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By F. M. KIM M ELL
Subscription , $1 a Year in Advance
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
Supreme Juda M. B. Hc-oso of Lincoln
Regent E. G. McGiltoa of Omaha
Regent W.B.Ely of Ainsworth
JUDICIAL.
Judge 14th district..G.W. Norris of BeavorCity
COUNTY.
Clerk , S. W.Clark of Bnrtloy
Treasurer O. L. Thompson of Gorvor
Sheriff Fred KinRhorn of Box Elder
Clerk Dibt. Court..F.G.StilRoboner of Danburv
Superintendent. . Martlm J. Conical of McCook
Judfro G. S. Binhop of McCook
Surveyor . S. Hill of Indianoln
Coroner. . .ToMsnh Spotts of McCook
Commissioner D. A. Wutermnn of Lebanon
SAM CLAKK. like the rest of the nom
inees on the county ticket , is well
equipped to perform the duties of the
office he seeks at the hands of the voters
of this county. Vote for him.
THKRK isn't much else for a middle-
of-the-road Populist to do in Red Wil
low county , this fall , hut to vote the
straight Republican ticket. It's about
the only straight thing there is in sight.
No fusion or mixture in it. All good
fellows nre competent.
THE excellent qualifications and qual
ities of D. A. Waterman of Lebanon are
well known and appreciated down in the
First commissioner district , and he will
materially reduce the Fusion plurality in
that district , if he does not carry it , not
withstanding the odds against him at
the outstart.
AN examination of the list of "distin
guished statesmen" who participated in
the anti-expansion meeting at Chicago ,
show that the term "ex" attached to the
title of a very large majority of the num
ber , indicating that they were ns a rule
"gentlemen with a grievance. " The
"antis" are mainly "exes. "
IT'S no reflection on O. Thompson
that he is poor. Of course it's a little
inconvenient when the contribution
basket is passed around , and at other
times. But it is not claimed that he is
not honest , and honorable , and compe
tent to fill the office of county treasurer.
If elected , he will do his duty , and all
his dutv.
JUDGE REESE will carry Red Willow
county , that much is conceded ; and it
may be safely claimed by a nice plural
ity. The judge is entitled to a right
royal support , and he will get it. No
man in Nebraska commands in a larger
degree the admiration and confidence of
the people than does Judge Reese. His
character is beyond fair criticism , and
his ability as a judge and lawyer is
beyond cavil.
"THERE is much political rot in the
constant parading of the term imperial
ism. I do not believe such a thing is
intended , possible or desirable , nor is
such a result necessary to secure such
commercial expansion as we want.
Commercial supremacy is the goal of
every civilized nation , and is only at
tained through commercial progress and
commercial expansion. " Senator Mc-
Laurin of South Carolina ( Democrat. )
JUDGE NORRIS has made a record as a
judge in the 14111 district of which he
has a right to be proud , and which
should call to his banner many votes
even outside of his party. THE TRIBUNE
has great confidence that such will be
the case , and that he will be returned to
the district bench , next Tuesday , by a
safe plurality , by a vote which will rec
ognize his excellent service rendered ,
notwithstanding the bitter effort being
waged by his personal and guild enemies ,
to defeat him.
IT well nigh breaks our hearts to note
the fact , but Colonel Phillips of the In-
diauola Reporter "has done gone and
done it" has gone over to the Populists
body and breeches ; and he celebrates
the fact by going on the Bryan reception
committee as first lieutenants to Col
onels Dennis Fitzgerald and Ike Sheri
dan. . Is Colonel Phillips adjusting his
political coat to Missouri conditions ?
Or is he just trying to raise all the devil
ment he can before going down to Mis.
souri to make it warm for them ?
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HIS FAREWELL FOLLY.
