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fe De&raska Todependeht . Lincoln, Uebraaka FRESSE BLDG CORNER I3TH AND N STS Eleventh Year ; Published Evebt Thuksdat f i.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE When making remittances do not leave money, with newt agencies, postal asters, etc, to be forwarded by hem. They frequently forget or remit a different amount than was left with them, and the subscriber fails to get proper credit. Address all communications, and make all drafts, money orders, etc., payable to Cbt Rebraska Independent, "F - . Lincoln, Nebraska. Anonymons communications will not be no ticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. . Baron Hirsch gave his millions to es tablish schools for. the poor. Rockefeller gives his to endow universities for the eons of the rich." In a contest like that, the Independent i3 for the Jew every time. ' The republicans having 'determined to repeal the declaration of independence naturally came to the conclusion that the place where it was first promulgated was the proper 'place to do it and they therefore called their national conven tion to meet in Philadelphia. The American mules in the British ar my deserted with another, battery, the Eighty-Second, but Lord Roberts man aged to recapture all except one gun. It is very evident the American mule is de termined not to fight for imperialism if he can help it. ' The Hannacrats are the worst fellows on earth to mix up words. They are al always saying that they want to civilize the Filipinos, when they mean that they want to Hannerize them; just asTthey were always saying they wanted bimet- alism when they wanted the gold stand ard.. The last announcement from Wash ' ington is that Otis will : now adopt the old Spanish method and hereafter shoot or hahg , every Filipino that he can catch. -A' year ago we said that that course would be adopted before McKin ley got through t with this . Philippine business. It is the way of despots i v C A i The truth is, no matter what, may be eaid to the contrary, foreign trade is 6imply barter, the swapping of v the goods of one country ' for ' those of an other, in which bank, book keeping and not - gold plays the important part. When we ship away more goods than we receive, we are losing and no sophis-i try. can hide that truth from any man who can do five minutes of consecutive thinking: i H B - With taxation continuing at the pres ent rate, the surplus I'evenuewouid pay off the national debt in ten years. With that fact understood ay every republi can In congress' they pass - a, bill to pei petuate the debt for' at least thirty years and greatly increase it. On that record they will go before the people. All the mullet heads will soon begin to sing the old song, "a national debt is a national blessing.? v ' - , There is not a republican officer or one who is in public life who has not made speech after speech denouncing the pol icies that he is now upholding, and al though Bryan has made perhaps ten times as many speeches as any one of them, his enemies after examinining every, word that has fallen from his lip3, cannot find even one sentence that he ever uttered,' that can now be 1 quoted against him. The Howells Journal talks about a fusion ring" at the state house. ; A, ring is supposed to be a band of men who agree. If that paper can point to a sin gle instance when the state officers could be made , to agree when - there was -not some one of them kicking against what the others did we would like to have it do so. There is about as much of a ring up there as there is in a checkered corn field. ' z . A subscirber writes asking what will be the nature of the documents circu lated by the reform forces during the coming campaign and how to get them. We don't know what the democrats will do toward furnishing campaign literat ure, but the principal documents circu lated by the populists will be the declar ation of independence, the constitution of the United States, the ten command ments and the sermon on the mount. The State Journal in very large type extending across two- columns, an nounced that none but registered re publicans ana tnose wno can prove themselves to be republicans in good standing, will be allowed to vote at the republican primaries. , Last week it de nounced the populists as usurpers and dictators because they would not allow known republicans and men of other parties seats in the populist national committee, mat sort of tnmg was a little too much for one of Lincoln's mul let heads, who remarked that he did not believe that in thess matters the Journal had been entirely-consistent.' SENATOR BUTLER'S KUUSG8. The Independent has received several letters from populists .who have read the republican charges against Senator But ler of usurpation and tyranny in his rul ings at the session of the populist na tional committes in this city. This pa per has never defended and never will defend any action of that sort. Neither will any genuine populist. To enable all to understand 'the usual proceedings of bodies of this kind.pro ceedings that have been the settled practice for sdbres of years and have be come recognized rules, not only of volun tary bodies like state conventions and national' committees, but of legislative bodies, national, state and municipal, as well, it is only necessary to recall to the mind what takes place when a new con gress or state legislature assembles. Be fore the body is organized, no one is a member. A roll of those who from the papers submitted, seem to have a prima facia right to a seat is made up. In congress this roll is made up by the clerk of the old house and a the names are called he swears in the metsibers of the new congress. 