Lincoln Independent.
The Official Populist Paper.
f I.jO pkr year in advance-
ISSUED EVEKY FKIDAY.
HESltY HUCKLXS, riililislter.
FRIDAY,
OCT. 25, 1803.
Eatered atthepost ofliceof Lincoln,
Neb., as second class mail matter.
People's Independent State Ticket.
For Supreme J udge,
SAMUEL M AXWKLL.
degents State University,
JAS.1I.15AYSTOX,
KLIAW. PKATTIK.
The Peopled Independent County
Ticket.
For District, Judge:
A. S.TIMJETTS.
ILIMIOSK.
J. C. McNKHNKY.
For Clerk of District Court:
ELI AS JJAKElt.
Vor Sheriff:
F1JE1) MILLER,
or Treasurer:
For County Clerk-
ti HOUGH IE AVALTEIiS,
For County Judge:
(JEOKGE W. JIElUiE.
For County Superintendent :
JOHN (1. tKIDEl.L.
For Coroner:'
L. W. LOW It Y.
For County Commissioner:
Jt. E. mi'lIAUDSON
Assessors:
first Ward,
T. K. CONNELLY.
Third Ward,
C O. DULLOCK.
Fourth Ward:
C. A. COOK.
Fifth Ward,
A. C. SIIEH1CK.
Sixth Ward,
. J- W. KMI5EKSOX.
Seventh Ward,
; W. T. ItoLOFSOX
For Constables:
JOIINMEANOK. :
J. V. TitAVIS.
WILLIAM CHI NX.
For Justice of the Peace: ;
S. D. IAMS.
(j EOHO E W. 1 JLA K E.
NOTICE.
This paper will not advocate any
doctrine not contained in the
Jmalia platform. Communications
on economy; themes advocating
theories not contained in that plat
form cannot be pub-Iished in the
Independent.
iv r. uuvc a laigc list vi ut;ioiiiue.iii
. subscribers. We need the money
that is due us and hope to hear
from them by return mail, if not
sooner.
nr.. i - i i ' . i . i ' ,
Ie the people are content to be
robbed by corrupt rings and ma
chine politicians let them yote the
republican ticket. If they want
reform let them vote the populist
ticket.
With an increased volume of
money the farmers, merchauts and
laboring men could free themselves
from the clutches of the money
power, pay their 'debts 'and secure
good bonus.
Thk associated press gives' out
the important news that Cleveland
ha a healthy color. Men of (i ro
ver's habits generally have a healthy
eolor until they get sufficient color
ing on the inside toppoil theelicct.
If you want' the news a week in
advance of the gnat dailies, take
the 1 miU'EN iF xt I ast week a
true account of the state of atlairs
at the blind asylum waj punted in
this paper, home d.is alter it got
into the lee and other- of the
blanket sheet dailies.
J. imx Shi km vs has been in olfu e !
with the exception of one day for!
forty yean. I lis soul is o altlu t d !
with the thought that In missed
that otn day at the government i
tea
If IIMkVtt ttpvClil IIU'IHU'II HI
it in In ncetiiiv
!l' ttl.Ikllkllf'tl llllt.
I -
tnotr
s
ll you ee any MaU'iucttt in the
associated prs li the rt. t that
laruur er protnmnt (in s.lwi
advocate are goni over U the
gold ttaudaid, litiu m r that it is
only utilelHl to d t i t I 'l, and
il )oi I0 iUhiu.I, wl ju are
tmr o tl.eiii.
Tmi' utofirs in I I l"isj
prcts llul Sen at ir I . 1 r has It -
oUwl l stay !1 ll' itpoMuaii
party and uppo told l"H l'i
pitMid-nt il h a man l iooto
Hated by th irpuMu (l t it!. rial
lonvmlioti. aru an lai iti'is In ll'
tits peter Ilia t stn h t dt t laati. :i
I he Wi.t I 'l tins In 'Ids In VI. Its'
aU'.vitietit ta llm twiitiaiy.
BANKERS 3H0CLJ) CONTROL FINANCE.
