X5hs Nebraska. Indopondcnl
PAGI3 T
1 Populist Campaign Debt
JANUARY 13. 15
Receipts the past week give The In
dependent encouragement. The popu
list campaign debt will not long remain
unpaid if the present pace be kept up.
In only one particular are the receipt3
this week not wholly to The Inde
pendent s liking Chajrman Ferriss is
the heaviest contributor. Not that The
Independent would have Mr. Ferriss be
niggardly but inasmuch as he has al
ready contributed heavily, it seems
hardly right that he should now bear
such a heavy share' of the outstanding
obligations. In addition to the claims
shown from week to week. Secretary
De France tells The Independent that
Chairman Ferriss expended money for
stenographic reports of meetings and
for other matters which should be in
cluded as part of the committee debt
all of such " expenditures being ia the
advancement of the cause of justice for
the people." '
Jas. H. Ferriss, chairman people's
party national committee, Joliet, 111.:
"Since writing to De France Saturday
I have had time to read The Independ
ent, and note your resolute generosity.
You are certainly made of good stuff.
It is the exhibition of things like thl3
that makes one feel proud he is a pop
ulist; but much as I admire The In
dependent and its management I am
not going to allow you to outstrip the
News. The News will give $100 also
to -the fund, and please put us on the
list."
Receipts for the week were $117.00.
Thi3 has been turned over to Secre
tary De France and by him applied to
reduction of the debt. , list of contribu
tions follows:
-'- RECEIPTS
v i i i j ji .Aia i n
Tetter accompanying T&mtcWiroSsTifl, JeWbTt, TBlka 1 . . . " t
for this fund are so full of good things
- that The Independent can not refrain
" from quoting:
Francis Keyes, Longmeadow, Mass.,
says : "I freely give all I ought as I
am at present situated to help but on
the campaign debt. To the
editor of The Independent and others
who have so worthily stood in the fore
fl Opnt of the battle for .a better and
it JurB Juab uiuub -w
"ft-toso th -aured hopes of the peo-
r"-- Vie Ior lUB oener laiijsar. to. come.
Meanwhile the blessed people must not
forget that worthy servants of the peo-
pie are, first of al, worthy of their
hire. Good government is really cheap
: : er than bad government, but barring
- " that the bless;y people ? must also
bear In mind that good government
- - costs somethings to get something
thicker than water.' (And trying, to
secure good government also cost3
somebody something. Ed. Ind.)
E. O. Smead, Kearney, Nefc, remit
ting for himself and two others "who
voted for our two Toms," says: "I
realize the weak point in the people's
party is the great difficulty of raising
the munitions of war."
J. T. MebaneR. F. D. 2, Huntingdon,
Tenn.: "You can put me down no fu
sion in mine. I am alway3 ready to
up and at them again, for I have the
documents to work with The Inde
pendent, The Missouri World, and the
' for 1908!" ; (And in February Mr. Avat
son can have another publication to
fight for and with Tom j Watson's
Magazine. Ed. Ind.) ' ,
-: Dorrance B. Currier, national com
mitteeman, Hanover, N. H., says; "I
know what it is to be left with unpaid
expenses, after the campaign is over.
Enclosed find $5 and one dollar for The
Independent for next year."
Albion Gates, Carroll, Me., has been
a liberal contributor to the national
campaign fund since the days of the
Old Guard of Populism and long
enough before that. But he comes
again with a $2 bill and says: "There
are some persons down this way much
better able to pay than I but, be that
as it may, whether they have given or
not, I have done about the best I could
and shall continue to do my duty.
'Duty, duty ! ' Only one greater word
in pur language and that i3 'Justic.' "
Amos Edwards, Hamilton, Mo.:
"Find enclosed $2 to be used in th
I. A. Wesson, Wlngd, Ky ...... .
Joliet News, Joliet, 111
J.'M. Elrod. Amherst, Neb ,
Chas. Nownes, Papillion, Neb. .
Amos Edwards, Hamilton, Mo..
Albion Gates, Carroll,- Me. . . . . .
Dorrance B. Currier, Hanover,
N. H.
J T. Mebane, Huntingdon, Tenn
E. O. Smead, Kearney, Neb.....
J. C. Meyers, Kearney, Neb . . .
C. Ai5 Smead, Kearney, Neb, ....
Francis Keyes, Longmeadow,
Mass.
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Total last week. . ; ; . . . ; ... .... .$889 67
Applied this week: , 117 00
Balance unpaid ...... ........$772 67
ITEMS
Printing bills (bal.). .$185 20
W. N. U., Lincoln... 102 26
W. N. U., Oklahoma ........... 15 .00
Telegraph bills 42 59
Joliet News (bal.).............. 130 49
Secretary's salary "(bal.) , 247 03
Matrices and Wisconsin ticket. '50 00
Total .... $772 67
Let us make a bigger showing next
week. There are surely 800 subscrib
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icousaua, wno cxa t-cra a aou&r eicn
to help wipe but this debt. "It was con
tracted in -good faith to spread the
principles of populism. ' Over a hun
dred dollars of it is a balance due the
Western' Newspaper Union for printing
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supplied free tf charge. A few Parker
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was begun but. the committee went
right ahead, paying for .the . supple
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in the final wind-up lacking money to
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What About Norton?
The change of politics of Paul Mor
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American politics before. At first It
was thought that that was one of the
impulsive acts of Roosevelt in perfect
accord with hi3 . character. Kow It
turns out to have bees a deep laid l)lot
of 1 the purpose i dinis upca tl.
people. The Chicago Public, In treat
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But how does Mr. Morton happen to
have got Into the president's cabinet
such a critical. Juncture for railroad
interests? He is a 3on of the late J.
Sterling Morton, who was one of Pres
ident ' Cleveland's official household
and a democrat by political profession.
Through the elder Morton's connection
with railroad interests, his son, Paul
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talents as traffic manager of tne Santa
Fe. Like his father, Paul was a life
long democrat by political profession,
nominally at any, rate until a short
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republican party wa$ ostentatiously
announced. Just why this announce
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conspicuous in politics. He had no
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political following, and his change of
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vclc needed him In a republican cabi
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in the cabinet as secretary of the navy
ret so much for naval purposes as for
the purpose of establishing a cordial
understanding between the president
and the railway magnates.
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enveloped in mystery. Although his
change of party was cynically- ex
plained by his appointment to office,
and his naval rank somewhat incon
gruously by his abilities as manager
of railway traffic, there is as yet no
eplanation of his personal sacrifice in
the matter. For Mr. Morton has given
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government, salary of $8,000. Is this
difference the price of gratifying an
unwonted political ambition? Or is
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tvi la U1UUCSV IU
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the price, of a political bauble? "STtil
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financially covered? Should tltt t3
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do well to watch, with a very grea(
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railroad traffic and authorizing pools.
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