Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1894, Page 11

L, dng that Taylor had served sixty-thr e e et ettt T OMAHA DAILY BEE o SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1804 the rallroads as against the people. The hole difficulty literally hinges upon a quali- g0 motion 1o adjourn, which the presiding 6er of the senate permitted to be made uring the reading of house roll No. 12 (the ewberry bijl) and the presiding officer was homas J. Majors, ow, In all deference to the opinion of the thair, 1 desire to say that it is a well tablished rulo in mentary bats first, no prineipal motion fo Sts nature would change or ferlally. interrupt or jeopardize bject under consideration by sembly 1 (whether t be a discussion 0 reading of a bill) can bs Interposed or éntertained by the chair during such consid- oratioa.’ " This was n protest made by the senator om Lincoln county against the conduct of he presiding oficer, Thomas J. Majors, dur- g that memorable session following the bdfiction of Taylor, whils he was holding that state senate within closed doors and Jetting this man get y to Chicago and defeat this bill. Now, then, Majors @ has sald it time and again—he s jefore 1,000 republican delogates in the ublican state convention, he said it Lvrrnl speeches since that convention that pominated him, that Taylor continued in the stats senate until the sixty-third day of hat session. Here is the journal, and here t 18 «n the top of the journal that says March 20, 1891, fifty-third d: On the fifty- third day Taylor was already absent, and b pever returned; and this journal shows th the sossions continued until April 4. The ad- Journment was on the sixty-fourth da IF TOM TOLD THE TRUTH If Majors had told the truth he would have en compelled to gay that Taylor had not rved to the last day of the s . He mew that he was abducted two wecks be fore the legislature adjourned. What is the use of a man posing as an honest. honorable old tarmer whon he goes lying to a republi- ¢An state convention as he has done? (Great applanse.) Bupposing his acsertion was true, suppo day and ran away fiftcen days before the session was out, would ho then have been entitled 20 full pay for the session? The constitu tlon of Nebras says that every member #hall be entitled to $300 for the full session Mt does not matter how long. It says the pession shall not last less than sixty days but hie Is bound to s-rve if the session lasts Minety days. Suppose that the legislature Bad not adjourncd until the ninetieth day, does any man dare contend that Majors had & right to sign a voucher to this senator for B the full session, when he kn:w that the man Bad left on the fifty-third day of the #lon? And what more? The story he tells 18 all a tissue of falsehoods, and he knows it He says that Walt Seely was folsted up Bim. Did ever enybody hear of such an gmpudent, brazen misstatement? Who could foiet a private sceretary upon the lieut nant vernor §f he did not want him ody cver folsted a private upon Governor Crounse, or upon Governor Thayer or upon any other governor of this stat agalnst their will he most confident relations that a pubiic officer holds are with Bis private secretary, and whe a bocdler as his private secretary he is no bett r than his private s creta (Applause.) But why did he employ a private secret We have had one |eutenant governor after another, fr bbott to Majors, and had no pr retaries until Major: @id he come to have a private What was the need of him an the law for it t a word in the And while during his first ant governor, Secly was ke $400 or $500 as | present auditor, Mr. Moore, who {s aa hon- est man, refused to have this thing don for Majors’ second term, and he did not @raw any pay as private seeretary. Who Walt Sceley for that term? Surely not Tom Majors. WALT SEELY'S PART IN Now, how about Walt Seely? ys that he was foisted upon him @ was a bad this tru When I ate e atutes term as lieutcr allowed something Ivite secretary, the aTs Major although came before the state central committee in th's city in the sum- mer of 1892, when Mr. Majors was endeavor- ing to get himself nominated lieutenant goy rnor by that committee as a substitute for ‘ate, who was inelligible, we had a private conference. I asked that everybody be ex- eluded because 1 wanted to communicate with the committco in a confidential way and not have any publc scandal; and thdt was done. Mr. Majors was retained the and with my consent. I stated right there that I wanted Mr. Majors to be present so that he could hear what I had to say, and Majors sat right opposite and within six t of me. I made the statement ther fore the committee, and Governor Crounse would bear me cut if he were called on, he 18 right here present, ard the impeached tato officers, as much as anybody, will bear Wl out, that I stated In a calm and dis- ssionate way why 1 bel cved his nomina- on was not judicious and not in the In ®st ' of the republican party, and among the reasons given was the abduction of Ta; and the conduct of Seely In getting th graudulent voucher and pocketing the money Which was supposed to have been remitted o Taylor. Majors heard all this, and, to #how you how chivalrous a gentle he ix t may be- proper to relate another fact r. Majors heard me through and did not deny any charge that I made. Ho romained although he was not. a member of that com- mittee, with all the indecency and brazen- mess of a perennial office sceker—he re malned in that room so as to overawe (hat committee in-their final dceision; and when my back was turned he made a most abusive speech, in which he made asser- tions he did aot dare to make to my face. " 1 want to ask you, fellow citizens, did Mr. Majors know about Walt Seeley In 18927 Didn’t he know all about this Taylor voucher then? Didn't he know just as much about Walt Secley's being used as a cat's paw to bring women into this city, that were to be feft here as traps for members of the legis- lature, so that clubs could be held over their heads? Didn't he know just as well ghat there were poker rooms here to get men to win or lose money, and where he plaved himsell? Didn't he know all this? - And then Qid he not, with full knowledge of © @il these things, make Walt Seeley his pri- yate secretary again in 1893, when that legislature was in session? Does he not play the baby act by say- fng that this man Seeley was foisted upon him and he was not responsible for his scts? (Laughter.) 