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1 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Nov, 19, 1896. H1 Nebraska Jnbcjjenbmt TKM WMALTH MAXIMS mmi UHCOIM OfDirWDBltT. rVIUSUZD EVERY THURSDAY fcixp:xt PubiUhiitf So. At U29 B Rmt. LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. TCLCPNONEBSS. $L00 per Year in Advance AdirM sB eeMtalefttieM to. m4 sO nits, homt eroers. ttfc, parable to THE UtDEPEMDEHT FOB, 00. La.ooLS.fls. Pay your subscription now. The coming session of the legislature honld not exceed forty days. That is plenty of time to do all the business. Now let us redeem this city of Lincoln from "wide open" mayors, defaulting treasurers and Ike Lansing Judges. The Reform Press association is in a pretty fix with a traitor and expelled member of the party as president. What are you going to do about it. The first bank failure recorded for some time came just a week after the election of McKinley. It was -the Iowa Savings bank of Sioux City, with liabilities of half a million. Bryan opened the campaign of 1900 in Lincoln Saturday, November 14, with three epeeches to immense audiences. Will he keep it up that way the next tour years? Now is the time you ought to pay your subscription. If you have received a bill it ought to be attended to, with the same promptness you give to your other .bills. . Take advantage of our 80 cent offer and have this paper sent to your friends until the legislature adjourns. It will give an honest and unbiased report of al1 the proceedings. , ORGANIZED LA BOB. A good many populist papers are making sarcastic rematks about the labor vote in the great cities. If these shafts are intended for organised labor, the Inmcpendest puts in here and now a vehement protest. The returns, as far as the goldbug sews concerns have permitted us to know what they are, show that organised labor did its ful1 duty and polled a much larger percent of its vote against 'plotocraey than did the farmers of the United States, and they did it in spite of the pressure brought upon them which never has and never ean be brought upon farmers. AH that a working man baa is his job. On it depends Bis life and that of his wife and children. Think of his position when his goldbug employer . tells him be must vote for McKinley or lose it. Under present conditions be knows that hs may never get another. When a man under such conditions voted for Dryan he was a hero, and if he failed to do it this paper has no hard words for him. The awful pressure that was brought to bear upon these men, the farmers can not realize. The force of it here in Lin coln can be somewhat understood by the number of yellow badges worn all through the campaign by Bryan men. There were over 1,000 men in Lancaster county who wore McKinley buttons, yellow rib bons, marched in the republican parades and contributed to goldbug clubs, who, on election day, thanks to 'the Austra lian ballot law, were able to vote for Bryan and still not lose their jobs. Again it was organized labor that gave us the Australian ballot, without which our liberties would be gone. It was labor organizations that first pro. posed it and fought it through the various state legislatures. Organized labor cannot beheld re sponsible for the vote of the foreign riff raff of the great cities. That class is the mortal enemy of organized labor. The republican party has gathered into its fold the ignorant, the vile, the criminal, of the great cities and votes them like cattle, but organized labor is not re' sponsible for that condition of affairs. A good many of the pop editors are talking right out about what ought to tm done by the next legislature in the way of economic administration. That's right. Keep on pounding at It. - The Lincoln churches last Sunday nearly all made earnest appeals for old clothes and other donations for the poor. That wave of prosperity don't seem to have gotten this far west yet. The gold standard papers are preach' ing a new and strange doctrine a doc trine never beard on this earth before, It is this. A majority is infallible. Its decision is final. It must thereafter never be questioned. To endeavor to raise a minority to a majority is anarchy A couple of prize fighters who voted for McKinley cane to Lincoln to "open a mill" according to McKinley's promise, but the police stopped it, Now they are down on a high tariff, declare the police are "anarchists" and wont vote any more as they punched. There is reported the proverbial small deficit in state fair finances. The next thing the reform forces .in this state should go after is the management of ' the state fair. Having cleaned out the Augean stables in the state capitol, it might be wise to disinfect the sheep and cattle pens at the state fair a little. . The goldbug papers made the thought less multitudes believe that the whole world would fall