THE NEW REPUBLIC, Lincoln, Nebraska, Sept. 3, 1896  

* Pre prohibition & temperance movement 

This seems to be a prohibition-focused newspaper as much of the content would suggest. Some critical content on William Jennings Bryan content on the front page noting: "His Record! Bryan an Anti-Proihibitionist".
Four pages, good condition.

Background: This September 3, 1896 issue of The New Republic out of Lincoln, Nebraska, is a remarkably rare and significant piece of late-19th-century political ephemera, capturing a hyper-localized smear campaign published directly in presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan’s hometown during one of the most volatile elections in U.S. history. While famous for his "Cross of Gold" speech and economic populism, Bryan deliberately side-stepped the temperance movement during his 1896 campaign to avoid alienating wet, working-class urban Democrats whose votes he desperately needed—a calculated silence that local single-issue prohibition newspapers like this one weaponized against him as a moral betrayal. The front-page headline, "His Record! Bryan an Anti-Prohibitionist," is thick with historical irony given that Bryan would later evolve into one of the country's most vocal champions of the 18th Amendment. Because local, short-lived reformist newspapers were printed on highly acidic, brittle wood-pulp paper that rarely survived, finding a four-page issue in good condition from the absolute zenith of the Gilded Age's political warfare makes it an exceptionally scarce, museum-quality artifact of American political history.