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Republican Ticket.
NATiONtIL.
President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Vice-President
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS.
Presidential Electors
F. A. BARTON, Pawnee.
A. C. SMITH. Douglas.
A. C. ABBOTT, Dodge.
T. L. XORVAL, Seward.
W. P. HALL. Phelps.
M. A. BROWN, Buffalo.
H. H. WILSON, Lancaster.
J. C. ROBINSON, Douglas
STATE.
United States Senator
ELMER J. BDRKETT.
Governor
J. H. MICKEV.
Lieotenant Governor
E. G. McGILTON.
Secretary of State
A. GALUSIIA.
Auditor
E.M.SEARLE.JR
Treasurer
PETER MORTENSEN.
Superintendent
J. L. McBRIEN.
Attorney General
NORMS BROWN.
Land Commissioner
H. M. EATON.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Congressman, Third District
j. j. McCarthy.
IsOflslatlve.
Senator
HUGH HUGHES.
Representative
JOSEPH HENGGELER.
Float Representative
FRED L. HOARE.
GwMHtll.
Attorney
R. W. HOBART.
Supervisors.
Diet. G and 7-O.C. SHANNON.
DisLS-JOHN SWANSON.
Diet 4-EMIL SCIIOEM.
Dist 2-FRED DASSENBROCK.
Wonder what Berge talks about in
western Nebraska where taxes on farm
land are lower this year than last?
. Ike democratic party today would
bo praising the new revenue law had
they been permitted the honor of pass
ing that measure.
The Soldiers1 and Sailors Home at
Grand Island cost S193.02 per inmate
a year, under Governor Poynter's ad
ministration, and only tlC9.r2, under
Mickey's administration, a saving of
'23.50 per inmate a year. Multiply
this by 438, the number of inmates
iathe home, and you have 10.Ji4
saved in one year by Governor Mickey.
Taxpayers, it is a plain basiness prop
osition to re-elect Gov. Mickey.
IN BOOXE COUNTY.
fa 1903. under the old law. the rail
road valuation in Boone county was
315,430.00. In 1904, under the new
law it is S3M.7S0 an iacreaso of f 175,
50, or 81 and 3-10 per cent. Does any
one dare nay that the new revenue
law helped the railroads ia Booae
couaty, when their assessmeBt baa
beea raised double what it was before?
Now it might be well to see how
the railroad property fared in com
pariaoa with the farm lands under
fusion.
Ia 1895, the railroads of Boone
couaty were assessed at S17S.465 and
paid a tax into the couaty of 8,739.54.
Of course being the first year of the
populist administration, it could not
be expected that they would be on to
eke ropes well enough to get after the
railroads very hard. The next year,
however, they fixed them like this:
They assessed,. them $4,000 leas in
Boone county than the year before.
The next year, however, they did a
little better and it went back to the
original figures. Ia 1900. however,
when laad in Boone county was boom-
- iag, our populist friends had raised
the railroad assessment in this county
to 181.455 which made them pay a
- tax of $7,895 37 which was 934.17 lees
.- than when tbe celebrated populist
: railroad commission came iato power.
- -. The next year was a republican
commission and Boone county received
-'from the railroad companies fS.S80.14.
-a raise of .$454.77. Last year the re
publican railroad commission had
raised the railroad assessment in the
county to $215,430 which made them
pay a tax of $10.852 45. a gain over
- the year before of $33,975 in valuation
aad a gain to Boone county's treasury
of $2,03: 78; This however was partly
, gained . because of the increase in
mileage ia the coaaty. .This year the
new law which oar populietic friends
eallauoh'a bad one will raise the
'railroad asseanaeat to $390,780 aad
bring into the treasury about $12,500,
a. gain of $175,350 ia valuation aad a
cefneaaadiag amouat to the treasury
afthe
PUT IT BAC&.
"It shall be the duty of the county
board in each county to cause to be
published atthe closi of each annual
regular or special meeting of the board
a brief statement of the proceedings
thereof in one newspaper of general
circulation published in the county.
aad alio their proceedings upon the
equaliaatioa of the assessment roll,
rrovided, that no publication in a
newspaper shall be required unless the
samn caa.be done at an expense not
Exceeding one-third of the legal rate
for advertisiag notices.
"In counties ia this state where a
newspaper ia published ia German and
said newspaper has a regular daily,
tri-weekly or weekly circulation of
1500 copies or more and it shall be
proven by the affidavit of the publish
er or foreman thereof to the board of
county commissioners that the said
paper has such a circulation, it shall
be the daty of the county commission
ers to have published in said news
paper a report of all the proceedings
of said board of commissioners.'
(For the information of the editor
of the Telegram, we will explain, that
we copied the above from a volume
of the compiled statutes of Nebraska
in the libraries of Judge Post and CoL.
