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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT October 25,1900 I i i ! j Zht Uebraska Independent rjmctlo, Hibrssks fftSS BtiK-, CORNER OTM AND N $TS PcTsl4tHEt EvrsT Thvbsdat St.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE vrh wmkix rultee .Jo not 1mt cwMy wills turm tie. potauitr, te. to t forni4 ly tbu Thf frw-'joently fcrpK r rejt a different nooot ttn w ft with tkw, tkt raWriber fail to rt pmrr rrS i t. 3 ooawuclration. s$d msl all (irsi!. woorr order. fc t7M to th Uebrstka Independent, ' Lincoln. Neb. JLaoKfaaoas cmgeaeuciestioaa will cot b no tar!. ri4 mBrrtjH ill sot h r tsrsd. Th republicans lot three Nebraska tewrpapers last week and gained the adherence of Matt G ring. We are willing to keep oa swapping that way up ci. til the day of election. JuH keep It up, - - - By a decision of the surreme court. Misk Hanna gets his assistants on the tallot cader the cars? of "Mid Road PcpsHsts" to which Judge Nor vaj dir2its. They wanted the priv ilege of going on as -populists," - a thing that might Lave deceived a few voters, but tas court said "So." The Chicago Tribune calls the dem ocrat!; party "a once respectable par ty." YThea was that "oncef Was it when Cleveland was running it in the Interest cf the gold beg republi cans? If en. why do they occasionally speak with snch horror of that awful democratic time when the only Indus tries started were soap house? One very good thing will tome out uf this campaign, which ever way it is decided. The populist party will be forever rid of a lot of scallawags and scoundrel who Joined it In the hope cf getting See. We will never more b troubled with such person as Clem I Vive r. Mrs. Leas. Walter and sev eral more of the crowd la Indiana end elsewhere. , If Mark IXanna is badly beaten In this campaign, you will se a whole let of the republican editors who are now exalting him to the skies, turn oa him as wolves turn on a wounded member of the gang and devour It- If he is saccessfrxl, they will continue to I ad him to the skies. That 1 the wy of all writers who fight battles for spoils and have no regard for principles. McKinley went bankrupt. As soon as Mark Hinna, Myron T. Herrick, Her man Kohlsaat and a few others had chipped la enough to pay off McKIn ley's debts. Judge Day handed back the property to McKinley. He paid Judge Day 2 with several ft offices, and the others he has not neglected. Ctery one of them got something ex cept John fL McLean, from whom they begjed J!.i0. There is no sort of lying that the ute Journal don't Uy its hand at. The other day it put up the following: is it a fact that Bryan's "cross of gold"" figure was stolen? It I true that, it was used in a tpe-eca by a member of congress before the Chicago convention "of Whether It was borrowed or stolen or merely secured by unconscious cere bration nobody seems to know or care. Tb?t lie is four years old sod is exceed Luriy mouldy. I The best authority on tee Philip pines says: "-Normally the Filipinos are a quiet, Ap4arf v te4ssf Tit .9 naftAslArlr. w. .,.... ,.. -'" race. Quarrels or wars among them- elves or among the different tribes have bet-a eotsbly infrequent through out their history. Ia the matter of internal dtapension they compare more than favorably with acy of the na tions of the world. Ignorance or un charltablcess bit charge them with savajrery. but ihefr history refutes sad disproves the charge. Religion Is rereivmg harder blows today than were ever given It by Bob lEgertol and all the agnostics put to- ethT. The people have a right to eirct thai xalniners f ball always be fotzsd upon the right side f every moral question. When so many bold ly and openly abindon the teachings of Christ nd become the advocates of war. It is a heavier blow to the church i than any outside enemy can inflict poa it. Here is one person who will not contribute to the support or st- tend the services conducted by a mln- ! who advocates treading the compel by means cf conquest. Not one cent shall ever go to sny missionary society whose authoiities advocate 9 hooting ChrUtiaaity Icto the heathen. He also knows of several other men who have ieec liberal contributors to churches and mis ions, who will sever give another cent for such purposes until they get back to the doctrines of Christ- Tby an g t thHr support from the- plutocrats. PROSPEBnr. - The thing that republicans rely upon more than any other one thing in this campaign ia the cIaJu that the Mc Kinley admlnlstratioa and policies hare produced prosperity for the busi ness men and a full dinner" pall for the wage workers." They do not deny that they have engaged in a. war of conquest and tbat they have nearly doubled the expenses of this govern ment. In none of their speeches do they, after they get through with their personal abuse, of Bryan with which they invariably begin discuss or try to discuss any other question expect "prosperity." The price level which in 1892 was IH. is now at 100. But to make this, j it takes the arbitrary, rise In all those 1 things produced by trusts, some of wbJch they have advanced more than a hundred per cent. The lowest price level ' was reached about ' July, 1897, (73) and at the close of 1898, long af ter McKInley was elected, it was only 82. The republican campaign text-book claims that McKinley should be con tinued In power: for .the four follow ing reasons: - : ' 1. The promptness with which it has fulfilled its pledges. 