The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892, September 24, 1891, Image 4
THE FAKMEHS ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, XEH., THURSDAY , SEPT. 24, 1801. I; I 1 P "I 4 i i If hi 1 13 J Sfjc farmers alliance, PulUsfced iwr rwuraay ty Tin Alluxcx Publish ino Co. Oar. Ill and M 8U-, Lincoln, Keb. J Rrximw Editor J.H.Tmourmt Builn. Bmmw the benty of the lilHcs Christ tu born across the sea, With glory In hi bosom That transfigure you and me. Aa be strove to make men holy Let ns strive to make them free. Since God is marching on." Julia Ward Hove. "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 ieason Is a fool. He who will not reason is a coward, He who dare not reason is a slave." TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address all buatneas eommunlaations to . AtiiaiKM Publishing-Co. -Addrras matter tor publication to Editor Article written on both (Ides of the paper euiot be used. Very long communications, Independent Peoples' Ticket Independent State' Ticket. For Associate Justice of Supreme Court, JOSETH W.EDGERTON, Douglas County. For Regents of the University A. D'ALLEMAND, of Furnas Co. E. A. IIADLEY, of Greeley Co. Independent County Ticket. For District Judges WM. LEESE, A. S. TIBBETTS. OLIVER W. CROMWELL. For County Treasurer O. HULL, Mill Precinct. Foe Sheriff WM. F. ELFELDT, Buda. For Clerk of District Court SLIAS BAKER, of Lincoln. For Omnty Clerk WM. S. DEMAREE, Saltillo Precinct. For County Superintendent Prof. H. S. BOWERS, Lincoln. "For County Commissioner MATT MAUEL, Little Salt Precinct. For County Judge W. S. WYNN, of Lincoln. For Coroner DR. HOSMER, of Lincoln. For County Surveyor J. A. ROBINSON, of Lincoln. For Justices of the Peace FRED SHEPHERD, J. C. MeNERNY,: H. C. PALMER. For Constables WILLIAM LIVINGTON, A.J.WARWICK. Assessors, First ward, WheatleyMick lwalte; Second ward, C. H. Waite; Third ward, JohnCurrie; Fourth ward, . . Kemp; Fifth ward, II. L. Klock; Sixth ward, C. Marshal; Seventh ward, W.J. Coates. J. V. 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J" " " Bmltta Diagram and RtMet 1 60 " Brict's Financial Catechism 1 60 . " ' - Baker's Money Mo- nopo!y 185 . " - " Riohard's Crown... 150 The above books for sale at this office and ent post paid on recent of price as follows; looking llaokward Mt8 ueaars column lAborand Capital ttcta, Our Republican Monarchy "ii CtfsUna-'s Manual, Paper covers.. '..'."'.25cts! Cloth covers 50cts. CnmlUi's Diagram and rules 60cts. rutfcerare we Drifting ......$1 60. Brioe'S Financial Catechlsm.............50cta Baker's Money Monopoly .."ifficts. BUehard's Crown.... ...,60ots. Address ALUAHCe TUB. CO.. Uncoih. Hn. j"fc"A grand rally of the independents of Lancaster county will be held on Monday. Oct 1Mb, The ablest inde pendent speakers of the state will be here on that occasion. A programme for this meeting will be in our next issue. J SEXM0.Y OJf Fl.YAXCE AS It CHARITY. We are living In the mo. I magnificent era of the world's hintory. We have gathered into our daily lives the best fruit of all the sges. The art, iioetry, architecture, magic, invention and phil osophy of all the centuries are in our libraries and on the shelves of our of fices. At one comprehensive glance we can take in all history, from the crea tion of the world to the year of our Lord 1891, and say without exaggeration that it is all ours. It is tree, looking back over the ngea we can count upon our fingers the great events that have con tributed to lift the burden of slavery off firm the shoulders of tne great plain people. The great strike of the children of Israel against the tyranny of Pha raoh, the birth of Christ, the discovery of America, the reformation, the Amer ican and French revolutions in all the centuries these are the only great events that mark tbe red letter days of tbe great plain people, of whom Christ was one. But whatever it is, whatever Us results are or may be, we of this age have for our own all that has been gar nered through all the n-ons of recorded time. We have with our electric wires exceeded the promiso of Prospero with his magio wand to "put a girdle rou'id the earth In forty minutes." We have bound with ribs of steel the terres trial globe, making the antipodes neigh bors. We have expanded our sense of bearing until it embraces states aud ex tends over mountain chains and valleys and rivers. We are successfully attack ing the realms of the upper world, and expect soon to bo traversing on tbe wings of the wind the illimitable track