The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-07-27

lOulludllOH anu Te-tleIClOHs ne state
ment coming from Mr.. Brown, who is
running for senator on an anti.railroad
platform, has immense weight in show
ing the injustice of the attacks made
against the present state officers by
parties with axes to grind
MATTER OF PRACTICAL POLITICS
Madison county yesterday endorsed
Judge Boyd for the republican con-
gressional nomination in this district
at the coming Fremont convention.
Other counties will do the same thing.
Still other counties will endorse Mr..
Young of Stanton and one has already
been selected for Mr. Warner. All
this despite the fact that J. j. McCar.
thy OF Ponca is now and has been for
four years past, drawing the salary as
representative from this district.
There was not man IN the Madison
county republican convention who IA
vored the return to congress of Mr..
Mccarthy excepting two or three post
masters who owe their jobs to him.
This popular uprising in counties all
over the district in favor of Boyd and
Young and Warner, as against McCar-
thy very strongly denotes the feeling
republicans themselves, over the pres
ent representative from this district.
The Third district is pre-eminently
close district. 1t is almost a toss
up, under ordinary conditions, between
the democrats and republicans.
AS a matter of plain, practical poll
tics, the republicans of the Third dis
trict would unquestionably, rather than
allow the democrats of the district to
win, nominate another candidate than
Mr.. Mccarthy. 1t would be wiser and
fairer that he should be sacrificed than
that the party be slaughtered at the
polls.
Mr.. Mccarthy knows, and every 9TH
er voter in the district-republican or
democrat-knows that, even if he were
nominated, he could never be elected
at the polls in this district again.
Knowing this, and separating himself
from his inseparable selfishness, Mr.
Mccarthy ought to drop out of the race
for the sake of harmony in the party
and allow the unanimous nomination
of man who can be supported by all
republicans and who can be elected.
And since Mr.. Mccarthy, through his
personal desire for Office, still seeks to
take the nomination which must carry
the party to deefat. the party has a
right to demand that he step aside,
and it will demand it in convention,
for the sake of the election.
For the best interests of the Third
district, republican ought to be sent
to congress next fall. A republican, in
harmony with the administration, is
needed to get things for the people of
this district. But the people of the
district will not elect Mccarthy, for
the reason that he has failed to make
good. He has taken no prominent part
in any important legislation during his
entire four years, has neglected to
even try to get pensions where re-
quests have been repeatedly made in
behalf Of the. poor and the blind old
soldier, and all that he has been able
to do was to allow the postoffice de-
partment to establish its rural routes
here, and to draw his $4,000 per year.
The danger Of carrying the party to
defeat at the polls II Mccarthy is nom.
mated, is shown by the eagerness with
which democrats are supporting him
The Fremont Herald, whose editor
hopes to run for congress in this dis
trict as the democratic nominee, is
lauding Mr.. Mccarthy continuously in
the hope that he may land the Ponca
man as his opposition. This alone is
sufficient reason why the republicans
should hunt for new timber. And
aside from those democratic papers
there are none in the district save g
few postmasters and editors with axes
to grind, supporting Mr.. Mccarthy ir
his effort to become a perpetual fix
ture.
Some one of his friends says he is as
good a congressman as any of the
other districts in the state can boas
of. This is absurd. When the $125, ,O0(
and $4,000 public building appropria
tions secured in every other district il
the state are set up beside the $3.50
, secured for Columbus by r. F. d. Nc
Carthy, and when the numerous othel
prominent active parts taken in i'm
portant legislation by Hinshaw, Nor
ris, Pollard, Kinkaid and Kennedy ar,
compared TO the absolute nothing tina
Mr.. Mccarthy has done, the ridiculous
phase of this argument becomes thu