Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1882, Page 4

! e The Omaha Bee.l THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 16, 1882 BAREFACED BRIBERY. The people of Nebraska will be Pablished every morning, exoept Bunday. | startled by the disclosure made under ®ho only Monday morning daily, TEKMS BY MATL — 2 s 0 | B e FHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. ry Wednesday. MERMS POST PAID:— 00 | Three Months,, 50 00 | One N Awmgricaxy Nrws Comraxy, Sole Agents or Newsdealers in the United States, OQORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. wations relating to News and Editorial mat. grs should be addressed to the Eprtor or Tre Ber BUSINESS LETTERS—AIll Business Betters and Remittances should be ad. dreased to THE OMAHA PusLising Cou- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 0., Prop'rs. Ei1ROSEWATER, Editor. NOTICE TO NEWSDEALERS. oath by Chairman Robberts of the railroad committee of the house of representatives, which are herewith given to the public. The fact that the licutenant governor of this state, and a number of prominent members of the house and senate have been re- tainers] of corporate monopolies has been well known for years. When the last legislature was convened the Bre made the charge openly that paid at torneys of the railroad companies were at the state capital for the pur- pose ot corrupting legislators in the senatorial election, and to prevent by all means the enactment of laws de- _|manded by the people to restrict ex. cessive railway charges and prohibit The publishers of T Brr have made | known abuses and flagrant discrimina- arrangements with the Amecican News |, by public carriers, Company to supply News Depots in Tili- nols, Towa, Nebraska, Wyoming and We charged at that time that the Utah. Al dealers who keep Tik DAILY | lisutenant governor was packing the Bre on sale should hereafter address their orders to the Manager American News Company, Omaha, Neb. committees of the senate in the inter- est of the railroads, and was using the By . |power of presiding officer cor- Tarre i, o ume‘ll Ofd ?n;;:h““m': ruptly. After the excitement Uit LA s bt of the senatorial campaign had stand from under. “Ir will be a quiet session,” wrote the railroad correspondents. It begins to look as if it wouldn't be such a graveyard quietness after all, Tae military surgeon of the militia is to draw 8114 for his services dur- ing the alleged Omaha riot. The bill of the chaplain hasn’t been itemized yet. [ qucted at the state capital by the cor- Ir a chairman of the House rail- road cammittee 18 valued at $5,000 in cash, how much a year is the lieuten- |sion of the fact that an aflidavit had ant governor with the appointment | heen made by the chairman of the house railroad committee concern- of committees worth. SeNator Mircueny, of Pennsyl- vania, promises 150,000 independent votes at the coming state election. |sum of money to violate his oath, be- The son of Simon Cameron seems to|tray his constituents and use the in- be losing his grip on the politics of the | Auence of his position for the purpose of thwarting the will of the people and preventing legislation which the railroads sought to throttle. Keystone state. Hexry ViLLArp, president of th Northern Pacific, who a few years ago was a clerk in Washington, is about to erect a $200,000 residence in Phil- adelphia. Railroads paupers of their managers. —— Joux M. THORSTON is very anxious for an investigation at the hands of [ular. the legislature. John .M. Thurston knows very well that the legislature | ;1q;n probably had no; heard about that Robberts aflidavit. amount goes for macadamizing the beds of streams which can never be of the slightest practical advantage to the interests of commerce in the [tives can not allow the attempt to cor- rupt and debauch its members by the presiding officer of another body to United States. The governor s staft and the regi- mental staff incurred abill of expenses during the late Omaha dress parade amounting to nearly $1,400, which is | collusion with Oarns and Thurston, as abeut one-fourth of the pay roll of [ charged in the afidavit, to go uncen- the rank and file of the state militia. | yured and unpunished. It pays to be on somebody's staff dur- ing these turbulent times. Nance with eatables, froshments during ten days of their martial drees parade in' Omaha, how but if the legislature doesits duty and much