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LINCOLN'S EX-POLICE JUDGE.
The Republicans Nominate the Favorite
of the Tough Element.
SHALL HE BE MADE COUNTY JUDGE?
There is no office to be filled in Lancaster county, or any other county for that
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matter, which is ol more importance man mat or county juage. lie is w uoiur
nd administrator of the most sacred of trust funds all that widows and orphans
have after the death of their protector. Upon the honesty and uprightness 01 the
county judge, they must rely for the handling and distribution of their estates.
No man should be nominated by any party for that office who has not a long estab
lished record for honesty and uprightness in all his dealings. The republicans
have nominated for that position Lincoln's ex-police judge, Frank Waters. It is
not only proper but important that all voters of every party should know the qual
ifications of the two candidates who have been nominated for that office. The
two candidates are Frank Waters and Fred Shepherd. To most of the business
and professional men of Lincoln, investigation will not be necessary, but to some
others, especially thpse who live in the (WUPtry, it will.
J'hree years ago Mr. Waters had finished hi second term of office as police
ge of Lincoln, and was soliciting a third term, urging as a reason for ucn un
9iiai Rccgpition. ttat be needed it to put him on his feet He had his third term
and bow, (bough but a year has elapsed, he is again asking for office, this time the
3tha ooUHty judgeship, and upon the same old plea. His record not only does not
support his claim, but it show him absolutely unfit for. the place. He is alike un
aafe and Incapable.
As police judge he had to be forced to pay into the school fund the fines col
lected by him and appropriated by law to that purpose.
" During his incumbency be failed to make reports and remittances of school
moneys taken in upon fines and costs; and the school board set on foot an investi
gation in which it was finally reported that Waters was 12,000.00 short. Neither
the newspaper files nor the council records indicate that he questioned the right
f the schools to the money. In fact he said at once to the Call reporter that he
had not done as he should have done. And after the delay necessary to borrow
the money, he paid into the school fund several hundred dollars, thus admitting
the temporary embezzelment, and acknowledging the merits of the board's invest
igation. If the reported shortage of 92,000.00 was correct he is still in default of
school money. If he paid in all that was due, it was enly after the board by its
investigation forced him to do so.
Extracts from the current files of republican papers show the facts.
From the News of November 3, 1893.
, "WANTS THE MONEY.
Scbool Board Starts an Investigation or Judob Water's Accounts.
No Report of Receipts and Fines Made
News, November 3, 1803. "The school board has started an investigation, and it
promises to develop some sensational features. Police Judge Waters is the man
whom the board is after, or rather the money he should have turned over is what
they want. October 1 is the date when some interest coupons fell due, and as the
fines from the police court usually mount up into the thousands there should be
at least 12,000 on hand. Mr. Bullock (secretary of the board) asked when Judge
Waters had filed his last report. He was told that the April report, filed in May
was the last These facts were reported to the board at the meeting held on Wed
nesday evening, and a resolution was passed by the board authorizing an invest
igation of Judge Water's books.
The statutes provide that the police judge shall report at the end of each month
S list of all cases instituted in his court under the ordinances, and the disposition
made of them, with a statement of the tines and penalties received by him, and he
shall at the end of eah month pay to the treasurer all tines received by him in
cases arising under the ordinances. In the event of failure to make such report
for the period of ten days after the council makes a demand for it shall be cause
for impeachment " "
The figures for last year shows that from June to October inclusive the police
judge turned over to the city treasurer for the school fund $3,208.50, and to the
police fund $1,085.40.
J udge Waters states that he will file his Mat report today and turn over some
900 for the use of the board.
From the Call of November 3, 1893.
"INVESTIGATION.
The School Board
They Begin on the Police
For tome days there have been whispers abroad that the school fund was not
"getting, and has not for some time been getting, its lawful money from the police
I courtmoney that comes from fines and licenses, and which belong to that fund.
Last Tuesday evening, a resolution for an investigation into the records of the
police court was introduced and passed by the board, and today Clerk Bullock
and Miss Hedges, a short hand reporter, are engaged in the work of going over the
. books. .: t . ... it'1 f. .
. - There is all sorts of talk of shortage and crookedness going about, but until
' more is known The Call prefers not to give wider range to it.
Jndge Waters says that his affairs are all right, and that on next Tuesday even
ing he will make a report to the council that will show them to be straight and
correct 1
Ha ADMITS THAT HIS REPORTS Of HNB3 AND UCKNSBS HAVE NOT BEEN MADE
AS PROMPTLY AS THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN, BUT SATS HE CAN SHOW GOOD REASON VOB
THE DELAY."
