Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 13, 1885, Page 4

“REFORM” CARRIED THE DAY, IHE DAILY BEE. The next morning after the election a @uana Ovrien Mo, 914 awp 918 Fanwax 8. | shout of joy went fup from the organs of Mww Youx Ormon, Roou 65 Taisown BOUTLO | the spontaneous candidate for mayor over e, ke, his brilliant viotory. “Reform oarried ‘morning, Sunday. The " ), , mmhllflly paniisbed tn the sate. | the day,” ehouted the Republican, and T o1m onths % Loa [black oye. corruption and jobbery recslved @ Now, we hate shams, Whe Weekly Bee, Publihsed avery Wedneaday | /rauds, and hypoorlsy. We desplse de- RS, POSTPAIR - ception and brazen imposture. Where 0 Yoas, with premium 3 [dld reform enter Into Mr. Boyd's cam- %!:'&.'.“'»-"'Tw—n"' 18 [paign? Ho started ont on false protensee b by declaring that he dld not want the o Newsand Bditerial | office and would only accept It because b ko b | large majority of the citizens of Omaha were begging him to e e an | 8acrifice himself in thelr behalf. Ho fol- offios orders b be made pAT- | 1owod It up by orgenlzing a rald with ; 0. Pr his money In the democratlo primaries, PUBLHHING u "y n"' Forming an alliance with the most notor- A ROSEWATER, Eoroa {ous political bummers and corruption- ists, he set them to work in the high- Uxeasy lles the head that wears a)|hoodlums, guttersnipes and dead-beats L. C. Jewett, to overwhelm the opposition and roll up e o big majority. He organized a literary Turne Is o great deal of April foollng | hyrenu, and wrote hundreds of personal around the democratio fleshpots. lotters to citizens, who had been decoyed into signing his humbug petition, asking Auwy the federal officers who voted for [them to make a personal effort Boyd feel pretty safe and comfortable, In giving him a roming msjority. e To make victory doubly sure he wrote It is Arbor Day all the year round |letters to political workers of all parti with the democrats who are trylng te|including saloon-keepers, postal clerks, plant themselves In office. porters, and janitors, Inviting them to S —————— his office where they were supplied with Ir there had been no pretenss ot re- commissary and quartermaster supplios. form, the Bex would have had nothing | yuet think of the great reform candldate more to 83y abut Boyd's eloction. writing a lotter to Frank Casper, keeper TR e of the Bohemian hotel, to George Hoff- man, letter carrler, and scores of others whom wo could not name. Think of the high-toned citizen inviting the colored janltor of the custom house and donat- ing him a palr of boots for his influence and support. But the climax of reform waa capped when Mr. Boyd mado a personal canvass on Satur- day, Sunday and Monday in all the dives and dens, rum-holes and gln-mills of Avrer dosorting the ‘republican stand. | Omaba, inviting the lunch fiends and ard and going over to the common bar-room loafers to joln hln.n in sampling enemy, the Republican seoks to retrleve the liquors and partake of his hospitality. 1ts inexcusable desortlon of the party by | The good church people who sapported turntogupon Mr. Boyd and ridlouling | °0F great reform candidate must bave i i . This is the | WePt tesrs of joy when they esaw him ::kil:;::: ::: ofu.[:lntlnnl b riding through Bohemiantown last San- —— day taking In the gardens and the beer- Mg, Couperzer denies, elsewhere, that | halls, Yes, Indeed. reform carried the he had any improper motive in hauling | day. - How could it be otherwise, with the ballot box away from the polls, We | Haecall, who represents all that is pure have no desire to prejudice the public |and Incorruptible in city politics, as Mr. agalnst him, and cheerfully give him |Boyd's right bower and chief organizer, space in our columns to sst himself |with Ed. Walsh, John Quinn, Jason right. Lewis and other marketable labor agita- —— tors ana strikers, battling among the beer Tix warfare againat polygamy i Pro- (1 ooq for «“Boyd and Reform.” Dut while greasing qulte favorably. The !'eunt ““Boyd and Reform” did oarey the day, grand jury at Salt Lako investigated |,;5 Upyle the good and the plous on the thirty-one cases and found twonty seven hill-tops, labored 8s zealously hand in indictments. This Is a protty 8Yrong|y,;q for reform with the gamblors, and “'revelstlon,” under tho Edmunds act, |y, tonders and keopers of low dives, it tha polygamy must go 15 to be deplored tha' thelr labors were rewarded by such a slim msjority. It Wwas a narrow eecipe, and while we do not " 3 profess to be a religious organ we would ing tho olection of Mr. Burr, the repub- lican candidate, who recelved a majorlty suggost that prayers ba offered up by the minfsters for the miraculous escape of hat e ot s o e b | Reform from defaat at the handa of the returns when they go against them, wicked and ungodly. EE————— WesTERN methods are finding thelr| — BELT LINE TAX DODGERS. way eastward. The conviotlon of twWo| J¢ remalns to be seen whether the “fine workers” having falled to put an|(mgha bolt line rallway, which so far is ond to ballot-box stuffing and other elec- | 4 paner road, is to have its property ex— tlon frauds, thero Is now strong talk In|,mpted on the ground that it comes under Ohicago of forming a