The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-01-05
Chronic Indigestion

Editor Independent: In order to get
the true inwardness." of your refer
endum vote" as to what populists
torial prelude to the question when put
also an article, evidently from the quill,
in the next column of the same page
of the paper, the latter Of which as
serts that Bryan got his chief support
in he campaign of SO through decep-
tion,' while further along in same ar
ticle is the naked statement, Bryan
is honest So. with your referendum
question goes the above paradox, hon
est deception (0" together with
enough anti-tocsin to political morality
to poison tne mind of all the mid road
ers on your list and at same time to so
disgust all really democratic populists
who were driven from the Jefferson
ship Of state by Cleveland's treachery,
to third party hope, that they would
give your referendum question no
consideration at all; wherefore, the in
significant three, several thousand
votes of purblind mid readers reflects
no fair expression from any neck Of
the woods.
This is but another phase of the
trend of The Independent toward polit-
ical degeneracy, fully evidenced by the
avidity with which it grasps at every
line of stupid, unjustif1able abuse of
that grand AMI noble man, William j.
Bryan-whose very shadow stands for
more honest. sincere devotion to true
progressive democracy than the whole.
corpus mortil6ry OF side p9rty
majors.
For my part, I am thoroughly nau-
seated with the preferred" morsels
|of carbon from here. there and yon-
der, and the fact that now and then an
article from men of sterling political
worth like Berge or Harrington, finds
it's way to your press room, is no long
+ r sufficient condime-t to justify me
in condoning your journalistic deprav-
lily in reS0rtfng, for mere party pur-
poses, to spleenish contumely and poll
| tical invective against q brave and
true man like Bryan is well known to
be, and with which you mingle reform
names and measures, to their hurt; so
please discontinue my paper. The adj
vance school of Jeffersonian democ-
racy, whose rank and file are typified in
such men as Tom L. Johnson. w. J..
Bryan, L. F. Post, G. w Berge. Har-
ringtOn, ETC., may not yet have agreed
upon all the details necessary to carry
out the full purpose of true reform, but
their aearts beat together. their aims
and sentiments are one-their house
| is not divided against itself. Jealousies
and preferment have no place with
them nor does personal ambition
perch upon their standard The great
est good to all sof I. is woven in
their banner and their platform will be
one upon which all real reforners can
and will readily determine, What they
should do" Third party disruptionists
may, in some degree, hinder the day
Of their successful advent to power
sssss ssassEilk - tAsvshame
tof their hypocrisy, hesitancy and bad
political faith.
profess not to speak for populists
as such. but to all Jeffersonian demo-
Gratis, say. that Bryan has never,
will never betray you nor the faith.
e. C. CLARK.
Syracuse, Neb
| evidently the editor is not monop-
olist in the manufacture of paradoxes.
There are others. Think of enough
anti-tocsin to political morality to poi
son." ETC.! Mrs. Partington never did
better than that The Independent has
heard of sounding" tccsins but never
before knew they'd actually poison
even the mind of mid roader. Mr..
Clark's alarm bell which poisons peo-
pies minds, however, is an 'anti-toc-
sim possibly lost its clapper in the
recent seismic disturbance.
| Mr.. Clark takes himself and the
world far too seriously. A little sac
charated pepsin after each meal would
help some. Strange that he should
keep on gorging himself with "carrion''
even when sDiced with the pure food
Iof Harrington. Berge. ct al. until he
becomes thoroughly nauseated." OF
course, he's done the right thing now
IaltAough 1t must be confessed that his
retchings disclose more bile than any
thing else. ID.