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and ha la right in with this Lincoln rlnp
Ho was In with Uio Impeached ulnte officials
that have been vlnJIcatal by the deposing ot
Jtiflgo Mnxwoll , and that ftnva been rlndl-
caled Again \ > y IhB last republican conven
tion , and when jiuch a man Is governor what
safety have your people got ( or the state
funds ? For the loss ot $300.009 or there-
nbouls , that was departed down there In
that bank and In others , you will h&ro n
Olrcct tax ; and tlio question la , "Ara you
readr to uphold tlie credit ot the state br
electing a governor that will BCO to It that
every dollar due tha state comes In , or are
you going to elect & novernor that will sec
to It thai not n dollar which the hood I era
liava pocketed goei out ? " ( Applause. )
It Is n monstrous proposition that a man ,
who l notoriously unfit to be trusted In pub-
llo positions , who has shown himself dis
honest In all matters tic hat bad charge of ,
should be mudo the chief executive of a great
commonwealth , and placed In charge ot mil
lions of your money. Including the patrimony
ot your children , the state school funds ,
which aught to remain sacred and Milled
ought to remain Inviolate for all lime to
come ,
Wien a banker loans money to anybody ,
the first question Is whether the borrower 1s
an honorable man , whether he Is a man dls
posed to pay his debts. When tn& banVer
recommends anybody to another ho flrst In
quires whether he Is an honest man , whether
ho has Integrity. No man associated with
any of our banks , and I make no exception ,
would recommend a dhhoncst man to em
ployment or appointment to a position In an
other bank. It any man Yiould come Into a
bank and say , "Now here , I want to employ
Mr. Drown as my paying teller ; will you
sign a letter recommending him , or will > ou
recommend him -verbally for the place ? "
And , If that banker knew that Drown had
ever forged n paper of any kind , or that
Drown had been an associate ot forgera or
embezzlers , or that IJrovui was a gambler
he would not recommend him ; he would
not think of It. Hut they will recommend a
man of that description for governor ot Ne
braska ! ( Applause. }
ONC STANDAHI ) OF MORALS NEEDED
Why should there bo one standard of
morals for business and another standard
for public olllce ?
What Is the character and position of the
man who Is to sustain the state's credit and
reputation ? When he was lieutenant gov
ernor he associated with himself a young
man by the name of Walt Sc-ely , who was
notoriously a fixer of legislatures , what might
be called an * 'oll roomer , ' doing the crocked
and pernicious work of the corporations.
undermining our whole government that
man was Ms prlurto secretnry But Mr. Ma
jors said In one of his speeches recently that
Walt Sccley was fastened upon him by the
populists
Well , that Is very singular. Isn't It ?
don't know where any other man In public
olllce would tal.o as his confidential agent
somebody whom his enemies recommended to
111m political enemies or other enemle-s
What arc the facts ? In the IcgMiturc of
1S91 the senate was populist , the senate of
ISM was not populist , It was organized by
the republicans and democrats Joining to
gether , ami Its acting president was a re
publican. But JIaJors continued to keep
Seeley as his private secretary , nevertheless
and ho cannot charge that he Yias fastened
upon him then by the populists , can ho'
You cannot charge that ho was ignorant of
Seeley's rascality , because during the h
slon of 1801 , when Senator Taylor was ab
ducted from the state house- and when Walt
Seeley came to him after Taylor had left the
state , three weeks after ho had decamped
from Nebraska , and asked him to sign the
voucher for the pay of this man who had
been abducted , when that man Seetey RO
him to sign this fraudulent voucher tor $75 ,
and got the money for It and pocketed It ,
Mr. Majors could not plead the baby act , am
say that lie did not know that Walt Seele
was a bid man , and that ho was not fit for
Ills private secretary Ho kept him In 3893
just the same as ho kept him In 1891.
Well , what about this Taylor voucher' Mr
Majors has said , and he has bald it publicly
here before a thousand republicans in con
vention assembled lifting up his hand and
calling God to witness that ho was tell
ing the truth , that every word he said could
be verified by the records , and he said it
hero In the Sixth ward , that he hoped to bo
paralyzed , that ho hoped to die on the spot ,
If he was not telling the truth , that Ta > lor
had served slxty-threo days In that session ,
counting put the Sundays , and that he was
fully entitled to the whole amount to which
any other member was entitled , that is , } 300 ,
and that that | 7G was rightfully his.
WHAT THE IinCORD SHOWS
Now , what Is the record ? Here is the
record. ( Holding up a book , ) Hero is the
volume that contains the genato journal for
1801 ; every page from beginning to end shows
on the one sUe the day of the session , on the
other Uio date Tor Instance : On page & 18 ,
It says "Forty-fourth day. March G , 1691 , "
and so on. Taylor disappeared on the 19th
day of March , when they vcro In the fifty-
third day ot the session His namn does not
appear again after that date , although the
cession continued to the sixty-fourth day ,
April 4 , when the legislature adjourned.
