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THE COMMONER, Lfn coin,-Nob.
Tho dinner pail is empty but the tax is
on the tin.
j And just as noon' as Nick Longworth quit
reciting "Casey at the Bat" he struck out.
Having adopted the camel as their party
emblem the prohibitionists expect to get a hump
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. As long as people laughed, Nick Longworth
admitted it; when his republican friends began
swearing about it ho denied it.
"I speak for myself, as well, as for Little
Willie," said Mr. Sherinan at Chicago. , But why
doesn't "Willie" do a little, wore speaking for
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The Knoxvillo Sentinel avers that the czar
of Russia's pet yacht is named the "Standard."
...,''j?pyer in this country the favorite life boat of
-: $r some senators bears tho same name.
' . It seems that tho cabinet officers are not
given much opportunity to make campaign
speeches. They must be on hand for consulta
tion before the president can issue campaign
letters.
If all the men guilty of trust connections
are retired from active participation in the man
agement of the g. o. p. campaign, the rooms' of
the republican national committee would re
s'emble an air dome resort in January.
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MR. BRYAN AND PENSIONS
Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., October 5. In an
interview given out late today by William J.
Bryan ho. denies, as has been alleged, that ho
ever made a speech or wrote an editorial against
the granting of pensions to soldiers. On the
contrary, he declares that all of his platforms
have indorsed pensions and that he favors a
liberal pension policy. He said:
"My attention has been called to a clipping
from a republican paper, which purports to be
an extract from a speech on the subject of pen
'slons, delivered by me in congress, and the date
of the speech is fixed at November 18, 1S92.
In the purported speech, I am accused of criti
cising tho appropriations for pensions, and am
charged with using language unfriendly to the
pensioner. I desire to cay that I never used the
language attributed to me, either in congress or
anywhere else. I never made a speech against
pensions in congress or anywhere else. On ihe
contrary, my record shows that I 'favored liberal
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pensions to tho surviving soldiers and to their
dependents. .
"Congress warf not in session on November
8, 1892, as anyone can ascertain by examining
the records. The first session of congress ad
journed in the summer of 1892, and the second
session did not assemble until December of that
year. ,
"I think that the language quoted is tho
same that has been used at other times, when
it was charged that I had used the language in
an editorial in a paper of 'which I was at one
time, editor. It was claimed that the editorial
appeared. in 1892. This was nearly two years
before I became connected with the paper. I
do not know whether the editorial ever appeared
in that paper, but I know that I was not connected-with
the paper until -long after the date
.on -which the editorial is said to have app'eared,
and 'I '-know that I never wrote an editorial for
that-paper or 'any other paper'or ever said lh'a
speehr or '.otherwise, anything unfriendly to 'tho '
soldier and -his pension. "As this mis'repre'senta
tion has been brought to 'my attention; I take
-this means .of-answering it. - All "cf my'platforms ,
have indorsed .pensions, and I favor a liberal
pension policy." ...
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THE CREAM SEPARATOR SPEECH - -' . ,
. ' In one of his speeches In Missouri last Sat
urday Mr. Bryan referred to an item that ap
peared in the papers that morning, regarding a
threat made by a Pennsylvania manufacturer
of cream separators. Mr. Bryan said:
"A press dispatch announces this morning
..that a Pennsylvania manufacturer of cream sep
arators has given notice to his employes that
the factory will close down for an extended
period If I am elected. This is the most .dis
couraging threat that I .have yet read. I had
supposed that the cows would go on giving milk
under a democratic administration as well as
under a republican administration, but if as. a
result of my election the cows are going to dry,
up in November and not become fresh again for
four years, It will really be a serious matter.
There must bq some mistake aliout this sep-
. arator business. The man may be manufactur
ing the separator that the republican party has
be using, for it has been using a -separator that
has separated the cream from the milk and it
has given the cream to tho monopolies and the
sldmmed milk to the rest of the people. That
kind of a separator will no longer be used and
those who manufacture it may find their occu
pation gone, but for the rest of the people it
will be -a glad day, a day of great rejoicing."
MR. BRYAN TO FARMERS
, . At Blair, Neb., Mr. Bryan replied to Mr.
