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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1892)
THE ALLIANCE - INDEPENDENT. HON. J. V. WOLFE'S SPEECH. Delivered on the Opening of the Kear ney Convention. The hour has now arrived for calling this convention to order. In perform ing this, my official duty, and before yielding the gavel to your choico for temporary chairman of the conveation, allow mo just a few words. In tho first place let me congratulate you on this magnificent attendance. T hi is but our third state nominating convention, and yet incumbers and in telligence it breaks all previous rec ords of our own, or either of the old parties in Nebraska. I congratulate you further upon the bright prospects everywhere spread out before us for the siecdy triumph of the grand principle! of tho grandest party that ever went forth to battle for human rights. I con gratulate you especially upoa the deep earnestness that I see depleted in the countenances now before me. As I look over this vast sea of faces I see evi dences to my mind "as strong as proof of holy writ" that you are hero for no idle purpose, but that you mean and in tend business. A very largo majority o! you I recognize from your bronzed faces as tho sunburnt ons of toil, and all of you I know are tho steadfast friends cf honest labor wherever performed. You have not come here for pleasure or for your physical health. You have come hero from the remotest parts of the states as tho accredited delegates from your various counties, confided with a sacred trust and to perform a solemn duty. No private palace cars were placed at your disposal, no free passes were furnished you to lessen your ex pense. At your own expense and at great personal and pecuniar? sacrifice you have left your plows idle in the furrow, and your reapers motionless in the field, and, at the call of duty, and in tho interest of humanity, you are here to seek and do justice. My brothers, workers in this great field, a field already ripe and rich with the harvest-laborers in this grand work of financial reform soldiers in the com ing battle for industrial emancipation, lit your actions hero at this convention attest your loyality and your devotion to tho principles we have espoused. If this movement means anything it means everything that is Godlike and grand. It means that, laying aside all personal ambition and all petty spite and jealousy, wo will strive only for the uplifting and tho upbuildiDgof a nobler humanity, and the establishment cf a grander civilization. It means that the fight that we have so courageously begun shall go on in spite of foes with out or foes within, until every human being in all this broad land ahall be able to sit- down under his own vine and fig tree and peaceably enjoy the fruits of his hptest toil. We have both said and sung, "Good Bye, Old Party, Good Bye.'' Let us see to it that we say it and sing it with thp spirit and with tho understanding. As we have abandoned tho old parties themselves, let us leave behind us every objectionable featuro of them, and make our party in fact, what we claim it a party of tho people, by the peo ple and for tho people. Our history stretching backward about three years has broken, in many respect?, all previous pat ty records. We broke it in St. Louis by the Amens that were said by the Hallelujahs that were sung, and the tears that were shed when the grand principles that were there enunciated, were first agreed to by united labor, and Jpromul gated as labor's creed to tho civilized world. We broke tho record at Omaha at our first national convention to nom inate candidates for president and vice president, when we recognized the south as an integral portion of this our .common country. There it was also that we broke all party records when we showed and proved our devotion to principles more than to any man, or to all the grand men who composed that magnificent gathering. The scene af ter the adoption of our platform is yet before me, and will remain fresh in ihe memory of everyone who witnessed it, as long as memory shall perform its office. The record of all previous po'itical conventions was also broken at Omaha when mingled with the voices of the agea ana tne young was heard tno. cry Your state committee will also break all former records by making to this convention a financial report of all moneys received and where from, and all moneys expended and what for, and ask that a committee be appointed to thoroughly examine their work. With such a past, my brothers, so fresh in all our memories, with the present so full of encouragement, and with the future bo Ir ght with