The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896, September 19, 1895, Page 4, Image 4
THE WEALTH MAKERS. September 19, 1895 THE WEALTH MAKERS. Ktw 8rlM ot THE ALLUSCE-ISDEPESDEXT. ConollitloB of tha Farmers AUi&nct and Neb, Independent PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BI Thi Wealth Makers Publishing Oempany, 1120 It St, Lincoln. Nebraska. CroKni Bowaed Gibson. . Editor .......Business UlDHN I. 6, HTATT. y. i. p. a. "It any man mnit (all tor mi to rlM, Tcsa ssek I not to ellinb. Another'! pain ' I choose not (or my good. A golden chain, A rob of honor, U too good prlM To tempt mj baity hand to do a wrong Unto a fellow man. Thle life hath woe ' Sufficient, wrought by man'e eatanlc foe; And who that hath a heart wonld dare prolong Or add a aorrow to a stricken son! That seeks a healing balm to make It whole? My bosom owns the brotherhood of man." Publishers' Announcement. The subserfptloa price of Tan Wealts Mai bs Is $1.00 per year. In advance. Agents In soliciting enbecrlptlons shonld be very careful that all names are correctly spelled and proper poetofflc given. Blanks lor return subscriptions, return envelopes, etc, can be had a application to this office. ' Always sign yosr name. No matter how often roa write ns do not neglect this Important mat ter. Every week we receive letters with Incom plete addresses or without siftnatoret and It Is Sometimes difficult to locate them, Ciaxoi or address. Subscribers wishing to (hang their poetofBce address must always glvs their former as wsll as their present addrssa when change will be promptly made. Advertising Rata. per Inch. I cents per Agate line, M lines to the Inch. Liberal discount oa large space or long time contract. Addre all advertising communication to WEALTH MAKERS PUBLISHING CO., J. & Hurr. Bus. Mgr. People's Independent Ticket !A. 8. TlBBITT J. 0. MoNcbmeT, H. F. Hose. For County Treasurer. A. H. Weir For County Commissioner ..It. E. Richardson For Clerk of District Court Kmas Baker For County Clerk 0. H. Wai.tkhs For County sheriff Fred A. Mii.i.kh For County Judge U. W. Iikko For County Kunr!iitmi)ent...- H.8. Howkks For County Corouer Dr. Low .r m. . i ... ... i i For Supreme Judge Samuel Maxwell For University Mrs. Elia W. Peattir Kegeu ts ) Pbok. James H. Baybtom Two highway robberies the same night upon the streets ot Omaha were reported in the Bee of Sept. 17. It will take more than the Columbia Liberty Bell to bring peace on earth. Justice is what is needed to secure the white-winged dove. Judge Welty has been renominated in the 7th judicial district. The Loan and Trust companies opposed him, but he was nominated on the first formal ballot Judge Wm. Neville was last week nominated by acclamation, amid great enthusiasm, to succeed himself as judge of the 13th judicial district of Nebraska. He will doubtless be elected. Fatti charges $5000 a night to sing. She seems to think God gave her a wonderful voice to sing only to the rich. And the rich believe that God loves them better than he does the poor. But how about Dives and LazaruB? Look out for an increase of bondsnow. The Pierponb-Morgan syndicate has quit furnishing gold to save the nation, and now the necks of the taxpayers must be bent to receive the yoke. Fall down, every body, and worship the image ot gold. Senator Hill is posing as the cham' pion of personal liberty and trying to make Sunday closing the issue in New York politics, so keeping out the great overshadowing questions of justice. And the Republican party is as anxious to shelve those questions as the Democrats are. Mexico is prospering under freecoinage of silver. It doesn't harm the industries of a nation for gold to leave it, nor even for gold and silver to both disappear. The United States was never so prospe rous as in the years following the war when greenbacks did the commercial work and gold and silver were not to be had. Postmaster-General Wilson shows in a letter to the New York World, that the Wilson tariff is workiug well for the country. Major Mcfcinley.it is reported, is going to demonstrate that it is work ing ill. "All on account of the tariff." Hell will need to bo enlarged to muke room for political liars, if the world lasts much longer. The problem of "hard tunes" will be solved when the workingmen of America boycott the saloon and stop drinking liquor. National Temperance Advocate. This tool talk makes us tired. There is a considerable percentage ot temperance hobbyists who have been looking so long at the saloon that they are blind to every other evil under the sun. Senator Peffer said Sept. 13: "If another issue of bonds is made without the authority of congress I shall advise their repudiation. I am satisfied that there will be another issue of bonds be fore Oct. 1, because the syndicate has been given the privilege of taking all the bonds issued before then, There is only one thing which may prevent a bond issue, and that is the fear that it will weaken the Democratic strength. They are making heroic efforts to strangle the free silver sentiment in all the states, and have to aconsiderable extent succeeded." A COS FUSION OF T0SGUES The world in full of voices, false and true, wl fish and unselfish; many mislead ing, many ignorant, many mixing truth with error consciously or unconsciously. