VOL. V.
LET U8 EXOHANGE VIEWS.
(In the time Intervening between now and
tbe date ef tbe l'eople' Independent Stat
Convention tbta and nncoellnt( column will
bn open to tbe Popullt of the stata to pro
poe caaoMataa for the ticket of 'W. and for
I'ultWl Bute Senator, and to show reaaon for
individual preference. We Khali not have
pacfot"u'nrtmng mora than name and brief
iva-toni tor the cholne made, berauM we wlRh
I har from a great many. Let no mam vk
r krk PHopoaito rou ornoe WHOHBcn ahaotkh
AN WILL AB IWTKI.IltOTPAL QCAUNCATION
TUI WRITOIl WILL MOT PCHHON AI.L.Y VOUCH
run, If auy caadldato eeera to be lead In
wh'im our reader cannot rotrncleBtloimlr sup
port, by alt mean let ua know why tbcy are
trti enuouBly objected to. Uut lot ti rennet one
another' view, avoid anything tending to
dlHharmony if It be powtlfole without itacrlftce
of principle)), and bear wlllliiKly those who dif
fer wttn un. "In a multitude of couiiHelor
toec in safety." But with mny to bear from
each mud bo brief. Editor Wkai.th Makkii.
A Voice From Above tbe Sand Hills.
Alliance, Neb., May 14, 1804,
Kdltor Wealth Makers:
I am not so sure who will be the best
to lead our state ticket. May be Caffln
and Darner are the men; but I feel sure
that we will make do mistake la again
nominating Hon. 0, M, Kern for Con
ureis. ' .
Mr. Kern will suit our people up this
way, and I feel continent that be is tbe
man to again lead us to victory.
Truly,
J. K. Sn RfiEON.
For Wolfe, Gain n and Others.
VAtLEY, Neb., May (!, 1MW.
Editor Wealth Makers:
Inasmuch a many hare expressed
their choice ai to who should lead our
state ticket in the coming election, I
will now give you mine:
For governor, J. V. Wolfe, of Lan
Hon. J. N. Caffln, of Saunders county;
for treasurer, John Powers, of Cornell;
for secretary of state, W. . Porter, of
Merrick.
Tbe official record of the above named
men has proven thorn to be true to the
cause.
Yours for right and justice.
C. W. Miller.
Wan la Honeat John Power to Lead
()rd, Neb., May 2,1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
Enclosed please find one dollar for
renewal. I could not get along without
The Wealth Makers. I think It Is
the best paper of the kind I ever read
Populists are numerous in Valley
county, and they want no fusion. They
are of the straight kind.
I am well pleased with the adminis
tration of "His Corpulency, Grover
Cleveland." It Is making more Popu
lists than ten thousand stump speakers
could.
By the way, I think Honest John
I 'owers is the proper man for governor.
Yours for justice,
W. A. Smith.
Why Johnson for Governor,
Madrid, Neb., May 15, 18i4.
Editor Wealth Makers:
For governor, the lion. B.J. Johnson
of Nemaha county.
Why? First, because he is the strong
est man we have In the Populist party,
second, because he Is well qualified
und would fill the chair with credit to
the state and party.
Third, because he la honott, honor
ahlo and upright in all his dealings.
Fourth, occaiwebe can and will be
elected If nominated.
Fifth, becauta he It a farmer and stock
raUer. ,
sixth, became he Is not an old politi
cian. Yours for the good of the people.
A. Mkvrk,
Traaurer llenjaiutn of llltciu ot
County Name ill t'liuloa,
Tkkntpx, Neb., May 11. isvl.
Editor Wealth Makers:
You may Ion rl this M'er la your
valuable piper atsil ex pre ui y personal
preference a to the man for governor.
