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The independent., 1903-06-25
GEARY CO. KANSAS
Mr.. Whelan Discu. .ses tho PopuIist Sttua
tion In His County-Favors Joining
the Democratic Party

Editor Independent: Your favor of
the 9Th inst. asking my opinion with
reference to political conditions has
been duly received. also desire to
acknowledge receipt of copies of The
Independent and thank you for same.
We have an organization in this
county and in this congressional dis
trict, but | do not regard the situa-
ton as being at all hopeful from a
populist standpoint. We have prac.
tically no precinct committeeman left
and the feeling among members OF
cur party is apathetic in the extreme.
Many of our leading politicians and
large per cent of the rank and file
have gone over to the democracy. A
few have been attracted by the CLAM
our OF the presidents meteoric and
pyrotechnic activity and have a
vague impression that he will really
do something" about trusts. This
element will doubtless vote the re-
publican ticket. Some will Join the
socialists. There are a good many
who are willing to cast their lot with
the democracy, provided they are as
sured that the reactionary wing of that
organization will not control.
With this element heartily concur,
and l do not believe we should insist
upon reaffirmation, cline upon line,
precept upon precept," of the Kansas
City platform. I would not have the
platform recede one iota on any matter
of vital import, but if harmony could
be promoted within the democratic
ranks by the relegation of unimport-
ant matters, think it advisable to DO
so. l question the wisdom of a spe-
cific reiteration of the demand for
free silver coinage at the ratio of 1G
to l. But few are really interested in
this matter now, at least favorably in
terested.
A good many who would naturally
The independent., 1903-06-25

Hill went home and crawled up on his
roost; and we, who had been little
big guns-sort of pop" guns, as it
were--found our occupation gone. We
could only sit quietly by at the demo-
cratic love-feasts as long as we be-
hayed ourselves. But while there is
life there is hope" and while we have
such an able organ as The Indepen-
dent to represent us, we will still be-
lieye the peoples party is a force to
be reckoned with in the United States
and all it's dependent colonies"
AMOS w. RIDEOUT,
Formerly Secretary Peoples Party,
Ward and City Committee.
Boston, Mass, 7 st. Paul st.
ca guess on what the two old par
ties will do next year is hazardous
tut it isn't the unexpected that al
ways happens, after all, especially af-
ter the unexpected has happened. Mr..
Rideout has evidently forgotten the
charge made by Mr.. Kicker of the
Appeal to Reason, that is, that Bryan
and the populist leaders hatched out
q scheme long before the Chicago con-
vention to land the democratic nomi-
nation for him. We can be ready for
an emergency, at any rate-and let the
unexpected happen If it must do SO.
That is why Secretary Edgerton made
his call for the Denver meeting, July
2T.-Associate Editor.)
The independent., 1903-06-25
A WORD FROM BOSTON
Editor of Ye Quaint Magazine Has a Mes.
sage to Impart Anent the Populist
Revival

Editor independent: The lndepen .
dent is the paper that love to read,
for the reason that / am still pop
ulist. / have never succeeded in be-
ing anything else since | was first in
troduced to the Omaha platform. AL
though | was an admirer of Edward
Bellamy and an interested member of
one of the largest and longest-lived OF
the so-called nationalist clubs. | do
not claim to be socialist. | fail to
be hypnotized by the word Social
ISM like the average "class con-
scious" enthusiast, and l am inclined
to believe that the rosy visions that
he has anent the ''co-operative COM
monwealth'' are what the late John j..
ingalls, would have called IAN irri-
descent dream" .... e.
Since the disintegration of the peo-
ple's party, however, | have frequent
ly voted with the socialists in local
and state elections for want Of some
thing better. Anything by way of
registering my belief that the two
old parties will never do anything but
waste time and hunt for spoils. A new
and clean party is my hope, for | be-
lieve as that grand man, Lyman
Trumbull, said: mo new party was
ever false to the principles on which
II was founded" To discuss whats
to be done'' is very interesting and /
enjoy reading it, and-as you see
taking part in it; but after all doubt
if it amounts to much for the reason
that "it is the unexpected that al
ways happens" Was it not so in
1896? Didn't all the wise acres of the
peoples party predict that the demo-
Gratis would declare for the gold
standard and then we were to raise
the banner of silver at st. Louis and
make 'em third party in the coun-
try?
Wherever the socialists have seemed
to have a fighting chance to elect
their men, | believe every populist
should have voted with, and helped
them, and I guess they did as rule.
although | know of one case where
a prominent populist ran for mayor
on the democratic ticket against a
republican and a socialist, and got
only a hatfull of votes, while the So
cialist got elected.
But there was meteor struck the
democratic convention at Chicago in
the shape of Bryan. There were
pitchforks and crowns of thorns and
all sorts of fireworks-and David B.
The independent., 1903-06-25

