The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, July 05, 1900, Image 8
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT- July 6, 1900 CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. WILLIAM A. POYNTER Governor William A. Poynter was born in Eureka, Illinois, in 181S. ' Gradu a.ted from the Eureka college at the age of s4 mchacA teachicg at Esre&a and other lamed to Nebraska, shipping with him good, Li railroad destination being SUrer good m wagon and drove tLera to Boone county, settling on Hum Creek valley, be leg then forty fire mllet from a railroad and located on the fine farm which he atill cares and resided upon until having been elected governor of the state in He became promineet in politic of his county and state in 1884 when he vu elected to represent hi county ia the legislature. lie was again elected to repreeEt hi senatorial district in the state Fenate in 1S90, at which session he held the position of president pro. tern. He was vice president of the State Al ius for a cumber of years, and was one of the members of the commission rep rectJ. tLe state at the Trans-Missis-appi and International- Exposition at Osaha ia and was nominated and elected by the fusion forces of Nebraska ia 115 a fwernor. biDg inaugurated January 5, 1S99. TL g jrtmcr is what is known as a self-made man, having come to Nebraska c a LocwfVtxIer and worked hi way up the ladder of success by sheer force of energy and a steadfast adherence to principles which be believed to be just. In hi adminiktrmtkm a governor he has won the universal respect of the cit tern of his state by hi fearless disposition of all questions of state coming before turn aa chief executive. He id e iedly democratic in his ideas, and is - as ap proachable to a common laborer a to a United States congressman. Governor Poynler was married to Miss Maria McCorkle in 189, she also being a gradual of Eureka college, and who graces the executive mansion as the lead ing lady f the state with an eay and dignified manner, but fa as attentive to the want and care f the lowly in life a th most exalted. Their family consists of a boo and daughter, C W. M. Poynter. who is now in attendance at the Omaha Medical Institute, and Mis Joie, who is taking a course in music at the uni versity. ' . ANDERSON FOR SUPERINTEN DENT. Editor Independent: As the state con vention U cow dram ix g cear, it is well for the people to took about --o a to be able to select the very best of men for the various o5nt, men who are able to conduct the affairs of the positions to which they apire in a way that will be a credit to the fetate and to the parties which ihey represent. I wi-h to call the attention of your readers and of the fu km forces of the tate to Prof. U. O. Anderson as a cocdidate for superinten-; dest of public instruction, as a man in every way worthy of the confidence of the people f Nebraska and of the posi tion to which he aspires. Prof. Ander ses is peculiarly fitted for the place, having begun life as a scholar in the country school, going on up to hich rebool and college, and as teacher in the district t-chool f this county, then in the high chooI and finally in college, and he i cow serving his third term as superintendent of Seward county where he has given uniter&al satisfaction. He ia the oaij populist ever elected in the county on a straight populist ticket, he hari&& been elected on a straight ticket inlKO. At their late conventions the populits avnd democrats t4h unanimously en dorsed .Prof. Acderon as a candidate, and all believe that he should receive the Domination as Seward county has never aked a position on the ticket before, but the fusion forces of this county do not ak for the nomination alone on that ground, cor because Seward county is aom f the banner counties, but because they know that if U. O. Anderson is Dominated and elected he will prove a credit to the and to the staie, Phil Maurer, Beaver Crowing, Neb. Th e y ' Clearing Sale u The LTe.it Semi-Annual C7 forward to the Great Bargain Bit? reductions made in every Uepartment. ivu summer Mocks mut be disposed of. ever cn sale. Send for yellow circular we are almost giving' away. the lots laU "V Attend in person early in the week if possibe. Out of town people can pay their railroad fare and have money left in pocket from what they aineteen and followed the occupation places in Illinois until 1878 when he his horses, machinery and household Creek, Nebraska, where he loaded his HUSSONG FOR SUPERINTEN DENT. We have received a letter from . Mr. Thomas McCusker, - of Bloomington, Neb., advocating the nomination of Mr. Ed. M. Hussong, of Franklin county, for state superintendent. Mr. McCusker praises Sir. Hussong in unmeasured terms calls attention to the fact that he is an old time populist of high char acter and superior education. He has served successfully and with entire sat isfaction as superintendent of the Franklin county schools and is widely known throughout the state. He is broad minded and liberal in his views. He was a candidate for the same nomi nation before the state convention two years ago and