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Make Taft's
in Nebraska
Speaking of "get-rich-quick" schemes,
running for president appears to be
about the quickest
If Jim Latta only spent $o50 in his
primary campaign, then there is a big
hunch of cheap skate Democrats in
this congressional district.
As an editor and presidential can
didate Mr. Bryan should take the lead
in demanding a law to guarantee
newspaicrs against loss from delin
quent subscribers.
George W. Berge got what every
one expected he would get. The
Bryanites never had any use for a
populist except his vote to boost
Democrats into office.
Candidate Tail is going to tour the
country and will probably speak in
Nebraska. Later on "Teddy" is ex
pected to get into the game. Then
the political pot will boil.
If Mr. Bryan approves the methods
adopted in this congressional district
to secure the nomination of Latta,
then Guify should le commended for
his "fine work" in Pennsylvania.
Dan V. Stephens says, "Senator
Latta can help Bryan carry the state."
Check Book Jim's success in securing
a congressional nomination appears to
have strengthened Stephens' faith in
the barrel.
Geo. W. Berge received the Popu
list nomination for Governor and
Banker Shalleuberger is the choice of
the Democrats. Now what will Berge
do remain in the field, or withdraw
at the dictation of Bryau?
Jim Dahlmau has his knife out and
it is surmised that when he gets ready
to use it, it will be used on some one
higher up in the ranks of the party
than Congressman Hitchcock. Jim
comes from a breed of cow boys that
never forgets a wrong or forgives an
injury.
In 1896, John Barrett, now editor
of the Verdigre Citizen, spent $750
out of his own pocket to assist in
carrying Knox county for Bryan.
Wonder how much John is going to
put into the political pot this year to
boost the Great Repudiator of Para
mount Issues.
Mr. Bryan's statement at Peoria,
111., last Thursday that he is worth
$150,000, does not correspond with the
assessor's books of Lancaster county,
which indicates that he is worth only
$87,000. Possibly Mr. Bryan neg
lected to list with the assessor $63,000
of the property he actually owns.
From the date of George Washing
ton's inauguration as president up to
the present time the American people
have never been humiliated by the
spectacle of a candidate for the great
office of president, either begging or
accepting contributions for the furth
erance of his campaign. To what
depth has Bryan brought us. Silver
Creek Sand.
That old, old story, that has been
used against every Republican candi
date for President since 1872, has
arrived. It was a little late, owing to
its' great age and infirmities in reach
ing here this time, but it has put in its
appearance at last Here it is: "Tail
says a dollar a day is enough for any
laboring man." Of course Candidate
Taft never made any such statement.
With the Republican, Democratic,
Independent, Prohibition and Socialist
candidates for President touring the
country in palace cars, the rails of
transportation hot with rolling trains
and the average price of farm products
the highest the country has ever seen
in time of peace, times, my country
men, are not as bad as Mr. Bryan is
attempting to make the voters believe.
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE.
When. the Democratic party was in
full control of the government during
the second administration of Grover
Cleveland, and when Mr. Bryen was a
member of the House, did he intro
duce bills to incorporate into law any
of the various alleged reforms he now
advocates? With the single exception
of tariff reform, or rather an attempt
on his part to have a bill reported by
the Ways and Means committee along
the lines of free trade, he made no
effort to introduce any of the other
hobbies he is now howling about. He
was silent on government ownership,
guarantee of bauk deposits and every
other question he now pretends to
favor. It will be remembered that in
his speech in favor of the Wilson
Bryan tariff bill, before the senate had
so altered that measure that it looked
like a crazy quilt, he illustrated his
remarks by alluding to a drummer
boy in the French army. At the bat
tle of Marengo, when the contest look
ed dark for the French and the Aus
trian were pressing them hard, Napo
leon ordered a drummer boy (so Bryan
said) to beat a retreat In response to
the order tho boy said he had never
been taught to beat a retreat, and then
there rolled forth from his drum the
order for a charge. The command
issued from the drum was obeyed.
The French army advanced and the
enemy was swept from the field.
Mr. Bryan meant to infer by this
allusion to the Drummer Boy of
Marengo that he never retreated in the
face of the enrmy or abandoned the
field until victory had been achieved.
