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NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
For Vloe*Preaident:
GARRETT A. HYBART.
STATE TICKET.
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For Governor.JOHN H. MacOOLL
For Lieut. Governor.ORLANDO TEFT.
For Secretary of State.J. A. PIPER.
For Auditor.....P. O. IIEDLUND.
For Treasurer.......CHAS. E. CASEY.
For Superintendent.H R. CORBETT
For Attorney General.... A. 8. CHURCHILL.
For Commissioner.H. C. RUSSELL.
Supreme Judge, long term.R. RYAN.
Supreme Judge, short trm,..H. P. KIN RAID.
Regent.. .W. G. WHITMORE.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
For Congressman:
A. E. CADY, of Howard.
SENATORIAL TICKET.
For Senator:
L. P. QLA88RURN, of Wheeler.
OOUNTT REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Representatives:
JOHN TKOMMBRSHAUSBER, of Ewing.
J. A. RICE, of Stuart.
For County Attorney:
E. H. BENEDICT, of O’NelU.
For Supervisor Third Dlstrlot;
JOHN HARRINGTON, Jr.,of Grattan.
For. Supervisor Fifth Dlstrlot:
O. M. FERGUSON, of Inman.
For Supervisor Seventh Dlstrlot:
W. N. COATS, of Stuart.
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Hon. M. P. Kinkaid, one of the
two republican nominees for judge
of the supreme court, graduated in
the law school of the University of
Michigan just twenty years ago.
His law class, consisting of 162
member^ elected him class president
in its senior year. Immediately
after his admission to the bar, in
1876, he engaged in the active
practice of his profession, and at the
time of being appointed judge of
this judicial district in 1887 his
standing for winning cases,amount of
business and fees earned was second
to none of the profession in north
Nebraska.
In 1882 he was elected a member
of the slate senate, and was, by the
senate, elected chairman of the
judiciary committee of that body.
By the increase of jndioial districts
in 1887 a vaoanoy occurred in the
then newly formed Twelfth district,
and he was by Governor Thayer ap
pointed to fill that vaoanoy, being
elected to a foil four years term the
following fall, again in the fall of
1891, and again in the fall of 1805,
so that he is now serving his tenth
year on the district bench.
For the last eight years Judge
Kinkaid could have at any time,
when in order, commanded a large
support for a congressional nomi
nation, but he has all the while
evinced a preference for judicial
- work. That he is eminently quali
fied by nature and requirements, and
by experience as lawyer and judge
for the position of associate justice
of the supreme oourt is the unani
mous1 opinion of those who are
familiar with his professional and
. official record.
Thi nomination of John Harring
ton as the republican candidate for
snpervisor in this district, was, in
onr estimation, a wise one. While
it cannot be said that Mr. Harring
ton is in harmony with all republi
cans in their views on the questions
of the day, we believe it to be the
duty of all republicans, and in fact
all citizens irrespective of party, to
rally to his support, as we believe
that if elected he will perforril the
duties of the office to the best in
terests of the taxpayers of the dis
trict. For the past year he has
been treasurer of Orattan township
and the able manner in which he has
performed the duties of that office is
a guarantee that if he is elected as a
member of the county board he will
carefully guard the interests of the
people. "Vote and work for John
Harrington for supervisor.
Evert voter should vote for the
proposed constitutional amendment
to be fonnd at the head of the con
stitutional amendment ticket for the
increpse of the number of supreme
judges from three, the present num
ber, to five, the number proposed,
thus dispensing with the three
supreme oonrt commissioners, be
cause:
First—The large amount of
work of the supreme bench renders
such an increase necessary.
Second—Because it is more in
accordance with the principles of onr
government that judges be elected,
than that commissioners be ap
pointed by the court
Third—Because by the substitu
tion of two judges for the three com
missioners there will be a saving in
Balary of $2,500 for one commis
sioner and $1,000 for his stenog
rapher, amounting to $3,500 pei
annum.
Fourth—Unless the constitution
can be thus amended at this election
a constitutional convention will be
provided for, occasioning an expense
of at least $150,000.00.
