march 3, 1904. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 9
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TO THE OLD GUARD
Friends and Fellow Laborers:
: The editors and management of The Independent desire to enlist your co
operation in making the next National Conventioa of the Peoples Party the
greatest in its history. Begin the work now, to make the gathering at Spring-
f ield, 111. , ( July 4th one that will mark a new epoch in history. From that
date and place let it go forth to the world that the re-united Peoples Party,
stronger in the faith that truth is mightier than money, renews with greater
energy its battle for the cause of the plain people. The place is a fitting
one. The thousands will gather and at the martyred Lincoln's tomb will
pledge anew their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for the ad
vancement of the principle that as between the dollar and the man the MAN
shall come first. - .
It will be a new inspiration to remember that the political party that
elected Lincoln was made of essentially the same political elements that "will
be gathered there. Barnburners, Abolitionists, Free Soilers, a Whig faction
and a Northern Democratic faction united to form the republican party and in
a battle for human rights with the patriotic Lincoln for a leader came out
victorious. The need for-reform is greater now than then. The problem is not
whether the white man shall enslave the black man but rather whether a few -,
vhite men through the medium of trusts and combinations shall enslave the
American people. Joined in a protest against it will" be the Peoples-Party,
the mid-road populists, Independent Democrats aided by the National Federa
tion for majority rule, single taxers and many lesser organizations. The
- star of the plain people is in the ascendant and will grow brighter, brighter
until success is theirs.
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THE INDEPENDENT.
HBARST AND BKYAN
How Hearst and Bryan can find any
common ground upon which to stand
is one of those things that no pop
can Qnd out. Hearst is an imperialist
from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet, and Bryan made
anti-imperialism the "paramount Is
sue" in his last campaign. The para
mount Issue in Bryan's former cam
paign was free silver, and Hearst has
always bceu against that. The next
wonting after the campaign Hearst
denounced both free' silver and Bty
an p campaign most bitterly.
lately Hearst has taken to Imper
ialism with more energy than ever.
Ilia Chicago papers of last Monday
came out, as his other papers have
been doing of late, for enormous na
val expend ilurco. The articles were
written after the truo Hearst fctyle,
much of them In black-faced type and
spread across four columns. They
Hartfd out In tab way:
"Happily for the country and,
In our Judgtrent, happily for the
interest of th democratic larty
also, the effort made In tho hotio
f rcprentatlves to eevetely
check tho Ktoftth of the navy
.;ut b-Hix defeated,
"And dfaWd with the lit lp tf
tkmoratlc votes."
' Th Wzk by wMch tula to4 of Im
perialism was maintained was cf the
school-boy kind that all are famiiiar
with who have read any of the Hearst
papers. The following is a sample:
"The inland population has, in
fact, a special interest in the
building of plenty of warships. If
we arc weak on the sea armies
can be landed and the interior of
the country subjected to inva
sion." On the fundamental propositions of
the Kansas City platform Hearst and
Bryan arc as much at war as Bryan
and ClevelanI are. It is said that
politics make strange bcd-feliows, but
If Hearst and Bryan can lie down to
gether, they will be the stranet bed
fellows that ever got under one cover.
The republican dallies are all de
claring that Senator Allen Is for
Cleveland, because, he Bald that Cleve
land Is tho lokal candidal of the
democratic party. Tho nenator did
say thut m far back as tho Denver
conference and a rxl many other
populist have been ftaylng It for a
year or more. That wj the opinion
of every populist at the St. Loula
tonfercin . Whether Cleveland I th
"logical" candidate or not, it U very
likely that ho will get the demo
cratic nomination when that conven
tion ftswmbi'l.
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