March 27, 1902.
I'HE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO MEN
The Choirs of Christendom Sing Ixjud
Hosannas on This Festal Morn
and the World Rejoices.
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
Joining in the Chorus, Serenely Sur
veys the Field of Its Labors and
Has No Enemies to Punish.
On Easter morning Christendom
should lay down the weapons of of
fense and defense. The day is one of
peace on earth and good will to men.
The agnostic and infidel alike with
the Christian can echo the sentiment
which begot the anniversary, however
they may doubt the story of the Re
deemer or disagree with the dogmas
of the theologians.
THE SEASON OF THE YEAR
suggests the return of life and the re
opening of all the avenues of com
mercial as wel as social activity. The
Lenten season is one of reflection, of
meditation and of repentance. The
resurrection morn awakens anew the
energies of hope and sweetens the
lives of all God's creatures. Mean
while the thoughtful man, turning
from the joys of Easter, faces again
the strenuous activities of existence,
and,
REALIZING LIFE'S UNCERTAIN
TIES, makes secure the future by husband
ing his resources. He selects a good
life insurance company, takes out a
policy upon his life as a protection
against the disaster of death. At the
same time he. secures a form of pol
icy which not only affords protection
for those dependent upon him, but
at the same time enables him to bank
a surplus against misfortune during
his lifetime.
THE BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE,
a thoroughly modern, western institu
tion, organized under the laws of Ne
braska, managed by Nebraska people,
depositing its securities with the state
authorities, offers to him the best of
insurance plans and meets every re
quirement of a conservative business
Investment. At peace with the world
and seeking no punishment for its
enemies on this peaceful occasion, it
pimply asks the support of those who
believe in western financial institu
tions, because it is worthy, full of
energy and thoroughly up-to-date.
B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT
of this aggressive and growing young
company, is directing Its affairs with"
an eye single to the permanency rand:
success of the Bankers' Reserve Life
Association. He and his associates
carefully scrutinize- all risks - offered
and watch with constant attention ev
ery item of expense and asset for the
protection and profit of the policy
holders. Being a mutual company, ev
ery policy holder has a vote in its an
nual meetings and the company is
managed on the principles of
EACH FOR ALL AND ALL FOR
EACH.
State Affairs
The Independent extends congratu
lations to Bro. Burr of the Hamilton
County Register on the new make-up.
The Register is now a four-column,
sixteen-page paper, similar In style
of farm journals, and all home print.
Typographically the paper is at the
top of the list; and when Burr gets
down to editorial work he will make
things hum.
LOCAL BICKERINGS.
Up in Thurston county both the re
publicans and fusionists are having a
merry time with the gang that has
for years been working the Indian
agency business for all it is worth.
The fight has been going on for years,
but has recently broken out with re
newed vigor since the revelations made
by Representative Robinson in con
gress. Mark Murray, who has always
been on the anti-gang side, makes
the following comment in a recent
number of his paper, the Pender
Times: "Col. J. V. Huntsberger rose
up In all his manly might and dignity
and informed-this sinful old world
last week how just and virtuous he is.
He has no use for the 'offscourings','
(democrats, populists, anti-gang re
publicans, reservation farmers, etc.)
but he thanks God that he has a
stand-in and pull .with the 'better
class' (the O'Connors, the Mathew
sons, etc.). If we remember correctly
there was an old guy in Bible times
who was thankful that he, too, was
unlike the 'offiscourings,' and if you'll
remember, too, the Lord didn't have
any use for the fellow, but on the
other hand, thought kindly of the
poor, lowly sinner that didn't have a
pull with the 'better class.' "
THAT PASS QUESTION.
If the railroad passes to the country
press were withdrawn there would be
a great time. The 2x4 editors would
print lots of facts concerning rail
road extortion that would wake up the
people. That is what the railroads
give passes to prevent. The editors
are afraid to print the facts they have
because it means the loss of the bribe
called a pass. Public educators! Ap
peal to Reason.
That I3 one time Bro. Wayland hit
the nail squarely on the head, and it
would do no harm if a lot of our Ne
braska editors would do a little hard
thinking on the subject. The habit
of swapping advertising space for
mileage books has become a fixed one.
Most of the boys actually think they
are paying for what they get and
doubtless they are, but not In the way
road tickets? What's the use of this
barter, this relic of barbarism, this
swapping?
