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IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Prohibition national convention,
.. Pittsburg, May 96.
Republican national convention, St.
'Louis, June 16.
Democratic national convention, Chi
cago, July 7.
Populist national convention, St.
Louis, July 29.
Republican state convention, Lincoln,
July 1.
Congressional convention, North
Platte, July 8.
The Surprise is the name of a
new republican paper established at
Creighton by Wood & Shaffer. It
supports Brooks and Meiklejohn.
The Fbontieb’s “satire" may be a
little wattery, as the Stuart Ledger
• suggests, but it undoubtedly is as
pure as the barrel of “diluted" re
publicanism Bro. Wertz had on tap
during the last campaign.
It if said that about fifteen of the
frienda of Gen. Harrison on the In
diana delegation to the St Lonis
convention declare that if there is
not a let-up in the posh being
made for a solid McKinley delega
tion they will take pains to show
that the General is the first choice
of Indiana for president after all.
Tbs populist papers now all agree
that ex-Govemor Groonse is a grand
bid man, basing their belief upon
the resolution introduced by him at
the late republican convention, while
a good many republicans say he is
no good, and others say nothing and
- look wise. If a man wants populist
sympathy all he has to do is to get
in bad repute with a republican
convention.
Tbs Fboxtixs is pleased that the
state free silver convention honored
our esteemed but politically mis
guided friend, Dr. Blackburn, of
Atkinson, by selecting him as a del
egate from this district to the demo
cratic national convention. If our
free silver brethren must be repre
sented at Chicago it is a pleasure to
have such such polished and able
gentlemen as Mr. Blackburn select
ed to do it
Tbs constitutional amendment to
be voted on at the coming election,
providing for an increase in the
number of supreme judges, is re
ceiving considerable attention by
the state press. Tbs Fbohtixb can
not see why this amendment should
not oarry. The court is about three ,
years behind with the work, with no ,
prospect of ever catching up. Three
judges were enough to handle the
work in 1876, when there were only
sixty-four cases filed, bnt in 1806
with 781 cases it was entirely dif
7 ferent.
Ws so not exactly understand
how Gens Moon expects to be nom
inated for governor. Of course
some of the ofBoee ere oonoeded to
the north pert of the state, bnt
rarely Moore, Brooks, MoNisb,
Eekles end Bernes cannot hope to
ell win. It seems to ns that any of
the gentleaaen named has a better
fighting show than Moore, because
■ they have not sneh formidable oppo
sition in the south. If MoNish is
nominated, and that seems to be the
determination, it will give the other
< boys a black eye.
Faox - surface indications Thx
Faoxnxa would say that Bolt
county will probably rapport
v MoNish for treasurer in the coming
state convention.. Mr. MoNish used
to be prosecuting attorney in this
district in an early day and acting
. in that capacity made many warm
f personal friends who consider it a
pleasure to speak a good word for
him. is between Brooks and
MoNish ere consider there is no
: comparison'at alL Of course
Brooks is a Jolly good fellow, but
the republican party has sleeted too
I* rs clear to ua that Occidental
Bates wrote the resolutions adopted
at the free silver convention held in
Atkinson a short time ago. The
closing resolution convinces us of
tka fact It is as fallows:
’ Resolved, That we favor the coinage
of (old sad silver si the ratio of ISto 1,
- sad demand that this cardinal feature of
the Awsricaa flnsaetsl system be. made
the ihibboleth of the party during the
impending campaign.
The word ''shibboleth” sticks oat
in Mr. Bates’ writing like the “snap
ping of twigs” in the works of
Cooper. We are led to wonder if
the author designed that the word
should be put to the same use that
it was when the Gileadites fell upon
and killed several train loads of the
Ephrainrites simply because they
could not prononnoe it correctly.
Webster says the word means,
usually, “some peculiarity in things
of little importance.” The author
knew the meaning of the word, and
no doubt used it in the fide classical
sense to say that free coinage is a
humbug. _
POINTED AND PERTINENT.
If one democratic ticket has no
earthly show to win what system of
mathematics can be used to figure
out the ohanoes of two democratic
tickets? _
The prohibitionists say they will
poll 1,000,000 votes at the presiden
tial election. Well, suppose they
do; it will simply be throwing away
that many.
A Canadian claims to have in
rented a noiseless and smokeless
gun that discharges 260,000 shots a
minute, and we are expected to
swallow the claim, notwithstanding
our ability to produce good liars
ourselves upon occasion.
Those who have twice broken into
Senator Quay's committee room in
the U. S. capitol building, in search
of political information, had their
trouble for their pains. Probably
no man in the country has a more
interesting collection of political
information than Senator Quay has,
and certainly no man in the country
knows better how to take care of it
When a democratic daily paper
has 186 inches of advertisements
from "males” who are seeking em
ployment, and only 28 inches of
sdveretisements from employers
who want help, as was the case in
Sew York on April 14, it is very
aasy to understand the effect of dem
ocratic tariff legislation npon' the
American labor market There are
practically six men after every job
in the Empire city upon that basis,
hut there are hundreds of others
rat of work who have not the
money necessary to pay for an ad
rertisement A ratio of 16 to 1
would be a moderate estimate.
KINKAID AND CONGRESS.
The republicans are putting up
iome strong talk for M. P. Kinkaid,
)f O’Neill, for congress.—Ewing
[pop) Advocate.
If reports are to be relied upon,
i great many of the delegates at the
Broken Bow convention were watch
ing the chances of Jndge M. P.
Kinkaid for the congressional con
vention pretty closely, and putting
in a lick now and then in his favor.
Entirely proper, gentlemen, entirely
proper. He's a winner.—Alliance
limes.
