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THURSDAY, JULY a3, jqio
Announcement
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate, for Stato Representa
tive of the 58rd representative
district of Nebraska, subject to
the Primaries of the Democratic
and People's Independent Parties
to bo held Aug. 10, 1910.
.J. A. ROBERTSON.
Announcement
I wish to announce (o the vot
ers that I am a candidate for
Representative of the 53rd Dis
trict, subject to the action of the
Democratic and People's Inde
pendent parties. Primaries Aug
ust 10th, 1910. H. E. Keisohis.
NOTICE
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for the office of County
Attorney, for Box Butte County,
at the Primary to bo held Au
gust 10th., 1910, subject to the
Democrat and People's party.
Eugene Bukton.
James R. Dean, Ex-Supreme Judge,
Broken Bow, Nebr.
"The tariff should be removed
from articles that have to com
pete with trust-made uoods. Re
lief from the iniquities of the
tariff system canot be expected
from men who, one moment de
nounce the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law and the next commend Pres
ident Taft for pronouncing it the
best tariff law ever enacted."
Statement and Platform
of Willis E. Reed
Since I have become a candid
ate for the democratic nomina
tion for the United States senate,
the public is entitled to know
that this is the first office to
which I ever aspired, notwith
standing I have taken an active
part on behalf of the democratic
party for more than fifteen years.
Am forty-four years of age, was
reared to manhood upon my
father's farm in Iowa and began
business for myself by teaching
school; and which I continued to
do in this state for a couple of
years while reading law, until I
was admitted to the bar, twenty
two years ago, and commenced
practicing in my present location ;
and since that time I have given
strict and careful attention to my
profession, business, fanning and
stock raising interests.
Believing in the fundamental
principles of democracy in the
IBB .NbHH1HhI
event of my olectiou, if it should
so happen that my personal views
upon any subject to bo voted up
on by me, conflicted with the
wishes of the people, I would
feel in duty bound to vote as
nearly as possible as a majority
of the people whom I represent
ed desired, irrespective of my
personal vieW3. I should accept
the platform as a declaration of
the wishes of my party. I am
in favor of not only the initiative
and referendum, but the recall
as well. Lowering of tariff duties
that it may exist for revenue
only. Less legislation, better
enforcement of existing laws,
more rigid economy, applying
business principles in business
transactions with and for the
government, recognizing that the
United States is, in itself, a gi
gantic corporation in which each
individual and corporation has
an interest and must be consid
ered, are some of the essentials
for which I stand. I oppose the
passage of any national laws in
consistent with the interests of
the citizens of our state. I am
opposed to' a ship subsidy as ad
vocated by the administration
party, but I favor enlarging our
navigation laws in such a man
ner that, without a question or
doubt, it would build up our
merchant marine. I favor ad
mitting a,t a greatly reduced
duty, if not free, lumber, copper,
iron, salt, wool and coal until
such time as our merchant ma
rine becomes fully established;
provided such articles are car
ried; from foreign shares directly
to dm' ports in American vessels.
If any other uid be considered
advisable to assist qur merchant
marine, I would favor export
bounty on grain and. live stock,
payable directly to tlie farmer
and-stoek raiser', when carried
in American vessels, encouraging
; thrift; as well as affording extra
Lummyi iui yur iiiuicnuuu mu
rine'. On account of the appalling
loss of life in this country through
varipus forms of diseases, I be
lieve it advisable and necessary
that the cabinet offices of the
president should be enlarged by
the creation of a Secretary of
health. Willis E. Reed,
Madison, Nebraska.
W. J. TAYLOR
Candidate for the Democratic and
Populist Nomination for Congress.
Plattsmouth Herald : Taylor
has a record beginning in the
Nebraska legislature that is a
credit to any man. He was an
eye sore to the corporation
suckers who infested that body.
The Nebraska Senatorship
In anooiinciog my candidacy for United
States senator subject to the democratic
and people's independent pnmaties to be
held August 16 I am responding to a call
that has been made upon mo by a large
number of pergonal and political friends.
