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4 Sept. 24, 1896. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT S Nebraska 3ni)cpcnbcnt TKM WEALTH KAKBKS mmd LINCOLN INDMNDtNT. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY - n in IndspsdBijt Publijhiqg Go. At UtO K Itntt, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TELEPHONE 638. $1.00 per Year in Advance. AddreM all eomnmilctloo to, and mk all fltafta, uoaj order. t., pajublt to TBI INDEPENDENT PUB, CO., LntooL, Nss. NATIONAL TICKET. For President, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President. THOMAS E.WATSON, of Georgia. STATE TICKET. For Governor ..Silas A Holcomb For Lieut. Governor..... .J E Harris For Secretary of State ,.W F Porter For Auditor Pub. Accts J F Cornell For Land Commissioner J V Wolfe For State Treasurer J B Meserve For State Supt ..W R Jackson For Judge, long term Wm. Neville For Judge,short term...Jno. Kirkpatrick For Regent.......... A. A. Munro For Congress, 1st diet........ J. H. Broady Patrons of this paper should not pay money to agents without a receipt Tom Watson's paper carries Bryan at thehea of the ticket. Does any one know what has become of a man by the name of Jack McColl, who at one time resided in the western part of this state? Will some gold bug please tell ns what would indues men to flood this country with silver which would be worth no mora coined than it was before? John L. Webster has a new name at tached to him, and he will never be able to Vhake it off. Hereafter he will be known as Cheap Wheat Webster. The Evening Call would hardly in dulge in another fake interview with Tom Watson if it knew he was going to make a speech in town afterwards? Bryan has quit handshaking He says that he believes in equal rights to all and special privileges to none, and as he can't shake hands with every one he will shake with none. Col. Norton, who received the middle-of-the-road vote for president against Bryan at the popultat national conven tion, is stumping for Bryan. There is nothing the matter with Norton. There were not 5,000 free silver votes in Maine before the Chicago convention. They polled more than 50,000 at this election. If there is anything to rejoice over in that state of affairs, let Hanna rejoice. " John C. Black refused to run on the yellowcrat ticket for governor of Illinois against Altgeld. John looks forward to the time when the yellowcrats will have come to judgment. Two or three carpenters were seen en gaged at work on a house in Lincoln yesterday. The sight was so rare a thing in these gold standard times that very one who passed stopped to look at them. Will tariff raise prices? Then you are going to reduce the purchasing power of a day's labor, just like a silver dollar lunatic. Will tariff lower prices? Then down goes wheat, corn and cotton still lower. Will it not affect them at all? Then what do you want it for? Tom Watson, that was a good one. The free silver people of this city seem to be neutral on the subject of the vice presidential candidacy. The Hannacrats put up the pictures of both McKinley and Hobart. The free silver men put up Bryan, but if there is in the window of any private residence of this city a picture of Bewail or Watson, we have not seen it. As a specimen of goldbug reporting of political news an item in the Bee the other day should receive the prize. In giving an account of a populist meeting in Dawson county, after saying that the procession was over a mile long, further along the reporter says an actual count showed there were only 130 voters n it. The goldbug editors and orators say that the law cannot give a piece of silver more value than it possesses. Well, there are about 430,000,000 irredeem able silver dollars in circulation and each one of them is worth 47 cents more than the silver that is in them. If the law which says that they shall be a legal tender doesn't add that 47 cents to their value what does? HOM.TIIOS. K. WATSON. The oration delivered at Lansing theatrs yesterday by Hon. Thomas E Watson of Georgia was an intellectual treat which is not enjoyed many times in a lifetime. The writer of this has had the good fortune to hear Lincoln, Doug' lass. Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Glad stone, Labourchre, Ingersoll, Bradlaugh nni Phillina Brooke, but never was he at an intellectual banquet where food for thought was served more bountifully than at this feast of reason and flow of soul tendered the people of Lincoln by our guest from Georgia. In elegant diction, in incesive state ment, in convincing logic, in that trinmnh of all oratory, the power to gain the good will and sympathy of an audience, Thos. E. Watson has no sur- perior in the United States. He began with an acknowledgment of the generous and kind treatment he bad received from the people of Nebraska, and then came the frank statement that he was a populist standing upon the populist platform. He spoke for over two hours amid almost constant thunders of applause, yet the time seemed only a few minutes. There were keen flashes of wit, rapier like thrusts of sarcasm, de monstrative logic, beautiful word pic tures, pathos and sentiment. His discussion of the principles of a just system of taxation was full of learn ing and scholarship, and his conclusions the same as are arrived at by all stu dents of that subject, viz., taxes should be laid on property and not per capita on men. He defended the populist idea of the public ownership of all public highways. In reply to the question of how we could buy and pay for the railroads, he said, we paid for tbem.as things noware.every twenty years anyway, and after they were thus paid for we did not have even a hand-car to show for our money. He told the story of the Georgia cen tral railroad. It was the pride of the state. The money of widows and or phans was invested in its stock as a safe investment. Retired merchants, after a business life time in trade, put their money there. Then Cal. Brice and a syn dicate came down in a palace car and"re organized it." When they got through, it was bonded and mortgaged for f 50, 000,000. The stock was worthless and the widows, orphans and old retired merchants were beggars. He thought the government could run the road bet ter than that. In speaking of the tariff question he summed it up this way: A protective tariff will either raise, lower or not ef fect prices at all, and asked the republi cans which it would do. The republicans not being inclined to answer, he said that if it raised prices, then these gold- ite republicans were worse than the free silver men, whom Bourke Cochran de nounced, because they wanted to raise prices and make the wage worker pay more for his food and clothing. If a pro tective tariff lowered prices they could see the effect of that all around them. If it did not effect prices at all, what was the use of having any thing to do with it. There was a littlecrowd of republicans at the back part of the theatre. When Mr. Watson said that the real gold standard meant that all taxes and all debts must be paid in gold, they seemed inclined to make a disturbance as the free silver men began to yell back at them. No public speaker ever showed more tact and skill than Mr. Watson did at this junction. He had the who le thing quieted inside of a half a minute. He said: "If I am wrong I wish to be cor rected and if you prove that I am wrong I will make an apology. What do you mean in your platform when you say 'the present gold standard?' Then he went after Grover Cleveland and the old democratic party with a few savage thrusts that set the republicans all to laughing. But in an instant he was back at that gold standard again and the republicans learned more about it than they ever knew before. When some one called out, "How about that $188,000 that McKinley owes Uannar be replied: "lnat is a personal matter and I will not indulge in personalities," at which there was round after round of cheer", When he undertook to read an extract from one of McKinley 's speeches, the re publicans began to howl again, at which Mr. Watson said that he was surprised that the Lincoln republicans refused to listen to one of Major McKinley's speeches. That brought down the house. He closed his speech with a brilliant peroration, saying that Hanna and Mc Kinley stood for the money power and special privileges and Bryan against them, therefore he was for Bryan. Then the top of the theater came near being lifted off with the force of the yells that the audience let out. Hundreds rushed to Mr. Watson to shake hands with him, after which the great crowd slowly dispersed. Hanna seems to be hiring all the de faulters and renegades in Lincoln and sending them out to tell the people that they "lived next door to Bryan," and Bryan was so poor he had scarcely any thing to eat, and was really a vagabond. Hanna seems to think that the people never heard that Bryan was elected to congress from a strong republican dis trict, went to Washington and attained a national reputation during his first term. These Ike Lansing stories only disgust intelegent people. Tom Watson's speech for sals at 2 cents per copy, f 1.50 per 100. Send your order to Nebkahka Independent, Lincoln, Nebraska. tf MONEY OF THE WOULD. lean take the dollars of my country, gold or silver or paper, and go into the four corners of tbe habitable globe. I can transact business with all peoples, civil ized, semi-civilized and barbaric, without fear of discount, depreciation or dis credit. I want the dollars of the United States to go around the world as the flag goes, honored and respected by all mankind. I can take the dollars of my country into every gold staudard nation of the earth, and I can buy as much in any home store of those countries as the most privileged citizen of the community can