apart if we altered law or two in the United States, and men would turn into wild beasts, burn, murder and destroy, if Bryan were elect ed. The goldbug craze is the worst form of lunacy that ever afflicted man kind. ' The Omaha Jacksonian club at its first meeting after the election proceeded to take down and destroy the portrait of John O. Carlisle, J. Sterling Morton and George E. Pritchett, whereupon, it is aid the remaining portraits including Jefferson's, Jackson's and Horatio Sey mour's burst out in a grand shout of victory xuai me women oi .Nebraska mean what they say about continuing the' fight for home and country no one could doubt who saw the Funk opera house from pit to dome with culture, .beauty and sturdy womanhood, to listen to Mr. Bryan's opening address of the campaign of 1900. England has finully bowod io acknowl edgement of America's firm stand in the Venezuelan question and has officially sanctioned arbitration. It would seem that the United States is able to say to the strongest nation in the world, keep your hands off American territory, and compel respect for its dictum in spite of the disfavor of all Europe. Why cannot it say to that same foreign nation that it must keep its hands off our national treasury and allow us to legislate for. ourselves upon the money question? A RUB III PRICES. Nearly every pool and trust, imme diately declared a rise in prices tbe next day after McKinley was elected. That is the sort of rise (be goldbugs wanted and which the populists said would folllow the election of the trusts candidate It is the only sort of arise that will ever occur under the gold standard. Read the following dispatch ond see how they did it in tbe iron and steel trust: . "Pittsburg, Nov. 5. The predicted advance in the price of iron and steel, coincidently with tbe defeat of free silver began today, and a meeting of tbe steel billet pool has been called for Tuesday to consider the advisability of changing prices to meet the new condition of affairs. The pigiron advance is from $11.50 to $12.25 per ton in the Mahoning . and Shenango valleys. . This makes tbe rate in tbe Pittsburg district, freight included, about $12.65." GEN. J.8.COXEY. Mr. Coxey Is a nice man, gentlemanly in his manners, philanthropic and all his sympathies are with the poor, but he knows no more of tbe science of politica1 economy than a South Sea Islander. He has been a very great detriment to the cause of reform and seems to be inca pable of learning anything by experience, Already he has begun another attack on the populist platform. In the last issue of his paper he says: "The silver issue is as dead as Julius CiKsar or Marc Anthony, and who would seek to revive it, or set up its corpse to burn incense to it, should be branded as a tool of the Rothschilds and the re publican gold democratic party." Some effective measure should be taken to rid the party of him and his paper. His dreamed out plan to make the world prosperous with the unlimited is sue of nouinterest bearing bonds, is so childish and silly that any man who has conquered the least knowledge of money can not be induced to make a reply to it. If Mr Coxey wants to run a party by himself, he has a right to do it. but he has no right to call himself a populist, and make the peoples party subject to the odium of being in any way respon sttle for his idiotic dreams and childish ineones. ve bad Hoped that the experience which he has passed through would have taught him that money was solely a cre ation of law, a legal decree, that the ma terial on which that decree was printed did not in any way effect tbe value of "money," that its value was wholly de pendent on the "quantity," but the idea qever seemed to have entered his head He advocates just what the goldbugs charge us with and we never have sanc tioned and never will sanction, that Is, an unlimited issue of paper money, which would be the result of his bond scheme. Because New York succeeded in selling a lot of bonds the other day the State Journal reasons that there is plenty of money in this country. It is safe to ay, however, that it was not American money that purchased those bonds. No one will deny that the selection of an ad ministration that is controlled and owned by the bond dealers will readily stimulate the sale of bonds, just as the legalising of burglary would stimulate the sale of jimmies and dark lanterns. Nee oar speetel otr for earnl-weekly daring the legUtetlT mm Ion described on the editorial page. It Is your opportnoitr. BEATING THE RECORD. Some of the McKinley boom press dis patches are as easy to see through as a pane of window glass. Take the follow ing for an example which appeared in the New York World under the head, "Thou satds of Chicago drummers starting out for orders:" Chicago, Nov., 5. Ceneral Passenger Agent Ruggles, of the Wisconsin Central, announced