Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.

Stanton pickle Representative Taylor
knocked down another member Of the lcgiJ-
lature on the floor of the house one day
last week. Mr.. Taylor must be aspiring
to a seat in the United State senate.
Lincoln News: The world-Herald only
adds another bit of smudge to it's already
sadly damaged reputation as a reformer,
even with its own party associates in the
legislature, when 1t resorts to the language
of the brothel to express its surglng
thoughts.
Madison Chronicle: If the railroads Of
Nebraska have good sense they will not
fight the 2-cent fare law as there is no
doubt that they are making more money
out of their passenger traffic than they
did under the conditions existing when the
fare was 3 cents
Kearney Hub: The bank guaranty bill
is Under suspicion already as to its con-
stitutionality, owing to the provision of
the law which makes It unlawful for any
person to operate a private bank in the
state. or In other words requiring that all
banks shall be operated by corporations.
Nebraska City Press: The Douglas
county delegation in the legislature tries
o have every > ] biA BiNoNLiANo "a
cept Douglas county. If they do not want
to have the same laws as the rest Of the
state we had better let them save a little
state of their own and Jim Dahlman the
Job of chief keeper-on of the water wagon.
Ord Journal (dem.): The democrat party
OF Nebraska Is particularly unfortunate In
having no representative daily paper. What
is worse the party has been laboring for
years with the half-hope that the World
Herald of Omaha was a democrat organ
end made honest efforts to reflect the
sentiment of the democracy OF Nebraska.
Unfortunately It Is not so. Perhaps the
country democrat press of this state will
compare very favorably with that Of any
ether state but the kind of support that
the party gets from the only metropolitan
daily is getting to be a tremendous load.
Friend Telegraph; The failure OF local
option in this state together with the cleo
ton Of the biggest fool democratic and
mongrel legislature ever assembled to-
gether in this state may as well be at
tributed to a lot of over-zealous preachers
In different parts OF this state, mainly In
lincoln and university place. This is what
we listen to as "non-partisan politics. as
heralded from tie pulpits Of the different
churches OF the whole state Just prior to
the city elections. Parties often stand in
more danger from their over-zealous fool
friends than they do from their real
enemies.
Kearney Hub: Bryan has been having
several kinds of trouble with his favorite
measures. In the bank guaranty bill he
got only a semblance of what he wanted.
His especial hobby the initiative and
referendum. has been voted down in the
senate. His scheme for a school of politics
in the university was passed without a
vote tc spare after half an hours work
drumming up the members Of the house,
after having been voted down in the COM
mittee of the whole, and 1t is claimed that
in o. der to effect it's passage one member
was voted aye who was not present. As
a matter Of fact Brysn's pet hobbies do
not set well with the average democrat
who abhors populism as the devil abhors
holy water.