Willmar tribune., 1908-08-05
HlSGEN AND GRAVES NAMED
BY INDEPENDENCE PARTY
Ticket Put Up and Platform Adopted
by Convention in Chicago--kansan
Nearly Mobbed for Present.
ing Bryan's Name.

trusts and monopolies, the representa-.
tives in public life of those giant cor:
porations which have superseded the
people in this republic as the source
of power and the seat of authority.
Bryan Has Falstaff's Army.
"The Democratic vanguard is a Fal::
staff's army. It is led by a knight ar:
rayed in motley of modified profes-
sions and compromised principles of
altered opinions and retracted state
ments. It is :oficered by such soldiers
of fortune as Sullivan and Hopkins,
and Murphy and Mcclellan, by Tom
Taggart, the roulette gambler: and
Tom Ryan, the Wall street gambler;
and Belmont, the race-track gambler.
1t is composed Of such political mer-
cenaries as Bailey of the Standard Oil
and Williams of the Southern railway,
and Hinky Dink, and Bathhouse John,
and Red Duffy, and Nigger Mike-all
harmonized at last and all marching
together in q rhythmic cadence strong
ly suggestive of the lockstep. A Fal-
sta1f's army, whose banner bears on
one side watchword for the people
and on the other password for the
trusts, whose only object is Office at
any cost, whose motto, After Us the
Deluge.'
Known by His Company.
Assuming that Mr.. Bryan himself
is all that his most ardent admirers
claim him to be, great lawyer, an
enlightened statesman, an inspired
patriot, still a man is known by the
company he keeps, and no decent
Democrat can tolerate his free com
panions. No honest citizen can let
down the bars of Office to such an Ali
Baba's band of boodlers and braves.
No prudent citizen will support
combination to which Taggart SUP.
plies a candidate and Parker a plat
form, for which Ryan will pay the
freight and the people will pay the
penalty.
mo man can serve two masters and
no man can conciliate the conflicting
elements of the Democratic party. He
who tries must serve one and deceive
the other-must make public pretense
to the people and private compact with
the trusts"
Platform Of New Party.
The committee on resolutions had a
lively debate over the currency plank
several members threatening to re-
turn to the Republican party. The
plank as adopted demands the crea7
ton of central governmental bank
through which the currency shall pass
to the people.
Other planks favor the recall, initial
tive and referendum, direct nominal
tions and legislation against corrupt
practices at elections. The platforms
condemns the arbitrary use of the
writ of injunction and contempt pro-
ceedings and demands various laws
for the benefit of the laboring classes.
Revision of the tariff by "the friends
of the people" is demanded, as is
adequate legislation to prevent rebat-
ing and other offenses by railways,
and against illegal trusts. Yet other
planks favor exclusion of Asiatic labor,
the parcels post and postal savings
bank, an adequate navy, and speedy
improvement of the inland waterways.
Aisgen Rich Oil Man.
Thomas L. Hisgen, candidate of the
independence party for president of
the United States, was born of Ger
man parentage November 26, 1858, at
Petersburg, Ind. He received a com.
mon school education, and then be-
gan work In a country store. Later
he engaged in small way in the oil
business at Albany, N. Y. He was
successful, and in few years became
president Of the Four Brothers Oil
company.
Through his connection with the oil
business Mr.. Hisgen came into person
al contact with the Rockefeller cor
poration. He was one of the principal
witnesses for the government in the
suit which is still pending to disorgan-
ize the Standard Oil company. Mr..
Hisgen's company is said at one time
to have been offered 100000 for it's
by the Rockefeller concern.
The offer was declined. =
Mr.. Hisgen's home is at Springfield,
Mass. In 1907 he was the Independ-
ence candidate for governor of the
Bay state and received more votes
than the Democratic candidate, his
total being $4,000.
Graves a Journalist.
John Temple Graves, the vice-presi.
dental candidate, is from the south.
though for some time he has been en-.
gagged as an editorial writer for the
Hearst newspapers. He first attracted
attention to himself by openly adyocat.
ing 1ynching for certain crimes at
Chautauqua meeting in Atlanta. Ga.
He went to Atlanta in 1887 and
the Atlanta Journal.
Prince Of Wales Departs.
Quebec, Can.-Tuesday was the last