Wbitmoynr.and not that of our ' person-
al 'manager. Our" personal "manager
Mr. Hoare, has been reading the Tele
gram for several years, and has been
relying on that organ of reform to
keep him informed as to violations of
the law. He therefore did not know
there was such a law, nor that the re
form sheet was getting more spoils
from the violation of that law than
any other paper in Platte county, un
til he read it in his" personal organ".)
This is the law. We ask taxpayers
to read it. It provides unmistakably
for a certain legal rato. The law is
violated in Platte county. Five dem
ocratic newspapers, including the
Biene, are receiving 25 per cent more
than the legal rate. The Telegram
gets more of the spoils than any other
because it does the printing for the
rest, and gets pay for it. And yet the
Telegram refers to the Journal's
charge as "amusing" and says it is a
dispute between the two "German
newspapers."
The Journal has no ..quarrel with the
Biene nor with any other paper in
Platte county. The editors of these
papers are our personal friends, as are
the members of the board of super
visors. It is not a personal matter.
It is simply a question oi law. Tbe
board of supervisors have exceeded
their legal right.
Tbe Bieae.as a 'German newspaper"
is not entitled to the rate fixed by law
for newspapers printed in a "foreign
language," because it has not qualifi
ed under that law, by making an affi
davit of 1500 circulation. The Biene
is therefore in the same boat with the
other democratic papers. It has the
same right to a part of the legal rate
as all the other papers, no more, no
less. The law provides for the publi
cation of the proceedings in "one
newspaper of general circulation.'
The "one" designated can divide the
legal rate as it wishes.
The Telegram and the Biene, instead
of attempting to deny that they are
partners in taking illegal spoils, are
trying to prejudice the Germans
against the Journal. They would
make the Germans believe tbe Journal
is trying to prevent the further pub
lication of the proceedings in German.
Do the editors of these papers mean
to say they will not publish the pro
ceedings unless they are paid an illegal
rate? The Journal publishes them,
not only without pay, but with great
expense of time and labor to get for
ourselves the copy that is furnished
free to our democratic brethren.
Are these democratic papers endow
ed with certain divine qualities of
superiority that they refuse to do with
out illegal pay tbe work that the
Journal does free of charge?
We make no personal charges against
tbe members of the board of super
visors. They doubtless believe that
the "reform" organ, the Telegram,
would have exposed them long ago if
they were not acting according to law,
and simply followed custom without
giving the matter serious thought.
But the "reform organ" probably
needed the money to "tip" the waiter
in the Jacksonian club or to buy milk
for the "kitty," and thought it would
be easy, if the fraud were discovered,
to shift the burden to tbe broad
shoulders of the little German editor.
The question is up to the voters. If
you return the tsame supervisors, will
you ask them whether they will con
tinue to violate the law, now that
they know it? Or will you vote for
republican supervisors? In conclusion,
in order to make ourselves understood,
lot us say that if republican supervis
ors are elected and they see fit to des
ignate the Journal the ofiloial paper,
or if the present supervisors are re
elected, and they see fit to designate
the Journal the official paper, we will
if they think advisable divide the
legal rate not five-fourths of the
legal rate, however with the Biene
aad aay other democratic papers
designated by them. If the Journal
is not so designated, we will keep
right on, as we have in the past,
giving our readers, without pay, the
supervisors' proceedings.
"It seems imperative that some
action should be taken by the legisla
ture providing for a better method of
levying and collecting the revenue
eceamryfor the proper conduct of
the governmental affairs of tbe state.
The imperfections and laxity of the
provisions of the present law for levy
iag aad collecting taxes to meet the
current expenditures, and the still
greater laxity in enforcing these im
perfect provision of law. have brought
us face to face with a condition of
affairs that renders it impossible to
conduct the business of the state with
out much embarrassment, needless
aacrilce, aad ever iacreasinar flrmtin
indebtedness.'
r!.Mw.u an .
uuiusw OIUW A.
Holcoaab in his
message to tne legis
7. 1897.
latere, January
"The inequalities resulting from
the unseat construction aad enforce-
of tbe revenue law relating to
taad taxation is aaitatinff
tbe miads of the people. Immediate
legialatioa demanded. 'Auditor
J. F. Cornell (faaioa) in hie
for 2900.
report
AN OPPORTUNITY.
The democratic Harper's Weekly is
mnoh. raffled because of a letter which
has been addressed to Judge Parker by
thy Rev. Dr. Swallow, prohibition
candidate for president. The reverend
doctor seems to be blessed with a cer
tain senseof humor, and he invites
2Ir. Parker to accompany him on a
"joint stumping tour up Salt River".
