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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1908)
1tE mm insmiM Published Kvery Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. T. J. O'KEliFE Editor J. B. KNIKST Associate Editor Entered at the postoffice at Alliance, Nebraska, (or transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance. DemocraticNational Ticket FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEIIRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT JOHN W. KERN OF INDIANA ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR COUNTY ATTORNKV. I hereby announce myself as a candidate lot nomination to the olfice of county at torney of Box Butte county, Nebraska, subject to the decision of the democratic and people's party voters of said county at the primary election to be held on Tues day, September 1, 1908. Respectfully. Euoknk Burton. for commissioner, skconu district. I hereby annouce myself as a candidate for Commissioner for the second district, subject to the decision of the democratic and people's party voters at tho primary election to be held on Tuesday, September 1, j 908. J. P. Jknsen. V. J. Bryan lias just been presented with a long-eared mule that is guaran teed to kick the stuffing out of the G. O. P. elephant. On the primary instruction card Hob't. G. Ross of Lexington announc es hiniBclf a candidate for congress on the republican-democratic tickets. Evi dently, Robert expects to get there with both feet. "One dollar a day is enough for a workman," is the expression credited to Candidate Win. H. Taft. Perhaps it is. But will some workman in Al liance stand up and tell the public how that can he done. A dollar a day to support a family. Just think it over. In the horrible atrocity that took place in the race riot at Springfield, Illinois, recently, one of the partici pants openly stated that "We stamped him in tho face, wc cut his throat, and then put a rope around his neck. That's what it took to kill him." Evidently tho "horrible south" has shifted to the northern states. Organized labor received a severe rebuke in the person of Wm. H. Taft, republican candidate for president, when he ruled, p" a judge, that work men organized fi r t-clf-protection should not be allowed the protection of the courts, or in other words, that they did not deserve the puvileges of a hearing in court even granted a common felon. Will organized labor of the United States endorse a man who has openly .announced himself their enemy? Governor Johnson of Minnesota, who was Mr. Bryan's rival for the nomina tion for president at the Denver con vention, will stump the state of Ne braska for the democratic nominee and efforts will be put forth by the local Br van organization to secure the peerless Minnesotau for a speech in Alliance during the campaign. Sen ators Gore and Owen of Oklahoma will also make speaking dates in the state along with other distinguished party leaders. There has been great stress put forth by republican papers because of the fact that Wm. J. Bryan has been a candidate for president for the third time. Well, it's more to his honor to receive the good wishes of the Ameri can people assembled than that of his antagonist, Win. H. Taft, who has been an appointed office holder all his years. One comes from the people. The other is political graft. The Taft family has been an office-holding ele ment for generation after generation. The republican press of the coun try have been indulging in a great deal of comment as to the tyranny wrought against the colored race in the south and has iutimated that it was democra tic tyranny that was responsible for it all. The tables were turned on these writers last Saturday when one of the most brutal onslaughts ever known was started in Springfield, III., against the negro, and the race prejudice became so alarming that all the state troops were called out to suppress the riot, which was imminent. Aud this in the home of the great emancipator of the colored race. This is ample proof that the prejudice the republican press has attempted to create only redounds to their discredit. ILBOADSjl TIE Manifest Hostility Toward Demo cratic Party. PETTY METHODS OF REPRISAL People Should Know Whether or Not Railways Are a Republican Party Adjunct The Coercion of Voters. Middlo West States That Look Good For Bryan The Outlook In Illinois. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. Separated by the brief rpnve of one city block and both fronting on I'hlcn (Td'h llnent street, Michigan boulevard, itre the headquarters of the two itreat national parties. The Democrats this year are In the Auditorium Annex, where only a few yearn ago the Repub licans were Installed. The Republicans are in the Harvester building, and cap tious critics are very much Inclined to sny that It is characteristic of the party of trusts and monopolies that its na tional headquarters should be In the building owned by the harvester trust, the trust which more than all others draws Its substance nnd Its profit from the fanner. That may Ik? an unfair criticism, because It Is hard to tell now adays who owns a business block since the methods of concealing actual own ership b.v the organization of corpora tions and subsidiary corporations bus become a Hue nrt. So far 11s the Democratic national committee Is concerned, Its work began early In August. So far as the Repub lican committee Is Involved at the mo ment of this writing, Its work has not begun. Railroad and Politics. Perhaps It Is not extraordinary that the railroad managers of the United States should manifest In every petty nnd picayune way their hostility to the Democratic party. That party stands pledged to such methods of railroad regulation as will protect tho shipper and the traveler ngaiust the extortions of overcapitalized corporations. And yet, after all, It docs seem strange that the railroads should adopt so trivial a method of reprisal as denying to the people who wished to attend tho notifi cation day ceremonies at Lincoln, Neb., the beueflts of reduced rates. Chairman Norman 10. Mack kept in constant communication with Mr. 12. 13. MeLcod, who Is chairman of the Western Passenger association, and as 11 final result Mr. McLeod announced that "since local passenger fares In the state of Nebraska have been reduced from 3 to 2 cents a mile no reduction therefrom has been made for any gath ering In that state." This would have been a statement more important had It been true. Mr. Much promptly re sponded by sending a clipping from a Kansas City newspaper that this same association was making n rate oflV6 cents a mile to u Grand Army encamp ment. Aud Mr. Muck further went on to polut out that the reduced rates for the Republican notification meeting, while not made by that association, still was enforced In uearly If not all of tho territory covered by the West ern Passenger association. This was a matter not of financial Importance to many except 11 compara tively few citizens who desired to at tend the notification ceremonies nt Lin coln, but It is of vltul Importance to the American citizen and to the Amer ican voter to know whether It Is or Is not 11 fact that the railroads of the United States through such 11 central organization ns the Western Passenger association are systematically and de liberately discriminating in favor of one political (tarty as ngalnst the other. It Is quite time that the voters of this land should know whether the rail roads are an adjunct to the Republic an party or not. I recall very well that In the 1000 campaign, which was before the days when by Democratic votes in congress the law against the Issuance of railroad passes was enact ed, practically every man on the Dem ocratic uattonal committee who went from Chicago to attend the Kansas City convention paid his fare, while practically every Republican delegate to the Philadelphia convention found the railroads most courteous In meet ing his needs without money and with out, price. Now that the anti-puss law has been enacted and Is being enforced are the railroads going to evade the real purpose of Its enactment by re fusing to the Democratic party the same concessions for reduced rates that they readily are making for the Republican party? Coercion Again. It hardly seemed credible that In this campaign the coercive methods em ployed by employers to their employees in the campaign of JS90 would be re peated. Personally I don't believe they will he. at least not effectively. But already 11 rather small and. obscure firm In New York has sent out through Its Chicago otllco a notice to Its em ployees that "Believing that the election of Taft and Sherman means a safe aud pro gressive business administration, the day following we shall start this plant on full time and keep going." Probably for the purpose of ndvertls Ing Itself this firm has been offer fcg printed posters carrying the above announcement to all factories In the United States. With a member of the Democratic national committee I called at Its Chicago place, which occupies a small portion of the second door of a small building. The placard was on the wall, but I discovered that It era ployed there but eight people, Includ ing a girl stenographer and a girl book, keeper. I found that, while It had sent out several hundred letters offer ing tbe placard, It had received only thirty replies, most of which were un friendly, some of which were satirical. The one vhlch entertained me most came from n house In Mlchlguu and, abbreviated, ran this way: "The Re publican elephant litis stepped on the full dinner pulls. Wo want no more of the beast." Two strong responses have been made to the circular Bent out by this flrin nnd Indorsed by the notorious Manufacturers' association. I shall uave more to say about them Inter One was Issued by former Congress man Robert Baker of Brooklyn, tho other by Mr. P. C. Burns, president of a telephone manufacturing comiuiuy In Chicago. Space does not pe.'tnlt pub llcnllon In full of both; but. even though I am exceeding the prope? lim itations of this letter, 1 c.vinot