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VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , AUG. 30 , 1900. NO. 8.
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EXPERIENCED
acter of the self-
CONCEIT
conceit of the peer
less candidate is not better illustrated in
any of his matchless mouthings than in
that one wherein he charges that Presi
dent McKinley is carrying out the finan
cial policies of President Cleveland.
The latter , whose patriotism , courage
and judgment are as far above that of his
callow critic as the Rooky mountains
are above mushrooms , toad stools and
ant hills , is denounced as no statesman
and only a tool of designing men. The
self-conceit , the experienced , hardened ,
callous egotism of Ool. Bryan is so ac
customed to estimating all other men as
of inferior patriotism to himself that he
has become a vote-getter for McKinley.
For the moment the best voters in the
United States , the owners of the homes
of the United States , the thoughtful ,
considerate , practically patriotic citizens
are convinced that Cleveland's careful ,
conservative and conscientious methods
of administering this government are to
be followed by MoKinley , just that
moment Bryan's defeat is made over
whelming.
AweU-considered
and carefully writ
ten editorial in the New York Evening
Post cheerfully tallies up the forces of
Bryanarchy thus :
"In 1890 Bryan secured one of the
electoral votes from California , and
would have had all nine if about 900
men who casts ballots for MoKiuley had
gone the other way' ; he secured the four
from Washington by about 12,500
plurality ; he won Wyoming's three by
about 000 plurality ; he carried Nevada's
three by more than four to one ; and he
had every other one of the small states
in that part of the union. No Bryauito
of any sense thinks that his candidate
will get even one electoral vote this year
from California , which went republican
in 1898 by over 19,000 plurality ; or the
four from Washington , which gave the
republicans over 7,500 plurality two
years ago. The chances are also against
Bryan in Wyoming , which went Repub
lican by a fair plurality in 1898. If
Stewart can "swing" the silver republi
can vote in Nevada , that state may also
go for MoKinley this year , the regular
republicans having doubled their vote
between 1890 and 1898 , while the silver
republicans polled 3,570 of the 10,111 in
all. The certain loss of one electoral
vote in California and four in Washing
ton , the probable loss of three in Wyom
ing , and the possibility that Nevada's
three may also go for MoKinley , will
require the gain by Bryan .of more
states east of the Rockies than are gen
erally thought necessary by those who
take his total electoral vote in 1896 and
figure out how many more he will need
in order to have a majority this year.
In 1815 Napoleon
ELBA. , . -
having escaped
from Elba and returned to Paris talked
imperial demagogy from the Tuilleries.
His defeats had not mitigated his de
sire for power and he discoursed then , as
ambitious and equally insincere aspir
ants for high position declaim today.
These remarks from Napoleon at the
Tuilleries might have been more recent
ly made at Lincoln :
"The people , or the multitude if you
like it , wish only for me. * * * They
rush down from the tops of mountains ,
calling on me , seeking me out , saluting
me * * * I am of the peasants , of
the plebeians of France.
"The people come back to me. There
is sympathy between us. The popular
fibre responds to mine. I * have risen
from the ranks of the people ; my voice
acts mechanically on them. "
"I am the man of the people. I have
acknowledged their sovereignty. I have
no further object than to raise up France
and bestow on her a government suit
able to her. I was brought up in the
school of liberty. "
The splendid insincerity of Bonaparte
and his superb sophistry have seldom
been equaled. It has been imitated by
many. It takes with the multitude
even in 1900 and it menaces the govern
ment and the liberty of the American
people.
In 1890 the political pretender was
retired to Elba. In 1900 ho should bo
banished to St. Helena.
His appeals to the prejudices and
passions of the ignorant , the vicious and
the misled enlist the Crokers of New
York and all the reeking corrnptionists
who follow after and feed with them ,
while they fasten to Bryan with hooks
of steal the disciples and retainers of
the Olarks of Montana.
Oroker , Clark , Bryan and Reform.
BRYANAKCHIC.
BRYANAKCHIC.and -eighty mil
lions of dollars already spent in "pacify
ing" the Filipinos. Who said that the
threat of militarism was an empty one ?
World-Herald.
And who bragged that he , himself
alone , single-handed , single-tonguod ,
talked the treaty of Paris through the
senate and made the expenditure pos
sible ?
William J. Bryan.
And who with Bryan's approval , or at
least without eliciting his dissent , pub
lished to the world the treaty-saving ,
treaty-ratifying potency of William
J. Bryan ?
The gallant lieutenant colonel of his
regiment , Victor Vifquain.
Who made this militarism possible ?
Bryan , and for the thinly concealed
purpose of making political capital ,
though it might cost money and men.
There is nothing
PABTTISM.
more abject than
a hide-bound partisan. The citizen who
boasts that he "belongs" to this or that
party , parades hia own lack of judgment ,
his inability to think for himself , and
rejoices in an intellectual slavery com
pared'to which that of the negro in
the southern states was ennobling. In
the latter an exceptional African now
and then bragged that he "belonged" to
so and so and was as proud of his bond
age of the body as some of these voters
are proud of their mental and political
servitude when they gloat over having
"belonged" to this or that party ten ,
twenty or thirty years and never having
failed to vote the ticket it prescribed.