THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
June 4, 1896.
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Glory Hallelujah.
Let all good men and women every
where render thanks for the victory over
plutocracy in Oregon. Reading between
the lines the matter sent out by the As
sociated Press Liars the facts appear
that the populist nominees for both
members of congress and the mayor of
Portland have been elected.
Pennoyer, the populist candidate for
mayor in Portland has overcome a 5,
000 republican majority in that city.
Without a doubt, while they will send
no official figures, both populist candi
dates tor congress are elected. Vander
burg, the populist candidate in the
First district has 2000 majority.
In the Second, Northup, the regular
gold repulican, is sndwed under and the
contest is between the fusion free silver
candidate and the populist, with the
latter somewhat in the lead. The
legislature is 16 to 1 for free silver. This
insures a free silver senator. This is the
first battle in the campaign of '96 in the
west and we have won. In Washington,
the senate passed a populist bill by seven
majority, forbidding Cleveland and Car
lisle issuing any more bonds without the
consent of congress, which was intro
duced by the populist Senator Butler.
Amen and amen. Brother Snyder will
lead us in a prayer of thanksgiving.
Another Lincoln has come to save the
common people. Read Allen's speech in
BoBton. :
Eugene Debbs has utterly repudiated
the attempt to nominate him as an inde
pendent labor candidate or any other
sort of a candidate for the presidency.
The minister of public worship in
France is an avowed atheist. Tuis state
church business is a queer affair. We
ought to be thankful that the fathers
eliminated it from our system of govern
ment. One earnest populist came into the In
dependent office last week and sub
scribed for thirty papers to be sent
out to help fight the cause of the great
common people. Who will emulate his
good example?
The promulgators of Wall street
threats against free government may as
well understand now as ever that the
populist party asks no quarter in this
fight: and they will give none to the
foreign traitors congregated on the
lower end of Manhattan Island.
Allen's tribute to labor in his Boston
speech was never equaled for its beauty
and truth. Labor's monuments are not
recorded in glittering marble or shining
bronze but in all the beautiful works of
man which adorn the whole face of the
earth.
The Arkansaw Kicker last week gath
ered up all the Associated Press Liars
fake dispatches and attacks on populists,
printed tbem and sent them out labeled
"Middle of the Road Populism." If it
were not profane, this editor would say
d m the whole crew of kicking traitors.
Is it possible that Morgan is still so ver
dant as to believe Associated Press
yarns?
The Independent can tell its Wash
ington correspondent, who writes in an
other column, why the Huntington lob
by did not succeed at this session of con
gress. No congress ever voted a steal
like that at a session just preceding a
presidential election. It might make
trouble during the campaign. Huntings
ton expects to get hissteal through next
winter after the presidential election. All
that he wanted to do was to get things
in shape for quick work next winter. He
has done that. . :
WHY ALLEN KICKED. :.
That Senator Allen had good grounds
for his persistent fight, 'for pensions for
the enlisted private soldier, is shown by
the gross partiality to officers in private
pension bills reported to congress by the
republican pension committee. A report
to the house prepared by the clerk of the
pension committee' shows that 163 bills
have been favorably reported granting
pensions to commissioned officers, and
only 271 to privates. When the vast
difference between the number of privates
and officers is considered, one is inclined
to remark: No wonder Allen kicked up a
ow about it.
THE ASSAULT ON ALLEN.
The course of the Missouri World,
which claims to be a populist paper, for
the last three months has been inexplic
able, either on the grounds of honesty or
ignorance. Last week it made a vicious
and malignant attack on Senator Allen
under flaring headlines, making a large,
displayed head such as editors use to
call attention to matter of great impor
tance or an uncommon sensation. They
were as follows; "W. V. Allen. The Ne
braska Senator Advocates Specie Bas s
Fraud. Even Goes so Far as to Agree to
Tote to Retire Greenbacks, if Metal Mon
ey is Substituted In Its Place. He Con
tends for a Paper Money Redeemable In
Gold and Silver. Populism Repudiated."
On the editorial page it says: "Senator
Allen's speech is probably a part of a
program; the balance of which will be
developed from time to time. The first
part was the issuance of the trimming
address promulgated from Washington
a year ago last January, to which,
among others, appeared the name 01
Senator Allen."
To sustain this charge, it prints part
of Allen's speech, which appears in an
other column of this paper, and short
extracts, taken out of their connection,
from a running debate with five or six
other senators. The whole thing is so
skillfully put together the ordinary read
er could come to no other conclusion
than that Senator Allen is a despicable
traitor and has abandoned populism
and repudiated the populist party.
