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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 24, 1901.
NO. 24.
ROSEWATEH ANSYEHEO
Tt Te i'mtd 14 tm T rbl at Beatrice
tVaitvstiaj-j Miid4U-MUr Bleffs
tfe Ketliaa Cemtaittee
The little comparative table sent out
by ttr fusion committees last week
aroued the Ire of Brer Rose mater of
tie umaha 1W. The showing ia that
Uvds. tats was a stunner. Compar
ing tiie laat tU moats of I'oynter's
frm tthat is. the last semi-annual
period of ti.2t term) with tie first six
months under republican administra
tion, it is found tLat tie republican
csp-:-d U7.tv4.i7 In caring for 1.
'dj incite in tin state institutions.
wi.il tt futioniiti expended but
S!.(4 4 j caries for l.C9 inmates
:a tuocth. In viLr words, the in-
rai !-. u'itin of I-y lnmatea cost
iLe la i- i.nri of Nebraska $48,019.53
additional, or iXW- apiece. That
ma csore tLn Mr. Ko water could
atand a L relieved his mind by writ
ing the iy.l-jxz.g editorial:
t Oman a Iw. Oct. li, 1901.) There
! nothing misleading as figures
i.-Xi they are wilfully Juggled for a
purpc-a-. This truth it again striking
ly jiuatralei by the statistical tables
ahUh the popocratlc campaign man
agers are putting out with a view to
rt.aU:;g the peopie believe that a great
ti-su " Las taken place In the con
duct cf the state -institutions since
they pa! from fusion to republi
can control.
With shrevd cunning the C cures
have ben prepared to .how the ex
pense cf maintenance of nine asylums.
i. ?l1 reformatories "for the first
:s tu?.z.vs und-r rrpuhlican admin
.:ratix. and the last tlx months ud
t,r -.:,-' I'oynter Assuming
ttat the jiniTj'.tj are correctly given.
!t "j Jxjuire what this means. The
t.i months taken under Governor
ojnter cover the period from June 1
To No ember 1. I while the six re
yi lu u inosth cover the period from
Iwrr t-r I. iw, to May 21, Wi
le tie hfkt place, for mot lnstdiu
t. ;.... tte first tlx to ejht weeks cred
ited ta a repatlican administration
it-r t-'.-X under r publican, but under
th- fuios hul J-o m, becauae the re
puhlicAa appcitnt.e' did not take hold
until the n-jii of January, or later.
Ihe outeoins fusion oScials were not
particular about the legacy they were
y.-v:n.z t- their r publican successors
in tl shiipe of overlaps, unpaid ac-f",-iT.
and cot-tr acta for future deliv
ery. that the rponsibility for these
-a.ite outlaws. o far as they go,
to tie I'oynter regime rather
t!.:, to the rejabUcan.
Ja ;te -'''nd place, the six months
r.-i:! ia the coniparions to Gov
t it. or Ioyner and h:s ap;olntees are
tie zzitz.r-r month, extending from
Ju.r to Ni-utnUr la thse-te months
j2se c-f ti institutions, particularly
the srf-ho-s, susp-nd their work 'al-ir.v-t
entirely. Most of them use fup
;,!ies from farms and pardons in con-i.-vtu'-.
ad the tusatr expenses are
isturaliy the l:htot of the year. In
tLe w;ntr raonths, on the other band,
which are charged up to the republi
can. ll the lntitutior. are in full
Ll-t. winter clothing is more expen
rle than fucr clothing, the coal
MIL pile up. the supplies that must
bw i -;r h2-I incrae and the gen
eral cct cf maintenance, i at Its hlgh-t-
lf the fuslonuiji wanted jo make a
fair comparison of the mmagement
f ttale institutions under successive
fcilxintstration. why would they not
r.pare the same months of the year?
Is net the fact that they hare selected
ieriodi not properly subject to cora
frloa tisply further prof that they
prefer to fool the people? F peaking
5a all candor, we believe there is still
room for reform in reral directions
ia our ftate Institutions, bat juggling
the flrures for political purposes will
not help tu effect the desired improvement.
