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About The weekly independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1893-1895 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1895)
It nsuotcr Counly Topics. Oh! hut Uccmcr dies hard. Uakcr will be tlit- next district clerk. The people of Lancaster county will not support Capt. J. E. I'M for that office. What next? Koy Stewart secre tary and Patrick Dore assistant, of tfie.g. o. p. county committee. Will oil and water mix? If. the people of Lancaster coun ty will elect Mr. Richardson as county commissioner we can vouch for it that our defaulting treasurer and his bondsmen will be called to account. "Boss" Thompson has decreed that Cornish must be elected. You Iinow the boss can't get along very well without someone on the bench who will dance when he pulls the string, hence the decree. Cornish better pull off some of his misguided and over-zealous friends who are sticking the knife into Judge Holmes accusing him of dirty politics and wearing the corporation collar. Call them off, AU and post them correctly. Mr. Walters, the populist candidate for county clerk is daily gathering strength among the re $ublicans. He is a gentleman and a scholar and not a chronic office seeker while his opponent has been after office lo these many years. Judge Hall will do well to keep his eye on Cornish and his friends, lie may flatter himself that he knows about all the schemes being worked in the ranks of the party without a platform, but other peo ple are in a position to know some things which would not prove the most welcome news to Mr. Hall. Political lines are badly broken in this campaign. Old party pedi grees are laid aside, the people are thinking, good men are coming every day from the ranks of the g. o. p. to the support of Miller, Ba iter, Tibbetts and others on the people's ticket. They are compe lent and honosable men. What will the republican papers of the city, that have been speak ing such favorable terms of Miller and Baker for the past two years do for campaign thunder this fall? They have spoken of their official records in such complimentary terms they certainly cannot repudi ate their own course. Miller and Baker are all right. The "liberal republican city administration is said to have ar ranged matters with the reserva Xion population and the tin horns to "lay dead" until after election In hopes to keep the better element of the republican party in line to vote that ticket. The republican press has also been "seen" as the gang don't want the respectable clement aroused any more than possible during the campaign. Evidently Al Cornish is getting desperate so soon in the fight for district judge. His friends are getting their trading clothes on and are after Judge Hall, as they know they cannot defeat Tibbetts. Hall having voted in the legislature for submission and for the maximum rate bill has the saloons and rail roads against him and Cornish and his friends are taking advantage of this condition of affairs to do the trade act. What patriotism there is in the g. o. p. when there are offices in sight, to be sure. On labor day laboring men went out to the city park to hear the twaddle of such fellows as Jim Caldwell and Judge Hall,' who poured out soft soap in large quan tities. The laboring men, if they know anything, know that these fellows have not one spark of sen timent in common with them. They know this class of fellows has always truckied to wealth, pan dered to monopoly and made their living off the boodle gang who have been controlling politics to the detriment of the people. The likes of Jim Caldwell, who never lid an honest day's work, shedding crocodile tears over the down trodden, horny-fisted laboring man is enough to make the gods weep. Laboring men ought to have more ense than listen to such rot. Twenty-five cents to January i. Important. The lM)f,ri.MKM is on a sound footing. We are cconiplcting ar rangements to make it a great nat ional paper as well as a state organ. The best editorial ability in the populist party will have charge of its editorial columns and every populist in the state should use his best efforts to ex tend its circulation. If you are interested in spreading populist doctrine lend us a hand. It will be always in the future, as in the past, a populist paper. Fooled the Old Soldiers. The old soldiers got badly de. deceivd out at Hastings. They didn't know that they were being worked as a republican machine when they got together and, Resolved, That we denounce the action of his excellency Govern or Holcomb in refusing to permit the national guards to assist in car rying out the very important part of our program, (the sham battle) the non-compliance with which disappointed thousands of our fel low citizens who had assembled to witness this particular feature of our exercises. Gov. Holcomb never issued any order at all about a sham battle or anything else except the general one giving the whole management into the hands of the general offi cers of the militia. When the old soldiers learn that they were lied to by the republican managers, who knew before they advertised the sham battle that Maj. Fachete, U. S. A., and inspector general of the militia had forbidden the sham battle, they will be apt to do some "cussing." But they shouldn't, for that is naughty. Skillful Lying. The State Journal with its usual disregard of truth insists that the Beemer contract provides that all over the 40 cents per day, not nec cessary for the maintenance of the convicts is to be returned to the state. The contract is printed in