DECEMBER 17, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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Smith, county would have been dead)
long ago if all the statesmen had been
as cheap as McCoraick.
Dr. J. T. Poison, Laclede, Mo.: "I
am much pleased with the plan of en
rollment, but more pleased to know
that energy and system are to be em
ployed in reorganizing. There are a
number in this (Linn) county who can
and will join the Old Guard of Pop
ulism and who can be depended upon
in the work. If you will send me about
twenty enrollment blanks if it will
not interfere with your plans I will
see them and enroll them myself. . . .
There is more populist sentiment here
than ever before and, with democracy
reorganized, the populist vote, in my
judgment, will be something surpris
ing." (I have sent Dr. Poison the 20
blanks. His idea is good. Others ought
to adopt the same course.)
H. C. Patzwald, It. F. D. 1, El Reno,
Okla.: "I hope that your efforts may
result in an organization that will
avoid the errors of the past and en
deavor to practice, within its power,
the principles we advocate."
A. C. Barton, Danville, 111.: "Yes,
sir; I indorse all you call for In your
circular. I am a straight Jesse Harper
populist, from the crown of my head
to the soles of my feet. Have been in
the middle of the road since 1876 and
have always opposed fusion."
B. N. Cleaveland, Fremont, Neb.:
"You can count on me as a member of
the Old Guard of Populism until death
ends my career on earth."
J. O. Smith, Ord, Neb.: "I am
stronger in the faith than ever before.
I cast my vote for Weaver in 1892 and
have voted the .'fusion' ticket ever
since but no more fusion for me. . . .
The people's party must rise again.-"
L. R. Fletcher, Bancroft. Neb: "I
am one of the OldGuard and proud to
own it. . . . There is no populist or
ganization in Cuming county fusion
swallowed it, boots and breeches.
There were at one time about 400 pop
ulists in the county, and I think they
are here yet and will be heard from
when independence is declared."
W. C. Starkey, Violet, Neb.: "There
are many true populists here, but the
past few years of fusion has disor
ganized the county. ... I honestly op
posed fusion because,. when a green
backer in Ohio, the same policy was
pursued in the campaign of 1879.
Then fusion with democracy demoral
ized our party. The fusion candidate
for governor, Thomas. Ewing, was
beaten by a large majority, and the
greenback vote of nearly 50,000 fell off
to 12,000. I was a candidate for the
legislature and felt the blow as a
straight party candidate."
CALL FOR MEETING OF NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 10, 1903 The
national executive committee of the
people's party of the United States, in
session at Memphis. Tenn., this 10th
day of December, 1093, begs leave to
congratulate the earnest reform vot
ers of the United States on the rapid
spread of those great principles of
human, government enunciated in the
Omaha platform of 1892, and for which
our organization has steadfastly con
tended, since the beginning.
The political history of the past few
years has only served to strengthen
ouf position, and to draw the atten
tion of patriotic voters to the prin
ciples involved in our political creed,
until it is today a generally accepted
theory that government ownership of
monopolies is better than, monopoly
ownership of government, although
through the manipulation of political
machines by the monopolies now con
trolling the public utilities of the
country, there has been but little leg
islation looking to public ownership.
The political history of the past
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til fr ItiU, nUtiuutftt It U tru a irvmjwl. If
yon will m mt ru M'tr hm, tu hiaim, i win
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few years has taught several invalua
ble lessons to those who would re
form existing abuses, the most im
portant of which is that fusion or co
operation with either of the old par
ties is a failure, destined to spread
confusion among reformers and to de
stroy our organization. It has also
taught that a divided reform move
ment can accomplish but little. While
in the past h6nest differences of opin
ion have divided our ranks, and lent
consolation to our enemies and the
despoilers of the people, we recom
mend as the future policy of our party
that reformers of all factions bury
their minor differences and unite on
the essential principles that will re
store to the people the power to con
duct the government free from the
dictation of an oligarchy of the "idle
holders of idle capital."
To, this end we hereby call the na
tional central committee of the allied
people's party to meet at the New St.
