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WHIT ABOUT THE PLATFORM?
ThoM who have conviction regarding what
ebonM b imnded in our atate platform are
Invited to send their Ideas for publication.
FiMTOB WtALItl MiKlll
A Letter From Hon. John Stebbtoa.
8 ELTON, Neb., July 27, '894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
We received a letter from Mr. Gustln
stating that be has a contract with th
firm for whom be labors that will pre
vent hie accepting a position on our
state ticket tbis year. This will leave
the position for auditor to the field.
Personally if Merrick county doe not
kick we favor Hon. W. F. Porter for
the position. ,
Of course our state convention will
endorse the Omaha platform and it
should emphasize the planks favoring
government ownership of all railroads
and the postal savings banks system
with government loans direct to the
people at cost price.
We should recommend the addition
of two planks to our nation al platform
by our next national convention. One
javoring the government ownership of
all coal mines and the initiative and
referendum.
Oar state platform should denounce
Republican malfeasance In office and
bypocrlcyon the freight rate question
The Republican party by Its non-compliance
With the plain provisions of the
law requiring the investment of the
school fund in state warrants has yir
tually robbed the state school fund of
$35,000 a year since August;! st, 1891.
These figures are on the basis that the
$522,000 of school fund idle at the time
the state warrant law passed Is still un
invested.
With state courts dispensing Justice
suit could be brought against ex-State
Treasurer Hill, his bondsmen, and the
present treasurer and his boneVtRm,
for back interest on all uninvested
school fund since August 1st, 1891, and
the Interest recovered would be for the
benefit of our schools. -
Our state platform should endorse
Mr.Kem's banking bill and pledge all
our nominees for congress to labor for
Its passage.
A stringent usury law should be ad
vooated.
The coming winter when more than
two-thirds of our people will be with
out cobs or other fuel to burn on ac
count of the loss of the corn crop, and
In many Instances they will be utterly
unable to procure the commonest neces
saries of life, and in view of the exist
lng and increasing poverty of our peo
ple in the drouih-Btrlcken districts, our
state Board of Transportation should
be called upon to at ones reduce freight
charges at least 50 per cent on all neces
saries, especially that of coal.
Cheap coal means greater warmth
for the poor of the country and city and
greater comfort for everyone.
' The poverty and suffering among
God's peor last winter was a mere bnga
telle compared to what we shall see the
coming winter. Our state platform
should not take a back step on the
freight rate question. It should de
mand Iowa rates for Nebraska, as of
old, an Al should denounce both old
partes for the existing high ratea.
Our platform should call op our legit
latura for laws reducing fees and
salaries of state and county officials,
We are both drouth-s'ricken and tx
burdened, and must have relief from
some source.
Brother of the Independent party of
Nebraaka, let us aho to the world
that we nr equal to the emergency
Lei utt make ami enforce demand com
meuiturate with the extgleucee cf the
situation. Nearly the who! people
will utain our party to lta tfforU to
secure relief for the Hnr and JuaUe
for the w hole peopl .
JOHN STKIIIUNS,
Another flnlf in I'ropoaal,
si r.Le City, Neb , July h.u
Editor Wealth Makkiw:
I think our e.te ptatfot m should cat
bra e the following plank:
r'ittt Wt , mand the adaption of
the initiative, H..f. reiutout and the
Imtrliv -V w da'ti
j w4 We Ui iuattd that lbs itate
and rational etr.iliuiU ettatl le m
emend! that distinction hU be
nsti at b tw u lh autre la Vbe nut
t of tha einotlva franc
Th'nt Wa demand that the current
ipaee iacurntl by UUj or counties
(M'ari. a IrcI.i l.'J) thall b paid In no
tateretl hva'Injj warrant draws upon
the sreneral fund and that all warrants
so issued shall be receivable at par for
all taxes levied in the state.
Fourth. We demand the removal or
all license or restriction on t.h manu
facture and sale of all liquors, malt,
spiritoub, or vinous claiming for the
state , complete option and control (
the manufacture and sale of same.
