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IS i . : v THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY '- BT THE " 1LLIAHCE PHBLISHIHG CO COS. 11th AND M STS., ; LI5COLN, - . NEBRASKA. J. BURROWS, -J. M. THOMPSON, Editor. Busing" la the beauty f the lillies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in his bosom That transfigures you and me. As He strove to make men holy Let us strive to make men free, Since God is marching on." Julia Ward Howe. Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who power exerts." A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs." Emerson. He who cannot reason is a fool, He who will not reason is a coward, He who dare not reason is a slave." EDITORIAL. Independent State Ticket, rrernor, JOHN H. POWERS, of Hitehoock lieutenant Governor, WM. H. DECK, of Saunders. leratary of State, C. N. MAYBERRY, of Pawnee. State Treasurer, J. V. WOLFE, of Lancaster. Attorney General, J. W. EDGERTON, of DoufflM. Aatltor, JOHN BATIE, of Wheeler. - QemmiMloner of Public Lands and Buildings, W. F. WRIGHT, of Nemaha. Superintendent of Public Instruction, PROP.A. D'ALLEMAND.of Furnas. Tor Congress First Congressional District. nON. ALLEN ROOT, Deuglaa. ' Congress Second Congressional District. W. A. McKEIGHAN, of Webster. ' Congress Third Congressional District CAPT. O. M. KEM, of Custer. Lancaster County Independent State Senators. J. M. THOMPSON. J AS. G.TAYLOR. Representatives, ELIA.S BAKER. W. 8. DEMAREB. I. F, DALE. J. F. EGGER. ROBT. MCALLISTER. Commissioners. L. S. GILLICK. AUGUST ANDERSON. D. A. STOCKING. t bounty Attorney. N. Z. SNELL. Ticket. Chairman State Committee, GEO. W,. BLAKE. -y Secretary State Committee, C. H. PIRTLB. Htadqurtora,Stat'ommittee, 1034 P btreet, Lincoln. Neb. VAN WYCK REPUDIATED BY THE INDEPENDENT STATE COMMITTEE. We have stopped onr press to insert the following circular from the Indepen dent State Central Committee. The in sidious and treacherous attacks of Mr. "Van W. upon leading independent can didates, which would do injury to the "whole ticket, was probably what prompt ed the Committee to take this eminently proper action. Headquarters Independent ) State People's Committee. ) Lincoln, Oct. 9, 1890. To all members of Independent Peo ple's Committees, and to the voters of Nebraska: It having become evident that Mr. Van Wyck has turned squarely against the independent movement, and is us ing his influence to defeat leading Made pendent candidates, we recommend that he be not invited to address inde pendent meetings, nor given any oppor tunity to use his unfriendly influence. GEO. W. BLAKE, Chairman State Central Com. C. H. PIRTLE, Secretary State Central Com. THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Published WeeklyHby the J. BURROWS, Editor. J. M. THOMPSON, Bus. Mg'r. SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. OK FIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS, IN ONE ORDER ONE TEAR FOR $4.00. The Alliance is the official organ of the State Alliance. It is conducted solely in the interest of the farmers and laboring men of the state. It is. abso lutely fearless and untrammeled in the discussion of all questions. IT AC CEPTS NO CORPORATION PAT RONAGE. ITS EDITORS HAVE NO FREE PASSES, AND ITS OPINIONS ARE NOT FOR SALE AT ANY PRICE, In the above particulars it is a new departure in Nebraska journal ism. : We confidently appeal for support to ttllwho can appreciate the value of such a paper.. SPECIAL NOTICE. x he most important political cam paign ever made in Nebraska is about to open. On the one side will . be ar Tayed the farmers and laborers of the state; on the other the corporations and their henchmen,' and the newspapers which for years have prostituted5 their columns to the uses of corporations The Alliance will be the special or gan of the farmers and their society in tne contest. JNot only should every -Alliance man take the paper himself, but he should aid in extending it to those who are not yet members. : To enable our members to so extend it, we offer it: JEN CLUBS OF TES, TILL JANUARY 1st, 18 1, FORZOcts. Alliance Pulilishina Co THE W," CLEAR OUT THE SLANDERERS. EDITOR GERE A CONVICTED LIAR BY HIS OWN WORDS. Alliance Men and Knights How do You Like fo be Called "Hogs." On the 14th of Sept. a leading editori al appeared in Mr. Gere's paper which was a gross insult to every member of the Alliance in this state, and to every gentleman who is in the state as a worker for the independent ticket. Wherever this article was seen it ex cited indignation. Probably the editor became aware of this fact, for in his paper of October 1st tfe makes a sweep ing denial. We publish below the prin cipal portions of both articles, so that our readers can judge for themselves, first of the estimate this- distinguished post-master of Lincoln puts upon them, and second of his own character for truth and varacity. The first article says: The demagogues whd are trying to hold the farmers together on a so-called Alliance ticket, and the third party