Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-17
VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS.

The Wymore Union wants Harrison and
Phelps
It is stated that the Lincoln Democrat has
been sold.
"It is now proposed to run John A. Nc
Shane for governor of Nebraska on the dem.
ocratic ticket 1t will lack about thirty five
thousand votes of making any difference TO
Governor Thayer and the republican party
who the democrats try to rum" says the
Grand Island Times.
The ST. Paul Free Press remarks: The
old reliable OMAHA BEE, is the best daily
published anywhere in the west from a re-
publican standpoint. A novel feature of the
great Sunday edition is "a graveyard de-
partment." THE BEES political graveyard
also contains monuments of Church Howe
and many other political dcmagogues of his
style Its graveyard will need enlarging by
the time the fall conventions are all over. 1t
is decided improvement.
Phe Grand Island Times says concerning
THE BEES position: THE OMAHA BEE gives
notice that the people of Nebraska do not
want any Depew in theirs. As railroad
magnate Depew is all right but as a candi-
date for president he would give the demo-
Gratis wallSaway in number of states not
considered doubtful under ordinary circum-
stances. Between free trade and absolute
railroad rule the people would choose the
lesser evil of the two and the political ma
chine ought TO be made to plainly under
stand IL.
This somewhat interesting piece of infor-
nation comes from Tecumseh paper: "We
| hear through pretty reliable sources that
| tie-up has been effected recently between T.
| j. Majors and Church Howe The under
| standing is that Majors will go to the senate
| and Howe to the House. This may not be
| the exact plan, but we are assured that it is
| the programme that holds the boards at pres
| ent We prefer not to comment very largely
| on this deal at present, as Johnson county is
| largely interested, and we therefore await
| events of more precise nature"
The Neigh Leader says: ATTORNEY Gen
| eral Leese has done a good thing for the
state in bringing the Union Pacific to time.
| Some time ago the company secured a deci-
| sion in the United States court to the effect
| that the company obtained its charter from
the United States and was not amenable to
the state laws regulating rates, etc. The
| company had previously condemned under
| the state laws real estate TO the value of
about s., ,00O, 600, and as foreign corporations
cannot condemn real estate in Nebraska the
| company has been obliged to waive its rights
under the decision of the United States
court in order to hold the property"
| The Seward Reporter gives this endorse
ment TO the attorney general: A few weeks
| ago the York Times made the assertion that
| Attorney General Leese would not be renom-
mated for that Office and it will be remem-
bered that prior to the congressional conven-
| tion that paper made some insinuatiOns
against that gentleman. The Times has
always pretended TO be the friend OF the peo-
pie, and we were at loss to see why il
| should be opposed to his denomination. II
did not long remain mystery, for short
| time after making the assertion that Leese
would be put out of the race, the Times pre-
sented the name of w. I. Scott, of York, as
q candidate for the ofice of attorney general
We have the highest regard for Mr.. Scot,
as gentleman and an attorney. He has a
perfect right to be candidate and the Times
is certainly entitled 70 the privilege OF
bringing his name before the public for that