Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-22
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

II. Mickey, Tor governor.
Hoidrege citizen: II anyone is tempted
TO vote the fusion ticket, think Of the ex-
pertinent made in 1892 and what happened
during the next few years.
Monroe Republican: Summing up the
charges made by the World Herald against
Mickey the result is that they have proved
him to be a shrewd and careful business
man.
Lynch Journal: Mr.. Mickey is making
a very energetic campaign for governor and
a very clean, honorable one, and daily
makes friends among the voters OF the
state.
Benedict News Herald: Dietrich was not
moral enough to suit the populists and
Mickey is too moral to suit them. The re-
publican having Just the requisite amount
Of morals to suit them would be daisy and
no mistake.
Arcadia Champion: The attempts to SIAN
der the honest name Of J. II. Mickey is
proving a fiat failure. The people Of Ne
braska are not to be fooled by a demo-
cratic lawyer, whose only excuse for the
text of most Of his speeches is to catch the
farmer vote. And he intends to get 1t even
II he does have to trade off Honest John
Powers to do it.
Beatrice Express: The people who know
J. H. Mickey best are most enthusiastic
over his candidacy. There was gentle
man in Beatrice last week who has been
Intimately acquainted with the republican
candidate for governor for many years,
and he expressed the opinion that better
man could not have been found anywhere
The election Of Mr.. Mickey will be a long
stride in the direction of purifying politics
Falls City Journal: vote for Mickey
will be a vote for common decency. AS long
as his opponents have seen ft to make
his Christian character and moral virtue
the issue in this campaign they have sim
ply placed the voter in a position where
a vote for Mickey is a vote for sobriety,
honesty and uprightness Of living, and a
vote against Mickey is a vote for intem-
perance and all that is dishonorable and
disreputable. Mr. Voter, which class do
you want the next governor Of Nebraska
to represent?
Blair Pilot: The fusionists are using
every effort possible to defeat J. II. Mickey
for governor but their efforts seem fruit
less. They cannot appeal successfully to
moral men, for Mr.. Mickey has traits In
common with all of these, and the appeals
made to the baser element are such as will
add strength to Miekey's cause. Mickey
is a good, clean, able man, one who has
displayed a large amount of business abll-
ity, and whether you vote for Mickey or
against him it is we'll to bear in mind that
you are dealing with a good man.
Minden News: The fusionists are max
ing lots of fuss over the report that three
republicans Of Polk county have said they
would not vote for Mr.. Mickey. Did you
ambition that did not have enemies? The
man without enemies has never accom-
plshed much. Deduct those three repub-
lican votes and add the many popuIist
votes he will got and see his majority. We
venture the assertion that for every re-
publican vote Mickey loses in Polk county
he will gain twenty populist votes.
Stromsburg Journal: George Beebe of
blackberry precinct, one of the men al
legged to have been interviewed by the
World Herald reporter, now says that he
did not see the reporter at all and that
the story said to have come from him was
purely a fabrication. 1t is no more than
we expected, and II the matter was sifted
to the bottom we believe that the balance
of the interview will be found in a great
measure to be a fake. There are very few,
II any. Of the boys living in Polk county
that will 60 back on John Mickey.
RushviIle Recorder: We could not help
being impressed recently when we
heard DIR. Huntington at Chadron pay
his homage to Hon. ]. H. Mickey as q
friend Of education In general and the
Wesleyan university in particular. The
doctor never said word abut politics, but
merely referred to Mr.. Mickey as a man.
Nebraska has never had a cleaner or more
conscientious man seeking the public vote
than Mr. Mickey, and 1t is a pleasure to
be able to advocate the claims OF such a
one to the governorshfp Of a great state.
Central City Republican: AS the state
| campaign progresses 1t becomes evident
that the fusionists have no new ammunition
and have to use that which has been con-
demned. They prate about the railroads
about what the neighbors say, about law
| yers bankers and chattel mortgage sharks
striving to forget that when they have been
! tried ON these charges they have been
found more culpable than their opponents.
! They will find out on election day what
his old neighbors think Of Mickey, the old
soldier. the pioneer and the philanthropist,
in way that will fill them with dismay.
Mullen Tribune: The populists are GO
| ing to try to defeat Mickey by charging
! that he is better than his party. Who
! ever heard OF such decomposed political
| argument? His party has preserved the
| union, actually saved the nation. and nc
enc even claims the honor or disputes
! the fact--only populists. However, we
wish we could eonscientiously accuse them
of advocating a single method superior to
| the minutest fraction of Mickey's party
| All accusations to excite unrest, discomfort
riot and ravish the harmonious feeling
among the people should be declared off.
Columbus Times: Hon John H. Mickey
candidate for governor on the republican
ticket, was in the city recently, greeting old
| friends and making new ones. In the earl!
70s Columbus was the nearest railway sta
tion and most available trading point for
Polk county settlers, and for many years
| Mr.. Mickey was an almost weekly visitor
here. He was we'll known as an honest
honorable, prompt paying and just man il
all his dealings and commanded the respec
OF all his acquaintance. The friends o
the "old days" are his firm friends now
and will vote for him regardless OF politics
Alliance Times: John H. Powers, the
only real representative Of original popu-
list ideas on the fusion state ticket, ii
being traded for Thompson whenever Il
can be done. The democrats are bending
every effort to secure the election O
| Thomnsnn for II elected he would hav,