The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, October 15, 1896, Image 8
1 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. Oct 1896. DEPUDUCAN PARTY MONEY PLANKS Moacy rimnk or the Bepnbltoan FUtform la issa. "The republican party is ia favor of the bm of both gold and silver as money, and condemns the policy of th democratic administration in its efforts to demonetise silver." Money Phutk of the Republican Platform la ISM. "The American people from tradi tion and interest favor bimetallism, and the republican party demands that the ss of both gold and silver as standard money, such restrictions to be determined by contemplation of values of the two metals so that the purchasing and debt paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper shall be equal at all times. The interest of the producers of the country, its farmers and its - working men, demand that every dollar, paper or gold, issued by the government, shall be as good as any other. We commend the wine and patriotic steps already taken by our government to secure an interna tional parity of value between gold and silver fur use as raonev through out the world." Money Plank of the Republican farlT I "The republican party I unre servedly forsound moiiey. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie pay ments in 1879. Since then every dol lar has been as good as gold. We . are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed' to the free coinage of Bilver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at a parity with gold and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolable the obliga tions of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the stan dard of the most enlightened na tion of the earth." STATE FUNDS The Rascally Management of Them by the Board of Lands and Funds. . E01IE PESTINENT QUESTIONS. Are Not State Warrants Properly Issued, State Securities, Under The Constitution? Will The Journal Give m Light f in bunday's Journal a "constitution al" defense of the rascally management of the trust funds of this state by the board of educational lands and . funds This defense is distorted into an attack on Governor Hoicomb for his efforts to have these trust funds invested in "state securities." As the Journal is the organ of the "board" The Post asks for in formation of the following questions, viz: Has not our supreme court decided that state warrants properly issued are "state securities' Youder the constitu tion? If as that decision ever been re versed? Under decisions of the supreme court has not the legislature directed that these trust funds shall be invested in these "state securities"? Have not a majority of the present board refused to invest these ' funds as directed by the legislature? Why have they so refused? Do yon think the opinion of the pres ent attorney general of higher author ity than the supreme court on the same question? , Yon say there was a total balance in the treasury October 10, 1890, ot f563 570.71. Could not all this large mine ot money lave been invested in "state securities" -drawing 5 percent interest? Has not Governor Hoicomb tried to have these trust fuuds soiinvested. Had these funds been so invested . would set the temporary school income have been benefited by about f 30,000 a year? ' If the school fund income was not so benefited, who was? Do you think these funds are safer de posited in banks drawing interest for state officials, than invested in state warran ts drawing interest for the school children of the state? . Are the f 100,000 of Saunders county bonds which you say have been "purch ased, but not yet presented for pay ment," the same 100,000 Sauuders county bonds which the land commis sioner reported as purchased and paid for before July last in his published state ment in the Fremont Tribune. - If so, do you not know that those bonds have not yet been issued, and that they may never be issued to the state at all? Do you not know that the statement published in the Fremont Tribune in re gard to these same bonds was false? Will yon kindly tell us the facts about the 70,000 Lancaster county bonds which you say have been "purchased, but not yet presented for payment." Why not presented? Do you not know that there are now in A sayings bank in this city $18,000 in county bonds, where they have been for weeks waiting for the state treasurer to pay for them, when he has. according to your own statement, $361,570.71 cash on hand? Do yon not know that the treasury has been looted of these trust funds, and mat tney cannot De replaced Or do you not want to tell "till after election. Nebraska Independent, Oct., 15, 1896. Mrs. Lillard has opened a first-class farmers restaurant at 1024 P street. Try her luteals, only 10c. tf The Ideal Hotel on South list Lin . Coin, Neb-, is a quiet well constructed and well managed Hotel. A favorite re tort for country people. Stop there when 70a come in Lincoln. Kates very , w. . . 