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SEPTEMBER 15, 1904
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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Shall tbe work stop?
Will you help us?
Joliet, .111.; Sept 10. Editor. Inde-'l
pendent: Permit me to quote fr6m an
editorial on page 11, your issue of the
8th instant:
,"Mr. Watson said while here that he
was surprised that so many persons in
different states were writing for help
to him or the national committee. Tfiat
Is turning things the other end to.' The
people in the different states - must
help thecommittee. In populist cam
paigning funds must come from the
people and not from the national com
mittee. The way to do in every state
is to go right ahead, put tickets in the
field and do the work of the campaign.
; Then for the encouragement of the
others, report to the committee what
has been done and let them send it
out This is all that can be expected of
the national committee."
Why limit your remarks to the pres-
mt national committee? Is it some
tnmg sui generis something which
may'not "happen" again? Of course,
I understand your position and appre
elate your kindness in penning the par
agraph quoted.
Headquarters should in truth he
headquarters, where full reports of
whatever is being done in the various
states should he sent without .delay.
Ample clerical assistance should be em
ployed so that prompt reply could be
made to every inquiry even those of
minor Importance. Every ' facility
should be afforded for quick work, for
rapid communication when occasion tq
quices. All this takes money.
Where is the money to come from?
Manifestly either from the plain people
themselves or some dirty deal must
he entered into with one or both the
old plutocratic parties, whereby our
committee shall receive second-hand
some of the loot which Tom Taggart
or Cortelyou "fries from the trusts."
I have faith to believe that our peo
ple do not desire us to accept any por
tion of the corruption funds now held
by Taggart : and Cortelyou. None of
this has been offered us probably none
will be because we have not assumed
an attitude which would invite such
an offer. But it might come. What do
our people say ? ' If the opportunity
comes, shall we stultify ourselves or
shall we keep the movement clean?
I still "believe 1 1 knor . what the
unanimous verdiet of populisms would ;
be. Yet thousands of Uiose who would
howl the loudest about the infamy of
accepting aid from either of the old
parties have not 'contributed a single
red cent toward keeping the work go
ing: Think of r our position here:
Clamorous letters from every part of
the union asking for literature. Want
500 copies of the platform here; 1,000
copies of Watson's speech there; must
nave this and that at once.
We ought to have $5,000 a week here
from now on to take advantage of the
effect produced by Mr. Watson's Lin
coln, Cooper Union, and Atlanta
speeches. We need to organize a peo
ple's party club In each of ten thou
sand election precincts or at least
one such club in the 2,700 counties. For
this the printer's bill alone is a big
item; afid postage a bigger one. Mr.
Watson's Cooper Union speech ought to
have a million circulation. We could
make It that, if we had even enough
postage to write all the populists whose
names we now have, advising them
that it can be had at $2 per thousand.
But it would cost $500 to buy postal
cards to write each person once say
ing nothing of the labor, printingad
dressing, etc. And our total receipts
the past three weeks have been less
than enough to buy the postal cards.
iive tnousana dollars a week, you
say, is a large sum of money for a
populist national campaign? Well,
there are 2,700 counties in the United
States a few more than that and it
would about be equivalent to spending
?2 a week in a county campaign. There
will be eight more Saturdays before
election $40,000. Not a whit too much.
And who will pay it?
Well, if the million men who voted
for Weaver, in' 1892 would contribute
four cents apiece, it would settle the
bill. My judgment is that a good many
of our populist brethren are like that
southern Nebraska Methodist whose
experience meeting speech was ever
this: "I'm glad salvation's free." Per
haps, however, I misjudge them. Prob
ably they have never fully understood
the need for helping out the national
committee. But it is a fact that-ex-cept
in rare cases of very old and in
digent men his populism is hardly
skin deep, who can not and will not
contribute at least a dollar. We have
thousands of well-to-do farmers who
are amply able to afford $100 each;
many thousands more who could give
$50 or $20 or $10, or $5. '
Mr. Editor, you; our candidate for
vice president, wield a trenchant pen.
Can't you say something in The In
dependent that will convince our pop
ulist brethren that we are now losing
the opportunity of our lives to build
up a strong organization simply be
cause our -people have forgotten their
old Alliance habit of contributing lib
erally' and have contracted the old par
ty habit of letting the 'candidates foot
the bills or compelling their commit
tees to enter into questionable -trans
actions to get funds?' ' .
' Yours for the success of populism.
CHAS. Q. DE FRANCE, Sec.
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lajt Safe?
