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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Dec, 3, 1896. DIcbrcc!:a Inbcpcnbtnt TZ1 WZALTtl HAXMKS mU UHCOW tZUZ-ZD EVE2Y THURSDAY nrtn t:i:p:;dx;t Puklfchiifl So. .' AtUaBltnet, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 63 01.00 per Year in advance. AMn ll OMSSlMtiOSS to, M k H Infta, moaty erdr. ptyabk to TBI IXDXrKMDKlIT PUB. CO, Lnooia, Hss, Patronize oar advertisers. Sm the date at which your subscrip- tion expired, marked on this paper. The adrance accent hae been out four months, bat the circus has not made ita appearance. The "honor" of the republican editor ia sufficiently preserved by the constant itteration that a 43-cent tariff is free trade. Sweet are the nses of adversity. They make a sugar bounty unnecessary. Enough adversity and we won't need any sugar. It is all nonsense to talk about the poor 'growing poorer. The thing is im possible. When a, man has nothing, how can he have less? If confidence has returned will some one be kind enough to give us an Intro dnetloa to her. We should be delighted to make her acquaintance. We unbolted the door, left the latch string hang outside and put up a notice asking Prosperity to come in, but aht hasn't pulled the string yet. It was not patriotism after all that brought the "generals" jaunting through the west to tell the old soldiers how to rote. It cost ths republican committee E17.000. You will find the date at which your subscription expires marked on this paper. Look at it. If you are in arrears, now is the time to pay up, We used ths money and you will feel better when tout subscription is paid. I The republican idea of a campaign of I education is well illustrated by the forged letter they sent out purporting to come from Chairman Edminsten. That one met required an expert thief, liar and I forger. Some education in that. ' I Now they say that the reason pros-1 parity hasn't got here yet, is because the I advance agent didn't leave home during the whole campaign, but just es soon as he starts out, she'll come booming. I Stick a pin in that wake him up. advance agent and I The coldbuK eastern press should let np on the slanders of Kansas. ' The only precinct In ths whole United States that gavs a majority for Palmer, who was the only candidate running on a straight gold standard platform was'in Kansas, The vote was Palmer 3, McKinley 2, Bryan 1. ; --The bankers laboring under thedelu- ' sion thwt they are the government have been conferring as to what should be done, with the greenbacks. The major. Ity favor their retirement. It is under, stood that President Cleveland will rec ommend this, and the issuing ot long term bonds. The state officers ot Georgia after mak- several efforts to get the returns from Carlton county in that state finally learned that the people in that county had not heard that there was a presi dent to be elected this year and therefore did not hold an election at all and no votes were cast. Carrol D. Wright says there are over 8,000,000 men with no work and there an nearly 7,000,000 farmers worked half to death who get no pay for their abor. There is ths situation. Hen who can get no work, and the men who have the work get no pay. The advance agent had better look into this matter. In other days the republicans looked 1 with horror upon the wicked, vile - and criminal portrait of New York who ran np the big majorities there. Now they say these creatures are patriots who helped preserve the national honor from destruction by the ignorant farmers of the west and south. Republican talk wonld drive a saint erasy. On our subscription list there are no "waad heads." Everybody ., that . reads till paper is expected to pay for it. We crptct the man that takes the paper fc-cra the postofQce to see that it is paid -r.s!tber by himself or his friend. We t:'.l te man that takes the paper from 1-8 rzitooe responsible for the sub c :!- -aa . pice. It ia the only way we :i iTtUvt ourselves. The date a jowestflcription expires in marked c U' J trp of tl!j paper. HOW MUCH KECOKM The question that will present 'ieelf to the next legislature is not how much re form we want, but how much we can get and make permanent Law makers can not go further or faster than a majority of the people will go. It is no use to pass laws that will throw the party out of power or enact a legislation that will be repealed after the next election. That would Drevent any sort of reform for rears to come. Again no party can go further in any line of reform than will be sanctioned by the conservative minority of the party itself. It there are 210,000 voters in the state and the party of re form secures 110,000 of them, comes in to newer and 100.000 of these voters w favor radical reform, while 10,000 of them are conservative, then, if' radical reforms are enacted they will go over to the other party, oust those in power, re store power to the opposition and insure the repeal of all the reform laws. It is evident that the conservative mi. nority will have to receive due considera tion if any reform is to be permanent Let us pull them up as high as we can get them and make them stick. That is the very best we can do. 1 Next time w will pull them a little higher, We don't want to let them pull us down, and put us out