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To the beauty of the HDlee
Christ vii born across the sea,
TTlth a glory in bis boaont
That transfigures jou and me.
Am ha strove to make men holy
Let us strive to make them free,
Since God is marching on."
Julia Ward Eov.
"Laurel crowns clears to deserts.
And power to him who power exerts.
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs."
. .. ; ?. -' -' - Xmerton.
Tie who cannot reason Is a fool.
He who will not reason is coward,
Ha who dare not reason is slave."
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INDIVIDUAUSM CONE WILD.
The plutocracy of to-day Li the logical
result of the individual freedom which
we have always considered the pride of
our system. The theory of our govern
ment has been and is that the individual
should possess the very greatest degree
of liberty consistent, not with the great'
est good of the greatest number, but
with the very least legal restraint com
patible with law and order. Individual
enterprise was allowed unlimited scope.
From this beginning the present de
velopment has been reached. Indi
vidual enterprise grew until its realistic
achievements excelled the most extrava
gant dreams of song or story. When
the possibilities of its conceptions passed
the bounds of individual achievement
accretions of other individuals took
place. In the start these were merely
private companies. But the field of en
terprise was as unlimited as man's am
bition was unbounded. Mountains
were to be tunneled, oceans spanned
and cabled, the stars were to bo counted
in their courses, the planets mapped and
surveyed in orderly array the finest
forces of nature, the very elixir of the
universe, was to be the servant of man
kind, and subdued to the coarsest uses.
New forces were to be evolved by whose
agencies all past achievements were to
be dwarfed. These necessities tran
scended, not the power of individual
conceptions, but the power of individual
effort, and an artificial individual was
created to meet the emergency, and was
named the corporation . This individual
the creation of the law, soon began to
bend to Its uses the forms and powers
f the law. While in its nature and
develpoment it is only the original and
cherished principle of individual liberty,
it has absorbed the liberties of the com
munity and usurped the power of the
agency that created it. By its gigantic
combinations, its control of the money
of the nation, by its gradual building up
of a system of indebtedness of colossal
magnitude, making every agency of ex
change tributary to it, it has. turned
toward its coffers every golden stream
diverted into its treasuries the revenues
of the nation. By it the toiling millions
have been made the mere took of a few
plutocrats. There is little doubt now!
that the people are actually in its
power. A combination involving inte
rests of the value of a thousand millions
has recently been made. It -has just
corrupted a court and bought a senate
in this state. Through its fine organi
zation of the transportation aud tele
graphic interests, through its banking
associations, its boards of trade, its press
associations, its boards of international
exchange, it wields a power unknown
in any former phase of society, and it
may well be doubted whether any law
ivhich it might consider adverse to its
Interests could be passed through con
gress, no matter how strongly public
sentiment might demand it. If it could
not, what resource is left to the people?
Only one.
It is a gloomy outlook. Well does
the writer of this article remember the
time before the war when men thought
they could penetrate the future of the
slavery problem. The prediction then
was common we have heard it made
many and many a time that that pro
blem would never find its solution with
out a bloody civil war. These prophets
of evil were scoffed at as abolition
cranks and lunatics. How the horrible
reality dwarfed their auguries a genera
tiou of gray -haired men who passed
through the fire and blood of it too well
know.
Human nature is the same to-day that
it was then. The bllud selfishness that
led the slaveholder to demand a larger
dominion for the safety of his peculiar
institution, leads the plutocratic million-
are to demand larger expansion for his
already over-grown privileges. The
greed that a thousand slaves would not
satisfy two hundred millions in bonds
. will not appease. Individualism in
corporatea has gone wild. When its
votaries can say, with the old adventu
; rers, "No pent up Utica contracts our
powers, for the whole boundless conti
nent is ours," they will reach for other
worlds or sigh because the infinite con
not be grasped. -
THE FARMERS'
There is a sleeping lion in the path of
these men. With all this congealing of
individualism into privelege the maw-ea
are rot ceasing to be democratic. They
imply do not realize that their liberties
are slloDinsr out of their grasp, nor do
they dream of the day when such
thing is possible. Will the plutocratic
clasps, blind to everything except the
present accumulation of wealth, using
the most sacred institutions as mere
agencies for; their ends, allow them
selves to drift into bund battle array
acraiust the democratic masses?