would it take to conduct a real | the Witnesses’are made to testify to the military sampaign with & large army | facts they know, we shall have an ex- posuce that will arouse the people of this state to a realization of the grave for a period of say four years. Sem——— T shameless gerrymander of Mis- subsided we published full particulars concerning the manipulation ot the legislature by Mr. Thurston and his pals. We exposed the secrets of the “oil room,” which were not at all overdrawn, and, as the sequel shows, were only the adjunct to the bold and barefaced briberies that were con- poration cappers, Ten days ago we came into posses- said to me that if T retused to take it I would always regret it, for that when I went home I would be abused by the ragged asses anyway, and that if T accepted it I could let them go, and be independent, and have a nice home and be well fixed. 1 also swear that I never acceptcd one dollar from any source, or in any way from any railroad company since I was elected, or in my whole life, ex- cept a fee of £5.00 (five dollars) that was paid the Robberts and Stevle lan fiem in 1877 for legal services ren- dered them, and that I never re- ceived any favor from any railroad company, except a traveling pass for myself and wife. So help me God. J. C. Ronperts, Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me, this February 27th, 1882, L. G. Berorow, Notary Public. DOUGLAR COUNTY AND THE BURNS BILL. The advocates of the Burns bill, un- der which itis proposed to dotach Douglas county from the northern section of the state, are resorting to a great deal of political bunkum to car- ry their measure. The great hue and cry of these patriots is that the repub- licantparty cannot afford to let Doug- las county remain in the district with which she is identified by location and material interests, We are told that Douglas county has been a terror to the whole state; that she has dominated in conven- tions and legislatures, and is a selfish political harlot. Above all things they constantly keep up the bugbear that Douglas county will elect Colonel Savage to congress if she i districted with the northern section of the state. ing the induce him in consideration of a large possession of a party who is ready rarely make |y, ruenond at the call of the legisla- ture, and the copy given below can be vouched for as correct in every partic- not allow a over its deliberations who is guilty of Tex MILLIoNS of dollars are appro- | the most heinous offense known to priated by the river and harbor bill. | law makers, and who has disgraced As usual tho greater portion of the|ye yeat he holds by the gravest crime that may be charged against any pub- lic man, pass unnoticed, nor can it allow any member of the house who hasbeen in that the attempt to bribe Mr, Rob- I it costs $808 to supply the mili- | berts was a part of a conspiracy which tary staff of His Excellency Governor|in a number of cases was eminently drinkables, | yyooemful, The sigars, opera boxes and incidental re- boastfully Now what are the facts of politieal history during the past twelve years? In 1870 Douglas county elected a full republican delegation to the logisla- ture by from four to five hundred ma- jority, and she gave David Butler, the republican candidate for governor, 1,822 votes, against 1,719 for Crox- ton, democrat, Butler ran considera- bly behind the ticket on account of bribery charges, and other republican candidates on the state tickot received from two to four hundred majority. In the national campaign, year 1872, Douglas couniy gave Crounse, republican congressman, 1,606 votes, and J. H. Warner, democrat and liberal, 1,622; Woolworth; democratic chief justice, 1,445; Lake, republican, 1,668. The gresidential electors on the Greeley-Demo ticket, E. Creigh- ton 1,188, O. P, Mason 1,184, and Foster 1,186,against S. A. Strickland, republican elector, 1,691, Otto Funke, republican, 1,692, and G, W. Heust, 1,692, The legielative delegation was also solid republican. In 1873 tho republicans elected the entire county ticket. Henry Graebe, sheriff, democrat, receiving 1,476 votes. A. Burley, republican, 1,5564; McShane, democrat, treasurer, 1,425; Althaus, republican, 1,590. In 1874, Crounse, republican Con- gressman received 1766 votes, J, W, Savage, democrat, 1656, Silas Garber, republican governor 1750, Tuxbury, democrat 1673. The republicans elect- ed five out of the eight membera of