THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
Oct I, 1S96.
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NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President.
THOMAS E. WATSON,
of Georgia.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor ..........v...Silas A Holcomb
For Ltoot. Goveruor...............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 Attorney-General. ........C. J. Sraythe
For Judge.short term....Tno. Kirkpatrick
For Regent..................Thomas Rawlings
For Congress, 1st dist J. H. Broady
Little Mexico can have a financial
system of his own, but the United States
is not big enough. Poor and helpless, it
lies at the feet of the most enlightened
nations.
Jlry an voted for Weaver and Field In
1892, and he got the referenuput in
the democratic state platform. Bryan
is a good enough pop for the middle of
the road, wild and wooly editor.
We say mine silver and gold and make
our own money. The goldbug says in
duce foreign capital to come here, that
is, borrow money of foreigners and pay
interest to them. Which is the best?
When ever a goldbug receives a hard
hit he runs behind a pitticont and yells,
"Don't hit me! Don't ,hit me. It is the
poor widow who lends money. It Isn't
me at all. It's the widow. Hit her."
While Bryan is willing tbab Gorman
and Faulkner should aid in bis election
he never made any request of them to do
ao, and has no more confidence that they
will vote for free silver than the popu
lists have that they will.
The desperation of the Hannacratg
was shown at the "general's" parade ra
Lincoln on Tuesday when they forced
company after company of women to
march miles over rough and dusty
streets carrying McKinley banners.
Every democratic congressman who
comes from New York City or Brooklyn
will fight Bryan from the day he steps
inside of the capitol. Bee if he don't.1
That "reserve power" of which Henry
Clews tells us has a cinch on him. Bryan
will have to look to the populists tor his
true defenders.
If Bryan carries New York it will be
because the farmers and labor organiza.
tions vote solidly for him. What Tarn
many wants is to control the patronage
of New York City, There's millions in
that. Their love of free silver extends
Just that far and no farther. Bryan will
be under no obligations to Tammany.
Shin Bone Atkinson is the Truthful
James who wrote a magazine article in
which he asserted that one could build a
fire against the side of the mountains
out in Colorado and the melted pure
silver would run out in a big stream.
Shin Bone is xuoted as authority in the
goldbug camp. AcaniaB is also their
model for truth telling.
The Nonconformist says it is for Dry
an and Watson. Then it goes to work
and puts a third ticket in the field,
knowing that every vote cast for it will
be a vote withdrawn from Bryan and
annot by any possibility help Watson.
It adds: "I be Nonconformist wants
to be understood as standing by Van
Dervoort, as it always has stood by hiin.
If he is a traitor, so are we." And so
you are, both of you, for both are doing
all in your power to defeat the populist
nominee for president.
The republicans having found out by
a poll of the state that Bryan will carry
Nebraska by 25,000 majority have
opened the bung hole of their barrel on
the state ticket and congressional dis
tricts. With the aid of VanDervoort
and Bill Deck, they propose to put up a
a third ticket before the campaign
over iu every ' district in the state.
If
they can't beat Bryan they think that
they can elect enough congressmen to-
itbsr with the traitors tney can buy,
stop a free coinage bill in the House,
k out for the traitors. ,
GOVERNOR HOLCOMB.
From now until the close of the cmn
paign, I expect to control the matter
that goes into the columns ofthelxDR
pendknt and it will be a traighi,
middle-of-the-road populist paper, de
fending the action of our populist con
ventions, both state and national and
supporting all thecandidates nominated
by them.
While Governor Holcomb has not a
dollar of stock in the Independent Pub
lishing Company and never has had, be
has used all his influence and powers of
persuasion to induce the proprietor of
the paper to make it a fighting populist
paper, defending every plank of the pop
ulist nlatform and not simply a free
silver organ.
The charm that Governor Holcomb
directs the course of the papiser un
true. He has been more anxious for a
red hot populist paper than any other
man in the state. The arovernor is a
populist. He believes in populist prin
ciplesin every one of them. He believes
in government money, not. in notes
promising to pay coin on demand, in
postal savings banks in the public own
ership of the public highways of com
merce.'' and of the telephone and tele
graphs, in the referendum in fact in pop
ulism as defined in our national plat
form. He believes in the rank and file 6f
the party controlling the conventions.