It is true I would like to represent Ne
braska in the United States senate but I
would not have entered the race unsolicit
ed and I am acting now after the most
thoughtful consideration on my part and
after consulting with democrats and pop
ulists iu various sections of the Mate.
I assume that in nominating their sena
torial candidate the democrats and popu
lists in Nebraska will select the man whom
they regard as most available in the con
test to be waged against one of the most
skillful politicians ever elected by a west
ern state to a seat in the senate Should
the men with whom I have atfiliated for
nearly a quarter of a century of Nebraska
politics conclude that I am the availble
candidate, I will make an active campaign
against my republican opponent and will
do my best to win
As reporter and political writer on the
Omaha World-Herald from tSSS to 189(5.
as editor of the odd-Herald from tcofi
I to 1905 and as assocate editor of the Com
moner since 19-35, my views on public
questions have been made known to the
people of Nebraska.
In Reneral. I take my democracy from
Jefferson. Jackson, and Brian. If it were
republicanism, I would take it from La
Follette. Cummins, and BrUtow Prac
tically. I do not sea any material difference
between the two-brands, so far as present
day prob ems ure,concerned; and if I were
elected to the senate" 1 would tak eoiin.-l
ofthr republican. I hAve nam;d sooner
man irom raeu wrw, elected as democrats
follow, in one way or another, the Aldricb
leadership
I would not bs bound to any party cau
cus against what I conceived to be the
welfare o( my constituents. I would fol
low democratic principles, as I have
learned them, wherever I found them and
would co-operate with men, regardless of
party affiliations, whom I found faithfully
enunciating those principles and under
taking to enact them into law. This is my
conception of the duty of a democrat who
realizes the necessity of prompt action on
the part of patriotic men of all parties who
wouid perpetuate popular government and
make our union of states fairly represnta
tive of the sacrifices that have been made
in their behalf fairly representative of
the hopes and the aspirations of the rank
and file of American citizens, regardless of
political prejudices.
My opponents, Mr. G. M. Hitchcock,
and Mr. Willis E. Reed, are both rich men,
while I am a wage-earner. It will not,
therefore, be possible for me to make as
active a contest for the nomination as
those gentlemen will make. But I am not
without confidence that from now until
August iCih, some of the men whom I have
met upon the firing line and with whom I
have stood shoulder to shoulder in defense
of the very principles that seem popular to
day will lend me a hand so that I may not,
after all, be greatly handicapped in the
race.
I enter this contest with "malice toward
none, with charity for all." I would not
knowingly sacrifice one personal friend
ship upon the alter of ambition. While I
shall stand resolutely for the things in
which I believe, I grant to every other
man the right to his opinion and respect it
accordingly. I hops nothing shall occur to
tarnish the fair friendship that has existed
for many years between myself and the
two good men who are opposing me. 1
shall try to so act that both Messrs, Hitch
cock and Reed. will be able after the pri
maries have closed and the real battle is
on to give me that cordial support which
I have it in my heart to give either of them
in the-event of my defeat.
Richard L. Mbtcalfe.
"Payne Says Tariff Ilns Made Ua
Rich" Is tho title of n dally newspaper
heading. Who are "us?"
Mr. Partington (Senator Lodge)
Sweeping Back the Tide of
Low Tariff Sentiment.
Adapted From the Bnltlmore Sun.
LEMON DUTY SQUABBLE
Fruit Grower Resent Railroads Shar
ing Spoil With Themselves.
The Now York Journal of Commerce
draws attention to 11 rather funny re
sult of Increasing the tariff on leuious.
The duty on Juuious was Increased by
half a cent a pouud last year to oblige
the Pacific coast fruit growers for the
loynl worlc which their representative
on the senate finance committee did in
standing by Messrs. Aldricb and I'uyue
throughout tuo whole business.