It will be candidly admitted that
thre ifc wae juatice in Mr. Kosewa- ;
ter's co:-ctivn regarding a compart- '
sojs t?f a winter period with a summer :
period- Caref ul calculations made
fron reports -a file show that the ;
ratio cf winur to summer is about
li to ly. The only object of making
the eoirparifroa as it was. was simply
to show the last cf Ioynters term as
co3rare4 to the first of Dietrich's. It Is
true that the who! of the month of
Iecersber, !'."). was under l'oynters
admin miration; and that the -new"
republican heads of Institutions did
not gt poietic3 until about the mid
dle of January to the first of Feb
ruary. Hut the semi-annual period
ending May 21. 1131, is the first one of
tht "new republican administration,
and the only one from which compari
sons can be drawn, even though a por
tion of the time was la fact put In by
the fusionirds.
The Insinuation that "the outgoing
fnslos oSida's were not particular
ec fall fiat when it is known that
thee -overlaps,- etc. were not paid
anl are not accounted for ia the semi
annual reports made by the republican
head cf Institutions. The $157,664.17
expended as mid out for mainten
ance the tlx months beginning Decem
ber 1, l'Afi. and ending May 21, 1&01.
hi ore than two-thirds of the time all
the Institutions were in republican
Lands and the !gurs tell the story
themselves.
Anything to oblige Mr. Rosewater.
He Is doing a noble work la his ef
forts to have State Treasurer Stuefer
cctsp with the resolution passed by
the Iut fepuhlicaa state convention.
He demanded an explanatoa or a with
drawal from Mr. Goold and he got a
withdrawal. And he deserves credit
for hit frank statement that he be
tfcere Is still room for reform in
etral directions In our state Instltu-tl-uL
Hence, lie would be fc.ard-b.6art-
ed Indeed who could deny Mr. Rosewa
ter the pleasure of examining a com
parative table showing the manage
ment of state Institutions under suc
cessive administrations, and compar
ing the same months of the year. Ac
cordingly, the following table - shows
the number of inmates, total cost of
maintenance, and cost for each inmate,
in maintaining the same nine state in
stitutions (Hastings, Lincoln and Nor
folk asylums, Mllford soldiers' home,
school for blind and deaf, two reform
schools and home for the friendless)
during the five different semi-annual
periods, each beginning December , 1
and ending May 31 of the next year,
for the years 1S97, 1898, 1899, 1900 and
1S0L
Six
months No. of
ending inmates
May 31. '97.. 1.754
May 31, '98.. 1.668
May 31. 9.. 1,758
May 31. 00.. 1,864
Total
cost.
$146,501.93
144.222.25
162.685.76
166.756.16
Cost for
each
inmate
$ 83.62
86.46
92.54
89.46
Averages .1,761 $155,041.53 $88.04
May 31, '01.. 1.919 197.6G4.17 103.01
Is there any misleading comparison
about this table, Mr. Rosewater? You
can pick out the republican semi-annual
period with your eyes shut, now,
couldn't you? That's your comparison
of winter months with winter months.
How does it strike you? That in
crease of practically $15 in the keep
ing of each inmate for six months rep
resents substantially the amount of
republican extravagance and incom
petency in the mere routine work of
running the Institutions. It does not
include about half a million dollars
loss from fires resulting from Incom
petent republican officials and em
ployes. At $15 a head additional cost,
1,919 inmates means a loss of $28,785
clear as a whistle in six months. It
means that much money absolutely
wasted because the inmates had no
better clothing or board than they had
under fusion government; doubtless
they were not so well fed and clothed
but the officers lived fatter.
It Is well known to those who have
studied the matter, that the cost of
maintaining each Inmate at any in
stitution ought to decrease, under
proper business methods, as the num
ber of Inmates increases. The reason
is plain: Officers' salaries are the
same whether there are 10 inmates,
100 or 500 Inmates; fuel and lights
cost practically the same; and the
items of board and clothing alone in
crease directly as the population in
creases. This rule is like the saying,
"All signs of rain fall in dry wea
ther," because It hardly ever applied
when the republican party is In power;
then the usual rule Is: Increased pop
ulation, increased per capita cost.
