THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR 1911
VOTERS OF
LANCASTER COUNTY
We take pleasure in present
ing the Republican Candidates
of Lancaster County, and a
brief history of each.
In prvsvnting this list of candidates
to you. we feel that we have one of
the strongest and best tickets ever
presented to the voters of this county,
and a ticket for which no apology need
he made or is necessary. Every can
didate is well qu&litted for the position
to which he aspires and we urge your
earnest and enthusiastic support for
the straight Republican ticket.
These candidates were nominated by
the direct primarv vote, were the
choice of the Republican voters of this
county, ami we ask you to support
the candidates thus selected. Our
candidates are well and favorably
known throughout Lancaster County,
as capable, honest and worthy of your
fullest confidence.
We want your vote. We want your
neighbors votes. Can we count on
your aid in rolling up a big- Republican
majority on November Tth?
NIELS P. HANSEN, Chairman
Cessty Repablkaa Central Committee
J. ROD GREEN, Secretary
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ALBERT J. CORNISH.
Albert J. Cornish has been judge ot the
district court ot this county over fifteen,
rears, and his record has been unanimously
approved by the attorneys of the Lancaster
county bar. Four years ago the bar unani
mously recommended him to the voters ot
tints county for election as district judge.
Cases tried before him have been reversed
ia the supreme court less than that of any
other Judge in the state. This proves at
once his ability and his integrity as a judge,
anil makes him a valuable official, because
the judge whose opinions are not reversed
is likely to render just decisions, and saves
litigants and the taxpayers the expense of
re-trials. A well known and approved judge
should be kept in office. No one will favor
the making of the judiciary a part of party
spoils to be passed around amongst politi
cal aspirants. A judge should be fearless,
dependent, and non-partisan while on the
tnch.
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W1LLARD E. STEWART.
Judge Stewart has been a resident of the
city of Lincoln for thirty-three years, where
he has been actively engaged in the prac
tice ot his profession for thirty years, when
ot engaged in official duties. He was edu
cated at IV ru state normal school and at
the state university. Judge Stewart served
two terms as county judge of Lancaster
county In 1S0T he was nominated at the
primary election and was elected one of the
district judges of Lancaster county. His
four years of service upon the bench has
received the universal favor and endorse
ment of the public and bar of Lancaster
ounty. At the recent primary election he
feceived the very flattering endorsement of
ver votes tor his second term. .
During his practice as an attorney Judge
Stewart has appeared in all the courts of
the state and the nation, including the
United States supreme court- As district
judge he has essentially made good. He
has been genial and accommodating to law
yers and citiiens. The records show that
for the time he has served on the district
bench he has been approved by the su
preme court as generally as have the other
judges of the state.
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P. JAMES COSGRAVE.
Judge Cosgrave was born in Pennsylvania
in 1ST1 and when thirteen years of age
moved with his parents to Lincoln. He
graduated from the Lincoln schools in 1SS9
and at once entered Ann Arbor law school,
probably the best school of its kind in the
middle west. He received his Bachelor's
degree in 1S91 and the next year took the
higher Master's degree in law.
In 1S92 he was admitted to practice in the
circuit and supreme courts of Michigan, and
the federal district and circuit courts of the
same state. He was also admitted to prac
tice in all the courts of Nebraska and in
the federal district and circuit courts of this
BUte.
Judge Cosgrave served ia the Spanish
American war, seeing service in the Philip
pines as captain of company L He was
elected police judge of Lincoln in 1902 and
served five years. He was then elected
county judge, which position he still holds.
He has given the office strict attention and
has performed his duties and kept the rec
ords with less cost to the county than his
predecessors. Lancaster county members of
the bar give him credit for having an excel
lent record as county judge of Lancaster
county.
GEORGE H. RISSER.
