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AUGUST 11, 1904. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT PAGE 9. ' - WATSON' SPEECH While a verbatim report of Watson's speech at Lincoln before the state con vention is printed in this issue cf The Independent and however readers may be delighted with it, no concep tion can be formed of the spell it cast over the vast audience that lis tened to it. One must have heard ;t. A slight, frail man, every nerve quivering with earnestness,- throwing 'all his soul-power into every word he said, "seeming at times that bis very heart strings would breaK with a yearning to save this government from the attacfts of predatory wealth entrenched behind special privileges, he captured the sympathy of every man, woman and child that heard him. His logic was invincible, his rhet oric a model for all public speakers who may follow, him, his enunciation distinct and clear. "" Toward the latter part of his speech "his strength began to fail and he sat down in a chair. From that chair there blazed forth such bursts of elo quence as was never, heard in Lin coln before, although: the greatest-orators of the age have spoken in this university : city. Tom Watson, he is the greatest leader of the common people since Lincoln. Let us a'l prove loyal to hlm.j ' A. 8TKANGE ISOLTKB It is perhaps the first time in the history of " politics that ; a man who went before a body of bolters, most of whom had repudiated a conven tion, who determined to put out a new ticket and get them to promise that they, would go home, and- im mediately, begin to - organize clubs where every person admitted was to be pledged to "openly support the party's principles and candidates", was denounced in the papers v as "leading a bolt." ,. -' . : : I.:'' ' Y' The truth is. that the editor of The Independent told " everybody what would happen in the populist conven tion if , the program was carried out - which was advocated. And it did hap pen just as he said it would. 11 the plan had : been adopted that Th In dependent, had" advocated there would now be "harmony between the anti- ! Parker democrats,, populists and re- - publicans, who repudiate the present . administration.' There would have .been an enthusiastic campaign. The following is the resolution that . Miu Tibbies proposed and which was unanimously: adopted r ; ; - ; -"That the- counties here assembled to take into consideration the action of the convention in .endorsing fusion resolve that we appoint a committee of three members to take, into consid eration and devise a plan of organiza tion to be presented to the people of the state for straight populist clubs, which .are opposed to..Iusion, and- to which no one would be admitted who "would not . openly support popuiistic principles and candidates." The Hastings Public Journal says: "Let every 'honest voter consider well and weigh carefully the welfare of his country, before he decides wnich - Is best for the most people,-fusion or populism." The trouble is that the 'honest voter" will have very little to do with it: A lot of giro' tongued law " yers and officer-seekers will crowd the convention, while the "honest voter" is toiling in Jfj REPUBLICAN LISS Mr. Tibbies has received a dozen or so letters during the last week from populists in various states who were very much discouraged and some of them very angry because they saw a dispatch in the papers saying that Mr. Tibbies had come out for fusion. The Lincoln evening dailies of Thurs day had great .headlines announcing that-the populists had bolted on ac count of fusion and that Mr.. Tibbies had led the bolt. One of the papers after writing along that line for half u toluitiu then gave the following al nrost c.o-- cct 'report of what actually did occur at the meeting where it said Mr. Tibbies had led a bolt: "The delegates gathered at 9 o'clock. W. L. Hand of Buffalo county, called the convention to order and staled that the meeting was for the purpose of fii.scussing fusion and anti-fusion! Ha wn tf the opinion that an organiza tion o:tsbl to be perfected In tlie party In order that the fusionista would have to ttkc back seat if they were notTm the majority. He claimed that the vrMie of the people had not been carried rut Itt regard to the matter. W. J. Waltc. of the Oneva Gazette, wa.4 chocn secretary. T. II. Tibbies roved that a committee of three be appo.uted by the chair to submit a rnnaitmton and a plan for organizing populist clubs. To thrift no one would be tidn;Med who favored fusion. This carrfU and J. H.'Stockham, Mr. Tib bies and F. X. Pearl were the names mentioned by the chair." , -; Jen w ho have- been . fighting Wall street for . twenty years long ago learned not to believe what they saw m the papers concerning- populists, but there seems to be a good many v he have not -been in the fight long enough to learn that. ...' POPULIST CXCBS Sftting in this office week after week where almost every weekly pa paper in the state comes, in communi cation with 20,000 subscribers in the state and getting at least one letter a year from each of them and a score or more from some' of them, it was but reasonable to suppose, Uhat there was a sound ..basis in this office for the position taken by The Independent thata formal fusion with the demo cratic party would-be a great detri ment to the ticket. It turned out Just as The Independent said it would. When a fusion resolution was passed many delegates began to leave the hall. An announcement was made that they would meet at the Capitol hotel, the next morning to consider what they would do. A large number staid; overnight and some even missed morning trains on which they desired to go-home to attend that meeting, though a gooU many could not do so. At the hour named, .9 a. m., over one hundred were there, "vvnat the straight populist should do was discussed very fully. --V! .