Now , then , Mr Majors Knew Just as well as
I did , when ho called tied to witness that he
van telling the truth , that he was telling an
untruth This book slicms that when the
New berry bill waa pending in the senate ,
when they had closed the doors of the senate
by his own order , and kept them closed , that '
Taylor had gene oft to Omaha , crossed over
to Council IllulTs. and finally was carried off 1
to Chicago , and disappeared In the end away
off In Oregon. And I say that Mr. Majors
Knew that-a special engine carried three men
from Lincoln to Omaha to sou that this man
should not come back a Ilurllngton engine
( applause ) , a Burlington engine that catrled
Dorgan , the keeper of the penitentiary , and
two other men , and brougm them here to
Omaha , and had this man sent on beyond the
confines of this state. Non , any man that
will tell such falsehoods , calling Cod to wit
ness , IB not fit for nny public office , or for
any place , even the lowest , that the state
could gho him. Cries ot "Amen" and ap-
plausD. ) Hut Mr Majors Is still recommended
to hold up the credit of the state ; he la an
honorable man , ns you all know ! ( Laughter )
Yes , indeed. Jut lie has a very vague kind
ot memory. For InstanceHe knows Just
how far It Is from. Tern to Lincoln. I think
ho ought to know , he haa traveled It n good
many years back and forth. Ho lives In the
town of Peru. Now , as lieutenant governor ,
ho might or might not be entitled to mileage
for travelins back from hU home to the capItal -
Ital and return. The constitution Is silent on
that point. The distance Irom Peru to Lin-
coin la Just seventy-three miles , and the dis
tance from Lincoln to Peru Is. I believe. Just
about the same as It la from Peru to Lincoln.
( Laughter. ) Hut Mr. Majors conceived It to
b his Idea that Instead of HG nil lea tie was
entitled to 2SS miles , nnd he drcu $2S SO
rollcuse I line the documents right here In
the auditor's report. He drew J2S.BO mileage
in the year 1S91 ; but. In the year JS93. hli
conscience smote Mm and ho knocked otl
eight ml Irs ( Laughter ) lie drew 2SO mllci ,
10 cents a mile , and w s traveling on a pasi
all the time. ( Laughter. ) It Is a lltll matter -
tor , but It shows tha ultcr dlihonesty ol the
Trutn There Is not anything smaller than
tlut is I know of , excepting to coma to
Omaha right -after the nomination nd eel a
11 nv pas * from the street cir company
ami ride back and forth on It ( laughter. )
Yes : a man thai will want to Bare S cents
In Omaha while ho is hero campaigning In
a wonderfully ftre-al man , Isn't IIP , for gov
ernor ? ( Laughter. ) Why he wns entitled to
that pass I have not yet discovered.
The other day I wan In the town ot York ,
and to my very great surprise I found that
there HBB a suit pending In the county of
York against Thomai J , Majors by a Arm in
York. That suit was- begun about a year
ago It seems that Mr. Majors had bought
out a stock of goods In the town of Bradshaw ,
In the count ] ' of York , and deeded some prop
erty over , and In that trade agreed to give
the party In exchange for those goods- and
chattels various pieces of land , amounting
In all to 3)0 ) acres. The plaintiff sues Mr
Majors for the recovery of seventy-two acres
Mr. Majors pleads that these pieces of land
I think there are five or six that tha deeds
for each of them say seventy or cls-lity acres ,
inora or less You know that In a great
many deeds for land the "moro or less" oc
curs ; but he thinks that seventy-two acres
Is about as lltllo "less" as he could make
It. ( Laughter. ) So he says that that man
has got all the land ho la entitled to , but ho
Is seventy-two acres short. "Well , you sco
how U Is : Mr Majors Is long on mileage
and short on land ( Laughter and applause )
lie Is long on double pay and short on ve
racity ( ICcnowcd laughter )
TUB STOUY IS A LONG ONE.
T cannot go very far Into the details ; there
ls an abundance of material here ; It Is a
qtieUlon whether you would have the time
( Cries of "Go on , go on " ) I shall simply
try to present the moral side of this cam
paign Wo are nil getting a very great deal
of bad advertising out of thla calamity cru
sade from other papers In other parts of the
state They denounce this movement of the
business men of Omnha ns a mean , selfish ,
and entirely unjustifiable combination or con
spiracy against the other people of the state ,
who have c < jual Interests In the welfare of
Nebraska with them. Whether that ba true
or false , tha papers of the state are denounc
ing It , nnd , assuming what Is asserted to be
true , they declare that our credit will be In
jured by it a good deal more than by any
thing they could show hereafter. After Judge
Holcomb is elected ( applause ) these gentle
men will have to send word to their eastern
friends that have been induced to send
these scarecrow letters out here , that this
populist : was elected because a bad man was
a candidate on the other side , and that that
very bad man could not have been elected
because ho was bad , because the people had
no confidence In him , and that he tried ta do
the very things which would have Injured
the credit of the state a good deal more than
any thing that could possibly happen under
the two years' rule of Judge Holcomb.