At one of tha meetings of the
Hankers Association in Atlanta last
week, Edward Atkinson of Poston
delivered an address, He is the
man whofoi years has made a
study of how small a sum the poor
and the American workingmen
ought to live on, and who furnishes
statistics to prove that it is the ex
travagance of the poor in their
eating and cooking, which keeps
them so poverty stricken.
The gist of Atkinson's address to
the convention was to the effect
that greenbacks should give way to
bonds, and that if the people ob
jected, they should be compelled
to submit "through recurring pan
ics and financial crisis." lie thinks
however that the panic we have
just passed through may have
proved sufficient in teaching the
people the needed lesson.
Mr. Atkinson dots not seem to
think the connection between the
association and the treasury de
partment close enough and he
favored the appointment of a com
mittee representing the Banker's
Association "to confer and co-operate
with the secretary of the
treasury."
The resolution appointing the
committee was passed by the con
vention. We would like to know by what
right, legal or moral any class of
citizens, and a small class at that,
have to arrogate to themselves the
right of controlling the polit y of
any one of the executive depart
ments of the government!
The workingmen and fanners of
the. country would have just as
much a right to appoint a commis
sion among themselves to "co-operate
and confer with the secretary
of war, and control the policy of
the war department!
This proposition in audacity and
arrogance is on a par with that of
the Illinois Steel company and
other iron corporations, of "tag
ging" the workmen because it is
too much trouble and expense to
use their names. The workmen
rnijrht as well put on iron collars
at once, as did the serfs of England
in feudal times. Jt is said that the
workingmen are discussing the
proposition, but so sure are the cor
porations of their consent that the
tags are all ready for use, while the
workmen are still discussing. It
begins to look as if women were to
have the pleasure (?) of seeing their
husoands, brothers, lovers, sons
and fathers tagged and numbered
like so many cattle!
And are the people to submit to
the dictates of the Banker's Associ
ation through the treasury depart
ment, as these workmen will pro
bably be called on to submit to the
corporations?
There was but one voice raised
in the convention in behalf of the
interests of the majority of the na
tion, and it was that of .Mr. W. P.
St. John, of New York, one of the
greatest banksers in the United
States
The convention was almost a unit
in favor of gold monometallism.
It was a Cleveland Carlisle conven
tion. ''-.
THE ARROGANCE Of A BANKER.
The proverbial "cheek" of a
government mule is not to be com
pared to that of the banker when
lie gets into a bankers' convention.
The president of that association
of note shavers and economic jack
asses, which parades under the
name of the American Bankers
Association, held in Atlanta the
other day, gravely announced in
his inaugural address that:
"To us, as bankers, is committed
the duty of maintaining the credit
of our people."
"Is committed! ' Whocommitted
it to them?
If anybody ever heard of a hanker
maintaining the credit of any one,
that fact has not been recorded in
history, unless his own credit de
pended upon t;.at of the one be
maintaining. Itituiittit pt o
ph of the Tinted States tan do to
keep the banks from wrcckinc, the
I credit of the whole nation and
I ll ... U Iw. .. ., i 1
smetim tin y can't Minced in
doing that. It is the day
"liquidation," as the banki is t all
the Sleeking d private credit that
the bank is like.
I ne way mey i, air tame. i i retlit
was illustrated in when lhcv'
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sini om in- sr emit rs io uiMioy ail (
(tii'ilit ami ll.i v isiil iy it luihg t;
Lm.i tnumjy i'ti dm ohm paper,
J "I lie km I id piper tin y hkt to
i maintain n d imi w,alt ll.ry
'tan draw ir.t i t tuotialtl pis (
( 1114 Hitfst as t s 1 1 ) unt li.l a
I anker has to d"
h. n t put tills I r tin
bji.krrs it itms tl.at I . v aie tl
s ioiIv 't t lio kn m i lionet it,
tf.' i tan I li our) and it Iiiih h.ii.
