Conservative *
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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. "