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Thebe isn’t'the slightest doubt
that the senate ’will ratify the arbi
tration treaty, after slightly amend
ing it.
Jebby Simpson made his re-entry
into congress by declaring himself
in favor of free tariff and direct
taxatiom
-..■.
Little Davie Hill seems to have
crawled into a hole and polled the
. hole in after him, since he dropped
oat of the senate.
-....
Scott Jackson and Alonzo Wall
ing were hanged at Newport, Ky.,
. last Saturday for the murder of
Pearl Bryan in 1896.
Wondeb if any of the Nevada
tourists, except the managers of the
big skin-game, think they got the
worth of their money.
Pebhaps Senator Daniels does not
value the endorsement given him by
the Virginia populists as highly as
they thought he would.
It is just as well for Mr. Bayard
to get all the eulogies he can from
the English, as he will get none on
this Bide of the Atlantic.
President McKinley wasted no
words in telling' congress exactly
What it was oalled in extra session
to do, and the people have a right
to expect that congress will waste
v no time in doing it
When the democrats sneer at the
Dingley tariff-hill as “only another
McKinley bill,” they pay the new
bill a decided compliment It was
another McKinley bill that the peo
ple ordered last November.
0: How would it do to make the
democrats in offloe, who are olaim
, ing protection under Mr. Cleveland's
extensions of the civil service rules,
0 pus the same examination required
of outside applicants for the same
positions ?
S. J. Young has disposed of the
Hartington Herald. 8. J. has pnb
lished one of the neatest oountry
papers in the state, and The Fbon
tieb is sorry to see him leave the
ranks of Northwestern Nebraska
journalists, but wish him success
wherever he may cast his lot
- Ip Mr. Cleveland hadn’t shipped
; wine to his Princeton house, five
men then in the employ of the
Pennsylvania R. B. would not be
hunting jobs. The men drank the
wine, got drunk, and have been dis
charged. Another temperance
object lesson, and from an unex
pected quarter.
War did the populist legislature
refuse to investigate the specif io
l charges made by Hedlond against
the reoonnt commission? Can it be
possible that this great party of re
form, whose members have been
continually harping about republi
(v cans palliating and condoning the
offenses of officers of their party, de
sr* sire to shield this board in its ne
farious work? It looks that way.
Tbsbx is not the slightest excuse
for a long debate in the senate on
the new tariff bilL The country
thoroughly understands the under
lying principles of the measure—
protection to American industries
and revenue to meet the deficit
Any attempt on the part of the
democrats and assistant democrats
in the senate to lengthen the debate
in that body will be made solely to
delay the putting iu effect of the
’.measure,. .
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AT LINCOLN.
Lincoln, Nkb., March 22—Special
Correspondence: Blackstone, if I
can quote from memory correctly,
defines law as being “a rule of action
prescribed by the chief power of the
state, commanding what is right and
prohibiting what is wrong.” In Ne
braska, the cbifef power of the state
is the will of the people expressed
by the ballot The majority rules.
They make the rule of actions which
governs, not only the citizen but the
public official. We have three do
partments in our state government;
the legislative, the executive, and
the judiciary.
The people by their constitution,
have prescribed the limits of power
which each of, these departments
may exercise. Neither may trespass
upon the other. No two of them
can rule the state without the other.
If the legislature enacts a measure
that measure is law so long as it
goes unchallenged. But if any citi
zen challenges the measure, then it
stops, and its force is held, in abey
ance until the judiciary decides that
it is within the constitution. If it
were not for this check upon the
legislative power, it might, if in
accord with the executive, go on en
acting laws without limit until the
constitution, the essence of the
people’s will, would be set aside.
Such a condition would be revolution.
The humblest oitizen of the state,the
poorest man, the weakest woman, or
the smallest child, may stand before
a legislative enactment and deny its
force until the court has pronounced
it law.
In n community like ours, the pro
gross of the people toward higher
civilization is measured by their
tendenoy to proceed with their gov
ernment along the prescribed lines
as laid down by the constitution. If
a large proportion of the people at
any particular time, for any particu
lar partisan purpose, manifests a
disposition to over-ride their own
constitution by changing it in an
irregular way to Buit some particular
present political situation, then it is
fair to say that the community is in
a disorderly, lawless, and revolution
ary mood.
Eaoh state in the union has a char
acter, an individuality, which is the
basis of its reputation. Ohio has a
good reputation, because its people
are orderly and law-abiding. Mis
sissippi has a bad reputation, be
cause the people there break their
own laws by common consent.
The reputation of a state affects
also the reputation of eaoh individ
ual in the state. An honest farmer
or business man in Ohio has a better
standing than the same kind of a
man has in Mississippi.
