The independent., 1903-07-09
suit has been brought to recover ST.

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The Lincoln Evening News says
that the Nebraska socialist candidate
for supreme judge is blacksmith.
That is no disqualification. Many SUI
preme court decisions give us the i'm
preston that other parties in the past
have nominated tinkers for that high
position.
In letter to The Independent, un-
der date of July 1, Secretary Edgertoa
says: "Our local committees are all
formed and the folks have taken hold
of the matter with vim. | have
heard from Mr., Parker, Mr. Mcbride
and Mr.. Park of the mid-roaders and
they all assure me that their commit
tee will be called at once for July 27
here (The call appeared in last weeF's
Independent, and is republished this
week.~Ed. Ind.) Inasmuch as they
purpose calling their full national
committee, also their sympathizers and
friends, think we haG better do the
same. do not believe Mr.. Edmi te7
ihould delay day. Reports re-
ceiVed are almost all favorable. Am
Eearing from silver democrats. single
t.axers and dle-of-the-roaders as
much as from onr own people"
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Some of the American promoters
vent over to Paris and made offers to
The city goyernment-very fine on
their face-for franchise to put in
~as and electric plants. They cap
tured the special committee appointed
o investigate the matter which re-
norted in favor of accepting the offer,
hut when it came up before the coun-
ell the whole thing was repudiated and
the council resolved to put in a mu
nicipal gas plant of its own and in
stead of giving the profits to foreign
indicate the people themselves should
have them. The mullet head in this
country will have none o that sort of
thing. He wants to pay three prices
FOR gas and wear patches on his pants
% that the gentlemen of the syndi-
Gates can have their yachts and pail
2ces and have good time.
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In every state where there was no
fusion with the Bryan democracy the
populist party was practically wrecked.
In the only state where such fusion
was constant the populist party is in
full fighting trim. The old republican
cry recently resurrected by the Lin
coin Star that fusion killed the pop
'ilist party does not seem well founded.
Fusion was policy" and had moth
ing to do with the principles advo-
Gated. 1t was simply politics" and a
sind that the republicans of this state
objected to. Nowhere, ex-
cept in North Carolina, where Butler
fused" with the republicans, has the
party ever fused with another party
advocating principles opposed to those
announced in the national populist |
platforms. 1t has been simply means
o an end, and whenever the party |
1eems it wise to employ other means |
t will do so.
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The meat trust, not satisfied with |
is other extortions and stealings, is
low engaged in putting up short |
eight packages of lard, canned meat |
Ind other products of the packing
,ouses. The ability of trust to in
-ent new forms of stealing exceeds
he genius of all the rogues of history.
three-pound can of packing house
ard contains only two and one-half
'ounds, and the trust Stands pat"
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The following clipping from the Ne
raska State Journal of last Sunday
vas handed to the editor of The In
dependent with the inquiry: as the
writer of that fool or liar" ''The
urplus mas always been grief to the
emocratic party and the way they
rrned the republican surplus of 1892
nto democratic deficiency of nearly
hree hundred millions before the
ermination of their high jinks with
he administration of Grover Cleveland
'as a caution" Everybody acquaint-
d with the matter at all knows that
ne plates for the issue of new bonds 1
ere issued before the republican ad-
,inistration retired and those plates
'ere exhibited by Senator Vest in the
snate corridors. By the most desper
te schemes money was finally raked
'gether to keep the government going I
ntil the old stuffed prophet took his !
eat. That is the kind of a surplus