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THE NEBRASKA IITDEPEIIDEITT. November 8, 1900 h .. A X and 0 enc At the Thf glv his y y t Zbt Hebraska Independent Lime tin, TttbratkM-;J fKESSE CORNER I3TH AND N STSsof Europe and America was drenched .. ... ., . ... I with the" blood of p thousands of ' pa- f f- Sl.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE forwrdr" tT"7,Ttfr5'9itI.y for r mtil 419 ast tba inttltfcs. afclfc WnW fail o r"t tddrM 2I wak t it, mad lnk . VJ tmti. mami rdr, rbU Zht Rtbrmth Tmdeptmdeat, Lincoln. Neb. , fM m tmirm rtm rU W t no ticed. Erti ascT'4 will mA W r Ihe H of the McKinley admlnia tratlos will be for more- bayonet for the attimllati'on of "the rilTplaus. . 1 The laper.triut it a tariff trlk.;lt ztsts wholly atHl iHuMy by virtue' of h tariff- Ppr U made from aprnce wood and over in Canada there are hundred of thonaanda of acres of "it. The tariff on paper denude our for t and robs our people for tteTnefit of the trutt magnate.. The New York Banker of October 24 Jd; "BrjuaLia at bottom, let" it be a4muod. is a wild eddy Into whfh a- revolt against political corruption, -! privileges of all kind, worship of commercialism ha concentrated. Within fta agitatM heart may be dls mu?d the ; atirrtni of the national rcnedeace, fllW with bitter error and danrerou to social peace though It la. - The nearer Morton came to the end at the campaign th more vicious, 6rodih and vindictive he became. There aa part of a private letter sent from Xrbraka City to the Chicago Record written by Bryan some years r Thm ts.ntlLi.tlan made the letter ay jut the opposite of mhat Bryan j iL The art was o vile that the iword.felt railed tipen to publish the whole Inter in a succeeding issue. That iort of thing is just the size of Morton. If a man evr deserved the ccrn of all honst nrri. that man is J. Sterile Morton. ' The next effort that the plutocratic judge of this country will make will ! to destroy the -r-l ballot. They have already in-run it out in Denver, where a Jadee leliered a lecisloa that look the name of the j-inocratic party ay and save it to a fake convention at mm liirpu table a any Clexu Dea ver convention ever b-!d In this state. The result of it 1 that the democrats Lave had to adopt and rote under an cKhr name. They called their party the mryan perty." It will not take kmg for jid?- of tbat trtpe to de- trov the f!ctlrti- of the Austral- i list ballot law in every state in the j union. Mark what The Independent i says: Through the Judgfs the pluto- i rrats will undertake to destroy the secret ballot. The EnxlSsh alliance that McKinley made w between the Cnglbh toriea ! and the f!ann!t-. Tl- whole thing come out pretty soon. In order to arry out thlt pUn. says Goldwin .Smith. A syndicate of ricn men ilcted a candidate for president that would eit tbm. who had no convictions of his own, paid his debt and got him reidy for the fice and were success- ful nnder the pmen of danger to the d nances. He answered th ' u" " admirably .. ... uv around. treatM the constitution as a 4ea4 letter, anneid larite provinces on the other tide of the globe, ap pointed a full lit of vireroys and war riors of his own (hooting, doctored their communications .with- home, treated subject r:e a vermin and try soon enabled our wealthy men to fcoW up their fcandu urn a world power in England and pnt ma end to all non- thrHit friliMn ant nit iHrhti t ' ' t T"r ,. " So t ill affecting rullroads caa ever com oeiore ice n;iei tnaies senate until I t a'mrrn M ar.d rMHTM th ABCti' of five or fix shrewd attor neys employed bv the railroads. On the railroad committee of the fecate at the last sefou ot eonrrs were Senator Wolcott. general counsel for the Invr Bio Grande; Senator t i Wilki. vke praident of the West Virginia Ontral & Pittrburg; Senator Gr. fther-fn-Iaw of the general sol icitor "of "the Chicago, Darlington it Qulocy; Penator-Kean. a brge stock hdder .In the Pnnf jlyapfaT system, ird Senator Aldrieh. lntrested in al- most every r road eorporat ion In New Knsland. I ntll this delectable f dincrlminatlonsi ' . ' lot of railroad ownei and attorneys Mr. Prouty, in the North American saw fit. no bill couM be reported to the ! Review of November, 1898, says: "De sesste for action. Is it any-wonder j ci ions of the supreme, court within that after the courts pat the control of 1 the last year have determined that the railroad tariff into tbe-hands of j the commission did not possess pow coogret. that no effective legislation : ers of the most vital consequences, cou!3 ever be secured to curb ) the 1 which it had assumed to exeicise from rapacity of the mea determinl to j tbe first. take all th- truffle would bear. I From Tney to FuUoi, this court DITIKE BlGUt Or COtTBTS. The world struggled for many years with the doctrine of ' the divine rl 'it of kings and ft wa not until the bo SI tnota that it. .was . at. last . aoanaonea by the tyrants, and plutocrat. The advocates of the doctrine appear in ev ery generation, sometimes tinder one guise' and sometimes, under another. During the jaet: half of , the"i present century : 'it hat taka r to -' the; divine right of courts. : ;J: '"... TV'''.'