No one has ever seen him in a conven
tion using the influence of his official po
sition. He has never even offered a reso
lution or made a motion in a conven
tion since he has been in office. He does
not tbiuk it would be right to do so. In
fact he is a populist, and just such a
man in office as we used to talk about in
old Alliance days a servant of the peo
ple and not a would-be official boss.
He believes with Donnelly and Tom
Watson that the salvation of the people
depends on maintaining intact the pop
ulist organization. When Bryan is elect
ed the fight has only just begun. Scores
of democrats will come to congress from
the eastern and middle states and some
from the south who will fight any reform
legislation with the bitterness of death.
Bryan's friends in that day will be the
populists? Governor Holcomb forsees
that He wants the populist party in
that day to be organized in every town
ship and county in the United States
and in fighting trim.
The governor also sees how the cam
paign, on tne pan 01 tne repuoncans
has been changed in the last few days.
Hanna is pouring money into this state,
not with the hope of beating Bryan, but
with the hope of electing two or three
goldbug congressmen to fight Bryan in
congress. He stands therefore for Bryan
and Watson and our whole congression
al ticket.
I have now been in Lincoln a year. I
know Holcomb as I knew Teller, Jones
and Bryan during that awful fight in the
fifty-third congress. Did I not report to
you truthfully then?
Holcomb is a populist, not on the out
side, but in his heart and soul. He may
have made mistakes. Who of ns do not?
But every act he has performed, every
word he has said, he conscientiously be
lieved to be for the interests of the party.
In all the years I have been in this
fight, gathering and giving to readers of
populist papers the news of this contest
against white slavery, I have never
been mistaken in a man. I told you of
Bill Springer, of Bynum, of Dan Yoor
hees, of Mills, of Gordon, of all the trait
ors. 1 also toia you wno you couia reiy
upon. I told you about Cris Hart man,
about Bryan, about Morgan, Pugh and
Vance. I was never mistaken about one
of these men whether I wrote them down
as tory or patriot. I am not mistaken
about Holcomb. While this fight goes
on, you will find him, in the front rank
beating back the onslaughts of pluto
cracy, defendingyour homes, your wives
and your children from every oppressor
From this on until the 3d of Novem
ber you will find Governor Holcomb
fighting like the Greeks at Thermopylae,
and ilJBryan should be defeated, he will
be the first one to pick up the banner of
populism, and call us to re-organize for
the fight of 1900.
1. U. TIBBLES,
The democrats didn t gain anything
by trimming down the populist demand
for the public ownership of railroads, for
every railroad corporation in this coun
try is fighting them just as hard as if
they had adopted the populist plank.
They will pay Paul YauDervoort just as
good a salary to fight for more strict
control, as they would to fight public
ownership. The public highways must
be owned by the government.
At most of the shipping points in this
state it takes 100 bushels of corn to buy
one ton of anthracite coal. One hundred
bushels of corn will heat a house as long
as two tons of coal, therefore we will
burn corn. Hurrah! for the railroad
corporations, Mark Hanna and the gold
standard. Just give ns McKinley and
more tariff on coal and the Nebraska
farmer will get rich.
Some students of Wabash college In
diana undertook to break op a free
silver meeting. A lot of good, stout
farmer boys who were present got after
them, ran them out of town and three
miles into the country and every one
they caught, they gave a good, sound
thrashing. That was very naughty of
the farmer boys, but no one can deny
that the students deserved all they got.
The power of the railroad corpora
tions in politics was demonstrated this
week in Lincoln when the roads poured
carload after carload of brass bands and
uniformed marching clubs into town to
take part in the "general's" parade.
They have .refused special trains, or re
duced rates for similar gatherings of
free silver voters. There is but one way
to settle this business. Let the govern
ment own the railroads.
The republicans forced old, greyheaded
white women to march in the ''general's"
parade from the railroad station over
the rough and dusty streets to the State
House and back. Black Cyprians, at
tended by drunken white men yelling for
McKinley, rode in a carriage. Both of
of these scenes, the marching grey haired
women and the black Cyprians escorted
by white men, were enough to make any
decent man blush for the age in which
we live.
A GOLD BUG ADVERTISEMENT.
The Hannacrats have put a two col
umn ad. in the Nebraska Farmer which
cost them at their regular rate f 50.40.
