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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , APRIL 19 , 1900. NO. 41 ,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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J. STERLING MORTON , EoiTon.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Neb.
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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.