prohibs. engaged in a laudible undertaking to hold a large number of votes away from the republican ticket, are of that sort of birds that deliaht In nothing so much as in the befouling of their own nest. The like of the campaigns of depreciation and slander, not of men so much as of the great state that they misrepresent, because they have no stake in it higher than the at tainment of office or notoriety, was never seen before in the west. They are to Nebras- kawhat a herd of hogs would be In the parlor of a careful housekeeper, and however com pletely they are kicked out in November the filthy they have scattered broadcast will leave Its traces on our . housekeeping for many months to come. The Kems, Powers, McKeighans on the one hand represent the shiftless, lazy and impro vident among the homesteaders whose sole object in availing themselves of TJi cle Sam's gift of farms to all settlers who would prom ise to cultivate them, appears to be to mort gage the property and live off the loan until they are foreclosed, are peddling out thq slander that the farmers are starving and that the state is bankrupt, and promising that they will. If they get the power, open the pub lic treasury to the farmers to help them- selves to money at i per cent a year, wnue the itinerate $15 a night cranks from abroad " homes and firesides' are seconding their efforts and adding a long list of crime and wickedness to the indictment. In his paper of Oct. 1st the editor says: A correspondent of the Journal writes that one Trevelick, a laborer and Alliance speaker In a harangue at Firth a few days since, said among other things, that in the State Journal of the 15th of September this language was used: "We will enow the hogs under No vember 4th, but it will take months before the parlors of the nation will be cleansed of the fllthiness they have made." Trevelick represented tbft the " hogs " were the mem bers of the Farmers' Alliance. Of course the orator is a brazen liar if he saidhis. The Jovrnal of the 15th or any other date used no such language attributed to 'it by him or anything that sounds like it; f There never has been a word in its editorials derogatory of the members of the Alliance or of labor, organizations as such. Everyman, whatever his association or calling, Is treated on his own merits b7 the Journal. If it has ever characterized anybody as a " hog" it had reference to his particular individual charac ter, and not to his profession or to any socie ty in which he may have been enrolled. Epi thet isn't a f averite weapon of the Journal, however, and it doesn't recall using that of a hog " with reference to anybody. It leaves calling dirty names and making ugly faces to the df magogueB of the Trevelick stripe. First, let us note that both' of these articles were editorial, presumably written by Editor Gere himself. The first was at the top of the second edi- torial column. As to the application of the term hogs tne editor leaves no man ner of doubt. All persons engaged in the independent move, viz: about 100. 000 of the farmers and laborers of the state, are "demagogues who are en deavoring to hold the farmers together on a so-called Alliance ticket." These are the "hogs." But to make sure that there is no doubt on this point the edi tor proceeds to name "the Kems. Pow ers and McKeighans" who represent the "improvident and shiftless home steaders." But to explain. the matter fully and make it entirely satisfactory, editor Gere assures us that the term hog "had reference to the particular individual character " of the person alluded to. And finally, we are delighted to learn that Mr. Gere "doesn't recall using the word hog," and that he leaves "calling dirty names and making ugly faces to the demagogues of the Trevelick stripe." We should very much dislike to wake up some fine morning and find editor Gere tied up in a hog skin and suspend ed on a telegraph wire. In its issue of Oct. 8th the Journal ex plains that it intended the cognoman of " hogs" for "such men as Burrows, Kem, Powers and McKeighan, if the substance of their harangues about the ruin of this state has been correctly reported," etc. As Burrows has made no "harangue" in this campaign, all his time being re quired to watch the Journal, this lets him out. Squirm and deny as it may, the B. & M. organ has made its record. and the farmers have got it in black and white from the lips of the editor. If this editor wants to apologize he had better meet the farmers at the fair ground on Oct. 25th. LAWYERS, MONOPOLY AGENTS AND SPECULATORS IN CONGRESS. Farmer's of the First District, Do You Want a Real Estate Shark to Represent You? If you wanted to buy dry goods you wouldn't go to a hardware store, would you? or if you wanted "a farm imple ment you wouldn't go to a crockery store for it. 3ff you wanted to begin a suit against a man, you wouldn't em ploy a blacksmith to do it, would you? So, farmers, if you want to be repre sented in Congress as farmers if you want the great interest of agriculture to have