Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
NEBRASKA POLITICAL COMMENT

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Gates tina il may favor some Of the repub.
rcan candidates for supreme judges after
they have been nominated. We wait with
interest the names OF those II VIII support
Aurora Republican. The selection Of
Hayward as chairman OF the republican
state General committee was a happy
stroke in the interest OF party success.
He has experience and will direct a
practical and earnest campaign for a re-
publican victory, and that means good
government.
Grand Island Independent: II Is merely
suggested to Mayor Dahlmsn that, here
after, he make his indictments more
specific and certain. While democrats
generally might have a clear conception
Of the charge, there might be others who
have only a vague conception Of what a
four flusher is,
Scott's Bluff Republican: The selection
Of VIII Hayward as chairman of the re-
publican state committee insures an ag-
gressive campaign. Mr.. Hayward Is a
progressive republican and has effected
certain much needed reforms and he is
not the kind that does all in their power to
keep the state in the hands Of the demo-
Gratis.
Contra City Republican: The willing
ness shown by republicans to rest on their
laurels last fall and not to follow up the
aggressive campaign of the legislature of
two years before had more than anything
else to do with their defeat at the polls.
The platform adopted by the state conven-
ton was not aggressive enough to satisfy
a commonwealth whose appetite had been
whetted by the accomplishments of the
great reform wave. and who were not yet
satisfied. This year there were few issues
which the election this fall could affect
one way or the other, and the platform
adopted was strong in its expressions upon
political Issues, but IL the party expects
to win a substantial victory next year it
must convince the ptople that it IS still
lined up strongly for reform measures and
that II is not ready to return to the cor
poration rule which characterized Ne
braska politics for go many years. and
was responsible for the deplorable mis-
management and corruption in public
affairs.
Aurora Republican: The republican party
of Nebraska has cause to congratulate itself
upon being the first to endorse President
Taft for the presidency as well as the
first to endorse him for his firm stand
for downward revision of the tariff. The
tariff bill while not embodying everything
demanded by the Nebraska delegation is
a real downward revision of the tariff. 1t
will result in making cheaper many of the
necessities Of life while at the same time
offering protection sufficient to assure the
continued employment of American labor
at the highest wages paid to workingmen
anywhere in the world. President Taft could
not have won this victory without the aid
of the socalled insurgents. And among the
insurgents none proved greater ability and
consistency of action than the Nebraska
delegation. The result should inspire an UNI
precedented enthusiasm in Nebraska re-
publicanism. Those who struggled away
from the fold last fall in order to reward
the enemies of the policies Of Taft and
Roosevelt should right now clothe them
selves in sack cloth and ashes and silently
march back into the fold. And they should
propitiate the gods of the party of Lincoln
and Grant by laying upon the altar this
fall the biggest republican majority since
the election of Roosevelt. Come now and
get back into the band wagon.
York Republican: The new chairman of
the republican state central committee,
Mr.. Will Hayward, is alive, and that pleas
ant fact is already evident in the air about,
and the emanations from the headquarters
of the party, In Lincoln. We lose sight OF
a great many things in the flood of sense
less criticism, malicious abuse, and office
greedy chickering's that come from the OPP
position, and are too frequently repeated by
members of our own party. In a recent
letter Mr., Hayward says: Nebraska is a
republican state, always has been and al
ways will be. We believe it is so, because
the people are intelligent, progressive, and
able to grasp the fundamental differences
between the party of ever-changing criti-
cism and hypoCritical pretenses of non
p~artisanship, and the party whose policies
carried into successful operation have made
the state and nation what they are We
know that in this last sentence Mr., Hay
! ward has epitomized the entire situation.
We know that under the policy of the re-
publican party the north has been de-
veloped in advance of any other nation.
We know that the republican party de-
strOyed the system that made the south a
free trade section, and that democratic
senators and congressman from the erst-
while free trade south have been standing
shoulder to shoulder with republicans in
demanding for their own section a repeti
ton of the policy under which the north
has prospeTed until some of us have lost
our heads in the presence OF it all and are
trying to destroy the systems which made
US great and wealthy,
Kearney Hub. The Howells journal, one
OF the leading democratic weeklies Of the
state, c~riticlses the nonpartisan judiciary
plank in the democratic state platform,
which It says reads well and argues we'll,
but has no place in practical politics" The
Journal believes In picking out "our best
democratic attorneys" and electing them
TO the supreme bench, and II touches a
feeling that is deep down in The hearts of
both democrats and republicans. The nom
partisan theory is quite right, pure as
theory, Just as free trade is theoretically
correct, but. as the Journal points out,
II has no place in "pra ctical politics nor
yet in practical government. If the mind
of a Judge Of the supreme court can be
warped by anything affecting his political
party, it will be affected Just as readily
II he is elected as a nonpartisan az 1t would
If he were elected as a republican or a
democrat. The fact is that so far as the
issue has been raised in Nebraska Il IL
purely a fake play of democratic politicians
with which the masses have no interest
The kind Of nonpartisan that is required
on the bench is the judge who viii do his
sworn duty as such where political inter-
ests are involved. and we certainly no not