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Published Kvery Thursday by
The Herald Publishing Company.
T. J. O'KEUFE
J, B. KNIEST .
Editor
Associato Editor
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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.
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