No good reason was ever shown to the public, and indeed no reason at all. Not
a word is said in the Call of Nov. 8, 1893, reporting the council proceedings of the
evening mentioned, and no reference to the promised report appears in either the
, News, the State Journal, or the council record of that time; and a search of the
records for months afterward fails to disclose an explanation,
All of the records of the school board fully corroborate the above.
The upshot of it all is this. Can the people of Lancaster county afford to have
the estates of its widows and orphans in the hands of a man who must be forced
by investigating committees to do his duty and to account for trust moneyf The
Independent maintain that the office of county judge should be filled by a man
who, of his own free will, can be depended upon to account to the widows and or
phans whose interests lie in his charge.
Nor is this all the charge that has been laid at Water's door on account of the
' misappropriation of costs received by him
on page 219, date of June 1, 180G, appears
"Whereas there is comintr continuously
fees on costs and whereas the police judge has heretofore notified the council that.
ne will not turn them into the police fund as required by law, therefore be it:
Resolved by the mayor and council that the city attorney be instructed to begin
suit to recover from said judge and his bondsmen all such fees that have been re
tained by him."
In connection with these important matters, certain other facts are peculiarly
significant The law requires the police judge to file monthly reports in the office
of the city clerk; and while the files of that offie disclose such reports from Goff,
in 1873, through the administrations of Green. Taylor. McLean. Dales. Cobb.
Montgomery, Parsons, Whitmore, Houston, Foxworthy, Iiorgelt, and the present
incuninant, Judge Comstock, the most
- from Waters during the entire six years
ol this ottlce has made a thorough search, and the city clerk, after full investiga
tion, stated on October 11, 1899, that he would "give it up." He could find nothing.
The law requires books of police record; and' the law, practice and custom de
mands that they be kept at the office of the judge in the city building. . But
during the entire latter half of his term of office Waters kept on'.' the current
record at his office, and that under lock and key; and the remainder of the records
at his home where the public could not have a chance to see them. For months
after the expiration of his term of office he retained them there and only upon the
demand of a citizen and upon the sending of an officer and the patrol wagon by
Judge Corns took to Water's house were they returned. And further, for all the
time he occupied the office of police judge not one file of the papers in any case
remain to tell the story.
I The Independent says that these things are enough to condemn Frank Waters
as an aspirant for county judge. The duties of the county judgeship should be
administered decently and in order, and according to law. And in addition to this
the voters of Lancaster county should know and remember when they go to the
ballot box that Frank Waters has been as unreliable in his personal business
affairs as he hasbeen neglectful of his public duties.
Good men frequently have past due obligations against them, but good men do
not habitually pass checks upon banks in which they have no funds; and while
! good and honest men sometimes fail in business, no honest man would earn the
reputation given Waters by the grocers and other retail dealers in Lincoln. For
many years he has been quoted by the merchants of Lincoln as being unworthy of
credit, and was listed "Require cash." Let any man doing business in Lincoln
with retail dealers ask the man with 'whom he trades to see his blue book and look
up the standing of Mr. Waters, for himself, .
In 1898-9 one dealer votes him slow and the others "require cash."
Waters has always had the enthusiastic support of the Budd Lindsey-Frank
Graham outfit, and it is this same crowd that in now using every means to elect
him. An examination of the election returns shows that he always had large ma
jorities in the districts where saloons and houses of ill fame flourish, and that he
failed to carry the reputable residence districts where his party normally had
overwhelming majorities.
Here are some of the records from the police court where Waters presided;
Docket 6, cafe No. 'M and No. 2347, against Budd Lindsey for violations of liquor
law. Each wise continued wvn ilines and finally dismissed without any action.
Cases No. 2.721 and No. 2791 ngainst Lindsey for selling liquor on Sunday, were
dismissed, 'l'be records do not show when or why.
Ca-e No. 2S(K). docket 7, L. L. Lindsey arrested September 20. 1893, for selling
liquor at 2 o'clock at night Cusa continued to Oct 7, to Nov, 9, Nov. 18, and to
Nov. 20, when trial was bad. Six reputable citizens appeared) as witneses for the
state and gave conclusive testimony. No evidencu ok any ki jd was oflV'ed.by the
defense H,e ense whs then continued to Nov. 30 to enalle Lindsey to file a
- ??lk rt'''cr -l shows that a iViefwas tiled on that day, but the case 'was de-;
. '"--Wv-AMiBjceV was made is not knownJl
Since Last May, and no Money Paid Over.'