. -. , The advocates, of he system" start with the claim that any criticism. of the conrts fa the next thing to; if hot anarchy itself. " Having a life tenure J for federal Judges, and their Impeach ment being practical -Impossibility, and holding the appointing power to fill vacancies', they have set up In this country a hierarchy of judges who can f perpetually exercise all the authority and power of hereditary monarchs. To criticise them is .leie majesty " The first successful ' protest . against this doctrine .was- made by Abraham Lin coln. His words on "that subject were as follows:; . "At the same time the candid citizen must confess that . if the policy of the government on vital questions affect ing 'the whole people is to be irrevo cably fixed by the iecisionsof the su preme court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal action, the people will have ceased to, be their own,, rulers, having to that extent practically re signed their government into; the hands of that eminent tribunal." The -republican platform of 1860 branded one of the decisions of the supreme court as "a crime against hu manity," . in the following vigorous style:' " "We brand the reeent opening of the African slave trade under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity and a burning shame to our country and age." A glance at the record of the United States supreme court, will show it to have been the, most dangerous and ef fective enemy of liberty which the people have had to contend with al most from the very beginning of the Tnient. See what It did. It opened the Afri can slave trade after it had been abol ished by the laws of nations. It prac tically extended slavery into the free states by the Taney decision and made the free men of the north slave-hunters. The writer of this was once com manded by a United States1 marshal to help him hunt a run away slave in th state of Iowa. Having conscienc lous scruples against slave-hunting, he refund to comply with the order and was denounced as a, traitor The last great -as-tault against the" liberties of the peopl''! was Ihe decision of that court, whereby it reversed five previous decisions, and declared an in come tax unconstitutional. In its far reaching results, this decision is per haps the most deadly attack upon the rights of the people of any that ever came from that court. It lays the burden of taxation forever, or until it U reversed, upon the poor, and ex empts the rich. Ah an act of tyranny it has never been equalled by the de cision of any court or the edict of any king acting under the doctrine of di vine right. In many other Cecisions JLliis court ha thrown ita rower against the peo- . ,n rnr. nf ' n trnnini. I"" " " great aggregations of capital. In 1870 the people became n enraged at the proclaimed policy of the railroads -to charge "all that the traffic would bear." that the matter was made aujattempted to change the form of our Issue in many of the western states j government. 'instead of striving for and men elected to the legislature were j the jdeal of liberty for all mankind I pledged to rdres the grievance. The s laws enacted were so effectual in con- trolUng th mte8 aml I)reventlng dl criminatiotu that the railroad man- nr ruli.fl to the sunreme court of i - th United States and that court im mediately took the control of freight ; rates from the state legislatures and placed it in the, general government, Three or tne juages rerusea to tnus Ilmif the power of 'the' 'states, while six votes to change the rule which had prevailed from the time the constitu - tion had been adopted, again making a ? reversal, of "all its former rulings and! 5 establishing a ; precedent wnica nas j been followed from that time to the present. Here : was another assault r tv, mrtv f the npnnlo hv th " -" " - " . -1 court. a curtailing of their power to control monopolies and giving that power to the men who owned and op crated the monopolies. The people then applied to the gen eral government atd in answer to that appeal tbe Rcagaa bill was passed. The supreme court immediately came to the rescue of the monopolists and since the time tha Interstate Railway law was enacted; by congress,-, that co'irt has taken Tfbm the" Interstate commerce eomwisploniltsCpower, and during 1897 it was deprived practically J of all power over railway rates and has, with short intervals, been the deadly enemy of liberty and the rights of the people. r What Lincoln said has become true: "The people have ceas ed to be their own rulers, having re signed their own government Into the hands of that eminent tribunal. MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. The American Banker, and It ought to know, says that "most ot our social