less spaces of tbe ethereal blue. Our mechanical creations range from ma chines so transcendently iinuly deli cate that they rival in exquisite minute ness the moot subtle nerves of the hu man organism, to enalnes so ponderous that they rright upheave a pyramid or swing a world out of its orbit. We have searched tbe realms of the earth, the air aud the sea, and brought their wealth and their treasures to deck the brow of beauty, add laurels to the wreath of the scientist and the explorer, and swell the vain glorious pride with whish we point to the achievements of our golden material age. Now, what is it all worth While we have been working out these splendid material achievements we have pre served and cherished a monetary and usurious syiitem that Inevitably creates Inequality among men. Let all men, or a nation of men, be created absolutely equal equal in physical, mental and moral endowments and then establish among them a social polity that gives the lever of usury to a portion of them, and unequal opportunities would soon exist, which would invevltably result in exalting the few and depressing the many in mental, moral and physical inequality. Wealth is tho stimulator and essential instrument of civilization. A system of money like tho present hoary headed system, which builds up classes and degrades masses, retards not retards but destroys civilization. It is not civilization in which only a small part of the community are civil ized, and in which by far tho largest part are either poverty -stricken laborers, drones or beggars. We have open be fore us a book over two thousand years old, "The Republic" of Plato. Read the following seutence from it, and see in it a true picture of B. U. 870 and A. D. 1801: . "These capitalists, on the other hand, keep prying after their own interests, and apparently do not see tho interests of their enemies'; and whenever ou of the remainder yields them opportunity, they uound him by infusing their poisonous money viz: get him into debt and then recover interest many times as great as the parent sum, aid thus male the drone and the beggar multiply in the state." Can words draw a more graphic pic ture of this age than the above? Again we ask, what is all tnis splen did material achievement worth? If Christ should return after eighteen hun dred years of absence would he rind the Father's Kingdom come? If wo can subdue the material world, and bend its forces to our uses and apply its beau tics to our adornment, can we not also throw off this incubus of the ages, and invent a system of money which shall be the servant of the many Instead of the weapon of the fow. Is greed to be regnant for all time? Is tigrish compe tition always '.o be the law? "every man for himself and devil take the hind most" always the rule? Remember, all ye greedy souls, "no rich mnn can en ter tbe kingdom of heaven-," and add this senpturo for charity's sake: "Inas much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my children, ye have also do ie it unto mo." RAILROAD OS PARTY WHICH. There is not the least doubt that a re port from the boaad of transportation favoring a reduction of freight rates would have been of great benefit to tho republican party at this time. It is just on the eve ot holding a state convention. In its last state platform, aud by its ac knowledged organs throughout the state it has made repeated declarations in fa vor of complying with the demands of the people for such a reduction. The board of transportation is a crea ture of the republicans. Thct board was raised as a compromise with the people on the freight question, and the party that created the board has re peatedly promised the people that the board would do Justice as between the road;i and the people. But these promises are like tho apples of Asphaltum, ashes to the taste. The board acknowledges its fealty to the roads and repudiates its fealty to the party or the people. Its report, issued just befote the party state convention, declares that the rates now in force are just, that the demand for lower rates is unjust. This, In one aspect, is ss it should be. The board is actually the creature and rrv&Di of the ro.U, as is every repub lican esrcJtive officer In the slate bouse; and It is r'gbt and proer that the aer vant should obey bis matter. Does this action of the board pre sage an entire btck down by the party at its state convention. That conven tion must either repudiate tbe board by repeating its demand for lower rates, or it must approve the action of the