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The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VIII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, July 3O, 1896.
NO. 8.
W. J. Bryan and Thomas E. Watson
the Nominees.
THE LINE F BATTLE FORMED.
It was the Largest Convention ever
held in the United States
fierce Contests that Ended at Last in
Practical Union.
Convention Proceedings.
St. Louis, July, 22. (Special.) At
12:40 Chairman Taubeneck stepped to
the table, was greeted with cheers, and
rapped for order. The convention was
opened with prayer, but the chaplain
could not be heard, even by the report
ers, sitting forty feet away.
- Governor Stone delivered the welcom
ing address. . His speech was greeted
now and then with cheers by the au
dience, especially when he declared for
the freedom of the ballot. It was a pa
triotic address, well delivered.
Ignatious Donnelly made the reply
As he arose he was received with a roar
of cheers. It was a speech full of thought)
delivered in Donnelley's inimitable man
ner. It was a plea for harmony; that
the peoples party must live.
Chairman Taubeneck then introduced
Senator Marion Butler as temporary
chairman, saying that the national
committee of over 140 members had
unanimously selected him, and predicted
that the final action of the convention
would be as unanimous as that of the
national committee.
Senator Bu tier was received with round
after round of cheers, all sides joining in
it, although he has been considered to be
a "middle-of-the-road'' man. He made
a powerful, straight populist speech.
Nearly every sentence was greeted with
a cheer.
When he said "if the peoples party
went out of existence, the next national
democratic convention would repudiate
their late platform at the first conven
tion that would meet," there was a
storm of applause. Handkerchiefs
were waved, and yell followed yell for
some time. The same thing occurred
when he said that there was enough pa
triotism here to prevent this convention
from being turned into a democratic
caucus or a republican one. There was
a true way and a right way to go be
tween them.
At the close of Senator Butler's speech
the routine work of the convention be-
' gan.
Pops at Variance.
t. Liouis, juiy zz. 1 special ) The
first thing that strikes one is the diff-
rence between this convention and the
one held at Omaha four years ago. With
only few exceptions the delegates to the
Omaha convention ere plain, hard
working farmers There were no bank
ers, no men of wealth, no office holders.
They were an honest, hardworking peo
ple, many of them never having been in
a city as large as Omaha in all there lives
before.
At this convention, while that class is
quite largly represented, they are not
the ones who are formulating the policy.
That has largely passed into other
hands. There are many lawyers, busi
ness men and some office holders in this
convention. All classes, except the ex
tremely wealthy, may be found among
the delegates.
There are thousands in attendance on
this convention. They jam the corridors
of the hotels, paofc the sidewalks and
stand around in great crowls on the
street corners.
The Nebraska delegation makes its
headquarters at the Lindell, a banner,
stretching clear across the street, an
nounces the fact and a large protrait of
Bryan hangs from the main portico.
Down at the Laclede hotel a few blocks
away, hangs another banner. It reaMs:
"Middle of the Road Headquarters".
There were large crowds at both places
and a great deal of excitement.
The men at the Laclede were mostly'
from the south and they were opposed
to endorsing Bryan. They accused the
northern populists of forsaking themJ
Congressman Howard of Alabama said;
"This means our destruction and I will
never submit to it. 1 will leave the con
vention if they do it. We have fought a
fight for populism in the south that you
know nothing about.
"The democrats have ostracized lis,
they have driven some from their homes,
they have killed some, they have rufned
the business of others, and after all
xnai, wnen we nave ac last carried an
eiectionthey have counted us out. Now
they want to turn us over to the tender
mercies of such enemies as these."
That is what a good many others said
at the Middle of the Iload headquarters.
Yet all of them, or nearly all of them,
were willing to trust and vote for W. J.
Bryan. They wanted to divide the elect
ors between the populists and the dem
ocrats. They wanted to first adopt a
good, sound populist platform and nom
inate him, not endorsebim. Some wanted
to nominate Bryan and some' populist
as vice president under the pledge that
if Sewall got more votes than the pop
ulist then,all the electors should vote
for him. ,
There were several other plans pro
. posed, all of which had in view the keep
ing of the populist, a seperate and dis
tinct party entirely apart from the dem
ocratic party.
