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ROSEffATER'SREFORMABBREO
A Plain and Dispassionate Statement of Its
Origin, Its Aims and Its
Purposes.
The Nominees, with Few Exceptions, the Very
Riff-Raff of the Population of .
This Great City.
A Little Light Let in on Some Very Dark Places
for the Benefit of the Public
in General.
Early last spring we announced that
Edward Rosewater would do all in his
power to defeat the Republican party
In this fall's campaign, and we believe
that prediction has been pretty gener
ally proved true by every move he has
made.
At the.ttmo of making that charge
we were in c possession of conclusive
proof, that he was at that time, and was
to continue to be, the champion of the
Roman section of this community; and
every one of his acta has demonstrated
the truthfulness of the information on
which we based Jthe charge.
At that time the new fire and police
bill was' pending before the legislature,
and it haslbeen openly charged that
there were thousands of dollars placed
in Ro8ewater's!hand8 to be used in the
defeat of .that measure. It is known
that he was a most persistent lobbyist.
He was tbereiday and tight. Stories
were rife to the effect that he was
tying up withjthe friends of every meas
ure, questionable or meritorious. It
is known that he begged some men to
vote against the bill, that he threat
ened others with expoeure through the
Bet. if they dared vote contrary to his
'wishes.
A representative from Jthe southern
part of the state says he was approached
by ai etni- eary of Edward Rosewater's
and offf red money to vote against House
Rollf No. 139, commonly known as the
firo.and police bill, and Herman Timme,
in the preeence'of his wife,cwas offered
several hundred dollars if he.would con
tinue to be sickjand refuse to go to the
capitol and register his vote in favor of
that measure.
Yet, in spite othls record, this cor
ruptlonist, this bocdle dispenser, and
political blackmailer, reeeks to foist
upon the people of this city as officials
some of the most "jim moral and corrupt
men known in; the community. And
he is doing itcunder the guise of Re
form. It is fitting, however, that Edward
Rosewater should head a movement for
reform which' hasthe approval and
support ofsuch disreputable mounte
banks as Ed. Simeral, Ed. Roggen, and
men of their ilk.SIt is fitting that he
should wanUto'elect to official posi
tions such charactersas Helsley.as Co
burn, as Swobe, astGuy Doane, and as
Wood and Campbell. It is fitting that
he should support, in addition tothese,
a number of bankrupts, who made
a failure of Jtheir own business, yet as
pire to manage that of the most popu
lous city Jand county in the. state. And
it is also fitting, that he should have
the earnest, hearty co-operation and
support i of Jt every Roman Catholic in
the city, sincelh is success means their
return to power and to office.
But thejpeopleitare not blind or
ignorant to either the animus which
prompts thiscfight by Edward Rose
water for Roman supremacy in this city
and county, oras to what will be the
result if ho is successful in the coming
election.
It has been an open secret for a good
many months that the Bee was losing
money;because, of its fight against the
A. P. A., and it has been openly
charged. that a purse of more than $20,
000 hailEbeenTmade up by prominent
Roman Catholics to enable bim to con
tinue his -warfare on the only body of
men which Jwas ever able to drive in
competent,! corrupt and dishonest offi
cials out of'office.
And why isfche doing this?
Becausahe has no use for any man
who will not do his bidding or who will
not tamely submit to his dictation. A
competent,onest, upright" official ac
cording to the-Rosewater dictionary is
one who will do the bidding of Rose
water :'any other man is corrupt, dishon
est, incompetent, or a howling dervish.
No man is pure, honest or capable ex
cept he be aa abjeot tool of Edward
Rosewater, and the people, this year,
have an opportunity of saying whether
or not they desire men who are capa
ble, efficient, and honeet according to
the Rosewater definition, to administer
their affairs. Those men whoj-eceive
his support can be relied upon to fill
thejbill of Edward Rosewater. Those
whom he opposes the most viciously
will be the men whom he cannot ufe.
This applies a9 much to the judiciary
as to the men who aspira to seats In
the city council. The man who receives
his support must forfeit manhood and
independence and become his abject
slave.
