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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1896)
:;Jsir m-:- :& ?-.' 5V EWv -J r FW 1-. i . V" -ft' . 2m. w yOLU.N0 23 vt- & - - y a - wa- - w -. -. - t3--' , -' , - .;H - reiasr' ' -5- bSTABLISHED IN 181 ? i PRICE RVB .CENT ft . C-w J LINCOLN NBB., SATURDAY, JUNE 6 I8S6 KKTSKXD IN THX POST OPTICS AT LRfCOLS AS SBCOXD-CLAftS KATTKS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY TK COIMIEII ntlNTIIW MO niBLISBHN ct Office 217 Korth Elerestb St. Jelephorte 384 W. MORTON SMITH Editor and Manager SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 5 here, but has come to us for candi dates for the nomination for president! Manderson and Thurston with their various aspirations have kept Nebras ka well to the front in the republican party, while Mr. Bryan is regarded as a leading: candidate for the sliver dem ocratic nomination for president and the Honorable J. Seedless Morton rep resents that which is picturesque and exquisite in the ranks of the old line democratic party, and is a possible candidate for presi dent. In the populist party we have that great and good man, Silas Adi pose Holcomb, and that long drawn out specimen of senatorial sensational ism, William Vainglorious Allen, both of them frequently "mentioned" in con nection with the presidential nomina tion. A pretty good showing, isn't it, for a state that only a few years ago echoed with the shrill note of the coy- I OBSERVATIONS I So Lincoln has a live candidate for the presidency! Lincoln is a little back from the Missouri river and there is no Bee building or Clementina-Chase here, but they can't keep us down, for all that. Not even Omaha can snuff out our light . To be sure, Mr. Bentley had to split up the prohibition party in order to get himself nominated for president, but as there wasn't very much of the party In the first place, the fracture cannot cause any serious damage. Lincoln ought to be repre sented in the galaxy of presidential candidates, and we would not have blamed Mr. Bentley if he had divided the cold water party into twenty-seven different sections that he might be nominated by one of them. Hurrah for Bentley! May he run like the Fowler sextuplet, and may his tire never puncture! General Manderson was forced to retire from the race for a presidential nomination, but Bentley, .the adored of the Blttenbenders, goes in and wins. Bully for Bentley! Our "broad gauge" prohibition friend having smashed his party into smith ereens that he might snatch a nomlna - tkm.from the wreck we will wait and Vatch with eager interest the attempt of our suave and sapient townsman,' William Jingling- Bryan, to smash the - democratic party in bits for the same . laudable purpose. Did it ever occur to you, gentle read er, that politically and otherwise Ne braska Is, all things considered, the greatest state in the union? Nebraska may be still struggling in the swad dling clothes of infancy, but she can kick holes in the nursery ceiling and -set ap a bowl that makes the older states dizzy. .Here we are, a com munity so recently emerged from ter ritorial Incipiency that we are not yet dry behind the ears, and we are tak lag such a large part in the affairs of the nation that each one of the rout chief, political parties has not only some of Its most prominent members men from the faculty to Leland Stan ford university and the university of Minnesota. Nebraska is only a suck ling Infant, comparatively, and yet one of our citizens, General Mander son, was selected from the whole coun try, to make the annual Decoration day address at the tomb of Grant, and within the state originated the observance of Arbor day. Nebraska has produced Buffalo BUI, the greatest thin? in his line on two continents, and has given the seductive game of high-five to the world. Nebraska peo ple haye a smaller percentage of illit eracy than those of any other state, and we lead in beet sugar manufact ure and with one or two exceptions raise more corn than any state in the union. Nebraska has turned out one of the world's fastest bicycle riders, Barnett, and produced one of the country's noted Journalists. Walter Wellmac, and is the mainstay of one of the greatest railway corporations tempting to do Is to preach the word of God. And yet what Interest he has aroused! How the people flock to hear the young man tell afresh the story that ia as old as the world and whose vitality and ever-Increasing Influence render puerile the demonstrations of kicking clowns like Ingersoll! The Rev. H. Percy Silver came, unheralded from Omaha to become rector of Holy Trinity church. He is young, and somehow in Omaha he was kept on the outskirts and he was little known. But he has made a remarkable im pression in Lincoln. Some men who have preached In this city have de clared that this Is not a spiritual com munity and that the people would not listen to old fashioned spiritual ser mons. They contended that what the people wanted was "practical" ser mons, or "pulpit editorials." and they conducted the praycc meetings through the week In an apologetic way, and on the Sabbath day preached on poll- ote, and had as Its human inhabitants scattered tribes of Indians, whose trails through the tall prairie grass marked the way for the gold seekers In '49, and later suggested the course of the great trans-continental lines of railway? It Is twenty-eight years since Ne braska became a state, and yet the four great political parties have their greatest members here, and Mr. Cleve land comes to us to complete his cabi net; and Mr. McKlnley comes to us for one of his greatest advocates, the man. who is to stand sponsor for him before the St. Louis convention; and the mine owners, or the silver men, come to us for their most effective champion. Only twenty-eight years eld and the Ohio state university comes to us for Its president, and our state university obtains recognition as one of four of the leading state uni versities of the country and we send In the world. Nebraska has the first homesteader in the United States, the only living war governor, the greatest living botanist, and that most power ful organization the Irish National league had, in its greatest days, its central organiztion here. Nebraska has all these and a hundred other sim ilar distinctions, and It Is a pretty good record for a kid, isn't it? There is a tonic in the air in Ne braska that rouses men to action, and causes them to create, to produce. And if we have done so much in the last quarter of a century, starting from nothing, what may we not do -In the next twenty-five years? "Stand up for Nebraska!" There, is a young man in this city, a new .comer, who is going to make his mark. He isn't an author or a financier or a builder of bridges. Heb is only a minister, and aH he is at tics or the reservation or the last mur der trial. Mr. Silver Is very old fashioned In his Ideas of preaching. His sermons neither partake of the elements of a stump speech nor an editorial leader. He has studied the Bible, and he is so far behind the times that he is preach ing solely from the Word. And, strange as it may seem, he has found many old fashioned people in this practical and rather calloused and frivolous community, who, like him self are behind the times, and who like the old fashioned preaching. It has been made plain, since Mr. Silver came to town, that even among a practical uasplritual people there Is a demand for spiritual teaching. The new rector Is an athletic young man, full of life and spirit. Just the sort of man who would be interested in wholesome sport. He has a manly f3 -VJ &y&ilis.SiB6aaiaaB .n&i!;i. .'A