I have thought n. great deal on this sub
Ject , and I want to say right here that you
all know tint my personal interest ami my
Ir-Uicsts are all interwoven with the in
terests of Omaha and Nebraska. All I have
In this world and all I expect to have Is
right here. I have lived here for thirty-one
years ; every dollar that I have ever > aniod
and every dollar that I could ever borrow
has been invested right here In Omaha ,
have raised my family here and here I ex
pect to bo burled There is no abplratlon of
mine and no hope of the future that Is not
bound up with your city I do not believe that
Is true , also , of many men who have signet
this business men's manifesto. If I should
leave this city I would leave all I have be
hind. If we are to bo struck by calamity
It will strlKe mo harder , perhaps , than anyone
ono man in this city. How would It be with
some of those capitalists and investors ? :
liave no proprrty anywhere outsldo of Ne
braska , I have no silver mines in Mexico ; I
have no Iron or coal mines In Wyoming , no
land In Texas ; I have no ranches In Mon
tana or Idaho ; no town lots in New York
have no banking capital anywhere. The
most prominent men who have Joined ii
tills manifesto could leave your city , nbandoi
all the property they own hero , and still live
very comfortably during the rest of their
days So you inutt realize , nnd I suppose
you will admit , that If I am willing to stake
all I have on the future prosperity , all I can
hope to have upon this contest , upon th
election of Holcomb for governor , that
have confidence in him , and that I have no
fear of the terrible results that are fore
shadowed by the gentlemen whose names
are on the manifesto. ( Great applause. )
I Know further that I have never gone on
ot Omaha , anywhere on this side or on the
other sldo of the Atlantic , that I haveno
spoken for her , and stood up tor her and
for Nebraska and I know , too , that othe
gentlemen who have mads hundreds of thou
sands almost millions in this communlt
have not stood up for Omaha when they wer
out and abroad. ( Applause ) I know man ;
tlmca complaints have come to me that som
of these gentlemen discouraged capitalist
nnd investors from coming hero by telling
them that this is not the place to go toNe
No man can show his face to me anywhere
that can charge mo truthfully with such a
thing. ( Applause )
Well , then , what are we confronted with ?
The great and all-absorbing question that
regard as vital today is , "Shall the people
of Nebraska govern themselves , or ahall they
allow the oligarchy "jlml ! they allow a com
blnatlon of corporations and railroads tc
dictate to us how wo shall vote nnd whom
we shall olsct , and who shall rule over us ?
U they can do It this year they can do I
for all timo. If they can do It by dictating
to their employes they can do it by enslaving
slaving their employes Tor any man win
will vote as ho Is ordered Is brought do\vi
to th > condition of the South Carolina negro
( Applause. ) Ills vote don't count.
nr/TRAYKD 11Y REl'RESGNTATIVKS.
When I was campaigning two years ago I
( jot Into a controversy with a populist at
Genoa. You know that I have always stood
np for sound currency , honest money , ex
changeable dollar for dollar , gold , sliver
and paper. I have stood up against all
the flat money schemes und the free silver
delusions , and I stand up for It today. ( Ap
plause. ) nut I will not btaml up for any
thing that will use the power of money and
wealth to enslave the people. ( Applause )
I sny , then , I met this man at Genoa and
after wo had been talking a good while , and
I had borne him down
In the- argument on
the money question , he said "Well , I
don't care , I have been a republican , but
I won't go back to that party ; I won't go
back Into It until my vote Is counted. "
"Oh , " I said , "what do you mean ? Is
not the republican party the party that
stands up for an honest ballot and a fair
count ? " "Why. yes. " he said , "that Is
all right , but you don't understand me. Our
vote don't count hero in BQIMQ nay. " He
said : "Six years ago wo voted one- way
here , and our legislature voted the other
way ; my vote didn't count. " I was dumfounded -
founded ; It was true , we had the people
voting ono way , and the legislature voting
the other way at Lincoln whun they elected
a United States senator. And that Is what
niartu populism rampant in thl state , be
cause the people of Nebraska have bsen
deprived of Belt-government. Where will It
eud. If wo penult this thing to go further ?
I deny. In the first place , that Thomas
J Majors la the legitimate nominee ot a re
publican convention , Ho was nominated by
downright fraud and bribery ; he was nomi
nated , in the flm place , by sixty delegates
iewho had no right or title to ( heir scats , who
were put up In the house of J. U. Ager , a
lobbyist of I he Ilurllngton. railroad , four days
after the convention of their county bad met.
gnd. part ot whom were not a lect l until
the night before the state convention met
here In Omaha , and never were announced.
( Applause. )
I deny that ho wna nominated honestly ,
because Mr. Jack MncColl told me himself
that he had paid between MOO and 1500 rail
road faro to bring delegates down from the
lilkhorn valley and other parts of tno state.
They were elected to vote for him ; they had
como hero tovote for him , and the next
nornlng they voted against him , and were
ought up with money or something cqulva-
nt to money ; and I say that fraud vitiates
I things.
Hut , even if the republican party had been
> d Into nominating this- man by all tha Ic-
jtlnmto means Hint arc In vogue In orllnary
inventions , It no Improper Interference had
akon place , nnd no bribery had been re-
orted to , I still would stand before the peo-
ilo ot this state defending my position that
dishonest man , a in mi who has disgraced
'IB state , a man who has violated Ills oath of
illlcc , Is not nt to bo trusted with the posl-
on of governor , and thould never be elected
ovcrnor. ( Applause )
WHO WOULD TRUST HIM ?
Where is the moral side of It ? I want to
sk you. gentlemen , would Mr. Kountro.
ould Mr Mlllard , would Mr. Henry W.
