Conservative *
The only out
GOLD IN and out declara-
1896. tiou for the gold
standard made
by a National Convention in 1896 , was
at Indianapolis by the honest money
democrats.
At that assemblage a speech of pro
phetic power and gifted' foresight was
made by the eloquent Ool. Breckenridge
of Lexington , Kentucky. In it he de
picted the future , our to-day , with
wonderful truthfulness , Of the gold
standard democracy , he remarked :
"I had an opportunity on a late oc
casion to state one object of this organ
ization. May I repeat it ? It is one
that touches us possibly not so much in
principle as in affection. Many thous
ands of these men are our brethren ,
God bless them ! We have nothing to
say of them but God-speed-you in all af
fairs of life , even if you go wrong now ,
and , therefore , we want to do some
thing that will show our affection for
them , and we build anew this demo
cratic home , we repair its broken windows
dews , we put new hinges upon its
creaky doors , we make comfortable its
numerous rooms , and after November ,
when these democratic brethren of
ours , led astray by the ignis fatuus of
that populistic light , feel that they are
in defeat and sorrow , we will light the
electric light of modern civilization ,
throw open the shutters and the doors ,
light the fire , so that they may see the
rays of the home to which we will in
vite them at a no long distance , and we
will beg them to come and sit by the
fireside with us.
"We will not tell them of what we
have gone through , except , probably , tote
to call the ser-
Have your vant and say ,
Boots Cleaned. 'John , take my
brother's boots , '
since evidently he has been through the
mud , and as he looks a little weary , we
may turn around and say to somebody ,
'It is not the season of the year when
the aroma of mint comes gently from
the side of the rivulet , but , foreseeing
this , we have put away in the closet a
little , and , 'John , bring out the mint
and sugar and set out the old Bourbon ,
the democracy that is pure and unmix
ed , beside .our
Take Something. brother , and let
him feel at
home. ' We will not talk of lives mis
spent ; we will not speak of hopes ru
ined ; we will never mention Chicago
once , or , if we do , we will do it by some
soft paraphrase like 'the City of the
Porkpackers , ' or something of that
sort , merely to keep in his mind that he
lias gotten home.
"And then , when the night is far
spent , and we take up , in the old-fash
ioned way , the
Home Again. little candle in
the little candle
stick , and start home , as we go up the
steps to the home of the sleeper , the
chamber whore gratitude and affection
aring together again the brothers that
: iave been estranged , and when we get
into the room and shut the door , we
will give oiir hand to him without a
word , except to say to him : 'Brother ,
the past has been bitter ; let it be over ;
Let the morrow be a day when we shall
rival each other in our endeavors for a
common country , for our beloved party ,
for the liberty that was our fathers and
that we want to give our children a
liberty based upon order , making reg
nant the law , with just courts for you
and me ; and when we talk over this ,
hereafter , it shall not be that one was
wrong and one was right , but that both
have finally reached , through different
pathways , that common road that leads
to the glory , to the prosperity and the
happiness of a common people through
a triumphant democracy. ' "
Ohio seems to have begun a verifica
tion of that speech , and boot-washing
commenced at Columbus. But whether
mint juleps and Bourbon and sugar
with it , have been drank from a loving
cup by the anti-Bryanarchists and the
fallacyites of Bryanarchy is an open
question.
In Ohio some of the Cleveland devotees
to the sixteeu-to-one fetich , refuse to
have their boots washed , to take a drink ,
or to come in out of the wet , but they
must take the gold cure sooner or later.
The negrophil-
PRIDE OF RACE , ists of this conn-
try , who believe
that the black man can be made men
tally and morally the equal of the white
man , forget that every race of white
men is proud of itself. When you
taunt any foreigner with being Irish ,
Dutch , Scotch , English , Spanish , Ger
man or Danish , he replies with fervid
eulogy of his country and country
men. He names some great philoso
pher , poet , orator , statesman or philan
thropist of his race who has made the
world better , and boasts his blood and
breed. But who ever found a negro
proud of being a negro ? Who evei
heard a negro boast his blackness and
show pride in the achievements of other
negroes ? On the contrary , the black
man generally deplores his color , and
wishes he had been born white , and a
sense of inferiority is common to thai
race. Only a few days since a small
negro boy five or six years old was
asked : ' ' Who made you ? ' '
He quickly replied "God made me. "
"How long do you think it took God
to make a little nigger like you ? " and
after thinking the question over an
swered , "I 'spect it must tok- him one
day. " "And how long to make a white
boy ? " dwelling on his prideless race-
he responded "wel sah 'bout twice as
long , sah two days ! "
It is very im-
SIXTEEN TO ONE. portant that the
sacred ratio of
sixteen-to-one be kept luminously before
the American public in order that the
peerless prophet and surpassless states
man , who said , "the gold standard has
slaughtered its millions" may once more
pose as a presidential candidate. After
a slippery veal pie there is nothing more
slippery than political veal hashed up in
prophecies and forecasts. But , served
cold and slippery on ice it sometimes
violently nauseates even the populistic
stomach.
A surely hatch-
WANTED. ing incubator that
will bring out a
paramount issue for the next presiden
tial canvass , guaranteed to evolve gor
geous plumage , to strut well , crow lust
ily and flap its wings in victory after
the election. No patent involving the
figures sixteen and one will be consid
ered.
PUBLIC ROADS TOO WIDE.
J. Sterling Morton lias' come to the
conclusion that Nebraska public roads
are too wide , and he suggests through
the columns of THE CONSERVATIVE ,
that the width be reduced one half. He
calls attention to the fact that a' great
deal of valuable land is allowed to go to
waste and to supply the world with
nothing but a crop of luxuriant weeds.
With roads so much wider than is nec
essary , they cannot be kept in the
proper condition. He suggests that one
half of each road be sold to adjacent
property owners and the money used to
create a permanent road-fund in eacli
county , thereby cutting down the taxes
necessary for road purposes. We be
lieve that the sucrcrestion is a erood one
and that it will eventually be adopted.
Falls City Journal.
DESCENT TRACED FROM ADAM.
Popular interest in Albert Judson
Fisher's unique love-story , "A Daugh
ter of Adam , " in The Ladies' Home
Journal for August , has been increased
tenfold since it became known that the
genealogical part of the story1 is not fic
tion , but fact. Not only is the marvel
ous line of descent , traced through 121
generations from Adam and Eve , abso
lutely genuine , but also' the family
names of the characters are the names
of real people , for the line is actually
that of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith SaF-
gent , of Chicago , and Mrs. Sargent was
formerly Miss Frances Moore , of War
ren , of Ehdde Island. Even stranger still
is the fact that , as shown in the story ,
Mr. and Mrs. Sargent had the same
ancestor eight generations back.
