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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1894)
i y- k i$ - Ifawi VOL.. 9. No. 25. LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1S94. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ? Sj e J The report that arrangements hav been made for a Fourth of July ora tion at Nebraska City by Congress man W. C. P. Breckinridge seems to lack authenticity, though there is nothing improbable in the proposi tion that the queer old town that is responsible for that curiosity in black and white, the Nebraska City Press, and for that incomparable fraud. Van Wyck, should commit the folly of honoring the venerable Kentuckian who is, and properly very generally despised throughout the country. In these times when the daily newspapers are beginning to tiro their political guns in a sort of a preliminary engagement, it is in no small degree amusing to read the peculiar concoctions, doubtless intended to be republican editorials, in the Neics, written by what is known as a "good" democrat. Republicans who have been dis posed to criticise the quality of the Heirs' republicanism, a republi canism that has nothing to say of the principles that have given life and endurance to the republican party, that assails the republican position on all questions of importance, should not take tho mat ter seriously. A newspaper edited by a democrat can not be a re publican newspaper, and republicans can have no serious concern in what a democratic newspaper has to say. The Courier has yet to hear of any efifortboing made to discover the thief among the students of tho state university who opens letters and steals drafts. We would advise the young man, if he de Bires to prosper in his sinful career to confine himself to little things like theft. Then he will be secure. By no means should he at tempt to talk with somebody else regarding an oration to be deliver ed by himself; for the retribution sure and swift will fall on him liko an avalanche, and tho indignation of the university authorities will put an everlasting blot on his career. Stick to plain ordinary crime by all means. Truth this week has a striking cartoon othe marriage for con venience. Wealth and beauty stand before thValter, their hands joined by a clergyman with features of a strong Mephistophelean cast; the bride's head is turned to the left and sorrowful eyes are bidding a last farewell to true love in the person of an unfortunate suitor who is half hidden in the back ground, while the groom's attention is diverted to the right, to the figure of tho sweetheart de serted for reasons that have nothing to do with the heart. P robably the time will- come when there will be an addition to the marriage service, when the minister Iq the solemn hush of the mid servico will ask of both coutracting parties whether thoy aro joining their lifves together because they love each other or because tho union is dictated by a desire to keep up appearances, to obtain comfort or luxury. Up to a very recent date there has been a disposition, evon among republicans, "bitter" republicans, if you will, to givo Congressman Bryan credit for sincority of purpose, and vory few people have ven tured to accuso the congressman of hypocrisy. But late events have to a considerable extent, dispelled tho illusion that has surrounded the porson of tho pyrotechio politician, and there is a growing con viction that Mr. Bryan has become, liko so many others of hiss class a trimmer. There is certainly good reason to suppose that consid erations that have to do with his privato welfare solely have in fluenced him in his semi-disguised Hop to tho populists; and that ho is blamablofor his presont course, few persons outside of tho Bryan glamour will deny. Any man, particularly if ho be as intelligent as Mr. Bryan certainly is, who consorts with tho McKeigans and Kems and Aliens, men whose every impulse springs from a selfish purpose and whose careers are a menanco to tho welfare of the s tate, is de serving of condemnation: and Bryan has seen fit to placo him self on record as aflitiating in every possible way with theso bogus Btateimian, these destructionists, theso men who delight to tear dowu what other men have built up, Allen, in tho United States senafe, by his exhibition of impertinent idiocy with reference to public questions, by his Hat footed demagogism and open advocacy of disorder and anarchy, has added to the prejudico already laid up against Nebraska by cranks of the Van Wyck ilk, and Mr. Bryan has cast in his lot with this man. 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