If the democratic managers bring
Bryan into this state to answer Tom
Watson, the populist candidate, there
will be an end to apathy in this part
of the country. Watson demonstrated
In his recent Cooper Union speech that
he has great .qualities as a campaign
orator. He not only stirred the audi--ence
to fervid enthusiasm, but he sent
a thrill through the democratic party
in the entire state. It was suddenly
made plain to them that there was an
appreciable populist party in New
York, a sufficient number of old Bry-j
cAiAiv. uxam wMkSih ui, vail J lug
the state for Parker much more diffi
cult than it had appeared to be. Sup
pose there should be 30,000 votes cast
for Watson, where would the demo
cratic majority be then?
But will it be safe to bring Bryan
here to offset Watson? Can Bryan
be depended upon to help Parker more
than he would hurt him? Would he
not be likely to rouse Watson to more
fiery effort than he would otherwise
put forth? These are possibilities
which, as the country editor would say
are "calculated to give pause" to Mr.
Taggart and hia associates. New York
Globe.
The Coming Revolt
Editor Independent: Tbe action of
the recent Texas democratic convention
in endorsing the banco pame of the
New York World and St. Lou la Post
Dispatch organ of the rcorganlzers Jn
working for th nomination of Jude
I'arker la aumclcnt evidence that
thlnes rnnot be pretty bad In Texun.
We are today far on th path of
new movement. dtUnd to take j.la,
in which lawless prlvlls will N?
bronchi to bar before the outraged
on!imint vt tho electorate.
The evidences of the cumins revolt
re on every hand. Witnea the m
mermM macailn article dealing In a
pop mar way Hlth thf various phan
of labor troulile and on polttlral and
CuancUl alllame.1 fur tha iubvertlug
of every moral and ethical law in the
interest of "business'' or .mammon.
The actions of such political pirates as
Hopkins of Illinois and Taggart of In
diana working in the interest of the
reorganizers will bring its retribution.
Evidences are not wanting in the re
publican party that its, membership is
awakening. Look at the plucky fight
of Robert La Fpllette against admin
istration 'senators and representatives
of railroad and other corporate inter
ests in the struggle for just taxation
and obedience to the law. The "re
spectables" of the republican and re
organized democracy will not hesitate
to help one another to down La Fol
lette of Wisconsin. Brvan of NrhrflsVn
Johnson of Ohio and Folk in Missouri.'
either separately or all together.
come ye out from amongst them,"
ana oe ye separate salth the Lord." is
sim gooa aavice to the aforesaid
named gentlemen and their followers
And so we here today will by wisdom
ana jorty belief In absolute truth and
justice build a foundation for a da
rious superstructure, and into the tow
ers thereof the bells of populism re
newed win again proclaim liberty
throughout the land and to all the In-
nawtants thereof.
F. FORRESTER.
St. Louis, Mo.
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Suprwwe Watson were elected nreU
dent. what would happen? In the first
placet we would have a thoroughly hon
est man In tho whlta house. Thla la
a fact eoureded by Mr. Watson' polit
ical U an well as by hia political
friend and It la more than th re
publicans ran nxy of every eandldate
P!t up by thHr parly for the 1nr
twenty year. We would hare a pre
ll nt r.f ttnnuentloneit ability. Mr
Wafson ha- lmwn himself a (nun tit
irl lirt h tu t inly a brilliant r.
t'r, but b hni dp"nntrntid hi tio.
tflun of Vi nitff. flf Hateman.
ship, Wi wiuld bnve a prenldent h
i petnonally unmliUu. Mr. WaUun 1
devoted to principles rather than to
advancement of his individual inter
est. He is a broad minded man. We
would have a president that would not
change his policies every other day to
suit the sugar trust, or some other
great trust, which would put up a big
campaign fund. He would be a presi
dent of the people, for the people and
by the people. Special privileges to
none would be the policy of Thomas
Watson. Also death to Imperialism
and expansion by force, and a free
and independent government to the
Filipinos. W. M. LA KIN.
Aurora, Neb.
The Cold Drlck Telegram
This populist, or Uryan vote la a
problem that the democrats are unable
to solve. If Bryan and his platforms
were right, then I'arker and his gold
brlek telegram ore all wrong. The
man who hon8tly supported Bryan
must cither hate changed his views
or he tan not honestly support I'ar
ker. The democratic candidate fur
president who twite Indorsed Bryan
and bin platforms must have changed
hU mind or he In a contemptible poli
tician, who makes hi political tlewa
null the situation a. h (Utdt It at a
riven time. But the all Important con-
lerallon to Bavld B. Hill and his
aM lates who are trylns to elect Tar.
kcr M Oct a mailer of prlnchde. but a
question of votes. That the gold brick
telegram has called back many gold
democrats who refused to vote for
Iiiyan in 1896 and some of the very
few who again opposed him in 1900
must be admitted, and is it not equally
true that it has repelled the men who
believed in Bryan's principles and who
fwnKW ln, fx,actly the 8ame Position
mat the gold democrats were in 1836?
Springfield (Mass.) Union.
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" Lincoln. Neb.
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