W. U. CRANK.
Give na Servants, Not Masters.
COOK, Neb., July 23, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
As many others have been expressing
through your paper their choice for the
various state officers, allow me to say
that I favor the man for candidate in
each and every place that knows enough
to know that be is not the government
or any part of it (should he chance to be
elected) only in the same sense tht
every other citizen is a part of the gov
eminent; that because he has been
chosen as agent to do the business of
the people does in no sense place him
over or above the people. When a ser
vant of the people gets ttfat absurd idea
In his head, that he is way above the
people, the people may expect to be
told that the idea of that servant is the
law, or that which should be enacted
into law, and if any object, why, it is
anarchistic. If Grover Cleveland had
sense enough to know that he was only
the servant of the people, think you
that he would have said that you must
repeal the Sherman law, or have writ
ten that letter of a few days ago? We
want men to do our business who kaow
that we have the same right to step on
the grass that they have, and the soon
er this fact is realised by all concerned
the sooner will we have the anarchists
respecting the law-makers and their
laws. There will be no strikes or riots,
no calling out the soldiers to shoot
down innocent people. '
The good, the' bad, everybody says, let
as have just laws., There is no dis
agreement here. All will be content.
Now there Is not a man living so stupid
but what knows when he is taking some
thing that does not belong to him and
there is no man living who has ability
enough to represent the people in legis
lative halls who doss not know when
and where law is granting special
privileges, and he knows that every
law that does tbis is not a just laws
that somebody is by the aid of this law
taking what does not belong to him,
what he has no right to, and that he is
not a representative of the people when
enacting such law, and therefore is
equally as criminal as the thief.
Let us nominate men who will repre
sent the people. The thieves have had
their representatives long enough. We
want not a repetition of what we have
just passed through, the direct result of
legislative enactments in the interest of
those who want something that does not
belong to them. Yours,
W. P. Brooks, M. D.
No Fusion,, Thank 'Yon.
IMPKIUAL, Neb., July 20, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
No fusion, thank you, for Chase
county Independents.
What few there are of us (as many are
forced to leave on account of drouth) I
am happy to say are square in the mid
die of the thoroughfare. If 1 thought
for a minute, Mr. Editor, that the Inde
pendents o( Nebraska would fuHU with
the Democrat (or any other party) in
tkis campaign for any other campaign)
I would sever my connection wiih the
party at once.
No as regards nomUallout for our
state officers. Uood square la the mid
dle-of-the-road Independent who are
well known over tne state and o( unim
peachable character are good enough
for u (with J. H. Powers iuoludod It
the llet).
I do not agree with some of your our
reHtmuUeuU In that our nominees should
neoeaaartly bo plommre ' a it were in
the Independent party. Hut If they
aland square upon the Omaha platform
pledged to our reforms, and are of
known integrity and ablUiy t would
vote branch mm anqaloK a for the
"old timer."
We ha I a little taatoot that la our
county lt fall aud the lata additions
are a strong ludepeudenW a we have,
titTiia vVkaltu Maks-h and all
IsdcpndBt lltoraturw urf,ire the u
pl a muuQ a p lu i. All thai Is
tMrtd'd la to git the voter to reading
and he will on vo and realise what is
for hlw good and vote with ua sooner er
later.
Although the Anttrtoso p4uls are
quick in some things, they seem to be
very slow to realize that through the
ballot only can we hope to gain free
dom. Yours, confident of victory,
Idno-Hotbs.
Mr Payne Wrltea Forcibly.
Bromfielp, Neb., July 14, 1894
Editor Wealth Makkbs: ,
As many have taken It In band to
announce their choice for governor it
seemeth good to me also to say -Who
ever be may be let it be a man like
Governor Walte of Colorado, Lewelllng
of Kansas, Wm. V. Allen, McKeighan,
O. M. Kern, W. L. Stark, General Van
Wyck-men that are not at the parting
of the ways, men that will fill the office
like Andrew Jackson or Thomas Jeffer
son, who could say to the money chang
ers, "Go back, or by the eternal gods
I'll whip you back." We want no fool
ing now. We have left Goshen. We
have crossed the Bed ea. God is with
us; who can be against us?
