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About The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1892)
THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. 9 .6' Judge Crounse's free advertise ment of Nebraska will do more in jury to the state's reputation than sev eral advertising trains can offset. TnE machinery of the democratic party is as completely in the control of the money power as that of the repub lican party. Shylock's twins is a very appropriate name for the two. Last week's issue of the Stromsburg Headlight is worthy of special mention as a redhot one. Chamberlain Is giv ing the corporation boodlcrs some mighty hard raps. The Lincoln attorney whose card an nounced, in parenthesis, that he had had some experience in every kind of criminal practice, wasj probably more honest in his statement than he in tended to be. TnE Call gives Judge Crounse's statement concerning Nebraska a prominent place in its editorial col umns. Does Bushno'.l endorse the slander on Nebraska which that state ment contains? TnE university will open in a week or so and then we shall hear no more about girl's galluses. The pretty prep maiden? all wear them, but they have had enough of Latin to know that the plural of gallus is galli. Few people will want to invest money in a stato which has "two crop failures in succession." If Judge Crounso has a string to his great calamity howl, he should pull it in at once, before the reputation of the state is ruined. NOT long ago, the independents of Custer county had a camp meeting near Ansley. J. B. Itomino and Joe Edgerton were the principal speakers. It had been arranged that a minister would bo present on Sunday morning to preach a sermon. When he failed to appear, they harnessed Joe into the ministerial traces, acd ho proceeded to deliver a sermon on usury. Although it was his first attempt, he made a numbar of converts. Does the indep?ndent ticket in Lan caster county represent the Scandinav ians? You bet it docs. Who is our Mr. Peterson on the legislative ticket but a fine representative of the sturdy Swedish fanners, who rave done so much in the upbuilding of the county ? Of course our county ticket represents the Scandinavians, and being the only ticket that docs, it is going to get the support of that nati nality in this county, m it ought to do. See the pleasure gleaming in the eye of the old State Journal when it announces that J. Ster.ing Morton will make a vigorous fight on Van Wyck. Of course he will. That is what he was put up for. That is why the cor portaions manipulated the democratic state convention. It is anything to beat Van Wyck. But it will not win." The republicans may manipulate the conventions of bth old parties bat v when it comes to holding all the voters in line that is another matter. Thous ands of voters in the old parties in this state propose to put their foot upon the ring rule that I as well nigh ruined while it has ruled. Van Wyck will get all the votes he need -j and will have a good many to spare. Logan McReynolds was one of the truest, and most influential members of JUDGE OROUNSE AND NEBRASKA. The people of Nebraska havo a sort of hazy impression of Judge Crounse, tho republican nominee for governor. They don't ,seem to know just how to size him up or decide what he stands for. Thefollowing will show that Mr.Crownse in turn has a very hazy impression of the people of Nebraska, that ho is in fict woefully ignorant of this great state and the people whoso industry and intelligence havo raado it great. A few days ago Mr. Crouse returned to Washington to attend to his duties as a member of the federal brigade in the treasury department. No sooner had he arrived than he proceeded to bo interviewed on the political situation in Nebraska, and his opinions were at once telegraphed to the State Journal and published as a special in the issuo of August 81. In the interview Mr. Crounso says: "The outlook in Nebraska from a re publican standpoint is excellent, The republicans never were more in carnou and the campaign is being entered upon with a determination to win. Two years ago, owing to two successive failures of crop", something unpre cedented in the state, and the conso quent feeling of discontent Nebraska fell largely into the alliance movement." After speaking of the jffect of tho prohibition isiuo two years ago, ho again refers to the people's movement as follows: "The allianca more accessions. party is making no On the contrary, many of that party are returning to the republican fold, some participating in the late republican caucusses and con ventions. Again the condiii.ns are changed. Instead of two failures of crops two excellent ones have taken their place. The prospect for full cribs and granaries was never better than this year and our people are happy." We take it for granted that this is a correct roport of an actual interview. In it Mr. Crounse says a good deal that is not to his credit and implies a good deal that is not complimentary to the people of Nebraska. His remarks im ply that the alliance wasj organized as a result of blind and ignorant discontent. The people found their cribs and granaries empty as a result of drouth, and hence they become discontented and blamed the republican party with their misfortunes. Now they have good crops, and full cribs and granaries. Henco they are happy, and are return ing to the republican party. Isn't that a fair statement of Mr. Crounse's mean ing? Mr. Crounse either