Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1880, Page 4

"HE DAILY BEE TAE FUTURE Or THE REPUBLI The present crisis in Ireland is a ¥ CAN PARTY. difficult subject for Americans fully to | With the advent of General Gar- in all its bearings. The | field at the helm of the Republic, th- e | reports daily flashed by the cables to | republican party will enter upon the our shores, the more extended corres | fourth great era within its eventful es copied into our papers from history. Beginning with the first the narratives of the | gun fired on Sumter and ending with in order to usher in an era of good | Past and the forecasts of the future— ;‘h.e tr]sgic u;nlinationbl.u tEabrsham feeling, brotherly love and fifty per |ll unfortunately have their origin | Bincon, AR SIPU DI DATY. Seat il » from London offices, and presert a emerged "'flmph‘“‘lYff‘fmthfi bloody —_— biassed, partisl and strictly English and fiery ordeal of civil war ss the TaE election contest i this county | viac of the situation to their readers | savior of the Union and emancipator has revealed a state of management | Regigtance to unjust and oppressive | of four million slaves. in the county clerk’s office which calls | (oy cotlectors is magnitied into defi- | The second era, more trying even for an immediate investigation by the | ./ oo of the law. Isolated instances | than the first, began with the react- ©>unty commissioners. The package | ;¢ purely personal revenge against ty- ionary administration of Andrew of ballots, which the law requires to | ranpical and soulless plunderers of the | Johnson during the period ofsouthern be eecurely sealed and deposited in poor are distorted into the outbresks | reconstruction and terminated with safety in the office of that official, | of an organized conspiracy, and |:he enfranchisement of the emancipa- have been tampered with and the seals | tha whole Irish pecple are painted | ted race and the perpetual guarantee found broken. The county clerk, in | iy the most lurid colors of journalistic | of equality before the law to all men. whose hands the ballots wera placed, | jmaginationas a band of robber-cut | The chater from the political history 1s responsible for thelr safe keeping. | (hroats waging a senseless and cruel | of Nebraska, contributed by Major By the testimony of his deputy, the | gar against the rights of property and | Balcombe, who as proprietor of the grossest negligence and carelessnessis | o persons of the Queen’s lawful | Omsha Republican during that criti- clearly proved on John R. Manches- subjecte. cal era, was a leading actor in ter. The ballots were placed on the | The light which several of the New | the straggle with Johnsonite traitors, floor of the wvault, to which| y papers, and notably the Herald | shows how the existence and suprem the public seems to have had gen |and Jripune have recently been|acy of the party was imperiled even Veral a'dmlulon, snd the result +hrowing upon the question by meaus | way out 1n the then territory of Ne- ismesasufthb brokon oAl oy ehst of their own special correspondents, | braska, by the treasonable coaduct pwk?geu which v;rere brz?ng.ht befol'.a is doing much to disabuse our people | of venal and corrupt party leadere. Justios Rilev. Such criminal negli- of the views they have unconsciously | The third era began with the advent fEopte ROkl A by Ris ‘n“dest PAME, | beorbed from the English journals. [ of General Grant, which affirmed fsunpardonable, and easily accounts for hesitancy with which the deputy an- swered the summons to produce the packages im court. If our county commissioners want a good subject for investigation, they need not leave their seats In the clerk’s office. 4 THE DAILY Bk BE. ROSEW ATER: EDITOR 7Rubert comprehend THE IRISH CRISIS. TaE impartial views of Mr. Hariis, general manager of the Eri road, as briefly expressed, are: ““We've got the thumb screws on the pondence people, and only want to be let alone foreigo jurnals, never more secure i 1 at | thisrepublicis a nation and not acon- the present time. The Land League | federacy of states,and culminated with which has extended its organization resumption, fiinancial and commercial into every county and hamlet has | stability and general prosperity under adopted a far more effectual mode of | Rutherford B. Hayes. making the power of an indignant| The third period, like the second, OmaBA, lhke mauy other west- people felt than by destroy- | imperiled the existence of the repub- ern cities, has recently been forced ing property or taking life. |lican party by defections from its by the enterprise of American pub- Every tyrannical landlord, every|ranks. General prostration of com- lishing firms to face the question of a oppressive agent, every Irishman who | merce and industry, reckless extrava- change of text books in her public prefers the company of his country’s | gance, defalcations and organized impoverishers more ttan the welfare | raids upon the treasury by venal of the details of the subject as a local of his people is laid under the ban | and unprincipled public men, the dis matter, we presume that good and | ©f Don intercourse. Shunned by his | tribution of patronage among sufficient reasons existed for the | friends, deserted by his laborers and | dishonest partisans as rewards of per- change which our school board saw |servants, even tradesmen refuse his | sonal service to congressmen and fit to make in the readers. It is at | Patronage, and children escape from | senators—the scandals of the crooked least charitable to take this view and | his presence as from that ot a leper. | whisky ring, alienated from the party will relieve our remarks from the | The social condition of such