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THE IMPORTER GETS THE PROFIT
Touching the question of Mexioan
cattle importations again, Senator
Warren of Wyoming replies to an
inquiry by enclosing a letter upon
the subject from A. A. Spaugh, of
Manville, Wyo. Mr. Spaugh is a
cattle importer and is in a position
to see the good or the bad side of
the Wilson bill, and so far as the
policy of this government, or the
interests of the consumers of meat
stuffs are concerned he sees nothing
in it to commend. His conclusion is
that the benefits aocrue entirely to
the Mexican producer and the Ameri
can importer, and that no one else is
benefitted at all.
On this line Mr. Spaugh says in
hia letter to Senator Warren: “I
claim that Mexican cattle do not
reach the masses of the people any
oheaper under the Wilson bill than
they did under the McKinley law.
But if they do, and it makes cattle
cheaper, then it works a hardship on
the producer of cattle alone, in this
oountry, to the tnne of a million
dollars annually (it is considerably
more,) * • * for there is no
difference when the beef reaches the
consumer, and if there is it is so
small that it is not noticeable.”
He further says: “If there is
anyone in the United States who is
benehtted by the free importation of
Mexican cattle (that is what impot -
tation under the Wilson bill virtually
amounts to) it is the importer. If it
is for the best for the masses, and
does the greatest good for the great
est number of people, to re
turn to protection and good
old McKinley times—and I
certainly think it is—you will
have a helping hand from me, for I
can find plenty to do outside of the
Mexican cattle trade.”
Taken in connection with the
showing that has already been made
as to the ruin of the cattle industry
in the west, this statement from an
importer who thinks more of the
prosperity of the “greatest number”
than he does af his personal profits
from a business that he feels called
upon to oondemn, ought to sink deep
into the hearts of the farmers of Ne
braska who have not yet been able
to see that one item of the tariff
schedule is costing them more than
thoy could ever hope to gain from a
shower of 50-oent dollars.
M. A. Brown.
And Swallowed Dodily by the Bryan*
ized Democracy.
FATE OF NEBRASKA "POPS.”
Foreseen by a Nebraska Populist—J. T.
Wolfe’s Open Letter to Got. Holcomb.
A Tool of Democracy—Holcomb’s
Record and Political Origin,
Lincoln, Nob., Oct. 12.—The tripar
tite deal in this state between Senator
Allen, Governor Holcomb and 'William
J. Bryan, the result of which has been
the delivery of the Populist party of
the state, bound hand and foot, to the
democracy has been a source of unpleas
ant reflection to many middle-of-the
road Populists, and there is a very large
proportion of them that not only resent
the sale and delivery, hut are disposed
to make their objections known at the
polls in the most effective manner, and
in fact the only way now left to them.
Ever since Governor Holcomb took up
the reins of office and began to show
his predilection for Democrats and a
disregard for the Populists of the state
who had made his further elevation pos
sible, there have been many “kickers”
in the Populist party who have not hesi
tated to charge him with betrayal of
their political interests. Republicans
have pretty generally held aloof and
listened to the crimination and recrimi
nation from afar off, and have not been
disposed to take a hand in the family
quarrel of the Populists and Democrats.
Just at this juncture, however, when
Governor Holcomb is running a personal
campaign strictly for himself, and after
having still further shown his Demo
cratic proclivities by being a party to
the further betrayal of the Populists of
Nebraska into the hands of the national
Democracy, it is not amiss to quote
what a well known Populist of this
state thought about him and wrote con
cerning him in 1895, less than 18 months
ago. That person is J. V. Wolfe, who
at the present time is a candidate upon
the Popocratio ticket along with Gover
nor Holcomb for the office of commis
sioner of public lands and buildings.
On May 1, 1895, Mr. Wolfe published
in the Nebraska State Journal a two
column artiole over his own signature,
in which he excoriated Governor Hol
comb as few public men or officials have
been scored in this state for political or
official misdeeds. Mr. Wolfe had been
a candidate for warden of the state peni
tentiary, as a Populist, but the appoint
ment was bestowed upon G. W.Leidigh,
a Democrat. Mr. Wolfe’s complaint
was not so much for himself, personally,
as it was from the fact that the gover
nor had shown a disposition to ignore
the main body of his supporters, the
Populists, and reward a small minority
of his supporters, the Democrats. There
is probably notbing that a Republican
might say that would be given credence
or consideration by a Populist, but an
arraignment by one of their own num
ber is entitled to pass current among the
members of the Populist party. There
fore, remembering this arraignment by
Mr. Wolfe, the original has been brought
to light and portions of it are given be
low. Mr. Wolfe says in the opening of
his letter to Governor Holcomb:
Crimea and offenses of all kinds have
generally at least one mitigating oiroum
stauoe. They ore generally committed In
haste or without due consideration,but yon
undoubtedly do not regard the act as a
crime or even as an offense, but coupled
With a number of other appointments of a
similar nature, and especially with Mr.
