The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, October 08, 1896, Image 1
f i J y 6 11 pi WO The Wealth Malters and Lincoln Independent Consolidated. VOL,. VIII. LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY Oct. 8, 1896. NO. .18. mm n mn rn n ran C0RRUPTI0N1ST PIPER He Creates a Big Bow Among the Republican Editors of the State.. EACH PAPER TO BK TAXED $100. To Assist in Ee-electing that Official as Secretary of State. A Pretty How Do You Do. . A well kuowQ citizen of Norfolk, Neb., a man thoroughly reliable and who is generally given the credit for knowing what he is talking about sends us the following communication. He assures us that every statement contained there in can be verified. The populist and democratic papers of Nebraska have frequently alluded to the $80,000 which will be paid to the re publicans newspapers as a republican campaign fund, and now the startling revelation has leaked out that this f 30, 000, or a part of it, is actually and truly a genuine republican campaign fund being used to boost our present secre tary "of state, J. A. Piper, into a second term of office. This is a glaring accusa tion to make against a state official who-h'as taken a solemn oath to uphold the dignity and honor of our great com monwealth, but what makes the accusa tion more glaring is the fact that we have pretty good proof that it is true. The next day after the meeting of the Northeastern Nebraska Press associa tion, held at Wayne, Neb., not long since, I overheard two editors talking on the streets of Norfolk. I was just out 01 tneir view at an open : winnow ana could hear every word they said, which U - . 1. - i- Unl nM ?U BUUSLUUUO WO.D lUtb IUO IIIOiUIici ui printing the proposed constitutional amendments was brought up before the association at Wayne, and one republi can came right "ent oppnly and above board and stated that Mr. Piper bad made him promise to give $ 100 of the printing money to his campaign fund before he would designate his paper as one in which the amendments should be published. Others gave them to under stand that it was the same in their counties and that it was pretty much the same all over the state. What do you think of this, "free born Americans?" Is such a man as that a proper person to fill the honored and responsible office of secretary of state? Since I heard that conversation I have been told that a secret organization of many republican editors in all parts of Nebraska has been perfected, each member of which has tnken a solemn oath or obligation to do all in their power to send Piper up "Salt creek" on the 3d of November.and if they are as sincere and earnest as . I have beard they are, he will be defeated by an overwhelming majority, as any man should be who would use such ignoble means to force himself into office. A man who would rob thestarviDgprinters of their . just earnings in order to ride ttto office would doubtless do more un- '1 scrupulous things after he is in. We be lieve it the solemn duty of every law- 1 1 biding citizen of Nebraska to rise up nd invite Mr. Piner to stay at home, by their ballots on the 3d day of Novem- ... The Middle of the Koaders. A remarkable political convention was held in this city this morning. It was a state convention of the middle-of-the-road republican hosts, a conven tion of those republicans that still adhere to the principles of that party as advo cated by Lincoln, Grant, Blaine and the martyred Garfield. It was a convention of those republicans who are unwilling to give up the faith of a life time for the new faith of Marcus A. Hanna. They met that they might still preserve that party which boasts of its grand record in the past from the disgrace that now threatens it. ' The middle-of-the-road republican con vention met this morning at the Lincoln hotel. Every county in the state was represented. ; :.'' The first order of business to come up was the nomination of a governor. Hon. Robert Armstrong of York county and C. 0. Lobacke of Douglass county were placed in nomination. As a result of the ballot Armstrong re ceived one hundred and fifty-six and Labacke fifty-four. Armstrong was de dared the nominee. The following were placed in nomination for lieutenent governor Hon. C. A. Peters Lancaster, and Hon. W. T. Leonhoft of Douglass county. The ballot resulted in the nomination of Peters. The rules were suspended and T. S. Perry of Saunders county was nomin ated by acclamateon for secretary of state. ,J Under a similar motion the following were nominated for the offices indicated: James R. Harris, Lancaster county, auditor of public accounts. Samuel A.' Bryant, Dawes county, state treasurer. t v J. L. McNinno, superintendent of pub lic instruction. v James D. Pattison, Dawes county, commissioner of public lands and build ings. John M. Lynda, Cass county, attorney general. The following were nominated for presi dential electors: W. F. Leonhardt, Douglas; Michael Morrissy, Cass county, electors at large, and A. Behnke, R. A. Williams, J.'E. Lamb, H. Henry, Daw son county, were named as district dele gates. . F. L. Rose was elected chairman of the state committee and R. A. Williams sec retary. K Ringing resolutions were adopted con demning the new leadership of Marcus A. Hanna which aspired to control the destinies of this grand nation, and de clared emphatically . for the free and un limited coinage of silver. Stirring speeches were made by a num ber of the