'ates , take this man nnd put him behind
lielr counters nnd trust him with J50.000. or
, ltli { 5,000 ? Never. ( Laughter and np-
lause. Yes , these- gentlemen have got n high
tandard of Integrity for commerce , nnd a
ow standard ol Integrity for politics They
an reccommend and support for mayor of
maha n rank populist , who was discredited
iy all honest people they were willing to
ave him elected mayor of Omaha , although
hey knew that he was not a straight man
They vero willing to ruin the credit of
Omaha by having such a man for mayor ; but
hey ara awfully afraid of having an honest ,
itralghtforvvard , upright man , who has done
: its duty as Judge fearlessly nnd without
> artlsan bias they arc afraid to have htm
tor governor ! ( Applause )
I ask any minister of Uio gospel , I ask any
good Christian , I ask any man that has any
elf-respect or pride In the good name of the
late , would you put a man Into the gov-
Tnor'a chair who established in a
oem adjoining the state senate , the
ienato chamber , a dram shop for dcbauch-
ng members , who- had a cupboard full of
Iquors In there during the entlro session
.ml had Ynlo lock keys given out to mcm-
ers and lobbyists to come Into that room
and carouse and drink walls the- session was
n progress ? Such n thing never was done
before Thomas J. Majors was lieutenant
governor , and it is a disgrace to the state
Applause )
Mr. Majors was a good prohibitionist dur-
ng the1 time prohibition was agitated , and n
good drinker at about the same time That
s not uncommon for bonie gentlemen. A
ertaln correspondent , whose name ought to
bo Amnlas , has charged mo through the
-.Incoln Journal with going to the Omaha
rowers and asking them for money contrlbu-
lens for the election of Judge Holcotnb
Mow , I say right hero that there Is not one
, vord of truth In It. I have not called upon
ho brewers for Judge Holcomb for ono
> enny , nnd In fact I have not called upon
ho brewers In behalf of Holcomb at all I
liave called upon the brewers once this
season for a contribution , and I got It I
called upon them to contribute to entertain
.ho republican state convention , and they
contributed { 100 for that purpose. But some
of the gentlemen on that manifesto would
not contribute a dollar to pay the expense of
a great convention , although they would be
willing to pay { 50,000 to corrupt the voters
of this state and elect Thomas J. Majors.
\pplause )
I wont to say further that I have reliable
assurances that Majors has himself sought
the support of the bruwcrs , and , through
: ils emissaries , tried to secure their Influence
and made pledges to them that ho would
appoint anybody they might name for police
commissioners If he could got their politic. !
support. But where was he four years ago ?
He was in every state convention held In
this state before prohibition was yibmltted
He sought to forco- prohibition upon us by
hts vote In convention and In the legis
lature and now he wants the support of the
very men whoso business ho sought to ruin
Ho was the man of all others who made the
light against Omaha In every legislature
and convention. He was the antl Omaha
candidate for governor In 1S32 , and the re
publican convention that nominated him was
located In Omaha against his ' will
Ho did everything he could in
side of the state central committee
to prevent It from being located here ; and yet
he comes to Omaha and asks business men
and worklngmen of Omaha for their votes
A man ought to be at least half way consis
tent and half way decent.
CAN YOU AFFOUD TO DO IT ?
Dut let us go back tq the moral question
What will you tay to your boyer what wii :
you say to the now growing generation of
republicans ? That you are going to advise
thorn this time to vote for a man whom
vou would not trust with anything , whose
pledges have been violated time and again
whoso faith was broken with the state , vvhost
record is disreputable and whose
moral conduct Is reproachable ? I
has been charged that Mr. Majors
has been maligned ; that ho has beet
misrepresented ; that there have been per
sonal grievances to air. There is no trull
whatever in that. Majors himself , althougl
he declared in the state convention that fo
fifteen years , he had been hounded by The
fice , said In the Sixth ward and said It agali
In Fremont that up to 1S'J2 ho- - had the bes
of friendly relations with the paper , and. In
any event , there has been no hounding , ther
has been no personal grievance Two month
ngo , or ten weeks ago , before- ever Mr
Majors was nominated , Mr William A. Pax
ton called upon mo at my office and askci
me whether or not I could bo reconciled to
Thomas J. Majors ; that Majors was hero In
the city and willing to bo reconciled , and d
anthing I wantco. politically , and I said to
Mr. Paxton then and there , and It ho Is It
this house he cannot contradict me , that
would have nothing to do with Majors ; tha
I had no personal grievance nnd no quarrel
but that he was an unclean man , that hi
record was bad , and that I did not want i
defensive campaign for the republican party
und did not bcllevo that the people ot thl
state would elect him ( Applause )
Now , then , the question that rises abov
all things is , shall wo say to the people o
the- - state , and to the people of the Unltei
States , that , no matter how notoriously bat
a man may be , how disreputable his conduct
how dishonest he may have proven hlmsel
In positions of high trust , that becaus
of partisanship wo arogoing tallow t
allow- ourselves to be driven Into a bull pe
by railroad bullwhackera and surrender ou
rights as free men to railroad manager
and monc > ed concerns. ( Applause )
HONEST MEN WILL DC CHOSEN.
Everybody knows that I offered for th
cake of the republican party to support an
moderately clean candidate far governor ; ther
Is no hostility to railroads as railroads
there Is no hostility to any ot the men vvh
are employed by the railroads ; there 1
no hostility to their officers as Individuals
but there la hostility to their methods , t
their Interference , to their hiring hundred
of mm to tramp over tha state to perver
Justice , to their hiring men to pack con
ventlons , pack legislature ! , and pack juries
and you know very well today that bet
the democratic and republican parties liar
b < " * n dominated by the tame pernlc'ous ' lu
uence until the masses have risen In re-
olt to break tha bonds that bind them ,
'or once HO ara nit going together , those
f us that don't wear a brass collar , and
vo propose for once to elect a man for
overnor the railroads do not own or want.
