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Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Apbil 21, 1891.
City elections ought to come ottener bo that we could vote more
bonds.
Tom Reed and protection hare both been vindicated most effec
tively by the democratic congress.
Recent rains in Nebraska have benefitted the wheat crop and
strengthened the republican party.
It begins to look as though the United States was too small a
place for the proposed Corbett-Jackson fight.
Congressman Bbyan will next Wednesday carry his wail of cheap
money to Boston. Mr. Bryan will soon have wailed all over the
country..
The republican nominee for congress in the First district ought
to be a Lancaster county man. Whether the candidate will be
selected from this county rests entirely with the republicans in this
city.
Pkobably very few people care whether Madeleine Pollard ever
actually secures one dollar of damages; but there would have been a
pretest from Maine to California if the jury had returned a verdict
for Cononel Breckenridge. As it is there is general satisfaction.
Mayor Weir wisely decided not to give the pernicious nickel-in-the-sk)t
machines until the first of May to leave town; but insisted
on their immediate and unconditional surrender. It gives The
Courier pleasure to assure His Honor that in exterminating these
machines he has our unqualified approval. We are sorry that we
cannot more often convey to the mayor the same comforting assurance.
Is there going to be a systematic effort this Bpring to promote
the business interests of the city of Lincoln? If any such move
ment is contemplated the initiatory should not be longer delayed.
Nearly every business man in Lincoln is in favor of taking some
steps looking to the development of the city, but no one seems will
ing to head the movement. A commercial club such as is success
fully conducted in Omaha could be readily formed, and it could be
made to bring valuable results. Will Lincoln wake up and do
something, or will it continue its unremitting sleep?
The republican party in Nebraska is being organized this year as
it has never been organised before, and preparations are being made
for a particularly, aggressive campaign. In the state campaigns of
90 and 92 the central committee and the working element of the
party generally neglected the legislative ticket, as we have fre
quently pointed out, with the result that the last two legislatures
were composed for the larger part of men who would be all right in
Coxey's army, but who were shambling specimens of incompetence
and depravity in the legislature. This year the importance of send
ing republicans and men of intelligence to the legislature instead of
populists of varying idiocy, and democrats of fusionist tendencies, is
generally recognized, and, even at this early day, it seems to be top .
reasonably certain that the next legislature will be republican. A -conservative
estimate of the political complexion of the next session,
based on the vote cast for the state ticket last November, would
give the republicans a majority of 20 on joint ballot A republican
majority in the legislature would be of inestimable benefit to the
state. It would mean a sudden cessation of the follies and fallacies
that during the last two sessions held high carnival in the -tate
capitol and drew ridicule and condemnation upon Nebraska; and.it
would mean that the successor to Senator Manderson would be a"
republican a man who would vindicate at Washington and before
the people of the United States the intelligence, honesty and patriot
ism of the people of this state which have been clouded by the dis
reputable misrepresentation of Allen and McKeighan and Kem.
Truth emphasizes the "necessity for competitive examination ot
candidates for governors of the western states,' and remarks:
'There need not be a particularly high standard. An ordinary,
school education, and the opinion of one or two sensible coal heav
ers or cartmen, as to the common sense possessed by the candidate,
would be sufficient. The line of governors which we are turning out in
the United States at the present time are entirely and unequivocally
new. Nobody even supposed that such extraordinary results of a
later-day civilization existed. When the governor of Colorado got
through riding in blood up to his saddle girths, following, as he did, t
a long line of similarly preposterous performances in threats and
hyperbole, the country thought that the limit had been reached,
but apparently, there is still a few of them left. Governor Waite
of Colorado has given the public another exhibition of idiocy in his
attitude toward Kelley's army and other Coxeyites in the west;
Waite and the governors of two or three other western states
continue to invite the ridicule of sensible people everywhere.
Truth' a suggestion if carried out would produce beneficial results in
Kansas and Colorado and Oregon. We have before remarked that
Governor Crounse of this state has not been effected by the guber
national mania that is running loose in this part of the country, and
confident that the people of this state are getting more and more
sensible every day, we can assure Truth that Nebraska, happily,
does not require its proposed test of eligibility. In Nebraska we
send our Waites to the legislature and to congress; there's a time
coming when we won't put them in any office when we will keep
them muzzled and in the ranks of private life.
This country, since its establishment as a free and independent
nation in 1776, has passed through a diversity of experiences. We
have had wars and assassinations, and epidemics and financial
panics; but the tendency has been steadily upward. All of these
things are the necessary concomitants of a national existence and
they are but a repetition of history. Under wise and patriotic
guidance the country surmounted every difficulty, and emerged from
wars and depressions with increased vitality and enthusiasm. But
now in this year of our Lord, 1891, there is something new under
the sun. Coxey's armies are abroad in the land, and in the place of
armed men that have marched to the tune of patriotism to meet
foreign and native foes, there are armies of vagabonds marching to
Washington to demand bread; and the tune that fills the air is the
tune of universal discontent. It has remained for the democratic
party to attain the distinction of destroying national prosperity and
inviting the formation of the devastating armies of tramps and
idlers. In all the years of the government of the United States
there never was a Coxey army until the "reforming policy" of the
democratic party settled down like a pall upon the country, and put
out the fires in mill and shop, and stilled the music of a million
spindles, and hushed everywhere the din of industry, and trans
formed an immense army of industrious, happy people, into idlers
and anarchists. The democratic party cannot escape the.responsibi
lity for the distress that dates almost from the day of its return to
power. Its menacing attitude toward the principle that has devel
oped the nation and ennobled labor, stopped the wheels of prosperity,
opened the gates of misfortune and cleared the way for Coxey's
army and epidemic outlawry.
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