a fair showing in the national halls of legislation, you wouldn't select a real estate shark to represent you, would you? Well, that's just what you have been doing lo these many years Or; rather, you have been letting the monied interest, the railroad interest. FARMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB.; and all kinds of monopoly interests, se lect the men you should vote for, and you have been walking up to the polls like' driven catlle and voting for these men. As the natural result, of this lawyers, monopoly tools and agents, shysters and real .estate sharks like Connell have been sent to Washington to misrepresent the people. There has not been a Congress in the last ten years that was not more than three-fourths made up of the classes we have named. As a result of this and the only logical result to be expected we have class laws which direct public revenues into private pockets which have given away the public domain which have created franchises to endow corporations which have transformed the country and the time into a ravenous and insa tiable carnival .of robbery and spolia tion. As a logical result of this, not only has the standard of public morals been lowered, but the standard of character for public men and public life has been demoralized in the last degree. The voting franchise is treated, as a thing of barter and sale, and the man who is shrewdest in gaining sup port by corrupt methods is by many considered the ablest man. This is the system that developes Con nells and Dorseys. This is the system that puts spongers and horse-jockeys in the places of statesmen. Farmers of the first district, you have to choose between three men tor your representative. One is a young lawyer who knows as little about the needs of the farmers and the real issues of this time as it is possible to conceive Another is Mr. Connell. a bad prodnct ... . ... of a bad acre a slave to the caucus a swindling land agent whose motto is . get money a man who will go to Congress if what money he can spare will buy his way there, and who when he gets there will belong to ana serve the most corrupt elements of a corrupt capital. The, other is one of yourselves Mr Allen Rorffi a man von have known for pTa mn 9(m;n,f whom nn . J J . a. . ' .. wrowr has ever been made. Elect him. and'you will have a worthy represeata tive and Washington an honest man. Elect either of the others and the sys tem we have described will be con tinued. HON. ALLEN ROOT. Allen Root, the independent nominee for Congress in the first congressional district, was born in Genesee Co., N. Y in 1836. ills father and mother were both American born, but the former was of Irish and the latter oe German de scent. This probably explains the pe culiar aggressiveness oi Mr. iioot in what he thinks is right, and his wpnder ful tenacity of purpose in every good cause, the aggressiveness being Irish and the stick-toativeness being German In his early youth Mr. Root was a farm er, as that was the occupation of his parents. He had, however, good schoo advantages, and in . 1848 graduated at the Albany Law School, at the acre of 22 years. In 1849 he went south and engaged in the business of a building contractor, where he remained unti 1855. Feeling at that time ran high on tne slavery question. Mr. Koot was a northern freeman, and did not truckle to . southern pro-slavery sentiment, which finally gof him into some diffi- culty with the authorities, in which the latter got off without serious injury. In 1855 he came to Omaha and engaged in the same business, viz., buiirtisg con tractor, at the same time taking up land and engagmgun farming. He was at that time the heaviest builder in Omaha At a time when there were only 180 buildings in the place he had built one hundred of them. About this time, how ever, he practiced law for two years, and then abandoned that profession for ever. Since that date he has been one of the leading citizens of Douglas coun ty, always haying the respect of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Root was one of the pioneers of the republican party, his sturdy devo tion to freedom making him an aggres sive advocate of the original tenets of republicanism. Before the republican party was formed he was an abolition ist. He stood by the republican party until 1869, when the policy was adopted to pay the public debt in coin, thus changing the contract and the standard of the money in which the debt was made. This and the Credit Mobiler scandal and corruption of that day drove him from the party, as his sturdy integrity could not brook a policy which he considered an outrage upon the pro ducing classes. Since that date he has been a liberal in politics, supporting Peter Cooper in 1876. In 1876 he was candidate for Lieuten ant-Governor on the greenback ticket, receiving the full vote of the party. He was temporary chairman of the national anti-monopoly convention at Chicago in 1883. It will be seen that Mr. Root is one of Nebraska's pioneers. Wherever he has