Applause. )
Another thing te propose to do. Wo
repost to say to the republicans of this
tate that when they want the peopleto
iNt their candidates for governor or other
Igh olflcci they must put up reputable
nd clean men , and they must set an cx-
mplo of morals. Instead ot setting on cx-
tnplo of booJIelem that Is unexampled
nytvherc. ( Applause. ) The state of I'enn-
5 h an la. has as good a class of repub-
leans as any state that you can find In
\merlca. The state of Pennsylvania Is n
ockrooted rcpubllca'4 statc ! otl(1 yflt wlia' '
Id she do ? I'cii/yjylvnnla gave to lien-
amln Harrison R3.4QO majority , and elected
'attlson , a derrfocrut. by 17,000 majority ,
o the republican's tit Pennsylvania admlnls-
cred a rebuke to bBodlcrlsm , they admlnls-
ered a rebuke to'uncleanllnesa and bosslsm ,
nd defeated Delatnatre , a candidate who
was Just like fTboniis Majors not quite
0 bad , but prettybad. ( Applause ) The
opubllcans of New York In 18S2 , If I re-
nember right , resented the Interference of
cderal power , which is now being used In
Nebraska by democratic bosses just as bad
it ever was In , New York by rcpub-
Icans , and , notwithstanding Folger was a
clean man , a man against whose record
lobody could say a. word , but , because Kolger
iad been nominated by tha Influence of
josslsm and federal Interference , the re-
nib ] leans ot New York rose cnnmsso and
burled Mr Kolger under 155,000 majority.
And then they recovered from It , just
is Pennsylvania has done. In Pennsylvania
asl year Qalusha A Grow was elected con
gressman at large by nearly 200,000 ma-
orlty , notwithstanding the fact that the
jear preceding Pattlson had been elected
governor , and Is still the governor of Penn
sylvania. Let Nebraska republicans show
hat there Is as much mettle , as much In-
egrlty and as much decency among them
ns there Is In Pennsylvania und New York ;
nul tvhen they seek to foist upon us a can-
lldalo that is. entirely unfit for the place , let
its administer the rebuke at the ballot bon ,
let us stand up ns republicans for prin
ciples and see to It that thcso principles are
iroporly represented by the candidates that
are Riven to us to support.
MAJORS AND THE PLATFOItM.
Wliot are principles good for ? Nothing
at all , unless the men are to execute them
What Is the good of the republican state
platform today ? The platform is all right ,
f Thomas Majors was all right What
would he be good for on that platform7
Appl.uiso and laughter ) It is an Insult
to common Intelligence for us to say that
that man would do a solitary thing to re-
lecm the platform pledges except to sign
ipproprlallons for all the rlngslcrs. ( Ap
plause. )
And , by the wav , look back just a little
bit ; you are paying $1.25 a day to the con
tractor ot the penitentiary- Mosher , who
s himself In the penitentiary over In Sioux
Tails you are paying that right along ;
and when the lust legislature tried to re
peal this contract and place that Institution
In the hands of the state , what did they do'
The liou'e passed the bill , and , through
Majors and the gang that was In the senate ,
that bill was sidetracked and never saw day
light , and If Majors Is governor any such bill
will be vetoed That is what they want him
for Yes , Mr Paxton , who is a good friend of
mine , and whom. I respect In every way ,
excepting In this present campilgti In his
effort to fasten a blackleg upon us for governor
ornor , says. " \Ve want him , , because he
will veto everything , " Yes ; I think he will
veto everything. ( Applause. )
He. will veto the maximum rate bill. I
sent to Washlngtonthreo or four days ago ,
or a week ago , and I asked there ut the su
preme court rooms how soon the maximum
rite decision would life made by Judge Brewer ,
and ho sent uord buck that he would have
It In about tuo weeks. Well. I think the
two weeks won't expire until about the 7th
of November. ( Laughter. ) Now , suppose
that thai declslop Ijolds that the bill is dc
fcctlvc in some minor parts , suppose , then ,
that wo say the nevt legislature shall amend
that bill and put It.ihrough and remedy the
defects. What will Mujors do ? Oh , he will
veto every thing , of ) course , he will. He will
veto it.
Now , Is it to the Interest of these mer
chants and shippers and bankers , even , that
he should veto it ? I do not believe It
There are business men In this town , whole
sale dealers , that were crazy to have that
bill defeated when the legislature ? was In
session. The fame men , the biggest ship
per a In the town , have assured me slnco
that the bill would bo a blessing ; that It
would establish Omaha as a good distribu
ting center , and would make every man
that is a shipper free and Independent.
Now , today , the shippers only live and exist
through the favor of traffic managers , and
those who have their disfavor might as well
go out of business. Wo do not ask the rail
roads to do us any favors ; wo simply want
them to do the honest , fair , square thing
by every shipper , and let us treat them the
same. I am not in favor of con fiscal Ins
any man's property , whether It be the- prop
erty of railroad or any other corporation ,
but I do want these corporations to say
"Uve and let live , " and don't try to make
us your servants. These corporations were
created by law , by charter , and they ought
to bo subservient to the law. nut they are
above all law , they hing up our laws at
their pleasure , they defy our laws , and they
fasten upon us laws which wedo not want
as for instance , when the people had votei !
down the proposition to create a rallroai
commission , they immediately created ono
In defiance of the people , and they have kept
that railroad commission alive , though It Is
not worth a penny to the state ; three met
at the state house drawing $2,000 a year , anc
they have been doing nothing else- but leg
ging for the railroads and for the state house
thieves.