buy with the dollars his government gives him for use. John U. r. 1 burston at Cooper's Union, N. Y. The above is a broadside of goldbug lies, and if John U. P. Thurston was ever outside of his own county he knew they were lies when be uttered them. He knows that he cannot go into a store in any foreign land and buy anything with American money and any man who was ever in a foreign country knows be can't, He can take an American gold piece, sil ver dollar of greenback to the traders in money and sell it and get in exchange the money of the country and then go to a store and buy goods. John U. P. must take the voters of this country to be as great ignoramuses as tbe editors of republican weeklies who reprint such stuff. The money of the United States is not even current on tbe trans-Atlantic)Bteam ships. The moment the ship is thrse miles from shore, and the passenger offers to pay for anything in the money of the United States, be will be told to go to the purser and ex change his dollars for pounds, shillings and pence, if it is an English ship. There is no such thing as the money of the' world and every man of ordinary in telligence knows there is not. It does not require half the mathema tical skill to tell the value of Mexican dollars or Japanese yens in the'money of the United States as it requires to tell the value of United States money equiv alent in pounds, shillings and pence. The writer of this while traveling in England and Scotland more than a hun dred times offered money of the United States in exchange for goods at shops and stores and in no case would any one take it, so he says, that in a fair contest, John U. P. Thurston can beat Eli Per kins lying two to one. A H ANN ACR AT DISPATCH. A Dallas, Texas, dispatch to the Chi- cago Chronicle August 5 says: 'Mr. Norton of Illinois, who was the middle-of-the-road candidate for presi dent at the St. Louisconvention against W. J. Bryan passed through Dallas to night en route to Galveation to attend the populist state convention, which meets Wednesday. It is given out by local populist leaders that Norton's mis sion is to try to induce the Texas con vention to take steps looking to the holding of another national convention to place bimself on as traigntout ticket with Tom Watson." Col. Norton has not been in Texas fo r ten years, and at the time the dispatch was sent was in Joliet, Ills., whooping it up for Bryan in the Joliet Sentinel. That is the kind of news service that goldbug dailes have. REDEEMING SILVER DOLLARS. It is not doubted that whatever can be lawfully done to maintain equality in the exchangeable value of the two metals will be done whenever it becomes nec essary, and although silver dollars and silver certificates have not up to the present time been received in exchange for gold, yet, if the time shall ever come when the party cannot be otberwise maintained such exchanges will be made. Extract from Secretary Carlisle's letter. So Mr. Carlisle lets the cat out of the bag. They are going to begin redeem ing silver dollars in gold pretty soon. What a good time the bond buying syn dicates will have when that time comesl With about 500,000,000 silver dollars, $150,000 Sherman notes and $346,000,- 000 greenbacks to be redeemed in gold and only $100,000,000 of gold to do it with, won't there be a bappy time? There will be a $100,000,000 bond sale to buy gold every month. The very thought of it will set the fat sides of Hanna and Pierpont Morgan to shaking. LET HANNA REJOICE. The efforts of tbe Hannacrats to re joice over the Maine election is the most ridiculous performance in the history of politics when the facts are taken into consideration. The Maine democrats after open and fair primaries sent delegates to a demo cratic state convention, who, carrying out tbe wishes of their constituents, nom inated gold standard candidates, pro mulgated a gold standard platform and sent a gold standard delegation to Chi cago, where the new democracy from the west and south as good as kicked them out. Then they went home, called a new convention and declared that they were silver men. This sudden reversal of doctrine knocked the party machine to pieces. A new organization - bad to be made. Chairman and committees were all for gold. New men had to be found to occupy official positions, old speeches had to be thrown away and new ones concocted, campaign funds had to come from new sources, and before all this could be done the election occured. Tbe gold democrats voted with the republi cans; the unorganized free silver vote or what there 'was of it in a goldbug state, was divided between the new dem ocracy and the populists, WHAT HANNA BATH. The Hannacrni delight to say that the populists have been sold out to and swallowed by the old copperhead, moss- back, democratic party. Not much, Mr. Hanna. Six or seven hundred wide awake, loyal young Americans went to Chicago, threw off their coats, rolled