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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VII.
LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1896.
NO. 34
HOW OUR ALLEN FIGHTS
He Pounds Populist Doctrine into the
Pudding-Headed Gold Sags
HE WANTS NO MORE SUBSIDIES
The Senate Instructed in Sound Pop
ulist Doctrine on Telegraphs, ,
Railroads and the Nicaragua
Canal
Hoar and Hale Bare Not Fight
One day last week Senator Hale intro
duced a bill and made a speech in favor
of giving a large subsidy to some com
pany to lay a cable to Hawaii, Senator
Allem made a vigorous attack upon the
whole scheme. Tbere were several sharp
colloquies between him, Chandler, Hale
and Hoar, in. which Allen forced them by
his sharp questions to acknowledge that
the government had a constitutional
right to build railroads and telegraph
lines and operate them. The following
is a part of the discussion. It will be
seen that Allen stands at his post and
fights for every populist principle with the
bravery of a lion and the perseverance
of a saint
Among other things Senator Allen
said:
I am decidedly in favor of the construc
tion of this cable line, but I want the
government of the United States to own
it, and to control it and operate it. The
senator asks me if I do not believe that
it would be wiser and better for the gov
erument, even if it owned such a line, to
lease it to private parties under a prop
erly drawn contract. I do not believe
so. I do not believe it would be any
wiser to lease a cable line that is used for
postal purposes than it would be to lease
the post-offices and the post-routes of
the United States. Those were private
enterprises at one time in the history of
this country. 1 am told by those who
are older than I am that they remember
distinctively the time when in this coun
try it cost 25 cents to send a letter from
one state to another, and in some in
stances more. The entire postal system
of the United (states was a private enter
prise, exactly as the old stage lines and
stage coaches were private enterprises.
Yet the government of the United States
eaw proper to discontinue the postal
service as a pri vate enterprise. Through
its sovereign power the government took
control of the postal service throughout
the length and breadth of the land, and
eventually it assumed control of the
postal service emanating from this coun
try and going abroad. Why was that
done? Because it made the service more
uniform and better, cheaper, and quicker.
It was in the interest of the public that
that was done.
Now, if we give the money of this gov
ernment to the Pacific Cable company or
to any other private enterprise we are
simply going into a line of business
where we have sunk and are liable to
sink in the next twenty years four or five
hundred million dollars. The senator
from Maine looks at me with some sur
prise. I mean to say that the system of
subsidizing Pacific railroads, for In
stance, and the attempt that was made
in this chamber to (subsidize the Nicar
agua canal last .year will, before they
are completed, if they beco,nie consum
mated, cost this government $500,000,
000, if not more. The experience we
have had in that line is not such, in my
judgment, as to make it satisfactory to
our people.
Mr. Chandler Will the senator allow
me to interrupt him again ?
Mr. Allen Certainly.
- Mr. Chandler I sympathize with a
great many of the senator's ideas, but
he seems to me to go wild in his differ
ences from all the rest of the world,
which seems to be the populistic func
tion. The senator criticises the con
struction of the Pacific roads. A great
deal of time might be spent in censuring
the method that was adopted, but the
fact was that under that method rail
road communication across the conti
nent was accomplished in less than seven
years. The senator from Maine will
correct me if I am wrong. I say in less
than seven years of the ten years that
were allowed for that purpose that line
was built, while if the government had
undertaken to build the roads for itself
the work would have probably dragged
for fllteen years.
Does the Senator mean to say, going
back to that magnificent enterprise, that
because hecan find fault with the methods
that were adopted for building the Pacific
railroads the government itself ought to
have built the roads across the continent
and to have continued to operate the
roads for all time? Is that the Senator's
notion about railroads?
Mr. Allen. I have not opposed and do
not now oppose or criticise the construc
tion of the Pacific roads per se. I criti
cise the method by which they were con
structed mid the means employed.
M" vandler. Does the Senator think
ttu government ought to have built
those roads itself?
Mr. Allen. I certainly do.