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he has gone hid way he bousteth." This is the language of trade "Vote for me aud escape injustice," says the politician of every sort and party. "Believe as I believe, no more, no less," say all sectarians. There is no music in all this. It is a discordant clash and clangor, a world wide babel of human tongues in which the voice of God is lost to those who hasten, to those who listen not with earnest care. But "Like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations. We hear once more the voice of Christ say, Peace!"' And peace must come by dethroning selfishness, in the market place, in poli tics, in religion. "In the market place?" What! Exactly so. It is in buying and selling that Love is murdered aud the struggle of hell begins. The walls of separation be tween man and man, class and class, there rise, and wax thick and bard as adamant. There thrones are built and the masses are made slaves by law, the laws of property. There can be no peace till the professed followers of Christ wor ship him in the market place, practice love in all exchanges. "Without money and without price," by love directed, must all labor be done and all service rendered. That would indeed be Christ ianity. Anything less is self-worshiping atheism. "In politics?" Yes. The politics which is selfish tries to hide Its shame by pretense. The poli tician must either love the poor and the oppressed, or play the hypocrite. So long as the people are ignorant of right eousness, of the demands of justice, they can and will be divided and misled by smooth-tongued, selfish schemers, who will "frame mischief by a law." "In religion?" Selfishness in religion? Yes, that is its chief stronghold. If there were no selfishness in the churches there would be but one church. The fact that there are many, divided churches proves that they are not the body of Christ. The fact that there is not a church whose members are united politically or in labor and property proves that all churches have lost the Spirit of Christ, who prayed that his professed disciples might be one, that the world might be lieve he was from God. It is the common practice to stop the ears when God's messenger speaks. Every prophet and teacher of the people has been opposed, defamed and hated by the generution to which he was sent. Tho class in power is always contented. They refuse to be disturbed. Formerly they crucified, burned alive, and in num berless ways tortured to death preachers of righteousness. Now they frighten "the upper ten thousand" and middle class mob with the cry of "Socialist and Anarchist!" Ignorance is easily made the ally of the shrewd, selfish class. Sel fish voices, misleading cries, ignorance and prejudice still hold mankind in mis ery. O, how longt "Is It, O mnn, with such discordant noises, With such accursed Instruments as these. Thon drowneat Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And Jarrest the celestial harmonics?" The law of unselfish love is the law of life. It is the law by which the social world, now selfishly divided and chaotic, must be organized. And not upon the force of human government, not upon majority action must love wait. Love is duty, present, eternal. It does not de pend on conditions. It must by action make conditions. "Thou shale love thy neighbor as thyself" now; not in the period sailed the millennium; not in another world. SEVENTY MILLION, MOSTLY FOOLS It is our observation (and experience also) that the people of these parts, and of all parts, bankers, landlords, and large capitalists excepted, have been growing poorer for several years past. It is the same with those at work that it is with those who can not get work. All not supported by interest and rent, and all not down to hard, pan already, are growing poorer. Mortgages, bonds and notes call for the same number of dollars, with interest added, and to get a dollar it takes two or three times as many bushels of wheat, oats and corn (or hours of labor) ts it did a few years