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The Conservative.
There are lead
ALLEGED RE- ing , vehement
ORGANIZERS. Bryanarchists who
incessantly assault
alleged reorganizers of democracy in the
United States. But who are the ag
gressive citizens thus charged upon and
rode down , day after day , by the swash
bucklers of financial fallacies ? "What
prominent gold standard democrat in
Nebraska or in any other state has
attempted to break into the conventions ,
caucuses or councils of fusion and
populism ? Who has sought to re
organize the Bryanarchists except their
own peerless leader ?
Many sensible citizens are tired of
both the old parties. They do not wish
to aid in reorgan-
A New Party. izing or strength
ening either , any
more than they yearn to vote for the
distinguished platitudinarians who now
represent both. There is , and has been
for years , a * large independent vote in
the United States , which neither the
allurements of political position nor the
threats of political bosses can control.
This independent vote can elect either
the alleged republican candidate or the
alleged democratic candidate. When
each old party has a bad platform and a
bad candidate the independent vote is
given to that which has in it the least
poison for the republic.
Trimmers are very often successful in
securing nominations for the presidency.
McKinley is a trim-
Trimmers , mer of peculiarly
oily shiftiness. He
was an avowed free silverite in 1878 and
voted for the Bland-Allison abomination
when it was carried over the sturdy and
honest veto of President Hayes. Mo-
Kinloyis , by his emotionalism , much
like his distinguished Nebraska rival.
The unctuosity or tne exnorter , who
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blandly beams upon an audience while
he seemingly washes the sins of the
world from his hands with celestial
soap , is a marked characteristic of both
these pious politicians. They are par
ticularly prominent as persons who
cultivate the prejudices of various
classes , and appeal to the meaner pas
sions of mankind with a saintly up
lifting of the eyes and a plaintively
sonorous "my friends , " dripping from
their automatic tongues. Panderers to
the popular craze , whatever it may
happen to bo , are not statesmen any
more than minnows are whales. This
republic has been run by trimmers long
enough and the demand now is if utter
ruin may yet be escaped for positive
and logical statesmen , lofty in charac-
'ter , exalted as to ability , and pure in
patriotism.
The voters holding the balance of
' " > .1 power in the United States are outside
the McKinley
Independents. crowd and outside
the Bryauarchists.
. These independents may not select high
deals of their own way of thinking
about the public service for the presi
dency , because they have no nominating
lonventious. But they can and will
vote against the candidate , no matter
at party may have nominated , him ,
who is least like an ideal statesman.
The independents hold the power to
sleet presidents of the United States in
their own hands. They will not be
beguiled into the organizations or the
re-organizations of either the republican
or the democratic party. They will
continue as the balance-of-power party
in this Nation to vote independently for
the least of the two evils which the old
parties may advocate. Independents in
the United States can continue , inde
pendently , to elect presidents though
they never nominate them in conven
tions. Independents fear no leaders.
They acknowledge no bosses. They
ask no favors. They vote for the best
interests of their common country and
neither of the old political organizations
can bribe , bully or buy their ballots.
No caucus can politically prescribe for ,
no convention coerce the balance-of-
power voters in
Caucus. the United States.
Therefore , all the
flapdoodleism , the threateuings and
wheedlings , evolved by the advocates
and orators of the two existing putridi
ties , is , to independents , as a harmless
summer shower , which brings more
wind than water , to a stately forest of
oaks.
Every railroad
TREES. company in the
United States
should utilize the unused parts of its
right-of-way for arboriculture. Every
railroad in the United States could thus
raise in twenty years catalpa ties enough
to almost supply itself.
Station agents and section foremen
could cultivate and protect the young
trees along each line for three years.
After that time the trees will take care
of themselves. The cost of raising
their own ties would not be one-half
the cost of ties they must purchase from
others. If Charles E. Perkins , Harriman -
man , the Goulds and the Vauderbilts
will start the arboreal utilization of the
waste right-of-way owned in the United
States by railroad companies they will
have earned the gratitude of the public
and much money for themselves.
The.fertile fields
ABUNDANCE. of Nebraska are
nowsatnratod
with Juno showers. The sun is smiling
upon them by day , and the dews are
soothing them by night. The corn is
growing so swiftly that the plow men
must hurry to get through it a third
time without being lost and suffocated
among the stalks. The wheat is as
sured. Oats are not very good. But
clover and alfalfa are magnificent , and
forage is to be plentiful for the next
winter. The gold standard is the creed
of this people and prosperity is persist
ent.
In a burst of elo-
THREE TO quenco Ohauncey
ONE. Depew ( exclaims :
"Which infliction
do you prefer ? From which will you
make the swiftest retreat three terms
of McKinley or one term of Bryan ? "
THAT NEW PARTY.
The Omaha Bee of June llth , re
marks :
1J. Sterling Morton still harps on the
necessity of a new political party , to be
built on the foundations of conservatism
that marked the democracy before it
became infused with populism. He
now wants to know what harm "a
balance of power party" can bring
about. The real question is , what good
can it effect that cannot be better
accomplished through the republican
party ? "
The balance-of-power
party only
elects a McKinley when it is necessary
to beat'a vagarist and a fallacy. The
republican party admires just such
sleek phrase-makers such Chadbands
and such unctuous piety and platitudes
as the McKinley incarnation. The re
publican party is accomplishing no
good , and would not be in power today
except for the conservatives who voted
its ticket in preference to that of Bry-
anarohy , which they thought might
accomplish more evil.
MUNICIPAL REFORM.
EDITOR THE CONSERVATIVE :
Please accept my acknowledgements
of the municipal government edition of
your paper.
I agree with you most heartily as to
the need of reform in city government.
But don't you hink that an educational
qualification would be better than your
suggestion , to put a tax on thrift ?
Would it not reduce corruption among
officials , ( and thereby weaken the hold
of the "ringsters , " ) if all grants of
franchises , etc. , had to be referred to
the voters for confirmation ? also , if the
voters had a right to discharge unsatis
factory or guilty public servants : i. e. ,
vote them out of office ?
By all means , let us have municipal.
civil service. Wherever technical skill
is required , I think there should be proof
of qualification , even with elected offi
cials ; for instance , in the case of a city
engineer , etc.
The suggestion in your paper that all
city governments should be consolidated ,
or rather merged , in the counties , is a
reform we expect to win here this fall.
The "city and county of Denver" will
be Denver and the adjoining portion of
Arapahoe county , divided off and governed -
erned by one set of. officials.
Sincerely yours ,
H. P. BENNETT.
Denver , Colo. , June 7 , 1901.