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THE ITEBR ASKA INDEPENDEITT.
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The Ticket
For Governor. ..... .W. H. Thompson
: (Democrat, Hall County.)
Lieut. Governor .E. A. Gilbert
:::- (Populist, York County.)
Secretary of State....:. John Powers
(Populist, Hitchcock County.)
SAuditer.. C. Q. De' France
(Populist, Jefferson County.)
(Treasurer .........J. N. Lyman
- - - (Populist,? Adams. County.)-.
'Attorney General. .... . . J. H. Broady
(Democrat, Lancaster County.)
Commissioner Public Lands and
Bufldings J. C. Brennan
- (Democrat, Douglas County.)
Bupt. of Schools Claude Smith
.: (Populist, Dawson County.)
CONGRESSIONAL.
First. : Howard H. Hanks
(Democrat, Otoe, county.)
Second Gilbert M. Hitchcock
(Democrat, Douglas county.)
fThird...............John S. Robinson
(Democrat, Madison county.) .
Fourth .William L. Stark
(Populist, Hamilton county.)
Fifth Ashton C. Shallenberger
(Democrat, Harlan county.)"
Sixth , Patrick H. Barry
(Populist, Greeley county.)
Baer discounts Vanderbilt's "the
people be d'd" about three times a
day.
Secretary Moody has declared that
there is at least one tariff duty that is
"sneaking and cowardly. -
The "full dinnef ail',.,was k great
factor in the 1900 republican campaign
but the empty coal hod does not work
BO well in 1902.
LThe Chicago board of health says:
"As to diphtheria, no child need to die
of this disease if promptly and prop
erly treated-with anti-toxin"
We have a tariff against Russian
icoal oil and Russian sugar. Is it any
.wonder that the czar, claps a few du
ties on American products?
. It appears that sbme of .Omkha's; dis
tinguished citizens, have, been commit
ting perjury to aid Dave Mercer and
the railroads. The Bee furnishes the
proof.
.' The Independent must still insist
lhat Mickey Is a candidate for gov
ernor. However hard the republicans
work their "forgetters" they can't
alter the fact.
When some of the foreign govern
ments learn how a coal trust baron
snubbed the president of this great re
public with impunity, they may con
clude to try it on themselves.
.-When a member of the cabinet be
gins to throw bricks at the tariff idol
as Secretary Moody did in his late
speech it is a sure sign that that ad
ministration has heard something.
General Coxie is on top at last The
Secretary of the United States treasury
has adopted Coxie's plan of loaning
money without interest on municipal
and county bonds. Hurrau for Coxie!
- It is presumed that Cap. Billingsley
has forsaken his civic federation and
prohibition - organization as he was
seen at the Antlers the other evening
practicing on Dietrich's old campaign
speech.
. .The assessment for campaign pur
poses made on state judicial nominees
In both parties in New York for years
has been ?30,000 each. What may be
expected from a judiciary under a sys
tem like that?
.Teddy has for his secretary of the
treasury a, greater Inflationist than
can be found in all the ranks of pop
ulism. He inflates the currency, he
inflates credit, and he inflates the tills
of the bankers. " V
The republican who votes the rail
road ticket this year without getting
iiis cash down in advance is a natural
born political idiot. As a straight
business proposition the railroads can
afford to pay from $2 up ; for votes
enough to carry the election, and what
is more, the money is ready. Business
is business. Why give away, for noth
ing something that will brings cash
down? ,:..-(
WHAT'S THI MATTKK WITH.THEMT
There are plenty of, republicans in
this state who still deny that the
trusts sell their goods at a lower price
to foreigners than they do to the citi
zens of this country. One of them,
when shown the sworn statements of
Schwab, John W. Gates and ; A. B
Farquar, all big trust magnates, be
fore th Industrial commission, in
which they testified that " they sold
their goods "much lower abroad," still
refused to believe it He intimated
that the big volume containing that
part of the report of the commission
in which this testimony appeared, was
a document got up by the populist
state committee.
