V?e Nebraska. Independent
DECEMBER 8, 19C4
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Watson In the Field
. Tom Watson Is keeping Lis word as
everybody knew he would when he an
nounced from New York just after the
election that he would take the field
. and for the next four years' devote
most of his time to fighting the trusts
and their allies and supporters, the two
old parties. Last week he delivered)
one of his characteristic speeches at
Crawfordsville, Ga., to an immense au
dience. The following extracts from
the speech is all that The Independent
has been able to secure, Dut in them
is found the same honesty, the same
searching logic and the same burning
and blistering denunciations of demo
cratic frauds .that characterized his
speeches during the campaign. His
speech in part was as follows:
; "In national politics, the democratic
party stands , without a platform, a
declaration , of principles, or accepted
leader, It is utterly bankrupt In repu
tation. It has no unity of conviction,
sentiment, or purpose. It contains
antagonistic elements which can never
be harmonized. Its secret purpose is
so foreign to what democratic misses
approve that the eternal struggle f
the national leaders is to prevent the
democratic masses from penetrating
that secret purpose. What Is that sec
ret purpose? To use the democratic
party in support of the same system
of class legislation which the republi
can party stands for." ,
"The watchword is 'Keep up the at
tack upon republican Individuals, but
do not attack the system of special
privileges, which is responsible for
present conditions. In other words,
the secret mission or the democratic
party is to keep up a sham battle. By
keeping the people divided and de
luded, they hinder the organization of
real opposition to privileged class leg
islation and corporate greed. Thus
the 'national democratic party is the
best friend of which the plutocratic
republican party can boast, for the Bel
monts, who call themselves democrats,
are just as much in favor of special
privileges as the Carnegies arid Mor
gans, who call themselves republicans.
"I make this prediction. Bryan will
be the candidate of the democratic par
ty in 1908. And I make this second
prediction. When Bryan runs for pres
ident in 1908 as the candidate of the
. Parker, Belmont, Cleveland, Gorman
combine he will be a worse beaten man
than Parker was.
"Does Mr. Bryan sincerely believe
that he can commitJhemiiQnaL-demo-
cratic convention to his recently re
" paired" and replenished populist plat
form? If so, he must see that the coun
try would then have two, populist par
ties. Such a contingency would be
laughable, were not the crisis so grave.
Mr. - Bryan must know that his pro
gram promises nothing better than
another spectacular combat, another
St. Louis convention with another 'og
tion . is sprung and they immediately
begin to hop around in a Dervish dane
of political hysteria.
"The south can not afford to be sec
tional. In self-defense she must be
national. If we allow ' our southern
leaders to put us in a degrading posi
tion nationally, ours Is the fault. As
long as we allow the solid south to be
a political slave to a nandful of east
ern capitalists we may expect to feel
the lash of the slave-driver and the
weight of the chain.
"let Us put a finish to this degrada
tion. Let us assert our -manhood
against the tyranny of political bosses.
Let us break the shell of tills Bour-
boriism which neither learns nor for
gets." -
fall" as the result, another surrender
c3
ir m
on the part of Mr. Bryan, another sham
battle,' before the peopler-and another
Waterloo in which all will be lost, n
eluding honor.
"The democratic party can no longer
claim to be national. It is sectional
.The south is sitf-its victim. -The
south is still the quadrennial sacrifice
which corrtipt or stupid southern poli
ticians deliver over to Wall street. But
for the solid south, the eastern democ
racy would have to shut up shop, join
the republicans and face a genuine
party of opposition.
"What keeps the south solid? Noth-
ing in the1 world 'except an out-of-date
sectional animosity and the shameless
ly hypocritical cry of negro domination?
"In each southern state there Is a
monopoly of privilege and of power
which is fighting for its life. As a rule,
this -monopoly is based upon the sup
port, of northern railroads, northern
banks, V northern manufacturers, the
school book trust,, the Standard Oil
trust,- the tobacco trust, the whisky
trust and the cottonseed oil trust. Fed
bountifully from these rich sources, the
'democratic machine in the southern
.states is very haughty, Indeed. It
wants no change. Southern politicians
will sacrifice the national ticket any
time to maintain the local monopoly,
And tbe 'negro question'- Is tbe joy of
their lives. They exist on it. They
1 fatten on it. With one shout of 'nig
' "ger they can run the native democrats
, to their holes at any hour of the day.
"Men who appear to haVe some common
sense in other directions lose afl their
mental bearings when the negro ques-
Sold Principles for Campaign
Fund
Editor Independent: In response to
your request for views of populists as
to the course which should be pursued
in the future, I desire to say that in my
judgment every voter who believes in
the true principles of Thomas Jefferson
should work zealously and vigorously
for the upbuilding of the people's par
ty, in every nook and corner of our
broad land. Let us dismiss from our
minds everything which spells fusion
or co-operation, but with renewed en
ergy, vigor, and courage begin the work
of organizing the people's party every
where, for this party has honestly dem
onstrated to the American people that
it will fearlessly and uncompromising
ly champion and defend the true prin
ciples of democracy, which are- still
dear to the masses.