refnlii from quoting the Inst paragraph of Mr. Burns letter: "i'our cry of disaster every four years If a certain ticket be not elected Is doing 11 great Injury to the country. Can't we ever have n change of admin istration without the 'interests' crying disaster? If not you had better have Van Cleave and the National Associa tion of Manufacturers appoint our presidents and, falling In this, let us have n monarchy. It Is tho only way you can be consistent." Perhaps the last six weeks or even six months of Republican prosperity under n complete domination of the administration by that party may lead business men nnd manufacturers not controlled by this trust to recognize the fact that an occasional change at Washington Is n good thing. The Outlook In the Middle West. Hon. J. G. Johnson of Pea body, Kan., has reported at national hendqunrters In Chicago as the right hand mint of Chairman Mack. Of the active work ing force of the Democratic national committee Johnson Is probably the one of the longest experience. He began work in national politics In 1890, when he was merely an assistant to the chairman, the late Senator James K. Jones. In the 1000 campaign he was chairman of the executive committee and hk 1001 Intimately associated with the management of the campaign. Talking with me today about the situa tion In his own stute of Kansas, he said: "In my Judgment, wo have an exceedingly good opportunity to carry Kansas. The situation there Is 11 curi ous one. The Republicans have mltpt ed locally the principles for which Mr Brynn nnd the Democrat!" partv Invp been lighting so long. The rult of the primaries the other day was t nominate for governor and for seintor men who represent the nlviuiecd wl : of the Republican party. T'nt ruwiJ that the muss of the voters believe in the political doctrines enuuehited not merely In our platform, but which have been preached by Mr. Bryan for so many years. "It Is my Judgment that Kansas is good fighting ground. The Democratic party has u strong chance of carrying the state with this ticket, but it could not have had oven a look In bad ft gone back to reactionary doctrines. As to Nebraska, I kuow It only us a state neighboring to my own. But I have had occasion to travel somewhat through It, and If It Is not carried by the Domo'TMtle pirty this year no one will be more surprised than I. and no one will more than I believe tlint such a failure was due to lack of concerted effort on the part of the Nebraska Democrats. As matters stand today Nebraska Is ours. All we need to do now Is to hold our own. But even that requires work, organization nnd vigi lance." The Lewis-Stevenson ffight. The light between James Hamilton Lewis and the former vice president, Mr. AdlnJ Stevensou, for the governor ship of Illinois has been an interesting one. Mr. Stevenson won uud Is the nomluee of the Democratic party. He has carried the banner of the Demo cratic national party more than once, lu 1900 he was a candidate for the vice presidency and worked earnestly and strenuously for that party. He was not prior to that time a strong Bryan Democrat, but when nominated In 1D00 he accepted the duty Imposed upon blm by the Democratic party and through the whole campaign carried Its obliga tions. I personally remember well the mo ment when Hon. Charles A. Towue, who had been nominated by the Popu lists, passed to Adlal Stevenson the banner which he hud held. Aud I re call extremely well the way In which Mr. Steveuson accepted his new du ties. I recall that the tears streamed down the cheeks of the veteran leader of the Democratic party as be accept ed the new responsibilities conferred upon htm. In this campaign all Dem ocrats and nil men who believe that the Democracy stands for somethlug may bo sure that Adlal Stevenson, nominated for governor of Illinois, will make his right not merely for that position, but will tight quite as hard for the national ticket. There Li one thing which may be said about Adlal Stevenson which should be said now and tcday. He has never failed In his loyalty to the national ticket; be has never failed to stand for the straight out Democracy, aud, in my judgment, he never will full to exert every Influ ence which he may be able to bring to bear for the national ticket, whether he happens to be associated with It or would fall If he happened not to be connected with It. II W nomination will be a source of strength to the ticket lu Chicago. There nre other men whose nomination might hive been advantageous, but none could have been more advantageous than his. With hU name nt the bend of the tick et the Democracy of Illinois will get a following which may carry the state and, which will certainly gather on enormous vote for th national can didates. Chicago- Kinship of the Monopolist to the Highway Robber. By WILLIAM J. BRYAN. INSIST tlint tho commandment "Thou shalt not steal" applies as much to tho monopolist a3 to tho highway man, and we shall not make any material progress in tho protection of the people from private monopolies until wo arc prepared to obliterate THK LINE THAT SOCIETY HAS DRAWN. BETWEEN J. 