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10 THE COURIER m V4 c "5C3 ENTERED AT THE LINCOLN T08TOFFICE A8 SECOND-CLASS MATTER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY. OFFICE 142 N. IIth 8TBEET. TELEPHONE 350. W. MORTON 8MITH, Editor. feultiicrlptlon 1 tale In Advance. Per annum $200 I Threo months 50c. Six months 100 OnomontU 20c. Singlo copies Five cents. For sale at all nows stands in this city and Omaha and on all trains. A limited number of advertisements will bo inserted. Rates made known on application. Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, May 12, 1894. It followed as a perfectly natural sequence that a mayor of par ticularly effusive "reform' proclivities should veto, with unseemly haste, the ordinance that proposed to show some consideration to the public in tho matter of telephone service. It is apparent that the sentiment among the republicans of Lan caster county is overwhelmingly in favor of Allen W. Field as a can didate for congress. The announcement of his candidacy has drawn expressions of enthusiastic approval from all sides, and from the ex pressions in various parts of the district it Beems, even at this early day , that Field will be nominated with ease. Colonel Breckenridge, or as one contemporary derisively calls him, "the Breckenridge," in his spectacular campaign in Kentucky has failed to give one good reason why he should be returned to con grew, and he has made it additionally clear to those persons who may have been in doubt, that he is most unfit for the high office he now fills. A man who, posing as a gentleman and a Christain, de liberately sinks to the lowest plane of immorality and vice, dishonoring the noble name he bears, disgracing his family, and outraging propriety and decency in a secret career of pollution; who by his own word of mouth stands condemned as a brute, devoid of conscience and honor in private life, is not a proper person to occupy a seat in congress and assist in the governing of the country. Better men for public service than those who are brutes and lepers in private life can be found, and it will be a harsh commentary on the intelligence and honor of the people of the Ashland district if they send, back to Washington this gray haired scoundrel who, in his public address, seems to gloat over his sin. It is an unparalleled act of audacity and insolence that this confessed and condemned venerable reprobate should ask a renomination. Whatever consid eration may have been felt for Colonel Breckenridge is destroyed by his latest exhibition of colossal effrontery. It is a good thing when a man is a candidate to say so. A week ago The Courier had the honor of making the first authoritative announcement that Hon. Allen W. Field is a candidate for re-nomination for congress. Today Courier readers are informed just as definitely that Bon. I. M. Raymond, of this city, is a candidate for governor. The announcement of Field's candidacy has been fol lowed by a decided movement toward Field in the several counties of the district, and we believe there will be the same approval of Lancaster's candidate for governor. Mr. Raymond as a republican, as a business man, and as a citizen, is a man for whom no apologies are necessary. His record his clear and his name commands respect with all classes of voters. In executive and managerial ability he has no superior in the.state; he is particularly well adapted for the discharge of the important duties incumbent upon the governor of Nebraska. Mr. Raymond's views are sound. Ho could be depende upon to uphold tho credit and dignity of Nebraska in tho executive office; ho would, wo beliovb, make one of the best governors the state has had in a great many years. His stability commends him to tho very Iar'o class that likes to see a man elevated in political life who is something more than a more politician, while his republicanism is of tho sort that is in demand just now. Mr. Raymond ought to receive the enthusiastic support of Lancaster county, and the state convention, should it place Mr. Raymond at the head of the state ticket, would bo according appropriate recognition to a distinguished Nebraskan,one who would.be elected with, ease. Students of tho University of Nebraska have be,en much agitated during the past ten days over tho more or less sensational disclosures involving two of their number in a dishonorable transaction. As is usual under such circumstances there was a great deal of excite ment, and the students have exhibited, more impetuously it may be, about the same Bpirit that would be displayed under like conditions by older men. They have, perhaps, jumped at conclusions in much the same manner that men of maturer ago decide important ques tions, and acting under the impulse of the moment, under exciting conditions, they may have been cruelly harsh or unjust, just as men often are who start out to right a wrong by passing a resolution or hanging a man to a tree. If men are only boys grown tall, boys are only miniature men. There has been nothing in the proceedings at the university in the last few days, sensational though they may have been, that might not have taken place among men of greater years. Thero isn't so much difference between young men and old men. Indeed, in the present instance, those persons who are dis posed to criticise the students for their excitability may include tho faculty as well, for the faculty exhibited quite as much perturbation as the students. That young McMullen did wrong no one will deny. It is not an honorablo thing to seek to buy an oration whether one intends to deliver it as one's own, or whether one intends it for a friend for a similar discreditable purpose. But the oration whose purchase was attempted never was delivered, and McMullen's bitterest antagonists scarcely contend that the oration which he delivered and which won him first place in the state contest was not his cwn. To publicly brand this young man, whose character in all other respects seems to have been good, as an object of contempt, by the passage and publication of resolutions conspicuously cruel in their construction, is to put a stigma on his name that it will take years to efface. McMullen's fellow students and the faculty have, in effect, put a black mark on his forehead and tied his hands behind him and turned him adrift. There is grave reason to doubt whether his offense deserved such a punishment. We do not wish to be under -tood, in any sense, as excusing Mc Mnllen, but we cannot hojp remarking that there are many fine distinctions 'of honor in the field in wherein McMullen offended and was so promptly and effectively punished. How many of the stu dents who proclaimed against McViullen with so much force and eloquence, voicing lofty and noble sentiments, were free from the offense of "ponying" at examinations and other like deceptions? And wherein !b the difference, save in the magnitude of the trans action, between passing an examination with dishonest assistance, ' and-winning an oratorical contest with an oration that may not be wholly original? And in this case, it should be remembered that McMullen did not buy; he only made advances. The oration he actually delivered was, it seems to be pretty clearly established, his own. A little mora of consideration for the weaknesses that afflict us all, a little more of mercy and a little less of high handed and over hast so-called justice might have made it possible to meet the emergency equitably without so disastrous a punishment for the offender. The faculty might have taken cognizance of the matter at tho outset and by proper action have disposed of the whole ques tion in a less sensational manner. Considering only the general effect, the course adopted will, no doubt, prove very beneficial as a preventative in the future. AMBIGUOUS. He Wasn't that an absurd rumor they,started, that I was losing my mind? She Well, I should say so. Our entire line of best imported Mulls at 25 cents per yard, price 35 and 40 cents. Herpolsheimer'd; Co. n