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. If a populist is forced
to am cnner rarker or Koohcvelt,
many of them .won ft! prefer to aid
Koof-fvelt, for the reason that that
portion of Wall tttreet that Ik behind
Roosevelt U somewhat irore decent
than the pang from rue same crowd
that i barking Parker. But a popu
list will aid neither of them. He will
persistently refuse to be counted
among cither pang of p'utocrata.
The negro model town of Buxton,
Canada, founded during th day of
the "underground rftHioad, 1 now
Altnoftt abandoned.
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