The Independent knows of a case
where the question wa put squarely
to a railroad official: "Do you consid
er these advertising contracts in the
light of a favor extended the newspa
pers, or as strictly business proposi
tions?" and the answer came back,
"We regard them in the light of fav
ors extended."
WHO IS DICTATING?
A good friend of The Independent, in
a private letter to one of the editors,
says that "the stand The Independent
is taking in regard to Meserve and
Sornborger will be detrimental to the
party as well a3 the paper. . . . News
and facts are what the people want
and not dictation."
The good brother seems to wholly
overlook the fact that The Indepen
dent is just as much entitled to have
opinions as anybody else, and equally
entitled to express them. It has nev
er taken the stand that others must
think as it does. Any newspaper man
who will smother his opinions for the
sake of a few subscribers Is not en
titled to bear the name of populist.
And the good brother. In his fear that
The Independent is trying to dictate
to him, turns 'round and does the
thing he condemns. "News and facts,"
he says, "are what the people want
and not dictation." What is that but
dictation to the editor? And who. is
better qualified to judge than the edi
tor, especially when he sees new sub
scribers coming In by JthQ hundreds
every week?
The Independent gives "facts and
news;" it gives the editor's opinions
on many matters; and Its 15,000 sub
scribers seem to like it, even if they
do not agree with everything it con
tains. .
ELK HORN VS. BURLINGTON.
One of the most interesting "scraps"
ever witnessed in Nebraska is going
on right now in the republican ranks.
Of course everybody knows that the
State Journal has for years worn a
brass collar with a magic inscription,
"B. & M." Since the merger, and the
"gentlemen's agreement" between Jim
Hill and the U. ' P., there has ben
little friction between the B. & M. and
the U. P. in fact a "community of 'In
terests" has been established.
But the Elkhorn system is crowded
away from the pie counter and there
are evidmcts that before long there'll
be razzers flying In the air. In fact
they're flying now. Mention was
made of the fact that Frank Harrison
(yclept "Thundermaker" by the pop
ulists) some eight weeks ago had be
gun the publication of a weekly called
the Nebraska State Record and those
who know Harrison began to wonder
what he was driving at. From the out
set he attacked the present republican
state administration all along the line.
Senators Dietrich and Millard and
Congressman Burkett, too, came In for
their share of the Harrsonian vitriol.
Those who know Harrison know that
he doesn't engage in newspaper busi
ness for his health and they won
.dergd; what influences, could be back of
the 'State Record. Finally through
the gloom came a ray of light. Harri
son is attacking every republican
maverick that the Burlington has
branded B. & M. He couldn't be fav
oring the U. P., for the two roads
have no differences. It was the Elk
horn.. That's the secret. Beyond a
doubt the Elkhorn is backing Harri
son and his Record.
Well, he's doing an artistic job, but
it's a hopeless fight. The Burlington
will control the next republican state
convention.
EXCELLENT, INDEXED.
While Governor Savage is In the
letter-writing mood, it wil be a good
idea for him to answer these questions,
which are being generally propounded:
1. What was your business in Den
ver last week?
2. Why did Bartley secretly leave
town and follow you on the next train?
3. If your business with Bartley at
Denver was legitimate and all right,
why didn't you go out together?
4. If you are Interested with Bart
ley in Colorado mining property, what
do you think the people think?
5. Since George W. Holdrege met
you at Denver, are you willing to tell
what his connection is in the mining
deal?Nebraska State Record (Elk
aorn rep.).
A visitor at The Independent office
the other day wondered why Bartley,
Savage and Holdrege, instead of sneak
ing off to Denver to hold their confer
ence, didn't go down to Savage's new
$34,000 ranch on the Red river in
Louisiana. The undoubted privacy of
tha? place and the many gentle mem
ories which it would revive in the
mlntls of Bartley and Savage espe
cially, ought to make it an ideal spot.
But of course they ought to take
Charlie Whedon along.
TAXATION OF FRANCHISES.
What some legislators don't know
about some things would fill several
large sized volumes. . Up In Omaha
there is a big lawsuit on over the ef
forts of the corporations to shirk the
payment of their just share of the
taxes. Some of the heavy taxpayers
brought an action In mandamus to
compel the taxing power to do the
light "thing. This suit was brought
in the supreme court and that body
appointed Robert Ryan of Lincoln as
referee. J. H. Mcintosh represents the
relators and Cheap Wheat Webster
very naturally represents the tax
shirkinsc corporations.
