The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, June 15, 1906, Page 6, Image 6
fa v J5'IW PV 6 The Commoner. VOLUME. 6, NUMBER 22 ftw . 1 -!&- 1 it "' .Jf U fl j vi . ?-r j . The Commoner ISSUED WEEKLY THE PRIMARY PLEDGE PLAN ? William J .Biiyan i Editor and Proprietor. RlCHAUD L. MKTCALTTK Associate Editor. ClIAULKS W. BllTAW Publisher. Edilorlnl Rooms and Business omce 824-sno So. istu street. Entered at the postollcc at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. One Yoat $1.00 6fr Monthi 50o In Clubs of 5 or mora por Year 73 o Three Month 25a Single Copy....- So baxnplo Copies Free Foreign Postaii 52c Ex-tru SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo sent direct to Iho Com moner. Tliey can also bo sent ilirougli nowspapera which liavo advertised a clubbing' rate, or through local agents, where sub-agents havo bceri appointed, ah remittances should bo sent by postolllco money order, express order, or by bank draft on Now Yorlc or Chicago. 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ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb ' ..,,,, ,, Muckrake, indeed! It requires a steam shovel. . i By tho way, Mr. President, what is better than a muck rake for cleaning out a niudscow? General Nelson A. Miles is another gentle man who has heen given a vindication by events. The packers caught with a lot of "embalmed beef" ori hand need only to he patient and wait for; another' war. One or two ' sections therein containedren ders it very difficult .for Senator Piatt, to express himself adequately on the rate bill. " ' ' The Russian douma is talking as much and doin.3 as little as a certain legislative body pre sided over by a "standpat" speaker. :m i'. A.reauer wants to Know what "inconsistency" is.; It would be inconsistent for a New Yorker to chide a Kansan about the Burton case. , ... Tho senate will havo to remain in continuous session for a long time boforo it can catch up with tho work of doing its duty to the people. "Home Coming Week" is on in Kentucky. Mr. Taylor of Indiana may look across to the blue grass pastures, but it is not likely that he will take advantage of tho excursion rates. The senate has suddenly grown sensitive to public opinion. But just wait until the people got a chance to toll the senate all that it has been thinking during the last ton or a dozen years. The work of the Armstrong committee cost the state of Now York $100,000. It cost a lot of ominent financial gentlemen a great deal more money than that, to say nothing of what it cost Jn the loss of reputation. If the Standard Oil company has violated the law, punish it," said Mr. Rockefeller lust be fore sailing for Europe. To be sure. Imprison the oil, or burn it. The immunity bath- will take care of the gentlemen who own the stock. It will be a severe blow to the cattle raisers to learn that the packers have put up the meat in awfully filthy surroundings. At any rate the packers unselfishly opposed exposure on account of the damage it would do the cattle men Wayne MacVeagh is now endeavoring to ex plain how he came to be retained as attorney by both sides of the Philadelphia gas cases. A lot of valiant defenders of national honor have beon called upon for explanations during, the last six months. As this copy of The Commoner may be read by somo one not familiar with the details of the primary pledge plan, it is necessary to say that, according to tho terms of this plan every demo crat is asked to pledge himself to attend all of tho primaries of his party to be held between now and the next democratic national convention, unless unavoidably prevented, and to secure a clear, honest and straight-forward declaration of tho party's position on every question upon which the voters of the party desire to speak. Those desiring to be enrolled can either write to The Commoner approving the object of the organiza tion and asking to have their names entered on the roll, or they can fill out and mail the blank pledge, which is printed on page 14. As a result of the Juno 1 campaign 5,000 names were added to the primary pledge list. T. L. Parsons, Amy, N D. What a holy and divine thing the human heart is if people would do as God intended when he breathed His image into man. Woman is infinitely richer in God like qualities than man. Human nature is a beautiful thing as God intended it to live, but the trouble is that this wild, mad scramble for the dirty, blood-stained dollar doesn't leave poor humanity much of a chance to develop itself ex cept on the brutal, animal side. Our present so cial system or lack of system Is especially de signed for crushing out all that is good in hu manity and developing all that is bad. Enclosed find my primary pledge. W. A. Orr, Redkey, Ind, I am glad and willing to do all I can for the principles of I truo democracy. We all think a great deal of The Commoner, for on all subject3 it comes to the point. I enclose primary pledge with 25 sig natures. P. P. Pullen, Buchanan, Tenn, Enclosed find a list of 35 signatures to the primary pledge. I believe this is 71 names I have sent. Will try to get some more soon. I am doing all I can for The Commoner and its cause, which I think to be right. May blessings crown it. i