November 23, 1899.
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Llacola, Nebraska.
The pops are just beginning to .realize
that they were not in it at all at the late
election. Sterling bun.
For goodness sake go souk your head.
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Shall we haul down the flag from over
a poople where it has no right except
that of purchase, or shall we haul down
our hint Ideals of government? Which
ahull we do?
If Aguinaldo's army is broken up into
mall bunds, as! Ot is says, who in guard
ing those 7,000 Spanish prisoners thai
McKinley agreed to turn over? Now,
that is oue of those tiling; that no pop
can find out.
A glnnee at the pop paper for the last
two weeks would lead one to think that
the whole fraternity had gone into the
poultry business and that they were
nothing but Shanghai roosters
c ---
and fighting cocks.
Some of the uewspaper boys at Wash
ington are intimating that the president
will soon appoint a harem keeper for the
Sultan of Sulu. Did Wilowen have his
eye on that job when he threw the State
Journal over to the advocacy of poiyg
my? : v
A commission in lunacy should visit
the Sago of Arbor Lodge. When a man
nf bia vnnrs solemnly declares that he
can find out the value of a thing by put
ting it in a molting pot, it is about time
that he was put under some sort of re
traint.
1 The Springfield, (Mass.) Republican
! avs that "the results of the election
miint to the nomination and eloction of
i Mr. William J. Bryan to the presidency
S in 1900." It is not the only republican
1 nancrthat has said in substance that
1 aine thing.
Let us hope that McKinley will carry
every state in the union like ho did
Ohio. When the votes in that state
were counted, it was found that there
were for McKinley; 315,000. Againsi
McKinley; 385,000. That' tne way
McKinley carried Ohio.
From several items m the papers w
infer that we have trouble down In Ken
tuckv about the right way to settle the
election bets or something of that kind
However Joe Blackburn the old lighte.
for free silver is to go back to the sen
ate. They are all agreed on that.
In 1890 McKinley carried Ohio by a
clean majority of 02,000. Tho result of
b the last election was a,' majority of 73
u against him. It is tne greatest, political
I revolt of modern times. That Mark
W Hanna pulled his man through by a
"plurality" does not alter the facts in
jjti the case. '
M
Sol McKinley is in favor of expansion in
I Jthe Philippines and contraction at home,.
both under tho direction of Lord Salis-
ujbury. England wants all the Klondike
f ogold fields and McKinley says take
flthem. There never was a gold field
Lthat England didn't want, and McKin-
Jeley's '"modus vivendi" seems to say that
n Canada shall have the Klondike.
e - ,.
.a. Read the following definition
of i in -
btnerialism, it Is taken from the Standard
teldictionary; and then decide how much
."f it you want: "Imperial state, char
acter, authority or spirit; tho system of
jusmperial government, ambition to form
5ein empire; a policy of territorial exten
."won; as used of ranee, the spirit of the
IDJCapoleanic empire or advocacy of it or
e,)! ii revival.
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18 The people have elected fusion oflleers
'8n the state and in most of the cbunlies.
..They will now demand of these officers
flr.hat they give to their duties the most
sph upulous attention. If any of them
L they will get to defense from the
Ws that elected them. Populist
rvanr " must oe empnuucuiiy nppnea
, I . . . t A I. - ...
v5 at lvholc lot of Kansas editors of week
e i' papers need two or tnree
i- papers need two or three good
i" (uncheiou the point of the jaw. They
jive the' vote oft the various officers
fVjithout feiving the party to which they
faelong. tow do they expect that people
5 litside-of the county can know who
fexale and llalderson are or which is re
.j-jblican or which is pop 7 li any man
- ; ho has an interest in the progress of
i in form down there will do the punching
fy mb charge up the costs to the Ne
' 'xa Independent
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THE FINANCIAL MTI'ATION.
The editor of the Independent has re
ceived several letters asking him as to
his unbiased opinion on the . danger of
the financial situation. He says to one
and all that the Independent will en
deavor to protect its readers from such
suffering as occurred in 1803. When
ever it is convinced that there is danger
it will so inform them. At present it is
convinced that the general government
will do all within its power to prevent a
panic, instead of exerting Its influenco to
bring one on, as it did in '93. A panic
now would be verv detrimental to the
interest of the gold standard men
Prices can beslowly forced down and if
the government stands behind the banks
with the immense hoards of gold in the
treasury, which the recent action of the
secretary seems to indicate that it will
do, a panic can be staved off until after
the next presidential eloction.