There is no course left to the Indepen
dent but to denounce the Missouri World
as an enemy in the populist camp and to
warn all honest populists against it.
The truth about the whole matter is
this: Several senators, among them Hill,
Baker, Dubois, and others, having re
peatedly asserted on the floor of the sen
ate that the people's party was in favor
of an unlimited issue of irredeemable pa
per money, Allen, to answer them, un
dertook to read the Omaha platform.
Then about half a dozen of the sharpest
corporation lawyers in the United States
jumped on him all at once, and Allen
stood there, single-handed and alone,
and fought in defense of the platform
until the sun went down, against this
plutocratic crowd of United States sena
tors.
These pfutocrats charged that the
Omaha platform demanded an un
limited issue of irredeemable paper
money. Allen saw a chance to down
them all. He read the platform and
showed that there was no demand there
in for irredeemable money. Allen
knew, as every thorough flatist knows,
that the money plank, exoept the sen
tence about silver, is very weak and am
biguous. It does , not declare, as it
ought to declare, that all - money is the
creation of law, whether it is gold, silver,
paper, or whatever the material, and he
took advantage of this, in a red hot
fight, which lasted for hours, and where
the odds against him in the number of
assailants was six to one, to declare
what is true, that the Omaha platform
does not demand irredeemable paper
money at all, much less an unlimited
amount of it.
The Missouri World is a worse enemy
to the people's party than any goldite
sheet in the.land. We repudiate it as a
populist paper and denounce it as a spy
in the honorable household of populism-
Let every honest man beware of it.
What Senator Allen believes and has
always advocated in the senate is shown
by the following press report of his speech
in Boston:
Boston, May 29. Senator William V.
Allen of Nebraska was the guest at the
second annual banquet of the people's
party of Massachusetts this evening.
The feature of the evening was his ad
dress.
Senator Allen said that what the coun
try needed most at the present time was
a radical purification of the public ser
vice. Permanent prosperity would not
return to bless us until every department
had been purified and until there was
an upward tendency in public morals. A
rigid public morality was greatly needed,
but the government was exactly what
the people made it, and tbey had it in
their power to perfect it u tney would.
I he cardinal principles 01 tne populist
party, he continued, are: I lie free and
unlimited coinage 01 silver at tne ratio
of 16 to 1; the issuance of all money by
the general government as a full legal
tender for public and private debts,
without the use of banking corporations;
an increase of the circulating medium to
f 50 per capita; a graduated income tax;
postal savings banks; a limitation of
the national revenues to tne necessary
expenses of the government economical-1
ly and honestly administered; govern
ment ownership of railroads, telegraphs,
and telephones; a reduction ol lands now
held by railroads and other corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs;
and all lands owned by nonresident
aliens to be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers.
The senator directed attention to some
things which, he said, the ignorant have
supposed and the vicious have asserted
to be populist doctrines, and mat nave
no relation to the party. Populists, he
declared, are not socialists; the party is
not paternalistic. It believes that scien
title socialism is an uttpian'dream incap
able of realization, and it has no sym
pathy with that kind of socialism that
borders on anarchy, and it has supreme
contempt for anarchists, foreign or native
born. The populist is a party 01 en
lightened and just individualism. It be
lieves in the equality of ail before the
law, and demands the enactment aud en
forcement of just laws in an honest man
ner for the advancement of society.
The senator paid a glowing tribute to
labor and to what it bad accomplished
in the world's history. Labor needed no
monument of crumbling stone or rusting
iron to call the world to stop and read
what she had done. Her handiwork was
everywhere stamped on the 0 earth and
writted on the ages. When we consider
labor's history, written in 'oppression
and deeds of wrong, he continued, is it a
wonder that at times labor, patient e
it is, has shown signs of discontent?
New and undefined as it may be, but
rugged, mighty aud powerful, there bas
arisen a party whose teachings to some
mav souud strange. Its foundation
rests on the cause of labor and the
brotherhood of man, and it seeks to
solve questions other parties have failed
to solve how to prevent unjust accumu
lation of wealth in the hands 01 tne lew;
how to resist the encroachments of capi
tal and of greed upon the rights of the
masses under names of trusts and cor
porations; how to find and remove the
causes that have led to discontent and
stifled the cry of hunger in a land of
plenty. AH these and many more things
it seeks to do and will in time, 1 trust,
accomplish. Toward the ranks of this
nartv the army of labor is advancing.
