THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
October 17, 1001
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The republicans are la the soup cow,
fart arajiu
Tt republican countersign during
XllM easpIjrn will be: "Don't men-
f mm
Neither the Bee nor the patent la
aid traa eeem to have heard cf that
Gocld xTi.iT.
The races between tie Shamrock and
Coicnbia were the closest ever sailed,
la salUcc ICr3 mls tie Columbia only
lzl the Shamrock IjK) seconds.
nTf'Te lt Goold. tut Joe Burnt
la his tl veil at the state bouse."
The republican bare a right to rejoice
that tier tared sosethisr out cf the
wreck.
Ttm Bartley revelations seem to indicate-
that Joe Johnston's often-re-peate4
statement that there was only
tad apple la tt barrel" ceeds
css codilcatioa.
Jsat ia proportion a tie value of
ra&ro&l property grows, the repuhL
.cars reduce tie taxes upon It. Lock
mt tie umtsect la Omaha and all
Ttr tie rute for that matter.
According to tie American Ecoa
cirt ary man who attack! the steel
trust tart Is a traitor. Now let us
Jiear cose more about yellow Journal
ism and tie need of it suppression.
It Is repcxtel around Lincoln that
-sicce tie Gooli exposure, tiat there
are f&erteea tier distirruiihei re--:
publicans la tils state who cave lost
Hielr appetites and caat sleep rood at
iy ahculd tie Karl Marx toclalifts
cute such a Utter fiftt against the
Db aoci!Uts? Tier are plenty of
trad to so around. If ts
iJHlmtes wact tie ana aad ianaaer.
iy, let tiea take It; aad the Marx-
4 tea raa adept tie cow.
, Eo far as kaowa cot a republlcaa
-weekly la tie state tas corrected tie
alandToas rtories ptitlisbed by then
ccccrcl Ciaxxellor Andrews. Tiey
'are tp lea did sacples cf black jouraal
flist, ard prepese to keep up tteir re
"jtatisc as saca.
Eartley expare cf Goold. the re
'jrjtilcaa candidate far resect. Is said
to iae so destroyed tie "harmony la
jtie party tiat the first three letters of
th word are entirely blotted out.
jTiere Is cotiicg left cow but the
xsiey aad that lsa't spelled righL
' The first thiaf that happened after
"The rapoenre cf Coold, the republlcaa
'avoaicee for regent. Rose water re
narked that: The republlcaa party
stands for lntecrlty and honesty la the
ceaduct cf ptitile afrairs. That raised
Roeewstera re putstioa as a humorist
tec point.
Tie republicans cf Kansas hare sent
rery much the same sort of oea to the
United State senate tiat the redeem
er legislature did from this state.
Burtoa wanted a libertine and notor
ious toodler appointed district attor
ney, tut tie stench cf tie man's char
acter had reached erea to Washington
and Burton tot turned down.
Sir. Bryan sires some very valua
ble ad ire to the republicans la this
week's Ccramoaer. He sussests that
hereafter before they nominate a man
for cSice tiey send a committee to In
terview Bartley ard find out whether
ie ha any cf that stolen money, for
tie takc ct wklea Bartley la con
cd la the penitentiary.
There was aa editorial ia The Icde
peaaeat entitled: "Deal Get Ahead cf
tie Processica." X brother editor
Instead cf ereHtins; it to The Xcdeper
dect Tfltnfiertook to put the came of the
editor at tie bottom, but tie type-set-tar
got it To3blea.- Either that cam
or tie title to the article attracted the
attstln ef editors and the iters has
bea eopUd Into huedredj ef papers.
: a Mr. Tetblee is beeexalss ;uiU fact
ious. That satlemsa has our test
r wishes and kindeet rts&rdj.
JJBMOUCTXLX XUQHT
No party could ever look back upon
a record cf tea years' work with more
satisfaction than can the populist
party. The principles that It enunciated
la its first national platform have by
subsequent events been proved to be
wise and statesmanlike. It has never
made any mistakes and has nothing to
Tegret. Its opponent has been obliged
to adopt the populist position on the
money question to save the country
from destruction. The populists de
clared that the dreadful financial de
pression would continue until the
amount of money In circulation was in
creased, and until the quantity of
money in circulation was Increased," it
did continue.
