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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
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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 ,
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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.