As Colonel Phillips of the Indiahola
Reporter is about to leave for Missouri ,
it is immaterial to him how much sec
tional hatred he stirs up in Red Willow
county before his departure ; hence , in
order to compass the injury of the Re-
puhlican county ticket , he persistently
attempts to array the sections of the
county each against the-other. And the
burden of his complaint is sundry and
numerous incoherent and irrelevent and
immaterial references to an undefined
and indefinable nothingness that the
colonel is pleased to style "the McCook
squid , " an unimaginable hobgoblin of
the colonel's overdrawn and super-ex
cited imagination , which has no exist
ence in fact. His plaint that the Repub
lican county ticket was dictated by Mc
Cook is known by all who desire to deal
fairly with the situation to be absolutely
without foundation ; on the contrary it
must be admitted by all acquainted with
the facts in the case that the nomina
tions were made openly , fairly and unin
fluenced by McCook or any other section
of the county but that the ticket was
nominated by representative and inde
pendent delegates freely and intelligent
ly. And as such nominees they are en
titled to the votes of all Republicans all
over the county. Let every Republican
use his efforts to heal up any dissensions
that have existed in the past. This is a
good year an important year to be
loyal to the ticket from top to bottom.
THE PREMIER SUPERINTENDENT.
A friend and old-time Democrat , in a
private letter , so nicely puts it , that we
are constrained to reproduce a few words
of his letter , touching the county super-
intendency :
"I am proud to learn that Mrs. Cordeal
got the nomination for county superin
tendent of schools , and I sincerely hope
she will be elected. Not from any mer
cenary stand-point , but because she will
make the most thoroughly competent
superintendent Red Willow county ever
had. It is ability as an educator , not
politics , that should govern in that office.
I only wish I were there to vote and work
iu her interest. "
It is just such a feeling among the
Republicans , and among some Demo
crats and Populists , who fortunately
live in the county , that will make Mrs.
Cordeal our next county superintendent.
FOSTER G. STILGEBOUER ,
The Republican nominee for clerk of
the district court , is a product of Red
Willow county in brains and brawn
and character that all citizens may well
be proud of. His life has been spent
among us and the record made is clean
and sweet it will bear inspection and
emulation. Combining character and
ability and industry , be is splendidly
equipped to discharge the duties of the
important office of clerk of the district
court , and THE TRIBUNE expects con
fidently to see him strongly supported
all over the county , and especially in
those districts where he has lived and
been employed in business.
SAM CLARK FOR CLERK.
In the selection of Sam Clark of Bart-
ley for the office of county clerk , the late
Republican convention made no mistake ,
either in the man or the locality from
which the nomination was made. Sam
is a competent man for the position , is a
Republican without guile , and a clever
all-around fellow , who will ably and sat
isfactorily fill the office that Dick Green
has held down for the past four years to
the satisfaction of the people. Then ,
Sam comes from a stalwart Republican
precinct that deserved the recognition
and will show its appreciation by an in
creased Republican majority.
THE events of the past fortnight in
South Africa have spoiled the criticisms
of the Democratic faultfinders in regard
to the conduct of the war by the McKinley -
ley administration. British losses in
Africa in this fortnight have been as
great as the American losses in Cuba and
the Philippines in an entire year of fight
ing , and utterly destroy the opportunity
for complaint which Democratic scolds
were utilizing for temporary political
effect.
CIRCULARS charging Judge Reese with
being a prohibitionist have been recently
sent out quietly where it is thought they
would do the most good ; and it is said
that a few of them have found their way
to this city. We believe that the judge
is a temperate man and perhaps a tem
perance man ; but this would certainly
not be a damaging fact to his election ,
with the people. It ought not to be.
THE opposition to Judge Norris is
almost exclusively personal no fight is
being made on his official career. It
speaks for itself and cannot be success
fully assailed. He is acknowledged to
be the best judge who has occupied the
bench of the 14th district , aud the people
of the district will do well , nay , most
well and wisely , to reelect him.
ATTENTION is directed to the address
to the voters of the Fourteenth judicial
district by Judge Norris which appears
in full in this issue. The address and
accompanying affidavits are worthy a
careful reading , aud place the judge in a
clear , fair light before the voters of the
district.
JOE SPOTTS ? He's all right. And
Ed Hill , too. But don't forget that X
after their names. Joe can't be beaten
as a coroner , and Hill is the only surveyor
real surveyor in sight.
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To the Voters of the Fourteenth
Judicial District.
Durins the campaign , which is now neariug a
close , I have been busily engaged in my official
duties and have taken but little part in the dis
cussion of the political situation or in my can
didacy , for the reason , principally , that all of
my time has been devoted to the performance of
the duties devolving upon mo ns district judge.
