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. Our platform
mo uu uAacu y ; wnai tno masses
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