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THE ALLIANCE-INDEPENDENT.
Sljc Inrmcro' SUIiaitK,
AND
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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Published Every Thursday bt
Tee Alliance Publishing Co.
Cor. Ilih and M Bi$., Lincoln, Neb.
BOABO OP DIRECTORS.
0. ft rat.. Pre J. M. Thompson, Sec'y.
6. Ed. Thobktox, V. P. J. H. Mifi-erd, Tress.
C. 11. PlRTLK.
Subscription Ose Dollar per Year
8. Edwin Thornton, Managing Editor
r ts. II. Pirtlk,...., UuelnenH Manager.
E. A. Hub hay drertl8lnjr Mgr'r
N. I. l A.
People's Party National Ticket-
For President,'
GEN. J AS. H. WEAVER
. of Iowa.
For Vlce.PreHldert,
GEN. JAS. G. FIELDS
of Virginia.,
STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
CHARLES II. VAN VVYCK. Otoe Co.
For Lieutenant Governor,
C. D. SHRADER. Logan County.
For Secretary of State,
J. M. EASTERL1NG, Buffalo County.
For Auditor,
LOGAN McREYNOLDS, Clay County.
For Treasurer,
J. V. WOLFE, Lancaster County.
For Attorney General,
V. O. STR1CKLER, Dou;
las County.
Build-
For Commissioner of Public Lands and
ings,
J. M. GUNNETT, York Connty.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction,
II. II. IIIATT, Custer County.
For Presidential Electors,
T. G. FERGUSON, Nemaha County.
J. R. CONKLIN, Douglas County.
JOHN I. JONES, Cedar County.
, ,11. 11. SHICK, Seward County.
" W. A. GARRETT, Phelps County.
PETER EBBERSON, Howard County.
E. E. LINK, Frontier County.
T. H. TIBBLES, Cuming County. "
It appears that just now the ltev. J.
G. Tate is viewing with alarm.
More about Nebraska mortgages
next week. We are after tho prosper
ity shti kers.
Do you want to help insure success
in this campaign? Then get up a
club for The Alltance Independent.
The Alliakce-Indepmndent will bo
tho greatest vote-maker of the cam
paign. Get it into tho hands of
voters.
The artlic o headt d "It Did Not Pass
Why?" is one of tho greatest eye
openers wo bavo ever published. It
should be read by every voter in Ne
braska. Every independent worker
should cut it out and preserve it.
Ye editor has received resolutions
from tho Haven's chapel Mite Society,
and the Divido alliance No Toi which
will b3 published next week with com
ments. For tho present we ask the
members of thoso societies to accept
our sincere thanks.
The Rev. J. G. Tate's oft repeated
socgofhowhe loves the land of his
adoption, will sound a little discordant
when set to the music of his own con
fcfs".:m as to his neglect to become a
citizen. The Rev. J. G. 0. P. is not the
first Hinglisbman who has found it con
venient to hold himself in a position to
claim allegicnce to tho Queen at any
time of danger. Sack fellows make
Americans very tired.
taxes In thivcars 187 W and 75, or In I fffffw W
POINTERS FOB INDEPENDENTS.
Send in j'our caropa'gn funds without
delay so that tho sta'e committee may
push tho work without delay.
Get up a picnic or campmecting.
Don't advertise an independent
speaker, especially a candidate, unless
3ou havo his positive promise to bo
there.
Tho stato committee would liko to
havo the name of one active independ
ent in every fchool district who will
distribute literature If you havo the
cause at heart, send in your name right
now as a volunteer.
tGct up a club for The Alliance-Independent.
In order tbat wo may not dispute
before we get ready to argue, let us
concede that Alabama went democra
tic by tea or eleven thousand. A year
ago she went democratic by 111,000.
What has become of the 100,C0D votes?
