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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1908)
f ' '" J . ii" t'-'j ' --" ; Mi.,.,..,,,.,.,.,,,., , , ".""""Tf" " """ '1Yrifitlli)r: jtijji tn:tfjii:inoritix..:-:i1:iTiar'T.rri '-- r"1 r"ri"""""'i"""""""T ' ' ' ' ""mm'mmmmmm"mm" " ' " 'W-'im'Mi'mwiHmfn t i ! iip Published 13yery Thursday by The HtraM PtiWfeWiif CiMfMy. T. J. O'KEEFE Editor J. B. KNIEST Associate Editor Entered at the postoffice at Allianco, Nebraska, for transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. ' Subscription, i.so per year in advance. DemocraticNationalTicket FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT JOHN W. KERN OF INDIANA . STATE TICKET Governor. A. C, Shallonberger Lieutenant-Governor. .... E. O. Garrett Secretary of State. ....... John Mattes, Jr. Auditor .. Edwin II, Luikart Treasurer. ........ ... .Clarence Mackey Superintendent of Public Instruction ., ..N. C. Abbott Attorney-General......... II. B. Fleharty Commissioner Public Lands and Building... W, B, Eastbam Hallway Commissioner... Wni. II. Cowgill Congressman Sixth District. , ..... . W. H, Westover State' Senator, Fourteenth District.. ... ...i ....... . ,, .George M, Adams Representative, 53d District........ ". .,...,..,..., lred W. Jonansen COUNTY TICKET fFor County Attorney, Eugene Burton ? For Commissioner, Second Dist., ' J, P. Jensen ANNOUNCEMEHS. Far County Ctpmlssiwer, Secern! District. I desire to nnnounco to the people of Box Butte county that I am the regu lar nomine of the second district for commissioner on the Democratic-Independent ticket and will appreciate sin cerely any support the voters see fit to give me at the polls. J. P. Jensun. For County Attorney. I hereby anncsre myself as a can didate for the oltice of county attorney ' of Box Bntte county, Nebraska, on the democratic-indepnndeut ticket, and solicit the suppott of the voters of Box Butte county. Eugene Hukton. T Beginning Tuesday morning of this -week Mr, Bryan made a three days' tour of eastern Nebraska. The trip was made -on a special train and Mr. Bryan spoke an average of twenty-five times a day. liverywhere he was greeted, by large and enthusiastic audiences. The republicans of the west have build ed great hopes on the western tour of Governor Hughes. While they profess to believe that the tour has strengthened their cause, they really know that because ot his evasions and his false witness Gov ernor Hughes has weakened rather than streoghcued them. He avoided any ref erence to the bank guaranty and refused to refer to his veto of the two-cent fare law after using several hundred thousand dollars contributed by railroad managers to his campaign fund. Everywhere he was asked to explain it But he ignored all questioners. He .made a specious at tack upon the trust plank of the democra tic platform and declared that the 50 per cent clause would ruin the man who tried 10 manufacture under a patent. He evi dently thought that westerners are so ignorant that they do not know that pat ents are a constitutional right, and paraded the fact that he does not know the differ ence between an incentive to individual genius and an Incentive to corporate greed. By this time probably every newspaper reader in the country is wise to the Omaha Bee joke. The Omaha Bee is edited by Viator Rosewater, a Nebraska member of the republican national committee, mem ber of the executive committee of that organiftlion and chairman of the bureau of publicity. Recently Mr. Bryan quoted from the republican tariff planks, but in the printed report of his speech the quota tion marks were left ofl. Reading the following the Bee editor took it for granted that it was what Mr Bryan said.' "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 of production at home and abroal, together with a reasonable profit to American industries" Then the edito? ot the Dee proceeded to denounce that principle as "sheer dema gogy" and declared that an attempt to put it into practice would result in endless strife between employer and employe' precipitate panic and .do untold injury. The Bee realty had hard work expressing its hatred for such a "demagogic utter erance." Now that its editor, republican national committeeman from Nebraska, has learned that he was denouncing a re publican platform plank, the silence that reigns in the Bee office could be cut with a knife The Portland Oregonlao, another rci publican organ, made the same fool mis take. So did the Boston Transcript. And .Mr. Bryan says he no longer reads books of humor when he want to laugh. He just reads a republican platform. Mr-Bryan spent several days in Itn coin last week Catching up With his cor respondents -and receiving reports about the progress of the campaign. Just be fore starting back to Chicago to resume his tour Mr. Bryan spoke at ilavelock, a suburb oi Lincoln, and the site of the big Burlington shops. A few days before Mr. Taft spoke at Havelock; and