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VOL. IV. NO. 39. ' NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , APRIL 8 , 1902 SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY. j
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OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
QUESTIONS.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Nebraska. ,
Advertising rates made known upon appli
cation.
Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter. July 29 , 1898.
The freight on the
JONES PAYS alleged natural
THE FREIGHT , democratic plat
form for 1890 and
for 1900 has now been paid by James
K ; Jones , of Arkansas , who became
distinguished as a statesman in that
commonwealth because only in that
state is that peculiar style of talent
appreciated and promoted. Whether
Jones beat Bryan , or Bryan beat
Jones , is a question for the anti
quarian of the future to determine
It may be remembered that Jones
declared that Bryan was the equal
of Webster , Clay , Oorwin , Lincoln
and five or six other eminent , concen
trated American statesmen.
It will long be a question as to
whether Bryan created Jones or
Jones created Bryan. Among emi
nent political bric-a-brac these two
animated vocabularies will long be
treasured as verbal curios. Whether
Jones is to report the Bryanarchistic
platform for 1904 , or suggest the
resolutions for the national conven
tion which will nominate Bryan thai
year , is apparently a question ol
some doubt. It is however certain
that Bryan and Jones are indissolubly
united in triumph as well as in
defeat. That Jones is a much bettei
re'asonor than Bryan , all who remem
ber his predictions about the last two
presidential elections none of whicl
were correct must certainly con
elude. If he ever made a predictioi
that was verified , it has been lost to
view. The only absolutely correct
statement ever made by Jones to the
effect .that Bryan was a greatox
statesman than Lincoln , Jefferson
Corwin , Webster , or any other Amer
ican , living or dead can now be
framed and-placed among the curio
of ( political literature for general
dmiration.
As a circulator of garden seed , at
he expense of the general govern
ment , Mr. Jones has been one of the
most efficient statesmen of the day
and generation in which lie lives.
The repab l"i can
NOT ASSURE organization of Ne-
THING. braska may as well
understand now as at
any future time that a nomination by
their party is not necessarily an elec
tion. The Bartley episode is not for
gotten , nor has Governor Savage been
unequivocally pardoned because he
pardoned Bartley. The glorious old
; imes that the republicans used to
brag about , when they averred that
they could nominate a yellow dog
and beat the best democrat in the
state , have not quite returned. It
may be that they can beat the best
populist in the state , but it is a
serious question as to whether the
republican party can defeat at the
polls the best honest-money demo
crat.
Character for ability , for honesty ,
and executive talent , has come to be
worth something in the estimation
of the voters and taxpayers of the
state of Nebraska. Whether a man
belongs to this clique or to that
clique of the republican or any other
party , may be a matter of small
moment ; but character for ability ,
integrity and absolute fearlessness in
the discharge of duty may bo still
worth very much in the estimation of
the voters of this commonwealth.
We have been for
ANNOUNCE- some weeks past
MENT. publishing little ex
tracts from the Jour
ual of Captains Lewis and Clark , il
lustratiug the adventures that befel
them on their road across the continent
by way of the Missouri and Columbia
rivers , in the winter of 1804-5.
We have now begun in The Couserva
tive a series of articles on other
early explorers and inhabitants of the
Louisiana Purchase and the West gen
orally. These articles will consist a
far as possible of the language of the
travelers themselves , and will be suflft
oieutly copious to give an idea ot the
personality of the writer , as well a
of some important episode in his west
ern career. They will be accompanied
> y such notes as are deemed needful to
> ut the matters dealt with in a proper
iglit.
iglit.We
We entertain a hope that this series
nay prove of value to people who feel
an interest in the story of the last
mndred years in the west , but who
lave not access to the authorities ; to
> eople who are just beginning to take
notice of the great drama of the pioneers
neers , as the first of its centennials
draws near ; and to the school children ,
who may , we hope , be led to study the
listory , as yet but little prized , of their
own race and country , in preference to
that of other and distant lands and
jeoples.
Should ex-Senator ,
DIFFERENT , ex-cham
ex-Judge , -
pion talker , and pre
sent publicist , William V. Allen , be
chosen to lead the valiant reform
forces as their choice for governor
of Nebraska , The Conservative ,
without claiming to be a soothsayer ,
feels able to predict with a reason
able degree of certainty that Mr.
Allen will see a great light , and that
the columns of the Madison Mail
will be filled to overflowing with
heartfelt endorsement of the get-
together policy. The only way for
a reformer is to reform as often as
the act suits his convenience or
serves his purpose , and the moment
that Mr. Allen feels that his own
interests lie upon the side of fusion
and the gradual dissolution and.
absorption of the populists by the so-
called democrats , we will then see
just how deep lies his solicitude for
the welfare of populism. Again dis
claiming all intention of attempt
ing to pose as a prognosticate The
Conservative goes on record with the
prediction that in the event of his
selection by either side as a standard
bearer , there will be no voice and
no pen in Nebraska that will more
warmly second the efforts of those
who are laboring to keep the populist
party within handy reach of the
democratic ( excuse the misnomer )
heelers , than the strident voice of
William V. Allen , and the facile pen
of the conscientiously populistic edi
tor of the Madison Mail. For the
only way to bo a real reformer is
to reform early and often , and Mr.
Alien is a most finished and artistic
reformer , and long experience has
taught him how , when and where to
reform to the best advantage.