'W I .f. 1 .4. s THE ORDINARY THIEF AND THE LARGER CRIMINAL WHO HOLDS UP SOCIETY AND PLUNDERS THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF PRIVATE MO NOPOLY. The mat: who stands by the wayside and, holding a revolver to your head, demands your money or your life is no more a criminal, measured by every moral standard, than tho man who, obtaining con trol of a nation's fuel, collects a tribtite from every householder, offering him the alternative of payment or suffering from lack of firo. It is entirely possible that very many of those who enjoy tho benefits of monopoly some ns managers, some as directors and somo merely as stockholders are unconscious of the principle involved, UNCONSCIOUS OF THE MORAL CHARACTER OF THEIR CONDUCT, but surely this is an opportune timo to impress upon the conscience of the nation tho real moral character of tho conduct of tho monopolist. And it is not sufficient that wc shall appeal to tho conscience of tho monopolist alone. If a highwayman were to engage a lawyer to follow a few rods behind him with a horse that he might have a ready means of escape after having committed an act of robbery, we would call tho lawyer a party to tho crime, and we would visit upon him tho same punishment visited upon the principal in tho robbery, and so if some one living near the spot where tho robbery was committed fur nished tho robber with a change of clothing or, in return for a part of the booty, conspired with him to was past, such a ono could not escape legal responsibility for tho crime. K AND YET IT 18 CONSIDERED QUITE RESPECTABLE TODAY FOR THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF PREDATORY WEALTH TO VISIT STATE CAPITALS AND NATIONAL CAPITALS AND PREVENT THE ENACTMENT OF LAWS INTENDED TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM PRIVATE MONOPOLIES, AND IT IS EVEN MORE RESPECTABLE FOR THE SALARIED ATTORNEYS OF THESE MONOPOLIES TO FOL LOW CLOSE AFTER THE OFFENDERS AND FURNISH THEM HORSES IN THE WAY OF LEGAL TECHNICALITIES UPON WHICH TO ES CAPE FROM PUNISHMENT. International Peace the Highest Aim a Ruler Can Have. By EDWARD VII.. HERE is nothing from which I derive a more sincere gratifi cation than from the knowledge THAT MY EFFORTS IN THE CAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND GOOD WILL HAVE NOT BEEN WITHOUT FRUIT AND "A CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE GENEROUS APPRECIA TION WITH WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BOTH FROM MY OWN PEOPLE AND FROM THOSE OF OTHER COUNTRIES. RULERS OF STATES CAN SET BEFORE THEM SELVES NO HIGHER AIMS THAN THE PROMO TION OF INTERNATIONAL GOOD UNDERSTAND ING AND CORDIAL FRIENDSHIP AMONG THE NA TIONS OF THE WORLD. It is the surest and most direct means by which human it) may bo enabled to realize its noblest ideal, and its attainment will ever be the object of my own constant en deavors. I REJOICE TO THINK THAT THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANI ZATION, IN WHICH ARE REPRESENTED ALL THE PRINCIPAL CIVILIZED COUNTRIE3 OF THE WORLD, 13 LABORING IN THE SAME FIELD, AND I PRAY THAT THE BLESSING OF GOD MAY ATTEND IT81 LABORS. Give Industrial As Well By ANDREW 5. DRAPER. New York D O not tho programmes of the teachers often lead boys who might mako excellent cabinetmakers into being poor lawyers and induce girls who might be first rate dressmakers to become third rate music teachers? A MECHANIC WHO HAS REAL SKILL AND IS PROUD OF IT IS LIKELY TO BE A BETTER MAN AND A MORE RELIABLE CITIZEN THAN IS AN INDIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL MAN. I think that tho present organization and tendency of tho school systom, acting upou tho national temperament, LEAD MANY INTO OCCUPATIONS WHICH ARE ALREADY OVERCROWDED AND FOR WHICH THEY ARE NOT BEST ADAPTED and that our prevailing educational scheme gives somo favor to intellectual as against industrial occupations. This i3 in violation of our funda mental political principles. I am for restoring the equality of opportunity, for giving the mechanioal pursuits ns full equivalent as wo can for the training that we are providing for tho intellectual pursuits and for avoiding any courso which tends to mako misfits in lifo. I havo said nothing incon sistent with this. I WOULD BE UN-AMERICAN IF I BELIEVED IN "CLASSES" OR HAD ANY DISPOSITION TO KEEP CHILDREN IN A "CLASS." IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF "CLASSES," BUT OF EFFICIENCY AND THERE FORE OF HAPPINE3S IN OCCUPATIONS, AND WHAT I AM URGING IS THAT THE SCHOOLS SHALL NOT BE EXCLU8IVE IN ANY SENSE, BUT SHALL BE AS MUCH CONCERNED ABOUT INDUSTRIAL AS ABOUT INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION. J J J conceal the booty until suspicion , Ktntf of Entflind. Education as Intellectual. SUte Superintendent of Education. the schools and the influences of Bw ifT V -H From the Center of Things I Hpeolul Lincoln C'orrei'xmili'iiri-.l Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 19 'The greatest day in Lincoln's