The Nebraska Independent

SENATOR TILLMAN

Those Associated Press liars are a torment to every editor who honestly desires to publish the news. Several articles in this paper which are grossly unfair to Senator Tillman were based upon the Liar's report in the daily papers. Just before going to press, the Congressional Record arrived, containing Senator Tillman's last speech. If a correct report had been sent out by the Associated Press, those articles would have never appeared. We find in Senator Tillman's speech phrases like this:

"Here is my friend the Senator from New York [Mr. Hill], whom I dearly love. [Laughter.] You know his slogan. His brag when he gets before an audience is, 'I am a democrat!' Whenever I am labeled as a populist, as newspapers have done and as the Congressional Directory even did, though fixed up by a democratic clerk, I say that populism, which, of course, is derived from the Latin word signifying the people, ought to be good enough for anybody. In other words, the people's party—having reference to those grand Democratic principles of the greatest good for the greatest number, the rule of the majority, local self-government, and the other cardinal principles which Jefferson and Jackson taught us—ought to be a party we all could join."

There are paragraphs in the speech from which populists would dissent, but the Associated Press liars sent out just as false and unfair a report of it as they did of Allen's encounter with Gear. Our Washington correspondent gives the true significance of the speech.