vigilance commlttee | 41,4 right-of-way of cxemption. We pre- for the purpose of punishiog not only | yumg that tho assessors will omit from ballot-box staffers and thieves, but mur- | i1, aysogament rolls all the valuable lots derers and highwaymen, in caso tho |ung lands which the belt line specula- courts fall to deal out justloe to them|yor, have bonght up. It is a question fally and promptly. whether our tax-psyers are obliged to submit to such outrageous discrimination Pucee Cozzens who is st'll at Wash-| g tujustice There Is no moro reason tngton looklng after the United States | g, o ompting property on each tide of marshalship at St. Loole, says cho does fyg 1414 Jing than there would be to ex- not want that or any other office for her- empt from taxation the property on each self, but that she does not want any of {140 of tno street railway. Suppose the the hungry Missourl demoorata tosucceed | .oy 1yl ghould be applied to the street her father, Miss Cozzens secured the railway, millions of property on each office from President Arthur for her (g, Gythin one hundred teet, would father, and we venture to assert that she go untaxed. Such an exemption will succeed in Influencing President| oo 1 0y only be absurd, bat Cleveland in his bohal would be a wholesale robbery of the VAN Wy cre- | tax-payers. So 1t would be equally ab- ug‘::::r.‘l’;:clfi:: : :A,p flrv;;‘: l«:: do- |surd and outrageous to permit sucha ing nothing. —Republican. robbery on the part of the belt line, yet Senator Van Wyck's private seorotary | we bolieye that It will be attempted. was formerly tho editor of the Repudli-| Hundreds and hundreds of lots have can, If it is true that he is drawing slx |boen purchated by these speculators dollars & dsy for doing nothiog, he Is|along the belt line for the purpose only dolng what the presont editor of |than having them exempted from ta: the Republican did while Valentine was | tion, Yet they intend to Improve these congronman, That paper and ita editors | jots with bpildings, or lease them for i warehouse purposes, and otherwlse de- in in doubt|Five® blg revenue from them without 1ast Toesday | contribating one cent to the support of wo will tell him, It was his nomination | the olty, county and state governments. of Murphy that did it. Tuesday was an | In acqulring thesejlots they have rathless- ol day for Murphy men.—Horald. Iy turned people out of thelr homes, and That let's the cat out of the bag. It|; many Instances pald them less than was pot municipal reform and honest |, property was actuslly worth. They goverament that way wanted by Mr. |y, 0o 5000 thiy ander the pretense of Boyd aud bis decoy duoks. Al they| o qemnation of property for rallroad wantod and worked for was to trade off| ;pg o6 way Bat very little work bas sopublicans and democrats alike, no beon done on the belt line, and we bave matter how worthy, for the benelit of |, ry 1y g, nterprise whatever, We Boyd. This s what beat Mr. Hitoh-| 4o,y po1iave that it will be completed in cook, — tweuty years, If ever. Meantime all this A7 each sesslon of congress a small ap- proplrlyl that the speculators have seized propriation for the departmental Libraries [ upon s likely to be withdrawn from taxa. 1s made. These libraries consist of works | $ion, and the burden of taxes thus made of fiction, travel, history and reference. !nneh heavier upon the people, unless The librarlan of the tressury department | immediate aud determined steps are library recently made out & lat of new | taken to compel these audacious high- books to bs purchased, two-thirds of | Waymen to pay takes like any other them belng novels and humorous or poetl- | property holders. cal works, Secretary Mannlog, when the list was submitted for his spproval,| Pxesivent Fisn, of the I!Adn{ bank ordered every book of this charmoter to|of New York, has been welghed in the be stricken from the llst, leaving only |scales of justice and found gullty of books of reference, sclentific works, and | embezzlement, During his trial it be- trostises on finance snd political econ- came evident to all that he had been omy. This kind of reform Is not at all | actuated throughout by criminal greed. popular with the clerks, eepecially with | He admitted that he charged from 60 to the ladles, who no doubt will hold an fn-§60 per cent Interest on the advances dignation meetlng unless the seoretary made to Grant & Ward, and that he mdifies his order and furnishes at lesat ldrew over $600,000 in pmlh from the « moderate supp'y of love storles. concern, He made no inquiries lnto the It was intimated some time ago that Dr. Miller was to boss the dlatribution of federal patronage in Nebrasks, but so far he has not had anything to distribate, We shall presently see whether there is any clvll service reformin our clty government, or whether competent men areto be dlsmissed bocauss they did not traln with the rotorm mayor. Mz. FirzaERALD, the democratlc can- didate for mayor of Linooln, is contest- , |never been complied with. THE DAILY BEE becanse he dld not want to convinoe him- self that great frauds wers being prac. ticed in which he was sharing. Fish was undoubtedly the willing tool of the scoun- drel Ward, who used