, A 1 1 amualyoudiuanltthay bat amount
to much; but tbe man that ( will nm
la tht short letter U a man that I thta
very trua Uuependent In the grrat
tu of Nrhfaji van and would l
proud t support Ttat man t have
h- pr:iy acjualnUd with tor
tho tatl y-atj 8 tear. U hits jou
wo.i',4 tt4 fx tri metal, a tiut tUl
would a f.er io da hi duty U any
ca,rtg ttt a 4 th!u wl4 aot waul
to la thU tiwuawlih for any
great Un' of lima uh aim on ttvlr
tra'.l, II l a i" a wtune big heart
ih ut ta k' fetiowntan la poverty aa
vtll a to tb nun tf wean. The man
I will ansae 1 1-ciUv would ptdl nrra
votes than any otber our great party
could name. That man is B. J. Joho
ston. or Uncle Barney, a he Is called,
of Nemaha county. Be Is my first
choice. Then for congress In the big
5th district the man that has always
made the O. O. r. tired, W. A. Mc-
Kelghan, The Populists are on the
alert here, and Illtchoock county will
maintain her record. '
Tours for success without any fusion,
0. W. I5EM.IAMIN.
Get oft tbe Fence.
Risibo City, Neb,, May 8 194.
llKOTnEit Gibson: '
Since I have been a reader of your
paper I have only noticed one short
communication from your old stamping
ground, viz., Rising City, and that from
Neighbor Fool, who seems to think
Bryan should be elected again. Now I
am a Populist, but not good enough
Populist to fuse with any party or man
who expects to go to Congress astride
the fence, with tbe heavy side leaning
over into the Democratic fold. No sir,
none of that in mine.
Hon. C. D. Casper's 'We Must Go to
Them," hits the nail, with sense and
reason. We have tried the old parties
for reform time after time, and only
get out of the frying pan Into the fire
So let thr m sail under the Independent
banner, or stay at home. Gtve these
coyotes with sheep pelt apparel thun
der. They need electricity to change
their ignorant howl. Yours truly,
- J.T. Quia LEY.
The Fusion He Favors;
CiiBiNO, Neb , May 12, 1804.
Editor Wealth Makejis:
As yotalglve space in The Wealth
Makeiih to name candidates for state
offices, I send you my ticket also. As I
am in favor of fusion I will leave all the
offices blank to which our friends, the
Demo-Iiepubllcans may send the names,
as they can agree on. Here It goes:
For governor, J. N. (iaflln of Saun
ders; for lieutenant governor, J. H
Darner of Da wion: secretary of state,
W, A. Poynter, of Boone; auditor, A. J.
Gustln, of Kearney: attorney general,
Judge Tlolcomb of Custer; treasurer,
J. H. Powers of Hitchcock; suporin
oendentof public Instruction, A. d'Alle
mand; commissioner public lands and
buildings, W. F. Porter of Merrick;
candidate to penitentiary, candl
date to reform school .
The Damo-Republlcaa combine may
fill these blanks with some of their good
and true men. Yours for victory,
Wekil Hiehsche.
Hon. Barney Johnson for Governor.
Brock, Neb., May 14, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
I not only deem it a pleasure, but a
duty, to speak very highly of Hon.
Barney Johnson, ex-member of the
House of Representatives, havlog
known blra for the past twenty years,
and can say from personal experience
that he is a straight, upright, honor
able 'man, and possesses a natural
originality which a man for governor
should possess.
In the eastern part of Nebraska there
is no other man that would poll a larger
number of votes than the man above
spoken of, having lived In Otoe and
Nemaha counties for the past year.
He not only has strong mental and
moral qualifications, hut Is one of the
strongest men in the Populist party In
the state.
It i well known that Harney Johnson
would draw heavier from the Democra
tie party, than a man that had once
boen a lUpubllcao, and that Is the kind
of a nun we want.
Taking everything la conlderallon
Hub. lUrm-y Johnmrn I the wan for
governor of the iato of Nebraska.
I). N, Jons.
Judittt MiUint Wants Men or
I'Harat tr.
IUhti iett. Neb., May II, v,
Wltor WaAt.ru Markka:
I'Wahi Jnd ttuf (uWrlbartsaclo).
I cannot well K along without voj
Uiat: iir fur 1 th!k jtrn t!
ab tut rl(ht to the pup! and I iWt
how au ladtbdat cau ku hv
ed'lth 4v it. A rfrd caadldata
f tf ttato m". Mir it ta a big mtllvMi, and
I tMiik w hive plenty of good uUn to
hoo. truth, but we aoulJ kuow they
a iod mt kauw tham a ttoaly bj
NpuUUun by their cbarat'Wr, Pinly
(taUaiel wi ta4 e.)
