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VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOV. 8 , 1900. NO. 18.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898.
HE ONSER"
POST-ELECTION ,
VATIVE long used
SERENITY.
to Be 1 f-control ,
represses its grief , because of the appar
ent overwhelming defeat of William
Jennings Bryan. Returns up to this
time indicate that the American voter
has determined , like the son-in-law who ,
wheii asked by telegraph whether the
remains of his mother-in-law should be
embalmed , cremated or buried , replied :
' Embalm , cremate and bury ; take no
chances. "
Tha "Second Battle" will soon be in
course of incubation , provided the assay
of the free-silver junk , imperialism and
truet scraps show the possibility of the
coinage of Mr. Bryan's recent candida
ture into the currency of the realm.
"It is the money that is in politics and
not the honor" that attracts Windy
Willie.
General Smyth and Oolonel Bryan
kindly came down into Otoe County on
the 26th of September last and at Ne
braska Oity made a malicious , menda
cious and purely partisan assault upon
the Nebraska Oity starch factory and all
the interests therewith connected. Col
onel Bryan was particularly facetious in
quoting THE CONSERVATIVE , doing as
he is accustomed to do when quoting
Lincoln the act of mutilation ; that is ,
deliberately leaving out parts of para
graphs and parts of sentences , so as to
destroy the original intention of the
author. Oolonel Bryan was particularly
Strong against the starch works at this
place .as a menace , to the prosperity of
our people , and. in this he was upheld
with all the effervescence which Attor
ney General Smyth , who originally was
fed on chunks of blarney-stone , could
evolve. Before these gentlemen arrived
to make war upon the common-sense of
the voters of this propinquity , by as
suring them that a large wage-paying ,
corn-consuming manufactory was a
detriment to the community , the major
ity of the voters in this town had given
their franchises to Colonel Bryan. In
1896 the valiant colonel , who has been
distinguished as invincible in peace and
invisible in war , carried this city and
county. But the public stomach was so
nauseated by the egotistic declamations
of the Colonel and General Smyth on
September 26 last , that on November 6
the emetic went into full action and
both were spewed out as not fit for
benevolent assimilation.
THE CONSERVATIVE nearly three
years ago recommended the realignment
of the better citizenship of the United
States into a conservative political
party. On this morning of the 7th of
November , 1900 , it commends for recon
sideration the importance of a political
organization to be founded upon princi
ple and in favor of honest and economi
cal administration of the government
upon a patriotic instead of a partisan
basis.
The Nebraska legislature seems to
have been captured by the republicans ,
so that on joint ballot they can defeat
the re-election of Allen and the proposed
election of Bryan or Hitchcock to the
Senate of the United States. What
ever the republicans may do in giving
to the commonwealth a citizen of high
character and ability as its representa
tive in the upper house of congress , we
are sure that it cannot create a more
perfect combination of strong intellect
and rugged brutality of absolute degen
eracy in moral instincts and self-
assertion in politics than William
V. Allen. It may be that the people
ple have determined already to
send Messrs. Rosewater and Thomp
son to the United States Senate , and if
the legislature carries out the mandate
of the popular vote in that regard , every
decent citizen must acquiesce in the
selection and uphold the senators as
long as they seem to be doing honestly
the best they can for this great and
growing state.
It seems probable that Otoe county ,
which has given more than four hun
dred majority for McKinley ind Roosevelt
velt , may have elected to the House of
Representatives one fnsionist in H. H.
Hanks. If this be the fact the county
is congratulated upon its good sense and
good fortune in having selected the best
man on that ticket to represent its thrift
and intelligence. Aside from a few
economic vagaries about the sacred
ratio and unlimited coinage , Mr. Hanks
is a young man of good ability and
commendable character.
The starch works will grow in Ne
braska Oity. Up-buildera have defeated
the down-pullers ; constructionists have
vanquished destroyers and prosperity is
not enjoined from our midst.
A second-hand
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FOR SALE . _ , , . -
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"Landslide for
Bryan" can be bought cheaply. For
particulars ask J. 0. Dahlman , travel
ling companion , political guardian and
assistant prophet to "the peerless leader , "
W. J. Bryan.
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COLONEL IRISH.
speech of Colonel
Bryan at Nebraska City the most effec
tive influence in making votes against
Bryauism was the eloquent , forceful and
convincing address of Hon. John F.
Irish of California. Colonel Irish is
steadfast in his devotion to the real
principles of democracy but uncom
promising in his opposition to popnlistio
vagaries now counterfeiting democracy.
He spoke under the auspices of the gold
democratic organization of Nebraska
City.
The alphabet of
A Ju C. . _ . _
anarchy , bribery
and corruption will be forever illumina
ted by Altgeld , Bryan and Oroker.
Then Tillman who boasted that in
South Carolina it is the custom to shoot
negroes that attempt to vote may be
placed alongside of Oroker who in 1872
was indicted for the murder of a citizen
of New York who endeavored to vote
against Tammany.
What a change for Oroker , from the
cell of a criminal in the tombs of New
York , in twenty-eight years to the twin-
ship of a candidate for the presidency
from the prison bread-and-water to
twelve dollar-a-plato dinners and the
right hand of fellowship with goody
Willie Bryan.