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fr) Tucslay afternoon, and because we believed a good many jwo-
pie are interested in the matter, we asked him tho following
question: -'Will you be a candidate for re-nomination?" It is gen
erally known that the governor, up to a few months ago, had decided
that he would not be a candidate again. At least he so stated to
friends. He has not been wholly delighted with theotlice, and there
have been, at various times, rumors of resignation and retirement to
.oblivion, otherwise known as Fort Calhoun. Hut of late there have
been developments of such a character as to justify Tiik Coukiei: in
stating, with more or less jKreitiveness, that he would be in tho Held
for renomination. What the governor said in answer to our pointed
inquiry makes it absolutely certain, in our opinion, that ho will be a
candidate. His reply was as follows:
"I have replied to all who have asked me this question that I am
not a candidate in the sense that I am seeking renomination. The
office is distasteful to me, and I would be willing enough to give it
up. Some of my friends have urged me to say that under no cir
cumstances would I be a candidate, and that I would not accept a
nomination, ir it were tendered; but," and here the governor as
sumed a judicial air and spoke very deliberately as if he were weigh
ing every word. "I have not felt like going that far. It is held by
certain persons and I confess that my opinion on this subject is not
as strong as theirs, that conditions may arise which would make it
advisable for me to accept a re-nomination and continue in ollice, in
the interest of conciliation. What these conditions are or may be I
am not prepared to say. I am simply holding myself in reserve. If
it is clear that it is best for me to be a candidate I will probably al
low my name to be used. In the meantime I would not cmharras
any of the gentlemen who are candidates for the office. I would
have them go ahead, leaving me out of consideration.
Those persons who know Governor Crounse will, we believe,
read between the lines of the above that he is a candidate, in
much the same sense that Tom Majors and Jack McCoIl and the
rest of 'em are candidates.
The correspondent of the St. Louis Republic who stated that the
"democrats in this state will certainly elect their candidates in the
Hrst and fifth districts and are very contident in the second and
have excellent chances in tho the third and fourtn districts." must
have derived his information from a source not generally accessible.
Not having access to the valuable information which he seems to
have in hand, we are foolish enough to think that the next congress
man elected in the First district will certainly be a republican: that
Dave Mercer and George Meiklejohn and Eugene Hainer, will be
re-elected in the Second, Third and Fourth districts, and that there
is a very good lighting chance for republican candidates in the Fifth
and Sixth districts.
Major Calhoun says: "If offices are to be replenished with new
republican occupants, as in some instances the have been, why not
just retain the old office holders, and save much useless trouble?
The administration had just as well be republican by retention as
republican by replacement.' The major also tells of a young man
in the south who said ho was the only Cleveland man left in his
town. Mr. Cleveland's unpopularity with Major Calhoun is some
thing that time cannot wither or the apiointment of semi-republicans
make less effective.
Henry St. Rayner, of Cheyenne county, was in the city this week.
There has been a good deal of dry weather in his part of the state
aud as drouth breeds populists like a swamp breeds pestilence, Mr.
St. Rayner is afraid that the pops are in a pretty good state of
health. He says that it will not be an easj matter to elect a repub
lican congressman in the Sixth district.
There will bo a meeting of the Young Men's Republican club at
the Lincoln hotel to-night.
The republican city campaign was inaugurated in a most beauti
fully harmonious manner at the city central committee meeting
Wednesday morning.
Congressman Bryan has told his friends that he would like to see
Church Howe nominated for congress in this district. There is no
longer any doubt but that Mr. Hryan will try for congress again,
and he thinks he would have a better chance with Howe for an an
tagonist than some other of the prospective candidates.
There is a growing reeling that the republican in some ot the wards
did not select the most distinguished material when they picked out
candidates for councilman.
The Hastings Xebrashan denies the report that W. E. Andrews.
Governor Crounso's private secretary, is a candidate for secretary or
state, and states he has only one ambition to be re nominated for
congress in tho Fifth. U Mr. Andrews is not put up again it will
not be the Xebraxkun's fault.
CHARACTER SKETCHES.
NO. 7.
U EADEKS of these modest sketches who have fallen into the
JJY ,,amt f making local applications of the outlines hurriedly
q drawn will probably have little difficulty in recognizing the
character sketched bekw:
He lives alone in the world, probably because no one cues
to live with him. He has passed the line of middle age, and is
traveling down the declivity on the other side in much the
same manner that he has always traveled, at least in the memory
of old inhabitants. He is a man that few would care to be on in
timate terms with, and yet he is much courted. His character is
mottled and he walks not in the straight and narrow path that leads
to righteousness; but he buys his way into apparent respectability,
and his name is enrolled as a director of one of the leading benevol
ent and Christian organizations in the city. U'm money saves him
from leing an utter outcast.
He is an inveterate frequenter of lectures, prayer meetings, etc.,
and he is regular in his attendance upon church. He drops a five
dollar bill into the collection plate with the nonchalance of a spend
thrift Croesus; albeit he is a slave to economy so far as his personal
habits are concerned and ordinarily he pinches a dollar so hard"
that he hurts his fingers. This man who gives to God so freely
takes from his fellow men with equal facility. He has never leen
accused of having a conscience, and the only evidence that he has
anything approximate to a conscience is the fact that he gives so
liberally to the churches and charity. He drives a bargain like a
Jehu, and he usually comes out a winner. Some interesting
stories are told about the different ways in which he makes money.
Belligerancy is one of his prominent characterstics. He is fre
quently in the courts: but he settles a great many difficulties out of
court with his fists. If he bargains like a Jehu, he tights like a
Turk.
He is one of the enigmas of the town. He is one of the most pro
minent citizens, and yet very few people know very nr.ich about
him. He has few or no confidants, and he lives unto himself nut
a life that would make the angels weep with Joy. His reputation
has trailed in the dust so often and been so frequently and freely
spattered with the blood of many battles that he is not regarded a
a model man. Hut nobody ever finds any fault with his money,
and the just and unjust are after him continually. He doubtless
gives away as much money as any man in Lincoln. If he had lived
several hundred years back he would have liought indulgences of the
priet. He practically does the same thing now. He comes down
handsomely, and does as he pleases, and I do not believe anybody
ever ventures to talk to him of the beauty of a sanctified life on
earth. His contributions give him a casi-respectability, and with
this he is apparently content. He is a man of considerable wealth.
The bulk of it, it is thought, will be disposed of in proper donations
before his death. He is given credit for bestowing help where it is
deserving and most needed. Tkv.v.
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