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come tax question May 5.
President Jou.h Bascom, D. D., gays,
in the last issue of "The Kingdom:"
"There are a social form, a physical ex
pression, a distribution of the resources
of the world, inseparably associated
with the Kingdom of Heaven."
Thr Honest Money League of Chicago,
the goldbug element of the Democratic
party, reports that signatures to its
- "honest money" declaration of principles
are coming into headquarters at the rate
1 Ol 500 a day.
Lotus L. Grossman and Wiillatn Kaup
of Chicago committed suicide in Chicago
Tuesday of last week. They were made
desperate by inability to find employ
ment. The latter was but eighteen years
of age and had recently lost his place as
a teamster.
We haven't heard yet of any organiza
tion of the American Bimetallic party,
nor of any daily papers started by it or
converted to it. The Democrats how
ever have lost the Times-Herald and the
Evening Post of Chicago, and, it is said
are about to start a new free silver daily
in Chicago, the paper to be called The
Enquirer.
The Iowa Democrats have held a con
ference and after an acri monious debate
. adopted this declaration: "It is the
senna of this conference that the two
monetary metals should be kept at a
parity, without discrimination against
either metal in the matter of coinage."
And the silver Democrats declare this
shield to be silver and the gold Demo
crats declare it to be gold, and that
"Iowa is all right."
Under Warden Fuller, present warden
of the Michigan state prison, from July
3 805 to March 1895 the convicts work
ing in the furniture factory havo earned
a profit or clear gain to the state of $ 17,
COO, or a profit of f 1,400 after deducting
50cent a day for convict labor. If Gover
nor Holcomband Warden Leidighcando
as well here there need be no trouble
about lack of appropriation for salaries,
The Times-Herald's Washington cor
respondent says Cleveland "views with
sincere regret and great pain the proba
bility that his party is about to bt cap
tured by the silver monometaUists.
Everything that he can do to avert a
calamity such as this the President is
ready to do." The same writer say8
Vice President Stevenson or ex-Congress-t
man Bland will be nomiuated by the
silvtrites if they capture the convention
Secretary Hoke Smith says Secretary
Morton did not talk by the book when
he gave out that Cleveland is a goldbug
monometallism He says G rover and the
rest of the goldbugs are bimetallists, and
that they are fighting the silver mono
metaUists. Hoke says, "Georgia's dele
aation to the national Democratic con
vention will go there instructed to oppose
to the end the efforts to put this country
on a silver basis." Suppose we agree to
knock out gold and silver and put the
country on a labor basis. That is the
end of Populist teaching.
A POLITICAL POUTER
The Illinois Democrat are flocking to
support silver in that state. The heavy,
money end of the party in Chicago is
"agin" it, however, and this means that
the party will be broken so badly by de
feat aa to cause its death in '96. John
Mayo Palmer, son of the D. 8. Senator
and himself a goldbug, says: "The sen
timent In favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1
without international conference or
agreement seems to have taken complete
possession of the Democracy of Illinois
outside of Cook county.
There will be a good deal of
talk about 'reading men out of the party.'
The immediate effect of the expected dec
laration will be to disorganize the Demo
cratic party in this state, if such a thing
is possible. The ultimate effect, should
the currency question be the prominent
one of 1896, will be the reorganization
of both parties on new lines. Those like
mvself. who may be called conservatives,
have a faint hope that we may be able
to induce the June convention to declare
that it is inexpedient to draw party lines
upon the silver question by a state con
vention, but I confess I have no very
great confidence that we will be able to
secure this. Unless the refusal of the
Democrats who agree with me to take
part in the convention, shall lead the
party elsewhere to believe that Demo
cratic sentiment is not thoroughly repre
sented by the convention, that declara
tion will have a very strong and powerful
influence UDon the party in the western
and southern states, but will not, I think
affect anything east of Ohio."
