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1 ! fljc Jamcr' Alliance, THE ICEBRASKA INDEPEHDEHT OOKSOUDtTSD. PCBLDBED ETMT THCMDAT BT Tkk Alliancx PrBUsnrxa Co. Cor. Ilia and M Sta, Lincoln, Ken. BOAW OF PICTM. H. hA. TOB01l, V. P. J. f. im. TTM. C. H. PlBTUI. H. Pimi Buuoem Manager. In the beauty of the UHie Christ was born across tne sea, With I glory In his bosom That transfigures you and me. As he strove to make men holy Let ns strive to make them free. Since God is marching on." Julia TariHom. m i Mtfiwma rl v a tn deserts. -UHUTOUVnu-v. - I And power to him who power exerts. "A roddy drep of manly blood Tae surging sea outweighs." Ha who cannot reason is a fool, He who will not reason is a coward. Be who dare not reason is a slave." N. R I'. A. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address all butlnr! communications tcj SSTiSSe" or publicttoa to Bdlto ranners AlUanoe. Do you want to attend thd xational convention at Omaha, July 4thl without exnensest Here's your chance. To the person sending us the largest list of subscribers at club rates between April 20th and June 25th. the Alliance Publishing Co. will pay all necessary expenses to the convention at Omaha July 4th, including hotel expenses. To the person sending the second largest list we will pay all traveling expenses to the convention. These offers apply to any person liv ing in Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa or Missouri. Two subscribers for six months count one. All lists sont ander this offer should be marked For special prize." H0TI0ET0 REFOKM EDlf ORS. , The ; Nebraska Independent Press Association will hold its next regular meeting Friday, Junel7th. atl0:80a. m. at the Palmer House, Grand Island Neb. Matters of great interest an importance will come up for dlscussloi and action. Every member of the asso elation is urged to be present, and ever, Independent editor in Nebraska is cor dially invitod to be present and unite with the association. Yours for Success, I. D. Chamberlain, Pres. 8. Edwin Thornton, Seo. THE OMAHA CONVENTION, I am receiving numerous letters of in quiry about securing tickets to thej Omaha convention on tne 4th of July Would say to all who have the mattoi in mind that we want you all to go tfl Omaha, but don't expect too much li the way of admission tickets. Thi state committee will have none at it disposal, as far as I k now. The ticket will all be under tho control of th national committee. This action wal taken at Omaha at the la:o mooting u the national executive committee. Bu let no one that contemplates going t the convention stay away on this at count. There will be enough to he aoe and heard to pay any Nebraska IndJ pendent to be there whether he gc into the convention or not, if he don vet within a mile of the convontlo building. 1 will do all I can howevq to accommodate our peoplo. J. V. Wolpk, Chairman State Com. A GOOD SUGGESTION. Mr. W. M. DeCamp latelv the editt of the American Liberty at Hamptoi Va. sends us the following suggest printed on a slip. He prefaces it witi -these words: "Truth is abundant, superabundan What is needed most imperatively is tit promulgation of truth. Unless we reatj a mnjorty of voters our efforts are we nigh useless." Here is the suggestion: If von like this paper you should re ularly give or mail it, by turns, to friend and thus endeavor 10 maice conver amonr unbelievers. This is far better than lavinit it asid in storage, where It will become an i rambr&nce as well as useless, rathi than exert a proselyting inlluenc which is its proper and legitima office. To make converts should be the his est pleasure of all reformers, and then ffnvtt thla nrnnnsitlnn. - I r Thi charge that Mr. Rem Is not th author oi his banking Din is extremeyiy silly. Suppose he were not the anthbr, would it be anything to his discredift, or would it prove anything against the soundness of the measure? Prfobably three-fourths of the bills introduced in to congress are written in whoie or in part by men who are not members. But we are in a position to know that Mr. Kem is the author of his banking Mil." He brought the first draft of it with him frum his farm in Custer coun ty. That he consulted with friends re garding the bill and accepted sugges tions from them is doubtless true, and only a fool or a knave would criticise him for so doing. Thk matter of organizing indepen dent clubs should be disoussed and acted upon in every county convention, and arrangements made for pushing the work. Tax Nebraska Independent Press As sociation will meet at the Palmer house in Grand Island, June 17th, at 10:30 a. a. Every independent editor in the state should br there. IN THE THIRD DISTKIUT. The new third congressional district consists of the east end of the old third, commonly known as the "Big Third" which is now so ably and faithfully represented in congress by O. M. Kem. In the election of 181)0, the vote cast in this territory was almost equally divided among the three political par ties. There is aa outlook for a very warm