the legislature by majorities ranging from two to three hundred. In 1875, Lake, republican tor judge 2087, Gantt, republican 1971, Max- well, republican 1946, Thomas, demo- crat 1633, Holmes, republican for re- gent 1959, Castor, democrat 15568, criminal attempt to The affidavit of Mr. Robberts is in The duty of the legislature is very The senate of Nebraska can- man to preside The house of representa- There can be no doubt whatever conspirators may challenge investigation, ean, 3,266: Laird, republican, 3,284; Boyd, demoerat elector, 2,407; Vif- quain, -2,383; Hinman, 2,388, Val- entine, republican for congress, 2,681; North, demoorat, 2,332; Nance, re- publican, for governor, 3,322; Tipton, democrat, 2,326; Alexander, republi- can, secretary of state, 3,344; John- aon, democrat, 2,328) Valentine fall behind the state ticket over 700 votes, but North, his democratic opponent, did not receive the vote. Valentine's name being scratched merely and no other name substituted. The average republican majorities on the state ticket and for electors ranged between 800 and 1,000. This was another senatorial cam- paign year. The Union Pacific packed the republican]primaries and convention, nominating a ticket that failed to represent the party. The result was the election of the present mixed delegation. Had the whole Union Pacihe ticket carried, General C. A. Van Wyck would not have been United States senator to-day. In 1881 Douglas county ¢ave Max- well, republican, judge, 2,358; Mun- ger, democrat, 2,037; Fiefield, repub- lisan, regent, 2,662, Baer, democrat, 2,020. The entire republican county ticket was electsd by majorities rang- ing from 248 for Knight, commission- er, to 1,706 for Rush, treasurer, average majority for the ticket being over 1,000, The loss on the state ticket was mainly on account of the passage of the Slocumb bill, which caused con- siderable defection among the foreign born element. Here then is the record, which shows beyond peradventure that Douglas county has been republican for twelve years for presidential elect- ors and state officers, and in nine an- nual elections out of twelve she has elected republican legislators and county sfficers. The exceptions were local and personal. Everybody knows why Douglas county has refused on two or three oceasions to endorse the republican legislative tickets put up by conven- tions packed by repeaters and monop- oly henchmen. When Colonel Savage was a candi- date for Congress as against Mr. Orounse, Douglas county gave him no heavier vote than any other demecrat- ic candidate, although Crounss was not a resident of the county and Col- onel Savage 1s in every respect his equal in point of abllity and integrity. But when the republicars of t e third judicial district put up candi- dates who were deemed unfit for the bench, or worse, who were notoriously in ill repute, party ties were disre- garded and Col. Savage was elected. Would any honest republican ask Douglas county to put a man on the bench whose conduct as a lawyer and citizen was disreputable and dishonest merely becausa he trains with the party? Would it not have been more honorable for Senator Burps, who is comparatively a new comer in Ne- braska, to have informed himself bet- sourd by the democrats by which the | dangers to which they are conatantly republican minority is given a single |subjected at the hands of corporate district instead of three as under the | monopolies. former bill, finds a number of oppo- nents even among the bourbon or- gans, Immigration into Missouri will The following affidavit will be read by every citizen of Nebrasks with break the back of bourbonism before | intense modification. another decad Tun Omaha Herald still oalis for persons and papers from Plattsmouth, Can The Herald induce the person of BTATE O NEBRASKA, BurLer Co, } 1, J. C, Robberts, on my oath says, that I make the following statement Oaptain Murphy, of Plattsmouth, into [ of facts upon my most solemn oath, oourt to tell what he knows about a|God Almixht( bearing me witness ocertain government hay contract, | that the same is true, as follows to which one Geo, L. Miller held at Fort | ., . Kearney, just at the close of the war. Captain Murphy was post commander When I was in the legislature of snd Dr, Miller post sutler, and it | Nobraska a member of the 16th session, might be interesting to some people | from the H1st Distriot, E. O. Carnes, down at Plattsmouth