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able to approach Harrison and Reed and
McKiuley and Allison and barter tho
franchise of the state for a paltry mess
of official pottage. Patriotic Nebraska
republicans do not want to eee the Ne-
: braska vote peddled about and hawked
entered in the post OFFICE at LiscoLN to the highest bidder for a considera
as second-class matter tion of purely private interest. For this
reason and for the further reason that
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY they want this state to go to McKinley
nr they are opposed to anything but a
straight McKinloy delegation.
IHE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO.
As a beneficiary of President Harri-
Offico 217 North Eleventh St. son. Mr. Rosewater was supposed to
Tlenhnre 384 favor the matrimonial-presidential can-
" didate. But the first choice of tho edi-
" tor of the Bee is Senator Allison, of
W. MORTON SMITH Editor and Manager Tn -rr Ttnawntpr nrnuld lilrn tn ta
SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor Iowa- ir.Kosewaier would UKe to see
an uninstructed delegation. John L
Webster is a candidate for delegate.
Subscription Rates-In Advance. Ho has indulged in flirtations with tho
Per annum 82.00 McKinley followers and he has con
Six months 1.00 rted ith the A1Hson men Ho wantg
Three months 50 .
One month 20 an uninstructed delegation. He thinks
Single copies 5 Nebraska could obtain greater recogni-
tion if the delegates wero uninstructed,
which being interpreted means that tho
offico of attorney general might come
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attorney general. Senator Thurston's
riends in Omaha are generally for Mc-
Somo months ago Senator Thurston Kinley and instruction. Ex-Senator
answering for Nebraska, said the solid Manderson states emphatically that he
vote of this state in the national repub- wni not be a candidate for first or sec-
lican convention would be cast for Mc" ond place on the national ticket. Hois
Kinley. It is beginning to be evident for McKinley. In this city Mr. Gere
that tho senator's remark was not ill- has been mentioned as a candidate for
advised. Unquestionably the sentiment delegate. Many supposed he was a Har-
of three-fourths of the republicans of riBon man. The editor of the Journal
Nebraska is strongly in favor of McKin- Bigned the call for the big McKinley
ley. As elsewhere some of tho politic- meeting to bo held in this city next
ians are for 6ome other candidate, month, which commits him to the Mc
They have done considerable 6cheming Kinley movement. Mr. Gere, under
but, apparently, to no avail. Public these circumstances, will be a popular
sentiment has overtaken privato selfish- candidate. L. L. Lindsay and Dr. Ker-
ness. Within the Ia6t week or two the man, candidates for delegate, aro for
McKinley movement has assumed deri- McKinley. Mr. Houtz, through his con-
niteform. The McKinley club seems to nection with Senator Thurston, would
answer admirably the purpose of a cent" naturally be for McKinley. G. M.
ralizing force. Republicans all, over the Lambertson is a candidate. He was as-
stato are signing the McKinley petitionB sistant secretary of the treasury under
and joining the big McKinley club. Tho Harrison and is supposed to be loyal to
few politicians who, a few weeks ngo, the ex-president. He is opposed to in-
were asking for an unpledged delega- structions. John M. Thayer is spoken
tion are now holding their peace. Some of as a prospective delegate-at-Iarge.
of them have already pulled themselves He is an uncompromising McKinley
into tho McKinley band wagon. Others man. C. O. Whedon is a candidate for
are reaching up. By the time the dele- delegate. Mr. Morrill has been urged
gates are selected tho McKinley move- to stand for delegate, but he will not be
ment will be so formidable that it is a candidate.
doubtful if anyone will have the temer-
ity to raise his voice in behalf of an un- , . . , ., . - . ,
' 1 , . . It is said that ex-Senator Manderson
P " found official life in Washington a pleas
There are undeniable advantages in ant but expensive luxury. He is re
an uninstructed delegation. But the Prted M being desirous of remaining
one reason why it would be particularly in his Present remunerative position,
undesirable to send an unpledged dele- ""citor for tho Burlington. Should
gation to St. Louis is that nine out of his country call him, however, his nat
ten of those who oppose instructions are ura,1' Patriotic impulse would doubtless
opposed to McKinley or are animated cause him to obey the call,
by purely selfish reasons a desire to go
to St. Louis and trade the vote of Nc- Major Moses P. Handy, late "lord
braska or a portion of it for a political high chancellor of the Jim Blaine
job. There are several ambitious poli- boom" discussed republican candidates
ticians who would like to be delegates in the Times-Herald the other day. He
and have a free delegation so as to be Baid the winning candidate must be a
man who boldly places himself on record
on the live issues now before tho coun
try. Major Handy quotes a leading poli
tician as saying: "Allison is all right,
but ho can't change the mental habits
and political mothods of his life. Why,
Allison could walk on piano keys from
New York to Omaha and never sound a
note."
