The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-23


taxes. During that time, every sec
ton of the bill of rights has been
trampled underfoot and business has
been greatly demoraliZed. What has
been worse, great distress has been
brought upon those who labor. In
hundreds of these families the grim
specter of want has appeared. Hus-
band and wife, father and child, have
been separated by as reckless and
heartless a william as ever wore Shout
der straps. A look of disgust comes
over the face OF every decent man
when the name Of that blathering,
boasting, blatherskite, General Sher-
man Bell, is mentioned. Meantime an
election has been held, and as result,
q man who did not receive one vote
for governor has been installed in that
Office. All that has come about be-
cause the waterw0rks and other city
utilities of the city Of Denver are in
the hands of private owners. There
has been nothing else in this whole
matter. The owners of these city util-
tiles wanted franchises extended, new
ones granted and other favOrs and
special privileges. They not only
wanted that, but cheap labor and long
hours. They bought up a previous
legislature and persuaded it to defy
the constitution of the state. From
that moment the trouble began. When
the fountain head was poisoned, all
that flowed from it was poisoned. Cor
ruption in the courts, at the polls and
in every department of the govern
ment was the necessary consequence.
This legislature secured republican
majority by arbitrarily unseating mem
bers of the opposition who were duly
and legally elected. 1t has ended with
making a man governor who was not
a candidate for that office. That Adams
had majority Of the legal votes cast
was so evident that even the parasites
of the owners of municipal franchises
had not the face to seat Peabody,
whom they could not deny had re-
ceived only a minority of the legal
votes put in the boxes. >NOtwithstand-
ing that, these degenerates seated Pea
body under the promise that he would
resign after twenty-four hours, which
he did. There is nothing to CORE
spond with such action to be found
anywhere in the history of legislation.
There is nothing to which it can be
compared. either for it's cowardice or
venality.
That is not the last of such work
If state can seat some man as gov
ernor who was not even a candidate
for the position, the same thing can
be done at Washington and some man
seated as president who was never
voted for for that Office. There has
never been greater crime committed
against free government than this
Colorado theft of governorship. 1t
has not been a greed for Office that
has caused it. 1t has been low, vul-
gar greed for money. The Offices were
wanted not for the honor that was to
be gained, but simply for the money
that could be made by possessing
them. The money is to be obtained
by robbing the people under the forms
of law. This Colorado business should
give the whole nation pause.
The senate of the United States has
adjourned it's extra session and given
the president another slap in the face
1t refused to ratify the San Domingo
treaty in any form whatever. 1t re
fused to even cast side glance al
the Esch-T Townsend railroad freight
regulating bill. The senate acts as
if it was lord supreme of the country
and intends to give to the people only
such part in government as they are
capable of exercising-the senate at al
times to be the judge of the peoples
capabilities. There was never a more
corrupt body of aristocrats on the
earth than the United States senate
Most of them have grown old and har
dened in grating, boodling and politi
cal crimes of all sorts. The few new
men will soon be initiated into thu
same practices.
The news from Manchuria durinl
the week was all of the same sort
the Russians were still running an,
the Japanese were pressing hard OF
both TANKS and in the rear. TIL,
change of commanders from Kuropat