A Corruption Fund Raised by
the Application of Fusion
Principles to Fusion
Officeholders.
Bryan’s Predictions and Bugaboos by
the Logic of Events Trans
formed Into Nonsense.
Democrats Demand Fall Citlaenshlp For
Filipinos and at the Same Time Dis
franchise American Citizens.
Omaha, Aug. 13.—Nothing has con
tributed more to the contamination of
the public service in the state govern
,N ment, and particularly in the manage
ment of state institutions, than the es
tablished practice of the fusion leaders
of compelling all persons on the pay
roll of the state to give np never less
than 8 and often 5 per cent of their sal
ary monthly for nse as a corruption
fund.
That this is the hxed policy or the
fasionists is fully established and
proven, both by statements made by
Vision officials, who have been com
pelled to contribute, and by the letter
of the "poultice” committee of the tri
umvirate to Superintendent Lang of the
institute at Beatrice, published in the
weekly newspapers of the state a week
or so ago.
There are few people, perhaps, who
' fully realize what this means in dollars
and cents, say nothing of the evil re
sults attending it. The last legislature
appropriated for salaries and wages
♦572,600. This, however, does not in
clude the appropriations for salaries or
wages at either the university or the
penitentiary. In this compilation these
two institutions are not included, be
cause it is assumed that with all the
rapacity and greed of the fusion leaders
the university would be spared and the
appropriation for the penitentiary is
merged with other funds in the audi
tor’s report, thus making it impossible
to determine how much was appropri
ated for salaries and wages.
. However, to determine how much
^ money is gathered in by the "poultice”
committee (it is termed "poultice” be
cause it draws) for use as a corruption
fund one has only to take 3 per cent or
5 per cent of the |572,600, the amount
appropriated, as all of it will be paid
out before the close of the year. On
the 3 per cent proposition the amount
realized by the committee is $17,178.
On the 5 per cent, it amounts to $28,
630. In either event the fund is large,
and, taken with money received from
other sources, it runs' the corruption
away up in figures. It is this
practice, more than any other one
thing, that has caused so much wrang
ling and discord at the various state in
stitutions and that has so severely
shaken these establishments.
Managed From Lincoln.
With the single exception of Gover
nor Poynter, no governor, not even
Silas A. Holcomb, ever attempted to
manage or direct the affairs of the pub
lio institutions throughout the state
from the capitol at Lincoln. Until
Poynter assumed the executive chair
the unvarying custom was to appoint
Officials to manage the institutions, give
them full authority and hold them re
sponsible for the proper conduct of af
fairs. Experience had demonstrated
that this was the only way satisfactory
y results could be attained,
il. Governor Poynter appointed the of
ficials, but he used the appointive power
and the public patronage to reward his
political supporters irrespective of their
fitness, with the result that in many
instances, he was compelled by reason
of the latter’s incompetency to take a
hand in the management himself. In
no instance is the fruition of the
"double standard” more accurately and
elaborately depicted than in the man
agement of the state institutions. For,
under Poynter, nearly every state insti
tution has had two heads (the superin
tendent and Governor Poynter) and
often three, four and five.
After having appointed unfit persons
Governor poynter irequentiy naa to
inttevene to help them out, so that at
no institution and at no time has the
management been free from interfer
ence from the executive department at
Lincoln. Being rather poorly qualified
himself to give advice, for Governor
Poynter has had absolutely no experi
ence in teaching the blind, caring for
the indigent, the insane, the feeble
minded and kindred wards, his inter
ference was more often attended by bad
than good results. It has frequently
been said that “too many cooks spoil
r the broth.” Viewing results attained
at these institutions the logic of this de
duction can hardly be questioned. Gov
ernor Poynter’s policy of rewarding
politicians by appointment to office
without questioning their fitness has
been attended by deplorable results—
has, in fact, crippled the management
of nearly every institution in the state.
A Fallen Prophet.
It is an old adage that “a person’s j
chickens come home to roost.” Mr.
Bryan should have thought of this,
when four years ago he was predicting |
all sorts of dire disaster in the event of j
Republican victory. Like the fabled
chicken, Mr. Bryan’s prophesies have !
come home to roost, and, what makes
it embarrassing for him, is, that they
are roosting on the memory of a large
number of Nebraska voters, who were
deceived and fooled into following the j
advice and beUeving in the predictions
of the “boy orator” in 1896. It is said
of a Missouri Democrat who voted for
Cleveland and free wool in 1888, wool
dropped ao low in price that when h«
I
I commenced shearing his sheep the next
year, ho started in at the other dia
metrical extremity, being ashamed to
look the animal in the face. Mr. Bryan
finds himself in about the same predic
ament, but with Napoleanio fortitude,
unlike the Missouri farmer, he looks
the people in the face without even
hinting at an apology for imposing up
on their credulity. In no instance have
his prophesies proven prophetic. Every
prediction, every statement of his, has
been exploded—has fallen flat. The
people of Nebraska never experienced
more prosperous times, bnt Bryan in
1896 told them a thousand times Oi
more that if McKinley was elected and
free silver defeated terrible distress—
the hardest of hard times—would fol
low.
