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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT,
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Aaoc J irctrfftoti will tuA htt &-
JV r lr-;d-r.: , ! upon new fangled ways of advertising
Wilxja Jajrjfi50 Betas I goods for ale or the excellencies of cer-
fuf Vite PreaiJent. j tain daily newspapers. To such an ex-
. Chakjj: A. Towse i tent was this commercial advertising
- j carried that descriptions, columns in
1 or Cotr nan 1-t Iitt length, were printed in some of the re-
V'- Beege, Lincoln publican papers, telling about the kites
high in the air and electric bill boards
Mark Hanna U ckiE i:r.u.ense prep- j that attracted the attention of the gaz
aratkc ia evrry atate in the union to itg thousands.
I a ttajority of vote for a cow boy' j The whole proceeding took on the
tat. IrKuJey will not be mentioned, j character of a commercial fair, where
- - J the fakirs plied their trade by the thbu-
Tb delegates from Hawaii to the t eand and the merchants gathered in the
c!esnrrati- rational convention have thekels, no one giving any thought to
t-n instructed to vote for Bryan. They i government or how or by whom it should
Kay they don't watt Hawaii put ouUide
J the conviitutics.
The delegate to the democratic na- j
tiocal convection from Washington ! public duty, the preservation of free
nd Oregvo. after easting a complimen-1 government and the sentiments that an
tary vote far a tsan from the ccat. will j imated men like Lincoln, Seward and
all v te for Town. Ther are many Sumner were cast aside, and inside the
deooerat who are a anxious to I convention as well as outside the sub
Towre rxsucat4 a are the populists, j ject that occupied men's minds 'was not
1 j good government, but trade, commerce,
Ia a eosvematioa at the Lindell hotel j n(J grabbing for the almighty dollar.
I-', e-k ex Cocgmsnsan Hainer aiJ: j li wfL great Vanity Fair.
There i n ue in denying the fact. I The great dailies were represented by
Bryan will Le elected and the repubii-1 hundreds of the best trained newspaper
c won't -i--ct a cin on the state j cnen an( some of them employed the
tic!." lUir.fr Us uncompromising ' leading and best known senators and
republican, but he that the republi
can "ain't in it lhi time."
j ators and scholars were also employed
That the ratio at which silver and for the same purpose. With all this tai
led wUl circulate ran b lixed by law is i ent engaged and all the expenditure
ebown by the British government. It j made, no response came from the people
ha the ratio ta India at 22 to 1 at large.
and g'd i!ii w!t t that ratio is a j There is another thing that all the
lal VtvAi-r in India. All business is j
d?r r.d-r ti at -ratio and ha been ?ince I
the crder in .-ounril w&, L-sued. !
j
Morton devote ssueh spac ia his lat ;
per to irllir-g of the bie--ings beiowed I
f:jioa this cation ly it Standard Oil ,
tru-t. He -ay that it goe9 to Europe j
nd gK f 1"0jUU -arh day which it i
l-nrr b&rk v distribute in this coun-1
try. therefore he i tery angry at the at-
torrey general Ijt having brought suit
arait it.
Totzr attentkfn m called to the sub
scription blank inrtei ia this week
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After the Sheldon week, the owner of j
the Topeka Capitol wanted to keep
ruht alrg in the ianie line. A little !
ifeisdry developed the fact that that
crraid txt be and the tjjper stay in thei
republican party. So the old arrange-
csent ii re-uiced and the folicirs of
the paper are directed by Cy Leland
and the deviL
The "open door" jioliey of the present
cdnJnini-tratiLrti when dUcuw-d on this
ide of the AUanUc rnans only the free i
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African gooc m ail xne j
carpet-. (,t u.e na. v, nen aavocated ;
on the other -ide. it men the free ad- i
n.if,n -f t:. products cf cheap labor!
tj all Acericsa market. The British !