beetles compared to 1t. But for our
cwn irredeemable paper money the
southern confederacy would have
been a success, and this nation would
have been divided. But for ire
deemable paper money, Napoleon, the
greatest war genius that ever lived,
would have subjugated England and
all Europe to his power.
If the populist party is advanced to
power in the national government, it
cannot do anything to bring the coun-
try out of this valley of the shadow
OF death until it establishes irredeem-
able paper money as provided by the
Omaah platform. The Omaha plat
form provides that we demand ma
tional currency, safe, sound and fley-
iDie, issued By the general govern
ment only.
This provision for a full legal ten
der for all debts, public and private,
Ly unavoidable inference makes the
money irredeemable in coin, because
il 1t were thus redeemable every
piece of paper money would be itself
q debt payable in coin only. But am
for adding three more words In the
platform, thus: ''irredeemable In
coin" So that such matter OF vital
Importance shall not be left to un-
ayoidable inference, but be so plainly
stated that he who runs may read
and know. Populists cannot afford to
let there be any chance or excuse for
a difference of opinion among them on
this important point Of irredeemabil-
ity of paper money.
Moreover it is plain to be seen that
the party cannot afford to fuse with
any other party or faction whose plat
form is opposed to, or is non-com-
initial as to any of the Chicago plat
form money provisions, because the
party being thus fused could not
promise any of the grand results to be
derived from those provisions, and
this would keep the party out OF
power.
Thus far have voted every demo-
pop fusion ticket, national, state and
county, that has come in my way.
Eut under God | am now headed for
nothing short of seeing the populist
party come into national power and
seeing this great country, with all its
island contingents, come out OF the
valley of the shadow of death into a
glorious new life of universal free
dom and prosperity.
MARVIN WARREN.
>Fairbury, Neb., June 80, 1903.
The independent., 1903-06-25

For ten years The Independent has
been telling the people of Nebraska
that railroad rates were from 20 to
81 per cent higher in this state than
in Iowa. Recently the earnings of the
roads in the two states have been
published and they show that the
Iowa roads earned $1,S07 per mile and
the Nebraska roads earned $2,20S per
mile. AS long as the republican party
remains in power in this state, the
farmers will continue to pay these ex-
cessive rates. On t. /, average they are
little more than 25 per cent greater
than what the Iowa farmers pay.
The independent., 1903-06-25
HALF RATES ~ ~ y

Via
WABASH H1RAILROAD.s
The Wabash offers many rates to
the east from Chicago:
$21.00-Boston, Mass, and return.,
sold July l to 5.
$17.45-Saratoga, N. Y, and return:
sold July 5, 6.
$e.75-Detroit, Mich, and return; soil
July Is, 16.
All tickets reading over the Wabash
between Chicago and Buffalo are good
in either direction via steamers be-
tween Detroit and Buffalo without ex-
ira charge, except meals and berth.
Stop overs allowed. Remember this
is ''The Cool Northern Route" and
all agents can sell tickets from Chica-
go east via the Wabash. For folders
and all Information address
HARRY E. MOORES, G. A. P. D.,
Omaha. Neb.
The independent., 1903-06-25
Convenient Stock Farm