The hearing before Referee Ryan
has been pending several days. The
other day Intangible property was the
point to which Attorney Mcintosh de
voted most of his attention. "As Mr.
Morsman told us the other day," said
he, "the way to get at the value of a
franchise is to add the value of the
capital- stock to the bonded Indebted
ness of the corporation, and then from
this deduct the value of the tangible
property. The result will be the value
of the intangible property, or, In
other words, the franchise."
"But the statute says we must sub
tract the bonded indebtedness from
the value of the capital tock," ob
jected Referee Ryan.
"True," said ' Mr. Mcintosh, "and
at liberty , to do exactly the opposite
of what the statutes tell us to do?"
"We would not only be at liberty,
your honor, we would be bound to do
the thing that will enable us to ascer
tain, the fair cash value of this prop
erty. That is the fundamental duty
that is imposed upon us."
' Think of the monumental ignorance,
or the rascality, of the legislator who
would "subtract the bonded indebted
ness from the . value of the capital
stock" in order to ascertain the value
of a franchise. The railroads of the
United States are stocked and bonded
as follows:
Stocks ......... .4 $3,845,579,593
Bonds .. ... 5,645,455,367
Difference ........... .$ 200,124,226
According to the Omaha' idea, then,
all the railroad franchises are worth
a little more than two hundred million
dollars, or about $1,000 per mile for
the 192,536 miles of road in the United
States. As a matter of fact, however,
the bonded debt of any corporation
usually represents about the amount
actually invested, while the stock rep
resents the intangible property or
franchise. Accordingly the franchises
of the American railroads are worth 1
nearly six billions instead of two hun
dred millions, or about $30,000 per
mile of line. Now, this franchise isn't
anything that can be seen or heard
but it ' can be felt nevertheless. It
has a very unpleasant feeling to the
poor devils who have to pay twice as
high "for freight rates, because the
roads insist upon earning returns upon
their actual property as well as on this
Invisible something called a franchise.
Here in Nebraska the legislature has
been very lax about taxing franchises
although the constitution plainly says
they shall be taxed. The railroads pay
taxes on about $26,000,000 valuation,
but that is based on the actual prop
erty at anywhere from one-fourth to
one-seventh of its actual cash value.
But thelj; franchises in Nebraska are
nearly as valuable as their actual prop
erty. Why not tax them?
Of course this will require some ad
ditional legislation. The republican
legislature has swept awray the last
vestige of law looking to any control
over freight rates, but we still have
left the power to tax. Let. us use it.
Let us compel them, and all other cor
porations enjoying special privileges,
to pay'their just share of the burdens.
At the least calculation the railroads
of Nebraska ought to pay taxes on a
valuation of from $100,000,000 to $150,
000,000. Thfey are earning a good in
come on much a larger sum than that.
They ought not to pay any higher
taxes on their actual property than
anybody else; but they enjoy a special
privilege, the power to charge "all the
traffic will bear." We have a right to
tax them on the value of that privil
ege. Let us do it.
Inadvertently The Independent, omit
ted the name of E. A. Brown of the
Sherman County Times-Independent,
Loup City, as one of the charter mem
bers of the populist editorial associa
tion last week. Secretary Mcintosh
had the list of names, and the editor
was unable to recall all of ,them. from
memory.
The Independent acknowledges the
kindness of Representative W. L.
Stark in sending it a copy of H. R.
12350, the Fowler bill, "to maintain
the gold standard, provide an elastic
currency, equalize the rates of inter
est throughout the country, and fur
ther amend the national banking
laws."
CANCER MICROBE SAID TO HAVE
BEEN DISCOVERED.
The Cancer Germ said to have been
discovered by an Eastern Physician
caused great surprise. Heretofore thU
disease was supposed to be caused by
a cell growth. Careful experiments
are being made. Dr. Bye. the Eminent
Cancer Specialist, of Kansas City, Mo.,
is being besieged by hundreds of peo
ple suffering with this dread dis
ease. The Doctor is curing many
cases, thought to be incurable, with
the combination of a Medicated Oil.