Our leaders must be men "who will
not shrink tho pressed by every foe."
A Jwhua and a Caleb, leading us on to
Canaan, or we are scattered upon a
dark and stormy sea.
I have witnessed in the last few days
some of my fellow men traveling away
from their western homes. I talked
with them, noticed their dress, beheld
their manner of transportation, their
food scanty. See that mother give the
last crust of bread to her children and
then turn aside and weep. Christ wept.
A mother's love is next to that of
Christ. There are mothers all over
this fair land of ours weeping for their
children. For instance, look lnt the
east father and mother standing be
fore a thousand spindles. These father
and mothers only see their children
nights. During the day these children
grow p uneducated, half clothed, half
fed, and thus they become the prey of
the evil. Flesh and blood Is cheap, bat
bread la dear. A governor that would
assail Prof. Herron, who dared to lay
before that institution of learning, truth
and righteousness In the city of Lincoln,
has disgraced himself and all institu
tions of learning, and we should see to
it that he occupy no longer a position
within the gift of the people to insult
the grandest men of earth. Christ
when be was on earth advocating truth
and reform, bad to occasionally cast out
a devil. He afterwards conferred that
power upon men. Brethren, let's east
out a tew this fall. What do you say?
' Strike for your altars and your fires.
Strike for the green, graves of your
sires, God and your native land."
N. B. Payne.
A Wide Awake Comrade.
Carleton, Neb., July 30, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
On to Grand Island by wagons by all
means. That Is the way we should
travel, and we will create such an en
thusiasm on the road that we will
sweep everything before us this fall. I
have spoken to quite a number of the
parties and I was surprised to find
nearly every one was willing to make
up a load for the trip, for the purpose
of hearing aud seeing, and I think with
very little effort we could gather In
twenty thousand Instead of ten thous
and, as tvery ote has plenty of leisure
and is anxious to take a trip by wagon.
Lst every old sol die that comes wear
hi badge, 1 have been dlsnatUfled a
well as many other old soldiers at the
way the reunion bas been manipulated
at Crand Island by g, o. p'. Old
soldiers who have dared to vote any
thing but the republican ticket straight
have btHn b"lldoed and abutted by
tbelr speakers, 1 think If any one In
this government has a right to vol a
he pU'aae that one Is surely the old
koidter wbo baa fought fur It, and If
anything mak-s m tired it U to hear
a tran who was of suitable ae to
carry a gun add wbo never aerved a
day, escHsi'l with hi mouth, traducing
and abut tag old sMdlert for not voting
the Kopub'.tttan UttkH. Now let us all,
eld au!d era and their h t, their 0IfU
nxs and friends, nuke a move on Grand
Itltnd. Augunl Slth, In wagons, bring
ing our provUlons and fewt aog, and
It will do us gn.nl ti camp out a ft
days, and t ro sure mm wilt r!ii a
welmxutt on the road and at Grand la-
land- The Grand (aland pnopl ba
always u 1 ut well; ahll mine of u
nave inplalnl at the management of
the G. A. U , nvr yet heard on
word of ixint plaint afc-alott lft people
of Grand Island, and it holds a tender
place in every soldier's heart
Let the state central committee furn
ish the speakers and we will furnish
the crowd, and Grand Island furnish us
a camping place and a little wood and
wate r, and we will start off this cam
paign with such an impetus that
will carry every thing before us this
fall, like, not exactly a cyclone, but one"
of our Nebraska breezes.
