The Wealth Makers and Lincoln Independent Consolidated.
VOL. VIII.
LINCOLN, NEBR., THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 1897.
NO. 41.
LETTERS STILL ROLL IN
The live Populist Governors En
dorse Oar Position.
B 0. FLOWER OP THE ARENA.
Senators-elect Harris and Heitfeld,
Gen. James Gt. Field and
Many Others.
THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS.
I am not in favor of abandoning the
discussion of the free coinage of silver. I
regard this as one of the cardinal princi
ples of the cause which we champion. In
my judgment, we should "fight it out on
this line if it tukes all summer," or many
other summers to follow. The times
seem to me to be propitious. The stars
in their course are bound to fight for
us. The present financial system cannot
possibly bring relief to our people. That
they should turn from a gold standard
to bimetallism is an absolute necessity,
as certain to occur as is the republic to
stand.
However, I do not feel that we must
abandon other cardinal principles. We
have freed the states of Kansas and Ne
braska from the domination of railroad
corporations, and we propose to keep
them free until peoplo understand that
these commonwealths are not governed
by railroad ' corporations, but by the
people who live within thejr borders.
J. Wheedy. :
THE GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA.
The first declaration of our party plat
form adopted at St, Louis last year de
mands a national currency, safe and
sound, issued by the general government
only, a full legal tender for all debts,
public and private, a just, equitable and
efficient means of distribution direct to
the people and through the lawful dis
bursements of the government."
The next paragraph demands "the free
and unrestricted coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to
1 by the United States without waiting
for the consent of foreign nations.
The closing paragraph is in these
words:
"While the foregoing propositions con
stitute the platform upon which onr
party stands, and for the vindication of
which its organization will be maintained
we recognize that the great and pressing
issue of the pending campaign upon
which the present presidential election
will tarn is the financial question, and
upon this great and specific issue between
the parties we cordially invite the aid
and co-operation of all organizations
and citizens agreeing with us upon this
vital question."
I endorse every word of that document.
I stand squarely upon the platform of
the peoples party. Nor am I ready to
abandon the chief issue upon which our
party has been builded. Disloyalty to
the St. Louis platform is disloyalty to
our party and its principles. Let every
true populist buckle on his armor and
stand firm for every priuciple we advo
cate. Sound the slogan and let no man
listen for the call to retreat from any one
of our principles, much less the free coin
age of silver.
The enmies of reform and of the money
of the people have doubtless been much
cheered by expressions from prominent
populists advocating an abandonment
of the great issue up Jn which we fought
corporate greed and influence in the last
campaign, The populist party is re
sponsible for the great sentiment of the
people in favor of free coinage. Shall
we now tell them that we were insincere
or that we do not believe in what we
have for years advocated? Or shall we
say to them that free coinage is a step
toward the achievement of other re
forms we advocate and which will follow
in its wake?
Let us be honest to ourselves and the
people and never abandon this fight un
til victory is won. It takes, years to
educate the people upon ar!y reform is
sue. Free coinage is better known and
better understood than any other of the
great principles we espouse and neither
the machinations of goldbugs norths
puerile prattlings of misguided men who
have fought with us should avail to turn
our attention from the chief plank of our
party platform.
Let us be plain in our advocacy of the
St. Louis platform, reasonable and fair
to all men, and the national convention
of 1900 will be a gathering of the domi
nant party of this nation. Silas A. Hol
cotnb. THE GOVERNOR OF WASHINGTON.
Ton are right. The money question
in its entirety is the principal issue be
fore the American people. The fortress
which the people must assault and cap
ture is the entrenched position occupied
by the plutocracy. The outwork which
at this time commands the entrance is
the recently constructed gold standard.
The people are sufficiently educated to
comprehend this fact. For the assault
upon the gold standard we can command
a majority of the people and shall infal
libly be successful in tne next attempt.