One thousand acres, all bottom land,
fenced and cross fenced with three
and four wires; 200 acres under cult.
vation; 100 acres in alfalfa whicL
produces over 400 tons of hay per
year; groves that furnish an abund,
ance of shade, shelter, fence posts and
wood. Frame house story and half
1926, frame barn 24x2Sx18, cattle
shed 50x50, hog pens, chicken houses,
granaries, corralls, etc. This land
lays on the Republican river; the
deepest depth to sheet water anywhere
on the farm is 28 feet. Two wells and
wind mills to supply water back from
the river. This is nearly all good
alfalfa and sugar beet land and is
only 4 miles from good railroad
town. Price $12.50 per acre. With a
reasonable cash pigment time will be
given to suit on the balance. This is
certainly snap 1t is only matter
of few years till this choice bottom
land will sell for $50 per acre. Fo.
sale by Weber & Farris, Lincoln, Ne.,.
The independent., 1903-06-25

The South Dakota legislature raised
the test for Illuminating oil and the
Standard Oil trust Immediately raised
the price Of oil in that state one cent
gallon. The Standard Oil company
has a power to tax equal to that of
any state government and it exercises
that right whenever it sees fit. There
is no difference between the state of
South Dakota placing a tax of one
cent a gallon oil and that of the
Standard Oil company raising the
price one cent gallon in that state
and not in other states at the same
time.
The independent., 1903-06-25
Looking For Bargains

This store always at the front with greater value
than others. The big reliable grocery presents for
your economical consideration Special Combina
ton of staple articles at saving of from 20 to 80
per cent over what you are now paying. Money
saved is money earned. You cannot earn money
easier than by sending 80 in draft express or money
order to this store for the following BILL Every.
thing packed securely and delivered at your depot
We pay all the freight.
The independent., 1903-06-25

Karl Marx Edition, July %, 1903
The independent., 1903-06-25
HAIL INSURANCE

The United Mutual Hail In
surance Association-the larg-
est and most successful hail in
surance company in the state.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17

ture January l. 1908. The remainder is covered by territorial 5s. The as- sessed valuation of the county is s5,- 26O. 734.
 The city of Prescott. with a tax valu- ation of s1,194,175, owes s23S, S,O00, nearly all of which Is for municipal water- works.
 Pinal county. assessed valuation $1,- 697.515. had a total debt, March 1st, of S146, ,5OS. The statement does not show what amount is covered by territorial bonds.
 Yuma county, assessed valuation s1,- OPS, ,TS2. owed on the first of March S12S- ITO. Of this sss. .79111 is covered by territorial bonds.
 It should be understood that the assessed valuations stated are the val nations of last year, while the indebt- ness is brought down to date.
 The counties of Mohave, Navajo, Giia and Santa Cruz are not included in the exhibit.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
Negroes Getting the Divorce Habit.

According to a traveller through
 Maryland who has been writing to the
 Baltimore papers, the divorce habit. so
 prevalent in higher circles of society.
 has at last been acquired by the ne
 groes, and the alarming increase of
 infelicitous marriages among them
 threatens to supplant the old. bu.
 easier method formerly in vogue among
 them of taking up." All through the
 eastern shore of Maryland, it seems,
 the same report comes that negroes ara
 divorcing their legal spouses whom
 they have promised to love, honor an,
 obey Gf nothing happened), to such aa extent as threatens the continuity of the negro home.
 A few years ago a divorce among negroes was an unheard of thing. When things became too hot around the shack they separated, one or the other usually the weaker, leaving the do- mestic domicile and seeking a home elsewhere. Now, however, they go about it in a different way. There is a
 certain aristocracy given to decree
 for divorce among the negroes. and the one who can exhibit a properly certified copy of a real court decree is entitled to an unusual place in African society. Formerly there was an impression current among the race that all that was needed to break the matrimonial
 bond was a slip of paper signed by both
 parties agreeing to divorce. In one
 county a white man of more cunning
 than honesty did thriving business among them by writing divorces at c
 dollar apiece. A few cases of arress
 for Digamy stopped his business and brought consternation to the widows and widowers of the grass denom- ination, and then they adopted the for
 mality of getting their divorces through the regular channel. Statutory grounds are easily alleged and just as easily proved, and the positiveness of the law gives the courts practically no discre- tion. Within the last year there have been at least a dozen divorces granted to colored people in one county and
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
A Hot One for Brother Bard.

