< y Che Conservative. . . , . , , , . . . VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY OCTOBER 5 1899. NO. 13. PUBLISHED -WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. , T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 6,742 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 postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1898. The rumor that The Standard Oil Company which brings from Europe a daily average of one hundred thousand dollars in gold and pours the same into American circulation , is about to liqui date and die because the attorney-general of Nebraska has brought an action against it , is not credited except by Blarney Smyth. Mean and malicious men remark that Smyth brought the suit against The Standard Oil Company because that corporation had boasted that it owned "the greatest gusher" on the globe. This boast Smyth regarded as a reflection upon Bryan to whom and sixteen-to- oneness the attorney-general is devoted with more than Blarney Castle fidelity. The attempt- FAILURE. upon the part of The Chicago Times-Herald and other hide-bound McKinley organs to make the naval career of Dewey equal in valor and victories to the military career of Colonel William Jennings Bryan is a most miserable failure. All these efforts to shut out from the gaze of admiring and dazzled citizens the refulgent and incandescent achieve ments of Colonel Bryan upon the field of battle , by hoisting the Devvoy record must fail. Thus will Colonel Bryan go down the corridors of the ages , in full uniform , his flag aloft arid emblazoned with the legend "Invincible in Peace ! Invisible in Warl" All attempts to belittle Colonel Bryan as a military hero will fail fail utterly. The red'hot re" A rorm IST tormor who iiame- CERTIFICATED , lessly edits thp central organ of populism , fusion , illu sion , confusion nnd delusion at Lincoln proudly proclaims in a recent issue that : "Tho editor of The Independent began his public life under the severest de nunciations of the pulpit and public press. Ho was once court-martialed and sentenced to be hung upon charges of being an abolitionist. There was a reward offered for his capture and a warrant was issued by the federal court upon an information charging him with being a traitor. " Certainly that man is properly certifi cated to express the thoughts , uphold the fallacies and give circulation to the theories of Bryauarchy. If that "court martial" which sen tenced him "to be hung , " because he was an "abolitionist , " had unfortunate ly carried out th execution , what would Bryanarchy in Nebraska be doing today for a leading editor ? By the way , when and where did that court martial convene ? Who were its officers ? Why was the hanging omitted ? AN INDIAN LEGENJD.mau > speaking of the cattle business , pointed out that the raising of cattle on ranches at the present day is a different thing from the raising of buffalo on the same plains , since the cattle have to spend the entire year in one more or less circumscribed locality , whereas the buffalo used to range from Texas to British Columbia , keeping abreast of the green grnss and making the migra tion twice in each year , once north and once south. He also told a curious and obscure legend of the Arapahoes , which he said he heard from them , some time in the 'GO's. He said the Arapahoes told him of a wonderful stone image on a river to the southeast , which , as he understood them , was the Smoky Hill. Not far from it was another stream which was great medicine , of which they told him something he could not clearly under stand , about its making men's legs and arms out of salt ; he supposed this to all be a reference to the Saline river. The wonder-working image was in the figure of a buffalo , which stood astride of a great boulder , its fore legs being on one side and its hinder legs on the other. B V 4 j * x There had formerly been a demon or S'rf1 ' malignant spirit of some kind , which had haunted this spot , and getting upon the stone buffalo would kill any Indian who was so bold as to approach it. This demon was finally overcome by the warriors , who assaulted him in such numbers that ho was overpowered and slain. The magical power of the stone buffalo consisted in this , that as soon as the returning sun in the spring had called the grass to lifH again it would turn its head to the north , whereupon the countless hosts of the buffalo would take up their ponderous journey north ward ; and when in the fall it was time for them to return to a warmer climate , it would turn about and head south ward. By reason of this influence over the buffalo , the figure was held in great veneration by the Indians , and they made it one of their places of pilgrimage atter the destruction of the evil spirit. General Victor PATRIOTISM. Vifquaiu , an old- time friend of President Cleveland's administration , is as generous in poli tical life as he is game in war life. He has certificated the patriotic purpose that moved the great and unselfish mind of Colonel Bryuu when ho reluctantly resigned , gave up all "the big ambitions" that make war glorious , and denied him self the fierce felicities of battles and bullets in a hissing , tempestuous torrent about his courage inspired person. General Vifquain writes rather at length but he sums up tersely and de clares : "Colonel Bryan resigned because he wanted the treaty of peace ratified ; that treaty was in danger , he saved it ; and this has been acknowledged by all the leading papers of the country. " When any experienced military chief tain really desires peace he can always secure it by the strategy of resignation. Joniini in his art of war may not men tion this method of deploying one's self out of danger but it is nevertheless practical. ' Colonel Bryan wanted the treaty of peace ratified 1" Therefore lie resigned. Colonel Bryan "saved the treaty ! " Without his presence at Washington all would have been lost. Ho made this second hand war , and the payment of twenty millions of dollars therefor a possibility. "This has been acknowl edged by all the leading papers 1" In vincible in peace I Invisible in war !