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    THE FAKMEKS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEIL, SATURDAY, JAN. 1891.
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L.KC0LN, - - NEBRASKA.
J. BURROWS. - - - Editor.
J. M. THOMPSON. Bestow Hft.
la the beauty of the liHIea
Christ u born crow the tea,
With a glory in his bosom
That transfigures you and ma.
As Ha trove to maka men holy
Let us strire to maka men frea,
Since God ia marching on."
Julia Ward Howe.
Lsursl cravmt dtsvi to deserts,
And power to him who power worts."
A ruddy drop of manly blood
Tfc surging Ssa oUtwslghs."
Emerson. -
-; h cannot reason It a fool.
He who will not reewn is a eowt;d,
He whd dare hot HakOn U a sUvo."
EDITORIAL.
THE METHOD OF PROCEDURE.
The claim of the partisans of Mr.
Boyd that, in pursuance of the so-called
. opinion of ex-Judge Lake, the candidate
for governor baring the highest number
of votes on the face of the returns mast
be declared governor, is absurd in the
highest degree. The constitution is in
tended to guard the right of suffrage,
and give to the people an assurance that
they shall have an honest vote and a
fair count. But an aspiring politician
and a lot of ruffians sieze the election
machinery of a city, and if they can
hold it long enough to secure a de
posit of ballots sufficient to elect their
man, no matter how illegal they be or
by how much fraud procured, they have
fixed the face of the returns, and under
this construction their candidate must
bo seated. Of eoure, when seated, the
only recourse is by the slow process of
the courts, and he would inevitably hold
his seat until tho end of his term. It is
plain to see that under this construction
the ends of justice would be defeated.
Further, under this construction free
and fair elections would hereafter be
impossiblo. It offers a premium for
crimes against the elective franchise.
Any vile combination that could success
fully rape the election machinery of a
great city might foist its creature upon
the people.
The constitution plainly says that the
man having the highest number of votes
shall be declared duly elected, and it
wisely gives the legislature the power to
determine who has the highest number.
In the present contest the vital question
at issue is who has tho highest number,
and this fact must be determined before
the declaration can be made. This is
plainly the intent of the constitution,
. and is the only method by which the de
mands of the people of this state can be
complied with.
If, after a fair investigation, it is shown
that Mr. Boyd has the highest number
let him be seated if he is eligible to hold
tho office. If, on the other hand, Mr.
Towers has the hightst number, let him
bo seated.
The seating of a governor where the
election is contested, by arbitrary vote
without an investigation by the only
power authorized by tho constitution to
investigate, would be an outrage upon
the people of this state, and iwould go
far to destroy all conlidence in the effi
cacy of the popular election to deter
mine the will of the people.
Since writing the foregoing we have
examined the opinion of the supreme
court of appeals of West Virginia, of
March 12, 1880, in the case of Goff vs.
Wilson. In this case Nathan Goff
petitioned for a mandamus to compel
. W. Wilson to deliver to petitioner
the office and insignia of governor of the
state.
The constitutions of that state and
Nebraska in the case of contested elec
tions are identical, and the circum
stances of the contest of Goff vs. Wilson
were quite similar to our case. The de
cision of the court was that the sole
power to pass upon the returns, deter
mine the validity of the elections, and
declare who was elected to the office of
" governor rested with the legislature,
and that the supreme court of that state
had no jurisdiction in the matter. There
is no precedent to tho contrarv, and
every decision and precedent is in line
with that decision. (See Southeastern
Reporter, Vol. IX, Pps. 26 to 81.)
Omaha Defies the Legislature ! !
She Defies the Positive Provisions of the
Law and Conceals Her Fraudulent
Ballots, and Refuses to Permit
Them or the Poll Books to be
Sent to the Legis
lature! No stronger testimony was ever fur
nished of the spirit of utter lawlessness
and defiance of all law than was exhib
ited in Omaha on Saturday. The stat
lite, section 75, on elections requires the
notaries taking the evidence to issue an
order requiring the county clerk who
has possession of the poll books and
ballots to deliver them to such person
to be traiiSffiMed to the secretary of
state for the use of the legislature hear
inj the 'contf t. Such an order was
formally iued and served on Saturday
and the county clerk alxsolutcly refused
oln-ilirnce to it. The ttatute wss read
to tiiui' and he wa aaked why he would
not obey it. and he f aid he would not
do so as he was answerablo onlv to
Douglas county. He was -then person
ally subpoenaed, and contemptuously
refused to produce either ballots or poll
books.
