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, . .YQI. 9.-.No. 41.
LINCOLN, NBB., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1894.
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W. MORTON 8MITH, Editor.
LUTE II. MOUSE, ... Bxsiness Manager.
tin and tho other members of the state central committee,andof the
gentlemen in this city above referred to, was unabloto Btrm the tide
of populism that, sweeping down from the waste places in the arid
district in the west, completely engulfed the democratic party.
To be sure there was a bolting convention; but as is usually the
case with this sort of secesssion movements, it will not, to use an
expressive colloquialism, cut any ice.
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The political conventions have all been held no.v, and in another
week the state campaign will be in full blast.
Sympathy in great gobs is going out to those simon-pure demo
crats, the sole remnant of what was once tho democratic party in
this state, represented in Lincoln by N. S. Harvo-)! and Andrew
Jackson Sawyer and Albert Watkins et al. Mr. Harwood, since
Wednesday's convention, has taken a reef in that pleasantly ingen
uous smile that for years has illuminated his han Jlsaiiio features,and
is wearing a crepe band around his hat fourteen i-iches wide. Mr.
Harwood has a remarkably tine picture of Thomas Jefferson in his
library. It is turned to the wall now.
Mr. Andrew Jackson Sawyer has dyed his whiskers black. He
sent the following message to President Cleveland; "Invite us all
down to Buzzards Bay. There's only a few of us left."
Albert Watkins wears a moon eyed garb of melancholy and has
had a black border put on his linen. To keep up his spirits he re
cites the one hundred and nineteenth psalm before and after every
meal.
Democracy in Nebraska has been Him flammed by tho green goods
men of populism, and there isn't enough left of the old fashioned
brand, the kind that Samuel J. Tilden loved, to cover half of the
bottom of the political pot. Tobias Castor, the commander of the
faithful in this state holding a special private commission from Mr.
Cleveland, with all the help such gallant brigadiers as Euclid Mar-
There was a good deal at Btako in the action of the democracy in
Nebraska in this campaign. Mr. Harwood and Mr. Sawer and Mr.
Martin and old line democrats of their stamp worked day and night
to keep tho democratic organization intact and prevent a further
encroachment of populist demoralization. They were animated by a
two-fold object to preserve their party from destruction and to
protect the business interests of the state from the harm that must
come from tho election of populist candidates, which, with a
submerged democratic party, is a possibility that may eventuate in
to fact.
There is no use disguising the fact that the outlook for the repub
lican ticket isn't as encouraging as it might be. The patriotic mem
bers of the democratic party were overwhelmed by populist fandango
and with the larger element of two parties voting for Holcomb, there
is a probability that the state maybe carried by these political tramps
and adventurers, and that another blow may be dealt to state credit
It has already received many hard knocks.
The election of Holcomb, despite the fact that he may be person
ally a good man, would be a calamity, which following the crop
failure in this state, would have a very disastrous effect. All of the
disintegrating and demoralizing elements and tendencies in the
state, all of the fanatics and anarchists, the visionaries and dis
gruntled nuisances are for Holcomb and the election of the populist
ticket will, in effect, be a declaration to the country that Nebraska
after a more or less Berious flirtation with the populists has at last
given itEelf over, body and soul, to these prosperity-destroying anar
chists. The situation is, indeed, serious. The defeat of the repub
lican ticket will work untold injury to every business interest and
business man in Nebraska.
Col. Ingersoll, in his second article oa suicide published in last
week's Courier, wanders from his text somewhat and discusser
atheism and the existence of a Gad and a hereafter at considerable
length. His argument in favor of suicide does not differ materially
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