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Show ter. The trouble with the independent farmer and the honest laborer is that both have been made tools ot to a large extent by party newspapers and party politicians, anxious to win their votes in return for telling them they are great people. When they begin forming a party of their own they would better avoid that sort of thing themselves. They would better win by merit than fail by cajolery to which they are not accustomed, or by force, to which the other fellow Is not accustomed. In short, the Nebraska coalition is making an ass of itself one of the sort which acts as reception committee instead of promulgators of a kick. THE HOVCOTT IN roLlTICS. The telegraph stated a few days ago that the independent party of Nobraska had adopted a platform declaring that It would refuse collectively or as Indi-viduals.to Indi-viduals.to purchase a newspaper which should publish anything against the candidates put up by their organization. organiza-tion. Further than this, the members were pledged, accordiug to the dispatches, dis-patches, .to boycott merchants who, intensified in-tensified by the awful actiou of the party, should persist in readiug or advertising ad-vertising in any uch paper. This seemed to be such a horrible rape on politics, that to The Times it appeared impossible that sane men should promulgate pro-mulgate such a platform, so nothing was said until Tull advices came from the battlefield of the convention. It is well that the faith of this paper iu the good Jscnse of Nebraska farmers and knights of labor, of whom the Independent Indepen-dent party is formed, moved it to delay in protesting against such evident bigotry, big-otry, for it now appears that no such plank was inserted in the platform. However, the possibility Induced a line of thought, which Is as earnest as it may be unwelcome to other farmers aud laborers who mistake bigotry for independence; asiuinity for wisdom; intolerant conspiracy for politics. From away back tho farmer has been considered con-sidered as a sort of sacred personage. The old school readers used to tell what a great fellow he is, and how much we all depend on him, and it is probablo that thero was never a boy born in tho past coutury who did not determine at one time or other to be an independent tiller of the soil and loll around under the trees and cat fruit and watch tho hired man. The laborer has occupied a high place, too. An honest laborer today Is a mile aud a half a better man than a dishonest king. Hut tho independent farmer and the houcst laborer must not permit their heads to become swollen. They are no more independent and no more honest than other independent uud honest people. The farmer has no more rights than the green-grocer, and the laborer isn't a whit better than the bank teller, and the sooner both learn this the bet- |