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That Federal Court
and Public Building
Hiw Chadren Won ami AHimct List
Nice "Bunch" HNrWl AMmcb by
Hises Policy KlnfcaW, the Wily
Congressman.
During'tlie last session of congress,
a bill was being considered providing
for an additional judge in the Federal
district of Nebraska and fixing places
for holding Federal court in said dis
trict. Congressmen from all other districts
readily agreed on their locations, but
Judge Kinkaid of this district, as usual,
had the matter under advisement for
two weeks and at the end of that time
he was still undecided, and the other
members of the Nebraska delegation,
without Kinkaid's knowledge or con
sent, completed the bill by designating
North Platte and Chadron as the two
places in which court should be held
and the bill was so reported by the
'committee and passed. Chadron was
not a candidate for this honor and in
fact conceded it to Alliance until Sena
tor Burkctt telegraphed them and asked
them if they wanted it Kinkaid could
have 'designated Alliance without oppo
sition or question from any person and
then with Federal court, land office
and postoffice and more than 5,000
people, Alliance was in a position to
demand from Congress a Federal build
ing that would cost from $100,000 to
$130,000.
Is it any wonder that the Chadron
newspaper is urging every voter in
that locality, regardless of political
affiliations, to vote for Kinkaid? No
reasonable person will deny that Al
liance was tho logical place for holding
federal court in western Nebraska.
Wore than twice the sire of any other
city, the best from a geographical
standpoint and railroad facilities, in
fact every argument waB in favor of
Alliance but one and that was that in
fluential republican friends of Alliance
had rooms to rent tho government for
postoffice and land office purposes and
after having the matter under advise
ment the Houorable Moses 'decided the
case in accordance with his well known
policy.
'The little towri of Chadron secured a
delicious plum and we are not surprised
to see the Journal urge all the people
of that community to help pull Moses
out of the bullrushe8. Federal court
means ' much for the town. Federal
officiuls were there from Omaha last
month and held a term of court. Sev
eral Alliance citizens were summoned
there as jurors. Bills have been in
troduced for federal buildings there and
at North Platte. Kinkaid never did
anything for Alliance and never will.
On the other hand Judge Westover has
always shown his friendship for Al
liance and it he is elected we want to
t;o on record as sayiug Hiat the rights
of Alliance will receive recognition.
Kinkaid is not entitled to and should
not receive over six .votes in Alliance.
AVcstover will receive solid support in the
Platte valley.and with the strongsupport
lie is receiving all over the west part of tho
district, he should be elected by a hand
some majority. Every resident of Al
liance, who takes pride in our city,
should vote for Judge Westover, a man
of ability and a man who is not afraid to
tell what ho stands for.
Would Fool the People.
The republican committee is sending
out circular letters to republican and
democratic voters alike stating that
"the election of Taft and Sherman is
essential to the welfare of this country
and to elect them the republican com
mittee must be liberally supplied with
funds; that congress recently enacted a
statute making tt uulawlul to solicit
money for political purposes from cor
porations," etc., the letter closing with
an appeal to "contribute as generously
as you feel able."
This letter is sent out to fool the
common people; to have them believe
that the committee is really short of
funds aud Is not ia league with the
corporations this year. But the peo
ple won't be fooled. They know too
well that they have been contributing
about forty per cent of their iucome to
the republican campaign fund for years
by paying tribute to Morgan, Rocke
feller, Carnrgie and a few others who
have furnished the republican cam
paign fund in previous campaigns aud
will do so this year.
This is the year of opportunity for
the common people to break the shack
les with which they are bound nnd un
less tliey assert their rights this year
as free born American citizens it will
be a long time perhaps never--that
they will be afforded tho opportunity.
The election of Taft would mean that
a proved enemy of labor would be
placed in the highest office within the
gift of the American people; that all
labor organizations might as well quit
business and that to continue the re
forms brought about by the great Com
moner, W. J. Bryan, would be impos
sible. In brief it would be a govern
ment of the trusts, by the trusts and
for the trusts and the common people
be damned.
For County Attorney
On next Tuesday the voters of Box
Butte county will decide who they
wish to attend to the legal affairs of
the county for the next two vears. It
behooves the tax payers to select a
liian for this position who is honest,
conscientious and has ability, Eugene
Burton, the present incumbent, has
proven himself to possesss these quali
fications. Besides this, he is a most
deserving young man, of good habits, is
not now and never has been attorney
for corporations, and devotes his time
and attention to the affairs of the of
fice. These are the reasons why he
will receive the support of the tax pay
ers, regardless of their party affilia
tions. "The Alliance Herald priuts tho
names of several republicans who, it
declares, intend to vote for Bryan. If
this be true, we are sorry for these
misguided men, for after the 3d of
next month they will be the loncsomcst
persons in Nebraska. The democratic
party will be as dead as a sucker cast
upon the banks of the Platte by a
spring flood, and they will be expelled
from the republican party as traitors.
