The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-10-13

ties, and were in fact controlling them,
what would be the evidence of il?
"a That some of The corporations
and trusts joined the republicans and
| others the democrats.
CD That both parties drew their
campaign funds from the trusts and
the corporations.
CD That the platforms of the two
parties were made. ais much alike as
| posslble--So much SO that one of the
candidates on the national ticket adj
mitted they were almost identical"
(4) That the environment of the
candidates of the two parties was ex-
actly the same.
| 90 The political record which proved
that both the old parties had united to
defeat any measure of reform.
| co. The fact that the record showed
that both the old parties had united in
establishing, step by step, the system
as We now have it
These proofs are all at hand Any
well-informed citizen can see the facts
| if he will.
Accepts Observation-Disclosures Platform
accept the nomination rendered me,
and endorse the platform upon which
| it has been made. In this campaign
when plutocracy has captured both the
old parties it seemed an absolute ne
leessity that some one should erect the
standard Of Jeffersonian democracy.
Had no one nfaide<stHsseaaszt j. .s.:aGa.
| the spirit of resistance into the peo-
lple, four more years Of apathy and dis
content might have rendered the case
hopeless The leaders in 1903. who
would seek to rekindle the hopes OF
| the masses might have been met with
the cry Too Late!
| To the courage and the intelligence
Of the voter, appeal If you think
4 am right, vote that way, or you are
| q moral coward Do not fear that your
vote will be thrown away Your
vote is never thrown away until it
ceases to be the representative Of your
honest convictions.
| To the extent that the opponents of
republican principles support me in
1904, the hands of those will be
strengthened who shall make war upon
the republicans in 1908. The present
attitude Of national democracy is an
Impossible one. They will be driven
from it, beyond all doubt. -Four years
| from now the Belmonrs, Germans and
Hills should be put into the republican
camp, where they belong. The real
democrats will return to their Omaha
and Chicago platform. In some hon.
orable way, the Bryan democrats must
act with us; the cause demands it:
duty requires it; patriotism exacts it;
Ito the success of true democracy it is
Indispensable. To preserve an organ
ization of resistance to the plutocracy,
to show them that they can not play
their selfish games quite SO easily as
ithey had imagined, to make them feel
that there Is III II rHnpae to
form nucleus around which the be-
& trayed people could rally, we make
this struggle.
1t has already grown into larger pro-
portions than could have foreseen. It
promises to bring forth good fruit
without notwithstanding delays. The
effects Of the attacks which we are
making upon this unholy desertion of
the democratic masses by the demo-
cratic bosses are even now apparent
and reassuring. But even had not this
been true, should still have taken the
same course upon the high ground Of
duty.
CarIyle's Advice
| The great Scotchman, Thomas Car
lyle, said:
/ Cast forth thy act, thy word, into
the everything, ever-worlxing universe:
1t is seed-grain that can not die: I'M
noticed today it will be found flour
ishing like banyan grove after a thou
sand years. ?
i Plunged into poverty when a lad. |
have, from my sixteenth year, been
looking at life from the seamy side. /
know what the life of the poor boy is.
for I have led it. To walk the streets
looking for work and finding none is
an experience never to be forgotten
and have had it. TO take the side
OF the oppressed costs me no effort. to
do. otherwise would cost me my self
respect. AS far as has been in nv
power, have labored to so change our
laws as to make it easier for other
. poor boys to do what | found it so
difficult to do-fnd opportunity, find
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