Wm Zinneck-
er, same, wd 750 00
A F Fluekiger to J E Hicks,
nw4 26-17-3w, wd 5000
Charity Smith to James W Nel
son, lots 3 and 4 blk 190, Col.
wd 25000
H Ragatz to John Conley, pt
sw4 ne4 29-17-le, wd 50000
F E Mathews to Raymond Ha
ney, lot G, blk 10, Highland
Parkadd,wd 05000
C H Sheldon' to Laura B Ba
ker, lots 7, 8, blk 51, Col. wd. 2500 00
Johanna Ducey to John J Du
cey, ne4 28-20-3w, wd 250000
John J Ducey to James Ducey,
samefwd 250000
Equitable Trust Co to Martin
Zarek, n2 ne4 26-17-2w, wd. . 850 00
Sheriff of Platte county to W
A McAllister, lot 1, blk 4, 1st
add to Humphrey, sh'ff deed 335 00
A A H Frese to C C Hardy et
al, pt lots 1, 2, blk 121, Col.wd 1810 00
S K Rapp to A L Koon, lot 5,
blk 3, Stevens' add, wd 800 00
Pioneer Town Site Co to Mi-
chael Gaspers, out lot G and
pt out lot F Lindsay, wd.... 1050 00
Aaron Cabn to H F J Hocken
berger, lots 1, 2, blk 37, lots
5, G, blk 39, lots 7, 8, blk 169,
lot 7, blk 211, lot 5, blk 220,
lots 5, 0, blk 263, city, qcd . . . 50 00
Total $15,295 00
Weather Beport.
Review of the weather near Genoa for
the month of September, 1900.
Mean temperature of the month 6.V22.
Mean do name month last year .' G5.53
Highest daily temperature on 8th i7
Lowest doon the 29th 40
. Hill! Uftj 11
High winds days. 2
Clear days IB
Fair days 7
ltain fell during portions of days 7
Inches of rainfall 10.45
Do same month last year 0.51
Greatest ain't in 24 hoars inches R
Prevailing winds from S.W. to N.E.
byE.
Thunder storms 4th, 9th, 14th, 22d.
Heavy fogs on 13th and 23d.
Lunar halos on the 3d and 9th.
Slight frost on the 17th in low places,
damage slight
Slight hail on the 14th.
A cloud burst on the 14th at 7 a. m:,
removing many road bridges and por
tions of the railroad track, as well as
injuring crops in low places; 3.G0 inches
of rain fell inside of two hours.
The posters entitled "Undo Sam's
Balance Sheet" and "That Terrible
Eclipse," published by The American
Protective Tariff League, are perhaps
the most striking illustrations of the
difference in conditions between 1890
and 1900, which have been issued thus
far in the campaign. These posters can
be seen in the rooms of any local repub
lican committee, or will be sent to any
address for eight cents. Ask for Posters
"G" and "H." Address, American Pro
tective Tariff League, 135 West 23d
Street, New York.
lotice!
Notice is hereby given, to whom it
may concern, not to give credit to Mrs.
Martha Evans Bruner, on my account,
as she has left my house and table, tak
ing with her my and her child, Chester
Douglas Bruner. I will not be respon
sible for any debts contracted by her.
2tp F. Bruner.
OMAHA PRICES.
Fitzpatrick will give
you goods at Omaha
prices. Follow the
crowd and see.
To Chicago and the East.
Passengers goingeast for business, will
naturally gravitate to Chicago as the
great commercial center. Passengers
re-visiting friends or relatives in the
eastern states always desire 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, you 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, etc., please call on or address F.
A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Nsb.
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State House Ring Diverting
Trade to Their Pets at
Lincoln.
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Saabs the Populists.
Omaha, Oct. 8. It Is observed that
the fuslonlsts are not enthusing very
much over Governor Poynter. Espe
cially is this true of the business men
In the towns where state institutions
are located.
The merchants in these towns have
had anything but a pleasant experi
ence under the Poynter administra
tion. Trade and patronage of the in
stitutions, which should properly go
to them, has been gradually diverted
to pets and favorites of the state house
ring at Lincoln, until finally little of
it goes to the local merchants. Tons
of groceries and supplies have been
shipped from Lincoln to the various
Institutions during the last year and
only such trade has been allotted to
the local business men as could not
well be diverted to Lincoln.
Then, too, the administration "fix
ers" have been very exacting In deal
ing with the local merchant and very
liberal in dealing with their favorites
at Lincoln. If they treated them both
alike there would be less cause for
complaint, but the contracts are jug
gled In such a way that if a local mer
chant secures one he is compelled to
furnish goods at almost cost price,
whereas the Lincoln dealers are al
lowed to make one bid on all the sun
plies and in addition are given other
advantages denied to others. Every
body knows that bids on a dozen or
more contracts at the same time,
meaning the supplying of goods in car
load lots, can be made at a lower rate
than for only one contract involving
only the supplies for one Institution.