three-cornered fight. Each party claims to have excellent prospects for success. The nomination of Geo. D. Meikle john by the republicans seems to be a foregone conclusion. His principal qualifications are his alleged good looks, his jingoism and his subserviency as a corporation tool. He will have all the machine influence of the republican party behind him. He will also tret a good deal of support from the monopoly wing of the democratic party, especially if that party puts up a man who has an antimonopoly record. The class of democrats who approved the unholy al liance between the republicans and democrats at the organization of the legislature a year and a half ago, will stand by Meiklejohn. There is some division among the democrats of the district. Senator Keiper of Pierce teems to be the leading caudidate. He baa somewhat of ai an timonopoly record. The monopoly democratic crowd have a candidate in V. 11. Munger of Fremont If he should be nominated, there would be two corporation candidates and the chance of the success of either would be lessened. Hence the corporations will very likely see to it that he is not nominated. The chances for an independent vic tory in the district are excellent. The people of the district are mainly farm ers and villagers whose interest are closely linked to those of the farmers. The independents start out with the best show of success judging from the rote of two years ago. They have made great gains in some quarters since then. The central and northeastern parts of the district constitute the very best sec tion of the state for proselyting. They hare several able men any one of whom could represent the district in congress with credit to himself and the people. As it appears to us, independent suc cess in that district is contingent on complete organization cf the district, a well directed campaign and a thorough canvass en the part of the independents. With these, success is well nigh assured. Without them. It is very doubtful. The first duty of the independents of the third district is to organize the whole district into independent clubs. Especially should men be sent into all unorganized territory to form clubs and arouse the people. Jfoui is the time to act. The congressional convention of the district has beeu called for June 21, and the district committee recommends that county conventions be held June 18 Let every independent in the district make himself a committee f one to see that the county conventions are well attended, and that the organization of clubs is begun at once. If every inde pendent will do his whole duty, we be lieve that the "alliance wedge" in the next congress will contain a representa tive from the third district of Nebraska. it ONLY A PRETEXT. Libert continues its wild and sense less assaults on Mr. Keni's banking bill. No Intelligent man who reads these assaults can help seeing the real animus of the man who makes them. His assault on thb bill is solely and sim ply .a pretext His real object is to cast r'dicule and reproach upon Mr. Kem, to poison the minds of tho poo pie against him, and finally to defeat him. This object is so evident that tho casual reader cannot fail to see it. It Is, however, a source of satisfaction to have such positive evidence as was fur nished by the Standard of Kearney last week : It is all gannnnn. If there is a weak spot in Kern's bill the editor nf Liberty has neves touched upon it. He is mak ing a bugbear out of nothing and try ing to mislead someone. Listen, and hear the trith Mr. Holden is not after the bill. It is Kem. Ho has a personal grievance against Mr. Kem and he uses his filmy arguments against tho banking bill for a pretext to light him. Last fall when Mr. Kem was on his way to Washington City, lie stopped m this city and failed to hunt Mr. Holden up, and now Mr. Holden is after him. This is the truth and nothing but the truth. Here is the proof: When the standard Publishing company purchas ed Mr. Holden's paper sometime about .December (ilh, Mr. Holden was to get put his last issue about tho loth of De cember. In that issuo ho had at least two columns of abuse, of Mr Kem Land others, but was prevailed upon to ,,!avo tt out. This was many weeks bc- ore Mr. Keni's bill hail been committed ) paper, let alone made public. This, then, is evidence indisputable that tlili light on Keni's bill has simply been conjured up to shield the assailant from the charge of baso motives. THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY. Last Wednesday and Thursday wove gieat days for Lincoln. A great crowd of Nebraska's sons and daughters (na tive and adopted) were present to ccle brato tho twenty-fifth anniversary of the state's admission into the I uiou. It is impossible for us tc give any ade quate description of the two days' pro ceedings. Sundry meetings were held. Eloquence and music flowed freely. Everybody gave his state pride full swing, and endeavored to extract as much enjoyment from the occasion as possihln. The celebration culminated in a grand parade