the shops were shut down thirty minutes in order that the shopmen might here the republi can candidate. Later the shopmen were notified to either make up the tost time or be docked the thirty minutes. The Lincoln newspapers and the press associations heralded it forth that Mr, Taft was introduced to the Havelock crowd by ''the president of I fie local boll ermakers union." and this1 gave the repub lican organs another excuse to say that Taft is not being opposed by organized labor. This is a sample of the deceit practiced by their republican committee, Mr. Taft was introduced to the Havelock audience by a man named Holmes, who is a gang foreman ia the Havelock shops. Holmes is not a member of any union, and never was. Every effort was put forth to get a big crowd for Taft at Ilavelock. The morn ing was ideal Snd the meeting had been advertised far and wide. Vet Taft talked to less than 500 people, and not half the shopmen turned out to hear him. Monday night of last week Mr. Bryan spoke at Havelock. It rained all day, and rained at night. The city park, where he spoke, was a sea of mud. The streets were al most impassable. Yet Mr. Bryan spoke to upwards of 3,00a people, and the en thusiasm was intense. A big delegation of union shopmen occupied the speaker's stand, and Mr. Bryan's analysis of the labor planks in the two platforms was greeted with wild enthusiasm, Judge Westover's Position Believing that the voters of the Sixth Corgressional District have a right to know where their candidate stands on the issues involved in this election, and believing that candidates before election should state publicly and unequivocally what they nre in fnvor of, and what they will undertake to do if elected, I hereby pledge myself as follows: 1.' I will support anv and all measures which will bring about the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. 2. I will support a law making it com pulsory upon all political parties to publish ,1 complete statement of campaign contri butions before election. 3. I will favor a law providing that in all cases of indirect contempt of court, the party so accused shall be tried by a jury, the same us any other person accused of crime 4. I will tavor a reduction ot the pres ent tariff to an extent that foreign compe tition will compel American manufactur ers to sell their products to American con sumers as cheaply as they sell them to consumers in any foreign country; and tlmt all agricultural machinery, fencing, build ing material, and all household utensils be placed on the free list. 5. I will favor an amendment of the so called Railroad Rate Bill, now in force, which will provide that pending an appeal to the federal'courts, the order of the inter state commerce commission, whether making a new rate, or which is made for the purpose of preventing an existing dis crimination, shall be and remain in force' pending the appeal in the federal courts. G. I shall favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for an in heritance and income tax. 7. I shall favor an amendment to the present homestead law now in force and applicable to this district, which will give the homesteader the same rights of com mutation, and making final proof, as are enjoyed in other localities by homesteaders under the general homestead law ot the rnnntrv. 8. I shall favor a, law under which de- j poiuts in au national banks will be guaran teed, as proposed in the Denver platform 9. I shall devote all of my,time, energy and what ability I possess, to attending to the business of the people of this district, ond-to guarding- their rights individually and collectively. jo. I shall favor an amendment of the rules, oi the house of representatives, which will deprive Speaker Cannon, or any other speaker of the house, of the power to throttle legislature which is demanded by the people. If the above and foregoing propositions meet with your approval. I respectfully and earnestly solicit your support at the coming general election. W. H. WESTOVER. ' AN OPEN LETTER TO M. P. KINKAID BY CAPTAIN AKERS. The writer, W. R, Akers, is a prominent republican and has served the party in public office He serv.ed in the state senate and was the author of the present irigation law; he was elected thti first secretary of the state board of irrigation and held thnt position until he was appointed receiver of the U. S. laud office at Alliance by President McKinley, in which place he served for eight years. He is still a republican but refuses to support Moses forever: Hon. Moses P. Kinkaid. O'Neill, Nebraska. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a letter from James H. Hewitt ot Alliance in which he informs me that you have made the assertion on the train between here and Alliance that I was going around the country electioneering against you Now this is absolutely untrue. The fact ia that I have not been' able the past year to go around the country to aay considerable extent. I have been as far from here as Mitchell, Morrill and Gering. And I believe I have stated in each of these to.wns that I was not going to vote for you. Is that electioneering? If so, then I am guilty. Mr. Hewitt also informs me that you stated that both Wilcox and I were opposed to him for reappointment. . Now, if you said that, you knew at the time it was false, because I have talked to you by the hour in bis interest as clerk and as successor to myself. The general land office records will show (hat I always supported him for clerk, and Senator Burkett will tell you that I made a trip to Lincoln to urge his ap pointment as receiver to succeed me. I did not intend to do or say anything in a public way against your nomi nation, but intended to be satisfied in saying that I did not intend to vote for your nomination. But since you have rushed in the open and set your tongue wagging, allow me in this very unsatisfactory way to make some statements as to why I will not support you. In the first place, I believe your whole life has been a bundle of deceit. I do not believe you ever made an honest statement in your whole life, or ever fulfilled a promise unless you saw some gain for yourself. You deny any responsibility for every failure on the part of securing any other benefit in Washington . You claim all the credit for every favor which anyone receives in Wash ington. You claim credit for every pension or increase of pension of every old soldier in the country, notwithstanding they had their attorneys and you knew nothing of the case until it had been allowed; then you rush in and noti fy the soldier that you secured it. I wonder how many old soldiers you think you have hoodwiuked iu this manner' You state in your announcement that "sjveral years after his legislative experience Mr. Kinkaid became district judge." Now, Judge, why did you make that statement' Did you want to deceive someone? Is it not a fact that you as senator introduced and passed the bill which formed and estab lished the 15th judicial district in the state of Nebraska' What was the dis trict doing all these several years without a judge? Why did you say "several years after," if not to convey the idea that you had not always been in public office since you came into manhood' Now, Judge, if I am mistaken in this matter, I am ready to acknowledge the corn when the proof is forthcoming. And again, I ask if you have not been in public office ever since, except at the most four years? And were you not a candidate at every election after that until you were finally elected? if not, I stand corrected when the proof is shown. I may be mistaken as to the year 1896, But 1 believe you thought you would make an excellent supreme judge, and of course you could not be a can didate for supreme judge and congress at the same time, While you were judge you rendered your decisions as a grand stand play to the litigant and bystanders, and you had the faculty of making the fellow upon whom you sat down think you had rendered him a great favor. You have the faculty of deceiving the unsophisticated and making them believe that you remember and hold them in high esteem, when in fact you do not know them at all or rer member their names. How man'y'hundred times have you approached men, whom you did not know, aud point out some fellow on the other side of the street and ask, "Who is that fellow?" and, as soon as informed, make rush with extended hand and exclaim, "Hello, Hank," or hello Jim, or Charley, or whatever his name might be. What did you do that for, Judge, if not to de ceive someone? You never deceived anyone in this way but the unsophisti cated. I understand, or at least am informed, that when you finally went off the district bench you left cases which you had under consideration and advise meut you were afraid to decide for fear of making enemies in politics, and which had to be retried enough to cost the litigants several thousand dollars to retry. Do you think that a record to be proud of? Why, then, wheu you were making up your record, did you not tell us that you left a number of cases undecided because they smacked of politics, and would have iujured your chances? Why did you write this record as if the editor wrote it? Did you think that the dear people never saw but one paper, or did you think we were so thick-headed that we would not notice that the language was the same in each paper? How does this sound for an article written by the candidate himself "The .congressman's greatest legislative achievement is his one-section home; stead act, generally known as the Kinkaid act." That sounds much like some, thing which happened a long time since in this country. Christopher Columbus discovered America, so acknowledged by historians, but Amcricus Vespuccius stole the name. Hon, Wm, Neville, democratic congressman, conceived the idea of the enlargement of the homestead bill, introduced it into congress; but because he was ofl color