Conservative
VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOV. 29 , 1900. NO. 21. Bj
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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.
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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.
