Omaha daily bee., 1898-09-26
STATE PRESS ON STATE POLITICS.

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I cial war tax what a snap this Office would
be for Secretary Of State Porterl
Kearney Hub (rep): According to the
| popocratic philanthropists who run the
state government any kind OF old patent
butter. a la packing house, is good enough
| for the blind and the deaf and dumb and
| the insane and feeble minded who are in
| their charge. Cow butter is all right for
the favored few, but not for the many.
Geneva Signal (rep.): And now 1t Is
shown that butterine is being furnished to
| the inmates of certain state institutions,
| notably the blind institute and the feeble
! minded institute, to the exclusion Of COW
| butter Not only that but the stuff is
| bought at Kansas City. This is an insult
| to every Nebraska COW and a punch in the
| ribs for her owner.
North Platte Tribune (rep.): The Omaha
| World Herald says Bill Greene should be
| reelected by reason of the valuable service
! he has rendered the people of the Sixth
| district during his term. Valuable service!
Well that's good. Will some obliging popu-
/ list point out single instance of 'valu-
! able service" that Greene has rendered his
constituents Just one instance; that's all.
! We wait for response.
| North Platte Tribune (rep.): 1t is said.
| and the report is probably true, that the
South Omaha stock yards have offered to
make a handsome donation to w. A. Poyn-
ter's campaign fund and the offer has been
accepted This donation is made in return
for the valuable service which Poynter, as
state senator. rendered the stock yards
company is assisting to smother the bill
regulating the charges at the stock yards.
Seward Reporter (repD: The total dis
| top trovp1p6 w thp pODu1iSt officers
on passes since the commencement of their
| present terms is 35S, 800 miles, or more than
| fourteen times around the earth. They all
| want to be reelected so that they may con-
| tinue the pleasing exercise. The treasurer's
| Office takes the lead in this matter, being
| charged with $4,000 miles of free transpor-
| tation, the governors Office coming second
with $1,000 miles
Ashland Gazette (rep): Judge Hayward's
| mastery analysis of the state finances and
expose of the frau lulent and absurd claims
| of the popocratic aggregation at the state
| house ought to be read by every voter. The
| fraud and folly of the pretenders is made so
| clear that the effect cannot be other than to
create a feeling of disgust in the minds of
| all intelligent and fair-mnded people over
| the shams put forth for the purpose of de-
ceiving the people.
| Blair Pilot (rep): The republicans have
never found fault with Candidate Poynter
for being a prohibitionist. The press that
charges the republican party with using
this az an objection to Poynter falslfies
The republicans only critcise Poynter for
renouncing his well known prohibition
| views and denying that he ever had them
| Consistency is one of the important prin-
| ciples that go to make up man and when
| a man hasn't that element in his makeup
| he is miscalled man"
Alliance Times (rep): According to the
| Omaha World Herald Greene is doing up
| Norris Brown without the benefit of clergy.
| People who have heard the joint debates
between the gentlemen referred to can now
| judge Of the integrity of that newspaper
as a reliable public educator. Whatever
may be the effect of this misrepresentation
| in those localities where Brown and Greene
have not held debates, the result in those
localities where they have debated will be
to the benefit of Brown.
Pierce Call (rep): Populists of this dis
trict have not forgotten how Judge John S.
Robinson and his crowd came near defeating
the nomination of John NJ Devine four years
ago and did in fact defeat him for election.
The law firm of Allen, Robinson & Reed of
Madison has many sins to answer for. What
man like w. E. Reed on the district bench ?
Yet it is announced that If Robinson is
elected to congress Reed will be appointed
to the district judgeship
Fremont Tribune (rep): The awful and
damaging fact has been laid bare that the
popocratc managers of the state institu-
lions have been Ignoring the spotted cows
of Nebraska called 'Speck' and have been
sending to Kansas City to buy butterine to
feed to the inmates Of these eleemosynary
institutions. When the blind children of
Nebraska City have cried for bread and
butter they have had their crusts veneered
with imported buttcrine. When the feeble
minded at Beatrice and the insane at Nor
folk, Hastings and Lincoln have begged for
butter they have been swabbed with lard,
Yet there are dairymen in Nebraska who
believe it to be their duty to vote the popo-
cratic ticket because Poynter is member
of the Dairymen's association.
Battle Creek Republican: The handy
reference circulars treating on saving, now
being sent out by the independent" head
quarters under the state house dome. do no.
even mention that item of Governor Hol-
combs house rent that he is saving with
perfect regularity each month by having the
state pay it. The constitution makes no
provision for the payment of governors pri-
vate house rent but it is done just the same,
and no unbearable remorse of conscience is
experienced in consequence. Governor Ho-
comb has drawn $40 from the private house
rent fund during the last fifteen months.
The records show that the last voucher was
drawn August and is for 500. Governor
Crounse would not receive this private house
rent money from the state while he served
the people as their chief executive, declaring
it to be unconstitutional to do so.
Blair Pilot (rep) The west, so far as its
| legislators are concerned, is the laughing
stock of the east, not because we do not
put up and elect good men, but because the
tendency in the west is to change it's legLs-
lators too frequently. The east has learned
the lesson and fully understands that the
influence of a legislator comes only through
: long service and good man elected
? is kept in office and for that reason and nc
other the greatest influence in congress l.
welded from the east 1t isn't because
they have more brains in the east, for they
? haven't and when 1t comes to breadth OF
vision" and a practical understanding o
what is the best thing for Uncle Sam wei
I put the western man up against the east
ern fellow every time. The whole secret
lies in getting congressman who are some
what in harmony with the general admin.
istraton and just keeping them there sc
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