ago, when the obligation was given. Interest rent and dividends are eating the people up, absorbing their labor, making them slaves; aud the great bulk of them haven't enough sense to know what ails business, what hurU the producing class. Tell them it is lack of confidence on the part of the bankers, coupled with fearjof Democratic free trade, and half of them, nearly, will believe it. Tell the other half that it is too much tariff aud not enough silver mouey and that the Democratic party will give them free Bugar, free coal and free coinage; and knowing nothing of history they will trust it again, as they have always done. For thirty years and more the rich have been running congress and the state legislatures, securing the passage of class laws, obtaining monopoly franchises robbing the people and reducing them by legal processes to increasing depend ence and slavery, and the people have been so blamed ignorant they did not discover the leaks, the inequities, the wholesale robbery. If told of it they have for the most part been so crammed full of prejudice, of lies, of child-like faith in an old party name, that they could not be made to see tho truth. All the while they have been so narrowly and selfishly interested in their private busi ness that they have not attended pri maries, have not discovered how horribly corrupt ''the grand old party" has be come, have therefore taken no time and used no means to investigate political and economic questions; and now they find, with all their hard labor, strict at tention to business, and economy, they have for years been growing poorer. Prices and market values have been fall ing debts.have been growing by a process as effective and as deserving of punish ment as "raising the figures ot a check or note. Now, the question is, do the people know enough to put a stop to this mono poly robbery? Or will they go on voting the tickets of their oppressors? Can they be frightened out of what sense they have by the epithets flung at reformers, such as "cranks," "vagarists," "visionaries," "socialists," "anarchists?" Are they ever going to be capable of doiug their own thinking? ormay they be lied to and fastened to poverty's treadmill forever? THE MONEY QUESTION What is the money question? What is "the money power?" The answers given are vnrious, depend ing on the politics and mental grasp of the individual. But the truth is within reach of all. It is evident, to all who think, that the dollar should somehow be given a value that is permanent, stable, unfluctuating. But we all know that the dollar has greatly increased in purchasing power in the last two years. How was this done? There are two causes which make money rise and prices fall, viz: cutting oft the normal supply by closing the mints or stopping the printing ot paper money; and boarding, withdrawing from circula tion and refusing to use or loan the money upon which industry and com merce depends. Under the present financial and pro perty laws we have a panic and hoard ing period, with labor thrown out of employment, about once in every ten years, three or four years out of every ten being dull times. This is caused by monopoly tribute of all sorts which draws off the money under the name of interest, rent and dividends or profits, leaving the people who need more goods unable to buy out of the market as much as their labor has poured into it. In consequence the markets are glutted, prices must fall, production must be limited, and loans to a large extent also, because the value of securities shrink with falling prices, and people whose security is sufficient dare not borrow and produce on a falling market. Opeuing the mints to coin all the gold and silver that comes did not in the past, much less would it in the future, prevent the periodic concentration and hoarding of money and corresponding consequent glutting of the markets with goods. The free coinage of silver would furnish some relief from periodic money stringency, but would fall far short of a remedy. Interest is the measure of a part of the tribute which, draining the channels of commerce, goes into the hands of the money monopolists. The appreciation of the dollar in purchasing power caused by restricting the government supply and by hoarding the money which is in private hands, is the measure of the bal ance of the tribute or plunder which the money power commands. Hence it fol lows that laws must be devised to pro vide us a supply of money corresponding to a free steady development of produc tion and exchange, and which will also prevent the appreciation of the dollar by private hoarding. The money question will be settled when the government goes