up their sleeves and pounded that crowd into jelly. Then they nominated the brightest, brainiest young hater of plu tocracy in the United States for presi dent, and every pop in the land is going to vote lor him. - Then the old democratic party leaving their dead unburied on the field of battle, retreated back on Indianapolis, made a rally and reorganized. That Indian apolis gang of English goldbugs and American traitors is all that is left of tbe old democratic party. They are the fel lows the pops have been fighting, and they are still hot on their trail. With Bryan in the White House they will make mince meat out of them too. Don't you forget that Mr. Hanna. The pops know what they are about, Mr. Hanna. They are after you and they are after the old democratic party, and they will down you both. You can't buy them, you can't scare them and you can't deceive them. They are long-haired, wild-eyed and woolly, but Mr. Hanna, you will wish you had wool all over you a foot thick before they get done ham mering you. TRY AGAIN, M'KINLEY. McKinley in his letter of acceptance says: "Tbe meaning of the coinage plank adopted at Chicago is that anyone may take a quantity of silver bullion, now worth 53 cents, to the mints of the United States, have it coined at the ex pense of the government, and receive for it a silver dollar, which shall be legal tender for debts, public and private. The owner of the bullion would get the silver dollar. It belongs to bim and no body else. Other people would get it only by their labor, the products of their land or someth ing of valne. The bullion owner, on the basis of present value, would receive the dollar for 53 cents, worth of silver and other people would be required to receive it as a full dollar in payment of debts." He also says: "The republican party has declared in favor of international agreement, and, if elected president, it will be my duty to enjoy all proper means to promote it." According to McKinley, it would be a dishonest and dishonorable thing for this government to allow a miner to bring 53 cents' worth of silver and have it coined into a dollar, but if England says it may be done, it is right and honorable and will be his "duty to em ploy all proper means to promote it." Now, Billy, that wou't do. 'You will have to try again. CAN'T LEGISLATE VALUE' On page 111 of tbe Revised Coinage Laws will be found this sentence. "At the date of the passage of the silver law of July 14, 1890, the price of silver in London was 49J pence, equiv- olent to 1.07 per fine ounce. The highest point reached since the passage of the act wbb in New York, Aug. 19, 1890 $1.21 per ounce, and in London, September 3, 1890 54 pence equivalent to $1.18 per fine ounce." On the next page we read: "On the 26th day of June it was de finitely annouueed that the legislative council of India has passed a bill closing her mints to the deposits of silver by individuals for coinage. The quotation on that day in London was 36 pence, equal 0.784 (78 cents and 4-10th) per ounce fine, and in New York 0.780 (78 cents.) A rapid decline took place daily, until, on the 30th of June tbe price in London reached 30 pence, equal to 0.664 per ounce fine, and in New York the price was quoted at from 67 to 65 cents." This shows how directly that the value of silver bullion depends upon legislation. WATSON'S GREATEST SPEECH. The New York World prints two and a half columns of Watson's great Lincoln speech, sent it by telegraph, under a two column wide displayed head. It heads it "Watson's Greatest Speech." Another headline reads: "Tax tbe Rich, Open the Mints. Stop the Waste." It was not only Watson's greatest speech, but it was the greatest speech ever delivered by any man on Nebraska soil, as Chair man Edminsten truly said. SICK REPUBLICANS. The most heartsick, disconsolate lot of republicans that were ever seen on the streets of any city, were the gang that went to the Lansing yesterday to hear Tom Watson roast Sewall and create a split in the suppprters of Mr. Bryan They got the worst lambasting that ever a set of men received themselves, and found out that Tom Watson was giving heartv and earnest support to Mr. Bryan. Oh! but they were sick. The news colums of the great dailies are more reliable and more nearly ap proach the truth than their editorials columns. The following recently ap th nhirairo Times-Herald: Mexico City, Sept 5. Finance Minis ter Limantown win soon tas:e up me im portant work of the revision of the fiscal ootam nf thin nonntrv and the tariff will be cautiously reformed. The president's message will show that in every direction the country had made remarkable ad vance and that the government was never nuauvuuij iu o wvw. vu. Tom Watson's speech for sale at 2 cents a copy, $1.50 per hundred. Send your order to, Nebraska Independent, Lincoln, Nebraska. tf TIIEYXL WISH THEY HADN'T. According to tbe constant assertions of the