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THE AMERICAN Cntvrrd t hnUifflin a "ooad-rlass Will" JOHN C. THOMPSON. ftoiTO-. W. C, KKI.LKV. BimIimws Maaaser. ITBLISIIKll WrKtV BY THK ilEEICAS POBUSHWG COMPANY, 1AIS Uiaki titKT. Omaha. N. THK AMIKKAN OKKU'KS. IMS tlowart CtriH l, Omaha. Nfh. K,miiii A. 1.4 iuwl UaaJwIuli M-rwU Chl ano.111. fiMNJ m VfniN !lrHy In Ailvnnn: SEPTEMBER 20, IS'tft. IT IS the "defunct board" now. THK lato Mr. Rosewater U without a supreme court. ROMK hM made the torrent of rice turn her wheel of power. 1 A Junior A. 1". A. counoll will be organized In Taeorna. Wash. What will become of me and the Kor Catholic aomfK. Ilimrmtitr. Ark you a loyal citizen of the United Ct.ii.,.9 If vnn at-A. vnu A. P. A. Americans are coward in times of peace, but steel Id time of their coun try's peril RosewaTKR will now be at liberty to accept thut press censorship offered hlin by tho Akoond of Swat. Thk A. r. A. Is In a flourishing con dition in I-oiH-s, Wash., and tho boys are pulling together to down Home. In tho war which Uosowator purposes to wage iixm the A. P. A. In the ensu ing campaign, he will use smokeless powder. The state council of tho Washington A. P. A. will meet Oct. 1 at Taeoma. Five new councils wore instituted in the state last week. The Roman renaissance for which Rosewator fondly looked, and which never came, educes the fact that he is a false prophet in Israel. Auoi'STA, Georgia, seems to have a nest of Romanists in office. We hope that the Americans in that section will relieve themselves of the burden at the coming election. Sknor Rosewater, Alcalde of Omaha, who by a strange alchemy has long maintained the mattery over many minds, has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. When a candidate for oflioe and for a third term at that announces that he Intends to buy the Republican con ventlon, it will take a very brassy dele gate to vote for him. There Is nothing more natural than that the boodllm; Simwater crowd should turn in to support Frank E. Moores for clerk of the district court. Birds of a feather flock together. A dispatch from the City of Mexico to the Chicago Daily Chronicle says Catholic missionaries are compelling women to walk the street, with halters around their necks and carrying crosses. The Jackson County lribune says "John B. Stone is from the American granite quarry. William was picked from the surface limestone ledge. There is no better material on earth than the Honorable John B. Stone." Lio's armed Hibernians will never win the day With treachery and dynnnille, Americans to slay; We watch their every movement, and ws watch the A. P. A. As they hoist Old Glory In the morning. One of our friends In Chicago wants to know if we think a young man living in Chicago could get a jjb on the umana ponce lorce under the new board. We do not. Nebraska has law prohibiting the importation of police officers. Impartial writers say that the gold contained in the medals, vessels, chains and other objects preserved in the Vat ican, would make more gold coin than the whole present circulating medium In Europe. If the Roman church worships anything, it is the Golden Calf. When the negro was a slave; when he could not vote, and could not con trol his earnings, the Church of Rome never had time to try and save his soul xnow ne nas a vote, Handles nis own earnings, and the Church of Rome is scrambling to save bis soul. If it not avarice and politics that induce such action, what is it? 1HE rroiestani ministers who are now gaining notoriety in praising the Roman Catholic Church," says an ex change, "ought to have placards put on their backs, with the words written thereon, 'Renegades and weak-kneed traitors,' and then shipped to the Fiji Islands to vomit the cannibals." We are very sorry to say that there are few of these preachers In this city. We are afraid some are preaching mostly for their salary. A BOODLE CAMPAIGN. The reKirt has been brought to this nice so often during the last three ays that Frank F.. Moores had placed his barrel on tap that we deem H wise to caution iriubrrs of the A. P. A. alnst making any move that would indicate that they had been bought. We know that money is being ued like water to carry tho wards for Frank E. Mooncs. John P. Flnlay sent a man to Christian Spechttoask blm whether he could una ."C0 in the Sixth ward for the defeat of John McDonald. There has been an offer made to place 1700 In the Seventh ward to precipitate a, fight. Arrangements have been made for a fight in the F.igblh ward in the inter est of certain candidates who are to turn the delegations over to Moores. An effort was made to disrupt the First and Second