The only political home they can find
will be with Debs or Hearst." Times.
The Times will have a big job on its
hands if it expels all the republicans in
the county who vote for Bryan. Four
years ago three-.fifths of the democrats
in this county voted for Roosevelt and
about that per cent of repulicans will
support Bryan. The republicans can't
stomach Injunction Bill any better than
the democrats could gb Parker and no
one knows this fact better than the
Times,
Silent as Clams
The Herald has anxiously waited to
see what comthent the Alliance Times
and our Marsland correspondent would
make on Captain Akera' open letter to
Moses Policy Kinkaid which is publish
ed in The Herald, but "nary a word"
do they say. We can't understand.
Both are strong republicans, and judg
ing from their kindly notices in the
past, are great admirers of that grand
old veteran, Captain Akers, who recent
ly delivered an address in behalf of the
republican party in this city. Query:
Which have they forsook, Moses or
Captain Akers'
For Representative
Fred W. Johansen, of Hay Springs,
will represent the people of this dis
trict in the next legislature with ability
and fairness to all. Mr, Jolmn&en is a
graduate of Chadron academy and
spent several vears teaching school in
Sheridan county. He is now editor
and publisher of the Hay Springs En
terprise. If elected, Mr.' Johansen
pledges himself to aid in securiug a
permanent state normal school at Al
liance. Vote for him.
Republican Logic.
The Chadron Journal urges the peo
ple of that community, regardless of
their party affiliations to support Con
gressman Kinkaid for re-election for
his good work in having Chadron des
ignated as the place for holding federal
court in western Nebraska, which in
sures a government building costing
from $100,000.00 to $150,000.00 for
that town. That's good argument, to
be sure. But in the next paragraph
the Journal requests the voters of
Dawes county to support a republican
candidate for county office because he
is married and has two children. If
that is good logic why does the Journal
not state that Judge Westover has
raised a family of ten children while
Moses Policy Kinkaid is a rich, grouchy
old bachelor, who has never done a
thing for his country, but accumulate
an excessive bank account from the
federal pay roll.
Living expenses have
increased 48 per cent in
the last ten years. Has
your income increased
accordingly ?
JUST DOUBLED
DOUBLED, WHAT?
The cost of running the state of Nebraska.
Under the democratic state government in
1900'the state taxes charged to all the counties were
$1,208,984.94. Under the administration of Governor
Sheldon in 1908 the state taxes charged against all
of the oounties have risen to the enormous total of
$2,448,346.65, which makes the record read as follows:
Year 190S, State taxes charged to all "
the counties - -,' j-
Year 1900, State taxes charged to all
the counties -
Increase in eight years - - $1,239,361.71
..l AND FOR WHAT?
' BOX BUTTE COUNTY 1
is sure paying her proportion of this enormous increase
in state taxes. Look at the figures. , ' "
Year 1908, State taxes charged to Box ,
Butte county
rear 1900, State taxes charged to Box
Butte county -
t
Increase in eight years - -
WHAT'S THAT?
You don't believe it!
Ask your county treasurer to let you see the
records of payments made to the state treasurer on
account of state taxes charged against our county for
the various years since 1900.
Governor Sheldon favors the system of state
government, which has led to the wild and extravagant
expenditure of the people's money in this state.
Mr. Shallenberger will try, if he shall be
elected, to secure laws to give the election of precinct
assessors back to the people. He also favors a law to
forbid the state assessment board to increase the total
assessments returned by any county. He believes the
business of the state equalization board is to equalize
assessments, and never to take away from the counties
the "right to make their own assessments.
Adams Pledges
His Support
For
Permanent Normal
Alliance.
School at
Crawford, Nebr., Oct. 27, 1908.
To the Citizens of Alliance and Surround
ing Community:
Having been asked several times by
some of your people my opinion as to the
location of a normal school for the western
part of Nebraska, I feel that I am at liber
ty to say, that if I should be elected to the
Nebraska state senate from this district, I
will do all in my power to make the now
temporary 'school a permanent one and
endeavor to get an appropriation from the
state of Nebraska for the same.
Yours respectfully,
George M. Adams.
A Jolly Entertainment
Franklin Pierce Jolly, Celebrated Lec
turer, Addresses Large Audience.