with congress, politically, he was not able to pass it When you came into his shoes you inherited the bill, and I have been inform ed that you and Judge Norris took this matter up and prepared this bill to gether, and it was to be introduced jointly by you, and it would then be known as the Kinkaid-Norris bill, or Norris-Kinkaid bill. How is this, Judge, have I been misinformed' I await to be shown. While you actually got the credit for the passage of this bill, it would seem better if it should have received the name of "Neville Bill," because Bill Neville wrote the bill and tried to pass it, and would have done so only for the jeason that a democrat must not be allowed to get any credit. Why give Roosevelt any credit? Did not you, judge and congressman Kinkaid, pass the bill yourself Did uone of the other congressmen from Nebraska have any thing to do with its passage' Did you get over into the senate and pass it there alone? Oh, come now, judge, just be fair and say that you and Norris dug up Hill Neville's bill out of the files and remodelled it, and then you took advantage of Norris and passed it without his assistance and got the name, want ou to say it this true, and, if not, don't say so, but bay that it is not true. I have a few questions which I disire to ask you, and I want you to an swer them through some newspaper in this district Did you not lead Henry Reynolds to believe that vou intended to support him for the position of receiver of the United States land office at Alliance on my retirement? Did you not say to Henry Reynolds in Washington, when he and Charles Cornell, of Valentine, were sent down there by the Western Ne braska Cattle Association to assist you (and at your request) in passing a lease bill, that "now you are here, we will have that land office matter fixed up." And did you not pretend to him that you were alone for him and that you might have difficulty to get the senators to agree with you? Did not Henry Reynolds come back to you the same duy and tell you that both senators had informed him that they had agreed that you should settle the matter alone? And did you not say, "Oh, they are lying to you"? Aud did you not, before he left you in washiugton, admit to him that the senators had agreed that you should make the appointment, but you state that you must give it to Ellis? Is this true or not? I believe the story. If I am wrongly infoimed, I am from Missouri show me. Now, you told Hewitt that you could not control that appointment, Did you not make it alone, without the intervention of any man on earth, and with the consent of both senators? If not, show the proof. You presume to tell Hewitt why I oppose )ou. without anyone in Mitchell telling you. Do you remember a long talk I had with you at your owu desk, in which I told you of the trouble with the register of the office about the appointment of one Roderic Williams as clerk in the land office' And do you remember that I told you that I believe that the object in getting him into the land oflice was to edncate him to take the place of Jim Hewitt And do you remember that you voluntarily said that you did not think Hewitt should be interfered with? Dfd you not ltnow that Wilcox and I had disagreed about the appointment of Williams' And did you not know that Williams could not be appointed over my protest without congressional interference' And did you not s congress man from the bixth district, in obedience to the command of a democratic boss, your democratic boss, go up to the general land office and interfere aud secure the appointment of the said Roderic Williams? Answer this. I see. Judge, that this letter is already much longer than 1 intended, and yet I am uot near done telling you the reason why I do not support you this nomination. I do know why you should take umbrage I always supposed I had a right to choose between candidates who were asking the suffrage of my party. 1 was fool enough over at Crawford to turn down Judge Grimes whom I now consider a much better man than you and voted something like a hun dred times for you, for which I have been trying for the last four years to hire some cheap guy to kick ray pants. W. R. Akers, ROOSEVELTJJYNASTY, Son-in-law Longworth's Startling Proposition. WHY THE CAMPAIGN DRAGS Republican Party Seems to Depend More on Personalities Than Advocacy of Principles to Elect Its Candidate. How the Election of a Democratic House Would Affect Bureaucracy at Washington. By WILLIS J. ABDOT. As Me pppronch the end of tills presi dential campaign, with only a few weeks yet of polltKnl agitation to be conducted, I tun Inclined to wonder whether the campaign was made after or before the conventions of the two grent parties. Except In .a gcnernl way I cannot claim any special knowl edge of what has been done at the Republican national headquarters. But friends there, for of course you under stand thnt active political opponents may be luthnnte personal friends, tell me