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THE FA1&EERS ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JAN. 17, 189L "GENERAL THAYER'S POSITION," The Bee's comment under tha above ' caption are refreshing. ' It assumes that GoTernor Thayer la a usurper as against Boyd. Gen. Thayer rightly claims to be governor until the legislature de clares who shall be his successor. The Bee says, "Ours is a government by the people. No luan Las a moral right to force himself into a position to which he has not been elected." That's ex - actly what , we contend. And yet by fraud, violence, and the roost shame less usurpation by a third rate attorney, Mr. Boyd has tried to force himself into such a position. The Bee says it "will not counten ance usurpation of power." It has not only "countenanced usurpation of power," bHt it has countenanced, aiaea and abetted the vilest conspiracy ever made to foist an illegal power upon the people. . Gov. Thaver will not only nof'allen . ate his best friends" by4he position he has taken, but he will win the respect oi many who have quite lately been against him; providing he adneres to the position he has taken. HERE'S "RICHNESS" FOR YOU. Savs the Bee: "The republican party, as an organization, has kept its skirts entirely out of the mud of the Lincoln fracas. It may suffer unjustly, howevei, for the foolish acts of some of its prominent members. The republican party consists of its "prominent members." Every republi can in this legislature with possibly one or two exceptions has been cheek by jowl with the democrats. They have caucused together, consulted together, and voted together straight. They could not have acted more in harmony if they had been one organization. The republican stale officers have been in the conspiracy with the Boyd outfit One of tbem refused, after repeated de mands, to comply with the plain re quirements of the statute as to placing the notice of contest in tne speaaer s hands. ""The skirts" of the republican partv must be miehtv short in the eyes of the bald-headed editor of the Bee i they failed to get into the mud of this fracas. OBEYING THE CONSTITUTION. t The Bee, in its double-leaded article of the 7th, says:" There is no option left to any officer '. sworn to obey the constitution." Isn't there!" When a man swears to obey the constitution, does he intend to obey it as he under stands it, or as some other man under stands it? When Joshua B. Giddings was a member of congress, and sworn to obey the constitution and the lairs, he utterly repudiated the fugitive slave law and refused to be bound by it. He was asked in the presence of the writer of this whether such refusal was not re pudiation of his constitutional oath, and he promptly replied that he swore to obey the constitution as he under stood it. . . If Speaker Elder had opened the re turns, laid aside the contested counties, announced the fact of the contest, and then declared that the facts as to the highest number of votes had not yet. been determined, he would have obeyed the constitution, and probably nearer M he understood it than be did under the mandamus. Burrows 1 working- might and main to have the legislature exg-lude all daily papers from both houses. The republicans and dem craw declare that Burrows will run against, a snig- if he attempts to force the Independents to carry this through. Kepresentatlve Wat son will champion the cause of the daily papers. The above is a Bee lie. Burrows never proposed to exclude any paper from anywhere. ' But he is opposed to the members voting ' themselves pa pers on the plea of informing their con stituents. This is only one of the little steals that make up a large aggregate; and the independents have pledged themselves against it in on every stump in the state. tW" In behalf oi good government and the good name of this common wealth we appeal to the legislature to frown down all revolutionary methods."-. And yet the little devil that wrote the above advised Secretary of State Cow dery to violate his official oath by with . holding the notice of contest from the speaker of the house until the other steps of the conspiracy had been accom plished. ' - ' ': "The constitution bo d d." J. Burrows. . The above is from the Bee of the 8th, and proves the truth of what we stated last week: that the Bee is determined to destroy this paper. Mr. Burrows be longs to the party that has been uphold ing the constitution, and the editor of the Bee to the one that has beea tramp- 'ling it in the dirt. Just at the hour of going to press we learn the sad news of the death of Miss. Tote McMurtry, the accomplished daughter of J. H. McMurtry of this city, in Denver, to which place the grief-stricken parent has gone in an swer to a telegram bearing the unwel- nnma mAGBomi I LA PTXI? A XT A T A XT PI IT? rT r T A To I The Keaney Hub joins the grand army of slanderers