THE ALLIANCE -IN DEPENDENT.
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WHAT HE WAS THEEE JOB.
During the senate deadlock over the
Newberry bill in the last session of the
legislature John Manches'er, lobby
master general for the Union Pacific,
sent in by a messenger to T. J. Majors,
who was then occupying the chair as
lieutenant governor, a note in words
as follows: "
"Tom, Moan and Strickler and others
are on the floor. Why in h 1 don't
you fire them out? What have we got
you there for?"
It very soon developed what "we"
had Majors there for. Majors promptly
gave the sergeant-at-arms orders to
clear the chamber and the friends of
the Newberry bill were shut out.
The above is the beginning of a long
article in the World-Herald, written
by Metcalf. This brings to the writer
some vivid recollections, for the edi'or
of the Alliance Independent was
one of the "others" whom Manchester
wanted Majors to "fire."
Metcalf then goes on to show how
faithfully Majors served the corpora
tions. When the Newberry bill came
up in committee of the whole, Coulter,
independent, and Shea democrat,
were absent from the senate on account
of sickness. A call of the house was
ordered. Poynter moved that Coulter
bo excused on account of Sickness.
This was carried. Then he moved that
Shea b3 excused. The railroads wanted
Shea there.; to vote against the bi l.
Some enemies of the bill objected to
excusing Shea, and Majors ru'ed that
he could not be excined without unan'
mous consent. Then Poynter mov;d
to reconsider his motion regarding
Coulter, but Majors ruled it out of or
der. Shea was brought from a sickbed,
and voted with the enemies of the bill.
The vote stood 10 to 1G Tom Majors
arose, his face flushed and his eyes
gleaming with eagerness.'to deal the fi
nal blow to he people's hopes by cast
ing the deciding vote against the bill.
But he was C e .tined to a sad did; p o nC
ment. Switzlcr arose and said mat in
asmuch as his friend Coulter was sick,
he would change his vote.
Finally a f jw days later the bill came
up for final passage. It wi s being
read the third time. During the
reading, Mattes, a democrat, moved to
adjourn, which if earned would kill
the bill. Poynter raised the point of
order that the motion to adjourn was
out of order. Majors ruled the point
not well taken and motion in order the
although the senate rules say: "No mo
tion exempt a motion to recommit or
indefinitely postpone, shall be entor
tained during the third reading of the
bill." Then it was that the independ
ents domandetl a call of the house to
prevent the adjournment of the senate.
The call was ordered. After a time it
was discovered that Taylor had fled.
Then Poynter moved to suspend fur
ther proceedings under the call. Five
enemies of the bill objected And
Majors ruled that five objec'ors cou'd
-Wd the senate there forevtv, TJien
begvLii the famous dead ek, Yfbich
lasted (or over seventy hours During
all hat tjnae Majors stood, guard over
the ifttere Is, of the carpra.ttms. The
independents poyght to break the deed
lock by various motion all of whiuh a
fair presidiag officer would have i-orog-nj?id
but every motion was promptly
ruled out of o;der. Finally it settled
down to a con'est of endurance, and
in that con' est the independents won,
because right and pub ij opinion were
on their side.
Itwasnt then known that Majors
had anything to do with running Tay
lar of the state, but only a few
weiks ago, Rose water, memer of the
national republican committee, ox enly
charged that "Mr. Majors was indirectly,
if not directly, implicated in the conspiracy
uhich resulted in the aid uc tun of Senator
Taylor from this state uhile the legisla
ture was in session in 189 1" ' And no ef
fort has ever been made to dispu'e the
charge.
It has alfo been proven from the
records of the state house, that WaH
Secley, Major's private secretary, drew
the ba'ance of pay due Taylor, and that
Majors approved tho voucher a'ter he
knew that Tuylor hal fled from the
state.
Majors was put in tho lieutenant
governor's chair to serve tho corpora
tions and he did it to the best of his
ability. lie was their faithful and de
voted tool. Now they want to put him
there again. Do the people want him?
Oa the 8th of November they will an
swer by burying him und-.r an ava
lanche oi ballots, and electing an hon
est man to that office.
IN THE FOUBTH DISTEIOT-
Probably there is no man ia Ne
bra-ka the corporations would rather
see retired to private life than W. II.
Dech.
Not long ago the State Journal said
"the state of Nebraska could not afford
to be represented in congress by W. II.
Dech for one million dollars."
And now the sign3 of the times indi
cate that a large sum of ney is being
used to defeat him. A Vifqualn boom
has been sprung in various parts of the
Fourth district with a force and sud
denness that plainly indicates boodl
behind it. Th's is purely a corporatto n
boom, and strictly in the interest of
Hainer. Nobody who understands the
situation in the district expects to see
Vifquain elee'ed. He will bo 3,000
votes behind either of his competitors.
But the object of this boom is to hold
democrats to Vifquain and proven 1
their voting for Dech; also if posaib'e
to draw a few independent votes awaj
from Deeh. At tho same time the
word will be passed along the line for
corporation democrats to vote for
Hainer.
But all the schemes will fail. Dech
has a clear plurality, that cannot be
overcome by all the boodle that can be
put into the district. Besides the free
coinage democrats of the district (and
four-fifths of them favor free coinage)
are not such fools as to throw their
votes away on such a bitter enemy of
silver as Vifquain is. Every democrat
in the district who wants to see the
great wrong ofl 873 righted ought to
go to work for Dech and make Hainer's
defeat overwhelming.
Reasons for the Howl.
The publicat'on of twenty-five sheriff
sales in one Frontier county paper right
after two good crops seems to expliin,
t tot to juslFy, a mild degree of cala
mi'y howt There are GOO foreclosure
cases against farmers on the dockets of
Webster, Franklin and Phelps counfes,
and they may account for some more
howl. If the matter U probed to the
hot' ora it vi ill be seen why some peo
ple howl in the calamity key instead of
the hypocritical "stand up for Nebras
ka" whine. If this wholesale destruc
tion of homes is going on in the midst
of the greatest prosperity the state has
ever known, what would be the lesult
of another droutby season? Lincoln
Hirald.,
' Our name will be pants,"
E. Roc GEN.
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