The populists demanded that the
millions cf silver lying idle in the
treasury as aelgnorage " should be
coined. The demand was denounced as
repudiation, but the republican party
at last voted, by their representatives
la congress, almost unanimously, to
coin it and most cf it has bee coined.
The position that the populist party
has taken on the tariff is now being
advocated by nearly evrry leader in
the republican party.
The opposition to trusts that has
been made from the very beginning by
the populist party is cow being taken
up by the best men in the republican
party, including the president himself,
who even before President McKinley
was assassinated declared that they
must be restrained in his Minneapolis
speech.
Very many of the leaders in the re
publican party are now convinced that
the position taken by the populist par
ty in regard to the Philippines was cor
rect They are pointing out that the
war is to continue over there for a
long time to come and at a very great
cost in men and money. Republi
can papers are printing facts about the
Philippines and commenting on them
in the same way that the populist press
has done. A year ago they were de
nouncing such writing as treason.
The whole world is beginning to ac
knowledge that the position taken by
the populist party in regard to the
Boer war was what Justice and love of
liberty demanded.
Hundreds of republican papers are
cow advocating the public ownership
of city franchises which the populists
have advocated from the very begin
ning. The party was always right on
that
In regard to the populist demand for
government saving banks where the
money of the poor would be safe when
deposited, that Is so sound a proposi
tion that no fight is now openly made
upon it.
The administration has adopted the
populist principle of the public owner
ship cf the telegraph and telephones
In Porto Rico and the Philippines and
there is a very strong movement with
in the republican party for a govern
ment cable from the Pacific coast to
Hawaii and the Philippines.
The opposition to ship subsidies has
lately been taken up by many leading
republican newspapers as well as by
those who have been considered as
men of influence in that party.
In regard to banks of Issue, which
is a policy always fought by the pop
ulist party, there does net seem to
have been any progress made within
the republican ranks, but when the
first depression In business occurs, and
these banks begin to fail all over the
country, that question will become in
stantly one of great prominence.
There are many republican newspa
pers today advocating the curbing and
controlling of the great railroad cor
porations and trusts in very much the
same language that populists have em
ployed for many years past, when
these very newspapers were denounc
ing them with the vilest epithets that
the language afforded.
The question of the public ownership
of railroads has as yet received no aid
from men within the republican party,
that and the abolition of banks of is
sue are the only things that populists
have advocated that has cot received
Indorsement from them. But the pop
ulists are Just as right on these ques
tions as any others which the repub
licans have indorsed.
AH these things are true and known
of all men and yet we see republican
speakers and republican newspapers
denouncing populists and the populist
party as Jf it and they were the ene
mies of mankind.
The question arises, why do these
men. after having adopted or advo
cated nearly every populist demand,
continue to denounce populists and
populism as If it were the most abom
inable thing on the face of the earth?
The question is easily answered. First,
they want "the offices. They don't caro
what principles are promulgated in tha
platform or what they are called upon
to denounce or support, just so they
can get the offices. Second, the others
hope by this means of placating the
people and pretending to advocate re
form to kill the populist party. If
they can do that, then they will feel
safe la going on ia the old way. Not
one of these things will be enacted into
law if they ean succeed in killing the
j populist party. If this public criticism
is hushed, if opposition is killed, the
trusts and corporations will have the
right of way and the people will be
robbed of all they produce "above a
bare living.
HOBE TROUBLE IN MANILA
The Manila American says that the
Taft commission has imposed an in
come tax on the people over there and
that it is unconstitutional, wherein
the American is away off. There is no
constitution over there and therefore
nothing can be unconstitutional. It
further declares that the tax ia 2 per
cent on the wages of labor while all
the ofiBce-holders are exempt. That,
the American should have learned, Is
all right also. There is nothing to pre
vent class legislation in the Philip
pines. Anything goes under the de
spotism that the republicans have In
augurated over there. The American
also wants these men who impose
taxes without representation and enact
class laws, to stop and think what the
people of the United States will say
when they hear of all that kind of do
ings. That is also a vain thing. The
people of the United States will never
take any interest in what goes on in
those islands They have their own
affairs to attend to and the Philippines
are 10,000 miles away.
The Independent thinks it sights a
new rebellion over there. A good
many Americans have made their
homes in and around Manila and they
are cot of the kind that tamely submit
to despotism. The first thing that the
Taft commission will know these Am
ericans will be kicking up a muss.
