The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-03

Ys&k Away
Union ma BRYAN men. Jehsfsap :
ians and s. Rle takers, break away
The mac Nne politicians OF the city
of Toledo fnored the wishes OF the
voters OF t \ city few years ago, just
as the mRhine politicians OF the two
great nat Dnal political parties have
done thisy year. But the two party ma
chimes were SO shrewdly managed and
so we'll creased that the professional
politicians concluded they were able to
def Ia eAwishes OF the voters.
It loosed like it too, up to short
time belore election when, to the con-
sternath8 OF the party machine man.
ayers, IRE was sudden break-aWay,
ana tina voters on both sides breaking
ranks 5nshed together to the standard
Of "Gd6en Rule Jones. The machine
men end Office seekers voted for the
mach5ie candidates, but the aroused
and nnlted masses voted for Jones,
knowing well just where he stood, and
that He was heart and soul in favor OF
ever flunicipal reform the masses OF
the Hjty voters wanted.
T4A situation in the nation today IS
exattE similar: The shrewdest ma
chikk politicians this country ever saw
han managed this campaign for the
.tWbkkreat parties and kept both candi-
ds}4 for the presidency in iron cages
WITH seals ON their lips. They have
cad mptuOusly ignored the convic-
fHl6B, the political desires and the most
flfvent hopes that the American vot-
an ever had. They have refused to
& h them expression or promise any
definite niEd5sras Of relief. They have
even added insult 10 Iila ence by
denouncing every voter devoted to aIigy
kind of party principle as being UNI
sound, unsafe or insane. They have
denounced every progressive relief
measure as either "Bryanism," or
''populism.
Meanwhile the trust managers who
appear almost openly as the employ
ers of the two sets of machine man
ayers and who are understood to be
financing" the campaigns of both par
ties, seem to be SO confident that the
well-driIled and well-stuffed voting
masses will preserve their party align
ment. and elect either one ticket or
the other which they have nominated,
that they consider the election already
won. Their organs boldly announce
that ''it's all done but, counting the
votes"
Whose votes, Why yours-the votes
or organized labor men, the votes OF
farmers and grange members; and the
,.;J ~ 4
business men. The votes of natural
lied foreigners whom they inveigled
here unuer false pretenses, really to
defeat the desperate efforts of your
American brothers to maintain fair
wages and decent conditions for all
labor Are you going to let them do
it? | don't believe you are. I'd rath-
er believe that you intend to do what
those voters of Toledo did when cleo
ton day came, viz. coalesce with the
masses of your handwriting brothers
in the opposite party, break away from
both ana un4Le in electing the man
whom you know honestly and earnestly
believes Al every reform you do and
who mas the courage and manliness
to say so.
The man who has shown you that
Organism is Professionalism and Jack
sonianism and Lincolnism, and that
populism Is modern progressive de-
mocracy and genuine republicanism.
He has shown you plainly too what the
opponents OF genuine democracy and
real repuDlicanism stand for-when
they stand for anything-and what
they want put in place of Jeffersonian-
ism and Jacksonism and Lincolnism
and Organism. He has shown you that
they want Hannaism, Quayism, Ad-
dicksism, Clevelandism, Hillism and
Belmontism.
II Tolstoi, Garibaldi or KosiuscO
could be here today which would they
prefer?
If Henry George, William Lloyd