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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
for President:
1IKN J AMIN HARRISON,
of Indium:.
For Vice-President:
WIUTELAW REID,
or New York.
For Presidential Elector*:
W. .1. RIIOATCH. DiiukIun, i a,
I. M. RAYMOND, Luneuster. I Al
ISAAC WILES. Can*, Hrst District.
E. I1. SAVAtlE. Douirlns. Second.
II. A. MILLEK, Cedar, Third.
CKNEK Oil HASS. Saline, Fourth.
O. M. NETTLKTON. Clay, Fifth.
CHAM. JOHNSON. Meott* Bliilf, Sixth.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor:
L0REN/.0 COOUNME, of WushlnKUm.
For Lieutenant-Governor:
JT U. TATE, of Adam*.
For Hoerotary of State:
JOHN C. ALLEN, of Hed Willow.
For State Auditor:
KHOHNE MOOUE. of Madison.
For Btato Treasurer:
,T. S. 11A UTLEY’, Of Holt.
For Attorney-General:
GEO. II. HASTINGS,of Saline
For Commissioner of Public Lands:
A. H. HUM PH HEY, or Ouster.
For Superintendent Public Instruction:
A. K, GOODY, of Webster.
CONGRESSIONAL.
For Congressman Sixth District:
JIM WHITEHEAD, of Custer.
SENATORIAL.
For Senator Thirteenth District:
W, D. MATHEWS, of Holt.
COUNTY TICKET.
For County Attorney:
L. C.CHAPMAN,
of Atkinson.
For County Representatives:
W. F. K1HELE, of Chamhors,
A. J. CLARK, of Inman.
Lincoln, Oct. 0, 1800.
To all members of tbe independent [
people's committees, and to the
voters of Nebraska:
It having become evident that Mr. |
Van Wyck lias turned squarely’
against the independent movement,
and is using bis influence to defeat I
the independent candidates, we rec-1
oinmend that he be not invited to nti- j
dress independent meetings nor given I
an opportunity to use bis unfriendly
Influence. Geo. W. Blake,
Cnin. State Central Com.
C. II. PlRTLK,
Sec. State Central Com.
Tom Golden is a democrat first, am
gallantly jumped into tbe breach of hi:
party.
Elder Coppoo was firmly dashed
aside by the Hand of the Great Idol I
Am-That-I-Am.
No party can be successfnl long
when it is owned and controlled by One
Man, even though bo considers Himself
an Idol.
Idols have been broken before now.
In fact one was shattered a trifle last
tall. Idolatry in America cannot be
come popular.
Tiik great Kem wag in town the other
day, but business continued right along
just the same. The sun continued to
shine and no tain fell.
It is reported that independents will
order Mullen's name printed on all
tickets for several years to come—a
standing order so to speak.
How an old soldier can enlist under
■ the independent banner is beyond our
comprehension. What excuse an old
soldier can have for leaving the republi
can party is another connundrum we
have never heard satisfactorily answered.
Thb O'Neill republican club had a
t meeting Friday night, and the unani
- mous sentiment was that it would be
!' business from now on. Young blood is
bound to enthuse, and that is what com
poses the club. The boys are ready for
the battle and are in shape to fight.
Thb editor of this page feels that he
has not done his full duty as an editor
for some weeks, mainly owing to
\ absense from the country. And as he
will necessarily be away from home a
good deal during the campaign he pro
poses to press his“Kid” partners into the
work somewhat, so that if anything
particularly good appears just give them
S the credit.
Thb Iowa democrats no doubt over
estimate their strength. Bjl electing
Boies twice through the aid of anti
prohibition votes, they expect now to
be able to carry their state for Cleve
land, and have refused coalition with
the third party. Republicans who
- sympathized with the famous Grant 306
will admire the pluck, if not the wisdom,
of the Iowa democrats.
~ At the republican senatorial conven
tion for the Thirteenth district W. D.
Mathews of the O’Neill Frontier re
ceived the nomination for state senator
on the first ballot. In response to calls
Mr. oMathews took the platform and
made a rousing speech which was loudly
applauded. Mr. Mathews has a host of
friends in the Elkhorn Valley whose
if; only regret is that they are not in the
district to cast their vote for him.—
Weat Point Republican.
