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" "mwi wvpvi"! viiii,'7i?WPI5W'. 2 The Commoner. rf r"'," I' f' GUARANTEED CROPS AND GUARANTEED, DEPOSITS Republican lenders aro very ready to "guarantee" to the farmer high prices for his products In the event of republican victory. But inasmuch as the republican party does not con trol tho sunshino and tho rain, and has not the influence after elections suflleient to persuade tho trusts that fix tho price of what the pro ducer receives and what tho consumer pays to bo merciful this guaranteo is not worth the breath with which it is given. Why aro tho republican leaders not willing to glvo to tho farmer, and other bank depositors, that guaranteo which it is within tho power of men to give tho guaranteo of bank deposits? What shall it profit tho farmer, or other producer, if ho receive high prices for his pro ducts and then finds it necessary to sit up all night in tho protection of his savings hidden under tho carpet or to walk tho streets l)y day in the vain effort to devise means whereby lie can recover his money from a collapsed .bank ing institution. fcT l V Mr. Bryan appears to believe confidently dint ho will be elected this year. There is no i doubt that tho republican congress has done n great deal to strengthen lilm in that conviction. Kansas City Star (Rep.) V W V A SECOND EDITION OF THE TEXT ROOK Tho following is a Chicago disp'atch: "The democratic text book, wlilch Mr.: Bryan declared to , bo tho best campaign document of the jkind over issued, is making a record for popularity, Ten thousand copies wore delivered' at head quarters in this city less than a week ago., yThis supply was quickly exhausted arid the publish ers now have an order for an additional 30,000 copies. Every mail 'brings piles of letters re questing copies of the text book. Many appli cants enclose checks for sums larger than the price of the book, which is 25 cents. For in stance, a Nebraska man sent a check 'for" $10 ''.for ;wo copies. He had already, purchased, ,cme copy and 'lifted it' bo well thai' lie decided d' get additional copies to place in the' lianas of re publican friends whoni he expects will vote'fbr Bryan and Kern." ,, ,T". feH V .(V .W record as a solicitor of campaign funds. As chairman of the republican campaign com mittee in 190G, Mr. Sherman was a collector of money for uso in the fall elections. To illus trate the extent of his activities in that position, it is sufficient to quote from the correspondence made public by President Roosevelt, a year ago last April, in answer to the celebrated letter Mr. Harrlman had written to Sidney Webster. In the letter of October 6, 1906, which the president wrote to Mr. Sherman, occurs this passage.: " ' As I am entirely willing that you should -show this letter to E. H. Harrlman, I shall begin by repeating what you told me he said to you on the occasion last week when you went to ask him for a contribution to the cam paign.' "If Mr. Sherman ever did anything in pub lic life to attract national attention, prior to his nomination to the vice presidency, it was his appeal to Harrlman for campaign funds in 190G, as revealed by the president's lettor. Harrlman at that time had not become so no torious and so obnoxious, to the American 'peo ple as hehecame somewhat later, yet his business character and political standing were ,aB -well understood in the autumn of, 1906 by republi cans like "Mr. Sherman as they are today. Taken in connection with the campaign fund publicity Issue, the .Sherman nomination seems to be as . audacious we will not say insolent -a per formance as the republican party in these later years of its history has , "been guilty of. The party was primarily responsible for the failure of congress at the last session to enact a pub licity law; the party contention this week has, defeated a publicity plank by 880 to 94; and its record now culminates in the nomination for , the vico presidency of a man who less than two years ago went, hat in hand, to Harriman's 'office 'begging for that sinister .creature's money to h,elp elect republican .congressmen!" . ' s fc tw ti & The Ruffalo News recently displnyqd a ban ner showing pictures of Messrs, Taft and Sher man. Under tho pictures was the inscription, "Republican Prosperity." This moved thp Buf falo Progress to say: "Since, tho banner, was hoisted sonic thousands of unemployed citizens of Buffalo luivo rend, Che inscription and wqu dercd what the jolco' was." ' yrt O 4t? O1 JREPTJBMOAN ANSWER TO MR. SHERMAN .