the good name of Grant to play his gigantic confidence. game. Tt Is to be hoped that Ward will followed Fish to the penitentlary, which is the only proper place for such swind- lera, WANTED—A WAGON BRIDGE. It is becoming more and more evident every day that Omaha and Counell Bluffs need better facilities for communication with each other. What these two busy citlor wantisa wsgon bridge, and the time has come for the parties who are in- terested in that proposed enterprite to take some actlen. They have secnred the charter, and now (et them go to work and build the bridge, which can. not help belng a paylng institation, The commercial and soclal relations of the two cltles are becoming more intimate overy day, and each will be greatly bene- fited by » wagon bridge. It was origin- ally intended that the Union Pacific rail- road bridge should alto be a wagon bridge. That was one of the require- ments of the bridge charter, but it has Instead of a wegon brldge the Union Pacific has given us a tow- boat on wheels, which Is generally considered » nalsance. This tow-boat train causes a tedlous delay to everybody who has any business between the two clties. People go to the depot and either mies the {rain or find 1t already full of teams and wagons, and then they have to wait another hour. In the evening if a person misses the train, or does not start for home at an early hour, he is com- pelled to pass the night away from home. If the Union PacificIs so short-sighted that It proposes to continue the present nultance Instead of giving us proper accommodations, eomebody must build the proposed wagon bridge at an carly day. Other cities, among them being Leavenworth and Atchizon, have bridges over the Missourl to connoct them with towns much smaller themselves, and in this way they make a large territory tributary to themselves, the trade of which they would otherwise loss. BETTER TIMES COMING. The strike at the McCormick reaper works, in Chicago, has been ended by the management offaring to restore the wages to the old rates, and to-day the sixteen hundred employes return to work. This concesslon on the part of so wealthy and extensive a corporation may be taken as healthy indicatlon of returning pros- perity. If that company had been in straltened circumatances and thers had been little or no demand for the produc!s of 1ts factory, it would not have yielded, Daring the period of depression, which has continued for nine months, the aur- plus which had previously accumulated and which largely contributed to the de- pression, has been nearly if not entirely exhausted, and the factories in all lines must now begin to torn out a new supply. Factories everywhere have been resuming operatiors}after hay- ing remained {dle for months, and many of them are running with a full set of hands on fall tims. 1t really does seem that after all we shall bave a very proa- perous year. Incidentally the forelgn wars and ramors of wars have aided greatly in creating a vigorous demand and good prices for Amerlcan produots of all kinds, Large orders have been received for arms, ammunition and other equlp- ments, together with canned beef and other focd supplles, All this begets a demand for lsbor, and consequently causes a redistribution of money with an incrensed circulation, Certainly the ont- look for better times Is of the most en- couraging character. COLONIZATION UTAH. It really does begin to look as if the Mormon problem could be solved under the Fdmunds law, but notwithstanding the favorable outlook a pirty of Massa- chuseits men propose to attempt a solu- tion In an entirely different manner. Mesars, Lawrence, Hale and Thayer, who are all prominent and wealthy men, have organized what they call the Utah Immi- grant Ald and Improvement Company, the capltal of which Is to be one million dollars, The object of the assoc!ation Is to takeup large tracts of government lands and assist the right class of imml- grants to seitle on them and get a good start in life, They malntaln that the only way to redeem Utah Is to oolonize it with gentlles In such numbers as to have a preponderance In opulation, They have great faith In thelr echeme, owing to the fact that they thirty years . ago organized the Massachuseits Emligratlon com- pany, whioh proved such a great success in populating Kensas with free soll peo- ple, thus materially asslsting in that com- monwealth tobecome an ant!-slaverystate, Theee men are all earnest and enthusias- tic workers, and perhaps they will suc- ceed in thelr commendable enterprise of redeeming Utah in a slmilar way, They propose to begln operations thls sesson and vigorously push the work, which, even if it does not accomplish the destred result of solving the Mormon problem, will a$ least be the means of farnishing to » large nomber of persons comfortable homes upon easy terms in a productive and attractive section of the country, and it must be admlitted that thelr Influence cannot be otherwise than beneficlal to the people of the Mormon faith, The most practioal method just at pretent to solve the Mormon problem, It strlkes us, Is to prooure that muchtalked-of *‘revelation,” abandoning the doctrine of polygamy. 