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OBSERVATIONS
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What is the standard of manhood
In this state of Nebraska, where the
fresh breexes blowoverthe rolling prai
ries? Is It above or below the average
of other western states? Is It so low
. that a leer, a grin, a handshake, an
obscene Jest, a maudlin tale, a bar
room vpopularlty is made the measure
of. eminence? Usually a great party
selects for Its greatest offices
its greatest men. Is It a
fact that grinning "Jack" MacColl is
the greatest man In the republican
party in this state? Are there no
sober, intelligent, dignified men to lead
the party, and must the great organi
zation be forced to take as its stand
ard bearer, its candidate for the office
that "has ben filled by such men as
Saunders, Garber, Dawes and Thayer,
a grotesque figurehead, a man whose
tangled whiskers and promiscuous Jocu
larity are his sole claims to distinction?
Who is this "Jack?" What did he ever
do that he should assume to be gov
ernor of Nebraska? Did he ever lift
up his voice In behalf of Nebraska?
Bid he ever do anything for the state?
Did he ever write a letter or make a
speech or lead a patriotic movement
or give wise counsel or exhibit any in
terest in the publlo life of the state
barring his long and tiresome candi
dacy for office? Why, we ask of the,
men who are raising their husky voices
for "Jack" .MacColl, why should this
man be made governor of Nebraska?
The republican party has it In its
power to name such candidates as will
absolutely insure party success. On
the other hand it is possible to make
an unwise selection and place in Jeop
ardy both the electoral ticket and the
state ticket.
Particular attention will be given to
the office of state treasurer In this
campaign. The people will hardly sub
mit to any manipulation or dictation
in the interest of the political syndi
cate. The party does not want, and
the people may not take, any candi
date selected by the present Incumbent
of the treasurer's office.
There is a widespread desire to get
away from -all deals and combinations
and cheap politics and select candi
dates upon their merits, and thus In
sure a stromr ticket.
"Will republican presidential electors
be elected In Nebraska this year?" was
a question put to Senator Thurston by
The Courier in Omaha last Saturday.
"There is no doubt of it, whatever,"
he replied. "Nebraska will go republi
can by 15,000 majority." It is Mr.
Thurston's idea that the battle will be
fought in the western states this cam
paign. "The east will take care of
itself. The money and speakers will
come west, and it will be the greatest
campaign the west has ever seen."
G.M. Lambertson says Nebraska will
go republican by 29,000 plurality. "The
western part of the state has hereto
fore been conceded to the silverltes,"
he said, "and there has ben no effort
to advance the cause of sound money
there. Now we will go into this terri
tory and our side of the question will
be presented. I do not think there is
any doubt as to the result."
Mr. E. E. Brown has entertained the
people of Lincoln and Nebraska a
great many times by the exhibition of
peculiar, and singularly ill-conditioned
political Idiosyncracies. He has gone
Into republican conventions through
the front door, wrapped in a desire
for office and girdled with flamboyant
partisan enthusiasm. Disappointed
in convincing his colleagues of his par
ticular and unique availability he has
cast off the girdle and crawled out of
the back window and dropped to the
ground below a full fledged democrat
or populist. Such, when he doesn't
get what he wants. Is the ease with Mr.
Brown changes his politics. This dis
tinguished citizen has been a frenzied
applicant for a republican nomination
one month and an equally frantic
schemer for republican defeat the next.
He has tried a greater variety of poll
tics than any other man in the state
of Nebraska, possibly excepting Paul
Vandervoort, and the community has
long ceased to wonder at his versatil
ity in the matter of political principles.
But strange and many as have been
his incomings and his outgoings, his
professions of fealty and his flarings
up, his Idiosyncracies, demonstrations,
hand springs, summersaults and genu
flu'etidns. the people were not pre
pared for his latest manifestation.
Mr. Brown rushes to a newspaper of
fice and shaking his snaggy locks and
hitching up his high-water pants,
shouts In a loud tone of voice "I will
not vote the republican ticket this
fall." Shades of Abraham Lincoln and
James G. Blaine! Who expected be
would? When the thousand represen
tative republicans met In St. Louis to
name candidates for president and
vice-president and adopt a platform
it was perfectly and clearly under
stood by each delegate present that
Mr. E. E. Brown, of Lincoln, Neb.,
the king of the leap frogs, would not
vote the republican ticket this year.
It was universally known that this
was not his republican year, and all
of the deliberations and acts of the
convention were with the calculation
that Mr. Brown would be outside of
the republican breastworks. So, when
Mr. Brown hastens to remark In a loud
tone that he will not vote the republi
can ticket this year, some people who
are disposed to be a little harsh In
their Judgments will say that he
Is Impertinent.