A remedy must be found. There is
no time' to lose. The motion of tne
mass is Catherine momentum. Crises
come in which history concentrates
aons into flahes. May not this remedy
lie in the continued refinement and de
velopment of the individualism which,
in its present stage, constitutes the evil?
The corporation has absorbed the com
munHy. The community must now ab
sorb the corporation nmt merge itself
into it. Society must enlarge Itself to
the breadth of humanity. A tttnge mut
bo reached in which each will be for all
and all for each. The welfare of ! he in
dividual must be the object and end of
all effort, and the very highest degree
of combination and concentration must
be brought to bear to accotuplih that
end. Isu't the highest aim of life to
turnout a finished humau being? Does
not that aim embrace the full tcope of
all the religion of the ages Confucian,
Buddhist, Christian? We care not by
what name this may be known, but let
us reach for it.
THAT PENITENTIARY REPORT.
The World-Herald calls for the report
of the investigating contmitteee on the
penitentiary contract. . We hope the
call will bring it forth. But we fear
the investigation is not yet begun. The
chairman of the penitentiary committee
may need investigating. A special in
vestigating committee should be ap
pointed at once. We fully agree with
the W. H. that the "monstrous iniquity
and inconceivable steal of tho prion
contract should be stopped at once."
But there is money for chairmen of
committees if tbey know how not to do
it.
"WHEN TIME COMES ROUND
WITH HIS REVENGES."
Mr. Boyd is strutting his brief hour
upon the stage. He is using good ob
tained under false pretences. If it was
a horse or a bill of dry goods obtained
the same way he would go to the pen.
He will make much confusion by install
ing a lot of appointees whose names
will be Dennis. Mr. Boyd is not a citi
zen of the United States. Every one
knows that now. This fact will soon
be judicially established. It will vitiate
the election. Gov. Thayer will resume
the gubernatorial chaii . He is a re
publican from way back. It is not to
be presumed that he will be particularly
tender of the gang that took his party
nto the democratic camp to scat Boyd.
They will take back seats. And the
democrats who went into that combine
where, 0 where are they? They will
sneak into oblivion with a whine and
their tails drooping. The men who
went into that combine shut the door
behind them and lost the key.
As for the Independents, that is the
truo ones of them, they have nothing to
regret. Beaten by money and corrupt
trading, they have sacrificed no prin
ciple and lost no honor. Their self
respect h left to them, which neither of
the other parties can say.
Staunch republican as he is, Gov.
Thayer cannot but feel divorced from
the gang that betrayed the party he
loves, aud he cannot fail to be drawn
towards the party with the real aims of
which he sympathises, When Boyd
takes his Samoset chair home, and Gov.
Thayer resumes the honorable place he
has filled so creditably, he will be an
Independent himself, and will use his
prerogatives and patronage as inde
pendently as he pleases.
This is all i a the near future. Time
is quickly coming round with his re
venges.
THE NEW NATION.
Again we welcome Edward Bellamy's
paper, The Xew Xation. No. 4 is before
us.. It is sound to the core, ably edited,
and typographically neat a9 a pin.
Mr. Bellamy is publishing "lalks on
Nationalism," beine short essays in
conversational form. We make an ex
tract. Smith, who has joined a Nation
al Club, replies to his pastor who is an
inquirer about it:
Smith The Christian church is bound
to be in it just so far as it is Christain,
and I do not mean to say that the bulk
of its members are not sincere according
to their light. This world-wide move
ment for social reconstruction on
higher plane, of which nationalism is a
phase, is an infinitely greater thing
than the anti-slavery movement; and
while the slowness of the church to
take the right side on that - issue was a
blow to its prestige in America from
which it has not yet recovered, its fail
ure to take the right side of this far
vaster movement would not leave any
church worth mentioning. Mind yon.
I don't say that it would leave no Chris
tianity. The spirit of Christianity is
imperishable and if the church failed
would find other embodiments. But I do
not believe the church will fail. There
are a thousand cheering signs that its
leaders will not be found sleeping at
this new coming of the Son of Man.
ALLIANCE. LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1891.
THE CONFERENCE AT CHICAGO.
The conference of farm organizations
held at Chii-agoon the 19th lust , had no
political s:gnificance whatever. The
impression that it was called to organ
ize a national political party is entirely
wrong It was called to organize a na
tional educational work for the farmers'
organizations, somewhat on the same
plan aa the Chautauqua literary circle.
