The independent., 1902-11-06
Bulletins Issued Under Authority Of The Railroads of Nebraska
Have the Desired Effect
"OUR MAN' MICKEY PROBABLY ELECTED.
Returns Seem to Indicate Election Of Mickey By avery Close Mar
GIN Resurns Coming In Slowly.

Nebraska has again gone republican
by very small margin. Lulled to sleep
by the cry of "Let well enough alone"
thousands Of farmers who are not re-
publicans shucked corn Tuesday and
again permitted republican victory
for there is no gainsaying the fact
that of the qualified electors of Ne
braska considerably less than a ma
jority are republicans. p
The election of governor is still in
doubt at this writing (Thursday
noon). Thompson carried Douglas
county by near $500; he carried his
home county (HalD by nearly 500, al
though it is normally about 200 repub
lican. And he carried Mickey's home
county (Polk) by over 400. The Oma
ha Bee gives schedule containing
purported complete returns from 40
counties showing as follows:
mickey ................... 90, foV
Thompson .................... 63, ,588
PLURALITY Z,t92
The same counties in 1900 gave:
Dletrlcn .................. .lo,olt
fOynter .................... .iS,4l5
Plurality ................... 3S8
Included in this schedule is Douglas
county, which in 1900 gave Dietrich
1884 plurality, and this year gives
Thompson nearly $500, which would
= seem to indicate that Mickey is run
ming better in the country districts
than Dietrich did. The Bees schedule
however contains numerous errors;
one in Howard county alone gives
Mickey 1000 votes more than he real
ly received. 1t will doubtless take
the official count to decide.
!! The remaining republican candi-
dates for state Office are elected be-
yond a doubt. They carried Douglas
county by close to a thousand, giving
them a much stronger lead than
Mickey. The fusion candidates are
running we'll up to Thompson in most
places except Douglas and Hall. Aside
from governor and lieutenant gov
ernor, Uncle" John Powers ran ahead
of the rest of the fusion state candi-
dates in Douglas.
Hitchcock was victorious in the sec
ond congressional district, defeating
NONRESIDENT Mercer by about 1000
This is not only victory for the fu-
sionists of the Second district, of
which they may we'll be proud, but it
will also settle the matter for some
time to come that Edward Rosewater
and the Omahr Bee must be reckoned
with by the republican party Of Me-
braska if it hopes to win.
The republicans carried all the other
districts, defeating Hanks in the First,
Robinson in the Third, Stark In the
Fourth. Shallenberger in the Fifth
and Barry in the Sixth. In addition
to Sustaining Roosevelt by the cleo
tion of five republican congres men
from Nebraska, the railroads rejoice
over Burlington Burkett and Norris.
Elkhorn Mccarthy, Rock Island Hin
shaw, and Union Pacifc-Elkhorn Kin
kaid, who may be depended upon to
look after the interests of their re-
spective masters in all matters where
railroad interests are adverse to those
of the people generally.
The thirty thousand dollars ex-
. pended under authority of the rail-
roads of Nebraska" was money wei,
spent. 1t will save these roads over
a million dollars in taxes the next
two years. 1t will enable them to
charge "all that the traffic will bear"
without any annoying legislation at
tempting to regulate rates. And the
other taxpayers will have to pay this
extra million of taxes out of their
own incomes and products. because
several thousand men wanted to earn
couple of dollars each by shucking
corn Tuesday. The election of the