Bryan told them that the purchasing
capacity of the dollar would double,
and that the price of all farm produots
and the wages of labor would fall cor
respondingly. Has this statement come
true? Is there a farmer or laborer in
Nebraska who can say that Bryan’s pre
dictions have been verified? Where is all
this distress Bryan talked about in
1896? Why doesn’t Bryan pull the drop
curtain aside and let the people see it?
All that can be seen is prosperity. Can
Mr. Bryan exhibit any other photograph
and sav that it is the correct one?
Now then, if Mr. Bryan's reasoning
was fallacious in 1896 why is it not to
day? He is not parading the distress
which four years ago he said would fol
low the election of McKinley, because
proof of prosperity is too abundant.
He was dealing in futures then, and he
is dealing in futures now. Bryan’s
predictions always deal with the far
future, so that if he is wrong, as he in
variably has been, he has time and op
portunity to realize on the benefits ac
cruing in the way of fooling the people
into voting for him before they find out
or discover that they have been duped.
How many times have alleged prophets
prophesied terrestrial destruction, and
duped and terrorized more or less peo
ple with their awful forebodings, and
how many times has the day of destruc
tion, fixed by them as the date upon
which the world was to be destroyed,
come and passed without the slightest
ripple on ths world’s affairs? False
prophets and vagaries are not confined
to crankdom alone.
Free silver was Bryan’s “paramount"
and bugaboo in 1896. The people have
discovered that it was all a farce. This
time it is “militarism’’ and “imperial
ism." Bryan sees in the dim mists of
the perspective and introspect the hag
gard ghost of “force” coming upon
earth to govern this country without
the consent of the governed.
This “prophesy” almost reaches the
summit of lunaoy. It is an imposition
on popular intelligence, an insult to
sober reason, an illicit compromise be
tween wanton mendacity and shameful
demagogy. Bryan himself does not be
lieve it. To charge a party with mili
tarism that for 40 years has contributed
its best genius and statesmanship to the
achievement of peaoe without
military arbitrament; to charge a
party with imperialism that for 40
years has met and repulsed every en
croachment on popular government—*
that has since its advent to power added
additional constitutional palladiums to
the individual rights of American citi
zenship—is base ingratitude, withering
hypocrisy and shameful deception.
Militarism and Democracy.
It is a fact worthy of note that the
only exhibition of militarism in the last
quarter of a century in the history of
this country was made by a Democratic
president. That was during the labor
troubles in Chicago, when President
Cleveland, against the protests of Gov
ernor Altgeld and the mayor of Chicago,
sent the troops into the state of Illinois
to put down local labor disturbances.
It will also be remembered that Mr.
Bryan, if history be not faulty, was at
that time a member of congress, but
neither in nor out of congress did Mr.
Bryan utter one word of protest against
the unprecedented act of the president.
If the Republican policy has brought
prosperity and success, which it surely
has, how can the Bryan policy, which
is directly opposed to and intended to
destroy the Republican policy, bring
anything but the opposite of prosper
ity-hard times? It is safe philosophy
and it is so recognized in worldly af
fairs that a medicine that will kill will
not cure.
Disfranchising Voters.
In the Btate election just held in North
Carolina the issue on the Democratic
side was the adoption of a constitutional
amendment which disfranchises the
negro. The Democrats carried the day,
and the right of the negro to exercise
free suffrage in that state no longer ob
tains. In all 75,000 citizen-voters are
disfranchised.
In the face of this, Democrats all
over the land are demanding at the top
of their voices that the Filipinos be re
stored to full citizenship—govern them
selves and therefore exercise free suf
frage—while at the same time they take
away the right of free suffrage from
citizens of this country whose superior
ity as citizens over the Filipinos is ad
mitted by everybody competent to judge.
Is it any worse to govern uneduca
ted, uncivilized people without their
consent than it is to govern American
citizens, thoroughly in sympathy with
American laws, customs and institu
tions, without their consent?
True, and Democrats will no doubt
claim it, the restriction is contingent
on an educational test. If a negro
voter can repeat any section of the
constitution from memory when called
upon, he may vote. If not he cannot
vote.