life' is . rank with, a vulgar rivalry of display. The ; moral atmosphere In which many of us live tends to weak en the springs , of hdnorahle conduct. We take political corruption, even when it is flaunted In our faces, as a matter "of course, while we " are gen erally so far. lost to the. sense of its evil as to . Justify one malefactor by the acts' which we assume his rival would perpetrate had he the chance. We need a revival of the sense of mor al responsibility." . . It is gratifying ; to see si bankers magazine once in a while admit to its columns, a truth which -has so' long been - found in. the .populist papers. How much "moral responsibility'' will there be. revived as long as the bankers continue to pollute the very fountains of . legislation in this country. ' For forty years their lobby ' has -hung around the legislative halls of con gress and by their persistence . have placed upon our statute books scores of laws that have given these hankers special privileges denied to the rest of the population. One hundred million of money has been printed and given to these, bankers in the lastvyear, for which they give absolutely nothing in return. .That money is loaned out and becomes forever, or as long as it re mains in circulation, a drain upon the income of every one who toils. . The American Banker had a big share in that( and now.it wants a revival of the sense of moral responsibility! It is only fair to add, however, the fact that the American Banker refers only to the crime of stealing from the banks by dishonest clerks. ' - - OLD AND NEW IDEAU. Can any one name one reform that originated among college presidents? Has not every advance made ' by the race originated among the poof? Did not even the Christian religion orig inate there? Did not liberty have its birth there? Have not all its great defenders the men whose names are written in letters of light on the pages of history been poor men. Did. a millionaire ever paint a great picture, write a great. book or institute legisla-. tlon for the benefit of mankind? Name just one if you can. The instincts of the poor people in all the ages of the world have been., of ' a higher order, more just and progressive than that of either the learned or the rich. There is hardly an instance where the heads of great universities have added any thing of value to any of the various sciences. They are mere receptacles of the knowledge that others have discovered. They are simply dealers in intellectual wares produced by the labor and study of the poor. The recognition of these "facts is what has made this nation great. The foundation of our government was laid upon the conscience and instinct of the poor that is the masses, not upon the wealth or learning of the few. They, up to within a short time, have guided the destinies of this na tion. It has grown as no other na tion ever grew, in power, in science, in the general welfare. Then wealth seized the reigns of government. It atld coniucting the government upon r.i. i iv n jWlal DrivileKes to none.-it made ; That is degeneracy. SENATORIAL CORRUPTW.V. There never was 90 corrupt a legis- j iatiTe body on earth as the United j states senate. The members of that I body not only b,jy their seats in as i'nnW. aR ff0orts are sold at snc J tion but lhy maintain relations with j KambIJng concerns in Wall street and corporations having legislation pend ing in congress. Senators will walk over to the supreme court . room and argue cases for trusts and corpora tions as paid attorneys and come back into the senate chamber and vote for their clients. No such shameless scenes were ever seen in a legislative body on the face of the earth before. Every trust and railroad - corporation has some senator retained as its at torney, their legal fees being many times larger than . their - salaries as senators. They will take a case against-their own state just; as quick as one of any other kind. They will leave their duties in the senate and travel thousands of miles to light for corporations and trusts againstthe people of their own states. As an in stance of the work of these senatorial lawyers, look at the railroad commit tee in that body. Every member of that committee except one is an at torney for some railroad. That body is unutterably corrupt. It is the fouJest legislative body on earth- and would now be tolerated in a uy other civilized country. WHAT SHAIX POPULISTS DOt The result of the election leaves the reform forces "where they were at the close of the campaign of 1896.' Bryan will not have quite aa many electoral votes as before, butT his popular vote will be about the same proportion of the total vote. In the state of Ne braska, yftih a largely Increased vote, the fusion majority . will be ; slightly larger; than at'lhe last election of the- state ticket. The vote on the presi dential electots fa, sTfar as "Reported" a very, badly mixed upjaffair the fears in, regard to mistakes on the new