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Democratic Department
CANNON AND NORRIS
One of the most amusing spec
tacles of the present campaign is
Congressman Norris attempt to
mislead the people of the Fifth
Congressional District by avowing
political animosity to Speaker
Cannon
In a speech at McCook on the
20th of September he is alleged
to have cut Uncle Joe Cannon
Speaker of the National House of
Representatives cold because
he Cannon used the power of
his high position to prevent the
consideration of legislation asked
for by the people and desired by
a large body of the House of
Representatives Mr Norris
has been in congress for several
terms Did he not know the
attitude of Speaker Cannon on
the proposed legislation to which
he alludes when he voted for
him for speaker last December
saying nothing of once or twice
before that If he did not then
he has not enough discernment to
qualify him for the office which
he now holds
Mr Norris position is hypo
critical not to say ridiculous and
is certainly a reflection on his
gumption
Cannon was made speaker by
the republican members of the
House not one vote being
recorded against him Mr Norris
was one of those who fell over
themselves to vote for Uncle
Joe Does any one assume
that if Cannon was not acceptable
to the republican party in the
House that he would be retained
in the position of speaker of that
body Does Mr Norris imagine
that he can induce the people of
the Fifth Congressional District
to believe that the republican
party is not t responsible for
Speaker Cannons elevation to
the speakers chair The con
gressmans latest attitude on this
matter smacks of a political
deathbed repentance made for
the unmistakable and undoubted
purpose of holding his party in
line that he may succeed him
self Are there any so simply
credulous that they can be de
luded and deceived by such
opaquely silly waddle
If Mr Norris was so solicitous
for the enactment of legislation
asked for by the people and
recommended by President
Roosevelt why did he not vote
for such legislation when it was
pending in congress and when
he was invited so to do by Mr
Williams the leader of the mi
nority Mr Williams long and
earnestly pleaded for 30 repub
lican votes to assist the minority
in passing legislation which the
people -wanted and which Presi
dent Roosevelt strenuously urged
Why did not Mr Norris respond
to this invitation if he is so so
licitous for legislation desired by
a large body of the House of Rep
resentatives
Mr Norris position at this time
is plainly taken to save the stam
pede which he apprehended with
great alarm But will he be able
to stem the disaffection Are the
people so easily bamboozled We
prediet the contrary and confident
ly believe that when the votes
are counted in November Mr
Norris will find that he has fooled
nobody and that his methods
have overwhelmed him as they
righteously should
RAILROAD EMPLOYES VS
MR TAFT
The Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers Journal in May
1893 said Judge Tafts de
cision proclaims members of the
B of L E a band of conspir
ators Also we cannot accept
Judge Tafts decision in any
other light than treason to repub
lican institutions and the liberties
of the people It is will be and
ought to be denounced and re
pudiated by all liberty loving
tmen
The -Bryan and Kern club meets
every Saturday evening at 800
oclock in Diamonds hall on 2nd
Street West
Conducted
by the
Democratic Committee
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Democratic National Ticket
For President
WILLIAM J BRYAN of Nebraska
For Vice President
JOHN W KERN of Indiana
Democratic State Ticket
For Governor
Ashton C Shallonberger of Alma
Lieutenant Governor
E O Garrett of Fremont
Secretary of State
Dr A T Gatewood of Arapahoe
State Auditor
William B Price of Lincoln
State Treasurer
Clarence Maclcey of Analey
Superintendent of Public Instruction
N C Abbott of Tekamah
Attorney General
Harry B Fleharty of South Omaha
Commissioner Public Lands Buildings
E B Eastham of Broken Row
Railroad Commissioner
W H Cowgill of Holdrege
Congressman 5th District
Fred W Ashton of Grand Island
State Senator 29th District
Cecil Matthews of Bartley
State Representative 65th District
J H Hoppe of Bartley
County Attorney
Sidney Dodge of Marion
NORRIS CONFESSION HE
ADMITS HE HAS DONE
WRONG BUT MAKES CAM
PAIGN PROMISE TO DO
BETTER
Congressman Norris is now
promising to do better in the
future and is evidently ashamed
of his past record which shows
that he has always voted for
Cannon for speaker and for the
gag rules of Cannonism If
Norris has done wrong and voted
against the interests of the people
in the past he does not deserve
to be endorsed and his present
attitude is a confession that he
has been doing wrong
Norris is not now pointing
with pride to his past record
He does not say Gentlemen
look at my record I am proud of
it and will continue to follow the
same wise course that I have
followed in the past
Oh no but instead he says
Gentlemen I have always voted
for Cannonism I opposed Roose
velts policies by voting to over
ride his veto and by helping Can
non to defeat them I voted for a
ship subsidy I voted to help the
paper trust and make education
dear by voting against putting
wood pulp on the free list I
voted to debauch our currency
and to make wild cat no cent
dollars based on any watered
securities by voting for the
rich Vreeland bill I voted to kill
the S hour labor law I have done
all this against the interests of the
people and for the interests of
the system but if you will just
elect me to the fourth term I will
do better and will not betray
your interests this time as I did
the other three terms
Voters do you think you can
trust Norris to represent your
interests when his record and
his own confession prove that he
has always repsesented the
interests
You should judge him by what