This same test, and any one familiar
with the standard of intelligence in
the South must admit it, if applied to
the white population, would disfran
chise more than 80 per cent of that
element. The test, however, doe? not
apply to the white voters. This is
consistency—with a ring in its nose.
THINKS THAT WE
WERE WRONG
Editor Frontier: In your last is
sue you printed a letter written by
Miss Anthony wherein she comments
on the injustice and inconsistency of
the many oultured and philanthopic
women of California who asked for
the right of franchise, “Sam Leo
and Wog Ho in their pigtails grave
ly deciding that women didn’t know
enough to vote.” -In your comment
you say that a majority of men are
willing that she should have the
right of the ballot, but that women
themselves did not want it; that not
one woman in a thousand would
vote if she had the opportunity.
Now, in commenting thus, you ex
hibit an entire lack of knowledge.
We don’t believe it willful misrep
resentation. We would like to ask
from whence did you derive your in
formation ? To whom did you refer
as authority on this question. Par
don us for saying that we believe
you have fallen into the sterotyped
rut of a large class of men, who say
—and the wish is the father to the
thought—that women don’t want to
vote.
Let us see what some say who are
certainly in as good a position to
judge as the editor of The Frontier
is whether or not “one woman in a
thousand” dont want to vote. Let
Idaho speak through her supreme
judge first:
“Boise, Idaho, Feb. 21, 1898.—In
reply to your request for our im
pression of the practical working and
effect of woman’s sufferage in our
state, our observation convinces us
that woman’s sufferage is more
popular among our people than
when adopted, and although it
carried by more than two-thirds of
the votes cast on that question, we
believe that if the question was re
submitted to our people it would
receive almost an affirmative unan
imous vote. Several elections have
been held since sufferage was grant
ed to women and in each the women
have taken an active part and polled
a large vote. Many women who op
posed the adoption of woman’s suf
ferage in this state were active par
ticipants in such election and voted
thereat. The large vote polled by
the women at such elections estab
lishes the fact that the women will
take a lively interest in the wellfare1
and honor of our fair young com
monwealth.
Woman sufferage in this state is
a decided success; none of the evils
predicted of it by its opponents have
come to pass and as a measure of
justice it has gained much in popu
larity since its adoption by our peo
ple. We are very respectfully yours,
“Isaac Sullivan, Chief Justice
“J. Waldo Huston, Justice,
“it. P. Quarles, Justice,
“State of Idaho Supreme Court.’'
Bead an extract from the Idaho
Statesman:
“The woman’s vote reflected far
more independence and progressive—
ness than that of the men, and it
was most gratifying to the support
ers of the principle of equal suffer
age. It is often said that women
would not vote if given the ballot.
I They did vote in Boise and those
who had opposed the adoption of
the eqnal sufferage amendment
went to the polls in great numbers.
I The election proved that, thongh
women may not always go to the
polls, they will as voters constitute
a great reserve force, exerting itself
on the right side at the ballot box
whenever important issues are to be
decided.” • /
Hon. James Clarkson, assistant
postmaster general under President
Harrison, first president of the na
tional republican league and editor
for many years of the Iowa State
I Register, gives in that paper his
personal observation of woman’s
snfferage in Colorado, and we take
a few extracts from an editorial
bearing directly on the point referred
to by The Frontier:
“Having seen them in September
in the activitive of a "very exciting
political campaign, one in which at
least 90 per cent of all good and
intelligent and refined women of
this city (Denver) and state were
taking part, and having spent the
whole day Tuesday visiting the polls
of this city, where probably thirty
thousand women voted, I am left to
the frank and manly duty of saying
that the last feeling of fea as to
woman’s sutTerage on my part is
gone, and that the highest minded
man, however jealous and shelter
ing he may be of his wife, mother
or daughter as against any rude
touch with the world, oould not
have found cause for objection at
any of these polls Tuesday, or so
far as has been reported at any polls
in Colorado. It must be that the
women cast a majority of the votes
in Denver, for in four-fifths of the
many voting places I visited the
women voters were clearly in the
majority. In the oountry districts
it is reported that women voted their
maximum strength even more nearly
than the women of the city. In
stead of rough and vicious men, or
even drunken men, treating women
with disrespect, the presence of a
single good woman at the polls
seemed to make the whole crowd of
men as respectful and quiet as at
the theatre or church.” J. T.
[Editorial Note—There is nearly
a column more, all practically the
same thing, of this communication,
which The Frontier hasn’t time to put
in type. “J. T.” has labored through
much space to disprove something
The Frontier did not say. We did
not say anthing about what women
would do if enfranchised, but spoke
of the feeling of American women,
as a non-voting class, toward
politics.]
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