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DemocraticNationalTicket
1 t FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
OF NEBRASKA
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN W. KERN
,OF INDIANA
STATE TICKET
Governor.,.....,.., .A. C. Shaltenberger
Lieutenant-Governor. .... E. O. Garrett
Secretary of State John Mattes, Jr.
Auditor Edwin U. Luikart
Treasurer. Clarence Mackoy
Superintendent of Public Instruction
N, C. Abbott
Attorney-General II. B. Fleharty
Commissioner Public Lands and
Building. W. B. Eastham
Railway Commissioner... Wm. II. Cowgill
Congressman Sixth District
. Wi H, Westover
State Senator, Fourteenth District..
" ' .George M, Adams
Representative, 33d District
....Fred V. Johansen
. - COUNTY TICKET
?or County Attorney, Eugene Burton
For Commissioner, Second Dlst.,
J. P. Jensen
AHNOUSCEMEMS.
Fr CiHHrty CawmUsliHir, SkmK Wttrict
I desire to announce to the people of
Box Butte county that I am the regu
lar nomine of the second district for
commissioner on the Democrnticlnde.
pendent ticket and will appreciate sin
cerely any support the voters see fit to
give me at the polls. J. P. Jensen.
Per Cswrty Attoriwy.
I hereby announce mysolt as a can
didate for the office of county attorney
of Box Butte county, Nebraska, on the
democratic-independent ticket, and
solicit the support of the voters of Box
Butte county. Eugene Burton.
Sidney Tapp, candidate for president
on the liberal party ticket, which de
clares for women sufferage, was only
notified of his nomination last Tuesday.
Sidney and the women had better get
a. move on themselves or they'll get
left. Sidney better be tapping his
barrel right quick if he expects to win
in the race.
What has become of "Old Figgers"
Grosvenor? He hasn't made a prediction
this year. But C V. Mitchell, of Zanes
vllle, O,, who claims to be a political
prognosticator with a record for hitting it
off right comes forward with this predic
tion: .
"Taft will probably carry Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Washington, Oregon, Rhode Is
land, Wisconsin and Delaware. Hisgen
will get Massachusetts. Bryan will carry
all the rest."
It might be well to paste that up.
James Schoolcraf Sherman, republican
nominee for vice-president, is a very ver
satile gentleman, In addition to drawing
$7,500 a year as a congressman, be also
draws $1,2000 a year from the state of
New York as attorney for the Utica Hos
pital for the Insane, and ha been drawing
it for eleven years. This is a direct viola
tion of the law against holding two posi
tions in the public at the same time. He
is also president of a bank, a canning corn
pan and the Utica Ice trust.
And by the'vay, have you noted how
ci.nnn.lit cilont ttip nmititican organs are
--j -' ---- -"- -
about "straw votes? the straw votes
show up very badly for Taft and Sherman.
J'erhaps that is tne reason tor repuuuean
silence.
Guarantee of bank funds
SUMUUO
eiMirtile
good and it will cause thousands of
voters to cast their ballots for W. J.
Bryan, who is in favor of such a na
tional law.
From the Center of Things
I Special Lincoln Correixndeneu.l
Lincoln, Nebr., October at Thursday
night of last week Mr. Bryan wound up at
Nebraska City "in the shadow of the
starch trust" the most enthusiastic round
of receptions ever tendered to him In his
home state. Starting from Omaha on
Tuesday morning, he addressed an aver-.
age of 35,000 people a day for three days,
-winding up at Nebraska City with a speech
that was remarkable for its incisiveness
and argument. ;
Eight years ago, white a democratic
attorney general was trying to enforce the
Nebraska anti-trust laws and thus keep
Nebraska City's starch factory from fall
ing into the hands of the starch trust, Mr.
Bran was threatened with bodily violence
if he attacked the trust while in Nebraska
City, He did attack it, and warned the
people of Nebraska City that they had no
assurance of their starch factory's contin
uance if it fell into the hands of the trust.
