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The organization of the people's
party in every state of the Union is a
matter of vital interest, not alone to
the members of that party itself, but
to every citizen of this republic. If
one studies the events of the last few
years , with the sincere desire to ar
rive at the truth, he cannot help com
ing to the conclusion that every ef
fort possible has been made to ar
range the laws and produce conditions
which will make it next to impossible
for a third party to .come into the
field. The Australian ballot law,
which had for its object not only the
absolute secrecy of the ballot, but
granting the opportunity to every
class of citizens to appear on that
ballot under whatever name they
. Address all communications, and maka all cnoge to adopt, has been used to de
Altnl .troy the very object had in view bj
1 inmin wh. those who secured its adoption.
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T II TIEIiLEi3, Editor.
C Q DEFEAKCE, Associate Editor.
F. D. EAGER, lusinetB Manager.
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In
many states it now cosis imuwuse
sums of money and months of work
for a new party to get on the .ballot.
In New York it will cost a new party
at least $20,000,. for the law requires
6,000 petitioners, of which there shall
be at least 75 from each county, and
each name must be attested by a no
tary public. In California it requires
the signatures of . at least 3 per cent
of the voters. In Texas a man cannot
vote unless he has paid into the state
Every democratic judge on the su
preme bench was for Jim Hill and the
merger.
Ex-Congressman R. D. Sutherland treasury before or upon a certain day
made a call at The Independent this $1.75 Thus it will be seen that there
week. He is just as enthusiastic . a has been a persistent effort all over
populist as he ever was. .He says
there will be a full delegation to the
national convention at Springfield
from his district..
The democracy, of
brought plutocracy to such a state of
power that it costs a man $1.75 to cast
a ballot down there. The trusts can
put up the money for as many relia
the United States to confine the po
litical parties to two. If the candi
dates of these two 'parties can be se
cured, the veto power and other pow
ers of the president makes any legls-
Texas has lation against the trusts, the money
power and " plutocracy generally Impossible.
It is by these methods that the peo
ple's party, has been almost crushed
are disfranchised.
ble voters as they need and the rest out of existence. The slogan of the
enemy has been: Put the people's
party out of existence. Drive its
Bishop Bonacum has sued Father membershio either into the demo
Murphy eleven times and been beaten I cratic or the republIcan party, with
every time. .The last of the cases was 0Qly two Darties in the fieid. vestcd
tried in the supreme court last week rI ht fl 8t0ck brokers'- money will
wnen me Disnop got Knocnea put be 8af That attack has been 8UC.
again. No announcement was made cessfuj jn Kansas and Colorado. In
as to when the bishop would begin an- Nebraska we foucnt for the existence
otner suit. n. n
The papers have had a good deal to In many of the other Btates the work
say about the Russian general, Kuro- must hein at- the bottom. It Is
progressing rapidly by the organiza
tion of the Old Guard and the Van
guard 01 populism. We will have a
national ticket in the field in every
state and territory of the Union in
the coming campaign. Then plutoc
racy may capture the leadership of
both the old parties and still it will
find that it has a foe to fight
If honest democrats and earnest
patkin, who is to take charge of the
.forces fighting Japan. Arthur Forbes
described him some years ago as "a
silent, dogged, bloodthirsty fellow
with bull dog instincts of savagery
and tenacity.
There is a strike on in New York
city involving 200,000 workmen. If
each of these workmen represents a
family of five, then 1,000,000 people populists had not seen the danger and
will be without an income while, it resolved to die in the last ditch be
lasts. It will not take much of that fore the thing should be done, Nebras-
sort of thing to bring on that "dis- 1a would now be in the same condi
order" that those Wall street chap3 so tlon & Kansas and populists would
much fear. - have to go on the ticket simply as
petitioners to be allowed to vote wlth-
The death penalty .has been abol- out the name of their party appearing
ished in France. President Loubet Think of the infamy of charging a
has announced his intention to follow man $1.75 to vote! True statesman
the precedent established by his pre- ship would more likely provide that
deccssor, President Grcvy, and wiil he should be fined $1.75 if he didn't
commute, the sentence of every per
son condemned to death to imprison
ment for life. In five states of tho
Union no death sentences are per-
vote. There are 100,000 voters in
Texas who have been disfranchised by
that act. It la far more dangerous
than the "grandfather" clause in the
nutted. It does not appear that the constitutions of tho southern states
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crime 01 murder has increased In any Thousands of letters have com in
f them. the Ofllce of The Independent Ravlnir
rr I "I have not voted for thn Inst thrr
Mine imny, one or jew fork's boo. or four voar Th,.e uaj. nn
tile aldermen of 153-4, was the firtt tn the field that I could conscientious
man tome th word "combine" In a iy support, so I did not vote at all'
..v u lur m-wru-rs ki a None of these writers cem to under-
joi or run out of . Now wo find U stand that they have been dl.sfran
111 . supreme conn tei,n and rnm.t lhM by thc raanipulaUon of tho vl
I L at II lni nrni.l.,1 1 1. ft I at . ... t l
,v. .mu u nas ieeu party leader in Kecurlug laws that
.u'.jr rm.conce, ,a the KnRlUh Ian- disfranchised them. Thero wnul
uf 0ne wor u nJ have been a tkket In the field every
lommimu uure piitaw; the lust we hero if th Aiia'traiim ht i.M
I - - VWVV'MIP V - H I T ' till
.. M, ,uv uvu, ami nwr had not tern prevented to aaompU.sh
M,J4 " XH fy -4 Just hat It wm tnatt. ! to r.revrat
errn.ns urrs, sn.j 1, admitted to the America hai to lay Its miUloci of dll
lin -A" f wblth wakes frtmhUed tttlittis.