To abandon the attack upon theenemy's
most vulnerable position, upon which
too, we can concentrate our greatest
force, would be an example of criminal
folly without equal in modern political
warfare. For the honest and misguided
people who urge it I have sympathy and
compassion. For the shrewd and de
signing traitors who are willing thus to
imperil the cause of human liberty I have
nothing but opposition and hate.
Not that silver is all for which we fight.
It is not. It is but an outer gate. But
if multitudes are ready to assist us in
opening that gate, if thousands upon
thousands stand ready and avow them
selves as anxious to go with us part of
the way toward the attainment of a
better financial system, why should we
rudely repulse them as unworthy co
workers? And who can say that, hav
ing taken that first step those whom we
now may be disposed to consider as lag
gards in the fight may not, when once
fully enlisted, become more valiant sol
diers than any of us who in the past
have borne the hea and burden of the
day? Was ever popular cause strength
ened by driving away those who were
disposed to be of assistance? And are
we not in all popular government afloat
upon the open sea of public approval,
necessitating for success a nearly unani
mous confidence in measures proposed?
Is not 'public opinion ia our day the
power behind the throne greater than
the throne Itself? Can any abuse long
continue to stand against the combined
thought of a large majority of our peo
ple? Is not this true of all intelligent
peoples? Was not even the despotic
German emperor, in full possession of
imperial powers, obliged to call a halt
when it was seen that the German peo
ple, or a majority of them opposed his
will in the matter of socialist repression?
And when it is perceived by the enemy
that our next assault, made, upon the
same lines as the one recently and barely
repulsed, must surelysuoceed, who that
has the cause at heart can sit idly by
wheH crazy egotists and black hearted
traitors are endeavoring to divide our
forces and dissipate our energies by
leading us to abandon the line of attack
which iueures success? . .
To look at the matter philosophically,
is it not true that the forces harmful to
man in a political way are obliged from
the na'.ure of the case to oppose their
whole power to the slightest inroad
made or attempted to be made upon
their position? To illustrate: When
the republican party in 1860 carried the
country upon a party which declared
the slavery question, simply and only
for non-extension ot slavery, it did not
propose to takeaway any right which tbo
slave propagandists had exercised to
any extent. It not only did not attack
slavery where it existed, but tacitly
agreed to protect and maintain it in the
slave states. 1. But the slave powers saw
clearly and intuitively that if the slight
est step was taken in the line of limiting
their privileges, their institution in its
entirety was at stake. They then said
among themselves, and I was then in the
south and often heard this from their
speakers, "we are stronger now to op
pose this first step against us than we
ever can be again if we allow this move
ment to be successful.!' For this reason,
and not because they expected imme
diate harm to come to them, they re
solved to fight. And they wero right in
their judgment of the situation. The
whole fight must inevitably have been
fought at that time, or a tame surrender
made.
The situation today bears many points
of resemblance to that of 1860. Our
"middle of the roaders" are in precisely
the same attitude with regard to the
Bryan forces as that occupied by the
abolitiouists in their relation to the
then newly formed republican party.
The abolitionists were very much dis
satisfied with the republicans and re
garded them as little better than trait
ors. They had begun the agitation for
the immediate abolition of slavery. The
republicans had gradually giveu up this
and in the eyes of the abolitionists were
guilty of trading away the reform, which
they had championed for thirty years.
The slave was not to be liberated; he
was to remain a slave, and even Lincoln
had pronounced against abolitionism.
In short, nobody then seemed to see
that the south was to be obliged to fight
for the life of the peculiar institution up
on a field where its case was weakest
and that of the north set forth in the
strongest possible light. The issue was
really, and at the bottom, the slavery
question, but to the north it was made
to appear as a fight for national life. In
no other guise could the war have been
sustained or successfully prosecuted.
Today the real question beiore the peo
ple of this country is the demand of a
favored few to control the volume of
money and by means of this little under
stood but enormous power to acquire a
more than imperial mastery over all ex
change and all production. The people
at large do not comprehend this ques
tion and its overmastering and supreme
importance. They cannot be made to
understand it in its fullness before it will
be too late. But their eyes are open to
the importanee of a restoration of silver.