What rnuBt Mullen tblnk of the
people? Is h« so egotistical as to think
the voters arc all chumps and that he is
the only Moses now in existence? It is
really laughable to watch Mullen's polit
ical maneuvers. While he appears to he
decidedly successful within his party it
looked as though there was just a little
too much unanimity the last time the
nlliance elans gathered. The sturdy
joss tramped his worshippers into the
mud, hut there were murmurings of dis
content distinguishable between the
shouts of "Mullen, Mullen, great is
Mullen!”
In point of ability and integrity the
republican nominee* for representatives
arc bead and shoulders above either the
independents or democrats. We ask
our readers to carefully consider Clark
and iKisele, compare them with Henry
and Smith or with VanVaulkenburg and
Doud, and you must conclude that the
interests of Holt county will be more
carefully looked after by them. The
independents have t^ien tried in stute
legislation, and nothing was accom
plished except the expenditure of wore
money thau usual, and with less to show
for it. The people of this new county
cannot afford to experiment further.
..
The New York World is raising a big
campaign fund for the use of the demo
crats in the western states. It virtually
says that the chances in New York are
not worth lighting for, and in tin west
the party has no show except with the
use of an enormous outlay of money,
hence it is passing the hat. Tne opinion
prevails at the national republican
headquarters that the scheme is mainly
to draw attention away from New York,
where a democratic still hunt is to be
made. There is a good chance however
for the democrats to get experience and
find out by trying it that the people of
thu west cannot be seduced into adopt
ing free trade or wild cat currency.
Tub State Journal says that Judge
Crounse will conduct n clean campaign
on square, honest issues. He will not
appeal to the ignorant prejudices of the
people, but to the reasoning intelli
gence. His election will mean not the
sanction of all kinds of doubtful legis
lative experiments, but a continuation
of thu sound, conservative business
policy which lias fostered the growth of
the state in the past, and built up here
In a quarter of a century a common
wealth that is the wonder and admir
ation of the nation. Thu election of I
the leader of the party of calamity
would set hack ten years the hands on
the dial of our progress as a state.
--
Tub report of the U. 8. senate com
mittee, supposed to be impartial and free
from political bias, based and founded
entirely on facts, and showing that the
McKinley tariff law works an advan
tage for the American laborer and wage
earner, is causing a heated discussion
among English free trade .newspapers,
who are asking each other in the light
of the facts of the report, if it is not a
mistake to nssumo that free trade would
operate more to the advantage of Amer
ican laborers and mechanics than the
protective tariff they now have. No
doubt it would be better for the English
manufacturer, but even the English,
some of them, are honest enough to
acknowledge in the light of events that
it would not be so well for Americans.
Tub candidates of the people's party,
with the exception of Honest Van Wyck
are men famous fot the amount of noise
they can make without saying anything
worth listening to, says the Fremont
Tribune. Honest Jerome Sharnp who
was nominated at Nebraska City the
other day, was a republican nntil about
eighteen months ago, and never distin
guished himself for anything but illiter
acy until he became a “populite.”
Honest W. A. Poynter’s sole claim to
undying fame is the fact that he was
hypnotized by Bill Paxton's cob pipe.
Honest O. M. Kem is such a well known
loo-loo among the loo-loos that nothing
need be said sf him. And Honest Bill
Heschl The only thing to which he
can be compared is the “fog horn on a
rock bound coast” so feelingly alluded
to by Longfellow. With so many honest
blowhards at large in the state the heart
of the oppressed farmer should experi
ence a feeling of confidence in the
future.
Secretary Foster made a statement
a few days ago that shows how the
government is the gainer by this process
of bond retirement. It is a plain,
simple, business proposition which cuts
every foot of ground from under the
“populists" charges. Mr. Foster shows
that the premium paid amounts to a
good deal less than the interest would if
paid on until maturity of the obligations.
Mr. Foster says: “As to the surplus
which Mr. Cleveland left in the treasury,
President Harrison hay retired during
his term $35!),000,000 of bonds at a cost
of $296,000,000. They would have cost
$351,000,000 at maturity and doing so he
has saved the government $55,000,000
besides reducing the interest charge j
$11,000,000. Mr. Cleveland in his whole I
fours years term purchased only $338,
000,000 bonds and paid the government
only $82,000,000 on the purchase. As to
the $54,000,000 fund for the redemption
of national bank notes that money was'
lying idle here until congress gave us
permission to put it in circulation where
it was needed."
