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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1900)
Conservative VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOV. 29 , 1900. NO. 21. Bj ffl PUBLISHED WEEKLY. , OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION Or POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 9,610 COPIES TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1808. THE SENATORS. TIVE hopes that the election of the senators by the next legislature rray be speedily and satis factorily accomplished. There should be no stubborn chicane , corrupt , bar gains or personal pique postponing re sults , as in the legislature two years ago when the lamented Hay ward was elected. The state needs and demands the selection of two practical , reputable and able men to represent its commer cial interests and the dignity and char acter of its public life. The charitable utions of Nebraska must cease to be the play things , the rewards and compensations of practical politics. The laws should be revised and so amended that each estab lishment may be governed by a board of trustees , who shall be named to the senate and confirmed by that body. The trustees should be non-partisan. They should be selected because of character and adaptation to the duties of the place. They should have free power to employ and to discharge all employees. With such a system , scan dals , extravagance and inefficiency would soon disappear. CONVENTION.Nebraska needs A CONVENTION. a new organic law. It is big enough to have a constitution which shall provide for a well-paid judiciary. There is nothing so expensive and dangerous as an inferior lot of law yers upon the bench. As a rule lawyers who can earn more than twenty-five hundred dollars a year in the practice are not elected judges in Nebraska. THE CONSERVATIVE does not believe in an elective judiciary. Judges nomina- ; ed by the governor and confirmed by the senate average much better , as to brains , character , acquirement and repu tation than those nominated by political conventions and elected by partisan votes. When an elected judge turns out badly proves inefficient , ignorant or corrupt , the responsibility for his being a judge can never be fixed upon one person , or a few persons. All declare him not to have been their choice , all repudiate him and denounce him. But if a judge nominated to the state senate and by that body confirmed goes wrong the responsibility is fixed quickly upon the executive and the confirming power. Where would the republic be today if the federal courts had been made elective ? Who wishes to change United States district , circuit and supreme court jndgeships into elective positions ? CAIX CAPITA ! INTO NEBRASKA , corporation law of Nebraska ought to be repealed. It should be replaced by a broad and liberal statute calculated to lure capital into enterprises within this commonwealth. The utmost liberty and freedom within the limits of the pub lie good should be assured to all incor porations doing business or proposing to do busiuesv'n the state of Nebraska. % The existing laws are , as a rule , in imical to combined capital. The poison of class legislation has infused itself throughout all laws relative to capital in corporate form until Nebraska is a constant repellaut of enterprises of mag nitude , which are really needed for the proper and profitable development of the vast resources of the state. Nebraska would rejoice at the incoming of all the Standard Oil , Sugar , Steel and Wire , Starch and Salt capital of the -world. Nebraska calls aloud , by its latest vote , for capital to nestle within its borders. Hon. Francis A LEGISLATOR. , , . . a . , Martin of Falls Oity , is probably one of the best equip ped and most conscientious men electee to the state legislature. He is a good lawyer and a citizen of irreproachable personal character , whose home-life anc associations are of the highest type of Americanism. The coming ses COMMISSIONERS. COUNTY sion of the legisla ture should give Nebraska a law similar to that of the state of Iowawhich limits the number of days for which the commissioners may legally demand pay during the year. ASSESSORS. Each county needs , and should have , only one assessor of taxes. The new revenue law , which the republican party is pledged to give this state this session , will provide for equitable valu ations of all property. Taxes will be made as nearly just and equal as practical and a statute of limitations , of some sort , provided as to alleged delin quent taxes of former decades. ' ' I have per FUSION IN sonally considered NEBRASKA. for a couple of years that fusion has been a failure , " says Chairman Howell of the Nebraska Democratic Committee. " This cam paign has strengthened this opinion , and has convinced a majority of the mem bers of the committee of the same thing. I have two main reasons for my belief. In the first place , I regard that the popu lists and free silver republicans get rep resentation on fusion tickets out of all proportion to their voting strength. Second , I consider that we are alienat ing more democrats by fusion than we secure from the populists and free silver republicans. " THE CONSERVATIVE SAD. TIVE contemplates the wrecked hopes of Mr. Oldham who sought to be the successor , in trust- smashing , of the honorable Constantine J. S m-y-th with irrepressible com miseration. The stiffness of the opti mistic views which were held by the distinguished orator when he made that nominating speech at the Kansas Oity convention of political miscegenationists and that sustained his pluck when he made that one hundred dollar bet in Bnrt county seems to have been entirely wilted and withered. A dish of corn starch migh prove a restorative. It is made in largo quantities at the Argo starch factory in Nebraska Oity , and is for sale at a less price per package than quoted ten years ago. THE CONSERVA TIVE congratulates Mr. Oldham upon the votes he received as a crusher of indus tries.
