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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JUNE 16, 1903.
IS PARKER A FRAUD?
Mr. Wakefield Believes barker Shaeld not
be Permitted te Enter the Denver
Conference
Editor Independent: I notice In
papers that Jo A. Parker of Kentucky,
riiairman middle-of-the-road populists,
has called his executive committee to
meet in Lenver as part of Edgerton's
confei ence.
It items to me you should warn the
honfst populists of Parker's and his
committee's true character, and that
on no account should they be per
mitted to enter or take part in the
con faience. For them to do so is to
smirch the entire attendance and its
constituency with the vilest of Mark
Hanna (ommercial harlotry.
I take It for granted that both your
selves yand Mr. Edgerton are ac
quainted with the absolutely positive
nature of the evidence that Parker
and hl.i so-called committee were in
1896, 1900, and ever since then in re
ceipt of a regular salary, with corrup
tion funds and free transportation,
f?om the republican national commit
tee Several of Parker's lieutenants in
this disreputable business are Kansas
men, whom even the Kansas mid
roaders have repudiated as shameless
political prostitutes. ' To have the
Denver conference Identified with
Hanna's hired minions would not only
be fatal to its influence and an irre
trievable injury to populism, but a
Eevere blow to reformers generally. In
Kansas it would .put the brand of
Mark Hanna and Perry Heath of po
litical prostitution upon the whole
party and justly so, but other and
honest Independent action will have
to share unjustly share the obloquy
and suspicion.
You cannot afford to be silent on
Parker's record, between now and date
of conference, and should publish Per
ry Heath's letter as secretary repub
lican national committee in which po
sition of Parker and his committer
are made clear.
As one of the founders of the peo
ple's party, I do not "J Ike to see it end
in political prostitution. I would
rather see it decently buried at once.
W. H. T. WAKEFIELD.
Mound City. Kas.
(Although The Independent has nev
er, had a very high opinion of Jo
Parker, and has said some harsh things
about him, it has no positive proof of
his political corruption; hence, if Mr.
Wakefield will bring forward the
proofs, he will confer a benefit upon
men who are earnestly trying to do
right Parker represents an element
of populists who are undoubtedly hon
est aui sincere, and it is this eiement
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who cannot attend the Denver con
ference on July 27, 1903, to speak and
give an expression in regard to this
matter of so great importance to hu
manity, and let these expresions bo
made through the Nebraska Indepen
dent or other reform papers, if this
is done in time it will be of much aid
In wise deliberation in the Denver con
ference. JNO. STONE.
Cone, Tex.
IOWA PEOPLES PARTY
Stat Chairman 'oriuan 8aya Iowa Pop n
1UU Will Swing Back Into .Lin
Editor Independent: In response to
your kind invitation to write for pub
lication a letter giving the probable
action of the people's party in Iova
this year and what is the outlook for
their polling an increased vote
The populists of Iowa will swing
back into line this year, or a large
portion of them. They will be rein
rather than Parker with whom the J I?? the labor organizations of
Sioux Falls platform adherents wish
to treat If- Parker is a fraud, let us
know it. His exposure will benefit
mid-ro:ide:sJ more than any other fac
tion. Ed. Ind.)
A Mississippi Populist
Editor Independent: I am one of
the 300 that supported Judge Norton
of Chicago in jl896. I met Judge
Green, Bryan's old , law partner, in
the convention at St: "Louis and told
him that was not the time and place
to fuse;, that .we should put out a
Ftraight ticket and., do- our best to
throv the election inthe house and
then . was the time to At use. I am of
that opinion yet. -Tajfee'iit out of the
electoral college into the house and
then and there fuse..
Long may The Independent live and
prosper. , R. BREWER.
Aubrey, Miss.
Texas Reformers
Editor Independent: In compliance
to your request, will offer an expres
sion of my views. Dr. Wm. N. Hill,
Baltimore, Md., in issue of June 18.
3903, has written a letter with the ex
pression and platform of the union re
form party, which I think is timely
and very commendable.
Now ,fgr a successful union of all
reform parties I would suggest for a
platform direct legislation, known as
the initiative referendum and impera
tive mandate. By this movement the
enfranchisement of the people will be
possible; and as long as the people
are disfranchised in matters of leg
islation, there is little interest in vot
ing for the man. With the adoption of
direct legislation in the constitution of
the United States, the people could
elect from the dregs of the peniten
tiary for office of executive or repre
sentative,' and they would be the ser
vants of the people to the best of
knowledge and ability. With the
above accomplished, , as the people
shall elect from time to time, other
reforms may be secured.
Mr. Edgerton's call at Denver is
timely and of great Importance.. I
would suggest to all reform people
the state regardlesa of parties, the sil
ver republicans and silver democrats
will aid us in making a warm cam
paign, and the same could and should
be done in every state in the Union;
and would be done, if the so-called
leaders of the people's party were not
working in conjunction with the ene
mies of the reform movement at a
salary, or on a promise of a seat at
the pie counter.
