The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899, October 26, 1894, Page 4, Image 4
THE AMEBIC AN THE AMERICAN. KnMrctl l I'mttoBW wooml-rliuw mltr. 40HH C. THOMPSON. dito W, 0. KKl.l.KV. Muom kUmuter. C K. P. Iroii. - AMH1nir Klitor "fHLIsHH WKKKLY HY THK AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Ot'l'M E: H'I5 Howard Street. .iMkllTlw.N katks ubtcrtuthm, IVr Ver ; Ml Momlm IM " Tlirv Month! SO BTAHIAIiL.T IS IVA1C.-IIIN1TIU MAI.r HATS. CI 1 11 UATKS. i Copl on jrrar. jht copy IJ j 10 10 so .... 1 w 13 ti, attaint rntfa to c!a!- are good only nht'n full buihIht, nud cuth for mno, c- .i ana .ird.'f. K,mU In draft, kiwm or poto(Hi-ii iiHinpf or.lt'r. i)3fUh to Amkhioak ITIii.ishimu fTTlll AMIHICA" lit TH ( RAMI ION Or ALL f ARTItlTlU l'Hlilri(rini vow m OCTOBER 27. Mr. Edward Koskwatkr, why did you not publish Mr. Majors' letter in stead of only referring to It In two or three lino? Fa ikn ess is asked by the people at the coming election, and If crookedness is pushed to the front, the guilty parties will pay the full penalty of the law. IDHLIC sentiment In favor of mater ially restricting immigration and amending the naturalization laws Is gaining strength throughout the entire country. Evehyuodv should bear In mind that Friday and Saturday of next week, November 2nd and 3rd, are the last two days for registering. Don't fail to register. The loading society women of New York woraon who never before took an iuterest in politics are working night and day against Tammany and Its corrupting influences. AUDACITY, mendacity and rapacity were never more skillfully Interwoven into one political fabric auywhere on earth before than they are into that political organization which sails under the name of the Human Catholic church. IN answer to several enquiries on the subject, we will state that the title "Monslgnor" that Papal Ablegate Satolll has attached to his name Is merely an ecclesiastical title of courtesy bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to oclal rank at the papal court. Consequently it don't amount to much. Omaha ZJee.Oet. 10, 1892: This state ought to bo making greater progress now than it Is, and the apprehension of the possible success of the Populist party Is undeniably responsible for this. Nothing would contribute more to the rapid development of Nebraska than ' the overwhelming defeat of the Popu libt party. Hamilton Utlky, People's party nominee for congress, First district of Wisconsin, has placed himself on record through the columns of the daily press as being opposed to the A. P. A., or any patriotic organization in any man ner, shape or form. The voters of that 'district should see to it that Mr. Utley Is elected to stay at home. Aluekt W. Johnson, of the Sixth ward, who has been placed on the Re publican ticket as nominee for member of the board of tduc&tion in place of Mr. Detgan, who withdrew, Is a gentle man in every way eminently qualified for the pobltion. Mr. Johnson has a splendid record as a teacher in the pub lie schools of Ioa, and is well and favorably known among the business men of this city, having represented W. T. Seaman, the wagon and carriage manufacturer as city salesman for the last seven years. Mr. Johnson should undoubtedly be elected. "Every reader of The American, both in the city and country, is inter ested in seeing this paper prosper. For that reason we call your attention to the beautiful advertUementof Bullene. Moore, Emery & Co of Kansas City, Mo., which appears on page 5 of this issue. They have entered this terri tory to compete with Omaha merchants and jobbers, and if you desire anything in the dry goods line and send in a mail order to them do not neglect to tell "them you saw their advertisement in this paper. They want to know whether it pays to patronize The American. Send for their catalogue. There is no man on the Republican state ticket who is deserving of greater praise than Hon. A. S. Churchill, the candidate for attorney general. He is one of the foremost lawyers in the .state, a good speaker and a thorough American in his views. His opponent is D. B. Carey, who is an avowed Ro manist, and the people know what to expect from a man of that kind. Amer ican people want men for positions of this kind who believe that the laws of the state are superior to the laws of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Churchill can be depended upon to look after the interests of the state in at legal mat ters. SAYS JUSTICE WAS NOT RAPED One of the five district judges whom the jx ople were censuring so roundly lat week for the action taken in the Seottltoneater-Bennett case, has in formed us that there was no c onference held at the Millard hotel last week to decide who should try the Roc water libel cawi, but that several of the judges did meet there together with Attorneys Kstcllo, Slmeral and Dulile to consult as to how the ietitlon for a mandamim, to compel Judge