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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1898)
' vW.'- THE COURIER. I M ran away to marry when 6lie was only cirtAPn ir.mlfflit have undermined her influence with them. The lofty, shocked, solemn tone of her replies to young ladies who confess to having kissed young gentlemen has no coun terpart in current literature. It is true, many familiar with tbesouttieni point of view, the southern reverence for familv and the southern universal consciousness of the possession of blood, super-refined and very thin and blue.are exclaiming, O, my prophetic soul! now that we know she comes from Baltimore, but we might have known it before. Such a point of view and just such a manner of ex pression is peculiar to the south and only to the south. Like the edelweiss it inhabits only certain geographical localities and it is difficult, if not im possible, to cultivate it. In the south woman is a being of romance and moonlight, of caprice ard emotion. It is most infemlnineof hertoclaim any of the pleasures of intellectual ex ercise and Mrs. Mallon as Ruth Ash more, never tired of exhorting her class of young girl readers to be kit tenish and attractive rather than to attach any importance to the things of the mind. Mrs. Mallon herself had great facil ity in writing. Shewae.-educaUJd by travel and association with cultured people rather than by personal inter course with the masters of literature. Her husband died and she supported herself by her writings, which were interesting and always saleable. December 31, 1898. Mr. D. E. Thompson. Dear Sir: You are a candidate for the United States senate, and. if elected, will be a servant of the people of this state for the next six years. It is therefore perfectly proper that the people you are seeking to repre sentshould frankly discuss your quali fications for this officers well as your claims upon the party for such recog nition. You are asking the republi can party to indorse your political conduct and to delegate to you the power to represent the state of Ne braska in the United States congress. In discussing your fitness and quali fications, as well as your claims upon the party for this office, your likes and dislikes cannot be considered, and the fact that it may be necessary to say some things that displease you or may hurt your feelings, cannot, and ought not, to deter people from speaking truthfully and frankly on this matter, because the interests of the state and of the republican party are of infinite ly greater Importance than your own personal wishes in this matter. What we shall say on this subject is wholly and entirely for what we consider the public good, and not personal in its character. The real question is, Are you the kind of man for United States sen ator? What claims, if any, have you upon this office? That you are not the kind of man for this office artd have no claims upon It is self evident from the determined opposition of the people all over the state as voiced by the state press With all your money and corporate in. fluencc you have only been able to get two or three of the country papers to say nice things about you, and they say them as though they were ashamed of them and knew they are untrue. The fact that you spent some money, "wrongfully wrung from the city of Lincoln on an exorbitant light injt contract," in electing some mem bers of the legislature, does not entitle you to the offlce of senator. Your work in that regard is not even com Biendable and entitles you to no credit, when it now turns out that what you were doing was to further vour own political ambitions. did not do this from disinterested motives and patriotic love for th6 partv. Your claim upon the party for this offlce should be tested by your.past political course and conduct. There are "candidates for this offlce who are clean and able men, recog nized political leaders; men who have earned this office by a long course of political service; who were republi cans, fighting the party battles at a time when you wee contemptuously boasting of the fact that you had never voted in your life. You have never rendered any party service that entitles your name to be mentioned in connection with the offlce of United States senator, and no-one tiiat we know of ever even thought of you in connection with this office until you announced your candidacy, and even then it was difficult for anyone to re gard it other than a joke. The people of this community and state are opposed to you for this office because from your past political course and conduct they are convinced that you stand for political ideas and prac tices that are vicious, demoralizing, and tend to debaucli the party. This has been your whole course in politics. Your political life has been. on a low moral plane, supporting men and measures that were inimical to the best interests of the community and party. Do you wonder then that the people distrust you, are you surprised at the almost universal disiike and want of confidence in yon? Why should not the people dislike and dis trust you; what have you ever done to make them trust, honor and respect you? If you can point to a single political act of yours where you have ever placed the public weal before pri vate gain and your own selfish, per sonal interests, the columns of this paper are open for you to do so. Before you give your political sup port to a man you invariably send for him and lay him under tribute to you or the interests you represent. The You 1M M mm fv T Y I IIf n in i, X I 1224 O