baU lot which The "Independent so often expressed, being fully realized. One thing is certain the vote on "president tial electors will fall; considerably be low that for state officers. The legislature of Nebraska isf fu-' slon by 72 votes-out of 133 : on joint ballot, in. the senate there will .be 14 republicans and 19 rusionists. "In ' the house there will be 47 republicans and 53 fusibnists; -v -: - : In regard, to the campaign, The In dependent still insists that the money I question should have "been made more, j prominent..' During the -last weeks, of the campaign the enormous coinage of ! silver should have been thrust at them i at every, meeting, and the fact. Insisted upon that the only prosperity that ex- isted was the result of the coinage of silver, but. that as soon as the 94,000,- ; 000 ounces of.; silver in the treasury ; was coined, then the coinage, of sil- ! ver would stop. The gift of $100,- 000,000 in .paper' money to the banks should have been announced by every speaker from "every platform, as well ; as the fact that the currency had been increased $65fli;00O,0OO in the , last' four j years. Not one of our. speakers would mention these things" which were the very essence of the fight. This cam paign should have been . devoted to showing that populist political econ- j omy had been - demonstrated to be sound. ; The tie-up, with the gold democrats did- not ;-win ; at state .and lost 'us sev eral. -'When the final count is made it will be seen that the keeping of the gold democrat. .Tom. Taggart at the head of the campaign in Indiana lost us that stated ;Two years ago 18,000 democrats refused ; to vote the ticket because he was ' managing the cam paign, and to expect populists to en thuse over a campaign with a gold bug at the head of it was political in sanity. ;. . ; ): ,-. - . - .- : In this flght;:Bryan had against him practically all ".the banks,s. all, the trusts, all the corporations .and 'all the railroads, n Worse, than that, the protestant church with all its bishops and ministers, Ihe daily pressand the; subsidized universities, did everything in their power to defeat him. It was announced that a sermon was preached against Bryan W every" leading pro testant church. In New York city the Sunday before tne:$lection: The sa me thing was found almost everywhere. In Lincoln where George W. Berge re sides the same thing occurred. Berge is a member of a church and ever since he has been in Lincoln he has contrib uted far beyond his means for the sup port of every religious enterprise. The returns show that the members of the church went to polls and. voted almost solidly against him. P rom all of which it appears that' Ve are to have not only a great standing army, but a state church iu:the near future. Im perialism, standing armies and state churches have always gone together.. What shall the populists do? Stand for their organization and their prin ciples as they have always stood. We pointed out what was coming ten years ago. - We were the- first to- make a protest against the military spirit. We were the first to attack monopolies. We were the first to show the peril of concentrated capital. We have claimed that the bottom of all the Ills ;: from which we suffer,, is the control of the voiume of money.'- Upon that rests' the trusts, imperialism and the corrup tion that demoralizes theJ church and legislative bodies." Against" that we will continue the fight while life lasts. In regard to fusion in the future they need never "again - ask us i to co operate with a party that will accept the service of the, old gold-bug "gang, that has called themselves democrats for the purpose of better serving; the republican party. The democratic party must hereafter refuse to admit to its councils or place on its cohi--mittees any of the old gang of Cleve land democrats if they want to co operate with the populist party. The populist party threw its traitors. over the transom and the. democratic party must do the same thing. Party lines must be clear cut: and closely drawn; Men going around, like the disreput able :Clem DeaveV gang In this state claiming to be. populists and the Tom Taggart gang in" Indiana claiming to bedemocrate, must1 be gotten rid of. The recognized authority in both par ties must take effectual action to pre serve their organizations from traitors. Treat every .such man as a mortal enerdy a far worse enemy than the most disreputable"republican. BEAT TBE UECORD. The monthly report of the director of the mint shows the total coinage at the mints of the United States during October, 1900, to have been $9,50$.310, as follows: Gold, $5,120,000; silver dollars, $4,148,000; minor coins $240, 810. ' ; That ' is- a good deal more than twice, as much silver as was ever coined under the Sherman act in any one jonthi-And they said that the Sherman act must be repealed because ihe"- country' was flooded with . silver which: nobody . would take! The mullet-heads -all -believed that story and wentocarouhdtalking about repudia tJOh "and jtfty :cent dollars. The truck ling". SC6.unfJg who" engineered that campaign &1896 were simply obeying thfti commands: issued by : Lombard street,-! When these English' pirates, "found tHat-thestoppage of the coinage of silver in . India meant universal starvation, to the people of that coun try,' they opened the mints and McKin ley followed suit. If the natives of IndW became so poor that they had nothing which the English could rob them-of, the object of holding the Ind ian empire would be gone. So the pirates of Ix)mbard street concluded that , they had better listen to the teachings of the great English politi cal economists and open the mints to silver" la. 1896 r the republicans said we must stop the coinage of silver or universal bankruptcy wcjuld be our doom. The whole fight was to stop the coinage of; silver. Now see what they have , done! , They have coined more silver than -was ever coined in the same length ; of time before. The In dependent, If ; it could have had its way, would-have made that one of the leading issues of the campaign. Think of Coining' over four millions of silver a month! That beats the record! ; T i SHAMELESS PERFIDY. Wharton Barker sent the following special dispatch last week to the Chi cago Record.: We want every man who is now a populist or ever has been a populist to read it. There has never been a more shameless thing in all American politics than the perfidy of Wharton Barker and Clem Deaver. The Independent told its readers the truth about the matter in the begin ning. Read these words of Wharton Barker and see if it did not: "I will poll 20,000 populist votes in Indiana, which will be enough to save the state to McKinley. In Illinois I will get a very large vote and McKin ley will ; carry that state. I will get enough votes in Nebraska and South Dakota to defeat Bryan in those states. In Kentucky the same conditions ex ist and McKinley will carry that state. New York is republican by 100,000, so I can see no hope for Bryan. I shall be disappointed if I do not poll 500,000 votes. Of the candidates of the two greater parties I prefer .McKinley be cause I believe that the world is on the verge of a financial crash and that with him in the chair America will stand up." , Wharton Barker has been a ;jaid employe of Mark Hanna from the very beginning. His paper has been issued With Mark Hanna money. The lead ers of the mid-road populists in this state are like unto him. HARDY'S COLUMN Disappointed, Disappointed, Mourn . fully Disappointed. It rather looks as though McKinley Is re-elected.' It means'the majority of the people want his policy contin ued and we. are ready to trust the ma jority of the people. The people, af ter duea consideration, for which they bavc had- opportunity the last four years, are more, likely to hit the mark than any king or emperor. When a majority .vote for a king they ought to have one. This election will un doubtedly result in burning up the greenbacks and melting up the silver dollars or. In other words, retiring the .greenbacks and limiting the legal tender power, of silver to five or ten dollars. That will virtually knock out $800,000,000 of our present legal tender monej-. The banks will have to redeem their bills in gold and when ever . they . fail up goes the bank and the - government will have to redeem the bills In gold. The high protective tariff will bs, perpetuated to protect the trusts and all the manufacturies being-in the trusts will get a double protection, from the competition of each other as well as from the com petition of foreign pauper labor. It is noc stretching the imagination to look .1 forward to the time when it will take a bushel of corn to buy a pound of sugar or starch and a bushel of wheat to. ' buy a ' shirt. Then it means an army, of 200,000. The election really sanctions ; everything McKinley has done in the Philippines and also the taking o2 a chunk of China when she is cut up and she probably will be, for she never can pay the indemnity. In order to stand in honorable line we "must! expand as fast as the other four great powers do. Better be honorable than just. 1 We advise every laboring man, day laborer, mechanic or farmer: In the first place, If you are in debt pay off yourdebts a3 soon as" possible, then makeuo .inore debts.' Cut "down your.cspen pf jiving, as much as you canV We .can iget along without tea and. coffee: and a little Eugar and but ter can be. made to answer. Meat is expensive. food. Ten cents will buy as much food ii ,. flour as thirty cents will in meat. If the present policy is per sisted in, the. common people have got to come down to the level of the com mon people . of Europe. ' Those who vote for it ought to have it. Bryan is not dead yet.' He is good for two more such : campaigns. lie will commence the campaign of 1901 next Monday and whether he ever gets to the white house or not