They will be a different lot to handle
from the Filipinos who have been ac
customed to despotism for some cen
turies. The Filipino may quietly sub
mit to a 2 per cent tax on wages,
class legislation and the several other
things that the American complains of,
but the new residents won't. The Am
erican asks: "Why discriminate? Did
you ever hear of such a thing in the
United States?" But that don't ap
ply. The Philippines are not in the
United States according to the su
preme court. It is new and altogether
a different thing to live in a territory
or a ''possession" from being a citizen
of the United States and the American
is way off when it makes such com
parisons. You are a "subject," Mr.
Manila American, and you have no
constitutional rights. You ought to
have learned that fact a long time a?o.
If you don't shut up you will be de
ported like that other editor.
DKSPOTISM
The daily newspapers last week
published the following item:
"The Challenge, a paper devoted to
socialism and said to have the largest
circulation of any of its kind in the
United States, has been refused admis
sion to the mails as second-class mat
ter. This means that the editor will
hereafter have to pay 1 cent a copy in
postage instead of 1 cent a pound, and
that whereas this item formerly cost
but $30 a week it would now cost $300
weekly."
That is the thing that The Indepen
dent has for a long time been warning
the people was in store for them. That
is just as despotic an act as was ever
perpetrated by the czar of Russia. If
it is allowed to go unchallenged it will
not be long until there will be no free
dom of the press in these United
States. What right has the postmaster
general to exclude any newspaper from
the mails? The American people are
a freedom-loving people and when the
narrow-minded gentlemen at Wash
ington think that they can suppress
the discussion of any question by that
Bismarckian way, they show how silly
they are. Bismarck tried that way of
suppressing socialism iU Germany r.nd
now it is almost strong enough to take
charge of the empire.
The Independent looks upon this
despotic act of the postmaster general
as one of the most omnious things that
has happened in the United States
since the civil war. How'long will it
be before an order wili be issued ex
cluding all populist papers from the
mails?
" It should be born In mind that this
story may be one of the lies of black
journalism, and that there are good
and sufficient reasons for excluding the
paper from the mails under the law,
or, It may be a He made up out of
whole cloth just to test the temper of
the people and see if they will submit
to such acts of despotism.
The American Economist has dis
covered another ground for treason. It
declares: "Now all free traders are
urging President Roosevelt to follow
President Arthur's example and by
advocating an approach to free trade
arrest the march of prosperity. Any
such course would be worse than party
disloyalty: it would be treason to the
country." The privileged rich - have
always adopted that way of defending
their robberies. Any man who ex
presses an opinion contrary to their
wishes is denounced as a traitor, an
anarchist or a repudlator. After that
they start a tirade against the oppo
sitlon press and declare that it ought
to be suppressed because it calls
name?
r WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ?
At first Rosewater "demanded" that
Stuefer should comply with the order
of the state convention and tell where
he kept the school money. Then he
expressed a "hope." It seems now
that the ire of the Bee editor is at last
aroused and he makes the most ser
ious threats. He says:
"Unless Treasurer Stuefer promptly
complies with the demand of the con
vention without evasion it will become
the duty of the state committee to call
on Governor Savage to enforce it
through the authority vested in him
by section 22 of article V. of the state
constitution. That section empowers
the governor to require at any time in
formation in writing and under oath :
from the officers of the executive de- j
partment relating to the condition,
management and expenses of their re
spective offices.; Public officers may
decline to recognize the demands of
their party conventions and even re
fuse to honor the governor's requisi
tion, but then they , relieve the party
by shouldering the responsibility upon
themselves." .
J s
That last sentence only expresses a
rain hope. No doubt Mr. Rosewater
would be glad if the republican party
could , be relieved of the responsibility
of the acts of such men as Bartley,
Goold and Stuefer, but that is an im
possibility. The populist party has
never acted the baby and tried to shirk
responsibility for the acts of the men
it has elected to office, and the repub
lican party, however much it desires
to do so, cannot. The republican paity
is responsible for Bartley, for Goold,
for Stuefer and the whole gang of
boodlers who have robbed the state of
nearly a million of dollars and pro
vided for the creation of & million
more of debt If the republican party
is not responsible, who is? Is it the
men who have fought them for the last
ten years and who gave the state
for four years the best government it
ever had?
