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THE ALLIANOB-INDBPBNDKNT. SIjc farmers' Alliance, THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT CONBOMDATKD. Published Every Tiiursdat bt The Alliance Publishing Co. Cor. 11th and M St., Lincoln, Neb. - )OARD Or DIRECTORS. O. Hern,, Pres . J. M . Thompsoh, Scc'y. B. Kd. Toobmtoh. V.-P. J. F. MerrERO, Treas. C. II. PlRTLE. Subscription One Dollar per Year H. Edwin Thornton, Managing Editor Pnk. II. PiBTL, BusincBB Manager. E. A. MPBitAr Advertising Mg'r NTiTr. a. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address all business communications to Alliance Publishing Co. . , Address matter for pub.catlon to Editor Farmers' Alliance. Articles writton on both sides of the paper caanot bo used. Very 1 ong communications, isarulo cannot be used. People's Party National Ticket- For President, GEN. JAS. B. WEAVER of Iowa. For Vice President, GEN. JAS. G. FIELD of Virginia. Gen. Jas. G: Fields. Owing to the sickness of his son President Powers will cancel all dates. Preserve this issue the records it contains will prove valuable. Every glee club in the state should have our sheet music songs. Kansas is to have a peoples party daily. It will be called the Commoner, and will bb published at Wichita. Nearly all the men mentioned in Holdeu'd affidavit will be recognized as. prominent figures in the politics of the state. We have a word edition of Cur "Songs of the People" which only costs 10 cents. It is within the reach of every body. . .' Aud hero is still another: W. B. Miller a prominent attorney of El wood, has joined the people's party. The action of the democrats when they had an opportunity to pass the free coinago bill, was moro than he could stand. W.O. HOLDERS RECORD. According to previous announce ments, wo undertake the disagreeable task of reviewing 1ho man's record, whom wo latciy referred to as a "no torious boodler." Wc have no apolo gies to make for that statement, nor for the few words of warning we gave the independents of the state several months ago. Wo maKo this exposure through no spirit of personal malice, but because wo believo tho interests of the people's party demand it. Wc believe tho hon est, earnest men and women who are striving to upbuild a noblo cause, have a right to know tho record of this man, who is trying to win their conli denco by praising his own superior loy alty to their cause, while he denounces as traitors and villa'ns tho very men who havo done most for that causo. Tho following is a brief outline of the facts which wc havo the evidence to substantiate: 1st. Prior to 1880 he received $300 in cash from the hand of John M. Thurston, for "political services as a newspaper man and otherwise in de feating tho nomination of Amasa Cobb for supreme judge." 2d. In 1880 he sold out his "services as newspaper editor and otherwise," to betray tho party he was then serving into tbe hands of the "Union Pacific Railroad's pli'ical managers," for the sum of $1,200 in cash. In return he agreed that ho would "advocit3 the election to the United States Senate of such a man" as these po'itical mana gers might dictate. 3d. The tide of the old anti monop oly sentiment had begun to arise about that time, and when the republican county convention mat at Kearney that year, the farmers were tlu re, and the Notwithstanding Holdcn's arduous !rrwith "presses, ink. and type," Paddo&iNwas defeated in 1881 by Gen. VaiiWyck. Now Prddock is again in the field. Holden is again at his ardu ous labors. Tho railroads are still in politics, and so is Gen. Van Wyck. Remarkablo conicidence isn't it? OursoDtt entitled "The Taxpayers ... .1 II 1-A I 1 L jSoiiie me urns, reiuiftt m iuo kcuucsi, fimnipsr. most sarcastic way the differ enco between tho Iiobbin Hood style of robbers asd tjieir latter day mends, anti -monopoly sentiment prevailed. Judge F. G. Hamer was nominated for the legislature in spite of tho effiorts of Jttoiden ana the railroad managers. Then Holden saw an opportunity to bleed the company for an additional sum. When Kimball asked him to oppose llamer, he hesitated, because he said Hamer had been his friend, and was security on his note at that time. But the weight of $442 additional boo dle was too great for the ties of friendship to stand. For that he betrayed his friend, sold out his party, defeated the regular nominee, and elected the candidate put up by the railroads. This act of treachery has few parallels in the history of the world, let all tnis while he was parading himself before the world as tho true defender of his party, and branding all who opposed him as vil lians and traitors just as he is now. 4th. Passing by his record as a lobbyist in the legislature of 1887 which made his name a "hissing and a by-word" among all the old line Knights of Libor; pas sing by the deal in which he beat citi zens of Kearney out of nearly $2,500 by putting himself under solemn contract not to run a paper in Buffalo county for ten years a contract which he immcd lately violated: passing by numerous other acts of corruption and villiany, we come to the fall of 1888. In spite of tho fact that he had been officially identified with tho old anti-monopoly party, in spite of tho fact that tho old Union Labor party had a ticket both state and national in the field, Holden sold out "his services as a newspaper man aud otherwise" to the democrats for the sum of $200 in cash which he received out of John A. MeShane's barrel. These facts were first brought to light in a trial in Kearney in the winter OU888-9, and i i ...... V are matters of common knowledge in Buffalo county. 