Conservative. 3
If that is not a gradual drifting to cen
tralisation of power some one had bet
ter edit a new dictionary. These are
the methods by which Mr. Bryan ex
pects to retain his immense popularity
in the South and the impression hero is
that when Bryan becomes president and
Tillman secretary of state , the same
customs , if not the law , shall prevail
over the United States. Would Mr.
Bryan dare to advocate the Bryanisuis ,
Tillmanisms of South Carolina in his
own state ? Dare he inform the 5,042
colored vote of Nebraska that he believes
in disfranchising the colored man of
South Carolina ? Has he the audacity
to appear to the 114,238 foreign born
citizens of his own state for votes and
inform them that he approves of dis
franchising their kindred in another
state ? Has Mr. Bryan the nerve to
stand among kith and kin and inform
them that he approves of the disfranchisement -
chisement of 98,788 of them , as that is
the custom in his friend Tillman's baili
wick , and ask their support ?
As it would be beneath the dignity of
a would-be crown wearer to answer
pertinent questions , we do not expect an
answer from him , but as some of his
serfs may be delegated to abuse me , 1
suggest that the people of the West
inquire. ,
If Mr. Bryan endorses Bryanism-Till-
manistn as understood in the South , if
he believes in the disfrauchisemeut of a
single "God-made man ; " if he does
where does he draw the line ? At the
color line , at the foreign born line , or
at the "king that is to be ? "
F. H. CLIFFORD.
* " * * *
PHENOMENAL .
RESULTS. * ne constitution ot
the United States
and would conserve all the blessings i
assures American citizens , will read and
ponder the following figures. They
show how shallow and hollow and false
is all the talk of Bryan's strength.
POWER TO uvis. Jhe wor8 fmon
utter are lost in
ho air and forgotten like the insects of
a summer day. But the deeds men do
lave the power to live. Acts for the
good of the commonwealth live when
he actor has passed from the stage and
after the curtain has been rung down at
iis last appearance ; but words , however
pathetic and persuasive , are quickly
dead.
The talkers toil not ; neither do they
spin , except yarns for catching votes.
The workers and builders leave self-
perpetuating monuments. The men who
design and establish great enterprises
for the state or the communities in
which they live are the benefactors of
the race.
Observe the monuments of Allen ,
Bryan and Holcomb scattered all over
the fields and among the factories of
Nebraska ! Behold the railroads they
have induced and constructed ! Gaze in
awe upon the capital these patriots have
caused to be planted in Nebraska 1
The de-pulpit-
RAVING BEAD. . .
, . , -
ized editor who
runs the fusion organ at Lincoln was
one week raving mad because no proof
was furnished by THE CONSERVATIVE of
the allegation that Colonel Bryan had
said he wanted an office at one time
"for the money that is in it , " and the
next week the same unfrocked priest is
madder and raves more wildly because
the proof is furnished over Colonel
Bryan's autograph.
The further fact that the aforesaid ox-
pulpit pounder , sometime since boastec
that he had been once sentenced to be
hung and that the press and public
generally approved of the sentence
illustrates the exalted pride which he
has in all things pertaining to goot
name and spotless records. The con
stant coinage of candidature into solid
cash by this ex-pulpiteer's friend
Colonel Bryan , is regarded as a severe
rebuke to worldly-minded grovellers for
money who wickedly work and sweat
'or its acquirement. The money secured ' , '
> y the green-goods method , money got- f * '
en in confidence games , is honest money , ' '
aith the I-ain-holier-than-thou
- - - - advocates -
cates , but earned and saved money is
dishonest , dangerous and wicked.
Nebraska is
Timrw . , . ,
asked to elect to
the supreme court the president of a fire
insurance company. The populists and
other Bryanarchists never tire in their
tirades against trusts and they call all
incorporations , for gain , "trusts. " But
these same braggarts of self-purity and
personal righteousness calmly ask the
voters of Nebraska to elect the presi
dent of such a corporation to the
supreme court. They name House Rent
Holcomb for the supreme court of this
state when they know that he must , if I/ ,
elected , try causes to which his insurance If
company will be a party. Would not the
retired chattel mortgage dealer appear a
mockery on the bench ? Would not the
scrivener who depicted "the boar black
pig" and the "cow named Speck , "
look
"The solemn fop ; significant and
budge ; a fool with judges , amongst
fools a judge. "
In public and in
EDWARD
life Edward
ATKINSON. private
ward Atkinson , of
Boston , is a pure type of thoughtful ,
conscientious citizenship. As a tireless
thinker and never-resting worker in the
fields of economics and sociology Edward
Atkinson has been a benefactor to man
kind. As statistician and inventor , as
authority upon fire insurance and upon
the best methods of human nutrition he
has no superior. All those who revile
Atkinson may put their works of altru
ism into one mass and the aggregate
fall far short of Atkinson's efficient
efforts in behalf of the elevation and
advancement of humanity.
DEMOCRACY IN FIGURES-DEMOCRATIC NUTS ( TO CRACK IN 1900. )
Since the birth of the Republican Party , no Democrat , save one , has polled a less per cent of the popular vote than Brynn. The popular ( ? )
Bryan received , with the aid of the Populists , Free Silveritea and Democrats , 85.45 per cent of the Now Vote of 1890 , while the despised ( ? )
Cleveland received 13 per cent of the New Vote between 1880 and 1892.
Ala. added 57,321 to population between ' 92 and ' 00 and the combination received 03,012 Lcis votes than Cleveland and Weaver in 1892.
Ga. " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "
241,705 78,000
N. Y. " 552,898 " " " " " " " " " " 103,490 " " " " " " " "
\Vis. " 225 501 " " " " " " " " " " 21721 " " " " " " " "
Maine polled 2,183 Xciu Votes in 1890 , Bryan-Sowall-Watson lost them all and 15,737 of the 92 vote.
" \Vhoii These are Digested , "There are Others.-1
Mr. Bryan's gains as compared with ' 02 were in Ark. , Col. , Idaho , Kan , Miss. , Mont. , Nov. , Ore. , So. Car. , Utah , Wyo. , and in no other state.
[ The foregoing card is published by permission of the Author , F. H. Clifford , who sells them at $2.00 per thousand. ]