THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
talked Greek to them. He ran In the
country, districts no large cities
and the farmers are not prepared to
hear about currency, but they do like
to hear about protection.
In the Tenth New Jersey congres
sional district James D. Manning ran
against Allan L. McDermott Man
ning, In 1896," voted for Bryan, and
McDermott did not Manning ran as
an independent democrat indorsed by
the republicans, and McDermott as the
candidate of the democratic machine
indorsed by the local political boss.
The machine was for Bryan In 1890
and 1900, but in the off years it has
been for the offices, for "tariff re
form," for the "gold standard." The
machine has believed in supporting the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms in
presidential years, but not in the off
years. In 1900 McDermott supported
Bryan, but not the platform. He had
to support Bryan then, because he was
running on the same ticket with him
for congress. This year he came for
ward again as a candidate for con
gress, appointed to run by the local
political boss; and Mr. Manning, who
had always been a consistent demo
crat, came forward as an Independent.
Inasmuch as Manning received the
Indorsement of the republicans, we
had an Interesting campaign here in
Jersey City and the northern end of
Hudson county opposite New York city.
McDermott was elected, but by a re
duced plurality. He ran behind his
ticket by about four thousand. If we
could have elected Manning, there
would have been at least one Bryan
democrat in congress, sent there by
the aid of republicans. It is an in
fernal shame that McDermott was
elected and goes to congress again.
No man talked and wrote worse in
1896 about Bryan and the Chicago plat
form than McDermott although he was
a member of the convention that
nominated him and adopted the plat
form. He was not only a member of
the convention and chairman of the
New York delegation, but he was a
correspondent of the New York World
and employed to write up the conven
tion and its candidate, and in doing
bo he described the candidate and
platform as follows:
"The Chicago convention has nomi
nated a 'populist' on a platform fav
oring repudiation and a rotten cur
rency and the protection of anarchists
In their evil designs and doings. The
man who is willing to stand upon
that platform must be either a tricks
ter, or at 'heart a villain. The con
vention was from start to finish a
libel on the democratic party. The
candidates will .be defeated if the peo
ple of this country are brave enough
and intelligent enough to deserve self
government. The election of Bryan
would result in unparalleled distress
and misery. From now until Novem
ber the fight will be between honor
and dishonor, truth and falsehood, pa
triotism and anarchy. The man who,
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understanding this platform, rotes for
its candidate will be unfit for Ameri
can citizenship. Names are nothing.
Partisanship must be cast to the
winds. Anything Is preferable to thl3
half hatched egg of national dishon
or." Although, according to Mr. McDer
mott, Bryan was a "trickster or vil
lain," and a "half hatched egg of na
tional dishonor," in 1S96, and although
Bryan stood on the same platform in
1900 (with the Spanish war issues
added) as in 1896, and although he
wa3 the same man personally in 1900
as in 1986, yet McDermott was willing
to stand on the same platform with
Bryan in ls00, as a candidate for con
gress, and did so stand, and wa3
elected elected, because he could not
be defeated without injuring the na
tional ticket McDermott was there
fore willing to be elected by Bryan's
help two years ago, and was so elected,
but he ougiit not to have been elected
this year and he would not have been
elected if it had not been for certain
local issues, which drew the mind3 of
the people away from national politics.
I firmly believe that if James D. Man
ning could run against Allan L. Mc
Dermott alone, Manning would be
elected. I believe that if we could
have an election here today for our
member of congress, and that if we
had nothing else to think about ex
cept the comparative merits and de
merits of the two men, the district
would send James D. Manning to con
gress, and yet we shall have to be
represented or misrepresented by Al
lan L. McDermott. As the issue shaped
itself, we could not discuss tariff or
money; or trusts, except to deny that
the high price of domestic meat was
due to the tariff duty on foreign meat
New Jersey elected seven republi
can congressmen out of ten and would
have elected eight, had it not been for
an unfortunate nomination in one of
the districts. It was done, although
Grover Cleveland came out, after his
retirement of ten years, and lectured
the people in favor of "tariff reform."
He would have spoken in favor of a
gold standard; but he thought this
was not prudent. Free trade and free
coinage of gold (without free coinage
of silver) go well together, because
they each have a tendency to reduce
this country to the level of England.
Free trade and free coinage of gold
constitute Mr. Cleveland's political
philosophy, and it must have been a
great self-denial for him to speak in
favor of the one without speaking in
favor of the other.
Tom Johnson was defeated in Ohio
by 100,000. This shows that the peo
ple of Ohio don't have much faith in
(free trade and) the "single tax." If
Mr. Johnson would substitute an in
come tax for his single tax, he would
do better. We can tolerate Johnson's
free trade, if he would put some kind
of internal tax with it, that looks like
support of the federal government.
