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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JUL7. 2, 19 03.
POLITICS O If THE CAnrtS
Just as one might expect, the Lin
coin State Journal Is acting as official
organ and apologist for Regents Von
Forell, Kenower and Teeters. In a
recent issue it said:
."Two of the fusion regents,
Messrs. Kenower and Von For
ell, will go out of office on Jan
uary 1, unless they are renom
inated and elected. Mr. Kenower
does not ask for a re-election, as
he is no longer a party man. Be
coming disgusted with all parties,
he has declared himself an inde
pendent. The local fusionists who1
take the most interest in the uni
versity say that they would like
to see these men renominated."
These' "local fusionists" are doubt
less Charlie Morrjll, Will Owen Jones
and Charles H. Gere men who have
made a "graft" of the state univtrsity
''since the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary." The Independent
would like to see the color of the hair
of any Lincoln democrat or populist
who approves the course of these re
gents. They have been the willing
tools of the worst gan? of republican
pirates that ever infested a state uni
versity. And then the official organ . of Von
Forell, Kenower and Teeters goes on
to say:
"When the people of the state
hear that T. H. Tibbies has been
denouncing the fusion regents as
men who have 'disgraced, disnon
, ored and sold out the party that
elected them, they will feel sat
isfied that the university is in safe
hands. At the time the fusionists
secured a majority on the board
ofcregents the friends of the uni
versity feared that politics would
I a. Jl.. J 4-Via xrt rv t-ii n T f
wa3 the idea of the leaders that
the most prominent republ'can
- professors should be bounced and
their places filled with radical pop
ulists and democrats. Fortunately
the fusion regents saw that this
would ruin the university, and did
not even go so far as io remove
Steward Dales, although a dozen
of their party friends were drool
ing for the placj and insisting that
It was a political and not an edu
cational office. When these facts
are remembered it is easy to un
derstand what is the matter with.
' Tibbies."
The "friends" of the university
"feared that politics would be intro
duced on the campus!" God save the
inarK.: oo is a iuuso iue iiieuu jjl
the man it sucks blood from. Doubt
less it, too, would fear the introduc
tion of "polities' on the "campus."
Who were these "friends?" Every
man jack of them had his "graft,"
larger or smaller. One as an "instruc
tor of journalism," perhaps; another
making a fortune juggling with agri
cultural college and state university
lands.v Naturally they feared the ad
vent of a fusion board of regents
or pretejuded to fear it, for it is now
apparent that these, republican grafters
knew from the start y -at sort of men
they had to deal with.
It" certainly comes with bad grace
from any republican paper and worst
of all from the Journal to talk about
introducing "politics on the campus."
For years and years the university
was 'in the control "of a republican
toard of regents. Every time a new
instructor was installed, ; republican
politics was "introduced on the cam
pus" either directly or indirectly, with
the single' exception of Chancellor
Canfleld's appointment. If the ap
pointee were not actually a communi
cant in the republican church, he wa9
at least a very quiet and Inocuous sort
cf member of some other political or
ganization. And how about Canfleld? As soon
as it was discovered that Canfiela was
a man of firm convictions, a man of
courage, and who allowed :o man to
control his political views, just so
soon was developed a damnable con
spiracy to make life so unbearable for
him that he would resign. The plot
was hatched up in the governor's of
fice, and the Journal well knows the
active participants and how the con
spiracy succeeded. . ,
And then "politics," in the person of
- , n n
VLLfS UCU1 u.
Mac Lean, was. "Intro
duced on the campus." Here was the
beau ideal of the. republican grafters
at the university. , He sniffed con
temptuously at the farmer boys who
came to take the sLort course in agri
culture. A college education, as he
viewed it, was only for the elect or
elite. It was ruination to give a poor
boy "higher culchaw."