Persons suffering or having friend-3
afflicted should write for an illustrated
book on the treatment of cancer, tu
mor, ulcer, piles, fistula and all skin
and womb diseases. Address Dr. W.
O. Bye. Cor. Sth & Broadway, Kansas
City, Mo.
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK
General Milas Scores tha Effort of Secre
tary Rook to Germanize and Russian
ize Oar Little Army
The evidence given before the senate
committee by General Miles has been
printed. It contains none of the state
ments accredited to him by the corre
spondents, but it peels the hide from
Secretary Root. Miles' objections to
the bill are couched in courteous lan
guage, but they are sharper than a
two-edged sword. The following is a
specimen: "The mal-administration
in the commissary department that oc
casioned so much suffering In 1898
was not the fault of the system, but of
those responsible for Its administra
tion, and since It was exposed and
corrected I am not aware that a single
case has been, reported where a sol
dier has not received his daily food
and his pay when due from the com
missary and pay departments." Fur
ther along General Miles said of the
bill: "It is centralization of the most
pronounced type, augments the power
of the staff and In effect removes it
further from touch with the fighting
force of the army. The scheme is in
voluntary, casts to the winds the les
sons of experience, and abandons
methods which successfully carried
us through the most memorable war
epochs of our history. The proposed
plan is but an effort to adopt and fos
ter, in a republican form of govern
ment such as ours, a system peculiar
ly adapted to monarchies having im
mense standing armies. It would seem
to Germanize and Russianize the small
army of the United States. It seems
to me you are throwing the door wide
open for a future autocrat or a mili
tary despot. It is not. in my judg
ment, in accordance with the prin
ciple and theory of democratic govern
ment and for the best interests of the
army, which has existed more than a
is only natural that he should draft a
bill of that character and that Miles,
brought up under the shadow of Bun
ker Hill, should denounce it as he did.
It is no political or party cry, tMs cry
against imperialism. Everything por
tends the coming of the military auto
cratthe man on horseback. The
stolid Indifference and partisan preju
dice of the voters makes it possible.
Another penalty that a just God is
inflicting upon the United States for
its wars of conquest against the people
of the islands of southern and tropi
cal seas, is leprosy. The medical offi
cers of the marine service have found
278 cases of leprosy in the United
States and express the opinion that
that is not nearly all of them tor the
disease is very easily concealed in its
first stages. One result of imperialism
already attained is the spread of small
pox and leprosy all over the country
with a prospect that Asiatic cholera
and the bubonic ' plague will follow.
Have you had enough of it?
A Lincoln Republican
Editor Independent: I fully indorse
and appreciate The Independent as the
people's paper true, fearless and
bold. Prosperity has not yet reached
the poor working class here, especially
we, who eke out a bare living cutting
cord: wood, r which must be shipped
over a branch of Jim Hill's railroad to
Spokane market. The freight on one
cord of wood is over, or about half
what the producer gets for his labor
and timber in store trade at fancy
prices Taxes are sure and heavy, at
the rate of about $5 on $150 value of
personal property; but corporations
and combines escape and flourish. My
father was an Abraham Lincoln man
and I was raised to .believe in Lin
coln doctrines, in Lincoln republican
ism. I believe in these doctrines yet
and claim to be a Lincoln republican
yet, but although I am 39 years old I
have never been able to bring myself
to vote the current republican (?)
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ENCOURAGING
ETTER!
Headers in Every State and Territory Recoguize the Import
ance of, the Undertaking to Construct Liberty
Building
ORDERS FOR POSTALS FROM EVERYWHERE
Many Have Sent for the Second and Third Block, Recognizing the Indepen
dent as the Foremost Champion of Liberty
in America
During the past week; The Indepen
dent has received hundreds of encour
aging' letters from its readers in ev
ery part of the country commending it
for the splendid work It is doing in de
fending the rights of the plain people.
Slowly but surely the powers of plu
tocracy are advancing'and encroaching
upon the rights of "thf people; On ev
ery hand can be 'found evidence that
the present administration is hand in
glove with the money powe rof the
country; Special privileges are con
tinually given to those who have al
ready grown rich and powerful through
special favors from the government
and gradually the people are denied
rights guaranteed by the constitution
and the Declaration of Independence.
