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Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

priests, put on their vcstments and at
tempt to minister at it's d%csecrated
altar. but they cannot rewrite the bible
of its faith" 1t is to preserve this
faith that the sound money democrats
are organizing against the popocratic
combination.
The declarations of the Iowa national
democracy are in harmony with those
Of Wisconsin. They say that the Chi
cage platform is mischevious in its ten
denotes and a menace to free govern
mcnt, HAT the principles 1t ayows are
not democratic and that the election of
n president pledged TO these principles
will precipitatc n financial crisis whose
consequences cannot be predicted. one
of the strongest arraignmcntS of the
Chicago platform yet made by II demo-
crat is that of the Hon. Edward j..
Phelps of Vermont, II man of distin-
guishcd ability. who has fought the
hopeless battles of democracy in his
state for Il lifetime. He says of the
PLATFORM: at seeks to break down the
dykes which the constitution and the
law of the land have with long and
laborious assiduity raised for the de
Tense of the common interests and well
fare and to let in upon us the scCthing
and polluted flood of communism. mos
law, bankruptcy, reputation and an
archy, which it is the chief objects of
all civilized governments to exclude"
NIT. =, A., .,i,i. ,,1;,I Inn, ,,,l, t1n
demand for the indianapolis conven-
ton and it will exert itself with increas-
ing potency as the campaign advances.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
TIE SOUND MONEY DEMOCRATS.

The democrats who adhere to the
traditional principles of their party re-
garding the currency are becoming
active and from now on may be
pected TO assume an aggressive atti-
tude in the campaign. These men are
representative of democracy in its best
estate. They have always worshiped
miliar with the party's history, they
reverence its traditions and honor the
example of its great leaders of the past.
These democrats therefore find it i'm
possible to ally themselves with the po-
litical element which, while assuming
the title of democrats, has enunciated
principles and policies that antagOnize
the democracy of jefferson and Jack
son and chosen as its standard bearer
n man who had proclaimed that he was
not a democrat and whom the populists
accept as in full accord with them.
The spirit that actuates these sound
money democrats is strongly expressed
in the speech of Senator Villas as chair
man of the Wisconsin convention to Sc
lect delegates TO the national cOnyen-
ton ut indianapolis, They cannO con
sent TO have the old party surrendered
to the domination of Altgeld, Tillman
and their like. They are not Influenced
ny the plea of regularity in respect of
the Chicago convention, because II was
not democratic but populistic principles
that prevailed in that convention. 1.-The
hordes of populism," said Senator Villas,
may, indeed. as we nave seen them do,
with barbaric violence invade the sane
tuary of the party, drive out its high
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Judge.
Here I am, perched at my open
Enjoying The laugh of some unseen miss,
That comes ripping up from "A room IN inc
Just below this
Morning. noon and night l can hear her
Babbling away with her chatter ana
And il seems as If all creation near her
Was just one laugh,
Picture her! Isn't her face just made
Crinkled and curved for the laughing 1T,
Could she be solemn, do you think If paid
Devil a bit!
1 can fancy the dimples her checks i'm
And see the mouth-corners upward run;
| can catch her eyes with the irollc sliht-
Brimful of fun.
She must be pretty to laugh so prettily1;
such n laugh couldn't belong 10 q frumpl
Humorous, too, to see things wittily-
Probably plump!
There-now she's off agalni Peal upon
clear as a carlton, soft as a bell!
Why. IT'S infectiousl I'm catching the feel
Chuckling as well.
what-was I dreaming? That musical
Trips up the scale arpeggiol
So like-a voice that was hushed-ahl WE'LL
Long. long ago!
Helgh,ho! To think Of what little straws
Just a girls laugh-and my laughing one
Silent, and I-welI, now. this Is ridiculous
Tears IN my eyes!
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
NOTES.

