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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1895)
r- THE COUKIZK. Judge Cunningham R. Scott is a can didate for renomination for district judge in Douglas county. E. Rose water has felt the keen edge of Scott's independence, and he is opposing Scott's candidacy with all the usual Rose watter subterfuge and abuse. Judge Scott delivered a public address the othr day in which he spoke of his enemy at length, without mentioning his name. A friend Bends me a paper pub'is hed in South Omaha containing th) greater part of the address. Below are Borne extracts from the speech that will be of interest to the many personE who do not march under the Rosewater banner. "And who is on the other side of that line? An enemy of civil liberty, of peace and domestic tranquility, of law and order, of human character, of the sacred ties that bind together husband and wife, father and mother, parents and children, a destroyer of human character, fraternal feelings and friend ship, one who drives out from happy homes, happy, loving wives into a bleak and desolate widowhood and then with the craven greed of the hyena digs open the graves of his murdered victims and tears open the ghastly, deadly wounds caused by malicious libel of hueband and father that he may satiate his de moniacal lust for a hellish feast upon the helpless dead who in life refused to do his bidding. One who hath neither human heart, conscience or soul, who never had a human inspiration, a thought of love, a feeling of affection, a gererous impulse, a kindly word or felt a magnanimous throb or breathed a breath not freighted with a deadly virus; whose every pore ie a cess-pool of moral and infectious disorder; whose twenty two years in the state of Nebras ka have been fraught with untold mis chief and injury to the lives, liberties and happiness of the people. He has excited domestic insurrection among us. His known rules of warfare are an indis criminate destruction of all ages, sexes, that will not put money into his coffers or political power and absolute dictation into his clutching, bloodstained fingers and boodle into his itching palms. Driven at last by a long suffering people out of every corner and precinct of the state, he comes panting like a monster from his haunts and comes among the people of our city like the deadly bomb of the anarchist, to continue a life of lust, rapine and ravishment upon our people and stamp out free government, that his greed for pelf, power, and perfidy may be satisfied.' "An Ishmaelite and half breed, his hand is against everybody and every body's hand is against him; he never loved anybody, and nobody ever loved him. A falsifier by instinct, perjury rolls off his cloven tongue with an oily stillness as an exhileraling pastime and amusement; a traitor by uature,he hates America and her institutions and is always breathing threatenings and Je struction to both; his vomits, which are constant, pollute the air of American freedom and liberty. The touch of his person is more deadly than .the night shade or Upas tree. A moral leper ex posing his gangreened sores on every hand, hazarding the lives of the people; a political and moral prostitute who W& are offering: f)ur remaining stock of new arid stylish straw hats at less than actual cost. We have ar overstock and do not propose to carry them over if low prices will sell them. J. A. SMITH v hates virtue, courts and dallies with vice and inoculates society and politics with his iniquity; a coward wbo strikes his dragon teeth into the living and the dead and then hides himself in his den and gloates over the wantoness of his dastardy, an after dark production on the cross roads between Bohemia and Judea, neither man nor beast.having all of the baser qualities of both in his accidental make up, without any of the redeeming traits of either save that he is growing oli and his departure awaits the fruiticn of the people's prayers.'' "Lycurgus, in pity, placed the frozen serpent iu his bosom and when it was warmed back to life it struck its poison ous fangs into the vitals of its bene factor; so this amalgamation of human depravity and bestiality, when stranded in the shoals of financial ruin, was pick ed up by the republican party which fed and warmed him into financial life and ho bites the party and strikes hiB fangs of discord and disruption into the vitals of the party. Without any relig ion himself, except the worship he be stows upon himself, he now strives to stir up a religous warfare among our people, terrorize them with threatened mob violence and causes brother to shed the blood of brother that he may gleo fully rub his itching palms for pelf, power and domination over the people. He has filed his caveat upon the govern or, applied for a patent and served notice of utter destruction to those who dare to infringe upon hiB invention. Not satisfied with this he claims to hold a mortgage upon the good governor containing a strict foreclosure clause and ever and anon threatens a fore closure unless the interest is paid daily in the way of political gifts. He holds a deed in fee simple upon the mayor, but the property covered by the deed is so worthless that the assessor has never turned it in for taxation. This cancer and microbic fungus upon the body politic claims that tho old political parties are so corrupt and lacking in virtue that he cannot affiliate and must needs start a citizen's movement," "This is the Benedict Arnold that is now trying to deliver the people of Omaha into perpetual bondage; the descendant of Judas, who betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver, and who is not satisfied that his ancestors crucified Christ, is trying to crucify all who will not be his galley slaves." W. C. Frampton. of the Fifth Ward, is a candidate for justice of the peace, making three candidates for justice in that ward, the other two being Walter Leese and W. B. Price. Joe Brown, of the Third ward, doesn't like not being a justice of the peace, and will try to get back into office again. Elmer Spencer, as announced in last week's Courier, has withdrawn as a candidate for county judge, and will ask for renomination for justice of the peace. Mr. Spencer is a popular justice, and his re-nomination is assured. The most interesting feature of the local political situation during the past week has leen the advent of Elmer Ste phenson into tho arena as a candidate &&kr "1137 0 Street ALLIANCE STORE 1008 P. STREET. r - - !Oro;p On flour. Low grade flour, per sack $ .CO Baker's patent 80 Straight patent 90 Cream patent 1.00 10 lbs finest rol.d oats 25 lOlbspeas 25 8 lbs yellow or white beans 25 28 lbs fine brown sugar 1.00 20 lbs best granulated sugar. 1.00 8 loaves best bread 25 5 canssugar corn 25 best potatoes, per peck 15 J. W. HARTLEY, with j. W.MUSSTTER. 1008 I, street Sisler's Ice Cream lias for years been noted fo. its purity and smoothness. Weddings and entertainments a SPECIALTY. ICES, SHERBETS MMS HI SHORT NOTICE. PICNICS SUPPLIED. 1ST So. IMiiirteexitlm. Plione 030. I0OOOOOOOOOOOOOO for clerk of the district court. This action on the part of Mr. Stephenson was fore shadowed by The Courier a couple of weeks ago, and was no surprise to those who have kept themselves informed of political events and possibilities. Mr. Stephenson, as is known to a number of people, seriously considered the advis ability of becoming a candidate for re-nomination for treasurer last spring, and at one point had nearly decided to permit his name to go before the con vention. Since that time there has been talk of his entering into the present campaign as a candidate, and those persons who understand the reasons why Mr. Stephenson's friends should be par ticularly desirous of securing the nomination for clerk of the district court for him have counted on his being an important factor in this campaign. All through last week Mr. Stephenson was feeling his ground in the Third Ward and by Friday he had made up his mind definitely, to become a can didate. The day following public announcement was made. The candi dacy of Mr. Stephenson precluded the retirement of Charley Waite, and the latter has now withdrawn, and is working among his friends to secure the nomination of Stephenson. Waite and Stephenson have long worked together in politics and, to a considerable extent, the friends of one are the friends of the other. Waite will try and have as many Stephenson men as possible on the First ward delegation. There are numerous candidates for office in Mr. Stephenson's ward, the Third. Dick Young. v,ho wants to be sheriff, is noted as a swift runner, and should affairs so shape themselves that Young and Stephenson will contest for the delegation, a lively fight would be the result. Stephenson's friends will try moral suasion on Young, and they hope to avoid a clash. Beckman is neutral so far as other candidates are concerned: The administration is strongly entrenched in the Third, and this power will be exerted in Stephen son's behalf. Should he get the ward, as now seems probable, there is pretty sure to be a triangular fight in the con vention, the best information warrant ing the belief that Sizer will be success ful in getting in from the Fifth and Low from the Fourth. ooooooooooooooooooooc; ooooooooc There is a politician out in Hayes Centre who is basely ungrateful to the editor of the Republican of that place. The last issue of the Republican con tains the following: "The ingratitude o politicians is one of the cruellest phases of politics. It is a rare politician who appreciates what you do for him. Most of them think that you have but done your duty, and if they a-e defeated they are apt to feel that you have not done enough, or attribute their defeat to some of your mistakes. The can didate for office is liable to get the big head and to think that it is a son of honor to support him. Listen to the words of experience, and never tie yourself, body and soul, to any man who wants an office. Now and then there is a golden-souled politician who is grateful for what you do for him. But he is like the angels are said to be." SayB the Omaha Bee: "Congress man Mercer is once more on American soil. So soon as his peaceful coun tenance spreads its light on this western country grim visaged war must take a premature departure. Mr. Mercer's return ought to s:lve all the perplexing problems with which the government is beset." The Bee delights in flings of this sort. It has never liked Dave Mercer, and being unable to say anything against him it has resorted to innuendo. As a matter of fact Mr. Mercer is one is one of the most un assuming and efficient of Nebraska's congressmen. George Horn says a man with a strange look on his lace was caught out on the frontier of the Fifth ward the other day. The man was tied and then asked what office he was a candidate for. His captors, all of them Fifth warders, sustained a severe shock, when the man replied "none." He was sent to the asylum. For St. Louis take the Missouri Pacific route. City ticket office 1201 O street. For California take theMissouriPacific route, via southern route. BLUE RIVER ICE can only be had from the wagons of P. H. Cooper. Telephones 583 "and 581