This is one advantage.
HOLDING UP VOUCHERS.
Another advantage shown the Lin
coln dealers over the country mer
chants Is the holding back of vouchers
and warrants. It is a notorious fact
that bills for groceries from the coun
try merchants lay sometimes for
weeks before they are passed upon and
allowed, while those of the favorites
are promptly paid. In the mercantile
trade 30 or'OO days credit is the same
as cash and if merchants succeed in
converting their goods into money
within that time they are enabled to
make considerable of a saving in the
way of discounts. In many instances
the country merchants have lost the
benefit of their discounts through the
failure of the Board to pass upon bills
and remit promptly.
It is openly stated that this failure
is only part of u plan to discourage
the local merchants in these towns
from bidding, in order that the pets of
the state house ring may enjoy greater
profits.
Some may infer from this that the
state is deriving benefit from such
manipulations. This is not true. The
records in the auditor's office show
that the expense of maintaining the
state institutions the last two years
has been greatly increased over what
it was, and is greater now than at any
time in the state's history.
Governor Poynter will close his term
with the enormous shortage or defic
iency of $100,000. Not one of the var
ious institutions has been properly
kept up. The grounds, outbuildings
and the like have been sadly neglected.
Not a dollar has gone for labor in
this direction. All the money appro
priated has lcen expended, but how,
nothing short of a legislative Investi
gating committee can explain.
Dr. Tracy of Milford, the physician
In charge of the Soldier's Home, who
was caught paying house rent and of
fice rent in groceries taken from the
state, has resigned and left the state.
His resignation promptly followed the
exposure.
CRAWFISHING ON EXPANSION.
It is a matter of history that nearly
every Democratic president from Jef
ferson to Buchanan expressed a desire
for the annexation of Cuba to the
United States.
Monroe while president expressed
himself in favor of annexing Cuba, so
did Polk and so did Pierce.
In 1S40 President Polk made a propo
sition for the purchase of Cuba from
Spain for $100,000,000. Six years be
fore that, or in 1S34, what is known
as the Ostend Manifesto was issued.
and that asserted the right of tlw
United States to take and annex Cuba,
should Spain refuse to sell.
The Ostend Manifesto was an an
nouncement made by President
Pierce's ministers to England, France
and Spain (Buchanan, Madison and
Soule) in which they suggested that
an earnest effort be made to purchase
Cuba at a price not to exceed $120,
000,000, and added that if this should
be refused by Spain "we should be jus
tified by every law, human and divine,
in wresting it from Spain if we pos
sess the power," a proposition of
which Lassing, the historian, says:
"The bald iniquity of this proposition
amazed honest men in both hemi
spheres." The manifesto failed of its purpose,
because the European powers and the
world in general failed to recognize
the justice of acquiring property by
seizure.
Buchanan, who succeeded Pierce to
the presidency, in three of his annual
messages to congress urged that Cuba
ought to be made by purchase part of
the United States. During Buchanan's
term a bill for that purpose was intro
duced in congress by Senator Seidell
later of confederate fame, and that
bill was strongly supported by the
Democratic members of congress from
the southern states.
In 1860 the Democratic national con
vention declared in favor of annexing
Cuba and placed the following In the
platform:
"Resolved, that the Democratic
party are in favor of the acquisition
ef the Island of Cuba upon such terms
as shall be honorable to ourselves and
Just to Spain."
President Pierce made a strong effort
to annex Hawaii. The matter was car
ried so far that a treaty for the pur
pose was drafted. On this point Mr.
Marcy, who was secretary of state in
Pierce's cabinet wrote the following
note to Minister Gregg:
"This government will receive the
transfer of the sovereignty of the
Sandwich islands with all proper pro
visions relative to existing rights of
the people thereof, such as are usual
nd proper to territorial sovereignty.
The president directs me to say that
he cannot approve of some of the arti
cles of the treaty; there are In his
mind some strong objections to the im
mediate Incorporation of the Islands In
their present condition Into the unlca
as an independent state. It was ex- than it was four years sio, wW
pected that the Hawaiian government ' ke- lron nd TOppIrtb!vf 2J5S1,
would be willing to offer the Islands lue- course this "iteresUng In
to the United States as a territory ; "?" 5 ? Hffi
and leave the question in relation Z V"0! SS.? SS
their becoming a state to the determi
nation of this government unembar
rassed by stipulations on that point"
It will be seen by this that through
out its history the Democratic party
has favored expansion. It will also be
observed that In all their messages and
correspondence bearing on the acquisi
tion of territory no reference is made
to "the consent of the governed." Jef
ferson, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, in fact
all the great minds of the Democratic
party, have favored expansion, some of
them going so far as to advocate the
acquisition of island territory by force.