WHERE ILLITERATES SWARM
Last week The Independent called
attention to the assertion of one of the
black journalists of Lincoln, who said:
"It will also be noticed that the lo
calities in this country where the
names of a large part of the citizens
end with "gosz," "ski," and "cek." can
be safely relied upon to give demo
cratic majorities."
In refutation of such slanders The
Independent called attention to the
heavy foreign vote for Quay and his
republican machine in Pennsylvania.
Since that time, Mr. David H. Lane,
one of the Pennsylvania republican
bosses, made a, speech to his followers
in which he said: .
"The Poles," Hungarians, Italians and
other foreigners who come here vote
with us because we control the offices.
They want favors and know they can
not get them' unless they are with us."
The slandering and lying of black
journalism has no end. When it gets
weary of lying about one thing it takes
up another. The populist and the!
Bryan wing of the democratic party Is
made up for the most part of the
brightest and most intelligent of na
tive born Americans, to which is added,
many thousands of the reading, think
ing and liberty-loving foreigners who
have made this land their home. That
is proved by the fact that the fusion
forces have their greatest strength in
the states of least illiteracy. Where
the Illiterates swarm the thickest,
there the republicans roll up majori
ties by the hundred thousand.
NOT EXACTLY CORRECT
One of the congressmen who has
just returned from the Philippines is
very positive that the Filipinos are all
savages and utterly unfit for self-government
But there are items in the
cable dispatches , almost constantly,
which go to show that the statement Is
not entirely correct. Of late there has
been a great deal of fighting going on.
One dispatch tells of an engagement
in which our troops were defeated. It
says:
"The enemy was strongly in
trenched. After two hours' fighting
the Americans retreated to await rein
forcements. The insurgents numbered
over 300 and were armed with Reming
ton and Mauser rifles, and apparently
had plenty of ammunition.
"Martiny a teacher at Mauban, was
captured by insurgents while visiting
a neighboring town under an escort of
native police. The next day his cap
tors, relenting, tied him in a hammock
and carried him to a point within a
mile of town and released him, saying
he was a non-combatant"
According to the popular under
standing, "savages" do not build
"strong entrenchments," nor do they
respect non-combatants. Even some
civilized nations capture non-combatants
and confine them in military
camps the English, for instance.
BTRANOE NEWS FROM ENGLAND
v Some strange cable dispatches have
come from England during, the last
week. One of them declares that King
Edward is suffering from cancer and
cannot live but a few months. An
other says that the reason that Botha
escaped for about the fiftieth time,
and after he was surrounded by 70,000
British troops, is that thousands of
British soldiers have deserted and
joined the Boers, that in fact there are
constantly more desertions than new
troops sent out. Everybody In Eng
land is denouncing the Salisbury &ad.
Chamberlain, ministry and some go so
far as to demand that the king ask
them to resign. One prominent writer
says that the official reports show
that Kitchener has captured", killed
and deported more Boers than there
were in existence when the war be
gan and still there are as many of
them in the field as ever, and then he
wants to know where all these fight
ing men come from that are now in the
Boer ranks. The whole of Cape Col
ony has .been put under martial law,
and two farmers have been hung for
treason. On top of this three comes
news to the effect that the Ameer of
Afghanistan having died, there is a
revolt there, Russia supporting one
claimant to the throne and the Eng
lish another while Russia is moving
large forces towards Herat Altogether
Johnnie Bull is having a very hard
time of it He will never have easier
times until he resolves to do justice
and stop his wars of conquest. Then
he will forge to the front again. The
Independent hopes that he will see the
error of his ways most speedily and
start in the lead of civilization, in
stead of hiking back to the theories of
George III.
STRANGE REJOICING
The fool protectionists are rejoicing
over what they call the commercial
decline of England. If England falls
into a commercial decline, and, is un
able to purchase our goods what will
become of our foreign trade? She is
by far the greatest and best customer
that we have. She bought $30,000,000
more goods of us last year than we
sold to her. The prosperity of Eng
land is of -as much importance to us
as it is to the people of the British
isles. The American hog, typified in
the high protectionist and trust ba
rons, perhaps will learn some day that
mankind is a brotherhood and the in
jury of one is the concern of all. The
impoverishment of the masses to en
able a few men to become billion
aires, will In the end be the destruction
of the billionaires. The populists have
been trying to Impress these truths
upon the people for the last ten years.