he" will do the American people more good than any other liv ing 'man.'". His voice and reasoning will do more to keep the McKinley ad- FECIAL ministration within bounds than all the other powers Of earth. It was a long time before Gladstone's best qual ities were recognized by the English people. The upper crust ridiculed Lin coln when he was fighting his own battles single-handed. Today they are no more in love with such men. BRYAN'SCAMPAIGH His Extendi ve Travels, Mist Oratory, HU "Wonderful I'hysiclal Endurance, . All the Mot Marvelous in , History. ' If William Jennings Bryan could" have a dollar for every mile he has travelled, he would be a millionaire. There is no man in the country who is more familiar with the Interior of a railroad car than Mr. Bryan. Begin ning in 1896 with a tour that em braced nearly every state in the union, he has during the past four years fair ly earned the title of the Great Amer ican Traveller. He has been back and forth, across the continent innumera ble times, he. has been up. one state and down another, .until the crunching and the grinding of the car wheels be neath him has been almost the only music which his. ears have heard. All day long, all night long, this rumbling noise, incessant, monotonous, nerve wearing. - Bryan has never kept account of the number of miles which have been rolled .off. beneath him by the ever turning wheels of the railroad train. He laughed when I asked why he had not done so. and 6aid that life was too short. He is now touring the country in a private car named Rambler; Four years ago his car, appropriately enough,"" was' the Idler. -This'year the Rambler has carried him 16,000 miles, and there are some 5,000 more miles yet scheduled. .The car has been his home for many weeks, and it will con tinue to be his perambulating shelter until he returns to Lincoln onhe day before election. Roosevelt has a pri vate car all to himself, with additional sleeping cars in his special train for newspaper, correspondents and poli ticians. Bryan can only call one lit tle stateroom his own. It is not a large room, although it has a double berth and a stationary washstand. There is no extra space for clothes, and all the comforts of home are lacking. When three persons are in the room at once, it is crowded. A week's travel, under the most comfortable surroundings, tires an or dinary man. Bryan travels by the month under the most trying condi tions . and seems to thrive. Take one of his easy days, for in stance. He is up at 7 o'clock in the morning. His car. is then already filled with a numerous delegation from the next town upon . his program. They gather, around him while he eats a light breakfast and at 8 o'clock he is in a carriage, surrounded by a howl ing mob, en route to a platform. At 8:30 he is making his first speech of the day. At 9 o'clock he Is back in the car, surrounded by the committee from the next stopping place, and at 10 o'clock he is again in a carriage, again surrounded by a cheering and excited crowd Another speech, an other hasty rush to the car, and once more another committee. All day long these experiences are repeated. When night comes Bryan is generally at some large city, where he is expected to speak for an hour, after being par aded through the streets to tlie ac companiment of red fire and music. j When the speech has been concluded. he li compelled to meet hundreds of j "our democratic friends," and he is ! fortunate if by 'midnight he can shut himself up in his stateroom. His car, if it is not moving: to the adjoining state, is on a sidetrack in the; depot, where .night is made hideous,. by the rumbling of incoming and outgoing trains, the-shrill whistles of locomo tives, and tbe clanging cf bells., To all of the6e noises Bryan is happily obliv ious. -. Worn out with physical, and mental exhaustion he sleeps like a log. How does tbe man stand it? Why does he not break' lown? These are questions which every one asks-r-even those who only see him r.t one town, and do not appreciate the exhausting effect of constantly receiving crowds, demonstrative receptions, and hour long speeches.--. . .. , . - .. In the first place, Bryan has .learned to take care of himself. He does not drink, smoke c-r -chew. He avoids all stimulants, even eoffcye Occasionally he takes a cup of tea. He eats heart ily, but alwajs of the plainest and most substantial food. He tries to bf regular at his meals but frequently I have sesn him go forth to a night meeting with culy a bit of toast and a plate of soup for his dinner, -because the, schedule of tie day has been too crowded to allow time for a more sat isfactory meal.