Let us look at three different per
iods in the history of these nine in
stitutions. We will make each per
iod three years. The years 1892, 1893,
and 1S94, are republican years. 1895,
1S96. and 1897 are mixed, part of the
institutions and part of the time are
chargeable to the republicans, and the
remainder to the fusionlsts. The years
1898, 1899, and 1900 are wholly charge
able to the fusionlsts.
No. of Cost each
Year. inmates. Tot. cost. Inmate.
U92 1.275 $311,897.66 $244.62
1893 1,489 304.755.73 204.00
1894 1.642 304.452.74 185.42
Averages .1,469 $307,035.38 $209.01
1S95 1,716 $315,611.95 $183.93
1896 (a) 1.777 287.413.65 161.74
1897 1.716 287,309.11 167.43
Averages .1.736 $296,778.24 $170.96
1898 1,690 $208,70L98 $166.09
1899 1,815 301,408.11 166.09
1900 1.869 316,400.80 168.76
Averages .1.791 $299,523.63 $167.24
These fl mires are taken from the
public records. They are official. They
tell the tale. It has been demon
strated that the average inmate can be
fed and clothed and cared tor at a
cost of about $168 per year unless re
publican officials attempt the job;
then the cost may run up as high as
$200 or more.
At the usual ratio of 11 -to 10. the
cost of running these nine institutions
for the six months ending November
30. 1901. will be about $179,694.87; that
will make the cost for a whole year
$377,358.87, on a basis of 1.919 popula
tion a cost of $196.64 to each inmate.
It would be much better if compari
sons could be made of the cost of
maintaining all the state institutions.
the whole thirteen. But this cannot
be done, because under this new
republican administration four of the
inetltutlons have no report on file in
the governor's office. Four superin
tendents are delinquent more than four
months with a report that Is expressly
required by law. They should be re
quired to report at once or resign.
Hence, we are obliged to take Into con
sideration only the nine institutions
whose heads have made reports. Are
the above comparisons to your taste,
Mr. Rosewater? Always glad to oblige
you.
The dispatches say that General
Kitchener has approved the sentence
of death passed upon the Boer general,
Letter, who was tried for treason. Gen
eral Lotter is guilty of the same sort
of treason that Nathan Hale was ac
cused oL Nathan Hale tried to get
Information for Washington by going
over to Long Island. He was captured
by the English and hung for treason
by the order of General Howe. Kitch
ener is playing the old act over again.
The American tories stood by General
Howe then just as th same sort of
Americans uphold Kitchener now.
Are you not glad that you can "point
with pride" to the fact that you have
co association with that crowd t
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Republican General Orders.
"Go lower the tax on railroads, that's according to rules,
And hold up the hoys attending the schools.
They'll hand over the tax if ,it takes every rag,
We've ordered it placed in Stuefer' s big bag.
"When we go for a state and finally win it,
The rule's never broken: Get all there's in it.
The boys and the girls must pay Dietrich's big tax.
And give Stuefer the f unds-those are the facts. . 1
A thousand a month he'll lay safely away,
We're holding the state, why not make it pay?
One mill on the dollar the people said t- - .
To support the big school those are the facts,
, But Dietrich, he said : No. We'll give it to Stuefer,
We'll hold up the boys, that's what we're here for.
I'll hold up the boys and Stuefer the bag,
I'll make 'em pay it if it takes every rag."
The boys and the girls, they chip in their money ,
And Dietrich and Stuefer, they gather the honey
Hold wide the bag! Hold wide the bag!
Now is the time for republican swag.
(Note. Dietrich's veto of $90,000 of the money appropriated to support the university made it neces
sary to levy a tax of $3.00 for each semester upon every student attending the university to pay current ex
penses. Thus the principle of free education has been overturned by "Si republican governor. The one mill tax
is coming in all the time and goes to swell that big item in Stuefer s official reports entitled "cash on hand.")