They can be marshalled and led to vic
tory upon the silver line; upon' any other
I have little hope of success. For silver
we can all be united in overwhelming
phalanx Here the enemy is weakest,
and yet, following the line of necessity,
plutocracy will be obliged on this field
to contest the whole matter between
special privilege on the one hand and
the rights of i.ian on the other.
Brethren, let us fight it out on this
line if it takes a good many summers.
J. R. Rogers.
THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA
I cordially endorse your opposition to
any deviation from the lines of the last
contest. The peoples party has been
the first friend and enthusiastic advo
cate of bimetallism during the last six
years. Through its influence upon pub
lic opinion tht democratic party was re
organized under the leadership of honest
bimetallists. The late campaign was
fought on the silver issue, but the ques
tion was not by any means settled. The
issue in the next campaign will be the
same as in the last unless, contrary to
expectation, the republicans succeed in
establishing genuine international coin
age on the present ratio. But inasmuch
as the republicans claim that tariff and
not money is the paramount question,
we cannot recede from our position on
the silver question nntil the tariff fraud
has been exposed by full trial, unless we
are prepared to admit that we were
(Continued on page 5.)
THE GJLF RAILROAD.
Committeet to be Appointed to Investi
gate the Feasibility of State Aid.
Govenor Holcomb on Tuesday after
noon sent the following communication
to the House and Senate:
Executive Chamber, Lincoln, Neb.,
Feb. 23. To the Senate and House of
Representatives Gentlemen: I beg to
transmit herewith for your considera
tion a concurrent resolution passed by
the legislature of the state of Kansas,
and which has been forwarded to me by
his excellency, the govenor of that state
for the purpose of being presented to
you. I need hardly Bay that 1 am
heartily in sympathy with any move
ment tending to cheapen transportation
rates to the seaboard, and am of the
opinion that the object sought to be ac
complished by a conference such as is
contemplated by this resolution would
go far toward accomplishing this most
desired result. It ia a matter of the
gravest importance to every producer
and consumer thoughout the state that
the products for exportation and impor
tation should be taxed for land trans
portation for the shortest possible
distance. ,
It would seem to me to be but the ex
ercise of ordinary business prudence for
our people to take such action as would
tend to divert traffic to the nearest point
of export and import. That we should
be compelled to pay , transportation
charges for a distance of 1,500 miles to
the Atlantic seaboard when equal facili
ties could be had at points one-half the
distance, is a great hardship and injus
tice to our people. If charges of trans
portation were just and equitable for the
shorter distance, it would result in a per
ceptible increase in the market prices of
products we export, and a decrease in
those articles imported forour consump
tion. The people of the great central
west should be relieved from those exces
sive burdens by prompt and vigorous
steps, looking toward the securing of
reasonable land transportation rates to
our noarest deep water harbor.
. Silas A. Holcomb, Govenor.
The following is the resolution passed
by the state of Kansas. Undoubtedly
a similar one will be passed by the Ne
braska legislature:
Whereas, The citizens of Kansas, Ne
braska, Oklahoma and Texas have for
many years endeavored tOBecure cheaper
transportation of their products to the
sea coast, and for that purpose have
voted large subsidies to aid in the con
struction of north and south lines of
railroads, and,
Whereas, the government of the
United States has expended $6,000,000
to establish a deep water .harbor at the
city of Galveston, and,
Whereas, The influences of eastern cor
porations seem to have dominated ', in
fixing rates to the southern seaboard,
500 miles away, and making them prac
tically the same as those to the Atlantic
seaboard, 2,000 miles away, and,
Whereas, The governor of Kansas, in
his message to the legislature of Kansas,
suggests as a' remedy for this discrimina
tion the consideration of an interstate
railroad to tide water in the south, now,
therefore be it
Resolved, By the senate of the state of
Kansas. Jhe house of representatives
concurring therein, that the legislature
of Kansas immediately request of the
states of Texas, Nebraska, and the terri
tory of Oklahoma, to join with us in the
appointment of a committee of confer
ence, to be composed of citizens of said
state and territory, whose duty it shall
be to advise ways and means to obtain
relief for the exorbitant freight rates
now in effect to the seaboard on the
south.