Senator Allen concluded as follows: "I
would deeply impress upon your minds
that civilization and the republic are on
trial. The responsibility is with the
people. If they act wisely and in their
own 1 interests, discharge their duties
soberly, patriotically and intelligently,
these inestimable blessings will survive
and be transmitted to posterity for
countless ages to come. If they fail, the
republic will crumble, civilization will
peiish from the earth, and liberty will be
lost to them and those who are to fol
low." CAN'T HOLD THEM DOWN.
The populist campaign is starting up
all over the state. We read of a meeting
first in one part of the state, then anoth
er, and then another. There is no use
trying to hold down the safety valve; it
can't be done. The people have found
out who their enemies are, and they are
determined to be up and at them, candi
dates or no candidates, conventions or
no conventions. Last week there was
one held at Loup City, of which the
Times-Independent gives an account. It
was an immense affair. Speeches were
made by Governor Holcomb, ex-State
Senator Stewart, and others. People
came for miles bearing banners and
shouting for the restoration of the an
cient rights of American citizens. One
banner bore the inscription: "Effect of
the last thirty years of old party govern
ment 3,000,000 tramps, 24,000,000
mortgaged homes, and an endless bond
chain." Another had written on it:
"Down with a single gold standard and
slavery." An old soldier carried a ban
ner with these words: "Comrades, what
did you fight for, and where are you
now? Stop and think." Another ban
ner had this legend: "The effect of thirty
years' of old party rule Wheat 82c, corn
9c, oats 7c, butter 5c, eggs 5c, shame."
Chairman McCall, in introducing Gov
ernor Holcomb, said the times reminded
him of the Union general who made a re
quisition for men eighteen feet tall who
could wade through mud ten feet deep
and keep on fighting. The populists
have two of that kind, a governor and a
senator who, wading through thejtot
tomleBS swamps of public corruption,
holding aloft Old Glory, never cease to
fight.
The whole oountry seems on fire with
patriotic enthusiasm. The people will
hold meetings and will charge on the
enemy, orders or no orders. You can't
keep them down.
WORSE THAN THOMPSON'S COLT.
When the democrats undertook to ut
terly destroy silver and contract the
money supply f 4,500,000 per month by
the repeal of the Sherman act, they made
a free silver democrat secretary of the
treasury, a free silver democrat speaker
of the house, and a free silver democrat
chairman of the senate finance committee,
who reported to another free silver dem
ocrat who was the presiding officer of
the senate. All of these men had always
been free silver democrats, Carlisle, Crisp,
Voorhees and Stevenson. Now they say
they are going to make a free silver plat
form and nominate another free silver
democrat for president and these trait
ors have the gall to ask honest free silver
men to associate with them and vote
their ticketl The famous government
mule did not have a cheek like that. It
beats the world, the flesh and' the devil.
The only thing with which we can truth
fully compare it, is the assinnity of a few
kicking populist editors who are afraid
the populist national convention will
vote to join these brazen cheeked trait
ors. They bavn't as much sense as
Thompson's colt, whom it is reported
swam a river a mile wide and tried to
suck a wooden horse when its own moth
er was standing by its side.
THE LIAR'S BELT.
For the most audacious, malicious,
presumptuous, malignant and wicked
lie, the belt goes this week to the editor
of the Broken Bow Republican, for the
statement that Governor Holcomb is re
sponsible for the noninvestment of the
$600,000 supposed to be in the hands
of the treasurer of the state of Nebraska-
Other competitors may feel aggrieved at
this award because the lie was not told
Iftat week but the week before. There
are some just grounds for this complaint,
but after considering the size of the
whopper, the mendacity of the editor
who wrote it. the courage which it took
to make such a statement in the state of
Nebraska where all the facts are known,
it was finally decided that the editor of
the Broken Bow Republican was entitled
to it.
Buffalo Bill dedicated the democratic
convention building in Chicago last
Monday night by an exhibition of his
wild west show, the principle feature of
which was the antics of his bucking bron
hn. iimt to indicate what was in store
for the sight-seers when the convention
got together.
UNADULTERATED ClNNfcDNESS.
The editor of the Missouri World
which pretends to be a populist paper, is
a greater adept in sneaking meanness
than any g. o. p. goldite writer in the
whole west. Here is a sample of his nasty
work. He prints Taubenenk's manly,
able and calm reply to the Associated
Press liars, which appeared in the Inde
pendent last week, in which Taubeneck
denounces fusion and a single plank
platform under the following headlines.
