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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NER, THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 181)1. CIjc Jarmcra Alliance, Published svery Baturday or Tiik Aixiaxcb IVBUsnnco Co. Oor. lit and M Bu., Lincoln, Neb. T. Rrmnini Editor J.M.TBOnreoa'...i. Business Manaref Tn the beauty of the liuies Christ w born across the sea, TTith a glory in his bosom That transfigures you and me. As he strove to make men holy Let us strive to make them free, Since God is marching on." Julia Ward Howe. "Laurel crowns cleave to deserts, And power to him who pow er exerts. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs." Emerson. "He who cannot reason Is a fool, lie who will not reason is a coward. He who dare not reason is a slave." TO CORRESPONDENTS. AMdm all huatnitM com m u nloations to Address matter for publication to Editor Farmer' Alliance. , Articles written on both side of the paper want be umI, Very lung- communications. ae aruio cumn in um. PUBLISHED WKKKLT AT CORNER tlTH AND M STREETS, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. J. BUBROWS. 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They will be elected, and as judges will do honor to the party that electa them. TUK ULTKST TRICK. , They are getting desperate. The last dodge to elect C. E. Waite, republican ' candidate for district clerk, is to disguise the fact that he Is Charjie Waite, the as sistant cashier in the State National bank. And president; .of another bank, and to make voters believe that it is Charlie Waite the popular engineer and Knight of Labor.f Donto them do saw yon BD&tieaJ youravetes. They aura desperate and will do anything for vvtes for the ring ticket The Terrible Charge Against . Judge Post. He Evidently Confesses the Crime. The 0.naha World Herald of Sunday morning last contains a terrible indict ment against Judge AM Post, the re publican candidate for suprema judge. The leading facts, as stated by the Herald, aro as follows: Mr. Post began the practice of law at Leon, Decatur county, Iowa. He soon gained the entree of the best families of the town. He became a member of the Masonic order. There was a very fine family In the tows consisting of a mother and three daughters, the father, who was also a Mason, having but lately died. The youngest daughter was a lovely girl about seventeen, who was the favorite of all who kaew her, being un iversally admired for her sweetness and purity of character. Mr. Post obtained the confidence Rud love of this girl, and became ber seducer. He then refuse! the only reparation be could make, marriage. Suit was brought and be was Indicted. He was expelled from j the Masonic orckr. Upon hi providing for the support of the child born the suit was not pressed. Years afterwards be was enabled to t ecu re his reinstate ment in the Masonic order. The son birn of this connection, and the mother, are still living in that nelgnborhood, the latter married to a worthy man and being herself a most estimable and worthy woman, the one mistake of loving A. M. Post not wisoly but too well being tbo only blemish upon her life. The above comprises all the essential facts. They ard elaborated, with many details, in three columns of fine print in the WorldHerrld, That the statements of the .-. are true there can be no doubt. That paper is entirely responsible tinanclally, for any libel it may publish, if the story was not true a jury would give a verdict for almot t unlimited damages any amount in fact which a prosecutor might ask. Besides, iu this state, its editor would be criminally liable under very severe penalties. There is no doubt, therefor, that the publishers of the W.-II. knew absolutely that the fuartul charge made against Judge Post was true before tbey accepted the responsibility of publishing it. We do not believe in. a mud-flinging campaign. Our readers can bear wit ness that we greeted with approval Judge Post's speech in which he ex pressed the wish that no such campaign should be made. Is it not possible that the memory of his crime haunted him, that visions of that desecrated home and the fair young girl whose life he had poisoned, floated before hto mind when be uttered that wish? In tho Daily Bee of October 20 is an authoritative interview with Judge Post on the subject. This interview is conclusive and damning evidence of the truth of the awful charge. contains no denial whatever of the truth of the charge of seduction and bastardy, but on the con trary practically admits it. We quote all the passages having direct reference to the charge: "Nearly twenty years asro when I was 25 years old, a charge ot seduction was brought against me. It was not true that I was indicted." No donial