These charges are capable of proof.
"Honest" .Dick O'Keeffe was a tool of
Ed Rosewater's. He was a member of
the board of county commissioners when
the county treasury was beicg looted.
It has been charged that O'Keeffe was
cognizant of the robbery. We have
several times stated that Rosewater
was apprised of the thieving, and was
requested to expose the corruption, but
that instead of protjeting the tax
payers, as an honest newspaper man
would, he declared that he could not
make the facts contained io the affi
davits public because, if he did so, it
would defeat "Honest" Dick O'Keeffe.
And O'Keeffe voted to pay Rosewater
three prices for publishing the tax-list.
It makes no difference how corrupt a
man is take Wro. Coburn, for instance,
or Tom Swobe, or Lee Helsley if he
will do Rosewater's bidding he is a par
agon of business ability, of purity and
morality, while such a man as A. G.
Edwards, as Mel H. Red field, cr S. I.
Gordon, against whose official integrity,
business ability or morality no man
dares utter a word, that man, that
whiffet and political strumpet, E. Rose
water, brands as unworthy the canfi
dence of the people.
We shall see!
Luckily the people have not yet had
their say; when they do have it, they
can be trusted to say what is right.
The people are always right!
Some of them may be mistaken at
times, but as a whole they make no
mistakes.
They will make none this year.
They will make none when they turn
down every man on the Democratic
ticket who is not on either the Populist
or the Republican ticket.
Were it necessary to go into detail
and enumerate the unpalatable char
acter of the Rosewater nominees, we
assure you that M. F. Martin, the erst
while owner of houses of prostitution,
would bo an angel in purity when com
pared with Tom Swobe, Billy Coburn,
Lee Helsley and a half-dozen more
whose names could be mentioned.
The Citizens' ticket is, to be brief,
made up of gamblers, fornicators,
drunkards, bankrupts, perjurers, crim
inals, and men who have been dis
charged from lucrative positions be'
cause of their "knocking-down" pro
clivities.
Yet this man Rosewater, his aids
and confederates, not excluding or ex
cepting the members of the Roman
hierarchy in this city, knew that nearly
every man nominated on the Reform
citizens ticket was entitled to wear one
or more of the above brands. Then
why did they presume to call it the
"Citizens' Reform party"? In order to
deceive the people. They proceeded
on the theory that the people liked to
be humbugged and the bigger the
humbug the better they would be sat
isfied. We can say this masquerade
party by the "Citizens' Reformers'' is
par excellence. If they can kick up
enough dust to obscure the vision of
the populace they will undoubtedly be
elected. But they can't do it.
Now let us see what these reformers
give as the reason for their appearance
this year. They tell us it is because the
affairs of the city and county have
been mismanaged under A. P. A. rule.
We hurl this back to Edward Rose
water at a black, as m damnable lie.
Wa hurl it in the fat e of every one of
hit sympathizers, and challenge them
for the proof. Under A. P. A. Influ
ence this county and city were rid of
the motit corrupt ring that ever domi
nated them. Under A. P. A. rule the
county treasury, Instead of represent
ing a deficit of more than t2J0,OOO. rep
resents a surplus of more than (325,000;
and this has been saved to the county
after paying the deficit hauded down
to them from the O'Keeffe-O'Malley-Rosh
regime. It has been saved after
paving and repairing several roads
running into the country; after paying
Interest on outstanding bonds; after
paying tht running expenses of the
jail, county poor farm, hospital, relief
store, and all the running expenses In
cident to the county business.
To be plain, the A. P. A. took charge
of the county business when the county
was in debt more than $240, 000. It Iras
run the county for three years. During
that time it has paid off the debt the
Romanists had saddled upon It, has
paid all the running expenses, and has
saved more than $325,000. Incompe
tent men could not do that. Dishonest
men would not do it.
But there are Henry Bollu and Jer
ome Coulter!