of power altogether. There are a good many pressing re forms that the most conservative will endorse and sustain. Let us get them and-make them permanent. SOMETHING IS WRONG. In rooking over the compiled returns of the late election one cannot help won dering at the discrepancy between the total vote cast and the dwarfed number of votes recorded tor the candidates for any of the offices. The total number of voters who went to the polls and gave their names in to the election officers was 230,602. The total number ot votes re corded for governor was 217,763, It hardly seems possible that 12,929 voters would goto the polls and not avail them selves ot the opportunity to vote their choice tor governor. It we take the high est vote on each ticket for electors, it gives a total of 224,174, or 6,518 less than the total vote. Taking ths aver ages cast for the respective electoral tickets, it gives a total of 223,093, leav ing 7,599 of the voters who 'did not ex press a prefefence for electors. It is wholly unreasonable to sippose that any such number went into ths booth and came away without voting for governor or electors. The tension wasjinusually strong in the late election and men prizeq their privilege 01 voting, Every effort was being made to swell the vote on governor and electors. So precious was the privilege esteemed tnac men travele&hundreds of miles to record their preferences, large sums' were spent in carrying men into the state from all parts ot the country, and many men risked criminal prosecutions in their seal to vote for governor and presidential I electors. It is unreasonable, therefore, to suppose that from 6,500 to 7,100 men, after they had once entered the booths, did not appreciate the privilege sufficiently to vote, The figures indicate that there must be something wrong somewhere. '.Either there is a deficiency in the intelligence of voters, or a defect in oar voting methods. The 'figures show that there were about 3 per cent who failed to record their choice for the two chief offices, gov ernor and electors. We cannot suppose that 3 per cent of the voters who go into the booths haven't sufficient intelligence to indicate their preferences for those offices. If we can, then our statistical showing ot illiteracy Is defective. It is quite probable that the seal of election officers is responsible for much ot this discrepancy. In their ambition to dim inish the vote of the opposition they too often throw ont ballots on trivial ex cuse, when the will of the voter is per haps apparent. The throwing out of two or three votes in each - precinct in the state would cause a shortage of votes such as that shown this year. It is almost alarming to think that such an incipient incident in each voting precinct in the state could be made to effect such an aggregate resul t It opens the way for successful conspiracy and suggests the necessity ot measures to guard the elective franchise in this state. concerted action on tne part 01 any party could easily be made to wipe out a margin . of 10,000, or even 20,000, votes. : The coming session of the legislature should devise some means of enabling voters to so register their preferences for election day that their votes maybe counted. HAS PAID HIS DEBTS. The State Journal points derisively to the fact that' Frank Hilton, the ex-oil inspector, has turned populist. This is I specimen of spitefulness that cuts back I wards. No one can prevent Hilton from turning posuhst if he so desires. This a free country. No one prevented him from being a republican when he wanted to be a republican, and he was therefore a republican good and hard. Now, if he is a populist, he ia welcome to be a pop ulist good and hard. But two things are certain. He will not be allowed to get bis paws into ths public exchequer while h is trying to be a populist, as he - 1 did whils trying to be a typical republl can. Another is that he won't pay any (pecuniary debts to populist governors out of stolen state funds. There are lots j of men who have adhered to the repnbl can party as long as that party furnished them the opportunity to steal and en, eon-oared them in It. and who tried to get into some other party as soon 1 they bad stolen all tbey could. Frank Hilton may be a fit subject for ridicule when he attempts to pose as a populist' Such as he are certainly more at home among republicans. He was just In bis element when he was holding up the state and the people of Nebraska for thousands of dollars with which to pay his debts to Governor Crounee, who appointed him. bat it ill becomes a re publican to make fan of him. A party that is too tough for Frank Hilton hasn't much to crow over. Hilton will hardly profit from his populism as he did from his republicanism. Possibly he has repented of his eVii-doings. If so, he could hardly do else than tarn popu list. But it was while he was a' good enough republican to receive appoint ment from a republican governor that he got his dutches on over $12,000 that was not his own, and refused to unbend bis arrip thereon. And it is said that the reason he refused to un bend his grip thereon was because he couldn't; he had used the money to pay the republican governor who had appointed him the debt that had led to his appointment. It will be just as well for Nebraska re publicanism' if we hear less hereafter about Frank Hilton's having turned populist. There is a suspicion that the ex-governor should be made a party de fendant in the suit to recover Hilton's shortage.