a person | large numbers of the better ele- charge oi being directed inany one | can better be imaglned than described | ment, and some of its yery founders particular direction or with any ul- | and there is little cause for surprise at| From a three-fourths majority in tertor end. The text book question | the announcement of such numbers of both houses of congress the republi- in our public schools is one | the outcasts leaving Ireland and cross- | can party was driven into a helpless which forces itself too frequently | ing the channel to more congenial lo- | and almost hopeless minority, on the upon public attention. The | calities. verge of dissolution and ruin, swhen © use for this is easily ascertainable. | When this state of affairs is taken | th® Present udminin.tration enterfd m There is no class of books so profitable | into consideration, the curious to power '.nd gave it renewed vitality to publishers, on account of the steady | yosition into which the English by.rumnng popnl-.r confidence in demand for chem as a well introduced cry for coercion b Taled its integrity and fidelity to the nation. school book. ] Fortunes have been|}ha.s driven the cabinet can It was mainly the spotless .r?cord m.d'a by compilers of stale facts and easily understood. Ireland is to be n.nde by the clean-handed .dm!m"'"' undigested .rnlea purely and s mply | §,0ded with 20,000 troops, and for tion of Hayes that made the triumph- because their agents have possessed what,purpose? To enforce the laws? It ant election of General Gnrfi?ld f“d powers of persuasion sufficient to in- | i)l be difficult to find a law or prec. the ove?thrnw of the rebe]. brigadiers docs ignorant or corrupt school man- | edent in the English reports which | 20 their solid south possible. And lge_menu to foist worthless trash upon | wij compel aman to associate with | 207 when the republican party is their helpless pupils. Thousands of | those distasteful to him, to work when [ #0006 to enter upon snother era, dcllars have been drawn from the he prefers to be id'e, to sell goods we can readily forecast its future by pockets of P‘.‘“““ through unneces- | when he chooses to let them remain on .d"’ past. If General Garfield, profit- sary changes in books of instruction | his shelves. The law of the land | B8 BY the lesson of hllto'ry, shall for their children, while admirably | Jeague is now supreme and so far as it | S9rround himself by a cabinet made .‘iA‘Plfld text hooks haye been cast | frowns down all open disorder, it is it- | %P cf men of atainless “?“te’ whoee aside to make way for others, which, | self an mid to the law which as such | 50le motive is to BeEYS hefefoountry waile of l.eu advantage to our schoul | cannot be assailed. The bugbear of and their party; if campetency' {md system, increase the profits of the [an Irish insurrection, of murdered | honesty are made essential requisites publishin houses. landed proprietors, desolated towne. in the civil service, and strict account- Conservatism in the changing of | apq law-defying br dies of armed men, ability is enforced in every branch; if text books should be the rule among | and an intimidated constabulary ex: the administration of General Garfield our school boards. Taat text book [jue principally in the imagination of grapples with the overreaching giant which (he most clearly and concisely the government. What actuslly does monopolies that seek to dominate pute the pupil in pm{usiun ol fele- T e e people thorcughly aroused | ©¥¢F this republic and make all mentary knowledge, is the best. | ¢hair wrongs, earnest in their of- | Pranches of government subservient to Tha .rn‘hmftw or raldgr OF gOORFa- | forts to right tl;em by lawful means if their grasping greed—the republican phy, which instructs while it compels possible, and determined to hold | PArty hasan unlimited lease of power thought and holds the attention while 4 .| before it. If General Garfield how- it disciplines the mind, is the one best RreAonEn of land r.eform 5 bs t: i ina- 2 Ireland as a social and political ene- | ®¥eF Buccumbs to the evil machina ::;fi:: for Fthe “:::d: h:; our flt:huul my, an outcast and pariah, with whom tions of designing and ve_nnl oaksu‘eln)r::uu- alike uf“: ilwx; they will neither have intercourse nor | PATtY lafd;"’ snd surrounds llll“n N PUPL 80C | pormit to thwart the tide of feeling ‘?“ il cabinet counsellors % Pt In the case of | hich is sweeping the Britisn nation | like Phineas Hitcheock, Jim Wilson the sciences Athere has been lit- |, w.dq o radical solution of their |30d other rstton timber the repub- fle advance in such works with- lican party will hardly survive anoth- in the last ten years, and er presidential election. some of the avlest works written fo Hitchcock at the head of the inte- the instruction of our school children rior department! The incarnttion of Z"“ :’“bn'h:d IP““' to that time. jobbery in almost absolute control ny change should be made only af- = over the national domain, with power ter the most mature deliberation and pEle ‘.-hh‘"ed ;f hthe English and to convey millions of nc’ren to l:ubui- an examination cf the new text- | o o TN moLing foar o dized corporations; with authority to books by a competent and impartial | Y3 to come eradicate. ‘“‘Ireland for s 5 = = committee B the Irish” has become something more fieflde‘ l'mning ?lalm dmp‘{t“’ tielle ing millions; with unrestricted power A caRD appears without si; : SN0 S mere mentiment. If thro.be to apportion half a million every year : ignatuore in | through the pulses of the national life T e the Om‘h" Republican denying the | as asupreme desire which is one of nm;l:g p': £ th yd ‘: ’hg She charges whlch_ were made by Tae BEE | the very conditions of its existerce. e :0 ew;utslo‘; o.08u0n; on -rhe authority of one of the notar- | It can neither be checked by argu- em(;) ?;l":e b .FP?IP > ndian traders iesin the elt?ctlon contest, and backed | ment nor dissipated by armed force. e n:“h'mnmt.l"' sctlngias 8 by the testimony of Deputy County | Well had it been for Great Britain if pervisor o t. e penfuc.m bureau, which Clerk H. T. Leavitt. We arecontent | she had heeded, seventy years ago, dllbnm.u e yillionia yessianong tolet the Omaha Republican of Friday | the words « f [Richard Briusley Sher. | 11 aimed veterans of tba war, and 'Pffi:‘ef‘;‘ “‘?"