The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-06-23

The question whether the radical
wing will be able to control ohe-lniIu
Of the delegates to the st. LOUIS con
yention was revived by the SUCCESS
of Hearst in Illinois, when audeu o.
votes TO the list of delegates instructed
for him. AS the convention Will en-
brace ga4 delegates, 1872 will be able,
under the two-thirds RUE, 10 preven.
a nomination. Including SIX Hnouo
island delegates, Hearst now mas 10y
delegates bound to him by lormai
INSTRUCTIONS To that number must
he added 1872 in order to make the oo1
necessary to exercise veto power.
Among the uninstructed delegations
Tins far chosen, one cannot ma loz
men Add 16 from Nebraska SIX from
Oklahoma. 10 from Colorado, ~ lron
Florida. IA from kansas, SIX from
Montana and eight from Oregon, and
the total is only 22O. Can LIZ more
be found by the time the conVeh.ion
meets?
A writ of habeas corpus was brOught
before Judge Thayer in the feuerai
court at st. Louis in the case OF Moyef
the imprisoned miner out in Colorado
and within three hours afterwards
Governor Peabody ordered the mill
tary to turn the prisoner over TO the
civil courts to avoid trial In the fed-
eral courts The jurisdiction OF the
United States court was claimed on
the grounds that the complainant was
q citizen of the state OF Iowa and tnat
he had been deprived OF his liberty
sand property without due process OF
law and in violation OF the fourth,
fifth, seventh, eighth and fourteenth
amendments to the constitution. Ii
the claim had been made that the acts
of the military and Governor Peabody
were in violation of the whole cOnsti-
tuition and Magma Charta no doubt
the court would have upheld the claim
Last Monday a jolly populist came
into the Independent editorial rooms
for chat as he has habit OF doing
once in while. During the course
of the conversation the subject Of
writing came up. He remarked that
he had done a great deal of writing,
but he thought that his best writing
was done some years ago when he
was about eighty years DID, While he
does not write as much as he did
sixty or seventy years ago, he is just
as much interested IN current events
and good government as he ever was,
and is just as cheerful and jolly.
hn +oI ho%
mullet head state of Pennsylvania,
which delights to be ruled by repub-
lican boss more corrupt and more
tyrannical than King George ever was,
SO the following item that appeared
in the Associated press dispatches last
week, dated Wilkespare, caused no
comment: Dora Stanley, the queen of
the gypsy camp near here, was ar
rested tonight on charge of witch
craft and will have hearing tomor-
row."
Whitelaw Reid, than whom no more
unpatriotic American ever trod the
soil of these states, if we look uron
patriotism as defending the princi-
Piles upon which this government was
founded and by the practice of which |
it grew from few struggling colonies |
to world power in less than hun |
dred years, has been ejecting his suite
and gall again. At banquet at Del |
monico's the other night he denounced |
President Schurman of Cornell, as a |
"copperhead" and placed him in the |
ranks of those northern men who gave |
aid to the southerners in the civil |
war, because DR.. Schurman demanded
that the Philippines should be treated
as we treated Cuba and Panama. Such
epithets as Reid used will not infu-
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as thew
cannot reach the scat ~ thu 5i.a.