wards by the use of money. We know this to be so. With these facts before the public, with Frank E. Moores, John P. Flnlay and Ed. B. Stout as Rosewater's candidates, no A. P. A. can afford to make a fight in their behalf, unless he wants the pub lic to misjudge his motives. We say this at this time because John P. Fin lay and Rosewator were in close con' sultatlon Thursday night ft fact which wc can prove if any one doubts the as sertion We are against boodlers, and believe the rank and file of the A. P. A. are, and we confidently call upon them to keep out of suspicious company. THE VICTORY IN NEBRASKA. Patriots all over the country who have been watching the fight upon the new fire and police commission law of Omaha, Neb., rooognlzlng that fight as one upon the A. P. A., will rejoice with us over the decision of the supreme ourt of this state. The court not only declared the law constitutional, but it went so far as to place the new board In full control of both the fire and po lice departments of the metropolis of Nebraska. The old board, which was backed by a daily paper, an unscrupulous politl clan, the Roman church, the Jesuits and the governor, made a desperate fight. Their newspaper champion cir culated the most untruthful and dam nable reports, not only about the A. P. A. and the new board, but about the citizenship generally, until the friends of American principles In surrounding towns and cities were led to believe that serious trouble would result if the new board attempted to take hold and exercise the functions of their offices. A truculent press, dependent on E Rosewater, a self-confessed llbeler, for the news from Omaha, published with treat gusto every telegram that he saw fit to send through the Associated Press, when every one of the papers subscribing to that association knew that the unconscionable rascal always exaggerated and distorted everything that was opposed to his policy. The people of Omaha will be a patient peo ple Indeed If they refrain from holding an indignation meeting for the adop tion of resolutions denunciatory of both Rosewater and the Associated Press, During a lifetime spent In rewspaper work we have never seen a newspaper man wllruily and intentionally misrep resent, abuse and vilify his patrons with the abandon that has character ized the recent action of the editor of the Omaha Bee. Ills fight perhaps was pardonable. A man has a lawful ngnt to go to any length to save his life. He may even kill another. And some believe that he has done that, too, for they have known this fight was one of life or death with blm, because for years his policy had been to either rule or ruin In almost every county marble slabs rise majestically above the resting place of some pxr soul who died be neath his editorial lash. A roster of his victims shows they were the pride and flower of the state, and yet the ghoul who wrecked their lives lived on and prospered till the A. P. A. took him in hand. Then dissolution set in swift and sure. So, friends, rejoice! The victory'i complete! Rome has been worsted in her fight against the very law itself, Her minions aye, her purchased cham plot are routed, scattered, ignored and scorned. WANT FAIR TREATMENT. To Melville E. Stone, Chlc70, 111. Dear Sir For nearly two months the local agent of your association in this city has been sending broadcast ove the country dispatches which were ab solutely untrue or so highly colored that they brought discredit upon both our city and many of Its most respected and influential citizens. As patrons of the papers depending upon your asso ciation for the news, we most earnestly protest against the injustice doneou city and its citizenship, and call upon you and your association for a complete refutation of the false accusations and libels by innuendo which your agent has so Industriously circulated. Your as sociation owes this community a most ample auoli'k'V. Because a large tna- orlty of our citizens are members of the A. P. A ,or endorse the principles enunciated and advocated by members of that association, does not afford su Al len t ground for an agent of your asso ciation, who happens to be under the control of a man who contracted for the fi at of the A. P. A., to so grossly misrepresent either our city, our ofli- lals or ourselves. It may be that the news-gathering association of which you are the bead is, as it has been ac cused of being, under the espionage of thoe damnable creatures who still re gard the Inquisition as a holy institu tion. If it is not, this city and its Itlzens will be cleared of the unenvl- ble notoriety forced upon it by one of your associates, but at the same time a most