1 . Exactly the same course is followed when a state legislature, a city council, a state convention or a national committee assembles. In the latter case the stated chairman orders the secretary . to read the roll as he, the chairman, has made it up and the roll so prepared constitutes the membership of what may be called the temporary organization. That is the practice of all such bodies of all parties in the United States. There does not seem to be any other way at least no other way has ever been suggested, j It was the duty of ""Senator Butler as chairman of the body to prepare such a roll. No man with any sense of decency or honor will deny it. But Senator But let in his desire to avoid all chance of a charge of unfairness, instead of . making up the roll himself, called to his assist ance three distinguished members of the populist party, Senator Allen, Gen, Weaver and Harry Tracy of Kentucky. it was at tnis point tnat tne bolt was made. The committe was not yet in session. No Toll of members had been made. . Those claiming, to be members had assembled in a hall provided and that was all. ; ' A great crowd had assembled around the chairman's desk, almost all of whom were absolute strangers to him, most of whom were shoving proxies at him and demanding seats in the committee.- For Haitian hour,,Senator Butler , devoted himself to examining these Vouchers and -proceeding with the making up of the roll. Among those claiming seats ' he found those whom he knew "were not populists, others had proxies from men -. . if". ....... . who had long since left the party and there were still others of whom he had no knowledge; whatever. Finally he made up the roll from the. prima facie evidence before him( as far as he could, and 'ordered it read by" the . secretary. The moment that the reading was finish dj.Jog Pjrkejr jumped to his feet mak ing an inquiry about some one whom he thought qughttW on the roll and Bob bulling, denounced him, saying that Joe Parker had no right on the floor as he-had long since left the party and had devoted, all his energies to the organiza tion of a new one. Bedlam was about to break loose, when Senator Butler very quietly remarked that there were many cases of the nature of . the one under dis cussion upon which he had not made up his mind, and as he did not like to take the responsibility of doing so alone, he had concluded to ask the help of a few well known populists to assist him. He would therefore ask Senator Allen, Gen. Weaver and Harry Tracy to meet with him in a room below and give him their advice in making up the temporary roll. Senator Butler had ' a right to time enough to make up the roll. He had had no opportunity to do it, for not one-half of those claiming seats had presented their papers when the committee assem bled in the halh Senator Butler had t right to make up the roll without asking the assistance of any one.; In him, and in him alone, according to all precedents, was the power to decide. The committee could do no business until he did decide. The calling of three distinguished .men to aid him was clearly within his discre tionary power. He could do it without the assistance of anyone if he saw fit. The temporary roll as it was finally made up was the work of the chairman. ' He took the advice of the men " whom he chose to assist him when he thought it was sound and rejected it when , he thought it was not sound. He heard the testimony of those claiming seats, he ex amined the papers they presented, he listened to what the three men whom he had appointed to assist him had to say and then he made up his mind and or dered the secretary of the national com mittee, Mr. Arthur Edgerton, to either enroll or exclude the name as the pre ponderance of evidence seemed to indi dicate. . ; No one who saw the mass of papers ly ing on Senator Butler s desk which he had been unable to examine, when ' he announced that he would need time to settle the disputed claims, can honestly say that his announcement that it would require until 8 o'clock p. m. for him to make up the roll was unreasonable, There was no other way to pursue. The committee could do no business until the roll was made up. It was only a matter of courtesy to say to the gentlemen who were assembled that they could consider themselves adjourned until 8 p. m. In act, though Senator Butler worked with all the expedition possible, he was not able to perfect the roll until 9 p. m. . If Senator Butler had simply announ ced when the hour arrived that a num ber of gentlemen had not presented their papers and as a result of this failure on the part of those claiming seats he had not been able to prepare a temporary roll, and that it would require three or bur hours to do it. and had said nothing more, he would have acted just as the republicans do under