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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1896)
r f ..VO.airNO. 10. ESTABLISHED IN 1886 PRICE FIVE CENTb - '. Sj h - r;B-ii m v -a LINCOLN NEB., SATURDAY. MARCH 1890 wMSiM: - ruliU Atlantic Islands, etc . at 357.37n.nnn. nr Csawa,'0 with scattering settlements, 3SO,200,000. In Asia, according to a recent count, there are 851.000.001 nfnmns AiH ?n TMl) " .,. ., ,--,- . ... Ainca mere are not less than Itn.OOO.OOO people. In brief the Omaha show, with entered ix THE post orFicE at lixcolx all its pomp and panoply, will appeal to A9 SECOND-CLASS MATTES 1 JOT 0(11 nrtl n.cnnn . I i,-ioi,uui,UUl persons, worth, upproxt- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY Z' V IXJU.OUO.Ol. OI course there will be a BT number of children born between now THE COURIER PRINTING UNO PUBLISHING GO. SlSlT ""n hthem will not care to attend the Omaha ex Office 217 North Eleventh St. position by that time every town in Nebraska will have the curfew. But is TnKrro ?A4 n tne e' 'mmen''0 anc' ought not the ' " Irans-Mississippi show, with a tribu- : tary population cuch as is hero indi- .TRHPrfW Edito.r .Maaer cated, the said population possessing SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor ,.!, , , . wealth almost beyond computation, to measure up to the Barnum standard, Subscription Rates In Advance. aD prove to be the greatest and grand- Per annum $2.00 est show the world has ever seen? Six months 1.00 Three months 50 One month 20 The respected Journal once more dis- Single copies 5 cusses the law of libel. It cites a case .. !n the United Kingdom wherein the svB)fflfflsvfi printing of the sentence, "What 1 Think "'"jw About it,' followed by a vhite space, I OBSERVATIONS be ibelloue- P': m sjm-,x m .waiw m naihasfor years been leaving blank -wrv-vfflw2kav-rv-orvrvnrYY-S 8Paces uner la editorial captions, and SBS it would be distressing if this careful The Trans-Mississippi exposition! It contemporary should be legally held for will be the greatest show on earth. It what somebody thought it might have will be a glittering aggregation of mar- Ba;a if it had said anything about any- vels and magnificence. It will not be thing, held until 1898. In the meantime some will die. Just think of dying without SpeakjDgof presidential politics in gazing on the great Omaha spectacle! this state the Journal savs: "The Jour- Fate is unkind. Omaha hasn't any nai has its preference and has expressed railway depot, and it is a few chips shy ;tbutit fulIy realize8 that no one- ;8 in several other directions. But the bound o be governed in hia action by Trans-Mississippi exposition -will dazzle fho opin;on ot any other man, be he the eyes of 32,000,000 people who, ac- editor Benator or congressman." The cording to the World-Herald, are in editor emeritua mU8t baTe dr0pped in the country tributary to Omaha. These and writton that. It ha8 aU the fa- 32,000,000 people are worth 849.000,000.000 mUiar earmark8. The files oMhe Jour- Great Scott Why, that exposition ought nai are accessible, and I invite investi- to be greater even than the Douglas gators and discoverers to peruse recent county fair. A population of 32,000.000 iB8Ue8 Anyone finding an expression people worth 9,000,000.000 to draw of the journai'8 preference for president from! Stupendous! No exposition could wil, begiven a vda up subscription to be anything but a magnificent success rj.be QoUrjer for hfe. that has such a constituency. But why stop at 32,000,000 people! 'There are t .g not much of R 38,000,000 more people in the United gucces5n voting tariff IaW8 and afford- States, a 1 of whom ought to attend the s financiaI re,;ef to the country, but Trans-Mississippi exposition and these .g 70,000,000 people are worth, probably. 8100,000,000,000. There ought to be lots of money spent in Omaha for lemonade How calloused Mayor Graham must and Fred Krug's beer. There are a good ba! Every evening the curfew sends many people in the North American out Its warning, clear and shrill, pene continentin addition to the 70,000,000 trating every nook and corner of the inhabitants of the United States. Ibere city. Every evening the whistle pro are at least 20,000,000 of these. That claims the sweep ot virtue, the liux of would make a constituency of 90.000,000 purity, and the little children are held for the Omaha exposition. And then the in check as tbe angry billows held back people down in South America ought to King Cnute. But the mayor, as he sits be glad to attend the Omaha show. The by his fireside and listens to the sound South Americans number 36420,000, not of the curfew feels no tremor of regret, including births in the last thirty days, no twinge of conscience, no pain of re Thus we are staggered as we consider pentance. The curfew every night di the immense possibilities of the Trans- recta his attention to things pure and Mississippi exposition. But this is not clean and lawful. But he makes no all. There is Europe. Drs. Wagner sign. Downtown gamblers ply their and 8upan estimate the population of. unlawful trade. and the night is made L.uropet without Ireland. Nova Zembla, hideous by sinful revels. The mayor is not disturbed. It was taken- for granted when the curfew was adopted that the mayor would follow it up by a general reform all along the line. But for some