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Show publican influences. Feople lore fairness, fair-ness, and they detest mich unwarranted utterances as that quoted from the Herald. Her-ald. Jf that paper would devote part of its energies to reforming representatives representa-tives of its own party so that there would be ewer outrages nRninst the franchise from that quarter, it would command a much larger measure of ru-eet ru-eet from the public. KKIKLK.HS ASSKKTIO.V. The republican purty professes to be a special spec-ial and particular champion of honest elections and a pure ballot. It la the' only party that steais presidencies, governorships, ntates and cities. No crime against ihe euuraKe is too heinous for its representatives to perpetrate tf by means of it they t an gain oillce. The pres. eut theft of the Nebraska governorship Is worthy of record alon with the t.iuftof the presidency in l; aud the theft of Montana In IS. Chicago Perald. Such utterances may sound well to men who do uot care for the truth, and tho Herald has long shown a disposi-. disposi-. tion to cater to that class. Just how it can be claimed that the republican party has stolen the governorship of Nebraska is very dillicult to understand. under-stand. The supreme court of the state has decided that Governor Thavku is the legal executive, and that decision meets with general endorsement. The old charge that the republicans stole the presidency is revived by the Herald. 1'eople are so tired of hearing the falsehood uttered that they turn against those who repeat it, remembering remember-ing that Mr. Tii.df.n's emissaries attempted at-tempted to bribe the returning boards of several states and that the delicate complications which resulted from the election were settled by a legally constituted con-stituted tribunal. No one denies that frauds have been perpetrated upon tho ballot by individuals individ-uals or local branches of both parties, but it is common knowledge that there : have been far more crimes of this kind rising from democratio than from re- |