Johnson's single tax may support the
city of Cleveland, but the people of
Ohio don t think that it will support
the state government; and, if it will
not support the state government, it
will not support the United States
government. Mr. Johnson's defeat
cannot be attributed to free coinage
of silver. Perhaps it would be well for
"Tom," if he would take up the money
question and study it, so that he can
be either on the wrong side or the
right side of it. This is one of the
questions, of which a public man can
not be ignorant. If Mr. Johnson would
study the money question as much as
he has studied Henry George's Prog
ress and Poverty and theory of taxa
tion, he would probably come out on
the right side of all political ques
tions. William R. Hearst, of the New York
American, was elected a member of
congress from one of the New York
city districts. Here is a man who
stands for the income tax and who
may be of grit use to the country.
Lile Mr. Tom Johnson he doesn't
know jjjiieh about the money question,
but he knows enough to stand for the
income tax. He believes in free trade
of all trust-made articles. We can go
with him in his free trade business,
piovided he will give us the income
tax first. I7f took the ground in his
paper, th.V the high price of domestic
meat was due to the tariff duty of two
cents a poJtd on foreign meat We
think he is wrong here, but we can
forgive th:3 error, if he will give us
tha income tsx, before he Inaugurates
freo trade in meat
Mr. Hearst is pounding the coal com
bine every day in his paper. He did
more than any other man to reduce
Odell's plurality in New York. He
has commenced suits against the coal
barons, and it begins to look as if he
would have them in jail before he gets
through with them. Roosevelt will
be compelled by Hearst, if by nobody
else, to move against the trusts. With
such men as Hearst after him, the
president will have to act. He can no
longer shut his eyes to the great trust
evil if he were so disposed, and I do
not believe that he i3 so disposed. He
has, now, everything to gain and noth
ing to lose by moving onto the great
est of all trusts the coal combine.
Public opinion Is now ripe for crush
ing the monopolies, and woe to any
president who now halts or shows the
least' indisposition not to" make a lib
eral use of the Sherman law. In the
present state of public opinion, and in
view of certain facts, which have re
cently come out, it will not do for the
president to say that the constitution
must be amended before he can act,
or that the constitution must be
amended before congress can act, by
making new laws. We can all see,
now, that, if the Sherman law is not
broad enough to enable the president
to suppress the trusts, congress will
broaden the law, and do it without
waiting for the people to amend the
constitution and that there cannot be
any excuse for the president's holding
back.
Everything Indicates, now, that
"trust regulation" is out of politics or
will soon be. It seems that we re
quire no new laws, and that all that is
required is strict enforcement of the
laws we have on the statute book.
If this is so, then our politics will be
narrowed down to the old, old ques
tions of currency and taxation.
The politics of New Jersey has re
cently becomo somewhat similar to
that of Nebraska I quote from the
Jersey City Evening Journal as fol
lows: "The Nebraska delegation in tha
Fifty-eighth congress will be com
posed of five republicans and one
democrat. The fact that is of special
interest to Jersey City in this con
nection 13 that Congressman Mercer,
chairman of the committee on public
buildings, is the one republican con
gressman who was defeated in Ne
braska this week. He was vanquished
by the fusion combination.
"Mr. Mercer, as head of the com
mittee on public grounds and build
ings, visited Jersey City in April,
1900, and saw things that caused him
to become an advocate of a new Jer
sey City postoffifce building.
"Congressman Mercer's term in con
gress will end March 4 next, and be
fore that date is reached he will have
had an opportunity to round out his
useful career by helping to crown with
success the long drawn out fight for
a n'w federal building in Jersey City.
"The new postoffice bill ought to be
passed at the coming short session of
congress without fail."
In Nebraska a "fusion combina
tion" consists of Bryan democrats and
populists (as we understand it) ; while
in New Jersey a "fusion combina
tion" consists of Bryan democrats and
republicans. This was illustrated in
Jersey City and Hudson county recent
ly by an attempt to elect a member of
congress by a fusion of Bryan demo
crats and republicans. This will en
able the outside world to see that the
republicans love Bryan more than
they do Grover Cleveland.
JNO. S. DE HART.
Jersey City, N. J.
Even Morgan don't seem to be on
easy street any longer. After convert
ing a large amount of steel stock into
bonds which were considered more
salable, the remaining stock slumped
to the lowest point ever reached. The
Morgan underwriting syndicate find
ing that it was impossible to sell the
stock, were forced to throw large
amounts of it on the market at what
it would fetch and down went the
steel stock. Pretty soon the Europeans
will be calling for that $200,000,000 that
Mr. Herrick, president of the Bankers'
association, says that they have lent
Wall street What will Morgan do
then? The only man that abides per
manently on easy street is old Carne
gie. He has a first mortgage on all
the mills and mines of the steel trust.
When a receiver is appointed he will
take them in and become richer than
ever. According to Dun, commercial
failures during October amounted to
ft0.u80.627.
The Independent is glad to see the
confidence Mr. De Hart reposes in the
Sherman antitrust law as a remedy
for the evils of tiusts. Undoubtedly
the jaw ought to be better enforced and
the cr'm.nal prosecutions begun in
stead of da'iying with civil remedies.
But The In lepndent cannot see much
real progress to be made by sending
a few men to the penitentiary be
cause it would te ninety-nine chances
to one tl at the real criminal would
escape And suppose he did not
there are other men to step in and
continue the work. Of course if pub
lic fccntiment wee sufficiently aroused,
It could have torao effect
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