WHERE THE SGHOOL FUNDS ARE
Stuefer'a X.tttl Bank t West Point U In
vesting in Chattel Mortgages all
Over the State
The Holt County Independent is one
of the most wide-awake country week
lies in Nebraska. Very few good
things ever get away from Editor
Eves. He has made a discovery up
In his county that is quite startling to
say the least. Probably we had best
let Mr. Eves tell the story himself.
"Holt county is known as the hot
bed of republican boodleism. It was
the republican leaders of Holt county
who first said that it was none of the
people's business what the county
treasurer did with the state funds; it
was the republican leaders in Holt
county who forced the nomination and
election of Barrett Scott when he -was
kown to be a defaulter; it was the
Holt county republican leaders who
condoned Bartley's crime and demand
ed that he go free, and it is the Holt
county" republican leaders who are
now making excuses for the present
state 'treasurer not taking the people
into his confidence as to the disposi
tion of state funds and who are laud
ing his "Independence" in refusing to
account for the same.
If a republican state treasurer
wanted to speculate and use state
funds for his own personal benefit
there is no doubt that he would select
Holt county as one of his fields of.
operation, and knowing this fact your
correspodent made a diligent search
of the Holt county records for traces
of any such distribution. The result
was rather more startling than he had
hoped for.
Treasurer Stuefer is president and
manager of the West Point National
bank, a comparatively small banking
institution, having less capital, sur
plus and deposits than our First Na
tional bank of O'Neill, which does not
solicit business from without our own
county. The West Point National
bank is about two hundred miles from
here, yet what do the records show?
The West Point National bank, of
which State Treasurer Stuefer Is presi
dent, has seventy chattel mortgages
on file in Holt county which are given
to secure loans aggregating $12,664.
Is it not a queer and suspicious coin
cidence that the little bank of West
Point should branch out over the great
state of Nebraska In the loaning busi-
state funds are. $267,524 at 10 per
cent per annum amounts to $26,752.40.
This handsome rake-off is a very nice
thing for Mr. Stuefer a shrewd steal.
Should prices go down and a panic
ensue the principal undoubtedly would
go with the interest, and the state
would again be disgraced and humil
iated by a second half million raid on
the treasury."
It might not be a bad idea for in
terested persons up in Stanton, Madi
son, Pierce, Wayne, Thurston, Dakota,
Dixon, Cedar, Knox and Antelope
counties to take a little look through
the "chattel mortgage records at the
county seat and see If the West Point
National bank is doing a thriving
chattel mortgage business there.
MORAL YICTORY
Bryan at Banquet Sulogizet Charles a
Town for Sticking to Ills Principles
Eight hundred men of all shades of
political opinion sat down at the fare
well banquet tenedered by Duluth citi
zens to Charles A. Towne at the Ar
mory in Duluth, October 16, while ful
ly 500 ladles were present In the gal
leries to hear speeches by William
J. Bryan, Mr. Towne and others after
the discussion of the menu.
IThe affair was non-partisan, and
carried out the intention of the promo
ters to make it a testimonial to Mr.
Towne's personal popularity among
his friends and neighbors. Scores of
prominent democrats, however, were
present from all parts of the state to
add their tribute and listen to the elo
quence of their brilliant leaders.
Mr. Bryan's subject was ''Moral
Courage," and he took occasion to
6hower encomiums on the guest of the
evening for his notable display of that
quality in 1896, at the time of his
withdrawal from the republican party,
to follow silver. He saidt
"Some may be disposed -to stamp
the word 'failure, upon the political
career of our distinguished guest. Taut
he has set an example that must weigh
heavily on the side of civic virtue. He
has faced without flinching a fire as
hot and hellish as ever came from
cannon's mouth, and he has won a vic
tory greater and more glorious than
ever crowned the life of one who
fawned at the feet of power or bar
tered away his manhood to secure an
office."
