JULY!14, '1904.! !
T1IE NEBRASKA
INDEPENDENT 5
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For President
THOMAS E. WATSON .
of Georgia.
For Vice President
THOMAS H. TIBBLES
- of Nebraska.
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POETIC POLITICS.
In a humorous poem on the pops,
Bixby made the following pertinent
remarks:
Hurrah for the "party, that says to the
tough
And hardened old plute, "You have
v gathered enough!
Your holdings are mighty, your in
come immense;
'Promote,' then, no more at the pub-
"", lie expense,
For, by the white beard of the saints,
. if you should,
We'll soak you with taxes and make
t you be good." ,.
' A DANGEROUS THREAT.
If the ' principle is accepted that a
man must support and vote for the
nominee of his party, even if that
.candidate is opposed ot everything ad
vocated by the party membership and
the platform is a repudiation of every
thing the members of the party have
defended, then, indeed, free govern
ment is gone. It will be but little
trouble for the. millionaires and im
perialists to control the conventions.
Such a position is far worse than the
cry we have ; heard for the- las., few
years: "My country, jight or wiong."
If that example is to- be followed, two
little cliques of men will become the
absolute rulers of this republic. Less
than thirty men did all the business,
dictated the policy and made the nom
inations at St, Louis and Chicago. The
eloquence of a Demosthenes could
not have changed the vote of-a dele
gate at either convention. Everything
had been settled before the convention
assembled and no delegate dare change
his vote. If men must divide them
selves into two parties and vote for
what these conventions do, then the
people will have no voice in Iht gov
ernment of the nation at all. The de
mand that a member of a party must
be "regular" and the claim that he
must submit to -what a convention
does is the most dangerous doctrine
ever proclaimed. There should be an
universal protest against it by every
lover of liberty. It is tlje most dan
gerous tnreat ever made against the
permanence of the republic.
AFRAID OF JUDGE THAYKR. .
The anarchistic and traitorous ac
tion of the supreme court of Colorado
is condemned by the honest press ev
erywhere in this country and in Eu
rope. Governor Peabody and that
court is a stench in the nostrils of pa
triotic men the whole world over. The
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, com
menting on things out there, says:
"No sooner does a federal court
manifest a disposition to lntertere
in the Colorado war (han Gov
ernor Peabody promptly backs
down. He says he had intended for
some time to discharge Charles
II. Moyer, president of the West
ern Federation of miners, or turn
him over to the civil authorities,
but it is noticeable that he did
not do It until Judge Thayer of
the United States, circuit court Is
sued a writ commanding him to
produce Moyer In that court by
July 5. Moyer has been In tho
'bull-pon' for months, havlns been
Imprisoned by the military on no
specific charges whatever. One
of the Colorado district JihIkcs is
sued a writ of habeas corpus weeks
ago In the can of Moyer, but this
was defied by Governor Peabody'
military agents. Then the state
supreme court Issued a similar
writ, which the governor respect
ed, and then the court, in its sub
serviency to the influences around
the governor, flew in the face of
all precedent by deciding that it :
" could not interfere. But the gov
; ernor has no disposition to try ;
conclusions with a federal court
on this issue. So Moyer at last
gains his liberty. Doubtless more
will be heard of him in suits
against General Bell or Governor
Peabody or the state for wrongful
imprisonment."
That the supreme court and Gov
ernor Peabody will understand that
they are anarchists, is shown by the
governor's action. If he thought he
was within the law, he would wel
come a contest in the federal courts,
but instead of that, upon the receipt
of the news that Judge Thayer had
granted a writ, he hastily turns Moy
er over to the civil courts. The ex
planation that he makes is too sneak
ing and cowardly to deserve noLice.
The saddest thing about this whole
business is to think that the members
of this labor- organization when the
election comes, will vote to retain in
power the organization that has im
prisoned its members, deported others,
separated families, left women and
children to starve, forbidden the char
itable to give them food, and' tor
tured others to force confessions from
them. That has at least been the his
tory of the past.
Push the Educational
and organization work
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tions for a dollar. Send
in your lists.
The cartoonists had a ' very hard
time in getting up anything to boom
the Chicago republican convention.
The most eminent among them were
at sea. Ralph Wilder depicted the
elephant dancing : gaily, covered with
wreaths on which were written: "New
Navy," "Panama Canal," "Republic
of Cuba," "Alaskan Boundary," and
"Rural Free Delivery." What is there
in all that for the benefit of the toil
ing masses except the free rural de
livery? And free rural delivery was
a populist measure forced through
congress by. Tom Watson. Now the
republicans are claiming the glory.
Rosewater, in a compliment paid to
the governor of Guam, unconsciously
gives the Cbicagd'republican platform
an, awful dig. He says: "The im
pression prevails that the trust Is a
product of advanced industrialism," but
it seems to thrive spontaneously
among the semi-civilized Just the
same." The republican platform says
that "combinations of capital are the
result of economic movement of the
age,' but Rosewater asserts that they
-thrive spontaneously ,. among the
semi-civilized," and are not the prod
uct of advanced Industrialism."