on Thursday afternoon, and it was simply immouse, although a number of alliance men persist in saying i;was not near so great a parade as the alliance '"hogs" gave in Lincoln last fall a year. There ws? one alliance man at least in Thursday's parade Uncle Dan Freeman, the only original homesteader, who stood in front of his sod house with his gun and powder hern, looking like a genuine pioneer. Kearney was the only outside town that cut any figure in tho parade. It had a miniature cotton mill and water power that attracted much attention. On the whole the celebration n ay be set down as a decided, conspicuous, harmonious success. Some of Mr. Kern's detrictors are harping about his lack of ability. The people have not forgotten about the magnificent canvass he made in 1890 and the victory he won. Any one who thinks that victory came simply as a re suit of a popuhv wavfr of excitement is mistaken. Of all the elements that con tributed to It, the most Important was the ability, the indomitable energy and the sturdy manhood of O. M. Kem. In the coming campaign the peoplo of his district will have an opportunity to see Mr. Kern's abllitp tested more thoroughly than evef . He will be in the field to meet any Jbf the champions of the opposition. We suggest to the republicans of thai district that they put Mr. Kem to the 'test by putting up a man who win meet mm in joint dis cuision. . A PLAIN STATEMENT. So one connected with this paper is s candidate for office. No one has any personal animosity to vent through its columns. The characters of the mem bers of the Alliance Publishing company need no defense through this paper. All we ask is to be judged by our words and our conduct. We have so far paid no atten'.ion to the tierce and malicious assaults made by W. C. Holden upon members of this company. We are ready and willing to answer any question or criticism that comes from a reputable source. But we are not foolish enough to reply to the slanders of a man who can publish ten falsehoods while we are antwericg one. All that is necessary for us to say is that W. C. Holden's assaults on the member of this company are ma licious slanders, consisting of falsehoods mixed with a small element of utterly distorted truth. We know that a number of papers over the state, chiefly old party organs, have been advertising a great "newspa per war" between two independent papers located at Lincoln. We believe the course of this paper has sufficiently demonstrated that no such war is go ing on. i. We do not propose to be drawn into any newspaper war, espec ially with a man who we believe is try ing to cover himself with the cloak of the inpependent party for the basest of purposes. Whatever we may have said about this man heretofore has been ut tered through no spirit of jealousy or personal malice, but simply because we believed the welfare of the party de manded it. We shall hereafter be gov erned by the same principle. We have in our possession the most positive documentary evideuce of W. C. Holden's treachery and boodling opera tions during twelve years as a newspa per man at Kearney. During two months past he has by his conduct alone aroused universal suspicion that he is hero for base purposes. If this record were published, this suspicion would be deepened into a universal conviction. Whenever the exigencies of the case seem to require it, or when ever the people demand it, wo sre ready to publish this record. IJut we will enter into no newspaper war. We are here to advocate and defend a great cause, and we believe that can best be done by pursuing the even tenor of our way regardless of the slops and slanders to which we mav be treated. BRYAN ON THE SUGAR BOUNTY- Congressman Bryan has written a very vigorous letter in reply to a peti tion favoring the government bounty on sugar signed by Henry Koonig and others of Grand Island. Mr. Bryan takes strong ground ag'iingst all bounties. He quotes some extracts from court de cisions as follows: "To lay with one hand tho power cf tho government on tho property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery beeauso it is douo under forms of law a'd is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." "It it be said that a benefit results to tho local public of a town by establish ing manufactures, tho same may be said of any other business or pursuit which employs capital or labor The merchant the mechanic, the innkeeper, the banker the builder, the steamboat owner, are equally promoters f the public pood and equally deserving the aid of the citizens by forced contributions " "No line can lie drawn in favor of the manufacturer which would not open the cotters of the public tn usury to the im porlun'ties of two-thirds of tho busiue-s men of the citv or town." lie then proceeds to show huw sug'ir bounty works in practice. lie He I say?: Suppose that the bounty pnid is I'.O, OOd.OiiO. If the people of'Nebraska pay their share, they pay about 150th part, or nearly .t'JOO.diu) per year. The smount received by the " wo factories