Mr. Bryan did not inject any politics
ness as soon as its president gets con- . into his speech, which was brief and
trol of the state's fiances? A like directed largely to Mr. Towne. He
amount loaned in a very few counties ! said:
might account for the $267,526, and 1 "Great issues are at stake; great in
f urnish a most reasonable excuse for J terests are involved, even our civillza
Stuef er's refusing . to tell where the tlon itself r-an4 through as the- civili
zation of the world. This nation is a
world power; it has not acquired its
influence by war, but for a century its
ideas have been permeating the world,
and every citizen owes it to his coun
try as well as to his generation and
posterity to throw the weight of his
influence on the riglit side of every
public question."
The above is the Associated press
report of one of the most remarkable
ovations ever given to any man in
the United States, but brief as it is,
most of the republican editors cut it
out of the dispatches. If Mr. Towne
had made a speech anywhere within
the borders of the United States in
which he had said one word against
Mr. Bryan or the Kansas City plat
form the Associated press would have
sent columns about it and every daily
in the land would have had scare
heads, some of them reaching clear
across the page. That is the way the
news is . handled In this country and
will continue to be handled until plu
tocracy is overthrown.
IN THE SOUP
Republicans Wot Happy Orer the Record
They Have Made and are out Playing
the Anarchy Dodge
The republican, party Is again on
trial In Nebraska. Is its administra
tion of state government satisfactory
to a majority of the people of Ne
braska? If so, they will give their ap
proval by electing Judge Sedgwick
and Regents Ernst and Calkins. If not,
they will rebuke it by electing Judge
Hollenbeck and Regents Hawxby and
Bayston. The real Issue Is on state
questions, and there is no dodging it,
Are the people satisfied with the do
nothing legislature of 1901, whose sole
claims to distinction are the passage
of B, & M. Pass Distributor Ager's
game law, and a senatorial deadlock
which was broken by selecting about
the poorest sticks the republican party
could' find In Its political timber yard.
Scores of big, brainy, brilliant repub
licans were shelved in order that the
railroads might be satisfied.
Are the people satisfied with Diet
rich's pardon record? Are they satis
fied with Savage s? Do they feel elated
at the release of Murderer Dlnsmore,
of Embezzler Bolln, of Embezzler
Bartley? Have they respect for the
spineless Savage who, after paroling
Bartley, allowed his party convention
to usurp the -gubernatorial prerogative
and compel Bartley's return to . the
penitentiary?
Are they overjoyed to receive school
apportionments $50,000 smaller than
the fusionlsts apportioned? Are they
chortling with glee because the audi
tor, acting in the interests of the in
surance trust, ruled against the re
ciprocal fee law and thereby caused
the state to lose some $20,000 a year
in fees? v Are they hugging them
selves because Treasurer Stuefer suc
cessfully lobbied against and killed a
bill to reduce interest on state war
rants, thereby causing the taxpayers
to pay about $20,000 additional in
terest each year?
Do they feel elated over the disas
trous fires at the penitentiary and the
Norfolk asylum, caused by negligence
of republican officers and employes,
whereby the state loses nearly half a
million dollars worth of property? Is
It with cheerfulness and approval that
they see over $48,000 paid out to main
tain 50 additional Inmates in the state
Institutions?
Are they quite content with Attor
ney General Prout's dilly-dallying with
all state cases against any corporate
interests? And above all, do they feel
easy regarding the : state trust funds,
since Treasurer Stuefer has tried to
fool them by making only part of a
report and pretending it is complete?
The redoubtable Lindsay Is wise in
his day and generation. He is aware
of the storm of noes which must be
given in v answer to these questions.
So he and his able lieutenant, the aff
able Charlie Rlgg, seek to prevent
these questions being asked, by re
sorting to hypocritical cant and beg
ging for populist and democratic votes
"just to show your respect, you know,
for President McKinley."
rn thesfi astute noliticlans think
the populists and democrats an aggre
gation of fools, that such gauzy games
are attempted? - ' '
Respect for the man, sorrow for his
death, and abhorrence for anarchy and
anarchists, do not of themselves re
quire any one to vote the republican
ticket. And the man who, without
better reason, would change his poli
tics and vote the republican ticket, Is
simply a moral coward.
