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Democratic Ticket
Supreme Judge
(ikokge l loom is
District Judge
HARVEY I). TRAVIS
County Judge
County Clerk
VV. E. ROSENCRANS
Clerk of District Court
C. E. METZGER
Treasurer
FRANK E. SCHLATER
Assessor
II. M. SOENNICH3EN
Sheriff
A. J. IIOX
Superintendent of Schools
MARY E. FOSTER
Commissioner
CHAS. R. JORDON
Surveyor
Coroner
K. RATNOUR.
It is now hinted that the railroads
scored a victory in the election of Judge
1 1. -ly ward as chairman of the republican
state committee. And everything in
imiicates so much.
(Iovkkn'ok Johnson, of Minnesota, has
declared for William Jennings Bryan
for J resident. Goveiior Johnson "sees
the hand writing," and that it means
the people demand the "Noblest Roman
of them all."
A FT Kit having spent his summer
vacation in telling the country of the
great work done by the Republican
lilwrators in the time he was "nospring
t hicken." Uncle Cannon is now pre
paring for his winter's work of sup
pressing the House of Representatives
E. Ratnouk of Weeping Water, candi
date for corner on the democratic ticket,
was in Nehawka the other day and
made this oi'Tice a pleasant call. Why
not call hin coroner and be done with
it? He is sure to be elected in about
live weeks any way. Nehawka Reg
ister. W'KTTicns of true ghost stories are, of
course, just as veracious as the stories
they narrate and always more substan
tial than the ghost they tell about.
But the ghost that is always welcome,
and that everybody beleives in. is the
ghost that walks long before midnight
on pay day.
"Wk are in receipt of an offer from a
Connecticut firm who will trade us a
poker box and set containing 50 white,
2" blue and 25 red poker chips. Who
wouldn't te a newspaper man, when
such neccessities are his for the mere
inserting of the death-defying decoction
or the tastless tonic that tickles, for
f2 issues next to reading.
Speaking of C. E. Metzger. the
democratic candidate for the position of
clerk f the district court, some one in
the interest of the other candidate has
raised a question of his inexperience.
Of this we have to say: He is a young
man of an exemplary habits, of a good
education, honest of purpose, and
intergrity of character, and do not
claim for him fourteen years of
continually hanging on the public pap.
We also have to say, that he was not
foreman of the Louisville stone quarries,
for "Boss Stout' and neither did he
.at Stout's behest, vote in a republican
caucas, in one precinct in the afternoon
and in the evening go to Louisville
and -wte and organize a delegation to
furtheT the interest of the same "Boss
Stout," when he was trying to get a
deal through to sell the state some of
the stone, which brought reproach apon
not only him, but also on the state.
J. C. Sprecher, the grouchy editor
of the Schuyler Free Lance, says edito
rially that "Judge Loomis is the rankest
kind of a railroad tool." The writer
served in the legislature with Loomis
and knows whereof he speaks. Judge
Lomis comes back at Sprecher and
kindly asks him: "If he knows of any
thing that I did, or refrained from doing
while a member of the legislature that
would justify the charge to speak out at
once." Judge Loomis goes further and
savs;"There were 131 other members of
that legislature besides Sprecher and
myself." He then asks any one or all
of them to relate an incidedt that would
indicate that he was in any way influ
enced by corporate interests. He fur
ther says, "I was never for a moment
in the employ of any railroad company;
never did any business for one, nor re
ceived any compensation from one."
If any man living knows
anything in connection with my legisla
ture or other public record that in the
slightest reflects upon my honor or
integrity, let him make it known."
Sprecher's Free Lance must have miss
ed the mark. Dare Judge Reese make
such a d"-" -tion? Dare Judge Reese
" - " jen criticism?
The campaign seems to be progress- j F General McGaskey, of the depart
ing with but very little intrest man-J qent of Dakota, thinks that the "pres
ifested upon the part of the maters. ant cost of ijvjnfr ought to mean a 20
When Secretary Taft speaks in Japan j If r cent advanfe thue i8a,aries of
it is not exactly the same speech he Generals, what does he think it means
made in Ohio, but it shows he has still when P??',e who are not Generals have
the habit he developed in Ohio of always j to Pav 11
speaking from the same notes.
Tub Nebraska City
"As a political 'dope'
Tribune says:
sheet, in which
the future is disclosed with the unerr-
ing accuracy of the gipsy fortune teller.
the Lincoln News is easily the nrst in
rank"
Judge M. B. Reese has decided not
to accept the supreme court commis
sionership, and Jacob Fawcett, of Oma
ha, will take the place made vacant by
the resignation of N. D. Jackson, of
Neligh.
Another discovery of Governor
Hughes has made while Mr. Taft is en
gaged in Asiatic researches is that Am
erican independence and self-governing
manhood depend largely on the Ameri
can farmer. At this stage of an all
American presidential movement it is
not usually necessary to use a telescope
to see it moving. '
The clergyman who accuses Roose
velt of spoiling the Presidential possi
bilities of Fairbanks by the cocktail in
cident forerets that Roosevelt did not
order the cocktail. He only drank it.