They, laughed at him, and whon Nebraska
went republican they wrote him mocking
letters asking, "Isn't the shadow of the
starch factory extending over the whole
state?"
Thursday night Mr, Bryan, standing
within a few blocks of the dismantled
buildings now in the hands of the wreck
ing crews asked his political opponents
how far the shadow of the starch factory
extended these days, He handed the
chairman of his meeting a five dollar bill
to be given to the republican committee
if the republicans would carry In this
year's parades the banners they carried
eight years ago.
The republicans of Nebraska City are
not asking "what Bryan prophecies have
been fulfilled?" They know of at least
one. They see the answer in the huge
piles of brick and stone that once formed
the buildings of their starch works. And
500 people who once earned fair wages in
the starch works now have little else to do
than ponder over this expensive object
lesson in "trust busting" under a Republi
can administration.
W. A. Woodward, one of the leading
business men .of Lincoln, a life-long re
publican and a member of the city council
elected on the republican ticket, has pub
licly announced that he will vote for Bryan
and do all that he can to bring about the
election of his distinguished fellow citizen,
Normal precinct, the home of Mr. Bryan
is usually reliably republican. Six years
ago the republican state and congresssion
al committees spent over (300 in Normal
precinct in order to secure the "satisfac
tion" of ca'rryidg Bryan's home precinct
against him,' Normal has less than 200
votes. Now a move is on foot, engineered
by Normal republicans, to give Mr. Bryan
the unanimous vote of the precinct. All
but a dozen or fifteen republicans have,
agreed to help, and ' pressure is being
brought to bear to induce the obdurate
ones to get in line, The "pressure" con
sists wholly of appeals to neighborly
pride.
A few days ago Mr. Bryan received an
unique and valuable present from a Lin
coln admirer. It is a center table that
was made by Erstine King, a union print
er of Lincoln. It is' a sample of "par
quetry work," and is made up of upwards
of 5,000 different bits of wood, hundreds
of them being of almost microscopic sfze
Mr. King started the work twelve years
ago, and has put in his odd momeuts on it.
It follows a "16 to 1" design, and it shows
artistic as well as mechanical talent in a
high degree, 'when Uryan is inaugur
ated,'" said Mr, King, "my happiness will
be complete if that little table stands by
his side and bears the pitcher of ice
water.
"There was a pathetic incident at Te
cumseh last week, when Mr. Bryan visit
ed that town, Mr. Ross, an aged citizen,
lay upon his death bed. For days his
one wish had been that he might live until
Mr. Bryan came to Tecumseh that 'he
might once more grasp the hand of his
hero. Mr. Ross, 80 years old, has been
one of Mr. Bryan's staunchest supporters
ever since 1890, when Mr. Bryan entered
political life and was elected to congress.
The democratic leader cut his Tecumseh
visit short that he might hasten to the
bedside of his old friend. The old man
lay upon his bed near the door, surround
ed by relatives and friends, waiting for
his hero to come. Mr. Uryan entered the
room and without a word hastened to Mr.
Ross' bedside. The dying man .could
scarce raise his hand, but a smile flickered
over his wan face as Mr. Bryan took the
wasted hand in his own strong palm.
With a few words of cheer that visibly
brightened the dying man, Mr. Bryan left
the house, his eyes glistening with tears.
The people who witnessed the incident
will never forget it
Last week Mr. Bryan was called upon
to mourn the death of one of his staunch
est friends and supporters. Judge Jeffer
son H Broady of Lincoln. When Judge
Broady died, one of the staunchest and
' . . .
; ablest democrats in
the west, a disting-
tiictmrl inrier nnrt nn Avfinlnlfirv rfhi.n
) d (o Wf fina, reward Hfi wm
. .,,,. . Va,ract!l nnH Kai
1 pioneer in Nebraska and had a distinguish
ed record as a judge and as a lawyer. He
was one of the democrats who rallied
around Bryan in 1804 and wanted the
1 control of
the democratic party in Ne
braska from the hands of those who strove
to make it a business asset. He never
failed to respond to the call of duty, and
WH
Why Were These Popular -Reforms Which
People So Earnestly Demanded and
Wanted Continued Turned
Down at Chicago?