Looking After Funds.
Court Records This Afternoon;
as police judge. In Council Record 15
the following:
into the hands of the notice iudc-e officers
careful search cannot discover a single one
of his incumbency. A man at the request
but no record was made as to the final disposition of their cases. It may be they
were deposed of by the star-chamber method bo popular in Judge Waters' ad
ministration. The man who ran a court of that kind, it is now proposed to put in charge of the
estates of the widows and orphans of Lancaster county cases in which there are
often involved large sums of money, many times running up into the thousands.
Do the reputable citizens want that kind of a man elected to so responsible an
office?
Contrasted with this record we take pride In referring to the character and rep
utation of the fusion candidate, Frederick Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd has lived in
Lincoln twenty-seven years, was educated in the public schools and State Univer
sity; and for ten years has been a highly esteemed and successful member of the
Lancaster county bar. Large and important interests have been in his hands, ia
the care of which he has fully demonstrated his honesty as a man and his ability
as a lawyer.
CHAPLAIN MAILEY IS A FRAUD.
DECLARED THE ANNEXATION OF
OF EVERYTHING HELD
lie Slander Both Col. Colton and Col. 8totenbnrg Official Letters Written
to the Governor and Congressman.
The authorities at the state house finally reconsidered their decision not
to give out the letters of Chaplain Mailey, which were on file there among
other public documents relating to war. The Independent has insisted
from the beginning that they were public documents and that every citi
zen should have access to them. The following is only part of them:
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 19, 1899.
Governor William A. Poynter,
Lincoln' Neb.
Sir: I have the honor to invite yonr attention to the. enclosed letters of
James A. Mailley, late chaplain Fisrt Nebraska Volunteer Infantry. ,
The letter of August 5, addressed to Governor Silas A, Holcomb, pro
tests against the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel George R. Colton to
succeed Colonel John P. Bratt, about to resign, and recommending Colo
nel John M. Stoteenburg to be promoted colonel of the regiment
His letter addressed to Honorrble W. L. Stark, date of January 30, in
which ha urges Mr. Stark to oppose the annexation of the Philippine Is
lands, as it would be a gross violation to every principle dear to American
hearts; but I invite your special attention in this letter, to his change of
frout on Colonel Stotsenburg.
I think these letters will disclose the hypocricy of this man, and I would
recommend that they be given publicity, so that the public may see this
man in his true light The letter of January 12, addressed to Colonel
Stark was forwarded to me by Colonel Stark for my information as to the
status of Colonel Stotoenburg at that time. The letter ..peaks for itself.
. Very respectfully yours,
P. H. Barry,
( Adjutant General.
Executive Chamber, Lincoln, Neb., Oct 19, 1899.
General P. H. Barry, Adjutant General,
Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir: Replying to your communication of the 19th instant I would
say you are at liberty to make public any letters in your office which you
think would be of public interest, this especially applying to those letters
to which you refer in your communication.
Very truly yours, W. A. Poynter,
Governor.
Manila, P. I., Jan. 30, 1899.
Hon. W. L. Stark, 11
Washington, D. C.
My Dear Friend: Yours of December 21 is at hand. I thank you for
giving the matter your attention, I, as well as others here, feel that we
should now be home had not some dirty work been done somewhere.
I have no doubt that it was the intention of the War Department to re
lieve us with the regulars now en route; but things are in a very unsettled
condition here at present. The natives are determined to be satisfied with
nothing short of Independence, now or prospectively, and declare them-f
1 selves ready to fight to the death rather than to yield. I read their papers
regularly (printed in" Spanish) and, if the utterances of their editorial
writers are any index to the sentiments of the people, our work is cut out
for us the moment it is known that the policy qf our administration is an
nexation. ' At the adoption of their constitution at Malolos, not long since
one of their speakers (the prindipal one, in fact) said: "We are ready to
destroy all things, in our struggles for liberty and independence, and to
dig a large grave for ourselves and our invaders." The annexation of
these islands against the wishes of this people would be a violation of
every principle held dear by American hearts. It must not be; and I
hope you will fight it. ,' .
A word about Colonel Stotsenburg, on the dead, He has applied
through military channels for an original colonelcy in one of the new regi
ments to be created in the expansion of the regular army. It is the hope
of this entire regiment that he will not get it. He is very unpopular and
deservedly so. He is one of the most selfish of men, and a martinet.