The following from the Eureka Cali fornian is respectfully referred to the Hon. Thomas Robert Bard. senator in congress from the state of California, for his prayerful considerations:
 We are not at all surprised that Senator Bard's astonishing hostility to the statehood bill recently before. con- gress should have excited in California a good deal of displeasure. AS might have been expected, ever since its ad- journment a number of the newspapers Of this state and Arizona have been diligently engaged in his excoriatior. Bard seems to be a sort of misfit at Washington, anyhow, and there is no little regret that we shall be unable to choose his successor until 1905. What the devil to do with him in the interum is a conundrum.
 Bard never was the man for the office and ever since he took his seat has come startlingly near to proving a nonentity. California possesses too many men of superior intellectual en- dowments and unusual force of char acter to send to that great deliberative body the United States senate a man destined to be a mere figurehead. We need in the upper house of congress men of the caliber of the late Stephen M. White, without doubt the ablest federal senator California ever had. We say this in the full knowledge that the state has been represented in the fed eral senate by such distinguished gen. tlemen as Fremont, Gwin, Sargent, Booth and Stanford.
 Perhaps the most surprising feature of the whole proceeding was the fel- lows professed inability to perceiv. how statehood for Arizona would ad- vantage California. A man who knows no more than that ought to resign. But he is learning things and by and by will be able to tell "how" without any prompting. Of course a. represent ative in either house of congress ought to be more than a mere machine to record the popular will of the state responsible for his presence therein but a Californian unable to see tha, his true course in the last congress lay in support of the statehood bill seems sadly In need of a coach.''
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
What MT. Roosevelt Means.

Of course, the president does not ! mean to advocate the raising of large families by persons who are unable to | support them properly. There seems to | be some danger of a popular misappre- hension on this point, and it cannot be too promptly too empha tical,y dis pelled. MT. Roosevelt very properly
 holds that parents should surround themselves with children, but he in- tends this to be understood as .,
 rational and not mischievous propo- sition. One need only visit a few of | the more squalid tenements in any O.
 our great cities in order to assure him
 self that neither the president nor any one else of sound mind wishes the sort
 of increase that is on exhibition there MT. RoQsevelt's utteranceS construed In this light express a patriotic philos- ophy. To construe them in any other light is to do him an injustice and to
 advocate social degradation.
 Consider, for example, the thousands of men and women in New York city alone who are fighting famine on in- comes ranging from s to S10 a week.
 Upon what theory, informed by the
 simplest intelligence, can they be ad- vised to marry and raise large fam flies? How is 1t proposed to feed, clothe and care for half dozen chii-
 dren on even $40 month? What kind
 of a future lies before their little ones ?
 Think of the demoraliZing environment, the sad experience, the wretched physi- cal and moral conditions under which they must necessarily grow from in fancy to childhood. Think of their
 half-starved bodies. their darkened
 souls, their frightful temptations az | they advance to youth. Even at the best-even though the wage-earner
 keeps his health and fall into no bad
 habits-what must be a childhood spent in miserable tenements, crowded to- gether like cattle in pens, with nothing
 sweet or beautiful or wholesome t.
 plant a flower in their arid lives.
 l Read the appalling histories of the
 poor in New York. They are mere ac- cidental revelations. They are to the great mass of hidden misery and deg l radiation what the truant spark is to
 the covered fire. Once in a while some one hears of a case of special attiiction,
 and nearly always the machinery of
 rescue is set in motion by Christia n i hands. The others are left to their suf- ! fering, their hopelessness, their degra- l dation. We have untold millions 10 spend and immeasurable sympathy and . miuistratio to bestow in China. India 1 the farther away the better-whi.e | here at home, within sound of our own | church bells. scarce stones throw
 from our sumptuous residences, pow 1 erty. pain, despair, all flourish, and the 1 pagan ferment of the slums creates
 uncea singly material for the brothel
 and jail.
 ! It is not such population as this
 which the president would see multi
 piled He is the last man in the world to advise another to bring forth chill
 dren over whose cradles no hope can hover and of whose future nothing can
 safely be predicted except unhappiness. 1 Washington Post.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
The Lucky Spaniards.

