Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1882, Page 4

o T THE TWIN AFFIDAVITS valuo than even their real estate, Mr. The Omaha Bee' The leading republican organ of the | Gould should stick to his old Erie Published svéry morning, stcept Sunday, | Union Pacific meets the charge of cor- | tactios; he does not appear to advan- 4 oniy Monday morning dailf, ruption made by J. C. Robberts|tage in the full light of public dis- TERMS BY MAIL — against Lieutenant Governor Carns|cussion.” 2on Syar. .. 41000 e Monthe 880 witha brace of affidavits signed by Bix M 0,00 | One . 15| Thomas L. Kimball, assistant genoral ¥ITZ JOHN PORTER. THE WEIKF;B—E. published ev. | Manager of the Union Pacific, and] The editor of Tue Bee, although a ry Wednesday. John M. Thurston, its politieal attor- | life long republican has always be THERMS POST PAID:— ney. Theso documents are little less | lieved that the cashiering of Fitz John g‘fl:)};": Ly | 2?’”":‘"":: 50| dawmaging to Mr, Carns’ case than the | Porter from the army in the summer AMERICAN NEws CoMpany, Sole Agents | original statement of Mr. Robberts, | of 1862 was a gross outraze upon a or Newsdealers in the United States, which charged him with offering | gallant officer, and a loyal and honest 2 86,000 bribe to the chairman of [citizen of the United States. This ommittee on rai'roads, They claim | opinion upon the subject was not that Mr. Robberts made the origina |grounded upon personal friendship proposition to sell out, that he offered [or hearsay evidence. As a wit e —— OJRRESPUNI CE—All Communi @ations relating to News and Editorial mat ors should be addressed to the Eprtor o THE ek BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Ewteers and Kemittances should he - | his services to Carns on behalf of the ness of the scenes of the drosecd to Trix OMARA PUBLISHING OV | i1y 0 dg that this offer was brought|memorable Manassas campaign in pany, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Posi office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company, OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs. Ei1ROSEWATER, Editor. to John M. Thurston, transmitted to| which a majority of General Pope's Mr. Kimball and peremptorilyjrefused | dispatches were received and trans- Ly the latter. In other words the|mitted by his own hands, he was in a aum and substance of this brace of af- | position to form a fair and impartial — | fidavits is that Robberts told Carns,|judgment of the operations which cul- “NOTICE TO NEWSDEALERS, | #ho told Thurston who told Kimbal |minated in ths defeat of the Federal The publishers of TR Bke have made [ that he was on sale. Mr. Thurston [army at Ball Run and the trial and arrangements with the American Nows | awears as to what Carns told him, and [ conviction of Porter as the scapegoat Company to supply Newa Depots in Illi- | Mr, Kimball swears as to what Thurs- | for the gross incompetency and blund- mois, Towa, Nebrasks, Wyoming and(¢n informed him that Carns said [ers of General Pope. He was pres- Utah. Al dealers who keep Tux [";‘"‘,' Robberts had remarked to him: This | ent at the court martial in Washing- ::.:‘" ;l:’;:"::{:nl:':i:;:‘:;:::';,e:: roundabout and hearsay testimony is | ton, whose detail was packed for the Company, Omaha, Neb. entirely worthless as evidence. It is|purpose of conviction and listened to —_— only valuable as proving E. O. Carns | the one-sided testimony of subalterns lieutenant-governor of Nobraska, a[given under the watchful eye of jeal- tool of the railroads and a corrupt|oussuperiors. From that day until g - capper for the monopolies. This is | this he has never wavered in his judg- I isn't 0 quiet along Salt Creek precisely the charge made by Mr. l_nan'l that plrtil,n feeling, official as the railroad correspondents imag- Robberts in his affidavit. jealousy and a desire to shift the res- ined. Admitting tne truth of the cock and | ponsibility, for General Pope's errors bull story of John M. Thurston that|in generalship were alone responsible Ax enormous national surplus reve. | Oarns was simply the bearor of an of- | for the disgrace which Porter has been nuo is & continual temptation to con- | for on the part of Robberts to sell his | eruelly forced to suffer for nearly greasional jobbery. influence to the monopolies in what | twenty years. i a— better light is the lieutenant gover-| Time has proved the soundness of Mussrs, Trorstox & Kimpann are | nor placed. No public official could | his position. After seventeen years very quick to awear to their hearsay | be approachied by a member of the | of battling for a fair hearing, a general evidonce. 