By way of explanation, he proceeds:
Though I have not bad the pleasure
of yoar personal acquaintance, yet,
in view of our being travellers to
ward the same goal, which at the best
but one of the numerous candidates
can reach this year, and in view,
further, of the possibility that both
you and I may miss the mark and that
"misery loves company." I am sure
yon will pardon the seeming imper
tinence of this communication.
The fact that a man is a prohibition
ist, and thereby ' loses his vote, does
not necessarily imply that he also
loses his political judgment. Mr.
Swallow has very evidently perceived
the drift of straws.
As for Mr. Parker, here is offered
him an opportunity. Since his entry
into the lime light, Mr. Parker has
stood as a type of the commonplace.
His every act has emphasized his
eminent and conspicuous mediocrity.
And, worse yet, he is brought by his
position into constant comparison with
a man of most pronounced and vigor
ous personalty. Here is his chance to
perpetuate his name in history. Let
him break the apron strings, repud
itate Hill, Gorman and Belmont,
cheerfully and openly accept Mr.
Swallow's invitation, and say to the
world: "I. Alton B. Parker, being
of sound mind and body, do hereby
acknowledge that I am in the same
class with Mr. Swallow, Mr. Debs and
Mr. Watson, and that I have the same
show of being elected president as any
one of these gentlemen. I realize that
I am put up as a figurehead, merely to
try and hold the old party together
in some sort of shape until the uext
campaign, when Mr. Hill or Mr. Bryan
may profit by my sacrifice. I realize
that I haven't the chance of a snow
ball in Ecuador. Everybody else
knows this, and why shouldn't I? I
realize that Theodore Roosevelt is the
greatest man alive. He will be elect
ed by the greatest popular vote in our
history and the good Lord knows he
ought to be."
It would bo a great stroke. It would
make Mr. Parker famous. Will he
seize the opportunity? Quien sane?
MICKEY AND THE TRAVELLING
MEN.
Columbus Nebraska, October 12. 1904.
Governor J. H. Mickey.
Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir:
Will yon please state for publi
cation whether yon ever referred to
the travelling men as a "set of bums"
or whether you ever made any sim
ilarly slighting reference to them ; and
if you ever mad e any reference to
them whatever, will yon state as
nearly as possible what yoa did say?
This request is prompted by a re
port that is being more or less gener
ally circulated among the travelling
men of Nebraska for the purpose
of securing your defeat.
Please return this letter with yonr
answer. Yours very truly,
F. H. ABBOTT.
October 15, 1904.
F. H. Abbott.
Columbus, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 12th instant was
received in my absence. In reply to
your inquiry will say that I have
never referred to the travelling men
as a "set of bums", nor have I ever
made any reference to them as an
organization that could, in any way.
be construed as derogatory. My re
lations with them, in every way,
have been very pleasant and I have
never even thought cf them in a
slighting manner.
Yours very truly.
JOHN H. MICKEY.
MOSES AND AARON.
"He (Aaron)shall be iothee(Moees)
instead of a mouth and thou shalt be
to him instead of God. " Exodus IV. 10.
Bryan with characteristic modesty
says that he is the Aaron and Parker
tho Moses of democracy. In other
words ho is to Parker "instead of a
motth" and Parker is to him "in
stead of Gcd". For the way Bryan
has turned his back on the principles
for which he contended for a decade
there can be no doubt that Parker
is to him a God. but since the Nor
folk speech there is mnch room tc
doubt whether Parker is willing to
concede that Bryan is to him instead
of a mouth.
But the relation of Bryan to Park
er bears tome analogy to that of Aaron
to Moras. The face of Moses wan
sec against idolatry out while he was
on the mountain in communion with
the true God. Aaron was down among
the people fashioning and worshipping
the golden calf. The Parker democrats
no donbt see a similarity in the con
duct of Bryan at the present time.
Bible students will remember that
neither Moses nor Aaron was per
mitted to enter the promised lands,
which strengtnens the likeness of
Parker and Bryan to the two biblical
characters.
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
Rural free delivery had Its origin
under the Harrison administration,
and Postmaster General Wanamaker
was its "father." He proposed and
established the first experimental
route. When the Democrats came in
to power, under President Cleveland,
they did everything possible to kill
rural free delivery; in fact, they abso
lutely refused to expend any of the
$10,000 Congressional appropriation
for its nourishment, aad both Post
masters General Bissell and Wilson, in
their annual reports; did their utmost
to discredit it. President Cleveland
also threw cold water on it in a hostile
message to Congress. When McKin
lay became President, rural free de
livery was pushed to the front as a
Republican policy. This policy has
beea continued under President Roose
velt until now there are about 27,500
routes in operation.
During Oongressmau McCarthy's
term the number of rural delivery
routes in this district has .through his
efforts, bean increased from 40 to 165.
Fanners, do yon believe in Rural
Free Delivery? If yoa do, you will
vote for the friends of the system,
Rocsevelt aad McCarthy.