5th. In 1889 there was a people's county convention held in Kearney. Holden was one of the men who worked up tho convention and took part in it. According to the statements of a num ber who were present he nominated one of tho candidates. After the conven tion ho came out in his paper with a strong article booming all of the candi dates. He then left the state and went to Kansas, whero ho staid till after elec tion. The charge has been repeatedly made and pub'ished in Buffalo county that he received $175 (or $275) from the chairman of the republican central com mittee of Buffalo county for thus desert ing the people's ticket. Last fall when Holden was put on the stand in the Cadwell libel suit, ho confirmed this charge, by refusing to deny it, and set ting up the plea that he wasn't under any obligations to support the ticket anyway since ho wasn't a delegate in tho convention of 1889. Cth. Passing by a corrupt deal in connection with K. &B. II. bond fight in the spring of 1890, and passing by lis record as a salary-drawer in the egislaturo of 1891, wc come down to he libel trial in Kearney last fall. In this trial his whole record for twelve years was fully aired. He was forced to testify to the principal acts of cor ruption and treachery; herein related. His reputation for truth and veracity was impeached by fifteen prominent citizens, feveral of whom were inde pendents, and there were about forty other witnesset not examined. After this trial Holden bca'ne so dious to the people of Buffalo county that he made haste to dispose of his paper and depart for some new field of operations. Holden s movements since he came to jineoln are pretty well known. We have not space to go into them here. Briefly we may gay that he has made a ystematic effort to break down the reputat'ons of the most trusted men in the reform movei ient, to spread dark suspicions, to stir up dissension, and disorganize the movement. He has ac cording to his own statements purchas ed a large and costly newspaper outfit, and scattered over the state as high as 15,000 copies per week of his libelous sheet. He came here poor. He has very few subscribers, and scarcely any advertising patronage. In yiew of these facts, in the light of the past record he has made, is there a sane man in Nebraska who believes W. C. Holden is hero working for honorable patriotic purposes.' is there a man who can doubt that he is being supported by corruption money? We have stated the plain fac's of Holdeu's record, mildly, plainly and without coloring. We havo eschewed denunciation. We have said nothing of the assassination of character which ho has practiced as a business for years. And now we appeal to the honest, in telligent peoplo of Nebraska to pass judgment on this man. PERTINENT QUESTIONS. Is Senator Paddock still "very friend ly to the road?" Was the mortgage which an Omaha man iiolds on Holden's present plant gives "to conceal the illegal nature of the Bargain?" will Holden next year make another affidavit describing his present deal as he Cdl tho previous one? WjSnder if C. W. Mosher and Capt. J. E Hill know anything about Lib ertyk backing. MORTGAGE RECORDS. Wc are preparing a complete table of the Nebraska mortgage records for the past year It will bo one of tho finest campaign documents of tho year. It will appear next week. LIKE BANQUO'S GHOST. Mayor Bemis, in welcoming the peo ple's convention to Omaha said: There aro issues which, like the ghost of Banquo, will not down. The silver question still remains the great living issue, but by the way it has been gnored, evaded and thrust aside by both tho democratic and republican parties, one might suppose it was al ready settled, if not dead and forgotten. But no question is ever settled unless it is settled right. The great wrong done to the people by the demonetiza tion act of 1873 remains to be righted. This can only be done by re-endowing silver with its true money function, and making it, as it was intended by the constitution, co-equal with gold for all monev uses. If the repub icans and democrats refuse this, they should not complain if the people take the matter in their own hands. The cry of "cheap silver," "a dishonest dollar," or even "a sound currency," wul no longer de ceive, neither will dear gold, as a meas ure of value, be to erated. Dear gold mtans cheap men, cheap property, hard times, low wages and general stagnation. Every thing looks favorable for the independent movement. The west and tho south are disgusted with tho old parties on the defeat of the silver bill, the laboring men from one end of tho country to tho other are aroused against the monopolies and the two parties that havo fostered them, tho prohibitionists outsido of New England are thoroughly dissatisfied with their candidate and their platform, and so the influences are all turning in oua direction. Let the good work go on, All the corrupt deals described in our exposure of Holden with one excep tion have been made within the twelve years during which he aid a certain special champion of his says he has had an unsullied reputation. Reed of Maine in speaking against the silver bill said ho was opposed to giving the people of the West a "tem porary benefit" at the expense of the East. The benefits which the East has been enjoying at the expense of the West have existed so long that they have ceased to be temporary. TheV -- j have become a perpetual tribute and it is time to reverie the lever and let Forue of the benefits run toward the West, Bill McKinley, cf McKinley bill fame, is to speak in Beatrice on the 2nd of August, on Tariff Reform. The announcement is made that "Mr. Mc Kinley will reach Beatrice on the first, in his privato car, coming direct from Ch'cago." How would it do to have a little reform in this private car busi ness? Thousands of men who have to go afoot or ride in a jerky road-cart because they can't afford even an easy going buck-board, are not greatly stuck on the reform of the McKinley sort. The people's party of Minnesota has nominated Ignatius Donnelly for gov ernor, and tho fun will now begin. He will giyo the old party nominees such a shaking up as they have never had before. Minnesota is a great agricul tural state and the people are thorougly aroused by tho duplicity of the old party leaders and their sub serviency to the money powers. Let the laborers and farmers of Minnesota stand together for their own interests and Ignatius Donnelly will be theip next governor. ' " -i 11 V7 r
