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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1902)
THE C O r K I E K N 1 V 1 ! I I, : SOME OF LINCOLN'S LITTLE FOLKS . - Bb. 'vsibbbL bb-w-.y '-bHHI wk'-'osbbbbH A B BBB7 ''BY I V BBV IBBY S. WILSON. . JRHbbbb. - 1 IkilllK7'- KbbBbbbbb . bbF bbL mbbT 9-fM -bKbbbbF IIOWAUU S'-n-yiMi-oliI son of Mr. ..ml Mrs. W. C. Wilson, of ir.ll M street. DORIS TIITON. Daughter of Mark II. Tilton, who. with tin hild's grandparents. Dr. ami Mrs. A. II. Dorris. resides at ISL'l C street. IN THE REALM OF 4 POLITICS It seems to lit' generally accepted that "!. K. K. Sizer has the postoiliee inched, .mil the close friend of Mr. P.nshnell even admit that there is lit tle hope of his being retained. When Mr. IStishnell went to Washington the other week, it was with hope heating high in his breast. He read in the newspapers about how the president hail withstood the demands of diigressmen and senators for the ap pointment of favorites to displace men who had served faithfully and well. He knew that the president had long been known as an advocate of the meiit system, and he believed that with the almost unanimous endorsement of the business men of the city, the prin cipal patrons of the oilice, certifying to his faithfulness and excellent serv ice, he stood at least a chance of de feating his opponent. He went armed with petitions, letters and endorse ments of various kind;. Just what his reception was is something lie declines to be interviewed upon, but it is said that it was none of the most cordial. -The president, so the Washington dis patches say, is subject to attacks of -".emper, and he was not in the best of moods, it would seem, when Mr. Hushnell reached the White house. At least, so the story goes, he very tersely told Mr. Bushnell that he did not care to look at the petitions, and directed him to file them where they belonged. This is taken to indicate that he means to abide by the congressman's recom mendations and not by the petition of the patrons. . -' - It is pel haps not generally known that if events had shaped themselves four years ago the way some of the politicians wanted them, Mr. Sizer would not now be a likely man for postmaster. Shortly after Mr. McKin ley's first election the most strenuous efforts were made on behalf of Mr. Sizer's appointment as TTnited States marshal. He had all of the endorse ments a man could s cure, but he didn't get the place because Senator Thurston had the pull and wanted George IT. Thummel. Then, although it has never been printed. Congress man Strode sought to make a place for Mr. Sizer as deputy postmaster. Senator Spencer, late of Firth, who had voted for Thurston in the senatorial election of IVJj. had been promised the place, but when Thurston showed symptoms of desiring to take every thing in the patronage line for his especial friends, Mr. Strode, who con trolled the postoiliee appointments. that time to smicid Tom Worrall as superintendent of carriers. In order to lighten the burdens upon the deputy postmaster the superlntendency of car riers was abolished and the duties di vided between two new clerks whom the congressman secured. If Mr. Sizer had been made deputy, he would nat urally hae espoused the cause of Congressman Strode, who desired a third term, and he would not, there fore, have been selected by Mr. lltir kett to manage his campaign and thereby made himself eligible to the postoiliee succession. Mr. Sizer doubt less thought some rough things about that time, but he may now feel glad matters turned out as they did. Sena tor Thurston at that time desired to have C. II. Morrill named as postmas ter, but he could not prevail against th" congressman, who desired to name his campaign manager. Thurston finally gave in. but he Insisted strongly upon the naming of State Senator Spencer. Mr. Strode did not say whether he would name Spencer or not, but after he landed Hushnell he refused to name him on the plea that the people would not stand for a non resident as deputy. ... ... ..- ,.- ,,- The next deputy postmaster is very likely to be T. P. A. Williams. Mr. Williams is a clean, capable and alert young republican, a lawyer by profes sion. The place pays $1SOO a year and the duties are not so exacting as to divorce an attorney from his practice completely. It is understood that Mr. Williams has had the promise of the deputyship for some time, but kept mum over it because he was not hunt ing any trouble. W. II. Clark, of tin Fifth ward, who lays claim to being the original Hurkett man. hugged the fond delusion to his breast for months that he was to be deputy. It is said he never had any promise, but that lie had picked the place a being about his size .and .thought it would come to him when he called. A little while ago he seemed to have lost all zest for it. and was circulating a petition for ap pointment as steward of the asylum Suspicion that Mr. Williams was the mysterious man, said to have been slated, was aroused a few weeks ago when he was discovered circulating a petition among the lawyers in the In terest of Mr. Sizer. - C ." c The wise boys in the political arena are ri'kiug State Senator Prank M. Mf3$rW&Jm?