such. circum stances. But Senator ... Butler resolved to so conduct matters that no just charge could be made of unfairness. This is what he did. He ordered the secretary to read the list so far as he had been able, to make it up. Then, in stead of saying he would make up the re mainder as soon as he could, according to his own judgment, he said he did not ike to assume all the responsibility him self and would ask' three distinguished populists to assist him. When he said that, D. Clem Deaver jumped into the chair and tried to take , charge of the committee. ; - . v In the haste of preparing a report and , r i j a i T 3 J j. v i i J oi Dreviw, me .independent called the gentlemen who assisted Sena tor Butler in making up the roll a com mittee on credentials, but they were not, they were simply assisting the chairman at his request in making up the roll. When the roll was .finally made up no protest was made by any one, although there were on that roll such active mid roaders and bolters as Burkheart and Weaver of Indiana, who had the privi lege of, the floor and any motion made by them to appoint a committee on cre dentials would have been entertained. The sum of the whole business is'that the rulings of Senator Butler were just and fair, in accordance with parliamen tary usage and all precedents for a hun dred years. CONSTITUTION DON'T COUNT. There is a great fight in the republican party in the house over putting a tariff on Porto Rican goods brought into this coun try. It seems that ten republicans have re vol ted. . They declare that if they should vote for such a measure that they would be defeated for re-election. They say that if Porto Rico has been annexed , to the United States that it is in reality a part of the United States, and that the constitution declares that duties must be uniform wherever the jurisdiction of the United States extends. In defending the position taken by : the ways and ' l' - , ': i 4 means committee, wnicn proposes to ae clare Porto Rico a foreign country when it comes 'to' tariffs, the .State Journal says: , - - . . - "However, the ' constitution doesn't count, except that it represents a . prin-; ciple, until the constitution has been ex tended over the island by law." : Now .that is practically the position taken by the imperialists every where, although none of them have been so art less as" to say so." So the constitution doesn't count any more. McKinley ! has abolished--it and -is "ruling as a dictator. That : is ; what the populists have been saying for some time. The Journal talks about extending the constitution bylaw. .That is a new dda trine. All laws are made by the authority of the constitution, and laws that do not conform to the constitution have always been set aside and rendered null and void by the supreme court. NoW the Journal says the constitution can be extended by law." If it can be extended, it can also be contracted, or in other words congress can disregard the con stitution wnenever a majority in it sees fit. That is the substance of republican ism in these latter days. When they begin their campaign they should paint on all of their banners these words of the State Journal: "The constitution rdoesn't count." ' ' ' , A populist was chuckling over the fact the other day that the republican papers were not bragging so much as they were over the fact that exports ex ceeded imports since the pops pitched into that proposition showed- that it only proved that we were presenting to Europe millions of dollars worth of goods each year for which we received nothing in return. It is rather amusing when we think of the way they suddenly stopped that discussion, but it will not be long before w they will be bragging about something else that is just as ri diculous. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the most radical Hannacrat paper in the west declares: "That walk-out at the populist national committee at Lincoln, Neb., is calculated to deal a , much . har der blow to Bryan and the democracy than they will care to acknowledge." A hard blow at Bryan it was intended to be. That was the sole , object and . the gold bug editor acknowledges the fact but whether it will turn out to be a hard blow is yet to be seen. When the populists of the United States learn the character' of the miserable scalawags who assembled at the Grand hotel, none but those who would vote for McKinley anyhow, will be effected by it. , The appointment of Judge Taf t as the head of McKinley's new Philippine com mission is in accordance with the whole imperial policy of . this administration Judge Taf t has done more effective work for the corporations than any other federal judge on the bench. He wil soon let the Filipinos know what an in junction means. , THE INDIANA OUTRAGE. The regonition of Burkhart of Indiana and a member oil : thai populist national committee and his chump the notorious and unspeakable C. M. .Walters on a proxy,' has turned, out just as the editor of the Independent told, the committee on credentials that it would. It seems that even Senators Butler and Allen, Gen. Weaver and Harry .Tracy had not yet learned the depths of depravity to which the'Mark Hanna- following has fallen, for if they hadthey would .z have arisen and kicked that eduo of rascals out of the.' committeex room instead of allowing them to sit as members of the populist national committee. Their prone- ness to so act that nqpne could. justly accuse them of injustice, lead them into an , act that i may cost us the state of Indiana. -c'u t . 