his road had today checked more commercial baggage than any other day in 1896. The same statement was made by General Passenger Agent Eustis, of the Burlington." As every drummer on the road had been ordered home to vote, is it any wonder that the next day nr two after election the railroads should check wore commercial baggage than any other day in the year? That occurs after every presidential election. There ia'jo liar like a goldbug liar in all the world, and he is beating his own record Wery day IMPORTANT RECOGNITION. The reluctant agreement of Great Britain to arbitrate the Venezuelan boundary question is the first distinct recognition of the Monroe doctrine by any European power. In tbe beginning of the controversy the British state de partment expressly stated that ; the Monroe doctrine, upon which the United States government based its claim of right to interfere, bad never received recognition outside of the United States. This acknowledgment of the American doctrine by the British government is a practical acknowledgement of the su premacy of tbe United States through out the western hemisphere. The con cession cannot but wring the proud heart of boastful Britain. The result of tbe negotiations between this country and Great Britain over the Yenezuelan question not only establishes the Mon roe doctrine 'as a recognized interna tional law, but it popularizes the doc trine and process of international arbi tration. '. Now that tbe leading European nation has practically acknowledged the right of the United States government to pre vent old world nations from acquiring new territory in the western hemisphere, what is to prevent the promulgation of greater than the Monroe doctrine, which shall aim at the ultimate banish ishment of old world powers from the new world altogether? Tbe one doc trine is but the legitimate sequence of the other. MCKINLEY'S CABINET. Mark Hanna, secretary of state. ' Herr Most, inspector of dynamite. Matt Quay, protector of the nation's honors. Steve Elkins, establisher of star postal outes. Tom Platte, protector of political hon. esty, ", John U. P. Thurston, blacker of boots for railroad magnates. .Andrew Carnegie, protector of wage workers. Paul VauDervoort, legislative oil room inspector. W. C. P. Breckenridge, protector of young ladies. Bob Ingersoll, director of religious in struction. . Bishop Worthington, minister of edn cation for farmers' boys. EXPELLING THE TRAITORS. The Jacksonian club of Omaha met last Saturday night and began the work of driving out tlje traitors. They began, very properly with the big guns first. Preliminary steps were taken for the ex pulsion from tbe democratic party of J, Sterling Morton, J. M. Woolworth, Judge Wakeley, T.J. Mali oney, Tote Castor, A. J. bawyer, J. u. Crawford and some forty more of the lesser lights, who whooped it up for Palmer, voted for McKinley and fought Bryan. Let tb good work go on. The populists had only three traitors. Bill Dech, Marsh Elder and Paul VanDervoort, and settled their hash a long time ago. ' TOCR OPPORTUNITY. The Ikdepe.ndent offers you the beet and most accurate report of the pro ceedings of the legislature there is to be had. During, the entire session begin ning with tbe first issue in January the Independent will be mailed in two parts, will be a Semi-Weekly paper, reach ing its readers on Wednesday and Friday of each week. It will be full and running over with legislative and other state news. See that your subscription is paid up and that your name is kept on the list and get tbe benefit of this splen did service. SPECIAL. OFFER. The Independent from now to the ad. journment of the legislature for 30 cents. In clubs of Five (not less) 20 cents each. See that your neighbor reads this paper. There will be many ex. citing scenes as the old regime steps aside and the new officers are seated, and the legislature will present many excit ing contests. Republican papers will seek to deceive tbe people as they have in the past. Will you help us to spread the truth? ARE MUCH ENCOURAGED. It has recently been learned that Pal mer and Buckner carried one precinct in the United States. In Dudley township, Haskell county, Kansas, they received five votes, to four for McKinley and Ho bart, two for Bryan and Sewall and one lor ury an and; Watson. The news was bo' encouraging that the members of the bolting democratic state central com mittee in Illinois met the other day in Chicago and decided that their party is still alive. , we Persons who are friendly to this paper and to Mr. T. H. Tibbies, the editor, can show their appreciation by addressing a letter to Mr. J. V. Wolfe, chairman of the board of public lands and buildings requesting him to consider favorably the appointment of Mr. Tibbies as the popu list secretary of the board of transporta tion. If Mr. Tibbies holds a position in