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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, MARCH ig, 1896.
NO. 41.
. A NEW TRIAL WANTED.
The Honor of Jefferson Jackson and
Lincoln Cannot Shield To
days Criminals.
SOME OF THE JUEOES INSANE.
One Who Will Vote the Old Way if
Bothschilds Writes the Plat
form and the Devil Heads
the Ticket.
Notwithstanding Labor Organization,
wealth Still goes to the Idle Rich.
. The following is an extract from a re
cent speech of J. R. Sovereign, General
Master Workman of the Knights of La
bor:
The leaders and candidates of the two
old parties are continually prating
about the glorious record of their an
cestors. The early history and accom
plishments of the democratic and repub
lican parties are held up before the vot
ers as the shining trophies of political
honor. Now my friends, if I should com
mit willful murder in this community to
night and escape the minions of the law
and after twenty years a fugitive from
justice I should return, every one of you
would demand my arrest, conviction
ana punishment, lou would not give
me my liberty on the ground that a
quarter of a century ago I was an hon
est man or on the claim that I had re
formed. You would not accept a new
platform or code of resolves or pledges
for good' character in the future in ex
tenuation of the crime I had committed.
I might prove by sworn evidence in
court that I had a father by the name
of Jefferson who was the most perfect
embodiment of honor this country ever
had, and that I had an uncle by the
name of "Jackson who was revered by
-every honorable citizen in the union for
his good character and integrity, and
that I had a brother by the name of Lin
coln whose life was a star of the first
magnitude in the galaxy of national
honor and love of mankind, and that
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Seward, Sum
ner, Chase and a long line of the nation's
most honored sons were all my relatives.
But the court would rule that such evi
dence was incompetent, immaterial and
irrelevant, and all the people would de
dare that the honor and virtues of one
man or of a thousand men could not
condone the crime of another. The good
name of a dead philanthropist cannot
become the ransom of a live criminal.
The two old parties committed wilful
murder more than twenty years ago
and have repeated the crime everyday
from that time to the present. I will
not equivocate or excuse. The political
parties that have given the homes of the
people to the few, bankrupted industries,
driven thousands to suicide and turned
three million laborers and mechanics in
the streets to starve for want of employ
ment are guilty of cold blooded, pre
meditated murder and you know it.
But those same red-handed criminals
come before the great bar of the public
each year with adroitly written plat
forms claiming they have reformed and
demand a new lease of life and power be
cause of the honor and patriotism of
statesmen who died many years ago,
and the great public jury goes to the
ballot box and votes for their liberty
and acquittal. I speak to the shame of
thisgreat public jury. They have been
influenced by the virtues of an almost
forgotten past to mitigate and excuse
the crimes of the present. But thank
heaven, waiting justice does not always
sleep, the day of retribution is at hand,
the old parties have been called before
the bar of judgment and the great pub
lic jury is hearing the merits of the case
with less prejudice than ever before.
The honor and justice of a Jefferson, a
Jackson or a Lincoln will not be ac
cepted fn palliation for recent old party
crimes. The evidence of guilt leaves no
room for doubt and the better element
of both old parties are turning states
evidence to regain their standing and
escape the wrath to come.
Not long ago I heard a leading repub
lican declare he would support the re
publican party if it had only a last
year's almanac for a platform and a yel
low dog for a candidate. A democratic
candidate for the governorship of Ar
kansas said in a speech a few days ago
that he would support the democratic
party if Rothschilds wrote the platform
and the devil headed the ticket. My
friends I leave it to your candid judg
ment if that republican and that demo
crat did not express the. only reason
that can be given for supporting either
of the two old parties. And my friends,
if that kind of reason had prompted the
acts of Washington, Jefferson and the
other revolutionary patriots they would
have died shouting for King George and
there never would have been an Ameri
can republic.
If every human being who ever lived
had been guided by the same kind of
reason every act of the human family
would have been bad and there could
have been no good in the world between
the murder by Cain and the sale of bonds
by Carlisle. That is the same kind of
reasoning that beheaded the reformers,
handed the cup of poison to the philoso
phers, and kindled the fagots at the
feet of the ri irtyrs.
