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of his election was imminent. Mr.
Died rich contends that all lie lias
attempted to do so far as the election
of a senator is concerned is to at
tempt to harmonize conflicting in
terests, but the chances are against
tiie nomination he seeks.
MKIKLEJOHN.
There is a strong undercurrent in
favor of Assistant Secretary of War
Meiklejuhn for the position of gov
ernor on the republican ticket. The
courage Le exhibited in 1891, at the
organization of the legislature has
not been forgotten. lie is active,
clean, honest and not a candidate.
The manner in which he discharged
the arduous duties of his office dur
ing the Spanish-American war and
especially his unremitting interest in
the welfare of the volunteer soldiers
are elements of strength which no
other citizen of Nebraska can com
mand. His oflicial connection with
the army in time of war will suffer
nothing by a comparison with the
oflicial act of Governor Poynter who
refused to assent as Governor to a
vote of thanks passed by the legis
lature expressing the gratitude of
the people to the First Nebraska tor
its valor in camp and field. Mr.
Meiklejohn as a candidate would not
have to explain his acts regarding the
volunteers, Mr. Poynter as a candi
date cannot explain his. There are
republicans of ability, sound judg
ment and political sagacity, and they
number more then a few, who insist
that wisdom dictates the nomination
of Lorenzo Crounse as the republican
candidate for governor. They point,
as well they may, to his clean record
as a public oflicer and the honest
business administration which he
obtained during his incumbency as
Governor.
THOMPSON.
Until the sixth day of the present
month D. E. Thompson was a can
didate, in his mind, for the senator
ship. On that day he exhibited his
lack of political sagdeity by inducing
the delegates to the republican con
vention of Lancaster county to en
dorse his candidacy. That action
made hira a candidate in fact. There
are republicans to whom the prin
ciples of the party are realities; to
whom those principles furnish rules
of political action. Who believe in
Gdelity of purpose and purity as ap
plied to politics, who do not believe
that party and party principles are
to be swapped Tor a place as an Indian
swaps wampum for beads, who know
that there is a political virtue that is
not to be battered by every "Gas
Addicks" who desires to associate, per
force, with men of character and dis
tinction. To such republicans the
candidacy of Mr.Thompson isjthe com
mand, "To your tents O Israel."
and he should not be trusted for a mo
ment Weeping Water Republican,
Thursday. April .1th.
Mr. Thompson in the State Papers.
The following is an editorial the Re
publican tried to produce last week,
but it was shorn of all ita meaning by a
part of its being left out:
D. E. Thompson of Lincoln is again
an aspirant for senatorial honors. The
republicans of this state have not for
gotten that after Mr. Thompson saw he
was defeated last winter he formed a
combination with the pops and tried to
sell his party out in order that he might
secure the prize. He failed to secure
republicans enough- however, who were
willing to go back on their party caucus
to make the scheme win. This bit of
treachery on Mr. Thompson's part
should, and we believe it has, buried
him for all time as a possible candidate
for office in the republican party. A
man who will sell his party out for his
own selfish ends is capable of doing
great wrong in the United States senate
D. E. Thompson seems to be bunch
ing bis hits in Lancaster county. He
started out a little while bgo to get bis
kind of men nominated as legislative can
didates, with the view of stimulating his
chances for the United States senate.
Four or five other local celebrities flared
up and declared they would put him out
at first. He issued a come on defy and
the four or five local celebrities answered
by scudding for the bleachers and the
prospect now is he will make a home
run on a passed ball, so far as Lancaster
is concerned. Thompson is the only
man in Lancaster with the courage to
tight. Fremont Tri-Weekly Tribune,
April o.
Harmony is absolutely necessary to
republican success in Nebraska this
year, but it must not be gained by sac
rifice of principle. D. E. Thompson is
making a hot fight, with some prospect
of succeEs for the legislative delegation
in Lancaster county on the theory that
tte rural roosters will be reconciled to
his candidacy for United States senator
by the plea for a united party. Mr.
