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GKO. K. BKNSOHOTKR,
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Republican State Ticket
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For Supreme Judge,
JOMX B. BARNES, of Madison.
For Univorsity Regents,
W. (i. WHITMORE, of Douglas;
C. S. ALLEN, of Lancaster.
JUDICIAL. TICKKT.
For Judge 12tt district.
B. O. HOSTETLER, Buffalo.
COUNTY TICKKT
G. II. Gibson, Clerk.
Geo. Holmes, Treasurer.
L. A. Williams, Sheriff.
Lewis Omky, Superintendent.
Rout. P. Starr, .Judge.
Geo. W. Hunter. Coroner.
Walter Moon, Surveyor.
Henning Claussen, Assessor.
A Clean Campaign.
This issue of the Northwestern
is the last before election and we
are pleased to state that all through
the carapagin oot a word has been
said by us disrespectful of any of
the opposing local candidates. The
same may be also said of the
local candidates on the republican
ticket. They have treated their op
pouents with respect and in turn
have been extended the same court
esy by the local candidates on
the populist ticket. It has been
one of the cleanest campaigns we
have gone through for years.
With the exception of the meau
tilings that has been said by the
Times about some of the republican
candidates a cleaner campaign in
local politics could not have been
made. So far as our observation
goes we have no doubt but what the
populist candidates condemed the
course the Timet has pursued and
they are only at fault in so far as
they did not follow our suggestion
in the opening and put a muz
zel on that sheet.
The article concerning the dis
trict judge published in this issue
is a re-production from the Kearney
Democrat and is a defence of the
statements made against Mr. IIos
tetler, and published in circular let
ter form. It explains itself.
The country comprising this 12th
judicial district has been flooded
with circular letters purporting to
have come from the populist judi
cial committee. This letter, as it
appears, has the name of J. W.
Long, Chairman of the populist
committee of Loup City attached to
it. The letter sets forth the good
qualities of the populist nominee,
W. L. Hand, and make* a shameful
attack upon hiB opponant. B. 0. Hos
tetler, the republican candidate.
So far as Mr. Long’s Dame is con
cerned the letter is a forgery. It
was presented to Mr. Long for his
signature and he refused to sign it.
Several of the pop papers over the
district which have copied the letter
have already undergone the humilia
tion of taking it back, as Mr. Long
has issued a statement to the effect
that the letter was unauthorized by
him and that he did not sign it
at all. A full explanation of the
, matter is given in this issue. This
outrage perpetrated upon the voters
of this district will do Mr. Hand no
good. If he will go so far as to
allow a letter to be published and
circulated denouncing his opponant
with a forged signature attached
what kind of a judge will he make?
We commend Mr. Long for makiog
a clear statement of his position in
the matter, and ask the voters to
think twice before supporting Mr.
Hand for district judge.
We are accused ot branding the
Times as a liar. We used no such
language but plainly showed that
the statements it made respecting
some of the republican candidates
were misleading and without found
ation. However if the coat fits be
can wear it.
WILLIS L. HAND, THE
_ CORPORATION LAWYER
JOHN W. LONG DENOUNCES THE SIGNING HIS NAME
TO POPULIST CIRCULAR A FORGERY.
Circular Preseuted to Judge Easterling lor His Signature
Who Refused to Sign It
ADVERTISED HIMSELF
AS SUCH.
It is really amusing to the people
in Buffalo county to know that Col.
Hand, the democratic (?) candidate
for district Judge in the Twelfth
judicial district, is advertising him
self as the anti-corporation candi
date, and that he expects to be an
nuti-corporation judge. Did you
ever hear the corporation candid
ates raising the cry of “stop thief?”
Did you ever hear the corporation
tools, when attempting to slip into
a place where they were needed to
take care of their masters’ interests'
going about claiming that “I am
holy,” out charging that “he is
vile?” Before Col. Hand began a
campaign of that character he should
have acted discrete and displayed
his wisdom by first destroying the
kind of evidence that couvicts; ev
idence that needs no corrobortioD,
as it corroborates itself. While
Col. Hand is pretending to be an
anti-corporation lawyer, the evidence
says he is a corporation lawyer, and
Col. Hand not only furnishes the
evidence himself, but he paid for it
out of his own pocket.
IHK KV1DKNCK
During the month of July, 1890
—and for many months thereafter—
there appeared in the advertising
columns of the Kearney Daily Hub
the following professional advertise
ment:
WILLIS L. HAND,
Attorney at Law,
General Law Business, Real
Estate and
CORPORATION LAWYER
Rooms 11 A 12, Midway, I.oan A Trust
Co’s Building.
We defy Mr. candidate Hand or
any supporter of Willis Hand, can
didate for district judge to deny the
above self convicting evidence. We
defy Mr. Hand or any supporter of
Mr Hand to show where Mr. Hostet
ler, bis apponent for election of dis
trict Judge of this district, has ever,
at anytime, or under any condition
or circumstances, advertised himself
to be, or ever claimed to be, or ever
bas been a corporation lawyer. And
it was not because Mr. Hostetler
did not have abundance of business
in our courts—he has bad twenty
cases in the district court to Hand’s
one and sometimes more. As an
evidence of the fact we will place in
evidence the record of the district
court of Buffalo, county, as follows:
At the June term of district court
in Buffolo county, in 1897, at the
time Mr. Hand was advertising him
self to be the great corporation
lawyer, B. O. Hostetler had at that
term of court ONE HUNDRED
AND SIX CASKS, while Willis L.
