The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-20

The unanimity which prevails In the
national convention foreshodowes II Is
believed. an overwhelming victory at
the common polls.
The nominee for vice president. Mr..
Hobart, In properly placed. geograph-
ically, and he Il known as q loyal re-
publican and public spirited citizen.
Mr. Reed would have been generally
acceptable, but he wouldn't have II.
and Mr.. Morton's nomination would
have been inadvisable owing to the
Plat domination. Altogether the re-
publican convention was the most
satisfactory of recent years.
The present standard Is gold. The
existing standard means gold. The
republican party believes In the main
tenance of the existing standard.
Therefore II Ii eminently At and proper
that the platform should declare for
the gold standard. II Is not republican
policy to beat the devil around the
stump Now for the clear cut issue
sound money VS.. free coinage Of silver.
There il plenty Of room in the band
wagon for the democrats who will
be disgusted at the action of the Chi
cago convention.
Nebraska has been well advertised
to the people Of the country as sound
money state. One or two Of the dele
gates showed a disposition to wobble
on the money question, but every vote
OF the delegation, every movement
made by II was for or tended In the dr.
rection Of sound money. In this re-
spect this state is entitled to equal
credit with Massachusetts, and New
nd nj
sen, the Nebraska member Of the COM
mittee on resolutions. In explaining his
vote said:
God hates towards and every hon.
est man does the same, and therefore,
on behalf OF the republicans OF the
state Of Nebraska. shall vote for the
resolution which declares for the gold
standard and says just what It
means.''
The Nebraska delegation 10 the ma
ti0nai convention must have spent
must OF their time being photographed.
Scarcely any metropolitan paper Of any
note neglected to picture our delegates,
The New York World had q speaking
likeness of the Honorable Linger
Longer Lindsey and Aessrs.
Gown, Webster, ct al. And by
the way. Mr.. Lindsey seems to
coming manner. He was described as
a modest, well-behaved delegate We
have counted just fourteen hundred
and ninety-three portraits of Thurston-
just In the papers that come TO The
Courier ONCE. The Chicago Tribune
had q fine double column picture OF
Tom Kennard. and Ii was so beautiful
that II reconciled most OF us tn the
fact that the editor emeritus of The
State Journal decided not TO attend the
convention as a delegate. And there
was similarly fine portrait OF Peter
Jensen. the bold gold man. and of other
Nebraska delegates The Times Herald
made q speciality of our delegates. and
the Record printed a picture Of Charles
G. Dawes with the inscription, The
Man Who Carried Illinois for McKin-
ley" One day. before any of the dele
gates arrived in St Louis. the Tribune
showed q group of Nebraskans.
w. s. Summers. Frank Collins
and the Honorable L. L. Lind
sey. Now Summers wasn't in St.
Louis at all. and the people who believe
in the infailibility Of newspapers are
puzzled.
Since Mr.. Bryan's private secretary
ceased his duties as editor Of the
Evening News that paper has made q
radical change in its opinions on the
money question Along about two
years ago the News thought the coun-
try was crying for the free and un-
limited coinage Of silver. and 1t cried
too That was during the time that
the News was throwing an anchor to
the windward Of populism. Lately our
evening contemporary has manifested
. greater independence and IL less
demagog:c. 1t now believes in protect
ing the money OF the nation from the
assaults OF the destructionists, and
doesn't hesitate to say what 1t thinks.
On the whole II is much better to have
q republican do the editing for a re-
publican newspaper than to turn
the toh over tn n demo-nop