Compared with this the splendid rec
ord of the Republican party, and par
ticularly of the McKinley administra
tion, stands out in bold relief.
.CZAR THEN PATRIOT NOW.
According to Democratic doctrine in
1804 Lincoln was a czar. Now he is n
patriot. In 1864. when Lincoln was a
candidate for re-election, the same hue
and cry about "imperialism" was
raised by the Democrats. The Indian
apolis Journal, a Democratic organ, at
that time said:
The only hope of preserving consti
tutional liberty, the rights of the states
and restoring peace to the union is in
the restoration of the Democratic party
to power. But let Abraham Lincoln be
elected for another term, what will be
the consequence? Four years more of
abolition, national bankruptcy and Eu
ropean interference. Shall we profit
by the teachings of history, and even
by our own experience, or continue the
policy that must end in the overthrow
of one of the best governments the
world ever saw?"
Just before the election in 1804 the
same paper had another "nightmare,"
one of the Bryan order, and it said:
"Should Mr. Lincoln be re-elected the
revolution will be accomplished. This
will be no longer a republic of the
United States, but a consolidated em
pire. Every safeguard must sooner or
later give away. The limitation of the
executive power will not be in the
pleasure of the president. We implore
patriotic and intelligent men to pause
and reflect and give their verdict Tues
day next. If the people will not save
their constitution and union it is lost."
The foregoing is the same sort of
Democratic rot that Bryan is making
use of today. The only difference is
that the man who was pointed out as
a despot then is treated as a patriot
now. Like Lincoln, thirty-six years
from now. if the Populists and the
Democrats in their rapacity for proven
der shall not have eatsn each other up,
the Democratic doctrinaries will be
quoting from McKinley and holding
him up as the ideal statesman and
patriot. Thirty-six years isn't such a
very long time, but it is too long a time
for the people of a great and progres
sive country to wait, when they can
get what they want now. The Ameri
can people have kept up with the pro
cession and if the Democratic party
persists in staying thirty-six years be
hind let it stay there.
It will be observed, however, that
Bryan's rant about imperialism is
nothing new. The Democratic party
was carping about it before he learned
to speak his own name.
Lincoln was abused, and harsher
things were said of him than have
ever been said of McKinley. The at
tacks were wanton and cruel, and the
recoil sent many an aspiring politician
on the Democratic side into obscurity
and distrust forever.
Bryan is playing upon the same harp
today. It is the instrument of a dema
gogue and its tunes are as deceptive
as the deadly nightshade. But the re
coilthe pent up energy of outraged
public opinion is there, and it will hit
Bryan just as sure and just as hard
. Ife lane 1I4 ...,,.. n .Ynmn.vs.fvMn VuirVha..
&? 11 JJlin MIL UIUII, il UUIUUJ,U,uir irc&ui I
him. and it will drive him into obscur-1
ity and distrust just as it has driven
others who hare undertaken to pre
sume too far on public intelligence and
credulity.
HAS NOT ACCEPTED.
Bryan has not as yet acknowledged
having received the populist nomina
tion for president. Why have you not
made this acknowledgement, Mr. Bry
an? Are you ashamed to do It? What
is there about the Populist nomination
you are ashamed of? If you are not
ashamed of it why have you failed to
accept?
Is it because you are afraid that if
you acknowledge the populist nomina
tion you will alienate Tammany Hall
and other eastern Democrats?
Out here in Nebraska you profess to
believe in Populism. But your refusal
to utter a letter accepting the Populist
nomination would Indicate duplicity.
The Populists nominated you three
months ago. at the same time the Dem
ocrats nominated you. You acknowl
edged the Democratic nomination by
letter long since, but your letter accept
ing the Populist nomination well, itV
the letter in the candle" or "the out
ihat never came."
Simeon.
DEPOSITS IN BANKS.
SHOW WONDERFUL PROSPERITY FOR
PAST FOUR YEARS.
Fifty Per Cent of Farm Mertsrasea
Have Been- Paid Up Frai Valaea
Have Doabled Moaey Pleat? aad
latereat Ltr.
The Republican national committee
in order to secure some up to date facts
of Interest relative to financial condi
tions in the great agricultural sections
of the United States west of the Alle
ghany mountains sent out letters to
several hundred business men in the
large cities and in country towns of
these sections.
They were asked how the bank de
posits of their communities compared
with four years ago, to what extent
there bad been Improvement in the
credits of their municipalities or town
ships and what betterment if any was
noticeable in the condition of the bor
rowing classes.