WHY was Sheldon, a director and controller in twenty
two trusts and combinations a Stand Patter selected to
collect campaign money?
WHY was DuPonr, head of the powder trust, which
trust is now being prosecuted by the federal government,
placed at the head of the republican executive committee, to
send out speakers?
WHY is Cromwell. Standard Oil's nttnrnpv nnH Wnl
advisor, placed at the head of
eieccian, ana gives $50,000 to the campaign fund?
WHY do these same oeoole refuse to ntihlisri rim t-rtict-c'
donations to the campaign fund
in running tne snip witn an lights outr"
WHY is the national republican party and Taft opposed
to the guarantee of all bank deposits, so the people's money
will be safe and stop forever a trust manipulated panic for
benefit of Wall Street and the system?
WHY is Taft and the trusts afraid to let the people elect
their own senators by direct vote. Why was this popular
measure voted down ?
WHY is Taft and the republican party opposed to a
physical valuation of the railroads, which is the only basis by
which the commercial' commission can arrive at just freight
rates?
WHY is the trust controlled republican party opposed
to the rich man paying an income and inheritance tax on
swollen fortunes to lighten the burdens of the poor and
equalize taxation ?
WHY does the republican party want to place double
duty on the things the American farmer has to buy, and
leave him at the mercy and competition of the markets of the
world on the things he has to sell ? Why does this party
want the steel trust to put one dollar in its own coffers for
every dollar they pay in wages to the workingman?
WHY is the national congressional committee working
overtime with expense reports unnecessary to re-install
Cannon as czar of the house when he refuses to permit any
Roosevelt ideas to get past the committees'which he names?
These are the questions that the American voter is ask
ing today, and they cannotr'be answered by ridicule, hot air,
or soft-sounding eulogistic platitude. The truth is the. peo
ple are not ruling this year through the republican party.
The trusts are doing that for them.
If you demand that this governmemt be run for the
benefit of all the people, instead of a favored few, you should
vote for that great champion of the common people, William
J. Bryan.
He has spent years in advocating, and his partv is
pledged to the enactment of these laws for the benefit of all
the people. Bryan's election will restore confidence, put
uiv.yuaiuv.u uw uav.iv in uic uaiiNa, (Jicvcui manipulated
panics, start the wheels of commerce going again, and put to
work the millions of unemployed.
If you voted for Roosevelt and want to continue his
policies that were turned down at Chicago the only wav you
can do it is to vote for Wm. J. Bryan, for the republican
party in this campaign is opposed to them.
be was a power in democratic councils. In
the legal and political history of Nebraska
the name of Judge Jefferson H. Broady is
writ large and in enduring letters.
Senator Beveridge came to Lincoln last
week and spoke at the auditorium. He
asked Mr. Bryan a few questions Mr.
Bryan being about 500 miles away. When
the senator mentioned the name of Bryan
the audience cheered much louder than it
did at any of the speaker's arguments.
Senator Beveridge took the interruptions
good naturedly, but he was seemingly
convinced that he was in a Bryan crowd.
In his effort to rally the labor vote to Taft,
Senator Beveridge said: "All the rights
that labor has. or will have, we have given
and will give." The assertion was greeted
with laughter and jeers from the working
men present,
"About this time of the year look out
for a change in the weather." This is the
way the old almanac makers used to pre
dict things. So, also, "about this time of
the campaign look out for roorbacks from
the g.o.p." The wily managers of that
foxy old machine are cooking up some
I broadsides to fire during the closing hours
no account will be taken by the g.o.p.
managers to ascertain the truth or falsity
Of their roorback charges. The writer
predicts that the chief broadside to be
Tired by the g.o.p. managers will be a lot
of misstatements, false charges and silly
lies about Mr. Bryan in connection with
the Bennett estate. Also, they will again
attempt to appeal to the old soldiers with
that alleged pension speech. The alleged
speech was really an editorial in the Oma
ha World-Herald, and appeared therein
three years before Mr- Bryan became con
nected with that paper, and while he was
still in congress. The pamphlet sent out
by the republican managers asserts that it
was a speech made by Mr, Bryan on a
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the
the" executive committee to
before election and persist
certain date in congress. Unfortunately
for their contentson the date happens to
be during a congressional recess.
