Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-08
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Meade Advocate: II the republicans want /
to carry the state this fall they have got (
to nominate a ticket free from corporation !
rule. This thing of the corporations Sc !
lecting candidates and then having the |
delegates to the state convention nominate |
them is thing of the past
Central City Record: One of the re-
forms which the country is standing in
crying need is the election of United States
senator's by popular vote. This need is
now being and will be more sharply ac-
centuated by the efforts for railroad regl-
lation, which bid fair to be blocked this
winter by the senate. 1t is an undeniable
fact that probably a majority of our pres
ent senator's could never have been elected
had they been compelled to come before the
people for their election.
Auburn Granger: Week before last we
Burlington & Missouri railroad to send
out 1000 supplements prepaid by the Off
cias OF that road. and we declined doing
so because we believed that we could not
send matter in that way without violat-
ing postal regulations and not because we
would prevent the matter being sent out.
In this tax question parties should read
both sides before drawing conclusions, and
we have several hundred of these sheets
giving Mr.. Manderson's side OF the ques-
ton, and we would like to have these
sheets passed around. The matter of en-
closing these sheets as supplements to the
Granger was referred TO the third as
sistant postmaster general, who answered
that the same was not legal supplement.
Fremont Herald: Under the rose I'm
political circles there has been much talk
during the past three years about a bold
compact made between some Nebraska
congressman and United States senator's
on one side and judge of the supreme
court on the other. As the story goes,
the compact called for the doing OF a GER
tain something by the supreme judges,
and in return the congressman and sena-
tors We're to create another federal judicial
district in Nebraska south OF the Platte
river, and the president was TO appoint
one of our supreme judges as judge of
the new district But something hap
pened 10 upset the plan. A president died,
or congress adjourned too sooner some
thing like that and so the delivery on
the other side was not made. In recent
days we hear strange rumors that the full
terms Of the compact are now to be car
ried out; that the entire Nebraska dele
cation in congress will work for a division
Munger, and that there will be vacancy
on the supreme bench pretty soon after
the bill can be pushed through congress
It is painful to think that politicians
should be saying such wicked things about
compacts with supreme court judges, but
they are saying them just the same IL
1t be true. as alleged, that the supreme
court delivered it's share of the goods per-
haps a writ of mandamus might lie against
the other fellows.
Fremont Herald: Not long ago a great
body of Omaha business men solemnly
declared that the principle OF the boycott
wholly wrong. Last week the Omaha
commercial club resolved that II was the
duty of all Omaha people TO boycott one
OF the great railroads entering that city.
1t makes difference whose foot the shoe
pinches. In the first instance the boycott
was declared a bad thing because certain
interests In Omaha had decreed a boycott
against certain business houses which did
not give fair treatment to union labor
In the second instance the boycott was
said to be a good thing. and that it was
the only weapon TO use for the protection
Of Omaha against a railroad company
which was not giving fair treatment 10
Omaha. And so it has always been. and
will continue TO be under our competitive
system. The Herald is not prepared to
say that the principle of the boycott is
always wrong. In fact we know il is
sometimes right We believe the Omaha
Commercial club did right when it appealed
TO Omaha people to boycott a railroad
which was not giving fair treatment to
that city. We believe It is perfectly legti-
mate on the part OF laboring men to ask
their friends to take their patronage away
from any firm which is not fair to the
laborers Morally, Of course, the prln-
ciple OF the boycott looks wrong. but it
has been practiced so long by individuals
aud by nations that II has been given
place in every code Of public and private
morals.
Stromsburg News: For year or more
in fact ever since the World Herald be-
came aware of the fact that Chancellor
Andrews had the temerity TO disagree with
that organ on any proposition, the World
Herald has been after his scalp and,
whether by fair means or foul, it seems
bent on getting it. 10 put in plain English
what the Herald says in the above clipping
Dr. Ross lied when he made the statement
to which the Herald editor refers. But
that organ wastes its ink when it endeavors
10 induce any who know DR.. Ross into
the belief that he could be prevailed upon
for the sake ~ the prophecies and amen
tiles OF higher educational life" TO write
that which was not absolutely true. Much