Thompson has no claim upon the re
publican party; if he had any he sacri
ficed it when he attempted to defeat the
caucus nomination of M. L. Hay ward
by forming an alliance with the fusion
ists. It is openly charged, and not de
nied, that Mr. Thompson promised to
oppose expansion, vote with the silver
ites on the money question and keep out
of republican caucuses in return for
fusion support that would elect him to
the senate. And now he has the sub
lime nerve to announce himself a repub
lican candidate and is laying the wires
to ask the support of those he betrayed,
for the sake of sweet harmony. We will
have harmony, and plenty of it, when
traitors of the Thompson stripe learn
that they must come back in sackcloth
and humility not before. St. Paul
Republican, Wednesday, April 4,
Mr. Thompson of Lincoln is again an
aspirant for senatorial honors. The re
publicans of the state have not forgot
ten that after Mr. Thompson saw that
he might secure the prize, he failed to
secure republicans enough, however,
who were willing to go back on their
party caucus to make the scheme win.
This bit of treachery on Mr. Thompson's
part should, and we believe it has,
buried him for all time as a possible
candidate for office in the republican
party. A man who will sell his party
out for his own selfish ends is capable
of doing great wrong in the United
States senate, and he should not be
trusted for a moment. Weeping Water
Republican, Thursday, March 29.
It is sort of given but cold that D. E.
Thompson will shortly have a daily af
ternoon in Nebraska City. The impres
sion ia sought to be conveyed that Lan
caster county is solid for him. Pal
myra Nineteenth Century Items, Fri
day, March 30.
The double senatorial prize that will
be awarded by the legislature next
winter is already occasioning trouble
among the republicans in Omaha and
Lincoln, and, of course, it is caused by
the superabundance of statesmen. It is
time the republicans of these cities got
together on some basis or they won't
have occasion to quarrel over the spoils
of office by the time the legislature con
venes, for the other fellows will be in a
position to take the offices. In neither
place does there seem to be occasion for
a factional fight at this stage. At
Omaha Mr. Rose water is the disturb
ing factor and at Lincoln D. E. Thomp
son. Neither appear to us as likely to
succeed. By the party at large Mr.
Rosewater ib looked upon as a very un
reliable quantity; a person an liable to
bolt sb to support the ticket. He en
joys the distinction of having done more
than any other man to turn the state
over to populism. As a party disorgan
izer he has long stood at the head in
this state and it is unlikely a republi
can legislature will be elected, borne
members of which would vote for a
good democrat in preference to him. As
to Mr. Thompson, his entry into politics
seems to have beon for the sole purpose
of becoming senator, but the methods
he is credited with employing, are not
likely to insure success. The history of
his attempted deal with the fusionista
near the close of the last senatorial
struggle of itself should remove him as
a possible candidate. We can see no
good reasons why the party aspirants in
those two cities, which should be re
liably republican strongholds, should
not work in harmony to make the ticket
successful and then take their chances.
Fairbury Gazette, March 21.
A Lincoln man, F. M. Hall, who is a
fighter from Bitter Creek, has deposited
$1,000 with Mayor Winnett which says
he can prove D. B. Thompson entered
into a conspiracy to defeat Senator Hay
ward after the republican caucus had
decided on Hayward and before his
election by the legislature at noon the
next day. Mr. Thompeon says he didn't.
Mr. Hall sa a if a committee of five on
arbitration doesn't establish Thompson's
treachery the 81,000 may be given to
any charitable institution of Lincoln
Mr. Thompson may name. It it finds
against Thompson then he (Thompson)
isto withdraw from the senatorial race.
This looks like a fair proposition and as
Mr. Thompson appears to be up against
it now it will give bim an opportunity
to clear his skirts. Fremont Tri-Weekly
Tribune, April 7.
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THE OLD TOWN ON I RIVER
FLORA BULLOCK.
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The watch fires of peace
are aglow on the hill-tops;
There's a Hare in tie sky,
but it speaks not oi war.
Is that a long line
of your grim, blazing cannon ?
It frights me no more
than the still evening star.
The dark shadows flee
from the flickering splendor;
'Tis the sun come again
with his terrible light I
Ah, no. The old hills
soon weary of frolic
And softly steal back
to the fold of the Night.