- In the earjier weeks of the campaign,' when three or four speeches were the extent of his dally program, he managed to secure a bit of sleep after each address.' Nowadays S MAIL ORDER EPARTHT We will' send yoti, 'express cKarges pre paid, this beautiful Collarette "of "tirst quality electric seal -bear, trimraing "2 fancy beads, small tabs, two fox tails exactly as cutfpr : 7 5 Regular price $10.00. Watch for these weekly specials in the Independent. it is a hustle and hurry -from early morning to late at '"night, and he has only time to throw himself upon bis bed, loosen his clothes, unbuttop. hi? collar, and relax his limbs, is at hand. If he has an hour, he will divert him self to his clothing, be rubbed down, like a prize fighter, ... until his flesh glows ruddily, -don another outfit, and appear fresh and smiling. -The pche dule which was arranged for him in New York state did not, however, al low him this luxury. Beginning at S o'clock in the morning, he made about twenty speeches a day, at very brW intervals. There will be no rest for him until he flings himself upon hi? bed at night, a thoroughly tired ma u. Bryan is a delightful travelling com panion. He is always in good tamper always courteous, and thoughtful, t have travelled thousands fof miles with him, and never have I seen him angry. His equilibrium of tempera ment is something wonderful. ". Roosevelt dines by himself or w ith a few friends in his own car. Bryan mingles with the men who share hi? car with him. He always occupies th" seat at the head of the table, asks on. of the correspondents to c:ire. nn! then makes everybody f eel at borne He has stories to tell outof his mul titude of experiences, but they ate al ways clean and pure; he enjoys a goo! joke at his own expense, and although his own humor is of the sedately ser ious kind, he laugh heartily at th pranks which the occupants of his car play upon each other. It Is-rarely, however, that he is allowed to eat a meal in peace. Each local committe-. impressed with its own importance, in trudes upon him to suggest the topic which will appeal most forcibly to th community which iie is ne:t 1o ad dress, while -the county leaders lent, over his houlder to pour In his vjts the story of their chances of success Should he be spared this Infliction. h will probably notice a throng at ome station waiting to: catch a glimpse of him. Throwing down hifi rapkln he will hurry to the rear platform to wave his hand to his unknown ad mirers. The other day he leit hi? din ner to acknowledge the salute of th waving apron of a woman who, with her child in-her arms,' had climbed down one of the West Virginia moun tains to see his train go by. Once lit Kentucky, I remember, Bryan was eat ing dinner with Mrs. Bryan.- It was long after dark , and he v.as hungry and tired. The train stopped for a mo ment at some water tank out in th country. - Through the open window? of the private car a goodly crowd of country people could be seen. They hurrahed for Bryan, who stalled, but did not move. ".:".'. "Will," said Mrs Bryan, quietly "they want you." Without a word "Will" went out upon the roar platform, and the re doubled cheers gave evidence of the crowd's delight. A moment later th' sound of "Will's" voice came floating through -the car. He was making a speech. No one can travel with Bryan with out being Impressed with the eager anxiety everywhere manifested to see and hear him. v It is hardly as exaggerated to say that Bryan travels in one constant vortex of adoration. It is easy to un derstand wny a throng gathers to vf an actual president of the United Stat es; it Is not so easy to appreciate the devotion which Bryan receives. H has neither place nor power! and yet he comes very near to being worship ed. It is something more than curios ity which leads men to travel all night on horseback, as they did in West Vir ginia, simply to see him, and, if eood fortune should - reach flood ttle, to grasp him by the hand. In Kentucky I saw" tbe glass windows , of Bryan's carriage deliberately smashed by a frenzied crowd; in its wild desire to simply to touch Bryan's clothes. In Ohio I nave seen gray-halted men climb upon the platform of the car and be content slmlpy to rub their ptlntp upon Bryan's shoulders - as if they found some virtue in the mere laying on of hands. In a doaeu states I have seen men light like wild animals to get close . to Bryan. At Hmton. W Va., a few nights ago, after Bryan had returned to the car and the train war being held for orders, 2,000 or n.O'H people gathered around the Rambler, Bryan was eating a delayed dinner The mountaineers saw him and forth with began to climb tnroxrgh the cai window to get at him. Bryan left hie seat at the table, went' to the window and incautiously put out hjs hand. I' was like throwing a bone- into a deu of ravenous wild animals.' His -hand, and arm were seized, and when he wa enabled, through - vigorous exertion, to release himself a few moments later the hand was black with coal grime and his arm was . bhie with' bruises. Finally the; train had .to be hurried from the . station to, separate Brynu from his too admiring -friends.. If the crowds would confine theit noisy and muscular, tributes to Bry an's waking hours it would not be 50