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10 THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. filjc larmcra' Alliance, AJTD THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT COMBOLIDATID. PUBLISHED ETERT THURSDAY BT The Alliance Publish ino Co. Cor. 11th and M Sti., Lincoln, Neb. BOABD Of DIBZCT4BS. O. Htrcx, Prw . J. M. Tboxfsok, Sec'y. 8. Ed. Thobhtob, V.-P. J. P. Mimao, Trea. C. II. FlBTLE. Subscription Owe Dollar per Year 8. Ed win Thobhtoh Managing Editor n. Pibtli,. BuaineHS Manar. K. A. Murray Ad vertialng Mg'r N. L P. A. OUR AVERAGE Weekly Circulation for Past Five Months. 21,071. People's Party National Ticket- For President, GEN. J AS. D. WEAVER ' of Iowa ForVice.Presldent, CEN. J AS. O. FIELDS 1 ofVlrgnlal. For Presidential Electors, T. O. FERGUSON, Nemaha County. J. R. CONK LIN, Douglas County. JOHN I. JONES, Cedar County. R. R. SIIICK, Seward County. W. A. GARRETT, Phelps County. PETER EMJERSON, Howard County. E. E. LINK, Frontier County. T. H. TIUDLES, Cumiug County. STATE TICKET. For Governor, CHARLES II. VAN WYCK, Otoe Co. Lieutenant Governor, C. D. SHRADER, Logan County. Secretary of State, J. M. EASTER LING, Duffalo County. For Auditor, LOGAN AlcREYNOLDS, Clay County. For Treasurer, J. Vj WOLFE, Lancaster County. For Attorney General, V. O. STRICKLER, Douglaa County. For Commissioner of Tublic Lands and Build ings, J. M. GUNNETT. York Connty. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, II. II. niATT, Custer County. For Conn res First District, JEROME SIIAMP of Lancaster. COUNTY TICKET. For DisCrlct Judge WM. LEESE, of Lincoln. For County Attorney, II. F. ROSE of Lincoln. For County Commissioner, F. SCIIWEIZERof West Lincoln. For State Senators, I. N. LEONARD or Oak. J. C. McNERNEY or Lincoln. For Representatives. R. T, CHAMBERS of Stockton. ALBERT PETERSON of Rock Creek S. S. GRIFFIN of Centerville. . ' MARTIN HOWE of Lincoln. J. M. MEDDINS of Lincoln. , SPECIAL NOTICE. From now till alter election many persons who are not regular sub scribers of the ALLIANCE-INDE PENDENT will receive it ; through ine Kindness of friends. Such ner sons need have no hesitancy about taking the paper from the office as in no case will they have to pay for it. . - All the men - on the Independent state ticket are in the field doing cam paigning On account of the largo amount of space occupied by our articles on re publican ' corruption, our reports of meetings are not very full this week. ALLEN W. PIELD. If the citizens of the first district want to send a man to congress who has their interests at heart, and will do his best to serve them, very few of them will voto for Allen W. Field, and those few will be railroad men, bankers, and capitalists. Field is a very narrow and selfish man. lie has always been ready to sacrifice a friend on the altar of his own ambition. He has always been ready to knock out any man that he thought might in any way interfere with his own personal aggrandizement. His republican brethren know this very well, and many of them are refusing to assist him in his present campaign on that account. For the reform movement inaugurat ed by the farmers and laboring men, he has nothing but scorn and ridicule. In his debate with Bryan in Lincoln he said the grass-hoppers and chinch bugs were terrible scourges, but, that the reform movement was a far worse scourgo to the state. Surely no farmer or workingman in the district will vote for Field and thus put himself on a par with the dog that licks the hand that smites him. Then Field is a railroad man. He believes in and practices ' 'reciprocity' with the B. & M. That corporation aids him to carry conventions, and secure votes. He in turn uses his official power to shield and advance the interests of the corporation. To provo the truth of this, one has only to examine Field's record. In 1883 wfftlo speaker of the house ho voted against the maximum freight bill introduced to carry out the pledge of his party. In the Plattsmouth bridgj case he made the mojt outrageous decisions in favor of the B. & M. ever made by a judge on the bench. The case was as follows: The county of Cass through its prop er officers assessed leyied and collected a tax on the West half of the C. B. & Q. R. R, bridge across the Missouri river at Plattsmouth Nebraska, the same as other property in that county, and for the years of 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884 and 183. The railroad company at the time paid the taxes for years under protest and they afterwards brought suit against Cass county to re cover back tho taxes so paid, before A. W. Field judge, and he instructed the jury to bring in a verdict for the C. B. & Q. R. R.Co. from $5,4e2.00 which the jury did. The people in their sovereign power took the case to the supreme court and the railroad judge was re versed. The supreme court said the tax was legally levied and collected by Cass county and the road had no right to recovery. See '25 Neb. P. 349. The following is another case of the same kind: Herman Koenig owned a little home stead upon which he and his wife and little children resided. The C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. took possession of his little homestead aad run its trains across his home without any right and in utter violation of the law and statutes. Koenig brought suit to enjoin the C. B. & Q. for occupying his homestead and from running its trains across his premises. Allen W. Field decided that the railway company had a right to confiscate his (Koenig's) homestead and defeated him. Herman Koenig took it to the supreme court and here again the railroad judge, Allen W. Field, was reversed, the supreme eourt hold ing tthat the railroad company was a non-resident, corporation, had utterly failed to comply with the law and had unlawfully taken possession of Herman Koenig's homestead; and gave