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NONKYAND " J' Sterling
SENATORS. Morton suggests
Governor Furnas
as a suitable man for a senatorial toga ,
forasmuch as he has delved in and de
veloped Nebraska for half a century.
The point is well stated bat the gover
nor hasn't been attending political con
* ventions , besides which his bank ac
count is lean. "
The above is from that most othodox
organ of republican principles , policies
and practices , the well-edited Fremont
Tribune. What can this mean ?
Is it possible that service to the party
outweighs service to the state ? Is it
possible in the estimation of Editor
Hammond a McKinley appointee that
"lean bank account" is
a an impedi
ment to political promotion in the
organization to which he and the presi
dent and other great and good citizens
belong ? THE CONSERVATIVE is amazed
and dazed by the Tribune , when , by im
plication , it declares that , among the
republicanssenatorships are delivered to
the highest bidder. The Conservative.
The Tribune holds that service to the
party does outweigh service to the state ,
with the people who choose United
States Senators , as a rule. It is cer
tainly so in the case of Senator W. V.
Allen. It is likewise true of W. J.
Bryan , who never did a thing for his
state , worth mentioning never had a
good word for it in all his torrents and
cataracts of words. We were speaking
of practical politics politics as she is
"politicked. "
It is also possible that a "lean bank
account" is an impediment to men be
coming candidates for admission to the
Millionaires' club , which meets in one
end of the National Capitol.
Money is necessary in Washington life.
General Manderson secured his high
reputation there as senator , largely by
his genius , it is true , but by interlarding
it with his flve-thousaud-a-year salary ,
plus four thousand more every year for
twelve years.
It is true , too , that the richest candi
dates for the two Nebraska togas are
also the strongest candidates , just at
present. They are D. E. Thompson aud
Edward Rosewater. Fremont Tribune
Colonel Hammond evidently agrees
with the ancient editor who remarked in
Ecclesiastes , ninth chapter and eleventh
verse : "The race is not to the swift
nor the battle to the strong , neither yet
bread to the wise , nor yet riches to men
of understanding , nor yet favor to rne.n
of skill ; but time and chance happenetl
to them all. " And from Hammond's
republican or purely partisan standpoint
Pat Crowe , demonstrating that he was
of great service to the party and that he
prevented most gigantic frauds at the
election in South Omaha on November
6 , 1900 ; and that the legislature was thus
made Republican , might sit in the sen
atorial game with his twenty-five thous
and dollars of gold and kidnap the sena
torship from Thompson and Rosewater
whoa ? the Tribune declares the "richest"
and therefore "the strongest candidates
ust at present. " If the Tribune photo
graphs correctly the situation , why not
put up the seuatorship at auction , sell it
; o the highest bidder and put the money
n the state treasury ?
early six-
THE TWISTED
TUKE. * ieB > a une after
noon of more than
usual calm and sweetness drifted into
our lives. It was vibrant with birds ,
and serene , in the sunshine , as a sleep
ing baby under the smile of its mother.
And we walked out among the small ,
growing conifers which she had planted
: o the northward of the cottage , and
marveled at their symmetry. There
were tiny White Pines , and Balsam Fir ,
and Arbor Vitae , all rejoicing in vigor
ous health and running a race at grow
ing. Incredulously we talked of the
coming years when our children's chil
dren should gambol in the summer
shade , or shelter from the winter blast ,
beneath the spreading arms of those
pigmies. And with pleasant forecasts
of the possibilities , in human life , that
we were trying to discipline and prepare
our sons to achieve , while the sun ,
already down , draped the horizon with
glorious coloring , and the tranquil night
was stealthily shaking out its veil of
clouds in which to mourn another
departed day , we came into the cottage
and to rest , and to sleep and to dream of
stately pines , their perennial verdure ,
and the sighing winds that in time to
come would make music in their
boughs.
But while the stars are swinging signal
lights to prevent collisions of worlds
with worlds in their journeyings through
space
"The sky is changed I And such a change 1 Oh
night
And storm , and darkness , ye are wondrous
strong. "
And in the morning bruised and
mutilated , and prone upon the ground
lay the Arbor Vitae which had been so
trim and pretty only the afternoon
before. It seemed a hopeless wreck
beyond the reach of human remedy.
But gently , with the tender touch ,
known only to hands that have lovingly
fondled sick children , she took up its
fragments one by one and brought them
together in braid and twist , and where
the lacerated limbs met joined them
aunointing them with warm wax
tying them fast to each other. Anc
like a maimed child the poor little thing
responded to gentle treatment and again
began to live and thrive. And now
after thirty-eight years , that Arbor
Vitae with its twisted , dual trunk and
intertwined limbs is telling most
graciously of the deft fingers which
bound up its wounds and nursed it back
to life ; while her grandchildren wonder
that so strange a personality in trees
oonld ever have been evolved and made
permanent by a woman's love of home
and its , embellishment !
PARADOX.The state of Utah
UTAH PARADOX.
founded by Brigham -
ham Young and the Mormon church is
quite paradoxical in political conclusions.
In the November election it repudiated
the fusion ticket and its populist candi
date for the presidency. But at the
same time it ratified and adopted the
worst part of the Kansas City platform ,
by voting to so amend the state consti
tution of Utah , as to make the initiative
and referendum a part of that organic
law. It provides for the application of
the referendum to the political sub
divisions of the commonwealth of the
Latter Day Saints. By petition a certain
proportion of the voters may
demand that any new legislation
shall be submitted to them for approval
or rejection. And a fixed proportion of
the voters in any town or county may
initiate any legislation and submit it to
the local vote for ratification or dis
approval. If the Utah legislature so
elects the country will soon see the
initiative and referendum under full
headway among the saints and sinners
of Deseret.
In this country the referendum that
is the voting by the people upon what
shall be or shall
Ignored. , ,
not be law has
always been in vigor as to the constitu
tions of the several states and as to
changes proposed in either of the organic
laws of those states. But here in Ne
braska the people have never taken
enough interest in proposed changes for
the constitution to carry an election for
one. And at the November election of
1900 nineteen states of the American
Union passed upon constitutional amend
ments and revisions and in all the nine
teen states less than three-fifths of the
votes polled for presidential electors
were cast as to constitutional changes.
In South Dakota 78 per cent of the
men who went to the polls voted on the
question of repealing the existing pro
vision for state control and management
of the sale of liquor , while in Mississippi
80 out of every 100 expressed their
opinion regarding an amendment chang
ing the apportionment of part of the
school fund as between the two races.
On the other hand , there were states , as
Florida and Idaho , where the proportion
of voters who took the trouble to vote
either way on an amendment sank as
low as 25 , and even 21 per cent.
How long will it be before the refer
endum in Utah will refer to the popular
vote the question
Polygamy. .
of monogamy on
the one h'aud and polygamy on the other ?
And after the people of a sovereign state
shall h ve declared for polygamy what
power will the federal government have
to interfere for its abolition ? All powers
not granted by Utah to the federal
Union have been expressly withheld and
did Utah grant the power to regulate its
domestio institutions and to prevent
inebriety of matrimony ?