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X "As a whole we believe the law to be a good one, and to
' have been framed with the object of reaching all property
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Chief Justice John J. Sullivan of Columbus, Nebraska
$ on the Republican REVENUE LAW. t
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STOliV OF OUR STATE DEBT.
FoUowing is a record of the state
debt as taken from the state auditor's
books:
Nov. 30, lS'JO,
" " iaw
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" " 189G
" " 189S
... $ 582.940. OS
. . 788.793 3
I77.S23.75
... . 1.9CG.389.S0
. . 1.571.GS4.01
... 1,7C.5.S99.40
Jan. 2,
1SK)1
In the case of tho last balance, the
fiscal year really ended November 30,
1900, but the account is carried foward
to January 2, 1901. as that was the last
day of Fnsion administration and
shows the condition is which they
left the state debt when they went out
of office.
In other words, at the beginning of
Mr. Poynter's administration, the state
debt was $1.571, C$4.01 and at the close
of his administraton amounted to $1,
763,899.40, an increase dnring his two
year of $194,215.39. But this is not
all, when the Fusion administra
tion went out of office, they left us a
legacy in tho shape of deficiency bill
amonnting to $149,112.05 which we
had to pay. This amount added to
tho increase of $194,215.31. shown
above, makes a total increase dnring
Poynter's administration of $343,337.
44. That is, the state debt on January
2. 1901. at the close of tho Fnsion ad
ministration, instead of beine $1,705,
8W.4C, as shown by warrants unpaid.
was in reality $1,915,011.45, showing
an increase in two yeais of $343,327.44,
as above stilted. The debt on Sep
tember 1 of this year was $2, OSS, 210.
5(1. Tho difference between this and
the last amount given above as' the
amount of the debt at the close of the
Fusion administration is$10S,229.11.
This is to say. whilo the Faciocists.
during their last two years, increased
the debt $343,000 in round nnmoers,
during nearly four years of Republi
can administration the debt has been
increaeed only $108,000 in round num
bers. You will notice that during tho
bionnium beginning January 1, 1891,
the state debt increased over $200.000 ;
Dnring these years Boyd was govern
or and all state institutions were in
tbe hands of Democrats and Populists.
Dnring the next bienninm. from
January 1, 1893 to 1895. tho debt de
reased ovor $200,000, and during these
years Cronnse was governor and all
state institutions were in tho hands of
Republicans. During ths next bieu
nium, from 1895 to 1897, there is an
enormous increase in tho debt. Dur
ing these two years Holcomb was gov
ernor and all state institutions were
in the hands of tho Fnsionists. Of
course tbe Fnsionists cannot be charg
ed with this enormons increase inas
much as it is due in a considerable
measure to tho Bartloy defalcation.
The suspense account at that time
was 7ft5.000 in round numbers. This
included the Bartloy defalcation and
the amounts lost in broken banks.
During tho biennum from January 1,
1897, to January 1, 1S99, thero was a
considerable reduction in the debt.
During theso years Holcomb was
governor and the Fnsionists in charge
of all state institutions, but during
these years the Fnsionists cannot
claim full credit for the rednction be
cause Bartley turned over $320,000 in
round numbers in cash, which was
applied at once to the reduction of the
debt. During the biennium from Jan
uary 1, 1899 to, January 1, 1901, as I
have stated above, the debt increased
from S1.571.C84.01 to $1,815,011.45.
that is to say an increase of $343,000
in round nambers during the two
years. Dnring these two years Poyn
ter was governor and tho Fnsionists
in control of all department of the
state administration.
READ THIS.
The following letter was received
by a Columbus travelling man. It
explains itself :
Demociatic National Committee
headquarters, Century Building, No 1
West 34th St.
New York. Sept. 30th. 1904.
Dear Sir: It has been asserted
again and again by lie publican organs
that Mr. Roosevelt has all the business
men of the country with him this
year. Yon will perforin an important
service to the party if you will do
your utmost to disprove this by talk
ing earnestly with every commercial
traveler or business man who may
call upon you for orders, and show
them that you are for Parker and
Davis.
Commercial travelers are the most
powerful propaganda in a campaign.
Within the next ten days we will
have asked 20.000 democratic mer
chants and manufacturers, whom com
mercial travelers call upon, to do this
same thing. Theso travelers will
carry the news from city to town tell
ing their customers, comrades and the
people they meet how the business
men are with Parker and Davis. The
effect will bo magnetic, and you will
be performing as I say a most impor
tant service to the party. If you will
report your experiences to these
headquarters it will be valuable in
formation and will go far to give u3
a correct idea of the trend cf senti
ment. "
Please invite commercial travelers
who call on you to fill up one of the
enclosed applications, and when you
have rome filled up mail them to me.
Yours very truly,
Willam Hage.
