SEPTEMBER 8, 1904
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
PAGE 9.
democrat, such a party should get into
power, governmental choas would re
sult again, just as it did under Cleve
land during his, last administration.
: It is true that a -large majority of
those who at present call themselves
democrats have certain well-defined
principles, but they are overwhelmed
; by the shrewd managers of the trusts
ana the money power. In the south
they are made to believe that the
north intends to invade that section
- and place the negroes in power over
the whites to force, negro social
equality upon them. In the north
they denounce every, effort to stop the
concentration of wealth in few hands,
or any opposition to the power that
controls legislatures, city councils and
courts and every department of gov
ernment in the interest of corpora
tions, trusts - and banks.' They call
themdves "sane," and denounce all
vho dare oppose, them as wild-eyed
lunatics. They downed Bryan and seek
to make the principles which he has
- advocated appear , ridiculous and ab
surd. And the . basis of all this, the
very foundation upon which it all
rests is the claim that they can poll
1 T' electoral votes in' the south, ' by
nicking the people there believe that
ttie north is coming down there to
force negro social equality upon them
For thirty years the republican party
held power and built up a great mon
ied plutocracy by waving the "bloody
. shirt" in every campaign. Then the
cry was that the southern "brigadiers"
were coming to Washington to take
charge of the government and run it
in the interest of the defunct south
ern confederacy. The mullet heads of
the north were willing to turn the
government over to the banks and, the
bondholders to prevent the southern
brigadiers, who hadn't a gun, or a
soldier and hardly a dollar in their
pockets, from overriding the north.
Now the same gang of predatory pi
rates are getting the southern mullet
heads to" "vote 'er straight," to prevent
the north from forcing negro equality
upon them. ;
; There was just as good-a basis for
the old "bloody shirt" campaigns as
there is now for this "solid south"
'campaign on negro social equality.
COLORADO '
. One of the first articles in The In
dependent on the Colorado situation
called attention to the fact that the
course of the courts out there and of
the civil authorities would he used as
a precedent in other, states whenever
the! 'occasion arose. ' In an editorial
idi,,wccii iue DUSIU14 nciaiu,r iu tuiu
menting on the situation , in Colorado,
takes exactly,, the same position. It
says: , - ' - v.- . '
"One great impending mischief is
that Colorado is thus furnishing an ex
ample mat otner. states may .. inmate.
The conditions for a similar civil war
exist in every state Jhaving large in
dustries and a large labor union popu
lation. Are the conflicts- that: arise
between employers and employed to
be settled in this , way; everywhere?
Will- other governors undertake i6
treat strikes as rebellion and to sup
press labor unions by similar strenu
ousmeans, holding that one party has
no rights and the other has all license
to oppose it, even to the extent of sub
stituting martial law for civil law and
lending the military- authority to sup
port the unlawful action of mobs com
posed of gentlemen of property and
standing? ... - .'
The international socialist congress
at Paris, which ended last week,
adopted a resolution condemning hos
tility to trusts which the European scr
cialista, equally with their American
brethren, regard as working out short
cuts toward the regime of state-owned
industry. Here is where socialism and
plutocracy stand together,
A LIVELY COUPS
Since Morgan made his deal and got
his guarantees from Roosevelt and
turned his papers and Influence over
to the republicans, there has been a
woeful wail sent up from every demo
cratic headquarters in the land about
a lack of funds. The other day Rep
resentative Cowherd, who is at the
headof the democratic congressional
committee, after keeping the wires hot
for a long time with demands on Shee
han and Belmont for funds, left. Wash
ington for -New York after making a
Ktatemcnt that if he could not get
funds he would iom the congressional
headquarters and give up the fight, Me
went to New York and nothing has
been heard from him since, The fact
i, that Wall street having made a
satisfactory dial with Roosevelt, is not
going to spend much money on the
democratic campaign. They look upon
such a proposition as throwing rood
money after bad, Inc Cooper Union
meeting. That meeting took the last
hor.o from the democrats of carrying
New York. The pomilM party, which.
so many astute gentlemen in Nebraska
and elsewhere declared dead, rose up
and with one blow, knocked the gold
standard democracy cold. The umpire
counted it out and that ended the fight.
Populism is a pretty lively corpse.
