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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1908)
; I iumjtao Published Kvery Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. T. J. O'KEUFE J, B. KNIEST . Editor Associato Editor Entered at the postofhee at Alliance, Nebraska, lor transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance. From the Center of Things I Hix-Hnl Lincoln Corrt-itioflilMici.l Liricoln. Nebr.. Sept. 23. -A Singer sewing machine of the latest and best pat tern sells in Nebraska, Missouri. Iowa. Kansas, Oklahoma and throughout the west for 800. This may be represented by a line thus: DemocraticNationalTicket FOU PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT JOHN W. KERN OF INDIANA This same sewing machine is shipped 5,000 miles to Uruguay, South America, and sold by the South American merchant for S35. which ma be represented by a line thus And the South American dealers pays ocean freight on it for $5,000 miles, ocean insurance and Uruguay import tax, Query, how much is the American buy er of American made sewing machines benefited by the protective tarifl on sew ing machines' STATE TICKET Governor 1 . A. C. Shallcnbergcr Lieutenant-Governor E. O. Garrett Secretary of Statn, John Mattes, Jr. Auditor Edwin II. Luikart Treasurer Clarence Mackey Superintendent of Public Instruction N. C. Abbott Attorney-General (I. D. Fleharty Commissioner Public Lands and Building. W, D. Eastham Railway Commissioner... Wm. U, Cowgill Congressman Sixth District W. H. Westover Representative, 53d District Fred V. Johansen COUNTY TICKET For County Attorney, Eugene Burton For Commissioner, Second Dist., J. P. Jensen Fr CMHtty CMwnljileiwr, Second District 1 desiro to announce to the people of Box Butte county that I am the recti- lar nomine of the second district for commissioner on the Democratic-Independent ticket and wil appreciate sin cerely any support the voters see fit to give me at tho polls. J. P. Jensen. Injunction Bill Taft predicts a panic if he is not elected. Bill lias been u bluffer all his life and now he's becom ing desperate. Twelve years ago Judge Ong of Nebras ka was making democratic speeches in In diana. At one place he was addressing an audience of farmers and said: "I want to ask you farmers a question, and I want you to take time to think it over. After you have thought it over, write me your answer, addressing me at Geneva, Nebraska. Here is the question: "What is there that ycu farmers sell that you get more for, and what is it you buy that you get for less on account of the protective tariff?" A few weeks Inter Judge Ong received a letter from an Indiana farmer, who wrote. "I've been thinking your question over and I have arrived at the answer to it: There ain't a d d thing." Why were not the reforms recom mended by the President enacted? Ask Mr. LaFollette. He says it is because the majority of the Republican Senate stand in with the trusts. The only hope for reform this year lies in the election of Bryan. The Soutb Dakota Democrat, noting the lack of enthusiam for Taft, thinks 'things will warm up as soon as the swag arrives from Cincinnati." It is vident that the sole Republican hope is in a boodle campaign. If you want to get a definite line on the political outlook, just ask yourselves these two questions: "Are there any men in my neighbor hood who have habitually voted the re publican ticket who are now supporting Bryan and Kern?' "Are there any democrats in my neigh borhood who are supporting Taft and Sherman?" Here is a sample of what the answer will be: James Watson is the postmaster at Marple, Box Butte county, Nebraska. He has always been a republican, but this year he is supporting Bryan. He says he has talked to many republicans in his neighborhood, but so far as he is able to learn, only three are supporting Taft. Similar reports come with names and corroborating facts from every section of the country The real facts of the situation are that tho republican committee's private and confidential reports were so pessimistic that it was deemed imperative that Mr. Taft's campaign of "dignity and reserve" should be abandoned and a rear platform campaign inaugarated. After bloviating for ten or twelve years about Mr. Bryan's "undignified methods oi campaigning," and for weeks pointing with pride to the fact that their candidate would "observe the proprieties" and would not "belittle the dignity of a candidate for such high office," the republican managers, fearing and trembling, have abandoned that high and mighty position and Mr. Taft is striving to emulate an example that he and his managers so. loog denounced. pecially in Greater New York, and they were dismayed when they discovered that New York democrats were never so har monious and never so uuflinching and un tiring in their support of the national ticket. The nomination of Lewis Stuyve sant Chanler will contribute hugely to democratic success in the Empire slate- A millionaire lawyer, he spends his timn as an attorney in taking the cases of the poor, the friendless and the helpless. He is known throughout the East Side in New York as "the poor man's lawyer." He was elected lieutenant-governor on the independence league and democratic tickets when Hughes was elected governor, His nomination last week spikes the schemes of Hearst so fai as the league is concerned, and kills the last hope that Hughes will poll the "undivided good citi zen vote." Chanter's