-. v In a speech delivered at Wllkesbarre, Pa., September 16, Congressman James S. Sherman, tho republican nominee for vice president said that if Mr. Bryan's party was better than he then he pitied Mr. Bryan and -that if the party was not better than Mr. Bryan no one could honestly support it. Then Mr. Sherman asked: "What act of tho republican party has brought harm, has brought distress or dis aster to our people? Our party has been commissioned hy the people, almost without " 'interruption, for half a century, to adminis ter the affairs of government. Is there in , that record "of faithful discharge of duty aught to excito fear, to arouse apprehen sion? In brief, what is that record of ac complishments under our party's leader ship?' Let tho Springfield (Mass.) Republican, a paper that is supporting Taft and Sherman, . answer Mr. Sherman's question.. In its issue of Thursday, June 25, after the Taft and Sherman ticket had been placed in tho field, the Springfield Republican printed an editorial from which the following is takeh "To suppose that Mr. Sherman's nbmina tion will make the empire state or the east gen erally the safer for tlid republican ticket is a curious idea. The Illinois delegation was swung to tho New Yorker by Speaker Cannon, ond of Whoso lieutenants in congress Mr. Sherman has boon for a number of years and whoso presi dential candidacy Mr. Sherman hnd favored so v long as New York state had. remained uncom mitted to another. It (Mr; Sherman's homina- uonj is politically uamned by Mr, Sherman's If anybody tells you that there will be a panic if the democrats win, you tell them that there is only one clavss of pcoplG wild would bo in a panic-7-tIiat there will bo n panife among those lvho'haVc their hands in btlifcr people's pockets, and the panic will continue 'it h'til;'tliey take their thands.) out." From 0110 of'Mr. Bry an's Ohio speeches. " !.''" TIJE; BIG GAIN IN MAINE . n Referring to tho Maine election a Portland dispatch carried 'by the Associated Press' said iv "The feature of the election was the in crease in the democratic vote throughout the state. Every orte of the four congressional dis tricts showed gains, the. increase over 190'4 be ing 15,000 votes, and 4,000 oyer 1906." In the state of Arkansas the democratic state ticket was elected by a majority which the Associated Press says "may exceed that re ceived by Governor John S. Little two years ago, more than 65,000. Certainly the friends of Mr. Taft must whistle vigorously if they are to keep up their courage in tho light of returns from Maine and Arkansas. w w t Governor Cummins of Iowa, inaugural ad dress 1002: "I regard tho consequences of a monopoly or substantial monopoly in any impor tant product as infinitely more disastrous than tho consequences of foreign importations." & & & & MR TAFT APPROVED IT ALL Wade H. Ellis, Ohio's attorney general and spokesman for Mr. Taft, in dofense of the re publican, platform gave to the Associated- Press under date of Columbus, Ohio, June 2 3', -this statements ' . . "The antih'jiinction plank, as, finally adapt ed, was written by the friends of Sec're'tary .taft on the Bubt-conunittee on resolutions' arid' was ap Drovea'hy'the secretary and the president1 "be foto it Was proposed, as a substitute fbr tlie orig- ' iftaWJA$ LbS tl.iis subJect- In facvavery blank and .practically every sentence" in the republican platfbrrti, ad finally adopted,' was approved by the; secretary, although those portions' referring ptirticillarlyp. thb work of the administration TLl?"? to the president. "Even the unimportant!