1t won't wash, gentlemen. | legislature and offered a vote for|boardof review has carefully exam- ——— money unless he was known to be a|ined the details of the Manassas cam- “TLrEGAL evidences of debt created [ corrupt agent of the monopolies. The|Paign. The confederate archioves by untcrupulous speculators” is what | very solection of Carns, according to [ Were flVli!‘ble to throw new light on Uncle Rufus Hatch calls watered rail- | his own story, is sufficient to damn | the question. Phe lapse of years had road atock. Eim forever in the eyes of every re-[softened partisan malignity, obliter- — putable man. ated the jealousies of rival command- Since that rt of the senate| Andno public officer would confi-|ers aad remoyed the fear of witnesses woman suffrage committee, Mrs. Dr. | dentfally bear an offer of the kind to | of suffering damages at'the hands of Mary Walker has been too large for|an attorney and lobbyist of a railroad | superior offieers. A fair and impar- her pants and cane, unless he were himself a paid corpora- | sl trial has reversed every decision —— tion capper. of the former court martial and in CaviL servico reform in’ Nebraska| In abusing Mr. Robberts, The Re-|establishing the imbecility of Gen. must begin right at the capital and |publican makes a natural, but very | Pope's proceedings, has established at bo accomplished by the unbribed and | weak defenso for its masters. What | the same time the innocence of Fitz ¢ Dox CaMeroN belongs to the ‘‘re- form-next-year" party. —_— arrival of Senatur Logan the senate appropriations committee witl take up for eonsideration the army appropria- tion bill. There has been consider- able activity among opponents of the clause providing for the retirement of of officers at 62 yoars of age. An ef- fort is being made to strike out this clause from the bill, and have it in- troduced as a separate measure. It is understood that in case the committee agree to retain this clause in the bill they will amend it &so a8 to include in its provisions Gens, Sheridan and Hancock. The forty years olause wlll probably be stricken out by the committes. A strong ef- fort is being made to change the age of retirement from sixty-two years to nixty-five years, The aspirants for the places made vacant, in case the retirement clause becomes a law, are very numerous, Gen. Ingalls will be rotired under it. The candidates for his place are beginning to come to the front. Chief among them is Gen. Holabard, to whom some concede the succession. He, howover, encoun- ters a strong opponent in Gen. Perry, who s developing considerabls strength, | SEE— E. C. Carns may well ask to be delivered from his friends, for the most damaging evidence of his occupation a8 & corruptionist is that given by his employers. ‘ Messrs, Thurston and Kimball awear over their own names that the questionof bribing J. C. Rob- berts was discussed in their presence, the subject being introduced by the lieutenant governor, who had pre- viously commended himself to the monopolies by his services in packing the committees of the senate, KEEP IT BEFORE THE LEGIS- LATURE. StATE OF Nnnmsn,} BurLer Co. I, J. C. Robberts, on my oath say, that I make the following statement of facts upon my most solemn oath, God Almighty bearing me witness that the same is true, as follows to- wit: When 1 was in the legislature of Nebraska a member of the 16th ses- sion, from the blst district, E. O. Carnes, at the time the lieutenant governor of the state came to me and told me that John M. Thurston sent uncorruptable farmers of the state. Mr. Robberts is or was is nothing to|John Porter. E— the point. How or when he voted| Public opinion has slowly veered in MR. ROBBIM"B lfllemfl lmdfl\'i‘, of d“l‘illfl the last session of the ‘IVOI'. of the man who for 'WBII" years what he knows is mot by & brace of | legislature has absolutely no bearing has lived only t? remove the cloud railroad statements of what Mesars. |upon the case. The monopoliew are ll"°m hlu_repuutmn and fo restore to Thurston and Kimball have heard. confronted with his eworn statemont, |his family an unblemished name. e which cannot be disproved by bragga- ‘With the exception of a few journals Tas holy horror of John M. Thurs- | dovio or porsonal abuse any woro than in the republican