-" Whenever we find a man bent on lar ceny from the public, with more or less assurance ot success, he is always repub lican, and when he is found declaring al legiance to any other party it may taken for granted that he has stolen all he el ects to be able to steal and has decided to turn honest. - DISGRACEFULLY DECEPTIVE. The Chicago Tribune has begun its four years' campaign of falsehood lead ing up to the contest ot 1900, and puts in its best licks abusing, alternately, Bryan and Altgeld. The Tribune is nothing if not untruth ful while declaring that "There is noth ing to be gained now by concealment or falsification. There is no election im pending. There are no votes to be caught by biding the truth. So why cannot Bryan out with it and let the people know exactly what he was advo cating during ths recent campaign." "Bryan's hearers understood from What he said," says the Tribune, "that he wanted the tree coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1, but he did not tell his audience in any one of his 600 speeches what the consequences of free coinage at that ratio wonld be and why those consequences, grave as they were, did not deter him from demanding free coinage. If Bryan really thought the people woold be benefited by the aband-. onment of the gold standard for the . silver monometallic half-value standard he should have explained why he thought so. If he had any reasons for thinking that two 50-cent dollars are better than one 100 cent dollar he should have stated those reasons at least once daring his campaign." ; Ws submit to every candid student of the issues of the late campaign whether or not, if the writer of the above be a sane and intelligent person, he has not been guilty of an attempt at deception to which the Tribune should be ashamed to stoop. Don't every honest and intelligent re publican know that Mr. Bryan always told what be believed and why he be- licvedit Don't the Tribune know that Mr. Bryan always said he believed in free coinage of both gold and silver be cause he believed that under the single gold standard money had become too scarce and dear, and property and labor too cheap? Don't the Tribune and every honest republican know that Mr. Bryan opposed the single gold stand ard because under it the dollar is constantly appreciating, and that an appreciating dollar destroys commerce, stifles industry and enterprise and pre-) cipitates poverty, famine and despair r said all these things over and over again, and that the man who didn't fathom Mr. Bryan's belief on the subject must certainly be very ignorant? Mr. Bryan certainly did, the Tribune to the contrary notwithstanding, tell his audiences "what the consequences of tree coinage at that ratio would be, and why those consequences did not deter him from demanding free coinage?" He told his audiences that the consequences ot free coinage at 16 to 1 would be the cheapening of ot the dollar and the en hancement of all property and labor measured by that dollar. He told them that one of the consequences would be that the hoarded gold, instead of being allowed to fatten by its unearned accretion, wonld be grow ing cheaper, and that it would therefore be brought out and invested in property and labor, which would be growing dear er; that as a result trade and commerce would be stimulated and labor find prof itable employment. He told them that one of the effeots of the single gold stand ard is to make farm products so cheaD that farming is unprofitable, that the farmer cannot buy many of life's necee sities and that the prosperity of the country depends upon the prosperity of the farming classes. Us told them that j jf the farmer were mads prosperous by decreasing the value of the dollar as compared with all other property, and thus enhancing the value of all property and labor, the entire country would be made prosperous. It is true that be did not once daring the campaign state his "reason for thinking that two 50-cent dollars are better, than one 100-cent dollar." He had no reasons for such belief and believed no such a thing. The Tribune knows it if it knows anything. The Tribune knows that Mr. Bryan did not believe that there could under free coinage be any such a thing as a 50 cent dollar. If it does not know that it has not read Mr. Bryan's speeches, es pecially the Madison Square Garden speech, wherein he explained his belief that free coinage would, by increasing the demand for silver, enhance the value of silver bullion, and by decreasijg the demand for gold, depreciate the value of gold bullion, and that the one would go up and the other go down until they naa reacnea tne natural level main tained before the value of silver was de pressed and the value of gold enhanced by the legislation that demonetized sil ver. Can the Tribune fail to have known Mr. Bryan's beliefs in this respect, and it it did know them, is it honest and fair wih its readers when it asks why Mr. Bryan did not give his reasons for thinking that two 50 cent dollars are better than one 100 cent dollar? Is not this a fair specimen of the can ning deception and