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OBSERVATIONS.
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The defeat of only one member of the
Lancaster county republican ticket last
Tuesday is worthy of study. The re
publican candidate for register of deeds
is a young man of unusual energy, de
termination, industry, good nature and
good fellowship. He is ambitious and
has considerable political acumen. The
CouitiKi: has no hesitation in saying that
Mr. Woods name was scratched
partly on account of the friends
he has made. Members of all
parties are thoroughly disgusted
with the present city adminis
tration and Mr. Woods is supposed to be
n supporter and friend of Mayor Graham,
Mr. Lindsey and Mr. Thompson, and
that helped to turn the scale against
him. It is difficult to become a mem
ber of this group and retaiu the confi
dence o! the plain every day people who
do not pay much attention to politics
jexcept in the month immediately pre
ceding election day, and who usually
vote the republican or. democratic ticket
because they are accustomed to. They
do not generally eerutinize the qualifica
tions and the record of the rival candi
dates. But this time the charges of cor
ruption which Mayor Graham has not
denied, the record of Mr. Lindsey, who
as a saloon keeper was arrested seven
times in three months, charged with
breaking the laws regulating the selling
of liquor, and the discoveries of Water
Inspector McArthur that Mr. I). E.
Thompson paid no water rent, although
the city water was not turned off from
tbe Brace block, reacted upon Mr.
Woods though it cannot be said that he
is responsible for Major Graham's sel
ling appointments and his complacency
to gamblers and saloon keepers, for the
occupations which Mr. Lindsey has fol
lowed sine: his residence in Lincoln, or
for Mr. Thompson's ruse in cutting down
the expsnses cf the Brace block. But
the people perceived a connection, and
as none of these men were asking for an
office, Mr. Woods was rebuked as an ob
ject lesson to them. On the other hand.
Mr. Woods is responsible for his advo
cacy of the Salt Creek basin as the loca
tion for the city wells. Fome months
ago Thk Coukikr predicted that any
candidate who had made a record in the
council as an opponent to tbe Antelope
Valley water system would find it hard
to convince salted voters that opposition
waB not based on private interest or in
fluence in contra distinction to cansider
. ations of public welfare. The result has
shown that my estimate of the exasper
ated state of the public mind.coccjrning
the water supply and those who were re
sponsible for the quality of it. was cor
rect. Most cities instead of dUcourrging
the use of water are building public
baths and increasing the quantity. If
everybody is required to pay for the
city water according to the rates adopted
by the department some years ao there
will be no deficit. Only twenty cities in
this country use meters. We might as
wall live in the Dry Tortugas as to be at
the mercy of a system which measures
out the water at so much a gallon. We
want air and water without limit and
without measu-e and it is unsanitary to
put a premium on the careful usi of
water. The people of Lincoln do not
traiil meters. They want tho depart
ment administered according to business
principles. Mayor Graham proposes to
increase tho rate and thus pay for the
meters in a jear. That same money
spent in pumps and electrical machinery
will give better sattf factior. The sub
stitution of the meter j-yttem for the
one in operation will increasa the ni m
ber of objections to Lincoln as a city of
residence. Ana it will bear hardest up
on thoM citizens of moderate meant
who have proverbially the largest fami
lies. With a meter the Saturday nigh t
baths of a day laborsr's family often
might have to be omitted. It goes
against the grain to pay for water by
the gallon with four fifths more of water
than of land, the miserable, dwellers on
this round globe were not meant to be
scrimped with those exasperating
machines invented by eomo one who
hated humanity, to measure, the water
they drink. I). tho their children with
and sprinkle their lawns.
A city council exis's for the purpose
of meeting emergencies which tho law
does not provide for as well as for ad
ministrative purposes. It has been
found that the law does not quite et
ablo the officials to interfere with the
slot machines which are in session sum
mer and winter and arc educating in
fant gamblers who will in time make
Lincoln a rich field for the fraternity
which belongs to the class, birds of prey.
Tbe council should frame an ordinance
strong and specific enough to destroy
these kindergarten gambling machines.
They are corrupting the youth. They
are more pernicious than the adult
games of chance which run behind lock
ed and watched doors. Habitues of
these pltccs are more or less vicious.
These flayers know they are gambling,
but tbe children are fascinated by the
machines as ty a wonderful new game
which rewards a winner with the un
known riches of a dollar at a time. The
appetite is acquired before time and ex
perience has toughened the moral fibre
of the victims. The city fathers ought
to respond to the cry of the women all
over this town to suppress the slot
machines.
Now, while thero is a majority of
decent men iu the council the city should
be redistriutcd. The ward boundaries
Bhould be changed so that the members
from the first, second, third and seventh
wards representing one third of the vot
ing population of Lincoln, will not con
trol as they do now, by being
able to outvote membes of the
fourth, fifth and sixth, who
represent two-thirds of the voting
population. In other words, the small
wards should be enlarged by adding to
them some of the territory of the re
spectable wards. As it is now the saloon
wards have the power to tax: the respect
able wards, although the former contain
only one third of the population and
that third does not own more than one
sixth -of tbe property and perhaps
not more than one tenth. Such a
disproportim between numerical
strength and representative power
is analogous to the rotten lrarough
abuse in England which was corrected
several years ago. Representation
was based on area rather than on the
amount of population in that area. So
that there were instances of boroughs
containing only a farmer or two, send
ing a represantative to parliament and
per contradenssly populated areas like
Sheffield being without a representative.
The wards in Lincoln were districted
moro than twenty years ago, and in
those year3 changes have taken place
which in the east would requiro a hun
dred years to accomplish. These changes
have sh f eJ the population so that the
present boundaries work the unjustice
re'erred to in the foregoing.
Nemo." the correspondent whose
communications occupy the first page
of the Omaha Excelsior isugcntlcm:.n
who resides in New York. He sup
plier editorials to the E.rcelsior for ten
cents a column. Nemo's essays on
ove. marriage, death, housekeeping,
etc., never offend or disturb the nut
refined ladies. As a soporific I know
of nothing o effectual.
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