The independent., 1903-10-08

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week. Payne seems determined to keep
It up until all the blank indictments
are used up.
The trial of James Fl. Tillman for
shooting editor N. T. Gonzales has
continued through the week. The In
dependent has no sympathy with any
of the men who engage in these south
ern shooting ARRAYS, and none what
ever with Tillman, but 1t wishes to
register a protest against the way the
northern dailies are reporting that
trial. They give but one side OF the
case. One whole day was taken up
with reading the denunciatiOns and
ISLANDERS contained in the editorials
printed in Gonzales paper during one
year. While Tillman has been de-
ncunced continuously by the editors Of
northern papers, they cut out all ref
eience to the matter in these Gonzales
editorials which was sent to them by
the Associated press. The nature of
these attacks on Tillman by Gonzales
can be seen from the following SAM
pic and there were scores Of them Ii e
i Gonzales. In spea' ing of Tillmsn
says: He is a proven liar, defaulter,
gambler and drinkard, a character
tkat has never before essayed to offer
himself for the chief executive of a
proud commonwealth. A man who
has not accounted for the monev en-
trusted to him to build confederate
monument. though repeatedly called
upon to do So" Most men will won
der why the shooting was not done
long before 1t was.
The literary bureau OF the republican
party located in the census Office at
Washington is about to Issue bulle-
tin denying that the cost of living has
decreased ~ per cent and declaring
that wages have advanced as much as
the most of living That is the kind
OF work that the bureau was expected
to do when it was made permanent
thing. Let anv housewife look over
her accounts for the last three years
and then ask her whether the cost of
living has advanced n per cent or not.
The Madden raids on this Office in
tended to suppress or cHrtail the cir
crlation of The Independent have at
trscted good deal OF attention
throughout the United States. The
antocracy out in Colorado have adopt-
ed q more speedy and effectnal meth
OF of snppressing papers to which it
Is opposed. The military raidad the
Office of the Victor Record. The raid
was made because in a recent isspe
kAn hor r>F ha no
tional guard an ex-convict. Some ho-rs
after the editorial and mechanical
force OF the Record had been arrested
and placed in the military jail. called
the bull pen. the aggrieved soldier YVES
sent to make a formal comnlaint
AGAINST the prisoners. The arrests
TINS were accomplished before the
complaints were filed, and included
printers and other persons who were
not in any wav responsible for the
matter published in the paDer. Not
withstanding all that. the wife of one
OF the EMPLOYEES. after barricading all
the doors and windows, went to work
on linotype machine. set the matter,
made up the forms, smuggled press
man in. got out the paper on time and
although the soldiers were still guard
Ing the building, opened the doors and
let the newsbovs in who went out and
tried to sell papers to the guards.
But the soldiers are still there maxi
Ing arrests according to their whims
and notions. The "sappars and miners
Of liberty" of which lincoln warned
,is ore at work in every part of the
country.
The Massachusetts democracy has
been so thoroughly captured bv the
gold democrats that the nomination of
CASTOR, the greatest corporation man
In the state, for governor was made by
acclamation. There was not one pro-
testing voice in the whole convention.
So thoroughly plutocratic was the
whole affair that the convention in
drlged in insulting filings at the peo-
ple's party in its platform. In 1895
and 1900 the Massachusetts DELEGATION
to the national democratic convention
was a BRYAN delegation, with that
brilliant orator end honest patriot,
George Fred Williams, at its head.
What hone any man can have of the
Kansas CITY democrats controlling the
next democratic national convention
is mast comDrehensiOn.