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Vot. XV. LINCOLN NEB., JANUARY 14, 1904. No. 34.
YTA i ' . . 1 v I Ml". Tibbies In the Effete
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(As was announced two weeks ago,
Mr. Tibbies is making a trip through
" the east, partly on pleasure bent, but
chiefly to get in touch with populists
' in other parts of the United States
. a J to learn by personal contact with
them how they feel-over the political
outlook for 1904; and incidentally to
-'. give Independent readers the benefit
' " of his trip in a series of editorial let
. ters. ' -
His first stop was at Indianapolis,
where he met a number of old-time
populist workers and they held a sort
of informal meeting "for the good of
( the order." " Those present gave him
' a list of names for enrollment in the
Old Guard of Porjlism, assuring him
that each and every man is a time
tried popuhst. I have counted the
whole 127 as members this week; but
immediately on receipt of the li&l, I
sent them the Old Guard prospectus,
and trust that each one wiil till out
the enrollment blank and return to
me; in order that we may maintain,
as far as possible, uniformity in the
manner of enrollment. Indiana is the
logical center for this Old Guard en
rollment, being in the Centraldivision
under the Cincinnati plan, and now
stands at the head of the list as far
"as membership is concernedalthough
Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas
and Tennessee have shown the great
est amount of interest in the enroll
ment thus far. Mr. Tibbies' correspon
dence follows. Associate Editor.)
- INDIANA MEETING.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 6, 1904.
( (Editorial Correspondence.) The
postponement from the holidays to
the week following, of the arrival of
the editor in Indianapolis Interfered
...... greatly . with the attendance at.. con
ference he proposed to hold with Ind
iana populists; but nevertheless it
was the largest meeting of populists
that has been held in Indianapolis for
several years. Seven out of the thir
teen congressional districts were rep
resented by their district chairmen
and three by letter. The old-time
.populist enthusiasm was shown by
" every one present. Several addresses
were made which were full of fire and
vim. There was no disagreement. It
reminded one of the old farmers al
liance in Nebraska. Every one pres
ent had come all the way over the
trail, or for a greater part of it.
The plan adopted was to push the
enrollment of the Old Guard df Pop
ulism in every county and precinct in
, the state as far as possible. The great
need of the populists in Indiana just
at present is a :aper circulating gen
erally among the populists all over
the state. It was the. opinion of the
best informed men present that if the
conference had been held during the
holidays, when low railroad rates pre
vailed and they could have found any
means to advertise it, that it would
have been one of the largest meetings
of populists ever held in the state.
It was frequently remarked at the
meeting that there are not less than
100.000 voters in the state at the pres
ent time, who are in thorough accord
with the Denver conference and the
principles there promulgated; or, as
it was sometimes put, in accordance
with the address which was issued
by the Indiana populists last Septem
ber and which was printed in The In
dependent. There will bo a persistent effort to
got the populist national convention
at Indianapolis. A committee ap
pointed at the meeting is already at
work to get rates, halls and other
conveniences, arid they will appear at
trio meeting of the national commit
tee nt St. Loula with a very tempting
offer and a hurtling committee to
urue the claim of Indianapolis.
Tlui following revolutions were
juiiuotl by the conference:
"Ut.mlvrd. That we hereby me-
Xntly request Chairman Butler to
call a meeting of the popuiHt in
tlonil iornmlte to meet m M.
I.oul on February 2-: find If he
fall to do bo Immediately, we re
quest Vice Chairman J. H. Kdiuis
ten lo call the committee."
"Resolved, Tha. w request nil
populist of thU niatc, who can do
o, to attend hr in eel I tig Df the
national committees to be held at
St. Louis on February , 22, to the end
that all the .elements may ' be
brought together for harmonious ac
tion at the coming election." ,
All the rd is trie t chairmen presenti
pledged themselves to press the en
rollment of the Old Guard of Popul
ism as rapidly as possible, and to send
the names to Secretary De France, so
that even before the St. Louis meet
ing of the national committees (Feb
ruary 22) there would be ready to
hand over to the proper authorities
the names of men in every part f
the state known to be houojable
populists with whom communica
tion could immediately be had.
When Indiapa polled thirty or forty
thousand votes and there' were com
mittees in every county, it was an
easy matter to get information to the
rank and file. Now that the old rec
ords have disappeared, it is difficult
and this makes the enrollment of the
Old Guard a necessity before any real
work can be done. The populists of
Indiana are still populists; and be
sides that, -ithere are thousands of
Bryan democrats ready to leave their
party the moment the Gorman-Cleveland
wing get into the saddle.
The men who attended thevconfer
ence are among the most substantial
citizens of the state. Of "ourse the
majority of tiiem are farmers; but
among them many other professions
and lines of business were repre
sented. One of the most earnest among
them was axrailroad contractor, wno
employes hundreds of men and he
talks. populism to them all the time.