1f the Massachusetts reformers can by suy GENTILE OF such a revelation they will save them- selves much trouble. ——— Tae ocoal opetators of Pennsylvania have continued their robbing system of paying thelr employes in orders on thelr own stores, notwithstanding the law agalnstsach practice which was passed two years ago. Not long agoa resolate miner, in behalf of himself and others, refused to receive such orders in payment for his services, and brought suit for hls wages, which he demanded in money. He won the sult, and 1he court declared the law agalnat ‘‘store orders” to be oon- stitutional. Other miners now propose to take slmilar steps, and clalms of this character amountlng to over $75,000 have been placed in the hands of one attorney, and it Is expected that at least half & million dollars n these olaims will be sued for, The mine owners are con- siderably stirred up over the matter, but itls time that they should bo taught a leeson and be made to respect and obey the laws. If forced to pay the miners in cash they will lose the exorbitant profits which their stores yleld them and at the same timo their trade will drop off, be- cauto the miners when they have money willbe inclined to trade at antl-monopoly stores. The Pennsylvania law was de- signed to doaway|withjan outrageous mon- opolyfand®F enforced, as it can be, it will accomplish this much desired result. The miners certalnly are poorly enough pald without being compelled to take thelr wages In store-orders and submit to the systematic robbery for which those estab- lishments are malntsined, The same evil exists In Illinols to a large extent, and wo are glad to see that a bill, similar to the Pennajlvania law, bas been intro- duced in tho leglslature and will very likely be passed. Miss Sweer, the Chicago pension agent, whom Commissioner Black at- tempted to remove for no reason except to make room for another, will very likely hold her place until her commis- slon explres. Her cauze Is being enthu- slastically champloned by all the repub- lican papers, as well as by the independ. ent press and cven some democrtic jour- nals, General Black has no doubt dls. covered by this time that he made a seri- ous mistake. It now transpires that he did not submit the matter to the presi- dent, but acted entircly upon hfs own re. sponsibility, The removal of Miss Swest, whoso mansgement of the pension oftice at Chloago has been acknowledged to be satlefactory, would be contrary to the civil service principles aslaid down by President Cleveland. THERE certainly must be something radically and morally wrong in the man- agement of skating rinks in New York state when it bocomes necessary to pass s law regulating those resorts. There has been Introduced in the legislature of that atate a bill prohiblting school-children from attendlng sinks during echool hours or at night without being accompsnled by guardians, and also prohibiting the sale of llquor In rinks. This bill has been passed by the senate and 1s likely to become & law. The bill ia Imperfect, in that it does not prevent over-exercise, which In Now York olty has caused nu- merous deaths within the last three months. So far there have been no rascals turned out of cflice in Nebrasks by Grover Cleyeland, and the democrats in this part of the country are heginning to believe that the president has not been able to find 'any raecals In cffice In this state. This epeaks well for the Integrlty of the ropublican office-holders of this commonwealtb, but it is gall and worm- wood for those democrats who have labored under the faise impression that every fedoral office-holder was a rascal. Tar attempt of the Lincoln democrats to expross by a vote their cholce for a postmastor to succeed General McBride proved a dismal failure. There were nearly as many factions developed as there were votes, The lamentable lack of harmony amongl the democrats of Lincoln 15 as wide-spread as it is among thoss of Omaba, and the probability Is that when the time comes Postmaster MoBride's successcr will be slcected ac- cording to the old method, Tux Chicago cltizens' assoclation has another big job on hand in ferreting out and punisbiog the ‘*fine workers” in the recent election, It has begun its work with a determlinaaion to let ao gullty man excspe. Already 1t has caused war- rants to be sworn cut for the arrest of eight electlon judges on the charge of fraud, and more arrests are to follow. Tur Satordsy night meeting of the democratic spollsmen was not very bar- monlous. No definlte plan of dividing up the plunder has yet been agreed upon, and it begins to look now as if It were golog to be arase in which every man will have to look out for himself. Wik the British Hon and (ho Kus. slan bear are making faces at each other, the Norfolk Bear is toasting his toes before Dr. Miller's fireplace, ready to spring upon any plece of political plan- der that msy be thrown to him, Now comes the democratle editor of the Plattsmouth Journal with & card alter the style of Boes Miller, He re- fuses to slgn any more petitions for office seekers, but advises them to get the party mansgers to help them out, ———— Ir the rallrcads would cancel the passes of the democratic patriots who come to Omaba every lttle while to