JANUAIIY 21,1304.
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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
I TIIE CBYAIl BA!:qOET
Henia-Cumioc t Grat Nbrak CaU-
' Hald ! Linln
1 According to announcements pre
viously made in The Independent, the
of 1896; but the exact words of that
speech will never appear in print, be-?
cause Mr. Bryan spoke too rapidly and
too earnestly for verbatim reporting.
The substance, however, will long live
in the memory of those who heard
him, because of its undoubted spirit
of no compromise with the plutocratic
d.1i..s.r.t r.f Vila r.srrr- sn.' the CQnvic-
tanquet in honor of Mr. Bryan's home- Uon tQat harmony wfth that de
cerning was given at me unueu nuwji, ment l3 impossible. He said:
Lincoln. Monday night. More than mnctoai f talking nt concessions
J00 persons were assembled, largely and compromises it is time for honest sure to win ultimately and offers the
Hum uiuci iu""3 a,u vv. . land aggressive aciion. we- are cou- i uei piumiac ut imuicuiaic ouw,.
fronted with a condition that may wea
who are entrenched behind the bul
warks which we are attacking. Then
let us defend our position, not upon
the ground of dollars and cents, but
by showing how republican policies
violate moral principles and invite the
punishment that sooner or later over
takes the wrong-doer.
"Will such a course insure victory?
The best that our party can do is to
deserve victory, and an appeal to the
conscience of the American people is
the state, and ' a number from Colo
rado, South Dakota, and iowa.
The usual banquet routine need not
"be described here, except to say that
the Lindell management was taxed to
the utmost to care for the more than
700 guests; but everything passed off
s smoothly as one could wish, con
sidering the immense Jam in lobby and
tuning room. The toast list was. as
follows: " "
"We Have Kept the Faith," W. II.
Thompson, Grand Island. .
"Principles, Not Men," W. D. Old
ham, Kearney.
"Just Democrats That's All," H.
B. Fleharty, South Omaha.
; "Signs of the Times," A. C. Shallen
berger, Alma.
"Fusion, Good and Bad," C. J.
Smyth, Omaha.
"The Salt of the Eearth," G. W.
Berge, Lincoln.
"The Moral Issue,". Mr. Bryan.
James Manahan, of Lincoln, presid
ed as toastmaster, having for his sym
bol of authority a real old Irish black
thorn presented him by Mr. Bryan. It
is needless to tell those who know
Manahan, that he makes an ideal
toastmaster his Irish wit keeping ev
ery guest in the greatest of good
humor. ! ,
To a populist 'onlooker one of the
encouraging signs of this banquet was
the firm grasp several of the speakers
showed regarding the real issues and
the real mission of the democratic,
party. At the great majority of ban
quets, responses to the toasts are us
ually a mere conjuring with the party
name and an attempt to be witty; but
W. H. Thompson, A. C. S'hallenberger,
C. J. Smyth and Mr. Bryan, especially,
in their responses showed a realiza
tion of the fact that the real issue is
between the big fellows and the little
ones, between the plutocrats and the
producers; that there is no room for
two plutocratic parties; and that "liar-
alarm the thoughtful and patriotic.
We find corruption everywhere. Vot
ers are bought at so much per head,
representatives in our city govern
ments are profiting by their positions,
and even federal officials are selling
their influence. .
"What is the cause? . The commer
cial spirit that puts a price on ev
erything and resolves every question
into 'Will it pay?" This commercial
ism has given popularity to that the
ory of government which permits the
granting of privileges to a favored few,
and defends the theory by an attempt
to show that the money thus given
directly finds' its way indirectly back
into the pockets of the taxpayers.
"We see this theory in operation on
every side. The protective tariff sche
dules illustrate it; our financial sys
tem rests upon it; the trusts hide
themselves behind it, and imperialists
are substituting this theory for the
constitution. '
"Is it strange that money is used
to carry elections? If a party makes
certain classes rich by law, will it not
naturally turn to those classes for con
tributions' during the campaign? If
congress votes millions of dollars an
nually to tariff barons, money mag
nates and monopolists, is it not nat
ural that aldermen should traffic in
the small legislation of a city council,
and if officials high and low use the
government as if it were a private
asset, is it surprising that many in
dividuals who are" without official, po
sition yield to the temptation to sell
the only political influence tney nave,
namely, the ballot? What is the rem
edy? There is but one remedy an ap.-
CALL FOR NATIONAL COMMITTEE
MEETING.