party, every leading t can be overthrown by aflidavits of | Paper has announced its conviction of ton at the very montion of his name | i I s |nl:,onn..,u.,.,’mh oorruption, would | what the ‘accused party confidentially Portor's innocence, and demanded , should make at i if i t ludi . |informed Messrs. Thurston and Kim- | that the nation be edifying if it wero not ludicrous. at o i el On its face Mr. Robborts affidavit | the great wrong wantouly Inflibted a0 is worthy of belief and must stand | Mmany years ago. until stronger and more credible eyi-| In our last issue some personal rem~ dence is adduced in disproof. It is|inescences were given as the grounds well known that strong offorts were | upon which our view of the Fitz John made by the monopoly mana- Porter case were based. Itis unfor- gers last winter © to suppress|tunate that from the very outset po- legislation on the railroad question, |litical antagonism has been mingled _Robborts, s chairwan of the | With the discussion of the subject. Rumel that the assembly bill allowing | house railroad commitsos, held an Tho jealousy of MoOlellan and his of- women to vote is uncoustitutional, | important position. Bribery was in [ ficers was responsible in the first place and can only becomo & law by way of | the sir. The secrews of the famous |for the charges against l.’onm, and the amendment to the constitution, “4oil room” wera not entirely conoealed, [ loyalty “f. the dem""’“’“" party was — and the members of the logislatare | made an issue in his trial. In em- Tan early closing movement is|who were rewarded for their services ploying Reverly Johnson as his coun- spreading throughout the east, and in | to the railroads by lucrative contracts sol Porter only added fuel a large number of classes of businoss, are well known. In such an atmos. | to this feeling. And the merchants have agreed to put up their | phere, when votes were the object of | oonstant championship of = his shutters at 8 o'clock p. m. on Satur- | the monopolies, aud no means wore cause by the do.mocrmy since that days in order to give their employes [ unused to secure them, Mr, Roberts timo has retarded justice and prevent- au opportunity to do some shopping |swoars that he was corruptly ap- od reparation, l,‘o better pfoof of and obtain some daylight recrevtion | proached by the lieutenant governor. Fiin-John Porter's lnnocence is need- for themselyes. The inuovation ought | Without further evidenos than his|®d thau the m}nly energy and earnest to spread. No class of men work|mere affidavit, Mr. Robberts' story|Porsistency with which for twenty harder than our olerks, and no men | will stand sgainst the osth of any |Years he has urged his wrongs npon desorve better this alight velaxation [number of self-convicted oorruption. | the American people. History 1s si- in sheir labors. ists like E. O, Oarns. lent upon a single instance where a ——— — traitor has forced his personality upon Tr is stated that Colonel John Hay| GouLn's last cheeky lutter to Mayor | the people which he sought to betray. snd Mr, J. G. Nicolay (who were the | Grace institutes some comparisons be- | Benediot Arnold made no appeal to privato seoretaries of President Lin- |tween the taxable liability of The New | congress for & review of his West ooln) have finished two of the six vol-| York Times and the New York ole- Point troason. Marshal Baxine was umes of their **Life on Abxsham Lin- | vated rallroads, The editor of The content to live in exile without recall- ooln,” ‘Each volume is sbont oqual | Times responds with the following ox- | 1og the troacheries of the Motx cam- In size to one of the volumes of M. |cellent comparison betweeti the man. | Raign;, But Porter from the day Bancroft’s “History.” It is under- |ner in which railroad corporations and [ when he waa dismissed from tho ser- atood that tho work will be not only | private business are managed: ‘‘As|vice, disqualified from holding any # biography, bus an epitome of the [ for the attempt made by Mr. Gould | position of trust under the govern. groat and eventful period in which its | Vo institute comparison between the | ment, and branded as a marplot and subject moved. The authors are oare- | taxable liability of The Times assccia- [# traitor to his country has never fully digesting the historical docu- |tion and that of the elevated railroads, | fisgged in his appeals for justice and ments which the governmens is now | it would bo quite