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Consolidation of Zb Wealtbmakers and tbe Lincoln Independent
VOL. XI.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 9, 1899-
NO. 26.
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J THE GREAUICTORY.
Nebraska Given Holcomb 80,000 Majority
and Great Oalu for Reform
Bvrry where Blue.
though beatmn back In many a fray,
Tet never strenifth they tnorrow;
And where the vanuard oamps today,
The rear ffuard camps tomorrow.
The interest in the election returns in
Lincoln was almost equal to that of the
presidential election in 189G. A large
crowd assembled aroondthe stereoptican
display of the republicans early in the
evening. That was the republican meei
na nlniA and the cheers were faint and
..Kotmnnn When the flag was dis
played it only received a slight cheer
from one or two individuals. The repub-
AiA nnr. m to have the same en
thusiasm for it that they did when they
were waving it as an electioneering
dodge. The first news that came was to
the effect that the democrats naa maae
gains in Hew York city. That news was
received in absolute silence. Then,
when the news became more and more
discouraging to the admirers of the
black boar pig, and to keep up their
courage, they ran him out on the screen
: .ii Via ttnrv three or four times. His
rof nnnnarance W88 greeted with ap
nlause, but at last that crowd seemed to
good any more and he was retired to in
uinmia )Aai1At.1ldA. '
At the populist beaaaqtiarters there
was a little knot of men who have long
been fighters in the cause of reform and
as the returns came in, constantly show
ing mririB over the last election, the
smiles on their faces began to broaden
mnA it. vna nnt lorn? until 'Chairman Ed-
misten felt authorized to iannonnce that
Holcomb would be elected oy noi less
it. nraa not long until those who had
come witJh so much eagerness to get the
news began to go away. What they
wanted to know was whether this state
hAd firihllv been wrested in an
departments from the control of the cor
porations and the gang of boodlerswho,
for so many years, have misgoverned and
robbed the people. Being satisfied that
this was a pop state in every oepartnient
from this time on. tfcey went home hap
py and contented. It had been a fight
of ten years duration but victory had at
last perched upon out oanners. .
One thine that was different from
what was ever seen at the headquarters
on any other election night wu the
anxiety of people in almost every state
in the union about how the election
went in Nebraska. Telegrams began to
come early in the evenug making in
. quiries: "Has Bryan carr.ed the stater'
The anti-imneriaiist league was as anx
ious to know what the result had been
as any other organization. The cheer
ina news was sent to all of them. Men
who love the declaration of independ
ence, the old flag and the constitution in
every state in the union want to know
how the battle ended in Nebraska.
About 11 o'clock -those present became
verv anxious to 'hear from Ohio and
other states. News was very slow in
coming, but one f the first dispatches
said that Canton. McKinley's home had
gone democratic. While Bryan had
gained in his own 'home McKinley had
East in his.
From this time en there were the most
exasperating delays in the coming of the
news, Things were in a mix in Ohio
and in a muddle in Kentucky. Only
partial victories in both states. The
factional fight in Kentucky the demo
crats running two candidates for govern,
or were working rt their expected re
sult. As it seemed .certain that the re
publican vote in Ohio had been greatly
reduced. Mark Hasina was on the wane.
In Kentucky the republicans would
elect the governor And the democrat
the legislature and return Joe Black
burn who stood up and fought Cleve
land in '93 would go back to the senate.
The next morning it was impossible
to get any more definite news, and at
the hour of thia writing, Wednesday
evening, final figures have been received
from nowhere, not even from this, Lan
caster county. The following summing
up is given after a careful perusal of all
the bulletins that have been received so
far at the state headquarters.
Maryland has gone democratic by 10,
000. At this hour it is claimed that
Kentucky has also gone democratic by
about 3,000. There is no doubt that a
legislature has been elected that will
send Joe Blackburn, the old and faith
ful fighter for free silver, back 'io the
senate.