"Says he is not in favor of a single plank
platform. But only mentions one plank
in his communication." For sneaking,
cowardly meanness that thing was never
excelled. v
In the reform press, in our county and
state conventions, in all gatherings of
populists in the United States heretofore,
there has always been a kindly, broth
erly feeling manifiested toward one an
other until within the last two or three
months, when two or three men, who
have not a spark of true populism in
any of their carcasses, and who by
some inscrutable providence have been
permitted to take charge of what were
once populist papers, began impugning
the motives of men, the latchet of whose
shoes tbey were not worthy to unloose,
and in effect claiming that the whole
membership of populist conventions were
numbskulls or scoundrels who could be
bribed or wheedled into abandoning our
distinctive populist principles. ,
These chaps have misrepresented, they
have lied, they have sneered at honest
men until no gentleman can afford toas
sociate with them. Their whole aim
seems to be to create discord in the pop
ulist ranks and breed strife and hatred
where fraternity and confidence in each
others honesty of purpose was before
universal.
Every new movement brings such scum
to the surface. There is one thing to be
hopeful about. They do not last long.
They have but small following even in
their own states. The weakest points in
the populist lines in the west or south
are in the states where these papers are
published. Look at the populist vote in
Indiana, Missouri and Arkansas! The
honest wage earners and toiling farmers
of those states are not won to populism
by such tactics and never will be.
Not one of these writers believes that
by any possible means could the national
convention be induced to abandon pop
ulist principles if he does, he hasn't
sense enough to come in when it rains
and his object in these attacks on dis
tinguished populists is not to prevent
what cannot possibly happen. The In
dependent is at a loss to conceive what
their object is, unless it is unadulter
ated cussedness.
SEVEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
The convention spitting has started,
not to stop nn,til it meets the solid, har
monious lines of the peoples party. It
began last week at Pittsburg in the pro
hibition convention when St. John of
Kansas walked out at the head of nearly
one half of the convention, because the
gold bugs had captured the whole affair.
The Independent believes that the same
thing will occur in the same way at the
republican and democratic conventions,
but whether after the bolt they will do
these bolting prohibitionists did,
nominate a candidate, remains to be
seen. If they do there will be seven par
ties in the field and seven presidential
candidates, to-wit, free silver and gold
ite republicans, free silver and goldite
democrats, free silver and goldite pro
hibitionists and the peoples party candi
date. The result of that will be that the
goldites of all brands, when election day
comes, will vote the republican ticket, for
the goldite has no politics and no country.
The silver vote will be divided into four
sections. It remains to be seen whether
the free silver men are such political
idiots. There is only one way to get
free silver and that is to elect a populist
president and a congress that will sus
tain him.
JUDGE LOCKRAN.
The close union that exists between the
two old parties was never better exem
plified than in the hasty work done in
the appointment and confirmation by
the senate of Judge Lockran to a va
cancy on the bench of the federal court.
Judge Lockran, as pension commissioner,
has been the sworn enemy of the old sol
diers. "His arbitrary decision and his
corps of spies which have hounded old
soldiers for the last three years, have
been denounced in almost every G. A. R.
post in the whole country. But the mo
ment his appointment reached the sen
ate. Cushman Davis and Nute Nelson,
the two goldite republican senators from
Minnesota brought every influence to
bear that was io their power to have the
nomination confirmed before the Grand
Army had a chance to make a protest.
They succeeded. Now this fall they will
go on the stump and tell over again how
thev love the old soldier. If the (J. A. K.
did the right thing by them, it would see
to it that neither they nor their party
got a vote from an old soldier in the
whole state of Minnesota, for giving this
enemy of our veterans a life appoint-
ment as a reward of his treachery to the
Grand Army.
A VERY SILL'S EDITOR.
The twisting in and out and round
about of the goldite editors creates more
fun than a country circus. The State
Journal having stated that "there is
money in free coinage for the honest
mina owner who lives for the most part
I way off in England and Germany and
who is able to give orators out of a job
steady work," and by inference to no
one else, it was called upon by one of its
readers to defend that position. The
astute editor replies as follows:
Oar friend is a little critical. Of coarse what
Carlisle means when he says that legislation
will not add value to bullion la that free coinage
of silver would not permanently raise the value
of the silver in a dollar from 50 to 100 cents as
measured in gold. That would be a real raise In
valoe. Bntior the time being It wonld make a
piece of bullion with the requisite amount of
pure silver in it to make a coin dollar, a poten
tial legal tender for debts Incurred before the
passage of the free coinage act, and thus give
the owner of that bullion am opportunity to
double the value of bis bullion holdings until the
old debts bad been cleaned np at 50 cents on the
dollar. It would be a stock Jobbing operation,
similar to those frequently worked In a New York
and Chicago grain pit.