parcel cut the patronage, there would be an end to pow-wows. =MONDAY APRIL 13, 1885 transactlons of Grant & Ward, probably | means bring about the proclamation of | OLD.TIME POLITICS N "BRASKA, —=~Agreat deal has been written about the early history of Omaha and Nebraska from timo to time by different persons, who have handled every subject except our early political campaigns, As thesa campsigns were of an Intensely interesting and exciting Bature, and ware participated in by men who attained to political prominence, many of whom are yet ranked among Nebraska's most prominent and influential citizens, the Deg's historian presents to the readers of this paper a political chapter of the early days. The facts have been obtained from various sonroes and have beon compiled in what might be termed a conneoted narrative, ——1In 185854 ‘the Kansss-Nebraska bill was introduced by Stephen A. Douglas to establish & new doctrine, as & compromise be- tween the extremists of the north and the south. On one side wero the propagandists of slavery, who took the ground that the constitution carried alavery everywhere, The anti-slavery men of the north, except the abolitionists, held that the constitution carried slavery nowhere, but that It had a right to exist in a state where it was established by legal constitutional law, but could not lawfully go into any fres terri- tory, and that it was the duty of congress to restrain it if it attempted to go there. The Douglas compromiss was to leave all territo- ries open to popular sovereignty, which meant the right of the people of the territories to vote slavery upor down,ss they chose, After tho passage of that bill, Kansas and Nebraska were opened for settlement, A fierce struggle ovzurred in Kansas over the slavery question, resulting in war and bloodshed. wte ——How few peoplo of to-day know or be- lieve that Nebraska was once a slaye territo- ry. Butsuch was the fact. The first census of the territory, taken in 1854, gave a popula- tion of 2,719 whites and 13 slaves, ‘“When I came to Nebraska in 1859,” said Col. E. D, Webster to the writer, “there were seven or elght slaves owned near Nebraska City by some emigrants from Missouri, under the Bu- chanan idea that the constitution of the United States gave them the right to 'hold them here. During the fall of 1850 a colored servant girl from Missouri passed through Onfha way-billed a8 an express package, and consigned to a United States military officer at Fort Kear- ney. Very few people saw aaythipg wrong about it, and no one raised any fuss, Some few anti-slavery people merely remarked that it waa a curious expross packnge.” —Thero was no republican party organ- tion in Nebraska in those days, and there nover had been. A fow men hero and there, and some scattering membars of the legisla- ture called themselves republicans. The democrats usually nominated thsir regular candidates, and then two or three other men would start in as independent candidates, Up to the fall of 1859 the regular dem- ocratic candidates, however, had always beeu elected. In the fall they nominated General Estarbook for dele- gate to congress, and immediately there ap- peared half a dozen men who wantea to run a+ indepandent democratic candidates, but none as republicans, How to organize a re- publican convention and consolidate the vari- ous factions into a movement against the reg- ular democrata had for some little time pre- vious been the question with a few earnest republicans. It was in August of that year that a few known leadiog republicans were invited to a conferency, having in view such an object, Such men as John Taffe, David L. Collier, of Burt county, A. S. Paddock, John S. Bowen, Elun Clark, E. H Rogars, also of Dodge, 8. H. Wattles, Heary T. Ciark, of Sarvy, T. M. Marquette, S. H, Elbert, Dau H.EWheeler, Sam Maxwell, Jamos Swoet, Judge Bradford, of Otoe, T. W. Tipton, Ssm Daily, of Nemaha county, Elmer 8. Dundy, of Richardson county, and others were invited, Some came and somo didn’t. The result of that conference was the calling of a convention at Bellevue to nominate a republican candidate for delegate to congress. The call was signed hy » com- mittee appointed by that conference, The wisdom of calling republican convention at that time was disputed by sevoral influontial men, who subsequently joined the republican party, Among them were John M. Thayer, Hiram P. Bennott, O, H. Trish, R, W. Fur- nar, and some others in Nemaha county, who soon afterward became republisans, Mot of these men bolieved that popular sov- ereignty was too popular in the territory to be defeated. The men who mot in that con ference wero like o band of broth- ers. “A braver and more honorable set of men,” says Colonel Webster, *'T never met snywhere, and it was gratifying upon my return to Nebraska to find nearly all of them m the front rank of their various pur- auits,” ——0n the demecratic side at that timewere arrayed all the federal office holders in the terntory, Among the leading demoorats were Governor Black, Judge Wakely, Hall; J. Bterling Morton, John A, Parker, Wm. E. Moore, Dr, Miller, George B, TLake, G, W, Doane, A.J., Poppleton, A.J, Hanscom, Jonaa Seeley, J. M. Woolworth, J, E. Boyd, J. ¥, Finney, William