Id Ohio the republicans are in quite a
minority, although the republican can
didate for governor h-s bten elected and
M ;Lean de eated. The McLean and
Jones vote added together will make a
majority of more than 50,000 against
McKinley and Mnrk Hanna. By the
time the next presidential election comes
on, the Mark .Hanna crowd will be in a
splendid condition to get an awful lick
ing and tY f will get it too.
In Massachusetts the republican vote
has been cut down to some extent but
they will still have an enormous major
ity. That shows Just what the Inde
pendent has mid about those mugwump
anti imperialists to be true. They will
vote the republican ticket whether it is
empire or free government. All that
they want to know is whether it is la
belled -republican." If it is, it goes.
Ia Iowa the republican majority has
been cut down, the fusion party there
n aking substantial gains.
Ia New York there has been the great
est gains every where. Thrre were no
stale officers elected but only member
of the legislature. It is claimed at this
hoar that the democrats will control
tb. Wit legislature in that state. Bine
' ' democratic gold bugs ia New York
e been sent to the rear and the party
tut rndorsed Bryaii, it has taken en sew
lit everywhere.
As to Nebraska there is an intolerable
towMss la sending ia the returns. What
have been received from the Sixth dis
trict indicate the election of Neville by
at least 3.000 maiontv. Mr. Edmis'en
who has remained constantly at hend
quartern, sends the last word saying that
Holcomb s majority will be aoout w.uuu.
In this county there'has been something
like a revolution. The nasi iness of the
Jones' management of the State Journal
accounts for some of it. The republicans
usually have about 1,000 majority. It is
almost completely wiped out and in
some cases entirely so. McLaughlin
fusion candidate for county treasurer
has been elected and the vote on 1 he
fusion candidates for sheriff, P. II. Coo
per and Fred Shepherd for county
judge is soclose that it will likely take
the official count to settle the matter.
The fusionists have swept Douglas
county clean. Crete, Wilbur and many
other towns have been carried for the
first time. Every department of the
state government has now passed out of
the control of the repubicuu party,
never to return, while it advocates its
present policies.
At the hour of going to press the elec
tion of sheriff and county judge in Lan
caster county was still in doubt It will
take the official count to settle the mat
ter as th t are only a few votes differ
ence beti 'jen the fusion ca idates, Mr,
Cooper and Mr. Shepherd, and their
opponents. The fusion candidate for
treasurer was elected by about 700 ma
jority.
JNearly every district judge in tnes ate
is a fusionist.
The returns from tlie Sixth congres
sional district are still far frrm complete
but Judge Neville has been elected by
large majority.
The last news from Ohio show Jrlanna
and McKinley to be in a woeful minor
ity in that state, although the republi
can candidate for governor was elected.
Golden Rule .Tones, the independent
r.n ndidate, received at least 100,000 votes,
None of these men are republicans his
candidacy was a revolt against republi
canism.
No Encroachments.
It is to be hoped 'for the peace and
prosperity of the state that another re
publican legislature will never again
convene in the mate house, l heir at
tempts at legklution last year ' has
thrown things into confusion wherever
they undertook to meddle with the laws
or 1o enact new ones. Their insurance
bill threw the insurance business " into
confusion. Their meddling with the
ballot law. not on W did not do them any
good as a party, but put the voters to a
lot of in convenience. Their managers
howled long and lustly about having
one candidate s name on the ticket more
than once, but when they got their way,
they got whipped -worse than they erer
were laiheir lives before.
The most disreputable thing about
the whole business wan allowing regis
tratioa officers to inquire as to what
party a man belonged. That was in
direct violation of the spirit of the se
cret ballot law. I bey thought they
would make a lot out of that, but it
didn't work to suit them at all. The
Bee said the next day after the election:
"It is plain that the party affiliations ex
pressed by the voters before the regis
trars have been belied by their votes; to
what extent, however, cannot be stated
until more careful comparison is na le."