the 'T'lrUti' ury sad, Theio iltUuji nro alssolutrly ami
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completely disfranchised.; ; ; If a man
goes to the polls and finds that he
cannot conscientiously vote any of
the ballots that are provided by the
authorities, he is disfranchised. He
is not allowed to write out a ballot
and place it in the box. He must
take the one given to him by the elec
tion officer or not vote at all. Tens of
thousands have not voted under these
conditions who would have voted if
they could have got their party name
and candidates upon the ticket; The
men who have secured the enactment
of such laws belong to the sappers
and miners of liberty, against whom
Lincoln warned the people.
ORGANIZE
Attention Is called to the letter of
the acting chairman of the people's
partyprinted in this issue of The In
dependent. The work that has al
ready been done in the enrollment of
the Old Guard and Vanguard shows
that there are many thousands of
live, active and earnest populists, and
that they are in every state and terri
tory of the Union. But an organiza
tion must be perfected or this latent
power cannot be brought into action.
There must be county conventions
and state conventions. Where in any
county two or three populists are
gathered together, not only will the
Lord be with them, but they have au
thority to go ahead, call a county con
vention, elect delegates to a state con
vention and prepare the way for a
national convention and a hot cam
paign. Of course In those counties
where there is an organization that
organization must be respected. To
get at the millions of populists all
over the United States and get con
certed action, requires a great deal of
work and some money. Let every
body help.
ir.TUNO IT THE PINI
A staff correspondent of the Brook
lyn Eagle ha been traveling over thU
Mate helping to set up the pins fvr
the reorganlzcr. If h as fn!;y
and completely aUmt everything elm
as he doe In hta letter of Marth 17
about the populist, he will earn his
money. He nay: "Tho avowed fo.
lowing of the New York editor
(Hearst) l limited to a few pojm'Ut
leader of the Interior." Tho In.le
iwndvnt would like to M e, the names
of those "i"pulht leader" who ara
for Hearst. With a . large correspon
dence in every county m the state
and more than 10,000 subscribers' cov
ering it from one end to the other,
The Independent has never heard of"
a populist leader or any other kind of
a populist in Nebraska who is a sup
porter of Hearst . ; "
The democrats of Nebraska are just
learning that what the editor of The
Independent told them a year ago is
true. He then had information that
led him to believe that a desperate
effort would be made by the reorgan
izes to get the Nebraska delegation
and that money was even then being
sent into the state to accomplish that
purpose. The Lee Herdman crowd
are hot after Bryan's scalp and they
have plenty of the "sinews of war."
"WHAT A TRUST BUSTER!
Teddy got an injunction against
the meat trust, and the trust went
on its way rejoicing, charging higher
prices than ever before. Now he has
secured a decision against Morgan's
and Hill's railroad merger and the
roads continue to charge all the trafi
fie will bear. That is the way the
trusts are fought by a republican ad
ministration. There is a statute that
provides that "every person" who
commits acts such as Morgan and Hill
and the managers of the meat and coal
trusts have committed "shall h
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
on conviction thereof shall be punished
oy a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by
imprisonment not exceeding ono vr
or both, said punishments at tho dis
cretion of the court."
One criminal case under that law
would destroy the meat trust, railroad
mergers and coal trust and the rr
f tho commercial pirates at ono
stroke. But no am h ...in .
-vu lJC W HQ
brought As a "trust buster Teddy
Is a fake.
The Russians havo ml two of their
torpedo boats and several hundred
men t,y running Into the.r own mines,
A Eo,l many quips have been aimed at
the UuaMau natal offiYers la the Amer
han press n that account But oae
f our kUtlenhlpi rammed another In
,h" , n H Th intnoh ft m
'amad that It will take months to
repair h r. The only way that tho got
home wa to hnlhl a rnncnt and brick
wa'l to fill up the trfttt hole that WA4
knocked lu her.