SPANK THAT INFANT
The consumption of sugar last year
in the United States averaged about
57 pounds for each inhabitant, which
at 5 cents a pound would cost $3.42
apiece, or $16.10 for a family of five
persons. If the duty were removed
and the sugar trust allowed the people
to get the benefit thereof, the saving
would be $1.14 for each person, or $5 70
for a family of five, for a whole year.
That is the tribute that each fam
ily pays to the sugar trust The tri
bute was imposed on the plea of pro
tecting an infant industry from the
pauper labor of Europe. But now comes
this mighty infant, grown to an enor
mous size upon the pap furnished by
tariff laws and deliberately attempts
to destroy another industry that em
ploys more labor than was ever em
ployed tn the sugar refineries by low
ering the price of sugar in all the mar
kets where beet sugar can come into
competition with it, while it keeps up
the old price in other parts of the
United States. The sugar trust is the
sort of an infant that ought to be pad
dled until it was well blistered and
then turned out to make its way in the
world without any special privileges
whatever.
The American Economist is com
pelled to haul in Its horns a little on
the reciprocity question, which It at
tacked with such bitterness a short
time ago. It now says:- "Americans
have not 'rejected reciprocity in all Its
forms.' Americans Introduced reciproc
ity to other nations and under repub--lican
administrations made a num
ber of treaties of reciprocity" and then
it adds this infernal lie, "all of which
were destroyed by a" democratic con
gress." Those treaties were held up
and defeated by a republican senate
and every man knows that the senate
is the only place where they could be
defeated as the house has nothing to
do with treaties. Reciprocity as far as
it goes is free trade and nothing else.
There have been traitors among the
democratic congressmen and senators
on the tariff question just as they
were on the financial question, but no
democratic congress ever defeated a
reciprocity treaty. The Economist be
gins its lying early in the campaign.
Mayor Tom Johnson declares that
the railroads have bought the repub
lican party of his state, body and soul.
That is a little different from the sit
uation in Nebraska. In the first place
the republican party of this state
never had any soul and the railroads
didn't have to buy It, for they owned
it from the .very beginning. .. -
Why don't some of the black jour
nalists jump onto Senator Hoar for
his anarchism and setting class against
class? In one of his latest speeches he
says: "The whipping post, the brand
ing on the forehead, . the-cropping of
n
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the ears, the scourging at the cart's
tall are light punishment for the rich
man who would debauch a state."
That is a fiercer denunciation of the
rich than ever appeared in the editorial
columns of The Independent. If . all
the logic of the black editorials that
have appeared in the last few weeks
is not false, then Senator Hoar is an
anarchist a died-in-the-wool anarch
ist and he ought to be deported.
After waiting nearly ten years the
Grange has at last got nearly up to
the Omaha platform. The recent de
mands . for legislation put forth at
their national assembly, with one or
two omissions, is a reproduction of
the Omaha platform. Ten years from
now the remainder of the Omaha plat
form will be adopted by them.
The society that passed a resolution
prohibiting its members from ever
pronouncing the name of the assassin
of the president felt very sure that the
order would" be obeyed, for not one of
them could accomplish that feat if he
tried, unless he took up his residence
in the land from which the criminal
came for a few years and practiced sev
eral hours a day.
Some one should write Mr. Rosewa
ter a letter and inform him of the
character of Mr. Goold, the republican
candidate for regent. He does not
seem to have heard that Mr. Goold
was one of the beneficiaries of Bart
ley's peculations and that he still has
the stolen money. Doubtless as soon
as Mr. Rosewater hears of this affair
he will inform his readers.
Tolstoi is done for now. William
E. Curtis says that Tolstoi is a "hum
bug," and that his writings are "im
moral," "pernicious," and "blasph
emous." After thus disposing of Tol
stoi, Curtis announces the speedy
forthcoming of a really great literary
work, in which there will be seen
none of the hum buggery of Tolstoi.
The author is Senator Beveridge.
Some of the black journalists are
making a great noise over the treach
ery of the Filipinos. No one is dis
posed to deny it, but it is only another
reason why we should have left them
to exercise their treachery., on : each
other and not mixed up, in an affair
that is bound to cost forty or fifty mil
lions a year above all we will ever get
out of it, besides the lives that are lost
by the said treachery.
