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DemocraticNationalTickef
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
OF NEBRASKA
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN W. KERN
OF INDIANA
STATE TICKET
Governor A. C. Shallenberger
Lieutenant-Governor E. O. Garrett
Secretary of Stato .John Mattes, Jr.
Auditor Edwin 11. Luikart
Treasurer Clarence Mackey
Superintendent of Public Instruction
N. C. Abbott
Attorney-General II. U. Fleharty
Commissioner Public Lauds and
' Building V. U. Eastlram
Railway Commissioner... Win. II. CowrM
Congressman Sixth District
W. H. Westover
Representative, 53d District
Fred W. Johansen
COUNTY TICKET
For County Attorney, Eugene Burton
'- For Commissioner, Second Dist.,
J. P. Jensen
Fr C witty Csmmlsskitsr, Second District.
I desire to announce to the people of
Box Butto county that I am the recti,
lar nomine of the second district for
commissioner on the Democratic-Independent
ticket and will appreciate Bin
ccrely any support the voters see fit to
give meiut the polls. J'. P. Jenbn.
Haskell may be down, but he's not
out. '
, "Roosevelt, the dictator," is the
proper term uow.
Don't fail to attend the Fleharty
meeting in this rity next Tuesday.
Win. Taft was in Lincoln yesterday ,
but the state capital still remains Mr.
Bryan's town.
And yet with all the crossing firing
in the campaign it seems quiet without
the presence of "Pitchfork Ben" Till
man, Combinations, trusts, monopolies,
high tariff, injunctions, special prive
leges are Mr. Taft's supporters in the
campaign vs. Wm. J. Bryan and the
masses.
"A dollar a day is enough for a
-working man." Is Mr. Taft a safe
man to put at the head of the govern
ment with such views as this? Work
ingmen, candidly, think this matter
over.
Labor has no right to organize, is
the expression of Judge Taft. Mem
bers of Union Labor societies, please
take notice. Will you vote to elect a
man of this opinion to be president of
the United States?
And now it is announced that Presi
dent Roosevelt will take the stump in
the interest of Taft. "Just think of
the president of the United States go
ing to such lengths to accomplish his
end. Surely we can name him, "Ted
dy, the Dictator."
The speakers' bureau of the republi
can national committee has intimated
to Mr. Roosevelt that his attitude to
ward Mr. Bryan is injuring Mr. Taft's
campaign and hence the "Dictator"
has announced that he would write no
more letters attackiug The Commoner.
Now siuce President Roosevelt has
entered into the campaign in behalf of
his pet caudidate, Taft. his son-in-law ,
"Nick" Lougworth too has stuck in
his quill and attempts to ridicule the
democratic caudidate for president. It
does seem as if the whole "damn fami
ly ' will have to be called out to head
off Mr. Bryan,
From the Center of Things
! Hprclnl Lincoln CorrMmtciirt
Lincoln Neb. Oct 30. The utter unrc
liabilty of Theodore Roosevelt is fully dis
closed in his letter from Oyster Bar. un
der date of September 21. and appearing
in the daily papers of September 32. In
that letter President Roosevelt, in dis
cussing the Hearst disclosures of Forakor's
culpability, reveals himself as being either
a man who jumps at conclusions without
ever looking after the facts, or a man
willing to do a cruet injustice if thereby
he may advance his own political schemes.
In that letter he says:
"Senator Foraker has been a leader
among those members of congress, of
both parties, who have opposed the great
policies of internal reform, for which the
administration has mado itself responsible.
His attitude has been that of certain other
public men. notably (AS SHOWN IN
THE SAME CORRESPONDENCE
PUBLISHED BY MR. HEARST). Gov
ernor ILiskell of Oklahoma."
Especial attention is called to the words
printed in capitals inside of the parenthe
sis. They were written by President
Roosevelt. Yet the facts are that Gover
nor Haskell's name nowhere appears in
any of the correspondence read and print
ed by Hearst.
