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JULY 5, 1906
The Nebraska Independent
perience of the past ten years, longer
deny the soundness of the quantita
tive theory of money and continue to
exploit the old political clap trap ar
guments that were only good for
those steeped in ignorance and par
tisanship a decade ago, present cases
of arrested intellectual progress and
development that are repulsive be
cause of being inexcusable and hope
Jess. That editors of the caliber of
; these who couple Mr. Bryan's name
: with so absurd an act as obtruding
on public attention issues that are
not vital to the hour, or of giving less
than due attention and force to the
issues demanding immediate solution,
can find employment or readers is a
travesty on enlightened journalism
and a satire on American intelligence.
That such editors are few in number
.is a fact to cause great rejoicing,
and that it is a mistake to credit such
as there are with a clientele is to
be sincerely hoped.
Mr. Bryan was right in 1896. The
silver question was then acute, and
it may become so again in the not
distant future. But, for the present
and for a few years to come prospects
for an adequate money supply from
the gold mines alone are reassuring.
It must be borne in mind, however,
that should the future production of
gold fall below present estimates and
the supply prove inadequate to main
tain the world's price levels, that the
cry for the coinage of silver would
again be heard throughout the civil
ized nations with greater force than
ever as the means of keeping the
wheels of industry in motion, which
has never been done in the past, and
which can not be done, while univer
sal prices are being forced downward
through the inadequacy of money sup
ply. Therefore, while Mr. Bryan will let
the money question rest and devote
his energies to the solution of the
Questions of monopoly and taxation,
he will not in any degree be influenced
by the clamour of the ignorant about
the silver question. He has nothing
to take back, and the silver question
can rest until conditions impart to
it again interest and force. Mr. Bry
an is a statesman and not a political
time server, and his true character is
becoming known and appreciated by
the American people.
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Politicians must always bear in
' mind that the people have the last
say.
President Roosevelt again an
nounces that he will not be a candi
date for re-election.
Many politicians in our state will
make a record this year that will ma
terially effect their own future.
The Lincoln Star has began to talk
for party harmony. This has a bad
look for Sheldon and Norris Brown.
The country appreciates the valu
able services rendered by Senator
Bailey in his effort to perfect the rate
bill.
The first session of the 59th con
gress has passed into history. It was
a decided improvement over it many
predecessors.
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Independent a favor by sending in at
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our campaign offer.
If Senator Sheldon and Norris
Brown were cast in the heroic mould
they would be able to give the rail
roads a run for their money even yet.
Senator Tillman deserves the thanks
of the entire country for the able and
loyal services he rendered in the ses
sion of congress that has just closed.
When the people know what they
want and demand it those who ob
struct their pathway may at the same
time order their own political grave
clothes made.
Read the summary of news in The
Independent. It contains hi skeleton
form the entire news of the week. If
such can be found in any other weekly
newspaper we are not aware of the
fact.
Friendship for the candidacy of Wil
liam J. Bryan can not be reconciled
with the advocacy of conservative
nominations for state offices by Ne
braska democrats this year. Actions
speak louder than words.
There is no more choice between a
railroad democrat and a railroad re
publican than there is between a
Standard Oil democrat and a Standard
Oil republican. People have nothing
to hope from either of them.
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much matter of real value as is usually
found in any first class agricultural
newspaper.
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next three months. It has made a
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The Saviour of man has said: "By
their works ye shall know them."
But the bourbon democrat moves the
following as a substitute. "By their
party names, only, shall ye know
them." If the bourbon amendment is
accepted Bryan and Belmont must
stand on a par with senoirity of years
in Belmont's favor, and Aldrich and
LaFollette would also be on a par.
Senator LaFollette's words of com
mendation for the counsel and assist
ance he received from Senator Bailey
will go further in fixing the status of
Senator Bailey before the public than
anything else possibly can. The Inde
pendent was pleased to read the un
qualified endorsement of the Texas
senator by Senator LaFollette.