Scott to recognize their order assigning some other judge to try the case, should lie drawn whether it should bo In the name of Rosewater or In that of the judges. He states that Judge Soott had some time ago, about May or June, ex pressed a willingness to have ome other judge try the case. In reference to the removal of a case from one docket to another, he states that Judge Scott has several times, without con suiting the other judge, taken up cases which wore on their dockets and pro ctwded to a trial, and yet Soott finds fault with the others if they attempt to remove one case from the docket ho presides over. This judge admits that there Is no law which gives them the right to divide the business of the court, but they do so In order to exped late business. It is an amicable agree ment entered Into at the beginning of each year, and he believes that the same body which makes a rule can rescind it at any time. He believes all the five judges who ruled against Judge Scott were as friendly to Bennett as Judge Scott was, and would have seen justlco done, without affording Mr. Roscwater an opportunity to exploit his "persecution" through the columns of the Bee. Besides these things he cited a New Hampshire case a par allel caso where the judges removed a case from one docket to another and were sustained by the supreme court. Ho also cited tho statute of Nebraska, which provides that tho judgo of one district may Issue an order upon that of another to allow a caso to bo moved Into another district where either party to the suit makes affidavit that he can' not get justice because of bias or preja dice on the part of the trial judgo. If a judge in another district can do this, why not judges in the same district? Those are the grounds on which they based their opinion, that Judge Scott had no right to try a caso against Mr Rosewater, and as there were but two of the five judges who wero in any way indebted to Mr. Rosewater for his sup portall tho rest being elected by the A. P. A. vote there appears no good reason why they should desire to pla cate the editor of tho Bee at the ex pense of so good a woman as Mrs. Bennett. And yet tho fact still remains that people will believe that Rosewater will construe this act of the judges Into a license to vilify the wife of any man who huppens to bo a candidate for office. And that offense will happen once too often. MAJORS TO ROSEY. Some days ago E. Rosewater sent a communication to Hon. C. II. Morrill, chairman of the Republican state cen tral committee asking that Hon. Thos. J. Majors appear before six of our most eminent Protestant ministers and re fute the charges he has been publishing by word of mouth and through the col umns of his paper ever, since the cam paign opened. This letter the chairman referred to Mr. Majors, and Tom's an swer appears below: Hon. C. II. Morrill, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of the letter addressed by E. Rosewater to yourself as chairman of tho Republican state central com mittee. From the information obtained daily as to the prospects of Republican success in this state, I am not surprised that at this time he should attempt to bolster up his lost cause by throwing dust in the eyes of the voters of Ne braska. I have no words to bandy with this man, whose life has been dedicated to the slander of his fellow beings. For twelve years I have patiently borne with his shafts of falsehood and of malice I have never yet been elected to an important public office that the success was not accomplished over his unfair and bitter opposition. During all of his attacks I have been silent, but I desire to take this opportunity to break the silence of years. In brief, this man proposes that I submit to an investigation by a com mittee of seven clergymen whom he has had the kindness to name. I could not object to the excellent jury that has been chosen. I do object, however, to transferring the "trial" from the great court of public opinion, in which court this investigation is now going on, to a jury of seven men. I do object to taking the time from my canvass to submit to an idle and a farcical demon stration to prove the fact that E. Rosewater has persistently maligned me. I prefer to wait ten days to read in the verdict of 200,000 voters of Ne braska that public opinion does not sustain the man who, because of per sonal spite, will attempt to destroy the character of another. This man says that he preferred "grave charges" p gainst me, and yet he knows, and the public knows, that these "grave charges" consisted simply and solely of a reiteration of old slanders that were lonir atro refuted. The first of these barges wait met and refuted in the campaign of 10, when, after hearing the evidence, the people of this state elected nie lieutenant governor by a plurality of 3.251 vot-.s over the Popu list candidate. In 192, every one of thee charges were presented by E. RtnewaU'r in person