Close on the heels of Mr. Brown's
reiteration of his apostasy, comes the
rumor that he will run for congress
in this district as a populist. It would
be Just like him, and in the Interest
of Mr. Strode's election we hope he
will run. Mr. Brown has started out
to run for a good many different of
fices, but he always dropped Into a
slow walk before he got very far, and
if he should "run" again now It would
irake the "Dead March in Saul" seem
like the most rapid kind of a quick
step. If Mr. Brown does not have the
grace to withdraw from the republican
delegation from this county to the
state convention, the delegation to the
convention should lose no time in tak
ing appropriate aotlon.
Mr. Bryan's paper apotheosizes
Henry M. Teller. The bolting senator
is described as & patriot. And why,
forsooth. Is Teller a patriot? Mr. Tel
ler was elected to the United States
senate as a republican, and all of the
prestige and honor that have come to
him in twenty-five years have come to
him through the good offices of the re
publican party. For years the party
has been committed to the policy of
maintaining the existing standard,
and Mr. Teller has been content to
take whatever of honor and prom
inence and profit he could get from the
party. The silver mine owners of Colo
rado obtaining control of Colorado the
word goes out that congressmen and
senators from the Centennial state
shall be committed to the free and un
limited coinage of silver, and Mr. Tel
ler has exhibited as great proficiency
In obeying the mandates of the silver
magnates as he exhibited zeal in open
ing the tear ducts in St. Louis. Mr.
Teller's term is about out and he
wants to go back to the senate. He
knows the only way for him to get
back is to slide in on free silver senti
ment, and he used the incident of the
republican national convention as a
means of manufacturing campaign
thunder for use In Colorado. He bolts
in order that the Colorado mine own
ers may send him back to Washing
ton and he casts a presidential anchor
to windward. Where is the patriotism?
Mr. Bryan to the contrary notwith
standing, Mr. Teller comes much
nearer being a lachrymose fraud than
a patriot. He Is crying his way back
to the senate. Patriots do not stand
Idly weeping, while the honor and
credit and prosperity of the country
are at stake. The republican party
has not been for the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver independent of
othr nations and Mr. Teller had no
right to expect that the party would
subject Itself to the silver kings of
Colorado in this campaign. Under the
circumstances the senator's action
savors more of apostasy than of patri
otism. The State Journal had an editorial
Saturday on contempt of court that
was quite as brilliant and clear as the
previous expressions of that paper on
this subject. The Journal referred at
length to the case of the editor of the
Sacramento Bee, and came to the con
clusion that the editor was culpable
because of his contempt and that the
Judge was culpable because of his sen
tence. The republican party's platform Is
a good platform. It comprehends al
most everything, and It speaks In cer
tain, decisive terms. There are posi
tive expressions on the tariff, money,
the old soldiers, foreign policy, Ar
menia, Cuba, Hawaii, Nlcaraugua ca
nal, the Danish Islands, the navy, Im
migration, civil service, free ballot,
lynching, arbitration, homesteads, new
states, Alaska and temperance. It is
only when the platform reaches the
subject of woman that there Is any
suggestion of Indecision. Frankness
compels us to say that here the plat
form wobbles. Sympathy Is expressed
with the 'Vights and interests of wom
en," and the party is placed on record
as favoring the admission of women to
"wider spheres of usefulness," and
then the grand old party says we "de
sire their co-operation in rescuing the
country from democratic and populist
mismanagement and misrule." But
how? Alas, there is a hiatus. The
public is left In the dark as to the
manner in which "we desire the co
operation" of women. It Is no known
whether It is desired that they shall
take young children who exhibit popu
list or democratic symptoms and place
them in straight Jackets until they are
formed and fashioned to the lines of
republican rectitude, or whether they
shall Institute a social and, matrimonial
ostracism of populists and democrats
or whether they shall, like men, be
permitted to vote a few times each
election day. The platform is generally
so strong and so well put together and
altogether such an admirable produc
tion that we would not make any ad
verse criticism of it; but we will
doubtless be pardoned for expressing
the wish that the convention might
have been a little more explicit In deal
ing with women. But then, men al
ways were timid where women are con
cerned, and there are ethical reasons
why the gathering of men that rushed
In the breach where for years political
parties have feared to tread and de
clared for gold, should have halted and
backed up a little when confronted by
lovely woman.
Dave Mercer, congressman from the
Second district, has returned from
Washington. And the surprising fact
Is that there are some people In Omaha,
notably a few men who would like to
occupy Dave's seat In congress, who
are opposing his re-nominatlon. There
Is no serious danger that Mr. Mercer
will be kept at home, but the mere
fact that anybody thinks of trying to
defeat him, after all he has done for
the Second district and for the state
of Nebraska, is a woeful commentary
on the appreciation of his constituents,
and bespeaks the premium gall of
some people. Dve Mercer, since hi
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