It was the opinion of all those pres
ent that this conference will give a
great impetus to populism all over the
state. Many-timt-ir was remarked-
that there .are thousands of men in
Indiana who are ' simply waiting for
some one to start a movement and
who are anxious to fall into line and
fight like a avild cat until the polls
close. v
There will undoubtedly be a large
delegation of Indiana populists at the
meeting-of the national committees
at St. Loui3 on .February 22. T.
AN OLD POP IN WALL STREET.
He Strikes a New Scheme to Discredit
, and Destroy Thousands of Sil
ver Dollars.
New York) "Jan! 9, 1904. (Editorial
Correspondence.) Here is an old pop
in Wall street, i The streets are full
of snow and the overburdened h Jrses
are straining and pulling at loads that
no decent' man would place upon
them; while the humanity, If it can
be called such, rushes, crowds and
jams along the narrow sidewalks as
if the devil himself wis after them.
Mammon and Moloch rule. The devil
and his imps boss the job.
I saw a newspaper man who was
waiting, and watching for some of the
great moguls to come out of an office.
I opened a conversation with him,
telling him I was a wild and, woolly
pld pop from Nebraska. He- asked if
the populists were as wild about sil
ver out there as ever. I said to h'm
that his information was lacking or
he never would have asked if the
populists were wild after silver. What
the populists wanted was more mon
ey and they didn't care what it was
made of.' That was a new idea; to
him and he was very much aston
ished. I said to him that the re
publicans having given us more mon
ey than the pop3 demanded, we were
all prosperous out, in Nebraska, and
that I had - made money enough- to
INDIANA POPULISTS
come down to New. York, which would
have been impossible for any Ne
braska farmer when Wall street waa
demanding dear money and stopping
the coinage of silver.
He. said; "I will put you onto a
little scheme of the magnates of Wall
street; that is, it you consider the
bankers, Wallstreet as well as the big
trust magnates." He handed me a'
silver dollar and asked: "Do you
think that a good dollar?" I said U
was. He said: "It won't pass any
where down town here." "Why?"
"Do you see that little scratch on it?
A scratched silver dollar won't go
anywhere down town here and there
are thousands of them." I gave him
a paper dollar for it and tried at three
places and no one would take it. 1
explained to them that a silver dollar
was standard: money -f the United
States and legal tender for all debts,
public and private, except where oth
erwise stipulated in the contract. It
was no go. None of them would have
it. Here is a little Wall street scheme
that I' struck as soon as I landed In
town. There is money in it or they
wouldn't be scratching thousanJs of
silver dollars and then refuse to take
them. I am going to look that thing
up. That is the first thing, that an old
pop "got onto" when he walked down
the street. T.
INDIANA SPECIAL ENROLLMENT.
At a meetine of T. H. Tibbies, edi
tor of The Independent, with a num
ber of Indiana populists, held in Ind
ianaDolis. January 6. 1904. the follow
ing names were handed in for enroll
ment in the Old Guard of Populism.
Those present vouched for each and
every one of them as a true and tried
populist. I have enrolled them spe
cially and sent each one a prospectus,
hoDiner to have the enrollment blank
filled and returned to me as soon as
possible, in order to, maintain uni
formity in the method of keeping the
list. De France.
Marion County Col. Leroy Temple
ton, Ruckle and 19th; William Pat
terson, 520 East Ohio; Josiah Willets,
533 Blake; Frank Davis, 710 Rhode
Island; Mr. Wells, 516 North New Jer
sey; Moses Thompson, West Michigan;
Alex Smith, North Indianapolis; Geo.
W. Schofield, Sangster ave.; Capt. C.
W. Brouse, Law Building; and Ar
thur Schofield, Martlndale aye., Ind
ianapolis. Henry County Ruf us Davis and G.
R. Marshall, Moreland; Isaiah Teeter,
Blountville.
Delaware County Ram Dragoo, A.
W. Rosa, Muncie; Geo. Chalfant. Sel
ma; Thos. Recce, Jonathan Cllne,
Windsor; Wm. Propps, Martiu Brandt,
David Babb, Eaton.
Putnam County Dr. H. Morrison.
Dr. A. T. KelRhtley, L. II. Snider. Rob
ert Williamson. Jamen Job, Conrad
Job. Joseph Cline, Ezra Cllne, Win.
I '(Kid. Thomas Rule. David Knell,
Cloverdale; Itovert Huffman, Van
Huffman, Calvin Plnmtner, Anthony
Hummer. Reelsville; Robert Talbott,
Brick Chapel; V. S. Wa!si, Flmai
tle. Park County !avM Shirk. Stiver
wood; John Randolph, Marshall.
Vermillion County Joshua Whitt
InMon. Smith Samuel. Joseph Milch
ill, Cayuga.
Marshall County Juda John B-n-der,
Plymouth.
JenniiiK County Joseph R. Wll
liama. North Vernon.