Mr. Bryan's record since that
8eech has not been in harmony with
the patriotic action of the Drummer
Boy of Marengo. When he charged
with his free silver army in 1896, he
was crushed and humiliated, but man
aged to organize another mob in 1900
and hurl it against the well disciplined
and trained soldiers commanded by
General Mark Hanna, and this time
he was completely subdued, and after
mourning over the corpse of free silver
the Democratic party interred the
remains at St. Louis four years later
with the crown of thorns on its coffin,
and erected a cross of gold over its
resting place.
Mr. .Bryan has abandoned, after
being thoroughly licked, nearly every
ism he has brought forward as a para
mount issue. Four years hence the
things he now advocates will have been
abandoned and something new intro
duced in the attempt to hoodwink and
befog the minds of the voters.
The people of this country are not
yet ready to turn over the affairs of
the nation to an experimentalist who
has been discredited in the past and
whose elevation to the presidential
chair would turn back the dial of time
to the midnight of commercial depresr
sion and business stagnation.
Let well enough alone!
The Methodists of the Danville,
(III.) congressional district, assisted by
President Gomphers of the Federation
of Labor, are fighting the re-election
of Uncle Joe Cannon. This is not the
first instance where the Methodists
have attempted to defeat the election
of a congressional candidate in an
Illinois district In 1846 Abraham
.Lincoln was nominated for congress
by the Whigs. The Democratic can
didate was Peter Cartwright, an elo
quent Methodist preacher, and a man
who believed in the slavery of the
negro. The fight against Lincoln was
one of the most bitter ever waged
against a candidate in Illinois. Lin
coln was called an Infidel and a Black
Abolitionist by Cartwright and his
Methodist followers. Lincoln was
overwhelmingly elected, being the
only Whig candidate on the Illinois
delegation who made good at the polls
that year. The chances are that Can
non, too, will receive the endorsement
of his constituents at the polls. When
any particular church enters politics
and attempts to dictate the election of
a candidate on religious grounds it
usually creates sympathy for the can
didate assailed, and sympathy means
votes.
Why is it that a Democratic politi
cian is always talking about "buytng
things cheaper." If free trade makes
things cheaper, it necessarily follows
that wages will be cheaper, corn
cheaper, wheat cheaper and meat
cheaper. If you are in favor of cheaper
farm products, vote for the cheap can
didate of the cheap party that is
always whining for a reduction in
everything except the salary received
for holding office.
A Columbus man, whose business
brings him in contact with the farmers
of Platte county, reports that three-
fourths of our German citizens living
in the country are opposed to Bryan
and Bryanism and will vote for Taft.
The farmers of Nebraska are not doing
much talking, but lots of thinking,
and the more they think the stronger
they grow in their determination to
vote for the Republican candidate.
THAT TIB 6
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The Question Is-"Where Did Tou Get It, Mr.
William Jennings Bryan?"
Two weeks ago Mr. Norman E. Mack,
national manager for Mr. Bryan, and per
incident, a parsonage on uneasy vera
cities, was discovered by the nonary
handed ones about him to be officially in
possession of three hundred thousand
dollars. Id explaining these riches Mr.
Maok was so fatuous as to say that
"It was left over from the Parker
management of 1904" a management
whose name was bankruptcy and un
psidjbills from itscradel to its grave.
The Examiner was at prompt pains to
explode the foolish story put forward by
Mr. Mack in accounting for his posses
sion of the three hundred thousand. It
wasn't difficult to explode, since no one
believed it.
Angered by the gauzy weakness of the
Maok explanation, Mr. Bryan called that
unguarded gentleman to Omaha and re
buked him. Thereupon the humbled
Mr. Mack came forth and said that the
three hundred thousand was not 'left
over by the Parker management of 1904;"
and later, Mr. Bryan, by way of emphas
is, himself repeated the statement.
Since Mr. Mack was the only one who
ever gave "the Parker management of
1904," as the source of that three hund
red thousand; and since no one believed
him when he eaid it; and since the Ex
aminer plainly showed the statement to
be false, these double denials by Mr.
Mack and Mr. Bryan were as unnecess
ary as on Mr. Mack's part they were
inconsistent
Nota Bate:
On that Omaha occasion both Mr.
Bryan and Mr. Maok were at pains not
to deny Mr. Mack's possession of the
the three hundred thousand dollars.