been, and in whatever position placed, he has always had the respect of all who knew him. His sterling integrity. his strong convictions, and his manly, straightforward utterances have always commended him even to those who did not agree with him in politics. By birth, education and experience he is eminently qualified to represent this district in Congress. His accession to that body would be like a breath of pure mountain air to the stifling amos phiere of a city slum. We say to the people of this district, especially the farmers and laboring men, if you want so be worthily represented in the next Cogress, vote for Allen Root THE ALLIANCE RELIEF FUND. The following amounts have been con- Itributed for the relief of the drouth- stricken region of the state: St. Alliance to R. Willow Co., $100 00. to Cheyenne Co., 100 00. W. C. Lange, Sutton, Neb., a 00. THE STATE E9ARD OF TRANSPORTATION, TS CONSTITUTION AND ITS POW ERS. Elected by Direct Vote of the People. In the legislature-of 1885 a bill was in troduced to create a railroad commis sion. The question was sprung as to its constitutionality, and was by resolu"; tion of the house referred to the su preme court, which gave its opinion that the law would be unconstitutional for the reason that it created additional executive offices, which was prohibited by the constitution. It was then pro posed to devolve the duties of railroad commissioners upon existing state offi cers, and give them the power to ap point clerks who should perform the routine duties. The bill was passed in this form, making three state officers commissioners, and letting each one appoint one secretary. The commission in this form drew its pay regularly and served to amuse the people, and per haps convince simple minded ones that the transportation problem was in sat isfactory course, of solution. In the winter of 1887 the law was amended, changing the name to board of trans portation, increasing the number of members to five, and requiring a ma jority vote to appoint a secretary, the number of the latter remaining as be fore. The law creating this board had not specifically given it power to fix rates, the railroad power which had origi nally proposed its formation not in intending that it should exercise that C7 function. The board up to this time had not at tempted to fix rates; but it now claimed that power, and under its direction a schedule redu cing local rates one-third. was prepared, filed and the roads noti fied. The Elkhorn and Missouri Valley R. R. resisted the rates, and a case was made and taken to the supreme court. The date set for the hearing of the argu ment in the case fell , when Gen. Leese was unavoidably absent from the state In his absence the duty of making the argument devolved upon Judge Mason, wno had taken upon himself -the man agement of rate business. The court had set a special day for the hearing, but when the case was called no one appeared. An agreement had been made between the railroad attorneys and the board, the roads filing a new schedule to suit themselves and making some concessions on the out and in rates, and O. P. Mason had agreed that the Elkhorn case should be dismissed When Gen. Leese returned he found that the court record showed that the ease had been neither continued nor dismissed, but simply passed. He call it up, had another day fixed for a hear ing, notified the companies of the fact, and the hearing was had. The attor neys of the Elkhorn road had entered a plea of demurrer against the jurisdic tion of 4he board, and this was the first point to be decided. Judge Mason ap peared in court and made a good argu ment on the side of the board, as also did Attorney Gen. Leese, and the de cision of the court was that the board hadfull jurisdiction to determine what was or was not a reasonable rate. This case, however, went no further. It is not generally known' that the schedule prepared by the board was not put in to force, but that of the roads adhered to. But under this decision the state board of transportation has full power to fix rates, and that is the reason why this board bears such an important re ation to the transportation question The railroads think it is necessary for them to control the board. Through the maioritv of its members they con trolled it r last winter thjoughitfie con test on rates in this state. They intend to control it in the future by the elec tion of men to the different state offices who are in their interest This board is to be elected by direct vote of'theoeoDle. It is composed of the attorney general,' the state treasurer, the state auditor, the secretary of sta-e, and the commissioner of public lands and buildings. If the railroad ticket is elected the board will belong to the roads. Mr. Ben ion they, own, body, soul and breech es. Mr. Allen has long been intimately connected with railroad matters, and was nominated in the convention by a B. & M. railroad man. Mr. Hastings is a railroad attorney, and perfectly reli able on their side. He was also nomi nated