STAND UP roil THE STATE'S CREDIT
Now , the Idea Is simply this Shall we
have a governor who will see to It that the
Uatu's Institutions are properly conducted
or shall we send a man down there who
IK In league with thieves and public plun-
dercra. r.ml will continue I ho system o
lapaclty until you have got to levy a direct
tax ; of perhaps half a million dollars to re
cujjerato the losses that we have sustained'
1 say no Intelligent , no self-respecting busi
ness man will go on and put this kind o
a covernor In that chair , no matter how
much "fcarecraw" is held up before him
The railroad managers , and calamity cru
saders tell you that you must elect Majors
or the state's credit will be ruined. It , Is
all moonshine. The credit of Colorado Is good
Just as good as thocredit ot Idaho or Mon
tana. The governor of Colorado U a popu
list , the 'governor of Idaho Is a republican
and the governor of Montana a democrat
Our Jobbers , are & ! | lrg goodsIn Colorado
and Idaho and Wyoming on the same basis
There Is not a particle of difference between
the credit of the one and the credit of the
other , where the. parties who are borrowing
have security , and when they haven't go
any security they cannot borrow and that Is
all there Is of thin whole credit business
Let us stand up for the credit of the state
Let us stand up for the public morals. Le
us not discredit the state In the very cyo o
ho nation by having a governor whom wo
cannot respect , whom all thcso people even
hose who Issued this manifesto admit to bo
n Improper candidate. No ; let us have a
nnn at the head of the Institutions that the
otuiff men ol this state will look upward
o. The hope of the coming generation U In
good , clean government ; and , when ivo have
uch a governor wo Avlll know that our Instl-
utlons are In sate hands Elect Holcomb ,
and If that governr don't behave himself
vlthln the next two years , we have the
emedy In our own hands. Let us citinnc-
mto the people , free them from this yoke ot
corporate1 power , and say to the corporations
Jeep within your bounds , attend to jour own
business , and'wo will attend to ours , nnd do
mr own bidding. ( Applause )
Kellow citizen ? , this is a great crisis In
.he history of the state If free government
a destroyed ; If this combination of capital
and corporation can coerce nnd buy enough
votes to defeat the choice of the people It
ivlll continue to dominate the state for years
and this commonwealth will b& reduced tea
a mere province. Wo shall be In no better
condition thnn the subjects of the czar of
lussla or the emperor of Germany U
would be far preferable to ba under the
uternal care of an autocrat than under
the heel of an irresponsible , conscienceless
corp&rato oligarchy. Let mo appeal to you
us patriotic , liberty-loving citizens to do your
July fearlessly in upholding the credit of
the state by the election of a high-minded
and honorable chief executlvo In spite ot
all menace and forebodings of dlro dis
tress
noons , I.YJ * i'iuiroiiu.u.s.
Among the prominent features of the Sep
tember Outing Is the complete story. "The
Prophetic Urn , " by William Hinckley , "The
New I'ootball Rules" by Walter Camp , and
another chapter of Lenz's "World Tour
Awheel , " covering a trip through the
Szchuen province In China , besides a good
variety of short sketches , all of which , to
gether with the copious Illustrations , render
the number exceptionally attractive
Under the caption of "Heresy and Schism' '
Or Vance Smith In the current number of
The Nineteenth Century replies to a recent
paper of RL Hon. William n. Gladstone ,
M. P. , and very strongly points to a higher
piano for Christianity than the sphere of
theological doctrine. Prlnco Krapotkln
concludes a paper "Mutual Aid In the
Mediaeval City , " In which much light Is
thrown on city Ilfo In the middle ages.
Rev Dr. Jcssupp contributes an Interesting
paper on "Tho Parish Priest In England UD-
fore the Reformation. "
" 'Advanced Woman' Number" is the
style In vvhtcb. The Idlci designates Its Sep
tember edition , and turning Its covers we
IInd an ode addressed "To an Advanced
Woman" by Mabellc Pearse. A very In
torestltig contribution , "Some Novelists on
Criticism , " conveys an Idea ot how literary
criticism IK usually done , and what reliance
may be placed upon It
What the magazine does In a desultory
way , often only along special lines , will be
found In The Cyclopedia Review of Current
History presented in more comprehensive
style , condensed so as to preserve the very
essence of all important current movements
throughout the world , and arranged so asto
be not only a practical chronicle of the
times , but a handy reference book particu
larly convenient in that It furnishes the
very information that Is not yet to be
found in such works. The prcbent number
( second quarter , 16'J4) ) contains 221 pages , and
Is beautifully Illustrated with portraits of
those prominently connected with the events
of the period.
