The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-03-24

sue of March 10, repI lnts Southern |
Mercury editorial notice of st. Louis |
meeting and Springfield convention.
Nebraska populists, of course, know
Joseph Lamb, of Williams, Rose
| Creek precinct. Thayer county. 1t
isn't likely that those who helped to
raise funds to pay off the populist
campaign debts of 1900 will forget his
generous contribution.
Mr. Lamb has just enrolled as MEM
Der of the Vanguard and the Old
Guard of Popnlism, and his cOntri-
button to help carry on the enroll
ment work will send out big batch
of sealed letters. The closing month
of this year Mr.. Lamb will round out
the allotted span of three score years
and ten; in other words, he will be
seventy years young. He was a
delegate to the national convention at
Omaha in 1892, and to st. Louis IN
1896, and has been delegate to the
state convention nearly every year
since and including 1892.
/ Carrying on farming and stock rails
ing on large scale, Mr.. Lambs SER
vice in politics have been confined to
the work of high private in the
rear ranks" as friend Donahoe of Hall
would say. except in one particular
Mr.. Lambs contributions to carry on
the work have usually exceeded those
l Of the men who sought and got the
offices. He has persistently refused to
enter the scramble for place, but his
neighbors, for tie past % years, have
kept him filing the Office of justice
Of the peace.
i Accompanying his enrolment pa
pers, Mr.. Lamb sends the following
note:
/ Il send you my 'regimentals' and best
4 wishes. Doing all right. There is
| mighty effort being played to keep the
democratic convention from becoming
a 'blow-hole.' Well, if the thing
blows dry on a split at the conven-
ton, the accursed money -power and
the stupid, uniformed cuss will vote
er straight anyhow.
But We'll work on and ever for the
right, even If to- go down-or. up--with
the wreckage be our reward
JOSEPH LAMB.
Editor Miller of the Corsicana (Tex.)
Truth misled by the first dispatches
from st. Louis thought the failure to
unite meant "the death knell of pop
ulism," but the next week he said:
"The st. Louis populists joined hands
over their past differences and the two
wings have blended in common fei-
, lOwship and the national convention
! is to meet the Fourth of July at
Springfield, Ill. to nominate a ma
tional ticket"
The Cleburne Waterman, COrsicana
Truth, and Mineola Courier are advis-
ing Texas farmers to join The Farm
ers Union-an rganizailop similar in
aims to our Kansas and Nebraska CO.
operative shipping associations, eie-
! vators, etc.
The Hamilton (TexD Journal-News
carries the Omaha platform Oh its
J back page It's good reading matter
every day in tne week, TOO. But why
not now publish the st. Louis address
few weeks?
OF the many populist papers which
were formerly published in Colorado,
The Independent knows Oh put Two
that are still strong in the faith-The
Populist, edited by Ellen G. Cassidy,
at Ridgway, and The Journal, by Jas.
Flannagen, at Fort Morgan. Patter
son, Harris and HeitfelG! How they
have wrecked the peoples party!
Although the populist motto, LET
. the office seek the man." is theoret-
1 ically correct, it has often in practice
caused difficulty in this way: the or
1 fee sought a man who would not ac-
cept, and then the result was state
4 of decentralization in convention which
sometimes resulted in nominating a
poor stick" simply because he would
: take It. There is no good reason why
good men should not aspire to be
, delegates to the national convention
at Springfield. and In the distant
states 1t Is almost imperative that we
find out In advance who would be will
ing To attend If elected. Old Guard
+. ". Phelps. OF Malheur county, Ore
gon. has expressed his willingness TO
atteLd the national convention If
elected. MIR. Phelps says: I'VE have
no state chairman, he having affiliated
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