There are a lot of old-fashioned people
who believe that a lie by indirection is us
wicked as a direct lie.
President Roosevelt's unwarranted at
tack on Governor Haskell recalls his bit
ter attack on the late James K. Tyner.
Mr. Tyner was formerly postmaster gen
eral, and after his retirement from that
office was given a responsible position in
the potofl1ce department During his
superintendence of his division some ir
regularities appeared and Roosevelt wrote
a letter in which he bitterly attacked
Tyner, calling him a thiuf and blackening
his character. Tyner immediately de
manded a trial. 1 he trial was held and
Tyner, an old man approaching the grave,
was triumphantly- acquitted. It was
stioun that he was absolutely innocent of
any wrong doing. Then Tyner, sick unto
death, wrote Roosevelt a letter and plead
with him to issue another letter admitting
that his bitter attack was unfounded and
that he was wrong in charging the dying
man with a crime, Roosevelt paid no
attention to the pitiful plea, ignored the
verdict of acquittal and let James K. Ty
ner go down to the grave with the smirch
of unfounded presidential denunciation
upon his record.
There are a lot of old-fashioned people
who believe that the "square deal" con
sists in something more than always
boasting about it.
The Nebraska republican platform con
vention refused to adopt a plank advocat
ing the guarantee of bank deposits,
although Governor Sheldon, candidate for
reflection,. and two or three other state
candidates are recorded as favoring it.
But the explanation is simple. Under the
Nebraska primary law, platforms are
adopted by a convention made up of one
representative from each county. The
republican platform convention was large
ly made up of national bankers, and the
committee on resolutions was dominated
by a majority of national bankers.
The democratic platform convention
adopted a platform demanding a state
guarantee law. But the democratic plat
form convention was made up of deposi
tors, not bankers.
The letters that come pouring into The
Commoner office from all parts of the
country contain the most cheering news.
From every quarter is reported the cer
tainty of democratic victory. Not only do
these letters say that many republicans in
the writer's localitie-) are supporting
Bryan, but they give the names. A trav
eling man, whose headquarters are at St.
Paul and who travels in Minnesota, South
Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, was in the
office one day last week and he told of a
dozen or more straw votes taken on trains.
He had the dates and the figures for each
one. These votes ran from 12 to 30 votes
each, and in only one of them did Taft
break even 2 to 12, Every other one
showed a majority of from 2 tor to 10 to 1
for Bryan. This may explain why you do
not see reports of straw votes in the re
publican organs, like you so often did in
1S9G and 1900.
The New York Herald, admittedly the
best political forecaster among all the
great newspapers, prints the most cheer
ing forecasts from the democratic stand
point, It asserts that unless the republi
cans do vastly more than stem the tide
now setting Bryanward. Taft is a badly
beaten man.
Mr. Taft will be in Lincoln before this
letter appears in print, and local republi
cans are straining every nerve to make
the visit stem the Bryan tide in this over
whelming republican community. The
local republican managers said last July,
"Wait a mouth or two and you won't see
such a prepodnerance of Bryan pictures in
Lincoln windows. It is now the last of
September and the Bryan pictures still
outnumber the Taft pictures 3 to 1,
"If Bryan is elected corn will sell for
15 cents ne.t spring," said a delegate to
the republican convention this week.
The statmnent was made iu the corridor
of the Lindell hotel. May corn is quoted
at 47 cents in Chicago, Before the re
publican had fairly uttered the statement
he was offered 40 cents a buihel for 50,000
HOW SHALL
Important issues, of Vital
Citizen, to be Discussed
Hon. Harry B. Fleharty, democratic candidate for
attorney general of the state of Nebraska, has been se
cured to ' speak to the people of Alliance and vicinity
next Tuesday evening, October 6th.