We are having a good deal to say
about silver and the prospective atti
tude of the old parties on the question
this week, that our readers may get their
bearings. The silver question is too
much for either beastly old-party aggre
gation to go into the ring with. It has
however fastened itself to dying Democ
racy and ill choke the remuining life
out of it. Palmer made the above state
ments after visiting Springfield and talk
ing with the leaders and rank and file in
many parts of the Btate.
But while silver is breaking the ranks
and killing off one or both of our politi
cal enemies, it would be the worst kind
of political folly for us to drop either of
our three great related demands and at
tach ourselves to the fortunes of hard
money, single standard or double. The
result would be the disruption and scat
tering of our organization and the loss
of all we have sacrificed and labored for.
Those who will try to force us into the
old party silver fight by fusing us with
the Democratic party, are either without
political sense, or they are strangers to
principle. The Wealth Makers warns
the Popnlists of Nebraska that this
struggle with the unionists is before us
and that we have got to shake ourselves
of every leader who shows a disposition
to seek Democratic aid. Spot every man
who has tied up with the Democrats or
favored it, and put out-and-out Populists
in the lead from now on. Don't let a
handful of spoils hunters who have got
into office or on the State Central Com
mittee run the next convention and cam
paign.
THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL UNION
A new labor organization has been start
ed with co-operation as its distinctive fea
ture. George W.Howard, vice-president
of the American Railway Union, is the
projector and leading spirit. The organ
ization was launched in Chicago last Sun
day, and is called the American Indus
trial Union. It is not a rival to other
labor organizations, but starts into an
uuoccupied (the co-operative) field and
hopes to get the other labor organiza
tions to unite with it in its co-operative
work.
George W. Howard was elected general
secretary, and ho is one of the board of
ten directors. The organization is to be
international in character to the extent
of organizing Mexico and Canada as well
as fhe United States. A local union of
500 members has already been organized
in Chicago. Its purposes are general co
operation, establishment of employment
bureaus, and theestablishment of a gene
ral eight-hour work day throughout the
country, to take effect Sept. 1, 1897. ,It
favors woman suffrage and arbitration.
The co-operative feature is the one on
which the great stress is laid. The Union
will ask for the establishment of postal
savings banks for the use of wageearners
and others in the Union, and from this
fund the organization expects to estab
lish industries to provide work for the
unemployed and enable them to become
at least self-supporting.
The American Industrial Union will keep
in close touch with existing co-operating
colonies, thirty-five or more of which have
been already established, and instead of
using Union funds to carry on strikes,
and the payment of big salaries to officers
it is intended to use the available funds
of the organization for theestablishment
of more colonies, or the increase of those
already in existence.
All hail, brothers! Let us strike hands
in the co-operative .movement which is
the way of salvation. Does Lincoln want
a Union? Let the state be organized.
THE BIG BUG BATTLE
The silverbugs appear to be in the
saddlein the Democratic party in Illinois.
War to the knife against them haB been
declared by the "Honest Money League"
of Chicago and Cook county; but, being
taught in the minority, the goldbugs
can only appeal to their faction to abs
tain from participation in the primaries
to be held May 3d to choose delegates to
the state convention. At a full meeting
of the executive committee of the League
held at the Palmer House April 23d, the
following resolutions were adopted:
"Whereas, It is solely the province of
the national convention of the Democra
tic party to declare the position of the
party on national issues, and
"Whereas, No action that may be
taken by the proposed state convention
ia June, 1895, can bind the delegate to
be elected to the national convention of
next year, and hence no good results can
flow from participation in such conven
tion, and
"Whereas, The calling of such conven
tion is a usurpation of power on the
nart of the Democratic state central
committee, and has already provoked
unnecessary discord among Democrats,
and will, if continued, bring disaster to
the Democratic party of Cook county; be
it
"Resolved, bv the executive committee
of the Honest Money League of Illinois,
That we vigorously protest against the
calling and holding of such convention,
and call upon all honest money Demo
crats of Cook county to abstain from
participation in the primaries to be held
on May 3d, 1895, and that thecommittee
on public meetings of this league at once
arrange for a mass meeting to be held in
this city at an early day to give empha
sis to this protest."