Secretary, National Committee of
Democratic Business Men.
"Except in the matters pointed out
with regard to the method of assets
ing and taxing insurance companies,
we believe the law to be not only fair
to the tax payer, but one admirably
adapted to the equitable distribution
of the burden of taxation among the
property owners of the state." From
the opinion of Judge Duffy, fusion
commissioner of the Supreme court.
CIGARETES AND TRUANCY.
The trunt officer employed by the
board of education "f Columbus to
enforce compliance with the compul
sory education law finds a close rela
tion between cigarettes and truancy.
The boys who play "hookio". in
nlno cases out of ton, aro found to be
"cigarette fiends".
The parent i of a fourteen-year old
boy were visited by the truant officer
a few days ago. and notified that the
boy would be forced to attend school.
The next day the boy was seen on one
of the residence streets smoking a
cigarette and teaching two younger
boys how to roll and light cigarettes.
The youngest boy was not more than
seven years old. The oldest boy was
asked if he bought the cigarette
wrappers and tobacco hinuelf. He
replied in tlu affirmative. When
asked " Who sold them to you?" he
said. "Oh I won't give 'em away."
Then he was asked why he was not in
school and he said "Ob. I don't like
to go to school, and I'll be d if I'll
go if I don't have to." This is only
one example out of many that could
be given. As many as a dozen boys
in west Columbus have been seen to
assemble in barns to tmoke cigarettes.
These boys are all of school age. and
some of them from the . best homes in
Coloinbus. The Journal calls tho
attention of the pnblio to this matter
not for the purpose of nioializing or
delivering a lecturo On tne use of to
bacco. Manv men smoko without
apparent harm. But it is established
by observation, by
by expert medical
cigarettes blunt the
experience, and
authority, that
intellect, dwarf
the body, weaken tbe vital orsans
and degrade the morals, especially of
young boys in the foramtive period of
life. And it is universally true that
boys who smoke cigarettes disliko
school and very rarely keep up their
grades.
In view of these facts, it is as much
the concern of the community to keep
boys from the use of cigarettes as it
is to force them to attend school. If
the community is justified in enforcing
a compulsory education law on the
ground of public policy, it is certainly
warranted on the same ground, m en
forcing the law on onr statute books
which forbids the sale of cigarettes
to minors under eighteen years of age.
And if the community will enforce
its anti-cigartte law. it will to a Targe
extent save the expense of enforcing
the compulsory education law, and it
will save tbe physical, intellectual
and moral health of tbe boys at the
same time.
Tho tobacco dealer who sells cigar
ettes to boys, or the degenerate indi
vidual who buys cigarettes and gives
them to boys in violation of law,
should bo prosecuted to the limit.
This question should receive serious
consideration on the part of Colum
bus parents. We havo not overdrawn
conditions as they exist. We stand
ready to prove even more than wo
have asserted. And we stand ready to
do our small part in supporting the
Board of Education if they see fit to
begin enforcing tbe compulsory edu
cation law by making an example of
the tobacco dealers in Columbus, who
aro violating the anti-cigarette law.
COLUMBINES.
r.j. b.
Eren o pretentions a publication as Pdbuo
Opinion aaytt "politics are."
Educated people should gat oat of the porni
cioas habit of raying "K'rtten." The participle
of -et" it "Rot."
If everybody wooM cat entail talk which ie
calculated to ixive pain to othern, or to nlory in
themiidiirtuneof others, Kkin lansaice would
come near falling into diriutte. And the forego
ing does not apply exclusively to women, either.
The wortliy l'rofeamr Trigg of Kockefeller
University ban won ont in th second round of
his libel mat aainHt the New York Sun. We
are mighty worry to hear it. This is the gentle,
man who takes ml van t aire of his connection with
a semi-educational institution to invent n new
system of English speech and endeavor to put
Shakespeare and Addison ont of the game.
Then, because the Sun poked a little sarcasm at
him in his own lingo, he sues the Hun for liUd.
Of cours, a court is a thing which is dead to all
sense of Im mor .and the result was to b s ex ectt-d.
If there is anything that makes ui wenry, it is
one of theso fellows who are looking for news
Iaper notoriety bat with the stipulation that it
must always lie complimentary. Some of us may
not have seen n sample, of the Trigg English.
He believes colloquial usage should be incorpo
rated into the written speech. Here is the way
he might write the first lines of "Thanatopsts:"
The guy what likes the woods and skies and such
Can talk to them, and it's a mortal cinch
That thsy'll talk back in several kinds of lingo.
W'en he skates out and pours a few Manhattan
Inside his tank, and tinks ho is a king.
Hay, mister! de whole woild puts on da glad
And happy smile; de sidewalk rises up
To greet him; de wholn push looks good to him.