I did not deem it proper to neglect my official
duties for the purpose of campaigning in my
own interestsA recent letter , however , written
byJIr.Wlu'olcr , editor of the Beaver City Times ,
has been given such a wide circulation that I
believe an answer from me would not be out of
place.
I should have paid no attention to this letter
had it becu published in the Beaver City Times
alone , as that paper circulates in the neighbor
hood where I have lived for the last fifteen
yoara and where the people know that I would
not be guilty of the crime which he strongly in
timates I committed ; but since the same has
been copied in nearly all of the papers in this
district which are opposed to me , I have de
cided to request the people of the district to
give consideration to the other side of the ques
tion.
tion.Mr.
Mr. Wheeler , in his letter , docs not make any
direct charges ; he knows that he dares not put
this in print , but he strongly intimates that a
crime was committed by mo in changing the
vote in Union precinct in Furnas county , in
1895 , by making a six out of a cipher and giving
myself 40 votes in that precinct.
I think a careful consideration of the letter
itself is sufficient to demonstrate its falsity. If
his statemeut is true I went into the clerk's
office when the office was open , when the offi
cers -were there performing their duties and
others were present- , and took the canvass books
from the vault and carried them into the com
missioners' room and did not even close the
door between the two rooms , but sat there and
in this public place where any person coming in
and going out could see me , made the changes
he claims were made in this book. He docs not
even say that I had these books in my posses
sion although if his statement is true he must
have been within two or three feet of me at the
time he was looking on but by intimation
leaves the impression that these were the books
that I had.
Docs any Fane person believe that I or any
other person intending to commit a crime of
this kind would select such an opixirtuuity and
such an occasion to do it 1
It is well also for us to consider the fact that
even though these changes were made it was an
immaterial one and did me no good. It is a
fact which is shown by the records that the
Furnas county vote was re-canvassed before my
certificate of election was issued , and that in
the re-canvass I was given but -11 votes in this >
precinct ; it is also true that I never claimed-1C
votes in Union precinct , but have always ad
mitted that the first canvass gave me five more
votes iu Union precinct than I was honestly en
titled to.
Judge Welty , who in that controversy per
haps investigated the matter as closely as any
one did from his sidf , is free to admit- that thi- .
change of the vote in Union precinct did not injure - !
jure him and that he was not damag.-d by it. j
An examination of the canvass book sho\vs ;
clearly that a cipher was changed into aix : no
one lias ever denied this , and 1 never made un >
attempt to evade the fact and have always ad- j
inittcd that giving me10 votes in Union precinct
was an error and that. I should have had but 11
votes , which as a matter of fact was the correct
vote for me in that precinct and which was all
that I claimed and which was all that was given
me when the second canvass was made , the same
being the canvass upon which my certificate of
election was based. Mr. Wheeler has known
this all the time ; ho knows that the imputation
of any crime , or any fraud to me in connection
with this matter is absolutely groundless and
without any foundation and his charge can only
be made with malicious intent and with th idea
of deceiving the voters in the coming election.
If what he states in his letter be true , why has
ho kept silent for four long years , if he was in
terested , as he claims he was , in assisting Judge
Welty 1 Why did he not tell him the facts four
years ago as he has published them now ? Judge
Welty says in his letter that Wheeler told an
entirely different tale at that time.
That part of Mr. Wheeler's letter in which he
says he asked for my influence to keep the can
vassing board of Furnas county from seudiug
iii the returns to the secretary of state until
Judge Welty could come is absolutely untrue
and false ; it is also foolish when wo consider
that the county clerk in whoso custody this cer
tificate of election was until it was sent to the
secretary of state , was not of my political faith
and was a very close and intimate friend of Mr.
Wheeler himself and a man over whom I had no
influence whatever.
At the time that ho says he had this interview
with mo this certificate had been mailed and
Mr. Wheeler knew it was beyond the control of
even the county clerk. T3.Q never made the
statements to me ho claims or anything like
them but the same are entirely false and without
foundation , but while this change in Union
precinct was an immaterial one and did not
hurt anybody it is well for the people of this
dir-trict to know how that change took place.
There was no fraud in connection with it , no in-1
teiitiou to wrong or injure anybody and the
same instead of being a crime was simply an '
error made by the cauvasr-ing board which the
attached affidavits will show to any unbiased
mind.