A few weeks ago this department' made
reference to a visit paid to Mr. Bryan by
P. S. Morrison of Big Horn, Wyo., who
is a democrat who voted for Andrew
Jackson. Now comes word of a man who
makes Mr. Morrison look like a lad in
knickerbockers. He Is Abner Dunton of
Hope, Maine, who expects to vote for
Bryan next month, and who voted for
John Quincy Adams in 1828 and Andrew
Jackson In 1832. Mr, Dunton lives on the
farm where he was born, and has never
lived anywhere else. Yet he has lived in
two states, three counties, a plantation
and a town. This is explained in this
way; Maine used to be a part of Massa
chusetts and under the plantation system.
The present county of Knox, in which
Hope is situated, was formerly a part of
Waldo county, and before that a part of
Lincoln county. The town of Hope is lo
cated upon a part of the original Dunton
farm. Mr. Dunton is 101 years old, and
every now and then seeks diversion by
making a pair of shoes. lie followed the
shoemaker's trade for upwards of seventy
years.
Can that democratic record be beaten
by any mau in this country?
Governor Hughes is attacking the trust
plank of the democratic platform by ridi
culing the 50 'percent clause. He says
the idea of limitation is peurile and ridicu
lous. Yet Governor Hughes advocates
identically the same plan in regard to in
surance companies. He asserts that it is
foolish to attempt a limitation upon the
output of a corporation, but insists on
limiting the business of a life insurance
company to $150,000,000 a year on the
plea that is enough for one company to
handle.
PI BRYANJJUTLOOK
His Election Forecasted by
Shrewd Observers.
STEEL TRUST HELPING TAFT.
Carnegio Contribution to Republican
Campaign Fund Inspired by Hope of
Future Favors Hearst Charge
Against Democratic Candidate Re
futed by Public Records.
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
The national campaign Is drawing to
a close. Only n few days remain dur
ing which the discussion of the merits
of the two candidates can bo presented
to the people. Of course 1 tint a parti
Ban, and I believe that Mr. Bryan Is
the man who should be applauded and
approved by the voters of the coun
try. Furthermore, I believe that he
will be elected.
To begin with, four of the best In
vestigators and the most nonpartisan
ones with the Democratic natloual
committee and with the newspapers
of the United States have Studied the
labor situation of the1 country today.
They did It IndependenUy of each oth
er. There was no conference, no pre
concerted action. And ri all four
came within a very few figures of es
timating the labor vote In exactly tho
same way. John E. Lathrop, the
Washington correspondent of several
papers on the Pacific coast, put it at
70 per cent for Bryan. Cvlouel O. O.
Stealey of tbo Louisville (If.y.) Courier
Journal made it 75 per cent for Bryan.
A. A, Allen,, the manager of the labor
bureau of the Democratic national
committee, "rot It at 70 per cent for
Bryan. En est Walker of the Boston
Herald estimated It at about C5 per
cent. It Is apparent, therefore, that,
whether partisan or nonpartisan, the
observers of politics figure tho labor
vote for Bryan at from G5 to 75 per
cent. If this estimate Is correct Mr.
Bryan will be elected easily.
In past years Mr. Bryan has had the
labor crowds and the shouting, but he
has not had the rote. It seems to be
curious that labor people have always
been willing to turn out with enthu
siasm to his meetings, but did not turn
out enthusiastically to his support on
election day. This year there have
been no great meetings.' So far as I
know, there have been no torchlight
processions, bands or red fire. Per
haps the change from the wild enthu
siasm of 180U to the more cautious
methods of 1008 may mean success.