to the state com mittee, but that comnilltots decided them to be slanderous, and named me as their candidate for lieutenant gov ernor. During the ensuing campaign of 1M2, everyone of these slanders were fully ventilated, but as a result of tho "trial" before the court of jwpular opinion, I was elected by a plurality of lS.it'.KJ over the PopulUt candidate. As soon as my friends suggested my name for the gubernatorial nomination in 194 these same old slanders were brought out, and column after column of tho Rose water organ was filled with reiteration of these libels. Tho fight for the state convention was earnest. Pitted against me was one of the most distinguished Republicans In Nebraska. On the firtit formal ballot in that con vention I received a majority of 145 votes. On the motion of Hon. Guy C, Barton, chairman of the Douglas county delegation, of which Mr. Rose- water was a member, my nomination was made unanimous. Having lost the fight, when he had the advantage of owning a daily news pajier, this personal enemy could not accept his defeat as a man would have done, but he opened up a relentless warfare upon me. On four occasions these same slanders have been passed upon and the decision has been in my favor. For the fifth time they are again on trial, but the jury will be the 200,000 voters of Nebraska, to whose integrity, wisdom and justice. I cheer fully submit my cause. Had Rosewater desired that these charges should be Investigated, the courts of justice and impeachment offered all necessary opportunity. But he has chosen as his tribunal the court of public opinion and because that court is seldom re versed and is invariably fair, 1 have met him upon his own ground I think it will be readily seen that he realizes that the day when candi dates for public office can be defeated by unfair personal assaults has gone by. I believe that it will be readily observed that he recognizes that he has already lost the fight which he has made against me, but I do not propose that he shall dodge the issue nor do I desire that he shall enter a non-suit. I have never craved mercy at his hands I am only one of a host of Republicans in this state whom this man has hounded with a newspaper established upon Republican patronage. I am con tent to take my place beside P. W Hitchcock, Frank Welsh and other public men whom he could not use, but whom ho attempted to destroy. Dur ing all of his attacks upon me I have never asked for a cessation of hostilities And now that this fight is drawing to a close, I am willing that he should do his worst. In the history of Nebraska the name of Rosewater has been a synonym for slander. Whatever inlluence he may possess has been due to the fact that he has held a club over the heads of pub lic men, some of whom he has com peted to worship at his shrine. The shrine at which I pay tribute must em body something worthy of honor. I never have, never could and never will bend the knee to one whom nature made incapable of being a man. The very best heritage that I would wish to leave to my children would be the right for them to believe that I was as worthy a man as some of the public men whom this man has attempted to destroy by slander. I remember that he followed P. W. Hitchcock through that man's honorable career and de nounced him at every opportunity. I remember that he was not content to stay his malice at the tomb. I recall that he vented his spleen and repeated his slanders over the grave of one of Nebraska's best public servants. I re member that he invited the son of Senator Hitchcock to the banquet at the opening of the Bee building, and that he set before that son a poisoned feast in the shape of an attack upon his dead father. I remember that he fol lowed Frank Welsh with the same venom and penetrated his tomb with the same persistency. I remember that he assailed and traduced hundreds of the best citizens of Omaha and Ne braska because they would not do his bidding. With these recollections, and con scious that I have tried to do my duty in every public station, I have not had, and do not have any fear of his assaults upon me. Personally his enmity grat ifies me, for I know that he never recog nized a friend in one he could not use.' I know that his bitter enmity is a testi monial to the independence of the man who enjoys that enmity. Toward this man who has maligned me so bitterly and so persistently I entertain no malice. I pity him because nature gave to him an ambition and then withheld from him those e'euiente essential to the gratification of that ambition. I pity him because his whole life has been dedicated to destruction. I pity him because he has never yet felt his heart throb in friendship for friend ship's sake; because he has never known the exhilaration of a good impulse. I pity him for the reason that when bis physical and mental power shall be on the wane, there will not be one man to horn he can turn and upon