he has done and not by his cam
paign promises Grand Island
Democrat
John Mitchell to the New York
World In accordance with
your invitation I wish to state
that in my judgment the election
of Bryan would be for the best
interests of the whole nation
He stands on a much better plat
form and will be guided by it in
the event of his election Mr
Taft is handicapped by the
zealous advocacy of his cause by
the predatory rich Honest
wealth and business have nothing
to fear in Bryans election
The impudent falsehood that
trusts and monopolies cheapen
products and benefit the con
sumer is disproved by the fact
that the price of commodities con
trolled by these monsters has
been arbitrarily increased for no
other cause except to pay divi
dends on fictitious capital by
methods that make larceny re
spectable Ex Senator John J
Ingalls
The Railroads and the People
Never In the history of the country
tnan during the past and present de
pression in business has it been more
forcibly and clearly demonstrated to
the people the mutuality of interest
that should exist between them and
the railroads for -what effects one
effects all either for good or for evil
Both are so closely interwoven In
everyday affairs as to be dependent
on each other Anything affecting
detrimentally or Impeding the prog
ress and prosperity of the railroads is
sure to be felt In every line of Industry
than the farmer mechanic and the
laborer There is no denying these
facts They are potent self evident
and have been brought home to us so
clearly we need not look for the proof
we have found it to our sorrow and
deep regret
Some people have been in the habit
of condemning corporations of all
kinds especially railroads and not
even making any distinction between
the good and the bad in either case
It is a bad and dangerous practice
full of evil and productive of no good
and should not prevail It seems to
be the greatest stock in trade of our
petty political hucksters fire brands
and demagogs the forerunners of all
evil and the destroyers of all good
who ply their trade for political pur
poses and personal aggrandisment at
the expense of the people It seems
we need an object lesson to rid us of
these parasites and I believe it has
come to us and will be highly bene
ficial in the future if it only sets the
intelligent people to thinking especial
ly those Avho have felt it most and
on whom it bore the hardest the hon
est industrious and hard working me
chanic and laborer who have for
months been deprived of the means
cf livelihood These are the kind of
people I feel for and have a hearty
sorrow for I pray the burden will
soon be lifted from the shoulders of
honest toil and the smile of sunshine
and happiness come to their homes
When they do get to thinking and find
what misery poverty and distress can
be forced on an honest and industrious
people they will come to their senses
and demand that justice and equity
be doled out to all and an honest
wise and patriotic system of govern
ment will be ours Our railroads may
need proper regulation and control
but they should not be regulated to
death by every petty politician in al
most every state in the union and by
men who have no more conception of
how to run a railroad than to navigate
an airship It takes a lifetime of study
and hard work to do this and railroad
men dont sprout up like weeds they
need a power of cultivation and it is
not attained in legislative halls it is
worked out on the railroad and you
will find the brain brawn and genius
of the country right on the line of
these very same railroads There are
so many laws now on the statute
Impossible for any historian or writer
to do them full justice for it is be
yond almost the mind of man to grasp
the enormity of their work I will not
attempt it I would consider it an in
sult to our Intelligence to do so as wo
have witnessed it in the growth and
expansion of our country Would It
not be a folly to attempt to deny that
to them we owe It Were they not
the pioneers and developers of that
growth Could It be accomplished
without themr Does that question
need any answer but our own I
need not go into particulars of their
t ZtBevioaota and vast achievements as vol
and t ui tut
setuuu
anu to every
permeate i mul tlio truth
umes could be written and the truth
country and affecting none more so
books not only national legislation but
in every state in the union that are
not only oppressive but so complex
that I defy not only any railroad man
but also any lawyer or judge to tell
any railroad official or any shipper
where he is at and to make it still
worse there is a new crop springing
up every few days It is a crop that
every man should pray that the blight
of Egypt may fall on and that the
sowers of the seed may reap their
own destruction If such conditions
are allowed to go on what will be
come of the laymen you I and the
other fellow on whom the burdens
will eventually fall Railroads should
control every avenue of railroad trans
portation no matter what its kind or
nature and be confined strictly to
transportation and not be permitted
directly or indirectly to be interested
in other lines of business I dont
think they would have the time to
spare then to engage in side lines of
any kind
They should be under national in
spection or control only The trans
portation system of this country is no
longer a question of states or state
rights it has grown with our country
and lone since passed that period It
is or they are national in their scope
and character
Over capitalization should be pre
vented and all manner of rebates
strictly prohibited under the severest
penalties penalties that would not
only be felt but fully effective and
which there could be no question
That in my opinion would be about all
the legislation needed Railroad rates
could be in my opinion advanced or