The scriptural prophecy that "To him
that hath shall' be given and from him
that hath not shall be taken even the
little that he hath," is being literally
fulfilled. Te press of ' the country,
subsidized by the gold of plutocracy
and hypnotized by the glories of con
quest makes no protest. Through
igriorance of the real dangers the peo
ple tamely submit. If liberty and the
privileges of self-government beneath
the American flag can be denied to peo
ple in the Philippine islands on the
merest excuse by the powers of or
ganized greed now in control of the
government, how long will it be before
the same powers find good and suffic
ient excuse to deny the same privileges
to the people at home? It is only by
education that the people can be awak
ened to the real dangers ahead. The
best educator is a weekly newspaper if
edited honestly and fearlessly. It is a
weekly text-book, a lesson once a week
to all who receive and read it. With
this in mind readers of The Indepen
dent everywhere are making every ef
fort to increase its circulation. For
their assistance The Independent is
thankful and in return will fight the
best fight that it can in their behalf.
As our army of readers increases the
good that we can do becomes greater.
To all who send for a block of five
cards we send a roll of sample copies
of The .Independent for free distribu
tion among their neighbors and
friends. When you have the sample
copies it Is easy to get your neighbors
to subscribe. Many have disposed of
several blocks in this way. Why not
send for a block of five? If you have
difficulty in selling them you may re
turn them. It costs you nothing to
try. Here is what, others are doing:
What we need most is a home. At
present we are located in a building
which we rent. In the mid3t of a cam
paign or other inconvenient time ve
might be compelled to move. To that
extent we are at the mercy of land
lordism. What we desire to do is to
buy a little spot of mother earth from
which we can fearlessly champion the
cause of good government and defend
I the plain people from the aggressions
of organized greed, and from which
we cannot be driven by the order of
some plutocrat. We want to construct
a "Liberty Building," dedicated to the
defense of the liberties of the plain
people. In time of peace we wish to
prepare for war.
We need a building 20x142 feet, two
stories high, of the most economical
construction.
We. will use it without plastering,
heat it with ordinary heating stoves
and be thoroughly happy and at home
to and for all our friends and patrons.
We will get along without the luxury
of steam heat or hot air furnace.
The plan adopted to accomplish
the undertaking is to sell "Liberty
Building Postals' in blocks of five for
$3.00. Each postal is good for a year's
subscription to The Independent to je
sent to any address In the United
States or Canada. What ,we ask of our
friends' and patrons is their co-operation
in disposing of 2,000 blocks of 5.
10,000 cards. We have made the
price low to make it easy for them to
dispose of the cards. When you ask
your neighbor to buy one of these
cards you are not asking him to con
tribute or donate anything. You are
in reality offering to sell him a year'3
subscription to The Independent at 40
cent les3 than he could buy the sub
scription direct. We can afford to make
this low rate for these cards in blocks
of five for three reasons: First, we do
not have to pay an. agent his wages
and traveling expenses to secure the
subscriptions. All that expense, which
is usually heavy, we avoid by thi3
method. Second, we will use the mon
ey to build a home for The Indepen
dent an ' quit paying rent which now
costs us $65 per month. Third, we
wished to make it easy for our friends
to sell the car Js. Those are the plain
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reasons why we are selling "Liberty
Building Subscriptions" in blocks of
Ave at the low figure we are. We ha ire
been as liberal in our, offer as possi
ble. It costs more money to publish
a paper devoted to the defense oJ tnc
plain people ihan to publish one ad
vocating the cause of plutocracy. The
money power would gladly furnish
material to fill all our columns free of
charge if we would accept It. They
would be liberal with their advertis
ing patronage and generous to a fault
if we would indorse their legalized
robberies. ' That's why plutocratic
sheets cost so little. Shall we give you
that kind of a paper? Never! , We
will print the truth and sell the paper
as cheaply as we can. Invite your
neighbor to try it for a year. Ask
him to compare it with the hand-me-downs
and ready made stuff furnished
him by the organs of plutocracy.
Here is the roll of Liberty Guards
and what they have done to date. Let
us add your name to the list:
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP.
Please send me a block of five. I
think I can sell them without any
trouble, if not, I will send them back.
