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DECEMBER 8. ISM tS6tf Nebraska Indepondont PAGE 15 HERE IT IS Prop ortional By Robert Tyson-Toronto Aioai,, cca x buuwcu VU v ui. lut; vioso . folly of the system of electing represen tatives In single member districts. Here are more considerations ' of the same kind. And I may remark, In passing, that "block vote" in a multi-member district, is just as badj.Lmean, giving each elector as many equal votes aa there are members to be elected. What-is the backbone and main spring of the tremendous political pow- er now; ; wieiaea. oy tne - party "ma chine?' j Mainly, the monopoly or nom ination, j No one has now a chance of election! unless he Is chosen by a regu lar party convention. ' There is usually one republican and one ' democrat put up in each, constituency. . Neither of ' them may be, acceptable to a, large proportion-of -the electors, but ltcls Hobson's: choice--these "electors must either vote for men they do not want or stay at" home,, and, too often, they do sta at home. v J ; . Under proportional J representation there would tie such freedom of -nomination that any group of voters strong enough in numbers to entitle them to a representative would be able to get the very man they wanted, and to snap their fingers at Ihe "machine?1' Be sides, ft this group of voters were to disagree among themselves as to he best man for their representative, they could nominate two men witl out fear of splitting their vote and thereby los ing their representation,; Study of the systems 'will show how this works. I Much more might be. added to our indictment of the present electoral sysn . IV v ... : , - BREAKING RANKS Democratic Su'cide Committed " with Ammunition Stolen j irom the Enemy 'Editor, Independent: Two vital forces, both "regularly" within the democratic party, are opposing forces. Two powers which ha vabeen in con tinual warfare since tne , dawn ot civ ilization1 a class against; the; populace;: plutacjersus democracy, 4 '....Tne democratic party is a nouse a vided- "regularly divided; against itself.-! Mr. Bryan's role of 'regularity" place hj'm in an, attitude" of helpless toler.i ance of things utterly opposed to his expressed convictions'- and .: his con science;' for' he is unquestionably an honest devoted democrat J ; the grandest figure in' present democratic party poli tics.' ' V--' - CC''-'rlM The "regular democratic party" has recently administered a' 4oa of com pulsory "party regularity "ythat was too nauseous for even the strong Amer? can stomach to retain. And the public pro test against that brand of "democracy is too main to be misunderstood: is overwhelming and "deeflightful." Po litical chaos! Out from which springs new life and hope. . Bide, by, side-witn unprecedented re- publican majorities for the presidential candidate, Folk in Missouri and Doug las In Massachusetts elected democratic governors. Adams also in Colorado. Garvin narrowly failed of election in Rhode Island, Baker for congress from Brooklyn against the onslaught of "regulars" of both parties, failing by only a handful of ballot, and all over the country similar novel and signif icant results. . This political situation Indicates a break in old party lines and a protest against that political perfidy which has employed compulsory party regularity as its b asset It notes a change in the purpose and conduct of Ameri can voters, y from blindly following their leaders, to independent tmnking and to a conscientious expression of their own will. Neither republican "nor democratic voters would obey the "demand "duty to be regular' in -Violence of their honest