at least readjusted I believe it can
and should be done in the interests of
all I dont think it would have any
perceptibly bad effect upon the busi
ness or shipping interests of the coun
try In fact I think it would have a
counter effect The consumer pays the
freight and the advance would hardly
be felt by the SO000000 of our peo
ple The increased revenue it would
give the railroads would be beneficial
ly felt in every line of industry It
would come back tenfold to the people
as a whole it would be spent in the
maintenance of way new rails and
road beds new equipment of all kinds
resulting in additional transportation
facilities better service and 101 other
ways impossible and unnecessary to
mention It would give such an added
impetus to increased business pros
perity that the full benefits are beyond
computing I think it a very unwise
policy that in any way hinders or
hampers our railroads in denying
their just demands by enforcing
freight rates injurious to their inter
ests and vastly more so to the mil
lions their money keeps employed
not only on their roads but in the
mill the factory and the store Their
revenue is not a hoarded revenue it
is a distributive one and by its fail
ure of distribution have we felt its
effects It brings blessings untold to
many very many who until now never
knew the fountain heads of their
prosperity Take from the channels
of trade the millions upon millions
spent by the railroads and you will
paralyze every industry of the coun
try Railroad rates are not oppres
sive and only become so when unfair
and discriminating If we go back
only fifty years in our countrys his
tory and review it intelligently dis
passionately and honestly we can re
alize what railroads have done for it
and it will need no stretch of the im
agination to do so It would be utterly
remain untold
This article was not written to en
lighten petty politicians who feast and
fatten on the ruins of others I know
what their stock in trade is I dont
want to deprive them of it but I kind
ly ask the people in full justice to
themselves to do so
Nor is it for the merchant and man
ufacturer or shipper whom it is sup 1
posed has made a study of It owing
to his business connections It is and
was written to call the attention of
the farmer mechanic and laborer
who from heir daily and arduous toil
do not have time to devote to this sub
ject that so vastly and deeply con
cerns them and their welfare To
them the toilers in the ranks like
myself do I appeal I ask them as
I have done to devote some little
time to this and other subjects that
affect their welfare and that of their
families and then judge for them
selves calmly and deliberately as to
where their best interests lie There
is not a more intelligent class on Gods
green earth than the American farm
er mechanic and laborer taken as a
whole and when they commence to
reason with themselves think and act
for themselves conditions will im
prove and be better for us all We
have had generals and statesmen
whose glorious achievements have
gone down in history since the birth
of man and whose deeds are still
fresh in our memory We have hon
ored and glorified them for their deeds
but the greatest general of all is he
who has built up a country and added
to its happiness and prosperity the
welfare of its people one whose
achievements will be lasting and bene
ficial to them Of such too much
praise cannot be given anu among
such are the Hills and Harrimans who
have built up not only our great rail
way system but our great country un
til it is today the foremost nation in
all history A SUBSCRIBER
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Arapahoe B F Eberhart
Atlanta M L Gardner
Axtell Joseph Bennett
Bartley J F Hageman
Beaver City G H Wise
Benkelman C H Chader
Bloomington E E Crippen
Box Elder to be supplied
Cambridge D A Leeper
Culbertson C A Norlin
Danbury and Lebanon W L Miller
Edison C S Hawley
Franklin W T Gatley
Haigler and Laird J A Kerr
Hendley and Snrinc Green I
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Huntley and Boarder Chapel
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Loomis and Pleasant View
W J Crago
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McCook M B Carman
Minden Bryant Howe
Norman Campbell F C Tyler
Orleans James Leonard
Oxford Frank NaylorM S Satchell
Ragan Sacramento John Madely
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Kearney Circuit John Maynard
Lexington B F Gaither
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Litchfield L B Shallenbarger
Loup City J O Hawk
Mason City Harold Miles
Merna D C Hopson
North Loup A Gilson
Overton Erastus Smith
Ord M Bamford
Ord Circuit E H Maynard
Ravenna A J Clifton
Ringold J M Haskins
Rosevale C M Brown
Riverdale T W Owen
Sumner Miller W C Swartz
Sargent W E Matthews
Shelton A L Umpleby
Whitman Mullen to be supplied
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Walnut Grove W A Hornaday
North Platte District
Allen Chamberlain D S North Platte
Eayard Minatare W F Harper
Bertrand F J Schank
Big Springs O E Richardson
Brady Island J H Tabor
Chappell to be supplied
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Elwood Geo B Mayfield
Farnam R H Carr
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Grant William Horner
Harrisburg Edward Clower
Hayes Center to be supplied
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Imperial E Moore
Keystone O F Chesebro
Kimball E J Hayes
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Maywood D W Parker
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Ogalalla T M Ransom
Palisade W II Mills
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Sidney Henry Zinnecker
Smithfield R H Chrysler
Stockvllle Geo E Hartman
Sutherland Paxton Fred H Johnson
Wallace D E French
Wauneta Chas M McCorkle
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