NEBRASKA. 



NETHERLANDS. 



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ing department. The sum of the deposits in all 

 the banks of the State was $25,256,035.30. 



There were 60 building and loan associations in 

 the State in 1900, with assets amounting to 

 $3,697, 356.06. 



Political. The State convention of the Demo- 

 cratic party was held in Lincoln, March 19. The 

 platform included these declarations: 



" We, the Democrats of Nebraska, in convention 

 assembled, do hereby reaffirm and indorse, in whole 

 and in part, in letter and in spirit, the platform 

 adopted by the Democratic National Convention 

 held in Chicago in 1896. 



" We favor amendments to the Federal Consti- 

 tution specially authorizing an income tax and 

 providing for the election of United States Sen- 

 ators by a direct vote of the people. 



" We are in favor of the immediate construction 

 and fortification of the Nicaraguan Canal by the 

 United States. 



" We pledge ourselves to wage an unceasing 

 warfare against all the trusts the money trusts, 

 the industrial trust, and the international land- 

 grabbing trust. 



" Instead of a system which would chain our 

 nation to the gold standard and compel it to par- 

 ticipate in all the disturbances which come to 

 European nations, we demand an American finan- 

 cial system, made by the American people for 

 themselves, to be secured by the immediate restora- 

 tion of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and 

 silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, with- 

 out waiting for the aid or consent of any other 

 nation. 



" We condemn the Porto Rico tariff bill recently 

 passed by a Republican House of Representatives, 

 as a bold and open violation of the nation's organic 

 law, and a flagrant breach of good faith. 



" The Filipinos can not be citizens without en- 

 dangering our civilization; they can not be sub- 

 jects without endangering our form of govern- 

 ment; and as we are not willing to surrender our 

 civilization or to convert a republic into an em- 

 pire, we favor an immediate declaration of the 

 nation's purpose to give to the Filipinos, first, a 

 stable form of government; second, independence; 

 and third, protection from outside interference, 

 as it has for nearly a century given protection 

 to the republics of Central America. 



" We sympathize with the Boers in their heroic 

 efforts to preserve their national integrity." 



At the same time and place the Populists held 

 their State convention. The split in their ranks 

 was continued, and the bolters were exchided from 

 the convention. 



The Silver Republicans also held their State 

 convention at the same time and place. 



A fusion ticket was arranged for the Democrats 

 and Populists, in July, the following being the 

 nominations for State officers: For Governor, 

 W. A. Poynter, Populist; Lieutenant Governor, 

 E. A. Gilbert, Silver Republican; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, W. D. Oldham, Democrat; Secretary of State, 

 C. V. Svoboda, Populist; Treasurer, S. B. Howard, 

 Populist : Auditor, H. Theo. Griess, Populist. 



In July the Prohibitionists, in State convention, 

 nominated a full State ticket. 



July 20 the bolting Populists mid-roaders 

 met at Grand Island. They nominated State offi- 

 cers and put forth a platform, which contained 

 these declarations: 



' The hopelessness of real reform through either 

 of the two old parties, which through equality 

 of corruption have both become absolutely in- 

 operative for the public good through the deser- 

 tion of principles to outside help for greed of 

 office, our party has been temporarily cut in 



twain, but we, the Populists of Nebraska, here 

 and now vow our unfaltering opposition to any 

 further fusion with either the Democratic or Re- 

 publican parties. We arraign Goebelized Democ- 

 racy as the Democratic Mark Hanna, and de- 

 nounce its wholesale disfranchisement of white 

 and black citizens of the South as government 

 without consent and a direful menace to our free 

 institutions, and tending wholly to imperialistic 

 despotism. 



" We demand an irredeemable dollar, good for 

 all debts, public and private, issued direct to the 

 people by the Government, but until such legis- 

 lation is secured we are in favor of the free and 

 unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the 

 ratio of 16 to 1. 



" We demand State or municipal ownership of 

 waterworks, street railroads, telephones, and elec- 

 tric-light service at cost to the people." 



The State Republican Convention was held in 

 May. The significant portions of the platform 

 were these: 



" We, the Republicans of Nebraska, are unlike 

 our political adversaries, who in the late conven- 

 tion held high carnival over the imaginary evils 

 threatening our country, and adopted platforms 

 which are a standing protest against its prosperity, 

 grandeur, and glory. 



" We point with pride to the remodeling of our 

 tariff laws, which has increased our revenues and 

 not impeded trade; which has opened the doors 

 of mills and factories to the millions of American 

 skilled mechanics, and is returning to them the 

 higher wages that are the just recompense for 

 their toil. 



" We indorse the legislation that has strength- 

 ened our financial system and firmly established 

 the gold standard, and made the American dol- 

 lars so safe and secure that they are kept busy 

 chasing one another around the endless circle of 

 business, too good to go into hiding and too pa- 

 triotic to steal abroad. In answer to the cry for. 

 the free and unlimited coinage of silver and the 

 claim that there is not gold enough as a basis 

 upon which to do the business of the country 

 the United States Treasury puts in evidence the 

 $120,000,000 in gold that has come to it within 

 a year, and the $413,000,000 in gold now held 

 within its vaults, and the unexampled prosperity 

 and measureless and limitless and countless finan- 

 cial transactions thus sustained without seeming 

 effort. 



" While we are unalterably opposed to imperial- 

 ism and militarism as practiced by European na- 

 tions, we are willing to accept all the legitimate 

 results of honorable warfare, and to assume the 

 burdens of governing and holding acquired terri- 

 tory. 



" We earnestly recommend that Congress devote 

 some of the money now annually expended in large 

 quantities for river and harbor improvements to 

 reclaiming the arid lands of the West." 



The following State ticket was nominated: For 

 Governor, Charles H. Dietrich; Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, E. P. Savage; Secretary of State, George 

 W. Marsh; Treasurer, William Stueffer; Auditor, 

 Charles Weston; Attorney-General, F. N. Prout; 

 Land Commissioner, George D. Follmer; Superin- 

 tendent, W. K. Fowler. 



At the election in November the Republican 

 State ticket received 113.879 votes; the fusion 

 ticket, 113,018. The vote for presidential electors 

 resulted in 121,835 for McKinley and 114,013 for 

 Bryan. 



NETHERLANDS, a monarchy in western 

 Europe. The legislative authority is vested in 

 the States General, consisting of a First Chamber, 





