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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1902.. CANDIDACY OF DAVID HENRY MERCER FOR A SIXTH TERM IN CONGRESS for me in this county were democrats. REven If this were true, does not he know that over 5,000 republicans voters expreesed thelr preference in the republican primary? Didn't the republican primaries squarely, by more than 2 to 1, instruct the re- publican candidates from this county to wote for Bdward Rogewater? lsn't that the fact? After I had eubmitted at the re- publican primaries and had won out I was not content tox leave it there, but submitted the question to the people. I declared in a public meeting, held priot 10 the primaries, that I would nok represent the people unless the people wanted to be yepresented by me, and 1 would certainly mot have accepted an office against the will of the people. But Mr. Mercer sudaclously turned in and wrote letters to every man elected to the legislature ask- Ung him for his support, and then he went %0 Washington and gave it out in the Washington newspapers that he had been Bmportuned by the members of the legis- ture to stand as a candidate, but when vote was taken he never received one politary vote; during the seventy-two days Joint convention not one vote was cast for him. It is to the highest credit of the elegation from Douglas that they were foyal from beginming to emd. Now, let me #ead to you what T thought about the ha- trayal of the people in the cholce of wenators in 1887, and I have Dol cuwug.u tmy mind. Here is the letter I wrote January 17: For the first time fn the history of the eountry the test Is to be made whether the will of the people as directly or indirectly Sxpressed shall be represented by ' their Tepresentatives in_the legislature by their eholce of United States senator. Our e tem of elective government will _elther ve itself a sham and farce, or worthy ®f confidence and respect 1 remember well how powerful popular timent was in favor of glving the peo- o a_chance to yote thelr choice for Inited States senator when our present constitution was being framed. It is a matter of record that the first legislature oonvened under the present constitution jost unanimously passed a memorial to ess demanding an amendment to the titution that would make the office of ted States senator elective, the same that of congressman. opular sentiment on this question Is mpre Intense today than ever. The Mn?la ©of Nebraska will have their choice as in- ated by their polls and conventions, or ¥ will know the reason why. Not only ople of Nebraska, but those of the Wholk Gountry, are anxiously waiting to hear the result of the balloting. In every vespect the position of members is the same as those of presidential electors, The attempt to tamper with members who were elected on the Van Wyck issue is Just as infamous and villainous as was the effort to purchase Cronin's vote for Sam Tilden ten years ago. After the senatorlal contest the outrage ‘was denounced by me in this language: The political history of this state pre- n llel of dastardly disloyalty to he e and to a_leader who had the confidence. In_the seven sena- Porial contests which Nebraska has wit- messed no such defection was ever a tempted at that stage. Van Wyck, with a pular endorsement such as no man ever BR&.'% republican following nearly three times as large as that of any other candi- te and a reserve of twenty-five to thirty mocrats elected and pledged to support popular choice, found himself face to -rm poltroons, mutineers and traitors on_the fi dlI. This band of conspirators in constant nd close communion with the enemy &IM to work up {ts caucus scheme and lly went so far as to change thelr votes open session whenever Van Wyck re- celved votes enough to elect. i Just as joint session was about to con- 1 stepped up ‘Whitmore and asked :Im whether It true that he had to change his vote for Van Wyck somebody else in case Van Wyck re- lved votes enough to elect. He gave an “For dod's sa said 1, “don’t do th sak . You will ruln yourself and dis jur county. Remember that I vouched for ~ 'hcl!_yyou ‘were endorsed by the work- ell,” *said Whitmore, “I don't know what 1'will do."’ ) By the side of Whitmore at that moment, land through the entire session, sat Thurs: ton's man Friday, F. Gurley. That 18 precisely as it was written in 1887. It was discreditable to subvert the ‘will of the people and destructive to our form of government in 1887, and it wa equally discreditable and criminal in 1900. For myselt I appeared before that legis 1ature after it had elected your two repub- Mcan Senators. The gentleman says it was all & joke, but they voted for me for sev- enty-two days. I stated publicly that I had absolved my supporters and withdrawn as & candidate and was content because I was not a statesman out of a job, And so far a8 I am concerned, it is not a question of personal revenges to gratify. I am battling for a principle that must be vindicated. The paramount issue in the candidacy of Mercer s whether the people of this din- trict will endorse a man who violates the fundamental principles of self-government, of republican government, by trylng to frustrate the will of the people, conspiring to undo what the people have decreed. They had declared themselves