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p if tT"r fr""J'el ' ft The Commoner. .VOLUME 8, NUMBER i The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. ClIAItl.KH V. llHVAN, ItlCHAUI) U MkTCAM'K, , 1'iiMIhIht. Keillor. M4-330 South Two! fill Street. I'litnrd ot the rortofTcc nt Lincoln, Ncl m r ccond'Clna matter ()nn Vcnr Jfl.OO Tlirco MonlliH - - 2Ro blx Month CO .Slnjflo Copy o Jn Clubs of Five or more. Hnniplo Copies Free. Per Year - - - ,75 ForelRn VostnRO 02 Cents Extra. SUlIStiflll'TiONS can bo sent direct to The Com moner. They can also bo sent through nowspapeia which have advertised a clubbing rato, or through local agents, whero aub-agents havo been appoint ed. All remittances should bo sent by postofflco money order, express order, or by banlc draft on Now York or Chicago. Do not Bend Individual chockfj, stamps or money. DISCONTINUANCES It Is found that a largo majority of our subscribers prefer not to novo their subscriptions Interrupted and their flics broken In case thoy fall to remit before expiration. It Is therefore assumed that continuance Is desired unless subscribers order discontinuance, cither when subscribing or at any tlmo during the year. Presentation Copies: Many persons subscribe for friends, Intending that the paper shall stop at tho end of the your. If Instructions are given to that effect they will recclvo attention at tho proper tlmo. IlBNEWAliS Tho dato on your wrapper shows tho tlmo to which your subscription is paid. Thus January 31, 08. means that payment has been re ceived to and including tho last issuo of January, 1908. Two weeks arc required after money has boon received beforo tho dato on wrapper can bo changed. CHANGE OF A DDUKSS .Subscribers requesting a chango of address must glvo OLD as well as NEW address. ADVERTISING Rates furnished upon applica tlon. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Every time he pauses for a moment Mr. Taft thinks of something the republican plat-, form is silent upon. By tho way, does Mr. Taft favor postpon ing tho cheaper and more exact administra tion of justice until "after election?" The iMllaburg- Oanctto-Tlmea, republican, Is discussing the question of oiled roads. Refer ring to tho "White House road, probably. Mr. Taft demands that justice be made cheaper. Mr. Rockefeller and others of his class are satisfied with its sureness at present. The Birmingham Age-Herald says that the Alabama state treasury is full of money. This may, however, bo a bid for immigration from Pennsylvania. Lieutenant General Corbin is strenuously advocating the election of Mr. Taft. It is the same Corbin you -heard about during the Spanish-American war. "Moonshine makes the complexion yellow," says tho Washington Herald. Remember thp pld times the good old times when the moon shine made you mellow? A Now York woman who arose at 4 o'clock to prepare breakfast for her husband, yawned and dislocated her jaw. This is calculated to start a boom in alarm clocks. John W. Gates is being boomed as a repub lican candidate for congress from a Texas dis trict. But Mr. Gates has not yet offered to bet 's,teen millions that he will lend. "Labor Is divided!" shouts a republican organ. Yes, part of it working and a largo part of it taking an enforced vacation to watch tho "prosperity procession" go by. The Commoner will be sent from now until Election Day for Twenty-five Cents. to Attorney General Bonaparte Is about ready 1UU1V. 111LU 11C1KIU lUtVOi uuu ahuduiv-i Sheldon is ouito ready for tho results that aro expected to follow the announcement. The paper trust has reduced wages and in creased prices. It will bo remembered that this highly protected trust managed to hold its own by the aid of the eminent standpatters in the last congress. "What the democratic party needs," says the Kansas City Star, "is someone to foot tho bills." Exactly. As long as the protected in terests "come across" the republican party will experience no such need. A Mr. Cake of New York has shed his skin twenty-eight times. Perhaps he is trying to keep up with the swift changes from tariff re vision before election to stand pat after elec tion, so skillfully wrought by the republican managers. i tw THE SPEAKING CAMPAIGN The speakers' bureau of the democratic national committee is pushing its portion of the work with unexampled vigor and is meeting with a success that is inspiring. As rapidly as possible every call for speakers to address dem ocratic meetings is being met and in a short time the bureau will be able to promptly meet every demand. Chairman John H. Atwood of the speakers' bureau of the national committeo is anxious to secure tho address of every man who is willing to devote time and ability to this work, and with that end in view invites corre spondence from thoso who are willing to servo Volunteers should immediately notify Mr. At wood, addressing him care speakers' bureau, democratic national committee, Auditorium Annex, Chicago. tv tw v v DEMOCRATIC CLUBS The organization of democratic clubs is be ing vigorously pushed, and the National Club Bureau having this work in charge is sparing no efforts to secure the organization of a demo cratic club in every voting precinct in the country. Clubs already organized that have not yet reported their organization are requested to doxso at once, and all clubs organized in future are requested to notify the committee without delay. Address all communications to John W. Tomlinson, chairman committee club organiza tion, democratic national committee, Auditorium Annex, Chicago. CHAIRMAN BELL'S NOTIFICATION SPEECH (Continued from Page 7) this time we must either make a complete sur render to corporate misrule or redeem once and for all time the heirlooms of our nation from the corporation pawnshop in which they have been hypothecated by the party in