LINCOLN, NEB., THURSPAY. MAY 24, 1894.
GET
Off
THE
GRASS
The Eights of Amerioan Ottizeai Viciously
Trampled On.
PLUTOCRACY'S DEGREE O0NYI0TS.
With Such Usurpation and Injustice
tbe Liberty of Americans it Lost
and its Memory Is a Mockery.
Extracts from Senator Allen's Speech
Senator Allen introduced May 8th, a
reHolutlon calling for a committee of
Investigation to report to the Senate the
facts connected with the arrest and im
prisonment of J. S. Coxey and others,
His speech May 9tb, in support of it was
a splendid defense of the rights of
American citizens. It would occupy so
much space that we cannot give It In
full bat print extracts below, Editor
Wealth Makers
Mr. President, important as the tariff
question and as I believe It to be, if is
a mere atom floating upon the ambient
air as compared with the constitutional
right of American citizens to peacefully
assemble and peacefully speak their
julnds with reference to the public
policy of the nation and to peacefully
petition any branch of the government
for a redress of their grievances,
j. no transaction tnat toolc place on
these Capitol grounds on the first day
of this month was a scene worthy to
take place in .St. Pstersbury or In the
capital of any Eastern monarchy, but
was entirely out of place in an orderly,
civilized Republic like ours, u
What did these men do that they de
serve punishment or criticism? I stood
upon the east steps of the Senate wifg
of the-Capitol that day, where I could
observe a portion of tbe proceedings
that were then goinr on.
What did these men do? It may be
said that they violated the law. Sir,
they marched up one of the principal
streets of this city and halted outside
of the Capitol grounds, while Coxey and
Browne, and possibly Jones, oame upon
the-Capltol grounds, where 5,000 peo
ple of this city had assembled at that
precise moment. They did not come
armed; they wore not baoked or follow
ed by a mob; they were not roenforced
by a military or police force, nor did
they make any show of force. They
came simply as law-abiding and peace
able, but perhaps mlegulded, citizens
would come for a lawful purpose.
When Mr. Coxey got up to the middle
steps of the east side of the Capitol
building he was told In a peremptory
manner that he could not even read his
petition; that he could, in fact, do noth
ing, and the police force took him bodi
ly and forced him from the grounds of
the Capitol.
Not only this, sir, but when the mis
guided man who waj with him, Browne,
unarmed and alone came upon thene
Capitol grounds with a little banner
about :i Inches long by 2 inches wide,
misguided as be m 7 have been and
with a misconception of the work ha
would be able to accomplish, be was
met with a mounted polloe force who
used the baton, or more properly known
as the poltoeman's billy, and was beaten
down and carried olT the grounds by
this force.
There was not the slightest resistance
upon his part, lie watt unarmed; he
w as not accompanied by men who made
any show of force. He came upon the
ground unguarded and alone, and he
was met with a brutal fore that bad
no jurisdiction whatever on thei
ground,callud the Metropolitan police,
bo were then unlawfully on the
ground, and he was beaten with the
policeman's cluU and carried oil and
lovsd up in a dungeon In the poltcu
court of thl city.
Why were American cltiieus thu
traid What hal they dune? What
had ttn-y al4' What had they at
tompUsd to U j la UatUa of the lat
of this vouatrj Nothing. Thvro wat
an nuteace, no threat, aa attempt kI
vUU4c 00 tlieU prt.
Thl ltrv&t eoatalm twi4!t!tHt
cturtfrtt that r made ta th court ta
this city iJutt Coxey, the out that fc
ot uimt the I'aj.ltot ground with
Mill fUg or b4uar la Watioa ef the
law whU-h. I rvad, and the thr,
that hit tu'gar ft trod upon th tacr
4 tuit f the latioaal Capitol ground
bout the permission of some dlstln
shed blue-coated and brass-buttoned
Iceman.
lbs feet of an American citizen who
iapt not live In the District of Columbia
ar looked upon as so vulgar that Con
gress prohibits a citizen from placing
them upon the turf of the Capitol
grounds.