I Siihadkii, the Independent nominee
for lieutenant governor, the man who
damned the constitution, and counselled
defiance of the courts, was talking to
three soldiers in Collaway recently and
noticing a grand army button on one of
them said: "My friend, don't you think
you have worn that long enough? Don't
you think you had better take it tff and
forget about the war? I fought for my
country and used to wear one of those
buttons too but 1 got ashamed of it and
took it o(T.” Now a gentleman up there
curious to know how much of a record
Mr. Shrader had, began an investigation
and found that he enlisted in 1863 a few
weeks before the war closed and never
got farther south than Chicago. The
gentleman who bunted up the record
exonerates Shrader from all the blame
for i being ashamed to wear a grand
army button and says he would likewise
be ashamed to wear one on such a
record as Sbradei's, but be does blame
him for insulting old soldiers who saw
service, by telling them to cast away the
insignia of patriotism which loyal men
and women delight to honor.—State
Journal.
The democrats of Holt county are
standing up to the rack this year, fod
der or noflodder. The few'fusionists
in the party were so emphatically gag
ged in the county convention that they
couldn't gurgle. The democrats two
years ago turned in and endorsed the
independent candidates for the legisla
ture at the behest of a few leaders, and
they had reason to expect the indepen
dents would return the compliment this
year by endorsing their nominees. But
the independents are not built that way.
With them it is whole hog or none,
and the democrats were not only not
thanked but were shamefully abused
and belittled. Their disregard of their
democratic allies commenced immedi
ately after election, and during the ses
sion of the legislature the Holt delega
tion was open in contempt for democ
racy, one of the members (who is for
the third successive year before the
people for office) going so far as to in
sult the democratic governor-elect by
refusing to listen to his inaugural ad
dress. Under the circumstances it is
not at all surprising that the s'tuation is
as it is. The democratic party has been
in existence a good many years, so has
the republican party, both have princi
ples at stake, and they will be in exist
ence long after this new party has been
forgotten. We do not pretend to say
that the old parties are without faults,
but we do sincerely think that needed
reforms can more easily be secured
through these old parties than by fol
lowing the leadership of a gang of men
like Weaver, Field, VanWyck. Vander
vort, Decb, et al., whose sole objects
are political notoriety and office. If the
writer did not honestly believe the re
publican party the best party in exist
ence today he would leave it, but he
would think a long time and change his
opinions almost wholly before he would
enlist under the bnnner carried by dem
agogues and political outcasts whose
objects are so transparent that it seems
to us as though a child could analyze
them as not for the good of the people.
WHAT THE BOYS THINK.
Col. Doc. Mathews, of O’Neill, was in
the city yesterday and visited the Trib
une office, leaving a poem entitled “The
Patter of Machine Made Bain," which
will not be published. The colonel is
figuring on going to the state senate
next winter and this department hopes
that he will not be disappointed,as he is
a bully fellow with a glass eye, but
editors with political aspirations have
been experiencing such a rocky journey
along the Jericho road in Nebraska
lately that be should be prepared for the
worst. The news of triumph or defeat
in the matter of a nomination will be
broken to him on Saturday.—Fremont
Tribune.
W. D. iflathews, of O’Neill, was
nominated by the republicans of the
.Thirteenth district tor state senator, last
Sarurday. The nomination of Doc.
Mathews just suits us, and we have no
fears but that he will carry his district
by a handsome majority, even though
the independents do claim it.—Rush
ville Standard.
As was predicted by the Banner last
week, W. D. Mathews, of O’Neill, was
unanimously nominated for state sena
tor for this district by the republican
senatorial convention, which met at
O'Neill last Saturday evening. There
was Lno opposition to Mr. Mathews'
nomination, and there will be but little
to his election. He’s a sure winner and
don't you forget it. There will, of
course, be a few of the so-called “inde
pendent’’ sheets which will attempt to
throw a little mud, but Mr. Mathews is
too well acquainted throughout the
district, and his generosity toward so
many of the early settlers of Holt
county, who are today scattered about
all over the district, has made him
warm friends who will promptly resent
any^tttack the mud slingers may make
upon him. This makes his election
doubly certain, and his nomination was
a most wise one.—Butte Banner.
At ths republican senatorial conven
tion at O’Neill last Saturday, W. P.
Mathews, editor of the O’Neill Frontier
was nominated on the first formal ballot.