2. The prosperity rhich has come to all classes of our citizens. 3. Evidences which 'that prosperity furnishes of the fallac j" in the prin ciples offered by the opposing parties In 1S&6 and still supported by them. 4. The extension of our commerce by the annexation of new territory. In answer to this,: the allied parties deny that the administration prompt ly fulfilled its promises for the hard times continued and the lowest point In prices was not reached for nearly a year after McKinley was elected. That the measure of prosperity that has been realized was not . the result of McKInley's election, for the same level of prices existed in England, Germany, France and other countries that were current here, and it is not reasonable to claim that the election of McKinley caused prices to rise in Ecgiind, Germany, Prance and other countries. That the events of the last three years have not demonstrated the fal- j lacles of the principles advocated in 1896 by the populists, democratic and free silver republican parties, but on the contrary have demonstrated that those principles are true. We deny that the foreign policy of President McKinley is beneficial to the people of this country and claim that if it Is udopted and sanctioned at the polls. It will establish an empire In the place of this republic, inaugur ate an era of foreign conquest, make necessary a large increase in the army and navy, will overthrow the Monroe and endangers liberty at home. That the continuance of McKinley in power will give a new lease of pow er to the trusts which will grow un til they will control the whole field of industries and make the people of this nation nine-tonths hirelings, who will have to depend for employment and the rights to live upon the will of trust magnates. And finally, that . this policy which McKinley has inaugurated,' if contin ued, will result, not In bringing peace on earth and good will to men, but will excite the hatred of all those who are longing for liberty, especially those that are forcibly annexed, gov erned without their consent and taxed without representation, and instead of realizing the prayer: "Thy king dom come, thy will be done on earth as it is In heaven." will result in "a hell on earth. Those are ihe issuer of this cam paign. The republicans absolutely re fuse to discuss every one of them ex cept tbat of prosperity. Not one of all their great men who have appeared in this state has mtdertaken to prove by argument that the forcible annex- ation of far away teoples ' , . . , , t of another to the peo ple of this state. Their addresses, in cluding members of the cabinet, the j speaker of the house, the president of th senate, ihe chairman of their na- 1 tioual committee all and singular i hzw be-n devoted, nrst to a personal I abas3 of W. J. Bryan and tben talks j about "honor." "glory," "world pow- I er" laudations of General Wheeler, the oW 1 rebel cavalry " commander, and "prosperity." This latter question The Indepen- 1 dent proposes to discuss. In doing so it admits that there has besn a rise in prices since McKinley s election I from 79 to 100. But it claims that this i rire has been almost wholly in trust j controlled articles. That fact is of j nch common , knowledge among all i Uspw cf P'Ple, it would be a waste ' oi Uroe to introduce evidence, of which j there ,s morH than an abundance, to prove jt Tbe bn'flt of th'9 rIs of ? P haa golie almost vboll5 to the j trusU- Tne trusts have Prospered. w nat causea inis risa m prices : THE COINAGE IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF SILVER AND THE ISSUE OF IMMENSE QUANTITIES OF PAPER MONEY. ) McKinley has coined more silver 1 and put it In circulation during his j term of office than was coined under i the Sherman act. The following is the official statement of the treasury department of the number of silver dollars coined at the ratio of 16 to 1 during the first six months of this year taken from the government re port of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900: January February. March .. April . . . May- .... June ... . 1,550,000 . 1.940.000 . 4,100,377 . 2.922,000 . 3,162.490 . 