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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1892)
TED ALLIAITOB-IHDEPBHDEITT. IN THE PIRST DISTRICT. The Independent Congressional con vention for the First district has been called to meet at Nebraska . City, Aug ust 18th. The independents should organize without delay and prepare for a most determined fight to elect a congressman. Their chances are cer tainly as good as the chances of either old party. There is going to bo a bit ter contest between the two old parties and if the independents will keep strictly in tho middle of the road and make a vigorous fight, they can win. Fields, the republican nominee, is a railroad tool, and a man that no farmer or laboring man can afford to support. He was nominated by the machine men of his party, and by machine methods of the worst character. Hun dreds of republicans will refuse to support him. Bryan, the democratic nominee, has greatly disappointed the people of the district who want real reform. On the stump he condemned protection. But when he got down to Washington, he fell in with that crowd of make-shift, piece-meal reformers, led on by Sprin ger. Ins tead of making a general fight on the whole protective policy, they have tried to fish for the votes of the farmers by giving them free bind ing twine, and thrown out free wool as a bait to the woolen factories of Now England. Tho whole course of the democratic house on the tariff question has been cowardly and disappointing, and Mr, Bryan is largely responsib'e for thiscourse His course on the silver question has been still more disappointing. Al though he talks loud for silver when he is in Nebraska, he has hardly open ed his month on that question in the house. When he is invited out to ad dress democratic clubs in the eastern states, he is very careful to confine himself to the tariff, and no one who ever hears htm would even suspect him of being a free coinage man. Mr. Bryan also supported Springer for speaker, a man who is outspoken in his advocacy of an international silver conference. Does Mr. Bryan want the gold standard monarchies of Europe to dictate our financial policy? If not, why did he vote for Springer? These are facts which Mr. Bryan must face in the campaign Let the independents put up a good man, let them organize thoroughly, and make tho right kind of a fight and they can send to Washington a true representative of the people. The Bee's Washington correspondent makes a sickly attempt to misrepresent Kem. He says Kem voted on ihe 27th to protect national bankers from in vestigation. The facts according to the Bee's report do not justify any such conclusion. A resolution was in troduced for political capital by a Pennsylvania republican that was in tended to white-wash the national banking system by instituting a com parison between it and tho old wil l-cat banking system. Mr. Kem was cer tainly right in opposing such a resolu tion. Tho people care nothing about the old wild-cat banking system. They know the national banking system i3 false in principle and damnable in practice. What they want is govern ment banking, and because Mr. Kem advocates this, the money power sets its dogs on him. But the people know Kem, and their confidence in him will not be shaken by such lyiog reports. Do not bo alarmed brother, when the ringsters tell you that this new move ment is only a democratic side show. The people's party is making as bad a hole in the solid south as it is in tho north. The democratic leaders of the south are raising the cry that the peo ple's party is organized simply to break up the democratic party and help the republicans. The people's party U or ganized to build up the cause of the people because both old parties havo failed to do it. The most strenuous efforts of both old parties will be put forth this fall against the real represen tatives of the people, named by this new party, and tho effort will b3 no less determined upon the part of the southern democrats than by the northern republicans. Read what the Columbia (S. C.) Cotton Planter says about the fight on Watson the great in dependent leader, now in congress from that state: Tom Watson is the most popular man in Georgia, if we are to judge by the efforts used to defeat him for congress in the Tenth distrist. General GordoD, Governor Northen and other promi nent and influential men are aiding Major Black the democratic candidate, in his campaign against Watson, in the meantime Watson is attending strictly to his duties in Washington. The query is, if it takes three of the ablest men in Georgia to fight Tom when he ain't there, how many is it going to take when he is on the spot? LANCASTER COUNTY INDEPENDENTS- Tho Lancaster county independents hold their county convention next Mon day at 10 a. m. Saturday, Aug. 6tb, is the date set for tho holding of pri maries, y The county convention will s put in nominal ion two candidates for the state senate, five for representatives, one for county attorney and one for county commissioner. Every independent roter in the county should turn out to the primary on Saturday. The nomination of good men for these offices is a matter of the highest importance. If good men are named and a vigorous fight made, the whole ticket can be elected. The re publicans are straining every nerve to maintain their hold on this county. Their organized activity must be met by organized activity. It is the only road to success. But if that road is taken, there is an excellent chance to wrest this county from the control of the g. o. p. Another Ladies' Club. A Weaver and Field club was or ganized by the ladies of Nelson, Nuck oils county, July 16. It now has over six y members. Mrs. L. M. Kemerer is president vice-president, Miss Lou Rouse; secretary, Miss Lida Jones; treasurer, Mrs. Edith Bur. At the rally last Saturday they had charge of the refreshments from which they raised $60 campaign funds. The f unds raised by the c!ub will be used in scattering good literature" among the people. They meet once per week to discuss reform questions. They havo sent to Chicago and got a flag twenty feet long. On one of its stripes appear the words: "Weaver and Field Are In the Middle of the Road." When this flag was displayed on the street at Nelson, some of the g. o. p. ringsters raised a howl that the flag was "defaced" by the printed letters. They sought to frighten the women, with threats of arrest, into lakiflg down the flag. " But the ladies BY HIS OWN WORDS- Whitelaw Reid is condemned by the words of his own mouth uttered delib erately, and in the presence of a large company. How many voters will go to the polls and support a man who ad mits that his business makes of h'm a perpetual and systematic liar? How many men want a vice-president of this country who says that he is a jump ing jack, dancing as the rich me a of New York pull tho string? Road what the self-confessed tool and vassal tays of himself: "The business of a New York iour nalist is to distort tho truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilif v. to fawn at the feet of Manmon, and to sell his country ana his race for bread, or for V 1. V a a 1 a m a wcai is aoouc ine samo ining ms sal ary. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We aro jumping jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intel lectual prostitutes. Them is nn minh thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in tho country towns. You aro slaves. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion." These aro the words' of Whitelaw Reid before a meeting of the nowspa- per men of New York some years ago. Voters what do you think of such statements? And what do you think of the man who has not the moral cour age to break over such an environment and either speak his real sentiments or withdraw from the, business wh?ch forces him to be a liar, a tool, a jump- ing-jack, a vilifier, a fawner at the feet of Mammon? Is he tho man to preside over the American senate? Is he the man to stand r-eady to fill the highest place in the gift of the Ameri can people if the presidency should be come vacant? His own words condemn him as a man unworthy of the vote of any honest man. THE WAR IS OVER. Let every republican understand that General Fields is just the man and has just the history that the independents desired when they were looking for a candidate. The republicans have been preaching union and fraternity between the north and south for the past twenty-five years. The independents pro pose a little practice of those senti ments as well as a little preaching. The people's party nominated a south ern soldier willingly and purposely, and is proud of this practical demon stration of a fraternal feeling', which with the republicans has never gone bsyond the platitudes of their platforms. In their declarations they fraternize the southern man and the negro, but in their nominations they choose the northern railroad attorney and the Wall street lord or his tool. The war is as a thing of the past. The south was wrong, and they admit it. They deserved punishment, and they got it without stint. But the men who,, far more than the peo ple of either the north or the south, were responsible for the war and its continuance, tho capitalists of New York and Europe, they have never had what they d - serve. And if they ever cease to plunder the people, both north and south, it will be because the people rise up in their rovcreign power and outvote the two parties? which during all these years have bsen the tools and slaves of these same capital ists. Voters of America, shall we , be slaves cr freemen? Shal we govern our own country in the interest o the bond-holding lords of Wall ste-eet? This is tho paramount political ques tion of the hour. CAMPAIGN SONGS. The two songs printed in this issue will be 8truek off on a slip, several thousand of which will ;be distributed at Kearney. They will bo sung by tho assembled multitudo to those grand old war tunes which everybody knows and loves. GENERAL FIELDS- A lot of fellows who never '"smclled gun-powder aro whinning around and sayiDg they will never vote for a rebel. No reasonablo man can but admire General Fields for his bravery and force of character. Entering the war at its beginning ho served faithfully until ho lost a limb upon the battle field. Even this did not end Jhis mili tary career, for when ho recovered sufficiently to wesrf an artificial l'mb ho was again ,in the ranks where he re- ma'ned until tho final surrender. It is true that General Fields was on the wrong side of the fight; but that is where the rest of us would have been if wo had been born and raised in the south. General Fields is a relative of the late Cyrus W. Fields of New York. The associations of ono were wholly with tho north while those of the other were wholly with -the south. They were alike in strong intellecutal vigor and determination, and in high moral ideas. Our candidate's connec tion with tho rebellion, while it was a wrong which he himself now admits, was nothing but the natural course of all the rank and file of the south, and is a thing now so far in the back ground of history as to lose prominence in the political affairs of today. The independent party is proud of its vice- presidential candidate. Calhoun's View of the Silver Attitude of His Party, The defeat of free oinnfm in .ha house Wednesday is to be deplored not only because it shuts away f rom tho people all hone of immodiniA financial relief, but especially becanse it shows that the national leaders of the democ racy are in collusion with th power that rules the country and the old world. It confirms the worst fears of those who disirusted that. tha.aa ship of the party was not in sympathy ivu mo vyic, buai. uemocracy as at present organized and servant of Wall street and is no more to ' oe jrusiea man ine gang of republican tariff robbers. The action of WVri spired and directed by the managers of the democratic campaign for the presidency. Sneaks and cowards stood up in the house and vowed that they were good democrats, thov ly to free coinage, they wished to see it, but this was an "inopportune time" to get it. So they voted against it. They had been told by Mr. Cleveland's managers me men wno will dispense the offices and dividA tho 1 hfhls f.Me 18 efcted-that the passage nf Vin Kill tt.-.,,U 1 1 ' L i iuv urn nummusB mratno state of New York and maVo hia certain. And th?e tho r-mmh-K.,,,.: stood up and swallowed their convic tions and delivered their constituents into a longer and harrW to cry to the debt holding magnates who have no real choice between Cleveland n.nri Harr.cnn l T !nni. tt 11 uiuwiu xj.era.iq.. A Good Show. Said General Weaver in a rwnt tn. terview: "I am more and more con vinced of the fapt the people of the United States h cuse for either voting the republican or the democratic ticket. 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