THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
POLITICAL CHAOS
Th Great and Katbatiaitlo Army Organ
ized, hj Bryan Thrown Into a DIi
ordered Mats by Keorganlzars
If any one can make anything out of
me result or the elections it is more
than the editor of The Independent
can ao. ma the country indorse trusts,
imperialism, colonies beyond the seas,
exorbitant tariffs? Did it Indorse the
reorganizes and the overthrow of the
Kansas City platform? The only dem
ocratic governor elected east of the
Mississippi was a Bryanite. The re-
pumican majority in congress was cut
down. Bryan states west of the Mis
sissippi went republican. Socialism
was advocated by the New York dem
ocracy and it came near winning. A
revision of the tariff was advocated by
some republican leaders and denounced
py otners. Taken altogether, it is
simply political chaos.
This has been brought about by the
ieveiana-Jriiu reorganizes. Bryan or
ganized the greatest armv of reform
that the world ever saw and polled
more votes tnan were ever cast for a
democratic candidate for the presi
dency. This grand army of populists
ana genuine democrats has been scat
tered to the winds by the Cleveland
traitors. The democracy has one pol
icy in one state and the very opposite
policy in anotner. in one state a radi
cal, progressive reformer is nominated
for governor, and in another right be
side it a plutocrat and the vilest of
corporation extortionists is chosen as
the candidate, and both of them call
tnemselves democrats. There were
candidates for congress on the rennh
lican ticket who denounced tariffs with
more bitterness than the ordinary pop-
uusi or democrat and there was Hen
derson who refused a nomination by
mat party because the platform de
clared that the tariff should not be a
shelter for trusts. Amidst nil thia
confusion there is one division of the
army or reform whose ranks are un
broken, who fleht for the same m-in
ciples and have the same platform
everywhere, whose flag still floats from
the ramparts, where every man still
stands by the guns, determined to fight
until victory is won or he dies in the
trencnes. There is no disorder or con
fusion In the ranks of the people's
party.
One writer of great abilitv. an indo
pendent in politics, sums up the con
dition of affairs as follows:
"Eliminating the solid south, the
country divides easily into a number of
groups. There Is the New England
group Massachusetts, New Hamp
shire, Rhode Island and ConnerHeiit
Here we meet the singular fart that
in iinode island there was chosen the
only democratic governor east of the
Mississippi river, and he a man knnwn
in the past as a "single taxer," a sup
porter or Bryan, and a resident of a
congressional district whose demo
cratic convention a month ago explic
itly indorsed the Kansas City platform.
Dr. Garvin is a sincere, high-minded
man, who has foue:ht eorrnnt. mrnw.
ate influences in Rhode Island for al
most a generation, and politically he
is an exact antithesis to Mr. Gaston
who wa3 nominated for governor by
the democrats of Massachusetts. Had
iiaston done as well as Garvin i,
would nave carried Massachusetts
Now, adjoining Rhode Island la Con
necticut, wnicn used to be close when
Rhode Island was safe in rennhi iron
hands. In Connecticut we face the odd
ity of democratic failure to equal the
effort for governor In 1900. and in that
year the state democratic candidates
were bound to the Kansas Gitv nlat.
form. This year the Conneetlent Hem.
ocrats ignored that platform, and cut
away rrom anti-imperialism, yet did
worse than before with Rhode isl
and democratic on one side and Mew
i one almost democratic on the other.
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In the gTOUD of New York New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, the outcome
is no less curious, when viewed in the
dry light of political principle. The
New York contest had formidable ner-
sonal factors with a strong touch of
tne Socialistic issue, and the ennaenra.
tlve rural counties appear to have
barely overcome the trem endnna nish
toward Albany of the restless metrop
olis. Yet if New York was almost
democratic, the
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Pennsylvania, which is ridden by some
01 tne most brazen and lawless syn
dicates In the world, was overou-hoTm-
ingly republican; and in New Jersey,
au oia-urne democratic state, the re
publicans were remarkably successful
in spite of Mr. Cleveland's nersonal
appearance on the stump with tariff
leiurm as tne paramount Issue, who
can analyze the results in th
adjoining states, from the democratic
viewpoint, and see anything but that
political disorderl iness urhiVh " TV ACS
T .-w "uju tViXICO
in the absence of a widespread party
Homogeneity and a dominating cen
u cu leauersmp:
It Is the same in the middle west
trans-Missouri reeion and the puffin
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coast. Tom Johnson is beaten se
verely in Ohio, with his nl
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cal reform and reaflirmation of the
Kansas uity platform due not a little
to the McLean bolters in GinrirmoM
yet the democrats were defeated with
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no less severitv In the adloinine state
of Indiana, which is one of the old
doubtful four, notwithstanding that
the reoreanizers had ohtained eontrol
of the party. In Michigan, Wisconsin,
Illinois and Iowa, democratic failures
Were COnSDicuous. although in all those
states the party had "turned its back
on Bryanlsm." In Kansas and Nebras
ka, neighboring states, having practi
cally the same Interests, the singular
spectacle is offered of Kansas turnine
more heavily than before in 10 years
to tne republican side, and Nebraska
displaying a slieht. reaction toward
Bryanism. In the Rockv mountain
states the republican gains are bal
anced by the fact that Senator Teller
has carried the Colorado lesrisi a tn re
by a substantial majority. On the
Pacific coast the republican sweep of
Washington is somewhat, neutralized
by the strong democratic drift in the
governorsnip contest in California.