Resolved, That it shall be the duty of
this committee to ask the assistance of
the interstate commerce commission and
hoard of railroad commissioners of said
states and territory in procuring for the
citizens of said states and territory just
and equitable freight rates, and if neces
sary, as a last resort, to consider the
propriety of building an interstate rail
road to the Gulf of Mexico.
Resolved, That the governor of the
state be requested to transmit immedi
ately, under the seal of the state of Kan
sas, certified copies of these resolutions
to the governors of the states of Texas
and Nebraska and territory of Oklahoma
with the request that the same be
transmitted to their respective legisla
tures for consideration. .
This is certainly a business proposi
tion. If by this means the state of Ne
braska could raise the price of corn alone
one cent a bushel it would mean a sav
ing to the state on the crop of 1896 of
$2,890,000. This would build several
miles of railroad.
GOVERNMENT AID.
The Committee in the U. S. Senate
to Eecommend an Increase
of $75,000,
Senator Allen has secured a promise
fron the committee having in charge the
appropriation of government aid to the
trans-Mississippi exposition to make a
fovorable report increasing the amount
of the appropriation from $200,000 to
$275,000. The amendment will be at
tached to the sundry civil bill, $25,000
to be for an addition to the cost of the
building and $50,000 for exhibits.
INVESTIGATE STATE OFFICES,
Committee of Five to be Appointed
With Pull Power to Examine
The Records.
The special committee on investigation
as to the condition of the finances of the
several state offices submitted a report
on Wednesday morning recommending
"that a permanent committee of investi
gation be appointed consisting of five
members," two from the senate and three
from the house with full power to make
the investigation, the said committee to
be required to report its findings to the
legislature if in session otherwise to the
governor of the state. The committee
introduced a bill to appropriate the snm
of $10,000 to defray the expenses of the
investigation, the money, to be placed
nnder the control ot the governor, and
not paid out except with his approval.
The committee to be appointed has
power to prosecute in the manner it
deems best, one and all o! the defaulting
state officials. It is probable that crim
inal prosecution will be commenced with
in a short time.
FIXED THE AMOUNT
In a Night Session the House Declares
, for $100,000 .
The House of Representatives after a
discussion of two days and a night de
cided to appropriate the sum of $100,
00 to aid the trans-Mississippi exposi
tion, and tor the purpose of making a
proper display of Nebraska's resources.
Many speeches and arguments were
made on both sides, and it was 1 o'clock
before the final vote was reached. The
contest baa been long and in some re
spects bitter and had it not been for the
fact that the government bad appropri
ated money to aid theexposition and other
states signified their intention to do so
and the additional fact that the big show
was to be held in this state no appro
priation could have been made.
The condition of the state finances are
such that the opponents of the bill in
sisted that the necessary expenses of the
state should be provided tor before the
state commenced to show business. It
was shown that the amount of appro
priation to be recommended by the com
mittee on finance, ways and means
and the claim committee would exceed
bv over $400,000 theamount of revenue
that could be collected under the consti
tutional provision that the levy cannot
exceed 1 mills on the dollar of assessed
valuation. It was shown farther that
with $2,000,000 of warrants outstand
ing unpaid, with $560,000 worth of
bonds coming due the first of April, the
addition of $200,000 additional war
rants would overload the market and
the warrants fall on the market'to prob
ably 80c on the dollar issued, and in
years later the state would be compelled
to pay back dollar for dollar with in
terest. '
. The snrmorters of the bill fonarht hard
for $2OO,0f0f and t&en for $150,000 but
in the face of figures like the above they
could not secure more than the $100,
000 and it was right they should not.
