Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1894, Page 1

JUNE 19, OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMB 1 SIS (IR AL S D ey v LW O v WV & e fic?/\“\\\#l, % ANY IYNIS PR 1 Gt 2 £ 0 \ SAVE NEBRASKA FROM CONFEDERATED MONOPOLY g THE - CORPORATION ANACONDA Most Gigantic Combination Ever Banded To- gether to Keep the People of Nebraska in Political Bondage. ; COERCION BY THREATS AND INTIMIDATION Merchants Threatened with Withdrawal of Credits, Farmers with Foreclosure of Mort- gages and Wage Workers with Re- duced Pay or Discharge--Great Struggle for Self<Govern- ment. ! The most desperate contest that has ever | been waged in Nebraska between the peopie and the confederated wext Tuesday. are linked together by one common interest have pooled and their energles for the clection of Thomas J. Major: along its line to instruct its employes to for Majors. The Un out an official to impress upon its employes the ne vote on Pacific has also sent monopolies will elose All the corporate forces that ty for voting for the railroad can- didate for governor, and agents of that com- pany, in spite of the denials of its officials, interfering with every one of its employe city, issues concentrated are the personal choice of Iy in this the state, The Burlington czar has taken personal charge , not ¢ of the campaign and has staked his reputa- tion on his ability to purchase enough voters | A ners has been set in mo- g the entire Every employe on th ystem se railroads from sec- to carry Majors Into the governor's chair. 1 local frelght whole army of tion to traverse every section of tho state and distribute railroad passes greenbacks where they can be used to As an auxiliary to the rallroads in their high- Bended efforts to debauch and corrupt the woters of Nebraska the leading bankers in this city, whose establishments are deposi- torles for the railroads, the managers of the South Omaha stock yards, the Standard OIl monopoly, tho lumber, grain and coal pocls, Who enjoy special rebates, have all jolned to- gother under the name of the “Business Men's Several hundred busi- ness men In this clty and clsewh dragooned Into signing their appeal to vote for Majors and save the credit of the state from ruin, Thkese lists have been padided and magnified to make It appear that the great majority of Omaba merchants and manufac- turers are In accord with this policy. As a matter of fact, these men have valnly protested agalnst the use of thelr mames, and many others would do so It they dared take thelr chances on & boycott by th bankers and railroa dependent. RAILROAD MEN COERCED. A perfect relgn of terror has been In Augurated in the ranks of the rallway em- Ployes, Every rallrcad in the state is en- | the situation tuat the Burlingten r #aged In this work of intimidation. The Mis- | has added $15,000 to the $10,00) already sourl Pacific bas sent one of its gencral agents tviburas the camnaign funl and tion hand up to telegrapher g | slgnif terest to vo , has been given to understand in a At manner that it will be to his in- for Tom Majors. CLERKS ARE THREATE and advantage. D. pursued ness houses 1 that th jors or take t The policy | number of banks and b clerks have been same belng in a notifled cither vote of being dr election, ped from the pay roll after | t Thursday Andrew J. ‘Smith, | one of tho clerks of the Neb be this , which is the Burlington depository In | city, digcharged because he e nselt in favor of Holcomb as the democr: i Smith etill democrat he dared tion of the railroad demo- eratic rump leaders, and the president of the bank, Mr. Henry W. Yates, declared tha no man could rcmaln In its employ who| favored Holcomb. The evident the discharge of Mr. Smith was all was Assoclatlion,' Assocla pressed regular under to eritl: ere have been atie nox is but belng o ize the pury to adm se of | scores of other employcs that their heads would | come off if they dared to express an opinion | adyerse to the Burlington candidate. It credibly reported that $50,000 have been placed at the disp the campalgn managers in the in Majors, and more m , upon whom they are s s sal of of ey has be:n promised | before the day of clection. 