t Lincoln Independet The Official Populist Paper. ?1.jO PER FEAR IN ADVANCE ISSUED EVEBY FRIDAY. 1IEM5V HI CKFS, Publisher. FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1895. Eotered at the post ollice of Lincoln, JJeb., as Becond class mail matter. People's Independent State Ticket. For Supreme Judge, SAMUEL MAXWELL, ttegents State University, J AS. II. 15AYSTON, ELI A W. PKATTIE. The People's Independent County Ticket. For District Judge: A.S.TIBISETTS. II. F. HOSE. J. C. McNERXEY. For Clerk of District Court: . ELI AS BAKER. For Sheriff: Fit ED MILL Elt. Sot Treasurer: For Comity Clerk- (JEOHGE II. WALTERS. For County Judge: GEORGE W. I5ERGE. For County Superintendent: JOHN G. SEIDELL. N For Coroner: L.W. LOW 11 Y. . For County Commissioner: II. E. 1UCIIARDSOX Assessors: First Ward, T. E. CONNELLY. Third Ward, C. G. BULLOCK. Fourth Ward: C.A.COOK. Fifth Ward, A. C. SIIERICK. Sixth Ward, J- W. EMUEItSOX. . Seventh Ward, W. T. RoLOFSOX For Constables: JOIIXMEANOK. J. V. TRAVIS. WILLIAM CI1INN. . For Justice of the Peace: S. 15. IAMS. GEORGE W.BLAKE. NOTICE. This paper will not advocate any doctrine not contained in the Jmaha platform. Communications on economic themes advocating theories not contained in that plat iorm cannot be published in the Independent. The intrinsic traitors are still talking about "intrinsic1, value and chief among them is Secretary Carlisle. The World-Herald supports the republican city ticket and the Bee opposes it. Who mixed these old party babies up? There are but two classes of re publican managers in this state, 'the ins and the outs," those in the penitentiary and those who are out. The farmer who supports the 'gold 'standard is a fool in this world and wid be a d d fool in the next to punish him for the in jury he has done his wife and chil dren. Preserving the public credit has nothing to do with the pur chasing power of the government's money. Turkey is bankrupt, but its money is not thereby made worthless. The octogenarian scptuagenary, old dastards in the United States senate like Sherman, Morrill and Hoar, are all sprightly young men in the eyes of repuolican editors, while they try to believe that the younger man, Maxwell, slid down a cellar door with Noah. Am ison is the most dangerous man that the free silver men hi the republican party have to contend with. If he is ever elected presi dent there will be no chance for the free coinage of silver as long as lie holds the veto power, but he will come nearer keeping tin free silver men in the party than any other man the gold bugs t an nomi nate. This question, this momy tici tioti. is the supreme problem t. the hour. It oh not a lucre ab stract tpicstioti of economics. It doc not merely concern statesmen and students of finance. It is the greatest moral, the greatest so ul question which man Kind ha r ha. I to consider. It concerns the the lives, fortune and happiness of cw ry human being in fairly, and of generation )ct unborn. All other question sink into signifi cance compared, to this one. 1EE ELIND ASYLUM. The need of a populist news bureau in this state was made very apparent last week when the daily papers all announced that Mr. Johnson, Gov. Ilolcomb's ap pointee as superintendent of the blind asylum, went to Nebraska City on the first train after the de cision was rendered giving him control and instantly removed all the employees, regardless of their technical training and fitness, and appointed a whole set of populists who knew nothing of the duties which they were expected to per foim. Doubtless that is just what the republicans would have done under similar circumstances, and so they took it for granted that Mr. John son had done so, and proceeded to make all the capital out of it they could. The Indei'Enpknt learns the facts of the case from a gentleman who was at Nebraska City at the time and they are as follows: Mr. Johnson, after looking over the situation for several weeks while the case was pending in the courts, had concluded that the best interests of the institution under, the new regime, required him to remove four of the employees, and he had selected the persons to take j their places before he went to Ne braskaCity. When he arrived at the asylum the employees he had intended to retain came to Mr. Johnson in a body and demanded in an insolent manner that they