The bill provides that the governor
shall appoint six directors, one from
each congressional district who shall
have charge of the expenditure of the
appropriation and the state's exhibit.
They are to receive $50.00 per month
for not to exceed 15 months time, and
are required to submit a monthly re
port to the governor every 80 days.
A resolution was passed providing
that members of the legislature should
not be eligible as members of this board
and another that the wages to common
labor to be paid out of the fund appro
priated by the state should not be less
than $1.50 per day.
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
The House Appoints a Committee with
Power to Investigete.
The committee appointed by the legis
lature to make a preliminary investiga
tion of the cash accounts in the several
state offices found the statements set
forth in the governor's message to be
correct and quite complete; that the
state treasurer was short $537,762.93
and the auditor $25,834 80.
Concerning the office of commissioner
of public lands and buildings and the
accounts of ex-commissioner H. C. Rus
sell the committee reported as follows:
COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS AND
BUILDINGS.
"The cash receipts in this office asa rule
are not great.but owing to the fact that
the last incumbent was chairman of the
board of penitentiary supplies, large
sums of money were , collected and dis
bursed by him. The very incomplete
reeords now in the office concerning the
handling of this money make it impos
sible for the committee to make an in
telligent report of the condition of these
funds. The ledger kept in the office does
not correspond with the auditor's re
port as published. From the appear
ance of the cash record its general make
up and other evidence gathered by your
committee we conclude that this record
was manufactured in one day at the
close of the term from typewritten slips
not a part of the records of this office
but carried by Mr. James Whitehead.
All books of original entry, if there ever
were any, could not be found by your
committee.
Your committee would further report
in connection with this office, that it
seems to have been the practice to re
quire clerks to sign and receipt vouchers
for much larger sums than they actually
received for service rendered."
The committee further recommended
that another committee be appointed
and authorized to secure a competent
accountant, and have power and be di
rected to make a full investigation, and
report their findings to the house of
representatives at as early a date as
possible.
This will be done and next week we
hope to be able to publish a detailed ac
count of their findings.
An 8-room cottage homo near 0 street,
Lincoln, Nebraska no incumbrance
to trade for farm in Nebraska or Kan
eas. Address J. B. Romine, Lincoln, Neb.
OAIA'SL0 SCHEME-
Will Make an Effort to Subsidize
the Country Press and Poison This
Avenue of Information.
WHY BILL WAS VOTED DOWN
The Arbitration Treaty a Dangerous
Measure Chances for its De
feat Improving.
To Bob the Government of $80,000,000.
Washington. D. C, Feb. 20,1897.
(Special to the lNDEPENDENT.)--The
battle over the Arbitration Treaty con
tinues behind closed doors in the Senate.
The chances for defeating this Infamous
and dangerous British trap have im
proved. The chances are that before the
Senate adjourns tonight (Saturday)
that the Treaty will either be defeated
by a direct vote, or else Indefinitely post
poned. If the doors of the Senate could
be thrown open and the true intent and
purpose of this Arbitration Treaty ex
posed in opeu session the sentiment ot
all patriotic American citizens would
rapidly crystallise against it. There is
located somewhere a secret tory bureau,
seuding out circulars to the preachers,
Quakers, women and children, urgiug
the Senate to ratify this Treaty. These
circulars simply present the. abstract
question: do you favor setting differences
between nations by war or by arbitra
tion? Of course, in answer to this ab
stract question everybody says: in faror
of arbitration. Then the British tory
circular suggests that if you favor arbi
tration petition the Senate to ratify the
treaty now before it; and thus thou
sands of good people who have never
read the treaty, and know nothing of its
provisions and ultimate purposes are
moved by sentiment to petition the
Senate to vote for something which none
of them would favor if they understood
its real purport. It is no doubt the
Williams Street Reform Club, located on
Wall street, N. Y., which sendaOut gold
literature aud furnishes gold "patent
outrides" free to newspapers, that is
busily engaged in (forking up this senti
ment; but the light will soon be turned
on, and the people will sustain those who
fight the Treaty to the death. ,
mark banna's latest monopoly scheme
Mark Hanna and the gold syndicates,
trusts, and monopolists behind him,
have begun to realize that they have
won their last victory unless they can
devise some scheme for cutting off all the
avenues of information aud truth to the
people. They own the telegraph wires
and control the Associated Press dispat
ches, and have nearly all of the great
metropolitan newspapers subsidized, and
thus through these powerful channels
they keep the truth from the people, and
prevent and poison the matter dished
up to the public through the daily press
each morning. But they are alarmed
for fear the people will yet learn the truth
through the country newspapers, and
through such reform books as "Coin's
Financial School," "President John
Smith," "A General Freight and Passen
ger Post," and other such works that
now pass through the mails as second
class matter. Therefore, they have laid
two schemes to cut off this source of in
formation. One of their schemes is
through the Loud Postal Bill, which has
passed the House, and which they are
now making desperate efforts to pass
through the Senate Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads. They are de
termined to rush the bill through at this
session of Congress if possible.