8> desperate Is ilroa?t on ta other | wilt b thus contributed sources have been appealed to for funds. The moncy is 1 hase tho pur- the cam- bending thefr every at- Tue corruption of the bailot box in Omala Omaha In the purchase the to as a corruption fund with which to pur usi voters, and it is to the plans for chase of the necessary votes that n ‘managers arc tenti for the and South addition cities it western and northwestern parts of the state, In order to ssfully careful arrangements are being made. old polling books of last secured and from them the are known to have left the state, of these absent voters will be given by the colonists who expect to vote without being detected by the rural districts, To cover up the colonization fraud railroad press has already annonunced that trom Nebraska nearly so great as had been supposed, at the present time. is already perfected. to of votes in is proposed to colonize voters do this suc the most The on taken year have be have been names of thousands of of voters who the unsuspecting people in the the exodus has not been this way the railroad managers hope to dis- count the effects of the discovery of presence of thousands of illegal votes when the returns come in. It is also learned that plans have already been considered to contest ot Judge iIn the event that his plurality 3,000 votes of the total vote given to Majors, up the scheme and give respectability the public days be notified that a reward will be paid the election Holcomb is within In order to bolster it a semblance of will within a few by the state central committee for evidence of illegal voting. BIG CONTRACTS PLAY A PART. The return of Jim McShane from Wyoming jthrows a calelum light upon the efforts of his brother, John A, business partners, to turn democrats over to Ma, It appears that James McSh: has a contract for 3,000,000 cross-ties, to be delivered to the Burlingten railroad on its The best railroad engineers state that the of which McShane the head, cleared $150,000 out of that contraet, and expects to clear another $150,000 before the contract which will be McShane, and Wycming and Montana extenslon, d syrdicate, inform is has ires, about the end of 18 It has also transpired that several bankers and business men, who have enrelled their names in the calamity manifesto the bond the to voters, are surities on of the late State Treasurer Hill and present These State Treasurer Bartley Judge that parties are mortally afraid Wakeley, the b men under the direction of Governor Crounse, H is rendered against them who has been employed to prosecute be continued under Governor b until a judgment in the It Majors that court. On the other hand they Wakeley's services will supreme 1s elected, have assurance be dispensed with and some lawyer employed who would | either bungle up the case or lct it go by default, HIGH PRICED LITERATURE. The managers of the Majors campalgn baye in | The names | In | the | nis | T | employed the corps of paid iters who are devoting {heir entire time the services of a to manufacture of faked stories and story is too preposterous for > imaginative literary gentlemen to re- late and their pictures of ruln, distress and | calamity are lurid with figtion of the most | palpable character. They nake a speciaity | of ®upplying the country gress witii stero- | typed editorials, all of hich ring the | changes of the calamityy war cry. The people of Nebraska are asstred in one place that “the election of the populist ticket and the conscquent loss of state credit and state immigration will decrease the value of our lands fully $5 per acre,” It is claimed that land in one county In Kansas lying adjacent to similar fands on the Neb ide of the line are worth §5 less per acre. | are intended only to frighten the credulous in distant parts of the state who have no means of investigation. There I the facts to wairant such gutrage: sumptions. A trip along the boundary line between Nebraska and Kansas will convince any fair minded man that lands in Kansas are worth as much, improvements, char. | age being equal, as the lands on the Ne- braska side. This is not @ mere statement dra from the imagination. It Is sus- ceptible of proof, and, moreover, it has been proved. Whole mortga cast tons of Judge Holcomb's alleged record have been distributed broad- over the state, and several hundred columns of antl-Rosewater blackwash have been turned out by the fake mills, all for the | purpose of distracting the attention voters from the real issucs of the campaign The attempt been wal fallure, as | dismal a failuge as the effort to w it ap pear that the sole lssue Is whether Rose- water shall be crowned dictator of Nebraska on the 6th of November. The Wisner Chron- lcle, & republican newspaper, hits the bull's nt on the dictator has a eve in the following com | busine Some men fellows to tsm, but Holdregelsm. are exhorting thelr the state from Rosews have no scruples again | The editor of The Bee miust be shown -that | he cannot dictate, but the manager of the B. & M. must be acknowleliged