The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-20
PRIMARIES NEXT TUESDAY.

Primary elections for all political
parties will be held in Nebraska next
Tuesday, and the voters will once
more be given opportunity to nominate
their candidates for Office without 60
ing through the old convention form.
Whether the primary election sys-
tenn proves success or failure de-
ponds as much as anything else upon
the way in which the voters-laborers
business men and farmers-turn out
on primary election day and cast their
ballots. Unless the masses are to en-
Enthusiastically go to the polling places
and exercise the right given them in
the primary, the object of the system
will be completely defeated.
So The News urges upon its readers
of whatever political party-that, if
they care to do the driving in making
party nominations, they must pick up
the reins.
In the republican state primary
three candidates for supreme Judge
are to be nominated. Judge j. B.
Barnes of Norfolk, who is now serving
his first term as justice on the SUI
preme court, ought in all fairness to
be renominated by an overwhelming
majority, and present indications are
that he will be. 1t seems certain that
the republicans of northern Nebraska
will stand by him to man, but The
News wishes to impress upon every
republican in this part of the state the
urgency of going to the polls and cast.
| ing a ballot. Judge Barnes has made
splendid record on the supreme and
district benches of Nebraska, and
there is every reason why he should
| be returned to the office he now occu-
pies with such ability and such credit.
But his friends-the republicans of
northern Nebraska particularly-must
go to the polls and vote, If he is to
win.
Judge Cobbey of Beatrice and Judge
Sedgwick of York are two other nigh.
ty capable men whom The News feels
called upon to indorse.
In the Madison county primary,
there are few contests. In the repub.
lican party there is a contest over the
nomination for commissioner from this
district, and one over the nomination
for sheriff.
Burr Taft, the present commission.
err, is candidate for denomination
and his friends are making strong
effort to renominate him, pointing out
that during his term as county com,
missioner, more valuable work has
been done by the county around Nor.
folk than ever before in the county IS
history. The Corporation gulch prob
lem in the west end of Norfolk has
been solved, after twenty years OF
trouble making; substantial steel
bridges have replaced the old worn
out wooden structures; good roads
have been built; the county funds have
been expended in economical and bust
nesslike manner and the county, for
the first time in years, is free from
debt Having served but one term
Mr.. Taft's friends feel that he is en-
titled to denomination, and they feel
that 1t will be to the interest of the
district and the county to see him in
the Office another term.
The other candidate for this place
obed Raasch. is one Of the most pro
gressive and substantial German farm
ers of the county. He lives a mile
west of Norfolk and is at present road
overseer. He has host OF Loyal
friends. who point to the fact that he
is a clean-cut, progressive young mar
and who urge his nomination.