board by silence or by open endorsement. If it. desires to be in rapport with the peo ple it will do the former. If it is willing to avow to the world its actual and well known subservience to the railroad power it will do the latter. Tbe board has acknowledged itself to be the ser vile tool of the roads. Will tbe great party of moral ideas do the same thing' We predict that it will. DOVBLYIieJuKU HYPOCRISY. The B f M. Journal of the 10th inst. has an article under the caption "More Rosewaterism" in whx-h it says a great many severe and true things about Mr. Rosewater. Of course that U quite sat isfactory as far as it goes. The general publio will be delighted at those two precious corporation journals exposing the vileness of each other. But the quarrel is only a surface family quarrel, and don't go very far. Just as soon as the editors of the Bee and Journal come together in convention they will be found cheek by Jowl supporting whatever is for the interest of their corporation masters, and opposing whatever tends to iojure them. In its article above alluded to is a pre cious bit of Journal cunning and hypoc risy, which is worthy of special notice. Tho Journal says: "In a former article, copied in full in the Journal, in connection with the Roc- gen letter written on the same day, it (the Bee) fulminated against Judge Cobb declaring him a 'weak' candidate be cause of the opposition of a certain in terest, evidently meaninir tbat the rail roads preferred some other candidate and would cast their influence against him in case of his renomiuation." Notice the tine, the delicate manner in which a stroke for Judge Cobb is en grafted iu a slap at the Ben. "Evidently meaning," etc. Neither by word, nor hint, nor suggestion or Inference has the Bee intimated that Judge Cobb is not ac ceptable to the railroads. Nor will the Bee bo faund supporting any man who is cot acceptable to them. The Journal is par excellence tbe champion and advo cate of the railroads. Mr. Cobb is its first choice for Supreme Judge. And yet, knowing the vile record he has made as a corporation partisan, and knowing tbe Intensity of publio sentiment on this question, it injects into a leading editor ial, in a sort of Mephistophelian aside, the intimation that its railroad capper candidate may not be acceptable to the railroads. If he is not acceptable to them tho only reason will be that they think they have found a better tool whom they have a better chance of elect ing. Both the Bee and the Journal know that Mr. Cobb is now and always has been a facile tool of corporate power. They can easily ascej tain from any lead ing attorney iu this state that it is diffi cult to gain a fair hearing in the Supreme Court of the state of Nebraska in any case in which a railroad corporation is a party. For low-down, dishonest partisan hy pocrisy the B. rf .If. Journal takes the bakery. . DEMORALIZED C0XD1TWX OF OLD PARTY POLITICS The right to select a delicti ion for submission to Fourth ward votei at the primaries was generally concedttd hv re publicans of tbat ward to A. W. Field and C L. Hall, who have made thjir selection of the following gentlemen. B. P M. Journal. The above sentence more than aiy thing we could say illustrates the utter ly demoralized condition of the repub lican party politics. And democratic methods arc tho samo. In a county or district convention, where by a vote it Is proven beyond a doubt that a certain candidate has a decisive majority in his favor, letting him name a delegation to a subsequent nominating convention has some sort of sanction. But even in such cases we have considered that tho practice has a tyrannical aspect and ten dency, But how the bosses have im proved upon it! The primary, as the very name signifies, is the place where the people may express their preference for caudidalcs in tho selection of dele gates, or they may choose dolegates to whoso judgement they are willing to leave such selection. Now step in tho bosses and confer upon candidates the function of the people, usurp tho pow er of free selection, aud pack the con ventions in favor of their choice. This is one of the evils which U is tho mis sion of the new party to reform. SA.V .VcCLAY AXD THE TITO THOU SAND DOLLARS. A few weeks ago the statement was mado, officially we believe, that Sam McClay had turned into the county treasury two thousand dollars of fees. Now the fact is that Sam McClay has not turned a doliar into the treasury. Every dollar of money that he has col lected he has shoved into