We print the resolutions that our read
ers may see the situation in the state
which is the money, railroad and manu
facturing center of the great west, and in
the second cftyin the nation. If the silver
Democrats can get control of the party
in such a state as Illinois, it seems, rea
sonable to suppose that they can do so
in about every state west of Ohio and
south of Virginia, which would enable
them to control the next national con
vention. This would practically annihi
late the Democratic party in New Eng
land and the middle Atlantic states, and
it would drive to the Republican party
all "sound-money," single-standard
Democrats of all other states, so that
the probabilities are that the Democratic
party, brokeu by silver, cannot carry a
half dozen states in 1896.
It will be an absolutely hopeless cam
paign for the Democrats, whether they
make silver the issue or not. If the
plutocratic Democratic leaders, and those
who are mere spoils-hunters and nothing
else, have power to throttle the silver
faction in the national convention the
party is still doomed, for a faction of
western leaders would break away, and
no power can hold in line over half of the
rank and file in the west and south under
present conditions, with the spread of
ideas which calamity has quickened.
Seeing all this it is safe to prophesy
that thebestand most intelligent element
in the Democratic party will leave it to
its fate and join the ranks of the Popu
lists. The Honest Money League of Chicago
decided to print the above resolution
and scatter it broadcast throughout
Cook county, also to hold a monster
mass meeting on the night of May 3d to
voice the protest of the "honest money"
Democrats, and to deny the legality of
the calls for the state and county con-
ventions. The League chose a committee
on literature, on state organization and
on public meetings, and has given out
that it "will, therefore, confine its efforts
to sending out honest money literature,
holding mass meetings and extending
the league organization throughout the
state. It will have plenty of funds, and
a vigorous campaign along the lines
mentioned will be prosecuted from this
time until the close of the presidential
campaign in 189G."
The only quarrel we really enjoy is a
quarrel on the part ot our political
enemies which promises to hopelessly
break up their ranks. Let the combat
deepen.
SENATOR ALLISON AT WORK
Allison of Iowa is trying the feat of
riding two horses. He is "in favor of
sound money," he says, and is evidently
in the game to hold the silver vote in the
Republican party. He is on this account
the man most likely to secure the nomi
nation from the hands of the Republican
national convention. He has begun to
swing around the circle in the interest of
his presidential boom. We clip the fol
lowing words as evidence of his political
astuteness:
"Gold and silver have been the money
of nations for centuries, and all that is
needed is to establish the relative value
of the two metals. During threecenturies
the ratio of 15 to 1 has continued, in
1873 this country changed the law and
made gold the standard of value. I be
lieve that it was a mistake. Uncoined
cold and silver are commodities, govern
ed by the law of supply and demand, and
the same thing happened to silver ana
gold that would happen to other com
modities under similar laws, uoiu was
nnnreciated and silver depreciated. The
question now is how can we place silver
in circulation ana pass it current wnn
gold? It is gratifying, is it not, to know
that a few men can save our country by
loaning us gold to pay our current ex
penses? What condition could any
country be expected to be in when it has
not enough revenue to pay current ex
penses? I presume, .however, that Mr.
Carlisle will be able to get along until
December A-ithoutcallinganextrasession
of congress to borrow more.' '
A T0U0H, REVEALING 0HARA0TER
Mr. II. Johnson of Wichita, Kansas,
one of our subscribers, recently addressed
a letter to the editor of the National
Watchman, the paper that has been
doing its worst to crowd us on to a
single plank platlorm aud which has
viciously lied about the four leading
Populist papers of the north and west in
an effort to discredit them and counter
act their influence. We give Mr. John"
sou's statement regarding the contents
of his letter and a verbatim copy of
Dunning's letter in reply, showing the
sort of a man he is. Mr. Johnson says
"I ordered the discontinuance of the
Watchman, giving as my reasons the
Watchman s course, its treatment of the
Advocate, Non Con, The Wealth Mak
kbb, Coming Nation, and I included the
Southern Mercury, on which, by looking
over the Watchman again, I Cud it U
silent. I should not have named the
Mercury, but I don't think that is what
hurt the gentleman. It was the idea of
some people having ideas of their own
that hurts."
