Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-25
YORK COUNTY REPUBLICANS
Political Sentiment Favors Control of Party
in Interests of People,
READY TO BREAK WITH RAILROADS
Movement Now Only Needs Central
Head To Become Successful RE
volt Against Corporation
Domination.

tFrom a Staff Correspondence
YORK, Neb.. Feb. A-(Special 1.-The
men who run for the legislature this year
and hereafter In this county will be sworn
to represent the people and not the rail-
roads,
such is the declaration of "A leading busi-
ness man of this town. who is also a stat.
wart republican, and I'm character and in
terest the reverse of radical. His state
ment condenses in sentence the feeling
of the mass of the people of all parties IN
town and country. The feeling is intense
There is not more prosperous agricul-
tural community In Nebraska, nor in the
west, than York county. nor a more thirty
ing and solidly progressive town than It's
capital town. 1t is a strongly republican
county. The temper of the republicans Is
conservative. This is one of the counties
that stood out staunch even against the
highest wave of populism. Yet the repup-
lican masses are profoundly convinced that
their interests have been set aside for sp.-
cial interests. and that they have been sys-
tematically euchred out of their rights by
corporation finesse all the way from caucus
and convention to the net result of official
action. The statement of the citizen above
quoted merely summarizes the expressions
that arc heard wherever the subject is
started, that the time has come when cor
poration supremacy must cease.
stu, there is no sign here as yet of the
indispensable organization that might vital
lie this public sentiment and make this
county to the utmost formidable In a state
wide regeneration. Such a movement, 70
be effective must obviously take in the
whole field inplndino
atorship, the governorship and state Off
GERS, as well the Legislature. The latter
only has been so far much thought OF and
talked of here, and that rather in a general
than particular way. There is very little
serious discussion here of candidates fol-
the United States senatorship. and almost
none of candidates for governor In spite
of well-nigh universal popular conviction
as to what ought In general to be done,
that the state ought to rule the corpora
tiQns instead of being ruled by them, things
are drifting, precisely the situation which
the agents and few sympathizers of the
railroads want.
Central Name IL wanted.
y good republican, as prominent in bust
ness as the>on above quoted. talked freely,
although with tinge Of pessimism,
said, las to the demand of the overwhelm-
ing majority of our people. Nine out. of
ten republicans will tell YOU that they want
to break the grip OF the railroads on the
throat of our state government. But if
you inquire for the rallying point or the
specific names that represent this objective
as matter OF practical politics, they are
wanting What name for United States
SpuDtOr the thing hal -ota
in this county are asking for as they never
asked before, the thing for which they
propose to put legislative dspirants under
oath% What name for governor? What
names foI the three railroad commits
sioners? This, is the essential thing now,
and it is conspicuous by los absence
II tell you &c added. we here may
pledge and chain up our legislative candi-
dates. but this by itself would be far from
covering the paramount necessity of the
case. Ii things drnt, we may easily come
to the county convention in the same old
way-the great majority for subtugating the
railroads but the railroads after all getting
the lions share of results
Possibly some local condition for state
Office may be trumped in for the real pur-
pose Of naming the county's delegates
to the state convention, II that seems pre-
carious. then a motion that the chairman
appoint n small committee TO name the
delegates might be the scheme. II not that.
Il committee composed of one from each
township. And then the old system OF
free passes to safe delegates, not few
others remaining at home. and in tho wind
up at the state convention a delegation
from York county, in whole or in part. to
be thrown for senator governor and the
rest at the bohest of the railroad board of
strategy.
What is Now Needed.
"If today or within Il reasonable time
candidates for senator and governor should
offer themselves, in whom the people nave
confidence, and whose personalities and
records mean what the people want. the
whole situation would instantly and utterly
change. The full strength of York county
republicanism would count all along the
line. DISCRIMINATION and doubt would
vanish. We are up against condition
Everything is right, in sense--yet. prac-
tically nearly everything remains to he
done. IL the corporation incubus is to be
thrown of"
Translated Tito plain English. these and
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