Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-27
GIVE HIM AN ETERNAL REST.
The Advice of Republican Papers to the
Voters Of the First District,
BURY THE nYPooRlTE DEEP.
The Utter Folly or Attempting to
whitewash n Demagogue and
Trickster-GaRc County
Against Him.
An Unsuocessrul Granger

An Unsuccessful Granger
Blair Republicans Church Howe was
not q success as Granger, but his nbil-
ity to raise political hell on an expansive
scale is unquestioned. He threatens to
remove the capital, to put an embargo
| on railroad building in the South Platte,
even to vote for prohibition If the ropub-
licans do vote him into congress. They
ought to give him an everlasting fur
Tough as demagogue and trickstor.
Can't BE whtcwashcd.
Liberty Gazette (Rep.): Having be.
come convinced that Church Howe Is q
corrupt politician and actuated by mo.
tives of personal gain, we can no longer
support his candidacy for the high office
to which he aspircs. The interests OF this
district are too sacred to be trusted in the
hands of a man whose every act is meas
| ured with price. We did think we
| would try and eat our part of the crow
and support the ticket, but we have con-
| cluded that in justice to our honest and
| candid opinions and our readers, we
cannot do it, 1t is folly for us to try 10
| whitcwaSh men whom we know tnat our
readers know to be unworthy their suf.
frage, and we know that in this the
] good people of this county will stand by
I u.s.
| Scratch His Name.
Wymore Reporter (Rcp): The con.
gressional affairs IN the First district are
in deplorable state. We canddly
stated our views as to Church Howe in
| our first issue after he was nominated.
We did it without regard to what others
might think or say. But time has de.
veloped the fact that five out of the ten
| republican papers in Gage county will
not support Church Howe, the nominee
of the republican congressional conyen-
ton. Tho act of the convention virtually
DISTINGUISHES large number of republi-
| cans of Gage county, from the fact that
| they nominated such notorious,
disroputabe man that they cannot
vote for him. and unless they vote for
a democrat or the prohibition nominee
they nave to scratch Howe's name off the
ticket and thereby disfranchise them
| selves. But We consider that it is an act
| OF principle to scratch Church Howes
| name off the ticket and vote a blank
| rather than vote for INN because he is
| our party nominee. No republican
should vote for n man that did all in his
power to prevent the electoral vote of
thereby place Samuel j. Tilden in the
presidential Jail. This. Church Howe
did as the house journal of 1877 shows.
This act alone should be enough to pre-
vent every true and loyal republi-
can of the First district from cast
ing vote for him. 1t would be
shame and disgrace to the republican
party of this district to be represented by
such dIshonorable man as Church
Howe. We very much regret that such
man was nominated. But the fact that
he has spent months in manipulating
conventions and packing delegations in
the interest of his nomination, has not
been idly disregarded by the intelligent
voters of the district, and they will not
suffer themselves TO be forced by the
par ty lash to support such disreputable
nominee.
More of Howe and Colby
Cortland journal (Rep.): The last issue
of the Journal created considerable stir
in political circles. A few of the republic.
cans who place party above principle
were indignant because we saw fit to
drop Church Howe and l.. w. Colby, and
went so far as to threaten to get up An
Indignation meeting and down the paper.
Nothing would please us better than an
Indignation meeting in this precinct anu
we challenge and defy any opposition to
the course we are pursuing, to go ahead
with their Indignation meetings, provided
we be allowed hearing. We have assur-
ances that the better element of the re-
publican party in this precinct will stand
by us in boiling the nominations of
Church Howe and l.. w. Colby. Ever
since the Beatrice and Wymorc packed
caucusses were held we have declared in
nearly every issue of the journal that tne
people were becoming disposed to ex-
anime candidates for high offices of trust
and responsibility, and were less under
the control OF party than in years past,
when great issues divided parties. The
Journal is not the only republican paper
in this county that believes that the only
way by which the republican party can
maintain the confidence of the people is
data hn
force themselves to the front by corrupt
and disreputable means.
This is an off year, the republicans In
this county are asked to support Church
Howe and L. w. Colby. and now Is the
time and opportunity to show such men
that the party stands for some things OK
cept the spoils of Office The republican
its leaders have been men of brains and
patriotism, ready at all times to deal
with the great questions of tho day, and
in order to maintain that confidence the
people must see to it that honest and
sapadple @nprd 70 men sn0at are put put for. er.
force the laws of the land and
not men who enter the halls of legislation
simply to draft and introduce wholesome
laws and resolutions for the purpose of
defeating them themselves for large
pecuniary considerations. Such trans.
actions arc charged against Church Howe
and published to the world, and are not
denied by him or his trends. L. " Colby,
the disciple of Church Howe, has already
made record in Gage county that will
keep him from participating in the next
legislature. He is n man of brains and
cunning, but OF no political sagucty
He presumes too much on the crcdulity of
the voters OF the county when he chances
everything on securing nomination.