does not know the people of Nebraska, or he willfully slanders them. The alliance was or ganized in Nebraska because of popu lar discontent. No one will dispute that. Bat the farmers' discontent did not arise from the fact that their cribs and granaries were empty, but because they realized that as a class they were not getting fair . play under existing laws and industrial conditions Mr. Crouse has simply repeated a silly and demagogical cry. He has insulted the intelligent, earnest people of Ne braska. So much for Mr. Crounse's opiniou of Nebraska farmers. Now let us see what he knows about Nebraska. He say3 in 1890 wo had suffered two successive failures of crops, a thing unprecedented in the history of the state. Does the republican candidate for governor want to make himself a laughing stock? He should consult some intelligent school b.iy in Nebraska about the history of t'ie state. We venture the assertion that there is not an actual farmer in the state that will support the statement re- Tho crops of 1880 wero tho grcatcs overproduced in Nebraska. If. Mr. Crounso wero posted on Nebraska af fairs ho would know that tho alliance was organized all over Nebraska at a timo when the cribs and granaries wero full to bursting, when millions of bushels of golden corn wero piled on the prairies of Nebraska with no cov ering but the blue dome of heaven. The alliance organization spread like a thing of magic over Nebraska during the six months beginning with Novem ber, 1889, and ending with April, 1890. We say without fear of successful con tradiction that Nebraska farmers sent to market during those six months, more grain, hogs and cattle than they over sent in any previous six months; and what is worso they sent them at tho most ruinous prices. Doosa't Mr. Crounso remember tho time when Dear old Grandma Thayer took a ride over Nebraska, and told in a letter about tho immer.se quantities of corn ho saw piled up on tho prairies? stato. Ho h advertised to tho peo ple of tho whole nation that Nebraska has had two crop failures in succession. What possible statement could raoro to injure tho roputatlon of our state? ' All this he has dono in tho interest of the republfcoa party. Tho members of tho people's party hayo been repeatedly accused of slan dering our state and ruining Us reputa tion. Yet the very men who havo made this false charge have nominated for governor a man who has advertised to stato to tho world as a stato whero two crop failures came in succession? Thero is one consolation to tho peo plo of Nebraska, howover. In thus slandering tho state Mr. Crounso has advertised himself to tho voters of Ne braska as a man who is childishly ig norant of tho history fcf the state, and has no adequate conception of tho character of her citizens. We leavo the voters of Nebraska to decide whether ho is tho man they iiyjv ,..., .... will benefit want for their next govern? .it Doesn't ho remember the time when Tom Banton and Co., alias tho board cbm of ia(ling to our address transportation, gat themselves up ean in tho mornincr and hied themse away to Chicago to beg tho great' road kings for a reduction in ra nnrn an that, fwrmors eould ?? their crop? These things happrjjRECT WITH CONSUMERS. ihe spring of 19U. COAL mors on tho COAL question, with a view to saving popular brands, and are Wo don't ask Mr. Crounse to f word for theso facts. To verii season contracts on all T,hoan-l" fn onnenlk thfl frmBC-lerS PfOfitS. annual report of the Omaha l?ks and instructions for ordering" bof ere buying. Micfligan m.-, iDicago, hi. ,11! 3E . tjT iT i Retail Lumber IVICTOR SCALES. trade, compiled by W. N.Nason.l repnblican, In that report wit J found crop statistics for tho years of 1889-and 1890 compiled from official pcral Merchandise, illustrated, sont to sources by R. W. Furnas, secretary of the State board of agriculture, also a good republican. This report shows that the grain crop of 1889 was greater T on an average than tho crop of any4t)GER LUMBER CO previous vear by many millions of' bushels. The year of 1890 was the drouth year. But statistics show that the wheat arp p r oats crops for the whole state were - nUINL JU I . "I"? aAND 8TH LINCOLN, NEB. previous years, mere was less than half crop of corn. Still this crop sol at such higa prices that its value wai ittle if any less than the great crop of 1889 which sold at from 10 to 15 cents per bushel. Now the Independent movement which grew out o j the alliance ov.ras. organize in the spring of 1880; before the en failure. The first call for an rlont rrmmnfirn triia ICClinrl and a more general call in June, it could possibly bo known that Vrii would be a crop failure. The firs dependent state convention was July 15, before it was known that would be any great shortage in corn crop, and just at the timi fair crop of wheat and oats harvested. From these facts the following proposition v . defy Mr. Crounso or any other q p ctfl d can to dispute: Tho discontent which' culmin M 1 1 1 S. the organization of the alliance people3 party, did not result in ihe degree from crop failure, but on the trary resulted largely from the IOUSLY low prices and the E TIONATE FREIGHT RATES at whic farmers had to market the GREA 3 r.nnr v.vv.n prcnnTTrir.n m mrrra? But we are not thrcugh with NEWSPAPER. Crounso. he has scat 1 "r 1 - m-m f I ft Steel Wind- ARSON, Agent, Lincoln, Neb. locatim By means of this inter v;plant and desire to establish a paper in a good .. tteed all over th Pnnn y