Appointments have already been ar
ranged for Mr. Bryan to speak at the.
following places:
Fullerton, afternoon, Oct 24.
York, evening, 25th. (It is expected
that another meeting will be arranged
for the same afternoon.)
Broken . Bow, afternoon, 23d, some
other place in Custer county that even
ing. Other appointments will be an
nounced in due time. ,
After a republican legislature had
elected Millard senator and the party
had chosen Judge Norval to preside
over the state . convention and had
nominated : Goold -for regent of the
state university, Rosewater vainly
Imagines that the party "can purge
itself even of the suspicion' of hypoc
risy." Mr. Rosewater has been train
ing his imagination to execute feats
that were never performed before.
The greatest disgrace ever Inflicted
upon this state,, the one that will In
the long run be the most injurious to
it, is not the loss of the money that
Bartley stole. It is the election of two
such men as Dietrich and Millard as
United States senators. Neither one of
them has a single qualification for the
office. One is almost an illiterate and
the other' was "a participant in , every
criminal , act" of Bartley by which he
tole-200000r :
The republicans are playing smash
with the schools down in Kansas just
as they have here in Nebraska. . When
they "redeemed" that state one of the
first things that they did was to. turn
out all the professors and teachers in
the agricultural school.. No w;the school
has become so rotten and disreputable
that it is said that the governor will
summarily remove the whole board of
regents and try again to get it on. its
feet.
. When Bartley was paroled," relying
on the promise of a' republican gov
ernor, he felt very brave and declared
that he would never run up the white
flag. When that promise was broken
and fourteen years more of imprison
ment stared him in the face, he seems
to have reconsidered the matter and
concluded that he could show the pow
ers that be, what he could do if he took
the notion." So he named Goold. -But
there are others. ':
Better send our Insane, Our bad boys
and girls, our deaf and blind, to some
first-class hotel and hire their cloth
ing tailor-made, than to have republi
cans keep them at state institutions.
It's .safer and ; cheaper If -: the -hotel
burns,, the state will not bel loser.
Fifty additional inmates in nine. In
stitutions cost the taxpayers more than
$48,000 for six months' keep under re
publican rule. Board at $3 a day would
cost $549 for 183 days, and $400 ought
to getsome pretty; good tailor-made
clothing for each inmate. -
It is said In the dailies that 600 meft
have deserted from the army at Fort
Sheridan near Chicago In the last few
months and very few of them have
been captured. One of the editors de
clares that it Is because there is now
no canteen at the fort, from which it
would seem that the men enlisted be
cause they could get beer at 5 cents a
quart A great standing army is a
new thing in the United States and it
will take a good deal of "whipping In"
before the average young man will be
satisfied to rot In the barracks of a
fort.
'J: Sterling Morton in speaking, ot
Wall street declares that "there is.no'
street in the world where altruism is
so strong." Most people think "altru
ism" means regard for the interests
of others; the carrying out of the prin
ciples of the Golden Rule. Is It possi
ble that Morton don't know the mean
ing of the word? Or has he at -last
gone completely daft? Has his fawn
ing sychophancy, practiced for years,
at last brought him to a stage of id
iocy? Poor Morton! The Independent
extends Jts most sincere sympathies
to his friends and relatives, a
The people of Nebraska . have tie
themselves up in a most ridiculous way.
by electing a "redeemer" state treas
urer. In the first place they had to
tax themselves $6,000 for his term to
pay the guarantee company to Insure
them against his playing Barjtley upon
them, which is one thousand, dollars
more than they pay him as salary. In
the next place he has over $260,000 hid
den away of the state funds and won't
tell where it is or how much interest
he gets on it. So it 'seems for the sake
of having a "redeemer' treasurer, the
people must pay several thousands of
dollars a year extra. A mullet bead
may like that sort of deal, but no
body else does. ' '!
According to black journalism -th
only way a man can keep from-belng
an anarchist, if he opens his mouth
to speak at all, is - to support every
steal, indorse every graft, uphold-every
monopoly and trust that the re
publican party has brought into being.
If he criticises or denounces - any 'one
of them, then he Is an anarchist, a
dangerous agitator and a. breeder of
discontent: . . v
