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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1903)
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 3 WP APR PLANNING FOP FAIR WEEK" M so6i '02 xenon v 5ai to have in practically all our winter goods, including full lines of tailored suits and furs and a fair showing of winter cloaks. Our stock will be sure to interest you. The buyers in various departments say that they have found more beautiful, more perfect, and more plentiful varieties of goods than ever before. 9 8 8 9 w 8 A Decided Advantage In Early Baying If it's carpets or rugs or a .cloak, or an all wool dress, or other goods to be long used, a fine selection both "in material and style gives more advantage than purchases made later. lace Certains and Muslin Curtains are coming in daily the largest shipments we have ever received and the prettiest, choicest patterns ranging from 90c up. Be sure to visit our Carpet and Drapery De partment while in Lincoln. We are proud to show you around if for no other purpose than to have it admired. The Fall Season finds Oar large Carpet ft Room full of New Designs in Carpets and Rugs Customers tell us that they are the most beautiful patterns they have seen and we know that the qualities are the best to be found. We carry the regular range in prices but the tags are attached to goods of which we are justly proud. Our stock of Ingrain carpets is particularly large and varied as a result of early buying, for they are proving very hard to obtain as the season advances. Is 9 MILLER PAIN E, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. THE NEW ALIGNMENT Chairman EdminUn on tha Danyar Con-fer.nce-Work of the Organization Comniittaa Editor Independent: It is with much pleasure that we notice the expres sions given by the people's party pa pers of the country in regard to the action of the joint committee at Den ver at its recent conference. All factions of the peoples party have united and fully agree that they will in the future nominate and sup rort one candidate, who is a member of the people's party for the presi dency. And while this action by the two committees cannot be binding up on the partyfurther than it shows the feeling among those in attendance, it was gratifying to witness the unan imity of feeling that prevailed throughout the conference. Men of thought and deeply fixed convictions can now have a place to associate themselves when it comes to exercis ing the right of freemen, and thry can cast their ballots without being the victims of deception. Therefore we call upon each and ev ery populist of the country to give the ratters herein suggested careful con sideration and not condemn the ac tion of the committee at the sugges tion of some opposition newspaper or political leader. We can safely locate such as in oppositon to our cause. We believe if we pursue a straightforward course, fully adhering to the prin ciples promulgated at Omaha aud re iterated on other occasions; therein lies' the hope of the country. We are in opposition to the trusts and every other kind of legalized greed. We believe the great corpora tions of the country have such a firm told on the old parties that It is folly to expect relief from either of them. .The old parties have secret influences within, that shape, mould and fix their politices. For this reason the people's party takes a firm stand for independent action, and men of high ideals and strong, unflinching deter mination can join their efforts in the attempt to of this a government of the people and not a government of the trusts. . There was no attempt made by the conference at Denver to promulgate a platform. The address issued by the conference did set out a few of the fundamental truths that the party stands for and on which it was found ed, giving assurance to the great mass of voters that we still believe in them, that no deviation even to the doting of an "i" or the crossing of a "t" would l.e permitted and that we would con tinue to fight the battles of th peo ple's party standing on its everlast ing truths. We cannot urge too strongly that all true lovers of reform give all the assistance in their power to the com mittee that has under its management the work of placing in each state and county a live, wide-awake, working or ganization, and in that way lay the foundation for an effective campaign in 1904. The head of this committee is J. A. Edgerton of Denver, Colo.; treasurer, Col. J. S. Felter of Spring field, 111.; secretaries, J. H. Calder head, Helena, Mont, and C. Q. De France, Lincoln, Neb. These gentle men were chosen by the conference and indorsed by the joint national committees. In no sense will this com mittee come in conflict with the na tional committees now in existence, and it ceases to exist when it has or ganized the various states and coun ties of the country and reports tc the next national convention. We call upon all friends who were associated with" the farmers' alliance and all kindred organizations north and south. to join. in this effort to re turn to the days when we made the country feel the effect of our influ ence. We are more powerful today than then if we will make use of our power, because we know each other tetter. . All committees will, I believe, work in perfect harmony, and when the na tional convention convenes W3 will centralize these into one committee and with a candidate fresh from the People, and of the people, we can make a campaign that, will interest the vot ers who belong to the common people, including all classes