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    THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
November 22, 1900
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A great many upright Den are be
glriiig to tay: Giren enough money
arxd any state can be carried for any
party. ! true?
The oXcia! wast of the tote of the
a tare is not yrt obtainable. When it is,
and the facta, are indisputable, then
The Independent will bare "something
to ay.
The student at iLetnJversity have
got far enough along in thia "world
power" buein- . to up a debate
over the qtteatioa whether a constitu
tional monarchy or a republic is the
best form of government.
1 h United Stale senate after the
4th of neat March will consist of 54 re
publican and 25 In the opposition. The
honae will bate 202 republicans and
UO opposition; a republican majority
f 4. In the present house the re
ptiblkans hare a majority of -1.
No phras waa more frequently re
peated by democratic orators during
the campaign than, "the gold demo
crat are with us this time." The re
turn bow that the gold democrats
were on the McKinley side just as they
were in 1&S. only a little more so.
It is statrd that the territorial leg
irlature of Oklahoma is a tie between
the democrat and republican and one
lone populist holds the balance of pow
er. A that pop guide the destinies
of tr.st territory, we shall all watch
Last week the St. Paul Pioneer-Press
had a cartoon representing a grate
and ca the tomb stone,, was written.
-Here lie and-militarism." So it
mvsi that the republican pre be
lieve that - no more opposition will
arise la this nation to a military, gov
ernment. Well, we shall see. -
OTer In Peoria. Ill, when they had
competition, gaa waa 20 cents a thou
sand. When a ?a trust was formed it
waa li
ft thousand. Trusts ar-s an
relation and r-otMng can be dor -9 to
tip evolution. That is the decUM
ttat has been rendered and mun stand
antil it is reverted.
Wonder what the two or three hun
dred men who were induced to tote
the middle of the road ticket thought
when they read in the papers that the
rt yjblicma prates down in Omaha ha J
chosen their patron saint, Clem Dea
Ter. to be the republican representa
tive oa the counting board? Did they
remember what The Independent told
the a about that gang?
The senatorial situation is just aa
The Independent said It would be If
the republicans carried the legislature.
It ia Thompson and Rosewater or no
body at ail. These other chaps who
art setting tip headquarters la Lin
cola aa senatorial candidates are only
here to make a show or a deal for
om fat Job on condition that they
pell off.
The South African capitalist who
brought oa the war with the Boers are
cot to nappy as tney were a wnue
ago. The British chancellor of the
exchequer ha announced that a very
large part of the con of the war will
be levied epon these owner of gold
and diamond mlsee. Aa their mines
are still 12 le and there is no prospect
ft Immediate resumption of work on
account of the difficulty of keeping
communication open with Cape Town,
trey are beginning to find out that war
Epos the Dutch burghers is not so
fanny a they thought it would be.
General ilacArthur' odcial report
of the killed and wounded in the Phil
ippine is a, mystery to all military
ma. How it was possible to- kill 3,
227 Filipinos and wound only 94 ia
civlliztd warfare, these men do not
know. The usual rate In warfare is
foiir or fire wounded to one killed. In
usrHihred warfare where prisoners
are shot down by the hundred, the
killed kometime outnumber the
wounded. Genera! MaeArthur or the
war oSce should make some explana
tion of this matter. A it stands, there
lie ia it ground for very dark sus
picions. Have we outweylered Weyler,
against whose cruelties we went to
war? Or are these oScial reports only
gutsa work put out for political effect?
LABOR OMNIA VIls'CIT.
S-onethlng over two years ago The
I nlependent -started a department in
which tbA new i. of the week was treat
ed ia a somewhat different manner
thun had ever before been attenptedr
Since that time several large eastern
weeklies, some of which are published
In magazine form, have patterned af
ter The Independent and started de
partments conducted In the same way.
One of these weeklies has one editor
employed for that express purpose and
pays him $3,000 a year for that work
alone. That weekly charges $3 -per
year for Its publication. As far as the
department of a general newspaper is
concerned, it la not as full nor as ac
curate as that In The Independent.
The work in getting up these col
umns is enormous and most perplex
ing. After weighing .all that comes
in the Associated press and by special
correspondence to the; great dailies,
one is never sure that he has obtained
the truth. Take the dispatches con
cerning the Illness ofthe Czar for an
example. In. the beginning of last
week, just before The Independent
went to pressT'they""were"to to the
effect that the Czar had been poisoned
and his life was despaired of by his
physicians. It was stated that in case
he died, the Grand Duke Michael
would become regent and that he
would immediately change the whole
Russian policy. ,1C that were true, it
would of course be of vital interest to
the whole world, for the present Czar
la known as the great peace-maker
and lover of peace among the sover
eigns of the world. But was it true?