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in the held- &r
u-trketit-gr very lit-
tie pr'iure at pr-.--t r.L To thoe. how
eief, who have Cir.ey and are delin
quent on feub-cnplijn wv .ucet that
now im a very portune tix to make a
remittar.ee. Keep it ia mind and when
you go to town nd whatever is past
de, together with ytur renewal:
?Tbter Davi in an artiel in
New Ycrk Journal, while the republican
caticeial cxr.rer.Uc wa in fceion de-
clared that:
"The republican party raurt make it
cler that ihi government i absolutely
ce-utral and doe ys;pathize with the
a5S3reof repbikc and republican
f?riot a aga:nt monarchies and arU
tocraciea. There are enmgh voter who have
heretofore been loyal republican la
enanyefthe doubtful states to defeat
any party that is known to be la sym
pathy with Great Britain and her greedy
ieifili rchetne.
The republican refaed to do any
ruch thing and now the only thing Web
ter Da via can in honor da, U to join the
Totera and help to defeat the party that
wis sympathy with Great Britain and
fcer greedy eih scheme. " .
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
The .republican national convention is
a thing of the past and the result, the
nomination of McKiniey and Roosevelt
and a , platform, are before the people.
A great amount of trash, falsehood and
f peculation has been published concern
ing it, but there are a few things con
cerning it about which there is no dis
pute. The attendance, except from nearby
places Induced by low rates, was exceed
ingly small.
There was no enthusiasm either among
the delegates or the f peetators of the
proceedings, except what was forced and
manufactured. Even then it was so
slight that it was commented upon by
all who were present.
The spirit of the affair was wholly
commercial. The streets were blocked
with people not crowds cheering for
McKiniey and imperialism but gather
ings of men worcn and children gazing
be administered. The convention and
the people who attended were wholly ab
sorbed in "trade. All the old ideals, all
the traditions concerning devotion to
j representatives to send them daily ac
counts of the proceedings. Authors, or-
newspaper men are agreed upon. Hanna
deceived for four days the sharpest and
a ecu test of them. They all feel pretty
sheepish about the way they were taken
in, but several hare made a clean breast
of the matter and acknowledged that
Hanna kept them holding the sack for
four days and not one of them caught a
nipe. They all now believe without an
exception, that Hanna planned the
whole thing that the action of the con-
vention was a cut and dried affair, every
detail of which was arranged a week be
fore the convention met and that the
perfect acting of both Hanna and Roose
velt deceived every one of them. Creel-
man got taken in with the rest and he is
about the sorest cf the whole lot.
Not only were the newspaper men de
ceived, but the senators and representa
tives who were writing for the daily
papers were as completely beguiled.
The iorest one among this lot was Gros
venor, who has so long posed as the
spokesman of the president in the house
of representatives. He is so exceedingly
cgTry that he has attacked the platform
in lbe pap1"- He says:
- - av fiau ouaw bo ca aaacaa,w?i kji 1 cav cf
connected with the history of this con
vention, that the following resolution
was agreed to be put into this platform,
was handed over the gentlemen who un
dertook its final revision and whose han
diwork in destroying all the elements of
good statement is manifest; and I assert,
upon the statement of Senator Foraker,
that tne plank, wnicn 1 will now repro-
?u?' understood by the committee
to be a part of the platform, and was un-
fairiy gUrrepUtiously, and without
tne knowledge of the committee, kept
out of tne platform.
It is as follows:
' reassert the principle which was
. watchword of the republican party
in its hrst great battle, of which Abra-
ham Uncoin was the first illustrious
J champion, and on which he was elected
i president, that congress has full legisla-
tive power over territory belonging to
nited SUtes, subject only to the
j fundamental safeguards of liberty, jus
tice and personal rights.
After making this charge of forgery
against Hanna, he goes on to say that
the rest of the platform "is badly writ
ten and in poor English without angu
larity, conveys in a mild sort of a drivel
in 5 way the best ideas of the republican
party. Grosvenor is not the only re-
i Pca wao B ucnounceu me piai
t-1 : 1 t. J 1 . 1. 1 a.
