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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , AUGUST 10 , 1899. NO. 5.
"WEEKLY.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Neb.
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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 ?