It was another attempt like the ye!
low ribbon dodge and resulted in the
the same way. The thing is unconsti
tutional and oivfotto be repealed at the
nrst session or. ine legislature, no reg
istration officer has any right to ask
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what a man's peV'ro are. His only
duty is to find out whether he is en
titled to registration. Let there be no
encroachments upon the absolutely
secret ballot.
Chopped thiir Heads Off.
The first instance of wildcat banking
that is known was the invention of the
Chinese. In the year 1012, some rich
merchants got a concession from the
emperor to issue notes to circulate as
money. The bank failed and the em-p-ror
chopped the heads of tiie bankers
off and forever prohibited any more of
that kind of swindling. A 1000 yea s
laier the gold bugs of America discover
that this old thing is "sound money,"
and put out a pamphlet in which they
say:
Short-term commercial paper forms,
therefore, the most trustworthy and
available security for a hank note cur
rency v The obligation of a trader to pay
his commercial paper is of such a high
charac er and has boen surrounded by
so many special safeguards of law in
commercial countries, that a bank can
safely count upon payment by the tra
der up to the last moment before his
complete insolvency. The losses upon
such paper are trifling in proportion to
the volume of business done I y banks.
This pamphlet is entitled "Sound Cur
rency,? and it is a pity that some one
does not have the authority to serve the
promulgators the same way the Chinese
Emperor did their prototypes a thous
and years ago. Short time notes a more
safe security for circulating notes than
the government of the United Stalest
That's a pretty statement to make to an
intelligent voter. Teat is what these
lattr day republicans call "sound cur
rent No doubt every mullet head in
Nel will declare that it Is. McKin
leyf . fse congress in his next mes
sagV . . bill creating that kind of
money. '
If Forto Rico is made an integral part
of the United States, given a territorial
form of government under the constitu
tion and declaration of independence,
twenty Ave years from now it will be
filled with a happy, intelligent and pros
perous people. But if we hold it as a
colony and govern it by satraps from
Waahbgtoo, twenty-five years from now
wi I fina the people in no better condi
tion than they are at present That is
the difference between expansion and
imperialism.
HARDLY STANDING ROOM.
How McKinley Haa Managed to Deeeive
the People la Regard to the War In
the Philippine.
No greater crime was ever committed
against the people of the United States
than was committed by McKinley when
he established a censorship in the Phil
ippines. Who 4s to decide whether ,we
are to continue the war upon the Fili
pinos? Who is to say whether those
far away islands of the China seas are
to become a part of the United States?
If we are to cbntinue a republic, then
the people by their votes must decide,
If the people are to decide, then they
should know all the facts in the case,
But McKinley, by the exercise of des
potic power, has made it impossible for
the people to know the facts. That is a
crime against liberty. That is treason
to the principles of free government
Now that the election is over the facts
are being permitted to appear in drib
lets. A little in one public journal and
a little in another. ,
The Chicago Tribune the other day
nrinted a letter from its special corre
spondent in the Philippines, Mr. Rich
ard Tuttle, that is an eye opener. If it
had been printed at the beginning of the
campaign it would have stirred the peo
pie from one end of the nation to the
other. The people of this country are
under great obligations to Mr.' Tuttle
for his truthful and accurate statement
of the facts. It is no fault of Mr. Tuttle
that the people did not get this news
before. Mr. Tuttle is living under the
most despotic government on the whole
earth while in the Philippines. The
letter which is dated Manila, September
11th is bs follows:
"Here are some figures made seven
months and a half after our campaign
against the Filipinos began. Say it is
five miles to Angeles (we hold possession
of the railroad up to that point ) We
can fairly claim possession of the land a
half mile on each side or the tracK. we
have possession of the wagon road, and
let us say. a half mile on each side from
San Fernando, through Bacolor to Santa
Rita, eight miles, with four miles to
Oanga. We have a road from Malolos
to Baliauag. eleven miles northeast. We
can claim eleven square miles here.
"We have Manila, out as far as the
waterworks, five miles away. That gives
us. say. twenty-five miles around the
city.
