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OBSERVATIONS.
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Snubs Nebraska.
Mr. Bryan is frequnntly called tlie
most distinguished citizen of Ne
braska There is little question but
that lie is. In the most illiterate and
remote hamlets in the Tennessee
mountains, in the isolated ranches of
Wyoming and Dakota, in darkest
Texas where the wild hog roams, Mr.
Bryan's features, and the dogma of
sixteen to one that goes with them
are well known. No people so re
mote or so ignorant of the slang of the
moment as not to know what sixteen
to ono means, who said it, and that
he lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Among the people who are as fa
miliar with William Jennings Bryan's
face as they arc with P. T. Barnum's,
there are thousands and thousands
who look upon him with absolute
faith and offer him hero worship.
When in his widening circuit he
stops at a humble rural station, the
folk look upon him as One Sent,
have seen him in a crowd of rustics
who reached out their hands to touch
his coat as he passed. There are un
sophisticated people who believe that
if Mr. Bryan were president all the
troublesome conditions of life, t)ie
penalty we pay for living would be
remitted. What Moses failed to do
they believe Mr. Bryan can accom
plish. Than when- he Is president,
they will not have to get up and fol
low him but remain in their homes
and, keep the fire burning under the
fleshputs while their environment
slowly ohapgee Into a land flowing
with milk and honey, under a Bryan,
administration. These simple-heart
cd folk would not admit their cro-
dulity. But to Judge by their ex
pression, while lie is addressing them,
they set no narrower limits to his
miraculous performance than ills own
promises.
But in all the time Mr. Bryan lias
been speaking, in the campaign of
'0J and in the one lie has made, and is
making preparatory to the campaign
oflOOO, in no speech that I have heard
or read has there ever been a good
word for Nebraska. Ranking among
the very first of the agricultural
states, Mr. Bryan has never found it
expedient to refer to Nebraska's
record in corn wheat oats, cattle,
horses and hogs. He entirely ignores
the fact that his constituents, the
faithful Nebraska farmers have
brought the state to first grade as
a corn-producing country.
For thirty years the prairies have
been ploughed. The dry, baked soil,
after the second year's tillage, has
yielded a hundred fold to the thrifty
farmer whose spade's first blow cut
the prairie sud into blocks for a
home. The sons of these men have
been graduated from the university,
and the sod house was long ago taken
for a potato or beet depot. M r. Bryan
would never have come to the state
had it not been for the brave efforts
and success of these pioneers. I'licy
are the state for they reclaimed it
from the dessert;.
To raise a crop of nearly 300,000,000
bushels of corn places Nebraska only
second In producing capacity to Kan
sas which has a larger acreage under
cultivation. The oats, wheat, hogs,
cattle and horses that will be ex
ported from Nebraska this year, leav
ing an abundance for our own con
sumption and use, is surely worth a
mention by the man whom the farm
ers have voted for and are almost
ready to follow out of a land he de
spises so Setting the plow deep and
holding it steady back and forth over
their fields for a matter of thirty
years, the farmers themselves do not
consider an heroic deed. But the
wealth they have made has brought
Nebraska out of the desert and placed
it In the first rank of states. With
their hands, their brown, hard hands,
aided by a faithful team of mules, the
farmers of Nebraska have worked out
their own salvation. Their achieve
ment because it is unheralded and
because so many have joined in the
march over the ploughed fields, has
not seemed to Mr, Bryan worth even a
passing tribute iu the most Incon
siderable of the many speeches he has
made. Considering that his first
political recognition occurred in Ne
braska and that he appealed especial
ly to farmers for sympathy and, rati
flcatlon of bis own ideas about his
mission, Mr. Bryan's failure to rec
ognlze their long struggle and their
tremendous aggregate success Is an
appalling commentary on his real in
difference to the prosperity of, Ne
braska. It Is all very well to say that If lie
were president money would be
plenty, the rich would not be allowed
to longer oppress the poor, that trusts
would be vanquished as dragons wcro
by St. George, and that the poor of
Nebraska would no longer bo required
to support the rich eastern manufac
turer by paying a heavy tariff. Mr,
Bryan has had an unique opportunity
to stand up for Nebraska, and he has
not availed himself of it. No other
Ncbraskan has spoken to so many
people in so many places. No other
Ncbraskan has ever been nominated
for president. No other Ncbraskan
lias been able to convince so many
people first that they were in bondage
and second that he could lead them
out of it. in short and in fact no
other Ncbraskan has had so large an
opportunity to say a good word of the
state that deserves so much from him
and no other Nebraska public man
has so ignored the stato and its nat
ural and acquired advantages. In the
presidential chair Mr. Bryan's obliga
tions to Nebraska might occur to him
and ho might do something for the
state, but it is not likely. He has
had five years of miraculous oppor
tunity and he has never improved it,
when all that was required of him
was to say a good word for the most
distinguished slate In the union for
men und corn. Ah president, Ne
braska would ask more than words of
him and the man who has not been
faithful In little things lias a biblical
reputation and destination which
none of us have had any influence in
making or adjudging.