conscienceless wretch, who has been accused of almost every crime In the Decalogue; a man who believes in and practices the Jesuit motto that the end justifies the means;" a man who denounces respectable citizens and consorts with crooks, boodlers and gamblers; who accuses his political op ponents of certain delinquencies while practicing the same delinquencies him self; who is the special champion of law-breakers and dive-keepers while posing as the friend of law and order and municipal reform. If the word of such a despicable and universally un clean thing is to weigh in your balance more than the earnest, indignant pro test of the thousands of patrons of your association, let us know it now, so that the greatest patriotic organization in this country may know its friends and guard against Its enemies. It might a well be stated here that we a-k no special privileges; we only demand fair treatment from your association. Will we get it? Yours respectfully, John C. Thompson. THE DIFFERENCE. When tho Rosewater board of fire and ollce commissioners displaced about twenty-five Protestant police officials the Associated Press dispatches stated that they were incompetent and that they were agitators. When the new board took hold, reinstated the old men, and discharged Chief White, non-resident; 'lom Urnisoy, a per jurer; Uook, a arunnara, ana anout twenty patrolmen who had been on the force less than-sixty days, those dis patches said the new board had re moved "the chief, one captain, two sergeants and others of the police force, many of the oldest and most re' liable officers In the city. Ihose re placing them are without exception A. P. A's. Twelve gambling houses are running wiue open to-nigni in Omaha, the first In years." If Jimmy Haynes Is responsible for the lies that have been published about Omaha, hor officials and her citizens during this controversy, he is not gain lng or retaining the confidence ol our citizens. The dago pope ought to be ordered back to Rome in doublo quick time. What does this old bachelor know about teaching children, and especially our Protestant American children, when he had no effect in Italy but to keep 00 per cent, of the people so ignor ant that they can neither read nor write? A beautiful example to send to this country to tell American-born citi zens how their government should be conducted, when this superlative dele gate could not even speak the English tongue. There are pitiful congressmen ho hunt people of this class to "help their political pull." Boys, it is time you were hunting some of these con gressmen with your "political pull." Americans are very foolish to ever sup port a man for office who values in trigue more than he does his principle. Put men in office who will not allow the vessels of our navy to be used as private modes of transportation by ecclesias tical politicians similar to the dago pope in America. Put men in effice who will not allow such people to dic tate to them how much money shall be appropriated to church institutions out of state and national treasuries and ac cept for their pay for so voting the promise of political Bupport from that body. Of all Doodling this is the most damnable A leading patriot of Pennsylvania, who speaks with authority, says: "The patriotic orders are flourishing here as well as, if not better than, in any other state in the Union. We think we have the highest number of organized pa trlotsof any state in the Union, the largest being the Junior Order United American Mechanics, with a member ship of over 100,000. The next in strength is the American Protective Association and the Patriotic Order of America, the latter having a member ship of about 60,000." The Swedish people have the repu tation as ft class of being opposed to boodling and corruption. How can the few Swedes in this county who claim to be leaders justify themselves in sup porting Frank E. Moores for clerk of the district court, when it tis notorious that he has said that he would buy the Republican delegates to the county con vention? Judge C. T. Dickinson of Tekamah Burt county, a candidate for District Judge, was in the city to-day getting better acquainted with the local Re- publican leaders. lie is ft bright, clean-cut, able attorney, and would make a fitting successor to Judge Hope well. Be .tides, he is well liked at home, ae was attested this week when the Republican convention of his county awarded him the privilege of choosing the delegates to the judicial conven tion. We do not think the convention will make any nJcUku If it carries out the wish of Burt county, wh.ch spoke in no uncertain manner in his favor, the home precinct of Judge Hopewell