his jeaas. He turned into the treasury some accounts of uncollected fees, and it is quite likely that they are poor accounts, and never will be collected. It is by such jugglery of words that the republican politicians-have long fooled the people. And a republican who will trade with a whiskey demo cratic gang like the McManigal crowd, is just good enough to do such things. XEW Ah'D mOROVED TRIMMIXGS. As the campaign progresses and the Alliance "encampments" get well un der way last fall's act of standing the members up in a row and swearing them to vote for no man not an inde pendent will be repeated with new and improved trimmings. A f- .If. Journal. The " new and improved trimmings " are the hosts of voters that are crowd ing into the encampments from both tho old parties. Of course they have to be " initiated." TUKRHrUBUCAXS MILK TlIK MAM If any evidence was wanted tbat tbe two political machine: in Lancaster county known as republican and demo cratic, one led by the R. f .If. Journal and slot of railroad bummers, and the other by McManigal and bis ward heel ers and strikers, belong identically to the same outfit, are peps from the same litter, and are jerked by the same string, it may be found in an editorial in tbe Journal ot Saturday the 19ih, headed "Tbe Judicial Ticket." Some weeks ago when the Bar Asso ciation proposed the nomination of a not partisan ticket the Journal was tbe first to make a protest A remonstrance against such action, signed by a large number of republicans, among them Gere and Hathaway, was published in the so-called republican organ. It was understood then that a non-partisan ticket meant an cpen union of the two forces we hive named above against the independents, or in other words a demo- repub fusion. The Journal t editorials were strenuously against it. But in its paper of tbe l!Hb. the morning of the republican county convention, appears the article we have named, in which the Journal takes unequivocal ground in fa vor of the nomination by the republi cans of only two candidates for judges. This means tbat tbe Journal and Mc Manigal crowds have made their trade- that it is for a fusion of these two cor rupt outfits to beat the Independents, and that the Journal is in the deal. The Jonrnal is in this ceal, notwithstanding its virtuous protests of a few weeks ago; and its strikers who were openly pro testing against it a short time ago are in it, and have cbnsented to it. And this is all true, because the corrupt corpo rate power from which lhe moving impulse which actuates these corrupt elements is derived desires that it should be so. The fusion is natural, inevitable. The gangs calling themselves republican and democratic have no honest animat ing principle, aud no antagonizing issue. The individuals composing them are after official plunder. They are ani mated by greed. They have no ideal, and are inspired by no noble motive. They disgrace politics. They defile whatever they touch. Tbey pander to vice and murder virtue. They originate thefts, boodle contracts, defalcations, and all bis clean sess. After making this low, underhanded deal with tho worst element of tbe dem ocratic party in the convention, the rail road ring of the republican outfit, Sat urday, had not the manliness and cour age to endorse the democratic nominee for judge. So, while making a bid for democratic support their cowardice will prevent their realizing any benefit from it, and has actually enraged more dem ocrats than it has concilated. It is certain that Judge Tibbetts had nothing whatever to do with this deal. As far as republicans who might feel bound by party nominations are con cerned, they are free to vote for whom tbey please for third judge. So, prac tically the trade cannot fail to kelp the independent ticket and places the elec tion of Leeso beyond a doubt. THECOUXTi REPUBLICANS. The Lancaster County republican convention met in Lincoln on Saturday the loth inst., and did all it possibly could to smooth the way for independ ent success in Nov. First, it attempted a democratic fusion by nominating only two judg?s instead of three. But failing to endorse tbe democratic nominee, it offended numbers of democrats whom it had hoped to conciliate, left the doors wide open for tho republicans to freely choose from the other tickets whom they will support for the third judge, offended the candidates for the third position and their friends, and alien ated largo numbers of republicans who were in favor only of a straight ticket. Second, it nomin&ted