came near to success, llis following from the 5th congressional district will be considerable. C. V. SVOBODA FOR SECRETARY. Editor Independent: Hon. C. V. Svo boda, of Howard county, seems to be the leading candidate for the important of fice of secretary of state. We of Saline county wish to say that we heartily ap prove of his candidacy and would be very much pleased to see him nominated forseveral reasons. He is a man of clean character and good habits, a man who eannot be bought by favorr nor money, able and well qualified to fill the office above named. Being a representative Bohemian American, his nomination would greatly please the thirty thousand Bohemian and Polish voters, who by the way are as prompt tax-payers as we have in the state and who would like to be recognized in the state administration Saline county has probably the largest percentage of Bohemian population of any county in the 6tate and the republi- Event that every person looks .'- Sale that all people attend. No unseasonable goods what , containing the price of goods Mail orders filled only while , can save. cans have several times placed some of out best Bohemian citizens on the state ticket. It seems to me that it is about time that our own party should place one of our Bohemian -Americans on the ticket, so we all could support him and be true to eur principles at the same time. We have but one candidate and ask for but one place, and being satisfied that Mr. Svoboda s nomination would add strength to our state ticket, we sin cerely hope that our state convention which meets at Lincoln on the 11th inst. will give this matter due consideration and place his name, with the names of other good men, on the fusion ticket and we will elect them all by a thirty thou sand majority next November J. J. DrUsky, Crete, Neb. FOR LAND COMMISSIONER. ' v. j. caret. Editor Independent: I desire to say to the people of the state through the columns of your noble paper, that Saun ders county will present to the fusion state convention for tho nomination to the office of commissioner of public lands and buildings the name of P. J. Carey, a man whom we think embodies all those qualifications which go to make an efficient public officer. Mr. Carey has resided in Saunders county for almost thirty years and is known by all as one of her be3t citizens, having the confidence and respect of all men irre spective of party affiliations, is thor oughly imbued with reform principles and has been identified with the popu list party ever since its organization. J. C. Whitney. Wahoo, Neb. C. F. BECK, FOR SUPERINTENENT The following are a few of the strong points that may be emphasized in the candidacy of Professor C. F. Beck for the important position of state superin tendent of public instruction. He has had a wide range of experience as an educator or more than twenty years in Nebraska. This experience has covered nearly every phase of school work, including common schools, graded schools, city superintendency, and county superintendency. During the past three years he has assisted in the state department in the administration of the duties of the office, and has thus been brought in touch with nearly every phase of educational work. -He has during all his educational ca reer been an earnest student and a pro gressive educator. Not only is he an in defatigable worker but he is also a good organizer, and has executive ability that will enable him to make and forward plans for the advancement of our schools. lie is commanding in personal ap pearance, affable in manners, clean in character, and popular wherever he is known. He was for some time captain of Co. II of the state militia and during the Wounded Knee Indian outbreak in 1891, was stationed at Gordon. At the call for volunteers in the late Spanish-American war, he laid down the duties of the office and offered his services. Colonel Bryan recognized his ability and special fitness for the position and selected him as a member of his staff, and Governor Holcomb commissioned him as adjutant of the Third Nebraska. In this latter as in every other position he has held. he has proven himself to be both popu- ar and efficient. It is doubtful if there is another man in the state who has a better record and who would, by the force of his genuine ents receive as large a vote at the hands of the Deople. If the fusion forces place Mr. Beck in nomination, he will not only prove to be a winner but will strengthen. the ticket. The democrats of Burt county in their convention took action as follows: Resolved, That the democrats of Burt county, in convention assembled, hereby endorse Hon. Chas. F. Beck for the office of superintendent of public instruction of Nebraska. The populists passed the following res olution: Resolved, That the delegation chosen by this convention to the state conven tion be instructed to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of Hon. C. F. Beck as state superintendent of public instruction. That we have every reason to place our confidence in Prof. Beck, knowing him to be a thorousrh school man who has done much to