into the banking business, reducing charges for loans and exchange to what will cover thecostand unavoidable risks. Tnn "financiers" are making a great outcry against the greenbacks, craftily assuming that they have to be redeemed not in coin as the law says, but in gold, and that to avert the frequent issue of bonds to getgold to redeem them (when ever the bankers present greenbacks and demand gold) they must be retired. It is a concerted raid on the part of the money power, with their treacherous tools in office ready to interpret the law in their favor, and against the people they were elected to serve, and only an uprising up the people against the two old parties can save us from one or the other form of tribute to the money power. It makes no practfeal difference whether we continue to buy gold with bonds to exchange for greenbacks, trick which at no expense to the bankers plunges the nation in debt for no benefit received; or whether we burn up the greenbacks to please them and turn over to the bankers the government function of making money. In either case it means that the money power shall levy per cent tribute upon the wealth produe ing class which will perpetuate aud In crease their power until slavery's yoke has been securely fastened to the com mon working class, the heaviest yoke the workers can bear. Now is the time to send for our popular songbook, Armageddon. It is full of stirring words and splendid music. The price of the new edition is 30 cents copy, f 3.00 a dozen. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES The Arena for September contains the second part of Helen H. Gardiner's "A Battle for hound Morality;" an article from the pen of Prof. J. K. Buchnnan on ".Marvels of Electricity;"amost interest ing sketch of Mr. J. G. Clark, the poet, by B. O. Flower; "How Evolution Evolves," by Stinson Jarvis; "Omnipre sent Divinity" by Henry Wood; "The Peoples Lamps, Lleotric Light," by Prof. Frank Parsons; a symposium on Prof. George D. Iferron, by Adeline Knapp, Rev. Dr. J. R; McLean, Rev. W. W. Scudder, Jr., Rev. J.CummingsSmith Rev. J. E. Scott, Elder M. J. Ferguson, Rev. R. M. Webster, and James G.Clark. The third paper on Napoleon is furnished bv lion. John Davis. ihe Labor ex change is described by F. W. Cotton. Dr. Shutter talks about progressive Uuiver- salism, and there are most interesting book reviews, etc. It comes tough to the Americans who have had the idea of independence as the greatest blessing on earth taught them, to come down to begging in vain for work and getting off the earth they rent when without money. It all comes of false teaching. None ot us are or ought to be independent. We are inter-dependent, one as much dependent as the other They who rule are tyrants; they who at command serve, are slaves, Dependence equalized, or recognized as equal, does not detract from anyone's self respect. Mutual, voluntary, unpriced service be tween equals binds men together in love. It avoids the waste of strife, the anxiety of isolation. It secures peace and good will among men. The Arena for September contains a most interesting symposium of Prof. George D. Herron by eight Pacific Coast leaders, six of them ministers and college presidents, and another, Mr. Clark, the poet. Dr. Herron is as warmly defended by open-minded truth-lovers as he is fiercely and viciously attacked by the other class. No man in this age has so stirred up the forces of good and evil. The fight is centering about him, because none wield the sword of Christ as power fully as he. He is God's special mes senger, teacher, prophet of this time. A Pointer For Farmers Mr. Brown loaned Mr. Green, in 1868, $1,000 at 10 per cent interest. Each year Mr. Brown received from Mr. Green $ 100 as interest money. In order to get this, Mr. Green sold from the products of his farm at the market price at that date: 50 bushels of wheat, or 105 bushels of oats, or 125 bushels of corn, or 250 pounds of butter, or 500 pounds of pork, or 450 pounds of wool, or 500 pounds of cotton. In 1895 the mortgage was renewed at 8 per cent interest. Now, in order to get the $80 interest, Mr. Green would sell: 200 bushels of wheat, or 800 bushels of oats, or 400 bushels of corn, . 