unfairness that marked the goldbug discussion of the money question all during the late cam paign, and don't it justify the remark of Mr. Bryan that the single gold standard never conducts an open fight. Don't the republicans know that the Tribune is lying when it says that Mr. Bryau never told the people what he was advocating during the late campaign, and don't they know that the Tribune lied when it inti mated that be had any conception of a 50-cent dollar? Are we to have four years of such vil lainous falsification from papers of once acknowledged fairness, truthfulness and respectability, or has the metropolitan press became so thoroughly debauched by the gold standard, trust and "corpo ration power as to be incapacitated to tell the troth? ' NEEDS FRIENDS IN THE SENATE. As much sensational fuss is being made oyer a suspicion that an effort ia to be made to prevent confirmation of the ap pointment of W. D. McHugh to succeed Judge Dundy as if some one had discov ered a foul conspiracy to murder him. And yet if W-D. McHugh is not con firmed it will be because of the opposi tion of those with whom he allied himself in the recent election. He did his level best to aid in the election of McKinley, and if republican senators do not rally to his confirmation, upon whom can he logically My? Certainly democrats and populists can't be expected to be bound up in his cause to any alarming extent. It would seem that something must have come of Senator Thurston's recent trip- ifi Canton to ascertain whether or not McKinley desired to see Grover's ap pointments to the five vacant federal judgeships rejected, so that republicans could be given these life jobs. If McHugh is not confirmed, he can certainly not charge democratic or populist senators with treason. His allies are republicans, alid he can in reason only look 1;o them. Now let the advance agent get a move on himself. The pop editors and the farmers were the main body of the fighting force that won the battle in this state. How much will they get out of it? The best way for a reformer to stop all reforms is to denounce, and clamor night and day for ' everything at once Then he will never get anything. : The American Thanksgiving was cele brated in London with great eclat and swell Londoners participated with great seal and relish. The Englishman can find a great deal for which to be sincere- 1 . f 4m,n. hiBtn If there is to be but one populist secre tary of the board of transportation, that one must be a man in whom the whole populist party 'have perfect confidence, or there will be a storm in this state that will destroy a good many political pal- palaces. , ..;.' , It is strange that all these inquiries from foreigners who contemplate invest ments in beet sugar factories only float in upon us just before the legislature meets, and it is also strange that jost as soon as the legislature has adjourned these foreigners lose interest and are never again heard from. WE KNOW HOW. Down in Boston, in the home of the goldbugs, where they claim that all the culture and all the patriotism abides the press reports say that "a recount of votes in one of Boston's districts showed that the Hub's election officers are either grossly ignorant or grossly careless, Scarcely a precinct tallied with, the orig inal summary." . Those arrogant declare that the peo. pie of . Nebraska are ignorant, wild and wolly, but we not only know how to count votes but we know how to cast them aa the result of the recent election demonstrates. IT WAS TRL'LT AWFCL. The Lawrence, Kansas, Journal (rep) printed the most astounding editorial the morning after election that was ever published in these United States of Amer ica. We advise the officers of the Nebras ka Historical Society to get a copy and preserve it ia their archives as a speci men of the wail of a Kansas republican who was just notified that he could no longer feed at the public expense. The last paragraph of this sad and sorrow ful wail is as follows. Don't undertake to read it until yon have supplied your, self with half a dozen fresh handker chiefs with which to wipe away your tears. Here it Is: "So far as Kansas is individually "concerned, it would have been better for us had McKinley been de feated and the republican state ticket elected. Outside people, outside capita' have been suspicions of us for years, Their worst suspicions are confirmed. Not the border ruffian raids, not the drouths, not the grasshoppers, not all the calamities that have visited us in the past ail taken together have done us one-tenth the harm that the report of this election will do us. The state has disgraced, dishonored herself; has smirched the record of her glorious ca reer, and has turned her eyes away from me stars to contemplate tne depths of darkness and perdition. It is an awful fate. What, in God's name; has Kansas done that she should fall so low? For us there is no balm in Gilead. For us there is no consolation. While the na tion rejoices over its redemption, Kansas grieves over ner own destruction, and must weep in the caves of the forsaken. May the Lord in i'm infinite pity and mercy look upon n . i (- orapasuon and forgive us the uwiul i-nuie we have com mitted." SOMEWHAT ASTOUNDING. The Washington (D. C.) Post is con siderably wrought up over the result of the