} idan, her uorivalled wit, her most fas- ;I\e w:do;vrd:n o Ol'iphl'nl :i u“:i hll'en Sleetbn m:;::mi:m‘e? W“::dm cinating orator: “If they were to be | "°r°°" lo b 2 |un e o W“?' morning, pursuant to adj O{I:me;"y the last words I should ever utter in EREZEAE ‘. o interests of the Am,e"' Deputy Oo,nnty Clerk Leavitt .pp“,f this house, I should say: be just to S poohpllehu;the g;elt :nti.ohm ! l.ugh- m‘lll.i:ozku clock with the ballote and | Ireland as you value your own honor; wayswhicht T .'“ onas poll- e of the First ward, in e I ly subsidies. Hitchcock in the place RISsHiOR N scCiaREouvAIne fyour of the invulnerable Zach Chandler snd incorruptible Carl Schurz would obedience to the subpoena is- 3 own peace.” bary tieneral Garfield under a moun- sued the day before. He was JonN KeLiey's scalp is the latest | tin of scandal, and drag the republi- briefly examined by the coun- sel for the respective parties, the fact trophy which hands in Cipher Alley. | can party into & quagmire of corrup- tion from which it could never hope being shown that the seal of the Ppack- to extrisate itself. schools. Without entering upon any just demands. For seven centuries English rule in Ireland has drained the vitality of the Irish nation, impoverished the soil and developed in its peo- age eaid to contain the ballots hag been broken in some wly,owhi:; — broken condition witness said existed at the time he removed the package DexvNcratioN of South Carolina from the l-rgq bundle containing all election frauds comes with poor grace ll::c :‘::‘a: cast in :ihe various wards and from a paper like the Republican, the [ Special Dispatch to The bvo. precincts, in order t, produce said | brazen apologist of the infamous at WasHieroN, December 20, 1 a. package before the court, but how tempt to steal four seats in the Ne. | @-—For_the upper Mississippi and said break occurred he was unable to P 2 A e lower Missouri valleys: Partly say. braska legislature. loud ith d ar f light The package of ballots, togeth e i Sasthiat Srabat with the poll-books of the 'Fintg?u:.; .ll:l.}'" cal?'e;t;m"h vd; p!:blblg Tl 3 8 shifting slightly, warmer east an was offered in evidence by counsel Lk SRepwiscanthinks Lo Hart. southerly windu' and stationary or for contestants, counsel for contes:- | man, the nihilist, would be a mana- | g; i = ¥ ter. ante calling the attention of the court ging editor aft’er § Tee Bee's own elightly hllog meoneet to the fact that the package of ballots [ pying. Any honest and able man would was broken open, and requesting the be more after Tex Bxr’s own mind court to seal said package so as to pre- serve its present condition in that re- | that the hireling editor of the Repub- lican. gsard, which was done. indications. —_— The jury in the Bartree-Shouce murder trial at Honesdale, Pa., at a late hour Saturday evening brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree. POWER,PLUNDER,PRESTIGE : MONDAY MORN B 20, NG, DEC«M! 188G, — The True and False Ex= ponents of Republican- ism in Nebraska. The Organ of the Union Pacific Company and the Hitchoock Bolter Faction, The Senatorial Question and the Interior Secretary- ehip.. The defeat of the Hon. C. K. Ceutant at the late election has caused The Omaha Republican to go into a spasm of indigna. tion over the defeat of a republican nomi- nee by republicans. To new-comers, its ravings may appear genuine, but old settlers of Nebraska, who know the political record of the ontfit, who have controlled its columns for the past four years, take no stock in its professions of fidelity to the republican party, or pay any attention to its denunciations of good republicans, because they have exercised their rights as citizens to scratch their tickets and refuse to vote for a LOCAL re- publican nominee who had betrayed their material inte-ests, most shamefully. Mr. D. C. Brooks, the editor of The Republican, is an irresponsible hired m:n who simply performs the labor required by Life and property, as a rule, were | through the man on horseback, that | his employer for a salary, the same as any | other hired man does, hence it is not worth while to waste any time on him; his posi- tion is sufficiently humi'iating of itself, as the amanuensis of the Union Pacifics Mr. Fred Nye, its associate editor, was a Greeley bolter in 1872, and labored for the election of the democratic candidate for the presidency against the regular republi- can nominee—U. S. Grant, and is also a hired man and dirt-flinger for the Hitch- cock faction. The respons ble parties are its proprie- tors—tbe Union Pacific company and the Hitcheock faction, an old clan of Republi- can bolters, The Union Pacific furnishes the prin-ipal portion of the wherewithal which sustains its life; the Hitchcock boit- er faction father the concern for the sake of outside appearances. T.L Kimball, the eneral political manager for the Union acific, imported its editor into this state becsuse he was an experienced railroad journalist, and he is a_success as such, but a total failure as a po itical editor. The partnersh’p of the Union Pacific and the Hitcheock