What few friends he had before he was made colonel have become soured
upon him. When this regiment is mustered out he will be the most un
popular man in Nebraska. To make an impression upon the generals at
general inspection, he is drilling the men very hard; and this, in connec
tion with the outpost duty they have to do, is telling on them severely.
Our sick list, which fell off rapidly after we came to camp, is again climb
ing up. The regiment is again beAig used as a tool to further S's personal
schemes. Oppose his appointment and get him recalled to his own regi
ment, and you will earn the eternal gratitude of the First Nebraska.
This letter is strictly personal and private.
Am well. Yours truly, Jamkb Mailley,
Chaplain, 1st Neb. Vol.
I hereby certify that the alwve is a true copy of the original letter of
Chaplain James Mailley, now on file in this office.
P. II. Barry,
Adjutant General.
Manila, P. I., Aug. 5, 1898.
Governor Silas A. 1 lolcomb,
Lincoln, Neb.
My Dear Governor: It is generally assumed in the regiment that Col.
Jno. P. Bratt is about to go home; and of course this has brought up the
question of his successor. I am creditably informed that a petition is be
ing circulated favoring the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Colton.
It is my general policy never to interfere unless I am called upon to do so,
by the requirements of my office. And I interfere in this case with re
luctance because I know that you are aware of Colton's antipathy to me
on political grounds. However, I beg to assure you that I am not prompt
ed to my course by any personal considerations whatever. ' Whatever dis
agreeaole features may have been coneected with my appointment as
chaplain, they have long since passed away, and no mau could be treated
better than I am by all the officers and men.
But Sir, I write to most solemnly and earnestly to protesta gainst the ap
pointment of Lietenant Colonel Colton as Colonel of the First Nebraska
Regiment I do so because and solemnly because I am compelled to by
an honest interest in the moral welfare of the men under my care as chap
Iain. That Colonel Colton is a good officer none can deny; that he is a
brave man I know by personal observation. I object to him upon the
ground of moral character. I myself have seen him under the influence of
liquor, and I can prove that he has tried to persuade young enlisted boys
to drink with him. I do, not care to be more specific in my statement. - I
could be, if it were necessary. Unless he changed wonderfully, this ap
pointment as colonel could not but result in great moral injury to the reg
iment We have a man who is fully as brave, more thoroughly schooled
in military affair, and who adds to this a spotless moral character, a man
ly carriage and a gentlemanly bearing. I refer to Major Stotsenburg.
Regards to all my friends.
Most respectfully yours,
James Mailley,
; Chaplain, 1st Neb. Vol.
I certify that the above is a true copy of the original letter of Chaplain
James Mailley, now on file in thi office.
, ' P. II. Barky,
.,;'..,; iV'1:;' " " ' ' Adjutant General.
THE ISLANDS A GKOSS VIOLATION
DEAK BY AMERICANS.
Clippings.
A MIGHTY MEAN MAN.
First McKinley says forcible annexa
ation is "criminal aggression." Then
after he has forcibly annexed the Phil
ippines he says that "this territory has
come to us through the providence of
God." It is a mean man who will blame
God for his own mean acts. Hutchin
son Gazette.
LOOK AT IRELAND.
Look at Ireland and see what eight
hundred years of imperialism has done
there. For all these generations, im
perial England has been "crushing the
rebels," hunting down the "copper
heads," hanging the "traitors" and ex
iling by the milion the "ungrateful and
treacherous" natives. Pittsburg, Kan
pan. THE STERLING SUN.
The liar's belt should be give: to the
Sterling Sun for the following brilliant
effort in thai line. It says;
"J. W. Bryan has had a remarkable
political career, which is surely coming
to a close, but he will have secured,
what he remarked in his opening efforts
he most desired, "the money and not
the honor of office," He is today a rich
man all made in politics." ,
THESE BEING THE FACTS.
The fact that Custer county was
$46,000.00 in debt at the time the popu
list party took hold of the affairs of the
country nine years ago coupled with the
fact that it is now out of debt brought
about by the economical management of
populist officials during the past five
years of panic and drouth is sufficient
reason for every voter is the county to
cast his vote this fall for the populist
party nominees. , No party in existence
could have done more for the county.
These being facts, why should there be
a changer Custer County Deacon.
NOT TO BE TRUoTED.
The man and the party that would
hoist the American flag over the slave
pens and harems of the Sulu Islands
are not to be trusted as guardians of the
lives and liberties of the people here or
anywhere else. Their principles, morals
and religion can be expressed with a
dollar mark. National Watchman.
