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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1894)
; A 5 N VOL,. 9, No. 47. PRIGE FIVB CENTS. - LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1894. POINTS IN POLITICS. SINCE the events of Tuesday the great mac with tho Jovo like brow, whom Mrs. Feattie admires so greatly, and who is sometimes known to fame as the editor of the World-Herald, as "the congressman from the tirst Nebraska district," and as "the boy orator of the Platte," has come in for a large measure of consid eration. Many persons hare manifested concern in Mr. Bryan's futum, and the young congressman has been consigned to a great variety of fates. Sotno republicans have been heard to say "Bryan has been heard from for the last time. He has had his day, and will now relapse back into obscurity." How often in politics is the wish father to the thought! The people who have made remarks of this sort belong to the class of politicians that, three years ago, pronounced a funeral sermon on the populist party, and that two bo realized. Decisive republican control of the legislature means that he is certain to be elected as the successor of Charles F. Manderson in the United States senate. II. M Bushcell will probably go to Washington as Congressman Strode's private secretary, and two years from now will be a candi date for the postmastership in this city or some other federal appointment. Among the many inconsistencies of the late campaign was the candidacy of Judge Holcomb on the populist ticket. The populist party is the direct outcome of the Farmers Alliance, and it was one of the first principles of this famous organization that no lawyer should be admitted to membership or favor. Yet in the campaign just closed this party of farmers, of Farmers Alliance members, years ago did the same thing. But saying that the populist party was dead did not, unfortunate ly, maka it so, and saying that Mr. Bryan will not be heard of again will not effect his retirement. Mr. Bryan for some years has contemplated moving to Omaha, and the intimation he received on Tuesday that the people of Nebraska did not look with favor on his ambition to go to tho United States snate,together with the ad ded consideration of an ad verse political situation in this congressional district paved the way for a change of residence that many re gard as inevitable. Mr. is MM V I Bilfjl u -2 LX-VV XXX .- fte r--t'.: " - 'VJ.L -Jr,y & had as its candidate for the highest office in the state, a lawyer. The re publican party, on the other hand, had a farmer for its candidate. ShankB Why did you build such a handsome bay window on the kitchen? Cranks Merely to make it more convenient for the cook to converse with the policeman. The outlook for a con test over the governorship is decidedly favorable. If the plurality, as disclosed by the official count is less than a couple of thousand the legislature will un doubtedly bo called upon to settle the matter. In the meantime Rosewater's tail is spread and all of his employes have been in structed to make three low salaams every time they enter the royal presence. It wont be a difficult Bryan will do one of two things. He will remain in Lincoln, and at the expiration of his term, practice law until he can manage to get in the track of political lightning again, or he will go to Omaha, sometime next year, and run for congress in the Second district at the expiration of Dave Mercer's second term. matter to keep an eye on the democratic contingent in the legislature. Mayor Weir hasn't yet found out what struck him; but he has de cided, after mature deliberation covering a period of three-fourths of a second, to try for the mayoralty again. Mr. Bryan is much too bright and clever a man to allow himself to drop back into obscurity. He is still a factor in Nebraska poli tics, and an important one, and he will be heard from many times in the years to come. Mr. Bryan, with all his arrant demagogery, is one of the shrewdest, if not the shrewdest, politican in Nebraska, and he knows enough not to allow himself to be forgotten, which, to the politician, is death In the organization of the state central committee, the election of the United States senators, and such, Omaha and Douglas county always receive first consideration at the hands of the republican party. And what does Omaha and Douglas county ever do for the republican party? The republican plurality in Douglas on Tues day's election is a good answer to this pointed query. The life long ambition of John M. Thurston will, in all probability, Nebraska is the desert in the general oasis.