August Post, of Moulton, Iowa, Sncre
tary of, tne National Farmers' Alliance,
was chosen chairman, and Herbert
Myrick, of Springfield, Mass., was
chosen secretary. Representatives were
present from the National Farmers' Al
liance, F. M. B. Association, P. of H., P.
of Industry, the American Association
of Agricultural Colleges and Exp. Sta
tions, Farmers' League, and the Natl
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union.
A plan was formulated for the organi
sation of a National Society to be called
the Farmers' Edueational Association.
It adopted the following constitution
which explains the nature of the so
ciety: constitution of the fabmebs' edu
' cation al assoc. ation.
ARTICLE 1.
Sec. 1 This Association shall be
known as the Farmers' Educational
Association.
Abticle 2.
Sec. 1 Its object is to provide an at
tractive aud efficient system of self-edu
cation for the faroi and family through
a formulated course of Mndy adapted to
theJireside, reading circle and farm or
ganization.
Article 3.
Sec. I It shall consist of a national
boaidbf directors from each state in
which any national farm order has a
titate organization.
Sec. 2 Its national board shall con
sist of one member from each national
tanners' order, elected for one year at
the annual meeting thereof, one mera-
ler from the Americau Association of
Agricultural Colleges and experiment
stations, the United States Secretary of
Agriculture and the Uultcd States Com
missioner of Education.
Sec. 8 The state board shall consist
of one member frmi each state farmers'
order represented ou the national board
having a state organization, and such
representatives of other agricultural or
educational institutions as may be de
sired by said members of farmers'
orders.
Abticle 4.
The National Board shall carry out
the above provisions, and for that pur
pose shall have power to elect officers
and make all needed rules and regula
tions not to conflict with this consti
tution.
The following is the National Board
appointed by the conference to hold
office until their respective associations
shall appoint their successors:
1. National Farmers' Alliance, J. Bur
rows, of Lincoln, Neb.
2. Patrons of Husbandry, Col. J. H.
Brigbam, of Delta, O.
3. National Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union, Col. L. L. Polk, of
Raleigh, N. C.
4. American Association of Agri
cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
tions, to be filled by Experiment Com
mission. 5. F.M. B.' A., W. I. Stillwell, of
Fort Brand, Ind.
6. Farmers' League, Herbert Myrick,
Springfield, Mass. ;
7. Patrons of Industry, F. W. Verti-
can, Port Huron, Mich.
8. Secretary of Agriculture.
9. National Commissioner of Agri
culture.
The city of Chicago was fixed upon
for the first meeting of the National
Board, the date of same left to be de
termined after consultation.
This organization was proposed by
Mr. Burrows two years ago, when he
was president of the National Alliance.
Tho seed sown by him at that time took
root, and has resulted in this society. It
is a move in the right direction, and if
the National Board provided for does
the work assigned to it thoroughly and
well, great results may follow. The
field this society will occupy is not only
unlimited in its extent, but is entirely
unoccupied.
Tho National Board will met at Chi
cago at such date as may be fixed by the
president and secretary of the confer
ence. CLEVELAND A CANDIDATE.
A good many people have heard of a
man named Cleveland, tie iormeny
hung some men in Buffalo, N. Y. He
is eminently qualified for that duty.
Tom Hendricks said he had a head like
a bull and a neck as large as his thigh
He wears a twenty-five inch collar and
a six inch hat. He had an acquaint
ance with a Buffalo shop-girl named
Maria Halpin which was disastrous to
the girl. He is also said to have ac
e'epted the honor of being scape-goat for
of Rome his married friends' sins. Be
ing in that line a trifle more or less did
not matter. By the way, he served one
term as president, now we think of it,
and the best thing that could be said of
him was that he wns not known to steal
anything. Well, he is again candidate
for president, and as a necessary pre
liminary has written a letter ferninst
free coinage of silver. He knows who
makes presidents. He don't trouble
himself to write any letters for the peo
pie, but he looks out to be on the sunny
side of Wall street. Wall street is peo
pled by a class of men who are republi
cans in a republican district and demo
crats in a democratic district, but al
ways look out for the interest of Wall
street.
man.
man.
man.
street
Mr. Harrison is ft Wall street
Mr. Manning was a Wall street
Mr. FairchiM was ft Wall street
Mr. Foster of Ohio, is ft Wall
man. It is simply amazing
how indiscriminately executive honors
may rain alike on the just and the un
just and never miss a Wall street man.
