The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-04
FIGHT
IN BIG Fifteenth
LOOK FOR VICTORY
IN ELECTION.
PAST RECORDS HURT JUDGES
BOTH MISSIONER AND HARRlNG-
TON BEING CRITICISED.
M'GREEvY CASE sMARTs YET
Holt County People Still Recall Judge
Westover's Arbitrary Freeing Of vi.
cious Bank Wrecker-Polnt to Har.
rington's Decisions.

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O'Neill, Neb., Oct. Especial to The
News: There is always one interest
ing spot in Nebraska politics, whether
in an "off" year or preceding a general
election. Holt county is never without
political announcement. The cam
paign this fall is no exception, though
not quite so strenuous thus far as here
tofore. The interest settles mainly
around the judicial candidates as no
fight is being made on the present re-
publican county officers who are seek
ing reelection.
The republican nominees for district
judges are ID. b. Jenckes of Chadron
and j. A. Douglas of Bassett. w. II.
Westover of Rushville is the fusion
nominee for the fourth time in the
west end and J. J. Harrington in the
east end is seeking a third term.
Jenckes and Douglas have the solid
republican support Of Holt county.
Some effort has been put forth by the
opposition to create feeling among
the voters that Douglas was a corpo.
ration attorney but his work in the
legislature Of 1905 in helping to secure
the passage Of the bill providing for a
constitutional amendment creating a
state railway commission in the face
of strong railroad opposition, together
with the fact that he was a member
of the committee which drafted the
present revenue law which has in
creased the railroad assessment in
Holt county over 100000, disproves
any such charges.
The two republican candidates ap-
pear to be at an advantage in Holt
county by having no judicial record
to defend. The other two candidates
are holding office and their official con
commended. In this county a large
share of the depositors of the defunct
Elkhorn Valley bank are rather bitter
against them, and especially Judge
Westover because of his refusal to al.
low the state to prosecute McGreevy
president of the bank. There is also
an undercurrent of sentiment that
with ]. J. Harrington occupying the
bench contemporaneously with West
over, there was an opportunity which
| Attorney Mike Harrington was not
neglecting. The alleged susceptibility
Of Judge Westover to the Harrington
influence is, therefore, weighing
against him in the campaign.
Aside from the fraternal influences
suspected by the last legislature and
enacted into law restricting the useful
ness Of lawyer who happens to have
brother sitting as district Judge
Judge Harrington's legal abilities as
applied to official duties have been
| called into review. Some have gone to
the trouble to look up the number OF
cases appealed from Judge Harring.
tons court in this county the past four
years and call attention to the record
| there that in twenty-one cases over
which there was contest eleven cases
were affirmed and ten reversed. Some
hold to the view that the numerous
reversals are due to judicial errors,
while others attribute them, to the in.
/ fiuences that called for the legislative
enactment prohibiting judges presiding
at law suit where near kinsman is
lawyer or litigant.
With these conditions before them
the republicans of the Fifteenth dis
trict nominated two able lawyers and
personally clean men to redeem the
district and it appears that victory
will follow.