there of the truth of the charge! He goes on: "A civil suit for damages ended practically in the same way. Plaintiff's attorney dismissed and the record shows that it was 'at plaintiff's cost.' I was about to be married to tho woman who is now my wife and was anxious to end the case. So I agreed to and did pay piaintin s attorney a sums;illleient. either in money or property, I don't now rememoer wnien, to cover costs and certain money he had expended. I lie total was about 100 which was the OHly money or thing of value paid or transferred by mo in the settlement of that case." The above is peculiar. "Suit was dismissed at plaintiff's cost," but he "agreed to and d:d pay plaintiff's at torney a sum sufficient to cover costs and certain sums he had expen ded," (about $100.) which teas all he paid. Now see the following: "No! I will not mention the name of the woman referred to by tht World Herald. That paper has caused suffer ing enough. I never saw the child re let red to, and the story that it was named for me is a pure fabrication." - Unparalleled magnanimity I Sublime pity! He admits the existence of "the woman," and that she has a name. He will not mention it, because it will cause her suffering the woman he ruined and refused reparation to! What a merciful heart has grown up within him in the years since he committed that rrong. He admits the existence of "the child." He indignautly denies that it ever bore his name, but fails to deny that it bad a right before God and man to bear it. The man of mature years, as was A M. Post at that time, who will enter a pure home, and in the guiso of friend ship and love betray an innocent girl, and then refuse the only reparation a man can make, is a fiend, and deserves death.' The society that could condone such an act, and elevate the perpetrator, ef it to a high official position, would be fit 6nly to disgrace a barbaric age, This is tho end of the chapter. Without this revelation having been made Mr. Post Would "have been de feated by at least 30,000 majority. His defeat should now be so over whelming that no man with so black a cloud hanging over him will ever again presume to solicit the, suffrages of '.a virtuous and justice-loving people.; Tub Alliance office was houored Wednesday by a brief call from Con gressman McKoighan. THK CITADEL ATTACKED. There have been scores of parties formed which drew together multitudes of meu tottand forcherished principles. for some one or more of man's inherent rights. But tiie parties of the past have attacked only tho outlying posts, the grosser form, of evil. A few cf these, detached, have been captured and some barbarous oppressions, hitherto made legal, outlawed. But for every grosser evil outlawed its equal, more refined. has almost invariably appeared. The citadel of injustice, the hiding cf satanic power, from whence iu mammon-wor shipers, have ruhdued and ruled the world, scarce any in the preceding generations have beheld, much le at tacked. It is only in the last decade that the people Id large and increasing number have been awakened to see the throne of evil, its scepter, its accepted laws, by which, taking advantage of their common ignorance, the yoke has been slipped upon them. Ali oppression springs and has ever sprung from a selfish, dikhorct dispo sition to command the services of others without rendering them a full equiva lent. Luxury, case, display, pride and princely power are thus, by dishonesty aud robltery, supported. Save iu the early church men have never been con tent to live as brethren, giving each other, in receguilion cf equal rights, unobstructed, unmonopolixed use of the means of production, helping each other with equal labor when co-operation was an advantage, and allowing each the possession and enjoyment of the full product o) his labor. The history of the past, is a history of Individuals struggling with individ uals, each exercising, as his power per mitted, the functions of a selfish despot. Possible conquest, plunder faud the multiplication of servants, were the in centives which unsheathed the sword and drenched the earth with the blood of every generation which has prectded us. Our civil war v as fought to enable some to livo without labor and force others to toil without recompense, to hold and perpetuate a race of slaves, five hundred thousand cf the best and bravest men dying in the struggle. And human nature has net changed since then. Tho conflict is no longer carried on with booming cannon and rattling musketry. But slaves are made by un just laws. Nominally free, men sweat for others still, and the number of actual slaves, those forced to toil with out just recompense, is greater than when the bloody war of tho rebellion ended and the foul, cruel