That the student mind is fully cognizant
of the immensity of the stupendous ques
tions that envlrion us at the present time
was well demonstrated in the lecture given
by Jolly at the opera house last Thursday
night, when for a brief few moments he
lay aside the lightness of his subject and
spoke upon the dangers of our future as a
nation and the causes that are bringing
them about, and while he was magnifi-
cently splendid in his rote as an enter
tainer, he certainly soared far into tho
realms of seriousness and of thought, 1 complished, a government by, for and of
when he vehemently denounced in no un- 1 the people as privileged through the
certain tones the avarice of our day that I sacredness of the ballot box will not only
would permit the destiny of this glorious be maintained but perpetuated and there
nation to rest on the wishes and desires of I by display to the world at large that this
a mere handful of the possessors of its.) very essential principle is not only eternal,
wealth, while the balance of its people
would stand in fear and trembling lest
they would not do their bidding.
His diversion for the moment was the
sacredness of the ballot box and the
mighty influences that are today tending
to its destruction, chief among which la
that of a power that would palaver us
with a decrease or increase of wages upon
the election of any one man. Better, he
says, a thousand times that the peniten
tiary be the confines of those who would
disregard the most sacred feature of our
constitutional government, the ballot, than
that we would lavish in the kind of success
that would result at such an utter disre
gard of the eternal principles of truth and
justice that lie as the basic foundation pi
pur government- lie further stated that
the decay of the governments of antiquity
$2,448,346.65
$ i, 208,984.94
10-3,16.70
$ 5.682.15
$ 4.634-55
and of the recent past, as measured in the
life of governments, began when the
wealth of those same nations centered in
the hands of a few. This is undeniable
history, and for fear we are not. too,
aware of its nearness to ourselves as a na
tion, he quotes that the old republican
leader, Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
wbo declared before the 'United States
senate that the wealth, and necessarily
the destiny of our country, lies in the
hands of eight men. Just think, this
grand old country of ours, the like of
which has never been seen in all this
world, and which originated through the
infliction of the divine right of the king's
(wealth) upon a people whose very nature
forbade them bearing, because they be
lieved and so stated in their declaration of
independence that all must have equal
rights, and now in the 132 year of our in
dependence the interests of eight men pre
vails to such an extent that the balance of
the 80,000,000 of our people stand in awe
and wonderment lest they should not do
their bidding. Have we not about reached
the fulfillment of MaCauley's prophecy,
when glorying in the idealistic (condition
of independent government of the people,
as was contemplated and begun by our
forefathers, said it could only be an ex
periment for the ultimate end would be
monarchy, for it was never known that a
people's government could maintain such
a broad ideal without terminating in a one
man (knight) power. Will we disprove
history or acknowledge to an anxious
world, who have looked upon us as Ma
Cauley did, as an experiment, that the
heroic efforts and fearful loss of the noble
lives that made possible the revolutionary
war, were efforts spent and lives lost in
vain? Or will we, true to the ideals that
gave us sustenauce and reared us in the
halo of the glorious achievements of their
illustrious lives, say to an expectant but
doubtful world that they were flesh of our
flesh and bone of our bone, and the very
essence of what they fought
for and ac-
but will prevail
Ladies, of course you are interested
In the campaign. Come out to the
lecture course entertainment election
evening, where returns from all over
tho country will be received and an
nounced. Find out before retiring1
whether or not you will get that gown
that was promised you conditional',
if Taft or Bryan was elected. Only
one admission for the whole evening's
entertainment.
Postmaster James Watson of Marple
was in the city Saturday. lr. Watson
is a life-long republican but this year
is onevof the most ardent-Bryan men in
the country.
EASILY UNDERSTOOD
Mr. Bryan Shows Why the In
dividual Favors Protection
of Bank Deposits.
A. MATTER OF INTELLIGENCE
Banks Should Attend to the Banking
UubIiiphs and Not tho
Government.
No Issue In tbl3 campaign appeals
moro strongly to tho Individual than
the protection of bank deposits. Thou
sands and thousands of republicans
will vote for Mr. Bryan on account of
this one Issue, which he has presented
so clearly to the poople of the nation.