Likewise they most carefully omitted
anything resembling a reply to the Ex
aminer's question: "Where did you get
"Let the people rule" was not coined
by Mr. Bryan. Like the "cross of
gold" and the "crown of thorns" it is
not original with the Great Repudiator
of His Own Theories. In 1824, when
Jackson was a candidate for President
the first time, he shouted on the stump,
probably as loud as Bryan does now,
"Let the people rule!" And the peo
ple did rule. They defeated Jackson
and elected John Quincy Adams.
Four years later, the people ruled
again, and elected Jackson. Then the
rule of the people ceased for eight
years and Jackson ruled. During his
administration he proclaimed what has
since become dear to every Democratic
heart,"to the victor belongs the spoils."
That's why Democrats always cele
brate the birthday of "Old Hickory."
Jackson, not Jefferson, was the real
founder of the Democratic party. It
was not until after the civil war that
Jefferson was alluded to with respect
by Democrats especially southern
Democrats who regarded him as an
abolitionist and a foe of slavery and
the slave traffic.
When a- Democratic orator desires
to strengthen any question he attempts
to discuss he frequently quotes, or
misquotes, Abraham Lincoln. Just
now there comes from Democratic
sources the statement that Lincoln
was not a protectionist, but favored a
tariff for revenue only. Those who
are reasonably familiar with the polit
ical history of Lincoln before the War
of the Rebellion know that his tariff
views have been misstated by the
Bryanites. On March 1, 1843, at a
Whig meeting held in Springfield,
Lincoln introduced several resolutions;
one of them related to the tariff, and
was as follows:
Resolved, That a tariff of dnties on
imported goods, producing sufficient
revenue for the payment of the neces
sary expenditures of the National Gov
ernment, and so adjusted as to protect
American industry, is indispensably
necessary to the prosperity of the Amer
ican people.
Doesn't read like the tariff plank in
the Denver platform, does it?
When Uncle Joe Cannon casually
remarked that Candidate Bryan was
something of a plutocrat himself, the
Nebraskan became indignant and
denied the charge, stating that he was
not worth more than $150,000. Yet
with this large amount at his com
mand Mr. Bryan's Platte county ad
mirers are passing the hat around in
the rural districts begging for money
to help "Poor Bill." A month ago
$10.50 was reported as having been
raised for Bryan in Platte county.
Since that time C. A. Whaley and
Findley Howard have chipped in,
raising the amount to $16.50. Who
says that Platte is the banner Demo
cratic county of Nebraska?
The retail merchants of Lincoln
have registered a kick because country
visitors who attended the state fair did
not "buy more." The fair is a state
institution, supported by state money
and was not intended as a trade boost
ing project for Lincoln business men.
Perhaps it would be just as well if the
next legislature refused to vote money
to the fair association. If Lincoln
wants a state fair let the business men
of that city pay for it, and not tax
every county in the state for something
that benefits Lincoln exclusively.
BED
TKUO
it, Mr. Bryan J"
Yesterday Mr. Mack -whose bragging
weakness ia to talk emerged from those
thickets of sileooe and mendacity in
which, since the Bryan rebuke of a fort
night ago, he has beea biding, and began
boasting afresh of the eampaign riches
in his hands. The original discovery,
he admitted, was true; he did have that
three hundred thousand.
Mr. Ryan ia far away in Europe. He
would like to be in New York for the
Bryau campaign; but the street railway
ontrsges of anti-transfer sort now in pro
gress, outrages by which he is pillaging
the pnblic to fill his pockets, render bis
absence in Europe most highly advisa
ble. Mr. Ryan is away, but Mr. Bryan's
many jackals and many millions remain.
Also, Mr. Ryan's anxiety to add the
White House to what pieces of politcal
real estate the New York City Hall and
Albany State House, for example he
already owns is quite as keen as when
he put forward his now attorney, Mr.
Parker, for the Presidency a short four
years ai;o.
Mr. Ryau has been ever one who made
money talk. Wanting a President, be,
would expect to pay the price. Indeed,
since bis wisdom begins and ends at
money he wonld know no other way in
which to get a President. Once, too,
he gave Mr. Bryan fifteen thousands
dollars by way of a Senate boost.