I f the controversy is carried too far he
may retort that he was tempted, and
that the Hoosiers don't know how to
mix that particular mystery anyhow.
The paper trust has advised the Kan
sas editors to increase the subrcription
price of their papers with the last an
nouncement of a 15 to 25 per cent in
crease in the price of print paper which
will take effect October 1. The prose
cution of the paper trust has made it
more considerate at least. Heretofore
it has increased the price of paper with
out any suggestion as to how the edi
tors were to get the money to meet it.
The suggestion by Attorney General
Young, Minnesota, at St. Louis, that
the jurisdiction of Federal courts over
State laws be better defined by Federal
legislation is tolerably certain to receive
no little attention in the coming session
of congress. Mr. Young is not the first
to advance this proposal. It will be sup-,
ported by senators and represnatatives
from a number of states. State laws
aiming to regulate the charges of pub
lic service corporations have recently
been the most frequent cause of friction
between state authorities and the feder
al courts, but the removal by foreign
corporations to the federal courts of
cases which ought to be tried in the
courts of the vicinage has in a good
many states proved a source of no little
vexation.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean is loyally
republican still, but when it. sees men
' endeavoring to read into the consti
t itlon grants of power to themselves
which no one ever dreamed before could
be found there," then and in that case
if thev so on doing everything the
Roosevelt administration is doing and
trying to do, "we have real cause for
alarm," as the Inter-Ocean tell us. But
in that event we have no real occa
sion to "make ready to fight," as
the Inter-Ocean concludes. The time
honored ' method of saving the
country from its worst dangers is to
vote the republican party out of office.
It will be as effective now as it has al
ways been.
Campaign "roarbacks" seem to be
first nature with some people. The bas
est fabrication that has emanated from
any source is the report circulated in
some sections of the county .that C. E.
Metzger is not qualified for the office of
clerk of the district court. Now, every
one who has a personal acquaintance
with Mr. Metzger knows that this is a
lie of the first water. There is not a
man in uass county Dener quannea ior (
district clerk. Of course if Christie had
been holding office in the court house
for fourteen years, or thereabouts, he
would perhaps have had more experi
nce to begin with. But it will not take
a competent young man like Mr. Metz
ger long to catch on to the way of do
ing business in the district clerk's of
fice.
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Oklahoma and the President.
President Roosevelt could not safely
have reached any other conclusion than
that to jssue, s soon as he gets the re
turns, his proclamation certifying that
the Constitution of the State of Okla
homa has been approved by a majority
of the voters in the election of Septem
ber 17th.
. He is to be congratulated upon see
ing and admitting, as The Republic has
all along contended, that it is manda
tory upon him to issue this certifying
proclamation, provided only that the
new Constitution complies with the re
quirements of the enabling act which,
among other things, exacts that the
new State Government shall conform to
the Constitution of the United States,
which in turn guarantees to every
State a republican form of government.
From the Washington dispatches, it
appears Attorney General Bonaparte
has at last advised the President that
the Oklahoma Constitution, though ob
noxious to himself and to the President
meets all the requirements of the en
abling act, and, therefore the President
must certify the admission of the State
of Oklahoma to the Union.
But this advice could have 'been as
well given two months ago. Before
Secretary Taft went to Oklahoma to
advise Republicans to vote against the
the Constitution, the President must
have known that it would be given.
But by the President's order $150,000
of the public money had been spent up
on a census of the two Territories in
the hope that it might enable the Presi
dent to prove up a gerrymander and af
ford an excuse for keeping Oklahoma
out until after the Presidential election.
Until the people of the two Territor
ies gave the Constitution a majority
which seems to be nearly three times
as great as that by which Haskell is
elected Governor, it was hoped that
some pretext could be found for turn
ing down the Constitution, and the
President permitted intimations to be
given that he would find the pretext.
The prompt announcement that he
abandons his obstruction can hardly re
move from the people of the new State
the impression that he has not dealt
with them altogether in good faith.
The President would stand in better
relation to Oklahoma statehood if he
had, at the outset, frankly avowed his
purpose to certify the admission of Ok
lahoma, provided its Constitution con
formed to the enabling act. His silence
and the intimation of a contrary course,
which he allowed to go uncontradicted,
had perhaps no other effect than to in
case the vigilance and activity of all
political parties in Oklahoma in their
struggle for statehood.
The long fight being won at last, Ok
lahoma will come in within a month.
Its five Representatives and. its two
Senators in Congress will re-enforce
Southwestern representation in the
Sixtieth Congress, and will have a pot
ent voice in removing the obstructions
whichi have hindered progress, in all
parts, of the State, especially in. that
part of it which was the Indian Terri
tory. From this day on the two Territories,
united, in a single American Common
wealth, will move f orward with acceler
ated pace to a position among: half a
dozen. States foremost in population
and. wealth.
The Paper Trust
Tee last issue of the .Warsaw, (111.)