The Farmer gives the ad. the follow
ing editorial notice: . X
"In explanatiofj of the McKinley and
Hobart advertisement in this issue of
The Nebraska Farmer a non-partisan
journal it is taken as such and com
mended only to such of our readers as
believe iu the gold standard and among
the farmers and laboring classes they
are in the minority, or about one to six
teen in favor of the free coinage of silver.
Our advertising columns are open to
acceptable advertising at regular rates,
democratic or republican, or both."
The Independent . publishes free two
clauses of their paid for ads., Tbey are
as follows: . V
"Fourth Why, oh, why, should a few
less than 100 mine owners ask any
reader of this paper, as a conscientious
voter, to allow them an unlimited coin
age and insist on the Government stamp
being put upon it, at the ratio of 16
pounds to 1? What does this mean? It
simply means an enormous profit to
them, the few, and a big loss to every
producer.
Fifth Tne present limited or reBtricta
coinage is all right, and today 1 in
silver will buy 100 cents' worth; but
with unlimited coinage a silver dollar
will be worth only its weight in metal
or about 50 cents on the dollar!"
There you have the gold bug logic
Putting the government stamp on the
miner's silver means an enormous profit
to them, but it will only be worth its
weight in metal or about 50 cents on
the dollar, after that is done. Where
then does the profit to the miner come
in? .'. '
DO THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY ?
The goldbug demonstration of yester
day afternoon and last evening showed
conclusively what can be accomplished
in the way of gathering a crowd when
the conditions are favorable." There
were several thousand strangers in the
city and the parade was unquestionably
a very imposing affair. To see 1500 or
2000 voters - marching in line, bedecked
in gay colored uniforms and national
colors is a sight which is not witnessed
every day, and under ordinary circum
stances the republicans of Lincoln and
the state would have just reason to feel
proud.
But what are the facts in the case.
Every last mother's son who came to
Lincoln yesterday to participate in the
parade and demonstration had all his
expenses paid. The railroads were un
usually considerate of the purses of the
deluded goldbugites and the Hanna bar
rel was tapped to pay hotel bills. Even
feed for the horses on which many came
to town was thrown in. Tinder such
conditions is it any wonder that the re
publicans showed up well? He must be
a very unpopular presidential candidate
indeed who could not muster up a crowd
when a free excursion was offered any
and every man who had the time aud
opportunity to take a day's outing.
Even the prohibition candidate for presi
dent could have made nearly as good a
showing under similar circumstances.
In point of numbers the crowd yester-
day nearly equalled that which was pres
ent on the occasion of Bryan's recent
notification, the difference being that
every patriot who came here then was
compelled to pay a fare of one and one
third besides all other expenses. The B.
& M. would not undertake to haul all
the people on its lines free gratis because
it isn't built that way." Its goldbug
management saw plainly that the silver
sentiment would shpw up altogether too
plainly if it made a lesser rate and as far
as that railroad was concerned the
Bryan men had to take their medicine.
But what a marked difference in the en
thusiasm! Who was there who marched
in that parade and who, had a thimble
full of braius but what was
inwardly ashamed of the company
that he was in? . What intelligent
voter but who knew that every step he
took was a step iu the direction which
leads to national dishonor, subserviency
to England, further oppression to the
down trodden working roan and an era
of unprecedented panics more horrible
than war, pestilence and famine.
Gentle reader) did you notice the
expression on, the faces of the Railroad
Men's Sound j Money league? Did you
discover one gleam of McKinley enthu
siasm? Did you think for one moment
that even 5 pei cent of them would vo te
1
the republican tciket on November 3d
next? Did they look as though they
dared say their souls were their own?
WERE their souls their own for the time
being? N'ot mucbl While these bread
winners are to be pitied for not being
able to throw off the yoke of bondage
which holds them down while
engaged in honest toil we now and then
bear some of them remark with every
evidence of good faith that they are firm
believers in the existing; gold standard
a fact which plainly indicates a
diseased mind or one which has not
sufficiently studied the terrible effects of
this country being given over bag and
baggage to the money sharks of Wall
street and London. With uiuety-flve
per cent of these railroad men, however,
it was a case ot march in that parade or
quit their jobs aud naturally enough
they chose to do the former. The same
was true of the political blaves of the
Havelock shops and many other in
stitutions which were represented in ( the
ine.