hope and full of promise, and with thestreak ings everywhere around us that pro claim tho dawning of a better day to labor, can it bo that we do not realize our responsibility, or that any of us shall fail to do our whole duty on this occasion, and in the coming struggle? Id) not believe it. I cannot believe it. I will not believe it. I cannot (all you all by name, but for two long years I have known you as true, loyal inde pendents; as loyal workers in this grand movement. Wc have met to gether. Wo have talked together. Wo, have fought together. We have even wept together, and toge:her have gone down to defeat, but we are here tonight to select our leaders, to mass our forces, and to go forth to renewed battle. With unity and harmony and fraternity t) characterize our proceedings, no one can doubt tho result. We have our enemies already on the run and if they shall fail here and now in this, their last opportunity to breed discord and create stiife among you, as fail they will and fail they mus their last hope will bo gone. Open discussion of men is all right. Fair and honorable criticism of all aspirants to office is not only right but is eminent y proper, but he who would sow broadcast iu our homes and in your hearts the seeds not only of diacord but of hate, is his own worst enemy if not yours, for I am taught "that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." I am not here for any se'fish purpose or as a champion for any living man, buh I am here and I believe you are here in the interos, of a cause we all dearly love and for which we have all a'ready sacrificed so much. Let us therefore do our work here like men and liko men go forth from this place arm in arm and shoulder to shoul der and carry forward the work begun hero tonight to a grand suecese. As firmly as I belie ve that success in No vember depends very much upon the ticket you aro about to nominate, yet I am persuaded that even more depends upon the spirit iu which your proceed ings are conducted, and upon the good fee ing existing between us when our work is done. With unity of purpose and harmony of action and with an al together pull from now until tho elec tioo, and at the po Is we can elect any good ticket you rasy hero name, but without these the chances are that wc can elect no ticket however good, aud he who does not recognize this fact, it would seem to me, courts even if he does not desire, defeat. In saying as much as I have in 6psu ing this convention I may have again broken all past records and it would bo improper for me to say more, but it would have been 'almost impossible for me to have said less.' I nov commit to your own interest and that of the indpendenVparty of Ne braska, into your own ksop'ng in the hope and in tho firmbslicf and with tho fervent prayer, that you will guard t hat interest well' and guide the party to victory in November. I will now hear nominations for tem porary chairman. The Campaign in Adams 0)uaty. A people's party rally and picnic will be held at Pauline, in Adams county, on August 1G. Carl Brown of Califor nia and other prominent speakers will be present and open the campaign for the independents in that county. Very ueor. Effio: "Did George play football while ho was at college?" Maude: No. I don't think he did." Eflie: Did he row on tho crew?" Maude: "I never heard anything about it" Eflie: "Then he must havo played baseball.1' Maude: "Ho never said anything about it. I'm pretty sure he didn't though." Effie: "That's verv mmm atintii.' farmers') UNACQUAINTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THIS COUNTRY WILL OBTAIN MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF THE can. met Mai & Pacific kt: , j ( The Direct Route to and from CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND, DAVENPORT, DE3 MOINES, COUNCIL BLUFF3, OMAHA. LINCOLN, WATEKTOWN, SIOUX FALLS, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL, ST. JOSEPH. ATCHISON, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS CITY, TOPEKA, DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS, and PUEBLO. Freo Reclining Chair Cars to and from CHICAGO, CALDWELL, HUTCHINSON and DODGE CITY, and Palace Sleeping Cars between CHICAGO, WICHITA and HUTCHINSON. SOLID VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS of Through Coaches, Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Dining Cars daily between CHICAGO, DE3 MOINES. COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA and LIN COLN, and between CHICAGO and DENVER. COLORADO SPRINGS and PUEBLO via St. Joseph, or Kansas City and Topeka. Excursions daily, with Choice of Routes to and from Salt Laka, Portland, Los