who are lying about Bur rows. We want to assure the little red headed skunk who edits that paper that Barrows has never tried to exclude any paper, daily or otherwise, from the legislature. ' -V f EXEUENT INGALLS. Hall to the Kansas Alliance. Ingalls will be known no more forever in the United States Senate. SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. The following notice in the Crawford Alliance Boomerang shews how the Al liance people do business up in Dawes county: "Sonne Creek Alliance .No. 1624 meets every last Friday in each month at 9 o'clock a. m. at CraU's house. Bring dinner and stay for open meeting afternoon. The papers of Northwest Nebraska pooled against the ready print combine and earned their point. Elsie Journal Jan. 2: 'The farmers in this vicinity will meet in Elsie today to organize an Alliance. And the election didn't kill them off down in Thayer county either. The Alexandria Herald savs: "Merl dianJAUiance No. 1408 have purchased a large store room at roweii ana are fitting it up for a place of meeting. This Alliance is one of the most pro gressive Sub-Alliances in this part of the country, being composed in great part of men who read and think for themselves. Although but recently or ganized they number about sixty active ana energetic farmers. Says the Clearwater Messenger: "Now that so many farmers have turned poli ticians, we would suggest that the proper way to even up things is for some of the politicians to turn farmers. A Decatur correspondent to the Te kamah Herald says: "The Alliance Hour store is doing big , business in the flour trade. The consumer gets his flour 60 cents per hundred cheaper now than when bought of the merchants." The Atkinson (Holt county) Enterprise in its issue ot Jauuaryz says: "With this issue the Enterprise changes front on the political question. It renounces republicanism aud takes up the cudgel for the Alliauce. The new year has been ehoseu as the most appropriate time for making the change. The En terprise henceforth pledges its hearty support to tno Alliance, being con vinced that that organization best serves the interests of the. masses. We have turned a new leaf." Cedar Bapids Republican: "The reso lutions passed by (he recent State Alli ance can be found in full in another column. They indicate the kind of legislation which our coming legislature will give us. Every citizen of Ne braska should study them. They look the situation square iu the eyes. They are the earnest and honest sentiments of about three-fourths of the people in the state of Nebraska." The CallUpe, by P. A. Barrows, is a new advocate of the people's cause, and hails from Albion, Boone county. The following from the Chambers Eagle would indicate that the alliance Is not dying as rapidly as some of the bards told us it would: "The prospects are good for Chambers to have an Alli ance in the near future. Thirteen names have beeu secured to a petition asking for a charter. Says the String Bank correspondent to the Allen News: "A large crowd was out to the open meeting of the Farmers' Alliance Tuesday evening. In response to a call by the crowd for a speech by Mr. McCrackin, that gentleman favored us with a very good address full of good arguments and sound sense. With all a very interesting program was carried out.". Says the Funk Advocate: "The pur chasing agent, Adolph Franzen, has received and disposed oi tnree cars oi coal among the members of the Divide Alliance." The Benedict (York county) Alliance has collected 8120 for the needy settlers in Frontier county. Says the Venango Independent: "York county makes the best showing of any county in the state as regards farm mortgages, and there has never been a saloon iu the county for auy length of time." : The question of establishing an Alli ance paper at Falls City is beivg agi tated. The Tekamah Herald says the mem bers of ' Riverside Alliance are very much astonished at the interest and eu- tbusiasm manifested, and bids the good work go on, wnicn it will surely do. Bertrand Herald: "At an open meet ing of Urbana Alliance on the 5th, Messrs. Shafer and Jajrne of Holdrege spoke to a large audience, touching on all thevital issues now before the peo ple. Both spoke with eloquence and vigor, and f truck a responsive chord among their hearers. On the evening of January 2(1 there will be another open meeting, at which the same speak ers and Mr. Bell will be present. The Friend Free Press has changed to the People's Sip Saw. The editor says" the name Free Press is too commonplace and as these are hard times something is needed that will go through the knots ' 0 . Wahoo New Era: Open Alliances are getting to be quite the "proper caper this winter. We hear of them on all hauds. The Alliance is becoming as it ought to be, the county neighborhood center of social entertainment and in fluence. It is the common ground up ou which churchman