Mr. Fleharty is an able speaker and has a wide
reputation as exponent of public affairs. He also
stands high in the legal profession and is quoted by
members of the bar in many instances. Mr. Fleharty 's
knowledge of governmental and political affairs, to
gether with his oratorical ability, promises us an in
teresting as well as educational treat. We advise all
voters, irrespective of party lines, to be on hand at the
opera house next Tuesday evening to hear him. What
the voters want is a thorough discussion of the issues
they will be asked to vote upon and this Mr. Fleharty
will explain. Ladies, too, are especially invited to
attend for they, as well as the men folks, are interested
in the subject to be discussed.
bushels delivered at Madison, Neb , next
May, and the offer was made by a man
who can draw his check for Si 00, 000 and
have it honored. The man who offered to
buy the corn is a democrat.
During the convention C. A, Ready, re
publican newspaper man, asked the writer
the following question:
"Suppose Mr. Bryan is elected, and
when a lot of government coin bonds fall
due next year he should order the treasur
er of the United States to pay them in sil
ver what would happen'
"Before 1 answer that question let me
ask you one or two so I can get the matter
clearlv in mind." renlied the writer.' t
iiiitiKiu, aaiu mi, ucdu).
All .!..U. ' --I.) M- r I..
"All the financial laws now on, the
statute books were written thereon by re
publicans, were they not'"
"Yes, sir," proudly replied Mr. Ready.
"And under wise republican financial
legislation every dollar is as good as every
other dollar?"
"Yes, sir," said Mr Ready.
"Then," said the writer' "what could
happen if Mr. Bryan should order the
bonds paid in silver every dollar is as
good as every other dollar thanks to , re
publican financial wisdom."
Mr. Bryan has offered "Minnamascot,"
the trick mule presented to him by the
Minnesota Agricultural society, to the
county committee of the county that
shows the largest percentage of gain for
the democratic ticket at the coming elec
tion. The Chicago Record-Herald of Septem
ber 24 printed the picture of "a leading
Chicago democrat who has announced
himself for Taft." This "leading Chicago
democrat" enjoyed Mr. Bryan's hospitality
several days early last summer, and while
at Fairview was most vociferous in bis
protestations of loyalty and support.
Will M. Maufin.
Taft Forced to Stomp.
Chairmau Hitchcock annouueed that
Judge Taft would conduct a "porch
campaign"and would not travel over the
country. That was when the fight be
gan. Confidence permeated the Re
publican camp. The other day Mr.
Hitchcock announced that Judge Taft
would make a whirlwind campaign,
perhaps going from ocean to ocean.
It would have been much more com
fortable, sitting on a wide veranda in
the palatial home of his thirty-millionaire
brother, Charles P. Taft, in Cin
cinnati, drinking iced tea and keeping
the atmosphere in motion with a palm
leaf fan.
The reason the porch campaign was
abandoned was the reception of news
from the workers in every state: ..Come
over into Macedonia and help us. The
heathen that is, the Democrats are
pressing us unto death. Verily, we
say unto you, there be no such thing
this blooming year of our Lord as Re
publican cinches, like unto those where
in we reveled in times past. The
enemy doth frighten us. We need
succor."
And so the dream of assured suc
cess, which made pleasant the Repub
lican couch when the campaign began,
is no more; nowadays, the big chiefs
arise in the morning to tell of awful
nightmares manifesting Democrats en
tering the White House by the front
door, and hanging their overcoats
where have hung the clothing of for
mer presidents.
Hence, Judge Taft goes on the
stump, forced there by the glowing
reports of swelling Democratic major
ities wherever voters live,
While Mr. Tuft was being escorted
around the speakers platform at Cedar
Rapids last week, he said he "felt like
a pet forming boar." The World-Her-
aid .pictured him in that light with.
Teddy holdiug the chain.
WE VOTE ?
Interest to Every
-Come and Learn.
'TJHCLE JOE" AHD THE FREE
- AND INDEPENDENT
CONGRESS.
CONCERNING "UNCLE JOE.'
