E?? Nebraska Independent
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NOVEMBER 17, 1904
Clje Hebraska Independent
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T. H. TIBBLES, Editor,
C. Q. DE FRANCE, Associate Editor.
F. D. EAGER, Business luanager-
True
v
"The fair summer
dead", ana
some other things.
It
- The English newswepers are all
greatly pleated over, te jresult of the
election in theJjaitedfates. -
Rockefeller has boaKt 'another rail
road. This time it is,-the Santa Fe.
He attends strictly to expounding his
income. vU4V "
Fighting a campaign J "the nigger
question" did not result! in a "solid
south," but in a solid lith and some
to spare. sNsVsJc
While there - is so miiteh' reorganiz
ing" going on in - this itate, would it
not be well to "reoicar4C tnat dem
ocratic poker club dowifi, Omaha?
-Evey -lust, corpora?
and finan
cial syndicate has take L' on new .life
cinrp the landslide. Tifef intend to
clean up air there is lt during the
next four years. L; . . .
Senator Daniels of llrginia went
whining around after mediating ev
ery principle he ever a
gave as his excuse- that
of defeat." Does he fee
racated, and
t -was "tired
istednow?
.' Tiofnro thfi state convention the edi
tor of The Independent constantly as
serted that fusion with the Parker
democrats was both absurd and n
honest. Does pnyone doubt it now?
Jim Boyd, the World-Herald and
Metcalf are at it again in the old-time
fashion. There is the same kind or
peace in the democratic party in Ne
braska as there was among the cats
of' Kilkenny. vwss ;
.while Massachusetts was the moral
capital of the world it was- also the in
tellectual capital. When it lost the
first, the latter disappeared. Such has
been the case during f.he whole history
of the world.
When Edward Atkinson was dem
onstrating mathematically ' the beau
ties of the gold standard and of dear
money and low prices, his figures were
swbrn to as correct by every groat
daily in the land. Now that he aas
been applying the same process to .he
cost of imperialism and has been prov
.in by the same mathematical process,
that the Philippines have cost us al
ready $1,200,000,000, the same .editors
declare that Atkinson is crazy, and his
figures all lies,
y
Are things to go on as they have
been going? Is that the meaning of
the republican landslide? Is that what,
the people intended to accomplish by
their votes? Will the United States
government continue to pay' $G,000 a
year rent for a postal car that can be
built for less than that' amount of
money.' Is it the desire of the people
that the postoffice department shall
continue -to pay much higher tariffs
for carry in"- the mails than the ex
press companies are charged for the
game service? Are such things as that
what you intended to accomplish by
your votes?
' Sounds the Tocsin.
New York, Nov. 12, 1904 (Editorial
Correspondence.) Chairman Ferriss
and I left headquarters at Joliet about
noon Thursday for Chicago -and left
there at 1 o'clock p. m. over the Penn
sylvania for New York to confer with
populist leaders as to our future course.
When we reached the Hotel Kensing
ton here we found Mr. Watson, MeJ
vin G. Palliser, chairman of the New
York county committee; National Com
mitteeman J. A. Edgerton of New Jer
sey; Eltweed Pomeroy and Joseph R.
Buchanan of the same state; Judge
Samuel ' Seabury of New York; Jo A.
Parker of Kentucky; Jay W. Forrest,
chairman of the New York state com
mittee," and several ouiers in waiting.
No time was lost in getting to work.
For once in their lives the New YorK
ers waived the usual formality of eat
ing 'while they tailked. We simply
plunged, into the subject at hand after
accepting Mr Palliser's invitation to
lunch with him on the morrow. 1
need not tell all thac was said it
might l-ot be politic even if politics
was the subject. Besides, the talk
was hardly formal enough to demand
a full report
Meagerness of election returns pre
vented exact knowledge' of where we
are "at" as a party in some of the
states: but it did not take lone to as
certain
near i aiu 1 soui in iavur 01 going 0.1
with tne work of building up the peo
ple's party. Not one favored a retrtat
All wanted to move forward.
It was finally decided . that" Mr. Wat
son should give to the press a signed
statement setting forth what might
be expected of the people's' party in
the future; and that later, when the
returns are in, the officers of the na
tional committee should, give out a
resume of what has been accomplished
in this campaign and proposed plarf
for carrying on the work of organi
zation in the future. In a general was
it was shown that the entire national
campaign counting all expenditure?
by the committee and by individuals
had cost less than $25,000.
Today we met early at Mr. Palliser'g
law office at 100 Willirm street and Mr.
Watson prepared his statement, whicl
was given out to be released Monda5
morning. Reporters from nearly al"
the New York papers were clamoring
for it but how fully they print it r
mains to be seen. You will learn tha
before this reaches you very likely.
' Mr. Watson voices" the sentiments
of every man at this; meeting; I be
lieve he voices the sentiments of pc
ulists everywhere that we have noth
ing in the way of reform to hope for
from ; the democratic party and thai
the people's party must "be built up
into a militant organization--a party
of real opposition to plutocracy,wheUl-:
' " a .i ' A -r- ' 'aril-'-! . " .
xT-TL-rreai s--tue taoei repuDiican '.. or
"democrat.""
CHASQDE FRANCE.