3,120,070 In addition to that, he has issuea since the 14th of last .March over $100, 000,000 of paper money through the banks. The act of March 14 added 10 per cent to the circulation of the banks instantly, for it allowed them to take out circulation for the full amount of bonds deposited, where be fore that they got only 90 per cent of the value of the bonds. In addition to all this, there has been for the last two 3'ears a phenom enal output of gold, all of which has been hurriedly- coined and put in cir culation. . , The republican platform says: "The democrats had no other, plan to im prove the ruinous condition which they had themselves produced than to coin silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The republican party denounced this plan as sure to produce conditions wrose than those from which relief was sought and promised to restore pros perity by means of two legislative measures a protective tariff and a law making gold the standard of value.' What have they done? Their sec retary of the treasury announces that they have not estabttshed the gold standard, and that Bryan can still, un der the very law, they themselves have made, pay off the government debt in silver, and the eastern republican dail ies are constantly reiterating the state ment and asking Brsan to answer whether he will so pay off the bonds, and they have coined more silver and issued more paper money than was ever before issued since the close of the war in the same length of time. The consequences of this policy is just what the populists and democrats said it would be a rise in prices. It de monstrates beyond further cavil, that populist financial theories were sound. The republican platform of this year says: "The volume of money In cir culation was never so great per capita as today." That is an over statement, but an acknowledgement of an in crease in the volume of money. But the campaign book goes further and says: "The amount or mor-cy in the hands of the people has . increased $620,000,000 and- the amount is in creasing, every day." Which is a boast that the republication party has done just what it denounced in 1S96 and ceclared was "repudiation." How was that increase secured?. BY THE COINAGE OF SILVER AND THE ISSUE OF PAPER MONEY. How has it been possible to effect such a repudiation of everything finan cial advocated by the republican par ty in 1896? Why has the republican party gone to coining silver and issu ing paper money? It is because, by the aid of McKinley and bis attorney general, they have nullified the law against trusts. By this arrangement the trusts secure all the benefit in the rise of prices. There was a fall in the level of prices from 1893 to 1896 of 13 per cent, brought about by the stoppage of the coinage of silver and the bankers panic. Under this fall the money magnates gathered in unnumbered millions by the foreclosure of mort gages. Then they conspired together and by the aid of McKinley and his attorney general, they organized the trusts, after which they again began the coinage of silver and the rise In prices which resulted has gone into the coffers of the same set of men who stopped the coinage of silver. That is the way The Independent looks at the present conditions. If there is any fallacy in the argument or falsity in the statement of facts, we will be obliged to any republican if he will point it out. The republicans are working a new scheme. They will go out on the street, get up an argument and when i" they are cornered, they will shout at the top of their voices: "I'll bet $100 that McKinley will carry the state." If no one calls their bet they will walk off in great triumph. If the bet is called, they will pull out a pocket book and a the last moment say: "Remember I bet that McKinley will carry the state, but I mean the state of Massachusetts." One fellow was even called on that and then backed out. ; . Among thoue who spend their days and nights inventing mean things to say about Bryan and posing before the public as Lincoln republicans is one Murat Halstead. This is what he had to say about the martyr Lincoln, when Lincoln was straining every nerve to save this republic: Referring to Mr. Lincoln, Halstead asked: "Can't you take him by the throat and knock his head against a wall? I do not speak wantonly when I say there are persons who would feel that it was doing God's service to kill him if it were not feared that Hamlin is a bigger fool than he is." TVITJL YOU TAKE A DARE? The fusion papers have dared; badg ered and nagged at the republican edi tors so long and so persistently to make even just one quotation from the writings or speeches of Abraham Lin coln to support their present policies, that at . last . they -have . resorted to forgery. They -a re now printing the following: . : , " "There