monster, slavery, was thought dead and forever burled. The laws which lead to all oppression, and the privation and sufforing it causes, are class laws, laws whiah give monop olies, special privileges and immunities to a part of the pecple, making the rest in consequence subject to them. Such are tho laws which allow a few to pos sess the mines, the oil wells, land they cannot use, the means of transportation and a volume-controlling interost in the currency; which secure to the capitalist tyrannical control over laborers, bo- cause capital has become a necessity as a moans of production; and which enable tho money-loaning and capitalist class to accumulate by the labor of others enough to purchase as tbey in crease in wealth all property of fast in creasing value, and thus increase tbo number of those dependent upon the rich for work and wages. The people's party has sprung into existence not to make tho black man free, but to emancipate all men; not to secure political freedom to a class, but to gain for all industrial freedom, with out which there can be no political freedom; no lasting people's govern ment. It stands upon tho declaration that "all men are created equal," hav ing equal right to Jive, labor and enjoy the fruits of their labor. It teaches that none should have power to enjoy without labor. It demands equal op portunities and exact justice in business for each individual, and proposes to abolish all monopolistic privileges and power. It is the first party that has comprehended the great question of in justice aud proposed an adequate rem edy for the evils of society. It is a grand new party which shall bind to gether the people for mutual help as well as defense, a party organized to dothrone the money kings, the monop olist despots, the ruling class; aud which shall make of this nation an in dustrial democracy in which each citi zen shall have un equal interest, and his own home secured. A PARTISAN DECISW.. The decision of the supremo court allowing Parker and other individuals who arc placed on the state, prepared ballot by petition as candidates, to there be printed under tho heading. Independent, is undoubtedly a scheme to take advantage of the name of our party to divide our veto. It is a shrewd political trick, backed up by the court, and one that in its divisive results can not be sufficiently guarded against. The court had no precedent, so law and no necessity to guide it, and should have directed thf.; candi dates by petition be so d3signated. Justice to the people of the independent party should havo drawn from it a fair, a different decision. The decision given takes advantage of almost the same name and an inevitable confusion of ideas, for a manifest purpose to defeat the will of tho people and favor corrupt politicians. . ' Beware of all independents who are not people's independents, the people's chose candidates. ? They ; are , decoy ducks sent out and controlled by the old party gangs. Carefully examine the lists of independent candidates be fore voting. " ' . ;" ' ' v XW Judg Poai not only does not sue tho rorjtf-Xtt$ltW$ libel,' oft't admits the truth of every material charge made against him. PL'MCuASlXG POWER. A very able correspondent, Mr. C. C. Camp, of Fredonia, N. Y., s ems to be somewhat at -a in regard to the effect of increasing the purchasing power of money. Speaking of increased prices as the result of increased issue, he says: " If the only result is to raise the price of products and wages proportionately, what have you accomplished? The farmer spends every cent now. He would gst more then, and pay it all out for increased cost of supplies." This is the argument of the gold bug contractionist, and its plausibility puz zles many a man. The injustice of a contraction, or a stationary currency with iriHiiding busin. ss and population, arises from the foct that debts do not shrink. With shrinking values, such as we have had for the past fifteen years, the farmer who has mortgaged his farm for one-third or one-half its value may see values disappear until the farm is only worth the face of the mortgage. In such a case he is confronted by the f ict that it was his property which ha taken to Itself wings, and not the mort- g igaV. The mortgpge calls for just as many dollars as it did at first, though it may now take two such farms to repre sent that number instead of one. So with h s interest. If he pays ten per cent, aud buys ths money with wheat at Sl.00 per bushel, it takes 10C bushel of wheat to pay a year's interest ou $1,000. If now by contraction the prica of wheat falls to 60 cents, it takes 200 bushels of wheat to pay tho interest, though tho latter remains nominally the same. Honcc, our correspondent will see that to the debtor the purchas