19t DOUGLAS COUNTY FARMERS. They Make sn Appeal to Brother Farm ers for Help. To farmers and working men of the state of Nebraska we make this appeal: We the undersigned were chosen a com mittee at a convention of farmers of Douglas county held at Elkborn, on Au gust 19, 1896, to draft a letter of appeal to the farmer of the state asking their assistance. Viz; among the many con stitutional amendments to be voted up on at the coming electiou is one giving metropolitan cities an opportunity to annex the county in which they are situ ated, and conduct its affairs under one set of officer. In case of the amendment passing, we farmers of Douglas county view with alarm the unjust and burden some tax that would follow, doing great injury to the agriculturalist interest of our county. We therefore make a most earnest appeal to our brother farmers throughont the stato to come to our res cues and by their vote aud influence help defeat this amendment. We make this appeal, realizing that our only salva tion is by the assistance of our brother farmers and laboring men ot the state. We solicit the public press for assist ance, fully realizing its power and in fluence, asking it to place this matter before the people of the state, that they may have an opportunity to cast their votes intelligently in this matter. P. N. McArdlk, : ' Fhank Hibbakd, Ed Smith, Clans Sikvers, J. R. Watts. Beware of Ointments for Oatanb that Contain Mercury. M marcary will tartly destroy the mm of (mail and completely daranue ttat whole eyntem when nterlDK it through the macou aarlacea. Bach article nhonld never be lined oioept on prescrip tion from reputable phjraiclana, a tbe damage they will do la ten fold to tbe good yon can poe allily derive from them. Uall'a Catarrh Cure, manufactured by K. J. Cheney t Co., Toledo, O., contain! no mercury, and la taken Internally, acting directly npon the blood and mncona sur faces of the eyatem. In buying; Hall'a Catarrh Cure be euro yon Ret the genuine. It la taken Internally, and mode la Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney 4 Co. Testimonials free. Sold by dragglats, price 76c par bottle. MY BRYAN CLUB How Women Fight the Hosts of Plutocracy. ABLE, SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSIONS. Lincoln s Clnb Numbers Nearly Six Hundred. Rain Storms Can't Stop Them. The day was cold. The rain came down in a steady drizzle and a cold wind sent gusts of spray around the corners, dashing iuto the face and wettiDg the clothing no matter how one held the umbrella. All this did not at all affect the members of the Mary Bryan Free Sil ver club, whose hearts are fired with the hope of in some way aiding to check the onward march of plutocracy in its ef forts to make slaves and serfs of Abra ham Lincoln's "plain people" of whom he said "God loved them or he wouldn't have made so many of them." They wended their way in spite of wind and chilling rain to the Conservatory of music, where they hired a hall and paid for it, and then proceded to hold a Bry an free silver meeting. . A glance into the faces of these women showed that they were cultured and re fined. A second glance would convince any one that they were all womanly women, nearly all of them wives and mothers, tastefully attired, modest in demeanor, and dignified in bearing. The hall was soon filled. The presi dent and secretary took their seats. Every act from that on showed that they were all familiar with parliamen tary proceedings. The first report from committees showed the membership to be 507, the president remarking that she believed it to be the largest club that so far had been reported. Various matters were disposed ot with order and celerity. A lady reported the G. A. R. club had offered to present to tbe club a silk flag whenever its membership reached 1,000. Every member was appointed a com mittee of one to solicit new members, bnt the G. A. R. vetrans were politely in formed that they already bad one nice banner, and they would prefer that the cost of a silk flag should be given them in literature, especially literature in the Swedish language. A lady read an extract from the wrsp-.f Wiifti 'r.yn-yfi! Courier in which W. Morton Smith inti mated that women a iwditical clubs would tie willing to visit Bud Lindaey in his dive and projtoaed some action upon it, out the universal lvspniiite was, "ig nore it, one lady remaiking that such language put Mr. Smith on a level with Burt Lindwey and with such men this club could have nothing to do. w hen these preliminaries were oyer, a young lady law student from the uni versify made an address that would have astonished any student of political economy in tne state, by the breadth and depth of solid, scientific knowledge 01 tne science of political economy which 11 displayed, bhe did not use an in acta rate economic term from the beginning to the end. She did not talk of a "unit of value" but of "a unit of account." She displayed two silver dollars, one coined in nvn ana one in i.voon wbicn ap peared tne words "one dollar or unit." 1 here has been no speech made in Lin coin in this campaign, more valuable or as scholastic and scientific thanthif speech by this younur lad v. After hear- ing all the gaeat debates in the senate during the extra session of 1803, after studying the standard economists for twenty years, after reading scores of modern works and hundreds of articles m the quarterlies, reviews and maira zines, this writer would not know where to find an article of eaual leotrth more vaiuaoie. A lady who said she had been born and raised a republican then delivered a short address to show why she was for iree silver, bhe believed in the creat re publican leaders of the past and still be lieved in them. She quoted from many of them where they declared tor free silver. It was ths teaching of the great republican leaders that made her believe n free silver. , In closing Bhe said she wanted to reply to the cold speech of Robert O. Intrersoll. It might be presumption on her part to attempt it, but she felt confident that although Ingersoll was one of the great est of orators, she could utterly refute im. J ben she picked