Well Grover Cleveland will' not be
the next president. His wife might if
she could be divorced from the lump of
obesity she accepted before as an in
cumbrance with the white house. But
she can't be, more's the pity. "For bet
ter or for worse"-how often it turns
out a horrible sentence! Women some
times carry a corpse through life, with
out love and men too. God pity them
The people intend to take a hand with
Wall street in the next presidential
racket, and the people will never again
elect the man with the big neck and
little head.
A LYING ATTACK BY O. P. MASON
Mr. O. P. Mason, the paid attorney
of the B. & M. railroad, could not at
tend and speak at a social banquet
without, first, advocating the interests
of his client; and. second, without
making a lying attack on an individual
who was not present.
We are informed that he said that be
heard a man asked what he would be
willing to pay for freight per ton per
mile in this state, and that man replied
three cents, and' added that the man
was J. Burrows. He also ' said that
freight was being carried for 5.6 mills
per ton per mile.
Now, both of the above statements
by Mr. Mason are false. Mr. Burrows
never made such a statement, and
freight is not now being and never has
been carried for 5.6 mills per ton per
mile in this state. The lowest rate ever
reached on an eastern road was on the
Philadelphia & Erie, a short road with
an enormous traffic, and the rate was
5 4 mills. The lowest average rate
ever reported by a Missouri river road
was by the C, R. I. & P., and the rate
was over 10 mills per ton per mile.
The lowest average rate ever reported
by the C, B. & Q. road was in 1879,
and the rate was over 10 mills per ton
per mile. That robber road has not re
ported since. No road this side of the
Missouri river has ever reached any
thing like so low a rate.
Not only did this low-down old blath
erskite, Mason, make an attack upon
Mr. Burrows who was absent, but we
are informed that he improved the oc
casion to abuse the Independents on
general principles, using a choice se
lection of the billingsgate he is such an
adept in. No man but a blackguard
would take a social occasion like this to
air his political opinion, vent his spleen
or defend his clients. But this man
Mason is a blackguard.
"HOLD THE PARTY RUDDER
TRUE."
The above is the caption of an edito
rial in the Bee of the20'h. Church Howe
left the sinking ship. He is now back
on deck on the quarter deck flourish
ing a gold headed cane and Rosewater
is steering. But the aroma of rose-
water does not overpower the stench of
bilgewater. The new steersman ran
the rotten craft into Jim Boyd's creek
and manned her with a democratic
ciew, and while Church Howe climbs
over the gunwale the enormous pile of
national bank and whiskey boodle
piled beside the wheel hide the line
of breakers to leeward from the wheel
man. The rudder is unshipped, Roscy,
don't you know it?
VILLIANY EMPHASIZED.
A man named Church from Nemeha
county, with ' Hon." prefixed to his
name, came up here and took possession
of a gold headed cane which was ready,
and gave it back to the man who bought
it, the other Church. The first Church
probably had his transportation fur
nished by the second Church, also his
other expenses. ' Hon." Church said
"600 majority meant an election in Nem
eha," wherein ho entirely misconceived
the nature of the case. No one has de
nied that Church Howe was elected. It
is claimed that be bribed voters and
therein violated the constitution and
committed perjury when he took the
official oath, thereby forfeiting his
right to the office. Correct definitions
save misunderstandings. Church Howe
did not show his usual shrewdness in
buying this gold headed cane for him
self. It simply forms a sharp exclama
tion point in the ghastly business. No
one expected to unseat Mr. Hewe,
though many had a right to hope to.
More than a hundred men in Nemeha
county can swear to his infamy. His
presence in the house sporting that
gold headed cane with his well known
modest and virtuious mien, is a sad
satire on the political morals of Ne
braska. CHURCH HOWE NOT A RAILROAD
MAN.
Oh no, of course not! . But isn't it
strange how be can command the passes.
lie sent passes down to JNeniaha on
which his friends rode up here to pre
sent him that cane. They didn'f even
know what tbey were wanted for until
they reached the city. Perhaps they
brought arms with them, expecting a
fight. They had pocket pistols, without
doubt. The fact as to the passes we
state for a fact we are ready to prove
THE HIGHER THE RATE OF INTE
REST THE MORE DIFFICULT
TO OBTAIN MONEY.
