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Whf Nst kin Uusser?
The Kearney lVniocrat ms: "If
Norris Urown has become sullenly
liialificd to K to the United States
Kinte because lie prosecuted a suit
against the railroads requiring them
to pay their taxes under the law of
the state, w hy is not Judge Munger
liccomc doubly qualified to 1-e sent
to the 1'nitcd States senate for ap
plying the law to the railroads?
While Norris may have expounded
the law to the court. Judge Munger
applied the law and presented the
medicine that the railroads should
take. If u are looking for the
real agency that laid down the doc
trine thrt railroads, like other peo
ple, must pay tlwir taxis in this
this state, we desire to joint out to
vou Judge Munger, who said that
the law regarding railroad assess
ment in Nebraska was a good law
and that the taxes levied in con
formity to that law was a lawful,
legitimate and collectible tax.
"Honest, now, who applied the
law to the railroads Norris Urown
or Judge Munger?"
Is Hi Eligible?
The eligibility of State Treasurer
Mortenscn to election to the office
of governor this fall localise he now
holds a state office, which has Uen
mentioned from time to time, is
now taken seriously, in view of the
projositions his candidacy has as
sumed, says the Lincoln Journal,
Section 2, article 5 of the state con
stitution, regarding eligibility of
turrsous to state office, has Ken
quoted heretofore in The Journal
The section clones as follows: "None
of the officers of the executive de
partuient shall lie eligible to any
other state office during the perioil
for which they shall have Ixren
elected."
This section of the constitution
has never Ixen di recti v before the
supreme court of Nebraska. In it
self the section might not bar State
Treasurer Mortcnsen from lieing
elected governor this fall and tak
ing his office after the expiration
of his term in the office of treasurer
There are grave doubts aliout hi
eligibility owing to the fact that in
the Boyd-Thayer case the Nebraska
supreme court held that a candidal
must be eligible to office at the time
of his election, not alone at the time
he takes possession of the office
The Indiana supreme court has
given a decision to the contrary
Vnder the wording of the constitu
tion it is theMicfof attorneys that
the supreme court of Nebrask
could justly decide either way
"Bk; men" must lie saved,
party expediency, the leaders de
clare, demanding quietus on inves
tigations. The New York Times
There is small difficulty in placing
the party responsibility for the
heroic financial wickedness of the
"big men," the corruption of the
McCtirdys and McCalls, the Henry
H. Rogcrses, Rockefellers, Ad
dickses, Dejiews and others whose
spectacular high crimes and mis
demeanors have shocked the coun
try in late months. The singular
frankness of the republican party
in acknow ledging the responsibility
is possibly prompted by the reflec
tion that it would be folly to at
tempt to conceal what is already so
thoroughly perceived and under
stood. The "big men" cannot 1c
saved, mil they will lie a tremendous
weight for the republican party to
carry in the next general election.
Their connection w ith the party is
too plainly identified.
The Hepburn railroad freight
bill, which has passed the House
by almost unanimous vote, fairly
represents the President's demands
ns set forth in his last annual mes
sage. It gives the Interstate Com
mcrce Commission the power to
make a rate, absolutely, subject on
ly to review by the courts, which
may set it aside if it be found con
fiscatory or unjust. The over
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-Rsugk Risers."
To what Uses meaningless terms
are sometimes put is illustrated in
the case of the so-called Rough
Riders. To secure a Federal office j
now adays the best recommendation !
one can possess is to have been a
Rough Rider. The Jeffersonian
standard, "Is he capable?" cuts no
figure. "Was he a Rough Rider?"
is the standard. The antecedents
of a Rough Rider applicant are not
inquired into, no matter how bad
they may lie. The recent appoint
ment of a marshal for Arizona is an
illustration of the methods that are
applied in the matter of making se
lections from the ranks of the spec
tacular Koue.h Rider outfit. Who
are the Rough Riders? We are told
that many of them were recruited
from the ranks of of the cowboys
nd the ranks of those who made
reputations by "shooting up" wes
tern towns. What great military
achievement stands to the credit of
the Rough Riders? True, they took
part in the Cuban war. We believe
thev charged upon the fleeing
nemy at San Juan hill. How
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many were miiea ana wounuea in
that charge history has not record
ed to our knowledge. Indeed if
our recollection is not at fault, it
was a negro regiment that w on the
glory that made heroes of the Rough
Riders. To the old veterans of
Shiloh, Chickamauga, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Wilderness, Cold Har
bor and a hundred other battlefields
the exploits of the Rough Riders
appear smaller than the skirmishes
preceding the great battles of the
civil w ar. In the entire Cuban war
fewer men were killed anil wound
ed than fell in anv one of the doz
ens of the great battles of the civil
war. At San Juan hill the 16th U.
