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expended on schools , 48 per cent have
money in savings banks , each congress
man represents 4.5,829 voters and Bryan
received 82 per cent where Tilden and
Hendricks received 51 per cent. 75 per
cent of the citizens of Now Jersey voted
in ' 96 ; 6 per cent are illiterate , $2.95 is
used for schools , 9 per cent have inter
ests in savings institutions , each con
gressman represents 46,184 voters or
almost as many constituents as the
entire delegation of 7 from Mississippi ;
Bryan received 86 and Tilden and Hen
dricks 52 per cent of the vote cast. In
Pennsylvania 74 per cent vote , 7 per
cent are illiterate , $8.23 is used for
education , 5 per cent have money on
deposit , each congressman represents
40,878 voters and while Bryan received
but 86 per cent of the vote Tilden and
Heudricks received 48 per cent. 81 per
cent voted in Wisconsin , 7 per cent are
illiterate , $2.45 is devoted to schools ,
each congressman represents 48,766
voters and Bryan received 87 per cent
of the vote to 49 per cent given to Tilden
and Hendrioks. In New York , where
71 per cent voted in ' 96 , 6 per cent are
illiterate , $8.90 is used in the schools , 25
per cent have money saved and on
deposit and each congressman represents
40,121 voters ; Bryau received 89 per
cent of the vote and Tilden and Hen
dricks 52 per cent.
In giving the records of the states
which gave Mr. Bryan his highest and
lowest per capita strength , and the com
ments thereon , we do not hold him
personally responsible for the deplorable
condition as revealed by a compilation
of the facts , but as the leader , the
commander in-chief of the democracy
of ' 96 we do hold him responsible for
the present condition of democracy
which is far worse than at any time in
its history. Space alone forbids an
analysis of the remaining 88 states , but
having the data at hand we may at a
later date give it to the public. The
people the common people the true
democracy have apparently been lulled
to sleep by flimflamming leaders and an
unscrupulous press , who have been sow
ing tares among the democratic wheat
and when the harvest of 1900 is ripe , it
is hoped the tares , together with the
flimflamming leaders and unscrupulous
press , will be gathered together by the
people , the common laborers , the true
democracy and cast into political
oblivion. F. H. CLIFFORD.
Oheraw , S. C. , Nov. 27 , 1899.
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THIS VACANT .
SENATORSiiir.nonnced that ex-
Senator Allen has
consented to allow his name to be used
as willing to accept the appointment
from Governor Poynter to the vacant
senatorial seat , if the lattter should see
fit to appoint him. We cannot believe
this is authentic , and hope Judge Allen
will not be called upon to make the
sacrifice unless he is willing. He an
nounced before the late democratic state
convention that his financial affairs had
suffered so during his previous six years
incumbency of this same office that he
could not afford to take a position away
from home that the district judgeship
was just what he wanted , as he could
thereby be much at home to look after his
farm and financial interests and could
in time be able to get on his feet again.
The convention took Judge Allen at
his word and did not press upon him
the more distinguished honor of a nom
ination ( and election ) to the supreme
bench , as this would take him much of
the time from home.
We hope his friends will not CGBB
this position upon Judge Allen , which
he might not deem it patriotic to decline
and thus be put on the downward road
again financially.
Besides , wo think a democrat should
be named occasionally for some prefer
ment here in Nebraska. Fremont
Herald.
A "VAMPIKK" OF T1IK IMAGINATION.
When a man feels it to be his duty or
to his interest to stir up sentiment
against the railway ho is impelled to use
very extravagant language ; otherwise ,
his hearers will not realize their suffer
ings. So the Fecretary of the Chicago
Board of Trade recently gave a con
gressional committee some new and
startling information about the danger
of railway combinations , and turned the
page of history back "in order to de
nounce the defunct Southwestern Traffic
Association as a "vampire which for a
decade sucked the life blood of the com
merce of the Missouri Valley. " Presi
dent Ripley of the Santa Fe Company
has quietly punctured these sophistries
with a few sharp facts. The vampire
story is met with the fact that during
the decade in which the pooling principle
was tested by the Southwestern Traffic
Association , the Missouri Valley and
the adjoining country prospered amaz
ingly. It was when the pool was inter
rupted at intervals by quarrels between
the roads and "natural competition" had
full sway that rates were disturbed ,
values were unsettled and merchants and
shippers suffered. The whole trouble
was that the pools were not legalized
and made binding on the members.
This is a point which fair-minded men
ought to consider.
Mr. Ripley also denies the stock as
sertion that rates were advanced under
; his pool , Any advances on a few com
modities were far more than offset by
reductions on others , and there was a
steady decrease of average rates during
; he ton years in question. This is another
lard fact against a weak theory.
The cherished delusion that pooling
would be followed by great increase in
rates is met by the emphatic denial that
railway rates in this country ever have
been or ever can be too high. As for
the past , Mr. Riploy might well have
cited the tremoudous losses of capital
invested in our railways , involving the
bankruptcy of a very large proportion
of the mileage and of companies , as
evidence that transportation rates have
been too low , rather than too high far
lower in this new land than in the
thickly settled countries of the old world.
Discrimination in favor of largo ship
pers is charged against the railways by
those who cry for unrestricted competi
tion ; but free competition , Mr. Ripley
declares and the facts support him
"tends to the aggrandizement of the
few and the submerging of the many. "
The railways want a law requiring equal
rates to all , but many of the large ship
pers do not want it. Hence they oppose
pooling.
Yet the interstate commerce law pre
vents the railways from stopping dis
criminations. As one of the commis
sioners says : "the law prescribes uni
form rates and forbids the only known
plan by which rates can be kept uni
form. "
While pooling would benefit the
public by ensuring stability and equal
ity of rates , it would protect the rail
ways , and Mr. Riploy thinks that the
railways , which are taxed more heavily
than any other interest , have a right to
ask fair and honest treatment , which
they are not receiving. The govern
ment , he urges , should do ouo of three
things : (1) ( ) Remove all restrictions on
the railways ; (2) ( ) protect them , or (8) ( )
buy them. "The present mixture of all
the objectionable features of the three
is unjust to the last degree. "
The login and facts of the article pub
lished in this issue are unanswerable.
They constitute an appeal for justice to
the railways and also to those whom
the railways serve , which ought to re
ceive the assent of all fair-minded law
makers. The Railway Age.
Payne's proposed basis of representa
tion in republican national conventions
"would bo a good thing for the south , "
the Savannah News ( dem. ) says. "It
would result , in all probability , in keep
ing negroes out of federal offices in those
sections of the southern states where
public sontimout is against negro office
holders. At present the southern states
have so many delegates in the national
convention that candidates have to
make pledges to them in order to stand
any chance of getting the presidential
nomination , "