- Mi ktwi&iB SxS ''''f&jBBBB. tBBXW. lBBBBBft v SV, 3p SssOifeMf'' V Hbw&bbbbP bI ' fJS "-- iyiiit .JbBBBbHR .BBBk X. v'-x-Xxvit- JBIBBBBJ .BBBBk bbbbbH OKKftBtHm STATK SKN TOIt F M CIMUUE. J turned Spencer down. Webster Eaton had for years been one of Mr. Strode's warmest friends and supporters. He had been desirous of securing a place as consul to a Mexican port, but when the turn could not be made, his friends insisted upon his appointment as deputy. L. I. Lindsey. who has just been appointed custodian, was slated at Currie as the next congressman from the Sixth district. Mr. Currie is a ranchman, but a college-bred man. an able speaker and so seductive a cam paigner that there wouldn't be a bit of a doubt of the result after he once was nominated Mr Currie has served two terms as state senator from the Custer district, and Is widely known He is a .onip.kratiely young man, being but thirty-eight years old. He was grad uated at a Meadville. !., college, and came west. He taught school In Otoe county, went to Custer county as su perintendent of the city schools of ltroken Iiow, but resigned after two years to engage In the cattle business. Ills home is at Sargent, the .-Mine small town that claims Governor Savage as a resident. He rides the range with his cowboys, raises line horses and one in a while runs for olllce. The first time was In IS1IS. when he was elected state senator In a strong populist district. He was re-elected In 1900. and was one of the lending candidates for United States senator from the North Platte district. :.- -V- l$mdomhou1)ts Marconi's message from across the sea savors so mui-h of the impossible that it is almost as ditliclllt to believ it as It was that a message had come thiough the Atlantic cable or that a steamboat could really cross the ocean without sails. Already the cable own ers are said to grudge Marconi a place for operations on Newfoundland, but that will not matter since he will not be hampered by cable limitations. He will tind places enough to erect his apj amtiiu The cable companies have no mortgage on the firmament, and they may as well prepare for the in evitable. Patterson. N. .1.. must be a ipieer place to live in. In a recent lawsuit ovtr a spite fence twenty-five feet high, which a man had erected at a distance of only eighteen inches from a neighbor's house, it was discovered that tl.er are more than a hundred of these spite fences in Patterson and all built within the last two years. Life in Hi, -at Hrltaln will not be lack ing in excitement until after the coro nation, at any rate. At Norfolk House a doll exhibition exemplifies the dresses which the nobility must wear on the great occasion. The results are ex ceedingly peculiar, and. if one may say it without irreverence, too funny for anything. The dressmakers are in de spair and the hairdressers are frantic, and King Kilward will have to either moderate his preparations or order an nexes to the Insane asylums. Whatever may be charged about cer tain abuses in the New York customs office, it is certain that the new regula tions under Collector Hidwell for the inspection of personal baggage have been effective in collecting revenue. Secretary Oage has done good service to the country not only by increasing the revenues, hut by insisting upon a higher standard of morality: and he has searched out and pricked the in dividual conscience in a way that does 1 1 i 1 1 1 credit. "The courtesy of the port," which is only a euphemism for con nivance at smuggling, he shows up In its true character, and he brings the "respectable" people who think it no harm to escape paying duties by a lit tle politic evasion, face to face with their acts under the plain and dis agreeable aspect of cheating and lying. Wher- one dollar of revenue was col lected before, four dollars are collected now. as Is shown by $152.45."; collected from 100.000 passengers in seven months of 1900. and JS.V..0IS collected from prac tically the same number of passengers for the corresponding period of 1901. Two trips of a ship which brought over a number of well-known dressmakers and milliners are compared, showing former dock duties to have amounted to $400. with a list of 600 passengers: present duties, with a list of 300 pas sengers. $16,000. Naturally there Is a howl of outrage from those who have been caught ami pinched. But the re sults justify the secretary's order, and no one but the guilty will complain when all persons, without discrimina tion, stand on the same footing before the law. f Ttr tr Clara I had an awful Unit- whn T refused him. Maud How do you mean' Clara Why he took It in earnest and I had to occpliin tint I did not mean it.
