The independent., 1907-04-25

tions of Elder Clough at campmes-irg
in the woods near Crown Point) Under
the business mana cement OF Mr.. Eager
and the editorial efficiency. not - say
Suffiency, of Thomas Henry Tibbles. the
reorganzed Jndc pendent became a fac
tor of no mean Importance in the usi
ness calculations of this neighboTbLcd.
TIbbles drew his salary, and the n,onel
his divider ds with regularity as grs.t1-
flying to those who profited by it as it
was surprising to the Skeptical com,nnn-
ity round about
There ensued in the course of time lie
campaign of 1901 with the fusion cardi-
date for governor forging ahead OF bis
ticket like a runaway car on down
grade. To the careful observer Of Ioll-
tics there seemed future for the jr.di-
vdual but not for the allied forces OF
reform in Nebraska. Populism was
showing mighty symptoms of falling out
! with democracy, and could hardly be
said to be on very good terms with
itself. In the language of Hon. Church
Howe, as applied to the republican ,eIty
seventeen years ago, the ship leaked.
| Eager detected it in the dwindling circu-
| Iatien Of his newspaper and Tibbles read
! il in the election returns. The eyes OF
but one man were blinded, and he
| couldn't sec foot beyond the vote cast
for him for governor; 1t never once 0c-
| Cured to him that the personal unpopu-
| larity Of the man who ran against him
might have been O factor in securing to
| him what looked the next thing to a
| popular endorsement. "One more jump,
! said he Twill land me high and dry on
the perch where the victor sits" And
/ then he thought of the advantage that
| would accrue from the possession OF a
personal organ devoted to vigorous
elucidation and exploitation of the prin-
ciples and policies for which he conterd-
ed in the first battle Why not tho
Independent? Colonel Eager was APP
preached on the question, but like the
| shreWd business man that he is, the
thought of selling the plant had really
never occurred to him before. He didn't
| know where the money could be invested
with any hope of getting so much out of
it, and We. he hadn't the nerve to ask
for the plant what he knew it to be
And so these two men got along very
well,
And perhaps neither uttered lie,
But the truth is that Eager was eager
to sell,
And that Berge was as eager to ),Iy.
But the thing that he got for the sum
/ that he paid
Was pretty poor ticket to draw;
Az the fact that Berge lost wfls the
other man made
? Is set forth in an action at law.
And it isn't my purpose to praise or to
Or decide in a case of this kind,
But I hope that a jury will settle the
| same
So that neither will come out behind
And this is reminder of the limo
when J. S. Schuck sold the Fullerton
Telescope to Ed Spackman. Shuek
never appeared to work very hard, but
he managed to make comfortable liv-
ing out of the plant and it looked like
a pleasant inheritance for a man with
| a small family and no extravagant
habits but somehow Spacs never could
do much with the Telescope though his
editorials were as bright as anybody's.
Drumming UP advertising ard job work
was something he wouldn't do and
about all the fun he got out of it was
meeting the notes he gave in part pay
ment for it as fast as they came due
II he had sued Shuck for selling him
something that wasn't worth shueks-
but there is hypothetical proposition
that has no bearing upon the question
at issue. and we have no desire to COM
plicate matters