At the Lindell hotel which was goneral
head quarters for the Bryan forces, the
argument most frequently usod was:
"Either Bryan or McKinley will be elected
president. That is certain. There is
nothing we can do except endorse or
nominate Bryan. To put up another
candidate is to insure the election of Mc
Kinley. Then will follow four more years
of the gold standard, falling prices and
increased taxes. By that time the very
life of the people will be crushed out of
them, and they will be unable to resist.
To argue for the nomination of any
other man than Bryan, is treason to
every populist principle. Bryan is a pop
ulist. He has advocated every principle
of populism. We know him. He will be
true to us."
On the other side one populist said:
"Suppose that the republican conven
tion had declared for free silver and
nominated Teller and then these south
ern populists had come to Nebraska and
asked you to fuse with the republicans.
Would you do it? That would be put
ting you in just the same fix that this
deal puts us."
All day Tuesday the battle raged after
this manner, sometimes one side claim
ing they had a majority and sometimes
the other.
Populist Orators.
St. Louis, July 22. (Special.) Two
or three of the dailies here have remarked
that every other pop seemed to be a
public speaker and they had good
grounds for making the remark. Go
where you would in the center of the city
and there you would find some pop mak
ing a speech. I counted four at onetime
in the large corridor of the Lindell, each
blazing away to a listening crowd. At
the Laclede, at the St. James it was the
same way. Tuesday night, pops just
ordinary every day pops were talking
to larger or smaller crowds along the
streets all the way from the Lindell clear
down to the Southern. One of them was
standing on the steps of the city hall
with a listening crowd stretching away
out into the middle of the street paying
the strictest attention. I paused just
long enough to learn that he was telling
them all about "fifty cent dollars.
St. Louis, July 23. (Special.) By half
past nine the hall waB pretty well filled
with delegates. The roar of voices was
deafening. Here and there in different
parts of the hall, pops were making
speeches to little knots of people. They
could not be heard more than ten feet
away, but they gesticulated violently
and talked at the top of their voices.
At ten minutes to ten, the band Btruck up
but only slight echoes of the music could
be heard above the roar of voices below.
Senators Allen, Stewart and Kyle came
walking up the aisle together to the
platform. They took their seats just
back of the chairman.
The members of the press who were at
the silver convention came in and filled
up the seats held vacant for them yes
terday. At ten minutes past ten, the tempor
ary chairman, Senator Butler, began to
rap for order. After a few minutes, quiet
being partially secured, a very short
prayer was offered.
What followed toext no man can tell.
A man addressed the chair and spoke for
a few moments. The only inteligable
word heard on the press seats was. "Ok
lahoma." Senator Butler then announced that
there would be a call of the roll of states
for members of the various committees.
This occupied nearly half an hour,
during which the roar of voices contin
ued and the audience was a sea of wav
ing fans. It was awful hot,
At 10:40 the reading clerk began to
announce the committees, during which
time the roar in the audience was only
slightly abated.
After some unimportant talk about
seats, Mr. Washburn of Massachusetts
introduced a resolution denouncing the
newspaper reports, that part of the con
vention would not abide by its action.
A point of order was raised against it,
and the chairman said it was a tem
porary organization and no resolution
could bind the body, but he would put it
as an expression of the populist voting.
By a close vote it was finally laid on the
table.
An effort was then made to adjourn to
2 p. m. It was tabled.
A rebellion in several parts of the hall
because they could not hear was mani-
fested. Then followed a lot of disorder
such as always occurs when a conven
tion has nothing to do. Several motions
were made to adjourn, to take a recess
etc,, but all were voted down. Motions,
amendments and substitutes were thick
in the air. Senator Butler kent cool.
smiling and pleasant, and-it ended up
with a populist song and music bv the
fi&na.
Then the convention adjourned until 3
p. m.
Night Session,
bT. L,ocis, July 22. (Special.) As
soon as ine credentials committee was
appointed the convention adjourned un
til o p. m.