successtul it the his- | # fair hearing of his cause. Exonera- engaged in publishing, tory of The Times had been some-|ted by a board of review which de- — thing like this: “Its real csiate was | clared that his sound judgment on the Wag to the knife is the ery of the |erected on ground for which it pald battle field of Mannassas saved the Penusylvanis independents. Their | nothing, and which had beon iw-|union army from destruction, convention is called for the 24th of | proved ready for its use at public and | with his course endorsed by General the present month, and they announce | private expense, It obtained a legis- [ Grank and a large majority of the of- their futention of placing in nomiua. [ lative charter making it the only | ficers who participated in . the rebel- tlon & strong and honest republican | newspaper which could be published | lion, Fits John Porter makes a flual ticket, pledged to support a platform |in New York, and outitling it to|appeal to copgress for reinstatoment of sound republican principles. The |charge every man, woman, aud child | to the rauk from which he was dis- Pennsylvania indopendonts refuse to|in this city who wanted to have |missed and pariial reparation for the accept tho redent farceat Harrisburgh, | the mews 10 to 16 cents for every [cruel injustice which for twenty years They are waging war agalnst boss|copy, KFortunes were made in build- | past has embittered his life. There rule, and they cannot consistently in- ing it up; other fortunes were made |©ught to be no delay in granting this dorse the latest output of the stal- [ trausferring it to new hands; and |#@imple act of justice. Party antagon warts' machine, Mr. Cameron por- |still another series of fortunes were | ism ought no longer to obstruct fair mitted the independent element in|made in leasing its ontire business dealing. Pope, whose gross incowm- the party to dictate his platform, but | sud franchises to a corporation which | petency was responsible for the dis- he insisted on his right to make the | brought neither capital nor property | ssters of 1862, has beon well provided nominations, The platform game is |into the partnership, but which now | for since the close of the war, and is 8 very old and a very shallow one. |claims to be worth as much as the | now aspiring for further promotion, Bosses care nothing for platforms as |origival concern.’ Mr, Gonld has|while t_lm man who was forced to bear long 88 they control the nominees of (had dismal enough experience iu the odium for the blunders of his com- conventions. 1t is high time that in- | newspaper property to know that it is | mander knocks at the doors of con- dependent voters should cease ap- [ not acquired precisely iu this way, and | gross """‘l} no fuvors, but praying plauding plaiforms, and voting the he is probably aware that ‘the fran- | for simple justice. tickets of the bosses. Thisis what | chised of the elevated railroads, which ~rT—— he Pennsylvania independents pro-|the capital is supposed to represent,| A secias dispatoh from Washing- pose to do no longer. have & more permancut aud positive ! ton states that immediately upoa the Mg. RosserTs is & bold, bad man. ‘There san no longerbe any doubt of it, after he refused a bribe at the hands of that audacious monopoly capper, E. O. Carns. | " Wouvax suffrage in New York has received a serious backset in the opin- fon delivered by Attorney General |Mr. him to me with the proposition that if I would turn in and help the railroad eompanies and use my influence and power as a 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 and insisted by an intimation that its publication could be suppressed if certain demands of said Reynolds against said Carns were satisfied. . As such affidavit makes no charge against me except so far as it gives the pretended statement of Mr. Carns that he was authorized by me to make the alleged offer, and as I amn satis. fied Mr. Carna did not make any such offer or statement and wid so swear. 