delegates present in support of the platform and tickets. The secretary of state refused to file. the certificate of nomination of the middle-of-the-road republicans. The matter will be carried into the supreme court and an attempt will be made to compel him to recognize the new ticket. While the convention as called by Mr. Rose was in session a number of McKinleyites met and held what they thought was a convention under the call of Mr. Rose and nominated a regular ticket dupli cating the nominations of the state re publican convention two months previ ous. They rushed up to the secretary of state's office with their certificate and had the same filed. What the Traitors Did. . Effort has been made to secure fusion of democrats and populists in Indiana. But this failed, and the populists have put up separate electors. The demo crats were willing to poncede the popu lists three or four electors; the special committee "middle-of-the-road" de manded seven and all JtiskMMwntjflgunt on the withdrawal of Mr. Sewall by the national committee. The demands were made so exhorbitant purposely to be im possible . of fulfillment, Paul VanDer voort of Omaha, a co-worker with Sen ator Thurston, was at Indianapolis working against fusion. ': Indiana is close and VanDervoort and that ex-rebel Charles X. Mathews, think they have Bryan beaten in that state, but instead of that, they will find that they will have only wrecked the popu list party in Indiana. THE LAST CHANCE If Plutocracy wins in four years there will be no free ballot. Workingmen, this is the last chance you will have to assert your privieges as freemen, unless you elect W. J. Bryan to the presidency. If he is not elected, you may as well bid a long farewell to your boasted freedom, for before anoth er national election you will be deprived of all the rights of citizenship. Your elections will be uuder the control of United States marshals, and no matter how you vote, the count will be made to suit those in charge of the machine. These are no idle words, but they are truths that it will be unsafe even to print in a few more years, should the tory gang get another grip on the country at the November election. Men, be worthy of the name and strike one decisive blow now, for your liberty, be fore it is everlastingly too late. Vote for Bryan and prepetnate your indepen dencefor if you vote'for another candi date you simply throw away your rights as men. South Omaha Sun. Please Bead This. We have for some time presented in our columns the announcement of the Oxford Merchandisecompany of Chicago. We have it on the autonty of our Chica go representative that this firm is a most worthy one, honorable in its busi ness methods, with a long standing rec ord for fair dealing. Now that the sea son is approaching for laying in sup plies of merchandise, etc., we auk those of our readers who intend making pur chases to write to the Oxford Merchan dise company for their catalogue of prices, and to be particular to mention this paper. We make this request as in all cases where concerns like the Oxford are liberal advertisers in our paper. It helps our paper, and we believe our peo ple should patronize those advertisers who are friendly to their journals,, and not those who boycott them and only advertise in papers that are against us. Best Work on Finance. , Holdrege, Neb.,0ct., 3, 1896 To The Editor: Will you please in form me in your next paper where I can obtain a standard work on finance em bodying the financial legislation of this country from- 1892 to the present time. I like your papar first rate. Au old green backer for 28 years. E. Y. Coknell, The best work on finance ever printed is the speech of J. P. Jones delivered in 1893. Send 25 cents to Bimetallic League, Sun Building Washington, D. C. and get it. Ed. GENERALS The Grandest Political Demonstra tion Thvs far Held in the pity of Lincoln This Campaign. GENERALS' ORDERS IGNORED. Speaker of the Evening, J. Burrows Hurls an Avalanche of Argu ment Against Ooldbugs. Privates Now Give Orders. The largest crowd that has assembled in Bohanan's ball for any political meet ing during the campaign was that of last Saturday night to hear the privates answer the generals. Ever since the dis tinguised military gentlemen visited Lin coln to tell the Nebraska veterans how to vote there has been no little indigna tion on the part of thejatter at the pre sumption of the former. The meeting of last Saturday night was arranged to give the old soldiers of Nebraska an op portunity to present their side of the case and protest against the action of those who commanded in war calling them repudiationists ; and anarchists because thej do not now propose to fol low their leadership. ; There were over one hundred veterans present, all members of the Bryan's Vet eran club. They were loudly cheered as they entered the hall. Two hundred university students entered the building in a body end made the ball ring with their yells for Bryan and free silver yells such as only college boys know how to give. , ' ' r r Attorney General Leese presided, In. stating the object of the meeting, be said: We meet here tonight in behalf of "the old veterans of the Bryan dub. Last Tuesday be heard the generals call us anarachists and repudiationtela. To night we meet and shall hurl their declar- We will first listen to a song by a. chorus of 100 University students. The boys sang well and it is to be hoped the people