About 7 o'clock a cloud came ud from
the south and there was a good deal of
thunder and lightning. The effects of
the awful May tornado is felt by the peo
ple here yet for everywhere one could
hear the men assuring the women that
it would be only a light shower, it would
soon pass over, etc, which it did.
By half past seven the greater part of
ine delegates had arrived at the hall.
Stump Ashby of Texas was making a
middle of the road speech to a crowd in
one place, but the uproar was so great
that he could not be heard forty feet
away.
Pretty soon the people began to cry
"lights, lightsl turn on the lights," but
no lights were turned on. They were
in black darkness. Pretty soon the re
porters began to send out for candles
and here and there a spark of light ap
peared in the great hall.
Every one was asking "What's the
matter with the lights," and no one
oould answer. Then the band started up,
but the crowd didn't seem to like it and
they hooted and yelled. Some one
started up "Old John Brown's Body"
and the whole crowd joined in. Then
they sang the song "Swanee River," and
still no lights.
Some one began to pound with the
gavel and slowly the roar in the. hall died
away to silence, and it was announced
that an accident had happened to the
wires which would soon be repaired, y
Then they sang "My Country 'Tisof
Thee," the band played, pops made
speeches in different parts of the hall.
After awhile a proposition was made to
adjourn but it was voted down, and the
clatter and the darkness continued.
About 9 p. m. the chairman after a
long siege at the gavel got comparative
quiet restored and announced the con
vention adjourned until 10 o'clock to
morrow. And thus ended the first day.
Afternoon of Thursday.
St. Louis, July 23. (Special.) Al
though the adjournment was until 3 p.
m. it was 3:34 before the convention
was called to order. It was fearfully hot,
and as the delegates came in their faces
were stsraming with perspiration. The
band played, but only the toot of a horn
or the clash of the cymbals could now
and then be heard above the roar of
voices on the floor.
When at last Senator Butler called the
convention to order, he said the com
mittee on credentials could only make a
partial report. When Chairman Butler
began to speak there were loud cries of
"Louder! Louder!!" and "We can't hoar
a word" were heard from both ends of
the hall. Senator Butler rapped loudly
for order and said no business would be
attempted until conversation ceased,
and all the delegates took their seats.
Mr. Wardell of California, the chair
man of the credentials committee moved
that all the delegates from states in
which there were no contests be seated
which carried.
Mr. Patterson of Colorado moved that
the convention take up the contested
cases in alphabetical order, and made
the first speech that could be heard in all
parts of the hall in favor of the motion
and it carried.
The difficulty in hearing was so great
that men half way down the hall east
and west could not hear, aid a .man
nearer the chairman would repeat what
the chairman said.
An effort was made to take a vote on
Colorado but Tom Patterson, although
on the other side demanded that the
vote on Colorado contest be postponed
one hour so that a minority report
might be prepared and presented. This
generous action took the convention by
storm.
Then there was a tangle of motions
over the Chicago squabble, which has a
similarity to the row we always have
over the Omaha delegation.
utes for discussion to each side but it
was cut down to 15 minutes a side. Thi
whole thing was local and it was
shame to take up the time of a great na
tional convention with it. The creden
tials committee had recommended that
both sides be seated with half a vo,te
each.
After the discussion upon aviva voce
vote it was impossible to say which had
it, and a call of states had to be made
to decide it. That occupied about an
hour and was an awful bore. It was de
cided that both sides be seated with half
a vote. It was 6 p. to. when they got
through with it.
Wisconsin then came up with a con
tent about a delegate and an alternate.
The alternate said he was for Bryan at
which there waa a great shout.
Robert Schilling replied for the other
side and said the announcement for liry
an was pettifogging and had nothing to
do with it. It seemed that the question
involved was whether a man could sit on
aproxvwheu the alternate was present,
The committee report was adopted.
1 hen the Colorado delegation was ad
mitted.
Jafe i'ence moved to appoint a com
mittee to wait upon the committee on
permanent organization and ask them
to report. A man moved to adjourn,
then there was a rumpus. Lafe said he
had the floor and yielded only to the
committee on permanent organization.
