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issue of great and far reaching im
portance. We are coming to be more
and more a people governed by our
courts. The courts are the bul
warks of our liberties as well as the
harbor to which special privilege
flees in every storm, and the Instru
mentalities through which it asserts,
with growing arrogance, its power
to defy .the people's legislatures and
the people's executives. There never
was a time when the necessity for
keeping courts, invested With or as
serting extraordinary powers, on a
plane above suspicion of .reproach,
presented itself more forcibly than
it does now.
We urge the people of this com
monwealth to take this question
home with them. We urge upon
them that the issue in this state
election is one, not of party or plat
form, but of men.
We urge all Nebraskans in voting
for supreme judges and for regents
to lay aside party prejudice and
ties. We hope no democrat will
vote for a. candidate for either of
these offices merely because the can-
option and reiterato the position of
our party as taken on this question
in the campaign of 1908.
The Nebraska supremo court as
now composed is almost solidly re
publican and the people's party of
the state would commend to the
voters bur nominees on the stato
ticket, in order that the court may
be divided more equally, and that
.decisions of that body may be di
vided more equally, and that deci
sions of that body may be received
with more favor and confidence by
the taxpayers and voters generally.
NEBRASKA
PLAT-
REPUBLICAN
FORM
Concerning the platform adopted
by tho Nebraska republicans at Lin
coln, July 27, the Lincoln corre
spondent for the Omaha World
Herald says:
With a convention hopelessly at
sea on th6 tariff question, the repub
licans of Nebraska adopted a plat
form containing a strictly stand-pat
plank oh this question. In length
it is tho briefest portion of the, plat-
judges have known neither political
favoritism nor political partisanship,
but have fearlessly and impartially
declared tho law and hold tho scales
of justice oven between rich and
poor, high and low, republican, dem
ocratic, populists, prohibitionists and
socialists alike. Wo denounce tho
eleventh hour protenso of dovotlon to
the idea' of non-partisanship for throe
months and ruthlessly legislating re
publicans out of office by tho whole
sale in order to make room for dem
ocratic office seekers. If tho passing
of their so-called non-partisan judi
ciary act was Intended to charge by
lnunendo that republican judges are
not to bo trusted to perform their
official duties without political bias,
according to their oathB of lice, we
resent tho imputation. 1 ill be-
didate is a democrat, and that no form and In subject matter It is so
reniih!en.n will vote for such a can- framed as 'to be of service whichever
didate because he is a republican.
We urge e,ach and every voter of
all parties to vote for the man when
he gdes. to the ballot box this fall,
and not for the party label.
Resolved, The,t we urge the demo
cratic members of congress; and
those from Nebraska especially, to
use their, best efforts to , secure as
Bp6edy a completion as possible of
tlje.. government ditch project now
but-partly completed 'in western Ne
braska, assuring those settlers who
Have homesteader! lahds under said
project that the government, will
keep go'Qd faith with them,! and that
flight: "soohi .
'. ..
NEBRASKA POPULIST PLATFORM
to At; thb .Nebraska; populist conven
tion,, held at Lincoln; ' July 27, the
following platform was adopted:
We, the representatives of the peo-
pie's independent party in state con
vention assembled, adopt the follow
ing resolutions as expressing the
principles of our party and invite
the consideration of the, voters.
' ;We favor a non-partisan judiciary
and educational election Jaw and re
gret that our fupreme t court found
it necessary to annul the1 law of the
recent legislature loQK-ing to that
end. And further we condemn the
republican state organization for its
over-zealous manner in .instituting a
suit for the overthrow of this law,
so generally demanded by the people.
We believe the people have a right
to rule by majorities and demand a
constitutional amendment permitting
the direct legislation by the people,
national, state and municipal,
known as the initiative and referendum.
We commend the recent legisla
ture for the enactment of the law
known as the depositors' guaranty
law; the action of' those who by a
trick of law have placed the Nebras
ka statute in the federal conrt with
out giving the state courts an oppor
tunity of first passing on this purely
dbmestic matter is to be condemned.
It is with feelings, of pride that
jwe call attention, of the public .to
the following beneficial- laws or tne
'recent legislature:, The" law permit
ting a direct vote on United States
senators; the physical valuation of
railroads; the daylight; saloon law
and the many other acts which were
passed by the vote oft a fusion .ma
jority in house and senate.
We commend Governor Shallen
b'erger for the -aithful discharge of
the duties of his office; also the atti
tude of those representatives 'in con
gress who have stood 'with the inter
ests or tne west in vne reiucuun ui
comes tho democrats to prato about
a non-partisan judiciary when tho
record shows, that when they had
elected two of tho supremo judges
a few years ago, thoy left no stono
unturned to elect tho third and mako
tho court consist wholly of tholr own
partisan judges.
What is hero said with roferenco
to tho administration of the courts
applies likewise to tho admlnistra-j
tion of tho stato university. Thfq
noble institution has grown and
prospered under tho efficient man;
agoment of regents elected as repub
licans frco from tho Intrusion of po?
litical partisanship or tho applica
tion of political contests In sharp
contrast with tho time when under
a fusion board whoso management
was notoriously partisan.
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way tho cat happens to jump.
It is a plank which is taken by
the friends of Senator Burkett to
bo a satisfactory indorsement and by
his enemies to be a studied slight.
It is a plank which neither takes a
stand on any particular schedule nor
upon any phase of the bill in its va
ried' and multiform transformations.
It is a plank which gives' the presi
dent the privilege of either signing
or vetoing the bill, as he pleases,
and pledges the party to be satisfied
with it in any event. t '
The -platform takes up a type
written age to explain "how last
year's republican defeat is really- a
victory; arid then takes up the tariff
question in the following 'latfguagel
We approve, commend and unqual
ifiedly indorse the stand taken by,
President Taft in the matter of tariff
revision. We aTe counting on him
to see to it that the party's platform
promise of revision is redeemed by
the enactment of a tariff bill accept
able to the people and we would
approve the exercise of his veto on
any bill that does not conform to
his construction of the platform
pledge, which he has said means "re
vision downward within the limits
of the protective principle.'' We
look to our senators and representa
tives iii congress to sustain the presi
dent in this position, and we com
mend them for their efforts In sup
port of the party's pledges and the
president's policies.
We approve and indorse the Brown
resolutions adopted by congress sub
mitting to the several states for their
action a proposed constitutional
amendment empowering the federal
government to levy and collect taxes
on incomes.
A paragraph is devoted to a re
cital of what are insisted upon as the
copy-righted achievements of the re
publican party, most of these being
laws of the 1907 session of the legis-l
lature, from which is omitted tho
primary" law entirely. The respects
of the convention are paid to the
1909 session as follows: '
"We commend the consistent
course 'pursued by the republican
minority ' in the last legislature in
resisting .with energy and ability the
unwise and 'unconstitutional 'meas
ures of the democratic majority."
A-strpng effort was made on the
part of the bank guaranty adherents
to have this coupiea up witn an. en-
dorsement of the guaranty law, but
the banker members of this conven
tion, as of the last, won out. The
following denunciation of the non
partisan judiciary law is made: .
We pbint with pride to the records
tvi" hiiAfraa who for manv vears
I have been elevated to tie bench in
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