The policy of the daily papers would
have been, to make a sensational ar
ticle of it. (many of them did) but af
ter much consideration The Inde
pendent concluded to say nothing at
all on the subject, although there were
opportunities in it for much fine writ
ing. That was only one item in many
others of the same character during
the last week and every other week.
It will be seen that the publication of
reliable news is a matter of much
work aa well as mental worry, since
sensationalism has become the settled
policy of the daily press.
Then another matter has to be taken
into consideration. In a paper like The
Independent, which circulates In every
state and territory in the union, In for
eign countries and in "our colonies,"
the news must be of general interest.
The items must be such as will be read
with interest by a subscriber in Ore
gon, South Carolina, Hawaii or Maine.
That requires In the writer a knowl
edge of the affairs of the whole worlj
which can only be gained by days and
nights of constant reading of all sorts
of publications republican, demo
cratic, populist.'socialiat, financial, re
ligious, scientific, agricultural, lite
rary, sociological, military, naval and
educational. The Independent attempts
to do all that sort of work and fur
nish its readers with reliable facts in
all these fields of knowledge and en
deavor in a form the most condensed
and readable.
We are glad to say that this honest
and unending work is appreciated by
thousands of readers and who are
grateful for the cheapness with which
It is furnished to them. No other pub
lication in the United States attempts
to furnish such matter In any weekly
publication for less than $2.50 per year.
Besides this. The Independent prints
an editorial page larger than any
other weekly, always standing for the
principles that were first enunciated
by Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
It is furnishing such a paper at such a
price that makes hundreds of the read
ers of The Independent active agents
in extending its circulation, who work
for it of their own motion and with
out any hope of financial reward. Ex
cept during a campaign, no specially
prepared editions appear, but every
week it comes out with the same
amount cf matter prepared with the
same study and care. Whoever re
ceives one copy has a fair sample of
all the rest.
This uneeasiner toil tirodnrps a mih-
j ,icatlon that is of vaue to all who
receive it. It is an exemplification of
the Latin motto: Labor omnia vincit
UNIVERSITY S ET TLEM ENTS.
The complete failure of the Protest
ant, plutocratic church is now general
ly recognized by the conscientious,
educated public. Both in England and
in this country Christian scholarship
is protesting in most vigorous lan
guage against it. Percy Alden, war
den of Manifield House, London; re
cently said:
"Large numbers of London, New
York and Chicago churches are prac
tically uninhabited. The sabbath day
finds them empty. As centers of in
fluence they are cold and extinct. Chi
cago's uptown churches those f ia
fashionable quarters as' they stand,
are poor investments for mankind.
They do not give an adequate return
for the wealth locked up in them and
for the sacrifices of money and of
energy which their maintenance en
tails. They should be dedicated to a
fuller mission. They should be made
the centers of all manner of useful
work calculated to Instruct and up
lift the people about them."
Populists have long been saying the
same thing. We have pointed out the
fact that th -3 rich church has become
nothing but a Sunday club, to 1 which
the membership resort for an hour or
two oa that day for entertainment and
to while away the time listening to the
very best vocal and Instrumental mu- j
sic that money can buy and hear a
few pleasant platitudes delivered by
a trained elocutionist, called a , min
ister. Now the matter is being taken ;
up " by the conscientious scholars in
seme of the universities.. The "uni
versity settlement" is taking the place
and doing the work that the Protestant
church, which : has become rich and
corrupt, has refused to do.
Mr. W. H. Dickinson of the London
county council, recently said:-
"We want more of these splendid
Institutions. London probably has
twenty of them. The city ought to
have 300. Every large city on earth
should adopt the social settlement and
cherish it. If municipal governments
are weak and ; corrupt, it is because
they draw their members from weak
and corrupt constituencies. Social set
tlements improve 'constituencies. They
radiate intellectual, moral and physi
cal health. They cleanse the stream
of municipal government at its foun
tain head."
In Lincoln, Protestant ministers
have often been seen at the polls mak
ing a special effort to elect the very
worst man on either ticket. That was
true in the last campaign. Others
were willing to give a certificate of
good moral character to a man whom
lusiness men would not indorse. They
have been a potent influence in creat
ing the "weak and corrupt constitu
encies" of which Mr. Dickinson speaks.