THE POPULISTS WIN
Unanimous Decision of the Supreme Court
That There Shall Be a Circle for
Each Party Name.
The DODUllsts won in the - supreme
court, By a unanimous, decision of
the court the democratic and peoples'
Independent parties will each he given
a separate space at the head of the
ticket and each party name win De
followed by a circle in which a voter
may make a cross and thus vote his
party ticket straight without further
marking.- - -
The decision was given at a special
meeting of the court called to dispose
of an application fo ra writ of man
damus annlied for by A. Wanmer, fu
sion candidate for sheriff in Lancaster
county, and Chas. Q. De France, chair
man of the Donulist state central com
mittee. In granting-the writ the court
followed the ballot law adopted last
winter but entirely disregarded tne
diaeram of the form of the official bal
lot as prescribed in the law. ' '
Section 140 of the ballot law, says,
the name of each party having can
didates on the ballot," shall be printed
at the top of the ballot and at tne
right of each party name a circle in
which the voter may make a cross to
express his desire to vote his party
ticket straight.
- The opinion of the qourt will be pre
pared and filed later. The following
announcement was made by the courts
It is the duty of the proper officers
In preparing official ballots to cause to
be printed at' the top and left side of
the ballot in black 'faced capltaltype
not less than one-eighth of an inch
high, the name of each party having
candidates on the ballot, and to the
right of each party name, a circle one
half inch in diameter, with leaders
connecting the party name to the cir
cle. This is true though a person is
nominated by two or more political
parties. The form of the ballot should
be uniform throughout the state. Writ
allowed. ""'.''.
The hearing in this case was before
Chief Justice Norval, Judge Sullivan
i.nd Judge Holcomb. George W. Berge
appeared for ; the relators and Deputy
Attorney General Norris Brown ap
peared on behalf of the secretary of
state and pointed out that the form of
the ballot was specifically prescribed
hv a. schedule In the ballot law. George
A. Adams, chairman of the republican
county central committee, appeared on
behalf of County Clerk Frye, who Is
the respondent in the suit,
N The fusionlsts won also in a man
damus suit from Douglas county, In
which thev sought to compel County
Clerk Haverly to place the name of
Mr. Connolly, democratic nominee, on
the ballot as a candidate for county
commissioner in the Second commis
sioner district of Omaha. A dispute
had arisen in regard to tne districts
in which elections should be held tnis
fall. The republicans contended that
elections should be held in the First
and Fourth districts and they nomi
nated candidates in those districts
The democrats contended that a va
cancv existed In the Second district
The supreme court granted the writ of
mandamus as prayed Dy uonnony.
The people Of this country have been
taxed at a pretty heavy' rate for the
benefit of a British corporation. Ad
jutant General Corbin says In his re
port that the government has been
paying $12.26 a word for all cable
grams from the Philippines. No won
der that Johnny Bull is delighted with
the war in the Philippines and that he
will uree the keeping it. up for the
next century or two. General Corbin
does not give the total amount paid
for cablegrams, but it would doubtless
be . enough to lay a cable a long ways
toward the Philippines.
W
REPUBLICAN STEALINGS
One Thousand Dollars a Month for Tea
Months An Examination of Official Re
ports Proves It Beyond Contra
diction As has been said before, the per
sonality of the two principal candi
dates for judge of the supreme court
is one of the features in this campaign.
borne days ago a representative of the
World-Herald called at Fremont, the
home of Judge Conrad Hollenbeck.
and the result of his interviews with
the citizens of that place makes a
column or more of interesting reading
matter.. We quote his remarks in re
gard to Judge Hollenbeck's legal qual
ification for the high office to which
he has been nominated
"As a lawyer and jurist Judge Hol
lenbeck's standing Is high. The cause
of this is not far to find. In the first
place he has never been anything but
a lawyer since he was admitted to the
bar. He has taken in no make-shift
side issues. The law has been his
love. He has studied it assiduously
and with all the application of a
strong and powerful mind studied It
not, primarily, as a money-making de
vice, but as the instrument of order.