Republican papers are published for
the purpose of keeping the people in
ignorance. .When the democratic con
gressional committee wished to adver
tise, offering a reward of $100 for one
of these export price journals, the ad
vertisement was refused by nearly all
the leading newspapers in New York
city. The editors did not . wish to
offend the trusts. -The New York
World published the offer, and the
committee at last succeeded In obtain
ing several export journals, and the
democratic campaign book contains fif
teen pages of matter photographed
from these journals, v -
These .pages show that the trusts
sell their goods to foreigners at a dif
ference of from 11 per cent to 281 per
cent less' than they do to Americans,
The least advantage that the foreigner
gets is on steel armor for cables,
which is 11 per cent, their greatest is
in galvanized wire rope where the dif
ference is 261'per cent. Foreigners get
sewing 'machines for 59 per cent less
and barbed wire for fencing 45 per
cent less, than the farmers of the
United States can buy those things for.
Now, -honestly, isn't the -American
farmer who walks up to the polls and
votes the republican ticket a ninney ?
What's the matter with them any
how? The Independent ;:jcoul;neylP:
find out Is it partisan insanity or is
it downright stupidity?
STUDENT VOTERS
There are four universities here In
Lincoln and several thousand students
in attendance upon them every year.
In the state university Wesleyan, Cot
ner and Union there? are . many men
old enough to vote -The -railroads
in he interest of the republican party
have every year here an agent "to bribe
the students to vote the republican
ticket with passes. Scores of then!
were given passes last year to go home
and vote and return. The man em
ployed in" 'taiS dirty luslness jeven
went so far. as to- huntup students and
press passes upon them. There are few
students who have a right to vote, here
under the supreme . court decision,
which is to the effect that a student
having no other place of residence
and not deriving his support frpm his
family or others located at his old
home,' has a righttopvote - fh years
past a great many students' have voted
here, . when pressed to do so by the
ward heelers and railroad special
agents, who had no right to vote. The
different university authorities would
do the right thing, and aid their in
stitutions if they would send to .the
election board in their respective dis
tricts a list of the students who have
a right to vote here. Of course" these
young men are unknown to the reg
ular residents and unless every one
of them was challenged, those not I
entitled to vote could not be known.
The Independent has often called
attention to the indescribable vile
ness of me men who come to the uni
versities every year to corrupt the
youth with bribes of-free passes. One
act like that nullifies all the teaching
in civil government and good citizen
ship which they receive during their
whole college course. But there is
not anything too. vile or foul for a
worker for. the railroad ticket to do.
Yet it would seem when they attack
the very foundations of society by
corrupting the youths of the univer
sities, it is time that the authorities
-there - took, some decided action.
AN OPEN CONFESSION
Mr. Olney, and the republicans have
always regarded him as an' able law
yer, called the . anthracite mine own
ers "the most unblushing and persis
tent of lawbreakers. For years they
have defied the law of Pennsylvania
which forbids common carriers, en
gaging in the business of mining. For
years they have discriminated be
tween customers in the freight
charges , on their railroads ; in viola
tion of the lnterstate?. commerce, law.
For years they have unlawfully mo
nopolized interstate commerce in vio
lation of the Sherman anti-trust law."
Mr. Olney's words have been quoted
with approyal in many of the republi
can great dailies. These republican
editors seem to forget., that here is a
confession of the very crimes that The
independent has been charging . them
of being guilty. - The republican party
rules in Washington and, in Pennsyl
vania. The national and the state gov
ernments have allowed this great; rich
and powerful trust to openly 'violate
the laws both of the state 'and the na
tion, while they have prosecuted "ev
ery poor man who has Violated them.
Furthermore, .- after confessing that
thetse rich men violate the law every
day , they live, they do not even now
propose to bring them to justice. Baer
and his partners are still to be al
lowed, to trample the state constitu
tion under their feet, defy the inter
state commerce law and make a mock
ery of the Sherman anti-trust act The
government is to continue to be a gov
ernment of the rich, for the rich and
by the rich. They are to be allowed
to trample law and constitutions be
neath their feet, while the poor man
is to be held to the strictest account
ability. That is the sort of govern
ment that the republican party, with
shameless abandon, proposes to give
us in the future .as In the past
CURRENT PRICE IOR VOTES
An old politician said to the editor
of The Independent: "If you can
only keep it from being known that
there will be money at every polling
place in Nebraska to pay for votes,
you fellows might have a chance to
win this time. If It is known that
there is money everywhere for votes
you won't have any show at all."
