Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15

ticket. An insurgent is a democrat who
has not quite discovered himself as yet.
Pleads for Harmony.
with one-half of the republicans agree
ing with us 1t is a good time as democrats
to show our appreciation of the compliment
by trying to agree with one another.
What the country needs is more men in
office, with the honesty and the courage to
enforce the laws that we have now. rather
than a.constant cry for new laws or more
laws as an excuse for ~inactlon or delay,
IAN must agree that the enforcement of
our courts and schools from the field of
party politics is an essential requisite to
good government. The fearful mistake
made in giving -partisanship continued
license to run riot through our schools is
shown by the recent dismissal of the pres
ident of our leading state normal In a
manner that brings a blush Of shame to
the people of the state. This school is
supported by taxation, levied Upon the
property of the citizens Of Nebraska. This
fact makes more fragrant the injustice
shown in the dismissal OF an educator Of
national reputation from the presidency Of
a great school because petty partisanship
was enthroned in power. When the demo
cratic governor got InTOuBu with LuS
Normal School board, created under the
law, later set aside by the courts, there
were four democrats and three repubi-
cans members of the board, but 1t must
not be forgotten tina one of the republi-
cans was Colonel Tom Majors Of Peru,
and the governor knew that II partisan.
ship was attempted by a membehof that
board the colonel was more than a match
for any tun nrdinarxy dauorrata ~ tha
game of politics. so the board was in fact
bipartisan, If not a trifle overbalanced
with republicanism.
II hope to see the day come, and that
quickly, when a declaration of party af-
flliations will not be demanded Of a can
didate for a seat upon thd bench. who, If
elected, sits in judgment Upon the rights
and liberties of us all, nor OF the school
man who has given into his hand the edu-
~cational interests and the education of the
children of the state"
Daylight saloon Law.
Here the governor said the legislature re-
deemed all its pledges. He discussed the
physical valuation law, the law prohibiting
drinking on trains. He said Of the daylight
saloon law:
The daylight saloon law has been sus-
tained in every court wherein 1t has been
assailed and has been found effective and
easy OF enforcement, and is being received
with unqualified appreciation by all classes
OF people, No law heretofore enacted ever
won It's way so quickly into popular APP
proval and commentator. Even liquor
dealers themselves, who were first furious
at It's enactment, are finding that It is
helping. to relieve them from many Of the
evils OF their business. All who have given
tho vanNHaw = -
all-night saloon is a natural haunt OF vice
and crime, and the producer of misery and
woe, and the man who ~advsSates 1t or OPP
poses the regulation provided by the s
O'Clock law Is the advance agent and pro-
moter OF statewide prohibition. The day
light saloon bill does not repeal the right
OF local option, the power of each COM
munity to determine for itself whether or
not liquor shall be sold in that locality;
the democratic legislature has given every
municipality In the state the right to elect
their own excise boards, which determine
matters OF license or no license, and regu-
lation and policing within their borders.
II am a democrat because I believe in
local self-government. /. believe In strict
regulation of the liquor traffic. such as
Is provided under our present law. I know
that there has been rebellion against this
law and that some democrats have advo-
Gated its repeal. but the democratic party
will never deny TO the people the right to
police the traffic by combining Its sale TO
the hours which common business practice
has made the rule for the sale OF almost
everything else that the householder needs.
''The democratic party must stand in the
nsxt campaign upon the record made by
democrats in office and the results OF the
democratic legislature. The enactment Of
the s o'clock closing law was the most
radical thing in the shape Of liquor leglsls-
tion accomplished by any political party
IN Nebraska since the passage OF this
slocumb law. When the daylight bill came