driving Judge Dickinson CO majority. Think of it Americans: Think of the United Slates government sending two revenue cutlers out from the port of Now York ta escort Cardinal Gib bons to shore upon his arrival from Rome. Did the government ever send out vessels to meet a Protestant minis ter? It Is high time to put men in all of our offices who will attend tj the duties of their offices and not suck the great toe of some foreign ecclesiastic, or a person of the same character in this country. Some of our present office-holders would kiss the devil for a little political pull, and value their oath of office less than saying, "How are you to-day?" It has been hot enough in Kansas City during the past week to give an editor a tas'e of his future home. Oae of the Roman editors seems to think that we A. P. A. follows are only re ceiving a foretaste of our future abode. As to our personal qualifications, we will not remark. However, we will state, that before we are through with these gentlemen we will muke them think there Is no need of a future olace for increased boat. It is understood that Rosewater, on receiving the news of the decision of the supreme court In favor of the new fire and police law, turned to his mod leal adviser, and, in agonizing accents, exclaimed: Canst thou not minister to a mind dUeag'd Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow: Hue out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote. Cleanse the stutT'd bosom of Unit perilous Muff Which weighs upon the heart? Rosewater decides that the 6u preme court decision places the Omaha police force under control of the Amer ican Protective Association. From which we deduce the logical conclusion that the police department will not be under control of Rosewater and the Romans. We are pleased with "Jus tice" Rosewater's decision. Levi Parsons Morton, Governor of New York, waj unanimously endorsed as the Emoire Slate's candidate for President on the Republican ticket. He is the man whom the Romans say would not hire an Irishman. That is a pretty good recommendation. Should you call upon Procurator Rosewater, be very careful not to Broatch the subject of the supreme court decision in the fire and police commission matter. It might cause him to Foster ill-feeling toward you and Van Dervoort. To the people wno have heretofore had their legs pulled by the Sim waters If the act is repeated by any person this fall notify us and we will expose them The boodler and leg-puller must go. As E. Rosewater has lost caste in this commonwealth, it is perfectly proper for him to fly from the scene of his greatest victories and his most humiliating defeats. The old-line politicians are trying to get under cover, for it is said they see the handwriting on the wall, such as "The A. P. A.," "My country first, my party next." The word sincere is derived from two Latin words which signify "pure honey without admixture of wax. The Lee's honey is all wax. The triumph of Rosewater's princi ples and purposes would make Omaha the trysting-place of thieves, thugs boodlers and burglars. The new fire and police board will Foster eobriety, loyalty, faithfulness and discipline, and conserve the inter ests of good government. We might boast this week because of the great victory won over our enemies. and would but for the fact that they must feel awful sore. dynamite journalism will never render Rosewater the great dynamic agency in Nebraska reform politics. Yesterday the wicked Rosewater flourished like a green bay tree. To day he is but a withered branch. The sturdy burghers of Omaha de cline to render homage and allegiance to Alcalde Rosewater. Once more has Edward Rosewater the alleged irresistible force, come contact with an immovable body. We witness with exquisite pleasure the passing of the Roman-Rosewater regime. Hades is In mourning. Nebraska has taken first prize for heat. The freemen of Omaha have at last overcome their tyrant. We doubt the Protestancy of every one of Itotewater s Immediate entou rage. Well, Honey, do you realize that you are mortally wounded? The Great lM Mre A. 1. A. Battle. Editor American: The great de ls! vo battle between the paal power in this country and our government and free institutions must of necessity be fought out to a finish. They are metrically opposed to each other, nd one must inevitably succumb to tbe other, and which shall it be? If the decisive battle is reached soon, the ballot can be the instrument of warfare and the papacy as a political power will be effectually crushed out, but if the decisive buttle Is delayed many years the battle with the ballot will be lost and we will be compelled to either submit to