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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JANUARY 14, 1304.
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T. II. T1HBLEP, Editor.
C. Q. DE HIANCE, Atscrlatc Editor.
.!. EAGIR, liisirnf8:ai)8ger.
Dr. J. F. Duncan, McShan, Ala.:
"Give the two old twins the d 1.':.
W. A. M. Smalley. Gabriel Mills,
Tex.: "I am strong In the faith and
ready to fight to a finish and gain the
victory or go down trying."
D. P. Ricc Occidental, Cal.: "I am
heartily In favr of the plan of en
rolling the Old Guard. Have sent in
over forty names of Californians."
T. W. Ray, Lois, Ga.: "I like The
Independent v-?ry much in every re
spect and find it a paper that ought
to be read by every populist in the
land."
C. M. Gooch, Briar Creek, Mo.: "I
will help you out, rest assured. We
will yet contest every inch of the
ground against the enemy of good
government."
N. A. Crum, Pisgah, Mo.: "Enroll
me as one of the Old Guard of Pop
ulism. ... I expect to remain a pop
ulist the rest of my life and to stay
in the middle of the road."
Dr. Brose S. Home, Marion, Ind.:
"I. admire The independent very much
and 'also Indorse the Old Guard move
ment." The nominations should be
made without conventions."
II. B. Hewitt, Stafford, Kas.: "State
taxes here have increased 100 per
cent since the republican party got in
power and the Jffice-seekers are stand
ing around with their mouths wide
open."
W. S. Osborn, Kaufman, Tex.: "I
like to read The Independent, and be
lieve it Is a better paper than any
other reform paper I take. Keep on
shooting the hot shot of reform until
victory is won."
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T. S. Scott, Matt, Mo.: "I fully in
dorse and approve your plan of en
rolling the Old Guard. I think it the
only consistent plan to get your com
mittee fully in touch with the tnie
populists of America."
J. A. Billings, Somcra, Mont., a
Veter Cooper jTuMtbai ker In 1S7G, n
Weaver supporter In lvX1, thinks he
ha si "found the home of every trtw
populist In the &ociali.U party.' It
all depend upoa the viewpoint, I'.ro.
Hilling. It may ju-em w to yon and
for you, no doubt, it U but there are
many thousands of popu'.UU who
think otherwise. liven though The
Independent cannot Indorxo roelalbm,
It fsajs: "Better be a socialist and
Inow hy, than be an old party timl
let head and nv.allow v hat teuc lead
tr tell you."
- LEGAL TENDER
Mr. Tibbies' experience : on Wall
street with a scratched silver dollar,
calls to mind the fact that there is
much misunderstanding as to the ex
tent of "legal tender." Captain Ash
by went into that matter fully in his
"Money and the Taxing Power."
As Captain Ashby pointed out, the
power of tender appliea only in the
public offices and in the courts. Coined
money passes from hand to hand in
ordinary business transactions by the
voluntary act 0? thosej engaged in
making the exchanges and not be
cause there is any law compelling one
man to offer or another to accept any
particular thing. ' :Every man en
gaged in ordinary business in 'New
York has an undoubted legal right to
refuse a -scratched silver dollar of
fered him in exchange for anything he
may have to sell. He has the same
right to refuse a torn greenback or a
scratched gold piece. Of course, it
requires, something bordering upon a
conspiracy "in restraint of trade" to
get all the business men in' a partic
ular locality to refuse to accept in ex
change a" silver dollar because it has
some slight scratch upon it. ' : i .
There might be some way of reach
ing the culprits for conspiracy but
there is nothing in the law of legal
tender to prevent them. In fact, the
legal tender power of a silver dollar
is subject to the exception, "except
where otherwise stipulated in the con
tract." And these Wall streeters
"stipulate" that scratched silver dol
lars will not go! . v
GENERAL VIFQUAIN
Death has claimed another Nebras
ka pioneer and taken from the scene
oi earthly strife that, grand old sol
dier and statesman, Victor Vifquain.
Although a man of national reputa
tion, both a3 soldier and diplomat, his
loss to Nebraska and the nation can
not be measured by the numbers who
will mourn his death; for General
Vifquain was not a man to ueek cheap
noloriety. A thorough soldier, he bore
his honors with becoming grace, and
sought no opportunity to "show off"
and take advantage of the effects pio
duced upon the multitude by a sight
o? the trappings o war.
General Vifquain was a true states
man, and frequently astonished his
friends by his remarkable memory and
grasp upon world politics. His long
experience as a an editor and news
paper man, and later service in diplo
matic circles representing the United
States at Panama gave him not only
a comprehensive know'edge of the
world's affairs, but also furnished him
a vast amount of details, which the
ordinary man, unblessed with such a
good memory, would hwe soon -forgotten.