4 . or 534 pounds of butter, or 800 pounds of pork, or 400 pounds of wool, or 1200 pounds of cotton. Let The Government Ran Tbem All It was the Union Pacific road that led off in the $5 blanket rate for state fair business. The liberal policy of the Union Pacific under a receivership has become marked. Under the guidance of Uncle Sam's court the people are given benefits that could not have been wrung from the old regime. Omaha Bee. A Co-operative Trinity of Colonies Des Moines, la.. Sept. 16, 1895. Editor Wealth Makers: It often occurs to me, especially when conversing with some hide-bound lover of monopolistic ways, that we Populists arethrowingawayagreatdeal of powder and shot. Cattle take in wisdom through the hide mostly, and there is a way to pound it into such people. Why plead and pray when the remedy is within our own hands? Labor does it all. ' If we cannot supply the modicum of brains re quired then we deserve to be robbed by monopoly. Colonize is the word. "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4. Now let me suggest that instead of the usual farm colony, whereon to vegetate, we establish three colonies, one near a coal deposit, another in proximity to an iron deposit, and as near as possible to both a good farm colony. There are places where all three can be found at no great distance from each other. There we would have nearly all the raw mate rial required, and it is the raw material we must have or we would fall into the hands of speculators. Another import ant advantage such a combination would have over a mere farm colony would be in its ability to grow, a very important point, for although the initial expense might be greater, it would soon, owing to its growth and ability to fur nish employment toaconstantiyincreas ing number, prove much the cheaper undertaking. In my estimation, no colony yet undertaken, has had half a chance to live, let alone prosper, i need not take up your space with details. You and vour readers are sufficiently well in formed upon economic matters to under stand what 1 am driving at, sufficient to say that operating public works at cost, for the public benefit, accordiug to rop ulistic doctrines, such an enterprise would not only provide its members with a living, but place them in a position to make a very aggressive war upon mono poly generally. With such opportunities there is but little that is essential to the welfare of any community they could not create including tliMr own circulating medium. There would be the place to get arguments thnt would penetrate the thickest skull. Think it over, orotners; there is much more in it than may appear at first sight machine shops, and machinery of all kinds, railways, food, clothiug and shelter. Almost everything one can think of. Labor would have, and should have, the best there is. And listen, you monopolists, "but if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed, one of another" Gal. 15:5. Evidently Paul knew a thing or two about monopolists, but what a nasty anarchist be would be considered today! No doubt he meant something else. Sincerely, G. J udge Berg Iasnes a Challenge Lincoln, Neb., Sept 9, 1895. non. Frank I). Euger, Chairman Indepen dent County Central Committee, Lin coln, Nebraska. Dear Sir: As candidate for the office of county judge of this county, on the Independent ticket, I desire, through you, to challenge my opponent, the nominee of the Republican party for that office, to a series of joint debates upon the political issues of the day.-both local and general, such discussions to take place at such times and places and to be governed by such rules as may be hereafter agreed upon. I am a firm believer in the principles of the Independent party and I believe that the prosperity and welfare of our people will be far more seriously affected by the ultimate triumph or defeat of those prin ciples, than by the mere victory or defeat of any candidate. I will not, directly nor indirectly, undertake to purchase votes nor to pay any patriot for his time and influence in my behalf. Politi cal parties have their origin in public necessity. No political party has ever been called into existence in this country without a cause, and no party can hope to endure for any considerable length of time after it has accomplished its mis sion, or after it has turned its back upon those fundamental principles out ot which it had its birth. The Independent party is the child of the common people, and its organization by them was an act of self-defense and self-protection. It was called into existence to correct a long train of public evils and abuses, nearly all of which were and are directly trace able to corrupt political methods. When conditions are' such that it costs a candi date for office more to be elected than the office will repay him, the inevitable result is that honest men are discouraged from aspiring to public office, and the dis honest ones push to the front, and these, when elected, cannot afford to hold office at a loss, and so a system of publio plunder is inaugurated in order that enough may be stolen from the publio to pay back