Points of order were made against it
which Mr. Washburn in the chair over
ruled. Then there was a big rumpus but
Mr. W ashburn insisted on holding that
he would hear the report of the commit-
tee on organization.
Captain Cocke of Virginia read the ma
jority report, and when the name Wm.
v. Alien was announcea there was a
wild and sudden burst of enthusiastic
cheers which seemed to be spontaneous.
VV hen the minority gave the name of
Campion of Maine, the middle of the
road candidate, there developed what
was plain to be seen, a preconcerted plan
to stampede the convention. There was
a tremendous outbreak of yells and
hoots and cheers of which the galleries
made up a good part. It lasted for
about ten minutes.
After this there was another tangle of
motions and a desperate effort was made
to get order.
Police were stationed all up and down
the aisles, and sergeants-at-arms were
everywhere.
At last the previous questions was or
dered and a call of states began which
took an hour and half to get through
with. .It was 7:30 p. m. and the conven
tion had been sitting since 3 o'clock.
The hall seemed hotter than ever. There
was intense excitement. This was to
be the test ote for which all sides had
been preparing for four days and nights.
Many of the men in that convention had
slept but little for almost a week. Each
side to the contest was composed of hon
est, earnest men. Each thought it was
right and that the fate of the party
largely depended on the decision of that
hour.
It took some time for the mathema
ticians at the clerk's table to figure up
the vote on Allen and Campion after the
roll call was finished. When it was fin
ally announced as:
ALLEN 758.
CAMPION 564.
there was a shout that rent the verv
heavens. Men sprang to their seats,
waved hats, handkerchiefs and umbrel
las. The stat standards were pulled ud
(Continued on 5th page)
A FIFTY-CENT DOLLAR
There Never was and Never Will be
one.
A HALF TRUTH IS A WHOLE LIE
The Metal That Bears the Debt-pay
ing Fiat is a 100-Cent Dollar.
What can you Redeem a Gold Dollar In
' Fairbury, Neb., July 27, 1890.
Editor Independent: Whatever may
be the outcome of this national cam'
paign, one thing is certain, and that is
we must exert every energy to tell the
exact truth, and nail every falsehood
told by the other side. I do not wish to
be understood as saying that the truth
can come only from our side, and I be
lieve that the great majority of all par
ties are honest in their convictions and
willing to admit the truth when it is
properly presented. That both sides of
this money question can contain ele
ments of truth, no reasonable person
will deny; and that both sides contain
errors is equally patent. The great mass
of American voters are confronted to
day with a peculiar state of affairs, with
a condition that requires the most care
ful attention that we may not err in our
conclusions, and it is the fact that we
have today gold and silver coins circu
lating side by side, the one with 100
cents worth of material, an "honest'
dollar as our republican friends call it
and the other with 52 cents of material.
a "coined lie," a dishonest dollar, etc
There is a reason for this state of af
fairs, a cause for it. And it is our duty
to meet the question fairly and squarely,
without any evasions or attempts to
cover up any material point. Some gold
standard papers have the impudence to
state reasons for this condition which
have absolutely no foundation in fact
I say "impudence" because their editors
know beyond peradveuture that they
are stating something not true. Iquote
from the Kansas City btar of July 24,
1896, which says editorially:
"Fifty-cent dollars will be the inevit
able consequence of the free and unlimit
ed coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
1. Silver dollars are worth 100 cents
now. not for the reason that there is
fl00 cents' worth of silver in them, or
because they are stamped with the gov
ernment flat which makes them dollars,
It is the government's pledge to redeem
them on demand in gold dollars that in
vests them with a fictitious value. '1 he
withdrawal of this pledge, which would
iustantly follow the remonetization of
silver, would as quickly result in the de
preciation of the silver dollar to its bul
lion value, which is about fifty cents.
The gold dollar with the government
stamp on it is lust worth what the bul
lion it contains would sell for, because
that Is what it would be redeemed in if
for anv reason it was withdrawn from
use as money and converted into an or
nament, bilver would encounter pre
cisely the same law of trade with exactly
the same results.