a very weak ticket. Third, it re elected as chairman of the republican 'county committee a man who is a swords' points with the dictatorial element which has controlled the party in this county, thus insuring divided councils in the campaign. If we had been permitted to make a programme for the republican conven tion, we could not have made one more to our liking than the one actually adopted. The Ed. Sizer end Journal element had fill' control; and there are hosts of republicans in this city and county who say out loud that Ed. Sizer has run thinr-s long enough. The railroad element showed its strength by voting to allow Judge Cobb to name the delegation to the state con vention. . Thus Judge Reese gets a square slap in the face in his own coun ty. It is note woi thy, however, that the boss of tho Lincoln street railways was the champion of Judge Reese. The ticket is a weak oue from top to bottom. It is as follows: For district judges, Allen W. Field, Chas. L. Hall; for clerk of the district court, C. E. Waite; for county judge, I. W. Lansiug; for commissioner 2d district, J. H Wescott;for county treas urer, S. W. Burnham; for county clerk, J. D. Woods; for sheriff, Sam McClay; for superintendent, J. S. Baer; for coun ty surveyor, W. S. Scott; for county coroner, F. D. Crim. Allen W. Field is the railroad judgo for which the railroad forees will trade off every other man on the ticket. The leaving off one judge gives them great chances for trading, but it gives the other side just as good a chance. . The candidate for county judge is simply a clown. He missed his voca tion when he failed to take an engage ment with Adam Forepaugh. Ho is as bad a nominee as Courtney a year ago, and will be more decisively defeated. The candidate for commissioner we believe caused the dissolution of a Farmers' Alliance in this county. The faithful members surrendered their charter to get rid of him, and then ob tained a new charter without his name in it. His room was better than his company; and when the offlcei are f iled in November tbe same will be true. Tbe candidate for sheriff has been try ing to engineer a democratic trade in bis favor, but thus far without much success. He has been for some time past traveling on his morals; but his stock in trade has received a fearful de pletion of late, if reports are true. He turned in a lot of bad accounts to tbe commissioners in lieu of cash and then claimed to have turned in $2,000 in fees. He is serving his last term as sheriff. The chairman of the county commit tee is the fat editor of the Daily Call. Tbe fact tbat bis vital forces are daily exhausted in getting up, with the help of several assistants, a couple of col umns of original items for his paper does not argue well for the energy of his campaign. But if the candidates will furnish the cigars he will smoke them. And if the Journal develops zeal for any particular part of tbe ticket he will smoke tbat too. In tbe situation thus far the inde pendents have every thing to be thank ful for, and nothing to regret. If they do not elect their full ticket it will not be on account of lack of blunders by their enemies. FARMER BURXHAM. Tbe Journal claims Mr. Burnham, the repub. nominee for county treasurer, as one of tho best farmers of Yankee II ill precinct." That's probably a fact. He farms the county funds. Having a bans himself, there is no question of his tak ing illegal interest for the use of county funds. If the tax-payeis want to bor row their own money at 10 or 15 per cent, go to the bank of the county treasurer. But it is probable that the farmers will prefer a genuine farmer far treasurer rathur than a money farmer, and so will elect Mr. Hull. A STREET POIXTER. Four republicans and one independ ent were talking politics on the street, when Gen. Leese's name was mentioned. One of tbe republicans then says: " 1 have no earthly use for a man who, after receiving almost the highest office in the state, left the republican party and accepted a nomination from the independents." 2d Repub. " It is not true that he left the party. He was driven out of the party while trying to do his duty to the people under the platform of bis state convention; and I am going to vote for him.'', "So am I," and "so am I," quickly responded the other republicans. Tbe first republican wilted and the inde pendent smiled audibly. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION NOTES. The farmers were not iu the repbli- can convention to any alarming extent to get offices; but there were thirty-Ave bankers or persons connected with banking, and between thirty and forty lawyers in it. The republican farmers had three offices dished out to them by the corpo ration bosses last Saturday, viz: County clerk, superintendent and commission er, and the city was liberally provided for, two district judges, one county judge, treasurer, sheriff, clerk of dis trict court, surveyor and coroner. The democratic republican combine worked beautifully under the dictation of the corporation bosses as to district judges. Of tho three hundred and five dele gates at the republican county conven tion there were one hundred and forty three farmer delegates who wanted three judges nominated; but tho corpo ration bosses, Hathaway, Judges Field and Hall, Abbott, Talbot, Alexander, Wheedon, Marquette, Deweese and the B. & M. cappers said it must be other wise. During the contest for district judges in the republican county convention, Judges Field nd Hall smiled trium phantly, while they were Hanked by four railroad lawyers, Hall, Abbott, Talbott and Wheedon, who gave assur ance that the thiug was well lixed. COMMENTS OF REPUBLICANS. " I warn the republican party in Lan caster county that its cowardly policy to-day in nominating judges may re sult in the election of the whole Alliance ticket." Gait. Vr. II. Woodward. "This nomination of only twe judges is a damnabie and infamous combina tion with democrats, at the dictation of corporation bosses." J. C. Jodkeon. " This miserable deal with the demo crat , in nominating district judges, in sures the election of Leese. Judge C. M. Parker. SIT Allen W. Field, County Treasur er Burnham and a few more own Lin coln Park, and the Sunday entertain ments there given ia base ball, balloon ascensions, pie-nics, toboggan slides, brass band concerts an.-l loud shouting, as well as dance house performances, is quite delightful to tho christians of this county. rjgCapt. Billingsley has a large knife out for the republican judicial ticket, and it is growing longer and sharper each day. He says, "Boys you will see a fino job of carving in No vember."" No Irish need apply." "No Ger mans need apply." "Put only Ameri cans on guard," were the throe mottoes adopted at the republican convention. This paper will in due course of time furnish some very interesting history concerning Allen W. Field aGd Charles L. Hall, which can be verified by the record. TROTTING HORSE BREEDERS. The Nebraske Association of Trotting Horse Breeders will hold its sixth annual meeting at David City, Neb., October 13th to 10th, 1801. Frst payment hw been made on over three hundred nomi nations, which is far in excess of any meeting of this kind in tho state. Uf.ifr THIS TO MEM0R Y. The following is an extrset from the the leading editorial of the Chicago Tri bune July 23, 1901. "The twoold parties will pursue their own course and the farmers' Alliance will pursue its path until enough of its members recover from their mid sum mer madness, when the organization will crumble to pieces, as tbe old oath bound secret Know-Nothing party did. If it should appear tbat there was real danger of the People's Party holding together long enough to do great mis chief, the democrats would unite with the republicans, from whom they differ chiefly on the tariff and offices, and the two would fijht against a common enemy. When that job was ended the two parties would separate and resume the dispute of the tariff as of old." Tne above is a confession and a proph ecy. It Js a confession of the utter vilenefs and lack of principle of the two old parties. It is a prophecy based upon the admitted fact of the confes sion. Every convention of either of those parties is justifying the confession and fulfilling the prophecy. The coun ty convention of Saturday was one of that sort. A GENEROUS FELLOW. That's Ike Lansine. the republican candidate for county judge generous to a fault, a very large fault, in fact. It is said he is as generous with other peo ple's money as he is with his own. As there are large fiduciary trusts con nected with the office of county judge, there is some doubt about the propriety of putting a man of such great gene rosity in tbat office. MONUMENTAL GALL. It is sincerely hoped by the Bee on behalf of the republican party that lhe railroads will not attempt to secure the organization or in any other way to ma nipulate the deliberations of the con vention. Bee of the 19th. ED. R0GG EN STILL ON IT. If any man thinks Ed. Roggen has been dropped from the editorial staff of the