Tho Trust In the Campaign.
It wns with interest that people ob
served that Andrew Carnegie of the
steel trust had contributed $20,000 to
the Republican campaign fund. The
Btory was not altogether official, be
cause the Republican national com
mittee, unlike the Democratic national
committee, did not promise to nio'-e
public the contributions to Its fund
prior to election. I don't know whet'i
er the statement was accurate or not.
Yet nobody can doubt that It hnd a
certain amount of plausibility.
Mr. Carnegie has never fnlled to be
a generous contributor to Republican
campaign funds. He Is In fact, If not
In name, the bend of the steel trust,
and the steel trust does more business
with the United States government
than any other manufacturing organ
ization lu the country. It buljds our
battleships and sheathes them with
nrnior plate. It furnishes the structural
steel for the groat federal buddings
thut we ure now erecttug lu Washing
ton nud In other 'ltics of the Union.
Next to the banking Interest It prob
ably Is closer to the national govern
ment than any other corporation or
Interest lu the country. And It Is u
curious fact that while other trusts
have beeu nttueked by the Roosevelt
ndmlulstratlou, while Standard Oil has
been assaulted, while railroads have
been denounced, while the tobacco
trust has suffered, the steel trust bus
never received a word of criticism
from the Theodore Roosevelt adminis
tration. It uloue has gone free. And
so when we hear of 11 $0,000 contribu
tion from Carnegie to the Republican
campaign fuud, reported not In n Dem
ocratic newspaper, but lri h Republican
paper, we wonder about It. And when
we read further that the steel trust
has contributed out of Its own coffers
$000,000 to be used In the last weeks
of tho campaign by the Republican na
tional committee we quit wondering.
We recognize the fact that the Unit
ed States government Is the greatest
asset that this enormous trust pos
sesses. We remember that the capi
talization of this trust runs far up In
the millions of dollars and that Its
chief customer Is the navy department,
and we see very clearly that the ex
penditure of a million dollars to keep
that customer lu Hue amounts to this
trust no more than the Investment of
a few hundred dollars In advertising
would count to nu ordinary business
institution on State street lu Chicago
or on Broadway In New York. That
Is why the steel trust Is willing to con
tribute lavishly to tho Taft campaign
fund. If It cun own tho administra
tion In futuro ns It has owned'lt In
the past It will get back multiplied by
many factor the $900,000 which It N
alleged to have contributed this year.
Mr. Bryjuiand Labor,
The Hearst papers with characteris
tic malignancy buve been prloUug,nn
affidavit of a mnu unknown to fume,
and who today may not exist, to the
effect thut Mr. Bryan at one time de
scribed si delegation of workiuguieu
who cume to see him on a matter In
volving the tnrlff ns "public beggars."
The time wus at the moment of the
discussion of the Wilson tariff bill, a
bill which wns Intended to reduco tho
price, of everything that the average
workingman hnd to buy, whether it
was the clothes he wore on bis back
or the lumber he might need for tho
construction of his cottage. 'Mr. Hearst
has always beeu exceedingly skillful
In getting affidavits. Sometimes It has
been very difficult to discover the men
who made the affidavits. Most of them
by a curious coincidence seemed to
hnve died before the affidavits wcro
made public. But in this particular
instance It does not seem worth while
to question the nflldnvlt, but rather to
put forth what Mr. Bryan said on the
floor of the house of representatives
on this subject. What he said thcro'
Is a matter of public record and ap
pears In tho Congressional Record. I
quote part of It:
"Mr. Chairman, tho laboring men of
this country, the producers of our na
tion's wealth, do not ask for benevo
lence. They hnve been paraded before
you as people who live by the consent
of somebody else; they have been set
before you as a class demanding con
stant help and assistance. I protest
against this slander upon the brawn
and muscle, upon the brain and slnow,
of this country: I PROTEST AGAINST
THEIR BEING PLACED BEFORE
THE COUNTRY IN THE ATTITUDE
OF BEGGARS. The laboring men do
not plead for mercy; they do not ask
for pity; they do not beg for charity.