NONPARTISAN
' The laying of the corner stone'of
the new postoffice building in Lincoln
was announced in the republican pa
pers as a purely non-partisan cere
mony. The speakers on that occasion
were Governor Mickey, republican can
didate for re-election, Ed Sizer, re
publican postmaster; Burkett, republi
can candidate for senator and for congress-.
It has been the republican idea
in Nebraska for years that any sort of
a public- performance to which no one
was admitted except republicans was
strictly, non-partisan. .
MASSACHUSETTS. DEMOCRACY
.'. The democrats in Massachusetts
Went '..to work and re-orgahized their
paty on the "sane and safe" plan.
They downed Geo. Fred Williams and
kicked out all of his kind. . Now the
Worcester Post, which is one of the
"sane and safe" kind says:
"If ever a party organization needed
to be re-organized and shaken up, the
democratic , state . and . municipal or
ganizations in : Massachusetts do. In
the municipal organizations, there are
grafters that have no earthly interest
in the party's success. They fignt for
an election to. the. city committee for
what they can make out of it." .
So it seems that the re-organization
headed by Olney and Gaston, which
resulted in making oter the Williams
democracy into another republican
party, has not succeeded in getting
any additional votes and in many parts
of Massachusetts the democratic vote
has fallen off since Gaston threw Wil
liams over the transom. The perform
ance of , the democracy in Massachu
setts is safe lunacy but the sanity does'
not appear, ' Graft is its most dis
tinguished characteristic.
TENNESSEE DEMOCRACY
The Tennessee ; democrats continue
to race ; in , so extraordinary fashion,
that every disinterested onlooker, has
very grave doubts whether they : are
"safe and sane" or not. Here is a
specimen, from the Nashville Banner:
"Can it be that the -republican cam
paign iswso desperate that Tom Wat
son is become a . valuable political as
set, recruited to . help Roosevelt be
cause the democrats nominated a-gold
standard man?, : j What good can the
ravings sof. this blatant demagogue
about the gold, standard do the repub
lican cause, when, only last 1 winter,
he insisted that the democratic con
vention isbouhi , nominate another gold
standard man if it wanted his sup
port." :- ... .:. ... , ;y,.."V-:.-,
A southern democrat goes wild.when
ever the; name of Tom Watson is men
tioned. , Could . any man come to any
other conclusion thaa that the writer.
of the above-paragraph had gone daft?
There, are going to, be many populist
votes . in ; the . south or- the democrats
down, there would not. "take on" in
such a jcranky. manner, v ;
: j REFORM IN RUSSIA ;
, The defeat of Russia1 by the .TaDan-
ese may, be the! greatest blessing that
ttussia couiu ' receive, numors or at
tempts at reform in Russia have been
numerous 6f late-reforms in whinh
blood thirsty nihilism has no part.
Certainly things have occurred - that
never would have been allowed before
the war. ' s . ' s
At the recent ninth congress of nhv-
sicians and surgeons, four of the prin
cipal ' sections adopted the following
resolutions: :
"A systematic and rational struecle
with infant mortality, alcoholism, tu
berculosis; syphilis, and other wide
spread .diseases, which form in Rus
sia a public evil of enormous extent,
is possible only under conditions en
abling a broad dissemination of en
lightenment.coneernlnjr the true causps
of their development and the methods
of combating them, the necessary con
ditions being complete freedom of the
individual, of speech, of the Dress, and
of assembly." .
Three other sections adopted this
one:
"Bclievins: that the extraordinarily
high infant mortality of Russia is due
mainly to the poverty and crnoraniR
of her population, the congrens ex
presses the profound conviction that
a successful struggle with this evil is
possible, only by way of broad social
reforms.' -
Another section of the foncrcsa re
solved that "corporal punishment
should not exist ! Hu-Ia, and the
assistance of a physician, In tho ca
pacity of witiufs or expert, in the ad
ministration oi sncn punisnmenr, is in-
iulmkibh"
fcirsre the above resolution wn
parisal the c?.ar has abotiKhed corporal
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SENATOR LODGE'S FLOP
; Senator Lodge, and other protection
ists of - the New England states begin
to see the writing on the wall. The
change in conditions is bringing near
ly all. the great economic interests in
line with populism on the tariff.. About
"50,000 manufacturers and merchants of
Massachusetts have signed a petition
and presented it to Senator Lodge ask
ing for reciprocity .with Canada. Be
sides this petition, Mr. Lodge has been
informed; by a large number of his
constituents, that so far as the ma
terial interests. 6f ; Massachusetts - are
concerned, he has outlived-his useful
ness, and that those interests would
probably be better promoted and safe
guarded if he would seek the repose'of
private life.