in Nobras ka, or to be received, for last year's pro duet is about ti0,000 I believe. That is, the people payout more than three times tho amount they receive, The amount paid out is contributed by tho wholo people. The amount that comes back to the state is received by two corporations, or possibly two factories qjvned by tho same corporation. Do you think it just that the money paid out should be paid by all the people and the money that comes back should bo re ceived by a very few? Speaking of tho idea of paying the bounty to the farmer which is advanced oy some he says: But whether a bounty be paid to the beet raiser or the manufacturer of sugar it would make little difference unless the price of of beets was regule.ted by law, because the beet raiser could only secure his bounty upon beets sold to the manufacture and tho manufacturer could deduct the bounty from his price. But even f the bounty could bo abso lutely secured to the farmer, why is the farmer who raises beets any more enti tled to government aid than the farmer who raises something else? If wo justify the giving of a special benefit to a few farmers this very act will be used as a precedep.t and a dozen favors will bo given to other people at the expense of the farmer until he loses far more than he gains. In conclusion Mr. Bryan says: I am firmly convinced that the only safety of the great mass of the people lies not in special legislation for their benefh but in equal laws that subject all alike to the burdens of government, and which take from the pockets of the peo ple only so much money as is actually needed to supiort the government eco nomically administered. Believing thus, my senso of duty will compel me to favor the repeal of the sugar boum-y In whatever form it may come before congress. INDEPENDENT CLUBS. The system of organization adopted by the state committee for the coming campaign is, we believe, tho best pro posed. Tbe plan of the committee is to organize the whole state into independ ent clubs. These clubs are not intend ed to take the plas of alliances or K . of L. assemblies, but to supplement them and make their werk effective. Into these clubs can be brought for or ganized action the men whehave been educated in the alliances an4 assem blies. The club3 will also britfjr into harmony and fraternity with tsese a large number of citizens who are not eligible to membership in an in dustrial order. The club will also take in a goodly number of citizen who for various reasons will not unite with a se ret order. It gives better advanta ges for joint discussion with the cham pions of the opposition. Because the committee has prepared a constitution and charters for these clubs, some people have formed the er roneous opinion that there is an elabor ate ceremony of initiation, etc. This is entirely incorrect. The organization is as simple and free from ceremony as possible. The main idea in the issu ance of charters is to bind all the clubs together into an organized working force, the importance of which must be apparent to every friend of the movement. We have severa' hundred copies of Kern's banking bill for free distribution. Send for some. Sample copies of the Aixiance-In-dki-enuknt will be sent to any address on request. A man should be judged no, so much by the ability he may possess, as by the way he uses it. We want friends in all parts of the west to assist us in pushing the circula tion cf the Alliance-Independent. A man who belongs to a party is a cipher. The man who thinks and acts independently is a factor in the gov ernment. Decoration day was duly celebrated at many points in Nebraska on Monday. It is a beautiful custom which should be patriotically kept up. As we go to press the National Swine breeders Association are in session in Lincoln. A report of their meetings will be given next week . The Oakdale Guard says "Assistant Lecturer Fairchild is at home for a rest from tno months steady work in the Alliance field, much of the time lectur ing twice a day." We have heard many flattering reports of Mr. Fair child's work. A cokkesponijent writing from Thayer county says: "There are at work in this county some of the noblest men living, men who will go right down into their pockets for their hard earned money and put it out in the cause of reform." There is no better evidence of a man's loyalty to this movement that his willingness to give it financial support. It is eay to talk; it is easy to "resolute;" but to go down in tho pocket and bring forth the hard earned dollars a3 a sacrifice on the alter of the reform movement means busi ness. The supreme court of tho United States has decided that it i'l not au act of discrimination for a rai'road com pany to sell a number of tickets to a crowd of travelers at a lower price than it sells a single ticket. The Stale Journal makes a loud noise about this decision ' knocking out a lot of the fallacies of the anti-monopoly agita tors " We fail to seo tho point. If it should be decided that teu carloads of grain may be carried to