be given a contract to remain in the institution as long as Mr. Johnson was superintendent, and threat ened to resign in a body if such a contract was not made then and there. Mr. Johnson very properly ordered them to leave the place as soon as it was convenient for them to pack up. Any reasonable man will heart ily endorse the action of the super intendent in this case. It would be impossible for any man to satis factorily manage the institution with a lot of insolent and insub ordinate employees. The employees have taken an active part in the contest for con trol of the institution and have be come very bitter against the new superintendent. Under this state of facts, it would manifestly be very improper to allow any one of them to remain on the premises. A WALL STREET SCHEME. Whenever the bankers have hatched out some devilish scheme and have it ready to push through congress, they invite the secretary of the treasury to a big feast and he gets up, after having filled himself with roast beef and champagne and promulgates it. That is the way Windom did, the way Foster did and the way Carlisle did when they wanted to repeal the Sherman act. Last week the bankers played ovf.r the same old game and gave Carlisle a big dinner at the Yen dome in Boston. After the secre tary had filled himself up he arose and announced the new scheme of the bankers in the words: following "My rouli'iitlon 1c that the nolo (ureenlmckM ought nut lie kept oiitiUiniliii;, but i-lioulil lie re tired and ruiiifllcd a xpcedily at a xnuuil and cafij currency van be prorldcd to take their jilacca." There you have it flat-footed. The bankers are determined to burn up the greenbacks and issue their own notes (of ten per cent interest) in their place, and this old traitor, but former advocate of free silver and greenbacks, will throw the whole force of the gov ernment, backed by the republi cans and administration demo crats, into the fight for the bankers and their promises to pay. That 5346,000,000 of greenbacks has always been a thorn in the side of the bankers. They dream nights about them. If they could only issue "promises to pay" for that amount and get interest on it, how happy they would be. No government is a good gov ernment in their eyes, uniess it 1 provides that a certain class shall j be set aside w ho shall have the law made privilege to colli ct interest on what they owe, whib; nil tin rest must be forced to pay interest on what they ov.e. It is a beautiful scheme and they h2e worked it for nearly a thous and years. They will probably continue to work it until the popu list patty gets into powt r. rttutotcokcjiiais. The following is the mrt tf po liticnl eronemy that is taught in statu: f c ur udlt'ges: "Tn '. ('.l',!.. Ul il fliflil.fc II ! it . rr,. '. ' i) 1 - a ! u -i 1 im, , , tt,,n ,, mhUH t . f ,r I ,l,f ii l I. !-l - .1 tid-.t m. i-i :t i U.,. ..I nrl, it.. 1,, J ,,il an.tiiM T . : r irti.li : :n ;4'.m , In yl.r ill. nt n! ii.Vr . i.t.-f taiimi. hi., .i kn p k'nl r Inn f ' t.i .piu iit nr"; aiul Dt ri, 1, in ,!i i 1, i.itrt r j ii.iii f 0.. K,:r.t fi.ftit'tl. -,l'j tilt. 11 r Itir tV! 'i'Iii i; iU .f t It.i .bill li u f tl'al iiriM 11. I,i ,r , f n.itk tv ' No f ;!. r .heitirc was iv.r pr.ic!iid. Fury standard w ih on political cut., my f.Itov, i the l.;!!at v cS tl ' UUii cut. The first soplnsiry is the as sumption that the money that is thus wasted, would not be put in to circulation unless it was thti3 expended. It is "assumed'' that j these wasteful rich, keep tons of gold in their vaults, locked up and out of circulation, whereas the money is just as much in circula tion before it is wasted in needless extravagance afterwards. The rich keep their money on deposit in banks, and the bankers see to it that it is all out doing money duty. The money of the rich is not sep arated from other deposits and kept out of circulation, as this writer "assumes." Anoth'er false assumption is that it is beneficial to a nation to en gage its labor jn useless employ ment. If it is good for the nation for a millionaire to employ a thous and laborers and skilled citizens for three days in preparing a feast for him, which, when consumed, has added nothing to the wealth of the nation, in commodities, in muscular vigor or intellectual strength, it would also be , bene ficial for him to hire the same num