When the duty on lemons was in
creased It was. with tli expectation
that the fruit growers alone would
profit. But the railroads wanted a tin
ger In the pie. and they promptly pro
coeded to get It They raised the rate
of transportation for lemons to the At
lantlc seaboard. That rate used to tw
$1 per hundred weight. They made tf
51.15. Doubtless the railroad people
thought that If government ravors
were being distributed they had as
good a right to reach out for them as
the fruit growers,
Naturally the fruit growers appealed
to the Interstate commerce commission
against the railroads They did not
see why a nice bit of plunder Intended
for them should be shared with outsld
ers, seeing that It was the reward for
their servile votoJn congress.. Wheth
er the Interstate commerce commission
will sustain the railroads remains to
be seen. If It does wo may expect the
fruit growers to go before congress
again and demand a still higher duty
on lemons because of the high trans
portation rates they Have to pay.
Hut why can't the rule work the oth
er way? Why can't the duty on lem
ons lie cut down In order that the
freight rates should come down ac
cordingly? The sensible way to end
the dispute nbout the division of the
plunder Is to withdraw the plunder
and reduce the cost of lemons to the
consumer, who Is worrying about the
high cost of living.
The Republican Elephant Apprehen
sive. The tide of Insurgency uud Demo
cratic sentiment continues to rise.
Baltimore Sun.
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DQLUVESHQT SHOT
Iowa Senator Tells How Presi
dent Was Hoodwinked
PRODUCES THE EVIDENCE
Drawa 8cathlng Contrast Between In
surgency and Party Regularity The
Bargain Counter at Washington.
Will Fight Corruption as Republican.
Senator Dolllvcr delivered on Juno
13 In the United States senate n ring
ing speech, which was a masterly
vindication of the Insurgent position.
The speech was very poorly reported
In the newspapers. The Johnstown
(Pa.l Democrat is the only paper wo
havo seen that gives anything like nn
adequate report We give below some
of the more telling pnssages In tho
speech as It appeared In that paper.
It la unfortunate for the people as a
whole that they have not the oppor
tunity of reading this masterly defense
of the nutl-tarlff Republicans:
"When It is said that I betray my
party, that I Oght against the Repub
lican party. I deny It. I fight for the
Republican pnrty and propose, with
millions of otiier people, to do what I
can to make It more than ever the
BCrvant of the great community which
it has represented for so many years.
"Without undertaking to speak for
others and measuring, as well as I
have been able to do. the organized
forces of politics and business, so
called, nlready actively arrayed
against me. I propose to tell the Amer
ican people exactly what went,, on here
last summer and exactly what is going
on here now.
"It Is a disagreeable duty, but ltj
couiu nave ueen avoiucu altogether if
the president, who bad nothing or next
to nothing to do with the framing of
the tariff law. had felt content to leave
members of congress to settle with
their own constituencies the question
of their party relations without Inter
posing the prestige of the greatest po
litical olllce In the world to bumlllnto
and discredit and disparage men who.
In n failing effort to carry Into effect
his own campaign utterances, had al
ready been expelled from the party on
the Uoor of both houses of congress by
'constructive statesmen. who derided
the candidate's opinions when they
were uttered In the campaign nnd
laughed out loud when they were re
peated In the senate debates.
"If those who were unable to vote
to make the Republican support of the
tariff act of 1009 unanimous have
made any mistake It Is that we have
remained silent too long, while nn or
ganized defamation of our political
characters lias been set on foot, pro
ceeding from the highest public officers
of the government, executive and leg
islative, and from a so called 'cam
paign committee' presided over by a
multimillionaire promoter of street car
franchises with a treasury tilled with
rotten money, out of which Is flowing
a steady stream of campaign litera
ture, vest pocket literatim', much of
It bearing the mark of the bureau of
eugruvltig and printing, and a dull,
muddy stream of parasitic eloquence.
Sharp Warning For Taft.