The business men to whom letters
were sent were selected without any
reference to and without knowldge of
their political affiliations. In several
instances extremely interesting replies
came from bankers having a national
reputation In Democratic party circles,
such us John IL Walsh, president of
the Chicago Nstlonsl bank.
The general substance of the replies
shows that savings and commercial de
posits have Increased from 50 to 120
per cent since 1896; that municipalities
are able to borrow money st a rate av
eraging more than one-half of 1 per
cent less than In 1890; that farm values
in most sections have almost doubled;
that about 50 per cent of farm mort
gages have been paid up and the re
mainder renewed only with "prepay
ment" privileges and at lower interest
rates and that from 20 to 25 per cent of
the debtor classes, to whom Bryan four
years sgo vainly appealed with his dis
honest propositions for cutting in two
the value of money legal tender In pay
ment for debts, are now actually lend
ing money in competition with the
business men writing these letters.
Out of all the answers thus far re
ceived the only note discordant with a
story of remarkable prosperity among
all-Interests and In every community
has come from a banker In the town of
Deadwood, S. D. The principal busi
ness there Is gold mining, and the com
plaint Is that gold Is worth no mors
standard was making "gold go up" and
"man," incidentally with commodities
and wages, "go dowa."
Some of the strongest replies nave
come right from Bryan's own state of
Nebraska. The prosperity there ass
been so wonderful that Bryan can bavs
had no excuse for being unobservant of
It The town of Lincoln, In which Bry
an Is a taxpayer, now has 4 per cent
bonds selling at a premium, whereas
four years ago it experienced diatealty
hi floating loans st G per cent- Adlal
E. Stevenson ss a taxpayer has slso
had a chance to see evidences of pros
perity right In his own town, for the
city of Bloomlngton, Ills., has recently
sold Its bonds on a basis of 3.40 per
cent which Is lower than any munici
pality In the United States could get in
1890.
The letters will ultimately be printed
hi full and given wide circulation. Fol
lowing are a few that the national com
mittee has made public:
James P. Forgan. president First
National Bank of. Chicago. Chicago:
"I submit the following comparison
of the deposits of the Chicago banks hi
1S96 and in 1900:
"Xatioaal banks- 18ML
Individual deposits td.OTO.KS
Country bank deposits.. 4.223!6
State and savings banks
Individual deposits 3S.130.S46
Savings deposits 20.1H9.874
Country bank deposits.. 7.S8f.623
18001
tlOS.813.SS7
123.0B.8Ta
68.429.371
S4.740.610
13.ydS.3S6
f361.992.904"
First Na
Total deposits 6177,281.71
H. H. Matteson. cashier
tional Bank of Great Falls. Great
Falls, Mon.:
"Bank deposits show an increase la
our community as compared with four
years ago of 118 per cent. Of this In
crease about 85 per cent Is due to new
business and 33 per cent to Increase In
balances on accounts that we had at
that time."
C. L. Oleson. cashier Security Bank
of Dakota. Howard. S. D.:
"I take much pleasure In informing
you that the deposits of our bank as
compared with four years ago are now
just 100 per cent larger."
S. II. Burnham. president First Na
tional Bank of Lincoln. Lincoln, Neb.:
"Bank deposits have Increased In the
banks of this city during the past five
years 04 per cent"
The Deaaeeratle mamas-era have
reaaeateil Mr. AHsela to eealae ala
reamarlca to Geraaaa, fcat the Oeraaaa
voters tvlll aaaraaa the seatle-
la aaere wajra thaa oae.
WANTED-AtrriVE MAN OF GOOD Char
acter to tifliver and collect in Nobraska for old
-tablislied mannfactnrinK wholtaale house.
$900 a year, sore pay. Honesty more than expe
rience required. Our reference, any bank in any
city. Enclose leU-addreMed stamped envel
ope: Manufacturers, Third Floor, :i34 Dearborn
St., Chicago. 12mch
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LEGAL NOTICE.
In th( district court, I'latte county.' Nebraska.
Jou.v Jawohski, I'laintiir.
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Harmon Sciiell. Defendant.
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JOHN JAWOHSKI.
Plaintiff.
Hy McAllister 9l Cornelius.
His Attorneys, lteep4
ESTIJA1' NOTICE.
Taken up, at the premises of John Leipp, five
miles northeast of Columbus. October 2nd,
FOUK YEARLING CALVES.
all red, two of them steers, and two heifers.
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10oct-.lt John Lupp.
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OF COLUMBUS. NEBIL.
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CULTIVATORS,
HARROWS. ,
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M. C: CASSIN,
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Fresh and
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J. M. CURTIS,
Justice of die Peace.
garWould respectfully solicit a share
of your business.
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