THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT.
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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
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will benefit
want for their next govern?
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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.
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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.
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Steel Wind-
ARSON, Agent, Lincoln, Neb.
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