Koenig a permanent injunction. See 25, Neb. P. C99. Allen W. Field's record shows him to be not only the tool of the railroads but equally s of the banks. The m03t no table inttaice of this is the case of the state against the Nebraska City Nation al bank steal. The case was as follows: ThoSta'eo? Nebraska brought suit against the bank and recovered a judg ment for the sura of $8067.52 for state money deposited in that bank by Gov. Furnas. This suit was brought in Lan caster county and was taken to the supreme court by the bank, and there affirmed and the bank compelled to pay it, and some years later the bank ap peared before the legislature with its claim, which two successive legislatures rejected. Finally the legislature of 1883, gave this bank $13040.50. and for th's steal Allen W. Field voted "aye," and worked for its passage. Is it any wonder the railroads and banks stand by Fiel i? He is an ex ceedingly useful man to them, and they always make it a point to stand by their fiiends. In view of these facts can the people of this district afford to advance such a man to a seat in our national body of law-makers? Every honest man in the district whether republican, democrat or inde pendent should go to work with all his might to get this man defeated" at the polls on November 8th. HAEEIS0N ON GREENBACKS. Tho following extract from Harrison's letter of acceptance is interesting read ing. The republican party, during the civil war, devised a "national currency consisting of United States notes issued and redeemable by the government, and of national bank notes, based upon the security of United States bonds. Notes furnished directly or indirectly by the United States have been the only safe and acceptable paper currency ! of the people. Bank failures have brought no fright, delay or loss to bill holders. Tho note of an insolvent bank is as good and as current as a treasury note for the credit of the United States is behind it. Our money is all national money I might almost sav international, for these bills are not only equally and indiscriminately ac cepted at par in all states, but in some oreign countries. When an ordinary man talks about paper money based on "the credit of the United States" he is a "greenback crank," but it is all right for a republi can president. It will be noticed that Mr. Harrison does not set the national bank note above the greenback, but merely claims that it is "as good and as current as a treasury note." If the peoples party should get into power and should issue a few hundred million of greenbacks to take the place of those Mr. Harrison's party destroyed after the war, Mr. Harrison and his party leaders would change their tune, and the greenback would quickly degene rate into a "rag-baby," and ' 'fiat money" as it did in 1876. MR E. 0- REWIOK. The republicans are trying to weaken tho force of Mr Wewick's exposure by miking personal attacks on him. We wish te say to our readers, that we con sider Mr. Rewick an honest, reliable and every way worthy man, and that he has made the exposure from good motives. He should have the backinc and encouragement of every indepen dent in Nebraska. A WONDERFUL MACHINE. A few days ago a3 a good independent was passing near the State Journal building a small scrap of paper which was whisked along by a friendly breeze accidentally lodged in his imagination. It was covered with curious hyerogly phics which ho finally managed to translate into the following startling advertisement: Confidential to Republican Editors. A WONDERFUL LYING MACHINE. Just the Thing for the Present Campaign Hundreds Already in Use No Brains Needed to Operate It Patent Applied For- Especially Adpated to Reporting Cam paign Meetings You Touch the Button, the Machine Does the Rest-Warranted to Knock Out the Truth on Every Occasion. This wonderful machine, like all other great inventions was born of necessity, and it didn't come a moment too soon. In a short time the ordinary political liars would have been knocked out by the cranks of the peo ple's party. But this machine will prove a priceless boon to the old parties. It can bti used with equal ease and certainty to blast the fair name of an honest man, or to whitewash the char acter of a corrupt and thieving villain. It always makes truth appear black and slander and falsehood white. It always reports a populist meeting as a miserable failure, and a republican meeting as a brilliant success. By its use an independent crowd of 4,000 can be dwindled to 250, and a re publican crowd of 45 swelled tofronv 500 to 900 according to the wish of the operator, Political records change color at once under its influence. No strain on the conscienca of the operator if he should happen to have one. Always ready for us. Never gets out of order. A great success in manufacturing telegi'ams and fake reports. Makes all ordinary liars turn green with envy. Read the following testimonial. We have used your new lying mach ine1 for some time. It gives perfect satisfaction. Tried it on one of Van Wyck's old war speeches the other day with wonderful results. It choppad sentences in two in the middle and made tho old man appear to advocate just the reverse of what he did say. We pronounce it an immense success. State Journal, Lincoln, Neb. igiTOrder at once. Address all orders to Plutocratic Headquarters, Wall Street. Stats Journal Co., Special agents for Nebraska. From the ton of the old party press of tke state we are inclined to think there are a number of these machines already in use in Nebraska, and we ex pect to see evidences of many more b3 fore the campaign is over. And now comes the word that Judge Crounse'a eye is better and he will re sume his joint debates with Van Wyck. J. Sterling Morton continues to perambulate over the state like a gos siping old woman ridiculing and slander ing his old neighbor Van Wyck.