Bee let him read the following de scription of ex-candidate Richards and editor Gere, of the brass collared bri gade, from Sunday's Bet: " Speaking of that remarkable com pound of self conceit and impudence which men have learned to recognize as "gall," reminds the Bee that there must be self-feeding factories of the article inside the inactive livers of a dead duck and a lickspittle at Fremont, and a gtV.ttonous, pampered corporation stool pigeon who tries to edit a newspaper at Lincoln." THE FREE PASS BUSINESS. We have received a letter from B. B Boyd, of Cedar Co., in which he states that the editor of this paper is charged with riding to Cincinnati on a free pas?. This charge is false. We paid our fare to Cincinnati on the square. We have never ridden a mile on a freo pass in or out of the state of Nebraska. We varied our usual rule, and took some ad vertising, before the Cincinnati conven tion, for roads out of this state, and re ceived pay in transportation, the only way such advertising is paid for. We havojvejected more than one thousand dollars worth of advertising in tbe last two years, rather than be under the im putation of being subject to corporate influence. Now we will add that free passes are a great engine for political power, and we have little confidence in the profes sions of independents who do not reject and condemn them. KaT-Not much was to have been ex pected of the other secretaries of the state board of transportation, but Sena tor Koontz cught to hide his head with shame. World-Herald. The W H. is mistaken. Less was to have been expected from Koontz than the others. He is tho one secretary that was bought with the thirty pieces. The others are serving their party. He is a traitor to his party. - His treachery began last winter. He was as crafty as Collins and viler than Taylor, but his sin has found him out and his name will only be remembered to bo exe crated. He i3 serving the men who bought, him. OT Says the Bee: " Every republican elected a delegate to the state convention should go in per son and go at his own expense. " That will not hurt much. All the re publican ec'iitors have annuals. All the republican lawyers have annuals. Both of these classes are railroad employes. Of course all the railroad strikers have employes' passes. Outside of the can didates the above will make up the con vention, and we believe the candidates are provided for. An Omaha pearl button factory will reconcile most people hereabouts to tho heavy duty imposed upon imported pearl buttons by tho McKinly bill. A pearl button factory iu this city would be out of the question except for McKin ley's foresight. Bee. Will that factory work up the pearls that are found in the Big Muddy at Omaha, or the pearls that are cast be fore swine when tho Bee insists on hon est city government? In one respect at least the democratic party deserves the undying gratitude of the republicans. It has rid them for good and all of Leese, Vandervoort and a score of others who like them were bringing tho party into disrepute Journal. That's good. "Bringing the party in to disrepute!" Spoiling rotten eggs! It is well enough that the independ ents in this county should be informed that Hon. Isaac Lansing carries a rab bit's foot in his pocket. Journal. That's what's the matter. That rab bit foot's luck may bring him the votts of all tbe men he owes, and il it does he'll get there. But don't forget that his opponent's name is Wynn. TUl DEMOCRATIC C0XVKXT10N AXD PLATFORM. The great unwashed of Nebraska held its annual blow out at Grand Island on Thursday, tbe 17th exhausted the sup ply of drinkables in that city revived memories of tho good old days when whisky was two cent a quart, all news papers were printed on alligator skins, and every man who could read or write was sent to the legislature adopted a schedule of what it thought ought to be said and done to win the most votes.and named three men whom it thought ought to sacrifice themselves to the great and patriotic duty of maintaining a so called democratic organization in this state. These three gentlemen are Hon. J. A. Broady, named for associate jus tice of the supreme court, and two per sons called F. A. Brogan and Capt.Hen ninger, named for regents of the univer sity. As for the two last named it is per fectly immaterial what they do. As for Judge Broadyit is pertinent to remark that the lower a party gets the more anxious it becomes to find a man of ability and character to become its stan dard bearer, and lift it out