Coxey was arrested and carried before
the police court of this city; properly
so named, on these two insignificant,
trivial and false chargescharges that
were made and used as a tnero subter
fuge or excuse for his arrest and prose
cution; but there Is not a Senator in
this Chamber, there Is not an intelli
gent and loyal American from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean or from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico who docs
not know full well that the real charge
made against this man was his attempt
to xtcIso bis Constitutional right of
poaceably assembling upon the Capitol
grounds of bis nation and petitioning
Congress for a redress of his grievances.
That was and Is the real charge
against him, however much those In
authority may undertake to disguise It.
He bad the temerity to come here with
some of his followers, deluded,perhaps,
Into the belief that they could Induce
Congress to do something to relieve the
distressed condition of the country, and
step upon tbe Capitol grounds of this
great nation and read an address to his
fellow-citizens designed as a petition
for a redress of bis grievances, and
while he was arrested upon these two
trivial charges, upon which no citizen
of the United States should be arrested,
and was carried before the police court
bore and convicted, as every man knew
he would be whether guilty or innocent,
the people will tot be misled as to tbe
real animus of the prosecution,
No man in this country is to be misled
or deceived into the belief that he was
In good faith prosecuted on these
charges, nor will any man doubt that
the real offense fur which he was con
victed was an attempt on his part to
exercise his constitutional right of
assembling, speaking, and presenting to
Congress a petition for a redress of
grievances.
The officer who put his hands on this
man on the Capitol ground?, and the
officer who used the policeman's billy
or club to strike down one of his follow
ers, gave a savage, wicked and vicious
blow to two undoubted constitutional
rights of American citizens, and It was
done for the purpose of stifling the
ci ies of hunger and distress.
Mr. President, the statute upon which
this flimsy prosecution was predicated,
the statute upon which this travesty in
tbe nature of a prosecution for tramping ;
upon the turf of the Capitol grounds
was made, Is in direct violation of the
Constitution of this nation,
It Is vulnerable to two objections up
on constitutional grounds that no in
telligent and sober-minded man can
gainsay or deny.
I recognl as fully, and am as deeply
secttbleasany man In thlsChambercan
b", the necessity of polloe regulation for
the control of these grounds and this
building, but the line of demarcation Is
not to be drawn according to territory,
It must be drawn upon other lines.
long as American citizens congre
gate upon the Capitol grounds of this
nation for peaceable and lawful purpt se
If they do not disturb the transaction of
the publlo business, if they do not
menace the publlo peaav, If they do not
threaten or menace life or property, or
obstruct the highways and pages
leading to and from this Capitol, no
man utu the face of the earth, Ut him
ocoupy whatever position ha may, ha
the lawful rljjht to prvnt them from
"tK-aklng ct printing ta Congrv
lblr petition. Tbls i the line that I
ubvrvd by th Couotltutton. and the
only praotica) rule that can bo appllud
In Ita entructlou,
Mr. Pictldont, thoe right woro. tn
the flr.t day of the prceont month,
futhWwly and unlawfully violated. It
will put do r any gnUrraa to sup
po that within a wrk 01 td U
attuatloa of the AmcrNwn pvp!a will
bo tutmd aay lnia thl outrage and
tht U will be vit.rv4 ta lak out i f
litbt Ilka nav wihr public trantao.
lions have bo lt sight if. It will
not do to las thl rolvaloa and put
It la some cavern or dark rc of this
tl'.Al!hU4 tiu fc T
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
It Ti Fait Falling Down Tbe Elsvator
Shaft.
THE 00NFES8I0V OF ITS FBIEHD8-
What Ihe Nsw York Sun, Louisville
Courier Journal and Baltimore
Say of the Democracy.
A Itotten Old Party Cannot lteform.