whose dis interested friendship he can rely. But because of my pity for one whose life has been sent in efforts to make the world unhappy, I would not be jus tified in wasting my time by giving him an opportunity to air his miserable slanders in a church trial. The hearing of this cause is nearly concluded. The verdict will be ren dered November 6. I am confident that tho result will be a pronounced victory for good state government and good state credit, administered and repre sented by the Republican party. In cidently it will be a victory for decency in political matters and a rebuke to malicious slanders against candidates for office. I commend to Mr. E. Roscwater a careful perusal of these findings, and It is of little moment to me whether or not he "cheerfully abides the result." Yours very respectfully, T. J. Majors. SUGGESTIVE. Why is it that the Roman Catholics are so anx'ous that William J. Bryan should be elected to the United States senate? Why is it that the priests of that church all over the state have constituted themselves into campaign committees for furthering his election instead of simply attending to the spiritual wants of their parishioners as they should? The only answer that can be reasonably given, Is, judging from past and present Indications, that Mr. Bryan has pledged himself, in the event of his being sent to the United States senate, to support by his vote and influence such measures as will be approved by and will benefit directly or Indirectly the Roman Catholic church. In support of this conclusion that we arrive at, note the following little in cident that transpired a few days ago: A traveling man from this city was standing on the platform of the depot at Aurora, thia state, waiting for the train, when he overheard two Roman Catholic prlest3 discussing the political situation, one of whom seemed to be giving the other pointers as to what he had to do, for tho travelling man heard him say la answer to the other "that Bryan must be elected without fall and he should INSTRUCT to that end." Whom should he instruct? His parish ioners of course. How would he in struct? Presumably under the seal of and through the confessional. With these facts staring us in the face, we say that William J. Bryan should under no circumstances whatsoever be elected to represent the great state of Nebraska in the senate of the United States. Friends will be glad to learn that Rev. O. E. Murray is again living in Chicago and is pastor of a thriving young church on Englewood avenue. His present address is 350 Chestnut Btreet, Englewood, where he will be pleased to see all his old and new friends. Mr. Murray's name is a house hold one among patriotic families throughout the entire country as being the author of "The Patriotic Songster," "The Little Red School House Songs" and "The Black Pope." He has in augurated a series of patriotic pre ludes or short talks before the regular Sunday evening services. Friends could not spend a more profitable Sun day evening than by going out to hear Mr. Murray. His church is only half a block from the street cars. The leaders of the Democratic party by surrendering our institutions to Rome will drive out of their party more patriotic Democrats than did the slavery question. The papal church is at present making a cats-paw of the Democrttic party to gain its ends, and both will ultimately go down in defeat together. POLITICAL ..NOTES. Elk City Republicans propose to hold a rousing meeting at tho Town Hall in that village next Tuesday evening. If you have not already registered you had better do so next Friday and Saturday, November 3rd and 4th, as that will close the registration list for this year. Phil E. Winter and J. A. Williams were the speakers at the Republican meeting in Douglas preoluct, Thursday night. They report an enthusiastic meeting Cadet Taylor, the Republican nomi nee for councilman fo- the Eighth ward, is one of the best known business men in that ward, and the Republicans have made a wise selection. Dave Mercer has just returned from a campaigning tour through Washing ton and Sarpy counties and will devote this week to looking after his interests in Omaha and Douglas county. There will be a grand Republican rally at the Coliseum building on the evening of November 5th. Hon. John M. Thurston and other prominent speakers will deliver addresses. Our friends should remember that every man on the Republican ticket is a Protestant and an American citizen without a mental reservation, while Rome controls most of the candidates on the Demo-Pop ticket. Charles L. Thomas has made an hon orable record as councilman from the Seventh ward. His long residence in that part of the city enables him to be thoroughly conversant with the affairs of his ward and he should be re-elected. When you go to the Republican Bar becue at Benton November 1st, take the Walnut Hill motor and transfer to the Benson line. The Street