bring tne scnools of Uurt county to the posi tion they now occupy. We further be lieve he has made an exceptionally good deputy state superintendent and has worked incessantly to the betterment of the schools of the state of Nebraska and his efficient labors have been felt and appreciated. WHEELER FOR AUDITOR. There is no more important office in the statethan that of Auditor of public accounts. No money can be paid from the state treasury except on a warrant drawn by the Auditor. It is the Audi tor who must determine the legality and justness of every claim that is presented for payment. It requires a man of exper ience and particular ability to conduct the office properly. Hon. C F. Wheeler of Furnas county is without Question the most thoroughly qualified for the po sition of any of the candiates. He serv ed two terms as county treasurer of Fur nas county and made a most excellent record. The county then sent him for two terms as its representative in the legislature where he served with distin guished ability. . During the last session he was the recognized leader of the mi nority and it is due to his steadfast op position that D. E. Thompson does not now represent Nebraska in the U. S. Sen ate. , Mr. Wheeler is a farmer and stock raiser, a man of the plain people and witn nis sterling integrity and wide ex perience would make a most competent auditor of public accounts. Furnas county and the greater part of the Fifth Congressional district will insist on his nomination. HUSSONG FOR SUPERINTENDENT Editor Independent. If you can find space for this little item in this week's issue of the Independent it will be a favor to the people of southwestern Nebraska; We have a man in this part of the state whose life work and training has amply fitted him for' the most re sponsible position in the state that of superintendent of public ' instruction. Professor Ed.- M. Hussong, of Franklin county, is the product (educationally) of the Iowa Agricultural College, the Kan sas state normal school and the Univer sity of Nebraska-: Mr. Hussong is serv ing his second term as superintendent of Franklin county,; having - run several hundred ahead of his ticket at the last election. His work in the state teachers' association, in district association and county convention, is proof of his rare ability in this line of school work and has endeared him to all the teachers with whom he has come in contact. If the convention at Lincoln would make a wise choice in the selection of a man for this very important position, it should name Mr. Hussong, the foremost educa tor, probably, in the state. D. K. Carpenter, T '. Riverton, Neb. PEOPLE ARE FOR POYNTER. Editor Independent. By refering to the Bee editorial of the 2ne, readers of the Independent can see eow sore the re publicans feel that the ' pops" will not put up a candidate for governor that can be downed at the polls. Mr. Harrington has committed an un pardonable sin - in publishing in the World-Herald that Governor Poynter will surely be renominated. Too bad that the Bee, the True Populist, the Non conformist and othec republican ad juncts, could not be accommodated! would like to add my testimony that the people are' satisfied with Governor Poynter. ' . .. .. Duriug the past winter and spring my business has taken me over a great part of eastern Nebraska and I know the al most unanimous feeling of the reform voters to be strongly in favor of Poynter and acy other influence brought to bear at this time will only tend to do what is doubtless intended aid the republicans in their campaign. - B. Roosa. . EBBERSON FOR TREASURER. In the state convention at Hastings four years ago, PeterEbberson ran J. B. Meserve a close second for state treas urer. fcince tnat time tnere Has been a general feeling in many quarters that Mr. Ebberson is in proper line for nomi nation this year. This together with the fact that those who are personally acquainted with Mr. Ebberson are satis fied that he is qualified to succeed to and continue the good work so success fully inaugurated to the state treasury by Mr. Meserve, has led to a demand for his nomination by : many populists throughout the state. Peter Ebberson has grown up in the alliance and populist ranks in Howard county, and has been a faithful and effic ient worker in the cause for reform dur ing the last twenty years. He came to Howard county in 1873 with his parents who settled upon a homestead, and has lived in the county ever since. When nineteen years old he taught school and continued in that profession for several years, working on the farm in the inter vals. VV fine engaged in teaching, he en tered into and took an active part in the original farmers' alliance and anti-mon opoly movement in .the beginning of the eighties, and helped to stump the county in the interest of ,tne cause and its can didates. Ever c&ince their first begin nings, Mr. Ebberson has been constantly in the harness apd has. accomplished a large educational work for the cause of populism. - in xbob, ne establisned a Danish newspaper: the "Stjernen" which did much to sow the seed of anti-monop oly