AUGUST 11, 1004.
PAGE 8.
HE NEBnASHA'INDEPENDENT
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T H UBBLE?, Editor." .
I Q DE FRANCE, Abccle1c Editor.
l.V. EAGER, lufclutbs Kaimger.
. NATIONAL TICKET.
President Thomas E. Watson. V :
Vice-President T. 11. TibbW
STATE TICKET. . "
Governor G.W. Berge. V..
LieutkJovernor Dr. A. Townsend.
Auditor J. S. Canaday.'- ' "'
Treasurer John M. Osborne:
Attorney General isawara li. wnaien,
Land CommisV Albinus A. Wotsley.
Supt. Pub. Inst A; Softley.
' The Parker democrats and repub
licans are now out trying to beat the
Tom-Tom,' but they don't know how.
The July' death fate in Lincoln was
the lowest of any city of ltsrsize in
'the world', it being 6.9 per thousand.
-The democrats are climbing the
golden stairs. for at the top they see
those holy saints, Belmont, Hill and
Parker. : ' "
Bryan deserted the post of leader
of the common people against Wall
. street and '.. the - people , have chosen
Watson . in his place.
The populists of Kansas are finding
that it is harder to fight democrats
with Wall street behind them than
it ever was to, fight republicans.
The dailies talked a great deal
C. UUUb AUU DCbi UCliiULi lJ
When the S't. Louis convention ad
journed that the samples of it they
presented to the people represented
silence and senility.
Bryan says as soon as the election
is over he is going to reorganize the
democratic party. He reorganised it
1 nee before, and after eight years it
ended in Parker and the gold stand
ard. No matter how many times it
is reorganized, it is the same ole
thing.
Tho, man whom we lake into our
hearts is the one who writes a. let
ter sending his congratulations, giv
ing advice or telling the conditions
around him and closes it. with these
words: "Donl answer,' or "no reply
epected." There are a pood many
uch noble souls as that In these
United States.
The west., has sent many brilliant
young men to Washington young
men tilled with love of country and a
desire to do all they could to make
the world better, but one by one
Wall street gets them all. And now
the greatest of them has surrendered.
If muh arts are condoned, we will
never be able to gt men who
will not surrender.
. This h the way they have evolved
th present commercial and Industrial
conditio!!. First th paitnerhip, next
th corporation, then tbe'trust, At
t ho starting was the Independent far
mer and the business man. Now we
have the railroad and elevator rid
den farmer, and the business man who
h simply an ugtnt tilting goods on
ronimlMlon for the trust.
WHEN DID YOU DO IT?
The reoublican spellbinders aie al
ready talking about the republican
party having established the goid
standard. When did they do it? Will
some of them please give us the 'pre--
cise date? Was it when MeKinley
started the mints to coining silver
night and day? The director of the
mint in . his report of that year says
that the New Orleans mint was run
night and day with double shifts coin
ing silver. What that the time they es
tablished the gold standard? Oi was
t the -time that they passed a law
allowing the banks to increase their
circulation eleven per cent by issuing
money to them to the fuU amount of
the bonds deposited, whereas before
they only got back 90 per' cent of the
value of their bonds? Or was It
when they passed another law allow
ing national banks to be established
everywhere with only $25,000 capital.
Was that the date of the establishment
of the gold standard? Come now.
Tell us 'when you did it.
THOSE KANSAS ia'rONS "
The Kansas City Star, in speaking
of the to-called populist state conven
tion of Kansas remarks: "There nev
er was a more absurd convention."
That is what the dailies of both old
parties say of it everywhere.
Well it does look somewhat absurd
to see a populist convention presided
over by a man who was a democratic
candidate for congress and I U pro
ceedings recorded by a democratic
candidate for secretary of state. The
whole thing was. a disgrace from be
ginning to end. Never anything like
it occurred in American, politic.1; be
fore. There were whole county dele
gations there shouting for Parker.