(nt wl.iu lit tnkc I on.. It
t,j.-.ks o ntirm dial lv holiM
tttthst , itiOMlami and att
rim, , .l.d Mr. J I'. O IMI in
t.i i.i !' e llH is eil nuc '
l..ni th'y i a;re. i.p n iu'h
anion Il . ttit Ues, and that n !) t
j tin Kit "hat k h"ii!d I t t iin. ,
, and tl.s-) l-d la ti; i.lhoii .'
of their personal notes and draw
interest upon them instead of pay
ing interest as other people have
to do.
THE WELFARE OF FARMERS.
About the most familiar heading
one sees in the gold-bug dailies is
theheading 'another hank closed'
in Kansas, Missouri or in whatever
state it may happen to be.
In this instance it is the First
National Bank of Wellington,
Kansas, which has closed its doors,
and the announcement is accom
panied by the statement that "A
gradual shrinkage of business is
responsible for the suspension".
Oh, no, the failure of a bank is
not to be attributed to the gold
standard system .maintained by
Cleveland and Carlisle! Not at
all!
When will bankers, business
men and merchants, learn that
their interests arc identical with
those of the farmers and working
men. The prosperity of the whole
country is practically based on
that of the farmer.
When the railroad corporations,
by pooling, exclude all competition
and then charge so high a freight
on wheat, corn and all the farmers'
products that what is left to the
farmer from the sale does not suf
fice to pay the living fiexpenscs of
his family, and often does not cov
er the expense of putting in the
crop, he gets into debt to the
merchant ior the necessaries of
life, the merchant in his turn can
not sell his goods, because the far
mer cannot buy, has no cash to
buy goods with, gets them on credit
and having no cash to deposit at
the bank, the bankers in their
turn fed the loss, and so it goes on
and on indefinitely.
Between the scarcity of money
caused by the gold standard sys
tem on the one hand, and the ex
actions and tyranny of the railroad
corporations and monopolies on
the other, the farmer becomes
practically a hard working slave,
and none the less so that he him
self may not recognize the fact.
The only ones who make anything
out of the whole system of business
and financial management of the
country, are the millionaires who
have become so through the gold
standard system, and through the
existence of corporations and mo
nopolies, and who having cornered
practically nearly all the money in
the country, expend it in the pur
suit of their own individual pleas
ure. Land being cheap because
money is dear, they can buy so
muce more of it with only a small
amount of money, they erect so
many more palaces, they can buy
so many more servants, carriages
and horses, build so many more
ycchts, because these things as
well as the workmen who do their
bidding are cheap and money is
scarce and dear, made so through
the gold system, and they have
practically all of it., .
Meanwhile the farmer goes on
wondering why he has to work
harder and harder each year, and
the products of his labor become
ceeaper and prices lower, the
merchant wonders that the farmer
does not pay his debts and buy
fresh goods from him, not under
standing that his interests are
identical with those of the farmer,
and both parties go on blindly and
scupidly voting at the dictation of
the very men, the millionaires and
members of railroad corporations
and monopolists, whose interest it
is to keep up the present condi
tion of things. And the two old
political parties the republican and
democratic are the exponents of
the gold standard and monopolis
tic system of governing the nation.
THAT FARMERS' CONGRESS.
The gold bug papers are making
a gnat hoodo over whit they call
the Farmers' Congress lately held
in Atlanta. That is simply a gold
bug concern, and the fitmirr. cf
Ami rici have about as much to
do with it, as they have with run
nin;; the eonn ts or tl.t planet
Neptune, l our ye.us ao that
content held its annual session at
CouiKit Bluti-., Iowa. On its com
mittee on resolutions there were
fci u n national tMiiki !. 1 he w riter
1 1 this know what he is talking
about, lor he reported the print id
lings o th.u body for the Woild
ll raid mid by the asMaiue ell',
S lla!i o MisMHiii K' t into the
rmutite n et .nh-1. 1 tl.t.- ittiiiiitittee
e l lt snluli is .m l l.i a I every
woid that s, v... w.i-, t .-.,1,
i.'t d i I . it k i r. is lu;i ui I .tnkt r
l Linker, i . iutt it lel I a tk
is I I f L ! . , , .. , ,t .
Fit and K"!d I k p i 1 1 is I" do.
ltW tLt- p.ij!i ,!! vk li, tut iUi'tl
I I. I in IS Oi'v OH ! 1 !,fiii.