A sound money club, composed Of i31 rail
road employees, was organized in Sioux City
last week.
Hoke Smiths paper, the Atlanta Journal,
which recently Hoped from sound money to
silver, has been attached for 81, 1897 by a New
York agent, who paid the money for a sound
money edition of the paper which it now
refuses to publish.
The president of the Union Bank Of
Rochester. N. Y, and also chief stakeholder
and president of the Rochester Herald, a
Bryan organ, has followed the example of
Altgeld and Stewart by inserting the gold
clause in his bank notes.
The wholesale and retail merchants of
Indianapolis, to the number of 5l2, have
organized a sound money club. Branches are
being formed of various trades. The first
was composed of fifty dealers in machinery,
one-third of whom are democrats.
Thirty-three book peddlers attempted to
unload several wagon loads of biographies
Of Bryan on the crowd that gathered at
Madison Square garden on the night of the
great frost. The peddlers succeeded in
selling fourteen copies of the book.
When the machine democrats of Jefferson
county, New York, endorsed Bryan and Sew
all, the sound money democrats Of Water
town enrolled a club Of 151 members in one
night to fight the Chicago ticket. Ex-
Governor Flower was elected president of
the club.
The Georgia section of the tail to Candi-
date Bryan's kite is calling loudly through
the New York World for a meeting with
Bryan to receive the populist notification
committee. But Watson calls in vain.
Bryan simply murmurs, Just tell them that
you saw me-"
A N~ebraskan, writing to Scion Humphreys,
a New York business man, requested the
latter to find some democrat willing to
take the following bets: "One hundred
dollars each that Bryan does not carry his
own ward, his own city, his own county,
his own congressional district, his own
state and the United States for president"
The sound money leaders in Richmond,
Va, have opened negotiations with the
managers of the free silver element of the
democratic party in Virginia for a series
Of joint debates on the financial question
between Ex-Governor William e. Cameron
ami United States Senator John w. Daniel.
Should these debates be arranged they would
doubtless be attended by immense crowds
of people. Both are skilled debaters and
eloquent speakers, and both have made the
free coinage of silver a study, though arriv-
ing at different conclusions.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

StnaIOT JOHH NJ TaIInef 8 Specch,
Fellow citizens, we are determined that
this war shall not, to use the language OF
a distinguished citizen Of Nebraska, be car
ried into the enemy's country. We have no
enemies in this country anywhere. This is
the first time in the history OF parties and
partisan politics that a candidate for the
presidency has declared that he means 10
carry the war into the enemy's country. We
have no enemies we are all Americans. We
love our country, all of it and every part of
it, and we mean to maintain principles that
will secure mn only the permanency of the
union, but We mean to maintain principles
that are as wide as the republic, having their
foundation in truth and honesty and right
and manhood. we mean to maintain prin-
ciples that are foh the benefit of the people
of all this couatY without regard to nation
ality or birth on previous condition. We are
Americans, ahds%e mean, if it is in our
power, to maiRtaig American honor.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
Where roeN Labor Come In.
RlnlaA lphia Tlnes.

The wage-eaflieA of Colorado take a very
practical views of the free silver coinage
issue. They Andefstand what it means, as
they have been told by all who own silver
that with freq poinage they would expect
to get $1.29 for silver that is now worth
Sc cents in the markets of the world.
The w~orkingInen OF Colorado are probably
not ayerse to the free coinage of silver. if
they can be assured that they will obtain
their share OF the swag. A committee of
wage-earners among the silver miners of
that state have carefully considered the sub
ject and issued the following terse inquiry
addressed to the workingmen OF Colorado;
1.-The silver miners OF your state ask for
free coinage at 10 to /.
IF they succeed their silver, which is
now So cents an ounce, will jump to S1.29-
a clear profit OF So per cent in legal tender
currency.
Now where do you come in?
Before you vote for free silver compel
your employers to guarantee that you shall
have your fair share OF the profits.
III they gain SO per cent your wages
should advance SO per cent also.
Insist upon your rights while you are
sble!"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
BRYAN THE ~GARBLER.
Deliberately M~isquotiDg the Lam
Euase of james &. Blaine.