Mr. GALLING Ell. Mr, President, I
have been extremely Interested in the
discussion as to the particular policy of
the pending bill whether it be a pro
tectionist or a revenue measureand I
think It may be well for us for a few
moments to pursue the Inquiry a little
further. I made a collection a few
days ago of Djmooratio opinion from
tbe leading newspapers of the country
on this very point, but It Is not at hand;
and hence I can not give our Democratic
friends the benefit of it; but from news
papers which havo come to my desk to
day I have made some clippings which
I thiak are of sulllolent Interest to go
Into tbe Hecord, so that our Damocratto
friends may read them and, possibly, be
governed somewhat by them.
The New York Sun of this morning,
admittedly the ablest Democratic news
paper In tbe country, has an editorial
under the caption of "Up to Date," in
which It says:
Everybody knows what ths Demo
cratic tariff platform was in 1802. As
amended by tbe facts that platform to
day reads thus;
"We believe in the robbery of tbe
?;reat majority of the Amcrlcaiupeople
or the benefit of the few, and also of
tbe few for the bensfit of the majority.
"We believe In a tariff for protection
with incidental revenue.
"We cordially Indorse tbe principle
of the McKlnley tariff while reserving
to ourselves lull liberty to alter the
seal" and dlstr button of the protection
It affords to American industries.
" We believe that protection is con
stitutional and that the Constitution Is
protectionist.
"We point with pride to eur general
treatment of such trusts as are directly
dependent upon protection.
"We point with pride to the income
tax as the culmination of class legisla
tion. "We hereby warn all persons against
harboring the Star-eyed Goddess, as we
shall hereafter pay no debts on her ao-
count."
Then the New York Sun says:
All this change in less than two
years! But motion is rapid when you
are falling down the elevator soaft.
In another editorial in the same issue
of the New York Sun of this morning,
I find the following:
Looking back from this elevation of
enlightenment to the proceedings slnoe
uecemoer of last year, they will row
see that the President's initial betrayal
of the Democratic principles of revenue
only, in his last annual message to Con
gress, down to his submission of these
last amendments to the Senate bill,
through the medium of, the financial
officer In bl Cab-net, Secretary Carlisle,
ail miff business, whether steered by
Wilson or Voorbt-es, has been mere
protect louist rough and tumble In which
no proteasing Democrat ever showed
hi bead. Talk abut a tariff bill that
should "conform to the Democratic
ptatiorm," or 'Tfdeem the pledges of
tbe Democratic party," has been hum
bug trom the start. There has been
nothing but a squabble In the proteo
tton nt between its owner and the
cuckoo about tns dUposttton of the
luchug, and nothing more or different
has been vUlble at any staco of the
game of fraud and blutior set a going
r ths !at annual menage from ths
White Hou.o.
Turning to the LoulsvUe Courier
Journal, acknowledged to bo one of the
leading lK-vitjcrailc newspaper In this
country, ths editor of which great
heet ha bra an ardent and uocotu-
promUIng advocate of tariff rtfortn for
rerenuw vnjt nn4 following ta Its
editorial column:
If In tho Democracy of this ccuntr
there t a depth of oontetnpt which had
not before tu-t uiturr4 by Domo-
c-aoy ai!eg4 rvprv;n'attye In in
I alu-4 MiaU rUoui within th -at
ia nioBtat, it it a certainty uvb
racv-4 by the notion of the I'Uaooe
t'oinlt'H In lh IU1 "oomiirotnUa''
Unit n U ar 4 oa
it would t. a pro3t! ti it would
btt hututitaUeg ta multiply word on
thl niUerab btryni ot n r.iw for
wM h year ( had beo $.
and for whfeh tns unt tigual of poHU
cat trUaiii b4 bern woa.
lotrai4 with a wtUulon w!hmk faith
ful ptr?o'uiauc tu ant the p-luuaJ
policy an4 material ifr l ti,Uti,.
(AW of peoples directed by a t iiart at
etar a auulight and aa attthcntie a
thstr oa oummUiton; tnpor,d by
Yi&fct- Q' t'tui
NO. 50
a popular verdict as regular aa the
judgment of a court of law and aa
sovereign as a revolution, these) senile
or In vertebral agents of the people will
snnoK at wary snaaow, aodge at every
shape, and can not surrender too quickly
whatever and whenever a Democratic
renegade or a protection freebooter
demandi.