power of products is of much more im portance than the purchasing power of money. If there are no debtors in western New York the purchasing power of money is of much less import ance there. But even with tho producer entirely free from debt the argument that in creaso of purchasing power is self com pensating is fallacious. The producer buys money with products or labor. The money lender buys products with money. Ihe first is interested in tho purchasing power of products, the sec- oud in the purchasing power of money. The interests of theso parties are irrec oncilable. Their relative prosperity depends on rices. If prices are kw the producer suffers. If prices are high the money lender suffers. If the farmer or laborer is to accumu late any property for a rainy day it must como from his margin ot produc tion over subsistence. The amount of this margin in money depends on prices. This margin may be entirely wiped out by falling prices. This arises from the fact that ro man can escape the burden of interest in any community where tho credit system prevails. There is a fine point here which should be careful ly thought out. A IESS0.Y FOR AMERICANS. The nobility, so-called, of England is a privileged class, the descendants of robber barons whose land titles gained by conquest have through all succeeding generations been respected, and all advantages of land ownership, all in crease of values accruing from pressure of population and the toil of surround ing millions, has by law been added to the increase of this useless, arrogant, most cruelly burdensome, lordly class. Great Britain has only 100,000 citizens who own land, who possess homes. All the rest are renters, who may be driven into the Atlantic at the pleasure of her land monopolists. After centuries of oppression by this class, tho people who have representa tion in the Commons are seriously threatening the abolition of the blue blood house of lords. Strange that Englishmen would so long endure such tyranny, such robbery, such slavery, that they should continue to honor the robbers, bowing and ficraping to those who stole tuoir natural inheritance, and toiling with grimy sweat to eadow with luxury the useless ihvnes. Let us hope that they may soon, queen, princes, lords and all, bo legislated out of their royal and legal prerogatives, their monopoly of land, and be drawn iuto tho producing, useful class. But, now we '.hink of it, what better off are we? Have wc not 31,000 in this new land Mho own half the wealth of tho country? Do not our coal barons, our railroad magnates, our oil and iron lords, ou; money kings and corporation rulers, outrank in power, in taxing strength and crushing burdensomeness tho lordly band of Britain? Shall we despise the common peoplo of tho British isles who never yet were free, we the sons of tho revolution? Are we not slaves? How many millions in our large land are tenants? How many more are working aud forced to work at prices fixed by privileged classes? Even the land owuer must bow before money and transportation Mngs! Our fathers fought for freedom, and so must wo, if we would havo it. THE PEOPLE SMILE. MeKeighan and Kem are slumping the state for the independents. Bryan has talked for the democrats and coquetted with the independents. Over iu Iowa evefy- letdiDg republican from Senator Allisou down to the poorest paid state officer are in the field, but with the ex ception of Majors and Hastings no re publican whom the party baa honored with a high position has deigned to raise his voice in the present campaign. Com ment is suparflons Omaha Bee. Urn! Ah! Exactly! So everybody perceives. The republican" are not in it this year. And for the reason that by no possibility could there be anything in it for them. The old nilroad gang has not been able to smile for a year past. They are personally afraid to face the indignant outraged peoplo wherroce" en masse aud burled the u politically fa year ago,. - And there is no use either to wasto breath on a forlorn hope, they conclude, Hence they have "kept on saying noth ing." The republican loaders of Ne braska will never again be heard from. More Than Filly Per Cent of His Case? Reversed by the Supreme Court. His Last Yrar Wor. than His Find. Post Proud to be a Kailroad Judge. Extracts from the Speech of Judge Ceo. I. Wright at Bohanan's Hall Oct. 19, Fellow Cithens of Nebraska: Let us candidly reason together about the s-ocalled issues of the pending cam paign for the'supremo judgeship of Ne braska. Let us help the pure sunlight of absolute truth to dispel the cloud! of misrepresentation which befog the is sue. All honest men desire to know whether the 'issue is one of biains against mendacity, or one wherein pre eminent judicial ability is arrayed against