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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1895)
"-. THE COUaUBK. LEADING CANDIDATES. Custom, in Lancutor county, gives every acceptable office bolder a second term. Fred Beckman, of the Third ward, is now serving his first term as county commissioner, and bis services have been of such a character as to rec-con-.end him to tbe people of the county. There are no opposing candidates, and he will be renominated by acclamation. Mr. Beckman has resided in Nebraska twenty-five years, and he is an old resi dent of Lancaster county. He is an active republican, a conscientious official, and a good citizen. He enjoys the respect and confidence of the Ger mans, and other classes of good citizens. Mr. Beckman takes a deep interest in the affairs of the county, and when not in the country on official business is alwayB to be found at hie poet in the court house building. Sometimes attention is drawn toward a candidate who has never held office or been a candidate before, and there is frequently a disposition to help along such a candidate, particularly when he has been active in the republican cause, as has George Cook, of tbe Fourth ward, who ib this year a candidate for the nomination for sheriff. Mr. Cook has lived in Lancaster county 23 years, and has a large acquaintance among the re publicans of the city and county with whom he has always worked with zeal for the cause. Mr. Cook does not in tend to make a fight in the Fourth, but will be content to allow the delegation to pass upon his candidacy. He has many assurance! of cordial support from var ious sections of the county. There is a contest out in Yankee Hill precinct. C, M. Branron, candidate for clerk of the district court, will ask for the support of the delegation. Mr. Branson is well known as an energetic republican and practical farmer. He is well educated, and entirely competent to discharge the important duties of clerk of the district court. He has taken part in various public movements in Lincoln and Lancaster county and has an excellent record as an organizer. He k active in the Sons of Veterans and has always been a straight republican. WHERE "THE WEST" BEGINS. "The West does not begin nowadays until the middle of Ohio at least," sas the Boston Traveller. "The West does not begin until the Mississippi is cross ed, and it is not quite certain that it be gins until the Missouri is crossed," says the Salt Lake Tribune. The West begins where it always did, and the Boston Traveller is much near er right as to the eastern boundary than the Salt Lake Tribune. The political beginning of the West was the establishment of the great free Northwest territory. The soon-to-bo states of Ohio. Indiana and Illinois con stituted the original "Great West," as well defined as China or Japan. That country is still the original West, with additions and enlargements, like Mich igan and Wisconsin, and will always be the West. The Boston Traveller takes the view entertained by New England when people from that section began to move to Ohio. When the founders of Marietta went forth they were going to the "West," and the northern strip in Ohio, filled at first with Connecticut people, ws the "Western Reserve." The boundary has never been removed. The "Great West" it was called, this country, and properly. It was bounded ob the north by the Great Lakes, it was intersected by the three great rivers the Ohio, the Mississippi and the Mis. souri and the natural distinctions and differences between the West and East were from the first marked, and th one great feature that commenced to make of the Western man a new creature and different from the Eastern man was not the big lakes and the big rivers it was the big prairie. Ohio had some prairie, and Indiana had more, and Illinois had tbe biggest prairies of all, and it was the prairies and the work of bringing them into subjection that made the Western man-made him out of the Eastern man, made him out of the Southern man and every other kind of man who came out into the immensity of the Western earth and sky. The development of the West begin ning at the east line of Ohio has been accomplished within considerably less than a century. Here and there are old men or w mien living who saw if they do not remember the start. Enough time has cot yet elapsed for the West to become anything else than the West. The building of the West, the oldest West, is so recent that the chips are ly. ing all about. Tho watchword of the West is and al ways has been, "Big." The West was first distinguished from the East from the "Old Thirteen" by its superior big ness, wideness and openness. The Western farmer who, perhaps was the first in the world to run a straight fur row a mile long, turned out a different style agriculturalist from the gardener or the patient cultivator of a few stony and slanting acres in tho East. All classes of Western society took their cue from the big farmer their inspir ation from the big country. The West waf not in the beginning and is not now more different from the East than are the people of the respective sections. The question of metes and bounds can be very easily settled. Let the traveler start from San Francisco or Salt Lake and he will find the "line" and will know it by the cessation of the "big" in hu manity and nature, agriculture and art. While he sees the great rivers; while he sees the great fields, especially cornfields; while he sees the prairies in their vast ness or trimmed and trained to the hand of man he is in the West. He is in the West in Nebraska and in Missouri and in Illinois and Indiana and in Ohio. One of these states is just as much a Western state as any of the others. When the traveler begins to reach a smaller agri culture, and worn and sterile fields, which appear not merely unproductive but limited he is getting away from the West. And then when the car begins to fill up with local passengers, and the "through" business is in the minority, he notices a difference in faces and voices, and when he has reached the "dead line in conversation as far as he, a 6tranger, is concerned, he knows that his own country the West is be hind him. Western people, who live in the big open, in the great, wide world, talk to all men, without acquaintance or introduction. An Ohio man will dis cuss with a Nebraska man the first time he ever looks in his face any problem interesting man in the life that now is or that which is to come. Jt is different in traveling in the "East." 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