By their silence, and often with their
active aid, the awful corruption of our
cities and large towns has been made
possible! The ministers of pure char
actei and influence for good, have only
found work in the poor parishes and
out of the way districts. Such a maV
would not be tolerated for a month in
any of the rich, plutocratic church(3.
The professors in the universities,
especially those who are connected
with the department of ethics, phil
osophy and sociology, are making an
effort to correct this evil by the es
tablishment of university settlements.
An effort in that direction is being put
forth in Lincoln, to which every man
who deplores the corruption in church
and state should give substantial sup
port. It is proposed to get a location
at the corner of M and Twenty-first
streets and make there a settlement of
educated cilJfge men who will nt
neg'tct the poor, but become their ev-
erv-day companions and advisor.-. The
Independent washes it abundant suc
cess. ARUAM DEMAGOGUE.
During the campaign President
Schurmann was cock sure that the
war in the Philippines was over,"
but since the election he has changed
his mind. The other day he ad
dressed one of those heathen Sunday
clubs, called a church, and said:
"I .ay, put down the insurrection,
make life secure, set up courts, give
the people all. the home rule they are
capable of. That is the immediate
duty. Leave the rest to our grand
children. The population of the isl
ands will then be fused in one nation.
If they demand complete separation,
our descendants will grant it. But it
is a question if they will want it. Do
not send a sufficient force, but an
overwhelming force."
If President Schurmann thinks that
the announcement to the Filipinos
that the ime of their independence
has been put off for action by our
grandchildren will have a tendency to
quiet them he is mistaken. The Inde
pendent has not changed its opinion
about President Schurmann since the
election and his last deliverance only
confirms it in the opinion that he is
the most arrant demagogue that ever
appeared before the American people.
But he is the right kind of a man to
keep at the head of a plutocratic uni
versity. He fits the place exactly and
if you want your son educated under
the influence of such a man, send him
to Cornell.
Where the government is going to
get its naval recruits is bothering our
rulers a great deal. The Philadelphia
Record, a true blue, imperialist, pluto
cratic sheet, says: "The service is so
distasteful that there were 2,452 deser
tions from the navy during the past
year. It would 'appear to be folly to
go on building new battleships to be
kept out of service for lack of men."
That is a very plain squint towards
conscription. It will have to come
sooner or later. The people have voted
for it and they ought to have it.
Don't let there be any kicking.
The department stores still keep ex
panding and spreading out. Some of
them are going into the publishing
business and by that plan they will
have the means of doing their own
advertising. Wanamaker will hereaf
ter issue a magazine and the , next
thing he will do will be to issue a daily
paper The North American is osten
sibly owned by his son, but it is all
in the family and the magazine and
that daily will do pretty well as ad
vertising vehicles for one store. Some
of these big department stores down
east can give the trusts a tip or two
worth knowing.- '- ' 'Vl
A MODEL NEWSPAPER.
Dr. Parkhurst says that the sup
porters of the Sunday clubs that meet
in the costly temples in New York city j
are going to start a newspaper which i
will be after their own hearts' desire.
The plan of the newspaper he puts
forth is as follows:.
A newspaper that will tell the truth.
: A newspaper that, will print all the
news. " ,
A newspaper that cannot be swayed
by advertisers or business men.
A newspaper ( that - will lead public
opinion. ' " .
A newspaper that the people will be
lieve. 1 ' I : .
A newspaper beyond the reach of
patronage." , -
. A newspaper of. limitless enterprise
and resources. - " ' '- -";
In short, an ideal journal rthat no
party can buy, and no interest intimi
date printing all? the great news of
the world, and telling the whole truth
regardless, of friends or foes.. t
Would it not be just as well if those
$10,000 and . $20,000 preachers ; down
there should get together and resolve
that they would give us a great min
ister in a great and costly church who
would tell "all", the truth, one . who
could not be swayed by the million
aire contributors and "business" in
terests, a man beyond the reach of
patronage, who would preach a truth
if he knew every subscription to his
salary would stop the next week, a
man limitless in his resources in con
demning theft in the highest as well
as lowest places, who would not spend
all his time' in berating vice on the
east side while Sherley dinners with
stage attachments in the "altogether"
were in vogue on Fifth avenue, who
would denounce the reception by the
church of money obtained by robbing
the people just as severely as he would
the party that collect assessments
from the dives and. saloons, who would
denounce . Mr. - Hayemeyer or Mr.
