Omaha daily bee., 1912-10-24

way while the bull moose is going In
the opposite direction, and the inevitable |
result must be fall between the two.
A. s. CHURCHILL,
Former Attorney General,
What a Near NeighbOr Thinks.
OXFORD. Neb.. Oct A.-To the
Editor of The Bee: The quandary |
which voters will have to meet In |
Nebraska Is whether to cast their vote |
for a democrat for United States SEN |
ator, or for candidate who has been
honored with office the last twenty
years by the republican party and who
shows his appreciation by trying to en-
barrass the administration while con.
gress was in session and by publicly
sandering the party as under the con-
troll of bosses who were taking. away
the rights of the people, slandering the
party organization officials, calling them
frauds and robbers, and slandering one
of the best of presidents, who Is not
only trying to magnify the party's rec
ord for business honesty and progress
siveness, but who is making good as a
| fearless statesman under the most try
ing circumstances. Mr.. Norris has done
much to put the party in its present
embarrassing position, especially in this
state Instead of joining Governor Aid
rich in the request that the Roosevelt
| electors resign from the republican
ticket he issued decree that Roosevelt
was the only legal nominee of the re-
| hat a.
pretender. feel my confidence In q.
w. Norris has been misplaced and re-
| fuse to believe he is longer repub-
| lican or worthy of that party's support
Mr. Norris breaches that partisanship
should be abolished; then after securing
the nomination for senator as repub-
lican, he bolts the head of the ticket
and receives as the price a second par
tisan nomination of the Roosevelt, Finn
and harvester trust combination He
breaches against deception and maneu-
vers to get his name twice on the bal
lot representing parties diametrically op-
posite He breaches the sin or demo-
Gratis playing politics in congress and
that we are without hope II they sue
ceed in the election, when his record
shows he played with the democrats
whenever he could embarrass the admin
istration, and has missed no opportunity
to prejudice the voters against the re-
publican organization, thus assisting
! democratic victory.
He declares bosses should not nominate
presidential candidates, and though one
boss, declared the candidate shall be
me" and failing In his demand OF the re-
. publcans, he nominated a new party,
named its candidate and the complexion
of the delegates that should sit as
, dummies in his convention while he
spoke the articles Of faith for his plat
form. Norris is supporting the boss
made candidate and in turn receives the
support of the bosses political machine.
He breaches abhorrence of political
thieves, yet does not condemn progress
! sive electors who are willing to steal
republican votes. He Is insistent tr
charging fraud and theft against the re-
publican committee, convention ana
president on evidence that II not one
half of one-sixteenth as conclusive as
was produced against Mr. Norris, few
wears ago, on a charge of election frauds
In Furnas county. His claim that we
all ought to vote for him, because he
has been right and represents higher
ideals of citizenship and political right
eousness than his opponent. has its
; parallel in St. Luke, eighteenth chapter
and eleventh verse.
Nebraska needs a senator who VIII
represent the business interests Of the
state, not one who knocks on his party
from president down to committeeman
and on his government from the ma
tional constitution down to the mode OIL
electing precinct officers.
= A. o. RANKIN,
Prairie Grove Farm.