-verbal changes betSveqn the draft unpublished before the 'convention and as finally adopted by the convention wer6 made with the secretary skn6Nvledge before' the tentative draft was Submitted to the ;comhiitteb; This state ments vniade; in'.order'tf itoe clear; the fact VOLUME 8, NUMBER 3? that the republican platform contains no sUK. gestions of a retreat from the Roosevelt policies stands squaroly by the progressive prinripies of the party and was adopted because it had tho emphatic approval of the party'B candidate." The formation of trusts along the lines which have been adopted is a menace (o ropub. lican institutions and is leading to a coinpkto change of our govermncnt. Such an unjust (lis. tribution of wealth, obtained by such methods creates discontent, destroying energy among the people, and places a dangerous power in tho hands of a few. Aaron Jones, Worthy Master, 'National Grange. t&rt x2nl 2r t NEBRASKA DEMOCRATIC TICKET The democratic ticket In Nebraska is made up of men who are In every way worthy of the confidence and support of Nebraskahs who are deeply interested in all that goes to make for better state government. From top to bottom the ticket is strong in every ' department, and it is admittedly one of the best ',eyer offered to the voters of the state. Every ' candidate is unusually well qualified to.!p'erform the duties of the ofllce to which he aspires, The ticket is as follows: ' ' ' For governor, A. C. Shallenbarger. For lieutenant governor., E. O. Garrett. For secretary of state, A. T. Gatowood. For auditor, W. B. Price. , For treasurer, Clarence Mackey. For superintendent, N. C. Abbott, i ;.,. For. attorney general, H. B. ;Fleharty. . For commissioner public lands, and build ings, W.' B. Eastham. For railway commissioner, "W. H. Cowgill. ( , The, . congressional ticket as, at whole is a strong bne, and the candidates artf standing squarely upon the platform adopted at Denver. In the Second district Gilbert M. Hitchcock is a candidate for re-election, and his record in congress is such that there should be no ques tion, about his being again commissioned to rep resent the district. He has been active in his support of the public interests and untiring in his efforts to seQurebeneficia,!: legislation. The candidates in the other five districts are all good men and faithful democrats. They are as follows: -' ' First district; John A. Maguire; '' .. . Third district, J. P. ..batta; : fourth district,. C. F. Gilbert . , Fitth district, Fred w. Ashton. Sixth district, W: H". Westover. . .Can it bo tliflt the Dingley law is not in fallible, and that the republican party's boast of being in alliance with the Almighty' is un founded in fact? ' v irt t i0& A BUSY avijek: . The past week has been an exciting one in political circles. Following Mr. Hearst's charges that Governor Haskell was once identified with the Standard Oil trust came the governor's chal lenge to Mr. Hearst to submit the evidence to a . committee of newspaper editors. This challenge will be found on page 1. (Replying, Mr. Hearst refused to accept Governor Haskell's challenge on the ground that Governor Haskell was 'be neath" him. Governor Haskell announces that he will force the issue with Mr, Hearst insist ing that, so far as he is concerned, Mr. Hearst has been guilty of a false accusation. Following the Hearst charges against Sen ator Foraker, Mr. Forakei issued a statement admitting that he had one time acted as legal advisor for the Standard Oil tioinpany and re ceived pay therefor, hut claiming that he was no longer employed 'in that capacity. Then Sen ator Foraker withdrew as the presiding officer for the Taft meeting at Cincinnati. 'It was re ported that Senator Crane ; of Massachusetts would' supersede Mr. Hitchctick ad-chairman 01 the'' republican1 national committee.' Mr. Taft found It necessary ta make- ;a'1hiblfc statement to the effect that Mr. Hitoh'cock's1 wtork was sat isfactory1 to him and thatv:Seriat6r Crane was merely to help Hitchcock iri (he management 01 the campaign. ' f ;,,f '' Dtiring tho week Yur.! Roosfevelt took occa sion to issue three stateirnihtsMih behalf of Mi. Taft. His first letter was Written Jto a western mail,' the' second to Congressman McKinley ana the' third was an authorized-statement givJ l0 the Associated Press. In the latter statenioni ;Mr. Roosevelt took occasion 'to" severely criticise ' Mr. ! Foraker and relegate hliri to the ;down anu :on't: 'class' ' . .iMi.ti .' V", out1 'class. - a . 1 t. .? ,-u rm