The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-08-26

order to be solid with the boys every
old boy must receive an atfectiunate
look and a smile and a shake on his
own private and particular account.
Probably there never was naughty
president excepting George Washing.
ton and he got his pull by super.
natural lighting and staying qualities
that would make anyone president.
Even Abraham Lincoln cultivated
impulsive outbursts of good feeling.
Not that he did not love his fellow.
men and venerate democracy, he did,
Tut IL was a tenderer more real kind
than that which was expressed by
shaking three hundredG. A. II. hands
In an afternoon. Governor Teddy
has no more sincere admirer Count.
ing out his personal friends and at.
taches) than the editor of this paper,
but the palavering and petting he has
begun to do Is distasteful to more
than one Of his admirers. II he has
begun, four years before he can be a
candidate, to shake thousands of more
or less grimy and sweaty hands every
week the habit Is likely to grow upon
him, until, instead Of the breezy,
rather dic'atorical and obstinate Ted.
dy. whom New York loves, he will
present the smiling complacent &C.
casiOnally sickening face Of per.
petual presidential candidate who
smiles a frozen smile upon the clean
and the unclean. the perfumed and
the offensive, the civil and the un.
civil At Chatauqua, the other day,
Governor Roosevelt insisted on shak-
ing hands with several hundred mem.
bers Of the G.. A. II, and addressing to
each one as he passed down the line, a
brilliant, magnetic smile accompanied
by a few words Of appreciation of the
opportunity they had granted him Of
tanning his right arm for month and
few other grand-stand remarks. or
course the dear old fellows cheered
him and chopped to see him president"
and all that, but 1t hardly seems
worth while.
The Fnionists Choice.
The greatest mistake the fusiOnists
could make, they made when they
nominated Governor HOlcOmb for
Judge. The number Of democrats and
pOpulists who are disguised with the
record Mr.. HOlcOmb has made, is
overwhelming. His nomination re.
quired the insistent exercise Of Mr..
Bryan's influence Without 1t, Mr..
Holcomb would now be without even
the prospect Of job. 1t is doubtful
IL Mr.. Bryan's influence at the Aus
tralian polls will be as potent as in
the convention where his dynamic
voice and eye were at citizen HOl.
combs service.
A governor needs brains and in.
tegrity and feels the convenience Of a
spOtless reputation, how much more
does a Judge upon whose impartiality
often rests a mans living and a mans
life? A governor makes decisions
which affect the state en- masse, a
Judge, those which affect two men, Or
at most only few, vitality. A gov
errors veto or signature is frequently
like applying electricity to a thOus-
and people holding each others hands
The same voltage applied to one man
by Judge electrOcutes him.
Then II Caesars wife needed
a Judge, upon the unquestiOnable
uprightness of whose decisions rests
the respect Of people for law and the
courts.
A Judge needs also clear and In.
which cannot be diverted by legal yer.
biage, appeals, and the repeated trials
which obscure so many cases, from
the essentially simple points which
are the basis Of every case. No one
who has heard Mr.. HOlcOmb speak or
who has had the opportunity OF read.
ing his headless sentences has failed
to receive the impression that the
speaker or writer Is overwhelmed and
conquered, both by the intricacies of
the English language and by the SUBJ
ject he is mistakenly endeavOring to
analyze. A Judge who has the for
tunes and the lives OF the people In
his hands should possess an intelli.