There is just enough truth in the
above statement to make it dangerous
to the man who does not study closely
causes and effects or whose ideas are
molded by his favorite paper, Silver
dollars are worth 100 cents now, it is
true, "not for the reason that there is
100 cents worth of silver in them;" but
that "it is the government's pledge to
redeem them on demand in gold dollars
that invests them with a fictitious value"
is absolutely and unqualifiedly false;
there is no such pledge any more than
there is a pledge to redeem gold dollars
in gold dollars. If I go into a bank with
a ten dollar gold piece (this is purely un
aginary now I couldn't do it I bavn't
the ten; but it is possible under proper
and right conditions) and ask for ten
suver dollars m change, is tnat my re
demption of the bankers silver dollars
in gold, or his redemption of my gold in
siiverf uertainiy not. it is purely a
matter of exchanging dollars for conven
ience, but there cannot be by anyiug-
gling with the English language any con
struction put on this act to make it re
demption, if 1 should present at a na
tional bask one of that bank's $5 bills
and ask to have it redeemed, and should
be given five dollars in com, either gold
or silver, (and the banker would give me
whichever I asked, if be pleased to do so.)
there would be redemption of that bill.
because it is not a legal tender money as
between individuals, and is the indebt
edness of that bank. In principle this is
not different from paying his individual
promissory note with legal tender monev.
the only difference at all being that the
bank note will be redeemed by the United
States government if the banker cannot
or will not do so. But gold and silver
coins are not promises to pay; they are
decreed by government to be a legal
tender for all debts, public and private,
(silver being handicapped, however, by
having these words added, "except where
otherwise stipulated in the contract".)
That is why a silver dollar will circulate
alongside its yellow brother. Govern
ment cannot decree that anything shall
have any certain purchasing power; but
t has the right and does say how much
of a certain metal, properly coined, shall
be taken in the cancellation of debts.
Every silver dollar has this power and
every gold dollar has it. The matter of
what the metal upon which is stamped
this debt-paying fiat will sell for as a
commodity upon this open market, de
pends entirely upon the laws of supply
and demand. And herein lies the differ
ence between the commercial value of
the metal in each of the two dollars.
With the gold there is a free and unlim-
ted opportunity of having this debt-
paying fiat stamped upon each 258
grains thereof, nine-tenths fine, and con
verting it into a debt-payer of f 19. Now,
no sane person would give 25.8 grains
of this uncoined gold and allow it to be
calculated as worth JO in exchange for
other commodities or in the cancellation
of his debt, when he could have it coined
free into a debt-paying power of $10.
Hence, one of the great laws of trade, de
mand is disturbed by the free coinage of
gold and it receives a fictitious value be
cause of this fact; I have reference to the
metal itself and not to the thing after it
is coined. Demand for the metal itself is
made almost unlimited, because there is
an almost unlimited demand for debt-
paying things, because there is almost
an unlimited indebtedness, national,
state, municipal and individual.
But this is not true in the case of silver,
There is no free and unlimited oppor
tunity for having the governmental
debt-paying flat stamped npon each
412 grains of silver, nine-tenths fine;
consequently there is no disturbing fac
tor in the demand for silver, and no fic
titious value given the metal. The debt-
paying flat does not affect the material
upon which it is stamped or coined in
the matter of value (or purchasing
power) unless there is an unlimited and
unrestricted opportunity for all holders
and owners of this material to have it
stamped with this governmental debt-
paying flat, in fact I may safely say
that this is flat, and the flree, unrestrict
ed, and unlimited opportunity of having
it placed thereon, affects only the price
of that portion of the metal that has
not been coined.'
"The gold dollar with the government
stamp on it is mat worth what the bul
lion it contains would sell lor, because
that is what it would be redeemed in if
for any reason it was withdrawn from
use as money and converted into an or
nament." Now, isn't that a clear, log
ical statement! Does it mean that the
gold dollar is redeemable in gold bullion?