1 leave him just where Bo has placed himself. [ have accused him it nothing; but his own acts accuse him. ey stand there indelibly engraved fn the gecord of congress, in the records of this lJegislature. There he is and there he must Temain, TO AID REPUDIATION. Now, what kind of a statesman is Majors? Wou have probably heard, but I cannot help Iterating what I sald about Majors at mont as regards his legislative capacity e was In the state senate in 1887 and in the ouse of representatives in 1889, During those two sessions he Introduced just seven bills; four of them were defeated and three of them were made into law. Those three were wnimpartant bills, of no moment whatever, and_among tho bills he introduced—and [ ehallenge any Majors man to come upon this stage and examine this bill, This is the bill t Majors Introduced in the legislature ucing a paper); it is a bill that was med out in the job office of the Lincoln ournal. (Cries of ““Rats, rats, rats,” laughter gld hisses.) Here is that l: “Legislature of Nebraska, Twentieth Sosslon. Senate File No. 77. A bill for an act to authorize counties, precinets, town- ships or towns, cities, villages and school districts to compromise their indebteduess d_lssue new bonds therefor. Introduced T, J. Majors. January 13, 1887, read first time. Ordered to second reading. January 24, 1887, read second time. Referred to committee on municipal affairs, Sent to printer January 14, 1887, ‘e it enacted by the legislature of the tate of Nebraska: Section 1. That any unty, precinet, township or town, city, or school distriet s hereby Muthorized and empowered to compromise ita indebtedness in the manner herelnafter provided. } “Bec. 2. Whenever the county commission- ors of any county, the city council of any oity, the board of trustees of any village, Qr the school board of any school district, #hall be satisfied by petitions, or otherwise (“otherwise," you will notice that), that any #uch county, precinct, township or town, city or school district |s unable to pay | Its Indebtedness and that a majority the taxpayers of such county, precinet, fownship or town, city, village or school di desire to compromise such indebtedness are hereby empowered to enter lnto jon with the holder or holders of any indebteducss of whatever form for scal- | and | canaidate man, and he admits it. Is | Ing, Qiscontinuing same.” They are continue, Now, then, populist in or compromising the authorized discontinue” means where was thero Kansas, Colorado of In wild and woolly South Carolina, we will say—anywhere (laughter)—that would favor that? There |s a man that stands up for the credit of Nebraska. Yes, stand up for the eredit of Nebraska, and let any county, town or precinct, or thelr officers, scale or repudiate debts, when they come to the con- clusion—not by petition, not by a majority of the taxpayers signing thelr names, but by s hocus pocus that m “other- wise €tand up for Nebraska's credit and let them scale the county, precinct or school debt, and repudiate it, if in their opinfon it seems best to liquidate the debt by the repudiation. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT? Do you want a governor that iIntroduces lls o rejudiate debt and then poses as a great friend of the public credit? [ simply leave it to your judgment, and when the capitalists in the east who are so distressed over our impending calamity inquire into the canses why, we scen fit, us republicans, for Instan that aro not willing to vote for Majors and are willing to support Holcomb, because we want o prevent repudiation (applause)— when they ask us this question, Why did Nebraska defeat Tom Majors, here is an answer: Send them a copy of the bill y won't have to Inquirc any more happened and why the landslide to in November, 1804, (Laughter and usc.) Well, we cannot the great to seale or dis- repudiate. ever a Ko into all the details of statesmanship displayed by for governor—for he is our candi- date, the candidate of my party, but I can only just say this: That judging from the record, leaving out all other considera- tions, he 1s shown by his own conduct to be unsafe and unfitted for the position to which he now aspires, and ought not to be elected even from the .monetary consideration, the mercenary consideration, which is really below the moral consideration. For, after all, it is not a question of money, it is not a question of dollars that is at stake here, but a question of public morals, whether a man that has made the record that he shall stand as the head and front of te overnment of Nebraska, whether he is the right person to administer its laws when he is himself convicted by his own conduet of falsification and collusion with forgers, impostors, boodlers and scoundrels of every description. Hero Is the State university; what has old Governor Thayer certified? He certified that ycu have got a moral community, that this etate capital city built up by a good, Christian, law abiding class of people; and { concede that,-and all it fmplies; although I am very sorry that the old gentleman had to take up a paper down in Texes and try to get our people to move away from here. (Laughter.) I am sorry that his faith in Ne- braska was not lail on a more enduring foundation, £o t io and the Impeached state officials would brng people in instead of taking people away. But, for all that, T ay, ttand up for Nebraska, for the moral as well as for the material welfare of the state; and neither of these would justify any man who has any conscience or elf-res; ect in sting his vote for Thomas J. Majors. (Ap- NEBRASKA AND KA T want to talk a little tion of the state's credit. That |s Important matter; in fact, it is a matter that seems to be the most important in the eyes of the supporters of Mr. Majors. I want read from Mr. Majors' speech, bscause I like to take my text from truthful Tom, you know. In a sj h made at Omaha on the 224 of Scptember, Majors said this: “‘Take th alr state of Kansas on the south, that has as many edvantages as this state h: 80t toaay, and I ask you what is the credit of that commonwealth? Why, you cannot— and there have been efforts mede in that linc—you cannot renew a loan today in the state of Kansas. Why, pecple who have been depending upon foreign capital, upsn che: money to traneact their business, are today r:fused a renewal of their loans. And if the fair state of Kansas has a bond to sell, { any county cr any precinet in that great commenwealih wants to get an accommoda- tion of money and hypothecate her bonds for any public purpose, they are refused in the markets of world.” That is verbatim, every word, just as Majors uttered it, taken down by a shorthand reporter. Now, I wanted to satisfy myself about this vital question. 1 wanted to know whether these reports about the lack of loanable funds was really true, becausz I do not want calamity in the state, and I do not want the eredit of this state to be impaired by anything that our people shall do. 1 wanted to be satisfied by my own inquiries, and from sources that y reliable, as to whether or not the repo.ls concerning the destruction of the credit of the people of Kansas was really true. For this purposc I made a trip to Kansas in the early part of this week. I was in Leavenworth City Monday morning ecarly; the very first man that I called upon was A. B. Sill, manager of the Globe Canning works and secretary of the Citizens' Mutual Building and La association. This association was esteb- lished ten ago. It has 625 member and has made 000. These loar but the actual interest charge to borrowers was a trifle less than 5 per cent. The asso- clation has made b one foreclousure in its ten years' history, and that was a vol- untary surrender. This is a building and loan *‘asscciation that is principally doing business with wage workers, who save up their little earnings and build little homes, and they are able to borrow in Leavenworth City at 6 per cent, and at the end of the time, by reloaning, they really do not pay but 5. That ie certainly as favorable a con- dition as that of any Nebraska loan assoc ation. The next part AS COMPARED. more on this ques- that T called upon was Charles Peaper, cashier of the First Na- tional bank. Mr. Peaper is a republican. In response to my Inquiry in regard to money, he made the following statement: ““There s an abundance of loanable money in this bank. Our customers say that the demand for money will increase materially this fall." The paid up capital of the First National bank of Leavenworth, of which Mr. Peaper is cashier, is $300,000, and the average de- posits are $300,000. Mr. Peaper also stated that the loans made by his bank are at § per cent to any merchant that has reason- ably fair credit, and 10 per cent when money is tight. Then T called on W. D. Kelly & Son and A. F. Callahan, real estate dealers and loan brokers. Hoth firms informed me that there was no difficulty in procuring money to loan on farms in Leavenworth county. The pri vailing rate is 6 to 8 per 7 to § per cent on town property A. M. Bain, real estate and loans, Leav worth, stated to me that with ample s curity at 7 per cent there I8 more money a lable for loaning purposes than there has ever been befors. 