by a B. & M. man. Ihis gives them a majority without Mr. Hunih rey, , who - is an attorney at law, and probably safe for the roads. We desire our farmer readers to re mdmber that on this great question of railroad ' rates they to-day hold the winning cards. A rote for the railroad ticket will be a vote to cpntinue con trol in the hands of the roads where it now is. Under this control you can get no relief. A vote for; the people's ticket will be a vote for lower rates, and for men who are pledged to make them. Which will you cast? EDITOR GERE FISHING FOR GUDGEONS. The McKinley Tariff Robbery. In his paper of October 4th the dis tinguished editor of the corporation concern on the corner of 10th and P streets throws out a hook for gudgeons It is baited with "The Farmers' Tariff." It is quite natural that an editor who considers the farmers hogs should rate their intelligence accordingly,- The day is past when, such thin stuff as is com tained in his editorial can have any in fluence upon the reading , farmers of jweuraK. ,:, xtns article enumerates a long list of articles of which this coun try exports a large surplus on which the tariff has been raised from 25 to 150 per cent. Among these are "rye, wheat, beans, butter, cheese, eggs, cab- SATURDAY, OCT. 11, bages, potatoes, apples, etc.. etc., and euiior vjrere lusiauues vnese auvauuca m tariff as an evidence of the care of his party for the interests of the farmers. The absurdity of the pretense of ben efitting producers by imposing an lm import duty on articles of which they produce a large surplus for ex port is laughable. The price of any product in a general market is its cost at the nearest point of general supply plus the expense of getting it to the market. Now in the case of imported articles of which we produce a surplus the duty cuts no figure whatever a3 af- fecting the price. This is perfectly evi- dent. In the case of such articles as we have named, which may be imported from Canada or the Bermudas for con sumption in our eastern cities, the duty would enhance the cost to the amount of it to the local poor who were 'com pelled to buy those articles, while not raising the selling price which the inte- rior producer receives an iota. There is one stupendous fact which confronts the flimsy attempt to show that the farmers of the west are bene fitted by the tariff.- That is that the leading manufacturing states, seven or eight in number, produce much more vegetables, fruity breadstuffs and dairy products than they consume, and near ly as 'much meat and poultry as they need, if not more. We do not care to discuss this ques tion at any length as we consider it im material in the present canvass. But we denounce this McKinley bill as a robber tariff all the same, and particu larly a robbery upon the farmer. Even its placing some kinds of sugar on the free list is a fraud, as it leaves the duty on refined sugar, which is the kind that nearly all the farmers use. This tariff is raised from 40 or 50 per cent to 60 or 70 per cent, and the increase is on the goods which are most used by farmers; and no living man can show a particle of benefit a western farmer derives from the tariff. We now invite the attention of Mr. Gere to the following business circular sent out by a republican firm to its cus tomers, which we copy from a republi can paper, viz.: the Chicago Tribune: HOW McKINLEY'S TARIFF WILL WORK ON SOME THINGS. The subjoined circular is sent out to retail ers from "the house established by the late Wilder D. Foster, for many years Republic n member of Congress from the Grand BaDids District. Although dead his name is still at the head of the firm and his ostate is a part ner." FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. Grand Rapids, Mich.. Sept. 9. 1890. Gen tlemen: As important and rather radical ad vimces in price of some articles in the bard ware line are daily taking place we wish to say a few words so you may more fully u derstand the situation and not think the job ber is overcharging you. AXES. There is now but one ax company in the united states ana mat is the American ax and Tool company, with headquarters at Pittsburg. This company has purchased out right every axe factory in the country of any importance, and by thus controlling the pro duction nas aavancea prices on an average a dozen. .mis company aiso controls tne manufacture of ax polls, or the heads of axes. the machinery of which is patented, and this enables it to ken the price on polls so high ne one eise can anora to mane axes. SAWS HAND AND CROSS-CUT. In this industry the same forces have been at work, and to-day there are but two compa nies wno manuiacture nana saws wnere there were a dozen four months ago. Prices in this line of goods have been advanced from 10 to 40 per cent. In cross-cuts it is the same. By a consolidation or interests prices have been advanced trom rour to eigne cents a foot. LEAD. Everything made of lead has taken a decid ed advance, owing to recent decisions on the admitting or Mexican