Lincoln, Neb, Jan. 12,. 1904. To the
Members of the National Committee
of the People's Party of the United
States, Greeting: The call hereinaf
ter is made in compliance with a res
olution passed by said committee at
Denver, Colo., July 29, 1903, that the
committee shall be called to meet at
St. Louis, Mo., on February 22, 1904,
for the purpose of 'fixing time and
place of holding the national conven
tion of the people'js party, which con
vention, when convened, shall place
in nomination members of its own
party as candidates for president and
vice president of the United States,
and transact such other business as
may come before it.
As vice chairman of the national
committee of the people's party, I was
empowered by a resolution passed by
the national committee of the people's
party at Kansas City, in regular ses
sion of the same, to call meetings and
to transact any . other business of the
committee that the chairman by vir
tue of his office would be empowered
to pwform.
Therefore I do hereby call on all
committeemen of the people's party to
convene at St. Louis, Feb. 22, 1904, for
the purpose aforestated. And in ad
dition to the committee, would re
spectfully invite all members of the
party who can conveniently 'attend
such meeting to do so..
It is to be hoped that at this meet
ing a full recognition of the efforts
made at Denver last July will be in
dorsed by a united people'a party of
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the nation. And that the influences'
peal to the moral sense of the country for reform as found in the people's
an awakening of the public con- party may be no longer throttled by
Rfiptipp misunderstandings, for it the only
"And how can this appeal be made? party that can anc will uncover wrong
Not by showing a greater desire for doing and corruption wherever found.
t,0 snntu nf office than for reforms, We hope that this meeting will be
mony" between plutocrats and the but fe turning a deaf ear to the con- well attended and be fruitful of great
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, oe Drougnt atout. Unr. Tw . announcine an honest and J. 11. EUMloTEN,
Mr. Smyth,, responding to the toast, straightforward position on every pub- Vice Chairman National Committee,
"Fusion fVinH and Had" wirhriiir .. ..,,, 1 om.oil in Ppnnlo'a Pnrtv
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'Fusion, Good and Bad,'
mentioning names,adverting to the re- e!noro mlri wft must ourselves be
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cum aciiou oi uie jaciisonian ciud ai sincere and our sincerity can De
Omaha in taking back the members it snown 'only by 'a willingness to suf
expelled in 1896 and apologizing there- er defeat rather than abandon the
.fore,, quoted from the resolution. cause of g00fl government.
yao&uu uy iue nuu m wmcu it was "Chan wp ncceot imperialism as an
RECORD RUN TO KANSAS CITY
Wabash Train flake Trip in Five Honra and
Fifty Minutes
Wabash train No. 9, fast mail be-
asserted that "a waye of fusion swept accompiiShed fact in order to appease tween st- Louis and' Kansa3 Cityt
AlTM thirl 1 r - - , 1 n-iat.s'i4'iTl. f lk.T nl . . 1
uvci mis uauuu, ouu coyeuiauy in ose wno are willing to moorse 6"V
braska, which caused the democraiic prnment without the .consent of the
yaiiy to iremuie ior me uiumaie re- g0verned,?, There can be no tnougm
suit." "If true," said Mr. Smyth, such a surrender, for wno would
trust us to deal witn otner quebuuua
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'was this good or bad fusion? Let us
see." And he recounted the fusion
brought about by Cleveland in 1SD3
between "Cleveland and Clevelandites
and Hanna and Hannaites" that work
ed the. undoing of the democratic par
ty, concluding "this fusion was bad,
very bad."