their campaign expenses in addition to the legitimate emoluments of office. This is the condition of things at this time, nnd this was one of the principal evils that led to the formation of our party, and to this evil nearly all corruption in office is traceable, because a dishonest candidate will make a dis honest official. If we, as a party, would rectify any of these evils, we must strike at the cause. If we would purify the stream, we must begin at the fountain. While it is of the utmost importance that we nominate and elect good men to office, it is well for us to bear in mind that the fact of hom ing office is not the end we hope to at tain, but simply a menus to that end. It seems to me that in the contest for office it is our duty to our party to go before the voters with our platform of princi ples aud let them know our exact posi tion upon every public question of the day and what we, as a party, hope to do, if placed in power. It is true that this is a local contest in which the fitness of a given candidate for office should control the action of voters rather than party ties, but it seems to me that a fair and open discussion of principles and issues is always preferable as a means of letting the voters know who a candidate is and what he is, to a campaign conducted along the old lines with wire pulling and boodleism as its chief factors. A joint discussion between opposing candidates furnishes the best and fairest means of acquaint ing voters with the parties concerned and with their respective views, and in this way there is at least a measure of respectability and dignity added to the campaign not otherwise attainable. Any other kind of campaign is apt to be come a scramble on the part of individu al candidates to further their own politi cal ends regardless of the rights of other candidates. What 1 do in this campaign I shall do in the interest of the candidate for constable as well as the candidate for supreme judge. I believe I can do the greatest good for the whole ticket and the party by a discussion of the issues oi the day with my opponent. I desire to get acquainted with the voters of this county and I want them to know how I stand on public questions, and also what I propose to do if elected. Doubt less my opponent entertains the same desires. These ends can best beattained by a series of joint discussions between us. ; I hope my opponent and all the candi dates will join me in an attempt to ele vate this campaign above the usual me thods. It is a reflection upon our civili zation that a class of professional politi cians having no legitimate business and no visible means of support, can secure enough money from the people's candi dates for public office to support them selves from one campaign to another. I, for one, will not pay tribute to these people. They have no legitimate place in our politics and their occupation is a burning insult to the manhood of every votr. All the voters need to know is the various candidates a nd to acquai n t them selves with their qualifications, and they will know how to vote without the aid of any expert or professional. With a view to bringing about the results abovemen tioned, I make this request. Very respectfully, G. V. Beuce. Mr. Eager'a Letter to Mr. Clark Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 9, 1895. Hon. Paul Clark, Chairman Republican County Central Committeej Lincoln, Nebraska. Dear Sir: At the request of G. W, Berge, candidate of the Independent party for county judge of this county desire as chairman of theCouuty Central Committee of the Independent party, to challenge the Republican nominee for county judge, S. T. Cochran, to a series of joint debates between Mr. Berge and Mr. Cochran upon the political issues ot the day. I send you herewith a copy of Mr. Berge's letter to nie in order that ( you may fully understand the motives) ' that prompt him to this course. If this challenge is accepted, please notify me to that effect at your earliest convenience, and advise me when it will beconvienient to meet you and arrange a to the times aud places of holding such discussions and also the rules and regulations that shall govern the same. Very respectfully, Frank D. Eager. Chairman County Central Committee People's Independent Party. Convention Dates The Otoe county Populist convention for the purpose of nominatlngcandidates lor county offices will be held at byracuse Oct. 1st. AN OBSTACLE I was climbing np a mountain path With many things to do, Important business of my own And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view. My work was such as could not wait. My path quite clearly showed. My strength and time