W. C. Bates.
A Former Nrbraskan's Advice,
: Saw Diego, Cala., July 21, 1894
Editor Wealth Makebs:
My ardent deiire for the early triumph
of the Populists impels me to advise my
friends anywhere to Improve upon the
Omaha platform so as to secure the
whole labor vote which Is certain If the
following planks ar added to it:
I. Initiation and Referendum,
2. ' National laws enforcing the elgBt
hoar day and minimum wages.
3, Abolition of child labor and com
pulsory education to the age of sixteen
4, . Employers socldent liability law.
6. The right to labor secured to every
body by the government, ,
6. State or national fire and life in
surance, and may be some more such.
Knowing Mr. Editor, your solicitude
for the suooess of our party, I hope you
will give the above a place in your valu
able paper. Yours for Industrial
equality. , August Btormb.
A Sarpy County Comrade.
Editor Wealth Makers-.
What old soldier has to say in your
July 19th Issue about the stre G. A. R.
reunion for the last two years is of great
significance. What he says of the re
union Is also true of the encampment
held at Lincoln last winter when we
were forced to submit to a political
side-vhow presided over by ex-governor
Thayer la hit usual nonpartisan manner
(?) at which all the old Republican
ringsters were let loose and one old
railroad capper went to suoh length
that he was orled down, but no one was
allowed recognition to answer him.
Yes, old soldier, it this Is to be their
line of action I am ready to join with
you for a fight to maintain the non-par
tlsan principles of our order.
Comrade.
A Keotlflcation.
Tecumseh, Neb.. Aug. 1, 1894.
To whom it may conoern:
The Tecumseh correspondent to the
State Journal of July 31 makes the
statement that the stockholders of the
Tecumseh Republican Publishing Com
pany and made a change in the man
agement of the paper because Mr. Car
penter did not get out a creditable
paper, These are not the facts in the
case. Mr. Carpenter's lease expired
May 1, 1894, and be did not want to
lease it for another j ear.
E.G. Jury,
President of said Co.
D. II. Bxrry, Sec'y.
Still Flghtln for Liberty.
Editor Wealth Makers:
With your privilege 1 ask spice In the
soldiers' columu,
I bava an unbounded pride In my
stanri agalnat the powers that are now
trying to overthrow the very thing for
whtoh we fought. I stand today where
I stood in 'fit, with my face to the foe;
and have since this move for freedom
started, I am a charter member,
Joi Talhott.
Benedict, Neb.
Th ltablloat aud Uemuvrattu
Itemed?,
The Register believes that the regu
lar amy should be luoreaaed to lQO.WO
men, and at least one regiment garrl
ned In every state, as the beat poaai
ble method of pitwsn lng peaeo. Howl
lag demagogues and crae bralard
preachers and college prvfeaaora ar
rapidly Incrvaalng the nmuUr f anar
chUts and tuaaer criminal, and public
afely demaaJs that prompt ak pa be
taken tJ hold their dUwd and Wtated
fwilowa In subjection by overawiag
them or killing them eff as rapidly aa
they resort to tkileitc toa ltat
UegUtef (H-p )
What Uaaa lUMiaMi
"I oau burn y factories down If I
chouMH, and can dfavnargu my workman
or employ labor If I ehe, I can do
ail this uaJr the law '
LANCASTER
mum
A Splendid, Well-Attended, H&rmssioos
Oonnty Convention.
A STRONG TICKET WAS 0H08EK-
A Piogressivs, Inspiring, Clear-Cut Plat
form Which Voices the Demands
f Our Party Throughout
. the 8tate,
Let State Delegates Consider It.
The Lancaster oonnty Independent
convention last week was the best that
the Independents have ever held In this
county In point of numbers (over two
hundred delegates being In actual at
tendance) and In work done. It was
harmonious. Its candidates chosen
were strong men. Its platform, ac
cepted without debate, was the most
progressive and inspiring that any Ne
braska convention has framed, and In
dicates mental and moral growth In the
party.;
B. F. Stevens of Lancaster precinct
was chosen temporary chairman, and J.