S. infantry had more men killed
outright than the Rough Riders
lost in killed and wounded put to
gether. Perhaps it would not have
liccn so had the Rough Riders rid
den more rapidly and roughly so as
to get right up to the trenches. It
is alleged that an officer of the
Rough Riders, high in rank, boast
ed that he had shot a fleeing Span
iard in the back. All praise to his
gallantry, and all praise to the
Rough Riders that is due them.
But it does seem that this Rough
Rider business is being w orked ov
ertime at Washington. Had the
Rough Riders ridden against the
commands of Joe Wheeler, N. B.
Forest or Jeb Stuart there w ould tie
fewer of them to appoint to the best
Federal offices today. Why con
stantly exalt the Rough Riders and
never mention the negro regiment
whose dusky-skinned sons helped
them win fame? Where is our
worthy President with his "square
deal" for evcrv man?
Tins is the anniversary of one of
the greatest statesmen i; the his
tory of the republic the martyred
president, Abraham Lincoln. In
commemoration of the event, the
city schools were dismissed for the
dav. No chief executive ever ex
perienced the trying ordeal as did
the lamented Lincoln.
OfR Uncle Samuel's bad boys at
the Naval Academy have some
what the advantage of him, and he
is lieginning to find it out. If they
are hreu lrom school he will oe
short of officers to direct thc firing
of the guns on his big ships. There
fore he may find a good many ex
tenuating circumstances in their
naughtiness.
Somk people seem to think that
there is no hurry about paying per
sonal taxes. The treasurer has been
so busy, since thc first of the year
that collections by distraint have
not been pushed, but he is getting
things in line, and will get right
after delinquents now. In this
ccnncction, it may be proper to
state that there is no disposition on
the part of the treasurer to press1
collections, but the law makes him
personally liable for taxes . that he
loses through neglect of duty.
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vote of ar.y
w ;-.o Oixs r.ot apt rove the
course
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of his party c-.i'.Itaguvs is a
curr.ir.er.tarv
upon t:e j
methods by which republican votes;
in the present congress have been i
inuencel and controlled bv the I
! party bosses.
In denying the right or expedi-
enc' ot suca acl'-on. ratterson
takes mo extreme ground than
has been taken by any conspicuous
figure in American public life since
John Randolph, of Roanoke,
w recked what might have been a
great career by his congenital habit
of kicking out of the traces of party
discipline and co-operation.
But all that Mr. Patterson says
of the right and duty of each indi
vidual senator or representative to
cast his one vote on every question
in accordance with the dictates of.
his own conscience must sound i
strangely in the ears of therepubli-'
can members of the house, who
since the session liegan have Uen
surrendering their convictions and
casting their votes at the solicita
tion of the president and
speaker.
In view of the president's efforts
to influence, if not actually to coir
trol, the votes of members there
seems to le a queer inconsistency
in setting up in behalf of an ad
ministration measure the claim that
every member ought to be guided
solely by the light of his own intel
lect and conscience.
The rule that a member must ;
surrender his convictions if they
set him against an administration
measure and be unrestrained to
vote them straight if he is with the
administration would be a conven
ent one for the executive leaders of
the republican party during the
present session of congress. And
yet in view of what has happened ,
ami is Happening it is practicauy
the rule that .Mr. Patterson s reso
lutions point to. It is too much
like the coon trap that was set "to
catch 'em a-comin' or a-goin."
We. have heard of reform edi
tors, but when a paper comes out
and refers to one as a "Reformed
Kditor," that is a new one on us.
Of all the people who inhabit the
earth, there are none so little in
need of reformation as an editor.
In fact, we cannot recall an editor
who can be improved upon. Of
course we mean an editor, not a
broken-winded politician, jackleg
lawyer or school teacher, who hap
pens to be placed at the head of a
newspaper.
It cost Anna Gould over a mil
lion dollars to learn that she had
no use of a French count, or rather
noaccount. She has commenced
proceedings for separation. Serves
the girl right, and yet the money
snobs appear to be very anxious to
purchase bankrupt titles for their
daughters. The count appears to
lie little less than an imbecile. Vet,
he bore a title, as manyjidiots do.