The result is weary months wasted
to the business world and to the party;
and, after It all, instead of a bill re
deeming the pledges they were com
missioned to redeem, a mongrel piebald
of patches and pusillanimity, a grotes
que hodgepodge of pretense and petti
fogging, a nondescript abortion of in
competency, sejflshness, cowardice, and '
treachery, ,
Then we take np the Baltimore Sun,
one of the ablest Democratic papers io
the Middle States, and we find an arti
cle no less pronounced and no less de
nunclatlory as regards tbe position of
the Democratic party In this contest.
Tbe Baltimore Sun says: '
Compromtso Is not the word that
properly describes what the Democratic
majority in the Senate is now invited
to do with the tariff bill. Surrender
Is the only word that fits the situation
And no such abject surrender of a great
party has ever been proposed
or even contemplated in any previous
American Congress.
The four hundred amendments Pro
posed to the Wilson tariff bill, which
bad already been subjected to impor
tant modifications in the interest of con
ciliation and harmony, will, if they are
enacted Into law, be, with a string of
exceptions inserted as a blind, a virtual
abandonment of tbe Chloago platform
of 1892. Thsy cannot be defended oa
any other principle than tbe same
which underlies tbe McKInley tariff
Itself protection pure and simple; not
sucb moderate protection as may be
be properly given to Amerioan indus
tries as an inoldent ia the raising of
needed revenue, but protection for pro
tection's saks, regardless of revenue.
The passage of suoh a tariff bid as a
fulfillment of the pledget of tariff re
form which tae Democrats party has
given to the people in every national
campaign for twenty years past, and
which it renewed with more expllclt
oess and emphasis two years ago than
It bad ever previously given them, will
be at onoe a legislative fiasco, a party
humiliation, and a national misfortune.
Mr. Gustln Writes to Gov, Cronnse,
Chicago, III., May 10, 194.
To nis Exoellenoy, Governor Crounte,
Lincoln, Neb.
Honohaijle Sm:-In an Omaha
(World-Herald) paper of the 15th Inst.,
I notice a letter from some obscuro
"prominent cltl.en of Ashland," who
suppresses bis name. This It wise on
his part because of his letter being a
thinly disguised and cowardly tiander
on unfortunate defenseless men. There
Is more danger In the great Democratic
Ape It at Washington dying this sum
mer of the jlm jam than there Is of ita
being harmed by aa outraged publlo.
I heard it stated by a friend of Mr.
Smith's that Mrs. Brown told Mrs.
Jenes that somebody told her by
close questioning of Mr. Tobias that
certain Federal employes were going to
be "removed," and "aa that it to much
like Gulteau used about Garfield,'1 I
wish you would please tell some detec
tlve about It. If the cowardly male
gossip of Ashland does not obtain re
ward from dear sweet Grover for his
friendly tub rosa tip within ten days,
please act with "promptness and vigor.
Call out all the prominent citizens of
Nebraska who ride on pastes and watch
the I'ulluitn cart carefully for Coxey
tte. You will find most t( them la
beled "protection;" some travel aa
"timid capital" looking tor a bank
charter under the paternalistic wing of
tbe Federal treury. Pleaa look out
for one certain Mr. Thurston, who has
been soliciting rations for wealthy pau
per fur year and just now wants eur
paternatlstto nation to help hit poor
railroad with one or two hundred mil
lions of dollar for an hundred yaars at
2 per cent. D not Ut the common
Cote) lie got ua t J thl, or they may
wanttt dltlded up wltn then. Now
that we know what w think ot flat '
CoxeylWe, p!ea give us your view on
the Pullnuo car oecles that we may
kaow how the G. t. and the paa
rUln bilkers of ra!lra.U look at
wealthy Coneyttea who dlbnl Into
brl in crw, blocks ot five, and such
l.ki tarnU,
Yours wlt! gee' solicitude,
A.J Gram,
V wtAt B'tt ttHHtatii aew borP
br to Tun SYbaitiI ,Uatt. !
each on of oar pnet lerlra
helo ut by a0i g two a anta!1 It
vki are umt'U toget ) arlf ubcrt
tr, -4 them in fr three or tt
month. W oal tpvelal tSt la
another column.