"I'm Soul be i ii ',u KaiIioj J is
I' 1 i"ii Main in. n I
l'l I.O.I. 'I' It i'lit'!0M.lit( 'v.lM'
the lallrl La a l. j U d 4 t.iii'j It .
tin. oiij t!,c rati nil ttiioi s p 1 , , itt,
ai d '' lo kt t p .t 1 ittt l It 111
i !it iiiv t!i claries n clLcr
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ntntlilies.
IN THE WROttG FEW.
The following ticket has an odd
appearance to say the least:
JITICES OK THE SIT'UEMK ( OI RT.
Tiltiiilliy .1. Maliony Dfinot Ttt.
Samuel MiirtwuH I,cnpU"i Iiidit'H(lfiil.
T. L. NorvBl Krpublirau,
Charles .. 1'lielpa Dcuiormt.
A. i. Wtiiretibrtrfjer Proliilritlim.
HEOEXTS.
John II. Ami's Di-mo'Titt.
W'totlfnn S. Asliby Dcmojrsl.
Alfred T. lllacklmrn Democrat.
I. II. Bayntjii fcuple'H Independent.
Jofiuh II. Drytmt Prohibition.
H. I,, (ioold ICepublican.
Hubert Kittle: . ., .. llemocrilt.
:. II Morrill itepublicao.
E. W. I'euttie Peopbe'd Independent,
Anns K. Woodbey Prohibition
How are the people to know
which are the silver democrats,
ami which the administration dem
ocrats? The trials and tribulations
of the silver democrats all over
the country have been many, but
they seem to have reached their
climax in this state where the court
has decided that it does not know
which is the democratic party and
which is not.
All the democratic state conven
tions this year, have declared for
the gold standard except one-
Mississippi.
Perhaps the straddlebugs would
find rest and peace if they would
only come into the arms of the
populist party, where they belong.
Order is heaven's first law, and
just so long as the straddle-bugs
do not occupy their rightful place,
just so long will they be plunged
into difficulties innumerable.
IT LOOKS SUSPICIOUS.
This paper does not lik to im
pugn the motives of any, but cer
tain things appearing in theChicago
Lxpress have a very dark look, and
be as charitable as we can, we can
find no reason why any one desir
ing the success of the populist
party should write or print them.
Some of these things or so plainly
falsehoods that any one who has
but a slight knowledge of the laws
on the statute books knows them
to be false. As a sample take the
following from the Express of Oct.
12, found in the Second paragraph,
second column of the editorial
page:
.-,4111 1 .1 . 1
vu uonas mar are voiea now
are payable in gold,"
There is scarcely a citizen in the
United States so ignorant as not to
know that the effort to insert the
word "gold" in our. bonds was de
feated last winter in congress and
that every obligation of the United
States is legally payable in coin
lhe infamous falsehood that the
bonds and other obligations of the
United States were payable in gold
is constantly repeated in the gold
bug press, and now we find it in
the Chicago Express.
On .the same pigc is an assault
upon the populist senator from
North Carolina, Marion Butler,
than whom no truer, more honest
and upright populist ever lived.
These things look suspicious.
How "small" these big million
aires are after all! The European
wedding gifts of the Yanderbilt
Marlborough wedding are to be
sent back because the eminent (?)
couple do not wish to pay the cus
toms duty. They could not even
afford to pay the duty on the gift
sent by Queen Victoria and it was
sent back. It is really the poorer
classes of the country who pay the
expenses of running tne govern
ment. The millionaires only call
on the government for troops to
protect them and their property
when they consider themselves in
danger through the strikes of
workingmen, and the President re-j
sponds promptly, as witness the
Debs affair. Does any one know
of any case where Cleveland made
any response when farmers and
workingmen complained of unjust
exactions from railroad corpora
tions and mortgage holders'
SotiE of the gold bug dailies are
giving out that the money question
v.s!! not be disTued t! ti ri " 2
the coming session of congress.