Attached to this letter will be found the affi
davits of two members of that canvassing board
in which they explain fully how these changes
occurred and why they occurred and show clear
ly that no one in connection with the Union
precinct matter has been guilty of any fraud ,
any crime or any intention towrong or injure.
I had hoped that this campaign might be con
ducted on an honorable and manly basis , and it
seems to me that this attempt on the part of
Mr. Wheeler who is editing a paper that is ab-
olutely controlled , if not entirely owned by my
opponent , is uncalled for under the circum
stances. My official record for the past four
years is an open book ; to its examination and
consideration I invite the attention of the people
ple of this district. It'is but fair that I should
stand or f.dl by the record I have made and
upon this record I iiivito the judgment of the
voters of this district.
I do not know what additional or new means
may be decided upon on the eve of the election by
those who seem determined to injure my stand
ing with false and malicious reports and insinu
ations , but I trust that the voters of tlu's district
will truly and honestly , without iwlitical prej
udice or partisan excitement analyze the ques
tions fairly and honorably and render judgment
accordingly. G. W. NOKRIS.
State of Nebraska , Furnas county , ss.
D. E. McClelland , being first duly sworn , de
poses and says : that he was a member of the
Furnas county election canvassing board in the
year 1895 , and as such assisted in canvassing the
votes cast at the general election held on No
vember 5.1895 ; that in making said canvass this
affiant did the writing in one of the canvass
books of said county , and the writing in the
other _ of said canvass books was done by T. H.
Francis , another member of said canvassing
board ; that the county clerk did not do anv of
the writing in either one of said books , but that
in making said canvass the raid county clerk ,
II. W. McFadden , took the poll books of the
different precincts , and read the results of the
figures and tallies in said poll books , and this
affiant and the said Francis wrote the same
down in the said canvass books ; that the said
county clerk , McFadden , first read the results
as they were written out in full in the back of
the said i > ell books , and the results so read were
by this affiant and the said Francis written in
the said canvass books , and then the said couu-
ty clerk read the results as they were written in
figures after the names of the different candi
dates in the body of the said i > ell books , and
this affiant and the said Francis compared the
said results so announced by the said county
clerk with the said results written by them in
the said canvass books ; that when the said
county clerk cnmo to the result of the vote cast
for district judge in Union precinct in said
county , ho announced the vote cast for G. W.
Norris for the office of district iudgc as forty-
six , and this qfliunt and the tai 1 Francis both
had written in the said canvass books forty
votes for said Norris for said office in said pre
cinct , as had been announced by the said county
clerk when ho read the results from the back of
said poll book written out in full ; that there
upon this affiant and the said Francis were
about to scratch out the cipher in said forty
and make a six therein , when the said McFad-
deti remarked in substance that wo should not
scratch the same out but that wo should take a
pen and "make a tail to it , " and this affiant in
accordance with said instruction of the said
county clerk added a straight line to the cipher
in the forty so credited to the said Norris in
said precinct in the canvass book in which ho
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same down in lead pencil in a small pass book
which he carried in his vest pocket in order
that ho might more easily add the same up ;
that when the change was made in the vote of
the said Norris in said Union precinct as above
stated , ho did not think to make any change in
said small pass book , and the same remained
therein as was originally read by the said coun
ty clerk when reading from the results from the
back of the said poll books ; that afterwards
this affiant added up the amounts in said pass
book before the completion of said canvass , and
gave the results thereof to the public without
thinking of the change he had inado iu said
canvass book that had not been made in said
pass book ; that said canvass was commenced in
the latter part of the week in which the said
election was held , and was completed on the
following Monday , so that a Sunday intervened
between the commencement of said canvass and
the completion of the same ; that when said
canvassing board adjourned for said Sunday ,
the only addition of the several amounts of
votes cast in the different precincts of said
county was made before the said change of said
vote in said Union precinct was made , and con
sequently the vote as given out for said Xorris
at the time of said adjournment for Sunday was
in fact six less than the said canvass books act
ually showed he had received ; that when the
said canvassing board convened on the follow-
journed for over Sunday , and no change had
been made therein : that on said Monday the
votes from the different precincts were again
-added and the various
certificates and said can
vass books signed up ; that said addition was
the nrst one made after the said change of the
said vote for the said Norris , and the same gave
the said Norris , pix more votes , making a total
ot lit > for said Norris in said county , which
was the correct amount that the said
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