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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
SEPTEMBER 15, 1904
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- NATIONAL TICKET.
President Thomas E. Watson.
.Vice-President T. H. Tibbies.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
Electors at Large Capt. Eric John
son, Wahoo; J. D. IJatfield, Neiigh.
By Districts:
First E. G. Quaekenbush, Auburn.
Second J. J. Points, Omaha.
Third Thomas Farrell, Chapman.
Fourth W. S. Beebe, Seward.
Fifth Dr. Rob't Damercll, Red Cloud.
Sixth Willi3 L. Hand, Kearney.
STATE TICKET.
Governor G. W. Berge. - v
Lieut-Governor Dr. A. Townsend.
Secretary of State R. E. Watzkc.
Auditor J. S. Canaday.
Treasurer John M. Osborne.
Attorney General Edward H. Whalen.
Land Commis'r Albinus A. Worsley.
Supt. Pub. Inst A'. Softley.
" An "ethical" saloon consecrated with
the prayers of an Episcopal bishop, is
no more a contradiction in terms than
calling the theories of Dave Hill, Bel
mont and Parker, democracy. '
' The Japanese have nullified the Rus
sian viceroy, Alexiff's, big timber con
tract with the Corean government. . It
was one of the biggest steals on earth
and it was said that "there were mil
lions in it."
For several days the Chicago Record
Herald has been asking: "What did
the Woggle Bug say?" It should not
Tbe so insistent. Judge Parker is work
ing hard at his letter of acceptance and
that sort of thing will not make him
Lurry up any.
The big brewing interests of Omaha
!have announced that they are solid for
Mickey. Mickey is the man who is
Tunning for governor on the republican
ticket and who ecently announced
that he was opposed simply because
he was a Christian.
The Young men"s republican club of
Lincoln has resolved "to reach voters
through their heads, not their stom
achs." What has become of the "full
dinner pail" brigade? And that big
banner that was stretched across O
street for so many weeks?
All economic discussion or even men
tion of government policies hai been
eliminated from the editorial columns
of the dailies since this campaign be
gan. The two old parties nre in such
perfect agreement on those things that
there is nothing to discuss.
Ku Eland rrnt over lure a week or
two ago a preacher who pets $73.uo
a year and an Immense palace thrown
in, as a salary. Ilia real name Is un
known but ho l.i called tho Archbishop
of Canterbury. Whllt ho was here,
the charity organisation of 1mdon
mere holding meetings to pltn for the
taro of tho Increasing; number of rau
pcrt. The editor of The !:;!:r.cndetit
can t think of anything c'e, j.ut fit
ptcf-ent, to ay upon tula subject.
DXGEHKRACT IN LINCOLN
Slowly but surely the degrading and
degenerating Influences of millionair
ism works westward. Lincoln is a city
of universities, the center of culture,
and here, if anywhere, we ought to be
able to withstand the advance of waste
ful expenditure and the vulgarity of
the rich. But it is slowly creeping in
upon us. Occasionally a carriage ap
pears on our streets drawn by bob
tailed horses and driven by a coach
man in livery. It is true that the boys
have a fashion of getting after it on
bicycles, riding in a bunch in the rear,
but they will soon tire of that and
then more liveried coachmen will be
on the front seat and footmen will be
seen sitting up behind with a look of
vacuity spread all over their faces,
while the lady inside will wear the
richest robes. 'Then the Charity Or
ganization society will have more cases
of suffering to investigate and the ele
mos.ynary institutions will be as full
in the west as they are now in the east.
In some of the upper class restau
rants and hotels in Lincoln the tip
ping system is being 'introduced.
Nothing is more degenerating than
that system. It is fostered and encour
aged by every plutocrat. It makes of
him, he thinks, a being somewhat su
perior to ordinary human clay. Every
man who consents to receive a gift is
degraded thereby, as well as the proud
plutocrat who bestows it.
This tipping business is arranged by
the proprietors. In the first place the
guest is forced to do part of the book
keeping of the concern, by writing out
in detail upon a regular billhead every
thing which he wishes to consume upon
that occasion. These bills are carefully
preserved and filed away among the
accounts of the concern. After vthe
articles ordered in writing are con
sumed, then the waiter brings back the
written account on a silver plate and
the guest 'puts his money upon it. The
waiter again disappears for a while
ajul comes back with a lot of small
change on the silver plate, being the
change that isduc you. If you take
what belongs to you from the plate
and leave none for the waiter,, the
"mind power" of the whole institution
is brought to bear upon you in the
endeavor to make you feel like an es
caped convict. Moreover the next time
that you appear at that restaurant or
hotel table, you will be permitted to
sit half an hour before anyone knows
of your pf esence. All this is for in
creasing the proprietor's profits above
what he advertises , he will sell his
goods for, and for the further purpose
of reducing the wages of labor. In
every one of these institutions where
tips are expected the wages of waiters
is reduced. In some places the waiters
pay,-the proprietor a bonus to be al
lowed to act as waiter without wages.
Jhe whole process is degenerating.
But it is coming upon us and will in
crease as long as the dollar is put be
fore the man. Here in the west, before
wealth was worshipped and men were
despised, if a man had anything to sell
from a meal of victuals to a quarter
section of land, he stated his price and
if it was deemed satisfactory, the trade
was made. It was all manly, upright
and uplifting. No one was disgraced
by asking or receiving gifts or any pre
tense made that one was getting some
thing for nothing than which there is
nothing more degenerating in all the
world. -
Against all this populism presents a
protest. It wants first of all, men and
women. Men and women with bright
eyes, clear heads and good consciences.
Men and women who will scorn gifts,
who wish to return to all full payment
for all that they receive. Populism
stands for uplifting the human race
and protests vigorously against its
degeneration. Upward and onward is
its motto.