in emphatic terms and it was his duty to abide their choice. Now, fellow citizens, this 15 a much more grave question than any that has ever been presented to the people of this congressional district. It reached down to the bedrock of f government. A free people have a right to name their rep- Tesentatives in national and state legisla- ture and be represented loyally by them, or else we have no free government. ‘MR. GURLEY. Fellow citizens, the gentleman reads from an editorial which he says he wrote in 1887, Wherein he discusses the sacredness of the Dallot box, and I was wondering while he ‘was reading that editortal whether he also Bad in his pocket a copy of the testimony of the chief of police of South Omaha, (Laughter and applause.) to the effect in substance that my distinguished opponent wanted him, Miles Mitchell, to hire several gobust individuals to kick over the ballot boxes. And while that testimony was being taken, and while that was testified to by the chief of police of South Omaha under oath, my distinguished opponent, although knowing of the hearing, and the testimony being taken in his own building, beneath Germicidal Precau. tions Paramount in the brewiag of MILWAUKER There's not a factl- Ky lacking to tnsure sboolute cleaniin s duriog the process. The minutest detall from malt-bouse to flling-room 1s rigidly watched In this partie- uler. A fixed ruls for over half a century. BLATZ MALT-VIVINE (Non. lludn-o:n Tu}t Druggists VAL BLATZ BREWING CO., Milwaukee. OMAHA BRANOH. 2429 Deugies St Tel. 2oa1 his own office, never came and testified. So much for the sacredness of the ballot box. My friends, my distinguished opponent says that he opposes Mercer on principle. Now, when a man says that he opposes an- other on principle we have a right to in vestigate his political record and see whether he is consistent as to that proposi- tion. In 1809, when Senator Hayward was rominated for the senate, but before he was nominated, my distinguished opponent admits that he wrote the following letter. The letter 1 quote from now was published by him in the columns of The Bee after he had been charged with writing another let- ter which contained something that this letter does not contain. The parties who made the charge claimed to have seen the letter, but unfortunately they were unable to get the original. My distinguished op- ponent published what he calls a copy, and I suppose in newspaper offices whenever they get copy they always consider they have a right to edit it before they publish it. But I will give it just as he published it He sald in an editorial shortly after the senatorial campalgn 1 was invited to define my position on national issues and complied with the fol- lowing letter, which Is the only statement 1 made. When my distinguished opponent comes to reply will he kindly state who invited him. He was invited, and as a result of that invitation he complied. That letter came into the hands of Governor Poynter of this state. Govermor Poynter told me yesterday over the telephone from Lincoln that that letter was brought to him direct from my distinguished opponent (Laughter.) That it was placed in Gov- ernor Poynter's hands for the purpose of exhibiting to fusion members of the legle- lature that they might understand that my distinguished opponent stood with them upon all the fundamental doctrines of their party platform. This Is the copy which my distinguished opponent publishes: OMAHA, Jan, 2, 1899 —Hon. T. F. Mem- inger (he was a populist member of the legislature): Dear Sir—Your request for an expression of my views on issues being of vital moment to the American people, and especially to the people of Nebraska, is cheerfully complied with. Then he goes on, I hgven't got that part of the letter, and says that he has always been an Abraham Lincoln republican and always expects to remain so. Of course he understood when he said that that a great many of our fusion friends were claiming to be Abraham Lincoln repub- licans about that time. But to get down to the meat of this, he states his platform. He says: I am opposed to corporate monopolies and trusts. I am in favor of national legis- lation for the control of the former (that is corporate monopolies) and restriction and suppression of the latter (trusts). And yot only a few weeks ago, in a con- troversy with the World-Herald over the beet trust, my distinguished opponert in an editorial commended President Roose- velt for the prosecution of the beef trust, and then denled there was any beef trust whatever, and then roasted the World- Herald for attacking the beet trust. He then refers the World-Herald to his well- known views on trusts, published two years 8go in ths report of the trust conference at Chicago. (Laughter.) Wherein he said, mark you, that trusts were the outgrowth of natural conditions and the result of the in- evitable tendency of civilization, and yet he writes a letter to this gentleman stating that he favors the reversal of national laws, that is, it he could get un office. He favors overturning the inevitable tendencies of modern civilization and 1 suppose if he could bave got fusion votes given to him he would have favored blotting out the sun and moon and stars and would have cheer- tully agreed, It elected, to become the light of the