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fj Weekly Independent
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ISSUED IVEKY FBIDAY.
11 EMI Y Hl KIS, PnbliHlier.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1805.
Eatered at the post office of Lincoln,
Neb., as second class mail matter.
People's Independent State Ticket.
For Supreme Judge,
SAMUEL MAXWELL.
Regents State University,
J AS. II. BAYSTON,
ELLA W. rKATTI E.
Tfco People's Independent County
Ticket.
For District Judge:
A. S. TIBBETTS.
II. F. HOSE.
J. C. McXEIlXEY.
For Clerk of District Court:
' ELI AS BAKER.
For Sheriff:
FU EI) MILL Ell.
For Treasurer:
A.1I.WEIK.
For County Clerk-
(iEORGE II. WALTERS.
For County Judge:
GEORGE AV. VERGE.
For County Superintendent:
II. S. ROWERS.
For Coroner :
L, W. LOWRY.
For County Commissioner:
R. E. RICHARDSON'.
Assessors:
First Ward,
T. E. COX X ELL Y.
Third Ward,
C. G. BULLOCK.
Fourth Ward:
C.A.COOK.
Fifth Ward,
A. C. SIIERICK.
Sixth Ward,
J- W. EMBERSOX.
Seventh Ward,
W. T. RuLOFSOX
For Constables:
JOIIXMEAXOR.
J. V. TRAVIS.
WILLIAM CIIIXX.
For Justice of the Peace:
S. B. I A MS.
GEORGE W. BLAKE.
Send us the news from your
county to let the friends know how
the work progresses.
We would be pleased to have
all our populist friends throughout
the state call when in the city.
They will all find a hearty wel
come. No matter what the old duffers
and plutocratic editors may say
the facf is, that the Lincoln girls
who wear bloomers "are just too
sweet for anything."
, The populists of the Twelfth
district have nominated VV. L
Green for judge. There will be. a
hot race out there but green, will
be the winning colors.
A :ou reserve in the treasury is
simply a plan to contract the cur
rency Sioo.ooo.ooo and make
money dear. That is why Sher
man, and Cleveland and Carlisle
fight for it.
Uncle J ake Woi.ke says he did
sot get set down on hard enough
at the late convention to keep him
in good humor. Have patience
Uncle Jake. Doubtless the next
convention will do the job up in
better shape.
- Mk. Beemer says he will take
$3,000 for his salcry, and furnish
his own clerk. Mr. Beemer knows
that there are several republican
ex-ofhcials in the pen that will
make excellent clerks and they
will only cost 30 cents a day.
Sh rewd Mr. Beemer.
Several leading republican dai
lies had last week precisely the
same editorial on what was claimed
to be the exposure of a conspiracy
between ex-Mayor Hopkins and
Debs. Brains arc getting very scarce
in the republican party when they
have to plate their editorials in the
big dailies. If they had had any
brains, they would not have advo
cated the senseless theories- they
have for the last twenty years.
We offer all the consolation in
the shop to the western free silver
republicans over the knockout of
Don Cameron and tree silver in
I Pennsylvania, and if there is any
left, the free silver democrats who
; read in the Washington dispatches
I that Grovcr and the national com
mittee will recognize the rump
i convention can have it. The fact
1 is, that all the consolation there is
(for these poor fellows in the whole
wide world, is to l.c found in the
populist party. Once in thepopu
Jtst party they can down Grover.
25c "till Jnuary 1.
THE FENITETIiRT C03TSACT.
The Beemer contract which is
printed in another column is sub
mitted to the calm consideration of
citizens of the state.
The books of the penitentiary
will show that since the beginning
of Gov. Holcomb's administration
the cost of feeding the convicts
has been 1 1 4-5 cents per day and
that, including guards, salaries and
all otherexpenses it has been less
than thirty cents. Any intelligent
persons, after a moment's thought
upon the exceedingly low prices
now prevalent, will concede that
30 cents is sufficient for that pur
pose. The state appropriated 40
cents, based upon the higher price
then ruling.
The constitution and statutes of
the state provide that the governor
shall appoint the warden, deputy
warden and other necessary officers,
under whose management the con
victs are to be controlled and em
ployed. Out of 340 prisoners, 240
can be hired out for an average of
30 cents per day, the other 100
being sick and those employed to
do the work of the prison.
Warden Leidigh stands ready to
give a bond of $50,000 that he will
take the prison and feedinc the
prisoners for the next two years at
a cost to the state of 15 cents per
head, including the sick and those
employed in the prison.
These are undisputed facts. We
ask republicans of this state to in
vestigate and see if it is not a true
statement.