Wherefore, remembering all these
Bryan-Ryan things, and hearing that
glad yesterday cry from Mr. Mack re
commending his possession of that vexed
three hundred thousand, the Examiner
is constrained to ask again and this
time it hopes no evasion will be resorted
to where did yon get it, Mr. Bryan?
Chicago Examiner.
THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF.
Mr. Bryan, in his tour of the state
fairs, at which the American farmers
are making the greatest exhibitions in
history and showing a prosperity more
abundant than has come to the agri
cultural population of any other coun
try, is making a determined effort to
convince the farmers that they are
really downtrodden and suffering
untold ills on account of the oppress
ive burdens placed upon them by the
Dingley tariff. In his speech at the
North Dakota state fair Mr. Bryan
promised, if elected, to call an extra
session of congress to revise the tariff
and relieve them of its exacting bur
den. The fact that he could accom
plish nothing in the way of tariff
revision at an extra session is immate
rial. In his speech at Des Moines at
the Iowa state fair he said:
But the whole system is vicious.
Business should not be built upon
legislation; it should stand upon its
own merit, and when it does stand
upon its own merit we shall not only
have purer politics, but we shall have
less fluctuation in business conditions
and a more equitable distribution of
the proceeds of toil.
Mr. Bryan persistently endeavors
to make it appear that the tariff sched
ules are levied against manufactured
articles only and that the farmer is
subjected to competition with the agri
cultural products of other nations.
His declaration that the tariff is
"vicious" will not appeal much to the
intelligent farmers, who understand
that practically every product of the
American farm is protected by the
Dingley schedules "from unjust com
petition with the products of other
countries.
There is a tariff of from $2 to $14 a
head on cattle imported. Does the
farmer suffer from that?
There is a duty of $1.50 a head on
swine. Does that hurt the farmer?
There is a duty of $30 a head on
horses and mules. Does that hurt the
farmer?
The duty on sheep is from 75 cents
to $1.50 a head. Is the farmer in
jured by that?
There is a duty of 30 cents a bushel
on barley and barley products; 15
cents a bushel on buckwheat; 15 cents
a bushel on corn; 10 cents a bushel on
rye; 25 cents a bushel on wheat; 25
per cent advalorem on flour; 6 cents
a pound on cheese, butter and butter
substitutes; 2 cents a gallon on milk;
45 cents a bushel on beans; 3 cents
each on cabbages; 5 cents a dozen on
eggs; $4 a ton on hay; 20 cents a gal
lon on honey; 40 cents a bushel on
peas and onions; 25 cents a bushel on
potatoes; 12 cents a pound on hops;
25 per cent advalorem on vegetables;
5 cents a pound on bacon and ham and
2 cents a pound on fresh beef, veal,
mutton and pork; 11 cents a pound on
wool, and similar duties on lard, pre
served fruits and everything produced
on the American farms. Do the farm
ers feel the burden of those tariff
duties?
In 1907. in snite of these tariff
schedules, farm products to the value
of more than $748,000,000 were
brought to the United States from for
eign countries. . The removal of the
tariff would give foreign competitors a
big slice of the Americas market for
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earliest possible moment. Our Redfield office will also gladly furnish information, lists of lands and free booklet
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farm products, to the detriment of the
farmer.
Democratic leaders have always
been unfortunate in their discussions
of the tariff and the millionaire farmer
of Fairview, Neb., seems to be no ex
ception to the rule. Omaha Bee.
TRYING TO "FIND" MR. BRYAN.
The real Democrat is in a quandry
these days. He would like to believe
that his party has not drifted -from its
moorings, but he cannot. He would
like to believe that Mr. Bryan is lead
ing the party along traditional lines,
but he cannot. And even if he be
lieves in making departures when
departures are necessary to meet
changed conditions, he is puzzled to
knaw just what these departures
should be. If he looks to Mr. Bryan
for enlightenment he has difficulty in
determining just what Mr. Bryan's
Democracy is. - In other words, speak
ing politically, it is a mighty hard
thing to "locate Mr. Bryan."
In 1896 Mr. Bryan put free silver
above every other consideration, going
so far as to declare that unless that
issue was accepted and applied the
country would go to ruin that there
never would be another celebration of
the Fourth of July.