Hand, the great corporation Lawyer
at the same term of court, had just
FIFTEEN CASES
We will drop down to the April
term of 1903, the last jary term of
district court held in Buffalo county,
•and we find that B. 0. Hostetler
bad TWELVE CASES, while the
self advertised great corporation
lawyer, Willis L. Hand, DID NOT
HAVE ANY CASE AT ALL, and
be has never appeared in the district
court in this district since Judge
Gutterson has occupied the bench.
And following the evidence still
further we discover that while Mr.
Hand was advertising himself to be
tho freind of the great corporations,
Mr. Hostetler was engaged in fight
ing Mr. Hand’s self-advertised
friends, the great corporations, in
the courts, and prevented the pay
ment of $00,000 of fraudulently ob
tained Kearney & Blank Hills Rail
road bonds. And the courts of the
state and of the United 8tates sus
tained Mr. Hostetler and THE
BONDS WERE NEVER RAID.
Where was Willis L. Hand, the self,
advertised great corporation lawyer?
While mayor of the city of Kear
ney, Mr. Hostetler caused to be
passed a water rental ordinance re
ducing tbe exborbant rates charged
by the great American Water Works
corporation from FIFTEEN TO
FORTY PER CENT. It was after
word repealed and more exhorbant
rates than ever existed betorc were
established by Mr. Hand’s candid
ate for mayor who succeeded Mr.
Hostetler. Where was Willis L.
Hand, the self advertised great corp
oration Lawyer? Mr. Hostetler is
seldom the plaintiff attorney in litig
ation; he is almost always the de
fendant attorney. Mr. Hand almost
invariably appears as the plaintiff
attorney. Or, in plainer words,
Hand begins suits in courts against
his neighbors, and those against
whom suits are brought emply bos
tetler to defend them in court.
THE J. W. LONG LETTER.
As a rule when a dog barks up
tbe wrong tree, and he Suds it out, he
Dot only feels bad, but he looks it.
Mr. Hand’s Broken Bow dog seems
to have barked up the wrong tree;
treed the wroDg coon; exposed the
yellow streak down his own back;
kicked up his cluven foot into full
view when he brayed and brought
forth the false, scurlious and malic
ious circular making unwarranted
and ungrounded assertions against
Mr. Hostetler. The circular was
conceived and boon at Broken Bow
and the man who wrote it knew he
lied when he indicted it. If he
didn’t at the time, he did know it
when the circular was presented to
Judge James M. Easterling, chair
man of the populst committee of
Buffalo county, who absolutely refus
ed to sign bis name to it as an en
dorsement to the falsehoods against
Mr. Hostetler which it contained.
If that did not convince him that
the circular was a lie, not only in
the assertions it contained, but also
the signature it bore at tbe bottom
as vouches for its trutbfullness, he
knows it now since John W. Long
chairman of the populist committee
of Loup City, in Sherman county,
who, over his own signature, and!
under date at Loup City, Oct. 19,
1903, declares that his signature to
the circular is a forgery. John W.
Long says this to the world and his
letter was seDt, to and published in
the Kearney New Era-Standard, the
populist official organ for Buffalo
county last Friday, in which Mr.
Long says:
“In your issue of October 16th,
appears an address ‘To the Voters
of the 12th Judicial District/ pur
porting to be signed by myself as
Chairman of the Populist Judicial
Committee of the 12th Judical Dis
trict. M Y NAME IS SIGNED TO
SAID ADDRESS WITHOUT AU
THORITY and I DECLINED TO
SIGN IT because I knew nothing
personally of the truth or falsity or
the statements therein contained.
_JOHN W LONG.”
Now, Mr. Honest Man, Mr. Hon
orable Citizen, bow would you like
a judge upon your district court
bench who secured his election by
such methods? Mr. Long’s name
did not become attached to that
false circular by error, or through
apprehension or belief about the
matter, because Mr. Long says it
was presented to him and be RE
FUSED TO SIGN IT. Then it
was a deliberate and premeditated
forgery. Who committed the forg
ery? We do not think Willis L.
Hand did, bat Willis L. Hand
would have become the benificiary
of the ciime had not Mr Long de
nounced it. And did Mr. Hand
denounce it as a grist of falsehood*
which he new they were? Has Mr.
Hand denounced the forgery and
demanded the forger be exposed and
punished? If he has done so it lias
not yet reached our notice.
There is but one way to rebuke
each and every one of these false
positions aud falsehoods' and that is
to vote for B. O. Hostetler aDd
against Willis L. Hand the corp
oration lawyer—Kearoey Democrat.
The Times said in its issue < f
two weeks ago that they had it from
headquarters that Prof. Omey was
not offered a position in the St. Paul
Business Collage, but when Mr.
Omey flashed a letter under his
nose, showing the proof of the offer,
the Times man was forced to take
it back in his next issue. That pa
per has made several other statements
in this campaign equally as brazen
and should have been forced to take
it back in each and every instance,
but the source from which these
accusations come is considered and
passed without much notice.
Tiie Callaway Queen wonder if
W. L. Hand, “the man who never
rode on a pass,” remembers the “big
streaming sign” that lie hung up
when be came to Kearney, on which
appeared the magic words “Corpor
ation Attorney.” If perchance he
has forgotten, there art' still llio.-e
in Kearney who remember—Kear
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