faction, is an unusual and culiar one—one desires financial and the oth-r political domination, hence their de- sires never clash and they work together almost always in perfect harmony, and the success of either is a success for both. The Union Pacific is the heavy partner of the concern—a foreign corporation wi hout a soul -a_conscience, religion, or political prouciple; its only God is mammon and more millions, it has no care as to which party is up or down; whichever party or faction will sacrifice the interests of the people to the greatest extent for its benefit, is its favorite —the Hitchcock faction being the one in this state it has gone into part- nership, offensive and defensive with it. Jay Gould, the chief of this corpo:ation, stated under oath, in_his evidence before the New York legislative committee in 1875, thut he had been in the habit of send- ing mouey into the numerous districts all over the state of New Y rk either to control nominations or eléctions. and said it would be'as impossible to specify the nu- merous _instances as it would to recall to mind 'the numerous freight cars sent over the Erie road from day to day, snd also said: “I do not know how much I vaid to- wards helping friendly men. Wehad four states to look after, and we had to suit our politics to circumstances. Ina republican distei t, I was a republi an; in a democratic sistrict, I was a democrat, and in a doubt- ful district, I was doubtful; but, in every district and at all times, I have always been an Erie man.” The Union Pacific is run on the same theory, in this state, by the the same man; it wants more millions, and the Hitchcock faction want more political power and places—and The Omnm Lepublican is the organ of both parties It is a mutual ben- efit partnership — go into any county throughout this state and find an employe ocra ic and the so-called Johnson con- tl vention met on the s.me diy at Platts- | ¢ i month of that ye.r and pooled their i sues, by one of th-m n. inating A. Pad ‘ock for congress and the ¢ her nomi- nating J. Sterling Mo ton for delega exnd placing tnem bot' on the same ticket and s pportingit. Htch ock und Yost sup— ported it sgans' the ragulsr republican nominations. This was a to al desertion of the republican party in the dark st days of ts history when the treachery of Johnson was very lia le to destroy the party of the N.tion, when the party h.d but little if any majority in this s.ate, as the result f that very election proved, for Taffe was elected by «nl a out 600 majority. This was a period when those who had professed to be reputlicaus were tested a d_thos: wh we e genume repu licans, stood firm and those who were not, deserted as Hitch- cock and Paddock did > As’a cons ders ion for P. W. Hitch- cock’s desertion of the republican par y at that time, Presid nt Johnson, the traitor, appointed him surveyor-g neral of Iowa and Nebrasks. In i8 9 Hitchcock was a dark horse can- didate for U, S senator as Tipton's suc- cessor. His friend W. F. Sweezy kept oven hs headquaite s at the Atwood House, in Lincol , and he and Joel T. Giffen, Josepn Fox, Dan S. Parmeles, Dr. v-eodwill, A. S Paddock, C. Yost and others underto k to manipulate the republican legislative caucus in such a manner as to cause it to fuil to nommate e the legi-la ture go iuto a joint convention for the election of senat r without a nee, but this was a f.i ure, for Tipton was nomin ted Hitchcock then hoped ro prevent the repubiic .n party from making a nomination, and then go into he joint convention with the support of the demo- crats and a few republicans and be elected as the South Platte senator, but the re- publican p 1ty would not permit it then. In 870 Hitcheock & Co. establishe | The Omiha Tribune as a bolter’s organ. John L Redick who has finally lan ed in the democratic pa ty, was one of the partners in this enterprise, C. E. Yost was one | also, and A. S. Paddock was ove of its supporters. In that year it was apparent that a great majority of the re; ublicans | were in favor of.the re-election of Hon | John M. Thayer as U.S. senator, and that such would have been the result in 1871 had not the Hitebeock bolters resort- ed to extraordinary and disor, anizing ! movements no one who wa: a resident of the state at that tim=+ doubts. But they estabished The Tribune at a grea cot and devoted its colun ns to the inangura- tion and encouragement of every bolting and disorganizing movement possible In Doughs county, where this bolting outfit was best known, it failed to defeat the re.- ularly nominated repub ican members of the legislatire, ajter resorting to every method known to bolters to accomplish their end. Butin other counties it met with some success and defcated several r gular republican nominees. The result was the election of 31 republi ans, 12 demo.rats and 7 people’s candidates elected by blt- | ers and democrats. Thus, in spite of th-efforts of this bolt- ers’ outfit, tiere was a good m jority of the entire legislature elected as regular re- publicans, aud it wassoon ascertained that a large majority of the reg: lar rep blican memvers were in faver of the re-election of the Hon. John M. Thayer, and that if the usages of the p rty throuchou the land were lived up to a repub ican legisla- tive caucus would nominate him; aud it would have done so if it had been h-ld, but its meeting was prevented by Hitch- cuck & Co., who induced a few republi- cans to refuse to g « into caucus and abide by its decision. This was a b It of he trusted representatives of the party, su- perinduced by Hitcheock & Co. for the personal advantage of ths firm. In thi- state up to that time, and in all other states up co this time, senatorial aspir. nts have had to