Their second plan, which Mark Hanna
has taken charge of personally, is to
subsidize the country weekly newspaper.
Mr. Hanna is planning to correspond
with every editor of a country weekly
that he thinks he can make a business
arrangement with. The editor is to
agree to run so much gold-bug stuff in
his paper each week in return for a con
sideration of some nature, that Mr.
Hanna it ill try to make agreeable to
him. Let the people be on the lookout
and watch for each one of these country
weeklies that flop to Hanna's position.
The enemies of the people and good
government know that they cannot de
stroy this government and enslave the
people except by keeping the true and
correct information away from them.
Hence these two schemes.!
i THE CAT IN THE MEAL TUB.
A number of good people who have
been shocked at the gigantic steal in the
Pacific railroads were delighted when
Huntington's Funding bill failed to pass
the house. It now develops, however,
that Huntington and his crowd were
simply hedging to make a new deal to
further ruin the people and the govern
ment. It had been generally understood
that Hunington would command a ma
jority of the house and pass his funding
bill, but that he would nave arocicy road
to travel before passing the thieving
measure through the senate. It now
seems clear that it was a part of Hunt
ington's scheme to have the house to de
feat the bill in order to prevent the peo
ples party senators from making a fight
when the measure came up in that body
to have the government's mortgage fore
closed and the government to take
charge of the roads and run them in the
interest of the people. It seems that
Hunington and the reorganization com
mittee of the Pacific railroads had
reached an understanding, if not a deal,
with Cleveland to the effect that if the
house would vote down the funding bill
and thus take the matter out of congress
that Cleveland would at once proceed to
foreclose and sell these roads at a price
to suit Huntington aud his confederates;
and if we are to credit the statement
which purports to come from the attor
ney general, it seems that Cleveland has
already' agreed to tell these roads at
about fifty millions of dollars less tha
tbey are worth. Thus the government
is to be robbed of this much money for
the benefit of certain railroad syndicates
and also to prevent the people from de
manding that the government take
charge ot these roads and operate then
at cost in the interest of the people, to
the end that a fair test of government
ownership and operation ot the great
trunk line may be made. Senator Allen
has offered in the senate a resolution,
the purpose of which is to prohibit the
president from thus sacrificing the gov
ernment's property, and besides robbing
tne people of a lair test ol public control
and operation.