ud a volume of Ingersoll's works and read that bril- lant, sparkling, fiery defence of the free oinage of silver which forms part of a lecture delivered by him some years ago, and then asked the audience if she had not made Brood her promise to answer Ingersoll. Some exquisite sincimr by a vounar lady followed after which an elderly lady made a short extemporaneous speech hich was greeted with round after round of applause. She said she wished the ladies would cease to call themselves democrats, republicans, populists or pronioitionists. mese were organiza tions of the past. There were no repub licans, democrats or populists now. They were either for a gold standard or against it. They needn't talk about leaving the dear old party, there was no ear old party to leave. That was a thing of the past also. , They need not fear helping to defeat McKinley. He was already defeated. Stop all that talk. You are for the poor.the oppressed the producers and workers or you are gainst them. You cannot help your self. With one or the other of these forces you are allied. McKinley is de feated", Bryan is elected and you had better get in the band wagon for it is getting very full. bhe told of a little reepublican woman bo had called on her and said shecould ot leave the republican partv because that was the parjy that fought the war. No democrats, she said, ever joined the army. The lady then told how she replied to her. "My husband was in the war. He enlisted on the 12th day of August 1861 and fought all the way through. I was a republican. I have five brothers all republicans but one. He was a demo crat, the only one in the whole family. He enlisted but the four republican brothers furnished substitutes. I don't say that they were not all brave men and loyal men for they were. But the fact is, the democrat went to the war and the republicans furnished substi tutes. (A voice, "My husband was a democrat and he was in the war." Other voices,''so was mine.") But I'm tired and sick of all that. We've waved the bloody shirt until we are all nearly ruined. The bloody chasm is closed. Let us look no more into the past, but into the future. What is the use of mourning about leav ing an old party that does not exist. You can't leave it and you can't stay in it. You are for the gold standard or against it. You are for the money power or for W. J. Bryan. Get in the band wagon. There are not many va cant seats left," Another lady gave a synopsis of the seven platforms on which the seven pres idential candidates are now running, after which a great many new members were admitted and the Mary Bryan club adjourned for one week. Read Ewing Clothing Co's ad on fifth page and govern yourself accordingly. Insurance Department. Conducted by J. T. M. Swlgart. Correspondence aoMctted. Every mutual man in Nebraska should vote for friends of mutual insurance for governor, auditor and attorney-general. There is not a man on the populist ticket but what is in favor of mutual in surance. The populist platform is plain and distinct on that issue, while on the other hand the republican platform allows the legislature to amend our present law and that means death to every company. Further, there were many members of mutuals in their state convention who fought the renomina tion of Churchill for attorney-general but he was nominated because the stock insurance companies took a hand in that convention. If they could nominate such a man for attorney general with the op position he had, it is reasonable to sup pose that all the rest were named by them, or at least was agreeable to them. Let us all see to it that Hoicomb, Con nell and Smyths are elected, as they are the only state officers who have anything to do with mutual insurance. Read the advertisement of Summers Morrison & Co., and ship your grain to them. Captain SohllUog Shut On. Topkka, Kan., Oct 14. Th state lection board yesterday heard the contest between Captain John Schil ling and John Fulton for the right to go on the printed ballot as the Repub lican nominee for state senator in the Brown-Doniphan connty district. The decision was awarded to Mr. Fulton, who was the nominee of the regular Bepnblioan convention. If Vou Arc One 01 Those Who are yet outside, we should like to get acquainted with you. 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THIS WEEKJ- 58c, 79c? 90c and $1.12. 00000 0 00000000030000000300 0 3 3 330O3OO00O003O0OOO0OO00000qS0 FRED. SCHMIDT & BRO. 921 O St. Opposite Postofflce, Lincoln, Neb. They . Have Been Arranged Twenty-Eight States. in IT MAKES H ANN A AWFUL MAD. It Insures the Defeat of his Man McKinley Certain. Special News from Washington. Washington, D. C, Oct., 10, 1896. During the last week a joint electoral ticket has been arranged in West Vir ginia, by which the populistB get the two electors-at-large, and the democrats the four district electors. This arrange ment makes West Virginia certain, while before the McKinley people were claiming the state. So far, joint electoral tickts have been made in twenty-eight states, in nearly every one of which the people's party has secured a larger proportion of the electoral vote than the strength of the respective parties would seem to jus tify. ' The republicans are greatly chagrined over the arrangements recently made in Indiana and West Virginia. Through their emissaries they did everything in their power to prevent joint electoral tickets from being made in these two Btates; and now, have these same emi saries at work in these two states, as well as ia nearly every