ptIIbtTtttI hiSpbotbb6 tht bNh-
Euuse of james q. Blaine.
Chicago Times Herald.
Next to forgery between quotation marks
is detachment Of part of what a man said
and the presentation Of the fragment so as
to give an impression opposite to that given
by the whole. Mr., Bryan garbled at Barry
town, n. Y, August %, what James G..
Blaine said about silver monOmetallism.
Blaine believed In international bimetallism.
Here is what Bryan says Blaine said: II
can quote you authority which our opponents
dare not question. have called attention
and shall continue to call attention to a
remark made by Mr.. Blaine in congress on
this subject. lie said that the destruction
OF silver as money and the establishing
Of gold as the sole unit Of value must have
except those investments which bring fixed
return OF money"
This is what Blaine said which Bryan did
not quote: And if we coin a silver dollar
Of full legal tender obviously below the cur
rent value OF the gold dollar, W. are open
ing wide our doors to invite Europe to take
our gold. And with our gold flowing out
from us, we are forced to the single silver
standard, and our relations with the lead
ing commercial nations of the world are at
once embarrassed and crippled.
"And It assuTedly follows that, II we give
FREQ coinage to this dollar of inferior value,
expense OF our better coinage in gold, and
unless we expect the uniform and invaria-
BILE experience Of other nations to be, In
some mysterious way, suspended for our
peculiar benefit, we viii unayOidably lose
our gold coin. 1t will flow out from us
with the certainty and resistless force OF
the tides"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
BRYAN AND THE BEET GRouERS.

Bff1 an AND 1ffb bbEI bhDU EtS.
And now we are told by the local
Bryan organ that 90 per cent of the
sugar beet growers of Pierce county
will vote for Bryan. If this were liter
ally true it would only show that the
sugar beet growers of Nebraska are
willing to abandon beet growing and
20 back to growing corn and oats. No
body has tried to stab the beet sugar
industry as persistently as has William
Jennings Bryan and nobody has worked
harder than he to give the foreign sugar
beet grower preference over the Ameri-
can sugar beet grower.
The beet sugar producers of Germany.
Austria, France and Belgium receive
bounties on all the sugar they export
to the United States. But Mr.. Bryan
is not willing to give the American sugar
beet raisers any protection either in the
shape of bounty or import duty to en-
able them to compete in their own
market with the foreign product raised
by half-paid labor. Mr.. Bryan's prin.
ciple has been, "Buy in the cheapest
market and let home industry take car,
of itself the best it can" The sugar
beet wv of Nebraska know all this
and that is one reason why they will
not vote for Bryan. In voting against
him they will only be carrying out
Bryan's w precept that they should
cast their votes for their own interests
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
NEBRASKA AND WALL STREET.
Came the Borrowed Money
for Our Public improvements.

''iAitlBAlih III
From the latest sources of we
find that Nebraska has a population of con-
siderably over / 900, 900, has an assessed valu-
alton on its property in excess of $1SG. 00O,-
900, which does not represent half its actual
S549, 900; the counties have debts ag-
gregating only SO, 500, 900, and the
debts of the leading cities only aggre-
by Omaha and Lincoln, where there has
the last ten years calling for extraordinary
record the interest is payable in New York
City in the hated Wall street district. The
interest in only three instances that we
find exceeds 6 per cent, a~ggregating about
5000, 900, while much of it is at 5 and Az
per cent. This shows that the money that
has been invested in Nebraska to build
school houses, court houses, water works,
pave streets and provide the modern com
forts of life has come out of Wall street, and
the rate of interest is certainly moderate,
Where would Nebraska be today If that
money had not been borrowed to provide
necessary improvements? Where would Ne
braska be today If Wall street brokers,
through their clients, had not raised the
money to build the railroads that run all
over the state? We have not examined the
entire list of roads in that state, but it will
be found that many Of them pay no interest
on the stock, some not on their bonds, while
much of the mileage is in the hands of re-
~ceivers. An average return for the invest
ment Is about 3 per cent. Does this look as
II Wall street was sapping the life blood of
Nabra ska
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

