The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-18
NORRIS BROWN is OFFICIALLY
DECLARED ELECTED.
THANKS NEBRASKA IN SPEECH
ESCORTED TO SPEAKERS STAND
AMID MUCH APPLAUSE.
PROMISES TO REFORM BAD LAW
United States Senator Norris Brown
Accepts High Honor and Speaks Ell
oquently Of Our state-says Reform
Wave Has Come to Stay.

oquentIy Of Our state-says Reform
Wave Has Come to Stay.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 1G.-With the
galleries crowded by his cheering adj
mirers, Norris Brown was officially de
clared elected United States senator
at noon today. In the first vote, taken
yesterday, he received 67 in the house
and 20 in the senate. while w. II.
Thompson received 81 in the house
and in the senate. Each man re-
-eived the entire party vote.
Senator Brown was escorted to the
speakers stand in the house after the
official announcement of his election
today, when he spoke as follows:
Mr.. Browns Speech.
81 come to thank you. | wish | had
power to make you understand how
deeply | appreciate this honor. While
today | express my gratitude to you
who have elected me, | trust | shall
not forget my obligations to the people
VI 4Ntbl dohd WIZ NlNCiCu yOu' Ill INC
final analysis they are responsible
alike for your election and mine; but
with the election over our responsible
ity begins. May God give us courage
to bear that responsibility brayely, and
wisdom to bear it we'll
IL want to congratulate you men who
have been chosen by direct vote to
enact laws for this loved state of ours.
ic M rly nf a
to be deeply appreciated by you. The
people have entrusted you with great
work, a work certain and definite.
The campaign which resulted in your
election was one of great interest and
intense discussion. 1t was the culmi-
nation in this state of the struggle for
emancipation from railroad dictation
in politics that had been carried on
for many years. That struggle devel-
oped many notable men and leaders
who are pioneers in the cause. Among
/ them is no less a character than the
splendid man and valiant veteran,
L Speaker NettletOn. He has lived to
l see the principles he fought for SO long
3 triumphant. Foremost and ablest
I among these leaders was the late la
mented Edward Rosewater. For a
| generation this great man. with stead
fast purpose and unfaltering devotion,
fought the peoples battle. The state
owes him a monument of love and
gratitude.
II want to congratulate you, also
because the people have elected
George Sheldon governor to share with
you the labors and honors of the work
you have been chosen to do. In my
judgment no state in the union was
ever blessed with a better or Drawer
chief executive than the earnest and
modest young man who took the oath
of Office in your presence two weeks
ago.
Let me ask you, why was Sheldon
elected? Was it because of his good
name and family? No. Because of
his splendid, sturdy personality? No
Was it because his opponent was un.
worthy? No. His opponent was alto
gether worthy. Was it because he is
republican? No; though that helped
Sheldon was elected governor of Ne
braska because he stood for the sim.
pie doctrine of equal rights and equal
privileges for all men, doctrine in
affairs of government as old as the
declaration of independence and as
simple and sublime as the ten com
mandments. 1t was the doctrine OF
Lincoln and his friends, the doctrine
Of Grant, of Garfield, Of Harrison, Of
the loved and lamented Mckinley, and
is today the doctrine of Theodore
Roosevelt and his friends. 1t is the
peoples doctrine in every state of the
nation, and when they shall awake, as
the people of Nebraska have awak
ened, to the fact that state govern
ments belong to them and not to non
resident corporations, they will joiI
the army of equal rights and equa
privileges and elect governors of the
size and character of ours.
This doctrine has come to STAY. II
is not here for a day, or a month, OF
year; and the man, or the public
officer, or the editor, who dubs this
doctrine "a fad "a temporary impulse
of the people, will live to confess his
mistake.
But what does a doctrine or prin
ciple avail unless it is enforced? o.
what value is a good precept If it is
not followed? A doctrine or a prin
ciple needs something more than mere
announcement. If any good is to re
suit, it must be applied This doctrine
OF which we speak can be given force
and effect in only one way, and that Is
by IL lnlO Ilo oJdJulSo VI Iut
land state and federal. / am proud
to say there is no doubt of your deter
mination and ability to keep faitf
with the people and to redeem every
pledge. / shall spare no effort to &C
complish the same result in the nation
al legislature.
II believe the federal constitution
should be amended so that the people
shall have the right by direct vote t.
elect United States senator's. 1t II
easy to understand why the fathers
who builded the constitution were
afraid to trust the people fully. Thei
scheme of self-government was at tina
time an experiment? Never before hat
any nation successfully dem9nstrate'
the principle of self-gC' lent.
was natural, therefore, them Il
take precautions agai hat wa