"The president is In error It Is not
necessary tor meu to swallow every
tariff law that Is set before them or
In conscience abandon iln party, It Is
going to be a very difficult thing to get
me out of the old Republican party It
cannot tie don by lying about me. as
those have done who said that I held a
brief for foreign Importers. It cannot
tie done by ailing me names, like free
trader. Democrat or whatever names
may be selected to prejudice me In a
Republican community."
He quoted the president as saying,
"The house ji nd senate took evidence."
and said
"Who told him that? The house
took evidence, though the chairman of
the finance committee boasted on this
floor that lie had never read it. not
withstanding the fact thai It was
printed In books, but the senate took
no evidence, or If It did It was of the
wireless kind ilaughten. taken In se
cret and the fact denied on this floor
by the chairman of the committee.
"The house did take evidence, and I
have It right here. They took an evi
dence of people representing the Ark
wright club, representing the textile
Industrial organizations, ' the wage
working population of textile New
England. And what was the testi
mony? The wngeworkcrs testified
that they were satisfied, prosperous
and contented nnd nsked congress to
make no change in the Inw. Mr Ross
of the New Bedford mills made the
same request In plain terms, nnd Mr
I.lppltt, who represented all the other
cotton mills of New Kngland. again
and again nsked the committee to
make no change In the schedule ap
plicable to the cotton cloths.
How They Fooled Taft.
"Now, with all these facts within
easy reach. I Intend to talk plainly, be
cause I am face to face with people
who are talking plainly to me. It Is
dWcouraglug to all friends of fair deal
ing In the United States to have these
brethren pass up to the president of
the United Slates, to be used for pub-
lie instruction, a statistical table which
represents him as saying that the cot
ton duties have not been increased ex
cept upon certain grades to tho
nmotiut of Sfl.-Jlii.OfXi.ISti. when. If he
had had the table with lilm. a mere
glance at it would have shown that
th.tt closely calculated $I1.iwxi.000 did
inn -refer to cotton eioriis at all: that
illegally thing It oiih rted tn refer to
wu-f itittnti ,'iiickiiius mined at from
$1 t Vi it docn pairs from S to 20
cents n pair annually consumed In tho
United States to the amount of fll.
000.000. "Yet these gentlemen, whoso duty to
the president and to tho Republican
party was to give htm the facts to lay
before the people, allowed him to go to
New York and state to n great audi
ence, mainly of merchants, that tho
Increases ou the cotton schedule were
applicable to $41,000,000 of merchan
dlsi which could properly bo described
as luxuries."
Discussing tho wool schedule, ha
quoted from President Taft's Winona
speech the statement thnt allied Inter
ests represented In congress made It
Impossible to lower tho schedules.
Then he said:
"Who are the people that represent
the mills and the pastures and that
hold up congress In both houses and
thrcaton to beat any legislation at all
unless nn outrago contrived forty-two
years ago Is perpetrated world without
end? Are they Insurgents? Did any of
you ever study what nn Insurgent Is?
"Is n man who holds congress up by
a threat and wins congress' votes on'
n bluff a patriot because he repre
sents his own Interests, nnd Is a man
to be derided nnd despised because he
Interposes In behalf of the public
when he hns no Interest In It at nil and
says. 'This ought not to be done, and
by my vote It shall not be done?' By
what grotesque standard of morality
Is tho group of men that made that iu
famous threat, which the president
says caused both houses of rnngis
to execute a corrupt bargain bv whit
alchemy of diseased morality do they
become the nucleus tin uttil u'lii-h the
solidarity of a great political party
to be organized for the future, while
men who stood for publb- rights and
fought for them and voted as they
fought ure to be kicked nut of the Re
publican pnrty as unworthy of Its
membership or Its fellowship? We are
fallen upon curious times.
On the Bargain Counter.