principles among the Danish-American voters of , Nebraska. When the people's independent party was organ ized, this paper was one of the first to champion it, and the only populist paper at that time n the. Damsn language. Uut Mr. JiiDDerson entered still more extensively into populist educational work. In January, 1893, he bought the St. Paul Phonograph, the local populist paper of Howard county, of which paper he is still the editor and proprietor. Be sides tne great amount or newspaper work which he hasaccomplished, he has also been out on the stump in every campaign and worked hard for the can didates of the party and done much to educate the people upon populist princi ples: .. ..... . While publishing two populist news- rjaners in 1893. the nonulists of Howard county forced Mr. Ebbeson over his pro test into the held as their candidate for county treasurer,-because tney regarded him as the only man who could knocK out the old republican ring that had the treasury at its last stronghold, and which the populists vainly had tried to carry, after they had elected every other officer. Ebberson was elected after a hot and aggressive campaign, and was re-elected in 1895. During the years of his encumbency he furnished the public an object lesson in the application of populist principles., On a smaller scale he had the same kind of a condition to meet as that which confronted Mr. Me serve tin the state treasury. His predecessor was short a large amount of the funds, there was a great amount of outstanding warrants drawing interest, and personal taxes were collected to a large extent. Mr. Ebberson established the treasury on a correct and safe basis, collected up a large amount of old taxes, wiped out the greater share of the cur rent indebtedness, kept every dollar of public money in depository banks and turned the interest monthly into the treasury, and on the morning following the close of his term of office paid over to his successor. Mr. Appel, in cash, $30, 404.22, the exact amount shown by the books to be due the county. The sys tern established during those four years is being adhered to by Mr. Ebberson's successor, also a populist, and the tax payers of all parties agree that populist 1 a m - " 1 1 . &a ministration oi me treasury xix now ard county is a decided success. , THE CUBAN FRAUDS Roosevelt's Campaign; Chinm Situation. What Cronje'a Capture Cost England. Washington, June 29. (Special to the Independent.) It is now two months since the Cuban postal frauds were given to the public Here are the facts as ascertained in a nutshell. Neely and his confederates stole $100,000 in cash and $400,000 in stamps. In addition every line of legitimate expenditure was so manipulated that bills were paid twice at extravagant figures. All sup plies were purchased at extravagant fig ures, all officials were paid extravagant salaries. Twice as many employes were put in office as were needed, and the whole business was run for the benefit of a set of republican political "heelers.1 What are the results: Another re publican official sent from Washington The Second Week of the July The week's selling disposed of most of the lines advertised, but we have prepared another list of equal interest, and this combined with lines remaining from the first week form a bargain feast as rare as it. is worthy. SPECIAL OFFER During the second week of the Clearing Sale, custom ers making purchases in any: department in the house, excepting grocery department, will be entitled to a discount of 10 per cent; in the grocery depart ment, up to the amount of purchase made in other departments." For instance a customer purchasing goods to the amount of $5.00 in any or all of. the deoartments. exceDtinfr crrocerv. will be entitled to a discount of 10 ner cent on 1 A- A. l-J 1 ' J. grocery purchase up to the amount , of $5.00, or will receive 10 per cent dis count on smaller purchase, but if order exceeds $5.00, excess will not be sub ject to discount. Send for The great Mail Order House of the west. has proven the case of corruption and extravagance by cutting expenses forty per cent. But Neely is still in this coun try fighting extradition with the conni vance of the administration, although a law was passed by congress for the spe cific purpose of his extradition; one criminal has been permitted to escape to South' America and the balance are walking free in Cuba. The prediction is made that they will continue to walk free. It has been prov en that Rath bone, the head of the Cuban postal service knew of Neely's stealings last January, yet he has been permitted to resign because he knew too much of republican rottenness in the campaign of 189C and in Hanna's election to the senate to stand in any fear of punish ment. " It is now demonstrable "that the army administration of Cuba has been as recklessly extravagant as the postal ad ministration, but the most stringent or ders have been sent from Washington that everything is to be hushed up until after the election. Naturally if the postoffice department in Cuba has been run in a fraudulent manner, it may be expected