Rockefeller when they made a rise in
sugar or coal oil arid gave a dole to the
colleges or churches, as they do the
Tammany politicians when they wink
at vice in the dives and dens for a
consideration.
The s newspapers are bad in many
ways no doubt the plutocratic kind
can outlie the devil himself during a
campaign but their owners and edi
tors are welcomed to the best seats
in the synagogues and taken into full
communication in the churches with
the assurance that they are among
the saints whom H was ' foreordained
should inherit . eternal yfe. When
preachers denounce .newspapers in
stead of the" men who create them, it
is like talking about the rights of capi-
,tal instead 6( the .men who have capi-?
tal. Getsthe right kind of men and it
will be easy to get 'the right kind of
newspapers. r Give us the right kind
of men and we will have the right kind
of preachers. . When Dr. Parkhurst
and the $15,000 preachers of his class
find out that their mission is to re
form men and make them better, in
stead of reforming newspapers when
they arrive at that state of life that
they feel uneasy of nights as they go
to their ""richly ' furnished bedrooms,
warmed to just the right degree of
heat and think of the thousands in
their own city, who, like the master
they pretend to serve, "have not1 where
to lay their heads," . when they can
stand up in their pulpits and say with
out an apology to the millionaires in
the seats in front of them: "Woe unto
you that are rich," "You catinot serve
God and Mammon" after they are
that far along, then Dr. Parkhurst and
others like unto him may begin to
talk about starting a model newspaper.
At the hour, of . going to press the
official returns or the election were
still unattainable. The only reliable
figures which were to be had at the
office of secretary of state were the
following:
Total vote of state (Hitchcock '
county estimated) 1900 250,960
Total vote of the state, 1896 230,795
Increase of vote in 4 years.... 20,165
Vote for highest rep. elector. . ..121,385
Vote for highest Bryan elector. 113,485
Republican majority........ 7,900
About 12,000 men who voted failed
to vote for any presidential electors
at all. In many instances two sets of
presidential electors wee , voted for.
The latter fact does not appear In the
returns, but from reports which come
from the various counties. ,
The vote on governor will stand as
given last week until the official report
from Hitchcock county is received.
All of the republican state officers
are elected by small majorities, and
the legislature is republican on joint
ballot by seven.
The Ithaca Democrat is telling some
plain truths about the democratic
campaign in New York. It says in sub
stance just what The Independent has
said on that subject. There was not
a daily in that state that gave Bryan
a hearty support. Mr. Chester C
Piatt knows what he is talking about
when he says:
"The comments since election of
leading democratic papers, the New
York World and the New York Jour
nal among the number, prove that
their-' support of . Mr." Bryan was re
luctantly-1 given and was due more to
their opposition to McKinley and the
policies of the republican party than
to : any. harmony between their own
views and , those of .Mr. Bryan, upon
the issues of: the campaign."
The truth about the matter is that
the masses in New York were for Bry
an and his principles, but the demo
cratic leadership was against him.
The only reason that the leaders did
hot' openly Joppose him was that they
knew the people . would throw them
overboard if they did not make some
pretense of supporting him.
WHERE DANGER LIES.
In a private letter to the editor of
The Independent a professor in one of
our great universities says: "The posi
tion that you took in regard to the
campaign, and while It was at the very
hottest, wa3 the wise one to take. As
soon as the government reports were
available, giving the official figures of
the output of gold, the party in opposi
tion should have proclaimed the fact
In all' their publications and every
public speaker should have given a
portion of his time to making his au
dience acquainted with the fact. Then
they should have said: "Here is a
demonstration of the correctness of
the quantity theory. We have always
said that when the mines are prolific,
times were good. The output of gold
is greater than the output of both gold
and silver at the time we made the
fight in 1896. But to add to the volume
of money the administration has been
coining ninety-four millions ounces of
silver that was the - output of the
mine3 years ago. That is the cause of
the rise in prices. The feeble denials
of the increase in prices and conse
quent prosperity, lost votes instead of
gaining adherents. Such a course
would have been honest. It would
have been a lesson in political econ
omy never to be forgotten.' "
If . the mines continue to produce
gold at the same rate in the future as
during the last three years, the nec
essity of increasing the volume of
money H by the free coinage of silver
will not be so pressing. But a greater
question has arisen, one that will af
fect people more disastrously than did
the stoppage of the coinage of silver.
