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t v'" m? Governor Orounso will go out 01
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ho was when ho camo in, or rather
than ho was during the first six
months of his administration.
Many persons were prejudiced
acainst Crounso from tho first and
his official acts during the first few months of his encumbency only
added to tho disfavor with which, in certain quarters, ho was regard
ed. The governor was certainly unfortunate in the early part of his
term, and at one time the feeling against him, particularly in Lan
caster county, was very bitter.
The events following the collapse of the Capital National Bank
placed him in rather strained relations with other state officials, and
the friends of these gentlemen did not hesitate to say that his treat
ment of them was not always marked by that consideration which
one state officer should show to another. Thero were several little
conflicts at about thiB time and without going into tho merits cf
these differences, it may be stated that the coldness existing between
the governor and the other state officers assumed at times a frigid
intensity.
Governor Crounse's course in retaining Garneau as world's fair
commissioner was particularly obnoxious to the loyal and patriotic
people, of the state who felt and have since been convinced that a
different policy, easily in the reach of the executive, might have
made the Nebraska representation at tho fair an object of genuine
pride instead of the picturesuo monstrosity that it really was, an
eye-sore to all Nebraskans and an object of scorn to tho people of
the country. To be sure Governor Crounso's retention of Garneau
for family reasons allowed that gay and polished gentleman tho ex
quisite pleasure of dancing,0 the wheedling music that camo from
the perfumed lips of Lillian isnssell then in Chicago and of floating
with tho fair cantatrice on tho sfctue sea of Champagne and of pay
ing divers and sundry kinds of spectacular homage to the songster
of many husbands, who at that time was about to be wed to Signor
Ferugini and who celebrated tho anti-nuptial season with that
prince of good fellows, Joseph Garneau, who was supposed to be
representing Nebraska. Eut all this however pleasing it may have
been to Mr. Garneau or amusing to Miss Russell was not especially
gratifying to the people of this state and it was inevitable that the
Garneau fiasco should bring discredit on Governor Crounso's admin
istration. Another source of dissatisfaction was tho policy pursued by tho
governor in his appointments. His appointment of Hilton of Blair
was regarded as an insult to tho people of tho state, and tho digging
up of a lot of fossiled, early day politicians, who had some how or
other made an impression on Crounse in the sixties or seventies, and
the appointment of these persons in large numbers to important
offices to the exclusion of many deserving and more modern republi
cans, was productive of much discord. Lancaster county in the
early part of his term seemed to be particularly abhorrent to the
governor. The fact that an applicant for gubernatorial appoint
ment was from this county seemed to take him out of the race even
before he had started.
There were other objections to Governor Crounse. Ho was quite
generally regarded as a cold selfish man. Affability is certainly not
his forte and repuDlicans who had been wont to visit tho governor's
office suddenly found the warmth and welcome that had always
been found there under the administration of Crounso's predecessors
were noticeably lacking and many visitors to the state house forgot
to call at the executive office.
But latterly thore hus been a change Tho governor is probably
tho same, but tho pcoplo havo learned to know him butter and un
derstand his real worth as a public officer. Tho tide of public sen
timent began insensibly to turn about a year ago and last Juno
when tho governor suddenly roso up and administered a stinging
and woll deserved rebuke to tho socialist Herron who at the com
mencement exercises or tho University of Nebraska, spread his
calumnies peforo tho students and tho public, thero was a great
impetus in tho current. Tho governor has undoubtedly mado mis
takes, but no one has over at any time impeached his integrity. Ho
has from tho first taken tho office soriously and has exercised a closo
supervision over all iho affairs of tho stato. Ho
has caused reforms to bo instituted, and with tho
assistance of other stato officers has exacted tho strictest economy
in tho expenditure of tho public monoy. Ho has been a dignified,
manly, bravo officer and ho has not hesitated to lift his voice to up
hold the credit and fair famo of Nebraska as an opportunity pre
sented itself. His expressions on the occassbn of a request for tho
appointment of delegates from Nebraska to tho scssionint or "south
and west" convention at St. Louis and other much silimar occasions
are well remembered. They camo at a timo when tho fool governors
Waite and Lewelling and Pennoyer wore blasting tho reputation of
the west by their mandlin utterances, and they attoned in a meas
ure for the' Garneau incident. Crounso is a loyal supporter of re
publican principles, and advocate of law and order, a fearless inde
pendent conscientious man. All things considered his record is en
titled to the highest commendation and it is now quite generally
admitted that he is one of the best governors this stato has ever had.
He lacks that peculiar quality that brings popularity, but ho has by
his performance of his public duties commanded the respect of tho
people, and his departure from official life is a source of sincere
regret. It may bo remarked in passing that tho logic of events
pointed to Crounso as tho one man to be placed at the head of tho
republican state ticket in the late campaign, and it is needless to
say if Crounse had been renominated Nebraska and the republican
party would have been saved the humiliation involved in tho elec
tion of Holcomb.
WHAT AlbED THE SPEECH.
At the closo of ono of the sessions in the trial of Warren Hastings,
when most of those had gathered in the anteroom, Dr. Parr stalked
up and down the room in his pedantic, pompous way, growling out
praises of the speeches of Fox and Sheridan, but Baying not a word
about Burko's.
Burke, sensitive at this omission and anxious for some commonda
tion from tho great authority, could at last contain himself no long
er and burst out:
"Doctor, didn't you like my speech?"
"No, Edmund' replied Dr. Parr, calmly eyeing his excited ques
tioner. "Your speech was oppressed with metaphor, dislocated by
parenthesis and debilitated by amplification."
NOT A BIT RATTLED.
We went into a popular German beer garden, and my friend, who
grows melodramatic when he is mellow, beckoned to a sleepy-looking
German waiter, and with Shakespearean voice and gesture, ex
claimed: "Landlord, come thither! Bring to us two flagons of that amber
juico whose effervescent foam ovcrilows the crystal rim, Away !
The sleepy waiter stared an fnstant, then, turning to me, inquired:
"You haf de samo?"
SHE WAS.
"I think Miss Smith and Mr. Jones must bo engaged; they have
had their portraits taken together."
"Indeed? I am glad to to hear it. I knew when I introduced
them that she would bo taken with him."
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