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AXTGUST 28, 1910
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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. He Told tho rail
roads then what everybody of any
Intelllgonco knows today, that If tho
government could regulate tho rail
roads no other way It must own them
and run them.
It was now doctrino then and it
dumfounded tho "system." Tho vials
of Its wrath wore again poured upon
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