There is not a particle of doubt that
New York was on the verge of n panic
last week. It has been in that condition
threo times during the last three
months. The first time it was tided
over by the secretary of the treasury by
tho advance of interest to the amount of
about 111,000,000 and the 120,000,000
that Dewey day brought to the hanks.
Tho next time it took a much larger
advance -about 130.000.000 - f roni , the
treasury to save them. Now again
Gage comes td the rescue with a purchase
of bonds to ubout the same amount.
After a while every one of the expo
dicnts to avert a panic will be exhausted
Tho treasury will not ba able to make
any more advances. Clearing houso
lertificatos aro already in use. In that
day - the day of retribution for a false
financial system the blow will fall and
those who have seen it will save them
selves. The others will join the long list
of bankrupts.
JThere is a way to avoid a panic alto
gether. That is to force down prices to
the point where there will be money
enough to move the crop's and do the
business of the country. But can it be
done? Tremendous forces will operate
against it. If done, it means bankrupt
cy to a great ninny. If wheat can be
forced down to 40 centa and corn to 10
cents, then it will take very much less
money to move the crops than it does at
the present prices.
Some of the gold standard papers,
fearing that the statement that the New
York banks were on the verge of col
lapse would be detrimental to the ad
ministration, have denied the necessity
of the action of the secretary in offering
to buy bonds and put the money in the
treasury in circulation. There in no
no manner of doubt of the necessity. In
regard to tho necessity, Russell Sage,
aud there is no man better informed on
the condition of the banks or who is
more interested in denying danger of a
panic, says, as reported in the Associat
ed Press:
"I believe Secretary Gage's action has
saved the financial world from a clisas
trous runic. !
'No one who has been in touch with
business enterprises during the past few
months can fail to have realized the
stringency of the money market. Ready
money appeared to be extraordinarily
scarce, and those who bad it held it or
demanded the highest class securities
before they let it go.
"I know of banks in different parts of
the country which had the hardest kind
of a time in realizing money, und yet
they held securities that ordinarily
would have been negotiable anywhere.
The readers of the Independent will
see how correct has beon the statements
made in this paper, beginning early last
winter and up to the present time, in
regard to the condition of the banks.
When tho republican press was every
day declaring that there were uncounted
millions deposited in the banks, this pa
per pointed out that there were no such
millions there. That what the republl
cans called "dollars" was nothing but
bank wind promises to nay when there
was nothing in sight to pay with except
few entries on bank ledgers. Banks
cannot do business on one dollar of
money and ten dollars of promises to
pay. The day of reckoning will come,
and when it comes those who have fore
seen it and stood from under are the
ones that gather in the salvaga from the
wreck.
KXPEI. HIM.
There should le authority somewhere
in a political party to designate who are
members. The evil that can be wrought
by men who proclaim themselves as pop
ulists and representing populist princi
pies, when they are in tho service of the
republican party, is very great So far
the populists have been able, to a great
extent, to neutralize this evil, but never
theless it has lcen an evil. In the very
lieginning of our fight in this state, and
ever since, we have had this thing to
contend with. The editor of the Inde
peodent, finding that Paul Vandervoort
had abandoned us, advocated that the
state committee publicly announce his
expulsion from the party, but that lody
thinking it did not have the authority to
do so, at first refused. When they saw
the evil work that he was doing, it at
last did so. Nevertheless, Vandervoort
went over the country declaring that he
was a populist and organized within the
populist party a set df men who were
bent on fighting everything that the ma
jority of the party advocated.
Now we have another case of the same
sort on hand. D. Clem Deaver has
abandoned the party, opposed the elec
tion ef its candidates, and if he washon
est enough to vote the war he worked,
has voted the republican ticket He is
member of the national populist com
mittee. It is not to be supjKwed that
such a man as he is will have the honor
to resign. He will go about claiming
that he is a populist, and demand the
right to enter its highest councils and
cast a vote in tho forming of its pol
icies.
