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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1899)
tif Cbc % VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , AUGUST 10 , 1899. NO. 5. "WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. .T. STERLING MORTON , EotTon. A .TOURNATj DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POIjlTIOAr , , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 6,050 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflco at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. Ex-Governor SiT - , , T _ , . las A. Holcomb is credited with a scathing reply to the charge of the committee of state sena tors that he , Holcomb , unlawfully ap propriated money to his own pocket which was specifically set apart for house rent. Holcomb is not a paragon scather. He does not scathe very scien tifically by saying he only did as wick edly as some other governors and not quite so viciously as others who pock eted larger sums. Holcomb confesses to petit-larceny 1 He admits himself a microscopic JoeBartley a mere bacillus of larceny an infinitesimal germ of theft , a trifling spore of kleptomania. Another skilled scather is the present Judge Allen , former democrat , former republican and recent populist senator who is running a big farm and a mill of justice in Madison county and now and then furnishing a few columns of scath ing to the populistic press. Judge Allen , however , has no rent accounts to explain and , therefore , as the friend of the Oxnards , is on a safer financial basis , perhaps , than Holcomb. Bobh of these gentlemen can show how many millions they have saved the people. The public funds they have kept in or restored to the public treasury ore be yond enumeration. Hon- Henry PENSION , _ , , - . . , ' ' COMMISSIONER.Olay Evans is the equal in adminis trative capacity and an ambition to justly observe the laws relating to pen sioners of any of the many learned and able gentlemen who have filled the trying and wearing position of United States commissioner of pensions. Mr. Evans is honest. He does not wink at insufficient evidence upon the part of those seeking pensions nor encourage frauds upon the public funds by those professional claim- makers , who calling themselves pen sion agents prowl through the country endeavoring to get old soldiers to be come claimants for pensions who other wise would never have dreamed them selves pensionable. Pensions now reach nearly five hun dred thousand dollars daily nearly fifty thousand dollars an hour , during ten working hours out of each twenty- four. This enormous drain has taken from the taxpayers of the United States since 1870 more than sixteen hundred millions of dollars. And now , thirty-four years after the close of the civil war , the pension lists increase. Has no public man moral courage enough to call a halt , de fend the treasury and defy demagogues ? The real Shnon- DISCOURAGING KAINFAM , . Pure POpuhst HOW regretfully views the refreshed fields and orchards of Ne braska whence the recent rains have washed away the dust and drouth to gether with the hopes of the worshipers of calamity. THE CONSERVATIVE is ex pecting to read in some genuine organ of populism and fusion an editorial as follows : Another disgusting rainfall has soaked the fields of Nebraska and the North west with corn-saving , corn-maturing humidity. The earth has been so lav ishly and saturatingly drenched that plant food in solution has been fur nished in sufficient quantities all over Nebraska to make an average yield of thirty bushels of corn to the acre I And the state has disgracefully planted and cultivated about ten millions of acres in this abominable beef-making and pork- producing cereal. That will make an output for Nebraska of three hundred millions (800,000,000) ( ) of bushels of corn And at even twenty cents a bushel it will inundate Nebraska with sixty mil lions of dollars , drown out calamity , strangle populism and renew the dam nable despotism of the money power Sixteen to one that Bryanarchy , even with Coin Harvey exhorting in every county , dieth in Nebraska before uexl Christmas comes ! THE CONSERVATIVE WHAT ? TIVE has again and again asked : What has Bryan accom plished , what has Senator Allen brought about , what did Kem evolve , when did Maxwell originate , where did Mc- Keiglmn demonstrate and what useful ness has Holcomb or D. Clem Deavor established for the commonwealth of Nebraska ? Have its citizens been made prosperous by oratory ? Have politicians , seeking offices not for honor , "but for the money" in them , been more useful than plows and plowmen ? Is it not a truth a large robust truth that not one dollar of capital engaged in manufacture , com merce or agriculture in Nebraska was ever allured hither , induced to invest here , by the disaster discourses of populism ? When did Allen bring in capital by voice , deed or effort of his own or his kinsfolk for the material development of Nebraska ? Let the people , whoso votes fusionists seek , know when , whore and how the doctrines of calamity , de preciation of land values and land products , which have been howled for eight years through Nebraska have benefited this state ? What good has come to Nebraska by means of Bryan archy , Allen and Kern ? What ? As a rule , candidates SEEKING NOMINATION. dates for the presi dency have not campaigned for delegations from the several states a year or two prior to the meeting of the national convention. History affords no record of speeches made by Jefferson , Jackson , Van Buren Polk , Pierce , Buchanan or Cleveland in a tour of the Union , for the purpose of getting a nomination. Never did a democratic candidate nor the candidate of any other political party , before 1890 , seek to be a member of the national nominating convention. And never until 1899 did an avowed candidate for the presidency of the United States secure proxies with which to attend the meeting of a national poli tical committee for the purpose of domi nating or influencing its action. Have the American people lo t all re gard for the proprieties ; all respect for the decency and dignity which should hedge about the citizen who aspires to become the executive head and the com- mander-in-chief of the and - - army navy of this republic ?