M. Thompson and E. N. Tbaoker secre
taries, Over 1107 campaign fund was raised.
The report of tha credentials com
mittee was accepted, the temporary or
ganization" was made permanent and
Chairman Stevens appointed W. F.
Wright, 8. J. Kent, Edwin Le Fevre,
Ferdinand Sweltzer and George H.
Gibson committee on resolutions.
The resolutions brought' in by this
committee and unanimously accepted
read as follows:
We the delegates of the People's In
dependent party of Lancaster county.
In convention assembled, reaffirm tha
principles of the Omaha platform of
July 4, 1892, and adopt the following
principles at the demands oi tnis con
vention, and we call upon all citizens of
the county, irrespective of former party
animations, w assist ua in me oarryin
out of tha same by securing at tha ba!
lot box the election of the members of
the legislature who are by this conven
tion placed before the people for their
suffrage.
We declare olass legislation to be es
sentially anarchistic and that they who
aid in scouring special privileges are
the real, most dangerous anarchists,
We demand that the law fixing salar
ies of the county officers be so amended
that all salaries of county officers be re
duced to a fair compensation. Also
that all fees accruing in any county
office shall be turned luto the county
general fund and all salaries of county
officers be paid from the general fund.
We declare for the municipal owner
ship of street care, and gas and electric
plants far the publio distribution of light
beat ana power; and tne nationalization
of the telephone and telegraph systems,
that a monopoly ot tnls electric service
and of the news may not be left In a few
bands, or wlin fase teacners.
We demand that general suffrage be
extended to the women ot our state on
au equality with men.
We demand the state control of the
sale of all intoxicating liquors, elimin
atinc therefrom all profite; also the
abolition cf child labor and we declare
for shorter working dayi.
We demand the aoolitlon of the
present convict lease system.
The Populists of Lancaster county
are In close sympathy with the wage
workers of the land and we denounce
the combination of railroad managers
and government otiiciaia at wbtuu to
rights of worklngmen are trampled
uton.
That win favor the Insertion of a plank
in our state and national platforms de
manding the establishment by the gen
eral government of a department ot oo
operative Industry for the purpose of
providing wave, means and capital for
me employing of every man and wo
man who md f employment.
That we beartliy indorse the action
of our senator, W. V. Alien, and of four
rrveutatlvea in congreea, la their
earnest endeavor Ut secure leglalailoa
in the Interest ot the tolling tnaiaee,
and we condtroa the Nebraska titt
Journal for Its oowardlf attetnot to In
jur Senator Allan's character and re
putation We declare that tha right to land la
aa Inalienable aa the right to life and
liberty, that It ts a necvaaary part of
that right, In fat-i; thai all the earth
contains of DU ln provLloa ftr wan,
all uiaterlaU'hJvcU and working forwa,
mut bi long equally and without -u.
chaa to all living InUitMuaia. We
therefore call lor the doairuciU'n of
land Bumopoi aad ayt-cuiaUua, ol for
the publlo owaerablp or freedom of the
tta-ural etirr ot eit, oil, iron and
other ailaeraia, tow sno"-41ied.
dH)iare that oia should not only
he aecurvd la tha right to prod vw fri
by tatlr labor, but alo la tha rtfbt to
tt-bauga thetf prudtR-U or aenk'aa
wphout being cumbolUrd to pay de
polk) tribute to uaey and transporta
tion fctngn and Ua! to sevura tfts
equitable exchange of services and free)
continuous employment it is necessary
for the government to provide money
and transportation at cost, in o&er
words, tne government, local ana csa-
aral. must conduct the banking bus&i .,
and own and operate the ratlroafJ.
we recognize the necessity of p-.. J
employment for tens of thousands d
wortny Nebraska citizens wbo uva
been brought to destitution by t"J
crop-destroying drouths, and we L
cure that tney must be saved iron tx;
gary and starvation by setting tm tt
work upon the publlo roads, and
state-surveyed, state-built, state-owrtl
Irrigation ditches, wherever w::r
supplies can be utilized, payment frr
these publlo services to be maia la
county and state warrants, receive.!!
for taxes.