I want to spread the gospel of truth
by getting subscribers for The Inde
pendent and then spreading it ac
cording to the constitution and' Dec
laration of Independence. I want to
see j'ou get a building of your own
and am willing to help what I can. I
can fully indorse the action of the
state committee as stated in the1 last
Independent, to co-operate with other
reform forces, but. don't give up the
ship. I take The Independent and The
Commoner 'and think I could not get
along without them. The editor of
The Independent and Commoner are
doing a noble work. Long may you
live and prosper.
Yours in the fight for reform to the
end, - - W. A. HICKOK.
Douglas, Neb.
ORDERS FOR FIPrH BLOCK.
Please find enclosed $3 for the last
(fourth) block of cards. I sold them
easy, so I will still try another block
of five cards. Yours truly,
Holdrege, Neb. . C. A. SKOOG.
TOO MUCH FOR MARK HANNA.
Enclosed find money order for $3
to pay for the five Liberty cards I or
dered some time ago. You can also
send me another block of five or ten.
I sold all of them when I went to
North Platte and could have sold three
or four more if I had had them with
me. I can sell them Just as easy to
republicans as to pops or democrats.
If every precinct committeeman would
send and get , ten or fifteen of those
cards, and sell them to his neighbors
all the boodle that Mark Hanna could
roll Into the state could never getMt
in the republican column again. If
I had the time I. think I could sell a
hundred of those cards In a week. I
will send some , names that you can
send a sample copy to and then I will
go and sell them a card. Yours truly,
;G. W. FERBRACHE.
Sutherland, Neb.
FROM -.TRUST HEADQUARTERS.
Enclosed please find M. O. for $.'? for
five Liberty Building postals. Hop
ing and trusting your monument will
stand the test and continue to work
for the good of the people. I remain,
very respectfully, ; A. J. McBRIDE.
Paterson, N. J.
FROM ARIZONA TERRITORY.
I am pleased with the way In which
you lay the facts before the mv'sses.
Please to send me a block of five and
I will sell them if I can. Asa Turner,
Solomonville, Ariz.
SOLD THREE IN 15 MINUTES.
Enclosed find $3.00 for five Liberty
cards received Saturday. I disposed of
three of them In fifteen minutes after
receiving them, the other two the nej:t
morning. I believe I can sell another
block. Joseph BUrr, Leoti, Kas.
BEST IN THE U. S.
I enclose $3.00 for cards sent me
which I have sold. I have been a sub
scriber to The Independent for sev
eral years and think it the best politi
cal paper In the United States. Peter
Johnson, Gordon, Neb. 1
FROM MONTANA. L
Enclosed $3.00 for block of postals.
Let one pay my subscription and send
me the others which I will endeavor to
sell. H. L. Keene; Canton. Mont,
SOLD THEM EASILY.
I received your postals and sold them
in a short time. Would like to have
another block of five. Will help you
all I can. H. L. Shelton, -Wauneta,
Neb.-
FROM WAY DOWN SOUTH.
Enclosed is check for $3.00 for block
of five to help -yon erect a castle in
and from which to advocate and de
fend liberty, equal rights to all! and
special favors to none.--J. B. Bridger,
my last block of five. Will try an
other block of five if you please. I
have two more subscribers already en
gaged. Received the sample copies to
day. A. W. . Ilalleck, Clarks, Neb.
We have many more letters like the
above, but cannot take room to" print
more. All bring word 3 of encourage
ment. '
No. card 3
orders :.