another part of this paper. It was drawn with the purpose of convey ing that impression to-the non-ecrt ical reader, but it does not provide for the return of ay part of that 40 cents per day. The contract says; "The state is to pay me 40 cents per capita per day for each prison er confined in the penitentiary. I te account for the same as herein tofore provided. To "account" for money is not to pay it back and no where in this contract is it provided that any part of that 40 cents per diem shall be covered into the state treasury. The ability to lie with skill is of great commerical value to a paper like the State Journal. Populists Down East. Congressman Sibley said to a re porter in Washington last week: "I am satisfied that if we could get a vote directly on that question, without reference to anything else, we could cany both New York and Pennsylvania for free silver by a large majority." New Jersey Populists. The Ftate convention of the peo ple's party was held at Cooper hall, Trenton, N. J., Sept. 2. William Bellis of this city was nominated for governor. The committee on resolutions in its report reaffirms its allegiance to the platform adopted at Omaha, July 4, 1892. Ignorance. Utah adds the forty-ninth star to the flag and its location will be to the right of the fourth row from the top. Lincoln Call. That shows the intelligence of the average plutocratic editor. Ask a pop how many states there are in the Union and he will tell you. They are Faithful. The populists of ihe Ninth judi cial district passed the following resolution: Resolved, That the populists of the Ninth judical district in dele gate convention assembled, fully approve and command the able statesmanlike and fearless adminis tration of Governor Holcomb, and fully commend and endorse the course of Senator William V. Allen and Representatives W. A. Mc Keigan and O. M. Kern. Twenty-five cents to January 1. Look out! Take warning! Death and destruction are impending on this nation! The gold teserve is again below $100,000,000. On that pile of gold hangs the hopes of 70,000,000 people. What! Not more money, but less mo nopoly, in all lines, is the great need. Wealth-Makers. Is that populism? Good Hard Sense. The populist of the Ninth judicial district passed this resolution: Resolved, That we favor a fear less and aggressive campaign on intelligent business lines. Ths pops are makiug a record at the penitentiary. That's what hurts the republicons. Has Beemer a cinch on the state board or do they expect a divy, the reason they are so anxious to re instate him in the penitentiary? Warden Leidigh saved the state $1, 397.61 in 24 days. The repub licans concluded to stop that sort of work instantly, and let a con tract to Al. Beemer which will not fail to do it. Senator Allen made the labor day speech at Butte Montana. He said that "the disposion to put a strictly silver party in the field is confined to the mining states and I am very doubtful of the wisdom of the movement." The rumps sent away off to Ohio for their Arch Angel Micheal to blow his golden trumpet at the adjourned meeting of their convention in the evening but a very thin audience greeted the bald headed banker. The objection was ihat he looked more like a turkey buzzard than a cuckcoo. YOU Are a committee of one to circu late this paper. It should be in the home of every populist. tiooU Men Triftl It. Let no American citizen forget that the Colonies gave Socialism a fair trial, and were forced to aban- dom it. ! Both in the Virginia and in the New England settlements a faith ful experiment was made to get these lovely theories to work, but they would not work. God-fearing and chosen men, buiuid together by thecommon ties of necessity, danger, present inter ests and future hopes, tried their level best to lire according t the Socialist model. All the property belonged to all the colonists; no private ownership was allowed; community of gooJs, sharing of produce, etc., etc, and all the rest of it was earnestly tried. Go and read the record It is one of Csternuous effort and pitiable failure. The Colonisits had to abandon the principles of So cialism, and go back to the doc trine of private property. These facts, are not generally known; if they were, few of our people would ever 19 led off into the idea that they must take every man's home from him, 110 matter how honestly he came by it, be fore the world can be made happy. So far from wagnig war upon the private ownership of homes, Populism does exactly theopposite; it proposes that the Government should help the citizen to buy one. Hon Tom Watson in People's Parly Paper. Mexico is shipping silver to Eng land. America is shipping silver to England. The countries of South America are shipping silver to England. Very little is said about it, but England has the contract to raise the $200,000,000 in silver which ChiDa is to pay to Japan. Ihe United States is not purchas ing silver now, and the silver svn- dicaue has no competitor in the purchace of white metal. Yet the price ia steadily rising. Ex. The Lodon Times, a tory paper, says that Lord Balfour, England's secretary of the treasury, killed bimetallism in England and Ger many when he declared a few days ago that "an international mone tary commission would not be like ly to bring about an international agreement regarding the use of silver." It hurts the republican party in this conutry in their efforts to procrastinate silver agi- tation with the promise of an in ternational agreement. Ex. The so-called despotic govern ments have each only one king. In this so-called free government we have kings. We have money kings, transportation kingB and a great gang of monopoly kiugs. We are supposed not to have royalty but as a matter of fact we have lords. We have landlords, interest lords, rent lords and all sorts of lords who are as useless and tyr. annical as the lords of Europe, There is no country in the world where the aristocracy of money flourishes and rules as it does in this country. Cedar Rapids Republican. .tROt'T Jl'UliK M XVUI.. It was a Fplendid tribute to a Hplemlid man.