Democratic prospects are look
ing up both in the state and nation.
On the one hand democracy is be
coming a harmonious working or
ganization. Democrats appear to
realize the necessity for preparation
and party work is going on without
a sound of discord from any quar
ter. To reclaim the state convinc
ingly is a purpose which unifies and
animates every strength of the
party.
The Norris Brown boom has re
ceived another impetus by the de
cision of the supreme court to the
effect that the anti-grain laws are
legal. Of course the fact that the
grain trust is really no trust under
the old name to move against, cuts
up figure in the matter. Mr. Brown
is being boomed for the senate as
the trust and railroad candidate,
and all of these decisions that can
be wrung in, help to boom thc
boom.
" Kverybodv works but father,"
sang a Mormon boy, the son of a
father who had five wives and forty
six children. Doesn't look like the
old man .had spent all his time in
idleness.
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t'..e tar
:;oe :::. n : r,.io:i want I
taken o:: tro::: hides: the;
ir.u!a::tf.rers wa:;t tree woo
want free Iuml-r and free
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t nor.e of thm ays a word j
n-.-.tting a jot or title of the
tari:: on their manufactured pro-1
Tin. constitutional amendment
proposed by the last legislature to
create a railroad commission, prob
ably will be endorsed by the next
democratic state convention. It
would seem that Chairman Tom
Allen hxs so intimated. Railway
commissioners will also be nomin
ated. Some republican papers are guy
ing the democrats because they
have adopted the republican idea
of nominating a candidate for Uni
ted States senator. The same re-
! publican papers are advocating the
election of senators by a direct vote
of the iieople. That was the dem
ocratic idea advanced long ago.
An exchange, which appears to
,.3vinj; tr0ljble whh its
.subscription accounts, is trying to
i frighten its delinquents into pav-
'ie!ment, and as a starter says: "Just
one minute the astronomers ten
us that a monster comet is heading
for the earth with the speed of an
express train. Only a few daysre
main in which to pay your sub
scription to the News hurry up,
for we don't want to have to trot
all over hell to find vou."
The Fairbury Journal is in favor
of paternalism in the strictest sense,
notwithstanding the fact that the
Journal is popocratically inclined.
It is in favor of the government
furnishing insurance at cost. When
the government furnishes transpor
tation, freight and passenger rates
at cost, supplies us with insurance,
why not onerate the coal mines and
,mtchcr shopS) thc grocery
stQrc and the bflk If Ue RQV
ernment takes upon itself the re
sponsibility of providing for us
what incentive will be left for us
to work for ourselves?
"I knew a man once in Tennes
see who made a fortune attending
to his own business," said Andrew
Jackson in the White House to an
officious fellow who ventured to
suggest to him that a swallow-tailed
coat would be the proper attire for
a certain state dinner to be given
that evening. It may be added, in
parenthesis, as it were, that Jackson
presided at the dinner in faultless
attire, but his adviser did not soon
forget the rebuke. Thoroughly in
keeping with this Jacksonial policy
of attending strictly to one's own
business is the vote of democrats in
the United States senate caucus to
oppose the confirmation of the pres
ident'sSanto Domingo treaty. It is
none of our business whether the
creditors of Santo Domingo get their
money or not. We did not advise
them to put their money there, and
did not in any way guarantee its re
payment. We do not even know
that the claims are just, and we
may be doing the Dominicans an
injustice by segregating half the re
ceipts of their custom-houses to be
held in New York banks subject to
the edjudication of the claims.
6et Busy.
Several weeks ago, in response to
the suggestion of the Plattsmouth
Journal and The Herald, it was an
nounced by Chairman Allen, of the
democratic state committee, that the
committee would soon arrange for
a monster democratic love feast, to
be held in the auditorium in Lin
coln or Omaha. The Herald begs
Chairman Allen to get busy. A
meeting as proposed would, do much
to promote the already active
growth of democratic sentiment in
Nebraska. There is in the minds
of the Nebraska democrats a splen
did hope for success all along the
line this year. The success can be
best assared by a closer union be
tween the party workers through
out the state. At such a meeting
as proposed an enthusiasm could be
awakened which would be carried
to the remotest townships. Get
busy, Chairman Allen! Fremont
Herald.
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