Tho Honorable Tobias Castor, with
his little note book and his stubby lead
pencil, is in Washington. The demo
cratic national committeeman, tho head
push of the Nebraska straights, tho
practical, material essence of pure and
undetiled Nebraska democracy, is at tho
head center of pap-distribution, con
sorting with the Honorable JuIiuB
Sterling Morton, and the powers that
be generally, and it is roported that tho
official axe is to be raised for the decap
itation of certain federal office-holders
in this state whose partisan views are
not plugged to the Cleveland size. It is
said that officeholders will not be re
lieved of tho burdens of official life for
political reasons; but that those who be
lieve in Bound money aro safe. Thoso
who are declared to bo inefficient will
be tho men who have a weakness for the
diluted democracy of W. J. Bryan. It
is hinted that Mr. Harley may have to
put his bead on the block. It is an in
spiring sight truly, to seo this man Cas
tor sitting in judgment on men's politi
cal views. The Honorable Tobias Cas
tor is a good man for some purposes.
He is energetic, and he is faithful. But
it may appear a little presumptuous for
the Honorable Tobe to pass judgment
un tho opinions or affiliations of, for in
stance, such a man as Mr. Harley. Mr.
Castor is for sound money. But does
Mr. Castor know what sound money is?
Is it not a fact that considerations of
political Drinciple are above the intel
lectual level of the great and powerful
national committeeman? But the Hon
orable Tobias is the doctor, and when
he goes down to Washington and pre
scribes, the democrats here in Nebraska
have to take the medicine.
John. M.Thurston strikes a familiar
gait in tho following tribute to Mc
Kinley in the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette: "And this man upon whose
shield malice can find no blemish
and slander place no stain; this
man whose whole life has been
consecrated to his God, his
country and his home; this man whose
intense loyalty and devotion to Amer
ican interests make him the ideal leader
for the supreme hour; this man of the
people; the uncompromising friend of
those who toil, a soldier, a statesman,
a patriot without fear and without re
proach, our candidatofor the presidency
of the United States is William McKin
ley."
Very recently the Journal, the faith
ful friend of the down-trodden rich man
remarked: "The rich men of the United
States have given to philanthropic ob
jects during the year $29,000,000." In
some manner a copy of Nebraska's pride
reached tho offico of tho Now York Sun,
and that paper commenting on the
Journal's remark Baid:
Magnificent, truly; but with tho ex
ception of ono or two gentlemen, such as
John D. Rockefeller and Seth Low,nono
of those rich men havo givon a very big
block of money measured by their
means. Thoir imagination hasn't kept
pace with thoir fortunes. Tho chances
for gifts of great wealth aro as good as
over. The opportunities for tho rich
men of New York to givo sums meas
ured in millions for purposes of public
usefulness and honorablo Belf-commotn
oration aro enough to make poor men's
holds swim. Who will give five mil
lions to the' Metropolitan Museum of
Art, or to tho Museum of Natural His
tory, or for tho founding of some othor
valuable institution, or for building tho
cathedral of St. John the Divine? Don't
be afraid of all speaking at onco. Every
body will bo heard, even in chorus.
The Journal might induco some of its
friends to donate a million or two to its
celebrated flag fund.
The gold and silver product of Col
orado for the year 1895 is estimated at
$25,000,000. Last year was a poor year,
agriculturally, for Nebraska; but tho
corn product alone, taking tho low esti
mate of 75,000,000 bushels, was worth
812.000,000. Last year's gold and silver
product in Colorado was infinitely less
valuable than Nebraska's agricultural
product, and 1895 was Colorado's big
mineral year and Nebraska's bad agricul
tural year.
Mr. Dana, of tho New York Sun, who
does not bolievo in tho department of
agriculture and who likes to poke fun
at the Honorable Julius Sterling Mor
ton, in criticising tho annual report of
tho department said. "It may be that
the annual report was a little heavy
but if bo. it was because Mr. Morton,
was so unused to brandishing tho pen.'
Mr. Dat.a may think he knows Mr.
Morton, but he does not. Mr. Morton
unused to brandishing the pen! Why
thegoateed and well groomed gentle
man whom President Cleveland snatch
ed from the furrows of Arbor Lodge and
transplanted in the rich soil of Wash
ington was born with a steel pen in one
hand and a Dixon lead pencil in the
other. While wearing tho swaddling
clothes of infancy he went about
marking on wallB and writing letters.
He has been writing all his life. Ho is
more fecund and fertile than any
public man or farmer in Nebraska. He
is felicitously facile in alliterative
allegory. He writes deeper than most
of his brother farmers plough, and his
stylo is as radiant and pleasing as the
morn. Mr. Morton is more familiar
with the steel pen than with anything
else, save, possibly, the cow pen and tho
hog pen.
The assurance of thoe Omaha people
is sublime. The projectors of the
Trans Mississippi and International ex
position having secured $10,650 in sub
scriptions the Omaha newspapers
announce that the scheme is now
"fully under way" and its success is now
assured. The fact that tho exposition
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