James hotel, in St. Louis, Mo., Feb
ruary 22, at 10 o'clock a. m., to fix
a time and place for a national con
vention to nominate candidates for
president and vice president of the
United States, and we Invite the com
mittees of other reform parties to meet
at the same time and place, looking
to a practical ,union of the reform
forces of the country in the approach
ing national campaign. We especially
invite the representatives of organ
ized labor, as it Is the policy of the
people's party to support the worthy
efforts of organized labor in its strug
gles against organized capital, and be
lieving that the final relief of labor
rests solely In an intelligent and well
directed ballot, we urge the co-operation
of the labor forces In our conven
tions and at the polls. '
We indorse the action of the recent
Denver conference in looking to re
union of the people's party on the old
lines, and extend our hands in frater
nal greeting to our co-laborers of the
great northwest who have in the past
been misled by false promises, only
to now be offered as a sacrifice to
Mammon.
There is widespread dissatisfaction
in the republican party; the demo
cratic party has abandoned the west
and is now engaged In concluding an
ailiance with the capitalistic forces of
the east. The way is now clear for the
patriotic men and women of all par
ties to unite on those essential prin
ciples of human liberty, and to this
end we pledge our earnest endeavors.
JO A. PARKER, Chairman.
Louisville, Ky.
(Reform papers please copy.)
LIFE OF JESSE HAR17ER.
Hon. A. C. Barton, of Danville, 111.,
has in preparation a biography of the
"Life and Labors of Col. Jesse Har
per." It will contain about 420 pages,
5 1-4 by 7 1-2, bound in cloth. In or
der to assist him in getting out the
first edition, it is necessary that a con
siderable number of populists send Mr.
Barton advance orders, which he will
accept at the rate of $1 per copy. Af
ter the edition is printed the price
will be ?1.25. Members of the Old
Guard of Populism who began back
in the days of Peter Cooper and Jesse
Harper ought to take this matter up,
for the sake of the days of auld lang
syne, and see that Mr. Barton receives
sufficient orders right away to bring
out the work.
SEMI-SOCIALIST.
Dr. J. II. Lackey, Canton, Ky., who
is a member of the Butler . national
committee, enrolls as a member of the
Old Guard of Populism, saying: "I
still feel an interest in the old pop
party but I fear the old party's day
of usefulness is past. I am nearly a
full-blooded socialist. Believe the
people's party has been a sort of
schoolmaster to bring us to socialism.
In my county canvass I made my text
these words from the preamble of the
Omaha platform: 'Wealth belongs to
those who create if and I think they
ought to have It. . . . Lefs get the
populists and socialists together
there Is but little difference in their
aims."
I have discussed this elsewhere In
this report. Dr. Lackey is what Hon,
O. I). Jones of Edlna, Mo., terms an
"American socialist" which I little
else than a very radical populist. Per
haps the ultimate- aim of all well
wishers of the human rnco Is th
name but where methods are bo dif
ferent, It doesn't lrx much Itko get
lln together. The socialist nurse a
"proletarian" movement and g h hts
cauno advanced by any testation
wttkh tend to bankrupt tho final I
property owner tho "mlddlo class"
becnuso the real revolution, a ho
sees it, I to t fought out l twt t u the
plutocrats find the property bus. The
popnlUt, nlno cases out of ten, la him
self a "middle clan" mart and In not
welcoming any legislation which will
reduce him to the. ranks of tho ' pro
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letarlat. It is IJla to expect any
"KPttliifj tocthrr" of two antagonistic
orKanlzatJona, ut thfso undoubtedly
nro. Few jiopullstg will willingly m
through hHl In im!r to r m It hoaviMt.
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tho sudulisU Insist that all mtit trav
tl the routo they lave picked out.
A mrr:s-iAYiNa mi:mmi:ushii
Jo A, I'arker. I.tmbville, Ky., chtlr
man national commlttco of tho allied
peoplfl's party, nctiunp.ink'd h!a rnll
fur tha Ht. louh nictln (Feb. 2.)
with thi followltif rommctil:
'Au organization such aa yoti pro
pna oufiht to ts l.;tnd on carefully
construe tid lincit and maJo a due
paying orgauijatioa. No other plaa
will furnish us tho necessary ainewa
of war. Tho people' party is today
scattered to the four winda, and fu
hlnn and poverty have dono It, Wo
can fcteer eKar of fusion in tho future
and can overcome our poveity If w
huv a dues-paying organization,
where everyone who has a voice In
the councils of the party must contrt
bulo Llti mite."
Turret. I had this In mind at tha
I Imo I first thought of enrolling tha
Old CJuard of Populism, but ,ild uoth
lu; nUva It for tho reason that for
mal nit Ion will bo Decenary to maka
tho p.i.ple's party ait orc.aul.ttlon of
dues-paylnR members; and, In view of
the fact that there are now two ua
tlunai commltteei, Utt tht addiUoaa