Und ven he tinks dot he is det alretty
Dnd buried up and ansgespielt, he valks
Out py de garden und he smokes bis pie,
Und donnerblitxen! hear dot little voice:
I doue suppose, sah, dat yo time on dis
Here earth am jest about expired, becaze
Mos' ebberybody else hab done passed in
no checks, and beea pnt in de col' col' ground.
Heap paleface man, heap big chief Itoast-Alive,
Heap Injun, heap papoose, heap oi' dam squaw.
Heap cow, heap dog, heap pony. Ugh! Heap
dead!
Please don't let Triggs find this out, for he
certainly would sue us for libel. After all, it
isn't any worse than the reformed spelling, and
it isn't any better.
Boss Patrick H. McCarren has Indi
rectly conceded that Roosevelt will car
ry New York by 50.000 to 00,000. In
discussing what should be tbe proper
betting odds between Higglns and II er
rlck, candidates for governor of New
York, he said. It was an even thing,
and immediately thereafter in answer
to another question claimed that Hig
gins would run 50,000 or C0.000 behind
Roosevelt. Putting two and two to
gether would Indicate that there la no
ueubt In tbe boss mind how New
York will go in the national election.
A vote for Judge Parker In the com
ing election wil be a vote of censure
on Theodore Roosevelt It is incon
ceivable how any patriotic, fair
minded American can take that posi
tion toward a man of President Roose
velt's character and record.
THE ELEVATOR TRUST.
The Ramsay bill which Geo.
W.
Berge' rcttumcterlzeer aT
the "grain
trust" bill contains a provision "to
compel railroad companies in Ne
braska to afford equal facilities, with
out favoritism or discrimination to all
persons and associations erecting or
operating grain elevators and handling
or shipping grain." The Brady bill,
which Mr. Berge said was killed by
the "grain trast" contains aproviidun
"to require railroad companies and
commission carriers in tbe state of Ne
braska, to erect and maintain side
track or switch, to any elevator or
elevatOH. erected by any firm, corpor
ation, association, person or persons
for tbe purpose of baying, storing and
shipping grains."
We challenge anv lawyer in Colum
bus to point ont wherein the Ramsey
bill does not cover the same gronud
covered by tho Brady bill, or to point
out an instance whero the Ramsey bill
has failed to secure justico to farmers
elevators whero tho Brady bill would
havo seoured greater justice.
And again, if the Ramsey bill was
the work of tho "grain trust", why
did evory single fnsionist in tho legis
lature vote for i ?
Answer, democrats, or vote for
Uenggler and Hughes.
Tk Fiats.
Mr. Berge, the fusion candidate for
governor, is going up and down the
state telling the people how the fus
ion administration reduced tbe state
debt by 9076,003.79. To prove his
assertion he states that when the
fnsionists went into pow3r in 189C
the republicans left an indebtedness
of $l,9:iG,273 47 in the general fnud and
f407.2as.04 in sinking fund; that in
1900, when the fnsionists went out of
power the sinking fuud debt was
wiped ont and tho general fowl debt
was reduced to 1,720.447.72. thus mak
ing the apiiarent saving given. Mr.
Bergo's figures aro correct as far as ho
goes but like every other politician
who 6eeks to doceio the people and
make votes through prejudice, he
doesn't go as far as straightforward,
honest truth demands. He neglects
to state that when tbe fnsionists took
hold of the state government in 1S9C
tho republican turned over to them
907,210. 43 in cash in the general and
sinking funds and when thoy went out
of power in 1900 the fnsionists turned
over to the republicans only $10.1.759.
99 or K01. 450 74 lera than they received.
So. instead of reducing, they had act
ually increased tho Rtatedebtbytl25.
380.95. and this is not all. When the
republicans came into power they re
ceived from the fnsionists a farther
legacy of debt in the shape of unpaid
bills and deficiencies amounting to
$182,735.97 which they paid. The
state debt on June 30. 1904. less cash
in the treasury, was fl. 972,213.43,
making on apparent increase of nearly
1250.000 in four years, but taking out
the populist debt of 1182,000 paid there
isn't mnch left. When it is further
considered that the republicans have
been compelled to make extraordinary
appropriations amonnting to over
200,000 for rebuilding the Norfolk
hospital and tho penitentiary, which
wore destroyed by fire, and for the
state exhibit at St. Louin, the repub
lican financial record becomes a mighty
creditable one compared with that of
the f usionists. Still this is not all of
Mr. Berge's failures to tell all the
truth. He failed to state that from
1891 to 189C the fnsionists had the ma
jority in the legislature and most of
the time the governor, thus controll
ing appropriations, and that during
that time the state debt inert ased
about 91.200,000. All these facts were
available to Mr. Berge, and if he were
the honest man and saint his support
ers claim him to be he should be wil
ling to state the truth as shown by tho
records instead of presenting figures
intended to deceive. That he doos
so is pretty good evidence that ho is
a reformer of the same stripe as the
ones the fnsionists fooled the people
with in the past. Norfolk Press.