dictator su- preme, Which most détrimental to the | state? Rosewater's effot have always been | against monopoly; Holdrege is the head of the most gigantic and oppresisve poration in the state. Rosewater can obligg ne to patronize him 1o the amount, of a cant against “ will; Holdrege exacts tribu upon a ma- jority of the people of N and they have been Relpless to will continue to be hel vote for the men whom Haldrege | The > 18 not Rosewaterism og dregelsm. It s the peopla agei tionism, and Rosewate peop COERCION AND INTIMIDA' Reports men deliver they D nomin; nst a letters from reliabl and farmers In all parts of represent that the same methods of coercl bulld and intimidation are pur- sued railroad bosses, bankers agents in the interior of the Mer- chants who have notes maturing in the near future have been notified t they will not it Holcomb ected. Farmers mortgage loans to meet during the coming year ‘have been threatened with for 1 rallway employes are given to understand that their wages will be re duced after clection unless Majors is clected In s ¢ instances wages have already been | eut down, and employe n told that they will not be r: Majors s elected, o spite of this reign of terror The Bee the g being and state. be rene who have ure, have sed unlesy Such stories | *ter of the soil, topography and drain- | of the | loan | nce from every section of the state from men who are conservative and law abiding citizens that they are de- termined to exercise their franchise accord- Ing to their conscientious convictions under the protection which the Australian ballot afford:. ANDARD OIL LUBRICATOR. The zction of the Standard Oil comy in signing the business men’s manifesto is being severely commented upon in many parts of the state, The Standard Oil com- | Pany is one of tlie most powerful monopol in the United States, a J dually, but surely, extending its powers all over the world. It is dircetly interested in politics in Nebraska for the reason that this state has a law upon its statute books prohibiting the sale of oil below a certain established test. This law never been properly exe- cuted, but it Majors is elected the Standard | Oil company may reasonably expect that the oil inspection department will be placed under the control of some of the many irresponsible political workers who constantly surround the tattooed candidate. The lax enforcement | of the law means thousands of dollars in the coffers of the Standard oil monopoly. Mr. J B. Ruth, Omaha manager of the Oil trust, al- though personally a genial citizen and well talked of by all, has taken a personal inter- est in the campalgn, and, following the exam- ple of many others having men under their employ, has carefully interrogated the ploy feeling with reference to Majors or Holcomb. He has given them to understand by his man- ner that he desires them to vote for Majors. Most of the men 0 informed him, but one of the employes states that nearly all of the of the ard Oil company in Omaba will vote for Holcomb. A SC OR GULLIBLES. In their extremity the managers of Majora campaign have been finally forced to | resort to a number of well known tricks in- | tended to deceive the unsuspecting voter into Ing thelr candidate, T well worn in Nebraska, but it up in new clothes and made purpose once more. This men will use the trick for the purpose of establishing beet sugar factorles. One of se factories is about to be located at Ful- lerton, in Nance county. A gentleman named | W. Beasley Hayes from New York Is stop- ping at the Millard, and it is stated that he is to accompany Brad Slaughter to Fullerton, where he will unfold the plans for the erection of mammoth beet sugar refinery. He I tell of the hundreds of thousands of dollars to be Invested by capitalists. These rn money owners will not ask a bonus They have investigated the question and satisfied themselves that there the globe so favorable to beet as Fullerton. After the good p lerton are about ready to c | sely the era of prosperity about to dawn they will be informed, incldentally, of course, as if it was of no speclal importance, the m for investr |and that work is to commence right | after election; but in order to satisfy them- | selves that their interests will be properly guarded these eastern Investors have decided | to wait and see whether Holcomb I8 elected |18 he is they will be compelled to walt a fow |y but it the republican candidate for | governor is elected they will proceed at once This trick has served its purpc Ne braska for 0 many years that no one will be im with it now. All beet sugar factory projects depending upon