a shyster lacking in profession al qualifications. We want to know whether the issue is, shall the railroads control the supreme court or shall the people. Those who have known Mr. Edger ton for years testify that he is a man of honor and uprightness, that he is en dowed by his creator with large capaci ty for thought, and that he can weigh well the thoughts of others. Those of you who have heard him speak can testify to his ability to clothe with ex pressive words the idea3 to which his brain gives birth. The republican party of Nebraska has brought Mr. Edgerton iuto the court of newspaper opinion and tried him upon tho charges cf want of legal qualifications and of being a shyster. They havo produced as evidence the unsworn statements of his political ene mies, made in the heat of battle, prompt ed by partisan prejudices ard warped by the animus or the republican edi tors who aro acting as counsel for the prosecution. The republican papers aro not only acting as counsel for the prosucutiou, but are also acting as the jury, and they have brought in their unsworn verdict of guilty on both counts, and are now appealing to the voters of Nebraska to pass sentence of political death upon hija. Such a trial is a travesty upon justice. It Is hypocricy masquerading under the guise of truth. Tho Omaha Bee in like manner tried and convicted Judge Reese on the same charge eight years ago, but tho voters of Nebraska set a side the verdict, and the judicial career of Judge Reese is a sufficient answer to the rightfulness of the verdict. Judge Post has served upon the dis trict bench as many years as any of our present district judges except Judge Gaslin. It is said he has pre-eminent fitness for a high judicial place. Let us try him in tho court of official record and learn it we can tho righteous ver dict. For evidence we will use such of his judicial acts as have been reviewed in the supreme court. We will try him before a jury composed of his political friends, and tho verdict will bo found written in the opinions of tho supreme court, uttered in the tclemn discharge of their sworn duty, not in the heat of political battle in an unfair one-sided hearing, but after both sides of the case heve been fairly presented and ably argued. Prior to September 1st, 1891, 109 cases (heard in district court by Judge Post) were reviewed in the supreme court. Tho following cases tried before A. M. Post have been reviewed in the Supremo Court, and reversed. Siurtovant vs. State, 15 Neb. 4;S); Zahradmcek vs. bel by, 13 Neb. 579; Dovereaux vs. Henry, 10 Neb. 55; 15. & M. 11. li. vs. Saunders County, 10 Neb. 123; Wilch vs. Phelps, Hi Neb. 515; O. IS. & li. II. it. Li. Uo. VS. Umstcad, 17 Neb. 459; Same vs. Lamb, 17 Neb. 401; Same vs. l.auib, 17 Neb. 402; Sutlirf vs. Johnson, 17 Neb. 575; Smith vs. Jones, 18 Neb, 481; Romberg v-. Hughes, 18 Neb. 579; H ind vs. Phil lips. 18 Neb. 598; Mayer & Schurrnan vs, .ingre, 18 Neb. 459; Brawn vs. Mer rick County, 18 Neb. 855; buvdam vs. Merrick County, 19 Neb. 155; Sta-e vs. L iwrenee, 19 Neb. 307; State vs. Hurds, 19 Neb. bl7; Hansen vs. Berthelsen, 19 Neb. 433; Dickinson vs. State, 20 Neb. 72; Soruborger vs. Berggren, 20 Neb. 399; Parks vs. State, 20 Neb. 515; . Buck master vs. McElroy, 20 Neb. 557, Reese dissenting; Fuller '& Johnson vs. Schro cder. 20 Neb. 031; First National rlauk vs. Lucas. 21 Neb. 280; Sells vs. Hag gard, 21 Neb. 357; Phelps vs. Stocking, 21 Neb. 443: Obertielder vs Kavanaugn, 21 Neb. 483; Parker vs. Matheson, 21 Neb. 540; Western Insurance Company VS. O'Neill, 21 Neb. 548; Tootle vs. Ma beih 21 Neb. 017; Larson vs. Butt. 22 Neb. 370; Cortelyou vs. Maben, 22 Neb. On"; Perkins vs. Strong, 2 J Neb. ?2oH lieu vs. Arndt, 24 iNeb. 2l; Hart vs Barnes, 24 Neb 782; City vs. Hartford Insurance Co. 25 Neb. 83; Lincoln Na tional Bank vs. Davis, 25 Neb. 370; Mc Cleneghan vs. O & R. V. R. R. Co., 25 Neb. 523; Chollette vs. O. & R. V. R. R. Co., 20 Neb. 159; Wibon vs Butler Co. 20 Neb. 070; Stoddard M'f'g. Co. vs. Krause, 27 Neb. 83; Soruborger vs. Huffman, 27 Neb. 491; Oberfelder vs. Kavanaugh. 45 N. W. 471: Westovervs. Van Dorn, 4(1 N. W. 47; C. B. & Q. R. R. Co vs. Kriski 40 N. W.520; Phoenix Insurance Co: vs. Bohman. 47 N. W. 037; Sjck vs. Suba, 47 N. W. 859; Grim vs. Robinson, 48 N. W. 388; Stevens vs. Sibhett. 48 N. W. 405; Hale vs Ripp, 49 N W. 218; Upton vs. O'Donahue. 49 K. W. 207; Wendt vs. State. 