Last week one of the ablest and
best liked Republican members of
congress, J. Adam Bede, of the Eighth
Minnesota district, was defeated for
renomiuation by members or his own
party because he declared himself un
flinchingly In favor of the re-election
as speuker of Joe Cannon. This seems
to be a fair indication of Republican
sentiment concerning the cznr of the
lower house of congress. Collier's
Weekly, which so far as It has any
policy, Is certainly friendly to the Re
publican parry, denounces Cannon un
reservedly, and last week printed a
communication In which It was said
that If Taft and Sherman were elected
the long arm of the speaker would
reach from the house end of the capl
tol to the senate and make the puppet
Sherman do the bidding of the auto
crat In the speaker's chulr.
President Roosevelt. In IS91, said of
Cannon: "We cnunot escape from the
fact that It was no credit to the Re
publican party of the house that Mr.
Cannon of Illinois bhould be one of
Its leaders." Camion then was tem
porarily out of ofllce, the only time
lie has been out of otilce In thirty
five years. Among all the prominent
Republicans there Is none upon whom
the couutry looks with so much hesi
tancy and doubt. Ills face Is always
set against any measure for the good
of the people, his power Is Invariably
exerted for those measures that ure
demanded by the great Interests.
Whether as a result or this attitude
or not, the fact remains that after
thirty-five years of ofilceliolding, with
only a moderate salary most of the
time, "Uncle Joe" has grown rich, his
wealth Increasing as his power In
creased, He Is emphatically an Issue
In this campaign not merely an Issue
between the Democratic and Repub
lican parties, but between the decent
and iMtrlntU- element and the corrupt
clement which U has so long domi
nated. 2000 yards good
- Qc.
Standard Ginghams
NORTON'S.
M. Cusick, oui;ineer ou the Cambtia
run, is laying oft and has gone to Al-
1 linnrn micsim tlirntii'li linr. Timed.-!
Eneineer W. M. Stow ell is takim? bis
I place. Edgemont Express.
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SWINGING TO BRYJW
Pacific States Almost Solid For
the Nebraskan.
EAST GETTING INTO LINE.
Bitter Antagonism Against Democratic
Candidate No Longer Exists Watch
and the Tariff The Attack on
Foraker He Probable Effect on Ohio
Politics Indiana Safely Democratic.
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
So far as the Democratic campaign
la concerued, no one about national
headquarters Is worried. It is really
amazing how strong Is the feeling
among Republicans that Mr, Bryan Is
sure to be elected. One of the princi
pal managers of the McKitiley cam-1
patgu In 1000 called ou mo the other
day and told me that there was no
enthusiasm at all for Taft. I cannot
mention his name, because he said
that he personally would not this time
vote for Tnft for the reason that he
did not believe that Mr. Tnft was fair
ly nominated by the Republican party.
I remember very well wh 11 this In
formant of niluc was or! lug llko a
slave iu the speakers' bureau of the
Republlcau untioiuil committee. This
year he la stnj ...5 :i .v.-..- 1 . jui that com
mittee and is qulotly saying that in
the parts of the United States with
which he Is acquainted the Republic
ans are going to vote for Bryan and
Kern.
It so happens that I know much
about this man's interest in Republic
an politics. Today he says that the
states In which he Is Interested Mon
tana, Idaho. Washington ami those
alo: r t "1 t'neific coast are likely, to
be ubnoliuely Democratic when the
campaign closes. I only quote him
because It has not been my good for-
tune to be In that part of the country 1
of late mouths. Hut he as a Re-,
publican ought to know something '
about It and as a Republican says '
that the Pacific coast Is almost solid
for Mr Bryan.
And as to the East.
At the uiotuci I uu writing Mr.
Bryan Is speaking hi New York and
In ud jaccut states. What the effect of his
speeches there may be can only be de
termined after the election is held. I
believe and those who are associated
with me believe that he is going to
swing New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut aud Rhode Island. We have
come to the conclusion that there is no
louger a bitter autagonlsui against
Bryan. We believe that the people of
the east have come to recognize in
him a champion of the people's cause.
We hold that as he has preached the
moral and ethical end of politics he
bas grown and developed, as a leader
of tho Amerjcan people. Sometimes I
think that Mr. Bryan Is less of a poli
tician than ho is a moral teacher.