Then we have the road and a nan
mile each side down eighteen miles to
Imus. Then we have Calamba and
some other points on the lake that Gen
eral Lawton captured before he was
ordered back. These towns are not ap-
Eroacbed by road, but by boat across
aguna de Bay, and we only control the
land they stand on.
"Adding up our total possessions, we
find we hae 117 square miles.
'The island of Luzon contains 42,000
square miles.
Outside or uuxon the insurrection
seems to be growing. The insurgents
hold ports in Mindanao, the next largest
island to Luzon in the Philippines, and
said to be incalculably rich in gold and
silver mines, iron and copper ores and
other minerals, besides possessing won
derful forests of hard wood. .. Sio Ameri
cans have dared venture there as yet as
General Otis has sent no troops to the
island. Englishmen and Germans are
prowling about the island, getting all
the concessions they can. It is said sev
eral prospecting parties are at work.
General Otis reports conflicts lietween
the robber bands and American soldiers
in Negros snd Cebu. The Nineteenth,
the Eighteenth, the Sixth and one bat
talion of the Twenty-third Infantry are
now in these two islands, fighting the
robber bands, who dig trenches and oc
cupy towns and make night attacks,
after the fashion of the insurgents in
Luzon.
A late report from Cuba is that some
two thousand robbers were menacing
our forces, and a collision was immi
nent.
"The next campaign is going to be
different from the Inst We will get out
of the fiat, open country into mountain-
ious. thickly wooded country. If we do
not end the war here we will have to
carry it into the high, rock-ribbed moun
tains of Luzon.
"It will be no violation of a state secret
to say that the first object of the next
campaign will be to take the rest of the
railroad from the hands of the insur
gents. The insurgents ought to be
firmly convinced by this time that we
want the Manila and Dagnpan railroad,
as we have fought along that line seven
months. They know we want it and
they also know that we are going to get
it for hey are already tearing np the
track, burning the ties and burying the
rails north of Angeles.
"The country east of the railroad,
north of Angeles to Dagupan, is much
like it is south of Manila, except higher
and broken. West of the railroad are
high mountains, that will offer the in
surgents better opportunity of retreat
and escape than they had in the low
country. With the taki-g of the rail
road, we will have to cut off the pro
vince of Zam bales, Pegasinan, Tartac
and Panganga, and Bataan from the
main part of the island, and can lay
claim to a good deal more country than
the precise amount of real estate on
which our army is now camping.
"From the railroad Aguinaldo's army
can hardly istit anywhere but north
ward across ths mountains to the fertile
valley of the Rio Grande de Cagayary.
The 'walled city' cannot understand
why the arm has so mack trouble with
the railroad, . When & oOosts in the
field notify tb .'wslkd ekjr'-that the
rails have been torn up from the section
of track just captured, and that the ties
have been burned and the grade de
stroyed, they get an order to 'fix it." So,
after a few miles of railroad are captured
the soldiers have to scatter up and down
the track and go mining for steel rails.
The insurgents bury the rails five or six
feet deep.
"They observed that the Americans
located the rails by sounding with a
crowbar, so they resorted to the expe
dient of putting a layer of ties over the
rails. To replace the burned ties the
quarteruiater s department were forced
to use planks, two boards two inches
wide being nailed together for ties. The
side track? wherever possible all the way
to Manila, was jerked up, carried north
and put down where the rails could be
found."
HARDY'S COLUMN
Agitation Altgeld Slippory Nile dam
The Root Question Patriotic
Speech Good Weather Affiliation.
"Slippery Si" has slipped in again.
Wonder what Bixby will do with Speck
and the black pig for the next six years?
The sixth Candida e in Ohio, Jones,
was the one who saved Hanna and Me
Kinley. ' ,
We will find the bottom of our county
treasury now for the first time in thirty
years.
Bryan is an agitator but McKinley can
go through the country making from ten
to seventeen speeches a day and he is
only a pacifier, a quieter. Free speech
is the guardian angel of liberty.