What reason could there be excefri
that the books and ballots contain evi
dence of.t he frauds and that they have
not yet hud time to fix them. Is not
this an attractive specimen of Boss
Tweedisin? "What are you going to
do about it?"
CURRENCY BASED ON LAND
VALUES.
We have received from a valued cor
respondent, an article frpra tho Toledo
Blade under the above imadlug, which
is about as full of mifapprebenslotii and
mtsaiatemtnts of historical facia as it
could be. The writer says : " The ex
periment of basing a r-??r currency on
!and va'ues has been tried several tiaiea,
and has always ended in disaster." He
then notes the case of French assignats
issued in 1790, as one of those instances.
Now what were the facts as to tho as
signats. The land of the clergy and
part of the nobility had been confiscated
by the government. There were two
sets of claimants to the laud,the gov
eramentde facto and the clergy and no
bility who had been dispossessed, and
who were waiting just over the border
for the aceession of their rightful king
to the throne, when the confiscated es
tates were to be returned to their right
ful owners. The title was in dispute
there was no settled ownership to the
lauds and the actual possessors of them
were liable to be ousted at any time.
Next, the asignats were not issued on
those lands in any correct sense of the
term, nor in any sense of the term as
now understood and advocated by those
who are asking for the issue of money
on land security. The assignats were
promises to pay money that is, coin
and the government promised that the
estates, when they were sold, should be
used to redeem them. The government
having no title to the lands, the assignats
were necessarily under a cloud. But in
addition to this the government Issued
more assignats than the lands would
have sold for in good times with an un
clouded title, The proposition to issue
money on land, as now understood, had
never been made in those times. That
proposition is to issue not loan money
on land security to those who could give
that security, the same as now to bank
ers on bond security. The money would
be secured by a mortgage, would bear a
low rate of interest, and would remain
in circulation, as long as the mortgagee
chose to- pay the interest. When the
mortgage was paid, or foreclosed, the
amount of money it represented would
be retired. It will be observed that
specie p. ays no part in this transaction.
The money is not to bo a promise to pay
specie, but is complete in itself. The
legal-tender clause, and circumscribing
the volume of its issue, would always
maintain it at par with coin.
Now We say that this experiment has
never been tried. Various schemes of
loaning promises to pay coin on land se
curity have been adopted, anl have
generally resulted in au over issue of
such promises. Tho cedula of the Ar
geutiue republic lias no similarity what
ever to the proposed land currency. It
was a promise to pay gold in quantities
entirely beyond the wealth of the gov
ernment, with an interest so exorbitant
that even the wealthiest government
would have fallen under it. Our conti
nental currency offers no instance at all
similar to the proposed land currency.
Mr. Window's scheme for the issue of
$300,000,000 of interconvertible bonds,
and the issue of treasury notes, i. e.,
promises to pay gold to convert them
into, without furnishing an additional
supply of gold to, float the notes with, is
Ss purely a wildcat scheme as was ever
proposed in this country. If it was put
in operation a Wall street combination
could bankrupt the treasury and compel
a suspeusion at specie payments in a
week.- ' -
MORE CITY BONDS PROPOSED.
We understand that an ordinance to
provide" for an election for the voting of
$100,000 bonds to aid in the erection of a
union depot has passed its second read
ing in the couucil. -
"Now we have just this to say about
it. The proposition to tax the people of
this city and county to give money to
corporations that are worth their hun
dreds of millions is simply infamous.
The council that would pass such a bill
under the . present financial conditions
should' attend a hanging bee every Sun
day and furnish a subject by lot until
they were all disposed of.
To the working men of this city we
say, you are the men who pay the taxes.
Taxes are not paid out of accumulated
capital, but they are paid out of current
earnings. The men who earn the money
each year pay the taxes. If you will
study this question a, little you will not
allow yourselves to be walked up like
cattle by railroad and council boodlers
and voted foe bonds which you erroue
ously think rich men have to pay.
This proposition and the late electric
light contract convince us that Tweed
ism is growing in Lincoln, and that this
council needs watching.
Mr. Kotcwater, the Alliance and Mr.
Burrows.
We have received a copy of the
Weekly Bee of Dec. Dec. 24, containing
an article of nearly a co!eu over Mr.