"What a farce to send men around
talking about the rule of majority
when, before the eyes of all men tind
with no dispute of the truth of it pos
sible before God or men. the most Im
portant business of the American peo
ple has come down to tho bargain
counter and men authorized to say,
'This Is the citadel of protection: If
any of you have constituents that want
auythlng, come hero; we are tho dis
pensing power; support what we want
and take anything you think you need.'
and the man who does not llko it and
has uo stomach for tho Qght Is re
quested to depart
"1 do not propose that It shall be
come the practice of the Republican
party If I can help It I do not pro
pose thnt the work which It did and
which It brought forth here last sum
mer shnll be forced into the platform
of the Republican party and made n
test of party fealty and party duty
and party obligation. I propose that
the Job shall stand on Its melts nnd
that the American people shall Inquire
to the full limit of their curiosity Into
every detail of the performance.
"Again, I do not like this Idea of
having custom house officials, to whom
most of us have Hover been Introduced,
write our tariff laws. It hurt my
pride, to start with. I cau conceal it
from the public, but you cannot con
ceal when you are ut home. Those
who know you begin to see what a
bubble this senate business is; that Its
majority does not represent anybody's
Ideas, which my friend from Oregon
(Mr. Bouriiei so well says Is the one
potent thing there is Iu this world:
that Its debates have uo significance;
that when you want to get anything
done send nut to the custom bouse
and get an expert a veteran expert,
if you can- to Hx It up.
"Well. I am tired of It. and I will
tell you why The veteran experts
that are given carte iilatrehe to tlx up
our laws do not appeal to me as they
used to Behind nearly every veteran
expert that we have had flittering
around here In recent year.-. Is the
veteran manager of the enterprise that
Is to be Used
"How lung does the senate of the'
United Stales propose that these great
Interests, affecting every man. woman
and child In the United States, shall be
managed with brutal tyw.n.:.. without
debate and without knowledge and
without explanation by the very peo
ple that are engaged iu monopolizing
the great industries of the world, that
propose to Impose Intolerable burdens
upon the market place of the United
States?
"So far as I am concerned 1 am
through with it. 1 Intend to tight it.
but I Intend to tight It as a Republican
and as an American citizen. I Intend
to tight without fear. 1 do not care
what may be my political fate. I have
had a burdensome and toilsome ex
perience Iu public life these twenty
Ave years. 1 am beginning to feel the
pressure of that burden
"I do not propose that the reniniulng
years of my life, whether they be in
public affairs or In my private busi
ness, shall be given up to a -dull con
setii to the success of all these con
spiral ies, which do not hesitate before
our very eyes to use the lawmaking
power of the United States to multiply
their own wealth and to fill tln market
places with evidences of their greed.
"I urn through with It. I Intend to
fight as a Republican for n free mar
ket place on this continent."
The Tariff Explains.
We r?ad th" other day iu a newspa
per that n steel magnate, uot n steel
worker, presented his wife with a
$(Vi(M 00 diamond ueeklnee for a Christ
mas, present. Many a steel worker has
diKliulty Iu presenting Ills wife with
a Christmas dinner. The high tariff
on steel and the low tariff ou diamonds
pliilns the first circumstance.- The
ligh tariff ou necessaries explains thf
KlfOllll
FARMERSWAKING OP
Discover That Tariff Is No Bene
fit to Them
TAX UNJUST AND UNFAIR
"Let Us Have a Union of All Those
Opposed to the Monopoly Tariff to
Overthrow It," Says Master of Wash
ington Stato Grange.
What Is there a farmer sells which
he gets more for nnd whnt Is there a
farmer buys which he gets for less on
account of n high protective tariff?
This question, which was put to an
audience of furmers at an ludlana po
litical meeting some years ago, ad
mits of but one answer not n single
commodity. Tho farmer himself Is re
alizing, after tnatufe reflection nnd ex
perience, that the tariff on wheat oats,
cattle and other farm products docs
not benefit him, although It may bene
fit tho middlemen who speculate In
those products. Wo exported Inst year
114.0U0.000 bushels of whent and only
Imported less than half n million bush
els. Are the farmers, then, In danger
of having foreign wheat dumped on
our shores If the tariff Is taken off?