That is the politician's idea. The In
dependent's is different If there Is
.to be money everywhere to pay for
votes, the men who are willing to buy
will: see to it that the right parties
know of that fact. It would be futile
to try to suppress the fact that the
railroads are willing to buy this elec
tion and are also willing to pay a
good ;round sum for it They could
pay $2 a vote for a majority in this
state and make money by it in the one
Item of taxation alone. And there are
hundreds of other ways in which they
could make money by having Mickey
and the state government. That be
ing the case, any man who votes the
republican ticket for less than ?2 is a
natural born financial idiot and ought
to-have a guardian appointed to look
after his business for him. There is
"hp, doubt that in some cases where the
railroads think a republican member
of the legislature is in doubt, they
will likely pay as high as $10 for . a
vote. It is no use to try to keep these
facts frpm populists. They all know
them. The other fellows will be in
formed at the right time. The only
thing that will not be told them is that
from' every voter who sells his vote
for two dollars, the railroads will take
four this year and every year as long
as they hold the government. Votes
are bought because there is a big
profit In the business. You get $2 for
your vote and pay the railroads back
?4." Thafs the way $t works. , ......
"NEW YORK PROVINCIALISM '
The Brooklyn Eagle, which poses
as a democratic , paper, but is, the ex
tremest of the republican plutocratic
sheets, goes .after. Hill and his public
ownership of anthracite coal mines
with a vengeance. Among other things
of; the same: sort, it says:
. "A blush of shame ought to
color even the experienced cheek
of David B. Hill when he seeks to
mislead an audience of democrats
by telling them that the acquisi
tion of the anthracite coal mines
by the government through the
exercise of the right of eminent
domain would be neither revolu
tionary nor socialistic, but con
stitutional, necessary, and right
He knows better. He falls far in
the public esteem when he teaches
this wild doctrine that a sensible
ape would reject and a lawyer's
office bojr riddle in half a min
ute."
After a lot of such talk the Eagle
proceeds to let its readers know how
provincial and ignorant a thing It is.
In speaking of anthracite it says:
"In the west and south only here and
there can a family be found that burns
it." That editor surely was never
west of the Mississippi river and prob
ably never this side of the Alleghanles.
The Independent has no higher opin
ion of Hill than the Eagle now has,
although it has been .Hill's chief
backer for many years. If the time
should ever come when Hill's vote
would secure the government owner
ship of anything, he would cast his
vote against it
Aldrich, who rules the roost in the
United States senate and whose close
connections with Rockefeller and
Havemyer are known of all men, has
promulgated a platform in his little
bailiwick of Rhode Island. Of the
great combinations he says they are
"erroneously called trusts." That is
the extent of his condemnation of
them.
The republican mode of addressing
the followers of that party are unique.
Senator Allison says that free trade
would help the trusts and for that rea
son he is against free trade. The said
party followers all reply to Allison:
"Yep. That's so." -
At Plattsmouth the other night, Bur
kett, as reported in the Bee, said: "I
refuse to.uiscuss the Fowler bill be
cause it is not an issue." He, how
ever, carefully refrained from saying
that he would vote against It when it
came before the house. That sort, of
spell-binding is even worse than sap
head politics, , ,
STRANGE POLITICAL SITUATION
TJhe private ownership of railroads
has produced a political situation in
the state of Nebraska that must at
tract the attention of every thinking
man. The proposition before the peo
Die is to increase . the assessment of
the railroads; to $40,000,000 a, very
modest valuation for ..the . property
they own in the state. . If that is done
and the roads are, prohibited from
raising rates so as to collect, the ad
ditional taxes from the people, they
will have to pay over many thousands
in taxes. Everybody knows that if
"our man ivlickey." and.the trest of the
republican ticket Is elected, the roads
will not have -to pay any more taxes
than they do now. Therefore the
roads have a direct money interest in
this election. As a business proposi
tion it will pay the roads to expend
thousands of dollars to. defeat the fu
sion ticket That they will do it no
one denies. Voters will - be brought
into the state by the hundreds, just as
they were in the last presidential cam
paign and at the Dave Mercer pri
maries. Every vote that - can be
bought for cash Will s be obtained. It
is simply "business." otes are worth
just so much' cold cash to the rail
roaas ana-tney win De paid ror on
that basis. - There -was never before
such a demonstration of the danger
and demoralization resulting from the
private ownership of railroads.
