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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1892)
THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. NOT-BY MISTAKE. The partisan republican papers are trying to make capital by claiming to have discovered , that General Fields, the people's nominee for vice-president, was a way up rebel. Let it be under stood that these bright republicans have made no discovery. The people's party knew General Fields' history when it placed him in nomination, and ho is just the kind of a man that tho par ty wanted. The party claims that there is no enmity between tao north and the south, that the old issues of the war have long been Fettled and that sad affair is a thing of the past. In the convention at Omaha tho de mand from the southern men was that the first place on the ticket ba filled by a northern man. Not only that, but they insisted that the northern man be one who had been In the Union army and had shown his courage and bravery there, As a counter-part to this non s'ctional spirit in the south, many of tho northern delegates insisted that the second place be filled by a southern man and one who had -bscn active on the side of the rebellion. And so the ticket was made, deliberately and on purpose, headed by the brave general of the norih and seconded by the brave general of the south. If the republicans wish to make sec tional strife the issue of tho coming campaign, let them do so. The peo ple's party has gotten beyond tha'-.iThe republican party has . been talking peace and reunion and frafernity for twenty years, but the moment 'the peo ple's party makes a practical example of that fraternity, the republican pa pers turn up their nose i and try to prod every old soldier back into line by reviving tho old sec'ional hatred. Greater duplicity was Jnever witnessed than in the republican claim of frater nal feelinsc toward the south. It exists with the masses, wo admit, bat fjjtho leaders are constantly endeavoring to break it down and kindle again the fires of sectional hatred and arouse a bitter remembrance of the sad affairs of the rebellion. Lot the republican papers harp about the confederate candidate if they like. The people's party has dona its work deliberately, hai done what most of its best thinkers believed was bt?st, and has done just what the masse3 of all parties have claimed should bo done, they have given a practical demonstra tion of their willingness to bury the past, to meet the demands of the pres ent and to prepare for the needs of the future. Tho people's par!y has nominated a man who thirty years ago, took up arms in what ho believed to bo the caus3 of his native state aga'nst his native land. He made a mistake. He knows it now and is glad that his side was defeated. His course then was just what would have been followed by al most every one of us of the north if we had been in his .lace. The independents of the country crake no apology for the nomination of a southern man. They ar3 simply practicing one of tho good things which the repubHcans have been preaching for years. Tho old soldiers who will be whipped into the republi can tra es by the party leaders because the south has been recognized by the people's party, arc few indeed. The old soldier who says he would havo been an ineependent but for the nomi nation of General Fields, may bo put down as a weak'ing or a liar, who would not havo b en an independent with any ticket. Let the word go forth that tho peo ple's party has made its ticket not by accident but with full knowledge of what it was doing and with full pur poso to do nothing else; that tho party is proud of its practical stand in favor of fraternity and union, and that it in vites to its support all who believe that tho present needs of tho country aro far more important than its "past mis fortunes, and that tho future welfare of our nation demands tho united effort of all sections with charity toward all and with malace toward none. It was Solomon who remarked that "there is nothiDg new under the lun." The discussion of the issues in Ameri can politics cerlaiDly confirm that re mark. Wo have just finished reading a speech on the -silver question deliver ed in congress in 1879 by Thomas Ewing of Ohio. In it wo find tho same unanswerable arguments in favor of free coinage, and the same replies to tho , trumped up objections of , the gold bugs that wo find in the speeches of the silver men today. The cant about an "honest dollar," a "deluge of cheap foreign sil ver," etc., was the stock in trade of tho enemies of silver then as now. Ewing nailed them to tho cross with "conspiracy of 1873," just as the cham pions of the white metal do today." That speech was made thirteen years ago, and yet free coinago is still a thing of the uncertain future. Verily it takes a long time to persuade tho intelligent American voter to cast his ballot in his own interest. THE ROOKY MOUNTAIN NEWS. Tho greatest daily in th? Rocky Mountain country comes out as follow for General Weaver: It is clearly tho interest and duty of a'l of tho advoc ites of f reo coinago to unito in tho support of General Wea ver, tho candidate of tho people's party for tho presidency. Ho is tho only nominee for that office who believes in the money of tho constitution, and he stands upon a platform that is un mistakably pledged to the reinstate ment of silver to tho position of equali ty with gold which it occupied during eighty ytars of th-j nation's prosperous growth. Mr Weaver's opponents aro both Bionometalists from conviction or interest, and upon the coinago question hold tho view of tho single standard money power, which has com bined its forces for tho permanent de basement of silver, that tho volume of, currency may bo reduced and tho rates of interest advanced. Tho election of cither of them would bo disastrous to the causo of :ilver and to silver pro ducers to the extent that it is in tho power of the executivo of tho nation to reinforce tho single standard combina tion. Under these circumstances believers in biraetajism, . to bo consistent, must support General Weaver, while it would D3 suicidal for thoso whose material welfare depends upon remon etizatloa to pursue any other course. IN another column wo publish a lit tle poem written by Mrs. Kellle, and dedicated to Prof. Andrews, the Pres byterian minister who is trying to run for congress against McKeighan in tho Fifth district. We commend this poem to tho profossor's careful and prayerful consideration. It may not havo much poetic merit, but it is running over with Bible truth. Get up a club under our cam paign offer. - - r -i ' J ,f ISlIllll ! i i r i -ii FURNITURE j I r Jit 'It 1 I-1 ! ' 1 tf! i i 1 ' "!ll.i:".l I I j - , LARGEST STOCK, lowEsrralcES. - , L fc ' !' ;"l'"r;""'''" :A !'':;:r:iisii:'b,MwiMwwMWMMMM4"1'',i'!" i .i f- ". rT' i." 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