The clearest and most convincing ex
posi Jon of the Philippine question we
ever heard or read was given by ex
Governor Altgeld at the Oliver Saturday
evening, and repeated, the same evening,
at Bohannan't hall to two of the largest
audiences ever gathered together in
Lincoln the same evening. , Republicans
won't call big meetings for pops to talk
to. Hear! hear!
Viv;., .'vV.
The English are spending hundreds of
millions damming the Nile and irrigat
ing the Great Sahara desert . Better do
that than fight the Boers. America had
better cut a ship canal across the is h-
mus of Darien than fight the Filipinos.
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The trust question, the money ques
tion, the tariff question and the saloon
question involve only the branches of
our national tree, while the question of
buying and conquering other nations in
volves the very root and foundation of
our government Have we outgrown
the doctrine of the declaration of inde
pendence, the Monroe doctrine, the
right of all people to govern themselves?
God forbid!
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A more patriotic, liberty -loving speech
was never made in Lincoln or anywhere
else than was made by ex Governor Alt
geld last Saturday evening at the Oliver,
and yet the republicans call him a bad
man, an anarchist It has come to that
pass that every man is a bad man who
stands up for liberty, justice and equal
ity. " Kiss the toe of Mark Hanna and
you are all right It was so ia the days
of Garrison and Phillips: thev were
called infidels, agitators and revolution
ists because they would not kiss the toe
of the slave driver.
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The Journal says we are having good
repuoucan aays just now. it was so
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once, that pleasant election days helped
the republicans, but not so now. The
time was when the republican strong
holds were in the country among the
farmers, and the strongholds of the
slave drivers were in the cities. Voters
in the cities would come out rain or
shine, but hard autumnal storms kept
many farmers at home. Our parties
have changed over. The largest repub
lican vote now comes from the cities.
New York used to cross Harlem bridge
with a hundred thousand majority
against the republicans, but we could
wipe that all out in St Lawrence, Alle
gheny and two or three other counties,
then the balance of the counties would
give a hundred thousand majority over
Buffalo. The Bryan party has taken the
place of the Abe Lincoln party and the
McKinley party that of the Buchanan
party. That is the difference. Stormy
election days will hereafter help the re
publicans. Bryan's majority increases
as wt go into the country precincts.
"I am going to affiliate with the repub
lican party," said Judge Kngland. "The
ppononts of the adminktratration
boasted that they forced the president
into the war with Spain and now turn
and abuse him on account of the inevit
able oonsequenses." The war with Spain
and the war to subjugate the Filipinos
are two entirely different articles. Mo
Kialsy'a action ban caused thousand to 1
flop the other way. McKinley had
American people with him in the S
ish war, almost unanimously, and
he dealt with the Filipinos as he has wi
tho Cubans they would be with him 'to
day. There would have been no need of
any increase in our standing army, and
every volunteer been home before they
were. Nowsolong as the republicans
are in power, the stunding army will in
crease steadily and millions on millions
spent upon it.
A schoolboy's description of a cow:
The cow is a female ox of the bovine spe
cies. She is a ruminative, that is she
chews her cud. Not as girls chew gum
or as boys chew tobacco, but she has the
power to raise from her stomach the
grass she has eaten, che wit over and swal
low it again. She is a quadruped be
cause she has four legs. She is herbif
erous in appetite and likes grass and
grain but wont eat meat. She is pugna
cious with her horns and vexatious with
her heels and tail at milking time when
flies are plenty. She Is warm blooded in
winter but cold blooded in the summer
when she has sore teats and you under
take to milk her with your best clothes
on. She is tender in infancy, but be
comes tough and thick skinned in old
age when pastured by the side of a corn
field with a barbed wire fence between.
The cow has been known as a domes
tic animal for many years and is much
more profitable, as a fit, than the alliga
goror poodle. In all probability her
foremothers were buffalos, at any rate
she never descended from a monkey. She
is a mammal, that is aha suckles her
young and does not feed them on bugs
and worms as birds do.