The artiole ' from the Sidney
Poinard, which appears in another
Bolumn, indicates that the republi
sans of Oheyenne ooonty have level
beads, and the attitude taken by
Judge Heist shows that bis desire
(or republican success is by far
greater than his desire for personal
advancement, and that he recognises
the fact that the congressional nom
inee will need all the strength he
can rally if he is to be successful at
the polls. Judge Heist has a strong
following in the part of the distriot
where he resides and he could go
into convention with considerable
strength, but he evidently reoog
nises that his doing so might result
in the nomination of some man who
could not be elected, but by throw
ing his strength to Kinkaid he
knows that he is taking no such
chances, for his nomination means
his election. Judge Heist is to be
congratulated upon his political
sagacity, and others whose names
have been mentioned in connection
with the congressional nomination
might add strength to the party in
the distriot and not injure their own
standing, should they follow his ex
ampla—Sioux County Journal.
FUSS COMMENTS.
General Manderspn will deliver
the Memorial Day address at the
tomb of General Grant. Some
Nebraska newspapers were saying
a short time ago that Manderson
wasn’t known outside of his own
state.—Fullerton News.
, It is said that L. P. Glassburn,
of Wheeler county, is a republican
candidate for senator from the
Thirteenth district Mr. Glassburn
is one of the solid farmers of that
county, and would, if elected, be a
credit to Boyd, Holt, Garfield and
Wheeler.—Atkinson Graphic.
J. A. Bice, of Stuart, and John
Trommershausser, of Ewing, are
both mentioned as candidates for
the legislature on the republican
ticket. They are good men and
with them in the house Holt would
rank high among the influential
counties of the state.—Atkinson
Graphic. _
The Journal is in receipt of a pe
tition from O’Neill signed by its old
friends, “Constant Header,” “Old
Subscriber,” “Vox Populi,” “Veri
tas,” “Pro Bono Publico” and
“Many Others,” demanding an ex
planation of Mr. Bryan’s new plank
in the democratic platform, which,
after “viewing with alarm” and
“pointing with pride,” demands the
adoption of the “initiative and ref
erendum” as a probable alternative
to blood.
The Journal has waited a suffi
cient time to allow Mr. Bryan to
explain it himself, but as evidently
he has no such intentions, it will do
the best it can for its O’Neill friends.
Switzerland is a federal republic
of six hundred years’ standing, but
its constitution has been revised fre
quently. As it now Btands, the re
publio, which has a population
something less than 8,000,000, or a
little larger than that of Massa
chusetts, and an area of 16,000
square miles, a little less than twice
that of Massachusetts and just a
little more than one-fifth that of
Nebraska.
It is divided into twenty-five “can
tons,” or federated states. Taking
out that of Berne, which has over a
half million people, the average
population of these cantons is less
than a hundred thousand. Some of
these cantons, whioh are constantly
changing their constitutions, a few
years ago adopted what is called the
“initiative and referendum,” in con
nection with their local legislation.
These cantons, it will be seen, are
about equal in importance to such
counties in Nebraska as Douglas,
Lancaster and Gage. The smallest
canton, Lower Unterwalden, having
about 11,000 people, the largest,
next to Berne, Zurich, running as
high as 284,000.
Bv the terms of the constitutions
alluded to, the people of one of
these little states, or counties as
they would be olassed in this coun
try, may petition for the adoption of
a certain law. A certain number of
petitioners is required to give the
proposed law a status in the legisla
ture, whioh corresponds to the board
of supervisors or county commis
sioners in Nebraska. That is the
“initiative.” Then the law has to
be voted upon by the “legislature.”
1 It is a matter of fact that most .of
these initiated laws are voted down.
But if the legislature passes the
law, or in fact any other law of gen
eral character, it must be submitted
at an election of the voters, each
law being separately submitted at
an election called for that specific
purpose. As a matter of fact, the
laws so submitted are generally de
feated, because a sufficient number
of voters do not find it worth their
while to turn out to give it the sup
port of a majority of the registered
electors.
It iB said that the people of these
cantons are getting very weary of
this “reform,” because of the fact
that it requires so many elections
and because the industrious Swiss
have plenty to do without turning
out every few weeks from their
mountains and ravines to vote.
However, it must do some good.
It certainly knocks out nearly all the
new measures proposed in those
oantons and gives the people more
or lees surcease from new legisla
tion.
If this weariness has oome over
these little oantons in Switzerland
because of the multiplicity of eleo
'■ v;
tions in which the voter is supplied
with a full and complete copy of the
law he • is going to vote on, one can
imagine the tiled feeling that would
come over the citizens of Nebraska
if they were compelled to read and
vote on forty or fifty or a hundred
laws passed and submitted every
two years by a legislature represent
ing, not eleven or twenty or two
hundred and fifty thousand people,
bnt a million and a quarter.
Everybody who knows the stiff
neckedness of the average Nebraska
voter will understand that in nine
teen cases out of twenty at least,
whether the proposed law was a good
or a foolish one, it would be knocked
out. Perhaps it would be a good
thing on that account Still it costs
a heap of money to hold an election
in Nebraska. The average canton
in Switzerland contains 600 square
miles, that is, a tract of land twenty
by thirty miles in extent, about the
average size of an eastern county in
Nebraska, or the average size of a
Nebraska county when this state
shall have 125 counties. So 1 the
fuss and expense of a “referendum”
in a Swiss canton would be about
one hundred and twenty-fifth of
that of celebrating the same thing
in Nebraska.
But Mr. Bryan does not say in
his platform that his initiative and
referendum is to be confined to state
legislation. Since his convention
had to do* with national affairs only,
it is to be presumed that he wants it
for the regulation of congress. And
that would be gorgeous. Think of
a national election twice a week to
vote up or down each law of con
gress! It would certainly be fun
for the boys who could get on the
inside as judges and clerks of elec
tion.—State Journal.
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