Mr. Frye. And run them?
v. Mr. Allen. And run them. Why not?
M:vJt is paternalism, is it? Yes, that is th
repr.rtW'y trouble. There is the great buga-'Failnooo.
have sh Mr. Chandler. Not for me.
38,6Jf Mr. Allen. Not for the Senator from
-enr xew Hampshire, i am glad to near that
1 oniiliHm in crrnwinfT! it. in unrpjidiiic utc
the Northeastern portion of this countrj
Mr. President,, that is the only ohjeetior,
that any man ever made in public or
private, and I am glad to do the Senator
from New Hampshire the justice of saying
that at all times be has had the courage
of his convictions in this chamber.
Mr. Chandler T am not willing to join
the populistic party quite yet. I am
much more ready to take the senator
from Nebraska into my party than to
to join his. I say the paternalism of
those methods would not deter me from
adopting them. I do not think that I
am in favor of such methods of govern
mental intervention in public works. It
is a question of policy. One method
may be adopted in one case and another
method may be adopted m another case,
Mr. Allen Mr. President, the populi st
party will not take the honorable sena
tor from New Hampshire into its ranks
and into full fellowship just yet. I think
we prefer to take him, as a friend of mine
used to say that the Methodist church
took new converts, "for six months on
suspicion. Laughter. We prefer him
meet for repentauce for a time; and
if he proves himself worthy and well
qualified, we will at the proper time re
ceive him into full. fellowship.
Put I am glad to note the fact that
light is dawning even in New fcngland,
and it is not as bad a thing now as it
used to be when I first came here for a
man to talk of the doctrine of ownership
of railways by the government. I have
never heard a man upon the other side
of the chamber or upon this side, and 1
never expect to hear one, who can offer
a decent reason against those arguments.
I understand that gentlemen hold up
their hands in horror and say, ''that is
populism;" "that is paternalism;" but
you never undertake to define paternal
ism. You undertake to scare thecountry
with a word, just asyou do with the word
"parity" and the word "fiat."
No, Mr. President, I am in favor of this
government owning and controlling this
cable line for several reasons. In the
first place, it would be cheaper, in my
judgment, and directly in line with the
policy of the government in owning and
controlling the Post Office Department
in all its features; and it would be direct
ly in line with' the true policy of this
government never to farm out to pri
vate individuals or private corporations
any of its sovereign power. We might
just as well say that the decisions of the
supreme court of the United States
should be farmed out to private enter
prise (and I presume they would, in many
instances, be as valuable as they are
now if they were) as to say that the
sovereign power to control the mail ser
vice of this government, or any feature
of it, should be farmed out to private
corporations. The truth is, we are,
every day of our lives here, delegating
sovereign powers to private corporations
and private enterprises that theconstitu-
tion places in this government to be
exercised in the interest of the people,
Senators seem to be bent upon having
these powers delegated to private corpo
rations. When it comes to the question
of the power and policy of this govern
ment to own and operate such lines by
itself unaided, and unaiding any private
corporation in a like enterprise, I believe
it is the true policy and the potriotic
policy for the government to own and
operate them.
In the next place, there is another se
rious objection to the bill. Another
great corporation is to be raised up,
whose fangs eventually are to enter into
the legislative and executivedepartments
of this government, if not into the iudi.
cial department, and one more enemy of
free government is to be fed and encour
aged by more liberal appropriations
madt by congress. How long will it be
until this Pacific cable company will
plaoe in this chamber and in the other
house of congress such servile tools as it
wants to do its bidding in the form of
legislation, and by that means stifle the
cries and wishes of the people and enact
legislation in the interests ot private
enterprise and in such a way as to lay
additional burdens upon the masses of
our people? I do not believe that we
should encourage enterprises of this kind
where it is in the interests of the govern
ment to construct the work and where it
is conceded that we have ample power to
construct it ourselves.