is no fear of the people los ing their liberties. We air know this to be the cry of demagogues, and none but the ignorant 'I will listen to it. Abraham Lincoln." " ; The most exhaustive research of Hay and Nicolay and every other rec ord of Lincoln's speeches, writing or sayings has failed to reveal any such sentiment expressed by Lincoln. It first appeared in the Kansas City Journal: Its editor afterward in a pri vate letter admitted that it made an error and the words should be credited to General Burnside. The Independent again renews its dare to the republi can press to print one line from Abra ham Lincoln In defense of the con quest of foreign nations and holding them as colonies, : in favor of the trusts, or- advocating, an immense standing army, "if Abraham Lincoln ever uttered one word in favor of pres eut republican policies, please print it. Lot us see it. ' THAT ONE PER CENT. One of the most saddening things fthat this writer ever heard fall from the lips of a5 minister, he heard last Sunday, .The minister who is a man of culture, said: "I would rather trust the one per cent who own one-half of the property of the United States than the fifty per , cent of the poorest classes." That is plutocracy pure and simple, a government of one per cent of the rich, rather than by a majority if they are poor. ; It is the most dan gerous sentiment ever expressed on American soil. What service has this one per cent, who control this government, ever rendered mankind? That one per cent is controlled and directed, so they themselves have said, by twenty-four men. Among these men are the Van derbilts, the. Goulds, J. Pierpont Mor gan, John D. Rockefeller and others of like character. The great accretions of wealth was made by the elder Van derbilt when he went into his private office and by owning a majority of the stock of the New York Central, voted to double the stock of that road and went out $50,000,000 richer than when he went in. Jay Gould came to Oma ha one day, called the board of direc tors of the Union Pacific together, re signed his place of director left the room and the other directors who were elected by the "votes which he himself had cast, took up the bonds of the Kansas Pacific which Gould owned. In fifteen minutes, Gould came back and was ,re-elected director, having stolen $15,000,000 in fifteen minutes. Rockefeller has . bought legislatures and courts, has stolen the hard earned wealth of hundreds of men by the vilest means ever employed by man. So it is with the rest of these twenty four men. And this minister would rather trust' the one per cent who have stolen this wealtii than the thirty-five or forty millions who created it! What have the "one per cent" ever done for mankind in any age of the world? Has not every great service been rendered to the race by. men who did not belong to the "one percent?" Lincoln was not numbered among them; neither was Garrison, Philipps, Sumner, Greely,' Chase, Grant, Sher man, Sheridan or any other man whose memory is dear to mankind. Every great reform has been secured by men outside of the "one per cent." FOR A BIG ARMY. Finding that Imperialism r and big standing armies were very unpopular in the west the distinguished pluto crats who came to Nebraska to cap ture the state for McKinley, Thompson and Rosewater, took to denying that they wanted a big standing army. The record is against them. McKinley in his message to congress said: "The importance of legislation for a permanent increase of the army is, therefore, manifest, and the recom mendation of the secretary of war for that purpose has my unqualified ap proval." The recommendation of the secre tary of war which can be found in his report and which McKinJey indorses is as follows: v "It is earnestly recommended that the regular army be permanently in creased to 100.000 men and the re quisite officers.'' ?. That is the record and the denial of these distinguished gentlemen will not change it. That demands, a "perma- .nent increase to 100,000 men. " Donnelly declares that Dr. Fay who has been the manager of the mid-road populists in Minnesota has so man aged that the , Barker and Donnelly ticket will not appear on the ballot in that state. In a signed article he says: "Dr. Fay would like to have them vote for Eugene Debs, and has re sorted to all this trickery to force them to do so. It is criminal, it is outrageous. We hope no populist will support Debs." We respect Ignatius Donnelly for the good work he has done in the past, but he ought to have had more sense than to go in with such a gang as the mid-road populists, notwithstanding his Shameful treatment by the regular populists; in that state. As the mat ter noW stands, neither Barker or Don nelly will' receive a single vote In tne state of Minnesota. This state' of