were limited, I carried quite a load, And there that hulking Prejudice Bat all across the road. So I spoke to him politely. For he was hugs and high, And begged that he would mors a bit And let me travel by; He smiled, but as lor moving! He didn't e Ten try. And when I reasoned quietly With that colossal mnle; My time was short no other path The mountain winds were cool I argued like a Solomon. He sat thera like a fool. Then I flew Into a passion, I danced and howled and swore, I pelted and belabored him Till I was stiff and sore, Es got aa mad as I did But he sat there as before. And then I begged him on my knees I might be kneeling still If so I hoped to move that mass Of obdurate ill-will As well Invite the monument To vacate Bunker Hill! Bo I sat before him helpless. In an ecstasy of woe: The mountain mists were rising fast. The sun was sinking slow. When a sudden inspiration came, As sudden winds do blow. I took my hat, I took my stick, ' My load I settled fair, I approached that awful Incubus With an absent-minded air And I walked directly through him , As If he wasn't there! Charlotte Perkins Stetson. PEOPLE'S INDEPENDENT PARTY Fourth Judicial District Convention A delegate convention of the Peoole'n IndeDen- brnska, composed of Burt, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties, is hereby called to meet at K. of L. ball, 110 and 112 South Fourteenth street Omaha, Neb., at 2:30 p. m. Saturday, September 21, l!05, for the purpose of placing in nomination seven candidates for judges of the district courts of said Fourth Judicial district, to be cbosen at the coming election, also to transact such other business as may properly come before the conven tion. The basis of representation snail be the same- as that adopted by the state committee one delegate for every 100 votes or major fraction thereof cast at the state election In 1884 for Hon. U. W. McFadden for secretary of state as lol- lows: Burt county 9 delegates Douglas aonnty 40 delegates Sarpy county 6 delegate Washington county i aeiegaies The committee recommends that no individu ally chosen proxies be allowed, but that the delegates present, or alternates selected by regu lar convention, cast the lull vote to which their respective counties are entitled. John Jeffcoat, Silas Bobbins, Chairman. Secretary, Populist Judicial Convention We the undersigned connty committeemen, ot the Independent People's party of the several counties, of the (eighth) judicial district, hereby call a judicial convention to be held at Wakefield Dixon county, Nebraska, on Thursday, Septem ber 2t, ISito, at one o'clock p. in., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for district judge. The counties are entitled to the following num ber ot delegates: Dakota 4 Cuming 5- Thurston 3 Dixon 8 Cedar stuutou A Dr. L. D evoke, ot Dixon, John H. Feliier, Cedar Louis Dewald, Cuming. T. H. Graves, Thurston. Dated Lincoln, August 28, 1SW5. THE STATE PLATFOKM. We, the people's party of the state of Nebraska, in convention assembled, do ..i.l r..ii. ll f 11 . 1 . m puwiui uii m louowiug pituiumi oi pru- We hereby reaffirm the principles of thej Omaha platform. 7 We declare ourselves iu favor of strict economy in conducting1 the affairs of the i state government in a I its branches. We believe the judicial affairs of the state Bhould be conducted on the princi ples of justice and honesty, without par tisan bias, and in the interests of the people. THE BE80LUTI0N8 AS PASSED. Resolved, That we favor the principle of tbe initiative and referendum in mat ters of legislation. Resolved, That we are opposed to any religious test for admission to office or for membership in this party. We invite all reform and progressive organizations and persons to to unite with us, and deprecate any act which. tends to give prestige and continued ex- latonno tn Hiviumn nf pptnrm fnrppn. i Resolevd. That if the policy of the gen eral government in reducing the volume , of money is continued we must in justice to the taxpayers demand the reduction of all salaries of state and county officers. Resolved, That this convention most heartily endorses the position of Governor Holcomb in reference to the penitentiary contracts and his efforts to administer the affairs of the state in an economical manner. Resolved, That we express our sincere thanks to the mayor and citizens of Lin coln for their courtesy to the delegates end visitorsat this convention. Dr. Madden, Eye, Ear, Noseband Throat diseases, over Rock Island ticket office, S. W. cor. 11 and O atreetst Glasses accurately adjusted. Dr. If Ilea'N mv PcASTmicnre BHKTTVA, T1HM, WEAK BACKS. At drugflsta. oolj 25c, II 1 tmmsasbi v.:6Ksra