of the polit ical mire. We have had and still have a high opinion of Judge Broady. He is a man of a high sense of honor and a lofty ideal as to personal responsi bility. He cannot at this timo become the standard bearer of the demo crats without becoming in a large de gree the sponsor for the vile combina tions and viler politics of tha t party dur ing the past year. We do not believe he will do it. Had Judgs Broady re ceived the people's nomination, we be lieve he would have consor ted to be a candidate for supreme judge, and in that case he would have received a un animous endorsement from the demo crats. But under existing circum stances, with the democratic party smirched by an unholy combination with the republican railroad gang Judge Broady has no call to lend the porer of his name to a contest in which he must be against tbe people and in which suc cess or defeat would bo equally a dis grace. The platform amounts to very little. It is quite as remarkable for what it dor s not as for what it does say. It im pliedly endorses Boyd in condemning the supreme court for too hastily issu ing a writ of ouster, and it impliedly en dorses the Newberry bill which he ve toed by demanding relief from the ex horbitant freight rates, and the passage of such a bill. The only reallj impor tant and square declaration the plat form makes is in relation to silver coin age. It is is as fellows: We favor the free coinage of silver, and that it be made a full and legal ten der for all debts, public or private, and that we denounce as unjust and dishon est tho provision of the law recently enacted allowing parties to stipulate against payment in silver and silver cer tificates, thus setting up a standard for the rich man and another for the poor man. But it is worthy of note that when Cleveland's name was mentioned it was received with uproarious cheers, and that if delegates to a national convention had had to be chosen they would have been unanimously for Cleveland, though he is hostile to free coinage. Tho usual p'atitudes about tho tariff were in the platform, of course, as Mr. Bryan was the author of it and tariff ia his hobby. But platform declarations will not make tariff an issuo in Nebras ka this year. The convention was a fraud, the plat form is a straddle and the ticket will be a failure. ' GOOD NEWS FROM STANTON COUNTY. Bro. W. B. Wells, formerly of Rich ardson county, but now Alliance or ganizer of Stanten county, made this office a pleasant cail on Tuesday. He as sures us that the independent vote in his county is on the gain. Ho says the demo repub. combiue of last winter has dis gusted the honest rank and file of tne old parties, aud that they are tumbling over each other to get into the inde pendent ranks. Bro. Wells is a staunch Alliance man, aud will do good work in his new county. God mioht have mmlo a hatta !.... than the strawberry, but He never did, ciaiu. au uiu uicigyuiaQ many years ago. SO. tOO. He Uliffht hllVR tlloHa i liirrfro demagogue than Leese, but He quit on uu. uiuie juurnai. We have long known that God maiirs the demagogue and the cranks, but we never expected the Journal to admit it. When Satan has flnlehed his work down below And scorched other sinners according their due, Will ho at that time tell the Gere gang to go, Or wi!l they forever there quietly stew? The enly true rivals that ever be knew. OTThe Graham county, Kan., repub lican convention adopted tho following resolution at Hill City, Aug. 29, viz: "4. That we are in favorof the repeal of the national bauking law, and ask our senators and representatives to work for the repeal of said law; and further that we demand tho free and unlimited coinage of silver " You see, that the Alliance has gone to pieces so badly in that county that the republican partv has inhnritnd it. thunder. GOV. THAYER TO THE BEE. Gov. Thayer has issued an ouen lettpr to J. B. Hajnes, managing editor of the Omaha Bee, scoring him' for his treat ment of the formerand vindicating him self in the Test and Liveringhouse mat ter. That the Governor has ample pro vocation for such a letter there is no doubt; but it would have better com ported with the dignity of tho Governor of Nebraska to have treated such .a pa per as the Bee with silent contempt, or left his vindication in the hands of some private person. SPFAkliRSppoiNTMENTS. We invite attention tn tha W. speaker's appointments made by the state- commiuoe mis week. Local committee should now see to it that these meetings are well advertised and made successful.