I L L. li ! if' ' The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated. VOL. VIII. LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, Sept 24, 1896. NO. 16. 01 SOUTHERN GIST Hon. Tom Watson Addresses an Enormous Nebraska Au ' dience. fOPULIST DAT IN LINCOLN. A Character Sketch of the Populist Vice-Presidential Candi- date. A Seen with Woman' Eye. The great populist meeting was ad vertised to take place at 2 p. m. in the Lansing theatre in the city of Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. It was not a free silver republican meeting. It was not a free silver dem ocratic meeting. It was an out and out populist meeting and the speaker was Tom Watson, the vice-presidential nom inee of the populist convention. There were men of all parties present, but it was a populist meeting. Reader, do vou remember the time only a very few years ago, when only a dozen or so true hearted men could be gathered to hear a populist speaker? Shortly after 1 o'clock the reporters took possession of the tables on the stage. At half past one, the doors were opened and the audience began, to file in. The'theatre was packed to the roof, the stage was rapidly filled and hundreds were standing unable to get seats and so stood uutil the close of the meeting. At 2 o'clock precisely, Tom Watson walked on the stage preceded by Mr. Ed misten, the chairman of the state popu list committee. A burst o applause and all leaned forward to gaze at the slight, boyish looking figure and smoothly shaven face of the southern orator who is making such a commotion in all the political parties of the United States at the present moment. If he gets elected, he will be the most famous vice president known in the history of the United States. He does not look like the popular idea of the fiery southerner. He looks quiet, almost insignificant, but there is a hint, a suggestion of the nature of the man; in his hair which is dark brown with a glint of fire in it. Its shortness and smoothness and well kept look suggest self control. He begins to speak, in a quiet conver sational way, taking the audience into his confidence at once, as do all true ora tors. He reads an extract from one of the little local republican dailies which purports to give the date of his arrival in the citv. the words he uttered and even the sandwiches he ate. He denies the report sentence by sentence, thus showing the unreliability of the goldbug dailies, and when the laughter oi the au dience has subsided he gets down to the work in hand by saying, "I am a popu list." That fact must be thoroughly un derstood by the audience. He did not try to curry favor with the free silver republicans, neither aid he try to curry favor with the free silver democrats. He stood on the platform of the prin ciples of the populist party. When he scored the railroad corpora tion senator from this state, John M. Thurston, the great audience cheered heartily. When he scored the democrat ic corporation attorneys in Cleveland's cabinet at XV ashington, there was a very feeble attempt at a cheer. He aroused both laughter and cheers by a pointed sarcasm at the contrast. He gave a masterly ' exposition of the principles and doctrines of the populist party. As be warmed up to his work be carried his audience with him. His sentences were abort and concise, and brilliant with paradoxes. He was quick and ready with rtDlv and repartee to his political opponents, who now ana tnen nung out - - . - ... n thorough knowledge and understanding of the tax question as well as of the money 'question, and in discussing the latter be bit the gist of tbe whole sub ject when he said that the ruling of (Jrover Cleveland in alt tbe transactions, was "that gold must be accepted as the money of final payment, and that the whole effort of the money power was to have that ruling enacted into law." He pledged his support to Bryan and there was prolonged cheering. When his speech closed, the audience gave him three cheers and again three cheers. It amounted to an ovation. Throughout the whole of the speech he never once mentioned the name of Sewall, his rival for the vice-presidential chair. Such in brief is the character and per sonality of one of the most remarkable , figures brought to the surface by one of the most remarkable political raael stroms recorded in our history, a mael- strom which has split asunder all exist ing parties except one, and that excep tion, the one party that stands for re form the peoples party, whose repre sentatives are liryan ana Tom Watson . Bright Eyes. The opinion that populists had of Tom Watson is expressed in the follow ing telegram: Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 16, 1896. Mabion Butler, Washington, D. C, Warmley hotel. Tom Watson of Geor gia made the greatest' speech to 4,000 people in Lincoln this afternoon that was ever made on Nebraska soil. J. H. Edmisten, Chairman, Mr. neea, 10m xv arson's manager also sent Marion Uutler a telegram in which he said that the Nebraska popu lists were tne salt 01 tbe earth. ' A Nonconformist Fraud. raul V anaervoot is hot about some thing and is trying to stir up discord among the reformers by writing letters o the Nonconformist. He abuses Governor Holcomb, J. B. Weaver, Taube neck and other true patriots, calling them traitors etc Paul has about as much sense as a guina-pig and is not recognised in his own state aa anything more than a nincompoop and we wonder at the Noncon granting him space in which to sling hia vile epithets. Mr. Paul Vandervoot should be ext!wve!y advertised as a fraud. The Index. , Iowa Safe for Bryan. The gold bug New Tork World sent a staff correspondent to Iowa to report on election prospects in that state. The first sentences of hi report are as fol lows: . 