1 called on the ister of deeds of Leavenworth count; he certified over his name that mortgages filed within the last six months exceed in pumber those filed in any six months in the past two years. Al Lawrence a reputable eitizen stated that money is abun- dant for loans on farm property at 7 per cent, both at Lawrence and Ottawa. Arriy- ing ‘at Topeka at a quarter past | last Monday, I made the circuit of the bank buildings, and here is the result TOPEK AND LINCOLN CONTRASTED. F. M. Bonebrake, assistant cashier of the Central National bank, made the following statement The only trouble here is that we have more money than we can place. There Is at least $500,000 more now in our banks lying idle than we ever had. There is no trouble in getting money from eastern capitalists to loan on farm lands.” This bank has average deposits of $450,000. Mr. E. Henderson, assistant cashler of the First National bank of Topeka, made this statement: “Money is easy now. We are Qiscounting good mercantile paper at 8 per cent. When money is tight we charge 10 per cent.” Mr. John R. Mulvane, Bank of Topeka, the Kansas state capital, with deposits gating over §900,000, stated that the was loaning money at 8 per cent to chants whose credit fair. Mr. Mason, the paying teller of the Bank of Topeka, and secretary of the Topeka clearing house, furnished the following fig- ures: A age clearings of Topeka in July, RO Eria ekt beand s sirarsdont 131,607,700 Average cisarings of ‘Topeka for July, 1594 e tiaitars L 2,142,600 Average clearings 17 August, 1893, ... 1,043,500 Average clearings fur August, 1504,. 2,382,500 During the past eight months the Topeka n- president largest bank of the in the aggre- bank mer- have | our | a very | loaus, aggregating $300,- | were made at G per cent, | ent on lands and | clearing house has been showing from 40 to 60 per cent. The following Is a comparative showing the clearings of Topeka, Lincoln, Neb., Topeka having a of 96,000 and Lincoln a population TOPEKA. a gain of statement Kan., and population of 60,000: Fun . Juiy 13 July 20 July 7. August 3., August 10, August 1700 August 34 Au 2 | ey 7 | the | McClure & | Soy 1 September 21.. T Date—1501, July 6 July 13 Tuly 20 Tuly August 1. August 10.. August August August 31 Septembor htembor 76,241 @ i85 i . 842,08 city of Topeka, with 26 per cent less population, has 25 per cent inore clearings than Lincoln. How does that show the credit of Kansas? (A voice: “Good for prohibition.”’) (Applause.) Here is the fact: The city of Topeka has no state Institutions except the capitol; all the other state institutions are scattered about; and here you have all the advantages of university and insane asylum, penitentia and other institutions of a similar grade, and yet with those institutions your business do't come within 25 ‘per cent of that city. (A volce: “What did you say about it four years ago?’) Why I told the truth four years ago, as 1 am doing today. (Laughter and applause) I am presenting the facts as re. I can show you by figures, and I have got them with me, that in tlie year 1590, when I made my first tour of Kansas, they did not have half the bank eclearings they e today. Now, th is the real es wother point: 1 called on 1d abstract men of Topeka. remarks interrupted the wer any question as soon as 1 get through my part; if anybody wants to here till midnight, T will answer you all the questions. (A voice: *You are run- ning Lincoln down.") I am not running L coln down a particle; T simply show you the fact. (More cries, “You are running Lin- coln down.”") Well, now, if you will just act like gentlemen you will give more credit to Lincoin than it you act like hoodlums (Laughter and applause.) The Real Bstate Abstract and Tille company, successors to lark, 409 Kan: who handle all the abstracts of Shawnee county, made this statement to me, that in Shawnee county the mortgages have been paid off within the last year more rapidly than be- fore, and the records of mortgages are not 1 heavy as they were before. onse to my friend from Nemaha that not a single mortgage can be renewed in Kansas, [ want to say that dur- he year 1803 mortgages aggregating S were fildd with the count clerks and recorders in the state of Kan over $24,000,000 of them released NO TRUTH IN IT But the other day, after my return to Omaha, I met a gentleman from Saline, a tin can for Tobe Castor’(laughter), who said in a bantering way: “Now, what would you say? Suppose you were on this line; here is Nebreska, and here is Kansas over here; on this side you can sell your lands, and you can borrow money on your farms; and you cross this line, and you can’t borrow a dollar, and you can't sell?” Well,” I sald, “I would y to that that [t was an untruth,that there was not a particle of truth in it;" and I turned right around and found four or five gentlemen from Thayer county, including the hicr of the Th County bank, and they all said that there was not one word of truth In it. Thayer county, Nebraska, borders on Republic county, Kansas, and there s a constant intercommunication; and they pos! tively declared that, if anything, lands are a little more valuable in Republie county than they are in Thayer county, and loans can be made In either county for the same rate. (A voice: “THere is a firm in Lincoln which has loaned in Republic county within a few months—Republic county, Kansas—and would like to get some more of them.”) There is no doubt about that. I called upon Insurance Commissioner Snyder of Kansas, and he pointed out this fact, that the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company of Milwaukee, from whom 1 mysclf borrowed $200,000 on The Bee build- ing, is today doing business in the state of Kansas, and has its general ageni in carry- ing on its loans, just the same as it did before, which disproves absolutely the charge that there is no chance to borrow money upon lands or property in Kansas. And, beyond that, the Citizens' Savings bank of New York, one of the largest bauk- ing and lcan companies in New Yok, wrote to Mr. Biddell, the treasurer of the state of Kausas, only a few months ago, in answer to an inquiry as to what could be done with Kansas bonds, that they would be glad to place bonds of the state of Kansas at 4 per cent. Now, if you can do any better with Nebraska, you better do it. (Applause.) DEAL IN DOUGLAS COUNTY BONDS. The Boarl of Educational Lands and Build- ings of this state, and you know whom tiiey are composed of largely—of the gentlemen that had to be vndicated (laughier)—pur- chased the 43 per cent rcad bonds of Doug- as county, after they had been put through hands of a Cincinnati broker, and paid 60 bonus to the broker on a 41§ per cent loan and depesited it In the school fund. So, you see the economy of things. (Laugh- (A voice: “How much per cent are you paying?”) I am paying 5 per cent on tho loan that the Milwaukee Insurance com- pany made, and 1 pay 6 per cent on the loan that was made by the John Hancock com- jany; and I pay the banks § per cent when I borrow, and 1 have paid $10,000 interes once on a loan of $9,000 for six years—12 per cent compound interest. (Cries of “Good, £000.) | have gone through the loan mili and I know what it i&. The only place in Kansas where you cannot borrow on farm lands is in the drouth stricken region, where they have had three crop failures. 