Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-01
BROWN ENDORSED At HONE
Mass Meeting at Kearnsy Formally Put
Him in Senatorial Race.
SEGHBoRs TESTIFY TO HIS WORTH
Resolutions of Highly EuIoEistIc
Character Adopted and Number
of complimentary Speeches
Are Wade.

kEARNEY, Neb.. Feb. S-,specisll-
The republicans of Buffalo county met here
today in mass convention and adorted reso-
lutions endorsing Hon. Norris Brown for
the United States senate.
The meeting was held in the city hall
which was literally packed Hon. y. p.
Mcdonald presided. Delegations were pres
ent from Gibbon, Shelton and all parts o.
Buffalo county. The meeting was highly
enthusiastic throughout Addresses were
made by the following persons: n p. Nc
Donald, Prof. c. A. Murch. c. H. Gregg.
r. {, Calkins. J. F. Croker Judge F. G.
Hamer. Prof. Hayward H. c. Andrews.
Captain s. II. Black. Joseph owen. j. +.
Harris, S. c. Bassett. Oscar Knox. James
H. Davis. Judge II. NJ. Sinclair. NJ 4.
Brown. The committee on resolutions con-
sisted of y. p. McDonald of Kearney. F
D. Reed of Shelton and Samuel c. Bassett
Of Gibbon. The following resolutions were
adopted:
The republicans of Buffalo county. the
friends and neighbors OF Hon Norris
Brown, in mass convention assembled al
kearney. February IS 1906 observe with
pride and qualification the spontaneous ex-
pressions OF public sentiment which have
favor for the office OF United States senator.
We take pleasure in testfying to his ster-
ing ing integrity ana genuine worth as a citi-
public officer; therefore. be IL
Resolved. That we hereby unqualihedly
endorse the official acts OF Attorney Gem
eral Norris Brown and pledge him our
unanimous and loyal support in his candi-
dacy for the United States senate. that we
commend him as man faithful and con-
scientious in the discharge of public duties,
loyal to the principles of the party he rep
resents, and worthy of the confidence and
support or the people of the state.
Qualification. for Place.
E. c. Calkins. regent of the University
of Nebraska, spoke as follows:
To US who are his neighbors there will
be in his election a double satisfaction
satisfaction in the fact that he is our
friend and neighbor and greater and more
abundant satisfaction in the knowledge that
he is especially equipped for an efficient
discharge OF the responsible duties of that
honored office.
Ever since he met and held with even
hand the cleverest and most effective stump
speaker that ever canvassed Nebraska for
votes there has been no doubt of his foren-
sic ability and power to meet in debate
and on equal terms the ablest public speak
ers. In the art of seeing what his hearers
saw, OF feeling what they felt, and giving
voice to their emotion William l.. Greene
was unsurpassed He spun the thread of
touched with master hand the chords OF
hope and fear. of love and hate. of SYM
patty and passion, and swept them of their
intellectual feet with torrent OF eloquence
and emotion. When Norris Brown went out
TO meet this Goliath OF debate there were
some who feared for his success, but the
Sixth district well knows and will long re-
member with what patient skill he unwound
the web of sophistry and with what quick
resource and ready art he constructed with
simple truth and plain logic the barrier
that withstood the floods of eloauence and
passion.
But il is not alone as a debater and a
lawyer that Norris Brown has distinguished
himself. Probably no man could meet sue
cess in either capacity without compre-
and the affairs of state, and he has shown
liz his public addresses an extended GRASP
OF political history and an insight into
public questions which rounds out and
completes his qualifications for the Office
| foi which We support him.
Prof. c. A. Murch OF the State Norma
school addressed the meeting as follows:
am for Norris Brown. because as phi
vate citizen or public ofiicial. he has al
| ways done his best, and. l may add, il
has always been a mighty good best.
am for Norris Brown because he be
longs in that group OF American citizen,
with red blood in their veins and brain,
| under their hats who get things done an,
| done right-La Toilette. Jerome, Folk, ani
that American citizen and man, Teddy
Roosevelt.
Knows Needs of the state.
Hon. Samuel E. Bassett, former state
bend commissioner said:
| II is not alone enough that the man
chosen to represent the people is willi0t
| to serve the people. is anxious to serv'
/ the people. In order to properly serve tn,
/ wishes. their desires, their ways of Twins
/ and mode of thought, their resources, tn,
| difficulties that hedge them about, in ordel
| to be helpful in lessening those diffculte!
| or entirely removing them.
! 1t goes without saying that he should b'
a man of honesty and integrity, having
/ the full confidence OF the people; but h,
/ should also be a growing man, a prGgTes
sive man, for Nebraska is a growing anC
| progressive state, a state with untold re
| sources yet undeveloped, and only such
| man can keep step with, can keep abrea a
| of the rapid march OF ever Is which aftec
| our interests both a state and a ma
| ton. Such a man is Norris Brown, IL
whose interests we have this day assem-
| bled.
Less than six years ago he was ap
pointed deputy attorney general, and 81
well and faithfully did he perform II,
the unanimous choice OF his party as candi
! date for attorney general to which offic'
| he was elected at the last general election
| AS attorney general he became not onl,
the legal adviser of the people OF tn,
| state, but the defender of their rights a.
| well. Questions arose involving not onl,
/ large financial interests, but principles o
| vital Importance TO all the people Of thu
| state questions which involved the rights
| OF the people against the organize,
greed and graft of few individuals. II
all forms of government, whether ii b.
local. state or national, there is no NOR,
| important principle involved than the RICH
| to levy and collect taxes for the supper
OF the government for the revenues thu
/ ment. The attorney general was calle,
| upon to defend the revenue laws OF tn
| state. to determine that in the valuation
| and assessment Of property and the collec
rights, the same privileges, more, n,