WHY NOT? .
In the recent Chicago .election it
seems that a Referendum was had on
two questions: the establishing of kin
dergartens, and the the admission of the
suburb of Austin into Chicago. Both
were carried by large maturities. Why
can't r.xally vital questions, like the
street-car question, be submitted to a
Referendum? The people of any city
should have a right to demand a refer
endum on such a vital question. The
laws and constitutions of the various
states should be changed accordingly.
McKINLEY SOLDIDRS.
Two negroes were released from the
from th Topeka jail last week where
they were confined upon charges of fel
onous assault And why do you thftik
they were given their liberty, dear but
verdant reader? Do you suppose that
it was because they were found to be
innocent? Well, they were given the
latest brand of liberty the Dili Mc
Kinley and Mark Hanna Brand. They
were turned loose in order that they
might enter the United States Army
and carry the blessing of liberty to the
down trodden Filipino. Fine represent
atives we are sending out on this mis
sionfelons convicted of crime! Nice
grade of soldiers wearing the arniy uni
formprisoners from penitentiaries and
jails. Appeal to Reason.
TOUGHS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
Vhe kind of missionaries that McKin
ley and the imperialistic preachers are
Fending to the Philippine islands, can be
gathered from the following Associated
Press dispatch. Most of the editors of
the great dailies blue penciled it, but it
got into a few papers:
Cincinnati, O., October 19. The 4Gth
regiment of volunteers, enroute from
Massachusetts to Manila, was delayed
here by enforced drumhead court-martials
on account of an epidemic of
drunkenness. The first section arrived
yesterday over the Chesapeake fc Ohio
and held high carnival. They had whis
ky secreted on the train. Col. Hegler
immediately called a drumhead court
martial, which tent thirty of the worst
offenders to the Columbus barracks. As
the other sections arrived during the
day it was found that there was plenty
of whisky aboard of them also, and the
supply was greatly increased here, so
that the four sections were all side
tracked west of this city at Valley Junc
tion for more trials and additional in
stallments were today sentenced to the
Columbus barracks awaiting further
action. The trains after much delay
finally got away for St. Louis tonight,
CLOSED BY THE TRUST.
Woburn, Mass. Oct 9. Several Wo
burn leather manufacturers, who recent
ly joined the American hide and leather
combination with the understanding,
they claim, that they were to be retained
at the head of their respective plants,
state that the agreement has been vio
lated and they have been retired from
active connection with the business by
the executive board of the company.
Now the announcement is made that in
the interest of economy the factories of
the Jame Skinner Leather company and
the John P. Crand shop, here, and the
William Tidd factory, at Stoneham, are
to 1)0 closed. The last named is to be
moved to Woburn.
THE G. O. P. WAY.
If a poor devil of a stalking laborer
resists the laws, call out the nmlitia by
by all means and kill him. But if a
swollen corporation bribes court, laughs
afjustiw, oppresses the weaK and robs
the helpless, let us put a plank ugainst
trusw in the next platform and ask for
a contribution! J. J. Ingalls. )
LITERARY NOTE. ;
"Tha Lord loves ordinary looking
men." said Abraham Lincold. "That, is
why he made ho many of them." This
off hand dofi-n.se of democracy is quoted
in the new life of Lincoln by N man
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Hapgood, about to be published by the
McMillan Compauy, and a number of
similar stories, to show the various sides
of Lincoln's democracy. In using the
sub-title, "The Man of the People, 'he
author shows that this idea of "the first
American" is carried throughout the
work. .
WHERE'S THE DIFFERENCE?
If England is a pirate nation, what is
the United States? Is not our course in.
the Philippines on a par with the Eng
lish course in the Transvaal? Where is
the difference between Chamberlain
and McKinley? Are they not both
guilty of criminal aggression? Is it not
a war for conquest on either hand? The
only difference is that Chamberlain sins
openly in the name of imperialism, and
McKinley sins secretly in the name of
benevolent assimilation. The editor who
denounces England's acts in Africa and
defends America's acts in Asia is either
a fool or a hypocrite. Central City Dem
ocrat
LOOK OUT FOR BRITISH LIE&
Attention was called today by a co
lonial office official to the fact that the
Transvaal government is effectively iso
lated, from a military-news point of
view, 'from all European and
other outside friends, so far as the cable
is concerned. The British control by its
censors all the lines, even the Eastern
cable, which starts from Dalagoa bey.
