The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-03-10

yentiOn. When the Hearst men hold
convention 1t should re announced
in advance as q riot.
A lawyer down in Michigan lost a
ten-dollar bet the other day. During
heated discussion he bet another
lawyer that he dare ask the judges
in open court how many railroad
passes they had and what services
they were expected To return fer
them. He thought the matter over
during whole night and then went
to the man whom he bet with and
SAID that he had come to the con-
clusion that he had better pay the
ten dollars than to- be fined for con-
tempt and possibly be disbarred. That
lawyer may have been impetuOus, but
he had good sense.
Mr. William N. Cromwell, one of
the lawyers connected with the legal
work of making the canal treaty
with Panama, received $2,U00,C00 for
his services. There mas been rich
picking for everybody connected with
that Panama canal business.
The two object lessons in tigerish
ferocity recorded in the horrible
lynchings this week shows with what
rapid steps people declines when
the fundamental rights of man" are
discarded and the laws are not en-
forced against the rich. The Indepen-
dent reiterates every word that 1t has
ever said abOu. the abandonment OF
the Declaration of independence and
the barbarism of the worship of
money.
As soon as Stilman got into the
Vanderbilt directory he began to
adopt the Rockefeller methods of de-
stroying competition in regard to
rail- Dads. Tie trolley systems of
Massachusetts and Connecticut were
in competition with the Vanderbilt
lines in that section and the trolley
lines are being bought by the rail-
roads that they interfere with. Mas
sachusetts. with The republic ans in
power and nothing but gold bug OPP
position democracy to contend with,
makes no objection. Massachusetts
had better send a full delegation to
the ropulist national convention.
Mr.. Cleveland's furious denial that
he ever dinei negro at the White
house has brought out letter from
Tom Watson in which Watson says:
Tt might not be fair TO recall in
stances where negro representatives
dinel at the White house at state din
ners, but it Is perfectly fair to re-
mind Mr.. Cleveland of Fred Douglass.
This negro, who had married white
woman, was not only treated with
official consideration, but when Mr..
Gle, Gland had his bride to the White
house, that he might wed there, he
invited Fred Douglass and his wife
to attend the reception This recep-
ton was not a state function; ii was
SOCIAL"
The death of the great democrat,
Whitney, has brought out the fact
that he was the chief owner of two
great republican papers and one
monthly magazine. So far it has
beer impossible to learn which of the
two great republican dailies was
owned by Mr.. Whitney, but it is stat
ed that it will be impossible to con-
ceai the information when the final
court proceedings are had. "Imper-
sonal journalism has been one of the
great factors in making millicnaires.
The fact Of democratic ownership OF
republican dailies only accentuates
the statements made in The Indepen-
dent in regard TO the Nav York press.
II Is beginning TO dawn on a few
beniehted individuals that the Hearst
demand and that OF other imperlalists
for a big navy Is not for the purpose
OF defending the Monroe doctrine In
thus hemisphere. but 10 impose the
viii OF the commercial imperiaiists
upon the world in matters of Oriental
trade, II Secretary Hay is no de-
voted 10 the open door, why not
open the doors in The Phlllppinesg