Let me recur briefly to our experience
with reference to Pacific railroads, for I
do not want to be misunderstood upon
that question. I admit that it was good
policy to construct the Pacific roads, at
least one of them, possibly all of them ;
it was the proper thing to do ; but the
originator of that enterprise, Mr. Asa
Whitney, never expected it to be a pri
vate enterprise. His first petition to
congressiu 1846, I think, possibly in
1844, was to the effect that he was to
construct the road out of a land grant
to be given to him by congress, and
within a certain time after that he was
to turn the road over to the govern
ment, and it was to be a great govern
mental highway. That was his plan. I
believe it would have been better policy,
and that it would have been a great deal
deal cheaper for this government to have
made adirecfcapprbpriation to construct
the Pacific railroads from the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers as they have been
constructed to the Pacific slope and to
nave owned and controlled them today.
We have a debt of $120,000,000 due
us now. We have guaranteed bonds to
the amount of $00,000,000, if not more,
o per cent bonds, that we must make
provision for at this congress subsidy
bonds that were given to those roads.
One of the strange things in the history
of such transactions is that when the
government of the United States had the
hrst hen upon the roads for the subsidy
bonds, through some kind of legerde-
niain, I know not what, that lien was
taken off and certain stockholders and
bondholders were given a lien prior to
the government's lien. We voluntarily
relinquish the first lieu upon those roads;
we waived our right to foreclose upon the
roads and reduce them to government
ownership, and gave to certain moneyed
interests in this country a first, lion, who
now threaten to take the roads and
leave the government without a penuy
to pay the subsidy bonds or to recoup
for the interest that has been paid upon
the debt. It is not likely that the time
will come within fifteen or twenty years
when a like policy will be pursued with
reference to this Pacific Cable Company '
it a is subsidized?
I believed if we owned and controlled
and operated a great transcontinental
line of railway today we could squetle a
hundred per cent of waterout of watfred
stock. By fixing the rates of passenger
and freight tariff upon that road we
eould force every competing road in the
United States to come to the prices fixed
by the government of the United States.
It would go as far as anything we can
do, if not further, to bring about an ad
justment of this great railroad problem.
Mr. President; a railway is a public
corporation; that is, it gets its power to
go across your land and mine and to
exercise the power of eminent domain be
cause the government farms out to it the
sovereign power. That question first
arose in this Country in the case of Blood
good vs. The Mohawk Itiver Railroad
Company, when the old court of errors of
New York was composed of a few judges
and the Senators. It was a serious ques
tion tor a great many years whether
private corporation or a corporation in
the nature of a railroad company could
exercise the sovereign power of eminent
domain and force itself across thepro-
perty ol private individuals, .finally
that position was sustained; thesupfeme
court ol the United States followed it,
uuu every court in uie union iouofs 16
today.
Does any lawyer or any layman djbubt
tnat it a railroad company gets a tight
to construct a railroad in consequence of
of the government farming out to it the
right of eminent domain, there goes with
that power, as an incident of the grant,
the power to control the road that exer
cises the right of eminent domain? Has
not this government power, whenever
necessity may bring about the occasion
to exercise its sovereign power of eminent
domain, to reduce every ccrporation of
that kind in this country to government
ownership? The same power that the
corporotion exercises with reference to
private property may be exercised bj the
government with reference to the rro
party of the corporation itself, it Is a
supreme power that knows no limit but
the limit of necessity and desirability.
W hy not, tnen, own and control tpose
railroads? Out in the state in which
have the honor to live oats are being
sold to-day for 11 cents a bushel oats
as fine as were ever grown upon the face
of the earth. It costs 16 cents of freight
tariff to put a bushel of oats in market
from Nebraska to New York 60 percent
more than the farmer can get for it
there. So with corn, wheat, and all
other farm products, and with meat
products. I believe they are taking from
the state of Nebraska and Kansas and
other western states every year $50,
000,000 to pay interest upon watered
stocks. NO restraint is placed upon
them by ' the state government. The
state government has no power to place
it upon the subsidized roads, in so far as
they are doing an interstate traffic busi
ness. No restraint is placed upon them
by congress. They are at liberty under
our laws to take a road that cost $25,
000 of honest money for its construction
and to capitalize that road for $140,000
or $150,000 per mile, and by that means
take profits from the grain grower and
the meat grower of the states through
which they run. It amounts to millions
and hundreds of millions of dollars in the
course of a year. Is not that a matter
of sufficient importance to awake at
least some slight interest on the part of
congress?
