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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
jLLY 21, 1904.
Cpe Nebraska Independent
Lincoln. Utbratka.
LIBERTY BUILDING. 132 0 STREET
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T II TIBBI.ES, Editor.
C Q PEFRANCE, Associate Editor.
t.l). EAtiER, luBihcws Manager.
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THE TICKET.
For President
THOMAS E. WATSON
of Georgia.
For Vice President
THOMAS H. TIBBLES
of Nebraska.
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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
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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.
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