to know the true inwardness about those stuffed vouch- ers for hay that wasn't delivered. Tue Chicago Tribune calls atten- tion to the increase of political assas- sination within the past twenty-five years, and claima that since the Or- companies and use my sini bombs exploded under the car-|and power riage of Napoleon IIL twenty-five years ago two American presidents, a Russian czar, a Peruvian president, a Spanish dictator—General Prim—and two British cabinet officers have been at the time the Lieutenant Governor of the state came to me and told me that John M. Thurston sent him to me with the proposition that if I would turn in and help the railroad influence legislator and member of the railroad committee that he, through and for said companies, would give me §5,000 (five thousand dollars). That he tried murdered in cold blood, every other and insisted there and then to have European eovereign shot at at least once, Sweden excepted, to say noth- ing of a sultan of Turkey and a viceroy of Indis, both ot which were me go to either Thurston’s or Church Howes' room and get part of said money. I also state upon my oath that I refused to go to said room and in communities where assassination is | refused to take said mouey or any aucommon. part thereof, and that he (Carnes) The entire ropublican county ticket was elected. In 1876, presidential election, 8. A. Strickland republican elector 2313, A, Cobb, republican 2342, A, H Con- nor, republican 2341, 8. H. Galhoun, democrat, 2265, 8, J. Goodrich, dem- ocrat 2270, M. CO. Keith, democrat, 2363' This was the year of the anti Hitchoock senatorial fight and two republican county tickets were nomi- nated, the democrats electing the leg- islative ticket. The out.come was the election of Alvin Saunders to the U* 8. senate. In 1877 the contest in Douglas county was a porsonal one for the county oftices, the ropublicans elect- ing half and the democrate half of the county ticket. In 1878 Douglas county gave Nance, republican candidate for gov- ernor, 2,200 votes, Webster, demo- crat, 1,341 votes; Valentine, republi- can congressman, 2,066, Davis, demo- orat and greenback, 2,267. Valentine was unpopular, and although sup- ported by all factiors in the county, fell behind the rest of the state ticket over 200 votes. The legisla tive delegation was two-thirds repub- lican. In 1879 €obb, republican, for judge of the supreme court received 2,570 votes; Wakely, democrat, 1,867, Carson, republican, for regent 2,480; Sawyer, democrat, 1,653, In this case Wakely, a resident of Douglas county, an able democratic lawyer, who bore an irreproachable character, was rancing against a resident of Lancaster county, and still Douglas gave the republican candidate over 500 majority, In the presidential election of 1880 Douglas county gave Colling, republi- can elector, 3,200; Thurston, republi- ter about the political record of Doug- las county before he inaugurated a cimpaign of slander and abnse against her as a levar to pull his pe: scheme of apportionment through the legislatur: Tiu librarian of the house of repre- sentatives recently made a statement of the number of bills and joint reso- lutions from 1861 to 1881 inclusive. The grand total was 52,146, In the house there were 38,516; in the senate, 13630, Most of them were private bills. To print them it cost $459,- 740,11, In the messions of 1861.63 the number of bills and resolutions introduced was 1,341, In the sessions of 1879-80 they had swelled to the enormous proportions of 10,067, A similar growth during the next twenty years would overwhelm ' congress with work, and leave scarely any time for the consideration of measures of vast public importance, In the light of these facts the propositions before the house. of representatives, looking w the relegation of all private claims to a special tribunal created for their consideration, have especial force and bearing. A srver officer in time of peace 1sn't such a lucrative position, but a bloody insurrection like the late Umaha car- nage brings out in a strong light some of the perquisites of brass buttons and epauletts, STATE JOTTINGS, Utica has & bank in prospect. Wymore wants more churches, Tekamah has 1,200 population, Superior is to have & new paper. Wihoo talks of a national bank. Stauton is going to have a village jail. Lots of lumber is being sold in Brown. ville. a York has shut up barber shops on Sun. By o A $3,500 town hall