It angers me when I look Back over
the work begun by the greenback par
ty and the wonderful strength they
manifested, and then to think how our
so-called leaders gave the organiza
tion away for a mess of pottage to the
democratic party; and then in a short
time got so patriotic that they wanted
another paty to trade on, and caused
the union labor party to be organized,
which was traded to the democratic
party before it .was really born, by
.he same class of so-called leaders:
and then again in 1891, these mould
ers of public opinion succeeded in get
ting together all branches and fac
tions of the people at Cincinnati, O.,
s;nd organized ti.3 people's party on a
basis that would have swept the coun
try by .this time, had not the un
worthy leaders attempted to give it
to the same old democratic party.
The worst enemy the reform party
has had to deal with, has been the en
emy within its own ranks men who
came into the party for the express
purpose of giving it over to the old
monopolistic party for price at a time
when the monopolies needed it worst.
What we ne"ed is men for leaders that
have not been hired by the old parties
to come into our party to manage our
business. The people are ripe for the
reorganization of the people's party,
but they are tired of leaders, such as
W. J. Bryan, Jas. B. Wreaver, W. V.
Allen, Marion Butler and several oth
ers, who want to drag the organiza
tion into the democratic party to get
reform something that common sense
should teach them could not be done,
end something history teaches us
never was and never will be done.
J. R. NORMAN,
Chairman State Committee People's
Party of Iowa.
Albia, la.
THE COMING MAN
Major Steagall Look Over th Situation
and Believes William Randolph
Hearst it a Winner '
Editor Independent: A Mr. Bliss of
California put an article in the
Arena, headed "United or Perish," in
the year of 1500, that was full of wis
dom. I wish the Arena would repub
lish it. The object of Mr. Bliss was
to show all patriots that democrats,
populists and all other parties and
factions must unite or see the republi
cans carry the day. He labored to
show them that the democrats had
polled over six million votes in 1896
and that they at least ought to be con
sulted in the selection of the candi
date. He showed the folly of factions
and factionalism, generally.
Well, the factions refused to follow
his advise and "they perished" and
the country has well nigh perished al
so although Hanna continues to howl
"let well enough alone." But it is
"well" with republican thieves only.
Four years more of Hanna's rule and
the country will not be worth f aving.
Nine-tenths of its wealth will be in
the hands of one-tenth of the people.
Eight years more of Hanna's rule will
laeve 95 per cent of the property of
this great country in the hands of 5
per cent of the people, with perhaps
not an honest man in the 5 per cent
Yet with these facts staring us in
the face, we have democrats, populists,
mid-roaders, Debs men, socialists,
gold democrats, silver democrats,
single taxers, temperance men and
whisky men! On a New York ballot
I saw last fall, which, by the way.
was as large as a country newspaper,
as well as I remember, there were
seven different kinds of democrats
Tammany democrats, county demo
crats, silver democrats, Greater New
York democrats, gold democrats, so
cial democrats, and Henry George dem
ocrats, and God only knows how many
other factions!
If any two of these faction" had
combined with the democratic party
they could have swept the state. In
fact, a combination of straight demo
crats and temperance people did .elect
Mr. Cunneen as attorney general of
the state.
Well, we will let all the factions
alone. They, are a curse to the coun
try. If the six million of men who
voted for Bryan will unite on a man
who is in sympathy with the masses
we can get a few thousand votes from
each of the factions and the day is
ours. sure. For, bear in mind, these
factions are held together by the in
fluence of their leaders, who are the
paid hirelings of Hanna. Many of
the leaders are paid not lees than
fifty thousand dollars per annum, I
em sure, and here is where many
millions ot the corruption funds go
that are 'squeezed out of the trusts.
No organization could use up thirty
or forty millions in personal bribes in
an election. . ,
There is a man in Florida, who Is
today under several indictments, who
was hired by the leaders of the repub
lican party at a fixed salary to come
to Georgia in 1891 to get into ths
farmers' alliance and to use his in
fiuence to lead the alliance out of the
democratic party; but a leading paper,
published the affidavits of several re-
putable men that established the truth
of the above statement, and ere the
next issue of that paper went to press
he had left for parts unknown. He
turned up in Florida afterwards, and
do doubt his salary was continued, for!
he soon began to figure as a leaden
of one of the factions that I have al
luded to. He usually made it a point
to introduce a resolution at the close
of each convention of his faction to
"vote 'er straight" if you ars the only
man that does.
But who is "the coming man?" He
is the only man that has a ghost of a
chance to poll enough votes from the
factions to win. Why can he do this?
Because ever man in every faction
knows that he is a friend of the
masses; that his great heart is in full
sympathy with them; his purse is
ever open to them; and that his three
great papers have ever plead their
cause, and have always hurled de
fiance at those who rob and oppress
them. At his name, the trusts shud
der, and postoffice thieves tremble. la
fact, his great papers are a terror to
evil-doers generally.
He will be the unanimous nominee
of democracy and he will poll more
votes from each and every faction,
end from the republicans even, than
can any other man living. In fact,
he is the only man that has been
named or even alluded to in connec
tion with the next presidential elec
tion by the opposition to the party in
rower who really has any inherent
strength, any personal popularity, any
power with the great masses of the
American people. And if the nomi
nation of the candidate for president
of the nation for the opposition next
year Is left to a general primary.
William Randolph Hearst will pHl
more votes than any ten men in the
nation can. A. H. STEAGALL.
Do Land, Fla.
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