The following article was written by
a leading business man of Lincoln, a
man who is worth t I50.000-a succesful
man who has not only been a loaner of
money, but has been in many other
kinds of business. He understands the
interest problem, and his words should
have great weight. Ed. Alliance.
Editob Alliance: All business
should be transacted in the discreet
manner that meets the approval of all
fair minded men. It is a known fact
that the laborers or mechanics who
demand too much fer their services are
apt to be id e. The same rule applies
to lawyers, merchants and physicians.
Extravagant charges for services or use
of property throws these out of use only
as necessity compels their use. This
rule also applies to capital. The capi
talists of the east are shy of any state
that permits high rates of interest. This
state made slow progress in obtaining
eastern loans as long as she permitted
the collection of 12 per cent. On the
repeal of that law money came pouring
into our state at a wonderful rate. So
large was the volume of currency that
in each village and hamlet agents who
handled these funds amassed fortunes.
In our centres the names of those agents
are legion. Many of them have become
royal bloods, earthly angels who fly in
and out of national bank buildings
presidents, cashiers and stock-holders.
It is capable of demonstration that
the higher the rate of interest the scarcer
is money and the harder to obtain.
Capitalists are clear headed and far
seeing men, and do not desire to loan to
men who pay high rates. This business
is left to scalpers. Tho only way that
eastern capital can be brought to the
west is by making the interest low 6
or 7 per cent a rate the eastern capi
talist knows the borrower can pay and
meet the principal when it is due with
out foreclosure and execution. Be it
said of many of the eastern capitalists,
they possess a sense of justice that
makes foreclosures an nnpleasant task.
It is not the eastern captialist that is
oppressing the people of Nebraska it is
the capitalists and bankers of our own
state. At the present time good men
are refused accommodation at ten per
cent, and the scalper, the usury man is
loaning large amounts of money belong
ing to the same banks at from three to
ten per cent a month, and dividing the
blood money or as Judge Cobb used
to put it, "the swag," with the banks.
Our chattel mortgage law is such that it
winks at - usurious loans. Notwith
standing our law permits ten per cent,
our eastern capitalists loan at six or
seven, treating us more just than our
ow bankers and our own law. Nearly
every bank has its scalpers, which is a
sad comment on Nebraska capitalists.
There is no reason why legal in
terest in Nebraska should exceed six or
seven per cent. Any amount over that
should be illegal, and taint the contract
or paper. Change our rates to six or
seven per cent, with proper penalties
attached, and capitalists and bankers
will cease robbing the people, and the
volume of money will increase.
With the present high rates much of
our land is idle. Farmers cannot afford
to borrow to open it up. The same
with the business men. They cannot
enlarge their business and pay -such
high interest. The outlook of the Ne
braska farmer is discouraging. High
interest on one side, high freights and
taxes on the other. Between the three
he toils day and night to extricate him
self, but the harder he works the deeper
he sinks.
Nearly all we raise goes east, nearly
all we buy comes from the east. We
pay high freights each way. Reduce
the interest and manufacturers will
come, we will sell them part of what we
produce and buy the goods they
make, and save freight both ways.
With money at low rates we can manu
facture here as well as they can in the
east. Eastern manufacturers get money
kit five per cent, I dare say we could
manufacture with money at six per cent.
The farmers and business men must be
made to understand that ten per cent
on thirty, sixty or ninety days' paper is
exorbitant and oppressive, and as long
as it continues national banks will in
crease, and the number of our homeless
multiply. There is but one way out,
and that is for the present legislature to
reduce all interest by contract or other
wise to six or seven per eent. Why
should not this legislature stand up
boldly for the people, and release us
from this yoke.
The cry that a law lowering interest
would drive away capital is a fraud and
false on the face of it. At six and soven
per cent millions of money has come to
Nebraska, and continues to come. It is
only the local bankers and capitalists
and their scalpers who are raising this
cry and mad dog scare when there is no
occasion for it. Mr. Legislator, stand
up. Have some back bone. Give these
shylocks and scalpers the cold shoulder.
Stand by the people. Do as Abe. Lin
coln told Dick Oglesby to do. "Dick,
keep close to the people." Members of
the Nebraska legislature, "keep close to
the people." Pass a si per cent interest
law. Remember the people not only
have to pay the ten per cent on the
money they borrow, but the traders in
every line add the ten per cent on the
cost ef their goods through every ex
change, and the people pay that also
The merchant adds the freight to his
prices, and the grain buyer deducts the
freight from his, and the farmer stands
the burden. The rural papers are filled
with notices of sheriff and chattel
mortgage sales. You can put a stop to
the bleeding of farmers and business
men by the bankers and scalpers by
lowering the present oppressive rate of
interest
NEBRASKA POLITICS.
