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VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , OCT. 25 , 1900. NO. 16.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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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.