1 should pay no attention to the matter were i. not due Mr, Carns that the public should know the facts which make it impossible that he could have made any such offer to Mr. Robberts as is charged in his affidavit. Idid not authorize eaid Carns or any other person to offer said Robberts the sum of 6,000 or any other sum for the purpore alleged in said affida- vit or for any other purpose, and I had no conversation with said Carns or any other person about the matter except as follows: Daring the said session of the leg- islature Hon, E. C. Carns came to me and said that J. C. Robberts, the chairman of the house committes on railroads, insisted that he (Carns) should eome to me and demand of the railroad the sum of $5,000, that he thought he was worth it and must have it, Mr. Carns said to_ me that he (Carns) did not wish to have any- thing to do with the matter; that he MR KEYNOLDS COMPLI- MENTS To His Omaha Critics, Whom He Re- quests to Come Again. To the Editor of The Bes: Davio Crry, Neb., May 13.—In to- day’s Republican of your city Lieut.- Gov. Carns’ comrade, Mr. D. C. Brooks, places me under oblizations to him in men:ioning me. I wish to return my unteigned thanks for the same and also to acknowledge that 1 was the friend of his comrade, the lioutenant-governor. Further, I wish to say that for that friendship the lieutenant-governor when I was 400 miles away lying on what was supposed my deathbed slandcred me, or to uso plain English lied at me. I did not die, however, and am here to back the charge I made against Mr. Brooks’ dear comrade in The Seward Reporter of March 23, 1832. I am aware that Mr. Brooks and the lieutenant-gover- nor belong to the same well discipliued army of the few but which out rauks in position,Mr. Brooks or the lieuten- ant-governor, I am not prepared to say. His Excellency, the lieutenant- governur, holds the place of purchas- ing agent. Mr. Brooks I suppose had at first declined coming to see me; that he had told Robberts tocome and see me himself, which said Robberts refused to do, and that he only came #here and then to have me go to eith- or Thuraton 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 refused to take said money or any part thereof, and that he (Carnes) said to me that if I refused 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 I nccepted it I could let them go, and be independent, and have a nice home and be well fixed. 1 also swear that I never accepted one dollar from any source, or in any way from any railroad company since I was elected, or in my whole life, ex- eopt a fee of $5.00 (five dollars) that was paid the Robberts & Steele law firm in 1877 for legal services rendered them, and that I never received any favor from any railroad company, ex- eept & traveling pass for myself and wite, 8o help me God. J. O. RosBar™s. Subsoribed in my presence and sworn to before me, this February Nih, 1882, L. G. Berpgow, Notary Publie. The people of Nebraska demand from the legislature now in sesson a vindication of its own integrity. They demand that the senate shallinfliot the weverest penalty under its authority wpon the presiding offiver, who has ssted as the pald tool and corrup- tionlst of the corporations, violated his saored trust and has used his high office as a means for debauching the sworn “ripresentatives of tho people of this state, There must be no eva- sion or shirking on the part of the legislature, The house of represent. atives owes it to itself to purge itself of & member who is proved to have been a prime factor in this infamous eonspiracy against the people of Ne- braska, and who through his entire political course has been a consistent capper of the corporations. SELF-CONVICTED. The following aflidavits appearad in yestorday’s Republican in answer to the charges against E. 0. Carns pub- liched in Tur Brs. They are re- markable chiefly for furnishing indis- putable proof that the lieutenant gov- ernor on his own confeasion is the tool and capper of the menopolies. State of Nevraska, Doug s County, 81, John M, Thurston, being duly aworn, says that he has read the.af- fidavit of J. O. Robberts, a member of the legislature, in which Robberts states that duriug the session of the legislature in 1881 Hon, E. C. Carns told him that he was authorized by me to offer him, said Robberts, the sum of 85,000 as a bribe, which said Robberts refused. I further say that the contents of said affidavits were disclosed to me more than & month since by several persons to whom 8. 