Little and others, all of whom were men of character and abllity, and exceedingly bright and active. That campaign brought out on each mde all the_lrepresentative men. It was the first earnest contest | held in Nebraska, The democrats held their first meeting on the steps of the Ex- change building, now occupied by the United States National baok. The republicans ad- vertlsed their meeting to take place at the same place, Judge Alfred Conkling, father of Rosooe Conkling, Sam, Daily, F. D. Webster, and A, 8. P’addook were announced to speak ou this ocoasion, The United Btates marshal, William E. Moore, soon after the handbills were distributed, s« the re- publican leaders to change the place of meet- ing, 88 “‘the democrats would not permit ab- olitionists to hold a meeting in the streets™” Word waa psssed around among the repub- licans, who armed themselves and assem- bled at the appointed place, prepared to defend the right ef freo speech. Judge Conkling presided and made the first speech, and was followed by E, D, Webster, ‘who was rudely interrapted three times by a fellow named Luce, who three times said, ““That’s a lie.” Tmmediately after the third time, a young man named Nash pitched into Luce and gave him a terrible pounding and drove him awsy, Nash came from Spriog field, N, Y,, and was raised near Mr. Web- ster’s old home, When the war broke outfhe went back to New York, and enlisted as a private in the 116th volunteers, He was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and re. tired from she army with the rank of major, He is now police justice of Buffalo, After he bad whipped Luce, he shouted, “Gio oo, Mr, Webster, that —— —— will not interrupt you again.” The meeting then P jod without any further trouble, and proved eminently luco?ulnl‘ Saw. (. Daily was the nomince of the republican conveation for delegate to cou: greess. The noxt night after the momina- tion he went to Plattsmonth, and, much to the surprise of hin republican friends, made a squatter sovercignty speech, This so dis. gusted Dave Wentworth, a bright young man who came out to Nebraska with Mr, Web stor, that he got drunk and resizned teom the tditorshipof the *'Republican, ” which was then being conducted by Mr. Webster, Wentworth said there was use trying to organize a republican party in Nebraska, and he ncoordisgly re- turned to New York, Webster, however, proved himself equal to the emergency, He wrote a stiff republican spoech, such as Daily ought to have made, and published it in the *‘Republican,” representing it as the speech delivered by Daily at Plattsmouth, When the paper reached the South Platte country, the Douglas demoorats called Daily’s attention tion to it, and expressed surprise that he should make one speech and the paper report another —that the speech that he made for local effact was a suatter soversignty spesch, and that the one for foreign circulation was di- rectly opposite. This annoyed and puzzled Daily, who came to Omaha to investigate the ““Who reported my speech at Platta- asked ho of Mr. Webster, ‘‘No- body reported it,” replied Webster. ‘‘I wrote such a speech as yon ought to have made and which yon will have to make it you are going to run as a candidate, You made a d~——d locofoco speech, *'I can be elected on squatter soverelgnty,’ sald Daily, *‘But you must edacate the psoplo, and the sooner they learn the better it will bs for the torritory,” replied W obster, After a long conference, Daily invited Web- ster to go with him to Nebraska City to hear his next speech,'but Mr. Webster could not go. However, Daily made a good strong ro- publican speech at Nebraska City, and from that time he continued to grow strong as a cawpaign speaker. Although he was an illit- erate farmer, ho was by no means un igno- rant man, His grammarand pronunciation were imperfect. He pronounced ‘‘schism” as if spelled “‘akism,"” chair—cheer; acaro—skeer, &c, and the dom- ocrats dubbed him ‘‘Skisms” Daily, They continued to call him by this nick-name un- til he taught them to respect him by his effi- ciency in debate and his subse juent election. They challenged him to joint debates with his opponent, General Istabrook, an educated man and an eloquent and logical talker. Daily’s friends hesitated to allow him to ac- copt tho challenge, but they finally accepted and several debates were held, Daily always maintaining his position creditably, notwith- standiog the fun that was made at his bad pronunciationand grammar, Moeetings were held all over tha territory, aud the contest brought out the strongest men on each side. Among those who spoke for Daily were Paddock, Collier, Thayer, Bennett, Tipton, Dundy, Hitchcock and Lockwood, Among those who addressed meetings for E:tabrook were Governor Black. Morton, Miller, Doane, Rankin, Peppleton, Lake, Redick and Strickland. The republicans everywhere nominated a full legislative ticket, as did also the demo- crats, When theelection was over and after the returns were in, the republicans found that Daily had reccived a majority of from 150 to 175 votes, but the democratic newspa- paper, the “‘Nebraskan,” claimed the election of Estabrook. It did not state, however, where the discrepancy