submit to a majority voice of a party caucus, but this legislatu e - ent into joint convention for the election of senator without any caucus nominations, and the result was the election of P, W. Hitchcock. John M. Thayer received 17 straight re- public.n votes, and 7 straight republicans voted for other repu'licans w Hitcheock received the EXTIRE dewocra'i vote (12), the ENTIRE vote of the mem ers elected as people’s candidates (7) and oNLY 7 out of the 31 regular republicans. Thus Hit heock was elected in violation of party usage, in opposition to the solemn protest of & large majority of the regular repube licans, and through the support of the unanimous representation n} the demo cratic party and the bolters who owed their e ection to the democrats and a very few regular repul licans. The democrats who voted for him wi Dillon, Patterson, Conger, Quimby, Gr nell, Duby of Sarpy counts, Rou-e, Hudson, Thomas, Munn and Ten- nant. The people’s candidates were Can- non, Overton, She'don, Duom, Porter, (ark and Pott-nger. The rezular repub licans were Summerlad, Tucker, Wick- ham, Brown, Briggs of Dodge county, any cne for seuator and hav e of the railroad partner, be he democrat, or republican, and you will find him industri- ously at work for the political advancement of the Hitchcock faction partners—or, find one of tne political factional partners, and you will find a striker for the railroad partner. i The patronage and favor of this firm, 1n immanse, and is handled by trai ed gen erals unde- Commanding General T. L. Kimball, the shrewdest political manager in this state, who knovs how to use it when ji'will count the most for the benefi- of both partners, and crush out all #ho at- tempt to thwart its unholy purpose, or ad- vance their own interests independently of its dict tion, and for the past ten years it has besn generally successful. It has gen- erally controlled eity, county and state primaries and « onventions and all legisla— and ~haped all legislation to nd had the laws construed and X its ‘avor, except in the higher courte The Omaha Republican is the property of this firm and its chief oran, and it« other organ, The Herald, has had to take a back seat and do the clacking and second 1ts motions. Stili The Herald is no drone even on a back seat, for when- ever this firm wants a little derocratic help to elect Hitchcock or Paddock U 8. senator, or C.utant as sfate senator, or ob- tain the appointment of Hitchcock s zab- inet officer, the demo-ratic Herald chips in promptsy and J. Sterling Morton fol- lows svit. The Miller and Morton wing of the democratic party have been of gieat service to ths firm several times, and shou'd have full credit, therefor, and re- ceives it from numerous disgusted demo- crats, in every county in this state. The political record and statvs of the Hiteheock faction partner in this firm, is decidedly interestivg in view of its present effort to read out of the republicau party every good republican who refuses to fol- low its dictation. Some of this faction own an interest in The Repablican and some do not, but they all give it their support. The leading members are: P. W. Hitch- ¢ick, A. S. Paddock and C. E. Yost, the manager of The Republican. These gen- tlemen have resided in Nebraska nearly a quarter of a century, and devoted nearly all of that time to offics-seeking and office- brokerage business. Previous to Andrew Johnson’s presidency, Hitehcock had been U. S. mar-hal and "delegate in_congress Paddock had been ecreiary of Nebraska, and C. E. Yost had been U. S. marshal — positivns which they received as republi- cans from the republican party. When President Jonnson, the traitor to the re- publican party, attempted to transfer the Administration of this Repub ver into th hands of the rebels, these gentlemen followed him out of the republican pirty and into the democratic party and re- f mained there during his term. They guessed that the Johuson movement would be @ success, and as they vere nat troubled with any poli ! comvictions, they jumped into it, hop:: hereby to ob- tain other political favors from the demo- crats, As a matter of course when Hitchcock returnad from congress in 1366, the repab- Jican party, represented in a con-ention at Brownville. refused to re-nominate him as a territorial delegate, and nominated T. M Marquette for delegate and Joho Taffe | identical with yours, having large prop- | the re ;rty interests at Beatrice, inciuding my ome, for member of congress in the event Ne- braska was admitted as astate. The dem- Gerrard and Cuvningham. This demon- strates that he was never elected U. S, senator as a republican and by republi- cans, but that he held that high office through she favor of the democrits asa reward for his disposition und efforts in behalf of the destruction of the republi- can party at various times, and in consid- eration of ce:tain promises he made them as to his future course, which he vio- lated. Right here it is interesting to notice the fact that the then anti-Grant element of the republican party, and of course the entire anti-Grant democratic party united and e'ected Hitchcock as an anti-Grant sena- tor, but immediately after taking his seat in the senate he deser ed the ertire ant Grant element and became a dev ted fol- lower of Grant’s, and has so remained to date. Why? Because Tipt n,our other sen ator,apostatizedand joined the democracy, and Hitcheock saw a lucky opportunity to apostatize and becume a sole dispenser of Grant s patronae in this state, which he improved to its ful extent, power and prstige being his Moloch. But 10w he pretends that his moral sen- sibilities are terribly shocked because Pres- ident Hayes occasionally befriends Senator