Che Conservative.
VOL. III. NO. 51. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , JUNE 27 , 1901. SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS.
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There are mem-
THAT NEW PARTY , bers of each of the
two aged political
organizations which nominated the two
prominent candidates for the presidency
of the United States in 1896 and
1900 , who seem pestered by the
mere suggestion of a third party.
There are allegedly republican and al
legedly democratic journals which ridi
cule the existence of a third party , and
bitterly denounce those who think it
necessary.
These censorious critics forget that it
has been openly admitted in speeches by
McKinley and
Alive. by Bryan that
the third party
vote determined the presidential election
in 1896 and in 1900. These critics ig
nore the fact that the independent voters
ers of the United States constitute a
balahoe-of-power party. Independent
voters do not surrender the right
to think , to reason , and to de
termine public policies for them
selves. They do not delegate
to caucuses and conventions , their
power to discriminate between right and
wrong. They do not authorize heelers ,
ward-workers and precinct politicians to
name their candidates and pro
vide principles for their plat
forms. But after the two old
parties have been furnished with candi
dates and avowals oft party-creeds by
the.feelers , ward-workers and "politi
cians who run them both in every state
in the Union , the independent citizen
selects the least of the evils presented
and votes for the same. Under present
conditions the independent voters of
the United States can do no better.
Until they are an organized party of
representative , intelligent , honest men
; hey can only , as the balance-of-power
mrty avert the bigger calamities which
threaten the country , by accepting the
lesser ones. But the third party is alive.
It determines elections. Neither the
alleged democracy nor the alleged re
publicanism of the United States can
elect a president without its consent.
In an editorial
POLITICAL of June 19th , the
STARLIGHT. very able and
impartial Kan
sas City Star says :
"Mr. Bryan has fought all efforts to
bring about a reorganization of the de
mocracy looking to united action. He
has been unreasonable , petty and selfish
in his inexorable ostracism of the sound
money wing of his party an element
that today more nearly represents Amer
ican sentiment in general than does the
Bryan branch of the organization. Mr.
Bryan will not again secure the nomi
nation of the democrats. Yet it is
easily possible that he may once more
cause the defeat of the party in spite of
the unusual opportunities presented for
success by accepting the nomination of
the populists'or the leadership of some
new movement. "
THE CONSERVATIVE , while in agree
ment with the Star upon most of its
statements relative to Bryanarchy and
its prophet , does not believe it impossi
ble for Mr. Bryan to be again nominated
by the alleged democracy. Already his
lieutenant-colonel.Gen. Victor Vifquain ,
has declared it the duty of the Bryan-
archistic forces to send a solid delega-
from this state pledged to his reuomina-
tion. And from the intimate relations
which existed between the colonel of the
Third Nebraska regiment and the lieu
tenant-colonel while engaged in war
and their continued political associations
in that peace which has succeeded
"The First Battle" for sixteen-to-one ,
it is reasonable to conclude that the re
cent manifesto , published in the World-
Herald , of Omaha , was authorized.
The semi-official statement and its pub
lication in the only daily paper which
Colonel Bryan ever rescued from the
grave and revivified by his magnetic pen ,
is enough to convince Nebraskans gen
erally , that a third nomination is sought
and demanded. The populist party has
never had a more faithful and consist
ent color-bearer than its presidential-
nominee of 1896 and 1900. Even in
1892 he was the true and avowed sup
porter of the Weaver presidential
electors in Nebraska , notwithstanding
at that time he was running for
congress as a democrat. And the Star ,
in view of such a past , is not licensed
to declare that "Mr. Bryan will not
again secure the nomination of the
democrats. " What was possible to a
Weaver-supporting populist of 1892 at
allegedly democratic conventions in
1896 and 1900 , is not impossible in 1904
to the same peerless poser for the plain
people.
The New Eng-
GROWING land Free Trade
TRUTHS. League is receiv
ing a good many
accessions , and its articles are contin
ually being called for. It has 1,000
members , representing thirty-three
states. Among them are twenty-six
college presidents and professors , and
an even larger number of manufacturers
and merchants , including some of the
largest and most successful establish
ments , like J. B. Sargent , of New
Haven , hardware ; A. B. Farquhar , of
York , Pa. , agricultural machines and
tools ; Rowland G. Hazard , of Peace
Dale , R. I. , woolen manufacturer ; Ar
thur T. Lyinan , carpet manufacturer ;
William B. Rice , boots and shoes , and
representatives of every profession and
business , but all united in their love of
justice and detestation of "the system
called protection , which , at the dicta
tion of organized wealth , taxes the
whole American people for the benefit of
a few. "
Every twenty-
TWENTY-FIVE f o u r hours the
THOUSAND railroads , man
ACRES. ufacturers and
home-builders of
the United States denude twenty-
five thousand acres of timbered land.
That is , there is a daily consumption of
all the wood , the trees on twenty-five
thousand acres supply.
How many acres are planted ? Twenty-
five ? .
Next Arbor Day , April 22,1902 , let
each of the one hundred counties in the
state of Nebraska , plant at least two
hundred and fifty acres in trees. Let
there be one day in the year in which
one state shall plant as many acres in
trees as all the states destroy. Nebraska
ought to plant twenty-five thousand
acres of timber next Arbpr Day.