PCNNIXO'S LETTEB
Mr. H. Johnson, Wichita, Kaa.:
Your insulting letter at band. You are
doubtless a worthless agitator and as
such deserve no attention from respect
able men, I simply write this letter to
state plainly and distinctively that yon
are a contemptible liar. I have not
mentioned the "Southern Mercury" in
the Watchman for a long time and any
one who reads the Watchman knows it.
I have written to a friend of mine in vour
city to find out what sort of a miserable
cur you are. Your paper will continue to
be sent until expiration of subscription.
Yours, N. A. Dunxixg.
Washington, April 11, 1895.
WE MUST HAVE POPULISTS
If Sheriff Miller and a few other men in
this county who claim to be Populists,
would work as hard to be worthy of Pop
ulist support as they work to get the
votes of the Democrats, they would stand
a better show of being renominated and
reelected this fall.
We are tired of being bartered and sold
by men who care nothing for the enact
ment into law of the principles of the
Umana platform.
There are about six of them in this
county who imagine they are smooth
enough to hoodwink the People's Party
into believing that they are orthodox
Populists and that they will be attain
honored by the party at its conventions
this fall. They are after the loaves and
fishes.
We trusted them once: they have be
trayed us, and sold us into Egypt, we
will not trust tnem again. Just before
our conventions they had a sudden and
miraculous conversion (?) to the princi
ples of our platform. They were nomi
nated and elected to office as Populists,
after which they have put us to shame
by consorting with and feeding ourpolit
ical enemies.
It will soon be time to fill their places.
let us begin now to think of the best men
to do it.
Rev. David Beaton of Chicago told the
School of Social Economy in Chicago
last week that "no sober, industrious
workingmanneed be poor." Many speak
ers following Beaton denied the truth of
his assertion. It is such remarks as this
that hring the clergy into contempt with
men made despera te by the vain search
for work or with the life-long struggle to
get means to supply their families barest
necessities. Beaton is a preacher at the
Lincoln Park Congregational church and
he is even now worrying over the rich
leaving his church for the suburban dis
tricts and no people coming in to take
their place. s
The free silver Democratic leaders of
Illinois, commenting on the action of the
Honest Money League (which we report
in the Bug Battle article in another col
umn), declare "they were not surprised
a i he action of the League, as it indi oot
id that the league was formed solely for
the purpose of leading Democrats into
the ranks of the Republican party.'
"There once were two cats in Kilkenny.'
They scratched and they fit, they chewed
and they bit, till, excepting their nails
and the tips of their tails (the fighting
factions after '90) instead of two cats
their weren't any." ,
The Kansas Republican State league
has jumped outo Cleveland for his en
mity to silver and promises that if the
Republicans are again given the reins,
"Such a resumption of power will bring
back a monetary policy and a coinage
system which will immediately add to
our currency the product of American
mines and restore silver to its old place
as one of the money metals, thus placing
the finances of the country upon a basis
which will bring confidence and pros
perity to our people." The old parties
aro the worst pair of lying old hags that
ever existed.
The recent rise in the price of beef is un
warranted by any corresponding rise in
the price of cattle, is the report of Secre
tary Morton. The combination which
controls the dressed beef trade fixes the
price of cattle on the hoof, as well as the
price of meat to consumers. They con
trol through the ownership of refrigerator
cars the matter of transportation. Sec
retary Morton has also gathered evidence
which shows that small dealers are dis.
criminated against by the railroads, and
the anti-trust law is no good except to
kill off or subdue labor organizations.