The said astute editor never seemed to
realize how silly and ridiculous that
statement would make him appear. Who
is it who has debts to pay? Is it the
silver baron who lives in luxury "away
off in England and Germany?" Are the
"silver barons" of whom the goldite
editors write so much in these days, so
overwhelmed with debt that they are the
only ones who are anxious to coin silver
bullion? Are they not "barons" at all
but bankrupts? Search all literature
and a more self contradictory statement
cannot be found.
1. The silver mine owners are all mil
lionaires. They hire orators .to advo
cate the free coinage of silver.
2. The silver mine owners are all in
debt. They advocate the free coinage of
silver so they can pay , their debts in 50
cent dollars. If the Independent had an
Idiot Belt to award, it would certainly
go this time to the State Journal. It
certainly has a very silly editor.
SCHOENHEIT'S BOOK.
Jule Schoenheit's book, "The Speak
er's Story Teller," supplies a want in re
form literature which has long been felt.
We are inclined to be too gloomy as we
view the wreck that plutocracy has made
of the bright hopes of mankind, and this
comes as a' burst of inspiring music, to
cheer the weary, battle stained columns
of reformers as they march on to meet
the enemy in the deadly conflict of next
November. Nearly all the great leaders
of mankind who have fought for the
rights of the common people, could tell
a good story and. loved to hear one.
The history of the revolution might have
been different had it not been for the
humor of Franklin, and mankind will
never forget how Lincoln, in the darkest
hours of our recent struggle cheered our
hearts and urged us on with his remark,
"That reminds me of a little story'
which was always followed with some
thing that set the whole north to laug
hing. PLUTOCRACY'S THREATS.
Manhattan Island produces women
who will bedeck a dog with ribbons,
pamper it, bathe it, hire a servant to
nurse and take care of it, make it a bed
of down and cover it with silk, while they
will turn with disgust from a fair-haired,
blue-eyed baby dying of hunger. It also
produces banking aristocrats who hate
free government and threaten to deprive
the toiling millions of the ballot box.
Let them threaten. It is better to die,
as many of our fathers died, than to
submit to the rule of these cruel monsters
of the human race. Henry Clews, you
will see the day, or your children will,
that the plutocracy of Manhattan will
regret that their agents in Wall street
made threats against free government.
KEM OBJECTS.
The republican papers are making a
great howl about Kem just now, but
Kem is exactly right in objecting every
time unanimous consent is asked to pass
a bill. Reed and his eastern bulldozers
have played their game of freeze out un
til patience is do longer a virtue. The
banks are determined that no state that
favors the free coinage of silver shall
have anything if they can help it. They
never intended to allow Omaha to have
the exposition or anything else. The
Independent hopes Kem will keep it up
and "object" from now until congress
adjourns and then come home and "ob
ject" to any Nebraska gold bug going
back to congress.
TWELVE POP SENATORS.
Senator Peffer offered the following
amendment to the fortification bill:
Provided that all appropriations made in this
bill shall be payable In treasury notes to be is
sued by the secretary of the treasury from time
to time as shall be required.
The following senators voted for the
amendment: Allen, Butler, Cameron,
Daniel, George, Kyle, Mills, Peffer, Petti
grew, Roach, Stewart, Vest.
From that vote it would appear that
there were twelve populists in the United
States senate instead of six. It is ap
parent that;Messrs. Mills, George, Roach
and Pettigrew have been hearing from
home.
OROTER'S VETO.
Grover Cleveland has vetoed the rivsr
and harbor bill. There is not a particle
of doubt but that the $80,000,000 ap
propriated by the bill is for the most
part, a big steal to reward favorites of
the old parties and a disgrace to the
congress that passed it, nevertheless, if
that $80,000,000 had been going to
Wall street instead of being spread all
over the country it never wonld have
been vetoed.
The populists of Missouri have an able
exponent of genuine populist principles
in the Lamar Leader.
THE MCKINLEY DEFICIT.