Do you k ow, my brother, that the
politicians mid not dare use such ar
gument or boast of his willingness to sac
rifice the interests of the people and the
life of the government on the altar of his
political party, if it were not that mil-
lions of working men have been applaud
ing such sentiments and voting for the
jien who utter tuemr
Do you know, my brother, that the
politicians who have uttered those de
spicable sentiments are the very fellows
who are always admonishing the wort'
ing pedple to stay out of politics? You
cannot find an old party politician lrora
Maine to California who under the guise
of philanthropy, will not spend time and
money trying to persuade the labor or
ganizations that they ought to stay out
of politics. They are willing that you
shall devote all your efforts to shop
rules, labels and insignificant trade
questions, but when you resolve to vote
to overthrow robbing combinations that
are enslaving labor, they rush to your
rescue with the apparent love of a
mother rescuing ber drowning child and
beg of you for the sake of your great
and good organization to stay out of pol
itics. You have taken their advice and
you have lost. With all the labor or
ganizations that have operated m this
country during the past twenty-five
years the wealth of the country has gone
to the idle rich, and there are more half
paid, more homeless, more idle, and
more hungry working people in this na
tion tonight than ever before. Fealty to
party right or wrong is treason to hu
manity. The love of justice has been so
weak and party prejudice so strong that
labor organizations have ptaceably sub
mitted to the enslavement of their mem
bers for fear of division and disruption
if they made a stand against the arch
enemies of the common people. But the
lines between the classes and the masses
are now so closely drawn that there is
not a single grain of natural ground on
which to stand. The labor organiza
tions must choose this year between the
claims of humanity and the demands of
gold bugs and plutocrats. 1 he money
power and the monopolies support only
such parties and candidates as will pro
tcct their interests and the labor organ
izations must do the same or surrender
to the despotism of arrogant capital.
UNEQUAL TAXATION.
NONRESIDENT LANDLORDS ARE
ESPECIALLY FAVORED.
Merchants and Farmers Taxed Enor
mously and Mortgage Holders
are Exempt.
Odell, Neb., March 13, 1896.
Editor Independent; Please allow
me a little space in your valuable
paper to consult with taxpayers of Ne
braska.
Fellow farmers, do you realize how we
are swindled under our present system of
assessment? Let me show you.
Real estate is assessed at about one-
sixth of its value or less, while personal
property is assessed at about one-third
of its value. On every six dollars invested
in real estate the owner pays tax on one
dollar, and on every six dollars invested
in personal property the owner pays tax
on two dollars.
Now consider the vast amount of real
estate in our state owned by non-residents
who have no personal property
here. In many cases they rent it at a
high cash rental and the tenant, who
farms it, must pay twice the tax per
valuation that the landlord pays. Also,
how many living in our towns who own
but little if any personal property, draw
theirsustainancefrom atenant who pays
twice as much tax according to value of
bis property as the owner of the farm.
Again, all personal property taxed be
comes due three months before real estate
tax, so the tenant or farmer who has his
money invested in personal property to
work the farm must pay his tax three
months before the land owner pays his
or he must pay ten per cent interest on it.
Let me show you how the man in debt
pays his own tax and the tax of his credi
tor too. Suppose a farmer gets a loan of
$1000 on his farm and invests the money
in stock, implements, etc., to operate the
farm. The assessor appraises and asses
ses his farm without making any allow
ance for the indebtedness, and assesses
his $1000 worth of personal property
too. So the farmer pays not only his
own tax but the tax of the mortgage
holder who has an equity in the farm to
the amount of $1000. Even if the mort
gage holder should be sufficiently honest
to allow his notes and mortgage to be
assessed that does not alter the fact that
the farmer pays tax twice on the $1000,
once in the land and once in the personal
property.
The mortgage holder has the best title
to the farm, for he can dispossess the
farmer at any time that the farmer fails
to comply with the terms of the mort
gage. He gets his dividends annually,
whether the farmer gets anything or not.
The discriminations are as much
against the merchant and manufacturer
as the farmer. I have written with refer
ence to the farmer, because farming is
the chief industry of the state. What
right have assessors to form, establish,
or follow customs for the benflt of the
wealthy contrary to law? What is the
governor's duty but to execute the law
and direct and advise such legislation as
will secure to each all equal benefits of
the law?
Fellow farmers let us deluge the execu
tive with letters and petitions to enforce
the assessment laws.
Friendly papers please copy.
J. D. Cropper.
A Paper to Fight With.
Nebraska City, Neb., March 11, '90.
Editor Independent: Please find en
closed postoffice order for $1 to pay my
subscription to the best populist paper
in the state. I am glad that we have
one paper to fight the corrupt press with,
such as the Journal, for it is the most
bum sheet in the state and also U. P.