world. (Laughter.) My time is nearly up. The next proposi- tion: “I favor tka postal telegraph and ostal savings banks; I am opposed to re- tirement of the greenback.” Is that In keeping with the gentleman's past political record? Has he mot favored the retire- ment of everybody and everything he could not control? (Laughter.) And why now in heaven's name should he balk on green- backs is more than I can understand. (Laughter.) But again he says: “I am opposed to the annexation of the Philippines.” Now he ays that was before the ratification of the treaty, but after the ratification of the treaty he opposed the annexation of the Philippines and he did not fall in line until some time afterward, when he evidently thought he was getting upon harmonious re- lations with the national administration. Now I understand and will the gentle- man tell us—now I understand he is in f vor of having the American flag stay put wherever it is put. Is that so, or len't it? (Applause.) MR. ROSEWATER. 1 came here at the idvitation of Mr. Gur- ley to discuss the candidacy of Mr. Mercer for a sixth term. I am here still to discu: it. I am not here to answer any of his im- pertinent questions. I am willing to father everything I have written and every senti- ment that I have uttered. What sentiment ba@ he got that Is not openly in the mar- ket? What sentiment have these people who are alwaye defending criminal de- fending everything und anything, and will- ing to destroy the very foundation of gov- ernment so long as they have a retainer? (Applause, hisses and groans.) Well, gentlemen, you will have your in- nings when Mr. Mercer returns. He will discuss all of these things. He is a gentle- man so proficient that he can discuss every vital question with the foremost leaders of the matlon. We all know that we have heard his views in congress. We have heard his volce on the stump. We have heard it very much they heard the ery of “Beef! beef! beef!" from the revo- lutionary army when Washington was down in Valley Forge. All we hear from Mercer is that he wants another term. Let us see whether he s entitled to it. He never is known to talk for anybody but himselg What more can he do, this gentleman wants to know, and repeats the question? Have we now got all the public bulldings we are likely to get in the city of Omaba or in the district for a generation to come? Have e not men bralny and energetic enough to fill Mercer's place creditably? A congressman from Dakota says that Mercer s very much in favor of every western interest. How did he stand on the beet sugar interest? Did he not vote inst the interest of this state and- dis trict when the beet sugar question was up In congress a few weeks ago? Michigan bad a solld republican delegation voting for ihe interest of Michigan but Mr. Mercer would not vote for Nebraska, although two-thirde of the delegation did ka, He stood out for the east, and he will continue to stand there vote for Neb: because he is not identified with us in any- thing except the drawing of his pay. Mr. Mercer has been in congress, or will have been when he finishes this term, 120 Out of these 120 months he will bave served fifty-six months in active ser- vice at Washington, forty-nine months at a trav- eler all over the world, and the remaining fifteen months in Nebraska. He has been He has delgned to live wish us fifteen months in s, campalgning most of that time months. pleasure resorts and in voyaging everywhere except in his district. tem y for himself. And he bas given all the bal- ance of these monthe and years to enjoy- ment, entertalnment and travel wit from this distriet. If ho has done work and performed it well ell paid for it. And mo good by has been The state of the money that he bas drawn as congressman reason has yet been presented why he should be retained for a sixth term. I will ask the gentleman once more to answer me whether or not Mercer expects a seventh term and an eighth term. I want to know whether he expects to be retained in con- gress during the full term of his natural life. 1 want to know whether if he is | ispensible now why he was not indispensi- ble two years ago when he was willing to lcave us and go into the other house with- out the consent of his own constituents. I want to know why it Is, for {nstance, that he pockets $100 a month that properly be- longs to some young man of Nebraska in addition to his salary of $5,000 a year, be- cauge congress has made an allowance of $1,200 a year for a congreseman’s clerk. The committee on public buildings has a | secretary; that secretary is obliged to do the private work of Mercer and Mercar pockets thé $100. 1 want that explained I want to assura this audience that I am not ambitious to fill Mr. Mercer's shoes. 