Stuff the census, buy naturalization
papers, subsidize the Omaha saloons,
import repeaters and refuse to plea oa
the questions of citizenship, and your
name will be Bcyd, and you can be
governor of Nebraska.
Buy votes, set up the whiskey and
cigars, bluff and buy the notaries who
should take testimony in a contest, and
then commit purjury in swearing you
didn't do it, and your name will be
Church Howe, and you can have a gold
headed cane.
Stand up for morals in politics, an
honest vote and a fair count, no bri
bery; no perjury, no sale of offices, no
rotten contracts, no steal, and no vil
liany, and your name will be Dennis
and the papers will comb your noddle
with a three-legged stool, and paint
your face and treat you like a fool.
LEGISLA 1 IVE.
There was considerable work done
in the house the past week in advanc
ing bills, but little finished work was
done. Tho two cent fare bill was
passed, ana now goes to the senate.
The South Omaha stock yards bill
passed to third reading. This is an im
portant measure and should become a
law without delay.
The bill to authorize counties to issue
bonds to obtain money for relief of
drouth sufferers passed to third read
ing. "
A substitute for PurnelVs irrigation
bill was placed on general file. This
bill covers a large financial nigger in
the wood-pile, and should be killed.
The house bill favoring a constitu
tional convention is on the house genr
ral file.
The house has on thj? general file
sixty-nine bills ready to be considered
in committee of the whole.
In the .senate the Australian ballot
law was passed. It goes. back to the
house for the correction of a verbal er
ror, when it goes to the governor.
The bill repealing the sugar bounty
passed both houses. According to Mr.
Dorsey this action is ruinous to the
state. But as the only other party
holding the same view is the sugar
trust, wo think Nebraska will survive.
The concurrent resolution favoring-
the foreclosure of the Union Pacific
mortgage has passed both houses.
The bill authorizing the issue of $100,-
000 of state bonds upon which the state
is to borrow that amount of the perma
nent school fund for the purchase of
seed grain for settlers, has passed both
houses. .
The Stevens rate bill has been
re-
ported for passage in the senate.
The Truth From Mr. Gale's County.
Ainsworth Neb., Feb. 13, 1891.
Dear. Sir: I noticed an article In the
World-Herald of Feb. 11th, in which Mr.
A. H. Gale, representative from this
51st Dist. is made to say: My pockets,
and desk are full of letters from my constitu
ents endorsing my course.
Now sir I believe when Mr. Gale ut
tered the above words a blacker lie nev
er fell from the lips of man, and we
enter a solemn protest against the ac-
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position by screening his democrat and
boodled carcas behind his constitutents
and if Mr. Gale has got any such let
ters in his pocket and desk thev are
from democrat and republican bankers
and loan agents who are today (in this
dist.,) embraced in one another's arms,
and shedding tears of joy at the discom
fiture and disgrace that this traitorious
scamp has brought upon the heads of
his deceived and outraged constitutents.
I have attended the meetings of most
all the sub-Alliances in the county, late
ly, and I have failed to find a single
member who approves of Mr. Gale's
action The Independents in this di.sy
trfwanted to see the contest come up
inlts proper way arfd tried upon its mer
its, and if the result showed that Mr..
Boyd was himself elected I do not think
there is a single member in either house
but what would really recognized Mr.
Boyd as governor with the best of grace,
would have not only recognized him but
congratulated him upon his .elec
tion. But the course that has been
persued by the democrats, republicans
and state supreme court is conclusive
evidence that there is something rotten
in Denmark. That their excuse for
their action that they did not want to
seethe constitution outraged, is too thin
I hope there is enough Independent
members in each house (who have not
gone back on their pledges) to give us
some good laws, laws that will be a
credit to the state and a monument to
the originators.
An Independent.
COSTS OF THE CONTEST.
A bill has been presented appropria
ting $29,500 as costs of the contest. That
is to say, certain parties applied to a
court asking that a certain cause in
which they were claimants be tried.
The court kicked them out and refused
to try their cause, and then they asked
the court to assess and pay the costs
The first thing to do is to try the case.