'Des Moines, la., Sept. 9. It may startle people in the east to know that as Iowa stands today the vote is about a tie. , "The extraordinary strength of the silver sentiment here has been suddenly revealed to the republican state commit tee by the preliminary canvass of the counties. 'The republicans do not attempt to conceal the facts. They frankly admit that the state is dangerously close. And tbe most remarkable thing about it is that Mr. Hanna has been looking for a republican majority of fifty or seventy five thousand in Iowa." Tbe cause of this state of affairs, the staff correspondent says, is a letter giv en by the order of a railroad superin tendent, to every employe on pay day. It contained the following sentence: "If the doctrines of tbe silver party are true, the products of the farm are to bring a higher price. Do you wish to vote to increase the price of a sack of flour or the meat you buy? If this doc trine is true, all articles brought from foreign counties will be doubled in price." The free silver men printed hundreds of thousands of the circular and sent one to nearly every farmer in the state, and the result drove the gold bugs nearly wild. . The chairman of the republican com- mittee,Cumings,said that there were 30, 000 free silver republicans whose votes were doubtful. Tbe chairman of the democratic committee said: "The republicans class this vote as doubtful, but I know that it is solid for free silver. We are gaining converts every day. Senator Teller will make eight speeches in Iowa, and Bryan will make five in October. Bryan win carry Iowa by 25,000 majority." A TRAITOR'S WORK. Hsnna's Latest Effort to Defeat Bryan. A statement of Paul VanDervoort to the effect that Gov. Holcomb had be trayed the populist party and that the Nebraska populist electors would vote for Sewall having appeared in the New York World, the following telegram was sent to that paper: "We desire to emphatically deny the statement in the Thrice-a-Week World of September 14, made by Paul Yander voort, and declare that every assertion in it is false. The populist electors of Ne braska are all men of unsullied reputa tion and every one of them will vote for Bryan and Tom Watson. There has been uo "infamous sell out" of populist elec tors. Tom Watson was invited to the state by the populist state committee. He made four speeches to enormous audieuces; was everywhere met with out stretched hands of joyous welcome, and publicly announced that he bad never been the recipient of a warmer reception anywhere in the south. "The chairman of the state populist commltte sent this telegram to the na tional herdquarters at the close of Wat son's speech in Lincoln: 'Tom Watson made the greatest speech to 4,000 peo ple in Lincoln this afternoon that was ever made on Nebraska soil.' "We denounce Paul Vandervoort as a traitor, whose sole object is to defeat Bryan. His reputationfor twenty years has been that of a railroad capper around the Nebraska legislature. He has been excluded from all populist con ventions and is known among populists as a 'Hannacrat.' He holds an office by gift of republican McKinleyites and we warn all friends of Bryan and Tom Wat son to beware of him." (Signed) J. H. Edmisten, B. R. B. Weber, Chairman. Secretary. ' , Mr. Stewart Answered. To the Editor: John M. Stewart, in the Journal, yesterday consoles the farmers of Nebraska for the half price they are receiving for the product of their labor, with tbe fact that the machanics are working at half price too. Not much consolation as long as the McKinley party propose no remedy. "Why" says Mr. Stewart, "look at the prices the farmers pay for things necessary on the farm, and compare them with prices twenty-five years ago:'' 1895. 1871. Farm w apron $66 no Sloo 00 Spring Wftnon 65 Oil 125 00 Corn cultivator 16 01) 85 00 Mowing Machine and Rake... 6 00 100 00 Sewing Machine 35 00 65 00 Barbed Wire per pound (wholesale) 03 (177) 13 Linseed Oil, per gallon (wholesale) 33 75 Shingles per thousand! whole sale) . 