Some few doubtless may harbor such
a delusion. For Instance, a Mr. Power
of North Dakota In his evidence be
fore flie senate Investigation commit
tee on high prices shows that ho needs
some (lttle enlightenment on the point.
Tho following dialogue took plnco:
Senator Clarke Isn't tho price of
wheat tho world price fixed by tho
markets of the world?
Mr. Power A debatable question
'that has puzzled mo some.
Sonntor Clarke Why has It puzzled
you? It hasn't puzzled anybody olse.
Why would tho people of Canada, for
Instance, export any wheat Into North
Dakota If there was a five cent pre
mium on It per bushel?
Mr. Power I don't know.
Sonntor Clarke Do you know to
whom they would sell It after thoy got
It thoro?
Mr. Power I do not
Tho fact Is that the Aldrlchcs,
Paynes nnd Lodges are secretly smil
ing at tho simplicity of those farmers
who are wrapped up iu the comforta
ble belief that they enjoy protection
under the tariff.
All the farmers, however, are not so
easily hoodwinked ns this witness wns
or assumed to be. The national grange
nt its last session passed the following
resolution :
"That the so called revision of the
tariff ns enacted at the special session
of congress wns in uo sense nlong the
line outlined by the grange, nor wns it
In conformity with tho promises of the
dominant party, nnd we. tho national
grange, representing tho 35,000.000
farmer . population of the United
Stntcs. denounce and condemn the tar
iff laws us enacted as unjust and un
fair to the farmers of the United
States, and we respectfully and vigor
ously urge such amendments bo made
thereto as will he Just und equitable to
tho producing classes of this country,
which Industry underlies nnd sustains
nil of the industrial, transportation
and commercial Interest of the grand
est nnd most glorious country the
world has ever knowu."
The master of the Washington state
grange. .Mr C. B. Kegley. in his ad
dress to the officers and members of
his organization ut the twenty-tlrst an
una I session a couple of weeks ago
strongly Indorses this view. He says:
"In a recent speech iu cougress a
prominent New England manufac
turer, who was recently elected to con
"fess on the tarl.f Issue by an over
whelndnc majority, characterlred tho
recent tariff revision ns a 'deliberate
bunko game from stnrt to finish' nnd
demanded an extra session of congress
to revise the tariff. I most hsartlly
apptoe this uud wmild suggest that
reselutlons be passed by you demand
ing 11:1 extra session for the revision
of the tariff along grange lines. Fur
tJ'ernn.re. Instead of waiting f r n tar
iff commission to be nppolntel by tho
government to make recommendations
to the president or allowing congress
to waste the time of a special session
In which the same bunko game might
be played. I would suggest that tho
best thing to do would bo for the farm
ers. Independent manufacturers and
labor organizntions, ns representing
tho producing mid wage earning class,
to organize a commission of their own
and determine on the changes In the
tariff which they shall demand abso
lutely. This is the Hue on which I
should li:;e to see the matter fought
out. and I would like to see tho Wash
ington state grange nt least on record
as rendy to co-operate In this mntter
on these broad Hues. In union Is
strength. Let us have n union of all
those opposed to the monopoly tariff
to overthrow it."
Revision Downward.
Dear Mr. Taft. havo you forgot
Tlioro promissory notes
Of whte.1 ou IsRupit quite n lot
Whun vou were becking votes?
you told us that you would rovlae
The tariff from the top.
We've had revision; hut. nlas.
Wo miss that downward drop!
Revision ufm-ard1 very well
Wttere 'vases are concerned
You've hid a decent raise yourself,
Which doubtless you have earned
But when It comes to marking up
Tho taxes that we pay
Wo really cannot sea tho joke.
Jolly us as you may
If we wero favored foreigners
We wouldn't need your aid.
The truMs would sell us ohoaply then
To loom their foreign trade.
But. lii'lng mere Americans
todm-d In a tariff cago.
We auk to- lower prices
Since can't get higher wage.
A. KON3UMER.
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