Senator Teller, who has just reached
Washington, says that CUland
will probably it commend the re
tirement of the greenbac ks in his
annual mi'ssaj.',!-, an I that it he
does it will open up tin- entire
financial tjiiistiou. OJ course
CU wIand will. .Carlisle took the
initiative i:i his address 111 Boston,
the Baukei's Association took up
the 1 i v in Atl inta Ust Httk, iiml
Ch u land will ct iuplt te tin an
nou n ellient tl the world ol his
foltheoiiiui) polu). These nil
eon in t nu ins v i a!! cut ami dm I
t It li.Hid .tit I loilotted III
regular ord, r he Mt m, p
HI ti e t oiitlai ImH el lhe
t Mil my was l It. it p. al (I I'lf
Mo lioait tats and tin; th.ith t ! m
i 1. Now 1 oities tl.e (elite incut ol
tl.tj i. rt t id 1. k ly the 1 1 m? t l
Lis ad't oti'itiatioii ('icselaiiil Mill
I! L I dliiied Lis iiosooti as
Ihtt lii'iioiu g i the loom ) d i I ls,
and !' iutt nts cd li e iitoiit v'.
I Uss .tie opposed to the H'lt iU
e thtT pt opie. I In luell Uitllonk
111 volt r oiil.l to u it U 1 stand Mi.it
Itt. I p!ai!tt.
iiK.mi of (.i:x. v.t.x wvrK.
Ex-United States Senator
Charles Henry VanWyck of Ne
braska died in Washington, 314:30
o'clock on Oct. 24.
He was stricken with paralysis
Monday afternoon, this being his
second attack, and almost no hope
of his recovery was entertained
from the first. He had gone to
Washington with his wife in order
to place their young daughter, in
school for the winter, and seemed
to be in the best of health and spir
its. He was suddenly stricken
while at lunch and remained un
concious to the end.
The whole state will mourn with
the wife and daughter, over the
death of one of its tmost honored
citizens, and the lovers of liberty
and haters of oppression every
where will feel the loss of his help
and sympathy.
General V an Wyck is one of the
most striking figures on Nebraska's
page of history.
He was born at 1'oughkecpsie,
N. Y. on May 10, 1824. He grad
uated from Kutger's college, stu
died law, and again graduated
with the highest honors.
He was a democrat, but instinct
with the love of liberty, he op
posed slavery, and was one of
the first organizers of the Kepub
lican party when it came into ex
istence and he had much to do
with the framing of its first plat
form of principles, as later on, the
republican party having fulfilled
its mission, and become dead to
its first principles, he joined the
people's party, and adopted its
platform of principles.
In 1S58 he was elected to Con
gress, and again elected in 1S60.
In 1H01 he resisted the temptation
of fighting on the battle field, say
ing that his first duty was to attend
the session of Congress to which he
had been elected. The moment
he was released from his duties he
went home,
It was a time of depression and
defeat, but General Van Wyck
went actively to work and raised
the Fifty-sixth regiment, known as
the 'Tenth Legion," that being
the number of his congressional
district. He advanced the money
to transport fourteen companies by
rail and stage to headquarters at
Newberg, accompanying them
himself and fighting with them in
the field, until the union was re
stored. . .
He was loved by his soldiers
whom he seemed to look on as
members of his own family, fur
nishing luxuries for the sick out of
his own pocket, and writing letters
personally for those of his soldiers
who could not write.
In i860 and again in 1SGS he was
elected to congress, and during the
last session while chairman of the
committee on retrenchments, he
increased his services to the country
by exposing great corruption and j
extravagance in New York.
He first visited Nebraska during
his last term in congress, crossing
the state of Iowa in a wagon.
He located a claim in Otoe
county, went back lo New York
and in 1874 he came to reside per
manently in Nebraska living et
Wyoming, Otoe county.
He became a farme r ae d at once j
identified himself with tin-life cf!
his chosen state.