nomination is ad mittedly the strongest that could be made. S. J. Stearns, an official of the United Garment Workers of America, was in Lin coln last week. He reports that the gen eral convention of his union went on record as not only supporting the policical policy of the American Federation of . La bor, but endorsed the democratic national ticket. The Garment Workers' Union is especially strong in New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and other cities in the Empire stnte, and in Chicago. Local after local of this union has endorsed the democratic ticket. "I have been as far east as Toledo, as far north as upper Wisconsin, and as far west as Lincoln during the last five weeks," said Mr, Stearns, "and I find the same story everywhere among the union work ers. They are supporting the policy of the American Federation of Labor, and are going to vote for Bryan. Not because they are democrats for I should judge that a majority were not democrats but because they see in the election of Bryan and Kern their ouly hope of early relief from the injustice of the injun:tion as ap plied in labor disputes. And the feeling that it is time for a change is not confined to trades unionists. It exists among busi ness men. especially among the smaller dealers. I am sanguine that Bryan will be elected." DEMOCRATIC RALLY The Democratic National committee has assigned Hon. Geo. Kingsley of Kansas City to Nebraska for one week, beginning the 2tst inst., ami will speak ALLIANCE, Saturday Night, Sept. 26. Mr. Kingsley is otie of the best cam paign orators in the country. You are invited to come and hear him. WCMCQ PANURN RICH U3 L Magnitude of His Fortune Invites a Query. MR. BRYAN CALLS A BLUFFER Conributions tn Campaign Fund The Herald has decided to join the ranks of democratic papers to receive Si. 00 contributions to the national campaign fund, which is being carried on by the party papers all over. The names of every contribution to the campaign fund will, beginning next week, be published in The Alliance Herald. This money will then be forwarded to the general fund for the state of Nebraska conducted by the Omaha World-Herald and there re ceipts of contributions published daily. A neat little lapel button will be pre sented to ench contributor. Send in your $1 and name and we will publish the same. These contributions are sent to the national committee and it is only in this way that the common people can secure funds with which to carry on the campaign. Oscar Straus, secretary of commerce and labor in President Roosevelt's cabi net, announces that he will take the stump for Taft because he knows Taft is friendly to laboring men. "And I am a friend of labor, too," says Secretary Straus. Let us see about his brand of "friendship for American labor." The facts may be found in the official records of the de partment of commerce and labor. A year or so ago the union lithographers of the country asked for the eight hour day. This was denied by the employer?, and the union lithographers went on strike. The usual injunctions were is sued, but the boys "struck.'' The em ployers, with their shops idle, went to Secretary Straus, and that official showed his friendship for American workingmen by abrogating the alein labor law insofar as it applied to lithographers, and admit ted European lithographers under the plea that "there is a scurcity of skilled workingmen ia the lithographing trades in this country." And the European work men came over under contract and took the places-of American workmen who had asked foraa eight hour day in their trade. Another Republican "Gone Wrong" John Barnstead and John Kinsella two well known stockmen-farmers from the northern part of the county, were in the city yesterday on business. By the way, Mr. Barnstead, who is one of the most substantial Norwegians in the county, says he has voted the republican ticket for thirty years but he expects to cast his ballot for William J. Bryan this fall. And there are hundreds of republicans in Box Butte county just like Mr. Barnstead. Jones, He Pays the Freight" Hearst is digging his political grave and in 19 12 the erstwhile newspaper man, congressman, politician and or ganizer of a new party will still be little Willie out in the cold world. He is the biggest political blunderbuss of the age. N Hon. Edgar Howard was elected chairman of the democratic state com mittee, at the state convention held in Lincoln Tuesday, to succeed T. S. Allen. Splendid selection. Chris Gruenther will continue as secretary. Howard and Gruenther are the right meu in the right place. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says that the reason why Speaker Cannon and his Committee on Rules held up the important measure of saving the forest region was "the influence of the Lumber Trust and its no less rapacious congener, the Paper Trust, were at the bottom of it." Go to the bottom of all matters arising before Congress and the trusts dominate, directly or indi rectly. The trusts exploit whatever is to be exploited. All this is merely the last, for the time being, of a long sequence. First they de nounced Bryan for demanding that the Filipinos be treated as the Cubans had been treated, and the reply was. "Where the American 8ag has been raised it will never come dawn." A few months later the American flag raised in Cuba came down. They denounced Bryan for advo cating what they termed a 50-cent dollar, and said there was plenty of