and skeptic can meet in social accord, learn one an other's disposition and temper, become mutual teachers, and cultivate that chanty and forbearance which has its fruitage n peace and social uuion, The open Alliance makes room for every body; it is the literary circle, the deba ting club, the cultivator of good fellow ship, the cementer of good will tem pered with rivalry. God bless the Alli ance. It is the neighborhood homo. Broken Bow Beacon: C. C. Bigger staff of Union Valley informs us that his. Alliance has taken in eight new members during the last two weeks, aud is booming right along, notwith standing the hard times. Approved From York Co. Alliance. York, Neb., Jan. 13th 1891. Mr. J Bcrrows, Editor Farmers' Alliance, Lincoln, Neb: Dear Sir., you are hereby extended our hearty thanks for the able manner in which you have advocated and worked for the interest of the farmers and laboring classes of this state, during tho struggle in trying to get a fair representation iu framing and making the laws to con form to and for the masses of the poo- le. ,. And while we commend you, we o most heartily condemn the acts and infamous falsehoods, published by the State Journal, the tool of the B. '& M. also the Omaha Bee, the mouth pieco of corruption, indecency, etc, holding up fraud, riot and rebellion, as they nave both done during the last campaign. Respectfully, K. K. Ryan. Co. Sec. of Farmer's Alliance. THE HEARTHSTONE. A Dt'partnwnt for Home and Fireside, Edited by Mrs. S. C. O. Upton. The corner stone of the republto is the hearthstone." Judge Not. Thou, under Satan's fierce control, , Shall Heaven on thee its rest bestow? I know not. but I know a soul That might have fall's as low. I judfe thee not what depths of 111 So e'er thy feet have found or trod ; I know spirit and a will As weak, but for the help of God. (halt thou with fall day laborers stand. Who hardly eanst have pruned one vine? I know not, but I know a hand With an Infirmity like thine. Shalt thou, who hadtt with scoffers part. . E'er wear the crown the christian wears? I know not, but I know a heart As flinty, but for tears and prayers. Have mercy, O thou Crucified ! For even while I name Thy name, . I know a tcngue that might have lied Like Peter's, and an filled with shame. Selected. The Indian Hoe tiles. If we did not know that our legis lators were so occupied In- scheming for owue mat tney nave ntue time to study important ana intricate questions, we would be in amazement at the fact that no systematic and effective plan for civilizing toe Indians has,- as yet, been adopted. Sometimes, it appears as if the fierceness of the old Anglo- Saxon blood was in our people and nothing short of the extermination of tne Indian race would satisfy them. And certainly this extermination will come speedily if our Christianity can not do more for them than to inspire them with religious fervor. Practical Christianity is their need, and the views of Captain Pratt, the In dian civilizer and founder of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., are worthy of tbougnt at tnese times, wlien misman agement has waked the savage spirit, when the injustice they have suffered recoil upon those who caused it, and our boys must give, perba-a, their own life's blood to compel an obedience that should have been won by just dealing. Captain Pratt says: "1 here are about 260,000 Indians in the United States, and there ore about 2,700 counties. I would divide them up in the proportion of about nine Indians to a county, and find them homes and work among our people. That would solve the knotty problem in three years' time, and there would be no more an "Indian question." It Is folly to handle tbem at arms length; we should absorb them into our national life for their own good and ours.' It is wicked to stand them up as targets ror snarp-snootera The Indians are just like other men. only minus their environments. Take a new born baby from the arms of a cultivated white woman, and give it to the nurture of a Zulu woman in Africa; take the Zulu's baby away fram her and five it to the cultivated white woman, 'wenty-fivo years later you would have a white savage in Africa, and a black scholar, gentleman, and Christian in America. This sharply illustrates what I mean. We can, by planting the In dians among us, make educated, indus trious citizens of them, in the briefest time, and at the least expense. I wonld teach them trades and turn them loose. If I have a strong point as the Indians' friend it is my intense confi dence in the holiness of hard work; the sanitary and ethical power of a useful occupation. Indians, like other people, like to be independent, and to do this they must earn money. The history of the Indians, as set forth in books, is a bundle of falsehoods. They are like other people, and, unprovoked by outrage and . injustice, behave far more peaceably