convictions. The election of 1904 Was plainly a re volt again" compulsory party regular ity, andndicates the near-at-hand dis integration of the old parties. ' ' The' people- are not satisfied with either the existing national conditions nor with that which either of the two old parties offer them as betterment. This condition of the popular mind is a fine and admirable Americanism; it gives hope ' to all who really desire government by the people 'Instead " of by class through "the' parties," It -revives a hope that the people expect and demand that they be first consid ered In government, and that those who buy special privileges with cam paign funds and buy legislatures with1 Representation Cana.da-10 H&abord St. following summary: The present system disfranchises nearly half the voters at every genera election: it gives undue power "to the party organizations, including a prac tical monopoly of nominations: it is so uncertain and erratic in its opera tions as to sometimes allow a minority of the voters to elect a majority of the representatives; it promotes, bribery; it encourages gerrymandering; -. it makes crookedness too often a factor of success; it nourishes party hatred and it is a system utterly unworthy of a progressive .people in a scientific age, The remedy for these evils Is the adoption of a rational and reasonable system of voting, which "must neces sarily b3 based on the proportional principle. : . rne Keynote or proportional repre sentation is the single vote in plural electoral districts.'. By tnat I mean that each elector casts only one vote, although in his voting district several members or representatives are elected Unproportional representation Js for each elector to cast as many votes as there are members to be elected in such a district, or to, vote in a single member district if he has but a single vote. This is a broad statement, and does not quite cover the ground; but it is sufficient generalization for my present purpose. ; ; t (Next week I shall present the pro portionai principle in some detail, so that the reader may apprehend clearly the foundation ; on which an honest electoral system must be based. equauy ni-gotten gams snail, lr con sidered at all, be considered last. Good! This is- charmingly hopeful. , t : .This "breaking ranks," this disinte gration, is attended with another. sig: mficant symptom of political revolu tion, i. e , in the number of parties an-j candidates from which the, voters had opportunity to select.' , The present situation is that of his tory repeating itself. Out of similar conditions in 1857-61 sprang a new par tya party of democratic principles arid purposes a party of the people wnose first effective personal figure was Abraham Lincoln. i ne democracy of Lincoln was the most advanced that the time made available, though perhaps not suffici ent for the present demand and the man was and will remain one of the grandest figures in history of the prog i-ess of the democratic principle in gov eminent. The plutocratic power of the slavery oligarchy was the most potent asset of the democratic party of that time- its support was ''regular." ; Because of the unfailing victories of the democratic party with that slavery asset, the whig party, hopeless and weary of defeats, began a role such as has been attempted by. the regular democrats in 1904; they began to "deal" with the enemy, granting con cessions, making alliances, compromises- '--V1 ' ::v They would concede the righteous ness of slavery where a white majority approved. They would compromise upon- certain lines of permitted exten sion of the institution of slavery. They would enter into