bankers if Mr. Bryan is elected there will be a panic and a crash. Now they bad better stop that kind of talk or some of them will go into a receiver's bands before the election occurs. There are a great many foolish people in tbe world, and some of them may believe these campaign lies and go to withdraw ing deposits. If they do the bankers will wish they hadn't talked so much. The Custer County Chief, a large, well edited. enterDrisinar paper joined the populist ranks last week. We extend to it a hearty welcome to tbe reform ranks. HOW TO WIN. There are hundreds of republicans in Lincoln who have renounced the party since the St. Louis convention and who will vote for Bryan on the 3d day of next November. Many of these have had the moral courage to openly assert this fact regardless of what former party associates may say. But on the other hand there are any number who, through fear that they will be called traitors, an archists, repudiators, etc., etc., have re frained from making their positions known. These same men are conscien tious in their convictions. They hope Bryan will win, because they know that he stands on a planform of principle and right; yet they are afraid to come out and declare themselves, when by so do ing they could greatly aid the cause in this city and state. While these gentlemen should be given all credit for determining to vote for the restoration of silver and its distinguished representative, much more credit would be accorded them were they not so extremley ''modest." Gentlemen, this is not the way to do. You say that you are in favor of Bryan and that yon want to see him carry Nebraska. You must realize however that the electoral vote of this state cannot be obtained for him without a systematic and united effort on the part of every man. These days it is tbe same in politics as it is in business you must hustle and hustle hard if you would get what you are after. The electoral vote is not to be given to Bryan for the simple asking. Our opponents are re sorting to every method known, to modern politics; they are turning heaven and earth and expending millions of dollars to advance the interests of Maj. McKinley. A little more of the same energy without the low and under handed tactics which characterizes their actions will land Mr. Bryan a winner without a shadow of doubt. The free coinage wave has swept Nebraska during the past three months to such an extent that the republicans have' long since ceased to claim the state and many sil ver advocates are becoming afflicted with the political disease known as "over confidence." But "over confidence" has many a time lost an election and the only way to cinch Bryan's victory in this city, state and . nation is to work early and late and assert yourselves whenever you have an opportunity for doing the cause good. TWO THOUSAND REPUBLICANS, A correspondent writes us from San Francisco, Cal.: "I have just made a tour of tbe state and I feel sure that Bryan will win by at least 20,000. At Los Angeles alone there are 2,000 republicans in one Bryan club, and it is tbe banner republican county of the state." Bryan s election is beyond question. POPULI8TS CAMPAIGNING. The populist state committee is mak ing one of the grandest campaign fights ever made for any cause. It has in the field under its management thirteen pop ulist speakers who are speaking most of the time twice a day. Besides the popu lists, it manages and makes appoint ments for eight free silver republican speakers, viz: Judge Ambrose, Col. Pace, Messrs. McCheery, Kirkpatrick, Price, Zimmerer and three or four others. Besides these free silver republicans who travel at large over the state, there are over 100 other republican speakers who to a greater or less extent take their assignments from the populist state committee. These latter speakers do not as a rule go out of their own counties. The work in Lancaster county has nearly all been arranged by the state committee. All the speakers who have been considered attractions and likely to draw a crowd, aside from Mr. Bryan himself, who have spoken in Lincoln so far have been populists, viz.: Donnelly, Groot and Watson. The work has been a heavy strain on the physical endurance of the the officers of the committe and many of the speak ers. Chairman Edminsten shows signs of breaking down under the strain. Secre tary Weber is overworked. Governor Holcomb's voice is almost gone, and un less he lets up be will not last to the end of the campaign. It takes about as much physical endurance to make this fight as a military campaign. The only one engaged in tbe contest who seems to have a soft job and an easy time is Geo. W. Blake. All he has to do is to take care of the money, and if be did not take a lively interest in trying to raise ir, as well as act as treasurer, he might lie in bed every day until noon. BISMARCK FOB BIMETALLISM. Perhaps oar innumerablegoldbogand bolting