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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1900)
I > WT Cbc Conservative. VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , OCT. 25 , 1900. NO. 16. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION Or POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 9,570 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 29th , 1898. "IP 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 a y 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 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 , Knoxville , Tenn. , Sept. 10,1800. , . , . , , , . In Richard the LABOR TO BRYAN. _ , . , , , _ . , Third Mr. Shakes peare makes Labor remark as if to Ool. Bryan : "Tut , tut , my Lord , we will not stand to prate ; Talkers are no great doers , be assured We go to use our hands , and not our tongues. " Probably somebody was trying to pass off a dudelet declaimer for a farmer wheL William Shakespeare wrote : "We go to use our hands , and not our tongues. New York CRYANAND BROKER.Evening Post , which is always truthful , gives a vivid description of the triumphant and spectacular ride of Richard Oroker and Oolonel Bryan from the Grand Central Depot to the Hoffman House in New York City. The Oolonel was at his best and wore the indestruc tible smile of reform on that side of his face towards the plain people while , with Oroker-approving smirks on the other , he was winking at the Tammany heelers. The out-purses and protected pirates of the slums were enthusiastic and demonstrative. Cheers. _ , . . , . They recognized in Colonel Bryan the friend and ally of Dick Oroker and with grateful throats , yelled again and again for Oryan and Broker mixed drinks Make mixed hurrahs. The enthusiasm ordered by Oroker had been drilled for the occasion. The Post says : "Complaint was made that there would be great suffering from thirst. Mr. Oroker was firm , however , and an East Side district leader solved the diffi culty by ordering a thousand flasks of restoratives for his followers. " Thus bloomed in luxuriance the boodle-fertilized and - whisky-irrigated , , , , patriotism of the it . * Irrigated Patriotism. , T , Tammanyarchs. It was exuberant , vocal and irrepressible. Before the vast multitude , in an open carriage , side by side , rode Dick Oroker , the rotten , reeking King of Boodlers , the princely plunderer of the public purse , the upholder of the illegal system of money-getting for favoring vice , and the spotless Bryan , representing the "plain people" and "honesty" and "re form. " The tie-up of fire and water , the amalgamation of vice and virtue , the benevolent assimilation of Bryan- archy by Orokerarchy was delightful to behold. The admirers of Colonel Bryan may , with justice , boast of the Colonel's poly- , , sided graces and . . . ° Poly-Faced. . , , gifts. The remark able agility with which Colonel Bryan can flit from a Presbyterian prayer meeting , where he is super-saintly , to a gathering of Tammany Hall bummers , where he can seem expertly wicked , is commendable and without parallel in the prestidigitation of politics. No wonder that Oolonel Bryan commands alike the affection and support of the church and the saloon , the deacon and the drunkard. He never pleases one by offending the other ; he is for equality in all things. Tammany Hall is an organization which derives its revenue from black mail upon vice and Crolcer's Support. from looting public offices. In Harper's Weekly for October 18 , 1900 , is a history of Tammany methods by Mr. Franklin Mathews. He shows that Tammany Hall main tains kindergartens in which children are taught to steal. He proves the in crease in juvenile crime under the tutelage and encouragement of Tam many Hall. It yells for and will vote for Bryan and Oroker. In the same history , on page 058 of Harper's Weekly for October 18 , 1900 , Mr. Mathews gives . Purveyors. a long and sicken ing detail of the-decoying methods , which Tammany permits , by which young and defenceless women are lured into New York and to ruin and death. And Oroker and Tammany are for Bryan , 1G to 1 , against government by the law as interpreted by the courts and enthusiastic for crime , plunder and ultimate anarchy. THE CONSERVATIVE MORE SHARKS. TIVE hears of some sharks who are engaged in the loaning of small sums of money on chattel mortgages , and larger sums on real- estate securities , who deliberately de clare that they shall vote for Bryan in order to make times harder , money scarcer , and the interest rates higher. They declaim against the present con dition of banks and bankers , averritig that it is impossible to loan money to anybody with good security , at a greater rate of interest than 5 and 6 per cent. The genuine , old-style usurer wants harder times , and declares that , to bring this about , he is going to vote forBryau- archy. The more sharks the more votes for Bryan and the higher interest rates. NEVER REPEATS HIMSELF. of tne peerless Bryan brag loudly that he is eo chock full of platitudinous versatility that he never repeats him self. This is particularly true as to his prophecies of 1896. THE CONSERVATIVE has looked in vain for an opportunity to catch the Oolonel repeating even one forecast of the finances of the United States made in 1896. The mistakes of Bryan must make the mistakes of Moses inconsequential.
