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PAGE 8. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT jLLY 21, 1904. Cpe Nebraska Independent Lincoln. Utbratka. LIBERTY BUILDING. 132 0 STREET Entered tccordln toActofConfrwwoBf Mfc j, 1879, at the Postoffice at Wncoln, Nebraska, o econd-clau mail matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. . B1XTEENTH YEAR. CAMPAIGN RATES. One for 15 ccnU Seven for a Dollar. $1.00 PER YEAR When making remittances do not leaTt aonry with news agencies, postmasters, etc, lo be forwarded by them. They freqaeatly forget or remit a different amount tha waa left with them, and the subscriber fails to get proper credit .... Address all communications, and make all drafts, money orders, etc., payable to Xht Utbraska lndtptttdtnt, Lincoln, Neb. Anonymous communications will not bt oticed. Rejected manuscripts will not ba returned. a T II TIBBI.ES, Editor. C Q PEFRANCE, Associate Editor. t.l). EAtiER, luBihcws Manager. J -J Jit J J J THE TICKET. For President THOMAS E. WATSON of Georgia. For Vice President THOMAS H. TIBBLES of Nebraska. J &&&& &&&&&& Tom Patterson's papers support Parker. Wss., Will you be at Lincoln the 10th of August? Write to The Independent and let us know. The Lincoln Star does not seem to be so certain that, the populist party Is dead as it was a few weeks ago. The old saying that "politics makes strange bed-fellows" has had a new demonstration. Bryan and Parker. G rover Cleveland and Henry Watter ucn are so joyful over the nomination cf Parker that the papers say they give a war-whoop every once in a while iD their sleep. A cablegram from London says that Threadneedle street will be perfectly satisfied with either Parker or Roose velt. The same statement came some what earlier from Wall street. Plutocracy of the north long used the bloody shirt to frighten the toil ers into its ranks and now the plutoc racy of the south is using the ghost of a nigger for the same purpose. The only difference between Paul Morton and the old Morton-Miller crowd of Nebraska democrats is that he is in and they are trying to get in. Otherwise they resemble each other as much as two peas !n a pod. Every democrat who supported the Kansas City platform, and who votes for the Parker and Davis electors, lines himself up to be counted among the number that support pluteracy. What a record that will be to leave to his children! The following Associated press tele gram waa printed In all the dailies last week: "It Is announced that W. J. Bryan will stump Wisconsin during the coming campaign. The democrats will make a determined effort to cap ture the state, hoping the contest In the republican ranks will help them." Borne of the Rente nee In the demo cratic platform as published In the papers sound as If they hail been sent endwise through a ber keg. At the very tPKloutnK cf It, In ipeaUtig of democratic principles. It utagRers through a sentence after the following fahloti: "They underlaid our Inde pendence, the Mru tare of our If pub lie and every democratic rxtcnftlcn from LoulMara to California, and Tex a tu Oregon, vh'ch preserved faith fully In all the Mates the time be twrrr. tsxMlun ami rfprcstutatlou." A DISHONEST 8CHEMB. In. the people's party state conven tion to be held in Lincoln on August 10 is to be fought a battle that will decide the fate of the populist party. The decision there arrived at will not affect the party in this state alone, but in every state in the Union. There is a fateful moment in the life of ev ery man and every party and that mo ment will arrive when the permanent organiaztion "is affected in the peo ple's party state convention of that date. If that convention shall put democrats on its ticket who support Parker, that J ends the long fight some of us have made to establish an inde pendent party, opposed to the money power and standing -for the interests of the millions of workers in" tnese states Who produce its wealth and have heretofore been 'compelled to turn most of it over to the few men 'whose headquarters are in Wall street, and who have s how ', chosen Parker and Roosevelt as their standard-bearers. The proposition that - we will' be asked to adopt is so , absurd ' and so dishonest that it will meet ' with the condemnation of every honest man in these United States. . It is simply this: Nominate two electoral tickets, the candidates on one pledged to support Parker and Davis, the candidates on the other to support Watson and' Tib bies. Then fuse on the state ticket giving