The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
IF ROOSEVELT WE'RE HERE.

Senator 4. A. RANDALL or Newman
Grove is indirectly arguing that he
should be sent to the Nebraska state
senate for the balance of his life by
the people of the Eleventh distric
The people of the Eleventh senatorial
district
To vote fol him at the coming Re.
publican primary will be to endorse
this ambition.
Senator Randall's most ardent part.
lsan friends will admit that r. Y
Appleby, Stanton county's candidate
for the Republican nomination, Is q
good man for the senatorship, broad
guaged, capable man and successful
farmer. All who have spoken have
expressed a genuine regard for Mr..
Appleby as man Of honor and in.
| tegrity, a man of brains and one who
would make conscientious senator.
No word of censure has been uttered
against r. Y . Appleby from any
source. The Stanton county central
committee has endorsed him and has
commended him to the confidence of
the Republicans of the district. 1t is
admitted by Mr.. Randall's friends
that r. Y. Appleby is as well qualified
for the senate as any other man in
the misunderstanding for the one
fact that Mr. Randall has made a
record and has had the experience of
session to strengthen him"
Now if it Is true, as Mr.. Randall
contends, that his record" and his
experience" in the senate two years
ago placed him head and shoulders
above any other man in the district
for senator this year; If 1t be true
experience" during one session have
made him indispensable as the toga-
wearer from these four counties and
have disqualified all other Republi-
cans in the district from entering into
competition with this one man for
the place; then, if that be true, it is
apparent right now that each time
Mr. Randall goes to the senate he will
add to his record" and his expert
ence" and thus, becoming a better
and better statesman every two years,
he will finally succeed in putting
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other Republicans in this district that
there will be no possibility of ever
sending anybody else down to Lincoln
to represent Madison, Pierce, Stanton
and Wayne counties in the senate
chamber. Superior to all other re-
publicans today, by virtue Of one
sessions record" and experience,
what chance would there be for any
would-be intruder after Mr.. Randall
had doubled that record" and "exper-
fence" in a second term?
If Senator Randall is the only man
in the district today capable of rep
resenting the Eleventh district, what
hope is there that the next two years
will produce his equal? What chance
that a man capable of filling his
shoes will develop within the next
four years? Or what chance that any
other man could fill the bill so long
as Senator Randall lives?
Perhaps Senator Randall might as
sure us that he only wants one more
term, or two, or three-as the case
may be. But then Stanton county
men of integrity say he assured them
this year, before Stanton county pre-
sented its candidate, that he would
not even ask for a denomination this
year, and then that Spontaneous up
rising of the people" came along and
just forced Senator Randall to lay
down his bank work and take off his
coat in order to save the Eleventh
districts reputation at Lincoln.
/ And so what would avail his prom
Use now as to the future? What con
troll would he he able to exercise
over a popular uprising which might
demand him to sacrifice self interest
and allow that toga to be thrown over
his shoulders year after year for life?
Popular uprisings are rather in
definite commodities. They are
harder to guage than the distance in
mountain region. But speaking of
popular uprsings, there was on real
sure-enough popular uprising this
year for President Roosevelt. 1t was
no fake. People really did demand
that he accept another term. He had
only one elective term. But the presi.
dent doesn't take much stock in the
theory that there is "only one man"
who can serve the people in any pub
lie Office. Mr.. Roosevelt doesn't think
that the men qualified even to occupy
the white house are limited to one