equity and justice. He has been that
kind of a lawyer who seeks to discour
age and not to promote litigation. He
has reverenced the law as the protec
tion guaranteed the weak man against
the strong and discountenanced it as
a means of delaying or thwarting jus
tice. . , ,
"In his three years' service on tha
district bench Judge Hollenbeck has
won a reputation, that extends beyond
the confines of the Sixth judicial dis
trict, as a justice-dealing magistrate.
With him facts and the equities out
weigh subterfuge and the technicalities
of law. He has no patience with pet-
tifoging or the pettifoger. His con
ception of the court Is the old-fash
ioned one of a place where the truth
Is laid. bare and justice administered
according to the broad and fundamen
tal meaning of the law."
Aside from Judge Hollenbeck's abil
ity as a lawyer and a jurist there is
another "matter which should endear
him to the heart of every loyal Ameri
can. Again we quote from the World
Herald: "The little bronze -emblem of the
Grand Army of the Republic Is found
ever on the lapel of Judge Hollen
beck's coat. When a boy of 16 years,
not yet out of school, Conrad Hollen
beck enlisted as a volunteer In the
Union army. This was In the summer
of 1864, and he served as a private un
til the next summer, which brought
the great civil war to its close. His
regiment was the 207th Pennsylvania
Infantry, and it saw service in . the
Army of the James and Army of the
Potomac. He participated in all the
bloody battles that preceded the tak
ing, of Richmond and Lee's surrender,
on which occasion he divided his hard
tack with the starving rebel prisoners.
At Petersburg's bloody fight all of his
tent mates were slain.
"Judge Hollenbeck's trying service
In the army during the tender years
of his youth left an Indelible impres
sion on a heart that has always been
extremely tender. He rarely can bo
Induced to talk of his war experience
and . when he does, his eyes still fill
with tears.
"Judge Hollenbeck has always been
a democrat, as was his father before
him. Ha Is a good type of the demo
crat that is bred in Pennsylvania,
where democrats are few but uncom
promising, and not to be dismayed.
His first presidential vote was cast for
Horace Greeley, and it is a vote of
which the judge still feels proud. In
1896 he was a delegate to the Chicago
convention on the Bryan delegation
and in 1900 attended the Kansas City
convention as a spectator.
"'The Chicdgo and Kansas City
platforms,' he said, simply; 'voice my
political creed.'" '
In striking contrast to Judge Hol
lenbeck's record as a loyal American
citizen, stands the record of his prin
cipal , political opponent. Judge Sedg
wick of York, the republican nominee
for Judge of the supreme court. Judge
Sedgwick Is a man some two or three
years older than Judge Hollenbecit.
Today this republican candidate
stands a physical giant among men.
A man of powerful physique, notwith
standing he has passed the noon-day
of , his manhood. He does not wear
the little bronze emblem of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He has no
right to wear It. Althougbrold enough,
large enough, and physically strong
enough to serve his country In her
hour of peril, Judge Sedgwick did not
enlist as a volunteer in the union
army. He was never a soldier and has
never explained to the people' why he
did not go as a soldier to aid his coun
try in her time of need.
Members of the G. A. R., if not whol
ly blinded by partisanship, will think
twice before casting a ballot for Sedg
wick, the stay-at-home, In preference
to Hollenbeck, the hero.
All the literature put out In New
York city in 'advocacy of the election
of Seth Low, Is dated at "Fusion Head
quarters." The New Yorkers are adopt
ing the populist brand of practical pol
itics. Perhaps after a while they may
learn something about populist prin
ciples. The Russian glass trust busted up
the other day and the price of glass
Immediately fell 25 per cent. The
American glass trust has raised the
price of glass more than 300 per cent
and shows no sign of busting up and
never will as long as the republican,
party is in power.