It has one censor at Cape Town and oner
at Aden. . The former is able to stop all
messages by the Western cable; the let
ter all by the Eastern. The Boer mail
goes by Delagoa bay and all Transvaal
state dispatches being, theoretically,,
contraband of war, ships carrying them
would be stopped on the high seas by
British cruisers. No such course will!
be followed by the British government,,
however, though all cables for the Boer
government are likely to be edited out
of existence by the censors. George
Townsend.
THE PREACHER IN POLITICS.
When a preacher of the gospel of the
Christ drags his priestly robes into the
political arena it is generally safe to re
gard him with suspicion. The man who
has dedicated his life solemnly to the
service of his God in a priestly capacity
will, if he be a true disciple of his Lord,
, find so much labor at hand for the
Master as to leave him no time in which
to labor for politicians. Blaine owed his
defeat to a blatherskite New Yerkr
preacher, who made his church pulpit a
political stump, and in seeking to aid
Blaine, killed him. The injury to Blaine
was not greater than the injury inflicted
upon the cause of Christianity by that
political preacher. The populists of Ne
braska are just now suffering from the
stings of a saintly serpent, who was once
warmed in the populist bosom. We re
fer to Chaplain Mailey, who, after re
ceiving a good collection from the pops,
and finding that source of revenue ex
hausted, is now advocating a gunpowder
Christianity for God's children in the
Philippines, at the request and under
pay of the imperialistic state committee.
God pity the poor preacher who so far
ttrgets his duty to his God as to quit
advocacy of the gospel of love, and take
up the cause of force and hate. God
pity the Mailleys. whose love of lucre
appears to be stronger than their love of
Christ Papillion Times. t
, REPUBLICAN FAIRNESS.
As a sample of the fairness of the re
publican papers their treatment of Lieutenant-Colonel
Eager will serve. Mr.
Eager is the owner of , the Nebraska In
dependent, the leading populist state
Eaper. In the recent big Lincoln fire
is newspaper plant was entirely des
troyed, He had not a dollar of insur
ance, and was compelled to cancel all of
his campaign meetings, in order to devote
his time to restore his establishment
The republican papers now say that he
cancelled his meetings because his wbt
record is not good, while the fact is that
he was promoted on the recommendation
of his superiors on the grounds of special
fitness and valor. The Phonograph.
A BAD LOT.
Times cannot be so prosperous in re
publican counties. The treasurer of
Gage county issued 7,736 distress war
rants for the collection of taxes, and
then failed by f8,000 to get in as much
money as his populist predecessor did
during the years of crop failure. This
delectable republican official charged
himself on the fee book with 50 cente for
each distress warrant and'collected from
the parties $1.25, making a steal of
$5,802. He has placed in the bank an
average daily balance of $48,000, ac
counting to the county for the interest
on $28,000, which increases his pecula
tions to $0,002. In addition to this he
has been allowed a claim for "miscella
neous items of office," to the amount of
82.202.03 when clerk hire and all known
expenses, even to stamps, have been paid
for him. $,4.t8 can thus easily be
shown to be short, and many other
charges have been preferred agains'rtim.
Can't be that they nave the purifiid, re v
generated republicans in Gage cmnty. V,
The commissioners also republcnns
must be as bad as their treasure - Reg
ister. M'KINLEY AND LINOLN.
"I do order and declare tlat all per
sons held as slaves within said desig
nated states and parts of sates ar and
henceforth shall be free, md tbt the
executive government of the United
States will recognize ana maintain the
freedom of said persorH." Abraham
Lincoln.
"Any slave in the archipiiigo is given
the right to purchase Ais 'reedom by
Saying his owner the sum if Twenty
ollars." Wm. MKialey.
Eay SUP Down II II 1.
We've Jln J?w they love tte flag!
And lipra'M JinKonoiie;
Thai fl"K l l,t ,n ""7 nht.
Our country rilit or wrong,"
Wo'v part Wins,
Tliry'ra lower still.
Anil tic
r tun pany nr:
Wtmn at V" P"s J" no sor.K
Our fty UK"' or wrong."
We've hqhllpr. Down not lu-r atpp,
Anil P're thn Ik h nil or na
"We talf no bltilT. we want the stulT,
Our pckotit right or wrong." ,
Dr, Bill'e Cough Syrup fWnl
mnt mpetantiiil comfort and b-eli
consuiitivei; it works mrt reAinr
cures. Don t despair. Relief
tainWn had: a cure is possible
wonojfrful remedy. ,
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