-. V- :. . ; Mr. ' W. L. Hand or Kearney was erected chairman and Mr. Waite, edi tor of the Geneva Gazette and Exeter Enterprise was; elected,, secretary. A motion was made to appoint a com mittee of three to formulate'- a plan for the organization of those, opposed to fusion and submit its report to con vention later, but as it was necessary for the delegates to leave. on the next train out,, it was afterward resolved that it should be a permanent commit tee and should report through The in dependent. ; - . vsy . The chair appointed Mr. Pearl, James S.,Stockham and T. H. Tibbies. It being! afterwards reported to the chairman that Mr. Pearl could not serve, Chas, ; QT De France was '''ap pointed in Jiis stead, 'y;- ' ' Another motion was adopted direct ing the ; committee toproceed to or ganize i-populist clubs, in every county and" precinct :". whre possible-, 1 ' of straight populists ; who s would pi edge themselves ' to work ' for and i support people's party principles and people's party, candidates.;, '. , 4 ; ; ;.v V, The Independent: asks -the -populists in the different parts of the state to take action immediately. Begin at once the organization of these clubs, and send the names and postoffice ad dress to T. H. Tibbies, 1328 0 street, Lincoln, Neb. "' 1 - -: - i- The Indiana Clark' County Citizen (dem.) remarks: "Our candidate for the vice-presidency; being a large own er of trust stock, he can not be ex pected to take an active part against the combines. We must postpone at tending to the trust evil until 1908 or later." U The St. Louis Dispatch says: "If Tibbies shines in the rejected light of a pair of Bright Eyes, he certainly made a wise choice of the source of his illumination." ' I said to the crow, "Oh, crow, tough crow, must 1 eat you forever and aye? Shall I never at meat have nothTng to eat but tough old crow till I die?" The old crow ansewered me fair and true, with the gleam of a fiend in his eye: "Don't make such a roar, you ate it before, at the board with Slip pery Si.'V-Edgar Howard. It was a hard fight, but Wall street reorganized Bryan along with the rest of the party. We gather from the Patriatch that there is likely to be lively times in Oregon. George Cottcrell, one of the leading democrats, has bolted. Mr. Cottcrell says: "One hundred deter mined Lincoln republicans and Jef ferson democrats which are synony mous terms In the last analysis can organize within the next month an Independent slate movement, free from national party entanglement, which will sweep the state next November." The populists are never hero wor fchlppent. Whenever a leader goes wrouic they drop htm an quick as they would a hot poker. But there arc nun in this rtate who, every time that llryan shuts his eyes, declare 'the whole universe in In darkness. The Smith Center, Kansas, Messen ger Is one of the best populist papers in the United States. The editor al ways' has able editorials. In discuss ing Bryan's support of Parker, he re marks: "Suppose Abranam Lincoln had said: 'I will Vote and work to elect the slave power to full control of the governmentand then I'll go to work to free the negro. - . Those re-liable dailies! The Chi cago Record-Herald puts down Geo. V. Berge as a democrat. Any sort of a lie about populism or populists goes tfceso days. If the reiort made in the Lincoln dailies of what Judge Waterbury said lo the anti-fusion populists , ever rcache. his ears, there will be some remarks made. This is the first time since 1S95 that the populists have had a chance to tave themselves counted. In that year ihere were Over 70,000; of them who . went to the polls and cast their ballots without a campaign " being made. On the electorial ticket they "have a chance to. be counted. Every populist in the state should feel that ;-,ery consideration of honor and pat riotism requires that he cast his vote for rhe noble leader, Thomas E. Wat &uii. wno without hope of reward, is giving his very life to the cause of populism. . Those who saw him at Lin coln, when he could no longer , stand on his feet, drop into a chair and pour forth those burning words for the common , people, can appreciate the sacrifice that he is making. ; i " That carpetbag government in the Philippines is the-best paying job that republican workers ever struck; .The salary of-the governor of the Phil ippines :is $15,500. a year, He re ceives in addition $5,000 a. year as .a member of the Philippine commission, making a total, of $20,500 a year. It is kept up for the benevolent assimi lation of dollars; ; . ; Roosevelt ' is increasing the higher grades in the army at a .wonderful rate. There are 269 generals on the re tiree! list of the. United States army, i7 more than there were in 1898. i Of this list 120 were in the service as gen erals less than two weeks and two for less, than a month before retirement. Taking the entire listinto consider ation, 210 never performed -active service in. the ranks.": ;V $r: ,;-'!,Vf-- . .The populist stafe convention of the state of. Iowa will be held at Des. Moihes' Iowa, Ahgust "25. : Headquar ters' will be at the Iowa hotel.'"r ' " ,'WalI street has no politics. Wall' street does not belong to any party. . Parties belong to it as soon as they begin to hold the offices. ; : CWall street is the biggest grafter in the business and the business covers the, whole United States. ! The people's party was organized to fight - Wall street and not a populist can be convinced that the way to fight Wall street is to vote for can didates which it has nominated.4 Even Mr., Bryan -can not make them believe that. . . A personal - friend in one of the mdst. flourishing towns in northern Nebraska writes to the editor of The Independent that: "Several democrats here have announced their intention of voting for you and the populist ticket and some have said they would vote for you any . way. I am at a loss to understand Mr. Brvan's posi tion in the matter and think that he has hurt himself more in the esti mation of the people' than auyihing he has ever done, as hi3 integrity has never, been questioned before, and now they think he hasnot been true to his own convictions.'"- Populists who repudiate Parker and all hi3 followers are constantly charged with aiding the republicans. The truth Is pop-populists would as readily aid the republicans as they would Parker democrats and none of them will deny it. So the accusation as no force. 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