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WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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Vol. 5. No. 14 Lincoln, Nebraska, April 21, 1905 Whole Number 222
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CONTENTS
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EblTOBIALS BY "TttE COMMONERS"'
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" Foe Young Americans
Silvek and Wheat
The Cause oi? Misrepresentation
I Am For Democracy
Chicago Jefeerson Club
Judge Parker's Speech
Comment on Current Topics
The Primary Pledge
News of the Week
LINCOLN HAS DEMOCRATIC MAYOR
Hon. F. W. Brown, the democratic candidate,
was elected mayor of Lincoln last week by more
than six hundred majority. He is the first person
to be elected on a straight democratic ticket in
many years. Two of his associates onjtheticket.
came within three hundred 6f' election, and the
largest majority cast for anyone on the republican
ticket this year was about twelve hundred. This
Is a very considerable democratic gain. During
the past eight years the republican papers have
been in the habit of adding "This is Mr. Bryan's
home" to the announcement of republican success
in the city; it is i$ube hoped that the election of
a democratic mayor ivill not cause the republican
eauors to lorget tnat Mr. Bryan still receives his
mail at Lincoln.
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A MONUMENT TO JACKSON
Colonel A. S. Colyar, to whose "Life of Jack
con" reference hast been made In the columns- of
The Commoner, writes an article for the Memphis -Commercial
Appeal suggesting that Tennessee
should erect a monument to Andrew Jackson. The
position is well taken. Jackson has given pres
tige to Tennessee. He loved his state and the
etate holds now all that was mortal of him. Monu
ments testify to the worth of the living as well
as to the merits of the dead, and the state of
Tennessee woulddo itself honor In honoring her
greatest son.
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The saddest words that have been
written In this generation were spoken
before Brown University by a young
man who is to Inherit one of the great
est fortunes In this country. They
were spoken In defense of the trusts.
Listen to them:
"The American Beauty rose can be
produced in all its splendor only by
sacrificing the early buds that grow up
around it." The rose has 1,000 buds and
In order to produce the American
Beauty the gardener goes around It
with a knife and snips 999 In order
that all the strength and beauty may
be forced Into one bloom. In his eco
nomic argument, this young man bru
tally tells the working classes that 999
small business men must be snuffed
out of existence In order that his
American Beauty, the trust, may be
produced. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwlght
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EDITORIALS BY "THE COMMONER'S" READERS
Some of the best editorials .that have ever
been written are tobe found in the responses to
The Commoner's primary pledge plan.
' It would be well if every American citizen
could read the extracts from letters as printed on
pages 3, 5 and 7 of this issue. They show that
democrats are determined to keep their party
worthy of its name and to make it a forceful in
strument, in the hands- of the people, to be used in
the public welfare.
One democratic editor in a,n Illinois town
writes to say that .tie approves thejprjmary pledge
plan, but he adds: ' if ,"
This plan., la 4-hardly necessary in this
, . Bryan heart. anJsoul and will cheerfully en
:. dorse and subscribe to any plan that he sug
gests. They will be there with the votes when
the time comes. They are Joffersonian and
Bryan democrats and do not want any more
reorganization business not In a thousand
years.
This letter is quoted for the purpose of im
pressing not only upon this writer but upon demo
crats everywhere that no matter how strong they
may bo in the faith, no matter how regularly
they may have participated in democratic pri
maries, it Is important that they sign the primary
pledge and lend their best efforts in this plan
of bringing the rank and file of the party to the
primaries. Many of the letters so far received
, have been written by men who have never failed
to attend the primaries of their party; but-they
f .understand that which The Commoner seeks. to
impress upon democrats everywhere, that if those .
who have not' heretofore neglected Hheir duties'4 '
will set the good example of signing the primary
pledge they will not only influence those who have
neglected their duty in this respect but they will
insure a continuance of their own good record. If
this movement Is to succeed it must have the
formal endorsement of every democrat who be
lieves that the rank and file should control, be
cause If he who has been so faithful that formal
endorsement seems unnecessary fails 4to act
and another withhold his public sanction be
cause his position in life is, in his opinion, so hum
ble that he could not give weight to the cause, then
other men will withhold their support for other
reasons. The result will be that we will fail
to obtain that general and widespread effort to
organize the democratic party, so that it will be
iia a rKkJtion to serve1 the people,. Every demo
crat 'wa,'blleve that the rank and file oDtha
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