Thus the defeat of the funding bill in
the house was a distinct victory (or
Huntington and his confederates, for it
seems to hare been a part of a deal and
understanding between him and Cleve
land. They were simply preparing for a
new and greater steal. This is the cat
in the meal tub. ;
WHO WILL CONTROL TBK BEN AT It? "
When Mr. Hanna came to Washington
last December and held his famous con
ference, it became generally known that
the result was a determination on' the
part of the national republican commit
tee, backed by all the monopolies, com
bines, trusts, and gold syndicates of two
continents; to manipulate the legists-'
tures of enough states to capture a ma
jority of the United States senate. At
that time they felt satisfied that if they
could debauch and capture the legisla
ture of North Carolina, and thus suc
ceed in electing Pritcbard, that they
would have enough votes to tie the Uni
ted States senate, and that then the Vice
President, who would be a republican,
would cast the deciding vote. Hence the
desperate struggle made by Hanna and
his agents to control the North Carolina
legislature, which resulted in the election
of their man. But no sooner bad they
won this costly victory than they were
faced with an unexpected condition of
affairs in Oregon, where they feit sore of
electing a gold senator. Under the con
stitution of that state, two-thirds of the
members were populists, so until this
hour the legislature of Oregon has never
been organized. If this deadlock should
continue, then the republicans would be
short one vote. This caused Hanna and
his agents to turn their eyes to South
Dakota, where they made desperate
efforts to deadlock the legislature of
that state, and to prevent an election in
tho event they could not elect Pickler,
the republican caucus nominee. Their
purpose was to offset the Oregon situa
tion, and thus control the organization
oltbe next senate. In short, the des
perate battle which tbey fought in North -Carolina
was transferred to South Da- -kota.
These significant facts began to
be realised by the contending factions of
the South Dakota legislature, and they
had determined to get together and elect
a successor to Senator Kyle, before
Hanna and bis agents could make fur
ther headway in their schemes. This
would have been done within the next
tew days, but it seems that Hanna and
his emissaries, learning this and know
ing that it was impossible for them to
prevent the election of a populist, threw
their solid support to Senator Kyle
trusting in some way to profit by dis
sensions that might thus be raised in
populist ranks. Of course it was a
great surprise to the populists in Wash
ington to learn that Kyle had been elec
ted by the help of asolid republican vote.
The association press charges that Sen
ator Kyle got these votes nnder a pledge
to help the Republicans reorganize the
senate, but that he was left free to vote
for free silver. We cannot believe this.
In short, it is absurd, because if Senator
Kyle should vote to help the Republi
cans to organize the Senate it would put
the gold men in charge of every commit
tee, and then neither he nor any one else
would ever get a chance to vote for any
measure in the interest ot the people. No
such measure could ever be passed
through any committee. No one here
believes that any secret deal has been
made between Senator Kyle and the Re
publicans, though all admit that the
affair does not look well on its face. The
chances are, however, that the Republi
cans, in desperation,' threw their votes
to Kyle so as to claim that they had
some hand in deciding the result before
the Populist factions could get together.
The People's party has gained two val
uable additions in the election of Sena
tor Heitfield of Idaho, and Senator
Turner of Washington.
EUGENE MOORE ARSE3TED
On the Charge of Embezzlement and Theft
of Public Funds.
The information prepared by the attor
ney general and Lancaster county at
torney contains nine counts six of which
charge embezzlement and three theft of
public funds, of amounts aggregating
$27,208.05. It was understood by all
parties that thesuit was to be commenc
ed at 8 p.m. When Mr. Moore appeared
in the county court and Judge Cochran
read the warrant and he was placed un
der arrest. At first Mr. Moore did not
seem to be moved but before the reading
was finished he was forced to draw his
handkerchief and wipe away the tears.
Mr. Moore's attorneys are Willis Reed
of Madison and H. C. Brome of Omaha.
They asked for a continuance to March
24 at 2 P. M., which was granted by ths
court. The bond for Moore's appear-
ance was fixed at $10,000 and was'
signed by C.A.McCloud, L.W. Billingsly
J. H. Culver, A. L. Hoover of LincoJ
and J. R, Sutherland of Tekamah. 7
defense will be that all fees should be
int the state treasury and not t'
auditor and for that reason hew
accountable for the suras collected
Judge Allen W. Field of Linf
represent Mr. Moore's official V
while the prosecution will be
bv attorney general C' J. ,
deputy Ed f . smitn, ana
C!
ney W. H. Manger.