Thurston, because he is a hired tool of
the money power. Geo. D. Bell.
A
VICTORY
Allen Ooes for Southern Gold Bog
Election Frauds.
THE POPS CARRIED ALABAMA.
A Committee of the U. S. Senate
Decides That They Did,
And That Reuben Kolb U the Lawful
Governor of That Stat.
- Shortly after the election in Alabama
In 1894, Col. Kolb, the populist candi
date for governor came to Washington.
He met a number of senators, representa
tives and economists at the rooms of the
Bimetallic League. He was introduced
by Gen. Warner as Governor Kolb of
Alabama. Col. Kolb remarked that Gen.
Warner had made a mistake "1 am" be
said, "not governor, but ex-governor. I
was elected by several thousand majori
ty, but the gold bugs excused me from
serving, so I am ex-governor."
Duringthatsession of congress Senator
Allen occupied nearly half a day in the
senate reading affidavits from promi
nent citizens residing in every part of
Alabama, who, under oath, testified to
the frauds that had been perpetrated in
counting out the populists after they
had fairly carried the state.
Early in the session, he introduced a
resolution directing the senatecommittee
on Privileges and Elections to make an
inquiry into the matter, and see whether
the state of Alabama had a republican
form of government. That committee
has made a report. The following is the
Associated Press account of what the
committee says:
Washington, March 11. Senator Chand
ler, from the committee on privileges and
elections, presented to the senate the
view of the majority of the committee,
consisting of the republican members,
recommending the adoption of Senator
Allen's resolution providing for an in
vestigation of the Alabama state and
legislative election of 1894. The report
makes reference to the election of 1892,
in which Thomas G. Jones, regular demo
crat, and Reuben . Kolb were rival
candidates for governor. While in this
election Jones was declared governor, the
committee asserts that this was "done
by the wholesale falsification of the re
turns by dishonest election officers in
pursuance of a great conspiracy, deliber
ately organized, long before the election,
for the purpose of changing the political
complexion of the state in case it should
appear that Kolb and his supporters had
carried the state."
In 1894 Kolb was again a candidate
for governor with Hon. W. C. Oates as
his opponent on the regular democratic
ticket. The report asserts that Kolb
was elected at this time, as were a ma
jority of the candidates for the legisla
ture on the same ticket, but that they
were not given the offices on account of
the fact that a fictitious vote was re
turned. Fifteen counties are mentioned
as giving a return of 50,000, whereas,
only 16,000 votes were cast. Therefore,
Mr. Oates, instead of being elected by
27,682 votes, was defeated by about
7,000 majority.
The committee says the Kolbjegisla-
ture wascountedoutinthesameway and
that in both elections the fraudulent re
turns came from the "black" counties;
that Kolb and his ticket carried a ma
jority of the "white" counties and that
the negros failing to register, false poll
lists were made and false returns made
and certified favorable to Kolb's antago
nists. "The case." it is asserted, "is not mere
ly one of local frauds which happened
here and there over the state, but the
case made is that of willfully planned and
deliberately manufactured masses of
fraudulent returns, based upon no votes
whatever, but made to apparently de
feat a state government that was actual
ly chosen, and to give apparent title to a
state government defeated by the
voters."
The report gives in detail the particu
lars concerning the organization of the
Kolb legislature and the election by it of
Mr. W. S. Rees as United States senator
to hold the seat occupied by Senator
Morgan. The committee says that the
investigation should be made and the
facts made known. If the charges are
well founded, the report says, it may
be the duty of the senate to oust
Mr. Morgan from his seat. The commit
tee takes the position that there can be
no doubt of the right of the senate to
make the investigation.
They Never Investigate.
Prices are cut in every direction, goods
are sacrificed for less than cost to ap
pease the demands of landlords and
lendlords. These struggling tradesmen
who often do not take in enough cash
to pay the rent and help, never think of
investigating the causes that have led
up to this awful state of affairs, and the
bankers and trust manipulators sit in
their palatial offices, rub their hands in
glee as the blood money comes in, and
watch the squirming of their victims
with great satisfaction. And so the
world wags, bankrnptcy multiplies,
wealth concentrates and the end nears.
Appeal to Reason.
Donnelly's Idea of If ell
Let the theologians depict a new hell,
where everybody is hopelessly in debt,
and wheat worth but 50 cents a bushel;
while the combine has got posssesaion of
the fuel and poor devils are freezing, and
a lot of villainous imps, calling them-
selves G. O. P. and the D. O. P., are go
ing around, making stump speeches, and
assuring the poor wretches that they are
in beaveul But hold onl Or someone will
swear we are describing Minnesota!