of Lincoln will have an op portunity to hear them often during the campaign. General Lease then introduced Com rade S&y Burrows who ably answered the arguments of the generals. Mr. Burrows expressed his regret that there was a republican meeting in town "otherwise we might have had a larger crowd." The audience was not slow in catching the irony of the remark.. Mr. Burrows said he did not hear any arguments from the generals nothing but assertions. It was a new custom for these generals to come out here to instruct us how to vote. . - . " I have no disrespect for them, we know by history that they are all brave men. I reported to one of them personally after the battle of Bull Run. As soldiers and citizens I bold them iu the highest respect aud esteem. The only thing the speaker heard in the entire speech of General Alger was his assertion that the siiver men were repudiationists. The speaker here read from a little book published in Washing ton in which Sherman said that the bond bolder is a repudiater and dishonest in refusing to take the same kind of money as was borrowed. That is John Sher man on repudiation. These men are great on patriotism. They are great on waving the bloody shirt. Gen. Stewart said cheap money meant cheap men. If this be true why was the country so prosperous during the years of the war when money was so cheap. People do not know what cheap money means. When the use that term they refer to the intrinsic value of the meterial. That has nothing to do with the value of money. General Stewart had referred to the condition of England to show the pros perity of a country under the gold stand ard. Mr. Burrows then read from English statistics showing the concentration of wealth in that country, how the proper ty, the land and everything was going into the hands of the few and making paupers of the many. He also quoted from Robert P. Parker to the same effect, depicting a life of slavery of the working classes. This is the condition of-England, the country which is alluded to as being so prosper ous. General Booth, when he started out in his great and noble work, did it with the intention of bringing these peo ple up to the standard of the cab horse. Tbat was his standard. Would you call this a condition of prosperity? In regard to Corporal Tanner's criti cism of Bryan Mr. Burrows said that there are a certain class of men in this country who are enemies to the the country. They are enemies to man kind. They are attempting to fasten gold standard on this country. The ob ject is to reduce the common people to a condition of servitude. , I believe this is their intention. However, I do not think Mr. Bryan intended using the word in this sense, he merely meant his politi cal enemies. 1 They say that Mr. Bryau is losing his mind. He might lose part ofit. He might have part of his great brain re moved but he would still be more than a match for the champions of Haniiaism. (This remark was greeted with cheers lasting several minutes. Men got on chairs and waved their hats, ladies waved their handkerchiefs and paude monium reigned for a few minutes.) Corporal Tanner said that thus far we have paid dollar for dollar on our debt, The speaker quoted from Joh nCla rk Ridpath showing the dishonest manner in which the bondholders have manipu lated the sale of bonds. He, showed the fallacy of the 50 cent dollar argument of the generals. He said the only value of money is value in exchange. There is no such a thing as intrinsic value. Intrinsic value adheres ia the thing. "I do not care what the dollar is made out of" said the speaker. "If the government stamps it and gives it the legal tender power it isa dollar and is worth 100 cents. There was nothing in the 50-cent dol lar argument. Every man knows that uuder free coinage the silver bullion would be worth as much as the'eoined product. , He said there was one thing tbat amused him and that was the statement of General Sickles ' about the pleased smiles Mr. Bryan always wore. Certainly no man had a better right to wear a pleased smile than he. ; He referred to the crises of American history. The first was in 1776, when the Mssue was the right of the people to free tnd independent government. The issue iu the second crisis was the right of the black men to their' liberty. The third crisis iB the present one, in which the yoke of the white slaves is about to be thrown off and the leader in this crisis, -..-,., tie of truth, the central flizara of. Bryan. Great applause followed this tribute to Mr. Bryan. The university glee club was Ithen an nounced and sang in characteristic style, "There Is a Man in Our Town and His Name Is Bryan." Col. L. C. Pace was the next speaker. He said "The constitution of the United States while ; it provides that there should be no tilted lords in this country did not provide tbat there should be money lords. . , f '' Generals wereused togivingcommand. After receiving big salaries all their lives, they come out here to make broad and general declarations. They say we want honest money. So do the boys in blue who were under you. Corporal Tanner said if there is a man who, after en during the horrors of Andersonville, wishes to vote for McKraley, don't say aught to offend him. To turn the figure if there is a patriot who, after years of hardship and, suffering the horrors of civil war in defense of human liberty, if be would now forget bis post and vote for the money power, and