It is true, and- yet four men
elected to important offices by re
publican voters and sworn to obey
the laws and the constitution, un
dertake to create a new office in
the penitentiary unknown to law,
with a $3,000 salary attached,
called a superintendent of the
prison, and not provided for in any
appropriation bill. Becoming satis
fied that even a republican court
would not sanction that, they
abandoned the project and are now
attempting to do the same unlaw
ful thing by pretending to let a
contract, and the contractor to
draw a salary of $3,000. It is
more viscious than the first plan.
There is the probability of vast
frauds in this contract as it adopts
the plan of giving into the superin-
uent or contractor's hands all of
the state appropriation of 40 cents
a day for each convict and all that
the convicts can tarn, with only
the promise on his part that he will
return all, except his salary of
$3,000. No business man in the
world would make such a contract
and the record of the past is uniform
in declaring that where such con
tracts have been made by politi
cians, not a cent has ever been
returned to the state.
Twenty or thirty years ago this was
the favorite scheme of the boodlers
all over the Eastern states. Char
ters of all kinds were granted to
corporations, providing that the
company should return to the state
or municipality a 1 profits above
ten per cent.
Not one dollar has ever been re
turned to the public treasury under
contract or charter having this
provision in it. One of the most
conspicuous examples of this kind
of contracts is the Brooklyn, New
York, Ferry company. Their char
ter provides that all profits above
ten per cent should be returned to
the public treasury. The company
has grown to be immensely weal
thy. The directors are all million
airs, but the company's books never
..I 1
snow a proiu 10 exceed ten per
cent.
Some years ago when the writer
of this was working on a New York
daily, he was assigned to the work
of investigating the Brooklyn Ferry
o. 1 ne dooks showed large
amounts expended in improve
ments. Five hundred thousand
dollars for repair of piers and slips.
An examination of the piers and
slips showed that only a few new
planks had been put in them.
Everywhere all over the eastern
states, this was the result of that
kind of contracts, and years ago
they were all abandoned. Now
comes the Hons. Churchill, Rus
sell, Piper and Bartley trying to
re-establish in the state of Ne
braska this old three card monte
game of politics, which has been
exposed so often that even the
Tammany thieves had to give it up.
They must take the voters of this
state to be a lot of country greenies.
They will find that they are mis
taken. The governor, under the
law, holds the keys to the state
penitentiary. We have faith to
believe that the doors will never be
opened to admit thieves, save those
duly convicted in the courts.
ALLEN ABO THE 0. A. R.
The plutocratic dailies had their
pages filled with rather a larger
assortment of lies about Senator
Allen and the G. A. R. reunion at
Hastings last week than they have
been capable of collecting in one
week for some time, The truth
about the matter is this:
The managers of the reunion
sent Senator Allen a letter asking
him to make a speech. When the
old soldiers assembled, there were
on the grounds ex-Senator Man
derson, whb had been a soldier,
Senator Thurston, who never car
ried a gun or smelled gun powdet,
and Senator Allen who had served
four years in the ranks, and had
been vice commander of the state,
When the managers announced
their program it was found that
they had given the ex-senator un
limited time, the senator who had
never seen a foe,- was given un
limited time and the senator who
had served four years in the ranks
was given ten minutes, said ten
minutes to begin about 11 o'clock
at night. Of course Senator Allen
understood that this was intended
to be an insult to him and the
nearly 80,000 citizens and voters of
the state who were of his way of
thinking on politics and govern
ment, and among whom are many
thousand old soldiers.
To get even with them, Senator
Allen told a little story. It illus
trated the manner in which a man
could be approached with protesta
tions of the greatest respect when
an unguarded movement displayed
a concealed dagger. It was a rapier
like thrust and the howl that went
up from the dailies showed
that the disreputable republi
can leaders, who were making
of the G. A. R. a republican ma
chine, had been cut deep into the
quick.
The result of this thing will be
that the independent old soldiers
will hold their own campfires and
reunions, where every old soldier,
whether republican, democrat or
populist will be treated with the re
spect due to men who tor years
breasted the storms of war to save
their covntry.
WHO PAYS FOB IT 7
The popa are feeling pretty blue over ther late
convention and many arc dropping out of the fold.
in Maryland also, the democrat are taking to
the woods and acknowledging that they have no
chance in the cimiing election State Journal.
It is a well known fact that the
plan upon which newspapers were
printed in the days of the great
independent editors like Greely
and Raymond, forty years ago, has
long been abandoned. The capital
in a great newspaper plant is put
in for the same reason that it is put
in a cotton mill or iron foundry,
that is, to make monev. The cot
ton mill the iron foundry and the
newspaper furnish wares for sale,
and each try to meet what they
deem to be the public demand.