'i : This editor knows the, history of these two political rascals from the beginning and he did all that was in his power to prevent them from receiving any recog nition at all, - Now they .will , be able to use fthe position that they gained here in Lincoln to deceive the populist voters of Indiana and pull that, state into the Hannacratic column. We propose to give their history right here and now, for the Independent has quite a circu lation in Indiana.; -, .v- v - In 1894 the democrats in the, district in which Burkhart lives proposed to the populists that if they would nominate Burkhart for congress, they, the demo crats would endorse him. That was done and BurkhartA ran on the fusion ticket. This editor went into his district and canvassed for him and he polled by this fusion'an exceedingly large vote. At the last election the' democrats asked that a man by the name of Cheadle should be nominated by the fusion forces. Cheadle was'a silver republican and one of the best speakers in the whole state. Burkhart went into the populist convention and contested the nomination. If we -remember rightly, many ballots were taken and Cheadle was finally nominated. Burkhart got up in the convention and moved to make Cheadle's nomination unanimous. After that Burkheart went home, and started out immediately to organize a middle-of-the-road party, did' organize such a party, and elected the republican, gold bug, imperial "congressman. From that day. to this,' Burkhart has been the brains of the' Wharton-Barker movement in Indiana. - He made the most desper ate effort to capture the populist organ ization in the stated and was cheek by jole in the work along'with Motsinger. Burkhart would ' have completely suc ceeded had it not been for the firm and patriotic ' action of 1A. P. Hanna, th fe chairman of the populist state committee,' and although Hanna was offered a bribe of a title to a farm which they knew -he" was: Very anxious to gfet as well as . every thing else that - they thought would induce him to betray the party, he stood like a stone wall and if ought with all his might. Hanna held the party to the regular organization, when Burkhart and Motsinger were working every scheme to turn it over to-Wharton-Barker. ' ; Now for this man-'Waltera . He had always been .in . a state verging on pau perism until -after. ;Burkhart organized the middle-ofrthe-road party? " to . beat Cheadle . andselect a republican. The silver republican party had been -organ jzed in. that district since Burkhart ran on the fusion ticket, and .the election re turns snowed tnat if tnere nad been a, union of forces Cheadle would have been elected by a handsome majority. The editor of the Independent has seen this man Walters when he was ragged, dirty and filthy .hanging around populist head quarters at Indianapolis. It is the testi mony of all who knew him that he was perfectly worthless and always penniless. The old farmers were in the habit of chipping in to pay his expenses when ever he turned up at a .convention. He had never been seen in a decent suit of clothes in all his life. But a few days after Cneadie was nominated he turned up at Mr. Hanna's farm dressed , like a New York dude He wanted Mr. Hanna, as populist chair man. of the district, to call another con vention and nominate, a man to run against Cheadle in . the middle of the road. When Chairman Hanna refused, he went from house to, house over the district, always having plenty of money, workiner ud a middle-of-the-road con vention which he at last succeeded in doing. - ; The next that we heard of this man Walters, he turned up at Indianapolis with a newspaper plant and was pub lishing a middle-of-the-road paper. ' The columns of it were filled with abuse ? of Butler, Aliens A. P. Hanna and . every man 1 who was , doing -h. effective :; work toward the overthrow of the republican party. Thousands of copies were printed weekly and scattered free over the state. The employees in the office have u testi fied that they go every 3 Saturday night to the office of the republican state com mittee and get their wages. ! That is thet , true history of the two men from Indiana whomhe committee on credentials allowed to sit in the pop ulist national i committee1 because they felt that they "should be liberal to those who dissented from us," as onp of them expressed it. Burkhart having obtained a seat in the committee took an active part in the proceedings. He made the most rousing speech for Bryan that was made during all the sessions of the committee. . lie declared that "Bryan was the Andrew Jackson of the west" and was cheered until the very, windows shook. The next -day he started home -and went straight to a Wharton Barker convention a convention never called by the pop ulist party, but by theWharton Barker party and accepted a nomination for governor. There never was an act of political infamy equal to that in the his tory of a civilized nation before. , The Associated press informs us that this convention nominated a full ticket, recognized D. Clem Deaver as the head of the populist party, elected a full set of delegates to a convention to be held in "Cincinnati to nominate Whartori Bar ker, and put on their state ticket as can didates for governor and : lieutenant governor, these two rascals. A. G. Burk hart and C M. Walters. . " If that populist committee oa cre dentials still - wants to be liberal, they will go, out and hire some good stout man to give them each ten minutes of good hard licking. 