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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1897
Page
4
The Sidney Nebraska official paper lists subscription prices with one year at reduced rates, six months prepaid, and single copies. It details display and local reading rates, business lines, and professional cards, noting legal notices billed at statute rates.
The Nebraska Republican electors invite delegates from counties to Lincoln on August 26 to nominate a Supreme Court judge and two state university regents and to conduct other business. The note covers apportionment by presidential votes and criticizes the silver movement, immigration trends, and local officials, ending with a humorous comparison to Cheyenne county cattle riches.
Notice announces a meeting of the Republican County Central Committee in Sidney on Saturday August 21 197 for fixing the date of the Republican County Convention and other business. Chairman M H Tontx urges full attendance at the gathering.
A critical column denounces the Populist party as shamful for hypocrisy on railroad passes. It notes leaders once denouncing passes now accept them, and mocks reformers for endorsing the system. The piece blasts past promises as insincere and calls out roving passes as fraud.
Exports of corn are projected at 200 million bushels, a record high. Farmers who followed wheat and silver rhetoric fear the reversal as Alaska draws interest. Horace Greeley’s line is flipped to go north, go to Alaska. The political scene heats up after next Saturday as railroad workers and farmers increasingly benefit from a stance against free silver and chaos. Ohio Democrats avoid campaigning near Cleveland’s rolling mill revived with 3,500 workers.
A satirical survey notes no calamity to console distress in the Calamity ties while wheat rises and prosperity remains strong. It cites banking clearing statistics, political scheming in Nebraska conventions, and editorials lampooning silver advocates and officials.
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