Newspaper men are as sharp and
intelligent as any other classof busi
ness men. Of course they are liable
to make a mistake as to what the
real demand is, the same as a cot
ton mill might print a quality of
of calico that no one wanted.
Others have a standing order from
the banks and corporation for a
line of stuff. The matter is
written and the bills are paid and
that is all there is of it. Cer
tainly the bright men on the State
Journal would not write such stuff
as appears at the head of this col
umn unless it was ordered. The
Sunday edition had over two col
umns of it. Those writejs do not
expect any sane citizen of Nebraska
to believe that the democrats of
Maryland are running about declar
ing that they are going to join the
republican party, or that Nebraska
populists have all of a sudden
changed their political principles,
left their party and are flocking
back to republicanism, bank rule
and corporations. Tiny would
smile if one should ask their, if they
oenevea it tnemselves.
Again, that of kind writing can
have no commercial value. Not
even the rankest republican wants
to pay money for the priviledge of
reading that sort of twaddle. But
it never would be printed unless it
was paid for. The owners of the
State Journal do not furnish ink,
paper, type, presses and pay writ- i
ers and compositors, either fori
glory or patriotism. They do it i
for profit. When they constantly
put out stuff that has no commer
cial value, and keep it up without
a break for five years, it is fair to
ask who pays the bills. It is quite
possible that our freight and pas
senger rates might be much less in
this state if the railroad managers
didn't have such large newspaper
bills to pay.
For five years the State Journal
has been printing columns of items
declaring that the populist party
was dead and that "many were
dropping out of the fold. " No one
wants to buy and pay for such
stuff. Who does pay for it?
LET US LEARN WI8D0M.
When Wm. H. St. John ap
peared before Bill Springer's com
mittee on banking and currency
the committee room was packed
with gold bug bankers from Bos
ton, New York and other large
cities. Before he began his state
ment he turned his back to the
committee and face to the bankers
and in substance said:
"The newspapers are fond of
announcing that 1 am the only na
tional banker in New York who is
in favor ol the nnlirnitcd coinage
of silver. I want to say to you
that I know of twelve national
bankers in New York who heartily
agree with me, but you gentlemen
would crush them in twenty-four
hours if you knew who they were.
But you can't crush me. I have
i!a myank $11,000,000 of depos
its and $4,500,000 in gold coin.
The other day the New York
Mercury asked for a vote to be
given on coupons cut from that pa
per on this question.
Shall the United States government open its
mint to the free coinage of allver without waiting
fcr agreement with Oreat Britain or any other Eu
ropeatrjnation, and at a ratio of 16 to 1.
The editors of great silver pa
pers like the Atlanta Constitution
and Ciccinnatti Enquirer de
nounced the attempt to take such
a vote in New York City as foolish.
Every man who voted had to have
a copy of the Mercury and it cost
him a two cent stamp to send it to
the Mercury office. When the
votes were counted, there were
35,716 votes for free silver and
1,966 against it.
This shows that there are thous
ands of men in New York City who
will vote for an increase in the
volume of our money by the coin
age of silver. Why not present
that question to them? Why weigh
it with theories and issues which
they will not support. Why not
get into power by the aid of such
votes and get hold of the govern
ment printing office and franking
priviledge so that we can send
them tons of literature free, like the
old parties do, educate them on
our other doctrines of reform?
After they get the free coinage of
silver, they will learn thai, the me
11. m
lenium nas not come ana we can
talk to millions of them through
the government printing office and
franking priviledge where we can
reach only hundreds now. When
John Sherman wanted to establish
the gold standard, he did insist on
putting it in the platform. Let us
learn wisdom from our enemies.
ECONOMIC TERMS.
In the popular discussion, now
spreading all over the world, of
the science of political economy,
the terms employed must be
always used in the same
sense, or great confusion will
prevail and no conclusion reached.
Many terms the common people
never heard before and it is neces
sary that the meaning of those used
by the standard writers on politi
cal economy should be perfectly
understood. Many of them are now
used with various shades of mean
ing, some writers even using the
same word to express diametrically
opposite ideas.