You can't scare anybody in this state
with a threat of a hot fire. But debt!
Ah, that is hell indeed! The Representative.
Strange but True.
Senator Allen has made it plain to the
country that the republicans have delib
erately lied for the past three years in
regard to silver. Tom Carter has proven
the same, and shown that the republican
trail on the silver question leads di
rectly into the Cleveland camp: and that
when Cleveland throws a stone into the
silver waters all the republicans, except
a few from the silver states, including
Senator Cameron, bob their anti-silver
heads like corks. And yet there are re
publicans in Montana who still cling to
that party. Helaua News.
ALLEN AND THE SUGAR TRUST.
FORCING THE TRUTH FROM UN
WILLING WITNESSES IN THE
SENATE.
Republicans Call the Denunciation
of Robbery a Sign of Lunacy.
Wilcox, Neb., March 13, 1890.
Editor Independent: Find enclosed
$2 for which give me credit on subscrip
tion. Should space permit, allow me to ex
press my appreciation and approval,
through your paper, of our noble and
untiring Senator Wm. V. Allen, may his
zeal and enthusiasm for the people of the
Doited States never wane nor grow lees.
He of whom it is said, twisted statements
and acknowledgements from Searls,
superintendent of the sugar trust, that
no other man could have got him to
make and admit. He who forced the
leading republican senators in the senate
the other day to acknowledge they were
opposed to the free coinage of silver
under any condition.
After their tariff bill was defeated, and
they were reading Carter, Teller and
others out of therepublican party, Mr.
Allen had read from the desk a speech
said to have been delivered by Governor
McKinley the "chief apostle of protec
tion." showing Mr. McKinley's severe
criticism of the demonetization of silver,
and holdfng up a bill, Mr. Allen said to
the republicans "now to test your integri
ty and your good faith, I offer this bill.
It is your tariff bill without a "t" un
crossed or an "i" undotted, except in the
title and I say to you, that if you are
ready to show the good faith of your
assertions for silver and link it with the
tariff bill we pledge you six populist
votes." But it will never pass.
Now if he will get after the democrats
and make them acknowledge that por
tion of their platform of 1892, which
reads, "We hold to the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money of the
country and to ' the coinage of both
gold and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for mint
age," was placed there for the express
purpose of deceiving and pulling the wool
over the people's eyes, as it undoubtedly
was, he will have accomplished a great
and glorious work for the cause of silver.
I hope the day is not far distant wnen
we will have a Wm. V. Allen or his equal
in the executive chair at Washington.
Had he been there for the last three
years, the people of the United States, in
a time of peace, would not have saddled
on to them $262,000,000 of bonds.
Neither would he have entered into a
secret agreement in 1894, with J. P.
Morcran & Co.. ( Wall street and Lombard
street combined) to sell $62 000,000 of
our bonds for 104 when they were worth
in the open market 118, a steal of more
than $8,000,000. Nor again on the 19th
of last month when they sold $4,700,000
of bonds to J. P. Morgan for 110 1-6
when they were worth and selling iu the
open market for 117, another steal of
$370,000.
Think you there is a buiness nouBe in
the world, except the one at Washington,
D. C, having men in their employment,
would allow them to sell property to the
amount of $66,700,000 (the bonds sold
clandestinely to J. P. Morgan & Co.,)
whereby that house was litterally and sur
reptitiously robbed by its agents of more
than eight and a half millions of dollars?
I say, do you think such a house would
hug their misfortune in silence and go on
doing business with those men as their
agents?
Nol But on the other hand every mem
ber of that firm would, and you, your
self would rise in indignation and drive
those agents from yourcompany.
Now friends, you, the people 01 the
United States, are that house. Cleve
land. Carlisle & Co.. are your agents who
sold $66,700,000 of your property and
turned into the house eignt and a half
millions less than it was worth in the
open market, and yet when we discuss
these and other transactions of our
agents, we are called cranks and ca
lamity howlers. Is it any wonder that
we cry as others have cried before. Uhl
Gou, how long will the people sleep?
, J. J. r ALLON.
One Year of the G. O. P.