With reference to the Nicaragua canal
I favor it. I want to see this govern-
ment by tjie construction of a canal
about i76 miles, cut off the 10,000 of
travel around the Horn. But I shall
never vote for the an interest bearing ob
ligation of this government in aid of
that or in aid of any other enterprise,
It means the expenditure of $300,000,-
000 upon the part of this government
before that enterprise is finally paid for
nnder such a system.
n heuever we can issue the money here
and commence the constrution of the
Nicaragua canal and pay for it as we go
along it will have my vote. But when
ever it comes to the question of issuing
bonds and subsidizing some private cor
poration that is to own and construct it
and take profits while we pay the inter
est and principal of the subsidy bonds.
1 shall oppose it, because 1 do not be
lieve that this government as a matter
of policy should issue the bonds and incur
an endless debt which fature generations
will be taxed to pay.
Stick To Your Principles Bat be
Liberal.
Stick to your principles, boys, but hold
out the hand of fellowship to every man
wno is ready to help mankind out of the
abyss; and who proves his sincerity by
breaking loose from the two old rotten
parties. The man who joins at the
eleventh hour will be just as welcome as
the man wno commenced work at the
first hour. Be big-hearted. We are not
fighting for personal ambitious, or for
prejudices, but to retorm the abuses that
are ruining the American people. Every
man who fights on the side of humanity
is our frieud, we care not what he may
have been heretofore, or what mistakes
he may have made. Shoulder to should
er, boys, and move down upon theenemy
in solid column, with the stars and
stripes flying over us. Ignatius Donnaly.
The Oratba Judges
The Omaha Judges in spite of all the
criticism they have received, continue to
be in contempt of the people as will be
seen by the following sentences recently
pronounced by them. .
James C. lsh is senteuced bv Judge
Fawcett to fifteen months in the peniten
tiary for the crime of manslaughter,
which was originally characterized in the
complaint filed by the county attorney
as murder m the first degree. A few
weeks ago a man charged with writing
libelous paragraphs in a village weekly
in the little town of Gretna was senteuced
by Jndge Scott to twelve months in the
penitentiary. About eighteen months
ngo a man was convicted of appropria
ting to himself a cloak belonging to his
employer, who owed him more than the
cloak was worth. The man is now serv
ing a sentence imposed by Judge Scott
of five years in the penitentiary.
PARTIES
The Free Coinage Men Bolt Both of the
Old Organizations
THEY ABE COMING TO THE POPS
They Call a Convention to Meet at St
Louis on the Same Date the Populists
National Committee Selected
Come Home Ye Wanderers
The American Bimetallic League held
a convention in Washington, D. C, Jan.
22. The following account is furnished
to the American public by the Press As
sociation liars. The part in quotations
and the call lor a convention to meet
in St. Louis at the same time as the peo
ples' party convention meets, are true.
Other parts must be taken cumgrano
salis.
It must be remembered that the mem
bership of the Bimetallic League is made
up of men of all parties, republicans,
democrats, populists and prohibitionists.
A very large number of learned men be
long to it scholars, authors, econo
mists and professors in universities.
The populist membership in the league is
probably greater than all the others
combined. It will be seen that they have
made their presence felt.
Washington Jan. 23. The conference
today resulted in an animated discussion
of the financial situation and the policy
to be pursued by the friends of silver.
