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The Conservative , BUY AN FJLKS HIS DENIAL. Snyn Hi > Dlil Not Siiy Ho Wants OJIlce for tilt ! Money or Glory In It. LINCOLN. Sept. . 2(5. ( W. ,1. Bryan was iu the city for a few hours today and while here denied that ho hart ever snid he wanted office for the money or the glory there was in it. This assertion has been frequently mndo against the free silver champion , but until today he neither affirmed nor denied it. "I am willing to stand on my record , " said Mr. Bryan , "and let the people judge whether I want office for the money there is in it. However , I do not care to discuss the subject. I positively deny the assertion , but I do not care to be quoted as saying so. If I took occasion to deny every false statement , made against me it would keep me busy all the time. " Omaha Bee. PKOrOSICI ) MKKTING. CHICAGO , Sept. 30 , 1809. Denr Sir : The conference of Anti- Imperialists , to be held on October 17rh and 18rh , to which yon have already been invited , will meet in executive ses sion at Apollo Hull , Central Music Hall Building , Chicago , on October 17th , at 10 : yO a. in. It is expected that the con fereuce will remain in session both days. Its main purpose , as previously an nounced , is toplan for a systematic effort to establish Anti-Imperialist leagues and committees throughout the country , with the intention of develop ing and crystallizing the opposition to the president's policy. " It is not ex pected that this gathering will attempt to discuss how such opposition shall be given effect iu the campaign next year. It is now hoped that representatives ot the leagues and committees formed , and to be formed , will inert in a larger con ference to be held , say , about February , 1900 , to take such action in view of the campaign of next year as shall then seem desirable. In the meantime , it is hoped that the discussion may be con fined to the merits of the vital questions at issue iii order to make effective the opposition in both parties. We have planned for great public meetings lor Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Central Music. Hall. Hou Carl Schnrz , Mr. W. Bourke Cockrau J. Sterling Morton , and others are likely to address these meetings. It will be for the conference to determine whethei any of its sessions shall be public , aut upon an address to bo issued to the country. It may be desirable to hold t great public meeting on Wednesday noon at Central Music Hall , for wind a large audience can no doubt be BO cured , and at which other prominent persons in the conference may bo heard These preliminary preparations have been made iu order to make the confer eiice effective. It will , of course , de termine for itself upon its scope and the ) lans for further work. It is already certain that tlio attendance will bo representative both as to the standing ot those in attendance nnd the many irts of the country from which they will come. Wo regard this a most important neeting , and trust that yon will be present. EDWIN BUUUITT SMITH , First Nat'1. Bank Bldg. , Chicago , III. EUVING WINSLOW , 44 Kilby St. , Boston , Mass. V NFW ! < J l'j. . . _ _ . , V. Allen is respect fully requested to observe that oven in Now Jersey is felt the influence for good of a Nebraska anniversary. On July 16 , 18119 , Judge Allen was anxious ly inquiring what good had been accom plished by THE CONSERVATIVE , its editor or anybody who agreed with their gold standard doctrines ? The subjoined is from the report of Hon John Terhune , superintendent of schools at Hackensack , Bergou county , New Jersey : Arbor Day. "There is as much gratification over the increased attention given this day by the people as that given to libraries. "The reports from 94 schools show nn aggregate attendance at the exercises of 4,271. This is mi increase of 1.G28 over last year. ' There were 45 special addresses made , 115 members of boards of education present , and 158 not attending school that assisted in carrying out the exer cises. There were 509 trees planted , 88 of which were Maple and 400 Aibor Vitro. Dewey received the greatest honors as to dedication. "The total receipts were $212.83 , the most of which was used for library books ; 8-49 portraits and 475 framed pictures were reported as decorating the walls of the school buildings. "I have annually encouraged the principals to devote the day to the plant ing of trees , making flower beds , beauti fying their school grounds and visiting woods , fields , parks or mountains , for observation ; and to assign the literary part of the program for the entertain ment of the residents to the evening. "This year 19 schools tried the evening - ing plan and 2,1515 of the total attendance anco were present in these schools against 2,118 in the 75 schools that heh the exercises during the day. "Of the § 212.83 collected , $147 05 was taken in the 19 schools in the evening Wo see the aesthetic culture duo to this anniversary in nearly every school yard but an enlarged appreciation of the beauty of the world of nature , and a familiar acquaintance with the literature turo representing it will develop later with the growth of the pupils , iu their shomo surroundings. "Goethe once said that 'the beautifu is better than the good , ' which was ifterward indorsed by the late John Stuart Mill , who said 'tho beautiful is bettor than the good , for it is the good nado perfect.1 " THE MATT UK UKNIKI ) . To the Editor of The Post : Having been a reader of The Post ilmost continuously since it was estab- l < ished , and in former years of The Auburn Post under your management , iiud knowing your usual fairness , I icknowledgo myself a trifle nettled at your giving credence to and reliance iu the silly and malicious charge made by that gangrened statesman , J. Sterling Morton , to the effect that Win J. Bryan at one time said ho was in public life or sought public office "for the money there is in it. " Permit me to say that in my judgment the public and private career of Mr. Bryan makes a denial of having made such a statement entirely unnecessary. But aside from that , let me Hay that I have seen a denial of that statement , coming from Mr. Bryan , in The Lincoln Post , and as Mr. Bryan said to mo , after seeing the article in Tuesday's Post , "What sense is there in my stepping aside from the discussion of public questions to answer absurd things like that ? I have denied that story once , and I think that is enough. A dozen denials would not make it stronger. I can't afford to take up my time dealing in such things. Every one knows that there is no money to bo made , honestly , in a public career , and if it was money I was after , I would never have chosen a public career. " I wish to add only that it is the motive that makes the man , and greatly as I admire Mr. Bryan's ability , I do not believe him so adept an actor as to com pletely deceive all of his friends into the belief that the purposes of his life are for the good of his fellowmen , while , in fact , he is simply grasping after sordid wealth. If The Post will confine itself to op- poking Mr. Bryan's arguments and cease its attacks upon him personally it will at least greatly increase the respect en tertained for it by yours truly , CHAULES W. SHERMAN. The Post made no personal attack upon Mr. Bryan , simply asked a very pertinent question , and one that Mr. Bryan very clearly dodges , pen-Dually , and if Mr. Sherman's denial is accepted by the boy orator as official , which ap pears evident , then the attention of J. Sterling Morton is most respectfully called to the above article. Plattsmouth Post. There is none blinder , none lower than the false conservative and ignorant traditional'st. Man has no mission but to fulfill the law of self-preservation as an unavoid able necessity.