Bulletin, published by an old friend of
the editor of the Journal, and a great
leader of the republican party in his
county, has the following to say in
reference to the paper trust :
"A howl is going up from the news
paper boys all along the line relative to
the hold-up they are suffering at the
hands of the paper trust, and yet many
of them, in the same columns grow
husky questioning the orthodoxy of the
republican journal that dares to suggest
a modification of the Dingley law, just
as though it was something' sacred.
There are a lot of cowardly congress
men, who are afraid to face the respon
sibility of correcting the inequalities of
the present tariff law which has grown
up since the measure was adopted, and
they are interested in crying down the
movement of relief. In their professed
loyalty to protection they seek to exalt
a schedule above the principal, in order
to escape the duty they owe to the
people to relieve them of unnecessary
; burdens and protect them from the
rapacity cf tariff sheltered trusts.
; Unfortunately, and perhaps unconscious
; ly, the press has permitted itself to be
missed by these politicians, and now
the newspaper fellows, suffering as a
result of this sin of ommission on the
part of congress, squirm as the screw
tightens, while the paper combine
simply gives them the ha! ha!"
The above from the pen of our friend
Dallam, and now while all are alike deep
in ditches over the evils of the tariff
asylum, we are glad to take such tor
turous expressions from a republican
source of the truth that the "consumer"
is the "Jonah" who pays the freight
the tariff. Dallam calls the turn and
J closely points the way.
Ik anybody has found among the re
cords of Fairfax county, Virginia, an
old presentment of George Washington I
for tax-dodging, the country will regard
the document only as a curiosity of his
tory. The story that he omitted from
his sworn tax return a certain piece
of land he owned is readily accounted
for on the theory that he had so much
land, much of it unproductive, that he
didn't know where it all was. But no
body who has read Weems's story of
the hatchet and the cherry tree wil
pay any attention to the alleged find.
Democracy and the Nation.
It is highly creditable to the political
acumen of Lieutenant General H. C.
Corbin, retired, that he forecasts the
possibility that the congress to be elected
next year will be democratic, says the
Sc. Louis Republic. The democratic
party is going into the fight to win
Republican dissensions over the tariff
and other 'questions of vital importance
make it highly probable that the demo
crats will elect a majority of the house
of representatives of the Sixty-first
congress.
But General Corbin wabbles badly in
his prophesying when he says that this
result would be followed by hard times
and by a weakening of the national de
fenses. Taking up first the hard times
part of General Corbin's prognostica
tion, it is asserted without fear of suc
cessful contradiction that the great
prosperity which the country now enjoys
is due, in a large measure, to the adop
tion and enforcement of democratic
policies by the present republican ad
ministration. If confidence in the stability and use
fulness of the great corporations which
serve the people has been strengthened,
rather than hurt, by the application of
these democratic principles, the out
come is a testimonial to the greater wis
dom and conservatism of democracy as
compared with the republican party,
which has stumbled into democratic
ways only by accident.
Throughout its entire history the dem
ocratic party has been a most conserv
ative champion of property rights and a
zealous promoter of national industry
and prosperity. The country has never
been happier or more uniformly pros
perous than when governed upon the
democratic principle of equal rights and
opportunities for all, special monopoly
privileges for none. A democratic con
gress, acting upon the traditional party
policy of seeking the best welfare of all j
the people, and injuring no legitimate
interest, would postpone rather than
hasten the hard times of which General
Corbin is dreaming dreams.
If he were as well informed in the
military history of the United States
as he ought to be, General Corbin would
know that there was never in this coun
try a political party more zealous for
the national defense or more punctilious
in upholding the honor of the American
flag than the democratic party has been.
It has been claimed, with apparent
truth, that there were more democrats
than republicans in the union armies
during the civil war. Thewarof 1812, by
which A mericaai independence was firm
ly established, and foreign nations were
compelled to respect the American flag
as they had not done before, was a dem
ocratic war. The Mexican war, by
which we worn California and some of
the finest portions of the great south
west, was another democratic war, car
ried through against the opposition of
elements whichi rallied to the republican
party almost as soon as it was formed.
Both in congress and in the ranks,
democrats gaoveto the republican admin
istration as hearty support in the Span
ish war as republicans" possibly could.
That the national defense, either by land
or by sea, would be in any way weak
ened by the election of a democratic
congress is a folly to which people of
ordinary understanding will not give
heed.
" Speaking Around the Point.
President Roosevelt's speeches at
Jamestown, Indianopolis, Provincetown,
Keokuk, St. Louis, and Cairo are all in
effect the same speech somewhat dif
ferently arranged and phrased.
. In all these speeches he speaks around
his point without defining it. He does
this with skill. He uses all his re
sources of phase-making in doing it.
These resources he has developed until
they represent extraordinary fluency in
the use of language in concealing any
point he wishes to lead up to without
defining it.
The point he does not wish to define
is the meaning of centralized Federal
control of corporation stock and other
securities.
Putting this flatly before the public
the question he would have to answer
would be whether it would not give him
or the successor, a greater powers than
the ordinary peace power of the King
of England and Emperor of India, the
Emperor of Germany or the Czar of
Russia.
He could not rationally deny that this
would be the necessary results if he so
plainly defined his purposes as to allow
the question to be put. Hence he does
not define and does not put the question.
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