The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-10-12

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lican principles The embodiment of
republican principles, according to the
News view, Is Norris Brown, the re.
publican nominee for the United
States senate.
The Lincoln News and its consorts
have elected themselves dlctators Of
the republican party in Nebraska.
Anyone who does not agree with them
In any idea which they chance to
spring, however populstic or radical,
Is Immediately ridden out of the party,
so far as they can do It, Norris
Brown was brought forward by that
faction. He was nominated by the
republican state convention. Repub-
leans over the state are standing by
that nomination because they believe
IN party loyalty, and faithfulness to-
party principle whether the success
full nominee happened to be their pre-
convention choice or not.
The same principle Of honor and
fair play should hold good with other
candidates than Norris Brown. other
men who have been named by repub-
lican party conventions, I'm fair and
square contests, ought to be given just
as united support from the republican
party as the senatorial nominee. But
they are not receiving this sort of a
deal. Instead, other republican candi-
dates in the field, who are unitedly
supporting Norris Brown for senator,
are being subjected to attacks at the
hands of his very managers.
Has 1t come to a state of affairs in
the grand old party of Nebraska,
where newspaper and its candidate
can demand support from the whole
party and then turn around and snarl
at the balance of the party when 1t
has the holiness to select candidates
for other oces? How long will party
organization last with this sort of
work?
The attitude of Norris Browns Off
cial organs, for instance, with regard
to Judge Boyd, republican candidate
for congress In the Third district. has
been shameful. His Lincoln newspa-
pers were for Mccarthy for renomina-
ton and when he was beaten they evil
IDENTIFY determined to demonstrate that
they would run the party throughout
the whole state or they wouldn't play
at all. And so they have been trying
to damage Judge Boyd ever since. 1t
has been rumored that Norris Browns
papers, for the sake of winning the
Dodge county republican members of
the legislature, have traded off Boyd
in that county and will help Graves,
This Is not through principle but
through seltishness. While this has
been denied mildly in Dodge county
by republicans who supported McCar-
thy and Brown, yet the very denial
had every appearance of confirming
the rumor.
The railroad pass has been the cry
of that band of papers which seemed
to need Norris Browns nomination
and which We're equally anxious that
Mccarthy should be renominated.
They evidently believe that the public
can be deceived into thinking that
their man Mccarthy was a reform"
candidate. AS a matter of fact Judge
Boyd won the nomination in this dis
trict without the aid of the railroads.
while his opponent for the nomination,
Mccarthy, worked with the sympathy
of the Northwestern railroad through
out. 1t was against this obstacle that
Boyd won out in the convention. And
so those who have deserted Boyd on
this ground, and who declared that
they were for Mccarthy, lay bare their
ridiculous inconsistency. The further
fact that Graves has been found to
have solicited passes from a railroad
| after he was elected judge, in spite
OF misrepresentation that he had not
| accepted railroad favors. only adds
HloTe eNluenCe 10 Jne IaCJ tnat some
of those alleged republican organs
which demand party support of Brown
out through the state and are sacri-
| ficing Boyd, are insincere in their mo-
tives and trying to put up a bluff to
justify their treason
There are more vital things at stake
| in this election than the matter of
whether this man or that man ever
used a railroad pass in his life. If
all of those candidates for office who
have solicited railroad favors and ac-
cepted them in the past, were debarred
from making campaign, it is admit
ted by Judge Graves himself that the
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