There are teveral breeds of cows, the
long-horned Texan, the short-horned
Durham and the no horned Poleangus,
Cows are of all colors, black, rod, white,
ring, streaked and spotted, and they
have been so ever since Jacob monkeyed
with his father in law's cattle with peal
ed sticks. Look out for the blooded
stock fellow. He will tell you that large
quantities of milk come from a pedigree,
the longer the pedigree the more milk.
The Jerseys are a breed of concentrated
cows. Their milk is concentrated, too,
but they are all right when a boy does
not want to milk more than two minutes.
Jerseys are never big frauds. .
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You need never expect to get any milk
from a cow without squeezing. Don't
ever set a 1 oy to mill a cow that
squeezes hard, or a deacon, to milking
one that kicks, lor they will lioth be
likely to think swear before they are
done. A cow is a great deal more use
ful than a beer keg or demijohn. If jwu
want good cows you must raise heifer
calves from good cows. The mother has
more in fluen.ee over the family than the
f ither. You need not expect to get
much out of a cow unless you put some
thing in. Milk is made of cow feod.
There are a hundred signs of a good
cow, all of which fail in her dry time. A
long slim tail is the most remote sign
yet it seems naar by, in fly time,, while
you are milking. Some think the tail
was made exclusively for fighting flies;
if they would add, and also for hitting
the milk maid in the mouth, it would be
nearer right A slim neck and slim
horns are good signs, but the horns
should turn in and appear more for or
nament than for fight, A short leg indi
cates a good milker, and a long leg
goop racer. ,
There is one place where the cow
should not be slim, and that is her mid
dle. A slim waisted cow is no good.
Like a beer guzzler, she must have ca
paclty. There is where the milk is made
better say the belly is the milk factory.
Pure cold water is the best beverage for
cows and boys, and everybody else, too,
A square bag with teats at each corner
is the most approved style. Yellow skin
indicates rich mi.'k, but rich food indi
cates more. The best pedigree for a cow
is the size of the milk pail and cream
pot
Uows are most useful in married life.
They beat lemonade with a stick, card
tables or dance floors. Buy a cow, young
man, and a good wife will never object
Won't Hare It
Editor Independent: The editor of
"Last Hope etc." persists in sending out
his dirty sheet to populists, and to en
courage him I wrote the following note
to hhn: "R. McReynolds: Dear Sir:
Do not mail me any more of the dirty
sheets entitled "The Last Hope of the
Republic. ,
"Abuse is not argument It is the
weapon of the blackguard and black
mailer, and from the tone of your paper
you are a fine specimen of both. No
Jurer man ever entered politics than W.
. Bryan snd from present indications
no ptwer on earth can prevent his nom
ination and election and done by the
best element of all parties. You are
opposed to fusion, but evidently you
nave fused with the gold bugs.
It s too plain a case. Paupers can't
run a newspaper. We are all onto this
duck. . Yours for Bryan.
x W. S, DsBsree.
A GOLD E13 FC:m
he Mention of the Law That 0eaoetle
Silver waa Never Paws by Cm ,
fret. -J-; V.i'V"
'he following statement made by tbs
of the Missouri Valley Democrat.
Tpurnal of Commerce, the editor of
dependent Knows to ne uteraiiy
tt he baa examined the orlginaf
docuio-Us in Washington that prove it
to be
They are there still and cm
be and
be produced whenever th
reform
mont.