could vote to reduce the American peo ple to a condition of .serfdom don't say aught to mar his fellings. Mr. Bryan may be poor in money but he is rich in principle, rich in right and rich is his devotion to the people. : Is not that the kind of man we want for presi dent? In speaking of the attempted dictation of thegcnerals he said: "You wish to dictate to ns to vote for the money poweri But this impulse to vote as we please, this impulse to determine for our selves our opinions will not be given up, not even at the command of generals. Trying to Bribe. There is abundant evidence that re publican money is being used in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and several other close states, to prevent a fusion on elec tors between the populists and demo crats. It is very probable that some sensational deYelopements will soon be made in all these states and the most gigantic plot discloxed to divide the silver forces and perpetuate the infam ous reign of the gold power. WATSON'S SPEECH FOR SALE. Copies of the supplement to this paper containing Tom Watson's entire speech for sale at 2 cents per copy or $1.50 per 100. Cash must accompany all orders. Address Nebraska Independent, Lin coln, Nebraska. , Reformers Uniting:. The populists and democrats of Salt Lake county, Utah, have united on a county ticket. The populists, take four of the candidates and the democrats get the rest. The populists in , that section have heretotore been among the strong est middle-of-the roadersfn the country. The logic of events is doing more to unite reformers than everything else. CALIFORNIA IS SAFE Hundreds of Republicans Stumping the State for Bryan. ALL JOIN HANDS OUT THEH2. One Republican Club Two Thousand Five Hundred Strong. ' Another rree Mlver senator,, Some time ago an item was printed in this paper to the effect that there was a republican Bryan club at Los Angeles, California, having a membership of 2, 000. Mr. Charles A Cook thought he would write out there and see if the story was true. He received i the follow ing answer: Los Angeles, Sept., 23, 189Gl I have just come from the republican silver club. Their pledge is only to vote for silver and they nnmber tonight 2250. All are republicans.' ;-iT-;fV-p'-v.-?" When the democrats in the convention nominated a man for , congressman he came on the stage and thanked the con vention for the honor and. then said: "Gentlemen of this convention, any. time you want me to step out ol the way and work for any good silver man,' I am ready. Anything for Hryou and silver. He was taken down and a populist fused on. In this state they have fused in every district for congressman. We expect to have the state legisla ture so as to send a silver senator this winter. -. V The Bryan silver club, another club that takes in any one that is for Bryan has between three and four thousand. The majority of the free silver speakers on the slump here are old line republi cans. California is all safe. List Sat urday night we opened the wigwam 4ad shall holii meetings in it from now on. The night the republicans came down here from San Francisco, the speaker wns talking in a hall holding abont 3, 500 and all sat and listened for a tew minutes and they had cheewni him a few times aud he began to feel iA-od and was .makjMcKiiilev !5hi, Then he spoke isry all 11 ii trie, atia niyT6 GodI Didn't you bear the yell in Lin coln? The yell drove him to a stand still for fifteen minutes. , Cxn you swear that Nebraska is safe for Bryan? We shall carry Ohio by 20, 000. Write me abont Nebraska and tell me how the populists are going to stay by Bryan. Thomas Jordan. Well, all the populists iu Nebraska about 70,000 in number will stay by isryan except tnree. J ueir names are VanDervoort, DecF, and Clark, and these three deserters will cost Hanna a pile be fore he gets rid of them Ed. The Court 8utalned Them, There is just now a wonderful amount of interest being taken by the republican politicians in the probable outcome of the contests which will be precipitated by the filing of the certificates of nomina tion by the bolting democrats. Matters affecting that organization of the demo cratic party for the time being seem to more thoroughly engross the attention of republicans than their own party or ganization. ' Each year almost, since the adoption of the present ballot law, has brought up questions under it for the decision of the courts. In the present juncture the history of some of those cases', and the declaration of the courts, are of interest. In 1894, when the thirty-six bolted from the Omaha democratic state con vention and gathered around the punch bowl in the Paxton hotel cafe, they named candidates for offices to be voted for at the ensuing election. These bolters called themselves democrats, and filed with the secretary of state what they called a certificate of nomination made by the "convention of delegates repre senting the democratic party in Nebras ka." The certificate of the regular con vention office; was also filed, and the secretary of atate decided that the bolt ers were not entitled to use the name of democrat, and must go on the ticket, if at all, merely by petition. The supreme court sustained this ruling of the secre tary. The bolters' candidate went on by petition, and last year they again came np with their petition. The regulars asked the supreme court to issue its writ to prevent the secretary of state from putting