R. D. Parsons, Amelia, Neb. ...... . f
J. W. Brasseil, Alexis, Ala
J. W. Bogle, Holbrook, Neb 5
E. E. Warner, Newcastle, Neb..:... 5
J. H. Dupree, Ashburn, Ga....".. .. 5
Paul Johnson, Willowdale, Neb.... 5
A. J. McBride, Peterson, N. J..1.... 3
Gus A. Olsen, Scandia, Neb..; 5
B. F. Halsey, Bloomfield, Neb 3
J. P. Kettle, Broken Bow, Neb..... 5
W, ,A. Hickok, Douglas, Neb...... 5
H. P. Hendrick, Elgin, Neb........ 5
Jeff T. Gentry, Salem, Neb 5
G. W. Ferbrache, Sutherland, Neb.. 10
John W. Burham, Stratton, Neb,... 5
M. O. Bishop, Atkinson, Neb....... 5
S. G. Thomas, Alma, Neb 5
J. M. Woodcock, So. Sioux City, Neb. 5
P. M. Elarth, York, Neb 5
C. A. Skoog, Holdrege, Neb........ 5
T. M, Williams, Burdette, S. Dak.. 5
K.. T. Johnson, Itushyille, Neb.... 10
J. J. Barnes, Columbus, Neb........ 5
L. E. Spam, Divide, Neb .. . 5
G. B. Hander, Arcadia, Neb -.10
J. T. Sanford. May ville, Mich...... 5
James Tangney, Rulo, Neb 5
John Trimble, No. Loup, Neb....... 5
C. V. Svoboda, St. Paul, Neb........ 5
James Harvie, Webster Neb.... ... 5
Dr. J .N. Lyman, Hastings, Neb.. 5
A. W. Dutcher, McCook, Neb, . 5
W. S, Dean, Delhi, N. Y.. 5
W. J. Thompson. Palava, Tex:...: 5
R. I. Davidson, Delevan, N. Y,... 5
Geo, II. Masonhall, Homesteacl.Okl. 5
Jerry- Hayea, Dickenson Centre. NY 5
John Shortledge. Barada, Neb... .. 5
L. M. Swan, Stella, Neb 5
C4 A. Skoog, Holdrege. Neb........ 3
Paul Nelson, Pelger, Neb 3
J. Higgins, Cambridge, Neb 3
J. F. Ericson, City 5
J. N. Limbacker, Manhattan, Kas.. 5
J. D. Vaughn, Ft. Calhoun, Neb.... 5
Joshua Jones, Broones Island. Neb. 3
Theodore. Lohlberg,1. Oakland. Neb . 3
D. P. Reece, Oxford, Neb 5
Turner G. Brown, Arapahoe, Neb.. 5
O. R. Pitney, Inavale. Neb....'.... 5
N. H. Bedford. Meek. Neb 3
E. E. Warner, New Castle, Neb.... 3
J. H. Dufree. Ashburn, Ga.. 3
J. W. Brassell, Alexi3, Ala 3
H. L. Ktene, Canton, Mont....... i
L. G. Todd, Union. Neb. 10
J. F. Vandrala. Ravenna, Neb..... 3
L. D. Austin, Moulton, Neb. ..... .!)
S. C. Faddis, Jefferson, Pa .... 5
W. J. Gardner, Bracken. Mo....... 3
N. Cochenour, Roseland, Neb. .... . 3
W. W. LaMunyon, Rising City. Neb 5
L. B, Harrison, Bancroft, Neb....
G. A. Y. Reeds, Burkemont. Ore...
C. W. Kinch, Lexington. Neb...... 3
D. H; Fries,. Nehawka. Neb 3
A. W. Halleck, Claiks, Neb....;.. 3
J. C. May, Buck Horn. Wyo..... .. 3
S. Jones, Patterson, Mo........... a
E. R. Woods, Burwell. Neb ... 5
Asa Turner, Solomonville, Ar... 3
E. E. Warner, Newcastle. Neb 3
J. W. Cox, Louisville, Neb ;.; .. 3
C. A. Skoog, Holdrege, Neb 3
W. F. Kellogg, Red Cloud. Neb S
G. W. Beauchamp, Wichita, Kas. . . 3
Frank Reger, Dunn's Station, Pa.. 3
R. W. VanAlstine, Neb. City. Neb..
J. A. Hogg, Shelton, Neb 5
P. J. Cox, Amsterdam. N. Y....... 3
A. J. Best, Decatur, Neb. 3
J. E. Lamb, Mariaville, Neb 3
W. A. Roberts, Greenfield, Tenn 5
Total 3C-0
Previously acknowledged........ 9S2
To state committee of Neb. . . . 23oj
Grand total ..'.4042
The republicans of the house per
formed one of those politically infam
ous acts which has blackened the rec
ord of the lower branch of congress at
every , session when the republicans
have been in power. Mr. Rhea was
elected to the house from a district in
Kentucky, his opponent being a gold
democrat. A contest was Instituted
and it was so ridiculous in its preten
tions that it has been allowed to dra
: long until last Tuesday when the
republicans seated the gold democrat
and ousted Mr. Rhea. The act was so
infamous that ten republicans refused
to vote for it.
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