Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS.

The Falls City Journal is inclined to think
that Judge Gresham is steadily growing in
favor as a presidential candidate"
The Sherman County Transcript grapples
a great problem by the back of the neck in
saying: "Throw politics to the dogs in
municipal matters, IN school matters, and
work for the common good"
The Auburn Post, (which sued ]. S. Stull
for SIS, claimed by the Post to be due from
the defeated candidate for judge, recovered
judgment for $50. The case goes to the dis
trict court, and Judge Appelget, whose cleo
ton was made possible by Stull's bad record,
will decide the case in part. Thus, harmony,
happiness and judicial business go thunder
ing down the ages. 90
The Weeping Water Republican, presuma-
bly, acquainted with the postal service of the
a change in their mai SERVICE has been made,
and now the mail is carried on the freight
trains instead of the passenger trains. We
fail to see where the improvement comes in,
unless it be that the mail clerk on the frelgt
can read"
The editor Of the Wood River Gazette,
James Ewing, says the efforts of the Bur
lington to enjoin the engineers from striking
came to naught. Judge Gresham's ruling in
the Wabash case threw a large bucket full of
cold water on the attempt. II there is any
law in christendom compelling a man to work
for a railway company against his will we
have not heard of it.
The Grand Island Independent looks at the
result of the strike in this way: The b. &
M. has officially announced that in conse-
quence Of recent heavy losses, on account of
the rate war and the strike, no new lines will
be built in Nebraska this year. Thus is the
recent disturbance far reaching in its results,
and thus entirely innocent parties have to
suffer for the ill-weighed acts of others.
The Schuyler Herald, a democratic paper
thus speaks of one Spy Russell's schemes:
"Our two republican contemporaries are hav-
ing quite an exciting discussion over the
alleged republican club that was recently
organized at this place for the purpose of
booming Russell for congress. The club is
armle and we see nc use in our republican
friends quareling over the poor thing.
The Butler County Press cries out against
tariff and railroads in the following manner:
lizard coal which costs s13 a ton in Nebraska
costs 81 so at retail in Scranton, Pa. This is
about the proportionate bulge which the east
gets on the west in everything. The tariff
and the railroads have so managed matters
that about eighteen to twenty millions of
Nebraska's hard-earned dollars are going to
the east every year to pay interest on mort
cages.
The Nance County Journal observes: We
are glad to be able to announce that Nance
and Merrick counties had no hand in placing
a railroad mau at the head of the republican
etata laaUua Whila wa haua oil raora,t fo-
Mr.. Thurston, still at the present time the
republican party should not have made the
mistake of putting the paid attorney of one
of our largest railroad corporations at the
head of their representative body in this
state.
The Schuyler Quill reviewing the political
situation of Colfax county finds: ''The re-
publican party in this county is in bad shape.
Who made it that waya The Russell-La
pache gang of managers. They are respons-
ible for the state of affairs. The Independent
republican voters of this county "a couple
hundred strong), whom the Sun calls mug
wumps, are growing in numbers and will do
as they have done before-support real re-
publicans, but not mossback frauds.
Being one among the number of Nebraska
newspapers receiving G., y. SO literature,
bue flhLlSulOubH JOurldl CueGfIuliy says.
''This office has been favored with copies of
publication issued by the passenger depart
ment of the c., b. & @, entitled ''The c., B.
& @. Boycott" sent us by the railroad mail
route-to save postage-and, we presume,
out of distrust of the irregular mails over
their road. Much obliged. We have read
most of the articles before, and opine that
they were all paid for in the regular way by
the muniicent line that is too penurious to
pay its enginemen current wages"
The Western News INDUCES in this philos-
ophy; The republican clubs of Nebraska
met in convention in Omaha last week and
organized a state league with John Nj. Thurs
ton as president and Brad Slaughter secre-
tary. Charley Green, the oil room manipu-
lator, is another officer, and at the banquet,
only men of that stripe were given a chance
to express their patriotism. So says the BEE
and that paper denounces the league as a
combination in the interests of railroads.
The republican majority in the state is solid.
This organization of clubs in every county
and the organization of these clubs into q