DEMAND CASH IN ADVANCE
Why should not the republicans out
in the country get some of this rail
road money? The republican voters
in the cities get scads of it. The pop
ulists will confer a favor of their re
publican neighbors in the country by
informing them that there is money at
every polling place to pay for votes.
If they insist on it, every - one of the
men - who intend to vote the republi
can ticket can get some of it, if they
let it be known that they won't vote
for Mickey and the railroads unless
they are paid for it Don't be ninnies.
Walk up to the agent and get your
pay. You are just as much entitled to
it as the fellows in the cities. The
bosses wiir only despise;-the voter
who does not demand his money in
advance. The railroads expect to
make a big pile by carrying this elec
tion. They are willing tapay liberal
ly for votes and have the money to
do it. The man who votes their ticket
without pay is . simplyi a saphead,
when he might as well" have the mon
ey. Get it in advance tforthey will
not pay a cent after ? ithe votes are
counted. Don't let them.faol you. Tell
them it is "cash in aa?ance", every
time. ' Some of. the Mercervoters down
in Omaha got as high-as $12 each.
That is.probably. more. than. they will
pay on the average. Be, sure,, however,
to get the top price. Don't- let them
fool you with the idea tha they won't
pay " more than fifty cents,, or .a dollar
for a 'vote. On a business basis the
vote' is worth more than that to them.
If they can elect - Mickey and the
board of equalization, a dollar a vote
would be dirt cheap. If the voters
stand out, the price will probably run
from three to five dollars, per vote.
CLASS CONSCIOUS
Socialists certainlyv assume a con
tradiction when they talk about the
"brotherhood of man,". and then make
a campaign on "class consciousness,
In speaking of this the Denver News
says: .
If the socialistic hope ever comes
to pass it must come through evo
lution, not revolution. , It must
come through good will, not
hatred. It must come through the
consciousness of human unity, not
class consciousness. . . -
The sentiment of the people all
over the nation, in all parties, is
turning more and more toward
government ownership. There is
a general movement in the demo
cratic party toward taking up that
issue. But the socialist eschews
government ownership. That is
not radical enough to suit him. If
he cannot get all of the thing at
once he will have nothing. If he
cannot jump a hundred feet he
will not take a step.
But all history shows that the
people move slowly. They go
inch by inch. They grow into
things. They do not transform
themselves suddenly. So will it be
' in this case. They will try the
ownership of first one public util
ity; if that is successful, then of
another. They are not going to
turn a double somersault and ab
rogate private property in a min
ute. Experience teaches that So
does common sense.
THE HAPPY POPULIST
For six years the republicans have
been ranting about 16 to 1 and some
of the eastern dailies are still at it,
while during that time they have
coined more silver at the ratio of 16 to
1 than was ever coined in the same
time before and they make no sign of
stopping the coinage or of changing
the ratio. Six years ago they told us
that there was money enough and
poked fun at the populists because they
said "more money" was needed, and
if coined it would start the wheels
of industry to whirling. Since that
time, and especially during the last
two years, the republicans have been
coining silver by the ton and printing
paper money by the ream and the pres
sure for "more money" is still so great
that all the resources of the treas
ury have been exhausted to furnish it
They told us that "the foreigner paid
the tax" and the only salvation off this
country was in high tariff duties. Now
one-half of the republican party, and
especially is that true in the east,, are
demanding that there shall be a. revi
sion of the tariff. Manufacturers say
that they will be . driven out of the
country if the tariff remains at its
present high figure and the wage
workers who voted for it are nearly
all striking, and . stopping the wheels
of commerce because they say that
their wages are not sufficient to pay
the cost of living under the high
prices charged by , the "protected
trusts. They nearly all voted for the
party of high tariff and did it with a
whoop. Now they say that the tariff
is squeezing the very life out of them
Meantime the populist has gone on
his way trying to teach the deluded
mortals who followed the lead of the
tariff grafters and trust promoters, the
true science' of - political economy, and
point out the way whereby the "peo
ple" could be prosperous and not have
all the prosperity go to the trusts and
railroad magnates. The populist is
happy at the thought of the good work
he has done.