49 N. W. 851. This makes a total of l!f ty-two cases squarely reversed, and iu only one of which was there a dissenting opiuion. Iu the cases of Osborne vs. McAllister, 15 Neb. 431, Bryant vs. Barton, 49 N. W. 331. and tbo case of the B. & M R R. Co. vs. White, 28 Neb. IGOPosterred in tho matter of instructions although the cases were affirmed. In the case ot O. N & B. H. R. R. Co. vs O Donnell 23 Neb. 475, which was affirmed. Post evidently erred in his judgment of the evidence A total of 109 cases have been reviewed in the Supreme Court taken from Judge Post's c-urt. In fifty-two of these ho has been reversed, In two Of them no question watt raised except practice in the Supreme Court, in two of them which are affirmed Post and Marshall sat and determined together, and in four of them that "were affirmed it was done notwithstanding the errors of Post. It can hardly be said that this record gives Post a-standing of being right in 50 per cent of the cases taken from his court to the Supreme Court of review. The case of the O. & R.V. Ry. Co. vs. Brown in 16 Neb. is the only dissenting opinion, in a case affkmtd by the Su preme Court. 'i bis record shows that Judge Post is not up to the average district judges of the eUte. iu so for as uis record has len reviewed in the supreme court. From the Leg'r.ning of the September, lt'J term otthe supreme court Until the beginning of the September, 1891 term, Post was reversed in eleven cases and affirmed in eight cases, but in two of the cases affirmed, to-wit: 28 Neb., 106 and 49 N. W. 331. Post errod in the matter of instructions. This show that the record of Post instead ofimprocing uith eiper'unc is graving worst, and that his eminent fitness for a high judicial place rests largely in tht brag of his friends, not hating the foundation of official record to stand on. At least nine-tenths of all the lwas legulutig corporate powers and iabtli ties are the reiuit of judicial decisions and not of legislative enactments. Far more important to the railroads is a su preme judge favorable to their views of corporate law, than one third of the state lfgislatuio or the Governor him self. Post has never decided but one question of corporate law against the interests of the railroads, and that was in dismissing an appeal of a railroad company from the appraisement made 'in condemnation proceedings for not riling an answer in the district court. See O. N. & B. H. It R. Co. vs. Urn stead, 17 Nub. 459 The only other mis take that Post has made' against the in terest of a railroad coni( any was in not sustaining the motion for a new trial in the case of the C. B. & (2 R. R. Co. vs. Kiiski. 40 N. W. Reporter 520, wherciu Kriskl Lad obtained a verdict of $259 0U against tho -company for ma licious prosecution. In 181 a great ilood came down the Piatte river at tho time of the breaking up of the ice, and tlw ico formed a dam against the o. & R. V. R. R. Co's bridge across the Platte river at Valley, caus ing ;ho icG,-saud and water toiiow over the adjoining laud and damage and de stroy a- large amount of property, anmng v,h'ch was the mill property of J. P. Brown. Brown brought suit for the damage doue to his property, alleg ing that tne damage was caused by the faulty plan aud construction of tne railway bridge aforesaid. The case was tried in the district court before G. W. Post, and taaeu to the supremo court by the compauy, and there re versed because the second instruction to tbo jury was erroneous. Judge Cobb wrote tho opinion of the court and laid down the law relative to the liability of the company iu a very explicit manner. Tho case returned to district court for trial, aud was then heard before A. M. Post, and Brown a second time won his case, but the compauy again took it to the supreme court, but Pust instruct ed the jury so well that the principal error relied on by the company and the only one discussed by the court was as to wnetner tne evidence was sumcicnt to sustaiu the verdict, and Maxwell af firmed Post while Cobb dissented on the question of tho sufficiency of the evidence alone. Both judges adhering ta the law as laid down in the same case in 14 Neb. A few years later a like flood came down the Platte, the ice and water again damned up and formed gorg es against and above the bridge, re sulting in the overflow of the land owned by one McCleueghan, and caus ing him great damage. McCloneghan sued the company for the damages done him by said flood and the trial was had before A. M. Post in district court, and although he had correctly tried the case ol Brown vs. the company and had correctly stated the law of liability of the company for the erection of said bridge iu instructing tho jury in that case, yet in instructing the jury in tho McCleneghan case upon tho same ques tion he uot only failed to follow his for mer instructions which even theraib'oad company did not urgo in the supreme court was en oneous, but goes so far be yond the law that Reese in writing the opinion hich Cobb and Maxwell con cur in, said, "We not only think this instruction fails to state the law cor rectly, but that it