1 |desire to say emphatically that I do not | want to be a candidate and would not accept the nomination. There are a number of men dn this district amply qualified, and it |is not Mr. Gurley's business to demand of me which one I prefer. I would have just as much right to ask him whom he pre- ferred. That is not my business. It is his business. We have individual rights as citizens that belong to us, and our cholce |of public servants is as sacred a right as our right to cast our ballot in the ballot box and express our will through the ballot box. | We have been told that Mercer can do great things and only a week ago Sunday three columns appeared in the Washington Post, with a beautiful portrait of Mr. Mer- cer and a carefully prepared sketch showing how much Mr. Mercer has dome for Ne- braska and what he has done for the Dis- trict of Columbla. Upon fnvestigation I discovered the mainspring underncath that plcture. It is simply this: Mr. Mercer is a member of the District of Columbla commit- tee and the publisher of that paper is just now engineering a scheme to sell the power kouse grounds at Washington to the gov- ernment for $550,000, and he wants Mr. Mercer's support, and therefore Mr. Mercer suddenly looms up as a great statesman. (Laughter.) Why did Mr. Mercer ask to be assigned on the District of Columbia committee? He is a member of two committees, the public bullding committee and District of Colum- bla committee. How and when has Mr. Mercer ever assisted Nebraska by being on that committee? That committee has a very scaly reputation at Washington. It is sald that it has its hands out for a great many things. It controls the city government at Washington completely, just as the mayor and city council do Omaha. That commit- teo indirectly controls the fire and police force at Washington. It controls contracts for paving, for grading, for sewerage and every public improvement. It controls pub- lc lighting and street railway franchises. It controls the parks and legislates on ev- erything that pertains to the government of the district. Now, where does Nebraska and where does Omaha have any interest in that committee, and why has Mr. Mercer chosen that committee rather than any other committee in which he could have made bimself useful? Why? Because it has such a vast amount of patronage and such vast opportunities for speculating in Wash- ington realty. That committee has a vast amount of patronage, but I would like my triend to name one single Nebraska boy, man or woman that has had any employ- ment through the District of Columbia com- mittee. Mr. Mercer could have readily had his choice of committees. He could have been on the postoffice committee and helped the Postal carriers and the raflway postal clerks, or the rural free delivery. He could have been on other committees that control legislation to promote western interests, but he preferred the District of Columbia com- mittee, Weo have heard very much in a letter that has been read how Mr. Mercer got a little delivery station established. Why, I have never been in congress. 1 have never claimed to represent this district and yet I secured the first supervisor of rural free delivery for Nebraska, through an appoint- ment made by the postmaster general with- out the ald of Congressman Mercer. I have never had much dificulty in securing rec- ognition for Nebraska without| being a member of congress or connected with the department. I have been accused here of falsifying in 1896 because I etated that Mr. Mercer was credited with many things that others had also helped to do. That cannot neces- sarily be termed falsification. It is merely an overestimation, that is all. All the other men, Senator Allen, Senator Thurston, and the Iowa delegation, all had a very great deal to do with getting the appropriation for the exposition. I personally went to Senator Gear, to Speaker Reed and Sen- ator Gear asked as the first favor he had ever asked the speaker to have the Trans- mississippl exposition bill reported. Sen- ator Allison followed Mr. Gear and also made it a personal request. The bill was first introduced by Senator Allen and passed the senate. Mr. Mercer had nothing to do with that and Senator Allen had to help him a great deal with populistic and dem- ocratic members in the house. I do not think it is worth while for me to answer this letter. The letter contains nothing that I am ashamed of. They were the sentiments I entertained then. I don't think it worth while to discuss them. This is true, however, in everything connected with my career in public life I have acted as a republican. I became a republican from cholce when that party was born and T have kept faith with the republican party s a republican, but I have been down on boodlers, I have been down on lobbyists, and I am detested by them cordially and will continue to be. MR. GURLEY. oy Fellow citizens, I do not kmow that I have any apology to offer for defending upon occasions men charged with créme, and I might y in this connection that it might be very unfortunate for some gentle- men if they were deprived of the right to be represented by counsel in criminal cases. It s a right guaranteed by the law of the land to every man charged with crime, be he innocent or be he gullty, and as a sworn officer of the court I should violate my oath and my duty as a lawyer and & man did I fail to defend those men, when they come to me, to the very best of my abllity, which I always do. The gentleman says that he has always been a consistent republican. (Laughter.) There are some words In the English language which are very simple and easy to understand, at least for the ordinary person to understand, and yet my dis- tinguished opponent has such superb egotism that he imagines every other man's inconsistency his own consistency. He imagines every other man's subterfuge his own