is to be built at Hebron, Twhoff, of Lincoln, has lost 500 hogs by diseuse, The Red Cloud creamery is about ready to receive. Riverton is to have a mew paper, the Phonograph. The Pon Wayne count; Juniata i- said to be the most sociable town in the state. No new cases of small-pox have appear ed in Plattsmouth, The North Bend Bulletin has swallowed The Fremonut Press, There are twenty-one telephones in the Columbus exchange, John B, Bloow, a printer of Huib ldt, Courier has been moved iato is to start a paper at Liberty, Gage county. Creighton hasn't any shoemaker yet, and wants one bad. Harvard's saloons are hanging on the ragged edge of decision. The sixteenth annual fair of Caes county will begin September 6th, A new hall at Sterling will be dedicated by a ball and banquet soon, The business men of Stromsburg have given $2,000 t secure a grist mill, The Gipbon creamery turns out about fifty pounds of butter a day, There heing no saloon in York, several parties clubbed and bought a barrel of whisky. Bradshaw, York couoty, hes shipped about sixty cars of cattle in the last month, The Tecumseh streets are to be lighted at night by lamps, This is progress for a young town. The Hoy brothers, of Fremont, bought ten quarter sections in Nance county on the 8th, It is expected the South Bend bridge across the Platte will be completed by September, Dawson connty had & hail storm last week wit *‘stones as large as hen's eygs,” 50 the Press says, An O'Neil City, hu{ whose leg was broken whie playing ball, is dying from the effects of it. Jake May, the Fremont drummer, makes his trips through Northern Ne. braska on a bycicle, 1t is probable that no saloon license will be issued in Beatrice. One petition is in, council are hanging fire, The Central City Nonpareil is to get cylinder press—which meaws a great deal for » country newspaper. The citlzens of Fremont are contem- plating organizing & hom e insurance com- pany w.th a capi‘al of $100,000, The regular May term of the district court for Cass county was adjourned for a month on account of the smal-pox at Plattemouth, Burglars attempted to go through the Madison depot on the night of the 10th, but a shot from the assistant agent's re- volver drove them off. Miss, Childs, of Victoria Creek, Custer county, who figured as the complaining witness against her uncle, Daniels, the in- cest fiend, has given birth to twins, There is talk ot starting another demo- cratic paper in Blair. With two such good local papers as the Pilot and Repub- lican, the new movers must be crazy. According to The Lincoln Democrat, a baby recently born in Fillmore county “weighed fourteen and a half pounds in his stocking feet when he first saw the light,” James G. McBecker and his little girl killed sixty-five snakes on forty acres of ground in half aday, and it wasn’t much of a day for snakes either.—[North Bend Bulletin A young lady in Salino county, in the absence of the hired girl, baked a batch of buiscuit and used Epsom salts for the leaven. The buiscnits didn’t rise, but those who partook of them did. Grafton has just put on village clothes and is making ordinince, The second one, just printed, relates io keeping sidewalks clear of snow and ice. Vennor must be an honraory member of that toard. An eight year-old daughter of Mr. Vine- vard, of Butler county, was burned to death in a prairic fire which her father had staated, and the flames of which set fire to her clothing before she or her father were aware of it, Simon Amos, living four miles northeast of here, one day this week rucceeded in oapturing seven wolves. Mr. Amos will receive $7 of the county tund for this lit. tle job.— [Blue Springs Motor. | A farmer by the name of Gay, living near Atchison, Holt county, lately at- tempted to get on a moving train and was jerked under the cars which cut off both islegs, He died soon after. A real curiosity in the shape of two per- foct eggs, joined together, Siamese fash- ion, were laid by a hen owned by D), O, Cross. The next day the same thing oc- curred with the th'rd one started and all attached.