Taft's "farmer speech" as follows:
Mr. Taft has made an appeal to the .farmer
Eight years ago the republicans were appealing
to the laboring men. They were using a full
dinner pail as a party emblem. You could see
tho picture of a dinner pail on campaign but
tons, and it was emblazoned on the bill boards
everywhere. They told the laboring man that
he was getting plenty to eat, and that so long
as he got enough to eat, he need not bother
himself about principles or policies of govern
ment. Where is the full dinner pail today? I have
traveled all over the country arid I have not
seen a picture of it in this campaign, and have
not heard a republican mention it. . Wliv? Be
cause the bottom is out and the d'inuer pail js
empty: The laboring men who were dei-.eh-ed
then are embittered now by the disaopoin'o pt,
and wo have the support of a larger percentage
of the laboring men than we have had before in'
forty years.
The republican speakers are now trying to
practice the same deception on the farmer that
they practiced on the laboring man. It Is the
"full barn basket" now. The spell binders tell
of big crops and high prices, and ask that the
republican party be given credit for it. Does
tho republican party hold the clouds in its
hands? Does it scatter the rains in duo sea
son? Does it furnish the sunshine and the fer
tile soil? It is sacrilege for these republican
leaders to claim a credit that belongs to a gen
erous heavenly Father.
Is republican legislation responsible for the
, price of farm products? In Canada farm pro
ducts, are as high, and there is no republican
party in Canada. In England farm products are -as
high, and they have neither a republican
pavty "or a nign tariff there.
What has the republican party done for
the benefit of the farmer? Not one thing. But
it has permitted the farmer to be afflicted by
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"known -abuses" that have grown up under re.
publican nile the abuses that the republican
leaders refused to remedy.
Tho farmer has suffered from the extortion
of the trusts; he has suffered from the burden
of high tariff; he has suffered from the inse
curity of his deposits, and he shares in tho evils
that follow from the growing estrangement be
tween labor and capital. Extravagance in fed
eral appropriations lessens his income and ho
finds himself unnecessarily taxed to support a
colonial policy in the Orient.
The farmers believe in" the rule of the peo
ple, and this has been prevented by the repub
lican leaders; 'the farmers believe in the elec
tion of senators by popular vote; and this prop
osition was defeated In tho republican conven
tion; the farmers believe in honest elections, as.
well' as in honest government, and they know
that the republican convention rejected the pub
licity plank. Mr. -Taft underestimates the in
telligence of the farmers of the west, -when he
asks them to' accept the republican record of the
last eleven years as evidence of the willingness
of the republican1 party to do' justice to those
who" till the soil: ' '
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MARYLAND, MY .MARYLAND
Walter Wellman sends to his paper, the
Chicago Record-Herald; a Baltimore dispatch
from which the following is taken:
"There is at least one eastern state in which
Bryan's chances are a shade better than Taft's.
Maryland is a doubtful state, but the probabili
ties are she will give her eight votes in the
electoral college to the democratic candidate."
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MESSRS: TAFT AND BRYAN AT CHICAGO
Mr. Taft and .Mr. Bryan were guests, Octo
ber 7, of the Chicago business men at a ban
quet. Addresses were delivered by both gen
tlemen. Messrs. Bryan and Taft addressed the
deep waterways' convention.
WHO PAID THE BILL?
7ew York, October 9. The fact that
Andrew Carnegie has contributed $20,000
to the campaign fund of the republican
national committee was announced today
by State .Chairman Woodruff. Associated
Press Dispatch.
'Twenty thousand dollarsr that isrbut a
little dab
Andrew Carnegie has given Mr. Taft.
, Just the .profit . of .an -hour of his tariff
grabbing power,
Just a sample of his lucious tariff
graft. '
Twenty thousand families, go hungry for
a day
To help -the '-'Laird o' Skibo" work
his will;
But amidst our toil and sweating there's
no danger we're forgetting
That those who died at Homestead
paid the bill.
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Twenty thousand, dollars there's a red
, x - brown, dirty stain. .
On the money, that can never be
erased. ,
'TIs the blood of honest toilers shed by
g.eedy trust despoilers
Who at vantage points'. their Pinker
tons had placed.
Just the profits of oppression .wrought by
those who had-possession
Of the power hold by kings to save
or kill;
But the Hhird day of November let the
toilers well remember
That those who died at Homestead
paid the bill. . ,
-The martyred dead at 'Homestead green
the erass abovetheir graves
Green the memory of how the mar
tyrs died.
And again we see the battle; hear tlie
rifles' crash ingrattle,
See" the blood of workers flow w
crimson tide. ,
Aye, upon that contribution is fthe stain
of destitution -'Hungry
children, hopeless widows
wan and ill . ,
Woe and want the worker-pinching i'1(J
tho tariff baron clinching
And those who died at Homesteau
.paid tho bill.
The Steelworker.
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