QUEER LOGICIANS
There is a queer kind of logic which
men delight to engage In expounding.
For instance when the Japanese, after
nine days of as heroic fighting as was
ever recorded In all history, succeeded
in driving the Russians out of en
trenched positions upon which the fin
est engineering skill had been em
ployed for nearly a year in construct
ing, following on, hammering the re
treating enemy for miles and finally
captured the coal mines which supplied
the Russian railroad locomotives with
fuel, beddon Immense amounts of am
munition and Ktorcs. this kind cf logic
arrived at tho conclusion that it was
a Japanese defeat. 'Again when a
young man named Worsley, who was
so respected and popular In his home,
congressional diMrlit and Hate, that
the people without his consent aud
acatnt his protests, nomlnatr-d Lim
for Rtnte senator, consresm and com
talnsloncr of lands aivl public build
ings on the state ticket, thn logicians
concluded that it was a 01 race, n
tttfAd of aa etidenre of honor la which
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PLEASE MENTION THE INDEPENDENT
I .,
thA rmlp. held him. and wrung the
changes on that day after day. As soon
o ht wnrciev had time to consider
these nominations, he respectfully de
clined them all witn me excepuuu ui
that of land commissioner, and it took
the earnest and most persistent enoris
of his friends to prevent him declin
ing that. The science of logic has
some very crazy exponents in this
state of Nebraska.;
GA.THKR THEM IW
There have been some tremendous
railroad deals lately. The great rail
road interest of the United States is
passing constantly into fewer hands,,
and there will be 'soon located on Wall
street a power in transportation great
er than the world has ever before
known a power that can not only
build up and tear down cities and busi
ness firms but that can control the
business of the whole nation. The Sea
board Airline was until recently owned
in the south and was an independent
ris nf these
111 LLC. IWW 11 itJ i"
few Wall street bankers. While the
men of the south are howling about
negro equality and negro domination,
Wall street is laying the groundwork
of their economic slavery.
Until the last few years there were
railroad systems in New England. The
control of all of them has gone to Wall
street. The great continental lines,
the Union Pacific, the Burlington,
Atchison & Santa Fe were all once
New England roads, originated and
built by New England men. But they
are now controlled by a clique of Wall
street bankers. While New -England
has been howling about protection, just
as the south has been howling about
negro domination, Wall street was lay
ing plans for its complete subjection.
New England business men are now
beginning to find out that "protection"
is the ruin of them and they are calling
Ijudly for reciprocity, and the south
will find out that the ghost of "nigger
feocial equality" will end in the same
way, Wall street will gather them all
Within ten years the railroad will
be owned by a sextette consisting of
Hill, Harriman, Gould, Rockefeller, the
Pennsylvania and Kuhn, 1xk & Co.
The Rockefellers have already elimi
nated the Vandc-ibllls. The new
scheme Is to change the Rtock into
bond, leaving but little Ftock out
standing. A majority of this stock con
trola the road and that will b.ln the
hand of thU sextette of I rrdatory pi
rates. Is there need of a people's inrly de
manding the government ownership t
the railroads 1 mtK
After year of mar, forays, advances
and retreat, Rom water lai at last
got control of the political tradiictry
i.f iu fTrccnd rocErexidoual district.
IwVre, Ob, here In Pae Mcrctr?
DR. A. TOWNSEND ,
. The candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor on the populist and democratic
tickets is a splendid, type of the west
ern young man. , He has been nursed
at the breast of nature, and at the
schools and colleges of the land, and
has the energy and brahi to utilize it
all to the best advantage in the affairs
of men.
He was born on the Iowa side of the
Missouri river,. but at twro years Of age
w as brought over to the Nebraska side
by his parents, where they have all
lived ever since. His father being a
farmer and dealer in live tock, he
understands the great industry and re
sources of the state. He studied in
the schools and colleges of Nebraska,
and graduated from Rush Medical col
lege, Chicago, in 1896. Since then he
has successfully : practiced as a physi
cian. When he was nominated for the
office of lie-utenant governor, he held
a nomination for member of the leg
islature for the' district , including his
home county of Franklin, which nomi
nation he declined in order to accept
the nomination on the state ticket. Ha
is young in, years, being just thirty
one, but is old for his age in experi
ence, and is the right kind of material
for the right kind of men in the affairs
of life, Including the most exacting of
official duties,, and the people of the
state will be proud of him by the end
of his term as lieutenant governor.
The greater portion of his boyhood
days was spent at Brock, Nemaha
county, Neb., where incidents relating
to him arc plentiful, some of which
have been published in a letter by
Judge J. H. Broady to the World-Herald,
which present a mild sidelight of
how the boy was in touch with nature.
He 13 a true Nebraskan and upright
young man. B.
B. K. TVATZKE
For fifteen years Mr. Watske was a
traveling salesman for a St. Louis
clothing firm, and is well known among
the business men throughout the state.
He is now and has been for four years
in business at Humboldt, Neb., where
he conducts a general msrchaudl.se bus
iness. Mr. Watzke Is a native of Bohemia,
where he was born on March 20, lSW.
He camo to Nctnuka In 1879. scttllnR
at Humboldt, where he has since re
sided, lie is Identified with the pio
grcHaivc buslncu; Mf of hn tc .lion of
tt) state.
When Mr. Watzke was nominated for
secretary of state It wa tho flrttt ofi'ieci
fur which he was ever a candidate. An
the secretary of state U on of th
memt-ers of the Matw board of equalla
tlon, It Is iaf to nay that the lnwlncst
Interests will te well represented by
Mr. Watike. lie U a very worthy np
rcflentatlvj of that indiutrlou an1
r nerftlc pp!e who from their uw
frte choke has iw&di America toclf
Lermanebt Lew.