In a recent speech Mr. Bryan pre
sented tills issue In a simple aud most
convincing way. He saldr
"Of tho many policies proposed in
our platform, the protection of bank
depositors 1b the simplest and most
easily understood. Why, my friends,
this question is bo easily understood
that I suppose there is not a person
in this audience who is not able to
understand It. I do not moan that
overy one, everywhere, can understand
It. I draw the line here: When every
person reaches the period of intel
lectual development, where he is able
to see that when a man puts his money
in the bank he ought to be ablo to get
it again, he ought to have intelligence
enough to understand this subject; but
until he gets to this point I do not
know how to reach him. I take it for
granted, however, that you are all
sufficiently advanced to be able to
nndorstand that when you put your
money in a bank you ought to be able
to get it out again. Now, my friends,
there are just two questions to bo con
sidered In this matter. One of these
I have given you., The oUier question
Is, who must make It secure? Our
position Is that as the banks make
their profits out ot the people's money,
the bankers ought to give tho insur
ance the people require. Now, 1 had
supposed that that was a self evident
truth nnd that it would not bo denied.
I have made no speech without dls
ousslng the guaranty of bank deposits the man who wrote tetters to corpora
In all partB of tho country After I , tions wboss proocrt he assessed by
had made my speech in Baltimore, ex- virtue of his position as a member of
plaining our system and presenting oyr I the board of review In Chicago,
arguments In support of It, my atten- ' Farmers and Business Men Know,
tlon was called to an advertisement In ' This Is a fine outfit to advise the
one of the papers. In my speech I had ! farmers and business inon in the west
sald that you could Insure your house,
you could Insure your life, you could
Insure your buggy or your barn, but
that you could not Insure your money.
And In this advertisement my lan
guage was quoted aud the advertise
ment went on to Bay that I was mis
taken, for a certain fidelity company
was prepared to Insure deposits. And
then I found out how they do It down
there. You put your money In a bank,
and then go and get somebody tto In-,
sure It so that you can get It out or tho
bank again, I believe the time has
como to compel all the banks to stand
back of the banks and make good the
presumption upon which you deposit
your money In the bank.
"Now. my friends, you may ask if
the hankB are not now sufficiently se
cured. That la what the bankers say..
They will even tell you that only occu-
sionauy a bank rails, hut the trouble
is that we cannot tell In advance which
. -I
uaiiK is going 10 ran. Look at tno no-
tlce they hang up. Does It say, 'this
bank will fall?' No, the notice says
'this bank is closed.' and If bankers
follow out this plan I will agree not to
urge this Insuring of deposits. Let
tho bank give notice threo months In
advance of a tlure so the people can
get their money out before the failure.
"Do you think the banks are suffi
ciently secure now? Tho postmaster
general says, In his report In favor
of the postal Bavlngs bank, that we are
sending millions of dollars to Europe
to he deposited In government sav
ings banks thore. and tho people who
send their money there would rather
send It across an ocean threo thousand J J cause the laborer may not get a
miles wide than to risk the banks of ' square deal.
this country. I say. to you that we!8 The Republican candidate be-
ought to make our banks here so so- j Heves In an Income tax only when
cure that mouoy -will not he driven out the present oppressive means of
or the United States to find a safe
place of deposlL That money which Is
driven to Europe ought to be kept here
and used in the business of this coun
try. Not only does money go to Eu
rope, but money goes Into hiding, nnd
this Is about the time of ear when wo
discover some of It. You will see lu
tho paper every onco In n while that
Mrs. So nnd So for the first time this I
fall made a fire and whb mortified to
find that hor husband, without her
knowledge, had been using It as a j
bank. A man In New York said last ,
fall, when the panic was on, that a i
billion dollars wa3 in hiding under car- I
pets. I do not know whether thati
estimate Is too high or too low, but I
know this, that If I were a banker I
would be ashamed to have an old rag
carpet running rivalry with me as a
safety deposit vault. In time of danger.
"If any man says that the banks are
sufficiently secure I will remind him
that there is not a national bank In
the United States that can get a dollar
of Uncle Sam'a money without putting
up security. The state demands se
curity; the county demands security;
the city demands security; and each
village demands security; and tho fra
ternal orders are now demanding se
curity, and I believe the time has come
when the. farmer, the merchant and
the laboring man should have security
whqn they put their money In a bank.
"In Oklahoma they have had thtB
plan In operation for now some six
months. I learned of one failure there
and In forty-two minutes after the
bank suspended, tho man In charge
bad an prder from the government to
pay every depositor In full, and tho
business went on without ntnmmtioi,
business went.on without Interruntlon
And- when he telephoned out to the
farmers and said to them. 'The bank
has suspended, come lu and get your
i money,' they answered, 'We aro busy
wim mo crops now, we will no In In a
fow, days.' Is It the way you do hero
In your state when a bank gets shaky?
fs It the way you do when a bank m
pends? No! the very rumor that a
bank ia'a little uncortaln makes a
rush of deiositors, and they make it
Insolvent whether it was Insolvent or
not.