I 'orm m -drireL- The Washington Post,
"Pu"cn PP"- cas a lonS eauona
devoted to attacking the platform in
which it cays:
"Had such a remarkable document
emenated from a gathering of South
Carolina republicans, (it means a lot o
uneducated negroes,)we would not have
been astomahed. Coming from a na
tional gathering of the political party
that pndea Itself upon its liberal endow
meet of intelligence, it is, to say the
Tery least, Btartling." It calls the whole
thing a phraologieai jumble.'
Mark H anna's peculiar English crops
out In. every, line of that platform. It
ia probable that the literary men under
whose eye the platform passed, dared
to go no f arther than make the aouns
agree with the verbs. Ilanna's speech
made at the opening of the convention
was published in one of tne isew lone
dailies under a statement that it was a
verbatim report and every word just as
Hanna uttered it. One sentence had no
predicate and in two instances the verbs
did not agree in number with the nouns.
Another thing that the newspapers
are calling attention to is that while the
first republican convention was held in
hiladelphia no reference whatever is
made to the declaration of independence
or the principles announced in the first
republican platform. The first republi
can convention declared that its object
was "the restoring the action of the fed
eral government to the principles of
Washington and Jefferson. That con
vention resolved: "That with our re-v
publican fathers, we hold it to be a self-
evident truth that all men are endowed
with the inalienable rights to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness, and
that the primary object and ulterior de
signs of our federal government were to
secure these rights to all persons within
its exclusive jurisdiction." The whole
of the first republican platform was only
a restatement of the principles contained
in the declaration of independence and
the constitution, two documents not now
referred to and which, under Hanna and
McKiniey, have . been discarded as out
grown.
The personnel of the convention has
also occasioned a good deal of comment.
The men who were there bespoke the
omnipotent power of money in the re
publican party. Among them were:
David Moffat. Colorado, $20,000,000:
iu. P. Morse, New York,$3,000,C00; Cush- j
man K. Davis, Minnesota, $5,000,000;
Charles A. Moore, New York, $4,000,000;
K. O. Wolcott, Colorado, $3,000,000; W. j
Sewell, New Jersey, $7,500,000; Thos.
Lowry, Minnesota, $2,500,000: Franklin j
Murphy, New Jersey, $1,000,000: H. H. i
Bingham, Pennsylvania, $1,000,000; Cor
nelius N. Bliss, New York, $5,000,000;
Lispenard Stewart, New York, $3,000,-
000: Francis V. Green, New York, $1,
500,000; F. P. Olcott, New Jersey, $6,000,
000; Sheffield Phelps, New Jersey, $2,-
500,000; Mark Hanna, Ohio, $3,000,000.
Henry M. Sage, New York, $o,000,000;
Stephen B. Elkins, West Virginia, $4,-
000,000; Henry C. Payne, Wisconsin, $2,
500,000. What do men of this character, and
there were many more of the million
aires there than those enumerated above,
care for the interests of the wage worker
of the east or the farmer who toils on
these western prairies? It is surpassing
strange, it is wholly unaccountable, that
there should be found . one farmer .or
wage worker in the whole United States
who would cast his vote as directed by
this crowd of plutocrats.
It is beginning to dawn upon the re
publican leaders that the holding of
their national convention in the oity
where the declaration of independence
was first promulgated and where the
first republican convention was held,
was the most inauspicious thing that
could have been done. It has imme
diately aroused attention to the great
disparity between the principles now
advocated and those upon which the
party was founded. It has also drawn
attention to the difference in the char
acter of the leaders of the party then
and now. Among the leaders then were
such men as Charles Sumner, William
H. Seward, Abraham Lincoln, Governor
Andrews, Benjamin Wade, and a host of
others of like ability and honor. In
their place at this last convention the
management of the party had passed
into the hands of men of the reputa
tion of Hanna, Quay, Piatt, Elkins, and
other millionaires. Then it was liberty
and good government that was made the
theme of the platform. Now it is trade.