half of the offices to the pop ulists and half to the democrats. That will enable the democrats to get the federal offices and the populists and democrats to get the. state offices, if the scheme proves effective. The scheme is dishonest and ev.ery man will know, without being told, that it is dishonest. It is using politi cal parties which are supposed to ex ist to advocate certain principles of government and securing their enact ment into law, not for that purpose at all, but simply to get offices for a few political roustabouts, populist and democratic, who want to feed awhile at the public crib. ' It is absurd. Can any sane man be lieve that the busy citizens of this state will leave their stores, their shops and farmers, spend their money to attend conventions, and go out and work for the sole purpose of enabling two dozen men, many of whom, they have never seen and in whom they have no personal interest, to .get a good paying position for two or four years? A man who can believe that has less intellect than an old-time re publican mullet head. The scheme could not end in any other way than a 50,000 republican majority , ia the state and a solid republican legislature But that would not be the worst of it. The populist movement which now has a firm footing in at least 38 states would receive a shock that would take the life out of the populist campaign in every state in the Union. Ne braska has been a leader in the pop ulist movement and if the party in this state- should make such an absurd and dishonest movement, honest men everywhere would lose faith in the in tegrity of the people's party. The Independent asks the honest populists of this state to come to Lin coln in droves and see to it that their party is not dishonored and destroyed by such action as that. Capt. W. E. P. French, of the United S'tates army, in an article in The Arena says: "As a nation, we are drifting rapidly into a plutocracy, if, indeed, the ship of state is not already at anchor in that foul harbor." With such a state of affairs, which every honest man of intelligence is hovering about us, there are some very good men In Nebraska, whose brains are so befogged that they want us to fuse with the forces trying to make Parker president of the United States, backed as he is by Belmont and the whole plutocratic forces of the country. I'OI't LISM IN NEW YORK. In a special dispatch to the Rocord Hetald, dated at New York. July H, Holland, a staff corre.jondent, sayf?; "The resentment even in New York city is very strong. The populist candidates will be sup Iorted here and electors named, and an appeal will be made to all democrats who are dixpocd to re pudiate the personal Influence and the financial- powers which, ai tliey say, were able to make tho Kuct'fKfcful campaign for Jud' Parker, to come to the support of the ppullt eJcttorH. Thonfuic, In the campaign which Judge Par ker and hta friends aro jeedlly to tgln they nmt reckon with this clement." To head off thh movement to the pc.puli-t party, Holland nays that it H likely that otne man who -ippwt ,1 Br an will be appointed ct.airn.sn of th d wf ratio nation etimi.lttee. Thry may do that, but they W1il find that the men In the democratic enrr j hu have teen educated to undt rtUcd ? : Statistical Testimony REPRESENTING ACTUAL RESULTS SECURED IS UNIMPEACHABLE The Bankers Reserve Life Comp any Of Omaha, Nebraska. Has. DOUBLED , its resources in the last thirteen months-the amount now exceeding A Quarter of a Million Dollars Agents desiring to increase their income will do well to apply for an agency. Communica tions will have prompt attention if addressed to B. H ROBISON, President populist principles will be ve,ry little affected thereby. Men who have come to thoroughly believe in the necessity of the public ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones, who see danger to the republic in the great accumulation of wealth in few hands, who denounce the granting of special privileges to the rich, who revolt at the extortions of the trusts, will not be induced by any such a small trick to put their votes where they will be counted for plutocracy. There is just one way to carry this state against the republicans. Let but one electoral ticket be put up, con sisting of Watson and Tibbies electors. Let the democratic convention nomi nate the same men or none at all.' It that is done, neither The Independent nor any honest populist will object to putting a former Bryan democrat at the head of the ticket and scatter others like him