Certainly. No one condones their
offenses. They did wrong. But the
A. P. A. was not responsible for their
shortcomings. They did wrong not
because they were elected by the aid of
the A. P. A., but in spite of the wishes
and the teachings of that order.
Yet, if you pleaso, who worked harder
to encompass the eleatlon of Henry
Bolln than E. Rosewater the man
who now cries so lustily for reform?
How, then, can he shift all the blame
for the shortage in the city treasurer's
office onto the A. P. A., when he was
chejk by jowl with that order in its
support of Bolln, not only when he was
first nominated, but when he sought
and obtained a renomlnatlon and a re
election? This being so, how is the
A. P. A. any more responsible for the
falcation in the tresurer's office than
are E. Rosewater and the Omaha Iietf
"But tb'e A. P. A. officials appointed
Israel Frank meat inspector, and he
has gone wrong," some others are fond
of saying.
This is not literally true. Frank was
appointed by a board dominated by
Rosewater and his present associates
in the Citizens' Reform movement. If
there is any odium to attach because
of Frank's conduct, it must attach to
the Rosewater crowd. Besides, the
witnesses against Frank, who were in
the employ of Rosewater, were an un
savory crowd. One of them obtained
pos-ossionof Matron Cummings' ring,
in some mysterious manner, and pawned
it, then jumped the town. But It is
with that class of rascals that Rose
water always surrounds himself.
The secretary of the Citlzons' Re
form movement, one of Uoscy's moBt
intimate associates and advisers, has a
record as full of holes as a skimmer:
yet he is shouting lustily for reform.
He ought to go back to Canada and
work up a reform movement where he
is better known, and where it is said
the officials would re pleased to shake
hands with him. Unless we have been
misinformed, County Superintendent
Hill has a letter from a gentleman who
knew the secretary across the border,
In which some very lurid and firey
things are charged against said secre
tary. Closely allied to the father of the
Citizens' Reform League and his sweet
scented secretary is Jim Creighton,
he of rotten-block fame, now honored
with the presidency of the Third ward
branch of tbe association; Tom Swift,
the Roman father-in-law of one of the
editors of the Bee; Ed. Walsh, of
county hospital notoriety; A. A. Key'
sor, who is treasurer of the Idlewild
branch of the league, and who has
been repeatedly and openly accused by
this paper with having been charged
by the mother of a girl under lawful
age, with having offered said mother
the sum of $.j0 for tbe privilege of hav
ing illicit criminal intercourse with
her daughter; Lee Helsley, famous for
his want of legal learning while acting
as police judge, or who violated his
oath.of office by recdering a decision
contrary to law and precedent in order
to win the friendship of the Romanists
of this city; Tom Swobe, who, as the
proprietor of the Midland Hotel, per
mitted gambling to be carried on there
unless all reports are false and
whose liaisons with his female help
was for years a matter of common
notoriety, one ot wnicti liaisons ex
Congressman Connell ard ex-County
Attorney Parke Goodwin, are said to
have strained their legal ability in un
tangling for the festive Tom; J. S
Deitrick, a Romanist who declared we
ought to be killed for publishing Tue
American; Ed. Moriarty, who has
been convicted of forgery, and who
was suspected of leading the mob
which hanged the tegro lnlS!H;Wm.
Co hum, who leaves his homo and goes
on periodical drunks, (anting sometimes
for two or more weeks; W. I. Kler
stead, who received an Invitation from
M. F. Martin, the owner tf houses of
prostitution, to visit Camp Comfort,
and only refused to accept It after we
had condemned Seavey for associating
with such characters; John F. Coad,
who has been openly and publicly
accused of attempting to bribe the
South Omaha delegation to vote for
Coo instead of Frank Johnson; the
First National Bank, which is accused
of paying Frank R. Johnson (2,500 to
get off the Democratic ticket, io that
Coe could be endorsed, in order that he
might be elected and be able to pay the
paper notea which said bank is said
to hold to the amount of more than
125 000; said bank Is also carrying tho
Oxaba Ike for a good many more thou
sand dollars than it wants to, unless
President Kountz has been misquoted
to us; tbe Roman contingent, with John
Rush, John A. Creighton, the priests
and the bishop at the bead to direct,
besides every saloon-keeper, every
gambler, every fhug, and every
prostitute Is giving their unqualified
endorsement and their hearty support
to the Citizens' Reform candidates. If
there is any doubt as to this assertion,
take the delegates to the late Demo
cratic convention and look up their an
tecedents. Begin with Pat Ford, take
in Pat O'Hearne, and a whole regi
ment of lesser lights, and wind up with
Ed. Rothery and others of their Ilk.