the election of Majors next Tuesday may well be looked upon Witk susgicion, | employes | suppo o scheme will be dre to ser the Majors time by eastern eas is no spot on r industry ople of Ful gratulate them- s ov that ney Is all ready away ts e in e ssed em- | of his company in Omala as to their | nt VOTES HOLCOMB WILL HAVE His Election is as Certain as the Coming of Next Tuesday, PLURALITY WILL BE 15,000 TO 20,000 Shown by an Estimate Based on a Careful Poll of the State, Not Doctored to Suit Any Candidate or Committee, Judge Hole election to 15,000 plurality is assured. There is no braggadocio in this claim. is a cold, hard fact, backed up by f that have been prepared with extrem from polls and estima ties of the state. pleted only yesterda by from 12,000 It res care es of the various coun- This estimate was ¢ y, and is, therefore, based on present conditions, with all allowances made for loss to the populists by remo als on account of the drouth and for all the s in the ate, exist all o These figures have not been doctored by the republican state central committee or any other committee, iey show Holcomb's minimum strength in every county, a fact that is proven when it is known that the populist state central com- mittee's figures give Holcomb 15,000 more plurality than is shown by the table that follows, while the estimate of the democratic committee is about 10,000 higher than The Bee's. Compared with the figures of republican central committee, printed in The | Bee of yesterda will be seen by all con- versant with the situation in the state just how false were the claims of the Majors man- ager The figures given below co In the state outside of Dougla which none of the poll heavily swell the plurality of elther side. They indicate that the vote of the state, out- side of the prohibition vote, will neighborhood of 175,000, allowing from 21,000 to 0 votes for Douglas county. On this vote Holcomb has a plurality in round num- be: e lowest calcalation, and he e of winning by even as high as 20,000. Even the gamblers, who are prejudiced in favor of Majors, have given up hope of Majors' election, and have begun placing their money on Holcomb, taking even bets that he will réceive 10,000 plurality, Last ght one gamb e a bet that Majors would not cars f county in the Sixth congressional district, the very territory where the Majors managers are asserting they will their heaviest gains, But their claims are a mere bluft abandoned all h When they asserted In print on Wednesday that Majors was gaining 1,000 votes they placed his ity at 15,000. On Thursday, Chairman rlil made another statement and authorized its | publication, that Majors would have 10,000, loss on his own claim of 5,000 in one d | When they saw their own table of clal | The Bee of yesterday they were dumfounded, but they asserted that it was an old caleu lation, made before Majors had developed his strength, In spite of this claim, they did not care to make any other statement of their estimate’ by counties, p ing to “lump" | the state and continue’ the g of bluft | These same Majors managers, however, have made the claim that they would carry Douglas county for the tattooed man by 5,000 To show how honest they are In that state- ment, The Bee b ared the figures made by them only yesterday In the secret of the inner committee rooms, from which the com mon herd are excluded. No figures were made on the actual vote, but the manag de a little table of pluralities which they expected to get and which they conceded to Holcomb. | This table was as follews T every county a county on icians are counting to First ward ond ward | Third ward | Fourth ward three parties that | e In the |G for they have | Fifth ward . 3 ward Ninth ward South Omaha Country precinets Total pluralities ... When it was seen how these figures came out it was resolved not to say anything about them, but the matter leaked out in spite of the vigilance of the men on the n= side, It will thus be seen that the Majors managers do not expect to secure thelr boasted 15,000 plurality, or any part of it, in Douglas county, and while some of the pluralities th e allowing Holcomb in the various wards are approximately correct, they, have made a miscalculation in several in= stances as to the relative strength of the ates in the districts where they are ing pulralities to Majors. But golng back to the state figures, here Is the estimate on which The Bee is safe in asserting that Holcomb will receive a rousing plurality: B Countles, ++quodIoF| I Keith i Ceya Piha . Kiinbatl | Knox SeeBoSallalt |x Ir Loup | Mad Merr M.l S wBP8TT-33 =885588m35EE