The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
FOR DOUGLAS AND JENCKES.


Republicans of the state will be
glad to know that, according to infor-
nation which reaches The News from
several different parts of the Fifteenth
judicial district, the party's judicial
nominees there, Douglas and Jenckes,
have an excellent prospect of being
elected in November if the republicans
of that district will stand solidly and
tremendously together toward that end.
With an energetic campaign and the
solid party vote in November, the re-
publican judicial prospects in that dis
trict are said to be better than ever
before.
From Ainsworth, where there exist
ed some sentiment because of the al
legged attempt of the west end of the
district to get both nominees, comes
the good news that the feeling of re-
sentiment has practically died away
and that republicans of that vicinity
will give their united support In Nov
ember to the party nominees, Douglas
and Jenckes.
Whatever Of feeling there was In
that section during the few days fol-
lowing the primary, was based, it
would appear in analysis, upon moth
ing more nor less than that very vital
fault of the primary law which courts
selfishness in the population centers
and which is apt to throw into the
densely populated localities the states
political power. Fortunately the feel
ing in the Fifteenth judicial district
has now given way, following a
| philosophical analysis, to party loyalty.
But while the matter is fresh in mind,
the situation in the Fifteenth judicial
district is one which affords peculiar
food for thought among the people of
Nebraska who had thought that the
primary would mark the ideal in pol
itics.
The Fifteenth is very large judi
cial district-so large, in fact, that 1t
requires two judges instead of one.
Both parties have always recognized
the wisdom and the justice of selecting
one judicial candidate from the west
ern end of the district and one from
the east. According to the primary's
| ideals, this arrangement would come
under the head of political trading"
and would carry in the minds Of many
theorists, faint of corruption. Yet
even the most ardent friends of the
primary in the Fifteenth district are
ready to sincerely defend this custom
as not only a wise but an eminently
fair distribution of Office among the
two ends of the big district. And some
of these primary friends around Aims
worth were among the republicans VIII
resented the fact that the primary law
had almost worked out as its trainers
intended 1t should in doing away with
any previous understandings,
trades" or deliberate distribution OF
political office according to geography
One loyal republican at Ainsworth
who is friend of the primary in spite
of this inequitable fashion in which
1t might work, writes to The News
and would defend the primary from
any guilt in the matter of punching
candidates, attempting rather to blame
the voters for taking advantage OF
this opportunity that the primary
throws open to them to select all can
didates from the populated center. Fol-
although that was not done in the
Fifteenth. 1t was the alleged effort tc
do 1t in the west end that created dis
satisfaction in Brown. This is what
the correspondent writes:
Ainsworth, Neb, Sept. 16.-The
headline artist artist on The News was
only partially right a week ago wher
he declared that the primary election
had disrupted the party in Brown. The
dissatisfaction that existed, and still
exists to certain extent, did not grow
out Of the primary per Sc, but out OF
a failure on the part of the republicans
In the western part of the district tc
respect the old custom of nominating
one candidate from the west and one
from the east. Their votes went large
lily to Jenckes and Porter and If they
had had the strength that lies east Of