Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-27
GRIND or THE POLITICAL WILL.

| Hastings Tribune (repD Major DUNCAN
the boy orator of Adams county, is now en-
gagged in setting his pins for the nomina-
/ tion on the fusion ticket for congress to
succeed h. d. Sutherland There are three
or four others who are engaged in the same
| Kind of work
| Norfolk journal Gep): The Nebraska
Liquor Dealers association is now claiming
all the credit OF electing Holcomb. That
takes very serious responsibility off the
shoulders of a lot of other fellows, and
puts the liquor dealers in the worst light
they have ever appeared before the public.
Crawford Gazette (repJ: "Pie, give us
pie, or we persh!" is the incessant cry OF
hordes OF office hungry democrats and popu-
lists since the recent election. The great
trouble is there is not nearly enough pie to
go around. These hungering ones seem to
realize this fact and the scramble is said
to be sickening. This is indeed a cold, cruel
world
Hebron Republican, The contemplate bits
OF mud thrown by that dafry organ, the
| Omaha World Herald, at Assistant Secretary
of War Meiklejohn come from a diseased
brain and as The Bee says are simply
effervescence of small bore apprehension lest
some eminent Nebraskan outside the fusion
fold should achieve distinction in the ma
tlonal arena"
Schuyler Sun: The thirst of some demo-
pops for office is so Unsuitable that It will
not be quenched In Merrlck county the
fusion candidate for sheriff was beaten by
fifty-fcur votes, the clerk by forty-two and
the clerk of the district court by eighteen.
Each has begun a contest for no other rea-
son than that they want the offices and want
them badly. Here's hoping that they Will
be squelched. When a man is fairly beaten
he ought to be manly enough to acknowledge
1t.
Pierce Call: Populist papers last week
with one accord jumped on to ID. Glen
Deaver, the populist national committeeman
for Nebraska, and demanded his resignation
d. Glen Deaver before election declared he
would not be party or further the schemes
of politicians to deliver the populist party to
democracy. These popuist papers now howl
ing for his resignation base their demands
on the fact that d. Glen is "leech and
bloodsucker at the public crib "sorehead
and inveterate officeseeker." Good Lord, he
shouldn't be condemned FOR that! He
wouldn't be a good populst with those vir-
tues (?) eliminated
Fremont Herald (dem.): The Nebraska
Clty News has 1t from what it considers
reliable source" that Hon. c. j. Smyth is
to be appointed dean of the law school of the
State university, and that e. Benjamin An
drews, who is at present at the head OF the
Chicago public schools, is to be made chan
cellor of the university. The "other side
would doubtless say that this was all very
wrong but really. how would they like 1t
themselves? When one side does it, they
call 1t politics." when the other side does
it, it is patriotism" We think the state
school-and all the state insttutions-should
be kept out of politics. of any brand as much
as possible. There isn't any of it any too
good
Fremont Tribune (rep): The good fusion
wire pullers, who were looking for the
emoluments of the clerk of the supreme
court, which Is the best thing from a
financial point of view in the state, have
discovered that Clerk Campbell's appoint
ment runs on four-year terms and that he
has something like two and half years yet
of his present term This is fixed by the
constitution, but no constitution is tight
enough to hold any republican in office when
the fusionists are in control. It may there
fore. be taken for granted Mr.. Campbell will
be given his walking papers at the earliest
moment after Hocomb and Sullivan are in
control of the supreme court Notwithstand-
ing. Mr.. Campbell has been a capable and
honest, in fact an ideal, court official he can
soon be removed for cause" when the
fusionists get comfortably settled in Office.