Or that gold bullion, as an ornament,
would be redeemed in gold bullion, as
gold bullion, or that gold bullion, as an
ornament, would be redeemed in gold
dollars? The plain simple fact is that
gold coin passes for its faCe value be
cause it will cancel its face value of debt;
that gold bullion sells for one dollar for
each 25.8 grains because that amount
can at any time be converted, or coined,
into a debt-paying thing of that denom
ination without limitations or restrict
ions; that the silver dollar passes for its
face value because it will cancel its face
value of debt; and that each 412 grains
of silver does not sell for one dollar be
cause there are restrictions and iimita
tions which prevent its being converted,
or coined, into a debt-paying thing of
that denomination, and there is no inner
demand for it which could possibly ever
bring up its price or purchasing power
to this extent, rlace the same restric
tions upon gold and the price will fall
no one can successfully deny this be
cause it is estimated that there is today
150 years supply in sight for use in the
arts and sciences if production should en
tirely cease.
It has been said, and truthfully,
too, that government cannot fix prices
of the metals by legislation, cannot say
that 25.8 grains of gold or 412 grains
of silver shall be worth a dollar. Some
of our people, looking ouly at the one
side, have maintained the opposite. I
believe we should not close our eyes to
the fact that neither gold nor eil ver coins
circulate as money because of the com
mercial value of the material in them,
but because of their debt-paying power,
and that the facilities for converting
either of these metals into debt-payers
is a large factor in determining the price
of the uncoined portion of each in exist
ence. If these facilities are unlimited
and unrestricted, then a minimum price
is made, and an artificial demand cre
ated therefore. No maximum price
could possibly be fixed, and if the natur
al demand should be greater than the
artificial, the logical result would be
that the metal having this natural de
mand would not be presented for coin
age. l mean by the term "natural de
mand," a demand for the metal for all
other uses than that of bearinga govern
ment's debt-paying fiat. The minimum
price of gold is fixed by government at
one dollar for each 25.8 grains of stand
ard metal, and the natural demand has
never risen to an equality with this ar
tificial demand, and never can with lot)
years' supply in sight.
1! these facilities are limited and re
stricted, as is the case with silver today,
the uncoined metal must rely upon na
tural demand for its price. No mini
mum price is fixed by government, be
cause no opportunity is ouered lor con
verting or coining for the individual each
412 grains of standard metal into a
debt-paying dollar.
Hence, no dollar ever was nor ever can
be a "fifty-cent" dollar. The metal
which bears the debt-paying flat may be
denied the same privileges its brother
has, it may be deprived of an artificial
demand by unfavorable legislation, but
so long as its face clearly shows (in con
nection with the laws under and by vir
tue of which it was stamped) its authen
ticity and genuineness, just so long will
it continue to do the work for which it
was intended. Dollars circulate solely
for their debt-paying power, Metals
ave value, largely dependent upon leg
islation. Hence, a debt-paying dollar
may be stamped upon fifty cents worth
of metal, but that doesn't make it a
fifty-cent dollar; it passes as money, not
as metal. Chas. Q. De France.
The Electoral College.
Washington, July 22. (Special to the
Independent.) The democratic and
epublican politicians in 1892 agreed to
rite their financial planks so nearly
alike that not even the members of their
own party could tell them apart. The
peoples party exposed this game and
smashed their future straddling schemes.
In 6heer desperation the republicans
were this time forced to declare squarely
for the gold standard, as were the demo
cratic politicians for free silver. But,
had it not been for the existence of, and
the light thrown upon the situation by,
the peoples party, these old party poli
ticians would have again straddled this
question, and again written their planks
bo nearly alike that the authors of them
could not have told them
apart. So far, this is a tremendous vic
tory for the peoples party, and every
honest voter in America owes it a vote
of thanks for thus drawing the issue
squarely and forcing the hypocrites to
take a stand.
Everybody knows also that when the
peoples party took this position the
democratic leaders, north, south, east
and west, as well as the republican lead
ers, at once denounced the peoples party
leaders as "silver cranks" and "financial
heretics." None were louder than the
politicians in declaring that the financial
system of this country was all right; in
fact thnv ma!H that ma hati f hoKout Anon.
.J . . ..v " W h U V UUU
cial system that the world ever saw, and
iurcner aeciarea tnat toe tarin was the
Onlv great isil(vhflfnr thnnnnntrv. Rnf
during these four years the peoples party
I. A. I I 1 . i
ubo ho morougniy convinced me masses
of the voters of the country as to the
real cause of the hard timn. that, now
these same democratic politicians are
forced to confess that they were wrong
and that the peoples party was right.
