Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

Masses Persist IN Looking TO Edward
Resewster a. Man for the Place.

Sioux City journal.
A notable feature of the Nebraska poll-
teal situation Is the prominence which Is
given TO the name Of Edward Rosewater
in connection with the United states SEN
atorship. Mr.. Rosewater has not placed
himself in the list Of avoved aspirants
nor given the least sign of intention TO
do so, having gone to Europe a month OF
two ago, whence he will not return for
some time. But since long before his de-
parture disposition has been increasingly
manifest among republican newspapers and
especially the republican masses, including
many who in times past have not been
politically sympathetic and some OF whom
have been positively hostile to Mr.. Rose
water to regard him as at this juncture
the logical representative Of Nebraska re-
publicanism in the United States senate.
Nor is this tendency towards the veteran
Nebraska editor an unnatural development.
The attitude OF the republican party under
President Roosevelt's leadership towards
vital questions Is substantially the attitude
which Mr.. Rosewater has persistently and
conspcuously maintained for well nigh
forty years or from the day he became
Identified as a public character with the
history Of Nebraska and the west All
this time he has been among the foremost
Of those who have stood out, in spite Of
odds and all constraints, for the supremacy
of law over all private corporation inter-
ests and against graft everywhere. He
never hesitated to attack abuses involving
public morals or public authority-to at
tack them specifically and in the concrete,
even when that course was not popular
nor tempting TO the pretender and the
time-saver. as it now is, but rather a bar
to political preferment and personal ad-
vantage.
Aside from Mr.. Rosewater's conceded
abilities, his wide personal acquaintance
with public men of national standing and
familiarity with public questions and
affairs, for all of which no man in the
west is better known-an advantage of in
calculable value to his state in all its con-
Germs in the senate and at Washington
generally-it is natural that many should
! feel sense of the ideal justice of accord
ing him to a place in the senate, now that
the policies he has so long ehanpioned
amidst innumerabe rebuffs and discourage
ments are actually in hand to be decis-
lively dealt with by the American people
And there are many in his state represent
| ing interests sometimes at variance with
him in politics who are coming to see how
vsluable-indeed how essential-the serv-
Il
more TO be to the pnblic For Mr.. Rose
water is not a demagogue and no enc, not
| even those who have NEST strenuously
| contended with him, have ever accused
| him of being one. He stood out as uncom-
promisinBly against the popular assault
! upon monetary soundness, an assault ex-
! ceeding violent in Nebraska as he stood
out for control Of corporations and off,
| cial fidelity 70 public interest 1t may well
be, as thoughtful men are beginning to re-
fleet, that such a character, as steadfast
| to substantial interests, as Jealous for pub
lie rights, may be sorely needed in high
place sooner than many may now think
1t is not known whether Mr.. Rosewater
will permit the use of his name. but it
would appear that the very general ten
deney of Nebraska republican sentiment,
unless positively checked by him, can
hardly fail to manifest itself in the state
convention which this year will nominate
a candidate for senator