ber to sit idle, or dip water out of the sea to let it run back again. The pseudo economists who write such trash deserve, and will finally receive the contempt of mankind. MAXWELL, HOAR AND 8HERMAN. The following true story is now printed for the first time in this issue of The Independnnt. In the year 1835 two boys, Max well and Hoar, w ere at play. Max well was eleven years old and Hoar ten. They had a good time and got along very well until another boy, named Sherman, who was three years older than Hoar and two years older than Maxwell, joined them. Sherman soon got them into an uproar. He stole all the maibles, took the kite and hung it up so high in a tree that th; two younger boys could not reach it. Hoar was a little chubby fellow and hadn't any show at all, and he sat down and cried. Sher man stood off and gloated over his new possessions. Finally Sherman noticed that Maxwell had a ball in his coat pocket, and his avaricious soul could have no rest until he had that too, so he made a dive for it. By this time Maxwell's "Irish was up" and he turned in, although he was two years younger, and gave Sherman a sound threshing. Sher ii)."n then went and made friends with Hoar, and promised if Hoar would help him take the ball away from Maxwell, he would give Hoar two marbles. So these two kids, Sherman and Hoar, one two years older and the other one year younger, went at Maxwell with all their might and there was a big fight going on when another fel low, fifteen years older than Max well, named Mori ill, came along. He was married and had two chil dren, so he undertook to stop the fight. Sherman thought that Morrill was after the ball too, and he let Morrill have one on the end of his nose. While Morrill was spank ing Sherman in revenge for the blow, Maxwell gathered up the ball and all the marbles and ran away. When Sherman saw that the property was gone, his heart was almost broken. He has never re covered from the shock until this day. At first he tried to get even with Maxwell by calling him "that kid" and "a baby." Now after all these years Sherman's friends bear a grudge against Maxwell and call him "an old man," say "he was born before the Hood," that "he used to slide down a cellar door with Noah," forgetting that Sher man is older than Maxwell and that his friend Morrill is almost old enough to be Maxwell's father. But such is life. THE ONLY WAY. The money power will never be overthrown until a national party, pledged to legislate in the interest of prodiu ers and against the shy locks, who, as the London Times says, have nothing to sell, controls every department of the govern ment. To build up such a party we must tarry the townships, tnuntie. cities and states. Fvery super isor, commissioner or county judge that is elected by the populist patty it a step toward that hoped fur "oiisiiiiHii:ttnn. To one who wishes ti help bit the awlul burden liom the bat k of mer chants who cm . !l but few L.'v-jds, t( litii.vrs sliu must sell their wl.rat at 40 n nu and their ini ct 1 , luni the milium u ,,. llMein ployed, it m .1 in tur vt Imi, en m.1.whu whellur tic 1 andid.it! is I prison .lily i!t.,!M. till 1 them r net. The know t..t .1 t(, cin.lt. dale 1 .U featt d ll,-.; paity m dc ' fi .Ht d. and the 1 1 v l tr.N mpticn : pi.t th.it Kin. !, f,iti... r , .( ( mt. tMI IU.111 .,-t th. . ., .:.,. ... 1 , , h' at tV Mipp.nl. J I ,,, ! , ,j!v v..iy ,1 j..(tu 1 'i he Fult cm Twenty-She ccnu'till Jur.v.ary 1 LEIDIGH AND RUSSELL. In anotacr column we publish letter from Warden Leidigh to ! Lana commissioner Kussell. It is the first document we have seen in the penitentiary controversy coming from any official which attempts to get at the facts without any veneering or sugar coating. For the past two or three months Lord Russell has, at stated intervals, been writing offi cial letters for political effect, and the poor old Journal has been pub lishing them with great gusto under screamer heads, and doing its utmost to besmirch the populist party and its members in office. But does it publish Warden Lei digh's letter to the commissioner? Not at all. It contains too many truths, and the corporation boodle organ dare not hazard its reputa tion .for falsifying by publishing such an array of truths and facts. It is silent as the giave when the combine is hit a stunning blow squarely between