Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-09
SIDE LIGHTS ON FUSION Politics,

SIDE LIGHTS ON FUSION roLITICs.
Last Hope OF Republic (pop): silas a.
Holcomb has twice been elected TO Office
on antl-pass platforms and each time he
proved to be the worst pass grabber on rec
ord. That's the kind OF business that dis
credits a reform party and a good turning
down Is what the traitors need
Grand Island Republican: Talk about
bossism. Never in the history of political
parties in this country was bossism so ram
pant and triumphant as in the late trio OF
conventions that nominated Holcomb for
supreme judge. The will Of one man over
ruled all opposition and held complete sway
from start to finish,
St. Paul Republican: with two rival
press bureaus sending out reform" stun
from Lincoln. the care-free editors Of fu-
sion papers who fill up space with ready
made editorials are able to visit the Omaha
midway with happy indifference to tho fact
the fate OF william Jennings Bryan is staked
upon the result OF this falls election in
Nebraska.
Fremont Tribune (repO: What has be-
come of the World Heralds soldiers en-
ploymcnt bureau? Since there was no
earthly excuse for organizing such thing
the whole business has silently vanished.
| There is more work than workers in Ne
braska and nothing but a desire to work
the people for political effect suggested the
organization of the bureau.
Blair Pilot Crep): Governor Poynter and
Auditor Cornell are still wrangling over
! the state insurance department. Cornell Is
openly defying the law passed by the late
legislature and is hanging on like a drown
ing man to a straw while the governor has
set up a new insurance department. With
but one insurance department the condi-
| tions were bad enough, but with two the
conditions are even worse, IL such a thing
were possible.
Geneva Signal (rep) When Mr., Hol-
comb made his promise to the fusion state
conventions to stop using railroad passes
| II elected he put the accent on (if elected).
| That will run him AAEough the campaign
and If he should happen to be elected there
will be time enough afterwards to decide
whether he will keep the promise or break
| it. He has run on anti-pass platforms be-
| fore, but that didn't keep him from grab
| bing all the passes he could.
Ord Quiz (rep): Holcomb is no better
man than he few years ago when rum
ming for supreme Judge before In fact the
| people know him better now and have not
the faith they had in him then. They know
about that house rent steel now and that job
| of ballot box stufIng, which they did not
| know about when he ran before. Yet the
| World Herald was against Holccmb then and
| for him now. SO pay no attention to what
| the World Herald says.
Kearney Sun Crep): A few weeks ago w.
| d. Oldham was telling his friends of the
many, very many awful things he was going
| to do to 81 Hocomb If he forced his nomi
nation for supreme judge on the hosts of
4 ~.
| Herald, Just received, gives long list of
appoir tments made by Mr. Oldham, at
which times and places he will tell the peo-
pie why they should vote for Mr. Hocomb.
| Oldham IL a great man to run bluff until
some man calls his bet
| Kearney Hub (repO: Senator Allen and
| Governor Holcomb were the allies of VIII
liam ]. Bryan in 1896 in capturing the pop
| ulist nomination for Bryan, and 1t is the
| obligation the latter is under that has forced
| the retirement OF Harrington from the ticket
| in the Sixth congressional district in order
| to strengthen Holcomb as a candidate for
supreme Judge. Bryan himself is respon-
sible for this sacrifice OF a democrat, not
that the popuist party may be benefited
but in order to carry out certain plans for
| himself next year.
Stanton Picket (rep): With Bryan, who
used to be Colonel, Holcomb, who wants to
be supreme judge, Davis. the destructive
| cyclone and Harvey, the man who is under
| contract to pull 81 900, 900 out of the peo-
pie OF Nebraska for a Bryan campaign fund
| in 1900, running rampant in Nebraska it
| was expected that fusion stock would go
up and republicanism enter decline, but
things are not working that way. The
| farmers have a big crop of corn to care for
and other work to do and don't propose
to waste any precious time listening to these
| Aguinaldos of the west.
Harrington Herald (rep) The man who
| swears on the witness stand that the con-
! stitution and statutes of this state are a
| farce" will not make a good judge OF the
| supreme court. The man who takes out
false vouchers on an unconstitutional appro>
priation in order to get his hands on little
extra money will not make fit judge to
decide questions where property interests
are involved. Such a person is Silas A.
Holcomb, and to ask a man to cast his vote
for such a one is an insult to the intelli-
gence of the voter and will be resented at
the polls next November in pretty forciblc
manner.
Pierce Call (rep): Before the fusion con-
vention many democratic papers denounced
Holcomb as a pass grabber, house rent THIEF
and dishonest in many ways; they advised
and impored their party not to nominate
him for Judge; many threatened to bolt in
| case he should be nominated. Now after
HoIcomb has been crammed down their