The question naturally confronts one:
Is this a free, liberty-loving country af
ter all? Are those brave old veterans
who were so conspicuous yesterday, in
their dotage or are they willing to lend
their voice and their presence to a cause
the effects of which will be as appalling
as the war of the rebellion? Are these
old veterans, after the blood they lost
in bravely defending their country, will
ing to sacrifice at one fell blow on No
vember 3 all that they gained for their
own and future generations? How in
ceivable to an intelligent mind, yet how
true, we fear. Gentlemen, if you love
your country, if you love your home, if
you consider the prosperity of the pres
ent and future generations you would
not knowingly ally yourselves with any
such an aggregation as paraded our
streets last evening, and you cannot
deny it.
THE PEOPLE WITH BRYAN. -(
A well known newspaper correspon
dent in Washington in writing to this
paper says: The great national cam
paign is now nearing the point where
the hardest and most decisive fighting
begins. Presidential campaigns, as a rule,
are won or lost during the month of
October. . It is clear that Bryan has the
people with him now.. Nothing but the
expenditure of an immense amount of
money or some unforeseen turn of affairs
can defeat him. Yet, everything is still
in doubt, -
The literary bureau of the national
democratic committee has been removed
to Chicago. The learn that they could
get out plates for weekly newspapers
and documents cheaper than from that
point."-,'
Your correspondent learned at people's
party headquarters that they have ,
more demands for the folder entitled
"The Wage Earner and Free Silver"
than for any other document which they
publish. Local committees are order
ing these folders, and are placing one in
the hands of every man who works for
rfages and small salaries, in order that
they may see both sides of the question
and determine for themselves, with all
the facts before them, how they shall
vote.
The campaign which Mr. Bryan is now
making is the most marvellous feat ever
known in American politics. His phy
sical endurance is not only marvellous,
but his capacity for making a speech,
with new illustrations every day, is the
wonder of the greatest orators and the
ablest campaigners in this country. His
speeches are all, of course, extempor
aneous, are taken down by stenogra
phers, verbatim, and reported, word for
word, just as he speaks; yet the report of
these extemporaneous speeches appear
in type as connected, as logical, and as
well rounded as the best carefully pre
pared speeches ever delivered or pub
lished. The man's power is developing
every day, to the astonishment and
gratification of his friends, and to the
great alarm of his political opponents.
In view of the desperate efforts the
gold men are making for the labor vote,
it is interesting to. note that every labor
paper in the country that is the organ of
a large labor organization is for Bryan
and free silver. A little over a year ago
the officers of all the labor and farmer
organizations of the country joined in a
petition to congress to open the mints to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at 16 to 1. The fact is that the farmers
and -organized labor have forced.this
financial question to the front.
The following editorial appears io this
week's issue of the Raleigh (N. C.) Cau
casian, Senator Butler's paper:
"Now since the joint electoral ticket
has been arranged iu this state the silver
men have a chance to unite their votes
aud to defeat the goldbugs. Vhere is
but one hope left for McKinley and the
goldbugs, and that is for the voters who
oppose the gold standard to fail to sup
port the joint electoral ticket. The
Charlotte Observer is quick to see and
seize upon this opportunity to help Mc
Kinley and defeat Bryan, though profes
sing to support him. The following is
its editorial advice to its readers under
date of September 23: v
"Men whose boast is that they have
never scratched the democratic ticket
and never voted against a democratic
nominee cannot afford this year to vote
for a lot of populist electors who will
vote for a populist for vice president
against the democratic nominee. It is
their duty to scratch the name of every
populist from the electoral ticket and to
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vote only for those men who will vote
for the democratic candidate. In so do
ing it cannot be said that they are
scratching the democratic ticket, for it
cannot Declaimed that this hybrid affair
is one."
Now what could please Mark Hanna
and the goldbugs better than this?
Democrats to scratch populist electors,
and populists to scratch democratic
electors. If enough of this is done, of
course, the McKinley electors will be
elected. This is what the Observer's ad
vice would lead to. Is this what the Ob
server desires? If any so-called demo
crat wants to scratch a populist elector,
let him do it. He will simply prove that
he is the agent of McKinley in disguise.
But populists are not made of that kind
of stuff. Every one will vote the joint
electoral ticket, because everyone wants
the defeat of the McKJnley electoral
ticket. The Charlotte Observer has now
found a chance to elect McKinley, but no
populist will become a partner of the
Observer in its golbug scheme."