During the discussion considerable feeling
was aroused by some of the remarks
made by General Hatch of Missouri, in
which he stated in effect that if the popu
lists of Kentucky had done their whole
duty the election of Mr. Blackburn to a
seat in the Unitad States senate would
not be a matter of doubt. General Field
of Virginia and others made heated re
plies. Mayor Turner of Lansing, Mich.,
and Senator Stewart of Nevada also ad-
,i .1 4-1. :
The committee on resolutions, of which
Senator Jones of Nevada is chairman,
submitted its report, consisting of an un
usually long preamble, and ending with
the declaration: "That over and above
all other questions of policy, we are in
favor of restoring to the people of the
United States the time-honored money of
the constitution gold and silver not
one, but both the money of Washington
and Hamilton of Jefferson and Monroe
of Jackson and Lincoln, to theend that
American people may receive honest pay
lor an honest product, the American
debtor paying his just obligations in an
honest standard and not in a standard
that is appreciated 100 per cent above
the great staples of our country, and to
the end, further, that silver standard
countries be deprived of the unnatural
advantage they now enjoy in the differ
ence in exchange between gold and silver
an advantage which the tariff legisla
tion alone cannot overcome.
"We, therefore, confidently appeal lo
the people of the United States that leav
ing in abeyance for the moment all other
questions, however important, even mo
mentous they may appear, and sunder
ing, if need" be, all the former party affil
iations, unite in a supreme effort to free
themselves and their children from the
domination of the money power a pow
er more destructive than any which has
ever been fastened upon the civilized men
of any race or in any age. And upon
the consummation of their desires and
efforts we invoke the gracious favor of
divine providence."
1 he report was widely and loudly ap
plauded as it was read, and the confer
ence seemed to be filled to the fullest ex
tent with enthusissm. It was read by
Senator Jones, chairman. At the con
clusion there was a big demonstration.
The delegates aroRe to their feet aud
cheered loudly and called for Senator
Jones. He spoke for about ten minutes
and his remarks were vociferously ap
plauded. APPORTIONING DELEGATES.
The following is the report of the com
mittee on organization:
lhat a convention of the qualified
voters of the United States who believe
in the principles this day enunciated by
the conference aud who are willing to
subordinate party allegiance and fealty
to those principles and to support the
nominees of the national convention
provided for by this conference shall be
held at the city of St. Louis. Mo., on the
22d day of July, 189G, at the hour of 12
o clock noon, lhat the apportionment
t3 such convention shall be one delegate
for each senator and representative in
the United States congress from the sev
eral states and one delegate for each del
egate in congress from the several terri
tories, and additional delegates for the
several states and territories based upon
the silver strength as ascertained from
the American bimetallic union.
The number of delegates apportioned
to each state and territory shall be as
follows:
Alabama 40Nebraska 61
Alaska ii NeYada 16
Arizona 6 Nw Hampshire 6
Arkansas 80 New Jersey 12
California 45 New York 41
Colorado 70 North Carolina 70
Connecticut , 15North Dakota........... 12
Releware 8 Ohio 1 40
Klorlila M'OWahoma. 10
Georgia 6!oreon 17
Idaho 10 Pennsylvania .... 46
Illinois 60 Khods Island 8
Indiana 49 South Carolina B
Indian Territory 6 South Dakota 15
Iowa 8:. Tennessee 24
Kansas 60'Texas 70
Kentucky 25 Vermont 8
Louisiana. ... so Virginia .. 40
Maine 9 Washington If
Maryland o w(st Virginia 12
MnsMachusetts.. 21 Wisconsin 15
Michigan 84 Wyoming 15
Minnesota so! New Mexico. 9
Mississippi 1... 2:". tltuli on
Missouri 45iDistrict of Columbia. 4
Montana... i. lsl
That this conference appoint a provis
ional national committee, consisting of
ouo member from each state and terri
tory, said committee to possess all pow
ers usually possessed by national com
mittees of political parties; said commit
tees to Berve until the holding of said
national convention; said committee, or
the portion thereof appointed bv the
conference, shall have full power to fill
vacancies, whether from the failure of
this conference, to appoint a full commit
tee or from death, resignation or other
wise; said cotnmjtteeshall haveits head
quarters in the city of Washington, D. C.
CONDITIONS TO ADMISSION.