0 This Burkhart convention also elected asmembers of the national committee Motsinger, Burkhart and East. Mot singer is an ex-banker, has jus$ had a judgment rendered against him for libel and been 1 sued ; for assault by a young' lady who was visiting at his house. This aggregation of scalawags and scoun drels do not expect to control more than five or ten thousand ; votes in the state, but they figure that that will be enough to save Indiana to Mark Hanna. If they had one good straight populist newspaper of ability in that state "" they would not poll 500 votes. What Indiana needs to save it for Bryan is a strongly edited, fearless and hard hitting popu list weekly paper. - "; y , The way that Burkhart got a claim to a sea in the committee was ' as follows: When the pOpulist state convention met two years ago, the story was circulated around the convention that a member of the national committee ; had resigned his name just now will not come to mind and a motion was made to elect a man to fill the vacancy and Burkhart was chosen. It turned out afterwards that the member had not resigned at all, but a certificate of Burkhart's election was sent to 1 the national chairman duly signed by the officers of the convention and he was put on the roll.1 The regular populists a of Indiana never sanctioned this ' removal by fraud of " one of their members of the national committee, and as 'the v member ? himself could ' not come,7 he - gave his proxy to Mr. Medert, the secretary of - the 4 state committee. Mr.: Medert was here and presented the proxy of the old 'member, but ' Burkhart was recognized. 't-"r f -ra " 'i-r ' I One year ago, it coming to the knowl edge " of the chairman of the state com mftteei Mr. AP. Hanna, that- there was another vacancy Caused by the1 removal of "Mr. Austin from the state, he called a state convention to fill tlje vacancy. This convention was held rat Indianapo lis" Some parties called a convention of populists 'at the same time without the authority of Mr. Hanna and they met. They tried to induce Mr. Hanna to pre side over their convention,' which !Was ; a middle-of-the-road affair, but he abso lutely refused to do so, held his own con tention in a regular - way, and "" that convention elected Mr. Hanna a member of the national committee ' to fill - Mr. Austin's1 place. - The other convention elected Motsinger. ''- Burkhart held Mot singer's proxy. The "committee would not recognize Motsinger or his proxy, but recognized Mr. Hanna as a member of the national committee and as chair man of the state committee. So this convention that has nominated Burk hart and Walters has no claim to regu larity, but the whole crowd are out and out bolters. No doubt they will try to get on the ticket as the regular populist party candidates. '. : INDIANA BOLTERS. : The chairman of the state convention in Indiana which nominated Burkhart for governor, in opening the . convention is reported in the daily papers as follows: "Mr. Williams made a speech in which he said that George Washington breathed the spirit of patriotism over one hundred years ago, and that Andrew Jackson fought banks of issue in his day the same as the populists are doing now. He said the populists could get along without voting for either McKinley or Bryan, and that it is not necessary for true populists to look toward Lincoln, Neb., for inspiration." One of the resolutions passed was this: "Resolved, that the populists of Indi ana in convention assembled recognize as the regular and national leader of the people's party, the chairman and secre tary of which are D. Clem Deaver and Joe A. Parker." 1 It is by this organization that Mark Hanna expects to save Indiana to the McKinley column. Burkhart will have nO lack of funds to run his campaign. There will be hundreds of thousands of Walter's paper circulated free, and the type setters will continue to go to the republican state committee and draw their wages. - : Every mullet head in Nebraska hugs himself three times a day and gives thanks unto the Lord because the na tional banker can now get the full value of his bonds back in money and draw interest on both bonds and money. He turns his eyes up toward Heaven and gives a pious groan every few minutes because the bondholders will now all be paid in gold. He reverently gives thanks because the national debt has been in creased and made perpetuak In fact the mullet head is in the seventh heaven of delight all the time these days. ENORMOUS WEALTH. There is a somewhat worn expression which says, "wealth beyond the dreams of avarice," but the wealth of our mod ern multi-millionaires is beyond dreams of any kind. The New York Journal makes the following statement: "Mr. Carnegie values the entire plant of his company at $500,000,000. He