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THE FUSION CAMPAIGN
As far as the fusion campaign was
concerned every member of the pop
ulist or democratic party can well feel
proud of it. Not a dishonorable thing
was done. At the close of the Grand
Island conventions, a little knot of
men who have long been fighters in
the ranks and none of whom ever held
office, got together and had a heart to
heart talk. The opinion of all was that
we had no chance of success this year,
but we would keep up our organiza
tion and make the best fight we could.
That a large number of the old reform
voters were dissatisfied with the fusion
administration was well known. Not
that it was not honest and economi
cal, but because when we had the pow
er we failed to do all that might have
been done. The most of the dissatis
faction was with the railroad commis
sion, and these old workers who had
sacrificed so much in their fight against
the railroads were very much dis
pleased. That was the report from
every part of the state. Then the tak
ing of little fees and other perquisits,
besides the constitutional salaries, al
though sanctioned by the courts, had
taken the heart out of the workers.
One of those present remarked that he
wondered that we had such .a conven
tion and as much interest as we did
have after all these things. But none
of the little flock proposed to give up,
As far as they were concerned they
would fight as long as they had life
and breath.
After the campaign had got well
started things began coming our way
and many republicans thought that the
fusion governor would make it and the
railroad candidate would be defeated
Then the story was started that the
B. & M. road was doing nothing to
elect Mickey and that in fact that it
was aiding Thompson. Many of the
best posted men in the fusion party
were led to believe that the B. & M,
really desired the defeat of Mickey.
It was so stated In Omaha and Lincoln
and all over the state. Sunday before
the election old populists began to
send in inquiries asking if it were true
and expressing the determination to
abandon the fight. A consultation was
held and while it was acknowledged
that the B. & M. had been generous in
its offers of transportation, it had all
been courteously refused, and the man
agers told point blank that the eandi
dates would stand by the platform up
on which they were nominated. But
this story was told in every town and
village in the state and the disap
pointed element in the party were
ready to believe it To every inquiry
made of the editor of The Independent
he replied that there could be no pos
sible reason for the B. & M. support
ing the fusion ticket and as to the stor
ies of any compromise having been
made with the railroads or any one of
them, it was utterly false. But the re
publicans with all the money they
could use had formed an organization
so perfect that they could reach ev
ery voting precinct within 24 hours.
The Independent, because it had no
opportunity before the election, now
denounces these villainous machina
tions and some of the prominent rail
road officials who went around assur
ing populists and democrats that they
personally would not vote for Mickey.
That was simply one of the things
that these hirelings of the Wall street
railroad magnates were paid to do.
The fusion campaign was honorable
and upright from start to finish. No
bribery, falsehood or underhand meth
ods were employed. There was an ef
fort made to get the people to under
stand the issues and that was all. It
may have been wrong to insist that
the railroad corporations should be
made to pay the same rate of taxation
as owners of other forms of property,
at least a majority of those who voted
seemed to think so, and it may have
been unjust to demand the lowering of
certain rates, so that they would not
be more than 25 per cent higher than
they are in Iowa, and a majority of
those voting declared that it was, but
the populists and democrats honestly
believed that both demands were right
and all they did during the campaign
was to present arguments and facts
to convince the people of the righteous
ness of these demands. So we are
prouder of this campaign than if we
had won the offices by compromise and
deception or the abandonment of any
demand made in the platform of the
two parties. -
GRIND EXCEEDINGLY FINE
The Chicago Chronicle a few days
before the election printed the follow
ing paragraph concerning the cam
paign in Iowa:
"The republican state central
committee has been notified that
the railroads will not allow free
transportation to students of the
colleges of the state who desire to
go home to vote. The railroad offi
cials say they began the practice
in 1896, when, under strong pres
sure to prevent the election of Bry
an, they aided the republican
campaign management as much as
possible. Now they hold there is
no necessity for it."
The railroads of Nebraska have for
years given passes to all students to
go home and vote, provided that they
would vote the republican ticket.
