The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-14


a whole will allow themselves to
be bound by the statement of few
partisans to so inconsistent n proposal
as that included in the above state
ment"
In their statement, Senator Ran.
dall's friends in Pierce are perfectly
frank and fair to Mr.. Appleby, so far
as his qualifications for the senator.
ship are concerned. They say at the
start, first of all, that Mr.. Appleby is
a good man and, inferentially that he
would make this district a good sen.
ator in the state legislature.
Both Appleby and Senator Randall
of Newman Grove, are good men,
the statement starts out.
Admitting that r. Y. Appleby is
fully as well qualified in every way "a
represent these four counties in the
state senate as the New man Grove
banker, the Pierce .rends of Sen.
ator Randall presen' an exceedingly
faItetched argument as to why. both
candidates being good men, Pierce
county should turn its back upon long
established precent and break faith
with Stanton county at this time
"ln county affairs 1t has always
been the practice in Pierce county to
give an official who has made a good
record a second term and 1t isn't un.
reasonable to suppose that the Repub-
licans of Pierce county will take the
same view when they come to vote
for the Office of state senator" says
the statement And 1t Is in this part
of the statement that Senator Ran.
dali friends in Pierce city seize upon
false argument in rather bold way
apparently with the hope of mslead-
ing the Republican party at large in
Pierce county and in the Eleventh dis.
trict.
We grant that it is the custom Of
Pierce county, as it is of other coun-
ties, to give an official who makes a
good record in county affairs a second
term.
We deny that such custom has
ever been adopted in Pierce county
or any other county with regard to
the state senatorial matter. We sub
NIT that county office and state sena-
torisl office are two distinct PROPOSE.
tons and that they must be subject
to entirely different treatment because
conditions surrounding the two classes
Of office are utterly different.
The Randall partisans in Pierce city
all know full well that were every SEN
ator in the Eleventh district to be
given a second term for good service,
1t would take sixteen years before
each one of the four counties in the
district-Pierce, Madison, Stanton and
Wayne-could have a turn at the sen.
atorship. During those sixteen years
four men would have monopoly upon
this office. The Pierce friends" of
Senator Randall would turn the sena-
torship over to Senator Randall and
three other men during sixteen long
years.
And there is one strange inconsis-
tency in the Statement" sent out
from Pierce by the Randall partisans.
They say at has always been the prac-
tice in Pierce county to give an Of
hcial who has made a good record
second term" and for this reason
they contend that Mr.. Randall should
be sent back to the senate.
If that sentence were truth. we
would not quarrel with these Randall
friends for asking the same treat
ment for the present senator that had
been given to his predecessors. But
to none is the deception of that SEN
tence more apparent than to those
very friends who issued the state
ment.
If Pierce county has always fol-
lowed the practice of giving a second
term" in return for good service, why
did not Pierce Republicans insist upon
a second term for DR.. Alden when he
was senator from this district? Surely
he made a splendid record in the SEN
ate.
If Pierce county "has always fol-
lowed the practice of giving a second
term" in return for good service, why
did not Pierce Republicans insist upon
a second term for DR.. Williams of
Wayne when he was senator? Surely
DR.. Williams made a good record
If Pierce county has always fol-
lowed the practice of giving a second
term" in return for good service, why
did not Pierce Republicans insist upon
a second term for Hon. w. w. Young
of Stanton when he was in the SEN
ate? Surely Mr.. Young made a good
racnrd