thinks he could sell at this figure. Of this amount Mr. Carnegie's interest wnuld be $292,000,000. His income for this year , will be about $24,000,000, which is approximately, $2,000,000 a month, $500,000 a week, or $66,000 a day. "There are men owning two-thirds of 1 per cer cent and one-quarter of 1 per cent in Mr. Carnegie's company who could sell" out their interest for hun dreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Car negie probably owns property enough outside of his company to. bring the 'to tal amount of his wealth up to $300, 000,000. "But Mr. Carnegie is modest. He takes off his hat to Mr. John D. Rocke feller, whom he calls "the richest man in this 'country." It is probably true. On a capitalization of $100,000,000, of which Mr. Rockefeller owns a controll ing interest, the Standard Oil : Company has paid a dividend of $80,000,000. ; "This would make Mr. Rockefeller's income from this source alone over $40, 000,000. He has an income of many millions a year besides this." ! There is another somewhat worn ex pression 'familiar to populists which says that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting ' poorer." How does this" condition of affairs come about? The foundation of it all is spec ial legislation . in J avor of the rich and against the poor. Mr. Carnegie's wealth has come from special tariff ; legislation.- - Mr. Rockefeller's wealth has come from special legislation, granting franchises to railroads, which by grant ing him rebates has- enabled him to crush out all competition. -; These great accumulations of wealth threaten most seriously the very exis tence of our form of government. It is the thing that the populist party was or ganized to fight. We have practically chosen our leader, Bryan" is his name, and we will wage such a warfare for re dress as the world has never seen dur ing the coming eight months. Our bat tle cry will be, as it always has been: "Equal rights for all and special privi leges for none." ; ALWAYS AHEAD ' A farmer "up in Wayne , county writing to the editor on another subject, inci dentally makes this remark: "I find $hat the men who take and read the. In dependent in my neighborhood are by far the best posted men in this part of the country." An old editor ' who "at tended the meeting of the national com mittee last week asked the following question: 4"How, do' you manage to so completely cover the whole field of news and get every event of . importance! that occurs in. any country in the world into your weekly and some of it weeks and months ahead of even the dailies? ' I re member that a year ago last May, you published facts about Aguinaldo and Dewey and the relations that existed be tween "them, which Hive Only gotten in to the dailies during ,the last few weeks. The short articles that you published on modern warfare gome months ago are now, after so long a time, being made a special feature in the. great. New York papers. How do you manage it? I would like to get onto that way of get ting out a weekly myself." ' Then a lady handed us a copy of last Sunday's New York Journal and pointed to a double page with illustrations devoted to an ex planation of modern military tactics. She said I know that you wrote articles on this same ', subject some -. months ago, and this is somewhat of a repetition of them, but I thought that you would per haps like to see it." . .There were 23 illustrations of the use of the modern rifle, trench digging, bomb proofs-, and' wire ": entanglements. The article was a review ,of the work on modern tactics and arms written by M. Block, published by Doubleday and McClure We give the summing up of M. Block's conclusions: 1. That the tremendous effectiveness of the modern small-calibremagazine rifle will be the determining factor in future WarS; ' . : 2. That the power of the defense has been enormously increased by recent de-v velopments of arms. 4 . . A 3. ; That the attacking" force will have to number at least eight times the de fense to be merely on an equality. N" 4. .That while artillery has greatly in creased in efficiency, it will not have the same proportionate value to the attack as formerly, on account of the increased power of the rifle. 1" , 5. ; That a properly handled force can maintain a zone of fire which no human being can cross. ,1 .1 w v ; 6. That a complete victory is impos sible on account of the power of the de fense to prolong resistance" indefinitely and to prevent the attacking force from coming to close quarters. That is what the great dailies are say ing' now, . but the Independent said months ago practically the same thing. Such things as that account for the statement from the old farmer of Wayne. "The men who take and read the Inde pendent are by far the best posted men in this part of the country." The Independent not only keeps its readers posted concerning the trend of events of importance all over the world, but it has another mission that it per forms with equal success. The chair man of the populist state committee of Indiana who was also a member of the national committee and in attendance last week said: "I take a great many , papers and many more are sent to me . that I 'do not subscribe for on account of my official position, but the Indepen dent is worth them