integrity. He imagines the fallacy of every other man’s argument his own inex- orable logic. Oh, yes, he has been a con- sistent republican! He says he bas always been down on boodlers and they fear and despise him. Does the gentlemen believe for a moment that the only men he ever attacked in this state have been boodlers? T would like to read the list, call the long roll, living and dead: “Frank Welch, E. K. Valentine, James Laird, Church Howe,"” & man whom my distinguished op- | ponent villifled and maligned year in and | year out, and yet he was appointed by President McKinley consul to Palermo and then to Shefield, England, and has today one of the best records In the consulate partment of this government. ‘‘Davil | H. Mercer.” My distinguished opponent - |fought him when he was a young man, when he was unknown, fought him with the power of his great paper, and yet Mercer was elected triumphantly. The trouble with my distinguished opponent is he has gotten in the habit of attacking so many republicans who will not yleld to his control that a censure from his paper has come to be & vote of confidence. (Laughter and applause.) ames W. Dawes, Thomas J. Majors.” My distinguished opponent was a member of the national committee and resigned that positfon ta enter the contest to defeat a republican candidate for governor of a republican state. Volces: That is what. That IS what. “W. I Leese, A. S. Churchill, Loren Clark, Charles H. Gere, H. C. Russell, G. L. Laws, Thomas H. Benton.” And we could go down the list of district judges in Douglas county ani you would scarcely miss one of them that at some time or other he not fought, either at the polls, at the primaries, or through the columns of his paper. It will not do for him to say that he bas always been a consistent republican. Why, consistent republicans, my friends, who want to see the success of the republican party, are not always attacking republican candidates and office holders. Why, it is only last September that my distinguished opponent was interviewed in the World- Herald and made an attack upon the fed- eral office holders of this state, and he charged that the federal office holders in this state, men who had received commis- slons from the president of the United States, had to receive money to support the ticket. That Interview was published in the paper; that interview was never denied. Did the gentleman enter any charge against these federal office holders on account of that? Did the gentleman have any of these federal office holders brought before the grand jury on account of that? Let him an- swer when he comes to reply. Let him tell who these federal office holders are and were, who he says wanted and received money in order to obtain their support for Wil- liam McKinley. Now, he says that Mr. Webster really never had this delegation at the time he broke in. (Laughter.) Well, it was gen- erally understood that it was Webster's delegation. Gentlemen who were upon that delegation, Mr. Olmstead and Mr. Meyers, have told me that that delegation was pledged to John L. Webster, and it was a tact while they were still voting for Web- ster that my distinguished opponment had circulated among them a paper asking them to agree that when fifteen republicans had signed it they would vote for him, and he stated that when he got fifteen repub- licans to sign that paper he had fusion | votes enough to elect him United States senator. (Laughter). Now, why talk of treachery on the part of Mercer. It seems to me, fellow citi- zens, that before I would humiliate myself in that way—the gentleman talks about boodlers, he talks about lcbbyists—but be- fore 1 would humiliate myself as did my distinguished opponent at that session of the legislature, before I would seek to se- duce men from thelr allegiance to the one to whom they had pledged their support and who had beaten me in a fair fight, be- fore I would do that, I would travel the pathway of life clothed in rags, wearing wooden shoes and go down to my grave untitled and unsung, yet maintaining be- fore God and the world my manhcod, my honor and my self-respect. (Loud and con- tinued applause). MR. ROSEWATER. I would appeal to my friend to address his last sentences to David H. Mercer. He alone is the man that ought to put on the wooden shoes and the ragged clothing and march out somewhere into the political wilderness to bemoan his fate. There never was any Instruction given Mr. Webster's delegation by the people of Douglas county. ‘There never was any such thing submitted and Mr. Myers and Mr. Olmstead assured me during the campaign that they were not pledged and so did every other man on the delegation and I never attempted to pursuade them to desert their colors. I want to remind my friend again of the fact that he has not answered any question that I put to him concerning David H. Mercer. He fs still discussing the candidacy of Edward Rosewater for United States sena- tor. (Applause.) It 1s well, however, that while I am here and on this floor to denounce the men who put up that roll, circulated for a hogus republican league when there was no such league, scoundrels who did not dare to sign thelr own names and surreptitiously circulated this scandalous dodger through the mails before election and around the legislature after election. It