When th'j northern republican speaker
tries to scare the northern voter by
telling him that tho south is as solid as
ever and that tho Alliance makes no
inrouls upon democracy, let tho north
ern voter ask tho northern speaker
what has become of the 100,000 votes
that tho democratic party in Alabama
has lost in a year. In truth tho
democracy of the south is on its last
legs in half a doz 311 state3. There is a
t clitical revolution on, throughout tho
west and s utb, and it has no regard
for persons or political parties. It
makes no distinction because of race,
color, or previous condition of political
slave' y. Emancipation is coming
to toiling millions who are
breaking the chains of a legal
ized monetary slavery. The
corporations aro to subserve the inter
ests of tho people, the plutocrats aro to
bo forced to release their grap upon
tho comforts which they would wrest
from the toilers in order to swell the
enormity of their own exlravagance,
and the great common people are to
enjoy some of tho pleasures of life
which their toil so richly earns. Let
tho laboring man take heart and cast
his vote with tho party of the people.
When the victory comes, tho reins of
government shall bo in tho hands of
the common people who know and feel
our common need3, a"d who will con
trol the government for the good
and comfort of the masses rather than
for the ex'ravaganco of the mil'ion
aircs. Let the welcome day come
?perdily.
Judge Field's effort to crawl under
John Watson's petty-coat while John
engages the verbose Mr. Bryan is not
likely to work well. Watson wi'l be
lifted off his feet at the first engage
ment and Field will bj left i i full view
where he will havo to ei her tako his
turn or run He has too muc'i pride to
run when all the people seo him, and
after ho goss through one engagement
with Mr. Bryan ho will bo too badly
used up to ever try it again: and so
the great joint debate will end, tho
first engagement being also tho last.
The principal argument now going
on between the democrats and republi
cans is as to which party got away with
the nicst money during the last two
sessions of congress. , For a year or
more the democrats havo never spoken
of the last republican congress without
using the prefix "billion dollar" in con
nection with it. But the present demo
cratic congress is going the republicans
one better and the cry of extravagance
E)QW comes.from the republican camp
The convention that nominated
Whitehead voted down a resolition
pledging tho cindidato to vote for tho
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
There are so few men around to
hurrah fos Harrison and Crounso, that
the republicans are training their par
rots to do it. The g. o. p. has reached
a peculiar extremity.
Liberty last week devoted seven
columns to the fight against Van Wyck,
and sixteen lines to tho support of the
rest of tho ticket. Very transparent,
isn't it?
Allen Root sends us a letter re
porting a contribution cf $12 50 to the
alliance educational fund raised at an
alliance picnic in Wilcox's Grove,
Greeley county. Let the picnics go on.
Gus Humphrey: The Broken Bow
land oflico is a nice thing, fat and
juicy, but the republican grip upon it
is liable to be relaxed about the fourth
of next March. I think I will stay
where i am.
If the People's News of Knox coun
ty would give Tjie Alliance-Independent
credit for. the editorials
clipped from its columns, it would be
more of an honor to the cause it advocates.
A Seward county butcher has
been arrested for stealing tho cattle be
butchered. Ho is now in jail where he
ought to bo. He is not smart a little
bit. If he lad been ho would have
joined the great beef trust, robbed the
pcoplo with impunity, and been a pillar
of society.
The nom'nation of Old Man Van
Wyck insures an interesting campaign.
Wilbur Republican.
That's right, brother, tho campaign
is going to be interesting. Already
the indep?ndents are happy, the demo
crats arc out cf politics, and republican
office-seekers have all turned grey with
flight. Tho campaign is becoming de
cided'y interesting.
The republicans of the Sixth Nebras
ka district aro of the orthodox variety.
This is shown by their "sympathy."
They expressed sympathy with the
Irish in their struggle for home rule,
and sent congratulations to Gladstone.
But never a" word of sympathy did they
express for the farmers and working
men of the United States in their
struggle against tho same money pow
er that has tyrannized over Ireland.