"This plan protects tho depositors:
It protects tho community, and It la
good for tho bank as well.
"I would rather see the banks attend
to the banking business than to havs
It transferred to the government, and
because I prefer to have the banking
business done by the banks rather than
by the government, I urge tho guar
anty of deposits as the easiest solution
of our difficulties."
MACK SEES VICTORY
(Continued from first page)
Tho letter Is of Interest by reasrfn
of the character of tho men whose
names appear on tho letterhead, and
who make this appeal. Hero are tha
men who sign tho letter Informing tho
people of the country that Bryan'n
election will be dangerous;
Charles F. Brooker, head of the bras3
trust and vice president of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad,
against which a government suit ia
now pending In the Federal courts.
Charles Nagel, of Missouri, ono of
the general attorneys of the Standard
Oil comnanv. This Standard Oil ren-
1 resentatlve 1b in charge of Republican
national campaign headquarters In
Chicago.
Frank O. Lowden, multl-inllllonalro
son-in-law ot the late George M. Pull
man, and now head of the great Pull
man Palace Car trust, to which the
traveling public pays tribute.
T. Coleman Du Pont, the head of the
powder trust, which is fighting a suit
against dissolution.
Bolso Penrose, the political "boss"
of the corrupt political machine in
Pennsylvania.
George It. Sheldon, Uie personal rep
resentative of J. Plerpont Morgan, in
the capacity of director In all his trust
companies, and who collected trust
money for the election of Governor
Hughes of New York.
William Nelson Cromwell, the legal
representative of Edward H. Harriman
and probably tho greatest trust lawyer
In the United States.
Fred W Upham. the "fat fryer" for
the Republli'uu party in the west, and
how o vote. Two of the signers are
heads of corporations which are fight
ing for their existence In the courts.
Of course these men think Bryan's
election dangerous; that B natural
when one becomes acquainted with
their connections. But there Is not a
t legitimate business man In the nation,
small or large, who has any reason to
fear a Democratic victory.
SPECIAL INTERESTS VERSUS
EQUAL RIGHTS.
In every utterance and every
statement made so far Mr. Taft 5
has shown great concern for the
welfare of the TRUSTS and SPE-
CIAL INTERESTS. 1
He Is afraid that the guaranty
sf bank deposits will be a burden Z
I . m i m m .
; on a lew nig Danxers. That thou-
"nds of small depositors may lose J
cvcryimng aoes not worry nim.
He Is afraid that a reduetlnn nt
the tariff may hurt protected In-
J dustries. He does not worry for
a the consumer, who bears the bur-
den of the heavy tax.
J He Is afraid to oppose the 2
TRUSTS, for he considers them
J a benefit. He does not mind the
extortion they practice upon, the
public.
, He is opposed to a Jury trial in $
contempt and Injunction cases be-
J cause the SPECIAL INTERESTS
want the unfair Injunction process
continued. The "Father of the
Injunction" does not worrv be- Z
taxation fail to furnish enough
w ,.v...v. ... wiii. 1 VTUIUD, riC DC" 0
o lieves that the wealthy should not
. be taxed until the resources of the J
masses are exhausted. Not a word
from Mr. Taft because the masses
bear an unjust share of the burden 2
of taxation.
Mr. Taft stands for the favored Z
FEW and SPECIAL INTERESTS, o
J Mr. Bryan stands for the PEO-
PLE as opposed to the INTER-
J ESTS.
Mr. Taft stands for PLUTOC- 1
RACY as opposed to DEMOC-
RACY.
Mr. Bryan stands fnr poiiai Z
j RIGHTS as opposed to SPECIAL .
rmvii-fcuts. r
WITH WHICH DO YOU
J STAND?
BIG CROWDS APPLAUD BRYAN.
Nebraskan's References to Bank Guar
anty Brings Shouts of Approval.
Winding up his remarkable cam
paign in Greater New York William J.
Bryan was whirled 115 miles by auto
mobile in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Mr. Bryan made eighteen speeches
during the day and everywhere he
went he was greeted by some of the
largest and most enthusiastic audi
ences of his country-wide tour. In all
of his speeches Mr, Bryan warned the
worklngmen against traitors among
Ine mn who vnton i. r, ' ,.
uieui. no assorted that every labor.
ticket would veto to repudiate the
....... .-J. . . l" '"fuuiate me
things that labor demanded In the
uonver piauorm. He held up Mr. Taft
as the enemy of labor and assailed
blra and President Roosevelt at every
opportunity. Mr. "Bryan's reference
to tho guarantee of bank deposits
brought shouts of annroval at nil of
i ais meetings.