There should be some way to prevent
such active treason as that It is not
right that when the national committee
meets that there should be a man pres
ent to report to the enemy every plan
formulated. A man who has held office
in the. party and been given high places
of honor, who will, because he has been
put out of office, desert, go over to the
enemy and in the last days of the cam
paign assault its candidates, should not
be permitted to to occupy a place where
he can be of still greater service to the
cohorts of plutocracy. If D. Clem Dea
ver will not resign, then the national
committee should expel him from that
!ody. Tho good of the cause of reform
demands that that should be done.
ItEITULICAN LEGISLATION.
The people got a dose of republican
legislation at the last session of the leg
islature , tho effects of which they are
just beginning to feel. The ballot that
the republicans got up has proved to be
the worst that the state has ever had
Thousands of men have been cheated
out of their votes by it and under it sev
eral men will hold office that were never
elected. A ballot that will confuse
hard working man, little accustomed to
making close distinctions, is nothing
short of a crime. That thousands of
voters were so confused at tho last elec
tion is beyond a reasonable doubt.
Their legislation upon insurance has
thrown tho whole business in this state
into confusion. It has also provided for
the working of frauds upon the people
without end. Tho act creating mutual
hail insurance companies is a sample of
their work.
This act provides: "All persons so in
sured shall make application in writing
and give their obligations to the compa
ny for tho payment of losses and ex
pensos as shall be required by the by
laws of said company." Then this law
provides: "That . in case the whole
amount of such obligations shall be in
sufficient to pay all losses sustained af
ter paying the expenses of the year.then
the sufferers insured by such company
shall receive their proportionate share of
the funds realized, etc." Now here is
the nicest little game for fleecing the
farmers that a republican legislature
ever invented. Who makes the by-laws?
The few gantlemen who organize the
company, The by-laws fix the amount
of the expenses. Suppose the expenses
are put at 840,000. They go into busi
ness and collect from the insured that
amount. Some man has a loss. He has
paid for insurance and comes to get his
money. These gentlemen say to him
the by-laws provide for the payment of
$40,000 expenses, The salary of the
president, secretary, treasurer, agent
clerk and rent of office amounts to just
that amount and according to this law
no losses can be paid until after this
1 40,000 is paid.
Now isn't that a nice little plan to pro
vide salaries for a few men at the ex
pense of the farmers? It is the sort of
legislation that the republicans hav
been giving us for the last thirty years.
This is not the worst of the business
by a great deal. The populists had
planned to present the state to the peo
pie at the end of Governor Poynter'i
term, free from debt. They would hav
done it if it had not been for this repub
lican legislature. These republicans
well kner that the constitution of thi:
state prohihits the creation of a debt to
exceed $fi0,000. But they went to work
and provided for a debt of about $400,000.
That is, knowing what the income of the
the state would be for the next two
years, they made appropriations in ex
cess of that income by about $400,000.
There was no sort of necessity for such
action. It was only following out the
long established policy of the republi
can party of creating large public debts.
There is much other legislation of the
same sort that cannot le enumerated in
this article. However thero is one great
consolation when we reflect upon the
matter. That was the last republican
legislature that this state will ever be
afflicted with. So let us all take cour
age. Tho republican debts will all be
paid off after a while and the farmers
will not be burdened thereafter with the
payment of large amounts of interest.
The populist party is determined to stop
that sort of thing and it will bo stopped
TRY IT.
The editor of the Independent wishes
to call attention to the premiums offered
by the Independent management for
clubs. Ho can assure all who compete
for them that the goods are just what
they are recommended to be. The suits
of clothing are of the very best material,
Any one doubting, who intends to raise
a club, will bo furnished samples of the
cloth. If correct measurements axe
sent a fit will be guaranteed. Hun
dreds of young men can in this way, or
old ones either for that matter, obtain a
suit of clothes, stylish, well made and of
the best material, with the expenditure
of half the time that it will take to earn
I one in any of the ordinary employments.
Try it and see if it is not so. As noon
as reliable and valuable goods can be
- 1 found, something that can be recom
mended, like offers will bo made to the
a ladies.
" ATTACK OS TflE CHCJiCII.
When the Farmers Alliance started
the reform movement in the west, their
main document and source of authority
was the sermon on tho mount. Scarcely
a speech was made in which apart of it
was not quoted. The speech of John J.