He has the distinction of being the
only soldier in the war of the rebel
lion who was voted a gold medal by
congress for bravery upjn the field of
action. At the close of the war he
outranked General Miles, and might
have been at the head of the army, if
he had not preferred to return to the
piow, like the renowned Roman be
fore him. It will be renumbered that
h" accepted a lieutenant colonelcy in
the Third Nebraska regiment, under
Mr. Bryan; and later, upon Mr, Bry
an s resignation at the dose- of hostil
ities with Spain, became chief in com
mand of the regiment,
During the past year General Vif
quain was nlllnir, confined most of
tht. time in the home vith some ill
gfstlvo trouble, but occasionally able
to be out on the arrets, Finally the
cud tame and ho pusmd quietly Into
the great bejond last Thursday, Ills
Itinera! was conducted Sunday by the
arloua military organization, and
ttai one of the largest ever ru ttt
Lincoln.
General Vlf.p1.1l11 wa always an
anient ibinotrat-(.n of the old
t hool, and through and thrown autl
nsoiwpohht. Year ago he Halted, the
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Eemocrat in this city and his power
as an editor is shown by the fact that
when the question came up of whe
ther the city should own the water
works system,' he espoused the cause
of city ownership and won out In a
republican stronghold against the bit
ter opposition of the republican daily.
In 1902 he received a flattering com
plimentary vote for the fusion nomi
nation for governor.
In recent years up to his confinement
by illness at home, General Vifquain
was a frequent visitor at The Indepen
dent editorial rooms; and the result
of every visit and conversation with
him was the inspiration of some edi
torial or article which tended to make
The Independent a better and stronger
paper. Not infrequently he contrib
uted signed articles also; but he was
r.ever a man to rush into print upon
slight pretext, simply to see his name
in capital letters.
The pioneer, statesman, and soldier
is dead; but his memory will long be
enshrined in the hearts of those who
knew him and loved him.
in 1 V nm
A NEW NAME
Andrew Rice, Neligh, Neb., an es
teemed subscribed of The Indeppndent,
upon renewing his subscription the
other day wrote us:
"Try the name National for the
populist party. We must get up a
new party if we ever accomplish
anything that is worth having.
. Don't let via keep on barking up
this old 'pop gum tree' lor the
'possum left it taree years ago."
The Independent la opposed to any
change of party name or ?ny radical
departure from the principles enun
ciated at Omaha In 1S9:'. There has
been but one valid reason given thus
far for a change of name. And that
is this: Persons who have hereto
fore geoffed at jopuIl.tm and populiMs
will not come to the people's party,
even after conversion to popu'.bt
principles, because of a feeling that
they ate 1I0I114 Inconsbtent art.
liven this H ii'tith iuojo tluontlcal
thnn practical becauao thou-uiuU of
republican aid ib tu n rat switch
acrow Into the other puty at time.
The word 4 " ipullt ' and "jopul
iru" were at first applied by the old
party 1 ai i to the memberd and j r in
c!ple4 of the pck?' paity, HUwhat
derisively It is true, but nevertheless
in response to a necessity for some
convenient term to designate a mem
ber of the people's party and Vie eco
nomic reforms he advocated. These
words have now becom? fixtures in
the English language. People gener
ally understand what 'they mean. A
new party name will require a number
of years before its nomenclature be
comes settled and this is always .a
disadvantage. The name "national"
is not good, because a member of such
party would say, "I am a nationalist,"
thus confusing him with the followers
of Edward Bellamy. The work Ameri
can is faulty, because to say, "I am an
American," could be understood in a
variety of ways. '
"People's party" suits The Inde
pendent very well. It 13 a "populist"
paper and preacher "populism" every
week of the year. The man who is
afraid to be called a "populist" isn't
very strongly imbued with the idea
that "populism" is right" The Inde--pendent
knows a number of Nebras
ka populists who were republicans up
to 1894 and 1806, and who were ne .er
excelled in the great variety of bitter
flings they made against "pops" and
"popism." They learned the error of
their ways and today there are no
more faithful populists In Nebraska
than they.
There is no crying need for a new
party or a new nrae. What is wanted
now is to secure a roster of all who
are willing to s'and up md be counted
for populism. Afterward to make the
people's party a dues-paying organ!
nation and put into practical operation
within the party the principle of ma
jority rule, dispensing entirely with
conventions and other old party tac-tUs-whkh
will eventually do for any
new party under any new tumc what
Koevcr, exactly wnat ha. been done for
the peopb; party.
No, no, Mr. Itleo; the 'popfurn is
.tt! up In the populist "gmii tree."
It la reform In "money, r,l, ami
trattitportatlon."
The Colorado Commoner U taklnrj
boll of the Old Guard enrollment In
m buslui iisHke maimer, whk h will cer
tainly bilrtg In a UrRrt number it
number from that Mute.
Joiu the Old Guard of rupulum. 1