ore into this country, as well as by combinations of manufacturers. Shot, lead pipe, pig lead, eo.der. babbitt metal nsve all advanced, and may go still hltrher The passage of the Silver bill will also affect all articles made f or coated with silver. In the hardware line plated knives and forks. spoons, etc., will be affected and advances made. TIN. Toe present tarirr on sneet tin is one cent a pound, and the McKinley Tariff bill, which no douDtwui pass Doth Houses or Congress, ad vances tne duty to Z 2-10 cents a pound. This must of course advance tin from f 1.25 to $3 dox, according to tne welgbtor said box. This advance in sheet tin will affect all articles of tinware, and advances will be made all along the line. Tin in New York has already advanced from 60c to l a Dox and is growing stronger each each day. as the certainty of the passage of the McKinley Tariff bill becomes more as sured Not a bsx of tin is made in this coun try, notwithstanding which tin has declined In price rrom sis to S4 75a box durinar tne last twenty-nve years. GLASS. .The window-glass market of the country is practically in the hands of two large compa nies, wno worn in narmony as to prices, wnicn has resulted in a steady advance for the. last year, averaging about 10 per cent. . ZINC OR STOVE BOARDS. The Adams & Westlake company, A. I. Grisrgs. Pidney Shepard & Co.. Palmer Manu f acturing company, H. Rendtorff & Co., Cen tral Stamping company. W. H. Sweeney Man ufacturing company all of the above named firms were anxious tor our Dusiness last year, but now they have sold out to the Ameiican Stove Hoard company with offices in New York and Chicago, and a general advance of all lines has taken place. Last year you could buy a 28-inch, square paper-lined zinc for 36 cents. This year the same thing costs you 72 cents an advance or iuu per cent. AMMUNITION. The price is controlled by a combination and you hava to pay the price or go without POWDER. The s'ame but one price, and that nearly douDie what it was two yeans ago. SUMMARY. We call your attention to these matters so vou will understand wnvon nearly every in voice you get you will flad something higher than it was Derore. The tendency of the times seems to be con iinlidation. thus enablintr larare corporations to produce the go ds cheaper and sell them at a higher price, we rail to rind, nuwever, in all the consolidation of various lines of goods a single instance, notwithstanding the ad vance tbey put on goods, where tney nave advanced the cause of labor a cent. If the consumer who purchases last does not pay this increased cost we oo not Know wno does. If he reaDS any personal benefit from it we would like to know where it comes in. This is not a political document, but a fair state ment of certain lines of business as we daily come in contact with them. r 08TER, STEVENS COb. Hardware Merchants. Independent Rally at Bennet, on Wednesday October 15th. , The Nemaha, Stockton, Grant, Sal tillo, South Pass, Panama, and other Alliances will' participate. . A Vbasket picnic will be held at the camp ground. , Hon: W. H. Dech, Elias Baker, S. J. Kent, and other speakers ; will address the people, and a good time may be ex pected I tW The man who will take money for inducing his neighbors to vote bonds to a corporation,' he not being a railroad attorney or employe, is exactly on a par with any other mock auction roper in 6r stool pigeon, and subordinates his self respect to his avarice. ' This is exactly what Mr. Harlan did; . Subscribe for the Aixiak ok. 1890. All EYE-OPEHER. A Republican and Dem ocratic Conspiracy to Elect Boyd. Rosewater and Church Howe in it. RELIABLE' FIGURES AS RESULT. TO THE Powers tobe the Next Governor. Dr. Geo. L. Miller, the leading demo crat of this state, sent the following let ter to the wrong man, and it got into print. Mr. Rosewater's connection with the conspiracy shows that he cares noth ing for republicanism. Who supposes for a moment that money gathered by democrats ostensibly to dc- eat the amendment will be used to elect Richards. We have reliable informa tion that Qhurch Howe is running Boyd's machine in Nemaha and Johnson. These acts show the existence of a conspiracy in Omaha, to elect Boyd. Below is Dr. Miller's letter: Omaha, Sept. 20, 1890. A. Lucius Rodman, Esq. Dear Sir: Mr. Kosewater, chairman Executive Committee, and Mr. Roggen, Secretary, have returned to the city since my first letter to you of this date. correct one or two statements: 1. The Omaha brewers' subscription of $25,000 is assisted in a small way by Milwaukee and outside men, and $10, 000 of the sum must be used in Omaha. 2. Two or more non-partisan work ers are to be employed at the voting places. 3. MR. P. E. ILER, OUR CHIEF DISTILLER, TELEGRAPHS MR. DAVIS OF OUR EIRST NATIONAL BANK TO-DAY THAT THE PEORIA GENTLEMEN HAVE MADE AN AP PROPRIATION TO OUR CAUSE, but we know nothing about the amout. You may be sure that it will not be large. 