Every number of Donahoe's Magazine
gives justification anew to the- claim that
Donahue's is a magazine for the whole coun
try , and not for any section of it Though
published in New England , and always true
to its rathollc character. It is In economic ,
political , and religious , matters so broad and
fair as to Interest every reasonable Ameri
can A notable article on economics this
month Is entitled "Tho South May Save the
Nation , " by a northern Journalist. "The-
Warfiro with Agnosticism , " a plea for more
thorough scientific training In ecclesiastical
seminaries , is a brilliant and stirring article
by Rev. J. A. Zahm of Notre Dame uni
versity. Lucile Lovell has a beautiful short
story , "Between Ports , " and there are good
pictures and plenty of light reading- well
in Ibis number
Among the Interesting papers in the Sep
tcmber number cf the Pulltlcal Science
Quarterly , 'American Administrative Law"
by Ernst Treund , points to the marked dif
ference in this respect to the methods of
administration universal and similar
throughout Europe , Prof. R Mayo-Smith
touches the question of Immigration In a
paper entitled "Assimilation of Nationali
ties , " William Smart in ' New Wealth'
shows all additions ot wealth to be the ma
terials of nature redistributed to shapes and
order. Increasing Its effectiveness In serving
human wants , and Prof. J. W. Jcnks con
tributes an able paper under the title
"Capitalistic Monopolies. "
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This Is a story reproducing the times of
Christ in Judea. It is no attempt , as the
authors state In the frefacoio literally
translate the characters of those days , butte
to bring back the spirit of the aie , dressing
It In garments and language pleasing to the
ear of today. A Judicious critic is quoted
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words to bring out moro Impressively the
tender love , the loyalty to friendship , the
combined human and divine character of
Jesus of Nazareth , than In In esc chapter * "
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UNITED AFTER MANY YEARS
Strange Story from Heal Lfo that More
Than Hirnls Fiction ,
HOW A HUSBAND FOUND HIS LOST WIFE
He In blilptrrockiMi nml Mio Thought Him
Dead lint lEcmuliifil tiillliful They
Will Kntl lln-lr i'rij-s 'Iiigetlior
Nut el In Itnil l.ltr.
NEW YORK , Oct. 19. Edward Sheffield of
Melbourne , Australia , nnd Ellen , his -wile , of
Hclenn. Mont. mot In the law ofllco of
Richard V. Uoyd , 18 Wall street , for the
flrst thno U. twenty years. Each hail Itf-
Moved the other dead , but each had remained
faithful. The man bad becpmo bronreil ,
burly and bearded since his wlfi had seen
him and she had grown plump and comely
with her 40 years
The romnnco was bosun nearly a quarter
of a century ngo In Southampton , England
Sheflleld was n bluff nnd honest young sea
man , the captain of a ship. Ills homo wai
In Dover , but his ship loaded at Southampton
once and there ho mot pretty Ellen Marshall
She was n bright-eyed , rosy young girl , full
of gcod spirits , and Shullleld loved her and
told her so
But 111 a courseof - love did not run smooth
tor Edward Shellleld. William Porter was
a young merchant of Southampton nnd he.
too , loved pretty Ellen Marshall He waved
a hard fighting rival and had more to offer
than did the sailor man , tor his business was
prosperous. Hut In the end tlii > bluff sailir
won tha victory and the girl Edwnrd nnd
Ellen were married and set up a little home
and when Edward was away on voyages his
young wife waited and worried She al
ways feared that disaster would overtake
him , and sura enough disaster did
They had been married nbout two years
when Edward's ship was chartered for Hrnzjl
'
It vvns > n long voyage nnd Ills wife was nc.u'ly
heartbroken Ha cheered his joung wife as
best ho could nnd salted away nut a storm
stiuck the vessel and wrecked It The sail
ors took to email boats and all wcra lost
The captain. Muck to the wreck and was
snved Ho clung for days to the vave-
vvnshed ship , calling on hc-aven for help
until a passing schooner hova-to and look
him aboard Ho was landed friendless nnd
pci nlless on the Southern American coast
Ho had terrible experiences of want and
hunger
Meantlmo ho must live , so he Mirm-d his
band to nny sort of work he could find In
the wretched Southern American tnwns
where fnto had cast him. He saved what he
could nnd after years scraped together
enough to tuto him home , only to find that
his wife had gone Edwnrd inrjnlred of his
old-tlmo rival and Porter told him mallcloni-ly
that Mrs. Sheflleld had gone oft to America
with another man Edward could not bc-
llrvo It nt first but Porter brought proofs
The young man left at once for Australia
He bought a Email ranch near Melbourne and
took to sheep farming Success wns slow , but
Hiiro Ho became more erratic. But he
never married. While going through bis old
sea chest some months ago Shellleld found
memoranda concerning 600 acres ot land in
Montana which he had bought fcr a song
twonly-fho years ago from a land agency
and had forgotten He wrote to Cllve
Pritchard a London lawyer , to look the
matter tip and ROB it the land was worth
anything Pritchard wrote to Lawyer Doyd
of this city and he communicated with a
lawyer in Helena , which Is near the land In
question The reply was that a Mrs Shef
field had shown deeds to the lands and sold
most of the acres at a high price ns silver
had been found In several places MIK.
Sheflicld was a widow , the Helena lawyer
repcrted , and wns living nt Helena
The rest came about twite naturilly Mrs
Shellleld was communicated with. She
wrote that she had waited years nt home
until perfectly satisfied that her husband vv.is
dead News of the shipwreck had reached
Southampton. Then she took the doid& for
the Montana lands and came to Ami-rica to
see whiit she could sell them for She was
amazed to nnd herself rich As for the
story that she had run elf with another
man , that was a whole cloih fabrication of
Porter's. She had been faithful to her hus
band s memory. Husband nnd wife so long
parted hastened to unite their lives once
moro. It UELS decided to settle In Montana ,
so Sheffield sold his Australian ranch and
crossed the water , and Mrs Sheffield came
east to meet him. The first interview. In
Mr. Boyd's Wall street office , wns a very
brief one. They started west at once.