Nor are these the only shining lights
in the Reform movement. We find Con
stantino Joachim Smyth, who was un
able to answer tho logic of that grand
old Methcdlst editor, W. J. Shank;
Timothy J. Mahoney, who, as county
attorney, asked tho polloo judge to dis
charge two Romanists charged with
murder in the first degree, after they
bai been positively identified; John
Rush, who declared he was a Roman
Catholic lirst and a citizen afterward;
Pat Ford, Jr., who has been sentenced
to several years in tho penitentiary,
and who is now out on hall awaiting
the action of the supreme court; besides
a couple of thousand other Romanists
with records equally as hady or minus
records of any description.
We might go on and enumerate all
the rascals In the community, and you
would find them all identified with the
Citizens' Reform movement. True, all
the men Identified with that movement
are not of the ragtag and bobtail va
riety Edson Rich, John J. Points and
E. R. Duffle are clean, capable and
honest men, but they are In awful bad
company.
This ought not to escape your mind:
Do you want men in official positions
who will be tho complete, the abject
tools tf E. Rosewater? If you do, vote
the Democratic ticket.
Remember, tho election will decide
whether this community is to be domi
nated by Rosewater and Romanism, or
whether honest American principles
are to rule. The question is: Shall
the disreputable elements in both the
Republican and Democratic parties
dominate this city and county, or will
the respectable, law-abiding citizens
participate in their government?
And now, in conclusion, allow us to
call your attention to the German edi
tor of the Omaha Bee, who furnishes
two columns twice each week for the
edification of Germans who are unable
to read the English language. We
shall not givo our opinion of him, but
will quote the opinion of the paper
which is now employing him. Of him
the Omaha lite of October 31, 1804,
said: "Max Ad'.er has enjoyed a
speckled career, covering many years.
He was at one time an editorial writer
on a sectarian paper 'at Cleveland, O ,
and afterwards became associated with
August Speis on tho Arbeiler Zeitung,
the anarchistic newspaper that did so
much toward inciting the Hayraarket
riot, and which culminated In the
arrest of every man connected with
the publication."
Which One of Them Lie!
The "eucharistic congress" recently
held in Washington was productive of
some good in that, through the utter
auccs ol a chamrerlain of the pope 8
household, MonsignorStephan, the pa
pal Institution, which Is purely a polit
teal organization, and the most perfect
in its various ramifications, albeit it
sails urder the worn deplume of a church,
is placed in its true light before the
American people. For hie candor on
this occasion, says the I'ctriotic Ameri
can, the people of this country are in
debted to this chamberlain of the pope's
household, who is and for years has
figured as the head of the Jesuit-papal
lobby at our capital. Every reader of
the Patriotic Anuriean and every other
Intelligent person is aware that the
papacy has always aimed to deceive
tho people by pretending to the world
(oukide their own meuirervhlp) that
the "holy mother church" did not dab
ble In polities this, too, In contradis
tinction to the farther fact that the hier
archy has ever contended that "poli
tics is only morals uxu a larger scale,
and that the church possesses the un
qualified right to direct the morals of
its subjects." That there may b no
further quibbling upon this to the
American people important, nay, seri
ous question, this chainlierlaln of the
pope's household, James A. Stephan,
who had this signal honor conferred
upon him by Leo XIII., April 2, lHWi,
for his unpara leled success In plunder
ing the national treasury through the
treachery and ntrlgue of venal and
corrupt congressmen and senators, In
tho Interest of the so-called Catholic
Indian Mission, during an Interview by
a reporter brushes aside tho veneering
In the following straightforward man
ner: "Yes, the Catholic church Is in pol
itics; la the future we Intend to be the
purifiers of polities.