power. In this connection you will bo able to show further from the concurrent testimony of all ages that a party long continued in power becomes honey combed with corruption and if more recent au thority bo demanded, you can point to the speech of Taft in Virginia a few weeks ago when, forgetting the national application of his remarks, he pleaded with the independent dem ocrats of that state to vote for a change, for a party too long in control becomes rotten and corrupt. You will be able to show that the boasted prosperity, upon which tho republican party carried tho country four years ago, has rested upon tho unwarrantable assumption that tho bounties of nature and the demand for Ameri can products abroad have been originated and controlled by the republican party. You will be able to show that the tariff is a fair example of republican policy. That the taxing of the many for the few has resulted in an unequal distribution of wealth and that history supplies no instance whero tho unequal disposition of wealth has not resulted in an un equal subdivision of power, which has always been used for the general oppression of the masses. You will bo able to show that the cry of conservatism now raised by the republican party is a counterfeit, and that if the people accept it as pure gold they will, awaken to find that it has turned to mere alloy, for it is a conserva tism that stands for retrogression and not progress, and if it were long to prevail would not only mean universal stagnation, but the hands of the clock would bo turned backward towards the period when man stalked tho earth with bow and spear, clad in the skins of wild beasts, and preyed upon everything that crossed his path. You will be able to show that the demo cratic party is capable of bringing about whole some reforms without alarm or danger to those who havo become the innocent possessors of the inflated securities which republican prosperity and a solemn promise to keep it up, induced them to purchase. Parsing from a survey of conditions and principles to the consideration of candidates, you will be able to show that, taking the Chi cago platform, tho uncertainty of Taft on great public questions and the known corporation bias of Sherman together, they constitute the republican party's official apology for tho uproar that has been created among the big interests during tho last six years. You will be ablo to show that Taft is at tempting to reach tho Whito House through a mirror maze, which is likely to leave him on November 8 lust where he started on the 18th of Juno. After reading Taft'a letter of accep tance, you will be ablo to ,ehow that his candi dacy is like ono of those new-fangled signs that we see often on the streets when you are ap proaching it reads one thing, and when you aro leaving it spells something else. And also in this connection you will be ablo to show that in places where Roosevelt is supposed to enjoy great popularity it is sung into tho ears of his admirers that if Taft is elected the spirit of the departed Roosevelt will be found croirching behind the throne, and that in sections where Roosevelt has incurred the grave censure by reason of his strenuous policies, they are whis pering in the ear of Standard Oil, tho steel trust, the transportation companies and others of their ilk that after the 4th of March the shade of Roosevelt will be found wandering through the jungles of Africa in pursuit of bigger game, leaving Taft to deal complacently with the offending corporations. Even those who believed that before Taft was nominated for the presidency he was thor oughly dipped in Rooseveltlan waters, now have a lurking suspicion that somebody held him, like Achilles, by the tendon of tho heel, so that he might not prove wholly Invulnerable to cor porate assaults, in the event of his election. To those who regard Roosevelt as a second Cromwell who is handing down his iron rule to Taft, as his natural successor, it will be suffi cient to suggest that when Oliver passed the commonwealth to Richard, it was buj the fore runner of the restoration of the Stuarts and the downfall of the commons. Of your opponent, Sherman, you will be able to show without violating the ethics of politics that his career in congress has been distinguished only by his -absolute subserviency to the oligarchy in control of the house of rep resentatives and that when Cannon consented to tho passage of Sherman at the Chicago con vention he was simply putting his O. K. on an other measure satisfactory to tho committee on rules and the interests they represent. In comparing our standard bearer with the leader of the republican forces you will be ablo to show that the democracy presents as a can didate for president a man who in sunshine and in gloom has kept the faith with his people; a watchman in the night, who has lighted tho signal fires and sounded the tocsin bell when ever Invasion has threatened his slumbering countrymen; a patriot, who believes that love of country must be closely akin to the affection that hovers about and sanctifies the hearthstone of American homes; a scholar who has patiently examined the historic lore of his own and other lands to discover the social and economic laws that control the life of human societies. A statesman who knows that government can en dure only In tho observance of great moral truths and that the acquisitions of enormous material and intellectual wealth unrestrained by sanctions of the conscience only hastens the decline that must ultimately end in death. It is a just cause, this fight of ours for a return to the first principles of self-government, and under the leadership of yourself and your illus trious colleague, whom I have Just described, the names of Bryan and Kern will spell success for the party that declares for popular rule.