in our
s get control of the govern- -
pies of them which wer
on were burned in ,tb
fire that
office, but
yed the Independent
copies can be and wi!3
be obtained
as follows:
iS article referred toi (
If the gold stiCkWd is a good thing, a
measure that appAUS to the sound judg
ment of an intelliAtt public, why was)
ii. necessary t) paSk'he demonetization
uct by meaos of iahood, fraud and
fcrgory? Will sotuJVild standard ad
vocatu please tell us "fay? An intelli
gent public is generaNt ble to appre
ciate a good ih.ng whAA tt is presented
to thorn in the light
own merits,
I to accept it
without having to be fol
by means that are fori
moral law and made cri
statutes. ,
aal by th
It was the 15th scctio
called "mint law" of 1873
tized silver. It accomplish
pose by simply omitting the
lar from the list of coins, aud
the legal tender feature of
silver coins to $5. The follow
literal copy of this infamous
which was printed near the mid
bill thai measured over seventeen Mt
in length when set in type:
Sec. 15, That the silver coins i
United States shall be a trade dolf
a half-dollar, or lifty-cent piece,
quarter-dollar, v or ; twenty-five cenv
piece, a dime or ten-cent piece; and the.)
weight of the trude dollar shall be four '
hundred and twenty grains troy; . the
weight of the half-dollar shall be twelve
grams and one. naif . of a gram; the
quarter-dollar and the dime shall be, re
spectively, one half and one fifth of the
weight of raid half-dollar; and said Coins
shall be a legal tender at their nominal
value for any amount not exceeding five '
dollar in one payment . . , -
Now, for the purpose of bringing the
Issue squarely befun the . iiublici We as
sert that this section, wan not only
wo.ded and printed in. such a way as to
avoid detection and to deceive, BUT JT
WAS FORGED. It was not in the bill
that passed congress, it was never read
before either house of congress, it wjm
never debated by congress; in fact it
was not before congress . in any shape or
form whatever, but it was in the bill
that the president signed. It was plain. .
deliberats, criminal FORGERY. We
fully appreciate the gravity of this
charge, and we do not make it with a
view of creating a sensation. We state
a simple fact, the truth of which : we
have in our possession.
Who was the forger? As to the actual
writing of the forged section, that is a
matter of conjecture; but circumstan- -tial
evidence stronger than that which
has been known to hang men points to '
the party who might have procured the
forgery. Congress will be asked to in
vestigate this matter either at the com-
ing session or the one that will meet in
December, 1900, and all the evidence
will then be submitted and published.
During the time that it was before
congress this so called "mint law" was.
also cent to England and submitted to.
the board of directors of the bank of
England for their approval. Why waa
it necessary to refer to an American law
to the bank of England for its sanction?
Will some gold standard advocate please
answer this question? We would like
to ask, also, if conscienciously honest
men, knowing these statements to be
true, can continue to give their support
to a law that was secured by falsehood,.
fraud and forgery, and which had to be
secretly sanctioned by the bank of En
gland before it could pass tho American
congress. Cf course some will say that
this is a mere trick of politics, and ease
their conscience in that way; but in due, ..
time, and in the proper place, proofs.
will he presented that are absolutely '
overwhelming.
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They Paaa It Along.
Editor Independent: I beg to thank
you for your valuable paper which I get
every week unless there is something in
it tlat Mark Hanna or some other
Hanna doesn't wish us to know. So we
do not get the paper we presume when
there is important news concerning the
mullet heads 'or gold bugs. I get the
paper from W. B. Payne 636 North 12th
Philadelphia. I then pass it along to
some other good every day fellow who
sends it on its meessage: am&ig other
plain people who keep it still going and.
perhaps it winds up at the White House
and visits McKinley.
We in Philadelphia think Wm. J.
Bryan the greatest man on earth and I
think ho will be elected our next presi
dent But we have no show in Phila
delphia. A democratic angel could not
win here. Our votes are all counted
but for republicans such debauchery
does not exist on earth as does here. The
ward heelers have the whole voting dona
before the booths open, it is a foregone
conclusion. It is all mockery to tote hr
the Quaker city of brotherly love, I
wish jou succes-i in your valuable work
gentlemen and I hope Wm. J. Bryan will
be our next president ;
I am yours respectfully,
Wm. McVuoa.
Dooners Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa.
We have the best bargains in omaa
that is to be had any ptaoe in the state.
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