Ingalls in the senate, which he now says
was intended for sarcasm, but which
every one at mat lime toon wj ue ms
dea of how politics ought to be run in
these United States, and which was in
the main a repudiation of the sermon on
the mount, was held up by hundreds of
farmers in their meetings as a warning
to the people. These men naturally
supposed that they would have the sup
port of nearly every pulpit in the land.
Their astonishment was great when
they found that most of the pulpits
were against them. The result of this
has been severe criticism of the minis
try. Meanwhile there has been no lack
of reverence for the Great Founder 'of
Christianity. His teachings have be
come a part of the political economy of
the populist party. If there is any one
to blame for these attacks on the min
isters and the church, it is the ministers
and the church themselves. They could
not suppose that good men would stand
silent while they believed that the teach
ings of the Master were being misrepre
sented by the very men whose duty it
was to defend them. This attitude of
the ministers and churches was de
scribed by Ruskin in the following
words:
'Our national religion is the perform-
1 1 1 A
anco or churcn ceremonies, una ine
preaching of sorporiiic truths (or un
trutns) to keep the mob quietly at work
while we amuse ourselves." Every one
will acknowledge tho force of these
words of one of the greatest of modern
economists. It is not the teaching of
the Master that has been attacked, but
the false teaching of some of the min
isters. The Master never proposed to
extend his gospel with Gatlin guns, he
never sanctioned wars of conquest, he
never allied himself with the rich against
the poor.
The Independent looks for a great up
heaval in the church in the near future.
Men like Sheldon, in Kansas, are be
coming new heralds of old truths, and
the influence of their lives and power of
their preaching will make itself felt.
POLYGAMY IX LINCOLN.
In a special feature of the State Jour
nal last Sunday was found a deliberate
and studied defense of the doctrine of
polygamy in the following words:
"It (polvgamy) received the direct
sanction of tho Almighty in laws He
himself dictated to his inspired teachers,
Not one word in all that denunciation of
all the sins of the Hebrews from the
thunders of Sinai to the last words of
Malachi is there a word of rebuke of
this institution. Abraham, into whose
bosom we all hope to fly, has no stain
upon him except that he sent one of his
wives awav. The wisest man the world
ever knew was also the most married
The fact that he admitted in his old age
too much vanity and vexation of spirit
only concedes that he overdid tho matter
a little and does not effect the general
principle, but merely teaches modera
tion in all things.
Christ, himself, never rebuked the in
stitution and He certainly spared noth
ing He considered an evil.
Monday morning the Journal man
agement followed it up in an editorial in
which it denounced the movement
against polygamy among the women
and leading citizens as follows:
The Journal is still of the opinion
that these monster petitions to congress
against the Utah contribution to that
body in the person of Roberts, accused
of polygamy, are in very bad taste.
This is a matter that effects not only
the citizens of this city and surrounding
country, but of the whole ? tate. This is
a university town and there are thou
sands of young men and women here
coming from the pure and virtuous fam
ilies of the state. This vile sheet will
fall into the hands of many of them,
What do the fathers and mothers of
Nebraska say to their children being
brought under such teaching as that?
The paper should be excluded from the
mails and all those responsible for its
issue should bo prosecuted for sending
indecent matter through the mails. It
is to be hoped that the clergy will take
some action in this mattej. If they will
not. then selfrespeeting citizens should
tike hold of it If it is :.ot done, very
serious consequences may result to this
city. Parents will not send students to
a town whore the lending daily paper is
an open advocate of jo!ygamy.
SKNSELE.NM TALK.
"The country is prosperous, both cap
its ists and wage earners testify, says
the Wasinhgton Post. But how abou
the farmers? More than one half the
population of this country is engaged in
agriculture. How are they getting
along? They find that the average price
of all their products, has fallen. Some
things are a little higher and a good
many things are lower. They also find
that the average price of every thing
that they have to buy has been raised
from 10 to a 100 per cent Where is the
prosperity for them? The effects
economic changes come slowly. When
this year's crop is sold and the farmer
finds that it brings him no more than
last year's crop, while his expenses have
been doubled, will he be able to find any
of this widely advertised prosperity?
Wheat and com slowly drop from day to
day. When the first of January comes
and he has to settle up, what then?
There never was a more senseless
thing than this cry of prosperity. Every!
one knows that one half the population of
this state the msot prosperous state in
the union are not more than two years
from pauperism. Let the crops fail for
two years and starvation would be found
everywhere. Can a people be said to be
prosperous who, after years of toil, find
that they have not accumulated enough
to support them for two years? That is
our condition and every one knows it
Yet some go around shouting prosperity!