When he devotes mouths of his tlrae
'tov lectures before' Chautauqua asso
ciations, when he speaks Sunday after
Sunday before a Presbyterian or a
Methodist church, be is doing tho kind
of work that the ordinary politician
never undertakes. The politician goes
out to make his speeches on free trade
or the relations of the different de
partments of the federal government
to each other. Mr. Bryan talks about
the Prluea of Peace, he talkH about
the ethical and the moral phases of
politics, and he talks to a Methodist
assemblage with exactly the Bame ear
nestness that he shows when he speaks
to an ordinary political gathering, is
it not probable that with all this work
he has been doing Mr. Bryan will have
built up a new political following? Is
it not likely that, whatever may be the
activities of the Republican national
committee, the men aud the women
who have listened to Mr. Bryan speak
ing on mutters of this character will
earnestly and enthusiastically support
his candidacy'.' I get much of this
talk concerning Avhat he has been do
ing, not In politics, but In the higher j
type of religious aud ethical work In I
this country, and I am very much in- j
cllued to believe that what he has I
done la likely to carry him through to
complete success aud to make him the
next president of the United States.
Watch and Prey.
Over here In the United States we
have a watch trust that preys upon
the people. Congressman Henry T.
Rulney of Illinois carries a watch
which very curiously Illustrates the
predatory methods of the watch trust.
It was offered by Charles A. Keene, a
Now York watfh dealer, independent
of the trust, to President Roosevelt,
refused by tho president and accepted
by Mr. Ralney.
Engraved ou the front case is the
story of Its offering to the president
and his refusal of it. This Is how It
reads:
HOME AND FOREIGN TRICES.
"Waltham and Elgin. Home. Forelcn.
Rlversldu Waltham 417.3T.
Koyal Waltham 11.00
Lady Wnlth.,m 10.58
Fifteen Jewe.ed Elgin 11.4-
Savon jewclid ElRlu 4.79
Naught alio Elgin COO
J12.00
7.00
8.00
8.40
3.04
4.00
This seems fairly indicative of what the whole nation was this time golu
the watch trust Is doing In the United for Bryan and Kern. "
Bta'es and abroad. But it might bo j And whatever may have been bis
worth while to quote something that , purpose or his prejudice I find this to
Mr. Rulney urged In a futllo endeavor , be true that throughout tho United
to get an Investigation or a prosecution States the great newspapers, the met
of this trust. He presented all the In- , rapolltnn newspapers of the land, are
formation which I am now making j giving to tho Bryan candldacv a'tten
public to the department of Justice at lion which they never gave It before. 1
Washington pleading that the trust be 1 tun writing this from Chicago, and to
prosecuted under the anti-triiht law. The ' tiny, while there Is not an avowed Dom.
department of justice Ignored his up
peal. Of course watches are more or
less the luxurious property of the uioro
comfortably classes. But nt the same
time the si nation exists with sewing
machines, mUi agricultural machinery,
with many kinds of tools which the
nrJlnar.1 American, whether mechanic
jinncr, Is compelled to use lu tlita
couiitr.v. They are sold abroad for
low than they can be bought for with
in this country, and for that very rea
son theie should be a determined ef
fort on the part of the people to compel
a reduction of the tariff on articleo thus
purveyed to foreign customers nt less
than the domestic price.
I have reason to believe that cveu
the Standard Oil company Is Selling Rh
product lit Great Britain at less thnn
It will sell It here In our own country,
where It pumps the crude petroleum
out of the bowels of the earth. Every
body knows that the United States
Steel company sells steel lu foreign
lands for less than It will pell it to our
American shipyards. And the one thing
that cuables there corporations to in
vade foreign uiurkcts for the profit of
their own stockholders Is the tariff.
There Is no profit apparent for the
American people, who have to pay tho
tariff tax.
Taft's Fight on Foraker.