an alliance for the capture and return of slaves escaped into free states. They would recoenizo the institution as established in & ter ritory of the United States if a resi dent white majority favored it. All these and other abandonments of prin ciple were maae ror expediency nnlfr- icai party expediency! It was mMA . . - committed with ammunition stnlAn from the enemy. It spelled failure then as it has again in 1904, as it al ways has, always will and alwava should. Yet failure in th airomn make Siamese twins of plutotracv and democracy was victory for the principle of democracy. s. v The people were offended: the old parties disintegrated, many candidates and policies (six I believe) were sub mitted to the public choice. The most democratic party of that time--tTi re publican party-rwon the popular ap proval, and victory." Why? Tlecaiise headache"! Snmmx P At nfl arm arotaa , JS Dm 25. WiManaaNasBBBna.. VsaaaaaaaiBaiMMMiaaaa7 . the big -list from the BUSY see what you want inthis list an invoice of our store. We sold in other drug stores and 25e Allcock's Porous Plaster 15c 25o Allen's Toot Ease 0 60e Antlphlogistine.... ............. 40e 75c Antlphlogistine. ........ 65c tl.26 Antipblogistine 11.14 50c Armour's Extract Beef 44c 75c AngQgt Flower. Green's Uc 25c Ajef Cherry Pectorl , 2,ie fiOc Ajrer'i CherTjr Pectoral....... 44o 11.00 A ycr'i Hair Vigor 79c 25c Ayer'a Pllla V0c f 1.00 Ayer's Saniaparllla 89o 25c Hallarrt's Hoarbonnd Syrnp 20c Me Ballard's IIoHrhound Fyrup..., 40c 2fc BalUrd-'t 8now Llnlmeut 2Uo 25c Barolyptol..... 22c 60c BoTlne. Bush's 50c $1.00 Bovine. Bash s f9c SKOOBradfieUl'sFemdle Regulator.. 89c 10c Bromo Cafltlne, Keaxbey & Mattison. .. 10c 25c Bromo Quinine, laxative ISc 25c Bromo Seltxer, Kmerson's 20c 25c Brown Camphorated Dentrlflce 20o 2ftc Bueklen'H Arnica naive.. 2Uc 26c Calder1 Tooth Powder 20c 60c Caldwell's syrur Pepsin .40c 50c Calllornta F1(r PyTup 40c 50e CaDlllarlK. Manxfleld's.... 44 C 1EC 25c Carter's Little Liver Tills 35c Castor!, genuine.... 25c 25c Centam Liniment. animal. 20s 25cCbnubi!rlain' Colic, Cholera and Dlarhoea Remedy 20c 25c Chamberlain's Cough Remedy 20c 25c Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Olntmsnt. 20c 25c Chamberlain's l'ain Balm 20o 50c Chumpllnf Liquid Ft art 40c 26c Bull's Coueh Syrup... 200 12.00 Chichester Pennyroyal Pills 11.80 60c Coke Dandruff Cure 40c 60c Colorado Cough and Catarrh Root 40c 25c Cresollne 20c 60c Cudahy's "Rex" Ext Beet2os.... .... 44o 25e Cuttcream 20c 60c Cutlcura Ointment........ 46o 60o Cuticura Resolvent 40c 25c Cntlcnra Soap 20c 11.00 Crystal Tonic... 79c 4 60c iiamscftinsKys j,iquici tiair 4uc 25c Danderine, Knowlton's 20c (0o Danderine, Knowlton's 40c . ' .... m-m- mm m . Z)Clavls' (Perry) rain KUier.. auc 25c DeWltt's Little Earlier liiser Pills. 20c 26o DeWltt's One Minute Cough Cure 20c 25c DeWltt's Witch Hazel Salve 10c Diamond Dyes.... ...3 lor 2$o 50c Doan's Kidney Pills 400 60c Ely's Cream Balm 40o 60c Eskay's Albumenized Food 40c 25c Eapey's Fragrant Cream , ,. 20c 25c Entbymol Tooth Paste 20c fl.60 Fellow's Syrnp Hypophosites fl.35 25c Fenner's (Dr. M. M.) Coigh. Honey.... 20c 25c Fiwtilla, Holmes'.. 3oc 25fl Garfield Tea.:: SOc 60c German Asthma Cure, Bchlflman's. .... 40c' 75c German Ryrnp, Iioschee's.. 64c 60c Glover's (Doe) Mange Cure............ 40c mw mover's Vermlhive 40c 60c Graham's Cucumber and Elder Flower Cream v. . v. 1 : .... . tl.Of) Green Mountain Asthma Cure. Guild's 40c 80c 11.00 Green's Nervura. ...... 89c $1.25 Gnde's Pepto Manean..., $1.00 26c Hale's Household Ointment 25c Hall's Balsam tor the Lungs. 200 60c 76c Hail's Catarrh Cure ...... $1.00 Ha IPs Hair Renewer... 