other state, trying to breed dissensions and get as many dem ocrats and populists as possible to re bel against these joint electoral tickets, under one pretext or another. In fact, joint electoral tickets have been ar ranged in a sufficient number of btates to make the defeat of McKinley and the gold standard certain. Mark Hanna realizes that his only hope now is to try to prevent the people from supporting these joint electoral tickets. The pa triotism of tbe 1 voters can be depended upon, however, to defeat this last hope and scheme to fasten the gold Btandard upon the nation. ( ' HOW THE SITUATION STANDS. The outlook hasgreatly improved dur ing the last ten days. The reaction has set in all over tbe country against the republican boodle campaign. The masses of the voters have begun to real ize that the monopolists and trusts are Cutting up millions of dol ars to try to uy the election in order that these trusts and monopolists can fatten upon the masses of the people for another four years. Information received at tbe headquarters of the peoples party and of the democratic party, so far, indicate that tbe following states are almost ab solutely safe, with the prospects bright ening each day. Alabama 14, Arkansas 8, Florida 4, Georgia 13, Louisiana 8, Mississippi 9, Missouri 17, South Caroliua 9, Tenne ssee 12, Texas 15, Virginia 12, Colorado 4, Idaho 3, Montana'), Nevada 3, North Dakota 3, South Dakota 4, Utah 3, Washington 4, Wyoming 3, Kentucky 13, Kansas 10, Nebraska 8, Indiana 15, North Carolina 11, Oregon 4, California 9, Maryland 8, West Virginia 6. Total 232. The above states which are reasonably certain for Bryan, with a certainty of gaining steadily to tbe election, gives two hundred and thirty-two electoral votes, or eight more than enough to elect. It will be noticed that in the above list is not included states like Illinois, with twenty-four votes; Deleware with three; Minnesota with nine, Michigan with four teen, and Iowa with thirteen. In these states Bryan's chances are at least even In fact, if the election was to take place MILLINERY J 3 Nv ' And 1 A, dressmaking very cheap. We have a large stock of fine millinery; prices lowest. Sadie Puckett, 1238 0 street, Up Stairs. tomorrow, it is almost ceotain that he would carry several of these .states, if not all of them; and there is every indi cation that the silver sentiment will be stronger in these states on the third of November than at present. Thus it will be seen that Bryan can be elected if all of these central western states, which are considered the fighting ground in the campaign should go for McKinW If tbe reaction against Hanna's boodle campaign continues as it has set in dur ing the last ten days, Bryan will have votes to spare in the electoral college, Today even Chicago is trembling in the Daiance, ana may go for liryan. As we have said above, there is, in fact, but one danger now, and that is Hanna's efforts to try to get dissentions on the joint electoral tickets. LABOR VOTE AGAINST MCKINLEY. The information received at head quarters shows that the labor vote will probably vote more unitedly . this year th an ever before. iToe efforts at coercion and intimidation by the employers of labor was never greater thnn it is this year, and the manhood of the laboring man is now beginning to rebel asrainst his master, who, not satisfied with mak ing him an industrial slave, is now try ing to make him a political vassal also. The gold people made an appointment a few days ago for Powderly, in Chicago, advertised him as a great labor leader, and did everything in their power to get tbe laboring men out to hear him. But the laboring people, believing that Pow derly was in the way of their enemy, re fused to go out to hear him. He had only a handful of people in a large opera nouse. iniormation is received from a number of points where emissaries are sent to talk to laboring mea in the in terests of the gold standard, to the ef fect that the resultsof all of these efforts have been to arouse the manhood of the laboring men, and make them come out boldly and declare for Bryan and silver. Ibe state eleqtion in Honda shows a falling off in the democratic vote. It is understood that the two great railway systems in that state will do everything in their power to tive the electoral vote of the state to McKinley: But if a joint electoral ticket can be arranged there, the state is safe. ' THE GEOItOIA ELECTION. In answer to a telegram received from the Evening Journal of Atlanta, today, Chairman Butler sent the following dis patch to that paper, which gives the populist view at headquarters here con cerning the Georgia election. It is as follows: :' . "The Evening Journal, Atlanta, Geor gia: It ia almost certain that a major ity of the white votes of Georgia was cast for the people's party state ticket. This is a great gain over the party's las vote, and is due to the personal popu larity of Tom Watson in his own state, and to tbe desire of the people to rebuke the democratic party for its manage ment of the state affairs of Georgia. Evidently the democratic party is in debted to the negro vote for whatever kind of victary they have wou." .- The outlook for Bryan and free silver is much better than it was ten days ago. The reaction against the schemes and methods of the republican party has set in and will grow in force until the day of the election. -This proved the impotency of a boodle campaign when the people are aroused on a great and vital issue. 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