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MRS. PEATTIE'S CANDIDACY.

Fremont Herald (dem): The Bee, in its
remarks about the candidates on the populistic
state ticket, is narrow enough to
make an unkind allusion to Mrs. Elia W.
Peattie, one of the candidates for regent.
It says that she is "probably as well qualified
as any woman who would accept the
nomination." A great many people may
not know the animus that controlled the
Bee in this case. Mrs. Peattie happens
to be a newspaper writer whose husband is
a newspaper man who edits a republican
paper in Council Bluffs. Mrs. Peattie is
employed on the World-Herald. This is
not the first time the Bee has sneeringly
referred to this estimable lady.

Mrs. Peattie is not running on the ticket
supported by this paper, but The Herald is
liberal enough to concede that there is
something good in the candidates on opposition
tickets. The populists might have
searched the state from Douglas county
to the Colorado line without finding a better
candidate than Mrs. Peattie. She is
the peer of any man in Nebraska in education
and ability, and she understands decent
politics as well as any writer on the
Bee. She is deeply interested in the work
of building up our educational institutions,
and the state university has been the subject
of several interesting articles from
her pen By tireless energy Mrs. Peattie
has made a name and a fame for herself
in literary circles, and through it all and
above all she has found time to rear an
interesting family as only a fond and
loving mother could do.

"As well as any woman who would accept
the nomination!" Of course, and
better than most men. Why not be fair in
politics? Why not concede what every one
knows who knows Mrs. Peattie, either
personally or by her writings, that she is a
woman of wonderful ability, wrapped up
in the one idea of uplifting humanity and
tireless in her efforts to make other happier
and better. The fact that she is a
woman should have no part nor place in
the race she is making for the office. The
republican party will have to seek a long
time before it will find in its ranks a man
better qualified for regent than Mrs.
Peattie.

Nebraska City News (dem): The Omaha
Bee is never charitable to its political enemies
or those with whom it differs, but
in its editorial on the populist convention it
went directly out of its way to cast a slur
upon a lady who is honored and respected
throughout the state It says, "The woman
nominee, Mrs Elia W. Peattie, ran for the
Omaha school board on a democratic ticket
last year and failed to secure the necessary
votes to elect. Her qualifications for the position
are probably as good as those of any
other woman who would be willing to run."
That criticism was entirely unnecessary
and uncalled for. The News has no love for
populists, but we do admire honest and
noble women, such as Mrs. Peattie, and so
far as brains are concerned she has not an
equal in the state. We admire her for her
actual worth, and simply because she is in
the employ of an opposition paper is no
reason why dirty flings should be made at
her. Should she be elected she will fill the
office with ability. But she won't be
elected.

Crete Herald (dem.), At Lincoln, Wednesday,
the populist state convention nominated
Judge Samuel Maxwell for supreme
judge, and Mrs. E. W. Peattie and James
H. Bayston for regents of the state university.
Judge Maxwell has a long and
honorable career on the bench that will
make him a strong and popular candidate.
Mrs. Peattie is the versatile writer of the
World-Herald, and has been an ardent
worker for the organization and advancement
of her sex.