market at a lower rate than one without discrimina tion, it would have the effect of driving out small dealers. But we do net understand that this follows from tho derision referred to. The Journal probably thmks that it does, and there- ! fr.re rejoices that monopoly lias srainnd another victory. Col. iNiiKitsoLi, is out in au inter view on the political situation. He thinks Harrison should not be nominat ed ov the republicans bocauso he can not lie elected. Blaine he thinks is tho most popular man in the party but he was beateu once and might be again. Gresham is hischoico now as it was in '88. Ho" says Gresham would get the solid support of the labor organizations. Tho Colonel's ideas are good, but if he has any hopes of seeing Gresham nom inated by the republican pnHy, they will be blasted next week. Gresham is too good a man. He represents too much rugged honesty and genuine patriotism to over win in a republican convention. The candidate that will get the support of the labor organiza tions next fall will be the man nominat ed at Omaha, and if Judge Gresham and his friend Col. Bob want to come where they will be appreciated they should cast iheir lot with the people's party and cut loose from a party that has repudiated them. The republicans are praying for a "jingo" man to lead them on to victory in the coming campaign. They would like to head their ticket with some ono who can arouse excitement and enthu siasm enough to keep the people from thinking. They are afraid Harrison can't do this. Outside of the federal pap-suckers, the secret wish of about nine-tenths of tho republicans, "Oh, if Blaine could only be nominated!" Vain wish. Blaine has seen his best days, both physically and politically. He will never be president, and no one soe3 this so plainly as ho. Tho efforts cf the machine politicians tu force him I into harness is foolish, almost criminal. It is a most emphatic acknowledgment of the party's weakness. President Harrison hs carried out the platform and policy of his party as fully as any man could have done. Tho only con sistent thing for the party to do is to nominate him acd stand by his record. This we believe is exactly what the party will do. But the people -aye, there's the rub. The people will think, they will investigate, they will coolly weigh Mr. Harrison and the policy of the party machine which controls him, and like Belshazzer of old, he will be "found wanting." A VICTORY TOE KEM. Last week we published Congress man Kern's remarks corcerning the people of western Nebraska, and his demand for a recognition of their rights. He followed up these remarks with some effective work which wa crowned with success. With the help of tbe Kansas delegation and a few others he succeeded in getting all be demanded. Oa May 19 that part of the "sundry civil bill" re lating to the work of making topograph ical surveys came up in committee of the whole house and Jerry Simpson offered the following amendment: On the forty-sixth page strike out the words in tbe fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth lines, as follows: "One-half of which sum shall be expended west of the one-hundredth meridian," and in lieu thereof insert: "$i0,U0O of which shall lie expended west ol the ninety- seventh meridian, in the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska. Kan sas. and the territory of Oklahoma." Mr. Simpson spoke at some length in favor of this amendment, after which Mr. Kem took the floor and made tbe following remarks: Mr. Chairman. the gentleman irom Indiana Mr. ilolman says that this work of irrigation is going on well enough. 1 beg leave to differ with him on that point. The fact is that over a great portion of the territory mentioned in this amendment nothing has been or is being done. There are thousands of citizens who have .entered their lands in good faith, believing, as they had a right to believe, that they wire within the rain belt, that there would be sufficient rainfall for the pur pose of agriculture. They were jusii hed in so believing because these lands were opened for settlement under the homestead, preemption, and timbercul ture laws. If there was not sufficient rainfall for agricultural purposes they ought to have been opened under the desert-land law. I say those settlers have gone in there in good faith, and tho amendment offered is to do justice to as good a class of people as you will find on God's footstool; I mike no exceptions what ever They are industrious, sober, hard working, economical people, and are earnestly endeavoring to establish f ir themselves homes and havo paid mil lions to the government for the privilege of so doing I have hero a letter from the Commissioner of Public Lands which gives some idea as to tho amount of money that these people have paid into the treasury of the United States. Here Mr. Kem read the letter tho substance i f which is shown in his further remarks Adding this $70,601,013 to the sum previously expended for this purpose we have a total of $14,079,574, to say nothing