Railway Company will more than double their service on that day in order to accomo date the public. The Clifton Hill Republicans were entertained by Hon. D. II. Mercer, Joseph A. Williams and other good speakers last Monday night. The meeting Monday, Oct. 29lh, should be well attended as a number of good speakers will be on hand. It is estimated that there will be enough voters at the Benson "Barbe cue" who are going to vote for Tom Majors November 0th, to get on the outside of "fifty beeves," fifty sheep" and "fifty calves." Co see the crowd, afternoon and evening. C. L. Jaynes, the Republican nomi nee for councilman for the Sixth ward, should be elected. He is honest and competent and we believe the interests of the Sixth warders will be safe in his hands. The recent scheme to defeat him will hardly meet the approval of Protestant citizens of that ward. Down in the First ward S. I. Gordon (Protestant) will vL with Tom Lowry (Roman Catholic) for councilmanic honors. Some people aver that when a man can beat Ike Hascall at a pri mary election, he is pretty certain to bj elected. Americans of that ward should see to it that their interests are not placed in the hands of a man who is controlled by Rome. Thos. II. Daily, the Democratic can didate for councilman from the Fifth ward, is an ardent Roman Catholic, while his opponent, W. A. Saunders, is a Protestant and a man whose charac ter is above reproach. Mr. Saundeis has made an excellent record in behalf of the people of his ward. The Amer ican citizens of his ward shouhl see that M-. Saunders is elected by a larger ma jority than ever. A SUNDAY SERMON Which Is Good Enough for Every Day in , the Week. The ' Sunday Sermons" of Mr. Felt In the Atchison, Kas., Champion, seem to have the right "ring," judging from the following brief extract: "The divine right of kings is a bar barous myth. 'Apostolic succession' may please prelates and bishops and befog the minds of those who never think seriously for themselves, but human liberty never grew into self government under the myths of kingly or hierarchial power." This strikes me as a very practical common-sense sort of religion, promul gated by a thinking man, who recog nizes At last that almost the whole brood of harpies, anarchy, greed, cor ruption and pauperism were hatched in the nest of that politico-religious ma chine, run in the interestof a self-styled "infallible" dago-god and his wine sodden libertine emissaries who, while masquerading as God, pollute the minds of their blind followers in the confes sional, until thousands fall an easy prey to the passions of these "Janizar ies" of the foreign head of a medleaval creed that "out-Herods Herod himself." It also strikes me that he will soon realize that he "harps on moldered string" when he arraigns Democracy unless he points to "the power behind the throne," in this priest-ridden ad ministration of Mr. Cleveland! And that he has in these splendid "sermons" practically "burned his ships" behind him with his pseudo-friends, the jesuits, therefore his creed which contains this sentence: "There was more gen uine patriotism in the little red school house of your boyhood in one week than in the present congress in a year," should find millions of devoted follow ers, who will recognize in this jesuit domination in American affairs, the largest and most rotten ulcer on the body-politic! and that an ounce of prac tice is worth a ton of theory in politics and religion. Let us hope that Mr. Felt will soon stand on the "outer walls" preaching this religion of com mon-sense and true American Christian ity that is now sweeping over every state, from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande. We need such men need them,too, in the van"of the procession" already marching by his "sanctum" to the music of "America." Yours for the "new creed," A. F. A Chance to Play Even. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 20. The Rv. M. J. Corbett of the diocese of Lincoln, Neb., who the papers lately reported as having asked and obtained his exeat from Bishop Bonacum, is now emacu late student at the Roman Catholic university at Washington, D. C. This clergyman was the president of the St. Bernard's union ol the west, a union instituted to take up the fight before the higher ecclesiastical courts the causes of the priests who had trouble with their bishops. For a long time it seemed that there would be no end to the disaffection in the Lincoln diocese and throughout Nebraska generally when the apostolic delegate Induced Father Corbett to go to Washington. It is assorted that Bishop Koano was opposed to Father Corbett' entrance to the university, but Delegate Satolll finally obtained bis emaculation. After Fuer Corbett has completed his course at the univer sity and obtained the degr e in canon law he will reside at the capital and prosecute at tae court of tl.e apostolic delegate the cause of the priesUs who