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Vol. XV I. ' LINCOLN, NEB., AUGUST 4,1901 " No. 11 .
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NEW YORK DEMOCRATS BOLT ml
,To the Democrats of, New York Who,
During the Past Eight Years Have
m Two Consecutive National Cam
paigns, Been Loyal to the National
: Democracy, and Its Loyal, Honest
. and Courageous Standard-Bearer,
William J. Bryan:
r Gi eting: The Albany county democ
racy, an organization of democrats
whose past is one of undoubted loyalty
to party faith and, party candidates,
rccognuing the crises in our party's
5 ; affair, presents' this exposition of its
v.'ews to, and asks the co-operation in
its proposed efforts of those other
" thousand of democrats in. New York
' ' who believe as its mempersnip does-.
In 1896 the democracy of this great
country of ours sent its chosen repre
sentatives to the great city of Chicago
to deliberate upon the condition of
'jMiblie afiairs; to ask themselves, why
. in a land of such great natural re
you.cr 3 where the standard of intel
ligence is so high, it was, that under
a government at ; Washington which
was called a democratic one, the peo
ple of our poor districts in the great
cities oi' the union were competed to
seek c joiic soup houses to sustain life.
and the small merchant and manufac
turer was being forced to the .wall,
'iiicae representatives who represented
the plain democracy of the land as
certained the fact that one Grover
Cleveland had as he expressed it been
"giving the public an object lesson"
for the purpose of forcing congress to
give the banking interests of our coun
try into the control of that portion of
the so-called " sane and safe democ
racy' to whom he through that almost
forgotten secretary of the United
States treasury, who has never re
turned to his native state since, sold
262 million dollars worth of govern
ment bonds on- which they in turn
niade4 millions of "'dollars in profit.
Having found that the man. and the
government, at Washington -was more
Interested in the private gain of those
who already had, than he or it was in
the ffiieral welfare of the whole peo
ple, ft rose to the Ideal status of an
untrammeled convention of freemen
and despite the fact the the betrayers
of puUic, trust were called democrats,
it by i feaolutlon censured the man and
ms government for betrayal of public
duty. It then, like the body of com
petent polltlcar seamen u, was, pro
ceeded to clean the barnacles off the
good old ship of democracy. It cleaned
her thoroughly and fitted her out with
a clean bill of health; made a dec
imation of principles for iher, to be
numeci kipper to carry which no great
statesman of our country, not exclud
n.g! Thomas Jefferson or Abraham
Lincoln, but would be proud to carry
as his charter of principles, and then
it placed in command of the ship as
its standard bearer one William J.
lji yan, whose 'courage and integrity
has to this ' very day . confirmed the
wisaom of the choice.
The history of the political campaign
that followed in the hard to forget year
MisteJkeiv Remedies
SENATOR ALLEN Analyzes
Mr. Bryan's Proposed
3 Post Election Platform J
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Editor Independent: Introductory to
' what I have tq say respecting some of
, the mistaken remedies Mr. Bryan of
fers the public; I wish to utterly re
pudiatethe charge of ingratitude made
by some ; democratic papers of J Ne
braska. I question the largeness of
soul of those, who, having extended
; what they regard as a favor, constant
ly; remind the recipient of the, fact
' and insist' that thereafter: he shall ac
1 cept any view they j may entertain,
whether right or wrong. ;
I assume that I am in as good a
' position as .any person ,f.o know the
.,, circumstances of my 'election to the
United States senate, and to under
stand who contributed to it and who
did not. And whether I am to be re
. garded as grateful or ungrateful I shall
rot be driven by such an accusation
' from opinions-1 know to. be cot rect,
or from a position I believe to be im
. pregnable. ....--
In two successive campaigns I gave
" Mr. Bryan enthusiastic and undivided
support for the presidency; and 1
would rejoice at an opportunity to do
' so again, because I believe that, all
. things considered, he is the i best
; equipped man in public lk'e, for the
; position, but I deny that I am justly
.' chargeable with ingratitude because I
fail to follow him In all thhigs, or to
accept his belief in all things.
I am Mr. Bryan's senior In years
and as a lawyer, and while I would
readily accept his opmron respecting
a question of political economy, arid,
: ordiuarily, of general public policy, 1
would not adopt his view, or that of
any other man, of a question of juris
prudence where it came In direct con-
J llict with, ray experience a.d reading.
I think no man in the United States
has a keener appreciation of Mr. Bry
an's great-ability and purencss of mo
tive than I have, and certainly our
relations have been such as to make
me greatly esteem htm lor nrs lovable
disposition and delightful perbonallty.
