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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1900)
'Cbe Conservative * There nro wicked HOME AGAIN. independent voters iu the state of Missouri who , reviling a governor of that great commonwealth , nick-named him "Gumshoe Bill , " but afc the font he was baptised William J. Stone. Until recently the state of Missouri was big enough to employ the Hon. Gumshoe Bill all of the time. But the electrical speed with which self conceit evolved iu the self-assertive.per souality of this animated mad-stoue , drove him to take charge of the politics of New York and a few other states. He became a journeyman statesman and temporarily set up a political shop in New York City with Oroker and Slippery Richardson and Col. Joe Rickey as partners. The firm advertised exten sively. It dealt iu forecasts and prophecies generally , but was very long on political futures. So supremely egotistical did the gum shoe member of the concern become that he at last really . Solf-Coiiilclcnt. believed himself impossible and incredible as that may seem. And in this unfortunate state of irrational credulity , Mr. Gumshoe Stone actually bet money on his own forecasts in quantities so large , it is said , that he endangered his food and raiment. He lost all of his bets and bare-footed without even gumshoes he is home again in old Missouri. Henceforth the democrats who bet on his judgment , his aute-electiou declarations , will call him Tomb-Stone. He marks the graves of their pocketbooks and bank deposits. Tomb-Stone bills are generally expensive where the stone is richly carved and the bettors in New York carved this one very finely : Alus , for Gumshoe Bill , And his cash in the New York till. In a recent letter CKOKKK ON THE CLERGY. to Mayor Van Wyck of New York City , Bishop Potter , descanting upon Crokerism in government and Orokerisui amidst the amenities of civil ization , remarks : "The thing that is of consequence , sir , is that when a minister of religion and a resident in a particular neighbor hood , whose calling and character , ex perience and truthfulness are all alike widely and abundantly recognized , goes to the headquarters of .the police in his district to appeal to tbem for the pro tection of the young , the innocent , and the defenceless against the leprous harpies who are hired as runners and touters for the lowest and most infamous dens of vice , he is met not only with contempt and derision , but with the coarsest insult and obloquy. " "I affirm that such a virtual safe guarding of vice in the city of New York is a burning shame to any decent and civilized community , and an in tolerable outrage upon those whom it especially and preeminently concerns. " "In the name of these little ones , these weak and defenceless ones , Christian and Hebrew alike , of many races and tongues , but of homes in which God is feared and his law reverenced and virtue and decency honored and exemplified , I call upon you , sir , to save these people who are in a very real way committed to your charge from a living hell , de filing , deadly , damning , to which the criminal supiueuess of the constituted authorities , set for the defence of decency cency and good order , threatens to doom them. "Such a state of things cries to God for vengeance , and calls no less loudly to you and me for redress. " And "the safe-guarding of vice" to wnich the good bishop so authoritatively , , , , , and irresistibly . . . . President Maker. , , . . calls public atten tiou , has been and continues to be , under the inspiration and direction of Richard Oroker , gambler , blackleg , horse-racer , once indicted for murder , who , only a few days ago , as a would-be president- maker , rode up and down Broadway side by side with the candidate of the popu list party who sought the chief magis tracy of this great republic. This vice-propagator , this expert and industrious orime-cnlturist , this will power of Tammany hall and its methods of quickly producing all the sins and sorrows possible to human nature this bestial wretch aspired to become the maker and manager of a president of the United States. And he found in the ambitions , gifted and unscrupulous head of the populist party , a gentleman distinguished by a reputation for immaculateness of per sonal character , a man who was willing to fraternize with him , to condone his crimes , to forget his term in the Tombs on a charge of murder , his acquitance through Tammany chicane and courts , and to publicly ride and dine with him in New York. And Oroker and his can didate for the presidency pretended to incarnate the good , the patriotic , the desirable in the public service. They represented the virtuous poor , the sober , the industrious , and the frugal , while they reprobated the rich and the wicked. And the smirking candidate , with nnctons and priestly manner , sweetly proclaimed : "Great is Tammany and Groker is its prophet. " U ° OVem" HOME BEAUTIFIED. . , her number of Home and Flowers , published at Spring field , Ohio , is published the following letter , addressed to an officer of the National Improvement League which held its convention for 1900 in that city : Annoit LODGE , Nov. 1st , 1000. DEAH Silt : Very sincerely I regret that it is im possible for me to bo present at the great gathering in behalf of home and village improvement and adornment at Springfield. For many years I have contended that the home , being the unit of the state ( and the state timply a com posite of the home ) , should merit and receive the most enlightened and con scientious efforts of every good-citizen in behalf of its elevation and embellish ment. Hurt fere I f m very heartily in accord with the principles and policies which will be advanced and ably advo cated at the gathering of home-builders to which you have so kindly and con siderately invited me. There is a splendid democracy in the vegetable world , which flowers and trees demonstrate in their luxnrient growth beside the cabin and the cottage of the poor man as well as in the grounds surrounding the mansions of the rich. "Flowers and Fruits , " says Emerson , "are always fit presents ; flowers , be cause they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of man. " Goethe declares : "Flowers , the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature , by which she indicates how much she loves us. " And Henry Ward Beeoher said : " Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. " Whenever the homes of the people in rural or in urban life are very generally embellished with flowers and beautified with trees , ' there will be a better and more refined social condition than now exists throughout the republic. Every human home expresses in some degree , if permanently occupied by the same family or race , the characteristics of its founder and the dominant tastes and motives of its occupants. Homes , like faces , have expression. This expression tells that they are the abode of thrift , temperance , sobriety and happiness , or that they are merely the abiding places of intemperance , indolence and gross- ness. Each and every effort by the good men and women of this country to exalt , purify and beautify human homes is the beet patriotic effort possible for the perpetuation of the republic. J. STERLING MORTON. CONGRATULATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS.TIVE TIVE is the reci pient of congratulations as to the re cent election from nearly every northern state. As a Nebraska periodical it is credited with pioneering the plain way to defeat an unholy political alliance , which had for its ulterior purpose the debasement of the standard of value in the United * States , the personal promo tion of ambitious and callow publicists and the dishonor of the national credit. THE CONSERVATIVE , now half through its third year , will continue to advocate an honest currency , strict construction of the constitution , faithful administra tion of the laws and the utmost com mercial freedom within the limits of the public good. It thanks its friends for their patronage and wishes to continue and expand the same by the conscien tious and fearless advocacy of all that is best for the day and generation in which we live , and desirable as a legacy for those who succeed us as tenants of this earth.