Rosewater' signature, entitled "The
Dictator hows his hand." This article
is devoted especially to Mr. Burrows,
and aboHndsin complimentary epithets,
such as "ingrate," "dastardly," "libel
ous," "impostor," "mountebank," etc.,
tc.
The immediate occasion of Mr. R 's
artiele seems to have been an item in
the Alliance of Dec. 20, in which we
intimated our opinion that Mr. Rose
water had left the state to avoid testi
fying before the contest committee. Mr.
R. says that we knew he was in the
state and had appeared before the com
mittee at the very time we wrote the
item. In t'jis Mr. R. is mistaken. While
our paper is dated Saturday, our forms
are closed Tuesday evenirigj-and when
ihatj p?p?F W5R$ 't P"?8 we had no
tuowledge that Mr. had relurtloa or
testified. In onr next issue we quote
from his testimony about the country
editor', which is proof that we had no
desire to misrepresent Mr. R. la that
matter.
But Mr. R's article takes a much
wider scope, embracing something of
the history of the anti-monopoly move
ment in this state, assuming with his
accustomed presumption and arrogance,
that Mr. R. was the father of the move
ment, and holding Mr. Burrows up as
a base' ingrate because he presumes at
this time to antagonize the Bee. and as
serting that he is inspired solely by the
desire to supplant the Bee in the favor
of the people.
As Mr. R. has provoked an allusion
to history we will state one or two his
torical facts. While it is true that we
did for some years travel nearly in the
same road with Mr. R. it is also true
that we were always compelled to be on
the alert to resist his cunning schemes
to convert the independent movement
and the Alliance into a mere private
appendage of the Bee office. At the
celebrated Hastings meeting, when the
anti-monopoly party was organized, a
state alliance organizing committee was
formed. Mr. Rose water proposed to
take into the employment of the Bee an
organizer for each county who should
also act as agent for the Bee, and pay
him $50 per month. This offer was re
jected, as it would have accomplislied
just what Mr. R. most desired, namely
made the State Alliance merely a state
bureau of his paper. Mr. R. then ap
pointed a general agent for the Bee, and
made every effort to secure for him a
roving organizer's commission, though
he was ineligible to membership in the
Alliance, and was so dishonest that no
business man dared trust money in his
hands. From the time the Alliance was
organized until the day Mr. 11. joined
the money power against it his every
effort has been to gain a foothold in it
so that he could use it for his own pur
poses.. And when it finally reached the
point when it was entirely independent
of him, he became its covert and unre
lenting enemy. , ;
With an audacity that is amazing Mr.
Rosewater claims to have rescued the
editor of this paper from obscurity and
conferred upon him whatever place he
may have before tho Nebraska public.
As a matter of fact it has been the con
stant effort of Mr. R. to keep every
leader of the Alliance in the background
and arrogate to himself all credit for
the movement and tho change of public
sentiment in favor of it. Every man
who knows him knows this to be true.
We are indebted for our position in the
hearts of the farmers of this state to
their belief in our integrity and faith
fulness to their cause, and to nothing
else. The term "Ingrate" used by Mr.
R., does not apply. We owe Mr. R. no
debt. He has used us when he could:
but we are firmly convinced that his
temperament is so different from that
of other men that he is incapable of the
sentiment of friendship.
Mr. Rosewater says ' we practically
acknowledged the falsity of our charge
that he was in the combine to defeat
Judge Reese, while pretending to be
for him. This is not true. We simply
acceded to his request to publish his de
aial on certain conditions, which he did
not comply with. Mr. Richards sup
ports our charge, saying "it was patent
to all that Rosewater was allied with
the Burlington to secure Judge Reese's
defeat," and that he then turned on the
Burlington and accused it of defeating
him. -
Mr. Rosewater says that when we
started this paper he cordially greeted
us as a co-laborer. Let us see. After
we had been some time conducting the
paper, and it was developed that it was
to achieve some influence in the state,
Mr. R. intimated a desire fo a conver
sation. We met the next time an op
portunity occurred, and the wishes of
Mr. R. were developed.' First, an in
tense hatred of the temperance move
ment was uppermost Next, the ma
chinery of the republican party was to
be taken possession of and the hosts of
reform led into its fold. The first idea
we did not sympathise with, the second
we believed utterly impossible. We
discovered that our lines diverged, and
we made nq pretense in any other di
rection. Mr. Rosewater went his way,
and he had no right whatever to com
plain because we went ours.