that with the cxccp'.!'i of circu lating literature there lu- been little work of a distinctly po.'Ucal nature done. As I write this the Information comes that th m-triTcr' of the Chi cago headquarters of the Republican national committee are laying off clerks nnd reducing their force and expenses In every possible way. The Democratic natloual headquar ters have been busy, but for not more than three or four weeks. Nor at the present moment does there appear to be nnytblug like the activity or the earnestness that was shown in 100O or even In ln4. Now. u .i.tt Is the reason of this situa tion Iu both of the national commit tees? All 1 can suggest is n personal opinion. The two men who are candi dates for the presidency are them selves so well known, have themselves so well pressed Iu the past their claims upon the American people, that there Is little left for a political committee to do except to plead with stnte leaders to get out the votes. This Is the first campaign that I can recall In which not a single campaign biography was on sale. It is the first campaign that I remember in which it was not nec essary to be continually expfalnlug who the candidates were and what they stood for. I am writing a Demo cratic letter, but I wish to be fair. It there Is anybody In the United Stntes who does uot know who Judge Taft is and for what he stands it must be a voter to whom It would be useless to send a campaign biography or a text book. And in the same way on the Democratic side Mr. Bryan Is his own platform nnd is known to and of all men. Campaign headquarters might be closed without materially affecting the outcome. It might be worth while to adopt Mr. Carnegie's plan of a Uni versal disarmament and leave the can didates to fight out their own battles without the aid of battleships, thirteen Inch guns, press bureaus or speaker? bureaus. Personalities Rather Than Principles. It nppears to be the fixed policy ot the Republican party to press to the front during the fow weeks left of this campaign attacks upon persons rather than cither defense or advocacy of fixed principles. There Is more said nbout Haskell thftn there Is about tariff, moro bitter nttneks upon Bryan the individual than there is upon Bry an who stands for certain fixed ideas. How far this system of tactics may prevail cannot be told as yet. It is true that Governor Haskell has with out one scintilla of proof against him been driven out of the campaign. But so, too, hnve. on the other hand. Por aker. Du Pont and Nagel. all men of high standing In the Republican or ganization. But Into n great organiza tion, whether Democratic or Repub lican, there will occasionally come men whose entire lives have not been or dered according to the highest ethical principles Macaulay once said that ho knew of no spectacle so ridiculous as the Brit ish public In one of Its occasional spasms of morality. I know nothing so absurd ns the violent outbreaks of the partlsun press iu the United States about election time when ttouw one on the other side is accused of conduct which could not be. even if proved, put iu complete accord with the Golden Rule. Great editors like Mr. Hearst discover no moral obliquity in buying stolen letters and using them to ex pose some one whom they accuse of being either n thief or a briber. Great statestneu like Mr. Roosevelt find no reason why they should not Implore the "practical" Mr. Ilarrlmnn to col lect $200,000 from trusts aud monop olies for political purposes olid there after denounce the collector as an un desirable cltlzeu while denying on the evo of a campaign that the collection was ever ninde. In my Judgment, un til Mr. Roosevelt hus had the manli ness and the courteousness to admit he was wrong when he denounced Judge Parker as a willful nnd mall clous falsifier when the Judge exposed Ills trade with the plutocracy he has 110 right to continue his pose asn mor al upllfter and an ethical teacher. A Continuing Dynasty. Mr. Nicholas Longworth. the son-lu-Iaw of the president, has contributed materially to the Interest of this cam paign and .somewhat to the gayety of the president's opponents by his speech In which he declared that President Ifoosevclt would be a candidate lu 1010. Mark how this figures out! Tho pre.sluym muvcctlo.l President McKin ley In V.1 lu served out that term, was elect M ngul-i in 1001. Iu 1003 he Aierrs--tt is. it ttii American people fll pcrmjr it his successor. That suc cessor s,urtcs ttv terms. Thereupon Mr. Tuffs sponsor In politics returns cheerfully to take up the politician's burden and to become ouce more tho president. This cheerful proposition for a self continuing dynasty must ap peal strongly to the American people. There is uo reason why It should stop with the return of Roosevelt to otllce. Even If he were willing to retire at tho end of one term bis son-ln-lnw long worth would be able to take up the heavy task of governing the American people, aud by tho end of his