money and only confidence was needed. Confidence was restored, the per capita circulation increased 50 per cent and then a republi can congress issued a no-cent asset cur rency. They denounced Bryan for mak ing a campaign tour and now they put their own candidate on the stump. They ridiculed Bryan for dictating in a phono graph and before the echoes of their ridi cule had died away their candidate was dictating into the phonograph and se lecting, too, the same topics that Mr. Bryan had used. They denounced Bryan for advocating a bunk guarantee and now republican state conventions are endors ing bank guarantee. They denounced the idea of publicity of campaign contribu tionsand now seek favor by saying they will make public all contributions after election. From Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and from the Pacific coast comes the cry to the republi can national committee; "Come over and help us or we perish." James W. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, is the man who is trying, to send Gompers, Mitchell and Duncan to jail for contempt of court. He is the most virulent oppon ent of trades unionism in America. At the aan.ua! meeting of the National Asso ciation, oi Manufacturers last wiuter the association adopted this resolution: ' "Third. That we recommend as a basis-oi protective duties upon which tho commission shall work the principle of in ternational costSy to-wit: Protective du ties should represent substantially a per manent differential between the cost of production in foreign countries and that in the United States, with an ample margin for safety." The republican platform, adopted a few months later, says: "In all tariff legislation the true princi ple of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost oi production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries." The Kellogg company, Chicago, evi dently had The Herald listed as a re publican paper. We- have received a communication from this company stating that "if we so desire, it will supply us weekly, free of charge, a four-page republican supplement, which will contain the very best republican matter and be illustrated by timely cartoons. The matter will be prepared by the republican national committee and should be of great value to all re publican newspapers." Very liberal proposition, indeed. The protected trusts and corporations can afford to spend a few million to inform the peo ple how to vote this fall. We have re ceived no such offer for democratic literature. WhoPrtslp the Taft Banner Distinguished Republican Statesmen Testify That the Bank Guaranty Plan Is Sound In Principle Use of Money In Elections Economy Rules In Democratic Camp. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. In the rather lively controversy be tween Uncle .loe Caution tititl Mr. Bry an over their respective personal for tunes mid the sources of their prosper ity It occurs to me that Mr. Bryan has had very much the better part of the argument. Without going Into detail on the subject, which has been some what reported In the newspapers al ready, I may suy that Cannon, with characteristic discourtesy, vulgarity and falsity, in a formal speech refer red to Mr. Bryan as having mnde $1, 000,000 "by selling wind and printer's Ink." Mr. Bryan's retort reduced Can non to it condition o." comparative quietude. Paraphrased. I' was this: "t earn u living by lecturing nnd by writing. No one need attend my lec tures or buy either mj books or my paper unless he desires. Speaker Can non has been In public office since 1801 almost continuously, most of the time receiving n salary of bnrely $5,000 a year. lie Is very rich. What hns Mr. Cannon been selling?" Followlug this statement Mr. Bryan frankly declared that he thought him self worth about $125,000, but was willing to accept the responsibility of $150.(mm If his estimate was too low. He challenged Speaker Camion to mutch this statement In kind. The speaker was silent except by making .1 blufllng demand that people look to tho records of Danville and see how fully he pays his taxes there. Natu rally this clash aroused some Interest, and an Investigation wus set on foot In Lincoln, Neb., to determine the amount of the Bryan assessment. It was found to be $84,500, which under the taxing law of that state Indicates property slightly In excess of $100,000. Then nttentlon was directed toward Speaker Cannon's assessment at Dan ville. Ills neighbors and closest friends have always estimated his wealth at from $500,000 to $1,000,000. But It was found that be has scheduled for taxa tion only $15,115 In personal property, while his residence Is assessed at $22, 000. In other words. If common report concerning his wealth Is correct, he Is dodging his taxes and securing the as sessment of a property easily worth four times thnt of Mr. Bryan nt a figure of barely one-third of thnt on the Bryan property. Some Republican Testimony. This testimony Is on the guaranty of bank deposits, and It comes from very distinguished Republican sources. One Is the Hon. Lyman .1. Gage, formerly a Republican secretary of the treasury. Mr. Gage testified be fore tho committee on banking iu the house of representatives, which was considering the Fowler bill. He said: ' sent to a multitude of newspapers nnd 1 many of them. Usually printed In1 for eign tongues, must be given benevolent uhl mid assistance, the cost of a cam paign, like the cost of the Boer war, Is enough