2 00 4 00 Does not Mr. Stewart know that me chanics make those farm implements and that the Bryan party proposes to remedy their case as much as that of the farmer? It would make no difference with either if farmer and mechanic changed work at half price if everybody would do the same thing with them, but how is itdo doctors, lawyers and office holders work for half price for farmers and mechanics SHERMAN AND CLEVELAND - . :. Are taxes ' halved? Are debts and interest cut in two. Noth ing of the kind. Now if farmers and mechanics have a spark of manhood left they will vote to equalize prices aa they were before the republicans demone tized silver. On the other hand if you like the way things are going you have only to vote the goldbug ticket and it will go on and grow worse and worse un til you are crushed down to pauper labor prices. If Bryan is elected it willjbe by the country vote.. The slums and upper crust of cities are all for McKinley. . H. W. Hardy. A Brilliant Success. Yesterday afternoon's meeting in the interests of an- organized silver move ment among the ladies proves conclu sively that women are fully as active and wide awake on the questions of the day as the men. The result of the or ganizer's unfjagging efforts to unite the influence of women on the silver issue was a complete surprise to those who pre dicted apathy and indifference on the part of the ladies. The large parlor in the Lincoln hotetf was crowded to its utmost seating capacity, and every lady wore ber most benignant smile and approving counten ance. The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Olmstead, the prime mover in the matter, who in a few well directed re marks stated the object for which they were met, then invited Mrs. M. D. Welch to the chair temporarily. At this junc ture the Hon. T. E. Watsou was intro duced, who paid his addresses to the ladies in a delightfully complimentary speech of some ten minutes, after which they all had the distinguished pleasure of grasping his hand. A permanent organization was speedily effected, with Mrs. W. M. Morning, presi dent; Mrs. Tiffany, first vice president; Mrs. Hoxie, secretary; and Mrs. M. E. Olmstead, treasurer. This auxiliary was then launched under the name of the "Mary Bryan Silver Club," in honor of the woman whom the Hon. W. J. Bryan everywhere and at all times exalts as an equal sharer in all the joys and triumphs of his splendid career. The club starts out under the most favorable asupices and with a membership of one hundred as refined, intelligent and enthusiastic ladies as can be enlisted in any cause whatsoever in this city. It was decided to meet next Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Lincoln hotel, when the committee on constitu tion and by-laws will report definite arrangements as to future plans be en tered into. It was especially gratifying to the organizer that her appeal was not made to those who "having ears refuse to hear, and having understanding put away wisdom." Enthusiasm for Bryan and his glorious cause is now uncorked in the camp of the Mary Bryan Silver Club, and the public may confidently an ticipate telling results on November 3d. a goiu eianaara man was telling an Atchinson county farmer what he should do at the approaching election. "How do you know what I should do for my best interest?" said the farmer. "You never did a day's work on the farm in Iff- f I tt T T . your we. -no, i never worsea on a farm," the townsman replied, "but I worked my head.'l "So does a wood pecker," quickly replied the farmer, "but I never heard tell of one savin h country Atchison tounty (Mo. a Mail. ' ; Daily 'A GOOD FIRM. On the last page of this paper is the advertisement of tbe Hardy Furniture Company. This is the oldest, most re liable" and best established furniture house in the west. They will do exactly as they advertise. We should like to have all of onr read ers write them for their catalogue and price lists. You can save money by buy ing your furniture direct from them. Al ways mention the Independent when writing to advertisers. l ABE SLEEPING TOGETHER. f . . .. . Chicago Beoord, A WARNING. What Mar Be Expected ' If Banna's Millions Defeat the Will of the People. If unlimited money can settle the issues now before the country, Bryan is beaten, the democratic party is whipped and disorganized, silver will be permanently demonetized, gold will become the sole standard of value in paying debts, corporation notes , with out legal tender quality will be the sole money available for borrowers and for the payment of wages; the usurped power of the federal courts will be extended, government by injunction wfll be established, trial by jury will be abolished wherever plutocracy has need of haste In putting down the peo ple; the national debt will be perpetu- tted and increased, bond Issues in J me of peace will be continued to form a basis for a corporation cur- eEcy and to prevent the free circula tion of gold; wages and the products f our Industries of farm and factory will be forced steadily downwards; he wealth of the country will jontinue to flow into the posses ion of the few who are already im mensely wealthy and the "commune if ' capital" ' will be permanently es tablished on the ruins of a govern ment In which Washington and Jef ferson saw the world's hope for free iom, for equality, for Justice. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. WHEN SHERMAN WAS HONEST Legislation Alone Glyes Valae to th Freeloas Metals. When John Sherman thought lesi of self and more of his country, an when he was less subservient to thi money power, he wrote as follows in a report made to the United Statei senate June 9, 1868. All his sophistrj of today cannot weaken the force oi cloud the truth, of what he then said ine goia smgie standard is an American idea, yielded so reluctantly by France and other countries where gold and silver are the standard oi value. The annual supply of the pre- clous metals has little or nothing tc do with their value. What is it, then. that affects their value chiefly? Ia it the demand? What is it that consti tutes the demand for gold? Is it foi the use in the arts? Very little of il can be used. Therefore, it is its use as money that creates a demand for It and gives it its value. If all the Euro pean states and our country were to day to demonetize gold and remonetlze silver would not these two metale im mediately change places? Now, if this be true, what is it that creates the value or the precious metals? It is legislation. Legislation gives value to the precious metals and the commer clal value simply records the condl uon or legislation with reference to the precious metals. Now, if leglsla tion creates the chief demand for money, if we legislate so as to utilize silver, we Increase the demand and thus Increase the value of silver." Euclid Martin says that a poll of a factory down in Indiana showed that the wage workers in it were 85 per cent for McKinley. A poll of the directors of the Bank or England was taken about the same time, and it showed that 99 per cent of them were also for McKinley. A poll of Wall street showed exactly the same result. A poll of New York asylum for imbeciles showed 100 per cent for McKinley. . Hurrah! for the polls. The republicans now go around Lin coln saying that there was not a word of politics in Tom Watson's speech; it was simply a patriotic oration, the sen timents of which all men approve. Why don't they vote for them then? Tom Watson made a speech to about one hundred women at the Lincoln hotel after he returned from the Lansing theatre, who were as enthusiastic as the crowd he had just left. The ladies had gathered there to organize a Bryan free silzer club. Breeders of fine stock ean find no better advertising medium than this paper. REPUBLICAN ROBBERS A Sample of the Manner in Which the Bepuhlicans Conduct Their Offices. STOLE 4,641 TONS OF GOAL In Just One Year Wholesale Bob bery in Varioni Other Directions. . A Comparative Statement. No honest man in the state who knows the facts in regard to the stealing done by republican state officials can vote to continue these pilferers in office. We use the word stealing in its common, every-day sense and mean just what we say to filch, pilfer and purloin. The official reports taken from the books at the capitol show this state of affairs at the insane asylum under re publican rule. Glance at the following columns of figures and see how much coal these republican thieves stole dar ing the year 1891. The figures show the number of tons of coal paid for by the state to run that building under re publican thieves and also under tbe honest administration of Governor Hol comb: Thieves' Administrate. Holcomb's Administrat'n Tons. Year. Tone. Year. January...., February... March........ Apri... May June... July August....... ..550 1891 161 255 190 148 . 94 131 115 106 108 226 282 382 1896 1896 1896 1895 1895 1895 1895 1895 628 527 ,412 ,524 511 450 ,499 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 1891 September... .46? 1895 1895 1895 October.... 751 November 759 December.. .....762 1895 TotaI.......6,839 2,198 The saving in one year was 4,641 tons, or, in plain, every day English these re publican thieves stole in one year 4.641 tons of coal from the insane asylum. It was a pretty big steal it you will con eider that it would take a bin 12 feet wide, 8 feet high and 2,848 feet long, or more than half a mile in length to hold it. Again, take cars of 40,000 pounds capacity and it would require 342 cars, making a train of over two and a third miles long to transport this coal to the asylum for the single year of 1891, and yet one little mule team hauled all that was taken out there. . The above is an account of one item of theft at one state institution. Tbe same sort of work is shown up by the books at the state house to have been carried on at the penitentiary and at every other place whese , hese- thieves had control. If you wajitlt to continue vote tbe republican state ticket and you will get the same kind of government that they have always given. The appropriation for lights and fuel at the insane asylum for 1891 was f 16, 000. The thieves brought in a deficiency bill for $11,421.95. The appropriation for 1897 was f 11,000, and Mr. Bewick will return to the state treasury over fl.OOO of that. That is the difference between an honest management and the management of a set of thieves. . A TRIO OF SC ALL AW AOS Who Seek to Disrupt the Harmony Which Now Prevails Among Populists. Paul VanDervoort, Bill Dech and the illustrious C. M. Clark of this city com prise a riot of former well known pop ulists whom the members of that politi cal organization will do well to watch. That they are soreheads and disgrun tled politicians is apparent to all and they are now seeking to disrupt the party of this state by urging upon the honest populists Jhe necessity of calling a middle of the road state convention. The faucet of Mark Hanna's barrel has been turned into these gentlemen's pockets and now by the most contempt lbleand underhanded methods, they seek to turn votes from Bryan in favor o f Major McKinley. We give the popu lists credit for more