the nominees of the bolter's con vention on the official ballot as demo crats. The regulars and the bolters were all put on the ballots, with the de signation of democrats. During the progress of these cases, both before the secretary of state and before the supreme court, there was a strong point made by the attorneys for the bolters that the gatherings were the true democratic conventions, because tbey represented the principles of the democratic party. To show that they did epreannt the principles of that party the platform of the democratic national convention of 1894 was read and inter preted according to their, understand- ng. The national convention was cited as the supreme arbiter in matters political. ; . v THE OOCBT'S DECISION. ' In the case last cited, which was dock eted as Phelps against Piper, the court seemed to be proceeding on this theory when in the opinion in the case it waa said: ; . v ;.;,.: "Political parties are voluntary asso ciations for political purposes. They es tablish their own rules. They are gov etued by their own usages. Voters may form them, reorganize them and dissolve them at their will. Thij voters ultimately must determine every such question. The voters constituting a party art ia deed tho onlyoiy who can deterclae between contending factions and con tending organizations! The question ia one essentially political and not Judicial in its character. It would be alike dan gerous to the freedom of elections, the liberty of voters and to the dignity and respect which should be entertained for judicial tribunals for the courts to un dertake in any case to Investigate either the government, usages or docttinjw til political parties and to exclude from the official ballots the names of candidates placed in nomination by au organiza tion which a portion of, or perhaps, a large majority of the voters professing allegiance to tbe particular party be lieved to be the representave of its poli tical doctrines and its party govern ment. We doubt even whether the legis lature has power to confer upon the courts any such authority. It is certain, however; that the legislature has not un dertaken to confer it. In the syll .bus tbe court said: "The question as to which one of two factions of a political party is tbe true represen tative of such political party, is rather a political than a judicial question." , There was a seeming coofttct laws' opinion with the doctrine, that the secret tary of state should determine from ex traneous evidence whether the certificate was what it purported to be or not whether the parties presenting it were representatives of the (political party From the arguments pf the attorneys lor the bolters and tbe apparent theory of the court in declining to take juris diction it is construed by the democrats that there waa a transferring of these political questions, the proper deter mination of which depends npon rules of party usage, to the party tribunals. They also contend that there was a transfer to such party tribunal, the highest in the land, the one cited by the attorneys of the bolters, the democratic national convention which met at Chica go last July. The decision of that supreme tribunal in party matters the democrats claim was against the "bolters" when the con vention, unseated their delegates and seated the drilegattni sent by the regular democratic convention. 7 To decide differently now would be to say that there can be more than one party in the state all claiming the right to use the same party designation, and that neither the secretary of state, the courts nor the party national conven tion can decide as to the regularity of contending factions. Broken Promise. Several speakers after agreeing with the state central committee to fill ap pointments have failed to keep their promises and many complaints from the localities where they were billed have been filed with the editor of this paper and the state committee. Chief among these sinners has been Mr. Harington. A correspondent at Long Pine writes as follows: ' "Will yon kindly investigate and let the people know what is the matter with Mr. Harington, he was billed for three points on this road and up to this time has failed to keep two of the appoint ments. , He was to have been at New port the 28th, Long Pine the 29th and Ainsworth the 30th. We have under stood . that Mr. Harington was billed for these points by the free silver central committee. Now we would certainly like to know why he failed us. There was the largest crowd in Long Pine the 29th inst., that has ever gathered there on any occasion, and there was con siderable disappointment and I am afraid that we have lost several votes thereby. Please give us some explana tion if you possibly can. Growing Desperate. The depth of desperation to which the goldbugs are driven in their fight on silver is shown by their action in the Seventh Kentucky congressional district where the republicans and gold demo crats have united and will support "Billy" Madeline Pollard Breckenridge for congress. . Wataonln Nebraska. The New Era wants to extend its per sonal thanks to our esteemed Populist friend, Hon, T. Tibbies, for his beautiful t-ditorial tribute to Tom Watson in this week's Nebraska Independent. We have read many pretty things of Mr. Bryan, but none that pays a higher tribute than Mr. Tibbie s eulogy of Watson. Mr, Tibbies is a populist, and that means a great deal. Wahoo New Era. r -X. J V