The independent., 1903-07-09
JULY .. 1903.
SHOOT TO KILL

SHOOT TO KILL
The Independents way of fighting
plutocracy is to fight. Shoot to kill.
1t will never support candidates run
ming on compromise platforms how
ever good their records may have been.
1t will not support men with pluto
cratic tendencies running on the best
platform that can be made. The can
didate must be right and the platform
must be right. The people who want
good and honest government have had
enough of straddle platforms and
straddle candidates. They want
platform made without subterfuge
which contains the principles in which
they believe and candidate who be-
lieves in those principles just as firm
ly as they themselves do, and If they
can't have that, they prefer that the
straightout plutocratic candidate shall
be elected. Then they will know what
to expect. This thing of sticking to
party right or wrong" is ten times
worse than the imperial doctrine OF
supporting a war right or wrong,
because the country has engaged in it.
1t is the opinion of The Independent
that if the Kansas City platform dem
ocrats should openly declare that the
principles therein set forth were
looked upon by them as fundamental
and that they would never support 6
candidate who repudiated them, reg
ularity or no regularity, in a few
weeks they would have the reorganiz
ers On the run. So far, there have
been none among them who were
bold enough to declare SO publicly
although thousands of the rank and
file have so declared in private. AS
long as the fight is carried on In that
manner the reorganizers will continue
to gain strength. Better take the
course that The Independent has al
ways followed. Shoot to kill.
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The Bee says that The Independent
"gives the impression" that it would
not support the present fusion regents
if they were renominated, and then
adds: There is no danger of that.
The Independent wishes to inform the
Bee and all others interested that If
the populist state convention should
do such thing as renominate the
present regents or any man likely to
make the state university pest hole
of partisan republican politics, it will
not only not support them, but it will
fight their reelection from the time
the nomination is made until the last
vote is cast.
&SSSSSs
BY the grace of God, King of Ser
via" has proved little 700 rank for
the bishops and potentates of Eu-I
rope, but Karageorgevitch is as much |
king "by the grace Of Cod as the best
of them. The thing is blasphemy
when uttered in regard to any king.
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Since the Iowa convention the South |
Omaha Democrat has got far enough |
aicng to call us populists Calamity
howlers, purifyers, round-heads and
whiskered brigade" Let it howl. That
does not change the esteem in which
the thoughtful, honest democrats of
this state are held by populists. If
the South Omaha Democrat and its
kind got control of the party it will
IOC De LFOuUleQ ny dSSOCIdLloD WIN
nor for that matter with
some thousands of democrats who
honestly believed in the doctrines of
the last two democratic national plat
forms.
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The gold bug democrats think that
they have discovered a war cry that
Will equal Mark Hanna's stand pat"
They intend to start shouting: Turn
the rascals out" That is good just
now but If the postoffice thieves all
get in Jail before the next election it
will become sort of boomerang.
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Every department of the government
seems to be in the hands of republican
thieves. Recently frauds have been
discovered in the land department In
7olving far greater amounts than the
Dostoffice stealings. In one case
100-REWARD-$100
The readers Of this oaper will be