1 have shown you that these statements about Kan- sas are untrue, and I appeal to the business men not to rally around the boodle ring and help to keep the state of Nebraska under the control of the penitentiary gang that has taken out of the treasury nearly $300,000 that we won't get, and that has caused the treasury to be lcoted by nearly $1,000,000 in cxcess.ve charges in the last ten years, and which has left the state contract for peni- tentlary labor in its present condition. I say that the attempt to continue Nebraska in the grasp of the state house ring ought to be frowned down by every honest citizen. (Ap- plause.) PERSONALLY Let me refer to a little personal matter before 1 close. It probably may not Interest you, and yet it will be somewhat Interesting to somebody else. (Cries of “Good, good' and laughter.) A local Lincoln paper very recently addressed me a letter; that is not an unfrequent thing, although 1 am not a factor in politics since I resigned from the national committee, and cannot possibly exert the slightest influence in politics. The writer of this open letter addressed to me asks: “Is it true that you received contribu- tions in money from Mosher when his pen. itentiary contract was under fire, and has not Mosher in his possession certain checks ayable 1o your order that have a sinister significance?” Well, why didn't he ask me whether 1 murdered my grand- father or whether I whipped my wife. Ho makes no assertion; he wants to know; but I will answer Jt right here, that T defy the Mosher gang of penitentiafy thieves to produce the proof of it. (Applause). Let them produce & scrap of paper, or the first bit of evidenc:, except the perjured state- ments of that scoundrel, Charley Mosher, who committed forgeries and perjuries with- out number right here in your county, and got five pitiful years in the pen- itentiary, but I ‘defy him and all of his gang to produce & scintilla of paper or credible evidence that I ever got one penny or borrowed one dollar from him or had any transactions with him that were dishonorable, (Cries of “Good,” and ap- plause.) Here's the next one: “You have had a good deal to say about bleeding the state treasury. How can you account for the ex- istence of certain notes of yours made to J. C. McBride when he was stale treasurer, and of which the principal and Interest is due at this date upon these notes? 1f those notes do not represent blood money why INTERESTED. were they not presented, andrwhy did you not pay them, anyway? And‘What was the feason for your feverish amxlety not very long ago to obtain possession of one of them " WHAT THE CHAROHS ‘WERE. Well, now, that matter "fefuires a little explanation. ' (Laughter.) Imotaelatter part of December I recoived a letter trom Mr. Royce, our representative then I1p Athis ecity, that there was a rumor in circulation, or rather, that the state treasurer, Mf. Bartley, had, in a roundabout way, insinuatéd that there were & number of netes, amountingito $1,600, that d been given by me to J. €, McBride ‘when he was state treasurer, and that those notes were in his possession, Thee reports were being secretly circulated arouhd Lincoln. Im- mediately upon receipt of thtiinformation I mailed Mr. Bar(ley this letters “OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 50, 1893.—Hon. I, §. Bartley: Dear Sir—Have just received a lot- ter from Mr. Royce, our Lindoin correspond- ent, which, among other things, contains the' following: Mr. Bartley has hinted to me that he has certain notes In his possession signed by you, He claims that he purchased them in order to prevent some aMidavits which ac- company them from being printed and says that he did it entirely In your interest and did not want you to know about it. “This s the first intimation I have anybody holds any notes signed by me which remain unpald and uncollectable, barring notes held by local bankers and creditors se- cured by collateral that purloined, [ never have repudiated a legal claim or debt, even if such debt had been outlawed. "I certainly do not consider it your part to buy up such pretended claims without giving me notice or an opportunity to pay them, if genuine, or repudiate them, if fraudulent. 'If anybody has made aMdavits intimating that 1 have repudiated an honest debt or sought to levy blackmail I demand an opportunity to refute them, “Please present the alleged notes and affi- davits at your earliest convenience. Yours, “E. ROSEWATER.” Mr. Bartley did not respond to that letter right away. Then I sent a special reporter Mr. Hunt, down to Lincoln on purpose to interview 'Mr. Bartley and get some in- formaticn about this matter, and here fs what I wrote “OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 1, 1804 —Hon, J. 8. Dear Sir—This will be handed to you by Mr. Hun: to take a _copy of the alleged note and ap- pended affidavit purporting to explain the manner in which said note was negotiated by me or for me. I learn through Mr. Royce that the mote is said to be one of a series of notes aggregating $1,500 in favor of General McBride, state treasurer, and to which my name is appende 1 never bor. fowed any money from General MeBride while he was treasurer, and do not rem ber any transaction after he went out of office unless it was an exchange of notes made at his request and for his benefit. If 1 ever owed him any money he would been able to collect it, or, at any rate, cither he or some of his creditors would b tried to collect As & matter fact, we have a ciaim of several hundred doilars against him on a guarantee he made for an agent at Lincoln, who turned out to Dbe an embezzler. Yours, “2. ROSEWATER.” Through Mr. Royee 1 found out that the alleged note was s Mr. Bignell, the superintendent of the Bur- lington road. (Laughter.) You see, railroad officials alwa terest in me personal ““OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 1 sq.: Dear Sir—I learn (Laughter.) 184.