60c Herbind .Ballard's ...... . 11.00 Himrod's Asthma Cure 66c 79c 40c 89c 60c Hind's Honey and Almond Cream..... 40c 26c Hire's Root Ber, liquid 20c 26c Hood's Olive Ointment 200 $1.00 Hood's SaraapariHa 79c 25c Hood's looth Paste... 20a 60c norleck's Food 40a 60c Hosford's Acid Phosphates 40c $1.00 Hostetter's Bitters 70c 25c Household Amonia... 10c 25cHv irosen Dioxide........ 2UQ I1.(j0 Hydrolelne 89c 60c Indian Blood Sytup, C Johnson's.;.... 40c fiOe Ingram's Milkweed Cream 40c $1.00 Injection Bron 89c $ 1 .00 Jayne's Alterative ...................... 79c 60c Jayne's Carminative , 40c BOc Javne's Expectorant 40c 25c Jayne's Sanative Pills, plain...... 20c 85c Jayne's Tonic Vrmiinge. 30c 26c Johnson's Anodyne Liniment 20c &)c Johnson's Panoid Tablets. 40c 26c K-mp's Balaam 20c tLOO Kendall,s i-pavin Cure 89e fl.tvo Kennedy's Menieai discovery 60c Kennedy's fcalt Rbenm Ointment...... 40c WE GIVE GREEN TRADING STAMPS. RIGGS, THE DRUG CUTTER, Lincoln, Neb. Mail orders receive prompt attention. up from, trie roil stirreo cy me greedy chasers-after plutocratic power there arose to the surface, some bubbles of the true democratic principle "equal rights and no privileges" under the aw these were perceived by the pub lic, became popular and were approved. The people were thoroughly aroused and earnest; they abandoned the old parties, and took a hand at government themselves; , and to good purpose. Plutocracy was "downed," though it had dominated for more than half a century; dominated so long, that many had given up, hope and some bad said that it was divinely intended, as if It, were possible for God to sanction in justice! The parties would have ruined the republic. 'The people saved it. 'Does any honest, intelligent man deny that now the plutocratic powers in the United States, as they, express themselves in the trusts and the money combinations, especially privileged by government " authority, are today less threatening -than was the slavery5 oli garchy that preceded the civil war? STILLMAN DOUBLEDA V. 1 '" - Brooklyn, N.' Y ' - -1 -' - Cancer of Lip Cured Mr. Martin Hamel, Alvo, Neb., who was afflicted with cancer of the lip, has been cured by, Dr. T. O'Connor, DRUG STORE if you don't ask for it. Remember this not carry many, many things not we cut the price on every thing. fl.00 Klckapoo Fasrwa j 79j 50c M. Kilmer's Swamp Root...., 43a 60c King's Cactus i '11 ., .......... 40a 60c King's New Wscovery ...40a 25c King's New Liie Pills 33a 60c Kltchel's Liniment..... 43a 25c Koh er's Antidot ZXj 2ic Kondon's Catarrhal Jelly., ....... ..., . 25a 75c Krsaser's Liquid Smoke 65a 50c Lactatea Food.... 4&j 60c Lacto Preparata , . 4flo 25c Lane.s Kamily Medicine 23a 25c Listerine. Lambert's 23a 50c Malted Milk 4TJa ll.no Malted Milk.... , 73a fl.00 Maltine, pifiln, pints.. 8o 11.00 McEleree's V ine of Cardul 74a 25c McLean's Liver PelleU 20o 50c Mclean's Htrmgthenlng Cordial.. 40a 25c Mecca Compound........................ 26o 75c Mellen's Food.... 600 25o Mennen's Borated Talcum Powder 13a 25o Memholatum....... ,. 2o 1.00 Miles' Blood Purifier $1.C- l.00 Miles' Hesrt Cure fl.CJ $1.00 Miles' Nervine LC3 25c Miles' (Dr.) Nerve and JUver PUls.... 25 25c Miles' Pain Pills 25o 60p Miona Tabloids, Booth's 43a 11.00 Mother' Friend, Brsdfleld's 83c 25c Morse's Indian Root Pills 2UO 2&c Munvon's Homeopathic - Cures. . all kinds ..- .....20o 25c Murrry's Cbsrcoal Tablets........ 23e fl.00 Needham's Fluid Extract Red Clover. eDo 50c Neatle's Mother's Milk Food iOn 11.00 Nc-tc-bac $1.63 fl.MOrane Blonsom, McOUl's , 8s $1.00 Ozomulsion 3 26c Packer's Tar Boap 20o SOe Packer's Hair Bnlsara..... 