is not true that I ever opposed Mr. Welch after he was nominated, and while these reprobates have circulated the report that he was driven into his grave by me, as a matter of fact he dled of apoplexy and I surely was In no way responsible for that. He was on friendly relations with me during his entire term in congress. They talk about Church Howe. Church Howe was punished and justly so because he came before the presidential electors of this state after this state had been car- ried for Hayes and Wheeler and attempted to have ome of the electors barred on technical grounds, so that Samuel J. Tilden should be elected president. This district was good for 7,000 republican majority. Church Howe s defeated in this district by more than 7,000 majority. Does it stand to reason that my individual animosity could have influenced all these 7,000 re- publicans to turn upside down? Surely not. 1 am not going to reopen the Majors campaign. He has been retired by his own people within his own precinct within the last ten days, retired from politics, repudiated. It is just that class of re- publicans that have dragged the republican party of Nebraska down and made it a populist stronghold. Now then, they have cited names of men who died of debauch- eries and men who died after months and months of mental derangement and I pre- that I should support that kind of a man for an office within one or two years after that memorable campaign Fellow citizens, Mr. Mercer is mnow our congressman. Let him explain, or let his triend explain for him why he should be retained there for another term simply because he can log roll through congress omnibus building bills. MR. GURLEY. Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: 1 assumed up to the present time that we were debating here together as repub- licans, and of course we are. We are having our little warfare now before the primaries and the convention 18 held, and after that preliminary skirmish Is over, ot course we will be found shoulder to shoul- der, my distinguished ~opponent and I, fighting for the nominee, whoever he may | be. 1 assume that, of course, to be true, but my attention has been called to an interview which my distingulshed oppo- nent had on the 25th day of January, 1602, an interview in the World-Herald. I sup- pose he gave his interview to that paper because he wished it to have a large circu- lation (laughter), wanted it to reach en- tirely over the district. In any event, Mr. Rosewater says It is true that under certain conditions 1 will be a candidate for congress from the Omaha district. Not that I care for the office or its honor, but I want to teach the present congressman a lesson or two. if Mercer secures the delegation to the congressional convention this fall T will run by petition, and I think I can beat him. If some ‘other republican {s nom- fnated 1 will not run, but, on the other hand, will do all T can to ald his electlon. cer must understand that he cannot esent this district another term in con- There spoke my distinguished opponent, muttering the words of Louis XIV of France to himself, “I am the state. “I want It understood that politically I have no aspirations to go to congress for the honor that would accrue to me.” He does not want to go to congress for the honor. My only object is in the interests of good government.” (Noble sentiment) “And a desire to beat Mercer.” When the primaries are held it is pos- sible that Mercer may manipulate them, but I think not, as he will be pitted against half a dozen or more good men, but if he should manage to secure the nomination, then he must take the consequences. As T have sald before, I care nothing about a place In congress, but I have come to the conclusion that it is time for the people to select thelr representative 1 have labored under the impression, fortified by the paper which my dis- tinguished opponent publishes, that Mercer has been the representative of the people, elected by them. of this district. He does not make it his home and seldom comes here. Not only this, but he has attacked me in and out of season. Now, I have one minute left, and I want to ask my distinguished opponent—ot course we are here as republicans, and of course we shall support the nominee—I want to ask my distinguished opponent if | David H. Mercer is nominated by the will | of the republicans of the Second congres- | sional district, will you support him or will | you not? (Laughter and applause). Cries of “Answer it now; answer it now; answer it yes or no?”" MR. ROSEWATER. My very inquisitive friend has declared to you that he is here to stand shoulder to shoulder with republicans in elect- ing the republican ticket this fall, if Mr. Mercer is nominated, but he hai not answered any of the questions that I put to him as regards Mercer. Whether he would want a sixth term, a seventh term, an eighth term and a ninth. He has not answered me any of the other questions as to his proposed residence in case he is not re-elected. He challenges my republicanism when he has not voted a straight republican ticket in ten yea: He supported practically the entire demo- cratic ticket for the legislature the last time when he knew that its election would send two demo-populists to the United States senate. And why? Was it because eny one of the men on that ticket were incompetent or dishonest, or had a bad record as republicans or as citizens? Not at all. Was it for any other reasons excepting that he did not want a republican elected United States senator whose name was Rosewater? 