the eyes and is even too cowardly to come out and make a defense of its bosses. Warden Leidigh has taken a bold but wise move in show ing up a gang of political villians and public plunderers. Why should he, or any one else have any respect for a gang who have no respect for themselves, for the public whom they were elected to serve, for their official oaths, or for anything but to loot the public treasury?' To fight the devil it is best to use the devil's weapons. A BANKERS CONVENTION. The American Bankers' Associa tion met in Atlanta, Ga., October 15. The meetings were opened by prayer. It will be remembered thai the panic and widespread distress of 1S93 94 were the result of the action of these same bankers who followed the behests of Wall street. When the money power sent forth its order to the bankers of the United States that the Sherman clause must be repealed, and that in order to have it repealed they must furnish an object lesson to the country by producing a panic which should be attributed to the Sherman clause, they obeyed so unanimously and instantaneous ly, that the effect was appalling even to themselves. The distress was so universal that it included some of the bankers themselves. Have they learned any wisdom from experience? Apparently not. At Tuesday's meeting they raised the same old hypocritical cry that the country would be prosperous if only the treasury notes were re tired; that the only relief for the country was in the utter destruc tion of govermental note issues. The president of the association J. J. P. O'Dell, in his address, "puffed" Grover Cleveland to the skies for his "wise and courageous, heroric and patriotic action" dur ing the panic and commended his issuance of bonds. What the president did by his issuance of bonds was to get deeper into debt by borrowing money which the hardworking farmers and working men of the country have to pay for at high rate of interest. It is not businesslike to get a na tion out of its difficulties by plung ing it deeper into debt! But it was not the object of Cleveland and the money combine to get the nation out of its difficulties. If it had been, the free coinage of silver would have been an easy way out, for it would have increased the amount cf money in circulation. On the contrary Cleveland used the whole force of the administrative power entrusted to him by the peo ple, against the free coinage of sil ver, and thus against their inter ests. Truly the Bankers' Association need praying for. Their move ment to destroy the last vestige of hope for silver by the repeal of the Sherman clause was successful. Where is the promised prosperity that was to follow that act? Tiny haw: now publicly initiated the movement to still further re duct; the amount of money in cir culation by retiring the greenbacks, accompanied with the same promise of coming prosperity. Tin office hoidtrsof the republi can patty have fattened so long on the public olticcs in this state, they hae Ust. ne.I themselves so hrtnlv, ns if lh y were leeches on the bo ly politic, th-t ii stem impossible to terce lb. in to let (;' tin ir hold. I'.Tt . ai to be applied in the shape of suits biotiitht before the tv iirts of j'1-.tue to sh.il.e the i tatc lite of thru sucking propenntit . as witness the peiit't ntuiy affair and the cas- 1 1 Beetiur. I In? re piib!i.ui sUlt- Uut I pt.t tn.ii!y cfiAtcd St tlew time thou ,1lld dob t in et ! r t.) it nut a if piibbt at', the creation o( whii h oliirn bj li e I'-aid th. i;mmn r hold .ti liti. . : -Isl'lt. !;..! and Wi,t t, fr.M to I Jtif) . Tik.- tin? IvKiiM'hi mud J.itria!) i f .'j cents. ESJOYISS A BOOM, The economic position taken by Chairman Taubeueck in regard to the bounty enjoyed by free silver countries is sustained by the Asso ciated Press dispatches printed-in the Tuesday morning papers from the City of Mexico. The dispatch says: -Money is abundant In private haniin and man ufacturing is enjoying a boom, roiils running extra houre. Trade h inipruvlu;; and all pro uecta point to a bony winter all over the re public." The gold standard editors have about quit referring to Mexico. The single silver standard is doing for Mexico just what the econo mists said it would. It makes the common people prosperous, and the shylocks get less of the pro ducts of their labor in interest and rent. Thk last year