Omaha daily bee., 1891-10-19
POINTS ON STITE Politics.

Wahoo Wasp: Edgerton is the KIND Of a
man who will run best where he is the least
known.
Pawnee Repu blican Judge Posts nomi1-
alton has been received with enthusiasm and
satisfaction in every section of the state. and
more especially In the localities where he is
best known, and his qualities as a jurist
especially recognized and appreciated.
Grand Island Independent: Who was
more prolific of promise than the Traitor
Taylor, and who more ready TO violate them
In the last Legislature. Taylor and Edgerton
appear to be off the same piece of goods, but
fortunately the people have learned from the
action of Taylor to examine the record, as
well as the words OF a candidate.
Friend telegraph: Soldiers are pretty
generally satisfied with the present pension
laws and it might be as well to suggest to
Paul Vandervoort as he goes around over the
state attempting to crack that old chestnut,
that a little consolation regarding the
enormous expenditures of the peoples money
by the last legislature may be of interest TO
more people in this state just at this p~articu-
lar time.
Nebraska City Press: When a person
thinks of Paul Vandervoort, the openly noto-
rious lobbyist, perching as a reformer and
bowling out against the railroads as an indie
pendent, it makes one smile. Paul is owned
body and soul by the railroads, and went into
the alliance party on order OF the monopolies,
drawing his pay from them the sam as of
yore. What is true of him will apply equally
as well to others in the independent camp.
Grand Island Independent: A. M. Post is
acknowledged to be an upright, honorable
gentleman. Never n stain has rested upon
his character as a citizen or as an officer. He
is possessed OF an education and learning in
law and has had nine years. experience on
the bench, where he has given the best salts
faction. He represents no class and is
pledged to nothing but equal and exact jus
tice to all, regardless of class. This is the
kind of a man to elect.
Greeley County independents: We are
personally acquainted with Joe Edgerton.
Have known him since June, 1856, and know
him to be an unprlncipled office seeker. u
man who is in any party that will promise or
offer him a place on the ticket. He is with
out education, and should he by accident be
elected TO the supreme bench, would be a dis
grace to the state, ana all law abiding men
who voted for him would be ashamed to
admit that they had been so mistaken in their
Judgment.
Lincoln journal: 1t Is rumored out in
Polk county that in the few cases in which
Edgerton appeared in the courts there dur
ing his practice as a lawyer he dared net
rely on himself to draw the papers, but was
in the habit of employing Mr.. A. j. Sawyer
of Lincoln, to write them for him. The Polk
county people are of the opinion that a man
who cannot prepare a petition or an answer
in little simple lawsuits such as Edgerton
had in that county Is hardly fit for a seat on
the supreme bench.
Fremont Flail. If Paul Vandervoort said
in his speech at Red Cloud, as charged. or In
any speech that ''the patriotism of the
soldiers curing the war Of the rebellion was
all bosh, and that very few soldiers went into
the war except those who were lured
in by the bright promises of bounty and
pension in case OF disability he is a
poltroon and a coward. That Bawl Wander
WORT had no higher patriotism than the few
dollars he saw in the service is evinced by
his course in politics and otherwise. He
never served any party or any institution or
any department that he did not attempt to
subserve to his own personal emolument or
greed and he never left any service but what
was the better for his having retired. His
wind and gall made him commander of the
Grand Army and the darkest blot on the record
OF that institution is the association OF his
name in that capacity. As a bag of wind he Is
a success, but as a man or a soldier he is but a
walking block, fit only to dust the company's
reglmentals on.