But like other men. Mr. Bryan is
capable of making mistakes, and I
am not ungrateful becau.se I direct at
tcntlon to the fart, or dissent from his
attempt to make the populist party re
sponsible for Ida mistakes.
I have been asked bother In de
dining co-operation with Hi demo
cmtic parly on the state ticket, I whh
tu give aid a;vt comfort to the rcpubll
run party? I uuhcdtatlngly )' l4'
1 da not.. I K further. I have n
Mndlb-r feeling for those with v.hom
,y ,,.trty lift wurket? in harmony than
I p.ubly could h.rvo tor Ui;;e I be
lieve M t"' piumotlnn l'll' - that are
diMruttlve or the npuMlc and mtm
bat to the Kvncrat wdfate.
Nr am I in Uvor of Rtvint aM and
rumfort U that part of tho democrat tr
party. iuw triumphanl. whewo h1
tiv4 and ruc4UR are ttmilar iu kind
to those of the republican party and to
me indistinguishable fiom them, , by
co-operating with it. And the '; fact
that I decline to do so is not to be
construed into favoring, the reteutlon
of , the republican party in power. I
would" defeat both the republican and
democratic parties and enthrone the
populist party if that were, in my pow
er. ' , : . '
As an incident of my position, the
interest of one or the other of these
organizations may, ' in a measure, be
promoted; but I can not hesitate to
do what I believe to be correct on ac
count of that fact. :
And now as to mistaken remedies.
Since the supreme court heldMn Pol
lock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co.,
157 U. S., 601, and Knowleton v. Moore,
178 U. S., 41. and In numerous other
cases, that the income tax clause of
the tariff act of 1894 is unconstitu
tional, Mr. Bryan has advocated an
amendment to the federal constitu
tion " '. , 'L '. , ' -
I do not see the wisdom of an at
tempt to amend the constitution in
this respect. Before that could be ac
complished, , congress would have to
submit the proposed amendment to
the legislatures of forty-five states and
three-fourths of them would have to
concur to make the amendment a par
of the constitution, a thing I believe
to be impossible at this time. .
But the supreme court has never
held that an income tax act, that 13
"apportioned among the several states
within this union according to their re
spective numbers" is unconstitutional;
but, uniformly, that such laws arc con
stitutional. Now, it Is clearly within
the power of congress to pass such a
law; and, the constitution having de
clared this to be the true policy of
the nation, I am not prepared to say
that the framers of that Instrument
were wrong and that Mr. Bryan is
right.
Impeding Mr. Bryan s ceciarallon
In favor of state ownership of rail
ways, I think It indefensible on the
ground of public policy and as con
necting with the federal constitution
and the deciaions' of the mtprime court,
That Instrument would have to to
t hanged before state ownership could
he made to accomplish any remedy.
In ,(he public Interest tf even trun ef
fectual. The constitution expreIy
declare that: "Vav congress shalki
haVi power to regulate commerce with
ft iHgu natltutit and umong tue several
hUtf. and with the Indian triors."
Com mm is trahc aim In hides
transportation. There are lot ty-flve
.tati, ami tf had utatt! ownership
wtt would have forty-tlvij dtftVrvrU y
itnH of rail ay.
l'ndr Mat ownership how could we
legally regulate IU ay iraflle. fur ln
ttanee, from California to Ntw York,
whbJi, nrordluft tit tf.e inot direct
route, would embrace Irauipoitatlon
through eleven . states? ' Suppose ( a
shipper in California snould ship on a
state road to the eastern boundary, of
California and when his shipment ar
rived at the Nevada line the Nevada
road should refuse to receive it, where
by the shipper would be ' damaged,
what tribunal would determine the
question thus arising? The courts of
California could not do so as their jur
isdiction is confined to California;, and
the courts of Nevada could not do so
as their jurisdiction is t confined to
Nevada. There is but '"one judicial
tribunal that would have jurisdiction
of the case and that is the circuit
court "of the' United States because it
is empowered to enforce the commerce
clause of the constitution. , ( And if
congress has exclusive power' to regu
late commerce between the stales,
doe not that fact confer on it the
authority to make laws,', and on the
United States courts, jurisdiction to
enforce those laws, regulative of com
merce? If Mr. Bryan will look iuto
this question more closely than he has
he will see that the authority to regu
.ate commerce between the states is by
the constitution committed to con
gress and that the federal courts, as
the judicial arm of the general gov
ernmnet, have jurisdiction to enforce
and construe federal statutes.