Among the words and terms in
use now, causing the most
confusion are, credit money, confi
dence money, primary money,
money of ultimate redemption, agio,
seignorage, value, price, elastic cur
rency, basis of value, and unit of
account. But the most confusion
comes from the use of the term,
socialism. Here writers seem to
wander in a maze that has no out
let. It does not help one to go to
standard 1 exicions. The deftini-
tions there give are not the mean
ing of the term as used by the
standard writers on political econo
my. Many writers seam to think
that the public ownership of rail
roads, telegraphs, telephones,
streets, highways, public schools
and colleges is socialism, but if
that were true, it would follow that
the Czar and the Kaizer would be
the greatest socialists on earth, yet
no one would think of calling them
socialists.
What then is the meaning of the
term socialism as used by the econ
omist? The definition of the term
as given by the socialists them
selves in the celebrated tenth plank
of their platform is accepted: "We
demand the public ownership of
all the means of production and
distribution."
As that covers every species of
property, it follows that socialism
means the abolition of the private
ownership of anything and the
common ownership of all things.
It is therefore plain that a socialist
cannot be a populist, and whe:: a
populist says he is a socialist it
shows that he has a very indeffnite
understanding of economic terms.
OOLDBDO RHETORIC.
The American gold bug logic
has, for the last two years, been a
source of much amusement to
scholars both in this country and
in Europe. However funny that
is, their rhetoric is still more amus
ing. The following from Sunday's
State Journal is a sample:
The ilxth annual populist state convention of
Nebraska marked the going out of the tide. The
orator nervously recognized lh wreckage, the
floatsnra in the drifting delegate present the
jetsam In the absent one. The speaker, from the
great whale to the auimalcnlae, graapedjit every
pawning ttraw, and blew and struggled to regain
deep water.
A whale, grasping at a straw, to
keep itself from drowning! The
wildest populist on earth never
mixed a metaphor like that.
Fay your subscription.
THEY KKOW THEIR FRIENDS. Si
That the G. A. K. organization
in Nebraska has been captured and
is being used by republican politi
cians as apolitical machine, no
reasonable man will deny. Every
patriot and every person in the
state who desires to honor the brave
men who saved this nation, sincerly
regrets this state of affairs, because
it is-detrimental to every interest of
the war-worn old men in that or
ganization. When that organiza
tion prescribes men who served
four years in the ranks and never
wore shoulder straps, but whose
subsequent career has proved them
to be equal in mental capacity to
the generals whose orders they
obeyed, simply because they belong
to the populist party, it is time for
every honest old soldier to protest,
and they do protest by the thous
and. The republicans used to think
that they could make political capi
tal by asking the old soldiers in
their conventions to stand up and
be counted. After the populists had
two or three times asked the old
soldiers to stand up in their state
conventions, and it was shown
that there were more veterans in
the populist state conventions than
in the republican they never tried
it again.
' It is a fact that every pensioner
remembers to his sorrow, that when
the republican party had overwhel
ming majorities in Iowa, Nebraska
and Kansas, it was almost impossi
ble to get a pension claim through
from an applicant in these states
no matter how deserving he was.
The republican managers were too
busy in hunting up every , bounty
jumper and deserter in the doubt
ful states that they might get him
on the pension list and thereby se
cure his vote.
But when these states became
doubtful, then, and not till then,
could an old soldier get a pension
without complying with a hundred
rediculous rules and regulations
made by republican pension com
missioners at Washington.
The populist party both north
and south have always in their
platforms demanded the greatest
liberality to old soldiers. Southern
populists, who had served in the
rebel army have stood up in con
gress and plead and voted for pen
sions to old soldiers, who by some
technicality in republican made
law were left to starve, after hav
ing been broken down by sleeping
in the mud or on the frozen ground
and marching, starving and fight
ing in the malarial swamps of the
south. These men had been sol
diers and knew what war meant.
When congress is in session the
house meets every Friday night in
committee of the whole to consider
pension bills. The writer of this
regularly attended these sessions
for the last two years. Often there
would be only one or two republi
cans present,and some times none.
The populists considered it one of
their most sacred duties to be al
ways present, and many an old
soldier, widow or homeless child
today has a pension, who was de
nied one by the technicalities of
law, that they would not have had,
had not the populists been there,
for no bill can pass if it is not fav
orably reported from the commit
tee of the whole. The old soldiers
know these facts and many thous
ands of them have joined the pop
ulist party.
IGNORANT U. S. 8ENATOR3.
That the great, wealthy senators
have no knowledge of the strug
gles of the great mass of our citi
zenship to maintain themselves
and families, or are utterly indiffer
ent thereto, is shown by Senator
Elkins in an interview printed in
the Omaha Bee. The reporter
asked:
"Senator, you have been a very successful man.
You started life poor and you have yourself made
a great fortune. I want to ask you if you think
the chance are as good for money making today ax
they were when yoo began."