SHE WAS A PIRATE BOLD
\Vnre Trousers , Stiilo Yurhtu mid hriniK < Ml
I.IKo 11 Man
The most Interesting prisoner captured In
Suffolk county. Long Island In many years ,
now occupies a cell In the county jnll at
Rlvcrhead , says the New York R cordcr. She
Is Grace Smith , the unusually pretty daugh
ter of George Smith , a sailing captain of
Southampton , and Is 10 years old She was
arrested on Tuesday night on a sloop yacht
owned by J. P. Welsh , who has a summer
house at Slilnnecock Hills. She was with
Frank Barker , aged 25 of Bronkllne Mas1 ! .
Both were puffing cigarettes. Barker was the
station agent nt Shinnectck Mil's.
The arre.st was made on board the yacht ,
near Cedar Island , two miles east of Sag
Harbor. They were charged with stealing Mr
Welsh's sloop jacht from Its anchor at Pe-
conlc bay
An additional charge of masquerading in
men's attire was made against Misi Smith
by Deputy Sheriff Robert Newton , who mails
the arrest The facts leading up to the urrcbt
ara best told In the words of Miss Smith who
told the followlne story In her cell yister-
day :
' On Sunday Mr. Barker took me out
< lrlvlnc nnd we had a good time tngethcr
Wo had a nice dinner , and drank considerable
vvlno. When we returned home It was too
carl ; ' to retire , and I suggested that wo have
a walk on the beach. Frank wns willing
On reaching the shore I saw Mr Welsh a
vnc-ht at anchor out in the liiy , and propoaid
to Darker that we tnl.e a sail in It Frank
thought it a capital Idea , and so we boaided
the yacht. Mind you , we had no Idea of
stealing it , but merely look it to have a
lark In order to moke tlio Joke all the moro
complete. I donned male attire nnd In this
way e started We went Into Sag Harbor on
Monday night There wo took on board a lot
of provisions On Tuesday afternoon I told
Trank that I was afraid 1 would bt caught
Ho said that we Imd time to go ta Ctdar
Island , and that there would be little chdnco
of catching us. until we Mt like returning
I did moat of the cooking , but Frank helped
at times We vuro on our way tu Cedar
Island on Tuesday night wliun captured '
Jlr. Welsh discovered on Mund i ) that his
yacht was mlBsIng , and sent notlco to all
the towns on Long Island , offtrlng a reward
for its recovery. Ho- also notified the
sheriffs. Deputy Sheriff Nugent of Riverhead -
head learned that the yacht put into Sag
harbor , and that two young men were sail
ing her tastward , and had bought enough
provisions to last three weeks Nugent got
a naptha launch from the custom house landIng -
Ing at Sag Harbor , and wrnt In search of the
pirates. The boat was slghtod near Cedar
Island , and the launch soon overhauled it , nnd
Nugent made prisoners of the two persons on
board Of tlio young woman In male attire
Nugent says.
"Her personation was n great success.
She- was smoking a cigarette ut the tlmo of
the capture and the pair looked us II they
had enjoyed a very gay tlmo. "
Both prisoners were taken beforn Judge
Graliln at Quoguc , and pleadtd not guilty Io
stealing the yachl They were held to await
the action of the grand Jury
Miss Smith took her arrest and Incarcer
ation very coolly , and calmly asked the Bherlfl
for n package of cigarettes. She was much
dlscuated when ho intornud her that the
county did not supply cigarettes to pris
oners. _
91 nd fled fium Life.
A curious feature of the Iowa Soldiers'
and Sailors' monument , tlio corner atone of
which was laid on the ilto of the old cap- )
tel building at Dei Molnes recently , will
ba the portrait character of I tic lorty odd
statues , medallions , battle scr-nc-s anil other
Lionzo embellishments. Outilda ol thft
three allegorical statuei of Iowa , History
and Victory thn figures will nit be modeled
from Iho figures of real Inwa soldiers. In
Iho words of ex-Senator Jnmei Italian , tha
oriitor of the day at Ihn comer stone laying ,
"none of them -will ha dummies , modeled
from DIP bodies of good looklnc hoodlums
picked up on Iho Jtrets by the artlit , to bo
duhbetl 'Ideal soldiers , ' but they will bo
copies or thn nctttnl bodies , limbs , arms ,
heads nnd faces of soldiers created by God
Almighty Himself to defend loir a and the
nation. They will bo placed on and around
thl * monument simply ns representatives of
their comrades nnd will not bear nny turn *
or Insignia , to distinguish nny ol them from
nil the others who nro held to be equally
meritorious " Itamlln Garland should bo
pleased with this lowii monument. It would
be linnl tollml a bolter realization of the
gospel which he preaches.
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l > .i > Ills bill he called for the landlord
"Hero , landlord , " ho exclaimed , "this Is
too much , I won't pay It "
"What s the matter , sir , " replied the land
lord , very obsequiously.
" 1 say the bill Is too much. You'vo Kot
me c'lmrgi-d Jl for two efigs What's that
foi T Are eggs so scarce' '
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