Then it was the object to secure equal
ity for all men. Now the endeavor is to
secure special privilege lor tne lew.
These comparisons will continue to be
made during the whole campaign, and
the disparity between the men who
composed the first republican convention
and the principles then adopted, and the
men and the principles promulgated by
the last convention, will be pressed hard
and harder until the last vote is counted.
Richard Croker has come home. He
gave out an interview in which he de
nounced the ice trust and among other
things said: "San Juan Hill is not an
issue in this campaign. We want a man
who will attack trusts. That's the sort
of a rough rider the democratic party
has in the saddle in the person of Wil
liam J. Bryan. Our candidate is a man
who has fought, is fighting and will
fight."
"Confidence" is the whole stotk in
trade with the bankers. Not a dollar
would be entrusted to their keeping ex
cept it was based on confidence. The
confidence upon which the banker does
business is all furnished by the depos
itors, not a particle of it by the banker.
Try it once and see if it is not so. You
must put up the real collateral before
the banker will let you touch a cent of
the money he has. It is a confidence
game and you must furnish all the con
fidence.
The republican platform says: "We
recognize the necessity and propriety of
the honest co-operation of capital to
meet new business conditions. The
new business conditions will begin as
soon as Hanna has republican headquar
ters put into campaign order. If the
"business" does not show up in good
shape it will be .labeled; "We condemn
all conspiracies and combinations in
tended to restrict business, and then
the trust that falls into that category
will have to look out fo? itself,
THE SUPREME COURT.
Every effort has been made by this ad
ministration to prevent any case reach
ing the United States supreme court in
volving the question of imperialism.
Two or three actions that have been be
gun in the lower courts involving . the
question, but they have been dismissed
by order of the attorney general. Finally
that court must decide the question for
it will not be possible to much longer
keep it out, On the decision of the
court will hang the fate of more porten
tious issues than was ever before pre
sented to a judicial tribunal for decis
ion. If it decides that the constitution
does not follow the flag, if the president
or congress has the power to set up any
kind of a government that they choose
in conquered territory, regardless of the
constitution and the inalienable rights
of man, then a despotism more powerful
and far reaching than the world has
ever before seen, will be established,
The destiny, not only of this nation, but
of all mankind will be changed. No
man, not even the wisest, can conjecture
what the end will be. It is only certain
that such a policy cannot be inaugurated
without deluging the world with blood.
The example of the United States and
the spirit of the declaration of indepen
dence has fired the hearts of the brown
men of the Orient with a desire far free
government- They quote from it con
stantly. The beacon lights of liber
ty have been kindled in the
islands . . of the sea and are
being lighted all over the continent of
Asia.- Nothing but a sea of blood will
ever quench them. Imperialism may
make a desert and call it peace, but that
is the only peace that will ever come to
a nation that has once been inspired by
the words of Jefferson, until they have a
government of their own making and
based upon the consent of the governed.
This momentous question will be sub
mitted to the supreme court of the
United States for decision. What will
it decide? If the question had been
asked of the people a few years ago,
there would have been no hesitancy
about the answer But now there hangs
over the people a cloud of darkness.
They hesitate and forebodings fill their
minds. They remember the income tax
decision and they ask themselves: Is
that court wholly under the influence of
the millionaires? Will it build up a
plutocracy by its decisions in the place
of the free institutions that Jefferson
and Lincoln fondly hoped had been
planted on everlasting foundations?
At least one of the judges seems to
be with the people. The Independent
calls attention to .extracts from an ad
dress by Justice Brewer, printed in an
other column.
