The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902, October 04, 1900, Image 1
Cbe Conservative. VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , OCT. 4 , 1900. NO. 13. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EoiTOn. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION Of POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 22,000 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 postoffloe at Nebraska City Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1898. "IF I CAN PREVENT THE MAINTEN ANCE OF THE GOLD STAND ARD , YOU CAN RELY ON MY DOING IT. " "They say that I am begging for votes. Not at all. I never asked a man to votra for me. In fact , I have told some people to vote against me. That Is more than most can didates do. I have said that If there was anybody who believed In the maintenance of the gold standard until foreign nations came to us and graciously permitted us to abandon It , I said that If anybody should be lieve that the gold standard was absolutely essential to the welfare of this country he ought to not vote for me at all. I do not want any man to vote for me and then ob ject to my doing what I expect to do if you elect me , and if I can prevent the mainten ance of the gold standard you can rely on my doing It the very first possible oppor tunity given me. ' WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Philadelphia , Sept. 23 , 1896. "If there Is any one who believes the Gold Standard in a good thing1 , or that It iniiHt be maintained , I warn him not to cast his vote for mo because I promise him it will not he maintained In this country longer than I am able to get rid of it. " Hon. William Jennings Bryan , Knoxvlllo , Teuii. , Sept. 10 , 180U. After much self- CROWN CRUSHER- announcement , TRUST SMASHER from Elmwood and Johnson's Corners where the mighty twins-in law , Col. Bryan and Gen. Smyth , had been eulogizing each other and exalting the character , dignity anc duties of a candidate for the presidency of the United States , the Crown-crush ing and Trust-smashing Consolidated Word and Wind Co. reached Nebraska City. This spectacular advent was on September 20th. Just prior to the incoming of the train the great Corliss engine in the Nebraska City Starch Works shivered , the stones grinding corn groaned and the exhaust ) ipes in that plant and at the Cereal Hills gave spasmodic gasps intermittent- y with steam shudders , evincing the fear that pervades even inanimate matter when brought face to face with iicarnated prophecy , immaculate devo- ; ion to principle and a boundless ignor ance of economic and statute law. The mighty throng poured out in uncounted thousands of Greenbrauohes , Gilohrists , bucolio The Procession. _ , , . . . , Crokers , irrigated varlets from prohibition-drouthed Iowa , and tin imitations of Tammany heelers from Lincoln. It represented the intellect , character and tax-paying capacity of Bryanarchy with a fidelity tonohingly tender nearly all had "touched" the finance committee for ex penses of the trip. The Hamburgers who came over expected to meet Oldham , for whom their town was It Proceeds. , _ . , , . , named. They did not stand straight enough to ba counted , and the Sidneyites were also rejoicing in liberty from the state where prohibition has a trust and forces water as a beverage , by shutting out competition with man-made drinks. They were twenty-eight in number and rode intelligent horses. No committee of residents of Nebraska City met them at the depot and therefore Gen. Smyth and Colonel Bryan were untramelled in using that military knowledge and ex perience which they have acquired upon so many fields of palaver , in so many battles of blarney without annoy ance or interference from the bewildered wage-earners and other useful citizens of the invaded city. Thus with electric celerity the vast surging mass of at tendauts from Lincoln and all the brass bands and prohibition exiles from Iowa , organized in a procession the tail end of which rested at' Kansas City , while the great twins-in-law Bryan and Smyth were passing through the plutocratic "shadow of the starch works" at this afflicted indus trial center. At last with the roll of drums anc the majestic melody of a thousand in strnments of wind Beautiful. , , . _ the magmficen and spectacular demonstration began its earth-shaking tread toward the Oour House. At its-head , in only one car iage , rode Gen. Smyth , trust smasher extraordinary , and by his side crown- crushing , imperator-destroying , cross- of-gold-abhorring , "peerless" Bryan. , Whether this was a reincarnation or an impersonation of Gen. Falstaff and _ . . . his army or of Doubts. _ _ Gen. Coxey and his brigade , there seemed to be consider able doubt. Some swore that Bryan represented Falstaff because , pointing to S-m-y-th , they said triumphantly , 'there sits Justice Shallow by his side , " while other perplexed spectators avowed that it was Ooxey with Carl Brown leading an army of hoboes and tramps. At the Court House sauare. however. the Falstaff theory won out , for there Justice Shallow was asked by his valorous rous chief : "Have yon provided me here half a dozen sufficient men ? " And Shallow answered in that precise , Shakespearian verbiage , which "the peerless prophet" had used in his mar tial interrogation : "Here's two more than your called number ; you must have but four here. " A commenta tor remarked that "the two extra men" "provided" from the invaded precinct over the four absolutely required as the hand-clapping and hurrah quota were to allow for a percentage of re jections from voluntary disability by bibnlosity. Falstaff asked for men "sufficient" and "fit to go. " All that was charmingly , irresistibly beautiful and now the blare of trumpets and the sobs of Sublime. harmonies soul-soothing monies were stilled ; and the resurrect ed and roterrestrialized prophets , Moses and Isaiah , the law-givers , Solon and Lycurgns , and the presidents , Wash ington , Jefferson , Jackson , Lincoln and John Tyler , all reincarnate in one per son , "the peerless one" stood before the uncountable multitude , grand , majestic , sublime as the biggest Missouri river catfish in the presence of a school of small suckers. Immediately the disciplined * enthusiasm brought down from Lincoln in job lots , burst forth and the prolong ed shouts of automatic , phonographic , graphophonic applause made the starch works tremble and at the same time demonstrated the value of a portable acclamation factory , "a syndicate" in claqueurs and a Supreme 'trust * in mak ing plaudits. The spontaneity , the vooi- ferousness and the sonorousness of the trained hoodlums who accompanied Col. Bryan and Gen. Smyth far excell-