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VOL. IV. NO. 25. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , DECEMBER 26,1901. SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS.
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Oil October 4th ,
A DEMOCRACY 1893 , there was a
IN NEBRASKA. large state conven
tion of Democrats
at Lincoln. And by a vote of four to
one that convention declared in its
platform : "We , the representatives
of the Democratic party in Nebraska
in state convention assembled , send
hearty greetings to our president ,
Grover Cleveland , and renew the ex
pression of our confidence and pride in
his patriotism , courage and wisdom.
We heartily endorse the administra
tion of President Cleveland. We re
affirm the truths so forcibly set forth
in his message to the special session of
congress. We favor his recommenda
tions to congress therein made for the
repeal of the silver purchase clause of
the Sherman Act , and we call upon
the United States senators to speedily
pass the pending bill for the prompt
and unconditional repeal of that vic
ious law. ' '
Then there arose from the benches
of the minority in that convention a
flaming-to 11 g u e d
A Prophet. prophet who'in an
agony of eloquence
declared that' ' If the democratic party
after you go home endorse your ac
tion and this becomes their sentiment ,
I want to promise that I will go out
and serve my country and my God
under some other name , if I go alone. ' '
During the eight years which have
skipped over the earth since that pro
phecy of apostasy was made , the dem
ocratic party has twice repudiated
the fallacies of finance to which that
apprentice in the business of forecast
ing the future then adhered. The only
verified prophecy of Col. Bryan on
record is the one presaging his own
apostasy from a democracy which be
lieved in and advocated honest money.
The democrats of all the United States
endorsed that resolution twice , by re-
pudiating.all persons and parties who
antagonized its avowals from presi
dential candidates to constables.
The emotional declaration that "I
will go out and serve my country and
my God under
Some Other some other name"
Name. was demonstrated
to be entirely
truthful by the acceptance of the nom
ination for the presidency of the na
tional populist party , first at St.
Louis in 1890 , and second at
Sioux Falls in 1900. In those
educational campaigns the tremendous
and eloquent efforts of the apostate
from the principles of Jackson and
Benton proved that however exhortive
and emotional a citizen may become
in his appeals for votes , a majority
of American ballots is determined
by patriotismnot partyism.by reason
ing and not by ranting. No man can
render a greater service to his country
men than that man who proves in two
campaigns that a majority of the
American people love honor and
honesty , square dealing and integrity ,
better than they love mere party suc
cess.
cess.Where
Where are the other prophecies made
that day by the same adolescent Eli
jah ? In declaim-
How Now ? ing as to the free
coinage of silver
on that day October 4th , 1898 did
he not stridently proclaim : " If I am
right and in my heart , so help me
God , I believe I am right I will
triumph yet although you downed me
a hundred times. ' '
And has he kept tally ? Can he tell
how nearly to a hundred times in state
and national politics he has since been
' ' downed ? ' ' How now under the lead
ership of the twice-nominated candi
date for the presidency of the nation
al populist party is the democracy of
Nebraska ? Where are its trophies ?
Where its consolation for having
without fear and without reproach
battled for principles ? Is solace
found in having surrendered princi
ples for the possibilities of political
places ?
In what state in the republic are
found benefits and sound fruit from
that apostasy ? Is
Where ? there a democratic
gov e r 11 o r a u y -
where in the north ? Is there a better
organization anywhere among the people
ple and more hope of success for hon
est administration , for economy and
conscience in the management of pub
lic affairs because of the apostate and
his orations ? Who , aside from the
chief of the apostasy , has been up
lifted , benefited by assaults upon the
federal courts , by the advocacy of the
money fallacies , and the renunciation
of all that was essential and decent in
a real democracy ?
According to
QUEER ORIGIN. Lewis and Clark
( see page 12 of their
iliary printed in London , in 1815) ) the
Osage Indians claimed that their origin
al ancestor , the founder of their race ,
was a snail passing a quiet existence
along the banks of the Osage , until a
high flood swept him down to the
Missouri , and left him exposed on the
shore. The heat of the sun at length
ripened him into a man , but , with the
change of his nature , he had not forgot
ten his native seats on the Osagetowarris
which he immediately bent his way. He
was , however , soon overtaken by
hunger and fatigue , when , happily , the
Great Spirit appeared and , giving him a
bow and arrow , showed him how to kill
and cook deer and cover himself with
the skin. . He then proceeded to his
original residence , but , as he approached
the river , he was met by a beaver who
enquired haughtily who he was and by
what authority he came to disturb his
possession. The Osage answered tliab
the river was his own for ho had once
lived on its borders. As they stood dis
puting the daughter of the beaver came
and , having by her entreaties , recon
ciled her father to this young stranger ,
it was proposed that the Osage should
marry the young beaver , and share with
her family the enjoyment of the river.
The Osage readily consented , and from
this happy union there soon came the
village and the notion of the "Wabasha
or Osoges , who have ever since pre
served a pious reverence for their ances
tors , abstaining from the chase of the
beaver because in killing that animal ,
they killed a brother of the Osage. But
the Lewis and Clark diary quaintly
remarks : "Of late years , however , since
the trade with the white has rendered
beaver skins more valuable , the sanctity
of these maternal relatives has visibly
diminished , and the poor animals have
nearly lost all the privileges of kind
red. "
In many families there are still even
in civilized life some snails and some
beavers some drones and some work
ers.
Lewis and Clark
JULY igth , 1804. in their memorable
expedition for the
exploration of the Missouri river on
July nineteenth , 1804 , touched the
townsite of Nebraska City. The
Journal of their travels relates that 011
that date "we reached some high
cliffs of a yellow earth , on the south ,
near which are two beautiful runs of
water , rising in the adjacent prairies ,
and one of them with a deer lick ,
about two hundred yards from its
mouth. In this neighborhood we ob
served some iron ore in the bank. At
two and a half miles above the runs
( the two Table Creeks ) a large portion
of the bank , for nearly three-quarters
of a mile , has fallen into the river. ' '
The next day , July twentieth , it is
recorded that they passed "a creek on
the south , about twenty-five yards
wide , called by the French L'eau qui
Pleure , or the Weeping Water and
emptying itself just above a cliff of
brown clay. " The Indians called the
stream Nehawka ne , water , and
Jiawka , weeping.
Their legend was that many , many