Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-09
He WANTS TO Be A SENATOR
And the Railroad Influence is Back
ing Him.
FIGHTING IN THE TWENTY-FlRST
Blue Hill Furnishes n Strong Man
with IA Clean Record While the
Il. ~ NJ. Has n Candidate OF
Another Stripe.
iHTlNa IN THE TWENTY-FlRsT.
Will the People Win?

RED CLOUD, Neb., August s.-TSpccial to
The BEE The political situation is warm
ing IA little in this locality Drum corps,
flambeau clubs and all other necessary ad-
luncts, and lively political campaign is
being organized for the fray Local politics
excite but little interest except in the contest
for senatorial honors. Colonel Hoover of
Blue Hill, is the peoples candidate for these
honors. He stands well with all classes.
His reputation and character as a business
man are beyond reproach. In fact he is ono
of the pioneers who came to this country
when the wisest could but give that doubtful
shake of the head and say ~ don't know
what the outcome will be-" He has lived
and labored side by side with the rest of the
tried and true, until to-day he is enjoying the
honors and fruits of well-planned life. He
took about four years of the shot and shell
method of baptism along about the years
from 1861 to lS65. This gives the people i'm
plicit faith in his republicauism. He is an
able, conscientious and upright man, and will
be credit to tho Twenty-iirst senatorial dis
trct of Nebraska
Tue b. q M. railroads, however, have an
other candidate in the field and in their man
ipulations at this point they are leaving no
stones unturned in their efforts to palm him
of on an unsuspectlng public. Their candi-
date, "A. j. kenney by name, came before
the public posing anything and every
thing for the sake of obtaining the nomna-
tion. In the prohibition camp he is loud in
his proclamations against the rum traffic.
Down where the boys take a nip for the
stomachs sake' u tap on the shoulder, u
wise nod of the head backed by ~ under
stand the situation,n is intended to catch
that crowd. AS an illustration of his de-
ception "A few months ago he startled the
mar har IF 4 - nj, n,1 Np hyn In
that he at one time enlisted in Iowa and was
ready to go to the front, but the news of the
surrender of Lee at Appomattox reached
there before his command received marching
orders letter written to the adjutant
| general of the state of Iowa inquiring If Mr.
Kenney's name appears among the volun-
| teers of that state brings back the news that
| it does not; that they know of no such char
| acter and that his ''name is not written
| there"
Such pretensions are loathsome and disrep-
utabe, and business man would not at
tempt to use them while the vendor of shoddy
| goods knows the use of no other. Mr.. Ken
ney's record in the house as float from this
district two years ago shows him to be "a
weak man, noted more for his mferiority
| than anything else. While his claims to SOL
der honors cannot be substantated, there
| was a society in Iowa known as the "Knights
of the Golden Circle,n to which Mr.. Kenney
| would have but little difficulty in proving
membership. In fact other members of the
same society claim him as a member and
brother. His early training, his democratic
proclivties during the war and his willing
disposition to be "anything, Lord, for the
sake of position" renders him unfit as II
peoples candidate. Mr.. Kenney is an un-
firing office-seeker and never permits a cam
paign to go by without asking for something.
He believes in the strength and power of cor
porations and relies upon them to carry him
through. At this point Ed Highland, the
| roadmaster on the Is. & M, is, to all appear
| ances, devoting his entire time and attention
to MIR Kenney's canvass.
This is the most open and fragrant case of
| railroad dictatorship that has appeared in the
| political field in this valley. They seem to
need Mr.. Kenney for some purpose and are
determined to have him at all hazards.