1 am more conndent than ever to-day that with $50,000 we can whip the fanat ics of the state by a decisive majority. New York men should help us to make the liquor men of other states to do their duty at this crisis. If you received the circular of the I owe that I sent you. ou will see what "the enemy" proposes to do. They mean to buy out our people if they can. Good judgments here con cur iu the belief that by reserving our fire until the last we can beat the amend ment. Can wo not properly lespeak your active influence with the elements who ought not to permit us to be weak where we ought to be strong? Any who doubt our ability can send prudent men to see the things done. BUT IN NO EVENT CAIT WE CONSENT TO ANYTHING LIKE AN OPEN ASSO CIATION WITH THE LIQUOR IN TERESTS OF THE COUNTRY. Some outside men are savin e that Nebraska is safe." I tell you that Ne braska is not safe. It can be made safe by energetic organization and everlast ing lighting work, with the means nec essary to make the work effective, and not otherwise. Most truly yours. George L. Milleii. To show that thebattle is already de cided, we now give the following relia ble figures: The total voto of this year will not exceed that of 1888, as we are losing about 5,000 voters from special causes. This would give the republicans about 110,000 and the democrats 85,000, iHhere was no people's ticket. The Alliance membership is now 90.000 and the independent ticket can safely count on 75,000 votes, exclusive of the labor vote. This will be drawn, from the re publicans 50,000, from .the democrats 25,000. This would leave the republi cans 60,000 and the democrats G0.000. But Boyd and the whiskey vote will take from the railroad party 5,000 to 10,000 votes, say 5,000 to be safe. This leaves the republicans 55,000, and gives the democrats 65,000 votes, and leaves the independents 10,000 ' plurality at the round-up. Add to this the labor vote of the towns, and it will swell the inde pendent plurality to about 18,000. Mr. Richards is out of the fight. There is no doubt whatever about it. Harlan gives it up. Richards' is trading with the prohibs. Benton is trading with the devil. Hill says "things are mixed." Railroad rule in Nebraska U ended, r Honest John Powers will be the next governor of this state. This has nothing to do with the amend; ment. That is a distinct proposition, to be voted on separately. Mr. Boyd stated in our hearing, in the opera house last Saturday night, that if the amendment was adopted lie would approve all reasonable measures to enforce it. A DASTARDLY ATTACK UPON HON. ALLEN ROOT BY EX-SENATOR C. H. VAN WYCK. A PIECE OF VILE TREACHERY. In a speech at Weeping Water on Oct. 3d, reported in the Bee of the 4h, Mr. Van Wjck is reported to have said: "The nomination of Allen Root for congress is one eminently lit and well-deserved. No man in this district is so well entitled to this recognition by an organi zation founded upon the principles for which he has struggled for so many years. He was in at the early dawn when the advocates, were few and required cour age. Allen Root was no timid man, and he had the ability to defend the cause which had not then even the support of the men most to be benefitted. And now in the midday of the good time coming it is a privilege to support a man so true and faithful as Allen Root, and if all those benefitted by the principles he has so long advocated will give him cordial support he will be elected. For this reason Burrows, who runs a paper at Lincoln called The Alliance, principally as a personal organ for the gratification of the malignancy and hate which unfortunately permeate his nature. has seen fit to discourage his friend by t 1 .1 . 1 ! i t n. a I ! v gl lUg 111 III it BUJJJWJI , ikuu luiiuiauug that there is no prospect of his election, although he was in the field in active campaign before Connell was re-nominated. Yet his regard for Connell is so great and his desire for his re-election so earnest that he waits gloomily the possi ble result." As is well-known, we heartily endorse every word that any man can say for Hon. Allen Root. Our support of him has been hearty and cordial and there has been' no hint in this paper that ho could not be elected. Never was" there a groat- y er falsehood than the contrary. Our friendship for Mr. Root has never f altered or wavered. The great mistako made was in not nominating him in tho first place instead of Van Wyck. It remained for this man, after solemnly promising to take the nomination if it was offered to- him, to turn traitor, stab Allen Root iu the back, and play into the hands of Con: nell and the railroad gang, as he dUl by holding the nomination in abeyance more than a month after it was tendered him, and then like a cunning fox try to hide his tracks by attacking a man who lias stood by him in his waning fortunes closer than any other man in the state. In an editorial in the World-Herald of the 4th is the following, sandwiched in a lot of other trash: "Just what Mr. ConnelL's brilliant coup d'etat is to be dame rumor does not specifically inform us. She is