The claim that the whole financial dif
ficulties under which the nation suffers
was caused by the repeal of the McKinley
bill and the substitution for it of the
Wilson-Gorman act is so manifestly ab
surd and false that one is amazed at the
audacity of the men who make it. That
the McKinley bill produced exactly the
same effect upon the revenue that the
Wilson bft has, is proven by all the evi
dence in the case. There is no evidence
on the other side. In much more pros
perous times than we now have, there
was a large deficit under the McKinley
bill. To now claim that the re-enactment
of that bill and that is all that re
publicans propose to do will cure alj
the ills under which we suffer and bring
prosperity, is manifestly so absurd that
it is strange that any sane man will be
lieve it.
On February 25, 1893, Secretary Fos
ter went before a committee of the house
declaring that during the next fiscal
year, that is, from June 30, 1893 to
June 30. 1894, there would be a deficit
under the McKinley bill of $50,000,000
This is his statement before that com
mittee: Mr. Turner: Taking into consideration all
these conditions which you ancicipate, what in
your judgment would be a fair conjecture of the
condition of the treasury at the end of tha next
fiscal year?
Secretary Foster: 1 should say the next fiscal
year would show a deficit.
Mr. Turner: Can you give an approximate-
estimate according to all the data accessible to-
you7
Secretary Foster: I will only say this, that if
I was to have the management of the treasury I
should Insist upon an increase of revenue to the
extent of $50,000,000. -
Mr. Wllaon: Did I understand you to express
a general opinion a while ago that lu addition to
the Dresent sources of revenue the revennefi nf th
treasury department ought to be advanced $50,
000,000 more a year.
Srcretary Foster: Yes, sir.
Mr. McMlllin. Wonld you make that for one-
year or a permanent increase of revenue?
Secretary Foster: As things are going now a
permanent revenue, for two reasons. I would in
crease the gold reserve at least $25,000,000 if I
had the money to do it with.
Mr. Turner: Butyouranswer Just now seemed
to contemplate an annual increase?
Secretary Foster: I think an annual Increase
of $50,000,000 would make the treasury easy, and
If I were going to manage it I would want to
have it.
This was in February 1893 before
Cleveland was inaugurated and when the
McKinley bill was in full force and was
certain to remain v in.force for another
year at least. ,
About this time the writer of this was
sitting in the gallery of the senate and
saw John Sherman introduce a bill to is
sue $50,000,000 of bonds to cover this
deficit Now this agent of Satan coolly
claims that all we need to prevent de
ficits in the revenue is to re-enact the
McKinley bill.
REPUBLICAN RHETORIC.
Bixby's tropes, similes and metaphors
are the astonishment of the world. Ia
one of his poems he says:
It may not be against the law
For all the men in Omaha
To strive for place and power;
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And he must hold, In any case,
Ace, Joker and right bower.
What aid to a man running a race.
"ace, joker and right bower" would be,
is, as Lord Dundreary would say, "one
of those things which no fellow can find
out."
There is no use sending stamps to this
office to pay return postage on articles
we cannot use or are crowded out. The
articles will not be returned, and the
stamps will be used to further the cause
of populism. We have so often stated
the reasons why it cannot be done that
we are weary and mad, and the next
communication with stamps enclosed
will be pitched into the waste basket
and the stamps will go to pay postage
on duns to delinquent subscribers.
An Irishman after having seen Grover
at the White House aud at Woodley, his
private summer residence near Washing
ington, gives this report:
Police to the right of him,
Police to the left of him.
Police in front of him,
All with drawn sabers.
More police in his rear, ,
Then did Grover appear,
'Hong those who hold him dear,
Great man he, Be Jabers.
Let Wall street send out a few more
threats against free suffrage and free
government such as those issued by the
banking house of Henry Clews & Co., and
shortly they will find hell a happy hunt
ing ground in comparison to the place
that patriotic American citizens will send
them.
Henry Clews, speaking for Wall street
begin 8 to talk about "the dangerous
end of an ignorant free suffrage." That
shows the sentiment of the bank organi
zation. There is not a spark of free
Americanism in the whole crew.
Governor Holcomb delivered a very
powerful address in the First Baptist
church of Lincoln last Sunday morning.
Ex-Mayor Weir presided, making a
short, felicitious introductory speech.
. This Hits Morgan.
Whenever a man gets bigger than his
party and wants to boss the whole job,
be should be squelched and sent to the
rear, there to remain. Beacon Light.
How We Grow.
Populists of Van Zandt, Texas, polled
over 500 votes more in the primary this
year than they did two years ago.
Dried Up.
With hogs 2 cents the flow of pros
perity seems to have spent its force.
Butler County Press.
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