It makes one weary. It is only the
cry of the unthinking.
SCHOOL BOARD DONKEYS.
Some of the greatest intellectual don
keys that this country has produced
have been put on the school boards in
the cities. One of these boards recently
passed an order that no woman should
teach ia the public schools who had a
child under two years old. The next
day one of the teachers appeared in
court and formally gave away her child
to a sister. In other cities rules have
been passed forbidding married women
to teach in tho schools, and still greater
antics have been cut up by some of
them. . Now a school board has no busi
ness whatever to inquire into or pass
regulations concerning the private af
fairs of the teachers. The only thing
that it can legally inquire into is whether
the teacher is. fully qualified and whether
she performs her duties in a satisfactory
manner. Episonage into the private re
lations of teachers is about on a par
with the paternal government of Russia.
It has no place in free government.
These donkeys on the city school boards
should be sent back to private life and
put to shoveling coal until they learn
that this is a free country and the pa
ternal government that looks into the
private affairs or individuals uas no
place in it.
JOHN J. INGALLS.
John J. Ingalls has said more idiotic
things than perhaps any other man who
has written for the New York press, but
the following taken from an article by
him in the New York Journal is the
most idiotic of them all: "In the bitter
struggle for existence woman is the im
plicable enemy of man. And not the
less so because many wives and mothers
and daughters strive with uncongenial
and repulsive toil to piece out the earn
ings of husbands and fathers that ' are
insufficient for the comfort of the
wretched home and the support of the
helpless family."
If that can be beaten in all literature.
the Independent will give a year's sub
scription to the man who will find it
Ingalls is simply a chatterbox. Not one
thing that he has ever said or written
will live. He was the output of that
area of republican corruption in Kansas
that evolved Pomeroy and other political
cattle of that kind. Whether reporting
prize fights or writing politics he is sim
ply assininity personified.
HEAYY DISCRIMINATIONS.
There is not a great manufacturing in
dustry in this country that does not
constantly discriminate against all of its
customers in this country, and in favor
of its foreign customers from 25 to 50
per cent. All the great railroad corpor
ations do the same thing. Meat, put up
in Omaha, is selling at retail in London
for less than the Omaha people can buy
it. All sorts of agricultural implements
are sold in Jiiurepe tor twenty-rive to
fifty per cent less than American far
mers can buy them. The same discrim
ination is made against American far
mers in what they have to sell. Any
man can satisfy himself of that fact who
will look at the London quotations and
the New York quotations on the price
of wheat. Wheat cannot be shipped to
London and pay the steamship rates
without a loss of two or three cents a
bushel. It is that way all the time.
How is this thing accomplished? There
is but one explanation. The railroads
make rebates on wheat that is for ex
port That is they charge mere freight
on wheat that is consumed in this coun
try than what they charge for wheat
shipped to foreigners.
With only a few exceptions, the direc
tors of our great railroad companies are
elected by foreign owners of stock, and
they take this means of discriminating
against the American farmer for the ben-
sfit of their own country. It is the legi
timate result of foreign owned railroads
in private hands.
Why should Americans be forced to
pay more for goods manufactured in
their own country and pay the taxes for
the support of the government under
which the goods are manufactured, than
they can be Ixmght for in cities of the
old world? These are the facts. There
tens of thousands of Americans who
have traveled in the old countries who
know that this is the truth. The Amer
ican farmer and the American wage
earner toil from year to year, raise food
and manufacture goods and then are
forced to pay higher prices for them
than the people of the old countries after
they have been transported thousands
of miles by sea and land
These are facts known to every intelli
gent man in the United 4States. These
extra charges to Americans have been
made for the last fifteen years. And
still this foreign Influence holds way at
the national copitol, and still these
charges are put upon tho producers of
America for the benefit of foreign na
tions, because by these means a few
Americans can become multi millionnirs
and marry their daughters to dukes and
lords.
SKW YORK Ml' I. LET HEADS.