The mode of selecting delegates to said
national convention shall be as pre
scribed by the national committee, sub
ject to the following regulations: All
delegates shall be selected at public con
ventions or at public meetings to be
held either in the several states at large
or in the several counties or districts of
said states as the committee may pre
scribe. No person shall be eligible as a
delegate to any such convention, or
shall sit as a delegate in said national
convention,' who is not in favor of the
declaration of principles this day enun
ciated by this conference and who is not
willing to subordinate party allegiance
to the advancement of such principles
and to support the nominees of said
convention. The national couimittce
shall proceed at once to organize the
several states and territories for the suc
cess of this movement.
The national committee so far elected
is as follows: Arizona, M. W. Brennan;
Colorado, I. N. . Stevens; Connecticut,
Joseph Sheldon: California, George W.
Baker; Idaho, John P. Clough: Iowa,
Amos Steckle; Illinois, George M. Em
ery; Kansas, A. C. Shinn; Maryland,
Gilbert T. Smith; Massachusetts, George
C. Hill; Michigan, J. U. llamsdell; Mon
tana, W. II. Sweet; Nebraska, G. L.
Laws; Nevada, George S, Nixon; New
Jersey, Mortimer Whitehead, North Car
olina, B. F. Keit; Ohio, Henry T. Niles;
Pennsylvania, R. E. Difendorfer; Tennes
see, J. H. Acklin; Virginia, A. G. Wedder
burn; Vermont, Joseph Battel; District
of Columbia, C. J. II illy er.
On motion, Dr. J. J. Mott, of North
Carolina, was unanimously elected chair
man of the national executive commit
tee. Dr. Mott has always been a repub
lican, and for a number ol years has
been chairman of the state committee of
North Carolina, and was vouched for by
a number iimong them Senator Butler
as one of the best organizers and most
indefatigable workers in the United
States. A committee on finance, one from
each state, was selected. Altera number
of other speeches the silver conference
adjourned. ,
THE SILVER REPUBLICANS.
They Beg the Gold Boga Not to Pat
Them on a Level With Plgtatled
Chinamen.
Washington, Jan. 23 The republican
silver senators signed a declaration which
is intended to be used in the coming cam
paign as the demand which the silver
men will make for a plank in the national
convention. In the preamble itis recited
that the present financial system en
dangers the industrial prosperity of the
United States, which is threatened by
China and Japan as a result of the de
crease in the value of silver, and the dif
ference of exchange between silver and
gold using countries. It is therefore re
solved that the signers favor the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of
16 to 1, for the purpose of obliterating
this difference of exchange, which is de
clared to operate as a bounty on, the ex
port of products from silver using coun
tries to gold using countries. It is also
resolved that they favor a tariff which
shall equalize the difference in the cost of
labor between this country and the coun
tries of Europe and Asia. It is the pur
pose of those who are circulating the
declaration to get all the republican sil
ver men in congress to sign it.
Stand Up for Nebraska
We know that the people are leaving
this state by hundreds, leaving, in what
seems to ns, to be a vain hope of secur
ing relief. They have been taxed and
taxed and robbed and robbed till even
hope is gone, and instead of trying to
better their condition by exercising their
privilege as voters, they allow themselves
to be whipped into line, cast a vote for
the same old gang and strike out to
start again in a new country. They
hope to better their condition and we
honor them for it, at the same time we
believe that the same conditions will
confront them wherever they may go.
The condition surrounding the laboring
man cannot be changed by changing lo
cation. Itis no respecter of state lines
nor of drouth lines, but is a condition of
the body politic which can be changed
only by removing the cause.
We believe in standing up for Ne
braska, but we cannot believe that that
consists in standing up for a boodler
gang that has for the last twenty years
lived and prospered opon the tcil of
these same honest men they desire to
"Pike & Tlack" yet a little longer.
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PKOGRESSIVE
BOODLE
Bepublioans go for the Publio Funds as an
Indian goes for a Buffalo
TEE WEANING OF THE THIEYE3
It is Awful Hard on Them and They Bawl
Like Bull Calve
The Pop Governor Stops the Pap
Lincoln, Jan. 28, 1896.