Mr. R. says we have conspired to un
dermine the Bee. There is not a grain
of truth in this. On the contrary. It in
Mr. R. in connection with a certain man
who is too blind to wo that his reign is
ended and his ambition futile, who has
determined to nndermine and destroy
Mr. Burrows and bis paper. This is
apparent to the most casual observer.
Every day all the abuse of Mr. Burrows
that can bo found in the railroad press
is compiled in the daily Bee, and parad
ed under the heading "The Fallen Dic
tator," or other obnoxious head-line.
The insane idea has seized these men
that Mr. Burrows is a dangerous aspi
rant for the U. S. SeDate. The idea
never occurred to us till it was thrust
upon us by the papers. We reject this
idea utterly. To become a candidate
would immediately impair our indepen
dence as an editor. The necessity a
candidate is under to conciliate this in
terest and that would be a gag we
would sever for a moment submit to.
These little souled gentlemen may rest
in peace. We shall never be a candi
date for U. S. Senator pr any other of
fice, "
M; RdiGwater" slyS We send out se
cret edicts and instigate resolutions
against the fieri, this is absolutely
fates. We never to a living soul have
iPtlm.ated a desire for such resolutions.
By tho same token we have not pub
lished one-tenth of those that have been
received. Our paper is now enlarged
and we may publish more of them.
Tne cry of "dictator," which origi
nated with the Bee, is as baseless as it is
contemptible. The men of tho Alliance
know this editor much better than the
Bee does, and they can not be fooled by
any such nonsense. Mr. Rosewater, in
the exuberance of his im igination has
raised Mr. Burrows into a mammoth
jobberwok working for selfish purposes
by dark-lantern methods. This idea
makes true Alliance men smile, not to
say langh. No man is more frank or
open in his methods nor more free from
a dictatorial spirit than the editor of
this paper. There is ho object that wc
cherish and no end that we desire to at
tain that is not proclaimed openly to all
the world
We accept the gage of battle Rosewater
has thrown. If he wants war he shall
have it. We shall furnish our country
readers as good a paper as the Bee at
$1 per year in clubs of five. It will have
some qualities the editor of the Bee can
not impart to a paper because he does
hot possess them himself, namely, hon
esty, integrity, truth. : We now ask our
farmer readers to prove their respect
for us by their support of our paper.
RELIEF FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.
The subject of relief for the. western
counties of this state is one of the first
that will claim the attention of the 22d
legislature. A large population is to be
provided for, teams are to be fed, and
seed furnished for next spring's plant
ing. From the best sources of informa
tion we are convinced that between
$200,000 and $300,000 will be required
for that purpose perhaps fully the lat
ter sum. In 1875 the state appropriated
$50,000 for the grasshopper sufferers.
The population of the state at that time
was less than one-fifth of what it is at
present, and the area "and population to
be relieved now are correspondingly
greater. ' .
The most economic method of obtain
ing the large fund required, and that
will impose the least burden upon the
people of the state, are points of first
importance. There is probably now in
the treasury nearly if not quite $500,
000 of the permanent school fund. This
fund can only.be invested in U. S.,
State, county or municipal bonds. This
money is presumably now deposited in
banks, which are paying the state treas
urer probably 4 per cent for its use, and
are loaning it to the public at 10 per
cent. While it remains in this way un
invested it brings nothing to the state.
We see no reason why the state should
not bcrrow this money for the purpose
named, at not more than 4 per cent.,
issuing its bonds therefor. The interest
on these bonds would accrue to the per
manent school fund, and the transaction
would be quite like taking money out
of one pocket and putting it into another
as far as the state is concerned. The
bonds could be issued for twenty years,
but payable at the option of the state;
so that whenever there was a surplus
in the 7 treasury some of these bonds
could be paid. ?i f
' Money in the east is being loaned at
less than 4 per cent. The city of
Brooklyn placed some bonds a short
time ago at 3 per cent, and they sold at
a premium. '
We regret that there is a constitu
tional restriction placing the limit of
our state debt at $100,000, (Art XII, Sec
1). This fact is a sound argument in
favor of r a constitutional convention.
A limit that was well enough in 1875 is
absurd now. But we believe the legis
lature may authorize the counties to
issue relief bonds on which the perma
nent school fund may be loaned, and
that the state may become the guaran
tor of such bonds.