If there is not enough vitality left
in the Municipal league to enable it to
take an active hand in the selection Of
Legislative delegates it might just as
well disband. The question of charter
revision ought TO be raised to one OF
the important issues of the county legis-
lative campaign and no man Should be
nominated for the legislature WHO is
not fitted to push and defend Omaha's
interests in the legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Mr.. Bryan has been weighed and found
wanting by New York. He falls far below
it's standard of craftsmanship. He has dem
onstrated by his own pleading that his case
is built upon a foundation which cannot
stand the test of examination That is the
judgment Of New York, and it will be the
judgment of the union next November, for
it is fair. it is logical, and it is strictly in
accordance with the evidence,
w respect Mr.. Bryan for the courage he
displayed in voluntarily submitting himself
to the ordeal, and his failure under it is only
another of many instances where its
severity has proved too great for regulations
which had undergone successfully less ex-
acting tests. He has many attractive sur
face qualities, but the substance of intel
lectual and moral strength is not in him.
Personally he is no man for president, and
the cause he represents is hopelessly rot
ten
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Supporters of the exposition In Coun-
Gil Bluffs have gone to work in earnest
to raise funds for the great enterprise.
The people across the way have a site
in which they are very much Interested.
They want the directory 10 consider
their claims and this directory is soon
to be composed of fifty men elected
by stockholders. Thus il is son that
the people of Council Bluffs Must tnkc
stock in order to be on an equal foot
ing with the advocates of other sites.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

1t will be interesting to compare the
roster of the Indianapolis convention
with the roster of the Chicago conven-
ton for well known and representative
men. 1t has been said that excluding
convention in the history OF the demo
cratic party had so few members of
national repute as the Chicago conyen-
ton, The indianapolis gathering would
not have TO make any very notable
showing to hold its w In the com
parison.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
The Man for III Emergeney

The Herald does not hesitate to declare
that the man to head the sound money demo
Gratis who are to assemble at indianapolis
next week is Colonel Watterson. He was
among the first to raise his voice in protest
against the action of the Chicago conven
tion, to repudiate the Bryan ticket and urge
the nomination of an independent ticket
which would stand for the true principles
of democracy and the financial integrity OF
the nation. A stalwart for sound money,
tariff reform and good government, his name
more than that Of any other democrat would
prove a rallying cry for democrats who re-
pudiate Bryan and will not vote for Nc
Kinley.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

The experience of this county and
state has shown the practice Of appoint
ing men as superintendent of asylums
for the blind, the imbecile or the insane
and of county hospitals for a stated
term to be unwise. Under the peculiar
nature of the service required of such
officials and the frequency of abuses in
the conduct of institutions for h care
and keeping of unfortunate men and
women it might be well to provide by
statute that the appointing power can
at pleasure dismiss superintendent of
such institutions without notice ana
have it specifically stated there is no
regular term of office as applied to
these officials. So long as these places
are given to men as rewards for polit-
ical service and without regard TO fit
ness or unftness there can he little hope
of lettering present conditions,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Western railroads are having more
trouble over charges of rate cutting this
time by mean of drovers' tickets. 1t
is such n common thing for railroads to
make a rate agreement and then disre-
gard 1t that these complaints arouse lit,
tie outside interest. The travelling pub,
lie may be confidently relied upon to
take advantage of every opportunity
offered for cheaper transportation.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
FOES FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT.

FOES FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
The recent appointment of eX-GOv-
ernor Francis of Missouri to the secre-
taryship of the interior recalls fOrcibly
the war which William j. Bryan has
waged not only against Governor Fran
els but also against the leading demo-
cratic paper of the state of Missouri.
1t was deemed an objectionable sin in
the eyes of Bryan for democrats and eS-
pecially Missouri democrats to refuse
to subscribe to the financial hercSieS
which he himself was preaching. 1t
was only on January 80 of the present
year that Mr.. Bryan through his news
paper Illuminated as follows his pope
ocratic ban of accommodation against
Louis Republic, which is now stopping
over with adulation the man who so
mercilessly c~astigated it less than seven
months ago, as follows:
At last the st. Louis Republic has agreed
with itself upon a financial plank for the
democratic national platform of 1896. The
Republic has been endeavoring to pull
Dave" Francis chestnuts out of the fire
and at the same time ~pretends to be repre-
senting the sentiments of the Missouri demo
Gratis. AS a matter of fact, those Missouri
democrats who have not blushed for shame
at the pitiful spectacle presented by the
shadow OF a once great newspaper have
simply been laughing at the ludicrous effort
of a goldbug sheet to masquerade as a
champion Of bimetallism and a representa-
tive of thinking democrats. " The
shadow of "old 1908" is to be pitied. The
democrats of Missouri would also be en-
titled to sympathy for the lack of a credi-
table organ but for the fact that the st,
Louis Post-Dispatch has taken the place
once so ably filed by the old Missouri Re
publican, and is protecting the temple of
Missouri democracy from the onslaught of
foes without and from the perfdy of foes
within.
Curses like chickens come home to
rooSt. Although the Republic may
have forgotten and forgiven this Bryan
roast, Secretary Francis doubtless has n
better memory. Before many moons
shall have waned Mr.. Bryan will dis
cover that he has been playing with
two-edged tools. Foes from within will
beset him MS well rs foe from without
and he will get measure for measure
in double standard coin from the politi-
cal mihts.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

