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thins; stronger than water found its way
to the ball room. Social revellers were
wont to make early retirement. But
nowico water waits on the punch bowl
and the mild and melting sherbet is
abashed in the presence of delectable
and moro frolicsome concoctions. Very
few people make any objection to the
liquid refreshment offered at large
social gatherings. It has been observed
that the punch has a habit of waxing
stronger as the hour waxee later. And
people seem to be so much thirstier
than they used to be. It must be that
the two-step makes one thirstier than
the old time waltz. And people dance
longer than they used to and the
parties commence later. Lincoln is
progressing. In Kansas the progression
s such that at card and dancing
parties, water, sherbet, punch, and all
their fanciful fellows have been dis
carded for beer and whisky, which are
taken undisguisedly and with certain
unmhtakable indications of keen
appreciation and enjoyment.
Lincoln showed something like its
old t ime hospitality this week in its
welcome to the members of the state
press association. It pays to treat
editors well, a fact which, it must be
admitted, some people sometimes overlook.
It would be a good thing if wo could
work the curfew racket on the foot,
pads.
There is a limited basis for the
belief that the Omaha World-Herald
does not think its neighbor, the Bee, is
exactly what it ought to be. Just the
other day the World-Herald referred
to Mr.Rosewater6 very handsome paper
as a ''bilous, dilapidated, disheartened
dyspeptic, pessimistic, woe-begone and
altogether calamity-paralyized concern"
Now this is hardly right There ought
to be mom of the fraternal spirit hover,
ing about the editorial sanctums in
Omaha. Omaha journalists might with
profit observe the sweet peace and
loving-kindness and all 'round char
itableness that mark the relations of the
newspapers and newspaper men in this
city. The glad hand is a great thing,
in the newspaper business as well as at
a church sociable.
Somebody says it is doubtful if Gov
ernor Holcomb will be a candidate for
'renomination. Would a duck swim?
Would a populist turn his back on any
thing that offered a chance of success?
Prophecy is ready to assert itself with
reference to the political conditions that
will obtain in this state this
autumn, and it is ready to go on record
as saying that the next governor of Ne
braska will not be a man of pie bald
politics. There io not very much to en
courage the aspirations of pops and
demo-pops. About the only thing that
can occur to cause tany embarrassment
to the republican party is a serious rup
ture over Bsewater and the A. P. A.
But populists are used to taking
chances. Governor Holcomb, it may be
said, is not wholly a populist. It is con
tended that he is really a democrat. A
man cannot be partially a populist. He
is either a populist or he is not a popu
list, and Governor, Holcomb certainly i
a populist. But as populibt or demo
crat there is no hope for him. This will
not prevent him from being a candi
date. There is a movement on foot to niak
what is known as a "clean sweep," in
the state house; that is defeat for re
nomination all of the republican officers
who are serving a first term. This is
an extremity that is seldom resorted to
in Nebraska, and it is possible only
under certain unusual circumstances.
It is reported that the trip to Wash,
ington made by Attorney General
Churchill some weeks ago had another
purpose other than the filing of i brief
in the supreme court of the United
States. Mr. Churchill, possibly before
he filed the brief, sought Congressman
Mercer. It is said that had a sten
ographer taken notes of what was said
at that meeting it would appear that
Mr. Churchill with that bland insouci
ance eo markedly characteristic of that
gentleman, who is something of an
ingenue himself, asked Mr. Mercer if he
would not kindly withdraw as a candi
date for renomination for congress and
leave the Held to him, Churchill. Now
Mr. Mercer is not an ingenue. And if
he has any bland insouciance he did not
exploit it on this occasion. He shot a
reply to (the child-like Mr. Churchill
and it hit him on the place where, ac
cording to tradition, Kitty wore her
beads. Mr. Mercer, it is reported, said:
"Not by ad n sight." Mr. Churchill
understood him and.after tiling his brief,
came back to Lincoln on a slow train.
It will be remembered that it was after
his return from Washington that Mr.
Churchill announced through the
columns of the Journal, N. P. (Ne
braska's Pride) that ho had never in
tended to be a candidate for congress;
that all he would ask of the republicans
of Nebraska would be a repetition of
the favor bestowed in the last state
convention. This little story has no
other purpose than the preservation of
historic unity.
Mr. Bryan having offered to trade
protection for free silver the question is,
How long will it be before he will be
trying to barter free silver for a slice of
the moon? Who that witnessed Mr.
Bryan going around with his hands and
pocket6 full of pen knives and butche
knives and Ecraps of cloth and any old
thing, calling for free trade in the
softest and most dulcet of silver tones,
would have thought that three or four
years later he would be emptying his
truck down a well and trying to 6ell out
to the cause of protection? The man
who said "consistency, thou art a jewel,"
bad special reference to politics.
rather be married
Some men would
than president.
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Senator Sherman killed off one presi
dential candidate when he wrote his
book. Alger's '96 boom was so soon
done for that ho himself must wonder
what it was begun for.
A couple of weeks ago I asked Mayor
Graham in these columns, if the gam
blers made up a purse of 8600 or 8700 a
month for "protection,"' and if so what
becomes of the money. The mayor has
not replied. Of course the public will
construe his silence to mean that thero
is no corruption fund.
McKinley sentiment ia sweeping over
the state. There is no doubt that the
delegates from Nebraska in the national
republican convention will cast the vote
of this state for McKinley. The na
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