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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1901)
Conservative * t Count Orcightou GUSHERS. and other pluto cratic citizens of Nebraska are' reported to have made thousands upon thousands of dollars out of "oil gushers" in Texas. Before them , however , Nebraska had made much capital , many , many dollars , out of a political and oratorical gusher. And the derricks are now all set up to bore for a third presidential nomination. Signs [ of grease for the machinery are commoner from day to day. The season for in- INSECTS. sect pests is upon us , and the Omaha "World-Herald , which is famous among entomologists , will soon begin to set traps for that bug , which carries "the sting of ingratitude. " And not even the personal pulchritude , present alti tude , or conciliatory attitude of that luminous auti-goldbug will preclude the World-Herald's efforts to extrude and exclude the aforesaid inserter of "the sting of ingratitude" from the cackling brood of the sixteen-to-one-atude , and anti-government-by-iiijunction-tude , of which the World-Herald aforesaid is the chief dude. Henry Clay Evans TOO FAITHFUL , is excused from serving any longer as Commissioner of Pensions. He has been a splendidly conscientious and effi cient officer. That has made him very obnoxioiis to the disciplined and crafty pension agents of this country. Many of these agents are politicians whom the McKinley dynasty dare not affront. They have much stock , many shares , in the original syndicate which paid the debts of a mere politician in order to make a compliant president of the United States. Commissioner Evans , in that crowd , is a moral giant. Colonel Croker , CAMPAIGN chief of the savages BIOGRAPHY. of Tammany Hall , New York , has shied his biography into the midst of the latest publications , illustrative of patriotism. The author of the work is that very rugged writer , Alfred Henry Lewis. He has , no doubt , depicted all the good and admirable traits of Croker in delightful colorings , and put the bad invisibly in the back ground. "Great is Tammany and Croker is its prophet ! " Mr. Croker's life-work should be recog nized by the "peerless candidate" in some substantial manner mere words cannot pay Croker. Emperor McKin- NOT PATRIOTIC , ley proposes to ab dicate and leave the throne empty on March 4th , 1905. Why did his majesty fail to patriotically pro- % J f. claim that he would not hold the im perial job after that date , except to sus tain his own infallible opinions as to how a government ought to be run ? Upon this hypothetical acceptance of a third term , he would have appeared as patriotic as the self-sacrificing "peer less" one , who under the overwhelm ing desire to save the empire admits that he would accept a third term can didature for the crown. Why not be pa triotic like your "peerless" competitor , your majesty , and accept to save the kingdom. THE CONSERVA- SCHOOL OF AGTIVE has just re- RICULTURE. ceived a bulletin with this title. It is interesting and paternal. It contains a picture of the university farm , but no picture of a university blacksmith shop , paper mill , flour mill or other industrial plant. But on page nine it is embel lished with a scene in "the dairy school. " Possibly a view of the cooking school , of the laundry school , or of a school for studying the most celeritous methods of disbursing public funds , which have been raised by general taxation , ought to adorn this interesting little bulletin ? How many graduates from the Nebraska School of Agriculture are now farming in this state ? What is their cost per head to the tax-payers ? Politicians w h o ROSEWATER'S pretend to know , APPOINTMENT. state , in undertones , very confidentially , that the Mr. Stephenson , recently sub stituted for Mr. Houtz in the collector- ship was the choice , selection and work of Editor Rosewater. THE CONSERVA TIVE , therefore apologizes for having at tributed that appointment to the influ ence of Duke Thompson , who was the running-mate of Mr. Eosewater at the late senatorial race in Lincoln. It is re ported that Mr. Stephenson was chosen by Mr. Rosewater because of the fidelity , efficiency , and precise honesty which Mr. Stepheuson had once developed and made dazzlingly luminous while treas urer of Lancaster county or the city of Lincoln. Mr. Stephenson is a friend of the able and successful lawyer , Whee- don , and not in any way remotely con nected with Duke Thompson , of Mexico and Lincoln. Mr. Rosewater is to be congratulated. Can it be possi- SOURED ? ble that the able and distinguished editor of the Omaha Daily Bee , who was the expressly declared choice of more than forty-five thousand republican voters for United States senator from Nebraska , has soured upon Emperor McKiuloy and the methods of bestowing imperial patronage in Nebraska under the direction of Duke Thompson ? The Bee , of June 17 , 1001 , has a very acidulous editorial from the man who ought to have been made UnitedStates _ senator , by republican gratitude , for labors done , headed ; "Nebraska Under Two Monarchs. ' ' Seemingly the vitriolic element of the article is directed towards ex-President Cleveland. Butr analysis proves that the nitric aoid is injected for the benefit of Duke Thompson , the emperor of the United States and one of the villains or henchmen appurtenant to Thompson , named Stephenson , who once handled the treasury of Lancaster county. SOME BONUSES TO GET PACKING HOUSES. Enterprising cities have made them selves live stock and packing house cen ters by "paying the freight" out of their own pockets. Kansas City gave one big concern $1,500,000 to come there and build a big plant. South Omaha gave a big western con cern $1,600,000 in stock and subscrip tions to establish a plant there. The above cities gave large sums and inducements to other big concerns to build in their midst. The comparatively small city of Wichita , Kans. , gave something like $100,000 as an inducement to build a packing plant there. Fort Worth is asked to give only $100,000 ( the Fort Worth Stock Yards consenting to certain grants and privi leges ) to induce the building of a $600,000 packing house in that city. National Provisioner. The subsidy business , as above illus trated by the National Provisiouer , is not legitimate. A packing house will pay at Nebraska City or it will not pay. If it will pay it needs no donations. If it will not pay it ought not to have any donations. The Morton-Gregson Packing Com pany is employing two hundred persons in Nebraska City. It has paid out more than a million of dollars for hogs in the last ninety days. This company is not a donee. MISERABLE FOLLY. Except for the miserable folly that mada William Jennings Bryan , in two presidential campaigns , democratic leader and nominee , the country might now have a democratic president , and save the mortification of seeing its supreme judicial tribunal a national mockery and by-word. Beaumont ( Tex. ) Age , June 7,1901. A FRAUDULENT CIVIL SERVICE. "The Springfield Republican ( Ind. ) thus sums up the administration's record on the merit system : "No extensions of the reform even where practicable ; a large contraction of the reform in the order of 1899 , which is everywhere ac cepted as the worst blow given it since the enactment of the law in 1888 ; the appointment of on unbeliever in jfcho law to administer it ; and otherwise a neglect of enforcement which amounts to the creation of an understanding that office-holders may do as they please. "