Saunders, who has supported his adminis tration when apostacy to principle or friends was not involved, instead of Sena. tor Padd who has nniformly maligned the administration. Oh, consistency, what a jewel thou art! During his entire senatorial term he de- voted his time avd energies towards the punishment of those republicans who had always remained loyal to the r publican party and its usages and the promotion of those wh had followed him in his bolting operations. He obtained the appoint- ment of C. E. Yost as postmaster at Oma- ha, Potteng-r and Barnes,of Cass couuty, as land officers; E. E. Cunningham, as surveyor-general; Di‘k Adams, as clerk in the treasury department; Tucker. as land officer; J E. Moore, as mail clerk; J. Fox, as land officer, and others of the same ilk. In1875 A. S. Paddock was elected U. Senator by the grace of the democrats also, and he obtsined the required nomber of democra ic_members of the legislature to elect him, by solemnly promising that in the event of ihe election of a democratic administration in 1876 (Tildens) ke would be a supporter of the democratic administia- tion. This promise was made to E. A. Allen, chairman cf the democratic state committee; ColAshby, Frank Murphy, C. Rustin, Geo. B. Graff, J. G. Megeath, Mr. Plats of Hall county, and other dem- ocrats, and a written memorandum agree. ment to that effect. and incinding other promises, was retained by some of the latter. He also zave the democratic Otoe dele- gati n the following pledges for their sup- ort: “LixcoLs, Neb., Jan. 22, 1875. T the Otoe Delegation in the Nebraska Legislature “DEaR Stes—TIn reply to your inquiry concerning my course if elected to the senate, I will say that my ioterests are P t t e: t c Missouri river at Nebrasia Cit; my best endeav rs to e much eas- as h ed tor b.traying the republican party consentine to be a democratic cai for ougress against the revular republican nominee, the Hon. J. Taffe, in 186, and again for Paddock or Hitcheock. for the 11:,::: }.: ,.._.: ey on the next south Platre senatorship. senatorsh -t the Platteriver he is elected to represent, 2ot nor how muck =0 his election; nor s he or Paddack at all particular as to how many times they present 1 as honorab'e and wise a record as this Re- public successes, “T can assure you that 't will give me he greatest plea ure to aid you in secur- ng the erection of a bridge across the , to use ve the fe and I wiil from Otoe ourts held at Nebraska n sele ting men for p sitions county be guided by your counsel. . $ A S. Pabpock.” Promises which he vio'ated with as : mad them, as the people of Otoe will testify. Thus he was reward- nd date bein. a menber of the Hitcheock ¢ an of boiters. Hi cheock and Paddock are the only senators from Nebraska who ever re- ceived democratic votes, and had it not been for democratic support they never would have been - enators. Paddock has als» devoted his entire term to the promotion of the interests of the Hitchcock faction and the Union Pa cific, and puni-h ng al' tre old reliable re- public ns who wer+ not wi ling to become the subsrvient tools of both, and as a f: tional senator he h s never been equaled in sny state in this Union. He has op- po ed the appointment of W. J. Con ell as U . attorney; Mr. Robb, as collector of revenue; Tschuck, as census superviso ; Judge Crounse, llector; St. A. D. Balcombe, as U. S. mar ha Ir B 1 U. S. shal, and E erbower g shal, and «ther old reliable r ns, for no other reason than t they were not followers of the Hitcheock fac ion or the Union Pac fic di-tatc In 877 P. W. Hitch U d te for re-e ecti n as senator, and for the first time in his life he was anopen and avowed candidate. Previous to that he was always a dark horse candidate for everything that was out, skulking around n the dark out of sight—in behind oth whom he was professing to supp.rt the smwe time undermining [ benefit. This time he w op-n fight for re-ele tion, 1 complish it. And Simply be there was a maj rity of the repu members of the leg slature large enough to be a majorty of the whole legislature in j 't conventio in tavor of the election of Senator Saunders in his stead. The Miller wing of the dem y Wi vor of Hitcheocl num, chairman of the democratic national committee; Samuel J. Tilder, democratic candidate for the presidency, and his poor Pe'ton, sent word to the democracy of this state. through Miller and Allen, that Hi cheock ought to be re elected, and a majo ity of the democratic members signed an agreement o v te for hin when- ever their votes woul | elect, but that time never came, and there was a mincrity pro- testin. against voting for any republican, some of whom had been instructec by t e con entions which nominated them to this effect. and the Millec wing went so far as to make a st o g «ffort to have these con- ventions recalled to rescind these instruc- tions. The democracy hoped that the presidantial contested ca e then in pro- & ess would be deci ed in favor of Samuel J. Tilden, a: d they knew this man Hiten- cock was vot troubled with any poi tica convictions, ard counted upon his being a supporter of Tilden’s administration if in- deb ed to the casting vote of the cratic members fort is election, an was suc essful, and they were und. ubted- Iy right in the r coujectures, But Hitche: ck was unahle to obtain the suppo t of ensugh repu lican member when ad ed to th t ot the entir demo- cratic v te in the legislatu e to elect iim, as he h d before when he s elected; hen e his failure and the election of Sena- tor Saunders without _any atic aid, or that of the Union Pa All upright citizens : ope we have aban- doned the system inaugurated ten years ago by the Hircheock clique, viz : tha of going into joint ¢ nve: for the elec- tion of U. S. senat-r without a republican cancus nominee for the republican mem- ber: vote for as aparty w. it and thereby allowing the democ atic minority ther in to decide wh . shall repr sent us mn th na- tional councils iy its casting vote in favor f our most unworthy and _inferior candi- date who wili be the least objectionable to the lem.cricv and the most likely tor betray the republican party in some grea emerzency. Suppo e Ga field’s adm nis- tration should be succeeded by a emo- ratic 4 ministration, and Hitche ck and Pa'dock were ebraska’s United Siates senators witn the ca ting vote in the sen- ate, does any of h-old settlers who inti- mately ki them and thei re p e tend to believe they would remain faithful to the republ; party? Why, of cour-e not; they would a themselves on the side of power prestige and vlunfer. Grearer than they have betrayed the re- publican perty as senators- Trombull of Tlinois, Doolittle of Wisconsin, Kansas, Norton of Minn sota, and others. Hereafter the republican members of the legi latnre onght to ~ssemblein caucus and determine wh shall be United - tates <enat rs inadigni ed manner und ace r - ing to eral party usages,and thus secnre the election o _the most steadfast re ubli- s instead of the most vaci lating, espe- cially now, in view of the fac that the TUnited States senate is liable for some time to come to be very equally div ded hetween the two parties, men who are known to be republicans because they are firm believers in the principles of the rarty shoul be elected, instead of those who act with th t party only because it has the disposaal of the po.itical patron- age. C. E. Yost. the present manager of The Republican, has always foll.wed the for- tunes of the Hitchcock faction in all of its b Iting mov-ments with remarkable fidel- ity, and received his_reward ‘he efore 1 numerous official positions from Hitcheock and favors from the Uvion Facine. The Hitcheock ring has always been the disorganiziug element ot the repubiican party in this state. and its methods have reen of the most unscropulous character. If the party ominated anyone who not a m mber of faction, he was to suffer defeat at its hands -by open or covert holting. J. M. Thurston, ore he became sn emu ee of the n Pa ific, was defeated y it for juds in this largely republican district. S W.J. Coune'l defeated by it for district. attorney ir this same district. So wus Mr. Jacobs defeated by it for city treasurer in this city, and in this, the ‘ery last election, a regu/arly nomina ed repub- lican candidate f r the le.isliture in each of Buffalo and Sarpy counties, were de- feated b; and a very strong effort was made by it to defeat the reular nominees in Washington, Otoe and other counties. ways harloted with the demo- v and generally received its aid, as <t the stalwart element of the republican party, for the reason that it had ev denced its willingness to be ray the re- publican pirty at any time when it was thought betrayal would be successful. As a matter of course the democrats preferred a republican bolter to a genuine republi- can, o, as Miner, another hired man on The Republican, states it in his letter to the New York Times: “T' e membership of the legislaturs is s0 overwhelmingly re- publican that the democracy ha e ro alter pative but to aid by their votes the candi- d te who is most conservatively republican wuse of and least ojectionable to them.” This is, undonbtedly, a hint to the democratic members of the next legislature to vote He is notat all particular wrich party elects him, rey his friends pay for promise 10 he demor The ol of T0 = give republican patronage to t management have had con- ie Republican for the past four during that period it ly and shamefu Iy r ministrati a clean administra- xtent of its : A will record as on- of ion whi has ever had. In the late campaizn ous course as the stronge-t groun appeal to the peop e fo. a new le: Even The Herald, the dem c ore for this state, has not equuled it in venom against this adwinististion, and unles« Garfied turns over to Hitch, ock and Pud ock and their organ, The Ke pub- lican, the entire contrul of his patronage for this state, it w 11 be hostile to his ad- mimstration no matter how wise and pu it maybe. T is organ of afaction a.ivise, the repudiation of the present adminisf tion, and the nomination of Grant fi e next but the repu. lican party of thiffitate rep-.diated its advice through its rgfresene tatives in the state convention ay Colum- bus, and sent a delegation to thf Chie: convention last spring which vfanimoush opposed the p licy it advocated, and fim\z Iy voted for Garfiel . notwithstanding the fct thatit and Hitchcock and Paddock had filled the press of this state w th pre- dictions that the re, u lican porty of the Nation was certuin of defeat if their ad. vice was not heeded and Grant nommated. Under its pre-ent management The Re- publican has maligned such highly re- spect d republicans as Semator ¥ aunders, J.J. Brown, Jud. e Brigg-, J. H. Kellom, Judge Croun<e. W. J. Connell, ohn A. ftorbach, Judge Lake, M. T. Barlow, 'll'!»-'lln.mk Klnuutle\ udge Cobb, Brune zschuck, J. €. Cowin, Van W, L. S Reed. Jud, — stro Lo nd for their ase of k, Frank Wa ters, J. ton, Dick Adams, P. W. Hitche ok, J. E Moore, C. A. Baldwin, Paul Vanderv ort, James Keyner, and others, who were either Upion | c employee- or obedient followers of the Hitcheock fac— tion party barnacles, hy and_ time servers. joined with this band o time server: nd hover around this nr.