Rosewater in his correspondence
from Chicago hit the bull's eye when
he said: "That at best. the conven
tion is merely to be a big ratification
meeting." That was what it was
without doubt. The managers, so the
papers say, came to Chicago in the
private cars of the superintendents of
the railroads and fixed up a program.
Then the delegates ratified it. The
delegates had no more part in mak
ing that program than the section
hand has in managing the financial
policy of the road whose track he
helps to keep in order.
The speech of Sneaker Cannon
upon taking his seat as chairman of
the republican national convention
printed in the newspapers is not the
speech that he delivered, and Mr. Can
non does not pretend it is. He.savs
that he wrote out a speech of 2,500
words and tried to commit It to mem
ory and couldn't, and that he would
not try to read a speech, so he said
when he got uo whatever came Into
his head on the spur of the moment,
but the papers printed the written
speech. The mullet head voters will
know little and care less about the
whole matter.
The onlv hannv men In the wrKt tn.
day are the populists. The republi
cans arc sorrowful over the fear that
they will km the old Wall street cam
paign runu ana mat it win ko to
Parker. The democrats are sorrow.
ful over the overthrow of their Idol
and now have no leader to follow lint
the populist looks out over his wav
ing neius or grain and smiles serenely
because he will have the privilege of
votln a populist ticket, all the can
didates on lr bein members nt hi
own party. Why shouldn't ho be
nappy T
At Moler'.r. Mo., a crowd t,t !
crats ms era bled In front of ft hotel to
discuss the situation last Sunday
night Among the number there was
a typical southern politician. He was
trying to cheer up the sorrowful demo
crats who surrounded him"Who were
all of the free silver-Bryan variety.
"It is bad business,"' he said, "but
we must make the best of it. After
a little while we will have a big bar
becue and we will organize a Parker
and Folk club." One of the sorrowful
ones standing by replied: "That
would be like a feast of limburger
cheese and ice cream," and none of
the sorrowful ones made any reply.
The plutocrats of 4.oday seem to
think that the argument and dogmatic
statements of the sixteenth century
have the same influence upon the
minds of. the people that they did 400
years ago. The defense of the tyrant
and oppressor of those days was that
he was acting by the authority of
God. The same glaim is made by the
plutocrats of today. President Bacr
declared himself the "trustee of God."
Colonel Verdeckberk,, commanding the
militia of the Cripple Creek district
in Colorado, said: "We are under or
ders from God and Governor Pea
body," The blasphemy of the claim
that God has chosen President Baer
and Colonel Verdeck berg as his spe
cial agents to execute his loving kind
ness on earth is only equalled by its
ridiculous idiocy.
There seems to be trouble down in
Kansas among the republicans. A few
of them have been finding out things.
A discussion of Funston and the
Kansas school history has induced one
of them to say: "The people of Kan
sas have done a lot of fool things dur
ing the past twenty years, but they
right-about in time. In the matter of
this, Funston foolishness, they, have
learned to know what -a big hero a
thoroughly censored press canmake
out of a very ordinary 'Individual.
especially when he rides into fame on
tne merit or his subordinates." The
populists have been talklner about "a
censored press" for the last fourteen
years, but this is the -first time that
any republican ever heard of it.
: There is likely to be a row in armv
circles , that will end in. several body
blows on the form of the strenuous
Teddy. He has given the little brag
gart Funston the best and most
coveted command in the army. . Many
indignities nave been nlaced unon the
old commanders in the army, the ele
vation of Dr. Wood to the rank of
major general being one of them, but
this selection of Funston to command
the Department of the East is cer
tainly the rankest of them all. No
one can ever tell what Teddy will do
next.
If . any man ever paid the last full
measure of devotion to a party, that
man is Mr. Bryan.. Twice he was a
candidate for president and twice he
was defeated not by the republicans
but by the Parker-Hill-Belmont
democrats. Now he says he will vote
for Parker for president. That Is cer
tainly a fulfillment of the scripture
injunction: they smote him on one
cheek and he turned the other. They
took his coat and he gave them his
cloak also. And it was the mcrning
and the evening of the seventh day
and Wall street said it was good.
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FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO., LIVE
- STOCK COMMISSION MER
CHANTS. SO. OMAHA
, NEB.
Owing to the strike of the butchers
and all laborers at the packing houses
at this and all other lanre markets.
there is practically no live stock mar
ket here today. '
All the men went out on a Ktra-A
yesterday at 12 o'clock, and at this
writing it is impossible to tell as to
the duration of same, but It looks ?ik
It might be long drawn out.
The Union Stock Yards fn has
notified all shippers of the situation
and it is likely there will be no mar
ket for the balance of the week.
We will send you a special letter an
soon as tho market opens up.
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