disposed"' to be a little coquettish. First she whis pers: 'Mr. Connell has made a perma nent investment with Mr. Burrows, edi tor of the Farmers' Alliance, and thus so cured the good will of that influential writer, who will henceforth do whatover he can to aid Mr. Connell, and who i already backcapping Allen Root, the Al liance candidate.' " First, there had been'no such rumor as stated by the editor, that statement being an unmitigated falsehood. Second, the above editorial contains exactly the same charges made by Van Wyck at Weeping Water. We are now about to mako an amazing statement, but it is undoubtedly a true one. These charges made by Van Wyck at Weeping Water, amfpublishad in the Bee of the 4th, and the charge above quoted from the Herald of tho 4th, being identically tho same, wo say that the man who furnished the copy of the speech for the Bee also inspired the edi torial in the World-Herald, and thatmaa was C. II. Van Wyck. We further say that he was undoubtedly promised a compensation for his treachery in dally ing with the congressional nomination, which time will determine. We had fully determined to pass hU assault upon, us in silence, when the in sidious nature of the vile attack upon Al len Root was brought to our attention. and the conviction was forced upon u that it was much more of an attack upoi him than upon Mr.-Burrows. It was a cunning and deliberate effort to use th isfluencc of the editor of this paper to de stroy Mr. Root's prospects by stating that this editor had said that Mr. Root could not be elected. The Bee spreads this- false report in the interest of Mr. Con nell, for whom it was made; tho demo crats spread it in the interest of Mr. Bry an. The man who originated tho false hood, with a cunning that is Satanic, whispers soothing words in Mr. RootV ear while dealing him a stinging blow over Mr. Burrows' shoulders. He injure Mr. Root in the interest of Mr. Connell, and slaps Burrows because he thinks lie defeated his nomination for governor. When the matter was presented to u in this light wo could not remain silent, but determined to refute the vile charge. Every reader of this paper knows that every issuo of it has made unrelenting warfare upon Mr. Connell, and that we heartily and unreservedly supported Mr. Root. Mr. Connell could not pile cnougk money between earth and sky to buy a word in this paper in his favor. Mr. Van Wyck's race in Nebraska i run. He is going back to tho railroad party, and hopes to divide the indepen dents and take an element with him. Ia this h will be disappointed. He U to dead to skin. "SAID ON THE SIDE." A Quiet Word or Two With Mr. Gere. In a column of the B. & M. Journal of the 17th, we find the following undoc the head of "Said on the Side." "It is a fact." said a loung-er in the republi can headquarters yesterday, "that ther l an understanding between iloyd and Power whereby Powers Is to tret the oil tappectarphl In case he can hold enough republican Alli ance votes to elect the head of the democrat le ticket. It was at first proposed tojrtve Powers the placoof bank examiner, but he insisted on tho oil inspectorship, and that is the way It stands now. etc., etc. Now we have this to say to editor Gere: You are responsible for every statement made in your paper affecting the credit and honor of any man. Tho quoting of "lounger" as uttering the above docs not in any manner release you from that responsibility; and you are just as completely a low-down liar in publishing it as t you had stated it on the street or printed it in your edi torial columns. Now just a word or two more with you. You have insulted in a body, by your low-down libellous talk, the grand farmers and pioneers toVliom Nebraska i3 indebted for all the wealth and pros perity Axe ever had you, who have been a leech upon society, and never earned! an honest dollar who have had' your thieving fingers in the treasury of this state for the past ten years, filching the hard-earned mon ey of the farmers you have outraged and abused you, a miserable pensioner on the corruption fund of a corporation. You are a nicer sample to be publishing such contemptible lies as the above about a man who stands as high above you as the gates of heaven are above the pit Hyperion to a satyr. 1 HARLAN AND McKEIGHAN. The Co. Alliance of Dundy Co. met a few days ago, and the railroad crowd announced that McKeighan would be there, though that would be impossible, and then rushed Harlan put there. s he' could get an audience of farmers. In Furnas Co. at a farmer's meeting where Powers and McKeighan were to speak, the -railroad gang promised that Harlan would reply to McKeighan. The crowd was held a long time wait ing for Harlan, when in bis stead ap peared one Tait. The farmers were so disgusted at Harlan W flunkey ism and fear to meet McKeghan that they would not hear the sjlbstituto, but hoot ed him off the stam Harlan's goose lAjooked. His mud flinging campajyas made friends tor McKeighanyf the latter's election by a large if Gority is a sure thin.