Spain is one country which can point to defeat in war as national blessing. Spanish bonds are worth three times what they were in 1898. In that year they were selling below 30-a Spanish bond looked like 30 cents" literally. But having got rid of her expensive colonies, Spain finds her credit restored. and her bonds selling in the world 5 markets above 90. As matter of fact Spanish bonds now command higher price than British consols. And yet. It is only a few years since all the world considered a British consol the most gilt-edged of all investments, and ,. Spanish government bond the most dubious of all national obligations.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17

only three or four to white people in the same time.
 One peculiarity of the negroes seek ing divorce is that they never show any ill feeling toward the recreant spouse. Where white people would be very bit ter and exhibit the most spiteful malig- nity, the negro is careless and indiffer- ent and reckons it a good riddance.
 One of the eastern shore judges, in commenting on the increase in divorces among the negroes, said that it is really an encouraging sign since it indicates a greater respect for appearances and shows a striving toward the higher things of civilization.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
Prosperity to Continue.

The address which Secretary Root
 delivered in Boston on Thursday is
 well worth attention. Speaking to the
 Home Market club. which is devoted to
 upbuilding the protective tariff, he nar-
 urally gave special attention to that
 subject. Under the operation of the
 commercial system embodied in the
 tariff law the people of the United
 States are living more comfortably and happily than any other great mass of people in the history of the world. But, as MT. Root says. there may be need of tariff revision, though Lit should not
 be undertaken until it becomes a real necessity"
 As soon as the revision is decided on business uncertainty follows, therefore.
 Mir. Root thinks that "it should be done
 only when congress is as free as pos
 sible from the distractions and tempta- ! tions of an active political campaign" '"
 and that will be after the presidential election. The revision, when made,
 must be made by the friends of the tariff if the protective principle is to be maintained. If not, and the pros- perity of the nation is to be reversed, | as happened under the Cleveland ad- InlnlStrallOn, then the democratic party should be allowed to wreak its veu-
 geance again on the protective tariff. 1 Mir. Hoke Smith of Georgia, who was
 one of President Cleveland's cabinet
 officers. said in New York Monday: | Our people are making money. The farmers are making money, and wa want that condition of affairs to con- | tinue." It necessarily follows that 1t | will not continue if a party that has opposed everything done to bring about
 this great prosperity secures power and proceeds to tear the tariff to pieces and
 upset things generally. The fact that the democrats are advocating a rev enue tariff" while at the same time aG-
 mitting the undeniable prosperity that ! now exists, demonstrates their incom- potency to govern the country.
 | Tariff changes can only be made
 safely by the republicans. That Is , equally true of the currency and other l important questions. The record of the democratic party on these questions | has been that of disaster. The free | trade and free silver element of the party controls it. But both factions oppose a protective tariff.-Philadel | phia Press.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, ETC.
To Cure a Cold in One Da,

Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if 1t fails to cure. p. w. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.

Some men play to the grandstand and do not accomplish much.
 A sickbed isn't conducted properly, according to many, unless the preacher is invited in to pray for the patient.
 'I would like to know, before voting for that man." said an Atchison woman today, what church he belongs to-
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17
Political Announcement.

I hereby announce myself as a can didate for reelection to the position of city marshal of Phoenix, subject to the action of the republican city convention, and if nominated will stand squarely on my record of the last two years.
 J. H. KINNEY.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-17

The purpose of this column is to sup ply the Arizona public with the names ana addresses of thoroughly reliable, Los Angeles establishments. The list Will be found particularly valuable to those vls-