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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1900)
" ' , 1 * . Conservative. Bixby , the poet PHILOSOPHY. . , f T i of fcho Lincoln State Journal is Baying wise things inverse verso from day to day. There is sug gestive wisdom in the following eight lines : "Lives of stingy men remind us We can all accumulate , And , departing , leave behind us Much for friends to dissipate. Let us then be up and doing , As we journey here below , Still achieving , still pursuing Wealth for other folks to blow. " The alleged democratic CANDIDATURE TKUST. ocratic party and the alleged repub lican party will respectively hold national conventions this year for the alleged purpose of nominating can didates for the presidency and vice- presidency. Neither convention is required. The syndicates in each party have already nominated Bryan and McKinley. Their followers , owners , backers and abettors have a trust in candidature. Private persons cannot compete with them. The American people are forced to support either Bryan or McKiuley to take either pills or oil , garlic or onions. SENATORS.The auditor from FUSION SENATORS. the Papillion Times Printing Company is endeavoring to determine whether the candidates for the legislature on the fusion tickets in the several counties shall be "instructed" or uninstructed. As a rule fusionists go to the legislature uuinstructed in the most rudimentary studies of political economy. They are sometimes uuin structed even in arithmetic , reading , writing and geography. But the burning question with Edgar Auditor is : "shall they be instructed to vote for Hitchcock , Geriug or Thomp son for United States senator ? " Edgar awards one of the seuatorships to William Vincent Allen and remarks , with refreshing eagerness : "and he will be acceptable to all democrats. " Edgar in his hot pursuit of the audi- torship sweats , halts , staggers and says with delicious candor : "we would be pleased to learn the views of the party press and party leaders. " Those views , whatever they may bo , are the accepted views of the fearless and independent Edgar. He is braver than a martyr. Those who opposed . . RATIO VS. REASON. posed 10 to 1 in 1896 oppose it todny. Experience has verified their opinions and made them more intense in their convictions. On the other hand individual instances are known in every community of the evolution of a Bryanarchist into a gold standard democrat. The extent of a change in political opinion , however , can be estimated more accurately by a cita tion of an organized body of men than by a reference to individuals. The or ganization is national and speaks for the many while the individuals are but local and speak * for themselves. The bolters of the regular republican convention in 1800 organized the silver republican party , Drop Silver. * * V as distinctly typi fying their opposition to the gold stan dard and their loyalty to the free coin age of silver at 10 to 1. The leaders of this party have decided on a change of name , dropping the word silver , thereby causing their party to lose its original significance as a party organiza tion and recognizing the fact that the issue that gave it birth no longer lives. Charles A. Towue , the well-known ex-congressman from Minnesota , and chairman of the national committee of the silver republican party , in a re cent interview said that a part of the Chicago platform did not apply to present conditions , that it was framed to remedy falling prices while today we have a raise in prices. With this evident feeling of renuncia tion on the part of those who were the Democratic Folly. most . , . prominently . _ , . , , identified with silver in 1896 , why should the democrats be less rational ? Why should they re affirm the Chicago platform and by so doing make the ridiculous assertion that prices are falling when as everybody knows they are rising ? Why resolve a lie in regard to a well-known fact of trade ? What would people think of a scientist who would stake his reputation upon asserting , as a fact , the opposite of a recognized scientific truth. What should be our verdict upon a political party that would base its political phil osophy upon a self-evident untruth ? If the silver republicans , who owe their political birth to the sweet delusion of 16 to 1 , are now willing to forsake it , ought not the democrats , who were only beguiled into accepting the vagary , bo willing to abandon it ? There is absolutely no reason for the democrats to commit such an act of folly as to again The Kcnl Purpose. . become sponsor for 10 to 1. The only object in so doing is to give a semblance of consistency to the candidacy of the man who is now most prominently mentioned for the nomination. 10 to 1 and Bryan are in separable. It was as the leader of this mistaken theory of finance that ho became - came known to the American people. As a political leader he stands for this and nothing olso. 10 to 1 means Bryan and Bryan means 10 to 1. To drop 10 to 1 would destroy the logic and consist ency of his candidacy. For him to abandon the cheap money fallacy and go before the people as the exponent of an opposing idea , would condemn him as a fickle adventurer. It would brand him as a mere soldier of fortune , who would im pulsively espouse anything he believed for the moment to be popular and gave promise of big dividends on election day. The democrats must either endorse 10 to 1 for the childish purpose of enabling one man to say "I told you so , " thus placing individual pride above national good ; or they must drop the sacred ratio and the man who is typical of it. We have reached a crisis in our poli tical history. We must decide whether . , , , tlie future of our A Critical Period. , , , , government shall be an empire with subject colonies or a republic of free states. This is not a time for considerations of personal pride and ambition to dictate the policy of a great political party. It is inopportune to subordinate the perpetuity of the early traditions and fundamental prin ciples of our government to the petty vanity of a standing presidential aspir ant. Success is possible by a strict ad herence to the real tenets of democracy. Defeat is certain if the party again pursues the wild phantasy of 16 to 1 with the distinguished huntsman of domesticated panthers leading the chase. THE CHANCELLOR. state of Nebraska there lives a gentleman of great learn ing and culture who has been identified with all that is noble and elevating in the political , social and religions life of the commonwealth for more than forty years. His name is James M. Wool- worth. He would make an efficient and highly reputable chancellor of the Uni versity if he could be persuaded to accept such a position. Why not try a Nebraska man the next time a now chancellor is required at Lincoln ? NORFOLK KATES. town of Norfolk , it is alleged , has been unfairly treated in the matter of rates , by the railroads. The people of that vicinity know that a state railroad commission when it is not wanted is the most indolent and costly thing in the world and that when it is wanted it is the most inefficient and useless thing on earth. Everybody favors the abolition of the Nebraska railway commissioners , who draw sal aries , sleep and do nothing else. LIGHT DIET. and cold snacks during the campaign of 1900 the Bryan archists will eat the words of their prophecies in 1890. The forecasts of calamities served in the verbosity of the great orator who led "The First Battle , " and copyrighted the results , will be , after refrigeration in cold type for four years , a glacial delicacy. Eat ing the words of the predictions made by Bryan in 1890 will be a pleasant gustatory exercise in 1900.