And not least interesting Is the much
increased streneth of soeiaUstie tiW-
ets east and west, in Massachusetts
aggregating a phenomenal train of 300
per (tnt.
The Spectacle thus reviewed mav
fairly be said to be that of a demo
cratic party with no fixed or universal
ly-accepted principles, depending
largely upon local conditions for its
chance successes. It was a chaos of
deieat, with here and there an nnward
surge toward victory, governed, how
ever, oy no discernible Dolitieal ten.
dency in the least general in its scope.
it was tne ngnt of a leaderless party,
with terrible internal dissensions with
no common principle and no common
aim."
Cleveland and Hill knew when thev
started the scheme to remidiate the
constitutionally announced nrinr-inles
of tbe democratic party, and which of
necessity must be the principles of the
party until another national rnnven-
tioa formulated a new platform, that
trie result would be chaos. That is
what they wanted and intended to
bring about. The historv of nniitiVai
parties can furnish no parallel to these
two inrernai scoundrels, who deliber
ately worked in the interest of nint
racy and the republican party. The
republicans pre in power today be
cause of their treason. tVi th a nnifofl
democratic party and the two million
oi popu::-tB leading them as they did
in '96, the republicans would have been
overwhelmed long aero. Rut hnth tjjii
an I Cleveland are now the two deadest
ducks that ever sank to the bottom of
a stagnant rr,nd.
General Apathy
J. A. Baird in the Cedar Rapids Out
look says that nearly 150 farmers in
Cedar precinct (Boone county) stayed
in the fields on election day, and com-
.m s ua iae Iact remarks:
The fusion apathy d"rinr the
paign caused a smal country vote and
this accounts for the fusion defeat
;Lmay ?f aid' too that the same ap
athy which existed before election
continues as the news of the election
comes in. A very large part of the
people of Nebraska did not care how
the election went. They have lost
faith in the ballot as manipulated by
political parties. The results of the
election in 1900 completely discouraged
them and it is probable they will nev
er regain their interest in party poli
tics They have come to look upon
politics as practically only a fight for
the spoils of office and hflvo Anrtj,.
ed that conscientious convictions have
no show in the raee flp-nfnet
They would not be willing to surren-
uei meir ngnt to vote, but at present
are unable to see anv o-nr.
trom the use of the ballot. If asked
wnat would the country do without
political parties thev answer Qir
mg the question, "In what way has
the country ever been benefited by
them?' Excent. nerh aria In Y,a
of education, they have cost the coun
try enormously more than they have
been Worth. For every ounce of good
they have done tons nf lahor
money hnvb been expended, to say
noth!Ts of the corruption, hatred and
flivisiori- they have
asl: to point to a fiitiple proof
form or legislative accomplishment
win. ?1 nas Deen secured by a political
PM'iy since the government wan fif
ed. As instances they point us to
&inveiy destroyed by military neces
sity and to the settlement of the re
cent coal strike from industrial neces
sity. They claim that political par
ties invariably become corrupt after
their first taste of
thereafter only a nursery for preju-
uk:b ana a macnine for the manip
ulation of the ballot in tho
of the manipulators. Before blaming
peopie ior tneir political apathy and
for not voting last Tuesdav it m i p Vi t
be well to inquire into the reasons for
tneir indifference."
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If the editor of The Independent hnri
been a resident of Wisconsin he is in
clined to think that he
nis vote tor La Follette. as against
the old Senator Vilas crowd of politi
cal traitors. Besides La Follette seems
to be a second Bryan who by some
mischance got into the republican
party.
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George D. Bell. 205 Central a Venn o
Nebraska City, Neb., sold a number of
subscription cards and in remitting
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cook occasion to say tnat "the g. o. p.
has given us so much Drosneritv thot
we are not able to pay our debts any
Just as The Indenendent said tho
big meat trust will now he nrratiiyori
It only waited until the election wn
over to mako the formal announce
ment, l he underwriting syndicate has
been formed, and will ho hooori w
James Stillman, president of Rocke
feller's City bank of New York Thar,a
is a blanket injunction out against
any such combination on tho rrf n
the large packers, but this is where
injunctions don't go." They "go"
only against labor.
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