When the republican party was
young the party leaders sought out
every democrat of good character and
standing that was known to enlertain
views of harmony with their own, and
offered them nominations for office
on the republican ticket. In this way
they undermined the democratic or
ganization in the New England states
and built up their own. The recruits
they thus secured were of great value
to them and have constituted the
backbone of the party in several states
for a generation.
Standard Oil was able to pack the
United States industrial commission
and prevent Lewis Emery from giving
to the country such testimony as he
desired to give through the commis
sion. But it turns out that the great
rank and file of Pennsylvania demo
crats regard Mr. Emery as a better
democrat than the traditional demo
crats who have worn the livery of
Standard Oil and the corporations,
and have nominated him governor of
the state without even asking him to
become a member of the party or re
quiring him to promise to become a
member in the future. "By their works
ye shall know them." The democrats
of the state of Pennsylvania have
reached the point of intelligence and
independence where they recognize
the life work of Mr. Emery in oppo
sition to Standard Oil, the railroads,
and every predatory interest as mak
ing him a democrat. Verily the sheep
are being separated from the goats in
Pennsylvania in spite of party bosses.
James M. Guffy, the representative
of the democratic national committee
in the state of Pennsylvania is a multi
millionaire reputed to be of Standard
Oil affiliation. He opposed the nomi
nation of Lewis Emery in the demo
cratic state convention. Mr. Emery
is also a millionaire and an independ
ent producer and refiner of oil who
has been the most implacable antag
onist of Standard Oil and its methods
for more than twenty-five years. Mr.
Emery has been a life long republican
and accepted the nomination for the
governorship at the hands of organiza
tion in Pennsylvania known as the
Lincoln republicans. The democratic
state convention has just endorsed his
nomination. This is as it should be,
because the republicans of Pennsyl
vania who separate themselves from
the main body and oppose it in the
name of Lincoln and honesty are the
men who must be relied upon to make
the democratic majority In the state
in the future. When the rank and
file of a party are thoroughly aroused
to action they are always wiser than
the bosses.
No doubt many of the citizens of
Lincoln who listened to the able and
eloquent oration delivered by the Rev.
Dr. 8. Parker Cadman of Brooklyn
N. Y.,' at Epworth League park oa
July 4th were surprised when the dis
tinguished orator opened his address
by referring to Lincoln as a city
whose fame was world-wide as tho
home of one of the foremost citizens
of the world William J. Bryan. Tho
distinguished pulpit orator of the City
of Churches assured his hearers that
the recent groundswell of opinion to
ward Bryan was general and hearty
in New York and the East, moreso,
he thought, than in the West. Ha
predicted that the future contained
still greater fame and renown for tho
home of Mr. Bryan, whom, with Presi
dent Roosevelt, he said, stood In the
front rank of American citizenship
and statesmanship.
It must be borne in mind that as a
railroad and political center Lincoln
is the home of many men whose suc
cess in life and whose fortunes finan
cial and political were due primarily
to railroad favoritism, as a conse
quence of which the Lincolnites ' of
wealth and power, with but few ex
ceptions, saw Bryan through railroad
glasses. And, as the pampered pets
of railroad favoritism controlled the
machinery of the democratic as well
as of the republican parties of tho
state, Mr. Bryan found himself, on
the very threshhold of his career, in,
a community, the most influential
ir embers of which were steeped in a
blinding, venomous and unrelenting
prejudice against him, engendered by
his antagonism of the source of their
favors, which, in the case of reub
licans, was augmented by partisan
bias, and in the case of democrats, by
jealousy of his growing influence in
his party. But, the young giant was
undismayed, and the growth of . his
popularity has kept pace with time.
The city of Lincoln has grown In
population also, so that today Mr. Bry
an is about to be accorded In his
home city the long delayed recog
nition of merit that is his due.
THEY NEED WATCHING
(From the Crete Democrat.) ,
"If there evpr was a time in the
history of our state when all men
who believe in right and justice
should get together, that time is now.'
Oneill, Ind.
It looks a little as though they
would this time. But then the plat
forms are made to feed the gullible
on promises, and men are nominated
whose past has been one of close re
lations with corporations, then the re
formers will vote on the platform and
lose out on the men. Both parties
need watching on this point.
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