{' n as natural « flies con= regate around an old empty suzar hoy ead in the summer Lmu'.l becau-e it :‘: vertises that it is an org of a syudieate for the dis official patr nage of thi- state, that it ouble-barreled con= ce'n, and that when it is unable to obtain i positions { r the brnacles, there is still another chunce for their obtaining employment or contracts from the rai road vartner. It a'sobo dly advertises that te Union Pacific domin tes in both, the financial and political affairs of this state, and always will, which is believed by the time s rvers; but a little more time and a few more defeats, will teach them othe wise. This stats will not ren 3 longer the oulv state in the [*nion where the people allow a corp ration to run their political ffairs to its liking. The jeople will not continue long to be plisnt tools and automat.us in the hands of a few, to b pushed hereand there and mech nically serve in the working out of its combina— tne Republi an professes t, be a legi- timate newspaver fhe organ of the repube lican party and the people, when in fact it i« nothug more n rles~ than a programme sheet for the 1 nion Pacific and the Hitch- cock faction, like unt those which Bare unw circulates free of charse, t - aivertise his show business. biut B roum is more hono able than they, f rhe does not charge for his a (vertising sh ets nor does he cie= culate them un er f lse colors or names, and he puts a photograph Dkeness of himse f in every iss e so that the readers can see wht he lo ks like, which Dillon, r sident of the Union Pacific and Boss itch ock ne, lect todoin the.r advertsing heet. ‘There is not another insta ce in Ame ica where a railrond company and a poliiic 1 fact on have formed a partuer- ship in the pullication of an org.n to sound the praises of its owners and at- tempt to palm it off as a newspaper and ask & community to -upport it. The ine vestments in thi< orga: are not made as a legitimate business propositi n, with a view of Jeriving a direct -rofit or % living the ¢f om and pr.secuting a profession the ein. The stock-holders do not draw divi ‘ends the eon, but simply invest there- in, a8 a side-show affai., to have a cor porate and personas organ to commend themseives te u lic favor. \ hat « spectacle to be- hold to =ee Hitcheock fill the columns of his . Jape [or cause his h red man to, which is the same thing] with assertions that he i. Nebraska arest statesman and therefore shonld be made o1 e of Gar- field’s cabi ot fficers, and that he is the peer of those who are vemerally called mt . presiventa cabivents when it 18 venerally known that there are a bu dred repubicans in this state, «uch as Th.y.r, Manderson, Haywood, Ciarkson, E tabe ok. Clark, Ganrett, n, Locke, Mitchell, Collins, Holmes, lers, D.ily, Briggs, Calkine, Cowin, lev Mason, Howe, Nande, Webster, Wil er of Saline. Dundy, (’Conner, Thurston, Haymer, Taffe MajoN, Fusnas, Murquette, We.ver, Laird. —Kelloat, 5 Dawes, Lo mbe fi, Vvek. Kimball, Lake, Miilird, Cr uns-, Cobb, V. Touzalin and others too num2rous to men- tion, any of whom have more integrity and are more able men i everyre pect except that they have followed some egitimate tion, and have not devoted an e~ tire lite-time to an acquirement of & knowl- edz of piitical trickery to the exclusion of everything else. as he has, whigh is anythi.g but creditable to him or a1y Ndy else. He started in life in the hyfiorakle profession of law, but immedia/fly abar, doned it for that of a pe avenger™, and Urion Pacific tie contrecror and lob- byist. He goes futher, and causes his hired man Miner and ni< hired man Sor- ensen, corresponde. ts of the Chicace Tri- bune and Chicago and New York ‘Times, to proclaim throuch the columns of these great j urnals that Hitchcock is Nebras- ka's greatest statesman. Neither hs nor anybody else who has a teaspoonful of brains leit, 1hink fora m ment that Eitch- cock will ever be call-d into any presi- deut’s cabinet, and his only obje:t in thra-ting his name before the publc for 1 is to ittempt to magn fy in the eyes of the c:ming adminigtration, o as to enable him to do a greater office brokerage business inder it than he has und r Hayes' admiristra- nd to impress the new comes in this sta e with ‘lh» dea that he ‘s Nebras— ka s most v ifte d noble s atesm:n, in the same manner hat & quack doctr at- temp s to convince the public thit he knows m. re about surgery than the best -ducate nd experienced regular sur- geons— by a sy tem of per istent sdf-ad- vertising In conclusion, a newspaper with sach a proprietorship, _edited, backed an¢ sur- rounded as The Omaha Republican s, the serve thé inerests the defiant, it, remorseles and us U N wlter Hitche to denounce in unmeasur. are not willing to b-come of both, isin no sense an «rzan of he re- publican party or the people, and fot such an one to preclaim a warfare agaist all those wi o will not f. llow in its dirts trail, is idle nonsense, and more especiallywhen it attem pts to read out of the partyabout 1,500 good republica:s in Douglas nty, because they refused to vote w¥ 4 74 nominee (. K. Coutant) for state smator, x d terms al who bserviers tools publican orators and | ress were ail lled to fall back upon its subs ompelled £ fal its hign coaracter and prosper- afte, i that he intrduce h the ‘ast lexislture, & out of the tresnry of unty, and the fate of housinds of dollars cah year, me, [unless repealed), md puts them iato the treagury of the Union Pacle com- pan;. For an orzan of & soulless railroad corpration and a little ring of polit/-ians, who hav - {brated he-e many years between ibe ragud edges u and -ure to m: tree peopl t haw denouned 1 did not support Cou-an of the wroprietors of The Kepablian, any aware of it: # 1 am rty of Nebasks, I ver held ny offi- residence in the the repub ican of it. Iha durirg my_lon state of Nebra man of on on a sy Ial hted .o twe " Sr. A. D. Bavcdiee,