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“Billy” Bryan seems to be losing
his grip on what is left of the dem
ocratic party as well as on other
thing&
From present indications it seems
to us that John Skirving will be
mayor of O’Neill for the neat year.
He will make a good one.
Whatever else they may be, the
Spanish officials in Cuba are proving
by the better treatment they are
giving Americans, that they are not
fools. _ _
Abolishing the presidential body
guard, established by Mr. Cleveland,
was a very natural thing for Maj.
McKinley to do. Mr. Cleveland
was afraid of assassination; Presi
dent McKinley isn’t
Two citizens of Nebraska have
been found who did not want posi
tions from the administration. John
L. Webster and John 0. Cowin were
both offered the position of assist
ant secretary of war and both
declined.
' Pool Nebraska! Jnst came
through a three year’s drouth and
now entering upon a season of pros
perity, to be burdened with a popu
list legislature; who are doing more
to hurt the fair name of our state
than a dozen drouths.
/:1» our demoeratio friends were as
certain as they pretend to be that
the Dingley tariff bill will result in
the downfall of the republican party,
that measure would be put through
the senate as rapidly a? it is being
put through the house.
. XJicle Sam bought the patent of a
rapid firing gun the other day, not
so much because he wanted it as
because he could use it to compel
the combination which controls the
patents of the leading rapid firing
guns to sell the government guns at
\ a reasonable price.
Wbatbvza democratic editors may
say, the country will endorse the
action of the republicans of the
house in promptly passing the reg
ular appropriation bills that failed
at the last session *of congress.
Those bills had already been care
fully considered by committees and
it would simply have been a waste
of time to have done it all over
again. _ ...■
Ths newspaper publishers do more j
work for nothing, for the pnblio and
inkiv'duals, thnn any other class of
people. This is done' every week in
the month and every month in the
year, and they do not receive as
modi as a “thank yon” for it
They have to live and it takes
money to pay their expenses, and
when the law fixes a price on (heir
work, whether it is done for the
public or individuals, it ought to be
paid* without rasping them each
against the other to see if there is
not some one among them to cot the
price and give them a “rake off.”
Tux tree trade liars are now busy
with the senate. It is entirely un
necessary to say that no republican
senator will raise any objection to
the Dingley tariff bill, because it is
a protection measure. That the bill
will, be amended by the senate is
;i certain—no tariff bill has ever been
accepted by the senate without
amendment—but the Benate amend
ments that will be supported by
republican senators will not make
tike bill leas protective, and if any
such amendments are added by the
senate it will be by the combined
votes of the democratic and populisl
. senators. •
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WILT WATS.
Lincoln, Neb., March 30—Special
Correspondence: When all argument
for a fair count bad been exhausted
when every fair and reasonable
proposition had been rejected, when
it became evident that there was a
fixed and firm determination to
count in two populist supreme judges
regardless of the constitution or the
law and when at last the court was
appealed to, then there was a flutter
ing and a squawking among the
populist vultures who are now hover
ing about the carcass of political
spoil at the state bouse.
“A court!” shouted the little
secretary, as he whipped through the
executive office, in at one door and
out at the other. “A court!” he
screamed, as he hurried through the
secretary of state’s office and on into
the nest .where Boss is calling off
affirmative votes at the rato of 16 to
1 and changing the constitution
without waiting for the consent of
anybody else on earth.
“A court!” repeated Maret in the
ears of the attorney-general, who
looked fiercely in earnest, that he,
too, would have an opportunity to
prance around the ring in this circus
of reform.
“A court!” they repeated from one
to another nntill the whole state
boose was in alarm. “It they at
tempt Jo interfere with this count
by a court, they’ll be trouble,” said
William Daily in the oil room.
“There’ll be blood shed,” said Ed
raiston. “We’U call oat the militia,’
said Maret, and he hastened to notify
Captain Barry to get his tin soldiers
into line and be ready for immediate
action. Now this is not the first
time that plotters and evil doers
have been alarmed at the suggestion
of a court Some poet has said:
“No rouse e’re felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law."
Ever sinee courts were first insti
tuted as a part of the governing
force of society men have appealed
to them when the cause was just and
feared them when the cause was
wrong. And why should we not
appeal to the court? What is the
court for if not to appeal to? How
long would our government last,
what would it be worth, and what
would become of the liberties and
rights of the people if they were
denied access to the court ? But in
all times and in all countries there
have been some people just as sel
fish as these men are, and they have
applauded or reviled the court as
the decision went for or against
them. The test of orderly citizen
ship is the willingness of the people
to submit disputed questions to the
regularly constituted courts. Let it
be known that Nebraska, in addition
to her orop failures, her defaulting
republican officials, her, ballot tam
pering, fraud concocting populist
officials, has set aside her courts and
closed the door of appeal, and the
doors of oredit, respect and confi
dence will close against us. In
every state of the union the citizen
may appeal from the act of the law
makers to the decision of the judge.
Even in the most lawless communi
ties of the southern states they
admit the law but defy its force.
This governor, this legislature and
this attorney-general not only defy
but deny the law. They close the
door of appeal. By a recent enact
ment they make it impossible for.
any citizen to appeal from their
measures except through the atto
ney-generaL They give the'
attorney-general power to appear
and dismiss any appeal wkioh the
citizen may make against their
enactments, which they say is “good
enough law for anybody, and the
court’s decision is unnecessary.”