The attack made by Mr. Hearst on
Senator Uorakcr was vicious and yet
at this moment of writing seems to
have been supported by necessary evi
dence. Personally I know nothing
about the facts in the cane, and I am
as little fond of Foraker as of Hearst.
But I am inclined to wo.-do whether
the controversy arose from Mr.
Hearst's own personally co-iductcd po
litical party or whether It was not in
cited by Mr. Taft hlrr'f or by his
brother, Charles P. Taft. The latter
statesman Is desirous of being tho
next senator from Ohio. Naturally ho
sees that Mr. Foraker stands Iu his
way. Therefore he Is willing to fight
Foraker and to carry out what was
said was the purpose of the Tnft or
ganization a year ago namely, to elim
inate Foraker from politics.
It so happens that I know Mr.
Hearst moderatoly well, and I am en
tirely confident that he would not hes
itate for a moment to lend his aid to
Charles I. Taft If by so doing he
could hurt either Mr. Foraker or the
Democratic national ticket.
Thi Ohio Outlook.
The effort o ' . ' nttack will be to
nbboltitc'.v tie oy the Republican par
ty In O'd M- -, year. It will destroy It
not le-i 1 lie people of that state
believe th. the charges made against
Senator Foraker are thoroughly well'
founded, but because the Foraker fac
tion In the state will believe, as It docs
believe today, fiat ther charges wero
made by a mercenary of politics nt the
Incentive of Taft's own brother. Ter
Bonally I do not believe that Senator
Foraker represents all that is sweet
ness and light lu politics, but he has
got back of him a tremendous and a
devoted following In the state of Ohio.
This following will refuse to belleva
that he is In this particular Incident
guilty of any unlawful act. They will
believe that certain letters have been
purloined by an agent of the Taft
family from the flies of the Standard
OU (company and .have been used for
Foraker's undoing.
Tho publication of thes latteratnajr.
Undo'Foraker. Probably It will.' "But
it is mighty likely to undo Taft aa
well, for there Is no man Republic life
who has a more devoted personal tal
lowing in bis own state than Joseph
B. Foraker. If it bo mu.de clear, as it
certainly will be, that these letters
were turned over to Hearst by some
one closely associated with the Taft
campaign, you will find that the men
vho have marched with Foraker for
years back will march Into their tents
and permit Mr. Taft to tight his battle
himself. This Is only one of the many
bitter quarrels among Republicans.
There are others in Indiana, iu Kansas,
In Wisconsin and In Minnesota.
But, after all, the real Issue Is likely
to settle down upon this: If Mr. Roase
velt is to select his succesbor ns pres
ident nud if Mr. Taft is to select his
brother as senator from Ohio and If
Mr. Charles P. Taft Is to be the dom
inant factor in selecting the congres
sional delegation from Ohio, how far
are we from imperialism and a hered
itary monarciiy?
What Happened In Indiana.
Everybody believes that Indiana Is
going to be this year a straight Dem
ocratic state. Of course belief does
not mean proof. But we have some
proof that may possibly Justify our be
lief. For example, only the other day
It became necessary for the voters of
Indiana to elect n number of members
of the state legislature to fill vacancies
which had been caused by death or by
Inability of tho regularly elected mem-
hers to serve. 1 here were five of these
', districts that were In the pnst solidly
j Republican.
i-our of them this vear
leiurneu iJumocrutlc candidates. One,
which had u record of 2.G00 Republic
an majority, this year dropped to LVo.
So much for, Indiana. But on the
very day that this hnpiwned a promi
nent Republlcau politician whom I
have knott'n for years and who has
been one of the principal managers of
tho Beverldge candidacy encountered
mo in Chicago. He informed mo that
the state of Indiana this year was al
most as safely Democratic as tho state
of Texas. And ho further declared
that In his travels throughout the
United States he was mnvinmi (i.nt
o'-rath' paper iu Chicago, there U not
one single unfair paper printed. The
newspapors of the United States which
in 1810 wort bitterly agalust us are
this yonr looking toward us nt leaf;
with favoring eyes.
Chicago.