Show THE FIRST democratic GOVERNOR oar our nebraska neighbors are not riot yet over with their political troubles but it does seem now as if governor boyd would be likely to occupy the gubernatorial nat orial chair to the end of the term d facto official if nothing more if this kind of thing ie is kept up b be e will be able to hold bold it out before the agencies of removal can be placed in successful operation the action of governor thayer who holds over in spite of the election having gone against him and his party is the most politic cause of the trouble as be he refuses to vacate after boyd has been recognized hy by all the other state officers including the supreme court and he makes use of one scheme alter after another but so far all to no purpose As james E boyd is the first democratic executive nebraska ever had he be is made considerably more conspicuous by reason of that fact than because of any great importance in the office to people living elsewhere elie where or on account of the paneled up and peculiar outcome of the election itself lie ile stands ahead of any other governor in irr this respect boles of iowa who approaches him most nearly in that respect being the second democrat who he has filled the chair of state there within the present generation the other having held the office a few years before the war the special ep ecial not to say remarkable prominence thus thrust governor boyd jasti justifies fies somo some mention of him there is no danger of the presidential ix ate e ever bizzios in his bonnet for he lie is ineligible having been born in county tyrone ireland and is fifty six years of age when he be was birteen hir teen years old his family moved to 0 o this country and settled in zanes rille ville ohio there young boyd remained working at the carpenters rade trade until 1850 when be went to omaha om aha there be he found a fine field for his trade and worked at it for two years ears in 1858 soon after his marriage be he went on a ranch on wood Ri vernear the town of gibbon and id for nine years was engaged in stock raising he found this profitable and added to big his ventures a store in kearny in III he be secured a contract from the union Pacific and graded about miles of roadway for that corporation in 1863 he went back to omaha and in 1837 1887 he started the boyd packing concern con cera he ile was popular and influential with bis his party and was successfully elected councilman county clerk in the legislature and delegate to the constitutional convention he ile was first elected mayor in the spring of 1831 he ile was chosen again in 1883 1885 when it was desired to begin a n new ew system of of f public improvements on a grand scale lie ile assisted in organizing the first gas corn com company and was a promoter of the omaha and northwestern railroad and its first president ho ile was one of the founders of the nebraska national bank and has built two opera houses one of which is still unfinished and is to expected to be one of the finest buildings of its kind in the country it is perhaps worthy of mention that governor Go boyd does cot rot owe bs his election altogether to democratic votes although few if it any 0 others there voted for him in a total vote of say the republicans have a tolerably reliable majority of near when all till the vot votes es are recast cast under ordinary sit democrat would bland stand about as much c chance bance of election there as be he would in Ver vermont and this fact may ched some light upon governor thayere Th ayers refusal to give op up the office the farmers Far mera alliance ran a separate ticket at the lat last election and polled about one third of all the v votes otes cast thus giving the democrats a email small plurality only for as before they were greatly in the minority |