Ex-Senator Ingalls of Kansas re
cently stated at the G. A. R. encampment
tliat he is not only in favor of putting a
plank into the national (Republican)
platform favoring the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, but that he is strongly
in favor of that principle. Washington
Populists and Weaver, who are trying so
hard to have us drop all our platform
except free silver, can hold out as an in
ducement that we can after so doing
take our choice which old party to fuse
and remain with.
Open Letter to Governor Holcomb
Lincoln, Neb., May 1, 1895.
Hon. S. A. Holcomb, Governor of Nebr
aska:
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th inst. at
hand, and while not a total surprise to
me, and consequently not a personal dis
appointment, the information is much to
be regretted from a party standpoint.
You say that, "after giving the matter
four months consideration, I today ar
rived at a conclusion in regard to the
matter of the appointment of a warden
at the State Prison, and Geo. W. Leidigh
of Nebraska City, has been named."
This, indeed, is a singular admission
and quite contrary to the general rule,
Crimea and offmiaes, of all kinds, have
generally at least, one mitigating circum
stance. They are generally committed in
haste, or without due consideration. But
you undoubtedly do not regard the act
aa a crime, or even as an offense, but,
coupled with a number of other appoint
ments, of similar nature, and especially
with Mr. Dahlman's. another leading
Democrat, made at the same time, and
who was an applicant for the same posi
tion, you are charged with party perfidy,
and a deadly assault upon "the Indepen
dent party" organization, in this state;
and npon this charge you will have to go
upon trial before the bar of our people,
"and may God defend the right."
Being an applicant for one of the posi.
tions given to a Democrat, and therefore
liable to the usual charge of 'disgruntled'
shall not deter me from assisting in the
prosecution, for I think my past record
will bear me out, that I can accept defeat
with, at least, moderate grace.
My motives are, and have been, much
higher than any personal consideration.
It is because I am a Populist from prin
ciple, and because I believe the triumph
of the principles of the party is common
humanity's last and only hone, and be
cause I believe that any alliance with
any other party will not only retard
our growth, but, in the end, will prove
fatal to our success, that forces upon me
the unpleasant duty that I feel called up
on to perform. I acknowlege it is a very
unpleasant duty, for our personal rela
tions, and the personal relations between
myself and all your appointees, so far as
I have any acquaintance with them, has
been very agreeable; but I feel that I
occupy a peculiar position, and, at this
time, a very responsible one. Like your
self (if your are at all out) I came out of
the Democratic party, and in all my ex
perience in trying to advance the inter
ests of ourcause, I have found no greater
obstacle, anywhere, or at any time, than
that thrown in the way, by the Republi
can orators, and the Republican press,
when they have charged the Independent
party with being a"tail to the Democratic
kite."
The Republican party having ruled in
Nebraska since it has been a state, and
being largely in the majority, it could be
readily seen that its overthrow depended
largely, and mainly, on desertions from
its own ranks. And manfully have they
come, and loyally have thousands of
them stood by our organization, even
when the party lash has been most severe
ly applied, aud steadily have we moved
onward, and steadily has confidence in
our integrity been increasing. 1
It is true that 1 have denied and still
deny that the Democrats, in the Populist
party, had any sympathy with their old
party, as an organization: but it has
been left for you to give the charge new
and additional force, if not practically to
demonstrate to many its truth.
I am not personally unfriendly to the
Democrats, or to the Republicans, as
such, but politically I am as much op-
posea to one as the other.
If you are proceeding upon the princi
ple of recognizing those' who helped to
elect you, why not make a fair divide,
and give the Republicans their share of
the appointments also? for you must
know that youoweyourelectionasmuch,
or more, to the Kepublicans than to the
Democrats, and ranch more to Mr. Rose
water, and to the Omaha Bee, than to
Mr. Bryan or the World-Herald.