affairs seems to have brought Donnelly back to his senses and for the first time in many weeks he has waked up to the villainies of Minnesota republicanism. He makes tha charge and submits the proof that the "republicans of that state stole $12,O00,KK). irom the school fund. The bulwark of the trusts is in the United States senate. Senator For aker left his seat in the senate at a critical timond came to Ohio to de fend the Plug Tobacco .trust in a suit brought by the attorney general of the state. Senator Thurston came all the way from Washington to Lincoln to defend the Standard Oil trust in a suit brought by his own state. Every trust seems to have one or more sen ators on its list of attorneys. There Is more foulness in the United States senate today than eer before.. That Augean stable needs cleaning out. For an act like that committed by Senator Thurston and Senator Foraker, a sen ator would have been ignominiously expelled by that body before it came under the dominion of commercialism. One of the most disreputable things ever done by the republicans in the state of Nebraska was to put at the head of the department of journalism in the state university the managing editer of the State Journal whose idea of journalism was that it was neces sary if one became a journalist to for feit good manners and become as boorish with the pen as a foul mouthed libertine. His idea as re flected in his journal wr.s that the adoption of the profession required a man to set-aside every code of honor, every thought of consideration of the. feelings of others, every maxim of good breeding, all thought of logic, adopt the slang of the saloon and the gutter, defame private character and engage in everything else that is by common consent put outside of the character of a gentleman. To set such an . example as that up before the young men of this state, The Indepen dent declares to be one of the foulest things that the reptiblicans of this state ever did. The republican party has begun al ready to pay back to the railroads their contributions to the campaign fund, and they are doing it the way they always do, taking it out of the ! people. The member of the cabinet who came out here to help capture the state for Mark Hanna, Rosewater and Thompson, has ordered the weighing of the mails during the last month of the campaign, so as to fix the compen sation of the railroads for the next four years. . He knows, that at that time, the cars are loaded down with campaign literature. It comes, not by the sackful or carload only, but by the train load. Several times before the railroads have tried to have the mails weighed during a campaign, but until Mark Hanna got to running things, no official at Washington had the cheek to do it. The longer the republican party remains in power, the bolder it grows in its robberies. WHAT.DO THEY MEAN? Any writer who uses the term "hon est money" does so for the purpose of deception. He is dishonest himself. As to the terra anyone who is not an idiot or insane, knows that money, being a material thing, without moral qualifications, can be neither honest nor dishonest any more than a stick can be honest or dishonest. As to a hundred-cent dollar, it is like the babble of a babe. Every dol- j lar must have a hundred cents in it; or it is not a dollar at all, so when they talk of a fifty-cent dollar they taiK of something that never existed and cannot exist. - The only cents that are in existence are made of copper. Do they mean a dollar is worth a hundred copper cents? Copper is worth about 17 cents a pound and a gold dollar ac cording to their definition, would be a very cheap. dollar indeed. That is a cheaper dollar than was ever advo cated by the most rabid populist. A gold dollar according to their talk, is equivalent to an ounce or so of cop per which can be bought in the open market for less than 18 cents a pound. Do they mean a gold dollar is worth a -hundred goM cents? That would be impossible: for. there never was such a thingTaa'gqld'cent. Do they mean that a gold dollar would be worth as much in one chunk as if it was cut up Into a hundred pieces? That would be equivalent to saying that a gold dollar is worth a gold dollar whether it Is one piece or in a hundred pieces. What "do they mean by a hundred cent dollar? The Independent is of the opinion -that they are such infernal economic Idiots that they don't know what they mean themselves. No one was ever able to get one of them to try to tell what he meant. Most of them are simply parrots. They have heard the sound of the words and keep repeating them. &IXTER COINAGE IN INDIA. r The editor of The Independent has received a most scurrilous letter from a man who says j he is a republican. He need not have said so in so many wsrds for the fact was apparent from the style of