THE COURIER.
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POINTS IN POLITICS.
Miss Fafrbrother, editor of the Wo'
man' lVeekly,Omah&, takes the Notson
case very seriously, and admonishes
State Superintendent Corbett that it
will not be safe for him to ask for a
second nomination. She says:
"In the awful presence of this dead
woman with her children tied to her,
and the hart broken aged mother, it
seems sacrilege to refer to a man like
Mr. Corbett, who met a committee of
club women and played every card of a
consummate coward. The woman's paper
has only this to say, by way of a notice
to him and the party which elected
him. Do not nominate Mr. Corbett for
re-election. There are other men and
women who might fill this office with
honor. If he serves out his term credit
ably, let him go among strangers and
live. He iB young and we have no
desire to injure him. It will not be the
proper thing for him to attempt any
further public life in Nebraska. There
are too many women teachers and other
women who earn their living. A couple
of weeks after Mrs. Notson disappeared
this paper said all it had to say in regard
to this man unless he comes up for re
election. The letters which were pub
lished then, speak for themselves. He
is no worse than the disgraceful system
which winks at perfidy and declares it
to be the correct thing, in politics.
Hib game was more disastrous to him
than is common, and he shall never be
re-eiected. The women have decided.
The dead are dead. All the resolutions
and revenge possible, cannot alter that
fact. The state of mind which made
such a deed as Mrs. Notson committed
possible to a young mother, was brought
about by a complication of circum
stances. A kind word or loving deed at
the right moment might have saved her.
Remorse can do no good. If her sad
fate makes us more thoughtful to the
living, makes us more generous with
shortcomings, makes us say a kind word
and offer a helping hand to one in
trouble, the death will not have been in
vain."
The leading republican candidates for
county treasurer and superintendent of
schools were inadvertently referred to
last week as from the city. While they
have necessarily been in Lincoln during
their term of office, Mr. Cobb and Mr.
Baer st'll keep their residence in the
country, and will come into the conven
tion with country delegations.
Fred Beckman continues in that
equable frame of mind in which a candi
date that has no opposition may well be.
There continues to be less and less
prospect of the Fourth ward sending
both of its candidates for district judge
into the convention. Things seem to be
shaping themselves for a first-class
scrap in the Fourth.
Recent events make it altogether pro
bable that ex-President Harrison will be
a candidate in "96 and there may be a
contest as to whether the delegation
from Nebraska to the national conven
tion shall support McKinley or Harri
son. McKinley sentiment largely leads
in this state), but the late beneficiaries
of the Harrison administration, such
men as Rosewater, Gere, Lambertson,
Peters and Baker, may feel it incum
bent on them to do what they can for
Harrison. Rosewater can be depended
on to do what he can for the ex-president,
prompted solely by self-interest.
But, unless there is a big change in
sentiment, the Nebraska delegation will
be solid for McKinley.
John M. Thurston is the Nebraska
member of the republican national com
mittee, and he may have an opportunity
to mix in national politics at an early
day. Senator Carter, of Montana, the
present chairman of the committee, has
obtruded his free silver views on the
country of late in such a conspicuous
manuer that he has became decidedly
obnoxious to a good many members of
the committee, and there is talk of a
special meeting for the purpose of re
moving him. The next regular meeting
will not be held until February. Carter
will probably hold on as long as he can,
and should there be an effort to remove
him there will be a display of fireworks.
Nebraska will be well represented at
the national convention of republican
clubs which will be held in Ohio this
month. This national convention will
be significant as a leading factor in the
McKinley boom. Being held in Mc
Kinley 's own state its possibilities will
probably be utilized to the uttermost by
the friends of the governor. As pre
viously announced there will be no state
convention of republican clubs this
year.
CHARACTER SKETCH.
8X002TD OTBTgq.
What a great amount of trouble a
little firmness and decision would save!
Into what difficulties do men and women
precipitate themselves by following the
example of Goldsmith's good natured
man! Give me a blunt man. or a dis
agreeable man, or an irascible man, or
an unaccommodating man, in preference
to your smooth, smiling, lackadaisical,
promising man. I want something on
which I can count, a dependence on
which I can lean; not a promise that
will prove to be a mockery, a protesta
tion that has no meaning. Give rae
truth and candor, even if they bring
denial, in preference to palavering
promise that purposes no fulfillment.
Give me men and women who look you
in the eye and tell you honestly what
they think and what they will do.
Lives there a man so weak that he is
afraid to assert his own will, and say no
when he meaus no? Yes, millions of
them. In fact, I believe the majority of
men haven't got any backbone. They
are flimsy, movable, swayable things.
Anybody can bend them. Ask them a
question and they wiil make you just
the answer you want. They want to
please, and bo they never decline to do
anything; never put discouragement in
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The promising man! Do you know
him? Have you ever been deluded by
his pro arises and provoked by his fail
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your way. But there is no sincerity in
them. They never intend to do any
thing at all. Further than the promise
they do not go.
Some years ago, in this city, I made
the acquaintance of the most conspi
cuous example of the promising man I
have ever met. He is a politician; but
the fact that he is in politics isn't
wholly responsible for his weakness for
promising things. He is naturally weak.
He would like to have all men his
friends, so he has palaver and promise
for everybody. He is bo weak and so
afraid of giving offense that if asked
for the hat on his head or the clothes
on his back he would promise them to
you. He is always smiling and pleasant
and he isn't a bad sort of man at all.
He is weak that's what's the matter
with him. Once he has promised to do
a thing that's the last of it. He never
thinks of it and hopes you will never
mention it again. If you do refresh
his memory he promises again, gains
time by excuses, and gives you all man
ner of assurances and then he straight
way dismisses the whole subject from
his mind. When the poor man ran for
office, some few years ago, nobody ever
asked him for anything and got an un
favorable reply. "Of course you can
have it." "That's all right; I'll fix it for
you.' He promised everybody every
thing; and then when he was elected
the trouble began. He couldn't possibly
fulfill a tenth of the promises he had
made, and the hot water that he was in
began to boil. People lost all patience
with him, and friends became enemies.
Having sought to please by empty
promises, lacking the will power to deny
requests that were maJe of him. he
paid the penalty of his weakness in
awakening the determined opposition of
powerful men. He was greatly troubled.
All his life he has been in trouble that
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have no confidence in him; they despise
his weakness. They wouldn't take his
word for anything, because he never
thinks of meeting his obligations, and
yet, as I have said, he is a decent sort of
man. He hasn't any force of character,
that is all. He is the ''good natured
man" all over. He is a promising man.
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