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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
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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
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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
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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
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