St., Lincoln, Neb. , A This fall we are showing a very strong line K. j of medium furniture, carpets, curtains and 2 draperies. Here are two of our leaders in din- IF j ing room furniture. It rm- nil v I i m ii ii fF-fl Solid oak dining" table, top 42 inch square, very heavy and will last a life time. Six foot length, S6.50;eight foot length $8. Solid oak dining chair, cane seat, brace arm. A very good thing. We sell six of them for $5. FBEIGHT PAID ONE HUNDRED MILES. y y y y y jfror'j'rj'rjT'JFrjTT'r vour private gain. into office and who thought more of You foisted George Woods upon the your demands upon them than they question as to the fitness or unfitness republican party as a nominee for the did of those of the public. of a man for an office never seems to 0ffice 0f register of deeds with the re- Your election to the United States suit that lie was turned down by his senate would disrupt and rum the re own party and a democrat e'ected to publican party in this state and it that office. George Woods owed his ought to; if the highest mission the nomination to you, and you are re- republican party has to perform is to sponsible for the fact that a democrat send such men as you to the United occupies that office that should be States senate, then has it indeed out- enter your mind, but the price of your support is his unswerving allegiance to you, and in such cases you and your interests are profited to the detriment of the public. You are responsible for the fact that today democrattc and fusion council men are members of the city council from the first, second and seventh wards of this city, because the men that you foisted upon the party as the republican nominees for councilmen from these wards were unfit for the office and when the election came the' were repudiated bj their own pmy. Your efforts at the last city election were directed almost entirely to the election of the republican nominees in these three wards, and you refused to assist in the election of the balance of the republican ticket because you did not regard the nominees 39 your political friends. Dr. Stein, one of the finest men in the city, would be in the city council today, serving the people of this city, but for the fact that he refused to make certain promises and pledges that you exacted. 2fo honest man would either exact or make such prom ises as you demanded. You were the occupied by a republican. Frank Graham would have been impeached but for the fact that every councilman you could influence or control voted against it under your direction, and to please you. Was this for the public good or because he assisted you in getting an exorbitant lighting contract? Nearly all of the corruption, in competency and crookedness in the city administration for the past four years can be traced directly to your influence and the men tiiat you have helped into office. Such a political record as this does not entitle you to the respect and con fidence of the public The republican party of this state will never elect to tiie United States senate a business associate of C. W. Moslier, and a man who was a director and heavy stock holder in the defunct Capital National bank. The republicans of this state realize that the failure of that bank lived its usefulness and the sooner it is disrupted and destroyed the better for the people of this state. We do not think there is a member of this delegation so recreant to his trust and who can so far forget his own self-respect, the wishes of this community, the good or the party, and so shamefully misrepresent Lin coln and Lancaster county as to vote for Mr. D. E. Thompson. But we feel like sounding a note of warning to 3'ou lest you might possibly be over reached by Mr. Thompson's minions and paid lobby who are now engaged in systematically calling upon the business men of the city in a vain at tempt to manufacture public senti ment. The delegation from this county is made up of able Eelf-respect-ing gentlemen, who desire to do what is right and to faithfully represent the city and county, and you cannot afford to betray your duty to the pub lic, stultify yourself and destroy your own political future for Mr. Thompson. The World-Herald of Sunday gave four columns of snace to boom D. E. only man in the city mean enough to nnri ttipmlitiral sranrinls arnwinwnnf. Thompson, a republican candidate distrust Dr. Stein and demand nledpps ,.:.. n. . .. for the United States senate. The " . - 7- r--D-- uiiui4.iuicnu.cwl5iuu.uIS uimi: nrtW9nni.!ir1nrtli cinnat ana promises, veryooay else and downfall of the republican party, the public generally had perfect confi- Take a survey of your political aence mat, lfT. Otein WOUm nn Hi.---: intn nnlitira in lALft.iAj j tm i i j auu see ii wiiul we nave saiu con- duty, and do what was fair ar by the people, and were will take bis past life and conde guarantee of this fact. Tiie oumcuity witu you :s i always trying to compel a office to betray his public ti truer Examine the men and that you have supported and advantages and financial u have reaped from the city ln by reason of the dishonest jmpetenf. men you have put article appeared over the signature of u. a. Bradley, the World Herald's regular correspondent at Lincoln. The first thing that suggested itself to the editor was, "did that cost $75 a column?" It also suggested this thought, that when a republican can didate has to resort to buying space in the fusion papers to boom bis political aspirations it is high time for republi cans to look upon such a candidate with considerable suspicion. Burt County Herald. Ktgm