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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1892)
i ' - 1 1 ,m m m, i .. hrfw Tiftm-rX? I 1 ri!l"'!'?,a. 1 1 1 1 r i 11 ... 1. .ii 1 1 II -wiw !;ij!;U:ti' ',j:r.:v,,.:t'.'i ajp- -' VOL. IV. LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1892. NO. 7. AND STILL TIf COME. Eon- B Olark Wheeler, a Delegate to the Minneapolis Convention Joins the People's Party. How Harrison Was Nominated Forty Papers In Colorado Desert the Q. O. P. and Take Up the People's Cause. ' A New Convert Speaks. Hon. B. Clark Wheeler, editor of the Aspen, (Col.) Daily Times, and one of the leading republicans of Colorado, has come out for the people's party. He was a delegate to the republican nation al convention at Minneapolis. Speak ing of that convention he says: "I went to Minneapolis and studied the situation thoroughly and well. I found that candidates were preceded by their strikers. There was John C. New, Harrison's consul general to Lon don, who draws a salary of $25,000 a year, and nearly doubles that amount in perquisites, and his son, and Mich ener, and the son of United States At torney General Miller, to secure tbe nomination of Harrison. I got into their precincts behind their forces. I saw as delegates to that convention 123 office holders sent byJHarrison from the south, and more than 60 additional officeholders from the north. Others were promised offices as a considera tion for their support and when that failed they had $100,000 with which to buy votes. It was not the people who were there to nominate a president,but Harrison's hirelings." These words were uttered in a speech before a people's party meeting. After discussing the situation at some length he closed "with the fol lowing words: - - I am going to bo with the people's party. I will not be in the republican convention to oppose his nomination, but I'll be on the stump to oppose him for election. If you men who have pledged yourselves are sincere, if you mean business, if you are ready to ful fill what you have said, you cannot fall into line and into active service for the people's party too soon, nor can yon make the movement effective unless you go from top to bottom. Hois your state, your district and county ticket. Nominate your candidates for governor, congress; nominate your judges and county officers al' and then press forward with the determina tion to elect them. We can do it, and while we are at it, let's take the whole hog. I know it's hard to part with the old party, but our firesides, our homes, our investments and our country is at stake. The hour has arrived for us to protect ourselves. I am with you, tho people's parly, first, last and all the time. THEY DESERT THE PLUTOCRATIC OLD PARTIES. The Coming Crisis of Pueblo, Col., publishes the names of forty papers in that state that have deserted the old parties and come out for the people's party since the national conventions were held. Twenty-three of them came from the democratic party, and seventeen 'from the republican party. Six of the forty are dailies, and the leading papers of the state. These papers have gone to the new party because their subscribers have gone pefore them. The people's party will make a clean sweep in the Centen nial state. And Still Another. The Review, Madison county, Iowa says: Hon. Geo. W. Seevers, one of our well known and prominent attorneys, who of late years affiliated with the democratic party, addressed the peo ple's party club last Tuesday night. He will support Weaver and Field this year. Mr. Seevers made a masterly address and claimed the party had wandered away from its time honored principles in an abje3t surrender to, and i blind idola'ry of, the stuffed prophet of William Street and in the interest of the plutocrats of the coun try. Mr. Seevers' speech was listened to with great interest and furnished honest democrats much food for reflec tion. ' Van Wyck In Brown County. LONG Pine, Neb , July 22, 1892. Gen C H. Van Wyck addressed a large audience at the court house in Ainsworth yesterday. T believe it was the largest political gathering ever held in the place. The largest delega tion coming in from tho west was re ceived by a procession of those already assembled, and headed by a martial band was escorted through the princi pal streets to the court house which was soon filled to overflowing. In his speech the general showed the hopelessness of expecting relief through either of the old parties; that reform was necessary and must come from the laboring people themselyes. The peo ple, he said, never had too much money and had never had any depreciated currency except that which tho bond holder forced on the soldier during the war. He was frequently cheered throughout his speech. W. J. STOCKWELL. Our song entitled "The Taxpayers Sette the Bills," relates in the keenest, funniest, most sarcastic way the differ ed between the Robbin Hood