—E. Bignell, tliroligh Mr. Royce are in pos: on of 'several not ting $1,600, and in favor of General cBride, and that oneidf these note 1 sold by you to Hon. J. S. Bartley I do not remember of eyer borrowing any money from General McBride, and nobody has ever presented payment. ‘The bearer, Mr. Hunt, is hereby authorized to inspect any of the notesand any docu- ments you may have authenticating them. Please exhibit the notes and papers to Mr Hunt, and present them ‘to me for identifi- cation at your earliest convénience. I have never repudiated an honest debt, and would not do o, even if outlawed. . If you consider these notes genuine 1 canpoi comprehend why you have nover presepted payment or sent me word that in your possession. Yours, '’ E. ROSEWATER.” The following New Years 1 received this letter from Mr. Dartley, reads as follows “Replying to your special delivery letter no Wil of the 31st ultimo, I have purchased papers of any description against you. be pleased to sec you personally, can satis was wholly in your interes M'BRIDE'S EMPHATIC EXPLANATION. Immediately upon recelving the informa- tion about the alleged McBride notes, I sent letter: neral J. €. MeBride, Galveston, s at Lincoln claim to be in pe of several note be signed by when I Tex. ssion aggregating $1,500, said to myself, payable to yourself, dated in 1577, or sometime during your first or second term as treasurer. One of these notes is said to be for §150, and attached to it is an aMdavit from a person whose name the partics refuse to divulge, alleging that this note and the others of the mong your papers when you office, and that you instructed him not to present them for collection because they were blood money and were never expected 10 be paid “Please wire me At my expense whether you ever advanced me any mouey while treasurer, or whether you ever held any un- paid notes for money advanced to me, and whether you ever stated to anybody that you had been held up by me for campaign contributions. Yours very truly, 3. ROSEWATER.” Now, here is the telegram in response to my letter. ‘GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 6, 1804.—To B, Rosewater: “About seventeen years ago, whilst state treasurer of Nebriska, Edward Rosewater asked permission to draw a draft on me for $150 as a loan. I paid the draft, and the amount was repaid me by Mr. Rosewater in good time. Soma eight or nine vears later Rosewater endorsed a note with me for $2,000, I think with an Omaha bank, which was paid. These are the only financial transactions we ever had. He never gave me a note for any sum, nor ever extorted or tried to extort any money from me. That I ever made such statement or claimed to hold such notes is all damned rot *J. C. M'BRIDB." (Laughter and applause.) Now, that is a little bit emphatic, and I am sorry that 1 had to read it just as it came over the wire. The wires will swear sometimes. The sequel of it all was that after Bignell had ben interviewed about this matter Mr. Bartley came to my office and exhibited a note that I had signed in 1877; on the back of it was a credit of $65 for job work. There is no doubt that the balance was either paid in money or job work, At that time we were still running a job printing office; we haye not done so for the last twelve or fourteen years; Me- Bride had & whole lot of blank ‘and letter head work done at Omala, and that amount was paid up In some way. This note was doubtless what McBiidd referred to as a draft. He never had ahother. 1 have dis- burscd between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 since 177, and ce: tiialy have bee ) I po ition to piy $85 to McBride or anybody else that held a claim for such amount. Ks a matter of fact, here is a certified copy-of a note I en- dorged for McBride for §2,000 in Omaha in 1886 to assist him where he was in need and it was signed by McBride, .C. C. Burr, H. C Melone and W. V. Whitten, And if I had owed him any money previously we cer- tainly would have squared it up at that time. BIGNELL'S VERSION. But now we will get Mr. Bignell's version. This comes indirectly, becase 1 have not seen him, but Royce wrote’me this report. This is what Bignell said: ‘AL knew nothing of the existence of the. motes In question until after the article in reference to the Burlington volunteer relief department ap- peared just before election. In that article The Bee mccused me of endeavoring to take an underhanded advantage of a widow, and 1 am free to say that the attack, or, at least, what I considered an attack, made me angry. 1 felt that the article = reflected upon my honor''-—and he Is a very tender chicken, isn't he? Mr. Bignell is very ten- der and consclentious. He was touched on the raw when The Bee sald that the Bur- lington rellef concern was gotten up to bamboozle the workingmen. He felt in- dignant at such an Intimation. 8o he saye here: “A few days after the article ap- peared, or perhaps on the day following, & gentleman came to my office, and asked me why 1 did not get hold of svmetbing I went out of 1f anybody has sold you | Qsuch notes they must either be spurious or proper on | who is hereby muthorized | of | id to be in the hands of these take such a deep in- ny of them to me for | them for they were which in substance you that my action in the matter ries were | could use against Rosewater. 1 told him that 1 had no controversy with Rosewatef, and knew of nothing that 1 could get hold of to use against him, He told me of these gotgs, and {old e where I could get one of them. Wwent to the party who held it and got It. I did not buy it. The | party gave it to me to use for my own behe: | At. 1 happened to drop into Bartley's office, and I told him what I had got. and that [ was going to print it in the Lincoln Journal.” 0, yes; of course. (Cries of “Rats.’) I showed 1t to Bartley and he laughed me out of it, T left the note and the afidavit with Bartley, with the distinet understanding that no one was to know of its existence. When 1 get the note in my possession again, 1 propose to lock it up in a safe deposit box and never let It go out of my possession 1 will show it to no one except Mr Rosewater or Mr. Royce. 1 will not permit Royce to make a copy of it, or a copy of the affidavit. I will not let Royce see the affidavit nor tell him of its contents. 1 will simply let him look at the note to satisfy himself that it is what I claim it 1. 1 will not present the note for pay- ment; meither will I allow Rosewater to take it up. [ did not pay a cent for it, and I will not sell it for $5,000 even."” (Laughter.) | Well, now, that is a pretty howdedo, isw't’ it? Here is a gontleman that is managing the affairs of the mechan- feal department of the Burlington railroad concerning himself with the private affairs of a person with whom he has no relations He gets hold of a paper purporting to be a note, and goes on hawking it about, and feeling certain that there was a whole lot, the state; and he goes to the state treas- urer, and that kind gentleman, who has always been such a dear friend of mine, he don't let me know anything about it, but just takes it to protect my reputation, as he told my representative here. Now, I am not very thankful for that kind interest Mr. Bartley has manifested. It seems to me an outrage; but it Is only one of the illu trations to what base tricks people will re- sort that belong to this infamous | state house ring, this coterle of pub- | lic plunderers, ~always trying o pur- them as blackmailers, bloodhounds, or thing else. I want to say right here I challenge contradiction, that 1 have ported and helped to elect not less seventy-five to 100 candidates for state offi- ces, including the present gove or of Ne- braska and the three state oficers that were {mpeached in the last legislature. I chal- lenge any of them, and 1 challenge any other n who has ever run for any office in this te, to come here, or anywhere, and face me, or bring evidence that I ever de- manded a penny of him for support, that I asked him for any