to stagger humanity. The 1 Democratic party has never been over rich dining Its campaigns. It has nl 1 ways had to economize ami bus never I been able to spend money for UlegHI- mate purposes even If Its managers desired to do so. It Is n matter of His tory that may now be told that the lute Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas when chairman of the Democratic na tional committee In 1SIX5 returned to Its donor a check for $30,000 that reached the headquarters three days before election. "It was too late for I use legitimately.' said Chairman Jones, i"nnd we have no desire to use money illegitimately." In that campaign the Democratic party had about $000,000 In Its national treasury. The Republic an national committee Is credited with having nnywhero between $8,000,000 nnd $10,000,000. In 1000 the' Demo cratic national committee received, roughl. speaking, about $3n.000. it made an active and a creditable cam paign, though the Issue, of course, wns defeat. Vet so carefully were the finances of the committee handled that at the end of the campaign $20,000 re mained in the treasury to 13 turned over to the new national committee selected In 1004. Raising Campaign Funds. This yenr both parll.'-- eonrro.tt a new situation when the matter of rais ing fuuds Is to be considered. Partly through stnte laws, partly through a more enlightened public sentiment nnd largely because of the Insistence of Mr. Bryan upon the limitation of cam paign contributions to Individual con tributors nnd complete publicity to all considerable contributions neither has as yet the volume of subscriptions to Its fund that under other conditions would be already In hand. This does puzzle the old line politicians. Down In Ohio somebody started what was called a League of Thirty Cent Clubs. The only subscription asked to tho Democratic fund Is 30 cents. But th plan being vo 'e ' 1 the endless chain system doe? n- eriheless bring In some considerable 1 mlttauces, besides Inter esting a nuliLude of people In a cam paign to 'deb they are contributing, though only In a small way. One of the famous old money getters Tam mauy would call him the "Wlsklnkle spoke to me hi high ht Itgiiatlon over this device. Said he, "It lets the con tributor off for 30 cents when you might as we'll have got $5 or $10 from him." In some Instances that may be the case. In more the 30 cents Is all the contributor could afford or be willing to give. In many he enrolls himself In the Thirty Cent club and sends his larger contribution direct to headquarters. Then there are the hewspaper sub scriptions. Not less than 150 Demo cratic papers are Inviting subscrip tions to tho campaign fund and remlt- I ting every few days to headquarters. lour states now and four publications are struggling for pre-eminence In this useful service. The Commoner leads the list as it money getter, with tho Houston rnt. edited by Colonel II. M. Johnston of the- national committee, a close second. The New Orleans Dally Sttes nnd the Nashville Ten nossecun me struggling neck and neck for third pface. This method of rals- "I am persuaded1 that It Is Just, equita ble, wise anil right that the depositors Ing funds from populnr subscriptions of the banks which come under pro-1 will develop and grow as the cam The National Manufacturers' Associa tion went to Chicago and got what it wanted. The representatives of 3,000,000 workingmen went to Chicago and got well, they got it in the neck. Will M. Maupin. As men personally, both Bryan and Taft are of the high type and anyone who tries to belittle or besmirch either one merely displays his ignorance. It is the principles they represent and the power back of the one that should guide the voter in the extrcise of that duty that makes him a free man and defies the world. Bryan, as president of all the people of the country, and Taft, as the proxy of Roosevelt, arc two separate and distinct propositions. WHYT JU8T WHY? :. The republican committee practically admits that Indiana is hopelessly lost to the republican ticket this year. The spe cial elections in that state last week show ed clearly the trend of events. The legis lature being called to meet in extra session, it was necessary to hold special elections to till several vacancies in the legislature. The democrats were uniformily successful, registering immense gains, while the republicans scored discouragingly to them lurge losses. If your banker asks why you think your deposit should ba guaranteed, ask him why he thinks your note that he dis counts should ba endorsed or backed up with security. The democratic state convention in New York was another huge chunk of gloom for the republican managers. They had counted on democratic dissensions, es -i Why Mitchell Is for Bryan. (John Mitchell to the New York World.) "In accordance with your Invitation,) I wish to state max, in my judgment, the election of Bryan would be for the best Interests of the whole nation.' VHe stands on much the 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. 