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LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1895.
OBSERVATIONS.
IF Mr. Bryan were only in touch
with the administration he might
be selected by Mr. Cleveland to
succeed Gresham. But Billy is very
much out of touch, and he will not get
the job. There are other great men in
Lincoln, however, who are in the closest
kind of harmony with the president,
aud as he reads his copy of The Courier
this week I am not sum that be will not
decide to send to Lincoln for a secre
tary of state. In any mention of great
Nebraska democrats the impulse is to
head the list with that unctuous states
man, Tommy Allen. But Tommy can
hardly hope to be selected by Mr.
Cleveland. It is true he holds an office
'under the Cleveland administration;
but his affiliation with Bryan precludes
higher preferment at this time. It is too
bad; for Tommy has a good deal of
brilliancy himself, and as secretary of
state he would bo, in many respects, a
cuckoo. Then there's thai -Roman
Warrior and statesman, Albert Watkins.
Surely, he's in touch. He's a Cleveland
democrat from the hair on his head to
the farthest extremity of his great toe.
And The Courier will guarantee that
when it comes to diplomacy he is a
corker much more of a corker than
the lately departed Walter Q. If Wat
kins doesn't suit, what's the matter with
that great and good and beautiful man,
Andrew Jackson Sawyer? There, Mr.
President, is a man for your eye. His
democracy is stamped all over with the
Cleveland trade mark. He's in touch
all right. Andrew Jackson Sawyer for
secretary of state; horaay ! ! ! There's
the genuine stuff for you. Mr. Sawyer
is an Al diplomat, and he is as fierce as
the old boy. Why, if he could get a
chance at the British Lion's tail he
would twist it out of its socket. And
then, see how handy Andrew Jackson's
classical knowledge would come in!
Why, he knows more about ancient
Rome and Greece than some people
know about New Jersey or Omaha; and
he could just take the shine off all other
diplomats when it came to quoting the
statesmen of two thousand years ago. If
Mr. Tommy Allen would be a cuckoo
and Mr. Albert Watkins a corker, An
drew Jackson in the robe of state would
be a Jim Dandy, and no mistake. Per
chance the president is har I to suit, and
will have none of these I have mention
ed. Then there is that towering speci
men of the Cleveland brand of democ
racy, N. S. Harwood. Mr. Harwood is
big and brainy, but not belligerant. He
knows his own mind and knows how to
maintain hie position. He is imposing
too; and altogether he would be a good
man for secretary of state. Surely there
is no necessity for Mr. Cleveland to' go
outside of Lincoln for a secretary of
state.
Have you ever received a letter from
J. Sterling Morton, Mr. Cleveland's sec
retary of agriculture? If you have you
have noticed Mr. Morton's crest. On all
of his stationery there is embossed a
wide spreading oak in full green leaf,
and underneath appears the legend.
"Plant Trees." The sagt of arbor lodge
says in speaking of this cat of arms
that he was not a little struck while
journeying in Scotland last summer,
when he learned that the crest of the
Scotch house of Morton was a tree. "I
began to wonder," he said, "if all my
admiration for a tree was not. inherited
from some forest-loving ancestor who
-lived and died in Scotland centuries ago-"
Benjamin Harrison, the man who had
the distinguished honor of preceding
the present incumbent of the White
was ostensibly for the purpose of sitting
for a portrait; but one eastern journal
remarked that he was in reality sitting
for n portrait of the next president of
the United State?.
A. W. Scott, of this city, the Saxon
featured gentleman of tho Sixth ward,
who would accept most politely a nom
ination for district judge, is an old Indi
ana boy, and as such he cherishes a
genuine admiration for tho ex-president.
'I he other day he was telling me some
thing alxnit Harrison as a lawyer and a
citizen. "Harrison loomed up as a great
lawyer long before he was president,"
he said. "In Indiana he has ahvajs
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WILBUR EDWARDS, One Mile 1.31 1-5.
House, is a most important figure just
now. Very recently he has taken part
in some notable suits at law in Jndiana.
as for instance the Morrison will case,
and within the past few days his pres
ence in New York city has directed
public attention to him as a candidate
for the presidential nomination in 1896.
Mr. Harrison was a discreet president,
and he is probably the most discreet
ex-president this country has known.
His wise conduct since the close of his
administration has strengthened his
hold on the public. During his New
York visit he has been besoiged by the
leading politicians of his party; but he
has refrained from any positive expres
sion as to his intentions. His trip east
been a good deal more of a lawyer than
a politician, although he was in the sen
ate and was nominated and elected pres.
ident. The same qualities that gave
force and dignity to his career as presi
dent raised him far above the level of
the Indiana bar. Harrison is well
grounded in legal knowlege; and he
fights with a coolness and determina
tion, intermingled with brilliancy, that
have always been particularly effective.
He is impressive and powerful.
"The last time I saw Mr. Harrison in
court," continued Mr. Scott, "was in a
noted case in Wayne county. It was a
big suit and the best Iawyera in the
county were concerned in it, and Mr.
Harrison waB brought over from Indi
anapolis. In making their argumonts
tho lawyers on tHo other sido made a
great many sarcastic allusions to 'im
ported lawyers.' This sort of thing was
indulged in to such an extent that it
really became offensive. Finally, when
it camo Harrison's turn to speak, thero
was much curiosity as to how he would
reply to tho taunts. Ho rose from his
seat and with perfect courtesy and great
deliberation begau his speech. 'I have
always had tho greatest respect and
regard for old Wayne,' ho commenced.
'I have admired its worthy people and
venerated its honorable traditions. But
I had always supposed that tho honor
and fame of old Wayne rested, in no
small degreo on the hospitality of its peo
ple. I had always thought that tho people
of old Wayne received the stranger within
their gates with cordiality. But it seems
I am mistaken. I learn that tho stran
ger instead of being receiveJ with
warmth is treated as an alien importa
tion.' Then ho went on to say: 'Had I
tho tongue of a flatterer I could say
many gracious things about old Wayne,
but alas I have not. I have even been
unable to give expression to tho feelings
I entertain. This allusion to his alleged
coldness provokod much amusement.
After this introduction Mr. Harrison
proceded with his legal argument. Tho
ox-president is a fairly wealthy man, and
he has made his money practicing law."
What will become of the Western
Normal college now that the adventurer
Croan is to gather up his much adver
tised and somewhat warmly contested
Lares and Penates, and hie himself to
another town? Several citizens of Lin
coln have a good deal of money invested
in the Western Normal college enter
prise that up to date has proved so dis
astrous, and unless some provision is
made for keeping up some kind of an
enterprise at Hawthorne they stand to
lose heavily. It is thought that ono
normal school is about all tho town can
stand, and as the management of the
Lincoln Normal is making an honest
effort to'conduct a legitimate school it
appears that the wisest course would be
to devote the buildings to some other
purpose than that for which they were
originally intended. If any kind of a
school is to be maintained then it would
not be a bad idea to secure some insti
tution backed by a denomination, in tho
same way that Union college is backed
by the Adventists. But it is probable
that better results might be obtained by
getting some manufacturing enterprise
that would employ a large number of
men, to locate at Hawthorne, and if the
proper inducements were held out this
could undoubtedly be done.
A gentleman who had the misfortune
to have been associated with Croan in
this city, and who called at The Cour
ier office several days ago to express
his intense gratification at the plain
truths concerning Croan which appeared