contribution {o the paper, or tried to extort any money from him by threats that he would not get support, or sought in any way to ire political in- fluence by threats from him, or threatening | him with the i will of the paper or my- self if he did not do my bidding. (Applause.) INFLUENCE OF A GENERAL MANAGER. We have been admonished by John M. Thurston and Senator Manderson that the opinions and conclusions of many men are much better than the opinion and conclusion of no man—no matter how wise he may be. This I eoncede to be tru but if that one man happens (o bo the general manager of a great rallroad, acting in the capacity of political a! or, and {f that man's mandate is obeyed by £00 retainers who occupy seats in a great convent does thelr choice of candidates represent he frce and untram- meled will and choice of the republican party, and are the rank and file in honor bound to ratify the nominations dictated by the one man, even though that man was not a republican? That is just what has braska. The present any and sup- than happened in Ne- ticket at Omaha was made up that way, and you all know just | as well as I do that Thomas J. Majors never could have been nominated if it had not been for the influence of the Burlington railroad back of him. (Applause) I deny the legiti- macy of his nomination. 1 have stated before at Fremont, that that man was nomi- nated by the ald of the Lancaster delegates, and without their votes he could not have been nominated, Those sixty delegates were not endorsed in your county convention, but were simply sixty men selected after the convention had adjourned. 1 have had & letter from Mr. R. E. Moore to contradict my statement, and I cheerfully give his version. He says that it was not true that | the delegation was made up two weeks after | the convention had adjourned, but only four | days after the convention hed adjourned. (Applause.) It didn't make a particle of | difference whetlier the delegates were picked out four days or fourteen days after; they were named not at the republican conven- tion, bat at the honse of J. H. Ager. They were made out by Ager and other railroad tools; and Mr. Ager draws a salary of $300 a month, while it takes seven or eight brakemen, or switch- men, to earn that much mon-y on the Bur- lington road. (Applause) What is he draw- ing it for? He is drawing it for most per- | nicious work, for undermining your whole | state government, for destroying the found: tion of the state, the government of the peo- ple, which the founders of the republic and the men who fought from 1861 to 1865 worked for and fought for. It was by such means that the conspiracy was consuinmate: to fasten a man upon the people whom th: people never would trust, and whom the people will repudiate on the 6th day of No- vember. (Applause.) HOLCOMB MEANS HONESTY. Now, fellow citizens, I am very near to the close, I simply want to make an ap- peal (o you. I ask every voter in Nebraska that desires to uphold Nebraska and stand as a representative of the morals and the ma- terial _welfare of the Btate to su port Silas Holcomb for governor. (Ap- plause) I want to say to you that when clected, as I think he will be, (applause) he will not be elected by the populists alone, nor the democrats alone, nor the repub- licans alone; he will be the governor of the people of the state of Nebraska. (Great ap- plause.) No one party can make him gov- ernor, but all the people, regardless of party, will make him governor. (Applause.) The fiat has gone forth, and all the machinations and plots and treasonable conspiracies to deprive the people of their rights never can overcome it. They tried it at Omaha; they tried it there when the democratic convention was in session. A whole brood of bribe givers and boodlers and jury fixers | and scoundrels of every description, that make a living (applause) out of poisoning the fountains of free government, werc around trying to influence the convention, and it is to its credit that it did not suc- | cumb to that Influence. That is the truth, and nobody ecan gainsay it; and it | they 'want the mames I will print them. (Cries of "“Good, good.” “Hit 'em again.”) Now, then, I want to address myself par- ticularly to republicans. You remember that in 1891, before leaving this state on my tour to Europe, I made an appeal over my own name for the republicans of this state to re- deem the pledges that they had made to the people in thelr paltform. 1 asked them in the name of the party and on behalf of national as well as state supremacy to do their duty; and this is what I said: “What shall we do to be saved? This s the ques- tion which confronts us now, and which mainly inspires me to write this letter. Let us be frank with ourselves. The republican party does not deserve to rule Nebraska unless it redeems its pledges and discards | the leaders whose allegiance to the party and devotion to the people’s iInterests are secondary to their allegiance 1o the railroads a porate monopolics generally. “‘We cannot hope to win in the battle, elther this year or in 1892, unless we do some- thing tangible for the producers. Promises will no longer be accepted as a legal tender by our farmers and workingmen. “We must either reconvene the legislature and give the people the relief we have prom- ised or force the State Board of Transporta- tion to do its duty. “Good crops will doubtless bring better times, and the flat money and subtreasury craze will subside when the farmers have $0ld their surplus at good pric But the de- mand for reduced railroad rates will not abate until it has been complied with. An abundant harvest will emphasize this demand for lower rates more than ever, and it is simply out of the question to expect any re- cruits from our farming people so long as our party, which controls the Board of Trans. portation and is responsible, fails to act up to our platform promises. “For myself, I can see no salvation for our party by any other course, and unless our state officers are willing to sacrifice not only the party of this state, but of the nation, they will heed my admonition.” PLEDGES OF 1891 IGNORED. When I camo home in 1691 the appeal was made to me to help save the party and ihe six or eight or ten of them, floating all over | sue men and run them down, and denounce | state, and I went out and appealed then to the citizens of Nebraska, regardless of party, to stand up and help elect Judge Post as supreme Judge, because Mr. Bdgerton, In my Judgment, and 1 have not altered it yot, wus not a proper person to Al that office, because he BAd not the experlence and was ot jugt exactly the kind of man that ought to fill the place. Well, § appealed to democrats ta come In with us, and they came; | appealed to the republicans to stand up for Nebraska, and they did; but did they redeem the pledges that were made In that campalgn? sir. Who sought to redeem them, and who did not? When the legislature met we had four- teen republicans in the state senate, the opulists had fourteen and the democrats had five. What did the republicans do? Thoy made their combination with the rail- road democrats and organized that senate by the ald of Mr. Majors in the interest of the corporations and the railroads, so that they could prevent any rational legislation. I be lleve three out of the fourteen republicans stood up and stood by the pledges, and voted for the maximum rate biil that passed our legislature. (Applause.) Two weeks before the convention I met ain Friday of Holdrege. He made a vig orous protest the nomination of a man whom I know to be friendly to the rail- roads but had a clean rec 1 d 1 said to him, “Well, then, fwhat _about Judge Crounse?’ And id, “Well, we don't want him. Crounse didn’t keep his pledges ho signed the maximum rate bill.” *Well,' 1 said, “Didn't he keep his pledges? The party pledge was made in good faith, and he fulfiiled it in good faith, and you have no right to blame him.” (Applause.) We carrled Douglas county for the that [ thought was available, but h not find favor with the men wear the B. & M. bedge. The uth was down deep that the orders had gone out by the fron rule of the czar that "“Majors must be nominated, me what may. He don’t care for the republican party; he Is a demo- crat with railroad democrats, o’ republican with railroad republicans, and, just like Jay Gould, for the railroad interests against the interests of the state.” Now, shall Nebraska rule herself? Shall cbraska rule Nebraska? Or shall we hav this state ruled by a Boston monopoly, that owns the Burlington road, and by the New York and London syndicates that own the other railroads in this state? Shall the yoke b> kept upon the neck of the people, until all that they have contended for, until every- thing that our constitution was framed for, until everything that generations of men back of the American colonies have con- tended for, when Cromwell made his fight— shall all be trampled under foot, and our people be reduced to common bondage? I say no, and never. (Applause.) It has been charged by the railroad organs here that two years ago I was willing to go into a compact with the Burlington road to nominate Judge Crounse. Well, T did not £0 into a compact with the Burlington road. The Burlingten road was so frightened out of its wits thot General Van Wyek would be elected that they went into a compact with me. (Laughter applause.) They were nearly scared to death that they would be beaten with Majors at the head of the ticket; they had very good reason to be afraid, and they camb in and threw their influence for Judge 1se at that convention. I am willing to concede that. When we fought against Unicn Pecific domination y and vears ago, and the Burlington wus on one side and the Union Pacific on the other, 1 sad then: "I am ready to fight the devil with the devil." I believe in practical politics, just as I be- lieve in practical bemevolence. When they pass around the contribution box in your churches they do not ask where the money came from that falls into it; ive the charity just as readily from the publican nd sinner as they do from the good church member who says his prayers regularly and lives up straight to the golden rule. HOW THE STATE MAY BE SAVED. Now, It we can succeed in saving the state by any means, let us save the state It was Abraham Lincoln that said that he was willing to save the union; he was will- ing to save the union with slavery intact, if it could be saved that way; he was will- ing to save the union without slavery, and would like to save it without slavery, if he could save the union that way; but, in any event, he was going to save the union, and the people of the United States, regard- less of party, responded to his call and ral- lied In arms to save the union. General Grant was a demoerat when he went into the war, and o were Generals Thomas and Sherman, and yet they were just as noble patriots and loyal sol as any that fought against the hydraheaded monster that reared its head in rebellion. Now, then, shall we save the state? That 1s the' quesfion. Shall we save it by the aid of the populists? Shall we save it by the aid of the democrats? Shall we save it by the aid of the consclentious citizens that belong to no party? Shall we save it Ly the aid of the republicans that belleve in republicanism as it was expounded by the founders of the party, or shall we let the state go into the hands of people who are entirely untrustworthy, who beiray every trust that has ever been placed in their hands, and go down to the younger gener- ation that is now rowing up around you with an example that would be spreading the virus and polson of corruption smong your people, into your churches, into your schools, into your homes, everywhere? Now, I appeal to you, fellow citizens, and fellow republicans, stand up for Nebraska, and stand up as we ought to stand up for the state—for the whole state, for the gov- ernment of the people, by the people; and when you do, the generations that come after rou will call you biessed. (Applause). STILLWATER late republican Palmer, the man man could who ORCHE, Manufacturing Compnny's Plunt eral Resldenees Burned, STILLWATER, Minn., Sept. 29.—At 10:30 o'clock last night fire broke out in the Stillwater Manufucturing company's plant, and the entire establishment was totally de- stroyed. The fire was still raging and ad- Joiniug buildings were in great danger, with a heavy wind, which gave the department a terrible blaze to cope with. Help was asked from St. Paul, and a couple of en- gines sent to’the help of the Stillwater de- partment. The loss will be very heavy At one ti looked as if the north end of Stillwater, ounding the prison, was doomed, but the fire department and citizens worked heroicall, and succeeded In saving the Thresher company’s buildings and the street rallway power house. Residences on the hillside, excepting the residence of Isanc Staples, were totally consumed. The fire was so hot that the fire department could not get near it. The damage to stock and buildings of the manufacturing company will not be less than $25,000. e — MURDERED BY BURGLARS. James Brown, Superintendent of the Intand Cotton Mill, Shot. RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 20.—James Brown, superintendent of the Long Island cotton mill near Statesville, missed articles from his store, and Thursday night informed his family that he would sleep there and catch the thief. Yesterday morning his daughter went to the store about 6 o'clock in the morning. She found the door unlocked, and her father lying on the floor with a bullet in his head, and evidences of a fearful strug- gle between himself and the thieves. Blood was on the counters, doors, and articles were scattered about, all showing a hard fight for life. Brown was an Englishman, G0 years of age. He came to this state seven years ago from New Jersey, and was very popular. The people are much wrought up over the cold-blooded murder and rob- bery. Long Pl Endeavorers Will Meet In Boston, BOSTON, Sept. 29.—Qeneral Secretary Baer of the United Society of Christian En- deavor announced last night that the inter- national convention of 1895 would be held in Boston on account of the long delay of western railroad managers in announcing a deciston in regard to the special rates to the Pacific coast. —— Train Rolled Down the Bank, COLUMBUS, Miss.,, Sept. 20.