M.. V. Knoles, Newalla, Okla. Enclosed you will find 28 signatures to the. primary pledge. Success to The Commoner and safe return to Mr. Bryan and family, E. C. Robinson, Dale, Ark. Please find en closed primary pledge Bigned by six good demo crats. . I will get more signatures as soon as pos sible. Great success for the primary pledge plan. The following have sent in primary pledges in number as follows: G. W. Workman, Mt. Grove, Mo., 47; J. D. Roberts, Jr., Lexington, Tenn., 31; T. W. Dunn, Cornhill, Texas, 10; H. W. Stocker, Wagnersfield, Ohio, 5; T. H. Cooper, St. Louis, Mo., 4; Samuel N. Reickel, Claypool, Ind. 20; E. B. Shaffer, Grafton, W. Va., 16. L. B. Gibson, Waco, Texr T enclose thirteen names duly signed to primary pledge I secured on same floor where my office is located. It is no trouble to get the people to pledge their allegiance to democratic principles as expounded by Jeffer son, Jackson and Bryan. Charles F. Wynne, Moncton, N. B. Every little bit counts. Here are two primary pledges. I hope to caBt my first presidential vote for a genuine democrat. Nelson R. Tucker, Fremont, Ohio. -Inclosed find the names of 42 persons that have signed the primary pledge. I am heartily in favor of the initiative referendum and the "recall;" I favor public ownership of public utilities, which are in their nature monopolies. I favor direct nomina tions, the primaries, the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people; I am in favor of a graded income tax so the burdens of taxation will be shifted from the shoulders of the poor to the rich, who are better able to bear the burden. I am in favor of good roads and op posed to boss rule in any shape. These reforms would be a death blow to monopolies, graft and other ills which we are afflicted with. Let us unite in a solid phalanx and secure these reforms. In unity there is Btrength. S. M. Butts, Jasper, Mo. Enclosed please find pledge from an Independent voter to at tend and participate in all primaries held by the democratic party in my precinct from now and until after 1908. After read ing General James B. Weaver's views in The Commoner May 4, they strike me as being good sound sense to every word therein; tho rempdv so plain, too, and easy to apply, if the people will it. It looks like this will be the .time to begin, to apply, the remedy, before it is too late. Have never seen the whole people aroused as they are today. If tho democratic party puts up its best men for office, with plain, clear cut dec larations of principles, with a broad platform for all to stand on and every man and woman has equal rights and special privileges for none it will win. Half way measures won't answer now. It is either for reform or against it. Either the peo ple must rule or the trusts. Which will it be? Your votes will decide it within the next two years, or I don't read the signs of the times aright. Seems like we have been standing in the wilderness, as it were, forty years. Surely there is a Moses somewhere among the demo cratic leaders to guide the people out. They won't have the big four insurance companies to grease the band wagon in 1908 like they did in 1904 for the Plutes ways are found out. - Jerome Morgan, Frederick, Okla. Pleaso find enclosed primary pledges of thirty-five Jef ferson and Bryan democrats. S. R. Timberlake, Pembroke, Va. I send the names of three men who are true to the cause. Send to each one of us a sample copy of .Tho Commoner. The following persons have sent in primary pledges properly signed: J. McGowen, Canoa City, Colo.; M. J. Seymour, Ashtabula, Ohio; F. A. Smith, Waterville, N. Y.; Geo. E. Landess, An tigo, Wis.; James Q. Costigan, Albany, N, Y.;v Adam Schiferl, West Point,"Neb.; A. H. Young, Allegheny, Pa.; Thos. Blent, Flower, Colo.; Reed Beard, LaFayette, Ind.; Albert Krabbe, LaFayette, Ind.; James W. Schooler, LaFayette, Ind.; H. W. Hurst, Tarklo, Mo.; C. Clark Rogers, Bellingham, Wash.; W. A. Gibbons, Monroe City, Mo.; August H. Haberkost, Akron, Ohio; W. E. Brown, Summit Point, W. Va.; G. Milton Slifer, Charles Town, W. Va.; Edw. L. Henson, Charles Town, W. Va.; s A. D. Gortz, Charles Town, W. Va.; T. Quinnlan, Ashford, N. Y.; J. L. Kilpatrick, Whitewater, Kan.; Seth Ball, Salmon Idaho; E. E. Ames, Tyler, Minn.; W. E. Weems, Seaton, Texas; P. B. Brown, Lone Star, Kan.; Joseph F. Littlefiejd, N. Berwick, Maine; J. O. Brandel, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; M. L. Dudley, Glens Fork,-Ky.; Jos Dudley, Glens Fork, Ky.; A. G. Cardwell, Seymour, Mo.; Beardsley, Pittsburg, Pa.; Martin Jennings Caton, Allegheny, Pa.; Daniel Mock, Tilden, Neb.; M. C. Brown, Cotter, Ark.; Jos. F. -Chilton, Frede ricktown, Mo.; J. P. Laughlin, Bethel, Me. SPECIAL OFFER R. T. Mayor, Claflin, Kan. Enclosed please find the name of one subscriber J. C. Newman, Hutchinson, Kan. This makes my fifty readers of The Commoner since February last. Everyone who approves the work The Com moner id doing is invited to co-operate along the lines of the special subscription offer. Ac cording to the terms of this offer cards each good for one year's subscription to The Commoner will be furnished in lots of five, at the rate of $3 per lot. 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