Lodge has definitely led the opposi
tion to reciprocity with Canada. The
reciprocity treaties' negotiated during
the McKinley administration he had
the, senate lay away in a tomb, from
which he declared that there would be
no resurrection. But a petition to
which the names of 50,000 business
men, "sane and safe men," were, at
tached, demanding that Lodge turn
populist on the tariff had a very se
rious look. v ' ' ;
In the first speech that Lodge made
after the situation' was made known
to him he declared that he was in fa
vor of reciprocity with Canada. He
now says that he "stands on the 'safe
and sane' reciprocity policy of Blaine,
McKinley and Hay." His conversion
being so sudden and the fact that it
occurred during a campaign, the Mas
sachusetts interests that are demand
ing reciprocity say: "Having been
converted to the true faith and having
proclaimed his fervid love for reciproc
ity, he must prove it, not on the stump
but in the senate, in which the reci
procity treaties still lie buried, he
being one of the chief grave-diggers."
The lust is that a majority of the
people of Massachusetts are populists.
All that is needed is to present, in a
dignified and respectable way, the prin
ciples of populism to them and they
will vote for them.
DOUGLAS COUNTY
The populists of Douglas county are
becoming vigorous aa the time ap
proaches for the county convention.
There are few counties In this state
where the populists have been m wan
tonly betrayed by so-called democrats
ns in Douglaa county, Ko much m that
iUe aggressive and valuable members
of the party have. in larr number
tcne Into the socialist ranks rather
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than longer affiliate with a mongrel
breed or democrats. In a county nor
mally republican, ..and strongly so, by
the support of the populist party :
thiough fusion, almost all county of--flits
were filled by democrats. In the :
support of these seekers for office the
populists were hopeful of relieving the
county of political rings. Their hopeB
were not realized. Even ' the better
element of the democratic party would'
gladly -t today clean ' out; the entire '
county court house crowd, hardly any
of whom any longer commands 1 the
confidence and respect 0f the better '
elemen t of any party.- Under these of
ficials, political hacks have' been" kept
on - the ; county payroll for no' other '
reason than that "they must be taken''
care, of." These officials should be
taught that the people's money can"
not be so - used that such Conduct
upon the part: of a public official is -equivalent
to embezzlement ' of pub
lic funds. The legislative ticket nom
inated by.the dembcrats of that' coun
ty, with but three or four exceptions,
ca n not command the support ' of ' de
cent voters. ' It is composed chiefly of
grog dealers, saloon bums and pbliti-5
cai tools. In general worth ; the re- '
publican legislative ticket could' not "
bfc so bad, while its general average' in-"'
teliigence could be much ' bjgher, ' and
not half try. The election of such a'
ticket would reflect upon the county
James P. English, county attorney, is
an exception to the general list, and
may be re-elected. Though - not an'
aggressive democratic democrat, his
conduct of his office has at least been
clean so far as any outward show,
can testify. The populists, may en
dorse him. and perhaps fuWral
dates on the Jegislative ticket, but it
is rafe to say that fusion on the un
worthy candidates can not be obtained.
Better be clean and allow the repub
licans to regain the county than long
er affiliate with this mongrel breed." .
HON. JOHN M. OSBORN .
There can be no public trust that
more vitally touches the pockets of the
people than that of public treasurer.
The people of the state of Nebraska
have had some sorry experience along
this line, that has burned deeply Into
their minds the importance of this
fact. Because of past experience, vot
ers herearte will look caref uily into
the record of every man seeking elec
tion to this high office. The candi
date of the people's and democratic
parties for state treasurer will bear th
closest investigation into his business
and official life, and that investigation
will tmtisfythe most exacting.
Senator John M. Oshcrn ia a na
tive of Indiana, and was born March
10, IS 13. After graduating from the
common schools of his neighborhood,
he attended Union Christian colloro.
At the breaking out of the rebellion be
lft his farm life to enlist In th
Nlmty-stlenth I. V. I., and served
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