—An extra frelght train on the Mobile & Ohlo jumped the track near here yesterday afternoon and rolled down a high embankment Jumes Fitzgeraid and Daniel Thompson, a colored brakeman, were killed. Four other members of (Lo Wraln crew were meriously Injured. Conductor GREATEST OF POKER CAMES ional Tournamsnt to Be Held in New York This Antuma, AN PLAN AND PRIZ: OF TH A Monster Jack Fot ports o Mistory of the Game u & I8 Variatl Tussio of Poker playing thing like a vere 1w be said of m. The heretofore las never Involved any- whatever nervous mental its cfeet literature largely straln upon the of the game h consisted of anecdotal rather toelucidate the deportnient of the great in crises of one kind or another than to afford material for the of ntifie historlan, wever are the of a fuily momen- tous In its way as is that of the earth upon 1ts The learned societies acti afford such delight livelihood s connected with printers’ bills, will find a riv ment which s destined to r assembly of a poker conc gress, of which published will mark an epoch in the use The whole affair, spondent, had trifle, but ai matter. It was that the idea fir series of poke throughout fragments calculated pages Now, eve the we on revolution s axis. whose trans- il whose the size of 1 in the move- awch a climax ve and con- dings of Jack pots. Globe-Democrat its origin in the ns to in the the proce says a the merest ware, for that York enthustast of a prearranged ayed in different country by parties of To take one Six poker players evening to be selected. in the pot, and it takes §6 being $12 in the game to follows that were four only the opening there would be the very lowest. Nor need it be pointed out to a tyro in the game that endless contingencies might arise in which the pot would much exceed that sum. How- aver, let it go, as they say on Coney Island, at §: 80 Punic to a New oceurs games | the redeemers town or say Buffalo, have a game on an Each man has § Ther with, it stay in at $32 to win at cities local chip to open. start to A GRAND w, under the ter JACK POT. s of the compact, as arranged, poker players all over the uniom would have united in theso little games. The winner of each does not, however, pocket his earnings. The $32 in every caso I8 re- rved for a grand fund made up by the 100 odd games so played throughout the coun- try. That would make $3,200 in all. The winning 100 would meet in convention and arrange for a mew set of winners. Twenty games of five rs each would be or- ganized. Bach man would put up $2 tg a Jack pot, before, with $5 to open. The Hmit, it should be stated, is $5 all the way through this series of games. Well, then, there would be a $10 pot In every instance and twenty of them at that. Three men on an average stay in the game when the jJack pot Is opened. That would give twenty $25 pots or $500 more to add to the original sum of $3,200. The twenty men who come out of this gec- ond ordeal as winners now form another serles of flve games of four players each. Needless to say there would be an adjourn- ment between each series long enough to settle differences of opinion between gentle- men and to determine the choice of a referee whose decision in all cases must be final. But when the twenty survivors get together for thelr five games under the same terms have previously prevailed, it follows that $2 from each man and $5 to open would mean §$18 at least as the pot in each. Five times $18 glve §90 to swell the sum in hand already. Now, comes the final bout. The five vetor- ans who thus come out of these various ordeals sit down together to a glorious final game. The pot would be §$2.200 plus $500 plus $90, or §3,790. It would still be a jack with §2 apiece to come in or $10 In making $3,800 to start the game with. TI limit s still $5. The winner of this final pot pockets all the money. A BETTER PLAN. But it was Willis B. Hawkins, king of poker pots and advertising columns, whose bluffs have made his name a household word wherever such things as ralses are known, who mot only expressed boundless enthusiasm over the tournment to come, but perfected a plan under which the con- tost will take place, and which, as will be seen, materially changes the aspect of the contest as originally outlined, Here is what the editor of Brains said: “The Initial work of the great netional Jack pot has not all been done yet, but it has progressed so far that I can glve you & com- preheneive outline of the games as they will be played. I propose to div.de the United States Into six grend districts. Bach of these will be subdivided and cach of these subdivisions again subdivided, and so on until the smallest subdivision shall represent a population of not more than 10,000, Games will be played simultaneously in esch eof tho smallest subdivisions at a date set by the governing committee. The six men in each of these subdivisions who shall first make application (with a self addressed en- velope enclosed) will be appointed to play the game for their subdivision. Bach of these shall ante $2, making the jack pot of that disirict aggregate $12. The winner of this jack pot shall own all winnings above the originil $12 (n the jack pot. This $12 will not belong to him, but must be anted by him in the game to be played by the second district, composed of six subordinate districts. That is to say, the six players of the sacond district will anto $12 each, making a jack pot of §72, and this rule ehall hold good for #1l the ascending districts until tho final grand national jack pot Is played, when the winner takes the entire contents of the pot, plus whatever he can win from the other five luckiest poker dels. gates in America.” Mr, Hawkins was then asked for an es- timate of the amount in the final pot. The cat poker sage of the Tribune bullding re- plied, heartily: Oh, bless you, any poker player can fig- ure thit out. I don’t mind intimating that the winner of the last pot can write his check in efght figures on velvet.” It is superfluous to indicate how limitless a field this concatenation of conclaves af- fords to the world of poker players, It opens up a territory in the domain of jack pots t never been explored. Con- sider, too, the endless variety of which the scheme is susceptible. The original $2 of euch player may be made $10, a sum which would seem a bagatelle to legions of playefs, since the final pot would thereby equal $20, 000 and the cost of being a competitor in the final game would not exceed $100. As all Americans know, many a man has “dropped” $5,000 in one game of poker. LLY DEAD, WAS LEG Dr. E. 8. Tynan of California In serting that He s Alive. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.—The pearance of Dr. E. 8. Tynan, who myi ously disappeared two years ago was absent until three days ago, will be the signal for an Interesting suit in St. Anislals county, where his cstate, valued at $200, 000, was distributed among his heirs. The superior court declared him legally dead. His presence on the scene will make vold all the proceedings agalnst his executor wherein the jury found that the dootor teok charge of his first wife's two daughters by a former husband, The step-daughters sued Tynan's exccutor for the total value of the estate, and appealed to the supreme court from the decision giving a share 1o the second wife. As soon as the doctor s le~ gally declared alive the stepdaughters will renew their sult, and the entire contest will be fought over again. e oS Died at a Ripe Old Age. KERRVILLE, Tex., Sept. 20.—A Mexican named Modericos died at Ingram, near this city, yesterday. His relatives and Intimate friends assert most positively that he was 160 years old, He has beer married times, marrying his first wifo 109 years ago. He had thres grown sous ln the war of 1813, ts on As- reap-