Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-12
POINTERS ON NEBRASKA POLITICS


Lincoln Journal: If there is to be a
choice between Willard and Rosewater for
the senatorship by all means let 1t be
Rosewater.
oNell Frontier: In selecting successor
to Senator Willard it would be we'll for
the party TO pick the man who is equipped
with a large fund of information rather
than dollars, who has legislative fighting
qualities and who has an interest in the
state in general. One who will simply vote
right is not what is wanted.
York Times: The people of Nebraska
are not looking for candidates for office
who are anti" They want men who arc
for things and not against. The man who
is for every interest in the state, for the
republican party. for the square deal, for
honest politics and honorable methods, will
have the support of the republican party
in the future as in the past.
Norfolk Press: Senator Mllard is entirely
too conservative about taking stand on
proposed legislation, and commits himself
on a rate law only to such a measure as
the senate decides to finally put forth. The
general public is fairly we'll satisfied with
the Hepburn rate bill, which will undoubt-
eddy pass the house by practically unan-
imous vote this week. and what the public
wants to know is whether Willard will help
to put this measure through the senate.
That is the only way to avoid a controversy
between the two houses which might de-
feat rate legislation altogether.
Fremont Tribune: Mr.. Millard's private
secretary has written out an interview
with the senator and forwarded It to
number of Nebraska newspapers. In this
interview he announces that he is a great
favorite of the president and that he (the
senator) will probably stand with the pres
ident for some kind of railroad regulation,
a kind that will not be hostile TO the rail-
roads but a help t. them. IL they do right,
and help to the people. This interview
is an interesting contribution to contenpo-
raneous political literature, for Senator Mil
lard has a voteri this session of congress
Gibbon Reporter: In the Sunday issue OF
The Omaha Bee it is stated that only two
OF the members OF the state Legislature
have returned the passes sent them by the
railroads for the year 1906. While this may
be and doubtless is true, il is also true that
there are some members of the last legs-
lature for whom the railroads have so little
use that they do not send them free trans
portation and therefore they have none to
be returned among the latter number is
Hon. James H. Davis of Buffalo county
who was a member OF the committee in
Producing the commodity rate bill in the
last legislature.
Central City Nonpariel: A few papers
over the state think that Norris Brown
is entitled to no special praise or reward,
because as they put II, he has "only done
his duty" When you stop to look at that
side OF it, what has Theodore Roosevelt
done but his duty?" And Folk and La Fol-
lette and Dineen and Hadley and all the
rest OF the men who are distinguished for
their fearlessness, what have they done
but their plain duty" The fact OF the
matter Is the men who are willing to do
their duty" and their full duty" are
tolerably scarce nowadays and that's why
the people are so anxious to put them in
places Of trust and responsibility, It's be-
cause Norris Brown has done his duty
that Nebraska wants TO send him to the
United States senate
Osceola Record: The news that Senator
Willard sis growing in popular favor is
certainly very refreshing, Uncle Tim.
When did he commence this GROWTH"
He has been in the senate for nearly six
years and is just commencing to grow in
popular favor" Well, at the present rate.
he'll never get his growth for he will hardly
be kept in Office long enough to accommo-
date so slow a process. Senator Millard
Is a pretty fair financier and a good bust
ness man, but his election was a political
accident, much more so than his retirement
will be. He is the only one of the Me-
braska delegation who is an unknown
quantity on the reforms urged by the presi-
dent Senator Willard has for many years
affiliated in a business way with the heads
Of corporations, and he is now affiliating
in a political way with the same kind Of
people. This is the class of people with
whom Willard is growing. in favor. His
growth in favor with the people is not so
rapid as 70 produce a stampede-no, not yet.