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Show true roi.icv. '1 he f '!i j .vin.r is from the plat -fo.-n of t;;e Nebr-ska iHtti' ocra'.ic c )!i.e.ition held in Omaha, Ai:j;et t lth.a.id has the true ring. Tic (.ilittMcr, (leiiniuieis t i ie l'rpiib-lic l'rpiib-lic M tnv i 1 us ii I s .1 m .re ih.:! one liwdrc-d and t.Vi:i:iy !;y in iltoii iicies of Ii - ji.ml e .! r,i on 1 1 railroad corpoi-ati corpoi-ati i.i., an i s-n.i gieciin t j Allen l T 1 iinuii and his piifv'.ic associate u ij redeemed 71. '. ioo i-i n-s t.t it f 11 p.iple-. and d'.-i.i ors' ta n tli(r jjilhl c iloiii on rflinuld be s.i-fied' held I A lll .lein.ii ieiiicr and i tt uri 1 1 cm-z.-ms, 411,1 ii:, p oiv pit ti-s:.- );a.lisi .ll.f?0 I. md- '.luKI'll In till Ihlltpd S.otrS. Ti' L d hill deiioui eet, n lii.t-nil pe aioii ,-o c . c d e t l.ir,.ind ihe A.istiai mil bailiX SKteiii liuuici'; tiuils .iie l ' iionueed, ar. i tlm t-lcc'nm o! United ' Stales S.m.-t jri !v Ihe oniie fiv.ifeil, ' 1! es not belie1, a in uiofti uj.oii the nec-essaiiesuf nec-essaiiesuf llf;dic'!.ire tor me tree cum-. ' ae uf silver, and f.ivors biyli license! raid local option ! If these sentiments were endorsed, 1 and generally adopted it would ave ! cndlcsn complications, and defy j ,s dangers hourly encountered by:' more qnestiorable, and If si honor-; able and direct in echo J. i Already 1 10 niii;h'of tin: public, "domain has been 1 onsum-.l bv the ,' .big railroad n mopolte. l'nis is! "" bringing a!-:tt a siat.-oi' a.f airs, that : inite.li of Aiii.-rirfi, bvin the I proud p.ii't'H)rs of the s:il their! lather's conferred upon them as a j pr,Cv'!esi herita--, b oaht by toili, aid precious blood, tiuy are becom-! , in.; the servants ot the rich, and1, often foreign au'o.trats, lea ir.g what they shottl 1 own, giving in rents j. tribute, to gjve.-nu'Ctit-made mo,-;-;J ers, woritinit nt tl.cir lives in ihoirj service. I This coi iiiion of thin.-a 11 eans i ' death to America:'! in.-.titi.tions, and the p.'rpchutic r. of. Am.'iican me tho Is. While th.'ie companies and rings are ostensibly American, there are many aliens, men who have no interest in this country save io suck the life blood from her heart, and harness her sons to labor that they may live in magnificence in a foreign land are s'ock holders, heavy-owners, heavy-owners, and almost invaribly the j 'jjower behind the throne. f They have no me for America ' nor Americans onlv a.t tliey sttrvj . their selfish ends, and there are too many Judasas among our saloons pol iticians and business wen who are willing to sell the best interest of their country' and countrymen, for ' 1 i t liT'i if-ff- That the people should elect their -aibleit nun far ti sponsible positions yino will gainsay, but to elect a I m ir.'jrely for the brilliancy of his ifr"'"- ability or acquired talent, f without any cjaiieruti.t as to his S honor, and tru.U-worthiniss, is to ' fdace great power in bis hands for d ling evil, without bonds. j It is about time, too, that we discard dis-card the semi-monarchial way we i bavi a looted of electing by proxy, 1 or what is know,) as the electoral ! vote,' arid return to American principles prin-ciples and methods. To protfe the preterit system a perversion per-version of those principles, we have but to refer to the presidential election elec-tion between Hayes and Tilden, and later, th Cleveland and Harrison cc ntcst. In each of these cases the man who received the popular pop-ular vote, was ousted 0:1 the electoral elec-toral vote. In each of these cases, the m nor ty ru'ed the majority, the man who was the favorite of the people was relegated to private life by a sslfish and tin-a neriean minor-.ity, minor-.ity, and the people were defrauded of their birthright. High tariff may aUo be counted among the abuses which power inflicts in-flicts on the people, and the frte coinage of silver will affect none adversely accept tho money sharks, men who have fed S3 long on the la-br la-br of tluir fellows, and grown so fat, that a change for them can hardly bs considered an injury to them. The Nebraska Democrats have struck it about right. |