Twenty-seven republican officials of
South Dakota "redeemers" defaulted
during the past two years, four state of
ficials got into scrapes; the governorwas
caught smouifhing hay, and selling U. S.
property, state treasurer I ay lor stole
$364,000, the chief justice of thesupreme
court is, within a month, permitted to
fly the state instead of hanging, for un
mentionable crimes against girls of
tender age. the party stood right up for
public and private thieves, and endorsed
a erjurer for speaker of the lower house
and now they have taken to burning
printing offices. East and West.
POPOLISMJNS AGAIN
Senator Morgan Introduces and De
fends a Bill That is Wholly
Populistic.
FOBECLOSE ON PACIFIC BOADS.
Squeeze the Water out and Make
Bates on the Actual Value.
A Constant Advance In Populist Principle.
The populists have made astonishing
progress in engrafting their principles
upon legislation and securing the adher
ence of some of the most scholarly men
and profoundest thinkers in the United
States. Among these can be mentioned
Prof. Ridpata and many others. Now
comes Senator Morgan of Alabama, who
is credited with being the greatest con
stitutional lawyer in the United States,
with a resolution which he introduced
Monday in the senate, directing the com
mittee on the Pacific railroads to bring
in a bill that, if enacted into law, wilt
dispose of these roads in just the way
that populists have demanded.
The bill is very long but two sections
of it,the eighth and sixteenth contain the
gist of the matter government owner
ship and rates based on the actual value
of the road with all the water squeezed
out of it.
The following are the two sections of
the bill referred to:
Eighth. And to provide further, di
recting that the secretary of the treasury,
in accordance with section 5 of the act
approved July 1, 1862, entitled "An act
to aid in the construction of a railroad
and telegraph line from the Missouri
River to the Pacific Ocean, and secure to
the government the use of the same for
postal, military, and other purposes,"
shall take possession of ,'the whole line
the railroad and telegraph, together
with the rolling stock, fixtures, and prop
erty of every kind and description in pos
session of the Union Pacific rail
road company . and ateo of the
Central Pacific railroad company,
belonging to or being a part
of ... each of the. railroads,; and
equipments of every sort, that were built
uuder the provisions of said act of con
gress, or any amendment thereof, to
gether with all the rights, functions, im
munities, and appurtenances thereunto
belonging, and also all lands granted to
and belonging to either of said railroad
companies that have not been conveyed
to bona fide purchasers, which posses
sion, so taken by the secretary of the
treasury, shall be for the use and benefit
of the United States. And until congress
shall otherwise direct, the said property
of every kind and description, whether in
action or possesssion, shall be held and
controlled as the property of the United
States, to be administered, as is pro
vided in this act, in conformity with the
the general uses and purposes for which
said railroad companies were instituted,
and under the laws regulating and con
trolling said companies, 'respectively,
as the same are amended in this act, or
may be hereafter amended.
Sixteenth. No dividends shall be paid
to the holder or owner of any stock in
either of said compauies until such stock
holder shall register such stock in books
kept for that purpose and shall sign 1 an
agreement, to be set forth in such book,
that the excess of said stock above the
percentage that it bears to the value of
the property belonging to the company,
and to the whole sum of the stock issued
by such company, is surrendered. The
entire property less the unsecured in
debtedness of each of such railroad com
panies shall be valued by the board of
directors, by the 1st day of December
1896. and shall be compared with the
amount of stock issued and outstanding
by said companies, respectively. And
the whole amount of stock in each of
said railroad companies shall be reduced
to correspond with the whole value of
its property, of every kind and condition,
so ascertained and determined. When
certificates of stock heretofore issued are
surrendered, new stock shall be issued for
the amount to which the bolder is enti
tled under this act, and no other stock
shall be recognized as being valid for any
purpose.
The Right Sort of Pop.
Belgrade, Neb., March 12, 1896.
Editor Independent: I received your
supplement and think that I can get a
few subscribers for your paper. I am
very much pleased with the Independent
and will do all I can to increase its circu
lation. Can you send roe some sample
copies and your terms to agentsk
Wm. Storms.
After the Shysters.
Cheney, Neb., March 13, 1896.
Editou Independent: We,' the mem
bers . of the "Cheney Protective Associa
tion," met in regular session, and after
due consideration, and in view of the
several cases where justice has been per
verted, adopted the following resolu
tions which we believe would have a
tendency to lead some, at least, of our
attorneys in the paths of honesty.
