The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-08

among the foremost, ali Will dchno"i-
edge. His recent performances show
him to be q disgrace to the nation.
His talk at the st. Louis convention
and recent speeches brand him almost
an imbecile. The militarism that
Roosevelt so much exalts1 Is not
glory but disgrace to any nation.
Much surprise Is expressed In all
the papers about the indifference OF
the voters In the present campaign
ii campaign it can be called-between
the old parties. The only thing at is
sue between them Is whether Judge
Parker or Theodore Roosevelt shall
draw that $4,000 salary and perQuis-
ties How could anybody expect to
take much interest in such contest
aside from those two estimable gen.
tlemen themselves.
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Teddy, Brave Teddy. San Juan Hill
Teddy, surrendered Internationally to
Morgan and made the necessary prom
iseR The next day the New York Sun,
owned by Morgan, Topped from Parker
to Tcady, and Harpers' Weekly, anoth-
or paper owned by Morgan, changed its
policy in it's next issue. The Chicago
Chronicle did likewise And now the
whole set of them down on Wall
street are making monkey of Par
ker. Sorrowful to relate, there will
be no federal pie for Lee Herdman and
his gang in Nebraska except what
the republicans dole out to them.
$4,000
Donations this year to Rockefeller's
Chicago university amounted to only
$4,000. Usually they run up into the
millions. Coil OIL John did not give
d cent
In the editorial writing all over the
country the conclusion is reached that
Tom Watson struck line OF argu-
ment in his Atlanta speech that is
likely to break up the solid south, or
at least put it in course OF solution.
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The stampede of the people toward
Watson and Tibbles in New York and
other eastern states is so great that
Tom Tagart has sent for Jones-Jones
of Arkansas-to stop it. That move
makes a western populist smile when
ever he thinks of it.
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Every move made by the strikers
against the meat trust is condemned
by the editors of the Chicago dailies.
Perhaps if one of those editors had
charge of the strike instead OF Dom
nelly. he would win it right away.
That is the tenor of all their writing.
$4,000
Whether they can stave OFF col
lapse in the east until after the cleo
ton begins to look doubtful While no
free soup houses have yet been estab-
lished an unnamed philanthropist who
has undertaken midnight free-bread
distribution from a lower Broadway
bakery says he has never experienced
SO much of a pressure for help in
fourteen years of charitable activity.
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Colonel Maher does not like that
Tom-Tom affair down at Cooper Union
at all. He. gets pale in the face and
fierce in his remarks whenever he talks
on the subject.
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They are still organizing new parties
at Chicago. Within two weeks two
more national parties have been sci
afloat One calls itself Jeffersoniar
democrats and the other the Contin-
entail party Both of them took what
planks they put in their platform from
the peoples party platform adopted al
Springfield.
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The Wall street gang begin to tall
about "debatable ground in various
sections of the union. That shows tina
they are making some advancement
An order went out from Wall stree
few years ago to all their spellbinder
forbidding them ever TO engage In
debate. One Bryan and Cornell affai
was enough for them. II Wall stree
wants TO do any debating. we will wei
come them to Nebraska.
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No one but populists seems to TAX
much interest In this campaign. Their
IL nothing i'm either Of the old par
ties TO interest anyone. who does no