stvle of At Ulysses. On Saturday afternoon tho opera nouse at uiyses wa crowded to over flowing with peop'e who came out to hear State Lecturer Dech who spoke on the issues of the da v. osnpoiallv tho money question. Ho was followed by TT T r . , non. jerome anamp wno made an ex cellent sp-jech on the transportation question, rne enthusiasm ran high. At Wabash. The Allianco people of Ca3S county had a very successful picnic at Wabash on last Saturday. ., Willard Kiefer,pres- luent oi tno county Alliance, presided. Hon W. F. Wright was the principal speaker. J. Lynch, a young farmer, and Mrs Kiefer make snort speeches. Music by tho Wabash band. About 800 present. The young people had a dance in tho evening. At Hazard The independents of tho southwest ern part of Sherman county had a mag' nificant rally on July IGth. They had a parade with nearly three hundred teams in line. The speakers were Rev. J. M. Snyder, Hon. Stanley Thompson of Kearney, and Hon. John H. Powers. There was singing by the Hazard glee club, music by the band and a grand picnic dinner. The business men of Litchfield and Hazard closed their houses from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.f an ex ample of courtesy that might well be followed elsewhere. Meetings in diss County. Lincoln, July 22, 1892. Notwithstanding the intense heat of last week I closed a series of very suc cessful series of six meetings in Cass county. At Eagle, Elnawood, Union and Cascade Alliances held rousing good meetings. At Alva and Wabash a grand rally at each point, point. Cass county people party men and women are thoroughly arou-ed and there are no more earnest workers in the state. I The demo-repubs at every point are on the run. Oar boys are crowding them to the wall, and a more woe-be-gone set of politicians than the repubs and demos has not been seen since the year One of the "earth's creation." W. F. Wright, ' Assistant State Lecturer. A great fight is on in Texas. Mr. Mills and Mr. Iteagan have entered the campaign and are trying to save their state from going over to the peo ple's party. But they have no easy task. Thero has been a revolution in Texas in tho minds of the people. Mills' old district has been carried by sn independent and he is renominated forafu'l term. The whole state is aroused, and well it may be. Texas is getting a little pre-election taste of tho apnroaching land-slide. And Texas is not alone in the shaking up: The po- Ht.1ml tromnrs arn hpf-nmincr pnirlAm!r 1 Ub" jra asd their latter dav friends. I from the A tlantTn tn tho PH fin. A LIBERAL OFfEB- Two line Hogs Worth $25 00 Each to be Given Away. Bischol Bros, of Kearney are propria ofs of the U. S. Tecumaeh Corwin Herd of Poland China hogs. They are also enthusiastic workers in the people's movement. In a letter received a few days ago they make the following offer. To the person Taising tho largctt num ber of subscribers to the Alliance-Independent before Sept. 1, '92, they will ship the first choice of their spring pigs; and to the person getting the second largest club they will ship tho second choice. These pigs will be worth not less than $25.00 each. They -will be about live months old. They are bred from stock selected from the best herds in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Nebraska. They aro as good as can be found anywhere. Their hogs are main ly of the U. S , the Corwin and Tecum seh strains of Poland Chinas. The editor of the Alliance Indepen dent is well acquainted with tho Bis chel Bros , and can vouch for tho gen uineness of this offer, and the reliability of their representations. Here is a line opportunity for some patriotic independent to help on the cause of reform, and improve his stock at the same time. Who will try it? Let us hear from you at once. We will accept subscribers under this offer for one year, ix months, or for the cam paign. One yearly subscriber counts as much as two for six months, or four for the campaign. If you want to work for this premium, mark everv list on send in "For hog premium." ALLIANCE rUBLISHING CO, Lincoln, Nebr. The Fremont Tribune and tho Stato Journal arc worried because so many men "who ought to bo killing weeds, are trying to reform the world." Just so. Let the people go on killing weeds and meeting all the drudgery in life, and leave it to the republican leaders to reform the world and reap the in come from the toil of the masses and all will be well. These old ringsters aro greatly alarmed lest these weed killers should band together and enjoy some of the fruits of their own hard labor instead of turning it all over to ; the bankers and rail road managers and political managers. And there is good crround for this alarm. The farmers and the laboring men are getting J'together. and in due course of timo the horde of idle pol- !i 1- i m uicai managers wno nave lived in lux ury by, the sweat of other men's brows will have todosomo'of the weed-pulliag