THE BEPI BUCAS FLOP
Four years ago at , the end of a long
term of the rule of Wall street financiers
directed by Drs. Harrison Cleveland &
Co. Uncle Sam found the country in a
very desperate condition. The populists
and democrats declared that nothing
would do any good but an increase in
the volume of money. The republicans
denied that and said that money ought
to be restricted to the amount of gold
that was mined and minted. Mr. Lam
bert-son annonuced to the students of
STAND BY TOWNE
The action of the Minnesota democratic state convention adds another
state whose delegates will go to the Kansas City democratic national con
vention instructed to vote for Towne for vice president. Towne will be the
only candidate before that convention having delegates for whom the peo
ple have given orders to vote. It shows that there is a large number of
men in the democratic party who honestly and earnestly wish for the co
operation of all parties who are opposed to imperialism, the gold standard,
wild cat money and the abandonment of all the principles and policies that
have contributed to make this the greatest nation on earth.
The democratic party has much to gain and nothing to lose by the
nomination of Towne. In the first place he is eminently qualified to fill
the position, and after Bryan he is perhaps " the first choice of all the re
form forces for supreme leadership. If the early traditions of the republic
are to be followed and the vice president is to be chosen from men quali
fied to fill the presidential office, then no man in any of the reform parties
could be more fitly chosen.
The thing of most importance in choosing a vice presidential candi
date is that hjs record should be in harmony with the man at the head of
the ticket. It would be suicidal under the present conditions for the dem
ocratic convention to nominate any man who was not as radical as Bryan.
Such action would mean the certain defeat of the whole ticket and a loss
of many states which the reform forces now hold. The speeches made by
Towne in every part of the United States during the last foul years, places
him fully abreast with Bryan on every public question. In that particular,
not another man can be named who would so well fill every requirement.
In Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana and other
middle and western states, Towne would be a tower of strength and hold
the reform forces solidly together as a unit for Bryan and the whole ticket
as no other man could. Bryan and Towne, would represent the states
manship, the eloquence, the spirit of reform and advancement, better than
any othtr two men. They would give animation, vivacity, boldness and
courage to every man fighting in the ranks. They would be the embodi
ment of the spirit of the twentieth century.
There would be nothing to lose, there would be everything to gain.
What could the democratic party lose by the nomination of a man who
has fought their battles for them with surpassing logic and eloquence for
the last four years? Have they any man in all their ranks who has done
harder or more efficient service? Has he not a record of which all are
proud? ' Has he not that commanding ability which has compelled the ad
miration even of his foes? An economist, an orator, a man of stainless
private life, what other qualifications should a man have to commend him
to the consideration of a great national convention?
With Bryan and Towne a battle can be fought with the force of sur
passing eloquence, logic and honorable and spotless lives. The people are
tired of sophistries, double dealing and evasions. They w ant uprightness,
plain spoken and forceful words. They are weary with the millionaires,
trust magnates and the everlasting talk of commerce, commerce, trade,
trade. From them they would turn to the embodiment of high ideals,
youth, statesmanship, eloquence, honesty, believing that the hopes which
abide in the hearts of all true men, can come nearer being realized through
the ability and power of these magnificent young Americans, than through
such men as Hanna, Quay and Piatt, To turn from the sordid greed and
the political machines ef the gray haired old robbers who met in PhiladeU
phia, to the bright eyes, clean lives and magnificent intellects of Bryan
and Towne, is like transferring the gaze from Dante's infernal regions to
the elysian fields which lie beyond the gates f Paradise. We beg our
democratic friends to let it be Bryan and Towne,
,the state university that a redundancy
of money produced: low prices and dis
tress. The thing was submitted to the
people upon a promise by the republican
national convention to promote interna
tionabimetallism and thus increase the
money of all the world, they won out,
assisted as they were, by Mark Hanna's
method of casting one vote for every two
inhabitants in several doubtful states.
Then the republicans forsook all their
theories and although there was
an unprecedented output of gold, they
went to work and, added millions to the
money of the country by allowing the
banks to print promises to pay on paper
and making them partial legal tender.