One negro made a speech and declared
that "if a man of my colah can sup
port Parker it is time, for de white
lolks to be cllmbin' in de band wag
on. " - . a :- ;
The whole thing an absurd perform
ance? Of course. The performers are
the laughing stock of the whole coun
try. Parker democrats holding a pop-j
ulist state convention! : It is "enough
to make a "wooden Injun" smile. Jt
won't be three months until the whole
thing will be put on the stage, by the
managers of the negro minstrel shows.
There have been some strange capers
cut in Kansas politics before, but this
caps the climax. - - 5 . "
. The populists of the whole nation
as well as the populists of Kansas, re
pudiate, the thing. There . will be- a
populist state convention in Kansas
over which a democrat will, not preside
and the proceedings wilL not : be re-
corded by a man who is a democratic
candidate for a state office.
ARE YOU GOOD AT FIGURES?
The great success attained by the
Bankers Reserve Life Co.
Of Omaha, Nebraska.
suggests an interesting problem: "
If the cash assets of this progressive
company passed the $100,000.00 mark in
February, 1903, Z
Which
and if this sum was further agumented in
the succeeding 16 months; or in June,' 1904
to $250,600.00, showing a ain of .150
per cent, . ' '. ;;. ;
what will its resources amount to one
year fromtoday?
y .The new 6 per cent investment policy now ready
for the insuring public will helpvyou increase your
resources. t' . .'r.-. ::;')' Vi"..' ., '
For narticulars address,'
B. H. ROBIS0N, PRESIDENT.
THAT KANSAS CONVENTION
The so-called populist convention of
Kansas .was a disgrace and a fraud.
the dailies of the state of. all parties
ridicule it. The men who managed it
are despised by all honest men. They
made themselves the rightful subjects
of jeers,, sneers and mockery, and
they are getting it from all sides. The
Independent utterly repudiates it. Its
product is fouler than any thing that
could be fished from the sinkholes of
Wall street. They called it a pop
ulist convention and the chairman
was the regular nominee for con
gress of the democratic party. . The
secretary wasrnade the regular nom
inee of the democratic paity for sec
retary of state. And they" called it a
populist convention! '
The Kansas City Star and the re
publican papers of the state announce
with a great deal of satisfaction and
much hilarity that "The end of the
populist party came when, the bolt of
the night before flattened out."
. The Independent announces with
more satisfaction and greater hilarity
that that was the end of fusion, but
not the end of the populist party n
Kansas. There will he a straight peo
ple's party national and state ticket
put in the field in Kansas and it will
poll twice as many votes as the mon
grel ard disgraceful aggregation will
that captured a populist state eon-
ventlon by filling it with Parker Will
street elemocrats. Let not the popu
lists of Kansas be discouraged. Their
triumph will come in tt-c rear future.
It will be overwhelming. No man
who is on that Parker ticket will ever
hold an ofilce In Kansas by the vot
of the Miple. If Parker Is elected, a
few may get some Wall street crumb.
Rut their disgrace U branded In their
hldvi'i.nd ean never bj obliterated.
Kansan City has uncovered ids deal
ers on ltd teek exchange who have
heen euiltv of ehfatlntT cattle shin-
jwri. St. Ixiuls recently found that
a number of t cra n b'lvcru had vi
tematlcttUjc deframle-d hlppr. That
U what cattle shippers and farmers
havp -been eharirine for the last ten
years. : Now "they have concluded to
erect ; their own elevators and ship
their-own' grain' -.and: cat'tle anil" have
a man of the board of v trade to sell
them! But Schneider is a membtv of
the executive committee of the : re
publican party and a big" man in the
elevator trust. It . he wins, ne nopes
to knock all the farmer elevators out.
: Nebraska Prohibitionists -
The nrohibition party of Nebraska
held its state convention at Lincoln,
August 9, and nominated the follow
ing ticket:
Governor Clarence F.' SwaUder of
Richardson county. N
Lieutenant governor Isjiiali:' Light-
ner of Platte.
State treasurer John P. Heald of
Polk -....
