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A Brilliant Journalist Tells Why Majors
Befused to Meet Shrader-The
Two Men Compared.
Majoia Is Stripped of His Flimsy Dis
guises and Held Up In His .
True Light.
Sliratlcr "Stood Up" for the People.
The following article appeared in
the World-Herald of September 13tht
"Wo must respectfully deClino to
httvo any di-'cuuslon with a person who
has openly announced his blasphemous
contempt for tho constitution and the
judiciary of the state. To do o.horwiso
would be to dignilly anarchy."
This is the languago employed in
Thomas J. Majors' refusal to discuss
the political issues with his opponent,
Charles 1). Shradcr.
For several weeks tho republican
leaders havo studied a rep y to a chal
lenge which they dared not accept.
For weeks they have collated on the
problem hovr to retreat without re
treating', how to show the white
feather without exhibiting cowardice;
how to pet away from a battle-field
they cjuld not hold, because they lutd
neither a warrior nor a weapoi.
The result of their deliberation was
the refusal to iiffht. In order to con
coal tho real reason for this declination
the reply was an insinuation that
Shrader was un anarchist. There has
been a good deal of just such ta'k as
this made by republican politicians,
and it is wrong, because it is an injus
tice to a man whose chief fault is his
fidelity to principle and his zeal for a
cause. In tho legislature Shrader be
came a leader of I ho independents, not
by selection, but because his earnest
ness t and, his ability pushed him for
ward. Ho was the leader of men who
had spent their wholo lives upon farms
and who were hardly able to copo with
the republican parliamentarians on the
lloor of that houso. Tho railroad lobby
with which Nebraska is cursed, wanted
opponents who would "lie down' they
hud no use for opponents who would
stand up, Shradcr stood up. It was
not his nature to lie down. Ho did not
always "stand up" gracefully, but he
ttood up vigorously. Tho vigor and
loyalty of his naturo was soon recog
nized by tho lobby and when they
failed to buy him they sought to tra
duce him. They followed him after
tho legislature adjourned becauso thoy
knew that ho was capable of doing
much injury to the causo of rai.road
domination in this sta'e; and s'neo that
adjournment, even before his name had
betn mentioned for lieutenant gov
ernor, they continued to malign him.
It is a policy tho railroad lobby has
persistently adhere! to this houuding
f a man who has tho ability and the
hont sty to fight it. In Shrader's case
they have carried it out to the bitter
end. With that lobby which has
preyed upon the vitals of the republi
can party in this state and brought it
to its present unhappy position, fiction
is always proferablo to fact.
By tho industrious use of fiction they
bavo endeavon d to create an impres
sion that Shrader is an anarchist. In
the present instance they take advant
age of this fiction to further advance
the impression they des're to obtain
among the peoplo and at tho same time
to provide an excuse for their preferred
'candidate to crawl out of a contest
instead 01 Doing carried out on a
stretcher.
If Shrader was an anarchist his sen
timents would be manifested or detect
ed in a joint discussion. No one would
profit more bv this revelation than
Majors himself, whose hope of election
is today as barren as his fidelity to the
railroads in the list legislature was
vigorous. If Shrader was an anarchist
the people of Nebraska, with the quick
po'ecption of ;. Americans, . would
promptly discover it. If Shrader was
an anarchist ho "Would not be listened
to bv anv of the: creat crowds of Ne-
ment of the Sun as thQ tjMMsIW ovg
portions of the state to listea to politi
cal truths.
The people of this state havo a r'ght
to see and compare the mi n w'no are
caidatcs for their offices. Appre
ciating their own ability to judge a
man, the people will not accept as
truth tho slander of his opponent.
They will not accept as truth the un
supported statement of a man who is
less entitled to their suffrages than
any other candidate in the field and
that's a pretty hard thing to say under
tho circumstances.
Shradcr Is now making a tour of tho
state and tho people of Nebraska will
learn the solemn truth that ho is a
man of moro than ordinary ability,
honest and sincere in his convictions
and vigorous in maintaining his princi
ples. Tin y will find that, instead of
oeing an enemy to the constitution,
Bhradcr is a firm advocate of that
article; that ho is fighting to have it
observed to tho letter and respected at
tho capital of the state, whero tho lob
byists most dd congregate in the effort
to destroy its effect. They will find in
Shrader a man who battled for tho
Union with his musket and has not
found it necessary to fight those battles
over again with his mou'h in the
search for offlcc. They will find a ihan
who impresses impartial men with the
sincerity of his purpose and who draws
nearer to him on better acquaintance
those who soek to learn li ra as ha is.
Shrader is a pcor man wh'i is labor
ing un ler trie disadvantages under
which all poor men labor. He has no
idle lobbyists to stand on si rcet corners
and (ha'.t bis praiees. Ho dees not
stoop to insane oddities or tho wearing
of chestnu shirt, because ho has some
thing better to distinguish him
brains.
