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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1900)
Bffc ! Che VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , APRIL 19 , 1900. NO. 41 , PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EoiTon. A JOUIINAL DEVOTED TO THE DIBOttBSION Or POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 7,250 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. PRESIDENCY.This great republic THE PRESIDENCY. public , with eighty millions of people , must select a presi dent in the year 1900. That president will exercise , under the constitution , all the executive powers relating to legis lation and also those belonging to the commander-in-chief of the army and navy. His duties are grave and deliber ate because they largely involve the peace and tranquillity of the country. Shall the president of the United States be a statesman and a patriot ? Shall he be a mere politician and a partisan ? Shall the president be one who sought office from his earliest man hood as a means of subsistence and whenever never , in any calling , profession or occu pation , made a single dollar ? Shall the president be a man who changed from free silver to the gold standard to secure a nomination ? Shall the president be a weather vane as to principles and policies ? Shall the American people be forced to choose either Bryan or McKinley ? What act of either demonstrates states manship ? Where is there a record made by either which has resulted in benefits to the United States ? Where is there work of either which contributes to the general welftue ? Words , words , noth ing but words ! Wicked people TOO MUCH. think and remark that the United States senate vacated the seat occupied by Olark of Montana because it had been sold at too high a price. To have recognized Clark's right to hold that seat would have placed "the plain people" bidding for chairs among the Quays , Platts and other great and pure men , at a great disadvantage. Reasonable prices must be maintained. Why not have a commission to regulate , by legislation , the rates on transference from capitols of the states to the United States senate at Washington ? Many of the seats have been bought at low prices. To vacate all that have been bought for cash and promises might leave that body without a quorum. THE people of the Uni ted States will dare to place any candi dates for the presidency in the field against those of the McKinley trust and the Bryan trust remains to be seen. THE CONSERVATIVE is an advocate of civil and religious liberty and therefore laments the fact that the citizens of the United States are deprived of the right to name candidates for the presidency except through partisan trusts over which "the plain people" have no con trol. In candidature , Tom Reed , Olney , Harrison , Cleveland , Carlisle , Roosevelt , and other good men are unable to com pete with partisan rings and political trusts. TAM.OWDIPS. the Honorable Constantine J. Smyth hns driven the Standard Oil octopus out of the state of Nebraska there will be an affluent op portunity for the establishment of a candle factory at Omaha , Kearney , Beatrice , Lincoln and all other impor tant towns. There will be no oil for sale at endurable prices anywhere in this commonwealth. The Standard Oil folks have all our trade. Oil costs , under their diabolical graspingness , one-tenth what it cost before the fangs of pluto craoy plunged into the tender epidermis of the oleaginous traffic. When Smyth drives out the beast of monopoly , this behemoth of extortion , Nebraska can at once institute industrial plants for the manufacture of tallow dips. The de lightful illuminatory methods of ter ritorial days will be restored. The in candescence of the log cabins of the pioneers will be reproduced in corusca ting brilliancy. Down with oil ! Up with the tallow dip I Let us enjoy the beneficence of Smyth and condemn the malevolence of Rockefeller , who charges us eleven to twenty cents a gallon for oil which , before he began his deviltry , cost us one dollar and a half in Ne braska , On the first day of this April , of 1900 , there was sixty per cent more gold coin in circulation among the American people than there ever was before that date. The presidential candidate of the vagarists in 1896 predicted that pros perity would perish from the land , gold disappear , and general grief and apathy envelop the republic if 10 to 1 were defeated. The "money trust" would gobble up the globe by a foreclosure of its mortgages. The "plain people" would be all afieldlike Nebuchadnezzar , eating grass and dismally browsing on shucks and stubble. What a prophet Colonel Bryan is demonstrated to be ! But what profiteth it a man t. Tophesy if he lose the presi dency ? THOMPSON. Tfhe party of county has endorsed D. E. Thompson with unanimity for the position of Uni ted States senator. If Mr. Thompson applies business methods to politics with the same success that he applies them to fire insurance and other complicated corporations with which he is potential ly connected and the republicans have a majority in the next legislature his elec tion is assured. As a business man , politically and socially , Mr. Thompson represents the best elements of the ac tive McKinleyites of Nebraska. Few others have given so liberally of time , efforts and cash to secure republican ascendency , upon a gold standard basis , in this state. Upon a single standard of value Thompson is sound. PhiliPPin ° TEMPERANCE. , , demand for beer , whiskey , gin , rum , brandy and other stimulants to modern civilization seems to encourage pious editorials among the Methodist journals , which , more and more fervently endorse the "benevolent assimilation" policy of brother McKin ley. Piety pure and entirely de-hypoc- risyised in , the presidential office is a beautiful and attractive phenomenon. Even sinners can not help admiring the placid and tranquil religious facility with which the mind of McKinley turns from "criminal aggression" and "free trade" in Porto Rico to the promotion of military temperance and soldierly morality in Manila.
