Western News Democrat

WESTERN NEWS-DEMOCRAT
ROBERT GOOD, Editor and Publisher

Fusion Ticket.
For Governor
W. A. Poynter.
For Lieutenant Governor
A. E. Gilbert.
For Secretary of State
W. F. Porter.
For State Treasurer
J. B. Meserve.
For State Auditor
J. F. Cornell.
For Attorney General
C. J. Smyth
For Com. Public Lands and Buildings
J. V. Wolfe.
For Supt. Public Instruction
W. R. Jackson.
For Congress, Sixth District
W. L. Greene
For State Senator, 11th District.
Otto Mutz.
For Representative, 51st District
John H. Shore
For County Attorney
A. M. Morrissey
For County Superintendent
W. F. Morgaridge
For County Coroner
Dr. J. C. Dwyer
For Commissioner, 3d District
Albert Metzger

Senator Allen has done more for the state of Nebraska than any other senator the state has had.

Ed Clarke for county attorney and N. D. Jackson for state attorney. What a beautiful combination that is.

Hereafter when one wishes to speak of small bore politics it will be "butterine" politics instead of "peanut" politics.

A vote for Mutz and Shore is a vote for honest, able men. It is a vote for good government and business methods in our state institutions.

We heard someone remark the other day that the reason it was called the golden rule was because only one person in sixteen lived up to it.

"This is a republican year," shouts the Ainsworth Star-Journal, and then it tells how happy Brown county farmers are to get 42 cents for their wheat.

Go to the polls early, and see that your neighbors go too. Don't neglect or forget to vote. Your vote is but one, but many mickles make a mickle, and many men have been elected by one vote.

If you love your children and want to see them educated, vote the fusion ticket. The appropriation for our public schools has more than doubled since the present state administration has been in power.

The only meeting the republicans had advertised for this place fell through because the managers were afraid to have their speaker appear here, where people know him. We are sorry he was called off.

This paper has tried to make a clean fight against Ed Clarke, and therefore has refrained from saying anything against his moral character, which is notoriously bad. Wonder if Ed will thank us for this forbearance.

A merchant is not considered prosperous unless he is making good profits, regardless of the size of his stock, but a farmer is always supposed to be prosperous when he has a big crop, regardless of the price he gets for it.

Those who failed to attend the meeting last Friday night, or who failed to ask Senator Mutz for any information desired, have no kick coming if his talk did not suit them. A public speaker is not necessarily a mind reader.

Republicans will please paste this in their hat.
By its silence last week the republican admits that our charges against Ed Clarke are true.
Keep it before you that Ed Clarke ribbed up a case against a citizen, bamboozled the county, then took a fee from the man he had got into trouble and had the costs of the case taxed to the county.

The Methodist and other churches in their wisdom take repentant sinners into the fold on probation for six months or so ere they are admitted to full membership.
Politicians who have disgraced themselves and their party should be kept out of office several years "on probation." Many a man has given out the word that he has reformed, for a purpose, and as soon as the purpose was accomplished the reform ended.
Paste this in your hat.

W. H. Reynolds, republican candidate for state senator, gave away his plan of campaign when he told a prominent democrat of this district that he had not yet seen a democrat who would not vote for him until that time. Evidently Mr. Reynolds has been fighting shy of democrats during the campaign, because this paper has yet to hear of a democrat who will not support Mutz.
As has been pointed out by this paper, the whole republican campaign in this section of the state is based upon the theory that democrats will not support their ticket, and that is where the g.o.p. managers make a mistake. Democrats are loyal to their party and their principles, and when they vote the republican ticket it will be for causes which do not exist this year. Perhaps Mr. Reynolds will explain why he failed to 'deliver the goods' bargained for when he made a trade with certain Dawes county democrats a few years ago?