his writing. Republicans on the stump and in the press are all distinguished for their malice and scurrility. This one says: "The edi tor . of The Independent lies and knows he lies when he says that Eng lish government has opened the mints in India and has gone to coining silver. He lies when he says that Mc Kinley is coining silver at the ratio of 16 to 1." The editor will not reply to a letter couched in language like that, but re flecting that in the numerous refer ences to the coinage of silver in India, he has taken it for granted tha he was writing for an intelligent public, all of whom know that the India mint has been running at full blast for many months, has not quoted authori ties, he has thought that it might be well to quote some Authority on the subject. , The president of the "Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,'. addressing the stockholders of the bank in London last Wednesday, in re ferring to the. Indian currency said: "The supply of rupees, In the ab sence of Internal demand for gold, proved insufficient, and the authorities were compelled to purchase nearly 4,000,000 worth of bar silver during tha current year, in order to increase the circulation. Tha profit on this would yield the government a sur plus of 11,500,000. . But, whether such an adventitious addition to the rev enue is desirable, from an economic standpoint, is debatable.' That is better authority -than the ranting of a malicious republican who relies solely upon the State Journal for his information. 'The London Statist but as The In dependent Is being handed pretty freely to republicans who have no knowledge whatever of economics or of the great financial papers in this country and Europe it may be well to tell what kind of a paper the Lon don Statist Is. It Is the oldest, most conservative, richest, gold standard paper in London." It is devoted wholly to finance and commerce. Any state ment of fact it makes, is accepted as authority the whole world over by all men of learning in every nation. The Statist says: "The currency requirements of the country (India) are no longer met either by the release of hoarded silver or by the release of rupees in the cur rency - department. - Hence a third stage has come the necessity of coin ing rupees and this explains the fact of the free purchases made of silver not only last year, but especially this year by the Indian government. . Ifr as seems likely, the natives of India will not take gold, the natural yearly growth in the demand for currency must be met by silver rupees." It will be seen from this authority, which is indisputable, that the Eng lish government in India has bought $20,000,000 worth of silver during the year, coined It Into rupees for the pur pose 6f "increasing the circulation." Here is another refutation of the republican party. They claim in their platform that to increase the circula tion by the coinage of silver "as sure to produce conditions even worse than those from which relief was sought." Jerome Shamp set in the front row of seats at the Hitchcock-Rosewater debate. At one point he asked Mr. Hitchcock: "How about North Caro lina?" Mr. Hitchcock said: "That Is a fair question, and I suppose that the gentleman means to assert that some of the colored people "have been de prived of the suffrage. If that is the case, it proves that we have a great race question here at home yet unset tled." Mr. Bryan's position on that question was stated in the most un equivocal language in an address that he delivered to the colored peqple at St. Paul. He said: "If by the suf frage of my countrymen I become president of the United States, you may rest assured that the rights of a citizen of this country, regardless of color, creed or condition, will be pro tected as far as the executive has the power to protect them " THE. SON-PRO DUCKRS. There is in the city of Lincoln, which has a population of 40,140 2S7 lawyers who have been admitted to practice in the courts of the state. There are numerous others, besides the judges, who of course are all law yers. A glance at the court calendar in the various counties will show about the same proportion of lawyers all over the state. , The doctors are even more numerous than : the law yers. There are other numerous non productive classes in the state and in all the states. If we add to these a large standing army," which is not only non-productive, but destructive, it will be seen that those who do produce wealth will have a very heavy burden to bear fn the future. All these things were discussed in the farmers' alliance years ago and the populists of the state well understand them. The "un earned increment" of some of these non-producing - classes -is enormous. Recently, the supreme court of Ohio rendered a decision; in which a law yer's fee was