"The inequalities in onr revenue
system must be apparent to any who
has examined it. A general revision
of the entire law upon the subject is
necessary. Numerous attempts have
been made in tbe past to accomplish
such revision, but tne short time occu
pied in a legislative seasion. the vast
amount of work to be accomplished,
and the magnitudjW and difficulty of
the task, have prevented its consum
mation. uovernor w. A. I'oynter in
his inessageto the legislature. Janu
ary 3, v.m.
NEBRASKA LAUHCHED.
We are indebted to Col. O. D. Evans
who returned Thursday night from
Seattle, for an interesting description
of the launching of tbe battleship Ne
braska in which he played a conspic
uous part as Surgeon General on Gov.
Mickey's staff.
The doctor says he can not find words
adequate to express the brilliancy of
the event. He says. "There was not
a hitch in the program from start to
finish, and no accident to bring ro-
gret to any visitor. Those western
people simply ontdid themselves in
showing us courtesies". He referred
especially to the brilliancy of tbe re
ception tendered the Nebraska pnrtv
at the Washington hotel, under the
auspices of the Chamber ot Commerce.
Ten thousand guests, including all
the prominent men of the Northwest
were present to meet tbe distinguish
ed party from Nebraska. The receiv
ing party was in line for hours, shak
ing bauds with the guests.
A steamer trip around the sound
under the auspices of Seattle business
men is another incident of their en
tertainment which Dr. Evans especially
praises. Aboard the steamer "Inland
Flyer" the Nebraska mrty were taken
first to visit the newly-launched Ne
braska, then to Port Blakley and from
there to the navy yard at Bremerton.
The launching of tbe Nebraska was
a red letter day for Seattle. The daily
papers of that city cave much praise
to the Nebraska parry, printing sev
eral half tones in which Dr. Evans
occupies a conspicuous position.
From one of these papers we reprint
a paragraph describing the launching
of the Nebraska and a poem written
by W. A. Olmstead.
Graceful as a swan the hage vessel
Plunged into the blue waters of the
bay.
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And the surging
raves echoed in
unison
With ten thousand
voices that
cheered
The mighty ship ia her baptismal
font.
Monarch of the sea. whose ribs of
steel
And coat of mail are stronger than.
Leviathan of old. Solid as the
Rocks of Gibraltar, not a quaver of
A beam 'or bolt, or steel girder
Shook her frame as the white
Spravrose in this.her virgin plunge.
Symmetrical strong, powerful as the
nation of which
She is so grand a type.
Today a grateful peoplo say, "God
speed Nebraska." A woman's sweet voice
ray.
' ' I christen thee Nebraska. ' ' Born
on the shores of
The Pacific, whose waves touch
The commerce of all nations.
Fit type of a state whose basic
Principle is freedom and equality;
To keep, obey and love tho law.
May those who bear aloft your Hag
Never carry it, but in the cause of
Right and justice ! O, noble ship.
May your presence and majestv
Guard weak states abroad
And be a shield and bulwark to every
Citizen in all our broad domain.
May the colors that vou proudly tiear
Be never lowered to cno dishonored
Act, nor to a foreign foe. but
Unsullied sink, if need be. .
With the emblem waving deliance to
the last.
If in the cause of right our
Nation's honor to defend your decks
Be drenched with blood, vour fair
prow broken.
The ribs of steel wrenched
By shot and 6holl,
Keep the proud record ot the state
you bear
Aloft, and face the,foe
As have all your vafliaut MsUThii)S-.
Queen of the Pacific! to you we
drink this toast :
"May the flag at yonr masthead
Ever foryoar country's honor flout."
In every part,on every sea. lie honored
And greeted as a symbol of pence,
Tno bearer of good tiding. in nil tbe
World, from a nation where f terdotr.
Justice and equal rights prevail.
The high and low, tbe weak and
strong,
The Muck nnd white, find peace
And protortion, under your ample
folds.
This dono, your launching then to
day Will bo an honor to onr country,
And a hope to the oppressed of every
land.
J. W. OLMSTEAD.
"Majestically and with tbe power of
newlv-created life, the battleship Ne
braska was launched from the ways of
the Moran Bros. Company's ship
yards anrt amidst hnrrahs from 40,000
throats, tbe blowing of sirens and
whistles, the reverberating booms of
guns on tbe monitor Wyoming and
revenue cutter Grant ami the inspiring
strains of the national antnem from a
half dozen bands, the newest of Uncle
Sam's fighting machines was consigned
to the bosom of tbe mighty deep.