in the republican fig- nres existed, or where the democrsts expect- ed majorities from. Finally, when tho re- turning board, consisting of Governor Black, Chief Justice Hall and United States District Attorney Bowen, met and the returns were opened and counted itwas discovered, to the great amusement of all republicans, that Buf- falo county, in which Fort Kearney was lo- cated, 150 miles beyond the frontier—(Grand Island being the frontier at that time—had a return of 202 votes, A thorough investiga- tion revealed the fact that the return was manufactured in Omaha, that no election had been held in Buffalo county, and that the re- turn had been filed with the governor's secre- tary with this knowledge. The certificate of election was given to Fstabrook, but Daily contested the election and was awarded his seat in congress, s ——When the lecislature met it was dis- covered that of the thirty-nine members of the house, the republicans had thirteen and the democrata twenty-six, the latter being about equally divided bstween the Douzlas and the Buchansn wings of the party, In the coun- cil, which held over, the ropublicans had only two members, and the democrats eleven, of whom six were Douglas men and five were Buchanan wen. The republicans resolved to put the democrats to a test on the question of slavery, and a committee, consisting of Taffe, Marquetto and Bowen, selected by & republi- can caucus, was appointed to draft a bill pro hibiting and abolishing slavery in Nebraska, That bill was inteoduced either by Taffe or Marquette, The hreach between the Doug- las and Buchanan democrats had greatly widened, and the feeling was very bitter, The governor was a Buchanan man, and the secretary, Morton, was a dusciple of Douglas, Nearly all the southern federal offico-holders were Buchanan men, while the northern office- holders wero either followers of Douglas or squatter sovereignty men. The Douglas men generally supported the bill to abolish and pro hibit alavery, and after a flerce struggle, it paesod both braaches of the legislature, and went tothe goveraor for ei,nature, How many people are there in this state who weuld think that the last democratic governor Ne- braska ever had w.uld have vetoed this bill on the ground that it was unconstitutional, and that the owners of slaves had a right to hold them nntil the state framed a state con- stitution and was admitted to the union? Yet the governor did it. During the debate Strickland, who was speaker of the house, made a very effective speech in favor of the passage of the bill. The bill passed the house by bare majority, and then went to the council, where it was thoroughly debated by Dundy, on the republican side, assisted by the Douglas demacrats and opposed by the Bucbanan men, “‘Governor Black vetoed it in as able a state paper as I have ever soen from any source,” says Col, Webster, “It was statesmanlike and courteous, Meeting the Hon, Alfred Conkling, who was then residing here, I asked him to write a review of (iov. Black’s message, and although unnecessary, I ad- monished him that, as I had great respect for Black personally, uot to be severe or attach to the veto message any other reasons than those arising from a sense of official duty. Conkling cheerfully made tho review, which was pub- lished, and which all republicans and all Douglas men felt was & complete and satisfac: tory refutation of the sophistries of the slavery propagandists as preseuted in the governor's message. Aocording to the Buoh- auan idea slavery was still lawful in the ter ritory. During the progress of the debate on this bill in the council G, W, Doaae, who was » member from Washington county, and who was at hoart an anti-slavery man, but who bad wore regard for the harmony of the party than he had love for freedom, ingrodnced & serles of resolutions asa substitute for the bill, These resolutions recited that the legis- Iature was democratis, that harmony was o great . consequence, that there was no danger ofelavery ever being firmly established in Nebrasks, that the bill was intended by the abolitionists as a fire-brand to divide and distract the democratio party; therefore it was foexpedient at this time to give any fnrther consideration to the bill, and it should be in difinitely postponed, Without criticising this proposition the' Republican”dubbed the autho Goorgo Washiogton Resolution Doane, which namo he bore for long time, and even unto thisday bo enjoys the joke when te. minded of it [To be concluded next Monday. ] — NEBRASKA'S ADMISSION, Ex-Senator Thayer Contributes an In- toresting Ohapter to the Karly History of the State, ‘Wasmixarox, April 7.