8 Reyiolds has shown the same, and that such dis- closurs was in some cases accompinied to tell me what Robberts said because Roberts insisted he should do so. I told Carns that I had no money with which to buy anyene, and that I could do nothing for Robberts; that I had supposed him to be a friend to all fair demands of the railroad and that if after asking to be bought he wished to fight then he could do so. I heard nothing of the matter for some days, when said Carns again came to see me and said that Robberts insisted he should come to me again. Carns told me in substance that Robberts said: ““Tell Thurston I will not be monkeyed with any longer; it ‘Whedon been appointed chairman of the railroad committee it would have cost the U, P. $10,000, and I am worth half of that. I don't believe Thurston has ever told Kimball what I want, or else they do not realize the importance of this thing. I can do them a great deal of gaofi or of harm, and you must see Thurston and insist upon his seeing Kimball and_telling hin what I want and that I must have it.” Upon hearing this I said to Mr. | pro Carns: “There is no use of me seeing Mr. Kimball, as I know he will say that Robberts can go tothe devil before we pay him anything.” Carns again said to me: “‘I want you to undér- stand that I have nothing to do with this matter; I only tell you what Robberts says because he insists upon my doing 8o, and I think you ought to know just what he says.” Some few days afterward, being in Omaha, I saw Mr. T. L Kimbull, assistant geneial manager of the Union Pacific railway company, at his office. I said to him, *‘Mr. Kimball, Jake Robberts, the chairman of the house railroad committee, is demand- ing of us 5,000, and threatens if we do not give 1t to him to make trouble. He has sent Carns to me_twice with this demand, to which I sent back word that we would not give a cent to buy him or any other man. He now insists that I shall see you and let you krow his request.” Mr. Kimball said to me, there is but one answer to make; you know as well as I that we have no money with which to buy members of the legistat- ure. If Mr. Robberts or any other man thinks he can blackmail us in this manner he 18 mistaken. I afterward saw Mr. Carns and told him Mr. Kimball’s answer, saying at the same time I thought it would be as well for Mr. Robberts afier what had happened to pursus a conserva- tive course. I always supposed Carns told him this, as Robberts' policy in railroad matters was so fair and mod- erate that THeE OmanA Ber charged him with being a tool of the railroads, and alleged he had been bought up to do their bidding. The above are in substanes all the conversations or transactions I ever had with any person or persons oon- cerning this matter, and I am ready and willing at any time and place to give my testimony, that Mr. Carns may be acquitted of any dishonorable aotion, Signed] Jomx M. THURSTON. igned 1n my presence and sworn to before me this 16th day of May, A. D, 1882, [signed A, 0. Waxnry, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraak+, Dougles County, sa. Thomas L. Kimball being dgly aworn, says: I am the assistant gen: eral mansger of the Union Pacific rail- "5 company. v L uring the session of the legisla- ture of 1881, John M. Thurston, the assistant attorney of the road, came into my office in Omaha and in sub- stance said that Mr. Robberts, the chairman of the railroad committee of the house, was demanding ot us the sum of five thousand dollars, and was threatening that if we refused to give it he would make us trouble. I asked Mr. Thurston if Robberts had made this demand in person. Thurston said no; that Carns had brought the de- mand to him twice from Robberts. That he, Thurston, had sent back word that we would not pay a cent to buy any man, and that Robberts would not accept Thurston's answer as final and wished his request should be wade known to me, Isaid; Mr. Thuraton, there is but one answer to make; you know as well as I do that we have no money with which to buy members of the legislature; if Mr. Robberts or any other man thinks he can blackmail us 1n this way, he is mistaken, This is all I know of the matter, The Union Pacific Railway company did not furnish any money or author- ize any person to offer any money to buy Mr, Robberts or any other mem- ber of the legislature, Tuos. L. KiupavL, Signed in my presence and sworn to before me this 156th day of May, A. D, 1882, J. M. Targsrox, Notary Public. One of the largest clothing manu- facturers of Madison, Ind, Mr, Julius Hoffstadt, bears hearty testi- mouny to the wonderful cure by St, Jacob’s Oil, of his wife who suffered terribly with rheumatism, Perma- nent relief followed its use. might be termed a moulder (of publie opinion) and masker. There are also videttes, pickets whospies, and I sup- poso that fellow and reports that I was on last Tuesday in close