They simply demand Justice; that Is all.
They nsk for the right to labor where
they will and to enjoy the fruits of
their own toil. With their skill and In
telligence and surrounded by the boun
ties and natural resources of a country
but partlahy dovelopcd, they do not
doubt that they can hold their own.
Let them rise and stand upon their
feet; leave them free to achieve their
own greatness, and to retain a fair
share of the wealth which they create;
give them equality beforo the law, and
they will ask for nothing more."
This seems a very complete answor
to the charge which Is made day after
day In the Hearst newspapers to the
effect that Mr. Bryan charged work
lngmen with being "public beggars."
Really It did ubt seem necessary that
any answer should be mado to so fool
ish a charge.
The State of New York.
What about' Kew York? We have an
absolutely united party there. We
have no Issues which divide the lead
ers. We have a candidate for gov
ernor, Lewis Stuyvcsant Chanler, who
Is known throughout the state as a
great vote getter and who Is ns loyal
to the national ticket as any man by
any possibility could bff. We have a
chairman of the Democratic national
committee taken from New York who
has been devoting much of his atten
tion to that state. It would appear
that all signs point to the success of
the ticket In New York state, and if it
shall be successful there It will bo suc
cessful throughout the nation.
Such wretched fiascos as the forgery
of the Gleveland letter have hurt tho
Republican party thcro more than any
where else In the country. And, by
the way, how slow the Republican
press and the Republican politicians
are lu acknowledging that that letter
was a forgery! When It was put out
every Republican newspaper In the
United States printed It in detail. The
Republican uatlonnl committee has to
my certain knowledge Issued 500,000
copies of this forged document and
has not recalled any of them. It la
very well for the paper which first put
It forth to give the New York dis
trict attorney the evidence to prove
the forgery three weeks before the
election. No doubt Mr. Jerome will
get very busy after election Is over,
but In the meantime It Is proper and
fair to sayi that the letter was never
written by Grover Cleveland, and
while we cannot charge that Its pub
lication by Republican newspapers was
done knowlugly we can assert that
they might nt least give space to a
proper denunciation of Its falsity.
The Candidate Together.
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft met In Chi
cago ht a thoroughly nonpartisan din
ner and spoke to un audience that was
limited only by the size of the hall.
The occasion was the nnnual banquet
of the Chicago Association of Com
merce. The subject of the two speech
es was nonpolltlcal and chiefly bearing
upon n policy which Mr, Roosevelt
himself hns been most earnest In press
ingnamely, the conserving of our nat
ural resources. Nobody who knows
either Taft or Bryan would question
for a moment the thorough good fel
lowship which both showed as they
sat within a few feet of each other at
the speakers' table. Nobody who
knows the two men will question for a
moment the fact that when It came to
speaking Mr. Bryan roused his audi
tors to cheers and enthusiasm, while
Mr. Taft left his hearers without any
great excitement on their part. How
ever, the meeting was a great one. The
arguments of both meu, while one was
merely cotd and argumentative and
tho other oue oratorical, carried
weight. It was not n political gather
ing, and Mr. Bryan applauded the ef
forts of the president In behalf of deep
waterwuys and of the conservation of
uir natural resources quite ns heartily
ns did Mr. Taft, tho president's heir
apparent When the Roosevelt admin
istration passes Into history Its great
est claim to honor and to tho gratitude
of tho American people will come from
this effort on the part of Theodoro
Roosevelt to save tbo natural re
sources of the country from extinction.
Rut thcro Is Just one question that Is
worth asking Ho Is trying to save tho
forests, tho waterways, the water pow
er, of the land, but for whom Is he
trying to save them? The people or
the few?
Chicago.
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