President Harrison has appoint
ed five men to represent the United
States in tho coming international
monetery conference: Senator Allison
of Iowa, Senator Jones of Nevada, Rep
resentative McCreary of Kentucky,
Francis A. Walker of Massachusetts,
and Henry W. Cannon of New York.
Three of them are enemies of silver,
and two Jrnes and McCrfary are
friends. This shows the farcical char
acter of the conference. How can the
people of the United States expect a
result favorable to silver when a ma
jority of their own delegation is for a
gold standard? This calls to m'nd the
fact that John Sherman, who misrepre
sented tho United States in the silver
conference of 18G3, took the lead in fav
oring the demonetization of silver.
How long will tho people of this
country enduro to bo so misrepresented?
The "Foot prints of Time" nave not
yet been effaced.
T lrvurvvrvvw't
THE COLOR LINE DRAWS.
It will be a matter of great surprise
to many people, especially republicans,
to know that tho color lino is drawn in
the Chinese exclusion act, recently
passed by congress and signed by tho
president. One clause in the bill reads
just like the laws used to read ia the
old slavery days. The bill as pased
provides that any Chinese laborer who
is found in this country without the
necessary papers to establish his right
to bo here, shall bo sent out of the
country,
Unless ho shall establish clearly to
to tho satisfaction of said judge that by
reason of accident, sickness or other
unavoidable cause, he has been unable
to procure hi3 csrtificate, and to the
satisfaction of the court, and by at
least one credible WHITE WI TNESS.
that he was a resident of tho United
States at the time of the passage of this
act.
The above is tho exact languago of
the law as taken from tho official
documents
The following dispatch clipped from
a Kansas City daily paper will explain
itself:
MR. HARRISON EXPLAINS TO A COL
ORED MAN
Boston, Mass , July 11. Regard
ing the clause in the Chinese exclusion
act requiring that the identity of a
Chinovo resident must be establish d
by the testimony tf a creditable
"white" witness, the following letter
from President Harrison has been re
ceived by Butler R. Wilson, Esq.,
colored, a lawyer of this city:
Executive Mansion, Washington,
d. c, July 1, 1892. My Dear Sir: I
havo your letter of June 20, and wou'd
have answered it sooner but for the
great press of other matters. Senator
Dolph of Oregon, who was on the con
ference committee that framed the
modified bill, assured me that the use
of the term "white" was a mere slip in
the haste that characterized the
legislation at tho last, by
reason of the fact that the expira
tion of previous exclusion laws, was
so near at hand. Tho whole scope of
the legislation shows that there could
have been no purposo to distinguish
between black and white witnesses.
I conferred with the attorney general
upon the subject before signing the bill
and ho agreed with mo that the courts,
ia view of these facts, especially in
view of the amendments to tho consti
tution, would so construe this statute
as to make no discrimination between
blank and whi c witnesses. In this
state of the casa I do not feel justified
in holding back my signature
from the bill and thus bringing
all restriction upon Chinese immigra
tion to an end. I an sure our colored
people, so largely engaged in industri
al pursuits, would not havo desired
that. It is quite possible that an
amendment or joint resolution, ixpres
sing plainly the intention of congress
in this connection, may be secured this
session. Mr. Doiph has already moved
in the matter, as you will have noticed.
Very truly yours,
Benjamin Harpison.
This is a fine state of affairs for a
party that has always claimed to be the
special champion of the colored man.
Mr. Harrison admits that a republican
senator bad the bill in charge, and a
republican committee framed it. He
admits that he knew . the objectionable
word, "white," was ii the bill. He
discussed the matter with his attorney
general, and after all this he deliber
ately signed the bill.
What do the colored voters of the
nation think of this? Is this the re
turn they get for standing by the re
publican party in years past? Is this
their reward for helping elect Harri
son four years ago?
This will open the eyes of thousands
of voters to the hypocrisy of the party
that has used them as tools only to cast
insult upon them now. The colored,
voters of the nation will look to their
own interests this year and vote or
Weaver and Field,
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