the state house and has access to the records of republican - management for the past twenty-five years he will furnish the readers of this paper with news that is well worth reading. We imagine there are some things the other follows did not tell. ' ;-. Two of the Kentucky Bryan. electors are for A woman presidential elector has been elected in Wyoming. . The populists have thirty members of congress and twelve senators. Sovereign most fittingly refers to Mark Hanna as the "Industrial Cannibal." There are eight silver congressmen from the state of Ohio. All . Ohioans do not think as McKinley does. It Ed Wolcott had a spark of honor he would immediately resign. He was elected to represent thr people of Col orado.' . ' . now. s A party name seems ore dear to many men than wife or etild or home or liberty. Some men would rather be beggars, . tramp the streets, sleep in po lice stations, forsake wife and children than give up the bleated privilege of say ing "I voted the republican ticket." , It is a sort of insanity. Ripans Tabula. We must get some more poor men into this country or that revenue deficiency can never be stopped. It is unconstitu tional to tax the rich. ... It baa been proven that General Palmer the gold democrat candidate for presi dent, did not vote for himself. There was not a vote cast for him in his voting precinct. j i n .i J .i i-n.Ji ,. Miss May Davidson of Long Pine was elected by tha populists and free silver democrats as county attorney. This is some slight recognition of the work done in this campaign by women. Reports from tbe county say that the farmers' who voted for the gold standard get np early every morning and climb a tree or get on top of a shed and gaze a long time toward the east in the hope that they will see that wave of prosper ity coming. WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? Inspired by the figures recently com piled by the State Journal showing that the vote lor McKinley in Nebraska this year was about 100,000, while that for Harrison in 1892 was but 87,000 and tbe vote of the apposition was about the same, or 112,000, in both years, the World Herald makes a somewhat tartling showing of election figures. It Bays: "In Ohio McKinley received 527, 945 votes, Bryan 475,995. In 1892 Harrison's Ohio vote was 405,187 Cleveland's 404,115. In 1895 Ohio' gubernatorial vote was: Republican 427,141; democrat 334,519. Bryan seems to have received in Ohio 70,000 more votes than Harrison received, and about oy.uuu more than Cleveland re ceived. Bryan also received about 48,- 000 more votes than the republican candidate for governor in Ohio received in 1 895. At the same time, Mr. Mc Kinley received about 122,000 votes more than Harrisou received, and about 100,000 more than tbe republican candi date for governor of Ohio received in 18.J5. lnla Uhio's total vote was 850,299; in 1896 Ohio's total vote was 1,015,495; an increase of at least 165, OUO votes. Where did they all come from? "In loiUS Kentucky's total vote was 840,848. Cleveland received 175,461 and Harrison 135.441. In 1895 Ken tucky's total vote was 357,057, 1896 Kentucky's total vote was at least 406.000. Of these Bryan received about 202,981, McKinley about 203,410. Kentucky Bryan received at least 27 000 more votes than Cleveland received in 1892, and at least 30,000 more votes than the successful candidate for gover nor received in Kentucky in 181)5. hut Kentucky's vote increased about 50,000 in one year. Where did they all come from? In 1892 Iowa's total vote was 443 159. Of these votes Harrison received 219,795, Cleveland 196,367, Weaver 20,595, prohibition 6,402. In 1895 Iowa's total vote was 401,292. In 1896 in Iowa the total vote, it is estimated. will exceed 510,000. Of these McKinley received at least 286,000, and Bryan 220,000. Bryan's vote was at least equal to Harrison's vote, and about 3. 000 in excess of the combined democratic and populist vote of 1892. But Mc Kinley's vote was about 67,000 in ex cess of Harrison's vote. According to this, either there has been a stay-at-home vote in Iowa equal to 67,000, or since 1892 Iowa has increased about 335,000 in population. Where did all of McKinley's votes come from?" In The solitude that Robinson Crusoe en countered on Juan Fernandez would be howling tempest compared to the quietude that awaits J. Sterling Morton upon his retirement to Arbor Lodge. President Cleveland wrote tbe Net. " York Chamber of Commerce McKinley ratification that when business men areV more alert and watchful hurtful preju- dices will be removed "through an as surance to the people that business and patriotism are becoming more and mora united." There never waa another such a union of business and patriotism as there was in that bond syndicate deal. Can it be that Grover is hankering after another? Read our ' Semi-Weekly page. offer on this This paper