Finally his God called him to an
other field (the salary was higher) and
it was up to a fusion board of regents
to elect a new chancellor. This is an
(until now) unwritten chapter of how
Chancellor Andrews came to be elect
ed. The same fusion regents who re
cently elected Pound as dean cf tha
college of law at the dictation of the
republican grafters, .were even then
mder the spell of republican hypnot
ism An Informal ballot was taken
and Prof. Jenks of Cornell chosen
than whom no more stinking aristo
crat exists in all America. As in the
case of Pound's election, this, too. was
a star- chamber affair; but there hap
pened to be. In the city at that time an
eastern newspaper reporter who hates
Jenks as the devil is supposed to de
test holy water. Having the true nose
for news he learned about the election
cf Jenks and proceeded to hunt up
prominent fusionists in the city to see
if Jenks could not be defeated cn the
formal ballot next day. As every
body knows, Dr. Andrews was selected
next day; but as everybody ' doesn'i
know, .save a few Lincoln gentlemer
who do, it required the hardest kin'!
of work even threats of political ex
communicationto get. certain of the
fusion regents to change their votes
fiom Jenks to Andrews, one at least of
whom is one of .e men tne Journal's
"local fusionists" want renominated:
If the election of Pound bad as it
was were the fir .t offense, The Inde
pendent would have said nothing. But
patience has ceased to be a virtue in
this instance. 11 the board of regents
is to be perpetually dominated by
Charles H. Morrill, he of "pint bottle"
fame, then In God's name let the whole
Hoard be republican in name as well
as in fact
The dirty innuendo that Mr. Tibbies
desired the place held by Mr.,Dale3 is
quite 'in keeping wittf the State Jour
nal's editorial policy and the charac
ter of the men who conduct it He
has neither desired nor asked any
thing for himself at" the hands cf th
regents. But for the Jo irnal's benefit,
The Independent would suggest that
a thorough checking over of Stew
ard Dales' accounts for the years gone
ty, might develop some interesting
features not so large, of course, but
quite in harmony with republican
methods in the state treasury.
The position that-the democratic
party has heretofore taken is that it
would not advocate the government
ownership of railroads until it had
been conclusively demonstrated that
government control of them in pri:
vate hands was impossible. The Iowa
democrats have gone a step further
and declared that they would not favor
government ownership if it were de
monstrated that, government control
was impossible. How many votes will
the democrats of. Iowa poll with a
platform like that?
GERMAN POPULISTS
The great dailies In referring to the
recent upheaval In Germany always
take particular pains to leave off part
of the name of the great reform party
there. It is always "the German so
cialists," but never the "social demo
crats." A summary made by a care
ful writer in New York is as follows:
"One vote for every man and
woman; payment of members of
the reichstag; responsibility of the
ministry to the . reichstag, as in
England; lower tariffs, especially
on food imports; substitution of
. militia system for great standing
army, as in the United States; le
gal equality of the sexes; separ
ation of church and state and free
non-sectarian schools, with ccm-
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The "collective ownership of all th3
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The German social democrats an sim
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army of mankind scattered all over
the face of the earth who are fighting
against special privileges for the few
and equal right for all, and the pop
ulist party in the United States is an
other division. '
POPULISM VS. PLUTOCRACY
There is a difference between pop
ulism and plutocracy that shows from
every point of view. The republicans
ran the state government for years
and all that time there was not a sin
gle act of those in power that showed
any desire to make the life of the com
mon people happier. The capital
grounds at Lincoln include four
blocks, or about sixteen acres. When
the fusion government took charge,
those acres were almost a barren
waste or covered with a matted growth
of plantain and dandelion. There
were some trees, but they had been
go neglected that instead of being a
delight to the eye it was a misery to
lcok at them. Uncle Jake Wolfe, as
chairman of the board of public lands
and buildings, took charge. He plant
ed scores of trees, many of them ever
greens, made the janitors of the build
ing dig up the dandelions and plan
tain and as far as the slow processes of
nature would admit, transformed those
grounds from an "eye sore"-into an
expanse of trees and green grass
which gave pleasure to every passer
by. Besides that the populists said
that the grounds were the property
or the people 'and were held in trust
for their use- and benefit. A band stand
v as erected where thousands used to
come twice a week, sit on the grass and
listen to music furnished by Hage
now's band. Many delightful evenings
were spent by the people in social in
tercourse and the city was happier
and better.
But the republicans got back into
tower, and the old order to "keep off
the grass" was put in force again. The
band stand has been torn down and
removed. Not a seat remains on the
whole sixteen acres where the weary,
man or woman can sit down in tha
shade and rest The happy voices of
playing children is heard there no
more and the" ideas of plutocracy reign
supreme. The rich man has large
grounds around his private residence,
his shrubs and flowers, hi3 hammocks
and easy seats. The common people
can stay on the heated bricks, stones
and cement sidewalks. And there thej;
will stay as long as they vote the re
publican ticket.
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