1Is it not a fact that he was banded with David H. Mercer and several bundred others who would rather have a vacancy in the United States senate or have two demo- crats so that Mr. Mercer could control the patronage of the state as the senior mem- ber from Nebraska? That was the animus, and I can prove that Mr. Mercer made no secret of it when he talked to members of the legislatuge and solicited their votes. I have been asked to explain why I had not prosecuted some of the federal office holders that had to be subsidized in order to support the republican ticket in 1900, Well, I had made complaints and the other day I was before the federal grand jury and a member of that body who sits right here knows that I did testify and gave sufficient evidence, 80 far as my personal knowl- edge goes, that that money was brought here and that it was disbursed. 1 am asked another question and that 1s, would I support Mr. Mercer if he received a majority of the republican votes of this district. I want to ask the gentleman another question: Will Mr. Mercer sub- mit to the majority? Is he willing to sub- mit to it? Is he not scheming to jugsle the primaries, and hasn’t he a chairman, with three or four postmasters, and Mr. Gurley, who constitute the majority of the con- gressional committee? Don't Mr. Mercer control absolutely the mode in which the congressional primaries are to be fought out, and is it not motorious here that he proposes to force his own renomination by Plurality; that he wants primaries on the Crawford county system, based upon selec- tion by minorities? Now, I will never support a minority candidate. Never. (Applause.) I want majorities to govern, and Mr. Mercer must come forward and get the support of the majority of the republicans, which he does not dare to do. After spending most of his time at pleasure resorts and junketing tours all over the world he knows very well that his absence from this city bars him from getting further honors from the republicans of this community. He knows very well that the people are onto him now. (Laughter.) That they know that he represents corporate interests rather sume I am responsible and thea they cite my opposition to Mercer. 1 have already read you from the ledger of ‘the Capitol hotel. With that knowl- edge and the other knowledge I had that Mr. Mercer had betrayed his trust as chair- man of the republican city committee in 1889 I could not in decency support him. That committee was selected to elect George W. Lininger mayor of Omaba, trom whom $2,000 had been exacted as a contributiod to the campaign fund, the campalgn treasury was looted and the money pald in by Lininger was used by members of that committee, traitors and boodlers, to elect Cushing, the democratic candidate for mayor, while Mercer was chairman. Those men went to Linjuger's house. They were there at a banquet at which Mr. Mercer presided. They raised their hands up and sqlemnly pledged them- sclves that they would stand by Lininger to the end and with treason in their hearts went out and began to knife him the day after, and kept it up untll he was de- feated. And Mercer did not sound the alarm, although he must koown of the conspiracy. It was not in buman nature than the Interests of his constituents. 1 want Mr. Gurley to explain also why Mr. Mercer defeated the quartermaster supply depot Dbill two years ago after it had passed the senate? Why he kept it in his pocket and smothered it when it his duty to have reported it to the house. Let him explain that, If you please. MR. GURLEY, Fellow citizens, my distinguished oppon- ent has asked me several times a question which I shall be very happy to answer. He wants to know whether Mr. Mercer will be satisfied with a fth term, or a sixth term or seventh term. Well, I am not a mind reader and I am not here to say whether David H. Mercer will want a seventh term after be has had a sixth term or mot. But I am here to say that I be- lteve the rank and file of the republicans of the Second congressional district believe at the present time that David H. Mercer is of more value to them, of more value to the republican party than any candidate whom my distinguished opponent has not named. (Laughter and loud applause). Now he says that it is rumored that Mer- Dewey & Stone Furniture Co. 1115-1117 Farnam Street. SECRETARIES, DESKS AND BOOK CASES ‘We have just received a la ge num- ber of single, two and three-section cases, also a number of Combination Cases and Desks—~about 70 styles. These goods were purchased early in Januar) before the advance in price, and this opportunity is andoubtedly the last to purchase this class of goods at such prices as we have marked them. Anticipate your wants, is our advice, if you want to save money. 