Secretary of state Stanley Larson
of Saline. J
State auditor S. T. Davies of Otoe;
Attorney general Martin I Brower
of Nance.
Commissioner of public lands and
buildings Andrew J. Thompson of
Johnson. ?
Superintendent of public instruction
i P, H. Carson of Dodge.
Presidential electors Charles W.
Day of Butler county, N. S. Wright of
Pawnee county, J. F. Sheperd of Jef
ferson county. A. B. Huckins of Otoe
county, D. A. Shaffer of Boone county,
O. J. Wilcox of liage county, biegei
Matson of Thayer county, Albert ntch
of Merrick county.
Concre3s First dirtsrict. Bert Wil-
won of Richardson county; Second dis
trict. Rev. It. M. Throckmorton of
Cass county: Third district. Henry J.
llockenberger of Platte county; Fourth
district, Rev. G. 1. Wright of York
county; Fifth district. John Tucker of
Phelps county; Sixth district, J. J.
Smith of Howard county,.
The platform follows:
Tho prohibitionists of Nebraska, in
convention assembled, do hereby ratify
the national platform of our party, as
adopted by tho convention held at In
dlanaiKilia. June 2'J. linn, and do affirm
our allfgience to our standard bearers,
Klia (J. swallow ami George . Car
roll, and promise them our hearty
support by volte and vote.
We declare the truth that the license
method ot dealing with the liquor traf
fic in Nebraska ha proven powcrlei;
to remove Us evils, ttfthetenetl the grip
ef the traffic tipon all other parts e!
the state and that the money derived
from the saloon system of Nebraska
has blinded the people"and seared the
public conscience against a recognition
of its iniquity;, and we therefore favor
the total abolition! of the' license sys
tem and the complete legal prohibition
of the. liquor traffic. ,
,. We hereby respectfully urge upon
the next legislature of Nebraska its
duty to submit to : the voters of the
state - a proposed . amendment to our
sta,te constitution prohibiting the im
portation, transportation, exportation,
manufacture, sale or keeping for sale
Intoxicating liquors for beverage pur-
L poses. ' . -: .
Resolved, That the elective franchise
should not depend :upon sex. " ,
Resolved, That; we favor direct leg
islation through , the principle of the
initiative and referendum.
We most cordially, and urgency in
i.te."all, who believe in our principles
to ally themselves with the only party
advocating the outlawing! of the sa
loon. - The following members of the state
central committee were reported:
, iAdams D. D. . Norton, Kenesaw.
Antelope-n-Harry Corbin. Oakdale.
Boone E. R. Leedon, Albion.
; Butler J. H. , Hefwig. Rising. City.
Cass Wilber Wade, Louisville.
Colfax C. A. Arnolds, Schuyler. .
; Dixon Samuel Roberts, Allen.
Douglas Rev. P. F. Elmen, Omaha.-
Gage Horace Langdon, Beatrice.
Hamilton F. A. Best, Aurora.
Holt Bartley Blaine, Pago.
Howard Nelson Hold. Dannebrog
Jefferson E. A, Yonts, Fairbury.
Johnson J. M. Dilworth Crab Or
chard. Lancaster A. G. Wolfenbarger, Lin
coln. Madison William Havens, Meadow
Grove.
Merrick George Fitch, Central City.
Nemaha J. D. Graves. Peru.
Otoe S. T. Davb s, Nebraska City.
Pawnee J. p. Barr, Liberty.
" Phelps Itev. Mr. Boall, Holdrege.
Pierce F. Do Vol, Pawhon.
Platte-Rev. E. J. Ulmer, Culumbus.
Polk A. -T. Crozier, Osceola.
Red Willow C. S. Quick, Indian
ola. Richardson -Samuel Lichty, Falls
Citv.
Saline-E. P. Clay, Crete.
Karpy Edward J. Smith. rprlngfieltL
Saunders Charles N. Folom, Ash
land.
Seward E, M. William. Seaurd.
Thayer J. 0. Wagner. C!it.r.
YorK Kt, John Suttor, McCooU