Mayor Strong of New York city refuses
to allow a stand to be built in the city
for Mr. Bryan to speak from. Tim is
the first time that the mayor of New
York has ever refused to allow a stand
to be put up for any public speaker rep
resenting a great party. This is a spe
cies of the littleness and persecution that
will help more than it hurts. The Ameri
can people believe in fair play, and the
gold men will make no converts by try
ing to stifle free speech. Mayor Strong
said a few weeks ago that Mr. Bryan
made votes for the gold men wherever
he spokej but now he belies his own
words. He is afraid for Mr. Bryan to
tell the truth to the people of New York
who have so long been kept in the dark
by the goldbug press.
Reports received at people's party
headquarters show that Watson has
made as brilliant a campaign in the west
as Bryan is now making in the east.
Dates are now being arranged for Wat
son during the month of Oatober, imme
diately after the close of the Georgia
campaign.
SLANDERING NEBRASKA.
Middlebubgh, Pa., Sept. 17, 1896.
To the Editor: Enclosed you will find
a letter written by one of your towns
men relative to our candidate for presi
dent, similar expressions having been
made by E. P. Leonard, who has been
in this section for some months solicit
ing stocks for the Nebraska State Build
ing and Loan association of your city, i
Now what I want is a reply to this letter,
or as many replies as I cau get, giving
Mr.Bryan's legal etanding.and who these
men are who are so greatly interested
in the "sound money" question. There
are some silver republicans in our county
and these letters are proving detrimental
to our fight for silver. Will you kindly
furnish me a reply from you personally
and others who are intimately acquaint
ed and some attorneys who know bis
legal attainments. The . people in the
east are being awakened and a reply to
these letters will greatly aid the cause.
have beeu told that the judge of the
courts of your county is also in this
state making addresses similar to the
enclosed letter. Hoping you will find it
convenient to give this matter your at
tention, and thanking you in advance
for the favor, I am very respectfully,
. ' J. A. oNYDEK. .
We have received letters similar to the
above from West Virginia from Ohio and
from Indiana, with copies of letters sent
east by Mr. W. Folsom and C. M. Parker
Whether Mr. Bryan is elected or defeated
both of these geutlemen will regret the
day that their intense partisanship led
them in the heat of a campaign to indict
these epistles. Mr. Folsom says in his
letter:
"A decided re-action has set in, and I
think that there is no donbt that Bryan
will not carry the ward of the city in
which he lives, or the city of Lincoln, nor
the county of Lancaster, nor the State
of Nebraska, northe union at large."
Mr. Folsom further says: -"According
to my way of thinking, all.
that is honorable, all . that is just, and
all that is sensible backs the gold stand
ard. It is only fanatics, or parties
prompted by the expectation of making
political capital out of it, or those who
would like to repudiate their honest ob
ligations, that are backing the silver
agitation."
The people of Lincoln will be greatly
surprised that "a prominent attorney"
of this city is telling the people of Penn
sylvania and other eastern states that
at least one-half of the citizens of this
city and a majoritj of the citizens of
this state are "fanatics" and "would
like to repudiate their honest obliga
tions." That is the sort of a reputation
this gold standard attorney.is trying to
establish for many business men, law
yers, physicians, ministers, farmers and
honest toilers. Mr. Folsom is standing
up for Nebraska with a vengeance.
In speaking of Mr. Bryan, Mr. Folsom
further says:
"He is unknown in the field of political
economy, among the statesmen of the
nation, and among those who have
proven themselves worthy of great re
sponsiblities. I think the nation would
make a serious mistake in placing the re
sponsibility of this government in his
hands; for his extreme views indicate a
mind that would be easily influenced
and warped."
Has Major McKinley ever written any
works on political economy? Is he any
more widely known than Air. Bryan?
The substance of both Mr. Folsom's
and the Parker's letters is that Mr.
Bryan is viewed by his neighbors as a
man of no ability, either in the field of
politics or in that of the law.
Do these men expect intelligent citizens
of the east to believe that a young man
without ability, without friends and
j without money, could come into a state
and a congressional district where
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his party was in a very small
minority, get elected to congress twice,!
and in the first session of his service',
achieve a national reputation, have over,
a million of his speeches sent to all part'
of the republic, come back home an
overthrow the whole machinery
party, captnre its conventions,
every railroad corporation, bank
money interest fighting him, then go
a contested delegate to a national con
vention, make its platform, and capture
the nomination with every national
leader the president and his cabinet all
fighting him? - ,
If Messrs. Folsom and Parker think .
that a man of no ability in politics or ..'
law can achieve such things let either one
of them try it. '
BRYAN AND THE LAW.