will be published in two parts, Semi-weekly during the session of the legislature. Mr. Gere walked down the line of his motionless job presses and sighed as he thought of the time when at the side of every one stood a boy feeding them with teachers' certificates at ten cents each. It is safe to say that Eugene M oor would have saved himself trouble if he had at first declined to issue warrants for a beet sugar bounty for which there has never been an appropriation. There is good reason to believe that the legis lature knew just what it was doing when it failed to make an appropriation. It had already satisfied the demands of Mre Schneider's lobby when it had passed the act establishing the bounty. It bad earned its money. Possibly if there were not a pretty thorough cleaning out of republicanism about to occur up at the state house, there would have been no trouble about these claims for bounty, as a republican legislature could safely be relied upon to do about anything that the lobby demanded, but as soon as it became apparent that an opposition legislature had been elected some one got scared, and Auditor Moore, although he had already issued some $52,000 of these warrants, drawing them upon the gener al fund in tbe absence . of a special ap propriation, promptly declined to issue any more. The Necbabka Independent will be sent to any address in tbe United States fnpm date of subscription until the ad journment of the Nebraska legislature for 30 cents. Y DEHORNING THEIR GHOSTS. The eastern goldbug newspapers are now,someof them somewhat shamefaced ly, dehorning the ghosts they have for months been throwing upon the canvas to friffhten their readers. When Hon. W, J. Bryan was nominated for the presi dency nearly every influential eastern paper and a large proportion of the western metropolitan journals burst simultaneously Into a more vicious chorus of abuse than ever assailed a public man in the history of this or any country. He ' was denounced as an anarchist and a demagogue, and some papers even went so far as to challenge his personal honesty. He was accused of almost every crime in the category of sin. including the defrauding of a dis abled national bank, and drunkenness. His ambition was pictured as positively omnivorous, and he was proclaimed to be the enemy of his country. Now that this representative western giant has been defeated, the great fright of the goldocrats and their servile tools, the eastern newspapers, has subsided. and some of the latter are endeavoring to square themselves with their readers by attempting to do justice to Mr, Bryan's great honesty of purpose, cour ageous dignity and matchless ability, They are dehorning their popular politi cal ghosts. In a recent issue the Boston Post, a gold standard organ, says: "Mr. Bryan's attitude is a rebuke alike to those who have charged him with an archy and revolutionary purposes, and those who have rashly threatened vio lence to rectify supposed wrongs against him in the election. Were Mr. Bryan such a man as some of his injudicious opponents have portrayed him, he could have brought tbe republic into great danger. But he has set an example of good citizenship. While it has strenu ously opposed him on tbe free silver issue, the Post takes off its hat in hon orable respect to William J. Bryan." The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, a single standard organ which excited ad miration during the campaign by its pro- teat against the general and unreason able abuse of Mr. Bryan, says: "It is only fair to say that the bear ing of Mr. Bryan has been such as to in vite and hold the popular respect. It is possible to dissent from many of his opinions and yet recognize the brilliant, persistent, desperate fortitude that has made his leadership pervasive beyond precedent. It was his fight, and he has shrunk from no labors and spared no ex penditure of strength in the battle which has ended in his defeat. Out of the ma terial at its command the Chicago con vention made no mistake in committing its cause to the orator who carried its favor by storm. No other man could have led its disorganized and clashing in terests with the same courage and un tiring faith, or directed a crude campaign to any better results. That tbe faith of this man in his cause has ben unques tioned and unfailing no one need ques tion." Wherever Mr. Bryan went, the people needed no other proof than bis own ap pearance, deportment and utterances to be convinced that he is neither an an archist, nor a demagogue. - His face was a certificate of good character, and his lips intuitively bespoke his great honesty of purpose and surpassing wisdom and ability. In another four years the large majori ty of those who were misled by slanders of the gold standard press will have realized tbe deception practiced upon them in the interest of a cause