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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1895)
R A ,i? SS4 ? 1 here is a large ) ARE YOU ( WITH o family of us, and us t SSS4sW the nUmber iS being increased rapidly. The people of- Nebraska are divided into two classes, those who take THE OOVlWfcR and those who do not. The former constitute the family. You can get in 2 by paying two T g dollars per year. 2 iili PREMIUM PAIE BI Delivered J $1.00 PER DOZEN IJM JNY PAflT OF THE GITy, H. WtWCRKASR PHONE 187. I 1 7 N. 9TH STREET. .t Instructor i n voice culture or -SINGING 501 and 502 Brace building HOURS 9 H. 1. 10 2:30 P. I. UNO By APPOINTMENT aIIIHH )kvH HH3H WHOLESALE and RETAIL 1338 O Street. Telephone 237 LINCOLN, NEB AGENTS WANTED. Either Sex. Bj the Banker's Alliance of Oattfat nia. Combined life andaccJdeat: aace in the same policy or lasares either sex. 8. J. DENNIS, 1 4. Ill North Elerenth 1 ill )00 POINTS IN POfolTICS IVWW9VWW9WWVvWel Last week in this department of Thk CocRicn, there was a consideration of the personal aspects of the local cam paign. It may be well to consider some of the political issue? involved. It an impartial review of the personnel of the various tickets offered to the votom of the county is to the advantage of the republican candidates, then au investi gation of the general issues of the cam paign is likely to add material strength to the republican cause. Primarily, the chief question at issue in the county campaign is. Shall the re publican party, naturally and logically in the majority, bo successful in carry ing all of tho offices, or shall one or two sops be thrown to tho populist Cer berus? Republicanism vs. Populism. Republicanism is live; the republican party was never so much alive as at the present time; it never meant more to the people of the country than it does now; it never deserved so much at the hanas of the people as it does now. The republican party, as has been many times admitted in these columns, has made mistakes of omission and com mission. It has sometimes advanced men who should have been left on the rear bench of obscurity. It has some times been chargeable with a neglect of the public interests for the sake of pri vate advantage No party that ever existed since the fabled dajs of Homer waB guiltless of these weaknesses. But, and I am Epeaking now of the republi can party in this state and this county, has there been arother party that has anything like its record of achievement? Is there any other party that has elected so many good men to office, and given Buch satisfactory administration and legislation? Of the many thousands of republicans who have been elevated to positions of responsibility and trust in this state how many have been a credit to themselves, the party and the state, and how few have been proven recreant? The answer to this query is a certifi cate "f good character for the republi can party. The men who have made Nebraska what it is, have been, to a very great extent, republicans. The men who organized the state, made the laws and carried on the government have been, with few exceptions, republicans. And the result is a proud commentary on the party. Now, what of populism? Let us Bee what claim the populists have on the consideration and votes of the people of this state. Populism is a plague, it came with out a summons, blasted without a rea son, destroyed relentlessly, nnd now re cedes as it came. Back of the populist parly as we know it in this state, thre is not now, nor never was, a single sensi ble, patriotic idea. It did not spring into existence to meet an emergency or save a state. It has never stood for principle. The populiet party has not in six years given one valid excuse for its existence. It has given a hundred reasons why it should not live. The party grew out of a dissatisfaction a dissatisfaction not with the manner in which the state was being governed, but with the inability of the republican party to provide places for all claimants. Unsuccessful candidates for office or ganized the populist party, and organ ized in this manner, it has from the first, while making a hypocritical ap peal to human credulity, represented nothing more nor less than an over developed appetite for office. The pop ulist party was organized by the de famers of the state, and the party has ever been a defamation and a digrace. Perhaps tho most versatile and influ ential fraud who ever plied his trude in Nebraska is Charles II. Van Wycko. He is one of the men who are responsible for the populist party in this state. He advocated a new party because he had exhausted the office-giving resources of tho republican party, with an appotito remaining that bellowed for "more." One of the worst things that can bo said about the populist party is that Van Wycko helped form it. This man first showed us here in Nebraska what real demagogy is. There have been many later demonstrations. About eight years ago there was a man in a little town in Gage county whoee solo occupa tion was the defamation of Nebraska. This man lied and lied so often and so gratuitously that he finally secured for himself a certain notoriety, lie helped organize tho new party and his lying furnished him a livelihood for several years in the new organization. This man is Jay Burrows and he now lives in Lincoln. It is perhaps but just to him to say that he has of late weaned him self of tho habit of misrepresentation. Some years ago there was a steamboat engineer on the Mississippi river. The engineer moved to Nebraska and be came a member of the republican party. He settled in Seward, and was elected justice of the peace. Then he was elect ed attorney-general. He held office three terms. He wasn't a very good attorney-general, and when he wanted still another term the republican party said nay. Then William Leese, for that is his name carried his appetite for of fice over to the new party. He was one of its chief organizers. As a dema gogue he is only second to Van Wycke. These three were the main instruments of the organization of the populist party. What has the populist party accom plished? It has succeeded in putting a number of men in office, and with few exceptions, these men have brought rid icule and disgrace upon themselves and the state. Three years ago a lot of pop ulists got into the legislature. They controlled that body. The session that year was tho most scandalous the state has ever known. Tho public money was scattered to the four winds. There was profligacy and shameless fraud. There was gross incompetence and downright dishonesty. There was dis regard for the law, a defiance oi the constitution. It was at this session that armed troops patrolled the state house corridors, when the capitol was in a state of eiege for a week. C. D. Schra der, populist leader, publicly damned the constitution. Another member ac cepted a bribe and fled from the state. Many others stole supplies from the state relief commission. Sam Elder, in the chair of the speaker of tho house of representatives, drew the ridicule of the entire counry. Men like Newberry made spectacles of themselves daily. The state was maligned and plundered. That was the first real taste of power the po" had. The populists elected McKeigUu! "id Kem to congress, the rormer a clever man, but a professional dead beat, the latter ignorant and a per sistent maligner of his state. The pops elected William Vincent Allen United States senator. This man, when not boring the people to death by his gal vanized speeches, guzzles and fights in the by-wajs. Allen is worse than a mistake. He is a crime. The populists have given us Edgerton, Decb, Mart Howe, Rewick, Elder, Schrader, et al., and a fine lot now is it not so? In the various counties in the state where they obtained control they proved themselves to be incompetent and in many cases dishonest. 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