Dahlman’s, another leading Democrat,
made at the some time, and who was an
applicant for the same position, you are
charged with party perfidy and a deadly
assault upon "the Independent party”
organization In this state, and upon this
charge you will have to go upon trial be
fore the bar of oar people, and may God
defend the right.
After a somewhat lengthy defense of
his own motives, in whioh he Btates
that he too had come ont of the Demo*
oratio party, bat that he considered the
Populist party "humanity’s last and
only hope," Mr. Wolfe proceeds to say:
I by no means think you ore a bad man.
I only think you have proven yourself a
weak one. You are by no means the first
man, oven in Nebraska, whose '“ambition,
has o’erluaped Itself.” The political high
way is everywhere strewn with its wrecks.
Men are more or less (and frequently
more) like pigs. If fed on too rich food
they develop too much flesh for the amount
of bone, and especially backbone. The
remedy, in the case of pigs, is to put them
on a diet of skimmed milk, and I can see
no reason why it would not act as well in
one ease as in the other. It may not be
your fault. You have neither been in a
position, nor in the condition, since our
reform movement began, to be able to
grasp its full meaning. You have been in
good circumstances and drawing a liberal
salary. Your mind has been occupied
more with law and with loans than with,
distressed homes and an impoverished peo
ple. You did not, I believe, attend either
the Cincinnati or St. Louis conference, or
the Omaha national convention. You have,
therefore, probably not boen baptized with,
the “baptism that is unto repentance.” I
am not speaking of or dealing with your
intentions. You are too good a lawyer
not to know that all law presumes a man.
to intend the consequence of his own acts,
and the sooner you recognize the fact that,
when you are consorting with the Demo
cratic or any other party, you are nursing
at your bosom a torpid viper that, as soon
as it is warmed into life by Popullstio
heat and strengthened by Populist nour
ishment, will, turn on its benefactor with alL
the accustomed vigor and venom, the
sooner you will see and realize the folly
of your course. • * * They
Democrats) may permit, and even assist, a
chosen candidate now and then to come
into offioe, but it will be found generally,
if not always, at the expense of all the rest
of the ticket; and so small a victory may
mean more harm to us than a total temp
orary defeat. The old Democratic ship i*
down deep in the trough of the political
sea, and of, and by Itself, can never be
safely harbored. It is both seaworn and
unseaworthy, and Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Bland have sean the approaching catas
trophe, and have each lowered a silver
lifeboat and struck for the shore. The
oae for help to save the old ship, the other
to build a new one. Of the two, Mr.
Bland shows the most sense, but there is
a method in Mr. Bryan’s madness. If you
and the Independent party will get aboard
Mr. Bryan’s little silver skiff he will row
you out to the old wreck and, if you will
help it into harbor again, then will come
to pass tho saying that “death is swal
lowed up in victory,” (our death, I mean,
and their victory.) But my political bible
-says that our party cannot live by silver
alone, but by every word that proceeded
out of the Omaha platform, until revised
or chauged.
Mr. Wolfe then reverts to Homer's
"Iliad” and brings forth the story of
the Trojan horse, by means of which
the Greeks captured the city of Troy.
The story is familiar to nearly all and
need not be retold. Mr. Wolfe’s appli
cation of the legend is to show that the
Democrats had been using a "Trojan
horse” for the pnrpose of capturing the
Independent party; and he fears that
by means of this strategy "a sufficient
number of men armed with the weapons
of our destruction,” have been placed
within the Populist walls with the same
intent. To this he pathetioally adds: "I
hope not, and yet I fear it may be so.”