Judge G. H. Risser is largely a product of
Lancaster county, was educated in the Uni
versity ot Nebraska, where he graduated
from the law school in 1S9S. Five years
after his graduation from the law school, in
1903, he"was elected justice of the peace,
and two years thereafter was re-elected. He
was appointed police judge in October of
190? and the next month was elected to that
judicial position. He was re-elected two
years by -a majority large enough to show
the high regard in which his work had been
held by the people of the city.
Judge Risser is particularly of a judicial
bent of mind. He is not swayed from the
correct interpretation of the law and the
fact by any efforts, and his rulings have
been given with an impartiality that has
won much praise for him, and which indi
cates clearly his fitness to take charge ot
the probate work of the county. The re
publican county committe bespeaks for him
the consideration of all voters in the
county.
J. S. BAER.
J. S. Baer, clerk of the district court, is a
candidate for the second term. Mr. Baer
has been a resident of this county since
1SS2. and is well known by the people, hav
ing been county superintendent and deputy
clerk of the district court before holding his
present position. Has made good his prom
ises to the people; he has given his personal
attention to the work of the office; has re
vised the records and made new ones; has
put in a practical and complete system of
accounting whereby the different funds are
separated and the books balanced as care
fully as the books of a bank. He has made
complete report to the county commission
ers showing -.very Item of fees during his
term; has run the office with fewer em
ployes than ever before and by means of
personal supervision has saved to the county
the surplus fee earnings amounting in his
term of office to 512,636.20, as shown by the
records of September 30, 1911.
GUS A. HYERS.
Gus Hyers, candidate for sheriff, comes
from one of the country districts of the
county. He has been postmaster at Have
lock for six years and a resident of that
city for twenty years. As government of
ficial and as a machinist of the railroad
shops he gave the same energy to his duties
that he will phow in the enforcement of
the Taw, if elected sheriff of the county.
Mr. Hyers has always been an active re
publican. His father before him was the re
publican sheriff of Cass county six years,
and warden of the penitentiary one term.:
Hence Gus Hyers comes from a family of
law-enforcement officers. He promises the
people that he will enforec the law to the
utmost and that he will bring to his aid
deputies in whom the people have confi
dence. He will be sheriff in deed as well as
name.
At the recent primary Mr. Hyers received
the approval of practically the entire voting
strength of his town and precinct. He is
still an active member of the machinists
union of Havelock.
PHILIP A. SOMMERLAD.
The republican candidate for treasurer,
Philip A Sommerlad, has lived almost all
the forty-three years of his life in Lancaster
county. He was educated in the public
schools of Lincoln; earned his own way
since he was fourteen years of age. He has
for five years been secretary of the. Wood
ruff Bank Note Co. of Lincoln. At the pres
ent time Mr. Sommerlad is treasurer of the
Young Men's Republican club.
Phil Sommerlad comes of good republican
stock. His father settled in Richardson
county while it was yet virgin frontier, and
in 1 STi was elected to the state legislature
as a republican. In 1S72 the elder Sommer
lad was appointed receiver of the United
States land office at Lincoln, which position
he held until his death in IS 73. As a boy
Phil Sommerlad supported a widowed
mother and four brothers and sisters.
The republican party of Lancaster county
presents him as its candidate for treasurer,
knowing that he will bring to the office the
same industry, honesty, and vigorous admin
istration that has marked him in private
life.
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V. A. MATTHEWS.
"Jack" Matthews is candidate for coroner
on the republican ticket and rests his case
with the voters of Lancaster county on his
record while serving in that capacity in the
past. Mr. Matthews is one of the best
known men in the county and it is hardly
necessary to say anything in his behalf.
When he first became a candidate for
coroner he declared that he would reduce
the expenses of the office to a minimum, re
lieve the taxpayers of unnecessary burdens,
conduct the office with fairness between
man and man regardless of station in life,
hold inquests with their attendant costs only
when circumstaices warranted investigation;
would seek to rest the responsibility of ac
cidents where it belonged without fear,
without favor, and that he would not use
his office in the disposition of remains that
came under his charge in any manner con
trary to the wishes of relatives and friends.