In this contest tho entiro power of
the lobby is being operated against
Shrader. There is something com
mendable in a man who goes out before
the peoplo of a great state to meet the
pnvcr of corporations and fight his own
battle. There is little to commend in a
man who expects a railroad lobby to
fight his battle. In this instance, how
ever, there is one thing to coumehd.
It is Majors' discretion, lietween Ma
jors and Shrader there is absolutely no
comparison This is high treason to
the men who have persistently wor
shipped at tho shrino of a hickory
shirt, but it is tho absolute truth;
Majors has won many friends by his
cordial greetings and good fellowship,
lie can make a good speech at a camp-
fire. No man in the state has friends
who are moro loyal than has Majors
But ho did not win one of them by his
ability. He did not secure one of them
because, in his public life ho has looked
out for tne welfare of tne people more
and tho interests of tho corporations
loss. They say ho was a good soldier.
That is a mighty credit to his past
rcord. but it may be offset by his
present attitude. John Sahler, it is
said, was a good boy. Look at John
Sahler now.
Majors on tho stump wi h Shrader
would bo humiliating for Majors' friends
The Nemaha county office seeker has
never known what it is to contest for
an o'ection upon great principles. There
is not a public issue now before the peo
plo when Majors is capable of discuss-
i. r 1 a -1 1 ! 4 ,1 : ...ill.
ing uojoro au iuwjmmiib uuuiuuuu wim
any well posted man. He can twirl tho
"bloody shirt" to perfection, but he has
spent his years in studying that politics
which is the art of getting office rather
than tho science of government.
When Majors refused to meet Shrader
in loint discussion he knew how thor
oughly Majors had deceived those peo
ple who have imagined that he is aTnan
of even ordinary ability: he knew, as
those who have studied Majors well
know, that strip him of his deep bass
voice and his hickory shirt and there's
only a bunch of railroad passes left.
It was not extreme dignity which
prompted Majors to refuse to debate
with Shrader. It was extreme coward
ico. It was the same character of cow
ardice which, when he was caught in
tne act oi sneaking into congress on
false and fraudulent certificates prompt
ed him to shift the blams upon a
weaker man.
It was tho same character of coward
icq which prompted him to make the
most sham if ul rulings, in the senate
deadlock over the Newberry bill, which
fTOdJho rjwo.rd of anv parllamen-
4Aggio " and K51othUde.!l:--ni
tary body simply becauso he was
afraid to meet the issue.
It was the samo cowardice which
prompted him to sit quietly in the re
publican conventi on at Kearney wuue
his aroh-enemy was being presented
with tho biggest plum in the party's
gift; and while tho majority of tho con
vention was only waiting, anxious lor a
bader with nerve enough to say "don t
do it."
Hut with all his boasted couraga Ma
jors allowed his arch-enemy to tramp'e
upon him. With all his boasted cour-
aire ho has not the nervo to face his
opponent and before tho peoplo whose
sufferago ho desires derend tne princi
ples in which ho pretends to believe
In his ixnitical career Majors nas
done many small things. But in all his
record there is not one other which so
forcibly speaks for itself as this which
reveals at once tho malice of the slan
derer and tho attribute of tho coward.
Kim at Lexington.
On one of those beautiful days that
Nebraska alone can produce, the lath
of September, the farmers began to
gather at Lexington, the bounty seat of
Dawson bounty. By the hour of 10
o'clock, tho principal delegations cad
arrived. They were then formed into
a procession fully one and a half miles
in length.
Tho bands in tho procession, number
ing four, and properly distributed with
their respective dt legations, began to
fill the air with the choicest cf music.
Under tho direction of tho marshal of
the day, B. F. Davis, they marched
main street and then to the
fair grounds. The first thing that pre
sented itself to the eye, when coming
in tight of the fair grounds was the
eighty foot flag polo that had just been
raised with a largo fcilk nag floating
to the breeze in honor of Weaver and
Fields.
And by the time the proco-'sion had
gained entrance to the grounds it was
announced that dinner would be the
first part of the programme. At once
baskets boxes and tubs were seen
going in all directions through the
crowd, as well as largo pieces of the
roastvd ox which was soon devoured.
Just at this particular crisis of the
day Mr. Keni made his arrival, and
many were the salutations and greet
ings that escaped the busily engaged
crowd.
After dinner the Lexington band
gave some of their choice pieces of
music at the close of which Hon. O. M.
Kem was introduced and spoko for fully
two and a half hours, holding his au
dience with perfect ease. He was
greeted many times with rounds of applause.
When Mr. Kem had finished his
speech. Prof. Crane gave some select
vocal music, after which J. II. Darner
who is the candidate by the people's
party for state senator in the Thirtieth
district, a fluent and exceptionally
forcible speaker showed that the
friends who had laid upon hitti their
confidence made no mistake in their
choice. If the outlook of this occasion
is to be taken as a criterion for the
political attitude of Dawson county,
she will break her record of 1890 by
giving every candidate of the people's
party majorities from three to five
hundred. A VISITOR.
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