that Maxwell was on the bench he did more work and wrote more decisions, so the rec ords show, than all the other judges on the supreme bench com bined. The republicans did not retire him because he was feeble, but because he was altogether too vigorous and active to suit their purposes. And that is the reason they fight him now. Wur.N Carlisle announced to the Boston bankers that he was for the distruction of the greenbacks and more bonds, the statement was re ceived, so all the paperssay, "with great applause and cheers." How does that strike the western repub lican and democratic farmers and mer:hants? Both old parties were represented there and both were delighted. Perhaps western men will some time learn that there is but one party fighting that sort of thing, viz., the populist party. It is about time the United States circuit judges who have in various cases for the last two years' been declaring that the Flournoy company had no rights on the Winnebago reservation take some steps to enforce their decisions, or throw up their hands and tell the company to take the Indian lands. Judge Shires made a decision in the case the other day and read an opinion full of fireworks, but the company refuses to obey and defy Captain Beck and the polics. The question is: Did the judge mean to enforce his decision, or was he talking through his hat? Willie Peeples still has his guns stored away which he bought with such a flourish of trumpets last summer. The two old parties have of late rent the air with their protestations and clamors th.it the populist party was dying or dead. Why then is it that in picking up any of the old party papers, in almost every col umn we find accounts of populist connty and state conventions, an nounceniets of populist meetings, commendations or denunciations of populist nominations, and allusions or predictions of probable populist proceedure in case of populist suc cess at the polls? All the weapons' of ridicule, derision, warnings, threats, practiced use of money, and scorn are being hurled at the new party, with all the skill pos sessed by the veteran politicians of the two old parties. It strikes one that a party on which so much force and energy are expended must very much alive indeed. "Speaking of worship in the palaces of the kings instead of the house of the Lord, and of the glories with which they surrounded themselves to daze the worshipers, in which instances they always re sorted, 1 believe to the useot gold, we see how that sort of idolatry was condemned by the Almighty in a very decisive manner. The only specific object of idolatry, I believe, that the Israel ites ever bowed down to ami wor shiped after they left Kgypti.111 bondage was a calf made of go! 1. j Their progeny up to this day, so; far as 1 can ascertain, are still wor- i shiping a: the same- shrin. - calves j made of gold. They are usually j calves; they arc usually men who' have but one idea in the world, ami I that is the idea of accummuiaiiou by nursing at the udders of other i people. Tin y always iv' !! j greatest tonct titration of money power that they possibly ran, that which yields the most, whether it j is in diamonds or whetlx r :t is in 1 gold, or whatever it may he for t!, tune being. II sihT to l,t w- t! per rem higher in ti e in itket thai". ' gold, as it was in IV.'. vl.tn th ! sci)..ti 1 iiotnOtuo Mr. S!"-rrn.i:i ' thought it I1.1I uot too hib .: 1 ! Illtt f t? dclllonct u f I, thc-e M'l.. , worship, fs would I e loun I wci: shiping s.lvti c.tives t : 1 1 i 1 r f v'e! F iiliri. But lhi is 4 gold c.dt the w. t- ship ol wbiih IS I.)W M oi' i Ml thi e,o! 1 t hihitufS ol th'.; J IC '.! K :t r.Umii so m to I. t.e t f it idea (re: tin' teni-tini";, 'H' n ' r .! t!i IF:! tilt l.tir, a:id t m- .v.i in.. ."v.f,n.i iv. I drc t . t.tii: ; hi. thf h I ,t I wv r-Jii;' !! ti.it j tf! 'at i all, " ! M V J ... . 