"Of course they are," replied Senator Klkins.
"The universal and everlasting Now is full of op
portunitic. It fairly bristles with them."
The question is: Is a man who
will make a statement that every
one knows to be so much at va
riance with the truth as that is, fit
to be a United States Senator?
Where are the opportunities?
Are they in farming, in woolen
mills, in cotton mills, in mining?
Where are the opportunities of
which your growing sons vill take
advantage to accumulate wealth or
even a competency? Senator Elk
ins, you are either ignorant or a
falsifier.
From Beatrice, Neb., to Ashland,'
Wis., municiple and county officers
of the old party stripe are being
impeached, arrested, dismissed or
are running off to avoid arrest for
stealing public funds, but not one
populist officer has so far proved
either inefficient or dishonest. After
the fall ejections many more popu
lists than ever before will be en
trusted with the care of the public
funds.
Twenty-five cents 'tillJanuary 1.
EOUHD SENSE.
The popfllist doctrine I not Intended a some
think, to make oeiallu or anarchic, hut on the
contrary, u cause men to be men and think and ac t
for themselves and to work for the advancement of
their condition and that of their fellow mm,
Minden Courier.
There is no truth that should be
more firmly insisted upon or of
tener repeated than the above.
Every populist editor should have
in mind that we are in a hot cam
paign, and what we write, should1
not be so much to please "advanced
thinkers," as to persuade men who
think little to vote our ticket. We
are alter votes. In the writing of
every item that fact should be al
ways held in the mind.
Twknty-eive cents will pay for
this paper from now until Janu
ary 1, 1895.
This time the populists presents
a platform that even a gold bug re
publican can't criticise.
The Kansas Citv Sun
over the triumph of municiple
ownership in. that city. One by
one they come trailing in, four or
five miles in the rear of the popu
list procession.
Senator Harris, the democratic
free silverite, says that if the dem
ocratic national convention nom
inates a gold bug he will vote for
him, and that is what every one of
the free silver democrats in the last
congress will do with the exception
of three men.
It seems that even Queen Vic
toria can't write correct English.
In the speech she sent to parlia
ment she speaks of "the recurrence
of of constant disorder." Under
these circumstances the brilliant
men on the staff of the State Jour
nal are excusable.
The State Journal calls Senator
Allen a whale. One time Senator
Allen caught sight of a lot of pluto
crats in a room in Washington.
He immediately took off his coat,
rolled up his sleeves, went in and
whaled 'em for fourteen hours and
twenty minutes. You hit it
that time, Mr. Journal.
right
This paper will never attack a
populist unless he is guilty of crime
or repudiates the principles of the
party. As to the matter of ap
pointments or policies, every mem
ber of the party has a right to his
own opinion and his motives will
never be questioned.
Senator Peffer says that the
associated press has been doing an
immense amount of lying about
him lately. He is not for a new
party and has not abandoned pop
uliet financial views. If there is
anything in press dispatches about
a populist, denounce it as a lie
without investigation. You will
hit it right every time.
The Republican League club is
sending out some of the foulest
literature ever printed anywhere
on the face of the earth. One
writer, signing himself a Post
Graduate, not only advocates
Malthusianism, but goes even
farther and demands the mutilation
of all the male poor. If any
man comes around this office
denying the doctrine of total de
pravity he will be kicked down
stairs. Satan would blush to read
some of this republican literature.
On the rim of all the silver dol
lars coined up to 1802 were these
words; "One dollar or unit. Hua
Hundred cents." And then the
great gold bug champion, Horr,
went to Chicago and argued for a
week that Washington, Hamilton
and Jefferson never made silver the
unit of value at all. There isn't a
populist living in the dugouts of
Kanas or Nebraska, however poor
he may be,but knows more about
the laws and science of
than the gold bug editors.
money
The St. Paul Pioneer Press
says:
"All the leading northern states
which have spoken at all have de
clared against free silver and have
made that declaration unanimous
by the concurrent voice of both
parties."
That news is at least two years
old. No one with good horse sense
ever expected that they would do
anything else. They always were
for the single gold standard, low
prices, a few great fortunes and
many paupers, and always will be.
The World-Hearld is disgruntled
because, after re-adopting the
Omaha platform, the pops did'nt
say it over again, and expresses a
fear that they are about to aban
don bimetalism. One might, with
much more consistency, call atten
tion to the great vaccuums in the
democratic state platform. About
allowing banks to issue money they
are as silent as the grave as well
as many other things. A pop
isn't a democrat. He don't say the
same thing twice nor leave out what
ought to be said.
