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VOL.. 9. No. 25.
LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1S94.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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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. Democrats as well as republicans
are interested in the suppression of this class of politicians who aro
a "detriment to the state, and Mr. Bryan will find an ever raising wall
of obstruction in his way so long as he continues to be a bed-mate of
the populist trio.
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