Nationalization Is the only solution
of the railroad problem. If the gov
ernment should take over the roads
by purchase, or by the exercise of the
power of eminent domain, or should
solve the question by the construction
of competing lines, the railroads would
be taken out of politics and not be put
Into politics as Mr. Bryan fears.
If. the railroads were nationalized
and a merit system adopted by which
employes were secured in their posi
tions as long as they were competent
to discharge their duties effectually,
they would become independent; 'and
if they exercised their right to vote
they could do so regardless of the
wish of railroad managers, knowing
that they could not be questioned.
And if the son should follow the fa
ther in tho railroad service what bet
ter provision could be made to develop
hU manhood and a sense of Independ
ence than to give hlrn au opportunity
to rise by merit? Nationalized, the
railroads wouU not be a menace to the
people; tut la private hands they are.
The dlCleulty with Mr. llr)an i posi
tion on the Income tax and the rail
way problem, I, that It requins quite
too frequent amendment f tlu fe.dvial
constitution.
I Pimply rll this disent from Mr.
Bryan's opinions on thesi quest kmi,
retalnUis ruy admlratlau for his fiouud
iH4 on other, and for uU great abil
ity; but dU. online abo from the l
i m of his cours In supporting Judge
I'arkrr for the presidency.
WM. V. Al.LIvN.
Mad Urn, Neb.
of'lbC'6, is most familiar to every well
informed man. We. without means to
pay for even the barest necessities of
iegitimate campaign, and absolutely
without the aid or sympathy of any
of the great metropolitan, newspapers
ot tue land barring one, made our
light. The brilliancy and the fierceness
with-which we assailed the ramparts
of the opposition need not be told
by those who were engaged In the
strife. The republican campaign man
agers can testify to it, as in fact they
did by the way they fought to prevent
our success. But hard as we fought,
brilliant aad capable as our command
er was, we fell without the breast
works defeated.
' But my friends when in the hietoiy
of our party was sucn a fight for vic
tory waged before, ana waen before
did a candidate of our party poli such
a popular vote? We know, the repub
licans admit it, and the Belmonts and
other "sane and safe democrats" claim
it to be true, that we fell not by the
power or strength of republicanism
but that we were foully shot down in
every by-way of the country by men
masquerading in the livery of democ
racy. v . ; . f ... .,.
, After our defeat in 189C, these men
who openly fought and defeated our
national ticket, together with those
who like , ex-United States Senator
David B. Hill had proclaimed' them
selves to be democrats of "the stlll-
very still" brand, preceded at xmce to
try and capture the national organiza
tion of our party the means they re
sorted to were not those which would
appeal to men who belleye : in . tair .
play and; honesty. But the end was"
all they fought for, and, any means
wnicn would accomplish the purpose
was to be commended. 'As we all
know. they Just failed of their puprose,
and the people still remained in con
trol of the party when it met again in
convention at Kansas City, and re-1
newed its pledges to the plain people
of our country. The convention again
made that, great champion of the
"moral issue," Mr. Bryan, its standard-bearer.
The fight during this . campaign of
1000, wras not exactly similar in all
aspects to the former fight, as the most
of the "sane'and safe" became more
serpent like and on longer fought even
as openly as before, but stung our
cdndates in secret, aud declared to
themselves" in private counsel, that
iuch a course would more effectively
destroy Bryan, his friends, and the
party and. enable them to regain con
trol, than open fighting of U3. -
After our second defeat caused alone
by the self-named "sane and sale"
aggregation of commercial and politi
cal bandits, they renewed their ener
gies to capture our organization almost
the clay after the election. They used
all the tactics which-could be em
ployed. They appealed to the politi
cian who was hungry by telling him
he could 'gel next to the public crib--if
he were only more conservative and
had the money to make the proper
kind of a campaign, lie was told that
they had the money and' were' ready
to put it up and elect him and the
party candidates if hg would only be
sensible and recognize the fact that
as far as he was concerned the goal
to be sought was the crib and that the
people, who put up the goods to de
bauch the electorate were entitled to
dilate and have carried out policies
teat would enable them to fioat such
ship bulldlnsc trust srh?mes and tail
road mergers as would enable them to
earn dividends commensurate to the
water in the stbems. Some ordinarily
honest tut woefully hungry politicians
Humiml.ed to the doctrine of "the pub
lie l. damned" and said I know these
tempters arm wrong but we must win
we need the omrei and without the
money ihee fallows run and wilt put
up we can not get. them. Bryan M
right and hon't but he can not win
with the money bat axahust Ului.
The and umlar npjt all ad
dre&ed to the ! rwiial eluhru&s of
the Individual man. produced malign
results aq I when the national convert-
