Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-07
TALK OF THE STATE PRESS.

Wakefield Republican: J. II. Mickey will
next Thursday take the oath OF ONCE that
will make him governor OF Nebraska. The
Savage man can then take his departure
for Washington as soon as he desires. No
tears will be shed.
Louisville Courier: II is about time
John N. Baldwin was eliminated from Ne
braska politics. Mr.. Baldwin may be all
right as a politician in his home state.
Iowa, but he is decidedly out Of place when
he tries to run Nebraska affairs. We have
a great many good. level-headed men In
our own state who are able to look after
our affairs.
Kearney Hub: The case against Edwar
Rosewater In the Douglas county district
court for unlawful expenditure Of money
as a candidate for United States senator
has been dismissed by the county attorney
OF that county. Thus falls a prosecution
that was begun for political purposes and
that every sane person knew had nothing
to rest on.
Louisville Courier: Governor Mickey Is
being besieged by oficeseekers. He is not
acting hastily in any of his appointments,
but giving all careful consideration and
treating all applicants with respect. Neither
is he making a lot Of useless pledges. He
goes into office Independent OF all ana
surely will make a good governor. As a
state Nebraska stands high in this country
and with a Christian governor surely we
will attain additional prominence. Mr..
Mickey is a practical farmer and knows
what the state needs.
Norfolk Press: Governor Savage prob
ably rounded out his record by granting
two more pardons, the men released being
G. ". Argabright, who was up for life for
killing his father-in-law, and Rev. Rowland
Hills, who was sentenced to four years
for bigamy. That Governor Savage has
stretched his prerogative to the limit goes
without saying, but the public will un-
doubtedly be willing to condone all his acts
In that line but one, the pardoning Of Joe
BARLEY. That one act, however, should
lead to reform in this matter and rob the
exercise Of the pardonlng power by the ex-
ecutive OF its scandalous features. That
power, like the functions of a court, should
only be used to subserve the ends OF Jus
tice and humanity, and It's application in
any other form is an abuse. The boundary
line between correct use and abuse should
be clearly defined by Law.
Edgar Post: State superintendent Fow-
Ter has stirred up quite a good deal OF a
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new normal school in the central or west
ern part of the state, or the transferring
of the Industrial school at Kearney to
Peru and the normal to Kearney. Ross
Hammond. who lives in a private normal
school town, Fremont, and who does a LOT
of work for the before mentioned private
normal school, gets interested and takes
the state superintendent to task and tries
to convince him that no rore porma
schools are needed in Nebraska. He says
that with the two normal schools in the
Third district, at Wayne and Fremont. and
the State normal at Peru and the norma
department of the State university thu
teachers OF the state ought to be pretty
we'll taken care Of. He then clinches hit
argument by saying that four normal schools
in Iowa provide professional training FOL
800 teachers and he thinks that the oneI
mentioned ought to be enough for Ne
braska. The state superintendent proceeds
to make a monkey out of Ross by giving
the names and location OF seventeen nor
NAL schools in Iowa, and pertinently re-
marks that IL seventeen normal schools
are demanded in lows to train 800 teachers
surely FIVE are none too many to train 90t
teachers in Nebraska. Everyone who hasn'
an ak to grind agrees with the state su'
nerintendhnt - "F"