Che Conservative.
VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , OCT. 18 , 1900. NO. 15.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Neb.
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cation.
Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City
Neb. , as Second Glass matter , July 2Pth , 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 vote 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 B.RYAN.
Philadelphia , Sept. 23 , 1896.
"If there is any one who believes the
Gold Standard is a good thing , or that it
must be maintained , I warn him not to
cast his vote for me because I promise him
it will not be maintained in this country
longer than I am able to get rid of it. "
Hon. William Jennings Bryan , Knoxvlllo ,
Tenn. , Sept. 10,1800.
Section 223 of
OLDHAM. , , . . . ,
the criminal code
of Nebraska reads as follows :
"If any person shall make any bet or
wager upon the event of any election
held , or to be held , under the laws of
this state , or shall make any bet or
wager upon the election of any person
to any office , post or situation , which ,
by the constitution or laws of this state ,
is made elective , or shall make any bet
or wager upon the election of the presi
dent or vice-president of the United
States , or upon the election of electors
of president or vice-president of the
United States , each person so offending
shall be fined in any sum not less than
Ive dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars , provided , that the amount of
said fine shall in all cases in which the
amount hazarded by said bet is between
five dollars and one hundred dollars , be
equal to the amount so hazarded by said
bet. "
This is the statute of this state relative
to betting. The law is explicit , the
penalty severe and plainly stated. The
following is a news item from a paper
published at Tekamah , Nebraska :
"The fusion candidate for attorney-
general , W. D. Oldham , spoke to a small
. , , audience in this
A Pop and His . . , . , - , . . ,
Money Parts. Cltv Fnday
afternoon. He left
$100 in Tekamah as a wager that Bryan
would carry Nebraska by 7,600 plural
ity , which was promptly covered by
Tekamah republicans. The $100 was in
the shape of a $100 check to W. D. Old-
ham against the treasury of the state of
Nebraska. "
THE CONSERVATIVE reproduces this to
call the attention af attorney-general
Smyth to the wilful and malicious in
fraction of the law by an attache of his
office. As Mr. Smyth is so conscientious
in the performance of duty he will im
mediately proceed to restrain the
" " of his " "
"sporty" proclivities "gamey"
deputy.
By way of identification THE CONSER
VATIVE states that Old-ham is the same
, . , embalmed swme-
Who is He ? . . . . .
-
a i. j.1. j. -it.
flesh that , with
Mr. Bryanaddressed a political gathering
at Syracuse Sept. 21,1900. Just before
the public addresses were made , while
conversing with Mr. Bryan and several
other gentlemen , Mr. Oldham was
handed a copy of the Nebraska City
Press , containing article relative to
the suit of the attorney-general to close
the starch works. When asked what he
was going to do about it , he made this
reply :
' We'll push it ! Of course , we will
push it ! D n old Morton ! We don'l
care for him , the d d old fossil ! All
that he is worrying about is that his
boys , Joy and Carl , have got some
money in it and he's afraid they will
lose it. Why , if we were to drop this
case now it would cost us ten thousand
votes in Nebraska. You bet we'll push
it ! "
This statement was made in the
presence of witnesses , one of whom was
a short-hand reporter who took down the
ireoise words of the infuriated fusionist.
THE CONSERVATIVE publishes it with
apologies for the appearance of such
violent language in its columns. Bat
to quote populist officials accurately
requires the use of highly explosive
epithets.
Oldham says they will push the case
against the starch works. Why ? And
he answers "to
Why ?
keep from losing
10,000 votes. " If they will not drop the
case for the reason that it would lose
them 10,000 votes , then they must have
begun it to gain 10,000 votes. If the
petition filed by the attorney-general
of Nebraska against the starch works
was not a bit of partisan prosecution or
rather persecution why has he not made
some effort to bring the parties to the
suit into court ?
The New York
THE REVENUE
OF BRYANARGHY. World has figur
ed out that Mr.
Oroker's committee is collecting $4,150-
000 a year through the police as a tax
on crime , and gives a list of the forms
of vice and the average rate of tribute ,
which is from $75 per month to $100
per week each , as follows :
150 poolrooms $ 780,000
100 swell gambling houses 520,000
1,000 little gambling houses. . 1,300,000
500 policy shops 650,000
1,000 dives 900,000
Illicit tax on crime per year , $4,150,000
And this is the supply tank which
pours revenue into the campaign fund
of Bryanarchy. Every dollar of it is
tainted. Every dime and penny is
smeared with the vileness of the slums ,
harlotries and criminal joints and drink
ing dens of New York City. The
"trust" in crime , by Oroker and his
Candidate Bryan , is sublime.
Origi'nally the
ANTI-TRUST.
paid exhorter of
the silver smelter trust , Bryan became ,
very logically , its member of congress
and acted as its attorney for two terms
and then materialized as the presiden
tial candidate of the silver kings.
He is , however , today supported by
Oroker's Tammany trust , Oroker's ice
trust , Jones' cotton bale trust , the sil
ver trust , the trust in discontent , the
hope for anarchy , and Clark's trust in
his purse to again purchase a senator-
ship from Montana.