Ihe Bee was your constant and
consistent supporter, while the World
Herald was your inconsistent supporter
and hired defamer in the same
issue. No, Governor, since I left
the Democratic party I have "cast no
longing, lingering look behind." I, too,
might possibly have held office if I had
acted otherwise, I, by no means think
ou are a bad man. I only think you
ave proven yourself a weak one. You
are not by any means the first man, even
in Nebraska, whose "ambition has o'er
leaped itself." The political highway is
everywhere strewn with its wrecks. Men
are more or less (and frequently more)
like pigs. If fed on too rich food they
develop too much flesh for the amount of
bone, and especially back bone. The
remedy in the case of pigs is to put them
on a diet of skimmed niilk, and 1 can see
no reason why it would not act as well in
one case as in the other. It may not be
your fault. You have neither been in a
position, nor in a condition, since our
reform movement began, to be able to
grasp its full meaning. You have been
in good circumstances and drawing a
good salary. Your mind has been occu
pied more with law, and with loans, than
with distressed homes, and an impover
ished people. You didn't, I believe attend
either the Cincinnati, or the St. Louis
Conference or the Omaha National Con
vention. You have, therefore, probably
not been baptized with the "baptism
that is unto repentance."
I am not speaking of, or dealing with
your intentions. You are too good a
lawyer not to know that all law pre
sumes a man to intend the consequences
of his acts, and the sooner you recognize
the fact that, when you are consorting
with the Democratic, or any other party,
you are nursing at your bosom, a torpid
viper that, as soon as it is warmed into
life, by Populistic heat, and strengthened
by Populist nourishment, will then turn
on its benefactor with all its accustomed
vigor and venom, the sooner you will see
and realize the folly of your course.
There is no room in this state, or nation
for three great political parties and I
have been and am still willing to let
both old parties alone, and leave their
future existence to be determined by the
law of "the survival of the fittest." No
one recognizes this fact more clearly than
the leaders of the Democratic party
themselves, and no one will more zeal
ously than they see to it that, as a party
we do not came into power. They may
permit and even assist, a chosen candi
date, now and then to come into office,
but it will be found generally, if not al
ways, at the expense of the rest of the
ticket; and so small a victory may mean
more harm to us than a total defeat.
The old Democratic ship is down deep in
the trough of the political sea, and of,
and by, itself can never be safely harbor
ed. It is both seaworn and unseaworthy
and Mr. Bryan and Mr. Bland have both
seen the approaching catastrophe, and
have each lowered a silver life-boat, and
struck for the shore. The one for help to
save the old ship, the other to build anew
one. Of the two Mr. Bland shows the
most sense, but there is a method in Mr,
Bryan's madness. If you and the Inde
pendent party will get aboard of Mr.
Bryan's little silver skiff he will row yon
out.to the old wreck, and if you help it
into the harbor again "then will come to
pass the saying that death is swallowed
up in victory." (Our death, I mean, and
their victorj). But my political Bible
says that our party can not live by silver
aioue, but by every word that proceedetb
out of theOraaba pla'form nntil revised
or changed.
But while this, p- jvernor, may be very
interesting reading to you, I must come
to a close. History we are told repeats
itself, and in my reflections my mind re
verts a little to ancient history. You
will find it, 1 think, in Homer's Iliad; and
while it may have no bearing on tbe pre
sent conditions I will venture to suggest
it, for the inventive genius of man today
w certainly as great as in theancientdaya
of the Greeks, and it often requires as
much strategy to capture and destroy .
a great political party aa it used to
take a city.
It is said that tbe Greeks once under
took to take Troy, a large aud strongly
fortified city, and after besieging it for
ten years failed. They then resorted to
strategy. They went to work just out
side the walls, and constructed a large
wooden horse, and in it they concealed a
number of their bravest men, well armed.
They then set fire to their tents, and,
apparently, abandoned the long and
fruitless siege. The Trojans, discovering
the colossal beast, by the light of the
bnrning tents.and as a trophy of victory,
went out and brought it up to the gate
of the city but could not get it in, and
the only thing to do was to tear down a
piece of the wall. This they did and
moved the monster inside all of which
the Greeks were watching from a dist
ance, and returned and easily took the
city. s
I sometimes ask, can it be that the
Democrats failing for four years and
over to capture the Independent party,
learned from the Greeks their art, and
constructed at Grand Island a large
wooden horse and concealed within it a
sufficient number of men armed with
weapons of destruction, and placed it
within our walls with the same intention?
