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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , OCTOBER 12 , 1899. NO. 14.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
.T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOU.
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Read the next page of this number
of The Conservative for a vindication
and exculpation of Colonel Bryan.
"In my beginning here 1" Beginning
what ? To practice law ? To do any
thing except get and hold office ? Could
disinterested patriotism be better de
picted ?
LOW AND HIGH. _ f a ?
Colonel Bryan is a
prestidigitator. While lecturing on free
trade he denounced and bemoaned high
prices and lauded low prices. But while
lecturing for free silver he damns low
prices as the bane of prosperity and
praises high prices as the sole tonic and
test of prosperity.
As a self-adjusting , reversible vote-
catching economist Colonel Bryan is
without a peer. He wanted free trade
because it would make prices lower.
He wants free silver because it will make
them higher ; bat he wants office more
sincerely than he wants anything else.
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1 THE DEAD ALIVE. , . " _
tioniBt with power
to clothe the dead with life and make
them breathe and smile again , the aver
age orator for the free coinage of silver
at 16 to 1 , is a flat failure.
The time spent by Colonel Bryan in
asserting and reasserting , in affirming
and reaffirming that the silver question
lives and breathes and blows and blub
bers again , averages twenty-four hours
a week. Other live things need not be
certificated as to life. Why say that
silver lives ? Do gold-bugs find it
necessary to say that the gold standard
still lives ?
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THE PARSON'S ADVENTURE.
It was at a baptizing in the rural dis
trict. The colored parson was carefully
feeling his way to firm rook bottom. He
was in waist deep , when suddenly he
keeled over , floundered , spluttered , and
then disappeared under the water. But
in a moment his horrified congregation
on terra firma saw him bob up serenely
and make desperately for shore. They
dragged him , dripping , up the bank ,
when he muttered in a weak voice :
"Fo' God , I never knowed dey wuz alli
gators in dat millpon' ! "
The foregoing African anecdote from
The Atlanta Constitution may be read
for consolation by some of the epithet-
slingers among the editorial and oratori
cal friends of Colonel Bryan after they
have perused his facsimiled letter in
THE CONSERVATIVE today.
Before plunging with athletic fervor
into the deep denial of the utterances of
THE CONSERVATIVE asvto what Colonel
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Bryan had said when first asking office ,
in his "beginning here , " for "the
money in it rather than the honor , "
these zealots did not know "the alliga
tor" was laying for them "in dat mill
pon' . "
AN AFFIDAVIT.
STATE OF NEBRASKA , )
County of Lancaster , j
Henry G. Smith , a newspaper correspondent
pendent residing in Lincoln , Neb. , being
duly sworn , says that on Tuesday , Sep
tember 26 , A. D. 1899 , he interviewed
W. J. Bryan at his home in Lincoln and
that during said interview and in re
sponse to the question as to whether or
not said W. J. Bryan had ever said he
wanted office for the money there was
in it and not for the honor , said W. J.
Bryan denied positively that he had
ever made such an assertion. Deponent
further asserts that during said inter
view said W. J. Bryan remarked that he
did not propose to take occasion to deny
all of the assertions made by J. Sterling
Morton. Deponent further asserts that
during said interview said W. J. Bryan
expressed a wish not to be quoted as
denying that he had ever said he wanted
office for the money there was in it and
not for the honor.
HENRY G. SMTH.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3rd day of October , A. D. 1899.
[ SEAL. ] HORACE G. WHITMORE ,
Notary Public.
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THAT DENIAL BY ,
COLONEL BRYAN , denied to the Lin
coln correspondent \
of The Omaha Daily Bee , on the 26th of *
September , that he had ever sought ,
said that he had sought , or intimated
that ho had sought any office for the
money in it. The affidavit of the gentle
man to whom Mr. Bryan declared : "I
positively deny the assertion , " may be
found in this issue of THE CONSER
VATIVE.
Because of this unequivocal and
sweeping denial made by Colonel Bryan ,
and because with the denial in an offen
sive and an accusing manner he named
the editor of THE CONSERVATIVE , this
paper , for vindication and verification ,
today prints , in rebuttal of Colonel
Bryan's positive and unequivocal denial ,
a fac simile letter of Colonel Bryan in
which he says : "I assure you that it is
the money that is in the office and not
the honor that attract mo. "
Carlyle said ,
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OF REFORM.
with his eye no
doubt fixed upon some professional re
formers :
"Reform , like charity , must begin at
home. Once well at home , how will it
radiate outwards , irrepressible , into all
that we touch and handle , speak and
work ; kindling ever new light by incal-
lulable contagion ; spreading , in geomet
ric ratio , far and wide ; doing good only
wherever it spreads and not evil. " '
THE CONSERVATIVE
BRYAN AND
TRUTH. TIVE publishes that
which hereafter
follows because forced so to do by
denials and assertions. They were not
noticed seriously until Colonel Bryan
himself , as we are informed , made a
sweeping denial , charging falsehood.
This telegram is one reason , with other
denials and denunciations , for the
electrotyped letter of Colonel Bryan
which THE CONSERVATIVE exhibits to its
patrons and the general public :
LINCOLN , Neb. , Sept. 20 , ' 99.
THE CONSERVATIVE :
Nebraska City , Neb.
In an interview today W. J. Bryan
flatly denied that he had ever said or
intimated in any way that he desired
office for the money there was in it. He
said that anything J. Sterling Morton
might say in that connection was false.
P , A. HARRISON.