From her mastheads were waving the
Stars and Stripes, and enveloped in
an intermingled confusion of bunting
the huge craft softly settled in the
elements, where she is placed to per
petuate the honor of the state and
coantry-to which she was so success
fully dedicated."
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rnOFOSED CON.STITtlTtONftU
AMENDMENT.
Tln following iroMW"l uim-ndtiifnt to, ami
com cnl ion for tho iviuoon of. thft'ou-ttittition
of tlo- Stateof X!ni.-k:i.nH ImtviunfN-r M-t forth,
in foil, ih MilnnittMl to tin- WlorMof t!t Stnlt
of X-irnkH. to im otil iij.oii ni tl4 Kn-jr-i(
eltTtion to lie hflil "lin-li, .N'ou-mU r ..I I.
IMJI:
(Kkmtk Fit.K .V. 114.)
A ISill for u Joint i:!iiini ri'onnti-nitini:
to lh ? li-rtorv of the Htati; fi vt. nt the rtvxt
Wtiort of nifinlx.TH if i!h Li;ie!;itiir' for or
iiiniiu-t a I'oiiwiitton to rfviw- .-uiu-iiii m.l
-h:il)gi t!i tonMitiitioii of thStntoof NVhru-L.i
in nivonlfiriro with Si'lioti L, Artir.- i:.,,if the
Constitution of tho St:itof ."Vhr.-L-kn.
it .Vm.ii'iI b'jtlir -;fVoi(r' ttf Mutr
I. 'Pint it Nih-omiMl nHVtnry to rail n con
ii'iifiou lo rvw-. iiim-riil anil i-Ii.ii.i tho Con
stitution of tho State of N.'liriwk.i.
J. That thoi-li-t-tom aro nt'oiiirnriiitil to oti,
at tho iii-xf rlx'tion of nuruhr of tho I,i;it
hitnro for or au.iin-t n t'ottvi-ntion U nvi..
itiiii-ml arid clt.uigo tho Constitution of thoNtuto
of Nolrn!ka.
3. That nt Mlrfi next oh-t'tioti of Rinuilr of
tho l'?iilattiro im tho liultot of iirh U''tr
voting at put-h cliction. shall ! tirinttti or writ
ten in wirh nintinor lh.it thoohwturran imlii-ato
tiit iirofwvuco uniliT tho law tho uonln "JtUt
railing n oonTontion to roiw, atiu-nil atxl
chatico tho Constitution of tho Statoof Ni'!ru
k:i."nnil "A(JA INST railing a foment ion tor-vi-o.
amonil ami ohngo tli-C-o!i'-tiliitiiii of th.-
I Stuff of Ni-lini-ka": ami if n majority voting
at xaiil olrrtioi. kJi.iII voto fornrouvontion. th.
liogi-littiiro shall, at itt m-xt. M-vi.ni, j.ri.vi.ie l
l;tw for rrtlliutc tho s'ini.
I. tito. l. Marsh. S rn-tarv of Wato of lh.
Stat" of Nohniska. ilo l.on-fij ivrtif) that th
fon'ioirig jiroiMMoii amoniliiivnt to tho Const it u
tion of I)m Stato of Ni-liniska. and prm-iliint fur
n Conv cut ion fort ho rt-visioinft-Hiii Constitution
of tin Sfato of Ni'liniska. is a tno ami comrt
ropy of tho origmii! nri.II.il hit uis,-, ,v tho
Twontj-oiehtli st-siin of tho Logislaturoof tho
Stato of Ni'liniska. as it ap'ar from saiil origi
nal hill. on tilo in my olliri-. itrnf that siiil pro.
(iokoiI ainniiliiiHtit anl revision oT the Constitu
tion of tho St.ito of Xi'hraski in nlniiittotl to tin
iunliti.il voters of the State of Ni'hraska. for
thi-ir tfcloptioii or rrjiftfon. nt tho giu-rni olor
tion to In hflit or Tui-mI.ij-, tho Hfl day of .u-
tfmhor.A. I. r.u.
In ti'slmiiinv It.-rvuf. 1 Innnriti. .ft mj hmiil
anil atliiiil tho tirr.it So.tl of tf,.. St. it of Ne
braska. Doll" at I.ir.rola this ".tli i!ai .r .Jul v. in tho
je-ir of our lj.nl One rii.iis.iri. Nino l!?:uilro!
ami Four, of th" lmI.-..-mhnri .f tl. Unit.st
Stati- theOi.o iriiinlr.il ami TWiify.Xiutii anil
of thin State tlioThutj-Kiirlith.
(HKKAT Mill .)
Jro V. Ml.Ml.
S i-retary of State.
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iouuu mat i was not gaining my
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coultTwish, and as your Wine of
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fofuad I was restored to good health
and. strength and able to i-ily up
my work with renewed vigor. I
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and am pleased to endorse it.
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