In 1 s j-3 he w as elected a dele
gate to the constitutional convert
tiort; the same jrar he was elected
to the state s nate ami was twice
re elected. During his ttrms of
service in the state U-gislatun hcj
again evlut ittd his 1 harai It ristiC i
low ol liberty u.td instsiKt of hiv-f
ahy ior the uiiiu-t!) Ire alt I ii:ui
oppress I, bv lighting with a!l hisj
lor e and v igoi the I) unities of the
inouopohi-s and -rporatiou l
tin slate. Itisnobht Hone, tor
a man ei pohtualbfe 10 tl 1 si davs
tti iv;M ll iitnttopoiii's t d it lpo '.
ration. A IM.il) simply takes li s
piditual Lie in Li liattd wLi' i L'
all nipt lo Ii.! l! " t.t tu -v
o Ithael Li? pioph. TL is wasj
strikingly si uiplilted 1 t loser!
ail Y k 1 .HUM i l the
l"n(id Stat Juiiatc lo L.. 1.
l e w is elult l alter a i t si itttii' j
simple tit i, II' Mee d a
most alone in the senate in his
continued fight and struggle
against the corporation, the senate
then being composed of numbers
of corporation lawyers, who inter
ested themselves personally to see
him defeated for re-election. His
own party in the senate turned
against him because of his votes
and onslaughts on the corporations.
When he came up for re-election
to the United States senate in
1887, he was defeated by Paddock,
the corporation nominee, who
during the past winter has besn
acting as lobbyist in Washington,
taking advantage of his position as
ex-senator of entering both houses
of congress at will.
The peoples' party having
sprung into existence and one of
whose cardinal doctrines is a
hatred of all corporations, General
Van Wyck was nominated by that
party for congress for the First
district, but he declined the nom
ination although actively and
openly in sympathy with the
party. He worked actively in that
campaign and spoke constantly to
the public until 1892. In that
year he was nominated for gover
nor on the populist 'ticket, and
through fear of his election the re
publican party was compelled to
put up their very best and, most
promising candidate, Ex-Governor
Crounse, which they had not or
iginally intened to do. It was the
hardest political fight ever known
in the state, and the vote was as
follows:' . .
Crounse 78,426, Yan Wyck 68,
617; Morton 44,195; I'entley 6,235.
In the winter of 1893, General
Yan Wyck was stricken with para
lysis and since then has taken
little part in active political life.
His active political sympathies
have been with all societies organ
ized for the relief from unjust ex
actions and oppressions, and
struggles for rights an privileges of
the active workers of life, such as
the Knights of Labor, and Farm
ers Alliance.
At his own home as well as
everyweere else he practiced what
he preached, and a political op
ponent, J. Sterling Morton, who
has been his neighbor for years
says of him: "Perhaps there is no
more desirable thiDg, after all,
that may be said of a human being
at his death than that the poor
and friendless will miss and mourn
him, and this may be truthfully
said of General Van Wyck."
Nebraska's honored and most dis
tinguished statesman will be
buried at Milford, Pa., his wites'
old ancestral home. The funeral
services will take place in the
Presbyterian church at that place
and he will be buried in the ceme
tery where Mrs. Van Wyck's family
for a century past have been buried
and where three of their children
already lie.
Moki: money means better pticcs
for labor and its products.
Tiikkk is considerable competi
tion lor the appointment of a
physician at the institute for the
blind at Nebraska City. Drs.
Koss aud Carrikcr are the oppos
ing candidates and each have their
friends in line asking for recogni
tion. Dr. Koss, w hile not a popu
list, is very popular with all classes
u L.l.s hi,, rtittuirw-nr llmiii'li rlaim-
i:ig to be a populist, is generally
unpopular with the people cf Ne
braska City, ami was r. canibdate
lor the position under Governor
Crounse. A compromise is being
talks il of.
Win someone please inakt an
inventory id all the defalcations,
1 mbeitleim nt, abstractions ol
money (rout public ultu t s, loss ol
Half money by bank win k.ii;i s.and
steals" which havt Lin innimit
ted thiouih tht admimstratio:i u
state allairs by the tcpubluan pal
t 111 tin vtjiti i I Nthlask. ,it,d
partutilariv during the Ut I nir 01
Lv ytats' (Wiouise we sp, 4k
only 1 1 tiiti ic ' le als ' v. lot I, Law
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