—[Brownville Republican. Any one knowing the whereabouts of ona Col. C, Berzer, formerly publisher of o Koarney paper will confer a great favor onhis brother, J, H, Berger. D.vid:, Chaf- ive county, Col., or I, J. Scott, Oiarke, Merrick connty, Neb,, by dropping them & card, Information is wanted of Edwin James Carfield, who left home (Le Grand P. 0,) A:ril 7. Any inf rmation concerning him will be thankfully received by his anxious sister, Mrs. B. C. Thompson, Wilber, Sa- lsne county, Neb, The inechanics are pegging away at the North Bend bridge. Suitable material has been hard to get. ©f course impatience is manifested at it« slow ;rogress, but parties well-informed in the premises state that the delay has been unavoidable, A three-year.old child of Mr, Swazeys, living on the old Linn farm, Pawnee county, came near being crushed to death by falling under the wheels of a loaded wagon. At last accounts the little cne ‘was recovering nicely from its rough expe. rience. ‘Will Kennedy found a nest of five young wolves while after his cattle last ‘week The nest was several rods from the den and was lined with wool. The old mother showed fight and he would hardly have es- caped with the young ones had it not beea for his dogs.—Pawnee Enterprise, A Custer eounty man bought a pint of budge at cach of the two“f;luol in Kear- ney, weerg none is allowed to be sold, Af- ter he drank it, got drunk and then sober, he bulldozed $65 from the saloon men un- der threats of squealin A renovating machine at Falls City ep- erated the other day feathor bed 100 years old. T'he News says ‘‘when taken rom the machine the feathers presented the appearence of down;” and before the cleaning they weighed twenty-eight pounds, but after only twenty-seven, Quite » severe hail storm prevailed east of town for a few minutes last Tuesduy, and we learn from those that were out {n it and afterwards that the hail stones were nearly as large as hen's eggs. Mr. Min. nich’s son reports that numerous birds were killed by the hail that fell, —Hardy Herald, A amash-up occurred ahout four miles west of Akron on Friday last, by which four men were injured, some of them uite seriously. It seems that a long reight train bre n two places and that the last part ran into the middle portion, causing & smash-up of a large number of freight cars,—Indianola Courier, The pione er moves in the matter of es- hblhh{ug woolen mi/ls in Northern Ne- braska has been made at Bazile Mills, in Kuox county. A portion of the muchin. ery is already on the ground and the work is heing rapicly pushed, Mrs, John Wi'sm, living west of town, while crossing the prairie the other day, encountered some very large snakes, two of which she succeeded in killing, One of them measured seven feet and the other five feet six inches in length.—[Creighton Regulator, David Brown has been making arzange. meuts to go into the cattle business on & large scale. Last week he returned from & trip to Frontier cou ty, where he se- and in company with Je- auother old Nevraska City man, will establish a large herd,—[Ne- braska City News. A young man by the name of Austin, 19 yeans of age, living ten wiles northeast of thi ce, shot hiwself in the head with a thot gun, iotentionally, Drs. Cox and Wait were simmoned, but he died about twelve hours after the shooting. Various causes are assigned for the On Sun v/ strong went up Coo - er's at Cuming City, and while there she had cne of the glasses from a pair of spectacles in her mouth, when it slipped down her thro: The glass remained lodgad in the throat for some time, outting badly on each side, but finally, by swallowing pieces of bread crust, it was forced down into the stom- nch, where it remains a constant soures of irritability, [ Blair Pilot. Three deer crossed Main street in Lake's addition on Tuesday morning pursued by a dozen or more school boys and as many dog, the latter considerably in the rear. The deer stra k out northwest and the boys and dogs gave up in disgust. ~| Wayne Record. HOLT COUNTY, A Varlety of Items From the Coun- ty Seat, Correspondence of The Bee. O'Neis City, Neb., May 10.—Not seeing a communication from any cor- respondent from this portion, I thought I would summon up a suffi- cient amount of presumption to write you a line or two. With us Tur Bee has become as good a medium of cir- culating news as any local paper can be, as every business man in our town is on your list of dailysubscribers and among us farmers Tue WeekLy Ber has a very large circulation. Our town is building up quite rapidiy this season. The new Catholic church now towers in the vernal azure and there are several smaller but not lees substantial buildings springing up on every side. A very sad accident occurred here yesterday. A young man named Joy while endeavoring to