I think it is unfortunate that the
mind of man did not early conceive
some practicable way of building houses
on stilts. The plan might then have
been modified from age to age but it is
sure that men having once lived high
would never have descended to inhabit
low dwellings on the ground. A house
in a tree-top will not do; you must be
above the tree-topa, or you miss much
of the advantage. Just to look down
on earth and all things growing, to be
above the swaying boughs clear in the
upper air is a joy urlike any other ex
perience. However commonplace the
dav may be there always seems a beau
ty undiscovered except in my high
eyrie. The smell of the earth is sweet
and the feel of a good five-mile road
under one's feet is a delight. But when
you want to look at things, and drink in
all you can stand of the loveliness of
springtime, climb high, leave violets
and woods and green grass, and get
where you can touch the sky and be
one with the birds.
Sky-scrapers, nevertheless, are not my
idea of things. You find them in tho
cities and your view from the top story
iaonlyaview of dirty roofs, smoking
chimneys, large and small, with perhaps
green spots here and there and a green
edge far away in the distance, like a
fringe. At bent it is a sorrowful story
of human strife you read from the top
of your city sky scraper. But movo
your building far outside of the city
walls and it would be worth while- -where
you could look down on prairies
and rivers, woods and moadows, could
catch the sun before he peeped into low
earth hovels and bid him good night
after a long day of splendor. Your sky
scraper might be called a temple, a
toucher of the clouds, then. Be sure
that no matter how ardent a lover of
nature you aro you will miss a glory
undefined if you do not sometime see
the spring come day by day from a
high watch-tower above the tree tops.
The prairie fires continue the show
after the sun is gone and gleam on
many a hill side. Always picturesque,
they charm the more when you can look
out and down upon them. You will sit
and watch them fade away, as the slow
dying day has faded before them, and
mayhap the worries of the world will
slip from you, also, so easily, so quietly..
"And the cares that infest the day - '
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away."
"Well," said the inquisitive Populist-who-cannot-vote
to the Democrat-from-away-back,
"how are you satisfied with
the result of the election ?"
"All right,' cheerfully responded the
Democrat from-away-back, "except the
head of the ticket."
"Oh," innocently said tho Populist-wbo-cannot-vote,
"thon the rest are all
demo-pops, are they?" There was a
joyful note in her voice.
"No, ma'am," responded the Demc
crat-from-away-back in bis fiercest man
ner. "No, they are not, they are all
Democratal"
The Populist who-cannot vote fled, re
flecting on the fusion that fuses.
Occasionally, the Old Town has some
political pot a-brewing and then there
is excitement enough. I suppose a cir
cus or a dog-fight might enliven things
a little, stir up the molecules in the
dead atmosphere, as it were. But it
takes a good warm political fight to
move things. And then the funny fact
about it is that tho outside world talks
as if it understood the Old Town and
its politics. I was deeply amused at
sjme remarks made by a paper pub
lished on Salt Creek about the net re
sult in the Old Town. They had to
ring in Bryan some way. Bless us! It
seems to me even a woman could dia
cover that there never was much of any
ifsue in spring elections in the small
towns of this or any o her state except
whiskey. The Old Town elected a
brewer for mayor, that is all. I don't
suppose anyone except the Sage of Ar
bor Lodge was thinking about Bryan,
or McKinley, or Dewey, poor man!
and I am unable to say which one the
distinguished gentleman was thinking
of.
Child Study Briefs, No. 2.
"Willie, spell 'vase'."
"V-a-s-e, (labored but correct.)
"What is a vabe ?'
"I du'n'no."
"Why. Willie, it is something to put
flowers in. Now remember that for to
morrow and be sure to have your Ieeson
well.'
(Tomorrow.)
"Willie has his lesson ?''
"Yes. V-a-s-e, tin can."
The trouble is, you see, that Ann,
who loven flowers and plants, grows
geraniums in tin cans.
Now, I think, Willie knows the dif
ference between a plant and a flower, a
vase and a tin can with all their proper
relations.
I think so, but I would not be sure.