OEN. COXIE AND SEC. SHAW.
The readers of The Independent will
remember one Carl Browne and Jacob
S. Coxie who invaded Washington in
1893 at the head of a crowd of about
600 ragged and half starved men, for
the purpose, as they said, to present a
petition to congress "with boots on."
The substance of the petition was that
the government should lend money to
municipalities and counties without
interest on their bonds. There waB an
uproar from one end of the land to the
other. The great dailies sent corps
of reporters and telegraphers to ac
company Coxey's; army and send de
tailed reports of its advance, and all
Washington was in a state of excite
ment the day Browne and Coxie ar
rived. The senate and house ad
journed, the whole police force was
called out, the militia was on duty
at the armories ready to march at a
moment's notice and all because Coxie
had the audacity, to ask congress to
allow the government to loan money to
cities and counties on their bonds
without interest Now Secretary Shaw
nas done that very thing without ask
ing the consent of congress at all. The
only change he has made in Coxie's
plan is that he has loaned money to
the bankers instead of cities and coun
ties without interest on the security
of the very kind of bonds that Coxie
proposed.' -st ; .-. -r-' '
' THE BITER GOT BIT
Things do not always . turn out as
the grabbers and imperialists expect
The gold mine owners in South Africa
are the ones who more than any one
else were responsible for the war on
the Boers. They howled about the tax
on dynamite and wanted the British
to get control of the government Now
Joe Chamberlain proposes to make
them pay the principal part of the
cost of the war and they are kicking
worse than the famous American
mule. They are so "put out" that they
are making threats. The Pretoria cor
respondent of the London Times
writes to that paper a furious letter
of protest, referring to the American
revolution, and as much as saying,
"Look out, or there'll be Sam Adamses
and Patrick Henrys in South Africa."
Waxing more furious in each letter,
in his last this correspondent says:
"The arguments for imposing taxa
tion on the Transvaal to meet the cost
of a war waged by the British gov
ernment stand on exactly the same
footing as the arguments for taxing
the American colonies in order to
lighten the burden of expenditures
brought about by a great war waged
largely to protect those colonies
against French ambition. One need
not press the analogy too far, "but it is
certain that nothing could more ef
fectually damp the loyalty of the Brit
ish South African, nothing" could more
certainly pave the way for a strong
party in South Africa hostile to the im
.penal connexion, than a making use
of the temporary power conferred by
crown colony control of the Trans
vaal to impose upon it a heavy tribute
to the British exchequer. It seems
that the ' boasted British loyalty and
patriotism is based upon the amount of
money there is in it This is a sad
case of the biter' getting bit
Secretary Moody says that the tar
iff on anthracite was "smuggled Into
the . Dingley- bill . in a sneaking and
cowardly manner." That is what The
Independent said both in regard to
that and the tariff on petroleum, but
if it should undertake to tell of all
the "sneaking and , cowardly" things
in that bill it would occupy all the
space in two or three editions. '
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If, the republicans who go around in
the northern part of the state declar
ing that i.-ickey is "a skin flint," "a
mortgage shark," and "railroad tool"
stick to what they. say on election day,
Mickey's name will appear in. the.
"also ran" column of the dailies the
next day.
INDEPENDENT VOTERS
In a week or two The Independent
will have a few remarks to make to
Senators Harris, Heitf eld and Patter
son that perhaps they will be able to
more fully appreciate than they would
if made now. If this government is
ever to De rescued irom tne rule oi
basses and. gangs of capitalists em
ploying the very best legal talent in
formulating legislation in their In
terest, there must be a large mass of
independent voters, and those voters
must have a perfect organization. That
has been the mission of the populist
party. Nearly the wfi61e.mass of them
are simply independents who formerly
belonged to other parties and left those
parties so they might use the force
of their organized power for good
government. They will nominate their
own men and run their own candidates,
or they will affiliate with another par
ty advocating their " principles and
nominating ' men for office in ' whom
they, have confidence. That is what
the. people's party did in 1S9G1 and f900.