1 Honest wealth and business have noth ing to fear In Bryan's election." Our amiable contempory informs us that the local republicans are trying to arouse themselves from the apathy in which the nomination of Mr. Taft placed them and are contemplating the erection of an electric sign with the name of their doughty champion dis played to a waiting world. This move is hailed with delight by the local democracy as now there may be a semblance of life in the opposi tion ; the campaign so far has been so listless that even the democrats were becoming contaminated with the re publican lethargy. In keeping with the eternal fitness of things we are in formed that the local Nasby and the representative of the Harvester Trust (the trust that sells its wares cheaper in Europe than it does to the Ameri can farmer) are the prime movers, of course for forms sake the working man is asked to contribute his mite. How unfortunate it is for Mr. Taft that the life of his campaign deuends on the exertions of the office holders and the trusts and that in the face of the fact that he is daily disclaiming his connec tion with these same trusts, no doubt that the republican caudidate, when he sees the efforts that the trusts ate puttiug forth iu his behalf, thinks of that old but trite saying, "O Lord, deliver me from my fool friends." visions of this MR will hnve their de posits guaranteed to them as well as the banks circulating notes held by the general public. The nature of the obligation fs exactly the same in prin ciple, whether evidenced by a pass book or by the-bunk's notes In the form of clrculatfne; money. There is no dif ference In principle." The Chairman Do you think that this principle of guaranteeing deposits would Tend to nnsound banking? Mr. Gage No. sir. I think the fact that under this bill there would be greater restrictions and a penalty for neglect of Inspection and that there would he machinery for inspection would lend to sounder banking. So much for n Republican secretary of the treasury. Comes now a Re publican comptroller of the currency under McKlnley. Charles G. Dawes, one of the leading financiers of Chi cago. This Is what he had to say about a bauk guaranty system In a book he wrote some years ugo before It be came an Issue on which his party nnd mine split: "It must certainly be ad mitted the establishment of such n fond would have a tendency to pre vent the mad rushes of small nnd large depositors during times of panic for money which they hoard away In safe ty deposit boxes or other hiding places. If the effect of such u law would be to render bank deposits more stable under all conditions, as In our Judgment would be the case, no law could be of more value and Im portance to the debtor or to the cred itor or to the community nt largo. To the passage of such a law In proper form we trust the efforts of congress will be directed." Former Secretary Gage, having at tained very advanced years. Is out of financial operations and of politics. Mr. Dawes Is still In both. Unless he has materially changed his opinions ihe should look with some aversion unou the Republican party policy of discrediting this very plan for render lag bauk deposits more stable. How Money Comes and Goes. The cost of u political campaign for expenses which In the main nowadays are legitimate runs up Into the hun dreds of thousands of dollars. When 15.000.000 or tS).OCO.00 documents have to be printed and distributed, when 100 or 500 speakers must be kept trav eling continuously without the aid of thnt bygone and obsolete blasting, the railroad pus?: when material must bo palgn goes on. Every now and then some new device for extending It Is presented, and all are given careful attention by the finance committee. The one thing that has not been done Is to diverge In the slightest degree from the spirit of the resolution adopt ed at the first meeting of the national committee- after the convention which declared against soliciting or accepting contributions from corporations. Not one snch contribution has thus far found Its way Into the Democratic treasury. I lislve no way of knowing what the Republicans are doing in this matter of finance, but there seems to be so little evidence of active work on their part In soliciting small Individual sub scriptions that the naturnl Inference Is that they are again going after tbw corporations and the trusts. The pres ence of Sheldon, Du Pont nnd others on their finance committee seems to make this Inferenqe Justifiable. Mr. Bryan's Tact. Two phrases used by Mr. Bryan lu his speech ut the Illinois stutc conven tion at I'eorht greutly pleased the friends In Illinois of the amiable and admirable candidate for governor of that state, Hon. Adlul E. Stevenson. General Stevenson, It will be remem bered, was the vice presidential candi date with Mr. Bryan In 1000. Moreover, there had been and Is still continuing au attempt on the part of certain hos tile forces in Illinois to make It appear that the manugers of the Stevenson campaign were pushing him forward to Mr. Bryan's detriment. The first words used by Mr. Bryan In address ing the convention, which was oue of the most Impressive state conventions I have ever witnessed, were: "Eight years ago tho Democratic ticket was Bryan and Stevenson. This year I am heartily content that In Illinois It should be Stevenson aud Bryan." ThU atonceput the audience nnd the dele gates, who .vero practically 11 unit for Stevonson, tn the best good humor. And tho effect of this tactful utterance was heightened when, speaking u little further on the same line and referring by Indirection to the general repot tn that .Mr. St jvenson might run ahead of him. Mr. Bryan said, "I wish for your candidate for governor the biggest vote pjifcllK or Imaginable, and I only hope that his surplus will be so large that Iu may be able to spare a lltt'e of It f'r 1 1." Chin" go. 1