that the postoffice department in Washington is rn after the same fashion. Such is the fact. Chairman Proctor, of the civil ser vice commission has on file and makes charges of 77 irregular appointments in the classified service of the postoffice de partment, nearly all of them since the present Postmaster General Smith came into office. Mr. Smith is the editor and principal proprietor .X)f the Philadelphia Press, a republican organ in a repub lican city, in which it is known that from 30,000 to 50,000 fraudulent votes are counted by the republicans in every election. If such a proportion holds throughout the state of Pennsylvania it is easy to see how the abnormal and un natural republican majority' of that state is obtained. Naturally Mr. Smith's paper is unable to discover that there is anything wrong with this administration, and other re publican organs wear the same sort of blinders and are warranted not to shy at anything except the democratic plat form. It may be well to note here that the postoffice department pays the railroads $33,000,000 a year for railway mail ser vice, and that the railroads furnish about the same amout of service to the express companies at less than half the rate charged the government. So the country finds the express companies resolutely opposed to the government adopting the parcels post system which every European nation has adopted, and the railroads resolutely opposed to giv ing the government the same rates it gives private corporations. It is on the program for Governor Roosevelt to stump the' country in his Rough Rider uniform in the interest of his caadidacy for the vice-presidency. President McKinley will do his stump ing as usual from the front porch at Canton. It will be discovered that the country and the state of New York will fare no worse for the absence from head quarters of these two gentlemen who are now engaged in "saving" the republic from "the disaster of a democratic vic tory." But here are a few thoughts about Roosevelt. When he was running for governor of New Yerk he promised that severe and immediate punishment should be visited upon the republican canal ring thieves who got away with over 89,000,000 of state funds. He has been in office over a year and a half and the canal ring thieves are still prominent in the councils of the republican party and unpunished. A few months ago he started full tilt after the officials of the United States Fidelity Company of New York who had nearly wrecked that institution by ille gally loaning themselves some two million Hollars of its deposits on securities of a wild cat character. But when he dis covered that his friend Root, secretary of war was one of the implicated parties he stopped his onslaught so suddenly that he nearly turned a somersault. QM&y the New Price List. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. Now comes an opportunity equally as good. There is an ice trust xn New lork City. Mayor Van Wyck and other New York City officials and prominent demo crats have stock in it and are accused of having used their official positions to se cure special privileges for the ice trust, in the way of docks etc Leading democratic papers, the Jour nal foremost, have been urging Roose velt to do his official duty and attack the trust. Roosevelt has thundered in the index but why doesn't he act? Be cause four-fifths of the ice trust stock and its whole control rests in the hands of equally prominent republicans. The plain fact is Roosevelt is a humbug. He xs all fustian and vaingloriousness. Every volunteer regiment in the country knows that he worked his Rough Rider regiment for political advantage; that he shoved other regiments equally as good, to one side for the same purpose, that a negro regiment saved his Rough Riders from annihilation at Guasimas, which fact he sedulously ignored in his book on Santiago campaign. There are other acts which will be' given due prominence as the campaign progresses. As an object lesson in Militarism and imperialism Roosevelt will be hailed with joy by the democratic party. This administration has so far cost the coun try $900,000,000 more than the Cleveland administration. All it has to show for this vast expenditure is two good naval battles one fairly good land fight, a bar gain counter sovereignty in the Philip pines with polygamy and slavery thrown in, an Anglo-American alliance and a hundred government scandals. It is high price to pay for a sample of what a military empire means. If the country buys the whole article in the November election it will take a mortgage on the future to save the treasury from bank ruptcy. China is still in a fog. None of the press dispatches can be accepted as an ; honest and impartial statement of the situation. Everything which comes over a British cable is colored to save the British situation in China, which is des- j perate. Great Britain has not a single regiment of white troops in China. A whole brigade of American troops is to be transferred from the Philippines and from the United States in addition to those already there in order to act as catspaws to pull