all when it comes to striking sledge hammer blows for the constitution and the rights of the com mon people. It is not only read by me, but by the whole family the very first among all those that come. It keeps us posted on everything that we are inter ested in." Of course if that family were interested in murder trials, divorce suits, hangings and things of that sort, they would not find much of it in the Inde pendent. In two or three counties in this state the populist county committee have put all the money that they have collected for campaign expenses into a fund for sending the Independent to persons in their counties who did not take it. The result in votes has been astonishing. A democrat who takes the Indepen dent once asked the editor how he man aged to get news that was not published in the associated press dispatches. We didn!t tell him, but we propose to tell it of course confidentially, to our subscrib ers. . The editor has a large personal ac quaintance with some newspaper men in Washington who write f or . gold bug papers. One or two of these, have a notion that they are under obligations for some little favors that the editor, many years ago, granted them when he was a Washington correspondent and they were green at the business. These bright newspaper men, while they work on plutocratic papers, hate plutocracy with an undying hatred. They know what it.is better than any one else. When they get hold of secrets -that their papers want suppressed, these news paper men sometimes write to the edi tor of the Independent. The men who are so Unselfishly work ing to get up clubs for the Independent can assure all new subscribers that they will get their money's worth. They will not only get all the news that decent, in telligent men are interested in, but they will get a defense of the doctrines of Lincoln such as they will find in no other paper. The editor fought along with old John Brown in Kansas when the outlook was much darker than it is now. He won out then and he believes he will win out this time. : ; : ... GOLD BUG WRITING. Gold bug Washington correspondents are crazier and have more wheels in their heads than they ever accused the popu lists of having in all the tirades that they have ever made,. Here is a sample from W. E. Curtis: ' "At the same time itis a curious fact,as one of the most prominent members of the democratic committee and one of the most loyal supporters of Mr. Bryan remarked, VWhile .collectively ' the committee is almost solid for Mr. Bryan, individually t three fourths of the members are against him." rr , - v;- ? "Although the conservative element of the "committee was overborne by the numbers aud impetuosity of the Bryan men, it succeeded in gaining perhaps the most import point in the. politics of the -meeting in that it prevented an open al liance with the populists. It was arranged between Bryan, Jones, Stone and Johri son on the one side and Senators Allen and Butler on the other that both th democratic and populist , conventions should be held beyond the Mississippi river, at Kansas City, and Lincoln, Neb., On June 6, and there was to be a joint ratification and an arm-in-arm parade at some neighboring city, perhaps Omaha or St. Louis, after Bryan and Caldwell were nominated, and a free-silver, anti expansion, "agin the administration, government control of . corporations, so cialist platform was adopted by, both. Both Senators Allen and Butler were opposed to holding the populist and democratic national conventions on the same day, as everybody who knows any thing about ' the meeting in Lincoln knows. Senator Butler 'was especially insistent that the populist convention should be , held at least thirty days before the democratic convention." He would stand , by the so-called Omaha agreement. In fact the agreement was more than carried out, for the populist convention instead , of meeting thirty days before the democratic convention, meets fifty -six days before. Even that would not satisfy the mid-roaders. They never intended to be satisfied. TURNED OUT A FARCE. The attempt made to capture the pop ulist national committee and thereby, the whole populist organization turned out such a farce that the republicans themselves- were disgusted with it, and it is very probable that fifteen or twenty men : who have been drawing .pretty heavily upon the republican campaign fund, will from this on be out of a job. The Independent bases its conclusion upon the following facts. The State J ournal and the Evening -News are owned and published by the same com pany: The idiocy of the ' Journal's edi torials and its undisputed reputation for never ending lying, so disgusted all republicans that had any sense of de cency, that it was found necessary to have another paper, edited in somewhat more of a respectable fashion to hold these men to $he republican party, so the News was bought and consolidated with the Journal, and a man who had some little sense and some knowledge of the common conventions and recognized proprieties of good society, put at its head, The Journal is the Organ of the mullet heads and the News of the more respectable republicans. As soon as the meeting of the populist national committee was adjourned the Journal came out with article after ar V