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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1900)
* r4 s\ * * m Che Consent VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , MAY 3 , 1900. NO. 43- PDBMSIIED WEEKLY. OPFIOKS : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOUHNAT , DEVOTED TO THE DIBOUBSION OF POLITICAL , KOONOMIO 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 , 1808. In the United MONTANA OLAHK. States senate on April 27 , 1900 , the guileless Chandler , whose patriotic career is the pride of Now Hampshire , announced "that on next Wednesday he would ask the senate to take up the case of Senator Olark of Montana , adding that if no one should desire to speak in opposition to the re port of the committee he would have nothing to say in support of it. " This will prevent "a bull market , " for seuatorships in several state legislatures next winter. It is agreeable to observe the friendship , pathetically implied , for the O. O. D. Senator from Montana by the death-certificated senator from Ne braska. The tender consideration of Olark , by Allen , "touches" the "touohee" no doubt with the sweet fidelity of the "toucher. " "Allen expressed the hope that the senate would not be asked to act upon this cose until the senators could have an opportunity to read the testimony. In view of the fact that the committee had taken two or three months to investi gate the subject he did not consider it fair that the senate should be asked to dispose of the matter within two or three days' notice. Such a request was ridiculous in any tribunal. " By a parity of reasoning , Judge Allen , when a jury remained out thirty-six hours and found a man guilty of bribery , would take eight or ten hours to dis cover whether he would sentence the party or not. If Olark could afford to pay $135- 000 cash for a six years' sojourn in the senate , how much will he pay for each day now ? He puts off his dismissal , through Allen of Nebraska , who wires out instructions to republicans in behalf of Thurston. Alien is a very sincere populist. CHARACTER. Harrison has the happy faculty of saying some very good things. He never uttered a greater truism than when , in speaking to the school children at Indianapolis , he said : "Intellectual attainment , the mastery of sciences , is a very poor thing , not a good thing at all , if along with this increase of knowledge there has not been the bettering and stiffening of character , and of high moral aims. It is not wealth or equipage or personal attainments that make one differ from another. It is character. " SAVE EXPENSE. expenses , profani ties , tobacco , whisky , beer , wine , head aches and bad tastes in the mouth , by dispensing with both national conven tions this year. Let MoKiuley and Bryan each select running mates and proceed to the campaign. Possibly Bryan would take MoKinley for vice-president and MoKinloy select Bryan for the same place. This would place the "principles of each" in the proper condition for "benevolent assimi lation" and "criminal prevent aggres sion" by outsiders seeking either the presidency or vice-presidency. SMYTH. Attorney-Gener. al Smyth sings fear-inspiring songs to the infant triplets , populism , Bryanarohy and silver re publicanism. He arouseth their fears with hymns about the Standard Oil behemoth which eats up a dozen or two human beings before breakfast every day in Nebraska. He kindleth their rage with chapters from the plutocratic piracies of the rail roads. He showeth the plain people how , under the diabolism of the gold stand ard , the wicked railroads aforesaid have raised land values in Nebraska all along their lines from five to twenty-five dollars lars an acre. Smyth , the protector ; Smyth , the defender ; Smyth , the law expounder ; Smyth , the psalmist of calamity , the prophet of disaster , thy songs enchant and move the mighty masses ( all but the m ) . In 1808 the Grand TEMI'I AIt TIIUKSTON. Lodge of the Inde pendent Order of Good Templars hold its session at Platts- mouth. There was then no more zealous temperance worker and absolutely un- irrigated and intensely arid total abstainer from vinous , malt and spirit uous beverages than Troubadour John Templar Thurstou. Ho was then a candidate for "delegate from Nebraska to the right worthy Grand Lodge of North America. " He sighed to become , then , the representative of Nebraska's temperance teetotalers. Ho declaimed , he importuned , he exhorted , he orated and oven recited a cold water poem , but in vain. He was not chosen. He has never since been distinguished in anti- imbibing circles. The poem ho recited then was watered more than some of his drinks have been subsequently. Whether John still cherishes the "white purity ribbon , " which he wore that day , is unknown. We sometimes 110SSISM. . . . , . boast of the priv ileges of self-government , as if the people were really potent in the selec tion of their public servants and the ad ministration of their government. The way conventions are manipulated in New York is indicated by the following dispatch which appeared in the Boston Herald : "There is to be a republican state con vention in New York today. There had been some speculation as to what would be its action , principally in view of the course taken toward Gov. Roosevelt , but Platt has sent on word definitely from Washington and all doubts have dis appeared. Roosevelt will be kept where he is , both as regards the governorship and the vice-presidency , as far as the action of the convention is concerned. He will not be nominated for the vice- presidenoy nor will anybody else be thus giving him no opportunity to de cline the office , and leaving the ground open to propose him in the future if an other effort in that direction is deemed advisable. He will be approved as gov ernor , but will not be presented for re election. Thus decrees Platt , and Platt's decrees are law to the men whom he permits to be elected to conventions in order that they may be formally carried out. " The same methods prevail in Nebraska except that the name of the boss hap pens to be Bryan instead of Platt ,