the papal yoke or appeal to the arbitrament of tbe sword. The time for the ( ublic declaration at the polls Is drawing near, and now is the lime ti prepare for the struggle of "J6, which may possibly be tne hardest- fought political battle of the century; and if all patriotic citizens do their full duty it can be decided in favor of true Americanism. There should be no half-way work in patriotic politics now. Let no American voter be on the fence any longer. If you want the pa pal power to rule this country and make our laws, to conform to its canon law, then say so, but if you are in favor of the Republic and American institu tions, then say so emphatically at once, and rally round the American Protect- ve Association, accept its principles, join the order. in good faith, extend its Influence, and continue the political fight until national triumph shall crown your efforts. Many decisive reform battles on va rious political issues are to be fought In this Republic in tho near future. Our people are very much confused by the multiplicity of reform Ideas which strongly press upon them for solution, and each political problem is regarded by its friends as being of the utmost Importance in American reform poli tics. But these numerous reform is sues, however Important, cannot all be reached and settled at the same time, but they should be duly recognized and settled with the least possible delay. Not underrating the Importance of other reform ideas, especially the move' mont for the abolishment of the liquor traffio, we think that, taking all things into consideration, the papal issue has the first claim for final adjust ment by the American voters, from the fact that the papal hierarchy has so nearly gained the political control of this country that if it shall be per mitted to finish its work all other re form issues will bo dead and the gov ernment broken up. And the fact that there are two or three millions of A. P. A. voters in this country united and pledged to carry out thoir patriotic principles at the polls, besides many stanch friends of the order, and the fact that the number is still increasing, render it highly probable that it will be sufficiently powerful to shake up the old parties most unmercifully, if not to ;e the government, in '96; and what other reform issue has half so good a prospect of immediate triumph as this? Many patriotic soldiers glory in hav ing been in the last decisive battle of the Rebellion, and well they may. Now, In this decisive papal battle, which cannot be far in the future, let there be no flinching and no regrets for having engaged in the patriotic struggle, which is certain to be crowned with the laurel wreath of victory. J. G. P. Build Patriotic Sentiment. The people of Holland wisely build dykes to protect themselves from the encroachments of the sea. So every loyal citizen should be interested in building up publio sentiment which would tend to stir up the people to be on their guard against that which destructive to national welfare. Some people are strangely unconcerned about Important and momentous affairs They go through life like a sleep walker, unconscious of what is going on around them. Their apathy is real stu pidity. Every man should be as in tensely interested in that which con cerns the welfare of the country, either morally, socially or politically, as he is In his own interests. Those who are not, fail to live up to their duty. Let us guard our country from internal and Infernal foes. James Stolbert. No Praying in School. Cincinnati, Sept. 16. The cus torn ary Lord's Prayer in the Linwood (Ohio) school has been ordered stopped James A. Hooter, who is a Roman Cath olic, sent his child to the village school to the primary room. At home in the evening the child mentioned the prayer, The father decided to withdraw the child from the school, and so notified Professor Andrew. Principal Andrew consulted the attorney of the Cincin nati schools and other attorneys on the legal 6tatus of the matter. He was told that prayers had been elimi nated from the city schools and that the slate laws forbid anything of a sec tarian nature being taught in the pub lie schools. A. P. A. Figures. Emmett F. Allen, state secretary of the American Protective Association said today that the order was growing rapidly in Miasm rt. He estimated the local membership at 8.00U, comprising twenty councils, three of which are made up of colored jnsople. He say three new councils hare bean organized in the state this week, making 127 in all. He says there are thirty-three councils in St. Louis. Kansas City Star. DLTKLC-TISIU LE OK THE 1UIMI. Dr. Peters I nk Some Strong Language in His New