engaged in legiti mate enterprises, and they constitute a majority of the voters. These classes should stand side by side in the set tlement of these important questions. The question is, Will we do it? The old parties will labor to prevent it, but I believe we can. The efforts of the trusts and corporations to merge everything into one body or as nearly as possible, should arouse the suspic ion of every thinking man of the na tion who has a business of his own or has to depend on his day's labor for a living. The trust system destroys tope and independence, leaving but two things to be done, either to join the system or oppose it. This problem is defined clearly and we must take our position some time. Let us do it now. The classes that ere in opposition to the trust system, iccluding every man who is exercis ing his best efforts to conduct his busi ness in an honorable way, to secure a fair return for his labor and invest ments, and these men should have something to say about the running of the government's affairs. The ex tremely wealthy and aristocraUc are supported by the trusts and the cor r orations. Do the common people have anything in common with those classes? And yet it is a fact that a rrajority of the representatives in the national congress and the state legis latures are made up of trust and cor poration representatives. Let us ex press our individual rights in these matters. The trusts tax the consumer for everything that he uses. The com plaint is made from all sections of the country that extortionate rates are charged by the common carriers cZ the country. We stand for government ownership and operation of railroads at actual cost. Stop the piling up of ullions for a few while the average ftockholders go to the wall. The greatest evil is known fo be the national banking system with kindred concerns controlling the money of the country. For all these and many other reasons there should be an overhaul ing and breaking up of political lines, f.nd the establishing of a new align ment in the interest of the great com mon people. Let us do this by acting vith the people's party. J. H. EDMISTEN, Vice Chairman of the National Com mittee of the People's Party. This is cheering news. The Inde pendent hopes to see the Iowa popul ists make no mistake in putting up a ticket or making a platform, because that will in a measure test the former populists who have recently been vot ing the democratic ticket They can then choose between a good democrat running on a "cowardly platform," or a good populist or a courageous pop ulist platform. Iowa PopuIl5ts A call has been made for the mem bers of the people's party of Iowa to neet in mass state convention at the Y. M. C. A. building, in the citr of Des Moines, la., on Thursday, August 27, 1903, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the pur pose of placing in nomination candi dates for state offices. No one will be barred from taking part in the convention who favors nomination a union people's party state ticket and is willing to lend his assistance in helping to elect the same. Former members of the farmers' al liance, citizens' alliance, industrial le gion and Knights of Labor are invited to meet on this occasion, and a special invitation Is extended to the members cf new labor organizations, consist ing of the united mine workers of America, the federal labor union and the American federation of labor, and other branches of labor organizations, and all factions of reform parties and free silver advocates, and all who favor good government and indepen dent political action. The call is signed by J. R. Norman, chairman, Albia; S. M. Harvey, sec retary, East Des Moines. . - , Kentucky Populists A call has been made for a joint state convention of the allied peo ple's party and the united labor party to meet at Germania hall, 109 West Jefferson street, Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday, August 26, 1903, at 10 o clock a. m., for the purpose of nomi nating a state licket and taking such action as may be deemed advisable to advance the interests of the in dustrial classes. The members of organized labor, representing the united labor party, vill be entitled to one-half the votes to be cast In the convention, while the delegates of th.i people's party, repre senting the farmers, will cast one-half the votes. The call is signed as follows: Rep resenting the united labor party, Joe 11 Bradburn, J. L. Baron, W. M. Sul livan, Fred Schwencker; representing the allied people's party, Jo A. Parker, W. B. Bridgeford, L. C. Sauer, John Krouse. The Independent bids the reformers of Kentucky Godspeed In their work, although it is doubtful whether any permanent alliance can be effected be tween farmers and wage workers This has failed in the past but if the Blue Grass boys' can make it work, success to them! Will Pay all Losses The damage to crops in Nebraska this year by hail is much greater than the average. Scarcely any county has escaped entirely. Many farmers, real izing the danger, had protected them selves with hail insurance. Those who took out policies In the United Mutual Hail Insurance association of this city are fortunate and will re ceive payment In full for all losses sus tained. Early in the spring The In dependent cautioned its readers to be careful in placing their hail Insurance and select the United Mutual, which is by far the largest, the oldest and most reliable hail Insurance company In the state. The advice was good then, and it Is good now, as those wUo acted upon It will testify.