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Among eminent
IIYIHIIDS. . . , , . ,
Amoncnii horticul
turists Professor Budd , of Aines college ,
Iowa , is considered the most learned
and the most successful. He has ao
coinplished floral mirncles in the hybrid
ization of roses and no man cau put a
limit to the betterments in color and
fragance , vigor and fecundity which
have thus been added to the vast and
popular family of the rose.
How efficiently hybridization cau bo
carried ou as to mentalities and indi
vidualities in the human race no phys
iologist or psycologist has presumed to
prophesy.
But in politics the United States can
exhibit gigantic results from hybridiza
tion.
tion.The
The political pollen of the Chicago
platform mixed with the St. Louis pop-
ulistic pollen which was shaken out and
distributed by Win. V. Allen in 189(5 ( ,
matured a. very vigorous lot of votes
that autumn. And the cross of the free-
silver republicans , onto the conglomer
ate aforenamed , completes a composite
Bryanaichy of marvelous capabilities.
But nowhere in the world , THE CON
SERVATIVE feels assured , has the hickory
been successfully hybridized with the
basswood so as to grow a beautiful and
useful tree. Neither has the oak been
budded satisfactorily upon the cotton-
wood. These attempts to hybridize the
slow-growing solid woods with the
mushroom-like growing soft woods have
always been failures and the hybridiz
ation of the Osage orange tree upon the
toadstool is admittedly impossible. But
political hybridization , by which the
sound-money democracy of Andrew
Jackson and Thomas H. Beiiton is pre
sumed to be compelled to mix with , and
assimilate , the money fallacies of Bryan
archy is as much an impossibility as the
successful grafting of hickory upon
inullen stocks. There are some things
in the way of horticultural miscegena
tion so revolting and unnatural that no
art or skill can consummate them.
And that is equally true of some pro
posed amalgamations of a political char
acter. For while it is true that , in oratory
tory and profundity of thought , Thurs-
ton and Bryan are as much alike , as
gorgeous and as fragrant as two Ameri
can Beauty roses , they are not alike as
political hybrids , nor can they ever as
similate each other further on the silver
question though both often have de
clared for the free coinage of that metal
at sixteen-to-one. It is the luxury of
Nebroskans to gaze upon and admire
these types of hybridization , so opulent
in verbiage , so meagre in beneficial re
sults , and so rotund and resonant of
voice. No other state has such wealth
of words , with such frugality of thought
stored away in only two heads a single
brace of brains.
Already the senator has been fer
tilized with the pollen of poetry. No
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proud constituent can recall his delight
ful verses to the rose and fail to remem
ber how deliciously flavored they were
with Don Jnauic eroticism and Byronic
fervor.
How long before Col. William Jennings
Bryon will bloom in the delightful gar
dens of poesy and thence fling bouquets
of surpassing loveliness to his admirers ,
no man can say. But with his parallel
political hybrid already a success as
minstrel and troubadour , it is sincerely
hoped that the Colonel will not long re
main a mere prose writer , a plank-
maker for platforms and an everyday
aspirant for the presidency. Why not
have the populist platform for 1900 all
poetry ? Why will not vagaries as to
finance , federal courts , trusts and pluto
crats sound better and take better in
verse than in prose ?
This is an ago of hybrids , political ,
financial , poetical and oratorical , and
Nebraska is the principal propagator of
all these kind of anomalies.
Ou Saturday
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June 10 , 1899 , bar
silver in London closed unchanged at
27 15-10 per ounce. New York price for
commercial bars unchanged at 60 % @
cents per ounce ; government assay
bars unchanged at 01 @G2. Mexican
dollars unchanged at 48) cents.
This price is a rise of more than four
cents an ounce for silver since all the
silver smelters and refiners became
members of one corporation in March
last. This corporation is called a trust.
But , while it is not a trust , it supports
Bryanarchy in general , and the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 10-to-l
in pnrticular , just as do Altgeld , Bryan ,
Jones , Bill Dech and all the other lead
ers in the money fallacies.
The silver refiners and smelters all en
dorse Bryauarchy and they rejoice in
the hope , expressed by William Jennings
Bryan , at Cleveland , Ohio , August 81 ,
1800 , when that experienced statesman
and exalted economist fervidly re
marked , "we expect with the opening
of our mints to free silver that every
ounce of silver will be worth $1.29 ! "
This concord of interests between the
silver trust and the chivalrous Bryan
who with knightly verbosity fights all
other trusts is very "touching. "
Comment has
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been made on in
accurate statements of historical fact
published by and with the authority of
the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Inasmuch as these publications are for
all time , and will inevitably furnish
material for the research of many a gen
eration of future students , it would
seem a pity but they should be made as
accurate as possible. Two inconveni
ences appear , however , in the way of an
endeavor for strict accuracy ; one that
persons having knowledge of historical
events may bo timid about relating
them , lest they should fall into error , or
should defer making their statement
until they can correct up on details , and
so the story be eventually lost alto
gether ; the other , that such narratives
might be edited to pieces , and put forth
so changed as to have lost their identity.
It is certainly desirable that us many
of the surviving pioneers as possible
should record their recollections , such
as they are , for the information of pos
terity , without troubling as to whether
they have erred in some particulars.
And it is equally desirable that these
memoirs should be preserved in the lan-
gungo of the narrators ; the uncouth ,
picturesque vocabulary of the freighter
and the stilted , bombastic phraseology
of the old country editor are alike pre
ferable in such matters to the learning
of some university youngster and the
"stylo of the office" of some chance
publishing house. Even errors in gram
mar and spelling , we would say , should
be embalmed , since such tokens of the
state of the popular mind amount to
historical documents of the utmost value
to the future student.
"What would seem quite practicable
would be to allot a considerable portion
of the society's reports to corrections ,
criticism and discussion.
PEDANTRY AMONG PIONEERS.
In November , 1854 , in company with
Hon. Thomas B. Cuming , then secretary
and acting governor of the territory of
Nebraska , THE CONSERVATIVE attended
a public meeting at Nebraska City for
the first time.
The audience numbered less than one
hundred. Governor Cumiug addressed
it in plain , vigorous and terse English.
His earnestness in delivery was master
ful ; and very fetching when aimed at a
gathering of sturdy frontiersmen who
were known as up-and-up men and al
ways contemptuous towards those of too
many words.
After Governor Cuming came a
speaker named Gibbs. He was of the
schools and not yet rinsed clean of
sophomorism. His elocution was studied
and artificial. But to add to his non-
harmonious relations with his hearers
Mr. Gibbs exclaimed :
"Yes , my fellow countrymen in the
language of Horace I say ; " and then re
peated , at length , one of that poet's odes
in the original Latin. While this pedan
tic recitation was going on a full-beard
brother said to another bewhiskered
frontiersman , both being garbed in
buckskin :
"I say , Pete , what tribe's language is
he talking ? "
"Well , I'm d d if I can tell , Bill ,
fust I thought it was Pawnee and now I
reckon it is Sioux ! "
Never quote Latin to a promiscuous
audience West or East.