This is a subject of great importance,
and should receive close attention from
all members. , r
BJTln reply to Brother C. S. Tunis,
we would say the State Alliance of Ne
braska belongs to the National Farmers'
Alliance, but not to the National Alli
ance and Industrial Union. It elected
forty delegates to the former body,
which meets at Omaha, Jan. 27, 1801.
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By This Sign They Hope to Conquer.
In every contest in which the interests
of the people are against the corpora
tions snd the money jiowcr money is
thrown in the scale, like the sword of
Attila, to overbalance right and justice.
In tho case of the present contested elec
tion this is eminently tme. The cor
porations were in the combine to elect
Boyd. They are putting money into a
pool to seat him, regardless of law or
justice.
Ever since it was determined to begin
the contest a purte has been accumu
lating. The bankers' associations of
this and other states were appealed to
ostensibly 16 raise money to prevent ad
verse financial legislation. But the per
sons who were raising this money, and
their interests, and the persons who
have the custody and disposition of it,
pfn$ out With unerring certainty the
uses to which H will la "putt When the
legislature convenes $50,000, $100,000,
will be at band ready for its demoraliz
ing and corrupting uses. By wresting
from their control one of the co-ordinate
branches of the state government
the fruits of the splendid victory won
by the farmers can be snatched from
their grasp, and in no other way.
The inquisition that was instituted by
the corporation managers at Omaha
into the associations, past party affilia
tions, habits, character and means of
the members-elect bad no other motive
than to find if possible members whose
poverty or circumstances might aid the
villains in waking them their victims.
We do not believe this search bore
any fruit. We do not believe there is
one member that has been elected by
the independents who can be approach
ed or corrupted by money or other in
fluence. Treachery is not popular now-a-days,
as the prompt condemnation of
Van Wyck for his action in the late
campaign abundantly proves. But if
money can corrupt men they will be
corrupted. If they can be led astray
from their associates and their pledges
by any known device or agency that is
available to the corporation lobbyist,
they will be so led.
The only way for the independent
members to do is to band themselves
together in one compact body like a
band of brothers, ' recognizing that the
interest of each is the interest of all, and
act together as a unit on all questions
which are of a party nature. This is
the first principle of organization, and
is vitally necessary to success. In fact,
this is vitally necessary if anything is to
be accomplished in the direction we
have been striving for. Every selfish
ambition should be laid aside until this
unifying of the independent forces is
accomplished. The question of who
shall be speaker, or president of the
senate is entirely subordinate to the
other question as to whether the inde
pendents will elect those officers or per
mit some other interest to do so. The
man who for a moment opposes such a
unification of our forces cannot be
trusted, and may be hoping to gratify
his ambition by making combinations
with some other element. We hope our
members will be fully warned by this
hint.
THE VAN WYCK-ROSEWATER-BOYD
CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER.
It is Johnny Watson, of Nebraska City.
This fellow was speaker of the last house .
He is a first-class railroad tool. He can
be depended upon to do the dirty work
of the Boyd combine. He will have the
open support of Rosewater and Boyd,
the democrats, and such republicans as
will follow them, and the covert support
of Van Wyck and such members, if any.
as he can delude into the ruinous belief
that he is on their side. We also have
it straight that Dr. Coleman, who is
simply a tool of Dave Butler, and other
of Butler's henchmen whom we could
name are in this combine. This means
a diversion of some of the labor forces if
possible, and the prevention of organi
zation by the independents. -
We have the sublime spectacle pre
sented to us of the two great prophets
of anti-monopoly and reform entering
into a dark-lantern conspiracy with the
democratic party to take the republican
party into the democratic camp to seat
a fraudulently elected governor, and
thus snatch from the people the fruits of
their victory in the late "election, and
using as their tool the worst railroad
boodler in the state. . '
Let the dance go on. If this scheme
is endorsed by any number of republi
cans there will not be enough of that
party left at the next election to mop
out a back-house. : ' '
LOOK OUT!
Dave Butler is on the ground with
his lieutenants. These men are well
known. We can name them all. But
ler's sole occupatipn for years has been
the handling of corporation boodle.
That is what he is here for now. No
man can associate with him without
being smirched. Bear that in mind.
These are not opinions merely. We
have plenty of hard facts to back them
with. -
The Omaha papers and the Lincoln
Journal have wickedly and viciously
garbled the reports of the testimony in
the contest case, and suppressed what
does not suit their purpose. No real in
formation can be gained from their reports.
