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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1910)
MeW4?f'-T $' P" -W"" T""mrT,?t TMriBr" wS The Commoner. AXTGUST 28, 1910 11 r of your tribe, isn't it a fact that your bank account was only $500? How, then, will you bo able to deposit $76,000 just a short time after Mc Murray got his $750,000 fee?' Chief Johnson insisted he did not remem ber. Asked why $8,100 in warrants for expense accounts rendered by McMurray had been made out in his favor, Johnson explained ho was ac customed to pay off the expense bills incurred by McMurray. Johnson said his salary as chief executive of his tribe was $4,000. In response to questions the witness said he never had received financial aid from Mc Murray. He declared a majority of his tribe favored paying McMurray a $3,000,000 fee in the present pro posed sale of land." The Passing of Bryan Omaha's population, according to the 1910 census is 125,000, an in crease of about 22 per cent over the census of 1900. An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago says: "Three former offi cials of the Illinois Central railroad were arrested in connection with the alleged huge frauds by means of which, the railroad claims to have tieen defrauded out of $1,500,000. The men arrested were Frank B. - Harriman, former general manager of the road; Charles L. Ewing, form er manager of lines north ofthe Ohio river, and John K. Taylor, formerly general storekeeper of the road. The warrants were sworn to by President Harahan of the railroad company concerned." An epidemic of cholera has broken out in southern Italy. The conference of the governors of the Rocky 'Mountain and Pacific coast states called to consider a proper representation at the conser vation congress at St. Paul adjourned after adopting a resolution declaring the Pacific coast and Rocky Moun tain states would cordially take part in the convention. The demands to be presented by the western states were set forth in a platform of prin ciples. In brief these are: That in solving the problems of conservation congress adhere to the doctrine of Abraham Lincoln, that public lands are an important national possession, held in trust for the maturing states. That national and state governments should legislate co-ordinately and within a reasonable period of time, the state governments be conceded the lull and complete administration of conservation laws. That existing national conservation laws have tended to intrench monopolies.' That the elimination from the national for est reserves of all homestead and untimbered grazing lands is imme diately expedient. That the control of all water power in the states. That the privilege of American citi zens to develop mineral wealth wherever found should be fully se cured by law. That the idea of de riving federal revenue- from the physical resources of the states is repugnant. Governor Campbell of Texas has called the Texas legislature in ses sion for the purpose of enacting the following -laws: Law protecting the holders of claims against railroads even when the railroads become bankrupt. A law providing for a board of prison commissioners, a su perintendent of prisons and other officers and employes. A law provid ing for negotiable bills of lading. A law preventing compress companies from shipping cotton defectively baled. A law requiring railroads to construct sheds for the protection of employes engaged in the work of re pairing cars and equipment. A law repealing the present fire rating board statute and providing for' the regulation and control of rates on fire insurance. BRYAN WAS RIGI1T In a convention controlled by the big browing interests of the state and in a convention that was in no way a credit to the democracy of Nobraska, William Jennings Bryan, who Is ever outspoken, fearless and sincere, was "turned down" a few daysago in his effort to get his state party organi zation to endorse county option, which the people of Nebraska are de manding at this time and which the republicans of Nebraska' were wise enough to endorse in their platform. As a result of this "turning down" of Mr. Bryan the half baked demo cratic sheets over the country, both little and big, that never did admire Mr. Bryan but who preferred such democrats and candidates aB Alton B. Parker, the worst beaten demo cratic presidential candidate in fifty years of American history, are bark ing at his heels, crowing over his defeat, accusing him of meddling, etc. Never the less, William Jennings T?ivoti nro a vlcrhf In tTinf- flrrVif Tf was not the commoner who met his I Waterloo last Friday but It was the Nebraska democratic organization, for just as sure as the ides of Novem ber come the people of Nebraska will give victory to that party that en dorsed county option and that party is, in this particular case, the repub lican party. - Mr. Bryan fought for the right and therefore he suffered no real defeat. It is amusing to hear a few alleged democratic papers class such men as Mayor Dahlman, Governor Shallen- berger and a few other Nebraska state leUders with Mr. Bryan as men of equal ability. And talk about in gratitude there is not one of these men who does not largely owe his political success to Mr. Bryan. Would Shallenberger be in the governor's chair today had not the Bryan wave that swept Nebraska' carried him along to victory? William Jennings Bryan stood for the right in that convention and when the vote is counted a few months hence, and county option has been endorsed and in its endorsement made it possible for the republicans to regain Nebraska, the rank and file of the democratic party, which is to day and has always been with Mr. Bryan, will curse the petty Nebraska leaders for the error they knowingly made at the state convention. Such words as these from the notable speech. Bryan made before that convention, show the mettle of the man, the cleanness of his heart, the fearlessness of his nature: "If I have advocated that which is not good for the state, let me feel your wrath. If you find I have done anything that is not good for the democratic party, I do not ask your mercy.. "Who, less than I, could desire to disrupt the democratic party? Am I not aware what a repudiation at your hands will mean to me? "It has been said that I am mak ing this fight-because I am not a can didate. Nothing could be more un true." Bryan here referred to the politi cal battles he had waged, and de clared that he had been fearless when his own future seemed at stake. Continuing he said: "I have been called a dictator for expressing my opinion. Your can didates here today liave expressed their sentiments. By what law am I compelled to remain silent when I feel that the good name of my state is at stake?" The Ouray, Colo., Plain Dealer. THE "PASSING OF BRYAN" And once again the 'plutocratic newspapers are hugging thomsolvcs over the "Passing of Bryan." They havo killed off Bryan so many times that it is remarkable how ho can manage to pull enough of his anatomy together to havo either a political or corporal existence. Do you remoraber how, on Bryan's ar rival from his trip to Europo, the "system," through its subsidized newspapers, tried to corrupt him? They, figuratively speaking, took him up into a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth. He was told that travel had broadened his mind, that inter course with courts and princes had workod miraclcn by giving him "aafo and sano" ideas on government. Tho railroads vied with each other In offering passes for himself and fam ily with Pullman accommodations over their lines to go and come when and whoro ho listed. He was no longer tho "boy orator," the "wild eyed anarchist," tho "rccklosH dis turber of 1890." They told him ho had learned to become ono of them boIvob, a "safo and sane conserva tive.'.' But the "boy orator" kept his own counsel. Ho accepted no railway pauses and whon at his very first public utterance In Now York he boldly attacked tho railroads, they wero dumfounded. 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