The New York Post and World are
printing columns of editorial to prove
that Bryan cannot be elected president.
nd advisiDg the democratic party that
if it wishes to win in the next presiden
tial contest it must change candi- t
dates and principles. The skillful
writers on these papers use all their in
genuity nnd all the tricks of the trained
sophist They make a showing that is
decidedly good if one does not take the
trouble to analyze their statements. One
of these is that at the late election the
state of Ohio has given a majority in fa
vor of the president's policy, when the
fact is, that the president is in a minor
ity of about 50,000 in that state. So se
vere a blow is this to the administration
that it is announced from Washington
that a fight will be made in the republi
can party on Mark Hanna and he will be
displaced from the chairmanship of the
republican committee.
One hundred thousand men in Ohio
voted for Golden Rule Jones. Jones rep
resents the most radical kind of popu
lism. In California there was no state
eloction, but the city of San Francisco,
which has always been the stronghold of
republicanism, went heavily democratic.
In Kansas there was no particular party
contest. The republicans won in some
populist districts and the populists won
in some republican districts. In South
Dakota it was the same way.
The hypocrisy of these two papers is
so glaring that it is a wonder that they
can think that they would deceive any;
one. They are very anxious, so they
say, that the democracy should win.
They therefore advise a change of prin
ciples and candidates. They well know
that if they could succed in getting the
party to adopt such a course it would be
wiped off the face of the earth. If it
should change candidates it would lose
3,000,000 populist votes. If it should
change its principles it would lose 2,000,
000 free silver democratic votes. It
would lose all of the free silver republi
can votes. Yet the political noodles who
edit these papers advise that the demo
cratic, party do those things and say it is
the only thing for it to do to win! Can
two such mullet heads be found any
where else on the face of the errth?
THE SAME BRAND.
The gold standard, imperialistic poli
ticians of England are the same brand
as their followers in this country. De
ception is their main weapon of warfare.
They will advocate a policy for the pur
pose of overthrowing it. They will make
speeches in favor of a doctrine they in
tend to trample under their feet at the
first opportunity. Now this is what Joe
Chamberlain said in the House of Com
mons, May Sth, 1896:
A war in South Africa would be one
of the most serious that could possibly
be waged. It would be in the nature of
a civil war. It would be a long war, a
bitter war and a costly war. As I have
pointed out, it would leave behind it the
embers of a strife which I believe gener
ations would hardly be long enough to
extinguish. To go to war with President
Krueger in order to force upon him re
forms in the internal affairs of his state,
with which successive secretaries of
state, standing in this place have repu
diated all .right of interference that
would have been a course of action as
immoral as it would have been unwise.
That speech and Chamberlain's pres
ent policy of conquest is on a parity
with the gold standard manipulations in
this conntry. McKinley, Thurston and
the whole gang of imperialists in this
country were always for silver, always
for the declaration of independence, al
ways for self government, until they had
a gocwl chance to set up the doctrines in
which they really believed and then ev
ery one them made haste to do it with
out any loss of time. Bye and bye the
people will brand them with the red hot
iron of their wrath.
IT WILL COME OCR WAY.
Editor Independent: Inclosed find a
good old greenback dollar. Well your
township gave Holcomb a majority of
twenty four, a gain over last year of
sixty votes. We were not idle and every
thing next year will come our way.
The democrats in Cuming county had
no use for pops in home matters this
year, and no pop was put on the county
ticket.
Since Holcomb wni eloetod
("liii-f justice of our state.
Thp Bryan wniton w nnlarspci
Tho peonls to accommodate.
Ob ! The Bryan wagou, etc.
More of the same sort when wanted.
L R FtETC'HKR.
Bancroft, Neb.
The editor remembers when thero was
just on" pop vote in that township. The
next election there were three and at the
next election we increased the vote a lit
tle over a thousand per cent Now the
principles for which we fought have car
ried tho township, county and the state.
But we don't seem to be in it when the
offices are given out.
The loss of New Jersey to the republic
cans is one of the best evidences, under
the circumstances, that could be given
that Bryan will carry the state next
year. The weak kneed chaps who con
trolled the convention were afraid to
put in the platform the declaration of
adherence to the Chicago platform and
they got whipped out of their booU.
Thousands of Bryan democrat refused
to vote the ticket Next year these
chaps, having been thoroughly beaten,
will take back seat and New Jersey will
lx all right If they had won, then Nfw
Jerw-y would have been all wrong in the
coming great buttle. Every genuine
democrat rejoices vcr the defeat of the
party in that state.
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