They are willing to appeal to the
court when they know the law is on
their side, bnt when they know the
law is against them then they appeal
to force. *' '
If it were not serious in effect it
would be ludicrous to see these re
formers by turns applaud or revile
the court as the tide of advantage is
for or against them. When Judge
Caldwell rendered an anti-railroad
decision, when the supreme court of
this state ousted a republican and
put a populist in charge of the
insane asylum, every populist hen
fluttered up to the top of the hay
stack and set up a noisy cackle over
the new laid egg. They stood on
the street corners all over the conn
try and crowed over these legal vic
tories. The world has been fall of
these kind of people from way bock.
When sbylock thought the decis
ion was coming his way he writhed
and twisted and grinned with
delight “Oh, wise and upright
judge,” 'he exclaimed, “how do I
honor thee?” ,
When the first proposition sub
mitted by republicans in the Len-=
caster county court was decided
against the republicans, the gover
nor rushed out a special message
and flaunted the decision as a justi
fication of the recount fraud. But
when a case was brought in such a
form as to test the validity of house
roll No. 5, then he sent out over the
signature of one of his clerks a let
ter to the populist press telling the
people tjiat a “jack leg” court of
Lancaster county had undertaken an
inquiry into the constitutionality of
i the net.
House roll No. 5, while it pur
ported to give this counting board,
authority to call in the ballots, did
not repeal, the old law which com
mands the election boards to hold
the ballots for one year. Any school
boy knows that the old law would
hold and the new would fall. They
saw this when it was to late to rem
edy it and they knew that a test of
the act would put an end to their
business cf changing the constitu
tion by the Ross method. “Down
With injunctions,” had been a popu
lar slogan during the “first battle,”
and they raised the cry again and
shouted it from man to man.
Even Bryan, who has an $8,000 a
month monopoly by reason of an
injunction, came to the state house
to groan and commiserate and weep
with an oppressed people who are
being governed by courts and in
junctions. The counters, the $4 a
day statesman whom the governor
had recommended as the proper
kink, each having lost his job tem
porarily, took on an injured look.
The count ought to go on for their
sflkes if for no other reason. Ober
felt felt aggrieved that after coming
all the way from Sidney on a pass,
he was compelled to pass in his $4
job on the order of a mere court.
Maret was also indignant. He had
submitted the bill to Judge Kirk
patrick of the supreme bench before
he had ordered it passed by the leg
islature, the judge had gravely con
sidered it, had called the other pop
ulist supreme judge into council
over it, had decided that it would
hold water for all practical purposes,
and now a' common district judge
was about to inquire into it. Hadn’t
Kirkpatrick practiced law at Broken
Bow? Hadn’t he drawn chattel
mortgages there that were strong
enough to hold “a pair of white
faced oxen with red ears,” “a speck
led cow named Speck,” “a liver
colored mule with one eye,” and “a
black boar pig,” so fast that ho
couldn’t squeal, and didn’t he know
how to draw a bill for a little thing
like this?
If we’re goin’ to count these fel
lers iu,” said Hitll, when the scheme
was first proposed, “hadn’t we better
make some sort of a law that will
make it look all right to the peo
ple?” “Yes,” said old Pappy Hill
of Clay county, “put it in writin’ so
we can have suthin’ to show for it”
“Git one of our supreme judges to
draw the bill,” suggested Edmston.
“That’s the stuff,” said the little
secretary, and before the sound of
the word “stuff,” which always lin
gers affectionately in the oil room,
bad died away, the slippery weasel
of reform bad whipped out of the oil
room through the key hole, into the
executive office through the transom,
aud was ringing the ’phone nervous
ly for Kirkpatrick. And they drew
the bill and they passed it with such
tremendous energy that the giasti
cutis of anarchy raised himself,
shook his mane, rattled his chains
and shook with exultant fury, while
the jabberwock of populism, waving
its tail, flapping its wings, and flour
ishing its long ears, snorted like a
war horse snuffing the battle from
afar off. But now the old bill,
house roll No. 5, has been super
seded by a new bill, and under this
new act the long lost Charley Boss
is fixing our constitution in that
“Dignified, conservative, patriotic
and business-like manner,” which
the governor promised in his inter
view to the eastern people, wonld
characterize this administration.
And it has been and is dignified.
What could be more dignified than
I the senators waddling about like
' Ilona an gladiators over the prostrate
| forms of their clerks and others who
1 had gone down under the slugging
blows? Think of the dignity of the
house as the reform members from
time to time rushed at each other
with clinched fists shouting, “You’re
a liar! You’re a liar, and you’re
another!” Hut the dignity of this
administration as exemplified in the
house and senate pales into insig
nificance, when compared with the
example of Charley Boss, as he flips
up an affirmative ballot and calls
out yes, then flips up the same bal
lot again and calls out another yes,
and as the same ballot flips up and
flops back a dozen times, the tally
makers, bent over the table, record
with dignified straight marks the
progress of this flip flop method of
amending the constitution. But I
can’t describe it. Come and see it.
If you’re a pop, send to Kirkpatrick
or Maret for a pass. If you’re a
republican buy a ticket. But come.
Come while you can see them feed
the fierce giasticulis, while the jab
berwock sits on its nest and sings,
and while there is yet time to see
the long lost Charlie Boss, flipping
an amendment into the constitution
here, flopping a couple of new
judges in there, and carrying for
ward the dignified, conservative,
patriotic, and business-like plans of
this administration.
J. W. Johnson.
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