election in Ohio. After stating the facts, it asks several questions as follows: "This year Ohio, responding to the clarion call of necessity, produces 259, 404 more voters than it produced in 1895, when it astonished the world bv its achievements in . the voting line. Where in the name of reason did these 259,494 extra votes come from? Did Ohio increase its population 1,000,000 within a year, or does Ohio depart from the one to five rule, and show, instead of that one to three and two-thirds as the proportion of her voters to her popula tion?" V Mark Hanna is the only man who can answer those questions. Better ask him and remmber that "necessity" knows no law. L CO-OPERATIVE COLONIEB. Reports from a large number of co operative societies reach this office in various ways. The organization of such societies is certainly largely on the in. crease in every part of the county. 0e of the most successful is at Buskin in Tennessee. There are others in North and South Carolina, in Alabama and in other southern states, some in Colo rado and on the Pacific coast. It is an honest effort made by honest, hard working people to escape, in some degree, the hardships imposed upon us by the gold standard. ; The principles on which these societies are based so far as we are able to learn are in the main correct and if the busi ness of the societies is managed with honesty and good business skill they will succeed. The society at Raskin, Tennessee, is Pounds Best hmlii Su Stop. DELIVERED FREE. We pav freiarht to your railroad station oa the following Special Combination. Send the amount by draft, express or money order and we will prepay freight to any station in Nebraska, r-very article r ; Spscial Combination No. 90, 40 lbs. fine Granulated Sugar $ 1.00 3 lbs. Lion or Arbuckle Coffee 50c 2 lbs. fancy Evaporated Apricots.. 25c 4 lbs. fancy Evaporated Peaches... 50c 6 lbs. choice Raisins 50c 6 lbs. choice California Prunes 50c 2 lbs. best Baking Powder.... 50c 1 lbs. pure Pepper 25o 21b. beet Tea 1 00 I 5 00 All the above delivered to any railroad station in Nebraska for $5 00. The Farmers Grocery Co., Lincoln. Fleb . 02.50 most widely known. Its basis is a 00. operative joint stock company, with shares at f 500 each. They engage in manufacturing as well as in farming. The high price ot shares gives them a strong capital and their "profits" or inX crease in wealth will come from the slims-j nation of middlemen and many salaried and useless officials. L The queer thing about this Ruskior colony is that their officials persist in calling this co-operation "socialism,'' when it is as far from socialism as under stood by scholars and thinkers or ths standard authorities as it well could De-Co-operation as practiced at Buskin ia in accordance with the science of politics' economy as taught and accepted by all the great minds the world over. Bui socialism that is an entirely different' thing. - ' NEBRASKA'S GRET DONKEY. Nebraska's cabinet donkey has evolved another brilliant idea. In his annual report, he recommends the repeal of the homestead laws. He says the fall ia farm lands is entirely owing to these laws. It is because the government gives away lands to actual settlers that other land are cheap? He, however, does not tell us why farm lands continued to rise from 1866, when the laws were passed, for many years, and that, too, at the very time when most of these lands were giv en away. ; vy Morton could not go out of office until he had one more blow at the farmers and so he administers this last cowardly stroke just to exhibit his spite. That is, he will know no danger that congresa would follow bis advice. If ever a man's name becomes a hissing and a bye word among the common people of this land, it will be the name of Nebraska's great donkey cabinet member. HOW IS IT? The Wall street newspapers, like the N. Y. Tribune, Times, Post and the rest, have jointly begun a most vicious, vin dictive and passionate assault upon the newly elected Kansas supreme court, and these are the same editors, who, a few weeks ago, denounced as anarchy the mildest criticism of judges or judicial decisions. "Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it that ye do not discern this time?" ; r PLUTOCRATIC SUNDAY SCHOOL. Teacher Who mads the trusts? Little Boy God. Teacher How do you know? Little Boy Rockerfeller says that God gave him his money and he got it from the Standard Oil trust. So God must have made the trusts. Teacher Good little bov. Yon'll nro to Heaven when you die. As the republican farmer husks his ice coveredea cent corn he stops every now and then and -casts a weary look toward theeaat and wonders, "When oh when will that wave of prosperity get here". Never, until money is so debased that it will not buy so much corn, and. you are opposed to debasing our cur rency. " ' ' H. W. Rusk assaulted the editor of the Courtland Herald, inflicting a deep wound under the right eye, which a doc tor closed up with two stitches. Mr. Rusk didn't approve of an item that had appeared in the Herald. Tfthat editor is the man we think he is, our sympa thies will have to be extended on various occasions to Mr. Rusk. warranted. . 02.60 VMM And dressmaking vary cheap. We bars a large stook of fine millinery; prices lowest. Sadoi Pucxstt, 1238 O street, UpBtain.