—In March, 1860, the question of forming a state gov- ornment was agitated to somo extent, and the proposition was sabmitted to the peoplo for a conventlon to framea con~ stitution. The measuro was defeated, the vote belng 1877 for and 1087 against. Looking back after so rlany yoars the movement to organize a state government ot that time with so fow people seems almost preposterous, for by the census of that year Nebraska had only 28,000 In. habitants. An enabling act was passed by con- gross on the 17th of Aprll 1864, provid- ople neglected to take requisite action at the ume, and the matter droppod for a while. The prac: tice gonerally, has been for congress first to pass an enabling aot; and the terri- tory is then admitted as a state. But Nebraska did not follow that course. Durivg the eession of tho territorlal leg- islature in the winter of 1866, a constitu- tlon was drawn up by that body and submitted toa vote of the paople, at an election held on the 21st of June follow- ing. The result was a small majority In favor of the adcption of the consti- tatlon, Ithink about 125 votee. Provis- ion was aleo made for the election of members of a s'ate]legislature at the eame time which met in Omaha, the then capi- tal, July 4th, 1866. At this session, Hon. Thomas W. Tipton and the under- signed, were ohosen United States eenators in expectancy,to be admitted to the ecnate when the state should be admitted. The precleo vote on the adop- tlon of the constitution is not at this mo- ment accessible, but my recollectlon i that the vote, both for and ngainst, was considerably less than 4 000 on each side. Provision was also made for tho election, on the same day with the vote upon the constitutlon, of state officers, and for the election of a congressman In October. The republican convention for the selec- tion of state officers was held in Platta- mouth, and Hon. David Butler, of Paw- nee county, was placed in nominatfon for governor; Hon, T. P, Kennard, then of Wanhington county, for seoretary of sta‘e; O. P, Mason, then of Otoe, for chief justice; George B. Lake, of Doug- las, and Lorenzo Crounse, then of Rich- ardson county, for assoclate justice of tho supreme and district courts, These were elected, except Mr. Mason, who was defeated by Hon. W. H. Little, the democratic candidate for chief justice, who was an oxceptionally popular man, and who ran ahead of his tioket. He, however, died not long after, never tak- ing his seas on the bench, according to my recollection. The next year Gov. Butler eppointed O. P. Mason chief jus- tico to fisl tho vacancy. Directly after the election of senat:ra ia July, the writer priceeded to Wash- ington with a copy of the constltatlon, to ask for the admiaston cf Nebraska as one of the sta' cs of the Union, corgress being then still in sezslon, There was very lit- tle ground to hope for the success of the measure, though there was baraly a doubt of the favorable ac'im of congressin regard to it, but the trouble was with Andrew Johuson, then president. It was anticlpated that he would decline to give his assent t> 1t. The time was not aus- picious; 1t was right in the midst of that fiercely-cofitesied s'ruggle between President Johnson on one side, sustained by the democrat'c party, who had Eat just ¢ 'me to hls support, attract- ed by the prosoect of the spoils and pat- ronsge of ofiice, for democrats were as hungry and thirsty then as now, and the republican party on the other, tho sonti- ments and feelings of its members throughout the country being intensified and emblittered by the consciousncas of the bstrayal by Johnsn, of those who bad elevated him to the second of- ce In the gift of the nation, and from which, by means of an assassin’s murderous bullet, he had stepped into the presidency. Why the repub- lican national convention of 1804, in, Philadslphla, which re-ncminated President Lincoln, lald aside Hannibal Hamlin for Andrew John- son, the writer could nct understand, for Hamlin had always proved himself a well tried and fvithful public servant., The result proved the exchange to have been worse than a crlme,—it was a blander. Very toon after Johoson became presi eent, ho began to coquet with the oppo site party, and to evince a determinstion to Inaugurate whet he called *‘my pollcy,” in opposition to the policy of the parly which had elected him, and to make him- nolf the head of the democracy trusting that pariy would re-elect him prosident in 1868, but he missrably failed, for that party was willing enough to uee joim, but was not wllng to make him presldent. Ho did not take warning }rum the fate of John Tyler who, twenty- five years before, and played the same role on which he was now ab.ut to enter, and which resulted in & mont dismal failure. The contest between Johnscn and the republican party became #o virulent and bitter, that social intercourse between them elmost entirely ceased, Very few republican senators or members entered the White Houeosg in while he remained president, 1t wae in this condition of things that Nebraska first knocked at the doors of congress, and sald, *‘let me in.” 3 Avriviog in Wasbiogton the writer called upon Senator Wate, chatrman of the committee on terr.tories In the ecn. ate, aud one of the uoblest, {ruest patri- ots of this sge, or of avy other age, and made koown the object of the call, He replled: Well, I have been expeoting somehody from Nebrasks on this busi- ness, and am glad you have for ~we want Nebraska Have you got something that will ass for a con: titation?” 1 answered that thought we had, handing the document to him. After glanclog through it, be sald there was to be an eveoing session that night, 1t balng nesr the adjcurnment of congress, and requested me t) come to the senate, Whea it convened he imme