Those who would not, had to pay full
fare. This year in Nebraska, after
The Independent had made it pretty
disreputable, they granted a fare and a
third to democratic and populist stu
dents while the republicans as usual
wtnt free. The railroads begin their
corruption with the youth. Then
when the student has a few years of
that kind of bribery he is a fit tool for
railroad magnates ever afterwards. The
railroad magnates may think that
bribery is a safe business. So it is as
long as the republican party is in pow
er and good crops prevail in this coun
try with shortages in other countries.
When the collapse comes and the peo
ple begin to suffer, the railroads will
plead in vain for the protection of
their pioperty. They have taught the
people to bribe and grab, and when
tire lean years come they will practice
it on the railroads. What man, how
ever honest he may be, will have any
enthusiasm in protecting railroad
property, after having observed their
robbery and corruption for a couple
of decades? In those days they will
find that the mills of the gods grind
exceeding fine.
THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
The republicans conducted their cam
paign in Nebraska along the old lines.
The first thing in their political cam
paigns is money and plenty of it Next
in order follows forgery, bribery, de
ception, all of which are made effective
by controlling the avenues of informa
tion to the people. This city of Lin
coln is a fair example the country over.
There are three large republican dail
ies issued here, printing from eight to
sixteen pages of matter, one morning
and two evening, all getting the As
sociated press dispatches. On the oth
er side there is a small, four-page ev
ening paper without the dispatches.
The Sunday before the election, the
morning daily printed what purported
to be fac similes of annual passes is
sued to W. II. Thompson, the populist
and democratic candidate for governor,
over the three railroad systems of the
state, and underneath the words: "Our
Man Thompson." Neither of the other
two republican papers were honorable
enough to denounce the forgery. With
the aid of the republican organization,
this Infernal forgery was brought to
the notice of every voter in the city
and county and today there are hun
dreds of intelligent men in both the
city and county who believe that those
reproductions were genuine fac similes
of annual passes carried by W. H.
Thompson, who had given his word of
honor when accepting the nomination
that he would not accept passes from
the railroads.
The republican campaign committee
printed this forgery, knowing It to be a
forgery, on slips and sent them all
over the state. They had the plates
reproduced and sent them free to the
weekly republican papers for publica
tion when they knew the publication
would be so late that the opposition
papers could not reply. How many of
the republican weeklies reproduced
them this writer has not had time to
find out, but Ross Hammond, who
knew that they were forgeries, and
who was recently a candidate for con
gress on the republican ticket, repro
duced them. That is the sort of scoun
drels the managers and bosses in the
republican party in Nebraska are and
in the other states they are of like
moral standing.
If the fusion forces had had a morn
ing daily here and had followed up this
forgery from the time that it appeared,
it would have got the Information to
the people before the election. When
The Independent proposed to start a
daily here the corporation that con
trols the news refused to let it have
ihe dispatches. When another repub
lican daily was started in this town
that already had two daily plutocratic
sheets, it had no trouble in getting the
dispatches.
With three or four exceptions the re
form forces have no daily press. The
so-called democratic dailies are for the
most part the most efficient assistants
of the republican leadership in the
whole United States, and there are
only two weeklies of national circula
tion in the whole land that conscienti
ously fight trusts, exorbitant tariffs and
national banks of issue, namely, The
Independent and The Commoner. Un
der these circumstances, the wonder ii
that there is any opposition to repub
lican rule at all. If we reach any con
siderable portion of the people, it must
be done through the printed page.
Few reformers know of the wide
spread corruption among the voters.
The fusion committee printed the elec
tion laws concerning the duties of
judges and clerks of elections and sent
a copy to all such officers. To the as
tonishment of the managers of the fu
sion campaign, scores of these sworn
election officers appeared at the pop
ulist and democratic headquarters ask
ing for money and in every case they
said that they were republicans. Dean
Swift's Yahoos were respectable in
comparison with them, but it is by the
purchase of such men and by the us3
of such methods that republicans car
ry elections. If we could reach tho
people, such men and such methods
could be driven back into the dens of