Even President McKinley who
comes from Ohio and who does not
owe Nebraska anything in particular,
not even a presidential vote, in his
late speech at Pittsburg, praised the
First Nebraska and accorded to it the
highest honors of the Fillplne cam
paign; and the audience composed of
the Pennsylvania volunteers and
their friends rose to their feet, threw
their capo in the air and cheered for
Nebraska, because of the men wiioni
she sent to the war and for the way
they fought and died.
Mr Bryan has a happy faculty of
rinding subjects that set people cheer
ing und yelling so that people in the
adjoining township think it is all for
Bryan Next time he Is preparing for
a stupendous effort I hope Mr. Bryan
may conclude to try Nebraska as a
war cry. It is a word' that has set
men to cheering and women to crying
this last year. It means hundreds of
miles of corn, cattle on a thousand
hills, wheat for the millions, an
energy unmeasured and undeveloped,
a people spirited, intelligent and high
bred and institutions of learning
which are attracting hundreds of
students from other states. Let Mr.
Bryan try Nebraska as a cheer-word'
and so sure as her supremacy is at
tained the spell will work.
By tip saca who sroke the prairies,
Bv thai lisle, who Least the tirnrhn.
By brave StoUtahvrg'i hat charge
as VsasassssBjsss fia aes sssssjp eavvessf s asssssajv ueBassPBF F s-sajr
fak it wave a flag;
An Embarrassing Witness.
The lofty pretensions which nil
parties mako to a disinterested love of
service to the republic for Its owii
sake is demagogical and Inevitably
places, at times, both parlies, und ut
other times prominent members of
them in equivocal positions. The
Iloti. .! Sterling Morion, iu The Con
servative, charged Mr. Bryan wltu
saying, when lie wished to bo appoint
ed score tnry of the railroad commis
sion that he wished the position, not
for the honor but for the money there
was in it. Mr. Bryan denied that no
ever made so shocking a statement.
In this week's conservative Mr. Mor
ton prints the letter he received from
Mr. Bryan in relation to tho position
and it contains the admission JUrl
Bryan denies having made.
When Mr. Bryan came to Nebraska
he was a poor man. His legal practice
not being any larger than tho ordi
nary young lawyer's practice, and pos
sessing unusual gifts of oratory, it
was natural lie should turn to politics
for un income. No sincere mind can
censure him for confessing that his
need of money was more pressing than
a desire for lionor. The lack of sin
cerity iu denying the statement and!
its contrast with Mr. Bryan's lofty
claims to a Mosaic love for tho people
entirely unrelated to any plans for his
own distinction, is sufficient reason
for the publication of the facsimile.
Newspaper English.'
"Yesterday tho other horse of tlio
team was got track of out near Wavpr
ly.' "It wus Salsbury's horse all
right." "The sheriff says tho gang
has dozens of horses stolen from vari
ous points out at pasture with inno-)
cent farmers In different parts of the
state." "A pleasant timo was hail''
at the party given by Mrs. Dr. Twitch
em. Among those present was Mrs.
Colonel Oats, son and daughter and
Otis brothers, Mr. Brown and wife,
Jack Daw and sister, Miss Smart and
father." "1 trust you will, give this
matter prominence in your papcVyas
I think it is very unfair to me for you
to have made tho statement as you
did." "The man don't know anything
about it' These examples of news
paper English are selected from a
casual examination of the larger daily
Nebraska papers. I believe tho east
ern papers do not employ reporters)
however talented in finding news and
reporting it accurately who are unr
ablo to record their discoveries Jr
more correct English.
There arc exceptions, I have heard'
of, where the managing editor has
found a man with a keen nose for
news, and a continuous Inspiration,
which enables him to pick out' ft
most readable and interesting phase,
a man who turns in more copy anaf
better (from the standpoint of newsl
ness) than any other two men oa tUe
paper. Such a find is rare and 1a, not)
to be lightly valued because the boa
uses a patois the reading of which in
the newspapers may confuse' trie