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.