JANUARY 14 1904s.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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cid boys to oo this work ah oer
again for very few of them ever re
ceived any perquisites. These have
tone principany to the half-baked
railroad pass rigade that followed in
the waKe of the Old Guard ana never
contributed a dollar or showed any
enthusiasm until a prospect foi an
office was in ight."
W. E. Mulhkm, Somerset, Net.:' "I
am pleased to send yoa briak niiea
out for meml'"ship in Ihe Olu Guard
cf Populism.- I believe that the Old
Guard could t.e used to gvXd aavan
age as a medium to organiz the so
cialists, prohibitionists, cin'ic ta.eTs,
tdiver republicans 'ret acu Ctuo
trats, popuiidts, etc., itto a direct
legislation iwague witu auxiliaries,
with no other plank except thai the
people snail I'Ie; that is a question
cgitating trie oublic m.nd wnitu shaii
be presented a the voter tor Lis ap
proval. We fouu, enroh a. member
ship in suchj; an organization that
would surprise 'thi - natives. As we
T:ew the present . '.statin of political
conditions, the reform elements must
be brought .ogtthcr to atcciiiphsa re
torm without ; a ; revolution." -
N. II. Webb, i, M;; J)., ; Uareville,
lenn.: "Enroll me as one oi aie UiU
Guard of Pupal nm. ' I am a lorn
Watson populist." j:
J. K. Reid, Uly, Fla.: "I have been
9 populist ev'ji since the pat ij was
organized au4 expect to remain 'o.
There are more populists in our coun
try today than there ever were, if we
had any leader. Enter' my name as
one of the Old Guard of Populism."
(Seems to be; a difference of; opinion
regarding that question of .leadership.
Indiana populists insist they.- do . not
need any leaders, and do . not want
any. De France.)
Wm. D. Howard box 242, Albion,
Neb.: "I have no other desire than
to be enrolled in the Old Guard of
Populism. ; The principles laid down
in the Omaha platform have been,
are now, and always will be good
enough for me. I consider the Denver
conference was timely and wise and
believe the delegates at Grand Island
who precipitated the tabling of that
conference resolution will see the time
that will prove they made a grand
Wm. Floyd Howard, box 242, Albion,
Neb.": "I also wish to join the Old
Guard of Populism. My father's sen
timents are also mine." ,
M. J. Williams, West" Plains, Mo.:
"I will be in line when the bugle
sounds. - If we never accomplish any
thing we will have the pleasure of
knowing that we are right. I hope
the Old Guard of Populism is not be
ing enrolled for the purpose of being
turned oyer to Bryan or some other
old partv man; if it is. please excuse
me." (The Old Guard of Populism
is being enrolled in harmony with
the work of the Denver conference;
and this conference said that "we
believe the time is now" at hand when
the united people's party shoujd de
clare itself emphatically opposed to
anv affiliation with either of those
parties and unqualifiedly in favor of
independent national political action."
I shall turn the list of Old Guards
over to the next national committee
of the people's party. De France.)
J. P. Jarrell, Godley, Tex.: "Please
enroll my name among the Old Guard
of Populism, for I have been one ever
since the party was organized. I hope
to see populism prevail in 1904."
John Maribueh, R. F. D. 1. Esbon,
Kas.: "The Denver conference is all
right Enroll me in the Old Guard of
Populism."
A. R. Wright. Strang. Neb.: "En
roll me as a member of the Old Guard
of Populism. "The address of the
Denver conference sounds like the
long lost and forgotten Declaration of
Independence."
W. F. Peters, Tolar, Tex.: "I am
living away out here in western Texas
and there aro no populists near me,
but I want to be enrolled as one of
the Old Guard of Populism."
T. W. Winn, Covington, Tenn.: "I
was one of the very first la my county
to espouso the cause of populism. I
6pent three years lecturing on the
principles enunciated in the Omaha'
platform, freely giving of my means to
advance tho cause, believing aa I did
then and do now that tho principle
therein set forth would be the bul
wark of tho nation In th coming or
deal through which we aro called to
tl. F. Arnold. Nashville, Ark.: "A
referendum nomluation would b In
HEADACHE
line with our teachings. Why preach
a thing and not practice it? There is
my hand for straight populism and a
big victory this year; shake!"
J. D. Tucker, R. F. D. 2, Valparaiso,
Ind.: "Add my name and that of
John Blakeman, Winfield, Ind., to the
roster of the Old Guard. "We are
greenbackers and still in the fight for
the Omaha platform."