get on a movin, train got both his legs so badly crushe: that it was considered necessary last night to amputate both limbs, Dr. Benner, assisted by Mr. Hershiser, our druggist, performed the operation. In a little while after the limbs were re- moved, contrary to the doctor's ex- pectations, the unfortunate man breathed his last. Our farmers are working with com- mendable earnestness this season and the acreage of cultivated land will be increased this ‘season one hundred fold. Our political pot has a very peculiar simmering, but ‘‘our Val” is endeav- oring to_savour the pudding to his taste. He is making the postofficesin the county his flrst line of trenches, and he is fast filling those important positions with *‘leal and true,” M. An- derson of Apple Creek is the last vic- tim to the masterly line of battle. But we fear ‘“Val” is overdoing this matter, as the farmers in these vicinities caunot see the‘‘latent good” in all those movements, and may yet teackMr. Valentine that a subservient tool, though he may be a postmaster, cannot carry the delegates of his precinct in his pocket. The farmers are awaking from their lethargy, and have organized their local alliances in the county, and those branches have just issued a call, for the organization of acounty alliance. Oh that the farmers could once see through the dimming film of party prejudice, the grand necessity of united action! But the dayis fast approaching, there is always a glorious gleaming in the gloom. But it is difficult for the farmers “to sever the bands of thral- dom twined around them by the mo- nopolists through the agency of the sycophantic local press. Nebraska’s greatest need to-day is a fearless, and uofiltered class of newspapirs. If there were a few morepapers like THe Bee in Nebraska, vhe issue between the people and the crushing monopo- lists would not be at all doubtful. But through the local papers the ruinous work is all accomplished; very difficult will be the task. The monopolsts’ tools are the disposera of all patronage and the moment a local editor breathes a syllable in con- flict with the interests of those craven sellouts, ruin stares him in the face. If our farmers will draw the bandage from their eyes they will discover the most ruinous monopoly is the mo- nopoly of local newspapers. The local newspaper should be a fearless exponent of the wants, the withes, the nterests of the community in which it circulates. I will ask the farmers of Holt county is that the case with their local papers? We have two in our county, and they are above the average of local papers. Can they fearlessly represent the wants of the farmers?! Dare they to-morrow, if Mr. Valentine should act as the mean- est tool of the veriest fraud, utter one word against his nefarious schemes! He holds their financial existence in his hands, Who are to blame for this? We ourselves. We cannot expect that our county papers will be very able pipers; but we should expect that they should be the exponents of true principles, and if they failed, or refused to be, to discard them, One of our county papers is avowedly and wisely piping for Val- entine, in season and out of seasen, and as a reward for his birth right gets the pottage, and has to wear ‘‘the coat of many colors.” The other pa- per, through its course is somewhat incomprehensibie, yet it appears that he, too, would like to play the role of Esau, Thisis to be deplored. But at present it cannot be helped; Valen- tine with one beck of his hand could wipe them out of existence, and we must forgive them if ‘‘they have learned to betray,” But their sicken- ing, never-ceasing praise of Mr, Val- entine does that gentleman no earthly good, as the farmers are all awaro that it is the servile piping for value received. But Tur WEEKLY Bee has a large circulation in our county, and that is silently doing the good work, FarMEL, ‘Woman's True Priend, A friend in need is a friend indeed, This nonecan deny, especially when assistance s rendered when one is sorely afflicted with disense, wore particularly those com. plaints and weaknesses 80 common to our female population, FEvery woman should know that Electric Bitters are woman’s true friend, and will positively restore her to health, even when all other remedies fail. A single trial always proves our as-. sertion, They are pleasant. to the taste, only cost fifty cents a bottle. 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