400 60c Peptogenic Milk Powder ,. 400 $1.00 Paine's Celery Compound..,.., 780 25c Perry Davis Pain Killer.. 200 $1.00 P rune 73a 11.00 Pierce's Favorite Prescription... 76c $1.00 Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.,.. 78c fl.00 rinkhm'ii Vegetable Compound 77o 25c Plnkbam's Liver Pills ; ,. 2Co 25c I'iso't Consumption Cure.,,..,. 2iie ooc Pond's extract. too : 50c Pyramid Pile Cure.... 40a . 11. Il . 1 Tt - J T . t J tt oucnanway sneauynruei , 36c Ransom's Illve Syrnp.... ; Jo ; 25c Raymond Feetoral Plaster. 20a 50 Restnol: r. .,4)a MU urotiivi cwmy ........... Me Rocky Mountain Tea....... 230 :m too 40a. 400 $1.00 Russell's Emulsion, mixed fats....... 50c gage's Catarrh Remedy... fl.QOBsgwa Klckapoo.. 50c St. Jacob's Oil $1.00 Hertford's Liver Invlgorator... 25cSanitol 2Ue $L0O Sanmetto 800 200 200 20a 400 25C Bcale's Antl-Constlpation Pills.. T5C hebenek's Mandrake puis...., 25c.Seltzer Aperient. Tarrant's 5oc Seven Sutherland Bisters' Tlalr Grower. 60c ISeven Sutherland Bisters Hair and Scaln Cleaner 4 40c f 25c Sheffield's Creme Dentriflce, tubes 20C 20e 200 2uo 20a 25c Hhilon's (jonsumniion cure 25c Rhoop's Headache Tablets., 25c Khoop's Coegh Cure. 25c Sh oop's Laxative Pills $1.00 Bhoop's Restorative ...... ... .... 89a 89e 890 89a 20a $1.00 Kboop's Nerve Pills. . . fl.00 Bhoop's Rheumatic Cure $1.00 Simmons' Liver Regulator 2c woan's Liniment.. 25c Mocum's Hot X-Ray Plasters 2C3 25c Sloenm's Lazy Liver Pills..,. 20a 25c Smith's Bile Beans .... 200 , 25c ozodonl Tooth Powder 20O 50c Ppratt's Distemper Powders for Dogs... 40a 25c Htuart h ADsorDent Liozenues. 2oa 4oa 40a 89e 790 200 40a 60o Stuart's Calcium Wafers... 50c Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets...,, $1.00 wuipnurne $1.00 Swanson's "Five Drops"... 2oc Thompson'a Eye Water.. fiOc Tarrant's noil's Malt Extract. 26c Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient...... 2ue 2.rc xrasii'suintment.,.. 20a $1.00 Tone aline 83a $1.00 Trornmer's Fxtract Malt Preparations MJa 35c Wakefield's Blackberry Balsam.,....., 3Sa 25c Wakefifld's fiolden Ointment. 20c fl.00 Warner's Kidney and Liver Core 89a . 25c Warner's Plll., 20a BOc Welch's Grape Jnica... 2e 60c Wlllisms' link Pills 4Sc 25c Woodbary's Kitcial Soap...... .......... 2So. $1.00 wyeth's Beef, Iron and Wine 89 a&c wyetn's watt extract. a-e 24 Lincoln, Neb. He will answer inquirl-ja as to Dr. O'Connor's treat, ent. Write him and at the same time end full deecription of cancer, its ate, location, etc., to Dr. T. O'Connor, Lincoln, Neb. Christmas Holiday Excursions via the Nickel Plate road, December 24, 25, 26 and 31, 1904, and January 1 and 2, 1905, good returning January 4, iSCS, at a fare and a third for the rcund trip, t between Chicago and Buffalo. Three through exiress trains daily to Fort Wcyne, Findlay, Cleveland, Erie, Buf falo, New York, Boston and all eastern points. Through Pullman sleepers and excellent dining car service, individual club meals, ranging in price from 45 -cents to $1, teing served in Nickel Plate dining (jars; also service a la fcarte. No excess fare charged on any train. Chicago depot, Van Buren-'afld La Salle Sts. City, ticket offices UV Adams St. and Auditorium Annex. - tAll John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 113 information given unon application to Adams St.. Room 298. . . Spsclzltsts f:r J:n We enre Nervons, Chronic and PrfvateDlseasea. Kidney aud Bladder Troubles Hlo4 Pel en Varicocele. 5trlctare all diseases and weaknesses oi Men. Advice free at office vi by mail. Call or write P. O, E Box 224, for our 8pecUlMett od oi Home Cnre. Drs: Saarlcs & Scariea 12410 St. Lincoln, Neb. - nm