The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-24
GAINS IN NEBRASKA.
WHY TIE POPULlST PARTY. corr
STANTLY GROWS IN THAT STATE.

Congressman KEN Says It Is Chiefly Be
cause the Party Keeps In the Middle of
the Road Claims of the Sherman Law
Repealers Have Not Been Verified.
+ The purchasing clause of fhe Sherman
act has been repealed, the election has
come and gone, and we have had a little
time to look around and learn '.where we
ale at"
/ Relative to the Sherman law, we find
I ourselves at a place little worse than
we were before itsrepeal, for. despite the
predictions of the great fnanciers (the
only fellows who know anything about
the principles of fnance) that great
wave of prosperity would Immediately
sweep over this country, it is Il fact be-
coming painfully apparent to all that its
/ sweep has been dismal failure, and the
! situation is such that even Dun & Co.
/ can get no consolation out of it, though
they have earnestly striven to do so by
heading their reports with Furnishing
headlines to the effect that trade is
Frightening, but it does not take an ex-
pert long to discover upon reading the
article that the heading was misleading
and built wholly upon the principle of q
graveyard whistle.
These reports are seemingly made up
on the theory that, if bonds and stocks
are active, the country is prosperous
! This certainly is a false theory and very
misleading, for there can be no true
prosperity Of the country SO long as there
are any OF our people who cannot obtain
employment at remunerative wages.
W he. all OF our people are so employed,
then we have true prosperity even though
bonds cannot be sold on the market
! In fact, Mr.. Editor, ! am inclined to
think it would have been better for us in
the end if a bond had never been issued
Ill this country. There is not word in
the vocabulary Of language more ex-
/ pressive than that Of bond" It simply
means bondage IN the end, and no
government adopting the bond system
! has escaped, It means endless debt or
Reputation, and it will as surely absorb
the substance of the masses as the sun
continues to rise and set, if the people
! persist in continuing the system. How
long they will do this is q mystery The
late election would seem to indicate that
/ they are not al ready yet to join the
only party that offers any relief viz,
the Populist party, but are engaged in
jumping out Of the frying pan into the
fire and back into the frying pan.
Some seem to get great comfort out of
the recent elections by saying they were
q great rebuke to Mr.. Cleveland's policy.
What absurd nonsense! TWAS said that
Mr.. Cleveland was elected as a rebuke to
! the Republicans. Why should Mr.. Cleve-
land be rebuked for carrying out the Re
publican policy, which he was only able
to do with the aid Of Republicans, and
what kind of a rebuke is it that reinstates
the very party which he was elected to
rebukef II they had meant to rebuke
him as they did Mr. Harrison, they should
have voted the Populist ticket Tat
would have been a rebuke that meant
something. No, Mr.. Editor, the only
consolation / can get out of this Topping
process the people seem to be now going
: through is that it shows an unprecedent-
ed chaotic state of the public mind, out
The subsidized press is taking great
comfort in the strength of the Populist
party as shown by the late election. but
it would seem to be a precarious comfort
for the Populist party is the only party
that has made any gains. [ cannot I'M
derstand why both the other parties have
fallen off i'll the number Of votes every
yx-ba I1n D,,
publicans have seemingly regained some
of their lost ground, but this think was
the result Of the unholy combine entered
into i'll that state by the Populsts with
the Democrats and is rebuke which |
think will teach our people lesson.
Fusion always has killed any reform
party trying it and it ought to, if persist
ed in. # either of the old parties is a re-
form party, let Us join that party and go
on to success and not continue to waste
time and money in trying to organize a
new one. IF they are both guilty, let us
be honest and fight them both and cease
| selling our birthright for mess of pot
tage in the shape of little temporary
power. When we do this, Permanent
success will eventually crown our efforts.
and not before.
This is. we believe, the reason why we
have been able to hold our own in Ne
braska and gain a little all the time-we
have never been identified with either Of
/ the old parties. Particularly is this true
Of my own county Of Custer, which, I be-
lieve, was the first county in the United
! States to elect an Independent ticket in
this late upheaval Of reform, having
knocked out q Republican majority Of
almost 200 III 1889 and electing the en-
tire Independent ticket by from 800 to
500 majority. since which time we have
not only held orr own butsteadily gained
and in the late election elected all by
majorities ranging from 400 to 100, and
if the other counties of the state had
made the same gains our man for SUI
preme judge would have been elected by
10000 majority.
But while we are disappointed in no
electing our candidates for the supreme
court we are pleased to know we have
made gains. Last year out Of 30 coun-
ties we carried Al, this year we got Sc.
and while have not seen an abstract of
the vote / think am safe in saving that