have grievances against toeir biobops, and also act in general a an ecclesiasti cal advocate before the d.ooesan and archdiocesan tribunal?. POLICY OF THE JESUITS Is the Unioft Extreme uf Unprincipled SillMiuexs With Record of Shame and Outrage. It must lie with one all over shadow ing motive that the Jesuit leaders in Roman Catholic policy in this country insist, as they do, upon still continuing to receive from the govern merit appro priations for their Indian schools so out of proportion to what Protestant denominations receive, and indeed in resisting all effort to made educational appropriations by the government non sectarian. They are determined, in a use of those methods in wnich history shows them to be such masters, upon establishing in state and national legis latures a principle in this regard which may avail them hereafter in efforts to set aside that vital element in our national constitutio", absolute separation of church and state. So long as the American fundamental law in that regard remains -as now, it is a block in their way. The beginning of that change for which they are still working is a policy so subtle, so persistent, so patient, so evil in its purpose and meaning, will be a consent by subservient legislators to give them what they at present de piand state support for their own sec tarian schools. They now have such support for their Indian schools. With that example still bearing fruit, they expect, in time, to secure this support for all their schools, and to make that for their own purpose the beginning of the end. No person with any clear in sight of Jesuit history, or even the most ordinary acquaintance with that history, will ever credit the Catholic priesthood with such an extraordinary measure of benevolent sympathy for "the poor Indian" as to match the enormous proportion of $400,000 in ap propriations for their Indian schools,. as against the pittance granted to any other denomination. So long as they can keep that proportion intact, so long they are in the position of dominating in so much of the politics of the coun try as may. involve this question. Jesuit policy is the utmost extreme of selfishness. No other organization or combination of men appears in history with such a record of shame and out rage in this particular. When France, years ago, expelled the order as a thing intolerable, this is what 6he said of the men composing it: "Their dogmas break all bonds of civil society, authorize theft, perjury, falsehood, the most inordinate and criminal Impiety, and generally all passions and wickedness: teaching the nefarious principle of secret compensa tion, equivocation and mental reserva tion; extirpating every sentiment of humanity in their sanction of homicide and parricide, subverting the authority of government, and, in fine, overthrow ing the practice and foundation of re ligion, and substituting in their stead all sorts of superstition,, with magic, blasphemy and adultery." For all that here appears the Jesuits . stand convicted out of their own books, and above all in their rules for priestly procedure at the confessional. Among the many dangers confronting our re public the greatest of all is political subserviency to Jesuit craft and ambi tion, and the readiness with which to gain "the Catholic vote," patriotism, the truth of history, personal honor, and all manly motives are sacrificed and forgotten. -Chicago Standard. A LETTER AND AN ANSWER. Omaha, Oct. 15, 1394. Dear Sir: I shall consider it a personal favor if you will inform me whether the course of the Bee in the present campaign, and especially the position I have taken in support of Judge Holcorabfor governor, meets your approval. How many other Republicans in your household that read the Bee are in accord with its policy towards Majors? Your response will bo treated as con fidential. Please forward your reply in the en closed stamped envelope. Yours very truly, E. Rosevvatek. Doniphan, Neb., Oct. 18, 1894. El Rosewater, Editor Omaha Bee Dear Sir: Your circular letterof October 15 to hand, in which you ask if yourcourse in the campaign and especially the position you have taken in the support of Judge Hok'omb for governor meets with my approval, etc. My answer is emphatically no; and I will add further, the course you are pursuing is making votes for Mr. Majors in this locality, because your methods are too dishonest and untruth ful to influence any well-meaning citi zen of Nebraska. This state don't want a Populist gov ernor. We have seen enough of them in our neighboring states. J. A. Harding. Satolli should have been returned to Leo along with the other papal relics loaned to this government for the World's Fair. We have no use for him, and judging from tho recent inci dent at Patterson, N. J., tho members of his own church have not got much either. He Is entirely out of place in a civilized country like America, unable, as he is, to scak its language.