"We will support the pure men wher
ever' we find them. In one. state thry
may be In one party, and In another
state In the opposite party."
"Who will decide on tbe cleanliness
of the candidates, monslgnor?"
"We will. We have kept quiet too
long. We have been badly treated. We
proposo now to stand by those who
stand by us. I find that ante-olectton
promises are easily broken."
"It Is said you defeated Harrison,
monslgnor?"
"Well, that is what they say. I have
never made any concealment of the
fight I made against Harrison. I knew
Morgan, the man Harrison appointed
commissioner of Indian affairs, during
the war.
"I anticipated trouble from him, and
antagonized him from the first. I
fought his confirmation bitterly and
openly, So bitter did I, make the fight
that Cardinal Gibbons appointed a com
mittee to call on the president and
urge the withdrawal of Morgan's name.
"The committee consisted of Arch
bishop Ireland, Bishop Cbappellc, from
Indianapolis, and myself. Wo met the
president by appointment, and Secre
taries Rlair.c and Wlndom were present
at the interview.
"We galnod nothing. The president
pointedly refused to withdraw Morgan's
name, and told us he would be confirmed
by the senate in face of our opjiositlon.
In plain English, we were severely
Bnubbed.
"We left the White Houso, and as we
walked down through the lawn I
pointed to the green grass and said to
Archbishop Ireland: "Do you see that
sod, your graco?'
" 'Yes,' he replied, 'what of it?'
" 'Under that sod,' was my resKnse,
'I bury the snub Harrison has just put
onus. Four years from no I'll dig it
up with interest.'
"I kept my word. I bided my time.
A few weeks before the election I went
to Indiana, tho state in which I worked
before the war, and in which I had first
met the president.
"I had been a Republican all my life;
so I had but little trouble In finding out
how matters stcod at the Harrison
headquartsre.
"Tho Republicans were ahead. 1
went to Lafayette, and called the
priests of the state together. Some of
them were Republicans, like myself,
told them to take off their coats, and
defeat Harrison.
"They hesitated, and then did as I
desired. Some of them said there were
Republican members of the churches
who could not be moved. I told them
to send them to me."
"Did you cast all the Roman Catholic
vote for Cleveland?"
"We debated Harrison."
"I am in politics, and I am in to win.
and the only way to win is to organize.''
Anont the foregoing, that prince of
deceivers and falsifiers, James Gibbons,
called cardinal, in order if possible to
replace the veneering removed by Mgr
Stephan, the chamberlain of tho pop
household, prepared the fallowing for
publication, and which was quite geu
erally published In ourso-calied secular
and free, but In reality servile and sub
sidizei, press:
The archbishops and bishops will
never make a united petition to Con
gress, no matter how grave the condi
tions or how grievous tbe complaints,
It the Uatoolic church has reason to
believe its rights are infringed upon or
meru'ers unfairly treated, it will sim
ply rk for justice as citizens of the
United States. They will never demand
satisfaction as a body of powerful prtl
ates supported by millions of voters.
Such action would be contrary to the
high prerogative of the exponents of
the great Teachar of charity and hu'
maoitv.
A political organization to be formed
by the officials and members of our
church Is contrary to all tw-Ubllt-heil
rub and precedent. Tho Catholic
church has always held l'mlf aloof from
all political entanglements. It great
mlnlon U to b-acb and direct In thing
spiritual. With tempral ff!rs it
never interferes. Tb laym-n of the
church are free to form such societies
as may tend to promote their temporal
welfare, but to expect tho archbUhops
and bishops formally to approve or to
ratify such plans is toexp-cl whatcao
never come to pacts.
Monslgnor Ste phen will remain in
charge of the Catholic Indian Bureau.
