The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-25
GOOD GOVERNMENT
Republican Record in Nebraska En-.
titles Party to Public Confidence.

elected oy the people. consequently
the public officials are the business
agents of the taxpayers pure and
simple. The interests of the people
are consequently bound up in the
intelligence, honesty and efficiency
of our public officials. How have
the republican officials of Nebraska
discharged this business trust for the
people Of Nebraska? One illustra-
ton will go far to show. The state
debt of Nebraska, created by fusion
largely, reached its high point in
December, 1905, amounting to two
and one-third million dollars at that
date. Republican legislation and
the careful administration of repub-
lican state officers reduced this debt
to $479,O O0, on August LIST, 1908,
without noticeable burden TO the tax
payers. That is the way the repub-
lican party discharges a business
trust conided to it by the people.
The record is one to be proud of.
What else has the republican party
achieved for good government in Ne
braska to entitle it to a continuance
OF public confidence?
The republican party is in power
in the state now. 1t Is giving the
Nebraska people clean, progressive
and forceful state government, the
very best state government we ever
had.
We have had progressive state
legislation.
The two cen per mile passenger
rate law, the railroad commission law
rates, the anti-pass law, the primary.
election law, the pure food law and
other progressive measures, all put
forward as the result of higher ideals
evolved and crystalized into the senti-
ment and the progressive spirit that
dominates the republican party in this
state.
All these things have come through
the republican party of Nebraska and
not through the influence of Candidate
Bryan or his political associates in
Nebraska, for neither he nor they
have helped to work out these bet
tered conditions. When these prac-
teal things were being done Candi-
date Bryan was always somewhere
else talking up his candidacy at $500
a talk.
The Nebraska people, proud of the
progress of their state, IN business
and government, owes nothing to Can
didate Bryan for any constructive as
sistance rendered by him.
The material conditions in the state
are such as to hold the public mind
in an optimistic mood and optimism
is al antidote to Organism.
Corn is high and it's a corn state. e..
Wheat is high and it's a wheat state.
Cattle are high and it's a cattle
state.
Hogs are high and it's a hog state.
Land is high. going higher every
day and it's "a land state, and its a
state of farmer voters.
Governor Sheldon has made an en-
viable record with the Nebraska peo-
pie by being a courageous, level
headed, strong, manly man in the
executive office. AS the leader of
the party in this campaign he at
tracts universal respect for his high
character and universal confidence
for his broad minded fairness as an
executive. Taking all these things
into consideration one can see moth.
ing in the outlook for the coming
election but the usual republican ma
jority in Nebraska.
The Nebraska voter this year will
have an opportunity to choose be-
tween promise and performance. If
promises alone will satisfy him he
can vote the democratic ticket with
reasonable assurance that he will get
promises and nothing else. If he
wants performance, if he wants things
done, he will have to vote for the
republican candidates as that party is
the only do it now party in this
state. This is the proof: In 1897
the democratic party with fusion, con.
trolled every department of Nebraska
government and power. They had the
governor and state officers, the legis-
1ature and the supreme court. The
party kept no promises made prior to
the election and gave the people no
relief from railway domination, trans
portation abuses, extortionate freight,
passenger or express rates. They
b free-paSSes from the railroads