A njreles and San Francisco. The Direct Line to and from Pike's Peak, Manitou, Garden of the Gods, tho Sanitariums, and Scenic Grandeurs of Colorado. Via The Albert Lea Route, Fast Express Trains daily between Chicago and Minneapolis and St Paul, with THROUGH Reclining Chair Cars FREE, to and from those points and Kan sas City. Through Chair Car and Sleeper between Peoria, Spirit Lake and Sioux Falls via Rock Island. The Favorite Lino to Watertown, Sioux Falls, the Summer Resorts and Hunting and Fishing Grounds of the Northwest. For Tickets, Maps, Folders, or desired information apply to any Coupon Ticket Office, or address E. ST. JOHN Cenl Manager, JOHN SEBASTIAN, Gen'l Tkt. & Pass. Agt, CHICAGO. ILL. "I don't believe Dante's de of the Inferno is correct" Jinks cription Winks "Why not?" Jinks-"Notone of the shades said to any other shade: 'Is this hot enough for you?' " Notice to Bridge Contractors. Notice is hereby given, that sealed bids will re received by too County Clerk of Furnas County Nobrapka lor the erection of ont com bination bridge across the Republican river oh the county line be:ween Harlan and Fur nas counties near the village of Oxford. Said bridge to be cUU feet Jong and to con sist of fi spans ot 150 feeteach with a roadway U feet wide in thG clear, and the road bed to be 1 1 foot nove low water mark. Sa d br.'de to bo built in all icspcets accor ding to the nlana nn ' specifications now on flle in the cilice of the couvty clerk. The commissioners of Furnas County and (ho supervisors of Marian county will eater into a joint contract for the erection of said bridge. Thobidsfor 6arae will be received by tho undersigned on or before noon of September 5th, lt'2 and mfcgt be accompanied by a gaod and tutlleieutbi d in case contract is awarded. The county commissioners however reserve the right to rc j t auy and all bids. Witness my hf nd and county seal this 1st day of Ausmtl8!2. H. W. McFadden, (SEvl) 8-it. Couaty clerk. M . i q ueer. k aucio: "ii hy t" ' Effie: 430- .cuse 1 neard that .he was graduated. It snHn wil J? Homes and Irrigated Farms, Gardens and Orchards in the Celebrated Bear River Valle ? on the Main Lines ot the Union Paciiic and Central Pacific R. R. near Corinne and igden, Utah. Splendid location for business and in dustries of all kinds iu the well ksown city of Corinne, situated in the middle of the valley on the Central Pacific R.R. The lands of the Bear River valley are now thrown open to settlement by the construction of the mammoth system of irrigation from the Bear lake aud river, just ceoipleted by the Bear River Canal Co., at a cost of $3,00S,000. Tk com pany controls 100,000 acres of t hese line ands and owns many lots a .d business ccathns in the city ef Corinne. aud U now prepared to sell on easy terns to settlers and colonies. The climate, soil, and irrigating facilities are pronounced unsurpassed by competent judges who declare the valley to be ths Paradise of the Farmer, Fruit "Grower and Stock Raiser. Mice social surraundiugs, good schools and churches at Corinne City, and Home Markets exist for every kind of farm and garden produce in the neighboring cities cf Ogdea and Salt juua.o, auu m mo giuui. iiiLBinsr camns. If you want to sell your farms for cash, -OR- If you wish to trade them come ' and see us. We Can Find You Bps. We have all kinds of city prop erty for sale or trade. If you want any kind of merchandise for your lands We Cap Suit You, We make a specialty m this line. fnTTTIG conrl full novtimiloro Ia iic -r n iMo. 15th and O Sts. Awarded First Premium and Cold Medal at the World's Industrial Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La., in 1884-5 after a trial Lasting Four Months. , the EUREKA IaBEpsT.NTHl WORLD and to-day stands at the head and fron of the whole wind mill family. It is the cheap est and best as O mm n r are also the bTA" PUMPS We Have Them Also. Screen Wire, Fibre Ware, Screen Doors, Ladders, Farm Dinner Bells, Western Washers Plain Wire, Barrel Churns, Poultry Netting, Refrigerators, New Idea Gasoline Lawn Mower3, Stoves, Pumps and Pump All tri i t t . ju jviims vi l ipe, liepairs, Tin Roofing and anything in the Hard ware Line. Especial attention paid to Harness Ra pairs and Tin Job Work, G. M. LOOMIsV- 905 O St., Lincoln, Neb. IMS V&r In COLIC, MJi CHOLERA DIARRHOEA REHEDL An eilectua remedy for tho cure of Pain in the Stomach-, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Cramp Colic, Bilious Colli, Painter's Col ic, Summer Complaint, Dysentery, Diarrhceo, Bilcody Flux, Chronio Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, Cholera and Bowel- Com plaint in all forms. V