cleveland, Carlisle, Olney, Morton,
ct al say that the free coinage of silver
means individual dishonesty, CONNER
cial disaster and national dishOnor, and
If they believe what they say they ought
not to support the ticket, because their
duty TO their country is higher than
their duty to any party organization
So says William j. Bryan. David b.
Hill has expressed himself against 1G
to / free silver just as strongly as has
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

The official bulletin of the chief of
the Nebraska section of the United
States climate and crop service station
admits that the assured corn crop in
this state will excel all e~Xtravagant eX
pectations. With this admission we
may put Nebraska's corn crop down as
something phenomenal among bountiful
In n,,vncts
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

In the last republican primary in
Omaha nearly 1000 votes We're polled.
In the last democratic primary in
Omaha about $50 votes were polled.
Which goes to show that there is either
IN utter lack of democrats or an utter
lack of interest in the democratic nom
ination for congress in this district.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
We .On-Ccnt DoIJar.

The Bryan argument is that the silver
dollar has not decreased in value by a half,
but that then gold dollar has doubled in
value. Even if you believe him, are you I'M
that your money is worth more, worth
more to buy with, and worth more when it
is paid to you for your labor, your services,
and your commodities? Do you want it to
be worth less? If you do, vote for Bryan,
you will have the distinction, singular
in human history, of preferring to lose
money rather than to make it.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Mr.. Bryan, who claims for himself
the right to II voice in the deliberations
of his party with the reserved right to
abandon the party whenever he pleases,
cannot complain when the democrats
who repudiate free silver reputation
also repudiate the silver candidate.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

1t is stated on the best of authority
that Secretary Morton has positively
and finally refused to permit his name
convention as IN aspirant for nominal
ton on its presidential ticket. Mr.. Nor
ton probably thinks two presidential
candidates are all Nebraska can con.
yeniently accommodate in one yenr.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Frank S. Black is republican nominee
for governor in New York and John G.
Black is national democratic nominee
for governor of Illinois. The Black
family appears to be strictly in it in
the wear 1S9G.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

Governor Altgeld ventures the opinion
that Bryan will poll three votes in Ne
braska to every one for Mckinley. If
the governors predictions on the out
come in his own and other states are
as wild-eyed as his opinions about Ne
braska, republicans need have no fear
as to the overwhelming success of their
finEnf
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

There is no reason why every officer
and employee at the county hospital
The county board is expected to "
ercise good judgment as to the fitness
and executive ability of eacn person
and make the best selections.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

No one who reads Major McKinley's
formal letter Of acceptance through
carefully car honestly say that the re-
publican presidential nominee has not
given the money question thorough
study and arrived at conclusions based
on conviction.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
The Reason for II.

1t is not strange that many persons find it
hard to borrow money payable after No
vember 2, when a candidate for the presi-
dency of the United States Is travelling
about the country declaring that if he is
elected he Will make it possible to pay an
honest dollar debt with SO cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

General Gordon says he is out of
politics and intends to retire to private
life at the expiration of his term as
United States senator from Georgia.
Some men go out of politics voluntarily
and others simply drop out.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

The republican nominee for governor
of New York, Congressman Frank $.
Black, resides at Troy, the laundry
center of the Empire state. That he
is a clean candidate goes without say
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28

1t is gratifying that in the present
strained condition of business Omaha
is holding its own as well as any other
city In the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-28
Gnrheitl's View of 1t.

In a speech delivered in the house July
13, 1876, GaElield said of the free silver doe
trine: 81 have never known any proposition
that contained so many clements of vast
rascality, OF colossal swindling;'' and it is
far worse now than it was then.