states it incorrectly. In O. & R. V. R. R. Co. vs. Brown, 14 Neb. 170, a case quite similar to this, aud growing out of the construction ot the same bridge, Judge Cobb, in writ ing tho opinion of the court stated tho law of liability," and then Reese adds: "This rule of law was adheied to in the same case, 10 Neb. 100, by Judge Max well aud by Chief Justice Cobb, at page 108." Did Judge Post simply follow the su preme court in the first case in instruct ing the jury, and not express his own opinion of the law until ho instructed the McLlenegbnu jury ? Had he come to the conclusion that his pre eminent fitness for high judicial place would cause the supreme court to reverse itself because he had reversed himself and it, or did ho see iloatiug iu the dis tance a possible promotijn? These 3uestions can ouly be answered by udgo Post or possible conjecture. The case was unanimously reversed and again tried in tho district court, McCle neghan getting a large verdicD on tho second trial. In tho case of Chollette vs O. & R. V. R. R. Co., 20 Neb. 109, Post is reversed by the unanimous opinion of the su preme court for directing the jury to re turn a verdict in favor ot the company, which he did before ihe company had in troduced any evidence whatevtr. Post virtually held that as said company was operated by the U. P. Ry, it would be exempt from liability for personal in juries caused a passenger by negligence of iti trainmen. Tho supreme court thought otherwiso, and 011 the second trial of the caso in district court the woman obtained a verdict for $4 000. Ip tho ease of the O. N. & li H. R. R. Co. vs. O'Dnnoell, 22 Neb. 475, it ap pears that ODonuel had sued the com pauy and obtaiued a verdict for $5,500 in district court before Post, and that this verdict was set aside by Post and a new trial granted because the evi dence did not sustain it. On the second trial O'Donnell obtained a verdict for $5,000, and Post refusing to set the sec ond verdict aside delivered a written opinion in which he found that O'Don nell had been guilty of gross aud culp able contributory negligeac, yet refused to set aside the verdict although the law made it his duty to do so, and there by compelled the company to take the case to the fiupreme court. The court iu its unanimous opiuion by Ruesesays: "It is conceded that the first verdict was set aside for the sole reason that tho evideuce was not sufficient to sus tain it, and that tho evidence upon that trial was substantially the same as 0 1 tho last," page 477 and on page 481 is i luriher said, the verdict cannot, there fore, be molested, as not beinir sus tained by the evidence." Even Judge Cobb, wlm is by some thought to be a rauroau juoge, again sits uown upon Post. The opinion of Jndco Post was transmitted to the supreme court in the hope 01 aiding in a correct decision of the case, but the court unanimously fiud that the rvideneo to amply sufficient and that Judge Post's view thereof is one sided. Tho case of tho B & M. R. R- Co. vs. White, 28 Neb. 100, is one in which the company had the right of wayover the farm of a widow, Mrs. Whitft, appraised in condemnation proceedings, tho jury of commissioners appraising her dam ages at the sum of $975.00, and she ap pealing to tho district court. The caso was heard bebre Post, and the willow's attorneys a.-k Po-t to give the jury the following instructions, to-wit: "If you rind that the plaintiff's damages exceed the sum of 973., then you will add to such sum is you may find to be ber damages interest thereon from the 3!tl day ol June I80O, at 7 per cent annum. Maxwell delivers the unanimous opin ion of the court, and says oa pages 171 172: "It seems that this instruction was shown to the attorneys for the rail way company, who protested against giving the same, as it would apprise the jury of the amount of the award of the commissioners, and the jiu'g. in defer ence to their protest, withheld the same, as he claims, upon n agreement that if the verdict exceeded 1 975.(0. interest would be added to the amounttnereof." The court goe? on to show lhat as Max well says, ,-In a number of cases this court has neia, that where the verdict exceeded the award the land owner was entitled to interet. Sioux City, etc R. Co vs. Brown. 13 Neb. 317; A. & N. Ii. R. Co. vs. Plant. 