T HE - A L L IAN OE-INDEPBNDENT,
Meiklejoijn bullilozcd the legisla
ture but he can't bulldoze the voters ol
the third congrefsional dis'rict. They
are onto him.
Judge Noruis, the what-is-it of the
Third district had twin sat down on
again. He is in tho wrong pew, and he
knows it, but he hasn't tho political
manhood to get out of it.
The dilliculty in getting a chairman
,for tho republican national committee
was in finding a man who could play
the Iteid organ successfully. It's a tig
task.
"Oke weak spot in tho record of a
candidate, under the existing condi
tions, might easily cause defeat." So
says the Evening News. The old ship
is leaking badly.
Anent the attempt of tho republi
cans to stir up war prejudice against
Gen.. Fields, the Beaver City 'limes
calls attention to twenty-one cx-rebel
soldiers that havo been appointed to
prominent positions by republican
ministratiors.
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IN its account of the late republican
convention the State Journal sail that
at every shout which was sent up one
could seo tho steam rise. Of course
one could see the steam rise. There
was a B. & M. engine present to rail
road through the deal and of course
s'eam had to be one of the features.
Roswell G. Hour is making votes
for the independent party wherever he
goes. Tacre aro a thousand old farm
ers in Nebraska today who can reason
him blind on the public questions of
the day, and there are one hundred
thousand voters who see through his
shallow political sophistries. Let him
bo.l. -His speeches only serve to show
the dearth of republican argument.
While the editor of the Call is
chairman of the republ'can county cen
tral committee, his paper takes up the
defense of Senator Paddock, notwith
standing a resolution of commendation
was voted down by an loverwhelming
majority of tho county convention.
Why was the gentleman made county
chairman? For the same reason that
Rosewater was made national commit
teeman. It would have been unsafe to
do otherwise. The old ship is leaking.
E. M. CORRELL of the Hebron Jour
nal kicks hard on the early convention.
Ho says:
"The action of the stato republican
committee in calling the state conven
tion as early as August 4th, is simply
monumental foolishness, and bare,
bleak, bald-headed lack of political
good sense." And then he goes on to
show the weakness of the party, and
the need of waiting until the opposing
parties had put up their tickets, ss
that they could not then take ad van
tage of mistakes made by the republi
cans. Verily, tho g. o. p. is in the
toils.
Paste this where you can look at it
several times before election day: A
"cashier of one of our Lincoln banks' was
on Wall street at tho time the silver
bill was pending in the house, and he
states that immediately vjpon its defeat
tho interest quotations which had ran
ged frem H to 2k were advanced to 4;
and that Wall street was the scene of
such rejoipicg and revelry as had not
baen witnessed for years. As long as
the west and the south furnish good
music and refreshments, the lords of
ORGANIZED LABOB.
Mr. Kent is right when he says that
tho only thing that has kept up wages
in this country is organization among
laboring men. Tho contest now on be
tween Carnegie & Co. and their em
ployes is not so much over the scale of
wages, as it is over the destruction or
perpetuation of tho amalgamated as
sociation, one of the leading labor
unions of the country. The c lpitalists
havo determ'ned on a war to the death
against this organ' zation. The labor
ers will resist this warfare with ail
their power. It is not a matter of mere
sentiment with them. Tbcy realize
that their only protection against the
tyranny of capital lies in their union.
Once this is broken up, tho capitalist
will onty havo tho individual laborers
to deal with. Ho can then
use tho laborers to beat down their own
wages through competition for employ
ment. Carnegie & Co. have offered to take
back all their old employes, ' except
the leaders, provided they renounce
their union, and accept cmp'oyment as
individuals. This the laboring men
have refused, although lhey know that
defeat in their contest will ruin them
financially. This shows how deeply in
earnest they are.
The real contest has only just
begun. The organized laborers of
the whole country are likely
to co-operate with the locked out
employees at Homestead, to mike this
a final test battle c between organized
labor and organized capital on the old
lnes.
It is to be hoped that this cDntest
will set the laboring men of tho coun
try to thinking more deeply, and cause
them to see that they can never achieve
a permanent victory while they play
into the hands of their oppressors by
voting for tlie old political parties.
The only true solution of the labor
question is to be reached through the
ballot box. All labor organizations
must be merged into one grand politi
cal organization, before industrial
freedom can be secured.
As AN elderly, motherly woman
from North B.uif precinct sat on the
steps of the First National bank, a
pained expression came into her face
again and again as she saw the young
bank clerks and business men passing,
dressed in their loose summer shirts
and broad black baits. The old lady
gave her husband a poke with the
umbrella as she remarked, "I say
Ben, isn't it singiar how
many young men has weak stomachs in
these degenerate times'? Who oyer
seed a young man bound up in that way
in our young day? D'you s'pose I'd
ever er married you if you'd er kum er
courtin' round me with your vitals all
bandaged up like that? No, sir! None
o' your weak stomached striplings fer
me, Ben, not much," and she rose up
energetically and started toward the
publicsquare saying more to herself than
to her husband who lollowed, 'Thim
horses is done eatin' by this time and
I'm goin' home. I always did think
that town folks was degenerate in
heart and now that they're all runnin'
down physie'ly I don't want to look at
'em."
"Misther -Meiklejohn-yez-kin - hev-anny-thing-ye've-a-moind-to-ask-fur'has
been nominated for congress by the re
publicans of the new third district.
Youth and beauty are his most promin
ent qualifications for the office. Inci
dentally it may bo remarked that he
has b?en "very, friendly to the road,
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