If the .Chicago and Kansas City plat
forms had not contained many of their
principles or a different sort of' a man
had ,been nominated, .'the populists
would never have affiliated with ' the
democracy. :
In Nebraska the legal name is peo
ple's independent party and that is a
good description of the character of the
organization. .e have no bosses and
no leaders. No populist editor, and
there is a large number of them in
the state, ever waits for orders from
any headquarters concerning what he
shall say on any public question. The
principles for which the organization
stands are so well understood by every
member that there is never any dlssen
tion over platforms. The expenses of
the organization are paid by contribu
tions ..from its members, an accurate
account of which is - kept and made
public through the state paper. It has
no assistance from corporations or
banks. -
This is the sort of an organization
and press that is needed in the New
England states and r New -York. .With
such an organization in Massachusetts
the Gaston plutocrats could never have
bought , the control of the only oppo
sition to republican policies In that
state. That such an organization and
press could soon gain a foothold and
become a power for good in those
states there can be no reasonable
doubt.
Many assurances have come from
prominent men in those states to the
effect that if The Independent would
move down there they would guaran-
tee it a circulation oi ivv,vvu wuniu
six months. They say that the pa
pers in that region actually refuse to
publish anything antagonistic to. the
rule of trusts, corporations, and tariff
grafters, and this writer knows from
his own experience that they tell' the
truth, for 7he sent a few lines -.to -'one
of the fairest and ablest of them, which
it refused to publish as a communica
tion or in any other way. ' - ,
Perhaps , it might - be well ta tell
what it was. Having noticed the habit
of the editor of occasionally niaklhg
a contemptuous fling at Bryan and
16 to 1, one of these quips was quoted
and these words added: "During the
last six years the republican admin
istrationas coined more silver 'at the
ratio of 16 to 1 than was ever coined
in the same length of time before, of
which any ; man can convince himself
by a reference to the official reports of
the secretary of the treasury and the
director of mint. The present admin
istration is still coining it and has
never given ; any ; Intimation at any
time that it would endeavor to change,
the , ratio or stop the coinage. All
the silver that is mined, except what
goes into the arts, Is coined. There is
no considerable amount of silver bul
lion uncoined anywhere in the world.''
"The .popuiists have, never been
"silver lunatics.' They have discussed
the money question from an entirely
different standpoint" t
But the editor would not-allow, that
statement of facts to go into the most
obscure corner of his paper, and we
suppose that most of the voters in
those benighted regions think that, the
republicans, stopped the coinage of
silver as soon as they got into power.
These being the conditions perhaps 4the
best thing to do down east for the .
present, is what the . intelligent por- ,
tion of them are doing spreading The
Independent all over those regions.
About the most ridiculous proposi
tion ever promulgated' is the republi
can plea: "Trust us." We will reform
the tariff." That is enougho bring a'-'
smile to the elongated' countenance "of '
an army mule. "
Hill's public ownership of the an
thracite coal mines, which he advo
cated in .his Brooklyn speech, would
not amount to "a hill of beans" unless
the public ownership of the coal car
rying railroads went along with it
It is said that the order of Secretary
Shaw to the customs inspectors to
"facilitate the importation of coal" is
interpreted to mean that all anthracite
imported is to be supposed to con
tain that 92 per cent of carbon and
come in free. This setting aside of a
tariff law by a member of the cabinet
is not a whit more 'imperialistic than
Some other things that have been done
by a republican administration in the
past -'
Every once in a while one of the
great dailies in a moment of sanity
comes around to the populist view of
things. Last Monday the Chicago Record-Herald
printed the following in
regard to the Philippines: "The Phil
ippines mean . to us merely an ' added
responsibility with added cost for put
ting down rebellion and maintaining
an enlarged ' military establishment
They are of less value to the individ
ual American and his government than
the moon, and most of, the stuff that
is written about their possibilities dif
fers slightly from moonshine." When
The Independent expressed exactly the
same views, a year or two ago, the
Hecord-Herald was of the opinion hat
The Independent was "a little Ameri
can, "copperhead or something of
t hat sort
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