Mad I aon County Pr, Hubbard, An
deroo.
Vigo County M. C. Rankin, Terre
Haute.
Vanderberg County Pat H. Carroll,
Evansville. .
Bartholemew County Hon. W. C.
Evero'ad, Columbus,
Fountain County Thomas N. Lief,
Atica; W. W. Luke, J. W. Dicken, Ho
mer Osborn, Schuyler La Tourette,
Covington; J. H. Van Sickle, John
Tavey, Cates; J. M. Cory, Kingman;
M. F..Wooley. Wallace; N. Whitehall,
Wm. Taylor, Newton; Geo. A. Gallo
way, Fountain; F. Z. Helms, Ayles
worth; A. La Baw, Veedersburg; F.
S. jCampbell. Ambrose Crane, James
H. Crane, J. N. Campbell, John La
Baw, M. Bowling, Stone Bluff.
i Boone County J. H. Caldwell, S.
W. Coulson, Homer Dale, Wm. O.
Campbell. J. D. Alexander, John A.
Farron, C. C. Padgett, J. T. Padgett.
Chas. H. Padgett, C. Campbell, Samuel
Vandever, James Vandever, Oliver
Proctor, Wid Vav Max, Arthur A.
Caldwell, D. D. Cohee, Wm. Hazel
rigg, James Bowen, C. T. Warren, Al
Murray, Lebanon; D. H. Schockley,
Stephen Dale, Jamdstown: A. S.
Campbell, Terhune. R. F. D. 32; Frank
Blond. Joliett; S. V. Titus, W. II. Ro-
tey, Thorntown; Jacob Steelsmlth.
Sharron; . John Barrett, Sheridan;
Benj. Wing, KlrklanJ.
Jefferson County Thorna . McDon
ald, Isaac Williams. Tillman Williams.
Thorf. J. Llndley, Hun. Hammond,
Foltz.
Ripley Count v II. l Spencer. Ver
sailles; Tluw. i:. Wll.ion, 0,oo.l.
Martin County Tim. V. Force,
I.ooi;oolee.
Johnson County Wm. V, polk,
FranHln; Martin II. Kindle, Trafal
gar; Wm, Meyern, Rocklane,
Shelby County N'nalt Million.
I'lheibyvilte; Wm. HoMuit. Bo-;-ustown.
Hancock County-Samuel Walker.
Geo. Walker, Charlottesville; Flmef
I.eary, Greenfield,
Carroll C(imty Jodeph Ganna. Fra
iler Thoma. lufnht.
Clinton County Taylor Fralcr,
John W. (horse, Frankfort.
Grant County Joshua Strange, At
tana.
THE LAND OF CLIFF DWELLERS.
How the People Who Always Vote
the Plutocratic Ticket Straight
Live in the Provinces
Down by the Sea.
New York, Jan 11, 1904. (Editorial
Correspondence.) The people who
live out on the broad plains west of
the Missouri: and who move!. about
unconflned in unlimited , space,, can
have no idea how the people live- In
this city, where tens of thousands are
crowded together on a space that
would not' make a decent cabbage
patch for a Nebraska farmer. Some
of those who have seen the cliff
dwellings of the ancient people qut In '
Colorado , may have some idea of the
mode of existence here, but the ordi
nary Nebraska farmer can have no
conception of It. The people here are
cliff dwellers. Each family has "a few
caves, most of them as far from the
ground as the highest of the cliff
dwellers, into which the sun never
penetrates with the exception of the
front cave, if the cliff is on the north
side of the street, or In the rear cave
if it is situated on the south side.
They have some improvements over
the old cliff dwellers of Colorado! The
awellers along the canons had ladders
upon which dey climbed to their
caves,' here they have stairways up
which they wearily toil. The door at
the bottom is always locked. The one
seeking entrance pushes a button
which rings a bell in tho particular
cave he wishes to visit. The dweller
in that cave, no matter how far up he
may be, if he desires to admit the vis
itor, pushes another button and the
door down on the level earth opens ot
itself and In walks the caller. Then
he begins his weary ascent and finally
arrives at the particular cave that he
wishes to enter. What they call
streets are simply canons in which
there exists a constant turmoil and a
roar like that of the coming of a
cyclone.
Of course people spending their
lives In Mich an environment cannot
ba expected to be normal or be able
to think in a normal way, and that
being the case, they adopt for them
Reives a new god and live lives so far
from thoM? of men and women who
come In conHtant contact with God and
nature, that they can have nothing In
common. Here with very few excep
tion they all worship the Rod Mam
mon. The ideal that ko toward mak
ing The wholesome living and think
Inn -that we find on the farms In Ne
braska have no place In uih an ex-btc-ui
e.
The exprcxulon on the far of tha
people U different from that In th
west. They nil iieem to be hard driv
en, and a imI and almost fxprennion
lea face I seen on almost every one
of them. The way they rush along
the street- one would think that th
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