all down the line, provided always that each of them will give a pledge of honor that they will neither vote for, nor support Parker and Davis. With that sort of a "fu sion" the state'ean be carried against the republicans by 15,000 majority and a large majority can be secured in the legislature. That is only asking ex actly what the populists of this state did for Bryan in 1900. The populiscs in that year named the same electoral ticket that the democrats did, with the understanding that if they were elected, they would vote for the dem ocratic nominees for president and vice president. The populists did not lose their organiaztion. nor wreck their party by doing it and the demo crats will not by doing the same thing now. The populists only ask the dem ocrats to do the same thing that the populists did in order to co-operaie with them. Populists do not asl; any thing more than what they them selves have given under simiiar cir cumstances. It is perfectly useless to ask for any other mode of ro-o pota tion. uncurl. Hon. James If. Teller, a brother of the senator, has recently published an essay on "The Decadence of the Spirit of American Liberty," which Is at tracting the attention of lawyers and scholars all over the country, "This heritage of liberty." Mr. Teller say, " received not from our father only, but from a host of noble houIm In many lntnl; from the followers of William the Silent who. for eighty years, withstood tho mightiest empire on earth that tho Lowland might free; from the stem Covenanters who Irene bed tho hill of Scotland with thtlr blood for liberty of const lence; from the KmmMM and O'tVnneH .f Ireland who prized liberty above lifi.; and front KreaMwartcd !'i;sU. duntn who bottled for It from Unnnt medo to th time of John Bright and r-luart Mill. It U a heritage too vahial le to be made the football of partisan poli tics, or to be sacrificed on the altar of a base commercialism." The essay throughout is a most masterly document and especially ap plicable to the present times, but the" Indian maiden, Bright Eyes, expressed everything in it in one short sentence in an address delivered in Tremont Temple, Boston, before an audience that crowded the seats; the floor, the galleries, the corridors and the pave ment outside, when she closed with these words: "Law is liberty.-' Wen-" dell Phillips, who was one of the com pany of distinguished gentlemen who were on the platform, passed quickly from one end of the platform to a gentleman sitting at the other end and said: "That is the strongest sentence ever uttered in the English language." Out in Colorado, as they once did in Chicago when liberty was threatened, they should print those, words on their banners. SHOULD BE HONEST. The democratic state convention,' which meets in Lincoln August 10, if it wishes to retain the respect of hon est men. must be honest itself. It it? puts up an electoral ticket, the candi dates of which are to vote, if elected, for Parker and Davis, it should give : them loyal support. It is not honest politics to nominate a set of men whom they expect to knife. They should sustain them with a strong set of Parker nominees for state offices. To put a lot of men on the state tick et who say privately, that they will not vote for Parker, is not honest politics. -Such a course will not re tain the respect of honest men. It would be solemnly enacting a farce If a Parker electoral ticket is put up then Dr. George L. Miller should be nominated for governor. He is an old citizen and an honorable man. Lee Herdman should be nominated for treasurer. Mahoney for attorney gen eral, Colonel Maher for secretary cf state, Euclid Martin for land commis sioner, and the remainder of the offi ces should be filled with men known to be iu sympathy with the Parker forces. That would be the honest thing to do. The Independent knows that many of the democrats of the state are honest men and of the high est character. It hopes that that con ventlon will pursue such a course that the members of It will retain the cs teem of honest men. There l a KrTuTldgTow In our new dependency e-f Panama. ItuuNvvelt'ii Rovernor down there l. i;oing to ftab I Mi ciwtum house ami enforce tho Dlnuley tariff. The Inhabitant uni versally denounce the proposition and tUn laro that It mum the ruin of huU r.eM nud tho Impoverishment of the pee.pl... Their old way of objoctln to oteh thlust wax to K.-t up a revolution but that Hi! hardly bo praetUal m.w NUierewr tl. Imprrlalht roc. ther ir.unt also Eo the Dinghy tariff. t