“Doc" is a rustler and a winner. A
more extended notice is forthcoming._
Graphic.
"All things come to him who will but
wait” is true in the case of Doc Mathews’
continued candidacy for the state senate.
Six years ago Doc turned his eyes in the
direction of the gilded dome tit
Lincoln, hut the time had not co;-.e
when he could assume the duties of the
dignified statesman and some other fel
low was selected. This year he received
the nomination without much effort.
Mr. Mathews is one of the few men in
Uolt county who have done so much
toward inducing strangers to come and
dwell among us. Holt county to-day
owes Doc Mathews all that he is asking
of her people, foi his valuable services
so generously given in the past. If the
voters of this county wish to show their
grateful appreciation of the untiring
efforts of oDe of their citizens, they will
surely not witliold their suDport in the
coming election.—Ewing Democrat.
W. D. Mathews, of O’Neill, was nom
inated on the first ballot for senator at
the republican senatorial convention
held at O’Neill last Saturday evening.
Mr. Mathews is an.old resident of Uolt
county, and is a tried and true republi
can, a man of extraordinary ability, in
tegrity and honor, and just the man to
properly represent the people of this
district in the state senate.—Garfield
Entemrise.
\V. D. Mathews, editorial writer of
Tub Frontier, was nominated by the
republican senatorial convention last
Saturday. Mr. Mathews is too well
known to need any introduction to the
citizens of Holt county. He is one of
our pioneer settlers, and ha3 worked
hard and incessantly in the interests of
O’Neill and the county. Mr. Mathews
is an able and experienced newspaper
man, and while the Sun entertains the
kindliest personal admiration for Mr.
Matnews, yet now that he is before the
people as an olllce seeking politician,
representing McKinley and the force
bill, he should not feel chagrined or
piqued from the uttack of the
opposition press. This the Sun
will be compelled to do in
a sense of fairness, believing that the
interests of the people will be best sub
served by the election of a legislature
that will not return a United States
senator in the place of Senator Paddock,
whose term expires next March. The
Sun will have more to say in regard to
the election of a legis’ative ticket during
the campaign, and as stated in the be
ginning of this article the Sun trusts
that Mr. Mathews' experience as a news
paper man will not lead him to believe
that anything which may be said against
him shall be construed as personal. On
the contrary, the Sun is, personally, a
great admirer of Mr. Mathews, but po
litically it is “furninst” him.—O'Neill
Sun.
W. D. Mathews, editor of the O'Neill
Frontier, has received the nomination
for state senator of the Thirteenth dis
trict. Doe Mathews will make a hust
ling member and his district will not in
the least suffer from such representation.
—Niobrara Pioneer.
lhe Advocate is glad to learn that W.
D. Mathews was nominated for state
senator by the republican senatorial
convention of the Thirteenth district
held at O’Neill on the 20th inst. We
had the pleasure of voting for him for
senator at the time Bobbins was elected
several years ago, but the Van Wyckers
were then too numerous for us. Hope
he will get there bv a rousing majority.
—Neligh Advocate.
The nomination of W. D. Mathews
on the republican ticket for senator,
gives very general satisfactian to the
party and the country. He is thor
oughly qualified for the position and
having been intimately connected with
public affairs of the country, and having
identified himself with the material
growth and prosperity of our institu
tions, will without a doubt serve his
constituents with fidelity.—Chambers
Bugle.
The senatorial convention which met
at O’Neill on Saturday last placed in
nomination W. D. Mathews of O’Neill
for the state senate. Mr. Mathews is
eminently qualified for the position. He
is deserving in that as an able news
paper man—as able as there is in the
state—he has done much for the repub
lican ticket during his twelve year’s
residence in this county. His personal
efforts and the influence of The Fiion
tiek under his control did more than
any other agency to develop and build
up this county.—Stuart Ledger.
W. D. Mathews received the nomina
tion for senator, to represent this district
at the republican senatorial convention,
held at O’Neill, Saturday last. While
“Doc” is not of our faith in political
matters, we compliment the convention
upon their choice, and if our district is
to be represented by a republican we
know of no man in that party we
should sooner see get there than W. D.
Mathews. He is well qualified to rep^
resent his constituency in the legisla
ture and we are satisfied that the inter
ests of Boyd county would be well at
tended to at his bands'.—Butte Gazette.
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