24 Id. 130." The first of these cases having been decided be fore Judge Post became a district judge. On paje 174 the court says: "Mrs. White therefore was entit'ed to interest ou the verdict and the instruc tion ia question should have been given. It was evidently withheld as a supposed fa ror to the railway comoany, aud while we hope that in no case hereafter it will be repeated, yjt we must accept the state ment of tho judge that the aaeement was made as therein setfoilh. No doubt It was entered iuto with the best inten tion and as a means of obtaining a fair verdict, but all proceedings relating to a trial should be transacted publicly in open court. Tho law has no favorites. Equal justice to all being its motto." Ail of you havo doubtless seen jostice pictured out as a Goddess having her eyes blindfolded so that she cannot see or know the person applying for justice, in her extended hand she hold tho bal anco scales of justice. tht she may only know by the sides of the balance which tips downward, to which party the judg ment belongs. Yet this good old party which believes the railroads df tho state of Nebraska have "undue influence" in her courts, have nominated as their caa didate for Supreme Judge, a man who, notwithstanding his solemn oath of of fice, which is part of his political plat form, his torn the hoodwink from the Goddess of Justice and looked to see in which side of the balance scales sits the railway's'side of the case, and has then withhold from the widow's side of the case as, "a supposed favor to the rail way comr any," an instruction which the SuDreme Court as long ago as 1883 had decided ought to have been given. The verdict of tho Supreme Court has been rendered, and wo appeal to the vo tres of Nebraska to pronounce sentence approving the verdiet. icial District. We Invite the attention of our readers to the following letter written by Judge Crites before the independent judicial convention at Valentine. Crite3 was a candidate for the independent nomina tion, but was defeated by Mr. Har baugh. Though a candidate in the convention, and fairly defeated by Har baugh, this man Crites is now dung bis best to defeat Harbaugh. The spectacle of a man trying to get an in dependent nomination for judge and at tho same time getting railroad passes for a democratic convention is certainly ref rcshin g. Mr. Harbaugh 's republican opponent, Alfred Barlow, of Chadron, was one of the signers of the Chadron veto petition to Boyd, and is local attorney for the Elkhorn road. There are some phrases in the Crites letter which rival even the matchless splendor of the Roggen Epistle. It ap pears that there is a "gang" that the judge from tho west end is not averse to using his "good stuff" in order to "down" Bro. Harbaugh and lhat he gets passes "all in a lump" to demo cratic state conventions. With the above facts and the follow ing letter from Mr. Crites, the voters of the Fifteenth district need not go astray on election day. The werd democratic is supplied in brackets to make the tucking clear. The independent state convention had already been held when the letter was written, and the person addressed is a democrat: Chadron. Neb , Sept. 10, 1801. (Confidential ) My Dear Sir: Inclosed herewith I haud you transportation for Messrs. Babcock and Raum, from Harrison to Valentino and return, also check pay able to your order to cover their hotel bills. Yo t may say to them that these tick ets represent my own "good stuff" and aro furnished them, not lor the purpose of influencing their action but on tho theory and bolicfthat they have ahead v made up their mind to favor me in that convention. I believe I havo got Bro. Harbaugh "dDwn." I have got transportation to the democratic state convention all in a lump. We shall go down on the even ing of tho 10th, and another delegate from Sioux county should bo at Craw ford that day in time to take the B. & M. south with the rest of the "gang." I may have transportation "for you over the Elkhorn to Crawford and if it comes I will send it to you. I am not certain yet whether I can get away or not on -iccount of court. Yours Truly, A. W. Ckites. POLK COUNTY INDEPENDENTS. The independents of Polk county have placed an exceptionally good ticket in field. It is as follows: For treasurer. N. Mackon: countv clerk, S. L. Burlimrame: sheriff. Sidney Miller; county judge, W. E. Hurst; cierK 01 district court, li. r . lirown; county SUDerintonrlftnt. Wm. F. KeDner: surveyor, O. W. Barnes; coroner, W. aichoi; county commissioner, south east district, Wm. J. Marquis. This ticket should be elected by a rousinir maioritv. and we have no doubt it will be. It is composed of good men from top to bottom, and its success means', a clean aiid . honest ad ministration of Polk county affairs for the next two jears. The Alliance and K. of L. should pull together. If there ' are any men who are working their own scnemes, ana underhanded y knifing part of the ticket, as i some times the case, they should be signally rebuked. The Interests whi.-h nrn ex porting of opposing a ticket often form an admirable index as to its character. ' The farmers should unitedly snpport a ticket that is opposed by the boodlera and usurers. i