A. H. Livingston, .West Plains, Mo,;
"Am certainly gratified with progress
you are making toward the reorgani
zation of our forces. Your plan was a
splendid thought. It gives us a start
ing point. While we mid-road pop
ulists, who live in mossback demo
cratic states suffering untold abuse
and persecution at the hands of pie
hunters and boodlers--had about given
you fusionists over to satan and
the democratic party, we are more
than rejoiced to see you take the lead
for reorganization and aggressive par
ty action. It gives us new courage and
hope, and we will be found doing our
full share toward upbuilding the party
on a firm basis. The disclosures here
in Missouri of boodling, bribery, and
all kinds of villainy on the part of as
corrupt a political machine as ever
dominated "any state, will give you
soma idea why we refused to abandon
our party and support a party as cor
rupt as the republican party dared to
be. But thi3 is now all of the past
end let us' stand together as brothers
and patriots until our country is res
cued from the insatiable god of greed
and the government, from one end to
the other, given into the hands of the
plain, honest, common people."
Vincent J. Stedry, Broken Bow,
Neb.: "Enclosed Pnd 50 cents to help
populism along. No new parties for
me, for I believe that populism stands
as good a show as anv party that can
be started, if the thing can be kept
clean."
John Long, Colfax, Wash.: "I
never have doubted the final triumph
of the principles of the people's party.
My knowledge of history and faith in
a just God assures me that darkness
cannot resist light or wrong resist
right, for this is a conflict between
darkness and -light or right and wiong.
Jesus taught that if the blind led the
blind both would fall Into the tiitch.
The ditches are certainly neing dug
and the blind politicians and editors
are leading the blinded voters Into
them."
Wm. A. Lassiter. Barber, Ark.; "My
health is bad, I being past 71 years of
age; but am still strong in the faith
ud expect to die so, though by the
feebleness of age I am unable to do
much."
A KENTUCKY SPECIAL.
Hon. J. J. Streeter, editor of the
Vineland (N. J.) Independent, and
father of the Cincinnati plan of or
ganization, noting that -the third
weeks' enrollment of the Old Guard
of Populism showed onlv two names
from Kentucky, sends jn a list of 135
Kentucky names and a couple of dol
lars for postage. I sent this list the
prospectus Wednesday, and hope to
get big results from it. Mr. Streeter
takes issue with me on the question
of whether the St. Louis meeting
shall decide on a convention or refer
endum nomination. He ays: "I dif
fer from you. Samuel Williams holds
the key to the situation and can legal
ly call a central district convention
and so proceed with the work of divi
sion and subdivision by properly util
izing the enrollment you are mak
ing." Doubtless that Is true as far
as concerns the allied peoples party,
but the wing having Chairman Butler
at the head has never adopted the
Cincinnati plan. And if the two wings
are to unite according to agreement
at the Denver conference, each has a
right to say something is to the plans
for future work. Mr. Williams has
had three years in which to call this
central district convention; it mi&ht
havo been done long bdore the Den
ver conference.
I trust Brothers Streeter, Parker,
Park, Mallctt, Bodenhaiuer, and oth
ers, will pardon me if I refrain from
taking part In any of their controver
sies over what has been done, or neg
lected to be done, in the past In tho
way of giving tho Cincinnati plan a
fnir trial. I had no hand in ita adop
tion and nm not a part of that wing
ol the people' party which did adopt
it. I know but little, un.l care even
Ic.H. an to who U the correct hUtor-
Icn. The past la beyond recall. I am
IcoMng to tho immediate present ami
the future In tho Old Guard enroll
ment and have no criticisms to make
of any of these gentlemen, because I
havrtt t time now to study am l-nt hi-
torr. even If 1 had thu Inclination o
to do. De, France,
A QITSTION OF ILL (iUACH.
I am Momctthiit at a loss to under
Und ju.t what Mr. Howell U drtvlni
at lit the letter hHow, which aceom
panled his request to be enrolled ta a
member of the Old Guard of Populism
His enrollment has been entered and
will appear next week. He says:
"Charles Q. De France, Assistant
Secretary: 'Why not in 1904? Under
the quoted heading, Mr. Dixon voiced
honesty of purpose. Convention rule
means corruption, bosslsm. ultimate
betrayal, The man who suggests it
is too late to inaugurate honest meas
ures in party management, usually
proves, to be one who really does not
want fair, honest rule.
Your suggestion, If carried into ef
feet, will prove the finish of populists
as a party. Then, in view of the past,
such a suggestion comes with ill grace
from Nebraska. I value populist prin
ciples enough . to raise " my voice
against such a suggestion; and with
the most charitable consideration I
can see it, itj looks very suspicious.
Populists have' been betrayed quite of
ten enough. JAMES L. HOWELL.
Poplar, Cal."