which never fought an open fight, and against the man who said that against the cor ruption of the republican party he would "place the intelligence and patriotism of the common people." In spite of con spirators and conspiracies the people are bound to win in tbe end. That end is not far distant, and when it comes the calumnies of the self-discredited press will be heavily discounted. The ghosts will have lost their horns. Bryan Might EmUt Have Won. An examination of the figures of last Tuesday's vote results in some very curious and interesting revelations. It will be remembered that tbe Post, from the very first, insisted that Mr. Bryan's chances were good, that at any stage of tbe campaign his election was a possi bility, and that McKinley's election, al though we regarded it as highly proba ble, depended, alter all, upon a very nar row and uncertain '. margin. As unan swerable proof that we were right in this we now call attention to the following table showing how a change of little more than 25,000 votes, distributed over nine states, would have elected Bryan, notwithstanding his big majori ties elsewhere: Electoral Major States, votes ities California....... 9 5,000 Delaware 3 2,500 Indiana 15 22,000 Kentucky 13 500 North Dakota ......... 3 5,000 Oregon 4 3,000 South Dakota 4 300 West Virginia 6 12,000 Wyoming 3 200 Total electoral vote, 60. Total McKinley majorities, 50,500. Now, suppose there had been these changes from McKinley to Bryan in the different states respectively: ! California '2,510 Delaware....... 1,255 Indiana 11,100 Kentucky ..- 251 North Dakota.... 2,510 Oregon 1,505 South Dakota.. 151 West Virginia 6,010 Wyoming....... 101 Total ............................25,39a . These changes would have given every one of the nine states to Bryan, and, adding their sixty votes to the 167 ha. got elsewhere, would have made his strength in the electoral college 227 three more than he needed to make him- president. It is a serious reflection that changing of only 25,393 votes as a matter of fact the change of 25,026. votes would have accomplished the re sultis all that stood between the el tion of McKinley and the election of Bryan. We commend this reflection to the gentlemen who are throwing up their hats and screaming themselves black in the face with nonsense about landslides and similar absurdities. Mr. McKinley got tremendous majorities in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan and Illinois, but in the rest of the country he has a mighty nar row escape from defeat. Washing Post. This Paper from now until tbe ad journment of the Nebraska Legisla ture for 30 cents. Subscribe now and fget an bomst rrport of the proceedings of tbe populist legislature. - John M.'s Real Mission. A day or so ago the newspapers of Omaha chronicled the departure of Sen ator Thurston for Chicago where he was supposed to have "a few little business matters to attend to." The senator doubtless did go to Chicago but he re mained there only long enough to catch the first train for Canton, Ohio, whei . ; J Al vM 4-U ' .! nr.... . r TT t Ti ' 3 . . it wnimm Mnhin at. i cm rnmorafi T.nni in A f A 1. At ' KUttlUI O UIIMIUM IB IM VUUBUII TV 1 U 11 liUtJ major as to the distribution of patron , VT-l 1 it . Ill Him III LIHIirHKBH HI II PI N 1.I1H IHI.IM assumes the reins oi government, it is said the senator has several unique ideas as to just how the offices should be di tribnted and that he may possibly byre a sufficient pull with the major to carry them into execution. On the yother hand there are those who aver that the senator's influence with the next president, which has heretofore been reckoned as Al, has diminished somewhat since the 3d inst., When his state went overwhelmingly for the silver champion. . , It is believed that the senator will also recommend John C. Wharton of Omaha, whom many staunch republicans of that city are desirous of seeing placed in the position made vacant by the late Judge Dundy on the federal bench. It is now conceded that the next na tional senate, being strongly republican will not be very likely to confirm the ap pointment of any democrat named by Grover Cleveland and that a republican will ultimately be chosen seems inevita ble. The opinion seems to prevail here that Grover will appoint some gold dem ocrat in the hopes that the senate, being of much the same faith, will confirm the nomination, but in the event of its fail ure to do so, Mr. Wharton or some other republican whose name has al ready been mentioned will in ail prob'v bility be given tbe place. ( It miarht be stated that there are many who believe that a dark horse will even tually bob np and secure tbe much cov eted place, one whose name has- not thus far been mentioned in this connection, but who will doubtless develop much strength when the proper time comes. 7" i nra I r th re 1 i I r r 84