York Lecture. New York, Sept. 8. Rev. Madison C. Peters, D. D., delivered his new lec ture, "America's Future; Breakers Ahead," at Prohibition Park, State n Island, this afrnoon. He said, in part: "A new Irish convention has been called at Chicago for Sept. 24. If new methods mean a physical-force move ment, then these men must be given to understand that the movement is out of place in the United States. If the Irish dynamiters have tbe right In the land of their adoption to organize dis turbances to be carried against the government from which they escaped, why may not Russian nihilists, French socialists, German anarchists and all the other breeds of disturbers of the peace do tbe same thing? If the Irish of America want to make Ireland the land of home rule why don't they set their faces homeward and themselves strike the blow? The United States could exhibit such an array of Irish police officials that, if massed in one body, would chill the blood of the British lion." This Reminds Me. State Treasurer Henry Wulff was made defendant yesterday in a suit brought before a South Side justice by A. C Hawlcy, in which Hawley claims 1200 for campaign services rendered Candidate Wulff during the last state campaign. Mr. Hawley, who Is a prom inent member of the Order of Deputies, claims that ho was engaged in canvass ing the state in the interest of William E. Mason, then a candidate for United States senator, and that he agreed to work also for Mr. Wulff, who was a can didate for state treasurer, and that the wages agreed upon were $3.50 per day. Mr. Hawley claims that Mr. Wulff was elected by 125,000 majority, and that he still owes $200 for said services. Mr. Wulff said yesterday that Hawley had been paid every cent he was enti tled to. "Hawley was traveling over the state in the interest of Mr. Mason, who was a candidate for senator," Mr. Wulff said, "and was carrying me as a sort of side lino. I agreed to pay his expenses, and did bo. I suppose 1 gave him altogether about $150. I under stand he has sued me for $200 mere, but have not yet been served with sum mons." 2'imes-llerald. This reminds me of the abuse and slander heaped upon some good, true- blue Americans during that campaign, because of their opposition to the pres ent state treasurer. The order of dep uties I know nothing of; only having heard of them as "a cheap lot of dark lantern hoboes." I have beard rumors to the effect that G. Baldy Swift was a member, and also that Henry Wulff had been made a "high private" just before election. Of course if this were true, It would account for the members of the order supporting their brethren even if they had not received any com pensation or "political promises" of patronage. Mr. Hawley claims that Mr. Wulff was elected by 125,000 major ity, and tnat he still owes (200 for said services. Mr. Wulff says: "I suppose I gave him altogether about $150." Put ting the two amounts together, it would make the total $350. Now the ordinary majority in this state would average about 25,000, which would leave a sur plus of 100,000 votes for Mr. Wulff, partly due, no doubt, to the exertions of Mr. Hawley in his organization. But, to be conservative, I will take 50,000 votes as an estimate, and taking the total $350 divide it by the number of votes and it leaves seven-tenths of one cent, or seven mills per vote. Taking the amount paid ($150), and it only makes three mills. This would bear out the rumor pf a "cheap" lot, and may be some consolation to some of those members who are not on the in side to know the job-lot price at which they were sacrificed. Some of these Independent Ameri can, wno, it was claimed, were bought out by Hopkins, may be glad to know that they at least were not sold for the magnificent sum of three mills each. I have heard of votes being bo ght for a drink of whisky, but never before have I heard of a majority of 125,000 and $150 in cash coming together. The Order of Deputies should immediately send out solicitors for more prominent members, so they will be "right in it" at the next election. As the member ship increases no doubt the "campaign expenses" will go up in proportion. A J Ax. Hurrah for Omaha! What is the loud acclaim I hear? Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! And see the flag! It waves; they cheer The news from Omaha. The A. P. A. has won the day. Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! The cities all must go that way. Three cheers for Omaha! The flag must wave o'er all the land, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Shout, shout aloud! Get out the bancU Hurrah for Omaha! Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 18, 1895. A