He has spent a long II 'e In this good
work, and his management ha renn ju
dicious and his Integrity unquestioned.
We have no grievance whatever
against the present administration. It
has long beeu known to us that appro
priations would at tbe end of a certain
time be entirely withdrawn from our
Catholic missions. We have been given
opportunity to provide for this contin
gency, and wu will now take active
stops In making all our schools solf -sustaining.
Answered Itself.
Tho Santa Clara Mnjuzine, ones a
representative of Santa Clara county
resources, but of late more a represen
tative Santa Clara county "slang," In
September devotod most of Its space to
abusing prominent A. P. A.'s. If what
Is said were truo, it would bo nothing
more than a ruse of "pot calling kettle
black." But we doubt that what It
says Is true. Speaking In def 'mo of
Catholics with relation to our public
schools, It says: "Enemies of tho pub
Ho school not ail of them" (that Is,
Catholioi ). Tbe ltaliclzatlon of tho
word (ill Is the only comment we need
to make. And further, r ferring to an
address of Bishop Ireland's, last Au
gust, before the Notre Dame Univer
sity of Indiana, the editor of tho mag
azine says: "The archbishop neither
could nor would lave made this speech
If he did not really desire to win for the
publlo-school system the siippwf of tho
Roman Catholic communion." Not
much more Is needed here, a;aln, than
to italicize the words win and support.
If the archbishop is engaged in winning
the support rf Catholics for the public-
school system, thon evidently thoy do
not support it to any greit extent at
the present time. Wo cannot help
wondering also whether Archlshop Ira
land wages tho Italian ope or whether
tho Italian popecommnds Archbishop
Ireland. But then tbe archbishop has
no real intention or opposing me
church. Anterintn Leader.
Morgan County, Colorado.
The success of the famous Grecly
Colony is being repeated in the irriga
ted district surrounding Fort Morgan,
Colo. Little more than ten years have
elapsed since its settlement began but
the results that have already been at
tained are far beyond the most extrav
agant hopes of the founders of the
enterprise, where they had aimed to
plant a modest little colony are 500
splendid farms surrounding several
nourishing towns and supporting a
system of schools, churches and so
cieties unsurpassed anywhere. The
territory embraced under the system
of irrigation canals has been erected
into Morgan County, Colo., and now
has a population somewhat in excess
of 3,000 souls.
Alfalfa, potatoes, wheat and oats
are the staple products, but the possi
bilities in other directions are almost
beyond belief. Mr. Sam Cook, in the
western part of the county, this year
raised l.HOO bushels of onions from 3
acres of ground, for which he will re
ceive 11,350, while Mr. V. S. Simpson.
whose 10-acre garden patch adjoins the
town of Fort Morgan, cleared ?S50 from
his bees alone. Fifty out of the 5iK
farmers in the county have had an
average yield of 50 bushels of wheat to
the acre anil more than 100 exceeded
40 bushels. Alfalfa makes a larger
crop than anywhere else in the country.
The price of land varies from SIS to
$30 an acre, including perpetual water
right. Eighty acres is as much as one
man can farm, and if he goes in for
fruit raising or market gardening half
that much will keep him busy.
Detailed information about Morgan
county is contained in an illustrated
booklet issued by the Passenger De
partment of the Burlington Koute and
now ready for free distribution. A
ropy will be mailed to any one who
will write to J. Francis, (i. P. A., Om
aha, Neb., for it. No one who is really
in earnest in his desire to find a better
location than his present one will fail
to do this.
Their Kuse.
The Kansas City American fur
nishes a hall-page cartoon, which very
fully illustrates its idt a of t tie true in
wardness of tfco Irish convention in
Chicago. The first scene represents
the Irish infantry taking aim at tho
wooden image of John Bull, behind
which Uncle Sam is sittiDg, apparently
unconcious of what is transpiring. In
the second scene the weapons have
been discharged, Uncle Sam receiving
the force cf the volley, while the priests
and the soldiers are in high glee over
his stupidity and the result of their
ruse. Tacoma American Citizen.