than they get credit for.? . - These are the views of a man who had made the question a life's study, who had taught 1,300 Indian pupils, and who had also been amongthem as a soldier of the government. There were many women in these states who re belled in spirit at the fact that men in Dakota were more willing to enfran chise the Indians than to give their own wives and mothers that boon. j Now these men are calling on the sons of these same mothers to make their breasts a wall of protection against the bullets ot these uncivilized beings. It is a shame and disgrace that these things should be. Why, in the name of all that is good, cannot men see that we need more of metherliness in government, and how can that spirit be infused into govern ment except by giving the mothers a voice in making the laws of the land. So long as the idea that "might makes right" prevails, wars will curse the world, and the voice of the (physically) weaker sex will be overmled. How fast are the events of the time showing that the parties -that deny to wom?n: her rights to suffrage and deny her p'ea for protection of her home from the liquor cuise, will, also override . the rights of everyone who comes between them and their ambition. Greed is the nation's bane; it has robbed the Indian of his broad hunting grounds and failed to teach him those arts by which only men can live in civilized communities. Nothing short of an era of justice will settle this question and many others that agitate men's breasts today. May that era speedily appear. Municipal Suffrage. We noticed in the Woman's Tribuue that a Farmers' Alliance bad passed res olutions asking the legislature to give municipal suffrage to women. The ex ample is a noble one and we hope mauy Alliances will follow it. The temptations of the village and the city ensnare the country boy as well as those who live in towns. Let us give the mot hers a voice in the city government and so make the streets safer for all boys. If any society de sires to make its iDfluenco felt in favor of this measure, which is to come before the legislature, let them adopt the fol lowing form of petition and send to the editor of this department. PETITION , FOlt MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE ; FOK WOMEN," To the Legislature of the Stale of Nebraska: The Farmers' Alliance of , at a vote taken at a meeting held the day of 1891 earnestly pray that a statute be enacted providing that in any election hereafter held in any city or village for the election of city or village officers or for any other purpose under iiiq jbwb gOVrrniu)C i:ii.ir v ii iitb, the right of any citizen to vote shall act be abridged or denied on account of and women may vote at such elec tions the same as men, under like re strictions and qualifications. President. Secretary. Notes on Men, Women, and Things. The Nebraska W S. A. asks that, as our State University is co-educational, women may be represented in the board of regents. A Fremont quartet of singers de lighted their audience intensely, at the meeting of the suffrage association, by their singing of negro melody. Here is the first verse simply as a suggestion that adapting local hints in recitative measures to negro melodies is an excel lent way of enlivening an eveuing of speech making; Shall women be allowed to vote? Rose water, he savs no! Shall they have the same rights as man? Rosewater, he says no I Bat they shall, but they shall, In time to come they shall, God bless the women. Rosewater, he'll gel left, eto. General Francis E. Sumner, who has lately died, was tho first to appoint women to clerkships in the government offices at Washington. ' It was a benefi cent measure. Mayor Grant, of New York Citv. em phasizes the need of women's vote in the cities. - The police board were a tie upon the question of making an appro priation for police matrons and he gave the casting vote against it. He remem bers that the matrons cannot vote and. also, that they organized against Tam many in a recent election. Three thousand women in Greece ask for educational advantages such as are afforded to male subjects of the king dom. Gen. Booth, whose plan for the relief and salvation of the lowest classes of England's population, has attracted so much attention to his book, " In Dark est England," has now a farm of 1,000,000 acres and 1300,000 in trust for the carry ing out of his good work. . : Nebraska comes to the front with a war in the legislature, a war on the frontier, two governors (that is, at the present writing ) and another in view. There is also, according to the press re ports, quite a crop of czars and dicta torsand still wo are not satisfied. The State University cadet corps vol unteered to go to the "Indian war." if wanted. It seems to lie a poor use to put college boys to, but the sense of duty to the state that is giving them ed ucation, that their action shows, should be commended. CORRUPTION RAMPANT. The air fairly reeks .with rottenness and corruption. The most diverse ele ments are combined. Men who cor dially hated each other a month ago are cheek by jowl. The treasury plunder has been divided. The state prison ring is ' swelling the bribery fund. Money and places galore are being promised men who are supposed to be available. The democrats are being led into a beautiful trap. With fingers already scorched pulling republican chestnuts, they are to help make up the final show and then to be kicked off the stage. . 