Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT

Florence Tribune. The Land show dem
onstrated YOU can raise anything anywhere
II the cost Of production IL not counted
Anyway II was not demonstrated there was
any better land than right here In Ne
braska
Kearney Democrat. BY making Il appear
that Senator Norris Brown is 50 much
larger than Senator Hitchcock Victor
Rosewater Is going to find it much more
difficult to defeat Senator Norris Brown
for reelection next year than he found Il
to defeat Senator Hitchcock this year.
St Paul Republican: Frank Harrison OF
the Nebraska State Capital wants Manager
Poulsen OF the Anti-Saloon league sent
back to Maryland. And we firmly believe
that the people OF the state can settle the
liquor question without the valuable assist
ance Of either Of these two distinguished
wirepulers.
Fairbury News: Champ Clark says
there is no oratory in congress today
n the new democratic speaker Is fair
sample we are inclined to agree with him.
lie sold a bunch OF oratory to the Fair
bury Chautaudua association once that at
forded pretty fair grounds for charge Of
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Kearney Hub: Why should the stats~of
Nebraska sell it's remaining acres of school
lands? These lands will continue to in
crease in value and the state will 90 on
forever. Moreover IL does not need the
money for any persent use for which II
could be expended. 1t will be time enough
to think Of selling when that million acres
is worth SiOOOOO,OoO.
ord Quiz: There being no democratic
state officer to whom may be assigned the
duty of selecting the papers in which to
print the constitutional amendments pro-
posed by this present legislature, what
scheme will be Matched now to give the
work to democratic papers? You may de-
pend that our democratic legislature will
provide some means of getting the pie
where 1t will do the democrats the most
good.
North Platte Tribune: Gilbert NJ. Hitch
cock, Nebraska's new United states SEN
ator has the distinction OF being the only
native Nebraskan who has ever been
elected senator and the only senator who
has been elected as an out and out demo-
crat. He is regarded as an aristocrat,
man of luxurious personal tastes and more
fond of leisure than work Another criu-
cism leveled at the new senator Is his
instability and lack of sincerity in cling
ing to his faith,
Falls City Journal: What strange and
foolish things men do. Take the case of
Norris Brown, Nebraska's United States
Senator, who has deserted the republican
platform and principles that have carried
the party to victory from Lincoln to Taft,
TO take up with lot of vagaries that led
the Organized demo-pops TO defeat four
successive campaigns. 1t is impossible to
vitalize that corpse even by injecting the
La Toilette insurgent serum, and Brown
ought to know 1t.
Grand Island Independent: A strong
county option prohibition paper says 1t Is
charged that a gang of robbers makes
headquarters at\Wymore, and that more
than one local resident knows of their
whereabouts and asks Does anyone
imagine there would be such 'hangout
at Wymore II the saloons were not there?
The question is easily answered. The very
man, in the very same letter charged that
there was the very same kind of hang
OUT across the other line of the very
same state--Kansas. That state is Okla
homa and prohibition was, during the time
Of the alleged 'hangout." as complete as
it has been anywhere. What Is the con-
clusion?
Aurora Republican: The determination
of Governor Aldrich to consider only those
application for executive clemency which
are made upon the grounds OF some newly
discovered testimony that might have mod