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    A Colossal Railway Consolidation

    Republican Editor Edward Rosewater welcomes the consolidation of the Southern Railway out of its receivership and hopes that bigness will streamline railroad operations and open up opportunities for government oversight and control.

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    A Deception And A Snare

    Railroads presented political controversies at the very local level, in city hall meetings and town councils over the location of their depots, the kind of service they might run, and a host of other social issues.

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    An Artistic Job of Train Robbing

    Bryan's World Herald puts the tariff issue at the center of the 1894 campaign and argues that the tariff is a tax on working people because it results in higher prices for all goods and commodities. The newspaper also editorializes about a recent train robbery, arguing that the Wells Fargo men did not demonstrate enough manliness in the confrontation.

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    Bringing in the B. & M. Voters

    Ever vigilant against railroad political power, the Republican Omaha Daily Bee warns against the possibility of voter fraud in the election through the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad employees whom the company is moving back into Nebraska right before the election.

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    Bryan and Thurston

    Speech by William Jennings Bryan.

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    Bryan as a False Prophet

    The Republican State Journal emphasizes the Democratic Party's internal divisions over the fusion with Populists.

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    Bryan for Senator

    William Jennings Bryan's newspaper reports the events of his nomination at the state convention, emphasizing the joining of forces to defeat the Republicans and the deep history of the Democratic Party.

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    Bryan in a Tight Place

    The Republican State Journal depicts the disagreement over tactics in the Democratic Party because of Bryan's fusion with the Populists.

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    Bryan Was Not In It

    Bryan's candidacy and his move to fuse with the Populists and campaign for free silver went against the Cleveland White House administration. In Nebraska the Democratic forces divided and some remained "gold bugs," staunch conservatives on the money issue and others remained reluctant to break with the Democratic presidential administration on such important issues. The Republican State Journal seeks to exploit the deep divisions in the Democratic Party.

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    Bryan's Two Challenges

    Bryan challenges Thurston to a debate.

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    Bryan-Thurston First 1894 Debate (Nebraska State Journal)

    This article from the October 18, 1894 edition of the Nebraska State Journal summarizes the first debate between Republican candidate John M. Thurston and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1894 Nebraska Senate campaign. The article also presents each man's speech, in full, as well as their rebuttal statements.

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    Bryan-Thurston First 1894 Debate (Omaha World Herald)

    This article from the October 18, 1894 edition of the Omaha World Herald summarizes the first debate between Republican candidate John M. Thurston and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1894 Nebraska Senate campaign. The article also presents each man's speech, in full, as well as their rebuttal statements.

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    Bryan-Thurston Second 1894 Debate (Omaha World Herald)

    This article from the October 19, 1894 edition of the Omaha World Herald summarizes the second debate between Republican candidate John M. Thurston and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1894 Nebraska Senate campaign. The article also presents each man's speech, in full, as well as their rebuttal statements.

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    Consecrated Perfidy

    Republican editor Edward Rosewater criticizes the strike commission investigation and argues little of value will emerge from its recommendations because railroads have so much influence. Rosewater includes a little poem about Thomas Scott, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, ridiculing him as self-absorbed and arrogant.

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    Continued Misrepresentation

    Bryan's World Herald defends his record on behalf of the working man and against Republican charges that he favors wage reductions.

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    Democracy and Trusts

    Republican editor Edward Rosewater went on a campaign to discredit Thomas Majors, the Republican nominee for governor in 1894, and to expose railroad influence in the campaign. Rosewater's disgruntled disgust with party fealty to the railroads did not prevent him from attacking the Democratic Party as beholden to trusts and against the interests of workingmen.

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    Fallacious Doctrine

    Bryan's World Herald criticizes John Thurston's claims in the joint debate that the Republicans defend American working men with the protectionist tariff.

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    Fear Public Sentiment

    The Bryan-Thurston campaign took place amidst national news of the trial of Eugene Debs and others in the American Railway Union for violence and disobeying court injunctions in the 1894 Pullman strikes.

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    Four Nebraska Traitors

    The Republican State Journal criticizes Bryan and his Populists allies in Congress for their votes on the sugar tariff, a protectionist measure that, the paper asserts, practically killed the local sugar beet industry. Bryan is also criticized for his editorship of the Omaha World Herald.

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    Heard From the Two Johns

    The Republican paper emphasizes the split in the Democratic party between Bryan and the Cleveland administration.