of the amount paid into tho treasury for mineral lands during these eleven years since 1881, which would swell the amount to not less than $30O,0OO,C0O. Now in all this work, covering a period of twenty-three years, there has been expended of this vat sum but $3,900,000, and about half of that in tho eastern states, as the map will show. These settlers have found by sad exper ience the rainfall to be insufficient, but have been hanging on, as it were, by the eyebrows year after year, hoping that each successive year would prove better than those preceding. Mr. istockilate: Will tho geatlemau yield for a question? Mr. Kem: Certainly. Mr. Stoekdale: Do jou understand that the government must furnish rain fall to tho people who havo settled on these land;? Mr. Kem: No v I wish to say in auswer to the question of the gentleman from Mississippi, that it would bo noth ing more than fair and just if every collar that has been paid into the public treasury in the manner I have referred to, except the amount necessary for riling fees, was used for the purpose of establishing irrigation systems that woiud supply tho want of rainfall to these people on tho lands upon which they have settled, and thus place these lands on an equality with other lands, opened undei the same provisions, which are embraced within tho rain' belt. And I say. sir, that the homestead la v will never be fullil'cd until this pro vision has been made. But all we ask here is that 100,000 of this appropriation shall lie used iu a certain territory that heretofore has been almost wholly and totally neglected in this wcrk. By re ferring to the map it will be seen clear ly where the work has been done, and you will riml that tho territory men tioned in thai amendment has been al most entirely neglected in the past. We only ask now that this sum be used in the raanuer proposed within the terri tory indicated, and which has been so grossly neglected in past years. Mr. 'Moses: I wish to ask the gentle man if he thinks we must guarantee water to tho northwest settlers where they have not enongh, if ho does not think that in the south, where they havo too much, the government ought to guarantee to the people protection from the surplus? Mr. Davis: Have wo net spent ten millions and more to give you that ex emption? Mr. Moses: And then another ques tion with the gentleman's consent: Did not these people take possesison of this land with their eyes open and knowing exactly the conditoin of the climato and what they might expect? Mr. Kom: If the gentleman from Georgia had given my remarks atten tion he need not have asked that ques tion, as I stated distinctly that these lands were opened under the home stead, preemption, and timber culture laws, which in itself was a guarantee of a sufficient rainfall. All lands in tho arid district were supposed to bo open ed under the desert land laws. Mr. Kem: 1 want to say to the gen tleman's other question that if he will give us one-tenth of the money that has been expended for the people of his part of the country in appropriations heretofore made, and which perhaps has not paid one-tenth of ihe amount of money into tho public treasury that we have paid, I will be willing to compro mise on this ground. We are asking nothing of this government that we have not given to the government, and we are not asking the one-hundredth part of even that. Mr. Moses: Well, we will take oue twentieth of what we have paid into the general government and be content. Mr. Kem: The gentleman misunder stands me. I say that if you will give us one-tenth of the amount which you have received in the way of appropria tions as a protection to your people from overflow, and benefits that you have derived by appropriations for the improvement of your rivers and har bors, we will be willing to compromise on that. 'You have had vast sums for improving your rivers, for building levees of the Mississippi river to pro tect your lands liable to inundation. Now, 1 want to say, Mr. Chairman, it does seem to me that every timo there is a motion made or a step taken in this House for the purpose of aidii g or helping in any way the farming clau of our country, there Is a constitu tional or some other kind of objection raised against it. It seems to me, sir, that there is a combination in this House against the western wealth pro ducer. I do not make the charge as true but I say it see us to be true. And yet this amendment is offered in the inter est of a class of people that feed the world, -and on whose shoulders this gov ernment rests, and without them it could not exist six months. Ap plause. After some further discussion the amendment was voted on and carried. PE07EEES. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the protectionist is a total stranger to con sistency. . He shouts aloud with all his might, "America for Americans!" but straight way he insisteth that we must consult England before we dare make any change in our financial system. He buildeth a high tariff wall to keep out foreign goods, yet he says we must have a "money of the world" in order to trade with foreign nations. He rejoiceth with a loud voice over the building up of a home market, yet he pointeth proudly to the increase in our exports as a result of protection and reciprocity. Ha sweareth that the tariff is not a tax on the consumer, that it is paid by the "beastly furrinner," yet he crieth, "Behold, how the McKinlcy bill hath lifted a great burden off tho people who consume sugar!" He proclaimeth that the larifl is for the protection of labor, yet he encour ageth the "pauper labor" of the world to come here and compete with Amer ican labor. Ho contendeth that the tariff is put on to keep out the cheap goods of the foreigners, yet he contendeth that pro tection n akes our own goods cheap. The protectionist hateth logic with a deep hatred, but he lovoth statistics. o He is wiser in his own conceit than seventeen men who can render a reason. The old parties rely for success largely on the financial weakness of the new party. They know they have al ready won two campaigns largely be cause the independents had no means with which to push tho work of educa tion. They hope to see the same result accomplished again this yeir. If the independents had a respectable cam paign fund for the coming contest, tho old politicians would be frightened out of their boots. Will the independents profit by the lessons of the past? What is given to tho campaign fund will prove the most valuable investment the peoplo ever made if it only brings vic tory. The producers of the state will in one. year be saved a hundred dollars iu reduced frieght rates alone for every dollar they contribute to the cam paign. Lancaster county alliance will meet Friday, June 3d. Mr, Giiison's "Songs for the People" will be out in a short time. An adver tisement of them will appear next week. FeopL'3 Independent State Conventions. Tbe peoples indepbndent electerB of the state of Nebraska are requested to elect and send delegates from their several counties to meet in convention at the city of Lincoln, Thureday.Juuo 30, 182, at lOo'clocka.m., for tbo purpose of selecting eiplit delegates at larjro totbo Pi opic'6 National convention, to be held in Omaha. Nob .July 4, 1CS. Andaleo to eiect doii'trates to the state convention to be hnld at Kearney, Nc-b., Wednesday .August 8 ,1892, at 8o'clockp. m., to nominate the following state olHcers, viz; Governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treas urer, attorney-general, audltor.oommissioner of public lands and buildings and superin totdentof publie instruction. The basis of representation will be the same 1h both con ventions and the same delegates may act for both conventions, or two sets of delegates may be elected as counties may determine at their county conventions. The basis of representatien will be ono dolegate for every ono hundred votes or ma jor fraction thereof cast in 1801 for Hon. J. W. Edgerton for Judg6 of the supreme court, which gives the following vote by counties : Adams Antelope Banner Blaine Boone Boyd Box Butte Brown Busalo Butler Burt Cass Cedar Chase Cheyenne Cherry Clay Colfax Cuming Custer Dakota Dawes Dawton Deuel Dixon Dodge Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton Harlan Hayes Hitchcock Hooker Holt Howard 10 7 8 4 v I 8 32 V 1 1 10 7 1 9 9 14 7 4 5 8 12 11 7 12 2 14 5 29 2 12 ia 6 o 3 10 10 2 14 While the committee do not feel it best to lay down any definite test as to who should be allowed to ote at the primary electioBs to elect delegates to the various conventions, as any test would not work equally well lb all localities, yet we would urge upon county and preelnct committeemen, and all having the primaries in charge, to adopt such rules and tests as will best secure a fair expression of the independent voters of the state. The question of seiectlrg delegates to the National convention to which the congres sional districts are entitled is left to the dis tricts themselves, cither to call congressional conventions in their respective districts or to select them by districts at Lincoln at the state convention, at the Fame time the dele gates are selected to represent the state at large. We would recommend that no proxies be allowed at either convention, but that the delegates present oast the full vote to which the state oroounty is entitled. We vould also recommend that the pri maries for electing delegates to the County conventions be hbld Thursday, June 23, 1892, and that the County conventions be held Saturday, June 26, 1892. J. v. Wolfe. C.H.P1RTLK, Ohalraan. 8ecreir. IS Jefferson 10 Johnson 2 Kearney 1 Koya Paha 0 Keith 2 Kimball 5 Knox 3 Lancaster 18 Lincoln 1 1 Logan 9 Loup 13 Madison 7 Merrick 1 McPherson 4 Nance 5 Nemaha 14 Nuckolls 1 Otoe 6 Pawnee 19 Perkins 5 Pieree 6 Phelps 10 Platte 2 Polk 6 Bed Willow 10 Richardson 67 Rock 1 Saline 14 Sarpy T Saunders 8 Scotts Bluff 8 Seward 18 Sheridan 2 Sherman 4 Sioux 1 Stanton 5 Thayer 11 Thomas 11 Thursten 8 Valley 8 Washington S Wayne 1 Webster 11 Wheeler B Tork Total V X.