contested on the ground that it was unreasonable, giving the lawyer a fee that was proved to be $20 a minute for. all the time that h spent in the service of his client, th sum total being $27,000. It is no up to contest the fee of a lawyer in the courts, for it comes before men of hia own craft for settlement. Some of the fees of the great corporation law yers make an income equal to that of the great financial magnates. All of it. and all the income of all the non-productive classes must be dtig out of the earth by the men who toil. . The crea tors of wealth 'pay it all. If there should be a general crop failure for two or three years .all over the land the income of all these chaps would stop. If wealth is not created, they would fail to gather it in. CREDIT DUE . ATTORNEY GENERA I. Attorney " General Smyth , on Wed nesday this week had the satisfaction of delivering to Treasurer : Meserve two United States warrant!, a? gre gatingJ35.454.27, covering the Capita National bank dividends due the state. Notwithstanding the fact that the state lost $236,361.83 in tho Capital National bank failure, as the result of republican carelessness and rascality, as soon as it was found that the re ceiver could pay a dividend, the sarm republican clique that helped to cans the original loss began a systematic campaign to beat the state out of its share of the dividend. Of course the matter was dragged into the court: but Attorney General Smyth met the conspirators at every turn and routed them foot, horse and dragoons. . These warrants, for .'$23,6S6.1S ami $11,818.09, respectively, (represontijic; dividends of 10 and 5' per cent) were issued by the Acting Comptroller of the Currency on September 12, lS0t. but for some unknown reason they have been held back. Probably tin republican administration desired to hold them- back until after election. But the attorney general never resets-. During the past week he has kept th wires hot between her and Washing ton, dtermined to have the money paid over, or know the reanon why. The republican machine was finally obliged to disgorge, and the money ia now in the state treasury, ready to be applied to the reduction of the state's floating debt, the outstanding regis tered general fund warrants. With his ' customary promptness. , Treasurer Meserve Wednesday morn ing made a call tor $50,000 registered warrants to be paid on November 2. y The registry numbers run from 59.771 to 60,410. Such is the contrast between re publican and fusion administration. The republicans .lost the state thou sands of dollars, and the f usiouisEs are recovering it as rapidly as the proverbial slowness of courts will per mit. : W. M. Lakin, company A, 48th Ind iana infantry, wants. to know' if Adlai Stevenson was - a member of the Knights of the Golden Clrcley why it was that McKinley appointed him to an important office on, the bimetallic commission. He seems to think that if the story was true, that McKinley. who is the custodian of the. honor of the G. A. R., the flag and this nation, would not have , appointed bim. He further declares that the knights only Wanted to destroy, half ot the . republic and leave the other. half-alone, whil McKinley wants to destroy the whole republic and build an empire In its place. As an old soldier, he has come to the conclusion that McKinley is worse than the knights. The last game that Mark Hanna is playing is "bluff." He has his newspa pers announce that hundreds of thou sands of dollars seeking in vain for takers on bets that McKinley will car ry New York at odds of 6 to I and no. A takers. There isn't a word of truth in it, except a few fake bets put up be tween republicans for effect. When Mark got back to Chicago he vras over whelmed with calls for help in New York and statements that the state was lost unless something was dono immediately. He instantly recalled his most effective spell-binders from the western states and ordered them to New York. The same dlspairinc cries came from Wsst Virginia, Ind iana and Ohio. The Independent has been s.urpr'.sed to receive two or. three Inquiries dur ing the week asking if McKinley signed the Sulu treaty. The matter was explained -by a letter.trom the western part of the state' laying that the republican speakers out there arf denying that McKinley ever signed the treaty. That treaty was published in full in The Independent two or three times, copied from the official records with McKInley's name attached to it If McKinley did not oign the treaty then there never was a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu. It couldn't be a treaty unless McKinley signed it. - Anybody but a mullet head would know that much, so the spell-binders tell thm that a treaty was - made with thu United States and. was never signed by the president.' . tjr. - 1