The slanderers of the citizens of Ne
braska who are getting their letters pub
lished in the eastern goldbug newspapers
because they "are neighbors of Bryan,"
think - tbey have made a great point
when they state that Mr. Bryan never
achieved fame and never made a fortune
practicing law in Lincoln.
Do these men think that a young
lawyer, however able and brilliant,
could achieve fame and fortune in three
or four years practicing law in the Lin
coln courts with every corporation an
monied interest against him?
There is not a lawyer in the state who
has made more than a bare living
the past ten years, who is not a corpora-
Thurston, Manderson, Webster, Popple-1
ton, Cowen and the rest of the rich at-
torneys get their money? As attorneys I
for great monopolies and corporations.
Thev are all sold standard men. everv
one 01 mem. y
There are many attorneys in this state
just as able lawyers as any of the above
named. Not one of them has achieved
wealth. A lawyer could not long retain
even a seat on the bench, if he was not
favorable to the railroads. Unless he
was known to be in sympathy with the
corporations he could not, in this state,
obtain other lucrative practice.
The corporations never had any use
for a lawyer who entertained the senti
ments which have inspired W. J. Bryan.
There was no lucrative practice possible
for him, however able and learned he
was. It is a good thing for the United
States and the world that there was not.
It is the greatest praise that can be be
stowed upon him to tell it.
The two or three lawyers . who have
been writing these letters down east
have not achieved fame or fortune prac
ticing . law in Lincoln, and they, have
only been able to get their names in .
print because they live in the same tow
with W. J. Bryan.
BEARING FALSE WITNESS.
The following are extracts from a ser
mon preached by Rev. Henry W. Pink
ham, pastor of the first Baptist church,
Denver, Col: ;..
Rev. Cortland Myers, the very popular
Baptist minister of Brooklyn, has de
livered himself as follows: "Every Sun
day from now till the 1st of November I
shall denounce the Chicago platform.
That platform was made in hell. It
came from the lower world, and Altgeld
and his comrades were stenographers of
his satanic majesty." Such an utterance
shows to what depths of degredation the
pulpit can be sunk.
Bishop Newman of the Methodist Epis
copal church has said: "Christian min
isters should preach the doctrine of
sound money from their pulpits. This
country is passing through a crisis al
most, if not quite, as grave as that
which led up to the revolution and re
bellion. In such a crisis the responsibil
ity of the clergy is great and their duty
plain. The duty of avery Christian min
ister is to preach the ten commandments,
particularly the one which says, 'Thou
shalt not steal.'"
I am following the good bishop's ad
vice in taking my text from the ten com
mandments. But I have not taken the
one he recommended. It seems to me
that a more appropriate one for this
stage of the game is that which I an
nounce, "Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against they neighbor."
ADVERTISING A FRAUD. '
An advertisement about six mh
es
long, put up as reading matter, is ran in
a good many weeklies in this state. It
is a fraud and a swindle. The first f wo
sentences are as follows:
"During this great campaign people
want newspapers and want them while
they are fresh and newsy. The Semi
Weekly State Journal, Lincoln, Neb.,
supplies the demand, as it will be mailed
twice a week from now until January 1,
1897, for only 25c, or from now until
January 1, 1898, for onedollar."
The State JournaUis not a "news"
paper. It it an organ of the railroads.
It does not print the news. It distorts
and misrepresents almost every incident
of public interest.' It cannot be relied
upon for, a truthful report of a fire or a
public meeting. Any occurrence, a re
port of which would tend to inform the
readers of the doings of the great corpo
rations it suppresses. It seems that the
weekly papers of Nebraska should have
too much pride and business integrity to
advertise a fraud like that.
There never was, is not now and never
can be such a thing as a 50 cent dollar.
A dollar is 100 ents, but fifty cents is
half a dollar. When a half is equal to
the whole, then there will be 50 cent dol
lars and not until .then. The man who
talks about 50 cent dollars talks like an
imbecile ,
Tom Watson's speech for sale
cents ner codv. 81.50 nerlOO. Seni
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your order to Nebraska Independent,'
Lincoln, Nebraska. tf
D. P. Sims, dentist rooms 42, 43 Burr
Bl'k., Lincoln, Nebraeka. 14
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