If it were wired to Nebraska to
day that a hundred thousand families
of Ohio people were ready to come
to this state and be citizens, that a
like number of families from Miss
issippi were also ready to come, and
that it was left to Nebraska to choose
which it would accept, what would
be the choice? The people, who
have homes and farms and business
interests to protect and who want to
live peaceably under the law, would
undoubtedly choose the Ohio famil
ies. But if the choice was left to
the present governor, the present
legislature, the present fusion cauous
and the omnipresent private secre
tary, the Mississippi people would
be inviteded, because they would be
natural allies in the lawless and
revolutionary proceedings now going
VII*
The Ohio people if they were here
would Bay, “Submit the recount act
to the coutt and see if it is constitu
tional before you put it into force”
The Mississippi people would say,
“Sam the court! Whenever we get
hold of a rope let’s pull on it, court
or no court”
Now, Nebraska has come to the
parting of the ways. We will pro
ceed either by the Ohio or the Mis
sissippi method. There is a collision
between law and lawlessness. The
engines are rushing together with
tremendous force. If the engine of
law is borne down and crushed by
the shock, then the train of state
government is on a down grade
toward Mississippi conditions. The
people here at Lincoln begin to see
the issue now as they did not at first
The scnnd of the clash is in every
ear. Never before did the question
come bo squarely before the people,
“Is there a constitution, is there a
conrt, is there law, and is there re
straint upon the governor and the
legislature as well as upon the peo
ple?” Let us retrace the steps
which have brought us to this dan
ger line of anarchy, and which
today attracts the attention of every
reading man in the United States.
First the people, years ago, by
their votes, adopted a constitution
which is the basis of all statutory
law, and governs the governor, the
courts, and the legislature as well as
the common people. In this con
stitution is provided that it cannot
be changed except the people, by
their votes, signify their consent.
Twelve amendments to this con
stitution were submitted to the peo
ple. The people voted on the^e
amendments, counted and returned
their votes and declared by these
returns that they did not want the
amendments." Then the governor
and legislature, being in coptrol,
said: “It would be a great advant
age to ns to have this one particular
amendment adopted. We will there
fore set aside these returns which
the people have made, will create a
new counting board of our own, and
will count these ballots and make a
return of our own.” Then they
passed house roll No. 8. '..They
gagged the mouth of every protestor
in their caucus. They put the cau
cus collar about the neck of every
honest man, locked it, and the gov
ernor held the key.
All this time the people looked on
indifferently. They had been be
trayed by republican officials, and
the tendency of the people, when
they have been betrayed by one set
of politicians, is to give their confi
dence to some other set of politicians
without being very particular as to
just what becomes of it.
The people said, “Yes, this fusion
legislature is ring ruled and reckless,
just as republican legislatures were,
but they can’t be much worse.” This
is the kind of philosophy with which
;he average citizen Bolaces himself
intil the downward trend is so pre
npitous that he becomes alarmed.
Thousands of people who con
doned the acts of this legislature a
tew weeks ago are now wrought up
.0 the highest tension, and are
watching every new move with the
keenest interest.
All the time they were preparing
to defile the ballot and seize the
supreme court by force, they beat
the tom tom of honest pretentions in
the ears of the publio. They played
the peoplo with the confidence game
ef “Canada Bill.” Maret whispered
the secret wishes of the governor to
to the ring bosses, but to the public
he declared that the governor had
only the most honorable intentions.
The governor himself, on every
possible ocoasion, took pains to say
over and over again that he was
honorable in bis intentions. Ed
mundson, the oil inspector, and tho
oil ejector, spewed out this oil of
honest pretentions over the troubled
waters from morning till night,
week in and week out. No legal
restraint was attempted against this
conspiracy until every pacific means
was exhausted. They refused a
nonpartisan board. They refused
au open count. Every one of the
ballots had been counted openly
before the publio at the time of the
election. Now they were to be
counted in secret The court was
appealed to. A restraining order
was issued, commanding the coun
ters to desist and hold the ballots
until the constitutionality of the act
was decided.
Then the spirit of Mississippi
rose tip in Nebraska and said:
“We will count these ballots and
count tHem our way, court or no
court, constitution or no constitu
tion—damn the constitution.” Then
a committee of the house broke into
the room where the ballots were and
seized them by force. They are not
our ballots now. They are bastard
ballots, disowned, discredited, and
tainted with fraud. Hedlund’s ex
posure has startled the. whole state.
He says thousands of ballots were
miscounted. He boldly charges
fraud and asks the gobernor to in
vestigate. The governor promptly
dismisses Hedlund, who exposed the
fraud, but retains the others who
committed the fraud. Republicans
la the hoase moved for investiga
tion bat the populists voted it down.
This is the way reform goes on at
the state capital. You who think I
have been too severe on the popu
lists, and have put too much stress
on this recount matter, come and
see for yourselves.
J. W. Johnson.
The new tariff bill is all right.
Now let congress get it throngh as
early ps possible. Then the busi
ness of the country will have a
chance to improve. '
The charges made by Ole Hed
lund, one of the members of the
cnnvassing board appointed by
Governor Holcomb, are serious and
should be thoroughly investigated.
A resolution was introduced in the
house of representatives to investi
gate the charges but was voted down
by the populist majority. It looks
as if there was a nigger in the wood
pile somewhere.
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