--lapillio!i Times. llad Judge Maxwell stuck to the to the republican party the popu lists never would have thought of nominating him. Fremont Trib une. At the populist stae convention yerterday Maxwell was nominated for judge, to thedisgus of the dem ocrats who had made a strong appeal for fusion so they could elect their man. "Keep in the mid dle of the road" is to be the popu list watchword this year. Tekatn ah Burtonian. Th populist sta'e convention nom inated Judge Maxwell for supreme judge Wednesday. Judge Maxwell held theoflice for three terms, being 1 elected as a repulican. As a judge I his ability is recognized by the leg al profession in every part of the country, and his decisions are cited ar authority more by the lawyers of the country than the decisions of any judge that ever graced the supreme bench in Nebraska. In theevent of his acceptance he will make a very strong run. Brainard Tribune. The populist state convention yesterday in Lincoln, we are frank to confess, named a ticket which for ability and clean personality cannot be surpassed. Judge Max well's standing as a jurist (the su preme court candidate) is deserved ly high and his probity of char acter has nevei been questioned. Mrs. Peattie, one of the nominees for uuiversity regent is a lady of rare endownments She is a wom an of letters, and yet most practi cal witbal, and is said to be pos sessed of unusual executive ability, lur election would not be a bad in novation. Bayston, the other nom inee for regent, is said to he well qualified for the position. Phitts mouth News (Rep.) . Go Anil Do Likewise. 1 know of many pushing reform ers who were started out by placing in their hands a single copy of a reform paper that costs but half a. cent; men who have since been the cause of showing the right way to hundreds. Gov. Waite. 1 ,000 Pairs of Pants at Tou Are KIght Tom. We wish to warn our brethren elsewhere that nothing on earth would so completely destroy the pepoPle's Partvinthebouih asthe belief among her people that we propose to deny to the citizen the ngnt to nis own nome auu, ms pocket hook. We cheerfully concede the hon esty sincerity of Soeahsm. At the same time it must be remembered that the Socialists have given no higher proofs of sincerity than the Communists and the Anarchists hrve given Tom Watson. The late republican treasurer of the . state ot feouth Da kota, who stole a half million dollars from the people, recetly got a sentence of live years in the penitentiary, lie should have come to Nebraska where that is all a Lincoln banker got who stole a million. They must be a vicious set up there lo thus punish a practical politician. The Quill. Watch for our premium next week. offer FLOTSAM. Twenty-five cents till 1, 1895. January Four tides a duy Hi at the harbor of Southampton. Kngland. This pe culiarity is caused by the Isle of Wight Intercepting a portion of the tidal way In its progress i,th ways through the English Channel. For one hundred years Madame Chevillard, of Villegarden, France, has lived on bread, milk, fruit, and vegeta ble's. She has never eaten meat. ThU month she celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth. A planter in Alphoretta, Oa., raises red cotton. Every stalk Is a deep red, as are also the leaf, boll and bloom. The seed for this crop came originally froma freak stalk of red cotton dis covered in Florida seven years ago. A Portland ship-owner read that his vessel was passed by another on the high seas. He estimated the latitude and longitude In which the vessel wan said to have been, and found she was In the middle of the desert of Sahara A Chicago undertaker knows where tc go for business. He wanted to hav his card displayed on the trolley cars, but was refused the privilege. An un dertaker's advertisement so close to th deadly trolley was considered too sug gestive. PROVERBS. The fool Is his own worst friend Poverty shared is poverty doubled. I.ove never dies of Its own accord. Gossip is a polite name for slander.. People who marry for love are en titled to it. Nature always tries to rectify her mistakes. Tomorrow never comes, and yester day never goes. The married flirt Is the most serious argument In favor of celibacy. Few men can hope that their mem ory will outlast their tombstones. A good many people think nothing can be a duty that Is not dlsagreeabla. In the race of life every man car ries a little of some other man s weight. Every time there Is a eddlng an other "sweetest girl In the world" strikes the toboggan. The old are prone to forget that they were ever young and the young that they will tooo be oli, On The Dollar At barer ClITMM House i 1039 O Street, J. W. SMITH & CO., - DEALERS IN Canned Goods, Flour, Butter, Eggs, Etc PHONE 448. 346 S 1 1TH STREET. 16 To 1 CIGAR FACTORY WILL SEELENFRUND, Prop. 16 TO ONE," "GOLD SEAL "NO NAME." Rooms 19 & 20, McBride Elk., LINCOLN, NEB. Cor. 12th and P Sts HENRY PFEIFF DEALElt IN Fresh and Salt Meats. Sausage Game and Poultry. :tl I.South llth Street. Telephone f'7"7'. We Do JOB WO RK Populist Committees needing anything in this line on short notice. (