The next thing that tfiey will do will be
to give the banks the privilege of print
ing promises to pay and make them full
legal tender. When people refuse to
take their shin plasters, the United
States troops will be called upon to en
force the orders of federal judges who
will send their marshalls to seize Your
property. They will brake up the wage
worker's unions and pay them when
they give them work, in printed shin
plasters. If it is necessary for Mark
Hanna, in bringing this thing about, to
have two votes cast for every inhabi
tant of a state, he will not fail in that
particular.
EXVELOPE SUBSCRIPTION BLANK
Our readers will find inserted in this
week's issue of the Independent a "sub
scription blank" in the shape of an en
velope. It is intended for use in getting
up clubs of subscriptions. If you are
interested in the election of Mr. Bryan
and Mr. Towne you cannot do more' to
assist in the campaign than to help in
crease the circulation of the Indepen
dent. You "have read it some time. You
know that it is loyal and true to all the
principles of the party. It has led for
years in the battles in Nebraska where
the success of the party of reform and
progress has been greater than in any
state in the union. It will keep up the
same resolute, steady and vigorous bat
tle in the future that it has in the past.
It leads in the struggle for "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none."
Will you do your part in the contest by
inviting your neighbor to subscribe or
sending it to some doubtful voter in
your community, or even in a doubtful
state. Many of our readers are sending
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Kansas and other close states. Can you
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and adjoining states know the ka.d of
people who compose the peoples party
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the campaign is 25 cents. Remember
"By your works' ye shall be known."
FARMERS SUPPinr ASSOCIATION
There has been considerable talk for
some time among the farmers of the
state in favor of the organization of a
Farmers Supply Association. Talk with
out action is only wasted energy, 4t avail
eth nothing. The time is ripe to do
something. The enormous increase in
trusts and combinations demonstrates
clearly to the intelligent farmers that it
is time for them to organize for their
own protection. They must combine
their efforts and act together. With
this in view the Farmers Supply Asso
ciation has been organized, with head
quarters at Lincoln, Nebraska, the best
railroad center in the state. A large
supply house will be fitted up as fast as
possible. A complete stock of every
thing needed on a farm, farm machinery,
wagons, buggies, plows, harness and gen
eral merchandise will be put in. From the
stock orders from members of the asso
ciation can be filled on the same day re
ceived. In order to operate and main
tain such a house it is necessary to have
a head through which goods can be
bought direct from the manufacturers
in large quantities to supply the de
mands of the association. For this pur
pose the Farmers Supply Association
has been organized and incorporated
under the laws of the state of Nebraska.
The articles were filed with the secre
tary of state the 21st of June. Agents of
the association soliciting members and
patrons will begin the work of organiza
tion in every county throughout the
state. It will be their plan to enroll as
members the best and most substantial
farmers in every community the farm
ers who can buy goods and pay cash for
them. The association will not trans
act any credit business. The members
and patrons of the association will be
supplied with the best quality of farm
machinery, implements and goods at
manufacturers cost plus the expense of
handling. There will be no loss through
bad accounts for the reason that noth
ing will be sold except for cash. Each
member will get full value for his money
and will not be helping to pay for the
goods that others failed to pay for. The
organization of this association is a step
in the right direction. It deserves the
hearty support of the farmers of Ne
braska. Through such an organization
they will be able to protect themselves
in a measure at least from the extortions
of combinations of eastern manufac
turers. The Independent will be pleased
to publish any thoughtful communica
tions upon the subject from any of its
readers. Any association for the ad
vancement or protection of the interest
of the farmers deserves the hearty sup
port of every Nebraskan for upon their
prosperity depends the prosperity of the
state.
WHICH WIL.I. YOU CHOOSE
Unlooked for difficulties constantly
arise to confront those who would con
vert this free republic into an empire.
A recent cablegram from Manila says:
"Judge Taf t, the president of the com
mission, has beem specially charged by
his colleagues with the consideration of
the question as to how the universal de
sire of the Filipinos for the ejectment of
the friars from the archipelago is to be
received with the organic principles of
our laws relative to individual liberty."