history" is the universal verdict concerning the notification cere monies last Wednesday, on which occa sion William J. Bryan was officially noti fied that he had been nominated for presi dent by the democratic national conven tion at Denver. As nearly as such a par tisan affair could be made this was. Gov. Geo. L. Sheldon, chief executive of Ne braska, who was captain of a company in Bryan's regiment, the Third Nebraska, occupied a front seat on the platform. E. It. Sizer, postmaster of Lincoln, had charge of the carriages containing the notification committee, and half of the mounted escort were republicans The city was decorated far more than ever be fore, although Lincoln has never yet reached the point where it decorates like most cities of her class. The crowd was so immense that not one-tenth of the peo ple heard Mr, Bryan. This will give some idea of the size, to those who understood how far-reaching Mr. Bryan's voice is. The most conservative estimates put the number of people on the state house grounds at 30,000 The notification proceedings are familiar to newspaper renders, but there were numerous incidents in connection there with that have not been sent over the press wires and which may be of interest. Humphrey O'Sullivan of Lowell, Mas3., the "rubber heel" man, was in Lincoln as the guest of Lincoln Typographical union, and was selected secretary of the notification committee. Mr. O'Sullivan's duty was to read the official letter of the committee, and this he did in a most de licious Irish brogue that delighted the im mense throng. Mr. O'Sullivan has, as one of the printers expressed it, "more money than he can haul in a hay wagon," but he still carries his union card and is as proud of it as a boy of a pair of uew boots. He.a! ,t Massachusetts will give Bryan i ti..jontv. Rev. Father Nugent of Des Moines, who will bs remembered because of his valiant services for democracy during the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. invoked the divine blessing, and it was magnificently impressive to hear that i.-.tmense throne join with him in repeating the Lord's Prayer. Father Nugent is.a man of im mense physique, with a deep, penetration voice and the air of a man who is intense ly in earnest. The evening before the notification Mr. Bryan was a guest of the local Typogra phical Union at a banduet tendered by the union to Humphrey O'Sullivan. At its last meeting the union made Mr. Bryan an honorary member. The banquet was attended by a number of visiting democrats, including John W. Kern. Governor Sheldon, also an honorary mem ber of tbe union, was a guest. The ban quet was held at the Lincoln hotel and was one of the most successful social af fairs ever enjoyed in Lincoln. There were 122 at the table. The banquet was tendered Mr. O'Sullivan in recognition of his splendid services to the International Typographical Union. Mr. Bryan's hum orous reference to Mr. O'Sullivan's busi ness, that of manufacturing rubber heels, brought great applause. He said he wanted it understood that while paying tribute to the distinguished guest he want ed it understood that it was not because of his business, for "this is no gum shoe campaign." When Mr. Bryan paid tribute to the Typographical Union because of its conservatism, its splendid discipline and its eSorts in behalf of brotherhood, the eighty union printers came up standing and cheered him to the echo. "I am not eligible to membership in this union by reason of being a printer by trade," said Mr. Bryan, "but if I am eligible to mem bership in any union at all I presume it is the Typographical Union, for I have given printers more work to do than perhaps any other man in America. Time and space prevent a detailed statement of why the printers love Hum phrey O'Sullivan, but it is enough to say that he "has them on his stall for fair." When he arose to speak he was given a reception that made the great stone hotel buildiug fairly rock. O'Sullivan is a dem ocrat, and he made no bones of telling the printers what he thought of their political duty, and as a result he made a red hot democratic speech. As 90 per cent ot the printers are enthusiastic Bryan man, the speech was loudly applauded. One day last week all the "distinguished visitors," representatives of the press and campaign officials who went to Fairview found themselves unable to get to Mr. Bryan. He had oae visitor who received all of his attention. This was a" man from Wyoming. , ninety five years old, who had cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson and who had often met "Old Hickory." The old gentleman eached Fairview just as Mr. Bryan was at lunch. Being unable to find any one, the old veteran walked down to the press tent and asked permission to sit and rest a bit, saying incidentally that he was bitter y disappointed in not having seen Mr. Bryan, "I'll fix that," said one of the newspaper men. He took the aged visitor back to the house and got word to Mr. Bryan. For two hours Mr. Bryan entertained his vlsi- t (Contined from on page 5) A A v