In 1900 Mr. Bryan adhered to his
silver policy, but made "imperialism"
the paramount issue, attempting to
frighten the country with a phantom
of monarchial aggression. Accom
panying this issue was that of "mili
tarism," another monster of frightful
mien, according to Mr. Bryan's draw
ings. In 1904 Mr. Bryan was not respon
sible for the platform, but he support
ed a ticket he knew was nominated
and backed by Wall street, a ticket
more completely subject to the Special
Interests than any the Republican
party ever put in the field.
At one time or another Mr. Bryan
has declared for government owner
ship of railroads and for national ini
tiative and referendum. And yet in
the present campaign he is running on
a platform that does not mention any
of the issues here enumerated. And
this, too, in spite of the fact that Mr.
Bryan has said that a man worthy to
lead a great cause should be willing to
die for it
The question with the sincere Dem
ocrat is this: Does Mr. Bryan seize
new and ill-considered issues merely
to catch votes before these issues are
digested by the people, and then drop
them merely to hold enlightened mem
bers of his party in line?
Another question naturally arises:
If Mr. Bryan is sincere, and if he has
dropped his old issues merely as a
matter of party expediency, would he
not take them up again if he were
elected?
It is submitted, with due respect to
the Democratic party and its leader,
that the great problem of this cam
paign is: Find Mr. Bryan. Kansas
City Star.
NOT YET PURIFIED.
I admit that I have protested against
the shameful course Chairman Steph
ens has pursued from the beginning of
this primary campaign, and if that
protest has created any party discord,
it is not my fault. Had Chairman
Stephens played the part of an honor
able chairman, then there had been no
occasion for party discord. I am still
protesting against the betrayal of a
party trust by our congressional com
mitte chairman, but in this protest
where have I been wrong? When
Chairman Guffey sold the democratic
party in Pennsylvania to, Standard Oil
his conduct was denounced by Mr.
Bryan. Was Mr. Bryan wrong in
denouncing Guffey? If so, then I am
wrong in denouncing Chairman Steph
ens. Mr. Bryan believes the democ
racy of Pennsylvania will be purified
by the downfall of Guffey methods. I
believe the democracy of the Third
district will be purified by the down
fall of Stephens methods. Edgar
Howard, August 26, 1908.
TAFT ON DEPOSIT GUARANTY.
Although the question of guarantee
ing bank deposits a policy indorsed by
the democratic national convention and
zealously espoused by Mr. Bryan, has
not attracted national attention, much
lees reached tbe proportions of a real is
sue in the general campaign, it has
aroused interest in some localities. Mr.
Taft has promptly taken up this ques
tion and informed tbe country that he is
unalterably opposed to the guaranty of
bank deposits on the plan proposed by
tbe democratic platform. And sound
reasons are given for this opposition.
Although superficially attractive, the
policy is fundamentally dangerous.
The idea that a sound, conservative
bank should be taxed to insure deposi
tors of an unsound and reckless bank is
in itself repugnant to the common con
ception of fair play and justice. That
snch insurance of depositors would en
courage unprincipled bankers to engage
in more reckless speculation is quite
conceivable. The answer to this is that
if all banks were responsible for each
bank, tbe allied banks wonld enforce
their own regulations against bad bank
ing. But wonld private regulation be
more effective than state or national re
gulation?
The final test of tbe guaranty system
cannot be made until a general depres
sion is experienced. If a great panic
should come and all banks he put under
a strain, would not the public realize
that even the strongest were weakened
by their responsiblity for the weakest in
crease the distrust of all depositors.
Mr. Taft is undoubtedly in favor of
safer banking or belter security for de
positors. No man wonld be readier to
urge sound banking reforms. The sys
tem of examinations, the restrictions,
placed on banking methods, the rights
and privileges of stockholders in the
field of speculation, all need to lie modfi
ed to make the banks more secure and
to strengthen public confidence. And
one step along this line is that proposed
by the republican platform and urged
by Mr. Taft tbe establishment of postal
savings banks for small depositors.
Such banks would give the depositors
absolute security, would give them a rate
of interest on their money, wonld keep
tbe deposits in circulation and would
keep the deposits in circulation and
would help the regular banks at times
when the small depositors are apt to dis
oredit even sound bankB by their timid
ity. And the competition that such
banks would establish would be an in
centive to tbe regular banks to adopt
stricter regulations, but within the
scope of individual responsibility as op
posed to collective responsibility. Kan
sas City Star.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
The following- proposed amendment to
the coastltntlOB of the State of We
braska, as hereinafter set foith in fall.