But in the coming campaign the peo-
Eles party can be trusted to rise to a
igher and more patriotic plane than
this. ThfiV will nnt th Hinnnrit.v nf tha
professions of the democratic politicians
to the severest test They will give them
an opportunitj", in every state in the
nninn in unit' tha fiilvoi vntju h-Ksm
necessary, to make the defeat of the
gold bugs certain. They will give them
an opportunity in the electral college to
do the same.
Judge Bob't Wheeler.
The Polk County Democrat has
this
to say of Judge Wheeler:
The populist state convention which
meets at Hastings, on the 5th, will be
called upon to nominate two candidates
for supreme judge, to occupy the offices,
provided the constitutional amendment
is adopted. In looking over the field of
probable candidates we know of none
who could more ably fill the high- and
honorable office than Judge Robert
Wheeler, of Lancaster county. He is an
attorney of attainments, served this dis
trict faithfully and well as it's judge for
four years and has the solid support of
several county delegations for this
prominent office. He is the first choice
of those who are acquainted with his
ability and we believe the convention
will commit a great error if he is not
made it's first choice.
Nominate Good Men.
To the Delegates to the Hastings Con
vention: Now that everything looks so
favorable for the entire and complete
success of our party in this state this
fall, let us be very careful and make no
mistakes in putting up our ticket at
Hastings, Let us put up the very bent
men we have for electors and state offi
cers. If we do. we will succeed. The
Earty has an abundance of good men.
t us use them now. Let every man
nominated be a man of high moral
character, whom you would gladly take
into your homes and introduce to your
families. If our ticket is good, and I
believe it will be, success is ours.
I). Clem Deaveb.
Rah for Bryant
Office of a Bloated Plow Holder. No.
1776 Brimstone Alley, Boodletown,
State of Starvation, s. s., in the last
year of the reign of Grover, democrat
for revenue only.
Stop that Bryan band wagon that be
has brought ladened with 5,000,000
votes from the democrats to the pops.
Lay over. Let us on the seat board, the
first platform the democrats have had
since 1868, and they stole it from the
pops. Then Bryan stole the democrats
and now we propose to steal the whole
outfit. We will show the people that
when the pops start after anything they
can not be out done. W, B, Wells.
Lift the Burden. 1
Milford, Neb., July 20. Editor Ik-
dependent: In times like these, men
and parties are nothing, only so far as
they carry out principles. Suffering hu
manity stands with outstretched hands
appealing for help. We dare not ignore
the cry. Let the St. Louis convention
nominate that American patriot, W. J.
Bryan, and victory is ours. The best
governor Nebraska ever had will be re
turned to take charge of the affairs of
the state, and with him will go a board
of State officers who will stand by him
in his efforts to lighten the burdens of
the people of his state.
vv. J. Vosburoh.
Foreign Snobs.
Elgin, Neb., July 18. Editor Inde
pendent: Hon. beorge L. Bigelow of
Lincoln spoke here last night to a full
house on the issues of the day. His ad
dress was a masterpiece of logic, sar
casm, pathos and eloquence. His por
trayal of the condition of the American
farmer, and his rebuke , to those Ameri
cans who spend their leisure hobnob
bing with foreign snobs, was especially
apt and forceful. He paid an eloquent
tribute to V . J. Bryan, which was ap
preciated and applauded by theaudience.
t . V. Larnes.
A Bryan Club.
Nelson, Neb., July 28, 1896.
Editor Independnt: A Bryan silver
club was organized here last night with
240 members, which number will be
greatly increased as the work of .organ
izing will be pushed to a finish. , Free
silver is rampant in this county aua
Bryan is on top by a big majority, t ree
silver republicans are as enthusiastic as
anybody and their names are rapidly en
rolled. The following officers were elect
ed: J. R. Burlington, presiden; S. A.
Lapp, vice-president; James M. Campbell,
treasurer; L. E. Deshazo, secretary.