After discussing the manner of the
appointment, and insinuating that the
governor had been influenced by a priv
ate secretary (Maret), or a Democratic
ex-congressman (Bryan), or a United
States senator (Allen), Mr. Wolfe closes
as follows:
My grievance, however, is by no means
a personal one. While I think I had a
right to ezpeot different and better treat
ment, I have no spite to gratify. It is
true that I have spent more time in trying
to build up and to advance the party's in
terests than you and all your appointees
put together, exoept Mr. Powers, and the
movement has cost me more money than
you all, without an exception, yet I only
ask that our principles be adhered to until
enacted into low. Don’t think for a mo
ment you can drive me from the party,
for you will find me a stayer, and, if
necessary, a fighter, and I know the rank
and file too well to even imagine that they
are not going to stand with me, and by
me, shoulder to shoulder, in the future, as
in the past, as long as I stand for the right
and till the battle is finally won.
Has Silas Holcomb Made a flood Governor?
Considerable might be said on this
score. Superficially, yes. Essentially,
ne. From the beginning he assumed to
dictate to the law-making power. When
acts had become crystallised into laws,
and those laws did not suit his political
purposes, he assailed tfiefr constitution
ality, and was invariably beaten. As a
member of the board of educational
lands and funds, he has constantly ad
vised the board to pursue an unconsti
tutional course in the investment of the
permanent sohool fund in general fund
warrants, even in the face of an adverse
decision of the supreme court, and has
gone out among the people and cast as
persions upon the law-abiding members
of that board because they had actually
complied with statutory requirements.
In the appointment of the heads of state
institutions he has been uniformly un
fortunate in the selection of men who
have been incompetent, bred scandals,
and wilfully violated the law. The
Norfolk asylum, the Grand Island
Soldiers’ home and the state peniten
tiary afford reeking examples of this
kind. It is not neoessary, however, to
dwell upon these counts.
It is merely necessary to introduce
another Populist witness, Mart Howe,
formerly steward of the Soldiers’ home.
The charges preferred by Mr. Howe
during the past winter against the man
agement of the home are well remem
bered by newspaper readers. It will
also be recalled that an investigation
was reluctantly ordered by Governor
Holcomb. In the Nebraska State Journal
of Maroh 14, 1806, Mr. Howe tells how
that investigation was conducted, and
how the whitewash brush was used. To
auote from the article:
“In regard to the investigation,he says
that the governor told him the utmost
latitude would be given in the introduc
tion of testimony, but when the time
came the governor refused to admit a
great deal of the testimony, both oral
and in the form of affidavits. In addi
tion Mr. Howe alleges that persons em
ployed at the home were intimidated
and refused to testify to all the circum
stances with which they were familiar.”
Concerning the whole matter Mr. Howe
said: “If the legislature was in session
I would demand an investigation by
that body, which has power to send for
persons and papers, and with a fair
hearing I would be content to rest the
case."
In the State Journal of April 13,1805,
a correspondent scores Governor Hol
comb severely for his veto of the mutual
fire insurance bill, but this is not a po
litical arraignment and it will be passed
by, the intention of this article being
principally to show what Populists have
had to say about his political, official
and administrative acts. He is con
demned by leading members of the
party that elected him, and the fact
that no Democrat has taken his pen in
hand to find any fault with his admin
istration will probably be construed by
many Populists as a verification of the
wide open suspicion that his Populism
is not even skin deep while his democ
racy is bred in the bone.
Some Light Thrown on the Discovery of
Holcomb.
Previous to the nomination of Silas
A. Holcomb for district judge by the
Populists of the Twelfth judicial dis
trict he was unknown outside of
: Broken Bow, where he had hung up a
lawyer’s shingle,but was engaged in the
more lucrative occupation of loaning
money to Custer county farmers at
rates of interest that were not only
usurious, but exorbitantly so. The
judicial convention was held at Eddy
! ville, on the new line of the Kearney
and Black Hills railway, and somebody’!
manipulation had secured the location
i there to prevent too muoh local pressure
: on the part of the friends of a couple oi
Populist candidates from Kearney. In
j dications pointed to the nomination oi
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Farm Implements. Handles the Scandi implements and
the Plano Bakes, Mowers and Binders. Parties wishing
anything in this line call and see me.
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G. W. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL, V-Pres.
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