Well, I have not doubted Mr. Dixon's
honesty of purpose. Neither have I
opposed the plan to nominate by direct
vote but. on the contrary, have been
doing a little toward making it possi
ble to nominate that way. Mr. How
ell has a perfect right to be just as
suspicious as he chooses and to make
whatever charges of "ill-grace" he may
deem proper. . But after he has
worked as many hours under hfgh
pressure as I have in the past fix
weeks in this enrollment work his
temper will not be any sunnier than
mine Is right now.
It is easy ,to TALK about direct
nominations but it takes WORK to
make them. I have been five weeks
enrolling 511 names.- How long will
it take at that rate to get In touch with
half a million people? Perhaps, after
he has figured a little, Mr. Howell will
not be so suspicious. De France.
F. '. M. Clifton, ' Kaufman, Tex.:
"Please give Mr. Geo. A. Groot-and
Mrs. Lydla Butler my thanks for their
two articles in The Independent. They
are worth the price of the paper one
year."
W. R. Tribbey, Gallatin, Mo.: "I
voted the democratic ticket straight
until they got a president, house of
representatives, and a senate; then
they did just what they accused the
republicans of doing in 1873 repealed
the Sherman law and gave us nothing
in the way of a change. Then the re
publicans met in convention at St
Louis and indorsed the wise course
that the preceding administration had
followed! I was going to winter my
vote for a few years, but an ol J" pop
ulist, who has since gone from his
labors, gave me the Missouri World
with the Omaha platform and since
that time I have been a populist, root
ed and grounded in the faith, and will
be in the trench if the rest all leave.
I am prepared to defend populist prin
ciples anywhere. I can't say I am
an Old Guard, but I am a faithful
young guard."
T. W. Ray, Lois, Ga.: "I am still
in the cause of justice and humanity
end am rejoiced at the results of the
Denver conference. May the members
of that conference stand as firm in
the future as they did the day they
met these wayward brothers and wel
comed them back to the cause of jus
tice and e"qual rights. I am glad to be
called one of the Old Guard, having
been in the cause since the day of its
birth and am proud that I have."
J. W. Maher, El Reno. Okla., gen
eral agent for the Oklahoma Farmers'
Mutual Indemnity association, sends
$3 to help pay expenses of enrolling
the Old Guard of Populism, and says:
"I am still a strong believer in the
Omaha platform, and will continue bo
until there is a better one. framed,
which, in my judgment, hag not been
done yet. Had we lived strictly to the
principles of our platform, we today
could dictate to both old parties, but
we wandered away from the prin
ciples laid down In our platform and
today we aro drifting away, not know
ing where to land, like a mariner at
Ufa who has lost hla ruddfr. But let
tho past bo a warning, and an educa
tor to us all, and let in begin the yar
J Out with a firm resolution to reor
ganize and fctav by our party and not
to ready to swap our rrtv principle!
tor office or promlae of Ram."
A. Gammon, Ore, Mo.: "It is very
gratifying to neo tho boys alt along
tho Hue answering to your noble call
to actum. 1 wish my nam placed on
the Old Guard mil and hope that U
may be preserved, for eotnln genera
tion will honor It If plMe more
than wo now do tuum noble men who
s'KiieJ tho Declaration la 1I7S, We
have no rgnUtlun In th'a iuiii.tr
now, tut hope tho Uv not fr off
when there will I inuwt admit that .
It takes a fellow with a ititt backbone
here now to say, ."I "am a populist
tut I am very- proud to be called one
even now. I fear those who wish the
party name changed have not been
all along the trail. Hope all nomina
tions for officers in both state and na
tion be made by a referendum vote In
If 04; it will add more strength to our
grand old party than many -think.
Enclosed find $1.".
SMITH COUNTY, KANSAS.
I have begun the work of sending
out blanks on which to report the
county organization complete. The
first return comes from Smith county,
Kansas, showing names of the 25 pre
cincts, with committeemen therefor
and their postofflce addresses. There
are 25 members of the county commit
tee. ,
Smith Is nrobablv'the banner countv
for populism In Kansas. Secretary J.
A. Wright of the countv committee
informs me that he has just purchased
The Messenger, a democratic paper at
bmitn center, and converted it into a
populist journal. "It will surely be
'pop' to the core," he says. This Is
good news. Mr. Wrisrht savs there
are 12 populist papers in his conces
sional district (Cth). Populist papers
win see tnat The Messenger is put on
their exchange list.
CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE,
Assistant Secretary.
Lincoln, Neb.
Exchange List
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We have a stock of drv eooiln and
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A fine 2-story brick buildme. 24firt
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We have a fine list of fruit fa rmt in
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llnceln, Nebraska.