For legislation in the interest cf Cs
people ol the state and county wa t
mand the Initiative referendum irtn.
to be established by law as soon u rr
sible, and to carry out the refortcs
manaea oy our national, state ti
county platforms wa damand the y
age of a bill by the coming Ieii-': rs
for a call of a constitutional oonvr-t!:i
to frame a state constitution for tt:l
slon to the people for their adoptisa cr
rejection. '
The following resolution was for
ward adopted by the convention:
Besoived, That this convention tz
not propose to take part in any rell;l:j
controversy.
The candidates selected aa stsxi;rJ .
bearers by the convention were:
For county attorney, F. W. Either i.
County Judge, G. W. Dirge.
County cemmlssioner, G. 8. Izz
water."
State senators, R. C. Chapters t:.3
J, Y. I. Swlgarfc
Representatives, A- C. Henrkx izl
G. B. Jones of the city, and Frtii C
Eager, O. M. Dunn and Thomas Urrtla
from the country precincts.
The following were selected as d;l
gates to the state convention! J. C.
MoNcrney, J, A. Edgerton, J. A. Jcl
too, Gideon Puri"- l'S " C
W. Hoxle, J. VAoL f - i . ;
G. Cooley, E, T. a '
Charles Jewstt, a Z. .
M. Swlgart, 3, W. Jr-';i", j,
William Foster, W. P. ExlA, P. EL
Drennan, J. W. Emberton, R. D. Lc" :?,
M. 8. Drennan, W. F, Wrijht, T7. J.
Hanke, Morton Jeffrey, J. W. Ksjvct,
William Brings.
Delegate-at-large George ZLGitza.
Delegates to the congressional oca
vention: C. G. Bullock, U. H. Ehaber;,
F. W. Krull, W. E. Bishop. J. . Hurt
line, A. N. Housel, George Neff, II. B.
Donohoe, O. N. Dunn, C. Williams,
William Leese, Nate Reynolds, F. L.
Lelghton, T.D. Moulton, It S. Mockett,
T. E. Connelly, Edwin Le Fevre, A. L. '
Emberson, T. J. Ferguson, Charles
Jewett, O. Wilson, W. T. Rolofson, B.
F. Stephens, W. B. Pickett, W. II.
Coleman, J. H. Kcvaler.
Delegate-at large, J. C. McNerney.
The state delegation was unanimously
Instructed to do all in their power to
further the nomination of S. J. Kent for
the office of Commissioner of Putlia
Lands and Buildings. And the con
gressional delegution was r instructed
for Mayor Weir of Lincoln for Populist
nominee for Congress from the First
district
A new county central committee waa
eUcted, J. C. McNerney being elected
chairman and J. M. Thompson waa
elected secretary. The county central
committee was Instructed to fill all va
cancies provided those appointed would.
pledge themselves to support the
Omaha platform.
Meeting of Delegates.
The delegates to the state ooaventioa
chosen by the Lancaster county conven
tion, are hereby called to lueet at hall
on second Boor of building No. 1114 O
street on Tuesday, Auguat 14th, at 2 P.
M., to arrange for attending the coa
vention at Grand Island on August 21,
also to dlacues any other matters that
may come before the delegation.
A full attendance Is desired.
J. C. McNtitXttY. Chairman.
J. M. THono, herniary.
All the t'toaraoter Uialaa.
The annual political burUaqu of
loaewator versus Majors ts being ad-
varoted again. In this play there le
ao hero. AU the characters appear to
be villains. Weatera Lab?er.
Calia afcee Traliure.
Tha I'vpultat who talks of tualva Usee
tlms ti a traitor. This is au time for
unholy ntaritagte, nor does the rsrtj
In the heyday of Us yuth uVaerve Y
lctraytd with a tta,NoawWwrr:liii.