If the position taken by congress in its
legislation concerning Porto Rico and
sanctioned by the president la correct,
the "organic principles of our laws do
not apply to the Philippines or to any
portion of the territory outside of the
states that is under the jurisdiction of
this government. If the laws "relative
to individual liberty" are effective in the
Philippines, then the constitution and
all general laws of the government are
f also in force there, and Filipinos have a
perfect right to representation in . con
gress and free access to our shores.
It will be found that there is no half
way place between Imperialism and free
government under the constitution. We
must have one or the other. Which will
the people of the United States choose
at the coming election!
PROGRESS OF PERFIDY
In 1892 the republicans declared in their
national platform that: "The American
people, from tradition and interest, favor
bimetallism, and the republican party
demands the use of both gold and silver
as standard money."
In 1896 the convention declared: "We
are opposed to the free coinage of silver
except by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations of the
world, WHICH WE PLEDGE OUR
SELVES TO PROMOTE." .
In 1900 the platform declares that:
"We declare our steadfast opposition to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
In leadership, the party during the same
years, has descended from Sherman to
Mark Hanna.
'In 1893, Senator Wolcott arraigned
Great Britain for forcing the gold stand
ard upon this country, and said:
"When I am" convinced that free coin
age is impossible at the hands of the re
publican x party and is possible at the
hands of some other party I shall join
that party and SO WILL THE PEO
PLE of COLORADO."
In his speech before the convention at
Philadelphia he said: "The passage of
the gold standard bill marked the ter
mination, forever finale, of any sort of
difference between the republicans of
the east and the republicans of the west,
growing out of currency problems. We
abandon.! urther contention."
Just as. the party has advanced in the
perfidy of Its public - declarations, so has
the governihentj under its control, ji the
same nasure departed from the princi
ples: .upon-which it was founded. Noth
ingoed'ver came to any people or any
nation' "fJif? was brought about by faith
lessness and treachery.
The Chicago Times-Herald, hitherto
regarded as McKinley's sptcjjl organ,
declares that Bryan's election 1? now .an
assured fact unless the republicans can
manage to get nine electoral votes out of
the western states that Bryan carried in
1896. That of course is an impossibility.
There seems to be a general concensus
of opinion all over the United States, a
great part of it among the republican
themselves, that Bryan has a sure thing
of it this time.
The republican party held their na
tional convention in the city -where the
declaration of independence was first
promulgated, but that document wa
not once mentioned in all the speeches
or in the platform that was adopted. It
was not that way at the populist na
tional convention and it won't be that
way at the democratic convention. In
the first republican national convention
dence the basis of what they had to say .'
Now they have discarded it. 'e
We have made it as easy and conven
ient for you to send in a club of subscip
tions as we know how the most fearle?,
uncensored, independent and aggrisive
peoples party 'paper in America re
duced rates supplied you with combi
nation envelope and subscription blank
offered you a premium everything we
can think of to aid and please you. Will
you do your part and join the army of
hundreds of unselfish workers who are
helping to push the circulation of the
Independent. See the "Honor Roll" on
another page. Is your name written
there?
At a populist convention, county
state or national, the reading and adopy'
tion of the platform is the thing of most
vital interest of all the convention work,
but when Senator Foraker arose to read
the platform in the republican national
convention, the Associated Pres re
ports that: "Scores of delegates and al
ternates got up and began filing out of
the hall. The confusion became so great
that Senator Fairbanks was unable to
proceed and Senator Lodge waa com
pelled to come forward and appeal for
order." What did those delegates care
for the principles that were to be pro
mulgated? Republican politician of
the kind that get to be delegates to a
national convention, have long since lost
all interest in principles. One kind of
a platform will suit , them as well as ay
ether, It is the spoils that they .
after and they let the bosses get oj$,?. .
kind of platform that seems to them the
most likely to enable them to capture
the spoils.