Is submitted to the electors of the State
of Nebraska, to be voted upon at th?
general election t '-:ld Tuesday,
November 3rd, A. 9. 19081 1
A JOINT RESOLUTION to propose an
Amendment to Section 0. Article 3 of
the Constitution of the Slate of Ne
braska: Be It Besolved and Enacted By tae
Mature of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. (Amendment.) That at the
general election for state and hislaMv
officers to be held on the Tae. '. ly uc
ceeding the first Monday in November.
1908, the followlnc pnvi" s" p-o-1
and submitted to the electors of the
State as an amendment. t a.i i -n . At
cle 8 of the constitution of the State of
Nebraska: . -
Section 9. (Educational Funds. Invest
Bent.) All funds belonging to the state
for educational purposes, the interest and
Income whereof only are to be u"m1. shall
be deemed trust funds held by the state,
and the state shall supply all lose-i
thereof that mav in any manner accru
so that the same shall remain fn-vt -Inviolate
and undiminished; and shall not
be Invested or loaned except on t niu-d
States or state securities; or registered
county bonds of this state, or rrsistered
school district bonds of this stat and
such other securities as the lecislatur
may from time to time direct. And such
funds with the Interest and Income there
of are hereby solemnly pledged for th
purposes for which they are granted and
set apart, and shall not be transferred to
any other fund for other uses.
Section 2. (Ballots; Adoption.) That
at said election in the year iw. on tne
ballot of each elector voting thrat thre
shall be printed or written the words:
"For proposed amendment to th i - ?
tlon with reference to tli imw'wn'
the permanent school fund " and "against
said proposed amendment to the constitu
tion with reference to the investment of
the permanent school fund.' And if a
majority of all voters :t said election
shall be for such amendment, the same
hall be deemed to be adopted.
Approved April 5. VPrt.
T. Geo. C. Junfcin. SM:retarv of State.
of the State of Nebraska, do hereby cer
tify that the forecoinir proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska Is a true and correct cony of
the original enrolled and enjrrossed bill.
a. passed by the Thirtieth session of the
legislature of the State of Nebraska, as
anpeam from said original bill on file In
this office, and that said proposed
amendment Is submitted to the qualified
roters of the State of Nebraska for their
adoption or rejection at the general elec
tion to be held on Tuesday, the Sd day
of November. A. T. 1!is.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Great Seal
of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lin
coln, this lith day of July. In the vear
of our lrd One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Ktght. and of the Independence
ef the United States the One Hundred
and Thirty-third, and of this State the
Forty-secoaeV
OTO. C. JTJNKTIf.
Veal) lecrttarjr ef State.
WHERE IHEBXAB STANDS.
Approves Legislation to Improve the
Conditions ef Labor.
(From Sherman's Speech of Accept
ance.) Tbe Republican party believe la the
equality of all man before the law;
believes In granting labor's every re
quest that does not seek to accord
right to one man denied to another.
Fair-minded labor aaka no mon aft
lt6S. and approves the record of the
Republican party because of that pat
ty's acts.
I have helped to make my party's
record la the enactment of the Eight
Hour law. the Employers' Liability
act. the statutes to minimise the haz
ard of railroad employes, the Child
Labor law for the District ef Oeluiubla
and other enactments designed especial
ly to Isapreve the loailtle of labor.
I cannot hope to better state say posi
tion on Injunctions than by a speelfl?
endorsement of Mr. Taft's Cincinnati
deelnrntion on that subject. That en
dorsement I make.
Mr. Bryun criticises Mr. Taft for
adding to the Republican platforsa. In
the meantime the number of "para
mount Issues" which Mr. Bryan sub
tracted from the Democratic platform
would fill several large volumes.
Omaha Bee.
Honors are easy again. Every .iiue
Mr. Taft buys a new hone Mr. Bryan
mounts a new hobby. Omaha Bee.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
The following proposed
augment
to
the constitution of the Stat ox Ke
bra&ka, aa hereinafter aet forth la full.