Casting 80,000 votes for Cleveland in
1888, the democratic party in Nebras
ka had dwindled down to 37,000 votes
in 1893, because of the blighting in
fluence of the stuffed prophet. "But,"
said Mr. Smyth, "behold the party in
1896, after it had thrown off the cor
poration element. It had risen from
if we prove false to the fundamental
principles of self-government?
"Shall we change. our position on
the trust question in order to secure
the support of the trust magnates :
Not for a moment can we think of it.
We want the trust magnates against
us not for us. Their opposition is
proof of our party's fidelity; their sup
port would cast suspicion upon us.
""Shall we abandon our advocacy of
bimetallism in order to conciliate
those who defeated the party in all
campaigns? Never. Some phase of
the money question is always betore
made a record-breaking run from St.
Louis to Kansas City Sunday after
noon.
The schedule time for starting is
2:20 p. m., and the regular time for
the run is seven hours and ten min
utes. No. 9 started one hour late, lost
twenty minutes on the way and pulled
into Kansas City on time, making
the run in five hours and fifty min
utes, five minutes faster cnau any
previous record.
There was a full equipment ol a
mail car, combination car, chair car
and diner. At many places along the
route the train showed a speed of
seventy miles to the hour, and be
tween Mexico and Montgomery City a
mile a minute was reeled off. The dis
tance is twenty-four miles, and it took
Dr. Benj. F. Bailey Sanatorium,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
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insignificance to great power and had congress and no one can predict when Just twenty-four minutes to make the
taken on the stature of a man, noble
and commanding. It now became a
guiding influence in the deliberations
of the national organization. After
that men anxiously listened to kuow
what Nebraska democrats thought
upon this question or upon that. We
ceased to follow and commenced to
lead. The world learned where Ne-
the coinage phase of the moiiey ques
tion will again become acute, ino re
form of any kind would be possible
with tho money changers in control
of the party.
"Shall we change our position on
the tariff qaestlon In order to win over
iiomcuratH who are enjoying the ben
efits of protection? It Is absurd to
braska was and from time to time Its SUKgest It, for tho same vicious prln-
eye wan centered upon it, and today ciple runs through all of the abuses
the action of the party in no htate U rom whkh the poople suffer. And so
watched with more interest than tho wtn th party's position on the labor
aition of our party bore, Tho fusion nuestlon on the election f senators
which brought thM about waa j,cchJ. l)V the people, on watered stock, con
u may u inai h in ri an end liraus
Impracticable, but no man who con
tributed to lu creation and aUtci in
iti maintenance n fl aujiht but a
tknso of pride that bi wa permitted
to do go."
The uUtrui t of Mr. Ilrynn'a inh
tm th "Moral lwie" Elvtt to th
pre dof tit do Justice to tlu pv4Hh
a actually dllveri-d, Th rm riod
t with rntlmalaatle admirer from iv
rry pari of lh wtat, a!mot to a man
jw rnonally Vtiowu to him, a;td tlm
M'H-heM that pre dd hK lu 1 r4tr
than I nana! aroused hU rnthu,ium
end h departed from tha iorriewhat
formal remark hr bad orlKinutly In
tfo b d an I launched out Into a ircch
that reminded one of the ilirlnt da)
trol of corporations and on other Is
hiiert,
"The Kansas City platform la Round
In every plank and th ftrt net of tho
iwxt denwrstle cn vent Ion should bo
to rc-afflrm U In It entirety, and It
next at ahouM tw th adlltloit of
new tdanVa In harmony with It and
loverln uh nw qntloni a.- de
mand consider itlon.
"Tlon th convention ahouM wcumX
andidate4 laho b'Hevo In the pl.it fur m
t andldalr 1om demo r( y will not
I to an l?iu lt the lampiltsn and li
tbU Jlty to d mH ratte prln- ti lt.t will
not b dotihtsl Pt th iiet'.on. And
then the rv.n!hmo alunll announce
th it It m lit ni'iihrr ak nor rrfrhe
cantjaln tontrlbatlona (torn ttoao
trip.
The train was In charge of Conduc
tor J. S. Could. The engineer was
George Nelson and the fireman was
Charles Summervllle. St. Louis He-
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