I hope not, and yet sometimes I fear it
may be so.
1 here are other minor points in your
letter I must refer to, but must be very
brief. You say further: "I regret being
compelled to disappoint so worthy a
I'opuiist as yourself.
I certainly appreciate the compliment.
but I utterly fail to see where the "com
pulsion" comes in. Any information up
on the subject as to who "compelled"
you, would be thankfully received. I
may be mistaken, but 1 understand that
you are the governor, and that the
governor by law appoints the Warden of
the Penitentiary. 1 find nothing in the
law giving such power to a private
secretary, to an ex-Democratic congress
man, or even a United btates senator.
Where, therefore, I pray, is the compell
ing power you speak of when you say,
"1 regret being compelled; iou further
say: "I will be glad to talk the matter
over with you at your convenience." I
certainly will be glad to do so, although
it seems a little lute. If you had told me
before the act was done, that some one,
or some power, was about to "compel"
you to do an act that you did not want
to do, I might have been of some service
to you and myself both, but still I will
hear you, and only hope you will be able
to fully justify your course. My griev
ance is not, however, a personal one.
While I think I had a right to expect a
different, and a better, treatment, I have
no personal spite to gratify. It is true
that I have spent more time in trying to
build up. and to advance the party's
interest than you, and all your appoin
tees together, except Mr. Powers, an
the movement has cost me more money
than you all without any exception; yet
I only ask that our principles be adhered
to pill enacted into law. Don t think for
a moment you can drive me from the
party, for you will find me a stayer, and,
if necessary, a fighter; and I know the
rank and ffle too well to even imagine
that they are not going to stand with
me and by me shoulder to shoulder, in
the future, as in the past, as long as I
stand for the right and till the battle is
finally won. Yours very truly,
J. V. WOLFE.
GOD GIVE US MEN
We stand disgraced, humiliated asham
ed. The Populist party of Nebraska has
been betrayed by trusted leaders, into the
hands of our political enemies. It was
done secretly at Grand Island and at
Omaha on the respective dates of the
Populist aud Democratic conventions.
Only a small coterie of the leaders were
in it; the rest, with the rank and file,
knew nothing of it. Governor Holcomb
has paid some of the obligations then
accepted, then entered into with the
Democratic leaders. We are therefore
compelled to eat our own words of
December 6 he is a "demo-pop" gover
nor. Harpers Weekly was more than
half right when it published under his
cut thestatement, "Nebraska's Democrat
Governor." The Democrats govern him.
Whether Mr. Holcomb had a direct
hand in the original "deal" or not does
not matter. He has made the trade his
own by paying the Democrats for sup
porting him. Whether he wanted to do
this or not does not matter. He aud his
most intimate friends assert that "his
bands were tied," that he was "compel
led" to give the Democrats part of the
appointments.
What stuff is a man made of who will
allow a secret deal with his political
enemies to tie his hands and compel him
to pay them for serving (?) him? How
is it that he can disgrace the whole party
openly on the plea that he is "compelled"
to keep faith with political traders of an
opposing party in a deal unauthorized, a
secret trade that was a party betrayal,
an act that changed us, to all appearance'
and in reputation, from Populists to
"demo-pops?"
We commented all that was necessary
last week on the appointment of Mackay
Superintendent of the Norfolk Asylum, a
man who fought the Populist party last
year and who is still fighting it with pre
eminent zeal and venom. The day after
we went to press the governor appointed
Jim Dahlman deputy oil inspector in the
Sixth district. Dahlman was nominated
by the Democrats for Auditor, on the
state ticket. But, it seems, consented to
pull off for a consideration. He was
offered the Wardenship by Governor
Holcomb, but would not call it square
unless he could also name his own deputy.
A settlement waa finally made by deny-