friends will be ready now to call Prince Bismarck an "anarchist" and all sorts of naughty names. Governor Culberson of Texas, some weeks ago, wrote to the prince, asking for his views as to the policy of the United States adopting bimetallism as a government financial system. The governor, in due course of mail,, received a reply which he read to a polit ical meeting in Dallas Saturday night. Prince Bismarck said: Fbiedbichsbche, Aug. 24. Honored Sir: Your esteemed favor has been duly received. I hold that this is the very hour that would be advisable to bring about between the nations chiefly en gaged in the world's commerce a mutual agr euient in favor of the establishment nf himoalliam Tho ITnifofl Rfntpa nTA freer by far in their movements than any other nation of Europe, and hence if the people of the United States should find it compatible with their interests to take independent action in the direction of bi metallism, I cannot but believe that such action would exert a most salutary influence upon the consummation of an international agreement. Bismarck. So the prince agrees with Mr. Bryan and the national democratic platform, as adopted at Chicago last J uly, in be lieving that independent action on tbe part of the United States would exert "a most salutary influence upon the con sumation of an international agree ment." A wise prince. Ignorance is the mother of intolerance. That accounts for the mass of epithets hurled at free silver men. The republicans announced a campaign of education, but they have left off dis cussing and gone to cussing. The west has the gold and silver mines and the east the farm mortgages and government bonds. In that lies the es sence of this whole fight. J. Sterling Morton says that every fool in America is advocating free silver, but that can't be true for Morton is himself opposed to free silver. They have a repocratic party out in Colorado endeavoring to beat the popu list state ticket, the republicans and democrats having fused for that pur pose. Tbe republicans are now pinning their faith to Bill Dech and Paul Vandervoort. One thing is certain, if Bill and Paul can't pull them'through they are goners. If Tom Patterson wants to help beat Bryan in Nebraska, let him write two or three more editorials on Tom Watson like tbe one that appeared in the News September 21. ' A FREE BALLOT. To the Editor: 'A free ballot and a fair count has been the slogan of every campaign by the republicans but the one now in progress. The mask now is off and they make no bones of it either. Coercion and intimidation is the chief order of the day. Go among the railroad employes and all seem to wear the same kind of badge (collar). This certainly is remarkable. It is reported that many men have lost their places for no other offense than by asserting their choice of Mr. Bryan for president. It is not right for a railroad corporation to thus antagonize the inde pendence and interests of the people from whom they draw the profits of their business. The farmers are their best patrons and yet these corporations pros: titute their franchises and consequent power in order to continue a system of finance that has well nigh broken up the yeomanry of the country financially. This is a fact patent to any observing man, and is a flagrant abuse of a privi lege granted by the people. When great corporations assume to override the will of the people to whom they are indebted for their business and even their existence, they develop a hos tility and menace which are utterly at variance with free institutions. As a matter of reciprocal advantage the railroads cannot afford to antagon ize the interests of the farmers. The paramount interest of the farmer is to obtain paying prices for his products. This he cannot realize under a gold stan dard when all told there is but $2.52 in gold per capita. Are the railroad cor porations of this country connivingwith the great money powers of the world to reduce the producers of this country to the condition of serfs? It certainly looks so. Farmers must have more money, and as the experiment of having gold to fix our prices, nothing can be more evi dent than that silver money must be added to the stock of gold, and thus we will be better able to obtain a bimetallic 100 cent dollar than the 200 cent gold dollar which we are now obliged to make. This simply means only half, or bank rupt prices. If the railroad company says, "We have to pay our interest and principal in gold, therefore we must have a gold basis," there never was a greater mistake! With silver as an equal compon ent part in our stock of standard money gold can be more easily obtained by far if the obligations are to be paid in fold. The bimetallic system being the best for all producers, it certainly must be best for the railroads. ' No fair minded man can doubt this. Why then do the rail road men play "the dog in the manger?' S. M. Benedict.