Soon all the productive forces of this
country will be in the hands of trusts.
That does not mean simply that all
the profits of labor shall go into the
hands of the few, but twice as much
as ever before will be turned over as
the share of capital, for the trusts are
capitalized for more than twice their
real value. Such a system cannot fail
In a few years to lay burdens upon
labor such as it has never borne be
fore. The economic fight must be
turned in that direction. ,
There.-iS' where danger lies.
The republicans are fond of talking
of the landslide to McKinley. How
much of a landslide was it? There
are about 15,000,000 voters in the
United States and ' Mark Hanna with
all his trust contributions, with all
the banks, with all the railroads, with
all the protected manufacturers, with
nearly all the great dailies, with all
the influence of the army and navy and
all the millionaires to aid him, got a
majority out of the 15,000,000 million
votes of about 700,000. There isn't
much landslide business in that. That
majority would be considerably cut
down if the southern people voted on
election day in the same numbers they
do at their primaries when their can
didates are chosen. At least 300,000 of
that majority should be taken off. In
the southern states where the nomina
tion is an election, nearly one-half
more voters appear at the primary
than turn out on election day. Because
of that fact, the Chicago Record wants
their representation in congress cut
"down.
The South American republics have
been holding what they call an Ibro
American conference in Madrid. The
reports of the discussions which have
reached this country are to the effect
that the cordial relations with this
country which were brought about by
James G. Blaine have been completely
effaced by the McKinley policy of war
for conquest. In several sections of
the congress bitter allusions have been
made to the United States and harsh
things are said of England on account
of the Boer war. These sentiments
were loudly applauded by the Span
iards and the Spanish-Americans.
These delegates are making arrange
ments for closer trade relations with
Spain. .The sum and substance of the
whole matter is, that while McKinley
has been waging a war of conquest in
the Philippines, 10,000 miles away, for
the purposes of trade, he is driving
away ten times as much trade which
lies right at our very doors. The In
dependent has often said that that
would be the result.
From many articles in the New
York papers, some of them highly il
lustrated, one Is forced to believe that
polygamy is quite as common down
east as out in Utah. Some recent
revelations show how divorces have
been put through the courts by the
score. The plutocrats had a law
passed by Teddy's legislature making
divorce proceedings absolutely secret.
Many a man and woman have been di
vorced land never knew anything about
it until it appeared in some of the
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Send in Mail Orders early. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
newspapers. , One Ziemer has been
running a divorce mill and it turns
out that he was' never even admitted
to the bar.. Another man is in Ludlow
street jail who says that he has four
wives at present, but cannot recollect
how many he has had during the last
few years. Polygamy is wide-spread
down that way. It is no wonder they
ran up big majorities for McKinley
and the Sultan of Sulu.
The announcement of Perry Heath
that the republicans will establish a
permanent bureau at Washington to
furnish patent insides and editorials
for the mullet head country editors,
indicates that the legislation proposed
will need a more vigorous and con
stant defense than the republican par
ty has heretofore deemed necessary.
Let them do it. If you read The Inde
pendent you will know all about it.
As between the beliefs of Cleveland,
Whitney, Don Dickinson, Gorman,
Dave Hill, Olney and McKinley, Han
na, Roosevelt and Lodge there is no
essential difference whatever. To or
ganize two parties headed by these
men would be a needless expense.
There could be no contest, between
them except as to who should hold the
offices. The fight is whether money or
men shall rule in this country. Those
men are all on one side of that ques
tion. They are for a government by
the rich' for the .benefit, of the Lobars
of trust slock.
One item in Dietrich's campaign ex
penses, filed with the secretary of
state, is liable to occasion a good deal
of comment. It reads: State Journal
company, 10,000 cards, $90. There is
not a job printer in Lincoln who
would not have Jumped at an order for
10,000 campaign cards at 80 or 90 cents
a thousand and here they are charged
up at $6 a thousand! That is the first
job of republican printing recorded
since Tim Sedgwick's feats in that
line. It is probably a forecast of what
is coming in the next two years. But
the people voted for it and they are en
titled to have it.
