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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1906)
r; i ' t 1I f!' f V I i I 4 A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO POLITICS, AGRICULTURE AND HOME LIFE Vol. 19. No. 957. Lincoln, Nebraska, October 11, 1906 Subscription $1.00 HEARST'S AMERICANISM The Gubernatorial Candidate of . the Democrats-Independence League Defines His Policy Rochester, N. Y. William Randolph Hearst is winning golden opinions among all classes by his advocacy of the overthrow of corporation gov ernment through party bosses. His speeches are models to be imitated by all who would make sure of holding interest of hearers. Practically every body turns out to hear Hearst. The following is an extract from Mr. Hearst's address at Rochester: , . "I am assailed on one hand by newspapers controlled by the specula tive interests of Wall street as an enemy of conservatism, and on the other hand by the organs of the so cialists as the enemy of radicalism. 1 am' Iwlling to be opposed - by each etreme, for I do not believe that the . political and economic difficulties under which we labor can be remedied by either extreme. "I have said repeatedly that my pro . ' .' , ' ; gram is not an extreme of any kind, but simply Americanism; that my p'an is to put into practical operation the accepted theory of American govern ment. The unequal conditions that exist and that find their most odious expression in boss rule of parties and corporation control of government are not due to any fundamental flaw in our American system, but to our failure to put into practice the prin ciples we profess. ; "According to the American idea , the prople themselves should nomi nate their candidates. These candi dates should be selpcted in just pro portion from the business men. labor ing men, farmers and professional men that constitute the citizenship; and these when elected should repre sent faithfully and intelligently the best interests of their constituents and of the whole people. : "Under our present radical depar ture from the American idea, candi- dates are nominated more and more - by political machines. These . ma chines are manipulated more and more by bosses in the . interest of cor rupt corporations. These sneculative corporations actually purchase from politicians a license to exploit the peo ple; they can well afford therefore to contribute a portion of their extor tionate proofs to perpetuate their op portunities for plunder. "According to our American thepry s of government, citizens are entitled to a free choice between candidates to a free ballot and to an honest count. and, finally, to . conscientious service from honest officials, honestlv elected. Under the present radical departure from the American system both po- i , .M litical machines are usually controlled I M I : ! :l i h ! I ! 1 1 1 1 3 bp 4hen Wrpbi'ationshd ' Candidates favorable to the corporations are nom inated on both tickets. The citizens are thereby deprived of their right to a free choice, and sometimes to a free ballot and a fair count. "The money contributed by the cor rupt corporations to oppose a candi date they do not own is used to hire repeaters and thugs to bribe election officials and to influence public offi cers whose duty should be in the en forcement of the law. As a result of our radical departure from the American system we are represented by public officers who appreciate their obligation to the corporations and owe their first allegiance to the corpora tions, and we have actually a govern ment of the corporations and for the corporations. "The evils that exist have been ag gravated by unreasoning devotion to party names, by that party support that our greatest statesmen have warned us to avoid. They must; be cured by independent action, not for party advantage, but for the public advantage." ' . ? King Edward Sends Horses to Kan sas City Kansas City, Mo. The eighth annu al Americal royal live stock show opened here this week with more entries in every department than ever before in its history. The show will last all week. . There are entries o? unwards of 700 breeding cattle, 100 fit steers, sixty car loads of fat and feed ing cattle, 250 daft, coach and haok ney horses, including a stHnr of el?ht horses from the staples of King Ed ward and Lord Rothschild of Eng land, and 700 hogs, .sheep and gots. Exhibitors are here from sixteen dif ferent stages, from Massachusetts to New Mex'co. All of the prominent show herds of the country are here, including the prize winners of a dozen state fairs. - SIT ON THE LEFT IN DRIVING Said to Be the Proper Position Where Traffic Keeps to the Right In driving we violate the most ele mentary requirements by persistent ly sitting upon the wrong side of the vehicle. We turn to the right and we sit on the right thus? effectually obscuring our view ahead in traffic; compelling our footmen to jumn down into the dirty street and to run all around the carriaee. both at stooping and start ing while to the friend who would accomnany us in self-driven vehicles we offer the alternative of crawling into our lans and under the reins or going out into the street and swarm ing up from that , situation: oriwe alight, abandon control of the horse and clamber in after the passenger has preceded us. . Was ever anything more ridicu lous? Nor