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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1896)
C- V 'J- iS ' -x- m: KiW s nf--, CogS SIiwplv-J-iqS" VOL 11. NO 12 ESTABLISHED IN 1896 PRICITFIVB-?ENTS "". . vr .. dV A. 'v . Ba-iBYBsKABYmBSBW BM kt'VmbF I US l BBSbP Baal c "WS.gsiIW jTfyBjByjUrJBrKyy BBSJ BSbI BkBVBl Vbw C Sfvsl LINCOLN NEB., SATURDAY. MAR6H 21 189C ypBNRflVjMwm'HBv ENTERED IX THE POST OrFICB AT LINCOLN AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT THE COWIER PfilNTING U(D PWLISMING CO. Office 217 North Elerenth St. Telephone 384 being for two caudidates for the same office at the same time. The delegation from Nebraska will be either a McKin ley delegation or a Manderson dele gat ion. There isn't any use indulging in any fanciful theories of impossible har mony. Senator Thurston, however, submits" a proposition that is eminently fair. Under it General Manderson would re ceive fair and p-oper treatment. But as the only compromise the Manderson people want is one that will take Ne braska away from McKinley, it is doubt- fin I OBSERVATIONS fin General Manderson passed through Chicago last Friday. He was inter viewed by the Times-Herald, and that paper on Sunday in a editorial -on the interview said: "It may be set down as a certainty that General Manderson's candidacy means a solid McKinley dele gation in Nebraska, which would be for tbo distinguished ex-senator, if any un foreseen event should prevent Governor McKinlev's nomination." Which goes to show that even cago newspapers are not infallible Chi- been received with enth'usiapm by the press nnd people of Nebraska." Noah W bdter pays enthusiasm is "violent passion or excitement of the mind, in pursuit of some object, inspiring ex travagant hope and confidence of suc cess." In the Wyoming legislature are some clever men. Some of them have pre pared a memorial to congress which will recall pleasant memoriee to many people in Lincoln and other parts of the state who have eaten canned tomatoes and fried bacon in the bracing atmosphere W. MORTON SMITH Editor and Manager SARAH B. HARRIS Associate Editor Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum 82.00 Six mon'hs 1.00 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 5 The Times-Herald is an honest friend of Major McKinley, and Mr. Kohlsaat has a warm personal regard for Gen eral Manderson. The editor is trying trying to please both his friends. But the editorial is unnecessarily absurd. The Courier has alwajs given Gen eral Manderson credit for sincerity and honesty in his candidady,.and 1 am not yet prepared to doubt him, but this credit does not extend to all those who are foremost in pushing him as a can didate. In many instances they are not sincere. They are not only not for McKinley, after the "favorite 6on'' has been disposed of, but are opposed to him all along the line. Whatever General Manderson may think of his candidacy himBelf, it is being prosecuted solely in the interest of Senator Allison, and there is no possibility that a Manderson delegation -would vote for McKinley and the Manderson people are against him. A Manderson delegation would in all probability mean a solid Allison delegation. Under these circumstances every vote for Manderson support in this slate is a vote against McKinley. Practical politicians know the abso lute impossibility of one delegation's tPBBBBBBH BBBBBBBBBtWSsSi A7!lBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB BBBBBBri'--''BaBBBBBBBi BBBBBBBBBBBB w r; BBT -i BBBBBBBBBBBBBj BBBflBflBflBflBfltWs-'"f:civ BV:.BBflBflBflBflBflBfl iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. .I-Kr s- . IW.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH BBBBBBBBBBBBBBtoTvo df BriBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl BBBBBBBBBsdugJKBBBBBBBBB RICHARD MANSFlEbD ful if anything will come of it. The senator's proposition is: That the dele gates to the national convention should vote for Hon. Charles F. Manderson on any and all ballots when in their judg ment such votes so cast will not in any wise tend to defeat the nomination of William McKinley or lessen his chances for nomination, but that they should vote for William McKinley on any and all ballots when in their judgment such votes would promote his interests or contribute to his nomination. Certainly this is fair. If the Mand erson movers were sincere they would undoubtedly accept it. General Manderson 6aid to a Times Herald reporter: "My candidacy has of the Big Horn mountains, "whose ma jestic and inaccessible heights," they fondly swept with a telescope or seized with a kodak. The memorial sas of' the mountain region of Wyoming: "It is the Switzerland of America, in which the Matterhorn rinds a worthy counter part in the grand Teton, whose majestic and inaccessible heights are reflected in the clear depths, and whose rugged grandeur is in marvellous contrast to the piacid beauty of the mountain lakes which lie at its base." It may be added that the people of Wyoming want this region converted into a national park under state ownership. An interesting resident of North Loup, who hides his identity under the signature, "An Old Prospector," writes to the World -Herald of the" mineral wealth hidden in the soil of Nebraska. This old prospector has the imagination of a Bob McReynoIds, and the graceful diction of a J. D. Calhoun. Says he: "A glance at the map of Nebraska will show her rivers pointing, like the outatretched fingers of an unerring hand, to the elevations from which countless ages of upheaval, erosion, glaciation. cataclysm, tropic heat (tig leaves, palms and the magnolias are common fossilH in tho rocks of Colorado Wyoming and Montana) and Spitz bergian cold, howling tornadoes and stormy winds fulfilling the word and accomplishing the creative work of the most high, have torn, wrench d and crevaseed, disintegrated, washed and swept this material from its primal environment over the vast slope of the tranamiasouri country on its way to ward the sea, and while the lighter por tions have largely been carriea by the glacial floods to settle in the quiet an cient seas of the Mississippi valley, the great plains of Nebraska have served aa a mighty blankec in a gold-washer's sluice, to receive and entangle the pass inafgold." There are several columns of this. If "An Old Prospector" could onlv dig up Nebraska earth with the same effective ness that he prospects on paper, he would be a great man. He would be al most great enough to run for water com missioner in the city of Lincoln. Congressman Haicer will have serious opposition at the Fourth district nomi nating convention. If the opposition does not jeopardise his prospects for re nomination it will be because it is split up in the advocacy of a number of "fav orite sons.' Mr. Hainer has made one or two foolish mistakes recently, and it is right that be shoulu be disciplined; but it would be a cause for genuine re gret if the republicans of the Fourth district should not send him back to Wcsbicgton. He has ability of a high order and ranks with the most efficient of those who have represented Nebraska in congress. The majority of the people of Ne braska are republicans. An overwhelm ing majority of the republicans of this state are for Major McKinley for presi dent. Is the man who stands in the way of this sentiment of theoverwhelm ing majority of the dominant political party in this state, "standing up for Nebraska?" The trial of the new system of voting at last Friday's municipal primaries of the republican party was much more satisfactory than many persons supposed it would be. There are valid objections to some features of the new system, but on the whole it is better than the old way. The fact that slips of paper con taining the names of the candidates agreed upon by what was known as the corporation combine, were found in some of the booths, and other signifi cant manifestations, showed clearly that this influence sought to control the nom inations, and it was not wholly unsuc cessful. Still the city ticket chosen is just as good, if not better, than would 1 "Si i