1 0 ' A RINGING LETTEE. Warden Leidigh Makes a Few He marks to the State House Com bine. Leidigh Writes to Eussel Warden Leidigh, Wednesday ad dressed the following letter to Land Commissioner Itussell: Dear Sin: Your communication of October 14, in which you call my atten tion to what you claim the fact that you have parties ready to employ 100 more convicts, and that they have been reidy for over a month, which, by reason of my refusal, there has been a loss to the state of 1,500, let me inform you that I have not and do not today refuse to employ men whereby the state may be 1 enelited or the health of prisoners im proved. Any contractor whom you m ly send down here to take possession of any of the several shops not occupied by previous contactors and who may want men I shall furnish with men in numbers to the point where the general management of the prison would not suffer. I must insist that instead of blame resting on me, it is the fault of your honorable board, whose business it was and still is to come seethe condi tion of the plant turned over to the governor by Mr. W. II. Dorgan and by him turned over to me. Your inconsis tency is certainly remarkable when we take into consideration the fact that you told me to go ahead and make the necessary repairs and then issued your note of warning to the businss men of the state not to furnish supplies to me. At no time 6ince the control of the penitententiary has . passed into my hands was it possible to give steam power to Mm the machinery by which any larger number of men could be worked, but in spite of your protests I am ready to give power for all the men whom you may contract outside of those needed to run the prison. You even notified me to collect the money from the contractors who are now working convicts, and then ordered the contractors not pay me. If I had been dealing with a lot of school children I should not have lee:i surprised, but when dealing with men free born and of lawful age and honored with high and sacred positions I must confess that I am astonished. I wish to especially impress on your mind that I urged all members of the board to come down here to see what was needed, so that no mistakes could be be made, and the interest of the state and the prisoners be subserved. The only thing you did do was to send the state boiler inspector down here who condemned the boilers, and you have now for two mouths in your great and magnanimous hearts allowed them to remain a menace to the lives of the men who are daily compelled to work around them. Your only effort has been and is today to prevent me from making the needed repairs and running the prison, either by your misconception of the law or a positive usurpation of power. -NOT HKSI'OX.silll.l.; TO THK BOA IS I). 1 am well informed in regard to sec tion 5, chapter 1515, which you strive to tortnre iuto a positive anuuling of the ornce or the warden. The same statute from which you quote also says that the governor shall take charge of the prison, not the Jio3rd of Public Lands and Buildings, lie has done so; no protest was entered. lie turned the same over to me, as authorized by the statute. Section Moi says: "All the transactions and dealings of the prison snail ne conducted in the name oi the warden, who shall be capable in law of suing and being sued in all courts and places in all mutters conuerninir th naid prison." Now. I tio not feel that by my oiliee us warden 1 am in any way bound to become the lawful scapegoat for any man or set of men. not even excepting the honorable Hoard of l'ul lie bands mid buildings. I have not denied the power of the lioard to make leasts, to employ the unemployed prisoners in my clmme. hut I do most t inhatif,il!y deny thai you lme the power to civjte a new t;ll tv an t employ un oHicial to supt-r-ce;le in' in my posit urn. Almost all the men urn ttuhiv einployt'd 111 iiukins needed mid urgent 11 pair-.. Ft", me euggwt to )oii tl.ut wer your big bents pulrutim; with sympathy 111 the interfsts of t !ttT t i'm-r of the stare with as much wuimth us ywr I rains lire throbbing wiih st iietiu-H by which you m:iy thttiiit C.neriM.r (o comb in Id. clouts to main. Huh pri-.nn wl..it it uuirlit to un.l to dm away the (.tenth of Tupttou which foi jf.ir !,.!.. 'irmuii.l , ji.r wmV Wot. Id In. tril! it hltlil.il1.. oil.. I kill. l?ei Ih iiii ii. your tn.t l .!, nt mtv mt it. 'Vllfcht. i;i..t,. W. I.I IOit.it, H .1 f ! ti t tf.i Nrtirk4 ! I'fu. ii, I hi Vail mad. a ety mum.! '...! Lit nt. as well as uiilt.it wh. i it .ti.t there W'tc but thru' m 'i in alien Li net at tin p -pilist : .e. till- mt Hitt'lotlt a , u.., !- i:t i . In be t t' 1 1 wett- I ';! tv 1 iit t.M otitn alt. i d .vio, a.i.I wor I was t. , ,id tllt the U;U..l I I.Hr . .! ot. ,,,( 11. tt-r J ' "!! 'l I in 4 d..t h tte I. .:..: ol t' fa. tt. s