25 PER Cash Discount Sales, Commencing Next 1 01 ENTIRE STOCK Dress Goods, Silks Underwear, Hosiery, Corsets, Handkerchiefs and Notions, Mittens,Gloves,Knit Goods Infants' Wear, Fur Muffs, Collarettes and Fur Trimmings. Everything in our store will be sold at a cash discount of 25 per cent excepting our imported dress patterns above $12.50 and fine fur capes, on wbicn we will al low a discount of X5 per cent only. Our One-third Off Cloak THE BAZAR, Bet. Tenth and Eleventh Sts. 10230 St. " LINCOLN Meals 25c V v . u. nrnmiT 191 I B II 138 Soutli 12t.li Street, Lincoln, Net). 31 it STATEMENT FROM SERGEANT AT-ARMES-MISHLER. In view of the wild rumors set afloat by the papers as to the conduct of the house officers when McCIay forced the doors Sergeant-at-arms Mishler makes the following statement: 'There was no necessity, whatever, for Sheriff McCIay breaking through the door to serve the mandamus upon Speaker Elder. The main door had been closed by order of the presiding officer to keep out the surging crowd who could not bare been restrained from bursting through the slender rail-, ing, and mingling with the members, and no member objected to this precau- i tion. Had he presented himself at the door of the cloak room, shown his au thority and demanded admittance, orders would have been at once given to admit bim, and the whole unseemly wrangle would have been avoided. The sensational reports, set afloat by excited correspondents, to the effect that members of the house took part in the melee inside the raiiing. is entirely false. One member from Douglas did strike at one of my assailants, and an excited clerk did grab Gardner by the arm, but that was the extent of the col lision. The story, that the Independ ents sprung from their seats and en gaged in a band to hand struggle with the sheriff's posse, which one reckless prevaricator telegraphed to his paper, does not contain one grain of truth. The independents maintained their seats, and not a single one passed out of the inside railing. The turmoil at the door was caused not by any attempt to Keep out tne omceis, tiut by our ef forts to keep the crowd from pressing in after the sheriff. My men all acted very aiscroeuy in tne trying circum stances in which we were placed, and the oeoDle oucrht to know the fmts. The independents may be wrong, but they are not anarchists, and believe in maintaining law and order." She "How charmingly Mr. Gabley talks,' Mr. Groeneye. Ihere appears to be no subject he is not informed on." He (madly jealous) "Says he inherits the rift; his ancestors were barbers, you know." The Jester. Store Clerk "Books of travel f Yes sir. Here is something just out, 'How to See Europe on Fifty Ceuta a Day.'" Customer "Hem! Have you any book on 'How to Star at Home ou Fifty Cents a DayT' Good towe. , A certain city physician with sport ing proclivities did the best shooting on the Eastern Shore recently and boasted of it to hissjouipanion. "No wonder," was the other's comment, "look at your practice."--Philadelphia Wince. The Garrett fence machine, manufac tured by S. H. Garrett, Mausfield, O., is now an established success and is in successful operation in every state and territory in the United States. Every farmer should write to the above ad dress for catalogue and wholesale prions of wire and fencing material. 80 tf . Wt. LICBM, : JOH!. M. STCWART. Bx-Aitorney General . LEESE & STEWART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. WIltnrnpttnAlna.il th nnnrta n tha state. Correspondence soliclilted. 81 INo. 281 Socth lira St. LINCOLN, ; : : : NEBRASKA. iiTii Li Li XJ CENT Week, off our regular prices, Sale Continues this Week, RESATORAHT. .su . Lnnch'allhonrs. tf rCBLISUID WEEKLY AT COR. nth AND M STREETS, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. J. BURROWS, Editor. J. M. THOMPSON, Bos. M'gr. ENLARGED IMPROVED. With the new year the Farmer's Alli ance it enlarged to eight pages. - New and valuable departments added, mak ing It not only the leading reform paper, of the vest but also one of the best family newspapers published. It has won the place it holds by Its fearlessness and truth and will not be changed in these particulars. As an advertising medium it is an- equalled by any paper published west of Chicago. 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