He has done all that he promised and on
this record is seeking re-election.
HARRY E. WELLS.
Harry Wells, - republican candidate for
county clerk, is asking for a second term on
his record made thus far in the conduct of
that office. He has done the work with but
one deputy where it has been customary to
employ two deputies. As an official Mr.
Weels has always been uniformly courteous
and obliging to all who have done business
with his office.
Mr. Wells has been a resident and citizen
of Lancaster county for thirty-five years. For
many years he was a deputy in the office
of county clerk, being retained from term to
term because of his knowledge of the de
tail work of record keeping. The tax rec
ords are made up in this office and the ut
most care is required that they be accurate
and dependable.
During the time he has served as chief
of the office no criticism has been' offered
from any quarter as to the manner in which
he performed those duties, which include
the keeping of the record of the proceedings
of the board of county commissioners.
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CLINTON J. MITCHELL.
One of the republican candidates for
county office who has lived all his life in the
county which he seeks to serve in official
capacity is Clinton J. Mitchell, candidate for
commissioner. Mr. Mitchell is a farmer and
stockraiser by occupation.
As taxpayer and as citizen he lias tna in
terests of the county at heart, and will
bring to the office of commissioner the care
ful management and economy which has
been given to his own business.
The three commissioners of the comity
expend thousands of dollars of the people's
money every year, and it behooves the vot
ers to be careful whom they select. Th
southern part of the county had enough con
fidence in Mr. Mitchell to give him a big
vote in the primary, and tne voters ia th
rest of the county are asked to take the en
dorsement of the neighbors of Mr. Mitchell
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W. H. GARDNER.
The republican candidate tor tamatj su
perintendent of schools, W. H Gardner, has
spent all his mature years in the edocatiooal
profession, and is thoroughly f-mtt-r witi
every detail of the education of children aad
young men and women. He has lived ia
Nebraska for thirty years, and for most c!
that time has been a prominent figure ia tie
educational world. For tea years he has -made
his home in University Place.
His educational work has included euaaty
school teaching; principal of graded ThooU,
city superintendent of schools of no leaa ias
portance than Anbnrn and Fremont, mormal
school work, and instructor ia the tM-fcfwg
of agriculture. He was appointed to the
position of county superintendent last May
and is now holding the office. Mr. Gardner
graduated from Nebraska Wesleyaa univer
sity and Nebraska state university.
Contrary to its former policy Lancaster
county ham .been forced to-ehange its aupex
intendent five times in the last two year.
The changes have been far too frequent to
insure efficient school management. By tha
retention of Mr. Gardner the voters of the
county will insure a continuation of a fixed
policy and a betterment of the school sys
tem. WIN FIELD S. SCOTT.
W. S. Scott, candidate for county surveyor
on the republican ticket, has bees a resident
of the city of Lincoln for the past forty
years. He has been a civil engineer all his
life and has held the position of county sur
veyor for twenty years. He is thoroughly
familiar with all parts of the county, and
with all of the bridges and highway work ia
this extensive county.
Mr. Scott is a son of the late Capt. N. S
Scott, who was engaged in civil engineering
in a private capacity for many years and at
various times held the position of city en
gineer of Lincoln. Mr. Scott attended tne
public schools of Lincoln and the state uni
versity and during this time worked at the
surveying business with his father, thereby
obtaining a practical as well as theoretical
knowledge of the work. With his long ex
perience he is especially fitted for the of
fice of county surveyor.
During his long service for the county
Mr. Scott has given general satisfaction, so
much so that usually he has not been op
posed for re-election.
Champ Clark is in Nebraska and we
trust that Col. John G. llzher wSl
maintain a polite and discreet silence
for a day or two. "We must not ap
pear discourteous to our diatingnislied
visitors.
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