The Conservative *
Charles A.Towue
.
CHAISES A.TOWNE. .
ed by Mr Bryan as reorganizer and
leader of the democratic party of the
near future. No man recommended in
that way can command strength enough
to make much showing. If possible Mr.
Towne has more isms in his head than
the other gentlemen. Davenport Demo
crat.
" Coin " Harvey
COIN" " HARVEY.
has bought with
the proceeds of his fool book , 820 acres
of Arkansas land , with the largest spiing
in the state on it. He is going into the
health resort business. If his idea is to
start an asylum for financial quacks he
is on the right track , provided the treat
ment will not be worse than the disease.
Davenport Democrat.
Few citizens of
H. P. BENNET.
Nebraska City
know anything of the Hon. H. P. Ben-
net of Colorado. He was formerly a
legislator in Nebraska. After that a
judge and a member of congress in Cole
rado. He did much here that was ad
mirable. But the big elm trees around
the Fulton place , corner of 10th and 2nd
avenue , which Mr. Bennet planted in
1856 , will outlast in beauty and utility
all his statesmanship. Plant trees 1
Telegrams from
NEW GUARDIANS.
Chicago in the
Sunday morning papers of November 25 ,
1900 , inform the people that Charles A.
Towue , silver republican , and Silver Re
publican Senator Fred T. Dnbois , are at
the Auditorium Hotel in star-chamber
conference with the recent populist can
didate for the presidency , for the pur
pose of planning the future of an alleged
democratic party. These new guard
ians have all records political except
those of democracy.
At Lincoln
AN ORGAN.
under the guidance
of an all-round crank the populists
publish the central organ of their varie
gated vagaries. It favors irredeemable
paper currency , the initiative and refer
endum and denounces the writ of in
junction. There is no ism of the fusionists -
ists which it does not vehemently
espouse. And now this organ of popu-
ism denounces all gold democrats as
enemies of the government because they
voted for McKinley and the gold stand
ard instead of voting for the incarnation
of 16 to 1 the candidate of the National
Populist convention at Sioux Falls. All
alleged democrats who voted the populist
ticket may , saith the organ at Lincoln
vote , act , take part in and help to con
trol the democratic party of'the United
States. But all gold standard demo
orats , saith the same soothsayer , are
forever banished because they voted for
a republican. To vote for populists is
righteousness in a democrat and to vote
for a republican everlasting damnation
. ' 6 Kansas City
TOMB-STONE.
Times , a rampant
advocate of the candidate of the popu-
ist party for the presidency , wishes to
continue populism as pilot for the
democracy. To this end it commends
he prophet , William Joel Stone-known
low as Tomb Stone. Stone's forecasts
of the recent vote in New York , and the
wagers made by him on the election of
he populist candidate for the presidency
commend his judgment to the Kansas
City Times. The gentlemen who en
dorsed and worked for the populist can
didate in 1000 , propose another warmed-
over populist for 1904. They are in
ommand. They can have "a third
battle. "
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DOCTOR TEAI , f . J .
Dietrich
appoints
as good men for all offices as Frederic
Teal , of Omaha , his superintendent of
the hospital for the insane at Norfolk ,
the people will have slight cause for
complaint. In this appointment due
onsideration was given to merit and
special fitness. Doctor Teal is a young
man , scientifiically equipped for his posi
tion and was highly recommended for the
place by the medical men of Omaha.
Governor Dietrich will in the end ac
complish much more , politically , for his
administration by continuing to exer
cise the same kind of discrimination in
appointments than he could by follow
ing the example of his predecessor , who
made party loyalty alone the basis for
political preference. An honest , effi
cient , and competent administration
would prove a wonderfully effective
argument among the people of this state
for the continuation of Governor Diet
rich's administration. Give us a bright ,
capable , efficient educator for the Blind
Institute.
A combination
A WISE MOVE. ,
of Massachusetts
gentlemen are making a move in the
right direction. They propose investi
gating the records at Washington bear
ing upon the Philippines and then to
send a representative to the islands to
carefully look up matters there. The
character of the men interested is indi
cated by their representative , Professor
A. B. Hart , of Harvard University , who
has called upon the president in regard
to the movement.
The public is greatly in need of re
liable information on this subject. An
impartial and thoroughly nonpartisan
investigation of the Philippine situation
by men of character would materially
aid a correct solution of the problem
The standing of the Massachusetts
gentlemen as students of history am
their repute as authorities upon ques
tions of civil government would be a
guaranty of their freedom from political
bias or prejudice and would give any re
port they may make peculiar interest and
special significance. They should be
given every encouragement in their
praiseworthy effort.
. , . Texas now feels
m.v. . , , , , . . . . c
the blighting ef-
ect of injudicious advertising. Her
orators , statesmen , and jurists , for years
mve taken ghoulish pride in the enact
ment of a lot of unwholesome legislation
against everything bearing the corpor-
te trade-markand subjecting legitimate
msiness enterprises to various forms of
egalized persecution until the state is
mown from Canada to the gulf , from
iTew York to San Francisco , as a place
nimical to energy and enterprise and
an unprofitable field for the employment
of capital. Governor Sayers is con
vinced of the past folly of Texas and
announces that the state will in the
'uture be good and that capital may
come in and be protected. He invites
men of money everywhere to go to Tex
as and investigate her resources. Per-
laps it was this pronnnciamento of Gov
ernor Sayers , that caused the "late
peerless " to change his mind about
going to Texas. He would be more con
tent with a domicile in some quiet ,
secluded spot where the operations of
iis automatic facial and vocal machinery
would not be disturbed by the uncon
genial whir of substantial , wage-paying
industries.
There nromany
HOW ?
men very sensitive
upon the subject of a reorganization of
the democratic party of the United
States. Mr. J. K. Jones of Arkansas ,
who may be remembered as revelator ,
organizer and seer in a recent campaign ,
is nervously irritable at the mere sug
gestion of a national democracy without
Jones for commanderas3isted br TombStone -
Stone of Missouri , Altgeld , Till man , and
other statesmen of the same brand.
THE CONSERVATIVE is not anxious for
any sort of a democratic party which
must be dominated by economic fallacies
and political heresies. And reorganiza
tion as talked by sensible men means ,
for democracy , the getting rid of dis
organization. Dis-organization came of
discrediting the doctrines of democracy ,
and adopting and advocating those of
populism. However , with Jones & Co.
in control the renunciation of the free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1 , the recanta
tion of the assaults upon the judiciary ,
and the rejection of the initiative and
referendum which are a menace to a
representative form of government ,
hardly seem possible.
THE CONSERVATIVE heard of a cooper
who mended old tubs , kegs , and barrels
no matter how badly
H
ly dilapidated. His
patience was proverbial. He reorgan
ized those receptacles for fluids cheer
fully even when only a few hoops and
a half dozen staves were brought to
him. But at last he got mad and
profaned. He was asked to reorganize
a barrel with only an old bung hole for a
foundation. He damned the proposed
attempt and constructed a new barrel.
A new party might be opportune , per
haps , for 1904.