British chestnuts out of the fire. The last vestige of the Monroe doctrine has been destroyed by this unnecessary 1 participation in what will soon be dis covered to be a European broil and wrangle over the partition of China, The pretense that American troops are there to protect American missionaries is the veriest mask of hypocrisy. The missionaries have nearly all reached a point of safety, and there are no missionaries at all in danger along the lines which the allied forces have taken up. The relief force under the British Admiral Seymour, in which sev eral hundred American soldiers and sailors participated, met the usual fate of British generalship. It was led blun deringly into an ambuscade of Chinese Boxers and barely escaped annihilation. If China were let alone she would be able to keep the Boxer outbreak within limits but she is evidently not to be let alone. At last the world is learning what Cronje's capture at Paardeburg cost Lord Roberts. The bulk of the British army camped for miles along the stream in the bed of which Cronje for ten days, conducted the most heroic defense against overwhelming numbers which the world has ever seen. He surrendered less than 3,000 fight ing men.' But as a result of that down stream -camp of the British over 6,000 British - soldiers -were stricken with ty phoid fever and over 2,500 had died. A conservative member of Parliament, Mr. Burdett-Coutts, has written letters to the London Times, which were sup pressed until return to England com pelled their partial publication, in which he charges without denial that thou sands of his fever-stricken lay for days in the mud, in heat, cold and pelting Lincoln, Nebr. Clearing Sale. rains without shelter and without care. The Boers are now fighting the guerilla warfare best suited to the military situ ation and Roberts declares he cannot spare a regiment for China. But his soldiers are dying of disease at the rate of 500 a week. Herbert Jan vein :-Browses. PROFESSORS ARE THROTTLED Freedom of Thought and Expression Is Forbidden tn Mont of the Great Universities. , Thomas Elmer Will, ex-president of the Kansas State Agricultural College, addressed the single tax club in HandeJ hall, Chicago, on the "Freedom of Teach ing in American Colleges." He vigor ously attacked the attempts to throttle free expression ot thought on the part of professors in colleges. He said in part: "Truth must fight for its life. Its ear lier struggle was with ecclesiasticism. The battle against it today is led by wealth and intrenched privilege, which see in the progress of enlightenment their own doom. The college economist is regarded as a dangerous character, who must be enlisted ia the service of privilege or terrorized into silence. Heads of educational institutions are subject to special pressure. They are expected to secure large endowments or legislative appropriations for their insti tutions and to this end make sure that no word escape from their own lips or those of members of their faculties which would alienate possible funds. At the same time these educational leaders are expected to insist that the most per fect freedom of utterance is guaranteed both to themselves and to their pro fessors. V "With rare exceptions college men in America are not free to write, speak or teach upon public questions except 'in harmony with the powers that be." Oc casionally the college professor or presi dent does assert his manhood and pay the price. Whenever possible the facta in such cases are concealed, the offender hairier innrftH xcith i.ha Vlarlrlijt if ha reveals the cause of his dismissal. Less" frequently the facts are made public. "Notable instances are those of Profs. Eli, Bemis and Heron and President An drews. Others which have been more successfully concealed are those of Pres idents Steele, Bascom. Simpson, Stock bridge and Gates, Prof. H. C. Adams at Cornell, Decent Hourwich and Prof. Commons. The wholesale raid on the liberal professors in Marietta college, O., in 1897, affords a marked example of suc cessful suppression of important facts. The most recent case is that of Presi dent Rogers of Northwestern university. Other conspicuous cases could be men tioned. Doubtless many more have es caped attention." Trot Out the Tariff Three times during the past few weeks the sugar trust has raised the price of sugar. The middle men, grocery stores and poor consumers have paid the price without a murmur. They had no 'pro tection," and they knew that it would be useless to complain. It has been ascertained, howover, that at the present schedule of prices foreign sugar can enter this market profitably. But the sugar trust must have "pro tection" or republican principles will be violated. Foreign sugar must not be allowed to enter our market cheaply. It would injure Havemeyer. Therefore trot out the tariff, the fine old republican "mother of trusts," and let her protecting wings hover over the head of the sugar king. His prices to the public must not be interfered with by foreign competition. Let the president call an extra session of congress! to raise the duties. N. Y. Journal.