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October 15, 1894 | Newspaper
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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October 14, 1894 | Newspaper
Thurston-Bryan Debate
Plans for the joint Thurston-Bryan debate proceed.
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October 10, 1894 | Newspaper
First Train for Billings
Railroads changed the spatial relationship of cities and regions, altering trade routes, access to markets, credit, and information. Despite his campaign against railroad political corruption, the editor of The Omaha Bee celebrates the new Billings route with great enthusiasm for the opportunities it will create.
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October 9, 1894 | Newspaper
Quit the Union or be Fired
The U.S. Senate campaign in 1894 featured long speeches by candidates at town gatherings across Nebraska. John Thurston presents his case for defending American interests first by contrasting McKinley as the American with Democratic internationalism.
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October 8, 1894 | Newspaper
On to Washington
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 8, 1894 | Newspaper
Rough on Administration Democrats
Bryan's World Herald warns Democrats that Republican efforts to peel off conservative Cleveland, gold bug Democrats will end in Republican advantage.
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October 7, 1894 | Newspaper
Mr. Rosewater's New Speech
The Republican State Journal ridicules rival Republican editor Edward Rosewater, who was giving speeches around Nebraska in a campaign to eliminate railroad influence in politics and prevent the election of Tom Majors as governor. The State Journal depicts Rosewater as a self-centered buffoon.
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October 5, 1894 | Newspaper
Thurston Is Conservative
In the era before direct election of senators, candidates often stood unofficially for a period of time, and in 1894 John Thurston was not officially nominated by the Republican Party with a platform. His standing was as a citizen and a party member. Bryan hopes to force Thurston's views into the open and directly challenge him, but the editor of the Bee and other Republicans consider these offers little more than political posturing.
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September 30, 1894 | Newspaper
Reasonable Rates Defined
The editor of The Omaha Bee quotes economist Richard T. Ely and explores the idea of the strikes as a "necessary evil," one that reveals the broken nature of the industrial, railroad political economy. Rates and the proper valuation of railroad properties were a crucial public issue.
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September 29, 1894 | Newspaper
Rosewater and Railroads
Republican editor Edward Rosewater's determined campaign against railroads and against the Republican candidate for governor Tom Majors culminates in an open forum and debate. The Republican State Journal presents Rosewater as a pompous and ineffective gadfly.
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September 28, 1894 | Newspaper
Pullman Taxation
The Pullman strike investigation opens up inquiries into tax assessment and valuation, another source of local conflict with large railroad corporations, and Republican editor Edward Rosewater calls attention to the financial manipulations of these companies as further evidence of railroad corruption.
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September 28, 1894 | Newspaper
Notice to Travellers
After the Democratic convention nominates Bryan, the Republican State Journal ridicules Bryan as pompous and self-serving, blind to the consequences of his actions.
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September 28, 1894 | Newspaper
Bryan's Two Challenges
Bryan challenges Thurston to a debate.
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September 27, 1894 | Newspaper
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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September 26, 1894 | Newspaper
[Untitled] Today is the date arranged by Mr. Bryan. . .
The Republican State Journal ridicules Bryan's Populist-Democratic fusion as an unlikely alliance and a fantasy.
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September 23, 1894 | Newspaper
Nebraska Politics
The Republican Bee publishes a letter from a longtime Nebraska Democrat, arguing that the Democratic Party has been in servitude to the railraods and that only a restoration of public spirit will revitalize the political life of either party.
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September 23, 1894 | Newspaper
The Tactics of Young Billy
The Republican State Journal calls attention to Bryan's tactics within the Democratic Party, emphasizing his inability to compromise, his miscalculation of the Populist strength, and his failure to mend fences with the administration Democrats.
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September 17, 1894 | Newspaper
Issue of the Hour
Republican editor Edward Rosewater had played a central role in the party's organization, but broke ranks with Thurston's Republican cohorts and he resigned from the state committee and campaigned in 1894 for cleaning up politics from railroad influence.
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September 16, 1894 | Newspaper
Railroad and the People
Edward Rosewater, Republican editor, argues that the railroads charge "tax" on a part of nearly every commodity in the United States. He welcomes the consolidation of railroad management and the professionalization of the managers as a sign of future government regulation and fairer, more predicatable business practices.
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September 14, 1894 | Newspaper
The New Anti-Trust Law
Republican editor Edward Rosewater accuses the Democratic Congress and Democratic candidates of attempting to gain political advantages from passing an "anti-trust" piece of legislation. He also criticizes the Democratic administration for failure to enforce anti-trust acts.