reason he does not act. Young boys were infinitely safer on the streets than in the gambling hells whither many of them are driven by the curfew. If the mayor cannot bring himself to closing the gambling places he might at least see that they are not frequented by boys under 21. At present these form the largest part of the patronage of these resorts. The curfew can'be heard all the way to Fremont. Ross Hammond is im pressed by the noise and remarks in the Tribune: "Lincoln is getting so moral that it will soon be too good a place to hold the legislature." This might be if the virtuous Mr. Lawlor were not held in check by the wicked Mr. Graham. Notice is hereby served on all candi dates for the legislature throughout the state that the town is still wide open. This town, by the grace of the mayor, can provide any variety of irregular en tertainment that may be asked for. Congressman Haiuer is not a dull man. He is more than ordinarily clever. His letter explaining his connection with the peculiar exploitation known as the Manderson Boom is one of the most in teresting personal statements that have been given to the Nebraska public since Dan Cook wrote of the democracy and himself a jear ago. The letter is well put together. It s beautifully phrased There is just enough right eous indignation to give it spice. "Is my reputation so low that any sane persons believe I would barter my convictions for a place on a committee" asks the congressman with fine fire, "and is the reputation of our entire delegation in the house of representa tives and the reputation of General Manderson so much lower that it would be believed they would lend themselves to anyone in such a political prostitu tion?" Any apologies that Nebi aska re publicans may feel called upon to make may be addressed to "E J. Hainer, M. C. Washington, D. C." Excess post age will be paid at the other end. The congressman is insinuating. He saya: "We all agree that no man I care not what may be his position has the authority to deliver our state to any presidential candidate. No man has been invested with authority to place Nebraska on the presidential bar gain counter or in the delivery wagon to be hawked about to appease the vanity or vaulting ambition of anyone. No man has the right to foreclose tbe right of any other eligible citizen to aspire to the presidency, and to deny him the right to make his announcement of a candidacy unless more than four months prior to the nominating convention, is an attempt to fix a statute of limita tionswhich is simply ridiculous." This is the retort discourteous. Mr. Hainer has lived many years in the jungles of Hamilton county, and any remissness on bis part in that respect which a con gressman bhould show to a senator should not be construed as a wilful in sult. Senator Thurston, having twisted the British lionV tail into festoons will not be daunted by the scrumptious con gressman from the Fourth district. Some reckless disputant might answer Mr. Hainer and ask if any chairman of the republican state central committee, no matter if he be a congressman and tbe holder of a Committee Appoint ment, has the right to force the commit tee to take a position in opposition to the will of three-fourths of the members ot the party; or, if any chairman or congressman is invested with the authority to place Nebraska on the presidential bargain counter or in the delivery wagon to be hawked about to appease the vanity or vaulting ambition of those most worthy patriots, Matt Quay and Tom Piatt? But such an in quiry would be in bad taste, and in the interest of harmony in the republican party in this state, I hope no one will make it. But Mr. Hainer's letter is a great pro duction. There is no good reason why the Mc Kinley and Manderson followers in Ne braska should not come together. Mr. Mauderson's friends conteud that there is no possibility of McKinley being nominated. They say he will be dis posed of in two or three ballots; and that then a man liKe Allison or Mand erson will be nominated. Now, any delegation that may be chosen will be glad to secure any recognition or honor for Manderson that may be poesible, and the minute it is demonstrated that McKinley is out of the race the sixteen Nebraska votes would bo gladly turned over to the ex-senator. Some such ar rangement as this ought to be satisfac tory to both sides. It would end a mos unseemly contention. By the way, Mr. Hainer has been conspicuous iu the fight in congress against the appropriation of public money for sectarian schools. He has exhibited considerable ability and force in his controversy, and be is to be heart ily commended for the stand he has taken. It is worthy of note that the congressman denies that he is in any way connected with the A. P. A. and states that his parents were Catholics and that he, himself, was baptized a Catholic. General Manderson, following Mr. Hainer, has written a long letter. He asserts that bis candidacy is not in the interest of any other candidate, and concludes by saying that he is still in the hands ot his friends. The ex-senator has the respect of the republicans of the state, and he is ic a position to re store harmony within tbe party without any sacrifice on his part. He owes it to the party to do this, and he should act while he can act with good grace. Let i "-L, 1 jlfl JhtT" -nLtoAJ? ha-