sense than to be in fluenced in any manner by any such un principled political blacklegs as the trio above named and can assure them that small bore shysters of their ilk will be most effectually squelched in their ef forts to interfere with the present har monious condition of affairs which ex ists between the democrats and popu lists of the state. Any man is entitled to change his po! itical beliefs whea he discovers that be cannot consistently support a principle or set of principles which do not co incide with his ideas of justice and right, but when be does bo change his beliefs he should have the courage to come out and say so. Bat with the trio of unprincipled ecallawags above re farred to we do not credit them with any sincerity in their flop to the side of Mark Hanna. That it was occasioned by the offer of boodle goes without saying, and, like a thief in the night, they will steal upon their former political associates and stab them down, metaphorically speaking, for the sake of a few paltry dollars and for the sake of that arch enemy to the welfare of this country. Mark A. Hanna. , Populists, we warn yon to beware of each traitors as . Tan dervort, Dech and Clark. The Old Soldiers In Line. . At a meeting of the Veteran Soldier's Bryan Club No. 1 of Lincoln, Neb., last night held at the Lincoln Hotel Hon. Wm. Leese was chosen chairman; Ports Wilson Vice-chairman, Mart Howe Secretary, and Jerome Shamp, Treaurer. There are 125 members from this city and between 55 and 60 from the conn- try. The membership is expected to be about 300 before this month ia out. The regular meetins will be held every Tuesday evening, to which all old sol diers in sympathy with . the . 16 to 1 movement are cordially invited. The old veterans were very enthusiastic and relieved themselves until after 10:30 p. m. by speaking and singing. They were highly incensed to think that the generals who have been living on the fat of the land at the people's expense, should presume on their former position to come here to dictate to those who have been tried, and suffered on ac count of the contracted currency here in the far west.and the following resolution was passed unanimously; ,Be it ., . Resolved by the Veteran Soldiers' Bryan Club of Lincoln, That while we re spect our old comrades and commanders, -Generals Howard, Algers, Sickles and Seigel for their courage and valor on the field of battle, we do not recognize their authority nor wisdom in their attempt to control or direct the ballots of those who marched in the ranks whose equal valor and courage placed the wreaths of laurels upon their brow.' We believe that,as citizens we are com petent to decide for Ourselves our duties as such; further that we are more loyal to tbe 'Old Flag' than are those who consent to the control by foreign na tions of onr financial policy. LOQAN'S PROPHETIC VISION. Be Aeenrately Foretells the Direful Effects of Contraction. The following is an extract from a speech made in the United States sen ate by General John A. Logan on withdrawal of the treasury notes: "I, for one, can see no benefit only to the money holders and those who receive interest and have fixed in comes. I can see, as a result of this legislation, our business operations crippled and wages for labor reduced to a mere pittance. I can see the beau tiful prairies of my own state and of the great west, which are blooming as gardens, with towers along the pathway -of improvement, again sink ing back to idleness. I can see mort gage fiends at their hellish work. I can see the hopes of the industrious fanners blasted as they burn corn for fuel "because its price will not pay the cost of transportation and dividends on millions of dollars of fictitious rail way stocks and bonds. I can see our people of the west groaning "and "bur dened under taxation to pay debts of states, counties and citleV incurred when money was more abundant and bright hopes of the future were held out to lead them on. I can see the people of our western states who are producers reduced to the condition of serfs to pay Interest on public and private debts to the money sharks of Wall street, New York, and of Thread needle street in London, England." If you are in need of clothing, write to the Hub Clothing store at Liucoln and the Nebraska Clothing store at Omaha and get their catalogues giving samples of cloth and prices. Compare their prices and buy where you can save money. They, are both responsible firms, and ship their goods to all parts of the state. See their advertisements on page 5. When writing them mention the Nebras ka Independent. Kills All the Women. Aspen, Cola, Sept. 23. Antonio Cuazee, a young Swiss, living on a ranch twelve miles from this city, shot and killed his wife and her mother, Mrs. Mary Quinn. Cuazee war arrested. He says that the in sults and taunts of tbe womT?n made him mad and that the shooting was entirely unpremeditated. He also claims that his wife was unfaithful. They were all the women in tbe family. Bit's; est Dish Factory Boned. Tbavkbss City, Mich., Sept 28. Fire occasioned a loss of about foo.OOO to tbe Oval Wood Dish company, whose factory is the largest of the kind in the world. Two hundred hands art thrown ovlS of work temporarily. 1