The so-called democratic party, when
it sold its principles to Wall street for
a campaign fund, by th;-.t act alone,
forever forfeited the respect" and confi
dence of the people. It then lost its
virtue and so debauched and defiled
itself that even so great a matt as Bryan
can never restore it- to the confidence
of the people.
Sans principles, sans honor, sans vir
tue, it must submit to dissolution and
death, which inevitably follow vacilla
tion, lack of principle and loss of vir
tues. "
Disordered, diseased, debauched and
aeniea aemocratic party at " it go
quickly and bury itself, for it has gross
ly betrayed millions who have, blindly
follo.wed it.
For nearly half a century the demo
cratic party has been encaeed in a
sham baftle; its hypocrisy, corruption
and deception have been thoroughly
exposed now and no one need be "un
wittingly deceived by such a fraud.
No reform can ever be expected
from the democratic party. It has no
fixedness of purpose on principle, it is
house divided against itself in fact
"there is no health in it."
Mr. Bryan said prior to the election,
that after the election hevwould en
deavor to organize the voters within
the democratic party, to make a right
for the platforms of 1896 and 1900. This
declaration shows clearly that Mr.
J Bryan Intends to stay in the democratic
party at tne sacrifice of principle, coun
try or everything else, therefore, as he
is unwilling to make any concessions
looking to united and harmonious ac
tion of all reformers, we populists, who
have never faltered, never surrendered,
should continue to battle for the prin
ciples of Jefferson through the people's
party. Some years ago the people's
party carried "quite a number of wast
ern states and elected several congress
men from the south. The democratic
party utterly iauea to carry such western-states
as Kansas, Nebraska, S'outh
Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Montana,
Califorpia and Idaho, while the peo
ple's party was successful. Let all re
formers rally to the people s party
and then we will drive plutocracy from
power. Let us encourage the gallant
and brilliant Watson to continue the
fight until our country is disenthralled
and redeemed.
JAMES B. LLOYD.
Tarboro, N. C. '
Hello; Buster Brown, lams' special train of 100 stallions arrived Aug. 18, 1904.
Stallions direct from Europe. The only spclal train and largest impor n
of stallions by any one man in U. a. . . - . - - -
Cheer up. Mr. Brizht Business Man Spread the good news: lams Feacnes
and Cream have arrived-A special train of 100 sensational black boys, the
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They are sensational stallions of quality, big size, large bone and . tasmonaoij
bred. In fact, "Top Notchers' Positively the best lot lams ever ownea oi urais
and coachers. .
Owinff to lams' facilities for buylg, poor crops and lams' cash he bought
stallions cheaper than ever and they are so good and cheap you will be his buyer,
He has on hand more full blood stallions than any one man In U. b., ana musi
sell them. , '
149 BLACK PERCKERONS, BELGIANS and COACHERS 149
Hello Central Did you S watch lams' smok at 1904 Nebraska state fairT
lams' h or j Show of 35 sensitiona! Percherons, Belgians and Coachers was
the" greatest and best 'horse show" ever made by one man in U. S. lams' com
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lams' Percherons, Belgians and Coachers won avery first, second and
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Ueorgie dear, go and see lams siainons Deiore you pay muso m
for that inferior prize-winner. ,
Say, Ikey, what a rich "graft" those "con stallion salesmen" are working on'
the honest farmers, sellingdnferior stallions at f 3,000 and $5,000. . . . : ,
Mr. Business Man," lams, the live horseman, is selling first class stallions at
"live and let live" prices. His stallions are 90 per cent blacks, 50 percent too
horses. lams' speaks the languages, buys direct from breeders, pays no buyers,
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His twenty-two, years' successful business makes him a safe man to do busi
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are being sold to stock companies for $2,500 to $4,000 by slick salesman, or pay
your fare and $25 per day for trouble to see, them, you the judge.
lams pays horses' freight and buyers fare, gives 60 per cent breeding guaran
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' References St. Paul State Bank, Citizens' National Bank. - ;
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To Maryland Populists and Demo
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to see the' principles of Jefferson ap
plied, who- 'desire to enroll themselves
as reformers in Maryland in a militant
organization ; tb oppose plutocracy in
state as well ' as in national, affairs are
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Morgan's Buzz-Saw
The December issue of Morgan's
Buzz-Saw contains sixteen pages filled
with such reading i- atter as has made
that paper famous throughout the na
tion. Tobe Spilkins tells how ne felt
whe the election news hit him, after
he had voted for Parker in order to
get a ' postoffice, and then stumbles
around over the situation tnat con
fronts the democracy in his usually
inimitable way. There is another chap
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