can anyone cite any "ingle reason for sitting on the right (where traffic keeps to the risrht) or against sitting on the left. , For more than thirty-five years ' 1 have ' always 'sat on the left, and in driving anything from four to six horses down to one, I have found it practical, convenient, necessary. Think of the aggregate time lest at theaters, the opera, etc., while hund reds of footmen jump off, run around, open door, unload, shut door, run around and climb to the box again. It Is true that coaches brake on the off side and the brake works by hand, but it can as well act by the foot, or the handle come up off side the driving cushion, if that is on the left. Anyhow the infrequent coach needs no consideration; nor does the posi tion of Its driver. On the left one's whip is clear o' the face of the passenger, whether driving one or four, and yet the right arm Is always unobstructed for any work; while even fn a narrow seat the motionless whip arm is more com fortable for the companion than, when seated as customary, is the constant ly moving left elbow of the driver. P. M. Ware in Outing. Test of Submarines Washington A provision in the naval appropriation bill enacted at (he last sesston of congress author ized the secretary of the navy "to contract for or purchase sub-surface or marine torpedo boats to an amount not exceeding $1,000000, after such tests as he shall see fit to prescr'be." To prescribe and supervise the tests, Secretary Bonaparte appointed a board consisting of Ca.otaln Adolnh Marix, jr., Naval Constructor W. T. Taylor, Commanders C. W. Dvson and Clelland Davis and Lieut. John W Timmins, with Ensign Frank H. Sad ler as recorder. The board has agreed upon the na ture of the tests and the time and place which are required to be within nine months from the date of the passage of the law. The boats must be readv for trial on February 18, 1907, at Narragansett bay, where the tests are to be made, and the trials must be completed by march 29, 1907. Offered to Help Prosecute Austin, Tex. Regarding the propo sition of, Senator J. W. Bailey to as sist in representing the state in the matter of prosecuting the Waters Pierce Oil company as part of the Standard Iil company, the correspond ence in connection with the same has been made public. It apnears that Senator Bailey wrote a letter to the attorney general advising him that he would be glad to lend him what assistance he could in the way of de veloping facts in connection wLh the case, and to this pronos'tion the at torney general replied that while he appreciated the Interest manifested bv the senator, he is able to handle the case with facts now confronting him, but if he needs anv add't'onal asslst 'ane or advice, he jwjll.dftjm, it a, flVS; ure to call upon the senator. SCENTS DANGER AHEAD Roosevelt Declares Constitution Must " Receive Liberal Interpretation in Order to Deal With Swollen Fortunes . .. Harrisbnrg, Pa. President Roose velt delivered a most remarkable ad dress at the dedication of the state capital building on the 4th Inst He stood bareheaded in a pouring rain while he spoke. His address in part is as follows: "The extraordinary industrial changes of the last half century hare produced a totally new set of condi tions, under which new evils ftoorfch; and for these new evils new remedies must be devised. Some of these evils can be grappled irlth'by private ef forts only.. ' But many of these evils are of such a nature that no pri vate effort can avail against them. These evils, therefore, must be grap pled with bf goreramentaTaxfvibi some cases this governmental action must be exercised by the several states Individually. In yet other It has become increasingly evident tat no efficient state actkm is possible and that we need through executive action, tb rotten legislation, . and through judicial interpretation and construction of law, to increase the power of the federal government "If we fail thus to Increase it, we show our impotence and leave our selves at the mercy of those ingrnous legal advisers of the holders of vast -corporate wealth, who, In the perfor mance of what they regard as thrir duty, and to serve the ends of their clients, invoke the law at one time for the confounding of their rivals, , and at another time strive for the nullification of the law, in order that ; they themselves may be -left free to work their unbridled will on these -same rivals, or on those who labor for them, or on the general p'lbl'c. In the exercise of their profession and in the service of their clients . hfse astute lawyers strive to pre vent the passage of efficient laws and strive to secure judicial detenr.ina-; tions of those that pass which shall emasculate them. They do not in-; voke the constitution in order to com- ? nel the due observance of law alike by rich and poor, by, great and small; on the contrary, they are ceaselessly ; on the watch to cry out that the con stitution is violated - whenever any effort is made to invoke the aid of the national government, whether for the efficient regulation of railroads, for the efficient supervision of great corporations, or for efficiently securing obedience to such a law as the na tional eleht hour law and similar so- called labor statutes. "The doctrine they preach would 7alYj,,the,: constitution f merely . the, shield of incompetence and the excuse