Municipal Suffuse.
A strong effort will bo made to intro
duce and pass Wi, in lhn
legislature, giving municipal suffrage to
the women of the state. The Nebraska
Woman Suffrage association and the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
have both appointed their committees
to work for it, after full discussion in
the state conventions of each society.
As the constitution of the state invests
the legislature with power to enfran
chise the women in municipalities, and
as our coming legislature is expected to
be in the control of liberal, progressive
and independent men, the women have
strong hopes of securing this measure
of justice.
The concerns of city governments are
such as naturally interest women vi
tally. Their systems of schools, police
regulations, sanitary matters and the
control of the liquor business affect the
homes so closeJj aa to make the plea of
vomen for a voice in the maaagemeat
of them eminently sensible and just.
The bankers and business men who, in
order to keep trade brisk, will license
saloons in spite of the protests of the
women whose homes are thereby im
perilled, may oppose a measure that
will give those women a legal right to
vote against the license, but it will be a
just rebuke to their mercenary deeds.
Kansas gave women municipal suff
rage, and reports from there testify to
its practical benefits.
There seems to be a tendency to take
one step at a time in regard to woman
suffrage, and this is sometimes the best
method of progress.
The proposed step would be an edu
cator and an experiment in the direc
tion of tho larger reform, viz: equal
suffrage.
Associations of laborers are usually
very favorable to this measure, because
they perceive how capitalists under
mine the power of labor unions in their
struggles for shorter hours and fairer
wages, by substituting the cheap labor
of a disfranchised class that cannot or
ganize its forces, thus making wife and
sister rivals of husband and brother in
the industries to the detriment of both
classes.
As evidence of this a national labor
convention representing 500,000 men
recently sent a petition to congress ask
ing for measures to protect women in
their right to vote. The day of justice
draws near, and as labor reaches up lo
claim its crown, woman, the unpaid
laborer of all the centuru a, will stand
by her brother an equal sharer in a
common inheritance. '
It is much desired by those having
chargQ of this measure that Alliances
and individual members shall send to
members of the legislature from their
respective localities their request for a
favorable vote on this measure when it
comes before the legislature. Friends
of the measure will do well to make a
note of this and act promptly. Such
communications should be addressed to
Mrs. Upton, 2130 R street, Lincoln.
DEFYING THE PEOPLE.
The administration correspondent at
Washington telegraphs to the Omaha
Bee that some very funny things are
happening in . connection with certain
Nebraska postoffices since election. 1 He
says that the patrons of a number of of
fices have petitioned for the appointment
of men who voted the independent ticket
to the position of postmaster in the case
of a vacancy. That's gall, isn't it! For
instance, there are scores of offices where
only nine out of ton of the patrons voted
the independent 'ticket, and still they
think they are entitled to a postmaster
out of their own ranks! It must have
been a severe shock to the postoffice de
partment to receive such a silly request
as this. i!
Then the Bee correspondeat continues
his wail in this manner: " The three re
publican congressmen from Nebraska
whose terms of office expire March 4th
will retain their positions for the next
two years so far as recommendations
for official positions are concerned, and
their advice will always be sought with
reference to any matters concerning Ne
braska. The new democratic congressmen-elect
from Nebraska may hold their
seats in the house, and vote if they wish
to, but their influence will not cut any
figure elsewhere." i !
The present republican congressmen
from Nebraska were elected by a major
ity aggregating over 25,000. This year
they were beaten by a majority aggre
gating 26,000, or a change in heart of
over 50,000 voters. If the Harrison ad
ministration thinks it good policy te defy
the plainly expressed wishes of the vot
ers of this state in this matter, let it sail
in. If the independents can manufac
ture campaign thunder any cheaper
than this free donation, the tariff on the
raw material will surely have to be re
duced. 1 " ""'
ESWithin a few weeks or months at
most, nearly every county in Nebraska
will have one or more alliance papers,
and then Jay Burrows will not have as
soft a fleecing snap as he has formerly
had, and Jay no doubt will be sour and
severe. G. I. Independent.
Now you're shouting! The more in
dependent papers there are in the state
the more demand there will be for this
paper. " ' "
STATE PRINTER FOR KANSAS.
Editor C. B. Kies has been endorsed
by a convention of Sedgwick county as
state printer for Kansas.' No belter se
lection could be made. ; ;