The New York ice trust was a mat
ter of great concern to the republicans
during the campaign. As soon as the
election was over the republican attor
ney general of that state submitted a
report to the effect that there was no
trust at all and no case could be made
against the accused. Some of these
Lincoln republicans who went around
to the meetings during the campaign
yelling "ice trust," will feel pretty
small when they learn of Roosevelt's
action in this matter, that is if they
ever do hear of it, which is. very
doubtful, for they never read anything
but republican papers and not one of
them will ever say a word on the sub
ject. -
Evidences that the old era of public
corruption is to be revived is cropping
out everywhere. The civil engineer
employed by the city of Chicago dis
covered a great many pipes laid in the
great trust packing house yards In
Chicago for the purpose of stealing
water from the city. There is no man
ner of doubt that these packing houses
stole thousands and thousands of dol
lars by this means while the poor of
the city had to be charged higher rates
to pay for what these magnates stole.
The Chicago city council is republi
can. Since the election it has been
announced that all the claims against
the packing company for stolen water
will be abandoned. We doubt if there
is a minister of a rich church in Chi
cago who would dare to state the
known facts of this case In his pulpit,
but they have made a great furor
about the little robberies that have
occurred on the streets of late.
A strange sort of thing, something
which was never known in politics be
fore, is to see men going around de
claring that they are democrats who
are known to have worked and voted
in the interest of the republican party
for the last eight years, and have done
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DEPARTMENT
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all that it was in their power to do to
defeat the democratic party. It Is just
as strange to see men calling; them
selves populists, drawing the funds
for their work from the republican
party, working for the interests of
that party and when the election is
over holding. a glorification meeting
over the defeat of the populisit party,
as they did up In Custer county. There
must be some way found to stop such
things. If there is no other way to
get rid of such political scoundrels,
then all the present party names
should be dropped and a new name
with a copyright on It adopted In
place of those now In use.
And the governor's Thanksgiving
Proclamation was printed in blue.
It was doubtless prepared by the re
tiring private secretary and natural
ly absorbed the azure hue.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Legislative War Coming No More
Restraint Over Correspondents in
Manila Mormonism Two Certnin
ties Popular Vote Reorganization
Bartleyism at Washington The
Name Republican Methods Cuba
Convention Canadian Law The
- Majority Not Always Right Bur
kett Philosophy Must Keep Up the
Show Bixby and Hardy.
Legislative blood and hair will fly
this winter thick and fast before the
two senators, are elected., Jn , propor
tion to the' wealth of .the 'candidates
there will be as much money used as '
there was in the election of Clark.
Now since election is passed any
body is allowed to write or telegraph
what they please from Manila. Truth
before election is a very different ar
ticle from truth after election.
The Mormons of Utah give us a rea
son for carrying the state for McKin
ley that he promised not to medddm
with polygamy if elected.
There are two things certain in Ne
braska for at least four years more
a Bryan majority of the supreme court
and also a Bryan majority of th?
university regents.
McKinley's popular vote is only
about a hundred thousand more than
it was four years ago. .
A reorganization of the Bryan party
under Croker and Hill will fix things
In the same shape as the republican
party under Hanna and Quay.
Some two or three hundred mUlions
of surplus government money is now
distributed among the friendst of Mc
Kinley, just as Joo Bartley di5tri')Utod
th state money. The high rate cf
vaxat'on is kept up and the scrplus
continually increasing
To please the southern states no
other name beside democrat will an
swer, while the noithern stat." woald
pre-er a new name, Bryan party for
Instance, at th same time the est
would prefer the name go.'d or trust
party. ' -
, j
Joe Bartley should be pardoned and
made deputy state treasurer, for he
understands republican methods as
weil as any man In the party.
The constitutional convention cf
Cuba Is so far harmonious for liberty
and independence. The individual
members show up more statesmanship
than was supposed possible.
The law in Canada requires a can
didate for member of parliament to
put up two hundred dollars in order
to secure a place on the ticket. Then
if he is successful or If he receives
half as many votes as the saccesRful
candidate the money is refunded,
otherwise the money goes into the
public fund. This is to cut short the
number of candidates.
The majority of the people are not
always right, they generally get round
to it after awhile. We remember the
time when nine-tenths of tho Ameri
can people believed slavery was a di
vine institution and voted for its con
tinuance. Now how changed. The
majority who believe McKinleyism a
divine doctrine will get around to the
right the same way after a while.
We had a short talk with Congress
man Burkett the other day. He fav
ors the retirement of the greenbacks
after being once redeemed In gold and
bank bills issued to fill the place. That
would place the banks between the
runner for gold and the government.
The government would not be re
quired to redeem the bills until after
the banks busted, but the government