Whereas, It is a notorious fact, known
to every citizen of this county, that most
of our reputable, as well as all of our dis
reputable practitioners of Blackstone,
make it an invariable practice, to resort
to any and every technicality known to
the law, and a great many unknown, to
shield their criminal clients from a just
verdict, found by a competent jury, there
by defeating the object of the law, en
couraging criminalities, and endanger
ing the life and property of law-abiding
citizens. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we as individuals, and
as an associanion, resolve and declare it
to be our unalterable intention and the
duty of every law-abiding citizen to boy
cott any and every such lawyer, by refus
ing to employ or support them as candi
dates for any office, also to condemn any
public officer giving support to any such
lawyer.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be sent to the State Journal, Call,
Independent, News, Herald, New Re
public, Bennet Union and Hickman Enter
prise, with a request to publish, in the
interest of justice and protection.
Chas. M. Ring
J. M. Binforo
T. G. Hawkins
Committee.
THE FOBEIQN BOBS VOTES-
He is Honest and Makes the Best of Pop
ulists When Ha Comprehends
our Principles.
Rubhville, Neb., March 10, 1896. "
Editor Independent: As suggested
by one of your Wisconsin subscribers, I
think we should make more of an effort
to capture the foreign voters. We must
get literature in their own native lan
guage, so that they will thoroughly un
derstand the subject.
As a class they are honest and always
make strong independents when they once
understand the subject. Here is where
a great mistake is made, that is, they
understand enough English to do their
trading. But they cannot read and un
derstand a political speech.
Any person may find this out by seeing
foreigners in court where they cannot
make themselves understood nor can
they understand others. And most, if
not all the papers in their own language
are 'Gold Bug' papers, so how can you
expect them to be anything but 'Gold
Bug' voters? I know this to be a fact as
to the German voters, and I expect the
same holds good as to other nationalities.
As I am a German myself, I can speak
more especially for them. Three years
ago I was chairman of the Independent
County Central Committee. I tried to
get Bohemian literature and did
get some papers in that language,
but was told by those who read
them that they contained nothing of
which to make Independent voters,
and in fact they could not be known as
Independent papers. The same has'
been my experience with several so-called
German Independent papers of this state.
There was nothing in tbem to make in
dependent voters cling to principles, be
cause the papers did not teach tbem. I
say beware of papers that claim to be
Independent and non-partisan. They
do more harm to our cause than old
party papers. They are the ones that
betray with a kiss. They quite often
sell themselves for "Gold" to the highest
bidder. What we need in these bard
times is literature in the different lan
guages, to the point and that can be
spread broadcast all over the land. Let
tbem be only leaflets at a cheap price and
each leaflet treat of one subject, and that
to the point, say "money" or "trans
portation." Have all the reform papers advertise
them, scatter them among the foreign
ers that they may do good to all.
We must save our country from ruin,
and our people from debt and slavery.
Our reform papers are doing noble work,
the Nebraska Independent is in the
front ranks fighting for "a union of the
people for the people, and by the people."
Hoping that some arrangements will
be made to reach all foreigners in their
own language so we can enlist more of
them in the reform cause. I remain
Yours,
, H. F. Wasmund.
A Working Pop.
Hampton, Neb., March 16, 1896.
Editor Independent: I have spent a
day or more driving around to get this
list of nine subscribers gathered up. I
have given each one of them the advan
tage of the club rate.
1 have taken the paper ever since it
was started by J. Burrows, and to say
I am well pleased with the Independent
is putting it very mildly. Every one I
have talked to is pleased and think it
the best state paper we have ever had.
I will get up another list soon. Long
live the Independent.
J. T. Vorhes.
Bigger Than His Party.
Senator W. V. Allen of Nebraska,
though a member of a party largely in
the minority in the senate, is acknowl
edged on all hands to be a man of su
perior ability, wielding an influence far
beyond the limit of his party lines. His
masterly course in dealing with great
political questions agitating the coun
try, is turning the tide of public esteem
towards him.
Free Coinage or Fight.
Free coinage or fight is the motto now
of many of the men who will be dele
gates in the democratic and republican
national conventions. In the meantime
they are well aware of the fact that
there is one party that will give them
free coinage without a fight. New Era
Standard.
Presidential Predictions.
East of the Mississippi river the repub
licans can only count on 107 votes, and
in the south and west a party majority
cannot be obtained. Therefore the
election of a republican candidate is im
possible. What then? The populist
states will deprive the democrats of a
majority of the electoral votes. This
will throw the election in a house where
the silver states will dictate the name of
the president. Liberator (Kan.)
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