term Quentln or Kermlt or some other Rooseveltlnn youth would be of age to accept the scepter handed down to him. But, seriously, It Is a matter for the American people to give careful thought to when the proposition is made that a political combination which has had twelve years of uninterrupted power should be given twelve or sixteen years more. The management of affairs at Washington Is not so wholly beyond nnd above suspicion that an ccasionul? change In those who have eo Urol of It would uot be a good thing. A sld rom any change In the economic policy of the government, I believe that every right thinking citizen will hold It welt to have un occasional housoclcanlng. Tou who rend this may not. believe In the ImmeaMnte reduction or the tariff. You may not believe lu the guaranty of bank deposits. But If y"Mi knew your Washiugton ns 1 do you would believe In a clearing out of the cob webbed offices In which clerics who have outlived their usefulness are housed and. even more important, the trim and gorgeous offices In which de partment heads who draw salaries ot 2.500 a year and spend three times thnt much are luxuriating. What Might Be Done. The election of a Democratic presi dent who would install a new set of department heads would accomplish this reform nnd. besides saving mil lions of the people's money, would make for greater efficiency In all ex ecutive departments. But my old frlei-d Cha'-ij) " r': pointed out to me the other 1". i th-t even though we bhnuld le . t ' presidency which nei ther ho nor 1 believe we will the elec tion cf a I cmocratlc house of repre sentatives would contribute to the same result. Mr. Clark pointed out thnt a Democratic house would elect a Democratic speaker f course fee would be that speaker and that the Democratic speaker could appoint sev en committees made up of the proper kind of men, each one of whom would undertake the investigation of one of the executive departments. No Re publican speaker would do this, or If he did he would appoint whitewashing committees in every instance, but u Democratic speaker who, like Clark or like Ralney of Illinois or like Lloyd of Missouri, would be untnlnted by any sort of traffic with the Republican side could make such trouble in the powerful burenucracy of Washington that the Republican party would be put out of power for ns long n time as it now has been In power. Concerning the Bureaucracy. And, speaking of this same bureau cracy. It ha? been built up and gained its present powerful position through the abandonment by President Roose velt of tho principles upon which he founded his original fortunes In poli tics. Today we learn that all federal officeholders who "resigned" In order to take up political work have been or dered to report at their posts If they expect to be reinstated. Now, do you know what the significance of that phrase is? Men from the postoflico de partment, the treasury or the Interior department were permitted to resign to Join in the joyous task of nominat ing and electing Taft. Ordinarily when a man resigns from a job that ends It But they have an arraugement nt Washington and, for thnt" matter, in other federal offices by which the man can resign nnd after having completed the work he goes out to do be rein stated. It Is perfectly obvious that the purpose of this arrangement Is to cir cumvent the civil service reform law which prohibits federal officeholders from taking au active part in politics. The Republican national committee is ordinarily pretty prosperous. 1 think It Is this -year. If it can becure the services of a number of practical poli ticians like, for example?, Frank II. nitchcock, who, It Is said, has "re signed" it can well nfford to pay them salaries equivalent to those they were receiving from the government. And then If after five months of political ac tivity on the part of these retired offi cials the president of the United States. the old time civil service reformer, Theodore Roosevelt, sends word just before the election thnt they must all hurry home or fall of reinstatement, how fine the moral effect upon the country Is! Can you Imagine a better bit of po litical bunko than this? If federal officeholders must not take part In poll tics, let their resignations be flnnl when handed In. But to say that tho first assistant postmaster general emi step out of office long enough to manage a campaign In which all bis subordinates nre Interested and at Its completion re luru again to his old place Is to give the He to every protestation of civil ervce reform that Theodore Rpose relt hlmseif ever made. Chicago. Algoa and Detagoa. The names Algoa bay uml Dolagoa bay are derived from the outward and homeward voyages of the old East ludlameu who on their voyage? to Goa. In India, were wout fo ca!J at Port nilznbeth on the outward voy age nnd at Lourenco Marques on the homeward voyage: hence the names Mgoa (to Goat and Delngoa (from Una). "!l -4 i , VAe imj j .A,i vi - 1.8