Nebraska advertiser., 1869-10-07
Written fer .he Advertiser.
TICKET.

PEOPLES' TACAEEs
Yes, Peoples Ticket sounds big, yet
is but a small affair after all. Peoples
Tickets are usually composed of two
classes: those defeated By the people
in receiving nominatiOns fronicalIy
called @sore-heads'9 and those with
whom notoriety is of more force than
party principles, (metaPhorically
called "dough faces" These classes
are not generallys;deep thinkers and
frequently go off, as the vulgar phrase
has il, 1half-cOcked;" for, in the ma
iority of instances, it is after a full
convention have acted in harmony in
the nomination Of a ticket, as in this
county, where not a word oil an act of
unfairness can be charged, and where
the ticket comments itself to the
masses of thinking voters as unex-
ceptiOnable. It would almost seem
that such men are actuated with the
idea that as there has been no chilean
cry and fraud in the convention, and
this being the reasOn of their defeat,
they, to keep up their stock in trade,
their political eapitalI''rule or ruin"
must practice their iniquities out
side, and destroy the unity, if pos
sible, wherein lies the strength of the
Republican party in this county, and
its power to aid the country out of
difficulties caused by its slate unhap-
py struggle with u lamentably
misguided southern brethren !" to
two Of whose sincere syDlpGthisers,
.inot to use fhetvOlgar phrase copper
heads, ~ this Peoples Ticket assignes
the best offices an the gift, of the peO-
pie of Nemaha County. -s.H9aI
Their wonderful forethought in this
instance is proven by their action, for
certainly it must be far more to the
liking of Q FeepeOple to have assigned
them as their ticket, one coneOeted by,
first, one person defeated by the Re-
publican convention; one who had.
not friends or principles sufficient to
bring him before it; and two who had
only courage enough to stay at home
and sYmpathise with armed traitors
to their country! A ticket thus
formed must certainly, be more to the
liking Of the "people'i than OnenOm-
mated in full convention of fairly
chosen delegates. This centralization
of the right to think and make q
ticket for the people into the hands of
four or five men, is an idea which will
undoubtedly commend itself to the
people ;Ifor by it-as will be seen-a
man 10 favor Of population and ma
tiOnal dishOnOr now, and Of giving
over the country to the lust Of slavery
and the slave holder during the war,
is just as good "as any other man."
and, apparently, a little better. Yet,
herein consists not the only element
of strength Of this Peoples Ticket"
for its strength ascends most afluvi-
ously the nOstrils of fair men, and
its benefits are rs apparent to the Re-
publican party as the ''bOtts" leaving
a sick horse!
Anothef element of strength and
mark of eminent sagacity in the franz
ems Of this "People's Ticket" consists
in the placing upon it of four honor
able gentlemen, who, in the magma
nimity of their unselfish souls, and in
anticipation of the nomination before
the Republican convention, before
which they were candidates,) pledged
their sO0rds Of honor, before said con-
ventiOn, to stand by the ticket nom
mated. Now, should not such men
be honored in the mead of their
worth? And, as was apparent to the
refuIgent wisdom of the flour" peO-
pie who framed the tieket-how, in
the name Of common sense (swOre
they by something MYTHICAL to them
selves,) could these men stand by q
ticket unless they UcTe on some other
ticbetF This reasoning must be plain
to all, for now both tickets are side by
side (! And, wonder of the 18th CEN
fury and rich soil of Southern Ne
braska. 10, their pledgeds redeemed
their conscience easy-their honor un-
tornished, bright, and ~glistening as
the white Of adarkey's eye on a cloudy
night Shades of Cicero, observe
their wisdom; voters of Nemaha
County, bendin honor to the profound
talent displayedI
Such a dish is seldom offered to any
people, much less to a people so unfa-
vored by disleyalty as the people of
County. Here we have men
who were stGy-dt-bOmey loyal during
the war, and men who e stay-at-
homely dislOyal; men who were
firmly loyal while they had a loyal
relative in office, and who didn't be-
lieve it payed after that relative was
not men whose "word Of honor" is
not worth astraw''; men of no prin-
and men of all principles-for
office.
"How beautiful it is to dwell to-
gether in unity - and in the space
betweeR now and election let them
sing
We're q band OF brothers.
We're a hand OF brothers, LGWG Haoki
y We're a band of brothers, 1
- Bound for an Office "yeu bet"
~HHrrT "a PEOPLE 4