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Good to return for 60 Special train will leave Omaha Tuesday, June 3, at 4:30 p. m.j with Standard and Tourist Sleepers. For further information call at or address, CITY TICKET OFFICE 1323 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. ROCK ISLAND ROUTE Minneapolis and Return June 1st to 14th. S1st. Return, October Fishing is best during June in the MINNESOTA LAKES. Particulars at City Ticket Offices, 1402 Farnam St. OMAHA, Postal Card Will Get It SAMPLE COPY OF THE Twentieth Century Farmer The Best Agricultural Weekly. dress, Omaha, Neb. e LEGAL NOTICES, NOTICE, Notice s Liereby given that there will be @ speclal meeting oi the mayor and council of the city of rlorence, Nebraska, at the city nail in said city of rénce on Wednesaay, the 4th aay of June, 1% o'clock in the cvening. for the bury equALIZIng Sldewalx assessments and - ing special assessments to pay for repalis on the following sidewalks auring the nscal year beginning the first Tuesday in May, 1802, ana in tront of the following lots aid parcels of land in the city of Fiorence, as surveyea, jplatted and lithographea. ‘The following being a description ot the iots to be ussessed and tne amount against cach lot respectively, to-wit: Lot 2, block 8, §21.42; lot 3, block 3, §3.97; lot 1 Block o, 313.49; iot 4, block 5, $14.1 north % oL 4, biock 5, $10.4; lot 2, block 318.87; south % lot 2, biock 2, block 22, $8.52; ici i block 28 314.11 block %, ¥17.2; ot 3, block block 16, 3i6.:33, lot &, block block 8z 31.13; lot 7, block 82, 78 8, block' %, $15.05° 1ot 4, block 43, $2 8 block 43! 315,84 1ot v, block 46, 310,46 7, block 4o, $91.0; north bo feet, block 1, $13.80; south 8% feet, block 126, 320.86; lot 7, biock 129, $20.35. Given by oraer of the mayor and council of the city of Fiorence, Nevraska, CHARLES A. SMITH, 4wks E&S Clty Clerk, NOTICE, Notice 1s hereby given that at a regular meeting of the mayor and council of the city or Florence, Nebraska, held on the Sth day %, the follOWIng estimate WAas ma of the pcobable amount of money uccessary to Le raised in sald city for current expenses. as below specified, during the iscal year beginming tne first ‘Tuesauy 11 May, 1%, and enaing the first Tuesday in May, 198, whick estimate is based on (he entire amount of revenue of d city during the last fiscal year: EESTIMAT S 3 grounds and buildings For Board of Health For officers’ salaries. For fire department For city hall contract. For printing and stationery For water rental Incldentais &lsgsssses propriation ordinance may be passed at a meeung of the council after four weeks' publication of this notice. Given by oraer of the councll, JOHN 8. PAUL, Attest: Mayor, CHARLES A, SM!TH dwks E&S ity Cles RECEIVER'S SALE Clothing, hats and caps, gentlemen's nishing goods, furniture and fixtures. Notlce 1s hereby given that pursuant to the order of the United States district court, sitting In and for the district of Ne- braska, in the matter of the Continental Clothing company, a bankrupt, on Wednes- day, the 11th day of June, 1902, at 10 o'clock a.m., 1 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the northeast corner of Douglas and Fifteenth streets, in the city of Omaha, Douglas county, Ne- braska, the entire stock, furniture and fix- tures of the Continental Clothing company said stock consisting of men's and boys' clothing, hats and cups and gentlemen's furnishing goods. 5 All of said stock 18 to bé offered for salo in bulk and In parcels, and sold to tha highest bidder for the property in bulk, or to the highest bidders for the different da. tments, or parcels, provided the total for such parcels exceed the highest bid for the property in bulk. Btock inventorled by order of court shows a value of $24,612.94; furniture and fixtures cost over $7,600.00. H. F. ROBERSON, Recelv —M30d10tM& E BONDS FOR BALE. Sealed bids will be recelved by the trus- tees of the village board of Burwell, Neb,, up to 6 o'clock p. m., June 10th, 1902, for the purchase of water bonds of sald city amounting to $,000. Sald bonds will be elrhl in number, of $500 each, all of which will be payable April 1st, 1982, with an op- tional payment In five years, with Interes payable annually at 6 per cent April lst of each year at Nebraska Fiscal Agency, New York, N. Y, In the curency of the United States, Said bonds are dated on the lst day of April, 192, and are duly registered. Bidders are required to deposit certified check, payable to the treasurer of the vil- luge of Burwell, In the amount of §100 an fuaranty that the bonds will be taken 'if {d {8 awarded. Each bid must be inclosed i aled envelope, marked “Proposal for The village board reserves the righi to reject any an | bids. For neral In« formation addre: A ALGER, clerk, Burwell, Neb. —May59astM To TAXPAYERS OF DOUGLAS -4 TO THE COUNTY—ATTENTION The Board of County Commissioners of Douglas county, Nebraska, will sit as & Board of Equalization for the purpuse of equalizing the assessment or Zsouglas county for the year 1%2 in the Commis sioners' chamber at the court house, Omaha, beginning Tuesday, June 10, 1902, at 10 o'clock a. m., and continuing fromi day to day up to and including June 0, 1908 (i3 days hot including Su All persons owning real of perso Tty subject to taxation should t amine their assessment, that any errors to valuation may be adjusted by said board as the law provid By order of the Board of County Com- missioners. HARRY C. MILLER, May A2t County Clert ware for © your resi. H. L. Ramacclott, P ™ Deputy State and City ";.P“fl Ave ryIcE FIRMARY . . n‘:‘-n.“eo-. ot u 0ld Corner. Telephone 539, i