Editor Independent:
You doubtless have noticed how skill
fully the ring republicans play progres
sive boodle. They go for public funds as
Indians once went for wild buffalo and
seem to have no more twinges of con
science in pocketing a thousand dollars
than the red man had in slaying a hieffer
calf. And the game is not confined to
one department of the government but
it covers city county and state.
During the last week the supremecourt
hasxjonflrmed a judgment against Lan
caster county of 2,500 in favor of Greene
& Van Duyn, for services refunded for
funding some county bonds that had be.
come payable. The republican papers
have had considerable to say about
the pleading of the two county attorneys
in the case, but not one of them dared to
tell the whole truth about the claim.
A year ago some $350,000 of oar
county bonds, bearing a heavy rate of
interest, become payable. The state
treasurer bad a million or tbere aboute,
of school money in his bands drawing
no interest at all foronr schools. Yon
see it would not answer for the county
commissioners to negotiate the loan with
the state treasurer, for then the steal
ing would not be legal. So Greene &
Van Duyn were made the thieves by
proxey. The job was done up to (he
Queen's taste, $2,000 were paid, and
now $2,500 more with costs. Now it
would take seventeen angels to convince
me that Greene & Van , Duyn did not
agree to divide that money among the
state officers, county commissioners and
themselves. And if what the republican
papers say is true, perhaps the County
attorneys get a little sniff.
Some time ago a colored man was tried
for his life and as a progressive step in
the boodle liue the county commission
ers had four or five high priced lawyers
to criminate him aud three or four high
priced ones to clear him, all paid out oi
the tax payers money of the county. The .
lawyers all helped to elect the "ticket"
and of course must all have a job.
Now there is another colored man to be
tried and the progressive game will re
quire eight or ten on one side and five or
six on the other. We will waitand see.
The same game has been played in
letting our city jobs, lighting, funding,
and other jobs. But the most bare-faced
progression is in permitting the gamblers
to run in violation of all law, charging
them a licence fee of one or two hundred
dollars a month, all for the private bene-,
fit of the city officers. They do not dare
to take quite all the reservation money,
yet, but they are progressing that way
fast.
. The same game has been played for
years all along the line and it makes no
difference, the players are re-elected with
out; a scowl. It was played when some
stone was wanted for the penitentiary.
Instead of the state officers advertising
for bids and letting the quarry men
furnish the stone, a stink finger man
bought the stone and sold them to the
state at an advance of ten to fifteen
thousand dollars. Then withoutdoubt
the money made was divided among the ,
state players. That is the reason why
such a fuss is made about the manage
ment of the penitentiary. The game
don't progress with a pop governor iu
the road. Now don't be too hard on
them. Calves always ball when weaned.
II. W.Hardy.
NOT THE "THIRD PARTY"
Bnt a Party Having a Splendid Show
to Elect a President
Omaha, Jan. 27.
Editor Independent:
We hear a great many people speak oi
the peoples party as the "third party"
not realizing that the peoples party is
either the first or second party in about
half of the states of the union. A careful
review of the fact shows that if proper
judgment is used at St. Louis on July 22
the peoples party stands a splendid
show of electing the president at the
coming presidential election. The repub
lican party is the third party in Ar
kansas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, and honors are about evenly
divided between the three parties iu
Louisiana.
The democratic party is the third party
in Minnisota, North Dakota, South Da
kota, Nebraska, Wyoming. Montana,
Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado,
Kansas, Idaho, with honors divided in
California, Utah, and the remainder of
the territories. The electoral vote of
Tennessee is very likely to be carried by
the peoples party this year. The two
old parties have fully shown their ina
bility to deal with important economic
questions. Iet good judgment and hon
esty prevail at St. Louis in July and the
result will very likely be surprising to
the most ardent advocates of the na
tional reforms.
D. Clem Deaveb.
AH druggists sell Dr. Miles' fain W.
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