Is submitted to the elector of the State
of Behraaka. to ho voted uuon at tit
general election to a said Tuesday, No
vember 3rd, A. 9. 1908:
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Sec
tions two (2). four (4). five (!",). six (
and thirteen (12) of Article six (') of
the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, relating to Judicial Towers.
Be it Besolved by the legislature of tho
State of Nebraska:
Section 1. Amendment proposed. That
Section two (2) of Article mx (C) of thi
Constitution of the State of Nebraska
be amended to read as follows;
bVction 2. (Supreme court: judges;
Jurisdiction.) The Supreme Court shall
consist of seven (7) judges: and a ma
jority of all elected and qualified judges
shall be necessary to constitute a
quorum or pronounce a decision. Thu
Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction In
all cases relating to the revenue, civil
cases in which the state Is a party,
mandamus, quo warranto, habeas- corpu-t.
and such appellate jurisdiction as may
be provided by law.
Section 2. (Amendment proposed.) That
Section four (4) of Article six ') of the
Constitution of the State of Nebraska be
amended to read as follows:
Section 4. (Supreme court, Judges,
election, term, residence.) The Judges of
the Supreme Court shall be elected by
the electors of the state at large; and
their terms of office, except as hereinafter
provided, shall be six years. And said
Supreme Court Judges shall during their
term of office reside at the place where
the court is holden.
Section 3. (Amendment proposed.) That
Section five (5) of Article six (C) of tho
Constitution of the State of Nebraska bo
amended to read as follows:
Section 5. (Supreme court. Judges,
election, term; chief Justice.) That at
the general election to be held in tho
state of Nebraska In the year 1909. a
each six years thereafter, there shall b
elected three (3) judges of the Supremo
Court, who shall hold their office for the
period of six years; that at the general
election to be held In the state of Ne
braska in the year 1911. and each sl.c
years thereafter, there shall be elected
three (3) judges of the Supreme Court,
who shall hold their office for the period
of six years: ami at the gener-il election
to be held in the state of Nebraska In
the year 1913. and each six year.- Hi. rc
after, there shall be elected a Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court, who shall
hold his office for the period of six
years. Provided that the membT of tho
Supreme Court whose term of office ex
pires in January. 1914. shall be Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court during that
time until the expiration of his term of
office. And. provided further, that upon
the adoption of the-e am-ftmenti hv
electors of the State, the Governor shall,
Immediately upon isuin?: ins proclama
tion declaring said amendments adopted,
appoint four (4) judges of the Supreme
Court, two (2) of whom shall be ap
pointed to hold said office until their
successors shall be elected at the general
election In 1909. and have qualified; and
the other two (2) thall hold thMr office
until their successors shall be elected at
the general election held in 1911. and
have qualified.
Section 4. (Amendment proposed.) That
Section six (6) of Article sir r.) of the
Constitution of the State of Nebraska, be
mended to read a-s follows:
Section 6. (Chief Justice.) The Chler
Justice shall serve as such during all the
term for which he was elected. He shall
preside at all terms of the Supreme
Court, and In his absence the Judse
present shall select one of their number
to preside temporarily.
Sections. (Amendment proposed.) That
Section thirteen (13) of Article six (C) of
the Constitution of Nebraska be amended
to read as follows:
Section 13. (Judges, salaries.) That
Judges of the Supreme Court shall each
receive a salary of $4,500. and the Judges
of the District Court shall each recelvo
a salary of $3,000 per annum, payable
quarterly.
Approved April 8. 1907.
I. Geo. C. Junkin. Secretarr nf State.
ef the State of Nebraska, do hereby
certify that the foregoing proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska Is a true and correct
copy of the original enrolled and en
grossed bill, as passed by the Thirtieth
session of the legislature of the State of
Nebraska, as appears from sa!d original
bill on file In this office, and that said
proposed amendment is submitted to the
qualified voters of the state of Nebraska
for their adoption or reaction at the
general election to be held on Tuesday.
the 3d day of November. A. D. 1908.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Great Seal
ef the State of Nebraska. Done at Un
coln. this 15th dav of July. In the vear
f our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Eight, and of the Independence of"
the United States the One Hundred and
Thirty-third, and of this State the Fnrty
secon. GEO. C. JUNKIN.
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