consulta- tion with you, Mr. Rosewater, was one of the spies. Any way, his phiz is of that rosy, brilliant hue, which but few can boast. His duties are various and his place must be an ar- CHEAP LTS, Prospect Place, A new addition to the city just laidjout into duous one. Spies are supposed to be of a reckless and daring nature in time of war, but in his army life is not taken in hand whey they undertake this duty, Hence 1 com- mend him for the eminent qualities he possesses for that position. And in the language of the great lieuten- ant governor, ‘‘may God deliver him from the favor of his friends, and may he find strength to take care of all his enemies.” l%e has brains, knavery, and he algo has money plenty in other people’s names, and the good clothes he wears in his own name, And these two, brains and money, Mr. Brooks’ comrade says must and will rule this country. Manhood and common honesty must be subordinate to these according to this great and good lieu- tenant governor, Some six years ago as the sequel has ven this dear comrade of Mr. Brooks, imbued with the fact that money and brains must rule, already having brains, set out to procure the money necessary to raise him to the plane of a ruler, as at that time his exchequer did not warraut him this distinction. But by the amounts he succeeded in saving from his posi- tion as purchasing agent in Mr. BEAUTIFUL LOTS, s20 0O Brooks’ army, and what he pocketed from the earnings of his legitimate business partuer he soon aktamned to the position of a ruler. And may I here exclaim, God save the ruled and have mercy on Brooks’ comrade’s enemies. Who can protect me for being seen on the streets of your city in your company, Mr. Editor, in broad daylight? I hope that Mr. Brooks and his comrade’s enemies may forgive me forlso greata crime, 'if Mr. Brooks and his com- rade's spies never do. In conclusion, I invite Mr. Brooks to come atme again; just unmask your batteries and let the people of this state be inforu- ed on the real issues of the day, as well as of the animus of Mr. Brooks and his comrade, the great all-power- ful Lieutenant Gevernor. I seck the opportunity to measure the regard of the people for his mighty comrade in Seward county with the same for my- self, not boasting that if Ihave noi goi uore friends in Seward county, his own home, than he, I will promise to lie down and be trampled to pieces by the lieutenant governor's and Mr, Brook’s army. 8o 1 insist come again, and if I ean’t make it pleasant for you I will endeavor to make it excoed- ingly interesting.’ And finally I must say I think manhood and common honesty will yet rule this county. Pleasant dreams, Mr. Brooks; good night. I will be pleased to hear from you again by return wmail, Very reapectfully, 8. 8. EI"OLDI. rm—— ‘Vanderbilt, “It is & wonder to me that some- body don’t kill him,” The ») er was & prominent Wall street financier, on a flying visit to his correspondents in this eity. The remark was made 0 & group of gen- tlemen in & Third street oftice, and the subject of the conversation was the recent attempt to blow up Mr. Vanderbilt with an infernal-machiue. ‘;:kn. hn‘v‘ef n‘t')l iddu,” oonfl:ll:ded tl;: [ r, ‘‘of 4 deep, set! , col hatred that is felt log him in New York since his rascally performances during what has come to be called the pegging era. Gould is by far the de- centest man of the two. He s a Ein(e, of course, but he hoists the lack flag at the masthead. You wi! uever hear a sanctimonlous whine from Gould about the duty of pro- teeting the widows and ur?hnm while he is plotting to rob them,” “‘Do you really think,” inquired a gentleman, *‘that Vanderbilt said the things that were attributed to him in the published iuterviews abouti Lake Shore being at 120 and all that?” ““Phink he did!” exclaimed the Now Yorker, turning on his (’uea!iuner with flashing eyes; ‘I won't tell you what I think, but I'll tell you what I know, I know that on lgo day that Lake Shore sold at 120, its highest guint, on the very day before Vander- ilt abandoned it, he sought out a per- sonal friend, vota speculator, a man retired from business and hving on his property, and said to him, “Tf you want Lo make some money buy Lake Shore.” That gentleman bought Lake Shore and lost every dollar he had in the world. Missis- sippi river gamblers would not associ- ato with a sharper low enough to play such a trick as that on a friend. 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