All Ha.d Passes
A gentleman who does not wish The
Independent to give his name "unless
it is actually, necessary," sends the
following: VT recently , attended a
term of court, being detained several
days as a witness in an important case.
A certain ccse was called In whiVh
damages were claimed against a rail
road company on account of killir
a man at a crossing. After the ca
was before the court, the lawyer f
the plaintiff made a motion for the di a
missal of the jury because he had dis
covered that three of the jurymen had
annual passes on the road, and there
fore could not be impartial iurvmen
The motion was granted and a ne-
jury was impanelled. Then the law
yer made a motion for a change of
venue, because the presiding judge hac
an annual pass on the road. The judg(
replied that -e thought the lawver han
a right to ask for a change of venue
on that ground and it would be grant
ed if insisted- upon, but the iude
wished to call attention to the fart
that a change of venue would be nft
relief as every other udge in the statt
also had an annual pass, and if he an-
peaied to the supreme court no relief
could be obtained there, for every n
preme judge also had ca annual pass
Passes are part of the system of re
publican government. Did the people
wish to perpetuate that system whet
they voted in such overwhelming num
hers for Roosevelt? '
K For The Winter Months.
The next five months will be months
of intense interest to all the people of
the United States. The leaders of the
republican party stand dazed at the
extent of the landslide.' They do not
.know what to do. There have been no
ratification meetings such as are al-
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OHAHA,
ways held cltsr a presidential election.
Congress will soon be in session and
much new and important legislation
will be introduced. The banks expect
to pass a branch banking act, which
will be a counterpart to the consoli
dation of all the trunk lines of rail
roads under the leadership of Rocke
feller. The overwhelming vote witf
give boldness to agents of plutocracj
and in Washington will be assembled
the largest and , most unscrupulous
lobby ever seen there ' since the wai
They will all be looking tor such leg
islation as will make thair investment
in campaign funds pay them more than
a hundred " per cent. There will be
claimants there from every state in
the union with the exception of the few
that went democratic, all demanding
paymfintlur ij-ojiiaa.iampftiEJir
There wul be army, naval, postal anu
Panama contracts to give out. Every
man will want part of the pie and there
will be thousands of them. .The old
political barnacles from Nebraska fcd
every other state will be there, de
manding office or pay in some other
line of government favors.
The daily press of the country is en
tirely plutocratic' There is no more
difference between the policies of tha
democratic and republican papers tha
there was between their two platforms
If you get the facts you will have tc
rely on The Independent as you Jiave
for so many years. It will furnish them
to you and your neighbors will be in
terested also. The man who reads The
Independent in a neighborhood wil!
have to furnish the news to his neigh
bors unless he gets them to subscribe
It will be less trouble to get the sub
scriptions. Push the educational work
during the winter. Five months fcr
25 cents is the special educational rate,
for trial subscriptions.
Coming to Their Senses.
The south seems to be coming to u:
senses. uiarK Howea or tne Atiantf.
SEND IN YOUR VOTES
Ballots on the referendum votes began to arrive in The Independen.
office a few hours after the paper was published. Let populists every
where put into practice their principles and vote on this referendum
Shall the people's party continue as a separate, independent, political
organization, or shall it disband and try to make a reform organize
tion out of the democratic party? Whatever your honest opinion i&
' vntfl it..
You are scattered over
and it will take soms time to hear
The ballots will be preserved and will be open for examination by- any &
Interested person after the final count is made and published. Again
The Independent says: Vote and let your vote express your honert,
conscientious and matured opinion. ' '
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NEBRASKA
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Constitution, now lays down these
propositions as being fundamentally
true: . .." ' - ,
1. With the race question re
moved the southern states would
divide on the ordinary political is
sues of the day just as Uey did be
fore the civil war.
2. The best interests of the negvp,
would thus be conserved ani
welfare of the whole countrj--would
thus b-3 materially j promoted.
The south finds itself politically ma
rooned. It i3 left a. small patch on the
map withov.t political, significance Oi
power. Its ablest men, l!k ; Tom vVau
son, are ostracised. Plutocracy, social
ism, Imperialism, all things are alike
to that little band of negrophobiests.
Trim Wats.iti cava thnr hr ics rYinr tn
narrr qeTi'&OTr. ifie Wfelection; . It
is to be hoped that he will and so
make another break in the solid south.
The Curse of Republicanism
Under the curse of republicanism th
ships of the United States have almost
lisappeared from the seas. Our com
merce is carried in foreign owned ships.
All men are either land owners or
tenants. When the republican .party
took charge of this government, th
land owners were many and the ten
ants were few. Now the man who
owns his home is rare. Ninety per
cent of the population are .tenants pay
ing rent for the privilege of living on.
".he earth that God created for all me?. '
Sreat fortunes were unknown when
i;he republican party came into power,
Lincoln said that $50,000 was a suf-'
iicient fortune for any man. Now for
tunes are counted by the hundreds of
millions. Then competition was open
to any man in any trade or profession
Now competition has been destroyed in
all the great industries and trusts fix
the prices while the men who were
ence free and independent business
men, are simply hirelings. When the
republicans came into power, if a
every state and terirtory in the unio
from you all, but don't fail to vote.
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